Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 37, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 March 1887 — Page 4

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I HE _MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

SUBSCBIFTIOW PKICK, 82.00 A YEAB.

PUBLICATION OFFICK,

Noe. 20 and 22 Sooth Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

TERRE HAUTE, MARCH 5, 1887

CONGRESS, after an all night session, adjourned, sine die, at noon yesterday

NEWFOUNDLAND wouldn't mind being annexed to the United States. But the United States might mind it a good deal

MR. BEKCHKK was unable to write his letter this week in consequence of an unu8uai pressure of public and private work. V:

WHAT will Green Smith do for diversion after the Legislature has adjourned? And what will the people of Indiana do for diversion, too?

SOME of the Democratic statesmen of Indiana have expressed the opinion that their "goose is cooked" for 1888. They are right. Green Smith cooked it and cooked it brown, too.

IT is said that Senator Sherman will make an extended Southern tour and will speak on political subjects. But what can the Solid South dp for Mr. Sherman's Presidential boom?

Gov. GRAY has the reputation of being a wary and astute politician, but he has his faculties put to a severe strain in trying to handle the Democracy of Indiana since tho opening of the Legislature.

THK legislative session ends on Monday, by constitutional limit, and at this writing there are no indications of a break iu the dead lock or that an extra session will called. Such a condition of a flairs is deplorable as it is disgraceful.

ONE way to get into the United States Senate is to vote against the party nominee in the Legislature, prevent his election and then get the Governor to appoint you. That is the scheme D, B. Lucas, of West Virginia, worked successfuUy. 'M^-

The Chicago Inter Ocean declares that if Indiana don't give '25,000 Republican majority next year, a great many people will want to move." Well, no. If they are of the right stripe they will want to stay and tight it out with the Green Smith crowd, take as long as it may.

SAKAII BERNHARDT and her company took in $70,000 for twenty performances at Buenos Ayres on her recent tour through South America, besides being presented with three square leagues of land in the Pampas. Those South Americans are not barbarians after all.

"No rum or free rum," cry the New York Prohibitionists. Of course no rum is at present impossible and so free rum is the result. The liquor sellers also want free rum and they are accordingly working with the Prohibitionists to prevent the passage of the high license law.

CONGRESS has made very fair provision for increassng the navy. The addition of six steel cruisers, several rams for coast defense and a number of gunboats, torpedo-boats, torpedoes, etc., to our present establishment will enable us to make a creditable showing in tho eyes of the world.

THERE is now some prospect that Chicago will be able to "shake" Carter Harrison at last. The Labor party has put a ticket in the Held for the spring elections and declare that they will not combine with any other party but will "go it alone." If they adhere to this policy the Republicans will probably be able to elect a mayor and other city o(floors.

PHIL. ARMOUR, the big Chicago pork packor, has rained a Httlo tempest by admitting that he uses tons of cotton seed oil in the manufacture of lard. It may be that cotton seed oil is a healthier food article than the fat of hogs, but the people who buy lard would liko to know just what por cent, of cotton seed oil they are getting and Mr. Armour is asked to label his product so as to show this. The demand appears to be a reasonable one.

AT the last moment the House reconsidered its former action and passed the Senato bill on tho subject of the Canadian tlsherlea. Now If the President will carry its provisions into effect, as he did not do with the former bill, there is a fair prospect that the fishery business will soon be ended. Already tho British government is talking favorably of an amicable settlement and this positive action on the part of Congress will go far to expedite some satisfactory arrauffotutnt.

AN apparently intelligent and well iti£ formed correspondent of the New York Evening Post, writing from Montana, predicts that one result of the heavy losses of the past winter will be to change the character of the stock business. He thinks the days of the rattle kings are about numbered and that from now on herds will grow smaller and will be in the hands of small owner*, who will keep the cattle near home and will corral, feed and tame them. The total number of sheep and cattle may not diminish but the great herds will be divided up among many owners. Such a change would be In every respect beneficial and desirable. It would settle and improve the country instead of making of it a vast desert. The sooner such a change comes in the range stock business the better.

If any additional evidence were needed as to the enterprising spirit of the Kansans, it has been furnished by the contest for possession of the county seat between Leoti and Coronado, in Witehita county. Last Sunday night a fracas occurred between parties from the rival towns which resulted in two men being killed outright, four fatally and three others dangerously wounded. Kansas can have the cake on county seat fights.

IT is all the fashion to poll" State Legislatures en the subject of Presidential preferences. The latest effort of this kind was made in Ohio and resulted as follows: Of the Republicans eighty-two are for Sherman, ten for Blaine and two for the nominee of the convention." Of the Democrats forty-nine are for Cleveland, five for "anybody to beat Cleveland," one for Thurman and two for "the nominee." But all of them and the restof us, too, will be for the nom inees when they have been designated.

IT cannot truthfully be said that Democratic statesmen do not enjoy themselves when they get a chance. For instance the twelve visitors to the Naval Academy last summer consumed five dozen frog legs, six terrapin and one box of crackers, and tried to wash this down with nine bottles of sherry, fifty-six bottles of claret and twenty-four bottles of champagne. This was followed by three and a half cases of whisky for f60, Roman punch to the amount of ?3, twenty dollars' worth of ice cream and 1,300 cigars. If the visitors didn't have a good time they evidently tried hard enough to have one.

SINCE the inauguration of Gen. Hill's Presidential boom in Brooklyn, there has been renewed discussion as to whether or not Mr. Cleveland will be a candidate for a second term. In his letter of acceptance he spoke very emphatically against the policy of re-electing Presidents and if he is consistent now with what he then expressed he can not run for a second term. But he was not married then. He was an old bachelor and thought one term should be enough to satify anyone. With a pretty, young wife tho case has assumed a different aspectand Mr. Cleveland would probably like to have another term if he can get it. He can have the nomination, doubtless, but there will be a good deal more untertainty as to whether he can be elected, and the probabilities on this branch of the easfc will determine his action.

Tho Cincinnati Times-Star says a gentleman of that city recently went down to Birmingham and Chattanooga to make some investments, tempted by the rosy accounts of those sections of the South. He came back fully satisfied that there was no better place than Cincinnati either for his money or for business. He said that half the real estate transfers are bogus, and nine-tenths of the offers of big profits empty and meaningless. With a capital of one hundred and fifty dollars men i»re daily dealing in options of ten and fifteen thousand dollar blocks. Stool pigeons are on every corner to lure on the unwary. Said the gentleman: "The towns are full of Northern 'suckers' who are being preyed upon by the sharpest of real ostate sharks. Some men are already supporting loads that will break their financial backs within the next ninety days or six months." What is true of the places named is also true of many other parts of the country. Wildly exaggerated reports are sent out of enormous profits realized from real estate investments, but when people go there they find that the great boom is somewhere else and that they could do as well or better at home.

HANGING A WOMAN*.Kr The execution of Mrs. Druse at Herlciner, N. Y., on last Menday, was the fifth instance of*the infliction of capital punish men ton a woman in that State. There have been seven executions of female criminals in Pennsylvania and other States, but the putting to death of a woman at the hands of the law is comparatively rare.

If any person ever deserved hanging Mrs. Druse certainly did. She had deliberately murdered her husband and disposed of his dead body in a most shocking and barbarous way. Her sex could no more excuse her punishment as other murderers are punished than her sex could palliate her crime. So far from doing that her sex rather aggravated it. When a woman becomes bad enough to commit a deliberate murder, she is bad enough to hang, or at least to punish in the same way as male murderers are punished.

It is an open question, indeed, whether capital punishment should not be entirely abolished, but so long as it is the law and is enforced against men, there appears to be no valid reason why it should not be applied to women. Laws should be enforced without regard to sex, as crimes are committed without regard to sex. When women can be screened from punishment for no other reason than that they are women, a premium is put upon crime. 'J

A PECULIAR TAX THEORY. There has been and is a good deal of misapprehension concerning the land theories of Henry George. He does not go to the extremes frequently represented in the newspapers.

In the last number of his paper he takes for a text an article in a Pittsburgh newspaper declaring that rents have been increased in all directions upon the theory that property owners want a share in the prosperity that is hovering over the city from the introduction of natural gas and that houses costing not more than 13,000 are held at rents averaging $50 a month.

Mr. George suggests that the way to

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

stop this is to exempt from taxation ail bnildings and improvements and levy all the taxes on unimproved real estate. The effect of this would be to make the owners of vacant lots build on them or sell to those who would do so. Thus building would be stimulated and rents reduced. Col. Robert Ingersoll some time ago expressed a somewhat similar theory on the subject of levying taxes.

There may be something in this idea but there is probably not as much in it as Mr. George thinks. Suppose there are 5,000 vacant lots in Pittsburgh and that the levying of a heavy tax on them would cause 2,000 to be built upon. Then the other 3,000 would be taxed still more heavily and presently it would be so that nobody could afford to own a vacant lot. In other words all the ground would have to be built on at once even if half the houses were not needed, and there would be no room for future growth for the city. This would not be a wise course to pursue most certainly. Houses should be built as they are needed and there should be some vacant ground for future growth and development of the city. As the wealth of a city increases the magnitude and beauty of its buildings increase and it would be absurd to compel the city to be entirely finished at once.

JURY REFORMS.

Iu the Forum for March, Judge E. A. Thomas has a suggestive article on the subject of trial by jury. After pointing out at some length the serious defects of the jury system, the writer expresses the conviction that if trial by jury should be abolished probably no one would want to return to it after ten years.

There is apparently good foundation for this opinion. For a good while past there has been a strong and growing sentiment against the abuses of the jury system. It is expensive, uncertain, and in many ways unsatisfactory. Doubtless any plan that could be instituted would be found far from perfect, but for the most parttrial by judges would give more general satisfaction than trial by jury.

But while Judge Thomas favors the abolition of the jury system in toto, a portion of his article is devoted to the consideration of possible improvements in tho system as it exists. Under this head the principal argument is that ,which favors the abolition of unanimous verdicts. Years ago a great English writer on constitutional history, Mr. Hallam, pronounced this feature of the jury trials a relic of barbarism, and a bill is now pending in the Pennsylvania Legislature to permit nine members of the jury to return a verdict. In Sweden two-thirds of the jury return a verdict and in our own country a majority of arbitrators and of the judges comprising appellate courts make the decision. Why then should the verdict of a jury be required to be unanimous Especially when this method opens the door to fraud and corruption by allowing a single perverse, or dishonest member of the jury to prevent a verdict and thus obstruct and delay the course of justice. The jury system must be reformed or it must go. ___

WHAT THE PAPERS ARES A YING.

Whitehall Times: An editor makes an income when he makes his ink hum. The Judge: The man with the most advice has always the least small change.

Washington Critic: Lent is a physical necessity and spiritual convenience. Texas Siftings: Giving too much attention to soft head.

Philadelphia Call: "Castor oil is easy to give but awfully hard to take." So is advice.

Boston Herald: It is an old adage that if you have a bill to pay at Easter, you'll find Lent very short.

Hartford Sunday Journal: Clocks are worn on ladies' stockings simply because it would be slightly improper to put a watch upon them.

Carl Pretzel Weekly: Der passport

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der tuyfel boarding-house vas rum, und vhen you go dher he gifs you a subber of misery und such tings.

St. Albans Messenger: There is no law to prevent a man's making a fool of himself. If there was, some men would be at a loss how to pass the time."

Whitehall Times: When a man is angered, the devil dances a jig. "If this be so," says the Boston Courier, "the devil must be fully occupied in dancing jigs for the men who sit behind high hats at the theater and opera house. *v

MINNESOTA'S HIGH LICENSE LAW [St. Paul Pioneer Press.) The State of Minnesota will, after the first of July next, permit the sale of intoxicating liquors within its boundaries only upon the payment of $1,000 license fee*in cities of over 10.000 inhabitants and $TiOO in smaller places, save where local option excludes the sale entirely. It is estimated that this saloon tax of $1,000 will ose at least one-half, or perj haps for a while two-thirds of the saloons in this city.

AN ARDENT BRIDEGROOM. [St. Paul Globe.] A young man in one of the north counties of Dakota had an engagement

away. he could not go by any conveyance, but ho took snowahoes and made the trip on time, and his wife was proud of his feaU

MANS WISDOM. [Kaufman (Tex.) Sun.]

The wisdom of man is but a small thing after all. What dies he know He can't tell why it was he was created. He can't tell whv blood circulates and keeps up life, rfe can't tell why it is that he can move his limbs when he wishes to walk, or to roach forth to grasp an object. He can tell why be has a voice and can talk. In fact, he has so little knowledge that it scareiy amounts to anything.

HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA,

AS VIEWED BY A.TERRE HAUTE LADY.

Correspondence of the Mail. Huntsvillk, Ala.,Feb. 24. The eyes of the world are on North Alabama," said a gentleman the other day, and ever since I have had the uncomfortable feeling of being stared at. Seeing that so many people are looking toward Alabama, I have thought it might interest the readers of The Mail to learn something of this locality. I do not suppose the whole world is looking this way, but it is true that the iron and coal of this region are attracting a great deal of attention.

Huntsville is delightfully situated in the center of the Tennessee valley, surrounded by a semi-circle of low mountains, extensions of the Cumberland range, with beautiful Monte Sano towering over all. The climate is mild and invigorating, neither too hot nor too cold. We have had no cold weather worth speaking of since December, and the violets have bloomed in the open air all winter, sometimes under a covering of snow.

The large hotel on Monte Sano is completed and will be ready for guests about the first of June. Anyone wishing to spend the summer at a mountain resort will find it a delightful stopping place, easy of access, with views and vistas on either hand that are grandly beautiful. There is a good macadamized road all the way up the mountain. There are three hotels in the city, several flourishing schools, both white and colored, and as to churches nearly all denominations are represented—Episcopal, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Christian—you can have your choice either in color or creed.

There is a better opera house here than one would expect to see in a small city, but it is unique in its way the stairway comes up in the center of the hall. Fancy emerging from tUe lower regions, a toBanquo's ghost, and find yourself in the center of a fashionable audience, and having to pose there while your escort hunts all over himself for the tickets.

The temple of justice is a highly ornate building in Greek style of architecture,. located in the "square." In the court house yard are some trees which Judge Lynch, when he happens to be holding court, finds very convenient.

Manufacturing is represented by cotton thread mills, ice factory, and an establishment for the manufacturing of pure olive oil direct from the cotton seed.

The streets are macadamized, and the sidewalks are so wide that two persons can walk abreast.on them by crowding each other a little. There was talk of a street railway, but the hands struck bethe first rail was laid.

But Huntsville is chiefly noted for its big spring, pretty girls, hornless cows and "beat" biscuit. "Beat" biscuit is, strictly speaking, a Ssuthern commodity, and is found in every well regulated Southern family. Night and morning the pounding of buiscuit is heard in the land when you hear the sound thereof in1 the morning, then know ye that the time for getting up is at hand, even at the door.

There is quite a little colony of Indiana people here, and we are all proud of the fact that we came from the State that has for its coat of arms a buffalo rampant. At the house where I am stopping, there are five Indianians, our number having lately been increased by the addition of a charming Terre Haute lady, Mrs. M. and her bright little son. Alabama is represented by ons captain and a major Washington, D. C., by a plain Mr., but we don't think much'of him plain Mr. is at a discount down here. M. S.

LITTLE SERMONS.

He who is faithful in small things will never betray great trusts. One good deed actually done is worth a thousand planned and put off.

Home is woman's kingdom she should rule over it with tenderness and love. -n

Be honorable for honor's sake not simply to win other's esteem. In the exercise of patience we have to deal with ourselves as well as with others.

Though it is folly to love riches, yet it is true happiness not to need them. Candor and frankness when linked with prudent reserve make up a charming character. I

It is a noble species of revenge to have the power of severe retaliation and not to exercise it.

Love your friends while you have them. You don't know how soon you may lose them.

The generous never enjoy their possessions so much as when others are made partakers of them.

The hard problems of our life have changed less thin our manners we Wrestle with the bid sorrows but more decorously.

GIRLS ON HORSEBACK. [Quitman («a.) Free Press.] Girls look pretty on horseback, and we love to see them. We popped the questo the lady we now board with while we were gayly cantering side by side in the long ago- Sbejurttped at the chance, ana we've been jogging on together ever HUU WW WV» 'WO sine*. In a town like ours, where horses are plenty and other outdoor amusements not very numerous, we think all the girls shoufd be tncouraged to bscome

UIKUW1T aw and, gracious, don't they look handsome prancing along on a spirited charger.

Prof. Chas. P. Williams, Ph. D., of Philadelphia, says there is neither moropium nor minerals in Red Star oagh Cure. Price, twenty-live cents bottle. _________.

DISHOS sells paste In any quanity. I

t^ THE DEATH ROLL. During the month of February interments were made in Woodlawn and Highland Lawn cemeteries as follows:

WOODLAWN.

1 Etta Mattox, 23 years. 2 Noyes White, 79 years. 6 Lettie Edwards, 13 years. 7 Infant Smith. 8 Mary Unzel, 3 months. 8 Catherine Miller, 89 years. 9 Karabart Van Arenas, 2 years. 9 Rosa Kroell, 2 years. 10 Wm. E. Reeves. 7 11 Barbara A. Clingman, 61 years. 15 LillieCarr, 7 months. 15 Mary H. Foster. 57 years. 15 Sllva Harris, 45 years. 17 Rosa M. Freers, 5 years. 17 Adolph Redwitz, 25 years. 20 Infant Flnley, 2 days. 26 Isabell Snodgrass, one day.

HIGHLAND LAWS.

2 Sirllda (Jollier, 81 years. 2 Infant Weaver, 1 day.

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8 Chas. Turner, IS years. |?', 5 Infant Compton. 1- V-. 6 Emeline R. Darnell, 53 years. 12 Zachariah Corbin, 25 years. 15 Catherine Lidster, 25 years. 20 Letta J. Douglass, 27 years. 21 Llssa Runnels, 3 years. 22 August Kintz, 2 years.» .. 24 Harry Miller, 31 years. ""j*? 2 Infant Phemister.

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28 Infant Randall. Total Interments, 30.

MATRIMONIAL.

Marriage licenses have been issued this week to the following: Abraham W. Sheets and Elisabeth B. Stewart.

Lorenze D. Francis and Jennie B. Reynolds. Frank Farlow and Mlla Hartley. John M. Miller, jr. and Laura Christopher. Jfimes Evans and Delia Reed. Wm. S. Lee and Elise Brown. Charles H. Woodruff and Susan M. Spurgeon. f#I'

A HERO HIDES BEHIND A HOLE. [Austin Statesman.] After the sleeveless bodice will come the skirtiess skirt, and then—good Lord deliver us.

"There was an old man of Tobago, lived on rice, gruel, and sago," he had headache so bad. After he used a bottle of Salvation Oil, he could eat roast beef and plum pudding all right.

They saw the winter advertisements of houses will run somewhat in this style. A large and elegantly furnished house for rent, in easy distance of a druggist who sells Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup.

POWDER

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cannot be sold competitftKL JBlock. tltude of low test, short weight, a.-., phate powders. Sold only in cans. ROYAL BAKING POWDER Co., Wall st.

A man who has practiced medicine for 40 years ought to know salt from sugar read what he says:

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Toledo, O., Jan. 10,1887.^/

Messrs. F. J. Cheney Co.—Oeft-*. tlemenI have been In the genera! practice of medicine for most 40 years, and would say that in all my practice and experience, have never seen a prescription that I could prescribe with as much confidence of success as 1 can Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have prescribed It a great many times and its effect is wonderful, and would say In conclusion that I have yet to find a case of Catarrh that It would not cure, If they would take It according to directions. Yours truly,

L. L. G0R8UCH, M. D. Office, 215 Summit 8t.'^'

We will give 1100 for any caseof^" Catarrh that can not be cured wlthfe Hall's Catarrh Cure. Taken in-il? ternally.

F. J. CHENEY 4c CO., Props., TOledO, O. svSold by Druggists, 76 cts.

QLENHAM HOTEL,

FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, Bet. 21st and 22d sts., near Madison Square. EUROPEAN PLAN.

N. B. BARRY, Proprietor.

New and perfect plumbing, according to the latest scientific principles.

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VANS VILLE ROUTE.

Short arid Direct Line

From Terrs Haute to Montgomer: Charleston.

Kashvllle, New Orleans, Savannah,

Jacluonvlli

Only one change of cars. No Ferries. No Transfers. Passengers crass the Ohio river on the new Steel Bridge at Henderson.

For Information and tickets call on R. A. CAMPBELL, General Agent, Terre Haute, Ind.

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Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad.

Short and Direct Route

Chicago Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Minneapolis, at. P*ol,

Oeaar Bapida, Omaha

And al£points in the North and Northwest* THREE TRAINS DAILY Between Terre Haute and Chicago arriving in time to make clome connexions with trains on all road* divergent

ST WoodrufT Palace andSeeptng on all night trains. Tourists Guides giving a description of the various «ommr Resorts will be furnished upon appttcatkmto B, A- CAMPBELL, GetnAg^.

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QW RATE EXCURSION.

Jacksonville, Fla., and return $24.00. March 2d, OtJi, 28rd and 80th, Evansvllle fe T*rre Haute Railroad will sell tickets from rre Haute to all Florida points at one fare round trip. Tickets good 80 days with over privileges. For tickets and full ln'ormatlon, address

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R. A. CAMPBELL,

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Gcn'l Agent, 624 Wabash Ave.

For Rent.

FOR

RENT—A fine suite of newly papered rooms will all modern improvements. Location, convenience and elegance not equaled In the city. Call and see them, Koopman's Block, cor. 0th and Cherry. None but respectable parties need apply.

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OR RENT.—10 acres south of the city and farm of 80 acres 8% miles south. Good improvements on both.

Rin»iK, HAMILTON Co.

For Sale.

pOR SALE—At my residence six miles

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southeast of the city, Thursday next, at public auction, the following articles: 12 head fat steers, 8 fresh milch cows, 10 head fat hogs, horses, mules and young cattle, sheep, poultry etc., buggies wagons, harness, farm utensils, household furniture, etc.

J. J. FERREL.

Estrayed.

STRAYED—COW—A small red cow, wlthout horns, and white spot on her forehead and abo on right side near right hind leg. Finder will please return to ALEX. MeGREGOR, 414 north Hlxth street and receive reward

Amusements. :s

"VfAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE.

-4-^1 Wilson Naylor—Manager.,

ONE WEEK si8

/r/, Matinee Saturday.

A. R. Wilbur's Lyceum Theatre Company un~ der the manuKement of Mr. If. A. Wickham. Enlarged and strengthened and pronounced by the entire press of the country to be the strongest popular priced attraction traveling. Greater than ever but our prices the same.

10 and 20 "eEs.

The following repertoire with unusually strong casts will be produced: Monday. Htreets of New York Tuesday. .Our Boarding House Wednesday Pearl of Havoy & Thursday Danitea Friday Little Detect) vo Saturday Pink Dominoes Saturday Matinee at 2 p. Our Boys

Admission flmt floor and balcony 20cts gallery 10c- Heats reserved without extra chargn at Button's for any performance during the week.

J. NUGENT. M. J. BROPHY.

JSPGENT & CO., PLUMBING and GAS FITTING A 4 dealer in I Gas Fixtures, Globes and Shfficeer's

Supplies.

ftOff Ohio Street, Terre Haute, Ind, i.