The National Banner, Volume 8, Number 9, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 June 1873 — Page 2

4 * . £ Che Fatiomal Banner e e e DY W J. B. STOLL, Bditor and Proprictor. _ LIGONIER, IND'A, JUNE 26, 1873.

Hon. M. C. Kerr will please accept our thanks for several very valuable public documents. 2 e — -—— : IF the editor of the Standard is disposed to do us a favor, we beg him to tell us all about “Jim Lash’s $100.” T o * THE republican papers of this District generally demur to the aceusation of having black-mailed Billy Williams. Some of them even go so far as to intimate that, Billy told a deliberate lie, o :

THE Boston Transeript asks: “What opponent of the ‘peculiar institution’ ever expected to live to read that Henry A. Wise had declared to Virginians that ‘slavery had been a blight upon Southern industt'y and prosperity 2 ”

Tne fact that not a dollar, nor even five cents, came in possession of those who managed the campaign of 1870 on the democratie side in this county, is sufficient evidence of the utter falsity ~of the Kendallville Standard’s statement of last week. = (. 0. Myers is "hecoming desperate in his efforts to hateh a lie that will stick. ;

To PREVENT cruelty to animals, the late Legislature of Indiana enacted the following: “Every person who shall cruelly beat, torture, or overdriveany horse or other animal, whes,her belonging to himself or another, shall be dee:med guilty of a misdemeanor, and ‘upon conviction ,shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $100.”

THE BANNER being fully worth the price we ask of its readers, it is incompatible with our ideas of right and jnstice to talk about assuming the pay‘ment of postage after July Ist. In the first place, we can’t afford to pay 29 cents for each of our subseribers, and secondly, we know that our readers are not sufficiently unreasonable to make the demand. . :

‘A GrRAND Fourth of July celebra-| tion has been determined on.by the farmers of Central Illinois. It will be | held in Springfield, and ex-Gov. Pal-g mer has been secured as the orator | of the day. Half-fare arrangements with the several railroad companies, will doubtless insure an' immense gathering of the hard-fisted sons of toil. o {

TaE CHOLERA continues its work of'destruction in various parts of the country. Monday’s reports show that| 52 deaths occurred from that’ disease in Nashville, 9 in Memphis, 1 in Washington city, and 6 in Cincinnati. Reports of the ravages of cholera also come from Dantzie, Germany; Proyince of Bulgaria;and Province of Treviso, Italy. Three additional cases of vellow fever are reported in Brooklvn. i

“HoN. J. M. WirsoN has purchased a fineresidence at Indianapolis,where he will move after he gets through misrepresenting this District in Congress.” S 0 we read in the Connersville Examiner, and which reminds us how natural it seems for men who have been honored by rural constituencies to turnitheir back upon the very people whom they owe their prosperity and success in life. It strikes us that there is a trifle too much ingratitude being displayed by some of our public men, in this particular.

BEN.BUTLER has achieved a decided 1 victory. The contest over the DistrictAttorneyship for the Eastern District of Massachusetts was ended on the 19th inst. by the President’s appointment of George P. Sanger, of Boston, who was recommended by Gen. Butler and opposed by the anti-Gubernatorial Butler Republicans. This is a very considerable triumph of Butler with the Administration over his enemies in the Republican party in that State, and his followers at the capital are rejoieing not a little. : el

ONE of the Assessors says, and he believes the others think so, that to get at every phase of humanity and all the other anities and inanities, évery man should be an Assessor for at least one term. He would find big souls in little bodies, and little souls in big bodies, and bigger souls in bigger bodies, and littler souls in littler bodies, and all these where he least expected to find them. But he would find more big and bigger souls than he expected, and less little and littler ones, and so, if he had any soul himself; 'he would he )’lclined to be more charitable to all’about him as a mass, while the littlenesses would be assigned their true place. e . ;

- HERE is an opinion that does not fully accord with the “get-t\p-early” theory of Bro. Musselman. We quote from the Hartford Courant: *“Most people, ‘we venture to say, get up in the morning when they feel that they neéd more sleep—all their system craves it. They force their nerves into activity. The tired brain has to be roused b(!afore it can be worked up to the activity required. This is exactly like working delicate machinery: witheut oiling it, and it is no wonder it so often creaks and so often breaks down. We daily, for lacki of sleep, draw upon ‘our reserved capital and spend the principal before the interest matures.” ' ‘ : e ——— PERE HYACINTHE is the most gf)p—ular man in the neighborhood of Geneva, He lives at a beautiful and retired villa about a mile from the city of watches. His principles haye spread like wildfire, about 1,300 persons having given adhesion to the new faith formally and in writing. - One marriage has been celebrated, and about 100 or more are waiting to be baptized. The Balle of the Reformation is crowded to suffocation at the conferences of the Father, and 3,500 tickets are weekly distributed, i

FRANKLIN COUNTY, PA.-ITS ~ DISTINGUISHED SONS. ‘There is probably no county it the United States, outside the larger ecities, which has produced a greater number of good, active, able, and prominent men than the county of Franklin, in the State of Pennsylvania, Among its former residents we find the nameés of some who have acquired a national ;@utation, and others who are held in the highest esteem in the localities where they now reside. The enumeration of a few of this number may not be without interest to the readers of the BANNER: : : . Hon. JAMES BUCHANAN, -fifteenth President of the United States. Served in the State and National Legislatures, was a cabinet officer, represented the ‘United States at the court of St. James, and was in his time regarded one of the greatest statesmen of this country. Hon. THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, Gov+ ernor of Indiana. Represented with marked ability his adopted State in both houses of Congress; filled the responsible position of Land Commissioner of the United States under the Buchanan administration, and now' ranks as one of the ablest and purest statesmen of the nation. | Hon. CONEAD BAKER, ex-Governor of Indiana. A man of fine executive abilities, and now at the head of probably the most distinguished law firm in this State. :

. Col. THOMAS A. ScorT, the great ’ Railroad King, whose name is familiar ‘as a household word throughout the length and breadth of the land. Hon. A. K. MCCLURE, who “organized” the first real republican victory in Pennsylvania (1860), served with distinction in-both houses of the Pennsylvania Tegislature, {andlisnow the leader of the Liberal Republicans of the “Old Keystone.” . : . “Hon. FREDERICK REARICK, recently elected Mayor of Quiney, 111.,, who but a few years since was a poor German boy, traveling on foot from one of the boroughs of Franklin county, without a penny or friends. ~ Hon. JorN R. Corrrori, of Lafayette, Ind,, an eloquent speaker, a distinguished:member of the Bar, and a legislator of ripe experience. , . Capt. JosepH A. S. MITCHELL, Mayor of Goshen, Ind., a gallant . soldier ‘during the late war; a staunch advo|eate of Liberal Democracy; an able, ihonorable, and: very successful member of the legal fraternity; a gentle)man' in every sense of the word, and a man whom the people, in our opinion, will some day call to a position befitting his admirable abilities and inflexible integrity. - LA PorTE HEEFNER, Esq., also of Goshen, and since 1871° Clerk of the | Elkhart Circuit Court, to which position he was elected by a respectable ‘majority in a county which invariably rolls up from one to two hundred republican majority. Mr. Heefner is yet quite a young man, but as an efficient and faithful officer is without his superior in the State. Heis a firm friend, and an untiring worker for the good of his country. : It is a source of congratulation that these “Franklin county boys”. have been eminently successful in every sphere, and in no case have they bro’t discredit upon the county of their early home. . L

EXTENSIVE FIRES. During the past week the columns of the daily press fairly teemed with accounts of destructive conflagrations in various parts of the country. 'On the 16th, ten buildings in the business portion of Hamburg, lowa, were burned to the ground. ILoss about $15,000....At Green Bay, Wis., Bix buildings, including two printing offices. ' Loss $20,000. Both fires are attributed to incendiaries. :

On the 17th, Nott’s planing mill; in New York, burned to the ground.— Loss $50,000.....A150 several buildings destxoyed in Bloomington, 111. On the 18th the city of Fort Wayne was 'visited by two fires, destr'oyi'ng property tothe amount of $25,000. The first fire broke outj.'shortly after two o’clock in the brick block on the corner of Barr and East Wayne streets, occupied as a grocery and tobacco stores. There were stored in the grocery sixty pounds of powder, which exploded with great violence, casting burned brands in every direction.— While the fire was at its height, a second fire broke out in the sash and/door factory on Clay street, and, before water could be brought to bear on the flames, it and two adjoining barns were enveloped in the flames. The fire spread rapidly, owing to the scarcity of water, and speedily reduced to ashes four residences, the sash factory, and six barns. Aund .

’ _ On the morning of the 19th the city of Burlington, Towa, lost its OperaHouse, Court-House, two hotels, and all but nine of the buildings on four blocks by a violent and destructive fire. The early hour at which the conflagration began and the northeast wind combined to give it a serious headway, and it was overcome only with the help of engines and firemen from. neighboring towns. This was rendered promptly, the relief from Ottumwa traversing a distance of geven-ty-five miles in an hour and a half.— The loss is very heavy, amounting to over $300,000, but half of whieh is coyered by insurance.....The Village of Mayyville, Tuseola County, Michigan, was nearly destroyed last Thursday night.....The woods are on fire between Big Cedar and Esecanaba, Northern Michigan, along the line of raflroad, Trains are prevented from passing..... Very destructive brushfires are raging throughout the country north and northeast of Toronto, Cana--da. Thousands of acres of timber, ‘together with crops, feneés, farmhouses, barns, ete.,, are being swept away. Vegetation issuffering greatly~owing to the dryness of the season.. . .. Michigammi city, a mining town of 800 inhabitants, on Lake Superior, caught fire from adjacent burning forests, and before it was extingnished burned. The people sought refuge in. “thé lake ~ . Pivenfores and two black-

smith shops were burned at Maysville, Mieh. : : Lo June 20.—At East Saginaw, Mich., the planing mill of Mead, Lee & Co. was destroyed by fire, together with 700,000 feet of lumber, warehouses, dry-kiln, fifteen dwelling houses. Total loss about $75,000; insurance $32,000 ....Mt. Vernon cotton-duck mills, two miles from Baltimore, consumed by fire. Loss $207,000; insuranee $187,500.. . .Fires are reported in the woods near West Hurley, N. Y., and in the mountains beyond and great damage is feared..... Seven buildings in Albany, N, Y., were destroyed by fire. The Huron Salt and Lumber Works at Salzberg, Micil., were burned Sunday night. Toss $60,000; insurance in Chicago companies, $30,000.... Mount Morris; N. Y., had property to the amount of $BO,OOO destroyed by fire. ... Fires are raging in the Fishkill (N: Y.) mountains. ...The forest fires in Northern Michigan have beén extinguished by heavy rains. Millions of logs were destroyed....A terrible fire raged at Pottsville, Pa., by which 34 buildings were reduced to ashes.— Great suffering in consequence. There were also extensive conflagrations in other parts of Schuylkill co., Penn’a.

Deathi of Hon. Horace F. Clark. Hon. Horace F, Clark, President of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and the Union Pacific Railread Companies, died rather suddenly at his home in the city of New York, on Thursday of last week. We learn from the World that Mr. Clark had suffered much during éhe last few years from rheumatism of the heart, and on his return froma long Western tour a few weeks since 'he was seized with a severe attack of his old complaint. He "had been confined to his bed ten days, yet he was generally considered a strong man constitutionally,. and might have been expected to have lived many years longer. Horace F. Clark was born on the 29th November, 1815, at. Southberry, Conn., and consequently was but fifty-eight years | old. He was first educated at Mount Pleasant. Classical Institution of Amherst, IVIzlsS., afterward engered Williams College in the same State, and graduated in 1833. Having completed his course of education, he removed to New York in the fall of 1833, when he commenced ‘tl}e study of law. In May, 1837, he was admitted to the bar, and in a very few years after, owing to his pérseyerance and nttghtion to his profesﬁon, he built up for himself a very lucrative business. It is said that as a lawyer he undertook and accomplished mare real hard brain work than any man of his age. In 1848 Mr. Clark married a daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt. He continued his practice in all its branghes until 1856, when he became a member of the Thirty-fifth Congress, being elect-! ed on the Democratic ticket. He dissented, however, from Buehanan’s Administration with reference to the admission of Kansas. In the Thirty-fifth Congress he became a warm supporter of Douglas’s policy, and accepted the renomination from a split Democratic convention. He afterwards run on an “indépendent ticket, and was elected by -an overwhelming majority. In the Thirty-sixth Cnogress he served as Representative in Congress to the end of Buchanan’s Administration in 1861. He then resumed the practice of law. and in 1856 he became a director in the New York and Harlen Railway Company. From this period may be dated his active participation in railway enterprises of all kinds. Soon after he became. interested in a’large number of railway schemes, “and it is a question whether he was not more directly interested and controlled more railroads than any other railway magnate in the world. Upon the consolidation of the various roads constituting Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company, the deceased was elected President, and for the last sixteen years held that position. At the annual meeting of the stockholders in the Union Pacific Railroad held in Boston in 1872 he was elected by a ‘large majority President of this road. He also became a director in the New York Central and Hudson River Company, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Company, and a leading director in the Western Union Telegraph Company. He was also connected with a number of small railroads which acted as feeders to the principal lines with which he was engaged. He was a partner in aleading banking house, and a director of the Union Trust Company. In 1868 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him. In the financial world his death will necessitate a disarrangement of greater or less congequénces in the schemes of - which he was the head and front.— ‘His remains were conveyed to their final resting place last Sabbath, the fu‘neral being attended by an immense concourse of people, -

Incendiarism. The National Board of Fire Underwriters, at their late meeting in the City of New York, resolved to raise a fund of $lOO,OOO for the detection, conviction, and punishment of parties engaged in the nefarious business of incendiarism and arson. The Executive Committee of that Board, at their meeting on May 14th, 1873, carried out the resolution and opened the subseription. : -We hail this movement as a step in the right direction, and commend the action as one not only likely to benefit Underwriters, but also to protect the public from wholesale loss, This action is the more important when it is remembered that the experience of the large companies transacting the business of fire insurance in the United States shows that the proportion of loss to be attributed to the above causes is not less than 33 per cent. of the whole, or a loss to the country of at least twenty-five millions of doljars yer annum.—Hvening Bulletin,

Sir Samuel Baker, of whose safety assurance was given about a month ago, has been heard from by a letter written in February and received at Khartoun, in Egypt, April3o. He reports himsolt an his uoble wife to be in excellent health ; the 1,500 ﬁol%grﬁ put under his command by the Khe: diye haye heen reinforced by several hundred others, and he fw%{' push on immediately to the Albert Nyrnza,

~ALL ABOUT COLO_RADO. o To the Editor of the Banner: b There are more people living in Dreamland than the world generally are willing to believe, and one travelling west is sure to strike the bulk of them. These people have had a taste of real life in common-place-land—-where it was good enough in most instances, pethaps, for those who would come down to the hard-pan of common sense and industry—but they dreamed and pursued the dream with a madness devoid of method. 1 have been well into Southern Colorado, and there I found these people teeming from every quarter,little less than the famed locusts of Egypt. Pueblo is. their center of gravity. They went to Colorado because some one said it was a nice country and had an excellent elimate; facts' substantial -enough, but such happy circumstances are now found inadequate for people who have, after all, to eat and wear garments—where manna don’t rain down, quails ‘don’t fly into camp, and where fig leaves are not fashionable wearihg apparel. Now there m{'e;‘ thousands of these people, camping ¢ut in wagons, and in the vicinity'of Pueblo. In answer to the question, why they went there? I got the intelligent reply from some of them that they “followed the crowd”—an injunection of Mr. Beecher applied to persons hunting a hotel in a large city, but never intended forthe roving mob of dreamland. They have found, to their sorrow, that following the crowd in this instance,’ promises the smallest income for the. outlay they ever saw in this world, and I am sure it will add little to their treasury in the next, if their deep curses at disappointments—mnow that they are awakening a little to the reality—is any indication. - !

~ The fact is, Colorado is just as good now as it ever was, and better—and it was always good—~but the wrath of these fools, as was also their stupidity before, is inadequate to bring down the rains on thé plains to make them profitable for farming, or to build dams on the streams and dig ditches in the valleys to irrigate them. - The latter is being done very profitably, and will be continued; but the land is on the side of industry and method, and one possessed of a little means to do with is not forsaken. What I mean to say is, to be plain about it, Colorado, forth or south, is a devil of a place for a poor man to go. The uplands are good for grazing purposes, but if one should take a section' by pre-emption or homestead and “eat grass like an ox” till he finish it all, it would not add to his wealth or comfort, T think, and in order to avail himself of the opportunities, profitably, he must have money to invest in stock bf some kind. Tlre valleys. grow the most magnificent crof)s, especially of wheat, but it takes lots of moeney to irrigate them first. The mines are yielding richly this season, but the surface mining is over-exhausted, and the mining that is and may be done is accompanied with risks in getting: lodes that will pay and costs more to begin the work than to start a daily paper or a national bank. “But is there not employment to be had by poor men in-these numerous mines ?”’ you ask. No. The mining companies have found that inexperienced labor is comparatively worthless, and they very rarely invest in apprentices. They send to Wales, and other mining regions of the Old Country and import their labor, while the poor man,inexperienced in mining, stands a poorer show for work in the mines than the rich young man did for salvation, who refused to sell his gopds and give to_the poor. Now there is little left to talk about on this ey : :

I have written thus plainly for the hundreds.of women and children of poor men, who are yet doubtless in peril of going to Colorado. I don’t pity the grown up, foolish men who could know, and whose duty it is to know before going. There must be serious suffering'among these destitute people before another spring comies. The early goers of this spring are already beating a hasty retreat down the valley of the Arkansas into Kansas, where they passed over magnificent lands that need no investigation, where they are rapidly taking quarter sections for homes, .and even here in the middle of June are putting in’sod crops to save themselves. The air is rife along the line of retreat with imprecations on Colorado, and many a poor devil on the road to Colorado will be able to save himself and family by these bitter experiences of the retreating column. The valley of the Arkansas in this State will get a very large immigration intended for Colorado this fall, and thus this fertile region Wwill grow more rapidly in population than was anticipated this season, although there has been a large immigration already. People may huntthe world over for magnificent, cheap, fertile and productive agricultural homes, or for stock growing either, and then come back to this valley and better themselves everyfjtime. I have beén up and down it, across it, and over it generally, talked with its oldest settlers, of all classes and occupations. The latest comers have f_gt‘lj&n it, and the oldest show me. tg:ég,ﬁaith by their works, and ther '5-933 no wavering along the whole line. ' They have the climate, the water, limestone, coal, the nutritious grasses the year round and, above all else in impor tance, a soil that no country in the world can beat. All these are available yet for poor men, for homes, which must rapidly increase in value, in beauty, and with reasonable industry, in eomfort. Sl

There is yet much government land to preempt and homestead, and tl}e ALy T. & 8. F. Railway lands are sold on long time, at low interest, and are abundant for over three hundred miles along the line of the road. If a poor man wants a home, this valley is his plage, and if he takes the pains to come and see it, he will be pafisﬂed. Whateyer else poor men do, let them stay away from Colorado, ~ J.B. Fort Learned, Kan,, June 16,1873,

THE NEW MOVEMENT. DEMAND OF OHIO DEMOCRATS FOT A ; RE-qnq:ANIZA_TmN OF THE PARTY. The Démocrats of Allen county, O, met at Lima on the 16th inst., to perfeet their nominations for the several county offices. It was very largely attended and presided over by Hon. T. E. Cunningham. The sentiment of the meeting was expressed in a series of resolutions herewith appended.: WHEREAS, The events of the past decade have demonstrated the fact that the tendency of those intrusted with the affairs' of Government is to disregard the interests of the people for the attainment of selfish purposes;

- WHEREAS, The open, high-handed and glaring corruption of the servants of the people, in squandering the public bonds upon pet corporations, in the Credit Mobilier frauds, and in the action of the Congress of the United ‘States in and about the passage of the infamous act commonly = called ‘the “Salary Bill,” by which the servants of the people purloined from the public treasury a vast sum . of money over and above the amount for which they agreed to serve them, it new becomes, the duty of the people, made imperative by every consideration of man-hood,self-respect and self-preservation, to arise in their might, irrespective of former political alliances, and hurl from power and position every man whose honor has been so’cheaply exchanged for pelf, as no longer fit to be intrusted with the affairs of a free and enlightened people; and e WaEREAS, Corruption, in appalling proportions, pervades all the political avenues of the country, so that public confidence is almost entirely obliterated; and whereas, the sole purpose of the Democratic party is, and ought.to be, the promotion of the public interests and the preservation of the honor of the people; and whereas, both of the political parties have demonstrated that they are nowerless to c¢heck or control the existing tendency toward the utter demoralization* of the politics of the.country; therefore - Resolvéd, By the Democtacy of Allen county, in Convention assembled, that we invite the people of the State of Ohio, without regard to past political associations, to meet at Columbus, in Mass Convention, on the 30th day of July next, to take such action as the exigenciés of the times demand. ‘

Resolved, That all ,governments derive their power from the consent of the governed, and that a strict construction of the Constitution, coupled with a rigid observance of ‘its provisions in the enactment of all laws, is our only protection against centralization anq consequent despotism. . Resolved, That men elected to positions of honor, trust and profit, do not thereby become the rulers of the people, but are their servants, and therefore amenable to the people for every breach of confidence or violation of trust, and should be held to the strict+est account of their official conduct. : " Resolved, That the President of the United States, by his readiness to approve a bill by which he has been enabled to pocket $25,000 per annum extra payJJ, has published himself to the world as the most sordid of all who worship at the shrine of Mammon. = | Resolved, That we have with pride .viewed the official career of Charles N. Lamison, our member of Congress, as a true representative of the people, up to the time hegave his countenance ‘to the Salary bill. o - Resolved, That after mature delibeation, an(l without any feeling of passion, we, do hereby declare as the unanimous sentiment; of the people of Allen county that Charles N. Lamison, by his action in voting for and accepting an increase ¢f his salary, has forfeited the confidence of the people; ‘and ‘we demand of Lim that at the - next session of Congress, he do all in ; his power to effect- an unconditional ‘repeal of the law; that he return to the Treasury of the United States the money by him received in excess of the contract price of his service, or that he resign his seat in Congress.

WHAT I§ SAID OF THE NEW MOVEMENT. . | THE MILLENNIUM. [lﬂ_r({m the Cincinnati Enquirer.) A sudden and unexpected clap of thunderi/comes from a clear sky in Allen county. The Democracy of that county dssembled in Convention last Monday, and without any previous consultation or premeditation adopted a series of very remarkable resolutions. It has ogccurred to the Democracy of Allen eounty that the country is rapidly and surely going to the dogs, and that both political parties, as at present organized, are inadequate to the task of putting on the brakes. They, therefore, call upon honest men of all political organizations to meet them in Mass/Convention at Columbus, July 30th, to devise a plan to rectify things, or, as they express it, “to take such action as the exigencies of the times demand.” The true import and meaning of this is, that a new party is to be forgled. A “new departure” is to be made in earnest. The Democrats up in Allen have been noted for their devotion to the party, for their simonpureness, if we mayjbe allowed the expression, and if this decided action on their part can be taken as an evidence of the sentiment throughout the State, 'we are not' far from the millen= nium so devoutly prayed for by men who zge trying to get away from Bourbonis n. e ‘

. MUCH WISDOM AND FRANKNESS. . . i [Froin the New York Sun.] : The Ohio Democrats, at least those of Allen county, prove themselves superiox to all ordinary partisan considerations. Before the question whether corruption can be suppressed or whether itis destined to suppress the Republic, all old political divisions and distinctions fade into insignificance. If we arie no longer to have any country except one of thieves,robbers, bribegivers and bribe-takers, it is a trifling matter whether we are called Republicans, Democrats or Liberals. We trust the mass convention of the State of Ohio invited to meet at Columbus on the 30th day of July next will be an assemblage of patriotic men sensible of the momentous imgportance of the crigis, and prepared to act with as much wisdom ‘amf frankness as the Democrats of Allen county. :

: /A NEW “NEW DEPARTURE.” ' | [From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] . " A fnew departure” document, indorsing the Allen County resolutions and declaring distinetions of party unnecessary and ‘injurious in local matters, is being largely circulated in’ our city. The paper approves of the Convention of the 30th of July next, and has already received the signatures of nearly all’ the leading Democrats of the city. Itis proposed to publish the list as soon as five hundred names are obtained, and from indications that time is not far distant, : | HAVE THE TRUE RING. |[(From the Chillicothe Post, (Dem.)) We publish elsewhere the resolutions adopted by the Democracy of Allen county, calling for g State Conventjon of honegt {»eome at Columbys on the goth of July to form & new party.— The political situation is .\pecufgar‘ Thege resolutions have the true ring, and will doubtless have some effect.

KICKED ENTIRELY OUT OF THE TRA- ; SCES. Sl [From the Toledo Blade.] The Convention was largely attended, the leaders of the party in every township being present, and those not in the secrets of the party managers well knew that something unusual was about to transpire. - The Committee on Resolutions embraced the really representative men of the party in the county. * * These old wheel-horses of Allen county—the “Old Guard,” as Pugh calls them, and with whom he promised to open his terrific batteries in the last campaign, but did not—have kicked entirely out of the traces. By thus repudiating- the party, they hope to succeed in affiliating with the Granges, and in controlling the votes of a certain class of Republicans. We shall wateh further developments in connection with this movement with no little interest. i

RATHER PLEASED WITH IT, [From t" e Bucyrus (Ghio) Forum, (Dem.)] . The Democracy of Allen county this week call upon the people of the State, irrespective of past party affiliations, to meet them in Mass Convention at Columbus, on the 30th of July next, to take such measures as the exigencies of the times demand. One of the inspiring causes of this movement is the perfidious action of their Congressman, Charles Lamison, in the matter of the Salary Steal. Another they assert to be the powerlessness of “both political parties to check or control the existing tendency toward the utter demoralization of ‘the polities of the country.” : - The convention, if held, may domuch good. Certainly it will do no harm. At all events, the regular Democratic and Liberal Républican Conventions, which are called simultaneously, to meet in August will be well advised as to their action in the premises.

COME TO THE FRONT. [From the Cleveland Herald, Republican.} - Allen County Democracy has the floor., Step up, Demoecratic leaders, and leét the privates know how you like Allen County Democracy. The Cincinnati Enquirer says Ranney takes stock in the movement; Pugh gives it his hearty indorsement; Groesbeck has not yet declared, but he is believed to be in favor of this new departure; Ewing regards the movement with considerable interest; Campbell lies low and keeps in shade; Thompson, Chairman of the State Cerss. tral Committee, thinks the movement’ lill-advised; Chilton .A. White favors it; Thurman is not at home, but his friends say he will not favor it.'

THE UNRELENTING DEMOCRATS. ' . ' [From the Chitago Tribune.] Allén county, Ohiq; is the centre of Democracy in that State. The people there have never faltered in their devotion to the party. The other counties in that District are peopled with the same unrelenting, unchanging, devoted members of the Democratic pgrty. Billy Msﬁxger, who opposed negro suffrage on the ground that negroes were not members of the human family, represented that District in Congress for many years. It is now represented by Charles N. Lamisen. " SENSATION AMONG POLITICIANS. - [Columbus-correspondence to the Cinc..Enquirer.] <The pronunciamento of the Allen county Democracy, which was published for the first time to-day, creates considerable talk among the politicians gathered here. Many of thosé who have been leaders of the party .in the counties from which they hail, do not hesitate to declare that they are heartily in sympathy with the New Departure, and will do all in their power to insure its success. Others with more diplomacy in their disposition say they will await further developments. ‘

The Signs of Madness in Dogs. The British Medical Journal calls attention to the measure recommended by the Council of Hygiene of Bordeaux, for the better protection of people against the dangers-of hydrophobia. It is well known that the madness of dogs has a period which is' premonijtory and harmless. If these periods were generally known, the dogs could be put out of the way before they become dangerous. On this subject the counecil of Hygiene has issued the following instruction. - | ““A short time, sometimes two days, after . madness has seized a dog, it creates symptoms in the animal which it is indispensable to recognize. “1. There is agitation and restlessness, and the dog turns himself continually in his kennel. If he be at liberty, he goes. and comes, and seems to be seeking something; then he remains motionless, as if waiting; then starts bites the air, asif he would cateh afly, and dashes himself howling and barking against the wall. The voice of his master dissipates these hallueinations; the dog obeys, but slowly, with hesitation, as if with regret. “2. He does not try to bite, he is gentle, even afféctionate, and he eats and drinks, but gnaws his litter, and the ends of curtains, the padding of cushions, the coverlids of the beds, carpets, ete. : “3.' By the movement of his paws about the sides of his open mouth one amight think he was trying to free his throat of a bone. : ;

“4, His voice undergoes . such a change that it is impossible not to be struckﬁb{; it. iy “5. The dog l)egins to fight with other dogs. This is a decidedly characteristic sign, if the dog be generally peaceful.” " : ; The three symptoms last mentioned indicate an advanced period of the disease, and that the dog may become dangerous at any moment, if immediate measures are not taken. It is better still tokill him. The Boston Medical and Surgical Jouwrnal suggests that this advice be inserted at least once a year in the public papers. It would seem particularly desirable and practicable that these rules should be printed on the back of thenotices and receipts for dog taxes. These excellent measures ought to be generally adopted. S o :

' The President and his family are not so much inclined to gifts as formerly. They have actually declined a present. Some admiring fool in Louisville, who, doubtless, wanted an appointment, sent the President’s son Jesse a live alligator the other day. The President paid the express charges, $l4, but declined to take the animal away. It laid around the express office for several days, but disappointment and neglect teld upon it, and it died. The Louisville man made a great mistake. He should have sent a dog. - -

- The people of Tampa County, lowa, have hit upon a novel and effective manner of condoning for the rascality of their Representative in Congress, Mr. Weldon, who helped himself to backpay. The county, by popular vote, has decided to return to the Treasury of the United States their proper share of the Congressman’s swag. The idea is a good one, and we would like to see it followed out. If the people will send unworthy men to Congress they should be made responsible for their assaults upon the Treasury. e =

The Chinese who “were taken to Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, to toil in the cutl,er}}; works at that point, have deserted their employers and are now | en-route for San Krancisco. They had. trouble about their wages. - i

: r§! TA% A 5; = = ,I%VEM_S; T The sheriff’s office in Wells county was recéntly burglarized and robbed gEsmo. - o e . An infant daughter of Mr. Jesse ‘Elliott, who resides near Alquina, Fa~ yette county, was strangled to death a few days ago by a grain ofcorn. = Innumerable hordes of potato bugs are reported throughout Indiana, and therefore it is thought the potato crop will average better than -usual, for patches will receive extra good attentiOll. g ¢ LR i "_,33"',‘.- ~ Hon. G. 8. Orth has addressed a letter to the fish commissioner at Washington - recommending that a supply of shad, salmon and other varieties of fish be sent to stock the Wabash river. 5 R Judge Osborn, of the Elkhart and Lagrange Circuit, holds that the new liqguor law applies to all in the traffic of liquors, whether tliey hold. license under the old law or permits under the new. HR ¢ e

Jane Thomas, daughter of Ephraim. Thomas, of Waterloo, Dekalh county, fell into the fire, a few days ago, and was so badly burned that she died soon after. She -was about twenty years old. e e e T The South Bend 7'ribune says that Mr. Valentine Klingel, of that city, is the possessor of a chicken that has four perfect legs, healthy, active, and walks backward or forwards with equal faeility. . .~ Sol e as - The Winnamae Democrat reports that L ILucas, of Beaver township, has a calf that when it was'nine months old weighed 830 pounds. This young monster will be exhibited at -the: next county fair. e e A case of cholera is reported at Vin-: cennes, one at Indianapolis and one at Cincinnati. Appearing so early in the season as it has, €évery .town of any note may expect it at some time during the summer or fall.. .. . At Salem, Washington county, Friday evening, Delos Heffron, a saloonkeeper, shot John Halstead dead on the street, firing four shots, one passing through the heart. .Heﬁrgnu,'}%h_en’ raised: Halstead up and beat out his brains with the pistol. .-« = 7 The grading of the second track of the Lake Shore Road between here and Laporte is progressing finely.— ‘The lahorers are already three miles out of town at this end, and we understand are making progress froni Laporte east.— Elkhart Review. .. - The speculation in real estate at-In-dianapolis is attended with mueh danger. A farmer- bought forty acres of ground at -$6O per acre, held it a little while and sold it for $4OO per aere. The transaction so wrought upon his nervous system that insanity and suicide followed in' a few days. = - A Terre Haute physician(Dr, Stone) collected $3,466 from the County of Vigo, for medical services to paupers: in nine months; and it appears from the affidavits of two women. that he tried to prostitute his patients: He has been indicted, and has secured the aid of nine lawyers to defend himself. ~ e e Great Storm in Chicago. . CHICAGO, June 22.—Shortly after five o’clock this afternoon a severe storm of wind and rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning burst sudden-. ly over the city, although of'brief dur< ation did considerable damage, blowing down derrieks, tearing up wooden: sidewalks, unroofing barns and ‘outhouses, &c. The most serious single loss was the unroofing and partial demolition of the Swedish chureh on Chicago averniue, near Sedgwick street; the damage to which is estimated at $2,000, Two pleasure yachts, ohe eontaining fourteen, the other nine per< sons, were capsized during the storm off Lincoln Park. They were fortu~ nately near shore, and all were saved. To-day was'the hottest of the.season, the thermometer being 90 ‘deg, above in the shade. SoEe S

Geo. Alfred Townsend predicts that, if party lin%s remain as they now are, Morton will be the next Republican candidate for the Presidency. It requires but little foresight to see that party lines are not going to remain as they have been in the past.” Peéople are rapidly losing confidence in both of the parties now in existence and the belief is wide spread that the machinery of present parties is.largely controlled by men who- are as corrupt and rotten as the Prince of Evil— Sworn testimony and..daily developments prove this to be true of the Republican organization,. and it is morally certain that there are far foo may first class scoundrels who occupy high places in the Democratic party. With the relaxing of party tiesthere comes a general demand for new party leaders and new party leaders will be very likely to- demand new party names.——LaPorte Argus.- == <. - °

The Hon. John G. Perry, of Maine, has lately given evidence that he is a man of sense and political sagacity.—= He has been in'past-years a Republican member of the Legislature, and was twice chosen to €Congress. He declines a nomination for the State Senate this year on the ground that the Republicanr party has fulfilled its mission, and.js not adequate to meeting the new issues before the people. It has in faet done all'that it was ever organized to do, and it is proper to disband it on that account.. .No mancan give any reasonat present for acting with the Republican party.—Cin-. cinnali Enquirer. ... --0 t ig g

» THE FARMERS and workingmen of: Richland County, Ohio, met last Monday, pursuant to adjourmment from the 13th inst. They a@o;)%gd resolutions to the effect that both political parties had shown themselves incompetent and untrust-worthy both in local and national affairs, and they therefore resolved to sever former political ties and seek reform through new instrumentalities, The Convention-was composed of Republicans, Democrats, and Liberals, and the candidates nominated for county officers and the Legislature were taken from all these: parties, to whom they owe no further allegiance. - ' P e

The Farmers’ movement is: swiftly and surely coming this way, and LaGrange county will be organized béfore many weeks are gone.. This is the time to decide which side of the question shall have your sympathy.— Every other interest in the county has organized for its protection and advancement and it is time that the la-: boring interest followed the excellent example. There is little danger of two sides of the question here, for the interests of everybody in this county are identical with those of the farming and laboring classes.~—Lagraenge IndeFourteen women were put under in-’ dictment in Rechestér at the same time with Susan B. Anthony for ils legal votinf, but any of them who have been looking‘forward with pleased anticipation to immolation in ‘the court of woman’s r_lghtsf are doomed to disap{ointment; - The Government, appargntly content with having settled the principle involved, by the conTR leagarﬁg;asiiﬁﬁggw to prosecute them,'and they ha a,kgenz ingloriousiy set free, ~ =0 20

A woman was hanged at Sarnia, in Canada, last Thursday, for the murder yqfherhnsb@qd.';. o ek A usury law, fixing the rate of interest at 7 per-cent, has been pased by the Connecticut Senate. . ' - In_Burlington, la, last Thursday ‘there were forty-nine buildings burned. Damage, $400,000; insurance, $l4O, .. More than 1,000 Swedes have settled in Madine during the past three years, and all*of them are now prosperous Tarmeérs.” @ 4 o s - The trial of young AValworth for the murder of his father has been begun in New York. Ten jurors were obtained Tuesday. ol The health of Viee-President Wilson is rapidly improving, and he has retired to the seclusion of the country to rest and recuperate. ‘ - The right of women to vote in elections for school officers has been favorably reported. upon by a committee of the. New Hampshire Legislature. - “The illness of Emperor William is _said to be so serious as to threaten his -withdrawal from the throne, in which -case the Crown Prince will be made i Regent’ Gl - A heavy mail from New York City and New England, for the Western -States, was burned Tuesday of last week while en-route by the New York Central Railroad. : r “Grasshoppers in immence numbers “have attacked the growing wheat and } corn of Kossuth, Osceola, O’Brien and Clay counties, in Towa, and have des‘olated the fields. ~_The workingmen of . Spain' and Switzerland who belong to the International have asked their associates of New York for pecuniary support for a general strike which they intend to make, - - : M. M. Cohen and. Charles R. Railey ~are on trial at Carrollton; La., for an aileged attempt on the life of Governor Kellogg some time since. The jury is composed of ten negroes and two - white men. : = ‘The heaviest rain-storm ever known in- that section visited Western Nebraska on Sunday, (June 15th) con‘tinuing ‘several hours, completely flooding the country and doing great damage to crops. . :

~“ Dispatehes from the other side indicate that cholera epidemic is grad--ually: spreafling over the Europe:m, continent. It is reported to have made . its appearance simultaneously" in Eastern Prussia and Italy. o . ‘One of the greatest strikes of the yearis threatened in London; where the house-builders have demanded an increase of a halfpenny an hour in their - wages, and declare they will strike if it is not given them. <A committee of white and colored citizens of New Orleans has resolved to enter the political field in advocacy of a full recognition of the colored. men’s right to be chosen to numerous places of publi¢ and private trust. - A jury is now being impaneled in New York for the trial of Mrs. Woodhull and her sister for publishing obscene papers.. An attempt was made to secure delay on the plea of Mrs. Woodhull’s illness, but the . Court would not grant it. : : . The Sultan of Turkey, always un- . easy about the designs of his European neighbors, has formed an alliance offensive and defensive with his former subject, the Khedive of Egypt, who agrees to furnish the Sultan 150,000 soldiers if his territory is invaded. - The crew of the steamer Tigress do not relish a trip to the Arctic Ocean, whither that vessel has been ordered * in search of the Polaris. It isreported that eighty desertions have already taken place, the men alleging as a reason that the vessel is unfitted for the voyage. - e o T - _Forest fires are- raging fiercely in Northerm Michigan, and fears are expressed that the terrible experience.. of October, 1871, may be repeated. Fires are also burning in the woods in Central Pennsylvania and Northern New York, and already many thousand acres of valuable timber have: been destroyed. ~ i - A telegram from New Orleans says that it is not General Beauregard who signed the recent address in New Orleans to the people of Louisiana for a re-union of all elements favorable to the welfare of the State and the rights of the colored people, but a Republican politician of the same name, who is no relation to the former. b :

. Stokes™little plan of celebrating his victory over the Supreme Court by getting bail - for the summer and going to Europe to have “a bully time,” has been vetoed by his counsel. They foresee better than their “indiscreet client what the effect of such junketting by a man under indictment for murder, with the gallows, possibly, before him, would have on public opinion; . The new trial does not come on until Oetober, and the intervening months Stokes must spend in his luxurious cell in the Tombs. '

Administratrix’s Notice. NOTICE-‘ is hereby given that the undersigned " has been appointed Administratrix of the estate'of James E." Graham, late of Noble county, Indiana, deceased. Said estate is sua%oeed to be AEolventy” s MARY A. GRAHAM, =~ June 26, 1873-9-3 w Administratrix, - “ILIST OF LETTERS Remninin%in- the post office at Ligonier, Ind., ¥ durhyz he past week : : s Conner, John : Oberlin, Miss Mollie Cress, Sylvester | Sawyer, John : Lewis, A,nﬁeline Seetman, D Lehman, D D Wear, J G A letter addressed to * Moderwell & Fowler, Fort Wayne, Ind.,” remains in the office for want of & stamp. - g . y -~ Personscalling for any of the above letters will please say *‘Advertised.” d - H.M.GOODSPEED, P, M. Ligonier, Ind, June 26,773, = : .

’ YA FETRE A W B EVVEY SELIG’S MEAT MARKET. “T'HE undersigned would respectfully inform the | public that he has purchased the meat market of Aigler & Hays, one door sonth of Metz’s harness shop, and that it is his purpose to keep constantlyon handa = - - Full Supply of the Choicest Meatsin‘the country. Nothing sold at this market but the very best which the country affords. Personal Attention being given to the purchase of stock, and having h-% considerable experience in this business in the city of Chicago, the subscriber believes himself competent to gleue the citizens of e ngoqi,cr and vicinity. Beef, Veal, Pork, Mutton, &c., .Constantly kepton hand and sold at reasonable i éngnre-. ; ] ; - The Highest Cash Prices Paid for good-healthy BeefCattlé and other stock. ;A liberal share of the public pntron%ﬁ; lrei‘pect-‘ n}}{ golicited. j . DA’ SEEIG. " Ligonier,; Ind., May 22, 1873-tf-8-4 Sl Gl s S S S R GEO. W. REED, : : Manufactureref = . ;°; ; : Buggies, Wagons, Sleighs, . CARRIAGES, &C., ‘Cromwell, Noble County, Ind‘a. ‘ e _‘ |s - ‘ & 3 2¢ : A Rk 3 3a» 2 % . “ ¢ e e 3 qnﬁ XQD ) ; Ry !SSE R A " 7“’.‘-& 7,0 ia £y : ~,k‘m‘m" ostablished and having am experi- : WORK and Fate Beilink BUARANTEED o L 5 hmee g