The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 3, Ligonier, Noble County, 14 May 1874 — Page 2

The Fational Banuer ” “ e R N AP -‘;.QB. STOLL, Editor and Proprietor. LIGONIER IND, MAY 14th, 1874,

SENATOR SCHURz declined an offer ‘of three hundred dollars to deliver his eulogy of Charles Sumner in Rockland, Maine, on the evening after its delivery in Boston, because he “could not accept money for a labor of love and veneration.” : e FARMERS and all others interested will find on the first' page a very interesting repert of the condition of winter wheat throughout the Union. 1t will be noticed therefrom that present indications do not point to a scareity of that staple product. D b R .

THE RELEASE of Mrs. Clem is vigorously denounced by almost the entire press of Indiana as an outrage upon society. ~ No one seems to have the least doubt of Mrs. Clem’s guilt, or that she would have been set at liberty but for the free use of money.

NEW YORKERS complain that rascally butchers glut the market with slippery or “bob” veal-the flesh of calves under four weeks old. This is in' violation of local law, but the officials seem to be too derelict of their duty to bring the offending parties to punishment. : |

Tue Tipton county Gmrigers_'hav~ ing been gobbled up by designing republican politicians, Bro. Brady, of the 7'imes, announces "tha.t he will henceforth “fight for the old democratic party and.for the men of its choice,” without forming entangling alliances with any set of men outside that organization. i ,

OvUR neighboring city, Goshen, seems bound to present some sort of novelty all the time. She now hoasts of having, what probably no other city in the United States can show, a German temperance man for ' Mayor and a man of the same nationality and faith for Marshal. The foriner was elected ‘by 22 and the latter by 123 majority.

HoNgesT “old Jim” Williams, who ably and faithfully represented Knox county in'the State Senate for a number of years, has been declared the first choice of the Knox county Democracy for the office of representative in. Congress. His chief competitor was Hon, Thomas G. Cobb, a prominent lawyer and politician of Vincennes. This action gives Williams the inside track for the nomination in the Niblack District. , v

MAYorR HAVEMEYER, .whom the New York Republicans elected as a “reform” candidate in 1872, has, to the inexpressible disgust and indignation of all good and upright citizens, appointed one Abraham “Disbecker, a dishonest and worthless political bummer and whilom tool of Boss Tweed, to the responsible' position of Police Commissioner for the city of New York, vice Henry Smith, deceased.— The appointment is vigorously condemned by every réspectable journal of Gotham. ] :

OUR READERS will remember that a few weeks since the farmers and independent voters of Oregon met in convention and-nominated candidates for the several State offices and 4 representative in- Congress. The movement is, judging from all reports, a very formidable one. Now comes the report that the Republicans and Democrats have formed a coalitjon for the express purpose of defeating the Independents. This is the *funniest” ~stroke of policy we have heard of since we know anything of politics. ..

THE GrANGERS of Wayne county have nominated a full county ticket, which, however, is supported only by a portion of the organization-—the non-political Grangers having protest- | ed against the nomination of a ticket. The political antecedents of the candidates are thus indicated: The Senator, Clerk, Auditor, Real Estate Ap-| praiger, Surveyor, and one of the-Com-migsioners have herg¢tofore acted with | the Republicans; onte Representative; the Recorder, and gne Commissioner are Democrats; and the Treasurer, Sheriff, Coroner, and Prosecutor were selected from among the Liberal Republicans, who are quite numerous in the land of Julian. T e THE “cheap clothing” man whom the darkeys and mean whites of South Carelina elected /Governor, must have been carrying on pretty high. The telegraph informs us that “a petition has been filed in the United States Court for involuntary bankruptey of Franklin Moseg, Jr., Governor of South (arolina, and an injunction granted, restraining the Sheriff from seizing and selling his effects until the further order of the court. The debts of ‘the Governor, in excess of his assets, are currently stated fo be over $250,000.” This ig simply “awful.” With all the stealing in which Moses has participated he gurely ought to manage to keep himself out of the clutches of the sheriff, _ | e M— - THE REPUBLICAN MANAGERS in Whitley county have decided not to nominate a county ticket this year, They do not, by any means, contemplate the abandonment of their party, but being in a hopeless minority, they will in the first place encourage local disaffection among the Democracy, and secondly rally to the support of independent candidates. Wh'ila» not sufficiently’sanguine to expect a general defeat of the democratic ticket, they count largely upon determining who shal] fill some of the more important and lucrative positions. The programine is not wholly destitute of political shrewdness, but gentlemen .must bear in mind that “the best laid ' schemes |o* mice an’ men gang aft aglinT ot .

A WORDS THAT MEAN SOMETHING. : The Manhattan Club, a pelitical or-. ganization in the city of New York, had a grand reunion on'the 7th inst., at which a number of the most distinguished Democrats of the country were either present in person or expressed their views upon the political situation by letter.. Among those who chose the latter we find our own distinguished statesman,the Hon. M: C. Kerr, who wrote thus in his usual terse and significant style: v GENTLEMEN :—I have your kind invitation of the 27th ult. to attend your reunion on :the 7th inst., and for answer my circumstances and business compel me to say that I cannot accept. I wish I could, because in the aims and spirits of yourreunion I am in full and hearty sympathy with you. I would like to rejoice with you. I hope those vietories to which you refer are but a feeble foreshadowing.of those to come. We need niore general, broad, and enduring victories, fully establishing the complete nationality and unity of the Democratic party in its essential principles. It is the supreme excellence of those principles, that they are alike just, equal, generous, and unsectional in their application to each and every section of our great country, and to each and every class of our citizens, and to all of their wvarious pursuits, industries, and interests. The eternal truth is that sectionalism and conflicts of class can hever exist in a great- country like ours, or have any decent reason for existence, provided that only the country is governed by the honest and simple principles of true statesmanship. These principles can never tolerate favoritism, class legislation, unequal burdens, “protective” taxation, monopolies, special privileges, Selfish donations of lands or money, a debased or depreciated currehcy, or the denial to the States of the free and salutary right of having home rule, subject to the Constitution of the United States, and in accordance with the respective constitutions of the several States. The Democratic -party of the nation needs now, more than ever, to cultivate more generous sympathies: between sections of the party remote from each other, a’ closer and more truthful adherence to common principles and a common faith, more confidence in the absolute im_partiality of the practical working of correct principles in government, more toleration, and kinder discussion of differences of opinion, and a more careful study of the true laws of trade, commerce, taxation, and currency.— On the vital questions of taxation for revenue alone, currency based upon money of intrinsic value and equal laws to regulate and protect the rights of all the people, there ought to be no disharmony in the bosom of the Democratic party. The chief success and glory of the party twenty, thirty, forty years ago resulted from the compact unity, sincere devotion, to. intelligent eomprehension, and to faithful obseryance of these vital prineiples. They merely express the requirements of common honesty and plain justice towards all the people, whether: rich or poor, in the East or West, North or South. Let us spare no efforts to restore unity on these cordial principles. Hoping that your reunion may be both pleasant and useful, I remain, very faithfully, your friend, M. C. KERR. New Albany, Ind,, May 4th, 1874. There is a “heap of sense” in these suggestions. We ‘only wish that evry man calling himself a Democrat would take these stirring words to heart and plant himself firmly upon the broad and liberal platform laid { down by Indiana’s ablest representative of correct political prineciples. -

A MEMBER OF LINCOLN'S CABINET ON GENUINE DEMOCRACY., Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under President Lincoln, in a letter to the Manhattan Club of New York, expressed these noble sentiments: “I most sincerely unite with you and all others in expressing the great satisfaction which all genuine Democrats must experience in recent victories, and in the prospect of an early triumph of sound principles inthe Federal and State governments.— ‘Whatever necessity may have justified the exercise of extraordinary and undelegated power by the Central Gov‘ernment during the war, no necessity remained for its continuance and enlargement after the -termination of hostilities. The people submitted in the days of our civil strife to the waste of war, to a deranged and unredeemable currency, and sometimes to the enforcement of arbitrary power, but peace should have brought with it national unity, economy in the Government, a discontinuanceof lavish and unnecessary 'expenditu'res', a reduction of taxes, genuine money, and the abolition of fictitious irredeemable paper promises, which-in violation of the Constitution' and of the public: faith assumes to be its substitute.— Gold, like sound Democratic doctrine, is truth, while inconvertable paper promises are false and fraudulent, one method of repudiation. We may all, I trust, rejoice in the ‘glorious promises of the future,’ and say with the great apostle of freedom: ‘We have a rising nation spread over a wide and fruitful land, but to make us a happy and prosperous people we need a wise and frugal Government, which shall not take from the mouth of labor -the bread it has earned.”

THAT eminent temperamce organ- ‘ the Warsaw Indianian, has arrived at the conclusion that it is a matter of considerable doubt *if there ever has been'a more crude and worthless law passed in any State,” than Baxter’s devise, ¥and were 1t not for the war waged by the women on the ligquor traffic, the law would be almost a nulity throughout Indiana.”....“A new law, more in keeping with the Constitution, is most imperatively demanded, we think, and this is gmdu-':i ally forcing itself into the minds of' the temperance people of the country who desire a law that can be enforced.” Very good. Now let the Indianian follow up its professions by advocating the election of legislators who have sufficient wisdom to enact a law that can be enforced without exciting the opposition of temperate, unprejudiced and practical men. :

‘QUIRIN VoLrz, Esq., is a candidate for Representative from the county of Franklin, this State. We have known this gentleman for a number of years, and deem him well suited to oceupy a position in the Legislature. Heis a hard-fisted farmer, a man of sound judgment, and a steadfast supporter of democratic principles.

S ANNEXING OUT-LOTS—AN IMPORTANT : DECISION, : Saturday’s Ft. Wayne Sentinel published a full account of the decision of Supreme Judge Osborne in the case of Robert S. Taylor vs. the city of Fort Wayne. The! facts in this case are that two years sinceanumber of property holders, living immediately southwest of the city, fileda petition before ' the . Cournty Commissioners asking for the incorporation of a town to be called South Wayne. This was done to prevent the city fromn taking the territory in and to escape city taxation. The petition was fought by the city through their attorney. After consideration the Commissioners agreed to lay the matter over until the next session. Before the next session of the Commissioners the City Council passed an ordinance bringing the territory into the city. When the Commissionérs met they refused to grant the prayer of the petitioners.— Robert S. Taylor then broyght suit in the Circuit Court to set aside the ordinance, but the ecase was decided again in favor of the city. An appeal was then taken to the Supreme Court. The decision is about as follows:— That the proceedings being carriediso far, the Board of Commissioners had exclusive jurisdiction and the city none; that the city had no right to annex property divided into large outlots; that fhe Board of (,‘ommissiox}ers, having exclusive jurisdiction, had no discretion, but must declare the territory embraced in the petition an incorporated town for the election ‘of ‘officers, and decided against the city.

It is stated that the geople residing in the annexed territory had about abandoned the hope of maintaining an independent corporation, had paid their city taxes, and demanded city privileges. It is probable that suits will be instituted for the recovery of taxes, &e. This case is of very great importance, and will be a precedent for a large number of other similiar cases in the State. The Sentinel comments on the decision in these words: % :

The decision of the Supreme Court of the State of Indiana, in favor of the citizens of South Wayne, furnishes an important precedent. According to this decision, the inhabitants of any suburb, who are desirous to avoid paying city taxes, may have themselves incorporated into a seperate town, and thus practically stop the growth of the city. i ; '

WHILE we never did and do not now look with favor upon the.cartoons with which Harper'ss Weekly - from time to time ridicules public men, we cannot forget the fact that those same republican journals and politicians who now complain most bitterly over that journal’s carricatures of theinflationSenators were most prolific in their eulogies and praises when Nast sought to disgrace Greeley, Gratz Brown and the Liberal Republican leaders of 1872 generally. They lionized and worshiped Nast then; let them, therefore, meekly partake of a dose of the same medicine now.

ABour forty Mennonites, who arrived at New York on Wednesday from Russia, proceeded directly to Dakota, where they will found, or attempt to found, a colony. . Dakota may be so much better than Russia that these deluded people will like it; but only fancy anybody going there from choice, when Indiana invites with open arms.—lndianapolis Journal. ¢ ; It may be that Indiana “invites with open arms,” but if 3o the fact has not been brought to the attention 'of these sturdy ecolonists. Will the Journal inform its readers why?

Notes from the National Capital. . Latest advices from Washington indicate that the combined| sewing machine companies will fail to secure the extension of patent which they have been trying to obtain from Congress, having in fact nearly abandoned the effort. This will be good news to the people, and if the lobbyists do not succeed in getting their extension through, by some trick during the closing hours of the session, a large decline in the price of sewing machines may be looked for. :

A call has been made by the Comptroller of the Currency for a statement of the condition of the National Banks at the close of business on May I.— For the first time since the panic, there is some hope of learning the exact condition of the banks at a date so’ recent as to make the information of contemporaneous interest. . It is. semi-officially announced that the Hon. Elihu B. Washburne has been offered and has refused the Secretaryship of-the Treasury. This is equivalent to an admission that Mr. Washburne is “in the hands of his friends,” whence he would like to be elevated tosthe Presidential chair. - The Centennial bill has been recommitted, and it is generally understood that no attempt to revive it will be made during the present session. Kelley and his friends —somebody should write a book with this title—hope for better times next winter. There is serious danger of a coalition between the Centennial grabbers agd the pa-per-money, grabbers, by ‘means of which a double-headed swindle will be effected.. An epportunity of frustrating this design will be presented to the country in the general elections next fall.

A fearful blow was administered to the Centennial bill the other day.— ‘When the bill came to the third reading that courtesy was refused by a vote of 92 to 188. A reconsideration of the bill was then ordered, and in this interesting condition it is left.— The probability is that the whole matter will sink out of sight. The Treasury is too poor to_pay out three millions for what is sure to be a. failure. Pennsylvania can of course have a centennial celebration, and the States of the Union can assist to any extent they see proper, but is certainly unwise for the general Government to sink any money in it.

Civil-Service Reform is becoming a ridiculous term for an arrangement by which the President and heads of Departments are saved from annoyance in the making of minor appointments, and allowed free rein when nominations are to be made to the Senate. A bill introduced last week provides that the sham refprm shall be decently put to death. In its place a system of appointing from the Congressional districts will be adopted, the “spoils” being apportioned much more exactly among the Congressmen than has ever before been the case.— The reaction from the Reform promises to carry the Karty to the adoption of practices much more objectionable than those which were so lustily condemned in the Republican Conyention at Philadelphia, ‘ ;

e Delalb County Items. . [From the Auburn Courier, May 7th.] ' ~ Circuit Court convenes next Monday, Judge Best presiding. There are about the uswal number of cases on thedocket. o 8 ' ! The German Methodists will erect a new church on the lot west of Whitington’s, on Jackson street, this summer, atfa cost of $2,000. | . The Eel River Company have made a proposition to locate their shops at this place, providing the necessary inducements are offered. These wouldj add more to the mdterial wealth of | our town than all the railroads put together. It is now for our ecitizens to say whether an effort shall be made to secure them. If we can be liberal in- our own interests we can have them. . | The Ft. Wayne Sentinel says Gen. Anthony Wayne, the well known trotter, will appear at a number of the principal meetings during the coming season. He is now at the race track, where he is being driven every day. [From the Waterloo Press, May Tth. | | The Waterloo saloon keepers aided in getting out as full a vote as possible on election day. : Marshall Maxwell, of Butler, has been fined twenty-five dollars for arresting an individual without the. proper authority. : The Board of Education of the couns ty convened in the Court-House at Auburn, on Friday last, in semi-annu-al session. * * *' Upon re-assem-‘bling, the Board proceeded to the consideration of text-books, the Superintendent announcing that the following had not yet been acted upon:: History, Physiology, Spellers, Arithmetic and Penmanship. Mr. Hoopingarner moved-the adoption of Anderson’s History, with Barns’ Indiana Appendix. After discussion, the motion was carried, ayes 18, nays 1. - Mr. ' Downs moved the adoption of Ray’s Arithmeties. Mr. Hoopingarner moved to amend by substituting French’s Arithmetie. ~After considerable discussion, the amendment was adopted, ayes 11, nays 4., Mr. Downs moved the adoption of McGuffey’s Spellers: carried unanimously. Mr. Downs mqved the adoption of the Eclectic system of "Penmanship; carried unanimously — The question of adopting an Elocution ~was discussed, but.nothing done. The members talked over the corporeal ,punishment question, without definite ‘results, when' an adjournment was carried. Much indignation is expressed at the voting out of Ray’s Arithmetics, with = which ninteentwentieths of the schools in the county are supplied. One trustee declared that every school in his township had them, and would continue to use them, notwithstanding the recommendation .of the Board. The sudden and almost unaccountable change .of many trustees, who have heretofore opposed putting the people to the expense of getting new books, gives warrant to many uncomplimentary surmises.— Adding this to the fact that one members publicly declared that he had been offered $3O worth of books, if he would favor the adoption of French’s Arithmetic, will make most people think that the members owe it to themselves to appoint an investigating committee, “with power to send for persons and papers.” There are other circumstances, freely comment‘ed upon by the patrons of the county schbols, which, should they prove wellgrounded, will not agdd to the confidence the people will have that all the members have acted from the very purest motiyes. No one should conclude that it is necessary to adopt the bogks recommended by the Board.— Districts wishing to continue the use of their okl books, have the legal right 0 do so.

| Lagrange County Items. ‘(From the Lagrange Standard, May 7th.] . The Court-room is undergoing some repairs. And thelfence around the public square is also being repaired. Se mtich in the line of improvements. The Old Settlers’ Meeting is called for the tenth of June, at Lagrange. A large turn out of the old folks is cxpeeted. ol o o : : There are only twelve persons in the county between the ages of ten and twenty-one years unable to read and write. A creditable fact, though there is hardly a reasonable excuse for any at-all. o That portion of the county in which there was a failure of the wheat crop last year is now favored with the most flattering prospect it has had for years.. So far as this county is concerned,averaging all the reports there is reason to hope for rather more than

an average crop. ! Two ministers, Rev. Hughes and Rev. Vaughn, are elected members of the new town board. Though they would not be Catholic “Papas,” they will hardly decline to be “town-dads.” The Sheriff received a telegram one day last week, that George Ritz, alias John E. Johnson, his escaped prisoner, had been arrested at Milford, Kosciusko county. -He started at ence to get him, but when he reached there, he found that his trip was all in vain, the young fellow having again made his escape. ~ A number of the young man’s-relatives lived in that vicinity, and they had coaxed him away from the man who had arrested him, pledging their honor not to allow him to escape, but they did, nevertheless. He will probably make sure his escape nNow. v

The tax payments figure out better than was anticipated at first. Something over two-thirds of the whole tax on the tax-daplicate of the county has been paid. TFhere remains due on the second installment $20,472.67. The actual delinquency, that is, taxes upon which there has been no payment at all, is $4,680.64, less than half generally delinquent. . . .- :

Latest advices go to shiow that the President is very firm in his position on the currency question, and that the }hopes of a “compromise” are small.— Grant intends evidently to keep the pledge madé by the Republican party and by Congress, that nothing shall be done by the country to impair the public credit of the United States.— Any compromise on the financial question out of harmony with the maintenance of these pledges, the President has intimated very strongly he will not approve. He manifests an intention, too, to censtrue his own language, and not to allow ethers to construeit for him. Therefore he will not permit the assurance given in his last annual message “to heartily support any measure Congress may decide upon,” to be tramslated into a promise to violate the solemn covenants of the country with its creditors. He believ&s in hard money, and is disposed to assist the country to a specie basis as soon as practicable.— It appears that since the veto he has been assured that the New England banks are anxious to reduce their circulation. The West can therefore get all the currency it needs without any further increase in the volume of greenbacks or National Bank notes.

WaITLEY County.—Mr. Dav. Sheckler, a prominent Granger, died on the 19th u1t.....A hook and ladder company is being organized at Columbia City . ...Columbia City brags on a female ninety-four years old.

' GENERAL ITEMS. In East Freetown, Massachusetts, last Saturday, four children at play, in Garret Reynold’s barn, set the building on fire, and his daughter, aged 4 years, and a daughter of Wm. Reynolds, aged two years, were burned to death. A joint resolution has passed both branches of the Pennsylvania Legislature by a unanimous vote, asking the President of the United States to appoint a Board to examine the proceedings in the case of-Gen. Fitz John Porter. s L i C. A. Haynes, a colored mail agent, chgrgeq with robbing the mails, plead guilty in the U. S. District Court, at Wilmingten, N. C., Saturday, and was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. He is a brother of the Secretary of State of South Carolina. - The Columbus (Ohio) crusaders, after a brief season of rest, are preparing for arenewal of their work. They propose renewing the street war in small bands, praying only at places } where permission is given. In the ' evening they propose holding prayer meetings in private Houses, in various parts of the city, except on market nights, when the meetings will be held in the market-houses, and tracts }Wi]l be distributed among the rural people. | { B Details of the fire in. the town of Lavag, Phillippine Islands, on the 28th of January, are to the effect that two children were left to themselves, set a house on fire, and the conflagration extended so rapidly that in the course of four hours half of the houses in the | tawn, nearly 2,000 were destroyed.— Not a fruit tree remained. Thousands of weaving frames were destryyed, and multitudés of cattle perished; fifteen persons, including six children, were burned to death. " Additional crevasses in the Lower Mississippi ‘are reported from -the South. Many tributary streams have also overflowed, and the outlook for the homeless people of the inundated region is more cheerless than ever. This is not a time to stop the work of extending relief to the sufferers. As the want becomes more general and more severely felt, the sense of obligation resting upon the people of the North should grow heavier, and be more adequately responded to. We know what it is to receive, we are but just learning what it is to give. ;

The Arkansas Muddle-Paily: Bul- ¢ ; letin. : MAY 6.—The two missing Judges, Bennett and Searle, escaped from their captors in Saline county last night, and arrived in the city of Little Rock to-day under a Federal escort, which went out last night, and again this morning, to look for them. These jurists tell a tale which is soul harrowing. Their captor, after bestowing them in an out of the way retreat, darkly hinted that he had orders from Baxter to “fix them.” This conscientious ofﬁcer,jf Lieut. Summerhill, could not entertain the thought of ridding the world of these precious carpet

baggers. He therefore furnished each: of his guests with an auricular flea, and bade them depart and God speed. e accompanied them beyond the lines, whereupon the valorous judges clapped their pistols to the head of their deliverer, and took him prisoner. Such is the pleasant little story told by the escaped judges. It is easy to see that this talk of assassination is the prompting of revenge. May 7.—Another developement in the Arkansas war is reported to-day. ‘The Supreme Court, having got safely out of the clutches of Gov. Baxter’s deputies, has rendered 4 decision affirm-

ing the legality of Brooks’ pretensions. This action, if advices from Baxter’s camp may be trusted, is of little importance one way or the other. The Court has stultified its previous record, and, it is asserted, ignored statute which requires a’decision of this nature to bé rendered by a full Bench.— In Arkansas the Legislature is made the judge of contests for the office of Governor. Baxter has already been wrongfully but legally confirmed in office, and, while his claim to being the de facto. Governor remains as good as that of Brooks, he will not be alarmed by the thunders of the Supreme Court. MAY B.—The situation in Arkansas looks more threatening again. A party of Brooks’ men waylaidthe steamer Hattie, carrying a company of Baxter’s men, this morning, and fired on her, killing one man and wounding the Captain, Sam. Hauston, so severely that he died soon after. Several other men were also wounded. The Baxter men returned the fire, killing a couple of their assailants.. Both parties are reported to be strengthening their positions and increasing their forces. MAY 11.—Representatives of the two claimant Arkansas Governors met in Washington on Saturday and signed a propositien, submitted by AttorneyGeneral Williams, for a temporary settlement of the affair. The terms of the agreement are scarcely worth reciting in detail, since Brooks and Bax‘ter have not both agreed to carry out its provisions; as a matter of contemporay history, however, the document is interesting. It proposed that a'call of the Legislature should be made by both Governors, and that the decision reached in this manner should be received as final by all persons concerned. We gather from this anomalous treaty, which has been accepted by Gov. Brooks and rejected by Gov. Baxter, the first intimation of an intention on the part of President Grant to setile the Arkansas melee by the strong arm. He recognizes the right ‘of the Legislature to determine who is the Governor of the State. He will uphold that, will give the protection necessary for its exercise, and eventually the power to enforce the verdict rendered. He has thus answered in advance a communication from certain members of the Legislature, now ‘in Little Rock, who ask that United States tﬁ)ops be ordered to prevent any interference with the extrasession which;is to begin to-day. Before this week ecloses, in all probability, the tragi-comedy Arkansas will have been 'played out. . MAY 12.—The news from Arkansas indicates thatthe basis of a settlement between the contending Governors has at last been reached. President Grant yesterday advised an adjournment of the Legislature summoned by Baxter for ten days; and that Brooks should issue a call and bring to Little Rock ‘the members of the Legislature who support his claims. Baxter, in replg to the President, said that he woul agree to this plan, on condition that Brooks should retire from the StateHouse, and leave it unoccupied in the interior. = Brooks’ response to the President was a call for the Legislature to meet on the 24th inst. At last advices, Ite had not heard of the proposed evacuation of the CourtHouse, but had been informed by Pres: ident Grans that such a course would be reasonable, and would be a wholesome one for him to ada?t_. This settlement ought to be satisfactory toall parties concerned. It does not avoid the charge of Federal interference in ‘the affairs of a State; but it does arrange, with the least ble interference, and a policy that will put an end to the anarchy which has long prevailed}inLittlu‘Rocg.i o . VERY LATEsST.—Baxter will probably ’wr@mnizaﬁ* by the General Government‘and Brooks driven out.

. STATE li EMS. 1 The Plymouth Agricultural Society | is expending $l,OOO in putting the race track at the fair grounds in good condition. : e - From the amount of flax seed loan ed thus far, the Marion Chronicle estimates the flax crop of Grant county’ the present year at $130,000. -, One stand of bees yielded a Hamilfon county farmer, last season, 200 pounds of honey and a good strong hive of bees. The honey sold for $50.A pile was recently driven on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, near Auburn, to a depth of 508 feet before a solid foundatidn was reached.—Logansport Journal. L b i | Not long ago Westchester township, Porter county, had six saloons, two selling under license, the others without a license. They have' all surrendered and closed up in response to the. women’s prayers. i : In a few days Bishop Dwenger, Father Benoit and others of the Catholic clergy, will start from Fort Wayne on their pilgrimage to Lourdes, in the province of Hautes| Pyrenees, in ‘France. They will visit the famous fountain of Lourdes. | : 4 1 ; " Fort Wayne has brought suit against her defaulting ex-Treasurer Dreegmeyer andihis bondsmen, claiming $50,000 due the city, which Dregmeyer had failed to pay the city, notwithstanding formal demands upon him by his successor. A hot and long fight is confidently looked ;for, with a prospect of the defeated party carrying the matter into the Supregme Court. James Mitchell, of Switzerland county, who shot and killed Joseph E. Gray by command of hig mother, was released by the couft. Mrs. Mitchell was held in $3,000 (bail, which she gave. The examination develops the presumption that Gray was in the habit of going to her house for improper purposes. But why she wished to kill. him, seems a mystery in the light of the testimony thus far offered.

A. E. Crane, a former citizens of Goshen, shot himself with a shet gun, while in a drunken fienzy, at his‘home near Milford, on Tu{esday evening.— He was the last of the Crane family who came here from Goshen, New York, in an early day, and gave the name of Goshen to this place. He was in good circumstances at one time, but whisky had made him a wreek, financially and physically.—Goshen T'imes.

~ The Wabash Plaindealer says that the store of John Watkins, of LaGro, was entered by burglars last Friday night, and frem $BOO to $9OO in currency stolen from the safe. Most of the funds were the property of Mr. Watkins, although there were funds belonging to other parties in the safe, which were stolen. About $4OO of school funds laid aw‘zﬁ' in an envelope were overlooked by the burglars and untouched. f ! e

DecorATlON' DAY.—Remember that the 30th of May is Decoration Day, and if our people intend to observe the day in a manner calculated to do honor to the memory of our brave and noble dead soldiers, they should begin at once to make preparations for the occasion. Let the [Fire Department lead off in the matter, and all good citizens join 'in and make theoccasion one of credit to themselves and honor to.the dead. Our neighbors dre moving inl the matter, and we should not be behind them. —Goshen Times. ' . Founxp.—J. E. Thatcher, of Pierceton—whose loss of fifteen hundred dollars was mentioned in these columns last week—found the package, apparently having never been opened, and without the loss of a dollar. It was lying on the walk under the edge of the gate. One of Pinkerton’s detectives had been gent for, and it is surmised that whoeg'er had the money became alarmed, and took this method of restoring it, in advance of his detection. However this may be, we are glad that the money has been recovered, and returned to its owner.— Warsaw Indianian,

The Warsaw | Indianiah makes a good point and well deserves attention. If there is any place in the United States that should take advantage of the'light the government has thrown upon the subject of introducing new and useful varieties of fish for food purposes, that place is Northern Indiana. It abounds in lakes that are peculiarly fitted for such purposes, being small, of the purest water, and many of them being fed by springs. There are 37 of these lakes in this county, and we believe there is no finer field anywhere for the introductien and propagation of this most excellent, healthful and cheap.article of food. 2 * The Paoli News is informed of a terrible tragedy that was enacted last week, just over the line in® Martin county. David Christian; a worthless character, told one of his little children to bring him a drink of water.— The child, not moving as quick as he thought it ought to (lihe became enraged and swore he would knock its brains. out, and grasping a| stick of wood he struck the poor littllf thing a terrible blow over the head, killing it instantly, after which he escaped, and has not been heard from. Some of the neighbors happening in, found the murdered child lying on the floor, just as its inhuman father had left:it. The mother of the child was charged with the awful deed, but refused to give any explanation. She was then taken by the indignant neighbors and hanged until she made a full confession, implicating her more than brute of a husband, as above stated. - THIEVING AGAlN—Milton Berry, the young lad employed ‘at the Morse House, and who rejently stole $l3O, instead of carrying it to the Bank as directed, on Tuesday last stole a quantity of jewelry valued at $6O, from some of the occupants of the Morse House, and a ’buglalq robe from Mr. Engle’s livery stable, and left for parts unknown. - He was /discovered at a vacant' house near (iedar' Lake, last Wednesday, and the| property recovered, but the lad escjped. The same evening he returned to the Morse House after the inmates had retired, and made an entrance through the window, and went next to the cupboard, ate what he wished, and from thence to the barn, and' slept the remainder of the night. He was arrested on Saturday last, and lodged in jail, to await his trial at the present term of Court.—Steuben Republican.

The Trustees of the incorporated town of ~ingra.nge, “llaving arranged ; to comply with the statute in such cases made and provided,” asked leave to withdraw from thel County Board of Education and be inﬁtpendent there- | of. Which request was granted. We quote the above\ from the proceedings of the Lagrange County Board of Education. Will Mr. Bay-l liss have the kindness to enlighten us on the advantages derived from mak- | ing Town Boards independent of the County Boards, as well as on the authority by which such| independence | may be grantéd? . o ’ GovERNOR HENDRIOKS hasdeclined to sigh the temperance pledge. Hev{ says there is no danger of hjs falling by the wayside. L

WOMEN'S TEMPERANCE CON- . VENTION. E e For Northern and Eastern Indiana. The Woman’s Temperance Union of Fort Wayne would respectfully invite the friends of the temperance causein’ Northern and Eastern Indiana, to assemble in Convention .at the First Presbyterian Chutch at. Fort Wayne, Thursday, the 21st day of May, 1874, It is well known that the people of this State, in common with-our fellowcitizens throughout the land, have beccome aroused to the magnitude-of the evil of Intemperance; and we feel thas the time has come, in the piesent moyement, for such-an interchange and comparison of views among itsfriends, as will lead to a more earnest, intelligent and effective co-operation in the cause. ' S Temperance Unions and Leaguesin. the various cities, towns and villages throughout the Northern and Eastern portions of the State are invited tosend delegates to this convention; and \ it is especially ‘desired that a majority | of such delegates will be women. | All who can unite upon'a platform. favoring the suppression of intemper- ‘ ance, and the enforcement of. existing. laws to regulate and control the traffic in intoxicating drinks, are invited toattend, and take part in the proceedings. - e A preliminary meeting will be held on the Wednesday evening preceding the convention, in the First Presbyterian Churech, and the convention will assemble on Thursday at 10 o'clock 4. M., at the same place. i Arrangements will be made to entertain all who may..come, and ‘it is hoped there will be a general response to the call. o e ; In behalf of the Women’s Temper-: ‘ance Union. P - MRs. JESSE L. WILLIAMS, Pres’t. Miss ELLA SPENCER, Sec'y. S Fort Wayne, May 6,1874. T

The New Finanee Bill.. -~ ' The full textof the bill reported by the Senate:Finance Committee, as a substitute for the House Currency bill,’ is published. It differs in the bill as first drafted, in that it placeés no limif upon the increase of National Banking circulation. The provision for the retirement of legal-tenders. in proportion to the issue of bank curreney re--mains unchanged. The gection in relation to the resumption of specie payments on January Ist, 1877, contemplates the redemption of legaltenders by the issue of bonds, redeemable 'in - coin after ten yearsat the pleasure of the United States. The legal-tenders, after redemption, may be issued by the Secretary ef the Treasury in payment of bonds; for the liquidation of the National debt, or to meet the current expenses of the Government. This part of she bill will certainly be strenuously opposed by the inflationists in and out of Congress: | Senator Ferry, of Michigan, and Senator Wright, of lowa, have already declared their unqualified disapproval of it, and they will have a large following from the rank and file of the paper-. money party. The bill as a whole surrenders everything for which; the inflationists have fought; and embodies without substantial . alteration, the suggestions made in President Grant’s veto meésgsage. It will not -pass the Senate unaltered without a stubborn: and prolonged contest. The bill reported by Senator Sherman from the Finance Conimittee, early’in the gession, was torn in pieces and rebuilt, and the new bill will; it is likely, be subject to similar treatment.. =

- Nast Carricaturing Morton'& Co. " Somg¢ of the virtuously indignant organs who have lately developed such an intense hostility toward Harper's Weekly for the cartoon representing Grant bidding the inflationists, Morton, Logan, Ferry, ete,'stand baek, take a sort of satisfaction in saying that Nast didn’t do it. They would spare Nast, for he' has done the party good service in killing Horace Greeley, and it won’t do to break with him.— Nast, however, who is, to use a suggestive term of the late Artemus Ward, a “perfect little cuss,” puts his. foot into it this week, by “a cartoon which lays the production of Mr. Reinhart completely in the .shade. President Grant is represented as a.lion, and Before him lie stretched the forms of the. inflationist Congressmen ‘in the semblance of defunct asses. They have been killed by the explosion of the veto egg, the debris of which' lie scattered around. These animals are kicking in their death struggles at the: leonine President, who ‘'stands proudly hefore them, his nose elevated in the most supreme contempt. Nast has committed the overt act. He hdas made deadly enemies of the organs of the Republican party, who were once his staunchest friends. , The narrow spirit manifested by the Republican press in regard to these pictures in Harper’s Weekly, is utterly detestable. One journal advises the people of the West to cease buying school books published by the Harpers.. We should hardly look for such a narrow partisan spirit in the great Republican party.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. i

: The Southern ¥Floods. = NEW ORLEANS, May B.—At present it is impossible to definitely assess the damage resulting from the inundation, but it is said $30,000,000, will not be anextravagant estimate. This includes crops, chattels; and all losses. . It may be reduced should the waters recede in time for a cotton crop; but the chances for sugar and rice are slim.— The Teche country, rich in sugar,gives no hope, for there is no prospect of an -abatement within a month. Louisiama gives but little promise of anything but cotton, upon which there will be a loss of 250,000 bales, but this will not so affect the planter as the consumer, who will be t‘gpmpelle,d., to pay higher prices. Details of human suffering show that people are living in their garrets and are subsisting on drowned and starved stock. Im some instances: people are living thirty miles from dry land. The water -is falling slowly, but until it has gone down, and a feeling of safety induce correspondents to find out, no definite estimate of the loss of life can be ' made.

A Good Plan, = = The Grangers have a projeet under consideration for obtaining correct crop reports. - Each member of each’ grange is to report the econdition of the crops of his neighborhood; a summary of these reports is to be sent to the county council. The county council reports in turn to the State ai'ang‘e, and the State Grange to the National. Grange. The information thus obtained will be condensed into a gener-' al report which will be 'f_orfwarged‘ to every grange in the coyntry. And now another feature of - utility has been instituted by the Patrons of Husbandry in Minnesota. It is to co-operate in the pursuit of horse thieves. Both ideas.are excellent.— Cambridge City Tribune. -

A correspondent at Roanoke, Huntington county, complains of hard times in that village. Every mill and factory ever started in town has burned down, except one which failed for $30,000. ; Pt el ——-——-——-‘A“———-——-—- S , i The wonderful increase of the Pat~ rons of Husbandry-is shown b{ﬂlﬁ fact that on the 28th of April there were 1,802 subordinate granges in the Stateof Indlann, .00 Sy

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' _ls again engaged in selling : : I.LANND PLASTER at liis_ old stand. + the well-known Liine‘ Warehouge. = Farmers wanting anything in this line - S are invited to Giive Him a CATL.L. Ligonier, March 26, 1874.-48-3 t. Lot ——— GOOD NEWS TO ALL! L. SCHILLOSS WOULD respéct{ully announce/to the citizens . of Ligonier, nd., that he hap opened up,the“ Grocery and Restaurant Business, and is prepared to farnish anything you * 2 - may want. - L . OYSTERS ' . : By the Dish or Can: Persons gettin suppers - 'w?ll find my oysters fresh, and%ewillgse“ﬁ theI;'lll) at reasonable terms. o ) ; . /' WARM MEALS At all Hours. . Day boarding;by the week or meal ; 'CANNED FRUITS. e The greatest assortment in Northern Indiana, ,consistmgl’of Peaches, Tomatoes, Corn, Whortleberries. Pine Agples, Pears, Peas, Strawberries, | Goosebetries, Cherries, California Grapes, Green: Corn, Apricots. * - i _ CONPECTIONERY In abundance; Prunes, Currants, Figs, Raising, Oranges, Lemons, Smoked Salmon, Sardines, Al+ monfs. Pea-Nuts, Hazlenuts; Cider, &e., &e , &c. . : TOBACCO. : Ligars, Fing Cut, Smoking, Plug, Shorts, &c., of the best quality, and all other articles usually kept. in a first-class Grocery and Restanrant. = .~ : - POULTRY, BUTTER AND EGGS. I will pay cagh for all kinds of country produce_’. Remember that I will furvish you with anything you may want., | Feb, 19,774.42-4 f -

“The Thresher of the Period.” = .Zd‘-'BﬂAT:O R"‘f‘ . A‘j Lk o oY 5 L e oI Bew i G e T B e YRR o e b ee b e TN SR e e B TN PR et~ < e P OLR N TR AR . Thig-is the famous “VIBRATOR" 'PuBESHER, which has created such a révolution in’thé‘trade and become 80 FULLY ESTABLISHED 88 the “leading Thresher” of this day mi generation.. More than seven thousand purchasers and ntne_t‘{'nuxousand graim raisers pronounz: these machines gn'TIRELY UNRQUALLED for grain saving, time saving, and money making. o Four sizes mmle; viz: 24« inch, 28« inel, 32-inch, and | ﬁlnch, (Hlludﬂl‘, with 6,8, 10 and 12-korse ** ounted” Powers. Also Separators ““alone’” expressly for Steam Power, and lm&m. ed PORTABLE STEAM ENGIN S for ‘Stenm Machines. SR * All persons intending to buy Thmshlnl‘? Ma- - chines, or Separators “‘alone,” or Horse Powers ‘‘alone,” as well as GRAIN RAISERS AND FARMERS. who want their grain threshed, saved and cleaned “to the best advantage, are invited to send for our *new forty ‘gm lustrated Pamphlet and Circulars (sent u')zgimng lzli’&ar,ﬂculmj out these Improved Machines and other information valia‘ble to farmers %gthreg% Address, - - : CHOLS, .PARD & CO., 8-51—4t.e o, w.aft.dt.e.w. - Battle Creek, Mich.

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