Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 23, Number 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 October 1892 — Page 4
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TERRE HAUTE OCT. 22, 1892.
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THK famous saying that "a public office is a public trust" should be changed in some instances so as to read: "A public office is a public bust."
CHOI,KKA still lingers at Hamburg, but the number of new cases is decreasing daily, and by the end of the month the authorities confidently assert that it will have disappeared.
THIS is a large country of varied climate. Last week while people in this portion of it were experiencing oppressive heat a number of persous were frozen to death in Colorado.
THK fact that Chicago is soon to have the largest telescope in the world need not bo taken as conclusive evidence that tho people of that wicked city need greater facilities for turning their eyes heavenward.
EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND declined an invitation to Chicago this week because he did not wish to gain any political ftdvautage over an opponent who was compelled to remain at home through the sickness of his wife.
IT is said that Sir Theodore Martin is to have the first refusal of the poet lnuroateship made vacant by the death of Tennyson. Now, if too many wont rise at once, will some one please say who Sir Theodore Martin is, and how many rofusals of the honor there are to be.
THK Japanese government is negotiating for the purchase of all railroads now in existence in that country, and contemplates tho construction of six new linos. Hut then they have in that country a way of appointing none but their best men as officials, and ward heelers have no pull over the taxpayers.
THK receipts of the state board of agriculture from tho state fair this year were $27,5(i0 and tho expenditures g23,474 85, leaving a profit of $4,086.15, When the ancient methods or tho board are considered tho showing is very creditable, while with an entorprising board It would literally be out of sight.
THK twelve-inch gun industry is in a most flourishing condition. It is stated that it will tako until 180i to fill all the orders which are now on file for these instruments. While it is to be earnestly hoped that tho country will have no use for such weapons, still it must be admitted that a good supply aud constant readiness to meet trouble are strong arguments in favor of peano.
THK speechless admiration with which ex-Secretary Blaine has been regarding the administration since the Minneapolis convention, gave way to a speech this week in which he predicted Republican success and gavo his reasons why that party would succeed, among which is the sound policy of the administration His speech may be taken as an evidence that the great statesman never sulks in his tent.
THK ponsion roll for the first quarter of the present year amounts to §-10,3(57,675, against $25,440,629 the first quarter of last year, which means a total of $170, 000,000 for tho yepr and a probable increase to $200,000,000 next year. This is a much larger sum than it costs to main tain the largest standing army in the world, audit certainly caunot be charged against the United States that "republics are ungrateful."
THK Supreme court of this state has suspended the judgment rendered by the Henry county Circuit court In the apportionment case. Under the decision of tho latter the election for the legislature would hare to be made under the old apportionment act. If this was done and the decision of the lower court should be reversed the members elected could not serve. The case will not be heard by the upper court until after the election, heuoe the suspension of the judgment.
THK Homestead Local News, the organ of the strikers, this week announces that the Carnegie Steel company is winning the fight, and that the strike is gradually dying out. Of course the strikers deny this, but tho fact remains that in addition to the lives lost the company and employes are out hundreds of thousands of dollars on the unfortunate affair, and just where the benefit to any person comas in is not discernible to the naked eye.
THK church goers of Detroit were shocked last Sunday by a big gang of street pavers who worked hard all day, and from every pulpit the street contractors and city officials were denounced. On the other hand the merchants in business on the street where the work was done, also declare venge~ ance against the contractors and city!
officials for the long continued torn up condition of the thoroughfare. Evidently Detroit has had some of Terre Haute's experience in street paving, but down here no objections havo been offered against Sunday work or night work—the people have been too anxious for the completion of the work to indulge in any foolishness. If the contractor had the temerity to incur the wrath to comb the people evinced no desire to arbitrate the matter.
A BUSINES- the northern portion of thestii ther day sold fortyfive shares oi Nnu-*ual bank stock, of the par value of $iOJ each, for something over $9,000, or an advance of more than 100 per cent. The purchaser evidently had no fears of the abolition of the system and the establishment of the wild cat system of other days. The National banking system is the only solid one which the country has ever known, and the idea that it should be abolished is preposterous.
AFTER fifteen years of zealous courtship a Michigan widow has become weary of waiting and has brought suit against her affianced for $20,000, which she thinks would materially assist in healing her lacerated affections. Considering the length of time the defendant has been at work on the tender heart of the fair plaintiff the price cannot be said to be exliorbitant. Having monopolized the lady until she Is beyond the marriageable age he should pay well for it, and doubtless will.
TELEPHONE communication was established between Chicago and New York this week. The line is nearly one thousand miles in length, the longest in the world, and works like a charm. Previous to the opening of this line the longest distance telephone was that between Pans and Marseilles, which is five hundred miles. The line between Paris and London is less than two hundred and fifty miles. Now that Chicago has got New York by the ear it should lead the big Atlantic metropolis around to some point where it can see the World's Fair to advantage.
LAST Monday the telegraphers on the Santa Fe railway system all went out on strike on the strength of a telegram,purporting to have been sent out by Chief Ramsey, of the Telegraphers's Union. It turned out to be a practical joke played by an operator at Dodge City, Kansas, the toughest town in America. Business was suspended until the joke was discovered, when the joker was promptly bounced. Next time he is holding down a job he will probably select his jokes with a view to harmless amusement rather than as a display of asinine idiocy.
Two weeks more and the political campaign will be over. It will pass into history as the dullest ever known to the country. The lack of interest has been due principally to good times and business activity. For two years the crops have been good and every person of industrious habits has been prosperous. The music of prosperity is preferred to the voice of the politician, and while the latter goes begging for a hearing the average citizen quietly attends to his own affairs, gathering in the dollars with tho assurance that the country is safe, politicians of all parties to the contrary notwithstanding.
HAVING failed to attract any attention through her threats of libel suits against the papers of this country Mrs. Victoria Clallin-Woohull-Martin is now running on another tack. After an absence of sixteen years from political life and America she returned this week to run for president agfain. Her letter of ao ceptance made its appearance a few days ago, atfd the broker of ether days is still for Woodhull, reform and an appropriation. The people of this country are patient, though their suffering is frequently intense, and they will doubtless survive the latest affliction by submitting to It with Christian resignation. "The Lord loveth whom He chaateneth," and as a chastener Woodhool has had remarkable success.
As an evidence of returning sense it may be stated that the chances of Jerry Simpson misrepresenting the Seventh Kansas district in congress again are becoming smaller by degrees and beauti fully less as the campaign progresses. His constituents are daily serving notice on him that nature already furnishes more wind than they need out there, and that something more substantial will be required of him if he expects to b« re-elected. Being unable to furnish it the chances are that Mr. Simpson will be turned down. The Seventh Kansas is the largest district in population in the country, and is also very large in area, embracing over 20,000 square miles, or more than one fourth of the state. It claims that its people are wide awake and progressive, although the election of Simpson to congress by more than 7,000 majority two years ago is not evidence of the fact. However, if the temporary aberration disappears this fall all will be forgiven and no questions will be asked. If Kansas has any more freaks which it wants to place on exhl billon it should be done in some other way than by sending them to congress,
THE MINER LAW CONSTITUTIONAL. The Michigan legislature at its last session passed what is known as the Miner law, which provides for the election of presidential electors by districts, instead of by the state as a whole. Steps were taken at once to test the constitutionality of the law, and it was upheld by the state courts. It was then taken to the United States Supremo conn and this week Chief Justice Fuller gavrt an opinion which holds the law invalid onlr so far as it conflicts with the acts
of congress of 18S7 relating to the time of the meeting of the electors. The decision declares that the act is not obnoxious to the provisions of the constitution, conferring upon the legislature of the state the power to fix the manner of choosing electors, nor of the fourteenth amendment, and the judgment of the Michigan Supreme court in upholding the law is affirmed.
The manner of choosing electors as prescribed by the Miner law is nothing new. The electors in some states were appointed by the legislature itself, this being the case in South Carolina, where the custom prevailed until 1868, aud in Colorado the electors were chosen in this manner in 1876. In the majority of the states, however, the electors were chosen by districts, in the same manner as members of congress, and that, too, during the lifetime of the men who framed the constitution, and was maintained in a number of states until a comparatively recent period. With the increase of party power the cu-tom gradually prevailed of choosing the electors on a general ticket. The step taken by the Michigan legislature is a step in the direction of the election of a president by a popular yote of the people, and Is only one step removed from it. With a fair congressional appointment in all the states there could be no seiious objection to the new movement in that which is really an old direction.
TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING' MAJL.'
The decision will result in a split of the electoral vote. In 1890 of the eleven congressmen elected from the state eight were Democrats and three Republicans, but that was a landslide which will not be repeated in 1892. Now the state is entitled to twelve congressmen, which will give it fourteen votes in the electoral college. In 1888 Harrison's plurality was 22,923, with 26,417 scattering votes. In 1890 the Democrats elected thegovernor by 11,520 plurality, with 41,849 scattering votes. Last year the Republican candidate for judge of the Supreme court had 4,9i'0 plurality, with 23,265 scattering .The Democrats claim that the new deaj
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give them seven of the fourteen electoral votes, and the claim is generally con ed by Republicans. There may, ho ever, be a surprise in store for either party, and November 8th will unfold the tale.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A campaign lie may be nailed, but caucuses are bolted. A Georgia Judge has decided that a mule Is a deadly weapon.
Blaine weighs 162 pounds on the scales. Elsewhere his weight is greater.
The minor incidents of a political campaign sometimes produce the major results.
The duration of a prize-fight is not measured by tho number of seconds in the ring.
Tho insufferable egotism of some of the would-be great men of the present time is their strong point.
Talmage claims that the Czar arose from his seat when he spoke. The Czar was probably looking for a chance to escape.
It will be Thanksgiving day soon—a ilay whose honors are now shared by the Puritan turkey and the fin de siecle football game.
The number of girls marrying Chinamen is increasing. This is perhaps duo to the natural dislike of the American malden'a doing the family wash.
Dr. Parkhurst, forgetful of the admo nltlon that charity should bfegin at home proclaims his impression that New York is a wickeder oity than London
In a recent magazine article Mr. Chas. Dudley Warner remarks that "the sum meris over." These literary men are always discovering some new thing
The lonesome cholera bacillus goes back to Europe to tell its friend, the yellow feyer gern, that if it hadn't been for the pesky McKinley law it might have got into America and done a rushing business.
When the nephew of an ex-Governor and a son of an ex-Reoorder can be hauled up before a Magistrate for running a gambling den in Philadelphia, no
one
outside of Chicago will ever again
call Philadelphia slow. A New York State peripatetic poet peeped into the apartments of two young ladies and had his personality promptly punctured with bird shot by their father. A realistic poet hasn't much chance to study themes from life down that way, it seems.
A sure way to discover whether a man is drnnk or dying is to hit him with a club. If drunk he will swear. If Terre Haute medical authorities would adept this test it might save some lives, and no doubt sick men would prefer it to a night in a stifling cell.
Mythical fortunes in London waiting for American heirs continue to furnish a considerable band of swindlers with bait for the credulous and nwary. The condition of trade may be disturbed in other respects, but the supply of fools is always equal to the demand.
The star of hope is beaming in an iridescent sky for poor, down-trodden man. A New York paper, after years of contemptuous ignoring of the claims of the sex, has finally established a man's page. The next stop in the great reform is to make a declaration of independence as to staying out of nights.
No issue of human right is at stake in the present campaign, nor is there any great reform which, involves the loosening of the shackled of tradition to be accomplished. Tho Issues which cause the variances Is a difference of opinion as to the best methods of regulating and benefiting commerce and labor. Each of the two great paitiee may be partly
right and partly wrong in the methods they advocate. The fact that each has compromised with the other to a certain extent goes to show that each party acknowledges some good in the policy of its opponent.
Gideon's Band is an oath-bound organization—of Western origin, of course —which expects "to be able to keep offices rolling between the parties until w© have comparative purity in politics." It is a beautiful scheme, but secret political societies and balance-of-power parties in this country have lett only one record behind them—failure.
In announcing their allegiance to Mrs. Woodhull, woman suffrage candidate for President, the crinoline electorate declare if the ballot be giyen them they will abolish anarchy, intemperance and insanity. The bid is scarcely high enongh. If they will also agree to abolish heterodoxy, typhoid fever and cholera their offer may be considered.
A year ago Planter Wolf, of Knoxville, Ark., had an arm pulled off while showing a negro how to operate a ootton giu. T'le other dayhewas instructing another negro, and lost his other arm. Mr. Woll's instruction is now at an end, as he is out of arms. But then Mr. Wolf's way of operating cotton gins was not a good one.
Someone haying made the statement that "a wagon-maker who had been dumb-for years picked up a hub and spoke," this is the composite result: "Yes, and a blind carpenter on the same day reached out for his plane and saw a deaf ranchman went out with his dog and herd a noseless fisherman caught a barrel of herring and smelt a defunct hatter was tenderly deposited on a pile of hair and felt, and a forty-ton elephant inserted his trunk into a grate and flue.".
4 Butterine, at Wm. H. Hertfelder's, cor. 4th and Cherry.
The cool autumn days are here, and when you go out driving you should be provided with a good lap robe, which you can find at W. C. May fcCo.'s who also keep the finest assortment of horse blankets in town. No. 11 south Fourth st^eefr
New Lounges, "Probst's, ..., 642 Wabash Ave.
Peter Miller, of No. 505 Main street, wishes to inform 3 ou that he has the finest line of Ian robes and horse blankets ever brought to this city, and he is selling them for less money than any house in town.
No yellow edge or blue streaks from the New Method Laundry, 725 Main street.
All kinds of spectacles fitted aud war anted at J, Kern's.
Keid's German Cough and Kidney contains 110 poison.
Humber Cycles! Ormonde Cycles!
the grandest of all combination in the world can be found at Geo. C. Rossell's Bicycle Headquarters 325 Main street,
Dr. B. E. GLOVER,
Specialty: Diseases of the Rectum. SEVENTH AND POPLAR STREETS
There is 110 scare about us. "We sell our Heating Stoves from $1 to $8 cheaper than anybody else. Wood, Williams & Co.
FRESH OYSTERS.
E. W. Johnson intends, this season, as for many years past, to lead the oys ter trade and make his establishment headquarters for the finest New York and Baltimore Oysters. He has jusi received a choice lot.
New Couches, Probst's 642 Wabash Ave.
Fancy New York Pippins, Baldwins aDd Greenings. Both eating and cooking apples at J. H. Simmons',» 631 Main street.
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive care now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Care is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c.
GROUND FLOOR DENTALPARLORS. Br Mar bach has re-opened his Dental parlors at 124 south Sixth street.
A nnou nee t: ts
Wanted situations, marriages and births are inserted in The Mall free of charge. "Wants," "For Sales," r-te., are chargedocents per line, and death uottoes 51 each.
For Rent.
BXR.
KENT—My 7 roon cottage 23 north Eighth will he vacant about November loth JOHN G. HE1NL.
Wanted.
Wand
ANTED—GIRL-Permanent position first class wages paid. No. 919 south Seventh street. Refereuee required.
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ANTED—To buy improved Real Estate in all parts of the city. Come and see us or mall us description and price.
RIDDLE, HAMILTON & CO.,
For Sale.
OR SALE.—
Choice lols on 1st avenue between 14th and 15th streets.) 3 good lots facing south on Liberty avenue just west of 21st street. 7 room house on 50-foot lot S. E. corner of 14th and Poplar streets.
Lot on Corner Franklin avenue and canal
Fsouthwest
FOULKESASCOVELL, 511 Ohio street.
OR SALE—12 Jersey heifer calves, from 1 to 12 months old price from 85 to 825. J. V. PRESTON.
"p^OR SALE.—Bargains in Improved propJD erty in all parts of the city. RIDDLE, HAMILTON & CO.,
F®R
SALE—Lots everywhere. $50.00 and upward in cash, balance in Installments. Why pay rent? Buy a home.
RIDDLE, HAMILTON & CO.,
FORSALE.—A
40-foot lot on Sixth street,
the "Euclid avenue" of Terre Hn,ute, for only 8700.00. Come quick if you want it. RIDDLE, HAMILTON A CO.,
FORSALE*—Farms,sixtyacresto600
OR SALE.—That splendid
That an election to be held in the several counties of the state of Indiana, and in tho several townships of Bald county,, on "tho first Tuesday after the first Monday in November," it being tho 8th day of November, 1892, the voters of said county, at tlieprccincts of holding elections in the several townships of said county, vote to elect the following officers, viz:
NATIONAL.
President and vice president of tho United States, through fifteen (15) electors to bo voted for and elected by the voters of tho state of Indiana.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Representative in thccongrcssof the United States of America, from the Eighth Congressional district of the state of Indiana.
STATE.
Governor of state. Lieutenant governor of state. Secretary of state. Auditor of state. Treasurer of state. Attorney general of state. Superintendent of public instruction. Reporter of supreme court. Three (3) Judges of supreme court. Five (5) Judges of appellate court. Chief of bureau of statistics.
LEGISLATIVE.
One (1) Joint representative in the general assembly of the state of Indiana, from the counties of Vigo, Sullivan and Vermillion.
COUNTY.
And the voters of said county of Vigoatthe election and at the precincts aforesaid, will vote for and elect the following officers, viz:
One (1) senator and two (2) representatives In the general assembly of the state of Indiana, for Vigo county.
Prosecuting attorney of the Vigo Circuit court, the samebeing the Forty-third Judicial circuit of the state of Indiana.
Treasurer of Vigo county. Sheriff of Vigo county. Commissioner from the Second district of aid county for short term.
Commissioner from the Second district of •aid county for long term. Commissioner from the Third district of said county.
Surveyor of Vigo connty. Coroner of Vigo county. Assessor of Vigo county. And you are commanded to give notice of said election, in the manner and fer the time provided by law.
Witness my signature and the seal of said court affixed this 19th day of October, 1892. [8EAL.] NO. C. WARREN,
Clerk of the Vigo Circuit Court.
I, Jas. W. Stout, sheriff of Vigo county In the state of Indiana, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and complete copy of the original precept now In my bands and by virtue of the same 1 hereby notify the qualified voters of said county to meet at the usual places of holding elections in the several townships in said county, on Tuesday, the 8th day of November, 1892, for the purpose of electing the officers therein named.
This 19th day of October, 1802. JAMES W. STOUT, Sheriff
We lead in the Meat trade haying on hand the choicest prins Lamb, Sonthdown Mutton, Pig Pork, Steer Beef, Yeal and all kinds of Sansages Telephone 220, corner Fourth and Ohio streets.
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acres.
Come and see us for particulars. RIDDLE, HAMILTON &CO.,
FOR
SALE.—Hard wood timber lands, for 85.00 to $10 per acre. Come and see us for particulars.
RIDDLE, HAMILTON & CO.,
FORSALE.—A
lot on Sixth street, 71 feet
front, the only one left, owned by a nonresident. Here is a chance of a llle time. RIDDLE, HAMITON & CO,, lot on tho corner of "Seventh and Linton streets, 45 feet front.
RIDDLE, HAMILTON & CO.,
If you wisli to loan money, If yon wish to borrow money, 4C, If you wish to sell property, If you wish to buy property, If you wish to trade property,
CALL ON
FOULKES & SCOVELL,
Real Estate and Loan Agents, 511 Ohio st.
pRECEPT—GENERAL ELECTION, 1892.
STATE OF INDIANA, 1
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TO-DAY
A Special Day
LOW PRICE DAY.
W'
"E'LL HAVE extra help in our Cloak Department today. Last Saturday we were a little short of help
just when we needed them most. To-day we have a force of ten salespeople in our Cloak department, but remember if you come in the forenoon you will avoid the great afternoon rush. It is town talk that Hoberg's have the correct things in Ladies' Outer Garments at prices as you never saw so reasonable.
To still further introduce our jaunty little Children's Jackets we will offer them for one day at a discount of 10 per cent. Remember a special for to-day only. Ages 4 to io years.
iOo Ladies' Tan Diagonal Jackets at $2.48—under price—value $5. 75
Astrakhanjackets Shawl Collar, for ladies, at
$8.50,
90
value
$12.
Tan Diagonal Oppossum
Shawl Collar Jackets for misses and lacies at
$6.98,
value
See our
$10.
$3.98
and $5 Genuine
Coney Fur Collars, value
$7.50.
$5
$22.50.
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County of Vigo, f88'
I, John C. Warren, clerk of Vigo Circuit court, county and state aforesaid, do hereby certify to the sheriff of the said county of Vigo, as follows:
and
Come and see the handsomest Plush Sacque fot $15 you ever saw, value
CLOTH JACKETS from $10 upwards are giyen the credit of being the nobbiest in the city and much more reasonable in price. Visit us before buying, it will pay you.
DRIVES.
1 case Children's Black Ribbed Hose, warranted fast colors, all sizes,
10c
a pair. 1 case Misses'
Fast Black Double Knee and Toe Cotton Hose, extra heavy, a great bargain, sizes
7
and
8
7
and
1-2 at
1-2 and and
75c
18c,
9
at
20c 9
at
22c,
and
9
1-2
cheap at
35c
a pair. See
our Four Thread Hose for Boys— great value. To-day wc offer a large line of Ladies' Hose in boot patterns, modes, tans, slates, blacks, etc. Regular
50, 60, 70
grades at the uniform price
45c a pair. I case Ladies' Vests, winter weight, extra nice ribbed goods, at
19c,
cheap at
35c.
1 case
each Ladies' Shaped Vests and pants, mixed cotton, self front, a great bargain at
48c,
value 65c
1 case Ladies' All Wool Tights'at $1.25. Union Suits and Combination Suits for ladies, gents and children, a great specialty.
Kid Gloves—75 dozen novelties for to-day's trade. See our new Dressed and Mosquctaire Gloves at
75c, 99c
and $1.25.
Cotton Dress Fabricr. Specials, Crepons
7 3-4C,
were
J2 :-2c
ford Cords,
Bed
8
1-3, were xsc Cen
tury Cloths, were
18c.
Look for
them on center tables.
10,000
x-2c, value
Come and see us.
yds
Heavy Unbleached Cotton Flannel,
8
10
cents.
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