The National Banner, Volume 8, Number 8, Ligonier, Noble County, 19 June 1873 — Page 2
The Fational Banner 775{05@1'1::;1{33:‘___,_ LIGONIER, IND'A, JUNE 19, 1878,
Tue New York Sun wantsold Henry A. Wise sent to Congress, to cope with Alex. Stephens in making long speeches. Consent! ‘ . Bl @B - = * AND now comes the statement that recent investigations into the conduct of Philadelphia’s municipal govern- . ment show a state of affairs far|worse than Tweed's dynasty in New [York. et I I AProLOGETIC.—The editor having been confined to his bed by a severe - attack of bilious colic, from Saturday to Tuesday evening, the readers of the BANNER will kindly pardon ‘any lack of editorial matter that may be ‘noticeable in this issue.
GEN. ToM BROWNE is s,poke:tl of as a candidate for Congress from the District that begins with Randolph and ends with Dearborn county. | If he runs, his competitor will probably be the invincible Judge Holman, who is an entire stranger to the word “heaten.” Tom, beware. . IT
ACCORDING to the Atlanta (Ga.) Sun, brothers-in-law will hereafter be at a discount in Washington. That paper says that “candidates for departmental positions at Washington, notwithstanding they may have passed a successful competitive examination, and no matter how worthy, will not receive any appointment if they have relatives at the time in the department.” Grant’s relatives must all be provided for. :
' THE KANSAS REPORTER denies positively that the late “Hon.” 8. Pomeroy has entered actively into the canvass tofill the resignation of senatorCaldwell, and adds: “Politically, he isw as dead as a smoked herring, and he! knows it. While he is smart and shrewd and cunning and all that, he is dishonest and corrupt, and the people of this State have done with him, as they have, we trust, with all others like him,” R e
[ THE Cincinnati Commercial has unearthed some more Congressional corruption. It states that certain Congressmen and other public officials are implicated, by the developments of a suit now in progress between the ‘Washington Paving Company and the heirs of the late cashier of the Washington Bank, in mysterious and discreditable contracts and disbursements ‘whose details will be the history of a second Credit Mobilier affair, with the effect of retiring another instalment of honored officials from public life. {
THE probable nomination of Ben. Butler for Governor evokes this remark by an eastern journal: “For the life of us we cannot see wherein he is worse than many of the rest of them. He is not a hypocrite like Wilson, nor a humbug like Boutwell, nor an Artful Dodger like Dawes, and has more brains than any of them. = He is an ambitious, bold and desperate character, but on account of his boldness and desperation is not as dangerous as the sneaks and demagogues who generally manage republican politics in New England. There is a prospect of lively times in Magsachusetts at the ides of November.” o
Poorß oLD HENRY A. WiISE, who suppressed the Harper’s Ferry insurrection and hanged John Brown, in a characteristic letter informs the people of Virginia that he does not seek a nomination for Governor at'thé hands of either the Radical or the Conservative party—neither of these organizations being in accord with his peculiar views. But, says the wily Henry A. condescendingly, if one or the other will abstain from making a nomination for Governor, I will become the opposing candidate and make it “red hot” for the party which nominates the other man! The idea is not a bad one, but we have very grave doubts about Henry making it win.
IN DEARBORN county, this State, twenty-six permits to sell intoxicating liquors were granted by the Board of Commissioners. The Lawrenceburg Register says in this connection: “Several were refused permits because they” had failed to file their petitions twenty days previous to the meeting of the Board. Under the old law sixty persons paid alicense of fifty dollars each, making a revenue for the school fund of three thousand dollars for this county alone. Asthe same amount of beer and whisky will be consumed as formerly, we would like to know of some of our political economists where the benefits of the present law comein. Saloon keepers are jubilant, and say that they are just fifty dollars ahead.”
WHEN Mr. Johnston was the Democratic candidate for Mayor of Cincinnati, some of the most sagacious leaders among the Liberal Republicans protested against his candidac¢y, upon grounds that were deemed of sufficient " consequence to justify their opposition. The Enquirer, though not originally favorable to Johnston’s nomination, labored zealously to harmonize the disaffected elements, and finally succeeded. He has been in office several months, and has done a few admirable things, But of late the Mayor seems to have fallen into evil hands, committing follies that greatly disgust the very men to whom he owes his election. The Enguirer now “goes for” Johnston vigorously and calls upon the Democracy to repudiate his official eonduct, We ratherlike the Enquirer’sstyle. It pursues the correct policy. When an officer acts the dunce, the scamp, or the base ingrate, we see no reason whyhel should not be held to aecount by those he was a gentleman and had some {dea of the amenities due his fellow-men,
"~ WHAT “BILLY"” SAYS, The Warsaw Indianian, which has heretofore enjoyed the distinetion of being:the recognized organ of the Hon., Billy Williams, last week contained the following: o - We bad a brief conversation with the member of Congress from this D_is_tg‘ct——l.{o.n. ‘Wm. Williams—during his short visit to his home in this place, tast week. He defends his action and his vote on the salary bill; says that it was right in every respect, was just and proper. He is severe in his denunciations of the country press, and says that had it not been for them, no fault would.have been found, and the -matter forgotten by the people before this time. He claims to have letters from the editor of every [Republican] paper in this District, except the Indtanian, black-mailing him, and says there is not an editor in the District capable of writing a sensible article. | He denounces those Senators and members of Congress who voted ag’nst the bill, as well as those who have -since returned their money, as lacking in nerve and back-bone to stand up and boldly vote for a measure they wished passed, for fear of punlic clamor, and openly declares, at the same time, that the bill could not have been passed except by offering the back-pay “plum” to theoutgoing members. ‘This extract is,to use a common phrase, “important if true.” It shows that Billy does n’t care a continental for anybody; and that, having humbugged the people of this District for eight successive years, and thereby accumulated a little fortune, he can now treat them with the utmost contempt. He has managed to mount a very high horse, and having no further favors to expect at the hands of those who honored him far beyond his merits, he turns his back upon poor Indiana and wends his way to the aristocratic circles of Washington. What Billy may have said of the republican press of this District [of course he could not have had reference to the democratic editors] is of value only so far as it indicates that at a time when a determined effort was made to “shake him off” as a candiddte—in 1870—he obtained favors at the hands of journalistic manipulators that were not wholly gratuitous or ‘voluntary. To what extent these little family intrigues were carried on, may or may not be revealed. It will depend, very largely, upon the combativeness of the parties interested in the controversy. The case of one—the disreputable political prostitute of the Kendallville SBtandard—has been pretty freely ventilated. Its unprincipled editor was bought for $6OO to suppport Billy for Congress after having denounced him in unmeasured | tegpgggyl—more recently the same vile ‘wret¢l was bought up again, to apologize for the salary grab—the consider‘ation this time being no less than the Kendallville Post Office. ; Such, fellow-citizens, are some of the revelations of venality in this District. Corrupt Congressmen rob and plunder you at the national capitol, and then hire, bribe, buy up, the miserable trash that can now and then be found in control of the public newspapers. If you are sincere in desiring a check to these vile practices, you must place the seal of condemnation not only on Trecreant representatives, but also upon | the equally culpable apologists for ‘ public plunder. L
MANY of our friends think that we have a fat grab in the county printing, but the fact is we get a very small bite. A great deal of the printing for the county is done abroad, a good deal of it at Republican offices. By an arrangement with the Commissioners the Auditor controls this patronage, a custom not usual in our neighboring counties by any means. We have labored faithfully and unceasingly to establish a good paper in this county, but it is not from an excessive amount of patronage from the county that we have been able to do this. We believe that work is given to offices abroad that can be done as well and about as cheap at home. It is usual at other places to stand by the county printer, but in this county it seems to be an ‘exception.—Auburn Courier. ~ We sympathize with you, Bro. Mays. ‘But, then, you know, there are once i a while some queer people elected to office who are very nice and clever to the “printer” before the election, but quickly forget those little courtesies after they are once in. In their opinion a “printer”™is useful and valuable only so long as he lends himself to a promotion of their own interests, but when that is done he may look elsewhere for the patronage he had every reason to expect from that source. Take consolation, Tom,in the fact that you do not stand isolated and alone. .
ASTONISHING as it may appear, Ben. Butler actually has the inside track for the republican nomination for Governor of Magsachusetts. A bolt of the more refined portion of the party is threatened in case of his nomination. .This, however, does not seem to annoy Butler. Once nominated, he!’ll make Rome howl, and woe to the Republican politician who does not rally to his support. It is lamentable that such a man as Butler should stand even a chance of filling the gubernatorial chair of a State that once delighted to do honor to her Webster, her Everett, her Choate, her Andrews. But so we go—downward, downward !
ONE MORE of the motley crew of Indiana Bourbons that couldn’t support Greeley has found it convenient to drop into a well-feathered republican nest. This time it is James Gerry Smith, of Wells county, who has just assumed the editorship of the Bluffton Chronicle, the aceredited organ of the Grantites and salary grabbers of that county. It is really surprising how easy these intensely democratic chaps find their way into the republican camp.
~ Congressman Randall, of Pennsylvania, defends his vote in favor of the salary-grab on the ground that, by ‘making the pay of Congressmen adequate to their station and work, the increase of salary will remove many of the temptations to robbery which under-paid Congressional virtne has shown itself unable to resist. Fewer W he thinks, would have led in Credit Mobilier, land-grant, and ml:uve swindles, if they had been paid. :
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S - OPINION. ; _A Valparaiso lawyer recently addressed a letter to Attorney General J. C. Denny, for his opinion of that gection of the new liquor law which relates to the signatures required tobe attached to a petition for the granting of a permit to sell spirituous liquors. The inquiry elicited the following response: B ; “My opinion is that a majority of the persons actually voting must sign the pitition. Any voter may sign it, but the County. Board must have before them a petition signed by a majority of the legal voters who voted at the election named in the act before they are authorized to grant a petition to gell intoxicating liquors.” - The commissioners of Porter county, acting upon the opinion of the A ttorney General, at their recent session refused to grant any of the permits applied for, none of them being signed by a majority of those who actually voted. The sanie course was pursued in Pulaski and othér counties. The courts will probably render a' decision at no distant period which will settle the disputes that have arisen over the proper construction of the “legal voter clause.” , i :
. It may not be improper to remark in this connection that the opinion of Attorney General Denny. is by no means conclusive, nor is it of greater importance than that of any other practitioner in the inferior courts. It has not of late been customary, in this State, to elect men to that office on account of any peculiar fitness for the office, but more particularly to provide some “gabby” party servant with fodder which he was unable to “earn” anywhere else except at the. public crih. i E :
A CUNNING DEVICE. : Our readers will bear witness to the fact that we have at no time held in admiration the peculiar views of the strong minded sisterhood. This fact, however, does not deter us from frankly acknowledging the adroitness—yea, the positive cunning—of the plan recently promulgated by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, running thusly: “Let women assist themselves now as they have never assisted themselves before. let them take care of their own interests. They have too longlet their benevolent instinets work toward the church and men; let them now attend to themselves. Let the churches alone; don’t carpet churches; don’t have fairs to deck them with paintedwindows ;don’t give your ministers donation parties; put ‘all ‘your energies into earnest work for your own emancipation.— Make a social revolution. Carry the war, if need be, into your own families ; let the baby go without bibs, the husband’s shirt without buttons, the home without care, until the men give in. When they find their comfort depends on allowing us the ballot, they will wheel into line and give it to us. Women have too long petitioned and begged of men; letthem now make, siege and carry the warinto their own homes. It is coming to that, sirs, and it-is going to be a dear piece of business for you. We are going to vote—peaceably if we can, but with war if we must.” All of which would be very threatening to us fellows in trowsers if it were not for the fact that dn' overwhelming majority of American wives are entirely contented under the present arrangement and care infinitely less for the privilege of casting a ballot than they do for an occasional new -~bonnet, a seasonable hat, or a handsomely made up dress.
- To oUR utter astonishment and surprise we notice in last weeks issue ofthe Plymouth Democrat the valedictory.of our friend Platt McDonald. We sincerely regret this wholly unexpected event, I%ut since Platt has so willed, we can only wish him the utmost prosperity in whatever he may have concluded to embark. - '
The LaPorte 4drgus advises farmers and all owners of stock to write down a minute description 'of all their animals, and then file it away for use in case an animal should stray off or be stolen. A little care taken in _this way would - frequently save much trouble and expense. L
THE CONSOLIDATION.— The effort. to consolidate the Detroit, Hillsdale & Indiana, and the Ft. Wayne, Jackson & Saginaw, and the Detroit, Eel River & Illinois railroads, has failed, for the present at least. The stockholders of the first named road voted in favor of consolidation, those of the second postponed action in the premises, and the last named voted against it. Several explanations are given for the failure of the attempt to consolidate, the one most generally received being the bad finaneial condition of the Detroit & Hillsdale road. The people of Auburn and Butler are greatly rejoiced over the defeat of the consolidation, and they claim that the eastern extension of the Eel River road will at once be placed under contraet. This, of gourse, depends upon circumstances. The roads continue to be operated under the provisional -consolidation, made sometime ago, except the Detroit, Hillsdale & Indiana line.— Waterloo Press. -
Dgr. G. R. REYNoLDS, who is medical director on the editorial staff of the Plymouth Democrat, says: “Drinking a large quantity of cold water at a single: draught, when the system is heated ‘or more or less exhausted from labor, is, to say the least, very indiscreet,and is productive of fatal results.” Undoubtedly, but what the Neal Dow is a fellow to-do about it while the present temperance law is in force ?— The doctors tell us that drinking cold water “is very indiscreet, and is productive of fatal results,” while the law compels us to pay five dollars for drinking any other kind of beverage. This is a terrible dilemma from which a poor man has little chance to escape. It is either death or dollars.—Rensselaer Union. : : :
A WHOLESOME movement is on foot to get rid of about 70,000 runners for the wholesale houses in our big cities. This is a greater tax upon our people than many people suppose. These runnersg cost the people an average of six dollars a day each, Take a pencil and in a short time you can produce dollars and cents enough to pay the entire national debt. A few resolutions by the Gran%es throughout the country wonld htla,}) any movement to suppress the nuisance, — Winamae Democrat., :
: OUR NEIGHBORS. 4 One case of “epizootic” at South Bend. S Bristol ships 70 barrels of eggs per week. ' : : > LaPorte has been favored with 10,000 postal cards. - e LaPorte saloons are closed every evening at 11 o’clock. . o Some of the Elkhart girls have formed a smoking club, and the Review reads‘them a lecture on the klisgustini; practice. L ol A citizen of LaPorte was recently taken away from a tape worm that was 32 feet long. The fish bait market now rules low. :
- Ten three story brick blocks, besides hundreds of frame buildings, are in process of erection or under contract in South Bend at this time. ' The South Bend Union announces that there was born .in that office, on the 31st ult., to the wife of Thomas H. Kaat, twins. Weight—nominal. The Common Council of South Bend has raised the price of a liquor license from $5O to $3OO. They did make it $5OO and then reconsidered their motion. S _ . THE cost pf making the assessment for Lagrange county amounts to $l,857.00—5307.00, going to the county assessor, and‘the remainder to his depaties. : John Krick, of this city, has brought in a hen’s egg which measures B}4 by 61 inches. This is the largest yet, and will be added to the collection which is to grace tlie ligh School Museurn.—~South Bend Tribune. Councilman Weber, of the Union Cabinet Company, of South Bend, saved a drunken man from (h:owning; in the East race, Monday. He belonged in Mishawaka. > St :
The farmers and mechanics of Jefferson twp, Elkhart county, will hold a meeting this evening, for the purpose of haying a general talk upon all matters of State, County, and Governmental affairs generally, and upon all such matters as effect the interest and wellbeing of the laboring class. o ' The official figures show that more freight was forwarded from LaPorte last year, than from any station on the line. of the L. S. & M. S. ‘road between Chicago and Toledo. The am’t shipped from'this point was 84,532,311 pounds; amount received 25,951,450 pounds—totalj revenue from same, $129,643.93. . -
John Thraxton -and Sidney Moore are both provided with a home for two years, in the Michigan City penitentiary, for larceny. Moore, it will be remeinbered, is the chap that Auditor Tucker “spotted” at Elkhart, in the act of picking a lady’s pocket. He was one of the gang that was following Forepaugh’s show. If every community would take one, the scamps would soon be cleaned out. Joseph Morris, tried for larceny, the jury failed to agree, and the prisoner languishes in jail.—~—Goshen Democrat. - ~
—Dr. Reynolds, in the Plymouth Democrat, offers some wholesome advice that is applicable to every community. Heéar: “Boys, when you go to the river or lake to bathe,imless pexrfectly cool, set down long enough to become so, before entering the water; then lay off your eclothes, and walk leisurely into the water, bathing the arms, body and head, until the water produces no chilliness, when the whole body may be immersed if desired. Jumping suddenly into the water when in.a heated condition isa dangerous practice; liable to produce ecramping, paralysis, and drowning; or a cold, the effects of which may make life miserable.” :
The Dalrymple Funeral last Sun-, day was the largest gathering of the kind ever known in the county. The: intense interest felt towards this afflicted family, attracted thousands of people to witness the burial of the charred remains of this once happy wife, daughter and son. Four hundred buggies and carriages were counted on the grounds, and the audience estimated at 2500. The sermon was held in the orchard, the day was fine and cool, and the sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. Mahip, of New Paris, a young but talented and eloquent di+ vine; and as he felt,as all did the utmost sorrow and grief, he was more ‘than usually eloquent, and for:an hour and a half the immense audience seemed to be riveted to the spot. The impressive services will be long remembered.—Goshen Democrat. S
GRAFTON JOHNSON, the wealthiest man in this county, istaxed upon the duplicates only $00,480, when it is a notorious fact that he is to-day the possessor ofiover half a million dollars. We do not know whether his vast W:alth is invested in . government bonds, or whether he exercises some other religious and moral agency by which'the farmer and mechanic is made to pay the taxes of the wealthy aristocrat.—Franklin Herald. 2 This is one reason that our people arescomplaining. The burdens of taxation are unequal, being heavy on the poorer, and lighter on the richer portion of the people.. 'This is a Republic, and everyone should stand on an equality. There should be no privileged citizens, and there must not be if we are to have peace in the land.— Seymour Democrat, = b
A PATENT OYSTER.—Where will the genius _of the American inventor end? A down east journal informs us that a Maine man is about to apply for a patent for an artificial oyster, made out of flour paste, tapioca, salt and water. Thé inventor places thege in second hand oyster shells which are carefully glued around the edges, and when a half intoxicated customer calls for a dozen raw on the half shell, he gets them fresh from the shop, |
WHAT MISHAWAEKA 1S DOINGA— There are twenty-three brick business houses, one brick stable, one church and three or four brick dwellings under process of ;construction in Misha-~ waka at present, which, together with the four brick blocks erected during the fall and winter, since the fire, show the amount of business in the building line which, in comparigon, is only equalled by one city inthe wonld ~—Chicago—Enterprise, i e 4 Rt ! ! Fort Wayne has ninety-seven liquor galoons. St neid
Politics—Let Us Have Rest. . [From the Plymouth Democrat.] The people are having a well-de-served rest from political excitement, the monotony being varied only by occasional reference to the Credit Mobilier and the salary grab. We believe in the utility of political parties, and have no expectation that this or any other enlightened' government will get along without them ; but that there is any necessity for keeping up political excitement, or pandering to political prejudice, when there. is no opportunity for the people !to decide political questions, few, we think, will affirm. There are men in all parties ‘who can never forget . that they . are politicians, and they do not intend that anybody else shall forget it. It is true that they may be very small politicians; (and a majority of them are),but what they lack in ability and influence, they make up in pertinacity and impudence, and' are looked upon by those who judge by appearances only asbeing men of very great importance. It is justsuch a class of politicians that are now| vociferating that the Democratic party is not dead —that it will come out in four years stronger than ever—that it will not “accept the services of .any who have ever: acted with any other political party—that none shall' be classed as good Democrats except those who voted for General Jackson and the Kentucky resolutions+—and the expression of other statesmanlike views. If such politicians had the ability to influence the people when political questions are to be decided, they ought at least to have sense enough to know that at a time like this they can only attract attention on account of their want of judgment. ' If the party is dead, theit bombast and fustian cannot resurrect it; and if itis alive, it will probably rémain so, without any assistance from them. Future political events will shape themselves, and all that. small-rated politicians can do at this time will come tonaught. - Let us have a little pedce and quiet on the organization of political parties, and when the time for action does come, we will be all the better prepared te wage ‘a vigorous warfare in behalf of right.
e — - — A Bad Out-Look for New York. (New York Cor, Boston Journal.) ‘ i /I'he fimst of May has not - improved the business of the city. The large number of stores and places of business unoccupied is unprecedented. It ‘was always a marvel how storekeepers could pay the huge rents asked on Broadway and live. Rentals all the ‘way from $4,000 to $lO,OOO are de. manded. How such prices can be paid, and men make - any money, is one of the mysteries of merchandise. The ‘general impression is that these prices must abate. Tlere are 100 -places of business unoccupied on Broadway between the City Hall and Fourteenth street. Some of these are the most eligible stores on Broadway. Unable to rent these places, the landlords have come down astonishingly in‘ their rents. - el Before the Ist of May one of Astor’s stores on Broadway was to rent; $12,000 was the asking price; it was rented this week for $3,500, . Another place of business was rented at $2,000. The occupant said hecould not pay it; business was stagnant, and unless the owner would reduce the rent he would have to move. The landlord was stiff and defiant, and the tenant left the place. The rent came gradually down to $1,200, and has been taken for the exhibition of a patent at the rate of $6OO a year. Another store for which $3,000 was asked has been rented for $l,OOO. These are specimens. The number of men out of employment, the tightness of the money market, and the absolute stagnation of business make things absolutely Dblue.— There is a general feeling that a crash is to come. Real estate islield at such ruinous prices that men who have it in hand can realize nothing; and there is a prospect of very general demoralization. 7 ;
Discarding It. We have often been importuned to say a word against the system of business cards on wrapping paper, but have judged it best to- keep silent' and let the merchants test the matter to their satisfaction, Some of them having lately thrown printed wrapping paper aside, it is to be hoped that every other dealer in Detroit and Michigan will follow the example.| In the first place, the advertisement is worthless; no one reads it, and just so much money has been thrown away. In the next, everybody objects to carrying around a bundle labeled with'some man’s card of business. It subjects him.to criticism, and, if he calls into any other store, sometimes produces unpleasant feelings. A case in point occurred the other day. A farmer paid $2O for a coat at a clothing house on Woodward avenue, and was well satisfied with his bafl‘gain. Going up Jefferson avenue, the business card on. the paper caught the eye of .another dealer, and he got the man into his store; examined the coat, and announced that he sold just such coats for-$lO. He only intended to hurt his adversary, and in this he succeeded. Thereis not a merchant in the State who can show that he ever secured one single customer by advertising on his wrapping paper: Were he to expend that much money in advertisement in a paper, daily or weekly, he could not fail to hear from it in more ways than one. But, leaving out advertising altogether, it is believed that every merchant stands ready to admit thalf printed wrapping paper fixas come to be a nuisance which must be abolished without further delay. Prominent merchants here are discarding it, and all the rest must follow.—Detroit paper. Ao
Bid for Capt. Jack by a Showman. "A dispatch from Washington, dated June 6th, says: | o An enterprising individual writes to the Government from Tiffin, Ohio, offering to pay $60,000 for the privilege of exhibiting :Captain Jack throughout the country during a period of sixty days. The would-be showman promises to keep Jack securely, treat him well, and return him to the Government at the expiration of sixty days, provided he does not commit suicide, in which case the Government is to receive only $l,OOO per day for the time he remains in the showmdn’s hands alive. It is proposed to pay $30,000 upon the delivery of Jack at Chicago and the balanceé at the close of the two months. =~
HoxN. WiLLiAM WILLIAMS left rather suddenly last week, and before going he disposed of a very desirable piece of property at a remarkably low figure: ‘We don’t know what his sudden departure means, but it indicates that he would rather not be here to meet too many of his former old friends. Democrats, as a matter of course, denounce his course on the salary. grab, while Republicans take special pains to make manifest their disapprobation. The probabilities are, we shall forever lose the citizenship of Mr. Williams. The question now is,in fact hasbeen, is he really a citizen of Indiana, and eligible to represent the State of Indiana in Congress? For severa] years past he has lived, awned property, and identified himself with the interests of Washington City, and not the least doubt exists as to his intention of making his future home there.—~Warsaw Unidon, e o
INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. Valparaiso has legislated against fire-erackers on the Fourth. ' Good. The contest for the Sheriff’s office, in LaPorte county, will probably be carried to the supreme court. * .~ A tree was cut in Green -county, last week, which, it is estimated, will turn out 10,000 feet of lumber. = There is 'a fifteen-year-old boy in Terre Haute who can hold twenty-two glasses of beer without bursting his epidermis. i : ‘ Three hundred dollars is what the city of Plyniouth wants for allowing a man to make an honest living by selling intoxicating liquors. ' The railroad depot at Laporte is a cheerful place for infelicitously married females,—only six men have been killed there since last October. .~ Mrs. Clem, the Indianapolis murderess, has been granted a new trial—the fifth. The Supreme Judges evidently believe in giving a woman a fair show. " Plymouth makes her saloon keepers pay a city license of %300; there are many of our citizens who would favor such an ordinance in this place. Several of our saloon keepers favor a city license.—LaPorte Argus. i
‘An infant child of Mrs, Stuart, who lives nine miles west of Lafayette, was left sitting onthe' floor last Tuesday, while the mother went out to ‘milk the cow. During her absence the child fell forward on its face and was smothered to death. : JouN KANE, a desperate character, well known about Laporte,was arrested here recently, on a charge of lolesting his family, and was bound over for trial. His wife was divorced, and living here, and he undertook to take possession of the house.—Elkhart Remew. - ' The Worthington, (Green county) Times says: “A short trip through the county has satisfied us that the wheat crop will be an average one, as it stands thick and heavy. In some localities the corn. is up and looks beautiful, and is now being plowed for the first time.” : . An old lady‘named Lyster, died at Graysville, last week, at the age of ninety-one years. In compliance with her request she was buried in the clothes in which she was married 73 years ago, These were of linen throughout, and she had:grown and spun the flax and woven the cloth of which they were made with her own hands. Judge Gillett recently ruled that where divorce was applied fox with only:service by publication in a newspaper, that the divorce would be granted conditionally to take effect in two years, and that the defendant could appear at any time within the said two years, and have said divorce opened up as a matter of right and defend in such actioni— Valparaiso Vidette. In the city of Anderson with.a population of forty-five hundred, not a single application for license has been made since the passage of the tempexance law, none of the saloon keepers being able to obtain the requisite number of signatures to their petitions.— Quite a number of saloons have closed up, and. it is believed to be impossible for any person to obtain license there under the existing law. : , - Mrs. William Carter of Rochester, while engaged in the blissful occupation of skinning catfish last week, was wounded in the hand by the animal’s sharp spines. Erysipelas supervened and her life is now despaired of. It is now reported that since this event not less than a hundred loving husbands at that place have fished all night in Lake Manitou in order to furnish their spouses with an excuse for a like accident.
Our County Commissioner -elect, Wm. B. Garman of Osole township, is in luck, even if his present growing wheat erop is shortened up somewhat. He has lately sold 900 bushels, including white and red together, at one dollar and seventy-five cents per bushel, netting him the snug little sum of §l,576, all told. He can afford to be & member of the County Board, even if the pay is rather less than that of a salary grabber.—Elkhart Union. ; On Tuesday morning last a calf was born at Daniel Rose’s, on the Swygart farm, about a mile from this city, which had five legs. The calf was a healthy, well-formed one, but lived only a short time. Four of the legs were in their natural p‘osition, and the fifth, perfect as the rest, was a continuation of the back-bone, taking the place of the tail, while this latter was suspended from the hip, on the right side. The animal lived but a short time.~—South Bend Tribune, June 14. Death relieved the intense suffering of our much respected and beloved citizen, Mr. Christian Reider, on yesterday morning‘at'2.o’clock. His constitution; already eénfeebled by months of ill health, was unable to withstand the attack of small-pox, contracted during his trip west. A good citizen, kind father and Christian gentleman has been called hence under circumstances so distressing that not even his own family or friends could attend his remains to their final resting place. Qur community, one and all, sympathize with the distressed family.—Columbia City Post. . B
Fort Wayne has failed on her artesian well, on the Court House Square. At a depth of ninety feet, the drill came in contact with a boulder, and this rendered it necessary to bore in ianother place. Hillsdale has also abandoned the-artesian well business, after boring much deeper than Fort Wayne, and expending a large sum of money. An- artesian well is a very desirable thing to have lin a village, but the many failures to “strike water,” now happening in various parts of the country, renders it a very hazardous business in which to invest money.— Waterloo Press. ‘A few days since a farmer in Madison township, quarreled with his wife and left home. He returned in a short time and the quarrel was resumed and continued to such an extent that he expressed a desire to be! out of the world. His wife intimated that nothing would please her better and offered to do her partif the rifie were only loaded. He went into the house, got the rifle and ammunition and loaded it in the presence of his wife, but was very careful when she was not looking to slip the ball down his sleeve.— After the gun had been capped he handed it to her and went into the yard, she following as far as the door, when she took deliberate aim and fired. The husband dropped in the grass, to all appearances dead, and laid there a short time before his wife came to him. It did not take her lohg to discover that he was “playing possum,” and grasping an axe handle, she attacked him so fiercely that but for the interference of some of the children, she would have crushed his skull, It is needless to add that there will be a divorce.—South Bend Daily Tribune, June 13. { : : :
And now comes a story to the effect that an lowa Congressman was so conscience stricken because of his salary steal that he couldn’t sleep, and so got up ‘gery vearlg? one morning recently and buried the money in the garden and then went into prayers with a light heart, >
‘NEWS SPLINTERS. ~ = ~ The exports of . domestic ‘pmd'i‘;@{flg last week amounited to $5,615,000.° - & “Walworth, the particide, has Teen: indicted for murder in the first degx:rge.q The French Assembly has Fas:sédfi,’i, vote of confidence in. the MeMahon Geveramaent. .. . . oGI oiße - The Alexandria palace near London, burned on the 9th inst. Loss, $3,000, 000 ; insurance, SGOO,OQO,~'." S The payment of thefirst installment of the last milliard of the French war indemnity has been completed. = The Utah Liquor Law, exacting a retail license of $l5O per month, ‘has been declared illegal by Chief-Justice McKean. iE The United States recovered $1,500 damages against the TCity. of New York, for property destroyeéd in the draft l'iOtS. S “,m ° The late John'Carpenter, .of - Mar--quette, Mich., knockéd the ashes out of his pipe on the head of a keg of blasting powder.. =.. o anad - There were 1,653 deaths:from “the small-pox at St. Louigl_ast ~year. , The ‘caseés were 1 in 52.0 f the population, sthe deaths lin 262, = “wetiy Sl William A. Stumpe, €ashier of the Market street Savings Bank, St. Louis, has disappeared. ‘His - accounts are short about $lO,OOO. .. i lo On the 6th instant Captain Jack's stolidity forsook him, and he railed vehemently against those of his band who had turned State’s evidence, = -
The earnings of the L. 8. &M. S. railway for the Ist quarter of 73 show a gain of $690,000 over the receipts of the corresponding months of 1872. | St. Louis ‘and vicinity were visited by a heavy storm Monday night of last week, which did eonsiderable damage, both by reason of the high winds and great fall of water.': . "iy o
The cholera they have been having in Memphis and Nashville is simply a malignant . form of -cholera-morbus. But- people - die. It is the Ameriean, and not the Asiatie type.-. - - The fruit region around St. Joseph, Michs, is suffering sadly for rain:: The strawberry fields are blighted by the drought, and will yield much less than half a crop unless rain falls this week. A schoolmaster of Bennington, Vt., was lately worsted in single combat by one of his pupils for-presuming to interfere with the atter’s cotrtship of a female class-mate during . school hours. L e RN R
A party of Capt. Jack, in gn interview with General Davis, declared himself innocent of the murder of General Canby. He says he was incited to the recent war on thé whites by the chief of the Klamaths; -~ = = New Hampshire is seriously beginning to think of amending its constitution by abolishing the clause which provides that none but protestant church - members shall be ‘eligible to the Governor’s chair or to the Legislature. s T A T S
Memphis has established a Board of Health to deal with the cholera. There were fifteen deaths last Monday from cholera in-that city, and in Nashville there‘have been thirty-two sinee Saturday, almost all of thenr among : the negroes. e ol LA e
During the ten days that Barnum’s show was in Boston, twenty-nine exhibitions were given,-and the total number of tickets sold was 243,642, .'The receipts averaged about $7,000 a day; and the expenses about $4,500, giving a net profit of $35,000 for ten days. A nugget of gold weighing ‘seven ounces has.been found on the land of an hopest farmer at Hillsdale, Mich,. who had been encouraged: to prospéct by the assurances.of the State Geologist that all searches for. gold in Michigan must prove miggetory in their results. St I e RN T
+ A gigantic railway project is about to be put into execution, whereby Europe and Asia will be - connected. The journey from Calais to Calcutta will be but seven days ever the proposed road; This feat will rival the Sensis “tunnel on the Suez eanal in cominercial magnitude, =~ c oS Earl Russell has introduced ‘in- the House of Lords a bill remodeling the Government of Ireland. Tt abolishes the office of Lord Lieutenant; and makes ‘the voice of eight jurors of a jury of twelve men sufficient to convict. The object’is to counteract; the: influence of the priesthood. . = The cholera is better at Nashville; but worse at Memphis. : Twenty-four victims of the disease "were buried in the city on 11th inst. against eighteen the day before. It is hoped that the heavy raihs which have sueceeded: the hot and sultry weather: of Ilast week will !:end to check its ravages.
The Secretary of- the Navy does not hesitate to say in adyance -of his official report that- the testimony elicted shows that Captain Hall died a natural death, and that the separation of those on the ice floe from the . Polaris was accidental. -He is desirous, however’ of heafing the story of Capt. Buddington and his party, ] that both sides may be fully know;nf e o What sort of a medieval place is Youngstown, Ohio, anyway? The Vindicator of that town records the following cheerful incident: '“A lot of little Christian urchins caught a little Jew boy, at the corner of Watt and Champion streets’ a few evenings sinece, and tied him to a post,piled a lot of tinderwood, and were about to ignite it, when they were discovered by some men, and the little Jew rescued. Thé only reason assigned for their actions and intentions by the Christian urchins was, that the Jews had erucified Christs 8 s 2 B
The second instalment of the last milliard of the French indemnity fund to Germany, will be paid on the sth of July, the third on the sth of August; and the last on the-sth of September: In return, the Emperor has agreed to evacuate four departments now held by him, on the sth of July. As a pledge for the last two mionthly payments the fortress of Verdun and the military district around will alone continue to be’ occupied until the sth of September. They are to be evacuated within two weeks from that date..
HERE is an intelligent -editor's estimate of the-value and effect of advertisements: “If any man affects to believe that advertisements are not read, let him advertise that he wants to buy a dog, for instance. If he is not furnished with every varietv of animated sausage that morning before breakfast, and, besides, with one or two sound grounds for suits against him for assault, we will break our golden rule and—deadhead his advertisement. And it is fair to infer that any man who wants to sell a(dégf;@lw wishes to buy something with the. proceeds of his canine venture, And 8o up to.the man who wishes to sell his Jam of coffee that he may buy a'cargo of Western prodwes.” . bl ai
“My experience as a medical man,” 1 says a New York physician, “shows that bald-headed men are seldom or never drunkards, and that moreover; a_ bald-headed man is seldom found in a lunatic asylum.” - S 1
. OrD BENDER, the Kansas murderer, who ranks second only to Capt. Jack as the hero of the day, possesses. the: trick of übiquity in an extraordinary -degree.. About six weeks ago h_er'dis_appeared from the spot which he 'had made famous by his industry and strict ‘attention to business. A few weeks ! -later he was arrested in Texas. Then . _he immediately turned up in Chicago, and executed-a little job in* his line. I A week more, and he is arrested in Towa; and on the very next day he is: - heard of at Millbrook, Illinois, sauntering slowly southward. Having been overtaken so numerously, it ts about time that some of the old villainsho’d be hung. | ‘
It has-often loceurred to us that, when: temperance lecturers talk about “the growing evils of intemperance,” they do not believe it themselves. If it were true, it would indeed be a sad ecommentary upon the value of the temperance agitation of the past twenty or thirty. years. We ng}ive them credit: for accomplishing Thore .than this, and belieye that there is less alcoholic drinks used now than ever before, in “proportion to the number of people in the eountvy. Without doubt there igx too much drank now, but do encourage us to believe that weiare getting a little better each year.— Wa-texrloo-Press. . !
A RENEGADE REWARDED.—Major Griswold, Confedérate Provost Marshal at-Richmond during the war, who was so strong a Bourbon that he ran as an anti-Greeley candidate for Congress in -Baltimore in opposition _to Governor,Swann and got beaten, has lately Deen appointed by Mr. Creswell Post-office Agent, at a-salary of $1,600 and extras, with little or nothing to do.
" Tnk most sahguine expectations are promptly réalized by administering Smolanders Buchu, if you-wenld \,c.omplete'ly‘ eradicate Kidney, hladder and glandular diseases, diabetes, gravel, incontinence or rétentionlof urine, female irregualaritics, gnd.,msimdies of the urino-genital organs. .= -
il SRR ANEREs . ) “ ‘Junell,7lB73, in' Benton twp., Elkhart coanty, A& daughter to the wife of Jessk .{'AIL; weight TeN pounds: ..- . 7 ey - Gto thou, Charley, and do likewise.” J.SL - v s IS EEESy ;j Magbs, 1873, of brain fever, MAGGIE NE"Fl‘ffi, daughter of Henry and CHRISTIANA BENFER; aged 8 months and 2 days. S ‘ - Funeral services at the residence of the parents, by the writer, from the precious words of Jesus: *“What Ido thou knowest not now but thou shalt know hereafter.,” | F. A Bare. Our lovely Jiftle babe is gone- to the spirif land, : - So.lately all thy Mfe was fair, : : And bathed in'mornings’ loveliest clow, LA .‘So lately came the frosty air ; : ‘That laid onr choicest blossom low, : s e o ok "PARENTS,
o TTETE MARKEDS. i sone S TIGONTRR Y - Wheat—white... . $l4O/H0g5—1ive.......... 8425 Amber—red ...... 135{Hogs-—dressed...... .... Hyer il il 50 Trrkeyh-lve. it ORIBEL TR 28{Chickens=live,..... .. Gorh,.cucci.ipe oo 45| Beeswwaxi: ... ... . (30 Polatoess iel BOIBHMeY.. o 124 Flax Seed .. . ... 150|Lard.... ..i........ : 06 GloyerSeed.coo . 0 fegi e - i 0 Wigolooii o iosl dhißeathera v (.0 - 85 Ravk . ciwivn gl e lew. . | gt vellb 5h0u1der5.:..:..... 08 Tfmothy Hay....... 1500 Ham5:.........10@ .|Marsh Hay......... 1300 oyt D KENDALLVIELE. | -« - 2 Wheat—white.....Bl 55! Live Hozs. *.. [ 5.5.6..1.. Amber—red....... 147|Dressed Hogs./.... .. Ryecotnlol .. GslTive Tarkeys s . Qats...icini .l :32/Live Chickens ..... ... BornL AL 5h Beeswax,. ... ..l 2400 P0tat0e5;..:..... .. o4o|Butter.. . ... T 13 Flaxfeede v L 150iardy 0 0 o CloverSeed..ooo@ 4 50|Egg5,....... ....... 10 W001ii......, ..@ 40|Feathers, ...... ... 90 Porle vt g o Tallow, - oo Shquiders,...... ... 07|TimothyHay..... .1590 IHams'..,.'.v...i 00@ 10|Marsh Hay......... 13 00 kst G CHICAGS. B Wheit.. 81 214 @Bl 175 |M Pork... 815 70@815 65 Com ... 2@ 345 Lard....... B 32@ 8840 0at5..... 25%@. 271%|Shoulders,. 6@ 615 Rye..... 60¥@ ,Rib 5........ B%@ 83 Barley... 55 @ ; 60" Ham 5...... 9%@ 1L e e ettt ettt et g .
Nt TOLEDO. : Wheat. §175 @slsB |Corn....s 42 @$ 423 Red +.-:1560 @ 1561 ‘ClovSeed 465 @ 46515 Oats.... 33 @ 334 Hogs.... 580%@ Notice to Builders and Contracb s - tors, S 'SEALED Proposals will be received by the Trus- >~ tee of Perry township, for furnishing the matérial, and erectThg. in the New School District No. 9, a brick School House 26x32 feet. Proposals will be received until 12 o’clock, on Saturday, J ulg 9, 1873, when the same will be opened, and the jo let to* the lowest responsible bidder—reserving -the right to reject any and all bids. - . .. Specifications and Ground Plan can be seen at my office. | et - e el L. J. DUNNING, Trustee. . June 19, 1873, ~nTvB-iw. i ! GRAND COTILLION PIG-NIC ! o 3 At NOBLESVILLE, on ; - Saturday, June 28th, 1573, COME ONE, Come -All, Come on ‘Horseback, “Come in Wagons, Come every way; Let this be one of the best Pic-Nics of the age. Music by the ** Buckeye String Band,” therbest band in the 'world. Refreshments to be had on ‘the: ground from early morning until late at night. No whisky allowed within two mikes of the grounds. 873 w 5.. - LEMOGN lIARK%R, Prople,
LIST OF LETTERS Remni_mngin the post office at Ligonier',]m].. ¥ during the past week: 7 ;
King, Matthias Moore, Miss Elizabeth Rarick, Corneling |Rinebolt, Henry - | Rarick, Simon . Smith, Jacob N .|Sharp, Thos. Teal, M_a'ry S ‘4
Blakeley, Ulary Jane Brown, Charles : Frank, Miss Alice R Gaines, Adam i Getse% H. : Hill. Charles W Jones, Miss Emma&Rac. King, John C 1
Persons calling for any of the above letters will pleasesay “Advertised.” & : : H. M. GOODSPEED, P. M. - Ligonier, Ind, June 19, '73. : Vi —“‘*——*—————-—————*———_.h__- % OBSTACLES TO MARRIAGE. - Happy Relief for Young Men from the effects of Errors and Abuses in early life. Manhood restored. Impediments to Marria%e removed. New method: of treatment. ‘New and remarkable remedies.— Books and Circulars sent free, in sealed envelopesy Address, HOWARD ASSOCIATION, No. 2, South Ninth S'treet.‘ Philadelphia,: Pa.,—an Institatien having a high reputation for honorable conduct and profesaf%nal skill. 0 [v6l3-Iy]
e LIGONT . A : o | ACADEMY !. % GEO. W. HUGHES, Principal. TUITION FROM $8 to $lO PER TERDM. :Circulars containing full information may-be ob- * tained by addressing : g ’ JOHN H. HOFFMAN, Sec’y, 7-49-tf : : Ligonier ‘lnd. ' REMOVAIL. FISHER BROTHERS, . DRUGGISTS, WOULD respectfully. announce that théy have © 7. removed theirstockof . Drugs, Medicines, and Groceries Into the 'bfillfi‘lnghf;‘mmsrly knownas ' ! - ”Arand‘.’Sj Sfi;&nd,” ot And cordially invite their customers and the puilic generally to give them a’cng at their new quarters.- V‘Ye ‘lwlll er(:ldeavfi{' tof ve satisfaction in ) 0 i i polat af prices and qally SLREINL 00, - Ligonier, May 22,1873-8 4-4 f By tan iy
OLD PAPERS! mR ABATEIG PURPOSES, CLEAN i AND UNOUT, AT Sé}%gnt{y-Five ‘ Ceflt‘s . - ‘i»e.-‘ux‘u;.f._a,-g.-_im,;?g