Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 30, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 January 1872 — Page 4

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TOO* BALK-VALUABLE FARMS. -1 i- Jr "WillMe]TatpiiTat^nlpMiwmoff north sktotKOQt beast quarter, wcMon 26, townnhlp

IX,.range 9. went. Al«o the «WU»wst quarter of Action 25, 13, 9. Tliw are valuable tracts of a* gixxl fanning lands ns hert Is W Otter Creek prairie. Upon one of the tract* there one hundred and twenty acre* now

In wbeai, which I will sell wjth the land, •a The tracts are all In good repair— under ood fenc»\ and ft ml-rate land. Inquire of A.M.

OHTR\NI»KR. orat thlH9ffl«r-

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'T OR HALK—BEK*—A LIMITED NUMher of colonic*. T. Uulxnan, near the hospital, Tern-Haute.

!T?OR BALK —TO UNDERTAKERS— A aiir1

ilean,e

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salwfLDY 4 POSHST"

VoR JJALE.—AT A BaROAIN 28ACRES

miles 8outli-ea*t of Teire-

'-Haute The mo»»t commanding building kite In Vigo county. The land l» pecullarIhr adapts 1 to the cultivation of vegetables frnlta, being dry, Bandy and productive.

oui tli IK f-w.

iTewnn one-Kl*Ih cash, balance In Ave annual payment*. 'For further particulars apply to Editor of JMAIL. I8-tf.

Ij'OR HALE-OLD PAPER8 FOR WRAPplng paper,for Hale at 50 cent* a hundred "•"J/1 ping paper,for na at me A office.

Wanted.

WANTED—ALL

PERSONS DKSIROUH

ot hceomiitg thorough buMn»"S men, r-uraph operators. penni«*n. or to learn the (i'Tinnn libiiicuHKe, to cull at the ConinierciHi .iCollef.

corner (itii nnd Main Htreets.

nlon-t ho:h diiy and evening. Uarvln or 11' Inly. 'AN PKI) A HOME FOR A ulrl twelve yenr* of a^e, ot good P'ir" entage Any one wlshlnii to *»P*.'i•'!Ji of ttinf age will pleiwe address OU vRDI AN, Box 1171, I'eiri-Haule.

ANTED—A FEW HOARDERS.—NICE room., well

fun.l^H'iATI 0CK)

Poplar, Iwtween 0th and 7th streets,

WHATUKDA

ANTEI-ALL

the homes

TO KNOW THAT THE

YEVKNINOMAU. has a largei

olrculatlon I IHIII any newspaper published outside of Indianapolis, In tills Htate. Also UUimur Ul that It is carefully and thoroughly read in

of Its put rons, and that It Is the

very bent advertising medium in Western Indiana

Lost.

I OHT-OR BTRAYED—A STALLION I Colt, three years «ld—dnrk bny. gre« co el badly on both hind legs. C. K. Gilford, corner 8th and Elm Htreets.

OHT-LARGE HUMS OF MONEY ARE lost every week by persons who should I IONI every ween uy (jpimmio n« advert 1M- In Ills column of the MA IT,.

Found.

JOUND—NEAR MrKEEN 4.MIN8AALL Hunk, 72 Main street, that candies, nut*, oranges, lemons and apple*, are constantly ^kept on h'ind, and sell them cheap. Also th«' finest el gars and tobaccos In the city, at

R, I .Black's. HO-8m.

•^i.iOUND—THAT THE CHEAPEST AND b«»t advertising in the city can be obtained by investing In the wanted, For

Dale, For Rent, Lost and Found column of alfheMAit. #5

I )EN«ION«.-Dr. SALTER (LATE MEDII cal Referee of th- Pension Bureau), prosecutes claims for Invalid and widows* penKJOHH—original or Increase, rejected or BUSpended. Office, 610 Loulslana-ave., Wash•liiKton, I 20-tf.

Legal.

STATE

OF INDIANS A, VIGO COUNTY.In the Vigo Common Pleas Court. Robsi ert I. Ela vs. Sarah Jane Ela, In Divorce.

Be It known that on the 17th day of January, 1872, said Plaintiff filed an Affidavit In due form, showing that said Sarah Jane "Ela. Is a non-resident of the State of Indl-

"sald non-resident defendant Is hereby notified of the pendency of said aotlon against her and that the same will stand tor trial at

)ie April Teem of said Court In the year 1HTJ

Attest: MARTIN HOLLINQER, Clerk. MCI.KAN A PIKKCK, pp. i»-3t.

rrilE OLD ESTABLISHED

IRON WORKS,

fit

TKRRK-HAUTE, IND.

i#. -i Owing to Its Increase of business in the Mxt year, and tlatterlng prospects for yet •roater In the future, have been compelled

!(o

enlarge upon Its already capacious raclllMea fordoing buslnem enabling It, thereby, TSto do

f" "0-

"!1*» fHKAMlR A*l» WITH -J VBKATKK DEHPAyi'H,

in addlton also It hna eatabllshed Inoonae©tlon with It. a Jlr»t-cla«

Boiler and Sheet Iron Works,

%of sufficient capacity to accommodate all who are nleawd to give tlulr patronage. 5|Hone hut tli*t-class workmen in either de-^nu-tment. I r»»*pectftilly invite the poWic •||to oall and examine my

i«aaanutlar« af Rtalltasnr A bit Ka«lafs,N«w4r Flaarlait XiHa. awl ('Ml Shaft Marhiarrr,

supply of which I keep constantly on hand, of the most approved Pattern*.

fara Nkellera. faa« Mill*. Mil*Kir Machine*, kalh Ha ad 4k Paw* er. Ball's lehral«xlH»eell»at-

IL (krs^r. slwi

4k Wr«*Mrht lr« a Hera per*.

rjw farm use. Ala* a great variety of School Scats and Deaks, which for beauty and durability cannot be excelled.

Together with castings of all dcflcrlptlom for general use tn this country, ail of which I warrant to be an good as the beat, both ID material and workmanship, and as cheap a» theoheapeat, quality taken Into con»liera tloa. (ee-tn J* A. PARKER

ational house,

COK. MAIN AMD MZTH STS..

Tcrre-Hautc, Indiana.

5^r JACOB BUTMA90W, Pr*r*t

NVITA«ON8-j^»^

O. J. Smltli

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THE ISMAIL.

O.J.SMITH,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

Office, 142 Main Street.

TERRE-HAUTE, JAN. 20, 1872.

SKCONP EDITION.

O E IT I O S

Of this Pajierare publlshee. The FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, has a large circulation among farmers and others living outside of the city. The 8ECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into the hands of nearly every reading persoii In the city. Every Week's Issue is, In fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS.

In which all Advertisements appear for ONE CHARGE.

W'i WYOMING. The only district in the nation in which Woman Suffrage has been practically tested is Wyoming. Of course this is not a fair experiment because the population ofthat territory is sparse, the people uneducated and rude as in all frontier and mining districts, and the proportion of women to men very small. However, the friends of the enfranchisement of women have reason to be proud of the results already attained, notwithstanding these adverse circumstances. Gov. Campbell,^ an important witness, says that the experiment is a success, and that the influence of woman has not failed of refining effect in politics less than io the social relations of 'ife.

On the other hand, Rev. H. C. Walfz, a Methodist minister stationed in Wyoming, writes to the Western Christian Advocate that the movement is amoral failure. He says that the Legislature was petitioned by the ladies of Laramie not to repeal the Woman Suffrage law, and that the Governor was petitioned by the ladies of Cheyenne not to veto the repeal. lie admits that the law has done good in Laramie, that juries of women have rid that city of I institutes and lessened the number of whisky shops. In Cheyenne, he says, no si.cli good rtsult has been accomplished. Is this remarkable? Cheyenne is fatuous, or rat her infamous, as the hardest town on tMe Pacific Railroad. It is supposed to have more more gamblers, prostitutes, and common scoundrels than any place of its size In America. Is it fair to condemn Woman Suffrage because the small number of reputable women who live in Cbeyenne are not able to work a moral reform with the ballot The women of Laramie have had some opportunities to work good with the right to vote, and they desire to retain that franchise the women of Cheyenne have had no fair chance to combat at the polls the vast immorality ofthat town, and they are disheartened. Such results are entirely natural, and contain no argument that we can see against Woman Suffrage.

But Mr. Waltz's most serious objection to woman's enfranchisement is that it is likely to introduce discord into the family, and that it tends to destroy th£ hftppine: of the domestic relation. He heard a Republican last fall tell his wife, who wished to vote the Democratic ticket, that if she did so lhe act would end their married lile! Suppos«*that he had overheard the man tell the wife that, if she chose to become a member of the Methodist Church,the act would end their married life. Would Mr. W. think this sufficient reason why church membership should be denied to women? And yet men have been thus severe and intolerant with their wives, and may be so again. If women are the property, physically, mentally and morally, of their husbands, with no right to think or aspire or feel for themselves, then they should never have the right to vote, and neither should they have the right of church membership, nor the right to bold an opinion on any subject, because all these things have introduced discord into families and may do so again.

"TUB rich rici.er, anrt the poor poor••er." This is the burden of the song of an opponent of the Southwestern Railroad subscription. How can this be? It cannot make the very poor poorer, because they will have no increased taxation to pay, #nd the growth and prosperity of the town cannot hurt them. It the road Increases the value of property at all it will add to the possessions of the small tax payers, in proportion to the amount of tax paid, just as it will benefit the large property holders. The honest fact is that the road will bring more substantial benefits to the poor than to the rich. The latter will be paid by rise in the value of property, and the former will be benefitted in a hundred ways, by increased trade, by more abundant opportunlties \r employment. Ac.

LAST week the leading opponent of the Southwestern ilro*d subscription was alraid that the tax would be ordered by the votes of non-UX-payers, idlers, loafers and pimpa." Now he fear* that it will be carried by the rich fbr the purpose of grinding' the poor. Consistency is a jewel that does not gleam with bright eflfalgenc* hi the articles of "Tox-psyer."

BRIOBAM Yocso has been DEPRESS-

«d very much by Pear of the ruin of hia church and the loss of bis helpmeets." It Is thought, however, that be will rally and m-wive.

TBK indignity thrust upon Catacaxy 1 the bear oa bear,

THE GREAT Mia UNDER* TA WD-

IfiG.

The Csarof All the Rusaias is unhappy. Since Ms accenslon to' the throne he has smiled regularly, methodically and mathematically upon America, Now he threatens to frown upon us. What is the cause of this impending calamity ?s

Advices from St. Petersburg say that the Emperor and all the nobles surrounding him consider that Alexis has been slighted by President Grant inasmuch as the latter did not return the call of the Grand Duke. This added to the fact that Catacazy was treated coolly, inclines the Czar to suspend diplomatic relations with the United States and to order Alexis to leave our inhospitable shores.

THE dogma of Papal Infallibility met with hardly a breath of opposition from Roman Catholic ecclesiastics on this side of the Atlantic, while the voice of indignant protest has been heard crying aloud in the old-world strongholds ofthat religion. In America we seldom hear one encouraging utterance tor the International Society, although the friends ot liberty in Europe look upon it us the hope of free government, and wait with clasped hands and bated breath ior its triumph. Not more than twenty newspapers in this country dared to espouse the cause of free France when she was battling for life a year ago. So, we may conclude that America has her fair portion of bigotry and love of despotism, notwithstanding that sublimity of egotism which makes our people believe that they are the hope of the world. I

PETITIONS are in circulation in Pennsylvania praying the Legislature, in view'of the forthcoming Constitutional Convention, to permit women to become delegates, and when the Legislature is ready to hear them, a committee of women will vi9it Harrisburg to support the petition by personal arguments and appeals. The Pittsburg Commercial thinks that if there are reasons why the petition should not be granted, it is not difficult to imagine some in its favor. "The presence ot "half a dozen women in the Convention "would, without doubt, exert a good "influence and there are women in "the State who would ably perform the "duty of members of the Convention. "If the county sees tit to elect a woman "to represent it, why not?"

MR. SPMNER'S argument in favor of the one term principle, that the President is likely to use the patronage of his office corruptly to secure bis own rc-election if not prevented by a constitutional provision, applies with even greater force to the case of Senators who have, almost without exception, used public patronage to seenre their own return to office. To be consistent it will be necessary for Mr. Sumner to include, in his one term amendment, members of congress, governors of Sates and all other officials who have patronage under their control

THE great Japanese Embassy arrived in San Francisco on the 16th. All members ot the partv, with the exception of the Prime Minister, were attired in outlandish English ready-made garments, of all styles since the flood, which they had procured in order to make themselves presentable upon their first appearance in Yankee land. One of the Princesses Is destined for Vassar

,'jO$V

Two continents tremble ana eighty millions of interested people quake because of the anger ot the Czar. President Grant will learn yet that he must mind his etiquette, and that he must not snub Catacazy

Seriously, was there ever a more farcical performance than this? Where now is that friendship, so vast and t-o guileless, that has bound Russia to America Can it be true that the affection between Russia, the most absolute despotism in Christendom and America, the most liberal government on earth, is neither beautiful nor touching, and can be attributed to the simple fact that the relative geographical position of each is such that the interests of one cannot clash with the other? They are antipodes in all respects. Russia is barbarous, almost uncivilized and governed by an absolute monarch America posesses fair enlightenment and is governed by the people. That these nations have not quarreled before is owing to the fact that they have had little opportunity for disagreement. Now we have bad a little "unpleasantness" and we trust that it will prove to our people that a despotism like Russia can never be the honest fri|nd of a republican government. &

College.

A pRoxntxiiT Chicago architect computes that at least three miles of fronts will be rebuilt in the burnt district of the South Side the coming season for commercial purposes, qui that the new buildings will compare favorably with the old. While this estimate shows a marvellous amount of n^rgy and enterprise it is probably not too liberal.

A FIXARCIAL revolution has commenced in France, similar to that which the United States passed tbrongb after the commencement of the war. Metallic money is at a premium there, and small change has disappeared. This is the necessary result of the great expen ditures of a ptet war!

THr&fkwt of the Kaitroad Commissioners of Illinois, jost laid before the Legislature, shows that that State has more nilCi of railway than any other In the Union. On the 1st of December last there were 5,190 miles in operation and 1,108 lo process of oomtruotkm.

the New Torlc Independent of last week Colonel T. W. Hlgginson has an article on "Competitive Examinations," in which he expresses doubt of their practical worth as a substitute for the system of sppointment on personal recommendation In the civil service. His opinion rests on the experience the method in selecting teachers for schools and officers for the colored troops in the army during the rebellion. He pronounces the officers selected by such examinations for the army on an average inferior to those who were appointed by commanding officers, and the reason was that the qualifications ascertained by the examinations were scholastic and technical, leaving out ot account the natural traits of character, which are of first importance in the military service. Nor is he by any means certain that examining boards are sure to be free from the corrupting influences which every body desires shoul.l be avoided in the making of appointments. He quotes Froude's assertion that in China, where the competitive examination system has been in vogue a thousand years, they have tho weakest and most corrupt government the world has ever seen, and the confession ot Matthew Arnold, who says: "I have borne part in the examinations for the English "civilservice, and I can truly say that the candidates to whom I gave the highest marks were, almost without "exception, the candidates I would not have appointed. They were crammed men, not proved men." Mr. Higvinson thinks the desirable thing is a third inethed no one has yet pointed out, which shall avoid the unfairness of oral examinations and.the mere scholasticism of the written method. He thinks if we wo.uld escape disappointment we will do well to entertain moderate expectations respecting the proposed civil service reform, looking upon it as an experiment rather than a panacea.

TAX-PAYER" wants the people to vote down the proposition to subscribe $150,000 to aid the Southwestern Railroad, and then make the rich men, by private subscription, build the road. What can be more just than that the property of all the township, which will be benefitted alike by the road, be taxed to build the line Is there any fairness in making fifty or one hundred men build a road for the benefit of two thousand If the subscriptions is raised by tax, the small property owners will have very little to pay and all will be taxed in proportion to their actual interests. "Tax-payer" says his proportion of the taxation will be about five hundred dollars, and that he would prefer to give this as a personal subscription. But if the rich are to build the road and ask nothing faom the small property holders, "Tax payer" will have to put up about one thousand dollars if he furnishes his pro rata. Will he do this

MH, FREELINOHUYSEN expressed in the Senate on Wednesday perfect confidence that the President, when assailed, will be

unmoved as the rock of

Gibraltar is by the waves that rise

and fall at its base." This figure of speech is not new, but it is very, beautiful and touching. It can be used in reference to some worshipful political magnate about once in six weeks without any danger of wearing it out.

THE old cry was that emancipation would ruin tho commerce of the South, and yet the heaviest two crops of cotton ever grown, with one single exception, (the crop of 1859,) were raised in 1870 and 1871 by free blacks whose children were ia school getting ready to go to Congress.

ENGLAND seems able to get up firstclass riots as well as America. During the parliamentary elections, this week, Kerry was in a state of intense excitement, and riotous excesses were prevalent in Knightsbridge, where a mob destroyed a school house.

THE Illinois Legislature has passed a liquOr law similar to the Ohio enactment that the retailer shall be held responsible tor damage done to individuals or property consequence of drunkene«s caused by intoxicating drinks sold by him.

DR. WAGWER, of Indianapolis, Is in favor of recognizing God in the Constitution for the same reason that some physicians prescribe catnip tea for infants—it don't hurt the babies, and it pleases the old women.

THERE are twenty-five applicants for a vacant place In the Postofflce Department. And there are more than twen-ty-five chances somewhere for men to make a living by work not dependent 00 official tavor.

A BILL passed the Lower House of Congress on Wednesday granting a pension to the widow of a soldier after She had contracted a second marriage and entered upon a second widowhood.

THE Typographical Union is one of the very few of the Labor Unions that has not adopted the Very narrow and unjust policy of limiting the number of apprentices.

THE Governor ot Iowa favors the abolition of the Grand Jury system, regarding it as "a costly and useless relic "of bygone days."

THE

Western Celt, a Catholic paper

in SU Louis*, Is opposod to what :i terms

the Godless and Immoral common "schools."

Cou A F. HAYS, of Gosport, well known In this city, died on Monday.

THE MANIFESTO OF THE THIR-tY-EIQHT. The Express of this morning contains the following:. TO THE MANAGERS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN

RAILROAD OOMPAHY! Whereas solvent individual subscriptions, amounting to near Sl,000,0u0, was raised by the Terre-Haute and Indianapolis Railroad

_. by cngo Railroad Company, be.ore either of said comptui 1-3 asked a subscription ot any public authority to be paid by taxation,and as the individual stock subscribed to the Southwestern Railroad Company only amounts to $20,000, the undersigned tax-pay-ers are not willing to vote to raise by taxation 9150,000 of Harrison township untl said company guarantees that the individual solvent stock subscriptions to said company shall equal the amount proposed to be raised by taxation In the respective townships of this county: C. Rose, .R. A. Tiernan, F. Nippert,. P. E. Tuttle, Geo. E. Brokaw, R. W. Rippetoe, C. Brokaw, Jesse Robertson, W. P. Armstrong, Isaac Deeter, H.Ross, A. B. BartoD,

It is perfectly understood in these days that tho original capital stock of new railroads is a dead investment. The original stock ol the E. fc C. Railroad is not worth more than twenty cents on the dollar. The stock of the E.,T. H. «fe C. Railway is worthless, and this is the case with nine cut ol ten railroads that haye made the West prosperous. I.

The Southwestern Railroad is planned for the benefit of the whole counnuuity. What folly and injustice for reasonable men to ask that friends of the corporation shall subscribe $150,000 and then suffer taxation equally with the opponents of the enterprise for another 1150,000!

What sense or justice would there be in requiring W. B. Tuell, Alex. McGregor, Preston Hussey, Robert S. Cox, J. H. O'Boyle, John S. Beach, F. C. ^rawlord, John P. Baird, C. Y. Patterson, and other lriends of the road, to subscribe $150,000 in addition to paying taxes along with the signers of the above article, who are all interested, in proportion to the value of the property they possess, in the advancement of the city

This is a shallow dodge sprung on the eve of election. It is known that the private subscription suggested cannot be secured. Not one signer of the above article proposes, or can probably be induced, to subscribe one dollar for the road.

The property of Harrison township is all interested in the construction ol this line, and it should all be made to pay for the local subscription.

The design of the above manifesto is to gain time and finally defeat the Southwestern Railroad. If that line is ever made, Harrison township will have to subscribe the stock asked.

This is not a time for people to stand back and ask citizens, who have already subscribed as liberally as they oan afford, to lavish private means on this enterprise before the property ot the public is solicited to subscribe a dime.

AND now we have the very latest. The General McClellan who so dextrously changes base In command ol. the forces opposed to the railroad subscription, and who will find his Chickahominy on Monday, wants to get a road to Robiuson by going over the track of the T. H. A I. Railroad to the State line, thenee over the Vandalia to Marshall, thence over the Chicago, Danville A Vincennes to York or Hutsonville, and thence by an inexpensive track to Robinson. The opposition confesses weakness when they make such a foolish proposition. Why didn't •4Tax-Payer" advise us two years ago to assist in building the Indianapolis A Vincennes Railroad, with the assurance that the trade of Greene county would come to us by way of Vincennes? Don't he know that the C. P. A V. Railroad is being constructed by men who desire to injure TerreHaute, and that running arrangements can never be made with them? Don't he know that Harrison township cannot subscribe stock for a railroad tc be built in Illinois, no part of which touches this township?

DON'T be deceived by reports prejudicial to the Southwestern Railroad which may be circulated on Monday. The managers of that corporation have courted the closest scrutiny, and have answered in a mass meeting and in the public press all questions that have been asked and all objections that have been offered. Their showing has been so full and fair that the very large public meeting of last Saturday night, called by opponents of the railroad, passed by almost an unanimous vote a resolution recommending the subscription. It is not likely that any important new objections to the subscription will come to light on Monday, too late to be answered. Hence we advise the friends of the road to beware of groundless reports which inay be circulated

THE general railroad law of Illinois having passed the House and Senate has been returned to the House for concurrence in some unimportant Senate amendments. There is no donbt that its final

passage

VOTERS

will be announced in a few

days. Under this law the Southwestern Railroad desires to organise in Illinois, although there is nothing to preveat Its immediate organization, under present laws, in that State.

WILL the enemies of the Southwestern Railroad publish the names of business men who are opposed to that

enterprise?

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W. K. Edwards, «. Lieonard West. T. P. Murray, ,Wm. Plew, W. B. Warren, I S. R. Freeman, S. A. Herrick, J. G. Grain, Fred A. Ross, F. J. Rupp, Charles Harnung, John Deal, Owen Taller, W. H. Scudder, j? D. Deming. L.M.Cook, John H, Sykes, B. W. Koopman, P.M.Donnelly, H. 8. Deuiing, G. VanUlzen, J. C. Hlcklin. a M. B. Hudson, C. L. Bramaii, s-,-. W. A. McClure, Corey Barbour.

HAKRIBON TOWNSHIPL

Don't forget the main point In the railroad question. The incorporators of the Southwestern Railroad Company guarantee that the public subscription of $150,000, to decide which the voto will be taken, on Monday shall never be placed on theta xdu plicate,and that tha fe road shall never costthe public of Harrison township one dollar if the incorpora-. tors are not able to guarantee its construction to a point in a Southw esterly. direction as far from this city as Robinson, Illinois. Do you think that you will ever have a tairer offer

THOSE who fear a disposition on thtv part of the nicorporators of tha South- in western Railroad to monopolize all the stock of that concern are informed that the subscription books of that corporation can he found at the National Stato Bank, and that there is now and will continue to be for all time an opportunity for gentleman to subscribe as lib-1 erally as they please. Will any of thev thirty-eight march up and gobble :t controlling interest

THE defeat of the railroad subscription on Monday would dostioy all hop of ever building a Southwestern Railroad from this city. If our own voters* show that they do not want the road it Is not likely that home or foreign capi-: talists M-ill ever trouble themselves towork for the interests of such unappreciative j^eogle^^^^^^^

IF the Southwestern Railroad subscription is defeatod on Monday, tho. people of Southern Clark and of Crawford county, Illinois, will be estranged from us in a business sense as com-, pletely one year hence as are the people of Greene county, Indiana, now.

THIRTY-THREE unoccupied businessrooms in Terre Haute now. Is this it, time to throw cold water on a railroad enterprise which is not only destined to« increase largely our business, but is. absolutely necessary In order to prevent, the loss of large and valuable trade?

REMEMBER th the directors ot tho* Southwestern Railroad Company guar-:© antee that the machine shops of that line shall be located in this city.

The City and Vicinity.

TAX-PAYERS are quiet.

REPUBLICAN county conventioiySat-^ urday, February 10th.

THE Clark House will be closed on the first of February.

ABOUT thirty divorces were granted? in the Vigo Circuit Court in 1871.

MANY carpenters, masons, plasterers, and lawyers are now idle.

BRICKS are now selling in this market at eight dollars per thousand^

STATION .HOUSE boarders cost the city from twelve to twenty dollars a month.

THE monthly examinations ot the public schools will take place nexu week.

A STUDENTS' boardiug fioust) in thee vicinity of the Normal School is talk--ed of.

THERE are 81 coal mines operating iu» the vicinity of Brazil, and sevoral new ones being openod.'

BUSINESS in the Mayor's offlcQ has dc creased at least fifty per cent during tho past month. &

WM. BARRACK A SON lurnish all the* coa ad A id S ten cents a bushel.

FOUR divorce and one libel suit havo already been docketed for the Marclu term of the Circuit Court.

44HAPPY

ALLEY" is the name of a

narrow street between First ancl Water streets, south of Main.

THERE are so many dogs In towin that it would be well to establish inorotanneries to utilise their bark.

THE Terre-IIaute Vinegar Works oit Walnut street have Just been repaired,, and put in operation by Mr. Claridge.-

ACOOUNTS to the amount of |580,2f were allowed at the last meeting of thoCity Council, Tuesday night.

EIGHTY-SEVKN dwelling house* haw been built in Casey Illinois, since tho completion of the Vandalla Railroad.

EIGHTEEN divorce cases and fifty-six civil actions were tried in the December term of the Common Pleas Court, s-

THE sales of Helnig Bros', bakery and confectionery amouutcd to ono hundred thousand dollars during ttm year 1871.

WILLIAM BLAIZE has removed to hi* residence on South Seventh street. 1. B. Hedden will occupy the Early hou» on Ohio street.

THE buyer of oroperty sold for delinquent taxes is allowed fifty per cent... profit on bis investment at the time of redemption,

ONE hundred and eight barrels ot? spirituous liquors were rectified by Hulman's distillery during the month*. of December

THHcitiacns ofPrairieton township want the Terro-llaute A Southwestern* Railroad to ran within one quarter of a mile of the village of Pralrieton. ii 1 —1

THE several brick yards of this city, still have on hand an aggregate of about three millions of bricks annutc^ tared last season.