Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 8, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 August 1871 — Page 4

For Sale.

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iB.HALKOBTRADE—A LARGE WAOTkrd, store building and dwelling .*.11 newly fitted op, situated on south 4th street.

GHIM EH 4 ROYSE, ltwil Extate Dealer*,

l-2an. No. 4 south 5lh street.

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BAU5-FJVK BILLIARD TABLES and fixture*, nearly new. Apply to JOSEPH KERN.

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JjHK SALE—AT A BARGAIN—A NEW Steam Floating Mill in running order, located on Lafay-rt Road, one mile north Of Main str»-et, will K«*1I one-liftlf or whole

Hmall payment down and long

lie on balance. Apply to ... -tf. JACOB KERN.

FORHALE-KRAMEDWKLLIMi

I^ORHALE—HOUSEA

•n

time.

HOUSE

three rooms, kitchen and cellar. ,.T.. 48-tf. Apply to JACOB KERN.

FOB

HALE—TWENTY GOOD BUILDING Lots, Kern'n Addition. I»ng tinie^ 48- tf.

JACOB KERN.

LOT-DESIRABLE

neighborhood. IIou*e cozy ijii'l comfortable. Lot haw on It large and bearing tree* of choice frnll. PriceSl.!^

FRANK

SEAMAN.cor ifth and

LocaHt-HtA., or P.O. b"x91-, Terre Hfiut. 42tf

J1ilKonTo

30H HALE—A LOT—ONE HUNDRED

feet

front—on Fift street, bet. Oak and Hlreetx. Will be

Mold

In lot* of feet

front persons wanting a smallI home,

till* 1*

a KplemJId ehanee as I will take

monthly payment* of small amounts in -xnge.

-tf.

ahani J»

I. L. MAHAN.

Txm~HALE-lH* ACRES OF TIMBERED land on the Unkport roait, four ur live mile# from the city. WU1 sell the whole tract on reasonable tftrinH, or will

timber. alone, of ten

Ht

11 the

L. KIHSNER,

3# if palace of Mnslc.

lOR HALB-CHOICE LOTH JNTF.EL'S KubdlviHlori, corner of lilh and GullcK. •treetH. AI*o lor

iTXchange,farminglands

in

Indiana and Illinois, for Improved or unimproved city property. Apply to H.*1 TEEL, Ohio Ht., op p. Court IIOUM

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"IMJR HALE—HOUHK OF SEVEN ROOMS ami lot of five acre* on Pralrieton road 1V. inlien from the court house. 1)0 fruit treea, -XK) grape vine*. Great bargain. Appls to 3#-tf. JERRY VORIH.

I i()R HALE OR EXCHANGE!—CLARK HOUHC. The proprietor, desiring to retire from the bUMineHH, oilers his Hotel lor mile or tfxehange for umail Dwellings in, or small Farm ar I he city. House is doing a good btiMiness or IK well located for manufacturing pur|oHe.H. En«v terms. For particulars

"i^tf" W.B.GRIFFITH Proorietor.

M)R HALK-OLI) PAPERS FOR WRAPping paper,for sale at 50 cents a hundred the A ottlce.

at

lOR HALE.-AT A BAIUJAIN 2»i A«'RKH I of Innd, miles Koulli-east of '1 eireHauto. The most commanding building site In Vigo county. The land is peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of vegetables fruits, being dry, windy and productive, •rum one-sixth cash, balance In tlve annual payments.

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For further particulars apply to Editor of MAI i..

JAM

HA LK. -TH E Fl N E FA RM OF Tf I E late Hiram Smith, Sr., lying t'a miles tMut h-east from the centre of the city, is now (lllered for sale. This IH one of the most desirable piece* of rural property in fhrcoun'W or HUite. It lies partly uion the bluff'anil -partly on the prairie. The improvements are first-rate. The location of the residence is of Mtirpassing beauty, commanding a Tie* dt the whole city and prairie. There are large orchards on the place, a splendid grove of limber, anil never fuillngstock water. The purchaser can have choice of Irtlyninety or one hundred and sixty acres. Terms easy. Knuulre at this office. ^L'2-lf.

For Rent.

1 N T—HHSl UA ISI.K BUSINEHH Jr property. The brick buildings lust erecir.il. on Hie corner of Fourth and Cher­

ry

streets. In the buildings are lour flnMi«vl iKisement rooms, (MixIHV, feet, well lighted mill ventilated, 10 feet ceilings, with good front j\ml rear entrances four business rooms on tin ground lloor liOxlS'.j feel, 1feel cnti'ng*. completely finished In nil respect* dn the second story are eight do .hie or sIxtntMi single rooms,arranged for ofllces lodging rooms or family suites, with separate sUxirwavs. front and rear. Every appendage the way of gas, cisterns, coal vault*, WOIXI Itoumw, IIHVO IMMMI jwovid•si, and nu apiirtments in the cltv are better llghtisl or vent Hated. To good ami permanent teuautM rent will bo made reasonable,

S-tf. JAMES COOK.

I^lORa,"*)

KENT- RARE CHANCE-A FARM of undiT fence, over am acres in cultlvaCUMJ. two houses, three barns and till necessary oi'.t buildings to let for cash, or to a practical farmer with team*, fi-ed, im1s, and tiwds furnlshinl for an Interest In crop, or will trmle my teams, tools, and stock widen of honn-.s, cattle, sheap aud hogs to the amount of fH.OW for town property. Aply on premises six miles won lb-east of city, or through PostolHce, IU* 'its.

H(. J.J. FEHKKL.

Wanted.

AirANTKn srrr^i toN-A REHPFCI Aff l.le VOIIIIL vim in, desln* a SUIIHIIOU Inaswjll tunilly, wuthout children, south part of town «-feri«l. Addres.v, Renin, care of ih»x HW, Tern 4l:iiute. \\}'ASTy.V I'ARTNEH 1^17^171.1, hiiMJttesN ami In a uroolen factory. I have ample water power, and mv mill has Ihvii In su^ vsful opcmtU.ii many yearft, I refer to HM* «slltor of this paper. Addrens ^jie at CtiUlWotliv. Mlfwouri. .....

S-tf. JOHN r. til LI.ESIME.

|l ANTKI' A I.L TO XO W THAT THE Tf SATI'KIVUK.VKM^IIMWL has a larger H^ulatloti Ouiu nuy newMiMi't putilNlitxl OUtnlih' of IudifHia|MillM, in lliwHtate. Also that It Is crtn-fulfv and UionHtf-hly riwl In Uie Uomewof It* patmhs, .-tnd w.at Is the xcry lH-st adverting mistlum la Western nifltui

Ix)St.

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HUMS OK X'OM^Y AUF.

lo*t fv»»ry ww*k by jcrwn» wlioe^ould in thl* of tho MAII*.

Found.

bewt adverHwing 111 the cltv caiM he ohUilnisl bv In vesting In the Want rd. For Hale, For'Renl, U»st and Found colomn ttf the MAM..

OT. MaKY'S

Academic Institute.

St.Marv's

of

the

Woods,

VIUO COUNTY, INDIANA.

This spadou* And elotrantly flnt»h«d and furnished Institute. c«ndo«'tiHi hy the HJ». Ur* of Iovidene»\ to pupils every ml vmit«itr mniliii'l vt* to pleasure and bmlth, to«rth*r villi unrlviillnl Bwllitlw R»r^«c•piirlng a ihorHntli nnd accomplished FMu-•-Milon. The large Rrt*T**tlon Hall* ami extensive Cloisters invite to pmper

exercise

even wImh the «reatlier does not permit out-door amoaemeots. Tlie PL.EAMURK dlWH'S'I** are umpie. Mlnsl, and well shaded hy fine ftwiM iniw, pfwtitlni every iaducenu nt to Inviguraltng exeiriw. Hpc«lal care l* taken of the health of the pnplls lor which pnr|we the •ervicwi of an csperiinml pliynh-lwi have been isecnrert.

The Sfhol»iio Year Iwwfns September 1st. Knr terms and other particular* atilnw |4m Ulster Kaiierlar.

.VVITATION8-For Ball*, rarttaa, 4kr.t gotten ap in any ntyhs cither in

Sajnorootomlt&ka.d«*in»d

Ttwaijrleofoar

not riwn«d anywhere. Tcrrr-" IVinllnf UOVM. I3 Mala street, O. J. W# *CX.

THE MAIL.

O.J.SMITH,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

Office, 142 Main Street.

TERRE-HAUTF. AUGUST 12, 1871.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIOAH

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, has a large circulation among farmers and others living outside of 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.

WHAT CAN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY DO It can disown the "new departure," and make a hopeless campaign upon dead and buried issues. It can delude itself into the belief that the American people who see the happy, peacable and just settlement of all the questions growing out of dead slavery and the war desire to have the whole question ripped open again.

It can accept the "new departure," and attempt to squeeze in upon the platform occupied by the Republicans. There is nothing particularly smart in this dodgo. The Whig party tried to do the same thing with the Democratic party in 1852, and the Whig party died. Shrewd politicians can see clearly that tho "new departure" path leads to a Democratic grave yard. There is no honesty in this dodge. It is as transparent, and as little likely to succeed, as the

game

of William Nye. It is a

fraud of the first magnitude. During the Sepoy insurrection in India a British ollicer induced a hundred harmless natives to pull at a

rope

attached to the

muzzle of alarge gun. When the piece was pulled into such a position that the natives were exactly upon its prolongation tho gun was lired, and a hundred victims to man's protidy were blown to atoms. This is what the new departure" Democrats would do with the black people. After using them to get in power thoy would use the power to destroy the civil and political rights of the blacks.

It can ignore all the issues of the jMist "nil present, and plant itself upon a platform which will denounce corruption as corrupt, and dishonesty as dishonest, and endorse economy, justice, freedom and all tho virtues, lime was when platitudes made the best kind ot a party platform, but thanks to ,lj$WBi$iper* aud coinjiion schools that day has gone by. If the Democratic party elects another president it will not. do so by humbugging tho people with glittering generalities. A great fraud, or the advocacy of a great good, alone will open the way to power.

It can take advantage of the labor movement now looming into colossal importance. This movement is not inaugurated by a few demagogues at least the power that initiates it cannot 1)0 attributed to a few men. It is the general action of a large body of working men. The same power is growing into huge proportions across tho wator. The International Society is causing tho splendid empire of Germany considerable anxiety, and its influence in Kngland is such that it bids fair in a short time to have the opportunity of •shaping the policy of that government. If wo walk along our streets and behold the hundreds of men with humble raiment, tho hundreds of women who battle day ami night for a few dollars a week, the hundreds of little children, barefooted and squalid, can we avoid the conclusion that here is a slumbering social giant that needs but to realise its strength to exerciso such a sway over the polities of the country that all existing parties may well look at this possibility with concern? The Democratic party may becomo the champion of the labor movement. It may gain temporary popularity by advocating the foolish and impracticable financial schemes,and the intolerance for Chinese working men, to which we alluded hist week or it may take high, noble ground as the real defender of Ijabor against the encroachments of Capital. Doing the latter, it would deserve victory, and would surely attain it.

The loremost reform of to-day is Woman Suffrage. The men who but ri crently sneered at the idea of freedom and enfranchisement for the Slave may not believe this, yet it is true nevertheiww. It is as sure to come as that God's pcoftiTOs

not

l*" turned back speed­

ily, If the Democratic party should become its champion it would occupy high moral ground which would lead to ultimate victory.

The hopo of the Democratic party is to bury past issue* honestly and become the champion of the two oppressed classes. Women and laborer*. Then would be fighting a good flpht. it will be the champion of neither. It is thoroughly out of harmony with live reform. It may espouse the labor movement but it will false phase of it which put forth a ridiculous platform in St. Ivrwis last week.

After all. it is likely that the onty good thing the Democratic p*rty «n do is to die. It can never olaar Its skirts of the disgraeeof the past, of tbe nhame

TERRE-H A UTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL AUGUST 19,

INDECENT LITERA TURE. While the sale and publication of obscene books is prohibited by law, a kind of literature has come in vogue which is not less objectionable than the vilest of the avowedly obscene pub-

the kind of publications above alluded to. It is considered a necessity for newspaper success by ninety-nine out of every one hundred publishers, to report the details of court trials of shocking indecency. The newspaper, to be considered spicy, must copy every outrageous and indecorous act throughout the land, and the idea of suppressing a local occurrence because of its impropriety is rarely considered. The number of papers that seek habitually to gratify a prurient curiosity of the public constantly increases.

As the influence of tho press reaches everywhere, the amount ot this kind of reading that is thrust into our families, into our hands in the cars, and whereever we go, is beyond computation, and the effect it must produce is alarming to contemplate.

From newspapers we ascend to book reading. If we pick the choicestmagazines it is not unusual to find the names of women ot high standing in the literary world, and of men who claim refinement, affixed to storiessof doubtful morality the plots depending upon seductions, or upon conjugal infidelity. With novels we find the same general fault. The most recent instance is the "Terrible Temptation," by Charles Reade. This low tale, which abounds with situations that are disgraceful, and innuendoes that are wo thy of a plaro in brothel literature, and whoso only plot relies on immorality has not only been published as a serial in magazines and weeklies that claim the highest respectability, but is issued by the best publishing houses on both sides ot the water, and scattered by the hundred thousand throughout th,e. homes of Kngland and America.

It is a gratifying fact that the down

ward tendency of the drama,

JCST now it is a popu'ar thing in this city to abuse, revile at itdiCiile the Spiritualists who frequent Pence'sHall, because certain damaging charges are made against Mrs. Fprris, the medium who has held seances there, and a man

lications. Not less than six of the fin- (pamed Willard who is associated with est illustrated journals in America, ot her. Concerning the truth of these the "Police Gazette" and "Day's Do- ^charges we know nothing but we do ings" style, are devoted entirely to, VHOW that Messrs. Hook, Pence, illustrations and descriptions of vicious fDenihie, and other citizens, whose honesty and respectability aro above question, and who have ample opportunity for investigation, disbelieve them, and profess full faith in the purity of Mrs.

fights, scandalous elopements, bawdy house scenes, the habits of the detm mondc, and all manner of enme. The number of these sheets, their size, the quality of their illustrations, and the superb manner in which they are printed, prove that their publication is immensely profitable,

F. Now while it is quite probable that they are imposed i^pon, we see no cause for condemning them because they [have too niuch faith in the goodness of

Nor is indecent literature confined to Bhumanity. Ttat the spiritualists of t.hAir rfiliffion his city artf.asr«incere in their religion as the believers in any faith who have preceded thejn cannot be doubted in view of the fapt that the scoffs, sneers and exasperating persecutions of the worM do not weaken their zeal. We regret that they lay so much stress upon the phenomena of spiritualism—something which is unexplainable, we adnyt, but the good flowing.from which ifis never been apparent. Those who are in the habit of condemning all spiritualists as crazy and ridiculous, if not

Immoral, will do well, however, to improve the opportunity offered every Sunday to hear Mrs. Ballou lecture in Pence's Hall. There is so much of the charity and pure morality of the Savior in these lectures that all intelligent persons will feel better for having heard her.

THE domestic hope of Horace Greeley, as expressed in his letter to Theo dore Tilton, is that his two daughters may marry and become good wives and mothers. He expresses the hope that should his daughters engage in public affairs and become conspicuous in conventions, at the bar and in the Senate, his career may close before their's are fairly begun. Suppose, however, that after exhausting the utmost effort, his daughters are unable to marry, what then If they, are unfortunate enough to bo moneyless, "as nine out of ten American girls are, shall they teach school, or do kitchen work, or live upon the charity of friends, when, if thejr possess a small l'ractioft^of the talents ot their father, they can make the world better by having lived? Mr. Greedy has becomo the champion of a social theory which accounts for nearly all that is silly and frivolous in American women—the theory that woman

-i!

has kept track with and even gone be-j-^

yond this recent decline our litem-1 nccompliaho(1

ture, has met with a check, and thof

cm-

sentiment of the community is lijjtatioally /n %vorof a. bSttor. Let us hope that the same re action may speedily take place in oar literature. Ail history furnishes *s with warnings against fostering licentiousness. The downfall of more thun one magnificent empiro resulted from this crime. The government which the storm of war could not shake, may yet fall a victim to a general palsying weakness, the lack-of a linn aud strong morality.

WE don't belong to the so-styled woman's rights partv. It has always been our tlrm belief that the majority of the female portion of the advocates of woman's suffrage are cross, disappointed old maids, who never could catch husbands, and quarrelsome, childless wives, who have nothing to keep them busy at home. Once In a while will be found some timid etremlnnte man, who tii'ls he cannot rise amongst his own sex, ^pouting about woman's rights but as a general thing 110 sensible women ever look upon them In any other light than that of contempt.—Journal.

This is the strongest case our neighbor is able to make against tho Woman Suffragists. We remember a time, not long since, when he denounced antislavery men in terms far moro bitter than those quoted above yet men are moderately proud now of having been alolitionists in the olden time. Every reform known to the world has met in its incipiency just such unmanly sneers as this. If the eye of tho editor ot the Journal meets this extract in looking over his files a few years hence, he will be thoroughly ashamed that he ever penned it.

MRS. BILMNOS, of New York, whose husband, a native of Somers, Ct., died a few years ago, leaving her a large property, has in contemplation the erection of an elegant jtructure to his memory, in the Springfield, Mass., cemetery, whose natural and artistic beauty she greatly admires. It will be a costly tomb, in front of which will be erected a chapel, thirtv-flve feet high and surmounted by a beautiful group of statuary. It is estimated that the whole structure wiil cost $25,000. Mrs. B. would honor more the memory of the deceased if she were to appropriate in his name the large sum mentioned to some worthy or charitable object instead of wasting it on a showy and pretentious monument which will not help him one jot where he is now, or do good to any who live now, or who may live hereafter.

WK have heard of an over-nice creature in Fiji who declined to partake of cold sailor because the viand had a strong flavor of tobacco. Now we learn of an anti-bibulant and anti-nicotine spring in Lake county, California, which destroys in the human stomach alt longing for the ardent and for the weed. I*»t all chewers and drinkers repair thither and *0 purify themselves that the daintiest cannibal would not

which associate* with its advocacy of! turn up his nose at thetn. the greatest crime of the century—human slavery. "Something purer aod «better crows ever f*m the ashes of waukee, says that he can dnnk one «o!d (kitha and old idea*," «nd let us hundred ami fifty glass** of beer at on# hope thmt from the grave of Democracy!

NAPOI.BOJ* SCIIOKJFBKKOER, of Mil­

hm

will ariae a Party of Reform which will I* *hia f^hoenberger, or is this I shake the «otlticnt with it* triumphs, a beer barrel?

°P

tln' Kl'on

was nillde to do but ono thingt inarry,

her ]ife is a fslilur0 if that is

It is no more a du_

thun it is niuI1,8

hi.i:*ieat duty to seek a wifo, and then conclude tn i7his minion ^W*ea#t"h A« done. In countries where the law insists upon monogamy exactly the same number of women and men are married at the same time. How ridiculous to assert that it is tho unmarried woman's highest duty to place herself in a position of anxious expectancy of an offer of marriage!

PKKSIDKNT THIERS has an elephant 011 his hands in the shape of thirty or fort}' thousand Communist prisoners. He cannot hang them he cannot imprison them long, and he hesitates to turn them loose. The latter is the better plan. These men are fierce enemies of tyranny, and long oppression lnis made them blood-thirsty and cruel, yet they can be made good citizens and warmest friends of tho Republic. It is tho grandest fact in American history that this government was able to settle all the questions growing out of the recent gigantic civil war without shedding a drop of rebel blood or encumbering prisons with insurgents. What we could do with an army of half a million France can do with her thirty or forty thousand.

IT is said that Mr. Charles

Ii.

N. Ito-

naparte, late head of the so-called French Empire, contemplates making his residence in America. Ho has not yet decided whether he will teach a dancing school in New York, accept the local agency of a life insurance company in Terre-IIau'te, or engage in the manufacture of sugar-coated har-row-teeth in company with Mr. Colfax, who declines re-election to office.

KIK«T LIB(TTKANT JAMF.H CAKI.IN,of the First 1'til ted States Cavalry, having »een tried by court martial and found guilty of conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline, in having onlt rtil a soldier to discharge his carbine at a target before which Trumpeter Kelsey was standing, and by which the trumpeter was killed, has been dismissed from the service.

So says an Associated Press dispatch. If it is true, Lieutenant James Carlin, First U. S. Cavalry, should now be arrested by tho civil authorities and tried for murder.

ls the August elections tho Republicans carried North Carolina by 10,000 majority. Last year the Democrats triumphed by a majority of 4,000. Kentucky goes Democratic by an increased majority, though, the vote being heavier than before, a larger proportion of it is Republican. Montana, which went Democratic last year by 1,000 majority, chooses a Republican congressman by a majority of 1,500.

COFFIXS of the new artificial stone, which hardens after being exposed to the air—warranted a close fit, air tight, and to last forever—are the latent modern Improvement. The manufacturer furnishes the names of seven hundred people who have been safely, satisfactorily and eomfbrtably buried in them.

WHIPI'IM* has been abolished in the iwhools of Maine, and yet whales in schools have been seen near the coast of that State.

THK cholera is in Poland, and If that formidable disease pursues the same course as in its former visitations, there is every reason to believe that we shall not escape its desolating march. It is satisfactory to know, however, that the violence of the disease has decreased each time it has come among us. It is still along way off, and there is plenty of time to meet it, and to neutralise it, provided that we are willing to adopt the right measures not hurriedly, but coolly, and with forethought. In 1833, when Lord Palmers ton was Home Secretary, certain persons petitioned the Govt, rnment to appoint a day of lasting, humiliation, and prayer, as the best and only means ot saving Scotland from the cholera. In a more cynical tone than the undoubted sincerity and good fkith oi the Scottish deputation merited, his Lordship said: The best course which the people of this "country can pursue to deserve that "the further progress of the cholera 'i should be stayed, will be to employ the interval between the present time and the beginning of next spring in "planning and executing measurqp by "which those portions of the/TO'wns and cities which are inhabit^ Joy the poorer classes, and which, mm the nature of things, must need puriftcatjon and improvement, may be freed from those causes and sources of con"tagion which, if allowed to remain, "will infallibly breed pestilence, and be fruitful in death, in spite of all the prayers atfd fastings of a pious, but inactive nation."

THE Cincinnati Commercial says of the American Association for tho Advancement of Science, now in session in this city:

The body now includes among its members nearly all the leading scientific men of the country. In looking over the list of the attendants upon the session at Indianapolis, we find the names of nearly all the best known savan* in all the States of the Union. There will undoubtedly be many papers of high value submitted to the notice of the variou- sections of he assembled body.

At the time of our latest mail advices from Europe, the British Association for the Advancement. of Science was In session at Edinburgh. The meeting of such bodies in different countries of tlie world is a satisfactory and imposing spectacle.

BEN BUTLER is the most abused man in America, yet his most violent enemies can but admit tho truth of this sentiment from him:

It is not laws we want there are plenty of laws, good enough, too. Administrative abilitv to enforce law is the great want of the age—in this country especially. Everybody talks of law—law. If they would only insist on the enforcement of law, the Government would stand on a firmer basis, and 'questions' would settle themselves."

THK poor fellows who writo sermons for the English, Episcopal rectors and curates get for their work three shillings and sixpence a sermon and the noodles who deliver them receive usually not less than a thousand pounds a year. We are very moderate when wp sa^ that tlio' manflc^bl^ tYie npostleShave fallen, in many cases, upon very unworthy shoulders.

MAYOR A. OAKEY HAJ,I,,ol'New York, saved a life at South Bay, Long Island last Sunday, by leaping into tho wator and rescuing a child us it was sinking tho third time. He had better resign the mayoralty, in which he is a failure, and go into tho Graco Darling and Ida Lewis business, in which ho is a success.

COMMANDER JOHN KODCJERS has been thrashing tho Coreans again. Inasmuch as his first attack upon .them was for an insult offered four or five years ago, and tho last seems to bo entirely unneccessary, it is not strange that Chinamen have a thorough horroi of Christianity.

THE Indianapolis Journal has conie out in a handsome new dress, and has dispensed with all black display type in its columns. It is tho be.*t paper ever published in this State, and in editorial ability is equalled by but few journals intheland^^^^^^

ONE of the best fencers at tho Heidelberg University, last year, was an American from Kansas. One of tho best fencers wo ever had ii America was Abraham Lincoln—in fact, ho was a rail good

MRS. ROBERT DAI.KOWKN, one of the most intellectual and highly esteemed ladies of tho State, died at her home in New Harmony last Saturday.

THE actual reduction of the principal of the public debt for the fiscal yoar ending June .10 is $137,134,575.

WHAT IS POLITENESS?—I believe it is best to be known by description, definition not beina able to compriso it. I would, however venture to call it benevolence in trifles, or the preference of others to ourselves, in little daily, hourly occurrences in the commerce of life. A better place, a more commodious seat, priority in being helped at table what isitbutsacrificingourselves in such trifles to the convenience and pleasures of others? And this constitutes true politeness. It is a perpetual attention (oy habit it grows easy and natural to us) to tho little wants of those we aro with, by which we either prevent or remove them. Bowing, ceremonies, formal compliment, stiff civilities, will never be politeness that must be easy, natural, unstudied, manly, noble. And what will givo this but a mind benevolent, and perpetually attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles towards all you converse and live with?

A '•ICAMO paper comes out in favor of short engagements. This is the experience of its editor,poor fellow "The engaged man is the most pitiable creature on the face of tho terrestrial sphere. A bachelor and a married man have each a pronounced existence, a determined position but this hybrid, this connecting link, is an anomalous what-is-it, fit only for museum and Darwin's analysis. Either ho is in love, or be isn't. In the one cai*e he is idiotic in the other he is crazy. He is unfit for business and debarred from sport—a thing to laugh at and commisserate. Isolated from his own sex, not daring to approach the other, he awaits the altar and opens not his mouth." After that, who'll get engaged.

The City and Vicinity.

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We have for sale one good second-ham I Plow Paper Cotter, which will be sold cheap for cash. Reason for selling: our increased* business demands a Aister and larger machine. -»o. J. SMITH A CO.

Ts iSShle^rlkcn.-Vateh the dabon your direction- label. It Indicates th*time when your subscription expires, at which time the paper will, invariably, b*v discontinued without further notlfloation.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Livery Stable Company—Fouts, Hunter ft Thompson.

Change—C. P. Froeb. Wanted—Situation, Partner. Bridgeton Fair. For Rent—Farm, Business property. Ague Cure—Dr. Arnaud.

MONEY market easy.

THE apple crop will be good.

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COUNTY FAIR season approacheth.

THE Glass Works "blow in" to-day.

THE gunsmith trade improves as the hunting season comes on.

WABASH VALLEY FAIR at Paris, Illinois, Sept 12th to 15th.

ANOTHER railroad organization is being perfected in this city.*

SHE advertisement of Dr. Arnaud'!* Wabash Bitters.

TAKE your big calves and mammoth squashes to the county fair.

JUDGE PATTERSON'S Circuit Couri convenes at Newport next Monday.

THE yard of the Uerinan church on Fourth street is used as a garden.

WHAT with the heat and the fruit, this season is quite choleramorbical.

A large quantity of new printing material received this week by O. J. Smith A Co. •%**.

THE rain of Wednesday did not oxtend more than four miles south and west of the city.

THE North and South Hail road is graded from Carbon to within two miles of Brazil. ,* ,T

THKIIK aro twenty-six initios now worked along tho T. 11. fe I. It. It. and branches, tho daily product of which about threo thousand tons.

A NEW coal mine is being opened on the north branch of tho T. Ii. A' I. R. R., near McClcllaud's, by a gentleman named Veach.

A LARGE Sunday school picnic wax held in Malcolm's grovo, Sugar Crock township, on Tuesday. Tt is estimated that over two thousand peoplo were present.

THE Rockville Patriot says tho prospects of the Fair at Hloomingdalo nexi week aro very flattering,so many applications for stalls having alroady been made,'that the Diroctors havo ordered an additional number built. All entries of articles and stock for exhibition arfree,

A ROW of thrifty young trees luic been plapted around tho new Third street school building which, with their neatly white-washed boxes, make thgrounds look quite attractive. It is to bo hoped that tho Young Americas wh» will go to school tliero can bo restrained from tearing them up.

THE regular annual meeting of tinTeachers' Institute for Vigo county, will bo held in tho High School room of this city, beginning Monday, August. 28th, and continuing five days. The exercises will bo conducted by Prof. Wiley, assisted by other competent and experienced educators, and will consist of drills in Orthography, Arithmetic, Reading, Writing, English (irammai. Geography, History U. 8., Physiology and Theory and Practice. l/octurex will also bo delivered pertaining to th" work in hand.

THE following divorco caseg lire KM for trial at the next term of tho Common Picas Court, beginning on,,Monday

Nicholas Hhaw v*. Hnrnh K. Hhaw. Wm. J. Brown vs. Mm rah J. Brown. Hatfleld Hnifttcad vs. Mercy IlalJttead. Matilda Ki-ene v* Jume* L. Keene. John II. Luebnugh v*. Catherine 8. Lm haugh.

Charles W. Matthla« vs.Harah Matthlo*. Hannah Collins v*. Wm. CollinH. Francis J. Com lis v*. Al»*x. COUIIM. Walter O. Crook vn. Kllwilx'th Crook' Henry Hclmr-amp vs. Henrietta Helmcamp.

Ham. M. Brew«*r vs. Ophelia C. Brewer. Wm.Haundenwm v*. JohannaHauiuIerMJii. Ham. Vantyle v*. Margaret Vantyle. Martha Dun lap vs. .John Dunlap. ItachH Williams vs. John J. W lliiamx. Charle* Ollkson v*. I«cy Jllk*on. John Henry vs. Johanna H«*iiry. Krnma Karl* v*. Wm. Karl*. David Ickeft vw. Mahala Icke*. l^evi Israel vs. Pauline Israel. Waller H. Cooper v*. I,ueinlii C'rOfx-r. Harriet Huestl* vs. hdward Huentln. Hartiura ''real v*. Curtl* Cr«-ai. Anna A Miller v*. Irwin Mtlh'r Abner B. Ma*e v*. ictavia Measp. William 11 Kuicrwm w*. Hcwter A. H. Ku»er»on.

Ch«rl« I* Bobbin* v«. Ha rah J. Bobbin*. A J. Ablott v*. Marietta Ahbott. Albert Horn v». Harriet Horn. Mary

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Will lain- v«. Oliver William*.

Julius Pigilor vs. Amelia Figdor. Harah K. Khattuck v*. Cha*. K.Shattuck. Kllzalwth Iiolnn v*. James I)olari. Nancy Hall vs. .Muuglnson Hall. Kinran Renvl* v. in. H. Itiiivls. Amanda J. Coyb« v*. William t'oyle. Kim a «t. John v». I». B. Ht, John. l.uHndu Hpanii ». J. B.Hpann.