The National Banner, Volume 8, Number 12, Ligonier, Noble County, 17 July 1873 — Page 1

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CCIMTIZICNS I3ANIK, LIGONILR, : INDIANA. DEPOSITS received subject to check without notice. o 3 ADVANCES made on approved collafierals. CERTIFICATES of DEPOSITS issned with interest, " MONEY loaned on foug or ghort time. N NOTES discounted at reasonable rates, ORDERS for first-class securities executed on commission, - | AENTS for the purchase and sale of Real Estate. INSURANCE POLICKES. written in ficst-clags companies. 7 0 EXCHANGE bought and sold, and drafts drawn on all the principal ¢itics of Europe, AGENTS for the Inman line,. e Hamburg Line, } Vo “White Star Line. S PASSAGE TICKETS sold on all the principal seafiorts of Europe. . T S ERCHANTS’, Farmers’and Mechani¢s' accounts solicited, and all business transacted on liberal terms, STRAUS BROTHERS. . Ligonier, Ind , Oct. 23d, 1872.-26 1 ) Dy RX 2 L Lake Shore & iich.South’n R. R. on and after May 25t1,,1873, traing will leave I © Stadions as tollows: = | GOING BEAST : i G SP.N.Y .He £ 4ile. Bzl Accom. - Uhicag0.,......0020 am' {.>s3spmi. . 700 am Elkhart.....c.o Y2O pm. il 950 i R 0 Gosheng. ..o ¢ 139 ¢ee.lo 10 ;oo il 48 Millersburg. ... t 1 55 dentoß7 o 1902 pm Ligonler ibrie @oy 001049 0,112 20'pm Wawaka....... 1219 ine TRO 85l 19.85 Brimfeld. .S CHOUE . =I 04 194 D Kendallville..., 243 REL o 0 el 10 Arrive at'Toledo 5 50 e 2doam. 595 : GOING WEST : Th1ed0..........11 00 am.... 12 05 ovi-, 31 10 am Kendallville.... 243 pm.... 302am...f 323 pm | Brimtield ...... 1256 eT3 17 Soaado Wawaka....... 18 04 Laiviß 2b edaed bl " Ldzonder ol 316 sl 3ao wies 402 | Millersburg.. . 4398 1. '#355 ...l 419 Goshen .02 849 veie all SB7 “Elkhart ... .o ado .00 430 1000 ‘Arrive at Ohicago 880 L. 820 e 9P Kendallville Accommodation leaves Toledo at 4 30 pm, going west, and arrives at Kendallville at #BO pm, Same train, east, leaves Kendalllville at <6 20 am, and arrives in Toledo at 10 45 am. . *Stop 20 minutes for breakfastand supper. ATrains donot stop. . : Fxpreseleaves daily both ways, : g Accomanodat’n makescloseconnectionat Elkhary withtrains going Eastand West. A : CHAS. PAINE, Gen’lSupt.,Cleveland. J.N.KNEPPER, 4gent, Ligonier. . i : TRY Tt BEW ROUTE, , % e i . vy . = R qi Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago R.R ’L‘-!IE Great Thronzh Line to INDIANAPOLIS, Cineinnaty, Nashville, Memphis, Louisville, Chattanooga, New Orleans, and ull points in the #onth. Ask the ticket agert for tickets via PPERYU RRALL ROAE. On and after January 1, 1872, two daily Passencer Trains will leave LaPorte as follows, Sunday excepted: Day Expréss leaves LaPorteat y 45 a m wnd arrive at Indianapolis-at 5 15 p m. The Night Express will leave LaPorte (Saturday excepted) at: 11 50 p m, apd arrive at Indianapolit at 7254 m. S . § Woodruft’s New Improved { PARLOR AND ROUUNDA SLEEPING COACHES Alwayson time. ‘F. P. WADE, Gen’'l Ticket Agent, Indianapolis - . LT ¥, , ) " . Alineinnati, Wabash & Mich. R. R Time Table No. 8, taking effect Monday, the 28th ~ ; day of October, 1872: : GOING BOUTHL, STATIONS. GOLNG NORTH: N 0.2 - 'No/ 4 Noil Noy3 530pm1135m a.....Waba5h....1700am 200 pm - 410 10 35am .Nor. Manchester, 745 ¢ 310 4 15 965 = s nSliverTialte. .80 ** 410 ¢ — Biab s BEO R NRIRIW. .B 0 “510 ¢ 315 v gy vl Leoainre 900 *f 54D 156 vt s Biis INMAord . 980 0 610 ¢ 2 3300 ettt S NpW Ranies 9505 685 ¢ 215 S oot idpGoshen ar 1010 ¢ 700 ¢ 2900 Juar toshien, dp..1010 ¢ e e G 0 Wileßmer o 1045 ¢ Feainrrun by Clevelandtime., | : = A G. WELLS, Sup't. FAOWAYNE, MUNCIE &S CINCINNATEI RAILROAL The =iortest and most direct route to Indianapofis, Close connectionawith trains on the Columbus & Indianapolis Railway at Muncie. Departure and arrival of trains at Ft. Wayne: LEAVE, | » ARRIVES I xpress:. .. 500 am Mai1............4 00 pm Weatl ouloise i 2 OPy HiSprosa.. oo 94804 - R PAY ' > g Lo HUGGENDOTHAM & SON,

P T . Lo i AR I E 2 -:’ ! B | e n /»,,//” m.»f“ .4 ’ { s o Qi ' Ui S ? . .:< R e ' £\ W 2 5 'iyji A= PR T S P NETS d K% 7 1 NS 00l & | \t‘l\ “!‘;2—':‘?‘ L 4 : R GE abeTy i bl N\ | i ,H’__ R G :1' J c.',/:vv’; :lv: ‘ :1). e 53 s | . ’;;'{ .u._:/”j e l Q\’,&:{%’%fl ol - S ,?Q B o, W e T C \\b ™ é ¥ 3 e f”@u s ' Toaw : ! l > . - N Watchmakers, Jewelers, L .. AND DEALERSIN e Watches, Clocks. THWHELRY AND FANCY GOODSL+ Repairing neatly and| promptly exceuted, ‘and : wirtianted, ; % | Agents tor Dazarus (& Morris’ Celebrated i - Bpedtucles, : [ &% Signofthe bigavaleh, corner Cavin & Fourth | streets, Ligonier, Indiana. .&8 ; M;:;y 3, l»l'-lf | ALBLRT BANEA, Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer. LIGONIER, INDIANA. Special attention given to conveyancing and colledtions. Deeds, Bondsiand Morteages drawn up, and gl legal business attended to promptly and ascentately. Office.over Strans & Meagher's store, : Muy 15 1873 15-8-3 = LIGON | ““f; A 3 ))‘lafl iy g | e -]{ ’. o A ACADEMY - '&’b l | : L g e : GHO. W, HUGHZS, Principal. | TUITi afv{lcu(w sSto $lO PER TERIL, © Circulags containing full ihformati. n may be obtained by addiessing P JOHN 11. lOFFMAN, Secly, A 0 . Lipoulariind, : SOUTHE BEND ALVANIZED IRON WORKS ! :[] ! | i ' o che ; MANUFAOTURERS OF ; Iron Cornice, « O WINDOW AND BDOOR CARPS, /.’UUI”[AV(;’, SPOUTING, Elc., T ofall kinds. Plain and ()rnnx;xcnml Heads of Lions, Tigers, Eagles, Porsons, &e. i : : ’ LML B.OYORST & GOy, 8101 | *Nozl2 Michjhun Str., South Bend, Ind. The Largest Stock of Glassware in the County at Isane Aekerman’s. Prices lower than ever, I]’AVIN'(I' honght Uixe entire stock of Groceries; - &e., of L.Schln?s, and coasolidated the same with his own, N . Isaac Ackerman 18 now enabled to offer the: public as large and complete an assortment of : Groeeries &Qu - Groeeries & Queensware, CROCEKERY, &C,, : i 2 Ag cap'be found in this place. Quick sales and i - small profite. - . . i " » 7 : : : I have still on hand geveral barrels of §ot e 3 ~ Whisky, Brandy and Port Wine, Which I will sell at eost, Farmers, call and exS _ Bmine goods aud prices, AH-Kinds of Country Produce taken in exchange, and cash x:ii for Batter and Eggs, Remember the P : 61 Dircetly opposite Brown’s Furniture Store . ISAAC ACKERMAN. ~ Ligonier, Ind., July 8-4w-10 e

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EXCELSIOR I.ODGE, No. 267, e S CDL B Meets every Saturday evening at their New Hall: J. M. Citarmax, See, J. E. Hurrman, N. G. WASHINGTON ENCAMPNM NT NO:. 839 EO O . . Mects the gecond and fourth Tuesdays dn each Month, at their New Hall, H. M. Goovsrreny Seribe. W.K. Worr, C. P, . Pr. . LANDON, LIGONIER, . : : : INDIANA, Office seeond floor Landon’s Brick Block, Nov. Ist, 1871. ) : ’ P. W. CRUM, Physician and Surgeon, figonier, = = = . Endiana. Oftice one door south of L. Low & Co’s Clothing Store, up stairs. : May 12th, 1869. . W. C, DENRY, M. D., % Physician and Surgeon, : LIGONIER, INDIANA, & ; Will promptly and faithfully attend to allcalls n the iine of his profession—day or night—in own orany xl';sm'ucc in the country. :

G, W. cARr, - Physician and Surgeon LIGONIER, - = = & '= ~ IND,, _Willpromptly attend all callg intrustedto him. Office on 41.. St,, one door east el the NATIONAL BANNER OfficC. : 3-43 | C. PALMICER, Surgeon and Physician, .’ Officeat Residence. . . . ligomniexr, = = = = Endiamna. A.S. PARIKIEER, M.D., BO IV BGB2 e T L XSS T Office on Mitchel stréet. Residence on Eaststreet. Office hours from 1010 12 A, M., and 2 to 4 ». M. - KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. May 3, 1871 : G. ERICIKSON, Fi. 8., } Special attention given to the'treatment of ¢ P . : i . Uhronic and Surgical Diseases. ficehours from 10 o’clock A M. 102 o'clock, r. v, Offiice and residence opposite the Gross Housge. KENDALLVIJLLE, INDIANA. June 1, 1870. e o S : -_IAZ.VIES NE. IDEINNY, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. | - Office in the Court House, < A ABBION,. = 2 2 = o IND. 615 E, E. ENEISTLY, o X ; ATTORNEY AT LAW, T LIGONIER e - s INDIANA, ¥~ Office in-Mier's Block, : S 79 i lA. Co"l'}lfi‘, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public, | LIGONIER, " INDIANA. . Office, over Beazel Brotaers' new Hurniss Shop, : OCavin Street. L PD. W. GREER, - Justicoorthe Peace & Callection AL : ¥ Office with 9r. Lanond, secoud /door Landon’s : Brick Blogik, -+ 1 IGONIHE, - INDIANA. 9 OBSTACLLEN PO MARRIAGE. ~ Happy Kelief for Young Mean from the effects of Errors and Abuses in early life. Manhood restored, Impediments to Marriage removed. Neéw method of treatment. New and remarkable remedies.— Boboks and Girculars sent free, in sealed envelopes, Alddress, HOWARD ASSOCIATION, No. 2, South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.,—an Instituticn having a high reputation for honorable conduct pad proldsionßEEE L 0 ' RWNE, K. ANDEREWS, Grammy Surgeon Dentist. LUIT Y ¥PMitchel’s Block, Kendallyille. illwork wm'rmq.._cd. Examinationsfree. ' .2-47 1 J. ML TEARL, : iy DB N Tls T, w4z, Coroer of Mitehgl! and State Sts,, AR one block east of Post Oflice, room LYY Y Y Wover the Kendallville Fruit House, Kdudallviile, Tndiana, 739° Al work warranted. Kendallville, May 8, 1871.

I DEE, E. IKERFN, HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. | LIGONIER, INDIANA. o Orrion—Over Straus & Meagher’s store. Resivexor —North of Peck’s Planing Mill. Calls promptiy attended to day er night. [vEnl | z g BE, . WIEIRKIBERRERNEIR, ouse, Sign, & Omameptal Paint House, Sign, & Cimamental Painter, iGrainer, Glukier and Pupyr<Hanger, Liai)ui'cr, Indiana, f@=Give me a call befure [ctting your work, and I will guarantee satisfaction in gvery instance. [venl A. GANT'S, o Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, | LIGONIEXR, - - INDIANA. § | ST, Is prepared | o . todoanything e i intheirline. A [l e succesful pracPN = tice of over 10 B NGE e ey years justifies G %g.;,;;:r;“r_-gg;;-;f wee S iin sayiug TARR e T S S T "1,’.;:1;:* he IR Y cicontiean \“v.,-"f';" ¥O N e ‘mflfl " |iefactionto all Ptk 0,0%, who may be. stow their patronage. ¥ Office one doornorth of Kime’s, Cavin Bt. . 4 CRPPRRELAR® AL CARRER, AUCTIONEER, Offérs hiz services to the publicin general. Terms morderiate. Orders may be left at the shoe store of P. Sisterhen.. : Ligonisy Joriutn s : LIGONIER HOUSE, LIGONIBER 2 & > & ¢ INDIANA: S. G. WISE, Proprietor. . < 'Lhis splendid hotel has passed ‘into new hands, and hasbeen entirelyrefitted and renovated. Good Sample Rooms. Free ’Bus to and from the Cars. May Bth, 1873. .. ¥Bn2 L = TEEGARDEN HOUSE, : Laporte, Indiana. = - - ViW. AXTELL, i & | Proprietdr, Laporte, April 5, 1871, v - g BATIES HOUSE, N INDIANAPQOLIS, INDIANA, G.W. WESLEY & SON, - - PROPRIETORS. The Bates House is the largest and most com- - i modious house at the State Capital. Indianapolis, Jan 18, 1871.-38 L CONCORD & CATAWBA WINE, . We gell Mr. L. SHEETS Wines. . TR . . e . Pure — Nothing but the Juice of the Grape. . SACK BROTHERS. Ligonier, July 8, "71.-tf : ) A BRICIE KELL¥ HOUSE v KENDALL IQ%E, NDIA 1%4. NEW COMMODIOUS REE STORY BRICK Hotel, only ten rods from the L. S. &M.S, R. R. Depot, and four squares|fromjthe G, R. R R.— Only five minutes walk to any of 'the princi&ml business houses of the city. Traveling men andstrancrs will find this a first-class house, Hare s2.per say, : * J. B. KELLY, Proprietor, Kendallville, Aug. 3, 1870.-14

2 v- INKS, DEALERIN MONUMENTS, Vaults, Tombstones, AND BUILDING STONES : LIGONIER, IND. ‘Apri} 12, 1?5'{].~50 \ i H. IR. CORN KL, Is now prepared to take GEMS of a superior quyality. Having purchased one of the great American Optical Company’s . MULTIPLYING GEM CAMERA, Which hag facilities for makimf 9, 18, 86, or 72 pictures, all at one sitting, the nation can pow be supplied with first-class work at a trifling expense, within thereach ofall. Thefoilowingaretheprices: 7 Pictores forgl 00, 16 o S vl T B 32 pe S T e B 00 70 o i 400 PHOTOGRAPHS THE SAME PRICE !, Ligonier,lnd., Nov. 15,1871. : 5 T JOHN GAPPINGER’S HARNESS, SADDLE, And Leather Establishment, Has been removed to G;?plnger & Gotsch’s new ~ Block, (formerly Rosshacher’s Block.) : KENDALLVILLE, - - INDIANA. he highest price paid for Hides, Pelts, &c.,and thrg treagdegsuppl}i)ed w?th Leather, Findings, &c., at lowest %gures. . April 6th, 1870,-49. -

REMEMBER i TIIAT REYNOLDS HAS GRAPE VINES AND Berry Plants.of his own ralsin¥ for sale, that he can warrant as to kind and quality. Ligonier, April 10,'73-tf - D.H. REYNOLDS: . GEO. M, SHADE & CO., CARPENTERS AND JOINERS, LIGONIER, : INDIANA. Shops at Randolph’s Saw and Planing Mill. Orders solicited nurf satisfaction guaranteed. == 8-2 L. . GREEN, 2 Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public. .. LIGOCNIER, - -~ - - INDIANA. . - ‘Office second floor front, Landon’s Brick Block.. FNOR SALE. — A farm of 100 acres; eighty acres under the plow, forty-two acres in wheat, a good orchard, good buildingsand fences in good repair; situated in the Hawpatch, on the main road. Algo, a Houge and Fown Lots, in the town of Ligonier. Enquire of [vBn2] - L. COVELL, Ligonier, Ind. SACK BROTHERS, ¢ s : e 3 Bakers & Grocers. CavinStrect,. Ligdnier.[ndiana. ; o Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, &ec., ChaiceGroceeries,Provisions,YankeeNotiong, &c Thehighegtcash pricepaidfer Country Produce MaylB,’6B-tf. : SACK BRO’S. CANCER CI"RED withont the aid of the knife, poisonous secharotics, and caustics, by a simple and scicntific system of medication. By removing the tamor only, the seat of-the disease is. not reached and is gure to break out again with increased vio lence. I cleanse the blood from ALL cancerous matter, by a local application, kill and remove the Tumor. Itisthe only treatment that will cure cancer. T also treat Scrofula, and other diseases. Residence near Grand Rapids D%)Ot. ! JOSEPHINE E. SILSBY 5-2yl Kendallville, Z{oble Co., Indiana.

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AFEARD OF A GIRL. . BY SAMUEL BLICK, JR. O darn* it all!—afeard of her, And such a mite‘of a finfl! : Why, two of her size rolled into one Wvon't ditto sister Sal. ‘ Her voice is sweet as the whippoorwill's And the sunshine’s in her hair; ; But I'd rather face a redskin’s knife g Or the grip of a grizzly bear. . i Yet Sal says, “W: y, she’s such a dear, She’s just the one for_you.” . O darn it alll-afeard of a gal, . And me just six’ fe‘et two! ! Though she ain’t any size, while I'm Considerable tall,- gl I'm nowhere when she gpeaks to me, B She makes me feel so small, jia My face grows red, my tongune gete hitched] - The cussed thing won’tgo; - - . Tt riles me, "cause it makesjher think . I'm most tarnation slow, : ‘And though folks say she’s sweet on me, - I gucss ‘it can’t be true, Oh darn it all—feared of a gal, : And me just six feet two! - Y M{ sakes! just 'spose if what the folks . I 3 eaying should be so! 2 ! .7 Go, Cousin Jane, and speak to her, _..Kind ont arrd let me know; : . Tell her the gals should court the men, For isn’t this leap year? That’s why I'm kinder bashful like, i Awaiting for her here, . . And should she hear I'm scared of her, You’ll swear it can’t be true : O dern it all—afeard of a gal, - ; : And me just six feet two! = : “ * Sister Sal don’t like this word. Says it'sonly fit for #tockings and such like. But it can’t be helped. The country folks are oreat at darning. They will ““darn,” and that’s all about it. 8. S, JR.

- THE CHAINED HOST, The potato famine in Ireland was nowhere felt more severely than in that part of the country where the folJowing is told as a true tale: .In a small ‘village in one of the most barren districts in the west of Ireland, there lived a very poor widow, whose sole inheritance from her husband were two healthy children, girls, of ‘the respective ages of three and five. Painfully and by’ the utmost effort she had contrived to pass two years-of her sorrowful widowhood.— Bad and scanty food, obtained only by labor too great for her delicate frame, had at last thrown her upon a sick bed, and death, in pity, removed her in a few days and without great suffering from her earthly troubles. - The poyerty of the whole parish was 'so -great that nothing could be done for the poor orphans.” All tlie neighbors, with the utmost desire to help, were too famine-stricken, and heard their own children too; often ery in vain for bread, to assist others. : “If the children could only be got to Kilburn”—a village some miles*south —said one of the neighbors, after the poor mother had been buried, “a brother of their fatherlives there, and could not possibly: refuse to.take care of them.” - L “But matters are as bad there as here,” replied another, “and I fear they will be no better off there.” - : “It cannot possibly be “worse than here, for nothing but starvation stareg’ them in the face. If we send them to their relations we have done our duty. ‘We cannot possibly keep them here.” So a carrier, who was going mear to Kilburn, as an act of charity took the two girls—Lizzie was seven now, and Mary was five—in his eart ywith him. 'The timid children kept vergquiet and close together, and the carrier hardly looked at them. Toward noon they reached the spot where the cart would turn off. The man lifted them out, showed them the rodad to the left, and bade them go forward, and if they did not turn from the high-road they would in about two hours come to the plage. He then drove off. The children sobbed out, ‘good bye,” and looked after him as long as they could see the least speck of the cart, and then they both began to cry. - L Lizzwe ceased her crying first; she took hold of her sister’s hand, who had seated herself. on the grass, and said: “Get up, Mary, we must not stay here if we wish to get to Kilburn. We cannot stop here on the road.” - “I’m so hungry,” sobbed - Mary. “We have had nothing to eat all day.” And again they both began to cry; for Lizzfie was equally hungry. - .

The children were very weak, and could only drag themselves slowly along. Hand in hand they tottered on. At last Lizzie fancied she saw.a house, and pointed toward the spot. But it took them more than a quarter of an hour before they reached the farmhouse, for such it proved to be. With hesitating stéps they entered the yard, for they never had begged before, in spite of t_heir-flgmer misery. - But at this moment titey could think of nothing eise than their terrible hunger. ‘When a few steps from the house they heard the farmer violently scolding one of his men. Then he went into the house, fiercely closed the door after him, so as to make the windows rattle, continuing his abuse all the time. 'The childreén, terrified;- stood still'at the door until the voice ceased, Then Lizzie opened the doer and both children entered. The farmer sat in’ an arm-chair by the fire. “Well, what do you want ?” he harshly asked the children, who were too much frightened to utter a word and to tell their errand. “Can’t you speak ?” he asked more roughly. Lizzie at last took courage, and said, gently: “Oh, if you would be so good as to give us the least little bit to eat, a small piece of bread or a few potatoes.”

“T thought so,” shouted the farmer, “I was sure you were nothing but beggars, although’ you do not seem to belong to this neighborhood. We have plenty of.those here, and we do not want them to come from other parts. We have not bread enough for ourselves in these hard times. You will get nothing here.. Be off, this very moment!” » The children, both terribly frightened, began to cry. bitterly. “That will not do any good,” continued the man, “that kind of whining is nothing new to me, and won’t.move me. Let your parents feed you; but they, no doubt, prefer idling rather than get their living by honest labor.” “Qur parents are both dead,” replied Lizzie. ; “I thought so,” replied the farmer. “Whenever children are sent out to beg, their father and mother are al‘ways dead, or, at least their fatheri— This is a mere excuse for begging. Be off this minute!” “We have not eaten a morsel of bread the whole day,” still pleaded Lizzie. “We are so tired that we cannot move a step. If you would but give us the least bit to eat; we are so hungry.” = | “I told you I would not. Beggars get nothing here.” L The farmer got up with a threaten-. ing look. ‘ ' Lizzie quickly opened the door and drew her sister with her. The children again stood in the farm-yard, but knew not what to do. Suddenly little Mary drew her hand from her sister's clasp and went off to the other side of the yard. There was a fierce dog chained; his dimmer stood hefore him

In a wooden basin. Mary put her little hand into the basin and began to eat with the dog., Lizzie went nearer and saw that in the basin there was some liquor, in which a few pieces of bread and a few potatoes were floating. She, likewise, could not resist; she had but one feeling—that of the most gnawing hunger—and she, too, took out some bread and potatoes and ate them greedily. B " The dog, not accustomed to such guests, looked at the children full of astonishment. He then drew.back, and left them at his dinner, of which he had eaten very little. At this moment the farmer stepped into the yard. e wished to see whether the children had really left, and then he beheld this singular scene. The dog was noted for his fierceness, and alike by old and young. He was obliged to be Kkept constantly chained, and no ‘one dared to come near/him except his master. Even the servant put his food before him in the most cautious manner. In the first moment the man thought of’ nothing but the fearful danger in which the children were, and walking g#<ckly toward thein, he exclaimed:

I- Do n’t you see the dog? He will; tear you to pieces.” . ' But suddenly he stopped as if rooted to the ground. The dog had got up and gone to the children; then he looked at his master and wagged’ his tail. It seemed as if he wished tosay: “Do n’t drive my guests away!” - At that sight a great change came over the man. The spectacle before him acted like an electric shock, and feelings such as he never had before experienced seemed to stir within his ‘bosom. : The children had risen, terrified at the call of the man, and fearful of punishment for having eaten, with downcast eyes. At last, after several minutes’ silence, the farmer said: . “Are you really so fearfully hungry that you do not despise the dog’s food ? Come in then, you shall hayve something to eat, and as much as you like.” And then taking them by the hand he led them into the house, calling out to the servant: “Biddy, get some hot bread and milk, and be quick, for these children.” j L ; The dog had shamed the master—the brute had shamed the man. Being touched by what he had seen, the farnier was anxious to make amends for what his conseience showed him to be a great sin. e seated the children at- the table, sat down by them, and kindly asked their names. | . “My name is Lizzie,” mid the eldest, “and my sister is called| Mary.” | . “Have your parents been dead long ?”’ the man inquired. M ‘ “Our father has been dead two years, but mother died only last week,” said ‘ Lizzie. = : %

At the thought of their recent loss both children began to weep. ; “Don’t cry, children,” said the farmer kindly. “God will in one way _or another take care of you. But tell “me now where did you ‘come from ¢’ - “From Loughrea,” replied the child. ' “From Loughrea?” asked the man, “from loughrea? That is strange!” He began to suspect the truth, and asked, hesitatingly: i “What was your father’s name?” . “Martin Sullivan,” replied Lizzie. “What—Martin—Martin Sullivan ?”’ he exclaimed, jumping up at the same time and casting ‘a piercing look at the children, thoroughly frightening them. P . His face grew red, and tears came into his eyes; at last he sobbed aloud. IHe took the youngest child into his arms, pressed her to his heart and kissed her. The child struggled and called to her-sister for help: shecould not think what the man meant. He then put down the little one and did ‘the same to Lizgie, who took it more quietly, as she had seen that the man did not hurt her sister. At last, Decoming more composed, he dried his tears and said: - “Do.you know my name, children ?” “No,” replied Lizzie. « “How happened it, then, that you have come to me?” he asked. “Has any one sent you to e?” | ; - “Nobody has sent us,” replied Lizzie. “We were to go to Kilburn, where a brother of our father lives, and they said he would gladly receive us. But I do not believe it, for our mother always said that he is a hard-hearted man, who does not care for. his relations.” e : “Your mother was quite right when she said so,” said the farmer. “But what will you do if this hard-hearted man does not receive you ?” “Then we shall have to starve,” answered Lizzie. ¢ - “No, no!” exclaimed the man quickly. “It shall never come tothat,never! Dry your tears. 'The merciful God has had pity on your helplessness, and has made use of a fierce brute to soften the heart of your unecle, and therefore he will never forsake you—-never.” The children looked at the man in utter bewilderment; they did not understand what he said—his words and . his behavior were alike strange to. them. This he soon perceived; for he added: ! z - “You were going to‘Kilburn to Patrick Sullivan; you. are already there! I am your uncle, and now that I know you are the children of my brother Martin, I make you welcome.” ; The children’s tears quickly changed | into smiles, and the meal which Biddy just then put on the table for them' made them forget their grief. Patrick Sullivan had taken his farm about a | year before. ‘ A kind Providence had directed the children’s steps to him; but:if the dog had not taught him a lesson of kindness -who knows, after all, wh?t might have become of the poor orphans? But He who is the Father of the fatherless would surely not have forsaken them. g

; - A Word of Caution. The Louisyille Ledger contains this advice relative to making the Granges political in their eharacter: ~ Secret political organizations are prone to ' become narrow, dogmatic, prospective, vicious, and corrupt.— Trieksters and bad men will get control. We caution the laboring masses, the producers of all our .wealth, the farmers and mechanies of the country, while forming organizations -for the protection of their rights against despotism and oppression, to avoid the pit-falls above pointed out.” Move cautiously, move altogether, move in detefmination, but move openly,

~_THE beard of a dead man, who was cleanly shaven at the time.of his burial, six years ago, in San Francisco, was found to be eighteen inehes long when his coffin was opengd a few weeks ago. L i

A TOPER sneered at & young man for weariug spectacles, when the latter said: “It is better to use glagses over the nose as 1 do, than under the nose SSyomqol - e ;

‘"THE “CITY OF WASHINGTON.” The Wrecked Steamer Breaks in Two . -and Goes to Pieces. et CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS ‘OF THE OF- . FICERS. - OrTAWA, CAN,, July 10.—The Minister of Marine and Fisheries has directed an inquiry into the cause of the loss of the stéeamship City of Washington. - NEW YORK, July 10.—A five-eolumn ‘statement of a’ City of Washington passenger charges that the loss of the steamer is due to the criminal carelessness of the officers and crew, and that all just barely escaped being engulfed. An ocean Captain, a passenger, frequently warned the Chief Officer that he was running too far:northward, and advised running a hundred miles further south, but the advice was disregarded, though the Second Officer coinecided in it.- No sight was taken for séven days, notwithstanding the vessel was going through a heavy fog at the rate of twelve or thirteen knots an hour. lad she struck at night she would have gone down; or, had she gone to the right-or left, two_hundred yards, she would have struck either Green Island or the I'eefs, and a fearful loss of life would have ensued.

- The saloon passengers were mostly chatting or playing cards when, at half-past 1 p. M. on Saturday, the ship went full'speed on Gull Rock Shoal. She gave two slight bumps, and a tremendous tremor ran through her.” No one had the slightest idea where the ship was. After a lapse of half an hour of terrible confusion—the cannon firing, fog-horn blowing, and women and children shrteking—a sailor cried, “I hear a human voice.” A death-like silence followed, and soon two brave men, Cornelius Swanburg and William - Ferguson, who had put out from shore in @ small boat, climbed up the side of the ship. The latter had risen from a sick bed. The work of disembarking immediately commenced under their guidance with the three ship’s boats, the Second oflicer “standing at the gangway of the ladder with a hatchet in hand, threatening to cut down any man, who tried to get into the boats .before the women. Meanwhile the bumping angl scraping of the sternpost and rudder continued; arousing .fears lest the ship would break in two. The steerage passengers, however, remained remarkably quiet, and no attempt to rush wasmade. Some of the women displayed great power of mind and heroism, sitting quietly until ealled upon to disembark. A young Irish girl came and asked the narratorwhether sheshould ever see Castle Garden at all. -On receiving an affirmative reply,,she wrapped an Ulster cloak around her, gave him a kiss, and descended to the small boat. ©Once all on shorethe (zermans and Fins gathered in one group, and the Irish emigrants inanother. Allthe neighboring barns and out-houses were soon occupied. Adjoining fences were soon stripped of rails, fires' built, biscuit distributed, coffee served, and all happy under the sense of the great danger escaped. The cabin ladies were received into the houses of a Mrs. FFarding and Mrs. Lewis, “who, with their daughters, cared for them like ministering angels. .Soon many of the poor emigrants were fast asleep, -lying about in barns, on the beach, under banks and big rocks. . . .- On Monday the ship was found: to lie in fifteen feet of water, apparently as solid as the rock she rested on.— Had she backed off on the first striking, she wowld probably have sunk in five minutes. - Ten minutes after the striking she began to fill, and on Monday she had. fifteen feet of water in her hold. When the narrator left, the neighborinig people were showering every attention upon the rescued pas-sengers,-and there were plenty.of provisions for all for days to come. Ile closes his narrative by comparing the navigation of the City of Washington to a man galloping at breakneck speed through darkness upon a turnpike totally regardless and indifferent as to whether any gates are ahead or. not. Fortunately for us, we got through one gate, the “Little Hope Rock,” but Gull Rock Shoal gate was unfortunately closed. : :

The Buskirk-Rose Shooting Affray. 'From the Huntington Démocrat we elip the following account, of the shooting affray at Bloomington, Ind., brief mention of which was made in these columils last week:

Ex-Judge Buskirk, of Bloomington, a prominent republican politician, -once Judge of the Common Pleas Court of that Distriet, afterwards Speaker of the House of Representatives, and at the date of the tragedy, President of a Bank, shot and killed a man by the name of Rose, a bar-keeper, at that place on the evening of the 2d instant, for no greater offense than a refusal to sell him whisky. The New Albany Ledger says that Buskirk has been in the habit of going on frequent and prolonged sprees, and that he was on one of these sprees at the time of the shooting. On account of the habits of Buskirk, his: brother, the Hon. S. H Buskirk, Judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana, had given notice to Mr. Rose that he was forbidden to sell his brother* any more liquor, under pain of the penalty of law, and the effort to obey has cost Rose his life, On the day of the murder a couple of colored men, who have been in the habit of waiting on Buskirk, saw him and asked him to ‘treat them. Buskirk consented and went with them to Mr. Rose’s saloon and asked for the drinks. The bar-keeper, Rose, refused to sell him any whisky, and excused himself by citing the order which the Supreme Judge had served on him. This exciteddudge Buskirk the more, and he again denranded the whisky and was again refused, when he drew a pistol, and, without ceremony, :shot Rose in’ the left side. The ball ranged toward the unfortunate man’s heart, and Dr. McPheeters pronounced it mortal. Mr. Rose himself knew it to be mortal, and at once began to make preparations for the inevitable event. Ie made his will a very short time after he received the deadly wound. Buskirk waived an examination, gave bail in the sum of $5,000, and to avoid being lynched, left the State. = _

A Little too Candid.: o 1 Some time since a Greenfield farmer and his wife came into: the city and the man had the woman’s life insured for $5,000. Lasq week she was thrown from a buggy and badly hurt; and yes= terday the agent came across the husband on the street and inquired how his wife was getting along. The farmer heaved a sigh, looked put out and replied: “Well, I'm afraid she is going to get well!”—Detroit Free Press,

' Take Care of the Brain. ~ One June morning in 1870 the world woke up to find its foremost novelist, Charles Dickens, dead. The ink was scarcely dry on the last written page of his unfinished Edwin Drood, when: 'the silver cord -was loosed and the golden bowl broken. The author of the Vanity Fair, who had at one time solicited the privilege of illustrating one of Dickens’ works, had died a.few years previously with equal:sudden-. ness. One winfer morning in 1865 it _was telegraphed over the country that the most accomplished American scholar, and one of the most distinguished American orators, had suddenly died. John A, -Andrew;of Magsachusetts, the most efficient of all the Northern ‘Governors during the war for the Union, wlhio would have been Vice-Presidenit or. President' had he lived, left life without a note of warn-. ing. Henry .J. Raymond, one o,fghe most brilliant editors of the counfry, and the one who could accomplish more work per hour than any man in the profession, perhaps, fell dead while entering his residence ‘in ‘New York, Tom Corwin, the pet_and delight of the ‘West and of the country, was struck with death while the words of wit that drew half ‘a dozen tiers of listeners about him'.were still lingering on his lips. Stanton; who was: the executiye fagulty of the Government in the war of 1861, dropped from apparent health into “death almost instantly. General Thomas, “the noblest Roman of them all,” suffered the same | syift death. . Edwin Forrest dropped dead while -dressing, and Macready, his rival of many years ago, has lately died of brain disease. .Seward, whowas a statesman, .died of paralysis.— And now a great man, a citizen of Cincinnati, while he was not yet an old man, has fallen-a victim to ~the same | malady. Similar "instances might be. multiplied indefinitely. It is becoming a common. story . of the death of men whose brains have been actively employed to say that “he was as well as usual yesterday, and to-day- he is - dead.” -:Apoplexy” and paralysis arefar more frequent, especially in this country, than formerly. - It is not without reason that they fall upon the shining men. -“I shall die,” said Dean Swift to Dr. Youhg; “at the top first.” The brain, which, in this -rapid age and country, is so generally overtaxell,, dies first. - And while.there have been many sermons-preached about, taking ccatre of the soul,- and many lectures

s%TR R e R L eAIy e eRO Sey v T gixen about ‘taking ‘care of the body, there is in this country an almost universal ignorance Xor carelesness about: taking care of.the brain, which is, per=’ haps, of the greatest consequience. The death by apoplexy,-or paralysis, is called sudden.. Probably it is really less so than anyt other natiral death. The workings of these hrain maladies, for they lare.such, are amore insidiousy but not more brief, than those of any of the ills to which flesh is heir. - Soffening of the brain, insanity, paralysis, and kindred diseases, have, heen distinetly traced through a period of forty years. The most subtile, mysterious piece of machinery. which God has made, which no-man hath found.out, composed of starey. hrain ‘cells .of whicli a billion could he paeked in'a single inch;, the -most “elastie part of the human inechanism, ‘is ‘daily pre-: paring to break when it is overstrech-: ed. But Americans take better care of their horses than of their heads,— The thing which "deserves most care: receives the least. - It is not ‘so mudh muscular activity which exhausts the vital forces-as-brain activity. - Mef’% chants, lawyers, men- of politiés and men of letters forget the'relations he~ tween the head -and ‘the feet in the busy whirl of life; 5 e e diiwet

When we shall have learned a little more about the . relations hétween mind and matter, between the spirit and the body, we shall very likely «lis: cover that there is meelanism in thought, in morals, in religion; analo“gous to the mechanisni of the human system. “I knew,” said: Euierson, “a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duet, and used to affirin that if there was disease . of the liver the man became .a . Calvinist; and it that organ was sound. he became a Unitarian.” "Whether the biliary duct will become an element in theology or not, there is no doubt that:the structure and treatment of the most important and exquisitely organized portion of the machinery -of the human :system, the, instrument of intelligence, the souarce of volition, the center of sensation, are decisive of thie ‘politics and the religion and the life-of mén. In nearly or quite ‘all the eases of: sudden death cited above the cause can be directly traced, and through a period of years, to-imprudence in the care of this most delicate organism.— It is not rapid living that Kills these ‘men. It is rapid ‘work and everwork | in mosticases. « s o ik It is negligence concerning the earliest symptoms of the: most insidious of diseases. 'Not until .the men whoperforin brain labor work fewer hours in a day, and fewer days in the year, will these sudden deaths cease to startle us. Sir Isaac Newton, utterly forgetful of the ‘contents’of his own “Principle,” great men earessing with imbecile- smiles thl%i books they have written, and the. Dickenses and Corwins and Stantons and Raymonds dying with appalling suddenness are: paying the .same sure penalty for the. same offense.—Cincinnatli Enquirer. -

A RECENT official paper printed in England, concerning the annual nums= ber of convictions for drunkenness in England and Ireland, presents some interesting figures. - While, out of eévery ten thousand Englishmen, 59 are annually convicted of breaking the law against drunkenness; out of the same number of Irishmen 147 are found guilty of the same offénse, - T England, four and one-half per cent. of the total convietions répresent habitual offenders. In:lreland, the ratio is fourteen and seven-tenths, dn Liverpool, the proportion is 827 eonvictions to every ten thousand of its population, while in Dublin the propertion-is 416 to ten thousand. Londonderry, which is the smallest place on.-the list, has 1,142 drunkards in_eyery ten thousand of the population, and halfof tl;eSe'_:}i‘eL‘ habiiual drunkaxds. - - c TRkl e

‘MR. Joseru Brooxs, who eontests the right of: Mz, Baxter to be Governor of Arkansas, has made ahother appeal to the people of his State. Ilesayshe wag fairly elected by a majority of twenty-five or thirty thousand; aud that if the deeision in hi§ case, now pending in the courts, is in*his favor: he will have the office “or death” ~‘.’:t:j

THE German goverhment has in=vested tenmillions of dollars in United States bonds, . principajly - of the five per cent. funded ledn; .= o o e - SiNew July Ist all paqkwgeg*;!‘wghfi*‘ ing over four pounds are exelu G‘W from themaile, 0 00l g

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. - CONNUBIALITIES, ~ . 'What word tmay - be. pronounced -quicker by adding glvo letters to it ?— SN ot ~_Well built woman is probably she: of the alabaster neck, marble brow:, and arch expression. : e A man writing poetically of the . ~weather, says: The back-bone of winter is broken, but the tail wags yet. A minister walked six miles to marry- a -couple lately. He said he felt a sort of fee-bill like. The groom saw it. ! ' g ~'Lady to doctor: “My tongue’s very sore.” Protrudes unruly member. Doetor to lady: “Sunbtunt, madam: sunburnt.” : : S s - “Pray, Doctor, had your mother a son ?” “Let me see, she had two daugters, but whether she ever had a sen, I—l realy cannot recollect.” B An exchange asks: “Can anybody tell why, when Eve was manufactured from one of Adam’s rilg,fa,hired‘ girl wasn’t made at theé time to wait' on her ?” i = Ads o gaie o A newspaper editor, speaking of the « difficulty of pleasing everybody, remarked: “Even if one sounded “the praises of his Maker, the deyil wonld ‘be displeased. . o - There’s one kind of- ship T -always steer clear of, said 'a(;f old bachelor sea captain, and that’s gcourtsll'?}?; cause on that ship there’s always two mates and no ecaptain.. = . Lt ; A “honeymoon car” is now on the Pacific _railway for the purpose of bridal - parties. It has a comely as well-as a honeycombly appearance; is full of sweets and fuil of sells. G A contemporary asserts that “half the married women in the world wonder who their husbands will marTy next. The other half more Sensibly wonder who they will marry next. . A shrewd old gentleman once said to his daughter: “Be sure, my dear; you nevel:marry a poor man; but remember that the poorest man in the ° ‘world -is one 'that! has money and i nothing else. A grocer asked an artist: Is sculpture difficult? The- artist. replied, “Why, bless you, no.. You have -only to take a Dblock of, marble; a mallet, and chisel, and knock all off the marble you dont want,”’ o :

. 'The funny man put in an appear--ance in the Ohio Constitutional Convention on last Thursday. He introduced -an'‘amendment to the consti‘tution: forbidding horses-to be driven on Sunday faster than a , walk; specifying the nmumber of times daily in “which a husband might kiss. his wife ;- “the number of times a parent might threshi the young ones; fixing a bill of . fare for the people at breakfast, dinner -and: supper, and forbidding ; the converting of fruit into wine or eider, even for‘th,e’ purpose of making it into vinegar. " B Gy

~ 7 Cumulative Voting. o * The principle of minority representation, or cumulative voting, asrecently tried with fair success in Illinois, is beginnihg to attract considerable attention on Em part of our pulitical thinkers, and generaly of a commendatory sort. It can not be questioned that under our present systeni minori+ ties” are very: inequitably - and inefli¢iently represented,and any plan which looks to a reform of this defeetor weakness in our poliey is entitled to. receive very careful and candid consideration. A reeent writer on the subject, Sathuel-Dutcher, of New Y ork; reviews the defeet of the present electoral system and shows that fifty-eight per eent. of the voters secure-all the representation, and fortystwo per cent. have none.. Uut of 100 men who goto the polls 60 make their suffrage count and 40 might as well not vote at all; or, to reduce it to its last andtysis, cur present eleetoral system dis{rmmhises two men out of five. The IHinois Constitutional Convention two years ago adopted the cumulative plan of voting for members of the lower branch of the lLegislature and it' was tried-in:the recent election for the first time, and its friends: claim with the most satisfactory results. © The Illinois plan is a modification of the Englislt plan as advoeated by Stuart Mills, and may be briefly explained thus: Every citizen fis entitled to three votes for

members of the Legislature, and eacly ~distriet of the three réprentatives. A L votér may distribute his votes, givingf omne to each of the three candidates, or he may divide them in.any other pro--“protion, giving oné and a half tq two candidates and none t 6 the thirdior all three to one candidate and none to the other two. This gives every voter an -opportunity of selecting and diseriminating for or against any candidate whom he may.regard as better or -worsé than the rest. The practical working ‘of the plan is claimed to result not only in securing & representition” for the minority party, but to compel the majority party to mominate their best men or be defeated.— ‘For where there are three candidates on each side, no. man of either party will give oue of his «votes to a ‘bad. mxan when he-has the choice of “dividing them between twobetter ones . or cumulating them all on one man .whom he may consider the best of the lot. . Many of the former opponents of | the system have been converted by the. recent experiment in Illinois,” and ‘there ‘is a' possibility that it will: be adopted by the Pennsylvania Constitutionial Convention, indsniuch as Mr. Buckalew,” an influential member of ‘that body,~is an original and ardent friend of cumulative voting. ) P P bS— = - TnE Chieago Times claims that the “dead-headd swindle” of granting “free * ‘passes” Dby railroads must be “condemnéd upon the ground that it is a diserimination ‘againgt the public gen-‘erally-by a common carrier who has neithier a lawful nor an equitable right to make any such discrimination.”— The . Times knows that no railroad “grants a “free pass” to anybody without a consideration. Now, we hold that if a conductor of @ newspapér contracts with a tailroad for a specified space of advertising in his news--“paper and agrees to receive in consid-¢ eration” thereof a “free pass™ over the road, it is simply none of Lydiu-" Thompson-Storey’s business; Lydia-Phompson-Storey’s denunciation. of - the “dead-head swindle” | would ‘sound better in Northern ‘lndiana if the aforesaid “dead-beat” would Jliguidate diverse hoarding-house bills he contracted years ago when he publishied & bebdomedal in this State.— ‘Lydia-Thompson-Storey is simply an aristocratic scoundrel. — Valparaiso Mlomper. . 1S S e R sk e ) iRy - Eldred & Son have a new inyoice of drugs, groceries, &, and sell at ot~ dom figures, = v m,%;%«f.*?*?*;ir