The National Banner, Volume 8, Number 20, Ligonier, Noble County, 11 September 1873 — Page 2

5 W s i The Platiomal Banwer LIGONIER, IND’A, SEPT. 11, 1873,

WHEN we see lads from 12 to 16 vears of age walking the streets '\fvi{:h a pipe or cigar in their mouths, we become so thoroughly disgusted that we feel strongly tempted to forever discard the use of the weed. »

WHiLE at Goshen a few days since swe heard a number of attorneys speak Jin very complimentary terms of Judge Osborn’s conduct on the bench. They pronounce his decisions well considered, impartial, ~and invariably _ well founded in law, P

I 1 appears that Judge Geo. A. Bus. kirk, whosome weeks since shot a sa-loon-keeper named Rose, at Bloomington, this State, was quietly placed in the inebriate reformatory at Cleveland. e was released about a week since and is now at home; '

WE are at a loss to understand how the Elkhart Observer expects to better the case of Lew Id(iings, in a political sense, by ringing in ex-auditor Fisher. All parties concerned in the matter are Republicans—a fact of which the Observer does not seem to be aware, and of which it ought to take timely notice. i L%

Tue. election in Indiana, October 14th, willlbe for county ' officers, Circuit Judges and Prosecuting Attorneys. The. canvass in ‘the State is growing lively.—Cincinnati Enquirer. There are no county officers to be elected this Fall, and no excitement is discernible anywhere." With these exceptions the above paragraph’is substantially cJorrect. ' : ! -

CHARLES ROBINSON, thé! first freestate Governor ef Kansas, has.abandoned the radical party. e publishes a speech fully approving of the farmers’ movement, and demanding in their behalf the most thorough and radical measures of reform. He has been out of polities for some years, living upon and cultivating a large farm near Lawrence. v

- SmouLp the Supreme Court decide the Baxter liquor law unconstitutional (and there are only tl)o many reasons to believe that sueh will be the case) the liquor traffic will be carried on withoutilet or hindrance, Saloons will spring up in every corner, and we will have no law to punishany one for the grossest offence against the peace and order of a community.

THE INDICATIONS are that the two ablest men of the United States Senate, MesSTs, Morton and Thurman, will engage in a ‘vigorous contest during the present campaign-in Ohio. Thurman recently. reviewed Morton’s conduct in the salary grab, to which the latter proposes to respond in a speech at Dayton to-night. Tt would be a rich treat to hear these intellectual giants in a joint discussion. -

VicToriA WoopnuLL lectured inm the city of Evansville one night last week to a large audience. Her. subject was the “scarecrow of social slavery” (meani?ig marriage). The Courier denounces the lecture as one of outrageous indecency, and intimates that . Victoria’s language might have sounded well. enough in a hawdy house hut was wholly unfit-to be yttered before a respectable audience. ]

~TuAT able, dignified and impartial journal, the New York 7ribuse, has pretty clearly established the fact that the Secretary of the Treasury has now, for more than two months, overstated the amount of coin in the Treasury by more than ten million dollars, and that, tog, for the purpose of assisting a gang of Wall-st. gold gamblers. What a burning shame that so great a government as ours. s}’:ﬁuld be used for such vile purposes.

ArTER demonstrating the utter unfitness (frqn a moral _standpoint) of Ben. Butler for the Massachusetts governorship, the’ Hon. Henry L. Dawes shamefully acknowledges that it Butler obtained the nomination at Worcester, the friends of Washburn would acquiesce and support it “for the sake of harmony and the interest of the party.” Little respect as we have for Butler,- we are free to maintain that he i§ fifty per cent. better than the humble party lickspittles of whom this man Dawes seems to be the leader. - ' )

I't 18 SATD. that a short time since Senator Cameron (republican salary grabber) and_Congressman Samuel J. Randall '(deﬂocratic‘ salary: grabber) held a conference at Bedford Springs to enter into an arrangement by which hoth parties of the Keystone State were to ignore the salary grab, Simon usually manipulates his party to suit himself, but we are happy to say that the Democracy, at their Wilkesbarre convention, rebuked Randall & Co. Inost handsomely. That action makes us feel proud of Democracy. -

© TuE PLATFORM ‘of the People’s or anti-monopoly party of Minnesota is quite long and diffusive. It denounces the existing political parties as corrupt and-subseryient to individual interests; refuses to support any person for office v:[ho will deny or object to the exercise by the Legislature of the power to reverse and annul at any time any chartered privilege or so-call-ed vested right, or any privilege claimed.to be involved in any charter to any corporation or railroad, which experience has shown may be exercised by such corporation {6 the detriment of the public welfare; favors tariff for revenue only; favors governmental img)rovement of the Mississippi and other rivers; opposes large salaries for publié officers as likely to make office-holding attractive to human cupidity, and denounces tlge Credit Mobilier and 6 management of the State Tressmry. @ .

AT A Non- Polttioal FHeetry. «e It is and always will be the earnest wish of fair-minded men to select judicial officers without referenee to thes schemes and plots of political rings-—+ If we are correctly informed, this ‘wise rule will be observed in this (the 35th) Circuit, in the election of a Prosecutor, but we are sorry to notice that in an adjoining Circuit (Elkhart and Lagrange) the ambitious and scheming politicians of the republican party could not so far suppress their partisan feelings as to invite the whole people to join in the li_ominag%and election of non-partisan candidates for Judge. and Prosecutor. The&mall politicians, ‘the crafty wire-workers, had to ‘have their convention and attach the old party label upon the gentlemen whose duty it will be, in the event of their ‘election, not to/determine questions of public policy; but to exeeute the law impartially and without prejudice;

The foolishness—aye, the utter impropriety—of mixing politics into purely judicial matters, is aptly set forth- in an article which appeared in last weeks Plymouth Democrat,and which is so applicable to the course of the Lagrange and Elkhart politicians that we feel impelled to givethe same a place in our columns: :

| A call has been issued in Fulton county to select delegates to a judicial | convention for the nomination of can- ‘ didates for cireuit judge and prosecutor. This is all well enough if the people think so; but if we judge the sentiment of the people correctly, it is averse to engaging in a political squabble for an office which should at ‘all times be filled without reference to political considerations. There is no | political excitement among the people now, and it is nothing short of folly ‘to attempt to create any for the mere purpose of hoisting some aspiring individual into an office that he could not get by appearing before the people on his merits. The office of circuit judge is one of great importance tothe people when viewed in the light of integrity and ability on the part of those who fill it; but politically .it is nothing and never will be, if tlie people keep their senses.—' Entertaining this view, we.see no ne-; nessity for holding a political convention at this time, for the purpose named; and if there'are any who want to be judge or prosecutor, which we incline to think is the mainspring of the action in Fulton county, they can announce themselves- as candidates, and they will probably receive as many votes as they are entitled to. “We think the friends of a non-par-tisan judiciary in Elkhart and Lagrange counties acted wisely in declining to imitate the bad example of their opponents. The acceptance on part of Judge Osborn of an invitation by members of the Bar to become an independent ‘candidate enables thepeople of Elkhart and Lagrange counties to rebuke narrow-minded partis- ‘ anship by the re-election of the pres- | ent able and efficient incumbent of that . position. ‘ - - ‘

Tne AWARDS at the Vienna World’s . Fair, or Exposition, were giraded as follows: Diploma of Honer, Medal of Progress, Medal of Merit, Medal of Good Taste, Medal for Co-operators, and Medal of Recognition.. The .correspondent of the New York 7ribune at Vienna says: The only prize which confers a really valuable: distinction is the Diploma of lonor. Of these there are 412 and America receives only eight. Four of the eight go to the group of education. The remaining four are given to. individuals— Samuel S. White, of Phﬁz;?elphia, P 3., Dental Instruments and Teeth; Walter A. Wood, of Hoosac Ealls, N. Y., Mowing and Reaping Machines; Wm. Sellers & Co., of Philadelphia, Puddling Furnace and Tools, and — Corliss, of New York, for perfection of Steam Engines. Mr. D. H. Reynolds, who has been agent for.the Walter A. Wood reapers and mowers, though not successful in their sale here, thinks they deserve the award, and that a trial of them will satisfy better than looking at them or any amount of talking for or against.

IN [their recent State convention the lowa Republicans pledged their party to demand an immediate and unconditional repeal of the salary bill, and declared “that the act of the majority “of the members of the last Congress “in voting what is known asthe Back “Pay Steal, by which they voted into “their pockets thousands of dollars “which did not belong to them, was “most flagrantly improper and infa“mous, and should secure the political “condemnation of all who were par“ties to it.” - In the face of this eloquent avowal, it seewned rather peculiar to announce such salary grabbers as John A. Logan, Jack Orr, Frank Palmer, and others of that stripe as orators for the campaign. We do not wonder, therefore, that the appointments of Logan, Orr & Co. were quietly withdrawn. Tt was too risky even in lowa. : ‘

MARNY of our exchanges contain an advertisement of Morgan’s “Sapolio,” sent out by a New York advertising dgent named A, Menet. This fellow is a regular “dead beat,” and we doubt ‘very much if a single publisher will get his pay. We have no desire to meddle in other publishers’ businéss, but it strikes us that if gratuitous adwvertising must be persisted in, the favor should in all fairness be bestowed upon worthy dealers at home, inpreference to medicine venders abroad. - ; ;

- DR. E. D, GAzzAM, formerly a senator from Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, delivered a lecture in New York, recently, on “Railroad Govern“ment, the Precursor and Cause of Cge“sarism.” One of his assertions was that while Americans have the best forms of government, they -are the worst governed people in the world because they are controlled by the surplus capital of America and England inyested in corporations, = = -

Wz are in receipt of the first number of a new republican weekly bearing the title: Indiandapolis Sun, published by Hon. John O. Hardesty. I is a lively paper and is likely to attract considerable attention in political circles. e RO i

Considerable interest seems to have been awakened in this part of the State with, gegard, to stext-books: for Gdr public schobls. iAt the recent meetifigs of the Boards of Education Jnore or less digpﬁSsiQﬁﬂwgs had rela‘tive to the merits of the school literature with which the market isso abun~dantly supplied and which rival agents in’ turn commend and: belittle. To give our readers something of an idea 'of the diversity of opinion on this im‘portant point, we herewith ‘append a statement .of. the selections made by the Boards of adjoining -counties: DEKALB—MeGufféy’s new series of Readers, McNalley’s Geography, Harvey’s Grammar, Wright’s Orthography. .. LAGRANGE—SpeIIers, Swinton’s Wordßook ; Readers,Union (Sander’s), 4 books; Writing, The Spencerian System ; Mitchell’s Geography ; Swinton’s Grammiar; Arithmetie, Stoddard’s Mental, and Ray’s Ist, 2d and 8d parts; Scott’s School History ; Dalton’s Physiology. L

Kosciusko—MecGuffey’s New Eclectic Series of Readers, Harvey’s Grammar, Ray’s ‘Arithmetic, Meonteith’s Comprehensive Geography, Swinton’s U. S. History, Payson Button & Scrib‘ner’s Penmanship. A ELKHART—McGuffey’s readers and spellers, Ray’s Ari\thmetic’s, Harvey’s Grammars, the Eclectic series of Geographies, Brown’s Physiology, Goodrieh’s histories, and the Eclectic series of Penmanship. e b HuNTINGTON—OIrdered, that the McGuffey series of school books and Ray’s Arithmatic be discarded, and that from and after September Ist, 1874, the following named text-books be adopted: Independent Child’s Speller, Swinton’s. Word Book, Independent Readers, (4 books), White’s Arithmetics. Guyot’s Geographies, Holbrook’s Training Lessons in Grammar, Brown’s Physiology, Barnes’ Brief History of the United States.

In referring to the selection of text books, the Waterloo Press corrects a generally prevailing opinion that all scholars will be forced to at onceprovide themselves with the books recommended by the Board. This, the Press says, is a misapprehension. ‘The State Superintendent expressly says that immediate changes shall not be insisted upon ; but that the books in use shall be "continued, until such time as chgnges are made,” when, so far as practicable, schools will eomply with the recommendations of the County Board. No irhmeuziate change can be compelled, no matter what interested book agents may say to the contrary.

/ Some excellent remarks on the frequent changes of text books are made by our contemporary of the Hunting- | ton Democrat, who addresses himself thus to the scliool authorities: ; “The Board should have fixed the length of time'(say ten years) for which these books shall be used, so that the poor man with a house full of children and 76 means to supply them with books, could have guarded against a sudden change immediately after he had furnished them all around with the different books reguired. Every | year or two a new series of text books are sought to be introduced, for which superiority is claimed, and perhaps justly ; but unfortunately for the poor man, with the proverbial luck of having a house-ful of children to feed, clothe and warm, and very little employment during a portion of the year;, he is not able to furnish his children with the new selections. However, the- Board of Education have in a measure provided against a sudden change Dby dating the introduction of 'the new books a year hence. We agree 'with the Board ‘that the efficiency of our schools is greatly hindered by the diversity of text books,” but while this fact is recognized, that of imposing hardships upon the poor people should not be overlooked.” e

. GosPORT TRIBUNE is the- title of a new six-column weekly publisheg by J. F. Harner & Co. Itisavery neatly gotten up sheet, and its contents indicate that the editors understand the art of making the new applicant for public favor a welcome guest among the good people of Owen county. Bro. Harner is an experienced newspaper man, and being an honorable, upright, and industrious gentleman, we extend a hearty wish for the success/of his new enterprise. ,

THE constitutionality of the Baxter liquor law will probably be determined by the Supreme Court of Indiana this week. The case was called up last Tuesday. If the Sentimel is correctly informed, Messrs. Hendricks & Hord and Butler & MceDonald will receive six thousand dollars, to be divided between them, for their services in this case. =~ Their zeal is further inspired by a contingent fee of four thousand dollars additional in case they win ther cause. r

Poor BEN BuTLER! He made a gallant, a desperate fight: but the staid old Massachusetts gentlemen were too much for him.- e is now a dead cock in the pit. Buffoonery has met with a merited rebuke, For the sake of political morality let us all be thankful that this political desperado has been laid on the shelf.

A New York dispatch, dated Sept. 9, says: “The Graphic balloon will not leave from Brooklyn to-morrow, as announced, it being impossible to inflate it intime for departure at the hour announced. B A

Tae Massachusetts Republican State Convention was held yesterday, but at the time of going to press no report could be obtained, Butler is 122 votes behind, but still shows a bold front, L o

Svcn is the alarm of the Prussian Government coneerning the rapidly increasing emigration to this country that it has ordered the expulsion of all emigration agents who fail to prove that they are German subjects.

.—Building and Loan .Association No. 2, has been orgtanizedin Kentland, with $lOO,OOO capital, all subscribed. Think of this, fellow citizens. :

—Rape, seduction; and crimes of kindred charaeter form the. pz:i;;ciﬁ?], topics in %g,locjal’ department of the Fort Wayne papers. =~ "

‘Bpecial Fremiums at Our County Fair @Wtion to the large number of liberal premiums offered by the Noble County Agricultural Society at the fortheoming Fair, the ,fo]lovﬁ'ﬁ@’é}écial premiums are offered by business men of Ligonier: . . 4 " W. A. Jackson, dealer in hats, caps, trunks, &c., offers a good three dollar “hat to the.oldest man attending the Fpir. - - ¢ ‘. B e .. J: B. Stoll, editor of the BANNER, offers two dollars' cash for the nicest “done np” shirt, the washing and ironing to have been dome by a young lady under 16 years of age. Also, a copy of the BANNER for one year to the head of family having no less than seven daughters. : 0 ' J.M. Chapman & Co. offer $l.OO in gold for-the best loaf of bread made by a young lady under 16 years of age. J. Decker, dealer 'in groceries, queensware, &c., offers a half-gallon glass pitcher, worth $l.OO, for the best five pounds of butter made by a far- - mer’s daughter under 18 years old. - E. Beazel, dealer in harness, saddles, trunks, &c., offers a two-dollar halter. to the best mounted farmer boy (nicest saddle; bridle and horse) under 18 years of age. -

E. B. Gerber, hardware dealer, offers a silver steeled ax worth $2.50 for the fattest and best matched team of horses. | o i - Fisher Bros., dealers in drugs, groceries, &c., offer $l.OO cash for the best one-pound home-distilled peppermint oil. ; T A. S. Fisher, dealer in lime, plaster, agricultural implements, &c., offers 2.00 cash for a square yard of best plastering.. - . A. T. Kern, dealer in dry goods, notions, &ec., offers twenty yards of calico to the family of a laborer having the largest number of children. F. W. Shinke & Bro., dealers in boots and shoes, offer a pair of boy's boots to a family haying 7 or more boys and no girls. » ' : John Weir, dealer in hardware, offers a set of plated forks to the mother of the lél'fgest number of children. - ~ E: D. Meagher, dealer in dry goods, offers to a young lady under 20 years of age an Ottoman shawl scarf for the best made shirt: o |

P. Sisterhen, dealer in boots and shoes, offers a pair of shoes to the fattest mother of the fattest baby under one year of age, and will “throw in” a nice pair of slippers for the baby. ' Mrs. Radabaugh, milliner, will give a premium of a velvet hat” made by herself, worth $3,00, for: the best tatting collar made by a girl in the county udder 15 years of age. ; — e —— L. Ligonier Normal School. :

~ EpiTor BANNER :—Our school opened on the morning of Sept. Ist with an enrollment of about thirty students, mostly teachers or those who are pre--paring for the work; and increased till now to 42. |lt is safe to say that under the supetvision of Prof. Harris the school is an assured success. So far as capability or qualification is concerned, we need not doubt that if each student does his , duty, we shall be blessed with plenty of good -drill, and our minds well fed with mental food which, once gathered, shall never be taken from us., We further trust that its influence xwill be’ felt in our Public Schools ‘in the country where teachers from this place will be instrusted with the instruction of children, and are confident too that from the care and drill exercised by so experienced a teacher as Mr. Harris much can be-learned in the way of government which greatly affects the success ofour schools. And taking as a whole, we give the undertaken of Prof. Harris our hearty endorsement as something’ that is much néeded among teachers everywhere. - Those who are instructors or expect to teach should not fail to take advantage of such a school. “We are never too old to learn,” should be our maxim.

Another thing: = Our country schools have made slow progress quring the past few years.. The cause is obviously attributable too ‘want of competent and experienced ‘teachers; and these cannot live under present salaries.— When one countd time, expense, and much hard study, an ample reward should not be withheld. , Think of this and give it a consideration, ye members of “School Boards” and see if this isreasonable or not. If if is not, we simply err in opinion. © . COSMOPOLITE. Ligonier, Ind., Sept. 9, 1873. — ] B—— Professed Friends. ' True words are those from the pen of Dr. Baker, once editorially connected with this' paper. He writes:— “Whose heart has not been made to ache, and whose cheeks have not been made warm with scalding tears, caused by the unfaithfulness of those they thought , their friends? The kind words of a genuine friend are to one as refreshing as the morning dew is to the tender flower, but the treachery of a professed friend is as blighting as the mephitic vapor of the deadly Upas. Who is there that does not wish there was more frankness amiong the people ? This source of unhappiness seems to prevail everywhere, and our complaining friend must expect to bear: his share with the rest. You might as well say “Peace, be still,” to the hurricane, and expect it to ‘obey, as to expect, to stay this tide of hypocrisy.”

Nosopy expected much enthusiasm at the Maine election, yesterday. Nobody will be disappointed, unless it may be that some of the over-sure Republicans who were unexpectedly defeated may murmur at their fate. Last year Purham had a majority of 17,216 in a total vote of 126,618, This year Dingley, the republican’ candidate, has a probable majority of 11,000 in a total vote of 80,000. - General ‘Apathy led at the polls; but the easygoing Republicans suffered the oi)position to score decided gains in various localitics.~N. Y. Tribune, Sept. 8. . " 4 - -‘- ” ¥ ¥

It is announced by the lowa Republican Committee that ‘Senator Togan of Illinois will not make any speechs in that State, and that his %})pointf ments have been canceled.’ Perhaps the protests of some of the lowa Republican’ papers against his appearance with his back pay in "his poeket has indueed him to remain at home. Or ii:i may li)et(;xla;‘t Sﬁﬂat%r Morton's experience in Ohio has discouraged ‘him—N. Y. Tribune. v

Michael Welser was killed at Wabash, on Thursday, by the falling of a ¢ More fine residences are being erect~ ed in Logansport than during any preA few nights ago a negro, who had just. settled in Adams county, was driven from home and his house burned. . . Fanny Frey, an orphan girl residing in-Harrison county, bécame insane a few days ago from exclusive novel reading. .. . s

A “young lady” of Benton county is reported a 8 the mother of four clildren at onebirth,three of them fat and hearty, but the fourth “runty.” o The indications are thata very large breadth of land will besown to wheat this fall. The farmers are progressing favorably with their work. South Bend has a citizen who thrashes his seven-year-old boy witha tug-strap so' hard that the blows can be heard a quarter of a mile.

Last, Tuesday a little daughter of Benjamin Runkle, of Allen township, Miami county, was fatally scalded by upsetting a tub full of hot water. The Commissioners of Jefferson county have passed an order allowing the Sheriff to offer, at any time, a reward of ‘ssoo for the arrest of a murderer, $250 for an incendiary, and $lOO for a horse thief. . A Richmond girl, Miss Mary Landes, has an unfinished quilt that contains 14,500 pieces. She has been working on it for the last five years. There is some excuse for this waste of time, however, in the fact that she is an invalid. . ' P The Rochester Sentinel tells of a terrible accident in Liberty township. A Mrs. Margaret Waltz, in the absente of her family, caught fire in her clothing and jumped into the well where her husband found her dead on his return. She was terribly burned. A number of Lafayette gentlemen have made up a purse of $lOO to be paid in premiums for the handsomest and best proportioned babies between the ages of one and three years, exhibited at the county fair. The committee is to consist of three ladies, each the mother of ten children, and two bachelors. = ~

The Fort Wayne artesian well has reached a depth of 500 feet. . Three veins of good water have been struck—the first near the surface, the second at a depth of over 100 feet,and the third at a depth of 300 feet.. They are about to test the strength of the second vein. If found insufficient the third will be tried. If that is not strong enough, boring will be resumed.

The barn of Nicholas Burger, in ‘Adams county, was burned last Thursday, together with the contents, consisting of a large quantity of grain, hay, and agricultural implements. The fire was the work of an incendiary. An attempt was also made to fire his residence, which was only partly successful. The total loss is estimated at $6,000, without insurance.-

Things are badly mixed at Covington, Fountain county. The Auditor has let a contract for a new jail.. A good deal of work has been done and paid for, too. Now an injunction suit is brought to stop the building and the work is stopped. The Auditor is said to have failed in complying with the requirements in letting the contract, and further it is hinted that he is in the ring for a big job. .

" An effort is being made by interested parties at Indianapolis, to have Hanover College, which is now located near Madison, removed to that place. Madison people are very much exercised over the. matter, and are making an effort toraise an additionalendowment of $200,000, provided it is not removed. The Indianapolis folks offer very liberal inducements to have the College located at that place. The College is a Presbyterian institution. Last Wednesday a.gentleman passing along one of the streets of Fort Wayne, observed a stranger supporting himself against a post, bleeding copiously from the lungs. He assisted him to a boarding house near by, but the kind hearted proprietor positively refused to admit him, notwithstanding assurances that he would be repaid for all trouble and expense. A hackman was then called, but only yielded to force in conveying the sick man to the hospital. Fort Wayne must be a véry nice place to be taken sick in, if this is a specimen of the treatmeng accorded to strangers.

KEEP 1T UP.—The dead-head system is gradually recéiving its death blows. Keep it always in mind that the people must pay because editors must pay—for everything—and the newspaper will find their accounts in it The Memphis Appeal thus clearly states it: - ’ :

_Whenever a gentleman wants anything published, whether it interests the public or only an individual, he is willing and will propose to pay.— Somebody must pay for it, and hereafter it will not be the printer. The fact that the proposed publication would interest the public has mf‘qhing to do with the matter in issue. News-. papers are private, not public property. They are published to make money for their owners, and if anybody would use them they must pay the cost. Never did we go to a merchant and use his goods for any public purpose without paying, and if 'we and hundreds of others—the{public—employ a lawyer about a street or other highway we pay the lawyer. . The dodge is very tiresome, it is very old, and we hope to hear of it no more forever. If you want some scheme ventilated, whether- it interests yourself alone or thousands, you and your thousands must not expeét us to pay the cost.

- +SAvs the Chicago 7'ribune: There were forty-five counties (out of 102) in Illinois giving Democratic. majorities last year. A careful record shows that in just twelve of these counties the Democrats have nominated ; in sixteen they have, with due formality, disbanded their organiza+ tion; in eight counties, ‘conventions have been called, the result of which is expected to be, in most cases, to disband; and, in the remaining nine counties, the situation may be deseribed as one of “sublime unfixedness.” There is also one Democratic ticket in a Republican county. It! should ﬁxe remarked that not a few of these thirteen Democratic county tickets - were nominated months ago, and all are more likely - to be abandoned, even now, than any one of them is to be elected. il

A younglady aged seventeen, named Emma Myers, living with her fa‘ther in Perry Township, near Dayton, Ohio, was outraged on last Saturday ‘night but.a few rods from her father’s house by a young. colored man, an emloye of hg,,.fa,ther's named Thomas: &orris.e; ¢ was arrested Sunday morning and brought to the County ‘Jail next . xl_i&ht.~ .He acknowledges the crime, with the exception that he asserts he did not use force, The LoEDE Fredmains I6h woltedo - tion, Her lather is a well-to-do farmerof Perry Township, ™ '

j : NEWS SPLINTERS. Ll “%Phe Pope istagain indisposed. - Mr. Pan Rice is said to be an_aspirant -te -the gubernatorial. chair .of Penn%ﬁyania; : M There were three deaths by cholera in Wheeling, Va., on Thursday. Two cases were reported on Friday. . ~ On the last day of the Vienna Exposition, the Fair was thrown open to the publie, and was visited by 106,000 people. - s | A tornado :swept over Granby, Mass., last Friday, demolished one house, unroofed others, and destroyed the crops. . | o Parties from Shreveport, Ark., report that there are a large number of cases of yellow fever at that place, and the people are leaving it. : The grain news from the far West grows more cheering every day. Nebraska says [she' has four times as much grain ‘as she can find cars to ship. * | o A conference of .the Anti-Polyga-mous Mormons is’ now meeting at Council: Bluffs, Towa. The: conference is presided over by Joseph Smith, son of the first Mormon, and is attended by a large number of his sect.

The cholera epidemic in Millersburg, Ky., is abating. Only two deaths occurred on Thursday. Provisions having given out, the citizens of Paris are sending them cooked food, and the City Council made an appropriation for their benefit. = e

For the first time in several years, a Septeniber frost is reported through the prairie country. But as yet the crops are mnot injured. Considering the late. planting and slow growth of the late spring, the corn is not ready to welcome a frost bite just yet: A severe nip would do great damage. The Grand_ Jury of the Chicago Criminal Court have found bills of indictment for manslaughter against Puffenberger and Beane, the engineer and conductor, respectively, of the freight train which caused the collision at Lemont, -on the Cliicago and Alton Railroad. Both are now out on bail. e v

A report comes !from = Shanghai that the Chinese are planning a massacre of all the Europeans in the interior of the Empire. The provocation which has inflamed them to this bloody design is the refusal of the French Minister to some changes which the Chinese Government wishes made int a treaty. . :

A very meagre account is given by telegraph of what must ‘have been a terrible scene in Havana on Saturday, when the entire .block of the Plaza Vaper, in the heart of the city, was s*vept away by fire. Twenty lives are feared to have been lost, and the destruction of property does not fall short of $8,000,000. |

~ Collector Harper’s defalcations are shown, by the investigation which has just clpsed, to extend certainly as far back as 1870, and perhaps farther.— His chief' clerk, Smith, is found to have made false entries in the accounts to shield hjs snperior, and has been arrested as an accessory.— The amount of the embezzlement is $llO,OOO, as first stated. | ,

Eight persons were killed in New York on Aug. 22 by the falling of a house wall, and it is ascertained that these lives could have been saved by the expenditure of $5. The Coroner’s jury have found the contractors, who were putting the building up, guilty of criminal negligence. They have been bound over for trial, two of them being held in $5,000 bail and one in $2,000. .

Ten of the counterfeit $5OO notes have been received by the New York Sub-Treasury, and one has been heard of in Des Moines. The probabilities are that it will be necessary to call in the whole genuine issue. The publication of the difference between the true and the false notes is very timely for the counterfeiters, who thereby get the very information they need to make their notes still ‘more perfect imitations.

The President’s delay in making the appointment of the Chief-Justice-ship is explained by some upon the theory, generally eredited by members of the bar, that Roscoe Conkling has the offer of the appointment, but will not, decide. whether to accept it or not until after the November election of a new Legislature in New York, when he will accept if the Republicans shall carry it, and thus be able to choose his successor in the Senate.

- It is two hundred years since Marquette, accompanied by five of his fel-low-countrymen and two Indian guides, came inta, Illinois by an Indian trail from the banks of the Mississippi. It is proposed tocelebrate this arrival of the first white man in: that State by a public meeting on the 16th inst, at Starves Point, near Utica, An address will be delivered by Chief-Justice Breese, who has made a special study of the early history.of lllinois, . Col. John T. Harper, Collector of Intérnal Revenue for the Bth District of Illinois, has resigned his position, leaving the accounts- of his office at Springfield about $lOO,OOO short. No more precise information can be gained at present, as the Deputy Collector has carried all the papers and accounts of the office to Washington, and the unfortunate ex-Collector keeps himself out of sight. The Government isnot likely to lose anything by the defalcation, as Col. Harper’s bondsmen are good. | ;

Postmaster Filley, of St. Louis, has carried the business of assessing the salaries of government employes to a point that could hardly have been expected in a reformed civil service.— Desiring, like one, at least, of his superiors, to make a good thing out of his situation, he assessed all thé employes of the St. Louis Postoffice 5 per cent on their salaries, dating the assessment back five months, even against those who had been but just appointed, and put the proceeds info his individual bankrupt treasury. Last Friday France paid Germany the last franc of the indemnity. Some popular celebration of this release would be natural enough to so demonstrative a %)eople as France, but the Government has sternly prohibited any such outbreak. Thursday was the anniversary of the establishment of the Republic, but its celebration was forbidden in France. The citizens of Louisville, Ky. honored the event by adopting resolutions commendatory of President Thiers’ administration, which will be forwarded to him,. . .

A dispatch from Okawville, 11, 29 miles from St. Louis, says that cholera of the true Asiatic type is raging there fearfully. Twenty-three persons died in 12 hours, among them the principal bridge-builder of the South-Eastern Railroad, and three of his ehildren. Five died in one family ‘in three hours. ' The patients die within 156 minutes after the attack, and turn black immediately. The citizens are rapidly leaving the place. Those remaining are using disinfectants freely ‘and burning tar in the ‘streets. It is'Baid that no loeal cause exists for the disease, = S

_ Hard Water and Cholera. . The theory that limestone water breeds cholera, is constantly gaining new advocates'among the press and additional information is being introduced on the subjeet. ~ A.correspond--ent of the Louisville Courier-Jowrnal collates some facts which appear tosupport the theory strongly. He finds| that in 1862 cholera made -its appearance at Lexington, Ky. and swept through the city like a whirl-wind.— But two families escaped the disease, and they were the olily families-in the city that used cistern water. ~ Again there has never been epidemic cholera on asingle plantation upon the “Mississippi river, from Cairo to its.mouth, where cistern water was exclusively used, and there: is scarcely a plamtation on that river, where cistern water was not used, that the disease has not existed as an epidemic.. Every case of cholera which has occurred in Natchez, prior to, andsinee 1855, could be traced directly to the use of swater obtained from springs at the base of ‘the bluff. e In 1855 the cisterns became exhaust~ed by the drought, the. citizens were forced to use river or spring water, -and cholera broke out again in a’'most malignant form.« . oo noeos ~ The Evansville Courier learns that in Mt. Vernon wells predominate, and as a_consequence limestone water is freely used. This may account for the escape of Evansville so easily. In that city but little well water is used —the mass of the citizens using cistern water. If it is thoroughly demon.started that the ravages of cholera depend on the ality .of the water, a great point - t(;%}a’;td- subduing -the epidemic in future will be gained. =+

More Wealthy Emigrarts,

While the prospective immigration of 30,000 Mennonjtes .to ‘this county (says-the Woxid) is attracting general attention, it is interesting to note that 500 (rerman Russians have arrived -in Yankton, Dak:, in the viéinity- of which they purpose to select elaims and build houses. 'These people have been induced to settle néar Yankton from 'the fact that there are already some 700 of their people living inthat neighborhood. Denied certain privileges in Russia whieh then covered, and which the Czar’s Government had formerly granted them, but which have lately been itaken from them—among them the privilege of immunity from the military service - and that of speaking their own danguage —they have determined’to. seek our soil, where they can enjoy their. customs and traditions in peace. -The wealth of the 500 who have arrived in Yankton is said to aggregate $2;000,000. Many of them are worth from $5OO to $lO,OOO, while some of them would be esteemed rich men anywhere. There are five heads of families of the party who are “worth” respectively $lOO,OOO, $60,000, $30,000; $15,000, and $20,000. -. Four” ‘of -the number possess money to the amount. ‘of $30,000 and two to the amount: of $20.000. . rem R e

No use of any longertaking thelarge repulsive, griping; griping, drastie, and nauseous pills, composed of erude and bulky ingredients, and put'im® cheap wood or paste-board boxes, when we can, by areareful application of chiemical science, extract all the.cathartic and other medicinal properties from theé most valuableroots and heibs;and concentrate them into a mintite Granule, scarcely. larger than a mustard seed, that can be readily swallowed by those of the most sensiti'\je’gstol_nﬁchs and fastidious tastes. Tach'of Doctor Pierce’s - Pleasant . Purgative Pellets represents in a most concentrated form as much cathartic power asis embodied in any of the large pills found for sale in any of the large drng shops.— From their wonderful cathartic power, in proportion to their size, people who have not tried thein are apt to suppose that they are harsh or drasticjin effect, but such is not at all the case, the different active medicinal principles of which they are composed being sa harmonized and modified, oné by tlie. others, as to produce a most searching and thorough, yet gently and kijndii operating cathartic. Twenty-five ¢ents a vial, by Druggists.. 0 2 (mf/

. The Hon. John P. Hale, whose: life was almost despaired of a few weeks ago, is improving daily, and his pér‘manent recovery is expected. ..~ ' Tsaac Studer, aged 110 years cand 1 month, died in Evansville at 2 o'cloek last Tuesday afternoon. .- v -

THE MARIBIES . - TIGONIER. - o Wheat—white.....Bl4s Hogs—live.... /i 1 §4OO Amber—red ...... 136! Hogs—dressed-1.::v 000 Rye: oceenmoc-... 60 Turkeys—live.io.iccdo 0at5....n11....... 25!Chickens—live,...... 7 Oorn,scoido iiany 40iBeeswax oo s 30 P0tat0e5,.......... 35iButter........ieacs. iy 16 E1ax5eed.......... 1 75iFard. ... io -civool Gpilo Clover 5eed,..... .. 500:Eges, .. soviiiwiii odd W001..........45@ 40;Feathersi. ..ol 85 Pork.ouviooo.o. .. 000/ Tallowsisieiicos - 116, 5h0n1der5........... 00,Timothy Hay......;1%00 Ham 5.......... @ 00{Marsh Hay:.:......1600 i RENDALLVILEE: oo deniea Wheat—white.....sl 45 Live Hogs. . ... .o Bain Amber—red ....... 138 Dressed Hogs..:o:\.:s Rye..coouvoon jﬁQLLiv’e Turkeys ..ol oo Oate sic i 30!Live Chickensre. ii, Corne..o i ... @ 50 Beeswax,. ... ... .00 P0tat0e5,....... 0.0 40iBatter. sxi: (aii 20h Flax Seed.. ........ 160/ard,.; &> ... 08 CloyerSeed..soo@ 4 50| Bggs,..oo..oiuy Lty 12 W 001......... ©@. 45/Featherd;... . ...l 90 Pork,, i ... ..lTalJow, eas o D 5h0u1der5,........: (8 Timothy Hay... :.:1290 Ham5..........00@ 12{Marsh Hay-......:.10.00, CHICAGD, <« g Wheat..s @sl 13‘%' M P0rk....51530@815 90 Corhn = @ 41 Tard....... %@ T 4 Oats.... @ 23!/!Shoul‘ders,. ‘qß@ .08 Rye.....' ..67@ G6'4/Rib5....... 9%@ 09 Barley.. .. @ 1 2"7);Har_n5...... 9x@ Aly FOLEDO. i Wheat..s @ 157 [Corn:...s 49L/@s% - 50° Red “ .. 146%@ 150 |ClovSeed 465 @ 465 X Oats.... 136X@ |33x)|Hogs.... 580%@ - = L v BIRTELS: o September Bth, 1873, in Ligonier, a gon to-the' wife of Elder J. E. Hageis; weight 8 pounds. - . MARRIED: - - In Albion,by Nelson Prentisg, Esq., on Tuesday, September 2d, Mr. WALTER EMERSON and Mizs: ANNIE WILLETT, both of Kendallville, . - . Sept. 10, at the residence. of the bride’s. Fnr'e'n,ts_ in Wawaka, by ?‘.lder, J. E: Harris, DANIEL W. GREEN, Esq., of Ligonier, to Miss LADORA D:: DODGE, daughter of M. M. Dodge, B o A good, kirid-hearted companion; and a refined, amiable young lady - can it be o,thei-wiéetyaﬂ that a bright fatnre is before this happy couple? - = Our acknowledgments are ‘due the bride’s pa--rents for the substantial remembrance. A L DIEID. e il ._.VW..\,V_,w‘r;.vf,‘;_‘.y:;\.-;4.‘_'._.:;.“_;.;‘;,,7.;‘.;,V' September Bth, ‘1873, in. Ligonier, infant son of Josern HENDERSON; aged 3 months, -~~~ = -~

WANTED: ONE MILLION DN PC Y 50,000 HIUR BLOCKS. For wl;lcll we. will mthonl‘wut Market Frice. For ‘l’nrllculnfq,ln,quire ot J : - _'!';'{" ~ Studebaker Bros, Manuf’g Co., oom | ROUTH BEND, IND.

- Administrator’s Notice. , - NOTICE is bereby ”%wen; that.the ﬁﬁﬁers‘!}fﬂedi Y < has been al,gpoin‘ d Administrator of the estate of Henry Cline, late of Noble county, deceased. . Baid estate is.supposed to be¥solvent. S : el e g HENRY HOSTETTER, - ‘September 11, 1873-3w-20 . Administrator. TNT 3 3 ) { ” NOT “SEVERAL TONS, Bat'very good, “CHOICE” GRAPES for sale ‘at s.cents pér pound. ' D. H. REYNOLDS, - “Ligonier, Ind., Sept. 4, 1873 19tf . | T B‘OR SALE A farm of 100 acres, eigh~ AL R R ty acres under the plow, forty-two acres in wheat, 3 good orchard, good ! buildings and- fences in good repair; situated in the Hawpatch, on the mainroad.. Also, a House ' and-town lots in the town of; onier, Enquireof- - fvßnlc oo Tl COVEL , Ligonier, Ind, O URIST OF LETTE“S, ] I{emaim’ng in the post'office at Ligouier, Ind., ! duripg thepastweek: - : , “Austin, Miss Sarah- |Fisher, David = - . ‘Caston, Lewis. 5 | Hedrie, Miss Addie : Conrad, Andrew . |Lafferty; Mrs. Maria - Persons calling for any ofthe above letters will ‘pleasesay ‘‘Advertised. o b . 2 ; H. M.GOODSPEED, P. M. - ‘. Ligonder, Ind, Sept. 11, '73. SEe

ﬁ()céte&—aﬁ_ Ashiand, the Home of Henry Cﬁy and Old Transylvania. - Six colleges in operation, »ﬁymh_'thir% professors.. and 600 students from 22 Btates. Entire fees for collegiate year, $2O, except in‘the Law, Medical and Commercial Colleges. — Boarding from $2 to 5 per week. For cilalogue; Aaddress J. B. BOWMAN, Regent, Lexington, K¥. LAEISA T ) gpTece, 16w } ~GRAPES FOR SALE! mfi o o e 2 : o rJ:‘HE UNDERSIGNED WILL HAVE SEVERAL e . tons of : - - 7 Choice Grapes For kale abont the 10th day of Septembeud, in quanFeo e tities to Ruit purchasers. . ‘EPrice only -5 Cents per FPound. Thoge who ask for lower ratesneed not a ply. sl . LEOPOLD SHEE TS, . Ligonier, Ind.; Aug. 28, 73-18w3 . ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. 'l_‘H_Evuil'der_éjgned, Administrator of the estate of . ~Henry Cline, déceased, will offer for gale at “public’ auction, at the late residente of the deceas- ! ed, in Perry townehip, Noble county, one and one--hall miles-west of Ligovier, on ¢ i - : = Thursday, October 2nd, 1873, The personal property of said éstate, consisting of 3 horses, 3 milch cows and young cattle, 10 hogs,, 36 sheep, 1 two-horke wagon, bob-sleds, drill, hay. rake; plows, harrows, &c. Wheat in the barn and! field; ¢orn 1n the ficld, household goods, and other articles tGo numerous to mention. e el - Terus madesknowh on day ofrale. Sale tocommence at 10 o’clock, a. m; ol i hose < HENRY HOSTETTER, . Sepitemberr 11, 1873-3w-20 © Administrator. - BACK BROTHERS, Bakers & Grocers. CavinSt‘%eet, Ligon!ef,fndiana. : Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakeés, &c., bﬁdiceGEocerieﬁ,l;fovisions.YankeeNotion‘s',&c_ ‘Theliighestcash pricepaidfer Country Produce “Mayls es—tf o SACK BRO’S. 0 SOUTE BEND . A e 1 .‘ 1 N - £ : ‘\‘ e LRy ' s MANUFACTURERS oF. . = . Iron Cornice, | WINDOW iND DOOR CAPS, . ROOFING, SPOUTING, Btc., - of all kinds. | Plaid and Ornamental Heads of - Lions, Tizars, Eagles, Persons, &c.

e L M. B. YOST & CO., 8-101 'No. 72 Michigan Str., South Bend, Ind.’ FARM & TOWN LOTS - FOR SATLEY ‘ ' I WILL sell c'tie;i,p for cash, or on easy tefmsof payment, the valuable SBtock and Grain Farm, /1&;@; owned by Jaines McConnell, and known as THE DIAMOND LAKE FARM! -consisting of _over three hundred acres of land, -about 5 miles south-east of Ligonier, in the southwest quarter of section 31, town 335, north range | easdt, ‘and nerth-west quarter of section 6, town 34, northrange 9 east, embracing soil, timber, living water and generaladvantages, makingitone ofthe mostdesirable farms, especially for stock raising in Noble.county. - : . 'ALSO:—Lots Na. 6, 9. 11, 15, 16, 26, 27, 28 and 29 -in Wood’s-Addition to Ligonier;-also, lots 7 and. g in block 4, and 7 and 8 in block 3 of Millr’s Addi tion toLligonier. : 0 TITLE - GQUABANTEED BY ME. - - Apply to Isanc E. Knisely, esq., Ligonier, or to i a JOSEPH K. EDGE%’[‘ON, i Feb. 28-tf, - , : Fort Wayne, Ind GEO. W. REED, iy ‘.~ Manufacturer of. - Buggies, Wagons, Neighs, O OARRIAGES &&C. Cromwell, Noble County, Ind'a, ol e —— o 8 ~ Lol L ‘Being 'ﬂrm}v established and having an e_x"f)cri-_; ‘ence of twenty-five ;ears, - ; GOOD. WORK and Fair Pealing GUARANTEED" . BEST MECHANICS EMPLOYED. - " Cromjvell, Sept. 11,'72.-20 $ [ . ALECTURE & i o MO ' %"Yo UNG MEIN. WJust published, in a Sealed Envelope. Price 6 cents. ‘A Lecture on the Nature, Treatment -and Radical Cure of Spermatorrhea, op Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Emissicns, Sexnal Debility and Impediments to Marrlage generally; Nervousness, Congumption, Epilepsy and fits; Mental and Physical Incapacity,resulting from Self Abuse, ete.—By ROBERT J. CULVERWELL, M. D., Au,thor of the “‘Green Book,” &c. ¢ . The world-renowned author, in this admirable . Lecture, clearly:proves from his own experience ° ‘that the awful conscquences of Self-Abuse may be’ effectnally removed without medicines, and without dangeroussurgical operations, bougies,instru. . ments, rings or cordials, pointin%)out a mode of cure at once certain and effectual by which every sufferer, no mattér what his condition may be, may enre himself cheaply, privately, and radically. THIS LECTURE WILL -PROVE A BOON TO THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS. ‘ : . Sent, nnder seal. toany address, in a plain seal- | ed envelope, on the receipt of six cents, or tWo postage stamps, Address the publishers, . G CHAS. J. C, KLINE & CO,, 127 Bowery, New York, Post-Office Box, 4586, April 17, 1873:80-1y-1¢chi2 : :

(rrandest Scheme Ever Known.. S 2 '————— " : el \‘ . Fourth Grand Gift Concert - “FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE- ‘ 12,000 CASH GIFTS $1,500,000. ®250,000 For &50. " The Fourth Grand Gift Concert authorized by special act of the Legislature for the bénefit of the Publi¢ Library of Kentucky, will take place in Public Library Hall,-at Louisville, Ky,, on : : WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER: S, '73. ‘Only sixty thousand tickels will be sold, The tickets are divided into ten coupions or parts. - At-this concert, which will be the ﬁrg’udbst musical disglay ever wilfegsed, in‘thja‘coﬁnugg the unprecedented sum of - e R $1,500,000 divid d_] 9'l 0 9’ ol ey ?1 livided into 12,000 cash: “be - nte: by lot among the ua%fmw i . e u%“ eIFEsT . 'ONE GRAND/CA! w . Ll L Beßo,ooo ONE GRAND CGASH € m“ .ev. 100,000 CREGKAB Gt QR Jages ONE GB'ANDM:%’M%&}E@? e 27,500 . 10CASH GIFTS §IO,OOO each.....: 108,000 4 30 CASH GIFTS /5,000 egeh. ... ‘20,000 © 50 CASH GIFTS *l.w“f;&} 0,000 ~ B 0 CASH GIFTS = 500eachcic.. 40,000 ' ~100 CASH GIFTS «%u st 40,000 150 CASH GIFTS = 380 %“?‘f%g 45,000 950 CASH GIFTS ~ 200 ea .a:,».%»g,000 225 CASH GIFTS %’"""Ev \SOO 11,000 CASH GIFTS = 5¢ gpc}&x%_..;,%{?,:,“p_,ooo TOTAL, 12,000 GIFTS, Amcxs%f“i | -AMOUNUDE 0. . vuieanii il 'I,M,@OG | The distribution wig. be go:i::ive, oz{lether‘gl the- - are 80l ‘nok, an 12,000 e hrariod Vot locate vtk Yo A sfiadty. - PRICE OF TICKETS. . Whole tickets SSO; Halves $25: Tenths, or each Coupon,-$5; Eie?eir Whole Tickets for émé'- , Tickets for $1,000; 113 Whole 'mk'ei%fof‘ 5,0005 227 Whole Tickets for 10,000, No discount on less than SSOO worth of Tic ‘g"ﬁ ® Hme, o - Tickets now. ready for sale, and all o eg‘ ac~ eompﬁﬂib&hyﬂnm%ﬂ&’c omptly Ailled. Liberal. ' ter’msgﬁ;enw t%o'eghw "‘.“E"f“‘)?"'%“' w.k‘,;‘;; ‘? i 3;)’ A Papl it Ky dnd Maige GlftConeatt, 19w3 Public Library Building, Louleville, Ky.