The National Banner, Volume 5, Number 20, Ligonier, Noble County, 14 September 1870 — Page 1

'HE NATIONAL BANNER, : ‘Pablighed Weekly by JOHN B. STOLKL, LIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY, IND —f—'—————4.9~——————~ : L TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : _trictlyin BdvADCE. % . ieeeriarnensanner, 82,00 - BWThis 7 {5 published on the Cash Principle, ia Pmpr(ctgra ﬁkﬁzg that it is just as right for. gm to demand advance pay,as it is Jor City publishers. §#¥~ Any person éendlnF aclub of 10, a¢companied with the cash, willbe entitled to a:copy of the paper, for one year, free of charge.

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£ STEAM & 7 POWER PRESS § ; s ‘ 4 { Aioh / ’ PRINTING OFFICE | Y Bio We wonld respectfully inform the Merchants and Business men generally that we are now prepared to do allkindsof ° PLAIN & FANCY PRINTING, “in a 8 good style and at aslow rates as any pnb 4 J lishing house in Northern Indiana. - s At . . Michigan South. & N. Ind’a R. R. On and after May 22, 1870, trains will leave Stacionsasfollows: b . GOINGEAST: = e i : Kxpress. Mdi Train. Kengo,. ... hed R 0 ML TSO AN, SBIKRAr is . ioingoe vy LSO, My 050 10320 P, 08, GOBREN. ,ol tinesrSiase L 304 % 0L 0 A2OB PN, Milterdburg. ~ oo LTI 057 Ligome .il veiian i MOOO W 002 ods 13400 ¢ awaka............(d0n’t5t0p) ...i... I:ss{r. M imflel .Li i sIR L L 2406, 5] g TOL R K G B SRR 5 rrive at T01éd0...... 6:00 AM .........5:556 * i GOING WEST: . Kzpress: MailT rain: 010@0. . e gdviiivivnnes BUOBPM. oivrev 9340 A ML enda11vi11e.......... 1985 AcM:... .. ... 140 P, M, rimfigld: . s BTI S 20l Rion Y awhka,. . ooivicimanl a 0 A oRg: i E 3 ﬁ0nier.,.............1z% 83 a 0 1er5burg............1:47 sl baviepnon et ONNEN (.o i iR b e, osll 8 SEIRDAYS oo schißaan o Bian Arrive at Chicago.... 6:80- *¢ ~.......8:10 * *Stop 20 minutes for breakfast and supper. | Exs)ress'leaves daily ooth ways. Mail Train makesclose ¢onnection atElkhart with traing going East and West. The Lightning Express Tratn leaves Ligonier gong Fast, at 3:35 p. M., and going West at 12:10 v.m, . C.F, HATCH, @en’lSupt., Cleveland. . J. N: KNEPPER, 4 gent, Ligonier. f

Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad. ~ On and after Wednesday, June 22d, 1870, trains will run between Sturgis and Fort Wayne, until further notice as follows: GOING NORTIL. b GOING SOUTH, 880 P M. ..o vOt Wayne, .. ... ... 10 10 A\, 885 ri el haunetion, .l gl 10010 405 R L YYRRON e 940 425 vouvey s espnntertown. .. ... 920 450 iRy A BITIRERL L L 8 8D 455 vSN VRN o s e SDD L e T 025 ekl IO L e 820 535 ....‘.....»Keudu,1(1""1'1110..,.....,. 810 610! iRN T 8 6 30 ieveiat vV OICORtYINe, (L. T 20 6.55 Vs hedess i Y aIBNEIG L. LGOT 0D Tl 5: 0w o SIOAREe S 00l .oo 640 735 cens dabnias snbIBARL Lis. v iuiins 620 /001, .\1.............5tn1‘é1ﬂ..........,.. 600 A, M FEt . E. GORITAM, Sup't. 11, D, Wm.v.nfp ﬂh'}AßE’t Sup’t. HIGGINBOTHAM & SON,

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Watchmakers, Jewelers, AND DEAL‘ERS IN 2 \ ~ Watches. Clocks, JEWELRY: AND FANCY: GOODS Repairing neatly and pr'(:mdptly oxecuted, and ‘4 GOLD PENS KEFOINTED. hﬁggccaclea of the best kinds kKept-constantlyon 2-Sign of thebigwateh)Cavin Street, Ligonier, Indiana._gas ; f may 3, ’66.~tf, REMOVAL, REMOVAL JULIUS H. GOTSCH, : DEALER IN } WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY L e 82C.,; Sz C, o aRNE , %1&3 remove_ginto = i 8 new stand, opi '//'\-—-‘ '—-’@ }:osi!e Jacons %n ﬁ /,3* S, Keiieor's, where 5 . s\}//] 2 Ei— he will be pleased - VI RSO — to see and wait on =SS I (B B ]l his old friends = 3 3 and customers.— - A== Thankful for past e f = favors, he respect‘fully asks a continuation of the same from the citizens of Kendallville and surrounding country. Hisstock oi'igoods is complete, Kendallville, May 18. 1870.-3/ . - ,_.4.._..'_—___...__.___—_____l.6_‘..__“__.—- e A. GANTS, Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, LIGONIER, - ‘- INDIANA. 5 .;'s;"> i I d g o b B z 7 e, Ny, nthe . g ’,‘;} sngéesil‘.ull;;aci NS > tice ofjov:irﬂlo o el years justifies : e e o "”fﬂgp fim in saylug Y. ¢ & = hat he can | * PRI [ ' TG '“' 7 who may bestow their pstrom:lge. @ Office one door north of Kime’s, over Canfield & Emery’s, Cavin Bt. | ATTENTION, FARMERS! F‘bß '-THE BEST &# CHOICEST G ROCERI ES, » . Of Every Description, and for PURE LIQUORS for HARVEST, At Extremely Low Prices, Oall at the store on Cavin st., one door sonth of L, Low & Co.’s Clothing Store, kept by : ~ CLEMENS KAUFMAN, Ligonmier, May 25, 1870.-4 . - ‘ - J.BITTIKOFFER, _ DELER IN ‘ WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEW'LRY,SILVER WARE,NOTIONS, Spectacles of every Description, oo &, &e. Ke., &c. 'AH kinds of w«ﬁ' done gio'n the shortestnotice Shop I Bowars wew Brck Block, Kendallyille, PR i CO Dby o EXCELSIOR LODGE, NO. 267, 3 Sno L’OQOKQDF" g " Meets at their Hall on every Saturday evening o ach week, = v ‘a"”‘ ON, N. &, . m i,“‘.(‘.{ & “ r“ A “ D . 'vi I £ ~-f‘;i"" .E,-‘T.j:" e i - Attorney at Law,—~Alion, Nobleeo,, Ind R Tt AT Wi b o

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WM. L. ANDREWS, , Surg,eon' e - ntist. . )Mitchel's Block, Kendallyille. ANI work warranted. Examinafionsfree. 2-47 . C. PALMITER, Surgeon and Physician, 1 " | Office at Residence, i ; Ligonier, = = - - Endiana. . LUTHER H. GREEN, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public. LIIGOCNIER, - - - - INDIANA. Office on Cavin Street, oyver Sack Bro’s. Grocery, opposite Helmer House. o 41-8-ly . D. W.GREEN, | Justiceof the Peace & Collection Ag't ) Office with L. H, Green, over Sacks’ Bakery, oppo- ! ; site the Helmer House, LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. 9 JA”ES J. LASH, . General Fire & Life Ins, Agent, KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. | Office in. Mitchell’s Biock. Represents all first-clasg comapanies in the United States, 5 G. ERICKSON, M. D., Will give special attention to Office Buriness, from 10 A. M, t 0 3 p. M., for the treatment of Chronic and Surgical Diseases. . Charges reasonable. Office in rear of Drug Stqre, No. 1 Mitchell’s Block, § KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. June 1, 1870, ! E 2 . L. COVELL, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public, : LIGONIER, INDIANA. : ‘VOﬂ"lce. 2d Floor in Mier’s Block, Cavin Street. DR.P. W. CRUM, .. ‘ . Physician and Surgeon, Ligonier, = = = ~ Indiana. Office one door south of L, Low & Co’s Clothing Store, up stairs. May 12th, 1869. AMERICAN HOUSE, U LR AATHAWAY, Prop'r., LIGONIER, - °- - - - INDIANA. HELMER HOUSE, S.B. HELMER, Prop'r, : LIGONIER, - - - INDIANA, This Heuse has been Reﬁttcd and Refurnished _ in Wirst Class Style. TREMONT HOUSE, KENDALL VILLE, INDFANA. NEW COMMODIOUS THREE STORY BRICK Hotel,.only ten rods from the L. S. & M. S. R. . R. De{)ot, and four squares from the G, R. R R.— Only five minutes walk to any of the princH)ul business houses of the city. Traveling men and stran- | gers will find this a first-class house.. Fare $2 per | ﬁa&'. J. B. KELLY, Propr'etor, cnda.‘llville, Aug. 3, 1870.-14

e [T SAMUEL E. ALVORD, Attorney at Law, Claim Agent, and Notary Public, Albion, Noble Co., Ind. Business in the Courts, Claims. of spldiers and heir heirs, Conveyancing, &c., promptly and carefully attended to. .Acﬁnow]edgmentﬁ, Depositions and Aflidavits, taken and certified. . RlCI[:Nl()N]), Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer, ~ Cavin street, Ligonier, Indiana. ‘Special attention given to conveyancing and collections, Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages drawn up. and all legal business attended to promptly and accurately, - i < May 26th, 1868.. M., G. Z’IMMERNI,\N, ATTORNEY AT LA W, Office on Cavin Street, over E. B. Gerber’s Hardware Store, ) LIGONIER, - - - |- INDIANA. August 17th, 1870, | = : D. W. C. DENNY, M. D., Physician and Surgeon,—ZLigonier, Ind. Will promptly and faithfully attend to all calls In the line of his profession—day or: night—iu town or any distance in the :amntr A }gcrsons wishing his serviees at nzﬁht' 11 ﬂng him at his father’s residence, first door east of Meagher & Chapman’s Hardware Store, where all callg, when abseut, should be left. ¢ 1-1 G. W. CARR, : Physiei d N ysician and Nurgeon, LIGONIER, - = =~ =« = = IND., Will promptly attend all calls intrustedto him., Office on 4th St,, one door east ef the NATIONAL Ban~ER office. 3-43 F.W.STRAUS, L BANKER, - Buys and sells Donestic and Foreign Exchange. Passage Tickets to and from all the principal parts of Europe, at the most liberal terms.— ‘Bpeeial-attention given to collections. Money taken on deposit, and Merchants’ accounts-se-licited, and kept on most favorable terms. 42

BANKING HOUSE of SOL. MIER ¢ LIGONIER, FNDIANA. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought, and sold at the lowest rates. Passage Tickets to and from all parts of Europe. Coilection Department has special attention, Merchants’ accounts kept on favorable terms. Money received on deposit. July 27, 1870.13 .

' SACK BROTHERS, Bakers & Grocers. Cavin Street, Ligonier, Indiana. : Fresh Bread, Pies, Cales, &c., Choice Groceries, Provisions, Yankee Notions, &c The highest cash price paid fer Countré Produce May 13, 68-tf. SACK BRO'S.

NEW FIRM AND NEW GOODS Y WOLF LAKXKE, lIND. Notice is hereby given that C. R. Wiley and Samuel Beall have entered into a co-partnership nthe Merchandise business, and that they hayve just unpacked a lurge stock of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, &e. Call and see for yourself. - WILEY & BEALL. Wolf Lake, Nov. 8, 1869.-27tf -

NEW MILLINERY GOODS, : ! —:AT““ | § Mrs. Joanna Belt’s, 2 On Cavin Street, ¢ NEW STYLES ¥FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1870, Just received from Baltimore and Chicago, Fancy Goods, Hair Braids, Switches, Wedding Bonnets, thrnz)nq Bonnets, Baby Caps, &ec. _Marqh 30, 1870.-48 .

JOHN GAPPINGER’S g HARNESS, SADDLE And Leather Establishment, Has been removed to Gappinger & Gotsch’s New Block, (formerly Rossbacher’s Block,) . KENDALLVILLE, - - INDIANA. . 'The highest Prlce pald for Hides, Pelts, &c., and the trade supplied with Leather, Findings, &c., at lowest figures, ; April 6, 1870.-49 i ;

H. R. CORNEIL.IL, Who may always be found af his PHOTOGRAPH ROOMS, Is prepared to take all kinds of pictures in:the latest styles of the art. PARTICULAR ATTENTION paid to copying*old Deguerreotypes and Am. brggym into Catds, and Enlarging, . ork warranted satisfactory in all pases, Ligonier, Ind., Feb. 23, 1870.-48 ELKHART BOOK BINDERY, : at the office of the 4 HERALD OF TRUTH,” ELKHARY, - = = - - - IND. “Wetake pleasure to inform our friends and the public in general, that we have established a o eON ,Bindegg, In connection wita our ¥Yrinting Office, and are * /mow prepared todo sll kinds of Binding, o T ARI P : pr, 29th, 68,1, gl JOHN F. FUNK.

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THE WRESTLING MATCH. [From the Phrenological fournal.] I never see two men wrestling playfully together, but it reminds me of an incident that took place under my -eyes while I was in the army in 1864. Our regiment, which was a cavalry one, had been in quarters for more than two ‘weeks, and our men were begining to wish for some more exciting occupation than picking the worms from their ‘hard tack’ at meal times, and playing with their horses in the intervals. ; ; ‘

We were soon filing out of camp at a cheery but somewhat jerky trot ; and when we got forward on the road to Dabney’s Mills, the jerkiness of our trot was somewhat augmented, though we went on at a very good pace considering the fact that we were going oxer one of Old Virginia’s “corduroy” roads. They are made by simply leveling the ground and laying down poles and saplings from three to eight inches in diameter. They eertainly are the roughest roads to travel that ever were invented either in country or city I have seen horses fall and break both fore lega. A good horse will not average over three miles an hour over these roads. We traveled some twenty miles before reaching the mills, which was very near what was at that time called the “Front.” They were not more than three-quarters of a mile in thé rear, I think, and they were being used as a hospital for our wounded. | After halting at the mills for an hour or gO, we continued on our way to the front, and in a ghort time we camein sight of our inner line of breastworks. There we found everything quiet except when an occasional ghot was given by us and returned by the Johnnies—¢ust by way of keeping each other awake’—as we used to term this pretty little pastime. No second halt was ordered until we came to the outer line of our works, when the bugle again rang out a clear, sharp, decisive peal, -and the order came to dismount, feed the horses and take our rations. e ;

Some New York regiments were encamped along the outer line, Lut the one at whose headquarters we stopped was the — Michigan. They were all fine, tall fellows,dull of life and fun, and continually playing all sorts of tricks on one another. -

One of the men in oar cavalry squadron, by name George Sanders, a Kentuckian by birth, offered to wrestle with one of the Michigan boys for a chew ot tobaceo. The offer was speedily accepted by a young Michigander whom his comrades called Tim. Tim was a tall, muscular young fellow, about six feet two inches “in height, long, sandy, straight hair, and heavy yellow mustachie, evidently one of the crack men of this regiment, and the life of the little group behind him, laughing and joking, and—l must contess it—swearing with everybody within a circuit of a hundred yards around him. Our champion, George, was algo a tall, sturdy young sinner some six feet or nearly so, in height, but he had black hair and sparkling black eyes ; he was, however, equally as sprighsly and full of sport as his opponent, and was also a favorite with his fellow-sol-diers. : ; :

" The terms of the matchiwere easily settled being these: That neither man was to ‘kick shins,” and they were to wrestle ‘side holds.” As near as I can remember the following was the conversation that prefaced it : el ‘I say, chum,” said George, ‘l’ll bet you a chaw tobaceo I can throw you every time.’ e e ‘l’ll bet you twp chaws you can’t’ said Tim.

‘Well,” said George, depreciatingly, ‘I hain’t got but one chaw left out of the two plugs 'that I had last week ago.’ : ; g-*Wel],’ responded Michigan, ‘l'll try you for one chaw just for the fun .of the thing.” ’ . s ‘Then turning to one of his comrades he said : ; .

‘Say, Jack, hold the stakes, will you, till we get through? and don’t chaw mor’n half of it up, 'nuther. If you do——T’ll throw you afterwards for nothing I’ : : v : ‘I say, Tim,’ responded Jack, who was unconcernedly sprawling at full length upon the grass, not the least. Fsconcerted by the threat contained in. is friend’s last sentence, ‘I say, Tim, if you win the stakes I'll go two more chaws agin you; and then we’ll have a spell of it.” i

_The men of our squadron and the Michigan regiment had formed a circle aronnd the contestants, some leaning against their horses, and some stretched on the ground on their blankets; and a continual stream of bantering was kept briskly flowing. Some of them bet pipes and tobacco on the issue—the odds being in favor.of the young Michigander. Belts and coats were thrown off, George saying, ‘l’m hard up for tobacco, and by jinge I'll try hard to win them two chaws ;’ and the two went at it in a livety and really good style ; - and for about, ten minutes neither seemed to get the better of the other. .. S ch

Suddenly, while every face wore a careless smile—while upon every tongue a bantering word - lingered — there came right into our midst a solid shot, It struck nothing but the poor fellow from Michigan.. Him it hit fair in the waist, tearing him completely in two, while the loud langh was yet bubbling up from his throat--the light of an anticipated triumph still in his eye, and the flush of confident success upon his cheek. it

The two men, so full of life and health before, snddenly stood transfixed as by a thunderbolt. Then one of them reeled and fell to the ground a mass of riven flesh, while the other, who received the full wind of the shot, though otherwise nntouched by it, stood for a moment ag if petrified, his ba'r raising straight upon his head; his eyes wide open in a_ hideous maniac stare, his whole face convulsed by a terrible idiotic smile. = Then with a loud unnatural laugh, ‘made: doubly horrible to/us by the sight of ithe mutilated body before him, fell prone. to the ground. When after a lox:ig time, with the aid of whisky and eold water,

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he wag brought back to life, he was a raving lunatic, the concusgion of the shot being of such force as to deprive him entirely of reason. The poor fellow who was: struck never spoke a word or made a sign afterward, though he survived in an unconscious state about three hours after he was taken to the hospital. - ‘ We had all of us been used to seeing death in every ghape, but the white‘ness of sudden fear fell upon many a face in that group of sqrdiers as the terrible messengers of death clove a passage through us, and ‘passing by, everything else went to its destination as unerringly as if sent by some invisible marksman. - - ] P— : A Vexatious Disappointment. "Mark Twain says that while at Naples he ‘poked around and examined a hundzed points of - interest with critical imbecility.” The Grotto of the Dog, however, claimed his chief attention, and his visit to it is thus descrbed: “Everybody bas written about Grotto 'del Cano and its poisonous vapors, from Pliny down to Smith, and _every tourist has held a dog over its floor by the legs to test the capabilities ‘of the place. The dog dies in a min’ ute and a half—a chicken instantly.— As a general thing strangers who ‘crawl in there to sleep do not get up until they are called.. And then they don’t either. The stranger that ventures to sleep there takes 4 iermanent | contract. I wanted to see this grotto. I resolved to take 'a dog and hold him myself ; suffocate him a little and tame him; suffocate him some more and then finish him. We reached the grotto at about three in the afternoon, and proceeded at once to make the experiments. But now an ' important difficulty presented itself. -~ After T had taken off my coat and bathed a handkerchief with cologne, and tied it over my face, and .got all ready, and was wrought up to the highest pitch of en thusiasm, I recollected that we hadn’t any dog. This toned me down some. Well, I thought the matter over, and’ concluded to go back to a house, about a half a mile away, where I had seen a dog, and see if I could borrow it.— Brown grumbled a good deal, for the day wak hot, but my interest was hot, too, and we started. And go we tramped,; tramped, tramped, till 1 thought we had walked ten miles, and at last we reached the house all fagged out. ‘We sat there and chatted awhile, and dropped gently into the subject of the dog, and found that the woman who owned him' was prejudiced against loaning him out to be éxperimented on with poisoned air. It was singular, but we had no timete discuss the foolish prejadices of “thpm pheasants,” as Brown calls the peasantry,and so we just bought the dog out and out, and started back. It was a long pull, and asteady one. Pull is the correct word, because the dog didn’t want to:come, and so we had tohaul him, turn about, by a long rope he had about his neck. Sometimes that dog would eit down and brace his forepaws, and it took both of us tostart him ; and when he did come he would come with a yelp, a skip and ‘a jump, and then he ‘would prance twenty steps to the right and twenty to the left, with his paws in the air and his collar half over his eatrs and cavort around like a lunatic. ' And Brown would ‘tair back’ on the rope and sweat and swear. He swore at me, too, far wanting to take so much trouble to try some foolish experiments. This person had no appreciation of seience. . - 1

“Well, toward sunset we got the dog to the plaee, and I took off my coat iin a fever of excitement, and rolled np my sleeves, and saturated. my handkerchief again and tiéd- it over my nose. And then—and just then, affer all my' trouble and vexation, the dog went up—and -smelt. Brown’s_breath and laid down and died.” i .

‘At'Niagara Falls, the other day, a petroleum princess from Pennsylvania, espied a loose chignon in the room of a young lady of very delicate sensibilities. The strange head gear at once aroused all of her feminine curiosity, and without ceremony she: picked it up and started off to find the owner.— The young lady was taking a stroll at gome distance from the hotel when Miss Pennsylvania approached her, holding the ‘thing’ out at arm’s length. ‘Good gracious! what has that girl got? exclaimed one of the party, upon observing her. But before an answer could -be made the mischievons female: thrngt the chignon inte the astonished face of its owner, with, ‘I say miss, can I borrow this new-fangled wig of yours for a little while; I want pop to buy me one like it? It became her’s at once, by gift. = 5 —_——— ‘Some boys at Oshkosh, Wis., put a hornet’s nest under the cushion of a sofa in a church pulpit, and when the minister sat ' down after reading a hymn, he got right up withou¢ being told. e said he did not feel like preaching that morning and the congregation went home in a/hurry. ; el Bt i 110 North Carolina trops are reported promiging. - il gl Lalgd

Whittemore Again, o The spotless W hittemore, who, strange 3 2 LYW & i as it may appear, a Radical Congress c¢x. pelled from the House qf Representatives, for selling Cadetships, has declined a renominatiga for Congreig's in his District, and is now actively éngaged in manipulating the Legislature of South Carolina, with a view, to secure # seat in the United States Senate, in the place of Robertson, whose term expires in March, 1871. His success in that direction lies solely. with the people and Leglslature of South Carolina. Great Heavens! Whittemore occupying a seat in the United States Senate would be like the Devil occupying the pulpit in any of our Churches! We blush forshamel. . - - =.. , .“ (A lAk |O“' ‘;’ o .7= ‘ Tt'ie said that the Onondaga salt ring has come up with $lO,OOO as an induce‘ment for Schenck to.regonsider his determination to. Withdraw, from goy, turther u:c-gndfd(gf for C'ougal“g&‘ If two or three ‘other rings 'willl advance $lO,OOO aplece thé poverty stricken Schenck may be-in: duced to sacrifice himself, :

. A ROBBER OUTWITTED. ‘ I went to Tovent Garden Tlieatre one'night last season. [We were let out at 12 o’clock, and I set off to my lodgings. I knocked ; there was no answer. I knocked again; a window was_thrown up, and my landlady’s head appeared. ‘Who are you,’ she screamed. d‘Lep’s in, pleage; it’s me,’ I answerea. 4 ‘Then;, Mr. Me, if you don’t come home afore ten, you may stay out till mornin’. -1 never wait for my lodgers —my door is closed at ten !’ and then the window closed with a bang. - ‘No go,” thinks I. Thave no money. “I’ll go-to a railway etation, and wait inthe waiting room til morning ;' which resolution I proceeded to-carry out by walking quickly for thebank. I tarned into L‘(i‘oorgate Street, and was just thinking whether I should go to the London Bridge station. - 1 stopped to think. There was a confectioner’s shop just in front of me. Oh, that it were open. I had three pence left. “Just at this moment a tall, broadshounldered man came up to me, and viewed me from top to toe. I looked at him, He was dressed in dark clothes ; a pea-jacket and a clap-trap cloth hat, with a peak lying level on his forehead, gave me a feeling of awe. The thought forced itself upon me that he was a garroter. He spoke first. ~ ‘You’re Mr. Sam? and he laid his - finger on his nose. “You've guessed it,’ said I, thinking it best to agree with him, but my name was Tom. RS

‘Then come along,” and away we went. : : ‘Did Butler give you e’er a pistol ?,’ he asked. ; iy ~ “No,’ said I, beginning to tremble. ‘He said he wanted them for himself.’ «Just like him. He told me Fd find you standing in Moorgate street, be-, tween 12 and 1 .o’clock, opposite the confectioner’s with your right hand in. your pocket.’ s ol ‘l’m in for it,” thinks I, ‘but T must go through with it.” He led me through a labyrinth of streets, walking' rather fast, till we emerged upon the City Road. Then he made straight for the Angel, and from thence took a cab to Fleet street. What object he had in doing this I cannot say. He did not offer to explain ; in fact, not a word passed between us till we got out at the top of Ludgate Hill.. - s From thence he went into a back street, and out of that into another, no matter which, and suddenly stopping oppogite a shop, he exclaimed': ““There’s our crib.’. ‘ls it,” said I. ooy e

Whereupon he produced from his pocket a rule. The shop was evidently a tailor’s, as it had bars standing out, like the rounds of a Jacob’s ladder, from each side of the door to exhibit.stock upon. My friend stepped on the first of these, which was three feet from the ground, and speedily meagured the height 'of a large glass fanlight over the door; then stepping down again, he measured the breadth of door, and as the tanlight was square he 'muttered to me by way of giving its dimentions : ; L

- “Three and a half by two high.’ and chuckled quietly. o Then he ¢rossed the road, and I followed, and he explained that we must wait till the policeman passed. Presently he hove in sight about teagminutes afterwards, while we walked past him, and we watched him from a corner.

“T'wenty minutes and a half between coming and going,’ exclaimed my companion. ‘And a handy beat; for he comes up the corner there’—pointing a little beyond the shop—‘and goes down this street nmext-our’s,” . The impression began to steal over me that I was committink, or helping to commit, a febony, and that if caught I might get into trouble. I thought of running for it ; but the remark my companion made at-.that moment, to the effect that it would be a short run if deserted him (for he seemed to see I didn’t like: the job) deterred me. 1 dared not explain that he had made a mistake, for ‘I felt sure that he had mistaken me for some ally of his own. ‘I must go through with it,” thinks I, ‘He'll leave me outside to watch, and 'l hook it then.” - So I went on with him. : 4

He crossed the street again the moment the policeman was past interfering with us,” and producing a piece of stout black cloth, he applied the rule thereto, I holding it against the shutters while he set out three and a half by two thereon. This done he cut it within two inches of the measurement all around, and then he pro“duced a treacle pot from his -pocidt, and smothering one side of the .cloth with treacle, he desired me to hold it, and mounted the shop door, and I gave him the cloth, which he immediately clapped on the skylight, the treacle making it adhere firmly to the glfms. Then looking at the watch, he eried : i :

By gosh, he’ll be here this minute!’ and away he walked., We stopped and waited, but the policeman came not, My friend uttered an oath, adding, I'll go. “Come along, bat keep your weather eye open:.' And off we wenb. 11 i Sk . ‘Perhaps he’s watching us,” I suggested. - But the idea was discarded ; as not the nature of such a policeman as the one we saw. ! | We arrived at the shop. He mounted again, and drove .a. string through 8 hole in . the cloth, . Then:he:ran a dismond round. the edge of the glass. A gentle tap and it gave way. . Now I ‘ saw the use of the cloth ‘and string; and he slowl{ let it into the shop, and producing a long shaped pad, he laid it along the fanlight to cover up the edge, and threw one leg into the opening, and got astride of it: . = . *Fallow me,” he muttered; and then he ducked his head under:the doorhead. ' But before he could ‘draw in tho other leg I moutited the ladder, ‘and ‘zasiiing;iw gave him a pull that 'kgﬁ;‘t him fr mf%hﬁ the gge yellir ,P&l,tc Thigves |, Murder ! %oliefe‘-i at the top of my voice. - And 1o and behold, the policeman appeared

at the corner that moment. A horri‘ble oath from within, a pistol bullet whizzing past my head, and I ran for life and death. I did not stop till I found myself in Broad street. o In the next day’s paper I saw an account of the capture of a burglar by one policeman, who had watehed #wo burglars from the corner, and saw one enter the house, and the other leap up the wall like a cat, grab a disappearing leg, yell ‘police’ and run. - The one that was caught got seven years penal servitude. “The police are searching vigilantly, though as yet unsuccessfully, for the other, wha it appears; is a desperate character,’ - They never caught him.

l . Business is Business, + The Louisville Courier-Jounnal has had a most admirable editorial on the mistak“en ideas of the duties of a journalist to“wards the -politician. It asks, “ Why -should a:newlsi)aper make itself the free conveyance of one. class of enterprise whilst eharging a regular advertising tariff for another class of enterprise? What isthe difference between Jones, the candidate for constable, and the interest of Barker or Andrews, candidate for favors of another sort? One ‘man wants the people to engage his services as a public officer, and to pay him for his services ; another wishes not to scll his services directly, but his dry goods or gréceries.’"—— But both are advertisers; both wish to display their peculiar wares to the best ddvantage; but one comes along and urges that because he wants an uffice he ought to get his advertising for nothing. = This might be a plausible plea if'he proposed to charge nothing for filling the office.— But not a bit of it. Tle proposes nothing of the kind.. On the contrary he expects to get better .pay-in the public service thakheé gets out of private business,— Therefore, why should he go free? - - Does he get his law for nothing, or his .physic for nothing because he and his attorney, or his doctor, are of the same politics? Does he board free at a hotel because he and his landlord vote the same ticket? Does he ride on the cars for noth‘ing because he and the conductor are members of the same party or church ?— Why should he have the freedom! of the press, the run of columns which cost great sums of money, and are more expensive than any other class of enterprise, because he and the paper question are on the same side? Is there anything very venal in saying to him, ‘We have no personal interest in you at all. Wé don't even know you, You may or may not be fit for the office you aspire to. ' It is not the public interest that you should be preferred, by us at least, over another who may be as good or'a better man for the place. The proclamation of your merits is just as much a-part of your private interest as thie advertising of any part/of your husiness. ~ At present you h:‘tp#en not to be selling goods, but running for office; that isall. But, as far as you are concerned, it is all the same—that is a matter of business with you. You are’ merely a pri: vate business man after an cffice, and if we opened our columns to -the gratuitous use of every one who wants an office we should have room’ to print nothing but letters complimenting, Brpwn, Jones, un(‘l‘ Smith.’ : T M i

2 To See Into a Well. - . The Journal of, Agriculture suggests an lexcellent plan for exploring the bottom of a well, cistern or pond of water, by the use of & common mirror. When the sun is shining brightly, hold a mirror so that the reflected rays of light will fall' into the water. A bright spot will be seen at the bottom, so light as to show the smallest object plainly. By this means we have examined the bottom of wells fifty feet deep, when half tull or more of water. The smallest straw or other small object can be perfectly seen from the surface. In the some way- one can examine the bdttom of ponds and rivers, if the water be somewhat clear, and not agitated by winds or' rapid motion. If a well or cistern be under cover, or shaded, by buildings, so that the sunlight will not fall near the opening, it is only "neéeSSary lo employ two mirrors, using one to reflect the light to the opening, and the other to serd it down perpendicularly into the water. Light may be thrown fitty or a hundred yards to the precise spot required, and reflected downward. We have used the mirror with' success to - flect the light around a field to a shaded spot, and also to carry it from a south windaw through two rooms, and ‘then into a cistern under the north side of the ho;use.l'_ Half a dozen reflections of the light may be made, though each mirror dimigishes the brilliancy cf the light.— Let aQ one, not familiar with this method try 'it, dnd he will find it not only a useful but pleasing experiment. It will perhaps: reveal a mass of sediment at the bottom of a well that has been littlé tho't of,. but whieh'may have been:a fruitful source of disease by its decay in the water. SRR 2R B D 7

' Grant vs. Admiral Farragut. . ‘lt is a noteworthy fact that neither President Grant nor any of the Government functionaries about Washington attended Admiral Farragut's funeral. The Admiral, during his lifetime, rendered some marked services to his coimtry, which, to say the least, deserved some consideration and official recognition at the hands of the government. But, it appears, Gen. Grant, fecling aggrieved because the Admiral declined to follow his political fortunes, took this oocasion to slight, his. menory, . The peopleof the United States, however, feol differently’ toward thegal. lant Admiral, and will treasure his mem~ory in thelr hearts when that of President Grant will have passed away. | Grant has plenty. tine to “fedst and tonst ” at Long ‘Branch and ‘otHer 'places, but when it coins to do Bouor fo » gllant offcer who spent bis whole life in, tho service of his weountiy,: he shows'a gnmm of spirit that places hitn beneath the dignity ‘of the axgllted' pgltmgihwb%&mgﬂeg ' upon to occupy. o

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© THE RHINE, .. - . Its Source—Elevation above the Sea—lts Tributae ries — Length and Bm;yadth-—lnhnds -eNayl‘ggble Portions. s ey - The Riyer Rhine is formed in Switzerland by the union of two small streams, ‘the Hinter and Vorder Rhine. ~The first springs from the glacier of Rheinwald, and the second rises on the North side of Mount St. Gothard, at a height of 7,650 ft., these meet at Reichenau, in the canton of Grisons. ~ The united stream flows generally north, past Mayenfeld, and enters. the Lake of Constance on the%sout’h-cﬁst, | near Rheineck ; at Stein it quits the lake ab its west extremity, flows west past Schaffhausen and Laufenburg, separating Switzerland from Bavavia. - At Basle, - where the Upper Rline terminates, jwith ~an elevation of 755 feet and a' breadth of 350 feet, it turns to the north and flows past Breisach and Strasbourg, Speyerand Manheim, where its bed is 300 feetabove the sca, between the territories of Baden . on the east, and France and Rhenish Bavaria.on the west. - From Worms fdilledtz it ‘traverses the Hessian territories. At Mentz it receives the Main, and flows west to Bingen, where it turns to the northwest, ,passing -Coblentz, Bonn, Cologne, and Dusscldorf, Wessel, and Emmericlf; below which it divides into two principal arms, the larger of which; called - the Waal, or Wahal, (anc. Vahallis)joins the Meuse (or Maas). The other, which still retains the name of Rhine, falls into the North Sea in 52 deg. 13 m. north latitude. The principal affluents of the Rhine are, on the right, the Kinzig; Neckar, Main, Lahn, Ruhr, and Lippe ; and on the left, the Thur, Arr, Tll, and Moselle. The total length of the Rhine; following its winding, is about 960 miles, and its basin.comprises an area of 65,280 square miles. The breadth of the Rhine and the character of the channel differ much at difitrent parts of the long course. Its breadth at Basle is 750 feet; between Strasbourg .and: Speger, from 1,000 to 1,200 feet ; at Mentz, from 1,500 to 1,700 feet; and ‘at Schenkenschanz, where it enters the Netherlands, 2,150 feet. Its depth varies from five to twenty-eight feet, and at Dusseldorf amv(_i’.fmts even to. 50 feet. The elevation of the Rhine above the sea level is, at the Col d'Ober’ Alp, 9,967 feet; at Reichenan, 2,021 feet ; at Cohstanc’e, 1,325 feét ; at Dasle; 771 feet ; at Kebl, 463 feet; and at Cologne, 121. fecet. From' the Lake of Constance to Basle it has a very rocky bed, but lower down, coritains numerous islands, partly composed of clay’and sand.. From Breisach several of the islands are clothed with herbage, and even admit of cultivation; between Strasbourg and Germershemn they form thickets of brushwood. The Rhine first Decomes ‘navigable - at Chur,. (Coire,) in the Grisons; but. the navigation is not’ continuous till below Schaffhausen; and the traffic n loaded | vessels is not important above Speyer.— From Strasbourg to Mentz the burden of the vissels in "which it is carried on is from 100 to 125 tuns ; from Ments to Cologne, 125 to 2@o tuns; and from Cologne to Holland, from 300 to 450 tuns, ~~

; Ladies Riding Astride. A lady describes her horseback ride to ‘the Yosemite Valley as follows: “Had any one told.me before’l started that I should be seen riding my horse astride into the Yosemite, whatever. the ties of plood between us, all friendly intercourse between that person and myself would have been temporarily suspended. = When one, more venturesome than wise, suggested a mau’s saddle for me, T curdled him: with the remark : “May I inquire if you itake me for a natural fool?” I decided that the combined forces of the universe should not entice or compel me to do'such violence to every womanly instinct. But I came to it. - Extremity of physical tortare brought me to it. -I shifted my po sition voluntarily, and retained the new. ‘An experienced rider may. keep her seat going over the rough mountain trails, even so, & side saddle is merciless to your horse: He needs his full poise “and strength to every step. - You need to keep your foot firm in your stirrup—your weight, of ne“cessity, falls-to- one side — your horse’s back becomes sore, his joints strained, and ten to one he falls with you, cr quietly dies down. = If youarenot an experienced rider, let me charge you by all means to take a gentleman’s position on your saddle. It may be embarrassing; you will doubtless experience the gensation of convicted shoplifters every time you meet -anybody, but rather /suffer the pangs of mortification than those of dissolution.— I am convinced: that,. }‘w‘\c'lul retained: mys side ‘position, I’ should have required twelve baskets for my remains, and never known what killed me.” - - o

' A'Question Well Answered. The Chillicothe’ Advertiser asks : “Isa man’s money worth more than his life?— According to Radical theorizing it is,— They insist that the bondhclders should pay no tax because.in the exigency of the nation' they eame forward and gave the ‘government the use of their money ; but we are not aware that they have made any sueh grateful provisions for the soldier ‘who came_forward and offered the government higlife. ‘We know a soldier who lost a leg at Murfreeshoro ‘after three years of incessant toil 'and danger'in the service of his'country, who pays taxes on thie horse'and “eart’ with which he keeps ‘hig family out of the jaws of starvation, ‘while living within a stone’s throw of his humble domicil, resides a man ‘who bought goveriment bonds at forty cents on a dolar; and‘holds fifty “housand dolars worth of them on which he pays o taxes. The ‘dead. soldier’s widow pays taxes on her only cow, but the aristocratic bondholder -pays not one cent ot his hoarded wealth. ‘Let us have equatity’ If the use of money ‘borrowed on & big shave at “usurious in-‘terest-is worth %ﬂﬁmhfﬁﬁﬂ from taxation, sthesuse of muscle; ‘blodd, health; life, in o i e i'y b 0 ot ioperty 1 -our million of soldiers meet with like faWD an e iR s

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~ FOR WHOM WILL YOU VOTE? The season promises to be one of great abundance in everything produced from the soil. The grain and cotton crops are likely to be greater than ever before, and this abundance will of course tend to proportionately reduce the prices which the producers will realize. . | i - While this is so as to all agricultural products, what is the promise — or the “threat rather — in regard to everything that is manufactured ; everything in the way of woolens, cottons, iron, steel ? . Congress, after spending more time during the session on the tariff bill than on almost all other subjects combined, just before adjourning, passed a tax and tariff bill together, which, while professing to reduce the tuxes so burdensome]to the people, at the same time very ingeniously increases the tax or tariffon what the people are consuming, reducing it ‘where it need not be reduced, but adroitly increasing it where it is already ted great - all, too, in the interest of the monopolists. What is to be the fate of the farmer and ‘workingman? What will be done by the millions, engaged in all kinds of work, who are taxed more and more for the benefit of the few thobsands who are, engaged in manufacturing ? i S . Another Congress is to be chosen the coming fall, and the question is pressing itself on the attentiou of the farmers and - workingmen of the country, “How shall we vote?” Whether for such mep as have shown such indifference to the real interests of the country, and have:scarcely passed a single act which will be of real benefit, or for mefi willing to give such pledges of faithfulness to the interests of the public as they will not dare to disregard ? / B E g

Will they vote for those whose only effort has been directed to increasing the burdens of the consumer, and adding to the advantages of the capitalist? for those who double the cost of every plow or ham-mer-or coat to the farmer, at-the very time when they are ‘doubling the cost of sending his produce to market by the infamous tax on steel rails? - Or will they vote for those who have persistently fought for the interests of the consumer by seeking areduction of the fearful taxes on salt,. and iron, and lumber, -and epal ? — Free Trader. e

-~ Do Bees Make or Gather Honey ? Whether bees make or simply gather ‘honey, seems yet to be a disputed point. There m;er wrierssays the Scientific Press, ‘who assert that the nectar of the flowers gathered by the bee is simply 4 portion of'its foed and drink, and that the honey deposited in the cells comes from the honey-secreting glands which are aniﬂnj gous to the milk-secreting. glands of other animals; that the honey bag of the bee performs the same office s does the udder of the cow.. In other words, that bees make their honey. Such writers arguc that if it were not so, when a._ bee gathers molasses it would gather molasses, ete.,, while the fact is, that the va; rious kinds ot materials upon which the’ bee works, simply modify the character of the honey. - Pt

There are others who reason quite dif-’ ferently—who assert that-the bee simply gathers honcy formed by naturcin the- - Such persons attribute the differences obsérved in honc¥ to the fact that évery kind of flower secrets a-melli-~ fice substance peculiar to itself, partak. ing, toa greater or less extent, of the proprieties of the plant upon which it is fourd. Hence, some kinds of honey are very. obnoxious—others even poisonous. In some - localities ‘people think it is-not safe to cat honey at all until after it has been boiled—a process which is- thought to: evaporate the "poisonous qualities.— When “doctors” .so ' disagree it might be considered presumptious for even the scientific press to decide. So we leave this’ matter still an open question. : B < We believe, however; it is generally agreed that bees never-mix the different kinds of honey when depositing them in the hive. If t-hey commence to work on -white ¢lover (which. makes the best honey), so long as that kind of “feed” can ‘be obtaiued, they will work on nothing else ; and allthe white clover is deposited in cells by itself. When they leave that for buckwheat or any other food, they commence depositing “in adjoining cells, or on & separated piece of comb. . Experienced bee-keepers, who areaware of this instinct, often remove the combs which are filled during the continuance of the clover; because after the cells are all filled it is difficnlt to distin- * guish this from any other. ~ Exhibitors of honey at fairs not unfreqently take advantage of this to secure an article, with which to secure the highest prize, when the balance or average of the stock would be quite inferior. i G

Russia—The Empire Arming —Three X i~ Armies in Motion. 7 - The Irish T%mes, August 20th says that whatever may be reported to the contrary, it is averred that Russia is arming. For ' many years the information of the Silecian Gazette, from the interior of Russia, has always proved correct. The manner in which the Breslau newspaper collects its Russian news is its secret ; the nature of the commerce of the Breslau probably explains, Besides the cighty thousand men who are now, to. everybody’s knowledge, concentrated at and near Warsaw, the camp ‘at Miendzyboz, in Podolia; where in other years about 20,000 men used to assemble for maneuvering in'summer, now contains already two divisions of infantry, eleven regiments of cavalry, - including two Cossack regiments, and a considerable force of artillery. Reinforcements, besides, are expected from provinces as far off as the government districts of Kasah and Simbirsk. - At the sgime time the camp is being formed after| the Totleben method, and provisioned for a long time. Another division of infantry is assembled near Liuck, in' Podolia, not - far from Miendzyboz, and here, likewise, a fortified camp in course of construction. ~ Another force is collecting in Bessarabia, and large stores of provisions are on-their way thithor. - But what is most significant is, that all the regiments composing these three armies have called in their: reserves now, - before the harvest imh‘mugmin. N o fnddimes hese three aruies e closely encrcling b TZ* S e | Roscanewill inakeh hw iol