Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 25, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 December 1886 — Page 1

Vol. 17.-No. 25.

THEJV1AIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

Congress fell to work on the tariff question like a hungry dog upon a bone.

it It is gratifying to see that Congress still knows how to perform the adjourning act. _____

The President's message practically turns poor Cutting out in the cold. For Cutting it was decidedly a cold cut.

The servants in the Colin Campbell house appear to have made industrious use of their ears and eyes. Perhaps they bad little else to do.

No matter how Insignificant the American navy may be, the report of its Secretary may always be counted on to be of full regulation size.

It is said that tbe kind of whiskey •old by the Atlanta soda-water stands will put a drunk on a man that will defy even a Turkish bath to wash out of him

Attorney General Garland says he longs for a rest from publtc life. As the people of the country also long to have him rest, the wonder is that he doesn" do it. _____

According to tho New York modistes a real stylish fur cloak for a lady this winter is worth every cent of |4,000 What is the matter with the seal fish eries? _____

If surgeons would try as hard to save limbs as thoy do to show brilliant surgi cal ability by lopping them off, fewer cripples would bo upon the streets, tar more amputations are done than are necessary. _____

The cattle barons of the West want the government to protect them from

pleuro-pneiunonla,

and the people want

to be protected from the cattle barons, who want to fenco in the Uttle that is loft of the earth. 1

Some sweet ladles in New York have sot tho fashion of removing their hats at the theatre and the people who sit back of them now get ft chance to see something. It Is a fashion that ought to

have a

wide following. Why not give it

a whirl in Terre Haute? Tho liqwvr denlere of Kentucky have formed a mutual protoctlvo association, which has for its object the interests of the men engaged In that business. They should remove to Indianapolis, where liquor dealers do not require protection. They "run the town" there.

The now Stato House Is being prepared for the reception of tho Legislature which will convene oarly In January. Meeting for the first time In such a fine building the Legislature ought to be an exceptionally good ono but thero is little reason for believing that It will be.

A domestic's position In a good family is as honorable and much more remunerative, (considering that she has her board free) than many others into which women scramble and rush. Why do they shun housework, the really easiest and most natural work that womon can do?

We have been fortunato thus far in escaping the visitation of the fiend who is willing to wager that he can eat thirty quails in thirty consecutive days. He has made his appearance and we must be on our guard against him. Eternal •igilance Is the price of getting rid of the quail-eater. _____

Only a few days and our people will bo in the midst of the holiday season with its attendant pleasures, and then a few weeks and spring will be welcomed. That tlu^ American people live in advance of the times is evidenced by the fact that many of our merchants are already placing orders for spring goods.

All-night prayer meetings are now hold in Chicago "that God will revive Christians and endow them with power for service and sinners be saved." Alldav and all-night prayer meetings for many moons to come will be necessary to bring about the desired effect in Chicago—and the days cannot be eight hour aflkirs, either.

There is Uttle wonder thai some of our wealthy men are turning their attention to blooded stock. There is profit in it, bmidee improving the breed of our stock. J. I. Cue, the millionaire horseman, told a Milwaukee reporter one day this week that Phallas, a stallion, for which he originally gave five hundred dollars, has taken in fees aggregating eighteen thousand dollars. Right neat investment that.

The Issues of The Mail for next week, and the week following will be made up of

twelve

pages and will be especially in­

tonating number*. Among the features next week will be an original copyrighted story by Bret Hart*, entitled: "Snow Bound' at Eagle**." Coming joat one week before Christmas advertiser* will find It valuable medium far making known what they have to oflter for gifts, and holiday ahoppera will find It an interesting directory.

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Mr. Lamb has been "getting even" with Mr. Fllbeck this week in the examination In the Downing and Beasley case,—or that is, trying to "get even." The last-named gentleman is in a position to stand a great deal of badgering at the hands of the ex-congressman. He can smile all the time, for its his time to smile.

The "new Jjarty" scheme did not meet with a vfcfy {enthusiastic reception at the meeting of the Federation of Trades Unions at Coin mbus, Ohio, this week. One speaker discussing the question, asked very pertinently, "What is to be accomplished by separate political action that cannot more certainly be accomplished without it?" The action of this meeting may have a depressing effect upon the meeting to organize the new party, which is to be held in Cincinnati in February next.

The expression "ghoulish glee" doesn't begin to be strong enough to describe the conduct of certain reporters at Washington who s#nt out a malicious cock-and-bull story to the effect that the brief absence of Mrs. Cleveland from Washington was dtte to her intention of separating from her husband. As Mrs. Cleveland was buying Christmas presents in New York at the time, the report was all the more damnable. It is a pity that men with so little sense and feeling should have access to the newspapers.

"The beautiful show" does not do itself credit in town and city, or rather let us say that due credit is not done to to it. Yet the snow is beautiful, as beautiful as anything in the world, out in the country when with its stainless folds of fleecy purity it covers trees, fences, valleys, fields and hills. The picture of the landscape in the morning after a fresh fall of snow with the beams of the rising sun lighting it into brilliancy, is one which the mind of a child never forgets. It lingers always in the memory if it is hidden forever by grimmy walls of brick and stone.

What with recounts and contests, the people are beginning to get mixed up over the legislative contest. There are some, no doubt, who aro undecided as to whether John T. Bnasley was elected deputy to the new sheriff or jaintor of the court house, while others would like to know how Decatur Downing, who lives in Vermillion county, could run for coroner here in Vigo. If the entanglements oontio«» fMMmother week or two there will be a lot of howling idiots turned loose on the town who do not care whether Gray or Harrison or McDonald is elected to the 8enate.

Judge Gresham, of the United States District Court, seems to have succeeded in doing what Martin Irons failed so signally in doing when he made the attempt, and has knocked Jay Gould completely out. Gresham's decision in the receivership of tho Wabash shows an astounding amount of rascality that was carried out, and he doesn't mince matters in calling the thieves by their right namos. His decision has given him a boom, and he is looked upon as a sure winner of tho Republican nomination for President in 1888. What a spectacle would be afforded then, if it was understood that he was being fought particularly by Gould and his clique. Gresham would in that event no doubt receive the greatest popular vote ever given any Presidential candidate.

It needs no prophetic soul to realize that ere long an attempt will be made to amend the Constitution of the United States In such a manner that the community will have placed upon it greater responsibilities for maintaining the sacrednessof the marriage vow, while placing greater obstacles in the way of divorce. The past summer has seen almost general action among tbe church assemblages of the North and Northwest, and all have united in appeals to Congress to enact laws by which this growing evil can be kept within bounds. Such laws are coming, slowly, perhaps, but none the lews surely—coming because they are necessary to protect our homes, and therefore the nation. A sentiment is growing in favor of some law by which a divorce is rendered something more than an article to be purchased by any one with a little money—and what a good healthy sentiment demands in these days ia sooner or later brought to pass. _____ JT

The Chicago Newsletter states that Alice Oates is dying. Her financial condition is said to be lamentable, and physically she is a wreck. Poor woman! It seems but a short while ago that Alice Merritt, Rev. Covert's pretty music teacher, was one of the faculty at our Female College on south sixth street, and then ahe went away to come back as tbe burlesque actress, Alice Gates, whose name was enough to draw an audience sufficiently large to fill every nook and corner of the house ahe waa announced to appear au In those days ahe had a sweet voice, a lovely figure, and a winsome way about her that went direst to the hearts of the people. She made enormous sums of money, but she spent it like water, and it ia on record that in 1S75, after playing tor four straight months at Frayne** theater, in San Fiaucisco, to the capacity of the

house, she had to

herself and company east. Of late yc beer and other habits have played theii deadly part, and the once pretty, graceful woman is now ooarse, fat and dying.

LOOSE ENDS TAKEN UP* There is a good deal of quiet discussion of the question whether Terre Haute as wicked and ungodly as reputed to be The fact that it is a "wide-open" town has caused the impression that it is therefore given over to crime and lawlessness. In the distinction between crime and immorality lies the discussion, a fine distinction to be sure. It is held by the "wide-open advocates that, there is less violent crime and less public disorder here than in cities where the straight jacket method of municipal government is sought to be applied that for instance here on Thanksgiving day when liquor selling and gambling were freely permitted there were no arrests, whereas in other cities where an effort was made to enforce the law closing saloons on holidays there were many arrests. The Gil more sacred concert was largely attended by persons who can not be said to be loose in their morals and certainly tbe audience waa in no part composed of the criminal class. It was an audience representative of the best public sentiment in the city. The question is whether tho community is less happy aqd more prone to the ways that lead to damnation by reason of this lax enforcement of the law, a laxity wholly attributable to public sentiment. It is safe to say that nowhere in the country can another city be found which will present as strong au illustration of the point made by the advocates of the "wide-open" policy. The question is one of morals. It is whether it neces sarily follows that a small church mem bership—a clergyman says is is not over 1,200 here—means a doomed community Unless the police records and the daily press are not trustworthy there is but a modicum of violent crime or disorder in thecity. Still the devil may be acquiring a strong foothold in our city. He is artful enough to tighten his grip so in sidiously that we may not see his hoofs and tail. ____

The commission has concluded the taking of testimony in the Meagher case and it is now engaged in the DowningGeasley contest, which is an entirely different proceeding from the recount recently made., In the Meagher case thero was nothing new really all the testimony being the transcripts of official records. Mr. Meagher was on the witness stand and said he never intended to perform the duties of justice of peace, although he gave bond and took an oath to do so. He also testified that if Mr. Dickerson said that he, Meagher, said prior to the election that if the House were Democratic he would take his seat and if Republican he would take a walk, Mr. Diokerson lied. Mr. Dickerson was not in the city during the hearing of the testimony. In the Downing-Beasley case the Republicans are taking the testimony of many witnesses in an effort to show that illegal votes were cast for Beasley. It must be shown that 31 such votes were counted for him to wipe out his majority on the face of the returns. The testimony thus far taken serves to prove the fact often brought out in election contests that a plausible case invariably can be made for either side.

Mr. John E. Lamb left for Washington Thursday, and while there is more or less conjecture as to the occasion of his trip, the best information obtainable is that he went on an exploration expedition among the unclaimed islands of Presidential preoccupation. If one is found entirely suited to his physical temperament he will, no doubt, serve notice of pre-emption. It is with a feelings of regret, however, that we see him consigned to a diplomatic deputyship, when we remember that only a few days ago one of the dally papers lauded him to the skies for his cross-examination of a witness in the Dowhing-Beasley case as a master of cross-examination in a case, in which cross-examination it was only necessary to ask questions to receive full answers, the court being powerless to decide on the relevancy of the merits of the question.

One of the peculiar features of a "wideopen" gambling town is the fact that this week a hazard game has been beaten out of more than one hundred dollars by means of loaded dice.

Some young gentlemen were calling at a certain residence one night this week. It grew rather late and the callers still tarried. At last the hostess sub mitted to them the following puzzle:

O O O O O O O O O Add to the nine o^s five straight marks, three below (making letter g*s) and two above for d*s and have a pious ejaculation and injunction. Whoa the marks were added the boys rushed for their overcoats. __________

John K. Owens, tbe veteran comedian, who opened our opera house, on the night of Dee. 18,1870, died at Baltimore, on Tuesday at the age of^xty years. 8U Louis kicked against tbe ballet, but turned out the biggest hone of the season to sse the ballet kick.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDMy EVENING, DECEMBER 11,1886.

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A company has been formed at Sullian and will immediately bore for naturFPW-

Note the liberal prizes advertised in phis issue to be given at a mask carnival jkt the Rink, on the evening of the 23rd

leinly A Watson have sold their hote |t Springfield, Mo., and now have only iree hotels on hand—here, at Danville j|nd at Pierce City, Mo.

Advertisers have possession of The fail this week. Next week twelve will be issued and it will be a parieulaily interesting issue.

Thtf Christys issued last Saturday the irst number of their "Live Issues," a Ibor paper. It presents a good appearlce—the editorial matter being particurly strong and well considered.

|The Congregational church at a genermeeting Wednesday evening determined to keep up the attractive feature |f its fine quartette choir and continue be pastor's salary at the same figure as as past year.

,There is a lively scramble for the place )w held by Nicholas Daily—superinident of the poor farm. The salary is 1,000 a year. Among the applicants are

S. Burgan, John DeBaun, W. B. lerburne, J. W. Watts, Joshua Hull, feter Kornman, Elijah Lloyd Isaac N. jdamsand R. B. Brotherton.

,j^It is estimated that about two thous'aiid gallons of milk are delivered to consumers daily in this city. Twenty-five Iragons patrol the city for this delivery laid over one thousand cows contribute to the supply. The dairy business, not |bVg ago controlled by two or three perils, has grown to immense proportions.

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dge Mack sent for a lot of boys and the case of the little Clemboy, whose sad death was mentionlast week. Although there can be no d^bt that his illness was caused by rough treatment roceived at the hands of these bad boys, the judge was unable discover anything to justify legal jshment.

P. Murray had a narrow escape from asphyxiated Thursday afternoon coal gas from a base burner, in his on Sixth stieet, where he had laid for a nap. When discovered by a ieman who called, he was unconis. Dr. Thompson was called in and Siftsidera&ie. effort brought about restoration. Abase burner is a very unsafe thing In a sleeping room.

Tho first case we remember in our courts of punishment for wife desertion occurred on* Wednesday, when Judge Mack assessed a fine of $50 against Henry Kabbis, a member of the police force. The Judge termed this a "medium" fine—$100 being the limit—and remarked he considered tbe desertion of a good wife without cause as being a greater crime than horse stealing, and that if he had it in his power he would give the wife-deserter the same sentence. This remark was of a general oharaater, and not particularly applicable to this case.

Mart Hunter, L. C. Kretz and Walter Bell, all of the fire department, were hunting last Tuesday southeast of the city. A rabbit ran into a thicket and Bell fired. The rabbit escaped unhurt, but a human yell revealed the fact that Mart Hunter's head had received a large portion of the charge of small shot. His soared companions brought him to town and Dr. Roberts made an examination. Though over forty shot penetrated his head, shoulder and breast, the injury is not of a serious nature and he will be on duty in a few days. But is was a close calL j-*'

MATRIMONIAL.

Marriage licenses have been issued this week to the following: Grant Hfenry and Martha Carpenter.

John P. Piker and Mary A. Mindrum. Stephen Rlellendollar and Isabel Lawrence. Henry

M.

Hyde and Mollie Walden.

Wilson M. Waiden and Eva Morris. Tflghman A. Bryant and Joule D. P6arce. Nathaniel Brink and Hulda J. Harrol. Matthew Hefti and Lizzie Dlnges. Louis Wessel and Louisa Katt. Chan. C. Reynolds and Lliltan. Lloyd. •James D. Rnyan and Emma R. Allen. Cbas. A. Orel nor and Anna Bchaflfer. Dederich L. Meyer and Sarah Ippen. Samuel Parks and Anna* Ridgley. Isaac

N. Leforge and Julia

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

A.

Patton.

C. W. Brown, of the Globe job printing office and blank book manufactory, in addition to having just put in his establishment one of Cranston's superior job presses, is now adding a large assort" mentof all the latest styles of job type. But few establishments in tbe country are superior to the Globe, or turn out a better class of work generally.

ON A SLEEPING CAM.

A aleeper is one who sleeps. A sleeper is that in which the deeper sleeps. A aleeper is that on which the sleeper which carries tbe aleeper while he sleeps runs. Therefore, while the sleeper sleeps in the sleeper the sleeper carries the sleeper over the deeper under tbe steeper until the sleeper which carries the sleeper jumps off the sleeper and wakes the sleeper in the aleeper, by striking the sleeper under the deeper, and then is no longer any sleeper alesping In the sleeper on the sleeper.

Turkish bath parties are now the fsd*lonable thing in New York*

WOMEN'S TTA Y&

The tailor-made woman can truthfully say, "No, thank you, I don't care to sit down."

A Philadelphia bride who was married on the day she was seized with scarlet fever is rapidly recovering.

Miss Henrietta Vaders, an actress well known, is ill with cancer, and has left the Joe Jefferson company.

A whole row of Toledo girls reniovod their bats at the theater the other night. It is not the biggest cities in the country that have the most politeness.

The reason why married ladies are more attractive than single ones is because they act naturally, and are not oppressed by any feeling of being constantly on exhibition.

Miss Lotta and Mme. Modjeska are two types of remarkably well-preserved women. Mme. Modjeska was forty when she bogan to study English. Miss Lotta is just that age now.

After the clerk had pulled down everything in the store without satisfying his customer, a woman, asked him if there was anything else he had not shown her. "Yes, ma'am," he said "the cellar but if you wish it I will have that brought up and shown to you."

A machine has been invented which will sew on buttons as fast as seven girls could do the work, but when it comes to sitting up of a Sunday night with a young man seven machines can't begin to do the work of one girl. There is no fear of any invention driving the girls out of market.

Miss Margaret Mather is said by the Detroit Morning Tribune to bo the daughter of a carpenter and lake sailor, who kept a saloon for seamen in tho City of the Straits. His name is Finlayson. Maggie Finlayson was brought up by Spartan rules, and in her childhood sold papers on the streets. She then became a servant girl, and at sixteen years of age was narrowly prevented from cpwm itting suicide.

Two families of Smithport, Pa., occupy the same house, and each has a potato bin in the cellar. One, of 'the women of one of .the families some months ago lost her][diamond ring, and grieved so much that her husband bought her another. Recently a woman in the other family found the ring in her own potato hip, and the question as to how it got there threatens to-^firterrapt th^hitfierfo friendly relations of the two families.

A Now Hampshire woman aged eighty years, when asked recently how she had kept herself so vigorous and healthy, replied "By never allowing myself to fret over things I cannot help, by taking a nap and sometimes two every day of my life, by never taking my washing, ironing and baking to bed with me and by oiling all the various wheels of a busy life with an implicit faith that there is a brain and a heart to tbe groat universe, and that I could trust them both."

The girls at Houghton Seminary, at Clinton, N. Y., have organized a class in sewing and as the seminary keeper puts it, "aro conquering the mysteries of basting, felling, shirring, running, right way of cloth, buttonhole stitch, gathering, tucking and allowing for seams." Certain little darkies at Baxter Springs, Kan., are immediately benefited by the work done by these students. The ultimate results will undoubtedly be that there will be few old maids among tbe alumnae of Houghton Seminary.

LITTLE SERMONS.

One word spoken in time is worth a dozen sermons uttered too late. Truth is violated by falsehood, and it may be equally outraged by silence.

No life is made up altogether of sunshine and every heart has need of a cheerful friend

If you must be the beater of chilling or discouraging words, utter them softly and gently, as the snow-flakes fall on the flowers.

In the midst of life's happiness it is a saddening thing to remember what a slight hold we have on the lives of those we love.

If a man does not make new acquaintance as be advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair.

The defects of life are never so glaringly set forth in all their hideousness as when the twilight of death lights them up. It is then that we find ourselves as we really are, and not as we seemed to be in the swirl of passion and amid tbe glamor of deceit*

No bad man is ever brought to repentance by angry words or bitter scornful reproaches. He fortifies himself against reproof, and hurls back foul charges in the face of his accuser. Yet guilty and hardened as be seems, he has a heart in his bosom, and may be melted to tears by a gentle voice. Whoso, therefore, can restrain his disposition to blame and find fault, and can bring himself down to a brother, will soon find away to better feelings.

la answer to tbe inquiry, "Can a man be a Christian and at the same time a successful businsss man Puck remarks that he can if he advertises largely.

Seventeenth Year.

AMUSEMENT NOTES. ii

Four splendid audiences have gathered at Naylor's opera house this week, and four splendid audiences havo loen delighted with the music of Gilmore's Band, the spectacular "Fantasma," and ScanIon's sweet songs and clever personation of Irish character.

This afternoon and evening Evangels line—Rice's beautiful Evangeline—with^ its great star cast of sixty artists wilL, be given. This pure burlesque, with^^1 its beautiful music, gorgeous scenery^ and magnificent costumes, has made tho greatest hit of the age, running 253 nights in New York and 110 in Chicago, to largo audiences, and the longest run ever known in New York. Its magnificent* scenery, gorgeous costumes and startling mechanical effects have been a theme of praise and discussion all over the count' ry and wherever it has appeared audi-* ences large enough to pack the theaters to the doors have been tbe rule. Among the new features introduced are "Tho Wedding Minuet," "The Sextette" for male voices, "The Grand March of the Amazons," performed by 21 ladies clad in the most magnificent jewel armor ever worn on the stage, "The Diamond Fields," "Stealing Away," "The Merry Ruffians" in their wonderful acrobatic feats, songs and dances, the new topical song "Like it," sung by Gabriel, and$ "The Japanese Finale."

Miss Rose Coghlan with an exception"" ally strong dramatic company, will appear next Tuesday evening. It was at first intended to play "Masks and Faces," but a change was made to the charming' comedy af "School for Scandal." This was done in order to allow an exhibition of the handsomest dressing ever seen on our stage, and the cast brings out tho entire company, which includes Frederick De Belleville, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walcott, A. S. Lipman for several years leading man for Robson & Crane, and John McDonald leading man with Mrs. XJ Langtry. Miss Coghlan is known as one \j of the brightest stars of tho profession^ The questionable advertising of the latter day where social scandals excite public curiosity and draw crowded bouses. has never been her lot, and her success is a forcible demonstration that respect-, ability in private life and genuine dra-j matio ability are more acceptable to the, general public than tl*e ephemeral noto-* riety which scandal may give to a ladywho prominently ooiqes-before public, notice.

Next Saturday evening the Dalys will!,

present tholr athletic absurdity, "Vaca-^ tion," which it is stated has been recon-^ structed. New poople appear with new/ music, and much new business.,!

One of the features of a Thanksgiving" service in a Minneapolis church was a strikingly beautiful cornet solo. After the service a reporter asked the organist the name of tho piece. "It is beautiful^ as you say," said the musician, cautiously, "but it is so particularly secular that the good Presbyterians here would bo shocked if they knew what it was." This answer was printed, and now all Minneapolis is trying to find out just what that comet player played.

An agent for parlor organs say it pays to give an organ outright to one farmer in a neighborhood where there aro no instruments. As soon as it is known that he has one every other former's wife exclaims: "Well, if that isn't cheek!

If that family can buy an organ we shall certainly have ono, and we'll get a better one than they did!"* From fifteen to twenty sales are the result.

Tho Chicago Mail says that in polite society now in Chicago fashions that were in vogue once, but which are now tabooed, ftre slightingly referred to "before the fire."

The agents of a Paris insurance company have received instructions to de-' cline taking risks on the lives of people who are in the habit of dyeing hair or beard.

HORRIBLY EMBARASKING. Yenowlne'k News. A chorus girl in the McCaull Company as placed in a horribly embarrassing

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A RADICAL OPINION. Milwaukee Journal.

If the women of the world were as weak, immoral and improvident as the men are, anarchy would reign for a time and then the whole structure of society would relapse into worse than, barbarism.

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A breach of promise suit in which Miss Lottie Smiley was the plaintiff and Frank Huston the defendant, which for a timo occupied the attention of the Boston courts, terminated recently in a verdict $ of $8,541 for the plaintiff. We aro indebtto the Boston Globe for the following if in on of a a a in tiff looks when a jury applies an eighty- j|. five hundred dollar balm to her lacerated' heart. Miss Smiley's lashes, says the Globe, "drooped over her beautiful brown eyes, partly covering the satisfac-1 tion in them then a little blush stole around from her neck to her cheeks, and rher full red lips parted in a smile of beatified contentment." »J

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