The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 35, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 December 1874 — Page 2

CThe Aatiowal Banney e e B R v oA N T AL . J. B.STOLL, Editor and Proprictor, : ; 4 LIGONIER, IND'A, DEC. 24, 1874, TT AT O BRI TS, S 0 HVI R .. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. On and after the first day of next January the postage on the BANNER, to subseribers who do not receive it within/this county, will be paid by us at the post-office here, in accordance with the new postal law which takes effect on that day. Our subscribers at a distanee will please take notice that from and after that date the subseription price of the BANNER to parties résiding outside of the county will be $2.10 per annum, or $1.05 for six months, pdsitively in advance. As there is-no postage on the BANNER to “subseribers whose post-office is inNoble _county, such persons will receive it at the old rates, to wit: $2 per annum, or 81 for six months.

THe interest on the national debt is $107,000,000 per annum. That’s a mighty big pile, but Uncle Sam’s purse seems big enough to stand it. R g Iy \ls RUMORED that feur of the five members of the Legislature from Marion county are for Voorhees in preference to McDonald. Should the rumor prove well founded, it would “materially damage McDonald’s prospects. j ; oo » Tue “State department man” of the Indianapolis Telegraph will correct an egregious blunder by stating that the lit:tl({ town of Alexandria which has been visite«}by a mystérious epidemic, is located in DeKalb county, Tennessee, and not in DeKalb county, “Indisna,® = S e — - — - Tue Albany Law Journal makes the statement that fifty per cent. of Attorney-General Williams’ decisions while on the district bench of Towa, were reversed by the Supreme Court, and that his opinions as chief justice of Oregon were on questions of' law of trifling importance.” = . . ‘

MurrAY claims to have beéen informed by somebody that the editor of the BANNER is a candidate for Prison Director. Lést some unsuspecting parties be deceived into giving credence to this statement, we desire to say that there is not a syllable of truth in Mutray’s assertion. .

Tie statesman from the “Pocket’ zets this handsome puff in the Indianapolis Journal: “Hon. W. E. Niblack is looming up pretty strongin the .\‘enatori:gl contest, .f\ determined push will be made by his friends on the ground of locality, it being claimed that Southern Indiana is entitled to the Senatorship. Judge Niblack isan a,hlok man and courteous gentlefnan.~— He would fill the position as well as anyv Democrat yet named.” i

IT seems to be the opinion of the New York newspapers that the Til- ' ton-Beecher suit will never come to trial. The Sun says: “There is one .sthing that the public will neither fail © tinunderstand while it is going on nor forget after it is over. Any compromise or arrangement or settlement, except through a trial by court, is a - confession that Henry Ward Beecher s a guilty man” H. W. B, will do well to ponder jover this fact. T e e —— MurrAy, of the Goshen Democrat, in his Jast week’s issue again makes several references to the editor of 'the BaxxEß, each-of which is groundless and false in.every particular. The old fellow has reached a point where tell- . inig the truth has become an utter impossibility. We are getting tired of (xmtra@icting his false statements and * wasting time on a man who has proved himself a most [sl;ﬂlm'eless‘ liar- and pestiferous columniator:

ATTORNEY-GENERAL BUSKIRK has rondorad an apinion to this offect: = That if a Trustee employ a teacher, against whose employment a majority of the voters of the, district had declared in due forn, at a regular school , meeting, such employment is illegal, and the Trustee has no right to pay for such services of sucl teacher from official funds; that such teacher cannot collect his pay from the public moneys; that the Trustee can be enjoined from so paying him, or, after such payment, can be held responsible for theamount. Also, that a Inandate can be had against such ‘Trustee under certain circumstances. ;

JUDpGE ROBERT LOWRY, S 0 we are informed, contemplates resigning the judgeship of the Allen Circuit with a view to forming a co-partnership with a leading law-firm in the city of Fort Wayne. We are pleased to observe - that some of those who have persistently opposed the Judge’s. political aspirations fteely accord to him the well-deserved praise of having been a most excellent judicial officer —a tribute in 'which all who have watched his judicial career do most heartily join. With his varied experience’ and superior legal attainments he will doubtless at once occupy a leading position among the legal fraternity of Northern Indiana.

" SENATOR SARNIGHAUSEN repeats . his former deelaration that he will ~ mnder no condition of affairs vote for ' Dan. Voorhees for U. 8. Senator. Seyeral other democratic members of the Legislature are understood to occupy a similar position. - As matters now stand, it looks as if Dan was certainly - several votes ahead of McDonald.— His friends are working for him like beavers, and-we wouldn’t be a bit sur- - prised to hear of his nomination by the legislative caucus. It willrequire "a tremendous effort to bring about such a resylt, but we can'tell the MecDonald men that when it comes to taking things by storm,the Tall Sycamore 'kadntcount on a host of backers with stentorian voices and determined lungs. We are not for Dan, as every- - body knows; but there’s no use in denying that he is a “de’il of a fellow to keep down.” L . |

H. E. WADSWORTH FOR DIRECTOR OF ' THE NORTHERN PRISON. = Among the several applicants for, the Directorship of the Northern Prison we find the name of our former townsman,Mr. 11. E. Wads wdrtb,edii to‘d; of the LalPorte 4ryus, mentioned -witln: cvident satisfaction by a number of influential (lunocl‘ittic Journals.— Though intending to take aslittle part as possible in the advocacy of favorite candidates for positions in the gift of the incoming Legislature, we feel at liberty to express in positive termsi a decided preference for'the gentleman whose name stands at the head of thisi article. We claim this privilege for several reasons; ( 'l_2) because we have known him intimately for upwards oﬂi nine years; (2) because he is a man of excellent qualifications; (3) because he combines honesty and integrity with fithess and compétency, and (4) be-| cause he is entitled to recognition a,tii ‘the hands of the victorious party. ; Mr. Wadsworth is a native of Noble county. IHe is well and favorab]yj known among the citizens of this and adjoining counties. From his boy‘hood days on he has taken an active part in every political contest, rendering good and efficient service to the democratic party. e ne(\'er held an| official position, consequently has never tasted the sweets of public emoluments. In 1869 he engaged (in corni pany with the editor of this paper)‘in the publication of the LaPorte Argus, of which he is now the prineipal proprietor. It required energy, pluck, and| perseverance to embark in such an enterprise upon a iﬁéld that had witness—] ed the downfall of at least three simi-, ladr projects during ten years. Lu-f, Porte county was then a strong-hold of modern republicanism. ‘,lt.regu]ar-é ly rolled up majorities varying from| two to five hundred. But as the Argu&; obtained a foothold, and as Mr: Wadsworth became more closely .identified with the politics of the county, a change was sgon perceptible in the returns from the field of political contention. In 1872 LaPorte rolled up 200 majority for Liberalism and Dem% oeracy. But even this good showing was completely eclipsed last Octobei when whole Hoosierdom was electrified with the glad tidings that,L:il’orté ‘county had rolled up nine hundred majority on the right side, electing every candidate on the local »democratT ic ticket, And securing a congressmar, in a Distriet which was deemed hope% lessly lost to the Democracy.: We do not claim all the credit of this magnifi: cent victory for Mr. Wadsworth, but we do assert that he was one of thé main contributors to this astoumlingL revolution. As member of the Stz}tgﬁ Central Committee, in the capacity of editor of an influential journal, and as a general director of local mover ments, he brought 'abo)ut a conditimi of affairs which culminated in the glor rious result above set forth. *

From a pfirely partisan stand-point the claims of Mr. Wadsworth certains ly can neither be denied nor dispamg{ed. But we do not advocate his elecr tion solely upon these grounds. eis @ man of ripe judgment, of good })us_i}ness qualifications, prudent, sagacious and economical. The State needs just that class of men for directors of her prisons. The Democracy should elect no one who does not possess these qualities. We therefore trust that the democratic legislative caucus may in its wisdom determine upon selecting H. E. Wadsworth as one of the three directors to be chosen for the Northern Prison. - ! ‘ [ — - OR— | 3 THE NEW C!IBBENCY BILL. AN ARTICLE from the Chicago 7'7i: bune, reproduced in another col umn?, contains the provisions of b bill which has been agreed upon by a caucus of republican Senators. It is understood that the Republicans of the House have also agreed to sanetion, this measure. Should this prove correct it m:iy‘j reasonably be expected that hoth Houses will at an early day .pass the bill as epitomized by the ZTribune. PresH dent Grant will doubtless give the measure his approved. We shall be{ heartily glad to see'the financial question disposed of in some manner insuring eventual resumption. Like the T'ribune we would prefer an earlier day, but a positive deelaration for resumption ata given period is probably the best we can hope for from the present Congress. We will cheerfully accord proper credit to those who will lead the country to re@;umption of specie payments. , G LATER—The Senate, on Tuesday, put the new currency bill through with a rush. All the Republicans lex,cept Sprague voted for it, and all the Democrats except Saulsbury (foolishly, we think) voted against it.. Mr. Schurz clearly showed that the bill has very weak spots, but voted for it as a pledge of Specie payments—just as the Democrats should have done.

. SENSIBLE TALK BY A SOUTHERNER. ‘Congressman Lamar, of Mississippi, does.not want to be Speaker. He told the editor of the Macon (Ga.) Zelegraph and Messenger, recently, that it would be extremely injudicious on the part of the majority to put forward a Southern man for that position, that no such idea could be seriously entertained, and his own convictions of its impolicy were so strong that he would consent, in no event, to be a candidate, or even accept the position, if tendered. He wished it distinetly understood. that the suggestion of his 'name for that position:was entirely, without his consent or sanction, and ‘unwelcome to him, as affording some ‘quasi support to the industrious efforts to play upon the jealousies and suspicions of the people of the North. In his judgment the southern Democrats had no design or desire to assume the position of gleaders, eyen were it possible for them to occupy. it. That duty devolved properly on’ the other great sections of the country, and the South would he more than content to follow their lead in every wise measure for the . restoration of national prosperity and harmony. o

FROM WASHINGTON! THE CONTINENTAL RAILROAD, The House Committee on Railways and Canals reported on the 18¢th an important bill, chartering and extending Giovernment aid to the Continental Road to build a freight line from New York-to the Mississippi, at or near Council Bluffs, with branches to Chicago and St. Louis, the whdle line not to exceed three thousand miles, and the amount of aid to be a guarantee of five per cent. interest on twenty thousand dollars’ worth of bonds for every mile of road. The novel feature of the bill is a feature fixing the rate for carrying “bulk freights” at five mills pér ton per mile for distances greater than 750 miles, and a sliding scale to eight mills for distances less than 150 miles. A commission of five members, of whom the President and Senate shall appoint three, is to classify and fix the rates on other freights. The Company is to pay the Government a million dollars a year ‘towards a sinking fund. Thislcorporation is already organized in several States and has terminal property at New York. s : ONE OF THOSE JOBS. It would scarcely have amused Mr. Creswel] or Boss Shepherd to have heard the discussion in the IHouse last Thursday afternoon on the renting, by the former, of a house for the use of the Post-Oflice Department, owned by the latter,atian extravagant price. The house cost Shepherd $lB,OOO, and was rented by Shepherd to Creswell for 34,500 a year. -This was done through a ‘‘committee” consisting of several of Creswell’s subordinates, together with Mullett. The contract was made for several years, and the house had not been occupied for a long time because -no one would pay $2,000. 'The whole thing was shown up by Mr. ‘Wilson, ‘'of Indiana, aided by Mr. Randall. Messrs. Tynér and Garfield tried to explain away Creswell’s conduct, but the House was anxious to rebuke - what was evidently a corrupt proceeding; and cut down the amount to be paid to $2,200, in spite of Mr. Creswell’s ¢ontract. Shepherd’s friends seem to have grown very scarce on the floor of the IHouse. . ' THAT CUNNING DARKBY. :

- Pinchback, the ambitious' colored politician of L.ouisiana,has two strings to his bow, being an applicant for admission to both the Senate and House of Representatives. His admission to either body will be equivalent to a recognition of the Kellogg government and a virtual setttement of the Louisianamuddle so far as (‘fongress is concerned. - : Later advices indicate that Pinchback’s race is run. The caucus did not take final action in his case; but a ¢areful examination of the views expressed in the caucus shows that there is no probability that he will be admitted.

summary of Congressional Procced- - ings.

SENATE.—On thesl4th, Mr. Morton presented a petition from colored men of Indiana, protesting against the recent decision of -the Supreme Court, and asking that the case be appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. A bill for the relief of settlers on public lands in the grasshopper regions, providing that settlers shall not be deprived .of their rights to such lands on account of removal from them, was passed ....On the 15th, Mr. Pratt introduced a bill limiting the time in which application for bounty land shall be recieved and disposing . of suspended cases after a certain date. Mr. Wright submitted a joint resolution providing for the election of President and Vice-President by a direct vote of the people, regulating the term of office, ete. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee of Military Affairs, reported favorably on the bill to provide for the relief of persons suffering from the ravages of grasshoppers. ' The bill authorizes the President. to issue temporarily supplies of food and disused army clothing sufficient to prevent starvation and suffering to destitute persons living on the Western frontier, who have been rendered so by the ravages of the grasshoppers iduring the past summer,.and appropriates $lOO,OOO to carry out the provisionsof the act. ... On the 16th, a resolution was adopted granting to the woman’s centennial executive committee of Washington the rotunda of the cdapitol for a celebration to raise funds in aid of the national centennial exhibition. = The bill to enable the commissioner of agriculture to make a special distribution of seed, with an amendment that $30,000 instead of $50,000 be appropriated for the purpose, was passed. - HHouse. — This body has passed a bill ‘allowing homestead and preemption settlers in lowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Xansas, whose crops were destroyed oj‘ injured by the grasshoppers in 1874, to be absent from their lands till May,”76, without prejudice to their rights.. . . Mr. MclKee, on the 14th, offered a' resolution for the appointment of a select committee of five to proceed to Viecksburg and investigate and report all the faets relating to the recent troubles in that sState, especially in Warrén county, which was atlopted. Mr. Holman offered a resolution against granting subsidies in money, bonds or lands to any corporation, but by the manipulations of Ben Butier, tive resolution failed to carry. '

g B—— f - A Clergyman Confesses to the Seduction of His Organist. |

- GRAND RAPIDS, MicH., Dec. 11.— Several days ago reports got out of a scandal involving the minister of the Universalist Churely, Rev. Dr. Fisk, Jr.,, and, the organist, Miss Nica Maron, daughter of the former minister, i and a lady of the highest respectability. ~ln response to a petition from a committee of the Universalist Church, Iwho represented that the publication ' would prove fatal to the wife of Dr. 'Fisk, then in a precarious state of 'health, the matter was kent quiet un|til yesterday. His crime is seduetion. An a letter to the Democrat this morn\ing he acknowledges his. guilt, and 'says in part: “It was my own wgak |and unguarded soul that, in a moment jof” frenzy and passion, wrought my downfall. In penitence and unutter‘\nble sorrow, signed, R. Fisk, Jr.” He 'was' considered one of the most elolquent ministers in this State. He left here for Logansport, Ind., where he was president of the Universalist College. e

THE Chicago Tribune e's"timate's the income of the North-western States—those which find the main market in Chicago--at $151;000,000, for the agricultural products alone, for 1874. The following are its figures: : Hops. .00 -0 a 0 85060 Wheat > . o 0 wlOOO 18,000,000 Other grain .. vern e %o 10,000,000 faßetal oo d o 110,000,000 | To'this must be added : e Corn sold in Chicago.... $ 21,000,000 Corn moved round Chicago, 10,000,000 Corn yet to be sold ... ... 10,000,000 ' ‘ Grand total. . ..., .slsl'.,vo'oo,ooo_ . This does not include cattle, there being no means of separating the figures for Texas cattle from those for the native cattle, but that item, and the others for poultry, butter; fruit, 4 etc., would probably bring the total up to $200,000,000, = i

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. | ~ BENTON COUNTY.. - An immense circle hunt, embracing the entire prairie range ¥where the strange beasts abide, is organized for New Year's day. It is expected that thousands of men armed with guns and whisky will be in the expedition. Those who value their personal safety had better stay away. "l‘lic lqrunters will be more dangerous” to life and limb than to wild animals. ; ' . - ELKHART COUNTY: - A heart-rending calamity occurred one day last week in the family of M. J. B. Whitmer, eight miles east of Goshen, by which two children, aged respectively two and four years, were nearly burned to death. The mother; had gone to a neighbor’s, near by, and had. been absent but a short time when she was startled by the shrieks of some one evidently in great agony, and, running out of the house, beheld one of her children completely enveloped in- flames.: Mr. Whitmer also Tieard the children’s eries and hastened to the scene. Upon entering the house he found one of the children lying upon the floor stark naked, its clothing having been' entirely consumed and the flesh roasted almost to a crisp. The children had been playing around the stove, from which their dresses caught fire. Their recovery is doubtful. = ol Rev. James Boxer will take charge of the Baptist chureh' at Goshen. He used to preach in London, England, and is represented as a man of ability.

The Observer learns that ¥rank MeKinstry and Jack McGill, now in jail at Goshen, had laid plans to murder Sheriff Miller in case their trial should result in conviction. For this purpose they had been supplied by their wives, who visited them at stated times, with knives, pistols, hand-saws, ete., with which to effect their escape.

The Review states that the first case of perjury ever tried in this county was that which occupied the attention of the court last Friday. Heittsman, McKinstry’s bar tender, was tried for false swearing in the case brought against the latter for keeping a house of ill-fame. The jury took the testimony and returned a verdiet of guilty, and he was sentenced to four years in the peritentiary. - : . FULTON COUNTY. A clothing merchant of Rocliester offers to give away ten acres of swamnp land, instead of the customary chromo, with every suit of clothes sold. , KOSCIUSKO COUNTY., ' - The will of the late celebrated Dr. Boss, of Warsaw, provides for the erection of a five hundred dollar monument over his tomb. : '

MARSHALL COUNTY

" The editor of the Mail and Maynet says that first-class girls are so thick in Plymouth that he don’t dare to go out alone of nights. _, PUTNAM. COUNTY. '~ Otho Allen, ex-township trustee of Greencastle, has gone to Texas, and neglected to turn over about® $2,000 belonging to the school fund, to his successor. and there is a howl from the: teachers, who want! their wages. Allen’s bondsmen are good, and the matter will be satistactorily adjusted. ST. JOSEPH COUNTY. . £ The township in which South Bend is loeated has had 187 applications from the poor for assistance, which the Trustee proved to be needy. - °

The best-looking girl in South Bend chews gum. The 77ibune wants some philanthropic individual to discover an antidote to relieve'its fairest and sweetest of this dreadful habit. .

The 2,000 pound, £BO9O bell in the Mishawaka Catholic chureh has been fatally eracked and will have to be taken down.

Muy. Colfax has three hundred applications on hand to deliver his lecture on Abraham Lincoln. He now has every spare night assigned till the first week in IFebruary, when hLe delivers it at Washington City on the invitation of Senators Morton and Pratt, and the Indianarepublican Congressmen, with many other Indianians now at Washington.

The 7T7ibune says: *“A short time ago the grocery store of Ed. P. Stover loaded a gun and placed it in such a position that whoever attempted to open the door would cause the gun to discharge and receive its death-dealing contents. Yesterday morning Mr. S. went to open his grocery and was somewhat astonished, as he pushed the door back, to hear a gun fire, and decidedly alarmed when he found himself shot through the arm. - "As good luck would have it, he was in such a position that the charge did not enter his breast, or he would have been instantly killed.” : o

The Sl_lﬂ'(‘ri'llg“"est. g The following despatech was received by the Chicago 7'ribune from Governor Osborne of Kansas, in reply to the inquiry as to the extent of the suffering among the people in the regions of that State desolated by the grasshopper plague: T Gl ‘ ‘ TorExA, KAN. I estimate the number of people in the western counties. of Kansas who will need aid during the coming winter at 20,000. A large proportion of these are now in want. The people in the eastern part of the State are doing all in their power to prevent the suffering on the frontier, but the extent of the destitution warrants the conclusion that they are unequal to the emergency. : e

Flour, potatoes, hominy, and beans for food, and clothing,.especially for women and children, are most needed. Feed for stock is also much needed, as is also spring wheat, corn, oats, barley, and flax for planting. f

The winter thus far has been very favorable, and the pyospect for a good crop of wheat is most excellent. A large increase of acreage has been sown, and iif no unforeseen misfortune should occur to these people they will next year be able not only to subsist themselves, -but also to assist unfortunates in other localities. Donations sent through the Kansas Central Relief Committee, of which LieutenantGovernor Stover is President, and W, W. Giles, Tréasurer, with head-quar-ters at Topeka, will be sure to reach those for whom they are intended, and will be publicly acknowledged, '

The new iron bridge across the Elkhart River at Ligonier cost (says the BANNER) only $770. It is 86 feet long with a roadway 16 feet in the clear, and a side walk' a trifie pver five feet. The expense of the abutments was about $5OO, making the total cost $l,270—exclusive of the “fills,” ete., for the approaches. ' These figures are interesting as showing the comparative cheapness of iron bridges.— Valparaiso Messenger. 20N A . We dislike to spoil Bro. Zimmerman’s story, but truth requires us to say that we never breathed much less published anything abont an ¢repn bridge af this place. Our bridge ig constructed of good pipe timber, and our denizelis are as proud of it as if it were made pf iron, S

| SENERAL ITEMS. . The discovery of a mountain of goldibearing quartz, in Northern Minnesota, is reported. ‘ A tempeiance excitement is raging at Monmoath, 111. Eleven hundred people have signed the pledge. - Babbitt, the soap man, has sued one of his empluyeesifor-317,000 which he alleges the man stole from bhim.

Indian outrages are reported near Pioche, Nev. The citizens are without arms, and ask for military protection.

+ Professor Judd, who attempted to walk ‘5OO miles in six days and a half in New Y ork, failed on the 399th mile.

William Coleman, the freight agent of the Eastern Division 6f the Pennsylvania Railroad, has been detected in'a defaleation of £1,600. .

- Count Von Arnim is sentenced to three months’imprisonment, including one month of the term during which he has already been imprisoned. “A dam just eompleted at IHaydenville, in tlie Mill River Valley, gave ‘way last Saturday, doing little damage. Nobody happened to be killed. The iron-works, at Reading, England, of the Great Western Railway Company were burned last Saturday. Four hundred persons are thrown out of employment by the fire. The pastors of Omaha have issued a cill to the eastern churches for aid furt the grasshopper sufferers, suggesting that a special collection be taken up on Christmas day for that purpose. Many persons were Killed and injured on Wednesday of last week by the falling inof the roof of the market hall at Anges, France. The accident fras caused by a large accumulation of snow! on the building. .

On'é hundred steam canal boats are to be put on the Erie canal next year, constructed on the Baxter plan. It is thought that in this way the canal will again assert its superiority in the transmission of heavy freights. An investigation into the conduct of the Philadelphia’ Board of Health discloses the most scandalous corruption. : It appears that the board has been run for years solely for the purpose of robbing the city treasury. Silas Oliver, one of -the negroes arrested for murder at the time of the «attack on"Vickburg, declares that he murdered a negro named James Gray, by order of an oflicer of the Black League whom he dared not disobey. Three hundred gold and silver Swiss watches, in possession of William Weltz, of Prairie du Chien, were seized on the 12th inst., in New York, by the Customs officers, on the steamer Cambria. They were valued at thirtyseven thousand franhes. -~ - .

. It is reported that Prince Bismarck, regarding the action of the German Reichstag, in reference to the arrest of its members during session, as a vote of want of confidence in’ him), tendered his resignation, which the Emperor-refused to accept. There seems to be every disposition to higgle on the part of the attornies in the Tilton-Beecler suit without honestly trying the case on its merits. At last reports the judge was considering as to the bjll of particulars demanded by Mr. Beecher’s lawyers. : General Custer’s troops arrested an Uncpapa Indian, charged with murder, at the Standing Rock (Dak.) Agency some day ago, and the Uncpapas and Blackfeet at the agency at once left the ageney and began ravaging. A detachment of cavalry was sent last Saturday by General Custer to quell them.

The Ohio pénitentiary has netted to the State this year above all expenseés $23,425. . If the State would build a score or so and fill'them with ablebodied men,: it might do away with ‘ taxes altogether, The spectacle of a noble civilization supported entirely by the honest earnings of its criminals would be something new in history. The Pacific Mail steamship Japan was burned last Thursday night forty miles south of Swaton and twelve ‘miles from the Chinese coast, which was reached by most of the passengers. The vessel left-San Francisco November 14, and Yokohama December 16, having on board three cabin passengers and 424 Chinese in the steerage. | : ; ‘

-Col. Sanilil‘el Pike, the veteran editor, died at Leesburg, Ohio, Tuesday of last week. If starting newspapers can make a man notorious, then the name of Sam. Pike will be remembered to the end of time. At least thirty newspapers have in his time acknowledged ' him as editor and proprietor—one of | which was the R#keton Piketonian, printed at Piketon, Ohio, by Samuel Pike.. : Weston has sueceeded at last in ‘walking 500 miles in six days, the news from Newark tells us. He has shown the strongest proofs of moral and physieal pluek, in persevering against the discouraging remarks of the newspapers and the jeers of the people who had lost contidence in him after his several failures and gave him during the first days of this his latest trial a lean and lukewarm attendance. The prosecution of the Roman Catholic converts in Tong-King, China, has been more disastrous than heretofore reported. About 70,000 persons have been killed or driven to the mountains; 200 churches have been destroyed ; 300 villages containing 14,000 families, and ten comverts of Annamite nuns have been pillaged and burned. The losses to the missions and people are estimated at five millions of dollars.

By the existing constitution of Missouri, all persons who arrive at the age of twenty-one years after the first of January, 1876, without being able to read and write shall be denied the elective franchise.. In other words, it establishes an educational qualification for all personsreaching their majority after that date. This will not exclude old citizens from voting, but is simply an incentive to the young ones to learn to read and write. 2

Tue Evansville Courier reads a very sensible lecture to the young people of that city, gentlemen and ladies, for their disrespectful, not to say impolite, treatmexg of married persons in society. . It sdys young ladies turn up their noses at the polite attentions' of intelligent married men, while single young gentlemen never:think of paying any attention to married ladies, no matter how agreeable and charming the latter may be. The rebuke is doubtless well deserved in Evansville, as it certainly is here and in all other American cities. In other countries married persons give the tone to society, while young people follow at a respectful ‘distance, In the United States boys and girls are the leaders of society, and married persons of both sexes are measurably ignored.——lndianapolis Journal. ‘

Bills have been presented to both ‘Houses of Congress to set the mext President’s salary back to the old figure, of $25,000. As the Republican members have no hopes of electing their candidate/ for the Presidency in 1876, we have strong faith in the passage of the bill, It would, you know, be such a neat way to revenge themselves upon the next President, who is certain fn be a Democrat, . :

Senate Plan for Snceg Resumption. The * Republican Senators have waived all individual opinions, and have agreed to propose in the Senate, and pass, a bill relating to the finances which shall embody th?e following general provisions: 1. That specie-payments be resumed Jan. 1, 1879,—four years hence. 2. Free ‘banking, abolishing the existing monopoly: - 3. The retirement of the fractional currency, and substitution therefor of small silver coinage. . 4. A retirement of greenbacks in the proportion of 80 per cent. of the additional National Bank currency as ‘issued, until the aggregate is reduced to $300,000,000 of greenbacks. -

5. The Secretary of the Treasury to use surplus specie in the Treasury or to sell bonds to reduce.the Treasury notes down to $300,000,000. . ~ This bill is all rightso far as it goes, but it falls far short of what Congress ought to do. 1t is, however, commendable for several reasons, and first, because it is an affirnTance of a clear and distinet policy on the part of the republican party. It is eommendable, also, because it is a step in the right direction. It makes a dirvect issue against inflation and debasement, and is in favor of a return to honest money. It will be cordially accepted by honest people as a healthy improvement of the tone and spirit of Con-{ gress since the last session. The wisdom of the Ixecutive veto at the last session is now apparent. It not only arrested legislation that was vicious in itself, but gave time for a careful and deliberate investigation of affairs and of the remedies needed to meet existing evils. The time proposed for specie resumption is unnecessarily long. There is no reason why it should be postponed for four years.. If thebill could be so amended as to fix the date at January, 1877, or the Fourth of July, 1876, at thebeginning of the new centennial, it would be a great improvement. Nevertheless the fixing of any date is a decided and positive gain, and so beneficial will be effects upon the credit of the country, that we may reasonably hope that long hefore the expira‘tion of the intervening term of four years we will have specie-payments restored in fact. The only excuse for a delay in resumption is to give time for an arrangement of the existing relations of debtor and creditor without oppression on the one hand, or repudiation on the other. As these arrangements are made from timeé to time, the business of the future will be based upon the new order of things. Once the day of resumption is fixed, ‘and men know that after that date ~debts are to be paid in coin, and that purchases are to be made at coin val- ‘ ues, there will be a general preparation'foi the change. The Legal-Ten-“der act may not be repealed, but legaltenders. will then become equivalent to coin. Debtors and creditors, thus: warned in advance, will hasten as speedily as possible to put their affairs in proper order, that, after that date, they may enter upon the new tide of national and individual prosperity, and participate in the wealth of re“newed and increased production,which will follow 'the restoration of confidence. ' . : S

The passage of this bill will have the effect of strengthening public credit at home and.abroad. It willimpartconfidence; it will offer capital the security whichis now wanting; andit will have the immediate effect of adding stability to the valuerof greenbacks, by giving to them, what they have never had, a certain assurance of ultimate redemption. It isnot unreasonable to expect that even within a year greenbacks will have so far advanced in .value as to remove all motive for hoarding silver coin. : The silver dollar is worth about 95 or 96 per cent. of gold. When, therefore, greenbacks advance to 04 per cent., silver change will circulate, and when the notes reach 95 silver will float freely, ' This Senate bill will render more cuasy the retirement of the dirty, disgraceful, mutilated, and scandalous ‘little shinplasters called “fractional currency,” which ought to haye disappeared many years ago.— Ha&lf a generation of citizens have grown up in this country who are unfamiliar . with the silver coinage. When they have had their eyes feasted with thisiclean, bright money, with a clear, musical ring, and are no more offended with the pestilential fraction stuff, they will naturally begin to long for the day when yellow coin will be obtainable for their greenbacks and bank notes. There are details in this bill which may require comment hereafter, but its general features, as reported’ by telegraph, are most commendable. Let the biil pass, —improved if possible, but let it,—embodying the features we have desecrived, and become a law.—Chicago Tribune.

Mr. Hen edits a paper in Towa, and it keeps him scratching to make a living out of it. He cackle-ates, however, that virtue will have its reward. —fndianapolis Sunday Herald:

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: LIGONIER. ! Wheat—white.....slo3;Hogs—live.......... 6 00 Amber—red ..... 102{Hogs--dressed...... 725 Rye............... 65 Turkeys—live,..... 06 Qat5............... 50{Chickens—livej..... 'O4 Born;i i il @ 63 BeesWaßX Lil LUO g 8 Potatoer;..... . i@.. 60|Butter.. .o il i 2 PlaxSead: .. -... 16bjhard. .. o oo i, 12 Clover Seed, .!/ . 530 Bgos, .ciii i 0 20 W001.i.... ....40@ 50{Feathers..Z.:_...... 79 P0rk........per br 18 00{Tallow.... ....{..... 07 5h0u1der5.......... 10/Timothy Hay....... 1600 Hamseiicoi i @lﬂfM&‘rsh Hay:oioio 1200 . CHICAGO. Wheat—white... § 90|Hogs—live..$775@ $8 25 Wheat—red ....... 83{Mess Pork..lB9s'@ 1400 BT oot o G ltrd sv i BBUD@ vl 0at5.........1...... . 53|5h0n1der5.......... 6% Barley.. .......... 125/Hams.......pcveeer. 9% TOLEDO. ; | Wheat.. . ... .. 718 Oatß-_-... ... ...l OBF Red ** ........... 105 Clover Seed.... .... 560 BOYD ..o Sad o 3 RIHeRELA i ee T R R T eSe RS ‘V ANTED ~oAn industrious Girl to e do %gnera] housework. Enquire at the . BANNER OFFICE. Administrator’s Notice. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Administrator of the estatc of Moses Maxwell, late of Noble county, dsceased. Said estate i 8 mppv%sed to be insolvent, ILLIAM ERDLEY, December 17, 1874-84w3 Administrator. Execntor’s Notice, . NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Execntor of the last will of James Gillespie, late of Noble county, deceaseds; Said estate is supposed to be solvent. 4 e JOHN WEIR, December 10, 1874-33w3 ) Executor. : Administrator’s Neotice. NO’I‘IUE is hereby given that the undersigned AN has been appointed Administrator of the estate of George Bmgmick, late of Noble county, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. : i JOHN L. WOLF, December 10, 1874-33w3 Adminigtrator. e e e L | Administrator’s Notice, NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Administrator of the estate of William Steinbarger, late of Noble county, deceased. Said estate is snpgosed to be solvent. - “JESSE B. SMITH, December 3, 1874-32w8 * Administrator. TIIE LIGONIER ACADEMY OF MUSIC will have vacation until Jaauary sth, 1875, One second-hand Piano for sale or rent. ; One second-hand Or% for sale. Enquire at the Music Rooms, in Landon’s Block. 81-wd i ; J.H HILL, Principal, ’

NOTICE is hereby given that the accounts current and vonchers ol Georfe C. Seymoure, as. Administrator of the estate of Mclntyre Ser monre, . deceased, will bé presented to the Noble Circuit Court, for final settlement, on the first day of the Depgemher term of said court for themyear 1874, sien WM. C. WILLIAMS, Pecember 10, 1874-28 - Clerk Noble Circuit Court,

) D IR R Y e oeN R I T LIST OF LETTERS @ Remaimng in the post office at Ligonier Ind, during the pastweek: . . ; Sl Fisher. ¥. L. Sickles, N'M v Lantz, Miss Lydia A {Stutzman, Ephraim & Myers, Henry © | Williams, Sm Rumsby Mrs. Susanba 2/ Yoder, Miss Mary E © - Yoder, Sarah Malinda ; Persons calling forany of the above letters will please say “*Advertised.”’ e e 7 i H. M. GOODSPEED, P. M. : Ligonier, Ind., Dec. 24, 1874; 4 Sa

'~ TWO Large ROOM|) WO Large ROOM\Y On the Second Floor of the * BANNER Brock.” Enquire of e : J. B.STOLL, - ADMINISTRATOR'SSALE, V’OTICE is hereby given that the undersiened 4 administrator_of the cstate “of Wi, Steinbarger, deceased, will offer at pnblicsaleon’ " = ¢ saturday, Decemriber 26, i=vid, The following described pérsoual property: One. Cow, Two Fat Hogs, Eleveén Shoats, a lot of Carpenter’s Tools, Fodderand Straw, Household and” Kitchen Fuarniture, and many other articlés too numerons to mention. e Terms will be made known on day of gale. .« Sale to commence at 10X o'¢lock, AL, : : 1o B SNMIPH: December 10, 1874-33w3 Administrator. ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE, The-undersignod will sell at-Pulic Auction at't've late residence of George Bothwiek, deceased, in York township, Noble.connty, one-half mile east. of Sparta, on 5 i Satuvday, January 24, 1875, The following personal preperty: Wheat, iu the. ground and by the bushel; Cora in théshock; Rye, Potatoes, Oats, Buckwheat,Cloverand Mhrsh Hay, Foar head of Cattle, Two Hogs. Six Shoats, a number of Farming Utensils, and other articles: too numerous to mention, i Terms will be made Known on day-ofsale. . Sale to commence-at 10 oclock. a y. s JOHN L. WOLF.. December 19, 1874 33w3 . - Administrator 1 »,7 . i o 8 P - TO CONTRACTORS. Jail and Sherifi”s Residence. i AvpiTor’s Orrice, ATnion, IND. ¥ b i I)’l§u::nm~:n' L 7, 18%4, 5 S‘EA LED proposals will be received at the: Andi= K tor's Oifice, in Albion, Indiana, until Janhuary: 23th, 1875, at noon, for the farnishing of all materinle and labor reguired in the comnstruetion and completion of a Jail and Sherif”s resrdence in Al= bion, Noble County, Indiana according to plans and specifications furnished oy T..J, Telan & Son, Architects, of Delphos, Ohio. . ] e . Plans and Specifications can he «een’ at the Au= diwr’s Office, in Albion,' on and after this date.— The work.is required to be completed by the first day of December, 1875. oSI All proposals. must be accompanied by a certified bond in the sum of 81,000 that the:idder or bidders will give thie proper bond if awarded the contract; and no bid will be dccepted nnless such ;bond aecompanies the bid. & B ~The Contractors will be paidin monthly esti-- - mates as the work progresses: S ey | The ‘Commissioners reserve the riglhit o reject any or all bids. \ S R - By order of the Commissioners. : | ¢ _ JAMES €. STEWARI, Auditor. | Albion, Ind., Dee. 17, 1874-34w6 T Y ANOTHER TO INVEST A FEW DOLLARS, WITIL POSSIBLE RETURNS OF TH()L’NANDS, 1S OFFERED BY THE POSTPONEMENT OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KY. TO TIHHE 27'[‘11 OF FEBRUARY, NEXT, OF THEIR FIFTH AND LAST CONCERT AND DRAWING.— THE MANAGEMENT ARE PLEDGED TO T{E RETURN OF THE MONEY IF TIIE iDRAWING, SHOULD NOT COME OFE AT l THE DAY NOW APPOINTED: Pl ONE GRAND CASH G1FT..i........5250,000 ONE GRAND CASH G1FT........... 100,000 ONE GRAND CASH G1¥T.........n. - 75,000 ONE GRAND CASH G1FT..~:....... ~50-000 ONE GRAND CASH G1FT............ 23,000 5 CASH GIFTS, $20,000 each..... 160,000 10 CASH GIFTS, 14,000 each.... 140,000 15 CASH GIFTS; 192,000 cach.... 50,000 20 CASH GIFTS, 5,000 each.... 160,000 25 CASH GIFTS, : 4,000 each..... 100.90€ 30 CASH GIEFTS, 3,000 each.... ~90,0c6 50 CASH GIEFTS, ' 2,000 each.... 100,000 100 CASH GIFTS, 1,000 each, :.. - 100,000 240 CASH GIFTS; 500 each.... 120,000 500 CASH GIFTS, ‘lOO each. ... 32,000 19,000 CASH GIFTS, Ho.each.... 950,060

Whole Tickets §5O. Halves £25. - Tenths, or each Coupon, £5. »i-)lev(‘n W hole Tickets, $200.° = For 'Fici:els, orinfornmqt—i:n, address A ;.' TIHOS. E. BRAMLETTE, Agent and Manager, Louigyille, Ky, = i ;_3s.“‘l_ i 4 . TIME FOR : SETTLEMENT. - The Year 1874 is rapidly drvawing to a close, and it hehooves all to malke settlement before the beginning of the new year. Our customers are therefore hereby: re: quested to eall between this and the last of the year to seftle accounts. Prompt settlements being beneficial to both debtor and ereditor, we trustall our customers'will take the hint and “render unto Casar that which is Cesar’s.” -F. W.SHINKE & BRO,

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Trains run daily except Sunday. - Condensed time card, taking effect Nov. 3d, '73. GOING NORTH. ON GOING SBOUTIH, Expr. © Mail. STATIONS, . gopr ™ Mail 350 pm 810am..Kalamazoo..11 20 am - 645 pm 44 32 ¢ - 855 ‘¢ ._Monteith,...lo.27 **= 556 % 515 ¢ 937 *s.JAßepan..... 950 4% 5 e 605 ¢ 1033 ‘¢ ...Hamilton... 910 ¢ .438 ¢ 637 ** 1104 ** ..H011and..... 840 ‘° 408 748 ‘¢ 1210 pm Grand Haven, 741 ‘* 306 ** 834 ** 125§- ¢¢ .. Muskegon.. 700 225 % R e i z (3 e Gr. Rapids & Ind. and Cine., Rich. . & Ft. Wayneß.R. -

Condensed Time Card, November 22,1874, o GOING NORTH. Express. Express. Accom. 5 No. 5. No. 3. No.‘lﬁ Richmond .........,...1020pm 1030 am 4 00pm. Newport... .cioi, 10012 - 18 56 %t v 4 3T % Winche5ter........v..211 38 ¢4 1137 *4. - B 1748 Ridgeville. ..........51202am 1158 *% 5423 % P0rt1and.........ce..:.1281.8 1924 pm. 610 DECAtNE. covevosiuvsis i 1 48 5 135 8 e s Fort Wayne, D......... 320&m ' 2 55pm PRI genda]1vi11e........... 4y 't gt ! LUPRIR Lol Gaiiiiin e B DG B 6ieo NG T VICKEbUre . .couvioen 600 44, 6 3401 Ex¥ress ‘ Kalamazoo: ..o vauene. T 43 % 790 -2.15 pm Monteith (.....0 . .i 0 899 % 50555 3 08 St Grand Rapid5........a.1000 ** < 935.‘“ 430 * Grand Rapid5........d.1015 ¢ 700 am 440 * Howard City...........1227pm 905 645°* Up. Big Rapid 5........ 128pm1010am ‘750 * Reed City.i.o...iuicne. 200:¢ 1043 .. 893 % Clam Laké............. 830 ‘l2O pm: 0350 ** . Wealton 200 iiii s 430 A ; Traverse Gltyu. i, D o 0 B ot bl e Petoskey .o a o L kol 8% : it 7 ; GOING SOUTH. ZFExpress Express Express No 6. - No, & N 0.2. Petoskey.....cc..w..-... 600 am Traverse City.......... 810 ** et WAHH.. o aa s Clam Lake............. 1100 ' 500 am ;150 pm Reed City.:............1226pm 626 * 316" Up. Big Rapide.. . ...0102°% “700. 350 % Howard City. ... i 919 Rt LB 0E UL Grand Rapid5.......a.. 415 ** 1015 ¢ 705 Grand Rapids.......d:. 480 * 1110 * 725 am Monteith, .......i...... 559 ** 1289 pm. BDESS ** Ralamiagoo,. . il 0 i e 19 00008 VAcRRbUrg .. o i firs T 88 a JORL 5turgi5...............'_; R4L ¢ L o T gR Y Rendallvilis. ... . cc.. 10067 = -0 1% SEDIA Fort Wayne............1218am No. 4. . g 9 Decatiur... .. ioiersii., 113 Accomi..3lB *. Portlanfasi. oo aona 93367 OOam 428" - RIGROVINO .. oo vsvnnmnas DO5l (TR 480 S 0 Winechester ...\ . ....... 333 152 % 570 NeWwport.... . ......... 427 839+ 588 © Richmond.. ............ 500 910 695 g2~ Train No. 5 leaves Richmond dlﬂi"i:mp‘ Saturday. All other trainsron dgﬁlp M eXcepted. B e N D £ Gen, Passenger ang Ticket Ag't. .

. ] i N 2 ] 1 @em §hhztttszmmts. New and Seccnd-hand. of Firsi-(ﬂass;)lukors. will be.cold at Lower Prices for cash,or o Installments, or for rent,sin City or Country, daring these Hard Times and the Holidays, 1y HMORACE WATERS & SON, 481 Brondway, than ever before offered in New York. Agents wanted to sell Waters® New Scale Pianos, and Concerto’ Organs. Tilustrated Catalogues Mailed. Grest Inducements fo the Trade. A large discount o Teachers. ‘Ministers, Churches, Lodges, Schools, ot Pl .44; Y K N (;‘;uulr’cd Vhy :hc uvs:EPILEPSY OR FILS Cored vy theuse ic ;{um(,'divs. Triar Paoxice Frer. For ecirenlars; evidence of snccess, &c¢ , address i w 4 ROSS BROS., Richmond, Ind. | @ = o @ )fyver day at home, Termefree. . Adi %')E‘ %2(’(ll‘os* Gro Srinson&Co, Portland, Me AW EEI{ ::u:nm‘-uu‘d to MaledndFemale Agents, in their loeality. Coxtr NOTHINGto try it. Partical'teFree. 1 : P.O.VICKERY & CO., Augnsta, Me.

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conduct an Agency for the reception of advertiseaments for Amarican NEwsPAPEßs—the most complete establishment of the kind in the world. Six thousand Newsvarers are kept regcularly on file, open-to inspection by customers. Everyv Ad%ertisement is taken .at the home price of the paper, without any additional charge or commission: An advertiser, in dealing with the Agency, 15 saved trouble and correspondence makiug one contract instead of a dozen, a hundred or a thousand., -A Boek of eighty pages, containing lists ‘of best papers, largest circulations, religious, agx'~i."imnml,c]ass,polizical,daily and country papers, ‘and all pubheations which are specially ‘valnable to advertizers,with Some information about prices. is sent FREE to any address on appheatiom.— -Persons at a distance wishing to make contracts. foradvertising in any town, city, county, State or Territory of the United Statds, or any portion of the Dominion of Canada, may gend a concige statement of what they want, together with ac copy of the Advertisement they desire inserted. and will receive information by return zmail which will enable them to decide whether to ingrease or reduce the order. For such information there is no charge. .Orders are taken fora single paper as well as for a list; for a single dollar as well ss for a larger sum. Ofiices (Times :Building), 3 :

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Drs. PRICE & BREWER m "?'ﬁ_—m“ ; EAVE . 3 . LAPORTE M—xm W 2 2 . ]‘{A\'E mel with unparalleled uccess in the - treatment of all Chronic Diseases : —'—-—:.-..-——’.____-_..'_...._._. SRR o OF Ml K - THROAT. | SR R TR RIS LUNGS, ' ' HEART, , AT TR IS S S RTIN | STOMACH, ' LIVER, | OSSR ITIC) i BERD Nerves, Kidneys, lEfuxltlt-x‘,'“'(xnib, and Blood Affections of the Urinary Organs, Grayel. Scrofula, Rheumatism, Catarrh; Asthma, Bronchitis, Dyspepsia,; &c. . : . “Our reputation has been acquired by eandid,hon‘est dealing and years of successful practice, ; Our practice, not one of experiment, but founded onthe laws of Nature, with years of éxperience and cvidenee to sustain it, does nol tear down, miakesick to make well; no harsh treatment. notrifling, no flattering. We know the cause and the remeédy nceded; no guess work, but knowledge gained by years of experience in the treatment of Chronic diseases exclusively; no encouragement without a prospeet. Candid in our opinions, reasonable in onr charges, claim lot to know every—thing, or cure everybody, but do lay claim. to rea‘son and commen sense,_ Winvite the sick, no matter-what their ailment, to call and investigate before they-abandon hope, make interrogations anil déecide for themselves; it will cost nothing ap consyltaion is free. % Visits will be made regiglarly for years. ! . Drs. Price & Brewer caif be consulted at i Ligonier, Ligonier ITouse, on Thursday, the 24th of Dc_%cemh_er. 1874. At Goshen, Violett ITouse, on Friday, the 25th of December. At LaGrange, Brown’s ITotel, on Wed- " nesday, the 23d of December. - At Kendallville, —— lotel, on Tuesday, the 22d ef Decemnber. v Residence and Laboratory: WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS. - 3 20-t

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The best place in Noble and adjoining counties to buy - ' . Substantial and Durable Trunks -—,—is:lu—-—— A METZ'S, - Ligonier, : : : Indiana. He has ‘just received. a splendid assortmen!‘of i : Trunks which he will sell at .~ Very Low Prices, much cheaper than a'simiiqr article can be pur- ; chased elsewhere. Call and see. it : . ’ § Y : : HARNENS and SADDLES. Farmers, call at my shop and ascertain pricés on ‘ hamess,‘ saddles, whips, &c. I am selling at bottom figures, and warrant my goods to he ﬂrst- | 1 . class—durable and snbstantial. % : Oct. 29, 1874.-27 i A. METZ, | - HOLIDAYS ' HOLIDAYS ! ; i : Ty ) Faney Lamps | Fancy Lamps ! Children’s Toys} = = A V.V > o 2fl : _‘vo : 9 , Fine 'Per;ﬁlmeries I » e Nice Hair Brushes ! A Good Line of POCKET BOOKS ! P 2 : e '3‘}-”,’:{ ; k n_::{ ; ‘ g s - Forany of the above miticles callat 7o aifep il : P e i,;« ‘:» , - ‘,.;;“rtr? i i.‘:“u.