The National Banner, Volume 8, Number 38, Ligonier, Noble County, 15 January 1874 — Page 1

C, i(" 1 2 * g i Fi “ xK¢ ¥3 ﬁ"ﬂublll‘hdb a % B : o . %R R , ue;A .' I 4% 3 CaoMN B.STOLL, LIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY,IND. i FTERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : ‘ Strictlyin advance.iviiiiieioiteimaiooas . +8%.00 S hispaperis publishedonthe Cash Pro':wi’zl:le. § s Proprietor believing thatit (s just asright for hym J demand advance pay,asitisfor City publishers. | §%~ Anyperson sendinf; aclub of 10, accompaaied with the cash, wil be entitledto a copy of the paper,foroneyear,free ofcharge. ' CITIZENS’ I3ANIK, { LIGONIER, : INDIANA. DEPOSITS received subject to check without no- | - tice, =8 Ml ADYANCES made on npp}:dv‘_‘gd collaterals. | MONEY loaned on long or shert, time. NOTES discounted at repgon %le rates. ORDERS for tirst-class’sécurities execnted on commisgsion. { e AGENTS for the purchase and sale of Real Estate. | INSURANCE POLICIES written in rst-clags com- l panies. EXCHANGE bought and sold, and drafts drawn | ou all the principa) cities of Europe, : | AGENTS for the” Inmanline, , . | Hamburg Live, l White Star Line.) PASSAGE PIGKETS sold on all the principal sea- 1 ports of Europe. i / e MERCHANTS’, Farmers’and Mechanics’ accotnts. | soliciged, and all business transacted on liberal ) terms. ", STRAUS BROTHERS, Ligonier, Ind , Oeti 23d, 187226 ¢ ’ ’ f- S A.-,T, S .._.. RN R ,";_ T ‘ Lake Shore & Mich.Soutl’n R. R. Ou and )Mter December 14,73, trains will leave B Btacions as follows: 2 GOING EAST : } SpiN. Y. . Atle, Ez. Accom. Uhieago. . i vy BHO ol ie SBIPIMwW w 1 Elkhart ... e 1200 i s 8 50 vees 490 am | Lroshon, oooiveod il RO «i+30710 Ve 446 \ Millersbirg. ..o tlB5 L 2JIORS -.. 506 i Ligonler, /oo i 1B i XO3O oot o] Wawaka....... 1149 2. klO5l e 087 | Brimfield ....., T 1 51 ...110 59 Bl D4B Kendallville., .. 210 ik 13 vees 6,05 Arcrive atToledo 525 Vi am L. 1000 | . GOIN@WEST : Poledos. & o 1210 pmic J 3 45 pm o 0430 pm ] Kendallville .. 4..331 pmii., 310 am.... B§4o Brimfield .5..., 7346 v k 027 v 4 909 | Wawaka. ....> 03 55 s wun T@B6 cov SPI4 | Ligonier.......x 4 04 v 3ay s 930 _ Millorsburg, ... 1418 = 00 #4405 e 990 Goshen 0..0-., 490 viove 320 aa19.10 ] Elkhart. ... .4 00 ol 044 b . 1035 ArriveatChicago9%o ... 850 Ghies ¢l5 am tTrains do not stop. . Expressleaves daily both ways. Accommodat'n makesclogeconnectionat Elkharg with trains going Kagtand West, - - o CHAS. PAINE, Gen'lSupt.,Clevelatd. | J.N.ENEPPER, Agent, Ligonier. : Pittsburg, ¥t. W. & Chicago R. R, © Erom and after Deceniber 14, 1873, l GOING WES'T, i |

PastEx Muwil, Pac Kv. NightEz. | Pittshnrg. ... . &R:lsom* 6 Coam 10:00am 2 15pm ' RochQsker. ... 4 tv.o.on (T3oam 31:20am 3 25pm Alliances, ... .. Ss4bami 1k 00am 2:3opm 6 13pm Qriviles . . .0..7a0nm 12 pdpm 4 :23pm - 7 50pm Manafield..... 9:2lam 3 lopm 6:238pm 9 55pm Crestlize.. JAr. 9:soam 4 00pm 7:lopm 10:25pm Crestline. . Lv.lo 10am 6 tham 7:45pm 10:35pm Forest. .. ..... 01*33am 7 40am 9 30pm 11:59pm’ Lima,.........12:30pm B:ssam 10.50 pm I:o3am Wi Wayne..... 2:ospm 11:50am I:3oam 3:25am . Plymouth..... s:o4pm 2:spm 4:okam 6:osam. Chieago ....... 8.20 pm +7:lopm- 7:3oam. 9:2oam ‘ GOING EAST. NoS§, No 2, No 6, Nod 4. Mail. Fast Bx. Pac Kx. NightFz. CHicago....... s:lsam 9 20am .- 5 35pm 10 20pm Plymounth.. ... 9:26am 12 10pm 9-10 pm : 2 22am 't Wayne....l2 40pm 2 35pm 11 30pm 5 50am Lima.......... 3:oopm 42ipm 1 38am .8 04am F0re5t........ 4:2opm 5 22pm 2 45am 9 30am Crestline. . Ar. 6:lspm 6 50pm 4 20am 1! 15am Cregtline ..Lyv. 6 Idam 7 10pm 4 30am 11 30am Mansfield ..... 6 30am 7 BTpm ‘4 57am 11 58am 0rrvi11e....... 9 13am 9 29pm 6 40am 1 58pm A11iance.......11 20am 11 10pm & 35am - 3 40pm Rochegter..... 210 pm ........ 10 42am 6 (2pm PittsWrg s, ... 3 30pm 2:2oam 11 45am 7 lUpm No. Iy daily, except Monday ; Nog 2,4, 5, 7 and 8, i daily except Sunday; Nos. 3 aud 6 daily. : .y . . Gir. Rapids & Ind. and Cine,, Rich. & Ft. Wayne R. R. @ - Condensad Time Card. Daily, except Sunddys. To take efiect November 2d, T 3, GOING NORTH. -Express., Express. Accom. | Richmond .. od ooy 1000 am 4 00 pin Newborbi. 00l ciigiey 1930 ** 430 * Winchester .... . S dlaget. Blod Ridgeville, ivaiidil g fidy Y G 540 ' Portland. .:.bouqaii o 1217 pm 610 ¢ Decabiti o cvin divibve o 130 Fort Wayhe, D...... .. 800 am 2 30pm Kendallville T, .. oai 919 % 3471 Sturgis...... <. i 1042 t 0h 2] 4 Mendon...o.ooo ol ST BB 2§ 001+ Ka1amaz00.............12 25 pxa 6 55| ** Montetsh oo ol ditaigl Bt Gl e Grand Rapids.:..ccome 265 2 905 * Grandßapids........d: 325 ** 700 am: ; Howard City...cc.ois i DBB 939 b . Bi% Rapida. cooie iB4 ¢ 1081 1* ¢ 1(eed()'t]y..........'.... 790 1104 M ! . Clam ke .o B 0 1288 pm ‘Travetse 01bY...i00 . eyt GOING SOUTH. Express Express Express Traverse Clby. cxrasane ! 700 am Clam Lake. .. i . Booam 1035 Re e ClbY esivebmdtiiaiass Lot 30 ¢ 1220 pm Up. Jiig{(npids....;.., T 1207 ™ Howard Qity... oo ... AR 904 Grand Rapids......a.. YO9B 6 415 Grand Rapian, .2.00 d. ¥2samil2o - 4925'% Monteith saasei sBo 1250 pm:. - 557 ** Kalamazami... oo 0 54008 140 0 - 645 ! 1 Menrdon 252 ..o e LMY . oo Stieois ..ol ol SR 835 & K0nda11vi11e.....0.... 1261 pm 957 L FortWayne...co.iue omol 1115 > Dacabiar. o cosiilig s Jaigigett o oodm ! Portland. . c.ci ddic vid 2l *t Gdsnm Ridgeville /iy ralicca dg 8t gile b ] Winchester i 1 -0 tin 18t 7404 Newtort.. ./ oa ii 2850 & a 0 b : Richmond i iidis e 825 86 gop 1t ¢ v Express trains leaving Richmond at.lo 00°a m stop | all night at Grand Rapids,

Michigan Lake Shore Rail Road. Trains run daily excépt Sunday. Condensed time card, taking efiect Nov. 3d, 'T3. GOING NORTH, 3 " ra GOING BOUTH. Expr. Mail, STATIONS. e ™ Mail 350 pm 8 10am..Kalamazo00..31 20 am G 645 pm £ L Bah SO RRTeIbl. L 1097 e 00 SAS 4v 0 037 W SeAllegßn L. 900 5 3L 605 ¢ 388 s s Hamilton: .. 010 % 438 % 637 ¢ 1104 CCTROIENdy. .3 8 40,0 =4 U 8 T4B: ¢4 1210 pGrand Haven, 740 ¢ 306 ¢ R 34 ¢+ 12 55 248 Mugkegon,., 00 '~ 225 * ’ . R. MYERS, GeneralPassengerand Ticket Agent Uineinnati, Wabash & Mich. i R Fime Table No. 8, taking effect Monday, the 28th o - day-of October, 1872 GOTNG BOUTH, STATIONS. GOING NORTH. | No. 2 Nod No. 1 No, 3" 140°pmi200 m a,....Waba5h....1700am 130 pm--340 * 1040 am .Nor. Manchester 750 ** 230 ** 315 a 0 esiiven Dke oSS Ty 315 0% 230 %005 v =k SRR W OS] 95 1 210 BAO el BSQEBMRD. s ORG tE 500 % 150 % 860 @ Lol Nlords L 945 Tt 53040 ; Fo6 s e s i New Barig LlOO5 2 555 °° 105 =7OO % dp Gaoßhen gt 1095 5 620 18 Lo ¢ .ar Goshen,dp..lo3o °f . 1230 noavaKlehaete ot 58 ¢ Traingrun by Cleveland time. | . : A.G. WELLS, Sup’t. ; T e e © iU, A MIOYER, (Successor to'W. L. Andrews,) SURGEON DENTIST, KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. . I IQUID Nitrous Oxide Gas administered for the 4 painless extraction dT teeth. All work warranted, Examinations free. g%~ Oflice, Second Story, Mitchell Block. 8-14-1 y e —————————————————————————————————————— . P. W, CRUM, : Physician and Surgeon, Ligonier, = = = . Indiana. Office at resdience on Martin st., mear corner of Third. i s May 12th, 1869. : .W. O, J)ENNY,'JVI. V., Physician and Surgeon, LIGONIER, I-NDIANA, ‘ . ' Will promptly and faithfully attend to allcalls in the line of his profession—day or night—in town or any distance in thecountry. ; ] G, W. CARR, : Physician and Surgeon LIGONIER, ~ = - - - - IND, Will promptly attend all calls intrustedto him. Dffice on 4th Bt,, one door east ef the NATIONAL Baxnerofiice, 3-43 ' C. PALMITER, ‘ Surgeon and Physician, : Office at Residence. Ligonier, = = « « Endiana. : A. S, PARKER, M.D., FHEOMEOPATHIST, Office on Mitchel street. Residence on Eaststreet, Office hours from 10t0 12 A. M., and 2 to 4 ». M. KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. May 3,1871 : g v ___,___._—-—-——-———'—————-————-—-—————d " ALBERT BANTA, Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer. LIGONIER, INDIANA, Special attention given to cnnveyancinf and collections. Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages drawn up, and all legj\l business attended to promptly and accurately, Office over Straus & Meagher’s store, 4 May 15 1873 15-8-3 - JAMES M. DENNY, ' A}M{m d Counsellor at Law. 7% Offcain the ourt House, | ALBION, - ... . . . IND. 615 e R L A 2 4 l‘. n. GREENQ & Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public. LIGONIER, - - - - INDIANA. ‘Office sécond floor front, Landon’s Brick Block 7 LE. KNISELY, ATTORRER (AT, IAW, LIGON L AT IFDIANA. g@r-Oftice In Mier’s Block, 7-2

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L. COVELL,

Attorney-at-Law & Notary Publie,

LIGONIER, INDIANA. Office, over Beazel Brothers’ newHurness Shop, B Cavin Street. = v

o D. W. GREEN, 3v . ’ Justiceof the Peact & Collsction A, Office with Dr. Landond, second flogr Laudon’s i Brick Block. : E]'G’OA’IER, w 1 i INDIANA. 9

' " J. M. TEAL, ’ Corner of Mitchell and State Sts., one block east of Post Office, room over the KendallvilleFruit House, Kendallville, Indiana. 759~A1l work warranted, Kendallville, May 3, 1871. . . WINEBRENNER, ign, & Oriamental Paiuter House, Sign, & Grniamental Paiuter, Qrainer, Gluzier.and Papor-Hanger, Ligonier, Indiana. B~ Give me a call before letting your work, aud 1 will guarantee satisfaction ineveryingtanice. 00 0 (IVERD A. GANTS, : Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, . LIGONIER, < - INBIANA. y : Is prepared L 2 . to doanything & P ‘~"*':‘f~.% intheiriine. A : J/s‘:’ f"g,'»‘\ succesful prac-/-‘f .;ii(érj»“;*[;-},-:._;;i-,_.é--i'f" - “L§ * tice of over 10 . Gs S T Years justifies Bl o Sanie s Bey tiim .inh.mymg el RS B Sho el 0y that he can : "“Q?ﬁ"ff.\q.,._;_w giveentiresatiß N ? T W) isfaction to all Yo Lh e who may bestow their patronage, €% Office one doornorth of Kifne’s, Cavin §t. ! 3 ¢

PEEIRIP A CARER, AUCTIONERER, Ofters his services to the public in general. Terms moderate. Orders may be left at the shoe store of P. Sisterhen.. Ligonier, January 8, %3-57, : . NTNT 3 TEEGARDEN HOUSE, v o Laporte, Indiang. V. W. AXTELL, : . = Proprietor. Laporte, April 5; 1871, ; CONCORD & CATAWBA WINE, We sell Mr. L, SHEETS’ Wines, Pure — Nothing but the Juice of -the Grape. i ; : : SACK BROTHERS. Ligonier, July 8, '71.-tf : ; GLO. M, SHADIL & CO., 4 % ; CARPENTERS AND JOINERS, LIGONIER, : INDIANA. Shops at Randolph’s Saw and Planing Mill. Orders solicited aud satisfaetion guaranteed. 8-2 S I —— it SO ANI et ) E . BRICK KELLY HOUSE KENDALLVILLYK, INDIANA, T\TE\\’ COMMODIOUS THREE STORY BRICK + Hotel, only ten rods trom the L. 8. &M.S. R. R. Depot, and four squares from the G, R. R R.— Only five minutes walk to any of the pri-uci{m] bus siness housesof the city. Traveling men andstrangers will find this a first-classhoure! Fare $2 per days! i v J. B: KELLY, Proprietor, Kendailville, Aug. 3, 1870.-14 4 O V. AN ES, DEALERIN MONUMENTS, Vaults, Tombstones, AND BUILDING STONES . LIGONIER, IND. April 12, 1871.-50 sy .

H. 'R. CORNELIL, Is now prepared to take GEMS of a superior quality. Having purchased onenof the 'great American Optical Company’s : : o : MULTIPLYING GEM CAMERA, Which has facilities for making 9, 18, 86, or 72 pictures, all at-one sitting, the nation can now be suppiied with tirst-clags work at a trifling expense, within thercach ofall. Thefoilowing aretheprices: CRictuares fox v 6 0 8100 16 & S el a 0 180, 32 " S Ll 300 70 s $S i v 4 00; : PHOTOGRAPHS THE SAME PRICE ! Ligonier, Ind., Nov. 15, 1871. : o X K K K KKK K K K KK %KL XX, ¥ # +IO,OOOBA Rare Chancei§soo,oo » LU, L 1v bl : yuu e * Full Particulars free, 2 2 gen Sor fix samples for $l.OO, a # T yEAddress % 4WanlBﬂ Pittsburgh Supply (‘0,.,»M U nth o - Prrreßurci, Pa. B A RR e ) . 8-28-6 m, B, A, HERTZLIR, : : DEALER IN : s S 8 BT /€ 2 > PR Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, __,T._,‘::.;ﬁ@ ‘:—:é? ~ Specireles, £c S G W resDe £&N x"'\@ A \\.ou]d res p(,ctfull.y gt 2h=i= announce to the ci- & @ - /.9 N 2 -‘f—"% = tizens of Ligonier e, IS ) s and vicinity thathe o 5 S\ _i}) = h:w;’@znancnny]o- - i t §4— catedin this place, '-, N 1 and is Erepared to = SRR ss= L~ ‘doall . i-ndls 01‘1 re=t oeegle s ox=-0- pairing in his line ! ,_"f_: AL Xg&:“ ; ofbusiness, and hopes te receive a liberal share of public pitronage All woirk warranted. -Give me a trial, Oilice five doors north of the Ligonier House, 2-21m06 ARGONIER, INDDEANA, i 2 CAJICER : (‘lfl{lil) without the aid of the knife, poisonious / sechargtick, and eanstics, by a simple and scicntitic system of medication. By removing the tumor ouly, the =eat of the disease is not reached and is sure to break eut again with increaged violence. I cleanse the blood from ALL ,cancerous matter, by a local application, kill and removethe Tumor. Itisthe only treatment that will cure cancer. I also treat Scrofula, and other diseases. Residence near Grand Rapids Depot. JOSEPIINE E. SILSBY. o-2yl Kendallville, Noble Co., Indiana.

OBSTACLES "O MARRIAGE. Happy Relief for Young Men from the effects of Errors and Abuses in early life; Manhood restored. Impediments to Marriage removed. New method of treatment.. New and remarkable remedies.— Books and Circnlars sent free, in sealed envelopes. Address, HOWARD ASSO(.‘IATION,‘N(). 2, South Ninth Street, . Philadelphia, Pa.,—an" Institutien having a high reputation for honorable conduct and. professional skill. : [v6l3-Iy]

. W.A. BROWN, Manufacturer of and Dealerin all kinds of | FURNIT U R XX, SPRING BED BOTTOMS, WILLOW-WARE, . § ' - BRACKETS, &c. o COFFINS&E CASKETS | Always on hand, and will be furnizhed -to order, ~ Funerals attended with hearse when desired. Store R 4 2 AR : Cer. Cm?il;l ai]odn‘rzrxlul St'.-.} ng()nlel7 Illd. : August 7th, 1873.-8-15. A New Hand at the Bel_lows! | s OULD 1 tfall tohis FRIEND W and ﬁx’? e;():n};]licy i?g?gx?:r(iﬁ thnltla he has S started in pusiness on his “own hook” 7 -~ at'the well-kiown McLEAN STAND, ON CAVIN STR., and has now on hand a large assortment of Table and Pocket Cutlery, Best silver steel Axes, $1.50, Tin, Sheet-Tron, (‘n])per and Prass-Ware, and all other articles ugually found in a First-Clags Tinware Establishment. - Stove Fipe = Made-to order and kept on hand. Special atten tion given to roofing, spouting, &c, | { PRICES TO SUIT THE TIIH}ES, s b o e i t als W | ‘be a ¢ ” Ze o:w:m:i'ierb. bgi‘ve meaca{]. Oct, 16, "73-25tf . . JOHN ABDILL.

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'SACK BROTHERS, Bakers & Grocers. CavinStreet, Ligonier, Indiana. Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, &c., ChoiceGroceries,Provisions,YankeeNotions,&c Thehighertcash pricepaidfer Countg Produce Mayl3,’6B-tf. . SACK BRO’S. ‘Banking House N | SOL.. MIER, Conrad’s New Brick Block, LIGONIER, IND’NA. Money Joaned on long and short time. Notes discounted at reasonable rates. Monies received on deposit and intereet allowed on specified time, . o Exchange bought and gold, and Foreign Draftg drawn on principal cities of Europe, g-2 : B THE PARMERS: X'HU will please take notice that I am still engaged in buying wheat, for which I pay the highest market price. if you do not find me on the street, call before selling, at my Banking Office, gecond story Mier’s Block. : SOL. MIIER. Ligonfer, Indiana, May, Bth, 1873.—t f : . BININGER'S LD LONDON DOCK GIN. GLD LONDON DOCK GIN. Especially designed for the use of the Medical Lrofession and the Family, pnsscssinﬁ: thoee intrinsic medicinal properties which belong to am Old and Pure Gin. ‘ Indispensable to Females. Good for Kidney Complaints. A delicious tonic. Put np in cases containing onesdozen hottles each, and =old by all druggists, grocers, &e. -A, M. Bininger & Co., established 1787, No. 15 Beaver St., New York, 271 y . Far sale by Fisher Bro's, Ligonier, Ind. e L el DD ‘ N FRROEBS OF YOUTH. A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years from 44 Nervous Debility, Yremature Decay, and all the effects of youthful indisceetion, will, for the sakeof suffering humanity, send free to all who need it, the recipe and direction for making the simple remedy by which he was cured. Sufferers wishing to profit by the advertiser’s experience can do so by addressing in perfect confidence, JOHN B. OGDEN, 42 Cedar st., New York. November 27,1873-6 m-a & co : T 0 CONSUMPTIVES U UYADL ] . 'l‘l IE advertiser, having been permanently cured - ofthat dread disease, Consumption, by a simple remedy, is anxious to make known to his felloaw =ufferers the means.of cure. To all who desive it, hewill kend a copy of the prescription used, (free of charge), with the direction®for preparing and using the same, which they' will find a surr Cure for CONSUMPTION, ASTIIMA, Bronomitis, &c. Parties wishing the prescription will i}lense address Rev, E. A. WILSON, 194 Penn St., Williamsbureh, New York. November 27, 1873 .6m-a & co WANTED: i 00 W ! | 5 29U U U 9 U YUY Y b Feet of Wacon Box Boarbs, 8, 13 and 14 in. wide, 12 ft. long. N 5 s Feet of Hickory Axwnzs, four by five and one-half inches, by twelve feet long. Address . ‘ : Studebaker Bros’ Manuf’g Co., 33-2 m SOUTH BEND, IND. ' ? h FHere’s a Chance!

GO, W. REED,

Cromwell, Indiana,

Buggies, Wagons, Sleighs And Bob-Sleds,

. Which he offersithe public n} & 10 Per Cent. Below Cost

WORK FUILLY WARRANTED.

Call at his shope and see for yourselves ! . Cromwell, Dee. 18,'73.-20

TALMAGE, ' : j SPURGEON. T. De Witt Talmage is editor of The Chrisitan at Work; C. H. Spurgeon, Spesial Contributer. They write for no other paper in America. Three magnificent Chromos. Pay larger commission than any otherpaper,. CHROMOS ALL READY, No Sectarianism. No Sectionalism. Oneagent recently obtained 380 subscriptions in 80 hours absolute ‘work. Sample copies and circulars sent free. 2 AGENTS Wanted, 11. W. ADAMS, Publisher, 102 Cham- & bers Street, New York. B R e

? TV EN We will give energetic men WANTED, Vi siyeenerg | Buginess That Will Pay! From #4 to €8 perday, can bepursued in your éwn neighborhood, and is strictly honorable.” Particulars free, or samples that will enable you to go to work at once, will be sent -on receipt of two three cent stamps. Address J. LATHAM & €O, 32-6 w 292 Washington St., Boston, Mass, S e R BT Dey DOSVOR, MBS, _,L_\ THE GREAT CAUSE ; —OF—FBFHUMAN MISERY. Just published, in a Sealed Envelope. Price 6 cents, A Lecture on the Nature, Treatment and Radical Cure of Seminal Weakness, or.Sper- 1 matorrheea, induced by Self Abuse, Involuntary Emissicns, Impotency, Nervous Debility, and Impediments to Marriage generally; Consamption, Epilepsy and fits ; Mental and Physicnl]ncalgacity, ‘ &c.—By ROBERTW, 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 consequences of Self-Abuse may be . effectually removed without medicines, and with- } out dangeroussurgicdl operations, bougies, instru. ments, rings oy cordials, poi'ntin%)out a mode of cure at once ¢ertain and effectual by which every sufferer, o matter what his tondition may be, may cure himself cheaply, %rivnte]y. andradically, This Lecture will prove a boon to thousands and thousands. i Sent, under seal, in a plain envelope, to any addresg, on the receipt of six cents, or two postage .stamps, by addressing the Kublishers. g Algo, Dr. CULVER%NEL 'S “Marriage Guide,” price 50 cents, Address the publishers, CHAS. J. C. KLINE & CO., 127 Bowery, New York. Post-Office Box, 4586. Aprilil7, 1873-50-Iy-2¢h25 vt _—— FAIRY VOICES. 2 - ; FAIRY VOICES. FAIRY VOICES. . FAIRY VOICES. FAIRY VOICES. FAIRY VOICES. ¢ FAIRY VOICES. : : . FAIRY VOICES. | THE NEW BOOK : P / “‘.sc . TOR SCHOOLS : §6 PER DOZEN. 60 CTS EACH, : L i § POTS-PAID, SONG ECHO, < ; roi SCHOOLS, ) 80,000 SOLD. 80,000 SOLD. e i 3 80,000 SOLD. j ; . PRICE, 75 CTS, ~ POST-PAID, R o . - $1.50 PER DOZ. s © i _IF BENT PER (LK § o. ¢ & EXPRESS. Addrees, J. L, PI.TE?S, smog-18 599 BroaDWAY, NEw Yoz,

LIGONIER, IND., THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1574.

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HILLS OF THE HOMESTEAD. © BY MANDA LEVERING, Hills of my homestead ; beauntiful hills! Years have rolled my childhood away, But my heart to the musie of memory thrills, As ye picture yourselves on my canvas to-day. Ye are young and green, as you used to be; _ Ye areold ae the world; ye are young to me. "Hills of my childhood; grand oldhills! . Ye measure my years with crowns of green, With fridgid fetters that lock your rills, - Ye measure my days—t is plainly seen, I'm grewing old with the things of time, But ye seem the same that I used to climb. Ye are the'same; ye are little changed, While I have changed thro’ bad and good, I see ye yet all westward ranged, From where our low-roofed dwelling stood. ° The house is gone; its tenants dead. The paths are dim that they used to tread. Hills of the homestead ye are far away, Far away yet yo are near. Crowned with the light of the dying day, - . That falleth sadly here— ; Ye are bright with the mem’ry of “‘Long ago,” Ye are radiant now, all capped with snow, lills ef the homestead ; mine no mora! X Could I but climb your steeps to-night, - "And feel ak happy, and free as of yors, When the seasons geemed beantiful flightas. I'd give a ransom once more to behold, -~ Your summits bathedyin the gunset gold. But, grand old hills! it cannot be! . For many & weary mile I've strayed, : And strangers git 'neath the old ghade tree, And there children play where I have'played, So my heart goes back imithe even-tide, To the lone, cold graves on your rugged sides. H?lls of my homestead; I breathe a prayer, . Thht when lam ridgid, dead, and cold, :May angels direct my burial there, = - Where dirges have died for the rest of the fold, 1 Oonl bnry me there, at set of sun ;— | A symbol 't will be, that my work is done. JOHN JONES’ NEW LEAF. -+ A STORY FOR RURAL HUSBANDS.

It was a dreary kitchen—the walls were dirty and smoky, the breakfast dishes stood on the table in the middle of the floor, the cooking stove was open, with kettles and pans on‘it, and cold ashes on its hearth, its sooty plates away, a pot of dish-water standing on‘top of the stove, and the broom and poker and tongs lay just where the little riders had left them when called to prepare for school. Johnny had gone off crying, and his whine could even then be heard coming up the hollow from the direction of the school house. The milk had not been strained, and the ‘flies were ‘buzzing about it as they sat on the edges of the two brimming pails, sipping and rubbing their hands together in a satisfactory way. The baby was teething and cross, and the one pair of hands that could have brought order out of this disorder were busy trying to goothe it. . Jo

Is it any wonder that tears were in the mother’s eyes, as she cuddled her baby to her bosom, and walked across the floor and tried to-still its cries? “Oh dear! whata life —what a life!” said she; “Itry to be patient and make the best of it, but it does seem so hard.” :

Just then the baby was growing quiet, and its little blue hands had fallen listlesstly upon its bosom, a shadow fell across the doorway, and the husband entered, saying: . “Jane, can you tell me what the children did with the hatchet yesterdaye . . ; : “It was out on the rock behind Johnny’s wagon, last night,” she replied, speaking low, and gently laying the baby down in a bed that she had not had time to make up yet. g © #Seems to me you're a good while gettin’ your chores done; you haven’s the knack of gettin’.along like Mrs. Leavondyke—her, work is done up long ago, an’ she’s bussy in the garden. Tell you, she’s a nice garden—don’t look much like our'n; you don’t put the time oh, our'n that she does in her'n.” o

“Oh, John,” said the little. woman, slipping up her sleeves and tying on her apron, and trying.to keep her face turried away to hide the glittering tears, “with four children and the baby sick, and three cows to milk, and the calves to feed, and the hands'to cook for, and all the other work to do, I only wonder that I get half my chores done in the whole day.” i “Well, I’'m sure I don’t see how it is,” said he, “my mother had ten living children, and she managed to get. along first-rate, and do all her own weaving, besides taking in weaving for the neighbors. You have more room than she had, and'you don’t have to carry water for forty rods, like she had—here it is, right at the foot of the hill; and younever have cut’your own firewood, either, unless it ‘is in the midst of harvest, and I think you shouldn’t complain. If there is anything I hate to hedr, it is a growling, whining wife. Neow, I have to be out of doors all the time, no matter how hot the sun shines, or how the wind blows, while you are in the shade and comfortable—if you only knew it.— Ah! you have an easy time of it, you women, if you only knew it, so cheer up. I married you for a helpmate, don’t you know. The girls will be big enough in three or four years to help you, and then you can take times easier; but maybe by that time the bottom farm will be paid for, and we’ll be able to ride in a éar’ria‘ge,} like the Leavondykes.” - j ; ol “How long since you brought in this water ?” he added, as he took a drink from the dipper. Finding it not cool he squirted it out coolly right on to the floor among some pans that had slipped down from a shelf. ’ “As he took the hatchet and started to fix the hay rigging on the wagon, he said: : : -

“Jane, if you can as well as not, ’sposin’ you have some of them new beans that gréw in that ’ere 'lot for dinner. “Well, I’ll try,” said she hopelessly, and she slipped her shoes off so that she might step swiftly and with more comfort. All working women know what a task it is to put a disordered kitchen into neatness, especially when little children have been about. First, she strained the milk, taking out a quart to mix the bread with, for the yeast was set the night before, and had ‘been bubbling two hours; she mixed it and set it in the warm sunghine, then started a fire and made feed of the skim-milk and meal for the noisy, frolicsome calves that run in the dooryard. Then she swept and picked.up play things after the children, hung up their coats and aprons, and set their old shoes away, and moved their sleds and wagons and hoops from about the doors. While the' dish-water was heating, she went up stairs and made up the beds, then washed the dishes, and went down cellar and skimmed the milk. There was cream qngu‘%h for a churning, and the churn'was sealded, and then left a pail of cold water

standing in it, so as to be fresh and ‘ready. By this time the baby woke -and cried, and the tired little mother was compelled to sit down and take ‘thie little one in her sheltering arms. * In half an hour or so he was ready to sit down on the flooron a quilt, and she left him long enough to°carry three or four pails of skimmed milk to the pigs—two pails full at a time, and she went on a run. She always fed the pigs; when she asked her husband once to carry the milk to the pen, on his way out to his- work, he said, “that belonged to a woman, and a man - whose name is out for commissioner should not be asked to slop the pigs—that’s a-little too steep.” : It was no trifling job to feed those pigs; the pén had’' been made out of some house logs, and the opening through which the pails had to be lifted before they could be emiptied, was 80 high up that it just came even with her neck, and was only wide enough to admit the pail with the bail laying down. Twice, when she had dressed up clean, had the unsteadily poised pail tipped back and poured the contents upon her from her neck even to her little feet, dreiched as by a water spout. e Withal the mother had been quite patient, and almost every ‘day could her voiece be heard' éeven down to the little field and the school house, singing, “A charge to keep I:have;” or “God moves in a mysterious‘way.” But before another year a change came. FThe strong, hard man, her husband, was stricken down with typhoid fever, and for long weary weeks he lay balancing between life and death. His recovery was very-slow, and his confinement irksome; no prison walls could be gloomier than were the home walls that held him a prisoner. Day after day the ‘ceaseless patter of his wife's patient little feet fell upon his. ear; he could hear them up stairs and. down, now here,lnow there, her voice always kind and tender, her hand ever ready to minister to her dear ones, and words full. of consolation, and love, and cheer. .

John Jones was not wholly unim- ‘ pressible; slowly the scales fell from. his eyes, the light came, and he was as one born into a higher and better | life. He drew his bony hand across his eyes, often the sobs made him catch his breath suspiciously, and he marveled much that he had walked beside this little woman for years and not known that he was mated with an angel unawares. His voice grew softer, tenderer, his great talony hands touched her forehead and her hair lov--ingly as would a woman’s-—touched her as though'he was afraid she would fade away into a white mist. i Weeks afterward, when he was able to ride out, the ¢ld whimsiecal buggy, that had done good service in the days of his church going parents, was made comfortable by a soft blanket and an arm full of oat straw. : John didn’t tell where he was going,but looked wise, and his mouth had a perky look about ‘the ‘corners that seemed to say: “Justlet me alone; I know what I'm about.” : It was evening when he came home. | He was still as wise as when-he went away. His cup of hot tea was' waiting, and his toast and tender little pullet fried nice and brown. He seemed really happy —jolly. lle trotted tlie baby on his foot that night, and called wife Jennie, as in the days when he won her, and let Johnny play horse with his boots, and there was sucha contented, rich-man expression on his face that his wife could not help wondering’ what made such a change in hime. , | : The next morning the crazy old rig was called out again, and the soft blanket §pread in it, and John Jones took the lines in his emaciated hands and drove off in the direction he did the day before. e e

When he returned he was accompanied by a broad shouldered and good looking German girl whom he introduced to his over worked wife as “our girl” She looked with amazement upon “our girl,” then stared at John. He soon explained things.to her satisfaction. “The upshot of the matter is, Jane, that I've 'bused ~you long enough; the Lord helpin’ me, I'll never see you make a drudge of yourself agin. It’s a burnin’shame for a great lout like me to see a frail little body like you be a man, and a boy, and dog, and wife, and a mother, and me a savin’ and hoarding up soncy and means to leave for the Lord only knows who. I beg your pardon, Jane, and now you’ll tell this girl, Barbara Groetz, how you want things ‘done, and let her take your place and work in your stead, . and you will live héreafter like a human’s wife ort to. By the time his speech was made, the poor, weak fellow was blubbering like a whale.

- Poor little surprised wife! Sheflew to his neck and laid her head on his bosom and cried like a baby, as she said: “John Jones, you old darling!” “No, not a bit of a darling; just an’ old bear, a regular {)ld heathen to sacrifice the best little: woman under the sun, inch by inch this way that’s been goin’ on for years,” snuffled he, as he fumbled ¢ver her face in an aimless loving wa¥. - : " Then our girl, Barbara, went into Jane Jones’ harness, and it fitted her to a fraction.. - “Now we’ve turned over a new leaf, and go and dress up, Jennie, bless you;” said the new convert. So, with the memory of auld lang syne warming her heart, Jane unearthed her wedding dress in the afternoon, and brushed out her nutbrown hair that onee upon a time curled beautifully, Perhaps she felt foolish and. girlish, and out of her sphere, but-§he looked sweet enough to make up for all discrepancies. She sat sewing, putting on a new band on Ruby’s white shirt, when the children came home from school.— Her back was to the door. Tom came to a dead halt as he stepped upon the gill, and then ran round to find his mother. No mother there, but the smiling, pinky faced German girl, who was paring potatoes for supper.

Tom bawled out: “Is mother dead? Oh, I want my mother!” and circled round the house and peeped in shyly with wet eyes. Was that lady ina soft, gray merino dress, wearing an embroidered collar, anfl gold ear drops, his mother? . That pretty woman, surely it was, for Nettie was fedling of her face, and was Sf)arkling all over and was saying, “Is this you, ‘mother? Why, where have you been ?"; _ o “Oh, ma!” said Tom holding her around the neck as though she might get away, “why, when d%d you come back ?” Poor little ones, how proud they were of the household drudge in her new and beautiful transformation. _ But this is not all. Before the first cold blast of winter came, steps were ‘taken to save and lighten the labors

of the feminine portion of the farmer’s household. An. addition was built to the house, a new siding was put on, and painted white. New windows were added and green blinds, and a wide, long, roomy.porch. Closets were put in all the rooms; the old verminy bedsteads split up and used for kindlings ; new chairs were bought, iincluding a new rocking and sewing .chair for fhother; a new sewing machine that was™a love of a friend; the door yard was paled in, and the calves and colts were kept where they belonged, and evergreen ‘trees and flowering shrulibery and rose bushes made beautiful the yard. . An easy chain pump, took the place of the moss covered bucket that held as much as a churn. It was taken off to the barn to put clover seetd in, and the windless was borne away forever from the little arms that had tugged at ‘its ponderous weight with a sick weariness many and many a yvear.— The big well rope made a nice swing out under the oaks for Tom and Bellie and chubby little larry. Now that the no longer enslaved mother has leisure to mingle with her growing children as teacher and companion and friend, they grow -more lovable and intelligent, and cling to her like vines. They see so much in’ their mother to admire. and cultivate. And John Jones. That spell of fever was the Aaron’s rod that smote the rock of his soul, and opened it for the outgushing of-love and sympathy and charity, and ‘all, the virtues and charms afnd graces of the human heart; and to-day, growing broader and ruddier, and Tiper and better, there lives no happier farmer than that dear oldl renovated John ‘Jones. L P—ANTIDOTE FOR ACCNITE. How Dr- Grimes Saved the Life ofia ‘ Would be Suicide. ° (From the lowa State Register.) . : . - Heretofore the medical fraternity have considered that there was no antidote for poisoning by aconite. A. few years since'a lady in Winterset was poisoned by this drug, given to sher by mistake, and a dozen physicians, under oath, stated that it had no ‘antidote. Dr. Grimes appears tohave been the discoverer of a course of treatment that will neutralize the effect of it. ITe developed it in the case of J. R. Montgomery, whose attempt at suicide was noted ‘'in yesterday’s Register. Montgomery swallowed about three ounces of this deadly drug. It was discovered soon after it was~taken and two ‘physicians’ were summoned but did nothing for him, stating that he must die. Dr. Grimes was called, and as he arrived he administered a dose ‘of morphine. This was followed with thirty drops of belladonna and a,teaspoonful of “chloroform, given every three hours. By daylight the spasms ceased, and the patient was given brandy. Whenever there were symptoms of a return of the spasm the belladonna and chloroform were renewed. The result is that the patient has'recovered.” An evening paper has stated.that he took an overdose of aconite and vomited it up. This is an error.. He did not vomit after swallowing the fearful dose. Montgomery went. to work very deliberately and considerately to make an end of himself. He told the druggist that/'he wanted the aconite to poison a dog. 'The apothecary labeled the Dbottle, “poison,” and pasted upon it the customary and. cheerful picture of a skull and cross bones.— Montgomery says he washed off the label, stating that the druggist sold him the potion innocently, and he did not want to get him into any trouble. e won't tell who the druggist is, but is evidently well satistied tfh:at he is on this side of Jordan. Thahkstothe skill of Dr. Grimes. i Ll B——————— 2 ‘The Woman who can Clothe_H_ers%li on Fifty Dollars a Year.:, . , Six pair of hose at 30 cents will eost $l.BO. - Two pair boots at $3.50, and a pair of rubbers, sl—%B. This, if preferred, might' be changed into ene pair of boots, -one of shoes and a. pair of slippers. The ' rubbers mustibe had for wet weather. Next should be bought eight yards of flannel, at three shillings per yard, costing $3. This will make two pair of drawers and two under vests. The shaker flannel will be the best for these. ' Next, the underwear in cotton will require 40 yards of cotton, which may cost 15 cents a yard, and for which a very good quality can be purchased. This will niake three chemises, 714 yards, three pair drawers, 6 yards, two nightgowns, 10 yards, and two underskirts, 6 yards. Next, for wet or cold weather, a gray flannel skirt? to be worn next to dress requiring 8 yards of flannel, at 50 cents, will" take $1.50. A heavy ready-made dress can be purchased for $5. We have seen one recently, made of waterproof, which seemed to be just the thing for constant wear in cold weather. Another dress f 01; a change, or to be worn on Sundays, might also be bought for $5, or made up of alpaca at home, but would ‘then possibly cost more, though 12 vards of alpaca, at 37 cents, would cost s4.soflleav~ing 50 cents, for waist linings, facings and buttons. Hardly enough, though it might be made to answer. The best plan would seem to be to buy the dress ready-made of some reliable firm. Next, a cloak or sacque of cloth at $5. These are frequently offered in very good material, and cut in style corresponding with the customary moode. Two hats—the winter one costing %3, and that for summnier $2. If one has a little taste in matters, and can buy the materials and do hey own millinery, sheswill be able to make this amount produce very satisfactory vresults. Next a shawl for which $1.50 to $2 may be paid, and which will be pretty in the spring. Two print dresses at $3, and a Victoria lawn or muslin, 12 yards, at twenty cents—costing #2.40. We have now left from our $5O the. amount of $2.80. A yard qﬁrgnnen,' at 50 cents, will make collars and cuffs, which might be done at home, and 75 cents more will purchase worsted and a crochetsneedle, with which a nubia can be crocheted. This leaves but $1.55, which must be used for gloves.

A part of the company of young Japanese who have been studying at Ann Arbor have been summoned home. It seems probable that the financial embarrassment of the Mikado’s Government ' may render necessary still further curtailment of the liberal appropriations for educational purposes. : | i Tae Kansas City Times feels that “there was probably never a more scandalous piece of business than the rnomination of this man Williams by ‘the President, and if he should be rejected it would be one of the most favorable signs of the times.” .

NO'. 38.

C. G. FAIT'S RESPONSE TO “HO- . 'MO'S” SLANDER, IN THE = .+ "BANNER" OFDEC. IBta IBy | s [Continued !;om ia:stfwegk",'] ~ In regard to “Homo’s” insinuation that 'l_ accepted money under ‘false pretense, and then denied the fact until confronted by incontrovertible _proof over my own signature, I would remark to the intelligent reader that this insinuation has a mark of falsehood upon its face, as it is indirectly admitted in the above insinuation that I had on receiving ‘the money given (my receipt) incontrovertible evidence over my own signature, and upon presentation of said evidence - (receipt), admitted the fact' (of receiving the money). - For it is very evident that’ if said incontrovertible ‘evidence had not been given out over my own signature upon 'thef?ac(_r(jptanc’e' of saidmoney, it qqund. ‘l}o(}3@{3sl}sl3"? have been presented and -accepted, -as admitted in the insinugdtion; oo i - T am aware that all who know me personnlly, whether friend or foe, are convinced that {here has beenno other oceagion for the. above' insinuation save the fact that I am ‘an ayvowed opponent of seeret societies, and “Homo,” in making this insinuationis merely reiterating in substance the language my chief facciisevr“milde_'tq the church, which language proved so disastrous to the church b’eé;u“]se'of_‘i-ts_ glaring . absurdity and . evident’ untruthfulness. And it is evident that both this accuser and his friénd “ITomo” have used this and -other false insinuations ji?or the sole purpose of injuring my reputation, “thereby - hoping to destroy my influence in- opposing their monopolizing seeret rings. This they do to save their «craft, to turn men from the right way, and I imagine that if the Apostle Paul were here now and were to mect thesemen, he would fasten his eyes upon. them, as he did upon Elymas, t’llle 'Sorc"erer,. who likewise resorted to dishonorable means to protect his soothsaying craft, and would address ‘them as he did this man: i, thiles e o «“Q, full of all subtility and all mischief, thou child of the Devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways. of the Lord 2'—Acts xiil; 10.. -~ 2820 & & Friends and fellow-¢itizens, let mg now show'you that “Homo” made one statement in contradiction to a plain and direct statement-of our Lord. “Home” saysithe only vice that can--not be forgiven is hypocrisy, while the. Savior says ‘the only sin that cannot be forgiven is blasphemy against the. holy ghost. - Whom shall we believe? Let us take the word of the Lord and let somé one- yet ‘persuade “TTomo” to repent of his hypocrisy in assuming to give friendly and christian advice, while his writings’indicate that his purposes are as corrupt as were the motives of Judas when he kissed the Savior. Inproof of my statement in reference to this I&l:—lttei‘, I read from Matthew xii, 81, 32, as follows: “Wherefore I say unto you, allman-: ner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the holy ghost shallnot be forgiven unto men:. ... = =ood 0 And whosoever shall speak a word, against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever speak-. eth a word against the holy ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world nor in the world to come.” - But I do not wonder -at*'“Homo’s” perversion of:scripture. . This is-a common occurrence with the‘defenders of :secrecy. In fact the scriptures -are misapplied and often badly mutilated by the authority of the institutions he is trying.to defend. = In their ‘standard monitors and manuals, these institutions in their professed quotations of seripture frequently cut off and add to as suits best the interests of the brotherhood. - This is dong for an obvious reason, viz.: That all'may: meet upon one common plain; that he who is for Christ and christianity can meet and form a co-partnership, or brotherhood, with him who believes Christ an impestor. - And by eutting off and adding to; the: Word of God,. men of all religions; and of all nationalities, men of both low'and high degree, may be united togetlier in one: secret brotherhood; . whether for a good or bad purpose, you must judge by their fruits. But when you have tasted the fruits of these societies as I have-you will be pretty well able to. judge whether they are from God or fram the enemy of all righteousness, € But what does the Revelator John say concerning those who cut off and add to the Word of God? Hear: - - “If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.: “And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of lifq,’_je_i-j;_-Rep..,_xx;n, : 18, 100 w rns i Behold the plagues! - -7 — . «And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast .and the false ‘prophet are, and shall ‘be tormented day and night forever and ever.'— Bov, Xx, 10.. -~ iy e “And whosoever was.not found written in the book of life, was cast mto the lake of fire.”—Rev. XX, 15. . ‘“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, -and soreerers, and idolators, and all vliw:shall»ﬁdve.theirr‘ part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the secWe cannot think it possible” that the majority of those who defend se-. cret societies are aware. that the seriptures are by design misapplied and mutilated by the law-making power of these societies. But such we believe to bo the fact. I have ‘dotie, <ol L GG Bk

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© Written for the National Banner. ‘ -LETTER FROM MISSOURL - -+ - VIRGILCITY, Jan.B,’74. - MR. EpiTor:—Having once been a resident of your county and acquaint‘ed with many of. your readers, and belieying that nearly all would like ‘to read something from my pen, I take | this occasion, if it please you, to say ‘something through your columns, I wish'to give my friends and others . some information with regard to this - country, . especially South- Western ‘Missouri, - | Fo ; | The weather has been, and is now, very pleasant. People are now plowing and preparing their lands for the spring crop. lam told by the earlier settlers” that as a general, tHing the winters are very short, lastin® only sixor eight weeks severe enough to - prevent cultivation of the soil. During the summer season we, of course, have very warm weather. ' But after ‘all 'we do not suffer so much from the ‘heat'as you do in Indiana. We generally have -a nice, cool breeze all through the warm weather, ‘with cool nights 80 that covering, more or less lis needed for our beds. This is a good - soil for all kinds of produce. - ‘ - Those people who live in the Haw‘patch neighborhood and want to get good lands to make good homes had - better come to this country. I know they would be pleaséd with the face 'Nhe country and with the climate. ' “Our country is about equally divided between prairie and timber. The :prairie'sr are small and folling. | We have plenty of good water, timber, coal, stone and rock for building purs = poses. We have, also, good society - and schools. e . “This| country -is being' settled up very rapidly by a good class of people, mostly from Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois. 'When fully developed, I do think we will liave the finest section of eountry in theUnited States. . There is no'doulst 'but there will be - found very valuable minerals hot many days to come. Some are already beginning to prospeet, and the‘indications are very fair for coal, lead and iron, and, indeed, many places not far ‘from hiere lead is found in large quan~ ° tities not more than four feet below : the surface. 'We have no trouble to - get coal almost anywhere. The best - kind of eoal for blacksniith’s use can ‘be bought, delivered in'town, for ten cents a bushel. . ' = L e ~This is destined to be one of the greatest fruit countries in the world, as it seems especially adapted to the growing of all kinds of fruit. © As " regards lealth, there is no better place. Doctors will starve out here, unless they have other business “Or mea‘ns of support. 2 ! ~ Virgil City is 4 very flourishing - little town, situated on a beautiful divide along the line between Vernon ‘and Cedar counties, is twelve miles from railroad, but igitﬂl afairprospect “of having three roads running through the town. We have now a good flotr- - ing mill in eperation. o E Improved farms can be bought-in this locality at ten, fifteen and twenty- Q five dollarsiper acre; raw prairie, from five to ten dollars, and timber lands, = from four to six dollars per acre. In ~Virgil City good locations can be feund for a tin-shop and hardware, harnessshop, 'q11(1' for a good ‘cabinet maker. . And.l think a good tannery would pay. We have plenty of white-oak ‘bark andsumach. J.D.KAUFFMAN. oy i ER——— A WRITER in the Franklin, Ind, : Herald discusses thé total abstinence - question from abiblical standpoint. He = asserts among other things that“ Christ ‘urged the people tobe temperate, but .he peither preached nor practiced total abstinence.. * ** .* T assert positively, without fear of, successful contradiction, (if we believe bible his‘tory,) that he manufactured wine,” drank wine, and gave wine to his Dis- . ciples and other friemds. = And not | only so, but. he plainly, told them that | they should drink wine in his heavenly kingdom, or, in other words, in the- - world. It is useless to tell me that the wine that was manufactured and drank in:those days was not in‘toxicating. In that climate wine cannot be kept any time without fer‘mentation.” S ke ; O ———il 4 P i i —We do not know who is the author of the subjoined paragraph, but that he understands the situation, we -are-free to maintain: “Because aman is a farmer, it does not follow that he | must necessarily ignore personal decency, cleanliness, genteel habits, and a regard for good manners. Some part of his work requires ‘a coarse and | ‘strong dress, but he has as good aright to use soap and water, as the President of the United States.” v o : il e ~ —No man in business, says an ex- . change, should ever write a busineéss ' letter or make out a bill, without his card printed at the head of the paper, and the name of the State, town 'and place of business being printed there- - on. It not ogly"shows’ thathe is aman possessing business qualities, but it ' prevents numerous mistakes. It also saves considerable time in' writing,and costs but little more than the blank paper. ‘ G » From South Carolina domes a loud cry forimmigrants to deliver the State from negro and carpet-bag Tule. A - South Caroliniati recently said that the white people of that Commonwealth were left only the choice be~ tween immigration and emigration, ~Tux Missouri Legislature, with a ‘majority of Democrats and Independents, shows a praiseworthy exampleto ‘Congress. The sessigh of 1873 Cost only about $51,000, aénnmm» : ‘diture of nearly double that amount for mpubnmmesmmm