Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 5, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 July 1889 — Page 1

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

Anew hotel at Pat-in Bay is called the Victory. Patrons know what to expect.

Boring for oil Is like speculation in stocks. At best it is but a game of chance. "Camp Hovey" is the appropriate soldier name of the Hoosier militia camp this week. _____

There were eighteen plain "drunks" in the city police court on Monday morning.

An unexpected donation for the Johnstown suffeerrs was $900 from the Sultan of Turkey.

The late Oliver Dltson left $15,000 for the founding of a home for poor singers and still he was not insane. "Llab esab" is to "base ball" as the game played by the county and city officials is to the professional game

Now is the time for history to repeat itself in the actions of men. Let a few more M. N. Dials come into the oil arena, and all will still be well.

There are two reasons why some people don't mind their own business ono is that they haven't any business and the other is, they haven't any mind.

Australia is as cosmopolitan as the United States. At a hotol in Sidney the other week thore were thirteen different nationalities represented at one table.

If the coming census does not provide for a separate enumeration of the offlcesoekers an important piece of information will have been allowed to get away.

Elocution Is taking the place of electricution in New York. Murderers there will die natural deaths while lawyers argue the killing power of electricity.

If it be true, as is stated, that all the people on the globe could stand upon a space ten miles square It would notseetn that the old earth ww» ovwr-populated yet. j,.

The Chicago Journal has been discussing "Th« Quinine Question Again." We hav«Miotleed that the quinine qnes-, tlon ne falls to*.mm* ftbOttttMrtimo of year.

It lti said that lgnailus Donnelly has taken the stump In Minnesota In support of his Baconian theory. Nothing Is left for the people but to take to the tree^ for safety. _____

The druggists of Charleston, S. C., refuse to fill Dr. McPow's prescriptions to show their dissatisfaction of the slayer of Editor Dawson. Thus his social punishment Is made more effective.

A remote province in Turkey proudly claims to be the only spot on earth on which Tascott, the Chicago murderer, has never been discovered. The secret should not have been revealed

American riflemen now In England arc covering themselves with glory and medals. Their bullets, as did the balls of '70, seem magnetically attracted by the lion's eye so accurate aim. ___—.

is their

Millet's great picture, "The Angelus," will come to America. The French are rather busy just now in figuring upon army and navy appropriations, and the flne arts must jrive way to t' art dr tffiC'lf, ______

The photographs on the White House desk of babies born since the election and named Benjamin Harris-m, makes big bundle. Every State of the Union with but one or two exceptions, has con tributed.

There are a thousand paper mills at work all the time and the question Is asked, what becomes of all the paper The Sunday Issues of the big city dailies answer the question. Each copy makes at) arm-ful. _____

John 1.. Sullivan has got his §20,000 for whipping Kllrninand feels so good over it that he would like to whip someoue

PUO.

WO have had enough of John Take your and the 'dogTollar' and k«»cp still.

An nhio anil Indiana natural gas trust i* »pok?n of, and is said the Standard Oil comply will b* largely interested. Again rotnes the report that the Standard is buying up newspaper stock. The next step will be to buy eongress and assume control of the country

A law suit has just been decided in Kentuc.kr which WA« seventy-eight v«n. court, 1* originally involve! ooo and has cost a million. Such is thecoutweof modern law derision aft er decision is open to appeal until a life time p**»e« before final Judgement CM IH reached.

K\ents show that iJeneral Crook, with his military methods, ha* more

tluence with the

Cheyenne

angry savage* at the

agency than

mmsm

and persuasive

Wiggins—the only Wlgglrifl—predicts that Philadelphia will be destroyed by an earthquake in 1904. This guarantee of safety will give the great city such a boom that Chicago's annexation of the Central States will not equal her growth.

Lord Salisbury said in a recent public speech that years hence the sons and grandsons of those whom he addressed might still be discussing the Irish probproblem, with nothing new to say on the subject. What a confession of incapacity to deal with an issue not at all intricate.

The Mexican government is offering Inducements for Chinese immigration and has granted valuable concessions to Chinese capitalists. It is to be hoped these offers will not fail to reach the ears of undesirable Chinese residents this country.

Even the famous Scotland yard detectives of England are no better titan the Chicago police. They are as completely lost in their search for the fiendish Whltechappel murderer as the Chicago police have ever been on the Dr. Cronin case.

Anew wedding anthem, "O Perfect Love!" has been expressly composed by Joseph Barnby for the marriage of the Princess Louise of Wales and the Earl of Fife. As infered from the title it is probably iutended to give an improved tone to royal marriages.

The Khedive of Egypt recognizes that he does not occupy an enviable position, and has begun to complain. He says he was not a candidate for the position and would like to retire to a less prominent station in life. Who blames the powerless Khedive for so wishing?

According to the Persian custom, the Shah has his mutton killed in his own palace, but the queen would not permit the custom to be carried out in London and his royal'highness came near following the example of CoolyJ Kahn in returning home. The Shah probably realizes now that the power of royalty is ©Miug "The fall of electric light wires at Evansville heavily charged the water of

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therefrom, a number of them were severely shocked." Dampened would probably be abetter word than shocked although in this instance one implies the other. _____

It is said that the nomination of Hon. Jno. M. Stone for governor of Mississippi was made on the issue that the aiders and abettors of the Sulllvau-Kll-raln set-to should be prosecuted. This Is probably the first time in the history of any state that a prize fight has influenced politics, and that law and order won in this instance is significant.

The latest news with regard to the Bearch for the assassins of Col. Clayton is that the judge who charged the jury upon the subject has removed to Oklahoma because of threats against his life. Again comes the word that fourteen excounty treasurers in the state have been found to be short In their accounts. That life and public property are so lightly regarded there is to be sincerely regretted.

Chauncey M. Depew is living in tall social olover among the Enirlish lords and ladles. He hobnobs with Gladstone, dines with dukes and lords seven days In the week and seems to enjoy it as well as any of them! We fear the young man is in danger of losing his Yankee simplicity at the rate things are going over there. We lost Lowell and we can aflbrd to lose any more of our native geniusw by contamination with the English aristocracy.

It is not likely that the public will realise any benefit from the action of Post Master General Wanainaker in making the companies send the government's messages at one tenth of a cent per word, tinder the contract between the govern ment and the companies the former has the right to fix the rate each year on government business, while the com {jkBtlSflsirgc their other patrons what they please. Mr. Wanainaker*» new rate is only on*-tenth of

that

for the service and the

paniee will

the government

Com misslonem. including Use

eloquent

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Young-Man-Proud-of

His-Tail. This comes of upright deal ing with the red men on the part of General Crook. As a fighter he has earned their respect and as an honest man gained their confidence.

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probably

other people pay that

Vol. 20.—No. 5. TERRE HAUTE, ESTD., SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 27,1889.

formerly paid

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get even by making

much more.

Chicago the temperance people

have put up pJnowds

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Town Talk.

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COSTLY EXPERIENCE.

A ttJINT OF HONOR. a

Not many doya ajn^ a^crpwd of 7^' men, in whi^ A gen.* lei. South was included, were the listeners to a gossipy and slanderous story con young lady ward the southern gentleman came to T. T. with the remark: "You hold the reputation of your ladies here to be of very small value. Do you know it would have been safe for any man where 11 to have told that story I heard the o£ day on any young lady of his acqu« ance. He would immediately requested to take it back on of a whipping. Thereevery or old, holds it his duty as to not only disbelieve all such sto but to see that the tale-bearer is made retract." The lecture was a very torctyfi one. It Is indeed true that the young men tn Terre Haute seem only too anxious to spread the stories of slander that come to their ears. The recital which called forth the above comment was a detestable falsehood, beyond a doubt, and yet was traveling everywhere, and it seems that each successive bearer endeavored to add something to give the story some stamp of tiuth. To have believed it would have been to

SUlUfKB VACATIONS.

It is probnHe that to-day In one hun

dred house Ids within the city the questions of economy and summer vaca

tion trips are being carefully bairn "d to determine whether the workers

wL» re the income Is siii.ul and the family large. But T. T. would advise

ail who pos-n ly c,in to tike a rest for a few

if n-4 for

•trrrv* atm^phnare MV? sUB5tt£» V. i'J. ill imp-*-livn t'.: wi-'

furnish brUH and- .*ant m'-m tor months to

follow. Thr-re

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The history of the oil wells for theTaat week has been but a record of blasted hope, so far as the companies drilling to evidently a big mistake

dency to display more wisdom in sehtftf ing sites, and it now looks as though t| apparent folly of one or two in going along distance from the ing well would turn out to be great dora. They at least have more gro on which to found'their hopes than, fore. That the Phoenix and Smith v. will "come in" is most confidently pected, and more faith is now being in the anticipated success of the B£ Button-Hole and the Ellsworth This initial experience in oil specu for Terre Haute is but what othe^ regions have gone through, and it ply remains to follow in the footstep Martin Diall and go ahead to win gardless of past experience. "Sail and "nerve" are accepted symony when the occasion demands, and a it* oil nerve will mean more oil sand.

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the east of the Diall well are interested^^T. as much as it would probably have The fate of the Joseph and Kinser linked with the Exchange failure, 1 the effect of demolishing all ho$e striking oil at any of the wells along Vandalia tracks, and although operati will probably continue until the gives ground for the fear, it is ge accepted that the search wlil futile. ftThis sweeping failure is a th feared by the experienced oil men. tractor Churchill gave warning sevi months ago by saying that a great take was being made in locating many wells in one direction and placi ail dependence on the hope that the flow was in that direction. He sntWf* paled that there would be name failures and said the liability was the entire outlay in the east end prove a loss as the ten wells were p. cally one so far as determining the tent of the field. But there is neve less plenty of oil under the city ot wise the Diall well would notcootU to flow' 300 barrels a day, and the move is to so scatter the wells that til* direction or location of the stream be determined. Since the first ten tions were decided there has been a tvX^i^bxurious living. In a moment of des

money, with compound interest, in the ooujse of a year.

0OSPKX. SONGS.

The idea prevails that the overall fac tory girl is a girl without conscience or very high religious principle, but this is

?Qg

falls

acknowl

edge the disgrace of a young lady who moves in the first circles and is generally thought to be lady like in all respects. Such stories are freauentlv heard and the rate they travel is wondorfui, but not quite so wonderful as the degree of belief with which they are received. The extent to which this practice is carried is only equalled by the degree to which the young men stand on street corners and discuss the features, form general character of the girls who

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the

family are to remain hoi^r or go away for a wee* or twj wt-ks' reit, and it is

likely that the decision will be made

with greater hesitancy than on any other question that will come up for months. No wonder, for It nr^r"1"

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deal l« a good many l^nes

Uie

of yi-ur retu :.r «'n :aL C'^rk-

anonid Insist on l^ing aU-w«»a*.-i"auon« toy thffcr employf!*

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It surprised T,

urprised you to hear the notes of "Nearer God to Thee," coming from the sthird story windows of one of our factoris the other afternoon. The girls were inging in chorus and when this hymn pas finished they chose another, a third

nd so. They sang gospel hymns durnearly the entire afternoon and it was a noteworthy fact that the words .Mine distinctly from a good many months. In speaking of it a friend said: "It isnt such a surprise after all. If you .will notice those girls attend church reg lar on Sunday and you will find that they know more church music than the ajority of our church-going people." this is true great injustice is done the wing girls by the general public

,V MATOR DANALDSON'S STORY.

Mayor Danaldson has written a short ktory entitled "Thorndale House," so I teamed from a friend the other evening, and as a literary effort it is said to surpass anything he has previously attempted. The plot is quite sensational 'feui strong and well carried out. The TT 1 is the son of a New York banker, l'*®?*'if youth of education, who has taken to

peration he attempts to rob his father's bank, is discovered by the watchman whom he shoots, and flies to escape arrest. He goes west and meets his future fcride in the city of Thorndale, so named (S om the Thorndale family. Here he is packed by blackmailers who promise to remain quiet on the subject of his suped crime on condition that be marries iss Thorndale, gets her money, and en kills her and divides the property, is he agrees to do but after bs marge finds it impossible to commit the because of his love for the girl. He akes a pretense of consenting, hower, and morphine is given her in the presence of the men but he administers ounter-acting poison and she is saved, nk^wn to the two villians. The enen think they are to be robbed are and have the hero arrested 'ering his wife. In the meanest, finds the. janitor had husband's theft. Then returns to find him charged with her murder. Just as he is about to be convicted she prospect points to a happy life when he

6ver a precipice and is killed and the story ends. The conclusion Is quite tragic. What disposition will be made of the story I did not learn, but was told that a copy had been sent to an eastern publishing house and that its receipt had been acknowledged, a point in compliment to the author.

Maxinkuckee

Its

The visitor to the Paris exposition who is both artistically and scientifically inclined must find the street containing the forty-four dwellings representing human homes f*om the earliest period to the present time, a most attractive feature. The object is to show the successive development of the human raco through the ages by reproducing the charajteristic types of the dwellings man has built for himself. These are divided into three parts, and the visitor sees first the dwellings of the pre-historic men, tor although pre-historic science is a science born only yesterday, as it were, still it has made astonishing progress owing to the enthusiasm of its devotees.

They are able now to tell something of the races of men who had along past behind them, before the pyramids were iilt. The second group shows the dwellings of those nations from the earliest historical period until the beginning of modern times. The third group shoyrs the isolated civilization who have had no regular place in the historical development of habitation, cine of these, like the bltfi: ti n-'»ln liio center of Africa, have never progressed out of barbarism, while others, like ihe Chinese, although lated, have advan wl to a considerable degree of r!r thoueh they have never -•or.uibuiud to th gen pr {ress of :ho human rr-

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A Talk With Worth.

MRS. HOOPER TALKS WIRH THE URKAT DRESSMAKER ABOUT IMPERIAL ROBES AND STATELY DRESSES. 80CIETY NOTES. -mu

Mrs. Hooper writes to the Philadelphia Telegraph of an interview she had recently with Worth, the great dressmaker. He is getting to be quite an old man now. His first royal customer was Donna Maria da Gloria, queen regent of Portugal, and mother of the present king. He furnished the present Empress Eugenie with her choicest toilets, and also made a great many dresses for the Empress Augusta, of Germany, in her younger days. He reports her as having a great deal of taste and always inclined to delicate colors, her favorite color being a faint shade of lilac. The beautiful empress of Austria was one of his constant patrons in by-gone days before she became so extremely fond of horseback riding. Now she takes no interest in any toilet save a riding habit and, poor woman, if all reports are true, she cares very little now for even that. In the days Qf hoops fche used to ex aggerate the fashion to the utmost. Her majesty's skirts then were made with twelve widths of silk or velvet. He has furnished the dresses worn by royal women at nearly all the grand cere monies of Europe within the past thirty years. He made dresses for the queen of Sweden and her daughter-in-law, the orown princess, in the nation colors which are blue and yellow. He designed the pattern of peacock's feathers embroidered in beads with the eyes of precious stones, for the skirt front of the dress worn by the queen of Denmark at the marriage of her son Waldemar to the Princess Marie de Chartees, but one of the most splendid he ever designed was the court mantle of the poor young Queen Mercedes. It was scarlet velvet embroidered in gold and silver, the design being the lions of Arragon and the castles of Castile. She only lived to wear it once, and that was at the opening of the oortes. It is now in the court museum of Madrid. He made the wedding dress for the present queen regent of Spain, and says it was one of the most superb he ever designed. It was all in flounces of Point d' Aleneon. almost The court train, which was six jfrd* long, was bordered with lace and boqnets of orange blossoms. She wears only toiletsTln black lace and" jet. H® mw made some very elegant toilets for the Princess of Wales but has never made one for Queen Vicloria, which is a little strange inasmuch as he is an ingiishraan. Judging from the descriptions of her toilets and the photographs of them she evidently prefers them made at home by the family dressmaker. The Empress of Russia, the Queen of Italy, and the Grand Duchess Bladmir, sister-in-law to the Czar, are his most constant patrons—clients he calls them. The Grand Duchess Bladmir is said to be the best dressed woman in Europe. Queen

Margherita, of Italy, delights in picturesque and artistic toilets. The Czarina is so petite that he finds it difficult to design for her the stately, toilet which her

Imperial station demands without having them appear heavy and cumbersome. He made the dress she wore at her coronation after the robes of cere mony were laid aside. It was of pale green velvet, embroidered in shaded green silk and sliver beads. He made thirty-two dresses for the coronation festivities alone.

The dance at Blake's pavilion, Friday night, which was to have been attended by all the society belles and beaux, was postponed oil account of rain. Judgeand Mrs. Mack left Friday night for Bloomfield. Miss Mat tie Johns leaves next week for Detroit, where she will spend the summer. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Austin will soon go to Asherville, N. CM to be with their daughter, Mrs. Philip Miller, who spending the mer there. The Mil Thompson, of ikckville, who are vis„.:jg Mrs. Fred Thompson, at Spring Hill, will oome in town Monday, to be the guests of Mine Mary Thompson M?s. A. J. Crawford, Master John and Ms Annie Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. J. i.'. Crawford, with Misses Mollie

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summer rmosi

s.h

!riH ye AT. Ti.r-.

gft.Louis,

have been in

,,,| Emma Crawford and nurse, left Friday noon for Cresson Springs, Penn sylvania. Judge James Allen has gone to Denver. ^«s Utr^ and Emma AiJrn hive ff*": to A

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Will

her eoua'n

Mrs. Job G'o!»raitb, in Brie, Pa. South icth street

will

be very much improved

by tho thrw no^ will soon l.n i-rfru-d. Ju-5 J»:'-p bnild on th*. -,t n«*t tc jJr. '1UJ J": kf». Mr. 4 i. of Cincinnati, is tbeareht teet. Mr.

Croft builds on the lot

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I all be handaomo bo rove -.h« street

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The Ellsworth well developed a sensation yesterday afternoon by showing unmistakable signs of gas, but whether there is enough of the fluid for any practical use or whether more will be reached still remains to be shown. On examining the drillings brought out by the nmp in the afternoon, the drillers 'ound strong traces of gas,knd when the pump was emptied and a match applied to the end of the tube the gas flashed up| in black sB&ie at a ffepth o!T4®3 feet and the hole full of water. The water will be cased out to-day, and thegas given an

The court house and city hall base h«tl aggregations managed to come toth' Wednesday afternoon, and the reanlt

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Twentieth Year

THE OIL WELLS.

Terre Xante's experience of the last week in oil drilling is such as must come to all cities having an acknowledged underlying oil field, so it seems. As in Ohio and Pennsylvania, wells not far from the flowing well have proven a failure in fact all companies now drilling to the east of the Diall well have about decided to abandon that portion of the field. The Joseph, Kinser and Big Four wells reached the supposed depth of the oil sand about Thursday, but instead of being rewarded with an oil flow, a stream of surphur water was penetrated and the holes were consequently abandoned with the exception of the Joseph, where experimental drilling is still In progress. This experience, while oostly, will prove a lesson for the time being. -While the exeitomfent was at fever heat immediately after the Diall flow was struck, the new companies seemed to have but one idea—to drill along the Vandalia tracks to the east. Consequently nearly a dozen wells were located in a bunch notwithstanding that there was no more hope in that direction than in others. The result of these failures will be to so scatter the wells from now on that the oil stream can be located. The oompanles drilling in this belt who have not reached the sand are the Elliott, Alden, Mo Keen, Centennial and Acme, and some of these associations still have enough oapital stock remaining to sink holes in another portion of the field if work is immediately discontinued. This will probably be done by several of them. Of the wells which are scattered over the field the Smith, Button-Hole, Phcvnix, Macksville ar 1 Ellsworth are nearing the oil depth, ad oil is expected to be flowing from several of these by the middle of next week. Thero is less hope for the* Mack8ville company than for any of the others, as the different strata have been found to dip decidedly in that direction.

to manifest it&elL Mutib..

of this experiment. The Ganarantee company is still strong in the belief that plenty of oil will be found here, and Is going ahead with its preparations for handling it. The new 36,000 barrel tank ordered some time ago has arrived and will be erected at the gravel pit. The big tank is 90 feet in diameter at the base and will hold 1,000 barrels more oil than that of the Standard Company.

Anew company to be known as tho Unterrifled Thirty" Is now forming.

•Thore's one good square meal off the mayor anyhow" remarked a north end man the other evening as he passed me, about 10 p. m., leading his subdued bovine from the Normal school yard toward his home at Sixth and Kagle streets. "They thought when they passed the cow ordinance they could keep her in, but this cow eats just the same." He had been following the animal around for an hour or more while she grazed in comfort and apparent security on tho Normal lawn. Another evening the same enterprising citizen was seen leading his faithful cow down the street, encouraging her in eating the grass and weeds next the sidewalk as she passed along. Evidently it is a regular occupation with him, and should the council repeal the ordidonco he will feel as though a privelege bad been stolen from blm.

The interest taken in the playing of A1 Meyers, Terre Haute's representative in the national ball league, is remarkable. It seems that every base ball enthusiast in the city is among the host of his admirers, and It could not well be otherwise for he is playing ball such as is seldom equalled on the diamond. When Meyer* was transferred from Washington to Philadelphia the latter clnb at once jumped Into popular favor here, and now thero are many predictions that the Phi lies will come out ahead at the end of the season. "Cod" is certainly, making a record which will send him to the top in tbs second basemen's standing.

well earned and complete

victory for the county officials by the score of 11 to Uk The city officials we re In bad trim, the claim being made that they wore over-trained and U»at they

been dragged with dear water. It Is also claimed that the sun had a good de** to do with their defeat The only equalities was the loosening of a finger

,_ nail for Captain Murphy, of the police isr 'bome fjwe, Inawild attempt at witching tho ball-

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