The National Banner, Volume 5, Number 47, Ligonier, Noble County, 22 March 1871 — Page 1

[HE NATIONAL \ BANNER, ~ Published Weekl¥by - JOHN B, STOLL, g . LIGONIER, NOBLE .COUNTY, IND. --————-—-——’—-—‘—o-ooo—«—‘—————--——— : TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ; trictlyin SAVANCE. (.0l . o s areir 9000 8T his i 3 published on the Cash Prindflc. its l*roprs'etopr?f:l'mi?tg that it is just as right for him demand advance pay,as it i 8 for City publishers. A rrAng pergon sendlnF.a.club of 10, accompanied with the cash, will be entitledto a copy of the paper, for one year, free of charge. :

Michigan South. & N. Ind’a R. R:

On and after December 4th, 1870, trains willleave Stacions as follows: oo - GOING EAST : Lightning ° Ezxpress ‘ Mail Chicago.....iv.. 920 am.... 535 pm.... 530:am *Elkhart ........105pm.... 955 pair.... 10 15 am G05hen.......,.. 125pm....1015 pm.... 10 46 am Millersburg ..... 1135 pgl. ..11031 pm....1110am Ligonier ..|..... 145 pm..;...1045 pm ...11 31 am Wawaka,....... %1 58 pm. .. 110 58 pm..;.11 16 am Brimfleld ......12 04 pmt..lll 07 pm...\:11 59 pm Kendallvill ..., 219 pm,...11 20 pm.... 1220 pm Arrive atToledo 520 pm.... 250 am.... 435 pm s [ GOING WEST : T01ed0....:.....11 50 am.... 12 01 am.... 10 10 am t Kendaliville,....+3o3 pm:... 305 am.... 219 pm 8rimfie1d........1315 pm.,..13 22 am.... 240 pm Wawaka........t321.pm. ... 1330 am.... 250 pm : Ll;,iouler iniavies B OODRY L, 340 am. ... 808 Millersburg ....1347 pm....t355am.... 3 25 pm G05hen..........400pm.... 410 am.... 345 pm *Elkhart........ 420 pm.... 430 am.... 415 pm Arrive at Chicago 8 20 gm. .:; 820 am,.,, 820 pm *Stop 20 minutes forbreakfast and supper. tTraing do not sto]p. i Express leaves daily both ways. ' MaikTrain makésclose conmection atElkharf with trains going Easgt and Wegt.4 C. ¥, HATCH, Gm'lSu‘pt., Cleveland. J. N. KNEPPER, 4gent, Ligonier. . Pittsburg, Ft. W. & Chicago R. R. ¥ “¥rom and after Dec. 4th, 1870, - GOING Wiisr. S Nol, - g’f’ﬂv iNo?, ' No¥ : Fastke., Mail. Pac Ex. NightEv, Pittsburg...... I:3sam 7:loam 10:55am 3:2opm Rochester..... 2:45am B:4oam 12:05pm 4;:22pm 11iane........ s:osam 11:45am 3:oopm 7:oopm rrville,. s, ... 6:54am I:s2pm 4:45pm B:3Spm Mangfield!f..: 9:o3am 4:33pm 6:52pm 10:32pm ~Crestline,. .Ar. 9:35am s:oopm 7:25pm 11:00pm '~ Crestline.,.Lv.lo:os%am 5:558m 7:45pm 11:10pm - F0re5te........11'27am 7:33am 9 20pm 12:35am Lima.........+12:26pm 9:ooam 10.40 pm I:3sam Ft Qiyve..... 2:3opm 1] :45am I:2sam 3:soam Plymouth..... 4:sopm 2:25pm 3:57am 6:2oam Chicago ....... 7.30 pm 5:55pm 7:002m: 9:ooam ; ! GUING EAgT. . i 3 Nos, No®2, /No 6 No 4. Mail. Fast Ex. Pac Ex. NightEz. Coicago.iv.... s:soam, 9:ooam s:lspm 9:oopm Plymouth..... 9:soam 12:03pm 9:ospm 12:35am Ft Wayne....l2:sopm 2:25pm 11:25pm . 3:2oam Lima.......... 3:25pm 4:o6pm I:3sam s:4oam F0re5t........ 4:43pm s:oBpm 2:43am 7:o7am Cresatline , Ar. 6:2opmx 6:3opm 4:2oam B:ssam Crestline ..Lv. 6:ooam’ 6:sopm 4:3oam_9:3sam Mansfield ..... 6:4oam 7:l7pm s:ooam 10;05am 0rrvi11e..,.... 9;lsam 9;ospm 6;54am’11;55am '~ A11iange....,..11530am,10;45pm B;soam I;3opm Rochester..... 2;3spm’ 12;55am 11;05am 3;37pm Pittshurg ...., 3;45pm I;ssam 12;10pm 4;sopm No. 1, dnjl'g except Mondays; Nog. 5, 3,8 and 2, daily except Sundays; Nog. 7, and 6, daily; No, 4, ~daily execept Saturdays and Sundays. :

GRAND RAPIDS AND INDPIANA RAILROAD. o December 4th, 1870, T ; GOINGJSOUTH. : i .. Mail Chic.Ex MendonAs Parls i c.cfeesisnnnnte.d doam: 3PODM ....... Cedar S )rinfs aemsnesssß 238 m 520 pm L...11l Grand I{upi B echuseencnt 80am TOOPM Cl.Lllll K4lamazoo ....io:veae.9BBah 9 30pm ....... Mendon ............0.1040am ....i.. . 630 am 5turp{v1e.....‘...~........1120a,m sens ot 7.108 M Kendallville ...........1238pm . ....... 830 am Fort Wayne-/cioiaoe-2.1550M . ....... 10008 m i _ GOING NORTH. S Foit Wayne .ii.ociei il 7 00am: L.i.... '3 30pm Kendallville-..iioiseevnB3o6am - 1-..... 4 58pm Sturgis...c.cicopeeeeen,.9B7am L0..1j. 617 pm Mendon: .. ... 3 00210 40am - o.ooll’. 700 pm Kalamazoo....eveuiva..ll42am 730 am 3 00pm Grand Rapid5...........210pm 950 am 7 35pm Cedar Springs ... cevse.3 Bpm 11 158 m ....OL. Parls. o oociiva i il oahpm . Ydbamy: il Lo R R MYERS, Sl General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

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Watchmakers, Jewelers,

. » .~ AND DEALERS IN a -+ Watches, Clocks, . JEWELRY AND FANCY GOODS Repairing neatly and promptly executed,and L i warranted. 7 Gold Pens Repointed at City Prices. Agents for Lazarus & Morris’ Celebrated j ‘Spectacles. E¥ Sign ofthe bigwntch.CavinStre’ct,Liionler, Indiana._gg .- . _, may3,’'6 .—tf. A. GANTS; LAy . . Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, LIGONIER, - - INDIANA_. L ZF " - lls prepared ¢ —;{r(;:’(r . * todo gnythinﬁ | R A N in their line. ',7 . NN succesful prac- ' AR\ e -.tice of over 10 RS e Kea“ Justifies Se el him in sayiug ?Ap""»‘-'-»"-: I\£§ that ht.f catn RN give entire satLY “ﬁ fifaction to all e B A s who may beetow their patrohage. B#¥ Office one door north of Kime's, over Cuuﬂclq & Emery’s, Cayin St.

J. BITTIKOFFER, | - DELER IN ‘ WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEW'LRY,SILVER WARE,NOTIONS, Spectacles of every Description, 12 f &ec., &e. &c., %l: - i Allkinds of work done uponthe shortestnotice .and warranted as to durabllitﬁ. - " Shop ‘in Bowen’s new Brick Block, Kendallville, Indiana.” S - 231 ELKHART BOOK BINDERY, L -at the'office’ of the- * 'HERALD OF TRUTH," ELKHART, - - - - - - " IND. Wetake pleasure to inform our friends and the .Jpublicin general, that we have established a ' Book Bindery, In connection witn 311: Yrifiting Office, and are now prepared to do all kinds of Binding, : sach as Books, Pamphlets, Magazines, l(qs{c, promptly and ; . _‘onreagonable terms, ' . pr.29th,’68,-tf, JOHN F. FUNK.:

: 1000 ) 9 AGENTS.WANTED ‘ FOR i Giving a clear and intensely interesting account ot the infifiite variety of habits and modes of life of nearly every known speties of beasts, birds, fishes, insects, reptiles, mollusca, and animalcule of the globe, From the fzmous London four-voluma edi~ tion, with large additions from thé most celebrated -naturalists'of the afge. ", Complete in one lar%g handsome volume of 1040 | pages, with over 1,0 pirited engravlngf. feilis ; PRICE ONLY $4.50. i The cheapest book ever offered, and one of the -most desireable. Agents doing finely, Terms the most liberal, Address, C, F. §ENT, Publisher, |

H. R. CORNELL, Gt WILO may always be.found at his

PHOTOGRAPH ROOMS,

Is prepared to take all kinds of picturesin the . latest styles of the art. PFPARTICULAR ATTENTION

paid to copying old Deguerreotypes and Am hr%t,ypes into Cards, and Enlarging. Vork warranted satisfactory in all cases. Ligonier, Ind., Feb. 23, 1870.-43

. SAMUEL E. ALVORD, . ¢ Attorney at Law, Claim Agent, and ‘Notary Public, Albion, Noble Co., Ind.

Business in the Courts, Claims of soldiers and heir heira.’Conveyancing, &c., promptly and carefully atte?ed ‘to. Ac nowfedgmentn, Deposltions and Afiidavits, taken and certified.

EXCELSIOR LODGE, NO. 267, I. .O. Of Oo Fo, Meets at their Hall on every Ssturdgsevehh{:}g‘ o each week, / A. JACKSON, ¥. G, M. W, COE, V. G. ' R.D, KERR, . Nov,2s6th, 1868, —tf., Secretary.

. - Those who are sick, or Afilicted with ‘any chronic difficulty, should without delay write for Dr. Hamilton’s New Treatise, sent free to any address’ R. LEONDIAS HAMILTON, M. D. s P, 0, Box 4,952, New York City.

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WM. L. ANDREWS,

| Surgeon Dentist. Mitchel’s Block, Kendallville. All work warranted. Examinatibns free. 2-41

| C.PALMITER, . Surgeon and Physician,

Office at Residence, ' Ligonier, =.= « = Indiana.

W. D. RANDALL,

Physician 'and Surgeon,

LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA. will prompéy attend té) all calls, day or night. Office over Moore & Tharp’s drug store. November 2, 1870.-27 ! o

| G. ERICKSON, M. D.,. Will give special dttention to Office Business, from 10 A. M, to 3 ». M., for the treatment of Chronic and Surgical Digeases: Charges reagonable. Officein rear.of Drug Store, No. 1 Mitchell’s Block, .+ KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. June 1, 1870. 4 ;

" DR.P. W. CRUM, ’o ® s Physician and Surgeon, " Ligomier, = = .« . Indiana. Office one door gouth of L. Low & Co’s Clothing Store, up stairs. . May 12th, 1869. e e e e e el L 8 e D. W. C. Dex~y, M. D, P. H. ALprion. " DENNY & ALDRICH,. Physiciansand Surgeons, LIGONIER, INDIANA, - . Wil promptl{ and faithfully attend to all calls in the line of their profession—day or night—in town or any distance in the country. 5 . G. W. CARR, iysician and Surgeon, Physician and Surgeon, LIGONIER, - = - 1 - - IND, Will promptly attend all calle intrustedt6 him. Office on 4th'St,, one door east ef thé NATIONAL: BANNER ot}lcc.. ! ; 3-43 . C. Hostetter, Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, LIGONIER, - - INDIANA Artificial teeth inserted, in full or partial sets upon rubber, ¥Old, silver, anrd the new adamantine bage. Especial attention given to ﬂlllﬁﬁ, cleansing ard preserving the natural teeth. Entire satisfaction.warranted in all cases. Examinations free. W}' Office over Moore & Tharp’s drug store. JAMES J. LASH;. General Fire & Life Ins, Agent, KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. { Office in Mitchell’s Biock. Represents all first-class companies in the United States, 5., : : e COVELL," 3 Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public, LIGONIER; INDIANA. . Office, 2d Floor in Mier’s Block, Cavin Street. 3 LUTHER H. GREEN, . Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public. ° LIGOCNIER, - - - = INDIANA. Office on Cavin Strcet, over Sack Bro’s. Grocery, opposite Hclmer House. 41-8-ly

.D. W. GREEN, 5. | Justicgof thePeace & Culletion AL, T

E. RICHMOND,

Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer, . Cavin street, Ligonier, Indiana. ' Special attehtion given to conveyapciné; and collections. ' Deeds, Bonds aud Mortgages drawn up, and all legal business® attended to promptly and accurately. ¢ b May 26th, 1868..

' M. G. ZIMMERMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office on 'Cavin St.réqt: over E. B. Gerber’s : Hardware Store, LIGONIER, - - - . INDIANA. ~ August 17th, 1870, _ '

BANKING HOUSE of SOL. MIER LIGONIER, INDIANA. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought, and Bold at the lowest rates. Passage Tickets to and from all parts of Europe. Collection Department has special attention, Merchants’ accounts cht on favorable terms. Money received on deposit, July 27, 1870.13 . AMERICAN HOUSE, o\ F W.HALL, Prop'r., - LIGONIER; - - - - . INDIANA, HELMER HOUSE, . 8. B. HELMER, Prop'r, LIGONIER, = = - INDIANA. This Heuse has been Refitted and Refurnished - . in ¥irst Class Style. oo T B.E.MON T HOUSE, KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. NEW,COMMODIOUS THR&J“E STORY BRICK Hotel, only ten rods from the L. S. & M. S. R. R. Dexot. and four s:}uares from the G, R. R. R.— Only five minutes walk to any of the princ?al bu siness houses of the city. Traveling men and stranEcrs will find this a firsi-class house. Fare $2 per aﬁ. J. B. KELLY, Proprietor, endallville, Aug. 3, 1870.-14 5

NEW MILLINERY GOODS, 3 AT : Mrs. Joanna Belt’s, T . On Cavin Street, NEW STYLES FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1870, Just received from Baltimore and Chicago, Fancy Goods, Hair Braids, Switches;, Wedding Bonnets, Mourning Bonnets, Baby Caps, &c. March 30, 1870.-48 ] o \

- SACK BROTHERS, Bakers & Grocers. Cavin Street, Ligonler, Indiana. Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, &c., Choice Groceries, Provisions, Yankee Notions, &e The highest cash price paid fer Countrﬁ Produce May 18, '6B-tf. 1 - SACK BRO'S.

JOHN GAPPINQEB’S : HARNESS, SADDLE And Leather Establishment, Has been removed to Gappinger & Gotsch’s New ~* Block, (formerly Rossbacher’s Block,) ; KENDALLVILLE, - - INDIANA, The highest price paid for Hides, Pelts, &c.,and the trade snppﬁd,d wgth Leather, Findings, &c., at lowest figures. * . T ' April 6 1870,-49 : e

EMPIRE MILLS. Notice is hereby given that the'énew Empire Mills l;avo been completed, and are now IN RUNNING ORDER. The machinery having been selected from .among the best in the country, and the mill being "operated by one of the best Millers in Indiana, we are enabled to guarantee satisfaction. We_ are prepared to dgo Custom-work on Short Notice. FLOUR AND FEED' Constantly kept on hand, and for ‘sale in all quantities. . . o b , —. We have an excellent Smut Machine for the purpose of cleaning Buckwheat. il ; ﬁ"l’erms positively Cash. 1 7 -H'?lmt Market Price pard for Good, Clean W heat, . : ; * BTRAUS, HENDERSON & Co. Ligonier, Nov, 16, 1870.-29 i

PERRY LODGE, No. 161, ‘ I. O. of G. T. LIGONIER, < - .. 'D'. .| INDIANA. Meets every Friday Evening. of each week, at their : %all in Beazel's bnlldlng. ; Miss L, JACKBON, - ‘W.P.JOHNSON, ' oWV W. C. T, J. W. PETERS, W. 8. ' _ « Oct. 26, 70~

FI JOB PRINTING i — Ezeoyted e 46 National Banner Office,

CThe National Danner,

e MY CHILD. Fids . ‘BY. JORN PIERPOINT, i I cannot make him dead" * ’ His fair sunshiny head et Is ever bounding round my study ehair; . Yet when my eyes, now dim . - With-tears, I turn to him, - ; 4 The vision vanishes—he is not there! I walk my parlor floor, . ! And, through my open door, y I hear a footfall on the chamber stair; - . I’'m stepping toward the hall ‘To give my boy acall, And then bethink me that—he is not there. . I tread ¢he crowded street; A satcheled lad I met,”® With the same beaming eye and colored hair; - And, as he’s ruoning by, . Foilow him with my eye, . ) Scarcely believing that—he is not there! " I cannot make him dead! . When passing by the bed,’ i So long watched over with parental care, ' My spirit and my eye ; | Seek him inquiringly, ) Before the tboug‘tt comes that--he isnot there ! When, gh:fe cool, gray break Of day,’ p I wake, With my fireb'h ing of the morning air My soulgoes up, with i)')oy,' To Him who gave my boy, €t Then comes the sad thought that-he is notthere When at the day's calm close, Before we seek repose, o I’m with his mother, offering up our prayer, What'er I may be saying, lam in spirit praying | For our boy’s spirit, though—he is not there. N’ﬁt there! Where then is he? bt The form I used to see SRR Wasbut the raiment that he used to wear. - The grave that now doth press Upon the cast-off dress, . 18 but his wardrobe locked—He is no there! . : . { He lives! In ail the past He lives; nor to the last, . Of seeing him again will I despair; | . Ia dreams [ see him now; : And on his angel brow I see it writtén, “*Thou shalt see me there!”

The Newspaper Appetite. - “The Hermit in New York” writes to the T'roy Times: : “The newspaper is mnot yet understood, and probably never will be except to the initiated. Like the ostrich, the press swallows everything, but it is at'the same time a mighty digester, and turns all rude elements to shape. Into the office there rushes daily a vast unwieldy mob of politics, poetry, accidents, murders, sermons, divorces, elopements, battles, weddings and deaths ; the next day they go out in comely of¥er to be reviewed, commented on, sermonized or laughed at by the world, while all their lessons are wisely and earnestly summed up in the leader, by means of- which the editor masters and- directs that mercurial element public opinion. Intellectually speaking, a newspaper staff is a combination of varied intellects, each working in its place with such .harmony as pervades the human muscles, and the whole fused by one will. Here we have a composite ¢ Colossus,” better worthy to be called the wonder of the world than the ancient statue whose name I have just borrowed. - “If any one asks why I am speaking thus, my reply is, that in New York (and of course everywhere else) the newspaper ig absorbing everything.— Our daily,and miscellaneous’ press is 80 extensive that their titles would fill & small volume. Some men take half a dozen papers daily. - The paper is to them a tour through the world. It may be all they see, or want to see of life, literature or philosophy. 'lf a boeok is published, the advertisement gives you its title, which often is the best part of it. Christian people need not go to the theatre, for they can read a sketch of the play the mext morning; and wicked men need not go to church, gince the Monday’s paper affords a paragraph from each preacher, which may be more than is carried away by some of the stollid congregation that dozed through the whole service. But I need not expatiate on this theme. — Taking society generally, we all know that next to the Bible, the newspaper wellitall o -0 taY ’

“Hence there is great demand for.talent in this line, and the press is inviting recruits. There is a vast amount, of talent lying embyro—editors:and Jjournalists that are yet to be, and as ‘Boon a 8 any signs are manifested, those signs are acknowledged here. The press crowded with applications forr .employment, and yet first-class men always find room. The great journals of this city are scanning ‘the continent and levying on its men of thought and utterance.” Yosd s i

Bright Sundays, ; Let it rain every other day In the week, go that it be pleasant on Junday. Then let the gky be blue, and the sea. Then let the bird¢ sing, and the little children. Then let the green fields be fall of blossoms, and let no ascetic say it is wicked to pluck them. Then let the sunlight into your houses, place flowers on your table, have an extra sweet morsel for little ‘'mouths, and a pleasant word for everybody. I had almost said do anything but make the day one of gloom. Do anything that a man or woman may do, and look the pure stars in the face, but don’t groan, don’t set back the chairs against the wall; don’t bring out dry theological books, for young folks to read, written by library men who never so much as Eeepe’d into the windows of a warm nman heart. Don’t fold your hands over 'your Sunday suif, and look the ceiling .out of countenance. Don’t bribe your children to read six chapters in the Bible ; don't frown if they smile ; don’t let your people long for the going down of the Sabbath sun, counting the tardy minutes, like a restless ptisoner, waiting for his release.— Oh, anything. but that; as you love truth above hypocrisy, as you loyehonor and obeg;ence ‘beyond secret license, as. you dread the shadow: of moral death on those bright young faces, which lam sare you love.—Fanny Fern. } s .

A raftsman who had drank a little too-treely, fell from the raft on which he was employed, and was nearly drowned, when his brother plunged in to his rescue, and was struggling with him to the shore. The tide was strong, and the brother’s strength nearly exhausted, and' be was about relinquishing hig hold, when the despairing loafer, raising his head above water, ex: claimed : *Hang on, Sam | hang on ! —l'l treat—l swetr I will I’ 'These words proved sufficiently stimulating, and his brother saved his life.

LIGONIER,:; IND., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 187 1.

Dinners in Washington,

A State dinner in Washington, given P}L&h& Russian Minister, isithus described : . gl !

The dinner is served in courses, fruit and flowers ornamenting the table are ready when the guests appear. Seats are assigned to each guest by the host, who has pre-arranged the order .in which the places shall be taken.— The host eacorts.the lady of greatest rank ; the lady of the house escorted by the first gentleman present. Nothing appears on the table but the fizest of table furniture, the damask of heavy and. beautifal design, the napkins matching in texture, design and- al'most in size. These napkins are fold“ed across the lap and thoroughly protect every one from spots of greass, &c. 'The glass and china is exquisite, and a monogram appears on each piece.— A goblet for water and from three glasses to three times that number are beside each plate. Every guest has each dish- handed to help themselves’ from, and are even-expected to carve sometimes. This absolutely terrifies most American women, and then the: host comes to her rescue ; ‘but the lady sitting opposite to him is qualified for her high position as hostess and helps herself from the difficult dishes with the greatest ease. ~Even a social or family dinner is managed with almost the same formality as the state dinners. A dinner-of eight on one day differs little in general details from a dinner of eighteen soon after. At the grand diuners there are usually more flowers, a large central piece, and a boquet at each plate; and there is music, concealed, but ‘plainly. heard, while the company is at the table. Soup, as every one knows, begins the courges. and fruit ends them ; but beiween the two may be an'indefinite number of dishes, each comprising an entire course, as, for instance, a peculiar kind of artichoke rarely ever seenin this country—and yet the dinner must be over within one hour and a half from its beginning.— The cook, who has just perhaps arrived from nis native France, isa petand receives ‘a fine galary, and yet knows better than to cross the limit. ¢+ Too often, where the cook is allowed his own time, the guests are tired out with three hours sitting at the table. The President almost dozed at a three-hour dinner some time ago. - Coffee is not served at the dinners of the Russian Legation, ladies and gentlemen retire to--gethier, and coffee and various cordials are afterwards handed in another room, Later in the "evening tea is served.— Almost everything used in the way of clothing or food by the foreign legations ig imported by the different ministers directly from the exporter, Not only wines, but many kinds of fruit and some vegetables; as truffles. All these »ﬁ-e brought in free of tariff; therefore the diplomatic corps not only. procure their food cheaper than we do ours, hut almost entirely unadulterated. T - !

Moore, of the Rural. New-Yorker, was sitting in his office; one afternoon, some years ago, when a farmer friend came in‘and said : = ‘Mr. Moore, I like your paper, but times are so hard I cannot pay E‘?r it.’ : ‘ls that 80, friend Jones ? * I'm very sorry to hear that you are so poor; if you are 8o hard run I will give you my paper.’ . A SRR . ‘Oh, no! ' I can’t take it as a gift.’ ‘Well, then, let’s see how we can fix it. You raise chickens, I believe.’

. ‘Yes, a few, but they don’t bring anything hardly.’ : ‘Don’t they ? Neither doss my paper cost anything hardly. Now I have a proposition to make to you., I will continue your paper, and when you go home you may select from your lot one chicken and call her mine. Takegood care of her and bring me the proceeds, whether in eggs or chickens, and we will call it square.’ . ‘All right, Bro. Moore ;" and the old fellow chuckled at what he thought a capital bargain. He kept the contract strictly, and at the end of the year he found that he had paid about four prices for his paper. He often tells the joke on himselt, and says he never has had the face to say he was too poor to take a paper since that- day.—Model Farmer. . Sl ST e

~The accident on the Hudson River Railroad, near New Hamburg, has given rige to numerous suggestions which should find a place in the public study of such an unfortunate' catastrophe. First it has been’ pointed out how weak most of our railroad bridges are, and it has ‘been suggested that two trains ought not to pass a bridge at the same time. Again attention has been called to the fact that a’ majority of the accidents on railroads, during the past year or two, have been on railroad bridges. Freight axles break every few weeks, crossing ' the bridges. They breuk also at switches that are nsed only oecasionlly, Wheels and axles’ of freight cars break 'every day. A suggestion, made first many years ago out in.- Nevada, is that each pair, of tracks should be lgid fifty feet apart. Somewhat practicable is the suggestion that oil-cars should be excladed from railroads used for passenger travel, but this will hardly -be practised until separate routes are used for the trangportation of freight and passengers. Another suggestion is that some comﬂetent authority should in- ‘ vestigate the whole traffic system of our railroads and devise greater precautions for the security of life and prop- 1 erty. *

Gail Hamilton don’t believe that women were made for toil either indoors or out. Of household servants she says : “There are thousands of female cooks, and the large majority of them are bunglers. There are not a great many male cooks, but what few there are, are good. I believe there| are a few who will not confess that a man:gervant at the table, at the cooking, at the sweeping, it not only better{ style, but a more efficient- member of the household staff. You are more sure that the work will be thoroughly, quietly and more promptly done with a man at the fore Kan a woman.!

Too Poor.

Clergymen and Politics.

In a well considered article the New York Post (Republican) gives the names . of thirty-five preachers who recently petitioned President Grant for the removal of collector Murphy. They gave their clerical indorsement to Mr. Dutche, and prayed for his appointment to the lucrative position. The particular branch of orthodoxy to -Whiclx; each of-the Reverands belong is distinctly stated, and all the pomp and arrogance which they fancied gheir Eoeitions warranted was duly flaunted efore the President. The Post thus castigates the Reverend politician. - Suppose thirty-five Roman Catholic priests, speaking as priests, demanded of the President that he should appoint somde other man? What out cries should we hear about * priestly assumption and arrogance,” about ** dan‘gerous interference of priests with political affairs,” about the “perils of liberty,” and so on. But have not the signers of this petition put themselves out of eourt by: their blunder? How can they, or those who support them in using their professional standing as ministers of religion to furthera political aim, complain hereafter of the Roman Catholic ‘influence in our politics 7' | As citizens, tbey have precisely the same- rights a 8 citizens; Eut even as citizens the manner of their interference would have been an indecorous proceeding towards ther President. We have a right to be shocked that thirty respectable. Protestent clergymen should have committed so grave an offence against right and propriety. ~ For, a scrutiny of the petition shows nothing whatever to justify it. In the first place, these clergymen show no reason-why the present collector should be removeg ; then they ask for another man’s appointment, upon partisan groundg, which certainly ill becomes a class of men whose duty and office it is to instruct and lead their people. — Where are we to look for defemfers of a reformed civil service, when respectable clergymen demand the removal of a public officer without alleging against him either dishonestly or incapacity, and the appointment of another man on the ground that it would be useful or agreeable to the political party of which they happen to be members ? -

We should be glad to hear that the signatures to the petition were forged ; we cannot doubt that the President will rebuke the « delegation of politicians ”” who are said to have presented it to him., )

Short Heeled Shoes and Flat Feet.

The fashion of wearing short and high heeled shoes is very injurious to the shape and use of the feet, A short heel does not support the arch of the. foot, but allows it to sink, stretching and weakening the ligaments that hold the bones of the arch together, and making the person flat-footed. The purpose of the arch of the foot is‘ tol give elasticity and spring to the feet, and prevent sudden shocks heing transmitted too abruptly to the bod{ and brain. . A person with a high, arched foot steps lighter, easier and more gracefully, can walk with much less fatigue and run and jump much better than a flat-footed person. - Thousands of people lose their natural ease and grace of motion, and become stiff and awkward walkers;. simplz from wearing short heeled shoes, and thereby losing their elasticity of step. The matter is'made still worse by having the heels very high as well as short. Another effort of flattening of the foot is to increase its length, -and the foot is often lengthened in this wayto the extent of half to three quarters of an inch. Short and high heeled shoes also readily permit the easy turning over of the ankle, and many a sprained and weakened ankle is the result of them. ) :

- Ladies are the greatestsufferers from this foolish fashion, but men suffer al--8o to some extent. - The heel is usually made at least twice as high as it should be, and oftentimes not more than half 4s long. They can in all cases be safely made from one-half ta three-quarters of an inch longer than they are. ‘ln conclusion if you value the appearance of fyour feet, the ease and gracefulness of your step, and the strength of your underetamfing, look to your heels.—Herald of Health.

DRIED EGGS.—The eggs must be beaten to a uniform consistency, and poured in thin layers upon polished iron plates, which are placced in a carrent of hot air ; the paste rapidly dries, and must be packed in hermetically sealed cases. - eVbei) required for use, the dried egg can be dissolved in cold water and %eatgn to a foam like fresh eggs. It is said that eggs can be preserved for years in this way and that they retain their agreeable flavor to the last.—Journal of Applied Chemistry. :

A woman in Springfield found mice looking towels selling for ten cents apieee at a recent auetion sale, and so took a lot at the same price. When she got home' she washed them in order to get the sizing out, and succeeded admirably ; but unfortunately, the the- pulp of the paper of which they were made washed out too. <

The cannon with which the Prussian artillerists did so much damage to the City of Paris, are Krupp’s eleveninch breech loaders. They each cost about $30,000 in gold, and ‘the projectile and powder for'each discharge costs one thousand dollars. ¥ T

. A New Hampshire youth let a dentist pull all his sound teeth and insert artificial ones. He said he had the money to spare, and he knew the darned things would ache and have to’ be pulled, sometime. : s

It is said that if all the dogs of thig ‘country eat was fed to the hogs, it would make $50,000,000 worth of .1:;:)141:.;1 Add to gnt‘lixja the a:a’lue of shsep they destroy, something of an idea of t{w‘bﬁueyof dogs can be gf)?ained. : et B P . Tns sage-snd “*ingun’ séason is near at hand, '

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

{ (i e + Alyoung Cléveland lady exasperates the men by kissing her horse in the streets. : : g

, An aristocrattic lady of Lafayette, Indidna, has been detected in shoving “queér” postal currency.’ "~ A roasted onion. bound upon the pulse on the wrist will stop the most inveterate toothache in a few minutes. So says an exchange. ‘ One may insert a thousand’ excellent things in a newspaper and never hear a word of them from its readers. But let a line or twonot suited to their tastes creep in by accident or!otherwise, and one hears of it from every quarter. VLR : Hon. William Tweed has leased the Metropolitan - hotel, New York, for seven years. The amount paid is 860,000 a year for the first two years, and $65.000 a year for -the five succeeding. It is the intention to- make it a headquarters for the Democracy. Somebody having ' suggested the name of Gen. M. D. Legget for the next Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio, his enemies, with. a view to ruining his political prospects, have started the report that he “is strictly moral, and neither drinks intoxicating liquors, smokes, chews, uses profane language, nor plays cards.”.

A dispatch from New York reports that General Schenck will probably not go to England at all, or, if he should, that it will be for only a short time, to- return and enter upon Lis duties as Chief Attorney of the North: ern Pacific Railroad. Company, worth $25,000 per annum, which has been offered him by J. Cooke, President of the road, = - ¢+ c

The new Vienna paper, devoted to comicalities called Bismarck, has ‘been suppressed by the Austrian Government, on account of its nane. Bafst and his master are utterly unable’to discover anything funny about 'the Prussian Chancellor, whose breath has dwarfed Austria, shriveled up France, and thrust England out of the pale of continental politics. .

Commissioner. Pleasanton appears to have a little ring of his own, at Washington. He has prescribed a new lock for distillers, which can only be procured through one channel, and at the exorbitant price of $l6 75 each. When it is known that each distillery will require from tén to thirty of:these locks, the cause of dissatisfaction is apparent. The lock was prescribed without any opportunity for competition. g .

- Citizens of Indiana. lowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, I'linois, Missouri. and: Kansas, who favor the amendment of the National Constitntion “‘BO as to acknowledge Almighty God as the source of all authority andpower in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christas the Gavernor among nations,. and His revealed will as of supreme authority,” are to meet in Convention at Monmouth Illinois, on the sth prox. . _

The mob in Paris amused themselves the night previous to the triumph entry of the Prussians by listening to incendiary speeches, -and shouting defiance at the latter. If they had done less fighting among themselves and more and better. fighting against the Prussians, and indulged less in bragadocis, the result of the war might have been different from what it is.— We haveno sympathy for French red republicanism. Compared with it, Bonaparteism is a blessing. — Soutk Bend Union. )

German Losses in the War, A Berlin letter says : Since the beginning of the war there have been 109 lists " of ‘casualities published, from which we get a pretty exact account of the killed and wounded. The precautions taken by the Prussians to prevent any error or uncertainty as to Jhe fate of -any of the soldiers, are very complete. By the perfection of the system of registration, renewed reports, etc., there is scarcely any room for error. Besides, whenever a soldier goes into battle, he ties a piece of parchment in his button hole, with his name, regiment, etc., upon it, so that he will always be recognized if killed or taken prisoner. - Of-the 109 reports above mentioned, 58 contained the corrections required by those dying on account of their wounds, or cured and sent back to. their regiments; and, also, those reported missing and afterwards found: - These amount, in all, to 14;-'OOO-cases. So perfect has been the surgical and nursing care in 'the hos-. pitals that five-gixths of all have been gealed, the number dying being very small. The. whole number of dead, 2 generals, 67 staff officers, 724 sybaltern officers, 217 color bearers, Majors, corporals, vice-majors, vice-corporals, staff trumpeters ; 1,177 sergeants, chas. seurs, nntfer officers, hautboy players, etc., 10,622 privates and common musicians, 14 surgeons and 1 chaplain.— The whole number of wounded is 13 generals, 177 staff officers, 2,375 subaltern officers; 874 color bearers etc., 5,042 under officers, ete., 51,152 privates ‘and 105 others. The whole number of killed, wounded and- missing is 3,393 officers, and 77,409 men. ‘This however, is for North Germany and Baden, not including the Saxons or Hessiana, .

The San Domingo Soldiery.

Part of San Domingo’s standing .army is thus sketched: “A tall negro, very black and very thin, with a white slouch hat, a shirt of uncertain cclor and ma terial, blue cotton pantaloons, and barefooted ; he is ‘armed with a musket.~ ‘Near him isared faced mulatto, with red whiskers and red heir, who wears a long black frock coat and brown linen pantaloons rolled up to the knees, barefooted, and-armed with a sword. Another one of very small stature wears a black silk hat—probably fifteen years of age (the bat, not the man)—a blue coat, faced with red, and indeseribable pantaloons, barefooted, and armed with & mache’e, or long knife” : - ~ .

No. 47 .

POLITICAL ITEMS,

The Louisiana Legislature, composed mostly of negroes and carpet baggers, closed with a cLaracteristic. orgie. - The members recled over the floor crazed with liquor, or- scuffied around’ the Speaker’s chair, wlile the Speaker himsclf puffed a cigar and bandied vulgar jokes with the screeching erowd. The negroes fought like wild cats, and overturned inkstands in their struggles. In thic midst of this pandemonium the black chaplain- pronounced a lengthy benediction, and all hands united in a burlesque doxology.— Here is the practical result of Radicalism in the South. Decency has been outvoted, and ignorance and brutality Bavethe helm.

Senator Trambull, who has hitherto occupied.a leading position in the ranks of the Radical party, is opposed to the Bayonet Election Law, and the Chicago ‘Tribune, the leading Radical organin the north west, spstains the Senator in his dpposition. Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, and Gov. Palmer, of Illinois, both Republicans,- also oppose: the outrageous enactment. None but “ those little souls whom God in his inscrutable providence permits to edit Republican country papers” and Radical officc holders favor the iniquitous and despotic measures.

Mr. Caldwell, the new:Senator from Kensas, is about 33 years of age, and is reported to be worth $3,000,000. His fortune was made by freighting merchandise over.the, plains. Ile is.a business man, has not been.mixed up in politics, and was' not elected by virtue of a caucus nomination. Ile is expected, though a Republican, to present a sharp contrast in his public carecr to his colleague, sub’ sidy Pomeroy. .. . 7 Bl

‘The Legislature of Mississippi has actually voted downa bill intéhded to make the negrg better than-a white man. Docs not thit State stand‘in need of reconstruction? It'is becoming disloyal! And then tothink it is the home of the sainted Revels and of the persecuted cadet, Smith.— How dare the mighty _faTlen 1 . - a

Gov. Butler of Nebraska, it is believed, has bribed two; important witnesses for the prosecution in his ilf_)pea,chment_g-ial, and they hz‘gveﬂdisappeqred—. He has delivered the 'seal of his office as Goyernor to Secretary Ames, and will -proceed in the trial. : SR -

President Grant is preparing for a trip to the Pacifie coast, unless prcve_ntéd by a prolonged session of Congress. He is anxious to get out of the way of the swarm at the capitol. ' Long Branch is to be his stopping place during the heated term.

Radical Ex -Congressmen, who, have been shelved by the people, are persistent in. their efforts to sceure places at the handsof the President. They are willing to accept almast anything, except honest labor. . , -

~ Grant is still working at the San Domingo job, and it issaid will ask Cdugress before it adjoutns for $1,500,000, to be placed in his hands to carry outa treaty of annexation. ~ °~ | :

The Indidnapolis. Joyrnal calls Jason Brown “Cattle.” We suppose the reason is that he has pone to grass.— Franklin Dem.; Herald, - . :

The New Fee and Salary Bill—A : Resignation. e The following “document appeared in the Plymouth Democrat -of the 6th Inst. The resigning officer is a Democrat, and it is évident he has no just appreciation of the “reform” efforts of the late Legislatare: - LT e MarsuaLL CoUNTY, CLERK'S. OFFICE, } . Prymoury, Isp, Marcu 6, 1870. To llis Excellency, Conrad. Buker, Gov. “of . Indiana. | ‘ 2 Slr: After a careful perusal of the recent act of the Legislature known-as the “Fee and Salary Bill,” approved Februa ry 21, 1871, I congider it my duty to resignthe.office Inow hold for the following reasons: . .

1. The sysfemwof doing business inaugurated under the new law - is complicated, and must lead to’ numerous errors and disastrous consequences. ) 2. It increases the labor and responsibility of the Clerk and other officers,-and interferes with the . prompt dispatch of ‘business, causing the parties having business with the- officer to wait, while he gropes - his way through the labyrinth ot red tape that surrounds him. & 3. Sowme provisions of the law’ seem to ‘assume that every man holding a county office is a villain-over whom the sword of justice must hang suspended, to deter him from committing a felony, and are a disgrace upon our Statute Book. @ 4. The salary allowed to the Clerk is no compensation in -this, and most of the other counties of the State, for the gervices rendered and responsibilities assumed. - 8. The law makes no adequate provision for the payment of the salaries. The sources from which the “county officers’ funds” are derived are variable and ancertain, thereby - leaying it an open question whether after “the officer has earned his pittance, he will ever get it. , - 6. In this, and most.of the other.goun‘ties the amount allowed for the pay of Deputies is wholly insufficient to perform -the labor required by the officer, and hence he must pay the excess out of his own pocket or leave: the work undone and suffer the consequences. . o . 7.-The tendency of the law is to complicate official duties, - create confuion and- discord, prevent the officer from disch‘avag the duties of his position with credit to himself or satisfaction to the public, and in the end find Limself at the mercy of every enemy he may have, who desires to take advantage of errors he could not prevent. . - - . 8. As theact increases the expenses of litigation from thirty to seventy per cent. it is a gross wrong perpetrated upon the people, as well as officers, and ‘must remain for the next two years a monument OIE the ignorance and -stupidity of its au. thors:.:

I therefore resign the office of Clerk of Marshall - county, - Indiana, to take effect o and after the first Monday of April, 1871. : A TH i :

Hoping that you will acknowledge the receipt of my resignation, I have the honor.of gubscribing myself, yours truly, S Dot JorN QL CusHAR, : ! Qlerk Marshall Circiit Court.

- —Jacob Reyher of Kendallville sells cheaper than any other man in Northern Indiana. @ L

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S From the Lawrenceburgh Register. N |BUCKEYE. - ‘ . “Buckeye,” alias Charles W. Wooley who pretends to know so much about Mr. Hendricks and the Indiana Democracy‘in 1868, and who himself professes to be a Democrat, was_ the proprietor of a State Stock Bdnk at Indidnapolis in 18554'_56, dealing largely in “wild cat” stocks and ‘securitics. At that time we aro not aware that he was the passessor of any politics at ull,.intent only on making money.— The next we knew of him was after the war had commenced. He turned up again in Indianapolis ; not this time, however, as & banker, but as awarrior. We sawhim bedecked in all the'dread paraphernalia of his profession, aAd then knew the rebellion would be squelched. We trequently saw him armed cap @ pie, mounted upon his fiery steed, dsshing fearlessly up and down Washington street, and knew that the Union was safe. There were a great many such dashing cavaliers about Indianapolis then, but none could equal Charley Wooley. Hé was the best dressed and best looking man of them all, and his noble steed was more richly caparisoned than.any of his compcers. Such was the personal of “Buckeye” during the ‘l‘nd'mnapolis campaign of the Wwar. “Where he done his- fighting we never knew ; but that he fought is evident, for the rebellion was subdued, and the Union preserved. *

" Of the politics of our hero we-have no certain knowledge, but never dreamed of his 'being 'a Democrat. At the time we speak of, he was in “ close communion with Governor Morton. To all human seeming, they were on. the most intimate and confidential terms. ' The private door to the Executive presence was always open to “Charley,” while such favors were not always vouchsafed to Democrats. Yet, this warlike “Buckeye” may be a Democrat, but not enough to hurt in our opinion; and we will venture still furtler, that be is yet “cheek by jowl” with O. P, M., and that he knows more about the “St. Dominigan job” than.he does about the importation of voters from. Kentucky into Indiana in 1868 to aid in the election of Mr. Hendricks. There is a substance in the former of peculiar interest to minds like that of Banker Wooley. The latter is altogether. chimerical, ‘and neyer had the slightest foundation in truth ; yet if there isany money in believing it, Woolcy undoubtedly thinks it is all so. )

Seeret Societies —Their Liability to the Families of Deceased Members.

A case of considerable: importance as _rel»'ating to secret socicties was disposed of recently by one of theé Judges'in one of our city courts. - The particulars are as follows: A respectable -German, named Simon Hildenbuter, was told, if possible, to join one or more secret associations.— He a'ccérdiugly made application' to the Hermann Scehue, also toiCheruske_r lodge, No. 92, into both of which he was admitted to full fellowship. © Mr. Hildenbuter was induced principally by the wish to provide friends for his wife and little ehildren if he should suddenly be called away. He understood that in ocase of his death that the lodfe members would have to aid and assist his family, and that his body would be buried at the expens¢ of the order. i

= A few weeks ago Mr. Hildenbuter died, and was buried from his own house by his wife, and not by the lodges to which ‘he belorged. Then some -of the widow’s - friends advised her to sue the societies, which she did by commencing suit beforo Judge Arnold. Intheir defence the tris-~ tees of the lodges pleaded a want of observance.of the constitiation and by-laws on the part of the deceased brother. In answer to an inquiry whether the deceased had ever been under sentence of' suspension, the trustees replied’in the negative, whereupon the justice decided that the lodges were bound to extend to the widow and children gll the privileges ‘usually given on such occasions, for, al/though the man might not have been an: exemplary brother, he was nevertheless a member in, full standing in the order, - and that no lodge had a right to impugn his character after death. tle would order a verdict for $9O in favor of Mrs. Hil. -denbater. - : L

$300.000 Due the State of Indiana,

On the 26th ult., Hon.M. C. Kerr of the -Committee on the Judiciary made a report -on a resolution of the House of Represen. - tatives, to construe a statute that gives direction to the Commissioner of the General Land Office to pay over to certain States a sum_of money due by virtue of express stipulation. with reference to the sale of the public lands in those States. This stipulation was simply this: that in order to encouragé emigration thé Government in the sale of lands to purchasers secured the lands from State taxation for five years after the purchase. In consideration to this the Government would give to the States in which public lands -were thus sold, five per centum of the proceeds of sales, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre;— These stipulations on part of all States admitted to the Union subsequent to the year 1802, have been faithfully kept.— And the Government has likewise kept faith with nearly all the States, and the just amount required in the stipulation. To this there is three exceptions, the State of Indiana being one of them. Indiana, Illinois, and ' Ohio, have only received three per cent. instead of the five promised by the Government. The other two per cent were to be expended by the Federal Government in making a road or roads through those States. This has never been done by the Government, and there remains yet due to these States two per cent. on all the sales of public land, at the rate of one dollar and twenty five certs per acre. The report of Mr. Kerr recited all the acts of legislation dn the ‘subject, and the argument is full and clear - ‘that this unpaid two per cent. is due and ! ought to be paid. = The. State of Indiana has, therefore, a just -and e‘quilible claim upon the Government, and we .are surethat our distinguished Representative will leave no proper effort unexecuted that will hasten the adjustment of this claim. The amount that is due to the State of Indiana will be over $300,000. * This bandsome sum will be quite acceptable to our tax ridden people, and Mr. Keérr merits ‘the thanks of the people of the entire State for his able and ‘conclusive -report on this claim of the State, which will no doubt .be speedily paid.- New Alany Ledger. ; o