The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 13, Ligonier, Noble County, 23 July 1874 — Page 1

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CITIZENS BANK, LIGONIER, 2 INDIANA. DEPOSITS received subject to check without notice, : A\ DVANCES made on approved collaterals, MONEY loaned on loug or short time. NOTES discounted at reasonable rates. ORDERS for ticst-class securities executed on commission. . AENTS for the purchase and sale of Real Estate. INSURANCE POLICIES written infirst-class comanies. 5 EX(JII.\NHE Mtht and sold, and drafts drawn oun all the princiga cities of Eurepe, AGENTS 'for the Inmah line, } -+ Hamburg Line. PASSAGE TICKETS sold on all the principal geaports of Enro’pe. | MERCHANTS’, Farmers’ and Mechanics’ accounts solicited, and all businass transacted on liberal terms, , ‘STRAUS BROTHERS. », Ligonier, Ind., Oct: 28d,4'1812.~26 o e Lake Shore & M‘lch.SOutlfl’n R. R. on and after May 24th, 1874, trains/will leave T : -Stasions as follows: | o . GOINGEAST: : h " Sp.N.Y.Ez. AtUc.Ez.. Accom. | Chicagon: . iaae9 20 alm i, 585 pmiy . : “Mikhart. e 280 pmiiy, 980 L b 00iam G05hen,......... 138 010 1 LR Millersburg.... 11 5% ...TlO2B bess OA3 Lig0n1er........ 205 S s 600 Wawaka . ..:.. 1215 ... 110564 ... 614 Brimfleld...... 1223 ... Tll 08 Jai 2 g Kendallville. ... 236 s 0118 15:.10.248 Arrive atToledo 550 .. 240am...,1040 S GOING W@PT: E T01ed0..i.......11 10 pm. .. 111 25 pru.... 4 55 pm Kendallville.... 236 pm..,. 244 am.... 850 Brimtield ...... 1250 vees T 3 OV eon Wawaka....... 259 st Vi e B 0 Ligonier........ 310 a 2 viee 934 Millersbarg. /4324 ! ... 3386 .... 950 G0ghen......... 389 Puiig 00 141010 Kikhart. ... .0, 400 + . 490 wlOBO "ArriveatChicagoß 20 vo, BRO L 6Hoam tTrains do not gtop. o Kxpressleavesdaily both ways. . ! CHAS. PAINE, Gen’lSupt.,Cleveland. J. M. KNEPPER, 4gent, Ligonier. . — e Pittsburg, F't. . & Chicago R. R. From and after May 31, 1874, ! GOING WEST. ; : . Nol, Nob, . No? 7, No. 3. . FastEx, Mail. Pac Kx. NightEz. Pittsbarg...... 2:ooam 6 00am 9:4oam £ 00pm Rochester..... ....... 7 25am 10:50am 38 [opm A11iance....... 5:25am 11 00am I:3spm 6 05pm Orrville,... %, 7:olam 12 58pm 3:lspm 7 33pm Mansfield..... 9:o6am 3 25pm 5:25pm 9 26pm Crestlime...Ar. 9:35am 4 00pm 6:oopm 9:55pm Crestline...Lv. 9 55am 5 00am 6:3opm 10:05pm F0re5t.........11"13am 6 32am 8 25pm 11:2Ypm Lima..........12:15pm B:00am 9.43 pm 12:30am ¥t Wayne..... 2:lBpm 10:35am 12:25am 2:55am Plymouth...,. 4:24pm I:3Bpm 3:o3am s:lsam Chicago ....... 7.50 pm 5:35§m 6:soam B:soam GOING EAST. No 4, No? 2, Noé, NoSB. % NightEz. Fast Ex. Pac Ex. Mail. Chicag0.......10:20am 9 20am 5 35pm 5 15pm Plymouth..... 2:loam 12 10pm 9 05pm 9 26am Ft Wayne.... 5 20pm - 2 38pm 11 30pm 12 30am Lima...........7:20pm 4 20pm 1 33am 2 45am F0re5t........'8 Bspm 5 19pm 2 42am 4 02am Crestline . .Ar.lo:2opm 6 45pm 4 20am 5 50am Crestline . .Lv.lo 30am 7 05pm 4 30am 6 15am. Mansfield .....11 00am 7 35pm 4 57am 6 50am 0rrvi11e.......12 58am 9 32pm 6 45am 9 13pm A11iance....... 2 45am 11 05pm 8 35am 11 20pm Rochester..... 4 499 pm ........ 1042 am 2 10pm Pittsharg ..... 5 55pm 2:osam 11 45am 3 30pm No. 1, daily, except Monday; Nos 2,4, 5,7 nn(l)e, daily except Sunday : Nos. 3 and 6 daily. | tir. Rapids & Ind. and Cine., Rich. & Ft. Wayneß. R. Condensed Time Card. Daily, except Sundays. To take effect July sth, 1874, | GOING NORTH. Express, Express. Accom. | Richmond .............10 20 pm 1025 am 400 pm Newport.. .. i (1081 0 1960 %" 498 ¢ Winchester. oo 0 dll 87 ¢ 1180 ¢ 510 Ridgeville. ............120lam 1151 ** 536 * Portland. .. creeeaeneell22B ¢ 1218 pm 605 ¢ Decatur.....adedvinieno 14E 22197 Fort Wayne, D......... 300 am 2 40pm Kendallville ....c...... 490 % 401 * Sturgis. . ... aiioo L 541 Y 590 ¢ Vicksbarg .. i.oi.ii .0 844 Y 694 ¢ g Kalamazoo. .soccoaaane. 785 715 ¢ 215 pm Mounteith ...l .ot BOS S 0 757 ¢ 300 % Grand Rapide........a. 930 ** 20 ‘" Grand Rapids®.......d. 956 % 950 ¢ Howard City........... 1154 ¢ 1154 * Up. Big Rapid 5........ 100 pm 100 am Reed City.... ... .., 1373%¢ 137« Clagn Lake. ...o.oc 00. B <& 590 « Walton .......0...0 ./ 491 &« 493 v Traverse City.......... 550 ¢ 1205 pm ( Petoskey......ieo wOO 980 'S 958 am GOING SOUTH. Express Accom. KExpress Petoskey.......c.ioc 0 4 48 am 730 pm Traverse City........... 850 ¢ ; 825:8% Waltol ....c0 000 S H 0 0% 11 06 ** (‘.1nm.r}fike...‘_........1l 80 ¢ 100 am Reed City. ... 000 dlil2 89hm 30705 y Up. Bigßapids.... ..., 128 % 400 * Howard Clti\" 299 ¢ B 10t Graog Rapids.......al. 4925 ¢ 110 Grand Rapid5.......d.. 435 ‘¢ TBO Monteith. .............. 604 % 1225 pm 853 ¢ Kalamazop, oo 0 . 700 1104 945 Vicksburg ... .0 [ 780 1016 ‘¢ Stargis ... ... . .B 3 Y Yl 19t Kendallville .. 0o . 9581 12 38pm P0rtWayne.............12 olam 220 * Peeaturs.c o 0 o 103 313 ** Portland...... ;.. o 0 998 “ - 6:4oanm 421! Ridgeville ... 4 ....c.... 800 % 709 ** 447" Winchester ..... ... .. 330 % 7132 510 Newport ... ... . c 497 ¥ 890 ¢ 5544 Richmond ... .:.i.. ... 500" 850 620" Express from Walton to Petoskey will run on Mondays, Wednesdays and Frida{‘s onlgi from Petoskey to Walton on Tuesdays, Thuredays and Satardays only. All other trains run daily, Sundays excepted. : F. R. MYERS, ° . . Gen. Passenger and Ticket Ag’t. Michigan Lake Shore Rail Road. - Trains run daily except Sunday. " Condensed time card, taking effect Nov. 3d, ’73. GOING NORTH. - GOING BOUTH. Expr. Mail, STATIONS. Expr. 'F Mail. 450 pm 8 10am..Kalamazoo..1120 am 645 pm 132 ¢t -855 0 MORAtelthi; 1027 % 586 ¢ 515 % 087 & Alegan 980 Y GO 605 ¢ 1033 *t .. Hlamilton... 910 ¢ 438 ¢ 637 * 1104 Boiiand .. 840 408 * 748 ** 1210pmGrand Haven; 741 ¢ 306 ** 834 ¢* 1236 . Muskegon .. 700 ¥ 29 : F.R. MYERS, | GeneralPassengerand Ticket Agent

8. . . Uineinnati, Wabash & Mich. R. R, Time Table No. 10, taking eflect Mpnday, May 25th, 1874: 7 : GOING BOUTH. STATIONS, GOING NORTH. | N 0.2 -N0.4 No.l N 0.3 510pml200m a’'....Wabash....l73oam 200 pm | 415 * 1105 am .Nor. Manchester 815 * 300 * 350 1030 * ... SilverLake....B4s “ 350 ** 300 *°93o * ......Wareaw,,..,.930 * 455 ¢ 240 *°.- 840 ** ..., . Lecsburg.....9so * 595 ¢ 220 ¢ 810 o IMEIaYd, . 1010 %Y 5884 155 ¢ 740 *¢ ... .New Pari5...1033 *¢ 825 ¢ 140 *~ 720 ** . ..dp.Goshen,ar..loso ¢ 650 *¢ 180 ¢ ..ar.Goshen, dp..1100 *¢ 110 revolikhart,. . . .1120 ** Tiainsrun by Columbus time. | : A. G, WELLS, Sup’t, ‘ e e e R N . . . . Ft. W., Muncie & Cincinnati R. R. Taking effect June 21st, 1874, : © _GOING 30UTH. Mail & Acc.' Night Ex. Ind’s Ex, Detrolt. ...y, 004 540 pm - 10 00pm Grand Rapids... 1% 95 10 30 5aginaw......... : 420 JRCKION ..o ii L sD 40 T 20am Fort Wayne....... 10 00am. 2 00am 1 40pm Ossisn. ........000010 00 2 30 81nfft0n..........31.30 315 3 00 Keystene.... ;....12 22pm 331 Montpielier......: 12 34 : 340 | Hartford...... iis 118 4 05 4 04 ROtOD..civuvecasns L Al 4 24 : Muncle.... ccinave 224 4 43 4 58 McCowans........ 2 47 5 05 Newcastle ........ 4 00 5 50 Cumbridge City... 5 00 6 50 8ee50n5........... 5 25 710 Connersville...... 5 50 72 Indianapolic...... 6 50 6 45 6 50 Lonlevill)e viag ke LD 1 00pm 11 25 Cincinnati......... 9 00 9 45am : éGOING NORTH. ‘ C & I Masl Night Ex. Munc. Ace. Cincinnati....... 6 45am ‘4 30pm | Louisville....... : 3 00 11 25pm Indianapolis..... i 750 . 3 40am Connersville.....lo 25 8 00 | 8ee50n5.......... 10 40 8 15 Clmbrid%e City. 11 00 8 40 Newcastle.......l2oom - 925 ‘ McC0wan5.......12 5/pm 10 12 : MEuc1e.........0 120 10 27 " 54b EQ0n........... 299 6 25 Hatf0rd........ 2% .. 1310 650 ! Montpielier..;.. 2 55 4 Keystone....i... 3.05 . T 35 81afft0n.....;... 3i44 12 05am 8 15 055ian......5.. 490" ;i 850 Fort Wayne.:... 5 15 115 9 45 Jack50n.........11 00 5 02 3 40pm 5ag10aw......... 7 11 35 8 30 Grand Rapids... 5 45am 4 45pm 915 Detr01t...c...... 330 800 am 630 The night express will not run south of Muncie on Sunday mornings, and will run only from Muncie to Connersville on Mendays. All other trains daily-except Sundays. Through sleepllifecgrs on nl%ht traing between Indianapelis ang stroit, ranning via Muncle, F't, Wayne and Jackson. : : TR USV W. WORTHINGTON, Gen, Sup't. Roserr RiLuie, Gen’l Ticket Agent, ¢ e s A oot s BYE AND BAR. ; : I 8 DR.C. A. LAMBERT, (LATE OF OHIOAGO,) i OCULIST and AURIST, 41! GOSHEN, INDIANA. 2 e ettt bbb et bttt Drs, WHIPPY & KIRKLAND, - HOMEOPATHISTS. GOSEEN, « INDIANA. Calls from a distance promptiy attended to.

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P. W. CRUM,

Physician and Surgeon, Ligonier, = =« - . Indiana. Ofllce over Sack’s Bakery. May 12th, 1874. G, W. CARR, ) Physician and Surgeon, LIGONIER; =~ = ~ - = « IND., Willpromptly attend all calls intrustedto him. Office and residence on 4th Street. C. PALMITER, Surgeon and Physician, Office at Residénce. Ligonier, = = =« « Indiana. C A.S.PARKER, M. D., HOMEOPATIEIST, flice on Mitchel street. Residence on Eaststreet. Office hours from 10to 12 A. M., and 2 to 4 r. AL KENDALLVILLE, I NDIA ;\fA i : H. A. MOYER, : (Succeesor to W. L. Andrews,) : SURGEON DENTIST, "KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. LIQUID Nitrous Oxide Gasadministered for the painless extraction of teeth. All work warranted. Examinations free. g@ Oflice, Second Story, Mitchell Block. ¢ B-14-1y v g BREAN., D BN LS D Corner of Mitchell and State Sts., one block gast of Post Office, room over the Kendallville Fruit Honse, Kendallville,lndiana. 339~ All work warranted. Kendallville, May 1, 1874 o .

o L. . GREEN, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public, LIGONIER, = = - _ INDIANA. Office second floor front, Liandon’s Brick Block, I, E. KNISELY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LIGONIER, - - - INDIANA. E@~Officein Mier's Block, . . F 72 »_ L. COVELL, e Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public, LIGONIER, INDIANA. : Office, over Beazel Brotners’ new Harness Shop, Cavin Street.

- | C.V.INKS, DEALERIN MONUMENTS, Vaults, Tombstones, AND BUILDING STONES LIGONIER, IND. April 12, 1871.-50 _ ‘

' I. C. WINEBRENNER & CO., : ! HOUSE, BIGN AND onnt\mnmn PAINTERS, Grainers, Glaziers and Paper-Hangers. SHOP AT SOUTH END OF CAVIN STREET BRIDGE. | Ligonier, = - = - Indiana, i Whitewashing and calsomining done to order. Aw~Give us a call befure letting your work, and we will guarantee satisfaction. 8-1.c.8-47-Iy. . JAMES M. DENNY, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in the Court House, ALBION, 4 = < - - JND, 815 ~ ALBERT BANTA, ' Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer. . LIGONIER, INDIANA. Special attention given to conveyancing and collections. Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages drawn up, and all legal business attended toé)romptly and accurately. Oflice over Straus & Mtagher’s store, May 15 1873 15-8-3 D. W. GREEN, ; »i] . , Justiceofthe Peace &Collection Ag™, Office—Second Story, Landon’s Brick Block, - LIGONIEN, + INDIANA, 9 e e e PIHHILIP A. CARR, ' AUCTIONEER, Offers his services to the public in general. Terms moderate. Orders may. be left at the shoe store of P. Sisterhen.. Ligonier, January 8, '73-37 : O H YES !I--All you farmers who have sales to cry will do well to call on JOSEPH S, POTTS, KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. He is as good at that as he is at selling bed springs and up-land cranberries. Oflice at the Agriculture Store of G. A. Brillhart. -42-6 m CONCORD & CATAWBA WINE., fadests We sell Mr. L. SHEETS’ Wines. _ Pure — Nothing but the Juice of -the Grape. S . .SACK BROTHERS. Ligonier, July 38, '71.-tf :

TEEGARDEN HOTUSE, ' Laporte, Indiana. V. W. AXTELL, : ¢ : Proprietor. Laporte, April 5. 1871.

STOR ATE TELF KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. NEW COMMODIOUS THREE STORY BRICK Hotel, only ten rods from the L. S. & M. 8. R. R. Depot, and four squares from the G, R. R. R.— Only tive minutés walk to any of the princl&Jal busiress houses of the city. Traveling men andstranersB will find this a first-class house. Fare $2 per say. J. B. KELLY, Proprietor, Kendallrille, Aug. 3, 1870.-14 ! . A. GANTS, Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. | R t 1s prepared e n to tdho aiznlythinf e e, intheirline. i "’m‘“ succesful pracf Ne 5 tice ofjoveirflm b e SRR e vears justifies u)”'x_",’:‘f?j? gfi'mt iflh sayiug ee R S e at he can l\ B ‘;fif g‘fi' g giveentiresat. Ty N .“wfl isfactionto all €O PR who (may be. stow their patronage. E¥ Office one doornorth of Kime’s, Mavin St. |

SACK BROTHERS, Bakers & Grocers. CavinStreet, Ligonier, Indiana. ol Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, &c., ChoiceGrocerles,Provlllonb,Yank—eeNotlons,&c Thehighestcash pricepaidfer ConntrKy Produce Mayil3, 68-tf, SACK BRO’S.

W. A. BROWN, Manufacturer of and Dealerin all kinds of FURNITURE, SPRING BED BOTTOMS, . f WILLOW-WARE, BRACKETS, &c¢ COFFINS&S&SCASKETS Always on hand, and will be farnished to order, Funernlq attendéd with hearse when desired. St R 3 s A 3 Cer. Cngl“ne ln‘:{);‘:ld 8&1’.}5 ngomer ) Ind. e - August 7th, 1878.-8-15, b e T se i Banking House OF . SOL.. MIER, ¢ Conrad’s New Brick Block, LXGONIEB., INDP’NA. Money loaned on long and short time. Notes discounted at reasonable rates. Monies received.on’deposit and intereet allowed on specified time, . : o Exchange bought and sold, and Foreign Drafts drawn on principal cities of hnrope. 8-2 . TO THE FARMERS : You will %leaso take noiice that I am still en%azed in nyiz:_fb;«ieat. for which I pay the highest market :nd ? < t fi7oede o gat mmon hst o oty 114 1 an. y rad’s C Bt O . OL, MIER. Ligonier, Indiana, May 7th, 1874.—t

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THE INDIANA DEMOCRACY. ' The Platform. : ~ It is the opinion of the Democrats of the State of Indiana, in convention assembled, that the present administration has proven itself unworthy of the confidence of the people of the United States, in proof of which we submit the following facts: - It has overthrown, by force, the government of the State of Louisiana, and prevented the officers elected by the people’ of that State from taking the positions to which they were chosen; and, for party purposes, has sustained the usurping State officers in their unlawful seizure of the government of that State. -

‘lt has corrupted the sources ¢f public justice by squandering money thro” the departmént of justice, to aid its party in North Caroliana, Arkansas and other States. . > s

It has appointed men to office who have been proven corrupt and profli‘gate, and has removed from oflice those who assisted in bringing the defalcations and corruptions of its appointees to light. . It has, by a gress abuse of power, farmed out the collection of - thé revenue to corrupt and unprineipled men, who have defrauded alike the government and the people. It has appointed to office in the District of Columbia, a body of men whose corruption far exceeds any of which we have record, and supported them in ' their oppression and robberies of the people and the government, causing the loss 'of millions of dollars to the government of tie United States ‘and the people of the District of Columbia. ;

Through the various department of the government it has recklessly squandered the money, sources, and public domain of the people, and corrupted the civil service of the country. The republican party must be held responsible for these acts of the administration it placed in power, and for the credit mobilier frauds, the enormous increase of salaries, and the Sanborn contracts; while, as the oppressor of the white people in the South,, and as ;the origin of the corruption that "wélghslike an incumbus upon this country, it deserves the seve erest condemnation. i

. Therefore, this convention asks the people to again entrust the Democratic party with the admistration|/of the State and county upon the following principles: ; e

A striet construction ot the Constitution of the United States and its amendments, and an impartial enforcement of the laws; a tariff for revenue; a condemnation of all official gratuities in the form of retroactive salaries, State or National; a condemnation of the attempt of the last Congress to muzzle the press; securing to every citizen of the country the equal protection of the laws without violating the principle of local self-gov-ernment, or interfering with the social customs of the people. . Opposition to-high fees and salaries, either in the State of Indiana or in the United States; and we demand a reduction of Salaries, State and National. In the state such reduction and adjustment of fees and salaries as will relieve the people from high State and local taxation. B L

Resolved, 1. That we are in favor of the redemption of the five-twenty bonds in greenbacks, according to the law under which they were issued. 2. We are in favor of the repeal of the law of March, 1879, which assumed to construe the law so as to make such bonds payable exclusivelyin gold. 3. We are in favor of the repeal of the National Banking aw, and the stitution of greenbacks for the national bank currency. 4. We arein favor of a return to Specie payment as soon as the business interests of the country will permit. fe e ‘ 5. We are in favor of such legislation from time to time as willl adjust the volume of the currency of the country. i o i

© 6. We arein favor of a liberal system of education for the benefit of the negro as well as the white children of Indiana, but .we are opposed to the mixture of the black and white races in our publie school or other educational institutions. .

‘7. The civil rights bill recently passed by the Senate of the United States, and now pending in the House of Representatives, presents an issue of vital moment to the American people and calls upon them to decide at the ballot-box whether or not they will be coerced to the absolute social as well as political equality of the negro race with themselves. We view with abhorrence this attempt on the part of the federal government to take control of all the schools, colleges, churches, hotels, railroads, steamboats, theaters and grave-yards, for the purpose of establishing negro equality and enforcing it under enormous penalities of fines, damages and imprisonments. We arraign Senators Morton and Pratt before the people of Indiana for their votes in favor of this atrocious measure, and we shall ask for judgment against them at the hands of their constituents, whom they have misrepresented. {

- 8. That:the act of February 27,1873, commonly known as the “Baxter bill,” has proved a failure, and is in many respects of doubtful constitutionality, and is no more efficient in restraining the evils of intemperance than a judicious and well regulated license law; therefore we are in favor of a repeal of the Baxter bill and the enactment of such a license law as shall protect society and produce a large increase of the school fund. :

* 9. That railroads and all other corporations ecreated for gain or profit should be rendered subservient fo the people’s good; that we demand such legislation upon this subj ect,both State and National,as will effectually.secure the industrial and producing interests of the country against all forms of corporate monopoly and extortion. 10. That we are in favor of severe retrenchment, reform and economy in all branches of the public service, and believe that, with such -economy, the taxesnow collected from the people for Nationdl, State and County purposes might be reduced at least 50 per cent. 11. That we denounce as @ wanton outrage upon the tax-ridden people of Indiana the increase of the State tax by the last Republican Legiglature from 5 cents to 15 cents on the $lOO, at the same time changing the rule of assessment 8o as to increase the valuation of property almost 50 per cent. That such an increase was uncalled for by any lpublic exigency, and we demand the lowest State tax that will support an economical administration, not exceeding 5 cents on the $lOO. 12. That we believe the Legislature should enact alaw restricting and limiting the power of boards of county commissioners and township trustees to levy taxes and create indebtedness

LIGONIER, IND.,. THURSDAY, JUL.Y 23, 1574.

that the people have to pay. o 13. That we denounce the practice of officers using public money as their own, as pernicious; that the natural results are embezzlement and other abuses in office; and we demand such “a change in our laws as will prohibit the use of public money by officers for their private gain. ' 14, That we are opposed to any grants of public lands or loans of the public. credit, either in the shape of National, State or local aid to railroads or ‘'other corporations, and we de“mand that the remaining public lands “shall be held for the benefit of aetual settlers only under the homestead ‘laws., ',f : ~ 15. That in the formation of assocta‘tions for mutual protection and improvement, we. recognize and effort .upon ghe part of the industrial classes to ameliorate their .condition, and heartily extend to them our sympathies and support. - 16. That we are in favor of the abolition of the office of county superintendent of schools, and the repeal of ‘the law requiring an appraisement: of real estate every two years, and in favor of 'the restoration of the former law. ' L . 17. That we bear in grateful remembrance the sacrifices made and the ser‘vices rendered by the gallant soldiers o the late warin defence of the Union, and we demand-.as an act of justice that the bounties of our soldiers, and of theirjwidows: and orphan children, shall be equalized by proper legislation. e , . The Ticket. . ' Mr. J. Enos Neff, the candidate for Secretary of State,is a young man, only twenty-eight years of age, and 4 native Hoosier. @Hé was born in Winchester, Randolph county, studied law with General Tom Browne and commenced practice on attaining his majority. Two years ago he was a candidate for Congress against Gen. J.P.Shanks and fairly elected, though he was counted out by a mistake in the printing of some of the tickets. He ‘was editor of the Fort Wayne Sentinel for nearly a year, but is now practicing law again in his native place. Ebenezer Ilénderson, the candidate for Auditor, is a Granger, being a theoretical farmer in' Morgan -county, where he first saw the light and has resided ever sincé. Ie was Treasurer of his own county for one term, and has been @ member of the State Senate one term and of the House of Representatives two terms. Ile has been ‘prominently identified with the Grange movement in the State from the first, and is high in the councils of that organization.. lle has always been a Démocrat, unless it was when he went into the Tenth of June Convention and received the nomination from the Independents - that was indorsed on the 15th by his own party. ¢6l. C. B. Shaw, the candidate for State Treasurer, is a practical laboring man. He is a carriage-maker by trade, and runs the largest establishment.of the kind in the State. Last. fall, when the panic : came on, and all branches of labor were either reduced in price or cut off altogether, Mr. Shaw continued the entire force of hands in his employ, something like two hundred men, at their regular wages and full time, nor did he make any reduction in either during the entire season. Such a course will give him the support of the laboring men almost solid: Mr. Shaw, in dddition to this, has:an® enviable military record, having gone into the army as a private in 1861 and come out as a Colonel with honorable wounds in 1864, -

Judge IHorace P.'Biddle, the nominee for the Supreme Bench, is a citizen of Logansport, and one of the leading lawyers in Northern Indiana. Ile was a member of the/Convention that framed the present State Constitution, and was for several terms a Judge of the Court in his own district. e is a sound lawyer and a passably fair poet, having published a volume of verses some twenty years ago. Ile was first brought out by the Grangers’ Convention for the position to which he ‘was nominated by the Democracy on the 15th. : :

Mr. Clarence A. Buskirk, the nominee for Attorney-General,is a young man, only thirty-one, a New Yorker by birth and a lawyer by profession. He was a member of the State legislature two, years ago, and was regarded at that time as the leading one of the Young Democracy. Mr. Buskirk is a handsome young man, plays a pretty fair game of billiards, and has a leaning toward the.Methodist branch of religion. ' His home is in Gibson county, the “pocket” of Indiana. Mr. James 'H. Smart, the nominee for Superintendent of Public Instruetion,is a blonde Yankee schoel-master, whe hails from Fort Wayne. He is whag his name indicates, ,and has been prominent in educational matters in the State for several years. - State Central Committee. TFirst District—T. D. Barns, Vanderburg. ; | Second District —C. F, Taylor, Sullivam e ~ Third ' District—John D. Lyle, Bartholemew:. L 1 . Fourth District—B. L. Sthith; Rush. Fifth District—l. P. Gray,Randolph. Sixth District—David S. Gooding, Hancock. i Seventh Distriet—J. J. Bingham, Marion. - : . ~Eighth District—John T.Scott,Vigo. Ninth District—M. D. Manson, Montgomery. 14 P Tenth District—l. E. *Wadsworth, FEaporte. - : Eleventh District—Rufus Magee, Cass. - : > | i Pwelfth Distriect —W.J. Craig,Wells. Thirteenth District—Laporte Heefner, Elkhart. | Jos. E. MCDONALD, Chairman. J. J. BINaHAM, Treasuner. ‘

Business Reviving. The money editor of the Philadelphia Ledger says: “We learn by a letter from one of our largest iron workers, received here by an officer connected with one of our principal railway companies, that more grders had been received for iron within the last ten days than in all the six weeks previous. We have heard of similar revivals in various directions, and from these manifestations marked encouragement is felt of an early revival and an active fall business, especially in’ iron, and if in irom necessarily in coal, and if in both coal and iron, then, as a consequence, in transportation, for which the r_agl'way companies are anxiously waiting,” .

THE detectives have been hunting the old world ‘over for some clue to the murderer of Nathan in New York, ‘and the other day the!best one was found in the house jof the murdered ‘man. It 'was a night-shirt covered with blood, and is pretty good evidence that the murderer was an inmate of the house when the murder ‘was committed, :

THE INDIANA DEMOCRATS. /[From the Chicago Tribune, July 17.]

_The Indiana Democratic Conventionmet at Indianapolis on Wednesday, The two most striking features of the proceeding were the speech of Gov. Hendricks and the platform of the Convention. In general, 'these two documents were of the same tenor, e¢xcept that the Governor omitted a direct expression of judgment on one point in the platform, and the platform is innocent of a fallacy in support of which Gov. Hendricks labored earnestly. Thus the platform declares “that we are in favor of the redemption of the 5-20 bonds in greenbacks, according to the law ' under whieh they were issued;” and “in favor of the repeal of the law of March, 1869, which assumed to construe the law sd as to make such bonds payable exclusively in gold.” Mr. Hendricks, in his speech, though discussing the questions of finance and the currency, avoided all reference to the redeliption of the bonds in greenbacks. e left the square indorsement of repudiation to the Convention, and retfieted himself to the expression of an opinion that the present currency is not irredeemable. On the other hand, the Convention declared in favor of a tariff for revenue, while Gov. Hendricks expressed the opionion that all our fizancial troubles, and especially the depreciation of our currency, were dueto the scarcity of gold caused by the faet that the balance of trade was always against us, to pay which “thke red blood flows from the veins and arteries of the country.”— With all irs recklesness and stupidity, the Convention was not guilty of uttering suca preposterous nonsense as that.

This Convention completes the record of the people of Indiana, so far as polifical conventions can do so. upon the question of destroying the national credit. That record is-in painful contrast with that of the States of lowa and Illindis. In lowa, the Republican and Independent Conventions placed themselves on record in favor of honest money, and declared that the obligations of the Government, having been sold in the markets of the world, could only be paid in the world’s currency. The Republican Convention of Illinois expressly repudiated the inflation seheme, and although inisome respects cowardly and equivocal, was mueh more respectable than any faction in Indiana.

In both of these States the Senators had all been as deeply committed to shinplaster inflation as the Senators from Indiana. Still, the Republicans of Towa and Illinois, when called upon to. choose betweens the -policy of their Senators and national honesty and sound curreney, chose the latter. In Indiana, however, the Republicans. indorsed Morton and his shinplaster policy, and now the Democratic party demagogues have out-done their Republican rivals Dy an open proposition to repudiate the 5-20 bonds. The Indiana Republicans proposed to debase the currenecy, and the Democrats have now propased to pay off the coin debt of the nation in the currency debased by the Republicans. We do not believe that the people of Indiang have theleast sympathy with either of these dishonest and villainolis schemes. . Six years ago, the Democrats of Indianarushed pell-mell into the Pendletonian scheme to issue greenbacks by the car-load, and take up all the bonds with them, and -the Republicans then, having small faith in public honesty, adopted the same declaratign of policy. Now in 1874, we have the same disereditable performances over again, except that the propositions have been divided; the Republicans und‘er Morton insisting on an unlimited® issue of paper:and its consequent depreciation to the lowest point, while the Demdcrats propose to force upon the public creditors this depreciated currency in satisfaction of the bonds. While the platforms of both parties on this question are unwosthy the respect or sup(xl)ort of any decent citizen, we regard that of the Democrats as the more flagrant of the two. The Democratic party has. been long~«:n the minority, both in the State and inthe nation. It had tried every device, including repudiation and greenback inflation, without success. The only policy open to 1t which had not been tried was 'honesty, and {that policy it had not the wit to adopt. Its Republican rival had proposed to water the currency, and authorize a partial repudiation. of all the private debts of the country. The Democracy now propose to add to that the repudiation of apart of the publi¢c debt. They had the opportunity of reasserting the ancient and honored creed that the only money in which wages should be paid was that which ‘was worth 100 cents on the dollar the world over; that irredeemable paper money was always subject to fluctuations, and hence could never furnish 'an honest measure of values; and that the credit of the Government could never be established on & firm basis until its demand obligations were/paid. Such a platform, however familiar to the Democrats of past times, would be new to most of the present generation; it would remind them of their Sun-day-scheool lessons that “honesty is the best policy,” -and it would appeal to the inherent integrity of every man in the State. It would be conspicuous among the political literature of the day, and would give assurance to the country that the Democratic party was true to the faith of the fat(-ilers who had adorned and sighalize its history. But the party in' Indiana was unequal to the oecasion. It placed even a lower estimate upon popilar intelligence and honesty than the Republican Convention, and now the two: parties enter the canvass each calling for popular support, on the ground that it has proposed a policy more flagitious than the other.

—eatl & Pt X The Indiana Democracy. [From the Cincinnati En(lu(lrer, July 16 ]

Thg Democrats of - Indiana held a meeting yesterday. It is propertosay, to begin with, that it was Indiana’y day.” While patriotism and statesmanship alike demand that the discussion of this question of currency, topmost though it be, shall be lifted out of sectionalism, it is impossible to forget or ignore the fact that upon the Democracy of Indiana devolved the responsibility of striking the key-note for the Democracy of four-fifths of the United States. Uponthe candidates nominated yesterday few eyes outside of Tndiana will fall, but the eyes of the Nation will be fixed upon their platform. The Indiana Democrats have been blessed with multitudinous coun--gel, Foremost in point of time to declare the tenets of the party of the people in the broad, free West, there was unconcealed anxiety as to what their declarations should be. It is due to them to sa{ that they have secured victory for themselves, lifted "their

l State into an attitude of leadership, and earned the commendation of the ; Democracy of all the States, and will receive the praise of the party in near1y thirty of them. Their aetion is es- | pecially notable as an example of har--1 mony. It was a popular Convention, and there were doubtless people there who differed with the majority as to the policy to be adopted touching the top question of the liour. There were -members on the Committee on Resolutions who have been more or less at variance with the doctrines declared by the Convention. But Committee anhd Convention were a unit at the last. This is agood omen. The proceedings of the Convention, its platform and its candidates, are told elsewhexre in cur columns. The platform of ' our neighbors has smoothed the path for their victorious chariot wheels. They demand that the five-twenty bonds be redeemed in United States notes as .per contract; that the law of 1869 making them payable in gold, contrary to contract and the intgrests of the people, be repealed; that the National Bank law. be repealed, and greenbacks substituted - for the National Bank ‘-notes; that the volume of currency shall be adjusted to the wants of the country, and, disarming all accusers who would lift the ery of“repudiation,” declare in favor of a return to specie payments as soon as the business interests of the country will permit, and no sooner. ' Being the friends of the farmer and the soldier, they say so,and believing that individual liberty and the public' order equally demand it, they pronounce in favor of the repeal of the Baxter liquor law. They demand a revenue tariff, simply. As we predicted some time since, harmony between the farmers and the Democrats is assured. The farmers’ candidate for State Auditor was made the candidate of the Democrafic Conyention. That this was done at all ¢onfirms our opinions as to the identity of interest between the farmeér and the Dempcratic party, and that it was not done immediately and :without friendly competition shows thit it was not the result of a trade or cullusion. The farmers’ party of Indiana, though insignificant in numbers as a separate organization, adopted a platform essentially Democratic, aid, unlike a third party Convention in Ohio last summer, treated the Democratic party with respect. The victory of the Demoeratic party in Indiana, by a large majority, is assured. They oppose a party which consists of a divided minority. "The Republican leader in Indianapolis and the Republican leader lin Washington face in opposite directions. Morton and his following really stand upon the Democratic platform, but Morton is corapélled to fawn at the gates of the White House. Not so with his following. They will accept his doctrine and disregard ks ticket. S The.action of the Indiana Democracy borrows significance from this fact: It is so completely in' the line of the belief of the great bulk of the Democratic. party that the Democracy of nearly thirty States will echo its plat- | form almost as involuntarily as the hillside ec¢hoes the song in the moonlight. Emerson tells us that what the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the charter of nations. It is quite true that the heresy of to-day becomes the gospel of tomorrow. ©lt is six years and eleven months ago to-day that the Hon. George. 1. Pendleton made the first publication annunciation of a financial doctrine almost identical with that which the Indiana Democracy declared yesterday. In a few months twenty-six States will have taken up the theory and fashioned it into a creed, and the unostentatious apostle and herald of the doctrine which is now at'home in the mouths of all men can complacently restin the assurance that the seed was not sown Dby the Wy h]d(:fil on thl}\ | gx ou_rld— The Great Bridge at St. Louis. The most neteworthy celebration of the Fourth of July was undoubtedly at St. Louis, in the inauguration of the greatest bridge yet built in this country. The remarkable points about this bridge are the depth of foundation, the width of the arches, and the novelty of construction. The foundation of the piers rests upon the bed rock beneath the bed of the Mississip--pi, ninety-seven feet below high water mark,’ and one hundred and twenty feet below the level of St. Louis at the river bank. When the piers were constructed and raised to a heighth which gave suflicient elevation to clear the smoke stacks and masts of the largest river craft at the hightest stake ofwater, the construction of the arches began. The lowest parts of these arches are 50 feet above high water. The spans are of unusual width, the centre arch being 520 feet wide, and those on each side being 515 feet wide, making the bridge 1,550 feet long exclusive of the approaches. They were built without the ordinary scaffolding or supports beneath, but in such a way that the extending arches balanced one another, being gradually extended out from the .opposite piers until they met in the centre of the span. This systeln was a novel one and attracted scientific attention everywhere. . Over the bridge there are two roadways, the total width of the superstructure being 50 feet. On the top there is a carriage way 34 feet wide, and two foot-walks each eight feet wide. Beneath this is a railway, there being two tracks passing thro’ openings 1314 feet wide by 18 feet high. On either bank of the river the railway is carried over the levee or wharves upon five stone arches, each twenty feet wide, elevated above which upon an arcade of twenty arches is the carriage way. On the St. Louis | bank brick arches join these stone arches and carry the railway into a tunnel at Third Street, and thence to the “Union Depot.” - The carriage road ends also at Third street. On the Illinois side, at the end of the stone arches, the railway divides, curvingto the north and south, and gradually descending upon trestle work approaches, some 3,000 feet long, until the level is reached, the gradient being about one foot, in 100. The carriage road descends between these trestles, upon an incline of five feet in 100. The massive structure has been five years in building, and cost about $9,000,000.— Its value and importance certainly justified the grand display at St. Louis thich marked its opening on Saturay, L b it

BeecHER is said to be suffering greatly from depression of spirits, and it is asserted that he may not be able to return to his pulpit in the fall. If he were conscious of entire innocence his suffering could not be so great.— There must be a skeleton in the closet of his heart. :

No. 13.

THE CHIEF CRUSADER UNDE- - . CEIVED. e . Dr. Dio Lewis, the chiéf preacher in pantaloons of the erusade against rumselling, recently made an investigation of the operation and effect of the prohibitory.law in the State of Maine. In doing so the doctor evinced a desire to learn something-of human nature and to inquire into the natural relatign of cause to the effect rarely shown in the conduct of those who "belong to the school of moralists to ;which he adheres. Let it therefore be set down tohis eredit that he possessess at least an inquiring turn of mind. Hi% observations (ot the workings of’ the Maine law are made publicin a recent letter to a Cincinnati. journal.: He declares that he is foreed to conelude, from what he saw of the effeet of prohibito- ) ry legislation in the L.one Tree State, that such legislation is powerless to. check intemperance. - “A 'little more than twenty years age,” says Dr. Lewis,“we began to legislate against the i sale of intoxicating drinks.” Since that time temperance:has' retrograded.” In Bangor, one of the prineipal interior towns of Maine, containg a population of fifteen thousand;he finds that tliere are three hundred places ~where intoxcating drinks are sold.— This prohibition' town, with less than half the population of Harrisburg,surreptitiously and in defiance of the prohibitory law drinks to such an extent as to support more than twice asmany rum-sellers as our-own. eity in which the license system-prevails. The comparison proves. that. the practice of dram-drinking so far from being checked is actually increased under the operation of the Maine law.” Not even the decendants of the Puritans will be sober upon compulsion: But lest some captious friend of prohibitory legislation should accuse us of singling out the town of Bangor in order to institute an imvidious comparison, let us quote Dr. Lewis’ conelusion as. to the general effect of prohibition. .in the State of Maine.. He says: “I am sure the friends in Ohio are sufficiently interested in the temperance cause to send a committee to Maine to spend a week or two ‘investigating the workings of the prolfil)itor’y law; and I am sure they would be amazed at the facts, and yet-I did not see an open _drinking place-while I was in the State. There is no doubt that the traflie has been driven under cover and there is not a shadow of doubt that the consumption of . drinks: in Maine is enor-| mous.” The doctor regrets. that the women of Ohio, lately, engaged in the crusading business, have dropped: the “divine agencies” employed by. them in their recent attempt to-break up the license system. His faith in those agencies is unshaken, not\,vi'c'h_’standing his conviction that prohibitory laws haveproved a failare. We agree with him that the temperance cause will be best promoted through'divine ageneies, but beg to dissent from the belief that these can be most suecessfully invoked on the streets and in the bar-rooms in the midst of the profane and scoffing multitude. :The moral - culture by which the- christian church aims to train the nature of man must lie at | the foundation-of -all temperance reforms. The moral and re-ligiofls train- | ing of youth :has more.to.to with the making of deeent men, in regpect to. the control of the~ natural appetites and passions, than aught else Dbegide.: Not Dr. Lewis. nor any other temperance agitator will attempt to gainsay this proposition.. Isthis trainingto be had in the hooting crowds, in the heated excitements, the violent scenes often times culminating in riots, attend-| ant upon; the, street and Dbar-room’ prayer-meetings of the crusaders? Is| it not rathento be sought in the church, | or, if you please, the meéting-house ? Besides,it prayeris effectual as against | the liquor traffic will not He whose almighty poweris invoked against the evil hear and heed the invocation from the church or meeting-house? Since Dr. Lewis has been obliged to admit that divine agencies alone can check or abolish the traffic in intoXicating drinks, he is also foreed to admit that the 'invocation of thoese agenceis can be made ag effectually at least in the cliurches as out of them. Ile might as well attempt to deny the omnisclence and omipresence of God as to undertake to assert: the contrary.—Harrisburg Patriot. ) irarinl il

The Vintage of California. | The A4lta Califernia, .of San; Francisco, states that in Septeniber, 1873, the surveyor general reported that there were then 28,432,514 grapevines in the State, and that'in the previous year there had been made 4,106,301 gallons of wine. Threecounties were not -included’ in theé report.- Every county in thé State - has vineyards except four, and the average number of. vines to the county is half a million. Many counties have over a million, and the vineyards extend from' Sisklyf{onto San Diego. ; . The area covered by the vines is 40,000 acres, or something over 700 vines to an acre. There Have been comparatively few vines set eut within thie last three years, so that all the vines are not bearing. " A large proportion of the vines are of varieties imported from Europe, purchased in France, Germany, Austra,-Spain and Italy. When planted, they require close attention until they begin- to bear. The average cost for labor, cuttings, and interest is $5O per acre for the four: years in” which they are coming to maturity. Theaverage value is $4OO per acre, though there are many vineyards that yield $2OO an acre. profit annually. - -An average crop of White Museat i 5.8,000 pounds though a large crop is 15,000 pounds’ to the acre; these are sold.at seven cents per pound, and the expense, is’ $2OO, leaving from. s2ooft§ $BOO an acre profit. . The Flame, .okaxl,,vthe Black Hamburg ‘and the Rose of: Peru pay from $3OO tO. $5OO an acre profit annually. The average yield of wine. from ihe Zinfindel, Riesling, Berger, Black Malvoisie, Golden. Chasselas, Frontignan Muscat and German Muscat is 800 gallonsperdecre. This wine when six months old sells at seventyfive cents a gallon, and the expenses. are not over $3OO. The common price of- Mission grapes is about $2O per ton net; this is equivaléntto $BO per acre, or a profit of $9O per acre.. In many districts vineyards are paying good incomes on values of $2,000 per acre. Most of the land occupied. by vineyards is gravelly or sandy, and will not produce wheat or vegetables. The Alta contends that the vineyards might be doubled upon lands unfit for other purposes, and urges the increase of the grape culture as asource of great profit to the State. .

MRg. TiLTON replies to the challenge contained in Mr, Beeeher’s note to the investigating committee by another note, in which'he - declares his intention to make statement, under oath, of all the circumstances of the mysterious offense committed against him by Mr. Beecher, -~ 0

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THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK IN THE THIR: TEENTH DISTRICT. : An .Indianapolis correspondent of & - the Chicago 7'ribune, of Monday, has this to say in regard to the political outlook in this, the Thirteenth Con- @ gressional District: A R - “This district hdasa Republican majority of 1,900 and comprises the counties of DeKalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Marshall, Noble, and Steu‘ben. It is the old Tenth, with the exception of Huntington and Whitley, legislated into the Twelfth. “Billy - Williams,” one of the Congressmen-at-large,resides in Kosciusko county; but with the salary-grab, Boss Shepherd’s real-estate ring.and a general disregard of his constituents on almost every public question, Mr. Williams is sunk out of sight, and has wisely con- : Icluded to transfer his residence and “person to the District of Columbiai— The Republican candidates for the nomination are: John H. Baker, of: "Elkhart; ex-Supreme Judge Frazier, of XKosciusko; and State Senator ‘Beardsley, of Elkhart. The former - will be the nominee, as Judge Frazier rhas: been “taken care of” by the Ad- . ministration in the shape of an Attor- : neyship in the Treasury Department, Jhaving special charge af the cotton | cases, from which he realizes, I amreliably informed, in the neighborhood of double the amount of a Congress- = . man’s salary. Wherefore' should Ze i go to Congress? And he has an eye \ on the United States Senate whan” the signs of the times shall be propitious. The Demoecracy. have united |- ‘upon no one as yet-to take the thank- : less task of keeping the party united ' for the behoof of the State ticket; put Capt. Mitchell, of Goshen, is named as - -the probable opposition:leader. .He is wealthy and popular, and would serve .the purpose well.” - Of the correspondent and his lengthy ' communcation, the 7'7ibune says: “The political outlook in Indiana is pretty clearly defined in a letter pub- ~ lished|in another column. The writer lis a staunch Republican, but his statements are colored very little, if at gll, = by political prejudices. Ie Dbelieves | that the general results of the can- = vass are dependent in a large measure upon-issues that are outside of State politics. Though there will be many I local changes, the net returns will be.” - not very far apart from those of for- v mér years. Thus the temperance res- = . olutions in the Republican platform -’ will drive away the Germans in the cities and attract a considerable coun- - try vote again. The farmers will be divided up between the Republicans and Democrats, though not without - certain' surprising ' overturning of Court-ITouse rings and county barna- ; cles of all kinds. This propheey, our . correspondent cautiously says, isbased on the supposition that the Temperance party will not nominate an ex‘clugive ticket. If that shouldbedone, ! the Republicans would almost certain1¥ be smashed. At any rate, the Republicans -are safe to lose one Con- - gressman,-and possibly thiee, while - the chances of holding the State Ad-. ministration are niot more than even.” =

The Liberal Lick, - In addition to the 2J000,000 which - ‘ui ame Liek, of (‘;1ll‘t‘or1Ia, (l,mfxates to ' public -purposes he has' made the following provisions in Lis deed of trust: - Eighth. In farther trust out of the- - of said property hereby conlveyed and made over, said parties of the seeond part shall expend $5.000 in -the erection of a marble mounment tothe memory of the mother of the party of the first part, viz: Sarah Lick; . -who died and was buried :It‘lf‘l‘e(lel'“icksburg, Lebanon county, Pennsylva- ‘ nia, in 1812, at the age of forty years; and the further sum of £5,000 in the ‘erection of a marble monument to the “memory of the father of tlie party of ‘the first part, who died at the age of sixty-six years. : : o Ninth. And the further- sunt of $5,--000 in the erection of a marble monu- } ment to the memory of the grandfuther of the party of the flrst part, yiz: - Wm. Lick, whose name was written in the German language “Luk,” and who died near Norristown, Pa., at the . age of 104 years, to commemorate the services rendered by him in the American struggle for independence, and the hardships he suffered at Valley Forge and other places during the struggle; all of said monuments to be erected at Fredericksburg aforeg b S s » - Tenth. 'And in further trust, To ex- s pend out of the proceeds of said property the further sum of $5,000 intlre erection of a marble monument to the ‘memory of the sister of. the party of the first part, named Catharine, to be: placed at her burial_ place in Pennsylvania. | s

T Avppointments to the Military and ' ] Naval Academies. . T'o'thé people of the old Tenth Congressional District: 1 havethe appointment of a cadet to each of the above named academies, I desire to make the appointments after some personal knowledge of the applicants. I will therefore be at home from the: sth.to the 9th day of - August next, both days inclusive, during which time I shall be glad fo have personal inserviews with young men who degire the appointment. - . Applicants for the military acade- - my must be between the ages of 17 and 22 years, except-those who served at.least one year in the regular or volunteer army during the late war, and ‘have been honorably discharged.” The ° maximum limit for sucl: persons is 24 years. : o g Applicants {’or the naval academy must be between the ages of 14 andlB years. R ! ) Applicants for either place must be actual residents of tlie Distriet, must have a good moral character, must have a good common sehool education, must, be, in all respects, physically sound, must'be well formed, must be in good health, have a good constitution and mot less than five feet in ' height. ‘ 5 : oot B SAYLER. - luntington, Ind., July 183, 1874. L .__—-‘,fi.—'_,_‘_»_.A MosT distressing state of things | prevails in the northwestern eounties of Minnesota. The locusts, after blackening the air for several weeks, have decended upon the fields of that - section, and are .annihilating every- | thing green, leaving behind them a - brown, barren waste. There is no relief whatever from the ravages of this terrible scourge. Thousands of inhabitants are aetually in want of foqa;' : and there will bewary.‘greazi suffering ‘unless relief is promptly rendered.— Governor Davis' has ‘_'prpml%fi?i_ telegraphed the War Department to send, instead of the quota of arms due the- - their value in rations. That with the drouth and th s% ine, there s a prospect of a hard winter béfoioms: =~ ° - o