Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 July 1888 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. SUBSCRIPTION PRICK,12.00 A YKAK. PUBLICATION orncB, ?*o«. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street,

Printing House Square.

TERRE HAUTE, JULY 14,1S88.

SOME wise Democrat should whisper gently in the ear of the Indianapolis Sentinel that it is making votes for Gen Harrison every day by its unstinted abuse of the Republican candidate.

KANSAS is to have a great corn crop this year. In the July report of the Agricultural Department the average condition is put at 90, lacking only one point of being perfect. It will be "whopper.

FOUR of the men who received votes in the Chicago convention are in Europe or on their way there—Blaine, Depew, Gresham and Lincoln. Our big men have a great notion of running oflf to Europe lately.

UNLIKE the other noted invalids who were removed to the seaside. Gen. Grant and President Gartield, Gen. Sheridan appears to have stood the journey well and to be gradually improving as a result of it. The chances are that he will pull through.

ONE hundred and eight people died in Denvdr in June. Consumption and cholera infantum were the diseases chiefly prevalent and fatal. Thus it is seen that people die everywhere, even in Denver. There is no climate where life is assured.

WK are promised a comparatively short caoipalgn this year. It is announced that the State campaign will not be formally inaugurated before September. Two months is long enough, the dear knows. But thanks, good politicians all the same.

THE Committee of Education in the United States.Senate has reported favorably. The proposition to submit to the people of the several Statos a constitutional amendment to prohibit traffic in alcoholic liquors. This temperance •question is as bad as Banquo's ghost.

THE strike of the Cincinnati brewers ended, as did that of the Chicago brewers, in heavy loss to the strikers without any corresponding gain. They are out 9150,000 in wages and the breweries are filled with non-union men This is a poor way to servo the bause of labor.

MAYon HEWITT, of New York is a pretty level-headed young man of 65. The American party wants to run him for President, but mrwtf* ho has xuaclo a fool oflilmself "many a time and oft,' but Is not going to do so again by accepting a nomination for Presidency.

THE Governor of Missouri on Thursday rendered his decision In which he declines to grant a commutation of the sentence against Hugh M. Brooks alias Maxwoll, who was to havo been hanged yostorday, but granted a respite of four weeks. This banishes all hope of escape from tho halter.

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M. S. QUAY, of Pennslyva-

nia, has IMH'U made chairman of tho Republican National Committee, vice W. A. Jones, of Pittsburg, Thus the Keystone Htato continues to hold tho key to tho situation. Col. John C. Now OOtBtluufts to hold his place .ou tho oieJtltivo committee foctlndiannj

MH. BLAINE is expected to arrive in New York ou the 27th of this month and groat preparations are being made to receive him. Tho railroads offer half faro rates to clubs of twenty or more and there will undoubtedly b© a grand jam. The fun will begin in earnest when big James gets home.

IT really begins to look as If Mrs, Cleveland's ornsade against the bustle may "take." It Is about time, at any rata, for a change of fashion in this respect and tho Incessant agitation of the subject must eventually result in the abandonment oi this useless appendage. But the change may eomo sooner than jvas expected.

Tint St, Louis newspaper man, Moor®, who ran away with a sick man's wife, was fortunately arreted before tht guilty pair had got far away. Such a man is a sad disgrace to the profession of journalism and is a fool besides. Thcrr* seems to be no mitigation facts at all in the case and It is to be hoped that both parties will m^lre tho punishment they ao richly merit-

Or* fftniKltltJona Southern neighbor, Evans vI UP, la to have the State Military Enivuupintnt in August and Is making great preparations for the event. Her reunion of the Gray and Blue last October was much of a WICCIM and has raisCid expectation to a high pitch for the forthcoming entertain meut. It is ex pec tod that some 2,000 troop* will be present, which ought to make a fine show.

Ij anyone thinks there la any ton in beiug a presidential candidate he is allghily off his Tmse. Already CNm flfarriinnV mail has to be sent to him in a wlgon

and all he can do is to read and

sign letters which are dictated by another to a stenographer. Iteridea this there are delegations constantly coming from all parts of the country that must be r«. celved and courteously handled. No, there is no fan In running for the Presidency.

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CHICAGO IS having a newspaper war, which, if it keeps on, will soon result in papers being given away. A year or so ago the Tribuue cut from five to three cento and the other papers followed ex cept the Times which retained its old price. Recently), however, under anew management, it dropped clear to two cents. The Tribune has followed suit and the two cent News has cut to one cent. No other city in the country has as cheap reading as Chicago has now.

•THEBE'has been and is much contradiction of to the relative wages and cost of living in this country and Europe Ex-Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago, writing from Vienna,says: "Butagenerous liver, or a fat liver on hog and hominy, as our laboring people are, will have to pay more for his subsistence here than in Chicago, and while so living will receive less than one third the wages." Mr. Harrison is a Democrat to the core and a very iutelligeut observer besides. His testimony ought to have considerable weight.

IT is ex bee ted by the Democrats that the Mills bill will pass the house when it comes to the final vote.' It is claimed that all but six Democrats will vote for it, while the Republicans would need eight votes from the other side to defeat it. Meantime the Republicans in the Senate are pushing their substitute so as to have it ready when the House bill reaches the committee. When some final action of this kind shall be taken on the bill we will really know where the two parties stand on the tariff question.

THE Republicans seem to be rather short on papers in the large cities. In New York the Herald, Times, World, Sun, Evening Post and Harper's Weekly support Mr. Cleveland, while in Chicago the Times, Herald, News are practically on the same side. The Tribune nominally supports Harrison but opposes the Republican platform. If anything like this disproportion prevails in other places the Democrats certainly have a big advantage in the newspaper literature and the newspapers are largely the makers of political opinion.

THERE is probably a good deal of cock and bull business in the story of alleged conspiracy to blow up trains on the 0. B. & Q. road. The matter should be sifted to tho bottom and the dynamiters, if there be auy, severely dealt with. But the oase should not be used to create an unjust feeling of prejudice against the Brotherhood of Engineers and similar labor organizations. Strikers frequently do some foolish aud criminal things, but it is by individuals, not organizations,, that they are done. The public shouTd not fail to make the distinction. Later developments since writing the foregoing make the case look very badly.

MUCH of the campaign gossip of tho day, and especially that which relates to the wives of the candidates, is thoroughly disgusting. After listening to the recital that Mrs. Cleveland eats meat only once a day in warm weather, we are treated to the pretty tale of Mrs. Harririson's white, dimpled hands and how she takes caro of her niiils." Other details of the personality and ltobits of these distinguished ladies—or at least wives of distinguished husbands—of equal consequence and value fill the columns of the newspapers. Sensible people got very tired of suoh silly and worthless trash. Let us have something worth reading about these women or let them remain in tho ^pekgrouud altogether.

A YEAH or two ago all kinds of stories tilled tho newspapers concerning the enormous fortunes that had been made in the iron mine* of northern Mibhigan and Wisconsin. Doubtless a lew fortunes were made by lucky invefctdrs and is usual tho fftot caused a wilJ speculation in mining stooks to be set-"on foot. Thousands of people bought them at high prices. They were in the main worthless and recently a large quantity of theiu were sold in Milwaukee at little more than their value for Waste paper. Tho bottom has fallen otit Of the mining craze, and the people who put their money Into stook with high sounding names would le much better off if they had invested in building association stock or loaned It on good security at a low rate of interest.

PA I'PER TMMIORA TIOX. There is a splendid opportunity just now for on*of the parties in Congress to make a record on a subject in which the welfare of the country is vitally interested. It appears that during the first half of this year some 40,000 povertystricken Italian immigrants flowed into the United States. Sonte of them are said to be wandering about in New York CUty without work and half starving. But Italy is not the only quarter from which undesirable Immigrants have been coming to our shores. We are getting them by the thousands every year and the agitation for some time past of the subject of restricting immigration has doubtless had the temporary effect of increasing the Income of these undesirable classes.

We talk a great deal about protecting American labor and that is right. But there Is no duty on foreign paupers aud they can be unloaded by the ship load upon our shores. The case cries aT-.--.al for a remedymnd both par^w seem afraid to afford It Is of the questions upon which the workingmen of the country should make their voices heard and then our law-makers would show an instant stiffening of their spinal columns _________________ 3xt Gorw hi rted sick again, bat don't buy or sell b^lu on the strength ol the report. Jay Gould can sund a great deal and still survive.

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TERRB HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

General Sherman declares he would rather face a battery ten times than the newspaper during a presidential canvass.

Dr. William A. Hammond contributes to one of the magazines a discussion of "What Makes Men Mad." That's an easy one—Women.

The Mikado of Japan has issued an edict against what he calls "the pernicious game of base ball, whieh foreigners are attempting to introduce into this country." -5 \."Vr.

Haggard, in his story begun in the current number of Harper's Monthly, works off with charming innocence that ancient joke about the exchange of capital and experience between partners.

A low down chap is traveling around and softly laying wagers that no one in the crowd can name the twelve Apostles. Chaps put up $10 that they can, but few are able to name over eight or nine.

There are still over 300 of the "Q" strikers out of work. Taken altogether, it was a most unfortunate thing for 2,000 people. Homes have been lost, suicide committed and families separated, and the end is not yot.

Men are still searching along the Atlantic coast for Captain Kidd's buried treasures, and in all cases it is men who Wouldn't hoe corn half an hour if they never had anything to eat. They believe in romance and loafing.

Henry Meeker, of Pittsburg, was clean ing out (he cellar of an old building when he came across a bag of silver amounting to $710. Henry had ten minutes in which to whoop before he discovered that every piece was counterfeit.

Three different families identified a dead body at the Cincinnati morgue as member, and a triangular fight was about to come off when the body was claimed and carried off by a fourth caller, who was the onJyrjone having a^real title to it. 5

Mr. Denise, of Dayton, Ohi3, who dlod the other day, is said to have been worried to death by the accidental discovery that bis wife, a tew months before, had been buried while in a state of trance, and, when too late, revived.

Just as an Italian chemist had discovered away to manufacture real diamonds at the rate of a peck per day he got in the way of a stage and was run over and killed. Rhinestones will, therefore, have to be worn by a large majority uutil some one else can pick up the secret.

Dr. McGlynn bad some or his sayings reported verbatim by a reporter the other day, and as he was ashamed of them he.blasted ail the reporters as "the paid minions of a venal press, Whipped curs, trembling at the lash of thejr boss editors, who suppress news, change and lie about it."

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When Phil Armour, the groat Chicago pork-packer, travels to New York he invariably greases the palms of ep^qeer, conductor and pftlace-dfe1 eondrt?F^ ^vitha $5 notes, and to the brakemen, v,altera and other train hands he gives $2 each. No other millionaire, as far as is knovm, travels in this style.

The greatest achievement in the history of life insurance has been made by Mr. John Wanamaker, who is now paying premiums on 1,000,000 to twenty nine'difterent companies The last policy issued on his life was received by him on Thursday last, aud si) far as known there is no other man in the world #hose life is insured for such an enormous

We are closing out a lot of Ladies' Common Sense Slioes, sometbing comfortable for house and street wear, at $1.50 worth $2.25. Also a handsome line of Hand Turned in Opera and Common Sense styles for $2.50. Slippers in endless variety at 75c and upwards, at

A. H. BOEGEMAN'S.

Attention, Summer Tourists! Call on R. A. Campbell, general agent Chicago A Eastern Illinois railroad, 624 Wabash Avenue and secure free of charge copies of guides to the various summer resorts of the North and Northwest.

Information in detail, as to rate®, hotel accomodations, etc., will be given with pleasure.

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We have still left about 100 pes of Cream Crinkle Seersuckeis that will conMttue to/lyrtl at Bo per yard. Remember when sola, no more.

^frur 15 and 18c Printed Sateens are reduced to 12^. An immense line of styles 4o choose from.-' r-t .n

What we have left in Robes put up in boxes, will be sold at less man cost. Some very handsome ones in India Linen, French Zephyr and Gingham must be sold. .,

The reduced prices on our 3ermt»n Dress Linens should sell'em quick. 37% cents per yard will be the price now. Remember these are the finest Stein man Linens.

A big lot of 40 inch Printed Batists Lawns, Fast Colors, Stripes-and Fancies, former price 12)£ redttced to 8c per yard.

More reductions in our White Goods department. 100 pes Victoria Lawn, former price V2]4 now 10c. 80 pes Victoria Lawn, former price 15c, now lfij^c. 20 pos Victoria Lawns, former price 20c, now loo. We have about 60 pes left of 28 inch Canvass Checks and Plaid White Goods, 8c per yard, the price reduced from 16c. 25 pes English Cretonnes, extra wide, large and small patterns, bought to retallat 25c, reduced to 15c per yard.

The balance of our 10c Challles will be sold out at 5c per yard. Next week's trade will wind up the lot.

Ladies Jersey Underwear, formerly 35c, reduced to 25c.

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A Thanks to the appreciative public who have come to our rescue and given us the greatest second week's July trade ever known to us. Our prices please the people and the crowds please ourselves. We often losevmoney on an article, then of course a picnic for our customers but we stand it like men and as the chief we stand, and no one dare undersell us.

Our 'Rapidly Increasing Sales and Great Popularity .. Prove This.

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

We made up our minds to sell $25,000 worth of goods in our Retail Department this nae©th of July, and if trade continues as has been in the past two weeks We'll go beyond that amount.

Further Reductions are Necessary.

We enter upon our third week of the Great Sate and offer the following Bargains which please consider before you give a thought of going oleswliere. 1 ft 5" it-'

We Have Now in Stock and On Sale

7 An Immense Lino of

Campaign Flagring-s

Flags and Decorating Materials.

AIKO a great variety of

HARBISON and MOBXON and CLKVELAND and THURMAM

Silk Handkerchiefs.

FOR LADIES AND GENTS. At Very Low Prices.

.. W^offor tho balance of our

Cheney Bros. Foulard Silks, At iTQp per yard. Former price, $i.

We have still a beautiful assortment left some 16 different styles and colors. OH SALE MONDAY MORNING.

Plushes Summer Shawls, Beaded Wraps,

FANS, GLOVES, HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR, .Gentlemen's White Shirts, Dress Trimmings, Corsets. Ribbons and Taney Novelties in Jewelry at away clown prices.

Parasols Positively Sold at a Great Loss.

want Everybody's Trade, Rich and Poor, Bring your friends and get a Bargain.

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

The Lowest Priced Dry Goods and Notion House in Indiana.

Nos. 518 and 520 Wabash Avenue.

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The balanee- of our 5c Lawne. 2c per that end* per yatrd. 'em.

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Another case of.Plaid Dress CUnghams. choice styles, 6!4o per yard. Lots of stores in the state sell 'em at 10c per yd.

Our line of Challies, strietty all wool filling, we etfer now at 14a per yard. Bed Spreads, extra large and heavy, Marseilles patterns. 97c each, former price $l.L2K.

A big lot of Ladies Hose, Plain, Stripes and Faneles, full regular made, former price 25e, reduced to 19c a pair. 20 pieces Pink and Blue Mull, forn„y£ price 15e per yard, reduced to 10c.

50 pieces Turkey Red Table Damask reduced to 25c per yard.

The balance of our 27e Printed Sateens reduced to 8o per yard.

100 dozen Towels, elegant quality, soft finish Huckaback, lUe reduced from 25c. Koechlln's best French Sateens are all being HO hi out at 25o per yard In our store. That's cheap don't you think so. We have an immense line to choose from.

A lot of 60 dosen Tidy Towels, former price 25o, reduced to 16c. Cream Corded Zenhyr, pink and blue stripes, reduced to 8c, former price 12J^c.

Finest Sootch Embroidered Zephyr Cloths all marked down tc 8ttc per yard, former prices 50c, 68c and 75c. Rich styles. Elegant goods. Choice 30c to close out.