Bloomington Telephone, Volume 5, Number 30, Bloomington, Monroe County, 3 December 1881 — Page 2

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The Weekly Telephone. EDITED BY - Walter S. Bradfute. PUBLISHED SATURDAY MOUSING. One Year, 'If!? Cents. Office: Over "Bee Hive"Store SATURDAY, DEC, 8bd,1881. "The Kennebec Journal makes an official announcement that Mr.Blaine will retire from the Cabinet early next month, and will not be a candidate for. repn s mtative in Congress, for Governor of the State, or for U. S. Senator. The inference is plain that there is apiaee for which he will be a candidate after his private affairs shall have received the attention they demand." Ind. Journal. At any rate "the inference is plain" that there is a place for which the people would be pleased to. have him a candidate, though the Journal is not one of that number. The Republican party owes its existence to-day to Mr. Blaine, for the reason that it was through his persistent efforts and hard fight at Chicago that Grantism was everlastingly defeated, and thus the life of the part- saved by burying the third-term "idea" in the cemetery of political ruins for the next half century at leist. Blaine may or may not be a candidate for President, and if he is may not be nominated, but this can never take away from him the bebt of gratitude due him from the Republican party. James G. Blaine is to-day the Sampson of the Iiepub i ;an party. The assassin's trial goes On, and, it is stalled by the defense, will continue till January. During the week the Ilne.of evidence was. to prove the man a "crank", of long standing. Hon. John A. Logan, Senator from Illinois, testified to the unsoundness of 4 uiteau's mind ,and others adnr. tted that he was, in their belief, "cranky." It is very evident that Judge Cox, befor whom thase is being tried, believes the prisoner iasane, and a3 a mere opinion we believe his instructions to the jury will be to this effect. It certainly will have a bad effect on other such individuals to find guiteau insane, but that will likely be the yerdic rendered. GurrfiAu says after he is acquitted and the excitement dies away, he will make $50,000 a year lecturing ; and after the first year will' marry an Indiana, girl. He forgot to give her mime.

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Small Profits! "Framk. Lasdkrs died and was laid in his political grave on the 12th of October, 1880." Worthington Times. Don't be too sure about the death of Franklin Landers. In less than two years the "old man of the seas" will be the liveliest eorp&e in the Democratic party, and it will take more than one dollar to defeat him when the nominating convention for Governor comes along. Landers is the Tildeu of Indiana. ib n r Next week Congress will convene. The principal interest now is centered on tbe election of a speaker of the Housa. Mr. Orth, the Hoosier candidate is foremost in the fight, and has many friends who are confident of his success. The Attorne3T-Geueral of the State furnishes the folly wing opinion on the Marriage Benefit Associations: 'I think the principle of the marriage benefit and various other assessment associations is wrong. It is improdable in the nature of things that thy can make good their promises. No man that will take an hour's tirao to reflect, and who has s ufficient know ledge of figures to add and multiply, can come t,o any conclusion. The associations are founded upon a principle I'.s visionary as fiat money, and there sre but one or two persons that can profit by thera, namely, the ag;ut who 'secures tbe premiums upon initation, and receives 50 per cent, of it for his pay, and the ether man who holds the mone y and the next man to him. In less than n .year every person connected with these concerns in the way of handling the money, will be ill that disgrace which alware accompanies those who promise what they can't perform. It is prn'habve that a dozeu, or even twenty, of the marriage 'dowries" may be paid by a company. The person that marries first will perhaps be benefited, but those that delay in having their wedding garments made, will be left out in the cold. My opinion is that these marriage endownment. associations are illegal, and their piiuy is pernicious. rrn ?i . tj. -i v. -. I. vvmie is no uouot sounci puDiic policy to force marriages or to create speculation in prospective marriages It is a practice growing out of those companies, so I am told, to "insure" ! a gentleman or lady who is soon to be married, and who is not even a member of tbe association, and then to sell the "polio v." The whole thing looks ' to mo like a wager on marriage. Of course, tne result cannot be otherwise than ueletaiious. Doubtless, how-, ever, the muuia will soon run its course, uud the parlies that have lost

money will be like the boy that was kicked by the mule, "not so handsome a before, but a good deal wiser." Even in the case of those who draw the amounts promised, money acquired in this fashion will do no good to any one. There is a clear distinction between promoting marriage and speculating upon marriage, and 1 cau see nothing in these associations except a trap to speculate upon inexperience and youth." maU Mats. K. 15a:ta furnishes the fallowing for "Saturday's Indianapolis Times: 'Mjr observation has convinced me of the truth of Govenor Porter's assertion that the suffrage cause has now li:.tle to fear from men's opposition, and our efforts should be direct ed to overcoming: women's iodiifcr-

euce. It is happily becoming a fact, !ifii many w onion see the justice an propriety of equal suffrage; but, alae, soinany arejn the ruts of old habit still, and do not care enough to exert emselves ever so little in its further ance. A good mmy more seem to fear that the "fountains of the great doep" would be broken up, and social chaos overwhelm the community if women should vote. Women are always interested in elections, and probably would not bo much more so, though they might become more intelligent and moderate if voting should be a duty. What on earth is there in the mere fact of voting o make such a bugaboo of? Because ODce in a while a woman should go somewhere r.nd deposit a ticket, will she take to dancing hornpipes in the street and club tiie baby? Don't folks know that habit is strong, and the probabilties are nature being also a st ubborn thing that each sex will attend to its own obvious convenient .business, just as it has been doing? The men and boys and girls, yea, and the women will get hungry three ti met a day, just the same fis men do the voting; and is it likely that women will all of sudden feel so uplifted after depositing a slip of paper in a bxx, that they will scorn the kitchen range and American frying-pan to the point of starvation? Does any one honestly fear that thinking on the most eligible candidates for office to adraims terar.d make1 laws for the common wealth, or even political economy, will of necessity transform the mothers, wives and daughters of this enlighten land info viragoes, prostitutes and atheists? If so, they must be inherently worse tl a l weak. It is worth while to convert all, or it seem such a coward and recreant to her sex was uderserving of attention. If ms-n are not hopelessly corrupted, but have in fact quite a goodly number who practice temperance, purity a nd Christianity, why hi the name of common sense will the naturally more conservative feminine nature be radically changed? It . is a groundlessaud illogical fear, partly growing out of the waste matter of a barbarous dead ?.nd gone past, but thriving oi. the dews of present-indolence and scififth indifference to all but personal ends. The editor of the Princeton Clarioi has been taking a trip through tin South, and writes home to his paper: "In many places it would be some what difficult for ono to rccognizt that a sanguinary battle has boei fougat, yet evidences still exist if on will take the trouble to look for them. 1 he trees where the light was tin most desperate, still boar witness t the struggle by their seared and battered, trunks. In the wood grapi and canister shot, musket balls, piece of shell and many other memento ?p are still pit ked up by relic hun'er. On thft wa, toward Cuattrn -oga 1 p;iss h po.nt whe tha fatal gap w. s loft in our iine Sunday momitig. Through here the reocla poured ;n countless numbers, cutting off a j.f.n of McOok's and Crit ter. den's corps I aho passed the Snodgrass hill where General Thomas uiau h:s he roic stand and defeated the ucsperah ed'orts of the rebels to cut off our rmy to Chattanooga. xVll ahug tbi road and through these woods - the air seemed full of spectral formoof t!u heroes who perished upon this batth field. The hills seemed to echo lac rapid volley of musketry, the roar oi artillery, the shriek of shell and c:in ntster. r.nd the moans of tha wound ed and dyiug. It is impossible ti; one who pnssed through these seen!?, to come now and look over th grouuo. without feeling an inoreaed ivter ence for the cuus3 for which (best brave sjiiritu fought and died. Tin very winds in tUnt peculiar soumi which wind maSes amtiis ;,.-,

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est seem to sigh through these tall pine tree tops, singing a solemn requiem over the brave men' who here gave their last full measure of devotion to their country. ' A hundred packers in a New York cigar factory "struck" about a week ago. because the owners paid a girl the same wages for the same work they did. There union had ordered it. The owners tried to arbitrate, but the men said "no." , The. girl should not have a man's wages, though she did a man's work, and did it well; and when the owners refused to turn her. off or reduce her wages the men marched out of the hou.se in a bod v. Thev should nevor be allowed to march back if they starved to death for .it. Every man who helped to make that beastly or der of the union, and every man who willingly obeyed it, should- run 'a gauntlet for ten miles between lines of working woman who should lash them till they couldn't crawl. There have been many needless and silly "strikes" in this country, mainly in stisated or maintained by Irish and English workmen, but this last is the woit one ever l ea d of, th-i meai -est, lowest, silliest, most cowardly that it ever entered the heart ol a huirau I e!ng to conceive. Ind. Re view. The Cia innati inquire, doubtless overlooking the disastrous epoch of John Sherman, says Saturday: ''Thefict is patent that all over the Stale of Ohio and Indiana lands in tin rural districts have enhanced in vsil ue from ten to twenty per ont, and this within a period of twelve mouth.. Farms that last, year w- re slow ol sale at $75 and $i()0 per acre now fit d ready purchasers at from 8jt $.120 per acre. This advance has n-t been ficti-iou .. The p b'e of faini poduov has ojicha; eel much more ?ven than that of the iin'ius, Tne farmers hive harvested unpr'ood-.tnted crops. With the exception of the soason just closed they hare not mot withu discourage nient for several years. Thev.-dueof their property, is largely based, on past ex p- rienoea, and p -.st cxperie-.c-h haw been rxcolleiit Our r.gr cultural Wethren :ir? better off than tht real estate hoi. Sera in citius Mvjiowiw. for advanc ement in the value of houses and lots has Ken only lot at A general advance cannot vet be c ail; -ed," . . - mo , ( , Our City School B ;ani ha already preeokioncd against xmall-pox by compelling all th-i scholars to le vaccinated. Parents should attend to this without a law of -requirement. Students attending the University are subject to the same dangers, and they shoakbnot let this matter be delayed. An ounce of prevention h worth -a oound of cure. The dreaded desease has already appeared at Erlhatn college, this State, and there is no assu'r uiiee that Bloomington will escape, M.L II'fl-XW i liiio. Lajigsdaije, why can't tbe. Editors of the Ffth District form an 'Kssooiation," and have a time? It wonld ha real nico to meet at GreenCfillo, bv-the-way. The Globe Shirt the Boas fo $1,00 at the Bee Hive. Call and ee the special barrains in Table Linens, Towels and Nupkins at the Bee Hive. - Brenade silk 50 eta per yard at the Kcw York Store. Corsets for men and women at McCalla & Co.V, I'lexiblo Hip. Coraline, Bono and Warner's Health Coweta at MeCulla & Co. Bfg, stock just recived. Save Money by buying . GLASSWARE & QUKEXSWARE AT Cc i ins a K a cell's RESIDENT DENTIST, I Dr J. W. GRAIN. OfHoe over McC:dla& Co.'s Store , l?hioininfflo:!ji:d. AH work war:ui.:d. ITtf

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