Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 February 1888 — Page 4
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TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 18, 1888,
BLAINE'S LETTER.
The letter of Hon. James G. Blaine, •which was published on Monday, has been the political sensation of the week The letter is dated from Florence, Italy, and was written on January 25, more than a month ago. It h**s been concceded on all hands that Mr. Blaine could have the Republican nomination again if he cared for it and the question has been as to his own wishes in the matter. Persons friendly to him and professing to speak with authority, have frequently declared that he did not want the nomination again and that he would decline at the proper time. Meanwhile, however, Mr. Blaine kept his own counsel and the vigorous interview from Paris on President Cleveland message seemed to look as though its author were disposed to be the nominee of his party for the second time.
B'lt Mr. Blaine has now
set
speculation
at rest by formally announcing that bis name will not be presented at the Chicago convention as a candidate. That is, it has this effect if taken in good faith for what it says, but there are conjectures .in some quarters that the letter is susceptible of more than one interpretation und that the man from Maine does not really put the nomination aside by this document. It is noticeable, however, that Mr. Blaine's friends promptly accepted the letter as a declination of the nomination and so we are inclined to think it must bo viewed.
With Blaine out of the way, the race becomes a grand free-for-all, with Sherman and Allison probably in the lead. But thore will be a number of other names presented to the convention such as Hawloy, Harrison, Sheridan, Lincoln, ISvarts, Edmunds and perhaps others. Thus there will be a general split up on the first ballots, no single candidate probably having nearly enough votes to secure the nomination, a condition of things that will be very favorable to some of the least pronounced candidates or to those who are not candidates at all. In such a state of feeling many think that Judge Oresham's chances will be good, thore being a considerable sentiment In his favor in several States. Continued ballotting would give this sentimont time to crystaliae and a growing feeling for him will be developed. Genoral Harrison's chances, too, might bo very good, unless, as has been charged, the friends of Blaine would be opposed to him, in which event it would hardly be possible for him to succeed.
It has been suggested that in the event of the failure of the convention to agree upon another candidate, Mr. Blaine might even yet be pressed to take the nomination, but such a possibility is exceedingly remote. With Blaine out of the way, and a general disposition to seek harmony, the delegates are not likely to experience any great difficulty in making an agreement.
THE COAL CONVENTION. The Inter-state convention of coal oporators and miners at Pittsburg last week appears to have resulted in the unusual outcome of leaving both parties very well satisfied. The convention included the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, covering mainly the groat coal ptoducing territory of the country. The soale of wages in the different districts is to remain substantially the same as last year. The operators hopod to secure a reduction but the miners were too strong for them. Indeed, a gentleman, the editor of a leading coal paper, who participated in the meeting, asserts that the best speakers and tacticians on the floor were by all odds representatives from the ranks of labor. He was much surprised by the ability which some of the»e uneducated men evinced as thinkers and debaters. They seemed to be able to get pretty much everything they contended for. It is pleasant to note this fact because it proves that that the manual workers in this country are doing their own reading and thinking and are rapidly acquiring the ability to take care of their interests, so far as* reason and argument can accomplish that result.
The settlement of the troublesome wages question not only concerns the coal trade directly but affect* many other branches of business. That a basis has been agreed upon for another year is a matter foreongratulation. Operators and manufacturers will know what to depend on for a twelve-month, at least, and the miners will know just what they are to receive tor their work. It was a sensible conclusion to reach for both aidfcs. May the outlook tor peace and comity between the two factors during the coming year be fully realised.
BUIKS may never be President, but he is the biggest man in the country all the same and can hate whatever he -wants If the Republicans get in. And he can serve hi* party much better on the stump than as it* standard bearer. As a campaign speaker the Plumed Knight will be "a httsUtr," tiff it I
"Lrm.* PHIL" SHMUUXS a mighty good fellow and a capable man in his plaoe. But his place ia not the White House and the people who are trying to put him there had aa well quit. He la not Just the kind of man to make a Pree-
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GENERAL HARRISON. Te Indianapolis Journal has formally announced that Gen. Benjamin Harrison will be Indiana's candidate for the Presidency at the Chicago Republican convention. This is as it should be. Gen. Harrison ha* earned the honor by bis galfent service in the field and by his equally gallant service on the Republican stump for the last twenty years. He is an honest, clean, and able man, worthy ft the nomination and worthy to fill the highest position in the country. The Republicans of In diana feel that it is but just to award him the leadership of their party and to press his claims before the convention just as other States will press the claims of their several favorites.
It may be that he can be nominated. But if a time should come in the convention when the contrary should appear to be the case and the sentiment should turn towards Judge Gresham, t&e friends of Gen. Harrison should not act the part of Mi. Hendricks' friends towards McDonald, but should turn cordially and enthusiastically towards Judge Gresham. It is not impossible that such a time may come. There is a considerable undercurrent of feeling in many parts of the country favorable to Judge Gresham and with State favorites out of the way, this sentiment might crystalize into a powerful movement.
The Indiana delegates should be men of enough liberality and fairness to be for any Indiana man who would be acceptable to the party at large and no doubt they will be of that kind.
A HOTTER received by a citizen of New Albany, Ind., from aman who went from that place to Wichita, Kan., indicates the trials and tribulations not infrequently experienced by those who move to "boom" towns. With coal at $8 a ton, rents enormously high even three miles from the business center and more people than can find employment, the outlook for laboring men in Wichita is far from encouraging. Having tried it to his heart's content, the writer of this letter would only be too glad to get back to New Albany again if lie bad money enough to pay his transportation, and solicits aid to enable him to make the journey. There is probably no place so good for the man without means, especially if he has a family, as the place where he has lived for years and has friends. It is much easier to impair than to improve one's condition by removal to distant countries.
DISTIUPT ATTOKNKY FFLLOWH, of New York, has concluded to let the case of Jay Gould and Russell Sage go before the grand jurj' for investigation. And now wouldn't it be too good if the g. j. should indict this precious pair for grand larceny and a petit jury should rind them guilty and send them to the penitentiary for five or ten years, as they could do. It would begin to look then as though big rascals could be caged as well as small ones. It is rumored that Mr. Gould is growing uneasy over the matter and has cabled to know "how much it would take to stop the business." It should take a great deal more than the king of railroad wreckers has got and he should be taught, as Boss Tweed was, that the laws of the country and common honesty are not to be trifled with even by great Napoleuns of finiui e. Let the big scamps be prosecuted for all there Is in it.
THK selection of Dr. Patton for President of Princeton College, vice Dr. MeCosh resigned, has been a keen disappointment to the more liberal element of the Presbyterian church, which is a constantly growingelement. Dr. Patton is the representative of the extreme Calvinistic section of Presbyterianism. It is not an actractive doctrine—too much like the bitter pills and nauseating compounds of the old fashioned doctors —and there is a tendency away from It in these modern days. By his prosecution of Prof. Swing, a few years ago, for heresy, Dr. Patton did not add to his popuiarity among liberal-minded churchmen, although demonstrating his ability in eccleisiastical polemics. He is a good deal of a hermit and recluse and hardly the kind of man to take much hold upon the hearts of students.
Amman unlimited amount of talk in this and proceeding sessions of Congress, the Senate has at last passed the Blair Educational Bill, which proposes to spend $77,000,000 in eight years for aiding common school education in the several States and Territories, the allotment to each being based upon the percentage of illiteracy If the money would accomplish the object intended it would be well expended. But whether It wonld do this or not is a question for serious consideration. V1
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GKOROK FRAXCIS TRAIN,
who now lives
in New Brunswick, seems no happier than he was in the United States. He is sounding the alarm over there and is predicting inundation, earthquakes, bankruptcy and all sorts of nun for the British provinces. Wonder how George Francis will put in his time when he gets into the better land.
THUS chief of the Chicago police has resigned his position. It seems to have been time. A man murdered in his house by burglars and no elae to the perpetrators and nightly burglaries go ing on in the same neighborhood with impunity. What are the police for, any*»wt
Burnt' It only 5* and John Sherman is 6ft. Yet the latter thinks be is young enough to be President, but the Iowa State Register advises him to "join the proceasion of the hurt generation and leave the field to the new order and the new men." John will never do it, brother Ctarkson. fI #31.014
WHAT a time they do have over that tariff bill! Members of Congress were at work on it long before the session began the first Monday in December and here it is nearing the end of February and no bill ready yet. Mr. Mills, chairman of the Ways and Means
AOAHV the announcement is made that tnere is very little if any hope for the crown prince of Germany. His throat has become much worse and his life cannot last long. Yet it is only a few days since he was pronounced out of danger and on the highway to recovery. The progress of his disease is a duplication of the case of Gen. Grant and there is scarcely any room for doubt that it will have a similar fatal ending.
IT was thought, for one brief hour, that the Chicago boodlers would go to Jojiet, the Appellate court having affirmed the judgment. But a judge was soon found to grant a stay of proceedings and an appeal to the Supreme Court will doubtless follow. The law hath many devices and delays.
THE Chicago detectives think they have found a clue at last to the burglars who murdered Mr. Snell. Now if they can only find the burglars it will be somethiug to talk about.
gbM^'bf the Democratic editors now admit that Jim Blaine is a royal good fellow and "smarter than chain lightning." And all because of that little letter/,
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THE coldest spot on the globe is said to be somewhere in Northern Asia. Now then let Dakota put on her war paint and show those Siberians what she can do.
HON. JOHN SHERMAN modestly intimates that he is now a Presidential candidate. Something like that has been strongly suspected this good while.
WHEN the festive burglar robs the houso of the Chief of Police, as he did recently In San Francisco, he may count on receiving no quarter.
EVERY State has its favorite son. But what is wanted is to know who is the favorite son of the whole nation.
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.
Adam Forepftugh is lying ill of typhoid pneumonia in Philadelphia. Sam Jones is evangelizing Central Pennsylvania at $200 a night.
Dr. William Hammond, of New York, is said to be a firm believer in Budha. President Carnot affects a Derby hat on all occasions not of strict ceremony.
The miners at Pottsville, Pa., have boycotted the church where the non-un-ion men attend. ya*
Franois Murphy, the temperance orator, has decided to enter the ministry of the M. E. Church.
There |is*only one pin a day1 made ^or each inhabitant of the United States, and whoever uses more than that allowance becomes a monopolist. "Twelve buttons sewed on1for five cents," reads a sign In Philadelphia, and it is said the shop is constantly crowded with Philadelphia husbands.
It is said that the new vestibule cars run so smoothly that a man can be shaved on them. So he can on the ordinary palace cars the porter has always done that for all the passengers.
A Michigan farmer has written to the faculty of Yale "What are your terms for a year? Aud does it cost anything extra if my son wants to learn to read and write as well as to row a boat?'s 1
If a young man is very anxious to know what a young woman really thinks of him he can generally find out by questioning her little brother but nine times out of ten such a young man will wish afterward he hadn't.
Benjamin E. Hopkins, the convicted Vice-President of the defunct Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati, says that he will not live a year. When he dies he wants his tombstone inscribed with the words: "Murdered by E. L. Harper—Benjamin E. Hopkins."
Maxwell, the murderer, has one more hope. He is going to tell the Governor of Missouri how sorry he is that the accident to Preller happened to occur just as it did, and see if the old man won't send him a pardon and a certificate of character and let him go.
Detroit has the greatest Solomon on the bench. He has decided that a dwelling house is not a dwelling house unless some one lives in it! It follows, then, that a church is only a church on Sundays, And that a judge is an ass only when heis on the bench.
A Kansas prohibitionist advises the wives of lovers of the ardent to make this sort of arrangement with their "worwer halves." The wife will buy the whisky by the gallon, and whenever the old man wants a drink he can have it by paying her the regular price, 15 cents. Then when he has worn himself out, and the coats of his stomach are entirely gone, and he is about to pass in his cheeks his widow will have a comfortable balance at the bank, and will eontemplate his funeral in a cheerful spirit.
Among €h« messenger boys in the service of the first telegraph office opened in Pittsburg, Pa^ yean ago, were four known respectively as Andy, Bob, Billy Harry. This quartet has won both fame and fortune. "Andy" Oarnegie te one of the richest men in the United States, "Bob" Pitcairn Is general agent and superintendent of the Western division of the PeenayWania Railroad, "Billy" Mecaiand ia city attorney of Pittsburg,
TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MATT.
Committee,
hopes to be able to report it by March 1st. And after it is reported there is no knowing whether it will be passed. A thorny, thorny road is the tariff road to the Dem ocrats.
and "Harry" Oliver has made a fortune in steel snd narrowly missed a seat in the United States Senate. Evidently the messenger boys of former times were "hustlers."
Among the deaths reported at the Blockley Alms House, in Philadelphia, on Friday of last week, was that of Henry C. Spalding, whose name is familiar as the inventor of'Spalding's Glue.' Mr. Spalding was born in Vermont in 1825. He went to Philadelphia and invented a special kind of coach varnish, a water-proof fluid for lining casks and barrels, and several other things of considerable commercial value. He was at one time worth $80,000, be he could not stand prosperity, and he went down, owing to his intemperate habits.
Governor Hill is a bachelor of extravagant tastes, and Should the Democrats allow this David to knock out their White House Goliath they must be prepared to put away their great campaign war-whoop of Jefferson simplicity which has already been so much damaged by the President's marriage. Mr. Hill has spent $158,000 of New York's money in fitting up his bachelor home in Albany while Governor, and has not only a grand piano, but a musical clock which cost $400. The Governor has an ear for music and has his trained ear to the ground listening for the call of the Democratic hosts.
WURDS UV WISDUM. 1 To learn yure ofispring to steal, make them beg hard for all that you give them. ~v
A Good Friend to Babies
Is Laetated Food. It is a perfect food for infants of any age. It is also a good friend to the household purse, for the cans contain a larger amount of Food for the money than other foods do.
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YEAKLE—Friday morning, February 17tl), Elizabeth, wife of N. B. Yeakle. Tlie funeral services will take place on Sunday next at 2 p. m. from her late residence, No. 821 south Fourth.
Friends are respectfully invited wfthout further notice.
For Sale.
FOR
RENT—House, south of city, of five rooms, cellar, stable, cistern and well, with 2 lots only 910.00 per month. Could rent parties 3 or more acres of land adjoining same. Enquireat JOHN FOULKES, 411 Ohio street.
Amusements.
"VTAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE.
J._N Wilson Naylor Manager.
Wednesday, Feb. 22.
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A Bunch of Keys
Or, THE HOTEL.
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Marietta Nash and the original cast
New Features! New Medleys! New Songs Dances and Witticisms. Secure seats at Button's. Price,
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If a man haint got a tSwell-balanced head I like tew see him part his hair in the middle. Si Piety iz like beans, it seems to do the best on poor sile.
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I had rather undertaik tew be tew good doves
than one decent sarpent. A lie iz like a kat—it never cums tew yew in a straight line.
Going to law iz like skinning a new milk cow for her hide and giving the beef tew the lawyers.
It is much more sensibul and prophetabul to buy groceries and tabul supplies ov Ed. R* Wright at the white Frunt grocery, such as Extra Nice Lettuce Oxford Sausage, Sweet Potatoes, Dressed Geese, Dressed Turkeys, Dressed Ducks, Hubbard Squash, Pheasant, Venison Chickens, Oysters, Spare Ribs, Tenderloins, Choice Hams, Fresh Eggs, Country and Jersey Butter, Celery, Cranberries, Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Michigan Apples, Grapes, New Sorghum, New Orleans Molasses, Maple Syrup, White Clover Honey, New Raisins, New Prunes, Currants, Citron, Apple Butter, Canned Goods of all kinds, Buckwheat Flour, entire Wheat Flour, Squirrels, Rabbits and Saratoga Chips. Canned Ochre and Tomatoes for Soup. 1^7
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JQ~OTICE TO NON RESIDENTS.
To Louisa M. Lowe or whom it may concern: Whereas, tt appears by a copy of the city commissioner's report, a* certified to mo by the city clerk under date of 6th day of January, 1888 said commissioners did in the mattenof the opening of Seventeenth street from Liberty avenue to the alley south assess benefits amounting to 128-50 against the real estate owned by Louisa M. Lowe and described
7151-4 feet east of the Inter
section of the east line of Seventeenth street extending north and the south line of Liber, ty avenue thence
east
86 feet, then south 182
feet more or less to MI alley, thence west feet, thence north to place of beginning In the city of Terre Haute, Vigo county, Indl*Haid owner will take notice that demand is hereby made, and in default thereof within oae month after date of the taut publication oOhin notice, I am commanded to make said sum by sale of the premi ses heretofore described.
City Treasurer.
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H. SPENCER,
Attorney at Law.
330* Kaia Street,
INCOLN & HAYNES, J-J DENTISTS
Office 19% south 0th at., opposite poet office. All work warranted as represented.
GEO. MARBACH, DENTI8T.
Inserting of artificial teeth, without plate, a specialty. Office: n. w. eor. lltli and Mala Knelt.
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Has removed te McKeen*s ne«Cbieck,
ESTABLISHED 1856.
HOBERG, HOOT & GO.
Nos. 518 and 520 Wabash Ave.
Inventory Completed
Forward!
SALE
Opens Monday Morning, Dee 20th.
Our Immense Stock comprises the Mo&t Magnificent Collection of Nainsook, Muslin, Swiss and Batist Embroideries ever on display in Terre ^4 ,«Haute,being the cream and choicest novelties of the largest'importers ,v*of this country and who are exclusive owners of the large factories at J,.ill St. Gall, Switzerland.
Edges, Inserting^, Wide and Narrow •Flouncing^ All-Overs and Colorded Embroideries,
In Endless Variety. ,»,
JVTatclied. Sets,
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1,000 pieces Coupon Embroideries
(Manufacturers Ends) at
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.Worth from 10c to 75c per yard. This bargain alone should crowd our ...,4- Embroidery counters with customers. Not always, for this is the first w* time we have been able to secure the manufacturer's ends as they are
usually picked up by eastern syndicate concerns.
Embroideries from l-2e a yard and Upward.
White Goods
novelties that must be seen to be appreciated. We suggest buy them now, as later on you'll not find just what you want. Our assortment is simple immense at present and prices very reasonable.
Great Sale Monday Morning, February 20th.
The Ladies of Terre Haute and vicinity are Cordially Invited. 1*4*
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