Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 September 1879 — Page 3

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OUR GREAT GRAXDMOniEKS LETTERS.

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To ftll the Gioil Peoyle ofTerre Haui MY DEAR GREAT GRAND CM DBEM:—While your highly v&ted modern tastes arc ing constantly directed back to the archive* cf aritiquitv inquest of divers curious while you are a amiring King's classical collection of

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lliereby learning to distinguish

b?t^i-en antiq jc and modern art while ii b-aws and fingers are busy with i» ict, afti-r the fashion of our almonditipodes while you nre in eager vj A bits of ancient ware, known in 11ancient days au "blue chanevwhile v. or hearts are beating anxiously with at the thought of New York 1 London, and that wi American people shall soon l"ijppv in the posteriori of a real, bona obelisk, the celebrated Needle itself, v, iiich you are ransacking the chests of ancient times"

for,

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Rnle than those of to day while you are worshipping everything clad in the cobwebs of antiquity, I take it for granted that, along with the rest of the old curiosities, you have an abiding interest in your aged grandmother, who has passed the allotted /pace of "three score years and ten," who, by reason of great strength and remarkable 'memory, can tell her grandchidren of people and things she aaw over five score years ago and, as she has been extremely cosmopolitan in her habite, has seen more t^an is circumscribed by the curling smoke of her cabin chimney and, to tell the truth, dear grandchildren, your grandmother's taste is pufiiciently modernize* to think that the smoke curls very gleefully from the flue of a brown-s'one front. So you -ee my reverence for primitive days does not prejudice my appreciation of modern style, not that I am unduly vain forotieof my snow-cruwned years. Your grandmother has no desire to vie with Mvra Clark Gaines in her "graceful, sil-ver-haired flirtations." Ah no! She reveres old manners and custom?," and since she was an honored guest at the christening of the present century and expects to be a sincere mourner at its grave and has stored her memory with varied incidents of the intervening hundred years, since she has seen a generation baptized, married, and buried, she hopes to entertain you by comparative recital and 10 teach you some of the good lessons she has gathered and hound with her old gray hairs. Ycu»- old grandma does .not promise to be always a model of suavity, never saying aught hut sweet, agreeable things she ill not pledge to be always feeding her children with candy, for while she has modernized her taste and does try to enter into the cheeiful sports of her pobterity, yet fclie must give grave counsel and have regard for truth and sometimes the truth is a little dinagreeable but grandmothers are proverbially privileged to say plain things, "to 6peak Dut in meetin'" as it were but this oldfashioned way of telling disacreeable truths is no longer confined to toothless ancestors, for my dear children I could not say anything plainer or much more unpleasant to you than Casanave,has re cently said to the great Sherman,and that too at an •.•.nfortunate a time as anyold antediluvian

could

have selecteo if

he had only had the prudence to ke?p his mouth shut for a couple of years more, Sherman would have considered ,him a much more deserving man, Foster would have had fewer elephants to manage in the Ohio circus,and Hayes, might have devoted a little of that "honest money" to a grand Casanave Reception at the White House. As it is, he has only secured a reputation for telling disagreeable truth, and proved the force of the late revised maxim, "An honest God is the noblest work of man." Gasanave was nobody'* grandttipther, so he KHight to ,have kipt still but dear ipsl one need not go bey'bnd the shades of our oWn little Prairie City to prove that old women no longer hold a monopoly on croaking. Why there is Susie Perkins, one of my own blessed grand children, tossing back her little head and sancing the City Council—ha! hal it made her old grandmother take oil" her "specs" and laugh it reminded her cf what s.he saw at the beach—dear little childa*n throwing pebbles at the grand old br#|ilj|if^blut. ^gtandufother won't scold Sufeie, "for she iays the "Cdvi'ncil i»very fond of jokes" and it might joke grandmother ahoufebeinp two childish to be an old fashioned, Simon pure, unreconstructed Democrat. I had thought of inditing these letters to my great-grand-children during the year of our Lord nineteen hundred but a Ute prophetic declaration of Victor Hugo caused me to rush to ihy pen at once. That French celebrity coolly informs us that during the, twentieth century war, capital

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ishmfT. t, monarchS, dogmas and frontiers, will disappear. Now, bow in the world civilized peopfe are going to get on without such necet»sarie& I ennnot contrive at the thougiitof such a revolution my old heartaches for the press the newspapermen and publishers of magazines are not prepared for any such millennium. "Without -yars and rumors of wars" what items of special interest would the present century have contributed? The Old World is nothing, stmped of her wars and their results but for the "late unpleasantness" with the Zulus the world would have known nothing of th* romantic chivalry of the late Prince Imperial, whose soul was electrified with the &uggestive words of his royal Dulcinea: "I would rather see you in the field than in the ball room." And what, my children, would we have known of the latent greatness of our own citizens but for own civil war Men were born generals, ready uniformed and eager for the fray. "Uncle

Sam" never dreamed of the

armv of Hannibals that would respond to the first scream of the Eagle. So if our trans-Atlantic prophet forsees the truth, how are we to find out the great men of the next generation The natural modestv of the American citizen forbids him to 'declare or even admit his greatness except as he is called to the front by the fife and drum. Why, there were our own Hoosier Home Guards, my Own brave grandsons, every one of them heroes, who declared they would,rally around the wives

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ters of those who were absent in the "tented fields who banded themselves together in a solemn oath to "never leave the State except in case of invasion." What country would not amiably, glaJIv endure—aye. invite, the ravage* of war, in order to know so much of the gigantic chivalry of her sons? As for capital punishment passing away, when there is no longer any incentive to war between either nations or individuals there will be no criminals hence no necessity for cap ital punishment. But it seems now to be deeply rooted in both republican and monarchia! governments. In Europe it may not be such a source of amusemen and interest to the rank and file of the common people as to thoee of our own country. Your grandmother remembers that many, many years ago, as she was traveling through the woods of old Kentucky, she met a crowd of excited men and disappointed women sympathising with her own sex she inquired the cause of their lamentatiors between her broken sobs, one of the women said, "We have role forty miles without breakfast to see Dan Bartlett hung, and just as he was about to swing off, he got reprieved, and we have had all this trouble for nothing, and the next time we ride forty miles to see a man hung, they'll hang him, or we'll know the reason why." This led your grandmother to believe that capital punishment is very dear to the American people.

VV'e have one consolation, however, on this 6ide of the water it is applied to real criminals and not inflicted for imaginary offetises against royalty. If it is discontinued in Europe, it will take a longer time than the twentieth century to obliterate the memory of the guillotine and the block. My children have you read a little historical romance by Ainsworth, entitled the Tower of London If not, read it and stand by the block and weep over sweet lady Jane Gray. The other vanishing scenes of Hugo, monarchies, dogmas and frontiers, I will leave for another letter not wishing to weary my grand children, for I want them to think of their grandmother as kindly as Sir George Campbell, of Scotland, thinks of George W. Childs. He styles him "a great institution of Philadelphia"—let your great institution be Your

GREAT GRANDMOTHER.

NEWS ITEMS FROM THE INDIANAPOLIS PAPERS From the Journal. The American Express Company have put on a messenger between Renssleaer and Delphi, over the.Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago road (n. g.), just opened.

Capt»in George Branham has {contracted far all the coke ot the Indianapoiis Gas company during the coming year. The amount is about 350,000 bushels.

Bishop Chatard, who is grand champlain of the Emerald Benefical Association of America, has written an address on •Catholic societies," which has just been printed in the organ of the order.

The postal carries during Augus'. delivered 581, 146 pieces of mail matter and collected 233,601 pieces. The cost of eighty trips daily, made by twentyeight carriers, is $2,200 p2r month.

All persons in this city and throughout the state desiring to make exhibits in the women's department of the stale fair are requested *0 send their aplications for space to Miss Mary D. Naylor Crawfordsville.

The Baltimor and Ohio Railroad Company reduced its force of mechanics at the Mount Clare shops, September 1, by discharging nearly 300 men. Large accessions were made to the force last spring in order to meet the requirements fo' increased equipment. The company now finds that it has a full supply of cars and engines, hence the reduction.

Professor Collett, of the bureau of statistics, will to-day i6sne to township trustees blanks for statistical returns, similar to those 6ent to incorporated towns and cities, except.that an additional table is required in regard td agricultural products. Trustees may charge their per diem, while' engaged in collecting this information, as the \fcork is a part of their official dutv.\/ "kfi"*

It created considerale surprise in railroad circles when it

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Jay Gould had scooped in the 3® Detroit and Eel Rive road*," which was almost parallel with the Wabash, one of the Gould's linefe^' Tho reason now, assigned for this unexpected action i«that Vanderbilt was about to gobble the road and use it as a link of a new through route to the West which he contemplates opening. 'f'J

From a prominent express man we learn that the Union Express Office which recently went onto the Louisville and Nashville road, have given the Southern Express Company to understand that should they endeavor to force their right to turn on the road of legal action, that the Louisville and Nashville company ill follow in the footsteps of the Baltimore and Ohio road, throw all outside organizations off their line, and make the expresi business a department of the road. Meantime the old companies are get ting the Union Express well hemmed in, carrying much of the business around them, reducing the earnings of tlie Union Express Company nearly fifty per cent, below those £f the Southern Express Company when it operated on the line.

PEDESTRIAN ISM.

Lake, the pedestrian, this morning will begin his task of walking 1,000 quartermiles in 1,000 quarter hours, a threefoot sawdust track for that purpose having been constructed outside the Circlepark fence. Tents have been pitched inside, where he will be cared for while resting. Last evening Willie Evans and Willie Findely, two colored boys employed to distribute handbills around the city, made complaint that when they applied for their pay Lake answered they could see the dhow and, upon objecting to this sort of recompense, he ordered them to "take a walk." It may be. the boys have no just demand but if the contrary, the public will not approve any such methed of doing business.

From the Herald.

James Day. aged nineteen, struck "the city on Tuesday, having walked from St. Louis, where he went four* weeks ago from Pennsylvania. He is afflicted with home-sickness.

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Rev. Kalloch, the California

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politician shot by DeYoung, used the following language concerning "He (DeYoung) is a bastard, belched forth from the belly of a who, by reason of hei occupition, did not know the father of her own brat, that was nurtured in' the lap of prostitution, and trained as a pimp to his own sisters."

The Times ia happy tonoteVn tt"G torje C. Harding' has resumed the editoral control of the Indianapolis Herald. Here's our hand, George, and now keep sober.—[ Lufayette Times.

That's very good fed vice. Mr. Harding will endeavor to follow it. Occasionally it is good for a doctor to take his own medicin^^Supppse you try it your-

Times, take' ouY adyice and never trj again to adyise George. J. H. Haverly is making a thousand dollars a day from his theatrical and musical ventures, but he is not satisfied, and has been trying to buy Rarus, the great trotting horse. He has offered twenty thousand dollars for him. —f Peoria Call.

If Haverly has any sense heiwill let trotting horses alone. If he must buy something with four feet let him buy an elephant.—[Indianapolis Herald.

Jack knows what he is about, and don't you forget it. -f n, The Indianapolis Heral.1 prides itself on the purity of its English, and in the same issue uses the word "preventative." Does the editor of The Herald call that good English?—[Lebanon Patriot.

The Indianapolis Herald only prides itself on its endeavor to use good Eng 1 isft. It does not consider "preventative" good English and never uses it, as the files of the paper will show. In the case alluded to the error escaped the vigilance of the proof reader.

Not very otten that you find a grammatical mistake in the Herald. 3 BASE BALL.

Edward H. Ball, a telegraph operator, whose wife was recently divorced from him, is accused of an attempt to outrage the person of Miss Frances Lease, nineteen years of age. Her brother, John H. Lease, is the complaintnat. The girl alleges that while walking on McCarty street, between Illinois and Meridian streets, on Tuesday evening, about eight o'clock, she was accosted by Ball, who, after making insulting proposals, seized hold of her person, and with great violence proceeded to draw her down a neighboring alley. She resisted and screamed lustily, so that her assailant released his hold and ran. These assaults upon women are becoming unpleasantly frequent. It seems incredible that attempts of this kind should be made right in the heart of a great city but they are. A short stop should be put to the movements of this Ball,

|AJ HE "STOOD THE RAISE." A good many years ago Jack Haverly, now a wealthy manager and proprietor of the bisrgest "nigger show" on earth, was lounging about Irdianopolis, out at the knees, out at the elbows, out of credit, but a whole-souled, good-hearted fellow, all the same. Mr. Haverly was trying, with poor success, to make a living at "short keerds." He was too honest to steal, and lacked the luck or skill to win at square poker. Jack was boarding at the Mason house, and had fallen sadly in arrears. Old Ben, liked him but conclud ed, at the end of the third or fourth delin' quent month, that Jack otight to divide his patronage. He was too tender-heart ed to notify him in plain language, and hit upon the expedient of doubling the price of his board, thinking that Jack would get mad and leave. Jack was sitting moodily in the office one day, thinking what a hand world it ie, tapping the toe of his slender boot with the tip of his cane, when the steward came to him and said "Mr. Haverly, the old man says he'll have to raise your board to $12 a week." Jack pondered a few thinutes, and then said: "You tell the olid man I stand the raise!" .'.f

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GE^KRAt FORREST'S DESPESATE GAolif, .AND HOW HtS WIFE MOft^LLY if *1 ENCOURAGED HIM. fiyi-,

Several years ago General Forrest, the well known Confederate, visited Naslvvjlle city and stopped at the City Hotel hat night several gentlemen /called to see him, among them a gentleman now, connected with the Banner. Tht room! had been drowded during the* early part of the night, and Forrest had received the usual attention bestowed on him. Now, however, he was sitting off to hithself, Und appeard worn and tired out. Our informant wishing to have a talk with him about himself, sought him and entered into conversation with him: i, "General," says he, '"I've heard you were a great poker player in your time." "Yes" answered the general, "I have plaved some," and his eyes began to sparkle with the memory *pf ,old times, and he at once Seemed interested in the subject, for be it known that no one was fonder than he in recounting his wonderful exploits. "How much, general, was the largest stake you fevefplayed "I otice called $48,000 in Ne\v,OrJeans. "Did you win?" 1 "O, yes! I won it." "What was your hand, general?" "It was three kings." •'But," says he, "the hardest game" I ever played was in Memphis. Just after the war closed me and my wife went to Memphis and we stopped at the Worsham House. The next morning we got our things together and I emptied all my papers out of my trnnk on the floor, and Mary went over and over them hunting for something to raise money out of. I emptied my pockets and Mary emptied her'n and between us we had $7,30. After huntin' over every thing, we found that every man who owed me was'either' dead or broke. I hadn't one singlepaper on which I could raise a cent outen. After we got through the pile, I looked at Mary and Mary looked at me. 'Now, what'® to be done, Mary?' Mys I. 'I don't know,' says she, but the Lord will provide.

You see, Mary was one of the best women in.the world, and she had a heap of faith in her religion! I looked at her right straight a long time, and at says, "Mary, you are a mighty 1 woman, and I'm going to tell you something. There's to be a big dinner at/

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him: They always play poker and you have

you bave always been agin rre playing, and I reckon you are right about it. But things have become desperate with us, and some how I fe*-l if you wouldn't be agin me, but would pray foi me, I could make a raise to-night. Says che* 'Bedford, I can't do it. It's wrong for you to do it, and I'd heap rather you wouldn't.' 'But, Mary,' says I, *1 never was in such a fix before. Here we are with no money but $7 30, and that won't pay our tavern bill. I can't lose more than that, for I'll nwpar I won't bet on a credit. If I lose that I'll come home and if I win, then we'll have something to start on.' Well,I areuedand argued with her, but Rhe wouldivt say yes. But at last she says: 'Bedford, I know your mind is set on it, and I know you are going to bet, whether I am willin' or not so I won't say nothing more about it.' "But, somehow, I felt when I started that she was for me, and I knowed jist how 'twould be. Well, I wer.t some time before dinner, and, sure enough, they were at it. They had three tables— one Rad a quarter ante, one a half, and one a dollar and a half. I wanted my seven dollars to last as long as I could make it, and so I set down to the quarter table.A We bet on until dinner, and by that tune I had won enough to do better and, after we had eat, I sat down to the dollar and a half table. Sometimes I won, and then agin I'd lose, on until about midnight, and then I had better luck. I knowed Mary was setting up and praying. I felt like it, and it made me cool. I set my hat down by my side on the floqr, and every time I'd win I'd drop the money in the hat. We played on, and I didn't know nothing about how much I'd won. I didn't keep any acount, but I know'd I was winning, I thought maybe I had won $100, or maybe $200, but I didn't know. I set there until day broke, and then we went home. I took my hat up in both hands and mashed it on my head and went home so without talcing it off. When I got to my room there sat Marv in her gown ar.d the bed wasn't mashed. She'd set up all night waiting for me. She seemed tired and anxious, and though she looked mighty har at me, she didn't say a word. I walked right up to her, and pulled off my hat with both hands, I emptied it all right into the lap of her gown. And then we set down and counted it." "How much was there, general!"

Just $1,500, even. And that," aJded the general, as he walked off, "gin me a start."

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