The National Banner, Volume 5, Number 2, Ligonier, Noble County, 11 May 1870 — Page 1

I'HE' ' NATIONAT' 'BANNER, .. 4 Published Weekly by . JOHN B. STOLL, {LIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY, IND i TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Strictly laMAVANCE. cois i vriecnionioon iy 88.00 8T hil ? blished on the C¢ hPA’im?le, s hopﬁ:tffamuacgt &Mﬂa:ightjor m to demand advance pay,as it is'for City publishers, s & ? 8™ Any person sending a club of 10, mpanied wl?g ghe cash, wﬂPbecentlgled{o‘ao:oopm the paper, for one year, free of charge,

Michigan South. & N. Ind’a R. R. . On ami ’{lfter May 1, 1870, traing will leave Sta~ Jious ag follows: . ¥ iy £ : | - GOING EAST: o o . Fzpress. ° Mail Train.. Chicag0.............;..,.g:‘z0r.'n.......7:50A.x. - *Rikhart .....i...0 00 BA M, 5,185 P, ML GORNEN, iy o adss sicia sl Pk 22 00 on e 18548 vM, Mi11er5purg........(d0n’t8t0p).......... 1:05 * Ligondßr Juiiu . svivseana 830 1% ALin 0 1080 100 0 Wawaka............(d0n’t stop) /....... 1:34 ». M, Brh%ﬂe],d i e IR s S Kendallville . ;... bl @3B 44 veiiis. 2200 ‘ Arriv'eat?o]edo......lO:ﬂ)Ax Sy et ] GOING WEST: . bl : Express; ail Train: I - TOtedO U ke e cnnsnses s o 8108 P, MLS TBOAN, ! Kenda11vi11e..........12:35 A Mogiisd iSOO P m A ‘Brimfleldi; o s i 1 300 & 317 N | WeawakE. ... . mad iB S RO s Llﬁoniei-.. ek sel SO YL sl Mi11et5hurg............ o { G05hen_..........1......2:02 Fhobaniesiiiin S 18RS CERIEDAYE . cooinbisoraa®ith s vyys o pvaa BB b ; Arrive at Chicago.... BEDD 2% 35, 00, e 0105 <+ *Stop 20 minutes for breakfast and supper. ‘Ex{)reu} leaves daily ooth ways. & Mail Train makes close connection at Elkhart with trains going East and West. - : | The Mghtning Express Tratn leaves Ligonier go- |/ ing Fast, at8:10 p. M., and&oing West at 12:21 p.M.. 2 0.8. lIA’{FH, n'l u{zt.,Clcveland. J. N, }f(NI::PPER, gent, Ligonier, i WM. L. ANDREWS, : ‘; Surgeon Dentist. b _ Mitchel’s Block, Kendallville. I All work warranted. Examinationsfree. 247 o 't J.M.DENNY, ' Attorney at Law,—AWion, Noble co., Ind | Willgive carefnl and prompt attention to a | businesgentrusted to his care. 3-8 b LUTHER H. GREEN, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public: ; i I LIGOCNIER, -= - - INDIANA. ¢ Office’op Cavin' Strcet, over Sack Bro’s. Gro- ¢ cery, opposite Helmer House, 41-8-ly . DR.E.W. KNEPPER, ' Helectic Physician & Surgeon,—Ligonier. | iAlldiseases of the Lungs and Throat successful.y treated giyin'halution. No charges for consultation, lOffice with W. W. Skillen, esq. 1-8 i | D.WAi/C: DENNY, . Physician and Surgeon,— Ligonier, Ind. ' Will, promptly and faithfully attend to all calls | In the line of his profession—day or tﬂght——iu i town|or any distance in the country. Pcrsons wishing his serviees at nzf,vht, will find'him at his ! | fathetr’s residence, first door east of Meagher & K(lhap{nar}:s Hardware Store, where all calls, when, i iabseut), 'should be left. St 1-1 "

. ERICHMOND, i Justice of the Peade & Conveyancer, ~ |Cavin street, Ligonier, Indiana, - | Special attention given to conveyancing and collections, Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages drawn up, ' and ?ll legal business attended to promptly and accn: :}tely. May 26th, 1868, HELMER HOUSE, ¥s| / - S. B. HELMER, Prop'r, . | LIGONIER, - - - (NDIANA, This Heuse has been Refitted and Refurnisht;.d | |1 in Wirst Class Style. ; i |PR (’o“[}]4]4, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public, Iy LIGONIER, INDIANA. ‘Office, 2d Floor in Mier’s Block, Cavin Street. 'DR.P. W. CRUM, i e @ 3 1 oL Physician and Surgeon, Ligomier; = « = . Endiana. Oftice one door south of I, Low & Co’s Clothing Store, up stairs,.’ May 12th, 1869. .~ SAMUEL E. ALVORD, Attorney at Law, Claim Agent, and Notary Public, Albion, Noble Co., Ind. = <Business in the Courts, Claims of soldiers and hei¥ heirs, Conv_eymjclnE. &¢., promptly and carefully ‘attended to. | Acknowledgments, Depopitions and Amdavivts, taken ‘m'ul certified. ‘ e W CARR.. | o o g = Physician and Surgeon, I-tIGONIER, == = .- - - IND, | Will promptly attend all calls intrusted to h}im. Office on‘4th St,, one door east ef the Narroyan Banxer office. . : { 3-43 ""”‘—-—f-—“d-#_—.—-*‘b——‘f"‘— [ E. D. PRESTON, M. D,, HOM@EOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, Ii LIGONIER, INDIANA. Office une door eouth of L. Low & Co.’s Store, up Btairs. Office hours from 9to 11, A. »,, 2to 4and 7toB r. M. Can always be found by in: quiring at the Dodge House. 448 {1 SR ey F.W.STRAUS, I BANKER, Buys and sells Domestic and Foreign Exchange.. Pass;ge Tickéts to and from all the principal parts of Europe, 4t the most liberal terms — S;iqlcial attention given to collections. ' Money | taken on deposit, and Merchants’ accounts solicited, and kept on most favorable terms. 42 -—-ﬁ‘-‘——‘_’i———‘—“—————-——-——-———-——-—-————*——” 'SACK BROTHERS, Bakers & ‘lGrocers.;? ='» . Cavin Street, Ligonier, Indiana. Fresh Bread, P’ies,\{ Cakes, &C., Cholce Groceries, Provisions, Yankee Notions, &c | The highegt cash price paid fer Conntrﬁ. Produce May 18, '6B-tf. SAC BRO’S._ ' NEW FlR]!([' AND NEW GOODS i TR AT — ! ! L L WOLF LAKE, IND. . Notice is bere\,by-given}hnt C. R. Wiley.and Samuel Beall have éntered into a co-partnership n-'{%le Merchandise business, anc};hat they have just unpacked a’lurge stock of Dry Goods, Boots ax}d“Shoes, &e. Call and see for yourseif, . : WILEY & BEALL. Wolf Lake, Nov. 3, 1869.-27tf = NEW MILLINERY GOODS, !LLR B ' i "Mrs. Joanna Belts, i : On Cavin Street, 0 NEW STYLES FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1870, 2 Just recéived from Baltimore and Chicago, Fancy Goods, Hair Braids, Switches, Wedding Bonnets, Mourning Bonnets, Baby Caps, &c. ~March 80,1870,-48 :

. JOHN GAPPINGER’S HARNESS, SADDLE And Leather Establishment, Has been removed to Gappinger & Gotsch’s New - , Block, (formérly Rossbacher’s Block,) KENDALLVILLE, -| - INDIANA. - The highest price paid for Hides, Pelts, &c., and the trade suppﬁed wgth Leather, Findings, &c., at; lowest figures, 3 ; CApGISAY . J.BITTIKOFFER, i » DEALER IN . WATCHES, - CLOCKS, J EW’L_RY, SILVER WARE,NOTIONS, Spectacles of every Description, TR T 86, &0k &6, &C. ¢ A All Kinds of work done u&onth‘e shortest notice | and warranted as to durab: t% Shgg in Bowen'’s neW Brick Block, Kendallville, ndiana. R y ' 2-81 ot H. R. CORNELL, i 4:_}prmyalwayuﬁe'fmnd athis - PHOTOGRAPH ROOMS, 18 prepared to. take &lt kinds of pictures fn'th R I PFPARTICULAR ATTENTFION Pd&w-’cbprbng old- Déguerreotypes and Ambrotj ards; and Enlargin f %2mﬁ?§ﬁaiufmglv fn‘ aﬁ‘l cases. b ' (ﬂ&iﬁl’“., Feb, 23;1870.-43 Surgieal and Mechanical Dentist, ST LIGONTER, v S INDIANA. i ""L\;Z;:N‘i-‘f i ""«'2-!1{: P ,i ?P" rod R G 435 i 'ezl'jl gigny 0 Mﬁ% ' Po g - autcesfal prue- ; i $OB.O ,‘thlo! e «m TQEE NI s tbw thels patrofisge. -Ofce in my building R T : g ety j

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Vol. 5.

OUR MAY-DAYS. i Daﬁ Lottie, good wife, how wéll I remember ; at ‘May when I found you, the sweetest of cg:eens— g M{‘:w elor heart, like a half-dying ember, - vived at your presence, searce out of your teens. £ There on the lawn the May-pole was lifted, . Twained with arbutus and evergreen sprays; Through the' fresh twigs a summer-light sifted, Filling with splendor the early spring-days. On a thick carpet your throne uprose greeuly, Whereon you sat crowned with white roses and leaves, > Knighting the youths with an air grave and queenly, : Accepting addresses and granting reprieves. Another May came : ‘again, dear, I found you A shy little woman'as ever was seen, And under the moon, ny arms close around you, You vowed with drooped head to be ever my Queen. e Our May-pole is prone, a red' flag entwines it, Your thronme is uncertain, your sceptre a broom, . A towel your crown, and order resigns its Claims toiour prince in his freshness and 'bloom. § You gravely hold court, and still have petitions Fror]x} Biddy and Jennie, and three year old ate ; : s You grant them reprieves, and calm their se- : ditions, ? And have on these May-days receptions in ‘ state. . ! i ‘ Cartmen and hackmen, if not fairly knighted, Are 'dubbed by your maidens most scurious | names ; i Crooked affairs (chairs and tables) are righted, And butchers. and bakers relieved of their . claims. ’ . ; But royalty marks your straight glances purely, And sits on your brow as yore in your teens, My heart with its homage of years rests!secpoeuraly, L ' | Loyal foréver, my sweetest of queens.

i A BUNCH OF RAGS. R Everybody liked Tom Hali, and everydody was sorry for him. It was sad to see such a fine young man the victim of drunkenness, and Tom had fallen into the mocker's power unwittingly, it seemp. : A new dram-ghop had been opened cloge to the foundry at which he worked, and he along with othérs, was in the habit of going in for a glass of ale. When, the cold weather set in, he took gomething stronger and he imagined it agreed with his spirits. i ; - T'ime went on, and the liking for strong drink inereased and grew stronger, until at all hours he might be seen staggering out of the ‘Rainbow,” dizzy and stupefied with the poison of the intoxicating cup. : Tom’s was a very bad case, for he belonged to a respectable family, and had been religidusfy trained ; and until he had been drawn into the snare, he was an affectionate son and brother; and friends counseled, and ministers preached, and every means was tried to reclaim him, but all efforts seemed lost. Tom was bound fast and bard '’ in the invigible chains of the mockery. His family mourned him as lost, and many asilent tear his sister let fall on his tattered garments, as ghe sat patching and darning them.: Tom was infatuated, all degraded ; but for all that he was a favorite; from the mangion to the meanest hut in Arlie; and some good people prayed for poor T'om Hall. ; - ‘Abh, these rents will not darn again,’ said Jennie as she turned over Tom’s ra%ged raiment. n Tom’s better days he had had pride, and it was such a sad change when he didn’t care who saw him “out at the elbows.” _ But somehow Jennie could not find it in her heart to abandon the brother she still loved ; and so Tom’s tattered habiliments were taken up again and made the most of. - ”

‘Kindness may win him back,” said Jennie, and when he came bome, at the worst he was met with words of peace, if in sorrow. : Just as the trees were beginning to bud with the promise of spring, Tom came home, ll:)oking thoughtful. He was sober after a long run. In the last rays of the setting sun, his sister was trying to cover some darns. " Tom sat down beside her, and silently watched the patient fingers for gome time. : “That’s tiresome work, Jennie,” he said. : His sister held up her seam before him, : ‘ : “Why, that’s a bunch of rags,” laughed Tom. - “Yes, Tom; and a bunch of rags would be the best sign a publican could hang across his door,” said Jennie; sadly. e . Tom made no reply; he looked at the ragein silence. . o Next day, Tom went back to his work and continued 8o for two or three weeks. - He looked at the ‘Rainbow,’ but didn‘t goin. | *Hallo! what’s up with Tom/Hall ?’ wondered Sinclair, as he El?ed up a glass of 'T'om’s favorite whicky for another customer at the counter.

Sinclair was not the only one that was astonished at the change. Every day Tom went to his work; every night he came home sober; and after a time .he aEpeared at church on the Sabbath. . Then people began to think Tom was in earnest and meant to reform. ; . “The angel’s come at last,” whispered Florence, and a bright drop fell on Dick’s golden hair. . ‘Had Tom Hall really become a teetotaller? wondered Sinclair, when a ‘whole month had passed without a visit to the-‘Rainbow.’ stk Well, it seemed “so, for nothing stronger than water had passed his lips. in the shape of drink since the night; his_sister had shown him the bueh of rags. e , * *PlThave a talk with Tom and learn how he got off the scent, though,” Sinclair resolved. =An oppdrtunijy came so(iqeg than he ex’pec'teg. : lln' the 'b}?lnn_in'g of the symmer a terriffic thunder storm passed over Arlie, and aniong the general devastation the ‘Rianbow’s’ signboard was' shiver:‘Gl'e(z-' Y : i - Tom happened to be passing the “Rainbow’ &e-fnext morning, and s’torped to take a glance up at the old . G R | ‘Fine work here,’ remagketMr,; Sin‘clair, who was standing in his door; “‘the storm's 'i]l:im;ei;fsor» ;s; and I'll have 1o get a new ard.’ PR ; &Y‘ it 8o M‘n that 2’ said T%m. : . ‘Yes, the ‘Rainbow’ is .in shivers,’ ..mmm"" P

“Then yon want a new sign board,’ said Tom. - ‘ _ *Of course ; isn’t that what I’'m telling you 7" ; ' o «Is it to be the ‘Rainbow’ again ?’ asked Tom. :

‘3 supfoee so,” answered Mr. Sinclair, ‘unless you can give us a new idea, Tom,’ continued he laughingly. ‘I think I can,’ said Tom, ‘but I must go home first.” . : = ‘Don’t forget, though,’ said Mr. Sinclair; ‘you’re a stranger now-a-days, bye-the-bye, Tom.” : ‘I won’t be gone long,’ cried Tom, and with a brisk step he walked down Ihe street. .

' ‘Hallo, Tom, whai’s your hurry 7* cried a friend, as Tom came up against a corner. |

‘Oh, Sinclair’s signboard was destroyed last night, and Um going to present him witha new one,” answered Tom, with a ‘smile;,’ which was diametrically opposed to his old principles. / . ‘Oh, ho, that’s it,” resumed his old friend ; ‘but perhaps it would be as well for Arlie if the ﬁainbow was never put up again. ; ‘

Tom was ont of hearing. A better sign than the ‘Rainbow,’ Mr. Sinclair did not expect to get ; he was only joking with Tom Hall, and raised his eye-brows when Tom made his appearance with a' bundle under his arm, and requested him to look 4t the new signboard. Bl i/ <l'didn’t think you would catch me up; but step in Tom, and let me see yourides. - _ . Tom, gravely untied the bundle, held up a bunch of rags betore the astonished publican’s eyes. ¥ ‘What do you mean, Tom 7’ asked Mr. Sinclair, feeling confident that Tom had lost his senses. ' ‘Ask yourself, sir, if a ‘Bupch ot l Rags’ is not the best sign a publican can hang across his doors ?’ said Tom, I and his lips quivered. e “Was it that bunch of rags that made | you a teetotaller, T'om 7’ said Mr. Sin- ' clair, more confused than he liked to | own. . | - ‘ ’ - ‘lt was through God’s means, I | think, sir,” answered Tom, ‘and per- | haps poor wretches seeing there the | end of drink, may bless you for that ] signboard.’ , . 3 Tom walked away to his work and ' Mr.-Sinclair went back to his counter, but all day the buneh of rags troubled him. He was a kind-hearted man and believed himself a christian, and he did not like the idea of being considered the cause of the rags. To a ‘ man of his disposition’ it was painful ! in the extreme; he couldn’t help feel- | ing when poor, - shivering, ragged | wretches came in and laid down the | price of a glass. When he lifted their ‘ money he felt as if he was stealibg their means. : |

It was a busy day ; every new comer was more deplorably wretched than the last served. He was thankful when night came. j : The last comer was a woman literally hanging in tatters. A little child on her arm. It was crying with the cold. It lifted, the rag that covered its naked limbs, and looked piteously. at him. . : ‘Go home and put the clothes upon your child,” said Mr. Sinclair, flinging back the money that the poor woman: had laid down. sl “T'om is right,’ said Mr. Sinclair, as he locked the door, ‘the end of drink is misery and rags, and the man who has a taste for that sort of a thing may put his name ow the new signboard. The same summer Mr Sinclair went into the tea trade, in which he made a handsome fortune. Tom Hall is now a famous engineer. : —el< P— - STOPPING NEWSPAPERS. | The following from one of our exchanges, so fully and clearly expresses our views upon the: subject that we copy it without comment : 1 “You have an undoubted right to stop a newspaper whenever you are disposed, upon payment of arrearages. Do not hesitate to do 8o on account of any “Tenderness of feelings”” for the editor. Don’t you suppose -he would stop buying sugar oF you, or meat, clothing, dry goods, etc., if he thought he was not getting his money's worth ? And when you discontinue a paper do so manfully. Don’t'be so pitifuf as to throw it back to the postmaster with a contemptuous ‘I don’t want it any longer !”” and have ‘refused” written on the margin and have the paper returned to the editor. No gentleman ever stop']laled' a paper in that way, no matter if his head is covered with gray hairs that should be honorable. If you do not wish longer to receive a newspaper, write a note to the editor like a man saying so—and be sure that arrearages are paid. That is the way to stop a newspaper.” . :

The catastrophe in Richmond instinctively calls to mind that other dreadful calamity associated with the history of the capitol of Virginia—the burning of the theatre in 1811. Then as yesterday, the lives of so many of the brightest and best of the citizens were destroyed,and the details,when known, sent a sickening shudder through the land. The horrors of that day are almost eclipsed by the state-House disaster. Of course somebody is to blame. The building is old. It was either badly constructed or is out of repair,— The admission of an immense crowd to the upper story of such an edifice shows extraordinary neglect on the art of the officers ofsthe court.” No SOnbt a rigid investigation will be had; but in the meanwhile is it not well to inquire if life-is not tampered with dp‘i\y"in other localities—onr own, for instance—where large audiences are in vill:iﬁm habis of assembélinF 7. The Richmond tragedy, mournful though it 18, . would serve a purpose if it called attention to ithe ¢o "Sitiém‘ of all the other rickety public buildings.—N. ¥. Benator Sumner has crowned his magnificent political career by another great act of statesmanship, Heé has ogmved in the Senate that the two houses of Congress proceeded to inquire; why'it is that a newas_denied the privilege tha other .giof».ﬁdimhmm class caron the Orange and Alexandria railroad.

LIGONIER, IND., WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, IS7O.

SUSAN LIPPE, OR, THE LAW-SUIT. By Edward B. Heaton. “I’ll tell you what it is gal,” said Mr. Lippe to his danghter Susan, “I'm determined never to have a edicated feller for my sou-in-law, that’s a fixed fact.” - g - “Bat, father,”’ said Susan, “education don’t make or unmake a man, any more than riches do. It’s the soul, the principle, ‘that constitute a man.” “Wery: true, Susan,” rejoined 'dadLippe, and I've found precious little principle in college-bred fellows. I tell you that T've got along well enough, and allers made my mark.” As the 'old man said this, his eye roved . out. of the window over his broad and well-improved homeatead with a glint of satisfaction. - ; Susan’s father was no exception’ éo meu‘%;ﬁf his class, who w%eu they imbibe an idea are pig headed in their adherence to it. Susan understood this trait of her father’s, and letting the argument drop relapsed into eilence. While old Mr. Lippe entertained such notions of letters. and by the way, always taking pains to inform everybody ¢oncerning them, he had deviated somewhat with respect to his only child Susan, who had improved the advantages bestowed by an excellent public school situated in Stanhope, a small village adjoining her father’s farm. - Her mind, too, being naturally of 'a studious cast, she had stored it with an unusnally large amount of information, which displayed itself in refined conver#ation and well-bred vivacity of manners. To these graces of the intellect ‘was combined abeautiful person, and as a matter of consequence her hand was the coveted prize of moore than one young man in the neighborhood.

- To the blandishments of the sterner ¢ex, Susan turned a deaf ear. Young Stanhopers loved her father’s broad acres full as well 'as they did his daughter, who with the quick instincts of a woman penetrated the shallowness of their protestations of love. Besides, there was a young lawyer, who had entered snit for her heart and won his case while teaching school a short time previous to his admission to the bar. It. would have been singular if thé daughter of obstinate Lippe had not been equally obstinate in the constaney of her affections for Henry Coverdale, her litigatious lover. B Of this attachment, however, Daddy Lippe was totally ignorant. Heé had never seen young. Coverdale, and that young gentleman being ' well aware of the antipathies of his' contemplated father-in-law towarde schoolmasters and their like, prudently refrained from visiting fusan at her home. The accommodations of the house of a maternal aunt of Susan’s in Stanhope were vouchsafed to them, her uncle the har-ness-maker, rather liking their clandestine vigits than otherwise. In this way the lovers managed to ‘keep the fire'on the altar of their hearts fanned to a bright flame. The impatient Coverdale desired to bring his suit to an issue ; but the dutiful Susan would not cosnent to an elopement. With the hope: of modifying her sire’s views on the subject of eduction, she had introflucdd the theme, with what success 18 recorded above.. X

That uight after family prayers, quite an animated colloquy took place between Susan’s parents. The door of Susan’s chamber being ajar, she became an innocent listener to the conxersation, which, as it concerned herself proved rather interesting. Mother I:(iippe was in Susan’s secret and favored it with all her might. S

‘Now, old man,’ - said she, as that functionary was covering up the fire, the last thing done before going to bed, ‘it’'s downright mean in you to oppose Susan’s ijees about learning ; I'm not going to hev any ignorant scallawag rooten around arter my daughter.’ ‘I rule this roost,’ responded daddy Lippe. ¢ : ‘And I’ll make the roost for you,’ rejoined the dame. “T'imes ain’t now as they was when we was youngsters. Just think of mating Susan to Amos Awl, the blackemith; who don’t know big A from his anvil. Or yet Christ Gaddy, the shoemaker, who has about as much of an ijee of books as a hog has of meeting.’ . : ~ ‘T'here is no use of arguing, old woman, I'm sot.’ | :

‘“So dm I, replied the irate dame, and we'll see who'll sit to the most urpose.. 1f Susan can’t marry the Eind of man she wants to, she can stay at home and that’s the end/ of it."” With this clincher, Mother Lippe turned her face to the wall and refused to say another word. i

In the meantime Henry Coverdale was gradually winning his way to eminence.’ As a speaker, he stood head and shoulders akove any of the young men, or associates at the bar. The result of his efforts, also, began to flow in upon him in a golden stream. Yet still he remained a bachelor, though many wondered. Still there were no signs of old Mr. Lippe relaxing in the leagt in his views on ‘edication.” Howe:g‘ things "were made to shape themselves entirely different tp what a mere observer might reasonab&' hope to exFeét. This grew out of Coverdale’s ove for Susan, which now assumes the cast of impatience. B One day a young man in home-spun garb, presented himself at the house of old xl)&‘[l'.' Lippe and inquired if he wanted to hire a hand on the farm.

The old farmer eyed him for some moments and findiug him remarkably lv;v:ell favored and knit together said to im : ; ; S 5

‘Where are you from 7’ = . ‘I live at Monroe when at home,’ replied the young man. s ‘Raised a farmer ?' e e o *Yes, sir.’ ; v ‘About how much do you wanta month.! .

‘Whatever you think is right.’ ‘You'll never get along in the world unless you drive a better bargain than that. but I'll tell you what%ll do.— You shall work 'a month for twenty dollars; and after that, if we sait one another, we'll bargain for a year, or 10 el‘. £x g 5 ¥ r iR l}f\g‘r_aet:ly’;' #aid the young man, and

he was forthwith installed as a hired hand. : : e As the reader guesses, the hand-was none ather than ﬁeﬁr} Coverdale, who had commenced to put in operation a Elan to gain the old man’s consent to is union with Susan. Time wagged along. Old Lippe was miglzily pleased with hiz hand and often praised him to the women folks. Indeed he looked with a degree of complacency on his attentions to Susan, which began to be marked, and Coverdale was on the point of popping the question, when a circumstance occurred which determined him to postpone it for a short season. The circwmstance was as follows: -

The farm of Mr. Lippe was a part of a tract, the title of which had formerly been in dispute, though it was in deed and in equity his. Just at this time one of those land sharks that infest the country, raked up a worthless claim and entered suit for possession, This proceeding was so obviously absurd and rascally, that Mr. Lippe mere ly langhed at it, aithough at the advice of his hired hand he appeared at court o refute the claim, supposing, however, that his bare worg wounld be all that was necessary to dispose of a scoundrel of a land shark. His hired hand, also, concluded to lose a.day, and go with him, in order he said, ‘to see what 4 judge and court were like.’ Old Mrs. Lippe and Susan accompanied them for the purpose of maEing some purchasés, as they could get better bargains in the county town than in Stanhope. . The conversation of the family had placed Henry Coverdale in full possession of the facts in the case, and he had manifested such an interest in the affair and appeared to be so anxious as to the result, that the old man was not astonished at seeing him enter the bar and take a seat by his side. -He noticed also, that his dame and Susan

were among the spectators in the court. Toom. - L e Thecase was called-and the lawyer for the plaintiff arose and made out so iplausible a statement that it enraged the old man dreadfully, so much that he could scarcely contain himself until the lawyer concluded. - " The moment he sat down the old man sprang to his feet : Pt ‘See here !’ exclaimed he, ‘here are my deeds, and every man in this court room knows me well enough to know that 1 never got them - ragcally, or claimed more than what was justly ‘mine.’ - ‘All this may be true,” replied the judge, ‘but the court demands legal proofs relative the pointe of issue. I presume you have an attorney. Mr. Lippe D : ' ‘Never said a word to a single one. I never thought it worth while,’ raid the old man, perfectly aghast at the turn matters were taking. . ke | At this stage, Lippe’s hired ‘hand rose to his feet. : s . “May it please the court, I will ungertake the case for Mr. Lippe;’ said e. - ' ‘A nice case you’ll make of it,” said the old man. “You can plow corn a wonderful sight better.” = !

‘T assure Mr. Lippe that Mr. Coverdale is perfectly competent to the task,’ said the judge who was well acquainted with the young lawyet, and who, though ignerant of his present relations, fancied he smelt a joke in the action of the parties. ; : ‘Mebte your honor is right,’. said Mr. Lippe, ‘but a plague take me if I don’t find him a likely sight : better farm hand than a lawyer.” - - A general 'titter ran around the bar.

The "suit proceeded. . The young} attorney baving previously mastered the whole ground, entered into its mer- - its with a force and clearness that astonished even the court. - But how shall we paint the surprise of old Mr. Lippe. ¢lt took him by storm. At every word of the young lawyer's he ' seemed to distend: with astonishment, | vntil his amazement was something so | ridiculously -appalling as to.convulse the entire audience with laughter.— Peal after peal sonnded, and even the fat sides of the judge, forgetting their gravity, seemed ready to shake to pieces with their merriment. ‘Who, who, who are you,” at last gasped the old man, ‘ : ‘Sit down, My Lippe,’ said Coverdale, ‘I am attending to the case.’— Then stooping, he whispered in his ear, ‘l’'m trying to earn Susan.’ . . ‘She’s your’s,” shouted the old man regardless of the bystanders or the court, which having an inkling into the matter, gave loose rein to their jubilant feelings. How Susan felt, however, can be better imagined than described. She blushed like one of her mother’s peonies, and then hastily: hid her face in her vail. : When the merriment had subsided and old Mr. LipEe had secured his equanimity, the happy attorney proceeded and finally made so clear a case for his involuntary client, as caunsed the judge- to ‘dismiss the suit. .The old man leftthe court in triumph, and, with hig hired hand, proceeded forthwith to the clerk’s office where a marriage license was procured. The judge gave the ccurt a short recess, and united the happy pair in the bonds of wedlock. , ' Since that event, Mr. Lippe hasy changed his views on educational matters. . The other day as Judge Coverdale was leaving his home to take his seat in Congress; he said to his grandgon : ~ b ‘ “Lippe Coverdale, get you lessons well, and who knows‘im what you'll go to Congress, too.” =~ = ~ “Who'knows,’ exclaimed the happy Susan. S 3 e . i A fellow by the namie of Pullman the superintendent of the sleeping coaches on the Pacific railroad, has invited Mr. Grant to take & trip ‘to San Francisco, and gantesieminpas bas : e ‘sut ‘ trying to make money for the road, thinking, as he naturally does, ‘that ‘all' the snobs and fools will cértainly fellow’ after the most renowned of all their number,

ThE *first ﬂxesof ‘the season” are making their appearance, not “shoo flies,” but: flies that ought to be shoo'd. “egt

The Fifteenth Amendment Brings : . forth Fruit. On Wednesday of last week a big black burly negro, named Thomas Gibson, called at the ‘county clerks office in Evansville, deman&d licence to marry a white woman, named Mrs. Jenny White, who represented herse'f as aiwidow, and coming from Warrick county. The clerk at first demurred, but being threatened with the fifteenthamendment, issued. the license, and the loving twainywere united in . the holy bonds of wedlock, in the evening of the same day, by a colored preacher, After spending a night of blissful love at the home ot the bridegroom’s sister, early the next morning the loving couple sauntered forth to view the city, and take an airing generally.— As they promenaded through the public streets, they were the observed of all obseryers. It was amusing as well as disgusting to witness the airs of this ' gay- Othello, as he sauntered through the streets with his fair Desdamonia hangiog lovingly on his arm, eagerly drinking in the honeyed words of love which fell from his lips, and in/haling the rich aromatic perfume which ‘exhaled from his sweet scented person. 'The woman is a blond, quite young and good looking, and seemed to show great affection for her lord and master. We are informed that her coartship with her sable swain wasiof but a few hours duration, and that it was clearly a case of love at first sight.

For the honor of old Warrick we are happy to state that the woman never was a resident of this county, but belongs way up in Pike.—Boonville (Ind.) Enquirer. e " A Vietory for the l;anh-('ira'bben.‘ There was a spirited struggle, preceded by an in leresting debate, in the lower House of Congress on Friday, April 29th, on the land grab railroad policy, which resulted in the triumph of the latter by about_t.wenty majority. The bill imme diately under consideration was one from the Senate to grant the usualland subsidy to a railroad of one hundred and thirty miles in length, projected from Portland to Astoria, in Oregon. Judge Holman, of Indiana, who, early in the session, led off on this issue in a resolution, which the House adopted, declaratory against the railroad land subsidy policy, opened the discussion in opposition to the bill, and generally to the landgrab system, furnishing an array of facts and figures, heretofore detailed in this paper, that ought to. have alarmed the House as to the tendency of its legislation in giving away the best and largest portions of the_ public domain. Fitch (of Nevada) replied in a speech of great rhetorical flourish, which commanded the attention of, if it did not convince, the House, in defence of this- subsidizing policy. After he concluded, some of the friends of the bill, fearfal of.’{(ts defeat, moved its reference to the Committee on Public Lands, which was lost; whereupon the bill passed by the vote indicated. Parties were divided, both Democrats and Republicans voting for and against i (s

Hear Greeley. Even the New York Tribune has grown weary of the reconstruction deviltries of its partisans.© “Let us have done with reconstruction,” it cries. “The country is sick and tired of it.” True enough; and the remark would have been equally true a year or two ago. But ‘it is something ‘that so blind a leader of the blind as the ‘Tribune is at length able to discern this fault glimmer of the returning light of reason. And here is something more, to the same purpose: “When you goto the bottom of the case you find the argument for further reconstruction amounting to just this: ‘lf you allow the people of Georgia ‘to elect new rulers, they won't'elect us.” We presume that is so. But we can not forever keep the boy out of the water because he has’ not learned to swim. The time must come when Georgia will be governed as her people shall see fit. Then, why not now 9" This, the reader will please to understand, is neither a joke nor a ‘rebel howl,’ but the solemn conclusion of the veteran editor of the T'ribune himself, drawn from a candid survey of the wretched results of his party’s policy. It would be difficult to find elsewhere so forcible an argument against the whole work of recon. struction, condensed to an equal number of words. Sy P

What “Port Wine” is Made of. Some parties in Stonington, Conn., have recently been prosecuted for selling adulterated wines and liquors. Samples of their “stuff” were submitted to Professor Silliman, of Yale College, the State chem--Ist, and the following is the result of his analysis of what was sold for the port wine : . The liquor was turbid, heavily laden with sugar or molasses and Some coloring matter; contained 21 per cent. of ! alcohol ; over 10 per cent: of sugar or molasses ; about 100 grains of sulphuric acid to the gallon, part of it free, as oil of vitriol, and part combined-in alum; oxide of lead, or litharge, ¥u Poisonons quantities, or ‘about 45 grains to the gallon.— The alcohol had, an acid taste, and the coloring 'matter an offensive odor. The liquor was stronger of lead than most waters that were poisonéd by it. L —— e @ C—— . The Westlicke Post, the prominent German republican organ of Bt. Louis, is alarmed at the suicidal action of congress. ‘with respect to the reconstruction of Georgia, and fears the course pursued will'result in'the annihilation of'the radical pare e b st “Let us call a national Republican convention, and let thisconvention show congress which road: to travel, since that body does not seem to keep the road itL AR We cin assure the Tost that a national convention will not save. the waning fortunes of radicalism. The: party has gone stark mad; and “whom: the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.” Thedestriietion will urely folow the madncsf | . There are nidety-tso countiex in the Nﬂﬁpf%‘é@ &t aty. of these are reached by railrads. -~

e For the Banuer. . INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. On Monday, April 18th, we went to the station at Kendallville to procure a ticket and have our hsgg‘ge g checked to Toledo. But we were unfortunate in starting on Monday. Boots was scrubbing the ladies’ room ‘and did not want to be disturbed. The ticket: man could not make the change, and angrily threw back the X which we had handed him, but being a good natured fellow, and very patient, we finallysucceeded in procuring both ticket and check. It is interesting to compare the dignity of ‘some of our western rail-road men with the gentlemanly kindness and accommodation. of those at Toledo, Mansfield, &c. At 1:30, P. M., after the usual tears and kisses—some of which we were not envious—-the train started, and we Were on our way to visit an aged mother and other friends, and to ramble fot a few weeks among the beautiful hills and fertile valleys of northern Ohio—the scemes ot our childhood years. i A e

The train not being crowded, and havingthe use of two seats, we were soon asleep and dreaming -of the dear home we had just left and the kind friends, with whom we had spent the last few days 1n Indiana. The stentorian voice of the brakesman bawling out ‘MELBOURNE' wakened us, just in time to discover that it consisted of a huge pile of wood on. either side of the track. We soon became interested in the conversation cf two German . ladies, on the subject of;" matrimony, not %o much because we were interested in the subject, but-because it was the first opportunity we had enjoyed in a long time, of listening to the rich, pure German language, and witoessing the earnestness« peculiar to their nationality. The conversation was not yet ended when the train arrived at Toledo, here we changcd cars and nothing of importance occurred until we arrived at Monroeville. Here occurred one of those laughable incidents which sometimes take plade. at rail-road stations. Among those who alighted was a young lady from the rural dstricts of the west, neat in appearance, but evidently unacquainted with-“the ways of the world ;” a little fellow, noticing that she was| alone, came up close to her,and in accents peculiar to his profession, called out, “Livery or'Bus ¥’ “Eyeing hima moment, she addressed him as follows: “Go long about your business, or I'll'slap youn on your mouth. _ Leave you duse me? 1 guess not much.’ You'd better go home and learn some manners.” The usual con:fusion at such places destroyed the effect of the joke for all except Argus, jr., and, perhaps; the “*Bus” man. But the train on the Baltimore and Ohio R. R. is waiting and we must hasten abourd. Trav eled in silence ' from here to Mansfield, where we arrived at 9:5 P. M. Stopped at the “City Hotel,” opposite the: station. house. ' After breakfast next morning a few hours ride on the P., Ft. W. & C.'R. R. breught us’to our old and much-foved home, wheré .we are now: writing, in the

same study, and at the same table that served us in our school-boy days. - A petition having been granted by the Commssioniers of Ashland -county a few weeks since, to change a publie road, it became necessary to remove the dead from an_old cemetery; among. those removed was the first wife of B. Hershey, who had been buried for fifteen years.— The coftin was found in a state of entire preservation. . Upon opening it the body was found to be entire, the hair still remaining on the head. The corpse retzi-ined its original position’in the coffin and its original proportions, but had hecome petrified ; a piece which was broken off has the appearance of very dry, hard stone.— But the strangest part is yet to come; others, who were buried about the same time, were entirely decayed, excepting the skull and bones. What bas caused this difference? is a question for the scientific to de termine. . The above statement is correct. excepting ' that thé body may have been buried'a year longer. - AReus, Jr.

.7 'Wom @Over. - : M‘l‘.‘ant says-that: seven more Senators have been won over tothe scheme for the purchase of San Domingo, making in all’ twnvr'moré_than “the requ’isite two thirds for the ratification of the treaty. * It will be remembered that when the treaty was last under consideration in the Senate, Mr.-Grant went to the capitol as 4 lobbyist, and sent'for Senators to come and visit him in a room adjacent to the Senate chamber. =As a lobbyist he was not successful. -He confirmed the opposition to the treaty, and provoked Senators who wished him to k‘nm‘v ‘and keep his:placs. . Let e

If it be true that seven more Benators have ‘becn won over to the scheme, the country would be 'glad td learn what ar guments have beenemployed to niake the conversions. .It is not pretended that any new facts have been brought to light, orany new evidence presented regarding the indebtedness of the island. . =~/ - Mr. Grast's anxiety to obtain a country which will ' “afford us'the productions of the tropics? and his asxiety to enable farmers to move their crops by keeping up the price of gold, show his careful consideration of the public iqtemets. 5

- ‘A Kitten Story. A little boy'in this place a few days since came to his mother in a half crying condition, complaining bitterly of Mrs. ~—L'% neighbor, ‘saying that she was possessor of a number of kittens and had refused to give him two of them. While his mother was laboring to ¢onsole him, a brilliant idea 'seemed to enter his head, for exclaiming, “1 koow how to' get some kittens,” he left the room apparently restored to happiness. Shortly after the mother heard a féarful cat-wauling going on ‘in ah out-house; and upon investigation as to the cause of the trouble found her precious son cngaged in an attempt to hold the “house g&aigy;;mdqwn,. in a box.— She released the feline, when what was het Sppuiahibent, ta find that the box copined two P&f‘aﬁ-iﬁlwn;.“vhieh«it 8t once flashed . upor her, the juvenile vmntryx% to make the cat set. for the oxuage =f ‘batehing’ a pair of kittens.— Monroeville Deerar. - 17 Baes SRR

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No. 2.

_The Flirtations of Married Ladies. “Vig," th 2 vivacious local gossip of the Chicago Tribune, reads the 6‘ollowing lec: ture to her married sisters: ~ One other topic I want to touch upon—it is the flirtation of married ‘women. It sounds bad, doesn’t it? Andl wish it were confined to so low a strata of society that you and I need ncver touch upon'ijt. But this isnot so. Women who are wealthy, refined and educated; with good houses and’attentive husbands, are continual- : ly talked about in connection with some flittation which, if not seandalous, is criminally imprudent. A few evenings since a gentleman of this city went to a'lecture accompanied by his wife and two lady friends—all movirg in the highest social circles. While waiting on the street corner for a car the two ladies entered into conversation with a couple of gentlemen, who followed them into the car, and were only prevented from speaking to them by the presence of theéir gentleman attendant. When he remonstrated with them for carrying on a light, trivial conversation with strangers in that way they answered that they enjoyed it—it was such fun. There are hundreds of women in this city to-day -—not young and thoughtless women either—who are idly participating in “such fun,” receiving and encourdaging the attentions of men who, like themselves, are bound by the most solemn vows to others, and who are no less criminal than the ladies in their weak, if not wicked intentions.. i -

Is it an'infatuation ? Is it natural moral depravity, a lack of those good principles which, once firmly established by persistent Christian teaching; can never be shaken, that women part so lightly with their good names, and run the gauntlet of foul suspicion? Wives, too, and mothers who geem to forget that— Pl * A wife suspected is a wife disgraced,” .~ at least in the eyes of those to whom she can neveraffirm her innocence. ‘lt is not love! That is too honest to ‘deal in flirtation or invite scandal. It is selfishness. - It is selfishnéss, vanity of love of admiration, & species of gambling in which character is at stake. Men wrapped up in the cares of business leave their ‘wives alone in fashionable boarding hous s, with - nothing to employ their time or occupy their thoughts ‘except the routine of fashionable digssing, dining and visiting, which, without some higher influence, goes further than anything else to demoralize women, Other men tell her she is pretty ; waylay her on the street corners; meet her at the matinees; take her to the opera, and sip wine with her at fashionable restaurants. They are only pleased ‘with her, but she soon. learns to make it the grand passion of her life. Women will not tell her,-or, 1f they do, it is in such a way as only to accelerate matters. When men begin to talk about her, heav - en help her! And the man for whom she bfaves réorn and dishonor 18 the first to turn his back and walk away on the other side. : A - And some fair woman will read this; and lay it down carelessly, with the remark : “How true,” but she will never think of making the application or imagining it could mean her. . ; : - B— : ‘Prefers to Sleep with White Folks. .- The Seymour 7%imes, the ablest edited Radical paper in Indiana, like hundreds of Radicals in this and every other community nas got too biga dose of genws niyr¢, and lets off as follows: Stubborn fact. - Social equality must cventuate‘in matrimony. Revels can’t be slighted. 'He must be -invited to the President’s and other receptions and le vees. He must sit at table- with fair ladies and fat, bald headed statesmen ——

There is no help for it. There is no provision in the-constitution compelling a Democrat.or an enthused Republican to sleep with a colored person; but the law does incidentally provide that the blacks and whites shall eat together and drink together, dance together and sit“in the halls of legislation, and sleeping togcther will follow asa natural consequence.—Now, we have [no prejudice against the coloted folks. Welike them. ,We have always detended thea from Demoeratic assaults, We did all’in our power to assist 1n emancipating them from slavery. We have always been' their friends. We are their friends today. And time will show that we are better friends to them than the shallow idiots who are urging them to demand office. We repeat that we are friends to the colored people. But after all this we prefer to do ovr eating and sleeping with white folks. leis the true friend of both races who endeavors to separate them.

The radical party is learning economy. Persistence in the good work ' will make it a party devoted to the people’s interest in the course of two or tyree generations. For instance —in 1867 the South was overrun by office-holders, internal revenue assessors, collectors, &c _ Income collectors, by the score, were sent there at big pay. And that year all these agents, in the Seventh District of North Caroliua, collected three dollar s and twenty five cents! The cost_to the government of the official horde, that collected this splendid purse and aided the cause of reconstraction in that district, was eighty five thousand dollars! Two years afterward, in 1869, the collections in the same district, had run up to the sum of nine kundred and thirtysix dollars and| seventy sixv cents! nearly enough to start a national bank. The cost of collecting this sum al o dwindled down tu seventy-nine thousand dollars ! The account, fully stated stands thus : Increase in collections, in two years nine hundred and thirty three dollars and fiftyone cents ! . ‘ Reduqed cost of collecting revenue, in two years, six thousand dollars! * Who dares to say that the radical leaders are notlearning economy ! — Foansville Courier. ¥ A

A Stanner. : - How a Radical mistook his'man is thus told by the Omaha Herald, of the 9th . ultimo : z = The team of one of the' transfer houses started :from the depot yesterday for a. runawa‘%, and were only stopped by the timely interference of Mr. Brooks,/a colored gentleman of the Metropolitan, who rushed ont and grasped the reins of the runaway team. Just at this juncture n 'vc?‘ prominent Radical gentleman wfio bad witnessed the almost super-human ef“fort of the colored brother, and believing that this would be an uaprecedented occasion to put a clincher on the fiftcenth | amendment, pushed his way through the -immense crowd which had gathered, and in a loud voice cxclaimed: “Who dare now dispute yonr right to vote after having risked. your life to save the life and _property of others?” Brooks very coolly answered ; “You bet, I'll vote; and when < .1 do..vote, I'll vote the straight Demn‘cratic ticket, every time.” This was sufficient for the gent with the kids, store’F pipe hat_and cane, suiLhe dil potsom to apprec xm%m of applause tha: simitancously bore from fhe byetundors oIF you have not got two dollsrs for the fifth yolume of the BANNER, send us one got one dollar, send us fifty venits for thres doeow .