The National Banner, Volume 8, Number 18, Ligonier, Noble County, 28 August 1873 — Page 2

o t’ l ) The Fatiomal Banney n b ¢St d ¢ ol ':\ oy : D «\\ i | o alyy ‘ - J.B.BSTOLL, Edvin;;“c't;aAr«lhl.’;oprietror. LIGONIER, IND'A, AUG. 28,1873. BEFORE a certain class of papers procged too far in denouncing the Indianapolis Sentinel, we heg to remind them that Hon. John C. Shoemaker and Thomas F. Ryan are part, ‘owners of that establishment.

- THE TYRANNY of the Russiin government secures the United States an accession of about 40,000 of as good, honest, industrious. people as ever breathed. The Mennonites, if they conclude to settle'down principally in Kansas, will make that one of the very best, and most prosperous States in the Union. b :

THE only reason why the Democrats and New Party, men of Ohio do not act in ugz“tson ié because. they cannot agree as to party names. ' They agree pretty well on everything else, but will probably fight each other just as vigorously as though they were seperated by points of vital importunée.—_ Strange things happen in political curiosity shops. i S é

SEVERAL prominent Liberal Republicangs of Ohio have expressed their determination to support the regular democratic State ticket, regarding this the only practicable method of making war upon the corruption of the dominant pzirty. Among those who take this view are Mr. J. G. Deshler, chairman of the Liberal Republican State Central Committee, + and Lawyer Smith of Butler county.

Lrw. IDDINGS has not yet deemed _ it worth his while to say whether or not he is morally liable to pay the county six percentum on the amount: by him held in ‘cust.ody for the period’ of six years. He made good. use of I the money; we are satisfied he realized at the rate of 25 per cent. per annum. " He shaved notes with money belonging to the county for along time, We ask nothing unreasonable of the man; . but we do say he should volunéarily step up to the captain’s office and fork over ¢ per cent. o > el W e [ THE New York 7'ribune invites Senator Carpenter to institute suit for the recovery of damages for having d]xarg—ed the Wisconsin Senator with being * beastly drunk and appearing at Long i Branch with a prostitute on his arm. The T'ribune is anxious to establish the truth of its statements by competent authority, and promises to promptly pay any damages that may be assessed by a jury. This is a very fair " proposition, but we presilme Mat, Carpenter will deem it the part of prudence not to accept.

* THE CHAMPIONS of the new People’s Party in Ohio are quite active. They have been holding largely-atgen(kfl« meetings in different parts of, ‘the State which were addressed by speakers of decided ability. Judge Collins, their candidate for Governor, ex-sena-tor Pugh, Fred Hassaui:ek,'})r. Bruehi, and several other distinguished politicians, have taken the stump. They candidly acknowledge that they have no hopes of.accmnplishi’ng mucli this year, but expect to develop consideraable strength a year or two hence.

Jor Howrt, Judge-Advocate General of the United States, -publishes, in a Washington paper, a full and formal -denial that he withheld from President Johuson that part of the courtmartial papers cdpfifxiniiig a recommendation to mercy .for Mrs. Surratt. He asserts that the President had full proeeedings in the case, and that his action was taken entirely on his own responsibility. Before plac_ing entite confidence in this statement, it would be well to await an answer from glorious old Andy of Tennessee.

. DEMOCRATIC PAPERS down in the “Pocket” are . generally after Judge Niblack with a sharp stick for pocketing the back-pay which his colleagues voted him and themselves during the late session of Congress. The J udge has heretofore enjoyed the unbounded confidence of his democratic neighbors, and seemed to be a special favorite with demfoératic editors; but it is pretty plainly to be noticed that his time has come at last. e’ will be permitted to resume the practice of law and watch the course of his successor in office. |

THE MENNONITES, whose arrival in this country was conspicuously noticed, in our last, remained at Elkhart during the past week, the guests of Rev. J. F. Funk.- They are quite wealthy, and it would probably have paid some of our farmers who are desirous of selling out, to have visited these thrifty colonists. One of the party, Mr. Peter Isaac, has over $140,000 cash; another carries $67,000 in gold; the others are the possessors of from $5,000 to s2s,ooo—the average wealth of each family being $lO,OOO. The party consisted of twenty-one families, and the aggregate of their worldly possessions figures up the handsome sum of $340,000. :

SENATOR MORTON opened the cam‘paign in Ohio by the delivery of!a ‘speech at Athens last Saturday. Asa matter of course, the Senator labored hard to convince his auditors that the republican party was one of purity, honesty and patriotism, and that the opposition was precisely the reverse. That Morton understands how to present a very nasty thing in acceptable colors has long since been admitted, but in"view of the fact that every intelligent man knows that the vilest fraud and rascality is everywhere to be found under the present regime, we consider his effort at white-wash-ing a direet insult to the intelligence of the country. No man of sense will place confidence in such déclarations as fell from the-lips of Mr, Morton.

Demand of the Colored Brethren. The colored. citizens of Ohio met in convention at Chillicothe, last Friday, for the purpose of considering the means by which the colored element may receive the consideration which is due them by reason of their numerical strength. The leading spirit of the convention was the celebrated Peter H. Clark, of Cincinnati, who delivered an earnest speech in which he charged the republican party with ingratitude and inconsistency, and urged his colored brethren to assume an attitude of independence and vote for “their friends” regardless of party.

- The Grantites had a colored federal office-holder in attendance, who endeavored to secure an unqualified ‘endorsement for the Grant administra‘tion, but Clark' was too much for him and defeated his antagonist in every instance. In a long preatmple the col‘ored brethren set forth their grievances, followed by these declarations in the shape of resolutions: o Resolved, That we, the colored voters of the State of Ohio, in Convention assenibled, do protest against the unjust ‘diserimination permitted toward us by the representatives of the party ‘who we aid in securing official positions. a fiea Resolved, That the eolored voters of this State do not consider themselves under eternal obligations to a party which favors us as a class only in proportion as it is driven by its own necessities. Resolved, That the colored men of the State are hereby urged to refrain from unconditionally pledging themselves to the nominees of their local Conventions, and .they use their best discrimination in determining for themselves in each locality for whom to vote or whether to vote at all.

The negroes of Ohio control about 20,000 votes; they hold the balance of power, and are evidently taking steps to make the best out of this advantage. Their chief aim seems to-be the securing of office—municipal, county and State. If they can’t get these little favors from one party, they will apply to another. This, according to our understundhig, is their position.— While we rejoice over their prospective emancipation from party bondage, it might not be amiss to remind them that it is yet too soon to set up too pretentious claims. A vast majoritSr of white voters are hardly reconciled to negro voting; a still larger per cent. will be slow to accede to the demand that a black skin and kinky hair be recognized as paramount claims to the possession of office.

The Colored Cadet Difficulty. -‘ From Washington authorities we learn that the announcement that the colored cadets at West Point are to be assigned exclusively to commands in white regiments{is causing quite a flutter in army i circles. Secretary Belknap explains that the law leaves no option; that he.is required to officer polo;'ed regiments with white men, and thereforé he must assign colored West Pointer's to duty in white regiments. How this novel arrangement will conserve to the efliciency of the army remains to be seen. Black regiments, says an exchange, will naturally ask why a black man is not good enough to be officer over thém; and, precisely in the same spirit of race feeling, white soldiers will want to know why negroes are put above them. The effect of the law will be to stimulate prejudice, and both races have reason to be offended atit. It would be better for white-and black regiments alike that the law makin this singular requirement, if it ex-istj,,» should be repealed, and things be allowed to take their natural course. It is foolish to take the risk of causing insubordination in the army, even toplease the illogical views of a parcel of crack brained fanaties, possessed of more heresies than brains and more‘ brains than are suited to a we]l ordered eranium. : |

Colfax’s Latest Vindicator. - Harper’s Weekly and all the other thick and thin organs of the Credit Mobilier party have been crowing lustily over the lift' which the Smiler recently received from General Clinton B. Fiske, a Christian Warrior, of lar“ceno‘l‘if,s proclivities, who resides in Missouri, and who feels a natural and fraternal interest in a christian statesman in disiress. Fiske declares that Oakes Ames confessed to him, before his death, that his statements about Colfax were false. = But Qakes Ames’ friends indignantly contradict Fiske, and declare that they have written evidence among his papers damning to Schuyler. -An eastern exchange correctly observes that they need mnot produice it, for ‘Sehuyler is damned al--ready, and, until he can bring forward some better witnesses than dead men, like Nesbit, and snch living trash as Fiske he must stand convicted of being one of the-most inartistic and selfconvicted perjurers of the age. :

The Modocs to be Hanged. The people of the whole country, remembering the brutal murder by the Modoce Indians of Gen. Canby and others, will learri with satisfaction that the War Department has promulgated, in general orders, the finding and sentence in the case of the Modoc captives, Capt. Jack, Schonchin, Black Jim, Boston Charley, Barncho, alias One-Eyed Jim, and Sloluck, aligs Cox, who were tried fi)y the Military Commission for the murder of Gen. Canby and Compmissioner Thomas, and for assault with intent to kill the otlier Peace Commissioners. They are found guilty of the specifidationsgnd charges and sentenced to be hanged. The proceedings have been approved by the President 'and Secretary of War. The latter has ordered that the sentences be duly executed, under direction of the General :commanding the Department of the Columbia, at Fort Klamath, Oregon, on Friday, October 3, 1873, i .

Lit Tee HENDRYX: receives brief attention on the first page of this week’s BANNER. From private sources we learn that he has about concluded to read law, engage in the real estate business, or embark upon some other enterprise that will afford him a com“fortable livelihood. :

- Reform Within “the Party.” 1 We notice a studied effort on part of the administration press to persuade | disgusted Republicans that the purposes of the great anti-monopoly movement inaugurated by the western farmers can be best attained through the republican party organization. A: most admirablée answer is furnished this style of argument by the Harrisburg Patriot, which says: “QOceasionally the wvoters of the republican party become somewhat restive under the party lash and threaten to seek reform: of the abuses in which they are made unwilling participants, outside of the organization. Then the party organs assure them that the remedy for the wrongs they would right is to be found within the organization, and they will not be able to attain their object more easily by acting independently. ‘Aeccording to the organs the republican party is the party of patriotism and it “only needs to will its own purification to rid itself of every blemish. The i verdant recaleitrants believe and are ‘quieted while the thieves go on with ‘ the Stealing. The party of patriotism i fails to will its own purification.— There can be no doubt that it could purify itself if it would, for have we ‘not to this effect the assurance of the virtuous gentlemen who edit its news_paper organs? This reminds us of ‘the following, related of Wordsworth and Charles Lamb: “Wordsworth one day told Lamb that he considered Shakspeare greatly, overrated. “There is,” said he, ‘an immensity of trick in all that Shakspeare wrote, and people are taken by it. Now, if I had a mind I could write exactly like Shakspeare.’ Said Lamb: I see, it is only the mind that is wzmtipg.’ - g

- Democracy Defined. Hon. William Allen, the venerable statesman of Ohio and candidate for Governor of that commonwealth, thus defines Democracy: “Democracy is a sentiment not to be appalled, corrupted or compromised. It knows no baseness; it cowers to no danger; it oppresses no weakness. Fezxr}ess,i generous and humane, it rebukes the arrogant, ‘cherishes honor, and sympathizes with the humble. It®asks nothing but what it concedes ; it concedes nothing but what it demands. Destructive only of despotism, it is the sole conservator of liberty, labor and property. It is the sentiment of freedom, of equal rights, of equal obliga‘tions. It is the law of nature pervading the law of the land. The stupid, the selfish and the base in spirit may denounce it as a vulgar thing; but in the history of our race the del'noceratic principle has developed and illustrated the highest moral and intellectual attributes of our nature. Yes—that is a noble, magnanimous, a sublime sentiment, which expands our affections, enlarges the circle of our sympathies, and elevates the soul of man, until, claiming an equality with the best, he rejects, as unworthy of his dignity, aany political immunities over the humblest of his fellows. Yes—it is an ennobling principle—and may that spirit which animated our fathers in the revolutionary contest for its establishment continue to animate us, their sons, in the impending struggle for its preservation.” : : .

An Insult to the Memory of Jefferson. For years there has stood in front ~of the White House in Washington a bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson.— It was presented to the government ,yedrs ago by Captain Levy, of the na4vy. Standing where it did, to use the lang%lage of a contemporary, nothing could be more suggestive of the simplicity and democratic principles on which our republic was ‘founded.— Every student of "American history knows well that‘ not Washington himself did more for the foundation and ‘healthful growth of our country than the illustrious Sage of Monticello. The statue is now being removed from its' place to a less prominent spot in the grounds, so as to make room for a cast-iron fountain. ‘We are not surprised at the act itself, for there can bé no doubt that the present occupants of the-White House have little feeling in common with 'so noble and yet so simple, so rich in intellect yet poor in pocket, and withdl so thoroughly pure and honest a man as Thomas Jefferson. Fifty thousand dollar stables and cast-iron‘, fountains are more important to Grant than all the statdes of the founders of our government that can be cast from now till doomsday..

A “Fat” Job.

Says the Harrisburg Patriot: It is a queer décision of the Secretary of the Treasury which allows ‘the Supervisors of Internal Revenue, in addition to their $3,000 salary, the amount of their board bills. With the “perquisites”.of office, the salary and the price of Hoarding at a first class hotel, the large army of collectors will’ be énabled to draw about as muéh money out of the people as it cost to ran the whole machinery of government in the good old ante-bellum days of Demoeracy. A sight at some of the board bills that will be presented would be interesting. . ‘

Tuis is the way it strikes 7he Rutland (Vt,) Qlobe: “We all know the frail and tender thread by which Henry Wilgon holds on to life, and we remember that' three Presidents died in office within a quarter of a century.— If they should be called hence before the first Monday of December, imagine, if you can, the ineffable shame, the humiliation and disgrace of seeing Matthew H. Carpenter in the seat of Washington, Adams, Jefferson,Jackson, and Lincoln. The mind shrinks from the bare contemplation thereof.”

SoME of our polit}cal brethren of the press might profit by paying attention to a hint in the St. Louis Republican, reading thus: “We gently suggest to the ‘democratic organs all over the land that are continually asserting that the democratic party is not dead, that they .stop it. If they keep on much longer, people will begin to think that the old party is dead, sure enough. Who.ever thinks of trying to prove that a live man is not & dead man ?”

Letter from Alabama. "HUNTSVILLE, ALA., Aug. 16. | HoN. J. B. SsoLL:—Enclosed you will find the requisite amount of the “root of all evil” to rub out my score on volume Bof the BANNER. 'ltis a right welcome caller once a week, and lam satisfied that the owner has the elegents,of-fisuccess within him, We are suited with your “clippings” and enjoy the “locals” first-rate—when they are not personal. - - The weather has been remarkable for sunshine and evenness of temperature. It is said to be splendid for cotton; and T know it is for mosquitoes. Crops are all made, except cotton: Corn is heavy, oats good, the earlier kinds of ‘wheat yielded twenty bushels per acre. ; : : e The crop of peaches is simply enotmous. Ifthedistance werenotso great I would set you down for a basket of some of those large Lemon Peaches grown by our friend Oaks from Michigan. They will average ten inchesin circumference, which equals Samuel Faught’s story of big peaches in the South. ‘ Eight years ago there was not a fruit can to be found in the city, except as bought filled with frmit in the groceries; nowit is hard to supply the demand. Everybody is canning, jambing, preserving, stewing, washing and straining, and now up goes sugar until we can’t reach it with a ten foot pole. But, zounds! what stacks and oceans of goodies this country is now wasting, and we are not able to distribute the surplus among the needy. ; Accept our good wishes for your prosperity. Respectfully yours,, | : J. F. MCDEVITT.

Letter from Stark County. WAsHINGTON TP, Aug. 25. EpiTorß BANNER:—As harvest is over and wheat mostly threshed, we have a few moments of time to pen a few words for the BANNER. - Health has never been known to be better through this section, than it has ‘been this season. ] On the 14th inst., Mrs. Emma, wife’ ‘of Valentine Lidecker, died of consumption. She was a daughter of Geo. York, deceased. . i Last spring, after the wheat was winter killed, it was supposed we would run short of a crop. Last week our neighbor, Samuel Osborn threshed his crop of sixteen acres and got three hundred and ten bushels.” ‘ . About one month ago our corn crop looked flattering, but we will come far short of a full erop on account of the present drought. Apples will be about an average crop. Peaches are anentire failure. The trees were about “one half winter killed. e - We have had very warm and dry weather for some time past. . Hiram E. Turnbull is building a dwelling house this summer. We wish him sueccess. L : S.. B. Yoder lost a horse last week. We would be pleased to have a regular correspondence from the Hawpatch. Try it, young America. Lightning struck into a shock of the writer’s wheat and burned it with the exception of two sheaves. There is to be a show in Plymouth next Thursday. - Money is scarce through this section, but undoubtedly each one will have fifty cents to spare ion show day. LONGEFELLOW.

His Contempt for the People. An eastern publication takes occagion to say that President Grant’s remarks at the reception tendered him by Governor Perham, of Maine, the ‘other week, has not only the merit of being characteristic, but shows his. utter contempt for the people. As the citizens who desired to pay their respects to the President of the United States filed past him, many were seen to take a left oblique, and, avoiding a presentation, disappear through a side door. The governor endeavored to stop this, when Grant remarked, “Oh, let them pass, governor; the more who do so, the less I shall have to do.”— Just so; it is too much like work to stand and be introduced to the hard fisted yeomanry: of Maine who assisted in his election and help to pay him $50,000 a year for doing nothing at Long Branch.® This act establishes Grant as being even lazier than the legendary Jack Hole who saved time by writing J. and then punching a hole through the paper for the remaindeir of the name. o

MANY prominent Democrats of Calhoun county, 111., have signed a document which will give little comfort to the believers in the undiminished vitality of the democratic party. They express their convictions that neither of the regular party conventions reflects the will of the people of the county, that there are no political issues that call for the nomination of striet party candidates, and hence they invite all people to unite with them in a People’s Convention, to meet on the Bth of September, “to take such steps and select such candidates as shall appear best for the ad vancement of the people’s interest.” ;

Gov. MCENERY, whom the people of Louisiana elected to fill the execu: tive chair but is denied that privilege by the unwarranted interference of Ceesar Grant, has written & letter in which he tells the people that the State is financially bankrupt and temporarily ruined by the existing political chaos. He favors the calling of a State convention for the purpose of securing aid from Congress—that is to ‘say, to be relieved from the existing fradulent government. The prospect of securing such assistance from Congress, in our opinion, is not very bright. ; |

TaE Newport (Pa.) Vews has lately learned (what we knew long ago) that Albert Menet, Advertising Agent, of New York City, was not worth the powder that would send him, &c.—Ez. - We think he is. [lf the Newport man ‘will undertake the sending, we’ll furnish the powder. e - e THE FARMERS’ movement has reached Pennsylvania. There are now in that State 13 organized granges of the Patrons of Husbandry, five await- “’? organization, and the foundation is laid for 100 more. -

- OUR NEIGHBORS. Lima is being provided with a new s T South Bend is afflicted with chicken thieves. : ‘ There are just thirty babies on Fifth street, Goshen. ' | Two wood thieves have been arrested at South Bend. _ P The “immortal J. N.” lifted the veil at-Auburn on the 23d. LaPorte is the third county in the State, as to railroad property. .~ A death from spotted fever is reported in the vicinity of Wolcottville. - Peaches are a failure in Lagrange county. The apple and pear crop will be abundant. - The total taxables of St. Joseph county foot up $14,231,375 taxables, and 4,443 polls. v : The Auburn Couriersays that every night some fellow is “chuck full,” and they have no saloon either. 1 : A Mishawaka man offers $3OO reward for the arrest and conviction of the hell-hounds who cut the throats of two of his horses, recently. A South Bend fat man has at last reduced himself to one hundred and ‘seventy-five pounds, and now hums “This is the weigh I long have sought.” - Frank Johnson, a Swede, and an gemploye of the Railroad Company at 'Elkhart, was run over by the switch : engine at Elkhart, on Tuesday of las ; week and instantly killed.

DeKalb county has 31 Notaries Public; Elkhart, 41; Huntington, 23; Kosciusko, 24 ; LaGrange, 13 ; LaPorte, 42; Allen, 47; Noble, 26; St. Joseph, 39; Steuben, 20; Whitley, 13.

The total taxables of LaPorte county foot up $14,479,316, whereof $1,539,012 is railroad property. The figures do not include the capital invested in manufactures.

Gen. Reub. Williams, editor of the Northern I'ndianian, has been sued for libel by the editor of the Bourbon Mirror. The sum demanded is %50,000.— The alleged grievance was commmitted by a local correspondent of the Indianian. 5

© We seeit stated in the Lagrange Independent that the “total abstinence” candidate for Prosecutor wasso elated by his nomination at the Middlebury convention that he stood treat at a saloon for beer to the amount of one dollar and ninety cents !—Goshen Demoerat.

A Lakeville correspondent of the South Bend Register says a SWede,; working on the Baltimore railroad, was taken sick recently, and from discouragement or other depressiff influence, he went out on Tuesday evening last and llung himsel¥ with a small withe that he twisted up himself. He had made a remark to his brother in a former case of sickness, that if he was ever attacked again he would kill himself. ;

On Thursday a little past noon a cloud not much “bigger than a man’s hand” spread over the sky from the East, and brought with it a storm of hail and rain, lasting about threequarters of an hour. It was a most unexpected visitation. Some of the hail stones measured five inches in circumference. All the unprotected sky-lights in the city were broken in, and countless leaves battered from the shade trees. The patches of garden corn were pretty badly riddled.— There was a heavy shower of water and some thunder.—Laporte Herald, August 23d. : i

FIRE AT LAGRANGE—The Standard gives the following account of a fire in that place on Saturday, the 16th: “The roof of the Foundry was on fire, and by the time the crowd arrived, nearly all of one side was in a blaze, and the destruction of the building seemed inevitable. Lagrange men, though, can do noble work at a fire.— Buckets of water by the dozen, and then by the twenties and fifties were soon at hand, and men ascending to the roof. Among the first who gallantly reached the roof was Mr. Frank Drake, who had barely reached where he could throw water on, the fire when he slipped and fell from the upper roof of the building to the one below, and fractured one of his legs. He was carefully carried down, whilst others took his place and worked faithfully until the flames were subdued, Better work in suppressing a fire under so many unfavorable circumstances we have niever seen. The fire originated ‘from sparks from the blasting furnace stack falling on some shavings on the second floor. The loss is small, being only the roof burned. The unfortunate accident to Mr. Drake, who was 80 gallantly attempting to save the property of his neighbor, is sincerely lamented by all.”

The Third Term Proposition. ' The Washington Daily Republican, a paper in the employ of the Grant administration, in fits issue of the 26th inst., publishes a four-column article advocating the re-election of Grant to a third term. The article states that “the idea js as old as the Government itself, and has always been a subject of difference and dispusation. Washington was requested to run a third term, for reasons which are clearly set forth in the article printed this morning. Thomas Jefferson, the canonized Saint of the Democracy, was similarly honored.— So were Madison and Monroe; also, Adams is a strong authority on whatever side he is quoted, and we find him, toward the close of his life, giving his judgment against 'the reasons which inducded the earlier Presidents to decline to be candidates for a third term.,” The article concludes: If Gen. Grant desires the Presidency for athird term, he can have it, for the people have learned to trust the hand that has guided the ship of State safely through so many perils, and they will keep him at the helm as long as the exigencies of the State may need him. Hfiwfllingness toserve the country makes him available. Let Gen. Grant, then, be again puf*before the people for re-election. The people will confirm the choice of the nation’s counsellors. = °

- INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. ‘Marion county has 290 graded schools. 4 . ) The total number of notaries Public in the State foots up 2,798. Lk Th(;(.Exposition at Indianapolis, next month; promises to be a grand success. Greene county has organized an iron manufacturing company with a’ capital of $600,000. - A man named John Breach had a finger pulled out by the roots in jumping from a car at Terre Haute on Monday. ! v A man in Evansville had his child baptized with water from the river Jordan, which was expressed to him in‘a bottle, by a brother. - Logansport was 'visited by two dangerous fires on Monday last, supposed to be the work of incendiaries. I.oss between $6,000 and $ll,OOO. .

Max Newman, traveling agent of Hahn & Bals of Indianapolis is missing. He is supposed to have absconded with $lO,OOO belonging to the firm. At Terre Haute, on Monday, a boy named John Rienhart was instantly killed in a runaway being thrown from a wagonagainst a post. Another was badly injured. = : There are already near three hundréed granges of the Patrons of Husbandry in this State, although it has not been over six months since the first was organized. :

It is stated that A. T. Stewart, of New York, will erect a large business bloek in Indianapolis, in which he will establish a branch of his New York dry goods house. A Worthington. heg of the male persuasion has just got through raissing a fine litter of pigs. lis qualities as a. wet nurse are said to have proven entirely satisfactory. ‘ The sidewalk brigade of “Sullivan had its neérves shocked by notices signed “K. K. K.,” warning all loafers to go to work, and indulging in the direst threats against those whoare not industrious at least two days a week. : c ‘

. The City Counecil of Plymouth refused to allow the sum of five hundred dollars to the Democrat for publishing the new ordinances. The bill was put in at the rates of other legal advertising. Many such bills would soon “bust” asmall city. : -Temperance men are in trouble about the story of a man who was found lying dead-drunk in a sandpit near his dwelling with a large moccasin snake lying beside him. He had been bitten in three places by thereptile which died of the whisky that saved the man. ' e |

‘The grand jury of Vigo county has ‘ found a true bill of indictment against Thomas Dowling, Charles Butler and J. V. Mitchell, for maintaining a nui- J sance witliin the limits of the city of ‘ Terre Haute. This nuisance is the portion of the Wabash and Erie canal’ which traverses the city, from the‘ northwest to the southeast, a distance | of two and a half miles through the most thickly populated part of the city. ‘ - ' A communication to the Indianapolis. Journal from Arcadia, dated August 23d, says “a sad affair occurred last night about 9 o’clock at the house of James Jackson, sixX miles north-west of this place, resulting in the death of his wife by a pistol shot. It is not known whether she committed suicide or whether she Jwas, shot. by her husband. Further particulars will be given as soon .as possible. Mr. Jackson and his family are respectable people, but there has been some little family difticulty brewing for some time which is supposed to be the cause of her death.”

The Brigham Young Divorce Case—- - Dismissal of the Suit, the Court ! Having no Jurisdiction. : SALT 'LAKE CiTy, August 22.—1 n the suit of Ann Eliza Webb, seventeenth wife of Brigham Young, against her husband, the Court has decided that it has no - jurisdiction and that the case must be taken before the Probate Court. This is in direct opposition te the opinions of Judges McKean and Hawley, and virtually of the Supreme Court of the Territory., The matter came up for final hearing to-day in the United States District Court before Judge Emerson, It will be remembered that when the case came up for preliminary hearing on the 11th inst, the counsel of Mr. XYoung demurred to the jurisdiction .of. the court. The Judge refused to order the defendant to pay the plaintiff anything, and said the settlement of the matter would depend upon his decision as to the jurisdiction of the .Court. Three -causes of divorce were alleged by the counsel of Mrs. Young—first, desertion ; second, inability of the parties to live together in peace; ‘third, the failure of the defendant to properly provide for her adequate support.— The plaintiff asked $l,OOO a month pendente life, $20,000 attorney’s fees, and $200,000 as her portion. : On the calling of the case, the courtroom was crowded to suffocation, and excitement ran high. The very. pre'valent opinion that the whole affair is a plan concocted to blackmail Brigham led many to hope the judge would dismiss the suit on those grounds. One of the great difficulties of the case has been that when similar suits have been instti‘;tuted previous to this the decisions have varied so that no precedent could be taken as a guide. i ! Amidst the most perfect silence Judge Emerson announced’his decision. The case will come up again before Judge McKean at the October term of the District Court. e

‘A Steamer Blown Up—Another Fright- - ful Disaster on the Mississippi. HELENA, Ark., August 23.—The steamer George E. Wolf blew up at St. Francis Island about two o’clock yesterday afternoon. Twelve . persons are known to be lost and fifteen are wounded. The officers of the boat are all saved except the second engineer, who was on watch -at the time of the explosion. He is missing. All the lady passengers are saved.— A deck passenger named. Dawson, with his wife and two children, bound for Tupelo, Miss,, were all killed.— The cabin of the boat was blown .to pieces. The spot where the steamer blew up is known to river men as the “graveyard,” being the same place where the Pennsylvania and the St. Nicholas blew up and the T.I. MecGill was burned. o

At noon on’ Monday last an engine on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad exploded near Atlantic, Towa, instantly killing J. Dyson, the head brakeman, and severely scalding the engineer, George Crane, and the fireman, Henry Morgan. The engine, tender, and two cars were ditched.—-—( Some pieces of the boiler were thrown a fourth of a mile. Dyson was killed by the shock, and was found lying un-' der a car some distance from the engine. el S

About fifty persons, mostly women and children, were bruised and cut by the accident on the South Side Railroad; near New York City on Long Island on last Monday morning, though no one was seriously .}njured.

- NEWS SPLINTERS, = Rockford, Illinois, has-a mysterious poisoning case. R Indians made two unsuccessful attacks on the Yellow-stone Expedition.The deaths from the Lemont railroad collision, now number twentyfour. } L ' 7 - A defalcation of $40,000 has been discovered in the National Exchange Bank, of Albany N. Y. e The stage between Ellsworth and. Cherryfield, Maine, is stopped by highwaymen nearly every trip. - L * Mrs. Senator Schurz has Inherited a. fortune of $170,000 from an -unele in Hamburg, recently deceased. - In New York City last week there were 4,777 arrests made; loss from 15 fires $1,955; in’s’-urance,;s,¢39,s(}o‘.,' ‘A fire in Belfast, Me.. Sunday, destroyed all the prominent buildings en the wharves, causing a loss of $500,000. Pt R AR

. A fire in Eaton,- 0., on last Sunday, destroyed the chief corner of the town and several other buildings. I.oss $60,~ aog, AN Valentine Hoechst, a saloon-keeper near Port Jervis, N. Y., shot and instantly killed an Irishman named€orrigan on Monday: & . o e Three persons were fatally andsome fifteen or twenty very seriously injured Sunday lagt by the wreck of atrain onthe Bo&O. foad:: 7 v - The story of an.attempt to throw an express train from the Missouri’ Pacific Railroad, a few days.ago, for the purpose of robbery, proves to-be a hoax. : o T A store in Grafton, Mass:, sixty-nine years old, Ips not had'its roof repaired since it "was huilt, whieh is mentioned as a shingler fact by thelocal papers. L e l’ Judge Colvin, of: St. Louis, lias ren= dered his decision in the caserinvolving the constitutionality of the soeial evil law. He holds the law to be un-. constitutional. . CinEe R - A colt twenty hands: high is growing on Mr. Barnum’s place at Bridgeport and in the newspapers, some of which have already magnified the hands into feet. . .. Lnoaioa - The American exhibitors-at Vienna received 400 of the 30,000 meédals that were awarded. It is-¢harged that in many cases the juries were corruptly: influenced to their decisions. - = .=~ It is suggested that the District of Columbia be governed by a commission appointed by the ' President; which would be another opportunity for the President to get his commission.. - @ Loy a e . ! £ et 9 Yarmouth, Mass,, 'pays 5 cents a hogshead for drinking water; which increases the use of other beverages and produces more -“bloaters” than Yarmouth has ever known before. Th&subsidized iron interest in America employs altogether “only 135,545 .persons, each of whom is “protected™” at the expense of more than 300 of his’ fellow-citizens. % RS S T

The German beer-seHers of Worcester, who have been on trial-forviolat-ing ‘the . Massachusetts Tiiquor law, have escaped by the disagreement of the jury. Six stood for conviction and six for ‘acquittal... - = i ioitisras e - Massachusetts brewers and distillers are taking measures to recover from the United States Revenue Department the amount of Federal tax: paid by them on liquors seized by the State constabulary, . ..- 7 72Tk o ok A large fire broke out about 1 o’clock Saturday afternoon.in the central part of Mifflin, Pa., apd" spread rapidly, ‘consuming an _enéi"‘» block: and portion of another. %%oss‘estinia‘egl.éit-' $lOO,OOO ; insurance unknown,-*;‘;: cie The Chamber of Commerce and City Council of Atlanta, Ga., have adopted. resolutions indorsing the propogition' to establish a line of steamships between Liverpool and Savannah and pledging their support te-the enterprise.i- R e The ‘late storms have . done what human efforts could never do—they’ve. actually rendered a portion of New Jersey’s shore useful for some earthly putpose, by washing away 1,000,000 cubic yards lq_fjjt and making a-good bathing beach thereof.'n 7 e o

A call has been published for a State convention of Democrats, Liberal Republicans, anti-menopolists, and other political elements opposed to the Republican party, to be held at Cedar Rapids, Towa, “during the Stat(é‘iFailf week on the 9th of September.”, - To tease Brown, .of Cairo, & little, his wife borrowed a neighbor’s baby and put it on her' doorstep and then “discovered” it and went for Brown. He said: ‘Why I gave her $3OO and sent her to Chicago last week!” and the joking wife is after a divorce. ! . Mayor Medill of Chicago,-who has expressed himself so strongly against re-election, started for KEurope on August 27, accompanied’ by his wife and two daughters, leaving the government of Chieago for the remainder of his term in the hands of an Alderman. Tl e s

Details of scandalous transactions, committed by a reverend wolf in a Methodist Christian feld; have come to light in Hanover, 111.-The reverend criminal has fled to Missouri; acknowledges his guilt, and says he will remain on the stool of repentance until God forgiveshim, ¢ =« DA

Mary Ellen Burns, a colored woman, has commenced a civil suit in the Scott County Circuit/ Court, Kentucky, against Benjamin Osborne for killing’ her husband, laying her damages at $lO,OOO. Osborne, who is a whité man," is 'said to be very wealthy. He hasbeen fully) committed without bail to answer the charge of murder. - -~ - An attempt was made on Wednesday evening of last week to assassinate. General Joe- Shelby, a somewhat.cele-. brated Confederate general during the, war, and a cousin of General Frank P. Blair, . The General, with his two little boys, was driving out near St. Louis -‘when some unknown party fired in- | to the ecarriage from the- bushes, wounding him in the hip.. e

About half-past two o’clock, Friday afternoon, while court was in‘session in Gallatin, Mo., the prisonersin the jail broke out and made their escape, except - two. Among those whe got. away was one murderer.. Great excitement followed the discovery, and thé crowd rushed widely out of the' court-house, Judge Richardson leading, without having first formally adjourned court, Sl e

On Saturday morning, in Cleveland, a young man going to’ this work was attracted by the screams’ of a little baby not more than six months old, lying on a heap of corn-husk in some bushes near,the canal. - The husks and the child’s clothing were -scorched, showing tlliiat some one had tried to burn the infant. Its mother doubtless tried to. Kill it, for who- besides a mother would have thought to leaye the nursing bottle to keep the babe quiet until the smoke and heatshould stifle its wailing. But the husks failed to burn much, and the little victim of maternal idleness or poverty twag_gjav—»j ed. : R e

.. FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS. = - The Carlists are. destroying the records of civil marriage coming within theircontrel. = 015 T - Phere isno truth in the report in the Paris papers that Metz would be restored to France through the influ-ence-of Bussid. - 0 o 0 Lol -~ Beavers are said to be again appearing on some rivers in Canada, where they had been extinet for over half a tentury, but their skins are not so val- - nablé now as then. ey . “All the Russian troops engaged in Khiva are to be decorated. with “a silver medal.” ‘From which it would seem-either that the troops are very small or the medal very large. - Itis officially stated that the entire ‘Carlist forces in Spain do not exceed ° 260 infantry, 450 cavalry -and artillery. The insurgents of Cartagena have released and armed 1,800 convicts, - A plot has been discovered in London for the release of the Bank of “England forgers from the celebrated Newgate prison, involving the pay- - “ment of $5OO to each of the jailors. g\ Barcelona telegram of Aug. 15 says: The Carlists have begun their long-threatened attack on Berga. Six hours after their batteries opened fire the city was hurning in several places. - - Switzerland ‘showed itself to be a sensible little republic by not “making any bones” over the Shah. He came Land went, and not a Swiss stopped ! hoeing his potatoes or turned his head and the bejeweled blackamoor went by : 2 o - FPHE Germans are: evacuating - France, and as the last soldier disappears from a town, the tri-colored flags go out in endless numbers, mu--sie is-heard, the theaters are opened, frogs are fried and the Frenchman is himself again. : , o © In eonsequence of the appointment - of Dr. Eliz- Walker, a female M. D., Aas house surgeon in the Bristol (England) Hospital for Women and Children, all the visiting physicians and surgeons have manifested the noble mature of their sex by resigning in a body.: - - i - A-dispatch from London says: It is stated upon the highest authority that the Count de Chambord has an-: ‘nounced his resolution to-accept the Constitution, for France prepared by the members of the Right Assembly and himself, and will rule’both by the will of God and good will of the people. ‘Proclamation of monarchy will be made in about six weeks. | ,

- Important Insurance Decision. - A’recent decision by the Attorney (eneral, and moyre’ recently confirmed by adeecision of the United States Cir-. cuit Court; makes it all important to those_taking out Insurance policies, that the Agents. with whom they insure; have :comp&lie‘d with: the law in respect to-filing a certificyte of authority from the Auditor of\S with the Clerk of the Circuit Couridf the county where they proposgA4o do business.. ' “The plain requirement” says the Attorney General, “is that each agent shall file the original certificate in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county in which such agency is established.” ' A policy issued by any person ‘who has not thus comphted with the law, 7s void, and the person so issuing a . policy is subject to-eriminal prosecution. A note given for a premium agreed to be -paid for-a policy issued by an unauthorized agent is also void. Agents, -as-well as those insuring, had better. keep their eyes open in this matter.— Lagrange Standard. :

‘Activity of the Ohio Prohibitionists. - COLYMBUS, Aug. 21.—There are reaSons to believe that the Prohibition= ists im the State intend making a more thorough cgnvass for their ticket than that party has ever made hitherto. A secret meeting was recently held here and funds ‘were raised and delegates appointed, to organize clubs in each township “in Franklin County. As a part--of their plan a Prohibition pienic . was held to-day in this county, which was attended by fully 3,000 persons. - Mr: C. J. Stewart, their candidate for Governor, spoke for three hours to the multitude to the supreme gratification of his followers. He is announced to speak at Loondon to-mor-row and will .prosecute a vigorous canvass of the State until election dayie i ‘3. e v L ~ Fatal'Railroad Collision in Ohio. =~ . CINCINNATI, August 21.—About 4 o’clock this afternoon the Chillicothe accommodation train on the Marietta - and. Cincinnati Railroad gtruck a freight train east of Montgomery, totally -wrecking both locomotives and baggage cars. Three men employed: ‘on the train were killed, and three others badly scalded. The names of the victims are as follows: Killed—James Parwing, brakeman; Mr. Howard, baggage master; and Charles Kalther, fireman. Scalded—Edward Rother, Walter Rhodes, express messenger, and one of the engineers. - The passengers- all escaped unhurt with one -exception, a gentleman who was in a baggage car and/slightly injured. - Blanton Duncan, prince of Straight-out'-Democrats, has expressed his approval of the Democratic ticket and platform in Ohio. That is an ill omen for the party endorsed. By

A . BI\}R\EL‘I—IS = o In-Cromwell, a son to the wife of IsaAtAn durBELL; weight 10 pounds. vtk sl lEEEAL ' August 23d, 1878; in Ligonier, FINLEY CLAW= “SON, aged 5 years, 4 months and 16 days. ‘-August 24th, 1873, in Ligonier, of flux, BERTIE, son of G. W, and CAROLINE AGLER; aged 2 years, 4'months and 17 days, - Angust 23d, 773, in Sparta twp., REMUS TERRY; aged about 79 years.. ! . August 22d, 1873, in Ligonier, a daughter of JOSEPH HENDERSON; aged about 6 weeks. - 3 August 24th, 73, in Li{;onier, a daughter of Col. ZENT; about 6 weeks old. ey ] < Aufinst 26th; 1873, in Ligonier, & son of JACOB HIER; about 3 years old. : - August 25th, 1873, in Ligonier, of diptheria, a son of DANIEL KLINE; about 6 years old: : - Angust 28th, 1873, in Ligonier, a son of JACOB C. ZIMMERMAN ; about 8 weeks old. :

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