Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 July 1871 — Page 4

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For Sale.

?170H8ALE OR TRA DE-A LARGE V}aO,L on yard, store building and dwelling all wly fitted up, situated on south 4th street.

GRIMK8 4 ROY8E,

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Real Estate Dealers, No. 4 south 5th 81 street.

^rxm SALE-FIVE BILLIARD TABLES '„C and fixture*, nearly new. Apply to JOSEPH K1

CERN.

l?OR SALE-AT A BARGAIN-A NEW Hteam Flouring Mill in running order, rl ieatedon Lafayette Roarl, one mile north fU Main street, will sell one-half or whole (Toperty. Hmall payment down and long ftme on balance. Apply to «-tf. JACOB KERN.

"IJORSALE-FRAME DWELLING HOUSE three rooms, kitchen and cellar. 4ft-If. Apply to JACOB KERN.

RALE-TWENTY GOOD BUILDING Lota, Kern'a Addition. Long time. 48-tf. JACOB KERN.

FOR8ALE--HOU8E&

LOT--DESIKABLE

neighborhood. House co/.y anl com fortable. Lot has on it large and bearing viJtrees of choice fruit. Price 81.250—about half tin time. FRANK SEAMAN, cor. Fifth and

I»cust sta., or P.O. box 912, Terre Haute. 42tf I^OR HALE—A LOT-ONE HUNDRED feet front—on Fifth street, bet. Oak and rilKon street*. Will Ik- wild in lots of 23 feet front. To persons wanting a small home, tills is a splendid chance as I will take monthly payments of small amounts in ex-

I. L. MAHAN.

i.iOR HALJv-:*0 ACRES OK TIMBERED •I* land on the Loekport road, four or five ntlles from til*- city. Will sell the whole tract on reasonable terms, or will sell the timber, alone, of ten aen s.

L. KI8SNER,

38-tf Palace of Music.

HOR SALE-CHOICE LOTS IN TEEL'S flubdivliilOT), corner of 6th and Gulick streets. A Iso lor exchange,fanning lands In Indiana and Illinois, for Improved or unimproved city property. Apply to H. H. TEEL, Ohio St., opp. Court House. 37-tf.

l^OR SALE—HOUSE OF SEVEN ROOMS and lot of five acres on Pralrleton roud iVi miles from the court house. 100 fruit Lrees, 800 grape vines. Great bargain. Ap-

Pbjj£tf.

JERRY VORIS. CLARK to retire

.lOR SALE OR EXCHANOEHouse. The proprietor, desiring to ret] ..'omthe business, oilers his Hotel for sale KBtchange for small Dwellings In. or small Farm near Hie city. House is doing a good

•lty ell located for man 11 faclurEasv terms. For particulars

business or Is ing purposes. «u(iulrcof __ a-tf. W. B. GRIFFITH ProDrlctor

T.IOR SALE-OLD PAPERS FOR WRAPping paper,for sale at 50 cents a hundred at tne AIL office.

«OR SALE.-AT A BARGAIN 28 ACRES 1/ of Iand, 4 miles Soutli-etist of TerrefTaute The most commanding building *lt« Jn Vigo county. The land Is peculiar ly adapted to the cultivation of vegetable's «r fruits, being dry, sandy and productive, T«!Tms one-sixth cash, balance in tlveannu i*l payments.

For furtl

further particulars apply to Editor of MAIL. I"-ioR HALK.-THK FINE FARM OK THE

late Hiram Smith, Sr., lying miles Koath-east from the centre of the city, Is now "Wfered for sale. This Is one of the most desirable pieces of rural property In tnecouti or State. It lies partly upon the bluff1and pertly on the prairie. The Improvements first-rate. The location of the residence 1. of Knrjsisslng beauty, commanding a view if the whole city and prairie. There are •f WO large orchards on the place, a splendid v'rorve of limber, and never falling stock wa »v. The purchaser can have choice of buying ninety or one hundred and sixty acres

Perms easv. Entiulre at tills ottlre 12-tf.

For Rent.

OR RENT—HOUSE OFEKiHT ROOMS corner fllh and Eagle streets. Enquire II. C. DOUGLASS, with W. H. Bannister. 1-tf,

Wanted.

ANTED--SITUATION-RY A MANOF many years experience In Dry Goods aiid other ixi^lness (wholesale and retail), lu ih'i city or to travel. Address P. O. Iff/6

HTANTBD-A GIRL TO DO GENERAL Vr Housework—family small, consisting only of man, wile and one child, good ami kind treatment guaranteed. Apply at house north-east corner of Second and Oak streets. Work light.

WANTED-MISS

A. M. BAME, OF BUF-

falo, N. Y., will open a Studio. July 21, ,or Drawing and Painting. All applications ••an be mnde at the American Machine rootnp opposite the Postofllce, or at the Ter-re-tlantn Muslonl Institute.

WANTED-CASES

\MNIBUS

OF HEADACHE,

Toothache, Dlarrhm, Flux, Colic, oi Vomiting, which cannot be cured by appll-

Stt.lonfreeMetropolitan

of Relief. Applied, or ven of charge, at Dan Miller's, corner (-'mirth and Chestnut streets.Terre-Haute, M\»m 1 to 8 o'oJock P.M. Sold by all dealer*. 40-t \|T ANTKD-ALLTO KNOW THAT THE

IT SATlTKDAYEVKMINeMAlL haS llirif.r iunilaUon than any newspaper published "utakleof Inrtianajxill*, In thin^tate. Also i.iatlt «arefUll,v and ttiorouuhty read In •wi. home*of 4t* patrons, and that It is the 4e«t advertising medium in Western 1 fli

Alia

Lost.

4 OHT-LAHUK HUMS OF MONET ARE every week by persons who should ad-*-»rtlw In this column of the MAM..

rt/OUNiV—THAT T11K CilKAPKST AND I (teot advertising by InveMtlu.. »ie, FV»r Rent, Lost and Foumi column of

1 uned »le, For IL-MAIU.

In the city can be ob-

Inve^tlng In the Wanted, For

TRANSFER UNE.

and after this date we will ran a regular OmnltouN Transfer Un« from the "mtHimlm Depot ho the 1. St. Depot, mtikliM conneetiou for all trains. pb«. fo-tf. GRIFFITH A GIST.

COOK A SON,

WholMale ami Retail dealers In HARDWARE JJSD CUTLKRY, 11' avy Goods, ltnr Iron. Nails. Ac. AIMI the cucbtnlnt Hornej's Kiclmumd. Plpw

Utl awl 1A4 Mat* MeM,

i&lY TERRE-HA1 TK. 1NI».

1 C. CRAWFORD,

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TKRRK-HATTTK IND

KMOYKI).

DR WALTS

Was rrmovrd hi* efflw to Beech"* Block. ner of Main aid Sixth turrets, two door* ipsi-oith of the lYwu fflc»\ KtWdriK*, No. 74 -«.'uih Third «r*«t, between Poplar and

JSWR«UJ. MN.

1/LEU ANT Bronte and Oatorwd Printing I i*«|ierl«Hf al lite lYrre-Haute PrtnUai Jl nni«. Tto«« moot ennprtrnt workmen la etvy. Everything faaranterd sattateeUv », .OMain •irveL. O. J.

AmltH A Go.

THE MAIL.

O.J.SMITH,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

Office, 142 Main Street.

TERRE-HAUTE. JULY 22, 1871.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. .,••••• The FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, has a large circulation among farmers and others living outside 0/ the city. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person In the city. Every Week's Issue is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear for ONE CHARGE.

ANOTHER article upon "Franchise for Women," by T. C. S., appears on our first page.

We will not quarrel with our correspondent concerning his proposition that "marriage is the natural, the heav-en-ordained, the wisely preferred condition of woman." We will add that marriage is the "natural, the heaven ordained, the wisely preferred" condition of man. Yet matrimony does not disqualify men for the duty of voting. Why should it disqualify women for the same duty Are men poorer hus bands, or fathers because they vote Why will women be poorer wives or mothers because of the franchise. "Because it will make distasteful to her those duties that are interwoven in her very nature," says our writer. The mere act of voting will not make such duties distasteful to her then it must be the enlarged thought and aspiration which will ruin her domesticity. If this be true,then our schools should be closed to women because education will develop thoughts and aspirations incompatible with the duties of wives and mothers. If this bo true, all enlightenment of women beyond tho knowledge of the birth and maternal care of offspring is essentially wrong.

Our correspondent fears that suffrage will divert tho labor of woman from her maternal duties to the degree that she will neglect them. May not religion do the same Would not the same line of argument .deny church membership to women

Gallantry will expire with woman suffrage. Women, if they take up the "ballot, must do it with ungloved "hands, since there will be occasion for earnest and incessant toil." This is true, and in it lies the great merit of woman's enfranchisement. Every true, wwtirat woman in Ainrritn* is tho falso gallantry which shields her in some unimportant particulars and adds to the real burden of life which Hatters and spoils her if she be young and beautiful, and coldly pushes her aside if she be old or unattractive which admits her claim to certain useless indulgences, and grasps her by the throat if she have an aspiration above kitchen work or parlor ornamentation. Tho million of young women of Amorica who sit supinely now with folded hands, waiting for a coming husband, while busy workers are moving the world, should not be frightened at the thought of incessant toil if it gives them, as it will give them, surcease from thoughts which belittle the soul, and relief from the evils inseparable lrom objectless lives—evils which sap the nerveus system and destroy health and vitality. Honest toil is tho common heritage. It ennobles and dignifies the human family. Let no man seek to prevent woman's enfranchisement because it will add to her labors and responsibilities—for in additional labor and increased responsibility alone will she find rest worthy of a progressive being.

We must confess our astonishment that our correspondent has seen fit to use arguments so ridiculous as these: Women are unfitted to be judges of courts,hence they should not be voters. Women are incapable of doing duty as soldiers, hence they should not be al lowed to vote. Unquestionably many women are admirably fitted to be judges, but even if our correspondent's proposition were true it should not debar her from voting, as he well knows that nine hundred and ninetynine men out of every thousand who vote are not fitted to be judges. Our correspondent is a college professor of superior culture and intellectual endowment, yet his physical organisation is snch that he cannot think of becoming a soldier. Taken with this Itoct, his own argument would disfranchise himself. Will he not frankly admit this

AMAIN the blacks of the South have shown how completely they have adopted the tricks and manners of modern civilisation. The Georgia negroes, in the locality of the newly arrived Swedes, have commenced a war of extermination against cheap labor. Already a Mr. Reid, of Katonton, who is one of their employers, has had his baildingr* burned, ami further outrages are threatened.

"Sort A CM Ucl)

Mints

art- the ffeet* of the

operation of that principle of NfttnralSeiec. lion by which all nature, animate nod Inanimate, 1» pervaded. Whenever any one of the element* of whtcti society la composed brtsmnw quanllatlvely or quallUaUvt-ly stronger than l« consistent with the wfHv of Uie social rvitnpound, there 1* ail IttMlnct"Ive tendency toward its ettmtnatkm."—

This is clearly stated and most, alas, be true! And yet, and yet, we had hopedit might be otherwise. Oh Ciriliutian, where «rt thoa go neat

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WHILE the political cause of the riot in New York is directly chargeable to the Tammany government, there is another cause which is a fundamental one religious tanatacism. From tbo beginning the religion of classes of men has been a fruitful reason for the display of the bitterest feelings. The Jews, under their chosen leaders in their journeys into unknown lands, would ruthlessly put to death the G^tile nations, crushing them out of exis tence because they were not the chosen people of the Lord. At the time of tho advent of the Saviour, intense feeling was found among the several sects of the Jewish nation, which led to the stoning and ostracising of the weaker classes. The Master himself, although he came as a man of peace, as a worker of good, was sacrificed because He would not be as one of the corrupt and debased Jews. As we come down in histor3', we find slaughterings of countless thousands in the name of religion Mahomet, under the influence of this enthusiasm, gathered thousands to his standard, subjugating nations, tracking his way with blood, Peter the Hermit plundered and murdered thousands in the name of religion. Still later we find in the sixteenth century the bloody religious struggles in France, where the sword was drawn at St. Bartholomew, and 70,000 Protestants were slaughtered. During the same century 65,000 Christians were butchered by Turks in Croatia. Then the fanatical battles in England and Scotland, the driving out of the early settlers of this nation for religious belief, are known to history. The Pilgrims, who left Europe because they could not worship God as they pleased, became in time violent persecutors, and the same story of suffering for conscience's sake was repeated in the very land which was peopled by tho3e that had fled from their homes for this very principle. Later still, the

No Popery" London riots of 1795 showed how little toleration for Catholics there was in the hearts of English Protestants. Since that there have been many Protestant and Catholic mobs in Great Britain and in America.

When the Constitution of tho United States was adopted its framers distinctly saw what terrible suffering occured in past ages owing to religious differences therefore, with wise forethought, thev not only prohibited any religious requirements from citizens, but in order to remove any possible cause for discord omitted to insert an acknowledgement of the Son of God, not from any irreverence or heterodoxy, but that all men might have the broadest and freest latitude in the exerciso'bf their faith and belief.

Tho banner of liberty is extended over Catholic and Protestant, Jew atid Mahommedan. avn. and infidel alike. The mob of New York nas •wS&rr^.. vineed of this by the strong arm ofthe law. Let us hope that all intolerant spirits will heed the warning.

THE Pope announces that Kings "and governments, forgetting their "promises, leaves us to our fate," and that "all is lost, and only a miracle can "save us." He refers of course to the papal temporal power. We trust that his prognostications are correct and that no miracle will save to the Catholic Church the sovereignty of Rome. The day has long since passed when earthly power or sovereignty can assist any Christian Church in doing the work of the Savior. We trust that the temporal power of the Pope is ended forever, and that all alliances of Christian churches with state power, authority and revenue, as in England, resulting always in the establishment of a bigoted, worthless and intolerant priesthood, will soon cease to exist. We can imagine nothing so entirely inconsistent with the lesson and example of the meek and lowly Jesus, associating while on earth with the poorest and humblest people, carrying with him tho divine lesson of charity which counted every man as his brother, as the grand pageantry, tho soulless ministrations, and the selfish rivalries of Churches allied with temporal power, or supported by public revenues. All the Christianity worth anything in this

day and generation is supported by the

voluntary action of the people, and finds Its endorsement in the hearts of the masses.

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TCT.RV.-T1 A PTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, JULY 22, 1871,

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"THK Orange demonstration In New York, on Wednesday, was imperatively necctssary. The circumstances Immediately preceding and attending the aflhlr, made it a test of a great prlnclble, to wit: The equalty of all classes before the law. When the Irish Catholics of New York said the procession should not take place, then it became a matter of the highest Importance that it should take place, in order that the equal rights of the menaced Orangemen with other class of citizens should be maintained. Better ten thousand killed and wounded, better that the street gutters be filled with blood than that the fundamental principle of our government be trodden under foot by the organized bestiality whose tool is

Aewman^n'tt

THE Legislature of Connecticut has, it is said, voted to abolish the usury laws. This is right. Sound business sense has come to regard money as a commodity and it is as ridiculous to attempt to regulato its value by law as it would lie to fix by statute tho price ol com, or wheat, or the rental of propertj\ The State should prescribe a legal rate of interest in the absence of a contract but individuals should be left free to make their own bargains concerning money borrowed or debts deferred, just as they make bargains concerning merchandise or produce. It is useless for the state to assume guardianship over weak or incompetent business men. The man who requires such protection must fail in the end. The usury laws of this state, and of all other states we prosume,are evaded. They are practically useless. Let ns sweep them from our statute books long with all stay laws which delay and hamper collections let us teach the people the inviolability of contracts and the responsibilities growing out of debt, and we will begin to establish business relations upon a sound and rational b«*i*.

ROBERT BOXNKR denounce* the men who bet heavily upon the speed attained by one of his hor*ew in a recent drive. He thoaldn*t denounce bis betters..

OAKEY HALL."— Expre**. The above appeared on Monday in response to an assertion in the MAIL that the Orange demonstration was "foolish, impolitic, and unnecessary, "just as all celebrations in America of a the triumph of one monarchical aspi"rant over another, or of one sect over "another, are foolish and impolitic." We agree with our neighbor that the Orangemen had a legal right to parade, and that it was the duty of the authorities to defend that right. If the rebel sympathizers in this city had determined to celebrate yesterday, the 21st ot July, the anniversary of the battle of Bull Run and of the humiliation and defeat of the Union forces, or if the Catholics of this city should determine fco celebrate the anniversary of the massacre of St. Bartholomew on the 24th of August, we should denounce such demonstrations as foolish, unneccessary, impolitic, and worse, yet we should insist upon the legal right to celebrate these anniversaries, just as we insist upon the legal right of the Orangemen to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of the Bovne.

THE recent census in Great Britain reveals the.fact that there are in the United Kingdom 913,162 women too many, women who never can by any possibility find husbands at home. This evil is immensely increased by what we believe to be the fact, the existence of the disproportion chiefly in the lower middle class, and by the semi-feudal basis upon which British society still rests— the law, the etiquette, and the prejudice which assign a monopoly of all careers except domestic service, a preferential claim to property, and a preference as to wages to tho stronger sex, who also, it is clear, are of the two tho more ready to emigrate. There is no remedy for this unnatural state of affairs, except in allowing women to earn money, and in any avocation suited to them, work out their own destinies as men do.

HERE are manly words from the NorthwesternChristian Advocate, a Metli odist newspaper, concerning Chaplain Newman's letter to the Methodists of Iowa, in support of the political aspirations of Senator Harlan "That the world mny know that the Methodist Episcopal Church has 110 fellowship with this kino of political 1 termed-

bishop Ptircftl. and for James Harlan put Patrick Mcliirncy, and the circulars hare gone to every priest in the State, how we. trould have denounced it! The names unchanged, nnd the fact established we denounce II just as promptly and Just as severely. That it was'confidential' 7tiakcs it only the worse,"

INSTEAD of being wounded at the head of his regiment as at first reported, James Fisk, jr., sneaked away to Long Branch and was not in tho riot with the Ninth at all. This is what should have been expected. Tho annals of warfare show few instances in which braggarts und bullies were not cowards in action.

EVEN here in Terre-Haute there arc more female than malo children in tho public schools, showing that there is a disparity in the sexes unfavorable to women. Yet wo are told that it is woman's life duty to scramble for a husband, though not more than one in two will ever be able to securo such an appendage.

hntCATION is a good thing for the people, and the Republicans of California havo resolved in favor of compulsory education. Personal cleanliness is good for the people—next thing to godliness in fact—and the Republicans of that State should next resolve in favor of compulsory baths.

GENERAL MCCLELLAN takes the new departure: I11 a letter to the Taintnn-

sachems he says:

"The negro has a right to vote—let hlin keep It but strive to educate him to fitness for the high privilege conferri.fi on him. Show him who his real friends are, and we will eventually turn in our own favor the weapons so carefully forged for our destruction."

THE latest "society news" says that ladies wear the mouth slightly ajar this year. The languid squint is very fashionable for tho eyes. Gentlemen wear their ears closely trimmed thiH season. Clean finger nails are coming in, as well as snuff colored noses.

WE venture the assertion trial the Evansville, Terre-Haute «fe Chicago Railway, extending from this city to Danville, Illinois, runs through better land than any other line in this state. It traverses the Wabash valley for forty five miles.

A CITIZEN of New Orleans lin» recently been so successful in experimenting with fluid gas of ammonia as a motive power, that he claims there is a probability that it may supercede horsepower on street railroads.

TlIE Oat-skill {N. Y.) Recorder, gets ahead of us in the "Twenty Years Hence" bnsiness thusly: *bafl* of the Niagara Fall* 'Water heel 1 10.UXJ.KJQ horsepower), will be put along the Psrtflo fmtmvlinw ly.

HAT kind of a presidential ticket would Horatio Hey men and Francis P. Blair make for the Democrats in 1873?

GOJCE where Jim Fisk mourneth," is equivalent to "Skedaddled out of danger."

LAST week the orthodox Exprest contained an article fkvorable to the legality and good taste of Sunday picnics. This morning the unorthodox Journal oontains this item:

Good. No Sabbath picnic announced for to-morrow. Can it be that onr morning cotemporaries are changing positions upon the Sunday question

THE following notice is from the Galesburg Republican, one of the smartest, brightest-, and most readable aewag papers published in Illinois:

The best exchange we receive is the TerreHaute (Ind.) MAIL. Its editorial, local, literary and general departments are models of tact ana ability. MnJor O. J. Smith, an intelligent gentleman and a gallant soleier of the late war, is the editor. We are glad to know that the MA11.. as it so well deserves, has proved a decided success.

City News.

CintMerlj»tl«BA.—The SATURDAY EvSUING MAIL IS delivered to city subscribers at TWENTY CENTS a month, payable at the end of every four weeks, or at TWO DOLLARS a year in advance. The MAIL will be furnished by post, oral this office, at the following rates: One Year, (2,0(1 /Ux Months,tl,00 Three Months, 50 Cents—invariably advance

Cheap Advertising—We shall hereafter give special prominence to the notices under the head of Wanted, For Sale, For Rent, Lost, Found. Ac. We will charge five cents a line for each insertion of such advertisements, and no notice will be reckoned at less than five 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 city and its immediate vicinity.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Wanted—Situation, Students, Girl. Wall Paper—R. Buckell. Painting—Barr A Yeakle. Legal—Attachment, Ordinance.. Public sale. Parasols, Ac.—Tuell, Ripley & Demlng.j

THIS weather is bilious.

THE melan-colic days have come.

A DEAD canine on South Fourth street is a dog-gone nuisance.

FARMERS expect soon to receive twen-ty-five dollars a ton for hay.

PAIIKE county ftiir at Bloomingdale, September 22d to 25th.

THE Harrison township library is in a dilapidated condition.

THE Fort Harrison Guards will soon parade in a beautiful gray uniform.

THE name of the Stewart House is to be changed to the Anderson House.

THE Buntin,House is to be re-opened under a new management, September first.

LEADING citizens are now discussing the subject of a fire alarm telegraph in this city. t...

THE weekly meetings of tho city council double the labors of the city

Srx empty revolvers lay in a bureau drawer at William Blaize's during the burglars' raid on Sunday night.

THE annual celebration of the battle of Peach Tree Creek took place at Far mersburg on Thursday.

NEARLY all tho steady laboring men in the city have already paid their del inquent taxes.

THE steamers Vigo, Pluenix and Young America are now running be tween this city and Ilut-sonville.

THREE representatives at tho Southern Penitentiary from this county will soon be reloased by tho expiration of their time.

BARR «FE YEAKLE, tho thoroughly reliable painters, offer their services to the public in a card published in this paper.

ONLY two men in the city

have ,.si

tively refused to pay their ixes one is a dry goods clerk and the other an Irish laborer. ,,

THE party surveying tlie proposed Cincinnati Terre-Haute Rid 1 road are progressing at tho rate of about four miles per day.

THE policemen have determined to clear the streets of boys who fly kites, and force them to engage in this sport upon the commons. -,

THE delinquent tax collectors in the city will report to Council, August 1st. Considerable time afterwards will be required to finish the collections.

NEARLY all manufacturing establishments and machine shops in the city, discharge even their best employes who refuse to pay honest debts.

SHERIFF STEWART has sent about seventy convicts to the penitentiary at Jeffersonville, since the commencement of his first term of office.

A PARTY of six or seven lawyers of this city are visiting the sulphur springs, recently discover**! a short distance south of Greencastle.

PUEPARAIIOXH are being mad*} for a large union Sunday school pie-nio to bo held as Malcolm's Grove, three miles west of the city on the 15th of August.

A DRITNKEN female pugilist with her intoxicated little girl, was dragged down the full extent of Ohio street to the Station House, by three or four zealous policemen the other day.

WE understand that a half fare excursion train will be runfromKt. Louis to New York, passing through this city over the Vandalia line, during the first week in August, for the accommodation of the various Turner Societies and all persons who wish to attend the National Tnrnerfest in New York at that time. The arrangement will allow three %£eks time in which to return.

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THK city clerk's duties require the assistance of a deputy a great deal of the time. No provisions are made for tho payment of such an assistant.

DEAD beats are only allowed the luxuries of the Station House for a period of five days at a time. If their fines still remain unpaid, they are then sent to jail.

Two new accommodation freight trains have just been placed on the Evansville & Crawfordsuille Railroad, on account of the increase of travel and transfer of freight over that line.

THE Cincinnati A Terre-Haute Railroad, in connection with the Vandalia line from this city to St. Louis, wil I make a route from Cincinnati to St. Louis fifteen miles shorter.,than, th* Ohio A Mississippi Railroad.

CITY TREASURER PADDOCK saves the city an expense of ten cents on each delinquent tax payer, by paying the collectors a fee of 45 cents on oach man visited, instead of 55 cents, the full amount allowed bv law.

THE majority of the delinquent tax payers throughout the county, are naturally dissatisfied with their assessments, and capable of finding a great? deal of fault with the collectors and treasurer.

SEVERAL families in this city havo already determined to join the Indiana colony now forming at Indianapolis. The colony will bo composed of ono thousand families from different parts of the State, and will start west next spring.

A DOZEN slightly intoxicated loafers kept up a mild row at a grocery 011 North Fourth street all day Wednesday—just mild enough to prevent their arrest, and to require the preseneo of two or three policemen for about ten. hours.

MARRIAGE LICENSES.—The iollowing licenses have been issued by the County Clerk since our last report:

Jno. Ti. Kelly and Sarah A. Syostor. Lewis A. Stephens and Mary A. lleavers*.-. Stephen Page and Eliza Springs. James W. Carney and Mary A. Vaughn. John T. Rungnn and Harriet J. Kngles. John Herrington and Fanny Thompsoi'.

TITE Vermillion county fair at Now-: port, on the 12th, 18th, 14th and 15th of September, promises to bo ono of the best agricultural exhibitions ever held in tho Wabash Vnlley. Tho new railroad runs right through the ground* which will make it convenient for persons from a distance to attend tho fair

A HORSE and buggy containing A. L. Gardner and Miss Mary Peters was accidentally precipitated foi* a considerable distance down a precipice, four miles northeast of tlip city 011 Monday^ evening. Bolli the horse ami ongg.V*? turned oversoveral times, throwingoul the lady and gentleman, miraculously. without material injury.

NINKTKEN voars ngo 11 German committed suieido by shooting himself at the Crapo llonso in this city. Tho self, destruction was caused bv theinfidnllt ot his wife. Tho stains of his blood yei remain upon tho floor of the room ii. which the tragedy was enacted. Nr scouring will remove it. The "damned spot" will not "out."

THK different roads in tho south-eas-tern part of the township running south from tho Bloomlngton road and east from tho Bono road, havo boon appropriately named by tho enterprising citizens living in that vicinity. The The following are some of the names: Osage Way, Sugar Grove Avenm Pugh's Avenue, Fruit Ridge Avenue. The names of each are to be posted oa the various corners,

YESTERDAY morning at an earl\ hour, a middle aged Scotchman with tearful eyes and troubled countenance, came into ('has. R. Peddle's railroad office and related tho following sad and mysterious misfortune "I haves recently come over from Scotland and? am now 011 my way to St. Louis. Soon after leaving New York, I took uj? with a stranger, also a Scotch nun 1.. whoso destination was tho satno a* mine. IJoth foeling lonely and friendless,

concluded to travel together}

and were soon well acquainted and' passing the time very agreeably. For the sake of convenience we had agreed that one should carry the money ot both, about $150 in all. 1 deposited all of mine with him. Between this city and fJreencastle wo were approached by two or three men in a very suspicious manner. Wo were very much frightened and immediately concluded that we were alwut to be robbed. Our fears increased by their attempts al robbery until we decided to jump from the train. We rushed upon tho platform and my partner mado the dreadful leap. We were near Prairie Station. It wasalout ten oclock at night and very dark. The train was running at the rate of about forty miles an hour. I concluded the leap would be fatal and shrank back. In a short time tho boxing on the engine became heated and the train checked up, when I leaped ofl I wandered around all night looking for my companion, but was unable tfind him. This morning I mado my way here without a friend or a cent in the world." He seemed to think that his friend was killed by tho leap, which was very probable, unless bo was a graduated burglar himself and had taken this means of getting off with his friend's money. The surviving Scotchman was properly cared for and sent on to St. Ixuis, as ho had lost through ticket in losing from the train.