The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 45, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 March 1875 — Page 2

Che Fational Banney b 2 ' e . : : o] > 4R O i k&* J_;’ = ,:\*‘ ',‘.. . (\:\ e S L ORRANY WV : = i B. STOLL, Editor and Proprietor. LIGONIER, IND, MAR. 4th, 1875. - ABOUT twenty . fisher. vessels are froze up at Cape Cod, coast of Massachusetts. . A sufficient force of men is left on board to take care of the vessels when the thaw relieves them of their banishment. They are well supplied with provisions.

LETTERS from Indianapolis inform us that while legislators freely acknowledge the injnstig‘é done to the gentlemen who were last year elected County Assessors, by legislating them out; of office, there is no prospect of anything being done to modify the law as it now stands.

- GEN. BURNSIDE sees “no great occasion for alarm” in the election. of exConfederate officers to Congress. If after Burnside’s experience with these gentry he is not afraid of them, it is hard to see why some of the “trooly loil” patriots hereabouts should be so terribly - frightened by their presence ‘at Washington. : P

A RING of speculators.are moving on Peoria, Illindis, with the view of fim’ g thatcity from its present ‘inhabitants by means of an old French Jand claim running back tothe day of iohn Law and the Mississippi Bubble, t is almost time that the statutes of limitation should run’' against such titles.. s

.+ A REPRESENTATIVE writes us from Indianapolis that there is a disposition on part of the Senate to defeat the ‘House in almost every measure of jmportance, and ;that very. much of «his condition of affairs is due to two or three pretended Hemocrats who have practically allied themselves with the Republicans.~ We are grieved to note this evidence of treachery on part of men from whom better things might'be expected. =

~ THE LaPorte Herald is of opinion that “the present Legislature ought to give us a good, wholesome liquor law. The House represents one class, the Senate another class equally numerous and respectable, and it seems to us that between them they ought,in a spirit of compromise, agree pon a measure at once judicious and satisfactory. Let each side yield some thing, and there will be no trouble in’ arranging the matter by.a committee of conference.” . . it

DuruTH, which wasonce “destined” to become the “great city of the Northwest,” is rapidly falling into decay.— Its hotels are: closed; new buildings ‘are not even dreamed of; workshops re standingidle and deserted. Ware‘houseés contain no articles of merchandise; elevators<have nothing to do; steamers havé nothing to load or unload. The unfortunate individuals #who invested-tireir »{:nds in Duluth ‘property are ab@at the “bluest” set of fellows that can be found in' America.

~ POLITICAL GossIPS in Washington. - are Very anxieus to get hold of a cor- - r®spondence ‘that has taken place be- ~ tween Vice Pregident Wilson and Gen- ~ eral Longstreet. While the ex-con- - federate general is reported to have - frankly expressed his disgust with - Kellogg, Packard, Casey and the rest “of his new political associates, the Qé President with equal frankness 8 confided to his correspondent his . Sentimenis of extreme disgust with {Grant’s administration. These muStual confesslons of distinguished re“publican leaders should not be with“held from the publie. : :

i FEBRUARY 12 was the anniversary SPf the birth.of Abraham Lincoln, and sBhe “bloody rebels” and “banditti” of “Wew Orleans closed their banks and “Public institutions on that day in re“Bpect for his memory. The people of " Louisiana, as well ds the rest of the £ South, hold in the highest respect the ¢ memory of the illustrious President L who.endeavored to restore good feelBing at the close of the. conflict, and ithey bitterly contrast his magnaniSmous course with the brutality of iGrant, who, with the phrase “let us EBave peace” on his lips, puts the baygonet at their throats, ——— - W—STATEMENTS comeé from Nebraska hat many of the reports concerning he .devastation . caused by grasshepers are greatly exaggerated. The repesentations of a certain General Brisne, who has for several weeks, been Metive in the East soliciting aid for the' ebraska sufferers, aré*especially susfPpeted as heing overdrawn and not SEntirely destitute of sinister mofives. e is at best not a trustworthy person, 8 we chance to know from personal nowledge. Something of an “explamation of the conflicting reports may je given thus: Many of the grasshopjer sufferers were previously in fraightened circumstances; hence itis jut natural that they should deseribe ®Beir present condition in as vivid col- " W% as possible, in order to be relieved " S distress. In this they have pretty SWell succeeded, while at the same time jeir cry of impending starvation has pgapletely checked migration. = The ber phase is, as a matter of eourse, by annoying to owners of real estate I'business men generally,whose prosts have been considerably damp- . They- are therefore solicitous wipe out the unfavorable imprespn conveyed by the grasshopper sufyers, by alleging that the damage e by the grassopper plagte s not gar as bad as Wm Our-own pelusion is that a little, allowance safely be made all around, but b aid is still needed in certain log an o tho appasisof 2o lerers, on the strength_of rep- |

CONCERNING THAT APPORTIONMENT, The Lagrange. Standard and the Waterloo Press appear to be considerably worried over the action of the Housein voting fora re-apportionment of the State, and especially over the proposition to. unite Noble with DeKalb and Steuben with Lagrange in the election of two Senators. The Standard comments in this strain: - “Under the proposed new law, Lagrange and Steuben are to constitute one District, and Noble and DeKalb the other. - Let us see now how much fairer the Democracy: proposes to be: Noble and Lagrange ¢ounties cast at the last election, for. Secretary of State, 7005 votes; Steuben and DeKalb, 6226. The voters of the four counties were represented as nearly equally as they could possibly be by a District formed of whole counties. If these counties were represented as proposed undpr the new bill, a Senator .from ‘Lagrange ‘and Steuben counties would represent 4858 votes, and a Senator from Noble and DeKalb counties, 8373 ‘votes. One vote in Lagrange.and Steuben counties being equal to nearly two votes in Noble and DeKalb.— ‘This is the Demecratic fairness proposed!” S

. Coming from a paper which has, to the best of our knowledge, never raised an objection to the notoriously unjust -apportionment Qf the‘preceding» Legislature, this species of argument must be acknowledged to be quite refreshing. = But, conceding for arguments sake, every point raised in the above quotation, we beg the Standard to show wherein an énjustice is done by the proposed change?

Here is a democratic House which says to the Republicans: Noble, DeKalb, Steuben, and Lagrange counties are.entitled to two Senators.. Two of these counties, at the late election, gave democratic, and the other two republican’ majorities. - We hold it to be unfair that 1700 Republicans’ of Lagrange county shall deprive the 2300 Democrats of Noble of representation in the Senate, or that the 1500 or 1600 Republicans of Steuben shall veto ‘the choiee. of 2000 Democrats of - DeKalb. We therefore propose to allow. your 3300 Republicans in Lagrange and Steuben to send one Senator, to Indiarf@polis, while we claim the same right for the 4300 Democrats of Noble and DeKalb. ‘Can there be anything unfair in Sucl an arrangement? * The facts are, that neither the Standard_nor the Press would have the slightest objection to the proposed apportionment but for the fact that No--ble ‘and DeKalb would beyond any reasonable doubt elect a democratic Senator. That’s where the shoe pinches. The disproportion of voters would otherwise be of little concern to them. Their party bias is just strong enough to enable them to express faith in the doctrine that the two smaller counties shall dictate to the two larger ones by whom the latter are to be represented in the Seénate of Indiana. .

. \BEECHER’S DEFENSE., - Gen. Tracy opened for the defense on Wednesday of last week, concluding his 600-page argument on Monday last. He sketched the characters 'of Tilton and Beecher, the former’s envy, his lapse from orthodoxy in religion and strictness inmorals, his treatnient of Mrs. Tilton, the latter’s appeal to Beecher for interference and protection, and his plans with Henry C. Bowen for Beecher’s destruction.— During his ‘second day’s aigument, Gen. Tracy developed more fully the theory of the defense, directly attacking Moulton, charging Tilton With conspiracy . with Moulton after Bowen had joined and .desérted an earlier conspiracy against Beecher, and holding that the interview of December 30, 1870, was contrived by Moulton and Tilton for the sake of conquering a'peace by bringing against Mr. Beecher a horrible and unexpected charge, not to be resisted ‘without long scandal and suffering. The third day’s argument’ was chiefly devoted to Moulton, and Beecher’s “apology.”. The most forcible point of Tracy’s address was made Monday -afternoon, when, after considering the circumstances under which Mrs. Moulton's evidence had been given, he promised to prove beyond the shadow of doubt that the vital point of it was utferly false, namely, that the four hours’ interview Mrs. Moulton described when she tucked Mr. Beecher up on the sofa with an afghan and urged him to confess his crime to his church, was a myth—a flat invention; that there was only one day, according to both Moulton’s. and his wife’s evidence, ‘when|it could have taken place—June 2, 1878—and that on that day Mr. Beecher would prove an unquestioned alibi. L R s

“Three-witnesses were examined on behalf of defense, Tuesday ; their testimony is not of great importance to the general public; B it

o hea gy W RS D, o Ly “The present iniquitous Congress expires to-day. Since our lastissue it has added a few more to its already long list of infamies. Beast Butler succeéded in pushing through the House - that abominable measure known as the “force bill,” while, the Senate finally gave its sanction to that pernicious and unconstitutional meas’u;e styled the “civil rights: bill.” The fatter has been signed by the Sphinx of the White House, ‘and will therefore be recognized as a law until the. ‘Supreme Court shall have knocked the bottom out of the concern.. The Senate hias\also passed the House tax bill; whiskyrtobaeco, and all.. The Louisiana compromise resolution was carried in the House, and the harmonizing jprocess will at once be tried at New Orleans. To the credit of .the House ‘we record the fact that Grant’s outrageous “ scheme for destroying thé government of Arkansas was repudiated by a vote of 153 against 80.

l .-WE make the gratifying announcement thét‘thevlgdiana Legislature will ‘adjourn on the 10th inst~ Only for six days longer shall we be under the necessity of perusing its dreary proI i o TR . THE bill to repeal the local option law in Pennsylvania passed the House ‘on Tuesday morning, by a vote of 124 wee . o

- INDIANA LEGISLATURE. : Senate Proceedings. : Feb. 24,—A bill was introduced to give prosecutors the right to prosecute before Justices.of the Peace.- A number of bills were passed—allowing the admission of inmates to the reformatory institution for women and girls at the age of sixteen; reducing the population of cities from 2,500 t 0 2,000 suppressing houses of ill-fame; reducing the time of recording deeds, etc., to forty-five days. Also, House bill repealing section 55 of the general banking act. - : ' Feb. 25.—The afternoon session was mostly taken up in considering the Fee and Salary bill. ‘ln the eveninga session wads held to consider the subject of railroads, but no definite action wantaken. | co

Feb. 26.—A lengthy report from the select ‘committee on the Wabash and Erie canal was read. ¢ The Fee and Salary bill occupied the remainder of the forenoon session and a portion of the afternoon session, when it was passed. ~Mr. Sleeth’s bill to require the fees of the Auditor ‘of State re; ceived from foreign insurance companies to be paid into the State treasury, was passed. ~ Gichy March I.—The Governor sent in a message. vetoing enrolled act 89, authorizing the organization of campmeeting associations. Senate bills were passed as follows: Authorizing the organization of building and loan associations; constituting the Governor,Secretary and Auditor ofState a commission on public printing, with power to appoint an expert at a salary not to exceed $9OO. - i boy

House Proceedings.

‘Feb. 24.—The Senate joint resolution memorializing Congress on the subject of Wolf Lake harbor was tabled. The Committee on Scientific and Benevolent Institutions reported in favor .of the following appropriations, for the year ending March 81, 1876: . Insane Asylum, $135,000; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, $67,500; Blind Asylum, $32,500; Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home, $38,000; and.for the year ending March 31, 1877, a like amount in each case. Referred to the Ways and Means Committee. ~ The bill to provide for a new State house was indefinitely postponed by yeas 63, nays 82, and a motion to reconsider was tabled. The Committee on Reformatory Institutions recommended the apprqpriation of $BO,OOO to purchase 165 acres of land for the House of Refuge farm, in addition to that now held. House bill 118, regulating the office of County School Superintendent, was taken from the table, amended by substituting the provisions of House bill, 345, rejected by the House some days ago; and passed. Mr. Reno’s bill to I'ang a fund by the levying of a three-cent tax to build a new State-house, was tabled and” a motion to reconsider tabled also. ; g

Feb. 25.—The House spent the greater ‘part of the day in discussing the lunatic asylum bill: The matter was finally disposed of by recommitting the House bill, providing for the erection ‘of an additional asylum on the g;‘ounds of the existing asylum, with an amendment reducing the proposed cost of the building from $500,000 to $350,000. The Senate bill (No 16) regtilating the sale,of intoxicating liguors was. taken up and amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the House bill to license the sale of intoxicating liquors. ' Feh. 26.—A number. of bills of local application were passed; also, the following: ' To provide for the speedy collection of money due laboring men from employers;, regulating and licensing the tariff in intoxicating liq.uors (being the Senate bill amended so as to make it identical with the Benece bill); providing for the erection of an additional insane asylum at Indianapolis, to cost $350,000; making a person accepting a bribe to ?dte equally guilty with the person offering it; providing for the appointment of gas commissioners, and to protect consumers of illuminating gas. = The bill to require railtroad companies to fence their lines was defeated—yeas: 36, niays 55. A resolution was adopted providing for night sessions all next week, |.- o

Feb. 27.—The Clains Committes reported favorably on the following ‘claims -J. J. Bingham, $1,500; Patrick Shannon, $3,360; Martin A. Reeder, $2,715.72; Leander Farr, $36.30. The report on Shannon’s claim was tabled, and the others concurred in., Among the bills passed were the following: Senate bill 77, amending the law in reference to changes of name; House bill 419, requiring county treasurers to make semi-annual statements to the county commissioners, and an actual exhibit of the funds; House bill 417,exempting from execution benefits of: widows’and orphans derived from benevolent and life insurance associations; House bill 498, requiring county commissioners to annually appoint a committee -of four—two men and two women—to visit the county poorhouses qnarterly and examine the condition -of the inmates and report to. the Auditor the manner in which they are provided for. j : March I.~—The House took up, amended and passed its own fee and salary bill, refusing to strike out! all of the énacting clause and insert ‘the Senate Bill.: Among -the other bills passed are the following: House Bill 266, protecting bottlers of mineral water, etc., in their trade marks. House ‘Bill 892, giving parents and guardians residing within a school distriet’ the right to'choose the teacher, designate the course of study,ete. = . - "~

THE NAME MUTILATOR of the Indianapolis Sentinel speaks of the edli: tress of the Elkhart Observer as “Mrs. ‘Malroy, of the Elkhart 7'émes,” and that, too, in reporting Mrs. Molloy’s recent eloguentlecture in behalf of the temperance cause, at the State capital, ‘Weknow of no decent excuse for such amazing stupidity. . ; 1% - GEN. LORENZO THOMAS died in the city of WashingtonaD. C., on the 2d inst,, in the 72d year of his age.

.. ALBION LOCAL. : It has often oecurred to me that the 1 BANNER ought to have a local at this place. I propose tostep in and occupy the vacant ground and-jot down from% ‘week to week such’ items as I think may prove interesting to your readers. . The County Commissioners will meet to-day and will probably be in session all week. Of their doings I shall have occasion to say something next week. One week from to-day the Circuit Court meets, and there will doubtless something occur that may be interesting, for Ilearn that there is " breach of promise case from the western part of the county that will engagegthe attention of the court. So let the young men who are paying attention to the young ladies go very slow, unless they mean matrimonial ‘business. = o % - The Amateurs are busy rehearsing new pieces and will soon be ready to give us another theatrical entertain‘ment,of which more hereafter. I notice % around town hand-bills that Prof. Leslie, the music master, will give'a goncert at Phillips’ Hall on Saturday eve‘ning next. The programme is a varied one and doubtless the entertainment will be interesting. : Another change has taken place at the big brick store. 'C. B. Phillips has associated with him in busingss Mr. Frank Clapp, eldest son of the Judge, and “Pat” flies around as if he meant business. . . B LS

' A strange rumor ‘was afloat on the streets the other day, that the express agent and telegraph operator at this place had made an attempt to poison himself; but the timely aid of the doctor snuffed out the catastrophe.— Bad whisky is said to be at the bottom of the business. : -

Sheriff Eagles is breaking himself into work, and I predict that he will make an efficient officer. Sam Foster has been appointed’ his deputy. ExSheriff: Hough, who goes to' Pennsylvania on privaté business this week, will de’term,ine by the time he returns, whether he will set up for a lawyer or preacher. Dave thinks it a bad time just now for him to preach, owing to the Beecher Scandal, as he thinks that great preachers are not only subject to great temptations but also -to the uncertainty of “mutual friends.” S !

Prickett is hard at work rehearsing the part assigned kim in the dranra about to-be put on the stage. 'The most thrilling scene will be when Beecher, .in , the *anguish of his remorse, confesses his guilt to Mrs. Moulton. Those who have been privileged to see Prickett in his masterly character of the Great Confessor pronounce the performance not only very touching but thrilling in the extreme, and well calculated to draw tears from the most unpitying eyes. ' As soon as Spring opens there will be great activity in building, and by the time winter sets in again, Albion can show a fine addition of houses. I notice that J. M. Dénny; Esq., has been busy gathering materials for his new brick block. - Mr. Harvey has also been laying in huge piles. of stone for the new jail, and the work will be commenced at once as soon as the season will permit.. When finished, :the county.will have one of the most convenient and handsome structures of the kind in Northern Indiana. One of the most conclusive reasons urged by those who favored incorporation a year ago, was that we could then so readily get rid of the hog nuisance in our streets: Still the hogs hold high carnival, and look where you will they may be seen performing their gymnastics: Why don’t the town authorities take steps to abate the .nuisance, and.compel owners to pen up their ‘hogs ? ’ \ The protratted meetings which have about closed up were not very sucs, cessful in'catching sinners. Not that I would intimate that our people are so hardened in sin that no religious impression can be made on them, but on the contrary; we are a ggodpeopl_e, and hence our preachers have little to do in the sinner-catching business. .I note this with much pleasure, as ‘it speaks volumes for our town, and the success of our preachers in keeping us in the way of well doing. il In the event of the B, P. & C. R. R.. still further reducing fares to the East, which seems highly probable, several of our citizens contemplate an excursion to Baltimore and Washington. I notice that Ratigan, proprietor of the depot saloon, who' was hustled off to the county asylum, is around again; now that his poor whisky has thawed out I presume he will open out again, and we may expect high old times at the shanty as usual. o _

- Committees continue to call around in behalf of the grasshopper sufferers of the West. There seems to be no head or method to this grasshopper business in this part of the country.— If you have any relatives or friends who have suffered from the locusts, send your contributions direct to them. I have no doubt that money enough has been and will be subscribed and paid to buy up nearly all Kansas and Nebraska. Besides, accounts from there are very conflicting, and would lead one to suppose that the damage done by the grasshoppers was not half as bad as represented. Yet it is true, notwithstanding the reports to the contrary, that much damage has been dong and much suffering entailed on account of the ravages of the locusts. And the needy:should be helped by those who are more fortunate, for we may have the grasshoppers here as destructively as they were in Kansas and other parts West. Potato bugs started from Colorado, where it seems the grasshoppers came from, and they finally got here; so it may be with these Western locusts., Let us be eharitable, for we may need charity some day. Mareh; tut 878 o Al

‘GRANT’S relations, far and ‘near, were all supposed to be in snug official positions. Still another has just been ‘discovered in Charleston, West Virginia, and Grant has appointed him United States Marshal in Colorado Territory, | e

INDIANA NEWS ITENS.

Congressman Orth has been appointed and confirmed minister to Austria.

Gov. Hendricks says he will not call an extra session of the Legislature, intimating that 60 days of that body is quite sufficient. e : . The spelling match at Richmond for the prize of 40 acres of' Missouri land was held Tuesday night of last week. A photographer named Elisha Mate was the victor. : i

- The. Clay county (Ind.) coal operators have issued a statement to the public, setting forth the fact that the strikers are attempting to:keep up prices that would force Brazil coal from the market. s

Indiana-has one mile of railroad to, every 433 inhabitants. The average cost of the railroads of the State was $50,000 per mile. Railroads are finished or being constructed or contemplated in almost every county in the State. The Monticello Herald says that during the recent cold spell, a train on the New Albany road was blocked up near Chalmers, and before relief could be obtained seveial cattle were frozen to. death and others badly injured by the cold. The owner .of the stock, with a view to bringing suit against the railroad company, had an appraisement made immediately and his damages were assessed by the committee at $1,500. 2

' The Legislature, by their silly legis-’ lation.and utter disregard for the/interests of their constituents, won the name of “The fool Legislature.” If the present legislative body don’t get down to work and enact a few good laws, repeal some bad: ones, and above all, attend to that littlereduction of salaries they were wont to beguile the honest voters'wjth, they will pass into history as “The d—d fool Legislgature.”—— Wabash Plaindealer. . ! .

“A lease has expired to 220 acres of land in Baltimore and the property reverts to the Chilcoat family, of whom there <are members in this city. The members of that family and heirs to this vast property valued at $90,000,000 met at Fostoria, Ohio, on the 13th of last’'month to take measures to secure their rights. It is said that their title is clear, and there is little doubt but they will succeed -in establishing their jclaim thereto.. There is also a legacy of $80,000,000 in England which they hope to secure. All whq have the name Chiicoat or Chilcote in their family records sheuld imake themselves known at once.—EHlkhart Rev. " Burned to Death. : The Muncie 7'imes publishes a detailed account of the burning to death of old Mrs. Cline, the mother-of the clerk of the Kirby House. On the day in question the old lady was up stairs in her room, just .over the kitchen in which was her daughter-in-law. The son went to the sfable on an errand and was gone perhaps 15 minutes.— On entering the house he smelled something burning and soon found that it proceeded from his mother’s room. He rushed up stairs and the room was dense with smoke and heat; he could not enter it and could see nothing within..whatever. Directed by a groan he found his mother within, lying prostrate and insensible on the floor, with every vestige of: her clothing -burned off and the body literally baked t 6 a crisp. She lingered insensible and dying for about fifteen hours. An hour before her death she returned to consciousness, but so completely had the fire done its work that she did not realize her condition and did not seem to suffer any pain. All the explanation she gave of the transaction was that her apron caught fire, but she put that out.’ .t

And Still Another Fire.

On Friday night last, just one week from the burning of Moon & Co.’s shop, Bradley & Morton’s shop, in the east side of town, was reduced to ashes. The shop contained one eighthorse power engine and other machinery,by which they were doing an active business in'cutting\up walnut stumps and other small timber ‘for table legs and other uses in the furniture line. The business was one just suited to the locality in respect to the facility of obtaining material, and had just fairly got under headway. A blaze of a few moments, though, wiped it out. The fire occurred about eleven o’clock at night, and is supposed to have caught from the furnace in some manner unknown. The loss is estimated, we understand, at $lBOO. The parties will be unable to rebuild or to continue ‘the business. The misfortune is to be very much regretted.— LaGrange Standard. | i

Faith that You Can Tie To.

Gen. Tracy indicated the line of defense in the Beecher trial in his opening speech yesterday. Beecher is innocent ‘of adultery, first, because he is 4 minister of the gospel. He didn’t commit adultery with Mrs. Tilton, secondly,because he was astrong union man. Thirdly, he didn’t fracture the seventh commandment with Mrs. Tilton, because he was a lover of young men, and Tilton was a young man. In the ‘fourth place Beecher didn’t, because he wrote that Cleveland letter from which Tilton dissented. In the next place Beecher didn’t, because Tilton was jealous of Beecher’s literary ability and fame. These are nearly all the reasons why we should disbelieve the positive testimony of Moulton, Tilton, Mrs. Tilton, and Beecher’s letters. For the sake of the case we are glad to have something on which to deposit our faith.—Cincinnati Enquirer, Feb. 25th. :

JASON BAzoo BrßowN has quit being one of Grant’s officers in Dakota and commenced the practice of law at Seymour. ~Jason is a terrible parody on respectable humanity. — LaPorte Argus. ; : And the present Clerk of the Houseof Representatives at’ Indianapolis does himself no credit by entering into partnership with said “parody:” The ranks of the inflationists ‘don’t seem to have swelled to any-alarming extent in the election of United States ‘Senators so far this Winter. The fact is that bubble is about pricked.—Ew. Of course it is. - Humbug and ;nonsense cannot successfully resist the ‘ power of truth. o : i e ¢ E—— i ; Two young men from the North who committed 'suicide in New OrL leans, in 1871, on aceount of failures \ in business, are in General Sheridan’s list of murders for political reagons. ————-——-—‘o-———-*——- ¢ - CounT BISMARCK has been granted six months leave of absence from the duty of governiug the German empire. For that time at least. there ought to. ‘be a rest from the ultramontane dis-| SUBSIORS. . D S 0 S The Chicago T'imes says the storm of Monday last was one of the severest' of this severe winter in that: city, ‘Travel on the streets was greatly im~peded, and, unless impelled by ‘neces‘sity, few ventured out of doors. Over ‘a large extent of territory snow fell. ‘to an extraordinary dept ;::d@lgai' : railway trains, obstructing roads, and destroying telegraph wir 1+ ‘age done cannot yet be calculated. '

GENERAL ITEMS. - ¢ Foufhundredand five Indians were killed and 227 were captured by United Sates troops in 1873. i The relations between France and Germany are officially pronounced to be of a most cordial nature.

‘Considerable damage has been done by overflows in the Susquehanna River, Penn’a, caused by.ice gorges. A heavy - snow-storm prevailed last Monday in the vicinity of Chigcago, and trains were generally dela-yela.‘ :

Parson Brownlow turns up again as editor .of the Knoxville Whig and Chronicle, Some people never will quit. ' i ' - In reply to Tracy’s slanders of Moulton, Woodruff & Robinson, his partners, publish a card warmly indorsing him.. T ;

The brain of Ortwein, the murderer hung at Pittsburg the other week, weighed 5214 ounces, three ounces above the average. o ; The mean temperature the past winter at Fort Snelling has been two degrees colder than that of any previous winter in forty-two years.

. Supplies destined for the Kansas sufferers, unless§ consigned to the Central Relief Committee at Topeka, will not be_carried free by the railroads, -

~ Polygamists, or those expressing conscientious scruples about finding indictments against polygamists, are excluded from the Salt Lake Grand Jury. : ;. : g A telegram from Chattanooga states that the back-water from the Tennessee River still covers the railroad track, obstypcting the running of the trains. i e

.. D. R. Locke, “Petrolenm V. Nasby,” has disposed .of his interest in*the Toledo Blade to his former partner, J. P. Jones." He will, however, continue to edit the weekly. j The agent of the Southern Express’ Company at McKenzie, Tenn.; was assaulted in: his office last Saturday night by three robbers. He captured one, and the others fled. , - A dispatch from Floréuce, Arizona, says that the man recently arrested there Tias confessed that he is the veritable Old Bender. He is expected to arrive at Topeka in a few days. :

The indemnity for the victims of the Virginius massacre has been placed at sB4,oooin a convention that will be signed by Mr. Cushing inrmediately after presenting his credentials. : A ‘man’s leg was found hanging under a car last Monday at Dunlap, lowa. It is supposed the man had been frozen to death and his bedy covered with snow, had been runover by the train. : o C - The Minnesota House has passed a bill repealing the railroad law: of last winter. The bill appoints one Commissioner, with advisory duties only, indicating a great change in popular sentiment.. - e G

An immence . Catholic temperance demonstration was held at the Maryland Institute, Baltimore. Father Didier administered the pledge to 3,000, rising to their feet as it was administered. The Catholic societies of the city were present with banmers and regalia, and the meeting, in zeal has not been equaled since; Father Matthew was there., - |

_/Three hundred striking miners are on the rampage in the vicinity of Hazelton, Penn. On Saturday last they drew the fire from under the boilers, stopped all the pumps, set fire to the engine-house, and shot the engineer at Buck Mountain. | Several other persons were assaulted, and similar outrages are reported at the Loyal Hanna Mines, near Latrobe. | : 'Fires last Saturday: Inthe Walcutt building, on High street, Columbus—loss, $20,000; the Herb House of the Shakers in Shaker Village, N. Y.— “loss, $50,000; Cliff Locomotive works,. Scranton, Penn.—loss, $500,000; Lookout Flouring Mills of J. E. Whitney (& Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.—loss, $50,000; at Wichita, Kansas, $25,000; the smoke-houses of Washington Butcher’s Sons,, Philadelphia, Penn.—loss, $BO,OOO. ol

An-inhuman wretch in Hardin Co., Towa, adopted a novel way of getting rid of his wife last week. He took her out on the prairie, with the mercury at 20 degrees below zero and set heér out on the snow, ahd then cut his team loose from the sled, and started west. The woman would have frozen to death had it' not been for parties who came along a short time afterwards, and hearing her cries, piéked her up almost senseless. :

. A terrible flood is sweeping down the Tennessee valley. All thelow lands are submerged, the railroads are“cut, and much damage has been done to “property of every description. Other tributaries of the Mississippi are reported as rising rapidly, andthe indications are that much' damage will be done by the overflow. The flood of last spring in Alabama and Mississippi was one of the most disastrous on: record., This year promises to eclipse it. , . .

A terrible row took placesat Bucyrus, 0., Friday evening, at a double wedding, the occasion of the marriage of two daughters of James P. Boyer. A lot of young fellows were “belling” the parties, when one of the bridegrooms fired five shots inte the crowd, one of them taking effect in the arm of a son of Hon. T.J. White. This so exasperated the. “bellers” that for some time thingslooked warlike but.a crowd of citizens assembled and dispersed the mob. Y

The Force Bill.

.The House of Representatives at midnight on Saturday ' passed the Force bill by a vote of 185 to 114,— about 40 absent. Assuming that the democratic vote .was 80, it follows that over 35 Republicans voted against the bill and 36 others refused to vote. The Republicans in the House not voting for the bill, therefore, numbered 70. = The bill passed by a vote of 9 less-than a majority of the whole ‘House. Before being passed it was amended, so that the power to suspend the habeas corpus was limited to two years, and the territory within which it may be suspended was confined to the States of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas. Practically it authorizes the President, if so disposed, to control the elections of these four States, or to have their votes reje;c%ted in the Presidential election of 1876. L : The bill is ill-advised and is unnecessary. It embodies the malignity of Ben. Butler and of the rascally tribe of adventurers in the Southern States who have done so much to destroy the republican party at the South and weaken it at the North. It is Butler’s parting legacy to the republican party and te the country,—a legacy which, should the‘bill bécome a law, mayprove fruitful of disaster, strife, and. national excitement. Disearded and repudiated and rejected from Congress by his republican constituents, this man_ Butler has devised this bill to punish the part%‘ghat becomes responsible for it, The President might, with great credit to himself, veto the bill.and reject the. dictatorial- power placed at his disposal possibly that he may uge it to his own injury.—Chica-. Mfi S ,qfi“’:’*%

Ernest Ortwein, the confessed murdeg; «0f the Hamnett family, near Pittsburg, last April, was hanged in that city on T uesdayof last week.” He murdered Mr. Hamnett, his wife, two. daughters and a hired boy, his motive being robbery. - S a . DIRD s JOHNSON.—Near Johnstown, Licking Co., O, January 25th, 1875, of congest*on’o‘t the lungs, Abraham Johnson'; aged 44 years. R

‘Deceased was buried by the Masonic fraternity, of which order he was an honored member. He had numerousrelatives residing in this locality. . _ PARKER,—In Springfield, Noble county, Febmarygsm, 1875, Lydia, wife of Ralph Parker, deceased. !

Mrs. Parker was for years a faithfal member of the Free-Will Baptist Church. The funeral services were held bysgév. M. M. Dodge, after which her rewnains were interred in The Springfield Cemetery. St A MERE S,

DRAIN.—In Perry twp., February 19th, 1875, of. dropsy on the brain, Robert, son of Rebecca Drain,’ aged 1 year and 24 days. & L S

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| LEIGONIER - {TOY FURNITURE COMP. Our new Factory is now in full'di;érmon, and we ..~ are prepared todo all kinds of 7~ - Weood-Werk | ‘l‘ G<y ahy 3 4 § 5 cP el R 3 -, :.to order, such as : i S e "w":-_‘- ‘;k’j? s w L ; b ’.~~ I R S : 2 A A 2hs 0y ; e fle 2 by JIG SAWING, . b i e BAND BAWING,. TURBRING o iol el DRV NG, PICTURE FRAMES, AT e RS e AT TR T A FRAME PICTURES T 0 ORDER G Rl BRI R it | Now is the tiing to.gat all of yo b SRR v G e e on s s il se el s eaig L ) f év*\u‘r.g”fi\fik"”‘\i"’—— B v i ‘i A | Larior Drackeis, 10y rurnivure, e T R eMU SRR SV e R %‘g*’”»” el |.o wayof ine Jig Sawing and Carviug. - - Ligonier, Ind,, Jan, 21, 1876,—30tf ~= = . .« B T e B T P 0T SPR otk o M iyt o e S i