Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 24, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 December 1886 — Page 1

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Vol. 17.--NO. 24.

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

At last the dread announcement Is made that Editor Cutting has started out on a lecture tour. For once it wan the expected which happened.

"Oath," says that when the time conies the President will write a letter declining the renomination. Such things help to fill up "Oath's" space as well as other things and they are not liabelous either.

From all indication, the old ballad, "The Campbells are Comin'" is just a little inappropriate. They have arrived with the filthiest divorce case on record. It is time for "the Campbells to be (Join'."

If Terre Haute had a Young Men's Christian Association there would be 1,072 organizations of the kind in the United States. As It is there ure 1,071, with no prospects of an increase from this quarter.

It is announced that Henry Oeorge will publish a paper in the interest of all who work with head or hand. That will include pretty much all the people in the United States, oxcept those who work only with their jaws.

In Decatur, this State, two horse thiovos have been acquitted within a few months, on the plea of insanity. There is a remedy for that kind of madness, and Judge Mack has found fourteen years to bo about the size of it.

Mtindo has organized a company for the purpose of turning her natural gas to somo good account. If the well proves durablo and of sufficient capacity it is likely to work a revolution in the affairs of that busy little city.

Isn it about time to give the Niagara whirlpool a rest? Iast Sunday a woman went through it and got out safo and sound. AH the place has been shown to be so harmless thore is no glory in tumbling through it any more.

That Montana highwayman who was recently reported to havo starved to death is in no danger of being immortalized In a dime novel. Young America has no use for robbers who can't do anything bettor than starve to death.

Walt Whitman, tho old poet, N reported to bo in destitute circumstances, the royalties on his literary works amounting to no more than $50 a year. The wonder Is that such poetry as Whitman writes should bring him any royalty ut all.

A dispatch from Sofia to a London |apcrsays there is serious talk at the Bulgarian capital of nominating an American for tho vacant throne. America (uinId easily supply a candidate. John K. Lamb, for Instance, would make a good Bulgarian King.

And now the American Opera Company has had a row among its members. Did ever a lot of musicians get together who didn't fall out sooner or later? The Hue of the poet that "music hath charms to soothe the savage breast," might well bo revolutionised.

It is announced that Lafayette, Ind., which already has three daily papers, will probably soon have three more. With six dallies in the town, four morning and two evening, I^afnyette will be a livelier place than it has ever had the reputation of being heretofore.

"The crush of Iwmnets and dolmans" at the Colin Campbell divorce case, now going on in Ixmdon, which is worse, if possible, than the Crawford-Dilke case, proves that the F.ngllsh women are as (bud of scandal as their American coussins, if not somewhat more so.

Printers and proof-readers all over the land will come near lamenting the fact, next Monday, that we have a President, for oi\ that day the ponderous and prosy presidential message will be turned loose on the people. One can sympathise with the persons who are compelled to read it through. _____

It Is reported that the dressmakers of Mrs. Mnokay, wife of the honanxa king, have pledged themselves not to duplicate her drowses. A law is needed which would enable these millionairesses to have their gowuscopyrighted. It wonld save the dear creatures so much trouble and annoyance.

No Democrat who isn't able to lay in a stock of American whisky sufficient to last through his term, is fit to go as a representative of the government to Mexico. It is clear that those villainous "grtwscr" drinks will never do for the Yankee stomach which has never tackled anything worse than Kentucky bourbon. _____

From the BnmWr of marital scandals with which which the newspapers have been filled lately, one might conclude that there little felicity in wedded lite. But this would be a hasty and unjust conclusion. There are many happy married pairs, but they have no need to gain notoriety by parading their aflfiaira in the court* or the newspaper*.

And now the report ia current that Blaine and Edmunds mutually desire a reconciliation. The way to reconciliate is to reconciliate, and from here it does not look as if anyone stood in the way. When Mr. Blaine gets a chance for a respite from his contract of holding the country up by the tail, no doubt he and the cold-blooded Senator from Vermont will kiss and make up.

As sporting men would phrase it, the Campbell divorce in London "can give the Dilke scandal cards and spades and beat it out." If anything more nasty haa gotten into decent print recently no one has heard of it. It is simply nauseating, and yet the cable wouldn't bring it over if the report was not closely read. The reading public needs to be educated out of this class of literature, and it can begin in earnest none too soon.

Tho good people of St. Louis, through their ministers, were horrified to learn that the American Opera Company was to have a ballet as one of its attractions. Generally ministers do not need to preach against the ballet, as its antiquity aud general appearance give it pro-cmi-nence as a "frightful examplo." But the prospect of having a ballet composed of plump, good-looking American girls, was too much to allow to pass unnoticed. It is quite likely, however, the managers of the opera company were very thankful for the advertisement thus freely given them. "T-'-*

A JWabash woman was recently divorced from one husband just before noon and at one o'clock was the wife of another—beating the record for divorce and quick marriage. Terre Haute, which has something of a record in this line herself, but the best she can show is the case of a man who was divoK,Sd one day and was married again tho same evening. It is told of one applicant that he was refused a marriage license until he had paid the cost of the divorco ease in which ho had shortly before figured. But for neatness and dispatch Torre Haute must give way slightly to the woman from Wabash.

Rev. O. C. MeCullough, of the Plymouth church, Indianapolis, kicked up something of a row in his congregation by announcing, at the close of his sermon last Sunday, that he believed the Chicago anarchists had not had a fair trial and that he hoped they would secure a now one. The reverend gentleman said he was conscientious in the matter, as he doubtless was, and nobody could justly complain of his expressing his opinions, only it is not easy to see what the anarchist trial had to do with his sermon, or his sermon with them. It might bo just as well not to mix matters too much in the pulpit.

The National Industrial Emancipation Society is the high-sounding title given to a new organization formed in Chicago for the purpose, evidently, of setting the world back a few years and starting in anew on a fresh plan. When the thing gets in good running order its projectors oxjKK't every man to be his own farmer, miner, carpenter, etc., every acre of land will give three crops yearly, the sun will shine twenty-four hours every day, and many other things too numerous to mention. It is well to remark, however, that the directors do not expeet the thing in good running order for a fow days, possibly not before the latter part ot next week, at tho earliest.

Philosophy as a science does not seem to flourish so greatly in Chicago as the art of pork packing ami managing wheat deals. The Chicago Philosophical society has fallen from one hundred to thirty-eight in a year, with a prospect of a still further decrease as one of the subjects under discussion is "Tho Unknowable." The most unknowable thing in Chicago just at present is, whether Carter Harrison is figuring on the Presidency, Vice-Presidency, or Senatorship at the hands of the Democratic party. He is going about the country posing as the best mayor of the greatest city on oarth, and the Chicago people are endeavoring to hold their breath until they know for certain what Carter is after.

The champion honest young woman has come to light in Kankakee, Illinois. She recently sent two cento to a confectioner accompanied by a confession that she had some time ago taken two peanuts from from the roaster while passing his store. If all persons male and female were to be afflicted by their conscience to such an extent as this it would make happy the hearts of grocers and confectioner®, who In Terre Haute alwne lose, in the aggregate, hundreds of dollars every year by the sampling which customers and passers-by indulge in. It ht such an easy habit to foil into that few stop to think what it must amount to. However, it is not at all likely that the example of the Kankakee lady will prove fiercely contagious.

Mention ia made in our local columns of a peculiar vmM before Judge Mack— that of a young man, who, to avoid imprisonment, was married to a young woman who charged him with a serious crime, of which he stoutly maintained his innocence, and of which It now appear* he was innocent. The same day Judge Mack set this marriage aside a

bright, ambitious young man in New York City killed himself to get out of a marriage a court had forced on him with a woman many years older, who declared him to be the father of her infant. He denied the charge, and killed himself rather than submit to the wrong. And it has not been many months since a promising young man of this city was forced into a similar marriage simply through a desire to avoid the publicity of a suit, in which he knew he could make but a poor showing against the oath of a woman claiming to be his victim. Then to escape the ridicule so promiscuously heaped upon such unfortunates he left home and has never retamed. It would appear from all this that men can be sinned against as well as sin, and that while all men charged with crime are to be believed innocent until proved guilty, that some may be believed innocent who are proved guilty. There are some queer things to be run across in the courts, and this is one of thein. _____

LOOSE ENDS TAKEN UP.

The recount of votes in the Downing Beasley contest resulted in a net gain of one for Downiug, ho having gained seven in Vermillioft county and lost six in Vigo. This placcs lieasley's majority at thirty-one in tho district on tho face of tho returns. In tho Vigo recount twenty two errors were found, Beasley gaining ten votes and Downing gaining eight and losing four. The evidence In the contest case will be taken on Wednesday next before justices Felsenthal and Wildy. Such evidence, together with the report of the commission that conducted the recount, will be certified to the speaker of the House of Representatives. The evidence in the Meagher contest will bo taken by tho same justices on next Monday.

The result of the recount In this county, as in other counties, demonstrates an important fact in the matter of ascertaining the will of the people as expressed at the ballot box. There were twentytwo errors in the work of the election boards in this county and in some counties more than that number were found, showing that in closo elections it would be well to havo a recount. Strange as it may seem tho precincts having the larger number of errors, were those in which men who had often served in that capacity were the election officials.

Senator Voorhees' severe personal attack on Senator Edmunds has caused more local comment than it would naturally have done. This is because of the Senator's animus in tho matter. Said a "kicker": "Tho handshaking incident furnished Mr. Voorhees the first occasion to do publicly that which ho has been 'aching' to do. It may be, and perhaps is, true that the Senator finds a more congenial spirit in the impulsive Mr. Blaine than in the severely cold Mr. Edmunds, but he did not uphold Mr. Blaine's violation of that gentlemanly courtesy which should govern a man's conduct in preference to bitter personal feelings because he loved Mr. Blaine more but rather because his hatred for Mr. Edmunds was greater. The 'bearing of this is in the application on it.' Mr. Edmunds was the promoter 0/ the Republican policy which was to reject all nominations of officials to succeed Republicans who had been removed without cause. Mr. Edmunds waa chairman of the judiciary committee to which was referred the nomination of Mr. Lamb to be United States District Attorney. In the capacity of Republican leader and chairman of tho committee, Mr. Edmunds, more than any other Senator, prevented the confirmation of Mr. Lamb. It is nothing more than might be expected, therefore, that Senator Voorhees should not feel lamb-like toward Mr. Edmunds.

There are two things that should be definitely settled before "December, the last ember of the dying year," gives us any more zero weather. One is, which of the public and well-known thermometers in the city is standard? It will not do to go through a hard winter always about six degrees in doubt as to just how cold it is. The other doubt is easily dispelled. It is to the correct quotation of the remark made by Horatio to Hamlet anent the weather when the two were waiting for the ghost. It is often quoted and has already been misquoted in one of the local papers. Horatio did not say *Tis an eager and a nipping air," but said "It. Is a nipping and an eager air."

President Mendenhall of the Rose Polytechnic Institute has secured for Terre Haute quite an advantage in scientific respect by prevailing upon the Signal Service bureau to establish an experimental station here. Sergeant McRca, of Columbus, Ohio, has been detailed to prosecute the investigation of atmospheric electricity and earth temperature and will have quarters at the institute. There are but four of these stations in the United States, at Washington, D. CM Harvard, Yale and CornelL One local advantage win be the facility for making prognostications of Tterre Haute weather. Our city is within a few miles of the line dividing the "Lower

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Lake Region" and the "Tennessee and Ohio Valley," and the indications sent out from Washington therefore often leave one in doubt whether we are to have the rains predicted for the former or the clear weather of the latter.,

Terre Haute is not an exception in the prevalence of diptheria throughout the country. While the disease is not alarmingly epidemic here there is enough of it to warrant all precautionary measures. Several physicians who were asked as to

nature said that it was a mild form. There is also some scarlet fever, which is made more serious by diptheretie complications. Dr. Haworth of the Board of Health says there is great difficulty in making people observe the lawful precautions, such as preventing persons running in and out of a honse where there is either scarlet fever or diptheria and in having privato funerals in cases where death results from either of these diseases. The board is determined that the law be enforced and if necessary a policeman will be stationed wherever he may be needed to see that it is enforced. As illustrating the fact that many persons unwittingly disobey these legal requirements, it may be said that a few days ago a photographer took from a coffin a ch'ld that died from diptheria and placing it in a chair secured a good photograph.

Vermont has added another to the list of statuary nuisances. A fence more than six feet high obviously erected to shut the outlook from a neighbor's house is declared to bo such, and the person maintaining it is subject to prosecution. The Rutland Herald says there have been a few cases in Vermont of such a character as to render the law necessary. No doubt there are cases in every Stato of unneighborly conduct which finds expression in the erection of fences for pure purpose of annoyance but if this should be declared a nuisance by law, how about the case of a family whoso privacy is invaded by an espionage which is equally unneighborly and annoying? Like everything else there are two sides to this question.

The convict's paradise is certainly located down in Oeorgia. One of tho high-toned pillars of tho church and state was convicted of embezzlement eigM£c.n months ago, and when a committee oif the Legislature that was working for his pardon went to see him recently at a convicts's camp in the interior, they were surprised to recognize in a handsomely dressed fisherman, who approached them, roil in hand, the convicted embezzler. His volvet waistcoat was crossed by invisible stripes—to comply with the law—but there was no other taint of prison about him.

The Indianapolis News tells of a scene in tho audience at theOrand opera house a few nights ago that caused more comment than any on the stage. In the front of one of the fashion boxes was a newly-married lady, tho wifo of a wellknown business man, with her husband sitting directly behind her, while in the next box, with only a slight railing between them, and almost touching each other was his divorced wife, from whom he had been separated only a few weeks before he married again. It must have been somewhat embarrassing to all concerned, but it is said the ox-wife seemed to endure the ill-mannered staring and obvious comments of many in the audieuce much better than her successor did.

It is stated that there are about 200,000 men interested in brass bands, either as players or makers of instruments. There are 30,000 brass bands in this country at the present time, and the number is rapidly increasing.

THE DBA TH ROLL.

During the month of November interments were made in Woodlawn and Highland cemeteries as follows:

WOODLAWX.

Katcuoylc, years, consumption city. Elisabeth McLean, 22 yearn, SM north Twelfth.

Goo. Robinson, 25 years, suicide by hanging, Chicago, III. __ Edward Davis, 23 years, consumption 30 south Thirteenth.

Scott Caruthcrs, 8 yeais, scarlet fever north Thirteenth. Liszle Mini*, 13 years, typhoid fever 1S3B south Thirteenth-and-a-half.

Bert ha Gerhard t, 22 year#, heart disease 000 south Thirteenth. Mary A. Thompson, 2 years, cronp 13M south First.

Baby McFariand, still born near Pike's

Eaii Hupp. Imperfect circulation 812 Scott. M. H. Augustine, 99 years, consumption south Thirteenth.

Robert Cox, 55 yean, apoplexy, IS Swan. Harry H. Smith, 1 year, cerebral meningetls First and Linton.

Elisabeth EckhofT, 8 year*, basilar meningetis tttt south Fourth. Adah Jones, 87 years, general debility 810 south Center.

John Reed, 88 years, salcide 218 north Second. Baby Layman, still bom, 1/»18 Spruce.

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Baby Griston, still born 28S south Twelfth. Julia A. Johnson, 81 yean, typhoid fever Ridge Farm, 111.

Ethel M. SwarU, 1 year 18 north Eleventh. Harsh Jane Wheeler, 7 months, erysipelas north Water.

Baby Parker, 937 north »lxth-and-a-hai*. Ellen Rittcr,« years, congestion First and *j3jj!by Hudson, stUl born Second and Mai-

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For Bargains in Fancy Goods and Toys for the Holidays go to Fechheimer's Cent Store, South. Fourth Street.

H. Williams, 19 months, typhoid K,«Kth. Mary Chaney, If rears. 107 south First. Gertrude M. Gardner, 7 yearn, diptheria 718 north Seventh-

Gertrude Boyd. 8 years, diptheria,810 north Stxth-aod-a-half. At Woodlawn, 17 Highland Lawn, 12 total

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THE BACHELOR.

I think that I am growing wise. And somewhat versed in worldly lore A far-off look, not there before, Of late has come into my eyes.

Yes, I suppose I'm growing old, For time has set his signet gray Upon my thinning locks to-day, And mingled silver with t'.ie gold.

And I have lost the simple trust, Thechild-like fate in oath or vow I had in years agone, and now, My heart, is cold and dry as dust.

I sigh 110 more at beauty's feet, No more for her I break a lance, And when she gives her brighter glanco I smile, and think: "You little cheat."

I'd rather sit and take my ease, And smoke, and sip the ruby wine, Than kneel, as once, at Beauty's shrine, And soil my trousers at the knoos.f-J v'-V"* I now can smile atall my woes «, *0^

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And just the dearest little boot, at. A slae too small, that plnchcd my toes.

I wore the tallest kind of a hat, The most miraculous of ties, My gloves are number nine, the slse^l^Jf? I wore was seven, but what of that?

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I've almost reached the noon of life, -*./• I'm nearing now the boundary stone, *t,And all the way has been alone, Umblessed by chick, or child, or wlfe4w

"What have you learned," with lip upcurlcd Inquires the Sage, why, this I know, 'Tis money makes tho old mare go." The Almighty Dollar rules the world. —[BELLE BREMER.

LITTLE SERMONS.

Ridicule is a mean substitute to use instead of evidence. Never refuse a kindness that it comes in your way to do.

We generally find fault with fate when we ourselves are to blamo. A prudent man is liko a pin. His head prevents him from going to far. "V,

There.is 110 true eloquenco unless there is a man behind the speech. Stick to your own opinion, if 3-011 have one, and allow others tho same liberty of sticking to theirs.

That best portion of a good man's life, are his little, nameless, unromombored acts of kindness and lovo.

A man who professes Christianity but whose lifo is in direct contradiction to his principles, is worse than an infidel.

The only way to get through this world and av^d cebsure Is to tako stime back road, you cannot travel tho main road and do it.

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Sin is never at a stay if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it, and the further on we go, the more we havo to come back.

A light heart and clfar conscience, fair health and sufficient income—these blessings keep up a man's spirits in the midst of the hurly-burly of existence.

Tlioso who have resorces within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most.

Thore are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them he or she must be considered everywhere welcome, though with out beauty, wealth or genius

An 6maha man who fell over a baby carriage 011 the street and broke his nose has collected $305 from the owner of the vehicle. Again, in Louisville, when a man ran against a baby cart and upset it and broke the baby's arm, the law held that a person who took such a vehicle on a public street must run all ordinary chances of accident.

A seizure of bogus wines was made in New York the other day, and an analysis proved the presence of enough poison in 5,000 gallons to have raised a commotion in 40,000 stomachs.. Every bottle bore a French label, and was stamped: "Pure Grape," and yet it was all made in New York of dried fruits and acids. When a man goes beyond buttermilk it is hard to tell what he Is drinking.

A St. Louis clergyman devised a pretty present for a bride whose marriage service he read the other day. He wrote out the words of the ceremony in a pretty little volume in which the marriage certificate was bound, with the autographs of the bridesmaids, the best man and the ushers.

INQERSOLL ON LA WYERS.

The Boston Herald quotes Colonel Bob Ingersoll as saying: "The lawyer is merely a sort of intelligent strumpet. He is prepared to receive big fees and make the best of either side of any case. He is a sort of burglar in the realm of mentality. It is a fortunate thing for the lawyers, that, whenever a man Is crested who ham the peculiar faculty for legal acquirements and controversy, at the same time enough fools spring into existence to give him a good living. Mr ideal of a lawyer is that great Kngllsh attorney who, having accumulated a fortune of £1,000,000, left it all in a will to make a home for idiots,declaring that he wanted to give it back to the people from whom he took It.

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know much about my clients. I never want to know whether they are guilty or not. 1 do not even care to know what they can prove. What I want to know is what the other fellow can prove. When I know Mis I am ready for busi-

Thick soled shoes are fashionable for womea this winter.

WOMEN'S WA YS.

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe says that whilo some of tho bost best newspaper work is doue by women, so, also, is somo of the. "meanest." She does not give names.

Mrs. Francos Hodgson Burnett's directions for writing a novel aro as follows: "You must havo a pen, iuk, and paper, LTse the first with brains, tho second with imagination, and the third with gener-.? osity."

It is said that a Wichita woman refused to permit a man doctor to vaccinate hot* on account of her extreme modesty, and? afterward cried because her husband would not permit her to go to a masquerade ball as "Puck." .*

A Philadelphia woman is reported to have sent this noto to an oil brokers' "Please buy me 16,000 barrels of oil at 99 cents and sell at $1.10. Remit me tho difference, lessyourconiniission. Upon the promptness with which you cxecuto this order depends my future patronage."

The girls at Poughkeepsio draw each other into a corner and mysteriously in*, quire: "Do you know why Prof, lilank wears a plug hat?" "No why is it?" "To cover his head, of courso!" Then they te-he-lie-and ho! ho! ho! and write home to ma that they passed ninetyeight per cent, in Hoylo.

Kate Field says that woman who alms" to be fashionable might as well commit suicide at the start. She must neglect home, husband and children, put away comfort and convenience, be a first-class hypocrite and a good slanderer, aud at the end of ton years break down and bocome a physical wreck.

A Rome, N. Y., girl filled three stono beer jugs with wet sand, corked them tightly, and sot them in the oven to heat, so that she slio could warm her bod with them. Tho heat generated steam from the wot sand, and an explosion followed, which filled tho room with tlying sand and fragments of beer jugs. The girl and the rest of tho family wore badly scared, but unhurt.

REPLIES TO A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION,

At a social gathering somo ono proposed this question: "What shall I teach my daughter?" Tho following re-* plies were handed in:

Teach her that 100 cents make a dollar^ Teach her how to arrange the parlor 'rind the library.

Teach her to say "No" and moan it, or, "Yes" and stick to it.

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Teach her how to wear a calico dress, and to wear it liko a queen. Teach her how to sew on buttons, darn stockings and mend gloves.

Teach her to dross for health and cy.Mt fort as woll as for appoaruncc. Teach hor to cultivate liowers and to keep tho kitchen garden.

Teach her to make the neatost room in the house. Teach hor to havo nothing to do with intemperate or dissolute young men.

Teach hei that tight lacing is unconioly as well as injurious to health. Teach hor to regard tho morals and habits, and not inoney in selocting her associates,

Teach her to observe tho old rule: "A.place for everything and «vervLhing in its place."

Teach her that music, drawing and painting are real accomplishments in the home, and are not to be neglected If thoro be timo and money for their use. 2

Teach her tho important'truisrn:"Thafr the more she lives within her income tho more sho will save, atid the futher sho will getaway from the poorbouso."

Teach her that a good, steady churcligolng meclianic, farmer, clerk or teacher without a cent is worth more than forty loafers or nonproducers in broadcloth.

Teach her to embrace every opportuity for reading, and to select such books as will give hor the most useful and practical information in order to mako tho best progress in earlier as well as later home and school life.

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Louisville Po»t.

I used to think there was no harm in round dancing, but I happened to he at a dancing party the other night and saw the new style of waltzing and must confess that I was shocked. The old style of hop waltzing required one's mind to be entirely on the step and time and was innocent and refreshing, but now the man has little else to do than hold his fair partner in his arms and slowly turn her round to break the monotony of things. The slower the waltz is now danced the more stylish it is considered and it Is nothing more or less than hugging in public, of course, men *n stand this, but can young women? Fashion again compels them to wear the lowest of low-cut gowns and the man must be blind or wear a mask to prevent him seeing charms that generally should be hidden from bis sight. It is not hard to see where all this will end and I repeat thai round dancing, as it is now practiced, is demoralizing in tho extreme. .. _________________

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Just think of it! Six years ago to-day James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur, both in the vigorous prime of life, were but just elected to the first two places In toe national government. And now they are both numbered with the dead. It was President Lincoln whose favorite poem began, *'Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?