The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 34, Ligonier, Noble County, 17 December 1874 — Page 1

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CIKIZENS BANIK, W IGONIER, : INDIANA. | DEPOSITS received subject to check without noLR ! s : > | L :;n.z'm:s made on approved collaterals. ‘ HONEY loaned on long or short times : NOTENS disconnted at reasonable,rates, | GRDERNS for first-clasg securities execnted on commission. i el % . ‘ _ASENTS for the purchase and gale of Real Estate. HESU?,\NCE POLICIES written in first-clagscom-anies, : | b ; _l;-)ZX(‘ll ANGE bought and sold, and drafts @rawn on all the principal cities of Europe. = © | AGENTS for the Inmanline, } ; : : . Hamburg Line. § , PASSAGE TICKETS sold on all the principal sea[&nrtﬁuf Earope. f e e gS SR AER HANTS', Farmers’and Mecho nies’ accounts solicited, m&iaﬁ%ﬂn‘%ﬂaneacted on libera! - terms. e RAUS BROTHERS. ~ Ligonier Tad OFF. Mgl ol i ue e S s 3 ißt o / 0 Lake Shore & Mich. Sonfﬁ*hﬁ,,% ~on and after Nov. 15th, 1874, trains will leave Stactons as follows: " wui % GOING EAST : . o Sp/N.Y.Ez. Atle. Ex. Aceom, Chicago. . oo 0 850 am.... 586 pm.. . : Elkhart:, . oouilBsoipm,. .. 950 (.. 505 am G05hen,......... 108 sLoaiGlo i 028 Millersbure | Dty o 8 CifloßB OL. D 46 Lizoniter ... .. .. 185 ....li) 420 o 603 Wawake, . o olan 0 11084 L 600 Brimßelad . coviBB . 11108 0 L 0 6260 Rendsllville .. .. 205 (1118 -.. 642 Arrive atToledea2s ....240am.... 102 * : GOING WEST: . o T01ed0.1...0.. .12 10 pm/. .. 1185 pry. ... 500 pm Kendallville.... 324 pm..k: 3 18am.... 849 Brimfield ...... 1340 viss 1392 L 907 Wawaka....... 1850 " .., %342 vere Dl9 Ligonier........ 400 cees 354 ves. 939 Millershurg.... 1415 - .. 1410 i 950 Goshew [ Sus B 3 o 0 498 po iIY Blkhart. .. 0 455 ... 480 . 1035 ArsiveatClicagd92o ... 850 .... 650 am - ~fTrains do fdo} stop. : ; " Expreseleavesdaily both ways. £ i CHAS. PATNEsen’lSupt.;Clgveland,” J. M. KNEPPER, Agmt;Ligonier. - | 5 ey '-’—“"—T“"—" ""—‘\‘——"‘““T . b 2 ’;"“""“"" - Pitishurg, Ft.-W. & Chicago .R. T .., - Fromaudaffer July 26, 1R74. o C e sl NEOING WEST. . o » Nol,- "Nobyi- "Nog N 0.3.) ‘o i Fastßp. MaillPagpsl NightEz. Pittsbarg...... 2:ooam (i;ll(b‘am 59440 am 2 Vipm RoChester. Jt: weensee. B 350 m 10:508m 5 1 i%?gg Alliance..... ~ D:32am 11°00am 1:0pm s,B7pip 0rrvi11e......: T:l2%m 12 52pm, J:ospm 7 40pm Msansfield..... 9:2oam '3 15pme, 5:26pm 9 49pm Crestiize.. .N, 9:sodm’ 3 R{op 6:oopm 10 Mopmy *‘;«-.s'.!i'ue...i(‘,}ﬂ 10ame 5 #oam. 6 25pm 10 20pm Fordst. . ... %11 Bsum 6B2am £ 15pm 11 52pmLima,....%.../02 30pm ,8:00am 9 30pm !2 biam Fi Waynes.... 2 50pm 10 4egm. 12 Lam 38 15am Plvmouth,.... 5 00pmye 1 25pm 3 (am 5 IQsm Chicago .. icomoB “;'an”.’):‘z.,'mln 6:soam %20am e GOINGEAST. ¢ & - . N 02,” No? 2, : No%, - NoSB. 5 . Night Ez. Fast Ex. Pac Ex. Mail.- » Chicag0.......1020pm 9 20am &35pm 5 15am Piymonth..... 2 25am 12 15pm 9 10pm' I Wam Ft Wayne....,bsoam 2 45pm 11 45pm 12 30pm Limk. i e motam 3 35pm: 1 52im 2 Sapm Forest .......»917am 8 34pm 3 olam 4730pme Crestline ..Ar.ll 10am 7 00pm € 408th_ 5 50pm Crestlive .. Lv.ll 20am 7 20pm 4 50am” 6 053 m Manstield .....11 Slam 7 50pm 5 20gm- 6-40 am? 0rrvi11e....... 1 46pm 9 12pm 7 J'lu’r’n,' 4 ohame« atliance..,.... 3 40pm- 11 20pm 9 00am 11 20am Rochester..... 5 58pm ........ 11 12am B“ropm Pittsharg.... . 7 05pm 2 20am 12 15pm 3 30pm Nor 1, duily, except Monday; Nos' 2,4, 5, 7 and », daily except Sunday { Nes. 8 and .6 daily,

{r. Rapids & Ind. and Cine., Rich. - Y y - & Ft. Wayne R. R. pndensad Pome Card, Duwily, except Sundays. To take efiect August 9th, 1874, 1 GOING NORTH. Express. Express. Aceom. ¢ tichmoud ........0....1020pm 1025 am 4 00pm | vewporho sunNl Rl s TIST 1850 -408 w Winchastte 00l i llar . 1180 b @ Ridoeytdles ol svo g 0lam: 11510 536 % ~Portiunl so L VIR R ¢ 12 Apm 6 05" ¢ k Dosaturieiisiiiviniece 191 ** 12T i . Fort Wayne, D doooii 3008 m -240 pm | Rendallellle oo ic o 4004 401 { S{argls Sre il dsiit Bl tt 500 4 ; Vickabiapir L Salensuvs iy Bidd 2y g o4oot | Kalamako. - toascidaiia ot 20 Y 95 | Monteith coceois sy BO> . TH7. ¢ f Grand Rapidsi .oo .08, 980 .-020 . i Grand Rapid5........d. 950 % 040 ¢ 230 ¢ | Howard Cly. .o .0 L 1154 ¢ 3144 410 % { U'p, Big Rapid 5........ 100 pm 100 am 600 | Reed Lly ciiic ol i TR7V S 187 % 634 Clain Take: oo foio 0800 ¢« 1330 & Roog I Waltom el o oy e 0 0908 & ravoree Gity. o 000 0 0106 12 05pm 1045 ¢ | Petoshey. | OL. 980 Y 758 am ) f GOING SOUTII. Express Accom. Express Petoskey o iuiioidis e 4db am ®2O pim i Traverse Qo Coie L 0.0830. ¢ 3.00 am .~ [ Waltlon ... 0. Lanloy a4t 1990 am | Clam Lake 10 o 0 1130 ¢ v 7300 148 « | Reald Gty il S ropny ast Bon e Up. Bighapida ioo o 0 198 @ 098 y 400 0 oward Oate - o 0 299 ' 10304 510 Giraad Rapids ([0 8.0 495 % 1240 pm TlO * | Grand Rapid5.......d.. 435 * TBO l Monterth o odi .00 604 % : 853 ' Ealamazoo, .. ... ... 700 Sdh 2 Vieksburg .. 0.i....... 782 1016 ¢ | Starpis, Lol RS T L 1 19 - Keondallville (o i .. 5058 % 12 32pm | ' FortWayne.....L... ...120lam Dan ey DeeßimE oo i a 1 04 3192 £ Portiamd .0o 0298 640 am 431 0 Ridgeville ..= 10 800 709% adr' | . NlOReatap oo e 30t LTR 510 Newpotb. .0 00 40y it 800 t BAL Richiond .. ... ..., 500" 1850 G2O l Express from Walton to Petoskey will run on Mondays, Wedpesdays and Fridays only; from Petoskey to Walton on, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satardays only. All other trains run daily, Sundays excepted, . R MYERSN, Gen, Passenger and Ticket Ag't. fichigan Lake Shore Rail Road. | Trains run daily extept Sunday. Condensed time card, taking efiect Nov. 3d, ’73.. GOING NORTH, Q T GOING 80UTH. Expr. | Mail,;, STATIONS. gpepr — Mail | 350 pm 8 10am:.Kalamazoo..i120am 645 pm | o 43R ssr M onteithy .0. 1097 Y 556 ¢|l 518 *oBy WA eran 050 ¢ 521 & 605 % 083 * . Hsmilton.:. 910 '* 438 * 837 ** 1104, __Holland..... 840" ;408 * | ‘748 . 1210pmGrand Haven, 741 ** 306 ** | R 34 % 3955 Do Muskegon ~ 700 2925 ¢ | F.R.MYERS, | = GeneralPagssengerand Ticket Agent | l:()RT WAYNE, MUNCIE AND CINCINNATL ; RAILRCAD.—* Muncie Route.” Condensed time card, taking effect Sept. 6, 1874, : . GOING SOUTH. . - i e Mail & Acc, Night Ex, Ind’s Ex. Detroft. i 00l 540 pm 10 00pm Grand Rapids.. . 1712 261 10 30 Saginaw.....ih. . 4 20 JREESON e N oil 040 7 20am | Fort Wayne,......10 00am' = 2 00am 1 40pm Owainm. Coog g f 0 4g 222 Bluff Yen ..o 001110 315 g 80 Keystone. ... ...11 39 ; 32 Montpielier....... 1] 46 3 30 Hartf0rd.........:12:10pm 4 05 3 56 Eatom. i .00 0880 419 Moncie...... ..0ic01:00 443 . {53 McCowans........ 115 Newcastle ... ..... 205 S (‘n_mbfigge City,.. 2 36 | - DBeesouwt . .iioo 8 ¥ . | (‘[email protected]. 310" Lt | Indianapolic...... .... 7 05 6 50 iouisville. ... il 00l 1 00pm 11 25 Cincinnati......... 6 20 o ‘ GOING NORTH. e C & 1 Mail Night Ex. Munc. Acc. » Ceniciießtt Lol i dham ! Louisville....... v 3 00pm 11 25pm | Indianapolis..... 7 50 3 40am Connersyille.....lo 25 i i : e ' Cambridge City. 11 00 lebis Neweastle.......ll 45 . ik McC0wan5.......12 20pm Muncie...... .13 3¢ 10 27 545 Eaton.. 00, ived 00 625 Hartford .. ..... 1 20 11 10 ’ 6 51 Mdntpielier..... 1,43 : 72 Keystone........ 1 62 . -7 35 Blufton ~...0.0. 215 12 05am 815 Oeslan i 00l 247 - 8 50 Fort Wayne..!... 3 25 115, cadah Jackson...... ...12 20am’ 5 02 3 40pm Saginaw.....:... 11 35 8 30 Grand Rapids... 5 45am 4 45pm: 915 - Petrolb. il L 3 8 00am 6 30 No. 3. night express, will run daily except Mondave Al other trains daily except Sundays. ‘Through sleeping cars on night trains hetween Indianapolis and l§etroit. ranning via Murcle, F't. Wayne and Jackson. : : i W. WORTHINGTON, Gen. Sup’t. 1 Rosrer RlLuie. Gen'l Ticket Agent. - - ped 5 Cincinnati, Wabash & Mich. R. R. Time Table No. 10, taking effect Sunday, Nov. . 22d, 1874: : v GOING SOUTH, STATIONS. 6OING NORTH. N 0.2 No. 4 No.l N 0.3 415pmi200m a.....Waba5h....1710am 120 pm 420 ““ 1059 am .Nor. Manchester 750 ** 214 * 305 % 1010 * ....Bllver Lake.... 825 ** 305 ¢ oFS ¢ gMN s I Warsaw,. . 912 010 Y 207 1 ags ....ALecsbmf....,in? S 180 9 = LA RER eLo Miisord ..., 947 0 510 Y 139" 91 * ....New Parls...lolB ' 538 125 “= 680 * J..dp Goshen,ar..lo3o_** 603 ¢ e ..ar Goshen,dp..loBs *~ < . 1255 oo o 008 f - Tiaineran by Columbus time. : -/ A.G, WELLS, Bap’t. = EYE AND EAR. ™ . . 2, < 2 $ g Lo i , DR CSiA. LAMBERDT, 7 ¢ (LATE OF 0H10AGO,) . ' QCULIST and AURIST, 41 © GOSHEN, INDIANA. e e —————————— e it . M. A. MOYER, : SURG EON DENTIST, . KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA, ‘ Ni Oxide Gasadministered for the LD osa extraction of teeth. Al work war Wﬁp free. g Office, Secon Story, Mitehell Block. e B-14-1y

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U G, W. CARR, : Physician and Surgeon, LIGONIER, « - - - - -.IND, Willpromptly attend all calls intrustedto him. © Office and residence on 4th Street. . " ¢. PALMITER, ‘' Surgeon and, Physician, ! Oftice at Rikidence. s _ Ligonier, =~ = » = Endiana. . wiuc PV, CRUM, : Physician and Surgeon, . LIGONIER, : INDIANA. .

Office, first door north ¢f Jacobs & Goldsmith’s " mc_ in strect, where I may be found at IFalr ;e Awhen absent on pr;{fessim;lal bus- | iness, 00l e GO - Mayl2th, 1874, hocuammeer s - 7 o ¢ ""3‘ iJ. ML T 41" ley e :"7‘ YL ‘} : % s ’.‘;.(ﬁ,_‘ e RO 2 . ggrsemn, Qorner o Mitchel) and State Sts., ; l?* Parsy, one block %ast of Post Qffice, room LY Y'Y Pover the KendallvilleEruit House, Kendallville, lndiana, 137~ Allywork warranted. Kendallville, May 1, 1874, ~'Sdii aniye .M, B, KNISELY, = % ATTORNEY AT LAW, LIGONIER, oo v = -~ INDIAN 4 i Oftice on Second flgorof Landon’'s Block, 7-2 S i e S N B ___-._a...u.. Y i. COVELL, : Attorney-at-Law & Notary Publie, . Kendallvilled, Emiana. _ Office in the Seeley Block, west side Main Street. . JAMES FE. WENNY, ! Attorney and Counsellor at Law. > Oilice in the Court House, oo L ALBION - - IND R E ALBERYT BANTA, Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer. » " LIGONLER, INDIANA. P Speciul attention given to conveyancing andcol-. ;lucl,io'uy.‘ Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages drawrup, - gnd all legal business attended to promptly and wcdurately. Office over Straus & Meagher’s store, ) S & May 15 1873 15-8-3 ey ; e &..,'um. s SRR P B W, GREREN, | . J Slaiivy n % ﬁ?\ ‘l iB ’ Nsticeof the Peace & Callection AT, Oftire—Scecond Story, L:\..Aqu‘s Brick Block, iv O LIGONIER, - INDIANA: 9 LU PEIILER 8. CARREE, AUTCTION EER, ;Oﬂ'\?{'s f;is fervices to the publicin general. Terms moderate. Orders may be left.at the shoe store of . 1 P. Sisterhen.. t S ‘ wLigunicjr,.luuunryéi,"'f.»}-::? : TEEGARDEN HOUSE wd 2. bt 3 - Laporte, Indiana. vV W oOAXRTEEL, . . . Proprictor. * Lapofte, April 5. 1871. :

. POUKET MATOCR SARER. 'EIIE most desirable and unigue arrangement ever devised. Aneatlittle spring issoarranged on the inside as to eject aud ignite oneé match ata ‘time. . Nilver Plated and Hiwhiy €Graamented Price, 50 cents. To agents, $3 per doz. 9-18-1 y Address, * C.VERNON, Plains; Pa. CONCORD & CATAWBA WINE. I "We sell Mr. L, SHEETS® Wines. : Pure — Nothing but the Juice of . -the Grape. - : : SACK BROTHERS. - Ligonier, July 3, 'TI.-tf - SeT s i e PN BT . DEALERIN MONUMENTS, Vaults, Tombstones, AND BUILDING STONES . : LIGONIER, IND ' Aprild¥,lB7l.-80 - 0 L ' =Syl M TEY R ; KENDALLVILLE, INDIA NA. : N’EW COMMOLIOUS TIIREE STORY BRICK AN Hotel, only ten rods from the L. 8. &M.S. R, R. Depot, and four squares from the G, R. R R— Only five minutes walk to any of the principal basinesshouses of the city. Traveling men andstranwers will find thisa fivet-class house. Fare §2 per day. 3 ¢ J. B. KELLY; Proprietor, Kendallville, Aug.'3, 1370.-14 :

: : A CARD. A Clergyman, while residing in South America, as missionary, discovered a safe and simple remedy for the Cure of Nervous Weakness, Early De« ay, Disease of the Urinary and Seminal Organs, and the whole train or disorderg brought on by baneful and vicious habits. Great nu'gm%ers have been cured by this noble remedy, Prompted by a desire to benefit the afilicted and unfortunate, I will send the receipt for preparing and using this medicine, in a sealed envelope, to any one who needs it; Fice of Churge., Address, - : : JOSEPH T, INMAN, Eal Station D, Bible House, 2450-Iy. : « ! New York City. 1 . SACK BROTHERS, ° . Bakers & 4Grocers. . ' CavinStreet, Ligonier,lndiansa. Fresh Bread, Piecs, Cakes, &c., ChoiceGroceries,Provisions,YankeeNotiong,&c Thehighestcagh-price paidfer Country Produce - Mayl3,’6B-tf. SACK-BRO’S. 4 - Winebrenner & Hoxworth, | .V HOUSE, SBIGN AND ORNAMENTAL - PAINTERS, Grainers, (laziers and Paper-Hangers.

Whitewashing, Calsomining and Decorating done to order. We have purchased the right 'to

Seimn i e Uhoßs & Bastinles - Patent Transfer Graining Machine By which we are enabled to de far superior work than can be done by hand, it being a perfect imitation of the natural wood. Samples of the work can be seen at this office. Shop at the south end of the Cavin Street Bridge, 8-1 - Ligomnier, « -~ =. .- Indiana, : N : : ‘ Gravel Roofs That Will Not Leak, ! KK :‘dc‘sircs to cﬁl] the attention B. CAFFEY of the public to the fact that there have been but two génuine gravel roofs put up in the town of Ligonier, one of theim 17 and the other 3 years ago. Thege roofs are all that is claimed for them. and gnould not be classed with a somewhat similar but vastly inferior process of roofing lately introduced in this town. Mr. Caffey having gained a thorough knowledge of putting on gravel' roofs that wiil not leak ansd are very darable, respectfully solicits a trial and guarantees entire satisfaction. For proof of this he refers, with permission, to Tim FOrRSYTUE and W. A Brown. Ligonier, Ind The roofing on the Hillsdale Chair Factory buildings ir of Gravel Cement, and gives usentire satisfactino. Crowerr'& Hussarp, Proprietors. Hillsdale, Mi_(:h., Augnust 20, 1873, Btf. vl X ; SOL. MIER, Conrad’s Ne‘z\nrickl}lock, LIGONIER, IND’NA. S v i MXney loaned on long and short time. Notes discounted at reasonable rates. Monies received on deposit and interest allowed | on specified time, ‘ : | Exchange bought and gold, and Foreign Drafte _drawn on principal cities of Edrope, 8-2 WO THE FARMERS : L IY’OU will please take notice that I am still engaged in lm;ing wheat, for which I pay the hi{zhest marketf{mce. ! f you do not find me on the street, call before gelling, at my Banking Office, in Conrad’s Brick Block. ¢ - SOL. MIER. ' Ligonier, Indiana, May Tth, 1874. —lf - W. A BROWN, i Mnuufactn&r of and Dealerin all kinds of @ £ FURNITLURE, SPRING BED BOTTOMS, , - WILLOW-WARE, . A g , o BRACKETS, &c COFFINS&&Z CASKETS Always on hand, and will be furn‘iahedﬁl\_ to order, ‘Fanerals attended with hearse-when desired, Store Room : } % ier - Cer! Cavin and 2nd Str. Ll¥omer , Ind. A ' Augnset 7th, 1873.-8-15,

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[ FOR A s 1 -~y ° - S Holiday Present. STILL IN THE FIELD! 5 ; 1 ,—— ITYQIrIVInN o) 1 P. SISTERHEN, g .\IANUI"AC‘I‘UJ{F,R‘ oF . Boots & Shoes 04 Y LAY R, B¢ .~ ' West Side of Cavin St., LIGONIER, INDIANA. Particular attention paid to fine work, in which T use the best material in the market. All of my work is warranted to be asrepresented or no sale. GOOD FITS GUARANTEED, ’ I‘tespeétfully invlf.e all to gi\‘fe me agtrial. Remember the place: West Side of Cavin Street. : Ligqnietf,‘ December 3, 1874-82 -———————_—d-a.__..__.____._________'___________________ 200 GALILONS PURE WINE, Vintage of 1872, for sale at one dollar per gallon. . LAOPOLD SHEETS, Ligonier, December 3, 1874-32t1 5

LIGONIER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1874.

A DARK NIGHT’S WORK.

. .“Going to try your luck.at faro, Blaisdell ?” ; ; o . “No,” was the answer. “I never gamble, 'm only going up to look on.” “Humph! I'm off. Good night.”

“Good night.” ’ Harry Blaisdell paused on the stone steps of a moderate looking house sitquated in upper Broadway, and wateh©d his friend’s manly form until it disappeared in the erowd that thronged the brilliantly lighted street. There was a sad, half wistful look in his handsome brown eyes, seldom to be seen there. 2 “I wonder what has come over me ?” he muttered, with an impatient shrug. “Somehow it seems to me as if to-night were going to be a turningpoint in my career. I can’t conquer the impression any more than I could have overcome the incomprehensible magnetism- that drew my feet to this place of all others.” @

-He glanced quickly up at the dark front of the building before which he stood, hesitated still another instant, as if tempted to follow his friend down town, after all then slowly he turned the door knob, and went in. He found himself in a spacious hall, dimly lighted by a single gas jet. A’ staircase, heavily carved and thickly carpeted, led up from the center, and an attendant stood leaning against the wall near a marble Ariadne, a little to the right of the entrance. Harry Blaisdell barely nodded to the man and passed up the stairs, as if well acquainted with the place, though, truth to tell, he had never penetrated to the vile gambling den—for such, in reality it was—but once before in all his life.v |

- Pushing open the nearest door upon the landing, he entered a large, brilliantly lighted room, furnished with the most exquisite taste. A velvet pile covered the floor; soft folds of filmy lace screened the windows; handsome mirrors adorned the walls, ‘and carved divans were arranged about the apartment. . In one corner stood a missive sideiboard, all of a glitter with cut glass and silver and swinging gas jets.— Harry hurried shudderingly past.it, as if it had been some hundred-headed dragon, and entered the room just beyond. ) \ o

- Here the great game of faro was going on round a green-blaze table at the upper end. The hour was late and very few persons were in the room, though ocecasionally a muttered curse or a discordant laugh issued from apartments beyond. this of the faro room,. indicating that the place was not deserted by any means, and that other games were going on. - Harry paused near the faro-table, and his glance at once singled out a handsome, weHl-dressed young gentleman, who in company with two other men of quite a different stamp, seemed to be playing against the game. The young man, was frightfully pale; his eyés were bloodshot, but burned with an unnatural glitter, and the hand resting against one corner of the table trembled like an aspen-leaf. “I'm ruined!” he cried out, suddenly with a fearful oath. : . - .

“Humph!” said the dealer, sm_)eer-. ingly. “Got enough of it for one night, eh 7Y ¥

"The young man hesitated a moment, pressed both hands against his burning temples, and exclaimed, in a hoarse voice: ;

“I believe you have swindled me.— But it’s of no use' complaining, I’ll fight it out with you yet.” - ; Ile tore a diamond pin from his shirt-front,and slung it across the table, with the words: . “Lend me a hundred on that.” “All right,” said the dealer, with an assuring smile; and he passed over the checks for the required amount. Again the game proceeded. Harry almost held his breath as he watched its progress, and saw great beads of perspiration on the young man’s forehead.. Luck was still 'against him and he lost. ; . “I demand another chance to redeem myself,” he cried hoarsely; and this time a handsome gold watch and chain was pushed into the hands of the faro, dealer. P At this instant two moist fingers tapped -against Harry’s cheek, and a leering, sarcastic face was pushed close up to his own. . “I say, sir,” piped a shrill voice, “what a precious fool that youngster is making of himself! He ought to know he is playing against decoys, and has not a ghost of a chance.” ' “Who is he ?” asked Harry, too curious to resent the familiarity. “The son of a Wall street banker— Dick Van Alstine by name.” : “Ah!” exclaimed Harry, involuntarily. The name was quite familiar to him, as belonging to one of the New York millionaires. ; . A brief silence followed, which was broken by a startled ecry from: his new acquaintance. ‘ “Good heavens! ILook yonder. See that lad standing behind Van Alstine’s chair!” B

. Harry’s eyes were already turning in that direction. A handsome youth had glided quite unobserved into the apartment, and now stood as if transfixed, watching the progress of the game:. He had a round, fair face, delicate as any woman’s, great, long-lash-ed, velvety eyes, blue as fringed gentians, a little red, ripe mouth, and a profusion of yellowish hair, curling around a low, white brow. L It was a singular face to encounter in such a place. Harry felt a sudden thrill of mingled delight and pain as he gazed upon it. He recoiled, us from a \lfery sudden shock, without knowing why. ' From the faro table there came-an abrupt ejaculation presently. o “Lost again!” : Fiia It was Van Alstine’s voice. He rose up, white as death, fumbled in his vest pocket a moment, and brought out a gold locket, thickly studded with jewels. :

The fair-faced youth gave a sudden start at the sight of the glittering trinket. “Give me one more trial,” said ,Van Alstine,in asharp voice; “luck cannot always be against me,” . This time the dealer shook his head. “I can’t advance you any more checks to-night.” - - Van Alstine muttered an impatient curse, and glanced wildly round the room. “This banble cost me five hundred dollars,” said he, holding up the locket. “Will anybody give me Half the sum for it ?” e There was a moment of silence.— Then the fair-faced youth (who had eptirely escaped Van Alstine’s observation) suddenly pushed a pretty slender hand over his;shoulder. . #T will,” he saiﬁ, in accents soft as

the tinkle of a silver bell. - At the sound of that voice, Van Alstine;wheeled round suddenly in his track. His face was ghastly already, but| a wild, scared look appeared all over it, as he stood and glared at the youth a moment, in half incredulous amazement. ©= He was shaking from head to foot, and he could scarcely stand.. e

“My God!” he gasped. ‘ Then, as if compelled by some stern necesBity for self control, he brought the strength back to his nerveless limbs, and catehing fiercely hold of the youth’s armled him quickly to.one side. ! : , Harry saw them pause in arecess at no great distance. Impelled by a feeling over which he had no coutrol, he still watched and listened. - “Eloise,” he heard Van Alstine say, in a shrill, hissing whisper, “why ak you here, and in this disguise ?” “I came to find you,! Dick,” was the answer in a low, firm voice. o “My God!” and great drops of agony came out on the poor fellow’s forehead. “Come away, this instant. Come away ! Do you know--do you guess, the fearful risk you have run in venturing into this place!” ¢ | The lovely eyes still Jooked straightinto his own. ; . “You were here ;Dick, and I could not stay away.” At this instant one of the gamblers rose from the table, and stepped toward them. “Van Alstine, I would like a word with you i private before you leave | the house.”

The young man started, flashed a quick glance from the man back to his companions at the table, but there was nothing suspiciousin the demeanor of any of them. : “Certainly, sir,” and turned to follow the gambleér into one of theside appartments. ' He turned back hastily before reaching the door, however, and coming up to his recent companion, said in a rapid whisper: . : “I must go or therufiians will suspect something wrong. Walk boldly down stairs, and out of the house—that is your only way. For God’s sake don’t linger, Eloise! I will presently 'join. you.at the first street, corner : :

" Then, with a last imploring glance, he was gone. .Not a word, not a movement, of all this had been lost upon Harry Blaisdell. Here was a romance under his very nose, and Providence had called him here on purpose to play a »ole in it, perhaps. ' At any rate he couldn’t think of leaving the place until he had seen the end of the affair. So he drew back in the shadow of the window drapery, when nobody was observing him, and crouched there close to the wall, mentally calling himself a fool, and a thousand other uncomplimentary names for lingering and hiding there, vet feeling no inclination to go with the young man. Fortunately lits friend of the piping yoice and sarcastie face had vanished, and ‘there was no fear of espionage from him. ey

What an odd affair it was altogether! Of course the fair faced stranger was a woman! There could be no doubt of that, and his imagination wove a very pretty romance in which this Eloise was the heroine, and Van Alstine her lover. :

And yet—yet strange contradiction! he felt a keen pang whenever he tho’t of nothing <else while watching for further developments from his hiding place. : Eloise—we may as well give her a name—did not leave the room, as she had been bidden. Instead,shesqueezed herself into the remotest corner of the recess, and waited therein silence, glancing apprehensively around the apartment every now and then. ‘A full half hour went by, and still Van Alstine did not make his appearance. Eloise gréw nervous at last; so did Harry. He had observed what she did not—that the rooms were rapidly being vacated by all except the ruflianly crowd belonging there. : Presently a sudden confusion rose in‘one of the inner rooms. “You villain!-——you mean cowardly villain!” roared a stifled voice, evidently Van: Alstine’s. Then came the sound of a scufile. ' o Eloise started up with a suppressed ery. : . : “Merciful heaven!” She darted to the green-blaze door, tugged at it with all her strength, and flung it open.® She seemed to forget her disguise,-her own danger, herself in the awful fear that was upon her. Harry was less than three feet behind her when she entered that inner room. They were just in time to.see two tall figures confronting each other under the chandelier,a bludgeon swung high in the air, and Van Alstine rolled on the floor like a log, stark, still, senseless. ; ~ Eloise darted forward. : “My God!” she shrieked, throwing herself upon the body—“they have killed him!” ke - The ruffian turned and looked down at her with a low sneering laugh. : “Well, it was his own fault,” he growled. ; ‘Then, in a wheedling voice: “Come, don’t take on so, pretty one; you’ll spoil your eyes. We've found you out, in spite of that clever disguise. So look up and smile upon us, like the echarming little witch you are.” : He leaned over, and would have raised Eloise in his arms, but Harry with the bound of a tiger was upon him, and had sent him sprawling on the floor with a well-directed blow.

. 'The ruffian drew a ‘revolver where he lay, and muttering a fearful curse, covered Harry’s heart with a deadly aim of steel. But the young man, springing furiously upon him, wrenched the weapon from his grasp, but not before one of its chambers had exploded. The bullet wizzed through: the air, only to bury itself harnmilessly in the ceiling. i ] ~ Harry swung the still smoking revolver like lightning abové his head and shouted: - “Now the game is in my hands! If you make another movement, I will put a bullet through your heart!” The villain was raising. stealthily to his feet, but he quailed, and dropped suddenly back again when he saw the dangerous glare of Harry’s eyes. With the deadly muzzle of the revolver still covering the cowarglly rogue, our hero leaned over Eloise, and raised her from the inanimate body of Van Alstine. i “My poor youug lady,” he said, in a low voice, “bear up, for God’s sake.— ‘The poor fellow is. past your help. Think of your own peril and come out before it is too late.” : ‘ It was too late already. Even @s he spoke half a dozen hard-looking men came rushing into the apartment. “Down with him!” they yelled furi- & :

ously. “The infernal spy! He can’t leave this place alive!” ;o Harry realized his terrible situation at a glance.' The rooms were now deserted by all save the proprietors an air tools. Of course the villains weére desyerate. ‘ | . %I::)éo% upon the floor was a terrible witnegs against them. Their only safety lay in a double murder, and they knewst! : : “Kill him! Cut his throat!" they hissed, venomously. : : There was not a moment to lose.— Drawing Eloise's trembliug figure still more closely to him with one hand, he raised the revolver in the other, and rapidly discharged its several chambers into the shrieking crowd. . Groans, a heavy fall or two, and a volley of the most fearful curses fol--lowed. : In the midst of the confusion that ensued, a shrill voice suddenly screamed: e : . “Beaks! Police! They 're cracking the crib!” - i At that instant the sopnd of crashing blows %as heard below, and the ringing of policemen’s clubs upon the flags. : : ~“Put out the lights!” yelled one of the ruffians. : i There was a hurried seramble toward the metre, and in another moment the whole place was enveloped in darkness.

Harry heard a quick bound or two and something whizz sharply in the air. The devils meant to make sure of him after all. He dodged and sprang nimbly to ane side, just a as bludgeon of some sort came down upon the floor with crashing force. ~ “That’s your game, is it ?” he eried; and pushing Eloise behindhim, struck out blindly to the right and left. He could see nothing distinetly, but his fist flattened against somebody’s nose, and there was the sound of a precipitate retreat. > S e

The next intant heavy footsteps came rushing up stairs and through the ante-room, and séveral dark lanterns flashed their light upon the scene. :

It was wild beygnd description.— Harry Blaisdell, with his precious charge, stood leaning against the wall so faint and weak, now that the welcome sight of blue coats and brass buttons met his gaze, he could scarcely stand.

Three of the gamblers lay upon the floor, hear Van Alstine’s body, weltering in their blood. | :

- The others had escaped by means of a secret entrance at the rear.

From the appearance of things, ITarry knew that an effort had been made to bear away the bodies of those who had been wounded, but the police had come too quickly upon the scene, and frustrated the attempt. < While he still stood glaring around him in a somewhat bewildered manner Eloise stepped out of his arms and staggered to the post where Van Al stine lay. : i : “Dick, Dick!” she screamed, suddenly and burst into a liysterical sob of joy. “Oh, thank God! thank God! He is not dead!” , ! It was truel Van Alstine had been knocked senseless by the blow upon his head, but was now slowly regaining his consciousness. In a very few moments he was well enough to sit up. ey e . It would appear that the gamblers had discovered Eloise's sex before Van Alstine was decoyed into that inner room. What their purpose was we are unable to say. . But two of their number sprang upon Van Alstine and securely gagged him before e "could make an outery. e

e continued to struggle, however, and, when one of them left the apartment for a moment, succeeded in breaking away from the other. It was then he uttered the exclamation that had reached Eloise’s ears as well as Harry Blaisdell’s. L The rest is soon told. Dick was Eloise’s brother—the locket held her picture. Tor months he had been leading a fast life, and this night his loving sister had resolved to make a desperate effort to reclaim him. Hence she had followed him' in disguise to the gaming den. : Dick Van Alstine never sought the faro table after that night. o Our story would not be complete unless Harry feil in love with Eloise. Six months later she became his wife, and he knew then why that night in upper Broadway was a turning-point in his destinv. : S

Lake Herring in the Tippecanos. OniMonday we noticed a farmer in town, with a tub-full of lake herring, caught in the upper waters of the Tippecanoe, which stream is reported to be full 6f them in the vicinity of Boydson’s Mills, and beyond.. The fish is the well-known Lake "Erie herring, and are, as all know, foreign to the waters of this region.. We could not ascertain as to how they came into the waters of this county, but presume that the spawn, or perhaps the live fish themselves, have been placed there by some one, which have grown and multiplied, until now they are plentiful. They are now *“running,” as it is termed, and the farmers in the north-east part of the county have been catching them in large numbers, since the cold weather set in. Whatevermay be the manner in which they have been introduced into this loeality, their presence proves most conclusively that a great many new varieties of fish could be introduced with profit into the numerous lakes and streams of Northern Indiana, and we believe the fact that they are now here will stimulate their culture, and the introduction of many new varieties in this region. The fish spoken of appears to be the full-sized herring so well known by fish dealers everywhere..— Wasrsaw Indianian. = : o

" A Valuable Medical Treatise, The edition for 1875 of the sterling Medical Annual, known as Hostetter’s Almanae, is now ready, and may be obtained, free of-cost, ot druggists and general country dealers in all parts of the United States and British America, and indeed in every civilized portion of the Western Hemisphere. This Almanac has been issued regularly at the commencement of every year for about one-fifth of & century. It combines with the soundest . practical advice for the preservation and restoration of health, a large amount of interesting and amusing light reading, and the calender, astronomical ecaleulations, chronological items, &e., are prepared with great cave, and will be found entirely accurate. The issue of Hostetter’s Almanac for 1875 will probably be the largest edition of a medical work ever published in any country. The proprietors, Messrs. Hostetter & Smith, Pittsburgh, Pa., on receipt of a two-cent stamp, will forward a copy by mail to any person who cannot procure one in his neigh‘borhood, ' . 39-5 w

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ROME CITY ITEMS,

[Received last week too late for pnl;lircatio;a.j To have a four days’ smow-storm and a day or two of elegant, sleighing, and then have the whole thing busted up in a single day,.creates quite an elegant game of growl. N evertheless, all these things were experienced Jast Week ! o A S -

The Artificial Lake, which is the pride of our city, is now covered over with a beautiful sheet of ice as-clear as crystal and skating will soon be the winning trump. . T e The Hall Bro’s are now installed in the flouying mills, as proprietor_s and managers, and. Berry & Andrews are retained as fli]p]oyes'in the establishment, o e e

W. R. Truesdall, late proprietor of the Lake Side House, has been sojourning a few days in Michigan. f"_H‘e thinks Grand Rapids is “a right smart place.” sl h b e The dance at the Lake Side House last Thursday night was not very generally attended, but it is claimed to. have been a very civil and enjoyable affair. S S

Our depot has been entirely finished for some time and snpplied with heating aparatus, but still thie agent do n’t come. Why don’t Mr. Superintendent Metheney send us an agent and open up, and thus confer a great favor on the entire comm:unity_?‘ G '_ . Harry B. Buffum, Esq., furnished the Dutch songs for the: Methodist Fair at Kendallville last week. ~ His German -costume and wooden :shoes created a great deal of merriment, but by some of a more sedate turn of ming it was considered a little out of place in a church edifice. - But, truly, we live in a progressive age. - Henry G. Cobbs is fattening -our Christmas gobbler, and we are ﬁxing for' a bully’ time when Christmas comes. . We are truly "glad that Mr. Gobbler is not sensible of ‘the awful fate that awaits him.® But, wet or dry, cold or warm, sink or swim, survive or perish, when the time rolls areund that gobbler 1_121_.8 got to take it. The “Mansion House” is now occupied byitwo or three different families. H.G.B.says: v a 8 ~ “The melancholy days have come, . The saddest of the year; P A little too warm for whisky, Bl S A little 100 cold for beer,” : 2

The Cobb Bro’s have abotit “busted” Neighbor Shumway in the- chicken business, and’Mr. Gibbs smileg at our neighbor's misfortune.. ' ity

Isaac Iler, Esq., is visiting his numerous f{riends at the. State c:ll)itzzl.' 1t is privately whispered by :‘301;11(;that Isaac is watching thé movements of the ' Legislatuie .in. hopes of official honors. iamed e R S

Mzr. Doyle, the boss carder and spinner, has retired from the Magnet Mills and his ‘place is supplied by Mr. O. Donpell, a gentleman from Michigan City. “The last vestige of the wise man from the East, “the man who built the Auburn Mills,” has now disappeared from in and about the premises of the Magnet Mills. Blessed consummation! - et o

A view of our streets, almost any day, will convinee any person that the dog-poisoner is. dead or has moved away. i e P

A matrimonial epideil‘-ii"c Seéin'si to have broken out in our city. “Several of the female employes of the Magnet Mills have it badly, and sompe have already fallen a prey to the (liSezlse,; and yet the Magnet moves majestieally on. SO e

The*Baptist Church cf this place are preparing for a goand concert, to come off about the holidays: Quite a number of the sinners and the ung?dly have'a finger in the pie. S - The Masonic club dances will in the future occur every two - weeks, on Friday evenings. = G Johnny Houston’s pigs conecluded to go to market with a lot of other hogs. Of course, neither the pigs nor the drovers could help it. -~ But then it did not suit Johnny.” = ALEXIS.

. That Man for Grant's Cabinet. Attorney-General Williams has signally failed to report the latest Southern outrage. The caseis that of a distinguished Alabama Radical of African decent, who has made a. speecli demanding that the . United States Government shall pay .a. reasonable compensation for all the slaves which were enfranchised, -one-half of -the money to be paid to the master or owner, and one-half to the negro. The idea is expected to take among the eolored Republicans of the South, and the question arises, What will their Northern allies do about it? T

- AMERICANS ARE A NATION OF DyspEPTICS.— Wetlive fast, dissipate and fill early graves.. We drink all kinds of alcoholic spirits, and swallow, without mastication, pork, grease, and every kind: of life-destroying, systemclogging, indigestible food. ' Di, Walker’s Vegetable Vinegar Bitters will remove the evil effects, and the recovered patient, with pure, vitalized electrical blood flowing througlr his veins will have a cleaver head and a cooler judgment, which added to experience, will cause him to abstain in the future. St g Lo R W

T. W. Cardozo, a prominent Republican office-holder in- ~ Mississippi, makes the following announcement that the negro women of his State “are now ready to commence with ax and knife to slaughter the white .women and ' ¢hildren.” This is a soothing statement, and it leads us to remark that if those Republicans in the South go to work with axes and knives to keep in a majority, there should be a call for Federal troops or something. 3 e ety At ¥ STRONG ARGUMENTS.— Webster's Unabridged Dictionary containsahundred and fourteen thousand words, andthree thiousand pictures. . Jones says: when he came home late the .other night, in the space of fifteen minutes his wife applied all the' words to him, besides some fxtm ones and the fireshovel, suggesting to his mind the picture of the Ducking Stool on the 418th page of the Dictionary.

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Columbia City Itemé:i v Quite a sensation in our place concerning a little (dead) Moses found—not in' the. bulrushes, but in a lot among the weeds. The lea(fing question now is, who put it there? As small as it was, the Coroner’s Jury sat on it. The verdict I have not yet learned. “Thé old, old story.” ; A case of accidental shooting occurred near this place last Friday. A Frenchman named Mont Haven, I am told, while at a shootinl match at Benj. Beeson’s farm, about three miles east of town, got into g little dispute with another man about a”}‘th:key, which both claimed. Mont Javen “gave in,” hbwever, and proceeded to load his gun, with this expression: “Well, here goes for another ‘one.” The other men, it seems, went into the building used for the occasion, and shortly afterward, hearing some noise, came out again just in time to see a man falling to the ground. It is supposed he had loaded his gun and was leaning uf)on it when it accidentally went off, the ball taking effect under and in front of his arm and lodging in the opposite shoulder-blade. “How long,” &e. : The beautiful snow came and went. So did the hdrses and sleighs for a brief peribd. I took in some of the sleighing, as I also did some of the cold—a bad one, too. Most all colds are bad. ‘

- Now, that winter js‘upon us, let us, while we are en joying health and com°: fort, think of many who are in a penniless condition. OQur hearts, our pockets, and our houses, should be open to them as far as our means will allow. S e :

The Alpine Singers gave entertainments at the Central lall on Friday and Saturday evenings of last week. The niusic on the cithern was excellent, as was also the singing. They sang Deitcher, and ve don’t conld understhand vat dey vas. talken’ apout: The Cat Duett was good; which closed the entertainment. , i

Wheat is worth 95 cents per bushel in this market. S. U. REPOP.

“GENTEEL EMPLOYMEN®> | [From the Kokomo Democrat.] ~* | ‘One of the greatest curses to:the rising generation is what is' ecalled “genteel employment.” The country is overrun with young men in search of “genteel employmeat,” suen as clerkships in dry goods stores, book-keep-ing, traveling salesmen, hotel clerk-ships,-and other kid glove oceupations, as numetrous-as the stars in the heavens, and who, failing to obtain their particular kind of: “respectable labor, degenerate into gamblers, bummerse l«hluck—lpg.\‘, and dissipated loafers of every stripe and:degree. . - Young America is turned loose at too young air age to shift for himself, and live by his wits: or his erimes. Too many men depend for a livelihood upon any device, whatever, that evades honest industry ; and therefore it is that the country is teeming with speculators, sharpers, oftice-hunters, saloon bummniers, loafers, dédd-beats, lobbyists, gamblers amd desperadoes of every variety. And how is this lamentable state of things to be accounted for? The reason, manifestly, is the prevailing sentiment’ among our young people that it is not “respectable” or “genteel” to labor at productive employments for a living. That this is a general notion -or feeling with the young men of this “country requires no proof. The most casual observer, even though his observations be confined to the smallest village in the land, canmot help recognizing the truth of this assertion: Take your own immediate neighborhood as an example of ‘the whole country. How many young men or boys are employed at any useful trade -to those that are engaged:in some “genteel” employment? And what class of boys do you find learning trades? ' Are they not, almost without exception, the sons of poor people? And they are learning mechanical trades simply because their parents, out of shere poverty, are compelled to bind them out. How often do you hear of a rich man’s son learning a useful trade? How seldom do you hear of the wealthy binding their children out to master workmen ? And when they do, public-opinion invariably impugns their motives, and brands them #s unnatural, brutal parents. low often do parents,in their anxiety to prombte -the welfare of their childremn, accomplish their ruin! Indeed has it come to pass that the poor, of necessity, and in: their ignorance, bequeath ‘a richer legacy to their offspring, than do the rich of their abundancé and in their false. wisdom.. 3

i There is no field of labor in this country so invitingl as the useful trades. =~ Never wereisuch golden opportunities oftered. - .’'he meehanical trades promise a surer remuneration for labor therein than any other avocation, and still they ¢ry out in vain for more laborers. All other oecupations .are full to overflowing. How many American boys learn trades nowadays? How many serve an apprenticeship of five or six years under master mechaniep ?. - Alas, foreigners have beén allowéd to almost monopolize the mechanical occupations in the United States. .And where does the blame rest? Undoubtedly upon the heads of American parents; who have been carelessly derelict in the performance of théir duty te their sons in this regard. If fathers and mothers are really anxious to.reform this sad condition of American industry and morals, therve is no way by which they éan contribute so effectually as by keepinig their sons at home ot binding them. out to useful trades. They must stop sending their half educated, unsophisticated, susceptible boys to the eitigs, in search of that alluringj curse, ‘genteel. employment,® for it is the road to perdition ror the majority of them. If American society is'to be reformed, and the present frightful wave of dishonesty a;eémdolence that'is sweeping over the land stayedy one of tlie éssential things to be dongis to teach the rising genera- - tion that working with the hands in producing occu; ézbn’s 3 ‘respectable;’ teel employmendst!duli . -Lo di & o Tﬁgggh% ;]ng&é‘ clounily ado Lo order,” at Engel & Co’s, at Kendallville,before leaving their order elsewhere. 15-tf.