The National Banner, Volume 5, Number 36, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 January 1871 — Page 1

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- SBTBAM POWER PRIESS PRINTING OFFIEC. We . would respegtful{lyl inform’ the Merchants and Buasinexs ujen ieuerully that we are now Bl ; prepared tO do -all kinds of : T PLAIN & FANCY PRINTING, J | n as good style and at as low rates as any pob * lishing housein Northern Indiana. e e s S Michizan South. & N. Ind’a R. R. On and after December 4th, 1870, trains will leave ; (o Susvtone ar follows S GUING-EAST : 3 Lightning . ° . Kzpress Mail Chicag0......... 920 am.... 586 pm.... §5 am “Elkhart ........108pm.... 985 pmi.... 1015 am G05hen,......... 125 pm ... 1015 pm ...10 46 am Millersburg .....t1 36 pmis . +lO3l pmn ... 11 10 am Ligonier ........ 145 pm.... 1045 pm ...11 3] am Wawaka,.......T1 52 pm .. 11058 pm.... 11 46 am Brimdeld ......12 4pm...T1107.pm .. .11 89 pm Kendallvill ..., 219 pm.... 11 20 pm ...12 20 pm Arrive at Toledo 520 pm.... 25)am.... 435 pm . - GUING WEST : T01ed0..........11 dbum ... 1201 am,..710 10 am Kendallville., ... 1303 pm.... 805 am.... 219 pm 8rimtie1d........1315pm.... 1322 4nf.... 240 pm Wawaka........ 1321 pm.... 1330 am.... 250 pm Liﬁ.mier civessse 330pm0... 340 am.... 3 05 pm Mi ler?urg «o. 1847 pm... #3854m.... 3 25 pm G05hen1,...;0....400pm ... 4 10am.... 345 pm -®Elkhart.,...... 420 pm.... 430 am.... 415 pm ‘Arrive at Chicago B 20 pm ../ 820 am.... 820 pm - *Stop 20 minutes for breakfast and supper. +Trains do not stop. ¢ ‘ Expresx leaver daily both wn?'s. i ! Mail Train maker close. connection at/Elkhart with trains going East aud Wenst. e . C.F. HATCH, Gen’lSupt., Cleveland. J. N. KNEPPER, Agent, Ligonier. Pittsburg, Ft. W. & Chicago R. R. 3 From and after Dec. 4th, 1870, ! GOING WEST. | - f Nol, No b, No 7, No 3. e Fastke Mail. Pac Kz. Night Ev. Pittsburg...... 1385 w 7:loam 10:554m - 3:2opny Rochester..... 2:45am BS:4oam 12:05pm 4 :22pm A11iane........ s:osam 11:45am . 3:oopm T7:oopm " QOrrville. ...., 6:54am I:s2pm 4:45pm 8:3-pm. Mansfield.. ... 9:o3am 4:35pm . 6:52pm 10:32pw Crestline. Ar. 9:35am 5: Upm 7:2spmy 11:00pm Crestline .JLv 10:08am s:soam 7:45pm 11:1 pm F0re5t.....0... 1127 am 7:33am 9 20pm 12:35am Lima..........12:2°pm 9:ooam 10.40 pm 1 :3%m Ft Wayne..... 2:3opmn 1) :45am I:2sum - 3:soam Plymouth .... 4:sopm 2:25pm 3:57am [ 6:2oum - Chieago ......i T.3opm 5:55pm T:ooum 9:ooam o £ . QGOING EAST. ¢ S ; 1 NoB, No? 2, No 8, No 4. Muil. Fust Ex. Pac Ex. NightEx | C0icag0....... s:soam 9:ooam s:lspm. 9:oopm = Plymouth..... 9:soam 12:03pm 9:ospm 12:35am Ft Wayne ... 12:50pm: 2:25pm 11:25pm 3:2oam Lima .;....... 3226 pm 4:o6pm I:3sam s:4oam F0re5t........ 4:43pm_ s:oBpm 2:43am _ 7:oTam Crestline .. Ar. 6:2opm’ 6:3opm 4:2oam” B:ssamm ‘Crestline .. Lv. 6:ooam 6:sopm 4:3oam| 9:35a1m Manstleld ..... 6:4oam 7:l7pm s:o)ami 10;05am OrrviHe ....... 9;lsam : 9:ospm G;s4am 11;55am | Atliance, ..5..1130am.10;45pm s;soam I;3opm Rochester..... 2:35pm'12;55am 11:050m 3;37pw i Pittshurg ..... 3;45pm I;ssum 12;10pm 4:3sopti 2 No. 1, daily except Mondays; Nes. 5, 3,8 and 2, ‘ . .daily except Sundays; Nos, 7, and 6, daily; No 4, daily except Sutur(fnya aud Sundaps. | | St S F. R. MYERS, General Passenger and Ticket Agent |

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Watchmakers, Jewelers, : T An::;) UEALKRS [N Watchness Clocks, ‘ JEWELRY AND EANCY GOOD* Repairing neatly and promptly executed,and { warranted. ) Gold Pens Rep.inted at City Prices Agentg for Lazarus & M rris’ Celebrated Shectseles, - - : §¥"Sign of the big watch; Cavin Street, Ligonier. Indiana._ gy, i may 3, '66.-tf. oy - A, GANTS, : Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, _ LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. o ~ Is pr ed i ;P&‘ﬁ;‘ ;'»{.o dE) ?n;x:ﬁirux it ) n their line. 7 f - : scerful” s 'Mz&, :;lé: ?)Hf nuvg:!-'“l(h 'ﬁg“‘é gww‘?ﬁ; l‘;s:.v tin:l-l«:ryi:; \ 2 ”'”' il #’s" iy é‘;i\?(:entfre:::j iR v ‘ _‘L‘ ;;n(():ti::;‘;o ;l(!’ stow their patronage. E¥ Office one door north of Kime’s, over Canfleld & Emery’s, Cavin St. e ———— J. BITTIKOFFER, DELKR IN . : Nav et e Y WATCHES, ' CLCCKS, JEW'LRY,SILVER WARE,NOTIONS, Spectacles of every Description, L &c., &e. &, &c. i " Allkinde of work done gt the shortestnotice and warrantgd ax to durab mg = Sh"lv in Bowen's new Brick Block, Kendallville, Indiana. 2-31 . R. CORNELL., * Who may alwdys be found at his ! Y PHOTOGRAPH ROOMS, Is rrepnred‘;yto take all kinds of pictures in the ~ lutest utyles of the art. PARTICULAR ATTENTION paid to cupyincg old Degaerreptypes and Ambrotvpes into Cards, and Enlw ging. “ Work warranted satis dctory in all cases. Ligonier, Ind., Feb. 23, 1870. 43 . ELKHART BOOK BINDERY, dbis at the office of the 5 "HERALD OF TRUTH,” ELKHART, -~ - - - .= - IND. . We take pleasure to inform our friends and the publicin general, that we have established a Book Bmdegg Y In comnection witn our Frinting Office, and are - mow prepared to do all kinds of Binding, . such ar _Books, Pamphlgts, Maga- ] zines, Mndc, promptly and / on reasonable terms, ‘pr. 29th,'68.-tf. . JOHN F. FUNK. SAMUEL E. ALVORD, Attorney at Law, Claim 'Agent, and Notary Public, Albion, Noble O, Ind. Buasiness in the Courts, Claims of soldiers and iy atnden o Acknowlotgments, Depost n A 0 tions wud ASidsvits, taken aud certified. - . 2 i ; ﬁ_“’u ‘

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. WM. L. ANDREWS, ' Surgeon Dentist. Mitchel’s Block, Kendallville, All work warranted. lxamlnagoné free. 241 o C. PALMITER, © . Surgeon and Physician, | Office at Residence. ! ‘ Ligonier, = = o = Indiana. | W. D. RANDALL, Physician and Surgeon, LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA. wil pron‘:pﬂ‘% attend to iall callx, day or night. Office’over Moare & Tharp's drug store. November 2, 1870,-27 G. ERICKSON, M. D., Will give special attention to Office . Buxiners, from 10 A. m, to3'p. M". for the treatment of Chronic and Surgical Diseasens. -Charges reasonsble. Office in rear of Drug Store, No. 1 Mitchell’s Block, ; KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. June 1, 1870, s L-DRP W. CRUM, ; - - 'O. Physician and Surgeon, Ligonier. « « « . Indiana. . Office-one door routh of L, Low & Co’s Clothing Store, up stairs, Mayl2th, 1869. D.W. C. Dexxv, M. D. | P. H. Arvrion. . "DENNY & ALDRICH, Physiciansand Surgeons, LiGONIER, INDIANA, Will ‘promptly and f:iithmlly attend to all calls ‘n the line of their profession—day or night—iu town or any distance in the country. . ~ _G. W.CARR, N . = Physician and NSurgeon, LIGONLIER, - - - - - - IND, Will promptly attend all calls intrustedto him. Office on 4th St., one door east ef the Nationan Banwsgr ofice. iy 348 . C. Hostetter, Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, ~ LIGONIER, s« INDIANA ; Artificinl teeth inserted, in fall or partial sets upon ;run:bdr, rold, silver, ind the new adamantine base. ,Espebin%aueuunn given to'filling, cleansing ar.d preserviug the natural teerth, - Eutire natisfaction w:nrrumeh in all cares. Examinations free. 8%~ Office uver Moore & Tharp’s druy store. b . ees it mbsesiblt ¢_ ot ettt s e JAMES J. LASH, h& General Fire & Life Ins. Agent, KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. Office in Mitchell’=s Biock. Represents all first-class companies in the United States. 5 : L. C’(’“ EI‘.A. Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public, LIGONIER, INDI/NA. MAce, 2d Floor in Mier’s Block, Cavin Street. LUTHER H. GREEN, \ttorney-at-Law & Notary Public. " LIGOCNIER = - -~ 4 INDIANA, ffice on Cavin Strcet, over Suck Bro's. Groery, opposite Helmer House. t 41-8-1 y . . W. GREEN, / Justi aot onAgt, Justiceofthe Peace & Collection Ag't Office with L. H. Green, over Sacks’ Bakery, oppoe?le the He!mer House, LIGOXNIER, . - INDIANA. 9 ; E. RICHMOND, 4 Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer, Cavin street, Ligonier, Indiana. Special attention given to cunveyanchnéz and.colections., Deeds, Bonde aud Mortgages drawn up, ind all legal business attended to promptly and wccurately. L © May 26th, 1868. - M. G. ZIMMERMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office on Cavin Street, over E B. Gerber’s ! Hardware Store, LIGONIER, - - . - INDIANA. August 17th, 1870, : ‘

BANKING HOUSE of SOL. MIER g v LIGONIER, INDIANA. - Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought, and =old at the lowest rates. Passage Tickets to and from all ;imrtn of Europe. Collection Department has special attention.- Merchants’ accounts kept on favorable terms. Money received on deposit. July 27, 187013 AMERICAN HOUSE, - T W. HALL, Prop'r., LIGONIER, - - - - - INDIANA HELMER HOUSE, S. B. HELMER, Prop'r, LIGONIER, - - - ANDIANA. This Heuse has been Refitted and Refurnished ‘in First Cluss Style [ TREMONT HOUSE, KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. '\TEW COMMODIOUS THREE STORY | BRICK AV Hotel, only ten rod= tromthe L S. &M.S. R. R. Depot, and four uﬁunres from the G, R. R R'— Only tive minutes walk to/any of the principal business honses of the cify. Traveling men nm‘Pstransers wiil find this a firkt-class house,. Fare 83 per 3:&. J. B. KELLY, Propr etor, Kendaliville, Ang. 3, 1870.-14 . : NEW MILLINERY GOODS, : ST Mrs. Joanna Belt’s, : On Caviu Street, * NEW STYLES FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1870, Just received from Baltimore and Chicago, “aney. Goods, Hair Braids, Switches, Wedding Bonnets, Mourning Bonnets, Baby Caps, &c. March 30, 1870 48« - : SACK BROTHERS, Bakers & Grocers. - Cavin Street, Ligonier, Indiana. | Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, &c., Choice Groceries, Provisions, Yankee Notions, &c The highest cash price paid fer Covum_zrﬁ Produce May 18, '6B-tf. - SACK BRO’'S, - JOHIN GAPPINGER’S HARNESS, SADDLE And Leather Establishment, Has been removed to Gappinger & Gotach’s New. Block, (rqrmerly Rossbacher’s Block,) KENDALLVILLE, - INDIANA. The highest Frice &vsﬂ.&w-.ﬂides, Pelts, &c., and the trade supplied with Beather, Findings, &c., at lowest fig.ares. o 4 April 6, 1870.-49 34 i

MPIRE MILLS. Notice is hereby given that the new Empire Millr have be n completed. and are now IN RUNNING ORDER. ~ he muchinery having been selected from - among the best in the country, and . the mill being operated by one of the best Millers in Indisnn, we are enabled to guarantee satisfaction. We are prepared to do Custom-work on Short Notice. FLOUR AND FEED Constantly kept on hand, and for sale in all i quantities g . We have an excellent BSmut Machine for the purpose of cleaning Buckwheut. O W-T””m jpo~itively Cash. : ¢ flighed Market Price paid for Good. Olears Wheat. ! 2 STRAUS, HENDERSON & Co. Ligonier, Nov, 16, 1870. 29 4 PERRY LODGE, No. 161, ?: Io OO Of G":o T.‘ f LIGONIER, - =~ - <« </ INDIANA. Meets every Friday Evening, of each week, at their Hall in Beazel's building. ‘ ‘Miss L. JACKSON, W. P. JOHNSON, WV T W OT, J. W. PRTERS, W. 8. Ost. 98, "70-

LIGONIER, IND.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 187 1.

R THE GRAVE OF THE YEAR. ; BY M. A. .num'xn.v._i. D. ; } i i . Be composed every toil, and each turbulent mo- © uon, ; 4 | That encircl- s the heart in life's treacherous suarer; e % "Tis thie hogr that invites to the oalat ot devotion, : : Undisturbed by regrets, unimcumbered with cares, © : How cheerless the late blooming face of crestion! "~ Weary time seems 10 psuse in its rspid ca- . Teer - ~ ind iat-gu'ed with the work of his own desolation . Looks behind with a smile on the grave of the (e . tark, the wind whistles rudely, the twilight is : liclosing,;. : 5 . And Pleasure’s gay sons are in quiet reposing. . . . Undismayed at the wrecks that have marked ¢ bis wiid flight, Like the course of: the pestilence raging by 5 night, From yon Temple where fashion’s bright tapers | ‘ure lighted, - ; Her votaries in crowds decked with garlands appear, : While their warm hopes as yet, by no spectre affrighted, : ~Assemble to dunce round the grave of the year. Oh, 1 hate the stale cup which the idler hath - gasted, { When I think on the ills of Life's comfortless day ; ; f How the flowers of my childhood their verdure have wasted, L = And the friends of my youth have been taken away — : 2 ; They know not how fruitless the warmest en- . deavor, 1 . Torecalithe bright moments neglected when near; i o Which the moment’s oblivion soon cancels forever, ! And are placed by her band in the grave of the year. .

Since the ﬂrs}( solemn hour of this day of reflec--2 4100 y What throngs have relinquished life’'s perishing breath, i How many hdve shed their-last tear of dejec tion, N i And closed the dim eve 10 the ‘darkness of death, : e ad To many life’s pilgrimage weary is end+d, Be eath the low pall that envelopes the bier. And to death’s lonely vate they huve gently de. scended frleii 0 And made their cold beds with the grave of the year. o : i

"Tis the year that so late its new beauties disclosing, ke o Rose bright on the happy, the careless, and gav, Wi 0 now on their pillows of dust are reposing, While the Bod presses damp on thieir bosoms of clay, ° i Then spenk ot of bliss, while her smile is ex- | piting.: ; Diguppointmept will drown: it in *misery’s teary i Reflect and be wise, for the day is retiring. ! And to-morrow will dowu on the grave of the year. >

Yet awhile, and our sorrows around us will flourish, : : . Bat silence for each will a munsion prepare ; Where beauty no longer her roses shall nourish, Nor the lily o’erspread the wan.cheek of des Hut!hep:;rg shall with lustre unfading be brightWh:nnridt' awakes to true bliss in a holier sphere, i By the #unbeams of splendor immortal enlight- ; Whitc\lr‘)?t?(') more shall go down on the grave of . theyear. ; ¢ eTP .t F THE DOCTOR’S STORY. . It was a little child that came to-me with the news that Jack Harrison was v ry ill, one summer night, no matter how many years ago. I remember his startled face and big eyes as he thrust his tow head in at the door. ‘He's dreadful’ bad, T reckon,” he «aid in conclusion—* groapin’ and gayein,” and wanted fto kuow would you come right away, Doctor.” I knew that the mian was dying — The diseage that had preyed upon him #o' long was one no skill could baffle, and 1 knew also he was alone He had a bad name in those parts, as a jail-bird whom no honest man would have much to do with, and lived in a wietched cabin once ivhabited by ne groer, where he earned a living by carving wooden toys, which he sold to a German dealer in such things, in St. Louis. But he was a gentleman in appearance, and must have had a gen tleman’s education. Above all, he had u face and voice that never could have belonged to a bad man. I would have trusted him as eoen. and sooner than I would any othér man in those parts, just on' the security of his smile—but ‘give a dog a bad name,” you know—others would not. It would mot mat ter to him much longer, I kuew, as [ went to his bedside and bent over him.

‘l'm goiug to die? he acked. ‘Don’t miud telling me. Life isn’t so aweet that 1 cannot bear to Jose it. I'm going to die?” . ; _ ‘l'm afraid you are,’ I said. ‘But I'll do my best for you.” ’ He emiled. ‘No need to tell me that,’ he said. ‘You always have. 1 like you. 1 believe you like me, and that’s why I'm anxious to let you know, whilé I can, a little more about my story. I kuoow the name they give me here. I know that they all know that I served my time out in the State prigon; but I teel sure that you will believe what I am going to tell you, and that you will keep it te yourselt’ ‘I will’ I said *Whatever you may have doune, Jack Harrison, I'm sare you are not a bad man.’ L ~ He was going so ast, that all I could do was to give him a little more strength for an hour or/so. I did that as well as I knew how, and then I sat and listened to him. ' This was what he told me : :

*‘When | was young I had a friend whom I loved better than my lite itself —better than anything but Grace Claussen. He was named Benjamin Redburn, aud we had been school ‘mates, and were now together in the great importing house’ of Claunssen Brothers. He was a dashiug, splendidly handsomefellow—ll quite a Qua-. ker, and no beauty, as you may guess; but we were seldom apart. 1 intro. duced him first to Grace Claussen, and I thought he undersiood that my greatest hope in life was to make her my wife some day. Perhaps he did not. My tather and Mr. ‘Claussen had been dear friends, and the old gentleman liked me. There was nothing to pre vent me from making my way in the world, and offering Grace a home and ‘portion worthy of her; and I thought she liked me, and knew < f my love for her. I was glad that she spoke of his good looks to me. . I loved to see them walk together, and to hear him say how sweet she was. | I fancied he meant fo tell me that he was pleased with my choice.: i i :

- The happiest part of one’s life is always that whicg. makes the poorest story. The days paesed on very quietly ; we were often together—Grace, Ben, Grace's cousin Rose, and 1. We took walks and went 10 see plays to-

gether. We gang all the new songs in that pretty musie room in the Claussen bouse ; we talked over wondertul plans and built magunificent castles in the air. We were always to be together, all- four ot us. 1 believed Ithat Grage' and I would belong to each othgr, and that Rose wonld marry Ben. What the others believed 1 don’t know. It seemed to me then, that they tho't as I did. ' ‘

All this went on for a long while.— Ben made the first break in it A cousin.of his came to New York from England—a fellow who spént money fast, and bad a way with him that gomehow made mé ehun his society.— He thought more of himself than was quite bearable, or rather he expressed bis egolism more plaiuly than most people do, and offended those who had sense enough to veil theirs more closely. - ; .XBen was constantly his companion, and gp we fell apart; not that I cared less Pﬁr him, but that I felt that he did not care so much for me. Soon alsol found that Grace and Rose were in a measure parted from me. 1 often tound them absent from home, driving or rowing, or at some place of -amusement witlhi Ben and his cousin.

There was some talk at our place abour Ben. Prudent old clerks shook their heads, aud eaid that he dravk too much. - Qthers asked whether it were true that Miss Grace Claugsen had engaged hereelt to him. 1 used to reply that I was not Miss Claussen’s confessor, but the question wounded me as the stab of a' knife might. I now believed that she had given Ben her love; and though I djd not wonder at it, for I knew how superior he was in appearance and manuer to myeelt, I had faneied ounce she liked me best. Ac last I rerolved fo ask bim the question, and if it were true that be had won her heart, to do my best to forget her, or at least endeavor to hide-my heart from her forever. Pzop 5 i

I never shall forget the moment I had met bim on his way towards her house. - He was dressed for some evening entertaivment and bad a boquet in his hand, and I supposed that he intended to present itto her. ; © As | talked to him he looked down upon it with his black lashes sweeping his crimson cheek, aud the dimples coming and going at the corners cof his mouth., At last I said &

‘Ben, they say you are to marry Grace. Isittrue? ' He looked at me then in a startled sort of a way, . 5 *Jack,’ he cried, ‘you wouldn’t mind much if it were Bo.’ : ’ ‘ls it #o then 7" [ asked. ‘I hope 80,” ue said. ‘She hasn’t said no.’ :

‘God bless you both,’ I said, and I meant that from my soul. e *You are the best fellow that ever lived,’ he said, ; ~ ‘ ‘But 1 was not. I could not be heartily glad that my dearest friend had won the sweetest girl in the world away from me.' I could only promise myzelf that 1 would never let either of them know how I suffered. I shook haunds with Ben and went away.’

I thought then that I must die soon, but I had net learned how much a man .can live through. The months passed on drearily enough, but 1 was no more likely to die thau [ bad been. I worked bard, and was spoken of as asteady young man who woald do well, by the old clerks of the store. Of Ben they began to.speak doubtfully. He spent too much money, and had beén led ‘into wild ways by his * Euglizh cousin, they said. But the talk could scarcely have reached the ears of Mr. Claussen, or if it had, he gave no credit to it, for when the first-snow lay on the ground I heard that Grace and Benjamin were to be married in a fortnight.. I thought that I should feel no worse for that news ; but I did. The whole room, desks and packages and clerks, and all, begau to swim before me. | heard a noise like the roaring of the sea, and I knew that if I.did not get away, I should have them tel'ing how Jack Harrison fainted away when he heard that Grace Claussen had: jilted him. 1 gotto my feet and walked out of the room pretty steadily. | went straight upto che lofi where pack ages were stored, and there sat down ou one, and knew no - more about is.

That was at five o’clock. An hour after I came to myself, and found that I was alone in the building. Every one had gone for the night, and the doors were locked, aud I might have made what noise I'chose without being heard ouwside. It was not pleasani; but after all, no harm was dove. 1 could make myself conifortable for the night in Mr. Claussen’s office. where, bexides, the great safe and the pretentious_desk, all pigeon holes and drawers, stood a great arm chair and a very cosy sofa. ; i Thither I went, and on the sofa I threw .myself down, and soon elept soundly. I dreamt of Grace,as I had every night foralong time. 1 dreamt that she came to me in tears and kissed me. . The touch ot her lips-in my dreams seemed 1o awaken me, I -tarted to a sitting postare aud listened. There was a sound below—a little grating sound, stealthy, yet sharp. In a woment | heard ¢he door open and shut, and a step on the stairs.. The truth flashed upon. me—burglars had entered the' building. I had no weapon with me. /1 did not know how mary were approaching, and 1 had never boasted of any peculiar strepgth of prowess. 1 certainly would not bave admitted myself to be a coward , but I had no thirst for uneqnal combat. I determiued to conceal myself autil 1 had discovered with whom 1 hadto deil, and drew back into the shadow of a projecting window, with my eyes fixed on the door. . . At this, if a moment more a figure enterea—tall, broad shouldered, erect, gentlemanly. . So much the moonlight told me, as it fell through - the' window panes. The figuré looked familiar.— The next instant the gas was lit and 1 saw that it was Benjumin Redburn.— My blood curdled in my veins; my ‘heart stood still. In a state of horri~ ble suspense, for which I have no words . lp noticed his movements. 1 saw him go to Mr. Olaassen’s deek and file the lock away. I saw him take

thence the sate keys and apen the safe. I saw him take thence cerrain rolls of bills, and "count them with the trembling fingers and frightened eye of a thief unueed to his trade. and then transfer them to his vest pocket.— ‘Just in the act my band came dowa upon his shoulder. it _'Ben,’ 1 esaid—‘ch, Ben, caniit be that you are ruch a man as this 7’ He turned and grappled with me; but when he saw who had come upon him, stood quite atill. *How did you come here?’ he agked. ' ‘I have been locked in,’ I said. ‘Oh, Beu ! Ben !’ 1 ‘Come,” be said trying to laugh—‘what does it matter? ['m going to marry Grace next week. The money will be hers. I'm in difficulties, Jack. I owe five thousand. dollars—debts of honor, and other things. Be a good fellow. Clear oni, and say nothing. Help yourself to the governor’s money. I give you leave, I've only.taken evough for the debt.’ - *Don’t insult me !” I said. “I'll not bear that. 3 g ‘What are you going to do 7’ he aek ed roarsely. ‘lf you expose me, I'll use my pistol. 1 have one here,— Your life will not be safe if you ecall for help, and I'm more than your match in strength, as you know.” ~*You may kill me, Ben,’ | said ; ‘but you'll bring detection on yourself.— You deserve that richly; but you have been my friend for many years. I've loved you as a brother; and Grace is to be your wife. Restore that mouey to ‘the safe. and I will say nothing of this ; 'I promize you that Ben.’ ‘By heaven! 1 ‘can’t,’ he said. ‘I must have the money—l must! I'm desperate, Jack.’ Lo ‘I sball not let you rob Mr. Clausgen,” I said. ‘My life is not such a very precious thing. Give me that money." ) ' ;

‘He had turned a white face toward the door as I spoke, and as I ceased, he suddenly took the roll of notes from bis breast. crammed them into my hands and fled !’

~ Surprised at this sudden’ surrender, I stood clutching the money in my fingers and staring after him, when auother figure daikened the door, and a policeman stood before me. You can guess. the rest, 1 was arrested for burglary “ Fu There was every proof against me. My assertion' that I had ¥ound a bur glar at the safe, and tauken the money from him, was regarded as an absurd falsehood = I would not betray Benjamin for the sake of our old friendship; and tor the sake of his betrothed, I kept the secret. '1 almost hoped he would not let me suffer for his crime; but he remained silens throughout the trial. I heard of his wedding, and of his departure on a bridal tour, and I said. ‘God keep Grace from ever knowing this, and God forgive Benjamin.’ . :

Afier thet I went as the law ordained, to live for years an outcast from the society 'of honest men, seeing only felons and jailore— knowing myself scorned by the people I most respeated—konowing that never while I lived could 1 be restored to my former place in the world, or in the .hearts of those who had been my triends. ! So it has proved. You know what my life has been. Yet it I had made Grace happy, I should have fels that all was well., '

“Then she was not happy.’ I said. The dying man gave me a look I shall never forget. : ‘When I was free again,’ he said, ‘a great longing urged npon me to see Benjamin agamn. I thought thathe at least- knew of my iunocence, and of the sacrifice I had made for him, He was & rich man now, living in a band some couniry-seat some miles from town. Thither I went one evening, and fouud him in his study. He knew m-, but did not even give me his hand. He offered me mouney. I did not take it; [ could not to save myself from starving. And he said that it was best thiat a man who had been where I had been should not come to his house again.’ . P ‘I shall not trouble you,’ I said. — ‘But you kuow, you of all men, why' I haye born such ignominy for 8o many years.’ M ‘I koew; nothing,’ he said. ‘You've no right to say, that-1 know anything. I deny-it. Good night.’ %o

So the door elosed upon me. I went away through the lo :g green garden At its gate a woman was standing; She turued to;ards me. In the movnliyht I saw a waa, worn face, but I koew .it was what Grace’s bad faded to.. : She called me by name. Jack Harrison, and put hér hand upon my arm. There we stood face to”gqce. S . ‘You've come back,’ she said. ‘Not to trouble youn,’ I answered.— Her hand closed on mine. e ‘Jack,” she said, ‘a woman cannot be a man’s wife withoat learning him off by heart. There’s a mystery between you two. He fears you; will you tell me why 7’ G ‘No,’ I said. | *‘No, Grace Redburn.’ She clutched me tighter. = ‘lt’s just as. well,’ she said. ‘I know you were innocent. I know it now, I did not then.. [’ve come at the truth eomehow. T’ jilted you for a haudsome man, and I’ve found out that bis heart ia the heart of Satan. Oh, what a life I've led, Jack ! 1 can tell you that, now that our youth is over.’ - It may have been wrong, but I could not' help-it. I took:the poor bands. so bot and trembling;:in mine and kissed Ben Redburn’s wife upon her lips, aud I said —no,matter. what —a few wild words, best not repeated, and-went away again, never to see her any more. I had not hated Ben for his conduct to me—l had clung to my love through all.. But when I learned that he had ill used her, and made her life miserable, I cursed bim. I'am trying to tell that I forgive him now—trying hard, Doctor,” = . These were . the lut. words _Jack Harrison ‘ever #poke, and [ have writ--len down:the story, which-1 am sure is true, and others’ may read it also, aad learn from' it, ’u;ly did; ‘that the world’s judgment is not'dlways a trae one

i SCARLET FEVER. | Increase of the Disease--An Ounee of " Prevention. ' A this season of the year scarlet fever is apt to assume an epidemic form, and already the weckly reports of the New York Sanitary Inspector show a very great increase in the number of deaths from this cause. If, as we are told, the usual per centape of mortality in scarlet fever is one to twelve, it would veem prob able-that even more cases occur than are reported to the Board of Health. As a means of lessening the spread of the highly contagious disease, the Medical Guzette publishesthe subjoined precautions, which have been satisfactorily tested in England n a very large number of instances : " DIRECTIONS. = 1. On the first appearance of the disease the patient should be placed in a sep: arate apartment, as near the top of the hiouse as possible, from which all curtains, carpets, bed haugings and other needless articles of furniture should be removed, and no person, except the medical attendant and the nurse or mother, permitted to enter the room. :

2. A basin containing a solution ot chloride of lime or caroolic acid sbould be placed near the bed for the patient to spit in. P I 3. A large vessel containing water, into which has been poured either Condy's flu--Id, or the solution of chloride ot soda or lime, should be kept in the room, and into this all the bed and body linen, as soon a 8 it is removed from the patient, and all soiled towels, &c., should be plac: ed; baving been’' kept there for some time, the things may be removed and sent to the laundress. : E 4. Pocket-hankerchiefs should not be used, but pieces of rag employed instead, for wiping the mouth and nose of the patient ; each piece, after being used, should be immediately burned.” ! - 5. A plentiful supply of water and towels should be kept for! the use of the nurse, whose hands of cecessity will become sailed by the secretions of the patient ; in one hand-basin the water should e ‘impregnated with Condy's fluid or chlorides, by which the taint ot the hands may be at once removed. 6 All glasses, cups, plates, or other vessels used in the sick rocm should be scrupulously cleansed in bciling water, hefore being used by other persons. 7. Outside of the sick chiber a sheet should be suspended so as to cover the entire doorway ; this should be kept constantly wet with & solution of carbolic acid or chioride of lime. The effect of this will [be to keep every . other part of the housa free from infection.

8. The discharges from the howels and kidneys of the patient should be received into vessels. charged with disinfectants, such ‘as the solution of carbolic acid or chloride of lime, and immediately remov ed. By these means the poison thrown off from internal surfaces may be rendered .inert, and - deprived of the power of pro pagating the disease. : 9 The thin skin or cuticle which peels off from the hands, fuce, and other parts of the body in convalescent patients is highly contagious. The plan recommend ed for preventing the poison from the skin being disseminated through the air is to lab 01l or lard all over the ekin. This pracitce is to commence on the fourth day after the appearance of the eruption, and to be icontinued. every day until the pa tient is well enough to take a warm bath. These batbs should be administered every other day for four times, when the disin fection of the skin may be regarded as complete. This, however, should not be done without firet-consulting the medical attendant. The foregoing directions will apply to all kinds of fever, smail-pox, and other contagious diseases. MODE OF DISINFECTING A SICK ROOM The patient having' been removed, al) linen articles, -such as sheets, cowels, pil low casee, .nd body linen, areto be disin fected ae by direction No. 8. This done, the blankets, counterpanes, and woolen articles of clothing are to be suspended on a line, and the wattresses and beds placedover the backs of chairs; the furniture 18 also to be removed from the walis, the windows closed, and paper pasted over the crevices ; the opening of the fireplace 18 also to be effectually stopped up. An old saucepan lid or uther vpen iron vessel is next to he placed in the middle of the room, into which a quarter of a pound of stone brimstone, broken into pieces, is to be put; the hrimstone is then to be ignited, and the person who does it' must immediately leave the apartment, close the door, and’ paste paper-over the crevices, At the expiration of twenty four hours the room may be entered, and the door and windows thrown open to allow the fumes of sulphur to escape. By this process the room and everything in it may be considered to- have ' been thoroughly disinfected. : il —— e ) Advice to Boys. . . Uncaver those-ears, hoys, (exclaims the Fort Wayne Gazette,) and don’t get in the habit of wrapping your heads up ina bed quilt, every time you venture out. It may do for old men, but it certainly looks like cowardice to see boys and young men goiug round ' the streets with a big comforter round their necks, and anothe: over their heads and ears, as it they were on the borders of Greemland. Those scarfs and fur collars are a positive nuisunce, for they engender not only cow ardice but disease. They cause an upnatural heat of the throat and neck, and if there is the least exposure after they are removed, then: sore throat, or cold in the head ‘is the result. Every. morning, we meet boys going to school, who live only & short distance away, bound up with scarfs and tippets, sometimes with shawls tied over their heads, as if they werestart ing on & voyage to Siberia. - Come. boys, throw away those senseless wrappings, unless you are going on a long journey, and expose your faces, throats and ears to . the blast. It will make you hardy and brave, and besides, will drive away those diseases. : b s eelO~ A ————— s The Chicago ZTimes, anticipating the recent appearance of Miss Nilsson in the city of its publication, makes out 8 bill of what it will cost 2 young man to. take his inamorata to one of her concerts, and makes & total of $48.05, the items being : Carriage hire, $10; two sedts in dress: circle, $8 ; gloves, $4 ;' necktie, $2.50; a bettle of Nilsson bouguet, $1.25; Nilsson monogram hankerchief, $2.25; one bhand bouquet, $3.75 ; shave, with tonic and bay rum, 25 cents; dyeing mustache; 75 cts; toilet vinegar un face, 10 cts ; extra shine 15 cents; photograph of Nileson, 50 cents; “Life of Nilsson,” 25 cents ; fees iu clonkroom, 50 cents ; candy, 50 cents; supper for two, §640; wine, ?g lTosg of Su'y'u salary in" pursuit' of tickets, $1.50 ; one glass of beer after seeing her home; 5 cts ; one paper of chewing tobacco, 10 cents; fare on the horse-cars home 5 cents. . Now if such a bill as that will not territy the Chicago Sybarite whose ayerage salary is $1.50 & day, and make him pray heaven that Nilsson may nevetr’ i,obﬂie,».(}hicagh‘ emplryers would do well to look "after ‘h.i?mh“m_ﬂmi gy = =B, nuif & Now is the tme to subscribe for a paper.

W ‘No. 306.

CURRENT NOTES, - Major General Meade closed hisspeech at the unveiling of the Gettysburg pic' ture with & humane sentiment, very cred itable to an eminent soldier:.¢War is not to: be. encouraged unless circumstances compel us to engage, ‘and looking at sbLis picture all will join in the prayer,*God preserve us from another war.'” =

The Chicago Republican avers that Senators Sumner aud Morton “share between them the blunder of alluding to San Domingo as Dominics, the oné in his reso lation suthorizing a commission of inqui ry, the other in® his: speech. There is n difference of sume 500 miles between the two, Dominica being one of the British West Indies, while San ‘Domingo—some times called the Dominican Republic, but never Dominica—ia part of the Tsland ot Hayti. TR '

Just before the war, Mr. A. T Stewar! is.said to have hought séven millions ot dollars worth of silks and velvets at re duced prices, in the European markets, & that if the looms of Lyons shnuld be cur off for a wholé year, he would still have the largest stock ever eollected at one es tablishment. The great silk apening took place at Stewart’s on Monday, December 19, when a quarter of a million - dollarworth of rich fabrics were displayed t« the throngs which surged through higreat dry goods place. - . " l

Sepator Drake is severely cemsured 'by his political friends for relinguishing hi remaining three yearsin the Senate to » Democrat. . Missouri isa nest upon whict the Senatorial Drake dees not like toset Farmer's boys often lrsdnpt the expedien: of putting red hot boulders in a goose's nest to make her quzit'sc:l.ﬁng. and it imore thun likely that the people.of Mi:, souri have served this Drake the sam: trick. Why should his radical friend: object bécause he doesn't want his feath ers singed ? : X

Mr. Thornton, the British Minister, i+ conversation, recently, expressed muct satisfaction at-the appointment of Gen. Schenck as blfnister to England. He har great faith in the good judgment of Gen. Schenck, and he thinks he will produe a favorable impression upon the officials and the people of England. - Mr Thorn ton bas no information from his Govern ment that the fishery question-is to be ad justed at Washington. He regards u important, h,ow‘eve.r. that some action should be taken before the commencement of the fishing season, in order t. prevent dificulty between the New Eng land fishermen and the people of the New D{)mgion.-v LR e

~ Hon. James M. Ashley, for ten years ijepresenmti;vef in Congress from Ohig; and more recently Governor of Mn‘xit.hni” {is at present in the city of Chicago, He proposes to devote a portion of the winter to the business of lecturing, for which. from his extensive information-upon subjects of public interest, and his habits ot public speaking, he is well adapted.—For a certain number of lectures in several places, he will appear under the auepices of the American Lecture Association.— The titles of the lectures. which he has prepared are ‘‘ Ten Years in Congress,” and “ What I know about the linpeach | ment.” Lecture socicties and others de! sirous to heer Mr. Ashley are permitted to address C. 8. Carter, P. O. Chicagn, Box 5,998 S el

The leading railroad compsules have again agreed upon an increase on freight. A dispatch from New York, dated Dec. 28th, Bays the proposed advance in prices per cwt. on westward bound freights, agreed upon at the recent General Rail road Convention at Erie, have just been fnally ndopted by the tollowing roads :— The New York Central & Hudson River, New York' & Erie, Lake Shore & ‘Michi gan- Southern, Twledo & V»W._ububsh. Penn’ sylvania Central, Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicagn, Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati, Cincinnati & Indianapolis, Michigan Central,’Pittshurg, Cincinnati & St. Louis, Atlantic & Great Western, and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. The new list of tates show an average advance of ten per cent. over those established|in November last, AR ]

The foll wing was & point made by Senator Bchurz;ir his brief reply to Drake, which was omitted|in the press report:— “There are those in the Republican party who thing they can not conguer unless by some other means different from the great moral power of argument.. There are those in the State of Missouri, T know, when disfranchisement was knocked from under their - feet, threw up their hands hands and exclaimed, ‘All ig lost? That class of politicians are’ those who, iu the face of great responsibilities, great questions, grest problems, and great struggles, are tortured by a lurking suspicion of their own nothingness, but the men who abolished disfranchisement in Missouri are not made of that stuff. - No, sir, all is not lost, bat all is won. We are once more fighting for a good eause witha clear cor.ociemge. . i g The “King of the Cunnibal Islands,” of whom ‘we all have-sung, has lately been working in New Lisbon, Ind., under the unromantic cognomen of James Smith.— His story is that be was shipwrecked there when & young ian, fell into the handa of another white man, who adopted him, “by and with the advice and consent of the council,”—that is, sil che natives; and they finally. chose Smith king. Perhaps they called his name “»Coror‘;%oe_ " at all events he '“ married the Princess Wiske taw,” in fuct fourteen princesses, and had 't lately taken the census of children.— He used to save stray missionaries from the cauldron, when' 'he could. He got tired of playing royalty, and returned to his native land, but work was_even more distasteful to him, and after trying it just ling enomgh v pay bis_ pussnge back, b tids started for the Marquesas and his can. nibal kKiogdom there. -

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- SHOCKING CRIME, A Man Outrages his Own Danghter—- .. «/His Previous Character. La:t Sunday, the 18th inst, a man pamed Zachariah Layton, known allover the county as Zach. Layton,” who is a martied man and resides: in Morenci, committed rape on the person of bis.own Jranghter, Ella, 8 girl only thirteen years of age. - j ; Layton is now living with his second wife. The girl who was the victim of nis lust is the fruit of a former marriage. She was not living at home, but was employed in a family living some distance from Morenci. On Sunday Layton procured a horse and buggy and. aent to the nouse where his daughter was employed, and asked her to ride with him. The poor child consented to go, and when they -had reached a secluded place the brute ravished her, mangling Her terribly in _the act. ' BTy g Her sufferings were too great to be concealed from the kind {riends with whom she was domesticate 1, and at length -he told them her pitiful story.” Yesterlay she made formal complaint against ner brutal father, before Justice Parker, f the town of Seneca, he was arrested, ~xamined and bound over to take his trial at*he Circuit. He arrived at the county jail last night in charge of officer Snow, of Moreneci: . L=

Layton is & harness maker by trade, wd 8 good workman, but is'a dtssolute, worthless fellow:. He was'in the army, ind there bore & very bad reputation — “«lis career since the war closed has been ‘v continued progress downward. He has! heen suspected of thieving, has drank to ¥cess, and now has capped the climax of is_ misdeeds by this fiendish act upon S 8 ‘own daughter. luv-is fortunate for nim that he “is a 8 resident of an orderly cotimunity, else the glorious uncertéinties ot the law. would have little to do with nim. -~ “A. short shrift and a long rope” vould be his -portion, and the ,county would be put to no expense in dealing with nim We deprecate vinlence, but if Judge Lynch was ever justified o convening court, it' would-be to.try such. ‘uses a 8 this.—Adrian (Mich.) Times, . “Zack” was once a citizen of Ligonier, and was chiefly noted for his ability to consume immense quantities of whisky, Ising- shockingly profane language, and ceasionally dealing in horse-flesh. That he is an old offender will readily be unierstood when we state the tact that he ands indebted to this office for the smount of $2 50, for subscription. A man who cheats the printer is, as a matter of course, capable of any c'ime. | . ) @ ———— ——— What Becomes of a Dead Horse., The Scientific American recently eonruined an article on the uses to which ‘lead horses.can be applied, in the-course - i‘f’:which it is remarked that the animal must be & remarkably good one”if he is - worth as much when alive as he is to the ' cetorts and kettles of the chemist. As ~<oon as the horse is déad, his blood. i «ught by the manufacturers of glbumen, 4nd by sugar refiners, and the burners of: lampblack.; ' Not a drop isallowed to go to waste. 4 - The main and tail are wanted tor hair“cloth, seives, bow strings, and Lrushes.— I'be skin is converted into leathertorcartharness, for boots and shoes, snd strong ‘collars, The hoofs are used " for combs, horn-work, glue, aud in old times were the chief source of harts horn, now obtained -from the gas-house. The flesh is hojled down .in the rendering vat, and much oil and fat is obtained from it.— i Some of the choice bits may find Iheir way | into cheap restaurants, and play the part of beefsteak, or help to enrich the hasty ‘plates of soup of these establishments.— Fae flesh left after all has been extracted from it that is of any service, is sometimes burned, to be used as manure, or is worked up Into nitrogenous compeunds, such us the oyanides, to be used by the photographer in takiog our pictures. The stomach and intestines make valuable strings and cords for musical instruments,” and out of the bones &0 many usetul articles are. manufactured that it is almost impossible to make out a complete list of them. .Among them are buttons, toys, tweezers, knife-handles, rulers, cups, dominoes, balls; acd the fesidue from all these things is “burnt into bone black to be used by the sugar refiner, who puts in _ # second claim on the dead horse; and some part of the bone-bluck is “burned white to be used by the assayer in testing - gold; and when the assayer and refiner have finished with it, it is converted into - super phosphate to serve as a valuable mannre on our land. The teeth are used u 8 sudstitutes for ivory; and the iron, shoes, if not nailed over the door, to insure good fortune to the household, are worked up into ‘excellent. wrought, metal, Some portion of the bone-black is converted into phosphorus. for the manufactire of matches, and lately & valuable bread > preparation is made of the phos- - phate, and medicinesare prepsred for the cure of consumptives. el i Sl The Queen’s iflousehold.

Queen Victoria draws an anrual salary ot two tillions of dollars per annum, and has ‘managed to save many millions the past twenty years. Each of her children when married bave been largely enauwed by ‘the government. Amnother draft is 800 D to be attempted in the case of Princess Louise—who is about to marry the wealthy Marquis of Lorne.. The members of the British Reform League have held a large meeting in Londoa to protestsin the name of one hundred and thirty-seven thousand paupers dying of starvation, against giving any dowry to the Princess. The speakers were severe upon the conduct of ‘the Queen towards ber swbjects generally, but insisted she should provide a 8 dves the poorest workman tor her own - children, when they choose to get married. There were divers intimations that the whole machinery of a nmionarchy ‘was expensive and troublesome, and thdt a Republican form was more desirable.— The world moves. | o e R B Mr. Hudson, the recalled managing editor of the New York Herald, comwenced as marine reporter on the Bxpress, and had such & wonderful memory that he could _hear the names of all the arrivals, captsins and hailing places, and carry them for s perfectly correct record to the office. A ‘singular fact nmllm he allowed himself on twc occasions to write these tacts dm’v: on the spot, and from that day to this his offended ?emoiy would tever ‘serve him as before. | g