Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 March 1887 — Page 1

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Vol. 17.—No. 38.

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

Ingersoll should be sent to do missionary work among the Chicago ministers.

Now that Indianapolis has got into the national base-ball league the loss of Green Smith may be endured with comparative stoicism.

Messrs. Fish and Pike are numbers of the California fish commission. If they don't know all about the finny tribe they belie their

narnes^

There was only one Henry Ward Beecher and

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like any other man dead or living.

Of all the parties to the great scandal Beecher was the first to go. Tilton, Mrs. Tilton and Mrs. Beecher all remain. Frank Moulton, the "mutual friend," died several yoars ago."

Several more "sweethearts" were killed by infatuated lovers during the past wack. Girls who desire long life and a

peaceful

death should guard

against becoming anybody's sweetheart. The old time weather prophet and "the oldest Inhabitant" will soon oome to the front, now that the failure of the deficiency bill makes necessary a partial discontinuance of the Signal servico reports. ______

who have any telegraphing to

do had best attend to it right away. It is announced that the Western Union is preparing to absorb Its only rival, the B. A O. and in that case look out for an advance in ratos to compel the patrons to pay for the deal.

A little manual giving the rules of "Progressive Poker" has been issued by a New York publisher, who says the now game Is rapidly supplanting "proSgressivo euchre." When Sam Jones opens on "progressive poker" Green Smith will be nowhere.

If John Sherman Is not tho llopuWi%Ti candidate for president in 1888, it will not be ti?e fault of a oertatn man named John Sherman. He is shaping his course to that end, and going about it in such away

bodes ill to hi* burliness,

Cleveland

in case they should be the

choice of their respective parties.

Representative James B. Patten, of Sullivan, hasaocoptod tho wardonship of tho ponltentiary at Jeffersonvillo. The salary is only *1,500 a year, but the porqulsftos are great. It Is to be hoped, however, and it Is our belief, that Mr. Patton will bo content with tho salary, and that he will Immediately institute a reform in that institution which has boon lltly tormod a "holl hole."

A young gentleman, of observing trait and critical judgment, says the audiencos at tho ten-cent shows furnish afar hotter display of feminine beauty than is scon in the high priced, an fait audiences, where nearly all that can bo denominated lovely is in tho costumes and Jewelry. At the ten-cent shows the beautiful Kin the rosy cheeks and bright eyos of tho young woman who are the rule rather than the exception.

George W. Kuss, who was formerly adjutant general of our state militia, who went to Texas a fow years ago and engaged in land speculation, has just won a three hundrod thousand dollar law suit as a result of his investments. Will somo one please present these facts in their most glowing colors to our present adjutant general Xoontz. Perhaps he might be induced to go to Texas, and give our militia a chance.

Mrs. Helen Campbell, the writer on domestic subjects, In an article on household service, suggests the fixing of hours of work, paying for over-time and giving servants the use of the parlor to receive visitors. Why, to be sure. Give them tho whole downstairs if they want it. The family win live upstairs well enough, if allowed the use of the dining room for meals. There ought to be no difficulty about little matters like this.

The Missouri Senate has passed a bill making it a felony for any one to prevent by threats or violence an employe from working and a misdemeanor to prevent any one by such means from accepting employment. The principle may be all right but why make fish of one and flesh of the other? It is just as bad to keep a man from going to work as it is to make him quit work when he is employed, and both acts should be punished alike.

The "kickers'* insist it is a fact that Mr. Lamb was an applicant for the District Attorneyship to succeed Turpie, but that when Senator Voorhees called upon the President the latter interrupted him in the beginning of the conversation to say: "Senator. I em very glad to »ee you, but before we go any farther let me say that I hope you will not ask me to appoint Mr. Lamb to any office." The truth of this incident Is vouehed for by men who ought to know ito truth or JalsHy,

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The oldest housekeeper is at the front in place of the oldest inhabitant, and she says that never in her memory was there such scarcity in the supply of servants. Indeed, the news has gone abroad and it is reported that the hired girl is moving on Terre Haute numerously.

The striking business has reached the supremely ridiculous when grave diggers strike for higher wages, as was done in a New York cemetery this week. The employers have not given in yet, nor will they as long as the supply of bad actors who have essayed the roles of First and Second Grave-diggers is unexhausted, for most likely they will make good grave-diggers. ______

So faf the present year has not made a good record for strikes. In 1886 there were 19 strikes in January to 92 in 1887. In February 1886 only 5 strikes occurred, while during February of this year the number was 74. Already this year 100,000 workmen have been involved in labor troubles of whom, it is said, that nearly 60,000 returned to work withotit having gained anything. It is to be hoped that the year will not keep up such a record to the end.

Green Smith has been the observed of all observers In Indianapolis the past few months, but for some time to come even a greater person than he—the base ball crank—will rule the roost, For, after months of anxiety and suspense, the capital city has been admitted to the League, and the country can now get down off the ragged edge and the business revival can goon. It has boen pretty severe at times to hold the country steady,but now we can go on serenely. We heave a sigh—yes,several sighs— ofreliof.

The new law governing the practice of dentisry, which will soon go into effect, will close at least four dentists' parlors in this oity. The law is a companion picce of legislation to the law of two years ago restricting the practice of medicine to those who had graduated from a medical college or had fulfilled certain other requirements establishing their fitness. The dentistry law is a sttep forward in the advancement of the profession which not many years ago yvas regarded as an auxiliary tQ the blackultl^s trajle.f ri ,1^01

When the Indianapolis baso ball en thuslasts were trying to raise enough money to enter'the league, in their dosperate effort tliey solicited a subscription from Mr. W. II. English. "How much must you raise? he asked. "Twenty thousand dollars." "That seems like a good deal of money." "Yes, but Mr. English you must know that some of the players receive $4,000 and $5,000 for a season's play." Turning away from the ommitteo tho close fisted millionaire growled: "Yon can have none of my money for such salaries."

The session of tho Indiana Legislature expired by limitation last Monday evoning. The dead iock continued to the end, and nearly all important legislation failed. Tho appropriation bills were not passed, but this failure will not seriously affect the routine business of the State, for the reason that it is provided that when the general appropriation bills fail of passage the appropriations made by tho preceding Legislature shall be continued. It is thought that Green Smith will be tondered a federal appointment, or placated in some way, and that Governor Gray will call an extra session to complete the legislative work.

Nearly every Republican from this Congressional district who heard and saw Marion county young orator, Griffiths, in the Legislature, this winter, was moved to remark that if he lived in Terre Haute he would certainly be sent to Congress, if not next year two years later. He Is a shrewd young politician and possesses phenomenal ability as a public speaker. As it is he has made an impression in political circles about Indianapolis that will likely make him prominent as a candidate for the nomination there where tho field is not so bare of available men as It Is here.

The superintendent of an Indianapolis railroad received a shock recently from which it is likely he will never entirely recover. An Indiana legislator returned a railroad pass good for the entire session, but which he had never used. He said he had conscientious scruples against legislators traveling on railroad passes, and so he had paid his fare. The idea ef a membor of the Indiana legislature having such con scientious scruples as to prevent him riding on a free pass is just a little too large to grasp at once. Phlneas Taylor Barnum will be after that man before the summer is over, for he would prove one of the rarest curiosiUee in his col lection. ______

After all the delay, the increased appropriation for our Government building failed to get through Congress and 8u perintendent Havens is compelled to go forward and finish it in cheep style, with a wood and lion roof and wooden wain scotlng instead of marble. The construction of this building promisee to become an Issue in local politics. At present the Democrats are trying to place the ro^onaibillty for the delay on

Congressman" Johnston. When the whole truth is told about the matter, for instance by the publication of the chronological history of the building as furnished in official correspondence and reports, it will be shown that the fire proof roof could have been secured and the delay preveuted but for the.dilatoriness of Messrs. Lamb and Voorhees. As a matter of fact Captain Fitch had in November, when Mr. Cleveland was elected, so shaped the work and practiced such economy that but little was to be done to proceed to the completion. Then ensued the dilatory tactics referred to until Mr. Havens succeeded Captain Fitch when there was an effort to spread on the glory far securing the improvements, plapned and arranged by the previous administration. There was failure at Washington to have the order entered and the delay ran into Johnston's term, on whose clumsy shoulders his agile adversary has contrived to place all the blame for the present condition of things.

The fool-killer is not confined in the exercise of his duties to any particular class of profession, but if he has been the past week where he was most urgently needed, it was in Chicago looking after those Christian(?) ministers who declined to send a telegram of condolence to Mrs. Beecher for fear it would be misconstrued as endorsing her dying husband's theological views, v^Ith which they disagreed. If tho Christian people in the congregations presided over by these ministers do not call for their resignations, then the doors of these dhurches had best be closed, for there can be found none of that charity whose rarity has been deplored. The rudest, most untutored savage could do no worse than this, and the most unpleasant feature about it is that it will furnish argument for the scoffers who are in the habit of reviling the idea that any real, true religion exists.

The anti-Lamb Democrats do not extend their political boycott to Gil McNutt who was a Lamb man from beginning to end and who received the appointment of Deputy Districy Attorney, from Lamb, but on the contrary are his friends and doing all they can to secure his appointment as District Attorney. These Democrats are not, howsfrer, ^fTOittgh teitfr l»mto^m*%nd^ intend manifesting this fact at thb spring election. As to McNutt they say that so far as they know neither father or son has made himself obnoxious by Lamblike remarks about "kickers." It is likely now that Gil will get tho position as Senator Voorhees, ex-Senator McDonald and James H. Rice, chairman of the

State central committee, have recommended him to the President, although the report came from Washington that they wore for Green Smith. The fact is Rice went to Washington especially for McNutt. _____

The telephone company, no doubt feeis that it has "thrown itself away without sufficient cause." Since the passage of the law fixing a legal rate for service and the decision of the courts sustaining the law, the company has bent all its efforts towards a repeal. For a year prior to the meeting of the Legislature the purpose of the company to make the lartv odious was apparent to any 6ne who gave the matter a thought. The service was poor and the cost excessive under the toll system to those who use the tele phone extensively. Naturally it was easy to obtain petitions from subscribers who saw through the sclvmo yet were willing to submit to get a repeal of the law, and armed with these a skillful lobby force began operations at Indianapolis. Tho repeal bill passed the House but was caught in the Senate in the deadlock and so failed. Tho company had been under heavy expense and after all is left where it was two years ago. The policy for the future has not been made known but it looks very much as if the company must either continue the losing programme of non-compliance ffnd lose money for two years more or make the best of the law and reap whatever profit there may be In the business, no longer refuse to furnish telephones when subscribed for or cripple the service in other

ways.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 12,1887.

rll OR A TORIO SOCIE1Y SERIES. NO. VII. S Next Tuesday evening, at the Congregational church—a lecture by Dr. T. Mendenhail, president of the Polytechnic Institute, on "Lire in Japan,'* profusely illustrated with the stereoptioon. Dr. Mendenhall resided in Japan three years, and became intimately familiar with the peculiar manners Mid customs of that peculiar people. His exceedingly pleasing manner as a narrator, together with the numerous stereoptic views he will present, will insure the lecture to be highly instructive and intensely entertaining.

A SENSIBLE VIEW OF IT. [Harper* Weekly.] It must be clear to every honest advocate of prohibition that if public sentiment will not support the enforcement of high license it certainly would not support prohibition,

FASHION ABLE CLUTTER* Philadelphia. Star. The more cluttered a drawing-room the more recherche.

COMING AMUSEMENTS.

ROBSON fc CRANE.

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The management have, at no small financial risk, induced Robson A Crane to bring their sumptuous production of the "Comedy of Errors"toNaylor's opera house, for one night only, Friday, March 18th. It has been conceded by all who have been fortunate enough to see this great production to exoed in costliness, beauty, elaborateness and artistic worth any effort that has

heretofore been made in the way of Shakesperian comedy in this couutry. It will be, without a doubt, the most magnificent production ever brought to this city, the scenery and costumes being accurate and instructive. The one high purpose has been to do the play befitting honors to that end the scenes, costumes and properties were designed to that end the general embellishments were chosen to that end tho most eminent scoijic artists were commissioned to paint the scenes, capital having been unsparingly employed whenever it was deemed possible to enhance the beauty and value of the representation or to emphasize its truth.

There is no reason to apprehend that the splendors of the classic tone of this immense production will overshadow the irresistable fun that is inherent in it.

The interpretation of the Dromios has already passed into the art history of the world. It is an achievement of singular and perhaps unprecedented excellence in both its individual and its dual phases and so esteemed by all the best equipped students of art who have sat in professional judgment on it. How greatly is the brilliancy and value of that achievement heightend by the classic and stately environment in which it is now exhibited.

Notwithstanding the enormous ex pense attached to this production the management have placed the prices of admission within reach of all. There will be no extra charge for reserved .seats all lower floor $1.00 family circle 75 aftd gallery 25 the sale of seats begins Monday morning at Button's book store. Go early and secure a good place, for there will be a rush.

SPIRIT MANIFESTATIONS.

Aiina Eva Fay, who soma years ago made quite a sensation in New York through her spiritualistic manifestations will appear atj, Nay lor

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Monday evening.

All reports agree that her exhibition is extraordinary, unexcelled by any performance of the kind before the public. Miss Fay leaves her audience free to draw its own inference as to the motive force in her manifestations, neither claiming, as somo do, to have the aid of supernatural powers, nor confessing that she is alone dependent on her own expertness and dexterity. She, however, propounds tho one query to all who inquire 6f her. "If I do not have invisible aid, pray tell me how I do these things?" A diminutive, highly nervous, but bright, intelligent, and pretty woman, she seems to be wholly without tlio physical power to do onehalf the feats that are made a regular part of her performance. The skeptical may be represented upon the stage with liberty to subject tho little body to any reasonable test, and free to detect what they can. There will be but the one performance.

COMING ATTRACTIONS. bookings al Naylor's tor the Remainder of this month are: Louise Rial 21st, Louis Aldrich 23rd, Annie Pixley 25th and Lotta 31st. Lawrence Barrett returns on the 19th of April. His play has not been nam ed.

SPRING RACES.

The directors of the Trotting associa tion announce the following liberal purses for the opening mooting of the Michigan and Indiana circuit, here in June from the 7th to the 10th—four days: 5TBST DAY, JUJfK 7. 2:50 trot ^jjj®

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tbegroauda. SVCOKD DAT, jrtrjTK 8. 238 trot MttifnSu*ran aid repeat. .... 300

THIRD DAT,Jtrsnt».

Free pace. 2:40 trot Mile and repeat run roCKTH DAT, JXTVM M. Free trot 2:32 trot .......... Half mile run and repeat

600 200

The Association will attempt to make this the most successful and interesting meeting yet held, and it looks like it from the selection of wide awake gentlemen to serve on the committees:

Grounds: U. R. Jeffers, G. A. Schaal, John G. Williams. Privilege: G. A. Sehaal, Frank MoKeen, Edwin O'Bovle.

Printing and advertising: John F. A. Hew, Marx Myers. H. C. Pugh, U. R. Jeffers, G. A. Schaal.

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Transportation: Edwin O Boyle, John p. Regan, Frank McKeen. Finances: H. H. Boudinot, W. L. Kid* der, W. P. Ijama.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

ANew York melodrama is being played with "five tons of beautiful scenery." Frank Stockton is said to write his funiest while under the influence of neuralgia.

Elizabeth Caroline Moore, recently appointed a consul to Mexico, is a man, who was named for his grandmothers.

A California young man recently thrashed a clergyman because the church would not receive his mother as a member. •".

Tracy Tifus, the well known theatrical manager and one of the husbands of Alice Oates, died last Saturday night at Los Angeles.

Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, has announced his intention of pardoning all persons in the penitentiary under 15 years of age.^Jg

Obadiah Vincent, at tho age of IlS), has been admitted to the Cumberland, III., poor-house because he is no longer able to support himself.

A Frenchman estimates that in a life of fifty years a man sleeps away 6,000 days, walks 800 days, and the rest of the time feeds and fusses. 5?,-

A Missouri man recently5Murdered a woman in her sleep. This shows that all murderers are not devoid of kindness. Some ruffians would have waked her up and killed her. •,

Capt. John Ericsson, the great naval inventor, works ten hours per day. Some of the young men who are opposed to the ten hour system should drop in after hours and take a look at the venerable toller.

Jefferson Davis has been invited by the Vicksburg Southrons to accompany them to Washington, as their honored and special guest, on the occasion of the forthcoming interstate military encampment and drill.

Lawrence Barrett is one of those wise men, who isvdetermined that if ho can't earn enough in six nights and a matinee to keep him for a whole week, he will do a little Sunday fasting. And it would fee a good thing if more of our over-worked actors felt and acted in the same way.

Ignatius Riggin, an Illinois farmer, worth a

quapter

of a million, has four

nice girls, well oducated and* accom--plished. He also has a hobby fo£ homomade cloth, and so the Riggin girls card, spin and weave wool into cloth, and then make it into dresses for themselves and clothes for the old man. ,,M

Several young men in Reidsville, Ga., thought to frighten a young lady the other night by going about the house dressed in long, white sheets, but the stern parent of the young woman spoiled the scheme by letting loose the bull-dog. Tn the wordfc of the Enterprise, one spook had to go home and change his pants after he jumped the fence and got away, while another was seen in the vicinity of tho house.next day looking for his hat and one of his chum's shoes.

A Philadelphia groom gave a thousanddollar dinner to his ushers, ten in number, the other day. It was served in what was called an "autumn bower." A pavilion, inclosed in trellis work, was erected in the middle of tho room and charmingly adorned with autumn leaves, flowers and fruits. Two hundred pounds of grapes hung from the roof in great clusters. In tho bower the table was spread and the guests seated. All the room outside was filled with plants and arranged against the walls, and here and there a bronze statue glimmered faintly among the leaves. The body of the room was filled in with chrysanthe' mums, a long zig-zag walk, lightly strewn with autumn leaves, leading in among them. The feast was served by candle-light and a string orchestra played behind a screen of cedars.

An English writer says that "falling in love is nothing more than the latest, highest and most involved exemplification, in the human race, of that almost universal selective process which Mr. Darwin has enabled us to recognize throughout the whole long series of the animal kingdom." We are glad to know this. We presume breach of promise suits result from one of the lovers mislaying his exemplification for the time being.

It is proposed in Alabama to enact a law making gambling an offense punishable by six months' imprisonment on a first conviction and by six years' im prisonmenton a second conviction for the same offense.

The San Francisco Examiner figures "the wholesale cost of an average drink of whisky at one and three-tenths of a cent." At 15 cents per drink there ttnaim to be a large margin of profit.

An expert, who has been investigating the lottery, reports that a ticket holder has a better chance to get struck by lightning than to draw a prise.

AH ODD SALOON ORNAMENT. Omaha BpeciaL The remains of Edward Kuehl, found dead in bed were sent to Buffalo, N. Y-, to-day, in accordance with his will, to be cremated. His ashes are to be placed in an urn and placed over the bar of a popular saloon in Omaha, in compliance with his will.

Twenty-five Mormon women are at work as missionaries in Blast Tennessee. Mrs. Cleveland never gossips, it is said. No higher compliment could be paid to the lady.

It is rumored that Miss Ethel Chase,* the daughter of Mrs. Kate Chase, is anxious to go upon the stage,

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Seventeenth Year

WOMEN'S WAYS.

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Dr. Mary Walker is beginning to shovk the offeets of age. ,| There is only one unmarried woman in Can ova, D. T. A

Mrs. Jeannette M. Thurber, the organ- j. izer of the American Opera company, is regarded as one of the remarkable wornen of the day. Her business tact and diplomacy are said never to have boen^ .» equaled by a woman.

Senator Pickles, of Kansas, opposed municipal suftrage for women, and received as a reward a bouquet from "the women of Kansas who do not. wish to vote." Those who don't wish to vote ifre not obliged to do so, but it seems ungracious for them to throw any obstacle, even a beuquet, in tho way of their sisters who really desire tho ballot.

Mrs. Sarah Rickards, living in Scott county, is a champion rifle shot. A gray eagle attempted to carry away a threeyear old ehjld playing in her dooryard, but was frightened away. Returning soon afterward the eagle captured a

young lamb and was flying away when Mrs. Rickards fired and brought down the bird at a distance of 100 yards. It measured thirteen feet from tip to tip, and will be mounted and .placed in the courthouse. v"

Ind. Journal. Mrs. ^lary A. Live more told the Massachusetts Legislature the other day that the proposed law for the appointment of matrons at police stations should contain a provision to tho effect that the matrons should be recommended by some woman's organization, and not chosen by men merely on account of their good looks. Mrs. Livermore wields a weapon that cuts both ways. Her insinuation that a woman possessed of good looks is not likely to be put in position by members of her own sex is as unkind as tho other assumption that male beings can see onlyskin deep. As if either would be inIflfoenced by So tritting a matter as beauty the ideal

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SINCE a short time before the holidays, In addition to other litorary labors, Mr. Boccher has been furnishing The Mail, connection with a syndicate of Satur!n.y and Sunday papers, a weekly letter. tlto last one, printed( Saturday before last, was on training of children. It was an earnest, practical talk with parents relative to the dangers and temptations that beset the young, particularly in cities. It was full of serious and instructive matter. In this letter Mr. Beecher

a thousand but for two among many: First, that 1 was born and bred in the country, of parents that gave me a sound constitution and a noble example. 1 can never pay back whatlgot from my parents. If I were to hit$ a monument of gold higher than heaven It would be no expression of the debt of gratitude which I owe to them, for which they unceasingly gave, by the heritage of their body and the heritage of their souls, to me. And next to that I am thankful that I was brought up In circumstances where I never became acquainted with wickedness. I know a great deal about it: for if I hear a man say A, I know the whole alphabet of that man's life, by

express to God the thanks which I owe to my mother and to my father, and to the great household of sisters and brothera among whom I lived."

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"KICKING!' AGAINST OUR gNCLE. ,"J:, DICK, [New York Tribune.] 3

Ex-Secretary Richard W. Thompsrtto, of Indiana, has been here for two or three days. His erect and slender figure and gray hair make him noticeable. It is understood that the company which i« engaged in promoting the enterprise of Count De Lessens pays Mr. Thomson 125,000

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the use of his name and has recently come to be regarded as such by the ,• French directors of the company, who have been raising vigorous opposition to **, the cost of the American adjunct to the Vs canal scheme. At a recent meeting of tho board, it is said, the question was seriously raised whether the entire American machine might not be dispensed with, including thee* Secretary, and it is possible thatin the .ear future France will decide to "go s"•» ie" on the Isthmus. There has been Meeting here within a day or two of American j, directors of this enterp*' in which there were some disctissi which have not been permitted to j-h the ear of the public, but which ind.t. ites a lively internal dissension. ,,,