The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-11


Fifth and Olive. msgnifcenafye
storied buildings Of white Tree Stone.
with classic fronts and mansard roofs.
By the by, why is that we have rot
single mansard roof In Evansvillek
Couldn't Judge Igleheart have come
q lirtle nearer TO it it be had tfied2
Wherever [ 60 l find some Of these.
Let some Of our CT liens, it they emit
travel farther. go up TO Ierre Hau1e
and see how the thing can be done.
Somebody will soon become sorry
that so little attention is paid to i'm
pressive and varied architecture in
Evansville.
Another thing il noticeable here.
Business houses are pushing west
ward. They are walking up or out
the ~aristocratic Olive Street, so that
between Seventh and Eighth Streets,
you have a whole row Of hve-storied
| buildings, with luminous rJnts, sooa
to thrust their attentions upon pass
ers-by. The only place that .looks at
a stand-stiil is the block where the
old Lindell Hotel was burned. This
is now surrounded with . high board
| fence, over which is spread innumer-
able sensational placards, many Of
them not Of the purest kind, but cal
culated rather to awaken the rumin-
ative mind to the reflection, as to
whether the old times OF Pompeian
RIGHTEOUSNESS is not getting ready to
repeat itself in this country. l an
inclined to think that the city just
now is having more than its share of
demoralizing entertainments. What
must be the effects Of having the
orgies Of the imported French car
can" With the abandon of the Ameri-
can nature, enacted nightly; and com
menciDg at the late hour of half past
ten? And yet this IS now an institu-
ton in st. Louis and ia the very heart
of the city.
But the thought Of this board fence
brings me to mention a little Incl.
dent which has been haunting me all
day, aud will never be forgotten. As
| came upon the Church of the Mes
siah, a funeral train was just entering
it, conveying what l concluded was
the remains of a young man L fol
lowed the train. As it moved up the
aisle, the organ began a gentle, sweet
murmuring melody, so gentle that II
seemed as If angels were letting do8I
a faint undulation of the heavenly at
mosphere, from which all the song
was wasted except the slightest vibra
tons. It was silence mixed up viii
only the spirit Of a far-of echo! Blu
as the bearers feet brought the coffin
to rest it before the pulpit, there cam
, from one of the mourHers such a deep
: low, p~laintiYe shrek or moan. rlsIn!
until its wall filed the room, and, TO
a moment overbore the gentle muslt
that had foated out from the gallery
It was so piercing piercing tn
heart, too, rather than the sensuou.
ear; it was so weird-like that TIN
whole audience was thrilled as by su
perhuman and almost sepulchral en-
chantment. There was only that on
wall, and then the faint echo of tn
: organ rolled on. Who gave tina
~comfortless shrek? 1t seemed 10 M
it was from some young wife that wa
now sayiDg-now feeling, for the frs
time. i" am artdOwed," and | askee
myself whether she had yet to hea
the Comforter, in Gods name saying
: Earth hath no sorrows
That HEAVIER cannot cure
2 And my prayer has been that Ii
: the tempest Of her grief she may hea
the Comforter.
[ did want to tell you some othe
: things ofwhieh my brain or mind IS full
. But if | had time, your readers have
! no patience. | wanted to say q wore
! about woman's movements. Nigh
before last, the "Woman's Labor
Union met. Il was essentially the
same that met when | was here nin'
, months age. Then the elamor wa.
for suffrage; now il is the right TX
labor. The movement is enough t
awaken sorrow, as we'll as hope, II
every philanthropio breast. Has l
come to this, that any "a can rctus'
to give woman work, when she beg
: it, that she may get honest bread
: La Gods name, | would say, let every
l woman, as we'll as man, do anything
she can, in the way Of yirtuous labor
so that she may have no object, sense
f or dependence. The only way to re
alize this, however, is to do it. LIE
every woman take the place she feel
able to FIJI, and show that she is abll
and that she is true. Men will Tis
up and honor al such. This is not
7 matter of sex. The RAGS only reyer
ences such as compel reverence, an'
it makes no difference as to whethe
they be men or women.
Yours, NJ.