Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 13, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 September 1887 — Page 1

Vol. 18.—No. 13.

THEJV1AIM

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

It is said the editor of the Gazette refuses to say his prayers because he would have to ask God to "Grant" them.

Now that several burglaries have been committed and burglars captured, Mr. Bill Hicks will probably say, "I told you so."

Robert Garrett should not be censured to severely for paying $300 a day for a for a sleeping car until it is known how much of it went to the porter.

The latest thing on wheels in St. Louis are pretty girls on wheelbarrows with young society men pushing them round on moonlight nights

isn't it? A Cass county man threw a olub at a cow in his barn yard, missed it and nearly killed his child. That man ought to be able to get a job with the Indianapolis ball club.

It has just leaked out that the late S. J. Tilden's doctor bill was $143,000 No wonder he died. Almost any man would rathor die than to get up and face a doc tor bill like that.

An Indianapolis woman named Dxss got a divorce from her husband this week on the ground of cruelty. The cruelty probably consisted in compelling her to pronounce her name.

Colonel McLoan has been interviewed and says ho will not resign his present place to make the canvass for oongress. The colonel knows the worth of the old adage about a bird in the hand.

The fact is noted as somewhat significant that in all the rail-road smash-ups that have occured this year not a single newB-paper man has been hurt. The Inter-State law is responsible for this state of affairs. _____

Will some member of the committee of arrangements for the president's reception please see to it that the brakeman on the president's train does not call out "Terre Hote," or "Terree ffut" out "Tare-note."

The havo "parlor tidier." In*,.rope, AoLpany In Bruwel. refund to

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of nitv for one hundred and thirty that olty

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committed

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nominated for

-finrntii rv of state in New York and a ot "OM Abe" Lincoln tinned as a possible candidate for 1 resi "o

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.on. Are without ability or Inttueneewlll receive a temporary set-baoic. At Tolono, IU., the compulsory educa-

law is being enforced with vigor. The police take up all boys found on Ktreets during school hours and they are obliged to give an

account of

themselves.

Tolono Is not a favorable place in which to practice truantism just now

suicide last It may seem like a narsu

thing to say

ing lH

os»v, but literature would havo

nor I

boon the griner If some

hnvo written novel. h« followed Ml» Talbott's example

other

now the Cincinnati

has

After all the time and money that has been sjfent in perfecting American news papers it seems to have been thrown away. The Duke of Marlborough, the profligate peer who is sight seeing here doesn't like them. Too, bad. But.the most likely the editor will fix them up to to suit the "Juke."

A young woman of this city who mysteriously disappeared last week, writes to her mother that she has gone to join an opera company. As the young worn an had on at the time of her disappearance according to one of the daily papers only a straw hat and a {fair of slippers, there are good grounds for believing that she has really joined a comic opera company.

other

water

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thousand dollars Tor w»w Uw p»t three or toot year*. This to a pretty big prl* toW

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ticularly canal water. With U. S. Grant's

The Cleveland

peoplo who

Commercial

Gazette decides that half the» that have been discussing the

cipher donHknow how to. spell Shake.pearo'. name. D~ the C. O. spring another controversy

ove*

spelling of the groat bard's name? Perish the thought! The natural gas well at

already given out. A few days ago Jt was spouting gas the higlt tvorfortv feet and was considered so muoh of a "gusher" that a public was held on it* account. Be* iv as el at a a a "pocKet" well—and a

vest

pocket at that,

Anarvhist Parsons who run a great "bluff" upon surrendering lnm^lf to the authorities after he had successfully probably wishes since he has the Illinois Supreme

court

that hehadn

been so much of a "bluffer." general thing, doewn't take man\ bluffe.

Don't worry about the women. They seem tolerably able to take care of them Wives. Mrs. Frank hss paid off the enormous debte of her husband and made herself rich by her business ability and a Mis. Holloway, of Buffalo, N

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underbid the men for the eon

tract of cleanlng the streets of that city for five r«u»

ttWanied

contract at newly half a million dollws. And she will make a good thing out of lUpo-

A new political club has been.incor porated in Chicago, to be known as the Lincoln Republican Club. The object is not to boom Robert Lincoln for the Presidency, as might be suspected, but for "the purification of the party and ward politics generally." That is a much better object than the boonfing of any man for any office. A great many such clubs are needed all over this country.

Cleveland, O., which is reputed to have more red-headed girls than any other city on the continent, is all torn up over the white horse craze. It is said that auburn-haired girls have been followed for squares by young men looking for the accompanying white horse and the police have bad to be appealed to stop the persecution. Either more white horses will have to be sent to Cleveland are some of the red-headed girls will have to go elsewhere. The situation is getting strained.

A great story comes from Kentucky of a man who promised his dying wife that he would not marry again, she at the same time placing an iron ring on his finger to seal the promise. Not heeding his promise he did marry again and his bride took the iron ring from his finger. Shortly after the poor man's side was paralyzed and the finger become so swollen that the ring could not be put on it again. Moral: don't make such promises, or else keep them.

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And so Indianapolis has anew daily paper, the evening Democrat. It will be

long time before this new bantling can hope to rival the evening News, in thecottofcS^® papers of its kind seem

room

Indianapolis for an

Democratic

paper. The Sentinel

has never been a very enterprlsing,newspaper and it is not heartily supported by many

members

of the party, who

have long wished to see an evening paper of their faith in the capital city. Well, they have It now. It Is for the future to determine whether they

w'll

give It a living support. A young woman at Marshall is stirring up that lively little town with spirit demonstations. The Pence Hall oomit tee has given us a rest for a long time, ani here is a chance to deal in real genuine, all-wool and a yard wide spirits made close to home. The young woman shows the spirit of her father who was murdered several years ago, and several others equally as interesting and the '.committee" is missing the chanoe of a lifetime if this is permitted to escape The spirit of a murdered man would be abetter attraction than that Of G. Washington or an Indian maiden.

family

seems to be very

strongly prejudiced against the G. A. R. or else its members are very unfortunate

in creating

such

expression. To add

to all previous efforts in this line, Mrs. Cleveland herself snubbed the Grand Army boys in the parade at Philadelphia yesterday, and was assisted in it by Secretary Lamont. With other circumstances taken into consideration, it will be hard to convince the old soldiers that the slight was other than intentional and unless it was done by Grover's orders, Mrs. Grover is due for a ciirtain lecture. _____.

The shaking of a red flag before an enraged bull could produce no more startling effect than the mention of the name Grant to the editors of the Gazette. For years they heaped abuse upon U. S. Grant, and can not resist the impulse once in a while to berate him in his grave. And now that Col. Fred Grant has been nominated by the Republicans for Secretary of State in New York the Gazette editors begin their abuse of him simply because his name is Grant. The Republicans of New York, when they hear of this, will no doubt make a change In the head of their ticket.

The Washington contingent of the Indiana Democracy this week has been discussing Senator Voorhees' name In connection with the nomination for governor and the tenor of the remarks is that it would be cruel to force him into the race, but that if necessity demands that he make it he will respond to the party's call. There could hardly be anything more exasperating to a man nicely ensconced in a seat in the senate thwn to be called upon U» make such campaign. And what could be more discouraging than the prosp election an office which in this State carries with it trio authority to appoint notaries and nothing more?

Those persons interested horses who have read the reports of «S of the races of the grand circuit in which the purses aggregated nearly $160,000 comment on the fact that nowhere were there rfaore interesting races than we had here in the spring. The contests were no more exciting and on the average the time was no faster than made on this track. We not only led the season in. date but in many essential features of« successful meeting. ,..«vr:.v-

Next to an undertakers' meeting, *. coffin makers' association is aboht the most cheerful thing one can contemplate The National Association of Coffin Makers has been holding its regular meeting at Indianapolis this week, and its members are very much worried over decreasing profits, caused either by over-, production or by not enough persons dying! It is confidently asserted that the coffin makers were at the bottom of all the Canadian fisheries wai talk indulged in awhile ago.

A Missourian named Letcher is to be dismissed from the consular service because of his convivial displays in the Brazilian city at which he is consul. All he does that is complained of is to get drunk and promenade up and down the principal streets discharging his revolver at whoever may appear. What is this much Vaunted Democratic administration coming to, that a wild, untamed Missourian is to be deprived of these innocent amusements that belong to him almost by birthright. The President had better postpone "firing" this man until he has safely returned from his trip through Missouri. •,

The business of organizing "trusts," or combinations of manufacturers to put up the prices of their goods, is going on at a rapid rate in this country* Not a week passes that some new combination of the kind is not introduced to the public. When Congress and the various State Legislatures meet again the question of how to prevent sudh monopolistic combinations should be one of the first to redeive attention. The natural effects of healthful competition are destroyed by such combinations and the prices of the necessities of life raised by arbitrary processes. The whole business should be made unlawful by statute, as it is outrageous in practice. xxfn&r «*v Afutod. rest, and our people are settling dowrt to business and the eivery day cares of domestic life. If the vacation has been what it ought to have befeh, the "coming back to work will be an even greater pleasure than the going away has been, providing always that one's daily tasks are of the kind best adapted to one's powers. Hundreds of people are finding this the case to-day. One evidence of this is the more hopeful tone everywhere heard. The air is no longer filled wich lamentations of how the country is going to the dogs, but one hears instead prophesies of a good fall and winter business. Renewed energy, everywhere apparent, will go far towards making these predictions realities. If there were any method of weighing industry, energy and general go-aheadativeness it would probably be found that the few weeks of rest was time well invested and that more is accomplished by leaving them out of the working year than would have resulted had they been kept in.

Other interests than those of money making also feel the impetus gained from rest and change. Pupils and teachers return to school with a new zest for study. Churches are muoh better filled than they were last June. New

and

easier methods of doing old tasks come into the mind, causing surprise that that they had not been suggested before. The world seems to have awakened from a sleep, short perhaps, but refreshing and fraught with renewal of life.

It looks as if the gentlemen who are directly interested in the project to build the Southwestern road are ready to take the work in hand. Since the filing of the articles of incorporation the scheme has not been heard of by tfee general public. There is information, nowever, that things are now getting in shape to push the undertaking. It is said that the Indiana A Illinois Southern people, who have been changing the gnage of that road, are anxious to make a oonneotion with the Southwestern, and that It is not unlikely that this old narrow guage route will be changed to run in a southwesterly direction, continuing the line of the Terre Haute ro«d to the Mississippi river. Those *Hnoia oountim across the Wabash nvw «outh West of the city, would be a mine of wealth to Terre Haute if tapped by a railroad. They would be tributary to this city to the ex elusion of any other city to a greater extent than any section we now reach by railroad. This, Harrison, township is to vote on Nov. 8th on the proposition to grant the road a subsidy of #100,000, and Pimirieton and Prairie Creek, the other two townships in this county through which the road wonld pass, will be asked to vote a proportionate amount. The proposed route will give Vigo county about sixteen miles of road. 2

With taxes In the city advanced five cents on the hundred dollars, and the

TERRE HAUTE, IND. SATTJRD.4T EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17,1887.

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oounty collecting for the new court house, the present is not a very auspi cious time to talk of an advance for railroad purposes. But if those who are inclined to "kick" on snch a measure 'would but stop to think what an insignificant advance wonld be required on the rate here in Harrison township, on the valuation of property, and of what Immense advantage snch a road would be to Terre Haute, thejf would certainly abandon their objections. It is just the one road needed to complete our con nections, and the territory it is intended to traverse will contribute immensely to onr trade, and add to our wealth. There Will be many things said for and against the measure between this and November 8th, but it would be well to bear these ings in mind.

Now we know how the pesky mosquiget in its work. A writer in Science contributes a graphic description of the poison fangs and puncturing apparatus of the female mosquito, which, it should be understood, is the only member of that family equipped for 'business and endowed with the musical faculty. The under lip of this interesting creature is a large, hairy tube, two millimeters'long, open above, and serving as a sheath for the piercing apparatus, and terminated by two sensitive labellse and a central lancet-like ligule. The piercing apparatus is enclosed in the labrum, which is provided with two maxillae, very sharp and barbed near the tip, and able to play back and forth like saws. Beside this contrivance there is a pharynx that sucks the blood that the saws have let out of the veins of the victim. And, to cap the climax, the bloodthirsty female not content with sawing the skin and sucking the blood, is possessed with'a poison duct, from which it pumps an irritating fluid into the wound it has made. We can understand the utility of the saw, the piercing and blood-suoking apparatus, but it's a puzzler to explain the reason or philosophy of that poison duot. This is one of the inexplicable mysteries of nature—not unlike the problem, Why are human creatures sometimes endowed with a poison fang termed the gossiping propensity? Maybe, after all, the human gossip is only an evolution of the mosquito—who knows? Certainly there are striking points of similarity? Really this study

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her wonderfully complex bill. The music is undoubtedly made by the creature filing her saw.

A curious case of medical ethics and medical etiquette has jttst occurred in New Hampshire which would have been an interesting subject for discussion at the recent inter-national convention. An eminent city doctor had gone there to enjoy his vacation. A young man in the house being badly hurt was in great pain. The doctor was asked to relieve his suffering. His exact reply was that only anodynes could relieve him, but until an examination was made these should not be given. He declined making such an examination because it would be unprofessional. His defense is said to be that by taking a respite from his practice he wsa no longer a physician that the young man was in no worse plight than if the city physician had been absent altogether. Moreover, it was contrary to etiquette to make the examination and prescribe an anodyne, because it would be taking the case from the resident physician.

To the lay mind the duty of humanity would seem to overlie the etiquette or even the physician's claim to rest, but it is hardly possible that an eminent doctor would put forth such a plea unless it has some basis in the rules and practices of the profession. An authoritative decision would therefore be quite interesting as well |s useful.

John D. Stern, an Indianapolis traveling man, told this story in St. Louis, and it was vouched for by several brother salesmen. He said: It is not often that a drummer gets taken in, but a crowd of us played the sucker act in great shape a tow days ago. We were en route home ffiyn southern Illinois and got on the east bound I. A St. L. at Litchfield. At the depot was a very pretty but poorly dressed young woman with a baby. She was crying all the time and of course excited our interest and sympathy. She took her seat in the train but seemed so heartbroken that finally I went to her and asked what was troubling her. Between her sobs she told me a most pathetic story of a husband killed by a threshing machine of extreme destitution* and no hope for the future. Of ooone we passed the hat and raised about 950, which we gave her. Two of as got off at Terre Haute and so did the woman, who was met at the depot by a big burly fellow. They walked up the street together, and we could hear them riving as the laugh. Then I heard her say: "The dead husband Mid baby racket worked immense. I have pulled in over a hundred this week, Jim. You mast fix up another route for me." My friend astd I went al»#Wnto and kicked each other for five minutes.

BUFFALO BILL'S rib roast appears to have successfully hit the British appetite for a good dinner. So agreeable was the repast that an eminent English legislator—Justin MoCarthy—gave it as his opinion after tasting the toothsome beef that "civilization was a well intend ed mistake.'' The ribs were cooked in the Indian fashion—perhaps old plainsmen may certify to it. The method was to dig a hole in the ground and build a good wood fire in it over the fire a tripod of poles from which the side of beef—the ribs—hung in good roasting distance. A scout moved it about over the lire for three-quarters of an hour un til it was thoroughly done. The bill of fare provided by Buffalo Bill on the in teresting occasion when the rib roast was first introduced was as follows Grub stake, salmon ribs of beef, Indian style, roast beef, roast mutton, ham tongue, stewed chicken, lobster salad American hominy and milk corn, potatoes cocoanut pie, apple pie, Wild West pudding, American popoorn, pea nuts. If Bill could have provided green corn, roasting ears, his feast would have lingered longor in the memory of his distinguished noble and parliamentary guests, f-. ij??

The IndianapoHs News tells that an attorney approaohed Judge Howe a few days ago with a request for an early hearing of a divorce suit. "It can be tried in five minutes," he remarked. "No it can't," said the judge, as he stepped down from the benoh, 'no case of divorce case can be tried in five minutes' "It is only too easy to get a marriage set aside," continued the oourt "although things in Indiana are not as bad as they used to be. Now and then cases oome up in which the allegation is made failure to provide, where the question presents itself as to what constitutes provision. In the oases of young people parents often are responsible for the mischief. If their daughters do not at once graduate into a life of ease they are disappointed. They forget that they themselves had to start out modestly, and frequently try to discourage their daughters and their daughters' husbands' They make a mistake here, for it is lay observation that poor young men develop into the best kind of husbands. The great matches are often poor ones indeed The young man who has to look out for

himself Is often superior to the one who

did the best he could, which was well enough, and to his credit. The wife was told by meddlesome friends that she could have done better and finally this caused trouble between them, owing to her growing dissatisfaction. She applied for a divorce, but I gave the young ir.an a decree because I thought he had^r "been unjustly treated."

"In making up a party for a traveling excursion," said Chas. Dudley Warner to a friend wh,o was planning one, "always be sure to have it include at least one ignorant woman. She will ask all the questions you are ashamed to ask or think you don't need to ask, and you will secure the benefit of a vpst deal of information you would otherwise lose."

ANew York writer says that the two principal causes which have led to decline in matrimony among fashionable circles in New York are the "increased comforts and diminished expense of bachelor life and the over-worship to which we have accustomed our women

New York Truth has interviewed man in that city who makes a profession of training fleas, and the man asserts that no flea lives to be over one year old. Everything but the bed-bug seems to die young,

Old bachelors will please take notice that President Cleveland says: "I may say I have just begun to live in all that is best and truest in life." An unmated fnan is, as a rule, but half a man,

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Eighteenth Year

WHAT THE PAPERS ARES A YINQ.

Independent: The silent man Is often worth listening to. resolutions, like" a

Advance: Good squalling baby at church, should be carried out.

New Orleans Picayune: A preferred creditor is one who never asks for his money.

Life: Take cire of the pence "and the absconding cashier will take care of the pounds.

Troy Press: The American car stove and the European theater are more deadly than many battles have been. I

Denver News: An astute Eastern professor has been demonstrating the practicability of laboring people living on ten cents a day. The Anti-Poverty So- f\ ciety should lose no time in securing his services.

Philadelphia Times: Thero were 128 victims of the Cliatsworth horror. One hundred and twenty-six years in the penitentiary, divided equitably among ft the management of the road, would be--1 about the right thing.

Boston Transcript: It has been said thousands of times, and truly enough, that if a houseful of people, in case of a I fire, will only keep oool, the danger will be reduced to a minimum. As, however, 1 human nature cannot be newly constructed, it is the duty of owners and builders of theaters to do all that human ingenuity can suggest to prevent occasions for the display of human weakesses.

Buffalo Commercial Advertiser: A certain Miss Clapp is said to have made handsome income this summer by giving lessons in whist to classes of ladies and gentlemen at the different watering I places. We have heard of gentleman making a handsome income by giving lessons in poker to chance classes they happen to gather on railway trains and but this tuition in whist is something new and probably far less expensive.

Boston Post: Human life is extraordinary oheap in this country. Our railroads alone kill a small army of men every year. Beside the grade crossings for travelers, there are overhead bridges for brakemen, and^worst of all, cars that oouple by the old and dangerous, but still oommpn, device. Almost all the lives that and the inutil&tian»that ara «dP mortoj*.

Eight London theaters now have women lessees. few* "Girls think men are all soui," says a woman who has bad three husbands, woman know they are all stomach."

The best shelter for a girl is her moth-

er's wing, especially when she is disposed to be what the Frenchmen call a little "chic."

H. Rider Haggard's She is to Ira put on the stage. As the heroine, She, is two thousand years old, she will probably lead the ballet in person.

A Chicago lady has a $75 diamond which cost her husband 92.000. Shewalked out of a store with it in her mouth and he didn't want her kleptomania exposed.

One of the last requests of Mrs. Yincent, the Boston actress, was that the money people felt disposed to spend on flowers for her funeral should be sent to the hospitals.

Women lace and pinch their waists because they have an idea men admire such waists. They got this Idea without asking a man and they'd hpld to it if all the men denied it.

A Boston woman wants to found a colony on an island in the Pacific Ocean composed only of women. She has had two applicalons already. They are from two widows who have passed the age of 70 and given up all hopes.

Miss Mattie Davis, of Kentucky, who is stopping at Old Orchard Beach this summer, not only dresses as a boy, but has out-jumped, out-climbed and

out-run every young man who dared put up a |5 bill on his own head. She says a girl who drosses in petticoats is a baby.

The Washington belles have Introduced the cane as the latest fashionable fed. A few weeks ago a young leader of Washington society returned from Engi^ carrying this appendage. A nice little stick with a shepherd's crook of hammered silver. A regular little Bo Peep affair. Sometimes she swung

it, and sometimes she gave a smart rap fr with it upon the pavement. Miss Mary Childress, a pretty school teacher, resides at Trenton, Ga. Three a go he a ha a an named John Mogors had been circulating reports about her. She rode across Lookout Mountain, a distance of fifteen miles, Mid at the muzzle of a shotgun forced her traducer to apologize. This done, she published Mogors as an infamous scoundel and a traducer, and that his parents had descended from the whipping posts of South Carolina. When Mogors saw this he sent Miss Childress a challenge to fight, and the little woman went to the spot to meet Mogors did not oome to time.

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