Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 21, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 November 1886 — Page 1

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

Now that the election is over let us— do a good many things. Now look out for labor bills at the next Congress. They will be thicker than blackberries August.

Poor oppressed woman seems destined to suffer always. This season it is the weight of the towering hat which bears them down.

If it is true, an has been reported, that Herr Most gets $5 a week for editing Freiheit, lie is the most extravagantly paid journalist in the country.

Only twelve of our twenty-two Presidents were graduates from colleges. The boy who would sometime be President should steer clear of the colleges.

The gas well at Fort Wayne continues its unprecedented flw. Civil service commissioner Edgerton still makes his home in that city it is nnderstood.

For two weeks

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been on the point of unraveling the Missouri express robbery. The point seems to bo rather a hard one to get over.

Talking about politics, wonder how Mr. Iainb and his friends would like to nee a prominent membor of the Opposition nominated for Mayor in the spring?

Between its Democratic committee of Safety and its Citizens' committee of 100, Indianapolis is not likely to want for excitement until the Legislative muddle is settled.

The President could have written his namo with a LL. I), just as well as not, but he had the good sense not to want to. Grover Cleveland is a pretty level headed man after all.

This weather has not brought an extraordinary amount of gladnoss to the heart of the coal dealer, but. tho man with empty coal bins has a smile on his face like unto a May morning.

Wo havo sort of lost track of Winnie Davis for a few days past. Wo suppose It is safe to say, however, that she and Mis. Cleveland have not happened to run across each others'paths.

The question among the Democrats is as to whether McDonald, Gray or Bynum shall be United States Senator. There seem* to be a good deal of danger just now that It will not be any ono of them.

Now that sho has got tho big statuo, New York seoms to boat a loss to provide for lighting it. When M. Bartholdl brought over the big girl ho should have brought some oil to put into lior lamp.

One of the T^ew York boodle aldermen has been pronounced insane by a jury. His

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want to havo him loft in the

care of his wife at home. That would be rather a ulcer thing than going to Canada. "The Senator and I" have been cutting a wide swath in political affairs at Indianapolis this week. No doubt if tho blue-eyed boy had been elected Congressman he would have said "Mo and Dan." ______

Negroes In Georgia own over eight million dollars' worth of property. But that isn't much after all. It is only $16 apiece for 500,000 of them and there are probably many more negroes than that In Georgia.

In his sermon last Sunday on gambling Parson Tnlmage paid his respects to church lotteries upon which he was particularly severe. There area great many other people who see with Mr. Talmage's eves onJt-hat subject.

A great many persons in this vicinity labor under the impresslou that the Chicago militia was called out because of the strike among the pork packers. This is a mistake. "Alvin Jfoalin" Is bearing down upon the scene.

There is an awful rumor afloat, to the

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The statement is made by some one having authority from Mr. Blaine, that the latter is not seeking the Presidential nomination in '88. This may be taken as very good evidence that Mr. Blaine is thinking of very little else. 5

Having advanced the price of soft coal 40 cents a ton, the Ohio coal ring refuse an advance in the miners' wages of 10 cents a ton. As the coal ring view it, this is an effort by the miners to absorb the earnings of honest capital.

A loaded revolver went off again this week, this time in Snllivan county, and a father killed his six year old son. The father, of course, was not seriously injured. To those whom the Gods desire to have long life they first give loaded guns and revolvers.

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According to a Southern paper the white man who does not work now in that section of the country, is tabooed as much as the man who worked used to be before the war. We hope this news is not of the kind that is too good to be true.

A cry goes up from all parts of this State for good, energetic corn huskers, who can command good wages. Here is a chance for some of the professional labor agitators to make au honest living— that is, if they want to make an honest living.

Fred Archer, the famous English jockey, who committed suicide the other day, left an estate valued at over a million dollars. This fact indicates, to some slight extent, the enormous sums of money which change hands on horse racing.

In Greensborough, Ala., a number of young ladies have organized a society for the suppression of back-biting. When a membor speaks ill of any person sho is required to pay a fine of $1 into the treasury of tho society. The society will undoubtedly become wealthy.

The record in tho case of the Chicago anarchists covers 8,000 pages of typewriting. Divided into books of 400 pages that would make a score of them. The aim of the anarchists must have been to terrify the court into granting a new trial rather than wado through the record.

Not a cent of the vast Stewart fortune Is to be given to charitable institutions, because A. T. Stowart disliked paupers. This may prove unfortunate to some of tho heirs in tho long run. Stranger things havo happened than the heirs of millionaires dying paupers.

Goneneral Manson will injure his reputation as ono of tho best and most honest mop in tho Eighth Congressional district, or, indeed, in the State, if he allows himself to be made part of a schemo to defeat the wishes of a majority of the people of Indiana as expressed in the recent election.

Torre Ilaute is getting quite a reputation as a resort for "kickers." Miss Mather was announced to appear in "Honeymoon" last night, whereupon a "kick" was raised, and the manager was Induced to change to "Romeo and Juliet." Verily, the "kicker" is becoming a power in the land.

The greatest blessings often come completely disguised. While we have been lamenting the amount of political literature sot adrift by a political campaign we have failed to realize that it has prevented the springing of turkey and Thanksgiving chestnuts upon us. Let the political oxcitement be kept up by by all means. _____

©fitect that General Manson has appoint- intimate that he failed to pay contributors for articles which they furnished This Miss Cleveland could not stand and

©d a Craw fordsv Hie Republican to a posi tion in the revenue service. The olttcoseeking Democrats are praying that they she threw up the sponge. may be spared this last blow.

Alas! for the cruelty of fate! The In- his mugwump friends in Massadianapolls papers speak of our late Con-

It is barely possible that Mr. Meagher, In the wildest dreams of his ambition, had little idea of attaining suah a national reputation as has fallen to his lot. He is by long odds the largest figure in the arena of Indiana politics at the present writing. All that we have to ask of Mr. Meagher is, that he does not take to the lecture platform.

Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has resigned the editorship of Literary Life. Her career was short but not altogether sweet. She does not say that Mr. Elder failed to pay her salary but she docs

The President has been hob-nobbing

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gresslonal candidate as plain "John to speak. If the gentleman has an eye Lamb," and refers to him as "the young the chances of 1888, he had better shift person who resigned the position of di»- |j,e cares of state from his shoulders and trlct attorney to run for Congress."

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deavorinff to prove why the Republican* both loud »n «*p. carried Indiana. In the heat of the ar- Kokomoites were not contented gmncnt they seem to have lorgotten the

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reason,—thai they got more votes^han jRCnMe y,e volume of gas if they bored their opponent*. deeper. They did so. Now they hate tf If "Sunset" Cox (who has now been plenty of artesian water, but no g*s. dubbed

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the fun that will be expected of him gas hut they cant. Water was not when he gets

to Congress, he had what they wanted, They have no panic-

beat begin getting his Jokes ready. It la ular uae for it, just now JSSt year before he will take hto Mat, to be never know when to let well enough ^•ure, but be will want good large stock alone—in other words when they hare tobeginwith. enough well.

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Thomas W. Harper is in training for the title of the "Political Prophet of the Wabash Valley." When Mr.JLamb was nominated Mr. Harper said he would be .defeated. When Mr. Meagher was nominated Mr. H. said he was ineligible and would not be permitted to take his seat. One prediction lias been verified, and the other is likely to be. Mr. Harper seems to be on particularly happy terms with Father Time, who, it is said, vindicates all men.

Two prize fights of considerable note occurred in different parts of the country last Monday, and the authorities interfered before the men had killed each other. Some wise official will have a bright idea some fine day, and will not interrupt a fight, and the sluggers and their friends will keep on slugging each other, until, like the Kilkenny cats, they will all disappear. Then Congress will have a medal made for the bright official.

The window-glass makers have gone into the business of organizing a syndicate "to control production and prices" in a thoroughly business-like way. After considering the matter fully they had lawyers draw up a plan that would not in any way conflict with existing laws. It is evident that what these monopolistic manufactures need is some law which does not now exist and ought to be quickly forthcoming.

Let us give thanks! The decent people of the United States have revolted against tho importation of fpreign adulteresses to furnish us our stage amusements. The disgusting details of the Violet Cameron-Lord Lonsdale scandal in New York have sickened the people, and the company is having such miserable luck that all its engagements havo been cancelled and it will return to England. All hail to the sentiment growing stronger daily, which demands decency on tho stage as well as off.

That was a notable meeting held -by the women of a Michigan town this week, in which they asked the aid of all "who lovo honor and decency" in securing the punishment of a man who had committed a terrible crime and then escaped. The authorities were condemned for their delay in the matter, and the men of the community were urged to see justice done. Perhaps when women can take a hand in securing tho punishment of these offenders they will get something like their just deserts. As it is now, t&e KwT delay as in. top many cades admits ofltheir escape with slight punishment.

Notwithstanding the recent convention of the Knights of Labor decided against the boycott except in extreme cases that measure has been adopted against Armour, the Chicago pork packer, whose men are on a strike. The executive committeeman says they are now on the war path aftor scalps. A scalp Jis a very desirable thing to have about the house, as some of the strikers will no doubt discover. It will buy groceries, coal and light, will pay house rent, and is in fact a commodity that no well regulated household should be without. Before this strike is over some of the misguided workmen will discover that tho beginning of winter is not an auspicious time to have a falling out about wages. Strikes may be all right in extreme cases, but its a wise man who knows how to select a good time to strike.

The ministerial association at Indianapolis has? taken a very sensible stand against Sunday funerals, an example that should be imitated here in Terre Ilaute. The arguments used against funerals on that day are, principally, that they area serious tax upon tho officiating minister in view of his other duties on that day they deprive many men the privilege of the Sabbath, and, finally—the most potent reason—they are the gratification of a false teste which seeks to make the funeral occasion one of as much publicity aud display as is possible. The dfty has gone by when the worth of a man should be estimated by the length of his funeral procession. There is a growing public sentiment against tho profuse floral display at fnneralswith which we were once so.familiar and along with it will come the gradual discouragement of Sunday funerals, and in fact, all public displays that are so inappropriate at such a sacred time. It is as one of the members of the association said in a paper on the subject, scarcely the province of the ministers to take any express legislation in the matter, or lay down any general rule of action. The proper way is to educate the people to a proper view of the solemnity and sacredness of the funeral ceremony, and then aU display will be shunned.

"The Deadwood Mystery" is one of Bret Harte's latest stories coming to us in several exchanges. The greatest mystery about it Is why the story was ever written.

EMMA ABBOTTS NEW KISS. Boston Heraid. A California paper announces that "Emm* Abbott" has anew kiss. It wa» about time. Her old one has been batting round the country for these six years, and most be pretty threadbare.

POLITICAL POfPOURL

The election of a United States Senator for the term beginning March 4th, 1887, has t)ecome a local question In Terre Haute, and at first it looked as if the Sixth ward, Con Meagher's stronghold, was the center of a national contest. The struggle for the majority vote in the joint convention of the Legislature first narrowed down on the part of the Democrats to the question of the legality of the election of Con Meagher of this county and so exciting became the dispute that Senator Voorhees said that a revolution is impending. He further says that the Democratic Senate will turn out Republican Senators as fast as the Republican House unseats Democrats. This threat was made in anticipation of the Republicau programme to unseat other Democrats than Meagher, the question of whose eligibility has become a secondary matter since the seats of other Democrats have been contested. Mr. Meagher was elected and duly qualified as justice of the peace this spring- for a term "btgiruling Oct. 22, and as it is provided that no' person holding a judicial office is eligible for any other office during the term of the judicial office, Mr. Dickerson, his Republican opponent, has formally contested the seat. The lower House of the Legislature is the court to pass on the question and it is Republican by ten majority, hence the minor and technical points in the dispute are interesting in a legal aspect and not in the political outlook. Mr. Dickersoa's vote would make the tie on joint ballot and the public in general expected to see such a status in the Legislature until proceedings, which had been determined on in secret immediately after the election, wore taken looking to the unseating of Mr. Beaslev, of Sullivan, tho Joint-Representative elect for Vermillion, Vigo and Sullivan. Tho contest of Mr. Meagher's seat is begun by taking depositions by two justices of.the peace and forwarding all the evidence to the Legislature. Tho work here will be more or less perfunctory. In the Mr. Bcasley case there is to be "a recount on petition of his opponent Mr. Decatur Downing, of Vermillion. It is claimed by the Republicans that both fraud and errors contributed to give Mr. Beasley his apparent majority of 28. In Vermillion county it is said that many Democrats voted the straight ticket except Representative that they rebuke®*! eoun_ atthese'tickets' were counted as not scratched, ho .receiving the votes. Fraud and errors are also allegod in Sullivan and Vigo counties. It is a most reasonable supposition that Mr. Beasley will not voto for a United States Senator and it may be parenthetically remarked that no man whose name is so aptly suggestive of his appearance ought to be permitted to perform such a duty. When ho returns to those "lower walks of life," which he condescendingly informed a meeting of farmers he had once traversed with them, he will be as the saying is a wiser man. Nature has prevented the possibility of further physical disfigurement. He will, however, have the satisfaction of being accompanied in his return to private life by the similar fate which undoubtedly awaits at least four other Democratic Representatives in different parts of the State. In the local case it is to be hoped that any recount of ballots be free from tho manipulation of "fine-workers."

Enough is now known and apparent to warrant the assertion that the struggle that will begin at Indianapolis on the first Monday in January, will involve many issues as each side contends for every inch of ground. Col. Thompson, speaking of tho contest, expressed the opinion that at least two of the gerrymandered Joint-Representative districts were uneonstutionally composed, the districts of Vermillion, Vigo and Sullivan and Lawrence, Orange and Dubois. The constitution provides that districts shall be composed of contiguous counties having a vote exceeding the ratio, which now is 4,900 to a Representative. Lawrence has a vote of 3,993 and Orange 3,077. The former is Republican by 520 and the latter Democratic by 23. Con sequently the Democratic Legislature made the string extend into Dubois, which is Democratic by 1,792. Dubois does not touch Lawrence. Col. Thompson holds that the Legislature's power was exhausted when it reached Orange, else the district could be strung out ul infinitum to get enough Democratic votes, and Republican counties in the northern part of the State coeld be attached to Ohio river Democratic counties until there would hardly be a Republican district in the whole 100. "It is not a question whether a candidate is a Republican, Democrat or laboring man," said the venerable statesman. "It is a legal question and one tliat affects the- very foun dation of our system of government. Thirty yecjrs ago a mere memorial to the Legislature would have raised the question for settlement, but in these times all the talk is about ^stealing the Legislature.'

It seems that Mr. Lamb does not take the lesson of his defeat to be that he should adopt a conciliatory policy toward the "kickers." Already be is "after the scalps" of his enemies, the first person

to feel the knife being City Attorney Foley. Although Senator Voorhees' strong arm was brought into service the operation was not a success, Democratic Councilmen refusing to accede to the demand that Foley by removed. Neither have the "kickers" quit kicking. This week certain information was communicated to President Cleveland which is calculated to have an adverse effect on any plan to make Mr. Lamb a beneficiary of federal patronage.

Already the local politicians are talking about the municipal election next spring. The quarrels, disappointments and alleged treachery of the recent election are to bear an important part in making "slates." Tho great American privilege of "getting even" will be the order of the day.

LITTLE SERMONS.

We often do more good by our sympathy than lay our labors. When you bury an old animosity never mind a tombstone.

Conscience is a great ledger-book in which all our offences are written and registered,

He who is slowest in making a promise is apt to be the most faithful in the performance of it.

Try to be happy in this very present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come^:

Let us try to help ourselves first, and then, if we fail, we cannot be accused of indolenck

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not, so commonly troubled with great ambitions. -r\--

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnifioently when he descends to human affairs.

Better tho chance of shipwreck on a voyage of high purpose than expend life in paddling hither and thither on a shallow stream to no purpose at all.

Self-denial is one of the great lessons of life. The sooner we learn it the better for our own happiness. In considering the feelings of others we secure our own composure.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his iatlent, and look upon them only as sick

An old lady from the country went recently to a dry goods store aud began examining a piece of cotton print. She pulled it this way and that, as if she would tear it to pieces, held it up to the light in different positions, wetted a corner and rubbed it between her fingers, trying if the colors were good. Then she paused a while, seemingly satisfied. At last she cut off a piece with a pair of scissors sho had dangling at her side, and handing it to a tall, gawky-looking girl, of about sixteen, standing beside her, said, "Here, Lizzie Jane you take an' chew that, an' see if it fades." Lizzie Jane put it into her mouth accordingly and dutifully went to work.

Sproule, an American citizen, was hanged at Victoria, B. C., on Friday of last week, for a crime of which he was believed to be not guilty, and the day before he died he received a dispatch from a lawyer in Boston to say that he had fallen heir to a large amount of money. If one could put himself in the place of the hapless victim of British injustice, he would havo a perfect knowledge of the fortunes and fate of Tantalus.

WAR A OA IS ST PARLOR BEAUX. Milwaukee Son Unci. Any evening numbers of young men may be seen at the Milwaukee theaters alone, although they are known to be society young men and indefatigable parlor beaux. They go to the theater whenever there is any thing worth seeing alone, although they are able to take young ladies. There never was a time when young men were so indifferent to the just claims of young ladies. There is an understood rule that the young men shall make some recognition of a courtesy at the hands of a young lady, but if he does this he certainly does no more. There is no escaping the convic tion that the voung man who is constant--v -*-A—* ladies ir .. ..v. _- ere are anv number of charming young women who do not require that a young man shall go to the expense of a carriage. They are willing to go by street car, or better yet, to walk to the theater. Anv voung man, with the right sort of feeling, is willing to go only half as often and to take a young lady with him.

As the holidays are now approaching we know of no article that will prove a more useful and acceptable present, than the "Wonderful Luburg Chair." Having over fifty changes, it can be adjusted to suit any position of the body, and being one of those wonderful contrivances it seems to please every body.

It is designed for die parlor, library, or

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furnishing of any room, as a re­

clining, smoking or for invalids' use, lounge, bed or conch. Their prices are wonderfully low, about one-half what other makers ask.

Write for descriptive catalogue to the Luburg Manufacturing Co., 145 North Eighth St., Philadelphia, Fa.

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Tho pet dog craze is on the increase in New York .New iorK.

If the girl of the period had wings, sho would cut them off to adorn her hat. Two Chicago women write "Rev." before their uames, according to the Herald.

A woman in a Philadelphia dime museum floats for twelve consecutive hours in a tank of water.

Lucy Larcom, the poetess," "asks?: "How will it be when the woods turn brown It will be cold for poets, Lucy, extremely cold.

A woman works in a Kalamazoo, (Mich.) cooper shop, and can make as many barrels in a day as any of the men

At a Ionian suffrage mooting in Phil$3k the Itther day, one rdveroml speaker encouraged tho sisters by assuring them that every year equal suffrage is delayed women are becoming better fitted for it by the extension of the industrial and educational sphere which is opened to her.

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who work with her. A Canada woman proposes to start a society for the prevention of kissing. -tf She is probably homely enough to warp tho bottom of a tin pan.

A Detroit servant girl, who wears a .f pedometer, has found that she walks two miles in preparing breakfast. This shows how healthy housowork must bo.

The sultan of Morocco keeps his 0,000 wives in Fez. That shows the advantage of being a heathen. If he were a christian gentleman lio'd have to koep them in bonnets.

A Milwaukee woman hid thirteen fivedollar gold pieces in the sugar box, and in the hurry and worry of canning fruit forgot about them. She afterward found thom all in tho preserves.

Some of the diamonds owned by Mrs. A. T. Stewart were so largo that sho never wore them outside the house, fearing that people would take them for Imitations. Stewart bought them in early life to show people that he was getting ahead.

Dr. Morin, a French physician, in his new work of the hygienics of beauty, makes a dead set against ear-rings. Iiu,. numbers of cases he has known erysipo-^ las proceed from thoir use. The idea that they are good for weak eyes ho quite disposes of. j/ 4 ^,

Miss Lucy Green, of Davenport, was, offered anew silk dress to walk through a graveyard at midnight alone. She'^"4' started out with the greatest kind of,?/ nerve, walkod half way through aml then utterod a "whoo-op" and fainted dead away. Sho will wear calico this winter.

Alfred Smith, neat-looking and quiet, hired out as a waiter at a hotel at Lake Elmo, near St. Paul, Minn. Soon ho was y1 made second steward, and was doing well, when his room-mate reported that he was a woman. It proved to be Mattio Carpenter, a Rhode Island girl. She disa a a to "I never was in a city," said a New York gentleman, as he stood at the entrance to Willard's lobby, to a Post reporter, "where tho girls carry themselves so gracefully as In Washington. 8eo that young lady there. She in straight her foot comes down upon the ground without any unevenness or twisting or turning, and she has the carriage of a veteran army offlcsr. All the Washing-. ton girls walk with style and grace."

Mrs. Ed. Morris of Chilllcothe, Mo., put 385 in bills under the bedroom carpet, forgot about it at housecleaning time, carried them out with the straw that was under the carpet, and made a fire of tho armful. She remembered about the^money after tho fire was out.On tho surface of the little bunch of ashes where the bills burned were plainly visible tho figures "10" and "6" and: fe the word "dollars," as printed on the national currency.

One of the famous women's rights women of tho West is the Rev. Miss Annie Shaw, and good stories are told of her pluck and smartness. Once when sho was riding through the lumber regions of Michigan, tho driver legau to talk insultingly. Miss Nhaw stood it for half an hour, and then suddenly drew a, Derringer from tho folds of her garments, and said very quietly: "You low, contemptible brute utter another,, word of that sort, and I'll shoot you liko^, a dog." The threat was sufficient. Tlio* I man did not utter a syllable the rest of the trip. He helped to get a large congregation for her at the settlement, "be"•ause," he said, "be liked her grit."' -f Once, at a public meeting, a speaker who had been discoursing on the trait* of strong-minded women—among others, that of wearing short hair—suddenly turned to Miss Shaw and asked: "By the way, how did you acquire that habit,

Miss Shaw?" "Sir, I was born so," was -y' the answer.

SO CAN ANY CITY. Courier.

Madison could reduce the price of living to all her citizens by prohibiting stock from running at large.

A HINT AS TO PRESENTS. Jeweled garter buckles, at 9200 a set, are given as wedding presents in New York.

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