Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 September 1885 — Page 4

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND FKOPRIETOB.

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Nos. 20 and 22 Booth Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

TKRRE HAUTE, SEPT. 12, 1885,

How about Vigo county's trustees Do any of them think of going to Can ada

NEBRASKA is on a big boom. Her present population ia said to be 750,000, an increase of nearly 300,090 in tbe last five years.

ISAAC HERR, recently of Indianapolis, and for many years a valuable contributor to Tbe Mail, bas purchased an interest in the Lafayette Journal.

THE New York monument fund has reached 172,000, from which must be deducted a large per cent, for expenses. The fund grows rather slowly.

SPITE of tbe cold damp weather tbe corn crop is said tc be all right. Tbe frosts have not done serious damage and the crop promises to be tbe largest ever grown in the country.

THE Current, of Chicago, has managed to go on although Mr. Wakeman, its proprietor, fled to a monastery. After tbe boys get tbe paper on a good financial footing perhaps be can be induced to come out of his hiding place.

CONCESSIONS on both aides have brought the strike on the Wabash road to an end. Tbe general uneasiness and discontent among laborers throughout the country has gradually subsided and tbe indications point to a peaceful and busy fall and winter, profitable alike to labor and to trade.

MADAME JCDIC, who is coming to this country in October to play seven new French plays, which were expressly written for herself, will bring with her twenty-four trunks full of new dresses. So her manager Mr. Grau states. From this it would appear that the dresses are considered the main thing.

MR. HILL, the new manager of the Union 8%usre theatre, New York, announces that he is using material for dresses for the court ladles in "Romeo and Juliet" which costs ?8 per yard. If this announcement does not fill the theatre the idea that fine dresses will draw may as well be abandoned.

THE great yacht race, between the British yacht, Genesta, and tbe American yacht, Puritan, for the cup which has been in possession of this country for more than a quarter of a century, has up to date been an aggravating fiasco. The wind giving out yesterday scored a third failure to complete the race.

MR. LOWELL'S life of Hawthorne, soon to be published by Houghton, Mifflin A Co., in the American Men of Letters Series, will attract general attention. Tbe book will coutalu a fine steel portrait of Hawthorne and there i» tbe guaranty of conscientious and appreciative work in the mere fac tMr. Russell is the writer.

THE New York Tribune's fresh air fund has amounted to over $20,000 this summer. The fond is raised by voluntary subscriptions mid is used for sending children's excursions into the country during the heated term. The amount of pleasure and healthful recreation to the little ouee afforded by these excursions is quite beyond computation.

RROARP for General Grant may insure to the benefit of Col. Fred by the Republicans of New York nominating him for Secretary of State* During his father's illness Fred made a good impression by his unsuspected capacity for executive work, and the younger men in the party 'eel disposed to push him to the front. If nominated the prestige of his father's name would undoubtedly be of great help to him.

A TAX of $100 on each saloon in tbe city and the overthrow of the domination of tbe Liquor League in tbe politics of the city and State, is the platform on which the Republicans of Indianapolis go into the approaching municipal campaign. Tbeir candidate for mayor Is Caleb S. Denny, a lawyer of ability and promise, who bas filled the important office of city attorney for several years past. He is a "hustler" and the Democrats will have to stay up later than eleven o'clock and get up before fire in tbe morning if they beat him.

AM ENDS, the Hoboken druggist, whose mistake in giving morphine for quinine caused ho death of two persons, la likely to point a moral for the rest of bis craft. He has been arrested for criminal aegUgeuce and may be made to suffer the pxtneme jeualty of the law. It seems that the druggist waa .engaged in conversation at tbe time be was filling tbe prescription, a fact which famishes a plausible explanation of his terrible mistake. His mind was not on his work as it should have been. His attention wa« di*fnte:»d und be was mechanically compounding a mixture upon tbe nature of which life and death depended. Of coarse Am Ende did not think at the time that he was commit­

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ting an act of criminal negligence. He was doing nothing more than hundreds of other druggists are in tbe constant habit of doing and think it all right. But this terrible tragedy, and the manner of its occurrence, will open tbeir eyes to tbe grave danger that lies in the careless handling of drugs and will have a tendency to make them more painstaking and careful in tbeir work. From this time on it should be the invariable rule of every druggist not to engage in conversation with anyone while he ia compounding a prescription.

THE fight is on at Indianapolis between the liquor men arid the law and order people. The issue is clear cut and thoroughly understood. The question is whether or not the tax on saloons shall be raised from $52 to $100 and whether the liquor sellers shall be made to obey tbe laws. Tbe Republicans have an honest straightforward platform and a candidate who stands squarely on it. They have tbe right on their side snd can hardly fail of success.

THE New York Independent "rings the bell" when it makes the following remarks about Reverend Downs, who was undoubtedly guilty of undue intimacy with one of bis lemale parishioners and has since been trying to gain notoriety on account of it:

have our opinion of a minister, who, when a scandal Is abroad about him, allows himself to be made a staring attraction of at places ot public resort. It makes no difference whether the report la true or false, a certain retiring spirit Is graceful just then. This remark is suggested by the willingness jputh" y. Not standing such Instances, we bold to our be-

of tbe Boston patftor, Mr. Downs, to put himself on exhibition at Cottage City. Notwith-

lief in tbe ministry. An occasional misfit is no argument against wearing clothes, and there are misfit ministers.

THE poor Mormons are having a hard time of it. Even Mexico refuses to tolerate them within her borders. The Catholic priesthood, which is very powerful in Mexico, will wage a bitter crusade against tbem. Some of the Mexican newspapers are demanding tbe expulsion of the polygamists already in Mexico and that no further immigration be allowed. Although Mexican morality bas not been considered of a very high order, it protests against the introduction of such a social system within its borders. The Sandwich Islands yet remain. Perhaps polygamy could find a congenial home there.

IT may not be generally known that America bas larger interests in the Caro line Islands than bas any other nation. This group contains 600 islands, the largest 20 miles by 15, and 100,000 inhabitants. For S3 years Ametieans have resided in these islands doing missionary work. The only steamboat belonging to tbe islands is tbe Morning Star which cost $40,000 and is owned by Americans. Under American teaching half of these people have given up paganism and embraced Christianity. They have' fifty Christian churches besides training schools, etc. All there is valuable in the Caroline Islands is due to Americans. During all this time there bas not been an intimation that Spain had any claims, but the Islands have been independent and under tbe control of tbeir ohiefs. Both Germany and Spain should keep hands off, for whichever is successful it will be simply the tyranny of a stronger over a weaker nation.

THERE bas been a genuine sensation this week in the discovery that thousands of. dollars'worth of fraudulent warrants have been issued and put upon the market by township trustees in various counties throughout the State. Developments have shown there were collusions between the trustees and certain agents for the sale of school furniture aud supplies and that both agents and and trustees reaped a golden harvest from the transaction, the agents selling the warrants at a discount and dividing tbe proceeds with tbe trustees. The guilty parties so far as known, have fled to Canada. The full extent of these swindling operations is not yet known but new instances have been coming to light from day to day, and it is certain that the fraudulent bonds that have been put afloat will aggregate a very large sum. Tbe best feature of the business is that the people will not probably have to foot the bill, as tbe obligations are illegal and cannot be enforced.

NOTHING bas occured for many months in this country so shockingly barbarous and disgraceful as tbe massacre of tbe Chinese miners in Wyoming. The nnarmed and utterly defenseless Chinamen were deliberately shot down like so many beasts of prey and even women were present urging on tbe work of slaughter. When some fifty had been t-lain tbeir houses were fired and the whole village utterly destroyed. The only shadow of excuse that can be given for this outrageous massacre is that these Chinamen bad taken the places ef other laborers in the mines. This they bad a perfect legal right to do just tbe same right that any other citizeu has to take work wherever he can get it and for such wages as be may choose to accept. It may be tree that the Chinese are objectionable in many respects. It may be possible indeed that there should be some restrictions put upon tbeir coming into this country. But so long as they are permitted by our laws to come they are equally under tbe protection of tbe United States, the same as any other citizens, and it is the duty of the government to see to it that their persons and property are protected in the same manner and to the tame extent* Tbe rattoral authority thmrfd be promptly and vigorously put forth for the puoiabmeat of tbe lawless assassins of Wyomirg.

THE Ohio campaign drags somewhat in spite of Senator Sherman's efforts to inject the bloody shirt issue into it. People have about come to the conclusion that twenty years after the close of the war it is time to quit talking abont tbe war and its issues. They want practical, every day questions discussed They want something fresh and current They are tired of having the same old questions discussed by polftfral orators year after year. Most persons are disposed to let the South take care of her own concerns for awhile and see how she will come out. The industrial changes that are going on in that section, the removal there of northern people, and the new ideas which are rapidly making headway, will help the southern people to solve the negro question, which, it must be confessed, has been one of great perplexity and difficulty. At any rate there is a growing sentiment that it is a question wbich ought to be settled in the South rather than in the North, in Mississippi and Louisana rather than in New York and Ohio. &

THE Chicago News observes that tbe civil service law, when honestly interpreted and enforced, opens tbe way to a new field of employment for women. At the recent examinations for postoffice clerks in that city a large per centage of tbe applicants were women, and three women scored the highest averages. Two of them were at once given places and a good position is held in reserve for tbe third. But while civil service is operating so favorably for women at Chicago the opposite appears to be tbe effect at Washington, where complaint has been made that many ladies have been dismissed from places in the departments since the new administration came in.

DR. TALMAOE is having a tremendous time on his little trip in Great Britian and if be needed any more advertising is certainly getting it. Whenever be appears in public he is surrounded by a howling mob, struggling to see, hear and shake bands with tbe great preacher* People are crushed in tbe crowd, ladiesare injured and tbe police have to come to tbe rescue. If this thing continues they will be glad to send our lion back to us. Over here where we have a whole menagerie of lions we can hardly understand their excitement.

THE Albany (N. Y.) Evening Journal agrees with the Christian Union in favor of a high license for beer and ale and a still higher one for spiritous liquors, with local option wherever a majority may desire it. It is agreed that such a law would gradually break the way and prepare the conditions for absolute prohibition, and would in tbe end bring about that result without tbe strife and bitterness that are making enemies of prohibition among tbe best friends of temperance reform.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

President Cleveland's eyes never wander when be is watching for a bite. y"\ Three of tbe original seven men appointed to guard President Garfield's grave have gone crazy.

A Wisconsin man was driven insane because he had to pay an old debt of seventy-five cects. Men who pay old debts are always looked npon as insane.

Tbe Baptist Wstchman says that Robert Bonner is the only man in this country who can keep a fast horse snd bis reputation for morality at the Bame time.

The Chicago Herald bemoans tbe fact that there is not enough civility in this country. We haven't heard anyjpretty women or rich men complain of any scarcity.

Among tbe members of tbe American Bar Association who met at Saratoga last week there were twenty ex-gov-ernors, three ex-senators and over one hundred ex-congressmen.

A man who died in Cincinnsti the other day owned up to having six living wives. He didn't want tbe afflicted widows to go the expense of putting on mourning and they probably won't.

Tbe Mexican editors have returned to their respective hemes, and do not know which to be proudest of, the fact that they have traveled 14,000 miles, or the fact that it didn't oost them but |75 apiece.

Two New England pastors exchanged pulpits, and one delivered a sermon which the congregation had within a month beard from tbe mouth of the other. Tbe Baptist Weekly vouches for the story, and would like to know the real author of tbe discourse.

Tbe worthlessness of the murdered man was the only plea made by a Wyoming lawyer in defenseof his client, who had deliberately shot a bar-room bully for merely annoying him. Tbe judge said that tbe argument was unsound in law, but tbe jury let it justify, to their minds, a verdict of acquittal.

A Wisconsin woman accuses her busband of trying to persuade her to com­| mit snidde in a manner that would enable him to collect for tbeir children the amonnt of an insurance policy on her life. He argued tbe propriety of tbe project, since she was feeble and likely to require much doctoring the rest of her natural life, thus using up money needlessly, whereas by dying at once she could leave the family in good circumstance-.

Weather prophets in the East predict a severe winter on account of the extraordinay large crop of cbestauta, hickory nuta and walnuts this season.

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CUNNING, BUT 1 RICKY. The "tests" which tbe baking powder ladies are now so numerously practicing •pon the baking powders prove upon examination to be in the natnre of tricks. They consist in mixing first with cold water, a sample of tbe baking powder found iu the house and of that carried'by themselves and in the interest of which they travel. That found in the house, when water is turned upon it, if it is p«re will sizzle and foam up suddenly, likeasedlitz power. That carried by the "testers" rises slowly and majestically, like yeast, standing over the top of the testing glass. "Behold the great superiority of our powder," say the ladies "how much stronger and more perfect is its work." This is simply the exhibition of a trick. The slow action is earned solely by the presence of flour in tbe baking powder, and is evidence indisputable of adulteration.

Tbe ladies next add to the two'samples of baking powder already manipulated with cold water, a little hot wader, aud the housekeeper is then regaled with the vapor that arises. The baking powder offered by the testers will give off no odor, while that which it is their object to prove bad will probably exhale a gas either carbonic or ammoniacal. This odor is again triumphantly claimed as evidence of impurity. Here is another deceptive tricft. All first-class baking powders have a leavening power, supplementary to that developed by cold water, wbich i» given off by the beat of baking. Tbe hot water brings this out. Therefore, a baking powder which will give off no additional gas when'hot water is added, is lacking in strength and otherwise inferior. A

Tricks like these practiced for the purpose of deliberately deceiving the pnblic are both dishonest and despicable, although the ladies who perform then so glibly are doubtless-ignorant of the sharscter of their work, having been taught thereto by a man. They are nevertheless swindles of which the public should be warned.

TALL SHOP GIRLS PREFERRED. fBotton Globe.] "Tall saleladies wanted." So reads a small placard in the window of one of the largest Tremont street dry-goods stores. 'Why is height an essential?" the proprietor was asked. "Because," be replied, with a smile, "I think that tall salesladies give more character to a store. Then, too*, I have an idea that ladies, as a class, prefer to trade with tall girls." "Have you no other reason for desiring tall girls

"None, whatever, for all onr heavy work, as handling rolls of cloth, etc., is done by men, and we only give the girls such work as requires but Tittle physical exertion."

—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.

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HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

Family Groceries, General Supply, at Lowest Prices.

W. W'CI.IVEI!. 1 631 Main.

THE FIGHT FOR PURE FOOD.

The agressive war waged by the Royal Baking Powder Company against all forms of adulteration in baking powder has produced a good effect. The manufacturers of the low grade, cheap, adulterated, and poisonous powders have been driven into an attempted defense of their goods, wherein they have exposed their names and the character of their powders to the public.

The Royal Company set out upon this crusade several years ago. It was the first to bring to light the use of alum for this purpose, and to expose the infamous practices of those manufacturers who were endangering health and life that more profit might be derived from their powders. The exposures then made, a disgusted public, and the influence of the press were the means of banishing most of the alum powders from the market. ?X!S$A11 forms of lime baking powders are now being foisted "upon consumers in this vicinity. Their use has been universally condemned by chemists and physicians. The presence of lime, like alum, can only be detected by chemical analysis, and the purchaser is unaware of its use until its effects have shown themselves in a disordered system. v^4jlt is because of the continued and vigorous pursuit of thfe dangerous, adulterated baking powders that their proprietors and peddlers are now endeavoring to vent their spite and revenge their disappointment by circulating absurd falsehoods and sham analyses against the Royal Baking Powder. Iw^The Royal Baking Powder has, dunng the last quarter of a century, earned a reputation throughout tbe world which no such dishonorable or tricky adventurers can pull down or destroy. It has stood the test of a long, actual, practical use, and has been endorsed by the Government

Professors Love and Mott, and by the most emi« nent chemists of the country, as in all respects absolutely pure and wholesome and of the very highest leavening power. It is not possible for either the new, experimental, and suspicious baking powders, or those well-known to be adulterated with lime, alum, and other impurities,' to supplant it in the public favor.

518 and 5 SO Main. .V

Grand Central Fancy and Dry Goods Establishment.

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We will place on sale to-day Our Importation Order of Fall Dress Goods, comprising all the Staples and Norelties of the High Class Manufacturers of leading so a 1

MATCHED PATTERNS Elegant.

Home Spuns, Camel's Hair Cloths, Tricot Cloths, Jacquard Cloths, Plaids, Stripes and Figured Suitings, Eider Down Cloths, fcc.

At Very Low Prices.

We will also offer to-day a Special Bargain in BLACK SILKS, wear guaranteed, at $1.50 per yard Actual Value $2.00. Mr **4

It will Pay to Trade with aLive Dry Goods House.

PRUNES!

Sugar, Molasses.

Choice Turkish Prunes, 20 lbs

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for $1.

Roasted Coffee, 12$c a pound Best in the city for the money.

Choice New Sorghum Molasses, at 40c a gallon.

Extra Inducements in Sugars for the next few days.

WtMi*.<p></p>GOODS.

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I would call your attention to our Special Sale of a large Bankrupt Stock of Boots and Shoes which we secured at extremely low figures. We always sell Boots and Shoes cheap, but nerer before have wo been able to offer such bargains in Ladies', Gents', Misses' and Children's fine shoes of the very oest makes. Now is tbe time! Do not delay your purchases at the prices we are asking for the quality. Tbe stock will not last long. This is decidedly the best lot of Boots and Shoes we have ever been able to offer to the pu bliaat. such low prices.

J. I. FISH I:R

327 Main Street.

Coal! Coke! Wood!

BUY Y»UR

Winter Coal

While you. can get it at

SUMMER PRICES.

HARD AMD SOFT COAL, WOOD ANU COKE.

A. EATON, 72lt Main St.

AVOID

Main Htreet fancy priced and leave your measure with

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The Merchant Tailor,

Corner Sixth nnd 01 ii Btreets. Best goods and trimming* kept. Good work and perfect Ut guaranteed.

T. J. PATTON & CO.,

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CHOICE MEATS.

'Southdown Mutton atidiLamb. Southeast Corner Fourth and Ohio.

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ANTIZYMOTICA.

This valuable preparatlongiH endorsedjby Scientists and Health officers as the best combination yet known for the prevention and core of Zymotic Disease*, contracted by exposure to Miasmatic Influences, MicroOrganismal derma, Poisonous Odorn, and VaiKTu, through air, water, food and climatic changes, AS Colds, Catarrh. Cough,Croup Dlpthena, Bore Throat and affections of the Muceus Membranes of Respiration,Stomach and Bowels. Likewise Malarial, Scarlet,Ty(n jothlng I its it soft smooth. Specially useful in Antiseptic Bur-

phoid and other fevers, also, externally, Erysipelas and Skin disease.soothing pain and inflammation rendering it soft and smooth. Hpeclaiiv useful In Antiseptic »ur-

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cry and Blood-poisoning. A disinfectant or hands, instruments, clothing, sickrooms, or elsewhere, to prevent contagion and the spread of pestilential diseases. Thoroughly tested in chemical nnd private practice, ana more frequently indicated than quinine in the MiastxHippl Valley. Directions and formula on bottle. DE PUY A CO., Chemists.

Order throngh druggists and manufacturing chemists. cents per bottle. Gale

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Blocki, 111 Randolph St.. Chicago.. W. C. Buntin, Terre Haute, Ind., Hogabooui &. Kline, Hot Springs, Ark.

JJELGEN'S STEAM DYE HOUSE,

660 Slain St., McKeen's Block. Tbeouly Kteam Dye House in the city. Dyeing and Securing of all kinds of ZiiJIes Gents' and Children's wear, such tut Milks, Hutlrjs,Cashmeres, Alpacas, etc., cleaned or dyed in any de*irab shade.

Kid gloves or kid slippers cleaned or dyed, lace curtain* and lace ties cleaned, shawls cleaned or died, plumes, cleaned or dyed, gents' garments cleaned, dyed and repaired.

All my work is done ny a steam process, which make* it took as riteeaM new. A man can save buym* a new suit by taking hit old clothing to Nelgen and have him to clean, dye and repair it. Ladies can do th« •same with their dresses by having them cleaned and dytd.

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