Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 March 1887 — Page 4

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

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TERRE HAUTE, MARCH 28, 1887

Ai/rHoroH the salary of a New York State Senator is only $3,000 for the two years term, it is said that candidates pay all the way from 912,000 to $22,000 to secure their election. There mast be some tall stealing in the New York Legislature.

THK people of the stage have flourished during the past season. Mrs. Langtry will clear $7-3,000, the Florences $36,000, Edwin Booth $100,000, and Palmer and Daly from $50,000 to $75,000. Den man Thompson has been making $2,000 a week and he deserves all of it.

Tin newspaper enterprise in which Walker Maine has embarked in Chicago is the "Independent Grocer," an eightpage weekly, devoted to the interests of retail grocers. Mr. Blaine is simply president of the company %pd does not appear actively in the management.

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Gori.N is a genuine chip of

the old block. Since his marriage he has settled down "strictly to business" his one aim being to rival his father's success in money getting. But it is to the young man's credit at least that he married a moneyless actress instead of the heiress of a millionaire.

SKVKN colored men in Jacksonville, Florida, are said to be worth over $100,000 each, thirteen others $75,000 and twice that number over $60,000, all of whom were penniless twenty years ago. If this thing is going on in other cities of the South, it must be adinittted that the negroes are making material progress.

THK salaries of postmasters ranges all the way from 10 cents to $4,000 a year. More than 10,000 of these officials get only about $40 and 10,000 only about $8 a year. From this it is evident that a good many people who are appointed to office by the President are fit subjects for condolence rather than congratulation.

THK United States fish commission has undertaken a big contract in trying to replenish the waters of the coast with certain species of flsh once abundant there. It has tirst turned loose 35,000,000 young cod on the Atlantic coast and will experiment with halibut also. The result of these offorts will be watched with interest.

BY way of piquant comment* oh' the Chicago Tribune's declaration that "Mr. Blaine will walk off with the cake," the Now Orleans States says: "The country will bo perfectly satisfied to let Mr. Nhilne hnve the onke If he Wants it, but ho will never walk of with the Presidency. It let the rcoortl Jim hiu» made for walking otr with things that will prevent him securing a majority of votes in the electoral college."

But Mr. Blaine has not said that he wants the Presidency. In fact he has been saying just the opposite.

SIRTGTTI.AKI.Y enough nothing has been published respecting Mrs. Tilton in all that has come out since Beecher's death. Of tho trio once 90 prominently before the public she alone has dropped out of sight nnd been forgotten. Whether she was most sinned against or sinning will probably never bo known, but the lives of fow women have been more terribly blighted than hors. It Is but natural to sympathise with one who has so deeply 8U (Torod as she must have done.

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Tuesday of this week, the son of General Ixgnn was married to Miss Edith Andrews, the daughter of a Youngstown, 0„ millionaire. The presents wfre said to aggregate nearly half a million dollars In value and the bride is worth $100,000 in her own right. Mr. Andrews is concerned In railroads, banks and other property and young Logan will settle down to business with his rich father-in-law. It Is very different start from that which John A. Logan, sr., had. _______________

CA RTKR II AHHISON has been nominated again for the Chicago Mayoralty. He Is a hard man to beat in Chicago, with the entire socialistic vote at his bark, but there is a good hope that he will b« laid out this time, as there Is a distinct Labor ticket in the field and the Republicans have nominated a man who will have a good deal of strength among the working classes. It will be a great victory for decency and law and order in Chicago if Outer Harrison shall be laid out. Since the foregoing was in type Mr. Harrison, fearing defect from the tierce fight In his own party, has withdrawn from the race.

FAR off Oregon has taken the prise for beauty at the national capital during the past winter. The two

Senators from that

State, Dolph and Mitchell, each have a daughter and each is very handsome Both ladies are of the same type ot beauty an olive complexion without color, large dark eyes and black hair. Miss Mitchell affects dark and quiet street costumes and drives daily in a dashing phaeton, -trith a pair of black ponies. Miss Dolph wears what she Ukea and to see her stepping out of her carriage "in a stunning all red costume, with big black hat and feathers," is described by an Imagine tire correspondent as being "like the rush of a comet." It is an uncommon thing tor two beauties t-i oome from one State and to be the daughters of its two Senators.

THE new French method of treating consumption by rectal injections of carbonic acid gas has been tried in the hospital at Philadelphia with surprisingly good results. Patients in the last stages of the disease began at once to show signs of improvement, gaining in flesh and growing brighter and stronger each day. If the improvement shall prove to be permanent the new system will doubtless snpplant all others in the treatment of pulmonary complaints.

THE terrible Buffalo hotel disaster recalls that which occurred at Milwaukee a few years ago. It was supposed that fire escapes had been so far perfected now that such holocausts would be impossible, bnt it is evident from the Buf falo fire that this is not the case. The law should hold hotel-keepers to a strict accountability for the safety of their guests and severe punishment should be visited upon them for neglect of such precautions as tho law requires.

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THKIIE is too much of a mania for money getting in this country. There are are too many very rich men and fabulously rich corporations. Every man should have a proper pride in providing well for his family but when ho has done that he might draw to one side a little and give others a chance in the race. But instead of that the great gobblers go on gobbling up everything in sight and cornering all that is worth getting, to the exclusion of men of moderate means. The richer a man gets the richer he wants to be and be scarcely stops at anything in his greed for gain.

THE death of Beecher has naturally called attention to Theodore Tilton, who has been for some years living in Paris. He has a room in a fine old mansion, once the house of a duke, and in the midst of historic associations. He spends much of his time in reading, but his work is said to be of an ephemeral character, done as much for the sake of occupation as anything. Tilton had ex cellent abilities and fine prospects, and even if the latter were blasted without his fault, he has not made a creditable use of the former. The contrast between his life and that of Beecher is indeed a wide one.

A STARTMNO report comes from Washington in regard to the President's health. A prominent physician declares that unless Mr. Cleveland takes more exercise there is great danger that he will not live out his term. He is a slow, plodding, but hard worker and a hearty eater, and takes no exercise except riding in a carriage, which can scarcely be called exercise at all. The constant pressure of blood in the brain will so weaken the blood "vessels that a rupture of ono of them will be likely to occur in some moment' of excitement. This same physician, it is said, predicted Mr. Manning's break-down six-months before it came. Mrs., Cleveland should give up her carriage and gb liprse ^back riding Svith fiie Presides

THJ4 city of Brooklyn is proposing to do a thing that ought to be done every where. An investigating committee has reported to the Legislature that the office of County Clerk, Register and Sheriff have* been used as political rewards and for political purposes, and that their emoluments—amounting to an average of $40,000 a year—are out of all proportion to the services rendered. The committee recommend that these offices be made salaried and that fees and emoUtmiBtita be abolished. It is thought this will be done. It should be done everywhere.1 Under the national rule practically all offices have a specific salary attached to them and so it ought to be. These local offices with their large emoluments become the foot-ball of aspiring politicians and area principal source of corruption in our politics. There is no more reason why a clerk or a sheriff should not hare a specific salary than there is why a book-keeper or a bank cashier should not have. The public should pay reasonable wages for the services rendered to it, and no more, just as men in the private business of life do. In this way competent and faithful officials would be obtained for much less than they can be under the present system.

OVERCROWDED CITIES. In his paper, the Standard, Henry George shows up the tenement house system in New York, with illustrations. The story is a sad, almost incredible one. It appears that in the Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth wards the population averages 362 persons per sere, or 225,280 to tho square mile, a density of population unequalled elsewhere in the world. But in certain particular localities the case is even worse than, this, $1 blocks containing 7.%204 people, or an average of 2,428 to each block. The aggregate area of these blocks is about 92 acres, so that the average in this locality is over 800 to the acre or over 500,000 per square mile.

It is well nigh impossible to conceive of the squalor, filth and wretchness which exist in these overcrowded tenements, but the worst, as Mr. George well says, is that the vast majority of the people of New York, the sober, industrious and skilled laborers, all in fact except the rich, are crowded together closer than human beings can exist with health, decency and com fort. Only a little more than four per cent, of the people live in separate houses, less than 30 per cent, live on a single floor, while more than 65 percent, live on floors divided between two families.

According to Mr. George's idea, this wretched overcrowding arises from the fact that the land is monopolised by those who do not use it, bnt hold it to grow rich by the demands of increasing population. Whether this be so or not is a matter upon which there Is much difference of opinion. It is not clear that if

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all the vacant ground in New York City were occupied and used there would not still be a vast amount of overcrowding. The tendency is to make everything gravitate to the large centers of population. The enormous wealth concentrated in these centers builds up great, industries which might as well be elsewhere for where work is to be found, there people will live, however great the drawbacks may be. The whole and sole trouble is that two many people live in one place and it is hard to see how this is going to be avoided.

OLD MEN.

Recent events in Europe have called attention to the number of old men who are engaged actively iu public affairs in that part of the world. De Lesseps in his 82nd year is pushing through his great Panama canal and recently paid a visit to the German Emperor, whose 90th birthday was celebrated on Tuesday. Although the latter did not begin his reign until he was 64 years of age,—an age at which Americans in public life generally die—he has been on the throne for twenty-six years. His great councilor, Bismarck, is 74 and his great general, Von Moltke, is 87.

Grevy, President of the French Republic, is SO and is still able to bear the burdens of State, while in England, Mr. Gladstone, at the age of 77, is preparing again to lead the Parliamentary fight for Irish Home Rule. John Bright, only one year younger, is also influential in English po.itics, and many large manufacturers and business men in England do not retire from active participation in their concerns until they have passed three score years and ten.

There are, it is true, some men in this country who attain similar ages in the possession of their full physical and mental powers, btft they are the exceptions. As a rule our public men die comparatively young and it is an interesting question whether the fact is due to climate, manner of living, overwork, ceaseless energy and unrest, or perhaps to a combination of them all.

THE INTER-STATE COMMISSIONERS. It cannot be fairly said that the President has not done well in his selection of the men who are to carry out the important provisions of the Inter-State Commerce act. The commission consists of Judge Thomas M. Cooley, of Michigan, now receiver of the Wabash railroad and a leading jurist of the country Mr. R. Morrison, of Illinois Augustus Schoonmaker, of New York Aldace F. Walker, of Vermont and W. L. Bragg of Alabama. The latter has been commissioner of railroads in Alabama and Is said to be well fitted for the place to which he has been appointed. Schoonmaker is understood to be a very competent man and Walker Is vouched for by Senator Edmunds. Morrison haa been prominent in Congress for a number of years and has large experidhceiri' public affairs.

It is perhaps unfortunate that at least one experienced railroad man was not selected, instead of filling the board entirely with lawyers. Such a man would undoubtedly been of great assistance to the other members by means of his practical acquaintance with railroad affairs.

The geographical distribution of the commission is open to criticism. It was certainly a mistake to take two members from the adjoining Statev of Michigan and Illinois and to ignore entirely the whole country west of the Mississippi. The passage of the law was due in a large measure to the complaints of the west of unfair discrimination by the railroads against that section and now it is wholly passed over in the selection of men who are to enforce its pro visions. Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado, Oregon and California were certainly entitled to one member of the commission, and the President made a serious mistake in not selecting one man from that wide scope of country.

THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING. Editor Saturday Evening Mail. The following statement I And following the card published by you for me in /our last Saturday's issue:

Notwithstanding the above, the fact is that Capt. Fitch received the credit from Senator Voorhees, Mr. Lamb, and then secretary of the treasury, Mr. McCulloch, for tne economy by which the

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tlans of Mr. Bell could be altered and an roof constructed within the original estimates. £,'•.

I will not say that dipt. Fitch did not receive credit, as you state, from Secretary McCulloch, Senator Voorhees, and Mr. Lamb, but I say most positively that it has never at any time since the building in this city was commenced, been possible to have it finished with an iron roof, within the original estimates. To put an iron roof on this building has always, and does now, require an additional appropriation. B. F. HAVKJCB.

According to an exchange, "diamond necklaces have gone out of fashion in Europe, and after a few months the edict will be obeyed over here.** This is an excellent item to cut oat and carelessly paste upon the family Bible or some other place where your wife will be likely to see it.

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the spring the human liver lightly fails to do its work."

Tailors say it's to Jp a white-vest summer.

Dr. James Carrie. Dentist in Baltimore. writea: "I have used Dr. Ball's Cough Syrup personally and in my family for two or three years, and I am prepared to say that there is nothing to compare to it as a remedy for cough, cold etc.'1 25 cents.

Pains In the back are frequently caased by a sadden wrenching of the spine. A few applications of Salvation Oil will give permanent relief.

Old Gold and Silver wanted at H. F. Schmidt's, opposite Open House.

WHAT THE PAPERS ARBSA YINO.

life: Men, like bottles, should be corked when full. The Judge: De han'som^st shoe nil git down at de heeL

Washington Critic: Congress, is always biggest at the taper end. Whitehall Times: It is a wise resolution that knows its own father.

Merchant Traveler: A corset is properly described as a miss-shapin' thing. New Orleans Picayune: The honest man has nothing to fear from an honest jury.

FunUy Talk: A metaphysical paradox—killing yourself with hard work to get a living.

Pretzel's Weekly: They had a german at Hans Schmidt's house the other night. It was a boy.

Boston Transcript: The ladies of the ballet never appear in public without their see-legs on. I,

New York Herald: It would be hard for a girl en toilette de bal nowadays to "laugh in her sleeve."

Washington Critic: I always suspicion the patriot that is eager to save his country fer nothin'.

Life: Lotta is now worth over a million dollars. Phew! That's a Lotta money for so little a woman.

Uncle Esek in the Century: The silent man may be overlooked now, but he will get a hearing by and by.

Harper's Bazar: Between Seylla and Charddis is no longer popular. It is between St. Paul and Minneapolis. •Norristown Herald: The man who resigned his position two months ago because he "couldn't live on the salary he was receiving" has been idle ever since. Although he is occasionally seen in the streets with his hands in his pockets, the inference is that he is dead.

BEECHER'S BELIEF.

The sermons on evolution preached by Mr. Beecher attracted the widest attention. To Rev. George Morrison, of Baltimore, remembered as at one time pastor of the Presbyterian church in this city, he wrote: "The formulated doctrines, as I hold them, are: A personal God, creator, and ruler over all things the human family universally sinful the need and possibility and facts of conversion the divine agency in such a work Jesus Christ the manifestation of God in human condition His office in redemption supreme. I do not believe in the Calvinistic form 'stating the atonement. I do not believe in the fall of the human race in Adam and, of course, I do not believe that Christ's work was to satisfy the law broken by Adam for all his posterity. The race was not lost, but has been ascending steadily from creation. I am in hearty accord with revivivals and revival preaching, with the educating forces of, the church and in Sympathy with all ministers who in their several ways seek to build up men. in the image of Jesus Christ, by whose faithfulness, generosity and love ,1 ,hoJe to be saved and brought home to heaven."

The Indianapolis News is the best illustration of what modern machinery jln printing, combined with modern systems for news gathering, can do for 2 cents. The News contains the complete Press dispatches, Market and Railway Reports, Supreme Court decisions, Political, State and General News, covering the whole field of current Journalism, delivered at the door of subscribers all over the State at 10 cents a week, VA cents a day. A prominent College President remarks, "The News furnishes just what we want and all the average professional or business man has time to read, and for a price that even a poor man will not miss.

SAVE EXPENSE.

When you go over to Indianapolis on a flying trip, don't go to an expensive hotel, but drop into W. G. Sherman's elegant restaurant, 18 and 20 south Meridian street just off Washington street, and be served in elegant style and superb cookery, just the articles your appetite craves, at half the usual hotel rate. It is patronized by the very best people of Indianapolis and surrounding towns.

A. Z. Foster's Carpet stock is full to overflowing with choice things.

Free Homes.

If yon want a Free Home or low rates to Kansas, go March 29th, or April 12th and 26th. Call on LEGGETT BROS.

Spring Hate.

Dunlap, the leading hat, and also all the other desirable styles, now ready in great abundance at Sykes' Hat Store.

Curtain Poles, Lace Curtains, Rugs, etc., in variety at A. Z. Foster's Carpet and Furniture House 422, 424 and 416 Main street.

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purity, sttenftb and Mow SMoadcaltLaa the o^toaw Wods, and cannot be sold In competition with the maj-

Good Idea.

Within the next thirty days the Pheni? Insurance Co., of Brooklyn, will send to every policy holder in'the United States a small pamphlet entitled "The cause and prevention of fires" which will treat this subject quite extensively, and it is hoped will be the means of preventing many losses. This Company has gone to great expense in sending'this pamphlet to its policy holders, and will supplement it by another with in the next six months, and hereafter every manufacturing establishment and Merchantile risk will be examined by a competent Inspector and the danger of fire poiuted out to the Assured.

The object of the Company in doing this is to decrease the fire hazard as much as possible, and thereby in the end reduce the rates, as THE LOSSES ALWAYS MAKE THE RATES. To give some idea of the amount of business done by this company it is proper to state that IT WILL TAKE AT LEAST FIFTY THOUSAND CIRCULARS IN THE STATE OF INDIANA ALONE.

Any one wishing one of these circulars can obtain one of the State Agent, Mr. J. Irving Riddle, Corner of Sixth and Main streets.

R. Forster is getting in a most elegant and attractive line of new furniture of every description, and is having a very satisfactory trade at his new location, Nos. 23 and 25 south Fourth stteet.

On Second Floor.

A variety to please the most fastidious.

Lac© Curtains And Curtain Nets,

At Lowest Prices ever known. We keep the stock and find competition nowhere.

Hoberg,

With every to one chance

Hoberg, Root & Co's Store Crowded Again. Friday Sales a Roaring Success.

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Jobbers & Retailers. 518 & 520 Wabash.

We are Showing

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Men's, Youth's, Boys' and Children's Clothing,

There is one thine body has to do as long as they are on this earth. The rich people and the poor, the high and the low, the men who want office and them that don't, the good and the bad, and everybody else, have to eat, eat, and eat, if they expect to live, move and have their bein' and be happy. It seems to be a wise or an unwise arrangement of Providence, I don't know jist which that

to keep these frail bodies of ours in motion we must have fuel in the shape ef good things to eat: and another peculiarity I have noticed is, that the better and purer things are the healthier and happier we are. And so my advice to everybody is, that if you want to get the very best and purest groceries ana the biggest lot for the least money, go to E. R. Wright ACo's White Front grocery.

They have to-day Strawberries, New Asparagus, New Lettuce, New Spinach, New Cucumbers, Kale, New Pie Plant, Celery, Cranberries, Oysters, Dressed Turkeys, Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Fresh Fish, Wild Duck, Jack Snipe, Choice White Clover Honey, Choice Apples, Oranges, Lemons, Maple Syrup, Sorghum, New Orleans Molasses, Buckwheat Flour, Bananas, Entire Wheat Flour, Graham Flour, English Plum Pudding, Peaches for Cream, California Wines, pure and cheap Choice Country and Jersey Butter, a fresh arrival of Choice Teas, and many other thing too numerous to mention.

A. Z. Foster has just opened anew lot of Cane and Reed Chairs and Rockers. Some of them have never been shown in Terre Haute before. 4*\ ,»

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GOOD HONEST GOODS

The Best, Cheapest and Most Profitable for both Rich and Poor to Buy.

JNTO High Prices

Could tempt us to buy goods from a house merely for friendship, and we' shouldn't think any customer or economical buyer would do so. We aiin to turn our stock over from three to four times a year. Give the people,, clean, fresh and desirable goods at all times and sell 011'

CLOSE MARGINS.

Quick Sales and Small Profits usually pleases us and we know they please the people.

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Next Week!

Comprising many new and original oddities in Boys* and Children's Wear fWe invite the attention of buyers to our Combination Suits at 96.00,18.00, .. 110.00, $12.00 and 914.00. SPECIAL OFFERING in MEN'S PANTALOONS and CHILDREN'S

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93.00 purchase you axe presented with one ticket entitling vi on Prince Dixie, Phaeton and Harness also on Com mode Nutt, Harness and Road-cart on exhibition at our store every day from 9 to 11 a. m. and from 2 to 4 p. m.

MYERS BROS.

Leading Clothiers and Gents' Furnishers, Fourth and Main.

Will be another week for Bar-, gains. Owing to the very cool weather the past few days we have decided to continue our t-'

WHICH IS ALREADY IN FULL BLAST. TT ISP'

On First Floor.

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Fancy Velvet, Etc., Jast Opened!

We make our prices to please the people the result being, Hoberg, Root A Co., are the busy store of the town.

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