Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 48, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 May 1888 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

BDBKKtPriOS PKICK.WO A YEAS. PUBLICATION ornctt, Kos. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street,

Printing House Square.

TERKE HAUTE, MAY lit, 188*

A DECENT CAMPAIGN. Early in June the Democratic natioHal convention will meet in St. Louis and a little later the Republicans will bold theirs in Chicago. Then the political issues will be "joined," as the lawyers put it, and the great campaign of 1888 will be on. We know about what to ex peet, for we have been there »efore. The preparations for the contest have already begun. The captains have commenced shouting, the atmosphere Is heavy with the sounds of discord.

It is but natural that there should be a good deal of interest and excitement throughout the »untry at each juadrennhtl election of the chief officer of the government. To some extent it ought to be so, for the contrary would indicate an apathy that would not promise well for the permanency of the republic. But there is quite an unnecessary excess of zeal and oitterness in these contests iwu ally. After all, what is really needed is that each and every citizen shall quietly inform himself of the questions at is'sue and then go quietlj' to the polls and vote according to his knowledge. In order to do that it is not necessary that every candidate's reputation be torn to tatters, or that he suddenly develop from an amiable citizen in good standing in his community to a horse thief or something worse. In order to show that the opposing candidate ought not to have tho offlee, it is hardly necessary to show that he dcaervos to be In the penitentiary.

Undoubtedly it Is the strikers and blowers, the men who "work" politics for the sake of tho offices, who are largely responsible for the nastlness of our campaigns. They area small minority of the people but they make more fuss and noise than tho great majority. It is time for evpry decent newspaper to cry out against this disgraceful method of conducting political campaigns. Let ns go up to a higher plane of politics and do things decently and in order. In the coming campaign especially no windthrowing will be needed. Mr. Cleveland's character is known. The worst that could be said of him was brought out in the last campaign. This -yonId apply to Mr. Blaine also should he be nominated. 1 ho is not the Republicans will be likely to select some .clean man like Harrison orOresham, against whom nothing can be said. We ought to have an exceptionally decent campaign this year.

COT A VD BERNHAMEH. The Indianapolis Sentinel "views with alarm" the decision of the United States Supreme court affirming the judgment of the lower eourt in the case of Coy and Bernhamor. It raises the old, familiar Cry that the declsiAn marks the advance of centralization in tho general government. It says: "This is a vory startling and a very dangerous doctrine, if it is uot an entirely new one. Followed to its logical conclusion, it means tho wiping out of State linos and consolidation of all authority at Washington."

The decision may be "startling" but if it is it is because an appellate court has found reasons for sustaining a judgment of conviction in the count below. We have been so used to the opposite course of having such judgmonts overthrown on appeal that it is just a little staitling to have one affirmed. But it is the way the people of this country want to be startled for awhile. Thf policy of turning loose all sons of convicted criminals upon barren technicalities has been pursued quito too long Rnd The Mail for one rejoices that the courts if last re- »rt have at last begun to hear the demand* of the people and the press for a strict en forcemen tof the hi\v.

So far as the cry of centralisation in •general government is concerned it is empty and meaningless. The siutc* have uow become welded tnsrthwi iu union so perfect and coin plot, ilmt th» is no distinction between St.i:*' and federal rights. So that the laws sure enforced and law breakers punislicd, ft Is uot of great consentnnee whether it be done by one author or the other.

REAL BAMD TRANSIT. It sounds wild and visionary, to be sure, this plan of Col. Pierce's to travel under sea by pneumatic tube at tW rat© of 1000 miles an hour. Probably it is so, and yet nto lern seience has prefortned so many miracles It is pretty hard to draw the line between the possible and the impossible. This new scheme of rapid transit proposes a double barreled pheunmtie tube across the oeean, with cars from 10 to 1000 feet long and wheels on all sides. They will be a little less than four feet in diameter I the sctigers while occupying will, dine on luxurious cushions. Air be let into the ears for purpoees of rm Ulation by means of stopcocks, and for lighting electricity will pre W My fee used. In order to prevent an ur of air -it the terminus a k-ii-U-i ii xi be enable the express** to slow up fMvr «-riv It la expected that passengers can be a rried U» H-n Kong In IS and to Africa in & brnm and alt fortlM'Irit! coat of 11 is a scheme thai have d» ..ij'Mtd the heart of Col. Si ''.tars*

SLAVERY ABOLISHED. The action of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies of Brazil in passing a bill for the immediate abolition of slaverv in that ooontry will result in liberating about 600,000 slaves valued at 1200.000,000 This is the final step in the gradual em ancipation begun in 1873, when there were some million and a half of slaves in Brazil. This leaves Cuba and Porto Kico the only territories in the New World where slavery exists by legal toleration and it is almost certain that the slaves in those islands will also be freed before the end of the present century While it seems almost incredible that human slav&y should exist anywhere in this age of Christian enlightment, the feeling of surprise is somewhat lessened when we remember that it is little more than a score of years since slavery was abolished in the United States, and that iUwouid have existed yet had the wishes of nearly half the people of this country been respected.

HKXRY GKOHOK'.N land-reform theories may be neither wise nor radical, but it seems to us the New Jersey judge has rather strained a point in holding in valid a bequest for the propagation of these ideas, on the theory that they are contrary to the laws of the land. Sup pose they be so, the laws are not always right, but are very often wrong, and who knows but they may be wrong in this particular? A great many very intelligent people think they are wrong. At any rate the people are competent to judge snd decide as to the merits of Mr. George's peculiar tenets, and if some man now dead wanted to give part of his money in aid of their propagation, there is no call for the courts to set his will

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THK Presidential campaign of 188K has already oponed. The bird to catch the early worm was the Union Labor party which held its convention at Cincinnati on Wednesday, nominated A. .1. Streetor, of Illinois, for President and Charles E. Cunningham, of Arkansas, for VicePresident, and declared relentless war on Democrats and Republicans alike. The Greenbacks also held their convention in Cincinnati on the same day and decided not to fnse with tho Union Laborites. The prospects for Mr. .Strector's election are not brilliant, -,^'f

CURTAIN Republican newspftpors are announcing that Blaine will be the nominee at Chicago unless he peremptorily declines. Well, if he is he will be beaten again, for Cleveland is stronger now than he was four years ago and it is not easy to see how Blaine is any strongor. The Republican party had better throw aside its foolish hero worship and take up some new man who has a clean record and can make a strong race. TJ?

ROSCOE CONKJ.ING showed that he was a great lawyer by making his will short and free from all legal technicalities. It is embraced in this brief space:'

I. Roseoe Conk ling, of lllen,

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publish and declare my last will and testa ment as follows: I give, devise and bequeath to my wife,Julia,uml to her heirs and assigns forever, all ray property and estate, whether real, personal or mixed, and I constitute and appoint ray said wife sole executrix of this will. In testimony whereof, I hereto

appc 11. in testimony sign my name, this 21 day of June. A. I)., 18(17,

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HOSCOK OONKJUXJS'O.

IT is tho old story. Too much water in some places and too little in others. The overflow of the upper Mississippi is the most disastrous for many years. Towns are flooded and thousands of acres of farming land submerged. The loss of property will be great while sickness will be engendered by exposure and the miasma arising from the overflowed land.

Gov PORTER pronounces the reported Kansas interview with him an eutire fabrication. It sounded like that and of an equally fishy order is tho reported talk with Mr. Blaine, purporting to have been cabled from Italy to the Buffalo News, It does not sound at all Blaineish.

CALIFORNIA expects to go to the Chicago convention "in great shape.1' The delegation will be carried in a special train equipped In great style and will have the tmest rooms that can be had for headquarters. It would not be like California to do an !n way.

THK building permits issued in Minneapolis durine April were $21, calling for an expenditure of fsr.T.'.»lo, FOr the Hrst four taoiit"us of l?« slu amount to as for iho same period last vesr, N«»: much failing otVabout that!

ANI» now it is ii I!-I 1 that Ju-LZE Gresli.tm made a Know-Nothing ppnvh way back in the fifties. If his enemies can't fin. 1 something fresher th.in f^t they trill be trtmsd by the poUltv *,! Statute of Lniiitaii-ns. is '.if i%

THK "PrHi'-e VVHVs tfcinks uf over to v**U th'\ Umi.ed sw* the *•.?» ingfall. If Le COIno-l *bi_!o Use Pr.-i-dential contest Is on he will find "Atneriky" as lively it pla as his cy can

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING

SAUCE FROM OTHER SANCTUMS.

Washington Critic: Home talent—good housekeeping. Hotel Mail: No hotel proprietor is a hero to his head waiter.

Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph: Perspiring men catch at straw hats. Danville Breeze: A "straight flush"— the maiden's cheek that is not painted*

Philadelphia Call: Going ont with the tied—the wedding party leaving the church.

Puck: If thirty-two is the freezing point, what is the squeezing point? T*|0 in the shade.

New Orleans Picayune: Death is like" ^uckeye*^' a fly in search of a bald head. It,lovea a

Danville Breeze: The man who said that two heads were better than one never had a boil.

Burlington Free Press: The horned stretch, at this season of the year, is generally limited to the carpet.

Shoe and Leather Reporter: A certain style of shoe button is called "Old Maid's Wedding," because it never eomes off.*'-

Boston Commercial Bulletin: "Thisjf a backward spring," said thfjgpungl as she adjusted the wires Of hi* bustle*^!

Arkansaw Traveler: 3ftThen «r.im&Br pnts hisse'f ter gre't troybleter show nui dat he hap tol' de trnl^ I knows dar he has tol' Mi er 01B |1|

Norwiek Bulletin Chicagop^m has not spoken to her husband fvt tliree years, and he wants aflivorce. Of that is not ingratitude, what* is?

New Orleans Pieayuril: Blessed is the man without inrtnem^e!. for he shall not be asked to recoin^iend,those 'unknown to him for political positions.

Ilave you demonstrated to your own satisfaction the truthfulness of the latest discovery in co-incidental peculiarities? No, not the fact that whenever you see an auburn-haired girl on the street, there is sure "to be a white-horse in sight. That has given way to the newer and more interesting. Look at a girl somewhat critically and so soon as she notices your gaze she will moisten her lips. Some of the very rude young men who have tried to say it never fails. Wonder

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We invite your inspection of the Styles and Prices of our

C3rasoli|j,e, .Oil and Gas Stoves, Refrigerators and Ice Cream Freezers.

The Stove 'Co.,

Importers of Tl»and. Wholesale and Retail.

Tiuware, Tiunes^ Supplies, Stoves, Range^Furnaces, Mantels and Grates,

A UM BA KINO PO WDERS.

A LIST OK THOSE MOST PROMINENTLY SOLD. The following are the names of some the bakmg powders published by the public authorities as being made from alum:

Kenton, Silver Star, Forest City, One Spoon, Patapiaeo, Empire, Gold, Veteran, Cook's Favorite, Sun Flower, ..

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Peerless, Crown, Wheeler's^ Carl ©ton,

shining mark. New Haven News: A marine a dent—when a schooner contains beer than foam.

Gene

Roofing and Guttering. 609 Wabask-Ave.

We are Determined You Shall Know

We are now prepared to show yon the largest line of WALL PAPEB »nd DECORATIONS we have ever* earned. Intfact a much larger line than we have ever shown in any previous season. Place your orders early and avoid the rush. Practical workmen only sent ont to put up your work

SPECIAL NOTICE!

We would call your attention W anew and beautiful line of Curtain Poles, Drapery Chains, Tassel Hooks, etc that we have added to our line this season. Also the finest line of Dado and Figured Shade Goods, ever shown in Axis dtv^all of which we are selling very low. Call and examine our line before placing your order elsewhere. No trouble to show goods.

Traquair Wall Paper Company,

684 Wabash Avenue, McKeen Block.

The Acknowledged Leaders ii the Latest Styles and Novelties and Ontroducere Odd Things for Wails.

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Flenrde L»t Sovereign f^^atl^Weigfat, Daisv. ^Th4re rfW^lfiasi^nyother brawtis of aluflTl)akii^powder bihW^^t^ose so nanfld by the author# sold ith a ^Jgiftor j^osent, are said to be of this detion.

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Davis, A. A P., Henkle, Ne Plus Ultra, Enterprise, Can't be Beat, Eureka, International, Puritan, Albany Favorite, Golden Sheaf, Harnett's Perfect, te,

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United States Gov-

Cheipst, s»ys: "In my opinse offehiiijas a constiSnent of a wdo| should bp prohibited by

oojMWte^qt'Ound Over ble iWtpanfes interested to- visit country reached by tho Chicago rthwestern Railway system, and se themselves with the magnilibrtunities ottered for settlement istment. The North-Western will at frequent intervals durmonths of March, April, May e, sell land excursion tickets all principal points to various in Iowa, Minnesota, Dakota and ebrasks the very low rate of one faraflffrHhe rtqgpd trip. These tickets wilRrt^goN^or return passage anytime willmi^thirtlkjlays from date of sale, and will be go elisor stop-ovajton tjhegoing^tapi For^pll partiew* apply to the'nearest tidfcft agoafe^n jEpRress ^rm»neAi»WlIiON,

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why it should be so. Science contains I ^gt. no satisfactory answer. Mich.

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At H0B^HG'$ Important Offerings

We'll Have on Sale

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522 Wabash Ave

104 Soath Fourth Street

Next '^eel

An elegant line of Priestly's All Wool and Silk anil Wool Light Weight, Black Dress Fabrics. These-goods are noted for their beautiful finish and lustre, especially their Silk Warp materials. show them in several different grades and among the popular weaves will be found, "Feather Cloths," "Nuns Cloths," "Gypsy Cloths," "Marie Therasa," '"Convent and Tamise," "Batiste," "Albatross," and "Nun's Veilings." We are also showing a recent arrival of Priestly's Silk Warp Henriettas, the finest Henriettas made in the world. Our Black Goods department is always complete in staple fabrics such as Cashmeres and All Wool Fancy weaves at popular Prices-

We expect another large invoice of Koechlin's French Sateens. Should be here Monday morning. This lot with our already large stock will place us among the largest exhibitors of French Sateens in the west."4/f^ r-

A most beautiful display of All Wool Colored JDress Goods should tempt admirers of tasteful colors and combinations. Our Dress Goods department is one of our prides. Wliat you see in our establishment is not shown all over town. The line embraces a magnificent line of Plaids and Stripes, Henriettas in every new and popular shade, Serges, Faille Francaise, Beiges, Albatross, Whip Cords, Diagonals, etc. Cloths in Checks, Plaids, Stripes,, etc., in great variety. Owing to the backwardness of the season we reduced the prices which iipon examination will be found surprisingly low*

y, Among the new arrivals in Wash Goods, which by the way we've sold stacks of, we'll show 200 pieces of Sateens at loc. per yard, the handsomest patterns yet shown, -150 pieces of

Seersuckers, Plaid, Stripe and Oneck. Novelties at 12ic. 50 pes Corded Zephyrs at 12he per yard. 50 piecs, yard wide, Strips Bastistes at 10c pes yard. The above are all new, just received.

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and Lace Floimcings Next

When You Want

and Street Wear. Novelties in Endless Variety.

k6EE^TJ~RO0T & CO?%

jobbers anfl R^ilers. NOR. 518, and 520 WabasL Ave. ».

Yon will alwaya flod

THE-BEST GOODS

WHITE CORN.

For the bests ears of White Corn For 2nd 1 15 earv of White Corn....... For 3rd b**.* 5 etn of White Cnra.... For 4th be#4S ears of White "rn~...

YELLOW CORN.

For the best 5 earn Yeltow Corn For the 2nd bent 5 mm Yellow Corn..... For th«* std ba-tS fani Yellow Corn For tbr Jthf. 1 wteara Yellow Com

All oorn to he delivered from fv-j.t. to Oct. 15, -.•*. On delivery, eaeh shall receiver nnmber w!n.v. .w »corresponding number attached to the corn and in no wiii iua exhibitor'* name be used, and on the 30th day of October I will select two or three disinters*ted parties who shall award all premium*. All corn shall be dc ided by weight. I shall reserve all corn on exhibition.

Good Clothing! I,

If. will pay you to call at "v^

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Ready Made or,-Made to Order,

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Tn tho market for the price Ln eswy uepartmeat.

Men, Youtli, Boys and Children's Wears" a Specialty..^

He Defies Competition and Invites Your Inspection.

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To the Farmers of Yigo County.

Your notice is called to the »l Sowing statement. Hie corn raited in tbis "imty for the i^t ar~ iir. attracted the entire attentioo of the '4 corauiunity. After •'ame I have concluded to offer the ing

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