Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 50, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 June 1871 — Page 4

For Sale.

UOR8ALE-A XEWOROVER&BAKELl Mewing MachlB«, very cheap. Also a ^second-hand Buckboard. F6r particular*, enquire at W Main Ktreet.

S«-3U JAM EH K. TI L.IX)TSON.

FORcityparticulars

KA LB-CITY IXJTS A XLMIIEK of lom, suitable for jvlvate residence*. For inquire of G. F. Cookerly, over I*r. Ariuiud'H dnig store, corner Ohio and ftth streets. 4li-lm

T?OK HALK-FIVK BU.I.IAKD TABLES unci •xturex. nearly ti»-w. Apply to 48-tf. OS I'll KKKN.

?OU «ALK-AT A BARGAIN-A N K\V Sloum Flouring 3(i 11 In running order, cated 011 Ijifayetle Koad, one mile north rf Main street, will sell one-half or whole .property. Small payment down and long time on balance. Apply to 4H-tr. JACOIl KEKN.

X'ORHALE-FRAMK DWMIXING HOCSK throe rooms, kitehen and eellar. 4H-tf. Apply to JACOB KKRN.

OK HA LK—TWENTY GOOD BCILUING I/Ots, Kern's Addition. I/ng time. •18-tf. JACOB KKKN.

I^OH HALE-ONK NEW TWO HORSE X* wagon, hii* never Ijeen used, will be sold '-•ftheap for (audi or on time with good approve led security, or will exchanged for lumber. j?Euciolre at ISMNER'S Palace of Music, il -IH-1 m.

I'jiORalsoLEyears

HA TWO HORSES ABOUT SIX orHeven old, sound in every respect two coll* one, two years old and the other one year old. They may be seen on L. Klssner's farm, three miles .South of the city on Bono road. For terms, call at KIHH.N ER'H l'ahioe of Music. 48-lm.

i^ORHALE

t1^OR

-HOUHEA LOT--IKSl R.UH*E

neighborhood. House cozy and comfortable. I^ot has on it large and bearing. of cholc«? fruit. Priw*$1.2»Vi—nbout half on time. FRANK SEAMAN,mr. Fifth and Jyjcust sts., or P.O. box 912, Terre Jliuite.. 4_'tf

loll HAItK—A liOT-ONE ill'NUKEI)

feetfront—on Fifth street, IteJ. OiLk and Wilson streets. Will be sold in lots of Z~ leet Iront To persons wanling-a small home, this is a splendid chance as 1 will take monthly payments of small amounts .L11 ex__L. I- MAHA*.

HALE—20 A' .'RES OF TIM BERK

land on the Lockjwtit road, lour or live miles from the city. Will sell the whole tract «in reasonable terms, or will sell the timber, alone, of ten acres.

L. KISSNER,

88-tf Palace of Music. f^Olt SALE.-AT A 1URGA1N J(i ACRES JR of Land, miles South-east of Terrc,Haute. The most commanding building "Kite In Vigo county. The land is peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of vegetables or fruits, being dry, sandy and productive.

Terms one-sixth ca.sli, balance in five annual ixiyiilelilH. For further particulars apply to Editor of MAIL. »«-«£, V^OR HALE. THE FINK FARM OF THE late Hiram Smith, Sr., lying aj-i miles south-east from the cenJreof the city, is now offered for sale. This is utie of the most desirable pieces of rural property in the county or State. It Has partly upon the tUutrund partly on the prairie. The Improvements are first-rate. The location of the residence is of surpassing beauty, commanding a Yiew of the whole city and prairie. There are two large orchards on the place, a splendid grove of timber, and never fallingstock water. The purchaser can have choice of buying ninety or one hundred and sixty ijeres. Terms easv. Encjulre at this office. 12-tf.

l^OIt HALK-CHOICK LOTS IN TKKL'H .F subdivision, coiner oftlili and Gulick streets. Also tor exchange,farming lands in Indiana ami Illinois, for Improved or unimproved city properly. Apply to M. H. TEEL, Ohio St., opp. CVrurt House. H7-tf. L^OH A

AM—HUUM.* ,' W HKUJW.*YIINM«

1^ miles from the court house. luO fruit trootf, .'WO grape vinos. Great bargain. Ap-

M. JKRHY VORIH.

1from

i"oR HALE OR EXCHANGE-CLARK House. The proprietor, desiring to retire the business, oilers his Hotel for sale or exchange for small Dwellings In. or small Farm near the city. House is doing a good business or Is well located for manufacturing purpwes. Easv terms. For particulars enquire of 26-tf. W. B. GRIFFITH Proprietor.

TTTOR HTVLE-OLD PAPKRH FOR WRAPping paper,for sale at 50 cents a hundred at the All, office.

For Rent.

TlttfiRKNT- A HOTEL IN THIS CITY, enquire of or address UHIM KM it ROYSE.

Real Estate Agent*.

r0-2t. Terre-Hiuite, I nil.

IPalace

M) ttE N TFltON TP ART OF TilE OLD

bunk building next dour to Klssner's of Music. Contains four nice rooms with two good front show windows. Apply at the music store next door. 4'J-tf

Wanted.

IIR.\NTKI»-tioon HTF.WARD ANI A yY good girls for general work. Apply at National House.

A NTE1V-A MAN TO TAKKOHAROE of a home and do general work. ApNV .M. E. McLEAN. ply at my rvtddence.

''IIT A NTF.l) CASES OK HEADACHE, Vf Toothache, IMarrhie, Flux, Colic, or vomiting, which cannot beeuml by application of Metropolitan Relief. Applied, or given free of charge, at Dan Miller's, corner Fourth and Chestnut streets. Terre-llaute, Irom 1 toS o'clock P.M. Sold by all dealers.

ANTED-A GOOD BUSINESS MAN W to tmrel In the country on salary or ftunmlNKlvn. To a suitable |emn, iermanent employment will bo given. Apply at this offlcc.

Wlie

ANTF.rvB*)ARDERH-FOITR LARGE, well furulshisl, or unfurnlsh«l rooms, will let with board to tnen with wives or to single men. The rooms would also le suit aide to a physician, 1h rnvmiiinl «s an ofltco. Gool stable can al« IK- furnished. Enquire at the Old Bank building. South side of public sqOftfe. ...

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Lost.

IW*T-LAN«E SUMS OF MONEY ARE every win-k by iHrons who should »wlcrtlto In this column of the MAII-

Pound.

IVM

NIV-THAT THE CHEAPKST AiCD In-st advertising in the cltv «*n be obtained by itiTcwttng In th» wanted. For tfale. For Rent, Lo*t And Found column of theM Alt..

riM1 F. STATE OF 1NDI ANA, VIGOOOCN1 ty. In the Vigo Common Pleas Court, Jutin* B. Armstrong. Willliun P. Armstrong Y*. Xl*rtlti L. H'H'k, In Attach* ment.

He It known that on the 3Mh day of May, 1S71. siUl Plaintiff** filed an Affidavit In due form, showing that smM Martin LHnic Is a non-rc«tdcnt of Uie State of Indiana.

HnWl ivon-rr*ldeut defendant is hereby notified «f tbr pendency of said action ngainat him, and that thcMU&t'' will stand for trial at the August Term of mid Court In the year IiCI.

Attost MARTIN 11 OLI.INGF.R,Clerk. 4M.UK, MACK FT VILUAXN P. P. IWw

flMIK STATE OF INDIANA, VIUOCOt'Nsl ty. In the Vigo Common Pleas Court. Jamrw M. Allen. Wm. Mark and John G.

Williams v*. Uydla K. Drake, In Attachmont. He It known on the 6U1 clay of June, 1*71, said PlainUtTii file*I an Affidavit in due form, showing that aaid Iydla K. Drake Is a non-rvaident of the Ktau* of Indiana.

Said uon-rartdent defendant hereby notified of the pendency of *"id action against her, and thai the same will stand for trial at the August Term of said Court in the yoar PCI,

MARTIN HOLUNOER,Clerk.

AULKi, |M ACK (ft WlLLJA'JW. S0-4W.

TifiKK

THE MAIL.

O.J.SMITH,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

Office,

142

Main Street.

TERRE-HAUTE. JUNE 10, 1871.

SECOND EDITION.

THE IKJLJTJCAL 1IIA 1 C6, There are no principles at stake in the political campaigns of 1871. The Democrats have either moved up to the Republican platform, or they assert their advocacy of old-time principles so feebly as to give a ludicrous and thoroughly demoralized appearance to the contest. All the fire and spirit with which the Democratic party formerly held to the conservatism of the past has gone out of that organization. Occasionally a fossil like Mr. Jefferson Davis avows excitedly that the lesson of the troubled d«cade through which we have just passed has left 110 impression upon him, but such utterances are greeted with pity by the people and with contempt by the press. In the state elections of this year there is 110 question at issue save to decide which of two setfe of politicians shall hold the spoils of office—a question in which the people feel but little interest.

There can be but little doubt that the Democracy will be soundly and overwhelmingly beaten in Ohio and Pennsylvania where they have taken the new depariure. There is nothing in this movement to attract votes, but everything to repel them. It is a confession that the Democratic party has been radically and almost criminally wrong in all the issues of the last twenty years, or it is a species of political deception for the purpose of catching votes. It is a full confession of past error, or it is a dishonest avowal of principles. It is really the latter, because we have yet to learn that a single Democratic leader or newspaper in the country has advocated acquiesence in the constitutional amendments because they are rigfit. Tlio new departure is advocated in all cases because it is considered a politic step. In taking this step, however, the Democratic leaders forget that .they must alienate or cool the ardor of the negro-hating voters—a very strong element in the party. The most forcible argument used on the Democratic stumps of America during the past fitteen years has been an appoal to that large class of low persons who hato tho colored people Jntei^ely. enco to to this class advisedly, because wo must consider all persons low who hato a man on account of his color. What a sorry figure Democratic stump orators will cut now when they advocato political and civil equality for a race of people which they liavo habitually cursed, reviled and persecuted

Next year the Democratic party will probably attempt to fight in the presi dential campaign on tho same platform practically as that occupied by the Republican party. The same sort of thing was attempted in 1S52, just twenty years beforo, when the Whig party, pandering to the pro-slavery interest, planted itself upon a platform which did not differ in any material respect from the Democratic platform. The result was that General Scott carried but four states of tho Union, and then the Whig party died. This is just about what the Democratic party will do next year if it does not wake up and ally itself with tho cause of honest reform.

Tho student of the political history of tho United States will be astonished to find upon investigation that there has been a break-tip in party organizations at the end of every scoree of years since 1812. In that yoar tho Federal party died making way for the National Republican organization. In 18.12, the National Republican party censed to exist, making way for the Whig organization. In 1852 tho Whig party gave up tho ghost, making way for the Republican organisation. The Democratic party will probably die in 1872, and make room for a better organization. ."

TitR .'Jewish liabbinical t'onferohW has been in session in Cincinnati during the week. Resolutions were adopted showing that the Jews were in favor of a complete and unbiased separation of Church and State and School that Judaism by all means of reform, tries to adapt itself to the progressive spirit of the age that it will always be found on the side of those who stand up for the unlimited enjoyment- of civil and religious liberty and that it reveres as one of the greatest aids of modern civilisation that denominational peace which has heretofore characterised the unequalled growth and prosperity of our young and blessed country.

ROBERT TOOMBS, of Georgia, who once announced his intention to call his slave roll ou Hunker Hill, which roll-call was postponed on account of the recent deluge, made a speech at Augusta recently in which he said: "When yon can tear the lire thunder from its home in the burning ether, "and bind it captive at the fiotstooi of tyranny, then, and not till then, will

I accept the situation/' Mr. Toombs seetr.s to be in earnest. We infer that he is not po*itiT«ly in furor of the present order of things.

IF Pope Pius urea until the 21 at of this month he will hare occupied the papal chair longer than any Pope since Peter—to-wit, twenty-fire years.

THE UNREPENTANT JEFF. THE most completely "played out" man in America is Mr. Jefferson Davis. His administration as president of the mushroom Confederacy was not a success, and did not particularly endesr hitn' to the Southern people. The struggle on the part of the South was protracted on account of the ability of rebel generals.not because of the genius of Jefferson Davis. His attempted escape and capture in Georgia made the end of his administration most ridiculous instead of heroic. Later the United States government contemptuously declined to embalm him in the hearts of his countrymen by hanging him, and he was left to wander, "a homeless va"grant and a houseless vagabond," to the English shores. His appearance among the docks of Liverpool, where he proposed to play the role of great merchant, caused

110

greater sensation

than if George Francis Train, or any other lunatic, had dropped down among the solid men of that city. A few months in the great English seaport city convinced him that he was of 110 more importance than any other moneyless adventurer. He returned to America and received from the Southern people the usual charity extended to distinguished Confederates— the presidency of an insurance company. Now he is making foolish and intemperate speeches, and is receiving scorching reproofs from all the decency in both parties and in all sections ofthe country. J. D. was a representative man of the country when the slavedriver's whip was the emblem ot an honored institution, but he is out of place in these days when civilization and humanity assert themselves. He beholds the nation he endeavored to dismember moving grandly on in its sublime mission. He, the pardoned criminal pardoned because we are great enougli to despise a poor, weak nothing unable to do us injury—this mean, ungrateful fellow, lifts his piping, squeaking cry of disappointment, hoping to embarrass us in our onnard sweep to empire. He will live through the little day that is left him, of less weight in the world than the most ignorant colored man he has trampled upon.

FRANCE.

The Count De Chambord, self-styled Henri V., will be king of France if the French people choose a monarch. After forty years of revolt against the rights of the elder branch, the fa mil 3' of Orleans have given him their adhesion. This prospective king is the sole representative of the Bourbons. He is unmarried, and not only without diCTnliis death the Orie^Kisj^L^T® succeed by regular descent, »adBecome as completely "legitimist" as tho Count Do Chambord is now. He seems to be a moderately sincero and well-meaning prince, though it is evident that I10 has not tliG ability or force requisite to steer the French ship of state in the stormy and tempestuous seas throughwhich it is drifting.

The Thiers Rapublic has been far from a failure. It has suppressed a most formidable insurrection—an insurrection which would liavo given as great trouble to a monarchy as to a republic. It is free from tho taint of Communism, having just annihilated tho Communists. It eminently represents tho honorable, liberal and respectable republicanism of France. It has destroyed the idea, popular for two centuries, that Paris is France. It has shown more power than Frenth iftonarclis hive usually shown, and barring the excesses of the ftw days of hell on earth occupied in the final suppression of the Cantnuno, it has been eminently just, liberal and reasonable.

The freient is the fairest opportunitv that may present itself for years for the people if France to shako off the old tramm^s and enter upon a new and higher 'ife. The peoplo who have shown tiemselves willing to do and dare so luch for the Republic are worthy of fifedom. It is high time for European to put faith in republics. America|as proved that they can protect the Jbpleandpreserve themselves under triij which would crush monarchy out existence

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SINCE A^igan's triumph in the Supremo Coi^ it is suggested that a grand re-union b^eld at Indianapolis for the purpose of Wming tho Society of the Sons of Li lit y. Major Generals Mflligan, Bowl4md Humph revs will certainly be pr^nt. Mr. J. J. Bingham will read a p4n. It will be cheerful and pleasantWting, and will tend to revive the m^ories of the sacrifices and heroic stogies of the past. TUi meeting ill Hidd in the Academy of Music which be gracefully decora ted with the seal

Proy^ Marshal*

employes. Chii

wiU

ed for deserters L,

tho

li,rnishedncoin

Free bash will

ing Confederates^

to want

who passed an as A. Hendricks ly, writes of him

A CORBESFON: hour with Hon. in Indianapolis in this way:

of tb« mnaipiM a that is i5 Timonplsce. It IK •re tlian a partlqi tK*nevolmo*. art "that dome of brain atnoot to-day.

Under the lettered npi-cte* of IH87, yon raarkahte rather tit a f»c« that wonld ewti glance. IntelllpriK* •temped upon ft. and thomfit"

Uirolx*

the

the iieirooertitlf politic

THE Germans ha

vet^opo,llsed

balance of power in \opfl

at)(] (he

4th of July in Ameil patriotism enough to st^

WanU

of two hemispheres. ^sssmm C08CRX didn't put 'n|»pp«au*no, at the last fight appoin|at City. It is said that he ing from the whaling

of retlr-

THE newspapers ot America usually approre of the sentence of Mrs. Fair, of San Francisco, to be hung. While we believe capital punishment to be a relic of barbarism we see only one reason why women should not be answerable to the laws just the same as men, and that reason is that they have nothing to do with making them. It looks a little hard that persons of sound mind and mature development have visited upon them full penalties for violation of laws in the making of which they have no voice. «. hildren, idiotic persons, insane persons and women, are the only persons who are denied the elective franchise for reasons over which they have no control. The full penalties of the laws are inflicted upon none of these save women. Unquestionably woman is entitled to a voice in making the laws, or she is entitled to clemency not extended to masculine criminals.

PRESIDENT GRANT has appointed a Commission to prepare rules and regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States, and to determine in what manner the fitness of each candidate in respect to age, health, character, knowledge and ability for the service which he seeks to enter may best be ascertained. This Commission is to meet at the Interior Department in Washington on the 28th inst. Its members are Mr. George W. Curtis, of New York, Mr. Joseph Medill, of Illinois, Mr. Alexander G. Cattell, of New Jersey, Mr. Dawson A. Walker, of Pennsylvania, Mr. E. B. Elliot, of the Treasury Department, and Mr. Joseph II. Bleckford of the Post Office Department—all gentle men of high character and ability.

SECRETARY BKLKNAP has issued ai order relieving the members of tn West Point senior class from arrest for mobbing a junior class, and recommending the chivalrous seniors to be better boys in the future. The order sounds more like the coaxing of a mild-mannered old lady, with a set of unruly boys, than the decree of a gentleman at the head of the War Department, with ample power to enforce order and protect cadets, at the Military Academy. It is evident that all army officials who have anything to do with West Point understand the importance of rushing the present senior class, of which Cadet Grant is a member,through at all hazards. This to please the powers that be. 1

REV. W. W. CURRY once put forth an argument against capital punishment which should bo conclusive with all .orthodox believers in eternal punish

OUa srmtnAnt. «s

member it: If a condemned criminal is unforgiven by the Alhfiighty, tho State commits an awful crimo in send ing his soul to hell. If a condemned criminal has repented and received forgiveness from the Almighty, the State commits an awful crime when it punish e» a sinless man with death.

MM. GREELEY'S determined advocacy of the protective tariff is probably the greatest obstacle to his election to the presidency. It is believed that there are not enough protectionists in the country to elect a president. As Mr. G. will not modify his political principles in the slightest in order to become chief magistrate, it may be that his own integrity will defeat him. It is a good thing to know positively, however, that there is one man left in tho country who "would rather be right "than be president."

THE interviewing reporters are after President Grant at West Point. Some newspapers are nowengaged in denouncing the practice of interviewing in very emphatic terms. Tho MAIL has had a V0*y favorable opinion of the practice ever since the day when several Republican oracles of this city swore that it had ruined Aleck Thomas' chances for the mayoralty by interviewing him. Mr. Thomas managed to get a good many votes notwithstanding the interview.

GENERAL SHERMAN says positively and emphatically that ho don't want any of the Presidency in his'11, and that he would not accept the nomination if offered, and if elected that he would refuso to serve. Sherman is right. It is a thankless office which makes one the prey of greddy politicians, and the target of all the venoi^ and spite of the opposition. It is not particularly honorable in view of th^ fact that a Polk, a Pierce, and othei* non-entities, have been Presidents.

JOHX WEISS, a Boston Free Religionist, says: Religion is simply a recur"rence to the human mind of the facts of the universe." That is just what we have always thought about it, but we never have seen it put so neatly and explicitly before.

THE British colony at Hong Kong is now in telegraphic communication with London, and in consequence with New 1 ork and San Francisco. A cable under the Pacific ocean will complete the electrical girdle ofthe earth.

A CRITIC says that (he author of the Heathen Chine®" excels more in the pathetic than in the huraorons. It is true there is a good deal of Harte in his writings.

MILLIGAN received fire dollars damages from the Commission which tried him. Now the country ought to recover heavily from the Commission because it didn't hang him. :. L.-

CHARLES DICK KITS died at Gad's f150,000 in this city on real Hill one year ago yesterday. mortgage.

HALF-HEARTED Republicans, who never dared to say a word in faror of negro suffrage until it was an accomplished fact, giggle and sneer at the Democracy who have been compelled to sanction it. There is just the same merit in the acceptance of the situation by Mr. Vallandigham and his followers that there was in its adoption by unwilling and timid Republicans a little over a year ago. God's progress demanded that justice should be done to the black man, and the conservatism of America, though backed by nineteen out of twenty of all the voters of the country, was not able to resist that demand. The Republican party was only an instrument used for the enfranchisement of the blacks. All the credit for this forward step is due to Wendell Phillips, Horace Greeley, Charles Sumner, and other advanced leaders.

GEN. A. J. PLEASONTON, Commisioher of Internal Revenue, has made an extraordinary discovery in relation to the influence of the blue color of the sky in developing animal and vegetable life. Violet colored glass placed over vegetables or animals doubles their rate of growth. Young gentlemen will naturally be enticed by this theory to put blue glass over their upper lips to produce moustaches. They should be warned, however, by the experience of a young man of this city who threw away his onguents and tried the virtue of blue glass. One day's application doubled the sizo of his lip and gave him a luxuriant moustache. He enjoys the hirsuto appendage, but the enlarged lip is not so sooth i»g.

DUPANLOUP, the Savoyard, a naturalized Frenchman, and ono of the opposition to the passage of tho dogma of Papal infallibility, has been made Archbishop of Paris. He has held for twenty-two years tho Archiepiscopal chair of Orleans, and for thirty years he has been one of the foremost men in the polemics of the Church. With tongue and pen he has warred against Ultramontanism, even to the extent of forbidding the students of his dioceso to subscribe to the Univers. Ho has been an enthusiast in the causo of education, half his published works being devoted to the advocacy of tho claims ofthe higher departments of intellect ual training upon Frenchmen and on the Church.

Miss MOORE, of New York, offered a resolution that the International Union recommend that subordinate Unions receive so far as practicable, Union girls jn oftiees on nn equality with the men. The resolution was adopted.

The above is an extract from tho proceedings of tho International Typo-

vides well for Union girls, but what does it propose to do for the rebel girls? Are people to bo proscribed on account of their political opinions

BEX WADE has reconsidered his determination not to bo a candidate for Governor of Ohio on tho Republican ticket. He will accept the nomination if tendered to hini. Ot courso he will be nominated and he will beat McCook by little less than John Brough's majority over Vallandigham in 1863—towit, 100,00(h

THE law proscribing the Orleans Princes was abrogated by tho French Assembly Thursday. This looks like a Bourbon King would be welcomed by the Assembly.

MR. S. F. B. MORSE, tho inventor of tho telegraph, now a handsome octogenarian, will transmit with his own hand a message which will travel over all the wires of tho earth to-dav.

City News.

NEW AD VEllT1SEMENTS. Celebrations—German Societies and Young Men's Amulet.

Hrirr up your nankeens.

THE strawberry live the rasplierryl

the

L'oinmenceinnit—U. C. College, Merorn. Attachment Notice. For sale—Hewing Machine. Clarldge Dyer. For Rent—Hotel. Saddles and Harness—Farlev A Roach. Kdgar County Agricultural fcoclety. Dry Goods—To ell, Ripley & DetninK. Kxcnrelon—I. fc Ht. L. Railroad. Reduction, &c..—Hers & Arnold. I-awns, Ac.—W. S. Ryce A Co. Manning'" Minstrels. Undertaker— Isaac Hall. Man Wanted. Feather Cleaning—Van Sickle Jt Son.

is defunct. Long

Nt'MERors patent quack guerillasare matching on this city.

WOMAN Suffragists are numerous in these parts.

T*K janitorship of the county offices pay* fifty dollars per month.

THE county jail gas bill for the quarter ending June 1st, was $117.95.

BUGGY hire has cost the county fifty dollars since the 11th of May.

A HKW firm of life insurance agents hasjost been organized in this city.

THE enunty poor expenses are rapidly decreasing.

Twm melancholy days hare come, the hottest of the year. fe

AT least fifteen thousand people read our "Wanted," and For Sale" column.

THE colored Masons of this city talk of excureing to Indianapolis on the 22nd inst.

FREE whisky caused five fights in Rockville during tho week ending on Wednesdav.

AN eastern capitalist has dropped

estate

SOME changes ard to be made in the local board 6f the Anohor Life Insurance Company, in this city.

DANIEL MIIXE sold groceries and provisions during the year 1870, to the amount of $80,000.

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THE 5th street billiard establishment will be removed to M. B. Hudson's new building on 6th street. *,

THE board of county commissioners are allowed to remain in session for a term of fifteen days.

BUSINESS at the Postoffice has increased about twenty-five per cent, in the last year, above that of any previous year.

THE Good Templars of this city have decided against their proposed excursion picnic to Clinton, but will hold their annual picnic.at some othor point at an early day.

YOUNG men and maidens can be heard kissing each other at a distance of several blocks these moonlight nights. Some of the kisses sound like pulling a mule's hind leg out of praiii. mud.

ALL stamps, stamped envelopes, Ac., that pass through the postoffice after the 1st of July, will be counted, thus enabling the postmaster to report, semi-annually, tlie exaet condition of the office.

ON account of the largo amount of important business that cannot bo transacted during the present session of the board of oonnty commisioners an extra session will be keld during the first week in August.

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MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Tho following licenses have been issued by

Clerk since onr

tho County

ti-

last report:

Daniel Burnett and Mary Jones'. Jacob L. Thomas and Mary C. Low. William Hughes and Levernla Huso. \V m. ones and E vnelin Herroa.

THE workmen in the Vandalia "railroad shops were paid off to-day. Tho pay rolls for the mouth of May foot up about ?17,00*. The employes on tho Indianapolis division will bo paid olV on Tuesday, aud those

011

the St. Louis

division the latter part of tho month.

How would it do for the city authorities to try the merits of Paris Green, strychnine, and other potato-bug anniliilators, upon the corner roosters! These remedies would mako very dead beats out of this element ot' tho population. «.

A KORCB of from 75 to 100 men are now engaged in grading 011 the North aud SontU-milroad, in l'urko county, north of Carbon: also a forco of

200

men aro working on the road south of Attica, between Attica and Chambersburg.

THE county pAid $53,05 for the transportation of insane and other dependent persons, to tho Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad during tho quarter ending June 1st. $54.25 were paid to tho Tcrre-Haute A Indianapolis Railroad during this timo for tho same purpose.

HUNDREDS of pounds of lish of all kinds and sizes, aro daily caught in the old reservoir in Clay county, by tho farmers and fishermen living in that vicinity. Tho fish collect among the brush and logs in tho shallow places and aro easily caught without hook or seine.

Wi:aro informed that tho surfaco of every bayou and pond of water in tho rivor bottom, for several miles abovo and below the city, is literally covered with dead and dying fishes. Tho impurity of tho water, resulting from tho collection of such largo numbers of fishes in small pools, is supposed to bo the cause of their death. ,**" N

THERE has probably never been season when so much overhauling, repairing, painting etc., was done in town as is doing now. Kverv other man isat it, and carpenters, masons and painters are engaged for weeks ahead. Which speaks well for Terre-IIaute, and keeps up its reputation for being thohandsomest and best kept city in tho State.

A VINEGAR manufactory recently established on south Third street is canning a great deal of disturbance in that locality at present. Tho scent arising therefrom is said to bo obnoxious in the extreme. The citizens in that neighborhood have almost universally voted it a nuisance. A number of then* applied to the city authorities 011 Tuesday for its immediate removal or suppression. The Board of Health decided it not a nuisance, although an unpleasant establishment in any locality, and tho vinegar works will continue to operate.

A GENERAL neighborhood fueled occurred in tho southern part of town on Tuesday, occasioned by a disturbance between a couple of little children, eight or ten years old. Several families are said to have been engaged in it. The two children, belonging to different Ikmllies, started the fight. Their mothers seeing this soon became enraged, and pounced upon each other in a similar manner. The fathers of the children soon followed suit, and immediately tested the pugilistic skill of each other in a warm engagement of several minutes, which resulted in no very serious injury to either. Upon this, several neighboring men and women caught tho excitement and eagerly entered into the row. A lively time ensued but finally subsided, with a material loss of nothing except a few kind feelings. The usual fines and costs were assessed and paid.