The National Banner, Volume 8, Number 45, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 March 1874 — Page 2

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THE South Bend Courier has passed into the hands of Mr. G. Fikentscher, who has the will and the energy to render that enterprise a success.

MR. JouN ROBERTS, of Madison, is recommended by the Progress of that city, as a candidate for Secretary of State. The Progress speaks of him as an energetic and able debater, whose work in the canvass would tell.

Hox. WiLL., CUMBACK has taken the stump in the interest of the temperance cause. Will. still has his eye fixed upon the U. S. Senatorship and is confident of drawing thé winning card this time, sure. :

Disearcues from Towa report that the newly organized Anti-Monopoly party succeeded in electing most of its candidates at the charter elections last Tuesday. A numher of cities which have heretofore cast large republican majorities were redeemed by the new party. o

EX-PRESIDENT MILLARD FILLMORE is lying in a very cridical con dition at his home in Buffalo, N. Y. Two weeks ago he was afllicted with paralysis, which has steadily increased in effect upon him. A report of his death was current on Tuesday, but has since been contradicted. o

GEN. Louis T. WIGFALL, once known as the great “fire-eater” of the United States Senate, died in Galveston,, Texas, on the 16th ult. Mr, Wigfall was a man of great ability, but a very extreme partisan. Ile espoused the cause of secession at an early day, and held high offices in the late Confederacy. S

(. ALFRED TOWNSEND, the Washington correspondent of the Chicago T'ribune, gave the correspondent of the Chicago 7"tmes, named W. S. Walker, a severe, pummeling on' Tuesday last. \V;tl/fkee‘_ published slanderous statemients concerning Townsend, who “fviidopted this method forobtaining satistaction. ' , o L e WHENEVER Senator Schurz electrifies the nation with his keen logic, the Indianapolis Jowrnal forthwith resorts to personal reflections upon the “Missouri Senator. The Jowrnal ofiice seems to be extensively provided with slang for this especial purpose. Such “criticism” my be very gratifying to Mr. Halford, but we can assure him it ‘reflects no credit upon his paper. - ! ity 4 b WE very much question the pi‘oprxety or justice of charging the town of Kendallville with being eomposed of cheats and swindlers. While some of its inhabitants are not exactly what they ought to be, there are still a great many very exgellent, honorable and. upright men who deserve to be exempted from these sweeping aceusations. - There are good and bad men to be found in all communities. : e R e Ovr Indiana philanthropist, Hon. Washington C.T )ePauw,.recéntly made another donation of $4,000 to Asbury University. Unlike many other wealthy men, Mr. DePauw does not live for himself d@lone, but is always ready ‘ to aid his fellow men who have been less fortunate in acquiring wealth. I][_e has probably done moref in that direction than any other man who eyer lived in Indiana. ;

DAN Voorners and Dick Thompson, who have for years been arrayed against one anotlier, recently made speeches from the same platform, in the ‘city of Terre Haute. The meeting'before which these gentlemen displayed their oratorical powers,was called for the purpose of demonstrating to Congress that the West needed more ¢urrency. Dan and Dick know how to talk eloquently, but we very much doubt their ixbility to convince thinking men that inflation is more desirable than a sound, redeemable currency. 0 rn D 4 — i STRANGE (?) to relate, none of/ the “big guns” of the 'republican party in Congress have as yet undertaken to refute the damaging statements of Mr. Dawes in regard to government expenses. - One of these ardent gentlemen had about concluded to reply to Dawes, but upon going to the several departments for information as to the reliability of that gentleman’s figures, the discovery was made that, Dawes was correct in every item. This left no chance for cavil; hence that ominous silence. st o

MoRTON’S sensitiveness is attracting general attention and causes considerable comment in political cirgles. A Washington correspondent writes upon the subject: “Senator Mqrgton is becoming exceedingly sensitive, and that he for some reason of late is not disposed to brook fair eriticism, such as he indulges in himself, He can no longer conduct his side of a discussion, it seems, without losing control of his temper and flying into a passion.” His feeble health and the unpromising aspect of party affairs may account for this. o WSt ;

Because they feared that Col. MeClure might possibly loom as a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, in the event of his election to the Mayoralty, a certain class of Democrats of Philadelphia voted against that gentleman at the recent municipal election! They preferred to keep the city under “Ring” rule rather than vote for an independent political i thinker and a-bold advocate of reform. Another reason assigned by these fel‘lows for their course is that in view of the proposed centennial anniversary of American independence the Mayor ought to be in harmony with the State and National administrations! A precious set of Democrats these Philadelphians must be, - '

- THE COUNTY SEAT QUESTION. Desirous of presenting to our readers a fair statement of the arguments advanced upon the question 'of re-lo-cating thg},xcounty-seixﬁ, we this week, give placé to a plea in behalf of the present seat of justice, Albion. The Kenglallville side of the question was pretty fairly elaborated la.ét week, and if we can succeed in gathering the views of our Ligonier people, a synop--Bis thereof may appear in a future issue. : :

That a great diversity of opixgien exists upon a question of this kind cannot be a matter of surprise to any one who has ever.passed through a. “county-seat contest.” Sectional feelings are invariably aroused, and real or imaginary self-interests seemingly govern the opinions and actions of those who enlist in the campaign. Very many foolish and erroneous statements are put in- circulation, then refuted, and before the struggle is half‘o*\ er we behold the sublime spettacle of a general rumpus. - At this stage of the contest we can think of no excuse for exciting diatribes or inflammatory appeals. No active steps have as yet been taken for removal; not a petition in circulation, not even a definite programme developed. Whatever has! been said or done so far is of'a purely informal character. A calm (l%scussion, is always in order, violent larrangues ever reprehensible. ! oy One point ought to be distinetly understood: Thequestion of locating or re-locating the comit};-seat iis purely a matter for the people to determine in their own way. Whenever a considerable portion of the tax-payers -arrive ‘at the opinion that a,change is demanded by the public interest, the law preseribes the mode of procedure. Unless the required per cent. of taxpayers demand a ‘change, not a single step can be taken that would involve ‘the county in ‘expense. . In the mean time every voter (4:‘l}l talk the matter over and determine as to the course which he may wish to pursue in the premises. : '

So far as the BANNER is concerneg, we determinéd in the start to give all sides a fair hearing. "}()ur columns. will be open to all wlio may wish to submit their views to public consideration. Inthis way the “strong points” can be drawn out, and every reading ‘man will be afforded an opportunity to form his own (;()ﬂclllsiollﬂ. If any of our readers should be so unhappily constituted as to “flare up” against so fair an arrangement; if there be those who cannot endure’ free discussion and presume to dictate as to what may or shall not appear in our columns; if a tyrannical censorship be proposed to muzzle the press,— we .wish to serve due notice upon all such that the editor of this paper cannot thus be intimidated. = We propose to follow the dictates of our own conscience in this as well as all other matters of 'publi¢ concern, and the threatened withdrawal of patronage ‘cannot swerve us an inch. Noliberalminded citizen ever resorts to such contemptible means, and no newspaper mang worthy of his ecalling allows himself to be thus fettered. A subscriber who cannot read a statement of what may be said upon local or general topics without flying into a passion or without cursing the publiShpr for so furnishing public information, exhibits ? weakness that does him no credit, and at once stamps himself a narrow-minded, fiery, bhoiling fanatic. T e

FARMERS AND INFLATION. The N. Y. World discusses financial questions with such clearness and force that we find it rather a pleasure than a task to peruse its lengthy effusions on that subject. Here is a paragraph which we deem especially worthy of public attention: : The Western and Southern ecry for cheap money arises from gross ignorance and delusion. The effect of increasing the quantity of money would be to raise the prices fo commodities. Every farmer, who now needs $5O to make his purchases, would need still more, and with more nominal money in his pocket he would be not a whit better off. There would be no change in the rate of interest; but as the borrower would require more money for any particular purpose, his inferest account would be incredsed in every transaction. Such an increase would double the Adifficulty of returning to specie payments; and it° would multiply the instability and fluctuation of values, which necessarily increase in proportion to the degree of inflation. We are in position to know that, 'so far as the most intelligent farmers of this locality are concerned, they do not join in the ery for inflation. They very sensibly argue that a paper dollar worth’a hundred cents will do them much more good in making purchases than one without a fixed va‘lue,‘ and that they are vastly better satisfied with $1.40 in good redeemable currency for a bushel of wheat than with $1v.50 in depreciated shin-plaster. The inflation humbug has about had (its run in this latitude. et ;

T — PRESIDENT MAKING. ' We are pleased to observg that the veteran editor of the Peru Sentinel joins us in casting a doubt upon the expediency or propriety of spending time in paving the way for Presidential aspirants. Judge Loughridge very appropriately says: “We think this President making is, at this time, altogether premature. Our work in the immediate future is to organize, and harmonize public sentiment; to allay existing prejudices, based’ upon former political antagonisms; to bring all together who are working for a common end-—the restoration of the country to its original ‘principles and purity. © This done, the material is abundant from whieh to choose, Iﬁt‘ is time enough, two years heuce, to make the selection; our present work is to organize our forces and prepare for the struggle.” , @ -

THE TEMPERANCE ‘CRUSADE continues to spread. It has extended into nearly all the western States, and ‘preparations are being made to inaugurate a like movement -in the East. No one can predict where this singalar movement will end. gy

CONGRESS AND THE LIQUOR 'rnu?nc.J It will be remembeved that a fewweeks since Senator Logan introduced a bill to provide for the appointment of &.commission on the subjeet of alcoholic liquer traffie. This bill is said to have beén drafted by Mr. Louis, Schade, edizor of the Washington é}e‘n- : tinel, a paper devoted to the interests of the National Brewers' Association. The object of this measure, as we understand it, is to ascertain the practical results of prohibitory legislation: whether the vice of intemperance has thereby been increased or diminished, whether the use of opium has become more general, whether the public morals have been improved, and to ascertain whether those countries wherein may be found the least drunkenness became so by reason of prohibitory legislation. ’ While we entertain no doubt that the accumulation of such information by a competent commission would be of great public. interest, we are free to express an absolute concurrence in ‘the opinions of Senators Ferry and Schurz that the passage of Mr.-Logan’s bill would establish a pre;cédeflt of Congress interfering with -matters belonging exclusively to the State.— Mr. Schurz very pointedly observed that there were many other evils affecting society which needed to be inquired into. ' For instance, gambling was worse than intemperance. wAnother subject, the extravagance of the female sex in matters of dress, was a ~great evil and had ruined many families. How many’clerks had been induced to rob their employers or bank officers to become defaulters in order. to satisfy this love for dress? Indigestion made a man sour and unsociable, and (‘ollgress might inquire intc the cause of this, or go on with the inquiries until it shq?l he found out what effects the Fd umption of hot soda had upon s@ﬁ’iety, and establish a bureau of health and publi¢ morals.— He did not desire to be understood as trifling with-the temperance principle. To a certain extent he was a tompefrance man, and nothing was more disgusting to him than a drunken man, unless it be a drunken woman—nothing could be more loathsome than a human being degrading himself to the level .of a beast. Ile thought the movement of which this bill formed a part was misdirected zeal, and the gentlemen favoring it were taking hold of the wrong end of the-subject. ‘Hunman nature was sso constituted that it -needed relaxation and could not be put doywn. The surest remedy was not the forcible suppression. of any indulgence not morally wrong, when used moderately, but the substitution of better pleasures for bad ones. He believed if social enjoyments be introduced among the people a wholesome soclal reform would be achieved ‘and a lasting benefit be conferred upon society. He doubted the propriety of the legisfation proposed by this bill, and would therefore vote against it. The only legislation we deem prudent or proper on part of Congress is to protect the people against adulterated and poisonous liquors. The employment in the revenue service of persons possessing{ a fair knowledge of chemistry, and an enactment providing for the confiscation of adulterated liquors, would serve as a protection against the w]golesale poisonihg now practiced by 'the unprineipled nl'mmfa‘cturerrs of rot-gut whisky. . We believe a bill to this effect would meet with' general favor. G

SICK JURORS, ; In noticing the postponement of important trials on account of sickness of a juror ‘or_jur(_)rs, the éditor of the Selinsgrove 7'imes suggests a remedy for these expensive annoyances, IHis proposition is this: In all important trials the law should require the following in the empanneling of the jury: . 1. The court should’ question every juror whether his health is such that in case of a protracted trial he thinks he can ‘endure the confinement and the change of life to which he will be subjected without a reasonable proba-| bility of getting sick. - 1 2. In addition to the Jury of twelve -men, two alternates S‘hpuld be selected in the same manner as the other twelve, and required to sit along with the other jurors-and hear the case the same as if they were principals, but not to take any part in deciding upon the verdict or in voting for a verdict, unless by reason, of the disability if, one or two of the prineipal jurors, on which case they shall take the place of the disabled ones and act the same as one of the twelve principals. . The,suggestipu of our eastern contemporary embodies some very commendable features, and might, upon application, be found profitable and advantageous. At any rate, the matter is of sufficient importance to engross the attention of litigants, lawyers and judges.

THE ANTI-MONOPOLY PARTY| of Towa has been formally organized by the holding of a State Convention in the city! of Des Moines on the 25th ult. The attendance was unusually large, the proceedings harmonious, and the enthusiasm unprecedented. A platform of principles was adopted aﬂ“u‘ming that honesty and capacity give the only worthy claims to office, that protective tariffs are amoixopo—lists” devise, that ILegislatures have the power to control corporations, that the salary grab must be unqualifiedly repealed, and that neither of the old political parties deserve the support of the people. - : ;

It sEEMS to be extremely annoying toSenator Morton that-he is invariably Worsted when he undertakes to refute the masterly arguments of Senator Schurz. He can’t bear the idea of being surpassed as a debater by a “qutchman.” A few days since Mr. Morton allowed his feelings to overcome his judgment, but a few welldirected sentences brought him to terms. lle retracted handsomely.

Tnr Fort Wayne Sentinel has changed hands. The names of‘ the new prpprietors are not given.

The Grangers of Ohio express Sympathy with the Dio Lewis Temperance Crusade and threaten that they will not sell corn to the distillers. 11 the Ciange movement takes this shape it might as well hang up the shovel and hoe. | - ; o

L LALBION. . THE COUNTY SEAT QUESTION. What An pid Farmer Thinks. | Let the County Seat rémain where itisand | _ Save the People Enormous Taxation. / b!d Dobbin sajfer a-r;;:heapcr to ride on to Albion than paluce cars to Kendallville. _To the Editor of the Naﬁo;al Banner: - . Your reporter, in gathering up and s-ffting the thousand and;bne rumors afloat in reference to the proposed removal of the county seat from Albion to Kendallville, thought best to have “an interview with an intelligent far~mer whom he accidentally met a day or two since, and ascertain how the -honest yeomanry of the county felt in the matter of a change in the county § seat. The BANNER having already given the views of the wealthy and professional class,” who form but a very small partipf the bulk of our population, I have deemed it eminently i just.and-proper that some one shéuld | speak on bphu]f of that very Zfi?'ge ar}d - honorable class of our citizens whose sweat and toil go to make up the riches of the one and the fees and perqﬁisites of the other. The removal of the county seat to Kendallville will entail on the farmers a tax so' enor- [ mous that its withering effects will be felt for many years to come. It was with great satisfaction, therefore, that your reporter met an honest old furmer, who lives some three miles from Ligonier, and proceeded to question him relative to.the removal of the hounty seat, Having ‘.:sha,k(-n ‘hands with the honest -old son‘of’ toil, your reporter at once opened the subject as ‘ follows: e :

Reporter—l suppose you have heard 1 of the proposed removal of the county seat ? . ’ | Farmer—Why, yes; but that is a | pretty old song; yeats ago speculators like Hi. Iddings tried it, but you see tP'e farmers and tax-payers scooped them clean out. : | - R—llow long have you lived in Noble county ? | | ; : . F.—Well, let me see; I left Ohio in 1842, worked a season Dbelow Fort } Wayne, and I struck out for this county the next spring, and I have lived here ever since. ‘ | R.-—You have lived here along time, and ar¢ well acquainted with the people; what do you think Ligonier's chance is of getting the county seat? ‘ F.—Yes, I am well acquainted with | Ligonier, but I think it stands about as much chance as'a bumble bee in a tar kettle; I have heard that two petitions are to be circulated, one for Ligonier- and one for Kendailville; now that is just like lli. Iddings, he and his erowd will not play fair, they neyver did. Even if T 'was in: favor of Temoving the county seat, I should never sign such a petition, forl should expect. Iddings apd them fellows to trade me off andiisq}i out the whole thing. Youseel know them Kendallville fellow's of old. | : ‘R.—Well, how do you feel about taking it to . Kendallville; that place proposes to put up the new county Dbuildings? : K —That’s all bosh. They may promise, but that will be all. = They are very promising but darn little performing do théy do. Now. I understand that all they will be required by law to do is to pay for the old county buildings and furnish ground for public buiidings, and some other matters connected with the re-location. What faith can you put in them to put up public buildings? Yes, they will promise. So they promised to pay: their railroad bonds, and then repudiated them, and tried to skin oid Judge Hanna. They put up a thundering big school house and wont pay for it, O yes, they are great -on promises.— Head over heels in debt, taxed to'death, houses idle, everything going.to thun-/ der; 'why their city treasurer has to| be sued to compel the city fo pay her| just debts. Yet Kendallville promises to erect public buildings that will cost nearly two hundred thowsand dollars! Do you think ‘'we old fellows are so green as to believe such stuff ? siae

R.—You dont appear to have a very high opinion of our Kendallville friends: : 1 . F—Well, I generally speak out my sentiments; and on this county seat question we farmers ought and maust speak out; it concerns our pockets. ‘We will have to pay the fiddler. Taking the county seat from Albion means a system of enormous taxation. R.——But you will not deny that it will be much easier for you to reach Kendallville as the county seat than it is to get to Albion ? : - F.—lt may Dbe easier, butlook at the cost of the thing! Why here; I have to get up my horse or team, drive to Ligonier, put the horse in a livery stable, pay probably $1.50 for my trip to Kendallville and back, and if I should happen not to get through with my business at your new county seat just in time to take the train, I -must stay all night in Kendallville to be fleeced and my horse muist do the best he can. As it is now, I get up old Dobbin when I please, take my time in going to Albion, get my business fixed up, start for home when I get ready, for you see old Dobbin waits for me. And I save my money which I would have to spend if I went to Kendallville, and we farmers think a few dollars are worth saving. ; R.—But see what wretched roads you often have to travel to get to Albion? :

F.—True, the best of roads are bad sometimes; why I haveseen our roads a thousand times worse than they are now-a-days; there is nothing in that; our roads are improving every year. R.—What do you think about the Ligonier people helping Kendallville gel the county seat? ; ' F. Tlreckon some few of the people of Ligohier will be for it; some of the lawyers may go for it. But take the solid, old stand-by fellows, like Jake Wolf, Henry Hostetter, Judge Wood, and the bankers and merchants, I don't think they can be caught in any darned trap that li.' Iddings and _his crowd can set. You see it is one thing to sign a petition to move the county seat and it is quite another to shell out big taxes to pay for expensive new buildings. . ol o R.—Don’t you think the Ligonier folks are afraid Albion will grow to a large town, and thereby injure their trade and prosperity ? !

F.—That is some more of the old talk; I know they said Albion was stuck in the mud, ahd would never amount to anything. Every man who takes just pride in our county, wishes our county-seat to grow and Le a eredit to the county. My notion is that the more big towns we have, the more wealth we will have, and consequently the more there will be to pay taxes with; that: would really lessen the taxesof we farmers. Kendallville has busted herself by her fearful taxes and now she wants to try her hand at busting the county. We don’t want our county to repudiate its just debts, nor. will she, while she keeps her seat at Albion, but take it to Kendallville, and God help us! & _ R—How do your neighbors talk and % feel about this county-seat matter?

_ F.—Well, those of them with whom T have talked, think and speak as I do; and if you were to go around through the ‘county you will find the farmers, who are the real tax-payers, think as I do. ILet the county-seat alone. A few restless and r&isappoin}ted- men, for their own selfiSh en(}s,f are to put their speculations over a‘gaigfxt the interests of the thousands of farmers of this county! -Never!. We want economy, reasonable taxation and just let well enough alone. The voice of the large majority of the Farmers in the county is for the county-seat to remain at Albion. ; Herg the old farmer informed your reporter that he must be going, as he ‘héul promiiged his old woman that he would be home by sun-down; and mounting his steady old nag, that had carried him to Albion so often during the past, dozen years, our honest old friend bade us good-bye

- . REPORTER. $ S ——— €MI THI TEMPERANCE CRUSADE.. 1 — 4 Comments by the Press. The temperance crusade carried on in Ohio and portions of this State is likely to.be continued indefinitely, or as long as Pio Lewis, the ingenious Yankee from Boston, can realize fifty dollars from each lecture hé delivers. —Rochester (Ind.) Sentinel. “The Hartford Courant says: “We have no expectation that the woman’s crusade, of Ohio, will run a course in New England. Society here is on a better basis of self-control, and not so easily stirred by physical excitements. But the temperance revival will no doubt he felt hiere in some shape.” The Little Falls (N. Y.) Courier says: “Very likely this woman’s war may not entirely destroy the enemy it is waged' against. Intemperance is too old an evil, and too deeply rooted in human society and customs and institutions, if it is not imbedded in human instinets, to be eradicated in a twelvemonth. It will contribute to weaKen its force and hold.” = . The Allegheny Mail insists that “it is not the manner lof gentlemen (and Teporters generally belong to this class) to speak unkindly of women, especially when they are engaged in a good cause. Praying is I)ettefF than drunkenness, and it the ladies have it in, their-hearts to pray for liquor dealers or-editors, why, we say ‘Pray ‘on sister’ ; M

The temperance awakening is extending to all parts of the country. - It is not confined to the “Woman’s Crusade,” but the churches, the various temperance orders, and other Catholic total abstinence societies are exceedingly active in all the *Eastern cities. If all these elements are ‘combined they will produce a powerful impressign on the public mind, and may in the end produce Congressional legislation to regulate the traflic in ardent spirits .—J)g‘c tess County Democrat. ~ The Rome (N. Y.) Sentinel remarks that “it is not at all likely that by this movement the whole country will be converted to total abstinence principles. The utmost to be expected is the supkrsedure of bad, violent, and poisonous stimulants by milder and more healthy ones. Such would do more to mitigate the evils of intemperance than all other influences combined in the past twenty years, though it is not held that even mild stimulants are a regular necessity.”

There are thousands of men who have been identified with almostevery temperance movement, wheo do not understand ‘why it is necessary for the women to hold prayer meetings in the saloons of. the retailer. If the great reform expected.to be brought about is by prayer and supplication to God, no one can understand why the saloons must be selected rather than the closet to offer up such petitions.— It Tooks as though the women engaged in this crusade depended upon their ability to annoy the retailers, rather than to leave the suppression in the hands of Him to whom they appeal.— Winamae Democrat. ; 5 Y &AR —— e ¢ Hon. John B, Howe’'s Views. Week before last, we had the pleasure of meeting with Hon. John B. Howe of Lima, Ind., whio paid our office a brief visit. Speaking of the move in Congress for an inflation of the currency, he says if it proves a success and ‘the proposed increase is thrown upon the country, three years from last Fall will witness a financial crash, in comparison to which the panic caused by the failure of Jay Cooke & Co., will sink into insignificance. In allusion to Congress and its doings and the Grant ring at Washington and the salary grabbing spirit of the leaders, he declares that the only fitting term to apply is “hell,” and that hardly expresses it. As to his taking the field even if certain of success, as a candidate for Congress in this District, he emphatically protests, and says on account of his health, which would be inrperiled by such a:movement, nothing will induce him to accept anomination and go through the excitement of a political campaign.—Elkhart Union. | ?

The Indian Dificulties. : The Greeley (Col.) 77ibune says that the great Indian fiasco i$ about played out. It is summed/up in the fact that two Indians stole a couple of horses; then several - white vagabonds, engaged in selling liquor to the Indians, stole twenty of their ponies, and, application being made to the military, no attention was paid to it. Then the Indians, forty in all, murdered two white men and attacked a squad of troops. Out of these *operations, the saloon-keepers and the agents who furnish supplies have manufactured an Indian war for the purpose of preventing Congress from cutting down ‘appropriations. The 77ibune affirms that the Indians have no intention of. making war, and that, if the control ‘of Indian affairs were given to the army, there would be no trouble of any sort. The latter statement will be indorsed by the public sentiment of the country. dee i : | Sl —— ] - PER— i ‘ OXNE of the standing complaints of 1 business and ‘frofessional men, and even politicians,’is that they are taking too many papers; that the papers area heavy tax upon them. The force of the laugument is good, for many men take from six to a dozen papers of different kinds; and in counties where five and six local papers are published, to take all of -:them makes a heavy tax. Yet two good papers alone would be better than five or six poor ones.—Selinsgroye Times.

~Witn what they have already received and the immense stock which they will have before the first sunny days of Spring, J. Straus, jr., & Co. will offer superior attractions! in the way of clothing and gents’ furnishing goods the coming season. Whether you want something nobby or something substantial for every day wear, you can’t go to a better place to find it. ~Senator Fenton last Tuesday presented a petition from a number of New York merchants asking Congress to permit no further inflation of the currency, and to take measures for the withdrawal of the ‘legal-tender reserves that had been reissued. The names attached to the memorial are said to represent $500,000,000.

i : S‘l‘A‘l‘E ITEMS, The temperance tidal-wave struck Anderson to the extent of four columns in the Herald and five in the ‘Democrat. Aderson needs a little rest from the “fiowing bowl,” anyhow. On Tuesday night of last week, the residence of Henry Bricker, six miles north of Fort Wayne, in DeKalb county, was totally destroyed by fire, with its contents. The fire was caused by a defective flue. The residence was the finest in DeKalb county. The loss is $8,000; no insurance. : - Wonders will never cease. Dick Thompson and Dan Voorhees spoke from the same platform at Terre Haute the other night, in favor of inflating the currency with another issue of irredeemable paper money. Fortunately Pendleton is living to congratulate his old antagonists upon their espousal of his “great principle.”—Greencastle Press. | i :

A young man named Chas. Rhoades, about seventeen years of age, was drowned, while skating last Friday afternoon, at Fort Wayxge.-’ ‘He wentout on the ice and broke through, and all efforts made to rescue him proved’ futile. The body was recovered half an hour afterwards, but life was extinet. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict in aceordance with the foregoing facts. The South Bend Z77ibune says: - Some of the rail road hands were passing from Bremen to Plymouth, when their attention was drawn to .a lot of hogs in the woods tearing at something, which, on inspection, proved to be a human body. - A closer examination showed that it was the corpse of an old min, but as the hogs had partly eaten it, and terribly mutilated the rest-indentification was impossible. The temperance crusade was inaugurated in Goshen, on Monday last.— Great excitement prevails there over the movement. Postal cards containing the following warning were sent to several liquor dealers in that city a few days since: “Be warned by one who loves you. The holy erusade against the unholy traffic in which you are engaged will begin next Monday.morning, precisely at ten o’clock. By order of the ladies’ committee.” = An interesting trial is in progress in the Allen Circuit Court. F.F.V. Schell, of Monroeville, sues Dr. Connelly, of the same place, for malpractice, laying the damage at $5,000.— Connelly attended plaintift’s boy who, brgke his arm by a fall two years ago., The arm has since become withered and totally useless. The trial will probably last several days. Eminent legal talent is employed on both sides. The ease excites much interest, especially among the medical fraternity. ~ There is certainly no honor among the thieves whe broketinto the Christian Church contribution box and extracted from it between five and ten dollars in money, some night last week. The scoundrels also drank the wine which was deposited in a vessel in the same desk with the contribution box. The entrance into the desk was effected by sawing a hole through the floor and removing the bottom of the trunk or chest, where they found easy access to the articles mentioned.— Warsaio Union. D

Hon. W. C. DePauw has recently donated $4,000 to Asbury University, to be used in completing the new chapel. The gift is a very timely one, with the fund now on hand, and the progress made in the work, it’ assures the completion of the new buildings by the time of the annual Commencement Day. In his many liberal gifts to 'schools and colleges is the State, Mr. DePauw is not only doing a good thing for the educational interests of Indiana, but laying the foundation for a lasting and enviable! fame.—lndianapolis Journal. oY- B N y The Reform Movement in Michigan. . At a special meeting held for member of the State ILegislature in Calhoun county, Mich., the first of the week, the Reform party, opposed to the present administration, elected Wm: F.?tHewit by ninety-three majority. For the past eight years the Republicans have carried the county by from fifteen hundred to two thousand majority. In several other counties in that State, where special elections ‘were held on the same day for a similar purpose, the Reform ticket has:invariably swept the field. ) ‘

BAGLE MANUFACTURING Al ' : 5 1L : ! SOOI BEDNID. TINTOIT? A ; x : § : Manufacturers of : : j}" 5 v e ‘. 2 v ! Y . Doors, Sash and Blinds, All kinds of WINDOW and DOOR FRAMES, - MOULDINGS, Brackets, Stairs, Stair-Railing, . Balusters, Posts, &c. - And dealers ny !j 3 ‘Rough and Finishing Lumber. THEY have their Factory constructed with all the modern improvements both in arrangement and machinery, and are/amply prepared for turning outﬂnﬁlnr%e amount and variety of first-class’ work promptly. : ; The success of this Company bas fully demon-_ strated that it was a needed institution, and that in getting out orders for any of the above named - material for builders and others, they have given ‘::tllltitre gatisfaction. They are warranted in saying :tha £ - 5 s > e _ BUILDERS ORDERS Ang FILLED WITHOUT DELAY. 'WE‘wi'll be pleased to farnish estimates on all kgnda of work in ourline. = Correspondence from: those engaged in building, respectfully so-. licited. , - e : Eagle Manufacturing Co. Sorgxt»h Bend, Ind., March 5, 1874. n45-3m. SOMETHING NEW!

Ll GONIER : CEal 6 WANTED: 5000 POUNDS UNSALTEDBUTTER Per du{ daring March, Agrll and May, for which we v}vil pay TWO CENTS more per pound than THE MARKET PRICE FOR Salted Butter! DIRECTIONS : TR Lhurork the Batier we Hhuls s possibie _ and do not color the cream or, Ibut.t.er. _ S R RERVE. Ligonier, Ind., March 5, Cloned

To the ’lax-i’jayeg-g 'of:tlgej'l_‘afn{vni_ of Ligonier, and Perry and - Sparta Townships. | FOR your convenience I have arrangéd so that : you can pay your Taxes atthe Biean CITIZENS? BANII . e -if paid before il WEDNESDAY, APRIL Ist, 1874, . After that date taxes will be recerved at theTreasurer’s Office in Albion only. - - o To insure payment at Ligonier, it shonld be done at once, gs you cannot all be waited nponin the last two weeks in March.. S O e . ~ J.J.LASH, Treasurer, - ByM M RirreEBAND, Deputy. - - e : Albion. Ind., Feb! 25th, 1873 44w = oo !prs. WHIPPY & KIRIKELANI, ' ~ Office over Wilden's Bank. i GOSHEHEN, - INDIANA. Calls from a distance ;')mmp‘tly-atte{l‘dgétf’m,' 7 o Ekecutoi‘_’,si Notgice. = .NOTICE is hereby given'that- the wudersigned N has been appointed Executor of the estate of Elizabeth Andrews; late of Noble Connty; deceased. Said estate is suppoged to be rolvent.” « = -, nis-w3 WILLIAM D. HAYS, Execator. Executor's Neotice. S 'V\TOTICE' is hereby given that the undersigned’ AN has been a{)poiuted Executor of the estate of Henry Engle, late of Noble County, deceased.. Said estate is sum)osed to be solvent, = - n-45.w3 HEN RY HOSTETTER, Executor, = i s e ._._____,...._,_‘_.___-\_—r_._.. : { EXECUTOR’S SALE, | T | \TOTICE ishereby givén that the undersigned,’ 4N Executor of the last will of Henry Engle, de-. ceased, will offer for sale-at Publi¢ Outery, at_the late residence of the Testator, in Perry towns-hip,’ Noble county, ‘one-half mile south of Ligonier, on' ~ Satarday, March 28th, 1874, the following described personal property of saidEstate, to wit; Horses, Cows, Hogs, Wagons, Bug- ‘ gies. Harness, Farming Ifnplements, -about three: hundred biishels of wheat in the bin, four hundred bushels of Corn in the Crib, and Hougehold &nd Kitchen Farniture, a quantity of Carpet, and varis, ous other articies too mumerous to. mention..— Terms will be made known on day of sale. - Sale tocommence at 10 o'clock a. m. Gt D-45-w3 HENRY HOSTETTER, Executor. ' | SHERIFF'S SALE.: .- l I)Y virtue of an execntion to me issued by the 2 Clerk of the Noble Circuit Court of Noble: County, Indiana, in the caze of Wilson W. White vs. John W. Kern and William Gage, 1 will offer for sale at public auction at the court-hense ‘door in the town of Albion, county of Noble, and State. of indiana, on . ° one e Saturday, March 21st, 1874, Between the hours of 10 o'clack’ A. M. and 4 o’clock r. wu., the following d(fscribcd'r_enl'cgt‘nte, towit: E Twenty Acres of Land - o off of the south end of the east half of the northcast quarter of section two, township. thirty-fonr, .north of range eight (8) east. "DAVID HOUGH, Sheriff of Noble County, Tndiana. F. Prickett, Attorney for Plaintift R _ Albion, Ind., Feb. 26th, *74-44-3w-pf§s 50." - ~ SHERIFF'S SALE: = “[)’Y virtue of an order of gale to me issned by the A 3 Clerk of the Circuit Court of Noble C(»ﬂpftyﬁ\igdiana, in the case of Mary Ann Graham, Administratrix ot the Estate of James E. Graham;. deceased vs. Daniel Huff, I will offer forsale, at pub- - lic anction, at the Court-House -door, 1 the town of Albion, county of Noble, and Stute of Indiana; On Thursday, March 12, 18740 Between the hours of 10,0’cloek a. . and 4 o*clock p. M. of said day, the ﬂ)’l‘owing described Teal estate, to wit: eI oLy PRGaEe e Lot No. tweniy-two (22) in Smith’s addition to the town of Ligonier, in Noble county, Indiana,- : « DAVID HOUGH, - Seriff of Noble County; ludinng. L. H. Green, Attorney for Phaintiff. el ' Albion, Ind,, Feb. 18, 1874243-3 w-pf §5.50..

GOOD NEWS TO ALL! Ti. SCHILLOSS VVOULD respectfully annpance. to: the citizens LYY of Ligonier, Ind.; that hehas opened up.the N . S 2 YW y @ : Grocery dnd Restaurant Business, and is prepared to furnish :\nyihing"y'oh ; : may want. . W e T OXSKERS: . e By the Dish or Can. Persons getting up suppers will find'my oysters fresh, and T will scH them at reasonable terms. : L et sl aaiee COIAWWARM MEALS - At all Hours. Day bourding by the week or meal - . CANNED FRUITS. S The greatest assortment in Northern Indiana, consisting of Peaches, Tomatoes, Corn, Whortleberries, Pine Apples, Pears, Peas, Strawberries, Goeseberries, Cherries, California Grapes. Green Corn, Apricots. g T ian e CONFECTIONERY . = o In abundance; Prunes, Currants,. Figs, Rgiéi‘m‘: Oranges, Lemons. ‘Smoked Salmon, Sardines, Al‘monds, Pea-Nuts, Hazlenuts, Cider, ‘&e¢., &c , &c, _ . TOBXCOO: - i o g Cigars, Fine Cut, Smoking, Plug, Shorts, &c., of the best quality, and allother articles usually kept in a first-class (}rp(-elty and Resmumnt. e L POULTRY, BUTTER AND I-}GG_S._ e 1 will pay cash for all kinds of.country ptoduge. Remember that T will farnish you. with imythihg you may waunt. s Feb 19 ‘74_4‘.2'—l{“ FOR THE NEXT 90 DAYS!

® ; oo g Fisher Bro’s : Wil sell m.l‘G{mas in their lme o AT COST, FOR CASH. ' Our stock cn#sist.s ofma"f.ul;lf'kline\of" “i‘ l )”.; -M: d Pt rugs & Medicines | » .?’Allﬂkiydsv()f o Patent Medicines; School Bodks, St'ati'one’i%y; LAMPS & LAMP CHIMNIYS, PURE WINES'AN[‘)I;_I‘QI’,I(}‘I-;S?‘k'.'*-j,""“f”{_y For Medicinal ;;‘nrpt’)skes'.mily i besl‘deﬁ,a : ; A THOUSAND and ONE Arcls : : Tooﬁnmer(_ms tome"miéu';; ~R.. L

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