The National Banner, Volume 8, Number 45, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 March 1874 — Page 1

The Hational Banner : Pvui)llahedyby : JOHN B, STOLL, : LIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY,IND. . i *TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : Sreictly Inndvanes, oo 0 0000 88,00 W T hispaperis published onthecash prmczZ)Le. its proprietor believing that itis justesright for him to demand advance pay, as it is for City publishers, ¥ Anyperson sendiug aclub of 10, accompailied with the cash, willbe entitledto acopy of ctne paper,foronevyear free ofcharge. : ;

CITIZIEENS IBANIK, LIGONIER, : INDIANA. . DEPOSITS received subjget to check withoul notice VDY ANCES made on approved collaterals. . HoNEY loaued on loog or short timne, A 0 I'Es disconnted at reasonable rates, © DR DERS for first-class securities execnted ou com‘mimsfon. il | L ENTs for thle purchase and sale of Real Estate. INSURANCE POLICTES written in first-clags com- © opruies. it 5 B XCHANGE bought and sold, and drafts drawn on all tne grincipai cities of Europe. : Atie TS for the Ipman line, ¥ i : Hamhurg Line. f | P LAI PTICKYTS sold on ‘all the principal seaporis of Barope. | Hoga |l AN PR Farmers’ and Mechiurica’ accounte <olicited, and ab business tranpsacted on tibera) Lerims, e ~ STRAUS BROTHERS. Liganier, Tnd , Oci. '3?;1, (872,26 . o Lake Shorve & dich. south’n R. R. G aiter December 14, '3, traius will leave Stastons? as follows : ' : GOING BANT: . . - ; Sp.N. Y.z Ati'e. Kz Aceom. Sojabiro s Boy 18 35 panL WL R N Gl AR O 19.50 i 420 am cioashietlcsa eb W 010 10 Lao s lersbury. TS .otlo 28 scie Bl Lismteroes . 830 oo 39 e n Y Worwanking ciibo i i . Tio bl e B Brimneld oL et Je klo BY e Kendativible . 8400 .. 11 13 L BNo secive at Toleda d 26 dea e e GOING WEST : Daiede, oo iR IGping sL bl dp.pn oo 480 pm Weadallvifles 5 331 pm. i 3 Toam. ... B 4 Bebatold sl 13 45 S SART O Wawakn, ...... T 3 565 SB6 st Ay Ligonier i ieii o 4 04 e 350 i By | Millersbarg. ... 1418 @ 0.0 4405° ... 950 | Goshien A 8 93 | 1010, Elkhart. ........ 4355 e 44D . ..1035 4 AsriveatChicago9 200 ... 850 Leie T Xbam t'l'rains do not stop. o fixpreseleavesdaily both ways. b Accommodat'n makescloseconnectionat flkhart with trains going Eastand West. CﬁAS-. PAINE, Gen’lSupt.,Cleveland. J. N.KNEPPER, 4gent, Ligonier.

| Pittshurg, Ft. W. & Chicago R. R. § From and after December 14, 1873, i GOING WEST. N T Nos, No 17, No. 3. FastEz. Mail. Pac Ex. NightEz. Pittsburg...... 2:lsam 6 00am 10:00am 2 15pm Rochester..... i...... 7 30am 11:20am 3 25pm ' A11iance....... s:4oam 11.00 am 2:3opm 6 13pm 0rryi11e,...... 7:lsam 12 54pm 4:23pm 7 50pm Mansfield..... 9:211am 3 16pm 6:23pm 9 55pm Ctrestlime...Ar. 9:soam 4 00pm 7:lopm 10:25pm Crestline. ..Lv.lo 10am 6 00am 7:45pm 10:35pm F0re5t.........11*33am 7 40am 9 30pm 11:59pm Lima..........12:30pm . B:ssnm 10.50 pm I:o3am. Ft Wayne..... 2:55pm 11:50am I:3oam 3:25am Plymouth...,. s:o4pm 2:45pm 4:olam 6:osam Chicago ....... 8.20 pm 7:ll)gm 7:3oam - 9:2oam - GOING EAST. ’ NoB, No 2, § Noé6, ' Nod. - Mail. Fast Ex. Pac Kz, Night Lz. Chicago.. J.... s:lsam 9 20am 5 I!.’Spnl‘\ldqm)pm‘ Plymouth...,. 9:26am 12 10pm 9 10pm "2 22am Ft Wayne....l2 40pm 2 35pm 11 30pm 5 50am Lima..lveeess. 3:oopm 4-21 pm 1 38am 8 (4am: F0re5t........ 4:2opm 5 22pm 2 48am 9 30am Crestline . ;Ar. 6:lspm 6 50pm 4 20am 11 15am Orestline . .Lv. 6 15am 7 10pm 4 30am 11 30am Manstield .....|6 ?L)am 7 3Tpm 4 57anmi 11 58am 0rrvi11e....... 9 13am 9 29pm 6 40hm 1 53pm A11iance.......11 20am 11 10pm 8 35am 3 40pm Rochester..,.. 2 10pm ........ 1042 am 6 02pm Pittshurg ..... 3 30pm 2;2oam 11 454 m 7 10pm - No. 1, daily, except Monday; Nos 2,4, 5,7 and 8, daily except Sunday; Nos. 8 and 6 daily. tir. lt:u)ltls‘& md. and Cine., Rich. & Ft. Wayne R. R, | Condensed Time Card. Dagily, except Sundags. To take effect November 2d, T 3, ‘ ; GOING NORTH. Express, Express. Accom. Richmonag sis & iiis : 1000 am 4 00 pm , Newporta ol diiye gl 1830 430 * Winchester .. il 1118060519 46 Ridgavilleii i i 1145 *¢' '540 ** s Portland:ia s oocis o 1217 pm 610 ‘¢ Decatrsisveviii i i 136 . Fort Wayne, D......... 800 am 280 pm TLo Kendallville oo 00l 939 e 347 8 Sturgls cieici 7 01049 0 BBt ! Mcuﬁ0n................11‘22 600" Ka1amaz00.......,.....1225pm 655 ** i Monteith iacsiss o s L 2304 - T6l Grandßapids........a. 265 ¢ 915 * Grand Rapids.......d.' 3254 700 am Howard Qivy. ... 0.0 5038 % -0 99 ¢ Up. Blg Rapids /.. 0., 647 ¢ 103914 th-cd(JitK.............. qRnEY 11104 : ClhambLake...... ... 850 % 1285 pm e Traverse Oityis.- 1 430 i GOING SOUTH. Express Express Express Praverse Uity .- ..o 0o : 700 am Clam Lake. 000 .o 500 am 1035 ** ReedClty. iia oo icids 630 ¢ 1220 pm Up. Big Rupids:... ... 07 ' - 1850 Howard Gty o iv: . L e 204 . Grand Rapids......a.. 10Rh e od g 9 tt ‘3rand Rapids. .4... d.. 726am1120 ‘. 425 °* - Montetthiiii oo i 8065 1250 pm’ . 557 % zoKalamaaso.diiiiiiic 9402 1400 0 6i45 *¢ s Mendeon wicaics e 11047 ¢ | 205 M Sturgl .000 o 0 o 118 836 't Kenda11vi11e...........1251pm 957} ‘F0rtWayne............/800 ot Decaturiis oi.cii i, 309 > Accom Portland 00l aii i ial A 1 = 6450 m Ridgeville ioo o 4405 716 0 Winche5tey............ 512 ¢ [T4O 8 Newport 2o o 0 00, 509 't 8380 ° Richmond ..o 0.0 685 .900 . . Express trains leaving Richmond at 1000. a m stop all night at Grand Rapids.

Michigan Lake Shore Rail Road. Trains run daily except Sunday. . Condensed time card, taking effect Nov. 3d, '73. GOIN@G NORTH. GOING BOUTH. Expr. Mail, STATIONS. ‘gypr — Mail, 35 pm 8 10am..Kalamazoo..11 20 am 645 pm 432 ‘¢ 855 * oMontetth. .. 10 27 * D 6 514 ¢t 937 “.‘-..Aili]egan. 0. 0t el 608 ¢ 1083 ‘v .. Hamllton... 910 % 438 ' 837 © 1104 £ _Holland,.... 840 ' 408} 748 * 1210pmGrand Haven, 7-41 ** 306 * #34 ¢ 1255 %/ Muskegon .. 700 *: 295 : F.R. MYERS, : ; General Pagssenger and Ticket Agent Cincinnati, Wabash & Mich. R. R Time Table No. 8, taking effect Monday, the 28th day of October, 1872: gorva sourn. STATIONS. ' @OoING NORTH. N 0.2 N 0.4 e No.l | No, 8 425 pml2oo’'m a.....Waba5h....1700am 130 pm 340 ** 1040 am .Nor. Manchester 750 ‘* 230 ** 823 %1020 * ..,.SllverLake....Bl7 ¢ 318 * 230 * 905 ¢ . . War5aw,.....9056 ' 42§ * 210 g Teekbare. .. 925 7 500 * 150 ¢ 7805% L NIOYG .. (o 94D O 530 ¢ 19 v ran st L oNew i Paris. 01005 558 * 105 ¢ 700 * ..dp Goshen,ar..lo2s ** 620 * 100 1 ..ar Goshen,dp..lo3o ** 12 30% c...-Hlkhart,... .. 1055 ** Praingrun by Cleveland time. A.G. WELLS,‘Sui’t. + P e ———e——— 10l RYE AND EAR, E 4 A .

DR.C. A. LAMBERT, (LATE OF OHIOAGO,) | f‘,f OCULIST and AURIST, 4l GOSHEN, INDIANA. . 4 . W. CRUNM, Yo Physician and Surgeon, Ligonier, = = = . Indiana. Office at resdience om Martin st., near corner of Third. Mayl2th, 1869. . D.W.C, DENNY, M. D, Physician and Surgeon, "o LIGONIER, INDIANA, L will ?m‘mpny and faithfullyattendto allcalls in the line of his profession—day or night—in town or any distance in thecountry. I . W. CARR, . /e 2hysician and Surgeon LIGONIER, - - - - =- = IND., win promgtly attend all callg intrustedto him. Office on 4th Bt,, one dooreast ef the NATIONAL BaNNER officc. . 3-43 Surgeon and Physician, Office at Residence, ' : Ligonier, = = = « Indiana. ; A.S. PARKER,6 M. D., IMOMEOPATIHEIST, Office on Mitchel street. Residence on Eaststreet. . Office hours from 10t0 12 4. ~ and 2to 4 .M. * " KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA.

M L. COVELL, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Publiec, LIGONIER, INDIANA. Office, over Beazel Brothers’ new Harness Shop, ‘ - QCavin Street. - Attomeg' and Counsellor at Law. ffice in the Court House, . ALBION, - . . - - - IND. 615 L. M. GREEN, Attofney-at-Law & Notary Public. 'LIGONIER, - - -~ - INDIANA, Office peeond floor frout, Landon’s Brick Block, e KNISELY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LIGONIER, - - - INDIANA. g~ Office in Mier's Block, e 7.2

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‘ AALBERT BANTA, ' Justice of the Peaee & Conveyancer. LIGONIIER, INDIANA. Special attention given to conveyuncing and collections, Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages drawn up, and all legal business attended to promptly and accurately. Office over Straus & Meagher’s store, ! May 151873 15-8-3 D. W. GREEN, justicuol the Peace & Collection Ag’ ty \l‘( ¢ i t I JUSHEG 0116 FRAce c LOLIBeTIon AL, Giler wirh v Landond, second floor Landon’s L Brick Block. - LIGONIER, - INDIANA. . 9 s aaE - L e NGRS T &S T | gk Corner of Mitchell and tate Sts., i one block east ot Post Gilick, room over the Kendallvilie Fruit lioose, tendallville, Indiana 73 VU work werrented, Kendallvilie, May 3 1871, 4 A AN, Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, . LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. A ! Is prepared A to doanything / S 2 in theirline. A ‘l!3'![ e succesfnl prac- £ PN P vice of over 10 t LSSI ae ee, vears justifies A e e B Diw inb sayiug s e e EaE et =gf thut he can | ’?-e ,ﬁﬁ% giveentiresat. : bl oBT i=faction to all Fol e ,;-;,Ju,) i 3 weho may be. stow their patronage. B¥ Office one doornorth of Kime’s, Cavin St.

‘ b Ef. A. MOYER, | ‘ (Successor to W. L. Andrews,) - . SURGEON DENTIST, KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. . LIQUID Nitrous Oxide Gasadministered for the — painless extraction of teeth. All work warranted, Examinations free. g%~ Office, Second Story, Mitchell Block. s B-14-1y EI. €. WINEBRENNER, ign, & Ornamental Paint House, Sign, & Ornamental Painter, Grainer, Glazier and Paper-Hanger, Ligonier, Indiana. 8% Give me a call befure letting your work, and I will guarantee satisfaction in every instance. £l [vßnl ; PHILIF A. CARR, "ATUCTIONEER, Offers his services to the public in general. Terms moderate. Orders may be left at the shoe store of P. Sisterhen.. = Ligonier, January 8, 73-31 J CONCORD & CATAWBA WINE. We sell Mr. L. SHEETS’ Wines. - Pure — Nothing but the Juice of » the Grape. . : ) SACK BROTHERS. _Ligonier, July 3, "71.-tf :

. GEO. M, SHADE & CO., hn i CARPENTERS AND JOINERS, LIGONIER, : INDIANA. Shops at Randolph’s Saw and Planing Mill. Orders solicited and satisfaction gnaranteed. 8-2 Co V. INKS, DEALERIN MONUMENTS, Vaults, Tombstones, AND BUILDING STONES LIGONIER, IND. April 12, 1871.-50 H. B. CORNEILI,, Is now prepared to take GEMS of a superior quality. ‘Having purchased one of the great American Optical Company’s | i MULTIPYING GEM CAMERA, Which has facilities for making 9, 18, 36, or 72 plctures, all at one sitting, the nationcan now be supplied with first-class work at a trifling expense, within thereach ofall. Thefoilewingaretheprices: 7 Pictures r0r.......................g100. 16 i s e B 0 32 e S 800 70 £ S Lt e 400, PHOTOGRAPHS THE SAME PRICE! Ligonier,lnd., Nov. 15,1871. : S. A, HERTZLER, ¢ ' DEALER IN . locks, Watches, Jewel Ulocks, Watches, Jewelry, = ;. L, géxeﬁimeles,rd]:lc =% N 7 ?Hﬂ:;a; A ould respectfully "6“\’2)s@ announce to the ci- = el Jm\ 1 'ai‘i = tizens of Ligonier e ° i) - JEi=—= and vicinity thathe S e B f\"“:};; has permanently loil ¥ e ‘jgl;é cated in this place, _._i,_‘/,@‘ P== {&‘ 1= and is pregm‘ed to =N ;’5“ do_all kin g of, reees oo B pairing in his line T_-’-:’ ofbux:’incss,tmd hopes te receive a liberal share of public patronage All work warranted. Give mea trial. Ofilce five doors north of the Ligonier House, 8-21mé LIGONIER, INDIANA,

BININGER’'S - " [ \‘ ‘ V ¢LD LONDON DOUK GIN. Especially designed for the use of the Medical Profession and the Family, possessing those intrinsic medicinal properties /which belong to am old and Pure Gin. : Imltifpc sable to Females.;Good for Kidney Complaints. A delicious tonic. Put up in cases containing one dozen bottles each, and sold by all druggistg, grocerg, &c. A, M. Bininger & Co., established 1787, No. 15 Beaver St., New York., 271 y For sale by Fisher Bro’s, Ligonier, Ind. | TEEGARDEN HOUSE, . Laporte, Indiana. V. W.AXTREERL, = ;. - Proprietor. Laporte, April 5, 1871. . STOP AT THE : KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. NEW COMMODIOUS THREE: STORY BRICK Hotel, only ten rods Lrom the L. S. &M. S. R. R. Depot, and four squares from the G, R. R. R.— Only five minutes walk-to any of the princi&:a] businesshouses of the ¢ity. Traveling men andstraners will find this 4 first-clasg house. Fare $2 per ﬁay. . J. B. KELLY, Proprietor, Kendallrille, Aug. 3, 1870.-14 ; i W. A. BROWN, Manufaeturer of and Dealerin all kinds of FURNITURE, SPRING BED BOTTOMS, WILLOW-WARE, : i BRACKETS, de. COFFINS&&CASKETS Always on hand,’ and will be furnished to order, Funerals attended with hearse when desired. - Store Room: 1 lop Cer. Cavin and 2nd St'.}- ngonlel7 Ind August 7th, 1878.:-8-15. A New Hand at the Bel- : P lowa!

JOHN ABDILL WOULD respectfully announce to his FRIENDS and the public in general that he has started in business on his ‘“own hook” - at the well-known McLEAN STAND, ON CAVIN SBTR., and has now on' hand a large assortment of Table and Pocket Cutlery, Best silver steel Axes, $1.50, Tin, Sheet-Iron, ("oner and Brass-Ware, and all other articles usually found in a First-Class Tinware Establishment. Stove FPipe | Made to order and kept on hand. Special atten " ‘tion given to roofing, spouting, &c_. PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES, But always as low as can be afforded b{ straight - : tzrwurd dealers. Give mea call. Oct. 16, "18-25¢1 JOHN ABDILL.

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: : AND ! ! ! il % ACA Dluﬁ&‘f. ' . i EREI b s The Bpring Term will commence, MARCH 9, 1874, axp aLose MAY 29, i 874. : The Fall Term will eommence { AUG. 24, 874, AND oLosE NOV. 13, 1874, This Schocl offers superior .and thorough training to teachers, embracing Normal Methods, Lectures, Theory and Practice, &c. The ceurse of study will embrace all the Sciences, Ancient Eu:guages, Higher Mathematics,and Comnioh Branches. Roois and board can be had for $3.00' per weielg. Rooms, for self-boarding, reasonable. - Prineipal willaid in procuring roomsand boardine, . JUIIIOR—IN ADVANCE. =~ | Normal@owee, .0 .0 enig Langenapesia. oo 0 LG 80D Common Brauches, (Elerm-xy;(nr;)...,.. Rl 000 ‘Our object is to ‘offer yod the advantages of as good a schiool as can be found in the State. The Age demands eultured minds. No young geutleman or fady wh desives to be n-efnl can neglect self cnltuie. Onr etfuris wiil be to make our Bchool room & prEasaNT, HAPPY PLACE, and YOur schocl term very profitable to_you, ,Taition will be refunded in case of proteacted iflness Feb. 12, 'id—4t. T E. HARRIS, A. B.

()H YlB IAI you farmers who have sales to ' ery swill do well to callon . ‘ JOSEPIE S, POTTS, : KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. He is as rood at that as ke is at selling bed springs and upeland cranberries. Office at the Agriculture | Store of G. A, Brillhart 42 6m VORQATTER “.\i farm of 160 ncr;:,—aghB OR bf\l‘ E "7ty ncres under the plow, forty-two acres in wheat, a good orchard, good buildings and fences in good repair; situated in the Hawpatch, on the. main road. Also, a House and town lots in the town of Ligonier. Enquire of [vBn2] L. COVELL, Ligonier, Ind. PERTY ~ FOR SALE. : NOT]CE is hereby given that by virtuc of an order of sale to me issued by the Clerk of the Noble County Circuit Conrt, the undersigned, Administratrix of the estate of Joseph Tumbleson, deceased, will sell at private sale on Saturday, February 28th, 1874, On the premises, an equal undividea two-thirds (%) of the south two-thirds (25) of lot No. thirtyohe (31) in the original plat of the town of Ligonier, Noble county, Indiana. TERMS :—One-third cash, onec-third in twelve. months, and one-third in eighteen months, with Bix per cent. interest, the purchaser giving hisnote waiving valuation and appraisement laws, and secured by good freehold sureties. - & " NANCY TUMBLESON, Jan, 29th, 1874-40w3 Administmtrix. Banking House: . or SOL. MIER, Conrad’s New Brick Biock, LIGONIER, IND’NA. M(méy loaued on lagig and short time. . : Notes disconnted at reasonpble rates. | Monies received on deposit and interest allowed on specified time, ! Exchange bought and sold, and Foreign Drafts drawn on principal cities of Europe, 8-2 TO THE FARMERS : : Y‘(XU lwill please take nolice that I am still engaged in buying wkeat, for which I pay the highest market price. } If you do not find me on the street, call before selling, at my Banking Oflice, in Conrad’s Brick Block. SOL. MIER. Ligonier, Indiana, May Sth, 1873. —lf

- SACK BROTHERS, Bakers & Grocers. . CavinStreet, Ligohier:lndiana. : Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, &c., ChoiceGroceries,Provisions, YankeeNotions,&e Thehighertcash price paid fer Country Produce; Mayis,'es-tf: SACK BRO’S. ! L ; . : ; 0é‘1:- ; 6

Here’s a Chance! GEO. W. REED, : Cr'qnnvell. Indiang, : £iHns an assortment of * § - Buggies. Wagons, Sleighs, "And Bob-Sleds, : Which he offers the public at gost. WORNK FULLY WARRANTED. Call at his shops and s;;;r youréelves! Cromwell, Deec. 18,773.-20

- HIGGINBOTHAM & SON, , o - ‘M"‘,'LV n’/,, %) 8 i ~ L GRS . Kl RN e BRI YT\ ; _ ; W%Z/////’ L : : e s /""’“;Zi\ SR\ ;-_— 2)! ? SN WSy ; "'~4.r;.:..-’j Py ! .qu W, A\ ” y LTS Mo / w&,»mW/% Y, WM gLy . S LRy <l Ii *' ’ I 3 : . B x . R Watchmakers,” Jewelers, : AND DEALERSIN ’ Watches. Clocks:. JEWELRY AND FANCY GOO_DS‘. Repairing neatly and promptly, executed, and : warranted. Agents for Lazarus & Morris’ Celebrated Spectacles. : ¥ Signofthe bigwatch, corner Cavin & Fourth streets, Ligonier, Indiana. &3 * May 3, 66-tf

e MAINFEFOOD: ! How Lost, How Restored. Just published, a new edition of Dr. N\ Culverwell’s Celebrated Es- @ say on the radical cure (without medicine) of Spermatorrhea or Sempinal Weakness, Involuntary Seminal Losses, Impotency, Mental and Physicm{ Incapacity, Impediments to Marrla{ge. etc.; also, Consamption, Epilepsy and Fits, induced by self-indulgence or sexual extrava%g,nce. ; 8 7 ! 82 Prices in a sealed envelcpe only six cents. The celebrated author, in this admirable essay, clearly demonstrates from a thirty years’ successful practice, that the alarming consequences of self-abuse may be radically cured without the dangerous use of internal medicine or the application of the knife; polntin% out a mode of cure at once simple, certain, and effectual, by -means of which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may be, may cure himself cheaply, privately and radically. 5 f &a~This lecture should be in the hands of every youth and every man in the land. fent under seal, in a plain envelope, to any address, post-paid, on receigt of six cents, or two post stamps, Address the .}mblishers.» : CHAS. J. C. KLINE & CO., 127 Bowery, New York, Post-Office Box, 4586. April 17, 1873-50-Iy-Bch39 i 3 ERRORS OF YOUTH. A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years from Nervous Debility, Premature Decnf, and/all the effects of youthtuf indiscretion, will, for the sake of suﬂ‘eﬂnF humanity, send free to all who need it, the recipe and direction for makin‘g the simgle remedy by which he was cured. Sufferers wishing to profit by the advertiser’s experience can do 8o tﬁ addressln§in perfect confidence, JOHN B. OGDEN, 42 Cedar st., New York. November 27, 1873-6 m-a & co 4

CANCER ot CURED without the aid of the knife, poisonous secharotics, and caustics, bﬁ a simple and scientific system of medication. By removingthe tumor only, the seat of the disease is not reached and is sure to break out again with increased violence. I cleanse the blood from Arf cancerous matter, b{ a local application, kill and removethe Tumer, It is the only treatment that will cure cancer. I also treat Scrofula, and other diseases. Residence near Grand Rngids D?ot. : JOSEPHINK E. SILSBY. 5-2yl Kendallville, Xoble Co., Indlana.

LIGONIER, IND., THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1574.

o SONG. HY MANDA LEVERING. When the blooms are on the sloe, | And earth is fair, we feel no woe, ’ : f Our hearts beat joy at every throe, . Ard we are l;fe,e as the bounding roe, *- We trip the hours with giddy toe, | Ne'er dreaming that they "1 prove a fue, As dark as raven sung by Poe. | In summer sun, our sheaves we strow, _ And cry uuto onr fellows, * Ho!"— - Our love of halloo show— . ! *“ Our barns, not yours, with grain o'erflow, **Yon do not toil as we, nor plant, nor hoe, *t And that is why ‘ yonr cakeds dough.” Iu cooler days, wiren fall winds blow, : Aud when the goldén fruit we sirow, : We pass/the poor incognito And deem it very apropos : To raisé our eyes and murmur, *‘Oh !” ; _ And griptheir debtor fohe, o With hearts as cold as Arctic snow And schemes as black as any crow. When the sun in winter swingeth low And allithe gronnd gpread out below Is white as death in falien snow; While the shadows crowd the glow, Out beyond where ali things go, It'chills our hearts, for then we know That this is typical, for, lo! - Our heuds are white, and teebler grow The pulses that keep our lives in tow; -Our wayward steps, tOO, weth slow Aud with a pang we gnd it edg . i ‘That the Boatman oon td us MUSTTOW, ; Across the dark, cold water’s flow. - 5 Sv, in tears our hearts bestow A longing look on eartl:, a& though ‘ Our treasures here bade us say no, : Should the angel draw his bow. : Then we must gather where we sow, A harvest careless sown, I trow,, . Tares, or wheat, in the/happy glow In the fleeting hours of the *‘long ago” That now their shadowg_“dsrkly throw O’er the plains once all'aglow; Whiie the m ower, grim, ‘doth moy, Inr the valley, to and fro, : s Where life’s sun is swinging low. .

- DAISY’S MISSION. : {Overland Monthly.] Hell-Roaring Bar was neither a pretty nor euphonious name, nor a reverential one: but/considering the character of its dwellers, it was an exceedingly fitting one for the locality that bore it. A six months’residence there convinced me so thoroughly of this fact that I could not conscientiously havé changed a single letter of the name, even if I had the power todo so. Not that it savored of sulphurous odors; not that the roarings of its apparent patron saint were ever heard echoing among the canons that encompassed it ; but for sinfulness, and wickedness, and riotous debauchery, it was peerless among all: the mining camps I had ever visited in 'California. - I was sent there' in the summer of 1853, by a San Francisco firni, to close out a business that was drifting into | involuntary bankruptcy, and a long dusty ride found me there early in June of that year. A view of the camp from the mountain had not impressed me favorably with it, and a nearer acquaintance only confirmed that impression; but, like a half-reluctant bridegroom, T had, resolved to take it for “better or worse,” with but slight hope, however, that it would prove any better than it looked. “Hello! deacon. What do you want in Hell-Roarin’? Preachers don’t stand much show in these diggins,— You ain’t wanted, better git!” . This was my greeting.. I had just alighted from my mule, tired and out of humor, and felt half inclined to resent the brusque, unmannerly salutation, but did not. It was not a consciousness of the truth that quieted me, for my appearance was certainly slightly clerical.- True, I had a perfect right to differ in opinion with the speaker, for of a verity this was just the place where preachers were wanted, and just the place they should stay; but, making no professions of godliness, I held my tongue for a moment. I looked up; a brawny and powerful figure confronted me, and I prudently held my temper. I replied blandly that I expected to remain there awhile, and suggested, with all meekness, that appearances were sometimes deceitful. Soon the Bar was agog with curiosity, and a crowd gathered. And such a | crowd! Great broad-shouldered fellows, dirty, unshaven, deeply marked | with chronic dissipation, whose every second word was an oath; striplings whose tongues were volubly impudent and early trained to blasphemy in imitation of their elders, gathered round, while I unsaddled my.mule in so awkward a manner as to excite derision. These people weighed everything, like their gold-dust, in their own scales, and measured by their standard, I was regarded as a worthless imposter.. I had “store clothes” on, and this fact alone was too miuch for the fixed conventionalism of the Bar. Buckskin and gray flannel assumed a dignity in early times among the “honest miners” more unyielding, more exacting, than purple and fine linen. My “boiled shirt” was considered an infraction, and therefore the, Bar was affronted. “Deacon” was echoed from mouth to mouth. Bets were offered and freely taken that I was a psalm singer; a gambler, with a dead thing, or “waxed keerds;” alawyer; a doctor; anything but a horse jockey or a gentleman. Although nettled with the uncourteoys reception, I could not afford to fall out with my new neighbors. Beating my dustyshat against my knee with a well assumed swagger I turned and quietly asked if the Bar was dry. And the Bar was dry! ; v With a whoop, the crowd adjourned ‘to a saloon —a rickety, clapboard in‘stitution, furnished with a few tools and rough ‘tables—and the Bar drink —first with myself;" then with Joe Miles, the proprietor; then with the bluft indivigual who had first accosted me. Pressing through the crowd, he held out his big, rough hand, and, taking mine, he led me forward with something of a triumphant. “Boys,” he said, “I take it all back. This is my old slipper; came out with him from Boston in ’46. He aint no . preacher—he spends his money like a man, and don’t whine. Any one that don’t like him call on Bill Throp.— That’s me, boys! Lets take suthin’.” - Finding that things had taken an unsuspected turn, I immediately took advantage of the new situation,-— Throp stood sponser for me and his epithetic assurance of my preacher like character and proper disregard of the value of m@ney put the Bar in good humor; so I explained my bus-. iness and hoped to deserve well of the boys. And I won the friendship of these people; not pandering to their tastes or falling into their practices, but by minding my own business.— ‘While abstaining from rubbing against their prejudi%es, and serupulously avoiding all interference with their pleasures, I sympathized with them in all their little troubles, and they respected me. ot o ¢ The Bar, by day, did not seem to be a very bad:or boisterous place, in working hours it indulged in a kind

tof feverish rest. But it was at night that it shone in the full glory of its appropriate name. Then it was the vampires that sucked the blood of honest labor came forth. Short-card men, poker-sharps, monte dealers, farodealers, and others of the fraternity, - sneaked out to prey on the earnings ;of the day, and the Bar ran riot. It . was then that great strong fellows, | who ‘were wearing out their lives in a ‘, daily conflict with nature—tearing ~open the mountains and wrestling - with the streams—that others might - wear the gold they won, would gather ‘Tound the gambling-tables to “try their luck”—and this thing called “luck” in. early days was a strange thing. Existing on the superstition that is found in the composition of every man, in a greater or less degree, it was a phantom thatrhaunted all classes, and entered into all human calefllations.— Luck shamed reason and set at naught all mathematical certainties, and; forgetting that a man’s luck was much on his own making, it was followed with a persistent fatuity that led the feet of too many into bad and dan- | gerous places. It was the scapegoat for all sins and short comings. It was the rock upon which were built the: golden castles of the hopeful future; the shifting sand that carried away with it the unfruitful and diastrous past; the harvest whose sheaves of promise often yielded only bitterness and disappointment. In these tilts with fortuneé the Bar drank deep. If it was dry by day, it was unquenchable by night. If luck was with -the boys, they drank, and dallied with it; if against them, they drank still dgeper, and cursed it.

' | Altogether the Bar was a wild and -abandoned place; attrition with these people taught me that there are solvents for even crystalized wickedness —that there is no cloud so dark as to be without a single streak of silver, no nature so rugged as to be impenetrable, or beyond the reach of human--Izing influences. - I had been domesticated in my new' home about a month, ;when a circumstance took place which seemed to change entirely the whole routine of Hell-Roaring. There was an arrival one morning, and the Bar throbbed with a new sensation; a quiet, unassuming lady—a_ Mrs. Hampton—and her little daughter, who sought rest and health in the mountains. Mrs. Hampton was widowed, but no one inquired into her history. She was weleomed as a new and strange element among so much wild, reckless life, that brought back memories of mother, or sister, or sweetheart' far away, and the Bar was pleased. The boys christened the little daughter “Daisy,” and she was well named.— From this day a marked change took place. Every one desired to be well thought of by the new comers; dress became an object of solicitude ; drunken yeélls rending the quiet night were less frequent; spirits of evil seemed to be quelled, and the Bar was on its good behavior. . ! Little Daisy was everywhere as a ministering angel. If there was a sick-bed in the camp, Daisy was beside it with the little luxuries that the hand of woman only knows how to prepare. If a poor fellow was about to “pan out” his few last sands of life, Daisy was there, to wet the parched lips, to fill the poor neglected heart with hope, or to write the last message to loved ones over and beyond the plains. Quiet and unobstrusive Daisy moved about in her ministrations. As she passed the saloon on her errands of mercy—her brown hair neatly folded over the forehead, her little basket of “goodies” on her arm, and a word and smile for every one—oaths half uttered would be choked back, and rough and brutal jests shrunk unspoken as if ashamed in her presence. Even Oregon Sis—to whom a blush was a stranger—would hang her head silently when Daisy was near, and her eyes would swell perhaps . poor thing! with looking back to the old days among the apple blossoms, when she, too, was pure and innocent —at least I thought so. Somehow, the Bar was not so dry as formerly; and Joe Miles, its ruling spirit, neglected his business, and said he was sick of whisky selling. He laid aside a six ‘shooter, that, reports said, had served him only too well on more than one occasion, with the remark “that the Bar was so quiet now it wasn’t no use to carry it.” Joe was very particular now as to his personal appearance, dressing .in the once despised “store clothes,” and tovk to solitary rambling about the neighborhood. It was noticed, if Daisy had occasion to pass along the dangerous trail through the canon, Joe was there with his strong hand to guide her. If she crossed the foot-log over the turbulent stream, a steady arm was generally there to support her, and more | than ouce Joe was found in earnest conversation with her or reading the ‘books with which she supplied him.— Joe finally sold out the saloon, and in‘vested in a mining claim, which he was industriously working when I closed out my business and' left the neighborhood. ] I visited the Bar once again. Down the wild sierra, by the ;same tortuous and rugged trail that/I had traversed nearly two years before; winding among the same lordly pines, rich in. fragrance and standing like sentinels in the mountain:passes; through the same groves of laurel aud manzanito, glistening like waves of emerald and silver in the noonday sun, full blossomed and wondrous in their beauty, T approached the Bar. The place ‘seemed changed. A few little white .cottages peeped out from among the rich oak foliage, spots of groun(‘;l were under cultivation,-and the hand of industry had been busy. The clapboarded saloon stood in the same old place, just as I had first seen it, but its dilapidated condition showed that the institution was poorly patronized. A ‘crowd had gathered near it—not such -a crowd as in the olden time, but-a so- { ber ax‘ﬁ quiet one. Every one looked anxioug to tell me something, but no one spoke till I found my old friend Thorp. Taking my hand kindly, he led me aside, and for a moment was silent. “Well, Cap,” he said earnestly, “things is rough on the Bar; they ain’t like they was when- you left. She’s gone—that’s Daisy—and things ain’t gone right for some o’ the boys ever since. Yes, Cap, it'is mighty rough!” I asked where Daisy had removed to. “Q, no, Cap, you don’t understand. The old woman, she went bu_ﬁk to Sacramento—broken hearted, they said; but Daisy she’s gone; called for, taken up among the sgam where she belong.ed. We miss Daisy, Cap. She got round some o’ the boys, and made them promise to knock off theie grog; T hain’t teuched it since, and I'm | saved, If she’d only staid, this thmg wodegin‘ aldn’t "a’ happened, Yousee, Cap.” he continued, “here’s how it was:— One ¢’ the boys got badly hurt in his

drift across the creek, and one mornin’ Daisy started over to take him somethin’, and it was a runnin’ bank full and the log was' slippery, and—well, we found Daisy a mile below, with her brown hair all tangled among the willows, and her: blue eyes kind o’ pleadin’ for help; and we brought her back—poor thing! There wasn’t a single drink taken on the bar that day, Cap; it seemed to go agin the boys.— And Oregon Sis—her that we all, thought so bad—she combed out the tangled hair, and she knelt down and kissed Daisy, and went twq miles afoot up the meadows and got flowers. and put them in the little blue hands and—there’s where we laid her, Cap; up there, where you see them ‘white | pickets.” - loom : FoY some time the poor fellow could | say no more, but sat with his face buried in his hands. ‘ - 1 “And Joe ?” I asked. Vi

“Hush,” he said, pointing to the saloon, “Joe’s in there; his sand’s about panned down—shot night afore last in arow. Joe’s a-passin’ in his checks, sure! You see Joe went to the bad. He sat by the old foot-log melancholy like, and wandered up and down the | creek and no one could do anything with him, and he took to drink again; and the cussed temper come back, and he got to quarrelin’ with everybody. Night afore last he got in a row with Potegee Jolin in a poker game; they both drawed, but John was too quick for him, and Joe’s bad hurt. The doctor says he ain’t got no livin’ show; may be you'd like to see him, Cap.” We went together into the room where the wounded man lay. The broken windows were darkened with blankets, and on a rough pallet we found the poor fellow, breathing heavily and two of the boys fanning him tenderly as a mother would have done. The ashy face and heavy drops of sweat that gathered on the fore head told the unspeakable agony of the sufferer, and showed that sure enough Joe’s sand was nearly run out, and he beyond all human leecheraft. We had not meant to disturb him, but his ear, quickened by pain caught our stealthy footsteps, and, turning around, he reeognized me. ' . “00, Cap,” he said, “you have ' come at last. 1 knew she would send some; one to taik to me as she used to—to! tell me about that blessed land where Christ lives-——Him that she just made" me understand a little when she left us.. And pray .for me; Cap, and ask Daigy to forgive me for letting the devil come back, and for forgettin’ all | that she taught me. She told me if I would only believe all she said I would go to a glorious land that was away beyond the stars. She’s gomné there, Cap, and I believe every word of it now. O, canyou pray? She taught me, but I’ve most forgot how.” ' ; If ever I felt like praying it ‘was then. .If ever I felt able to ask forgiveness for a poor, wayward, shattered soul, trembling on the brink of the Unknown, about to be weighed in the balance of the Eternal, it was at that moment. Soon there was silence unbroken, save by a few smothered sobs by the bystanders; but a quiet, peaceful light rested on poor Joe’s face.— “Come close,” he said, in a low tone, «I feel better now; I know that T’m goin’ to where she is, and somehow I. don’t feel so much pain. Tell the boys to lay me besile hér; there’s room, enough and then I can find the way to where she is. "And Cap,” he whispered, as he reached his hand under the pillow and drew out two pictures, “put these on my heart for they belong there; poor old mother and her —the only two'that ever knew how to reach it. 'Write to mother how it was, and that if I did forget her, I never will again. When I’m gone, whisper to Daisy that I believed it all, every word of it; that I found the road at last, and am comin.’ Yes, Cap, I'm goin’ to Da—" : Poor Joe! the blessed seeds of light sown by the little Daisy had taken [\g‘bot at last, and an unruly and turbuTent spirit was at rest forever and forevermore. |

Symptoms of Liver Complaint. | A sallow or yellow color, of the skin, or yellowish brown spots on face and other parts of body; dullness and drowsiness with frequent headache; dizziness, bitter or bad taste in mouth, dryness of throat and internal heat; palpitation ; in many cases a dry, teasing cough, with sorethroat; unsteady appetite, raising of food, choking sensation in throat; distress, heaviness, bloated or full feeling about the stomach and sides, pain in sides, back or breast, and about - shoulders; colic, pain and soreness through bowels, with heat; constipation alternating with diarrhoea; piles, flatulence, nervousness, coldness of extremeties; rush of blood to head, with symptoms of apoplexy, numbness of limbs, especially at night; cold chills alternating with hot flagshes, kidney and urinary difficulties; dullness, low spirits, unsociability and gloomy forebodings. Only a few of above symptoms likely to be present at the same time. All who use Dr. Pierce’s Alt. Ext., or Gol‘den Medical Discovery for Liver Complaint and its complications are loud in its praise. ; ' A CURE OF LIVER DISEASE. & ‘Rusk, TExas, May 10th, 1873. Dr. R. Y. Pierce:—My wite Tast year at this time was confined to her bed ‘with Chronic Liver Disease. /I had one of the best doctors to see her, and hé gave her up to die, when I came upoa some of your medicine. I bought one bottle and commenced giving it. She then weighed 82 Ibs.; now she ‘weighs 140 llbs. and is robust and hearty. She has taken eight bottles in all, so you see'l am an advocate for your Medicines. @ WM. MEAZEL.

Value of the Newspaper. The value and importance of the newspaper reporter, to the country, is thus truthfully summed up by Rev. A. P. Stone, in a recent sermon: “The newspaper is more feared, to-day, in congressional halls, and the high places of corruption and villainy, than laws and courts, the stings of conscience, and the thunders of divine wrath. God is a great way off, and the judgment waits; but the übiquitous reporter thrusts his sharp gaze into all covert and all hidden schemes—an unerring detective. The pestilent spy will tell all he sees—tell it on ‘the housetops, print it for a nation of readers. €Good! give us more of this. Long live the reporter. Let every public man who meditates a little piece of gainful fraud, understand that he is shadowed at each step by this unbought espionage, and though he may not be convicted, he will be restrained.” The: Rev. gentleman might have added, with great propriety and extreme regard for the truth, that the only bulwark now standing between the peo%vle and official robbery and national disgrace, is the independent and liberal press, S

No. 4&5.

, MISERY OF A MIDDLEMAN, Jake Suyder Unbosoms His Gﬂéi’.- = A New York, huckster makes full confesslon of his crimes in the col--umns of the T'ribune, but gives a lesson_in facts and logic that may: be studied with profit by those who in‘discriminately condemn the middle: man and think -he ought to be “abolished.” I amoneof those dreaded people who live by extorting. from ‘the farmers their hard-earned. profits. I am a"useless, worthless being, whose labor adds nothing to the wealth of society, an incubus and a curse to industry. ‘I am well aware of this, for I have been told it very often, until at last I have come to believe it. - And here is my confession: I would re-

form, but that is impossible.” I'have a ‘large family, and have been in this unfortunate business for so many years, and have grown soold in this iniquity, that I.cannot now ‘change.- I'live in the country, but am not ‘Tich onough ‘to own a farm, and: get my living by buying produce from the farmers and , shipping it to the city markets. lam ‘a poultry, egg, and butter dealer, and sometimes I buy hides and calf-skins

‘and wool.”- Thave a good deal of money invested in my business; if I were to get all my ‘debts collected, which is very improbable, and sell my horses and wagons, I might own three-er four thousand dollars. T have worked over thirty years to save that, late and early, in cold and-wet, and have lost in' bad debts, during that. time, at least an, equal amount. I pay cash for everything I buy from the farmers, and here is my crime.. What'l buy of ‘them I sell again at a” higher price. - I admit my guilt, but, in extenuation, I would plead that I must do so to live, and ‘that my living is an absolute necessity; to the farmers:of my neighborhood; for I am upon the road all day, collecting my poultry, eggs, etc., and: get up long before day light, when the farmers are all snugin bed, to pack my stock and take it to the depot for shipment. - Idothis for ahundred farmers at least who are my customers, and how are they to/do it for themselves, I would ask? Then I send my stock away, and have to wait many weeks: before . . s ) THE MONEY COMES BACK, = and not seldom I lose quite -a sum by the failure of a dealer in the city, who goes under in the panic.” Then again I am often docked, and lose weight on ‘my stock, for my customers, will feed the fowls -a lot of - dried corn and let thém cram themselves; and leave a pail of water in the chicken house, so that when I weigh the fowls they have each at least a pound of soaked corn in their crops, which I'pay ten cents a pound for; but of course that is lost to me, and how can I make it up but by ‘paying less for poultry. I often have addled eggs get in among the fresh-ones, because. the' farmers don'’t like to waste the nest eggs, and being: Ronest : farmers, cannot. bear to be cheated themselves, not evenout of a rotten egg. Then when Igo home and handle the eggs, I have a few dopzen eggs to throw away. Besides I have to sort over the wool, and pick out thedirty rags which the farmers will pnt in the middle of the fleeeces, and shake the .dust out of the hair of thehides, just because the farmers will drag them about in the dirt; and that makes them heavier,all of which.extra weight I pay them for. I know lam guilty of all. the farmer charges me with. I get a little out of him, and a little out of those'to whom I sell, but I think. my case admits of some extenuation; for T must live, and if I was to put myself out of the way, which perhaps would be the best thing to do for such. a poor worthless fellow, who is going to gather up the chickens and eggs, and other things for the market? I would .gef out of the way if 1 eould, but T can’t, and that’s what’s the matter; and the farmers’ wives too, never let me pass the door but they call for me and say: “Mr. Snyder, (or Jake,if they are‘'well acquainted) I've got some poultry I want to sell, when can you come and get them ?” "’ Now if Jake Snyder was to turn up missing ' some fine day, who"is to .do the business? So, after all, they need not be so-hard upon a poor middlemans " Al

-~ _An Unenviable Position. . -A. correspondent of the Indianapolis Sentinel, who has evidently been there himself, thus portraits the embarrassing position of a ecandidate this year: .Right here it is suggested that the politicians will have a warm campaign this year..-- If the candidate supports the temperance cause, the liquor men will nof vote for him, and if he takes up the liquor cause: the temperance people will not support him, and-if he comes out as an independent, neither party will vote for him. Again, if h}, is a candidate in the interests of tlie workingmen’s associations, the Grangers will refuse to support him, and if the ‘Grangers vote for him, the middlemen; will stay at home, or run one of their own men. If the ‘Republicans nominate a Granger ‘the Democrats: will defeat him with an anti-Granger, and if . the Democrats - nominate a Granger the Republicans will beat him with an anti-ring man. But if the Republicans make: party nominations and the anti-Republicans make.independent nominations, Baxter will- demand of one or the other a pledge not to repeal his law, and if he does not get his wants he will: lead another party most likely., Then, last but not least, the rich-man’s party,-as certain folks are wont to talk, will come in for a seat-in the great law-making bodies. Such complications never did exist in the country before. -.-

“Qld Hickory.” - A . correspondent of the Jackson (Miss.,) News tells us how General Jackson got his title of Old Hickory.. He says he got the story from Captain | William Allen, a near neighbor of the Gerieral’s -and who messed with him during the Creek war. ~During the campaign the soldiers were moving rapidly to surprise .the Indians, and were without tents.’ A cold March rain came on, mingled with sleet, which lasted for several days. General Jackson got a severe cold, but did not complain, as he, tried to sleep in amuddy bottom among his half frozen soldiers. Capt. Allen and his brother John cut. down & stout hickory tree, peeled off the bark, and made a covering for the General, who was with difficulty persuaded to ‘crawl into it. The next morning a drunken citizen entered the camp, and seeing the tent, kicked it over. ‘As Jackson crawled from the ruins, the toper cried: “Hello, Old Hickory! came out of your bark and jine us ina drink.” -

The diamonds and point lace worn by|/the wife of Hon. Benjamin ‘Wood at &he Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum ball in New York were valued at over $lOOOO.

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“THE GRANGERS, : Their Grievances and their Aims. [From the Brownstown, Ind., Bannér.; ¢ The farmer’s meeting on Saturday ‘was largely| attended, and the address -of Mr. F. B.‘»Cofﬁn; of Valparaiso, was listened to with close attention. ~Mr. Coffin is-a pleasant speaker, who deals with facts and figures in plain language, without any attempt at rhetorical embellishment. He dwelt lengthily and foreibly. upon the impositions practiced by railway companies in divers ways upon the agricultural interests of the country. He exposed the process by which railroad stocks.are:

“watered” until fabulous amounts are reached upon which l‘n.ﬁg]e, dividends -are unjustly declare(d~~dividends of ‘accumulations derived by excessive [freight tariffs. He alluded foreibly to the fact that companies almost invariably charge more for transporting a ‘barrel of flour to New York than they do for a barrel of wheat, and account-: ed for the anomaly in the fact thzﬁt they were also largely .interested in flouring mills in the east. As an instance of railroad exorbitance, he cited

the casg of a Wisconsin miller who had seven hundred barrels of flouron hand when the panic seized the country last fall. To ship it to Chicago, and pay the rates exacted by raijfo’ad compa-~ nies, would have involved aloss which he wished toavpid. lle therefore con-, cluded to take advantage of the for-: eign markef, and consigned his flour by steamer direct to Liverpool. When he received his return, his surprise may be imagined upon ascertaining that the entire freight per barrel was lessthan it would have .cost him by railroad to Chicago. Mr. Coffin spok%a : of the actual cost of farming machinery and implements, sewing machines, &e., and contrasted that with the price demanded by agents of manufacturers —“middle men” who fill their pockets as they empty the pockets of the farmers. e read aresolution adopted by sundry plow manufacturers, in~ which® they resolve not to sell direct to Grangers and Farmers’ Clubs unless they pay full retail prices. He advised

farmers to shun all such mahufacturers, and to buy of those who would sell to them direct at a fair anﬂ;easonable price. Eie . Inalluding to patent rights, Mr. Coffin said $100,000,000 were in Washington City to-day, to procure an extension of the patent on sewipg machines alone, and with considerableirony and sarcasm said that this amount was paid by the people to the sewing machine companies, and that the sewing machine companies in turn pay it te our Congressmen, and -then the people in turn turn round and pay the Congressmen for taking it. (He didn’t say it; but he might haye{added, “and allow them back pay for not getting it sooner.”) i i In conclusion, Mr. Coffin remarked that the Patrons of Husbandry had no desire to interfere with a man’s political opinions. Each member must be his own judge as to his course politically. As for himself, he said he “would do as he pleased,” and it would be his pleasure to favor capable and honest men, in preference to corrupt and incompetent men, for office. Hé said it was every man’s duty not onlgi to deposit his vote in the ba}{ot—bo s

but each and everﬁri one should make it a duty to attend township or district caucuses and primary elections and conventions,and use his influence foward having good, honest and true men nominated for the various offices to be filled. ; : 0 : RE *.,__‘ - ey ¢ MeasuE-ing Hay. ‘- To measure the contents of a stack of hay proceed as follows: If itis a round Stack, tapering to a point from the ground, measure the width half way between the ground and the peak of the stack; multiply this width by itself,-and divide the sum by 7894 ; this will give the average area of the surface covered by the stack. Then multiply that by the height from the ground to the point where the width was measured. Ifthese measurements are feet, the sum found is the cubic feet in the stack.

~lf the hay is timothy, orchard grass, ‘millet or hungarian, 500 feet will make ‘'a ton, or a cube eight feet each way. If the stack is very solid, and ;,was cut -dead ripe, 350 feet will make a ton, or a cube of seven feet each way. If the hay is mixed with clovér, about 700 feet, or a cube of nine feet each way, will make a ton., If it is all clover, or light meadow grass, or red-top, 800! feet will be required to weigh a ton, unless it is pressed very hard, when some allowance must be made. ' These estimates are made from notes of a great many stacks and mows of various kinds and willigive a fair average. { p i e The Prosecutor’s “Vv’s.” = - John W. Dawson, of Ft. Wayne, at the request of “a Justice of the Peace has given his opinion, which was published last week in the F't. Wayne G'azette, that “Circuit Prosecuting Attor- . neys, have not been invested with official power, nor the duty imposed upon them to appear by virtue of their . office before the Justices of the Peace of the State, and prosecute misdemean,ol'S; NOr as a consequence were such officers ever allowed a docket fee by gstatute before magistrates for such service.” He says the exaction of a fee by the Circuit Prosecuting Attorney in a Justice Court, is an extortion, and the party so chargin% the same is liable to indietment, as well as liable to the party paying such docket fee, in a civil actibn for the recovery of the sum so paid. He says many of the best lawyers, and some efhinent Judges have a like opinion. '

Almost every paper in New York - City, Boston, Washington, and'!all great money centres, are advocating contraction. - The members of Con- ! gress from these centres of capital are doing all in their power to secure contraction, or atleast to prevent an increase of the currency. They are trying to convince the people that there is already too much money, when the . truth is the pressure is still upon us, and in the West daily increasing. We want the best currency that is possi--ble, and enough of it to supply the business demands of the country— Legal tenders can be furnished while specie can not. ‘Then why-not keep that which we have, and not try any doubtful and dangerous experiments ? It won’t pay.—Morgan County Gazette. e el ——— Marion Grange 391, .of Hamilton county, lowa, has severed its conneetion with the State and National Granges. They claim that the machinery of the order is useless and expensive, and o?lly; for the gain of a few individuals who wish to live on sals _aries paid by the farmers. forg)dmal, ‘ends; that worthless patents for agricultural machinery are being pnlx%g‘; off at enormous. prices, and that the chiefs of the order are tyrannic#l and usurping. L Ge ; A . X ‘»'{ wE