Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 2, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 July 1894 — Page 1

Vol. 25.---No. 2.

ON THE QUI VIVE.

Hon. John E. Lamb got to Washington on Monday, and on Tuesday the senate passed the tariff bill. When John goes after anything he usually brings it.

John Thompson, the poor black devil, who stole a wheel from a Terre Hauto bicyclist, and -endeavored to -carry it to Chicago on top of a C. A E. I. Pullman, was given Ave years, in the "Circuit court this week, for his crime, ffe was out of work and hungry and was made desperate by the knowlege that bis children in Chicago were crying for bread, so he stole the bicycle, hoping tosell.it and buy bread. Mr. Thompson made a very eloquent speech in his own behalf, but it had no effeot. It ought to have had no effect. A man who isn't smarter than he is, ought to go to state's prison. If Thom pson bad been real smart he would have stolen a hundred thousand dollars worth of bicycles, converted them into cash, and then he could have hired a big array of fine lawyprs to pick liawsin the indictmentand discover technicalities through which he would have secured his liberty. Then mounting a wheel he could ride around the streets and give the horse laugh to bis victims, who in the meantime would shake in their shoe-* for fear lie would send tbem to state'* prison for conspiring to get their wheel back. Five Stars' meditation over these matters, with the thought that bis wife and children have either starved to death or become-charges on the county, will convince Thompson that he isn't smart enough to be allowed to run at large, and he will.probably ask to have his name kept on the roll of the prison south.

Doctor W. 11. Roberts is a man Q. V. has always entertained the highest opinion of, because he is one of the kind "J' that you can always tell where be stands on any public question. And he thinks a threat, lloal more of him since he & whipped a bully for using abusive languago towards a young lady. His son,

Donn,-called the fellow down, first, and when the lstter struck the young man, the doctor mixed in aud gave the fellow a good trouncing. The doctor is entitled to a medal for his conduct,

The street oar company handled 25,060 passengers on the Fourth of July, and handled thom as they were never handled before—promptly and satisfactorily. The company never had a big crowd before that was handled so well. It requires "git up and git" to make any business go, and that's a characteristic of the company at present.

The oouucU look the bull by the horns Tuesday night, when the salaries of the new city attorney, fire chief and street uituiitiiseioner were allowed aud paid at tho dead hour of night, before a restraining order could be jssued against it. Tho salaries of these officers are payable quarterly only, and this was tho first chance offered for giving them their warrants, and there was no time lost about it. Messrs. Foley, Kennedy and Coordes will sue for their salaries, and then when the Supreme court passes on it we will find out who were tho lawful holders of these offices. Of course, after his decision in the Kennedy Jones case, Judge MoNutt, if the oases are brought before him, cannot fail to decide in the favor of those bringing tho suit, and It will go to tho 8u|»reme court, where it will meet another case, appealed from Shelbyville, where the judge, also a Democrat, decided that the law was no good, and that the officials elected by tho new council were entitled to their places at once.

The fire department has no chief in the absence of Fire Chief Kennedy, and to obviate this difficulty the council appointed Theo. Goodman as acting chief. Judge McNutt promptly restrained him from acting, in favor of Assistant Thos Boleman, who was elected by the council two years ago, whose office is not named In the McHugh law, and who is simply serving as chief at the direction of the fire chief. The members of the lire committee are so used to being enjoined now that they are thinking cf dining steadily on Injunctions and restraining orders, ______

The cemetery commissioners didn't raise the price of cemetery lots Monday, but they did throw open to public sale several desirable sections in Highland T^awn, with lots so slsed as to be within the reach of persona of limited means. If The platting was done by Joseph Barnshaw, who platted the cemetery originally, They »Ij?o acted favorably on a )ian for dxtendlog the street oar line to the new cemetery, if the county commission*" will pay a portion of the cost of widening the National road between "Lover's JUne" and the cemetery, the railroad company and the cemetery commissioner* also to bear a portion of it. Highland Lawn la a beautiful place* thanks to Uie artistic work of Superin tendent Bain, and will be much visited ami admired when the street oars bring

It within reach. A few year* ago it was generally condemned, and the council gr*saUv criticised for making the porchase** To-day tt» beauty has In groat measure killed that feeling.

The park oommtadoners wero not alto-

gether able to agree Tuesday night as to why the park was closed so early. Mayor Ross said il was because the place wasn't lighted, and Commissioner Scott said it was ordered closed witboot any consideration of whether it was well lighted or not. The council, kewever, settled the question tacitly, if not directly, by allowing $500 for the park^xpenses, and viewing with favor the numerous petitious asking that the clos ing hoar be'fixed at eleven o'clock,

An amendment was proposed to the park ordinance, increasing the board to six members', not-more than three to belong to one political party, and vacancies to be filled by tbe council. The amendment also provides that two of the members sbaU be representatives of the laboring clashes. Tbe amendments are very sensible, and will doubtless receive the approval of the council.

It has been discovered that there is a state law governing parks, which requires a board of three to be elected by tbe council, for terms of one, two and three years. If this law is enforced it will require a new board of commissioners to be elected, and will render unnecessary the adoption'of the proposed ordinance increasing the park membership to SlX.\

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WILL BRIGG8 DYING.

Untimely End of a Popular and •Worthy Toung Man.

There will be universal regret at the announcement that, as the Mail goes to press, Will Briggs, who has been dangerously ill for three weeks, is dying. Every stage of his sickness has been watched with anxiety by countless friends, and the announcement of his untimely death will be a shock to the entire community. His physician, Dr. W. O. Jenkins, gave up all hope at two o'clock this morning, at the development of a large abscess on the brain. He has been slowly sinking since then, and his death is momentarily expected. He has been uncousoious for some time, which gave him a tperoiful relief frpm his sufferings,

There was no more popular young' man in Terre Hauto than Will Briggs, and his loss will come to many as a deep personal loss. True to his friends and generous to a fault, his death can be but universally deplored. He was born in Alton, Ills, and came to this city,with his parents when but two years old. Last Sunday was his thirty-second birthday. He had been in business with his father, L. S. Briggs, for many years, and was secretary and treasurer of the 8. Briggs Lumber Co. He was also proprietor of the Star Livery stable on north Seventh street.

He was married about a year and a half ago to Miss Grace Bannister, who Is almost crazed with grief at the sorrow that has fallen upon her. His father is froBtrated with grief, and when the physicians announced last night that there was no hope for recovery Mr. Briggs was so overoome that medical assistance .was necessary to restore him.

The dying man was prominent in secret society circles, being a member of the Masonic fraternity, Knights Templar, Knights of Pythias and Uniform Rank. He was also a member of the old McK«m Rifles, once the pride of Terre Haute, and it is likely the surviving members will be called together to take appropriate action on his death, the first among the former members eince that of George Ludowicl, in 1887.

SHORT AND SWEET.

A prodigal picks his own pocket. Empty threats make lying children. •The serpent of the still wears ao rattles. -V

Don't go to the wrong ahop to get shaved. A stinted wite can find a vest pocket in the dark.

If we had eternal sunshine we would have no crops, There is many a knock-out in a whisky punch.

The dangerous end of the rattlesnake makes no noise, ft,

The aggressive man atwaj* finds the hornet at home. An anarchist is a pickpocket with cutthroat inclinations.

Some people mistake getting religion fqt a receipt in full, S There Is a Lazarus lot ^yery^mmb from the party table, rtlilli "When I go to a revival I don't want to listen to a blackguard.

One demagogue is more dangerous than a doaen aristocrats. Ood never mistakes a kneeling hypo* ortte for an upright man.

The man who gives himself away is not always worth taking.

Work on the new parish house for St. Jcneph's church will begin Mortriay, the contract having been let to Maurer & Johnson for f&,560. The old parish house will be torn down. The new building will have all the saodern conveniences, including steam heat, electric light, etc.

^TERRE HAUTE, ESTD., SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 7,1894.

BAB ON DOG DAYS-

SHE THINKS THE CANNIBALS MUST BE HAPPY WITHOUT CLOTHES TO BOTHER THEM.

Are Wean Independent People After*!!?— Midsummer Idleness—Pure Justice Is Scarcely Understood—Mercy la Court

Rooms—People Who Consider Themselves Superior Betogs.

Nobody can be expected to get up very much energy when tbe thermometer goes sailing around as it wants, and tbe early morning and the late night aUke are barely breathing spells. Nobody cares to argue, and everybody just wants to be let alone. These are tbe times when the blessings of civilization are appreciated when cool lemonade, tepid baths, lively -soda, loose blouses and everything that will convince one,-at least for a minute, that life is not to be spent in a bake oven, is counted as of great value. Personally, there are attractions in not being civilized. Fancy the joy of the young cannibal who walks around, happy and free in a necklace and a palm-leaf fan'fc Fancy bow delightful it must be to discourse with Miss Cannibal on tbe arrangement of her bracelet while the gentle winds meader over her under the impression that she is a living pi -ture! I have always thought that cannibals understood tbe real meaning of dress reform. There is no question of seams and'whalebones, or tight stays or drawstrings in their get-up instead, it is simple, easily arranged and quickly forgotten.

NOISE PRODUCING YOUNGSTERS. A#

Then, too, it must be cheerful to be able, as are the cannibals, to eat up any children who may annoy them by singing "Daisy Bell" when the evening is sultry. I live in a neighborhood where tbere is one small shop. Said shop is kept by a widow lady with only one eye, from Ireland. I don't mean that her eye alone came from Ireland, but the lady herself is a produot of that over-productive country. For four weeks she has been selling shooting crackers. I shouldn't mind that in the least, for as she is a rather grim person she can sell anything she wants as far as I am concerned, but the sir all boys who come to buy the noise producers are given the money by their mothers, who warn them that tbey are to shoot off the crackers where they buy them, and not come home to do it. And the result is that for weeks -before and weeks after the day we do celebrate our neighborhood has been a little Hades of its own, and we find ourselves given over to strong language and bitter thoughts, and dreadful headaches, and all because the product of Ireland must be supported.

I have never approved oft he Fourth of July it is undesirable as far as the weather is concerned it is indecently noisy, very few of us know what it is about, and the few who know don't care. We are not independent. As a specimen of the nation, if we will just take New York City, we don't have to think very hard to come to the conclusion that we are the least Independent of all people In the world. We are under the control of corporations in jevery direction and

NOBODY HAS THE MORAL COURAGE TO KICK

we submit to poor gas, insufficient water, bad railroad service, badly paved streets, and grumble a little, but fail to see how we can make anything better. I would like to see the English or tbe Germans submit to what we do and yet we call ourselves independent. The conductor in the street car don't pretend to do his work, for he will let three or four people take up tbe room of six while a woman hangs on the strap, and he never says a word. And the porter on the railroad waits on us well if be sees a chance tot a tip otherwise, we might ring the bell until we got tired and tbere would be no attention forthcoming. The man in the shop is impudent or agreeable as he feels like It, and nobody likes to complain for fear the poor man might lose his situation. Now, it wouldn't be a bad thing, you know, if a few people were, metaphorically, kicked because of their inability, then, after they had known the pleasure of idleness for a little while, they would probably appreciate what it meaut to do good work for value received.

Ji Is a funny idea, that "for Vftlue reQeivod.** A wise m&n and a good^worker gets that which represents his home and happiness for -value received, while the shiftless and laxy man gets a bare pittance for the value that he has given. Things are apt to straighten themselves out In the business world, and that is the reason why I can't a&? derstand

THE J*ATlOXAt. CONDITION OP TO-DAY. As*nation we are, presumably,rich, and yet the spending of a few thousand dollars here in New York to beautify tbe city, or make it more agreeable, is fought over and discussed and talked about until all the money has been squandered on the arrangements of the committee. Men who ""are to be tried for some offense against the law will make an earnest request to he taken be

fore one Judge, because they will cite how this one or that one likes to get the credit of being severe, rather than of thinking things out and being absolutely just. Pure justice Is scarcely comprehended, and tbe fact that justioe means not only a thought for tbe crime, but for the age of the offender, his former reputation, his temptation, and all that went to make bjm sin, is not recognlzsd. The Judge represents the fury of the law. He forgets that the law is to protect as well as to condemn, aud he only thinks wbac the newspapers will say about him and his so-called opinion. Nine times out of ten bis summing up is^gjrectly against the prisoner, and then hels charmed to think that tbe jury are stibh'an intelligent body that, they agree with him. And very often the jury is simply anxious to get to its supper, is tired of staying down there, and it quickly decides that, of course, the Judge knows it all, and so it does as he suggested. Mercy? That is an unknown quality on the bench to-day, unless the prisoner at the bar has a pull. It^s all such a fraud I don't suppose it w(ll be straightened up in your timej or in-mine and all we can do Is to be sorry for the people who have to ask for justice where it is not dealt in.

'THE PESTS OP SUMMER.

When I got to thinking about this, I find myself almost serious, and that is bad for the summer time. It tends to make one feel warmer, and consequently^ had better be postponed, like a new play, until the early autumn. Some very learned person said there was nothing in nature for whioh a use did not exist. Now, will somebody tell me the use of that prima donna of tbte summer, the mosquito? Will somebody tell me the use of that dreadful animal, the bla6k beetle? Will somebody please tell me the use of that many mlllloned family, the gnats. And win anybody telf me the use of that terror to us all, the snake? I have known women who were saints become like unto the wors£ of sinners when having a close conversation with a mosquito. I have known women who were brave as lady lions rush in terror at tbe sight of a black beetle. I have known women who could endure all kinds of petty troubles break down when the gnat appeared, and those who have nursed through frightful diseases, faint at the sight of a snake. Pf^ionally, I do not like a snake myself. He has such a mean way of orawling around, and then appearing with a suddenness and a hiss that is enough to frighten anything in petticoats. I have had a certain respect for women who cohld go into tbe mountains hunting Buakes, and then have the skins hung up in their libraries at home, but I don't think I could ever love a woman like that. She Is too decidedly superior she is like those people that a mosquito never bites, who are not afraid to

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the life out of a black beetle, and who wonder where the gnats are that you complain of.

THE PERFECT MAN AND WOMAN

Superior people have a tendency to make the rest of the world so wicked that it will long to go where everybody is on a level and where ice-water is not sSrved. I once lived In a house with a superior woman, and she downed me about a hundred times a day. If 1 giggled just because I was glad about something, I would bear her*talking to her neighbor about laughs with no expression In them. It I talked over a novel with a man, she would put up her glasses and eye me and wonder why somebody didn't improve my mind. She was so superior herself that she disapproved of everybody. But she rather lost her hold, for she married a minister with two sets of twins, and be is always spokeo of as "Miss Baytree's husband." He told her he never knew what love was until his head rested on her bosom, and she said, "No, Richard, do not speak of it yet as love, but respect." And then, Richard, who thought he had said something very clever, began to realize wjuat he had taken unto himself. She staves him now and makes his tiesout ofpieces of her dresses. He has a look aafif be had gotten used to ft and didn't mind. The twins are being raised in a superior manner, and from what I see of them I think they wlllall be graduates in crime some day. •"j* INBVSaMBTASUPJMUOR MAN.

I once meta very, very good one. He used to play on the melodeon of a Sunday afternoon until a frisky girl told him that everybody wanted a qpp at that time, and that his music disturbed (hem. liter this, he got to looking at ttatt girl, and though she bleached her feair a little and wore hats that could not be called truly good, still he fell in love with her and married her, and I believe thoy are very happy. So, yon see, even a very, v®ry good man can be led from tbe melodeon to matrimony by blonde-haired girl.

The melodeon is not favorite instrument of mine. It has a sort of loet-sonl sound peculiar to itself. And then, too, the people who play it always come down on it as If the keys bad done them a personal injury, and they desired to whack it out. There may be something very virtuous about tbe melodeon, but lor melody it doeant compare with the banjo, while, as for sweetness, even the

piano is better. I say, even the piano that is, because I live under a muchworked one, whioh is tuned up early In the morning, and iB performed upon for about three hours, gives us another dose in the afternoon, and then in the evening, about half-past ten, starts in and does really haid work until about one. I don't think we would mind so much if the girl knew many tunes, but she don't run to tunes. She knows three different opuses, or whatever you call them, and the "Carnival of Venice." The opuses, as far as I can make them out, consist of a high thump, then a quaver, then three thumps in rapid succession, and then a meandering over all the keys of tbe piano, as if to see whether each one was in order. This may be high art, but I wiBh it were on the floor under me instead of above me, for then I could appreciate it better. Curious, how distance does lend enohantment to a great many things.

MIDSUMMER WEATHER AND VoES.

When your mail Is delivered to you nowadays, don't most of the letters commence, "I think, if anything, it is hotter to-day than it was yesterday," and then the four pages are devoted to the weather as it is, as it is remembered, and as it is likely to be? There is a beautiful monotony about one's friends' opinions in black and white, and unless there Is a postscript saying, "The dog died yesterday," when you have read one letter you have read all. It is queer, but what else can we expect in a country that is so weather-stricken? We can't have a nice, amiable summer day with a cool evening ob, no! we have to turn in and run up into the nineties, and then when the evening comes, career up to about one hundred and eight, whioh means no sleep. And so we go along Well, you see, I am just like the rest My letter is about the weather and its woes. The only difference is that where tbe others are signed, "Affectionately" "Faithfully" and "Cordially," I am, Truthfully yours, BAB.

SUMMER HOIEL RULES. A couple of enterprising young Terre Hauteans have devised the following set of rules for a summer hotel, the erection of which was postponed on account of the stringency of the times:

Guests going to bed with their boots on will be fired. Guests burning the gas after midnight will be charged extra.

Guests sleeping between the tioks of the clock will be charged extra. Dogs taking their meals in the dining room will be charged full rates.

Bills are payable weekly and will be cheerfully contested by the chief clerk. If the regulator clock in the hall stops you can always find a tick in the bed.

All the. liquors are bad and the pro* prietors know it, but the air is "out of sight."

Guests are Invited to have their children run on the piazzas and shout in the hallways. It makes the house seem lively and homelike.

Anything the guests may desire that tbey don't &ee will be cheerfully furnished gratis, except rebates on their bills. We are entirely out of rebates.

Meals and refreshments served In the rooms at half regular rates. It increases business, and the more we do the smaller peicentage of profits we can do Hon.

The Medical Board recommend the water used in the hotel very highly. The proprietors are prepared to furnish other liquids if the water does not suit

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your taste. Guests are earnestly requested to carry home as souvenirs of their trip, towels, soap, bed linen and silver. The proprietor. almw^verti.ethehouM ID every way.

The hotel is a philanthropic scheme of the proprietors. Guests lowering their trunks from back windows and "skipping by the light of the moon" add to the proprietors' enjoyment. Try to please tbem. jlf 1|E

Sarah Bernhardt has numberless admirers, and they are all tumbling over each other's heels in their anxiety to die for her. The eminent actress is now playing a' part in which—during the last act—she rushes upon tbe stage and flings herself weeping npor. the corpse of her lover. Viscounts, Senators, poeta and artists write from all parts of the country offering their services as the corpse. And so Sarah Bernhardt, wishing to satisfy everybody, has a fresh corpse every evening/

It was the Parisian women who were accredited two or three years with the objectionable practice of injecting perfume under the skin, by which the very blood became aromatic, and now to them is ascribed another process, less objectionable, perhaps, but still very questionable, ft is a method by which false eyelashes may be made. A fine needle, threaded with dark hair, is drawn through the skin of the eyelid, forming long loops, and after tbe operation is over—which it is said Is painless —tbere remains a beautiful fringe Jo If]™ •ell the wearer's eyes. e«d.

Tbere must be a big demand for crape in the late tfniey Hassan's kingdom. He left about 2,000 widows.

Twenty-fifth Year

NEWS OF THE CITY

Rev. Cbas. H. Catou, of Baltimore, will preach Sundajr morning at the

Christian church.

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A party consisting of the stage hands of the Opera House, and R. L. Hayman, Will Parrott, C.-H. Filbeck, David L. Watson, and G. A. Gagg have gone into camp near the mouth of Otter Creek for a ten days' outing.

Charles Childres, who works at Rockwell's livery stable, tried to run over a street car Thursday while driving on| Main street. His buggy was overturned, and his foot so badly fractured that it| had to be amputated.

Tbe Licensed Saloon Keofiefti' UliiotiV No. 7 of Vigo county has elected the following offioers for the ensuing year:

President—C. N. Murphy. 'f"* Vice president—Louis Gerhardt. Secretary—R MoMahon. Treasurer—W. O. Weldele. Sergeant at arms—Jacob Mahllng. Trustees—T. Kelly, Sylvester Bogard and Thos. W. Werklser. \V

The Central Labor Union, at its meeting Thursday night, elected the following officers for the ensuing term: ».

President—P J. O'Connell. Vioe President—Otto Wurtzebaeh. ?,• Treasurer—Charles A. Talbert. Secretary— L. S. Coombes. Sergeant at Arms—Harry Agar. Trustees—B. Martin, C. Worth, G. M. Long*

Committee on Laws—L. S. Coombes, Harry Agar, William Fi nkbiner.

Tbe Patriotic Order Sons of America, &0.will hold a public installation of officers next Thursday evening, 'July 12, at their hall over the old Prairie City bank. „The newly elected officers are:

President— F. T. Lee. Vice President—Mr. Slusseft

Master of Forms—Frank McKee. Conductor—James Crawford. Inspeotor—James Stevenson. Guard—John Bickel. 'j Trustee—C. M. Gllthore. Secretary—Will Krietensteln.*"*' Financial Secretary—W B. Coons, Treasurer—Harry A. Dodson. The new distillery, operated by the Indiana Distilling Co., will open for sii business about the first of September. Henry Klopfer, of Chicago, will have the cattle feeding privileges, and John Barbazette, who for some twelve or thirteen years was in charge of tbe cattlel at the old distillery, will occupy the^ same position at the now. The grading| for the new cattle barns is now belng^ done by Kinser & Son, and when donepill the work of erection will be pushed as||g vigorously as was that of the distillery*^ itself. The new barns will have alfe capacity of 3,000 cattle.

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The Princes of the Orient are again to give another initiation ceremony at the v' opera house, July 24th,,to be followed by a banquet.

St. Ann's Catholic church, at Fourteenth and Locust streets, was destroyed by fire last Sunday noon. The building was insured for $3,000. I

The corner stone of the new Asbury church will be laid with impressive '*''..^ ceremonies next Monday morning. The corner stone of the old church will be ,"0 taken out at half past four o'clock toor a no on an he on a in a copper box for the corner stone of the new church, at Seventh and Poplar streets, which will be laid Monday morning after appropriate exercises commencing at 10 o'clock. Rev. S. V. Leech, of Cententary, will give the ^^4 principal address, and Mayor Ross and s, y' the ministers of other churches will also "7, assist in the ceremonies. *A

William Bradd, a west end tough, el at he 4 in Myers, a seventeen year old boy, in a quarrel over notorious Lizzie Tool#who figures frequently in police -court re--'". ports. Tbe affair occurred at First and Swan streets, and Bradd has thus far succeeded in evading the police. Myers was dangerously hurt and may die. While a number of the police were looking for Bradd northwest of the oity Thursday night they saw a man resembling him running through a cornfield. He refused to stop when commanded to, aud they fired at him. He stopped, when it was discovered that tbey had winged the wrong bird, the runner being a boy named Porter. The latter's father caused tbe arrest of Patrolman Miller who is under bond before a Clinton justice to appear next Saturday on a charge of assault and battery.

GO88IP ABOUT 8HOW PEOPLE.

Richard Mansfield has purchased the American rights to G. Bernard Shaw's

romantic comedy, Arms and tbe Man, now running in Loudon. It is not his intention to appear in the piece. The time of tbe comedy Is 1885-86, during tbe Bulgarian war.

An interesting feat of marksmanship Is to be seen at one of the London music halls. The rifleman shoots at a stick, "Y whioh discharges another rifle by knocking against its trigger. This other rifle is aimed almost in his face, but grazes him and smashes a clay ball usyabove /IS

Miss Inez V. Whit taker, a 13-year*old Chicago girl, rode a distance of 100 miles on a bicycle one day last week.