Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 August 1885 — Page 4
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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AKD PROPRIETOR.
PUBLICATION OITICX,
NOB. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing Hoose Square.
TERRE HAUTE, AUG. 29, 1885.
PAHSOK NEWMAN has commenced lecturing on what be knows about Grant, delivering the flist lecture at Chautauqua last Tuesday to an audience of three thousand persons. He evidently be-
shines,
MRS. OILUM, you will remember was crazed witii grief when her son jumped to his death from Brooklyn bridge. Now she will proceed to make money out of a biography of him that she has written. Perhaps Mrs. O. didn't deserve quite all the ostentations sympathy she g°t.
THERE were 3,377 murders committed in the United States last year, and but 313 murdeiers was executed 210 by Judge Lynch and 103. by legal process. And yet criminal lawyers are forever claiming that criminals cases are always prejudiced and injustice uone them by the newspapers.
THE talk of Mr. Beecher retiring from Plymouth church on a pension turns out to be a cauard. The Plymonth folks will be likely to hold on to Mr. Beecher till the end, for Plymouth church without its celebrated divine would be something like a last year's bird's nest.
AFTER all cyclones do not appear to be very particular where they go. It used to be supposed that the great West had a corner on the hurricane market and recent developments prove this to have been an error. Not long ago Pennsylvania was torn up with a cyclone and now South Carolinia comes to the front with a milliou dollar one.
IMAGINE President Cleveland and the Prince of Wales falling into each others arms and exchanging kisses! And yet such was the greeting between the Czar of Kuseia aud the Emperor of Austria this week. Grover and Albert Edward may be fond of kissing but they are a little too "particular" to try it on their own sex, ard most men will agree with them.
STATISTICS in Massachusetts are said to show an inorease of 83 per cent, in marriages during the four years from 1879 to 1883. This is encouraging „in view of the fact that the tendency has been the other way in Ohio. The ages of the coupling parties hasgradually increased from the olden times until now the average age of the grooms is about 29 and that of the brides 25.
THE Chicago Socialists recently gave a large picnic at which one of the most prominent mottoes displayed was "Our Chtldreu Cry for Bread." At this same picnic in a single day the Socialists consumed three hundred kegs of beer! It is not surprising that the children of such people cry for bread. These hard times it is not easy to get money for both beer and bread, and the meu will not do without their beer.
Bon INORRSOI-L ought to get the bitter letter left by Miss Nourse, the suicide, one of the evidences against the Christian religion. It would be in the line or his arguments although it really amounts to nothing one way or the other. Evidently all thingR have lost their power to console the person who commits suicide, but that any one in such a frame of mind is uot a tit judge Of the truth or falsity of Christianity is e^uniiy as ovident.
WISE counsels are prevailing in the Republican party of New York. A broad invitation to the State convention has been Issued and an endeavor will be
fair chance of success.
ALORICH, the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, is reported to possess such a fine taste that be loves pretty women, jewels, flowers, and the daintiest romances of the daintiest climes. We never knew before that it required a particularly dainty taste to love pietty women. Most men can do that. But it may be just as well for Mr. Aldricb not
may 1 1 8 1 as wo 11 lur .nr.
THE President, in the heart of the Adi-
|—f ATT rondaeka, where the wolves, bears and entirely proper, bat the mere discharge ill -L-/
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ary venture upon a
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to love too many pretty women at one
and the same time. It may be a small matter but trouble bas grown oat of such things.
would have been mobbed long ago.
catamounts do congregate, Uvea for the of the duty of snch an officer to bis {time in pristine simplicity. The habito ~T"
tion is a log cabin and the meals are eaten from a board with logs for chairs. The President fishes all day and helps to cut the wood to cook the meals with. The party consists of the chief magistrate, two companions and four guides. They sleep in their clothes on pine boughs with a blanket for covering is quite a change from the gilt-edge li of the capital. r*
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THE August crop reports indicate yield of corn not exceeded since 1880, the guard and admonish them that civil ser vice reform is now something more than mere talk that it is indeed a dangerous
general average being96. Returns from the cotton States are similarly promia VUO a O ing, with an average of 96% and no tool to play with and may cut the official
drawbacks. Tobacco, oats, rye and po
tDOU8ana persons, ne eviueuwjr uo- a raw (jacks, iuuw.ty, vutv vaAUu, lieves In making hay while the sun tatoes indicate an advance upon last Jones case is likely to become an im- __ a —m r\1 kav fa flfl* r\niifant nroAO^anf onrl tirl11 aii1 year, and a medium of hay is as sured by the general average of 93 which no doubt will be increased by re eent rains. These figures give a pledge of substantial prosperity throughout the land, even through there may be no sud den and marked upward tendencies.
a safe home to the poor man and makes all legitimate business secure
complains that book-making does not
pay and announces his intention of —1 —1 —n.i—-
hereafter sticking to journalism. It
seems that Mr. Howe realized about $2,500 from his first story, which ought not to be considered bad for a beginning, but his second one, "The Mystery of the Locks," did not strike the popular chord and was not successful. The fact is the newspapers are monopolizing the field of fiction as well as the other fields at present. People can get the best literature of the day now as well as the news in the newspapers at a mere nominal cost and this, with the cheap paper cover issues of all the successful stories, has greatly interfered with the sale of books in recent 3ears.
FROM 1870 to 1880 the increase in the white population of the country was about 29 per cent, while the increase in the colored population was 34 per cent., although the white population was increased by foreign immigration some three millions while the colored population of course received nothing from that source. Thus it appears that the colored race is increasing much faster than the white race, and what the final outcome is to be is one of the problems that is worrying the social science philosophers. Of course it is impossible to^ foreee what will result, but if the black man is honestly and justly dealt with and given all the rights which he is entitled to under the laws, it may be safely taken for granted that the troublesome question will work itself out satisfactorily in the course of time. Somehow or other the laws of nature always contrive to settle such questions in the way that is best for ail the partie# concerned.
THE announcement of the suspension of "The Current," Chicago's literary weekly, was not a great surprise to the newspaper world, though Mr. Wakeman's misfortune will be universally regretted. Personally he is an excellent gentleman aud a man of enterprise and progressive ideas. His whole soul was in the unfortunate enterprise and be is reported to have lost a snug fortune In demoustrating the impossibility of his undertaking. The Current was bright, original and in many respects really able, but af:er all it was not the kind of periodical to satisfy a large number of readers. It is hard in these days when the newspapers cover all kinds of matters so fully to put a distinctively literary venture upon a profitable footing.
ary failure iu the West, where there has been so many similar failures, for it furnishes one more haudle for our carping Eastern critics to take hold of. Chicago
£i&8l6fO CrillCS tO VHKo ilViU Ult vuiwajjv
literary ventures.
THE spectacle of alleged reputableand educated women in St. Louis thronging to see the murderer Maxwell, in his
made to win back the so-called mug- coll, filling. it with flowers and bric-a-brac, and sending in dollar bills with requests for his autograph, is one calculated to depress one's faith in humanity.
wumps to the party fold. It is felt that there will be no votes to spare in the coming contest which is like to prove a close one. With the party reunited and
The mind that can find anything to
u^bj^Uon^ heroize in such a man asMa^vell ui„8t th. hp.1*.. Urt U»y h.ve -.u* eke .n
vulgar murderer who deliberately killed his companion, with whom he was on terms of confidence and intimacy, for the sake of getting possession of a small amount of money. It is novel indeed —, a a a that such a monster should be able to
nut ... ...
cage and punish red-handed murders without permitting them to po«® in the role of Injured innocents and be worshiped as heroes by weak witted women.
IT !s a cold day when Vii.cenres falls to come to the front with a murder or a suicide, and when that place fails Evans•ill® is sure to supply the deficiency, tied approval to the report and cooclo One would tbink that the population of dona of the dvil service the pocket would be pretty well thiuned out by this time. nal charim* this to the industry of reporters for out-
THH editor of Harpers' "Journal of Civilization" does not give an unqoali-
the carc ol Postmaster Jones, bat be
Tbe Ev*ns,vU!e Jour- presses an important truth when be crtminal preductive- says tbe Incident shows tbe astonishing —iera for out- progress of civil service reform: "For
side paper*, who are more c©nyi ned to the alleged coo act of tbe Ind anapo ... get inoneT for thetr item* than they are portal, wblel baa «tr«wd tbe at- mam, the .p.rkllog to tell th. runted trutb, but thta CM tentlou ot tbe country, led to ar. official IniK «jnip.and Gonlhera Mead,
TERKE HAUTE SATURDAY EVEN TNG MAIL
til very recently was held to be not only
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u~"dreamed
party." Who would ever have of such an investigation a few years ago? The suggestion would have been ridiculous. No person would have thought of preparing such charges as were made against Jones or would have imagined that his conduct was even open to serious criticism. And so, while the outcome of the investigation has been in the nature ot a "dog-fall" between the postmaster and the mugwumps, it will serve to put all other postmasters and officers of the government upon their
head off if great care is not taken. The
portant precedent and will undoubtedly exert a healthful influence upon the official life of the country. ~'*r,v,fs'LA
THERE can no longer be room for doubt that the business situation is
........ steadily improving. From all quarters country that can raise such crops affords come tidings of increased demand for manufactured goods. The pig iron market, that infallible barometer of trade industry, has unmistabablv felt
MR. EDWARD HOWE, of Topeka, Kansas, who is the editor of a paper and oaoj uv» ao iuipiuvcuiouit xuo ^luuiiaiu^ wupo achieved quite a literary success by his throughout the entire country, now alnovel, "The Story of a Country Town," „r
the impulse and has shown a marked improvement. The promising crops
most beyond the danger of any consi.i-
erajjje
loss, are back of this growiug
,u-
sentiment of hope aud confidence—the most solid backing it could possibly have. Manufacturers and business men interviewed by the newspapers in widely separated parts ot the country join in one general expression of returning hope and confidence. They believe that the fall trade will be fairly good to say the least. Indeed in several important line* there bas already been a good business. All this talk of reviviug industry throughout the couutry cannot help begetting a feeling of confidence, and this feeling of confidence and expectation of better things will have an important influence in improving the business situation.
THE discission of a national monument to the memory of General Grant and the most appropriate location for it, has called attention to the fact that as yet no fitting mouutnent of a national character has been erected to the memory of Lincoln. There is a monument above his grave at Springfield, Ills., which is Que in its way, but few people comparatively ever see it and it cannot be considered in any sense a national monument. There is a statue or two at Washington but they are entirely inadequate memorials of the gieat name and fame of Lincoln. It has been proposed that the Grant monument Le in the form of an arch and the Springfield Republican suggests that it be made commemorative both to Grant and Lincoln, each pier bearing ai^ imposing medallion of one of the two men, and that this monument be erected at Washington. The suggestion would seem to be a good one. A very grand memorial could be constructed in this way and it would be a fine idea to thus unite in a •ingle monument the names of the great statesman and the great soldier, who were in life associated so nearly in the salvation of the country.
PULPIT POINTS.
Rev. T. L. Corning was sojourning in Saratoga Springs during the sad period when the body of General Grant was lying at Mt. McGregor awaiting burial. Mr. Corning improved the inspirations of the occasion, with its attending circumstances, by writing a discourse on the life and death of General Grant, which be will deliver at the Congrega tional church to-morrow evening.
Revs. Beck and Kummer will bid fare-
wou
We are sorry to chronicle another liter- ,u -11^^ evening, having served their allotted As before mentioned Rev.
to their congregations to-morrow
Mr. Beck will probably continue here as presiding elder. Mr. Kummer will have
Is&'gronlcity, but we fear It must bead- to go to another Held and we tell ol hi, ml.Sd tbat Uis not ft promising ileld for »"h
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Bishop Disney will conduct services at the Central Presbyterian church tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock.
A special service for the bands attending the tournament will be held at St. Stephen's church.
THANKS.
The Sisters of St. Anthony's and the committee of arrangements for the hos-
sisted with their talents to make the entainment such a perfect success. Many thanks mre also due to the city press, to Mr. Nay lor for the use of the opera house, Mr. Brelnig for discoursing sweet music with the band, Mr. John Heinl for the floral decoration, Mr. L. Kassner
carri»geFaild
excite sympathy in the breasts of worn- fodies who with untiringeffort traversed en There ought to be some way of the city for the sale of the tickets. The preventing such silly and disgraceful jjm cleared and banded to the Sisters ito exhibitions which are becoming disgust-
1491.50.
but not least, to the
HORTICULTURAL MSSTINO. Tbe September meeting of the Terre Haute Horticultural Society will be held at tbe residence of L. F. Perdue, E*q.t on north
5th
I of his removal, Is tbe eondoci which on- way from the port office.
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street, Thursday, Sept. 3d,
at 11 o'clock a. tn. It will be a basket meeting. An interesting programme has been prepared. A display of fruits and dowers will be made. A lar^e attendance fa requested of members, their friends and all who take an interest in Horticulture. Jos. GILBERT, 8ec'y.
—We will have many warm days yet —days we can enjoy the delicious Ice
WORSE THAN SNEAK THIEVES. A band of confident operators has been let loose in this vicinity to prey upon and annoy ourhonsekeepers. The band is composed of women, although employed and directed by an agent of the other sex, and their method of procedure, as explained by several ladies who have been victimized, ia as follows: Obtaining access to tbe kitchen, they introduce the subject of baking powders, inquiring the kind used iu the family. Being shown the cau, perhaps a fresh, full one, they volunteer to "test" it to ascertain itsqualiiies. Their "test"consists in placing the can on a bot sl- ve or over a lamp or gas jet, or in mixing the baking powder with water both hot and cold. If the baking powder is good for anything the heat will, of course, expel the gas, which, being ammoniacal or carbonic, is apparent to tbe sense of smell. The ciaim is theu made that this odor indicates something detrimental, although, as a matter of fact, a baking powder that would give off no gas wheu subjected to heat would be without leavening power and valueless. They will also mix the baking powder given them with water. If pure it effervesces quickly. The baking powder they peddle being similarly mixed foams up slowly. This they claim as evidence of superiority, whereas it is the exhibition of a trick only, as this effect is cause 1 by the presence of flour in tbe baking powder they are peddling. Of course tbe object of these fraudulent tricks is to destroy confidence in all other kinds of baking powder, and to sell the particular brand for which the women are traveling.
Were this the whole of the operation, housekeepers would not ofteu be deceived. Every intelligent persou knows that baking power is not made to be used in this way, but in cooking where its action is entirely different from that produced by dry heat or by mixture with water alone. The chief object of this jugglery is to destroy the baking power given for testing or by heating it to drive off the leavening gasses, and so weaken it that wheu used it will fail to work. At the next baking there is heavy food, of course, and the "tramp" probably gets the credit of having told the housekeeper a valuable fact, lustead of having spoiled her baking powder, as was actually the case. The average "tramp" will in this way, destroy from fifty to seventy-five pounds of bakiug powder a day.
A second method of spoiling for use the baking powder in the kitchen where they are not permitted to experiment with it, is by dexterously throwing iu the can a small quantity of salt, soda or or powdered lime. Again, should there chance to be no baking bowder in tbe house, the operators will produce, of the kind used by the family, a sample that has been purposely adulterated or 'doctored' to make such an exhibit as they desire under tbe so-called test.
The only way to protect our food from being contaminated by tramps of this kind is to turn all persons who wish to attempt to tamper with it unceremoniously from the door, and to use those articles, only, which experience has proved satisfactory, or the official tests have established as pure and wholesome.
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NOTICE.
Persons desiring to board Normal students, to reut rooms or to furuish accommodations for club-boarding, are requested to give notice, stating location, terms Ac. Address State Normal School, Terre Haute, Iud., or call at office of Normal School. Fall term begins Tuesday, Sept. 1st. **.
—To those ladies who admire a fine shoe, I invite you to call at my store, No. 32 south Fourth street, (knwvn as the Star Shoe store) there you will see a complete line of Edwin C. Burt's goods, the New Last, Napoleon, New York Hand Turned also the new opera style. These goods are known to be the best in the world. T. J. GRIFFITH proprietor.
NEW BLACK CASHMERES, at low prices. Best line of 10c Dress Goods in Terre Haute, Great Bargains in Blankets. sil? FOSTER'S.
JNO. L. SULLIVAN vs. MAIN STRENGTH AND AWKWARDNESS —is the position of tbe educated hunter with machine-loaded shells, pitted against ignorant guess work in the use of hand-loaded shells. "Science always takes the bird." Large Invoice of loaded shells just received by A. G. Austin A Co., who are sole agents for this city. Hunters, call and see things "out of the rut."
—For a few days we present free of charge to customers buying 20 yards or more of carpeting, a good out-door Rug. FOSTER'S Carpet Department.
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^-Ejuat received a fine lot of Spring Heel Shoes for children, at. I. K. CLATFELTER'S.
—LADIES, do not boy a pair of shoes without seeing our $2.00, $2.50, 93.00 Rochester Kid Button Shoe.
J. R. FISHER,
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m''d stre6t-
"^-Monday we open a full line of new medium priced Dress Goods, Flannels, Jeans, licking, Ac., also Prints at 2Hc and 3Kc per yard at Foster's Dry Goods House. ______________ —Antiiymotica war drat used in the hospitals and di-pensaries cf Chicago, now prescribed in general practice by the professors and phyddtns in the city, is made h/ reliable chemists and kept by leading droggiata. Formula on bottle.
VIGO STREET RAILWA Y. The Vigo Street Railway will connect with tbe Terre Haute Street Railway on east Main street every fifteen minute?. The fair ground is open at all times free to visitors except when occupied by someentertainment, affordinga pleasant place for private picnics and the like. The motor is in good working order, aud makes tbe round every fifteen minutes. Fare fivo C6nts.
THIS WEEK.
Good Prints, 2%c. Nice and good dark Prints, 3J£c. Indigo Blue Prints, 3Kc. i'_ And all kinds of Dry Goods at very low prices to start the Fall trade. See Foster's Dry Goods House.
—Jacob Kern is just now making a specialty of Spectacles, having a very large stock, including the real Pebble. If you are troubled with your present glasses and see if he can't suit your eyes.
DISHON sells paste in any quanity. 1
W. A. M.-FAKI.ANII.
SUCCESSOR TO
BLACK & HARBISON, ,1 HAS TO-DAY Choice Peaches,
Oratig69, Eating Pears, Lemons,
BananaR, Grapes
Egg Plants, Sweet Potatoes, Squashos,
Michigan Cabbage, Watermelons, Canteloupes,
Damson and Goose Plums, Celery, Cucumbers,
String Beans, Lima Beans, Radishes,
Bea'p,
And the Freshest Stock and Staple and Fancy Groceries. 28 Soutli Sixth Street.
AS GOOD
AS
A Meal
(ALMOST)
To walk past Jno. Dobbs' south Fourth street grocery and see the stock of fruits and vegetables he has
tot
sale. Try it.
T. J. PATTON & CO.,
DEALEB8..IN
CHOICE MEATS
Southdown Mutton aud Lamb.
Southeast Corner Fourth and Ohio.
SSIGNEE'S SALE. xhe undersigned, Assignee,etc., will, on the 7th day ot September, 1885, offer at private sale the entire stock of boots nnd shoes now In storeroom No. 314 Main street,Terre Haute, Ind., [WilliamlA. ltyau's old stand.] If the same is not ao'.a for two days after said date the undersigned will on the 0th day of September, 1885, nt said storeroom, offer said stock, as a whole, at public auction, and if not then sold, the said stock, at said storeroom, will on the 11th day of September, 1885 be sold at public auction in such quantities as may be advantageous.
Sale to begin at 9 o'clock a. m. TERMS OF SALE—Cash or on a credit not to exceed six iconths, purchaser giving uuio with approved security.
HENRY A. BYEBS, Assignee.
RGAGG,
DEALER IN
ARTISTS' SUPPLIES.
PICTURES, FRAMJSAJ, MOULDINGS.
Picture Frames Made to Gr4t»
McKeen's Block, No. 646 Main stretl between 6th and 7th.
1865.
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HOBERG, ROOT&CO
518 and 520 Main Street.
GREAT
SUMMER
Reduced Prices!
AGAIN REDUCED
ON
Parasols, Lawns,, Ginghams, Sateens, White Goods, Laces,
Summer Silks, Hosiery, Underwear, Corsets, Etc.,
ALSO
Special Bargains
IN
Cheap Dress Goods.
(Fall Styles)
NEXT WEEK.
HOBERG, ROOT & CO.
Over Henderson Bridge!
FAST LINK
To All Southern Points.
"VIGO
Pullman and Woodruff Palace Buffet Sleeping Cam to
Nashville Without Change
Where direct connection is made with through ti alas for Chattanooga,
New Orleans, Atlanta,
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
20th Annual Fair 20th,
September 14th to I9th Inclusive.
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Terre Haute, Ind..
Premiums:* ®6,000.00.
Best Herd of Cattle, Short Horn, Herefords and Angus Breeds to Compete ffOO.OOy Best Herd Jersey Cattle Races.
Best Half Mile Track in the State. Finest Grounds in the State. Good Water on all parts of the Grounds.
New Stalls and the Best Accommodations.
,^'r Street Railroad to the Grounds. If All Premiums Paid in Full Races Every Day.
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Montgomery, Savannah and Jacksonville. Fla.
No omnibus or steamboat transfers. Ticketsor any information may be obtained of It. A. CAMPBELL, Gcn'l Ag't,
Main st., Terre Haute, ind.
1885.
SI,400.00.
2 $' *i» Mint*,M
For Further Particulars Address JAMES M. SAXKEY, Pres. GEO A. SCHAAL, Treas. EDWIN ELLIS, Vice Pres.
IVM.
H. DUNCAN, Secy.
TJ. R. JEFFERS, Gen'l Supt /j
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