The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 8, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 June 1874 — Page 1

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Gold & Silver N R _—) N 7/ - 8. A, HERTZLER JEWELER and WATC}HV[AKEB, o iTeaE NI J AS constantly : ',ffi";@;«i:‘{ = I{(m hand alarge bty IR S ';'\ ‘#tock of I],;ldic.;‘ lIQ EM NS NgE ch - Gent’s gold and gil- £ r.' L fl&, -;?\: ;’;;- = ver. Walches, gold = {:‘__...}' PR A .- ?%’;:md gilver Guard A B Bt '_s and Vest Chaius, P R Y| i-&&' Silver Plated Ware, o ;@;}, Zhs *fir % é_;'j Spectacleg, Violiug, ,'a_'f'\ag'e,‘iz e 4 7 Accordeons, Guitar, _ (=% and Harmonicas, ==t and will be sold at The Very Lowest Cash Prices. A rpecialty made of repairing the finest Swiss and American Watches. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Store Rooms in l-ho'; Ligonier House, e } S: 4. HERTZLER. Ligonicr, June 11, 1874, tf, |

i { | BRIGGS' IMPROVED CULTIVATOR U 14 _ . ’l‘”l-} BRIGGS CULTIVATOR -imiproved is the result of twenty ypars effort to improve and perfect a Cultivator to itbe used with one horse, that will do all the different kinds of work upon the Farm, Garden and Nursery., Nane men out of ten, after & fair trial, and larning how to wse it, will give this Cultivator the preference to any in use, Among special points of excellence. of this implement. the following may be mentioned : It can (be so graduated that you.can do good work on hard clay or upon light sandy soil. It is reversible-and can be changed to throw the dirt to or from the row and will hill up much or little according to the depth: at which you run it and the condition of the soil. Itisa thorough pulverizer and is well adapted to stirring summer fallow . -and preparing ground for oats; for this work use it.with two horses and with. outside shovels arranggd to throw the dirt inward, cutting over a sp:’nc& double the width of the plows, It wili work small corn without hilling or throwing lumps or sods:on to the small plants. : j \\'iwn the corn i 8 large enough to bear hilling it I win do better work by going once in a row than the double shovel twice, as that leaves a ridge in the middle of the row, and this a furrow and the soil gradnally rising to the row._ Itstirsthe ground deep.and covers all the weeds, It will work among large weeds without clogging. Will hill potatoes equal to any implement; in use. The ghovels are made of the best quality of steel and warranted to clean in any goil. A great saving i expense by having one good tool that can be arranged to do all the different kinds of work successfully. - For sale by GEO. W. WOODWORTII, b (At the Judge Wood Mansion), May 28, '74.-tf g LIGoNIER, INDIVNA,

THE LIGONIER - KDEMY OF MUSIC. f‘ (.’ 4 . { ] RUI JNO. H. HILL, Principal. FIRST TERM COMMENCES MONDA Y, JUNE 15, >74. SECOND TERM COMMENCES MONDANX, AUG. 31,774, THIRD TERM COMMENCES DLOIN I N NN, 11 {ed. A NORMAL COURSE Will be opened for the henefit of those who may desive instruction in the Theory and ; 13 Practice ot Teaching. e . Terms of Tuition'—l’nynb]e in .-\llwnu-o. Per quarter of 10 weeks, Piano, Ist grade, 20~ jolessonEper IBEI L [ iloDcL LUI 81000 'Per quarter of 10 wéeks, Piano, 2d grade, 30 IesRONSDREeRM o ialoii . 0 1950 Per quarter of 10 weeks, Organ, Ist grade, 20 lessonsiperteymeis. oono o T .1000 Per quarter of 10 wecks, Organ, 2d grade, 30 lessons pertesm o 000 £2.50 Gultivation of the voice and singing, 20 les- i sonsperdernn gcr . SloilL ol 1000 Thorough Bass and Harmony, 30 lessons... 1500 . Clergymen, who are dependent upon their salaries for, support, and who gend their children to us, will be charged two-thirds of the above rates. -Competent Assistant Teachers will be empiloyed. All the adyantages of a zood home Music School are offered. No eftort will be spared to make the term pleasant and profitabie. Tdition fees will be refitnded in case of protracted illmess, ! " | ROOMS AND BOARD: Can be had at reasonable rates. The Principal will assistin procuring Rooms and Board. ‘ LOCATION, ; ’ The Academy is on the second floor of Landon’s Block; entrance first door north of Jackson’s Hat Store, The Principal will give his attention to teaching Singing Schools, Musical Conventions, Church Choirs, Glee Clabs, &c. For further particnlars apply to or address £ JOHN H. HILL, Principal, 4-tf Liconter, NosLe County, IN]!K»ANA. e 1 GOOD NEWS TO ALI)

1 Y : X CTus SCHILOSS : ‘\,V’()ULD respectfully announce to the citizens i of Ligonier, Ind., that he has opened up the rocery and Restanrant Grocery and Restaurant Business, and is prepared to furnish anything You any want.. : ICE CREAN By the Dish. Tee Cream and General Refreshments furnished Parties, Pic-Nies, &e., on short nntice! and at very reasonable terms., . WIARYMI MEALS o At all Hours, Day boarding by the week or meal 3 CANNED FIR UITS, Jl‘lu! greatest assortment in Notthern Indiana, comsisting of Peaches, Tomatoes, Corn, Whortleberries, Pinc Apples, Pears, Peas, Strawberries, Gooseberries, Cherries, California Grapes, Green Corn, Apricots. i CONFECTIONERY 5 In abundance; Prunes, Lurrants;, Figs, Raisins, Oranges, Lemons, Smoked Salmon, Sardines, Almonds, Pea-Nuts, Hazlenuts, Cider. &e., &c, &, X - TOBACCD, Cigarg, Fine Cut, Smoking, Plug, Shorts, &e., of the best quality, and sll other articles usually kept in a firgt-class Grocery and Restaurant.! POULTRY, BUTTER AND EGGS, I will pay cash for all kinds of country produce. Remember that I will furnish you with anything you may want, Feb, 19.274.42_tf

LASTCHANCE , ) —FOR—- : 0 q T DT TTN T AN EASY FORTUNE. FIFTH & LAST GIFTCONCERT IN AID OF THE | "ÜBLIC LIBRARY of KY PUBLIC tYof KY. July 31st, I=7-1. LIST OF GIFTS : ‘ ‘ YONE GRAND CASH G1ET...........8250,000 ONE GRAND CASH QIR 100,000 ONE GRAND CASH G1FT........... 75,000 ONE GRAND CASH G1FT............ 50.000 ONE GRAND CASH G1FT............ 25,000 5 CASH GIFTS, $20,000 each.... 100,000 : 10 CASH GIFTS, 14,000 each:... 140,000 15 CASH GIFTS, 10,000 each.... 150,000 20 CASH GIFTS, 5,000 each.... 100,000 25 CASH GIFTS, - 4,000 each.... 100,000 30 CASH GIF'TS, 3,000 each.... 90,000 50 CASH GIFTS, 2,000 each.... 160,000 100 CASH GIFTS, 1,000 each.... 100,000 240 CASH GIFTS, 500 each.... 120,000 500 CASH GIFTS, ' ' 100 each....! 50,000 11,000 CASH GIETS, 50 cach.... 950,000 Grand Total, 20,000 Gifts, all cash, 82,500,000 V‘PRICE OF TICKETS : whole Ticke15..................% 80.00 MMEives. ... ... 25,00 Tenths, or each Coupon . ...... 5.00 11 Whole Tickets f0r........... 500.00 2212 Tickets f0r................ 1,000.00 ‘For Dickets or information, . Address : THOS. E. BRAMLETTE, ~ Agent and Manager, 4wh Pablic Library Building, Lonisville, Ky.

A CARD. A Clergyman, while residing in South America, a 8 migsionary, discovered a safe and simple remedy for the Cure of Nervens Weakness, Early De, -ay, Dicease of the Uriunrf and Seminal Organs, and the whole train or disorders bronfiht on by baneful and vieious habits. Great numbers have been cured by this noble remedy. Prompted by a desire to benefit the afflicted and unfortunate, I will gend thef'recel]pt for preparing and using this medicine, in a sealed envelcg)e, to any one who needs it, Free of Charge. Address, JOSEPH 1. INMAN, Station D, Bible House, 8-50-Iy. _New York City. Administrator’s Notice. NOTIOE is hereby given that the underslgned has been. n{)pointed Administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Jacob Spangle, late of Noble county, deceased. Said estate is sngfiosed to e solvent. JOHN CALBECK, June 4, 1874,~w3-6 Administrator,

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QL]) JACK. : “I've bin an’ sold tfie hosg, Jane, an’ yotif needn’t : make a fuss, ‘ e For he's gittin old and stiff, an’ ain’t no hoss forus, ‘I know he’s kind an’ gentle, an’ aller’s pulled us i through, No matter what the goin’ was, o'd Jack was all- <. . er'strue. g But he's had his day to work an’ play, he's had his e day to go, T An’ now no use in talkin’, Jane, he's too all killin’ : slow, i - We take him on the Avenue, whenithe day is nice ... an'fine, : ' An’ then you know as well as I, he is never up to ‘time, - / The hosses all go past-us, like a mighty rushin’ S wind, . But, no use in talkin’, Jane, there ain’t any 20 in him. . e So.now don’t go to cryin’, an’ m:lk'i.n‘ an ado, For I've bin a dreadin’ this, an’ want to sec it through.” : £Oh John, how can yow talk so, you nhmist break my heart; ’ I'd jest as soon you'd g¢l] our home, fis that home : an’ Jack ghould part. How ean you go {orgit, John, it’s not €0 long agor When out upon the t*Avenue,” our Jack was never

In-clearin’ out the woods, John, an haulin’ off the brush, : Old Jack wasg allers ready, an’ took ‘things with a rush. - 5 An’all the heavy farm work, how bravely has he ! stood, : . ! i A’ aller's proved go faithful, so gentle, kind an” wood. e : Yel, after all these years, John, with their hlfiit an’ bittercold, 1| - : You want to sell old Jack, John, becanse he's ‘oittin’ 01d.2 > s : We pension oft our soldiérs, bdeansé they for ns fight, o | An’ if we pension poor old Jack, it’s nothin more than right. Oh do not let him go, John, I beg of you and pray, To give old Jack his rations, an’ let him have his. - day. J . : We'll buy another hosg, John, that's ywung, an ; fast, an strong; AL’ you can take him on the “Avenue”, an’ drive : him all day long. We, too, are gittin’ old, John ; my cyes are gettin’ ’ dim, | L o ! An’ I scarce can see at all, John, when you talk o sellin’ him. ' - 7 So keep him on the farm, John, an’ give him oats : an’ hay, ‘ i Forall he's done for us, John, it’s nothin’ more : ‘than pay.” : :

John gat awhile in sileénce, and never moved or : Htiri'ed; | And I do believe if'he had tried, he couldn’t have said a word. At last he pulled his kerchié(‘out,'nud with a little i sigh, i 1 : Said: “‘I do believe there's sumthin’ in my eye.” Jane pretended not to notice him, but knew that : she ¢hould win, : So she went about her work again, and softly [ hummed a kymn. Ny ¢ And when John came up to her,'she wouldn’t show : “ surprire, : : Nor even take a look at the dear old honest eyes, At last he said: “I think you're right, Jane. just : as you aller’ was; An’if a man don’t know what’s nght, a woman aller’s does, £ ' . An’so we'll keep our dear old Jack, an’ give him oats an’ clover, ; i Until he's dene his work on earth, an’ all his days o -areover : Lo : AR K. Derroraue MouNtary, Juse, 1874,

THE FATE OF THE REFUGEE.

The little town of Cliichester, situated on the river Main, was once far more important than it is at present, for ow it is falling slowly but surely into decay. Many years have passed since I visited it, and even then it was a melancholy sight. o -

The houses whieh I could once remember as inhabited were tenantless, and often roofless; and fields which when I last saw them were waving with corn,now lay white and desolate, scorched by the rays of an August: sun. Fences were, torn down, tenements were tottering to ruin, the skeletons of old sloops lay® bleaching on the shore; even an ancient churchyard hard by was turned into a desolate common, and over the whole scene decay. appeared to reign with a melancholy aspect. - It was different once, but that was years ago. But I only allude to’ the place to. call to mind how fleeting-are all things in this care-worn world.

About a mile from the village there stands an old weather-beaten house, built of thick hewn logs ‘and consisting of a single room below, with a garret above. It now forms the kitchen of a more modern structure, but at the period-of the Revolution, and, indeed, until within the last few years, it stood-alone. It is a plain old tenement, and stands at right angles with the road. Behind it is, or was, a garden, stretching down to alittle swamp, through which runs a stream of cleay cold water, at which mahy a time I have drank. ; An apple orchard once stood on the right of the house, and a modest barn in front, though time may have leveled both these long since with the dust. But that is neither hére nor there, sp I wil’ go. on with my story. ~ / o

On a’bright summer’s day a young girl stood at the door of the housé, looking anxiously up the road, as if watching for some expected one. The sun'was just sinking behind the forest trees, pouring a mellow light along the sandy road and overithe dark sombre green of the tall pines. Eyerything was in repose. - ‘Scarcely a breath of air stirred the leaves; the lowing of cattle was heard frequently from afar; a ripple of the. stream came pleasantly to the ear, and the hum of ants, growing every moment more low, died at last away.! She was beautiful, but it was the beauty of a high love and of a proud form. ~ Neither did she, when you looked at her, appear so young as she at first seemed. She was, perhaps, eighteen; she could not be over twenty, and yet, had it not been for an air of womanly dignity, she might have passed for a girl of sixteen only.

“What can detain him ?” she asked, at length, shading her eyes with her hands and gazing anxiously from the door. ; ) ]

The words had scarcely been spoken before a figure emerged from the woods up the road, and with a glad smile she was rushing forward a pace or two to meet the comer, when suddenly she turned as pale as death, and scarcely ejaculating, “The refugee!” turned back to the house: / ,

The- character of her approaching visitor easily explained her emotion. The refugees were at that time the brigands of the country. Taking advantage of the turmoil of the times, and of the absence of most of the male population in the continental army, they ravaged the country at will, plungle'ring and burning farm-houses, and éven in some instances subjecting the females to personal violence. Consequently they were the terror of the country. Of these men, David Rowelz) or, as he was familiarly’-called, from his complexion, “Black Davy,” was the most notorious. Sometimes moving alone, and sometimes accompanied by

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others, but always marking his track with some outrage, he had gained for himself a notoriety as wide-spread .as it was terrible. It was the sight of this individual which checked the steps of the young girl, and drove her trembling to seek refuge in her home. But her fear, it seemed, soon vanished. She had scarcely passed the threshold before, as if actuated Wy a sudden resolution, she hastily turned back, and with an unshrinking face, though a beating. heart, confronted the refugee. Whatever her motive, her fearless demeanor daunted him. He stopped and was silent. : “What want you? what would you have, sir? why do you seek a lonely house like this at such an hour ?” asked the girl, with flashing eyes. . . . The abashed refugee had by this time rocpvere(l his confidence, and with an ‘easy air, whistled aloud, and then he andwered the girl: - “Not so fast, mistress, not so fast; we are here after your good man, my dear, and though you have been married only a fortnight or so, we must settle our acecount with him. I have signaled my men, and you see they are coming. We must sedrch your house. Come in, boys!” and with these words the refugee, accompanied by three rough-looking ; men, who had just come up in answer to his call, passed into the house. The young wife—for such she was—gazed after them, and, lifting her hands on high, murmured a thanksgiving that her husband had not yet come. In about a quarter of an hour the men returned, and swearing loudly at their ill success, began to search for the master of the place among the few out-houses. DBut their efforts were in vain. . The young wife, meanwhile, though betraying mo signs of fear, stood there scarcely knowing whether the enraged ruftians would not the next moment take her life.! / “This is too bad!” said the leader, with an oath, after theit unsuccessful search; “hewill certainly be here some time to-night. I.et us wait for the rascally rebel and shoot him down on his own threshold!” ,

" This brutal proposition just suited his desperate followers, and taking up their quarters within, they ordered the young wife to prepare them some supper. 'Though loathing the sight of her tormentors, and trembling continually least her husband should arrive, she was forced to obey their commands. . She continued, however, to keep always in sight of the door, so as to obtain a view of her husband as soon as he emerged from the wood, determining to warn him to flee at once, ' though she should risk her life by the generous act. Suddenly she darted to the door, for her kéen eye had detected the one so long looked for,’and waving her hand, she shouted: . -

“Fly! Fly, Richard, fly!” ; “What does the jade mean ?” asked Black Davy, angrily, rushing after her. Then raising his piece he continued, “Come on, or you are a dead man!” - A g

For an instant the husband paused. Ile saw at 'a glance the situation of affairs, and though it was agony to leave his wife in such hands, he knew it would be certain death for him to approach the house. ' llis firm Whig principles had made the refugees and Tories his political enemies, and! he knew that Black Davy had more than once threatened to take his life. His only hope, therefore, was in a precipitate retreat. That no personal injury would be offered to his wife, he felt almost certain, for deeds of that character had never yet been attributed to the present leader of the refugees. These rapid thoughts caused a momentary delay, which well nigh proved his ruin. The refugee captain had already raised 'his piece, and when he saw the husband turn to tlee he fired, But the self-devoted wife at that instant -sprang fo&'ward and struck up the musket at the peril of her life. The ball whistled harmlessly over her husband’s head, and in another moment he;was lost in the surrounding forest. iz - : i

The ruflian turned,swith the scowl of a demon on his face, and lifting his heavy piece in the air struck, down the heroic woman. She fell senseless and bleeding to the earth. The refugee gazed upon her for a moment, and then, with a curse, called his men to follow the flying husband. -

An hour afterward the husband returned, having baflled ‘his pursuers. Language cannot describe his emotions on perceiving the condition of his wife. ,

A neighbor chaneing to pass, apparently some ten minutes after Black Davy had departed, found her senseless on the ground. She was now scarcely revived, and could with difficulty speak. Yet she strove to smile, and faintly extended her hand to her husband, calling him by those fond tones which only a wife gnay use. “By all that is holy!” exclaimed the agonized man, as he rushed from her bedside, “I will avenge this on that renegade, or die in the attempt!. But Helen must not know 'of it. I will wait until she is asleep, and then depart on my errand. God will favor the right.” v : : ‘

‘The stars were faint and few that night, as the bold farmer, extorting from-the kind neighbor a promise of secrecy, stole out into the air, armed with his trusty piece, and after looking for a moment at the sky above, struck boldly across the forest. Imw less than an hour he had visited two farm-houses, and obtained three neighbors to aid him in his design. Striking right into the heart of the forest, they pushed on for several hours, apparently without fatigue, and almost ‘iln Isicilence. At length he came to a alt. 4

“They haunt it somewhere here, I have learned,” said the husband. “I heard it by echance from one of their gang who took me for Bill Richings, who, you know, was supposed to have no ohjection to their ways. I should not be surprised if the knowledge of my possessing this information has led to the attack to-night.,” . “Hark!” said one of the band. “Do you not hear the tread of footsteps in the wood ?” : - J%Tt,is! it is!” ' “We have found them! Lie close now, and wait till they come up.” | The group instantly lapsed into silence, and each of them taking up a position behind a large tree, or some fallen trunk, waited breathlessly for the approach of the comers, whose tread might now be heard increasing in distinctness every moment. Directly afterward voices were recognized, conversing in a careless tone; then a loud laugh rang in the night air, and after a momentary silence, one of the approaching gang burst into a song, . | “Now is our time,” whisperea the husband to one of his companions; “take the right, hand man and leave

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{ the leader to me. Ready—fire!” The report of the rifles echoed sharply through the weods, and three of the refugees, leaping into the air, fell dead upon the ground. The hus- { band’s gun flashed in the pan, but did not go off. The captain of the ruffians | was unhurt. Springing back a few steps from the covert, where his assailants lay concealed, he shouted: “We are betrayed! We must run for i, boys.” . s And before the enraged pursuers could understand his intention he had turned and fled, followed by those of his band who still remained behind. It was, however, no time for hesita'tion., The baflied husband was the first to dash from his covert, and -without pausing to see whether the ‘fallen men were really dead, he thundered: : :

“Forword! forward! pursue them to the death!” : i - As he spoke he dashed off in pursuit. =~ His companions - hesitated a moment, and then followed his example. . - ; Three of the refugees had escaped, but there,were four in pursuit. Fear seemed, however, to have seized upen them,‘else why should they have retreated before a force so little exceeding theirrown? It is probable they imagined a far greater number of the enraged inhabitants were in pursuit, for they would scarcely suppose that four men would have the hardihood to penetrate to their fastness, when their full number was known to equal a dozen. Tlowever, whatever was their motive, they continued, their pursuers the while pressing hotly in the rear. e o

It was toward morning when two dndividuals emerged upon the edge of an’ abrupt hill, miles from the fastness of the refugees. One of them was Black Davy; his pursuer was the injured husband. Both of the villain’s companions had been overtaken and slain. The eagerness of the husband had outstripped the pace of his companions, and after a pursuit of many hours’ duration he was now on the point of coming up with him. - The rapid steps of the two men, pursuing and pursued, brought the latter to the edge of an abrupt hill before he was aware of it, and he saw at a glance that further flight was impossible. lle turned and beheld only one foe in sight; he could hear ‘the shouts of the otliers far behind in the forest, and he resolved to grapple with the foremost pursuer, and by destroying him, effect his escape before the others came *up. Ie turned at bay. Rifles of both the combattants had been discharged in the pursuit, and they now stood face to face, with no other weapons than their hunting knives. They gazed at each other for a moment, all their mutual hate sparkling in their eyes. - “Villain! murderer! traitor!” hoarsely ejaculated the hiisband, pale with passion, as he darted at/the refugee. The outlaw made no response, but scowled mortal defiance at his foe, and, drawing his knife, awaited the outslaught. And it was terrible. For a few moments so incessantly were their thrusts mutually parried, that the eye could not follow the motions of the combattants. Now one, now the other seemed to have the advantage. .

The dry leaves flew in showers around the contending foes, and the dust rose in clouds, often hiding them from sight. Not a word was spoken by either. At length, after a few slight wounds on both sides, at a desperate thrust made by the husband, his knife struck against the iron buckle of his antagonist, and was shivered to pieces. The refugee saw his advantage and raised his knife to strike. As a last hope his pursuer grasped his wrist. A desperate struggle ensued; both were men of great personal strength, but the outlaw having received a wound in the right arm, was perhaps the weaker of the two. ‘After a protracted struggle he yielded, and in a fierce struggle made by the husband to obtain the knife, 'it flew from Black Davy’s hand to the distance of some yards. :

By this time they had been imperceptibly drawn to the very edge of the hill, where a rugged pre¢ipice of some fifty feet shot perpendiculaily down beneath them. Gathering every energy for the last endeavor, the pursuing husband strove to force the outlaw over the precipice, and had partially succeeded in doing so, when he felt the gravelly bank giving way beneath. With one hand he hastily grasped a twig, and with the other, making a gigantic effort, he thrust his antagonist over the precipice, so that the outlaw dangled in the air, having no other support but the hold he kept upon the left arm of his adversary. All hope for the refugee was over, but he/determined that his foe should perish with him. Moments passed away, at every one of which the bank gave way more and more. The utmost efforts of the victor to shake off thedying man were vain, and he felt that his last hour had come. ', He heard no more, even the shouts of his friends, and with a sickening sensation, he felt they had either lost their way or deserted him. Could they only have come up his life might have been saved. Ile felt the twig begin to yield; he had already slipped half off the bank, and the struggles of the dying man were becoming more desperate every moment. He gazed at' the gulf below. Broken roots of trees and uprooted pines lay mingled: promiscuously together, so that to fall into the abyss would be certain destruction. The countenance of the outlaw already wore a demoniacal smile in contemplation of the ruin to which he was dragging the young man. S And that bridegroom, was there hope for him? Alas! all was gone! lle gave one thought to his bride, one look toward heaven, a prayer to God, and shut his eyes against the awful catastrophe he felt had come. Suddenly, however, a sharp report of a rifle rang in his ear, and at the same instant he felt the hold of the outlaw relax from his arm. He opened his eyes only to behold the dying man shooting like an arrow down the abyss, only to’see his mangléd body lying scattered on the trunks- of, the trees below., In a moment he was drawn away from the bank and clasped in the arms of his companions, who, coming up at the very last moment, had, by shooting the outlaw in the heart, rescued their friend from a horrid death. ! :

Sol. Rose," D. Hays & Co., of LaGrange, and . L. Taylor of Woleottville, have given notice through the LaGrange Standard, that they will purchase no more wheat until the overcharges of freight on the G. R. & 1. R. R. are taken off. Wait, gentlemen, until the Canada Southern is completed, and this monopoly will be brought to time.— Wolcottville Register,

“I'RE INDEPENDENTS.” THE “REFORM" MOVEMENT - WHICH WAS TORENOVATE - INDIANA POLITICS. Result of the Deliberations of the ~ Tenth of June Convention.

THE PLATFORM, THE TICKET. AND WHAT IS THOUGHT OF BOTH, : - THE PLATFORM. | In making this call, and presuming to enter into competition with existing parties, it is meet that we should give to the world our reasons as well a 3 the remedies we propose for the wrongs-of which we complain. Starting then with,the maxim that our Goovernment is founded on the sover‘eignty and consent of the governed, and its purpose to protect property and enforee natural rights,we acknowledge the broad prineiples that difference of opinion is no erime, and hold that progress toward truth is made by differences of opinion, while the fault lies in bitterness of controversy. We desire a proper equality, equiity and firmness, protection for the weak, restraint upon the strong; in short, justly distributed burdens and justly distributed powers, these are American ideas, the very essence of American independence, and to advocate the contrary is unworthy of the sons and daughters of an American republic.— For our business interests we desire to bring producers and consumers, farmers. and manufaecturers, into the most direct and friendly relations possible. We wage no aggressive warfare against any other interests whatever; on the contrary, all our acts and all our efforts, so far as business is concerned, are not only for the benefit of the producer and consumer, but also for all other legitimate interests that tend to bring these two parties into speedy*and economical contact. Hence, we hold that transportation companies of every kind are necessary to our success, that their interests are intimately connected with our interests, and harmonious action is mutually advantageous. We shall. therefore, advocate for every State the increase in every possible way, of all facilities for transportation cheaply to the seaboard, or between home producers and consumers, all the produetions of our country. We adopt it as our fixed purpose to open out the channels in nature’s great arteries, that the life blood of commerce may flow freely. We are not enemies of railroads, navigable and irt'igating canals, nor of any corporation that will advance our industrial interests. We are friendly to all laboring classes; but we hold that all “class legislation, whereby these original and common elements, 01/ the proceeds of the same enhanced by intelligent labor, are prevented from their original design and made to enure to the benefits of nonproducers, and to the injury of producers, is wrong and subversive of the purposes ‘of good government; that all able bodied, intelligent persons should contribute to the common stock by useful industry, a sum or quantity equal to their own support, and legis lation should tend, as far as possible, to the equitable distribution of the surplus products. o fi' - If these propositions are true, our Government is wholly perverted from its true design, and the sacred names “Democracy” and “Republicanism” are the synonyms of despotism, and the parties represented thereby, as: now organized,.are engines of oppression, erushing out the lives of the people. 'We need only point to the facts that in this beneficent country of unlimited resources, with the land annually groaning beneath the products of human effort, the mass of the people have no' supply beyond their daily wants; compelled from unjust conditions in sickness and misfortunes tobeeome paupers. Pauperism and crime are the perplexing questions of all modern statesmanship, and it is with these we have to deal. How far these evils are connected with the abuses inflicted on labor, a superficial statesmanship seems not to perceive. Chattel slavery has been abolished, but the rights and relations of . labor stand just where they did before the emancipation, in respeet to the division of its products; the difference lies only in the methods of abstracting the results and concentrating them in the hands of a few capitalists. Capital is now the master, and dictates the, terms, and thus all laborers are practically placed in the same condition of the slave before the emancipation. In thus placing them the interests of all laborers become common, and they must fight the battle in unity if they would succeed. What, then, are the instrumentalities by .which | these wrongs are inflicted.? :

Ist. Banking and money monopolies, by which, through ruinous rates of interest, the products of human labor are concentrated in the hands ot non-producers. This is the great central source of these wrongs, in and through which all other, monopolies exist and operate. 2nd. Consolidated railroads and other transit monopolies, whereby all industries are taxed to the last mill they will bear, for the benefit of the stockholders and stock-jobbers. : 3rd. Manufacturing monopolies, whereby all small operators are erushed out, and the price of labor and its products are determined with mathematical certaintyin the interest of the capitalists. - ; 4th. Land monopolies, by which the public domain is absorbed by a few corporations and speculators. ' sth. The commercial and grain monopolies, speculating and enriching their bloated corporations on human necessities. : ‘We propose to restore the Government to its- original purpose, and so far as possible, to remedy these evils and remove their results. ‘

1. By abandoning the gold base fallacy and establishing a monetary system based on the faith and resources of the nation, in harmony wigh the genius of the Government and adapted to the exigencies of legitimate commerce. To this end the circulating notes of the National and State banks, as well as all local currency, should be withdrawn from -circulation and a paper currency issued by the Government which shall be alegal tender in tne payment of all debts, public and private, duties on imports included, and declared equal with gold, the lawful money of the United States; this currency or money to be interchangeable at the pleasure of the holders for Government honds, bear-

ing a low rate of interest,say 3 65-100 per cent., the Government creditors to have the privilege of taking the money or bonds at their election, reserving to Congress the right to regulate the rvate of interest on the bonds, and the volume of the currency, S 0 as to effect the equitable distribution of the products of labor between money, or non-producing capital and pro?‘uct’ive industry. ° : : 2. By paying the national debt in strict accordance with the laws under which it was originally contracted—gold, where specifically promised; but all other forms of indebtedness, including the principal of the 5-20 bonds, should be discharged at the earliest option of the Government in the legal tender currency of the United States, without funding itin long bonds, of in any way |[increasing the gold-paying and untaxeéd obligations -of the " Government.

‘Resolved, That | we are in favor of the office seeking the man, and not the man the office; that we will endeavor to select men to fill the various offices who are honest and capable, without regard to former political opinions; that we detest bribery, corruption ahd fraud.in obtaining votes, either by the use of money or whisky, and will not support any man for ofiice known to be guilty of the same, and that we are opposed to! soliciting any man to fill the same office for more than one term in succession, from the President down. b 8 5

Resolved, That we uncompromisingly condemn the practice of our public oflicials in veceiving free passes from railroad managers. - Resolved, That we denounce the action of our last Legislature and representatives in Congress 'and;the Senate for the increase of taxes, fees and salaries, and we will use all honorablé means in our power to reduce the taxes, fees and salaries of all to a reasonable basis. : Resolved, That we demand the reduction of all public expenditures, to the end that taxation may be reduced to the lowest possible limit. Resolved, That it is contrary to -the policy of good government to encourage litigation, and that the law allowing ten per cent.on judgments and the collection of attorney’s fees off of defendants, encourages litigation, favors capital, and is a source of corruption and subserves no good purpose; and therefore ought to be remedied by appropriate legislation. o Resolved, That the present assessment law of real estate imposes unequal and unjust burdens on the producing class, and favors capital and corporate wealth, and we demand its speedy amendment. e Resolved, That we demand a change in our grand jury system, that their jurisdiction extend to felonies only. . Resolved, That no party is worthy our confidence who denies the right of the people to restrict the abuses of the liquor traffic. o The platform was adopted by a hearty, unanimousi voice, as a whole, without debate. - :

= THE NEW PARTY NAMED. . The following, in reference to the name of the new party, was presented: . “We, the farmers and workingmen of Indiana, fully determine to conimand due recognition, adopt, as expressive of ‘our sentiments and purposes, the name.of ‘lndependent.’” This gave rise to a brief but lively dispute, some proposing one name and someanother. One delegate suggested that it.be called the Washington party, but that did not seem to meet the approbation of the convention. Other suggestions were made,but were equally funsuccessful. The original proposition was finally adopted by Aan overwhelming vote. . b : ' STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. . First—J. R. Elderfield, Vanderburg. | Third—J. Q. Newsom,Bartholomew. Fourth—J. C. Adams, Decatur. Fifth—B. ¥. Bundy, Randolph. Sixth—A. B. Pendleton, J¢hnson. Seventh—lB. A. Olleman, Marion. Eighth—Barber, Vigo. Ninth--E. Slusher, Warren. Eleventh—A-aron Jenkins, Wabash. Twelfth-B. R. Snow, Adams. . Thirteenth—M. Williams, Marshall. - The Second and Tenth District delegates having withdrawn, no committee men 'were named from those distriets: & o Hesh o 4

THE CONVENTION. (From the Indianapolis Journal- Republican.) The Convention yesterday was:a puzzling body in both its physical and poiitical aspect, in its formulation and its action. ' The crowd was little at the beginning and big at the end, but nobody icould tell at any time how much of it was Convention and how much of it wasn’t. Sometimes there were not fifty voices in a vote, and sometimes there may have been two hundred. Some insisted that it 'was a mass Conyvention, others were confident that it was a delegate Convention. It was called as a faymers’ meeting, and called itself the *“lndependent Party.”’ | It was to bg a reform movement, but declared for no practicable reforms that were not. proposed before it was dreamed of. Some wanted to make a ticket, others were opposed to it. It was generally supposed to be the representation of the “Granges,” while the “Granges’ had nothing to do with it. Andit made both a platform and a ticket, and yet nobody can tell what it has done; whether it has really formed a new party, or only made a temporary embarrassment of the old ones. It’s platform amounts to little, and its ticket has as little chance of success. Theonly thing made entirely clear by it is the fact that the “Patrons of Husbandry” are one thing, and the “Granges” another. As a party it is-an effort not unlike that of the dog that tried to jump across the well in two jumps. He did not get across.— It was a well meaning assemblage, we think, but it was no more. - The best thing it did was to nominate Horace P. Biddle for Supreme judge, but it won't do him any good. The best thingit'said was its “objection to those who objected to the proper restrictions of the abuses of liquor.” . To sum up all in a word, it was mainly composed of good men, who didn’t know what they wanted, had no positive opinions, and ended by pushing between both the old parties, and taking a shaving from each side. From the sounding terms of the proc-. lamation we expected a demonstration that would prove S o

HAstay ! To shake the rotten carcasses” - : of the old parties “out of their rags.” It proved a very indifferent county ‘Convention in bulk, and a school-boy’s club in directness and method of action. We have seen a good deal of political and social conventions, but we never saw one conducted with so little order, or apparent pessession of a purpose. The attempt at organization would have been shamed by any woman's rights meeting, It was a con-

tinuous jumble of motions- that obstructed ‘each other, and resolwiilon's' that retracted each other. A thing was no-sooner moved than somebody proposed to’amend it. As soon asan effective step towards \organization was taken, there came a prof)tjsit;ionthat made it necessary to step back.— It moved here and there, round and round, was always confused and always mnoisy. If it had been a larger body, or a smaller body agting with: more system and purpose, it would ‘haye been threaténing. As it was, it was simply funny. The speeches, or rather the longest one, were équally confused, and twice as funny, This was made by one of these patent farmers who conduct agricultural papers with the same practicil knowledge of the plough “that-tlhie eity girl had of milking, who thought the milk was pumped out of a cow by working her tail like a pump handle. He “moaned and groaned,” as the lamented Sims Colley would have said; about the political oppressions and ‘Sufferings: of the farmer, and slandered them in -the utterance as no foreign aristoerat evei: did. = “Why,” says he; “the farmers Jnumber’ 20,000,000 of - our population and how many. farmers do you. suppose there ‘are in Congress? -Just 40. The lawyers number 40,000, and how many are there of them in Congress? More than 300! What do yom think of that, gentlemen?” We'll tell liim that everybody of common sense will think that, as- the majority -elects in this cduntry, and the farmers have the majority, they ean blame mnobody but themselves if there are no more. of them in Congress. To suppose that, in this state ef things, the farmerdis abused is to charge that he hasn’t sense. enough to right himself. And we believe in no such slanderous nonsensel The next Farmers® Convention of In-| diana had better not send to St. Louis for a public orator. Amnothér of his oracular utterances was a. declarationthat- we- should abolish all duties on foreign products. If we did we should have to repudiate a good part of our debt, .and when the farmer came to pay all taxes directly to the National Government, as ‘he does to the State government, hie’d rise in his rage and roar for new duties. The Convention, however,it it wasdisorderly wasn’t silly, and endorsed no. such imbecilities. The. speeches of our owh men were sensible enough.. Gl e

A PARTY-MAKER DISCOURAGED. - (From the Indianapolis Sentil;c‘l—l\?c‘i' Party ) On the whole, party making isn’t encouraging work.. The Sentinel has: been hopefully interested in tlhie growing effort. of -the,people to tear themselves outside tlie -bonds of ‘parties, and has, in:season and out of -season, labored with the stiff-necked and obstinate. It *has given constant encouragement to the purpose of a State convention, and upheld the hands of. the workers. When the convention | met, the Sentinel hoped. The best of these hopes have been butimperfectly realized. It is not so much the fault of the delegates as the result.of circumstances, which must impede indeJpendent efforts until the people are more accustomed to speaking and acting for themselves. The handling of a vast body of .diverseand conflicting elements isinot an undertaking' which novices can be expected to ‘grapple with in a -day,~ Gathered together without previous .aequaintance, or much - knowledge of each other, the members of the convention have presented an .imperfect and inadequate work. 'There was every intention to respond, in the fullest sense, to the demands of the people and it is the misfortune of inexperience that this was not.done. The platform presented covei? too much ground and doesn’t cover it“well: . The resolution on the currency is an affront(f to the intelligence of a- civilized community and sounds not unlike an-extract from the déings ‘of the Commune. From the phraseology it may be presumed-that it was boiled down by Messrs. Buchannan and Olleman, from :the ‘extraordinary jumble-which -figured-in the “Indiana plan”-last -winter, and which even Congress in its most insane moments rejected. It is hardly possible to conceive sané men. giving expres: sion to theories,and sentiments which are not only opposed to all the laws of reason in finance, but really incendiary and base. The solid; good sense of the State, however, who are called upon to support: what is good in the platform, will :render this-gibbering fustian a dead letter. "Mern elected to the legislature pledged to -the- partieular reforms demanded, will do mere to re‘store a -confidénce and judgment on the curtency question-than a dozen congressional bills; framed by gentlemen altogether unfamiliar with condensed thought and explicit phrase- | ology. The essay on capital and labor are as grotesquely out of’ all approach to sanity as’ thé currency paragraph looks like an old friend. If there is not a mistaké, the same senseless drivel served as “principles”. at several “mass” meetings in: this ecity last winter. But detailed analysis of this singular production is not needed. - It will surprise and’mistify the honest, expectant tax-payers, who had hoped that from so sedate and graveia body 'of men a business-like declaration of purpose, and -a few.brief 'sentences indicating the methods of accomplishing the desired results, - The resolutions’ lack directnéss and force; mueh, probably, that appears in the platform must be ascribed to haste in preparation. ~ This.supposition will alone account for the looseness of many of the resolutions -bearing .on important points. However, the. work of the convention will ‘be judged variously. ‘The people at Jarge have to pronpunce upon the result; and if it seems good in their sight they will pass by the errors ~of the platform to the. candidates themselves ,who.may embody the genuine sentiment of reform. There is not .giuch use lamenting unwise talk in the platform. The men selected to go before the people for the various. ' offices are, in many respects, excellent. The first man, Mr. White, will prob‘ably be dropped by the State Committee when' some disagreeable facts in his career are brought to the attention of the State. ‘A reform movement cannot afford to support aman against whom thére is even the shadow of a stain. There is a shadow on the record of Mr, White, and the easiest way to convince the people of the earnestness of thoge?enga'ged in the work is to remove his'name from the ticket and substitute that of some man pre-| eminent alike for ability and honesty. Mr, F. C. Johnson, of New: Albany, would be ‘such{a man, and was very | favorably mentioned for the plgee by ‘the delegates. Against the other . .lg)entiime}g selecged,noggfmg’rma erlly. spakenof a 5 ctizens of Son. spicuous honesty and capa city, and Lo e

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B State Politics. e . It is reported that Gen. Jas. A. Cravens, of Washington county, may become the peoplés candidate for Congress in the 3d district. . - Hon. J. R. Coffroth and T. B. Ward, Lafayette, and Archibald Johnson, of ‘Montgomery, are spoken in connection with the Congressional race on the Democratic ticket in the Ninth District. . ; 3 The Republicans of Newtan county met in convention at” Kirtland, May . 30th, but adjourned without transacting any business. The following resolution was passed: “That, deeming any action of tli}S convention looking toward the appdintment of delegates to othér conventions, State or Distriet, and’ any action with regard to the county and other nominations not ad= visable, therefore this convention do now adjourn séne die.” | _ - The Republicans of | Tippdcanoe county held their convention recently, and nominated a ticket headed by John M. La Rue for Senator, and Samuel Shortridge and ,J. . Anderson for Reépresentatives. Delegates were also appointed to the State Convention.— The following resolution was adopted: “We declare that we are in favor of judicious legislation tending to suppress the evils of intemperance, and not consistent with the constitutipnal rights of the citizens and of the!fair and full enforcement of all existing laws on the subject.” i The Democracy'of Fulton county, in convention - assembled, resolved that “we are in favor of the presenttemperance law, or one-similar to it in its main features, and equally eflicient in supressing the evils growing out of the liquor traffic, and retaining in the hands of the majority of the voters of ward, precinet, or townslfiip, the right to say whether intoxicating liquors shall be sold in such warf, precinet or township.” i

A Heretical Chicago Priest. ~ Chicago is a decidedly heretical cig)'. The epidemic has broken out in an unexpected quarter. There is a young, cultivated, original catholic priest in that city known as Father Terry. Ile lectured before the Catholic Library ? Association a few evenings ago and - threw Professor Swing ilto the shade by the ultraness of his views. and the- - with which they were expressed. lle complained that the people who contended that the earth was made in six working-days do 'not say " whether the Lord worked on the eight hour system, and claimed that the Book of Genesis is an epic produet of Oriental genius. Some of the:explanations are haxder to believe than the books, as, for instance, that*Adam was | thirty-five years old when he was created, and that he was put to sleep . when the rib was taken out of him,so ¢ that Eve might be spared the pain of having her mode of construction criticised. 'ln speaking of the Ark,Father: Terry said it was rather remarkable: how the different animals said to have been preserved in that structure reappeared again in the very parts of the world to;which' they must have - been originally indigenous. Sqme the--ologians thought that they were transported to- the Ark and back again by means of angels. Just think, said Father Terry, of an elephant ‘sitting jauntily on the shoulder of ai seraph, and of apes borne grandly in the air on the wings of cherubim. These and - similar things indicate that/ Chicago is not likely to lack for theologicgal sensations right away.

A Thrilling Episode at Niagara Falls, 1+ A correspondence of the New York - Herald, writing from Niagara Falls . under recent date says: 'This village was the scerie of & terriblg excitément this [ morning’ in, consequence of a S ; t - A painter named McCullough, who was employed in painting the bridge leading from Goat Island to the Three Sisters, having fallen from the bridge into the rapids below., Ie drifted with the current to a point within forty feet. of the Falls, where he found -anchorage in the middle of tl_xefstrq:lm that seperates the islands by coming in contact with a rock, to which he clang.i+ In a few moments the news of the accidernt spread -like wildfire | through the village, and an immense erowd of spectators gathered to lgok at the unfortunate may’s perilous situation, from which it séemed impossi- - ble to rescue him. MecCullough had given up all hopes of Dbeing aided; his arms and body were fast becoming benumbed and losing their hold on the slippery rock, when a shout went up | from the throats of the spectators which told him that aid was nigh. In that vast erowd which had assembled on the islands and bridges there wis but one¢ man who was willing to risk - his own life in trying to snateh a fel-low-creature from out the jaws' of death. Tom Conroy, a Guide at the Cave of Wines, jumped into the rapids, and, holding in his left hand the end of a rope and swimming down tle current, he reached MecCullough in safety. ITe immediadely tied the rope around himself and tgle nearly exhausted man, and. they :were both safely landed ashore ina few moments. MecCullough was badly bruised about the head and body. S

June—lt is generally claimed that this month took its name from Juno, the spouse:to Jove. | It was the fourth month in the Roman calendar, and by some the name is said to be derived from junior, that is, from the lesser branch of the.Roman legislature, as May was named from ma jor, or the higher branch of the same. Romulus gave 1t thirty days. June is ever the time of sweetest summer splendor—when the trees are the freshest—the, foliage the leafiest. With its close verdure begins to fade, and never atter during the season is it so beautiful and bright. It isa month which for 'this year can specially boast of several ‘good things, among which are that she gives more hope to the farmers ‘and . storekeepers, better health to young and old, and presents nature in a more attractive garb than any of her five elder sisters. LbC e el @ R ¥ A nALE and hearty old gentleman ‘living in Columbus, Ga., is the proud father of thirteen handsome daughters. He buys clothing for them by the . wholesale. Thus when he last went shopping he bought 370 yards of -calico, 100 of lawn, 13 corsets, 26 pairs - of shoes, and other goods in proportion. Unlike many fathers who*g,fi only one daughter, he ‘paid cash for - all his purchases. Though an old . ‘man, he has never bought a bushel of corn or pound of meat, but raises ‘them himself. He has never Sworn Bt g being married and does e e cudis e g | <Bldred & Son are selling mumber onecights, ek el