Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 January 1882 — Page 4

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1882.

THE WEEKLY GAZETTE. The attention of all persona into whose Jiands the Weekly GAZETTE talis is called to its many valuable features as a newspaper. It prints from its daily edition the dispatches of the Western Associated Press, which are the same as those that appear in the best cf the metropolitan papers. Its market reports are received daily by telegraph from Baltimore, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago and Toledo. It prints each week the Indianapolis live stock market and the local Terre Haute market Its court house and local news of Terre Haute and Vigo county is tull and complete. It contains all the fear tuves of auy ot its competitors, in better form and more fully than any oi* them, and besides has a number of features winch most of them do not attempt and cannot have viz: the telegraphic news and market reports. An inspection of the GAZETTE and a comparison of its with any other paper published anywhere is earnestly invited. The GAZETTE is essen'ially a newspaper. For a resident ol Vigo or any sun onnding county it is the best paper attainable, having the local news which outside papers de not have And the telegraphic news which the other papers here, with the single exception of the Express, do not and cannot have. The price of the Weekly GAZETTE is only $1.60 per year, which is less than 8 cents per copy, delivered postage free. It can be obtained by sending the money through the mail to the GAZETTE, Terre Haute, Ind., or by calling at tne publication office. Nos. S3 and 25 south Fifth street

SCOVILLE has sued the Chicago Herald libel.

AND still the Guiteau trial drags its slow length along

llEitnic coaches in Terre Haute would be a valuable addition to present modes of transportation.

SENATOU UOA.U has been invited to repeat "his eulogy on President Garlield in the Academy of Music, New York, at an early day.

IN the House committee on Banking and Currency yesterday Dingley offered a resolution in fnvor of the continuance of Ihe national banking system.

TALMAGE replied to Ingersoll Sunday morning at bis Brooklyn tabernacle. It is an open question whether Talmagc's alleged religion is lees obnoxious than Ingersoll's alleged infidelity.

THE authorities of North Carolina are very accommodating When a man is to be hung they irect the gallows at the bottom of a deep ravine, and allow the people to sit around on the hillside.

GOVERNOR OHDWAY. of Dakota Territory, is in VVaehington. lie is in favor of cutting .a State out ot the southern part cf the Territory, but wants special care taken to perserve the School lands for school purposes.

THE Contingent Fund committee yes wj teiduy inquired into tlic reputation ot Bissell, the principal witness against

Senator Sheiman,and by the examination of several witnessea found he had a deJ, cidedly odorous reputation.

THE movement to provide for Mrs. Lincoln will probably result in voting her $ 100,000 outright, without reference to the pension feature of her claim, as some of the Senators do not desire to commit themselves on t£e arrears of pension question,

THE compulsory education law in Massachusetts is by no means a "deid letter." Tho other day the keeper of a furnishing* goods store in Boston was fined $20 and costs for employing a cash boy without the necessary certificate that the lad had attended school for at leant twenty weeks in year.

THE Guiteau trial has alroady cost some $50,000. A great deal of money would have been saved, the great majority of American people been better satisfied, and justice, if not the law, AS well served, had a mill stone been hanged about that wretch's neck and him thrown into the sea many months ago.

I THERE mast be a good deal ot money :n carrying the malls, judging by the bids made by the contractors the other day for the Trans-Mississippi routes. There was something over half a million of these. About toe-fifth of the male population of thai portion of the country would thns seem anxious to sscnie a government job.

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IN the death ct R. L. Thompson Terre Haute loses an old and a prominent citizen—one of the elder type of settlers who have given to our Prairie City the fair name and fame she bears everywhere. He was a good man ia every relation of life and his death partakes of the nature of public calamity.

MB. BELFOHD, of Colorado, wants three new Bureaus. First, a Bureau of Mining next, a Bureau of Manufactures and third, Bureau of Labor Statistics. If this last should be established, it ought to publish statistics of labor more accu rate and instructive than those which some of the Government statisticians nave for years been issuing.

POUCRMEN should b# careful how they handle bundles which they find lying on the street. The other day a Philadelphia copper ran across what he thought a worthless heap of rags and kieked it into the gutter. As he did so he heard the cries of a child issuing from the package and upon examination found an infant with its little head maimed and bleeding from the blow inflicted by his big foot.

DK. MAXY WALKEK enrolls herself as a defender of Guiteau, whose hanging she declares would be a disgrace to the country, to herself and "to all other citizens." This intolerable woman, who has thrust herself as an incubus upon every effort of the true woman, of America lor the advancement of their sisterhood, might well complete her career by marrying the infamous wretch she is so urift to defend. They would be well matched in tongues at least.

Tnic House is having a very lively tittU over the committees question. Orth disclaims any intention to meddle with the present constitution of committees, but many of tho members of the House claim that any rule which may now be adopted will apply to the present session. A large number of Democrats are in favor of.Orth's amendment. Republicans are very nervous about it and are trying to get rid of the question by laying Robeson's amendment on the table, but Orth's supporters and the Democrats are keeping the question before the House.

HERE is how an English newspaper writer pictures the horrors of the Guiteau trial: "Tho court in which the trial is taking place is, I am told, a miserable little hole fifty feet by seventy feet. It is always crowded to the door, chiefly by women, and the atmosphere is described as fearful. The ladies who remain for lunch object to have the windows opened during the recess. The judge was with difficulty moved to give an order for these scruples to be disregarded. Two of the jury have already fallen sick, and it will be wonderful it the others escape."

SENATOR PLUMJJ is interesting himself in a class of soldiers who have been severely punished indirectly for infraction of military discipline. When Lee surrendered a great many soldiers went home, considering the war at an end, but without any intention to desert from duty. They were never given discharges and consequently have enjoyed none oi the privileges of soldiers, such as pensions and bounties. It is the object of Senator Plumb to cure their disabilities and place them on a footing with other soldiers—those of them who have no other disabilities than this unintentional' desertion.

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LB Due, ex.Commis8ioner ot Agriculture, says he is disappointed at the results of tea culture in California. The plant is hardy*enough, but requires heat and moisture combined, and this is a rare combination in California. He says the plant has done much better in Oregou. Coffee will not thrive exccpt in the extreme South. Cotton will grow in southern California, and he is satisfied the grape lias found its uatural home there. He lays it down as a rule that persistent cultivation of a staple crop will bring the sheriff into any county that relies on it. General farming and rotation of crops is what he recommends.

THERE was a triple hanging at Wentwortb, North Carolina, on Friday, which faded to be telegraphed in time to appear in our regular Friday "execution column," two men and a woman (colored), Joe Ilay, Eldridge Scales and Matilda Carter, for the murder of Nash Carter— probably the woman's husband, but not stated in the dispatch. It was a gala day at Went worth. A triple hanging, and one of them a woman, was a better drawing card than Barnum's gigantean agglomeration of stupendous attractions, and there were four or five thousand people out to witness it. It was a bungling execution, but this fact probably added to the attractions of the occasion

THE statement that it required one thousand cars to carry exhibits to the Atlanta Exposition, but two hundred were sufficient to take away those which remained unsold, nearly everything except the heavy maehinery having found a purchaser, is the best showing the South has ever made. The Soath may not be as rich in one sense ss It was before the war, but it is richer in the trae sense of the word. The enterprise that avails itself of improved machinery, and is prompt to of sew and improved

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methods, is worth more than all the money ever paid for cotton. The energy the Southern people are displaying is a fine capital. .,

THE Panama Sthr and Herald says the report that el loir fever is epidemic there is pure moonshine. The announcement credited to the United States Consul to the contrary is said to refer to Sam&na. The same paper has the following: The Pacific mail steamship committee, appointed to confer with thtroverland railroad companies in relation to a new contract, have reported to the directors that they had offered to sell the railroad com panies as requested by them the China line steamships City of Tokio and City of Pekin for the sum of $1,450,000 and a guarantee of $100,000 of freights yearly for ten years to the Pacific mail com pany. In case this offer shall not be accepted the committee recommend that the president of the steamship company Khali be authorized to take passengers and freights at the best terms obtainable. The report was accepted and the recommendation was adopted. The railroad people, it was understood, had not accepted the offir. ..

THE crew of the ill-fated Jeanette are progressing toward the boundaries of civilization. Six of them, including Lieutenant Danenlianer, arrived at akutsk, December 17th last and Mel ville and six more of the crew were only a short time behind this advance party. Captain DeLong and his company had not been heard from when Lieutenant Danenhauer left Bouloucngs. But the former landed some distance /rom the others and is doubtless pushing southward by some other route. It is not beyond belief that they have

with them the party of the third boat, from which nothing has yet been heard, and perhaps it is that which has detained them on the coast so long. Of course, there are dangers which might befall DeLong and his party in their land journey from the coast, but the safe arrival of Danenhauer's party at Yakutsk gives assurance that the snows of Siberia may be traversed even by novices without serious accident. The story about the discovery of the missing boat on Herald Island has been completely exploded, and hope is again high that all of the Jeannette's brave crew may et be returned safe and sound from their search alter the North Pole. Relief expeditions are numerous, money and all that it will bring are placed at their service, and if they are not saved it will be the cruel resuit of an inexorable fate.

THE Atlantic Monthly makes this calculation: A family that uses a gallon ot kerosene a day pays a yearly tribute to the Standard Oil Company of $32, the income from $800 in the four per cents. The Standard levies $11,000,000 on the whole country. It pays dividends ot $1,000,000 per month and has millions left to pay rebates to railroads and bribe judges, newspapers, State legislators and State inspectors. The alliance between the oil company and the railways has enabled the Standard to wipe out competition and oppress the people. And—

It is the railroads that have bred the millionaires who are now buying newspapers, and getting up corners in wheat, corn and cotton, and are making railroad consolidations that stretch across the con* tincnt. By the same tactics that the railroads have used to build up the Standard, they can give other combinations of capitalists the control of tho wheat, lumber, cotton, or any other product of the United States. Given the power to raise and change the freight rate at will, tlios-e speculating directors can control tli«i prices •he West shall get for ifc-t grain and _..itle, and those the Ernst shall pay for its bread and meat. Hie New York Chamber of Commerce, on Peln uaiy fi, 1880, unanimously ndoptod report— sigucd by Charles'S. Smith, JHcks.in S. Helm It*, Benjamin Sherman, Franci* 15. Thutber, Benjamin G. Arnold, Jacob Wendell and Charles C. Dodge—in which these significant words occur: "Wh:u has happened in the case of the Standard Oil Company may happen in other lines of business. With the favor of the managers of the trunk lines what is to prevent commerce in the rest of the great staples from being monopolized in a similar manner? Already it i9 taking this course. One or two firms in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, with their branch houses in the West, are, by the favor of the railroads, fast monopolizing the export trade in wheat.com, catile HDO provisions, driving theii competitors to the wall with absolute certainty, breaking down and crushing out the energy and enterpri-e of the many lor the benefit of the favored few." •1 ur*"»?

STAIAVAKT Uepublican papers all over the country from one tnd to the other are beginning to smirch the reputation of the murdered President. Anions other choice things of the kind that have lately appeared in print is the following from the Philadelphia Prm:

"Diligent efforts are making at Washington to create a new Garfield for the contemplation of the groundlings. The same fine Roman hand which furnished the bouffe portraitures of the 'chum Cabinet' for the delectation of the Stalwarts is now busy in the exposition of post* humous policies snd picturesque foibles for the late President. Personages masking under the sinister colors of Garfield's friends are suddenly minded to etch their 'conversations' ana impressions ot the dead man. Needless to say that these reminisoencs all tend to make Garfield fickle as the moon, inconstant ss water. Blaine is msde fee appear the Dtue as mackiacL, moving with MschiavelHc mind the pieosa on the board, while the hand of Garfield alone was seen. It is the purport of all these fragments to show that

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remised all things to all men, and kept with but one—Blaine/' 5 », In reply to the above the Cincinnati Commercial, by far the ablest and most vigorous ot the papers defending tho memory of the late President Garfield| saya with force and feeling: «f£j "It is the old light. If Stalwartism is to be accepted by the people of the United States as a betterment of Republicanism, it is important to smirch the reputation of GARFIELD, and the doers of dirty work, who have undertaken that Job, have already smeared on the first coat. GARFIELD denied his boss and was murdered, and the murderer is not hanged, but the President who is not submissive to the bosses who brag that they make Presidents, mav expect, if not alwaya asssssination, at least to be denounced in the coarsest terms. Hayes and Garlield were as brave solders as ever rode under fire, but Chandler and Conkling, who never saw a rebel during the war who bad not been made prisoner, felt quite at liberty to say the Presidents tbey claimed to have made were cowards. Of course the President is to the boss but an instrument, and the meaner he is the better for the boss. If the President WPS a liar and a coward, with a deep tenderness for crooked persons in the revenue service, the boss would praise him to the skies. The thing a boss can not forgive in a Presi dent is a personal sense of official respon sibility.

ANEW POSTAL REGULATION* The regulations of the post-offlce department governing the disposition of unstamped letters or those insufficiently stamped have recently been changed. Such letters are now sent at once to the dead letter division of the postoffice department at Washington. From there a department postal card is sent to the person to whom the letter is directed. This is a white card the size of a postal card. On the face of the card is a copy of the address on the detained letter. On the right upper eorner of the card's face is this printed inscription: "Postoffice Department, office of the the Third Assistant Postmaster General, Division of dead letters. A penalty of $800 is fixed by law for using this card for other than official business." On the left upper corner is the printed number of the card as a postoffice blank, these blanks being No. 8,638. Below this are written figures which probably give the number of such blanks used in the local office during a certain perod. On the reverse side of the card is printed the following: "WASHINGTON, T5. C„ Date 1882.

A letter directed to vou is detained for postage, Upon the relui of this card and three cents in postage stamps, the same will be forwnrded to your address.

Verj Respectfully, A. I). HAZEN, Third Assistant Postmaster General." And at the bottom of the card are these directions: '-Attach the stamp to this card and inclose it in a stamped envelope addressed to the Dead Letter Office, Washington, D. C. immediately. If not claimed within 80 days, the letter will be either returned to the writer or destroyed."

It is to be understood that if an unstamped or insufficiently stamped letter bears on its face any evidences going to show the name of the writer, theletter ,is sent to him to be properly stamped or he is notified of the fact that a letter mailed by him is detained for postage. It is only when there is nothing on the face of the letter to indicate the name of the writer that the letter is sent to the dead letter office at Washington, from which place a card is sent to the person to whom it is directed as detailed above.

The system is a good one and very materially adsc-sta in the prompt delivery of letter*. It is of recent adoption but is so simple and so good that, like all improveuienNrf the kind one, wonders' how, it was uoMhougbl of sooner.

. —————— . A CELEBRATED CASE.

¶ One of the most remarkable libel suits ever conducted came to an end yesterday in Detroit, after a long and hotly contested trial. Some years ago a man in Detroit, named Hugh S. Peoples, had a girl named Martha Whttla in his family as a servant, and it was reported that she was his mistress. When she left, Peoples gave her a note for $400. The girl lived a little out of the city and often visited it. One day in January, 1879, she disappeared and not the slightest trace of her could be found. It was discovered afterward that she was horribly murdered by being tied, gaged, put into a sack and thrown into the river alive. The body was found the next spring, but not until nearly two years later was it identified from the clothing. Then strange stories got into circulation, and the News, one of the Scripps combination of cheap papers, published an article substantially charging Peoples with the-murder. The/Post and Tribune and the Abend Zeitung afterwards published similar articles, and against all of them Peoples brought libel suits.

¶ The first of these suits to be tried was that against the News. It was a double struggle. If People's triumphed it was not only a condemnation of the News and those papers which had followed its lead, but a vindication of Peoples from the most serious of all charges. On the other hand, a verdict for the newspaper was substantially a verdict of guilty of murder against People's himself. Under such circumstances, the plaintiff could not but fight as if his life were at stake, and the

defense was not less determined. The difference between this trial and a trial of the plaintiff for murder chiefly lay in the fact that in an actual murder trial the jury must be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt of the guilt of the accused, while the libel suit might be determined by the balance of probabilities.

¶ The plea of the defense was justification—in effect, that the man was guilty of murder, and that the newspaper in its publication was simply subserving the interests of justice and the well-being of the community. The mass of evidence adduced by the defense tended to prove the guilt of the plaintiff as a murderer and the verdict of the jury, in favor of the newspaper, stamps him as a murderer in the opinion of the twelve men who have heard the case and the arguments. It was really the plaintiff, not the defendant, who was on trial—and he naturally fought the case with desperation.

¶ And with good reason. For as soon as the verdict of the jury was rendered acquitting the News of libel, the plaintiff in the libel case was arrested on the charge of murder.

¶ The newspaper, as its counsel justly said, had been the guardian of the best interests of the community. It had published, in good faith, according to its best light, the facts in this case. It had no malice; it sought only to give the truth. It took a fearful pecuniary risk in the interest of right, of justice, and of the community, of whose interest and welfare it is the most able guardian. It told the truth to the best of its ability, and the verdict of the jury is not only its justification, but the severest rebuke upon existing laws and legal decisions which regard newspapers rather as enemies than as they really are, the best friends to the community in which they are published.

¶ Such a victory as the Detroit News has achieved in this case comes to a newspaper but once in a century, but when it does come it is freighted with a lesson to law makers and law expounders which they will do well to heed, unless they wish to be detested and condemned by the people through whose favor they are what they are.

Now ALL the world knows that constitutionalism means nothing in the dominions of the kaiser. The Germans have their parliament composed of the Reichstag and Bundesrath. but William I., king of Prussia, ii the government. The monarch's recent rescript avowing, wiiat in effect he has long practiced, that the ministers are simply and solely the agents of the sovereign, and that if anything is wrong in the policy which tbey are carrying out the sovereign] is alone responsible, has created quite an uproar in Germany. The doctrine sweeps away the whole theory of representative government, and William of Germany, arrogates to himself the autocratic power claimed by his neighbor and relative, Alexander of Russia. Von Roon, the great war minister of Prussia, once described him self as the Emperor's sergeant The Prussian diet does not seem willing to accept the doctrine of the rescript without question. Socialistic demonstrations and dynamite will come next probably.

CIHCINNATI is still greatly disturbed over the question of smoke consumption. The Gazette of that city says: "Mr. Olhaber, supervisor under the smoke consumption ordinance, has promptly entered upon the discharge of his duties. He is personally visiting manufacturers and othors where steam power is used, calling attention to the law, and asking co-operation in its enforcement. He has thus far been well received and prftmpt action has been promised- .(i T, 'The law is in full force, but it was not intended that it should be oppressive, and Mr. Olhaber proposes that tho smoke producers shall have reasonable time to comply with the requirements of the ordinance before he proceeds to enforce the penalty but he is satisfied that the smoke may be prevented, and he intends to do bis duty kindly, if that will answer the purpose, but sternly, if necessary. It should also be understood that under the law engineers are equally responsible with proprietors. This is an important provision, because stubbornness or nesligence on the part of an engineer would defeat the beat and most egeetive contrivance for preventing or consuming smoke

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By Telegraph to the GAZKTTK. To-day the President appointed Jno. A. Bigelow Marshall of Consular Courts in Turkey.

The United States steamer Yantie has been ordered by telegraph to proceed to Aspicwall and remain, there until the United States steamer Vandalia reaohes there.

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Messrs. Johnrton and Wilson have opened an agricultural implement ston at 688 Main street and are engaged in stocking the place now.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Notico*

Notice!* h*w#by given that*! have been appointed fAdministrator de bouia nou of the estate of William T. Hays, deceased.

The eatate 1s solvent. 3 g* fl. H. BotrniNot Administrator de bonis non.

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Notice la hereby given that I have been appointed Administrator of the eatate of Timothy R. Oilman, deceased, gj JameeD. Bigelow,

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Dissolution Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the co-part-nership heretofore existing between Ransom Rogern and Jam en F. McCr.ndless in the Implement business and known as the Arm of It. Rogers & Co., has this day been dissolved by mutual consent, E. Rogers retiring and James F. McCandless continuing the busineRB at the same (place, and is authorized to collect all notes and accounts due the firm and settle all debts.

Dated 28th day of December, 1881. R. Rootons, JAB. F. MCCAHDLBSS.

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Notioe ia hereby given that the tax duplicate for the year 1081 la now in my hand* and that I am now ready to receive tbe' taxes charged thereon. The following table shows tbe rate of taxation on eaeh. •100 taxable property, and poll tax In each township.

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D03 TAX: For every male, |I.0O for female, $2.00: for each additional dog 12.00 Under the present law a Road Poll fax of 12.00 is now assessed upon each able boJle$ man over the age of twenty-one, and under the age of fifty years.

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office, and see ihat it cover* all your property. People are taxed for what they own on April 1st of each year.

Taxes are dne on the 31«t or December, and tax payers mav pay the full amount of such taxes on or before the Ulrd Mouday of April or may, at their option, pay onehalf thereof on or befcie the «ald third Monday, and the remaining one-hair on or before the lirst Monday ia November following, provided, however, that nil road taxes charged:shall.be paid prior to the third Monday in April, as prescribed by law and provided, further, that in all cases where as much as one-half of the amount of taxes charged against a tax payer uhail not be paid on or before the third Monday in April, the whole amount unpaid shall become due and returned delinquent, and be collected as provided by law.

Delinquent lands ore advertised on 'or about the first Monday in February, and are offered for sale on ihe first Monday in rch of each year. The Treasurer Is responsible for the taxes he coold have collected therefore tax-payers Oupht to remember that their taxes MUHT be paid every year.

No County Order will be paid to anyperson owing Delinquent Tax. As the Read Tax Is all doe with the first installment, Road Becalpta moat be presented on or before the third Monday of April, or they will not be received.

For the collection of which I may be fonnd at my ofllee in Terre Haute, a• dlreetftf by law.

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