Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 24, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 December 1886 — Page 4
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THE _MAIL.
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
P. S. WESTFALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
SUBSCRIPTION PKJCK, $2.00 A YEAR.
HITBLICATIOX OFFICE,
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TERKE HAUTE, DEC. 4, 1886.
THK new torpedo-boat, "Peacemaker, promises to become a very good piecebreaker.
QITEKN VICTORIA has thirty living grand-children. At this rate the crop of royalty is not likely to soon run out.
THE trial of the Andover professors for heresy threatens to become as interminable as the ordinary law suit to break will or make a man pay his debts.
THK English papers have already begun discussing Presidential prospects for 1888. But English opinion has mighty little to do with American elections.
THE Niagara whirlpool racket has been slightly overworked. Even the damsel who went through recently doesn't appear to be overwhelmed with financial offers from dime museums.
MK. PowuKiii.y "secret circulars" are still being published forth to the world by the newspapers. Mr. Powderly may find consolation in the Scriptures which declnre that thore is nothing secret that shall not be revealed.
NKW YORK has a real live Buddhist, Modini (.'hatterji by name, a native of India, but educated in England and for several years past a resident of London and Paris. Ho has remarkable religious ideas of an original character aud is likely to excite a good deal of interest.
LiRnKNRf'Ur, the Herman socialist who cam to this country to show Americans how little they know about their own institutions and affairs, has gone back again, It was not noticed that the United States tipped to one side when Heir Liebluiccht stopped on board his vessel.
Tin-: American people have had quite enough of (iithv Iorulon divorce trials. What with the Pall Mall fazetto expose, th3 Craw ford-Iilke case and now the Colin Campbell scandal, the people on this side of the water may well pray to be delivered from the sewage of English high lire.
IN Di AN A t'oiii.s is to have the long-look-ed-for new railroad depot, sure enough. The contract has beon let and the work will go forward as soon as the weather will permit. It will be a lino affair and with the new State house and market hall will add greatly to the beauty of tho capital city.
IT has always been admitted that •'what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander," but the President did not adopt this rule in dealing with Benton and Stone, tin* deposed federal officials who made political speeches. Two kinds of sauce of a widely different flavor were sorved on that occasion.
Or the thirteen boodle aldermen in New York, two are dead, three are fugitives in Canada, one is in Sing Sing, two have confessed thciv guilt and turned Stntes's evidence, one is insane, and four
are
under Indictment and waiting trial It is a bud story and may well strike terror to the hearts of tvibe-takers every where.
ONof the things that the next session of Congress should not fail to do, whatever else may be^ert undone, i* the matter of com1liuling a treaty which shall shut the door of Canada against our flee ing defaulters, embezzlers, forgers aud boodlers generally. This is one of the disgraceful tilings ihat win not be longer endured,
IT seems that the Prohibitionists and the anti-Prohibitionists "fused" at Atlanta and sueceedcd in carrying the city election. This was the most remarkable fusion of modern times and the country will bo anxious to know what arrangement was made respecting the famous
"jug
express," which comes laden with whisky each day to the southern city.
IN the matter of railroad building America leads *11 other countries im mcnsely. Statistics show that at the end of issi there were ulnont 2S»l,«XH) miles of railroad In the world, and nearly onehalf of this was in the United States This «e«ounts in a large measure for the unprecedented progress which this country has made during the last half a century. ___ iNMTKvnof Mexican Minister Manning being an improvement on Envoy Sedgwick, th« re verse seems to be the case. Manning dotttn't recover from one State dinner in time to participate in the next. The next time Mr. Bayard wants a man to send to Mexico he should try a "total abstainer" or jwnd along a barrel of
United States whisky which he is acquainted with.
TilK Hall Safe and Ixn-k Company, of Cincinnati. Is the latest establishment to return to the ten hour system. There la not enough of the eight hour movement left that ia big enough to see without th« aid of microscope. For the present it has gone completely under, lint it will cone up again, for there is something good in it. Shorter hours of labor will y»t coma, but the change will not be made in a day. It will he no gradual as not to dlaturb the existing Industrial order.
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THERE has been large complaint from time to time of the ease with which notorious scamps and swindlers have been able to defeat the ends of justice, but of late this species of humanity have not been having a milk and honey time of it, by a good deal. They have been catching it on all sides and if Canada could only be fenced off so that they could not get over there, there would not be much to ask for.
THK suggestion that the Democratic meni iers of the Legislature may resign in order to prevent the election of a Republican United States Senator, if such a course becomes necessary, is hardly entitled to credence. Such a revolution sry proceeding would be in a line with the action of the last Legislature in perpetrating an unconscionable gerryman der which reacted against the Democrats in the late campaign. It would be poor policy to pursue such, a course still further and one which is not likely to be resorted to by the shrewd leaders of the Democracy.
ATLANTA, Georgia, has the reputation now of being a prohibition town. It is not burning up with drouth however. Every afternoon "the jug express" train comes in bearing hundreds of well filled jugs, which the thirsty inhabitants hasten to convey to their homes and sample the contents. As much interest is manifested in this train, it is said, as if it were one bringing a circus. ExGov. Bullock thinks that nearly as much whisky drunk now as was before and when the two years' prohibition term expires he believes a high-license system will be adopted.
CINCINNATI paid $30,000 for one week of American opera and other larger cities and are paying correspondingly liberal rates. But the question which forces itself to the front is whether the whistle is worth what it costs. Some free criticism is being tendered the managers of the company. One of the points made is that there is too much orchestra for the soloist strength of the company. It is thought that Mr. Thomas is more conerned to have a perfect orchestra than a perfect opera company. At all events, the people who pay big prices for opera tickets will have their say as to how things should be done. This is partly what thoy pay their money for perhaps.
THK other day a man committed suicide in Chieago as a result of a series of losses in tho gambling hells of that city. He was once a reputable business man but \vm tempted into vicious courses and like many another at last paid the penalty with his life. Commenting on this case, one of the papers of that city says "the gamblers of Chieago annually ruin and bring to disgrace hundreds and thousands of men. If all the cases were marked by a suicide's blood, as this is marked, the record would be ghastly appalling." Yet thq, truckling, demagogical mayor of Chicago recently said there was no gambling in that city that ho knew of. Carter Harrison is the biggest humbug in Chicago or in the country.,
As lias been the case with a good many strikes, that of the tanners at Salem and Peabod.v, Mass., has proved a failure. Other men have come in from distant places and filled the positions of the strikers. Tho outlook for the latter is distressing. The men have been out of work and money for three months and their families are in destitute circumstances. Many of them will bo subjects of charity during tho coming winter. This is another illustration of the foolish wastefulness of strikes. Doubtless the trouble might have been amicably settled at the outset if a conciliatory spirit had been displayed and all this loss and and suffering prevented. One of the cardinal principles of the labor unions should lo never to go into a strike until all efforts for a peaceable settlement have failed
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Tin: Wilson-Moen scandal is out, or partly out, at last. Wilson has declared himself to be the son of Mr. Moon by liis first wife, now dead, and was given to Jonas Wilson, a stage driver, to bring up as his own son for the reason that he was born too soon after the parents' mar ring© and thus a scandal wasj sought to be avoided. The story, if true, is in the highest degree repulsive, for it shows Moen to have been a hard-hearted hypocritical villain, while claiming to be a Christian of unspotted integrity. Moen denies it, of course, but a simple denial will not serve nnlews it be accompanied by an explicit statement of the true facts in the case, for Wilson's story has an atmosphere of probability surrounding it, and would explain tho mystery surrounding the payment to Wilson by Moen of the enormous sum of $300,000 from time to time since Wilson learned the truth from his pretended father on the latter's death-bed. Worcester, where the rich manufacturer lives, is in a ferment of excitement over the matter and
Mr. Moen will have to speak out plainly or the tale which Wilson tells will be be
A MAD and singular fate has overtaken ex-Vice President William A. Wheeler. It seems remarkable that snrh a man should have become the victim of the opium habit, yet such is said to be the case. It appears that Mr. Wheeler, broken in health and a sufferer from insomnia, resorted to opium for relief by the prescription of his physician. The use of the powerful and treacherous drug grew upon him until he became its nlare. His health in shattered, his mind rained and his life utterly blighted. His few remaining days must be so foil of wretchedness that death will be a welcome visitor. It was only a few y**r* ago that William A. Wheeler was one of the foreraoet men in the country. A man of integrity, force of character
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and high natural ability, he commended respect everywhere and made a name for himself as one of the leaders of his party in the House. His present pitiable condition shows the folly and the danger of using opium even for medical purposes. It is possible and even probble that if he had resorted to travel, a change of climate, scenery and associations, he might have recovered his health by purely natural means, aided by simple and harmless remedies, and been in the possession of a measure of physical strength and an unclouded intellect today.
CHICAGO has or did have until recently the champion mean man. Ten years ago he married a daughter of John V. Farwell, the millionaire dry goods merchant. His wife is now seeking a divorce from him and in her petition sets ont numerous acts of cruelty and meanness. It appears that Ferry thought of nothing but money and had hardly married his wife before he began berating her for not getting a fortune from her father, who built them a house, but that was not satisfactory to the avaricious husband. He growled at their first supper because there were oysters and prescribed a set of rules for the kitchen which required the cook to use drippings instead of lard for cooking and that the bones left at table must be used for soup. The wife says that she wore an old hat for seven years and with her own hands mended carpets to cover the floors of their home. When Ferry's father died he inherited $50,000 but that only whetted his greed for gold. It is evident that the poor rich girl was badly taken in. The fellow only married her for her father's money and when he found be could not get that, he was only too glad to get rid of her. Pity the sorrows of poor rich girls!
JIEXR GEORGE'S PARTY. Henry George has shown his shrewdness as a political leader in several ways. One of the most notable is the pledge required of those who join the new party. Among other things they promise to do faithful work on any committee to which they may be appointed, to devote four hours at least on election day to the duty of manning the polls, to use all legitimate means of procuring votes, to attend all meetings of the organization, unless prevented by sickness, and to report any,evidence of treachery that may appear.
A party whose rank and lile is made up of men pledged to thus work for its success will be bound to make remarkable progress if its members are at all loyal to their pledges. Mr. George has forseeu this and hence the pledge to obedience and hard work which is required of those who join the party. So far as we know, no political party heretofore has ever made such requirements at the hands of its members. Everybody who wished to join was welcome and no questions asked or pledges demanded. Mr. George has hit upon a new scheme, and we think, a good one.
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rnE~ people.
A sort of co-operativo idea in medicine is being inaugurated in the East which has resulted well so far and is worthy of trial elsewhere. The New York hospital some timo ago established an "outpatient department," in which for the nominal charge of 81 a month, a patient is allowed twelvo consultations, while tho medicines prescribed are put,up by the hospital pharmacist at a cost of ten to fifteen cents apiece..
The purpose is, of course, to furnish good medical attendance to a class of people who are unable to pay large doctors' bills and big prices for medicines. Tho result has been so satisfactory in New York that Boston and Philadelphia have concluded to give the experiment trial. One of tho advantages of the system is that at a trifling cost even the laboring man can have his children examined occasionally in order to ward off diseases or have them cured in an incipipient stage. Such a privilege generally improved could not help resulting in great benefit to the health of the community, in preventing or restricting many classes of malignant diseases. Tho plan should be introduced wherever there is a hospital, for it is promising of more good than anything that has come to light for some time.
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The new South continues to go forward with large strides in the line of material progress. The Atlanta Constitution shows that in the past five years that city has nearly doubled her shops and factories, their number in creasing from 196 to SOS. The capital invested rose from $2,468,436 to $6,560,000, Five years ago there were 3,665 employees in the shops and factories, which now have 6,674.
Atlanta is probably the best, brightest and most energetic of all the cities of the South, but there are many others that have made great progress. A trade journal published at Chattanooga shows that during the three months ending Dec. 1, there were organised in twelve States of the South twenty-five blast furnaces, 65 railroad companies, 131 wood working establishments, 18 electric light companies, T-t foundries, mills and machine shops, Si» mining and smelting com panies, and 36 flour mills, besides many other miscellaneous industries. The greatest activity was in Alabama, Georgia and Virginia.
A Baltimore paper states that an Albany, N.
Y.
stove manufacturer has
decided to move his establishment south and that other stove makers are considering similar action* The low price at which pig iron can be produced in Alabama is an inducement which most have great weight with iron manufacturer* in the north. The permanent prosperity of the south Is no longer matter of speculation. It I# an assured fact.
WHAT THE PAPERS ARESA YIXO.
Dakota Blizzard: The statue of liberty is that of a perfect woman, even to the cold feet.
Galveston News: It requires sharp wit to distinguish between jest and earnest in type.
New Haven News.: No man should try to make himself heard in the world by dressing loudly.
Philadelphia Call: It costs money to advertise, but it costs more money not to advertise.
Pretzel's Weekly: Any man pays too much for hi§ whistle when he has to wet it fifteen or twenty times a day..
Burlington Free Press: Women may mix in politics, but it doesn't improve either the politics or the women.
Bostou Post: You would not, perhaps, expect it, but it is a fact that well water will sometimes make people sick.
Dallas (Tex.) News: What shall it profit a President if he gain a whole world of Mugwumps and lose his own party?
PhiladelphiaNbrth American: A Cincinnati man shot his wife the other day in the jaw. This is a vital spot—in women.
New Haven News: A subscriber wants to know if any concerns are making money now. Certainly, the United States mints.
Burlington Free Press: Education is something like love. Most men think they have got it till they come to be about 40 years old.
Christian Register? "Mamma," asked little Carrie one day, "can you tell me what part of heaven people live in who are good but not agreeable?"
They say that the first three days of winter indicate the wether of the three Winter months. Whether this be true or not, certain it is that old Winter has started in on his muscle. This kind of wether makes the business men smile, 'especially those who hev a big stock ov winter goods to git rid ov. It makes the grocery men smile too, caze the apertites of the hungry multitude in
crease as the mercurv decreases. This is why Ed. Wright ov the White Front, hez bin a hustlin' around so this week. He has bin in the biznessess so long he kin jedge of the demand by the thermometer, and by an extra effort he has a big spread fur to-day's trade, and the hungry multitude can be fed by calling on him at the White Frunt to-day. The follering is a partial list:
Dressed Turkeys, Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Squirrel, Quail, Mince Meat, Maple Syrup, Honey, Buckwheat Flour, Celery, Cranberries, Oysters (in can or bulk), Choice Apples, Oranges, Lemons, Bananas,
French
Artistic Christmas Presents. At R. Gagg's new store in tho McKeen Block you will find many elegant things suitable for presents and for the holidays, such as pictures in oil and water colors, fine engraving, plush frames, mirrors, fine bronzes, fancy boxes, statuettes, Japanese goods, favors and novelties in great variety and at reasonable prices.
Drop in and select an artistic Christinas card. In artists''materials his stock is As extensive as found in most large cities.
If you have fruming to do, have it done now before the holiday rush sets in. The stock of mouldings is very large, and the work of the most substantial character.
-New patterns in Carvers and Butcher Knives at C. C. SMITH'S, 803 Wabash
It Will Pay You
TO CAM. AT
BACK'S PHARMACY
And see the Nicest Llms of Staple and Fancy
HOLIDAY GOODS
IN THE CITY,
At Very Moderate Prices.
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HOBEEG'S
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Prunes, Fancy Raisins in \i pound boxes, Fancy Layer Figs. Call and examine our stock and compare prices, alifornia wines for medicinal purposes.
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A Bargain at 19c. each. each.
OUR GREAT
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CLOAK SALE!
TRAVELERS' SAMPLES.
Monday Morning, December 6th.
We will offer for sale another lot of 115 Sample Cloaks, comprising Short Wraps, Newmarkets and Plush Sacques. The manufacturers price was 50c on the dollar. Come and take your choice of this lot at at one half regular prices. We shall combine this sale with regular stock on hand. Some very choice garments all at special prices. This has been a very, very successful Cloak season, the largest ever known to us to this date. Garments now on hand must be sold. Sample Cloaks at 50 cents on the dollar. 'sg
P. S.—To sell these Handkerchiefs at the above prices we had to give an importation order for 100 dozen each, Ladies and Gents. We call special attention to quality. AVorth 20 per cent more than the in so as a
100 Dozen Mufflers.
Silk and Wool- White and Colored, From 88 cents to $5.00.
Silk Handkerchiefs,
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Will be continued for another week.s Prices 12£ to 20c a yard, for ...... ribbons worth from 50c. to $1.25.
518 and 520 Wabash Ave.
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More to see every day. Next week Overcoats and Suits for Boys and Little Boys will be coming in. Among the first arrivals will be the finest Overcoats for Boys that even we have ever had. If you made a Pyramid of Boys' Clothing the city over, OUR'S WOULD GO ON TOP for Excellent Style and Service. We make no compromise with poor materials. The finest is our aim. Our Alpine Overcoats and Cambridge Suits show that. Sightliness of goods, cut and finish of Garments gets better every season with us. It needs to to keep ahead in the battle of competition.
Corner of Fourth and Main Streets.
All
/FOR LADIES—Fine All Linen Hemstitch Handkerchiefs with Hemstitch Block Comers and Hand-made Initials., All letters now in stock.
FOR GENTS-Fino All Linen Hemstitch Hnnkercliiefs,Full Size, 1 inch Hem. Hand-made initials. All letters now in stock.
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