Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 February 1880 — Page 4

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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 19.1880.

Pierson Township Democrats

Will meet at the Precinct, in Pierson townbhip on the ist Saturday in March to nominate a township ticket, and to

transact such other business an may come before Uicm. JOSETH T. PETERS,

Committeeman

ATTEN I ION DEMOCRATS Democrats of Rily townbhip are re

quested to meet at Leckport on

Saturday, the 13th Day of March

for the purpose of nominating a town

•hip ticket to be voted for on the 6th

day of April, 1880.

THE establishment of some additional branch mints are in contemplation by the Government.

THE Chicago Inter-Ocean says that the Santa Fe Railroad Company was compelled to pay $10,000 into the pool for transporting to Denver last year, that Indiana editorial excursion in which there were no editors.

DUKING January of this year the exports of domestic provisions and tallow from the United States amounted to $9i493.959 and for the seven months ending January 31st $60,870,735.

GEO. BROWNE GOODE has been appointed by the President to represent the United States and have charge of the American Fish exhibit at the International Exhibition at Berlin next April.

GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, who is in New Orleans, writes to the London Telegraph, that the St. Charles Hotel in that city is one of the handsomest he has eyer seen. George has evidently neve been in Chicago.

CONGRESS is being petitioned to a very considerable extent these days to reduce the duty on steel and iron. It ought to remove the duty on paper and all things that enter into the manufacture of paper entirely.

IT is in contemplation to extend to non-commissioned officers of the army the 6amc privileges of retirement after thirty years' meritorious service as now exists in the case ot commissioned officers. This is a just and wise rule.

IT grieves the GAZKTTK to observe signs of internal dissension in the ranks of the Republicans of this county, as exhibited at the convention of S iturday in their refusal to pass the resolutions instructing the dehgates to the State coh yention to vote for Gen. Hunter.

A FEW hnndred of Walker's circulars spread around in New York City would bring a horde of paupers from that vicinity. Vigo County can be filled to overflowing with immigrants of that kind by the judicious distribution of circulars like the one sent out from the office of U. S. Mail Agent Walker.

YESTERDAY the manufacturers of steel rails presented to both houses of Congress protests from the officers of some thirty railroads, controlling about 5*125 miles of road, against the proposed decrease of the tariff on steel rails. These railroad managers have tracked their roads with steel, and now object to

hiving their competitors do the 6ame thing at a lower rate th they were compelled to pav.

ONE day last week a small cargo of Africans from North Carolina landed *1 the I. & St. L. depot. When they got off the train they enquired cf a police officer there where they could find Kilback, the Republican Postmaster, and U. S. Mail Agent Walker. Oh! no. There is no political significance whatever about this exodus. The negroes are merely fleeing from "cutrage, robbery and oppression," as Rev. |. Mitchem and his fellow committeemen say.

THE Young Democracy of Terre Haute organized a club Saturday night. The members, as the name of the club indicates, belong to that grand army of young men on whose vigorous shoulders the responsibilities of life, and the perpetuity of our institutions will rest more and more with the flight of yeas. Their interest in public affairs is a happy augury of stability for the future. It is a source of gratification to the GAZETTE to observe that the club gives evidence of strength and activity.

AT the Republican Convention Saturday the colored bretheren demanded a representative on the Central Committee This was refused them. Perhaps the American citizens of African descent' resident in this count}', will open their eyes sometimes to an understanding of their true position in the Republican party. It is their votes that are wanted and not their company on committees and tickets. juBt now what is most de. 6ired of them is a multiplication of their number bv importation from North Car olina. This mu6t be pushed.

A CURIOUS bill has been agreed upon by the House Committee on Manufactures and will be reported to the House soon. Its object is to prevent the adulteration of articles of food and drink by the use of ingredients deleterious to health. According to its provisions any person who suspects adulteration in any article of food and drink may demand a sample and the dealer who reluse6 to furnish such sample shall be subject to arrest and a fine of not exceeding $ioo. This will furnish a perpetual harvest to the old bloats and corner loafers, all of whom will suspect adulteration in whisky and demand samples.

SATURDAY'S session of Congress must have been a curious one. It was given over wholly to debate. Few members were present except the five statesmen who desired to address admiring con stituents through that convenient paladium of liberty, the Congressional Record. Bright funded the public debt tin an able argument. Findley equalized the bounties of soldiers in the late war tiayes, with charming consistency, agitated the policy of non-agitation of the financial question Joyce opposed a reciprocity treaty between Canada and the United States and Myers closed the entertainment by retiring the total issue of the National bank notes. These great subjects having been settled to the satisfaction of the orators, their constituents? the pages, the empty benches, and the unfortunate speaker, who could not es* cape being in attendance, the House adjourned, and silence came like a poultice to heal the blows cf sound.

THE charming consistency of Mail Agent Walkers circular and of Rev. J. Mitchem's appeal for aid for colored exodusters appears in brighter light the more it is considered. Walker urges the deluded victims of his confidence operations in North Carolina to come here because this is a land flowing with milk and honey. Rev. J. Mitchem appeals to the charitable people of Terre Haute to affoad relief to destitute North Carolinians and displays anxiety to get them work. In a word an officer "of the United States Government resident here is engaged in sending circulars to the South filled with false representations, the object and result of which is to bring into our midst a swarm of paupers. It is idle to deny that his purpose and that of his advisers in this matter, for he had advisers, is political. How the people here will enjoy this sort of thing and how far they will tolerate it, remains to be seen. -,

TELEGRAPH MESSAGES. During the recent investigation of casea before the Senate Committee on Privileges ai Elections the question arose as to •vliat extent telegrams could properly be demanded of ikgicfh ccrrpanies nd their production be compelled. It seems the Committee decided that their compulsory produc ion and use wa* right and proper, and Saulsbury, in behalf of the Committee, presented some resolutions embodying that proposition to the Senate, by which body they were ordered printed and laid on the table. In the resolutions the Committee state that the authority making such order on a telegraph company ought first to be satisfied that the message sought is, if obtained, likely to be material to the pending investigation, and

that

the message

desired ought to be described with reasonable certainty. The country will hardly agree with the

THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

Committee on this proposition. Unless we are greatly mi-taken the general sentiment is strongly in favor of the absolute privacy of telegraph messages.

ARE LABORERS SCARCE IN VIGO COUNTY?

In this issue of the GAZETTE will be found a number of responses from country readers of the weekly edition of ttiis paper to some questions addressed to them last week in the paper. We have repeatedly asserted and everybody knows that there is a superabundance of un skilled labor in Terre Haute. Everybody knows this is so. When we have asserted that the lafeor market i6 already filled to overflowing in Terre Haute, it has been Tintimated) though ne ver openly asserted by anyone that while that might be true in town there was a demand for laborers on the farms. Our inquiry addressed to our country readers was with a view of ascertaining the condition of affairs there We print to-day responses from a number in various Townships in this County and from Sullivan and Parke. We hope all our readers will respond. We wish to make this investigation thorough and complete. We wish to know if anywhere in Vigo County, or in the counties surrounding us in this State and in all the counties oj this Congressional district there is an unsupplied demand for unskilled laborers, such as these negr»es from North Carolina are. It is a matter of the utmost momeflt to every taxpayer and to every workingman. We hope they will appreciate this and help us along in it. We desire to have a dozen responses from every school and road district, that this thing may be sifted to the very bottom. If there is a demand we 6hall have little to say. If, however, paupers are being brought here for whom there is no work and who must become a charge on the several localities where they manage to settle, then we want to know that. And we want to know it to the end that it may be stopped before our poor houses are filled to overflowing) the labor market utterly prostituted, and we have piled in our midst a mass of ignorance and poverty on which social and communistic conflagrations feed. It threatens our common school system. the taxes for the support cf which must be increased or the length of the school year reduced

We are not alarmists, but we view this question of urging paupers to come here by false representations of the condition of affairs as a monstrous crime—a crime against them and against the communities to which the are brought. The GAZETTE is not engaged in managing the affairs of the universe, but it does desire to see Vigo and the adjoining counties filled with an intelligent, industrious, thrifty people, for whom there is work, and who will be contented and happy. We intend to rake the county over with a fine-tooth comb to get the facts and we want our readers to help us.

THE FAMINE IN SILESIA. Last week a committee of gentlemen representing the German citizens of Terre Haute sent several hundred dollars for the relief of the destitute people of Silesia. Owing to disastrous floods the crops were a total failure and very great distress is felt over a large province. An idea of the condition of affairs there, and particularly of what life in that country among the peasantry is at its best, is well conveyed in the following article which recently appeared in the New York Times: "The German Government has taken such thorough means of preventing loss of life by the famine in Upper Silesia that the large landed proprietors have grown disgusted ac its liberality, and complain that the laborers will not be content to live upon the food to which they have been accustomed, but will demand higher in order to secure something better. It must not be supposed from this that the German authorities have treated the tens of thousand of sufferers to delicacies of all kinds. The famine diet consists of bread, nutritious soup, and a little bacon twice a day, and now and then erbswurst, or pea sausage. But to the average Silesian peasant this food, both in quantity and quality, far surpasses that he has been accustomed to. Nor will this be wondered at when it is said that the wages of a laborer there during the busiest season of the year are not over 17 cents a day. while for a long period during the other portions of the twelvemonth they fall considerably below this rate. Those who have visited Germany, both recently and fifteen or twenty years ago, must be aware that a vast change has taken place in the cost of living, particularly in the price of food a change which does not seem to have produced any marked effect upon the wages of the peasantry in the remote country districts. As a rule, these are in a much less tolerable condition noyv than they were a generation ago, for between low wages and the increased cost of living they are reduced, under the most favorable circumstances, to a hard struggle for existence, and if a failure of the crop takes place they are brought down at once to a state of positive physical suffering. Though it is a gratuitous task to draw a comparison be-

tWien different degrees of misery, it csn be stid that, on the whole, the condition of the lowest laboring class in the country districts of Ireland is much better than that of a similar class in Upper Siirsia, and in certain of the Baltic provinces. We hear .very little complaint Irom the latter, for the reason that hardship has become with them so much a matter of habit that they cannot realize that tuch a thing as a marked improvement in their affairs is possible. The only symptoms of discontent that have yet been discovered, though these are certain to appear, are among those who have been compelled, by the recent genera1 conscription, to serve three years in the army. These man are not satisfied when they contrast the snug quarters and good food they received while doing miii" tary duty with their present discomfort and as their number increases this feel-, ing may lead to an effort in favor of reform."

JEFF DAVIS' CONTESTED LEG-

CY.

It will be remembered that about year ago while Jeff Davis and wife were sojourning at the residence of Mrs. Dorsey, the hostess kindly and considerately took occasion to die,but not without having made the 6aid J. D. heir to the bulk of her fortune. But just at this point certain persons who claimed to be the only true heirs, by the divine right of consanguinity, came to the front, just as heirs always do on such interesting occasions—and proposed to contest the good old lady's right to dispose of her property as she saw fit and proper.

But the ex-President of the once proud Southern Confederacy was not the man to retreat without giving battle, and the battle is now about to begin in earnest When the will was presented for probate Mr. Dstyis' attorneys made every effort place him in full possession, but at thi interesting point the irrepressible and previously unheard-of heirs showed fight, and the attorneys on both sides began rubbing their hands ii. glee, for they welj knew into whose hands contested estates have fallen since the palmy days of Solomon. The heirs are represented by W. S. Mills, the eminent lawyer who fought and won the great suit of Mrs. Gaines. The contestants will claim that Mrs. Dorsey was of unsound mind and incapable of making a 1 ther, that undue influences were brought to bear on her to induce, her to make such disposition of her property. They will also claim that it is contrary to public policy to permit Euch a bequest to stand. Another point that appears to trouble these virtuous contestants is that Mrs. Dorsey declared in her will that Mr. Davis had fought for his country and suffered greatly and received no re ward. With a freedom of translation that would do credit to a theologian they a gue that the dear old lady was 6imply paying him for being guilty of treason and that if the courts permit him to gain possession it will be pu tting a premium on treason."

This is a very pretty fight just as it stands, and our opinion on the merits of the case has not been called for. But all the same, we hereby set our hoof in the green pastures of justice and equity, and lying by its still waters will listen to our own warblmgs. If we understand the case aright this is about what it amounts to: Mrs. Dorsey, an aged widow, who has outlived not only her husband but thoce who are bound to her by all the closer ties of relationship, finds in her declining jears that the ties of friendship are.far stronger than the more or less remote ties of consanguinity alone. Indeed, those who now claim to be her heirs had become estranged from her, and their ancient alleged affections alienated. Except for her few well-tried and trusted friends she was then quite alone in the world. Chief amoag those few friends were Jefferson Davis and wife, who, during her last illness paved with flowers the thorny pathway to the tomb and cheered her tired spirit as it neared the unfathomed abyss that yawns between the two worlds.

Who will 6ay that it was the duty of Mrs. Dorsey to divide up her little estate among her almost unknown and uncared^or Pinaforean relatives and show no substantial gratitude to those who by the divine right of friendship had earned the inheritance that others had forfeited? Indeed, should it not be the undisputed privilege of every sane person to dispose of Iiia property just as his own sweet will may elect, and in the name of all the gods at once, what claims have our relatives upon us that they should be permittad to cram their fingers into the greenback pies we are unable to carry with us to that other world In short, it a man or woman possess more than a simple life interest in the estate of which they die possessed why have they not a rig to dispose of it as their judgment and heart may dictate, and to the exclusion of those who may have proved themtMelyes unworthy of it

And lastly, may not the question "Who are our relatives be most properly answered even as the Sage of Nazareth answered that other question of long ago, '•Who are our neighbors a.:

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GUARDIANS SALE OF REAL ESTATE. Notice i6 hereby given at the undersigned, guardian of Mathilda Ohm,minoi lr of Ernst Ohm, deceased, will il at private sale, on tne foth day rf February 18S0, at the office of William E. Hendrich, situated on the south.wtsl corner of Third and Ohio streets, in Terre Haute, Indiana, the following described real estate, in Vigo County, Indiana, to-wit

Part of in-lots number fifteen (15) and sixteen (16) of the original in lots of the town, now city of Terre Haute, commencing at a point forty (40) feet east oi the north-west corner of in-lot number sixteen (16), thence Tunning east twenty (20) feet, thence south ninety-nine (99) feet and seven (7) inches, thence west twenty (20) feet, and thence north ninety-nine (99) feet and seven (7) inches to the place of beginning.

Also, lot number three (3^ except six (6) incnes off the west side, in Gilbert's et al subdivision of part of out-lot number Fortv-nine (49) cf the original town now city of Terre Haute, said subdivision being described a a subdivision of 323 ft. and 7 inches off the west side of the north half of said out-lot No. 49, and recorded in Plat Record, vol. 1, page 131, of this county.

Terms—Cash at not less than the appraised value of said real estate. NICHOLAS STEIN, JR

Februaiy 4, 1880. Guardian

lEBe-opening:

OF THE DAN MILLER STAND

S. Cooper,

307 and 309 north Fourth street. With a full line of groceries and pro visions. The best place in the city for farmers to buy goods. Reduction made in goods to large buyers. Wagon yard and hotel connected. When you come get a first class Meal and Bed for 25 cent6 each. The highest cash prices for all kinds of produce.

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aa indiscretions, exceases, nervous exhaustion, sexual dahtiity and Impotener, causing BO much oonnubl

Infelicity. Facta for everybody. cents by malL .— the publio for tha study and practice OAN8, and we ventnre to say that no Statea, to-day, has had the suocees in carl— product mrSJKXUA] general PhTncal and gether with all Blood Impurities, and IM POTKNOV from any causa, iftieei years' practice In this particular branch or the Profession warrants the statement

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I have removed the unsold slock oi the Marble Palace Boot and Shoe| store to 113 south Fourth street and continne the closing out sale ar the extremes! low price at 25 to 75 cents a pair on shoes and $1.00 to $2.00 a pair on boots. Th« steck must be closed out as soon as possible. Two doors north of Market tieuse, No. south Fourth street.

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