Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 37, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 March 1871 — Page 4

For Sale.

Ifeubdivision,

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7UK HALK—Choice building lots in Toel corner or 6111 and (iullck htrectx. Also lor exchange,farming lands in Indiana and Illinois, for improved or unimproved city property. Apply to 11. H. TKKI, Itoom 8 Uracil Block. 37-tf.

I NT KD—To lixohangea farm of 80 aertu 'OF land for a Rood IIOU.M.- and lot on 5th, 0th or 7th streets, want

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SA.O1JO, will |«iy |»ari ci«»h. fcl I*. BKAUCH AM P. No. 141 Main Street, up t. lairs

JOll SALE--A corner lot In Tuell «S tJshAudllioli. 37-2t. tjKIMKS A IIOY.SE, Agent*.

ll Jit S V!.K-Six Ibnws and Yt lots all TII-W wlili

4 room* and cellar* to eac

Willi clsUsrtiK and wood shod*. (iood location, each worth will ll all for 'JW, or choice for SI,OOO cash.

JW-tf: IJ. HOLM EH.

.^OU SALB—Hons*? withft rooms and half

lot, South nth street. 1'ric^ SiSJO. Also •2.1 mile* south of the city. Hur buildings, bnariUK fruit trei« und 10 acrid* of tim!R*r, 10 b1 sold with the name

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iOK HALF,—TIou-- and low In all parts the. city, I'tolli i'XlO to •jfj.JU. (iHIMEHA IWiSL.

PALE- IIou.v! of

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.nid lot o! live SMT»* cn J'raiilcton road I"' jail' from the court house. It*) fruit I00 *»re:il bargain. Ap-

JEUUV VOK1S.

Tioil HALE.—T*tilonia Hotel. Thin valuable property adjoining the l.-min« Ulock Oil the East will be sold very low.

HOSL'TIITU, HOL'DINOT & HKOW X, Attorney *.

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with five rooms, cellar, Ac. l,Ot7* bv 1 11 feet

JOUHAI.lv millions, Hlauie, «c. j,wi rienty of trees ami tdirubb'-ry, ""'lit, Ac. Price$ljw, Holmes, Agent, 113 Main St.

1 10K HALE-I/oV-BI I'V HI feet, well set with treex worth SI,'**) will M11 for Utah at 8(100. H. Holme®, Audit.

JOU HA LE—Old |«tpers, suitable for wrapplnijj'aper,for .salt: at 50 ccnta fi bundled at \JAIt. otlice.

lOlt SALE—LOTS—Most desirable residence "lots in Ibecliy. Five lots frontl7i« on Hixlh street. Ten Iota fronting on Fourth Hi reel. Three Lot* fronting 011 1 bird Htreet, and know as the larrin«toii 1 rop rty. The*: lots an- the most desirable HeMdenrai Mites to be hail In the city,and iiredali} becoming more valuable.

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f.jrrn'illoii, or pint 'f«roimd, HKNDUICH, Audit, office-over I rairi 1 it ltank, Uracil's lRoek.

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pnlt HALE or KxchanKO—•Clark House. The proprietor, desiring to retire from the busliK-vs.oItel-N his Hotel for sale or «»x:hani?e for small l)wellinns In, or small I-arm neai theeltv. Ilousff lsdoliiKa KOod business or is well'loeated for nmnufaelurlnjj purposes, i.'imv leMiw. For pariieujars eiKjuire ot liVlf W. H. (ilUKFlTH Proorietor.

'K ill HALU Now Is the itne to buy a nice little homo at it low tljiure, and some "ine on part of pun-base. Theadvertiser wants to nell a I louse and Lot located In a quiet neighborhood far enough rrotn the Opera House to make It desirable House contains 1 all in «o(«l repair, with cellar good liny cistern In vill i. Lol has on it apple, peach, Cherry and pear trees (bi« fruit) with room to plant ny 1 *1,^*) half cosh, time, l-oi tuither pullleulars address 1 lot'SK, 1 o.^ llox 1)1'J, Terre-Haute. .'--tl.

JOR HALE-Twenty a-re.s of timbered land on the Lock port road, lour or five miles from the -it.v. Will wll the "ivho tnurt on rcn^jniihl^ terms, or will sill ti»« timber, alone, of ten acre*.

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.'V'-lm. Palace of Music.

SALE-Two mares will be sold on time, wllli ood M-curlty, or exchiuiKed lor com. 1„ SSNKII. jl'i-i,n. l'alac -ol Music.

pilU HALK -A K0'1 second-hanil Safe. lH 10'Hiuire at Kern's Billiard rooms, Main treel.

mllSA LE.r-Eot- sale nt a bargain 26 acres of Luid, 4 miles .South-east or lerrertaule The most commandiiiK building

Vkn nmntv. The land Is peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of vegetables

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site 111 VI .. idapted to the ct rj o'r fruits, beinu dry, sandy and productivi. oiiC'Slxih bulanco in ll\o nuiiual pavmciUU*. 1 orfurtlV'f ^Btl'dlnrsapply to J-'H'oi'of Ma u..

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l^itU HALE IN MARSHALL, ILL. -The Hrlck Tavern Stand known as the Aich- ,, House. Is well 'Situated for Tavern or Htmrdhvt Hons or could be converted Into a tlouiin mill and would be nn elegant site tor such a budnesa. l'rlce very moderate. For further

Iv(—It. Marshall, III.

1 HALE.—Fin" Farm-Th farm of the late Hlmni Smith, Sr.. lyin« •!'. mil.s south-enst from the cent re of the elty, is now Ottered forwilc. TbN l- one or the most diulrnble pkK-i-s of riintl jMOjKMty tn UioriHlil tv or Htnte. It llf- i*rlly upon U^MufTand part Iv on IW nmlrtr. Tlu itnprovemcn.s nre tUt-mlc. The locution of the residence is of suriu»*sinti beauty, com»nandln« a tlew of the whole city mid pntlrle. There nre two iarsre ori-hards on (he placj-. a splendid e»t»v» or (itnber, ami never fnlUnttstix*! water. The purolmner enn have c! oice of buyinn ninetv cr one hundred and sixty acres.

Terms «\n'V. Fuuuhe at this otlle-1, l«-tf.

For Rent.

KNT-DRHIK A1ILK oKFUMvSS^votnl story over stoit! room latel occ«»pi."i by W'.vi iv'.t lIobiTK A Co. Also UH UI novr o-etad- by Jos. KHnnjter. I OS•kwsion tfiven alniut the »th of March. Apply at Nation tl State Hunk.

Wanted.

VTKl Younjt ladv to learn the prlntitm business. An earnest girl i»ryouna N will find this ««KKI opportunity to lMH-ome Tnistressof an honontbleand profititble tmd. Apply IRT the .MAM.otthv.

A NTV.l^ Person* having city property "to sell, to mil on us, we lufcve a^verutvlirtser*. „..v,2t. OIUMIXA I!o\.--K.

^1'4NTK.I*—Kvervlnxly to ktjow that the sATI-uOA F.vixiMiMAH. has a ianicr -ireubitton tlian an.v newsjmpor publish.-,! outside of ludianajHdl*, in thUHtato. Al*o that It 1* car*fully and thorvuably r.ml in hwtui^of ItH L^Utbat lt Is Uu v«*rr Ixtit advertlslnu !uedIum In Wwtflrn

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-«1 ^\NTKtV Kuertnil\c Aernts tnrwiviw far the W'hetdei A W iUou {kwln« Ma««»ilno. A iiermanput situation and CTMI commissi.wv« offensl. Apply at 001*"^,^. corn, tlu ftnd Sixth stn*«*-

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OST-Lnnte st»m«ot m»mcy 'Tenbyperwon* wh» should .tdxertl** In tin* column of the am-

Found.

*1 H»rNi-Everybody who uww the U*i JT Crtrk Ooitl to pronounw the 1**1 In tni* nutrket, for gntlti*. For usaJe by the lUgckm C«tl A Mluin* Company. W-3t.

l.^ol'Nl—Tl»t tb« chc*|H»l and l*st advcrUrftiji In th«»oHy can obtsintxlbylnve*tlns In llio Wnntw, For Sale. For Rrnt, 1awt und Found column of tta» MAIL.

•Printing.

ANP PROMPT 5—^The tnoUO ot Terrv-H«»ut PrtnUn* H«w», H3

sw*in strict. All work «t«n«» promptly and «hrn proniliwsl. O. J. Smltli Oo. l*s!NPS*S rAUrWw—Nrwand tWvftnt de-

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THE MAIL.

O.J.SMITH,

EDITOtt AX1 PROPRIETOR..

Office,

arti Street.

TERRK-HAUTK. MARCH 11, 1871.

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Tliere are prominent persons, states-

James Parton lias given us some examples of the intellectual and moral progress of a century: Tn 1770, LouiXVI., of France, touched 11,400 persons for tho king's evil, and in 1787 a poor old woman was stoned in Philadelphia ILS a witch. John Wesley and I)r. Johnson both believed in witchcraft, apparitions and haunted houses and Dr. Johnson himself was touched for tho king's evil by Queen Anne. The German Goethe, the most gifted young man then living, was seeking the"vir"gin earth and many men in German universities were passing sleepless nights in trying to make gold.

In olden time, doctors bled for almost every disease, drawing blood sometimes Iroin the arm, sometimes from the foot, according to their fancy. Mr. Crawford, a candidate lor the Presidency in 1S21, was stricken with jmralyais jn the mitlit of the campaign and was bled wenty-three times in three weeks, very profusely each time, and then people wondered that it took him ihroo years to get well. When Dr. Frankiin invented the lightning roil, a Harvard professor had to come forward in a pamphlet and defend Franklin against a charge of pre sumption.

In point of humanity and benevolence the progress of man has been so signal that even the cynical and desjwdring Carlvle could scarcely don^ it. It is only nincty-olght years since Howard founJ the jails of I'urope to be filthy dungeons, the keepers of which had the privilege of selling liquor and toUatVo to the inmates so that the jail was only aft infernal tap-room, wherein men and women, old and young festered and rioted together. The very year in which Howard began his work, a woman was burned at the stake, in Spain on a charge of having made a compact with ?!i« devil. Poor Damitns, a cr.uty fttnutie, who gr**ed the skin of Louis XV., of France, with a penknile, w*s torn limb from limb by four horses, after undergoing unspeakable torments of various kinds. The awful fact of this case was that all France applauded the punishment and Europe was not shocked at it. No one protested or interceded and. if we may judge Prom tbe memoirsofthe time, all Christendom seemed to regard tho penalty as just and proper.

Corruption in politics is not new. When Palmerston entered Parliament he bought his seat for £.,000, which be tells us was the market price in 1804. Lord North'» majority in the Uoasc of Commons, by which be fought the American Revolution from beginning to end, was a majority bought and paid fhr and it was that corrupt House of Commons which dhunembered the Kngllah Empire, and losi England her

chance of ruling the world from tbe banks of the Hudson. Ireland, Poland, France, owed their disasters to corrupt polities', and tho bandit Bonapartes wore the penalty which France has paid, and is paying, for the harlot government of the Bourbons. Nor were politics in the American Colonies entirely puro. Bishop Kip, of New York, has lately told us how agreeable and dignified New York society was in the

io.,.0 OFLHC Scbnylcrs, tho Vun Re„3-

'sclaprs, and tbe Livingstons but, at

~crow~BFT-1 the same time, he has given us to tindcrstand that to maintain one of those

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men, ministers, and wr.tcrs, who con- This was too expensive for^nothing

stantly sneer at the Present and contrast it unfavorably^ with the Past. And yet there can be no doubt in most reasonable minds that the world grows steadily in purity, and goodness, and that the present age is more tolerant, more charitable, more truly christian, than any previous period in the historj of mankind. We arc not of those who look for tho speedy coming of the millcniuin, yet seeing the forces of evil usually subservient to those of good, we hope for a day when tho condition of things on earth will approximate to that foretold in Revelation. Unquestionably the religion of to-day is as tfiuch better and more tolerant than that which existed two centuries ago, as was the lesson of the Nazarcne teacher superior to the wrathlul utterances of Israel's Pofct-King. "Pour out," says David, speaking of his persecutors, "pour out thine indignaion upon "them, and let thy wrathful anger take "hold of them .... Lot them bo "blotted out of the book of the living. ... Destroy them, 0 Cod!" Said the meek and lowly Jesus: "I "say unto you, Love your enemies, "bless them that curse yon, and pray "for them that despitefully use and "persecute you." Notwithstanding the sublime lesson from Calvary, Christian Churches, until within a century past, were actuated more by the spirit of tho Psalmist than by the example of the Son of Jod. The Catholic Church advanced its cause, not by works of peace and love, but by wrathful denunciations and bitter persecutions, by tho horrors of the Inquisition, and that heartless intolerance which drove the Huguenots from France. Not less Christian was the conduct ol the Churchmen of England to whom prayers were no prayers without tlie surplice. In the cause of the cross they closed the Catholic Churches, and proclaimed that the dress of a nun should condemn its wearer to ignominy and insult. The Puritans, even, who owed their existence and prominence to persecution, were as intolerant to other faiths in their wilderness homes as were the Catholic subjects of Philip II, or the Protestant followers of Lord (ieorge CJordon. To-day that pure and ennobling Christianity which accords freedom of conscience and an open lield of labor to all croeils and faiths is dominant throughout civilization.

until

tvumv-UAUTK .SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. MARCH 11,,1871.

families required half a county,

must be accepted as victory for tho human race

every honest and wor

thy familv shall bo as truly refined and dignified as the best aristocrat that ever lived.

Gnllilco was rght. The world does move!

AN eccentric member of the British Parliament is going to bring in a bill to legalize marriages for a limited period. The measure would permit a man and woman to enter into partnership for a definite term, just as two merchants, or lawyers, or tradesmen do now. The proposition is somewhat novel and startling. It has its advantages, however. It would enable those persons who are always fearful about taking the leap to enter into marriage for a short time on trial, llusb'-inds would be able to exact more implicit obedience and devotion from wives than ever by hinting Hint the partnership would not be renewed after expiration if dinners were not satisfactory or temper perfectly sweet. Wives, of course, would have tho privilege of threatening husbands in the same way but as it is sup posed that their prospects ould bo more materially marred than the husband's, by being thrown out of matrimony the preponderance of advantage would undoubtedly be with the latter. We do not sec any provision in the bill for liabilities in the shape of children growing out of the partnership. We presume at dissolution they would ba assumed by the party continuing the business. As business linns are not limited in reference to the numbers of partners we do not see why matrimonial combinations should bo absurdly confined to two persons. Why not allow a man to marry two, three, or four wives, and to take in junior partners from time to time and why not allow co-operative matrimonial organizations by which poor fellows who are not able to support wife of their own may have small interests in common with others?

THE American Peace Society has come in for a vast amount of ridicule lrotn tho Amoric-in people. The spectacle of thirty or forty men and women meeting in a hall in Philadelphia last summer, and passing resolutions requesting Louis Napoleon and King William not to fight, convulsed tho American public with laughter. Wo remember, however, that very great reforms have had as small and insignificant beginnings. Thirty and forty years ago miserable little societies used to meet and protest against Slavery the abolitionists ol that day were by tho lazy, good-natur ed North looked upon as a set of mild and long-haired idiots, who had not tho smallest comprehension of what was practicable. When John Brown was hung, many persons thought that abolitionism had received a fatal blow but the fanatical old hero proved in the end to bo the lirst man in an army of a million whoso faces were set towards the South, and who vcc to throw no backward glance until God's fc.il measure of justice had been meted to the black people. reat reforms have grown ever iVoui sm:i 11 beginnings. 1 he murmuring* of small societies of the llonian Catholic Church in Germany, Scandinavia, and Holland, gave rise to the Information under Luther. There is no Christian sect in the world whose origin was not obscure and humble. There is hope for tho Peace Society, and we most respect those who, with feeble hamN it pplo the Ttfunic evils of earth wpSfiS

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DURING the year 1S70, uccording to Dr. Hancock, the Irish statistician, there was an increase of twentv-seveu percent, in tho sums invested in postofllee savings banks in his unhappy country. Between 1S67 and 1870 the sums deposited in corporate savings banks had increased by two and a half millions of dollars, while, during 1870, the deposits in Irish joint-stock banks had increased eight per cent., leaving a total in hand at tho close ot the year of $121,332,N90. Dr. Hancock concludes that during the last three or tour years "tho Irish people have been prosperous '*ana

show

greater signs of a thrifty

"disposition." "Freedom and saving "gang thegither," and we doubt not that, as the result of the literal policy towards Ireland which the British Parliament seems disposed to pursue, the Irish people will become as thrifty, happy and contented as any in the world.

IT is aald that large numbers of Alsatians will emigrate to America in the Spring. The*e are the people who baro been blessed by annexation to the Empire of Germany. They do not seem to appreciate highly the honor of being subject to the great Kaiser.

IF General Blair is to be recognised as tho Democratic leader in the Senate there is little doubt that tho presidential campaign of next year will be fought snbetantially upon the dead issues of 1898,

IN the Illinois Legislature an act has been introduced w^ich looks strongly toward the achievement of woman suffrage in that State. Any woman of lawful ago, married or single, shall, subject to the regulations, liabilities and penalties prescribed for men, have the satne right as men to practice medicine or law, or any other profession, and to be appointed notary public, commissioner of deeds, and deputy or assistant of any clerk of a court or recorder of deeds, an*! for so doing shall have and be entitled to have a diploma, license, commission or appointment and further, that "sex or coverture shall not "work any civil disability." This act will probably pass, and woman suffrage be the sequence. There is evidently a revolution pending in the great Empire State of the West which will ultimately destroy all the prejudices against Woman Suffrage. That the Illinois people arc considering the matter thought fully cannot be gainsaid. Thousands of converts to the cause have been made by tbe lectures and lyceum discussions of the winter, arid as it is a well-known and remarkable fact that no advocate of the rights of woman ever backslides or becomes weak in the faith, we can look upon tho prospects in our neighboring state as bright and promising.

TIIEY have a prompt business-like way of quieting troublesome negroes down in Mississippi. Witness tho following dispatch from Memphis on Monday:

At Meridian, Mississippi, this evening, while Justice Bramlotte was trying a negro for riotous conduct at a tire on Saturday ni"ht, ii disturbance occurred in the Courtroom, and a negro named Tyler shot Brainlette, killing him instantly. Tyler and two other negroes were killed by citizens. K\erythiug is now quiet.

The concluding sentence of tho dispatch is very satisfactory. We have no doubt that a holy and cheerful calm settled over the pleasant village of Meridian after this little dutjrof niggerkilling had been attended to. We are astonished, however, at the moderation of the Meridianites. Time was in that neighborhood, to our certain knowledge, when it took six black corpses to atone for tho death of one white man. All this proves Caucasian degeneracy. Can it be that the noble white men of Mississippi have come to place so small an estimate upon their own value as to accept' three murdered negroes for one murdered white man? r-

AI-TER sixteen years' servico as loader of tho Republican party in tho Senate—a leadership which dates back to the infancy of thatorganization—Senator Sumner has boon deposed as Chairman ofthe Committee on Foreign Relations, a position which he has filled ably and well for twelve years. While the fact that Mr. Sumner is estranged Personally both from President Grant and

Secretary Fish may afford sufficient justification for his removal from a position which should billed by a Seuatorkwho is in liarnionjr with these officials, we must regret tho cause which bring abou| tho humiliation of the able, clear-sighMd and fearless Senat^ from Massachusetts. The end is not yet. With all his greatness Mr. Sumner possesses an undue amount of vind^tiveness and personay^mcor. lie will doubtless war upot^Be administration and its backers in the Senate with ronewad bitterness. It may be that tho wedge has b-'on forged in these lirst d'»vs of the Forty Second Congress 1 ii lit wide tho Republican rtj

THE country is compelled to pay six and seven per cent interest for 11101103' in the markets of Europe, while petty and insignificant states even further oil' from the European centre, negotiate loans for four and five. There are two simple reasons which explain tho poor credit of this rich and prosperous country: First, it is known that a power!" 1 political element favors covert repudiation, as evidenced by opposition to all measures calculated to increase the public credit. Second, a majority of American newspapers have constantly and habitually worked to make public opinion averse to the peaceable and reasonable settlement ofthe Alabama claims, and in favor of the acquisition of Canada by diplomacy or by force.

THE editor of the Rockville Patriot, in an article reviewing a communication favorable to Woman Suffrage, says:

The writer of the communication dignifies tills move by calling it 11 reform, 11 term to which It may, or may not lie entitled. If the move 1« .» good one, then It Is a reform not good, :t Is only an innovation.

We like to see a statement put in this shape when it has Truth, unconquerable Truth, to back it. The MAIL is prejudiced in favor of Woman Suffrage, and yet it is forced to admit that tho position chosen by the Patriot is impregnable. "If the movement is a "good one, then it is a reform not "good.it isonl^an innovation." Wo venture the assQjtion that Anna Dickinson l^rself cannot refute this.

THE New York Tribune, a newspaper which has won all the reputation it possesses as an advocate of the rights of humanity in tbe past, delights in sneering at every effort of the French people to establiftb a Republic, which leads us to believe that even so great a man as Horace Greeley may live longer than his ownnsefulnew.

THE New York Legislature has investigated the proceedings of Che Children Aid Society, of the City of New York. That institution has for its object the care of unprotected children, and ia supported by charity. The State has asked for assistance, and hence this investigation, which was thorough owing to charges made by former employe, terminated in the most favorable recommendation of that institution to public csteom, and to the consideration of the charitable and humane. From the evidenco brought out, it appears that our fellow citizen, Chauncy Rose, had devoted §200,000.00 for its support. t,

CHINESE ASD RELIGION.—A correspondent says of tho Chinese,that "their religion is' mainly a dim fear of illluck from tho vengeance of some gloomv deity. Worship, in the proper sense of the word, they know nothing of. Tho ceremonies at the loss-houses appear to be an effort to guess the future bv the joss, or tho burningof little sticks.* Thev hope also, on certain great days, to please the wooden idol by burned perfumes, or with a multitudinous snap of millions of tire-crack-ers. But they are not wedded to Paganism by ii priestly system. They are eager "to learn our language, and gladly attend Sunday-schools, where they are taught to read in the new testament, recite passages of Scripture, and repeat the commandments. The charity of the Christian religion im presses them deeply, and the blessed immortality brought to light in the Gospel is to them as new as it is incon ceivablv desirable."

A CLERGYMAN out West married an ex-matron of tho Wisconsin State Prison, and had the pleasure of seeing it generally announced that he had been united to a "mysterious and fascinating female convict"—consoling, wasn't it?

A LITTLE girl, sent out to hunt eggs, came back unsuccessfully, complaining that "lots of hens were standing around doing nothing."

City News.

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C'lienu Advertising.—We shall hereafter give special prominence to the notices under the head of Wanted, Kor Sale, tor Kent, Lost, Found. &c. We \\jill charge Ave cents a line for each insertion of such advertisements, and no notice will be reckoned at less than live lines. The circulation of the MAIL is such that we can assure the public that it is carefully and regularly read in the homes of nine out of ten reading persons in this citv and its immediate vicinity.

NEW AD VERTISEMENTS. New York Store, 7.1 Main street. Cairo Letter—Clatfclter & Mngner.' Koote's Seed Store—Flowers, lc. Ucniovnl—uppcnhcimer & Uro. Cheap Sugar's, iVc.—Tuttle's Tea Store. Plows, Mowers, Reapers—C. C. Smith. Announcement—John B. Tolbert.. Announcement—Grafton F. Cookerly. Opening of Spring Goods—bannister. Wanted—Young lady to learn the printing business.

Wanted—Property, Grimes & Royse. For Sale—corner lot, Griines& Royse, Agts. For Sale—0 houses and lots, H. Holmes.

SONG of the seeds—' little bed."

Tut me in my

THE blue birds are here—sure harbingers of spring.

THE religious interest in our churches continues.

FARMERS say that tho wheat crop looks most promising.

PHYSICIANS and undertakers report business exceedingly dull at present.

SEVERAL very small children sell sassafras roots on tho street.

THE city Democratic Convention is appointed for Saturday oycuiug, April 22nd.

Mrr.q has removed her millinery store to the room rccontlv occtrpied by Kuppcnheinier it Ilro.

UNDER the Feo and Silary Bill the price of,

marriage

licenses has been in

creased to ?J.W. Tt is supposed that this action of the Legislature will have a depressing influence upon the matrimonial market.

In it to re ad to a himself where he will be in a hundred yearn from now Let him try for

a few

minutes to grasp that thought, and then tell us if lie can, what he is butting at so frantically here.

A vot'NG man on Main street dropped his glass eye on the pavement last Mondav. He sorrowfully bore away the fragments, and is still impatiently awaiting the arrival of a new cornea from Cincinnati.

THERE is intense temperance excitement in fireencaatle. The citizens are determined that no saloons shall bo licensed in that place, and have raised $7,300 to defray the expenses involved in defeating the applications made by the barkeepers to the board of County Commissioners.'

THE sronn of Wednesday evening tore tlie roof from the old postoflice building, rom the Vigo Woolen Miils, and from th" Echo Saloon, corner Main and Eighth Street*. The chimney of the Vandalia Freight Depot was blown down, and the windows of McKeen, Paddock fc Co.'s mill were nearly all broken by flying shingles.

WK venture tbe assertion that the small boys of Terre-llaute arc more enterprising than the juvenilesof any other city of its site in the union. Five hundred of them have open accounts with the Savings Bank, and we doubt not that the foundation of more than one eolossal fortune has been laid by

THH South Pacific Railroad bill is at length through both Houses qf Congress. The title has been ehanged to thatofVjp "Texas Pacific Railroad," and t«Vf the branch roads, which the Houne originally rejected, are made the little tellows who well the MAIL part of the work to be done. upon tbe street*.

MANY miners are leaving Sullivan county on account of slack work.

BUTCHERS state that the Lenten season groatly diminishes their salos off meat.

TWENTY-FIVE cents is tho insignificant sum required to redeom a freshly impounded hog.

THE Standard is anew coal company just commencing operations in Sullivan county,

SEVERAL of the unknown owners of lots in tho City Cemetery have already made themselves known.

IT took 247 petitioners living in the eastern part of the city to induce tho Council to open the Ninth Street Market House

THE Commissioners have instructed tho township trusteos to stop all allowances to paupers after tho 1st of May. Persons needing assistance will bo sent to tho Poor Asylum.

THOSE new gutters now being constructed on East Ohio and Walnut sts., will greatly improve the health and ap« pearaneo of that portion of the city this Spring.

THIS is the fifth week of the colored Methodist revival at the new church oil Third street. Between twenty and thirty accessions have been made, and great interest is manifested by the entire congregation.

THERE nover was so much game in this city as at this time. Here is a partial list: Keno, rabbits, faro, wild turkey, billiards, quails, seven-up, elk, buffalo meat, Cliineso backgammon, squirrels, monte, prairie chickens, euchre, tamo fowls of every description, roulette, black tailed deer, ten-pins,, bear-meat, ehuck-a-luek, dominoes, sage-lien, pigcon-liole, etc.

ABSALOM CANADA, a wagon maker by trade, left Graysville, Sullivan county, very mysteriously a few evenings since. His wife being away from homo on a visit, on Sunday night he packed up some of his most valunblo tools and started for tho railroad. lie was seen in this city a few days later, and told a gentleman that he was going to St. Louis. Ho left 11 letter at: home in which I10 told his wife to go on and patch and knit as slow a-s over sho5 could do no more for him. Ho was considerably in debt.

WE have been shown a very liandsomo monument just completed by Messrs. F. B. IT E. W. Palmer, IT Co.,

for

the grave of Miss Laura, the much lamented daughter of Perry

10.

Tut tie,

Esq. It is of Italian marble, about nino feet in height. Tho design is Hope—1*y, graceful figure

With

radiant, angelic

face, looking upward. In a beautiful floral wreath, above the limestone base, is worked tho familiar namo by which the young lady was known to her family and intimate Mends, "Lollie." Altogethor, it is one of the handsomest -V and most tasteful designs that has ever been executed in this city. It will,,*.* be placed over the grave of tho young lady in Crown Hill Cemetery at Indianapolis.

T. E. POTTER resides somewhere in Illinois. 1 lo came to this city tho othor day, in pursuit of a divorce from his faithless wife. He considers both tho Riblo and public opinion in his favor. The law he knows will grant him divorce, though it given him great sorrow to ask it. Ho lolls this pitiiul story: "For along time after we were married my wife and I lived togcthei in the most perfect Inpfimw. Wronger love never existed between two of God's creatures lUit finally tbe most deadly destroyer of domestic happiness broke in upon us. Siio wan seduced, by a fascinating black leg, and I soon discovered their illicit intercourse, HI

begged my pardon, and my lovo foiv her was so great that I freely forgave her. For a time we lived happily again. Rut soon another serpent found its way into our household, in the person of another seducer. Again forgave her and welcomed her ick lo my loving arms. A third time the destroy-^., er came and ruined forever niv earthly

happiness. I still cherish a fond iiliec-• lion for my wife but can never trust-

her again." The case will be tried at, the next tern ofthe Circuit font*!.

FIRST-CLASS flirtation and case of love al first sight occurred in our city a few evenings since, the parties being a voung man, a member of the tribe of* Israel, and a middle-colored femalo descendant of Hum. Tln-y inet by chance* the usual way, and a mutual admiration society was nt once organized. A., few incongruvial indulgences in commonplace rhetorical demonstrations ensued, after which the enamored pair sought the soothing influences of at soft moonlight ramhlr. As they peregriuated along the pebbly Roulevards of our Prairie City, the willing arms of the lovo stricken mala supporting tho fragile lorm ofthe queer colored damsel, a policeman with malice aforethought gobbled them up and proceeded to diroct their unwilling steps towards the Hastile 1)C Sibley, where the love-lorn male deposited a ten dollar note which he promised should remain a permanent loan in case be fail-* ed to put in an appearance on tbe following morning. The unfortunato Venus also made a special deposit of di« vers and sundry articles of Jewelry?^ Ac., as collateral to seen re her appearonce. The Mayor fined the lovers soven dollars and forty-five cents each at. his levee tbe next morning.