Terre Haute Evening Gazette, Volume 3, Number 144, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 November 1872 — Page 1
VOL. 3.—NO. 144.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1872.
Editorial Notes.
John Hoffman is the lucky man this time. He was an attacheeof the Chicago Tribune, and falls heir to a fortune of $15,000. The money now awaits John in the vaults of a German bank.
Fools are not all dead yet, ever was, and we fear ever will be a truthful adage. Two of these idiots named, Drago and Pomeroy, before the election, agreed on the following: In case Greeley should be elected, the former should wheel the latter from Valparaiso, this State, to Chicago, in a wheelbarrow and in case of the election of Grant, the latter should transport the former to Chicago. This agreement is now being carried out, and it will take six days to accomplish the journey. The idiotic twain expect to reach Chicago to-day.
The Rev. E. F. Howe and the Express newspaper are discussing t^g'wial Evil through the the columns c^
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The Expreu takes tWistory greater efforts should be tians, especially ChrlistialrH® save the female sex that this effort should be made even to the neglect of foreign missions. Mr. Howe is of the opinion that there is a vein of sarcasm, concealed in the suggestion. But we quote from his card
But 1 desire, just for once, to enter a protest in behalf of a large, and I hope at least, respectable class ol your readers, against what seem to us unnecessary and unjust sneers at Christianity and Christian people. It has seemed to us that you go out of the way to express your contempt for things which we hold sacred", and that you seek opportunities to misrepresent us and the cause we love, before the puJblic. Our religious feelings may be mere prejudices, and yet it is neither good policy, good manners, or good morals to trample unnecessarily upon even the prejudices of friends and neighbors. It may be a mistake on our part, but I assure you that there is a strong and very general feeling that this is done in the Express.
Wekuow uot the motive that impels the Express to censure and criticise so closely, real or imaginary, acts of omission and commission of the Christians of the community—as motives can only be conjectured—but we do know, and with Mr. Howe, bear witness that carping criticisms on Christianity do, from time to time, appear in the Express newspaper, editorially and otherwise. While the Express may, in the main, be correct in this instance, there is a way of putting tlje case •hat would not be so objectionable and unpalatable to Chris-, tiaus as sneering suggestions. If a suppression of the social evil and the salvation of its victims cau be brought about, we would like to see it done, but we be-_ lieve that the -Express will never bring about that end in this city by carping
criticisms on Christians, and laudatory notices of variety shows in the same issue of the paper.
FASHION.
Lace shawls appear to be again in style. The latest place for monograms is in the corner of ladies' veils.
Minute diamonds are now worn for vest buttons in full dress. Monograms on note paper are larger and more elaborate than ever.
Bohemian garnets, set in silver, are becoming fashionable for demi-toilette jewelry.
The most popular round hat of the season is modelled after a Spanish bull fighter's helmet.
Blue and black are the only colors admissible for gentlemen's neck-wear this fall.
Sixty-five new colors in dress materials have been introduced to the notice of the feminine world this fall.
Chignons are growing higher every day. Full dress structures on ladies' heads are architecturally grand—castles in the hair, in fact.
White corduroy jackets, trimmed with black velvet, are quite in favor for house wear among fashionable young ladies.
Ladies and gentleman promenading together of afternoons this fall are commanded by fashion to walk arm in arm. Why not hand in hand?
At oce of the New York up-town churches, a slate, containing a list of the weddings to be celebrated during the week, is hung in the vestibule every Sunday for the benefit of the young ladies of the congregation.
Double-breasted jackets—similar to those worn last winter—will be fashionable among our Beau Brummels once more. Those of heavy cloth are prefeared, as they are sufficiently thick to do away with overcoats.
From the Titusvllle Evening Press.
Points.
It is better to own a sixteenth in a bottle of good horse tonic now than tbtm to hold the fee simple of an oil farm if it is not on the belt.
The corner loafers are about to petition for the establishment of a permanent free lunch association in town, where they can get board without paying for it.
Titusville girls will wear two hands in their muffs this winter, one of their own, and one of 's. We know how it used to be ourselves.
The Terre Haute GAZETTE has started a column of "Gazetteletts" which act as a tonic and general stomachic on the turtle-fed Aldermen and other dyspeptics of that city.
A self-made journalist in Iowa occupies a'column and a half of valuable space in his paper, to return thanks for a barrel of cider-, and two squashes presented him by an admiring subscriber who was in arrears.
Stanley will make a sensation when he lectures in this country, dressed in his suit of clothes made byaUjiji tailor, consisting of a twine string twisted around bis big toe and a straw hat cut low in the corsage.
Terre Haute girls wear live Thomas cats for bustles, and last week one of these unfeline young ladies while sitting at the dinner table caused her male parent to jump over the soup tureen and lose his glasses, by yelling suddenly "I'm stabbed T'was the cat that did it with his little scratehit because she sat down on him too hard
A gentleman whose occupation requires him to be at the depot at the time of the arrival and departure of all passenger trains, says there is more kissing in public indulged in at this station, than any other on the road, and he believes for promiscuous osculation Titusville will beat West Point, even when the cadet visiting season is at its height. The baggage smashers around the depot, in their endeavors to see all the smacking going on are becoming cross-eyed, while their lips* (from seeing others do so) protrude so that they can not see their feet when they walk.
A STORY is told of a Chicago dry goods salesman who has the repntatioa of being somewhat of a wafe. He recently sold a bill of goods to a country customer who was expected to commit justifiable insolvency as soon as be had disposed of his stock. As it was the customer's intention to pay a small part of his account with notes,which might prove worthless, the salesman—so the story goes—added here a little to the price of goods, so that when the purchase of some two thousand dollars' worth had been made, of which all but two or three hundred dollars were paid in cash, there was no possibility of the firm losing any thing even should the notes go to protest. The transaction concluded, the customer besought the salesman to give him a present of some sort and the salesman accordingly presented him with a valuable red silk handkerchief. "That won't do," said the customer "give me a nice silk dress for my wife, or something of that sort." "Can't do i*," responded the salesman "but I'll tell you what I'll do—I'll give you back your notes." "No," replied the Customer: "hold on' I'll take the handkerchief."
A TOLEDOGood Templar, swallowed a drinfe of concentrated lye, under the impresrion thai it was the Matutinal Cocktail, anbdid not discover his mistake, until, a swig of old rye after breakfast tasted so much thinner that usual, that be was led to make an investigation.
The Very Latest News
(UP TO 3 O'CLOCK P. M. TO-DAY.)
By the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph.
An Effort to Bail Woodhull and Claflin.
Death of the Celebrated Trotters Dread naught and Mountain Boy.
Return of Bancroft Davis.
The Work of Clearing up Ruined Boston Progressing.
The Situation More Cheerfully Viewed by the Insurance Companies.
From New Tork.
NEW YORK, NOV. 16.—Judge Fowler having read the voluminous testimony in the case of Challis vs. Blood, for the alleged libel in the Woodhull & Claflin Weekly, has decided to commit Blood for trial at the general session, in default of ten thousand dollars bail. A movement was instituted last evening for the liberation on the bail of Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Claflin. About forty of their friends united in trying to raise the funds.
No new developments of the horse disease. Yesterday the horses of the fire department were reported in good health.
The Sanitary Committee of the Board yesterday reported that the new disease was not the dropsy or glanders, but the result of the deterioration of the blood which becomes so thin that it escapes from the blood-vessels and settles be neath the skin.
Afire in the five story brick building, No. 306 Broadway, last night, owned by the Barclay estate, damaged the building to six hundred dollars. Henry Harter, silk importer, loss, $15,000 fully insured.
Several other occupants sustained slight injuries. Col. McDaniels authorizes a challenge to match his stables in three races against any horse or horses in the world to name at the post, two, three and four mile heats for ten or twenty thousand dollars each the races over the Saratoga race course, any time in August, 1873
NEW YORK, NOV.16.—The well-known trotter, Dreadnaught, has fallen a victim to the horse disease.
A special from Boston to the Tribune says that the Harvard University lost heavily by the Boston fire. It held prop erty in the burnt district to the amount of $562,000, including the value of the land, and it will cost $300,000 to rebuild There is about $100,000 insurance. The loss falls on the different departments of the college about equally.
The report of the Commisston appointed by Governor Hoffman to examine the condition of the Lunatic Asylums in the State of New York is almost complete. It is stated that the report will give some startling revelations in regard to the conducting of these institutions.
The well-known tuptter, Mountain Boy, has fallen a victim to the horse disease.
The Herald's Washington special sayi J. Bancroft Davis has returned and will assist the State Department in the preparation of a plan for disbursing the Geneva awards. A powerful lob'by is expected here this winter in the interest of the Alabama claims, and it is said that it will take all their influence to move Congress to act upon the proposed plan now settling these claims.
The rumor of the proposed fusion between the Tammany and Apollo Hall Democracy is denied.
From Boston.
BOSTON, NOV. 16.—Steady progress is reported in respect to clearing up the burnt district. Already a one-story wooden store, 40 by 60 feet, has been fully erected on the verge of the burnt district, and others rapidly follow.
The insurance companies are taking a more cheerful view of their situation. Many of them find salvages will average much larger than supposed at first. Many underwriters say salvages may prove from 20 to 25 per cent, of the total insurance of merchandise as every day more instances come to light of the saving of valuable goods in larger quantities. The amount of goods saved would, undoubtedly, have been much larger had it not been for the idea which seems to have prevailed very- generally that the removal of the goods would invalidate the insurance upon the remainder.
A very general advance in rates is talked of, and when Mansard roofs are deemed insurable the advance is especially marked.
Many local insurance companies are ready to begin business as associations, and will so continue until new charters are obtained.
A table published this morning shows the loss of the Massachusetts companies to be thirty millions New York companies, seven, millions foreign, four million five hundred thousand Connecticut and Pennsylvania companies three millions each.
Strong efforts are being made among the members of ihe city government to have a thorough investigation into the cause and management of the fire, and such will probably be instituted.
A number of bodies are supposed to be yet burried beneath the ruins. Active search is being made for them to-day. The firemen are still on duty in various^, portions of the ruins. The military are on guard around the lines of the fire.
From New Jersey.
JERSEY CITY, NOV. 16.—Thomas Donnellan, shot by John Darris, a bar tender in Dougherty's saloon, on Henderson street, at midnight on Thursday, died in the City Hospital last night. Darris was committed to the county jail to await his trial.
TERRE HAUTE, IND.: SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16,1872.
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From Chicago.
CHICAGO, NOV. 16.—The official returns of the election in Cook county, show a total vote for the President of 50,154, of which Grant has 12,482 majority. Oglesby's majority for Governor is 7,273. For Congress the majorities are Rice 4,800, Ward 2,300, Farwell 2,880.
The dropsy has appeared among our horsese, following upon the epizootic, and many deaths are reported. It is believed to be caused largely by using the animals before they had entirely recovered.
Thursday afternoon, a gentleman by the name of John R. Blodgett attempted to commit suicide at the office of Carl Pretzel, No. 381 Wabash Avenue. Mr. Blodgett is about 43 years of age, and has only been in Chicago since the 1st of October. He was acting in the capacity of agent foraBuffalo publication known as "For Everybody." A few year since he was proprietor of the leading^ music house in Buffalo, but having failed, he removed to Minneapolis Minn., where he also opened a music store where the same bad luck followed him. He came to Chicago six weeks since. On this afternoon Mr. Blodgett received a letter from the lawyer of Mr. Blodgett's wife, who is with her mother and friends in Minneapolis, asking him to sign the necessary papers that would enable her to secure a decree of divorce. This was a terrible surprise to him, and shortly after he shot himself just below the heart, and was found bleeding and nearly insensible. It is thought the wound is not dangerous.
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, NOV.16.—Senator Cameron and those members of the Philadel phia delegation, who are yet in the city, had an interview with the President this morning.
There were a large number of visitors at the White House this morning. The Admiralty have notified General Rodney that the trial of the British fleet of the American system of ship ventilation, now in use in the French Navy, has been successful. Admiral Hall reported that its adoption will be beneficial to the British Navy.
From Tennessee*
MEMPHIS, NOV. 16.—On yesterday morning, a mile and a half west of Duval's Bluff, Arkansas, a freight train was thrown from the track, on the Little Rock Railroad, caused by a broken rail. Engineer Putnan and colored fireman jumped from the engine. The former was instantly killed, and the other seriously injured. The engine and five cars are wrecked. The conductor remained on the engine, which turned over but he escaped with slight injuries.
From the Indianapolis Journal
Freight Train Wrecked.
Yesterday afternoon freight train No. 14, going west on the Indianapolis & St Louis road, was followed by an extra which kept close behind. While the regular was crossing the long trestle work, just this side of Danville, the engine was stalled or gave out in some way, and the train stopped. The extra, before its motion could be arrested, ran into the rear end of the standing train, breaking the caboose and engine, and throwing several cars off" the track. Several employees were bruised slightly by jumping from the train, but no one was seriously injured. The accident happened at a very b|,d place—on a high, long trestle", and at nine o'clock the passenger train due here at six had not yet arrived.
As soon as Sunerintendent Pease heard of the accident, he started for the scene with a locomotive and baggage car. This train caused another accident, which resulted in the loss of human life. When near the gravel pit, just south of the Insane Hospital, the engine struck a man who was attempting to cross the track, and cut off both legs below the knee. The poor fellow fell into a cattleguard in crossing, and was unable to move until the engin'e was upon him.
The unfortunate man was at once brought to the Surgical Institute, where ne died in a few hours, from nervous exhaustion and loss of blood. The Coroner was notified, and will hold an inquest over the remains to-day.
No one seemed to know the man, but after being at the Institute a short time he rallied sufficiently to be able to state that his name was Green Bracket, and he lived at Bridgport, this county. He further stated that he had been on a spree and was intoxicated when run over. The accident was clearly one of his own care lessuess.
A REMABKABLE case of catalepsy OC' cur red last week at Fort Wayne. A little girl three years old was supposed to have died, and every preparation for the fun eral was made two days thereafter. While the funeral services were in progress and the body of the child was about to be conveyed to the tomb, the supposed corpse revived, and to the great surprise and joy of mourning friends, the child was again jestored to life, and has now fully recoyered.
TH*5 MARKETS BS TELEGRAPH.
St. Jjpuis Market* ST. Louis, Nov. 16.
WHEAT—Winter, No. 1 at $1.85 and No. 3 at $1.60 spring, 3oft No. 1, $1.20 No. 2 soft, $1.18: No. 3 spring, $1.05 in bulk.
OATS—26@27o lor white and 25@25)£c for mixed. CORN—Mixed at 34c. ft 'JT
BACON—Shoulders, 6%c clear ribs, lOJ^o clear sides, lOJ^c. MESS PORK—15.00 for old and 14.00 for new.
LARD—7?£@7?£e. -ry* 'v -f HOGS—Live, [email protected] no market'on
Chicago Market. CHICAGO, Nov. 16.
FLOUR—Quiet and unchanged. WHEAT—Good demand No. 1, $L.I3L£ No. 2, $1.03)4.
CORN—Quiet and easier at 31@31^c. OATS—Firm and higher at 21%@22ts. RYE—Offerings light, nothing doing No. 2 sold at 53c
BARLEY-Quiet 61&@62>£o. LARD—Quiet and steady 7£c. MEATS—Dull and unchanged. PORK—Dall and weak [email protected] for new
HOGS—Quiet [email protected]. CATTLE—Steady and firm at unchanged .prices,. _.
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If Mr. Til ton believes in the punishment that is complete in this life, the experience he is now undergoing is well calculated to confirm him in that dogma. His pamphlet biography of Victoria C. Woodhull, published a year-ago, was not only a hyper-cbivalricvindication of the "stainless whiteness" of that person's character, and an expression of "uncommon respect'^ for her, but it professed so minute an acquaintance with the details of her real and imagined career as could apparently be gathered from herself only by an assiduous and confidential friend. The pamphlet was as grotesque as any of the vindications of the charms of his Dulcinea by Don Quixote, and inspired much the same impression in the public mind that its author had allowed himself to fall into a gigantic hallucination. The coarse inference drawn by the vulgar from this production was a most improbable one, for no sane man would draw publie attention to the character of a woman with whom his-own re la* tions were impure. By what means Mr. Tilton discovered the mistake in his estimate of the Woodhull has not yet passed into history,—perhaps never may unless be writes another biography of her in quite the other Vein. Certain it is, however, that in the midst of his stumping tour among the green bills of Marae, looking down upon its transparent lakes and breathing its pure air, Mr. Tilton came to his right mind. When some political opponent sought to prick the floating irridescent bubbles of his eloquence, by asking him if he had not written a pamphlet in praise of Victoria Woodhull, he answered:
Yes and Horace Greeley told me it was the one supreme folly of my life. £Tow, will you vote against him because I was wrong and lie was right The answer was effective and satisfactory in Maine, but quite the reverse in New York. Whether at this or at still more contemptuous acts of indifference on the part of Tilton, Mrs Woodhull took fire, and apparently re
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INSUllANCK OFFICE,
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WOWABD INSURANCE CO., OF N. T., Assets, $724,000. No Boston Losses.
FIREMEN'S FUN®, OF SAN FRANCISCO, Assets, $844,000. Boston Losses, $7,500.
All persons holding policies issued by me can feel fully assured that they are protected from loss by fire, and that the Companies are in a strong and healthy condition—not only able to pay their present losses, but able to guaranttee the payment of future losses.
Policies Issued and Losses Adjusted at this Office.
From the Chicago Tribune.
«Theodore and Yicy.
vived her suspended paper for a single issue, on purpose to hurl such a libel into the family and fireside of her former biographical champion as would forever blast and refute the fulsome praises contained in his biography. The same fallen and fiendish malice which inspired Laura Fair to make a widow of Mrs. Crittenden goaded a woman, in many respects her counterpart, to dart the fangs of her envenomed calumny at Mrs. Tilton, a lady who is beyond aspersion and above defence. The libeler is in jail, and we hope her stay there may be a long one. Tne les,son it teaches is the danger of vindicating women who walk so closs to the treacherous verge as to need vindication.
A woman, like an Administration, that needs investigation and ingenious championship to establish her purity, is already lost. It is just at this stage in their career that they do more mischief than the openly-abandoned class have power to do.
A SUITABLE MONUMENT.—The Germans wish to erect some grand monument to commemorate their success in the Franco-Prussian war, and have been for some time past looking out for a fit object On whicn to exercise their ingenuity and patriotism. A correspondent of the London Times, gifted with the religious spirit which will doubtless cause his proposition to be well received by the Emperor of Germany, proposes the erection of the twin spire of Strasbourg Cathedral, on the sides of which could be engraved the names of those who fell fighting for fatherland.
THIS is how an editor lost his credit by promptness in paying back money he had borrowed:
Colonel will you lend me a hundred, to-day!" Can't possibly do it, sir. I never loan a man money the second time when he disappoints me the first." '^Some mistake, I reckon, Colonel. I paid yod *he fifty had last week.-"
That's just it. I never expected it back, so you disappointed me. Can't do it, sorry to say—^I qan't do it on principle." ja"k
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