Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 October 1885 — Page 4
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PHE'iMAIL
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
P. S. WESTFALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
PUBLICATION OmCX,
Nos. 20 and 23 Booth Fifth Street, Printing House Square.
TERRE HAUTE, OCT. 17, 1885.
A HORRIBLE HANOI NO
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We read tfco day before that upon trial of the scaffold with a sand weigh log 150 pounds, "the rope broke at the first trial, bat after several attempts it was pronounced a success." Wonder if this same rope was utred when tbe man was tbe weight at tbe end of it We presume it was, or a piece from tbe same coll. If so, it was brutal if not criminal carlesaness.
If this were an unusual case of the ill-performance by a sheriff of liia duties, it might be charitably al lowed to esoape censure but it is not unusual in truth, it is common Tbe hanging of a man is oueof tbe most terrible inflictions which befall a sheriff in tbe execution of his duties. That it should throw his physical and mental organization out of tone is not surprising but that It should make him careless in preparing for the speedy, certain and, as far as possible, painless death of the culprit is neglect that is criminal,inexcusable, and unforgivable. It is a rare instance in executions in this country where the condemned is hung without some sort of accident, to cruelly and needlessly prolong his torments. Ropes break, nooses slip, nhacklos. are improperly fastenod, the simple machinery of the gallows fails to work, or, worse than all, as happened not long a go, the weight is too heavy, and tbe victim is jerked into the air with a wrench that separates the head from the body. All tbese things are the faults of the sheriff. It is his business to see that every part of his death machinery is properly adjusted and ready for unfailing execution. If, as in such a case as that yesterday, the failure of his machinery prolongs the agony aud postpones the death of the victim of his atrociou* bungiiug, he is morally, if not legally, guilty of a murder not authorised by law.
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meet with no thi odd* whether Columbus discovered Guanahani on the 12th of October or not? Thanksgiving day is for eating turkey and pumpkin pies and anyone tthould know that tbe latter part of November is abetter time for that than
vetuner is a oe«er ume ior -u.u
the middle of October. Thanksgiving
wouldn't Thanksgiving in Oe-
totar. W. «ntscarry, t.no.loth.
air,
the trees stripped bare of their leaves
per trim for tbe gieat annual feast. Tbere would be as much propriety in putting tbe Fourth of July in May as in relocating Thanksgivingday in October.
AT a recent meeting of Mormons in Salt Lake City it was resolved that tbey should maintain their polygamous institutions, in spite «f tbe opposition of tbe federal authorities. It Is easy enough to make such a resolution bat at the rate tbe saints have been going to jail of late it is bard to oee bow tbey are going to keep It. If was doubtless a little piece of harmless braggadocio designed to strengthen the spirits of tbe weak and faltering. ___________
J. FORAKRR, tbe republican candidate, was elected Governor of Ohio last Tuesday by a plurality of about 18000. Two yean ago tbe democratic
It Is tbe universal
WHILK for two months past tbere has been stesdy improvement in business throughout tbe West and South, Wall street has been grumbling that tbere was no boom percepUblein that vicinity. But at length tbe tide has flowed in upon tbe bulls and bears and the price of seats on the stock exchange has advanced from $22,000 to $29,000. But a better sign than this is the fact that capitalists have begun to loosen their grip on their money bags and money is forthcoming in plenty for all kinds of enterprises which have in them a fair promise of profit. "This re-establishm9nt of confidence in the monetary centers," says the Chicago Journal, "is the reflex
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At Craw fordsville yesterday a sheriff of the improvement in tbe West. Enor-
undertook to hang a man. He succeed ©d but made a honible mess of it. John W. Coffee was the victim. He was sup- impetus which is felt in every direction ported oi carried up on tbe scaffold Tbe sheriff bad passed a sleepless night and was probably almost as much un "rf vuou Onerved. The noose was placed around looms, and mills are all busy in response tbe culprit's neck, the lever sprung, the to the demands thus created. Good ope snapped, and the writhing body times have returned, apparently to fell to the ground. Strong arms of ex cited men carried it up, and on a second
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mous crops following three years of economy in expenditure have given an
Farmers are buying again, railroaos are restocking again, merchants are filling their shelves again, and factories, forges,
stay." Another very encouraging feature is
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attempt tbe rope broke again, this time tbe largely diminished failure record of near the beam, leaving sufficient length the year as compared with that of 1884 of rope to pull the body up and let the man strangle to death
While the number of failures does not vary so much the amount involved is vastly smaller. The figures below Bbow the situation in this respect at a glance. For the nine months ending September 30,1884, the number of failures was 2,346 and the liabilities were 150,600,000, while for the same period of 1885, the number was 2173 and the liabilities $23,800,000, less than half as much, the signs are all good and of a healthy kind. There is an absence of wild speculation and tbe improvement has come on slowly and gradually, which is the very best way it possibly could come. ,s
THE enforcement of the law against the Mormon polygamists Is having the usual effect of winning some sympathy for them from certain quarters and a Washington paper suggests that it is the misfortune of the sslnts that they did not live in the time of tbe old Hebrew patriarchs, when holy men were permitted the matrimonial liberty which is now denied to the saints. Replying to this the Chicago Times declares that the practice of polygamy is among the common marks of barbarism and prevails yet among certain of the Indian tribe?, the inhabitants of the islands of the Pacific and the half civilized races of the Orient. It prevailed
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the old
Hebrews for the same reason, namely, because they were barbarians and had hardly emerged from the nomadic life. It belongs essentially to the low, ignorant and degraded and it is from these classes that the Mormon missionaries draw their recruits. The punishment of these sinners against decency, civilization and good morals will not create any sympathy in the minds of the rlgbt-thinking people. Let the law be enforced with a firm, unsparing
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and tbe wretched relic of barbarism will soon be squelched out of existence. Then will the Mormons themselves see that they are better off without it, as the South has found that she is -better off without her slaves.
Such scenes are too horrible and too disgraceful to be calmly considered. If banging is to be done, it should be done quickly in mercy to those who pay with their lives the penalty of their crimes. Who can imagine what mental and physical torture that poor wretch endured yesterday, while waiting and writhing in agony for the sheriff to get ready to hang him a second time. What right baa the law to torture? What right baa lta officers to act in hanging man twice? "To be hung by tbe neck until dead" has been made to ooveraurprlsing barbarisms In th« aoieuce of hanging which It would be to oar credit to dvilixe. If these clumsy sheriflh are unequal to the proper discharge of their duties, humanity demands the employment by Statea of professional hangmen, of men who will perform their tasks with neatness and dispatch. Let electrlcty take the place of the rope. Better any system of man-killing than this by the rope with all its attendant terrors resulting from the unskillfalnees and mistakes of those appointed to guard against them. «. 7. ed that they might elect their candidate
THE City of New York now basa population of nearly a million and a half and the Tribune gives an interesting acaccount of how the people all live. Tbere are 30,500 houses occupied each by one family and 21,580 tenements which house from two to four families on each floor. If the population of the city was was distributed evenly among tbe buildings each house would contain eighteen persons. About 3,600 of tbe tenement houses are more than four stories high and 1,800 of them are rear houses. The density of population in these great cities is almost appalling, and yet people who have become used to living in large cities will undergo any kind of misery and inconvenience rather than live comfortably in a smaller plaoe. "r
THE Prohibitionists did not do as much in Ohio as they dreamed they would. It was in the imagination ol some of them when the csmpaign open
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cdebratlon of ThankBgiTlngday thouUI the fight-en. popular favor. What's
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on. It ia probably true that Dr. Leon •rd would have got a larger vote on any previous day of the campaign than he received on last Tuesday. His strength dissipated from day to day. This was from no fanlt of bis cause, but from a
growlBR on the
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and some premonitory winter blasts MAKSIHO'S management of tbe front the north before no can be in pro-
nertrim for tbe sieat annual feast.
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brilliant record. Eight months have passed and nothing has been paid on tbe public debt debt which was reduced about $44,000,000 during tbe last nine months of Mr. Arthur's administration. Mesn while tbe idle cash in tbe vaults of tbe treasury has in crossed some $30,000,000. This may be good mansgemeat of sffitirs but it would not be so regarded in private business. If a man ha9 tbe money to pay with be generally reduces bis interest bearing debts about as fast as possible, instead of holding Us cash and allowing tbe Interest to accumulate.
Oxa good thing which the Ohio election accomplished was the adoption of tbe constitutional amendment changing tbe election from October to November. This change abolishes the last general election In October and will prevent
plurality was lyw. It Is tbe universal hereafter that concentiatei effort of both verdict that tbe Republicans of that partita in tbe preliminary eonhwta Stats hare covered themselves over with' which hereto ft was tbe fruitful causa glory.
of so much corruption and fined.
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TERRE HAUTE BAY EVENING MAIL
IT is leas than a month now nntiltbe exposition at New Orleans will $pen again, November 10th being tbe time fixed for that event. While some dtubt has been felt as to tbe ultimate sudcess of tbe enterprise the reports which cftme from the Cresoent city are of a highly encouraging nature. It is said that the undertaking Is an assurred success. Among tbe many new things to be teen will be an electric railway with numerous depots. Nearly all the nations frill be represented in some way. Tbe'expositiou will be open throughout the winter and until the 1st of April.
Two Baltimore parents compared notes and found that it cost $814.50 a year to,keep a boy and $1,274 to keep a girl, outside of the question of board,entirely. Among tbe items of exMnse are two winter and two summer sfiits of clothing for tbe boy and three party dresses and seal skin coat for the girl, with other things in proportion. limited families should be the rule in Baltimore. We know whole families who live on that much in Terre Haute and live comfortably and decently too.
SAD confirmation comes of the reports recently made public of domestic trouble in tbe Sartoris family. It seems that a permanent separation is almost inevitable and that tbe blame is wholly on the side of the husband, who is coarse, cruel and vulgar. This trouble of bis favorite child must have been an additional burden to Gen. Grant in his days of failing strength and fortune, and its revelation casts a uew light upon the shadows which surrounded him towards the last.
AMONG her otbersore trials and tribulations, our capital city is to have a season of tbe cataleptic evangelist, Mrs. Woodworth, who has ordered her tabernacle and threatens tbe infliction of an all winter campaign. She gives Indianapolis the report of being a wickfed city, which is coutrary to the claims of the capital newspapers, except as to the winters when the State Legislature meets tbere. It has always been represented as "the city of churches," which should indicate piety if it does not.
THK New York Times (mugwump) declares that the Democrats were beaten in Ohio as they will be in New York, because they deserve it, the machinery of their party having been seized by bad men for bad purposes. The Sun admits that it is a check for the Democracy and, while able to account for it with very good reasons, that the fact is none the less disagreeable. Other Democratic papers find consolation in tbe refle^km that Ohio always was a Republican State anyhow.
AMONG the more important of the State elections to be held this year, may be mentioned the folio win g: Iowa will will elect a Governor, State officers and Legislature on Nov. 3, and on the same day Massachusetts, Mississippi, Virglni? and New York, will elect tbe same officers. Elections will be held in several other States, but tbey will be limited to certain officers and are not of general interest.
THE city election in Indianapolis was a very close contest. Denny, the republican candidate was elected Mayor by a majority of only 60. Tbe democratic candidate for clerk was elected by 199 majority. Tbe republicans have one majority In tbe council and the board of aldermen is a tie.
HAVING retired from tbe stage herself Miss Clara Louise Kellogg volunteers tbe statement that the day of big salaries for prima donnas has passed away. Yet if current reports be true, some of them get big salaries still more than they are worth and more than people ought to pay.
A NEW cable line in Kansas City hauls from 9,000 to 16,000 passengers per day. It runs from tbe Union depot to the eastern limits of tbe city, about a mile and three quarters. At this rate tbe Missouri city will soon lay Chicago in the shade. _____
HENRY W. SHAW, the humorist, best known as "Josh Billings" died of apoplexy, Wednesdsy morning, while fitting in a chair in the vestibule of a hotbl at Monterey, California. He was billed to lecture tbere last night.
WHAT has become of Mr. Cheater A. Arthur? 8urely there is no oblivion like that into which an ex-President goes when be steps out of the White House at the end of his term.
TH Chicago News declares that tbe reault of the Ohio election puts Sherman in the very front rank of Republican candidatea for the Presidency in 1888.
WK have beard from Ohio. Next month we will bear from New York. These be tbe opening guns in tbe campaign of 1888.
THB papers that were criticising John Sberman before the election in Ohio, havent so much fault to find with him now.
OUR GAMBLERS.
In his sermon last Sunday evening on "City Corruption," mention of which is mmAtk in another paragraph, Rev. Mr. Breeden said:
I have it from otte who ought to know, that there are twenty poker rooms within two aqaarae of the corner of Sixth and Main. Here nightly, rami of money change hands. Officers of the law know of the great pret ukienoe of the gaming vice, bat tbey do toot dare disturb the gambler*, for they Ate a great factor in politic* and upon tbe throat of the arfmlnfatratkm tbey have their handa. Nearly any one can see dally standing In front of prominent saloon* and in pobtlc places qalte a number of sieek-loeking, wallted, doable-chinned men with no visible means of rapport. It Is *ald if the walls of certain saloons and gambling rooms eoold speak they would explain bow tbey live and possibly tell harrowing tales, noaibtr of broad twirmrlni tn
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children barter
ed by ciur nubers and pawing into tbe maw of the*? sleek-looking representatives of the tlgsr.
CURIOUS FEATUBES
OF TBE ELECTRIC LIGHTING BUSINESS.
[Scientific American.}
The business of tbe voltaic arc light companies may be said to furnish additional evidence of the credulity of human nature. The picture presented by hundreds of sab-companies spread over tbe country, living on prospects rather than profite, stimulates the observer and invites the analyst. At the recent meeting of tbe National Electric Light Association, it was not difficult to see in which way the profit lay. Those engaged in selling light exhibited the unmistakable evidences of depression, while the fellows who confine their efforts to the sale of electric lighting plant were correspondingly elated and bouyant.
The first discussed economical processes with an interest that was profoundly serious, as though their only hope of profit lay in a reduction of running expenses, while tbe second looked on with ill-concealed indifference.
To those whe have had tbe inclination to study the electric light business, this will not be surprising. They will have discovered that there is an immense
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rofit in eleictric lighting plant, and but is any at all, in the sale of the light. Like glucose, tbe electric lighting plant is advertised but little the private circular having been found to be the most judicious method of .reaching purchasers. 60
into the office of one of the so-call-ed parent companies, and talk about electric light plant, and you will be astonished oy the prospective profits of light selling. It will be proved, to you with mathematical precision that few modern enterprises offer such a large margin of profit as the operation oi an electric lighting plant. Rut if there is so much profitln selling the light, why don't these companies go into the business themselves Why do they confine themselves to selling plant You will scarcely fail to be struck with this when bearing the plant people talk on tbe subject of light selling.
Last week two large electric lighting plant companies were consolidated. One of these companies only two years ago bad a little office in Union Square, before which a single arc light hung suspended. This was larely lighted, as if the dispensing of arc light was a luxury far too costly to be indulged in by any but sub-companies.
This company has now a great factory in New York city, where large quantities of lighting plant are manufactured for thoso provincial projectors who are possessed of robust bank accounts and adamantine credulity.
Fortunes bave been made in arc light apparatus, but the only people wbo have profited, thus far, from the light itself are tbe gas companies, because its brilliancy so pales tne gas jets by comparison that gas consumers, in order to counteract its influences, are forced to turn on more burners and use more gas.
THE LIGHT OP THE FUTURE A THING OP THE PAST.—At least such an illustration is afforded by the recent action .oi the Massillon Ohio) City Council. Probably incited to such action by longcontinued complaint on tbe part of the taxpayers—the complaints being based on inadequate lighting service and extravagant cost—tbe Massillon councilmen, after proffracted debate, at a session held Thursday, August 6th, voted to reject all bids for lighting the city streets with electricity. T?hey also ordered the electric conductors be removed within ten days from tbe passage of tbe order, and further determined that the gas company shall hereafter supply tbe publio with light on streets and in the public bnildlngs. We venture to say that many another Western dty and town will follow the example set by Massillon.—American Gas Light Journal.
STOP YOUR H0R8B
In front of Peter Miller's, 505 Main street, where you will find a large stock of Lap Robes, Horse Blankets, Saddles and Harness at tbe very lowest prices.
LATE STYLE HATS/4 All the latest styles of Hats and Caps for FaU and Winter wear are now displayed at Sykes' Hat Store.
Estrayed.
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Phorses,
SALE OB TRADE.—Two good will sell for cosh or trade for bet
ter hone: also wagon and harness for sale or trade RIDDLE, HAMILTON A CO.
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coltlvatlou, 96 acres good timber, will be sold cheap and on easv terms. M. BALUE, 527 Ohio St.
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SALE or TRADE—For City property land— IflO acrwt in Woodson county, Kansas, under fence, "b^t or® awes In cam. M. BALUE, S27 Ohio Street
OK SALE or TRADE—80 acres in I* Woo tnon county, Kansas all under fence all nnder cultivation, finall house and orcbard. AL BALL- E, SS7 Ohio Street
Pcounty,
jrVALE or TRADE-320 acres in Reno Kanms, all under fence, none in cultivation. M. BALUE, 527 Main Street
nOK SALK—HKOON HAND SCHOOL BOOK Schools, IMS Main Htiwt
BOOKVof nil K-ndiS for a*le cheap, at W. F. SIBLEYw,
For Rent.
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One of 8 rooms and the other &. WH1 rent *T Apply to ANDERSON A PATTERr Ohio Street SON, Wfr
RENT—Two nice itletnan and w1fe, to Koopman% uiOOK. Water, water clouts and coal bins convenient- None bet respeffable parties need apply- Corner Sbrth and Cbetiy stiests.
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erty or Kansas Lands for a good General Merchandise for seperateslocks of Groceries, Dry Goods. Hardware, fc.
Acrts of land In Efflng-
ham Co. Ills- about 8 miles west of Effingham on the National road, 120 acres in
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SPECIAL NOTICE!
TO THE LADIES
Of Terre Haute,"
From FOSTER, PAUL & CO. New York..-sift
We have received, at our request, from Messrs. Hoberg, Root & Co.,'our agents at Terre Hante. 500 names of their lady customers, from which we have drawn 100. To the 100 ladies we have each sent a complimentary card entitling them to one pair of our nest and celebrated Foster seven-hook kid gloves.
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OPERA house
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FOSTER, PAUL A CO.
i?" New York, Oct. 10th, 1885. •.
TO 7HE LADIES: Referring to tbe above card of Messrs. F.. P. Co., we would also add that in order to introduce their gloves they have notified ns tbst an experienced New York fitter, from tbeir house, would be here next week. Due notice will be
iven of ber arrival and when she will at our store. Respectfully,
HOBERG, ROOT & CO.
One Night Only—Saturday, October 17th.
Manbury & Overton's Powerful Company,
The Wages of Sin.
*rj In Frank Harvey's Great Drama, A
,r' The Greatest Play Ever Produced. Elegant Scenery. New Costumes. TJSTJJ^Xi PRICES.
V0ne Night Only—Tuesday. October 20th.
SIBERIA!
A Romantic Play in 6 Acts and 7 Tableaux, by Bartley Campbell.
Prices 25, 30 and 75 cents. Reserved seats 81.00, at Button's.
One Night Only—Wednesday, October 21st.
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The Original and Only SPARKS CO., (Edouin and Sanger)
Greatest of all Successes,
"A BUNCH OF KEYS"
Or, THE HOTEL, by Clias. H. Hoyt. New Songs, Dances and Witticisms. Brighter and Better. Funnier than Ever Before.,
"TV One Night Only—Thursday, October 22nd. Upon which occasion The Eminent Tragedian"
FREDERICK WARDE
Supported by Miss MittenB Willett, Mr. Henry Aveling and a complete Dramatic Co. will appear in the subline 6 act Tragedy
VIRGIN ITJS
Or, THE ROMAN FATHER.
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Patrons and Friends
Do not be derived or mislead by dealers wbo shout big things which tbey cannot show or do not produce when called for, It is only their decoy to get yoa in, and then make what they can out of you before they let you go.
We sell just what we sdvertise, AND THAT IS THK BEST GOODS IN THE MARKET, AT THE LOWEST
PRICES, and gusrantee every article just as represented,
Men's Suits, Boys' Suits, Youths' Suits, Business Suits Dress Suits, Everyday Suits, Children's Suits, Overcoats, Underwear, White Shirts, Colored Shirts, Knit Jackets, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Ties, Suspenders, Ac.
We could give you a list of prices as long as the moral
law, but space prevents. We are not ashamed of our prices BS stock la marked ia plain selling figures. All we ask is a a comparison of goods and prices before bnylng elsewhere.
EITHER READY-MADE OR MADE TO ORDER, FIRST CLA8S IN EVERY PARTICULAR. I invite your Inspection. ^, 4 m.
H. MILLER,
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