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Vol. 19.-No. 34.

THEJV1AIL A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.

Notes and Comment.

Prince Rudolph thus far has met with 11 different deaths. Why not make it an even dozen. ______

Elopements are becoming quite the rage again. It seems to have started in the east and is now westward bound.

An ancient speech was recently discovered in Athens. Here is an opportunity for some enterprising legislator.

Now Boston lays claim to her four hundred. Ward McAllister has not lived in vain, andis famed beyond New York.

The population of Nevada is decreasing and as a remedy California has been asked to cede three of her counties to Nevada.

Another crank announces his intention of going through Niagara rapidsAn May. The whirlpool is as good fool-kill-er as any that can be found.

The fire chief of Crawfordsville asked the city to make provisions for keeping back crowds at ares. The council instructed the chief that all that is necessary is to "turn the hose on 'em."

The California Legislature has immortalized itself by the coinage of anew word. "Difflequlble" will henceforth mean to attack amain question by criticising some of its insignificant dotails.

Sullivan county is afraid of White Caps. A rumor has spread throughout the county that a band is organizing. The papers are calling upon the sheriff to nip the movement in the bud if there is anything In it.^

Vermillion county is obtaining a bad reputation. Within less than a year four murders have death occurred man's skiaibete^f'

thj^v'^^h"®#^Wew England seem to ^generecrog.so much so that the Bos'ton G'tdiw ha* offered a gold watch to the ^mother of the largost number of living llldren, the baby of the family to retyrnfrespitoPai«r

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them. Tfwrf, The Athens of Indiana williK) longer be a cow pasture. A pound has boon established and animals found in the street are taken up. The cow question agitated the minds of the literary city for about four years. This seems along timo to drive cows off the streets.

An energetio young school teacher in Boston, aMiss Finn, inaugurated a lire drill *uiong the children of a ward school. A lire ocoured and the children marched out without any confusion. Such drills should be established everywhere to prevent the possibility of a panic.

New York society circles are forever doing queer things. Their last oddity is the throwing open of their doors to Mrs. Salvation Army Booth, that she may explain the manual of the warriors to Upper Tendom. Some recruits may be obtained from Fifth Avenue, but it is very doubtful. _____

If a bill becomes a law in Pennsylvania, the citizens will hereafter be compelled to "smile" to themselves. Treating Us made punishable by a fine of from $50 to 100. This is one of the first efforts made to stop the prevalent practice, and if the bill Is passed its enforcement will be watched with interest.

According to a Los Angelos man whose business should lead him to know, one half the people who go to California go for the benefit of their health and nearly one-third of them die within a month or two, having put off going until too late. California must certainly be a bonanza place for undertakers.

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was another election on Wednes­

day. On that day the electoral vote was counted in the House of Representatives at Washington. Harrison and Morton were again ejected and this time "for good." Gen. Harrison may as well announce his cabinet now. He is certainly in for four years at least.

Tancott has been a muchly sought individual for over a year, and not even any of hla footsteps have been discovered. With all the boasted efficiency of the police and a big reward as an incentive nothing has been accomplished. The difference between Taseott and the hands of the law is the space of a year or more. _____

Sullivan, the Oily Gammon of Indiana Democracy, write® from Montreal that he is well and happy and expects to become a loyal subject to the Queen. Talk about loyalty coming from Sullivan is really amusing. It is not a source of gratification to his friends whom he robbed, to know that the schemer is well and happy.

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It is not a good plan to recognize dogs on the street as you pass by them. Several have been bitten and are considerably alarmed over the possibility of hydrophobia. At Rockville and several other places, dogs found in the street without muzzles are killed.

Our James T. Johnston made a telling speech in the House on Tuesday in the contested election case from South Carolina. He declared "that the Republicans were here to stay until the principle had been established in this country that every man, white or black, might cast an honest vote and have it fairly counted."

Clergyman in Utica, New York, have been playing detective on the male members of the congregations. They occasionally have visited the saloons. In one place a pillar of the church was detected in the act of taking a glass of wine for his health's sake. The campaign resulted in the detection of but one church member, and the advertising of the new calling of the divines.

Mr. Thomas Axworthy, late city treasurer of Cleveland, O., who left the city in the lurch for half a million dollars, has bought a good large slice of the real estate boom at "the Soo" in Canada. Canada is not a very flourishing country but if it were not for the number of scalawags who go there from the United States with stolen money the Dominion would hardly be able to keep its head above water.

A writer in a Lafayette exchange makes the point that the question of enforcing the state and city laws, ought never to be considered from a political stand-point, or that of party interest. The question of morals is not a political question. It is no consolation to parents to kn(y. X'i. sons have unlawfully been sold liquor by a member of either political party. The merchant is not returned his money by being informed that his clerk lost in gambling with persons who vote the same ticket as himself. .v

A revival is in progress at Bono,(which name is good) Vermillion oounty. One mourner lay in a trance nearly all night, aflcLfihortly after be got into that condi-

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in her slocic'ii^ext day the young man violently ill anc^iences during the time not recover, an?*ibe. He declared thatbe too implicit off' lower regions for three opinion. jf| playing seven-up with

Lajjt on a teeter board, over fourteQ/aing pit, and the one in authorthe game, then arising from the board let him (the new convert) fall into the flames.

The Bloomfield Democrat sayB that when Cleveland was in thjs city the excursion train on its return was side tracked at Worthington from about ten o'clock at night until nearly the same hour the next morning* The passengers were left in the coaches without light or fire. As a result, a number of damage cases have been brought. Thirty-seven cases have been brought in Daviess county and compromised at $15 each. Fifty-seven have been or are ready to be brought in Greene county. Four have been compromised at $25 each and the fifty-three others are now pending, with a probability of being compromised on an average of $25 each. This will make the total sum paid for damages $1,980.

Some one has been thoughtful enough to search the records for another open winter like this has been and had found it way back in 1816. That was a year without a winter and without asummer. There was almost no snow or cold during the winter months and what was more, there was little warm weather during the summer. There was ice in June, July and August and the frosts were so severe and continuous that all efforts to raise vegetables were in vain. It was a terrible year for the farmers, who could raise nothing and yet were obliged to pay big prices for feed. It does not follow, however, that the coming summer will be like that of 1816. Let us hope It will not be. We have had some fair spurts of winter weather now and then and may have plenty more before the first of April. Perhaps, taking it altogether, we shall get enough winter to warrant a fair amount of sunshine when summer comes. At least we oan hope so. _____

In the absence of anything better or worse to talk about one of the New York papers sent out reporters to interview the select 400 of New York upper ten-dom as to the possible standing of Mrs. Cleveland when she settles in that city to live. Some of the swell

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complimentary or otherwise and some declined to express any opinion whatever. It is a very vital question and ought to be settled. It would seem at first blush that "the first lady of the land" ought to be good enough even for New York swelldom, especially when she is young,beautiful and accomplished. But New York swelldom Is a very peculiar creature and there to no telling how it Is going to behave towards an ex-mistress of the White House. So tar as old Qrover is personally concerned he doubtless views the matter with his pension-veto severity. He doesn't give

a continental for society anyway, much prefering slippers and his own hearthstone to dances and suppers. But ofcourse he would like to see Frances enjoy herself and will go once in a while just to please her. But it would be dreadful if they should not be able to break into that exclusive 400! It would certainly kill them both.

There has of late been much discussion of the dance. The Indianapolis ministers created a stir in opposing the inaugural of Governor Hovey. Then there was an outcry against the inaugural ball to be given at Washington. At Rock Island a few days since a ball was given, for sweet charity's sake. The ministers so strenuously opposed dancing that the1 affair was socially a failure and only a meagre amount was netted. A hospital was to receive the net reoeipts. It may be with a feeling of satisfaction that the opponents of the dance contemplate the failure of the ball, but iii this day and age of the world it seems strange that a charitable effort should be opposed so vehemently.

News and Interviews.

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The bill ap|foprt« ^iOO,dO(Kr the State Normal school passed the State Senate on 'Tuesday. There was little opposition to the measure. The rules were suspended and after Senator Burk had feebly spoken against it, it was passed by a vote of 88 to 4. The friends of the school are delighted that the amount has been secured, for it bad been feared that it would be reduced. The sum will be sufficient to put the building in- proper condition for the opening of school. The work on the building is progressing., The roof will within a short, time be completed. Contractor Atkins is pushing the work as rapidly as possible. The building will soon be enclosed and ready for interior finishing. ,,

The Barrett bill, pending before the State legislature, places a tax on building and loan associations. Terre Haute has more of these associations than any other city in Indiana, with the possible exception of Indianapolis. The bill is in consequence a matter of great concern to hundreds of persons in this city, who hold shares in the associations. A meeting was held on Tuesday night at council chamber and It was decided to remonstrate against the passage of the bill. Mayor Kolsem presided and will forward the remonstrances to Indianapolis. It is set forth that the majority of the stockholders of the associations are laboring people and that it is injust to tax their shares inasmuch as it is the duty of the State to encourage as much as possible the acquirement of real estate. Each association president circulated one of the petitions. Aside from members, there was no disposition manifested to favor the passage of the Barrett bill. _____

Main street may be paved this year but it will not be done without a fight. War has been declared by a number of property owners. A council was held quietly on Tuesday night in the Superior court room. There were a number of property owners on Main street present. The situation was talked over and a committee was appointed to raise funds to test the legality of the council's action in ordering the construction of the sewer and paving of the street. It is the intention to enjoin the city from further proceedings in the matter. Bids will be received at the next meeting of the council and prompt action is necessary. The basis for the Injunction will be that the city is already beyond its legal indebtedness and that it can not legally contract additional debt. Terre Haute will never refuse to pay her debts but there is such a thing as going too far. If an injunction is secured it is more than probable that it will be made permanent. Friends of the improvements were considerably surprised at the turn affairs have taken, and hope yet to conciliate the opposition to the sewer and paving ^f the street, ———.

Bert Kelley, of this city, has gotten himself into an unpleasatft predicament in Washington, and it is reported has been removed from his position as head of the assignment division of the patent office. The Post tells the following story concerning the affair: "The New York Tribune printed a Washington special to the effect that an Indiana employe of the assignment division of the patent office by the name of Kelley had secured a typewriter through Gen Vance, assistant commissioner of patents, through miarepiesentation, and had taken the same oat of the office and -w

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pawned it for $17, the value of the machine-being $1G0. The special further stated that Kelley had generously offered to*sell his pawn ticket to General Vance for $10, so that it would not oost so much to replaoe the typewriter. When the Post reporter saw General Vanoe he said he did not care to be interviewed on the subject. He stated, however,, that he did permit Kelley to take atypewriter outside of the office, he stating that he desired to do some work forSenator Voorhees. The machine was returned to the office, and if it had been pawned by Kelley during its absence he had no knowledge of it. The jgeneral said there were a great many Stories afloat regarding the transaction and that all of them are exaggerated. Kelley, who the Tribune charges with engineering this unusual deed, is most indignant, and not only pronounces the story false, but says he will institute libel proceedings against the Tribune."

The government building is not ready fqi occupancy and will not be for a E&onth to come. It was first announced that the revenue and postoffioe would be removed to the new quarters by January 1st. Then it was stated the date would be February 1st, and Postmaster Regan received orders to be ready to move at that time. Now there is no telling when the change will occur. Nothing can be heard from the department. Inquiry at the revenue office revealed the fact that there is a woeful negligence in the department at Washington. Letters written two or three weeks ago have never been ^answered. It is annoying to the officials lere. The department is as mum as an oyster. Absolutely nothing can be obtained from them. Ever sinoe the election there has not been even a pretense of promptness. The supposition is that at .the defeat of Cleveland the officials

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rew up their hands and have since reto put them down at work, preferring to .allow their successors to be inducted inkftfcS?*? with amass of work before them. EveT*s!i&o»i Attr .building was commenced there was delay the matter of appropriations there were several long Waits because Senator Voorhees and the Congressmen neglected to push matters. The mail pouch racks have arrived and gas fixtures were put in this week, Which leads one to suppose the building will eventually be reaHJ)fc for cjwupancy before the walls begin to crumble away. rr

The dog poisoner was around again this week and a number of valuable animals are no more. F?)r some time the malicious individual confined his operation to the outskirts of the city but has recently been distributing buttons in the most fashionable neighborhoods. One lady discovered apiece of meat in her front yard, containing poison. It was apiece of steak rolled up and tied with a thread. The dog had perhaps not discovered it. The lady declared that she intended watching for the wretch who is poisoning canines and in the event she detects him, asseverates that she will certainly attempt to shoot him. Those who have lost dogs and dog-own-ers in general will send her boquets by the score if she succeeds in bringing down the dog-poisoner.

SAUCE FROM OTHER SANCTUMS,

Drake's Magazine: The dead languages should be relegated to the tomb. Illustrated Pacific States: What is the most desirable love-knot? The marriage ceremony.

Merchant Traveler: A Hindu god doesn't have to work for a living. He is an idol person.

Burlington Hawkey©: Strawberries are quoted at $2 per quart. No berries of the genus fragaria In ours, thanks.

New York World: It is a sad fact that the man who goes out on a strike is often confronted by an empty home plate.

Milwaukee Journal: It is ataazing to see the amount of comfort a man will take out of spoiling some other fellow's scheme.

Pittsburg Chronicle: The name Vanderbilt appeared In a contemporary the other day with a little "v." We thought everybody knew Vanderbilt was a capitalist.

Rochester Post-Express: After a community tars and feathers a man and puts a railroad time table in his hand, it is the height of impoliteness for him to linger longer in town.

Kansas City Star: At Topeka a young lady makes her da-boo at Leavenworth she "buds at Wichita she is "launched upon the social sea at Lawrence she "comes out,'* and at Wellington she "begins to keep company."

LOVE-LETTERS ON $5 BILLS The BuSklo man who won a sweet girl by writing numerous love letters to her on $5 bills has started a fashion that will make courting harder than ever. Not only will the dear creatures refuse to return such missives in case of quarrel bat they will insist on bills of a larger denomination being used. The world will seem bat a

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man who has been using $5 bills for stationery for his love letters when he gets a note like thin from the adored objec:

Another young gentleman is writing to me on $10 bills. Unless yon employ $29 bills all is over between us."

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What a pitiful, narrow little life she must slip into with her wedding garments! True, the home circle, the companionship of one's own children are very sweet and precious things. But to be tied to the house, to have no leisure for anything outside of domestic drudgery—it isn't a life calculated to develop the best and highest that there is in one, or to be envied by any man who enjoys freedom. So we must lose our girl, with her fresh, keen and charming pen. The world of letters must give her up for the sake of domesticity.

I see her in fancy ten years from now. Still a bright woman, still a beauty. But instead of a serious, well-poised woman with a mission, a frivolous society woman, all her caustic wit, her keen appreciation of beauty and quality, turned into that fearfully small and lowering channel, gossip.

Beautiful toilets still charm her, not because of their own loveliness, but because arranged in them she out-does her neighbor. She has quit reading long ago, because the men she meets do not admire strong-minded women. Her little daughter is forced into the "best society and taught all the little airs and graces calculated to be turned to account In getting a husband a few years hence

Of course, this may not at all happen But it does happen in many, many cases. Especially does it fall to the lot of ambitious girls who have given up their mission voluntarily, and it is never necessary to give it up, and it is woman's duty not to do so.

So it seems that Mrs. Potter had some t^iptive that the world knows not of in goinft on the Btage. She says she had no home lifet that she had always lived in hotels. S6r^,f course', she bad not tb^ tie of the hoiJte-jnaker and the h^ keeper so dear to every V^manlv And then, she seems to haW enough to know that her s» pant#rt£rwere not frid^ds, am so-called friendship amount ing, that it was a delusion and not worth the having. Potter! Who can blame her fu. so narrow a sphere for the broad* p» of ambition and possibility?

It is a narrow life that most society women lead, and a false life, with nothing in it to bring out or enlarge the native goodness that is in them. Friends that call themselves such only when the sun shines are poor and unsatisfactory affairs. But to belong to the best society is the aim of many a poor soul's existence, whose eyes have never seen beyond a narrow limit, whose face has never been upturned to the "lofty stars."

How quickly a book grows old and neglected In this day of books! Only a few years ago we were all reading and talking about "The Story of Avis," by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Gail Hamilton thought the little volume worthy of her fiercest attacks, which appeared in the New York Tribune. The cudgel in Miss Phelps' behalf was taken up by many gifted men and women and a regular war of words took place much similar Jo what we have just passed through over Amelie Rives' book.

The story of poor Avis is very realistic. Every girl, at least every girl of ambitions, should read it. "I never should have married if I had seen that book in time," said one of the most gifted women in the West recently.

Twenty years ago her name was a prominent one among leading magazine contributors. She married and died intellectually. "Often when I am on my knees scrubbing my kitchen floor or blacking the stove or walking the floor at night with the baby, a story weaves itself in my brain, and bangs, a golden chimera, in my mental horizon, just out of my reach. "My fingers burn for pencil and paper, the longing for my work, my heaven's gift, is so intense that for a moment I am a rebel, a fierce revolter from hard duty. But I have to yield. My chain is part of my own forging. My hope now is in some one of the children."

I looked at them at their play. Where among the five was the magnificient head, the sensitive mouth, the fine eyes the trace of "blood royal" that belonged to the mother? Not one of them. They were all types of their father. And I know and everyone knows he is a brute.

It is a pity, is it not? That a sacrifice should be made of a fine intellect just for the bringing into existence epitomes of a man whose animal is 90 per cent and whose soul is but one if in fact he has any.

Alas, it has been the crying pity three thousand years and the world of men and better the world of women are just beginning to see the light of anew day.

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A Woman's Chat.

'v|.' BY BKREXSA BLOUNT. "Why has Grace given up her place on the paper?" I said to Grace's mother one day last week. "O, didn't you know that she is to be married soon?" "And what of that?" I answered. "Well, I suppose her newspaper work is over now. She will be like all other married women, too busy for writing."

ABOUT WOMEN.

Despite the fact that women lace, wear thin shoes and expose their health in a dozen other ways, the average of longevity of the female sex is increasing. It is doubtless due to their obstinacy.

Miss Amelia Wadsworth, of Springfield, having publicly leotured on marriage a failure, a newspaper man went to work and proved that she had been engaged and jilted three different times.

Mrs. Harrison has consented that her and Mrs. MoKee's ball dresses may be cut decollette, with the understanding that the neck and shoulders, baok and front, shall admit to lace draperies if Mr. Harrison so decides.

In Cocamonga, Cal., a pretty servant girl has captured a millionaire aged 79 and named Daniel Hamilton. He has four ohildren, thirteen grandohildren and one great-grandchild, and all objected to the marriage, but could not stop It.

Mrs. William J. Florence has had the distinction conferred upon her of naming a successful racer after one of her stage characters. Nick Finzer, the wellknown Louisville turfman, has named his filly, which recently won $64,000 in Eastern races, Mrs. General Gilflory.

The trustees of Columbia College have resolved to call the woman's annex, whioh is shortly to become apart of tho university,after President Barnard, who has done so much for Columbia. "Barnard College" will be opened as soon a» sufficient funds are ®''°xanteed for y. &•.8 Mrs. Helm, bethtown, Ky., ?-^4pull" on. her

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"I pity him," says one man with a shrug, "he has a literary wife!" The very heavens pity her, because she has an animal for a husband. But women of brain and soul are learning their value. They are not so cheaply bought as they were even fifty years ago.

To wear one upon his heart, a man must bring himself up to a high standard. The woman of the future, the woman of brains and brawn will be just as sweet and lovely and ten times worth the winning of the woman of the past the ivy that could do nothing but cllng»

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ovu lAf creature, who is "o'er youri#" to marry" said "yes," but added she would not marry him till he^ gained the consent ot her father. The young man discovered the next day that the young lady's {ather died several years ago. The disappointed lover has emigranted.

Mrs. Algernon T. C. Sartoris, the only daughter of the late General Grant, who is now home from her English place of residence on a visit to her mother, albeit a little more matronly, looks almost as fair and youthful as she did when married at the White House fifteen years ago next May. Time has dealt very leniently with her, the secret of which twice ten thousand women would be only too happy to know.

It is rather notable, says the New York Sun, that in one week lately three fair women from professionally religious families played Shakespearean heroines on our stage. The actresses were Mrs. Langtry, the daughter of a Church of England clergyman Mrs. WainwrightJames, granddaughter of a Protestant Episcopal bishop, and Mrs. Potter, of the Potters among whom bishops of the same church are trebled famously.

Mrs. William P. Frye, wife of the Maine Senator, is said to be writing a novel which will deal with society life. Mrs. Frye, who was aMiss Speare, comes of a talented family, and is a cousin of Miss I. Canning of Boston, who made herself famous by her popular song,

Rock-a-By, Baby." Mrs. Frye has literary taste and talent, and has been of great assistance to her husband in this respect. She frequently revises his speeches for publication.

Miss Edith Phelps, of Sidney, N. Y., who in common but unprofessional phrase "broke her neck" a few days ago, bids fair to recover. The facts of this remarkable case are that when Miss Edith attempted to raise a window sash, which was held by ice that had gathered at the sill^the obstruction suddenly gave way, permitting her head to fly back with a violent jerk that dislocated the vertebrae of the neck. It is believed that in the course of months she will entirely recover.

HE WED HIS SPO USE.

The correspondent of a Parisian journal was recently expelled from Berlin for sending to his paper news that was distasteful to the powers that be. But. it seems the authorities have a tender side after all, for snbeequentiy the writer was given permission to return for the space of two days, no longer, in order that ne might wed the sweetheart that he had left behind. Doubtless he feels grateful to Bismarck for this unexpected relaxation of a ri id order

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