The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 16, Ligonier, Noble County, 13 August 1874 — Page 1

The Patiomal Bamner : 1*11?31&11«:;1 i)y > ' JOHN B, STOLL, .- LIGONIER,NOBLE COUNTY,IND.

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CITIZENS 13 A NI, . . ‘ IGONIER, ;¢ INDIANA. o ‘ln":.l'l)Sl’l‘S received subject to check without nojce,. . ! ADVANCES: made on approved collaterals, . MONEY loaned on long or short time. NOTES digconnted at reasonable rates. ORDERS for first-clags seenrities executed ou commission. i A ENTS for the pnrchase and sale of Real Estate, INSURANCE POLICIES writtenin first-class companies. - : : EXCHANGE bonght and sold, and drafts drawn on all the principal cities of Europe, \GENTS for the Inman line, ) { lamburg Line. § i CASSAGE TICKETS gold on all the principal reapartg of Burope. - ‘ MERCHANTS', Farmers’and Mechanics’ accounts solicited, and all business transacted on liberal S termse i - STRAUS BROTHERS. Ligonier, Ind., Oct. 23d, 1872.-26 Bl i : ! 4 . Lake Shore & Mich.South’n R. R. on find atter May 24th, 1874, trains will leave ’ Stacions. as follows: ' I GOING EAST : ; i - Sp.N.Y.Ez. Atle. Ex. . Accom. Uhitcago,. s 920 am s 580 pm.. Kikhart . .odoae 0l 20 pal, s 950 veve DOO A Goshen,sitiing &a 8 Wi 1010 vie. 920 willersburgiy.. t 1 58, ... tlO2B via 848 Ligonler ... 02 0k ....}-,04:;( Lo 600 Wawaka...;... 1215 ... 110 54] .U 4 Brimfleld.... ... t 2 23 Yo ROB e 524 Kendallville ... .. 236 s R Lo, 084 Arrive atToledo 550 ... 2408am,,..1040 ! GOING WEST : ‘ f01ed0.....5....1110 pm....1125p%5.|.. 456 pm Kendallville..,. 236 pm.... 244 am.... 850 Brimfleld . doos 1260 .0 1300 . ... 906 Wawaks.ivdeat26o 03 100 ILi D R 0 Ligonier...i{..., 10 53% sO dd Millersburg.... 1324 ... 1386 svse DOO G05hen......... 389 W 3 0h sees 1010 Elkhart. .. beheyd 00 o, 4.90 . 41035 ~{rrive atChicagoB2o' - ... 820 vees 650 am traing do not stop. xpressleaves dail{ both ways. . CHAS. PAINE, Gen’lSupt.,Cleveland, J. M. KNEPPER, Agent, Ligonier. : Pitisburg, ¥t. W. & Chicago R. R. : From and after May 31, 1874, 1 GOING WEST. | : 5 Nol, " Nob, No 17, No. 3, . FMastEz.. Mail. Pac Ex.' Nightlz. Pittsburg,..... 2:ooam 6 00am 9:oam £ 00pm Rochester.. 3.. ....... 7 25am 10:50am 3 10pm A11iance....... 5:25am 11 00am I:3opm 5 50pm 0rrvi11e....... 7:olam 12 52pm 3:lspm 7 26pm Mansfield..... 9:o6am 3 15pm s:26pm= 9 25pm Crestlize...Ar, 9:@Bsam 3 50pm 6:oopm 9.:55pm Crestline. ..Lv. 9 55am 5 00am 6:3opm 10:05pm K0re5t,........11*13am 6 32am 8 25pm 11:29pm Lima..........12:15pm 8:00am ‘' 9.43 pm 12:30am Ft Wayne..... 2:!Bpm 10:35am 12:25am 2:55am Plymouth.. .. 4:24pm L:Bpm 3:o3am s:lsam Chicago ....i.. 7.50 pm 5:25pm 6:soam B:soam : GOING EAg'l‘. No 4, No 2, No 6, Nos. e - NightEz. Fast Ex. Pac Ez. Mail. Chicag0.......10:20am 9 20am 5 35pm 5 15pm Plymouth..... 2:loam 12 10pm 9 05pm 9 26am It Wayne.... 5 20pm 2 38pm 11 30pm 12 30am Lima......... 1 7:2opm 4 20pm . 1 33am 2 45am Forest . ....... B:36pm &5 IYpm 2 42am 4 02am (‘restline .. Ar.lo:2opm 6 45pm 4 20am 5 50am Crestline . . Lv,lo 30am 7 05pm 4 30am 6 05am Mansfield .....11 00am 7 35pm 4 57am 6 40am 0rrvi11e......,12 52am" 9 28pM 6 45am 9 13pm A11iance....... 2 35am 11 05pm 8 35am 11 20pm Rochester..... 4 48pm ........ 1042 am 2 10pm Pittshurg ..... 5 55pm 2:osam 11 45am 3~30pm No. 1, daily, except Monday; Nos 2, 4,5, 7 and g, daily except Sunday :¥Nos. 3 and 6 daily. 4 . ; v s {tr. Rapids & Ind. and Cine., Rich. 1 T 1 & Ft. Wayne R. R. | Condensed Time Card, Daily, except Sundays. To take effect July sth, 1874, | GOING NORTH. Express. Express. Accom. Richmond ......coo 0 1620 pm 1025 am 4 00 pm | Newpart. dvmasaiis Wl ol T 19 50745~ 4 agiet Winchester 00, diviykb 3y ¢ 1180 ¢ 510 ** Rideevillooi oy o 20l am 1151 %+ 586 % Portland: .o i eni ss @BB ¢ 1218 pm 605 "¢ Decatuy. .. dsbeciecicy TRO 197 e Ifort Wayne, D......c.. 300 am 240 pm l Kendallvill@oaad i 420 60t 401 ¢, | Stnegisiis. b @ Lol S 500 | Vicksburg.ihtiio oo 0044 5. 604 ¢ - Kalamazoo siaec st v @25 <0 15 ¢ 245 pm Monteith _deigllce RS hT ¢ 300 Grand Rap1d5........a. 880 ¢ 0920 * Grand Ra;}ids..‘......d 960 ¢ 960 Howard Oitwea oo L 1154 8 14 54 Up. Big Rapid 5........ 100 pm 1 00am Reed City s . idigr s 18 Clam Laße. dossietic it 890 ¢« 9202 : Waalton codilaveccet el ARR AP 493 ' Traverse City........., 60042 1205 pm . Petoskey. ciilinaiaiacans 990 . 756 am | GOING SOUTH. Express Accom. Express | Petoskey. (ldiii o d 45 am 730 pm ‘Traverse Oify..c.sc.ai. 8860 2925 ¢ ' WaltoW .. .oéi.. .oo 110067 Clom Lake: dluiiciioiill 800 ¥ 1 00 am Reed City.iioai i 0 012:52pm ’ 307 4 Up. Big Roptds: o il 19284 400 ¢ Howard City..ccoo ooi 298 5y 5102 Grand Rap1d5.......a.. 495 **- il Grand Rapid5.......d.. 435 % 805 Montefth, ..iie, ... .0 604 "‘ 12 25 pm: 853 **

Kalamazoo, too oo Gal 700 Svo 110 0y odget Vicksburg gi o o 7 7 101 Gt Yturgisc i lipi (0L 83y & ol 19 Kendallvilled oo ioiii 958 o g 12 3Rpm FortWaynhe. 1i... oo 0212 olam 29085 Decatur. .ot oo i 103 ¢ 312 4 Portland. 00l 0 898 % 6doam 431 ¢ Ridgeville (00l e iiaii BQO . 700 . 447 2 Winchester (4 0. 000 830 £ 73R4 510 Newport oo liiia .5 42710 8904 554 Richmond Jil.o. 0 0 50D 8504 820 * E.\'?ross from Walton to Petoskey will m‘p on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridn%‘s only; from Petoskey to Walton on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 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 efect Nov. 3d, '73. GOING NORTH, YA GOING BOUTIL. Kxpr. Mail, STATIONS. Expr. Mail. 359 pm S 10am..Kalamazoo. i 1 20 am 645 pm {338 8558 Montelths 1027 ‘' - 5566 ** 518 * 99y AHesan. .. .. 050 ' 3521 ¢ 605 *t 1038 # L Hramiiton. .. 910 438 ¢ 637 1104 S dkolland; ... 840" 408 * 748 ** 1210 pmGrand Haven, 741 ** 306 ** 834 ** 1255 *¢ .. Muskegon.. 700 *° 295 _ F.R. MYERS, GeneralPassengerand Ticket Agent Cincinnati, Wabash & Mich. R. R, l'ime Table No. 10, taking effect Monday, May ; 25th, 1874: GOING BOUTH, STATIONS. | @¢OING NORTH. No. 2 . No. 4 . No.l «Na.B Hlopmll2oom a.....Waba5h....1730am 200 pm 415 ** 1105 am .Nor. Manchester 815 ** 300 ** 350 ° 1080 * ~..SilverLake....B4s * ‘350 *¢ 300 % 930 8% oo arsaw, ... ..930 4 4554 240 4 840 %- 0 cLecsbure. .. .. 950 ¢ 528 ¢ 220 0810 2oL aiford.. . .:1010 %% 5560 ¢ 155 * =740.4% .. wiNew ari5...1083 * 625 * 140 * 720 * ..dp.Goshen,ar..loso ** 650 *¢ 130 * *..ar.Goshen,dp..lloo ** 110 ¢ seionmlißhart. oo 1120 ¢ § Traingrun by Columbus time. " . | A, G, WELLS, Sup’t. Ft. W.,Muneie & Cincinnati R: R Taking effect June 21st, 1274, ; ; 'GOING 830UTH. * " Mail & Acc. Night Ex, Tnd’s Ex. Detrolt ... qiieiei ¢ 540 pm 10 00pm Grand Rapids... 12-925 10 80 5aginaw........8 4 20 JRcKRON .o 00l kol U 8 40 7 20am Fort Wayne....... 10 Obam 2 00am ' ° 1 40pm Osslan, .c...i5.e:211 80 e U 2 30 81ufft0n...........11 39 315 3.00 Key5tene..........12 22pm 1 3 31 Montpielier....... 12 34 3 40 Harblord..ococvoi L 0 0 405 . 404 Batonh. . ..t auesane: b 4D 4 24 Munele....ciceane. 224 4 43 1 53 McC0wan5.........R 47 505 Newcastle ........ 4 00 5 50 Cumbridge City... 5 00 © 6 50 8ee50n5....v...000 9 25 ‘4lB o Connersville...... 5 50, 7 | Indianapolit,..... 6 50 6 45 6 50 \ Louisville .... .. 11 25 100 pm 11 25 ! Cincinnati......... 9 00 9 45am . GOING NORTH. ¢ C & I Mail Night Ex. Munc. Acc. Cincinnati....... 6 45am 4 30pm Lounigville....... — - ' 300 11, 25pm Indiandapolis..... 7 50 3 40am. Connersville.....lo 25 8 00 8eeg0n5.......... 10 40 g 18 Cumbrid%e City-11 00~ 840 Newecastle......[l2 00m 9 25 McCowans. .. ...12 57pm 10 12 Muncie.....ih.. 120 . 1027 845 Baton: .. ..o e 200 6 25 Hartford........ 2 25 i T 10 6 50 ‘Mont%ielicr....; 255 - o lUu ‘Keystone........ 3 05 735 8infft0n......... 3 4 12 05am -8.16 'Osslan. .. Lk, 4 20 ; 8 50 Fort Wayne..... 515 - 115 945 Jack50n.........11 00 502 3 40pm Saginaw...:,.... +ll 35 8 30 Grand Rapids.., 5 45am 4 45pm 915 Do, . a.isini 830 8-00 am . 630 The night express will not run sonth of Muncie on Sauday morningg, and will run only from Muncie to Connersville on Mondays. - All other traing daily except Sundays. ; Through gleepﬂig cars on niﬁht traine between Indianapolis and Detroit, ranning via Muncle, F't, Wayne and Jackson. = - W. W. WORTHINGTON, Gen. Sup't. Roserr Rivrig, Gen’l Ticket Agent, " RYE AND EAR. g i B B DR.C. A. LAMBERT, SRN oMy OCULIST and AURIST, I GONHEN, INDIANA. . Y O % sl T HOM@OPATHISTS. AEed e F over W 1 hE Ban: ' A 0 bl (Rl A R e GOSHEEIN, - IN pﬁﬁ LAN A. from g ..x“ nee oy ,'; ntlv att “‘o‘ 7%

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- P, W, RO, Physician and Surgeon, Ligomier, = - « . Indiana. Office over Sack's Bakery. Mayl2th, 1874. . Gty W CA]{IR,: P Physician and Surgeon, IGONLIER, < & & o . - IND, - Willpromptly attendiall calls intrustedto him. Oftice and rusidcpce on 4th Street, . C. PALMITER, Surgeon and Physician, Ofiice at Residence. ; ; Ligonicr, = = = = Imdiamna. A. 8. PARKER, MI. D., ; FHOMEOPATHEHIST, flice on Mitchel street. Residence on Eaststreet. Ofice hours from 1010 12 A. M., and 2 to 4 . &, . KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. s e 1. A. MOYER, ) (Succesgor to Wi L. Andrews,) SURGEON DENTIST, KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. LIQUID Nitrous Oxide Gas administered for the painless extraction of teeth. All work warranted, Examinations free. #ga Oflice, Second Story, Mitchell Block. . 8-14-1 y J. M., 'TEAE, . D Bl e L &S T 4, G Gorner of Mitchell and State Sts., one block east of Post Office, room SLITY Y Y Pover the Kendallville Fruit House, Kendallville, Indiana. §39°All work warranted, Kendallville, May ), 1874 L E. KNISELY, L ATTORNEY AT LAW, LIGONIER, - - = | INDIANA. p-Ofiicein Mier's Block., 4 79 .. COVELL, 7 Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public, EIGONIER, INDIANA. : Office, over Beazel Brotoers’ new HurnessShop, : . Cavio Street. . O. V:INKS, DEALERIN MONUMENTS, “Vaults, Tombstones, AND BOILDING ST ONES LIGONIER, IND. - April 12, 1871.-50

. C. WINEBRENNER & CO. . HOUSH, SLIGN AND ORNAMENTAL

S I AENTIERS, | Grainers, Glaziers and Paper-Hangers. I SHOP AT SOUTH END OF CAVIN STREET : BRIDGE. . ; : Ligonier, - - « - Indiana, i Whitewasghing and calsomining done to order. 8= Give us a call befure letting your work, and we will gnarantee satisfacticn. g-1. ¢, B-47-Iy. - JAMES M. DENNY, - Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in the Court House, . ALBION; &= = - <« - IND. 815 ALBERY ISANTA, - Justicgof the Peace & Conveyancer. ' LIGONIER, INDIANA. | Special attention given to conveyancing and col- | lections. Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages drawn up, 4 and all legal business attended to promptly and accurately. Oflice over Straus & Meagher’s store, Meay 151873 15-8-3 -— g S i .__._.__4,.._s___, R st v . D B, W. GREEN, ; . : : : . ) Justiceorthe Peace & Collection Ag't, Ofice —Recoud Story, Landon’s Brick Block, | v BEGON TG INDIANA. 9 PHILEP A. CARR, | AUCTIONEILR, Offers his services to the public-iu ceperal. Terms moderiate. Orders may be left at the shoe store of P. Sisterhen.; . ' : Ligonier, January 8, '73-37 () H YES ! All you farmers who have snl(lm 5 cry will do well to call on . JOSEDPH S. POTTES, KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. - ] He ig as good -at that as he is at selling bed springs and up-land cranberries, Oflice at the Agriculture Store of G. A, Brillhart. v 42-6 m ] s i i CONCORD & CATAWBA WINE,

W_Q se]] Mr. L. SIIEETS’ Wines. . : Pure — Nothing but the Juice of

-the Grape. - : . . SACK BROTHERS, Ligonier, July 3, '71.-tf. ] :

TEEGARDEN HOUSE, _ « Laporte, Indiana. V. WoAXTELE, » : : Proprietor! Laporte, April 5. 1871. STOPR AT PHE KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. NEW COMMODIOUS THREE STORY BRICK Hotel, only ten rods 4rom the L. 8. & M. S. R, R. Depot, and four squares from the G, R. R. R.— Only tive minutes walk to any of the princi&ml business houses of the city. Traveling men andstrangers will find this a first-class house. Fare §2 per day. J. B. KELLY, Propr:etor, Kendailville, Aug. 3, 1870.-14 A. GANTS, 2 Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, ; LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. S ; Is prepared A b 6 Ao snything ; b, in theitx_'lime. A - Nl -~ succesful prac- , tigce ofjoverﬂlo Plso=w S = years justifies , ,ﬁi’t‘\‘"ﬁ%« s Min i saying N ﬂ" iﬁ“!g’% = ﬁ@ 7=y that he can ML e P giveentiresat. NG g R e y“‘v“ isfactionto all NG B Dl ~ who may b stow their patronage, §#¥ Officeone doornorth of Kime’s, Mavin st. i . ’

GOOD NEWS TO ALL! et | S : L, SCHLOSS " V OULD respectfully announce to the citizens I of Ligonier, Ind., that he has opened up the Grocery and Restaurant Business, and is prepared to farnish anything you may want. . . ! ICE CREAM By the Dish. Ice Cream and General Refreshments furnished Parties, Pic-Nics, &c., on short notice, and at very reagsonable terms. ; WARM MEALS At all Hours. ' Day boarding by the week or meal T ; CANNED FRUITS. The greatest assortment in. Northern Indiana, consisting of Peaches, Tomatoes, Corn, Whortleberries, Pine AYples, Pears, Peas, Strawberries, Goeseberrics, Cherries, California Grapes, Green Corn, Apricots. ¢ i CONFECTIONERY In abundance; Prunes, Currants, Figs, Raisins, Oranges, Lemons, Smeked Salmon, Sardines, Al.monds, Pea-Nuts, Hazlenuts, Cider, &c}, &c , &c. TOBACCO. Cigars, Fine Cut, Smoking, Plug, Shorts, &c., of the best qnality, and all other articles usually kept in a first-class Grocery and Restaurant. POULTRY, BUI'TER AND EGGS. I will'pay cash for all kinds of country produce. Remember that T will furvish yon with anything you may want, Feb, 19.74 42-tf Gold & Silver ' . h Z - B.°A, HERTZLER JEWELER and WATCHMAKER, SheE Ny JAS congtantly NTR A llon hund‘% large = Wil ad) ttock of Ladies’ & = W 2 5= CGent’s gold and sil=N & f?*\ kL. ver Watches, gold PN /} e 2 and silver Guard SR | B . 13— and Vest Chainsg, 2 ! MR~ Silver Plated Ware, 0) B Y- Spectacles, Violing, =% Accordeons, Guitar S By =" and Harmonicas, o and will be sold at 7 z = ’ The Very Lowest Cash Prices. . A specialty made of repairing the finest - Swiss and American Watches, ‘ SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Store Rooms in the I}lo_nler House, i AR i 8 A HERTZLER, #igonier, June 11, 1874, tf, . i }

The National Danner.

The Wapita and the Pantlter.

(From the American Homes, Angust, 1874.) We were a strange party, Vit Dana, the Bear, and me. It was—lemmesee —in the year—well, I'm hlessed if I ever could remember dates,—it doesn't signify; it was just afore the Secession War, ’cause when 1 eame back to. the settlements, shortly after, [ went off to try a new-fangled breechloader on the—well Il won't say whicli, gray or blue coats, and got this brolen jaw by a da—no, I don’t swear now —Minie slug. As I was a saying. when you interrupted me, Gus Lewis, to say that you thanked the owner o’ that Minie rifle that he spotted me afore you knew me, we were a queer set,—Vit Danaand the Bear and me. Vit was an old backwoodsman, and a loyal cuss,—that isn’t swearing, is it, parson ? His true name was John,, I think: but in his boyhood he had had his faee terribly scarred by vitriol, and all the trappers and soldiers had learned to eall him Vit, He wasa little over five feet high, stout, and as strong as a giant. I've seen him shoulder a buffalo, and that ain’t no fool of a job either. Youneedn't laugh, Abb;—he nearly killed your father hugging him once, he was so glad to gee him, @ ‘ :

Well, I was as tall as I am now, and a good deal stouter, six feet eleven, and broad in proportiom, wasn’t likely to be laughed at on the prairiés, and I was vigorous for a man of sixty, and could out-tramp and out-work any man of my size on the plains. And then the DBear—but in order to tell you about him T must go back a little. The fall before, I had been in New York, to sell some belts and see the sights, and had strayed into a ‘museum” on Broadway to see the animals. I strolled from cage to cage, glancing at many who were old acquaintances of the plains, and seeirng some that avere stli'an"ge indeed, wlen a man with a smooth fdce stepped up to me and.asked me if I would walk into his private office. 'Who he was, or what his private oflice, I didn’t know; but not being more afeard of him than the other animals, I followed him into a nicely-furnished den. We had no sooner got seated than he said to me, very rapidly, “Can you talk Polish, Sweedish, or any foreign gibberish? I said no; that I could do him a little Cherokee or Kanuck French. “Ah,” says he; “that is it; if you will be -my man, I'm yours. In other words, sir,” and he looked at me almost respectfully and admiringly, “if yvou will be my Great Canadian Giant, I will give you three thousand dollars a year and board.” .. I looked at him amazed, then thought d‘f my size, and laughed atoud as I recognized in my acquaintance the great showman Barnum himself. I says to him, “stranger, I am a man of the woods, and you couldn’t tie me up in this big hut of yours' for a single week for twice three thousand dollars.” After that we had a good deal of talk. lle seemed to have an eye to business in any direction, and, to cut my story short, before I left T was engaged to getiMr. Barnum ]i'ving specimens of the cinnamon bear, wapitay and painter, for which I was to receive a sum that would have given the whole garrisdn of old Kutaine pocket money for a hundred years. And that accounts for the bear. ' Vit and e had got: that much eoftjour caravan, but had failed a dozen times in attempts to get a live deer of the kind wanted, or a painter.

We had to lug Bruin along with us. We had him muzzled with thongs, and weighted: down by a chain -and ball, whieh we had got at the fort; but we had a tough time with him, ‘and; as I said .afore, we were a queer looking set on the day of which I speak, with little Vit and me leading off a bear with a muzzled nose and a ball and chain,

A queer thing happened that day. You see we had just left the fort, and I and Vit had both been drinking summat. We had started for I'lathegd Lake; and hoped between the fort and the water to get sight of a wapita or a cougar, Little did we think that we should see both in one day, and I may say—but I guess I won’t get ahead of my story.. We had got but about five miles from Fort Kutaine, and were passing through ‘a forest, when I heard the peculiar whistle of a wapita. Chaining our brother to a tree, we Prepa’red our lassos and bolas, and awaited the animal’s aé)proach.— He neared us, and I stood ready to fling the lasso, when, quicker than lightning, a panther leaped from an overhanging tree upon.thg, great doe’s back. She was a noble’ specimen, and without stopping to look at her passenger, she started, and seeing before her, just in front of us, the fal-. len trunk of a dead tree, she rushed towards it, crouched until her back was just on a level with the tree’s lower side, and then, with mighty force, brought the panther againstthe trunk, and the beast loosed his hold.Quicker than thought, Vit’s lasso was around the cougar’s neck, and for my part, I made a mighty leap, and landed on the back of that deer, and clasped my arms about his neck. ‘We both started in opposite direetions; I down the forest, and Vit up a tree,—for his lasso was tied to his waist, and the liguor in his head had prevented his winding his line to a tree as usual. : _

Oh, what a race that nimble cittur' led me! The way I dodged trees and stumps, and the way I clung to her neck. She leaped.and ran over fallen trees, and threugh. a dense forest of brushwood, for half an hour; when just before me I saw a tree across the path, that would surely sweep me off as one before had our friend the panther. ' I dropped justin time to avoid a broken head, and the deer bounded away once more free. As soon as I could pick myself up, I looked around to find my whereabouts, and hearing a noise, I discovered Vit hanging from the boughsof a neighboring tree at one end of his lasso, and the panther at the other. 1 saw at a glance that my knowing wapita had brought me around to the same tree which had served him such good purpose with the panther. o ; But just then I had no time for thought. I climbed Vit’s tree as fast as my aching body would permit, and found him not dead, but nearly so, and quickly released him,—the panther falling dead to the gronﬁ,d%s I cut the line and loweréd my friend to 4’ safe limbh. "Heé was soon restored, and gave me an aceount of his strange attempt to get a pahther alive. The beast had starteg' up the tree and he perforce after him, and after- maxy struggles the &:ﬁg“ar lost his hold, through suffocation, and fell from the. ‘bough on which he was, dragging Vit up bg the arm',pij‘?s until they hung side by side a looking into each ofher’s eyes, e e

ILIGONIER, INDIANA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1574.

A MARVELOUS TALE.

Well, this may sound like a big story, but it is gospel truth. ' We went’ back to where we had left our bear, and I’'m dak-no, blessed, parson—if some Methodist hadn’t shot him and lugged his carcass off, leaving only one leg and the ball and ehain. This ended our attempt to get a wapita, a bear, and a panther. I doubt if old Phineas ever knew the result of that talk he had with the *Canadiagy Giant” in his humbug palace o& DBroadway. . LRy

Canned Fruiis.

Use only fresh fruit and that which is perfectly ripe, not too soft, but just right to eat well. TFill your cans full of fruit, put the can in a kettle of cold water; put a few iron rings in the bottom of the pot to prevent the cans from bireaking; then put over a slow fire at first, making, it ho.tter;tfter the fire becomes hot. Too great a heat at first will crack the cans at the bottom. Meanwhile, make a nice s_\"ru;faf white sugar, and when your fruit is half dgne cooking pour your syrup over the fruit in the cans, and continue ‘beiling until done; remove from the fire i\nd seal. Some people cook their fruit before putting in cans, but it does not*},‘zreserve its natural flavor as fwell, neither will the syrup be as clear. Cooking the fruit in the cans is the mroper way of canning fruit in my estimation. I use half a pound. of sugar to a quart jar of fruit; cherries, peaches, pears and raspberries will do with six ‘ounces. Cook quart jars twenty to thirty minutes, accoxding to hardness of fruit. Keep wateh of your cans while boiling, and as fast as, thé fruit in the can lowers fill up with well-ripened fruit; next morning test your fruit jars; if they do not hold boil them over jagain. In ten days from time of canning test your fruit again, and if the cover holds them it will keep for years, as I have some now nearly four years old which look as if they might keep four years longer. By testing ten days after canning you will never be awakened in the night by a loud report as of a gun going off, as I have heard people tell; about, and breaking some’ half dozen cans nearest to it. - Keep your cans in a-cool but damp place. ' ,

Hoxr Congress.

We beg leave to mention in conection with the coming congressional canvass, the name of Freeman Kelly, Esq., of this eounty. Mr. Kelly is a farmer, a laboring' man, and consequently an honest man. As four-fifths of Congress is generally composed of lawyers and dead-beats, and the other fifth farmers and- honest men, and as that body has given the major part of its attention to Credit Mobiliers and other stealings, for the last twelve years, we now propose to change the order of things, and have the farmer and laboring eclass to predoniinate.— Mir. Kelley is just the man. His greatest enemy, if he has any,will give him the eredit ‘of being scrupulously honest, and all know that he possesses good abilities to prosecute. an honest calling. Ttis not the man that can blow and fume that we want to represent us; we’'ve had that kind long enough, for instance Billy Williams; we prefer a little more honésty and a little less mouth. Mr. Kelly is a good speaker, an indefatigable worker, and should be nominated. We feel that every farmer and laborer in the-dis-trict will have good cause to stand by and cast their votes for him.—Auburn aurien i : 5 o e+ dme— o - T'o Deodorize Cisterns.| The Western Rural says a quantity of charcoal placed in the cistern will absorb the olmoxious gases, and deodérize the water, and if the bottom of the feed pipe to.your well could be encased in a box containing broken charcoal, through ‘which the ‘water may be drawn, so much the better.— Two ounces of permanganate of potassa, thrown in an ordinary-sized cistern of water, is saidl 'to render, the foulest water sweet and pure; or, toa hogshead of water, after being drawn, add a teaspoonful of the saturated solution of permanganate of potassa, or, add carefully to any quauntity needed sufficient taigive the water operated on a slight pink tinge.: Then, if a clean stick be placed in the water, or a little tea be put in, the color will dissappear and the water will be fit for use. The pink tinge is' given by the excess of permanganate used, but the quantity of . potassa remaining would be too insignificant for danger, since it would not be more than 1-500 part of a grain to a galleon of the water. . - ke

Two more Southern States have been caried by the Opposition. The other day it was Kentucky, now North Carolina and Tennessee have been heard from. The election in North Carolina is for Congressmen and a Legislature. Everybody will remember what stress was placed on the returns from this election in August, 1872; and how accurately they foretold the events of the fall. It is fair to abide by the same liberty of prophesying to-day.— County officers were chosen in Tennessee, and the opportunity for an expression of opinion on the Civil-Rights bill was well improved.

The I't, Wayne Gazette thinks that the New Haven oil discovery can not be regarded as a great thing. After stating the geological features of the region it adds: .We mention the above facts to show that oil, if found in that- region, cannot exist in a permanent manner. In caleareous limestone formations, oil is frequently found in fisures or pockets, which has frequently deceived people and led to the expenditure of thousands uselessly. The New Haven oil is said to have been found in a Jeposit of gravel. It has sometimes been found in this condition but only in pocket quantities. e

_All the year around, Sheridan’s Cavalyy Condition Powders should be given to horses that are “kept up.” To horses and cattle that graze in summexr they should only be given in winter and spring. . Officers and -soldiers who served in the army, physicians, surgeons, and eminent men and women everywhere, join in recommending Jolhnson’s Anodyne Liniment to be the best internal and external family medicine ever invented. : That's our experience. \ bl 00l e - Tue Northern Indianian is constrained to remark, .concerning the Democratic platform: “The license clause is about all that we could possibly endorse, as it is evident to our mind that a stringent liquor license is the only law that will suit the masses, and surely that is what is wanted.” A NEw sbtory in the New York Ledger is entitled “In the Wrong Nest.” Does Mr. Beecher still contribute to that paper yet? . .

LONG BRANCH AND THE THIRD - TERM. - ; The possibility that Gen. Grant may be a candidate for the third term of the Presidency is one of those questions which will not be put to rest, and which now seriously disturbs the comfort of several eminent Republican statesmen. The New York Her‘ald, through a correspondent at Long Braneh, gives what purports to be the result of a conference between the President and some friends-in relation to his candidacy in 1876. The substance of it is that he (Gen. Grant) is perfectly aware that the third term is extremely distasteful to the Republican léaders,-and that they have 1o idea of allowing him to be a candidate or to be elected. Even if nominated by 'the Republican Convention, he is satisfied that they would defeat him. He wants, therefore, to be a candidate in 1876 of all the opposition to the Republican party, upon a platform like that of the Liberal Republicans in 1872 (!), but more strongly pledged to reconciliation - with the South. On such a platform he expects to,unite the oiliceholders, the Grand Army of the Republic, the capitalists of the country, the Southern white people of all shades of politics, and the democratic party. Ilehas already mapped his policy to conciliate and unite/all these against the republican party,and has no doubt of its success. He hag practically cut loose from the control of the Republican leaders, and desires to be considered the President‘;of the whole people. The President,i i$ stated, in the course of the same conversation, expressed the opinion that, if the Liberal Republicans would lead off.in nonrinating bim, there would be no difficulty after that, and no doubt of ultimate success. The democratic party and all the Southern - States would support the movement, which would be directed to breaking up the republican party, whieh has long survived its usefylness, its honesty, and its power of good. , : All this may be authentic or not.— It is probably exaggerated, and yet it “lovetails” with many things before. But the correspondent states that at this interview there. was present “a leading Liberal Republican of the West,” who had visited the President to ascertain his’ views of such an alliance. - The name of this leading Liberal Republican is not given, nor is it said what State he hails from; but it is proper to remark that, if any such person has been promenading any such errand at Long Branch, he is an arrant humbug. ‘The reasons which led the Liberals away from the republican party in 1872 were (en. Grant’s making principally, and they are more numerous and weighty now than they were theun. :

1t is further stated, as an indication of the President’s desire to unite with the Liberal Republicans, that he has proposed to aid in securing the nomination of Senator Fenton as the republican candidate for Governor of New York, to the dismay and annihilation of Conkling and the other party leaders in the State. Whether this be true or not, it has no significance outside of New York. The Liberal Republican movement in the West, in 1872, was an honest one, having for its purpose needed reforms in the government, Those reforms are more needed now than ever before. They have found their most stolid‘and inexorable antagonistin the President. It is impossible to separate him from the abuses originated, fostered and enjoyed by him during his six years administration, and, though he may now choose to abandon the republican party, which he has used as a packhorse, and anay declare himself a Reformer, the Liberal Republicans of the West can have no confidence in him, nor will they consent to place him in a position wlere he may defy public sen’cimen(; four years longer.— Chicago Tribune. . .

Trouble in Pennsylvania.

A conspiracy among the anthracite coal mine owners, of Pennsylvania, against the publicis on foot, and there is in consequence much distress and suffering among the miners. Between two and three hundred collieries in the Lackawanna and Wyoming. regions are either wholly suspended or worked on reduced time, and twenty thousand workmen are out of employment, with little or no means laid up to tide them over the suspension of work. The prevailing dullness has been forced by the operators, or the “coal combinations,” which control the region and govern the wholesale trade in every section of the country. ~The object is to reduce the production at the mines so far that but little coal will be at the tide-water depots when the fall and winter transactions commence, when the millions of tons held back at various points in the region will be forwarded and heavy speculative prices demanded. The wholesale prices of anthracite coal will be from 15 to 20 cents higher this fall than they are now, and dealers must take the coal in such quantities as the ‘combination choose to sell to them.— The z)rganized,band of outlaws who infest the coal regions, known as the “Molly Maguires,” and who hail the disaffection among the miners as an opportunity for plunder, have commenced : depredations, and scenes of violence are reported daily.

PDeKalb County Items.’ [From the Waterloo Press, Aug.6.]

* Judge Best and family returned from their Minnesota trip last week. It isreported that the Canada Southern has again suspended payment. One night last week, a gang of dogs killed twenty-five sheep for Mr. John Jackman, of Franklin, besides injuring anumber of others. Dogs are generally considered so valuable, however, and sheep of solittle account in the world, that it is not likely that the opportunities for usefulness of the canine race will be abridged, on account of little frolies like the above. .

IF ALCOHOLIC STIMULANTS are taken into the blood the heart works faster, and this unnatural speed wears out the vital machinery. . All intoxicating nostrums advertised as “tonics” “renovators,” &c., produce this disastrous effect and should be' rejected.— DR. WALKER'S VEGETABLE VINEGAR BITTERS —an Invigorant withotit the curse of alcohol—is everywheére supplanting these patrons. 16 4w ITis now said that both Horace Greeley and Mr. Sumner knew of Beecher’s .guilt. The question-now is, not who was acquainted with the facts, but show us a man or woman who wasn’t. o el 5 WAR has been deciared between Senator Logan and Governor Beveridge. Both aspire tothe United States Senate. 'The slaughter of small officeholding partisans has begun,

MR, MORTON’'S SPEECH.

. Mr. Morton has spoken. Ile has said the say of his party. 'His followers can remark with Mr. Ingram’s double. “There has been so much said, and, on the whole, so well said, that I will not further occupy your time.” Vanity alone on the part of tlie stump “speaker will prevent an admission of . ‘this kind. The Senator takes a review of all the general questions of the day, beginning with the panie¢, which he assures us was not “caused by any defect in the currency or in our finan- \ cial system, or by maladministration. ' The panic came upon us in a period of unequaled prosperity, and was as little expected as the shock of an earthquake. It was produced by the'failure of a great banking house, having extensive connections,which had rashly unidertaken to build arailroad across the continent.” If the panic resulted from no defect in the currency, and at a time of general prosperity, it is certainly a little strange that Mr. Morton should head the party in Congress ‘which for six months labored to have | the amount of eurrency increased be-. cause it was insufficient for the needs of the curreney. Mr. Morton admits that the currency bill finally passed was a far more pronounced inflation -measure than the vetoed bill.© The first would have resulted in an expansion of about $36,000,000, the second’ has made an dddition to the circulation of about $40,000,000. ' The Senator rather exults in the passage of this measure and in the leading part he took in its advocacy. While disclaiming aity need of an increase of curren¢y injone paragraph, he glories in the sharp game by which a 'bill having objectionable features is foisted upon the people. It served you.right, he may as well have said, for making such opposition to the vetoed bill. Of eourse Mr. Morton devotes the bulk of his speech to an arraignment of the democratic party of Indiana. Ié finds no difficulty in characterizing the platform adopted at Indianapolis as subversive of every principle of right and honor. He takes up the resolutions in detail -and proceeds to show to his. constituents that they each and all involve heresies of the gravest and most insurrectionary character. To the plank ‘which proposes to redeem the five-twenty bonds in greenbacks, he does not bring that ponderosity of argument to bear which one would natur‘ally expect from the silver-tongued orator of the great party. His attack on the democratic position is weak and indecisive. lle can not siy much in opposition to what the republican press have been pleased to call repudiation, The faet is it requires no stretch 'of the memory to remember when Mr. Morton was himself a repudiationist of the most Pendletonian type. No ' longer ago than 1868, Mr. Mortonh saw no treason in the proposition to pay the five-twenties in greenbacks. What was just and patriotic then is exceedingly disreputable now. In 1869 alaw was passed which settled this question as to the payment .of the bonds. The law provided that they should be redeemed in gold.— “This act was intended to be a settlement of ‘the controversy as to the mode of paying the bonds, and was generally received as such. Tlaccepted it as a final settlement.of the question, and believe it must now be received.? This act decided Mr. Morton, who was undecided up to that time. The Democracy of .Indiana believe that if thte, Congress of ’69 had power to decide in favor of gold, that of 1874 will have like power to decide in favor_ of greenbacks. Thisis all the advantage Mr.. Morton has over the Democracy of Indiana. What an opportunity to read a moral lecture has been lost! Had not Morton been known for a'| rank repudiator, how he would have removed the cuticle from-his 1'01)11(1?1—, ating political enemies. As it is, he has but a mild rebuke. Being a repudiationist once, he is not so now, because he and others made a law which makes repudiation illegal. Af- ‘ ter this mild rebuke, Mr. Morton goes on to sound the praises of the greenback currency. Specie payments he sees in the far future as something too glorious to be realized now. His en‘tire treatment of the subject of finance is as indefinite as the financial resolution in the platform of his party in this State. It is:purposely indefinite, for the reason that it makes an equal bid for the support of men entertaining all shades of opinion in regard to the morley question. But the seventh resolution of the democratic platform gives Mr. Morton arr opportunity to unlimber his heavy ordnance. The | rights ‘and privileges of the 'coloreq ' brother are dear to the Senator. Tke denies that the civil rights bill gives the Government the control of colleges, schools, churches, hotels, railroads, theatres, &c., but that it has the right to accord to all citizens, of whatever condition or color, common privileges in the same. Undoubtedly M. ‘Morton is right in theory. No onedenies the negro a sort of theoretical right to obtrude his presence everywhere. The Senator himself might not objeet to such companionship, but there are many people who do. It may be an unworthy prejudice, born of ignorance and an antipathy of races, but it exists nevertheless. The white people of some of the Southern States, where the colored element is large, would sooner emigrate than submit to such an enforced intimacy of rela- ' tionship. Is it better, in view of this ‘well known fact, to push a theory to its logical limit, or to defer a little to the wishes of the people? The absurdity of the whole matter is, that many negroes ‘do not desire a mingling of the races. They actually prefer to have their own schools, and their own churches, and even their own theatres. Such things, at all events never can _be controlled by legislation. The idea of entitling Cuffee to eat at the first table by statute smacks a little of the ridiculous. All such things must be regulated by social custom.! The fact that the Southern whites -are directly responsible for the degradation of the blacks dces not materially a]{er the situation. There may be a poe ie justice in the grevious burdens which -the negro rulersof South Carolina and Louisiana are imposing upon their former masters, but; it is none the lessan unhealthy state of affairs and should be remediéd as soon as possible. If ib was wrong/to hold slaves in the antebellum days, the wrong does not make the present usurpation of blaeks and carpet-baggers right, by any means.— Nor are the people of the South responsible for 'slavery. They accepted things as they foumd them. Witheut stopping to enter into an amume!gz here, it may be said once for all, that Mr. Morton has not rendered any valid reason why the people of the South should be subject to a rule at onee oppressive and odigus, Mr.Mortor g%%e Is olution and to praise hisown party,

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for their local option plank. “Were the cases reversed, Mr. Morton would reverse his comments with an astonishing facility. The fact is, as we have amply proven mniore than once, that the position taken by the democratic party is the only fair.one. - It is bold ‘and prohounced, while that .of the épposition is ambiguous. This distinetion holds ' good throughout the plafforms. The one'is uniformly definite, the other indelinite. ~ Mr, Morton defends the high taxation of - his party while his ®rgan at Indianapelis is perpetually preaching ' the reverse doctrine. Beautiful consistency! [Mr. Morton concludes” by some reflections | of a general nature. From the Democracy of the State he turns his guns on the opposition to the administration. He opposes the reciprocity treaty with Canada, lest the establishment of, free trade put off the final absorption of that province by the United States. He totally ignores the fact that history has established existence of a pre--cisely opposite state of things.” The: repeal of the former treaty drew England and Canada into far closer relations than'were maintained during its existence. - Mr. Morton is fully aware of this, but his party is comunitted to the fallacy of high protection. - On the whole, Mr. Morton’s opening fire has done little or no damage.—#t, Wayne Sentinel.| . p S

IT is a remarkableicoincidence that while America is having the BeecherTilton scandal, Germany should -be edified by an entirely’ similar one—the Kapff-Straub affair: = Kapff, like Beecher, is a clergyman of a’very high reputation. =~ He is a member of the Evangelical Church. Like Beecher, he is accused of having sedueed one of the female members of his flock, and of having ruined her by ‘taking advantage of the confidential relation in’ which he stood. to her as pastor.. In both instances the vietim was a married woman. “There are those wlio believe lapff guilty, and then there are those ‘who, like Halliday, would not believe so even if-an angel from heaveén were to testify to it. =~ A Vienna journal “publishes: a communication finding fault with the course of the prosecuting attarney, Steinheil, who has taken: the part of the pastor, and is endeavoring to cover up the matter. The woman alleged to have been seduced iy in an insane asylum, having become mentally diseased after the affair. The scandal is exciting some -interest even in this country, and a German-American writes to a New York paper. to. say that the people of -Stuttgart,: where Kapff lives, do not believe. the story of his guilt at -all. - Kapff, however, has, like Beecher, ordered an investigation: Whether the parallel extends any feu't,h'_e‘r, we are not informed. -

A’ REMARKABLE case of forgery has been discovered in'<St, Liouis. The criminal is a Mr. Alexander, who has hitherto been (of good repute as a merchant. IHis operations extended over many months. -He ‘was the senior member in a firm of cotton-brokers.— About the time of the panie last -year his business became embarrassed ; and he sought to cheat fortune as fortune had cheated him. Forged receipts for considerable amounts of’cotton were negotiated - between - Deceniber and April, after which: the honest policy was resumed. -Arrangenments were: made for the retirement, of all the fraudulent receipts, and many of them had ‘actually been withdrawn when the facts became known. Mr. Alexander is now in prison, his fortune is swept away, his friends and partners are disgraced, and his name.is irremediably sullied. The//insane cupitity which risks all in‘an attempt to tose nothing “has seldom been more conspicuously exhibited.: = = iwtany o

AR has been obseryed that the month of July is the most fatal in the year, Imore‘especially to very young children. The death-rate in this comtry during that month is higher than at any other time, mainly on account of infant mortality ; but it is-known that the extreme heat of our summers: exercises a morbid influence over adults too. An examination of the deathrate ef Great Britain for the past thirty years has just been completed, and points to a general resemblance in the climatic influence in both countries. The rate reaches the lowest figure in May and mounts up rapidly during June and July. It is observed that, excepting infantile disorders, the heat of the British summer does not increase sickness, although it has an influence favorable to diarrheal disease and the spread of small-pox. A thorough comparison of the effect of climate in the two countries would be very interesting. -~ . - } : IN the‘absence of cholera, yellow fever, and other epidemics which generally visit a part, atleast, of the country during the summnper, it seems that the whole land is being swept.by an epidemic- of crime. From every city come reports of more than the average number of burglaries, robberies assaults, murders, ete, The Toledo papers mention ten burglaries and robberies committed in that city within thirty-six bours ending Sunday eve‘ning; and this‘is ‘not dn exceptional case. Lol e

Tue Democratic party at its récent State Convention' positively and unegivocally put itself on the record in. tavor of a reduction of the salaries of public officials. "It has given a direct pledge to this effect. Neither of the two State conventions preceding it took such.an emphatic position. Those who favor a reduction of official salaries from prineciple, and desire a‘reduction of taxes, should by all means vote the Democratic tickels 2 08 e e

The Detroit and Eel River Railroad Company have signed the contract ‘with the city of Logansport guaranteeing the completion of the Logansport, Crawfordsville and South-west-ern road into. that city, and the erection of the shops of both railroad companies at that point. A large force will be put to werk at once on the road, and the contracts for the Detroit and Eel River shops have been let. ..

A STATEMENT is made by the Mishawaka Enterprise that there is a man living in Laporte who is the father of thirty-five children, of ‘wlhom twenty-: six are still living and ‘mine are dead. They are scattered aver Ireland, England and this country. - The father is apparently about sixty-five years old, but does not know his age. i - It turns out that the child story-cir-culated in this place concerning the birth of a child with two sf&¢%¢s'“at Pierceton, is incorrect. The child in--stead of haying two faces has simply. | a sort of a protuberanee on- the back part of the head, which 'however 'is daily’ decreasing .in size.—-Warsdaw TRfons Tvt e

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GENERAL ITEMS. S

.. They do say that Gen. Butler is at the bottom of the suit for libel against Tilton by Mr. Gaynor. Probably there i}g at lcloven-hoof at the bottom: of Gen. utler...:. .’ : 5

The Secretary of the Treasxfry has ordered the sale of gold to the amount of $5,000,000 by the Sub-Treasury during. the present month; $1,500,000 will be sold on the first and third Sundays, and $1,000,000 on the second and fourth. / bR .

The address of the Temperance Republicans of New York arraigns the Republican party for the defeat of local prohibition, and expresses a fear that the nomination of Dix for Governor will cause the defeat of the State Ticket and give the Democrats a United States Senator. = :

Ir the number of witnesses in the Beeclier-Tilton cdse contihue to-mul-

tiply, and Mr. Beecher continues to . postpone his statement till they are all heard, the trial will apparently stretch out to the crack of doom.— Every day or two somebody pops up in some part of’ the country who has — been in the secret all the time, and - who has derived his informationfrom~ original sources. : - The German squadron now in British waters has been ordered to the coast ¢f Spain. French politicians @ will understand this announcement to ‘mean that the Spanish Repubﬂ:: sh,a}l . not be strangled in its cradle whilethe , Emperor William lives. This guaranteeis not given because theSpanish infant Is wholesome or pleasant, but Tather Dbecause the French boy needs reproof and correction. : Lo The death rate in London, England, | is only half as great in proportion to = population as it is in New York. This indicates that there is something wrong in the habits of our people and ‘ln their sanitary management. Poverty and crime, the great accessories to death, must be far greater among the- ¢ crowded millions of 'the British than the American metropolis. .

- California has long béen thought to possess about the climate for consumptive invalids. New Mexico comes into the field with a death rate $o much lower than that-of California that the former is a perfect Golgotha in comparison. The comparison of the number of deaths by consumption in the two places gives New Mexico the advaitage in the ratio of one to six.

. Action has been taken by the heads 'of Departments in Washington on the resolutions which. Gen. Butler had passed i the last session of Congress providing: that mot more than one’ member of a family shall be employed in the Government offices. - The intention is to carry this resolution into operation as Soon s possible. Nobody ean hope to explain in what manner it will advance the efficiency of the Adniinistration; but it has its merits in the eyes of spoilsmen and patrons like:Butler, e

Two hundred years ago a law was passed in’ the District of Columbia whiel”punished by imprisonment and burning and branding any Hody who-. used ;Eofune language or denied the! existence of the Trinity. It is stillon the statute book, and, according to. the doctrine of those who believe in enforcing all laws, it should be strictly enforced. - “This fact is a good commentary upon absolute statutes, and shows the folly of the demand that every thing which-is a part of the law should be enforced. : - Ve

Three horse-thieves were recently hanged in Kansas by mobs. The accused were allowed to make confessions, which implicated twenty men.. Tt is intimated that vengeance will be executed on the persons named.— Greater abuse of power than ‘this it would be difficult to conceive. The insensate torture of pris )}l@l‘s in the ‘Middle Ages wrung lies f‘h)m them as’ often as the truth; and human nature is so much ‘the same now as it was then that it is useless to expect the, truth from men who stand with ropes about their necks, if ‘they may hope to gain a reprieve or pardon by lying. The Fancies of the Siek. A diseased imagination is the usual eoncomitant of a torpid stomach.— There is no complaint to which/ humanity is subject which the dyspeptic does not at different times suppose that ' he has, or is about to have. The only way to disabuse the sufferer’s mind of these fancies, which are realities to him, is'to infuse life and vigor into his digestive organs, and the most po‘tent preparation for this purpose is Hostetter’s Stomach: Bitters. There is no affection of the stomach, no irregularity of the liver or.disorder of the bowels,iconsequent upon indigestion, for which it is not an absolute speeific. During the twenty-five years that it has been the standard tonic and alterative of America, millions of dyspeptics have recovered their healthand the capacity to enjoy life by the sole aid of this wholesome and searching vegetable preparation. As an as‘similant and an anti-bilious agent, a Temedy for lassitude, debility, nervous‘ness and morbid fancies, there has ‘never been anything comparable to it in any age or country., 154 w i o — L A sad Case. 7 : . [From the Cleveland Leader.] . The Treasury Department has another romance. The bright, pretty widow of Congressman Mellish from New . York, bas been admitted to a $9OO clerkship. Three 'months age her husband was a member of Congress, but he ‘became insane and died in a hospital. His vagaries had led to the waste of his comtortable fortune, nearly his entire substance having been spent in obtaining his election to Congress. His death, theréfore; leaves his wife destitute, and with her four children she leaves her pleasant home in New York—hers no lenger—and goes to Washington to write and count. fractional curreney for $9OO a year.— There are sadder things in people’s lives than were ever written in books: R L p——e East Germantown, Wayne county, is noted for its cherry trees. Almost every yard is supplied with them, and they are planted along the streets and roadsides as shade trees. / It is esti‘mated that over 1,200 bushels of cher‘ries have been gathered in the town and vieinity this summer. At $2.50 o hmﬁlgé the »zwn;a;iet@n@e&neo&: ceived oz them, they amount to guite sum. to be distributed ‘%l@;}!l3 the people of the village. The cherry is a quick ‘growing- and handsome m@%& ree, and of ng%f&kwﬂ‘?h%ﬁ@f form a good 84 . We see no reason why 1t Should nof come fnto general use 48 & A ey AR e L SRS S SR TR bR s s e