Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 February 1888 — Page 4

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THE JMAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WKSTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

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TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 4, 1888

THE TALLY SHEET CASE. The result of the second trial of the Indianapolis election crooks is a matter of congratulation. On the first trial the jury failed to agree and there was great reason to fear a similar miscarriage of justice on the second trial, so difficult is it to convict where the crime is of a political character. The partisan prejudices of men are very strong and it,Js exceedingly hard to get them to find a member of their own party guilty of a political offense.

In the present instance the jurors ap

pear to

have laid aside their party bias

sufficiently to see tho case in its true light and to find two of defendants. Coy and Bernhamer, guilty of the grave offense which they were charged. Both men have had bad reputations for along time past. Coy is a saloon-keeper and Bernhamer: is a one-horse lawyer who has figured repeatedly in prosecutions for unprofessional conduct.

There never has been any doubt that the tally sheets were manipulated so as to change the result of the election aS to certain candidates, tho only question being as to who was responsible for the forgery. "Sammy" Perkins confessed that he had a hand in the matter but laid the prinoipal responsibility on others and a jury, after hearing the evidence against Coy and Bernhamer, has decided that they were the chief offenders. But they are not the only ones involved in the dishonorable business and there are other hearts that will "ache" if complete justice is done. Whether or not this will ever be done remains to be seen. Meantime it is agreeable to note that justice has prevailed to even a partial extent. _____

Yesterday Judge Woods overruled the motion for a new trial, and sentenced Coy to eighteen months in the penitentiary with a fine of «100 and Bornhamer to one year with *1,000 fine. This action will meet with very general approval lsere in Terre Haute where a great deal of interest has been taken in the trials. Tho great majority of Democrats here are satisfied with the result. They believe that the Coy gang has done their party great injury and if they did not abhor tho methods of tho Coys in politics on tho ground of general injury they would bo content to see this punishment inflicted for party reasons. The Coy regime was tho natural outgrowth of the interference of the wide open element in municipal affairs. Coy began his political career as a ward boss with

only

the object of wielding enough influence to conduct his saloon and gambling house with impunity. His power grew and tho Democrats of Indianapolis and Marion county permitted him to take charge of its campaigns. Judge Gresliam, to whom an appeal was taken, has declined to interfere in the matter, and the convicted men will be taken to the penitentiary next week.

XT AIL IN THE SCHOOLS.

Tho question as to what branches shall be taught in the public schools is coming to be

one

of pressing importance in many

places. The public school system is getting overloaded and top-heavy and is in danger of suffering sorioimlv tmloss a trimming 4owu process is brought to bear.

In St. TiOUis It was found that the teaching?of German had boen pressed into so ninny gtades that th€ school revonut» were insufficient to me?t current expenses and provide now buildings as they wore needed and after long and obstinate contest the anti-German sentiment at Wast gained the upper hand and it was decided that the German should ko. The cutting off of this study will reduce the annual cost of the St. Louis schools some $75,090, an amount that will easily

provide new school buildings

and touchers as the growth of population may require. Chicago is also confronted with the problem of providing sufficient school buildings loir her

rapidly

increasing pop

ulation and the school revenues are in a straightened condition. Says The Mail of that city: "The money that is spent in Chicago on instruction in foreign lanj guages, music, drawing, and the various other branches not properly apart of the public-school system would go a long way toward building the additional houses that are needed and paying the salaries of the teachers. When there are educational beefsteaks and potatoes enough to go around it will he time to think of quail on toast and canvasback duck."

It is a serious problem for educators and parents to consider, to hat extent the system of studies in the public schools should be modified or limited.

THK colored people of the South should think several times before they loin the proposed exodus to South America. It is easy enough to get away from where one is but it is not always so easy to get beck again. The colored

people

can do pretty well In the South

as matters now stand and It is very doubtful whether removal to a strange country would not result in serious misfortunes to them. What the colored brother mainly needs is more thrift and industry, not removal to another climate.

THE TARIFF BILL.

At last, after two months' wrestling with the troublesome question, it is announced that a majority of the Ways and Means Committee has decided upon a proposed tariff measure, which in the course of a few more weeks, will probably be submitted to Congress.

It provides for a tax reduction of some 80,000,000 and is based upon three cardinal principles: First, to get rid of the surplus second, to do this mainly by revising the tariff and third, to injure home industries the least possible. That is a good policy if wisely pursued.

The new bill goes largely upon the theory of free raw materials. Wool, salt, lumber and some minor articles are added to the free list, while the duty on iron, steel, rails, tin plate and many other things is materially reduced. The tax on sugar is to be cut down to 20 percent. It should be removed entirely. It is one of the commonest necessaries of life and should be furnished the people at the lowest price possible. It would be much better to adopt Senator Sherman's plan of paying a bounty to the few Southern planters than to tax the whole people for their benefit.

It is impossible to predict the fate of the new measure. Doubtless there will beany amount of pulling at cross purposes over it and combinations of selfish sectional interests will endanger its succcss. The Republicans will look upon it coldly, will cry "free trade" and will do all in their power to pick holes in the bill. If the Democrats can agree upon it they are strong enough to make the bill a law, but it will be surprising if they shall be found in substantial accord upon a question which has divided them ever since the present Administration came into power. $

THE UNENOA OED:Ym

The Boston Globe goes into an ecstasy over the sweet girl who is engaged and demands that the 70,000, spinsters in Massachusetts shall be worshipped as they deserve to be by the "generation of shirkers" who have persisted in pursuing single blessedness. "Must the ladies take advantage of the season's privileges and speak for themselves?" it asks.

Well, if they should do so it is far from certain whether all of them would cry out to be engaged. There was a time when the possession of a husband was the chief thought of the feminine mind when the destiny of an "old maid" was the one fate to be deplored. But a change has come over the spirit of the feminine dream. Things are not as they once were. There are old maids and old maids in these modern days. There be women Avho sigh for no man and who want no man. The doors have swung open and the weaker sex have gone in to dispute supremacy with the stronger, They have found out that they can take care of themselves and do it very well, too that they can be as independent as anybody buy their own ice cream and pay for it and treat a friend in the bargain when they want to.

And it is better so. There will be fewer foolish marriages in a world where men and women stand on the same footing of independence where the woman does not feel that she is bound to marry or else lose her standing in society and among her sex. There will be fewer marriages of convenience or from improper motives. No, the girls are not dying to get married nowadays.

THERE area good many crooks in this tariff question. It is a pretty complicated affair and people are liable to be seriously misled by the statements that are made. For example, the Chicago Tribune in a recent article showed that the average wages of American workingmen employed in iron industries were $526 a year in 1870, while in 1880 they averaged but $300, the point being that protection had not helped the laborer, but had in fact reduced his wages. It appears, however, that the census reports of 1870 were made on a currency basis while those of 1880 were on a basis of gold, which was at a premium of 25 per cent, in 1870. Thus $526 in 1870 was in fact only equal to $421 in 1880, so that the wages of the workingman had fallen but |25 dollars in the ten years, instead off 130, as the figures would indicate. On the other hand, the prices of commodities of all kinds were very much lower In 1880 than in 1870, so that $421 would buy a great deal more than $52S In the former period. Instead of declining, therefore, the workingman's income has substantially increased during the ten years.

LJTTUR JOSKF HOFFMAN, the juvenile musical prodigy, has been the cause of much talk in New York outsidejof that created by his wonderful musical talents. It has been charged that his managers were overworking the hoy in their greed to make money out of his performances and Mr. Grevy, who is at the head of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, instituted a legal inquiry into the case. It appears, however, that the boy is in good health, has gained 13 pounds since coming to Amer ica, has an excellent appetite, is as fond of sport as the other boys of his age, and appears to enjoy good health. Still the labor imposed by the long performances is probably excessive and the programme should be shortened. Mr. Grevy la en titled to thanks for stirring the matter np and seeing that no wrong is done*

A O?/IANI Irrigation oonal 27 miles long and costing $1,600,000, has just been opened In California. It was began five yesum ago and 500 men have been work ing on it most of the time sines. It will water 300,000 teres of land, converting a a desert Into a garden. It Is by each magnificent enterprises that the great plains of the Pacific coast are b^ng fitted for habitation.

H, Sttt.

SARAH ALTHKA SHARON, the ex-wife or something of the late California Senator, has at last got her judgment affirmed by the Supreme court of California, but at a considerable loss of her alimony. Her allowance is cut down from $7,500 and $2,500 additional per year, to $1,500 and $500 a year. Three of seven judges did not think there had ever been a legal marriage, so that the lady is still practically in doubt Whether she is really Mrs. Sharon or only Miss Hill.

IT has become quite the fashion for our statesmen to dabble in literature. Senator Ingalls is writing a novel and has already appeared frequently in the magazines. Senator Edmunds discusses the tariff in Harper's Magazine and Senator Cullom and Hon. W. D. Kelley have timely articles in the Forum. This is somewhat after the fashion of the English politicians but it is better fashion than some others that have been imported from abroad.

HON. IGNATIUS DONNELMSY, the insatiable Shakespearian scholar, has given the world another installment of his wonderful cryptogram through the newspapers. "The Great Cryptogram" itself has not made its appearance yet for some reason or other but Mr. Donnelley evidently intends that it shall not drop out of sight of the American public if persistent advertising can prevent such a disaster.

AGAIN the National Opera Company has been sold out to pay its debts and poor Fursch Madi has not succeeded in getting that little $7,000 balance of salary either. But Madi will not starve, nqr even go hungry. Prima donnas uever do, you know. But it must keep the lawyers dancing a lively jig to stay with Manager Locke and his company.

THTK number of cases reported throughout the country of lovely widows returning to their first and finally marrying the suitor who was erstwhile rejected, naturally tends to arouse some suspicion as to whether the first husband was fairly dealt with.

SAYS the Chicago Journal: "The trouble with the tariff debaters is that they leave the subject just where they found it.' There is as much truth as pith in this statement and it looks as though the same complaint might be made against Congress.

PUBLIC office is not always such a desirable thing. Gov. Swineford, of Alaska, has decided, it is said, to give up his official position and return to his home in Michigan. But there will not be lacking plenty of patriots willing to step into the vacant shoes. •,-

IT is said that the lawyers are divided in opinion as to whether Jay Gould and Ttussell Sage should be Indicted for larceny. A pretty good way to find out would be to submit the matter to a common sense grand jury.

WHEN Omaha gets that new $1,200,000 government building she will be so proud she won't know herself and Kansas City will be so jealous that she won't speak to her when they meet.

THE largest mill in the world will soon be put in operation at Pittsburg. The iron Industry is not much ofan"infant" nowadays.

THE National debt was decreased a little over $15,000,000 during January. Individual debts have not generally fared so well.

NATURAL gas been found only sixty, miles from Chicago. Already there is talk of extending the city limits so as to take it in.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

After fattening Maxwell for two years St. Louis will hate to kill him. A Southern hotel keeper says he gets all of his best negro waiters from the North.

Professor E. Stone Wiggins says that the next earthquake in this country will begin Aug. 19,1904.

Slugger Sullivan has one wife, one exwife, four trainers, and a business manager. After all he has considerable to fight for.

A Muncie (Ind.) jury has decided that it is not a disturbance in the eyes of the law for a man to read the morning paper while ii/i church.

Generally speaking, the gentlemen who has just accepted a position is not a bit happier about it than the man who has just got a job.

Austin Cor bin *8 wealth is estimated at $12,000,000. However much the Reading Coal Company has lost in the last twelve years, its president seems to prosper.

A connoisseur in eyes states that ninetenths of the railroad men and others who are selected for their keenness and correctness of vision have bine eyes.

A Nebraska church fair netted eleven cents, five law suits, an incendiary fire and a broken leg. Some do better than this but they don't have any more fan In It. ...

Robert B. Ferguson died in Pittsburg a few days sgo of lockjaw brought on by a severe cold. This Is one of the rarest forms of the dlsesse, very few well authenticated eases being rsoorded.

A Kentucky lover wrote to his sweetheart: "I send you thirteen kisses, and twelve hugs, and one pinch," and then he left her. A jury has just awarded the broken-hearted girl $M0O damages.

Old Commodore Vanderbllt, being asked one day what he considered to be •ecret of success in business, replied: "Secret? There Is no secret about it. All yon have to do is to tend to your buainsss and go ahead."

The Rev. Mr. Nutting, pastor of the Universalist Church, Webster City, Iowa, took a do§e of laudanum Sunday, but was pumped out, and will recover. Domestic trouble was the cause.

A railroad engineer of Erie, Pa.,, fell violently on the ice, striking on the back of his head. He is recovering, but, finds that when standing erect he is wholly blind, though he can see as wellias ever when lying down.

Gen. Ben Butler walks the streets of Washington in a big fur-lined overcoat and gleaning on the arm of his colored valet. He shows signs of having nearly reached the border of the shadowy land-, where the lawyer's occupation, will be gone, but he still keeps his place- in the ranks.

A benevolent gentleman, who-is well known for his generosity, says that he was asked for a donation by one woman who would like to be independent of her wealthy husband. Another- wr-ste for a barrel of salt pork, and a third wanted a lavender silk dress for a reception whioh was soon to come off.

John Wanamaker, the big. dry goods man and'art connoisseur of Philadelphia, is a philanthropist as welll He has gone' far to solve the problem, of ebeap houses for workingwomen by giving them for $3.25 a week, board lodging, a liberal washing allowance and! the use of recep-tion-rooms, dancing-rooms and bowling alleys.

It is stated that th» spirit of the late Mrs, Newman, of Port Jarvis, N. J., returns to weave carpet. That kind of a spirit is useful, ani is no doubt a welcome visitor to her old home. If some "big injun" orother male spirits would saw wood, shovel and carry coal, turn a grindstone or do some other useful act they would receive more credit and credence than is now awarded them.

A curious complication has arisen in consequence of the murder of the Woolfolk family by Tom Woolfolk, near Macon, Ga., which was one of the most revolting tragedies of this generation. The murderer now lies in jail under sentence of death, and has been approached by the heirs of both his murdered father and mother. No one but the condemed man knows the particulars of the crime. If he killed his father first his mother's heirs will come into the property but, if his mother died first, liis two surviving sisters and himself succeed to the property. A full confession from this monster is expected before his execution in order to clear up this point.

JUST SPLENDID.

It is to be hoped that the writers mentioned in the following dialogue may not see the following profound and critical analysis and digest of their words. It would but add to their vanity should thdydoso, and of that abstract quality they now have all that is good for them: "What you reading now, Mame?"

O I re ad in to "Isn't he splendid?" "Oh, justsplendid. Wasn't'Anna Kar' splendid?" "Splendid 1 Have you read any of Turgenef's books yet?" "Oh, yes I've just finished 'Dimitri Roudline." "Isn't it splendid?"~ "Splendid!' "I think all his books are splendid." "So they are, just splendid." "How do you like Howelis?" "He's splendid, too." "Isn he, though

"Yes, indeed. Have you ever read any of Holmes'?" "Oh, of course. Isn't he splendid?" "Isn't he, though? He's so funny, too. Isn't 'Elsie Venner' splendid?" "Just splendid 1 But Miss Muloch's books are the ones I cry over." "They are just splendid! Didyouever read Hugo's 'Les Miserables? "Oh, isn't it exciting? But it's splendid, too. Don't it end funny?" "Yes, rather but it's splendid clear

"Inleed it is. I like to have a book end right." "So do I. That's what makes Dickens' books so splendid. They end so good." "They are splendid, aren't they?" "Just splenaid."

VjSplendidf"

CHILDREN'S CHATTER.

"Papa, why do they always call a railroad 'she'?" "Because it takes three or four men to manage her, my son," replied Mr. Daw die glaring towards his wife.

Little Sister (angrily)—Now you do what I say. Little Brother—I won't. "You won't, eh? Oh, don't I wish we was grown up an'you was my husband." "Johnny," said one of the boys to a bereaved friend, who had just lost his father, "yer behaved well at the funeral." "Oh pshaw," replied Johnny, with the air of one whose merits were only half recognized, "you should have seen me at the grave."

At a juvenile party a young gentleman about seven years old kept himself from the rest of the company. The lady of the house called him, "Come and play, my dear choose one of those pretty girls for your wife." "Not likely," cried the young cynic "no wife for me: do you think I want to be worried out of my life like poor papa?"

Hartford Post: A Hartford youngster goes to church where the concluding

prayers,

ica from his pillow and astonished his mother by mowing a blast where the amen came in, remarking,. "That's the way we do in church."

Boston Transcript: Two jolly stories of a child contributed to the Listener: There is a little four-year-old niece of mine who was almost a babe in arms when we were living side by side on on Swampsoott Highlands. She bad been prepared for asked to say her prayers, when she replied: "I shan't say them any more God knows them well enough by this time."

And afterwards, when her mother was about to turn off the gas and leave the room, the child said: **I don't want to be left atone is the dark." "You wont be alone, dear Godwin be with you" said her mother. "Well, I don't cave for him I rather have one of my own family P'

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