Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 October 1885 — Page 4
THEJV1AIL
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
P. S. WESTFALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
FDBXJGATIOH
QTT1CX,
NOR. 20 and 22 Month FlfUi Street, Printing House Square.
TERRE HAUTE,
OCT. 3,J 1885.
THB Peoria Saturday Evening Call appeared last week in au enlarged form and new dreeti of type. Its wide colurns, clear faced type, handsome beading, good paper and pre«n work command respectful attention aud invite a perusal of tbe well prepared literary matter spread upon its page*.
IKDIANA it a pretty good corn State, showing a crop of upwards of one hundred and twenty-five millions of bushel* this year. Bat she is distanced by six others, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. In 1884 there were only three States ahead of her: .Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois.
THE New York Sun protests against the growing practice of contracting "mugwump" into "mug." The Sun explains that "tbe abbreviation saves only little space, and it sacrifices what is by far the more significant half of the word. The wornpishness of the mugwump is a quality even more essential and characteristic than his muggery."
A SIGNIFICANT fact in regard to the terrible massacre at Rock Springs, W. T., is that not one native American was among the assailants. The men who beat, shot and burned the Chinese were themselves foreigners, who emigrated to iibls country because of the great advantages it offers to laboring men. Apparently they brought with them that same despotic spirit v/hich they came to a free and enligttene- republic to escape.
THE Washington (1. C.) Garette is authority for the statement that James G. Blaine is seeking to enter political life again through the Governorship of Maine. At the end of his term he would vacate tho gubernatorial chair to go into the United States Senate. We should like to see "the plumed knight" in tbe Senate again. He would help to make jthat botfy more interesting than it baa treta c,f late.
"THKIUS are several stories afloat in gftrd to the sudden taking off ot 'the great celebrity, Jumbo. One tbr .t he was trying to save the life of child another that be was attempting to get tbe baby elephant off the trac* another that he waB dying of pneumonia and hia owners took this way of tr,aking money out of his deuth. Called, by any other name they will do just-as well ior an advertisement. Tbe gc.-at, the immortal never geta '.eft.
THE Flower ot the Democratic party iu New York has been nipped by the frosts of ingratitude. The loug party sorvloe and generous financial assistance of Roswoil P. Flower were rewarded at the recent convention with the empty honor of nomiuation for LieutenantOerernor. As the prospect seemed to festliat hewouldliavetobeii the greater part of the campaign expenses he declined to aocopt, and the Indianapolis Jour»al"Sa3S, "The New York Democracy mourns not for Flower but for the
Flower-barrel."
Ai.THOi'QH Mr. Davenport, the Republican nominee for Qjvernor of New York, Is a bachelor, he has an element of romance about him. He has a serious, almost saddened manner which Is naid to be duo to the fact that in his earlier life he was engaged and his sweetheart died within a few months of their intended marriage. It is said that •'never since his heart was frozen by this tragedy of his youth has be encountered other oven whose tire was ea
Uile oi melt lug his heart. It isfor this reason that, with all tbe disposition for domestic
happiness,
IT looks as though the United States authorities were really able to do something with tbe recalcitrant Mormons. On Tuesday la*t Bishop Clawson pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful cohabitation and refusing to give aphis surplus wives was fined f300 and sentenced to the penitentiary for six months. T. S. Angell, another very prominent saint, pleaded guilty but threw himself on tbe mercy of the court and promised to obey the laws ia the future. He was fined without being subjected to tbe Indignity and inconvenienc of imprisonment. Tbe government is evidently getting the whip hand of the polygamists and all that is needed to make an end of tbe miserable institution is a steady and determined enforcement of tbe laws. jr
IF what Col. Donan, of the Fargo Argus. says is true Dakota is a regular garden of eden with a man in it for every girl who will go there. He declares that in May, 1880, there was only one marriageable girl in Fargo, and to-day, with a population of 12,000, we have only four unmarried girls. In Dead wood, at tbe height of its mining fever in 187^-80, there were 5,000 bachelors and only six marriageable girls. He denies the tr-uth of tbe reports aboat young women who take up farms in Dakota and reject all offers of marriage and declares that they don't live in the Territory a year before they are wedded. "It would surprise you,n he says, "to know how va&ay army officials ana men of prominence marry servant girls. High orlbw, rich or poor, a good girl can havfthev e!*k« there. A prominent man married :a pretty Waiter girl .of one of the-hotete t! otbeir day. She gave him as a weddJ og present, a Dakota farm, some dianae ads and many otber valuables- In Df jkota women are equal with aton before the law." Go west, dear gbls,. g« west!
THA temperance people
Never before in'
and the means to
enjoy married life, he has never married."
THE Ohio election will take place a •wrek from next Tuesday. As it uow I xks things are very much mixed and the result extremely doubtful. The chief center of interest is the Legislature which overshadows the gubernatorial emte*t because a United States Senator depeuds upon it. Sherman is making a cool, steady tight and If the liquor question were out of the contest, there would hardl be any doubt of his success. But tbe Prohibitionist* are hot and there is no telling what they will do. Asa matter of course both |*rties pretend to feel sanguine of success, but that is the usual brag and does not count for anything. We shall know more arter tbe electiori ia over than we do now.
THK universal sentiment of the banker* who attended tbe recent convention at Chicago was that business prospects were very much improved. Tbe only thing In the way of genuine prosperity, the bankers thought, was the aspect of tbe allver question. But tbe apprehensions the bankets in this direction will not be shared by tbe labile generally. Bankers have their crochets like tome other tlawte* of business men. They are apt to spin their theories somewhat too fine fbr the wants «f practical everyday business *lte majority of business men will hardly believe that the coinage or non-c linage of illw dolinlluencs
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tars will have so serious an upon conme rial aflWras the bankers of a pilgrimage from the most diriaa* apprehend. pert of our far-reaching territory.
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has produced fruit.
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history of the coun
try was th«« 'anything at all approaching the f&W'^ranoe sentiment which exists to-ds'^
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}t is a growing, an in-
weaniP'g Hentiment. There is not nearly the. mount of drunkenness that existed W ao years ago. It is not fashionable drink now as it used to be. A man is not ashamed to say that be doesn't use liquor. He says it boldly and isle spec ted for it even by those who do drink. Heavy taxes on saloons show tbe tendency of public opinion. It is in the direction of a more and more stringent regulation of the business of liquor selling Laud 'keeping it within closer bourds. Looking tbe whole field over the temperance people have cause to feel greatly encouraged in their work. They have accomplished very muoh and with the t^de of popular sentiment fairly on their side, they have even greater things to hope for in the future.
IT seems that a public or private subscription must be undertaken for the rellei of Emory A. Storrs' widow, who was left by the brilliant lawyer without money enough to pay for a night's lodging or to buy a day's food. Yet la his lifetime this man received a princely income and had tbe largest fees ever paid to any Chicago lawyer. He must have been a more than royal spendthrift to have lavished it all as be went, leav ing nothing for old age or for the inevitable vicissitudes of human life. And what was his wife doing towards helping him spend or to save? It is not often that a man who has a saving wife will squander all his earnings. How ever prodigal his disposition may be she can exert a restraining influence upon him, or she can herself take the lead and see «bat some portion of the large income is saved. But it she fails to do this and leads or follows her husband in extravagance, she has little cause to complain, in her bereavement, of tbe lack of funds for her support, or right to ask that charity shall bestow that which prudence, economy and foresight might easily have provided in tbe day of pleuty. o?
YoKX is the great cily of this
couutry, the one city in which all our people take pride. Its great undertakings, achievements and affairs concern all. All our people know something of it, through tbe newspapers and periodicals when personal visitation has been out of tbe questiou. The Century for October in an editorial article on "Civic River*," laments that New York does novmake more of her two rivers in the way of decorating the city. The burial of Gen. Grant at Riverside park has already bad tbe effect of attracting more public attention to the matter and will doubtless promotes more general inteiest in the subject. The Century writer goes on to show that in recent years the harbor has been virtually added to the accessible attractions of the city. Tbe Brooklyn bridge, with its stately procession of electric light?, and the famous statue «f Liberty have addei much to tbe impress!vene« of the view, which, as newly seen from the tops of tbe tenstory house-* built within,the past year, is picturesque and beautiful. With its r.vers and partially wooded slopes sell suite for lan i»cape wdljark purposes, its magnificent bey and harbor, New York is not lacking in etemeota of beauty, and when all of these shall have been improved and develop® i, tbe great city ot the A'iantic will be well worthy
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not al
ways have adopted tbsbesf, methods of accomplishing the end th#- Lave in view but their efforts have not oeen without reward. A steady deeli*
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several years past
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TBRRB HAUTE SATURDAY JCVSTNTNTx MAIL.
IF we are to take tbe riotous Frenchman of Montreal as a specimen of tbe Canadian people, excuse as jast at pisseat from annexation. We bavealresdy too many fools and &natie» In this eoontry. For weeks the smal pes has been raging in Montreal, causing three hundred deaths per week, until pafcBe safety absolutely demanded compulsory vaccination. To this the lowr ignorant Fteneb population vigorously objected. They had been instructed by their shrewd and designing priests that tbe epidemic was a visitation from God to poeieb their sins and that they most pray and confess and make offerings to the ehnrch. This they have continued to do, entirely neglecting sanitary measures or medical treatment. Tito more enlightened English residents, physicians and officers have attempted to enforce vaccination. An immense, howling mob of the CaAneks ponced through tbe streets, wrecked tbe police station, the health office and many other buildings, fired at the physicians,, stoned the health officers, broke all tbe windows In tbe court house and city hali and efreated general havoc. If the small pox could be kept confined- to these Ignorant, vicious and depraved people it would be just as well to let them die off, but as the safety *f the whole country is threatened, perhaps it would be a good plan to to dip bullets in tbe virus and vaccinate them at long range. ?-T7
another literary ac
quisition in the person of Mr. Cable, the New Orleans author, who has selected the-village of Northampton, Mass., for his new home. So it goes. As soon as a writer gains celebrity, no matter what part oi tbe conntry he lives in, he is certain to pull up stakes and go down to New York, Massachusetts or Connecticut. This is complimentary to the Eaat. There must be something there that draws probably there'are many things.
Beautiful scenery, congenial companionship, nearnoss to great publishing oenters, with mountains and seashore both close at hand, and tbe many advantages which an old civilization confers, all these help to make up the attraction which draws men and women of literary tastes to the East. With the Connecticut river winding round the base of Mt. Tom and escaping away toward Springfield and Hartford, clear as crystal, Mr. Cable finds Northampton a place of great boauty. He explains, however, that he haB selected the place mainly on account of the fiue educational advantages which it offers for his children, and that he intends to be much in tbe South and to have his family see as much of it as possible. This is an easy way of letting himself down, but it is evident that Mr. Cable prefers the East to the South as a place of residence, and will probably live and die there.
Mr- G- W. Cable writes' to Crifionel Higginson: "I have never thoroughly studied ihe subject of female suffrage, but I must say I have hever seen an argument against it that was not flimsy. Men are much disposed to exaggerate the difficulties of voting intelligently when they talk of women voting. By the time a public question is ready for the popular vote it has become a very simple question, that requires little more than honesty and common sense to vote upon it. If our mothers aro not fit to vote, they ought to stop bear ing sons."
According to a temperance orator at Winthrop, Me., of twenty-Beven men who banded themselves together to oppose the Washingtonian temperance movement, eleven died of the abuse of liquor, and four through accidents caueed by it seven were lost at Bea, and an eighth sailed and never was heard from two killed themselves, and two wore banged at the South.
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A California squash broke from the vine the ether day and rolled down bill and smashed in tbe side of a barn and killed a horse. There ought to be a law against a man growing such dangerous objects to life and limb, -j
VEILED PROPHETS.
Riddle's Kansas excursion party starts next Tuesday. The excursionists will have privilege of stopping at St. Louis to see the Veiled Prophets.
—A merchant in an Illinois town wants a young man who has had a year or so experience in dry goods. Will pay fair wages first year, and advauce see ond. Name and place will be giver: on application at The Mail office. I \i
THK night class at tbe Terre Haute Commercial College will have equal advantage with the day session. The hall will be lighted with electric light and cloee attention given by teachera. Begins Oct. 1st.
TUr pnrte never varies. portly, strength and wholest eeooMmteal aaa tbe ordinary kind*. nunct be sold in oonpetlttan with tlie maittnvtr low test, sho •hale iwwiiw. Sold Ber JO. tHAsam
OHUNJE»&* TRUTH.
The dag that will follow everybody isn't worth fekusst
The sassy est nu I ever met is a henpecked husband when hs is away from heme.
Too long coortsbipe are not always Judicious— the partys- often tire out skorin^ befbro the trot begins.
One qpart ef cheap whisky judiciously ap
plied will do more business for the devil than the smartest deacons he has got. Young man, learn- to wait. If you undertake to set a hen be tore she is ready, yoaiwill lose your lime- and confuse the ben besides.
Enny man who kan swap horses, or ketch fish and not lie about it),, or put up a stove-pipe and not cussy is just as pious as »-.man ever gets to be in this country-
The wise man a nth the smart woman, will go to E. R. Wright's White Front grocery for fboico- Delaware Grapes, Catawba- Grapes, Quinces, Peaches, Pears, Eemons, Oraoges, Dressed Ducks, White Olover Boney, Smoked Beef Tongue. Watermelons, Entire Wheat Flour, Dressed Turkeys, Chickens, Oystew, €Wery, Creamery and Country Butte?, Egg Plants, etc.
—Sew French Prunes* just received* at W. W. diver's, 681 Main. 4-. GERMAN AND FRENCH.
The German language, also French) tai^ht by Miss M. A. Cox, northwest comer of Eighth and Mulberry street.
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Lace and Turcoron Curtains, fine assortment, at Fos-
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Hamilton.
& Co., Insurance Agents.
Best all wool Carpets 73c. China mattings 15c. Fosters.
PSORIQETE cures Itch and Wabash Scratches in 20 minutes. For sale by all druggists. •••I i.
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Blankets and Bed Comfortables, at low prices. Foster's.
—For sudden colds try the Antizymotica. Directions au,d forpula on bottle. y1*. I
—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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A Remarkable Discovery.
As a Blood Purifier and a Lung Remedy, use Dr. Jordan's Lung Renovator, the great Blood Purifier. For sale by all druggists.
For consumption thia remedy stands unequalled. Thousands have been cured with it. Try it. See testimonials. Also good for all Scrofula, Skin and Eruptive diseases.
LATE STYLE HATS. All the latest styles oi* Hats and Caps for Fall and Winter wear are now displayed at Sykes' Hat Store.
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The Lists of Choice V. Thing Which All the Grocers Publish
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THE PB&CTICALu QUESTION OF THE HOUR
HOBERG, ROOT & CO.
... ARE ALWAYS 'VL iv.j .:v-f1
Studying: the Wants of Tfteii' Patrons.
THEIR DISPLAY Off'
CFalL and Winter Melties
*S3kreughout tbe entire establishment is-aaknowledged by all the ladles as being the largest, choicest and cheapest ever shown in the city.
IMPORTANT OFFERINGS
In Dress Goods,.9ilks and Velvets, Flaanels, Housekeeping Goods, Hosiery and TIbderwear, Laces, Corsets, Kid Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Ribbons^ Satobels, Fur Trimmings, Feather Trimmings, Ornaments, Fringes and Bead Trimmings of ,i-i? evevy description. Their
CLOAK DEP'T
Is the GEM OF THE WEST. 10,090 GARMENTS TO START THE SEABON. The ladies fully reaJ.ize that good light aud ample room are necessary Requisites for thepropea-disp lay of cloaks. We have the finest light in the country. The largest Cloak Par\ors. which for convenience, beauty and elegance caniut be surpassed by anp house in the West. Our assortment'is the largest and our prices guaranteed to distance all competition. A visit of inspection invited.
HOBERG, BOOT & CO., 518 and 520 Main Street.
Don't Forget
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YOUR OWN PRICE.
Sign of ihe Bankrupt Shoe Store,
326 street.
WE ARE READY
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COMPLETE HTOCK OP
Mercbant Tailoring and Oents Furiiisliings
Such Value or Quality at the prices has never been displayed before.
Men's Business Suits from $5.00 up. Various patterns.
Men's Dress Suits-New Styles-Sacks and Frocks, from $15.00 up.
Youth's Suits, very handsome patterns, from $10.00 up, new shades and colors.
J. T. H. MILLER
The Beliable Clotliier Merchant Tailor will be at 522 Main Street, Terre Haute, Ind.
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WHY
Are all the latest and best styles in Heating and Cooking Stoves, ood goods and low prices at 'ownley's,
BECAUSE
Every one who sees the Omaha Cook Stove, involuntarily express a desire to possess it. The secret of such admiration is its beauty, convenience, durability and superior baking qualities.
Wholesale and retail.
TOWNLEY BKOS, 512 and 514 Main Street.
%Fall and Winter Overcoats, too numerous to mention quality and price.
^Cliildren's Suits, are elegant from 2i years up, long and short pants, and prices to suit alLf^!Ar r-
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