The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 44, Ligonier, Noble County, 25 February 1875 — Page 2

The Fatiomal Banner eAo L ; - SRy Wi J. B. STOLL..E'dttor and Proprietor. LIGONIER, IND’A, FEB. 25, 1875, A S e B -Ce P ™ AR WL ST 2R rorsy. ' Tue WIFE of Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, United States Senator elect, died very suddenly oli‘the morning of. the 18th inst., at the family residence on North Pennsylvania street, Indianapolis.- Mr.;and Mrs. McDonald were married in. Crawfordsville but a few months ago. -~ divg s R e Al e . JAMES MCMAHON, an insane fellow residing in Washington City, on Wednesday of last week jumped from the dome of the capitol upon thie roof of the main building—a hight of 150 feet As a matter iof course, the poor fellow was instantly. killed. He was about 25 years of age.| - » JUDGE POLAND, with the intention of making a vigorous movement to ‘sustain his report.on affairs in ArkanSa3 presented a resolution” in the House on the 19th declaring that eir-c'umst-m'ées do not render advisable any interference with the present .Government in that. State. . i ITis a not_ewortlZny fact that Washington’s birth-day was more generally celebrated in the South than in the North. The celebration at Nashville was especially a grand -affair, ex-rebel soldiers marching side by side with ';hose who served in -the p nion army, and bearing aloft the glorious flag of a*once more united country.

_ THE codMITTEE which for a second time investigated the Louisiana squabble has made two reports, each very

damaging to the administration party. Kellogg’s. pretended government ‘is represented as a fraud, and the concession is freely made that the. Legislature: clearly belongs to the. Corservatives. - A compromise will probably ‘be agreed upon at -an early day. - e e e —— CoL. SHULER, the republican Warden of the Jeffersonville State Prison, so the Bartholomew county Democrat informs us,” “butchered-one hundred and one cattle last year for the inmates of the Southern Prison. He neyer accounted for the hides and tallow. Perhaps the kind he killed had no hides and tallow.” The investigating committee will probably discover ‘how that matter stood. S DAvID A. WELLS, the distinguished pelitical econemist and former commissioner of Internal Revenue, is likely to be elected to Congress by the Connecticut Liberal Democracy. Ile was made- President, of their State Convention last week and delivered one of the finest speeches we have. read for some time. His election to Congress would be of national interest'and advantage. - ;

‘Tur House of Representatives on Tuesday succeeded in passing the new Tdx Bill. - The tax on whisky is fixed at ninety cents a gallon—an increase of forty cents. The proposed tax of fifteen cents on bonded whisky was not agreed to.” No tax was laid on whisky in-bond. The additional tax of four cents per pound on tobacco was agreed to, making the entire tax twenty-four cents per pound. The bill goes to the Senate, where it ras little prospect ‘zbt‘-pasSage, ek ! WL

- MoxDAY last, February 22d, the,patriotic people of the United States. commémoraté;fl the anniversary of the birth of one Who led the battles of oppressed colonies for liberty and selfgovernment ; whose genero us instinets revolted at the sway of emissaries from a centralized seat of power, and insisted on the inalienable right of the people- to. ¢hoose their own rulers; ‘who, far from regarding civil office as a prize won by his martial success, not: only refused the dictatorship easily ~within his grasp, but after reluctantly -accepting the second Presidential term forced upon.him by his countrymen, resolutely withdrew from public life, leaving a farewell warning against the perpetuation of political pow@r ‘in individual hands and an urgent eounsel ever to subordinate military authority to civil law. . s

- BavrrMOßEhas a genuine sensation. Mrs. Hahn, the delicate wife of a German cigar-maker, on Tuesday of last ° week, gave birth to four baby girls, all in apparently good health. From - an article in the Baltimore Sun we learn that the babies have béen and ~ are still being visited by hundreds of " ladies from all parts of the city, and some wholive out of it. = At least a - score of physicians called to see the . phenomena of nature, one physician coming from Washington and another from Philadelphia. Thé babies were christened .on Wednesday by Rev. Father Malloy, of St. John’s parish, at the request of the mother. They were ‘mamed respectively Sarah, Mary, Kate, and Jennie, and each was labeled to prevent them from becoming mixed, which would otherwise be likely to -happen;-as they are as much alike as four peas. - Mrs. Hahn was quite ill, but no doubt is expressed by physicians that she will recover, and- the - prospects that the children will live and thrive are quite promising. * The father of the children is thirty years “old, was born in Germany, but came to this country when one year old. . Mrs. “Hahn, who is also thirty years of age, 'was born in the United States. She ' has for several years been in delicate *-health, and for the past six weeks has beenill. Mr. Hahn. is a cigar-maker, - and has been ‘out of work for- six ~ weeks. He is, however, now reaping _a rich reward from the extraordinary - event in his family, An admission fee of 25 cents is collected from each - visitor, thus yielding a revenue of . Indies are contina

THE END APPROACHES.

. It affords us unbounded pleasure to announcﬁ that ere another issue of the BANNER will greet its readers, the 43d Congress will be among the things that were, and that henceforth it will not devolve. upon-us to record the mischievous schemes concocted by a reckless national assembly. - .

~The Senate of the 44th Congress will convenel.in extraordinary session on the sth of March, to finish certain business that cannot possibly be disposed of at the presént session. The new: Senate will be vastly . improved—politically, intellectually and morally.— It will consist of 36 Radical Republicans, 7 Moderate Republicans, 28 Democrats, 1 Liberal and 1 Independent. ~To the crédit of the present Senate we record the fact that, after.a continuows session. of nearly twenty-nine hours, that body, on the 18th, by a vote of 39 yeas to'22 nays tabled Mr, Morton’s resolution to admit P. B. S. Pinchback, the ambitious Louisiana darkey. . There is no probability ‘of an extra session of the new House—which, the Lord be praised, will have no Ben. Butler, but instead, a solid democratic majority of from 60 to 70. e . e —i — “I am sick again,” was the expressive remark made by President Grant ‘when he learned that Andréew Johnson had been elected United States Senator from: Tennessee.—Ex. And well may Grant have made that remark. - Noman ever displayed such damnable tréachery as did U. S. Grant toward Andv Johnson prior to and during the impeachment-trial. The promise of the Presidency by Forney & Co. led him' to discard every princi-ple-of honor and integrity. Andy will soon be in position.to remind fhis betrayer of the perfidy which élxa.rac-'v terized his conduct during that trying period. - el .

‘Hon. H. K. Wilson, Senator from this district, is regarded as one of the most careful, industrious and influential members of the General Assembly.—Vincennes Sun. - 1

There are few men in the State better fitted for a legislative position than Mr. Wilson. He is honest, faithful, and has “‘a, heap”-of strong common ‘sense: -If legislators were all as honest as he, there would be fo occasion for feeling alarmed over the safety of the public treasury. =~ P

EvERY Republican member of the Tennessee ' Legislature voted for Andrew Johnson for-United States Senator.—Crawfordstille Journal. - The- Tennessee Republicans must, in that case; have, been extremely fortunate in the selection of their representatives. The like of that doesn’t often happen that party. = .

* THe Southern members of Congress have published an ‘address to the people of the.South urging them to be patient under their sufferings, and to trust to the se'nse. of justice of the whole country for a redress of their grievances,: - {° o~

- Tne Force bill, which proposes to suspend the ‘writ. of habéas corpus in the . Southern States until after the next Presidential election, was introduced in"the ITouse of Represerntatives last Friday by Mr. Coburn, of Indiana, ordered printed .and recommitted; ' oo g :

Louisiana “Qutrages.”

Ourreaders areaware, says the Sullivan Democrat, that the sub-committee on Louisiana affairs, aftet hearing all the evidence brought before them, decided.adversely ‘to the claims of Kellogg. Although it consisted of two Repgbliéaps ~and- one Democrat, the report was mot satisfactory.to the Radieals and-the other members of the committee were sent down to hear further evidence, and the Kellf)‘gg party raked the whole State to get testimony which can be fabricated into some kinid of a pretext for still keeping Louisiana under the heel of the tyrant. Some of the testimony soberly adduced is aveak in the extreme. lereisa paragraph ' from the abgtract of evidence furnished by telegraph to the Associated Press: . - .

- “Mrs. Oetavia Myers, wife of Judge Myers, of Natchitochés,: testified as to the causes which compelled the Judge to leave home, and corrohorated fully the statement made-by him in his testimony, as to ostracism, persecution, ete. Before Judge Myers came down to the convention, in. July, he was anuch liked, and his decisions in court were complimented in the papers. My husband: was once at the: point of death, and for weeks mno Democrats came to sttup with him. On the 27th of July, there came a mob into town to ask the officials to resign.” "

Surely t_his'\'zvdman has reason for complaint. “No Democrats came to sit up” with her sick husband! Could there be ‘a greater outrage? . Does Congress want any better- evidence that Louisiana is disloyal and insurrectionary? o 0 sl e T < B—©r . New York Hotels. ' : :[New York Correspondence.] New York is the city of magnificent hotels. But few people know or understand, however, the gqualities necessary to the management of a firstclass hotel in New York. Great tact, rare judgment, fine nerve, and what the Rev. Robert Collyer calls “true grit,” all must be displayed in the;successful management. Sometimes all these fail, but perhaps the most.notable instance’ of immediate and permanent success is found in the steady and inereasing popularity of the Grand Central Hotel, on Broadway, New York. Combined with its management, to a great degree the Grand Central owes its:fine succéss to the liberal plan of adjusting its rates according to the location of the room occupied. * This, with a bill of fare hardly equaled by any hotel table in New York, 6 meals per diem, is secured at the rate of from $3 to $4 per day, according to choice in selecting the floor desired.

A Granger from Madison county made a motion in the House of Representatives that all attorneys practicing in county courts be required to, furnish their own stationery, which was carried with applause. A resoIlution requiring county officers to do the same thing, .and also to furnish their own fuel and office rent, was. Taid on the table. i

RELIEF FOR THE STARVING.

- Since reporting aid for the Kansas and Nebraska sufferers last week, in view of the fact ascertained from Messrs. Ripperton and Ulmer-in both States,that provisions now were cheaper near them than here, but- the parties losing their crops have no money to purchase, and the further facts ehat freights, which must be paid part of the distance, would eat up quite a per centage of the donation, and in view also of what has happened in other -cases, a dgtention,_and wprse, still, a misappropriation 6f the goods before reaching their destination, the committee has decided to sell all such provisions at the highest market price and send the avails in full to the above named parties, requiring them to distribute, to the best of their judgment, ‘the whole. amount améng ‘the ‘most needy, in their vicinities, taking their receipts and sending tliem back for the satisfaction of the donors here.—\' $BO was sent to D.T. Ulmer, in Nebraska, as distributor, last week, just after our last report: was made. $BO was sent on Tuesday, the 23d, to Dr. J. C. Ripperton, in Kansas, and.there is a balance in hand of $37. There is nearly a barrel of clothing on hand. which will be sent. just as soon as the vacant space is filled. So far, the country has contributed nearly the’ whole amount. Our town ought to wake up and not let an‘imputation of want of sympathy stand, against it longer. o COMMITTEE.

. The following was collected for the relief of the Kansas sufferers by Cyrus Kimmelss 5 - o

John Moore, cash, $l. Moses Kiser, Wm. Smith, Adam Conner,-Spencer Green, Simeon Smith, Joseph Hitler and Cyrus Kimmell, each two bushels of wheat. Wm.Umbenhour, pork and flour. Joseph Hitler"and John Earnhart, pork. Richard Mayfield, four bushels of cormu. . - :

T ———l - MBa—— i That Sparta Contribution—A Few Plain Facts. g EpiTor . BANNER: — In your last week’s issue I find an article which is calculated, and no doubt was intended, to cast an unfavorable réflection npon the Christian Church in Sparta township; and if'g‘tll the readers of your valuable paper were as well acquainted with the circumstances alluded te as they are in this vicinity, I would not condescend to notice the article. But as théy are not, and my name hnving been specially. mentioned in the article, I feel myself called upon to ‘make a true statement of the matter. H. and A. Galloway had been appealed to personally by J.C. Wolf, of Kossuth county, lowa, for aid. Instead of responding themselves they appealed to the Church, on thé ‘v%‘y Sabbath that it was under obligations te take up a collection for the benefit of Elder Abbot, who had been preaching for-us every evening for something over a week. . Under the circumstances it was thought best to take' up a collection- for the benefit of Mr. Wolf on Monday evening, as the meeting was still in progress.. Monday evening was extremely cold and thers were but few out, and most of them were young people. The collection was not a muﬁiﬁcc-nt one; and I could here give several reasons wwhy it was not, but deem it minfzcessary. Whereupon Harrison * Galleway then and there, swore "“he could do better than that amongst outsiders.” In looking over the names of those who contributed, and who are claimed as outsiders, ;I find four that are members of the Christian Church alluded to, one being the mother and another the sister of H. Galloway, and many of the others are members in good st;anding in other churches. Now, Mr. Editor, what do you think of the man (?) who would-attempt to get up a little reputation for himself by trying to stigmatize the Church with which his own mother and one sister stand connected, -and wno are both highly esteemed and respected members thereaf? Ido not wish to be understood as finding fault with those who contributed at the request of Mr. Galloway, for they rank amongst our best eitizens, but confess. T feel a little restive under such public misrepresentations from those who are in the habit of sponging what little preaching they do hear, and whose good acts and deeds are so few and far between that they like to have them proclaimed on the house-tops, through the newspapers, and all other sources of circulation. . . : . Yourstruly, . - S.OHLWINE. £ D - : A Republican Opinion.

- The Boston Advertiser, the leading' Republican newspaper of New England, says: | “That it is the’deliberate purpose-of General Butler and those who train in his company to taunt and insult the South to the piteh of exasperation and overt acts of retaliation, observant men ean hardly doubt. The danger is that the large body of Republicans who sincerely desire peace and justice will too long neglect to rebuke and repudiate the infernal policy of provocation upon which a few of their unscrupulous leaders ?re. bent. If their conduct should stfng some of the more hot-headed communities to madness, the future historian calmly reviewing these timres would righly blame us and not them.” .

Among those who train in Butler’s company is President Grant, and that means the entire Administration.

The Pacific railroad owe the Government over $20,000,000 on its bonds. Now if this were collected, there “would be no deficit in the treasury and no necessity for increased taxation.-— But it is eminently proper to extort money from the people and squander it on the wild cat railroad and canal enterprises. But in spite of this warning, there is a prospect that the Government will deliberately vote away an annual subsidy of $7,000,000 for Tom Scott’s railroad. This will cause another deficit, which, it will require the eloquence of a Dawes to show, must be made good by another turn of the taxation screw. A little good management on the part of .our Government, and a disregard of the impudent clainis of corporate monopolies, would enable it to meet all its expenses without a resort to extraor dinary expedients.—-Ft. Wayne Sentinel, . | et < i ' The Bartholomew County Democrat says: The peach crop is entirely killed, and some are eutting their trees ‘down and are going to put the ground nlohaeees .. o o o e : ‘ :

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. . Senate Pro_eeedinzs.ly : Feb. 17.—The Senate ~went into joint convention with the House of Representatives to elect certain State officers, with the following result:— State Librarian: Lycurgus Dalton, of. Lawrence. .Directors of the Northern Prison: William T.Pratt,of Allen; H. E. Wadsworth, of LaPorte, and Theodove Davenport. of Kosciusko. For the Prison South: James Keigwin, of Clark, and William P. Hammond, of Martin. Trustee of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum: Milton M. James, of Delaware. Trustec of the Imsane Asylum: John P.Richards, of Carroll county. Trustee of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home: George W. Sanford, of Lake, A message was presented from the Governor on the subject of the manufacture of plate glass. The contested election case of Jeffries- vs. Baxter was argued and decided in favor of Mr. Baxter by a vote of 26 to 23. . 'Feb. 18.—In committee of the whole yesterday the ' Senate considered, amended and recommended by a vote of 23 against 18 the passage of bill No. 15, for granting licenses to sell liquor. The local option section 2, was retained, drunkeﬁness‘made punishable, the purchaser in violation of law held accountable alike with the seller, and the personal.liability clause also was kept in the bill. These are the prominent points in the law, and excepting the first, that of local option, might be made acceptable to the House, perhaps. But the Senate stood firm for local option, though some who first voted for it would probably consent to yield that point. o

Feb. 19.—The gravel read bill, puté ting the control of improving roads into the hands of trustees, was emgrossed. A number of unimpor‘tantt bills were passed. .. 00l - Feb. 20.—There not béing a quornm; several local measures were passed, and a large amount of informal business was transacted. . - S Feb. 23.—A committee of three was appointed to investigate the Prison North. : Mr. Neff’s temperance bill was passed by a vote of 27.t0 20.

House Proceedings.

Feb. 17.—- Mr. Maryin, of Boone, callad attention to the fact that the member from Fulton (Mr. Bearss) has been absent from the House, without leave, almost continuously since the opening of the session. Mr. McMichael gave ilotﬁce of a resolution’ to expel the member and declare his seat’ vacant. The House met with the Senate in joint convention for the election 0& Prison Dire”ctors, ete., and’ the morning was thus consumed. During the afternoon session some important reports were rec¢eived from committees. Mr. Willett’s bill requiring railroads to fence their lines was taken up, discussed at _length‘, all the pending - amendments rejected, and then referred to the Judiciary Committee, with instructions to frame a substitute providing that when persons owning lands abufctingi upon the right of way of any railway company desire to fence their lands so abutting they shall give notice to the vé'ompany, join them in the construction of the fences, and share equally in the cost thereof. The remainder of the afternoon ~was. spent in committee of the whole, in the discussion of the-School Superintendency bill. H v Feb. 18.—The House spent the entire morning session in discussing the bill regulating the office of county school | superintendent. The bill was so amended as to strike from it all that made the office valuable, and then failed to pass for want of a constitutional majority—yeas, 50;-nays, 42. The House passed (under suspension of the rules), a joint resolution asking Congress to impose a protective dutyon polished plate glass. Resolutions were adopted—Providing for a special joint committee to continue the investigation of thé affairs of the Southern Prison; for a joint convention on the 24th to elect a trustee of the Blind Asylum. The bill reqiring railroad companies to fence. their lines was withdrawn from; the Committee. on Judiciary and referred to the Committee on Rights and Privileges, with in-' stuctions to amend by requiring companies to fence their lines within four years; one fourth of the work to be done each year. A ’ Feb. 19.—The Committee on Fees and Salaries reported a new fee and salary bill, which makes a general reduction of 25 per cent. It was ordered to be printed. Among the bills passed were the following: House bill reducing the per diem of members t& $6; House bill reducing the salary. of Governor to $6,000 per annum; House bill legalizing: the dissection of human bodies. The Committee on Public Buildings reported against any appropriation to enlarge the Blind Asylum. . The bill for the construction of a new State-house was ordered. engrossed. v Sase - F¥eb. 20.—Mr. Bearss explained the cause of his confinued absence by saying that he had been detained at home by the serious illness of his son. Subsequently, .on motion of Mr. Davis, the House resolved that he be excused for non-attepdance to date. A number of reports were received from committees,and then, after a session of one hour, the House adjourned till 2 P. M. Monday. e e Feb. 32.—Among the bills passed were the following: Senate bill 230, so ‘amending the act regulating assignments as te prevent the sacrifice of property by forced sale; Senate bill 106, allowing town trustees to issué | bonds in amount not exceeding $lO,000 to complete unfinished. public buildings.| = . , Feb. 23.—The Morgan raid claims bill was reported back and tabled.— Several bills were introduced, including one by L%r Reno, levying a threecent tax for the raising of a fund with which to erect a new State-house. Among the l,),ills:ggssed; were %e following; Senate bill 137—Amending the code so that appellants may file a new bond in cases where an appeal would otherwise be dismissed for lack of & sufficient appeal bond. * a?nate bill ‘32~ To prevent the practice of nepotism in appointment of employes of the benevolent and Ipagial"ingtl%u-j tions ’9‘-"“%58“‘?:;“ ﬂ%ug&bﬁl 813— | Reducing the salary of the superin- | tendeat. of the Soldiers’” Orphans' Home to $l,OOO. House bill 339—Au- | thorizing manufacturing associations to_purchase lands upon which they | districting the State. for - Senatorial '

THE BEECHER CASE.

TESTIMONY FOR PLAINTIFF . RESTED FOR THE PREFSENT. -

Mrs. Moulton’s Testimony as to Mr. ~ Beecher's Admissions, |

Mrs. Moulton’s cross-examination was resumed last Tuesday, without eliciting any new points. Mrs. Kate Carey was recalled. She adhered to her story quite well, but had to acknowledge. that she had occasionally been “tight” and that her chastity was not of the purest type. |

At the conclusion of the testimony Tilton’s counsel an.nom’;c’ed, to the surprise of evervbody, that they had no further testimony to offer Qn,p‘?‘ai-t of plaintiff. - Gen. Tracy opened for the defense yesterday. At t;"helcd'nélusjon of his- argument, Beecher \y;ill be placed upon the witnesses stand, to be followed by other witness in his favor., It is generally believed that Tilton’s counsel will thereafter introdace some startling evidence in rebuttal. ' ° [New York Tribune, February 20th.]

As was expected the day.before, Mrs. Francis D. Moulton was the first wituess called yesterday, but unexpectedly she was the only witnessof the day. The lady gave her name as Emma C. Moulton, and said that she had been connected - with Plymouth. Church since 1858. She had known Mr., Beecher personally since 1871, and during ‘four years he had called at her house frequently at all hours of the day, and late ‘at might. Mrs. Moulton’s testi‘mony related mainly to{ntervipws between herself: and Mr. “Beecher, and between herself and Mrs. Tilton. The first one of importance that she recalled ‘'was in-1871, ‘when, as the witness described the incidents, Mr. Beecher camé Thto her parlor and took her hand, saying,.“Do you know anything of this great sorrow of my life ?” She replied: thimwt she did, and & very brief conversation followed. The next interview of impertance that the witness relafed took place on June 2, '73, and,was three or four hours in duration. - Mrs. Moulton gave her account of the details of this interview without hesitation and without being once assisted or interrupted by the counsel. The substance of it was that Mrs. Moulton informed Mr. Beecher that Mr. Tilton had threatened to publish the so-called letter of:apology. whereupon Mr. Beecher said that if Mr. Tilton did that it would be useless for him (Mr. Beecher) longer to live the thing down. Mrus.: Moulton advised the Plymouth pastor to confess, but he said that he could not; he would die first. Then, ‘according to Mrs. Moulton, Mr. Beecher said: “I have resolved to take my life. I have prepared a powder which I have at home on my library table, which T shall take and sink quietly out of life.)” . .

. The witness testified that at another time she said to. Mr. Beecher, “I don’t see how you can stand in your pulpit and preach to young' men against the sin of adultery when you are implicated in it yourself.” To this Mr. Beecher replied: “Havingsuffered ‘what I have, and passed through the experience I have, I feel more fit for it than ever before.” Mrs. Moulton’s next important interview with Mr. Beecher was on ' July .13, 1874, after the call for the Plymouth Investigating Committee, when, according to the witness, Mr. Beeci%er denied having called the Comm'itt}ee. She states #hat she told Mr. Beecher that Mr. Tilton proposed to take his case into court, whereupon the preacher told her that Mr. Tilton:had no-case to take into court; he had condoned his wife’s offense, and lived five years with her. Mr. Beecher said, according to Mrs. Moulton, #¢ Let them do:thelr worst, they can’t convict me.” : The witness also related conversations with Mrs. Tilton, at which the latter said that if she were called before .the Church she would sacrifice her husband and deny ‘everything.— She excused Mr. Beecher, and assumed the blame herself, while Mr. Beecher insisted that it was all his fault. - It was nearly noon when Mr, Evarts began _his cross-examination. The main portion of the testimony elicited by him was a repetition of the interviews already given, every detail being entered into with extreme minuteness. Among other things called out were the facts that the counsel for the plaintiff take their meals at the house of Mr. Moulton, and that the witness has known since last July that her testimony would be wanted in this case. . Among other questions, Mr. Evarts asked whether Mrs. Moulton ever told Mr. Beecher that Mr. Tilton was treacherous and hated him (Mr. Beecher.) She did not recall those words, but thought she might have said that Mr. Tilton hated Mr, Beecher. She admitted that she told Mr. ‘Tilton that if he turned upon her husband he should never enter her house again. Mrs. Woodhull’s visits.at Mr. Moulton’s house were made a topic for examination upon both sides; Mzrs. Moulton testifying that she allowed Mrs. Woodhull to come to the house to keep her still, while Mr. Evarts endeavored .to show that there was a friendship toward Mrs. Woodhull and sympathy with her views. The crossexamination was not ended at the hour of . adjournment, and Mrs. ‘Moulton will take the witness-ehair on Tiesday morning. . : ol

But the testimony of Mrs. Moulton is chiefly remarkable for the illustration it offers of the boundless sympathy of woman-kind. They are a longsuffering sex. They will bear and forbear.: They are forgiving. : These amiable qualities are strongly developed in Mrs. Moulton. Beecher had been her pastor from her girthood, but she never placed her hand on his shoulder and kissed him on the forehead, and said that if ever there was a good man he was one; she never threw her arms around his neck and implored her husband to save that good man; she never urged him to come around and see her; she never talked with him three or four hours alone—never did any of these loving things until she learned that he had committed adultery with Mrs.Tilton. Mrs. Moulton was, to be sure, so indignant at Mr. Beecher’s conduct! that she gave up her pew in Plymouth Chureh, but she still so far soothed her wrath as to attend the Ghurch and sit in Mr..Robingon’s pew. Muys. Moulton is a forgiving woman.—Cincinnati Enquirer. - ~lf you want to figure up the cost of the Tilton-Beecher, trial, here is the data: “Judge’s salary, $lO,OOO a year; Deputy Clerk, $2,500 a year; six officers of the Court, at $4 a day each; twelve policemen, each $1,200 a year; fifty camp-stools, at $5 adozen; a new ‘earpet, probably $2OO ; twelve jurymen at $2 a day each.,” Some of the prob-lem-workets can take hold of this. . " Thomas Tigar, who was the pm&rig etor of the first .printing office established in Fort Wayne, died in that city on Wednesday of last week; aged nearly sixty-eight years. He was for many years the editor and »;iubfisher fo the Fort Wayne Sentinel, having started that paper in 1888, holdi‘:lghifi= connection with the same much of the time until 1865. Mr. Tigar was an able mdm%wﬂearmxwmm great influence with the Demoeraey.

- INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. Twenty-seven hundred feet of flooring was sawed out of one tree the other day in Laporte county. 2 ‘There is a probahility that the taxing of church property will be- provi~ ded for by the present laegisl}zturef./" The Legislators still talk about/retrenchment. It may be incidentally remarked that - they still draw /fight dollars per day. L - The net proceeds of a recent lecture by Hon. ‘Schuyler Colfax,#at South Bend, were $lB3, which wals apprlgpriated to the relief of & poor of‘that city. . g’ : " A pious Rochegler man won’t allow his boy to.playgthe violin on Sunday, but he himselarns an honest penny on -that sacged day by cutting hoop poles. " . ; _ Mrs. Gubss, of Michigan City, whose husband/was killed in a saloon row at that "place a few weeks ago,- proposes to sue ,{?l6 saloon keepers for damages inder the Baxter law. : J

. Kokomo is greatly agitated by the discwassion of the usefulness and, proprie@i&iﬁ dancing. The pulpit is on one side, and the. press on the other, We incline to the opinion that the press is backed up by the preponderance of-favaoy,” @ SoL b 0

_‘Tl{e Laporte Herald says: Since; harvest our farmers-have marketedin; Laporte at least $200,000 worth oft wheat, full $75,000 worth of pork, not’ less than $25,000 worth of corn, and more than’ $15,000 worth of oats, to. say nothing of beef, hay, butter, ap-. ples, ete. = o . j

disy Q vi . “' The celebrated 'horse “Buckski n;’j;} well. known ‘both by his color and speed to all: the frequenters of our State and county Fairs, died at the stable of his owner, Mr. Hasselman, of Indianapolis. .He was 26 years old, and seven or eight years ago was considered -the bgst race horse in the country. S - ‘

[ From reports, beth in our county and surrounding ones, we learn that the excessive cold of this winter has almost utterly destroyed the prospects of both large and small frugts. In ‘some localities owners of larg&' peach orchards are already cutting dofvn the trees, so convinced are they of the killing of both fruit and tree.—CrawSordsville Journal. Rl

Dr. Boggs, of Lincoln, Miami county, recently took his divorced wife ‘to Michigan and re—mar;ied:hegmg‘he trip to Michigan became necessary on account of the provision in t\h"‘gélaw%& this State which forbids divgrced persons from re-marrying for two years after their legal separation. * The law should make an exception. ‘of those who desire to re-marry. .- s ‘Henry (. Wilson of Indianapolis ‘has made a proposition to the Legislature to build a new State house; which: hie will renf for six years at the rate of $30,000 per annum, which he claims is but 9 per cent. of the cost of the building. The house is to be 101-feet front and 195 feet deep. " It is to be five stories high, the materials bl:ipkfan.d stone, The first story is to bel2 feet to the ceiling, the others 15%‘;, Rtk "+ A correspondent of the Ind&inapolis Sentinel makes a sensible prgposition, which is no less than to appiy the- license fees collected’ from liq#pr dealers to the.payment of the débt to be incurred in building tlxe.;ne%i’nsane asylumg. - There is a sort of poetic justice in this, as there isilo doubt that whisky has done as mudlj as anything else in producing insanmity. “The schog}l fund does not need gf}whisky tax, and the insane asylui@gs can be built and maintained by it.—=&{ Wayne

Sentinel. : g e James Brown collected ;s@& afew days ago in Laporte and started to his home in Wanatah in his wagon. "A short distance from Laporfe he was me% by a person dressed iniwoman’s clothes, who asked and obtgined’ permission to ride a few miles#: Suspecting something wrong from;éhe coarse voice of this person, Brown.dropped his whip and succeeded insg&tting the person to get out to pick it:up. {}rown then drove off. A muif'lgft by the persou in the wagon was4ided with daggers and revolvers. \goo A woman rushed into‘e?&jg"wabash saloon and delivered the following speech in presence of h@k husband who was there having afood.time: “I have just earned a dollgt by washing for one of my neigh®brs, and 1 have brought it in for yo@: <1 svant my husband to be treated yespecgably,. and I feaw as he has dong Dbutalittle work recently, that he liig but :little money. Therefore, - pr@%ak@ this dollar, and if it is exha '&__A L before I get a chance to earn moggad wilbgeme down and saw wood forgi, ag-l see you have a nice lot,on IgBd!”- f'%-“ ' The New York 77ibualg says:i An Indiana correspondent r#gg)ﬁs #Fnumber of instances in the State Avhere farmers who had beconle wealthy from steady pursuit of'.t;fheiryegitimate business for a lifetime, have recently lost their entire estates by speculations or by joining .handg. with their sons in outside enterprisés with the merits of which théy are only slightly acquainted. Di@iabtless these instances can be multiptied throughout the country, but th€y all teach one lesson: “Stick to the busingss you understand, never give a ‘mortgage on the farml - Lo el

' The South Bend 7'7ibwse publishes a very voluminous review. of the business and manufacturing transactions of South® Bend for 1874, last week. The 7'ribune summarizes as follows: Above we have spoken:-at a§ great length as our limited space wiil allow, of our. more important ‘mangfactur-: ing interests, We havein a1i163 industrial establishments, empi@ying an army of men, and turning oul;séin 1874, nearly $5,500,000 worth of products. This in a city with a popu%tion of about 12,000 js nearly $5OO to.each inhabitant. We doubt if any.¢ity in the country can make a better showing than this. During the yéar 1873 there were erected in the city limits | 109 buildings of the aggregate value of $500,000. With the exception of the Studebraker works, the Studebaker block, the Singer building; Hine & Asire’s store room, and the four Knoblock store rooms on Main street, these were all dwellings. i . RANDOLPH COUNTY. The Winchester Journal tells of the following horrible affair. Last Saturday morning a man named Frank Puckett, living near Snow Hill, in this county, committed a most horrible mutilation of his lgersom while laboring under a fif of insanity. Physiciang were at once sent for, and did all | they could for him, but at last accounts only faint hopes of his Tecovery were entertained. The unfortunate manhas been regarded as a little out of his mind for some time, andsaid that he believed he was under the:direct control of Jesus Ohrist, and would do that’ as power directed him to.. Recently, in passing a pond of water, he told & friend that Christ had commanded him to jump:into the pond, and in spite of | all his friend could do he jumped in,. where the mud and watér was very - deep. He claims that hejwas directed. 'bg"thﬂ same power to commit the mutilation of his person.: LiTErß—There | 15 a rimor in town that Mr. Puckett Tl -

L B e S e eeA T T A | The Lincoln Lssaseination -Deatn af £ Gro o BpßßEler. -0 E b .Ed-waﬁf"g‘planglerﬁ died at-the resi‘dence of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, near ‘-Bryantown, in Charles county, Md., i ofi Sunday night: last. It will be refniembered that Spangler was one of the parties arrested with Herold, Atzerott, Payne, O’Laughlin, Arnold, Dr. Mudd and Mrs. Surratt, and tried by | military commission for the assassination conspiracy which resulted in the { murder of President Lincoln in April, { 1865. Booth, the leader of the con- ,‘ spiracy, was killed in an attempt to ’ capture him ;. Herold, Atzerott, Payne | and Mrs. Surratt were executed injthe I yard of the old penitentiary bullging {on the Tth. of July, 1865; Dr. Mudd, {‘Arnold and O’Laughlin were sefitenc‘ed to the Dry ‘Tortugas for life, and Spangler to six years’ imprisonment and labor at the-same place. O’Laughlin died at the Dry Tortugas diring a yellow fever epidemie, and about the I close of President Johnson’s adininistration Mudd,. Spangter -and- Arpold liavere pardoned, the petition® for\the [izlemency of the President being signced by the officers and men statione at’ " the Dry Tortugas, a number of whem "were attended by Dr. Mudd and nuts--ed by the. other prisoners mentioned, sthrough the fever. o =ov: v vl | e : LqGrzing;éConiij-y,lte’ms,_ Kol .- . . JFrom the Standard of FebruarylB.] | ° | . The best wells in town are failing, .and a water famine i§ not far distant, unless there is a change in the atmospherie condition.” - When the present snow fall melts away the ,emg‘ty -Gisilerns will Dbé replenished, but the ‘relief will be; only temporary unless there are abundant rains. A month’s .continued rain would hardly restore to the earth -the amount of wwater:it held 'in these parts four years ago.

A house at Ontario,’ on . the south ‘side of the square, and occupied by Charles Miller, as residence and hotel, was destroyed by fire on Friday night last. “How it caught we have aot learned. - Allthe household property was saved. ° The building, we understand, was valued at -some $2,000. There was .some insarance, but the amount was net known by our inform-

The Grand Rapids & Indiana. Railroad was ‘never . more completely snowed under than last week. = No mail came from thenorth from Thursday noon until ‘near midnight Saturday. = From -the south no mails were received ffom Thursday evening until Monday evening of this week. As all our daily papers came by the- latter. mail, we came very ‘l‘k'ea'l;;be,in'ig‘leftf to draw uponi onr imagingtion alone for the news f@mﬁpk’s issue of the Staridard. - 1 \ R S [From th, b

FIRE AT LAGRANGE~—On last Tt day evening between six and seven o’clock the work _;sh&jpof%;[con- & Co’s wagon -shop was discovered to be on fire, and, despite: all“efforts t 6 save it, was burned to the ground with all its contents. The shop contained considerable ,value in machinery, but the main loss was in stock and partialiy finished work. "Mr. C. R.. Moon, of this place, lost’séveral hundred neck yokes.. The entire loss is estimated at about $6,000. Mr! Dennis Moon' was the heaviest loser—he owning a'two-thirds sharein the institution. The other share was owned. by Parker & Bastian. We have’been unable to learn how the fire originated. There was no insurance on -thé building, machinery, or stock. We understand that the firm are to re‘b‘uild%immedia'telykl_.""** e : r e Mt % : De¥calb County Ktems, | . - [From the Waterloo Press; Feb. 187

The panic on aceount of theé scarlet fever has mostly subsided: =« .

J. R, I‘.;m'iningl‘,,’,‘ we understand, has been chesen Prasident of the Auburn National Bank » 7 a 0 0 o fies o

The frost has seriously affected the foundations of many of the brick buildings in this neighborhood. .~ - - TheUnited Brethren pastor at Tudson, on Saturday; forwarded %98 to the grasshopper sifferers, contributed by the people of that vicinity. - The butchers find it almost impossible to-supply their customers with pork. .During the fall and winter all the pork,.except what was. retained for use by the farmers, was shipped east; and now the grocers will buy enough to supply tlie. balance of the populatien, and -‘l'g;ve' it shipped back: again. - This makes business for the railrodel. o 0 o R s e o 7ee e L

P ‘MurderatHokomo. - - " John Spruncefa‘resident of Kokor mo, Indi was kilted on Tuesday morning, the 9th inst,, by his son, William. The genior Sprunce was very abusive towagl his wife and children, and on the 2‘glo-rn'ixig; of the fatal affair ‘was abusing the daughter and mother.— Thé=sen tried to calm- him ap%rged him to desist, but the father turned upon him with -an iron poker and a stick of stovewood, which the son took away'fromhim.: Sprunce then rushed into the kitehen, as the boy supposed; to get a butcher knife. . The son fgl—_ lowed and struck him with a wagon felloe, crushing the skull.. The father died late in the evening. - Sprunce, who is only twenty years of age, left the; premises: and -has not been seen Sinee. ¢i el MaSrr iy

A very serious condition exists at Fall River, Massachusetts. - The great majority of 14,000 or 15,000 mill operatives are actually unable to earn but just barely enough to keep themselves from ‘freezing and - starving, while many - heads of families see nothing immeditately before them, but misery, want and debt. Under the reduction of wages of the weavers, men and women range from $5 to $6.50 per. week; of the spinners; who are all men, most of therh with families,from $9 to $11; of the ecard grinders, men, $8.25; of the picker ‘room, men, $6.,40;-of the strippers, $7; of the. fire-speeders from $0.40.t08880.. TN L T 2

i Three Saginaw girls of the Methodist persuasion having met together, concluded.to pray for the welfare of ‘their lovers, but the first one had not got very far ' along ih her petition ~when it was discovered that they were. ‘all engaged to the same man. The re~ ligious exercises were at once terminated and an indignation meeting organized, the result:of -which was that zhe’ gay deceiver was obliged to leave OWR: iy & 0 g

- The Legislature of Minnesota has | at last elected a Senator, Judge 8. J. R. McMillen, who received eighty-two votes against sixty-one for Mr. Lock‘ren, & Demoerat, Mr. ‘McMillen is Chief-Justice of the Supreme -Court of ‘Minnesota, 18 about' fifty years of age, a good Presbyterian, and if he is: distinguished for anything ‘else we have not been advised of the fact. = For that second Louisiana Committeo to réport that the flve men driven out of the Legislature of that State by the army and navy of the United States were .le%auy‘ elected, -would be an_unpardonable afftont to the Administration. Can’t a committee be “hired to report in favor of the army? and sggtes thatamarw;%*&gﬁ' ‘man there recently gave birth to a. il Shily the mother being the _wife of a white man, and_the child giving unmistakable evidence of its ne-

~ Because the Senate resdlved to build ~neither of the proposed new Asylums for ‘the Insane at Indianapolis, the papers of that city have suddenly discovered that the State does not need | those institutions ngar so badly as they at first were led to suppose, but they are unanimously of the opinioj that a new State house should be erected at the eatrliest possible mogReRL . T L ¢ - The Ohio republicans, at a meeting held at the residence of Secretary De‘lano in Washington, have resolved to ~open the canvass in Ohio at an earlyday. .It would have béen more sensi‘ble if théy had met and arranged for ‘their funeral expenses. The canviss ‘against Ohio‘republicanism has been -going on actively since last fall. o TRI MARKTETS., | Skl ST TOONTIR ) | ‘Wheat—white..... $lOO Hogs—live... ...... (0 ; ber—red . ...} 98 Hogs-—dressed...... 700 Ry®y.-L.i.......... 65 Tufkeys—=live...... 08 OMB. Lol Lo . 50 Chickens—tlive,...... 06 GOTRY L LL@ b BetEax L ok Potatoes,..... ..@...ﬁ518uner..‘........‘.g...:. 29 Blaxßeed. .. .o % 150 fard S 0 L. . 1215 Clover 5ced,...,. .. 6 00|Eggh/.............. 94 ‘W001,i.:.l .0l 45@ 50, Reather5......:..... 75 P0rk....... pérbr 20 00 Ta110w.... gaeunabl LY 5h0u1der5;......... 11!Timotby Hay... . ..1400" Ha!p5::..'...‘...».. @l3 Marsh Haye....'...‘..NC_0~ eoii RENDALAVIEIL ; Wheat—white..... 8102 Live H0g5..........86 /5 i Amber=red.... ... 100 Dressed H0ge...... 8 00 Rye ... t....... .4 65 Live Turkeys.....,. 06 Oats.w {oloo 5007 621 Live Chickens.o.... ®O4 GO E L 60| BeeSWAX, .. ......... -98 FPotataes,....o. Ur TB\ Bagter.. 0011 90 FlazSeed. ...l ¥SoBard, s .. L 0 12 CloverSecd.. ...@ 622|Bggn., 29, 17777 oy W 0011.:....... . @ ‘4s|Feathers, ...........; 90 - POrKS (ol L g, Of THlaw. - o b 06 Shoniders,...... ... 8 Timothy Hay....... 1609 ‘Hams-.“.‘,.....‘.-..@ . 12Marsh Hay........L 800 4 S o pRIeAGe. - ‘ ; Wheat—white .. § 8414/ Hogs—live. $775 @‘tss 15 Wheat—red /... .. ' 83| Mess P0rk..1805 @4lB 00 Cotn.. sl ... ... 6Bilard.. /.. 1397 @l3 30 L 5 S i )T R -\8gr1ey._.;‘.;.....’... A OUlHame. Ul 0l 9%

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