The National Banner, Volume 8, Number 48, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 March 1874 — Page 5

THE NATIONAL BANNER.

LOCAL CONTRIBUTIONS "ROMHE CITY NEWS, | A small sensation was created in our unusually quiet eity one morning lust week by the appearance of quite a number of the prominent citizens of Brinmdield, \\'lli)' appeared somewhat excited and fearfully in earnest. They were ingearch of & thief, who had “on the previous night, in the town of l}ri;m('wldf. in the county of Noble and state of Indiang, burglariously broken into a shoe shop, in the town aforesaid, and had, then.and there, feloniously taken, stolenland carried away, one pair of five ecalf-skin boots, contrary to the statutes, in such cases made and ‘provided, and against the peace and dignjty of the State of Indiana.” Although no warrant had been legally issued, every one who heard of the tresspass had appointed himself a committee of one to ferret out the

thief. A committee of one was de- | tailed to Woleottville, to intercept the ! rascal there, should 'he chance to pass , that \\7;l)'. All hands were at the de- j pot when the 9:40 train arrived from | the gouth. The’train was immediately I “hoarded” and diligent s¢arch was | made, but no trace of the rascal eould ‘ he found,-and no tidings which would lead to his capture. A council of wzu'; was then held; the delegate from | Woleottville reported, *“no _tidings,’;‘ whereupon it was decided by the coun- l ¢l that, “if a young man steals a pair of bhoots in - Brimfield and escapes meth\\’fi’rd (as was indicated by the thief’s tracks), and he cannot be found and captured, ngither in '.Rmn(}; City | nor in Wolcottville, it is unnoceSs:try‘, to pursuie him further, for he could never be overtaken and captured.”— And the boy got the boots. = The Lake Side has again changed proprietors, . Dr. Gower having retired 1‘ and Clark Haughton, Esq., takén pos- | ‘session. © The-Doctor; we b’eli’eve,vhas 1‘ tetermined to travel and lecture, for‘ the benefit of his health and pocket, | wid for the benefit of suffering 11u~§ nanity generally, in which we have 1 doubt he will suceeed. . As to Mr. liaughton, we have only to _.‘11.3* that ovz;r_\'imd)" knows Clark, and he is just thesiwne genial fellow that he used to be, if not a little more so. He will malce his guests happy and comfortableif he don’t save acent, IHeknows | how torun-a hotel, and he will do it | rignt or bust. He has a heart in him asbig ag a six year old work-ox. “Ile .will rake the pool or die.? o Our-old milter, LLew. Haller, has ae- | cepfed a berth in the: Kendallville Milis and has left our city for the time being. We are sorry to lose Lew, but are resigned to let him go wherel

SUPPLEMENT.--LIGONIER, IND., MARCH 26th, 1874.

'\duty and business calls; Mr. Brill‘hart%nd the citizens of | Kendallville [ can congratulate themseflyes that they have secured the services of a firstclass miller and an accommodating gentleman. | : A bet of a two-dollar hat was made by two of our citizens, last Saturday, that the Canada Southern Railroad - will yet be built through Rome City. Latest advices inform us that the ofilcers of the road say they “cannot do without the inexhaustible gravel-beds in and around Rome City.” We would ibe rather pleased to. have that road 'come here, but then would n’t our sister village, Wolcottville, commit suicide, or dolsome other dreadful thing? . We learn that a newspaper is. posiCitively soon to be started in the little village of Wolcottville. We admire the pluck of the proprietors, but are : forced to pity their judgment. A 'newspaper in Wolcottville! Prepare ' for a case of infanticide.

Clark Haughton and others speared some very nice fish onl the lake west of town last week. = Some of the pike weighed from six to ten pounds. One of the party slopped over and got his “terbaccer” wet. Hée lavows. “Clark done, it a-purpose.” ‘ : - Deacon Highbargin one day last week killed twenty-seven snakes in the woods south of town—and it was not St. Patrick’s Day, nor a very extra day for snakes either!—and, furthermare, we can testify of a truth that the Deacon did n’t have delirium tremens, for we conversed with him, and his mind was straight as a ramrod. Rev. Preston. preached his farewell sermon at the M. E. Chuch on Sunday last by proxy, Elder Cutler officiating.. Mr. Cutler preached a sermon which we can say was seldom equalled and never excelled in the history of man. It was the same sermon Christ preached on the Mount, over eighteen humdred years ago. The Elder read this memorable sermon’ from the Holy Sceriptures and made some timely remarks thereon, but the remarks and deductions wére in no wise equal to the sermon-itself. This speaker was then followed by the Rev. A. Kessler, who gave it to poor sinners in regular Broad Axe style. He recommended his hearers to pray more and gossip less, an injunction the whole town would do well to heed. fie

The Odd Fellows of Wolcottville and vieinity, with the assistance of Rome City, will start a new lodge soon. We would rather have it in Rome, but if we cannot, by all means let it be organized in Wolcottville. ‘We say to the brethren over the way, here'is our =7, wade in. . The wheat erop in this vicinity has greatly revived in the last few days. A fair crop may yet be harvested.— The fruit buds of every kind are still unhurt. : . ; Neighbor Shumway fills all orders left with him on short notice, if it takes him a week to do it. He will travel the country from Dan to Beersheba, and go a-foot .and alone, to ohjlige a friend with a nice chicken, or any other kind of “vegetable.” He may be found at his office pr store at all reasonable hours, when not other-

wise professionally engaged.. Truly, | such perseverance is worthy of imitation. He must and will succeed.— Look out for his advertisement in the BAXNER, soon. ' : ' The Magnet Woolen Mills will commence operations on or about the first of April. : g o We learn that I. N. Berry, Esq., will | probably soon become proprietor of the j Rome City Flouring Mills, and that the | Hall Bros. will tun the Woolen Mills. | Jas. B. Kelly, Esq., of Kendallville ‘ ‘was in town last Saturday. He is interested in the removal of the county 1 seat to Kendallville, but still more | interested in trying to get a good, live man to take charge of, fit up and run | the old Kelly House in that city. | “Lake Side” has ceased to "ripple”d4 in the Standard, for which we feel sorry. We read those pleasant “ripples” with much interest and pleasure, and we hope the silence will not continue. Can it be that this “local” has. been slighted, neglected or mistreated by his editor (as such things will’ ‘sometimes.happen)? We hope not. We hope that ¢“Lake Side” will gather up and sail in. The readers at Rome will never be satisfied without these weekly contributions, and the editors will, ere long, if they have not already, learn to appreciate and set a proper value on them. - - ’ The Lake Steamer is soon to be completely painted and put in nice trim; all the row bhoats belonging to the Lake Side, ditto, and all to be under the command of Capt: Clark Haughton and ready to sail at a moment’s warning. Clark will be happy then and pleasure cheap. ADEXIS,

KENDALLVILLE LOCALS. . The women of this city held quite an interesting temperance mecting at the Baptist Church last Thursday afternoon. They had -at a ‘previous meeting delegated one of their number to go to Albion and procure a list of the signatures to the various petitions presented to the Commissioners asking for permits to retail intoxicating liquors in this place. An examination of the list, to the astonishment of many present, revealed the facts that several young men had placed their names upon all the petitions; two members of one of our churches had also signed several, and the names of editors, doctors, lawyers and business men generally appeared upon most of them. The ladies scanned these names over with a good deal of feeling and will undoubtedly }Vf@siti some of these voters, and pray ‘with them if necessary, to:secure their pledges to sign no more such petitions, the effect of which will be to make it more difficult to obtain the requisite number of names to petitions than it has been heretofore. They resolved at that time to hold a gigantic temperance meeting here soon, and among the speakers invited will be Baxter,

the author of the present; liquar law. The feeling against anti-temperance seems to be growing here. . ‘The_ suit. commenced by S. .J. M. Loomis against Hovatter, in the Circuit Court st week, was decided in favor of the defendants . Albion, it seems -from report, is to have a‘new sidewalk, but the joke of it is, the county builds it. ~ « Adam Feehl has elosed his saloon, in compliance with the Baxtdr law, ‘which provides that a conviction under it shall forfeit the permit. This is rather hard on Mr. Faehl, who has certainly kept one of the most (jx,liut and orderly places in Kendallville, and has sought to live up to the law, according to its strictest comstruction. With the deception practiced by minors and-‘others in the habit of getting drunk, in order to obtain their liguor, I am satisfied that no saloonin Noble county ecan save ifs permit six months where there is a disposition to prosecute. £ While at Fort Wayne the other day, I met my old friend, James ITaxby. ‘He refers to his residence in this place, some sixteen years ago, as among the happiest recollections of hislife. Heis now assisting his mother-in-law, Mus. Aveline, wljo k'eeps the Aveline House, which, by the way, is a very good house to stop at when in that city. I also met Judge Buwrnham and wife. Mis. Burnham’s health is very poor ‘and has not been, good since she left Kendallville. . >

Our celebrated breach of promise suit has been settled. The Widow gets :é;')()() and the Doctor remains in Shedrap store. 1 fe s - The county .seat meeting at Mitehell Hall last Friday evening was a success. Many of .our citizens gave their views upon the subject of removal and it was proposed, and so ordered, that our responsible men enter into @ bond o indemnify the county against a tax to build new buildings in case the removal is accomplished. ek - I wish to,inform the Era, and at. the ‘san;e time. ackno'wledge the com-. plinient it pays me, that we do not base our claims to the county - seat: upon the amount of litigation from this place, and cannet see where it gets that idea from anything I have said upon the subject.” But we do claim that institution from the fact that a large majority of tfie people of the county can Dbe better accommodated at this place than a,t Albion. - . The latest argument against the removal of the county seat comes from that ancient fossil, Nelson Prentiss.