The National Banner, Volume 8, Number 42, Ligonier, Noble County, 12 February 1874 — Page 2
The Pational Banner
J. B. STOLL, Editor and Proprictor.
<« vl { e SRRV SIS :::.;':'.f .' e LIGONIER IND'A, FEB, 12,1874
ELsewnERE will be found some very sensible remarks by the Seymour Democrat relative to the next Demoeratic State Convention. We heartily subscribe to Bro. Davidson’s suggestions. . ¢
THEWIVES of the deceased Siamese twins finally accepted the pile of greenbacks offered for the bodies of these human curiosities which are now in charge of the lei‘xrned- Doctors of the Philadelphia Medical College for anatomical investigations,
AT KokKoMo they Imve organized a Building and Loan Association with o capital of $200,000, iu shares of $25 each, on which twenty-fi% cents are to be paid weekly, It ifll proposed to increase the capital stock to $250,000 at the next meeting. Senator Armstrong is Presidefit of the association, which counts among its members the most enterprising men of the city. :
SMARTING under their disastrous defeat, the Monopolists of “California have 'set an investigating committee at work to ascertain whether or not money was used to secure Gov. Booth’s election as United States Senator. The investigation thus far shows that Booth had consistently refused to seek votes by any gifts or even promises.
ACCORDING to the Plymouth \Democrat’s statement, extracts from which appear in another column, Attorney General Denny is doing a very lucrative business by way of “punching up” county oflicers, It appears that while the- Attorney General would have us believe that he is solely actuated byea desire to protect the. interests of the State, he is reaping a rich reward fon the little labor he performs. An investigation of this matter will doubt* ess 'be demanded at the next session of the Legislature., - ‘
I"or- the purpose of inaugurating @ thomughly effective organization against the retention upon Indiana’s statute books of ‘the Baxter'tempm'ance law, the Indianapolis Z'elegraph hias promulgated a call for a meeting of German editors, either at the State capital or in the city jof Terre IHaute, at such time as may hereafter be agreed upon. The Lelegraph proposes to make the Baxter law an issue in the next campaign and with that objeet in view urges the necessity of prompt action prior to the convening of the Republican ‘and - Democratic State Conyentions. . 7o
vS e e ‘Tne NATIONAL GRANGE began its session, which is restricted to ten days, in'the city of St. Louis on the 4th inst. The attendance was large, and the procpedings: arve quite interesting. | The Hecr(l;t:try reported that 8,000 subordinite Granges had been formed during the year. -The Treasurer reported $50,000 to be on hand. In the report of the Executive Committee, . co-operation is warmly endorsed, and the members of the Order declared to have saved $B,000,000 last year by co-operative stores, agencies, and grain‘elevators. Anything like wiging war on the railroads of the country 15 dispountenanced, as their interests are one with those of the farmers. Charlestgm, 8. C., was selected as the-place for holding the next meeting of this important body.,
THE tCRUSADE of the Ohio ladies against the saloon-keepers continues without abatement. By singing and praying, a large number of saloons have already been closed, and addi-‘ tional . victories are’ achieved every day by these determined feminine reformers. During the past week their operations have wrought wonderful results at Franklin, Warren county.'; at Hillsboro, lighland county ; Logan, I[ocki_ng county; L‘red‘arville,y Green county; Morrow and Waynesville, Warren county; Moscow, Clermont county; New Vienna, Clark county; Ripley, Brown county ; Athens, Dayton, Oxford, Lynden, Springfield, and ixearly all the towns of Southern and €entral” Ohio. | The greatest excitement prevails;- business is in many localities sus#gnded to afford opportunities for general praying, and anumber of lawsuits have been commenced by the offended liquor dealers for interference with their Business.
| CoNGRrEsS has at last succeeded in | finding a sufficient number of Senators Cand Represeéntatives to serve on the + committee for investigating the frauds ~ of the Ring which has so shamefully - plundered and robbed the tax payers of the District of Columbia. - A number of congressmen declined to serve ~ on this committee for fear of giving ~ offense to the aristocratic thieves who are implicated in these frauds. The most prominént members of the com-. . mittee are Semators Boutwell, Thurman, and Allison, and Representatives Wilson of Indiana and Jewett of Ohio, The investigation is instituted by request of the principal property-owners - of Washington City. Among these is ~ the philanthropist Corcoran who, in a letter addressed to Congress, reviews ~ the misconduct of the District Ring ) in negotiating loans, degrading the ~ financial credit of the District, levying excessive assessments, and swind-
ling the taxpayers by secret and corrupt contracts and other maladministrations. In some cases he points out that the assessment on land for improvements exceeds its value, and in most the assessment is figured at twice the real cost of /the work. He doubts, he says, “whether in any other community on the face of this broad earth the government of millions of money is intrusted to any one man, or set of men, who, in their own way, ‘and without restraint or check, contract indebtedness and give out work to be ‘done .without competition and to whom they please, at their own prices, and paying therefor in whatever form they choose, certificates, or cash.”
PRODUCTION VS. TRAFFIC. It is estimated by statistics that only one in a hundred of the merchants of Philadelphia, only two in a hundred of the ierchants of New York, and only three in @ hundred of the merchants of Boston escape failure and retire from business with independent means—the majority who. do retire having once or twice previously failed. At a certain time, in a list of four hundred of the principal merchants and speculators of Cincinnati, all but five had entirely disappeared from business in twenty years. An examination of the record of the Probate Court of Boston, some years ago, revealed the melancholy but suggestive fact that over 90 per cent. of i the estates of deceased: merchants were insolvent! ‘Such is traffic, and ; such its brilliant results! The profes‘sions of law and medicine would un--doubtedly afford’proportions still more sad, for every one knows that there is ~a vast disproportion between the number of rich merchants and the number of rich lawyers or doctors. lere is a nut to be eracked, which we tender with our sympathies to our numerous “nice young men,” to whom the mercantile or professional .career is tlie goal of their fondest ambition. In truth, we could find a sweeter nut, but:not a more wholesome. This beloilgs to that kind of things which are good physic but poor in flavor.
The above statistics show that an average of nearly two merchants in every hundred who did business in those rich and flourishing cities realized success. Now, among our young men, whom a commercial life is tempt'ing with rose-colored prospects, there is an exceedingly small number in possession of the present means to even begin business. By far the greater’ portion of those now without means will always be 'so, being cheated out of their ppportunities by vague, delusive, and misdirected hopes. Adding this class of those afflicted with the commercial mania to the number who actually have the present ability to ruin themselves in merchandise,.we shall probably find that about one among five thousand of your rich and poor aspirants will become a s‘dgcessful merchant. DBetter, therefore, make a profession of buying lottery tickets. © “What, then, is the alternative? Be producers instead of exchangers. The physical arts and sciences, manufacturing, agriculture—these are the sources of our individual as well as national wealth. Those who traffic in wealth add nothing to our national welfate, and at least ninety-seven in e:\"ery one hundred bankrupt themselves.: What then, but an igneoble preference for ruinous leisure canattract to those pursuits? low can it be less respectable to create a new form or combination of matter than it is to deal in it,as a trader, and earn one’s.living by it ?— Ilereditary aristocrats would be the first to laugh sucha principle to scorn. With European aristocrats, to whom American flunkeys look for guidance in such matters, it is the *“‘shopkeepers” (as they prefer to call those:whom we dignify' 'with the more sounding name of mercharts)who are considered less respectable than manufacturers and agriculturists. Society no longer uses the standard of caste. Cultivation, education; talents, are the open sesame to modern society everywhere. Society can’t jafford to exclude men possessed of such qualifications, for society needs the support of wealth and-the ornament of talent. !
From the facts given, showing to what extent our national and individual prosperity are due to the transmutation of our native resources, as'opposed .to traflic, it may be readily inferred thatin Ligonier as well as in’ a majority of the towns of Northern Indiana the proportion between the advantages of the two pursuits would be peculiarly prominent and striking. The prosperity and enterp}ise of all towns and eities can be accurately estimated by ascertaining the number of their joint stock companies. ‘For the population of such towns as Ligonier and Kendallville, for the number of their stores and offices, the proportion of jofl‘lt stock companies is aston- | ishingly small. Wealth, it is true, is possessed by both these towns, but it has not. been utilized. The cash is hidden away in banks, or invested in federal securities or eastern stocks, or set asi‘de‘ for shaving notes. While both communities are rich, there iscomparatively little money circulating among the masses or employed in local enterprise. This uniform scarcity and stringency,is one of the peculiarities of these places. And why is this? Because traflic is the rule, '(mgl production the exception; because the principle of business combination has never beén adopted; because money has not been massed fn manufacturing corporations. Pro‘duction, as a necessary consequence, has never been conducted on a large and profitable scale. Ilence, what capital there is in these communities is used for speculative purposes. ' If a man, with a capital of $5,000, embarks in manufacturing, single‘handed, provided he'is not undersold and opposed by a wealthier rival, he may, in some enterprises, finally achieve success. But his. work will be slow, his machinery not the best; his hazards from market fluctuations, during his slow and tedious process of production, will be great. - But unite ten or twenty, each with a capital ‘oxj credit amounting: to $5,000. - - You thus constitute one corporate capitalist with $50,000 or $lOO,OOO, as the case may be. This corporate capitalist can buy the most perfect machinery, by division of labor every, operator acquires such a dexterity in ' his specialty that he can doten times: his former work ; rapid production lot only saves time and money, but also lessens market ~risks; the formerly ! powerful $lO,OOO or $20,000 rival can be defied; they can hold their goods 'fQ;:_l : !(Tgt g&rigngmary, and can sell at the r moment; and th ‘make their ;‘tofiungztwm&?,ffl?dxfigggg ‘. ‘hundreds with steady employment who ‘who are otherwisedriven away toseek a Mving elsewhere, = 7
. This system would not only keep capital profitably employed at home, thereby keeping up ahealthy breeze in all departments of our local concerns, but would also bring us a liberal slice of the wealth of sister towns. In fact, we should enter upon a new‘epoch.— Speed the day, then, when we shall see combination and production installed in the high places now filled by traffic and isolation. 5
LOUISIANA’S BOGUS GOVERNMENT.
‘We publish elsewhere in this week’s issue the most salient points of Senator Carpenter’s speech on the bogus government set up.by bayonet rule in the'commonwealth of Louisiana. Mr, Carpenter, it will be observed, shows from documentary evidence that the Kellogg government owes its existence wholly to fraud and the military force of the.Unitéd States; that the order of the drunken Judge Durell, issued at 11 o’clock at night while his court was not in session; directing tlie United States Marshal to seize the State House, was illegal from every point of view; that the decree by which the Kellogg faction gained control of the State government, was void ab initio; that it was issued out of court heurs and out of thé eourt-room:‘that i&ligl not have the seal:of ‘the court or the signature of the clerk; that the case had not been heard at all; :}l'nd that, moreover, the court had nio jurisdiction of the subject matter whatever.
It would be natural tP suppose that with such a showing of outrageous frauds the government would take Ino other steps but those necessary for the inauguration of the legally elected’ Governor and other State officers. But this féimple act of justicé does not seem obtainable from the powers that be.. Morton and the other rijngmasters at Washington, who make no pretentions to legislating for the people, but solely in the interest of party, are not prepared to turn out the radical usurpers for fear of forever losing the political control of Louisiana:— Hence it has been concluded that the only eoncession likely to be granted would be a reference to the popular will. In accordance with this view Senator Carpenter last week introduced a Dbill providing for a new election in Louisiana. The need for this step is stated to consist in the fact that the State has no legal government or legislature, and- by its constitution nlone can be chosen till 1876. Meanwhile the people of the State are in daily danger of being oppressed, and being involved in vexatious litigation by the acts of this illegal legislature, and the people of the United States have to bear the cost of keeping the peace. President Grant is let down easy by the statement that his proelamation was issued on the Tepresentation of those wh(g have falsely pretended to be State officers. A new election is ordered to be held May 26 next, under the supervision of some one to be appointed by the President, and who may be an officer of the army not below the grade.of Major-General. Under his direction the voters of the State are to be registered. * The President may use all force necessary to carry out the previsions of the act, and any interference of the State authorities is to be disregarded as void. Whether this proposition will meet with sufficient endorsemeént among republican Sendtors remains to be seen. 'There ought to be no question of the adoption of Mr. Carpenter’s bill. If a majority of the people then determine to elect republican officers, all ‘vgood' citizens will acquiesce in the result. But to expect humble submission to a notoriously illegal and bogus government is too great a sFrafin upon human endurance. S
CONGRESSIONAL ASPIRANTS.
The nomination of candidates for: Congress is already being discussed in a number of the Indiana Districts. In the Second District the names -of Judge Niblack, ITon. Thomas G. Cobb, and, ;I'lon. James D. Williams, all of Knox county, are prominently mentioned in connection with the democratic nomination. Th the Third Distriet; Hon. Simeon K. Wolf is booked for re-nomination by the Democrats, In the Fifth District everybody opposed to the Grant party seems to be favorable to the nomination of the invineible and incorruptible Judge Holman, while the contest for the republican nomination: will be between Gen. Tom Browne, Chas. Coffin, Wm. Raxter, ‘and Jerry Wilson, with the chances in favor of the first named. — In the Sixth District the republican ‘candidates are Milt, Robinson of Madison county, Judge Buckles of Dela~ware, Senator Hough of llancock, Col. Oyler of Johnson,: A. D. Lynch of Shelby, Gen. Grose of lenry ; the Democrats and Liberals will probably nominate J udge March, a very popular and worthy gentleman. For the Seventh (Indianapolis) District Gen. Coburn is again named by the Republicans, and Mayor Mitchell by the Democrats. Gen. Packard will probably ask for a renomination by the RepubJlicans in the Tenth (LaPorte) District, but being a salary-grabber his chances are not deemed very flattering. In the Twelfth (Ft. Wayne) District, Hon. Robert Lowry is the most ‘prominent candidate for -the demo- ‘ cratic x}pmination;\ the Republicans ‘_(who are by 5,000 votes in the minority) seem to be entirely indifferent as to candidates. > In our own (the Thirteenth) District, Hon, John 11. Baker is believed to have the inside track for the .republican nomination, though Charley Chapman of Warsaw is sometimes brovght to conspicuous notice. ‘On part of\the Opposition the following names ate odeasionally mentioned : Hon. Horace Corbin, of Plymouth; Dr, Davenport, of Warsaw; Col. Tucker, of Elkhart; Col. Williams and Judge Harrison Wood, of Noble; Freeman Kelly, ot DeKalb; Dr. McConnell, of Steuben, and Hon. John B. Howe of Lagrange. ... . . S i i ¥ Wibese e
A cOUsIN of Lewis Kossuth denies the report that the Hungarian patriot is in needy circumstances and reduced to the necessity of giving lessons for gaining a Jivelihood.
THE ADAMS COUNTY COURT-HOUSE.
‘The citizens of Adams county boast of having just completed the cénstrue--tion of the most elegant and conveni--ent court-house in the State of Indiana. The total cost thereof is given, at $78,785.60. F. C. Johnson and Christian ‘Bossecker, of Fort Wayne, were the architects. The building, according '| to a description given thereof by the Ft. Wayne Sentinel, is 66x106 feet on the ground, fire-proof,” being built of stone, brick and iron (except roof timbers.) The cut stone for coins, watertables, door and window caps and sills is of Berea sandstone. The}first-story windows are trimmed with heavy moulded sills and pedament caps, and ‘the second-story windows are circular ; heads, with keystone caps. The door entrances are ;arched with keystones ' nicely carved.. The urmiculated keystone, moulded ares ‘and spandrel, supported by two Corinthian columns, produces a very fine appearance. The brick is the Philadelphia pressed brick, ‘which, as everyone knows, has no superior. The cornice, dormer windows and all of the outside finish of the tower is of galvanized iron. The cornice is panneled and moulded, with carved srackets and madillions. The Mansard roof is tastily slated and capped with a cornice and ornamental cresting. The base fél'nlilléites with a classic balustrade. The shaft has six square columns on each side, with windows between, terminating with a ' finely "o'rnzun'éntcd panneled and madillion cornice. The dome is square at the base, at which-poin{ there is a clock face on each side. As the dome rises, it gradually takes its shape, terminating in an octagon, capped with a cornice and ornamental cresting.— From the base of the building to the top of the dome is one hundred and eighteen feet. - | e
The Decatur people naturally feel very proud of having been supplied with such an ornament to their town. Many: larger, more populoys and wealthy counties than Adams maywell wish they were likewise favored with such a “temple of justice.” ‘ — e ——— @ [RE—— . THE ELECTION IN GERMANY, The recent eléction in Germany for members of the Reichs-Tag, or Parliament, resulted in largely increasing the.representative strength of the Ultframontancs (so-cz}xlled by reason of their extreme yie\{vls ‘as to the Pope’s supremacy.) Instead of 62, the Parliament will hereafter contain 115 Ultramontanes to side with the priests in their opposition to Bismark’s policy. To. this number must be added 57 Deputies representing various other factions llosti}eLKO the government.— The National Liberal party, however, still vétains anorking majority of 53 tb support Bismark in his great struggle with the Pope’s adherents: The vote in many localities was very light, which indicates that a large portion of the people are indifferent as to the issue between the contending parties. The largest Ultramontane gains were made in Prussia and Bavaria, the former of whigh is Protestant and the latter Catholic. The London 7imes is of opinion that the partial success of the Ultramontanes; has: made them “just .strong enouéf to give trouble, “but too! weak to"Lause‘ real embar“rassihent,* They will only aggravate “the angry feelings of their adversa“ries, and probably bring down upon “themselves fresh measures of coer“cion, which will hardly tend to bridge “over the gulf that has reeently open“ed between the two great parties in “the land.” This view is .confirmed by the arrest and imprisonment of Archbishop Ledochowski, who persistentlyand defiantly arrayed himself against the decrees of the German government, but whose conduct is cordially approved by the Pope and his adherents. From present appearances a conflict seems almost inevitable. el e
THE BLACKGUARD EDITOR
At the recent State Editorial Conventjon, Mr. S. Vater, of the Lafayette Journal, delivered a very able address on “Journalism as it is pictured, as it is, and as it might be.” In the course of his remarks he said: o
I should but illy perform my task if I should fail to notice some of the leading types of disereditable journalism, and first of all, “the blackguard editor.” He tolerates no respectable discussion. You must either give assent to all his assumptions, or be befouled all over with verbal filth. If you question the soundness of his position, or the accuracy of his statéements, he will at once assail you with personal - detraction and ridicule. Ile will invade the sanctity of home, and parade private matters before the public gaze. e will dig up or manufacture the vilest scandals. He apparently: thinks that the soundness of any position he may take will be sufficiently demonstrated if he can but prove you to be a knave or a fool. He is incapable of logical argument, and yet the rabble ‘ofteilvgive him credit for being an excee }ngly sharp fellow, and attribute to fear of his intellectual prowess a hesitancy which really proceeds from a natural dislike for a personal detraction. . He is often a swaggering bully, yet is permitted to pass off unchallenged for the same reason that men hesitate to attack a certain four-footed beast renowned for its flagrant odor, e It will not be difficult for the reader to determine to whom these remarks apply so far as Noble eounty journalism is concerned. If Mr. Vater has not admirably succeeded in:accurately portraying the fellow who is publishing a sheet at Kendallville, we simply fail to comprehend the import of his language. ... von s e
PRINTERS" STRIKE.
“They Indianapolis printers recently got up a strike breause the publishers of the several journals of that city refused to accede to the demand for an increase of wages. The proprietors of the leading papers were, for the time -being, put to considerable inconvenience on account of the scarcity of type-setters and were compelled to reduce the size of their papers until they succeeded in procuring the services of printers fom other cities. But these difficulties were soon overcome by the appearance of a small army of Faust’s disciples who came from all parts of the country, glad to
work for the liberal wages paid by | the Indianapolis publishers. The only “satisfaction” the strikers have is that of being thrown out of employment at a very unfavorable season of the year and to sée their places filled by men who appreciate the faet that. owners of printing. offices have some rights which deserve being respected. We want to see printers and all other laborers amply compensated for their work, but when it comes to dictating terms for the management of an establishment we deem stern resistance fully in order. : i
.. LOUVISTIANA. ' Senator Carpenter Shofixvs up the Rottenness ofher State Government. On the 29th ult., Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, reviewed at length the condition of affairs in’ Louisiana, as shown by the testimony before the Committee, and said in that’ part of his, argument he might be dry and tedious, but after this he intended to wash his hands of the whole affair, and therefore would lay before the Senate the case in its absolute nakedness. Then, if his Republican friends in this chamber thought proper fo take it on their shoulders and march through the next Presidential campaign, he would bid them joy. [Laughter.] . ! i : ~ Referring to the forged affidavits from which the Lynch Board made up its returns, he said one little gentleman with a smiling face appeared before the Committee and swore that he forged 1,200 atfjdavits and delivered them to. Boone in the open Board.— Boone said he was “a hell ofa fellow,” and asked him if lre could not get some more. He replied “Yes‘, he could have more by 9 olelock in the. morning.” [Laughter.] Instead of giving 9,600 majority for McEnery, as shown by the returns, this Lynch Board gave( Kellogg double that. We must say that if Warmoth could @ot abolish that Board, it 'was immortal, and never could be abolished. This canvass was also very profitable to the Lynch Board. It appears that virtue in Louisiana has its reward, and that speedily. Lynch had his own son, an engineer on the Southern Pacific Railroad, appointed Inspector of Livestock in New Orleans, at an annual salary of $12,000, and then had his son appoint “an old friend of his deputy, but finally Lynch came to the conclusion that it ~would not look well to have his son in the position and had him resign.— ‘After coming -before the Committee “at Washington and airing his patriot ‘ism, he went back to New Orleans, and Kellogg appointed him to the identical oftice at a salary of $12,000, which he holds to this day. The Kellogg Legislature abolished two Courts and created one, making Hawkins Judge, and consolidating the jurisdietion of both, and giving him exclusive jurisdiction over the contested elecition cases, writs of mandamus, ete., saying to him, “Faithful in a few things, I'll make thee ruler over many.” ' [Laughter.]; - Then Pinchback was sent to the Senate.’ Whatever else may he said of those rascals down there, they. certainly do not forget their associates. - [Renewed laughter.] When his friend from Indiana (Mor--ton) came thundering down on him with his artillery and heavy ordinance, he would commend him to a careful examination of the testimony -just read. L iy
Mr. Carpenter said he would next proceed to consider the interference of the General Government in this muddle. While this contest was going on, Kellogg commenced a suit' in the United States Court, and Judge Durell’ issued his restraining order, and it was amost remarkable document. On the 6th of December there was another judicial proceeding which had no parallel in -this country or in England.— At night, this same Judge Durell issued an order to seize the State-House. The testimony shows that he went to Tiis lodgings iabout 11 o’clock p. m., and, feeling like it, issued the order.— Nobody had applied for it. Ie was not siting in chambers, not holding court, but at his lodgings issued an order to the United States Marshal to seize the State-House. ! It was seized, a company of troops put therein, and the company held it for more than six weeks, while the farce of organizing this Legislature was being enacted, and these two men—Pinchback and Ray —were elected while the StateHouse was so held by troops: ™The act of Congress authorizing electiomr cases to be brought before Federal courts applied only to instances where parties were prevented from voting on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. So Durell had not even a decent pretext for jurisdiction. A more remarkable proceeding than that of Durell’s could not be found anywhere. . Such orders were never issued in Russia or Turkey. By his very.act he organized both sides, putting Republicans and Democrats out of the State-House. He (Carpenter) sent to the Clerk’s desk and had read ‘the orders of the Judge, and said he wished it was in- his power to have them read in the hearing of every citizen of the United States. | ____——‘“\__.»_ { Life in Utah.
Gov. Wood, of Utah, in vetoing the memorial of the Legislature for a Congressional investigation of the affairs of the Territory, presents a formidable indictment against the Territorial Legislature and Courts. The laws of the United States are violated with impunity in Utah every day; life, liberty, and property are-at the mercy of the lawless; the Probate Lourts have usurped the jurisdiction of the District Courts, and have put liberty and property in the power of juries whose verdiets were worthless; polygamy is everywhere practiced, and-allowed in the face of the law of (Congress of 1862 ; murderers are left untroubled by any attempt to bring them to justice; the right of suffrage has been conferred upon aliens and minors in violation of the Constitution of the Umnited States, and the Legislature has usurped the right of the Federal Government to appoint the Territorial officers. These abuses are charged upon the Territorial Legislature. They havebeen repeatedly summoned, Gov. Wood says, to reform them. If they persist in their refusal to do so, anarchy must.‘ensue unless Congress interfere.
Buarning of a Railroad Train.
The Chicago papers give the particulars of a serious railway disaster which occurred on the Northwestern Railroad about a quarter after 4 o’clock last Thursday morning, near Kisawaukee bridfe, and not far from Woodstock, IM. The Green. Bay Express coming toward Chicago encountered a broken rail, and, though the engine and mail car passed it, the other coaches were thrown from the track and overturned. Fortunately, no one was killed, though several persons are said to be severely injured, and nearly all on the t,r:i@h were more or less stunned and bruised. The baggagecar caught fire from the stove in turning over, and the wind carried the flames to the codches in the rear, four of which were burned. - Fortunately the passengers had made an exit before the cars were fairly ignited, and the disaster is chiefly shocking in ‘contemplation of the narrowness of their esoape from being burred to death.
‘' STATE ITEMS. @ 1 During the year 1873,:a firm at Huntington bought and sold upwards of 2,000,000 eggs. - : A Laporte County economist enters into an array of figures which conclusively prove that his ten year old dog has cost him $234 for hash and $25 for license tax, and he now wants to sell the animal for ten cents to defray the expense of its keeping. Acecording to the Gazette of that city, Fort Wayne contains a saloonist mnamed William Licliner, who has debauched his two step-daughters, and ‘almost daily amuses himself by brutally abhsing his wife, inflicting at times severe woundsin the arm. The beast is still permitted te run at large.
~ Peter Hartman, a Knight township, Allen county, lover, stands accused of having stolen a pocket-book from his intended mother-in-law—thus tak.ing vengeance by the forelock: e his abandoned courting to devote his anx-. ious moments in the Criminal court to Judge and Jury. L Mus. Jane T. Hendricks, mother of the Governor of this State, departed this life on the 30th of January, 1874 She was born in Franklin County, Penn., in 1798, and had at her death ‘passed four score years, most of which “time was spent in Shelby County, Ind., iwhere death overtook her in her infirmity. ; - Andmnow comes the Princeton (Ind.) Democrat, with the claim that theliquor law at present upon the statute books of this State, known as the Baxter bill, was drafted by a Methodist - minister named Butts, who was a member of the last Legislature. Butts, it seemed, was too modest to father the plagiarized bantling of Ohio and Illinois. ’
Logansport bummers, imprisoned in the Cass county jail, organized a trike last Friday and obstinately ref to work at breaking stone, en the stréets, for the wages established by the aythoritiek. They demolished the furniture in their cells and armed themselvps with the fragments, but were qujckly overpowered by the police. On Saturday they‘came to terms and went to work on the highways. A fown meeting of thé temperance element of Shelbyville, has resolved that the Constitution of the United States must he amended so that intoxicating liquors shall not be manufactured in the States or territories, nor imported thereto. This, it seems to us, strikes at the very root of the, evil —in fact, it eradicates the root itself, as completely as a dentist extracts an old fang. As soon as Congress hears from Shelbyville, the amendment will be put upon'its passage and in due time become part of our fundamental law. ' ’
Professor Cox, State Geologist of Indiana, in a recent lecture before the Manufacturers’ and Real Estate Exchange, at Indianapolis, announced that he was in receipt of a letter from Hugh Hartman, the celebrated German civil engineer, who has made the manufacture of iron and steel the study of his life. Hartman says he has made numerous experiments in Germany with the specimens left him by Prof. Cox, and he has no doubt of the future magnitude of the iron and steel interests in Indiana, and that she is destined to become the great iron-producing State and the future state of American steel-making. A young girl at Peru, in the employ of a restaurant man of that place, had her feelings so wrought upon by the circulation of a false reporttouching her chastity, that she arose from her bed at 12 o’clock at night on Wednesday of last week, went into %he back yard, and after prying up the platform covering a cistern, plunged. in and drowned herself - when there was no eye to see or arm to save.— The girl was young, and said to be chaste and very decorous in all her conduct. - The ‘despoiler of her fair name is a reputed lewd woman employed in the same establishment.— In this instance not only was the ¢haracter and reputation of an unsullied and virtuous person assailed, but the life of the victim taken by the slanderous tongue of an enemy.. f el < DE—- ’ GENERAL ITEMs. - A 86 oseph county preacher deliviered thirty-nine sermons and attended fifty-nine - prayer meetings within a period of thirty-one days. The Bar of Keokuk memorializes the Legislature of Towa to investigate the conduct of Chief Justice Cowles, who is charged with having had a pecvuniary interest in a lottery. The Patrons of Husbandry of lowa have been requested-by the Senate of that State to put into the shape of a bill the regulations to which they would like to have the railroads: submitted. 53 ; e
Gov. Allen. of Ohio, has been obliged, owing to the palsied condition of his arm, to ask the.Legislature to pass a law allowing him to use a stamp instead of writing his signature upen official documents. j
Senator Boutwell has proposed a bill to forbid the payment by National Banks of interest on deposits, and to require them to keep 75' per cent. of their reserves on hand. For a violation of the prohibition a penalty of four times the amount of interest is provided. - : Attorney General Williams has sent a long communication to the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, reviewing in detail all the charges brought forward to defeat his confirmation for the Chief Justiceship. It isintended as a vindication of his character, and will probably be given to the public sooh. Chicago, New York, and Boston have had their troubles with unemployed workmen, but in Vienna the problem is much more serious. Thirty thousand men out of employment in that city have petitioned the Government for relief. Thirty thousand able-bodied and hungry paupersin one city cannot be a pleasant prospect for Francis Joseph. : e The great tragedian, Mr. Edwin Booth, has become a voluntary bankrupt. His liabilities are about $200,000, and his assets reach one-third of that amount. The failure is attributed to the mismanagement of his brother, who has liad charge of his theatre in New York, and, by introducing trashy plays:of the medern school, wasted the great popularity which Edwin had brought it. L A fight took place at a.country dance near Middlebury, Elkhart county, last week, during the progress of which one man was shot through the cheek, knocking out two teeth, ahother was cut across the abdomen, receiving a slight wound, and another was stabbed through the arm with' a harrow tooth. Whisky was the prime cause. The affair has been hushed, and no complaints made to the authorMies. o o G b ‘
The young ladies of New Albany having formed an association whose members are pledged not to receive attentions from any young men who either drink, smoke, chew or swear, ‘the gentlemen have organized an An-ti-P Society, binding themselves not to visit any lady who either pouts, paints, pads, powders or primps. Between the two we judge that all' further: ‘communications between the sexes in that city wil._l cease, Sl
THE FEMALE CRUSADERS.
The organized crusade of the women in Southern Ohio, and the inauguration of a similar movement in- Massa- | chusetts, to compel the saloen-keepers | to stop'selling whisky, is unfortunate’| in almost every respéct. Honest as | the crusaders may be in the purpose ‘they have in view, they have initiated ‘a course of proceedings which will ul~ timately bring both religion and temperance into disrepute. 111-considered, spasmodic, and irrational, their only, _effect can be, when the relapse comes, to react upon rational religious effort and to set intemperance wpon the in-| crease. Itis incredible that fanaties. in the temperance-reform movements _cannot understand that men: will lot quit drinking upon compulsion; that when they tell a man, sYou shall not’ drink,” he will drink worse than'ever. These bands of \J'Omen,ntr('m]')ing' tlie streets and besieging the saloons; may temporarily close them, because they surround the doors and prevent ingress.. Those who desire to go in can only do so by violent resistance to the: woien, an unmanly act of which no one wishes to be guilty. Thus the women, by the immunity from violence whieli their sex guarantees-them, and not by praying and singing, ¢ompel the saloon-keeper to elose his doors because they shut off his business.— It, therefore, becomes a question -simply of how long this state of things will continue. The montent the .wo-
men tire ouf and withdraw their forces, that moment the saloon-keeper will reopen his doors, and his sales | will be augmented in proportion to the time they have been closéd. The spirit - which inspires this movement is shown by the remarks of one of the, clergymen.at London, Ohio, who' said}| in the course of hisspeech: “Yes, we' -will send the. ladies: to these places, and, if an insult is offered to them." if a hand is laid on thein, let us see it—‘Let them dare to touch my wife. . We. will rise as one man and enforce the law of our country.” - Withqut stopping to admire the. courage of this Boanerges, hiding behind, his wife's’ petticoats, or to inquire what law of | our country, he proposes to:vindicate, the utter absurdity of this proposition to interfere with a business,” the law, -in this high;handéd manner, will be apparent toievery one. So-long as there are men to drink, there will be. men tosell them liquor. If prayerand singing are .§0 eflicacious, why" do not these women and their advisers.con--centrate their prayers and psalms upon their husbands, sons, and friends? It they have not done so, they have not done their first duty. If they have done’so, then manifestly’ the-attempt to stop them from drinking by this means -has failed. - Buf if they have failed to move the hearts of those whao are bound to them by ties of affection | and Kindred, how can they reasonably
expect to win ovey those who ave bound to them by no ties,: and whose | business, which the law allows under certain conditions, tliey arve .directly | interfering? From the temperance point of view, it is very clear,that, so long as these women can spengl their | time in the streets, and the gsaloon;« keepers -are forbearing in deference to their sex, thiey may prevent whisky from being sold. = But they cannot remain in the streets .always, and when they retire to their homes again and the saloon-keepers finds the feminine obstacle removed, he will open the | doors again, and intemperance. will rage worse than ever: Thisisnonoyel experiment.- It has been tried repeatedly, and the result has always been the same that we predict for the present attempt. ¥ou cannot compel | ‘a man to stop drinking any mere than you can compel . a man to be good.~+ From the religious standpoint, the effect will be still worse., -When:it may make one friend to relgion it will make ascore,of enemies. What with -the heterodox notions now prevailing’ the world over, that gradual hreaking away/of the people from: old forms | and dogmas once held i reverence, ‘the backsliding congregations “and ministers falling from grace, the professors of religion should be careful | how they add to the burdens imposed upon the Church by plunging into un- | reasonable and hurtful religious. excesses; by praying and shouting in the streets, contrary to the Divine injunetion: - “When thou prayest, enter into the closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray-to thy Father, which is in seeret; andthy Father, which seeth. in secret, shall-reward thee openly.” It the women, however; are to, per-. ‘severe in their praying raid,- why do .they not extend their operations?— There are many worse places ih every city than saloons which need praying foryand, if it is-proper to-invade saloons, why not invade the pawnbro~ ker’s shops, “fences,” the Peter Funk | stores, the gambling-rooms, the houses of ill-fame, and all other’ establish-. ments which make a living by preying upon the community ? ° Why not also include within the sphere of their‘operation - Legislatures, Boards of Trade, railroad corporations, and City, Rings? Where is this things going to stop? ‘The originator, or rather the reviver of the old ‘custom, is' Dr. D‘i'ol Lewis, of Boston. Having set this ‘ball in motion, it is reported that he is now organizing similar raids against the use of tobacco. 'ltris too mueh to anticipate that, after he has besieged the tobacco-stores with troopsof praying and singing women, the unfortunate householder who does not believe in Lewis’ theory, that a piece of bran bread and three beans are sufficient daily sustenanee, will find his property besieged in a similar manner? Where ‘will the crusade end ?—Chicago Tri- | DU e e s SO el e
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