Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 February 1889 — Page 1

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THEJV1AIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.

Notes and Comment.

What's the matter with Indianapolis? She hasn't turned out a defaulter for a -week.

It is about time notes of warning were being sent out to perpetrators of white cap and Jack the Ripper jokes.

Poor men have 130,000,000 deposited in a Philadelphia savings bank. After all the poor man amounts to something.

After March 4th Grover trill have to huBtle for his living like the rest of

UP.

Well, he is big enough to earn a living.

It required several columns in the Baltimore Sun for the President to say that Grover Cleveland is pleased with Grover Cleveland's administration.

Even a celestial is not a sleepy individual after all. A Pooh Bah, of a Chicago Chinese store, skipped to Canada with fl,000 of the firm's cash.

The canned goods manufacturers also oomplain of overproduction. The people who buy and eat the canned goods don't think there is any overproduction.

Manual training in schools is the latest fad. Pennsylvania is considering training schools for teaching wood work, metal work, domestic economy and industrial art.

Does the United States want Canada? asks an exchange in introducing a long editorial. Give up our self-exiled boodlers, embesrailertf and defaulters and we 'Will not be particularly anxious about the future of Canada.

Is the mulo despised becauso he is lucky? In a wreck on the Vandalia this "week there was a car load of mules.

Adjoining it was a car load of hogs and a oar load of Rattle. The collision killed many of them, yet the mules escaped with nary a soratch.

The families of New England seem to be degenerating,so much so that the Boaton Globe has offered a gold Watch to the mother of the largost number of living children, the baby of the family to receive a dainty silver mug. Here in the middle west there would no doubt be many competitors.

It is said that Mrs. Hendricks, between whom and Mrs. Harrison oordial social relations have always existed, will be a guest at the White House when Mrs. Harrison occupies it. Mrs. Hendricks did not visit tho White House after her husband's death. It will bo remembered the President refused to attend the Vice-President's funeral.

•'Billy" Sunday, the crack fiolder and base runner of the Chicagos, has turned evangelist. Last Sunday he addressed large meeting and four dozen young men said they had been converted by his earnest work. Perhaps his name had something to do with his chango to evangelist, rather than his profession.

The editors of Massachusetts are urging the legislature to amend the libel law. At present suite can be brought without just cause and the press is annoyed by actions brought by irresponsible parties. In Massachusettsllkoeverywhere else there are those who seek notoriety by suing a paper for some fancied injury.

It's a poor rule that does not work both ways. Sometimes it requires a long time to work backwards but it eventually does. A Canadian has fliflbenled about $100,000 and is sojourning in this country. It will require some time before an equipoise is established between the two countries in the matter of thieves and their plunder.

It is noticed by the New York restaurant keepers that pie is coming again into general favor. Well, good pie, with flaky, creamy crust and the right sort of "fllUnV is just good enough for anybody and enough sight healthier than the Englishman's apple tart and plum pudding. Pie Is emphatically an American dish and we want to stand by it.

The grand jury at Philadelphia bids fair to immortalise Itself. It has indicted an individual for spitting tobacco juice on front door steps. The tobacco ohewer who decorates sidewalks, car goon, lobbies of public places, even private apartments, should also be indicted to serve aa a warning that there are some rights that he should not trample upon.

We aw prepared to take back many of the mean things that have been said About

Canada as a rendemrous for rascals. Infelicitous couples can not readily obtain a divorce there. Stotiistk* show that In years only 1S5 divorces have been granted in Canada, while in Amerfoa 375,000 were granted in the same period. Canada may bes blissful place for thieves, but the United States is a paradise for dissatisfied married people.

Gloucester, Mass., boasts of being the

furthest out of debt and furthest ont at

H!1UW

"heathen Chinee" may be slow in some

things, but he is certainly an apt scholar

"iTToung

and Evarts are 71, Saulsbury is 72, Saw-

main sober for 10 years, rne son now

sues to set aside the will claiming that

his father was insane. If the son is in-

In the Connecticut legislature the ladies gallery is above the speaker's stand. Suspended from a brass railing, in past years, there has been a silk curtain for the protection of thoughtless ladies occupying the front gallery seats, but this winter the curtain is missing, and the members have had some rather queer exhibitions of- mingled brogans and dainty kid boots. A member moved to have the curtain replaced, but the motion was lost by a vote of 88 to 57. The sight of boots was preferable to the sight of a silk curtain.

It has generally been supposed that immersion was never attended with any danger to the candidate's health. In fact, it has been asserted that an instance contrary to the accepted opinion had not been recorded. If this bo true, Danville, 111., now furnishes a case. Last week a hole was cut in the ice of a creek and seven were immersed. One of them, Mrs. McMann, walked from the creek in her stocking feet. She was taken violently ill and physicians say she cad not recover, and will forfeit her life by too implicit confidence in a prevalent opinion.

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Last Sunday the whole interior of a fourteen story building in process of erection at Chicago, tumbled to the ground. A terrible fatality was escaped only because the accident happened at a time when the workmen were not employed in the building. Tbe architects and contractors demonstrated that it was only the loosening of some "green tiling," upon which the mortar had not yet hardened, that caused the disaster, but a good many people will be squeamish about these "sky-scraping" buildings which seem disposed to tumble down before entirely gotten up.

Boqnets and other marks of appreciation should be sent by a long suffering publio to a Nevada statesman who offered the following bill in the legislature: "Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any spectator in any place of amusement to wear a covering for the head which shall roach more than three inches above the crown of the head, and any person wearing such a covering for tbe head shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be fined in a sum of not less than $5 nor more than $10, or imprisoned in the county jail not less than two days nor more than five days provided that this act shall not apply to women over 35 years of age." Perhaps the aforesaid statesman regards'35 as the age of good judgment in women.

Tbe Cincinnati

TSJpvtrc

COMmercial-Gazette

savs that the evidence exists and is now

dhrntau to Haw York (Mr Ircm to

further, would hare overcometheDem^

ocrmtic majority, and

have been Ic^lng^in to^te matter for

is the score?**

obtainable that Mr. Blaine, and not Mr. Cleveland, was elected President In 1884. It is a late hour to discover the fact, but $127,300 in excess of last year. it is none the 1*. Th, police have^Tseverely ceo.u'rod The case I. a nutthell. It ha.been

and. IlltCrVlCWS.

ran'boMt of being ftota I" convention with a German, the confined to hi. ted, hU condition for bereiboiitaand decided- writer was informed that the Kirmess -timebeing considered dangerous. The wUh a Si an old established festival in the tftoHce, of conn*,, «»k to justify their y» bi-wkj i. ninatlv halH in the* brutalitv on the orround that McKinley council at the helm. rail or to© y$ar aitor ine crops nave uwu luawieu arrwsu xuw uuc owiromcuv

Sing Yon, a Chicago Chinaman, who harvested and the festival, exteuds over thqir side of the case needs be cited was secretary of a celestial corporation ^veral

weeks at

in that city, has skipped to Canada with Kirmesa in Germany is much the same says he threw up his arm to protect Mo$1,000 of the company's cash. The

the

one to

given

8i8tjng

w|tjj mu8ic.

at learning the "Mellican man's" tricks. 8ervei and a merry time had generally, itself a statement which characterizes Americans all

yer and Dawes 73 and Payne and Morrill work, said he was much pleased with the .q .fc

79. Then there is ideas conveyed and hoped see discos-^ .q able historian, who is 89 and Whittier,

810n

the Quaker poet, is 82. No need of dying part he was contented to oeasework

young in America. when Saturday ^nig!found

Hiram Barker, of Dover, N. H., was

willed a quarter of a million by his

fatherland. It is usually held in the brutality on the ground that McKinley fail of the year after the crops have been resisted arrest. But one statement from

of the subject continued, lor hte/^^

will find that at the end of the next wee*

^/JJ^not devoted Sunday to work.

00 a8U uul

clined to intemperance the best evidence j, HauuTon Sunday. In many in- the police exceeded their authority and of his father's sanity is the provision of the will.

stances, the speaker said, there was little oocasion for it. He regards a thorough observance of Sunday a blessing to any community.

Manager Naylor announces a'series of good attractions for next month. Some of the highest order of performances are announced. Mary Anderson, however, will not appear here. It cost DicJtson just $6,000 to secure her for Indianapolis for a short stand. Seats sold there at $3. Had she come here the same price would have been charged, so some of the young men who are financially, embarrassed are congratulating themselves that the fair Mary has not and will not be booked. She would have had a big house, no doubt, but the management could see no money in bringing on such a costly attraction. However, Joseph Jefferson will be here, Jnlia Marlowe, Helen Barry, Duff opera company and "A Legal Wreck," which has had such a big run of late. _____

The members of the Trotting Assocla?* tion are of the opinion that the race meeting this year will be more interesting than ever. Terre Haufe Is *igrain fortunate to secure the opening meeting of the circuit, the first week in June. A number of horsemen have signified their intention of bringing their stables here to train. Several strings are expected here which have never been here before. Horsemen recognize the fact that a better track cannot be secured anywhere in the country. Besides there is plenty of good shade, water, etc. Those who have beon here in the past have been treated so royally and have been satisfied in every way that they are desirous of returftibg. The association has not yet determined upon the purses but they will be as liberal as usual.

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The transfers of real estate for this year have thus far been encouraging, and shows unusual prosperity in the way of trading. It will be remembered that at the commencement of '88 the transfers were more numerous and exceeded in aggregate considerations those of previous years. In fact the first few months were considered the banner months, but '89 now eclipses the record of last year. During January and nineteen days of the present month there have been 204 transfers filed for record. The total of the considerations is $285,300. Quit claim deeds where the consideration was only $1 were not reckoned In the statement just given. The figures include the transfers for 42 business days of this year. From this it will be seen that the average daily transfers amounts to nearly $6,800. Five thousand baa always been regarded as a high average. For the corresponding period in 1888 there were 30 less transfers than in '89, and the total consideration for *89 is

for

often vaguely charged that vote, for w.m.1— ..1 G«n. Bntler were counted In top n""

They know for instance, that in two

knovn

ous but

th®

electoral vote of NewYork to Mr. Blaine.

It will be remembwed that ae^Un

.braUlclubbl dmlni

b«» for Mr. aeveland. McKinley la a Jovial, whole- was argued and overruled by the court friends now have the abwlute proof.

1,700 Bntler votes were J®* near Fifth sod Ohio streets Saturday into execution. The injunction oonCleveland. These alone, without going

and the teol watgon wu

McKInley hfa wmgon

^Qity

r?®1 for

Qf tbfAr

plurality in New York «jUe ss McKinley was told he was want- svent the injunction is dissolved the 1,047. The

best

D4B

for any length of time. knocked down and while prostrate was been received were ordered returned.

the Wagner musicale. Absent- clubbed about the head and body most The ordinance was amended so as to give minded beM ball player, as a crushing outrageously and unmercifully. He the supervision of tbe improvements chord nearly lifts hi m.off his seat—'"Good was placed In jail and orders given not into the hands of tbe streets Mid bridges play !n And then, catching an interroga- to release him. Captain Murphy could and sewer and wharves committees. A tlye glance from Mrs. Quarterrest, he not be found he was not at police head- resolution was passed ordering the oon adds: "I—I—beg your pardon! What quarters. It was morning before Mo- trsctors to employ^ Terrs Haute work lv"*

friends who bad spent tbe night in Securing it. He was taken home by Dr. Roberts in his buggy and has since been

different pbKds. The Chief Clerk Dwyer, who was present

in this city, con- Kinley while the officers were using

principally of dances intersperced their clubs and received the blows that

Refreshments are also were directed at McKinley. This is in

of nervous The original idea of tbe Kismese was a Aeclubbingasunwarranted. McKinley /iknMtk AI hsnTAA

diseases ^eh *We1^ then are seven men celebration by the church of the harvest- is a prominent I. O. O. F. and members diseases, eh? Well, there are seven men

in the Senate just now who are over ing of crops. it is to be hoped that it will be three score and ten R«agan Hampton A gentieman in speaKing tbe «UcTe

published

in The Mail ^rding Sunday

of the order fiave taken the affair in

mo"1 a"but

hts

tered to Martin McKinley, the well not legally be proceeded with. City At-

who hoel o(

wh|m lDdaIgn drlnk hel

who

without

investigation. Eyewitnesses

the

cried "Shame! shame!"

the clubs continued to fall on Mc-

rest he ploy's head. Said one police officer:

... j. .yuanir There was no occasion for the clubbing.

iVian

I have made hundreds of arrests and

have

never been compelled to beat a

up." The general opinion is that

mfi« yent beyond all reason. The question

Arises, are suoh men worthy of their positions? Bert Kelly has returned from Washington, and expects to make this his home. .He denies having been bounced from his position in the patent office. In an interview he said: "The statement telegraphed from Washington that I was dismissed from the service does me a great injustice. There is no truth in it. It was well understood among my friends and superiors in Washington for the past three weeks that I was to resign on the 19th of this month and on that day I did resign. I knew that I could not remain long under the new Administration and as I was the attorney for citizens engaged in the establishment of a land office in No Man's Land, in which there is some big money, I concluded to resign and go at it at once." Kelly denies the type writer story. He admits having borrowed it bnt denies thai he pawned it. f'j| l^udge Davis in speaking of the receivinfpof stolen property, lamented the fact *&£t patfttt/rokers In this city seemed inclined to receive any goods that might be presented to them even though there might be conclusive circumstantial evidencd'that the goods were stolen property. He said that there should be a state law that would make these men partially responsible for the orimes they thus encourage and wink at, and referred to a law in Chicago that required brokers to report to the police each week what goods they had received and from whom they had received them.

The Thermogen company has been pushing matters recently. In Youngstown, Ohio, a number of machines will be put in operation and the gas manufactured turned into the natural gas pipes. Natural gas was piped to Youngstown but the amount was not sufficient to supply the oity and some of the wells gave out. Pipes yvere laid through the city but were not called into service. Now thermogens are to be substituted. Several other deals of consequence are on hand and the affairs of the company are in a proep^us condition.

It is to be hoped that the flag at the postoffice will be replaced when the new government building is occupied, whenever that may be. Tbe flag that has been in use for years looks now like a rag that had seen service since the revolution. Of all the flags flying on Friday the one on the post office flagstaff was the worst specimon of the national colors.

tared. was nui»y tention. of the council cannot be carried

home when the police arrived. They be made permanent tbe city will have

to proceed

ed he consented to go willingly. Then property owners will appeal. Legsl

bu)d8 wero

some time. They declare laid upon him for fear he might escape, that it will be impossible for the imbave absolute proof. McKinley resisted being led by the provements to be made this •rammer will take to make this grave officers. Words foUowed and a fight At tbe council, meeting on Tuesday knownlsnot^traln^,^tittanK&t McKinley, who is physically night the injunction jras read and order matter which they are likely

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The Main street paving scheme lias received a quietus for the present in the way oi a temporary restraining order by Judge J. M. Allen of the Superior court. A number of the property owners on the street filed a petition setting forth that the city is now beyond its legal limit of indebtedness and that the paving could

^cod h.nd dealer on mat Main tomey Taylor filed a demurrer which

1 —n r- mitten

friend.. Tbe acbeme to pave h« itBelred a black

„7, ...d tbe probability is that the in-

tinuee until March II, before which time

.nd started it wiU beargued. Should the injunction

_Uie other recourse except an appeal to

demanded his the Supreme court of the state. In the

complications will delay matters so much

tn the city, was ed spread on record. The bids that hsd

wss obtained by his men «S far ss possible.

A Woman's Chat.

'i.*!*1

W I 1

BY BKRKKDA BLOUNT.

I haVe'just put by, with a sigh, Robbio's "Life of Shelly.*' Poor fellow, por fellow! That is my inward thought. Why was he blamed, misunderstood, allowed to suffer, when so many bad men go unpunished? Simply because he braved public opinion and went against all social decrees, following out the promptings of his own inner self.

He was original, eccentric they called him, and for the superiority that was born in him, he had to suffer. And now we are just beginning to love him—we children of the second generation since that devine singer's day. Genius of the highest order has no place 011 earth. The more of soul a human nature has, the more of suffering falls to his lot.

The more unlike his fellows the less sympathy he gets,

If one suffers for apiece of bread or a coat, all the world extends aid. Everybody can understand that need. If one suffers from a foiled ambition, a longing for a higher life, although the agony may be ten times as acute, the world wonders, sneers and passes by upon the other side.

It doesn't pay to read new books, or that is, now novels. A person who would keep up with the literature of the day and read every new book that ap pears, would have little leisure for anything else, and, besides that, would lead such a life of mental dissipation as to unfit him for any practical wor«. How I wish that little volume of Hainmerton's Intellectual Life could be put into the hands of every young person and carefully read and considered! And what a blessing to be introduced to the masters at an early age and lot the new writers go. What charm is there in any current literature equal to that in Walter Scott, in Dickens, in Porter or in Victor Hugo's books? The paper about Sir Walter in the last number of Scribner's Magazine contains one sentence that is especially worth quoting. It is this: "Never was there a more healthful and health-ministering literature than that which he gave to tbe world. To go back to it from Flaubert $nd Daudet and Tolstoi is like listening to the song of the lark after the shrieking passion of the midnight pianoforte. Nay, it is Jlike coming reeking "I'i^Psf1 grove in the first light and music of, the morning."

What friends we find in books! There are no other earthly friends like thom. I go to and from my business and meet a thousand aonoyances. I may meet with insult from a long-time friend. I find out that somo one of my select few is unworthy 3f trust and confidence. Another grieves me to the heart by an unkind word. Many desert me in disaster. But I come home to my little book-lined room and shut myself in. I fall into my easy chair before the brilliant fire. Without the storm beats its life out against the eaves and windows. Within, such radiance, such warmth, such peace, that my cares drop from, me as a garment, tho firelight leaps up to kiss the face of dearest frinds, and how they smile back at me. Daute and Virgil and Schiller and Pope and Burn sand Byrbn! What comfort, what renewal of hope lie within those volumes! What a comforting voice it is that speaks to me from those pages of Emerson, of De Quincey, of Goethe, of Robert Browning! They never aro false, they never forget, they never desert me in disasters. And these alone, shut in from the falseness, the disappointment, the heat, hunger and pain of the world. I am happy, have found a place of refuge and a peace which the world cannot give nor take away.

SAUCE FROM OTHER SANCTUMS.

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Duluth Tribune: Not without drawbacks—the toboggan slide. Merchant Traveler The grocer's right of weigh is one of the most important adjuncts of his business.

Burdette: It hss been observed that White Caps flourish best in those communities where wnite shirts perish of solitude.

A Washington paper, noting the departure of several statesmen on short excursion, ssys: "Tbey will return today—if they are able."

New Orleans Picayune: Tbe conset, though railed against by few dress reformers, will not go. It hss good grip on its wearers, and. as it were, hss come

It is said that the White House janitor has to grease the steel springs of the President's great chair every day to keep it from screeching "veto" every time he leans back.

Sommerville Journal: The man who always tells tbe exact truth in this world on every possible oocssion, may have a dear conscience, but he will never be popular amongst his neighbors.

Philadelphia Reoord: Foreign Visitor —"Ah, yes this is a great country, but everything is so monotonously new. Have you no picturesque old ruins at all?*' American—"Lota of *em. Go look at our forts."

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Mrs. I»helps, wife of the late Minister to'England, brought home a trunk full of photographs of the royal family, presented on her recent visit to Wiudsor.

Patti says she is never so happy as when wandering among the Welsh hills. Her favorite amusement, next to singing for $3,000 a night, is hunting Welsh rabbits.

Graceful courtesy on the part of Mrs. Cleveland will be her hospitable entertainment of Mrs. Harrison, whom she will induct into the mysteries of White House-keeping, for one week previous to the change of administration.

Nina Van Zandt, the Chicago anarchist who is now in trouble over the vicious deeds of one of her three dogs, has an enormous number bf pets. Dogs, oats, birds, cats, lizards, and rabbits make up her menagerie. She devotes most of her time to caring for these animals.

Mrs. Alice Shaw, the whistling prima donna, met at Springfield, Mass., last week, a male rival in the art of puckering lips and emitting sound. His name is Thomas F. Browne and he was given a place on the same programme as Mrs. Shaw, by her manager, Major Pond. The lady has the advantage over him, the local critios say, but he "possesses one strong feature which Mrs. Shaw lacks, and that is his peculiar double tonguelng."

Frank Hatton,of the Washington Post, comes bravely to the rescue of Dr. Mary Walkei. While deuying the rumor that that lady has become one of the editors of that paper, he scores the paragrapbers for poking fun at her masculine attire, which, he says, was first put on because it was the most convenient for a nurse on the battle-field. He further says that although often In want tho doctor has consistently refused all offers of pecuniary assistance.

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Women frequently lose watches. Boston women behind counters who are so fortunate as to possess watches have the rings at the stems of their timepieces drawn through holes in their jerseys and fastened down securely by a button, so that a watch could not be removed without quite an effort, and certainly not without Its wearer knowing about iU This is a scheme of wearing a watch that has gone into fashion in the stores, and it has a substantial and sensible basis. .tfa^rrecent municipal elections 1 rustee* Great Britain, it Is said, 2,000,000 womeifc^^u were registered and voted. The Coun-

tess of Aberdeen is at tbe bead of a large organization of wealthy, titled and influential ladies who have united to enforce the rights of their sex to sit as members of tbe councils and to resist any attempts to deprive Lady Sandhurst, Miss Cobden (daughter of Richard Cobden) and the other ladies who have been elected to the councils, of their places therein, on any legal pretext.

Mrs. Amelie Rives-Chandler, whom many believe to be in Europe, is writing the last chapters of her new novel in her Virginia home. The title of this new story will be "The Witness of the SUn," and its scenes are laid among the people of Italy and Russia. It is a romance and the wiles of Cupid are generously interwoven in tbe plot. No far as passionate writing is concerned, tbe novel is more subdued, although several striking situations are brought out in which theherooine is made the central figure.

MRS. HARRISON TIRED OF FUSS. New York World. "If thero is one thing above another," said Mrs. Harrison to ine, "that I detest,^ and have dotested all my life, it is being made a circus of. And that is what has come to me in my old age, as it were. I've been a show, the whole family been a show, evor sinre Mr. H»rrison was elected. All Inst fall I sat in my sewing room and watched tbe procession of feet across tbe parlor floor, wearing their path into the nap and dissanpcar like the trail of a caravan into the General's room beyond. Day bv day I watched the path grow wider and deeper, and at last the caravan xpread out ana engulfed us all. But I don't propose to permit myself to be mad» a circus of forever. If there's any privacy to be found in tbe White House I propose to find and preserve it."

WARM BLOODED RO YALTY. It is said that Queen Victoria is so fond of fresh air that she is in tbe habit of sleeping with open windows even in tbe dead of winter, and that during the daytime her apartments at Windsor Castle are so cold that her attendants and visitor* sre almost frozen. The Empress Marie Thesesa of Austria was more peculiar in this respect. Her apartments were very rarely heated. She exposed herself to draughts without falling a victim to rheumatism. Her writing table, even in winter, wss close to the open window, and tbe falling snow often drifted into tbe apartment and fell on the paper on which she wrote.

7HE AMERICAN OIRL AT HOME. Korriatown Herald. English reviews and newspapers find tbe American girl a very sttrsctive snd interesting subject to discuss. And it is not surprising, after they have seen her. Hundreds of young men in this town have found tbe Americsn girl an attractive and inteiesting subject—to court and to marry.

Uttl«,"Bat Eaoa|b,H

as Mercutio said of bis wound. We refer to Dr. Pierce's little Pellets, which are smsll, swift, snd sure, in cases of sick headache, biliousness, constipation, and indigestion.