Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 May 1878 — Page 4
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Address all lettere, WM. C. BALL & CO. GAZETTE, Terre aute, Ind.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET FOR 1878 For Hec,re.Rry of Stile, JOHN G. SHANK LIN, of Vandeilmrgli Co.
For Auditor of Htatc,
MAIILON 1). *. NSON, of Montgomery Co. For Treasurer of Stat e, WILLIAM FLEMING, of Allen County.
For Attorney-General,
T1I08.W. WOOLEN, ef Johnson County. For Superlntemlcntof Public Instruction. JAMES II. SVIAltT, of Allen County.
THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1878.
IN Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinati and Pittsburg, the Communist# are all No tionals.
ONE year ago to-day, Joseph M. Wildy was the Republican candidate for Citv Clerk.
A CORKESI'ONDKNA reports an attempt upon the part of two Notionals to run in voters from Greencastle next week.
TIIK last worsof John Morriscy are reported to have been: "I'm a five dol lar horse in a thousand dollar pool." And then he turned his face to the wall and died.
LET Democrats look out lor the country cousins of the Notionals. It is understood that a good n.any of them are roming to town and will try to vote. Spot them.
IF the rain last night had amounted to a flood, it would have been a big thing for the Notionals, proving beyond nil doubt that the Democracy were unfit to rule the country.
ONE ot the ways in which the Notionale are proposing to bring about good times, with plsnty of employment for everybody, is bv promising every appointive office to froin five to fifty persons-
THE GAZETTE'S amiable morning contemporary announces that it his "moved into a building lighted on four sides, etc." A little "light from above" would make the pathway of our esteemed contemporary brighter and better.
THAT terrible story of the Indianapolis Journal about John C. Freemont being in destitute circumstances turns out to be entirely untrue, lie is not rich, nor even well off, but he gets enough to eat, and to clothe himjelf and family.
ALL the indications point to the fact that in the e.vcnt of a year between Russia and England, the former power will send out a fleet of privateers to prey upon the merchant marine of the latter. In this case a great stimulus would be given to American shipping interests.
A frank bat aniultious Keuluckian thus advertisesin the local paper of his towu: "Being In a close placo HUU desiring to pay my debu, and believing tliat tneoflice assessor would assist mo lu doing so, I have eoncludcd to bee. me a caudnla'e."—[Exchargo.
This is the first official announcement made of the existence of the Notional party in Kentucky.
IN the event of a Notional victory Senator Voorhees will be retired to private life. Then we shall have a scramble among the leading Notionals here for the place. It is not yet determinedvhich one of the faithful will be the future statesman. The election will not be by adoration, but by what is known as a scramble.
WITHIN the past few days the Notionals have been getting together odds and ends of torches, with which they expected to organize a procession over the great victory the}- felt sure they were going to win. The torches were not used. Up back alleys, and by unfrequented ways they hunted their homes last night, their pathways lit up by no torches, and hope hopelessly extinguished within their sad and sin sick souls.
MRS. TILTON MOVES. Mrs. Tilion timl her mother, Mrs. Morse, moved on Monday from the frame house tu 22S Mtidihon siro 1, .Brooklyn, 10 a iro.vlisten# house at 14s iiewtjb street, between Lee and Marcy avenues. Au endeavor was made to keep the new location a sxreu Mrs. X:ltun icused the house from Mr. B. t\ o'bilcu, the owner, lor jear, signing the jexso herself. tier son?, Cairo ana ilttlph, aietoiewaiu wih her. Mr. 1'ilion is lo pro
Title for his family's support, muu
for iliiii of Mrs. Morse, aire. 'Amon is to S|.eud
khe
tuuiuor in Warwick.
The above is a news item floating about through the papers and emanating from the New York press. It indicates a reconciliation between Tilton and his wife as Beecher predicted. So long as she denied fur guilt, Tilton would have nothing lo do w.in her. Now that she confesses he is reconciled.
A CURIOUS legal question has been raised at Huntsville, Alabama. One Mike Wite lived there. Being of a prudent mind he insured hi# life for $io,ooo. Michael did something one day that»offended the community. Just what it was does not appear, but probably he had been making a target out of some one of his fellow citizens. At any rate Michael became offensive, and #o one night a mob called on him, and, to make a long story short, hung him. His family of course tried to collect the money on his l»le, and the insurance company complains that this wai one ol the isks not included in their policy. To settle the matter the company has brought suit against the city of Huntsville tor damages to the amount of the policy, agreeing to pay the widow the city can be made to pay for an outrage which the authorities of the place did not prevent.
ON the 4th of next March the Democrats will have a majprity in the Senate of the United States. Already they have control of the House, and they will keep it. Last year they elected their President. Three years hence they will elect and inaugurate their President. After next year they may justly beheld responsible for any and all errors ol legislation. They are willing and anxious to assume that responsibility" leeling assured that they will manage the affairs of the nation wisely, economically and in the interest of the people. It is but right that they should have a fair opportunity. It would be more than absurd tor the people of Terre Haute, now that the general government passing over into the hands of the party not to be in accord with the times. Let Democrats keep control here as they are about to have control of the whole country.
IT grieves the GAZETTE greatly to notice the terrible arraignment of the Republican party, made by its eccentric morning contemporary. It goes back and points out the iniquitous legislation of that party. It denounces it for financial legislation enacted in 1S62. in 1S63, in 1867,in 1869, in 1S70, in 1873, and in 1875. And yet during all those years even including the last, the Distress was the champion of the Repuolican party, upheld and defended it. Ther« was nothing too mean for it to say of Democrats who were opposing it. Having made a record of which it is ashamed, and pointing with humiliation at its past plunders, it asks that it may be believed in its promises tor the tuture. And while there is no disposition to persecute contrite and repentant sinners, Democrats are not willing to concede that a record of self confessed mistakes is a valid reason for giving over the govenment to the blunderers.
THE Republican party has practically two tickets in the field. One ia the regular ticket and the other is called the Notional. But the candidates of both are Republicans and always have been Republicans. Democrats will not swallow this, sugar coated pill of a party ca led Notional, because they knowthat the nominees always have opposed the Democrats. Year a:ter year, both sets of candidates have fought side by side against the Democrats. They have carried torches together. Both howled for Grant. Both defended Beiknap and Babcock and the whiskey ring. Both flaunted the bloody shirt, and were equally zealous In trying to keep sectional jealousy nd hatred alive. Let the bloody shirt be waved aloft again and every one of these so called Notional candidates, from Joseph Wilds to Sylvester Owen will be found under it.marching side by side with the Republican candidates, from Col. Edwards to Lockard. If Democrats can be found voting for men who were opposed to them yesterday, and may be tomorrow, we are greatly mistaken. Let party lines be drawn. I et Democrats vote for Democrats. Let them not aid and abet a party gotten up by old Republicans and called by anothe.* name to escape the odium which attachey to it because of eight 'years ot mismanagement and misrule.
A MEMBER of the Vigo County Horticultural Society states a private grievance agai.ist the report of the last meeting of the society, published in the Gazette. The grievance is in rhyme, and will be found in another column. We must dissent from the first two lines, which places the responsibilityfor the mistake on the shoulders of the writer of this article—embodied in the rhyming of "Ball and Call." An old and honored member of the Horticultural Society, being no other than Capt, Potter, furnished the report tor the GAZETTE, and is responsible for its accuracy. We would therefore respectfully suggest an amended reading of the first two lines as follows: "If you please Mr. Editor or Captain Fotter, Or who's place it is to answer this letter.
THE GAZETTE sympathizes with Hon. fames Hook, the father and leader of the Notionals here in the ague belt, in this his hour of bereavement. It is a sore hour of trial to him.-
THAT issue of ten millions of green
backs per month un:il good times come, which the GAZETTE'S generous morning contemporary promised in the event of
a Notional victory, will be delayed.
THE TEME HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.
COMFORT FOR THE REPUBLI CANS—PERSONAL REMI-
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NISCENSES.
THE GAZETTE has a word of comfort for the Republicans. For them the outlook is n«t nearly *o unpromising as it would appear at first sight. Out of a Council consisting of twelve members they have only one, it is true, but that can be improved even before another election. Ou» of its own experience the GAZETTE "evolves words of cheer and comfort for the Republicans, which,as they got very, little yesterday, it is willing to give them now out of its own teous store. When the GAZETTE was much younger than it is now, to-wit, in the year* 1S73 and 1874, it was afflicted with the same disease which has now struck the vitals of its esteemed morning contemporary. It had an idea that it* a paper had a crotchet, and pecked and hammcied away at it unceasingly, that the world was ready to be revolutionized on the basis of that crotcheet. An off year favored that conceit. Parting out with some fool notion or other, we have forgotten now what it was, but some thing about on a par with the notions of our enthusiastic contemporary, that if the government says a piece of paper is anything under the sun, it ia that thing, the GAZETTE, 60 to speak, went in on its muscle. In that year of our Lord 1873. just* five years ago, on a platform as windy and worthless as that which Captain James Hook hrs invented and the GAZETTE'S enthusiastic morning contemporary, the Distress, has patented, we actually succeeded in persuading the people of the then old Fifth ward that Frank Smith was a better man than Charles 1 Peddle, electing him by 10S votes, and in getting 849 votes for our candidate for Mayor, out of a total poll of 3.415, there being to other candidates in the Afield. More than that, our candidates were good seconds in all the other wards except one, being beaten only 8 votes in the Second ward.
The next spring two Councilmen were elected on the same platform of nptin.ns a'ld wind.
A month or two after that we made the horrifying discovery, which will dawn on our enthusiastic contemporary some fine morning, that the rest of the world was not revolutionizing to any considerable extent* We found that the farming community was slow going and conserv alive,-with a vast[fondness for old fashioned ways and that it was a very much more difficult undertaking enthu-sinu them than it was the people in a crowded city ward. "On horrors head horrors accumulate.
We found that when something or other came up in Congress or at Washington, where our party was as scantily furhished forth with representatives as is that which our contemporary is now leading into a last and very dirty ditch, that our councilmen, so to speak, beca ne Democrat* or Republicans,according as they had belonged to one or the other of those venerable organizations before the Gazette, in its youthful entliusiasm. started out on the rampage. That settled the Gazette. It made up its mind then $nd '.here that two part its, and two i!y, were possible in this glorious country. It discovered that the two old patties were not asleep, and were not going to permit any great question to lay around loose, and that if an\ body, discovered any glorious principle, before he could get it patented or his party fairly standing on itn legs in one or two out of some hundred thousand lection precints, that one or the other of the eld foxes had appropriated it and having made it effective by legislation, was waiting r- with ^hungry maw tor another invention to gobble up in the same fashion It discovered that it was wiser and better to get into a wagon already hitched up and going its way, even if the springs were not the very bast, rather than fool around about minor matters and ne ver be anything bat a perpetual grumbler.
But this is an aside. We started out to cheer our Republican friends. And this is the mfort. The so called Notionals will rend their linen and beat the air this summer, and whistle as they go through tl.c melancholy grave yard of the coming campaign in a vain endeavor to keep their courage up, but they will turn their little toes up to the dairies this fall beyond all doubt. Look in their eye!., and that story is written there as plain a.s anything in this world. The GAZETTE has been in the third party business and can tell when they are whipped and when they feel like they are whipped. They will not elect a single County officer this fall and they know it. The party will disappear from the politics of Vigo connty on and after that date. Then dear Republicans, Joseph M. Wilaey and James B. Harris, councilmen from the Fifth ward, will be yours to have and to hold forever after. You can take them to your bosoms as the patriarchal father took back his prodigal son, and can kill for them the fatted calf. They h. 7 a never really ceased to be Repu blicans. If you doubt it, bring forth the royal bloody shirt and see how they will weep tears of |oy over it.
Therefore, on and after the October election, the Republicans will have the Mayor'and two Councilmen the Democrats nine Councilmen,for Mr. Slaughter left the Republican party to stay, and his natural home is the Democratic wigwam, where a pipe of peace awaits him.
As to Frank Smith—Heaven only knows what will bscome of Frank Smith
BRADLEY'S GAME.
Some Account of the Rfan.ier in "Which the Indianapolis Lodges Have Been
Manipulated,
For the Purpose of Breaking up our Order ai»d *oii«g Into a \ew One.
Circular and Two Letters Revealing the Infamous Oesign.
Illegal Proceedings—Unjust Accusations.
Bradley not an M. A. Member—A Thorough Investigation and Its Results.
The "United Brothers of Honor/'
From the Louisville Sunday Argus. There has been some stir created in our order recently by certain parties in Indianapolis, Indiana, who, while claiming to be woiking for the interests of the I. O. VV. M., have deliberately done everything in their power to weaken it The'whole matter has been kept secret in a measure, as the constituted author ities did not wish to have a publication made which might lead to the formation of erroneous opinions. Now, however, the affair has assumed a different phase, the true object of the movement has been developed, and the designs of the agitators made apparent, and we proceed to lay the whole shameful business before the order and the public. THE ALLEtJKD CAUSE OF DISSATISFAC
TION.
As every member of the order knows there has been rome delay in the payment of benefits, due to our lar^e death rate in the winter and a desire on the part of the Supreme President to lighten the burden on poormembirs by issuing assessments at the rate of one a month Among those who died was Bro. J. Batty, of Marion Lodge, No. 39, Indian apolis, Indiana. His death occurred December, 16, 1S77. The payment was delayed, like others, and the delay was honest and legitimate. Marion Lodge, under the leadership of its President. G. S. Bradley, secured the co-operation of Hamilton and (we believe Shelby lodges, held a joint meeting, as we are told, and appointed a committee to investigate the Mutual Ail Department, declaring, at the same time, that they would pay no more assessments until Bro. Batty's benefit was paid.
A MYSTERIOUS CIRCULAR.
Bradley went, as agent of the committee, to New Albany and "investigated." On I11& return to Indianapolis, he reported a deficiency of $4,297.92 in the Supreme Lodge money, and stated that the Reserve Fund has been merged into the general fund "last Decen.ber in the desperate endeavor to pay all benefits," giving as his informant Bro. Huckeby, of New Albany. This statement was denied by Bro. Huckeby in an address delivered in Hamilton Lodge room, whereupon Bradley, in his repo/t, says Bro. Huckeby "misrepresented"—lied— which we do not believe. Bio. Huckeby is not a liar, so far as our knowledge goes.
The result of G. S. Bradley's labors was a circular, of which the following is a copy
Indianapolis, March 27, 1878.
To the Officers and Members of I. O. W. M.: At a meeting of the sereral lodges of this city, held lor the purpose of investigating the management of the Mutual Aid Department, I. O. W. M.. headquarters at New Albany, Ind., an agent was appointed, und immediately proceeded lo said cit\, and, after a careful and thoiouuh investigation, has returned and reporttd facts which we deem of such vital importance to all the members throughout this State as to request you to tend a member of your lodge to this city without delay, to receive such information and consult as to such further »c tion as may be necessary to protect all our interests.
The Committee will be found in the office of G. S. BRADLEY, Room 10 Baldwin's Block.
This circular was scattered through Indiana and Missouri (and possibly in other States), but not in Kentucky. Our first knowledge of its existence came from a Missouri brother, who wrote to know what it meant, having, like a sensible man, withheld it from his lodge. In the meantime Brothtr J. B. Lyne, of Terre llaute, Grand President of the Indiana, a man of intelliger.ee and judgement, found out what was going on, and immediately went to New Albany to 6ee the Supreme Secretary, but failed to discover the deficit, lie then came to Louisville and laid the case before Supreme President Jackson, who was much surprised, but gave it his attention, and, through Bro. Lyne, addressed a communication to the three disaffected lodges, a»uring them that the Supreme Secretary's office should be investigated and any crookedness which might be found there made straight. At the same time he informed the malcontent* that they had done wrong in the course they had pursued that if they had found anything amiss they should have officially notified their Grand President, who in turn would have commun cated with the Supreme President that he would not tolerate such insubordination, and that they must respect their obligations and obey the laws. He also notified them that the Supreme Trustees Irad been ordered to this city for the purpose of making a thorough investigation.
BRADLEY'S COCRSLIF
The course pursued by Bradley now
began
to show his real object. Under date of March 29 his report was made to the three lodges. This report, together with a letter ot Grand President Lyne (dated April 8) to W. G. Hamilton, District Deputy for Indianapolis, was printed and sent out to the various lodges, omittii'g those in Louisville, notwith
standing
ities of the order were about to make an investigation. In Brother Lyne's letter he gives -it as his opinion that the Supreme Secretary is
INCOMPETENT/'
and states that, as Grand President, he will have Bro. Baldwin (who is also Grand Secretary of Indiana) investiga* ted, &c., and will issue a circular to all the lodges. The publication of these two documents was intended to create disaffection before the Supreme Trustees could accomplish their duty and thus further Bradley's scheme. What was*
IS
SCHEME OF BRADLEY'S
Perhaps this letter, printed verbatim frofft the original, which is written on the back of one of the circulars of March 27, may show. We call attention to the date as indicating the drift of the whole affair, as the letter was written but two days after the issuance of this circular. But here is the remarkable document:
Indianapolis Mch 29
Mr Rigby Dear sir. As you requested I write ycu to day We found things in bad 6hape at the Grand Secretarys Office he is uterly incompitant Brother Batty of marion Lodge No 39 of this City Died Dect 16 77 has not beent paid, and fear will never be paid 14 losses are unpaid 7 occured previous to,the Death ofBrothor Stark of Fewter City Lodge st Louis Shall organize under some new name and transfer all that wish to go with us free ot cost and give them the same standing in the New Order will write when we are to meet to organize a Grand Lodge
S BRADLEY
So it seems that Mr. Bradley h%d his programme laid down without reference to the authorities of either Indiana or the Supreme Lodge, and was making overtures to various parties to join a "new order," of which, we presume, he was to be the head and front.
If further proof is wanting, we have it in another letter, dated thirteen days later, which is quite as remarkable as the first one, and confirms the
SUSPICION OF ROTTENNESS
raised by it. We give this one verbatim also: Indianapolis. April 12 78
W Thomas Dear Sir & Brother I have delayed wri ing you so that I could give something definite. The committee has not gone fo New Albany It delayed going at the request ot Lyne, P. maid the day after I saw you. lie wised to go first and has reported in a six page letter to W Hamilton D. D. P. that I was right and he was wrong, I think that our members hear have given up all hopes of saving the order. Brother Lyne sayes thare is not any use of the com mittie going to Supreme secretary Office W L. Jackson S President sent an order on Brothei Harcourt of Cincinnati for the Benefit of II Batty of Marion Lodge No 39 of this place and she sent it to Cincinnati and it caine back with the Report through Bank that he could not be found. The heirs have sent an attorney to attach every dollar in the hands of any of the Supreme Officers and try and save some of it if Possible by any legal means.
If not paid when he gets thare he will also attach the private property of the Supreme Treasurer.
We shall organise a Mutual Aid confining it to this state will you come with us. We are having Lyne the Grand President Letter Printed and will send you a coppy it does not agree with his printed circuler
Yours Respt S BRADLEY Room 9 & 10 Baldwins Block
A precious document, truly! Now who is G. S. Bradley, that he should arrogate to himself the "right to sit in judgement upon our supreme officers? He i» an exinsurance agent ot the now defunct John Hancock Life Insurance Company, at present a real estate broker, as we are informed, and, although President of Marion Lodge, No. 30, is not and NEVER WAS A MUTUAL AID MEMBER* Whence, then, this sudden interest in the management of a fund to which he has contributed nothing? His letteis give the answer. In the one addressed to Thomas he reflects on Supreme President Jackson, insinuating that the order for Bro. Batty's benefit was given with a knowledge that the money was not there to meet it, which insinuation is false. He alse says that the order was returned through the bank, with the indorsement that Bro. Harcourt could not be found, as much as to tay that the Supteme Treasurer was dodging payment. In this Bradley missed his irjark. Brother Harcourt is well known in Cincinnati he has held positions of trust in other orders he can give as good a bond as any man in the city in which he lives, and has done 60 he has never failed to honor dral'.s drawn on him, and we do not believe he ever will. What bank was it that was so exceedingly prompt in returning Bro. Bat tv's otuer? Bro. Harcourt, who was attending a session of the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Honor, could have been found on the second day, if not on the first. But, judging from Bradley's entire* course in the matter, we are not inclined to believe that the order was returned in the manner mentioneJ. The evidence will not justify a belief of that kind. Our Supreme President is not dishonest, nor is he an idiot. The same may be truthfully said of Bros. Harcourt and Baldwin. The latter may be old fng} ish in his no tions about the i....=,.w.ent of an order like ours—he niu be incompetent to perform the duties ot the office ol Supreme Secretary—he may make errors—
but
the fact that they had been offi
cially notified that the ccnstituted author
he is not dishonest. No question as to that. The Supreme Pre«ident, seeing that the mendacious circulars and letters of Bradley and clique were likely to prove injurious to Hie order, at once turned over Bro. Baldwin's books to THE TENDER MERCIES OF AN EXPERTS Bro. David W. Gray, of the Bank of Kentucky, a competent and reliable gentleman, who, after a full invettigation, reported that the cash was all right although the books were kept in a loose and irregular manner. The Supreme Trustees, as heretofore stated, had been notified to meet in this city, and they were on hand. Bro. Gray laid his report before them, together with the books and papers of the Supreme Secretary's office, and they gave the subject their closest attention. Their report has been published in circular form and has ere this been sent to all subordinate lodges. Had we space we would publish the report in full. Suffice it to say that the
DEFICIT ov $4,297.22
discovered by Bradley does not exist, and
th$ only charge that can be made against Brother Baldwin that of irregularity or incompetency. As for Brother Harcourt, as soon as he was "found," he paid Brother Batty's berefit.
It i* a little singular that the members of Marion Lodge, a majority ol whom are not Mutual Aid members, should be so terribly exercised over
delayed
pay
ment of money with which they had nothing to do, and it .looks still more singular when we know that at the very timethey were making all this fuss, Marion Lodge was two assessments in arrears and in danger of having its charter revoked. Put this and that together.
W. G. Hamilton, D. t), G. P., whose duty it was to report these matters, we are sorry to say, fell into Bradlev's clutches, and not only t'a:led to do sq, but did not reply to "the Grand President's communications addressed to him in his official capactitv, thereby violating the most solemn obligations.
THE RESULT
of Bradley's course has been the withdrawal of Marion Lodge, and possibly Hamilton and Indianapolis, for the purpose of going into Bradley's now orderwhich is to be confined to Indiuna (see his report), '*as the dealh rate is much larger south of the Ohio than north of the same"—which is another hpecimcn of his inclination to make false assertions to compass his own ends. And v/e are now to have the sublime spectacle of the "UNITED BROTHERS OF HONOR,'* (Heavens, what a misnomer!) composed of men who have wilfully and deliberately violated the most sacred obligations and done our order great injurv during the past year by their published resolutions against the actions of the Supreme^ Lodge and the laws of the order. Wo*' had hoped that the Mutual Aid members would stand firm and hold their charters it is possible tli «t theymay be so but the indications ate otherwise at present.
Let the assassin who seeks to stab our order in the dark, impelled to use the vengeful *teel by ihe st'ng of disappointed ambition and an it.nate consciousness ofhis own unworthiness, be treated as he deserves to be treated who cherishes such nefarious designs and stultifies himself in such a manner—let him be shun-' ned by all honorable men. .»
And now, having exposed these underhand proceedings, we call upon the order to leave the 'United Brothers of Honor" to travel the road they have selected. Their action, from first to last, has been illegal, unjust and uncalled for. Even after being notified that the Supreme Trustees had been convened, they continued their revolutionary proceedings under the lead ol the traitorous life insurance agent, G. S. Bradley, and violated the laws in the most reprehensible manner. If they are gone, why in God's name let them go, and joy go with them. Men who have proved faithless to one order are not desirable acquisitions to another.',
We hope this exposure will be read in every lodge in (he ordtr, and we hope all will stand up for our principles and the maintenance of our laws. It any man violates ihem, let him suffer the consequences, but let not a traitor brand our officers and our institution with false accusations.
The order is established it is prospering if men die we must pav our assessments cheerfully, for he who grumbles may be the next to fall.
We cau' ion brothers, al»o, to beware of secret circulars with which the country is flooded, having for their object the disruption of all benevolent crders.
We respectfully refct the order to the report of the Supreme Trustees, signed h(y three well-known and reliable gentlemen—E. M. Davis, of Cincinnati, E. J. Williamson, of St. Louis, and A. W. Newsom, of Memphis—which gives facts and figures.
We have on hand copies of this report, which we will mail free on application to brothers desiring to read it.
IN REPLY.
If you please, Mr. E litor, or Mr. Ball, Or mIi ise place It is to answ thh call: I huve heard a rumor, and I would know 1.11
For,ev-r since Father Adam's fall, Dear Mother Eve has had to take A (lonl)lc punishment for Adam's sake. Still, thus her daughters share hor fare, ar tumble punishment for man's sake That in the future he mav be
All a good mother would wish to Bee.
hear your paper says I read An article, notorlginal 'tis sail?. Now! I am accustomed to accusatloa wrong
Have born them for years in a countless throng But this time, Mr. Elitor, I woulil like to know
Wny it Is y«»u say so. Who toM you so? 8hotir your paper, your pamphlet, your prlntfd liuuk,
Wh re—from a sentence wholo I took. I iwiid the same to )s a man l'tb take To shape an argument for man's sake.
have thonffht «f it long, Tn I made it stroDg As I knew how to do.
Am sorry, if in djing tbuf, that I have uountie 1 iu. espied no game, 1 t"ok no aim, Yet itscctus 1 have hurt you, all the same 1': ertf'ne I inns' bear the blume.
But, kind sir, whosoever you be, Step forth in froot, let m« s*e If 1 have ever kuown of thee.
Those who opposed, were but two or three, Coine fortti then, please, show us your
Forsake just once, your hiding place*, Indeed, I know not thus to inset A Menu or foe or how to greet—
Such one who lurks, Behind a fortressof some ones skirt?. Jeff. Davis' Code of Law and Mign. To me has never yet seeftioii rigbt
AUn'itigLi 1 know "I'liey ofieu say" That "He who lights aud r.ius awa'v, May live toflgh sojne otner day Good morrow, now let's hare "Fair pla
Bespeetiuliy, MBH. JCUA B. IJOSFOBD.
Terre llaute, May 6,1878.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. New Yprk, May 7.—The Associated Press, in regular session to-day. expressed deep regret for the death of Hen. Wm. Orton, President of the Western Union Telegraph company, characterizing it as a calamity, secondly only to the death of one of their own members.
FIFTEEN PER CENT.
Boston, May 7.—The savings bank commissioners applied in restrictive order to the Bristol county savings bank of Taunton, permitting the payment of 15 per cent, of deposits the first six months and 15 per cent the second six monthr.
The Cincinnati Enquirer's essay oil man is in one canto, as follows Man's a vapor,
Full of woes Starts a paper, Up he goes.