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Additional City News.

ONE who bus ooserved the same,says the dash nf rain yesterday evening was the heaviest that has fallen hero since August last.

FOB want of space wo find that this week, we are compelled to omit the insertion of a number of articles and items prepared for this Issue.

THE progress of M«izi»rt Hall, an old frame building, In courso of removal from iin atrtfet to the suburbs, has been daily chronicled by the city pren this week.

THE Terre-Haute Commercial College, under the management of Garvin A Heinly, Is becoming one of tho big institutions of the city. One hundred and seventeen students are now In attendance. 4

Tim city, at present, is a bad place for ducks and other gentlemen of low degree. Olrnffs could manage to make their way through our streets, but unfortunate Indeed Is that individual Who has not longness ot limbs.

"CARLETON,"the distinguished newspaper correspondent, tourist and lecturer appears at tho Opera House Monday eve, and wtll deliver his grand lecturo on the Northwest. Carleton appears undortho management ol tho Op«ra House directors.

ON*of the most enjoyable church socials of the winter wa* tbat of the ladles oftho Congregational Church with Mrs. Owen Tuller, on last evening. Tho qupper served was elegant and sumptuous, characteristic of the hospitable host and hostess.

THANK You.—Again we tbanlc our brethren of the city and press of tho surrounding towns for the many kind notices of The Mall under its new management. The most of these are so flattering and personal that our known modesty prevents a transfer to these columns in accordance with the usual (tlmo honored custom.

NRW GRAND JURY.—Tho lollowing persons were selected on Wednesday as members of the new Grand Jury for be April term

Burrill Jones, S tmuel Cottrell, Unas Mover, Lemuel Stuthard, San ford Hayworth, George Vermillion, George lioake, T. A. Clearwater, Wui. Napper, Vincent Yeager, Jacob Ryman, Jesse Tryon.

TUB Criminal Court has been In session from time to time this week. A number of liquor sellers have been lined fbr violation of the license law.

The case against the Rev. K. F. Howe fbr flailing to return marriage licenses, was called and the defendant plead not guilty. The case la now In progress.

Dr. Coiling* was refused a change of venue as asked, and his trial set down fbr the first Monday In April. Tho defendant, who has been In Jail (br some time, succeeded In giving ball, and is now at liberty.

THH weather this week, like the Veruionter's flock of sheep, has been made up ot all wethers. True to the Instincts of his nature, turbulent March has so far treated us to an Impartial admixture of all kinds of weather. The aun breaks out upon us occasionally with such power that the "csld ebllljr winds" of winter seem to have gone forever. Our overcoats are scarcely laid aside before the passing season "oasts one lingering look behind/* sua makes us cringe beneath its powerful influence. Therv is consolation, however, In knowing that this thing can't be kept up ail summer.

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Vol. 2.—No. 37,

THE MAIL.

Office, 142 Main Street.

TAX paying time is drawing in upbn

THE "great expectations" of the SEAson—a large maple sugar crop.

YESTERDAY the weather was rather muggy—more like March than otherwise.

MAPLE swoetues«j, in a liquid form is coming in daily, retailing at two dollar* a gallon.

THE Msennerchor cleared about four hundred dollars on their recent Mas-

MUERADETHE Christian Church is out of debt, having Just made the last payment on thr church property. 1'

A XEW city ad'Htin ii been laid off by John 8. Beach, Esq., near the intersection of 8th and Tippecanoe streets. "SHANNON S subdivision" is the title of anew lay out of lots by P. Shannon, K#].- in the northeast suburbs ot the -Wis

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VARIETY is the spice of hash in Terre Haute, the five hotels in that city having all chaaged hands within a year.— [Tttusvlllo Courier.

Town-Talk.

TOWN TALK is troubled about

THOSE BOYS.

Some of them were drunk at the Normal School building a few days since. The great difficulty with boys at this age, and at Just the spot on the road to ruin, where they are, is tbat they think that all their best friends are fools, and their worst enemies are wise men. At least they act as though this was their opinion, when the fact is, as T. T. judges from bis own experience, that they do not think much about it one way or another. They are in for a good time, and do not think about the health andjcharacter they are ruining, the future days they are Storing with regret, of the father —"the old man"— whose heart aches for them, nor of the mother—"the old woman"—who in secret weeps and prays and is almost heart-broken, while before the son, for his sake,shetries to be cheerful,and generally succeeds. They do not think about all these things many of them they do not know about. And what troubles T. T. is that they probably will not think about them till it is too late. One or two of those boys may escape utter ruin, but probably most of them will only curse their folly when it is too late. Boys, don't be fools any longer. This thing has gone tar enough. Face about. You will certainly need by and by the respect and confidence which you are now throwing away. It is more manly to give pleasure to the "old man" and "old woman" than to sour him and kill her. Face about boys,face about, and retreat double-quick.

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are in a flutter again. The grand Jury are after them sharp. It is time that those proposing matrimony, or even hoping tor it should take this matter in hand. There is rapidly growing in ministerial and magisterial circles a terror of performing the marriage ceremony, which, if allowed to continue, threatens to put a stop to all hymenial business. If it does not result HS disastrously as this,\et it may, by driving many from the business, get up a corner which shall seriously increase the expense attending matrimony. Already it Is said that tnese expenses deter muny from entering this btate. and the increase in fees resulting from this action of the jury may be the feather to break tho camel's back, and this may stop all activity in the market matrimonial. Yo bachelors and maidens, your interests are seriously endangered. Get tho Grand Jury

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some other track.

It Is hinted by some that this action is instigated by maliceHg ilnst the Clergy. No doubt a good many who do not take much stock in "the cloth" are enjoying it hugely. T. T. on his rounds hears many a Joke and hearty laugh over It as he looks into the saloons. Yet it may be set down as a fixed fact that no malice, either inside or outside the Jury room, has prompted this actUn. It Is admitted on all hands that the whole affair results In some way from that "marrlago In high lite," which the gossips did not And out for eight months. It may be that this brought the records before the Jury and that tho other deficiencies were thus naturally and necessarily brought to light. It is whispered by some that the friends of the venerable officiating clergyman who were on the Grand Jury, refused to allow his case to be brought up unless the entire record was examined, and all violators ot the letter of the law were also Indicted. So a whole heap of black coats, who had, or were supposed to have violated the law, were thrown down to break the fell of this one. T. T. hears this and gives what he hears.

It is very Important, however, that these certificates be returned and recorded. It Is difficult to reckon the harm which, In some cases, might arise from neglect of this duly. The sufferers see, and admit this, but claim, with some Justice, that, as no notice had ever been taken of the matter before, some note of warning should have been given that they ssight repent and do better. Some of them claim that the? are held responsible for errors made at the Clerk's office. T. T. heard one of them affirm that the colored preacher did And at the Clerk's offloe the very certificate which he was indicted for not returning. If friends bad not volunteered to examine the file for him,he would have been fined for mistake made at that office. Some of the other* claim tbat they have returned all their certifeates. The Clerk is careful man. But ss mistakes wiU happen in the beet of families, we appose there is possibility of It even with Clerks, Ministers, and Justices. Where the mistake is the Court will deckle, or try to do so.

Speaking of the Clergy naturally suggests a SINNER'S SkUtON which T. T. chanced to beer. A city pastor and said sinner, who are good friends, as pastors and sinners will he sometimes, were together few days after one of the public Balls, which

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Of course," said P. Has your church a rule that its members shall attend public VmnoT

We do not require that they should do so as a condition of membership," said P.

After a few more pleasantries, Sinner, began a sermon of which this is the substance:

I do not think that a man who "real-* ly enjoys the delights of religion, which, sinner that I am, I believe to be very great, can possibly enjoy going to a gathering where all sorts of people, loose women included, can go by paying for a ticket. I would not take my sister to such a place, and I make it a rule to go to no place for pleasure where I cannot take my sister. Itseems to me that Christianity should, at least, be as strong as this regard for decency, which I do not consider anything remarkable. And were I to see one prominent in religious movements, Sunday schools fce., or one whom I knew to be a church member,on the floor dancing, where there were to my knowledge at least two or three women of undoubted bad character, letting go the men of the same stamp, I should say the man was a hypocrite. I do not object to parlor dancing, but I do insist that Christianity ought at least to keep people from choosing low and Immoral company, from a desire to go into such company. And if personal tastes do lead in that direction, regard for the interest of the Church should keep him away."

T." T. woadered if Sinner was not about right. There is .. &UI A JOKE 4 in reference to a certain well known and somewhat irritable, but very good man, which is too good to be lost. The

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took a notion to have a good" smoke right out in meeting last Sunday. Iusteud of bearing the infliction with Christian fortitude, and meekness, he thought it a good time to utter his protest ag dnst the gross carelessness of the Trustees, and did so by indignantly leaving the church. Being too good a Christian to go home, he went into a neighboring church to enjoy the means ofgrace.and the consciousness of having rebuked sin. He got inside, and found the furnace there "cutting up" worse than at his own church. He stuck it out however, in the midst of a df nse smoke and fumes of gas, and listened to a sermon about fifteen or twenty minutes longer than his own pastor preached. Virtue is its own reward."

Amusement Notes.

Wachtel sings in Cincinnati on the 12th. Tho Lisa Weber Troupe is amusing the Michaganders.

Manning's minstrels will boat Indianapolis next week. The Weber piano is used by Wehll at all the Moulton Concerts.

R. E. J. Miles has engaged Joe Jefferson for four nights of "Rip Van Wlnklle," In Louisville, commencing April 2d. 1 ,\*f

There is a dull prospect ahead for amusements In this city. There is nothing booked at Dowllng Hall, and nothing at the Opera House until tho 8th and 9th of April, when Joe Jefferson and Edwin Booth will be here.

It is rumored that the military drama of the "Drummer Boy," will be presented In this city again shortly. It would be really refreshing to look upon It again. We see by the Indianapolis papers that Col. Fred Kneffler is going to revive it in that city.

Happy Cal Wagner's minstrels came very uesr being made unhappy in Milwaukee, Saturday night. They were in the midst of a storm of jokes dedicatep to the probable war between the United States and Great Britain, when a big Englishman arose from the audience, who drew and cocked a revolver, presenting It at the terrified performers who grew psle through their disguise of burnt cork, st the same time swesring that if they "Made fun of Hold Hingland again, he would blow their blasted 'eds hoff." The minstrels vanished trom the stage In hurry, being made to realise in practical way tbat feeing cold lead Is no Joke. A couple of policemen then appeared upon the scene, and, after desperate struggle, the bold Briton wss swayed to the deepest dungeons of the calaboose, there to muse on the glories of the British lion, and the outrages he endured st the talons of the American esgle.

TBS MOULTON CONCERT.

This week we have bsd, with Mrs. Charles Sfoulton,Mr.Webli, Mr. Brookbouse Bowler, Sig. Fossati and Geo. W. Colby, two very fine musical entertainments snd ws are sorry tossy tbat between the manager's pockets and the pleasure afforded the two audiences, the letter have, decidedly the advantage. Why this has so resulted

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cannot say,unless it has been caused by the high price ef tickets. Certainly no finer music could be expected the coming of the troupe was well advertised and praises of Mrs. Moulton well sang by the press of the city. We cannot deny that with those who moat dearly love music, there is too often a slender purse with which to gratify the taste, and sincerely wish that in visiting the smaller towns and cities managers would open their eyes to this fact.

With Mrs. Mouiton, all who attended, were charmed and delighted. Her reception on the first evening was most enthusiastic, and she won the admiration ot her listeners, not less by her personal beauty and grace than by her musical accomplishments. Her voice is very smooth and very sweet, mezzo soprano in. its register, clear, pure, true and under excellent control. With her execution and style little fault can be found.

Mr. Broekhouse Bowler took a large share of the honors of the two evenings. He has a splendid pure tenor voice, and gives force and dramatic effect to his execution that invariably carries the audience with him.

Mr. Webli, in his masterly control of the piano gave better satisfaction than on his former visit to this city. He cannot be beaten in playinga"lone hand" nor excelled in the elegance \yit(j which he saunters to tho piano,

The other members of the company gave general satisfaction although not worthy of particular mention. I11 the selection of music there was an admirable adaptation to popular tastes, and the Moulton Concerts will long be remembered with pleasure by those who enjoyed them. $

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In Marysvllle, Ohio, a robust German woman supports herself lu luxury driving a dray.

A lady was lately hugged to death in Minnesota—another illustration of the '•power of the press."

A young lady of Louisville beard a sermon on the Unpardonable Sin, by Rev. Mr. Earl, is now a raving maniac.

The women-women claim that no instance ®t defalcation by the women in the treasury department can bo pointed out.

A young lady in Pittston, Pa., chloroformed her grandpa the other day. robbed his house of $700, and eloped with a festive deceiver.

Some young men prefer \lue-eyed maidens, and ot. ers prefer dark-eyed ones. But ot late years the rnon-eyed girls have had the call over all others.

A young woman In masculine disguise complete 4 four years of study and was recently graduated as a bachelor by the unsophisticated dons of a New England College.

The married women of Lawrence, Kansas, take their knitting to the billiard saloons, and wait until their husbands get through. It don't take them long to get through.

Miss Laura C. Redden complains, through the New York Mall, that American women eat too much horseradish and too many pickles at lunch, entailing sharp elbows, thin calves and red noses.

A Pittsburg girl taking advantage of the right conceded the fair sex in leap year, has popped the question and found out how it is herself. She just proposed for the fun of the thing, and knew bim to be too big a fool to appreciate the advantage of married life. What makes her mad Is the fact that he won't see what a grand chance be has thrown away.

There Is a femnine genius In New York who ought to no longer remain unappreciated. She professes to have discovered how to make people live forever. The way you do It Is to pour something into your ears, something into your eyes, and rub another something all over your hesd. All these somethings she Is so very kind to manufacture and sell in bottles, glass bottles, st highly remunerative prices. But theee pourings snd rubbing are not all. Your life must be thst of a6 sngelic abstraction, snd you must on no account marry. To marry is to die, snd pour and rob ss you may, it shsll not svsil you. It Is Interacting to learn thst church is to be erected wherein this sybil's doctrines are to be preached, snd her medicine pioafly adver tised,

BAD MANNERS AT A LOUISVILLE CONCERT.—On Wednesday night while Mrs. Moulton was delighting hersudlence with some of her wonderfal trilling, man in tbe middle of tbe p*rqa«tto began violently to crumple hie programme, snd made most distressing and uncalled for Interruption, in tbe middle of bar Mrs. Moulton stopped suddenly, and, singling bin out, gave bim a moet withering and significant look for about fifteen seconds. The attention of the wb«*M audience was called to tbe dlstnr'--* ot sweet harmony, and he coBf't&ded to stop. We did not leera late, bat we hope be wtll res**

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People and Things.

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"Come, Jennie, get up in the minister's lap, And talk like a lad.v for pa."

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Minister: "Now, t» 11 me, my angel, do you say your prayers At night, and youT pa. aad your ma

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'Dive us our dally bread But pa—humph—he ju»i pun* uflT his Mob, And cusses—and doze te bed

Parepa hams are advertised in Cincinnati. This is Edwin Forrest's 09th birth-

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A Pennsylvania minister won a mammoth hog at a raffle. More than one hundred persons died by falling down stairs last year.

Kankakee, Illinois, has a 65 year old scholac in her public schools. Harper's weekly says It Is difficult to discover where the bad people are buried.

Rhode Island has a new secret order, with the cheerful title of "Sons of Jonadab."

H. G. gets fifteen thousand dollars a year tor his services on the Tribune, besides his share in the dividends.

A colored man at Newberry, South Carolina, owing to some nervous disorder, has not slept for three months.

Barefoot and Shoemaker is the firm title of an undertaking firm in one of the eastern counties of Pennsylvania.

A Danbury German is named Wachscblelgbenshamel. How would you like to call that chap In to breakfast.

George Elliott says: "There are men who don't mind being kicked blue if they can only get talked about."

A Michigan blacksmith began work with a powder flask in his pocket. The new shop will be completed in March.

The Vinconnes Sun predicts that DePauv will be nominated for Governor by tbe Democratic State Convention.

Spotted Tail is reported safe and sound on a government reservation. Nothing like having him where he can be spotted.

And now a medical savant asserts that marriage prolongs life, which accounts for the anxiety of love

The Japanese Embassy was received by the President on Tuesday, on which occasion General Grant ma|o what was probably the longost speech of bis life.

Josh Billings thinks tbat the government should offer $10 lor every civilized Indian, and declare the proof of civilization to be tbe production of some of bis back-hair with tho skin attached.

Henry Ward Beecher occupied a private box at tbe recent concert o! the colored jubilee singers at New Haven, anl, in response to an invitation to address the audience, reminded them of the time in 1860, when, after lecturing at that place, be was obliged to oall upon tbe police to protect bim. He congratulated New Haven on the change in public sentiment toward the colored people.

Jeff Thompson, e-xrebel General, Is now Surveyor General of Louisiana, and is thus described: Long, gaunt, ugly and gkrrulous. Jeff haunts tbe saloons and takes the oath of allegiance (with a little sugar) as often as his fel-low-citizens invite hiin. His stock remark is: "I change my religion every week, my politics every day, and my opinion every hour and yet I can't keep up."? 5

A soldler'wlio" waaan inveterate joker and punster, having had his nose, left cheek, and a portion of bis chin carried away by a shot, in tbe battle of Shiloh, was asked by some of his comrades if tbev could do snythlng for him. "Boys," said he, speaking as well ss he could In his mangled condition, "I should like a drink of water mighty well, if I only

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Indiana Items.

Sslem, In this Stste has Sorosis. Indianapolis has one hundred and twelve school teacher*.

Wheat is ins promising ddndltlen tbe southern part of the State. Fourteen deaths from small-pox bsve occurred in Indianspolls tbls winter.

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tbe Winamac doctors call it a bilious at a 4 Col. Eph. Keigwin recently attempted to cowhide a oertain Professor 8tarr, in Bedford, for ssylng and trying to prove that Mrs. Keigwin, the spiritualist, is a bumbug.

Tbe rising generation of Haaleton beguile the happy bonis by hanging a crssy man until his tongue hangs out, by ducking him in the river, and other innocent sports.

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Price Five Cents.

In the divorce suit of Packer vs. Packer in a Lafayette court both parties have passed their seventieth summer.

It is again rumored tbat the Indianapolis Fair organization will be turned into a grand trotting park association ata Buffalo.—[Ind. Journal,

Cyrus Hyatt committed suicide near Winchester, on the "Bee Line" road Monday night. Mr. Hyatt was about twenty-eight years of age, unmarried, and in good circumstances. There is no reason tor the act, with which his friends are acquainted.

A man calling himself Wm. Dougherty and claiming to be a Catholic priest, was arrested at Indianapolis Tuesday night. He is denounced by the Catholic clergy of that oity as a dead beat and swindler, and all persons are warned against him.

The Indianapolis Journal states that in addition to other inducements Indianapolis offers for the location of manufacturing establishment in that vicinity, it is authorized to say that building sites will be given to such as promise to be of large beueflit' to our city. This has been done already in several instances, with results satisfactory both to grantors and grantees.

Ephram Joel, of Crawfordsvllle, says the Indianapolis Sentinel, opened a stove door the other day to ascertain why the powder he had placed therein to clear the chimney ot soot did not go off. The pent up forces within the stove resented this exhibition of cheek by Joel with a blast of indignation that jolted the jolt-head in a lively manner, and gave his head the appearance of having ben used as a gun swab.

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ple to enter tbat stale. Dr. Rosenweig is studying chemistry at Siug Sing, his experiments being mainly directed to the combination of alkali and grease.

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[Under this head we will publish short, communications on matters of lojul Inter* est, from the people. All are lnvl ted to contribute. Letters, hints, and

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THAT CIRCULAR NUI8ANCB. ?, S EDITOR MAIL:—I fully agree with agtumbler In Thursday's Express In regard to tho annoyance caused by, boys distributing circulars. When at home I usually take It upon myself to answer tbe door bell, and it is a fearful Incentive to profanity to get up from an interesting book or paper to open the door, and stand in the cold draft, while a little dirty-faced boy hands you a circular Informing you that at a certain house you can have goods by paying fortbem. Grumblingly, yours,

P. No. 3,

COOK 1 NO STOVES.

MR. EDITOR:—Allow me to make a suggestion in regard to cooking stoves, One of these useful institutions, as now-a-days got up, is made to cost the consumer more than twice what it need, if the manufacture were placed upon some settled basis. We don't want a flowery affair in the kitchen, overloaded with ornaments in an ugly mimicry of architecture. Cast-iron flowers are in no way lovely. We don't want to pay for them or have them in the way of the blacking and dust-brusb. All the unnecessary surface about a cooking-stove gives just so much expanse ot black lead to bu^ burned into the atmosphere of tbe| room. If the form of a dry goods box is most convenient, let us have that or if there must be here and there a projection, let the corners be rounded, with as few places left tor dust to lodge as may be, and done with it.

A HOUHEKBKPBH.

WHICH SHALL IT BK

EDITOR MAIL:—I understand that the Directors of Cincinnati and TerreHaute Railway Company express their determination to abandon tho |100,000 appropriation made by this city if compelled to come up Water street. I don't blame them, If any one, will take the trouble to examine the route, it will readily be seen tbat there is no available ground

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to lay a railway, without very heavy and expensive grading. I am a resident on First street, and while I admit the laying of tbe road along that street will injure Its value for residences, yet the increased value of tho ground for manufacturing purposes, will, In time, overbalance tbe damage. 1 ssy let tbe road oome up First street, under proper restrictions, snd then let the entire ground between tbe road snd the river be given up to manufactures. Let tbe ground be sold at a low rate to ospitallsts who sre oertain to oome bese shortly, snd in ten years we shall have a string of manufactories slong tho west side ot the city that wtll sstonish tbe old fogies who now oppose

FIRST STRSKT.

At the Opera Hense In Oporto, Portugal, (here wss a tragical occurrence not losg since, not down on tbe bills. An actress undressed so indecently In tbe sight scene in "Fra Dlavolo," that ber lover who was in a box, left tbe theatre in a paroxysm of indignation, snd returning with a pistol, deliberately shot her dead* when she next made her appearance on the stsge.