The National Banner, Volume 10, Number 26, Ligonier, Noble County, 21 October 1875 — Page 2

The Fational Banney § 4\&;&? e - - = "“ ': T i .5R ] ; . J.B.STOLL,Editor and Proprietor .. LIGONIER,IND.,OCTOB'R 21.’75 ~ Iv, as the Columbia City Post seems ‘to think, the finance question is a " hobby, we would like to' know what might be termed a vital issue. - - UNCLE BILL ALLEN takes lis defeat very philosophically. He sayshe cares nothing for. the office,and is glad ‘that he is to be succeeded Dy so good a man as'Gov. Hayes. 7 . '

. WHAT will temperance men say to the appointment of Zach. Chandler, a man who has scarcely drawn a sobér breath for years? ‘ls he a fit man_to occupy a cabinet position?. :

Tue Columbia City Post’s indictment of Carl Schurz, would hardly =stand” before an intelligent and impartial jury. Bro. Brown, after. the excitement, has subsided, will see that he has done grass injustice to a good, honest and fearléss statesman.

- TuoMAs JEFFERSON RANDOLPH died at his homie near Charjottsville, Va., about two weeks ago, aged 88 years. ' He was the son of Governor Themas Randolph and Martha Jefferson, daughtér of Thomas Jefferson. He was Mr. Jefferson’s executor, and also edited his life and weorks. '

* THAT Very “disinterested” and “impartial” commission appointed to investigate the charges of Prof. Marsh against the Interior Department and the Indian Bureau have made a whitewashing report, in' which they make scapegoats of one or two contractors, but exculpate ‘Delano and his son John. » iR .

THE REPORT of Piof. J.H. Smart, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, shows the school-fund to have increased $87,000 during the past year, and now .amounts to $897,800, beﬁldes which there are 11,507 acres of Congressional ~ schiool lands, worth 105,000. Indiana has just cause to feel proud of its- magnificent school fund.

- Gov. TILDEN, the World Says, is laboring to rid the public service of the corruptionists who are plundering ‘the people, whether Democrats or Re= publicans. Butthe Republican organs and leaders are laboring to prevent his accomplishing that important work. ~Every so-called Democrat who has found his plundering schemes interfered with has now become an’ally -0f the Republican party. - The duty of all honest men i$ clear. == . .

Tue Supreme Court of this- State’ last week decided that thé act passed by the last Legislature and which became a law by the approval of Gover-. nor Hendricks, requiring all: legal. notices issuing from the County Clerk’s office to be published in German papers as well as in Ehglish,_ 18" unconstitutional. The immediate effect of this decision will be the sus-' pension of a number of German papers recently established in various counties of the State.. .

- —————— . E— = i _ BETTING - CONTRACTS are in no ~ shape or form recognized by the high--“est judicial tribunal of . this State. " The_other day, the Supreme Court — rendered an opinion in thelottery case _-of Peterman vs. Rothrock, from Shel- - by county. Rothrock had ' one-tenth of a ticket, drawing the capital prize in the Louisville! lottery in 1872, and sold one-tenth of his-interest to Peter man. AS soon agthe drawing was ~ announced, Rothreck drew:the entire tenth from thé bank, and Peterman - sued to recover His-$7OO. He obtain- .~ ed judgment below, but the Supreme . Court held that-the contract was ille“gal and void, and left Mr. Peterman _ to pay all the costs and lose his money

- SaM CARY doesnot seem tobe appreciated in his own home. - The'majority against hinfin Hamilton county (Cincinnati) is 3,251, while Hayes’ maJjority over Allen-is ‘only 1,395. The Enguirer undertdkes to explain the matter by Sayiffg: “When. saloonkeepers are influenced to vote!for a man because he_drinks and his: opponent does not, it -is not remarkable that the latter runs behind in'a county like Hamilten.” Themanner in which the ¢hairman of the Democratic State Central Committee damns Cary, and the satisfaction with which the latter’s defeat is received by Democrats in general, seems to indicate that othérs besides saloon-keepers ran their little pencils over that ranting demagogue’s name. | :

.~ THE WHOLE. COUNTRY seems disgusted with the appointment of Zach Chandler as Secretaty of the Interior. The “World says this of Grants latest performance: “As an example of how nicely the Administration is re-

forming itself from within, the- ap- * pointment of Chandler is refreshing. "He is a man whom the Republicans of Michigan last winter declared to be

unworthy to represent tlie State in the Senate. He was the author of “that eminently moral sentiment that the Union would be good for nothing - without alittle blood-letting. He is ‘ therefore a curious constitutional ad--viser for a President professing a policy of peace and .justice. If the_ Force bill had passed, the appointment m¥d h:ivc;}g,eanlappropriate.” e

- JAY GouLp, it seems, is engaged in * working up & new railroad scheme of " great magnitude. The St. Louis Zimes, referring to the late visit to that city ~ of Jay Gould, Sidney Dillon, O. Ames,and other railroad magnates, says the_main pbjeet of their visit was to per- ~ fect wms to run through cars from Stz=Louis {0 SBan Francisco via the St. Louis, Kansas City and North__ern and.the Union Pacific Railroads . without -change, and ultimately from - New Ygrk via the New York Cen- ~ tral, thrpugh St. Louis. It'is further forestall the gctionof the National

_THE ENVY OF SMALL PC LITICIANS. ~ The course of the tw«) leading “organs” at Indianapolis— -the Sentinel and the Jourrial —in try ing to belittle | the great work of refor m inaugurated by Gov. Tilden, is apt'.y illustrated by a California paper which, with much force and- the utmost truthfulness, avers that “when a man is put prominently forward in the community on ‘accour?xt of his own integrity there can dlways be found ‘some person of opposite characteristics who will attempt to belittle his claims to public confidence by asking, with a sneér, if there is but one honest man: in the | world.” The Sentinel and the Journal join some of the small politicians of ‘New:. York in asking the people if they are going to: support Tilden on the ground that he is the only honest man in that State. They go so far as ‘to hope that there are other men inthe country who will not steal: Now these arguments will do to use when | ‘people can find nothing better, - Like the California paper from. which we quote, we are, hogvever, of -.opihion ‘that apeople who' .have been’ robbed in the city by Tweed and his assol ciates, and in' the State by the canal

ring, will not;be changed in their purpose to support an honest'man when they find one, by.a sneer. In truth, something more than honesty is required in the Chief Magistrate of a State. No one suspects General Dix’s personal .integri_ty',’ yet ‘he nodded through his -administration without f)estowing a thought fo the eanal ring, which was realizing millions: a year out of the people. General Dix did not probably lack courageto attack the ring, but he either lacked energy or.he distrusted his own. ability to attacksit successfully.. Governor Tilden commenced .on itin a ni:muer at once so masterly‘and determined . that the people, without distinetion of party, looked up to' him as their champion and deliverer. It will hardly.do now for any of the displaced politicians to ask detisively if Governox ‘Tilden is the only man "in" the State that will not steal, that such a fuss should be made over him. He is the one man who combines personal integrity with ability and reputation, which enables ‘him ‘to'serve the public efficiently; and if his life is spared he will yet receive fresh evidences of public-confi-dence.regardless of the envious disposition of those who aim to belittle his achievements. = . .

/THE South Bend Herald, edited by a son ‘of the editor of the Goshen Democrat, thus expresses-himself on the Ohio election: . S

“They (the Democrats) could therefore. hope little save from the direct issue of more currency. This they squarely made. ' On this they have been squarely defeated:. = Their defeat is something more than the simple defeat of the cause im Ohio. It effectuallygkills the question of more current cy anywhere else. The success of the Democracy in Ohio would have been the success of inflation. Nothing else. And once succeeding these, it would have gone on with the rally cry of the politicians untilit had become fixed in the national platform of the party. As it is now, no party will dare assume a responsihility already marked with defeat. o L

As the “old man” has.been vxgorously denouncing precisely shcﬁ*‘“éxpressions,: before . the “election, it is. new-in order to extend the reprimand to his own household. . . .

AT PERU; this State, the murder trial of one J.D. Vandérkarr, which had been in progress some time at Rochester, was last week concluded with a verdict of guilty and a sentence to twenty yeats in the Penifentiary. Vanderkarr, who was an attache of a house of ill-fame, shot and instantly killed ‘a young man named J. J. Wallace on the 12th of last February. Vanderkarr was tried in May and sentenced to six years in the Penitentiary. A new trial was granted on an affidavit that five of the jurors had expressed an opinion previous to the hearing of the case. . The second trial took place in August, but before its conclusion one of ‘the jurors was taken sick, necessitating a third trial, ‘which resulted, as above stated, with a sentence of a twenty. years’ imprisonment. A motion has now’ been made for a fourth trial, on the same grounds on which the: second was obtained. ~ These trials have already cost. Fulton county ,$5.000 and the people are considerably excited over the matter. . IR

_The Goshen. Democrat " concludes t Carl Schurz has made the finan—cial plank in the Ohio' democratic platform a mere pretext to get back -fite-the republican party. That is the ‘conclusion of every Democrat.— Strange that any democratic ‘journal should take up his defense.—Columbia “Ciity Post. egtae a 0 U _And'still mere singular that papers ~will persist in publishing paragraphs like the above in face of the fact that

r. Schurz, in every .one -of his speeches in ' Ohio, fearlessly and unei ivocally expressed his unabated opposition to the Grant administration, “to the inexpressible annoyance of the ‘republican managers. | ‘Mr. Schurz publi¢ly declares that his relations to the republican party remain the same ‘as they ‘were in 1872, and knowing him to be a truthful man, we take his -own avowal in preference to. the sayings of C. L. Murray. - - i

_ TowA held an election Tuesday. “While there is no probability that the Democracy stands a ghost of a chance of carrying that State, yet their platform, surprising as it may be to some people, is almost the same in senti--ment as the Ohio demoeratic platform, and it is therefore more than probable that the Democracy will make a very: decided gain upon their former vote in=lowa.. We look to see the republi«can majority ‘cut down at least oneJialf, and shall not be suprised if it ghould be mueh better than that.

~ “The above appeared in the Terre Haute Journal, Dan Voorhees’ home organ, several days before. the recent elections. Inasmuch ag there was no reduction in the ;republican majority in lowa, we infer that the rag baby is not overly popular in that common‘wealth, and that the Journal is not a good prophet. - i

Tuz latest eléction réeturns give both branches of the Ohio Legislature to the Republicans, and -Gov, Hayes about 5,100 majority ovet Allen. Sam Carey is defeatod by about 10,000 masoE a Tavs i Spubion: ma

- s SENSIBLE ADVICE. . ‘The most sénsible view of the Ohio election that we have yet noticed in any journal favorable to inflation is‘li that expressed by the Terre Haute Journal, which says: ; S ‘We confess to a disappointment in the event in Ohio. We had hoped for the election of Gov. Allen, but the people of that State appear to have desired otherwise, and we are Democratic enough to acquiesce in the people’s will. . If the finance issue as ad vocated by .Gov. Allen had the :approval of the people of Ohio, then we ‘'suppose he would have triuinphed, but as he did not, the conclusion is inevitable that they did not favor his views. . L

This financial issue is a new one; one upon which honest men very widely differ, and one, too, which may shiver both parties into fragments. There are edrnest ‘men on both sides, and neither of the great parties of the country can claim a priority of interest in it. - It is an issue affecting individual interests more, perhaps, than any other ever before the American people, and it-is an issue likewise which may absorb the attention of the -masses almost wholly, or it may, in a short time, be dismissed from their attention entirely. : If what is known as'the greenback poliey is right, it should be fought for to the bitter end. Ifitisnot all right, it should be sifted and that which is proper be adopted, and that which is not rejected. : ~ If Congress, when it assembles in December, should repeal the Sherman bill, that certainly would be a step in the right direction, and whether it ~should stop them or not is a subject yet to be more fully discussed and more clearly understood. All thatwe ‘now say to our friends is, “be’ sure ' you are right, then go ahead.” ;

. We rather like the general te}xfpl' of the above quotation. = It indicates a &’tsposition to pause and ponder. This is hopeful.” The animated discussion of the finance question has produced many excellent results. - It has removed a variety of false notions, corrected numerous misstatements and alleged “facts and figures.” Thinking men have'become convinced that inflation is a humbug and a bare-faced fraud. They now realize that prosperity can only be reached by a steadfast adherence to true and tried economic principles, and by rigid economy in every department of the gov‘ernment. o :

“If the inflation organs would generally*follow the Journal’s example, we have faith to believe that a programme might be agreed upon which would bé satisfactory to all who believe in a sound monetary basis but differ as to the time for specie resumption. The so-called resumption act of the late Congress, a sort of caucus patch-work; ought to be carefully revised so asto make the measure practicable. Coupled with this we should. favor a revision of the tariff, a reduction of salaries, the abolition of needless offices,. and tllefcreagion of a sinking fund for the redemption of our depreciated currency. - Will the Journal join'us in a movement of this. kind? - <~ EER— ! Rev. 8. H. Rhodes’ New Home. in . California. [Extract:from a letter to Miss Alice F.Stansbury.] - MARYSVILLE, CAL;, Sept. 27, 75. ©* ¥ % We are all well at present and like our new home very well thus far. Had a delightful trip, with only one exception, the time was entirely too short. *

.~ We left Elkhart on Monday, Aug. 9, at 4:20 A. M., reached Chicago at 9 A. M., and at 10 we started on what we at first thought would prove a tedious journey. But in this ‘we were happily disappointed, as there were so many strange sights. Everything was new and of interest to us. I think the Union Pacific Railroad is truly a marvel. Some portions of it wind around the mountains and other parts are cut through the solid rock. The only way we could determine the ascent to the summit was by the attachment of a second,engine. I think it is beyond the power of man to give a correct description of the scenery of some portions of the country thr,ough“which the route passes. . One must see for oneself to believe.” I do ‘wish you would come and make us a long visit, and see the many wonderful sights to be seen in every part of this State. Everything looks new and strange here, especially all kinds of flowers and shrubs, which grow to an immense ‘ size. Oleanders, geranéums and Calla lilies remadin out-doors the entire year. The English ivy covers the sides of houses, and fuchsias grow to-an almost incredible height: Fruits of almost every variety flourish here as well, and some varieties better, than in their native soil. 'There are apples, ’peaches ‘and figs on the parsonage lot here. The house is completely furnished. : F ey

- Conference is now over and to-mor-row morning we start for our new home, which is about forty miles from. here, by stage. The Presiding Elder asked Uncle, before Conference, which he would prefer, an appointment in the mountains’or in the valley; and as it is a great deal more sickly here, and this place is subject to-freshets, he thought a mountain appointment would be preferable. o There have been two freshets here within the past year, eaused by the overflow of the waters of the Yuba and Feather rivers, the beds of which are constantly filling up from the mines.! . . el

lam writing under difficulties. We are all “torn up,” our goods are being {aken away and we are preparing to start on our journey. I think wé wilk all take a good long rest when we get settled once more. It is seven weeks to-day since we'bade farewell to Indiana, and our old home there. Butl hope to see it again. My post office address will' be- North San Juan, Nevada county, California. ‘

e ' ANNA RHODES. e EE—- . For the enlightenment of Brother Mays, of the Auburn Courier, we beg leave to state that we give prominence to Carl Schurz’s great speech because it is an unanswerable argumént, against the fallacy of inflation. As regards ' future political relations, | we are content to let coming events disprove the Courier’s speculations, AN Indianapolis dispateh, dated Oct, 19, says that General Sol. Meredith is dying at his home in Cambridge City. Tt is also stated that Dr. Athon, the dery of SiMte, s I ku: Guoasadiode: e R s T

THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS. ITS COMMENTS ON THE RESULT ! "IN oHEO. ¢ No Tears for that Little Bag‘iar‘d, . On the first page of this week’s BANNER we reproduce’'the comments of fourteen leading democratic journals on the result of the Ohio election, and below we add those of seven others. - We make these extracts from alist of upwards of fifty prominent and influential democratic journals, giving preference to those which vary most in expression without differing materially from the others as regards sentiment. Using the language of that sterling paper, the F't. Wayne Sentinel, we beg our readers to observe that these comments “are democratic ’: and not republican; that they do not represent a narrow section, but almost every State in the Union; that they are not obscure county papers, but the largest, most widely read, and most Imfluential papers in the country. ILet any one, who cares to make the experiment, find an equal number 6f newspapers, of equal inﬂueneé, representing the democratic party, and which are in favor of inflation. An_ attemnt to produce such a list will result in a flat failure, thus proving, more satisfactorily than the most elaborate argument can do, that the democratic party, as a national oxganization, repudiates repudiation.— Even in Europé the defeat :of that movement has been hailed asja good “omen for the futm'e,\bf the republic. The conflict has been regardedteverywhere, not as a struggle between' two politic"al parties, “but het_:ween two principles, the ane representing hon“esty, and the other dishonesty. “_’l‘he' opinions of these, democr:ztic(‘,_ﬁpwapgrs as to the prospects for the party next year are genérally ‘hopeful. - The belief is prevalent that the defeat of in- _ flation will unite the pa;rty on a hard 1 money, platform -and a strenuous and unyielding opposition to the administration.- With these principles. inscribed on_ their banner,’ they will march to certain vi€tory. But there Jmust be an honest platformn and thorough union, or a tremendous triumph for the opposition will ensue.” ' -

- - NOT A PARTISAN VICTORY. | Milwaunkee News (Democratic)., There is not a politician in town so unfair as to claim the Ohio result as a republican partisan victory. It was simply a-victory of specie over rags, for money. ; i THE UNWISE LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRACY RESPONSIBLE. - . | - Detroit Free Press (Demoeratic). The narrowness of the margin by which Hayés has been successful and the manner in which his majority has been made up, indicate very clearly that, if Ohio Democrats had not been committed by unwise leaders to doctrines whi¢h were not only undemoeratic but were easily capable of gross misrepresentation, a sweeping demoeratic victory would have been the result. - | _+THANK GOD FOR THE DEFEAT. Milwaukee 'Seebote (German Democratic). We wish and hope the democratic party may be victorious next year, we hope it in the interest of the Union; and we .mourn not over our probable defeat in Ohio, for the reason that it will guarantee our victory next year. We thank God for the defeat; for a victory of the Ohio Democrats would mean a split. up of the party, and a victory of the Republicans next year, four years more of Grant, corruption, and fraud. ° ; sl

WHAT IT SHOULD HA VE BEEN. - Brooklyn Esdgle (Democratic).

We wish a great cause had not suffered from little advocates. We wish a majority of 5,000 -had been one of 100,000. We wish the Republicans had stamped: out the heresy and the heels of square Democrats had been only an duxiliary, not an indispensable force to crush the hydra. -But great good hasbeen done. The Republicans have been forced to hard money. The democracy has been lield to it. Repudi‘ation has been smashed. B

NO STEPS BACKWARD FROM RESUMPi Sin : TION..

Davenport Democrat, (Democratic).

The Ohio election has heen one of the most momentous events in American politics since the war. lad the Democracy been successful. the inflation fever, would have run through the country like wild-fire, and resuited in an- incalculable harm to all kinds of business and industry, and to all classes of people. Now, no party will dare to take up arms against national credit, and there will be no steps backward from ultimate resumption. : ' INFLATION IS DEAD. Baltimore Gazette (Democratic). The bright side of the picture is this: Inflation is'dead as far as democracy is concerned, and no longer hangs a dead weight upon the party; the men who disgraced the name of democracy by its advocacy must take back seats; the apologists and time servers who pandered to dishonesty because it was formidable, must be content with humbler positions; only courageous leaders'can head the column in the next assault. This much we have learned by the costly appearance, and the reckoning will assuredly be heeded. . ’

NO NEED OF MAKING FINANCE AN IS- : 1 | SUR. i Bt. Louis Republican (Democratic). 1

_ There 'was mo need whatever for importing the money question into the Ohio canvass; it was a wanton act. - The people did .not demand it, It was not disturbing the popular mind; had been apparently quieted by the legislation of the late Congress, and in that repose it should have been left. Besides, the Democracy could certainly have carried the State without it. If the “Ohio canvass evolved an issue that utterly obscured the faults and crimes of the republican party, divided the Demaocracy, and conjured up the spectre of repudiation to alarm the country in the back-ground, it is because the Democratic leaders inh the State would have it so; and if what was an all but certain promise of- vietory three months ago has been changed into’a defeat that may not be retrieved -for years, thege leaders are to be thanked for it,

| A Curious Case. 4 - A boy was killed on a railroad near Indianapolis, one day last week. He was attempting to board a passenger train, 'and fell under the wheels, his body being cut in two at the hips. A Mrs. Stern was standing near, and, supposing the victim to be her son, after recovering from a fainting fit, ‘washed and dressed the body and made arrangements to have & taken home. A son of the woman, 20 or 21 years old, also identified the body as that of his brother,. and assisted his mother in caring for it both deeply lamenting their logs. While thus en#aged, the real son angrgfh%pg&n; an_appearance, very much to their surprise and joy, Wﬂm more singular is that the face of the degeased boy was not in the least muZrßavw, AU DUEaF W 4 m‘ﬁga '%sw@?

LETTER FROM GOSHEN.

GOSHEN, Oct. 11, 1875. To the editor of The Nationa! Banner:

It was with mingled feelings of indignation and disgust that I perused the Goshen Democrat of October 6. Indignation at the impudence exhibited by its editor. and disgust because of the disgrace that the- once honored organ of the Elkhart county Democracy has_fallen into .the hands of a blatant demagogue .and, unprincipled ranter. o 0

Still smarting under the eastigation which Tur BANNER administered 1 this'political charlatan, for his shame--ful avowal that in his way of thinking, no moral respensibility attached to the declaration of' principles by a political organization, and remembering the féarful slanghter which resulted from Trs BANNER’s bombshells in ‘the camp of C. L. Murray, this political . pirate, with unblushing effrontery, aims to cast ‘suspicion upon ‘the political “integrity of a' journal avidely noted for its steadfast adhererrce to, and able advocacy of pure and genuine democratic principles. I venture the assertion that for: downright ‘dishonesty and low cur‘;ning,'iu attempting to mislead and distort, no. journalistic ‘driveler can excel the author of the article in the Democrat headed “A Democratic ‘Banner’ Trailed in the Dust.” | . -What is the basis of the Démocrat’s labored article? A simple analysis of #a powerful argument ‘against the theory of inflation; ‘a brief outline of an address which. the ablest writers l and deepest thinkers throughout the country, with one accord, pronounce unanswerable; a commendation of a masterpiece of oratory; a just recog- | nition of the overwhelming Idgic of a clear-headed political economist. This, in brief, is the offending of THE BANNER; this the pretext for accusing its fearless conguctor of recreancy to.an organization of which the dccuser, C.

T Miu‘ray, is not even a member! Yes, Isay that C. L. Murray is not -a- Democrat, not a member of ‘the demgcratic party,-and I say it boastWing]_‘y‘;and with unalloyed pride. For, be it? L_fnderstood, the sturdy Democra¢y of Elkhart county do not recognize ‘as one of their number the “putrid ‘reminiscence” who insolently, audaeiously and. swaggeringly 'ar:rog"ates_ to | hinmelf_authorify to define tlie status of individual Democrats, and ‘to exer-' cise a sort of censorship over their utterances. It excites my indignation to fever heat when I reflect that this venomous defamer of democratic men and measures, this vile calumniator, ‘this dirty tool of whiggery and republicanism, this outcast and bushwhacker, now assumes, to play.the’role of high priest and dictator in the democratic household! Does he imagine: ‘that the Democrats of Elkhart county: are abject serfs or poor, ignorant fools ? Does he lay the flattering unetion to his soul that he will be accepted as the expou,ndeli of demoeratic gospel while his contracted mind and ‘puny heart are still corrupted with the heresies that inspired his unserupulous warfare against the democratic party® from his boy-hood days up to the year 1872°? . - N : Do not misunderstand the im port of these remarks. ~Although- a life-long Democrat, I am not of the close communion school. . Quite the reverse, I take warmly by the hand and welcome to political fellowship every individual who seeks admission into the democratic hqusehold from considerations of patriotic duty and devotion to the true principles-of Democtacy. . But such has not been the case with C. L. Murray. ,He has siniply become a hanger-on tor the democratic army, because he was disowned and discarded. by the Republicans. He has not even assumed the name of Democrat. And.ever since he has been hanging around the democratic camp, he has assiduously labored to quietly lay the democratic party in the tomb and construct over its ruins a-“people’s party,” of which he might become the exclusive owner and keeper. Knowing that he ; would be obliged-to take a back seat in a democratic convention, last ’yeal‘,*! lie manipulated things so as to “trail the democratic banner in the dust,” ‘ and fling to the breeze an insignia of his own. The motive is now well understood, though few were apparently . able to “see through'it” at the time: He attempted the same maneuvers in the congressional convention, but his designs were ‘happily frustrated by men who had their:eyes wide open. His congressional maneuvers in behalf of such Radicals as Judge Clapp and Col. Tucker are too.fresh in the memory of his readers to require elucidation. iy ;

But'l need not limit my observations to conventions to establish these facts. The columns of the Democrat,; since (in an evil mioment) it unfortunately passed into Murray’s hands, attest the truthfulness of every word uttered upon this point. A more conspicuous lack of ' consistency and of principle has, perhaps, never been exhibited by any public, journal.. Professedly an oracle of reform, it does not scruple in the least to lend its “influence” to shielding vice and corruption. It has viciously assailed and traduced some of the best, purest and most highly esteemed members of the democratic party, while those who are the very opposite have been lauded to | the skies. It is notoriously destitute of prineiple, advocating one thing this week and championing conflicting Joctrines the week following. Itis for hard money to-day, for non-action to-morrow, and anti-resumption the day after. Sometimes it is all three | in one issue. He saysin his lagtissue’ that while listening to some of the inflation orators in Ohio he “heard “ nothing inconsistent with our (his) “own views and ‘convictions upon, “ that question, ar'Pd nothing but what t“ we (he) could fully: endorse.” I “haven’t the least doubt but such is the exact. trufh. Indeed, it would be difficult to conjecture anything that could be said from the-stump, of a demagogical character, which Murray could not easily reconcile with his | “convictions.” His conscienco is of | ‘such an clastic nature that expansion | * [¥he above letter was designed for | z"ﬁ” g _’? ,w s ;

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.,

The 'Mishawaka Enterprise boasts of the boss ear of corn, containing over 1,500 giains. . e

Four hundred and six students have. been enrolled at-Asbury University the present year.: . A counterfeiter recentlly victimized the citizens of Fowler, Benton county, quite extensively. S Bainbridge, Patnam county, exhibits a fat boy 17 yeats of age, who weighs 2103{ pounds. o A man 80 years old, sowed and harrowed 5 acres of wheat im one day, near New Albany lately. A marble quarry, equal to the best American, is said to have been discoyered in Jennings county.

* Sullivan county has a tea-kettle 240 years old, and a smoothing iron purchased in Ireland in 1745,

Logansport has published a pronunciamento against tramps, threatening their imprisonment. ey Joseph Gaser, of Fort Wayne, was killed by bad air in a well which he was eleaning on Saturday. ; Mr. Sterry Daily, who lives five miles south of Kentland, and is 84 years of age, stacked- 36 loads of hay .ih two days, 4 few weeks since. % :

The managers of the Reform Sel : ol desire to find homes for 50 iboys who have been reformed and now-desire { * find employment oytside of the Instithtion - v : s

There lives in Charlestown a spry old lady whose residence is‘within four squares of the railr)ad, and shej never in her life saw a locomotive or railroad car. - She is blinH. /

Geo. C. Thatecher, of Shelbyville, has been posted by the Grangers ‘of that region, for whom he has been furnishing supplies, as a .dealer in short weights and a frand. - " . The Union School building at Auburn, was totally consumed Dby fire, last Sunday. The building was a handsome three-story structure, and was valued at $i5,000. Insured for $3,500. el

John S. Mather, of Middlebury, Elkhart Co., finds that 153 acres of land yields him 2,745 bushels of wheat, or an average of nearly 18 bushels to the acre. Of the 153 acres, 75 gave a total crop of 1,580 bushels, an average of nearly 22 bushels to the acre. “‘A good yield. ‘ e

The government has given orders for the manufacture, at Jeffersonville, of 22,000 blouses, lined ;. 24,000 blouses, unlined ;. 20,000 pillow-sacks; 30,000 pairs of drawers; 4,000 stable frocks; and 4,000 bed-sacks, single.. This will give employment to the sewing women of Jeffersonville, ‘the coming winter.’ ¢ -

The largeést plate of glass ever made in the U. S. has just been turned out by the New Albany ‘glass works. Its dimensions are as follows: 198 inches_ long, 98 inches wide, which is 13434 square feet, or 19,904 square inches. The glass’ was shipped to Indianapolis, to be:inflated in one of the fine business houses in that city. L | The Indianapolis Journal has been sold to Judge E. B. Martindale and | W. R, Holloway. - The former is one of the most prominent of the capitalists and solid men of the city, and has at times figured prominently:in the republican party. .Col. Holloway was formerly one of the proprietors and editors of the Journal. -B. W. Halford takes the position of managing editor. South Bend T'ribune :-John J:Smith, of Harris township, lost twelve sheep last week, killed by wolves. Mr. Kupp, -4 mneighbor, alsg had one killed. A wolf, was seen shortly after killing a large lamb, trying to drag it through the fence, but becoming aware that its operatigns Wwere observed it took to its heels and was out of sight in a twinkling. The wolves are thought to be a raiding band from the forests of Michigan. . : oy ' T - B—- ' A Black Abortionist. The Elkhart Review says that there is a woman of that city, “in middle life, lies at the very point of death, even if she has not,now passed beyond { the sufferings of earth, as the: direct | result of an abortion produced upon her by a man -in Elkhart ‘who has made this hi§ business for some months. The woman has admitted to her nurse that she‘was the unfortunate victim- of the means used by this so-called practitioner'to rid her of an approaching disgrace. The man has been known to be engaged in business of this character, but this is'the first case that has come before the public through the sufferings of this vietim. Much as the woman ‘may be at fault there is-a sin and a crime lying at the door of this many who calls himself a physician, that he cannot expiate by any tears or words of contrition. He should be brought’ to account’for his deeds in some way.” | The Dr. Montgomery, referred to in the above case, is-a full-blooded gentleman of African descent, and as in-dependent-looking darkey as you will find anywhere. . I% is said he had re- - markable success in his large practice in Elkhart, in this peculiar line ofd business, and this is the first oyer-dose he has given. His aim was to destroy the squabs without material injury to the old birds. He is now under arres} on account of loading too heavy.: Bug he thinks this will be a good advertising and his practice consequently enlarged. - Dr, Montgomery has many | friends ‘in Elkhart who will:see him through. His services there are said to be invaluable and indispensable. Hav-/ ing young ones has long since been voted a bure in the best society and highest fashionable circles.—Goshen -Democrat. b e

e el E———— Delano’s Successor. 4 | WasmsaroN, D C., October 19, 1875, The: appointment of ex-Senator Chandler, of Michigan, as Secretary of the Interior, has been ratified to-day by the formal acceptance and actual induction into office of Mr. Chandler, He took the oath of office at high noon at the White House, in the executive: presencg:, and at once attended a Cabinet meeting. The appointment, it need hardly be said, excites no approving comment here. The Republicans very generally were not only anxious that the President should appoint some Republican of prominenee and character, but one who would strengthen: their canvass in Pennsylvania. The selection of one who has been repudiated by his party and his State, and who is otherwise disqualified, not being a lawyer, for the Secrefaryship of the Interior, is a marvel to-the few remaining supporters of the Administration, who, in common with others, are generally not astonished at the President’s appointments to office. If Attorney-General Williams had not been removed from the Cabinet and the supplemental force had not failed at the last session, the selection.of the blood-letting Michigander would-have ‘been most appropriate. = U S S e A\‘;\ ZAcH CHANDLER'S appointment, a Washington telegram informs us, is no surprise to those acquainted with the close personal relations existing between the President and Mr. Chands ler; but it is a sove grief to many of | the faithful, who expected some better result from the Ohio election. 1t | ‘may be said for Mr. Chandler that no |

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~ The Woonsocket High School, R. L., was burned on: Saturday last, loss $25,000. o ¥ o Prof: Jenney says in a late report that there are 800 square mileg of gold’ lands in the Black Hills. . = , The fine residence of N. K. Fairchild, at Geneva ILake, near Chicago, was destroyed by fire on Saturday last, loss $50,000. L A terrible tornado passed over Milford, Pa., on Saturday, doing immense. damage, tearing up trees, blowing down houses, &e. : i Daniel Waybright, a Dunkér minister, of Milton, Ohio, cut the veins in 'his neck and arms and bled to death; John Crispell, a farmer near Grand Haven, Miclifgan, cat his throat with a razor. G ; :

- John Bulliner and Alfred Baker, | the \Yillianpsqn county, Ills., banditti, ‘'who were tried for the murder ofCapt. Sisney have been found guilty and sentenced to twenty-years in the penitentiary: o e ‘ - | Debrot, an Italian, ravished.a thir-teen-year-old girl, near Alpsville, Pa.,. and sooner than allow himself to be arrested plunged a knife'three '{imes nto his breast inflieting wounds which will prove fatal.: G Francis. D. lLescale, a millionaire, residing near New York City, Cartier, his son-in-law, his: wife, two -sons and daughter and Floquet, a steward of the -house, were brutally murdered and 'the house robbed one day last week; S : (301[._ J. H. Cocke and B. McHenry had a politieal dispute on Saturday, at Senatobia, Miss. The dispute ended in a fight, McHenry wounding Cocke: mortally,” by ajpistol, and being himself so badly|cut’ with a knife that death was theiconsequence.

- Clark Edmonson, of Atlanta, Georgia, the negro charged with con#mitting a rape on a white woman near that place, was taken out of jail by two or three hundred people, on Sunday night, and hanged on 'the gallpws that his brother was hung on a week before for a similar crime. :

Sheriff Goodheart brought a prisoner into the court house at Bloomingtou, 111, and placed him in=the dock. ‘While waiting the opening of court, the sheriff wrote some letters, then: got up and walked out of the court house, forgetting all about his prisoner. When he thought about'the prisoner he hurried into the court.house, but his bird had flown and has not beén seen since. !

: Aboeut $35,000 worth of lace, silks, and velvet trimmings, jet and gold beads, ete., recently imported' from England, but undervalued in invoices presented to the customs officers, were seized yesterday im the Free-stone Warehouse, in New York, and at the store of one Livingston, in Broome street. The. capture of the original invoices led to the discovery of the aftempt to defraud the revenue.

American peaches have at last crossed the Atlantic and reached Lon--don in good condition. They are much better than the tasteless and high-priced native product, and the success of the present enterprise will: doubtless stimulate” a large export trade from our stores in coming years.” A deck passage with plenty of fresh air was found far more effectual than packing the crates below, with the troublesome addition of ice and a fanning machine.- .| . et

The steamship Pandora has arrived at Portsmouth from a voyage of discovery in the Artic Ocean. On Beachy Island the storehouse of provisions, clothing, ete.; left for any -vessel reaching that point and needing them, was found ! #t everything in the most unutterab confusion, no doubt the work of polar bears.. -At '‘one place visited by the Pandora, the graves of Sir John Franklin’s unfortunate party were found, the head boards were still standing' in good order. : :

A quiet and well-governed region in ‘Wisconsin has just been the scené of -a lynching affair. Two brothers who were in jail at Stevens Point, awaiting their trial for the murder of the sheriff of the county, were taken from their cells at night by a body of armed men and hung to a tree until dead. ‘While there may have been no room for doubt as to the guilt of the purisoners, yet the fact #hat thers' was not lacking the: most ample guarantee that they would be duly tried, ‘convicted, and punished in the regular course of law, renders the lynching wholly indefensible, and makes the mob which took the law intorits own hands guilty of a cold-blooded, oatrageous crime, for which they should be rigorouslygheld toracconnt: o - -»-‘_B-—-54).-w-—‘~~. e i i !

Gold in the Black Eills. Prof. Walter P. Jenney, chief of the geological expedition to the Black Hills, and assistants, returned to Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, on Saturday last, having spent five months in the hills, and made quite thorough ex‘aminations of the whole country, and mapped it from: Belle Fourclie to the South Fork of the Cheyenne river. He reports gold fields extending forty miles north from Harney’s Peak, and twenty miles wide, that contain gold in quantities that will pay from $3 to %5 per day to the man, and that there are bars on numbers of streams: that will pay much more than that. - The: water supplies are -ample for working purposes, and the fall sufficient to car1y the water from the top of most of the bars, and allow the tailings to be readily disposed of. The gold ‘is coarse, scales good, and is easily separated from the gravel and sand. The Professor has with him an ounce of coarse gold that two men obtained on Spring Creek with ten. hour’s labot. An.assay of: this gold shows it to be worth’ $19.43 in coin to the ounce. Prof. Jenney corroborates Gen. Custer’s report of the hills, and says that they will support theusands of miners when the government opens them to settlement, The valleysareall adapted to agriculture,: and the hills and canons to stock raising. | Rainfall is plenty, and timber abundant. His official report will be made from New: York probably before Congress meets. i : 5 X i

The Indianapolis Journal has again changed hands. This time it goes into the proprietorship of W.R. Holloway and E. B. Martindale. Nick. Ruckle retains the job department and the buildings. Of course the Journal will now come out as a full-fledged. Morton organ. ‘The change was made, we understand, with this idea as the head-light. Well, if the Jeournal can succeed in making the people believe that brother-in-law Oliver is the greatest man in America; if that distin‘guished individual can stand on his legs long enough to wave through a campaign the ensanguined shirt, ana. gather beneath its bloody folds all the. soldiers and colored men of the nation, his White House aspirations may be realized. We hope not, though.—Margan Co. Gazette, = . = i : | s e — e Goop TeEMPLARS.—TIe Grand! Liodge of Independent Order of Good Templars met in Indianapolis last"Puesday. One hundred and twenty fdelegﬁgwere present, and all the officers. ‘The Hon. J. J. Talbot is Worthy Chief Templar., His report. shows that last year’s work of the ‘order in%}ﬁseaﬁajs the most satisfacl) fory known in i history. On b grgunlnd; wid W 0 aaded. to the.

_ENGEL & CO’S ADVERTISEMENT. LARGEST AND LEADING GLOTHING AND HA% | HOUSE' IN | .~ NOBLE AND ADJOINING GOUNTJES. - = : TDATINGD QMO 0N L o *—- '-FOR—'*‘E' '. - : L l g i ; ¥ § {@_‘ o ) . ,_‘ ) i . - Men's and Boys’ Wear ! And-at Lower Prices than the same class of Goods are fold - . rforanywheré in Northern s - Clothing for Men, Youths, Boys and Children. G TenlEl TN D e T { | : k Hatsand Caps, Furnishing Goods, Trunks, Satchels, ! - Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestings, Jeans, Shirtings, e 'Buﬁalo & Lap Rabes, and Horse Blankets, ALL at PRICES that MUST Attract Attention.: - We “Make to. Order,” as usual, every description of Men’s. and Boys’ Wear at “Popular Prices.”” Do not fail to look through: | . our immense stock‘l,)efore’: 3buyingj-.w It \’VilllPay! BB . FENGEL&CO., e ekt atde Mt neraee. Y. ot Kendallville, Ind. | October Tth ABT3-10:11 .o~k SR Rl e A e oy

. . SHINKE & BRO'S,, ‘: ‘e A.udexamlne onem‘the .‘ LamgERY, o+ e e | AND MOST COMPLETE Fine Boots, . SHOES, GAITERS, W WiLL XD TAKE 4 Back ks SREAT FOR ANYBODY. .

- Cask 41?-(_&&'?1,,71{():)'_' : }lﬁiiles’,.' . Lined Boots made toorder andkeptonhand TRUNKS!? The .L;evst;v ipl}ute '\i“u }{oblé aind nd_loi'ﬁ ‘nchum‘u Substantial ;l‘li,(],g“‘ﬂl-lrﬁb‘l‘@ Trunks - Nigomtep, ik indlann, . |

i He _Htis just réceivgd'a?svxy)lendvid auormjlehf o . Trun¥swhich e willseliet - ~ Very Low Prices, : vmu.ch"cheaper‘ than si'miis;i-biu}l‘tic_le' em'a .be pm.'v | S th,sedvelsewherg. Call and m S jnmwnssfmdsmnws. ‘F;alirme‘l;s'l call #t-n%y éh‘(:)‘;‘)"&i;d ast;erta m;p‘rivé‘es ﬁn’ harness, saddles, whips, &c. lam selling at bet- . tom figures, and warrant my goom‘bc first= | - class—durablesnd substantiefh ‘.Ojct. 29,1874.-97 o A:PETZ QUARTER BONDS S .v";QF‘fPI;iE‘ e Industrial Exhibition Co., “FIVEBOLLARS EACH.

Will buya quarter Bond of The Industrial Exhibition 00, of New York. | fi 0 .« : Each Quarter. Bond participates in Foalj series. allotraents every year, until it is'redeemed. | The followin, gremiums shoty what any Bondmay recéive. ,X _quarter: Bond would recetve one guarter of the below named premiums. . - ' ' JANUARY AND JULY. - Cash. 1 preminm 0f... il Lol L $lOO,OOO 1 premiumiof. olosii vl il oS d 104000 } premiomol oo oo de sel sl 108000 1 PROTBINm OF L 5, st 7 s 00 | Tpremiemiol oiiil Lt e iBO ] 10 preminms of $5OO each. .. iv..i il ’s._ooo{ .10 premiums of 200 each.... . i .ot 2,000 27 premiums of 100 each. ... . ... .5 2,700 48 premiums of 50 eseh ... oL, 2,400 900 premram® of “.2Lench. .. ... ii, 18,900 TPotal.. ..o tilignin i faes, $150,000 . APRIL -AND OCTOBER. Cash. Ypreminmol .. .. iA 08 95,000 I premiumiofi.. .00 sl s 10000 Jdpremianyofi isl £ Bl 000: ~Lpromigt of oo oil ey 3.833 3 premiums of sl,oooeach.. i ....... 3,0 10 premiums of 500 eaeh:, . ......... = 5,00 10 premiums of 200 each....c..u..... 2,000 29 preminme of - 100 each ... .. ...... 12,900 44. premiums of .80 each,;.,......:... 2,200 3900 premiuma of |9l each Lo Gl T 81,900

T0m..._'.:'......T..‘.'..;...,..*..,......'.31—55,0001 The Company is not responsible for any money Sent, except it be by check, postal order, draft or express. payable to the m‘gei‘ of The Industrial ExhibitioniCe & - ! : o ! Circulars sent on application, : "Address, - ChaEtiag I INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION CO., . 12 East 17th Street, ‘ 10-21¢f - .. NEW XORK CITY, SACK BROTHERS, Bakers & Grocers. LA Rt BRI Ss S e B s RO T ‘CholceGroceries, Provish Notions,&

F. BEAZEL, \' § L Manufacturer of , b T , ':‘ e £ \ Saddles, Harn €SS i H ,& Sl § ¢ Ty e !: 5 ! i - . —AND— b : - Hom : | < ey . |s e « Iv 3 s i . "TRUNKS. LIGONIER, INDIANA . i ot The pms)ricto.r will be pleased at any time t.p WwWa ¢ ‘on all who'may wish anything in‘the line.of :. .

HARNESS, 7 v s e SADDLES; e ae - o SBRIDLES, o et : L WHIPS, e b s n ODLTARS, g . HLY-NETS, S : : L BRUSH’ES,; _'.An.l i,; i t € CAKRI?RS‘ &c., and in fact everything pertaining to thin” - R e < of business. i

t Especiia/l'aitt'eution is called to the fact that' l;c is | now engaged 1n the mannfacm_x:ing of all kinds'e L TRUNKS, < @ - Which, in i Style, Finish, Durability & Prics, Are far superior to‘tho'!e of eastern manafacture. Call,, See and Buy. . “October 30, '73-97tf F. BEAZEL." CABINET SHOP e L - | o AND: = ; G i : A 4 o CABINET WARE ROONS / n:" ! D 4B B EKFRR W-‘oulm-espéctfully announce to the citizer ¢ of, Noble county, that he haz constantly on handalarge and superiorstock of . e e [ i VaiE i 5 . CABINET WARE. | e Cl‘on.si,st'ingiin‘phrrbf ; DRESSING BUREAUS. ' : - WARD-ROBES. : TABLESUQ—L’ o L BEREDN . . ' LOUNGES, | bk , CUP-BOARDS, . e | 2 y... ’/ % ' ; 1 -‘MOULDING ~ CHAIRS AND BEDSTEADS, Andin fééht éveiything usnally keptin a First class Cabinet Shop. Particularattention pajd ! tothe quertak»ﬂuyßusinqss. B COFFINS ALWAYS ON HAND. And made to order, upon short noice. = Also ail kinds ofSho-;{ Work made to orger.: Ty Furniture Ware Rooms on west side of Cavin Street, corner of Fourth street, Ligonier, Ind. B~ A good Hearse alwaysin reacliness. : Ligonier, May 24,1871. 2 o

FARMERS, :and all'others wishing to buy : ,‘ , : _.O : I, ‘0 ; Fresh & Choice Groceries at bqt{qm figures, gfe réspecthxlly invitecto call on A.GOTTLIEB, : .«’ ¥] ; ’ .' { ) {Successor to Clem. Kanfman,) - | MIDDLE ROOM OF THE BANNER BLOCK, . : L 2 FLE Fth ;' LIGONIER, -- - INDIANA. i

E Just reeeived-an T e 5 ot 7 % ofjFresh Groeeries, which will be sold at prices ; . delying tompetition. Call and convince e e R AN P e _ HIGHEST PRICES = .. RGel G etk Sl e ﬁ’gj* oy s s O wounnitry P'roduce & TRy IR SR e R R B «\-;\a,