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Indianapolis Locomotive (Newspaper) - April 15, 1848, Indianapolis, IndianaA Lee Coco Motriuc. Saturday. April 15, Isis. Magnetic we Issue another paper the telegraphic Lino to our City will be in full operation. They started with the wires from Dayton on lost wednesday week and is we have had Good weather we May expect them Here certainly by next wednesday or thursday when we will be put in instantaneous communication with Dayton and intermediate Points. Union literary lecture was delivered before this society on last tuesday evening at Roberts Chapel by one of its members or. William rickets that reflected great credit both on the speaker and Oil the society of which he is a member. The House was Well filled and All seemed edified with the literary treat. there is any Young gentlemen or ladies who wish to perfect themselves in this polite Art they can now have a better Opportunity than was Ever presented to them in this City As Monsieur de Grauville is recommended As a perfect master in All that pertains to the poetry of motion. Monsieur do g. Has been teaching in several of the Eastern cities and came from Cincinnati Here at the urgent solicitation of some of our Young gentlemen. A class sufficiently Large to insure the engagement of Monsieur do g. Lias a Arcady been formed but others wishing to join it can yet do so in the Cha Nuvy a Fourt. On the 11th inst. Mrs Mann a Miliner of this City had several of her neighbors brought before his Honor the mayor to get them bound Over to keep the peace. After n patient hearing of All the evidence adduced his Honor decided that the Penco had not been broken that the charges were not sufficiently sustained and consequently dismissed the Case throwing mrs. Mann into the costs. Death of Martin Van Boren we have a Prophet in our midst who has predicted the death of sex president Van Buren in two weeks from this time. The same Man prophesied the death of John Quincy Adams and the revolution in France the two latter have proved Correct now for the third. The old dutchman is again at work sprinkling the Street and it has quite a Cooling effects at least it looks much cooler if it is not. The old fellow has kept the Street Well watered so far and says he is going to keep it so All summer. Tall Large dog jumped out of the third Story window of the Palmer House on inst saturday without receiving any material injury. The John Donkey is still As stupid As Ever hear parts of speech according to the new elementary works on grammar the words a a Dandy and a a tailor arc no longer nouns but verbs. The former is a verb Active the synonyms of a a to Doand the latter a verb passive the synonyms of a a to a Jublle of Forks. A Good Many men have private watches Tomt is they arc Well watched by those they Are indebted to and there is a committee appointed by our citizens to watch the Public but we in pc no Public clock in our Beautiful City and sorry we Are to say it. For there is no belter regulator than a Good clock in some conspicuous place. It would regulate the time Young gents should Stop their noises and go to bed get up &c., and it would regulate our present regulators the dinner Bells which need regulating As much As anything else. It is amusing to hear them sometimes is they ring the changes every other Day one Day at half past 11 a.m., and the next Day at Lulf past 12 p.m., and so on. It would be useless to ask the City for a clock now As its whole resources Are invested in the laudable Enterprise of measuring Wood. The state have already crippled themselves by their internal improvements and cannot improve the appearance of the state House he adding a clock and besides the members bad no need of such a regulator As All their regulating was done a a by the our Only Hope for a town clock is in the churches and we do Hope Sorn of them will beautify their steeples and Benefit the Public by adding a Public regulator in the shape of a town Dock. Won t the Baptist Church do it a we will give n dime towards it. Up amp of tilt Hairst Jit inf As there Are so Many conflicting opinions As to who is the Laziest Man in this City our fathers have determined to have the matter definitely sell led. To understand an ordinance is being prepared by that honorable and August assemblage which will be published previous to our coining City election requiring All voters to endorse on their tickets who is the Laziest Man in their Ward also who is the Laziest Man in our City generally. There Are scores of candidates already in the held who May be seen any of these warm afternoons on the Shady Side of the Street nodding to the voters As they pass and Repass hoping thereby to nod themselves into Public notoriety. We Are requested to state that the general rendezvous for the candidates will be in front of the Washington Hall no the Corner of Penn Sylvania and Washington is reels and on the dry goods boxes along the Street generally where they will be found every Fine afternoon Fortso inspection of Tho Public. This is the Best move our fathers have made this Spring except it be the re moving of those levees mentioned in our last. The Union is emphatically Tim Magazine. The april number is before us richly Indin with nil that is both Good and Beautiful. It is n magnificent number containing ten embellishments besides two figures of fashion and two pages of music. The lost Glove engraved by Mattison and memory by Tho same artist Are atone Worth the subscription Price 83 a year. This number contains la fio Raja Liy j. Bayard Taylor Jenny Lind by Geo. W. Curtis Tho new Melusina a Talo from the German by j. H. Hopkins sunday in the country by the editor mrs. C. M. Kirkland memory or the old Many a dream by mrs. Erna c. Embury Bachelor s wives by mrs. C. Ii. Butler Tho lost Glove by mrs. Jane c. Campbell poetry music editorial miscellany reviews of books ask. Israel Post publisher 140 Nassau Street n. V. Otto act Fri Cuvir. Our City fathers have ordered Washington Street to be a Public race course for Tho special accommodation of horse jockeys and others Tobe used of such Only from 6 to 10 of clock a.m., and from 3 to 7 of clock p.m., and any person found running their horse at any other Lime Thau Tho hours specified will be fined the sum of 810. Fine trotting and pacing May be seen Here every Fine afternoon. Cripples and children run Over Gratis. The Public Are respectfully invited to attend particularly the ladies. No charge to visitors and front seals reserved for the ladies. Fine limes these. The lilliputian is the name of a handsome Little Sheet published at Shelbyville la., by Colescott amp Elliott. Its size and appearance Are very similar to the locomotive and the terms the same. Small papers Are multiplying nil Over Tho country and Uro generally More interesting than he Large advertising sheets and we doubt not messes. C. Amp a e. Will inn pc Tho lilliputian inferior to none. We wish you every Success gentlemen May the Shadow of the Lillie a tin never grow less. Hear what mrs. C. M. Kirkland Eitress of the Union in gazing says to her correspondents. They Aro sentiments that should be stereotyped in the minds of every one who attempts to write for a Public journal or Magazine. Besides the contributions which Are declined on account of want of space we have a number which though not de Stitum a of Merit Lack character Point distinctness or some other indispensable requisite. To. Write is easy As the immense amount which pours in upon us daily sufficiently evinces and even to write Well is to style is not very difficult is we must think after rending so Many happily expressed pages. But the True Point is. To say something when we write to leave a Mark on the Reader s mind to give him u new idea or an old one in a new Light to help his perceptions of truth a whether in morals manners Art literature or whatever else Runny interest Sterne says that every animal in creation As it grows older grows grave except in old woman and Sha grows department. Edited by a , april is 1818. Off of the 1joeonu>ttv�,. Glimpses cd . Being a Veteran in the of Young ladies and having entered its ranks at a very Early age i am perhaps better acquainted with the character of Young ladies in general and of those in particular who now constitute the invincible Phalanx or who have fallen bravely fighting for the glorious cause of single blessedness than any other Maiden or Matron in the City of Indianapolis. I Call the band invincible because it never has been and never will to overcome. It �9 True that after two or three years of battling either by annoying the enemy from Distant and secure positions scouring and laying waste his provinces aiming poisoned arrows at his weak Points or laying in wait and attacking him from Ambuscade that by some unaccountable fatality the capricious troops abandon the very Post

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