The National Banner, Volume 10, Number 39, Ligonier, Noble County, 20 January 1876 — Page 1

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OTTT7 E J° DRANK CITIZENS BANK, . _ LIGONIER,' < INDIANA. l‘irst-Clas; Notes wanted at a Low Rate of Discount, & : All parties having “Public Sale Notes,” will do well to see us befora disposing of them elsewhere. * : Exchange Bought and Sold, and Fareigi'x‘ Draftsdrawn on _all the Principal Cities of Europe. ) : i Agents for First-Class Fire and Life Insurance Companies. . |'STRAUS BROTHERS. " M. M. RITTERBAND, Notary Public. | Ligonier, Ind., Dec 16, 1873.-6-26 - * %aiih e L SJFANMES M. DENNY, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. s Uidice n the Soury touse, < ALBION, -.- 1 -.+ - IND, 815 = L. COVELL, e A ttorney-at-Law & Notary Public - Garrett, Endiana. | Office in the Seeley Block, west side Main Street.

£ D. W. GREEN, 1 . » i) J3iage 3 ¥ D § Justiceof the Peace & Collection AL, O_mce7_-sec«{l;d"SLufy'; Laudon’s Brick Block, ‘LIGONIER, - ° INPIANA.“g T . C.FANCAMP, ; ATTORNEY AT LAW, ; | nigomier, :.: : Indiana, _ Special artention given Lo collections and conveyancing, and the writing of deeds, mortgages, and contracts. » Lezal business promptly atténded to. Office over Jucobs &—Goldsml?h}g Cash Store. 9-50 el . G ZIMMERMAN, - Attorney at Law & Notary Public, 2 . Office over Gerber's Hardware, ‘Cavin Street; : : Ligonier, Indiana. ’ Jaibuary 7. 1875.9-37 | . 74, BE. KNISELY, = ATTORNEY AT LAW! ; LIGONIER, - -.- INDIANA. - g=—Ofiice on second floor of Landen’s Block. 7-2 - WM. B. McCONNELL, i Attorney at Law and Cir"l cuit Prosecytor, ANGOLA, -: : i ! ~INDIANA. All profpéssinnal business promptly and satisfac- | torily attended to. . 9-39 ALBERT BANTA, © Justice of the :Peace & Uonveyancer. , LIGONIER; INDIANA. . : Special attention given to conveyancing and collections. Deeds, Bonds'and Mortgages frawnup and alt legal business attended to promptly anei: accprately. Office over Straus & Meagherisstore, 4 k : May 15187315-8-3 I, WAREBMAN, ? ‘ peapiel . i L ! N Tnsurancs Ag't &Justics of thePeac, _ ~ KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. -Office with A.'A. Chapin, Mitchell Block. Will . receive subzcriptions to Tur NATIONAL BANNER. ~

«Dl{. R. DEPPELLER, : =7 . TROSCOPIC AND ECLECTIC ! PHYSICIAN. Office over Cunningham’s Drug Store, east gide ot Cavin Street, Ligouier, Indiana.. . 10-2 [ood P. W.CRUM, | : Physician and Surgeon, " LIGONIER, i INDIANA, Office,over Baum’s Grocery §Lpre. v 9 n3-Iy. —_— . &, W.CARR, R Physician and Surgeon, EIGONIER, - - - = "-, - IND., " ‘Willpromptlyattend all call¢ intruatedto him. Omge and résidence on 4th Street. T ‘J. M. TEAL, KL : DV;EA!NJTIST, ; Rooms over L E. Pike’s Grocerv, i Corner of Main and Mitchell Streets, ; spposise the Post Office Kendallville; Ind. .. # All work warranted &% . A ; Kendallvillé, May 1, 1574, iy g SR Lanhing Cas! gony Langhing Gas'! AY ) ¢ -FORTHEN fl’fs PAINLESS EXTRACTION B s G '{) L —oF— - e s P cais (&g TEETH gL cmeee g —AT— N Dr Cants’ Dffice NS ) I Gants Offe. BN i A — ‘ \/ .t . Fill'ng Teeth a Specialty Ligonier, Ind/, No!v.".n, 1875. ( 1-1

TEEGARDEN HOUSE, Laporte, Indiana. = ‘ V. W.AXTELL, : :° : ‘Proprietor. Laporte, April 5, 1871. b . e i Tv s e CONCORD & CATAWBA WINE, Wé keep consiantly on hand aud:’sg“]l in large or small quantities, to suit customers; Wine of Our Own Manufacture, Pare — Nothing but the Juice of : . the Grape. - : A SACK BROTHERS. Ligonier,July 3,'71.-tf - ¢ ) Winebrenner & Hozworth, “v.._ < HOUBE, s;en’;{izn ORNAMENTAL PAINTERS, - gk 9 : Grainers, Glaziers and Paper-Hangers. Shop near corner of Fourth and Cavin Sts., oppo- . ‘site Kerr’s Cabinet Shop.. -~ ° . © _ Ligoamier, - - »'- Indiana, g e e T T el . STOP AT THE " RENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. . NEW ‘COMMODIOUS THREE STORY BRICK 4V Hotel,onlytenrods tfrom the' L. 8. &M.S. R. R. Depot, and four squares fromthe G, R.R R.— Only five minutes walk to any of the principal buginesshonsesofthecity. Traveling men an&trangers willfind this a firsi-class houge. Fares 2 per day. .. J.. 8. KELLY, Proprietor, KendAllville,Aug.3.lB7o.-14 =

PHILAP A, CARR., AUCTION EER, Offers his services to the publicin'general. Terms ‘moderatc. Orders may be left at the shoestore of P. Sisterhen.. . . i -L;gmiier,-lanuary 8,773-37 e 2 4 SN IS, DEALERIN MONUMENTS, | Vaaults, Tombstones; AUND B UILD'ING STONES ; LIGONIER; IND. - , , Apri112,1871.-50 : ',f" : g P 3 == % TRADE MARK . 1ODIDE:OF AMMONIA Ccte.‘l’auralzl:..l’-‘nce Ache, Rheumatism. Gout, Frosted Feer,Chilblains, Sore Throat,Erysipelas, ‘ Braisesur Woundsofeverykind in_ manoranimal, IMPORTANT T 0 OwNERS OF HoßsEs.— GLrs’ Lin--1 esT lovlNg OF AMMoNIA. We have sold gnantities of it. In no cace bas it failed to give satis- - faction. Everyoneispeaksin ite praise. Limeness, ‘hunches, curbs, blood =spavin. No’stable should be without it. el S e ~ C. M.MOSEMAN & BROTHER. © oo g 7 . Five Harness, 114 Chamber St, . Sold by ali Draggists. Depot4sl Sixth Ave. N. Y. Onlysoeents and sla bottle. 28w-13

‘W.A. BROWN, _ Manafacturer of and Dealerin a/l kinds ot FURNITUR E. SPRING BED BOTTOMS, _ ' WILLOW-WARE, . = . BRACKETS de| COFFINS&CASKETS - Also: LADIES’ SHROUDS of various patterns, | Alwayson hand; and will be furnished to order o et M ter, Tnd ger. Osvin and 9od Btr.f LIgONIEr, 104 |

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b = BANKING HOUSE y O F— S : SOL:. MIEXR, ' . Conrad’s New Brick Biock, LIGONIER, IND’NA. “Mdney loaned ofi long and shorttime. ) Notesdiscounted at reasonable rates. g Monies received on deposit ahd intereet allowed ‘on specified time, o T T E Exchange bought and.gold, and Foreign Drafts drawn on principalcities of Enrope, - - ° 8-2. | TO THE FARMERS: fYOU will pleace take nolice that I am still engaged in buying wheat, for which I pay the highest market price. . i - Ifyoudo not find me on the street, call before sélling, at my Banking Office, in Conrad’s Brick Block. . z y SOL. MIIER. Uigonier.lndiana, May Tth, 1874. —lf 4. ” T :_ - | :. HIGGINBOTHAM & SON,

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DR. GEO. CLEIS = % oS - = 5 X , h s " 1 . g . ) - This Liniment possesses great curative powers for various dilments. For asthmatic complaints, difficuit breathing tightness of the' breast, and ailments of the luugs, 1t is applied externally, on. “he breast, and between the shoulders. In case -of suarp paius in the buck and limbs; head-ache, ear-ache, affections of the throat, or in cases ofinternal injuries, whether resulting from a severe Btroke, fall or bruise, this Liniment is especially efficacious. . It relieves ulcers, open wouands, salt rheum,. white swelling, milk leg, and K works charmingly on corns, chilblaing, frosted hands, feet and ears. Nursing mothers suffering from swollen breasts, resulting from a stagnatioa of the lacteal fluid, will find this Liniment of incalculable beuetit by way of separaniugé}ée swelling, allaying the fever, and healing thef®breast. By several-applications per day, highly satistactory results may be obtained from the use of this Lin_iment in the treatment of tumors, tistula, cancer, .piles, and like diseazes; also, for wounds resulting from scalds, burns and cuts, and from the bites of wasps, snakesand mad dogs, or poisoning from noxious plants The French Liniment wiil also be found a viluable household rewmedy in cases of rheumatism,croup, eczglez feve:,diputheria, quin€Yy bronchitis, scrofnl® erysipelas, for oxvornal ~applications.. Cholera, -cholera morbus, colic, - cramps, spasams, flux, dizrrhcea and gripings in ~the buweis may be effectually cnecked by .the in< - terval use of this celebrated Liniment, as follows: 1 One-half teasvoonful four to tive times within a period of froni oune-half hour to two_ or three hours, according to the severity of the Case. For chlic, Lake one-or two doses. . For flux ordiarrhed, wlanis, oue year of age, require from .5 to 6 drops; Lwo yeuars old, from 10 1o 12 drops, given insugar, - Kuo the abdomen with the L.niinent. ‘For inflammation of the bowels, use the Liniment iuternally and externally. .

PPrice 50 Cents per Bottle. Prépared and manufactured exclugively by ’ e - Dr. Geo. Cleis, 10-14tf ¢ . GOSHEN, IND. Drs. PRICE & BREWER HAVE - . - eDA S RN RS : . VISITED LAPORTE . e .B A eAI BB 535 VA 0 - FIFTEEN YEARS. w o SRR IO R Y B TAT S R I}';\VE met with- unparalleled snccess in the » treatmentofall . . : ) Chronic Diseases

-OFTHE [ THROAT, ' | AN SR M TN LUNGS, * S : » ot HEART, =« . AT L R TR IR I T, > . STOMACH, . | > . R B SR NI SRS P ; LIVER, - . HBEAD, Nerves, K?idheys‘ Bladder, Womb, and Blood Affections:of the Urinary Organs, Grayel. Scrofula, Rheumatism, Catarrh; Asthma, Bronchitig, Dyspepsia, &c. s Bk - 3 Oarreputation hasbeen acquired by candid,honest dealing and years of successful practice. Our practice, not one of experiment, butfounded onthe lawe of Naturé, with years of experience and evidence_to sustain it,. does nol tear down, make sick to make well; no harsh treatment, no trifling, ho. flattering.- We Know thecauseandthe remedy needed; no guess work, but knowledge gained by years of experience in the treatment o 1 Chronic diseases exclusively; no encouragement| without a prospect. Candid in'our opiniohs, reagonable in our charges, claim not to know everything, or cure everybody, but do lay claim to reagon and common senge. ~We invite the sick, no matter what their ailment, to call and investigate before they abandon lope, makKeinterrogations and decide for themselves; it will cost nothingas consultatjionisfree.. 2R : Dre. Price & Brewer can be eonsulted asfollows: . Ligonier, Ligonier House, Monday, January 17th. - © TR Goshen, - Violett House, Tuesday, January 18th, 1876. P - Kendallville, Kelley House,Weidnes--day, January 19th. - . : -LaGrange, Brown’s Hotel, Thursday, January goth. . - . Visits will be maderegularly for years, Residenceand Laboratory: WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS.. . ; -} 29-tf

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Is Delayed and Life Prolonvsed by using R. & T. Tonie l-:llxir and Liquid Extract of Beef. This medicine can not under any cireumstance fail to cure Indigestion, Cmn}g»' ation, Dyspepsia, Headache, Nervousness, Loss o g)lrength and Appetite, Lung, Liver, Bladder, Kidney, Stomach, Bigod, and Children’s I’)isenaes. All' Female diseases and weaknesses this. medicine will positively cure. All cases of Piles arising from natural causes or by the use of injurious medieines are permanently cured. The pure Beef Juice and. Blood prepared from raw ineat furnishes strength and nourishment, Prof. E. 8, Wayne, Chemist and President of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, says - Cr.wm‘n,@ril 2, 1875. . ‘Mzsers. Ricitarpson & TeLLIDGE x ; Grxrs—~Having been made nc’lrlnninted with the composition_of your M. & T. Tonic Elixir and .{lqnld Extract of Beef, would say that it pos.susses valuable medieinal properties, as all the ingredients: emeflni into its composition have well-known and Po.fl ve medicinal value, which combined together must fotm an excellent tonie, eathartic, and nutritive medicine, and one well snited 1o relieve many complaints incident to our climate. . Respectfully, ' F. 8. WAYNE, I you do not find this medicine st one drng store, esll at dnothier, and if it is not on sale in {ou( place, ABave your druggist order it, or send direct to ue, . Price, 8100 per bottle. Hent on receipt of price. *

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S [coNTINUED.} o < CHAPTER XXXIV. j THE STORY OF CLARE DE GOURCY. ~ “You know,” ‘commenced Clare, “that there have always been great obstacles in the way of my marriage with Albert?”’ ~ Monsiéur Daburon nodded in sign of acquieéc%xce. ; “I wonder what new fable she is about to invent,” he thought. “I'he fact is, she is so devoted to this man, that she’s eapable of saying she coMimitted the murder herself.® ' j ; “The old Count de Valcourt,” she continued. “quite disapproved of the match, because I had no dowry. He’s such an ambitious old man, that he would pile riches upon riches simply to keep up the stately grandeur of the family name. It took five years for Albert to bring his father to his way of thinking; but at last he triumphed over his scruples, and obtained his consent.” : | “Oh! he gave his consent, did he?” said the magistrate, with a sigh, looking wistfully into the earnest eyes and the sweet; flushed face. ° i “Yes, he gave his : consent; but my grandmother was much hurt at the long -delay. You know how proud she is; and I think this time she was right. She was dreadfully hurt, considering that our family dates further back than that of the De Valcourts, at the slights that had been put upon her, only because our account at the banker’s was less thantheirsy; and we had lost our landed estates. Although the day was fixed, my grandmother declared that the strictest etiquette should be ob-= served until we were married. You know her way?” ) s ‘Monsieur Daburon nodded. He did not dare to trust his voice, for fear it should sound bitter. He knew the old lady. He had been snubbed by. her, and -had not relished it. L g

“Grandmamma is very -proud, you know, and ' she hates to be placed in a false position. * People’ might think,” she argued, “that I had set a trap_ for this young man with his immense wealth and distinguished position, therefore she decided that we ‘were to meet onlyonce a a week, and then in ‘the presence of her friends<and acquaintances. We felt this to be rather hard; but grandmamma was obdurate, so we were obliged to give in.. Such was the position of ' affairs, when one Sunday morning I received a little note from Albert, telling me that important business would prevent him acceptinig my grandmother’s invitation for that day. I had a presentiment that sore misfortune had happened. I never slept thelt night. I awaited the morrow with impatience—with anguish. At last, instead of coming himself, he sent his servant with a letter. In this letter Albert implored me to grant him an interview. It was necessary, he said, that he -should speak to me alone, and without delay. ©Our future depended upon it. I didn’t hesitate a moment. I'wrote in reply that he wonld find me at tha gardan-daor that opened upon a little bye-street at the back of our house. I toldy him to come on Tuesday evening, and -to knock three times as the clock struck nine from the Hospital of the Invalides. I knew my grandmother expected seme frierids that night, and I thought that in feigning a headache I might.be allowed to retire at early hour. Tlalso knew that my governess, owing to her great capacities as'a whist player, would be retained by some gray-headed old partner, thus leaving me free to fulfil ;my engagement.” “Pardon me for interrupting you,” put in Monsieur Daburon.” “What day did you write fo the Viscounts” “On Tuesday.” - e “Can you tell me at what hour?” “I think I sent the letter somewhere between two and three o’clock.” P

“Thank you. Pray go on.” : “Everything:took place exactly as I had foreseen,” continued Clare. - “In the evening I found myself alone—unwatched. In the drawing-room they were absorbed in music and cards; in the servants’ offices the preparations for supper were engrossing the minds of our house-keeper and her maids. Down I erept to the garden, a little before the time fixed. I had succeeded in tinding the key to the gar-den-door, and I set to work at once to. open it.: But the key wouldn’t turn in the lock, which was encrusted with dirt and rust. - I blew into it—rubbed it;with. my pocket-handkerchief—and then used all my strength to give the key a turn. I gave it upin desperation when nine o’clock struck, and Albert knocked. Through a chink in the panel I told him all about it, and he at once advised my throwing the key over the wall, for him to try—as, of course, his hands were stronger than mine. Try as he might, he didn’t succeed a bit better than T had done, so I implored him to put off our interview until the morrow. He wouldn’t hear of it—what he had to tell me admitted of no delay. For three long days he- had ' hesitated about telling me; but he felt he couldn’t keep it from me ans longer. He said, if he didn’t tell me, ke felt he should go mad,' or do sometking worse—perhaps, destroy himself. We were talking all this time through the chink I.told gou about. At last, he got go impatient, that he proposed climbing the wall. I implored him mnot to attempt it. The wall, as you know, is a very high one, and. the coping is covered with broken glass, and the branches of.the acacias make quite a hedge upon it. But be only laughed at my fears, and said, that unless I gave him express orders to the contrary, he’d be over in a minute. Before I could make up my mind, he had accomplished the feat, and deseended, without a seratch or a bruise, into the garden. The news he had to break to me was the dreadful catastrophe that had fallen upon him. We sat on the bench im front of the shrubbery; but when the rain.commenced, we went for shelter into the summers house. Midnight had struck when Albert went away, calmer in mind, and almost happy in spirits. He left by the same way he had entered—only ,witiyi less difficulty, because I persuaded him to use the g&rgner’s ladder, which I lowered after he had gone.” e L “"This story, told in theé simplest and most natural way possible; astounded Mongieur Daburon. He did not know what to think. : :

“One queation more, Mademoirelle d’Arlange,” he said. “Had the rain commenced when the Viscount climbed the wall?” “Noj; the first drofs fell, as-I.told you, when we were geated near the shrubbery. I remember it well, because he " opened his umbrella, and I remarked to him that we looked like Paul and Virgnia.” ~ “Grant mé a few minutes longer,” said ‘the magistrate; and, as ‘he spoke, he sat ldovvn at his d=sk, and rapidly wrote two etters. ; : & :

‘ The first cotitained an order that Albert should be brought, without delay, to the Palace of Justice. : The secord was 'more minnute. It contained instructions to the superintendent to proceed immediately to the Faubourg Bt. Germain, and examine the wall, at the end of the garden, belongjinf to the mangion of the Dutchess d’Arlange. 1t explained that the wall had been twice :scaled, and the traces of coming and going would naturally be different, especially as to the footprints. Whilst: writing, the magistrate had ' struck upon a bell for his servant. «Here are two letters. Take them to the superintendent, and ask him to attend Soosige, Tt due s _cab, and don’t loge an instant. Stop! i yon est't find the superintendent, inquire

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where he is—he can’t be far off—and tell him tol.see about this business, without delay.” ] oy Then, turning to Clare, he asked, “Have you kept the letter in which the Viscount agked you to meet him?” B ““Yes; I think I have it in my pocket. Here it is!” - And she handed him a very rumpled piece of paper. i ’ A suspicion flashed ‘across his mind. This compromising letter was very conveniently at ‘hand. “Young ladies,” he thought, “don’t usually carry.about missives of thissort.”. At a glance, he read the few lines the letter contained. “No date,” he murmured; “no address; not even an envelope!” et R

" Clare was too pre-occupied to hear him. She was trying if she -could find some ‘means to prove thatl the interview between her lover and herself had really itaken place. S . j “Monsieur Daburon,” she said, abrupt1y breaking a long silence, “an idea has just struck me. Very often, when we think curselves most:alone, is the very. time that we are being wate¢hed. - Now, I took ‘every }l)]recaution that my meeting with Albert should be known only to ourselves; but somebody might have seen us, you know. Suppose you summon all the gervants—" i 2

- “What?” blurted out the magistrate; “compromise yourself to your servanis? ‘You must be raving!” 5 ’ I - “What?” she saifi, opening her lovely ‘eyes in wonder; “you talk to me of my reputation? I don’t care one bit about it, as long as he is free!” - - § | In spite of himself, the magistrate could not help admiring her noble self-devo-tion. 5 . *“And, then, thé key,” she went on; “you remember about the key I threw over the wall to Albert? He didn’treturn it to me: Perhaps he put it into his pocket; and, if youfind it in his possession, won’t that prove that he was in the garden on Tuesday night?” « ° “I will make a note of it.” “I've another idea,” said Clare. *Send some of your people to examine the wall.” She was quite excited now, and was walking up and down the room, puckering her fair, broad brow into unaccustomed wrinkles in search 'of “ways and means.,” boninity

- “It has been already _done,” answered Monsieur Daburon. “One of those letters just sent contained orders for an inquisition to be made at your house—a private inquisition of course.” e . “Oh, thanks!—a thousand thanks!’ And for the second time she extended him her hand. - “I see that at last you intend to help us! Another idea oceurs to me. I also wrote to Albert on Tuesday. Ask him for my letter—that will be evidence, won'tit?” : ;. ““He hag burnt it.” - . » ; ~ Clare lowered her eyes, and' the bright flush faded out of her face. : She thought she detected & certain irony in the magisirate’s voice. In this she was mistaken. He was thinking of the letter Albert had thrown into the fire; It must have been concerning this very letter that he had used the words, “She cannot resist me!”’

“Don’t you think it would have been better, mademoiselle,” he said, after a pause, “if the Viscount had: told me all this at first, and so have avoided paintul scandal.and useless inquiry?” ‘ | '}‘he,girl raised her-head proudly. “It seems to me (tlhat a man who really loved and respeéted a woman, would hardly own—unless he had received her consent—that she had granted him a private interview. A man ought rather to die than betray-the honor of a woman!’ To use a slang. phrase, the magistrate was “shut up.” 5 :

} “I have still one more favor to ask you,” he said. meekly. “It's a mere formality, ‘[b‘ut a painful one—that is, that yvou will ‘repeat all that you have told me before a witness, and thom cign your denositiens” ’ - §he didn’t feel it in “the least painful—she was only too delighted. : I “I know,” she went on, with 'a deep sigh, “that I:shall he dreadfully talked about, and be perhaps laughed at, as a sentimental girl whose head has beentarned by sensation novels; but I don’t care for the woyld’s praise or blame, as long as I am sure of his love!" o How the riagistrate envied the prisoner in bhis narrow cell—glorified by the devetion of such agirl!q -

7 CHAPTIR XXXV. GEVROL'S MAN. : Monsienr Daburen, with a preoccupied and ‘worrisd expivegsion of countenance, was mountig the staircase that led to his rofiices'm-the Palace of Justice. : i A figure was descending at the same time. With an exclamation of surprise, he recognized Old Corkscrew. “Monsieur Tabaret! I'm so glad to meet you! . The very man I want!” The ‘queer old fellow, who was evidently in a state of great fuss and agitation, gimply raised his . hat, and, waving it in the air, passed on. . ; ! : “Stop!” cried the magistrite; “I want to speak to you!”” - " “Pardon me, sirl—pardon 'me! but I have important business at home!” | “But have you any news?’ commenced Monsieur Daburon. A ! ‘“lnnocent, sirl—innocent!” said the Daddy, always harping upon the one subject. “I’ve fresh evidence; and, before three days are over, you’ll open your eyes, and mno - mistake! Wait till you see the man -with the ear-rings! Gevrol's got him! Gevrol’s risen in my estimation! He’s not near such a-fool as he looks!”

And, without waiting . for a reply, he continued his headlong course, still waving his hat. in a melodramatic fashion, taking four stepsat a time, at the imminent risk of breaking hisneck. . *Obstinate old fool!?” muttered the magistrate, evidently annoyed. #“And I have so much to tell him!” B In the waiting room adjoining his private office, upon a bench, Albert de Valcourt,in the custody of a police-officer, was seated, waitingihis arrival. : “I'will see you in'a few moments,” said the magistrate, speaking over his' shoulder ashe opened the door. i In his study, his clerk was talking to a little, withered-looking man, with a depressed expression of face, whose dress and make-up gave ‘you the idea that he }was a dramatic author in the last stage of ‘destitution. ¢

“You haye received my letters?”’ asked Monsieur Dahnuron of the clerk.

“Yes, sir. The prisoner is here, and this is Monsieur ‘Martin, who has just arrived: from the Duchess d’Arlange’s house.” < < “That’s all right!” said' the magistrate, riubbing ‘his hands with a satistied air. Then, turning to the little old man, “Well, sir, what have you discovered?” - “That some one has climbed th® wall.” “How long ago?” St - “About five cr six days. : ; “Are you sure about it¢”? “As sure as I am gitting here. The trees and footprints are as plain as the nose on your face, if you'll pardon the liberty I take in 80 expressing myself.” ; 5 - “Go on,” said the magistrate, with diffiz culty repressing a smile at’this uginten-. tional insnlt to the most prom}in& feature in his physiognemy. . - “The thief—l suppose it was a'thief, sir,” continued Mongieur Martin, who prided himself on his otratory.—*“must have taken advantage of that time of day which is commonly called twilight to get over the wall before the rain commenced, and have gone awair almost directly after the afore-mentioned rain was over. These circumstances are easy to be proved when we compare the wall on the outer side of the garden to that on the inner side. | The fellow—he must have been as nimble as a squirrel!—climbed hand over hand in going up, but made use of aladderin going down,” ; - ' i‘lfow did you find that out?”’ asked the magistrate, - £ e i “Because of the holes in the wet earth, upon which the ladder was placed; and because at the top of the wall somé of the lime, against which it leant, has crumbled off.” o Lan o mpthdvallyr o o 0 o “Not all, sir. Three broken necks of bottles have been displaced from the coping, and a branch or two of the acacias are twisted and bent. Also, on a thorn Fol ol eg L R G e e

founa this lttle plece of gray leather, which looks to me as though it belonged to a glove.,” el ol " The magistrate seized 'the fragment: eagerly. g el ‘ It was a piece torn from a pearl gray kjd glove. | AE | I hope -you took care, Martin,” said | Monsieur Daburon, “not to raise any suspicions in the house at which you have | been making these investigations.” . { “Don’t you be -afraid, sir; I know what | I'm up to. I'm an‘ old bird, and, ain’t to | be caught with chaff. The first thing I | !didw was t 0 leave my hat at the wine-shop h round the corner; then I rings the bell at’ the Duchess d’Arlange’s door, saying as f how I was the servant of a lady whd lived l in- the next street, and that during my ! mistress’s absence a favorite parrot had ! escaped out of the window, and made for | her garden. They politely let me in, and gave me the run of the garden.”: . : “You're a clever fellow,: Martin,” ‘inter-"f rupted the magistratesistand I shall not forget to -mention your mame at hedadquariers.” G ; o He pulled the bell as he spoke, whilst the detective, proud of the praises that had been bestowed upon him, backed out, nearly going.on all-fours to express his. gratitnde and humility, ¢ . Then Albert wasintrafiticed. .. o

_ “Have you decided, &ir,” said the magistrate, without further beating about the bush, “to explain to me how you passed your evening on Tuesday lasty? i “I have already to'd you how I passed it. I have nothing nore to say.” = ¢ .“No, sir! you have not told me; and L regret to'be obliged !o tell you that the version you have givén i= false!” At this insult, the prisoner’s face lushed crimson, and his eyes fi(lashed. e o ' -“All that you. did upon that evening I know,” continued the magistrate; #I have it upon the clearest evidence.” He paused, iand, speaking very slowly, looked full in the prisoner’s face. “I have it upon the ievidence of Mademoiselle d’Arlange herself.” et ‘ : l . At the name of Clare, the face of the accused, contracted by a firm determinaItiqn to betray nothing, quivered for a moment. . : 2 |

[ A close observer would have said that ithe change was one of a great relief, such 'as might be seen injy man -who, by a mirlaélg, escapes a danger that seemed “al'most imminent, . e : i Still he was silent. 4 “Mademoiselle d’Arlange,” continued ]the' magistrate, “has told me all. Nay, she has ‘told me in detail everything that ‘occurred ‘on Tuesday evening. . Still Albert hesitated. | -, . “I'm not laying a trap for youn,” added Dlonsieur Daburon. -“I lam speaking to you as one. genileman would to another. I repeat, then, that Mademoiselle d’Arlange has told me all.? ! v ] This time: Alber;made up his mind to jfipenk. - s S Aoy ' His explanations coincided exactly with those of Clare. Either Albert was innocent, or, if guilty, she had been his gc‘cbmplice. P : “ - The magigtrate felt convinced that this could not be the case. He knew she was innocent,&ind ahave all suspition. . Where, then, was he to seek the assassin? R

“You'see, sir,” said the magistrate, ss-’ verely, “that.you have been deceiving me You -risk your head, siri and, whats WOIRe, you are exposing instige to amost deplorable‘error. ~ Why didn’t you ’SPe‘a.k‘ the truth fi'om the pery first?? - ' =« “Sir,” answered Albert, “Mademoiselle d’Arlange, in granting me an interview, confided .to me her-honor,” . o

“Anfl you wounld rather die than speak of this' interview?” interrupted Monsieur Daburon, ironically. " *Ycu are ‘quite a hero, Monsieur de Valcourt; and, instead ;)f Jiving -in our prosaic times, ought to s dlonsehag e eof hivaliy be,”'said the young man, simply. “Ifl told yon that I hadn’t dounted upon Clare, I would be telling you a falsehood. I was ' only waiting. I knew that, directly she knew of my arrest, she would brave all to:save me. Butl thought perhaps she mightn’t have heard of the great misfortune’ that had fallen upon me—that her grandmother would have tiken: some means:to hide it from her; so I made up my mind to keep her name out of.the whole affair.” . : : ¢

There was mnot the slightest tone of bravado in this reply. Monsieur Daburon regretted his irony,and dismissed the prisoner with a few kind words. expressive of his hope that his innocence would shortly be proved.. : : “Bring in Gevrol, now,” said the magistrate to his clerk. e

The chief of the detective force was absent; but his witness, the man with the ear-rings, was waiting in the corridor. ‘Accordingly, he was brought- in, and placed in front of Monsieur Daburon. A short man, with a neck. sunk into his shoulders, robust, ahd stunted like a dwarf oak. His hair and'beard, as white as the driven show, made his sunburnt face look almost the color of mahogany. He had large hands, unwashed, hard and ‘horny, with "knubbly knuckles, reminding- one of the hands of a gorilla. * He wore the dress of a well-to-do fisherman from the north coast of France; and carried in his great. brown ears a pair of enormous ear-rings, in the shape of an anchor. 2 s :

It required two policemen to push him into the magistrate’s presence. ’ ; This old sea-dog was very timid. and bashful. i i Tle camie in,balancing himself as thqugh he were in the last stage of drunkeness, after the manner of his tribe, rolling his quid of tobacco from one &ide of his mouth to: the other, and hitching up his trousers, as if they were in danger of tumbling about his knees at every lurch he made. - ’ | ! The moment he entered, Monsieur Daburon recognized the pgrirait drawn by the little ragamuffin wignfss,"at La Jonchere. . Pl R L “He had a face as red as a sliced beetroot. He wore a round jacket, with large pockets atthe side, and siicking out of. one was a blue-striped pocket-handkef-chief, He also wore ear-rings—large ,é%r—rings—very large.” b : . The magistrate also recognized that the man before him was a 5 good a creature as ever breathed. ; Honesty and kindness beamed from every wiinkle in his bronzed face. “Your name?” - v o : “Diorve Librongel! a 0 ong “Are you ahy relation to a woman ealled Clundine Lerouget: - atti ol “I'm her husband, your honor.” . . “What!”" thought: Monsieur Daburon. #The husband of the murdered woman is alive, and yet the police are ignorant of the fact!”’ sl e -

“But,” resumed -the magistrate, “IT’ve always understood she was a widow. All her friends said so, and she herself in particular.” e “In course she did!” put in the sailor. “We made up that yarn between us. I I was dead to her, and she was dead to me.” o : 3

“Ah! that was the state of affairs was it? You know, I suppose, that she is dead for good and all this time? . Poor thing, she has been cruelly murdered!” e “I've been told all about it, your honor,”, said the man. “The gentleman who came’ to avrest me told me the particulars.” Here he wiped his forehead with his poc-ket-handkerchief, which, in _gize, 'resembled a table-cloth, “Ah! ghe was a bad 'un, and no mistake!” She was always flighty, and stuck up, and wanted to meddle in the affairs of her betters. She used to say that many a gold fpiece was' to be gained in keeping secrets for people as' didn’t know how to keep them for theirselves. ‘Gain?’ I used to say. ‘You'll Fam nothing but shame and sorrow. .To end you hand to hide the yillainies fnn(% wickedness of' the rich—why It’s for al the: world like stuffing your mattress with thorns, with the idea that you’ll sleep the better for it!’ But, lor’ bless your honor, she was as obstinate as a young donkey, and wouldn't listen to a word I said!” “And in what business wis it your wife got mixed up in, eh?” u.s¥'ed the»;m&ffl;‘ trate, “Come, come, my friend, don’t begin }? thing t\:gléguftgfltigg o%wifih;zih;f m areliera to tell the truth,:and nothing but %‘“w o Ll s e | Lerouge had placed his hat upon a '¢hair, alternately. pulling. at his fingers, eeeARRNRS AR B i S e D

and eracking eachknuckle, or, by ‘way of {variety; scratching his head wviolently. This was his way of summing up his ideas. | “I’'m coming to that directly your honjor,” said Lerouge, commencing at his finger joints again, till they went off like so 'muny crackers. . “Now we were getting along ‘pretty well, and .I was as fond of }my wife 'as. ever, when, one ‘morning, I |saw sneaking into our house a servant be- { loriging to the Countde Valcourt, whose estate is ahout /half a mile off. - He was a Ifellow I never liked at all. His name was |Germain, and he had a way of humbugging the woman as didn’t stiit my reckonings at all. I asked my wife what that [good—for—nothing land-lubber had to do in my house. *Oh,’ says she, ‘he’s only come to ask if Tl take-a child to nurse’ I 'wouldn’t hear of this; ave weren’t so poor but that Claudine could afford to nurse her own baby. She said she wanted to buy mé a piece of land 6ut of her own earnings—a piece of land which I had set my. heart upon.. So, asusual, I gave in, and gshe had her own way ut last.” ~ “Go ‘on!” said the magistrate, getting more and more irritated. = -, . !

I am 'going on, your honor, said the sailor. “I’ve now come to the part where Claudine got a letter, telling her to start: at once for Paris to get the child. I remember as it was in the evening, and the wind was son’-gon’-west.” -

q&'.m’t/ mind about the wind, as long ae it edrries you to your destination—that’s, all you've got t 6 look to,” said Monsieur Daburon, smiling in spite {of his annoyance. “Well, you went to Paris.” “I remember as it was ‘in the évening, and the wind was souw’-sou’-west,” went on the ancient mariner, clinging to his drifting' thoughts, like a drowning man to a raft, “and my wifé; seeing a 8 it was beating up'for rain, put off her journey till the, next day. l I never says a word, but when, she gets info the coach, dregsed up like a; ship in full sail, what does Ido but gets ap on the top and follows her unbeknown tothe railway station.” 3 Here Lerouge paused, ard winked three consecutive timesdt thd magistrate, as indicating his | extvaordinary shrewdness' and pesdetration, . ! e

-: . CHAPTER XXXVI. ' MARKED FOR LIFE. ; At last the patience of the magistrate eulminated. P : : - «Stop!! hesaid; “lisee, if we go on at this rate, yowll never finish till the middle of next week.” Lo . “I'm very :sorry, your honor,” said the man; “but I'm trying to Yell the truth, and you can’t think howit puzzles and bullies a chap’s brains to get'at it?”’ ; “Suppose I qhestion you, and you answer me; won’t that do?” . ! - “Pamous!” said the sailor, his sunburng face broadening into a grin of intense relief. “Fire away.guvnor,and I'll steer right ahead!” - g ; ~ “Well,” said the magistrate; “you and your wife journeyed up fo Paris topether?” - .o . “Yes, your honor, we did. She gavea little shriek when she saw me a-top of the coach——" e 2 - I 'don’t want to hear about that; what I want to know is, the name of the woman from whose house you tock the child?” “Madame Gerdy. I learnt a lot about hér whilst I was waiting . for my wife in the wine merchant’s round the corner.”

“Stop!” said the magistrate; “stick to your subject. I :.don’t care what you heard at the wine merchant’s round the corner.i Come. fo the point. Were you présent at the chang®ig of the children?” «] was,” ‘said the sailor; “and this is how it happened.” ' Monsieur Daburen gave a sigh of refef i < il ]

+ “We—my wife, and I—rode down in a carriage and pair, as grand as though we were IOES jand Jadies.” In the evening, afteral g ‘drive, we came to a.village ititl, at Whith Yo ducscapedtho. casehonan.: “who seems to have got his instructions, onimg us hewas to put up there, and that we were allfo turn in. Directly we enters, who do you think I claps my eyes on, but that beggar Germain,in company with a young woman carrying a child, so exactly similar in dress and fedtures to the one my wife was a-nursing, that I bursts out into a eold perspiration, and calls forla glass of brandy-and-water directly. After supper, the two women spoke about going to bed; and then-we found out/that the inn had only two sleeping rooms. When I think of it now, it scems to me as if that mn had been built express for them to carry out their plan. The landlady says: that the nurses could sleep in one, and I and the valet in the t’other. All of which we’ agreed to. I was in a devil of a temper the whole of that :evening, because I caught signals going on between my wife and. that rasecal Germain; besides, Ifelt awful uncomfortable in my own thoughts; and to make myself forget all about the scurvy trick I was”lending a hand I drank more than was good for me. I k ew I was doing wrong, and-I was wild ith my own self for letting Claudine twist me round her finger to help her in her deceit and wickedness. My family, your honor, are known on'the coast as the ‘honest Lerouges” We haven't had a stain onsour name since first we came.dnto Normandy. And now I felt I was lending myself to a fraud and® a lie!” . St Here commenced an extra‘cracking of the knuckles and é,’fier.,ce{. ‘onslanght in' the shape of head-seratching. >~ - Monsieur Dabnron’s only response to this last speech was a thundering blow on his desk. ; E s

Lerouge hitclted up his trousers, and urried on. . ; 2

~ “I didn’t go to bed that night; I sat up and listened. Germain was in bed, and soon as sound asleep as a top. Towards about two in'the morning I hears a moyving in the room where the woman were. 1 holds my breath and listens. I’m an honest man, your honor, but I don’t mind owning that on this particular oceasion I peeps through the keyhole, and what do I see but my wife.sfanding beside “the bed. with the child in Her arms, a-peering: down into the face of the pther woman,\ who was snoring for all the world like the wind when it’s beating up for a gale.” “And what did youw'do!” asked the mag-: istrate, interested” for the first time in the digjointed narrative he had been listening to. 5 & i : 3 i 4 “T bursts open the dgor, and rushes at | my wife. ‘Don’t you do it, Claudine!” I eries out—don’t you do it! If you do, yowll live to repent it!” I didn’t speak this in a whisper, mind ye; I roared as. though I were speaking on deck through a speaking-trumpet. At the hullabaloo I kicked ‘mp,in rushes the valet with a lighted candle. ‘At the sightof him, 1. loses my head, and'drawing out my clasp‘knife, I snatched the child from my wife and marks it on the arm with a deep cut. “You can’t change the little one now, L cries out, ‘without my knowing it. He is marked fort lifet?” = S

The sailor paused, as if overcome at the scene he had conjured up. ’ ' Heavy drops of sweat gathered on his forehead, trickled down his cheeks, and ’ paused in the deep wrirkles of his face, from whence they fell on to his sanburnt hands, which were claspedupon his knees. The poor “old -salt” was puffing for | breath, like ohe of the sails of his bark . when becalmed on the eve of a hurricane, But the magistrate held him with his - calm and glittering eye—or, rather, by his impatient gestures goaded him on, as the whip goads on the slave who is dropping with fatigue. o " «w[he wound I had given the child was a terrible one. The poor little thing neaily | bled to death. But I wasmad—mad with : shame, with rage, with jealousy! Lthought nothing of the futare; I only thought of . the present. I swore byull_ the oaths I knew, and I’m pretty well up in that’ene rubbish, that I'd write down in my logbook—l méan my pocket-book, ydur honor—all that had passed atweer us; and if they: didn’t sign it, they'd ‘better logk-out for themselves,” S i “Did they sign?” said the magistrate. . incredulously. - Sl : “They did, your honor; the rascal of a valet. iputhng' his name the first with this provision—that on my solemn word of honor, las & sailor and a man, I wasn’t to say & word ‘to the Count de, galwm ‘which - word I have kept; and if the Count was to come in here th :s;g@mmi@mm be a 8 dumb as adead codl” oo sw Lerouge’s husband sat down.apd

eyed theimagistrate with ihé vi}rtuoi;s indignd; tion of aqnartyr. R G

CHAPTER XXXVIL. - = . WHO WAS THE GUILTY MAN? \ . iMonsidur Daburon was aslounded at ;clljie revelation that had just been made to ‘mm, o i - After walking \ip and down the room for a minute. or:itwo, during which his nautical friend occapied himself in cleaning [js face, with a piece of ‘brown paper which he “hauled” out of his ‘pocket for the purpose, the magistrate suddenly re-| turned to business. ¢ ‘. i “And where’s taat declaration, or rather affidavir, which all of yon signed?” =, ' “Here it is, your honor - Monsieur Ge--vrol—and a hard nut he: is to erack—told me that I'd gat into trouble if T didn’t go straight and above-board with your—?” “Give me the paper.” | After fumbling ,ag)out in pockets that seemed unfathomable, Lerouge fished up an old pocket-book, tied round with a bit of tarred rope; and, after unknoiting it with his teeth, he took out a piece of folded paper, yellow with time, and cax’efully sealed in four places with what was eyl- - his own thumb-mark., % "¢ . Thefr‘r)l;agi%trate took the paper, and, as o nnfddded 34, gnme —*%the time.” he thought—th 5? lixdéd"' E)%SI% ’?;’3;%%35 updn it é¢rumbled upon his fingers; andfell'to his feet. & s e

Monsieur Daburon sighed as he looked - at the old sailor.. “I wonder what has be--come of the witpesses who signed: this paper?” o , - Lerouge thought the question addressed to him. b o [~ “Germain is dead,” he said—“drowned | by ‘the upsetting of a boat. My wife has been murdered; but the other nurse is still alive.” o B « “Where does she live?” - . e “In a cottage on the De Valcourt estates.” i : ““I{er nameg” £ ; e “Brosette.” d ; ; ; “And what happeried after the night in gnestion?” asked the magisirate, as he | wirote down the name and address of the second nurse. B ' “The next day, your honor, Claudine* ‘had a long talk with me, and succeeded in making me promise to keep the whole business a secret. The baby was only a little feverish after- the wound I'd given {f: but, as I said before, it was marked for dife” . e : : “And Madame Gerdy — did she ever know.of the scene that/passed at the village inn®? =« B S e “I don’t think that she ever did." However, I'd rather not enter into any conversation upon that point. I never prospers ed after that miserable night. 'Money illgained brings no profit. My wife tock to. drink, and my home became a shame'to ‘ me.”

«And what did you do then?” asked the niagistrates. o o oo “\Vell, your honor, I did the next best thing I could do. I left her; taking my gon with me:” . ; ; i : «And what became of her after that?”. . ¢TI don’t know; but I was informed that - ghe left }txfr cottage in Normandy about a 4 year after I did.” ~ = b » #And you hever saw her again?”’ ““Never.” b i “Clome—come!” said Monsieu)r;.Dabu,ron : —¢“refresh your memory. You'were seen’ at her house only a day or two Before the murder.”’ - : e b “So I was!” gaid the man, scratching his head confusedly; *but, you see, I only . went because I wag forced .to go.- !And a_ deal of trouble and money it cost me to find her.. N 0 one knew what had become of her. It was like tryingto find aneedle in a bundle of hay. Luckily,a lawyer fellow as<l knew. whot h;%‘é managed bl_lSé-‘._ PSER LTI e Hlliess of MAAdnde Gerdy, and it was through her I traced Claudine to La Jonchere. ' A friend of mine, Gervais by name, offered me a:placein his barge, ‘and that’s how I came to Paris. Ah, your honor! I shall never forget the day whén I saw her jagain. She didn’t recognize me in the legkt. She’d made up her mind T was dead, and Wwhen I told her my name, she fell back in a fit.” 2 “All this doesn’t explain in the least the. cause of your visit to youriwife.” e “It was only about our son, your honor, , that I called upon her. Our little one had become a man, ‘and wanted to ‘get mar-’ ried; but' according -to our laws, your honor, he couldn’t do that without the consent of his mother, so- I brought her a deed, prepared by a notary, which' she signed, and here it is/” i

‘Monsieur Daburon took the paper, and: examined it ‘attentively. 'Then he said,. suddenly, “Has it ever occurred to you as to who could have been the murderer of your wife?” - : ; S Lerouge made no answer. o “Have you no suspicions?” persisted the magistrate. L e “None whatever,” said the sailor, siniply, ol've sometimes ' thought, howsomever; that the rich peoyle, whose secret she’d got hold of, had got tired of ler and her' evil tongue, and had paid somebody to put her out:of the way.” i . This being all the evidence the man had to give, Monsieur Daburon dismissed him, with orders that he was to rem’afin__i’n Paris, in case he might be required; but, at the. same time, he was .to be under super--vision of the police;and kept at the expense of the Government. S " “80, then,” thought the magistrate, as returned to his desk, feeling utterly dis“pirited at the furn affairs’ had taken, “guilty, or not guilty, Albert de Valcourt is the legitimate son of the Count de Val‘court, and. Noel is the son of Madame Gerdy.” ; el /The magistrate felt he had acted with too much precipitation, and that he had placed himself in a position that bordered. on the ridiculous.. S e T

_ The first step t&@t it was incumbent up-on-him to adopt was to send for the Count, and explain to him how matters stood. He would be obliged to say to the old. man, “Sir, your legitimnate son is not the one that I thought, but the other.” What: a situation! Not only painful, but simply absurd. The only consolation is’ ,_tfga}_ Clare’s lover is innocent. Noel, also! He would have to be told the bitter truth. Allhis bright hopes dashed to earth, justas they were soaring to the skies. - What a. cruel awakening ,from his short daydream! But doubtless the Count \yon{i malke him some reparation. He certainly deserved it.” = . Mnth o ohuE e

These were the somewhat digjointed reflections of the magistrate, governed, however, with the .one paramount idea, the: one recurring thougat, “that made all other thoughts ‘its ‘slave, “Wkho ‘was the guilly man® ' e R A notion flashed across;hig brain, which, 4t first, seéemed improbable. * ek But, notwithstanding his ih;-owin%]_ it contemptuously aside, it recurred to him again and again. He turned and returned it, tWisjteg it, flati.ned it.out, and was just folding it' ap neatly, satisfied in his own mind that he was on, the nght tack, when his clerk announced the Count de Valcourt. L S

‘ ° [TO BE CONTINUED.] o § i 5 £ s The New Orleans Picayune regards it as a beauntiful illustration of the delicate honor of Liouisiana people that the horse-car companies do not ' find it necessary to employ conductors, -the passengers all paying their fares with spontaneous honesty. . It thinks,. too, “that this fashion of throwing i people upon their honor cultivates in-. tegrity and develops and confirms a habit of honesty and trauthfulness—invaluable attributes of charaeter. May this fashion long be a marked characteristie of our pegplei” oy 2 The prohibitory law being in full | force ig Maine, a witness before a Belfast Grand Jury was asked if he EL. R A:( ;‘6.", S R ‘w il 1‘» "4' .; o WW%

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- 'What Shall be Our Platform. Jo - (Fromthe Vincennes Sun.). - g - Under the above caption the Evans- | ville Courder publishes a very sensible. ‘editerial in its issué of Sunday.' It is just what we believe in, and we can ‘indorse the bulk of it and believing {'a ‘majority of Democrats approve it, we publish it entire and commend it to’ the ‘thoughtful attention of our ‘Teaders. ‘We can not afford to say to. our truest Democrats’ that we will kick you out of the party because you differ with usin a question of finance. | We must harmonize, consolidate, and all go'into the next campaign together. 'The Courier says: -+ v

' The vigorous prosecution of the | whisky "ring by “Bristow puts a new phase upon, the character .that the campaign of 1876 is likely to assuine, It seems, at- present; that the Presidential campaign’willbe fought mainly on the question of reform. = It is doubtful, in 'OllJr’_ - judgment, whether either party will take any decided position on the finance issue. Both parties are divided on #hat subjech, and UIT T UAPUDUL U i die Ky B ean ey tiy et gether with the corruption of the Administration in other Departments of Government. that will undoubtedly be: unearthed by the investigating committees ‘of ‘the House, will- most probably ‘compel the party managers -to ' make up aplatform that shall unite the conflicting elements of both partids- in a common and determined -effort for reform.” We do not believe, therefore, that the time has yet arriy‘ed for precipitating the moeney question upon the country in a national contest. Or, to speak more acurately, the Courier is of the opinion that recent events have postponed the green- ‘ back fight, so far as the two issues to be. madejup by the two national con--ventions are eoncerned. - Nor do we think: it would be wisé or expedient to do anything in the Democratic National Conyention that would tend to alienate any considerable number of Democratic- voters from the ranks. We need a strong, compagt, harmonious organization in the eoming struggle.” We shall'have a post of duty for -every Democrat, whether ‘he be -for - hard money or greenbacks, so he is in favor of reform and the overthrow of the present corrupt dadministration. The: Couriér now,.as-ever, stands by ‘the greenback cause. - We shall do everything in owr power tQ -secure the nominatien of men for Congress who “will - vote for the 365 inconvertible ‘bond plan’ propesed by Mr. Kelly, of Pennsylvania. “We believe the fight for-thé. greenback cause mifst bemade -in.4the Congressional and Legislative ‘Distriets. ' In sueh.a time as this, the "Democracy of the country: canuot: af‘ford to throw away asingle: chance for suceess.. ~We believe that conces.sion and compromise are almost al- - ways necessary tothe accomplishment of great reforms: He who expects. to take the country by the throat and force it to -accept a new theory of finance: or of government, is greatly mistaken. - The Democracy of Ohio ‘tried that game - and met a giant in the contest that -overthrew it. 7Tt is our belief that the 365 interconvertible bond system ' will ultimately ‘be grlggzsxgllgmt)\; :}}el':nation ‘as the oyl]i}' * § i o ial difienl. ties, but it is absdl,qifiyoa %fi%l&]o%@ e‘}es ‘to the fact that "there is a large element in both parties that is, at present, obstinately opposed to “any. steps. ‘backward” in ' the road to specie re‘sumption. It is an easy matter tosay ‘vtvof these men *“you are wrong, and ‘ought to-be kicked out of the party,” but would 1t not -.be,‘much»tzviser to say, “stay in the party and we will ‘,insc,uss_ the " question - among .ourselves. and endeavor to arrive at the truth ?” ~The Courier thinks ' this should be the spirit of the Democracy of Indiana. It is our opinion that whatever declaration sHal be made in the platform; while it should not be of such anature as to retract the Itterances of fornier conventions upon the finance question, should carefully avoid so ultra a position on.this subject as would-alienate thosé Democrats. who. are. honest in their hard money convietions as weare in the ‘advocacy of our greenback cause. Reform should be:our battle cry in.the Centepmial 1868 7 7 2 oAI

Promptitude of Newspaper Debtors. The experience of the Findlay Courter man is sad and mournful. He has lost faith in the professions of his fellowmen; Hear how he talks: Last week a man stepped up to us and said he would pay us every cent he owed, if he lived till Saturday niglit; we presume that man died. Another’ said he would pay. us in a day or two, as sure as’ we were born; query—did thé man lie, or were we born? Another said he would settle his bill as sure as shooting; we are led to the conclusion that shooting is decidedly uncertain, - Quite a number said they would see us to-morrow; those men-have been-blind eversince, or else to-morrow has not come. One man told us, six months “ago, that ‘he would pay-us ds soon as he got some money; that man would not lie, and of coursé has not had a cent since. .

But the experience of editors is about'the same. all over, says:the Fremont Journal. Last year we stopped one man’s paper who owed six dollars. He was serving the publie, and we met him while.in the dis¢harge of his duties. Ie averred that as soon as he got -through and received his pay: he would make it all right, he would, indeed. He told us the samg story this spring, and .we presume he i still assessing. Another came all the way, five miles, to fown to assure -us that he was all righty and thiat we need not be afraid.- He would have same money soon, and would pay—yes, he would. ‘Some time later we “saw” his money, at a distance.. He was putting it in a bank. . It was the last and ‘only glimpge we had of it. He never had a hatehet and ran around.hacking cherry trees, or they would have died without anybody knowing who Kkilled them. = Another would pay us' after sheep-shearing, His sheep are long wools, an@ it takes a long while for the wool to mature.. Another would _pay after wheat harvest, but his wheat, like the century . plant, is ‘of slow growth and dén’tripen often. Another had poor health, but was improving, He would get around soon and. raise some money and pay us. He _hias had a relapse, for though he eats “hearty and works hard, he don’t get wgound” worth a cent. We would '. have some hopes of getting even with such folks some g;g when an adminis--‘trator” is appointed, if they lad any‘thing to administer. .~ ot STttt soo terial circles that’ iqu st case in. the world for & revival éw tackle st aitampt fo gonsect 6 the nYerage choir-singer of the period. . = Cincinnati is sald to beless troubled i dogs than any ¢ily in the couns AL Yl e TennTT Rh et At N e

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+ “Know Thy Opportunity.” | The grim menster,® Death, was stealthily approaching. I could al.most feel his hot, fiery breath upon my forehead. My faithless goddess, ‘Hygeia, had utterly deserted me. Only now and then would . Morpheus -befriend me, but on this auspicious day, he had deigned to. moisten my eyelids with heavenly ambrosia, and I slept. -As I ‘slept, behold, I had a dream! I thought that I was roaming upon foreign soil, whither my physi‘cian had sent me to recover my health.

I was in a great metropolis—one of the grand marts of the world. In one of my strolls I chanced to meet a man “who had 'in his hand a handsomely‘bound volume, entitled “The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser,” and who said that he was an agent for the ‘sale of.the book: The title was such a novel one that I was impelled to give the work a casual notice. As L hastily glanced over its pages, 1 observed that it contained tre%.tises not commonly found in medical’ works. But I had too many times been hpaxed' by appearances, and I determined that I'would have nothing to do withst. A voice ‘within me, like a faithful fumity; In thatßoox 18 thy 'sfi'wa’f‘fi')“fi‘?’ | I“began reasoning with myself. Al“though doubtful and distrustful, yet I put forth my hand to take. the book, and, lo! the agent was gone!' I was miserable. ' In my agony 'l awoke.: ‘Great drops of perspiration were upon my brow. By my :bedside was a' ‘friend ‘who had called during my slumber to see me, Said my friend, “T have brought with me a book, just quplighed, which I thought might interest you.” Omne glance at the work, and I was assured that it was “The People’s Common Sense' Medical, Ad“viser,” by Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y. .Surely, this was the veritable book which I had seen in my dreams. My friend loaned me the work,.and every day, as my strength permitted, I perused its pages. Although it contained very interesting treatises on Biology, Cerebral Physiology, Human Temperaments, Nursing of the Sigk, ‘ete., yet, being an invalid, I was most ‘interested in the subjects of Diseases ang Remedies. I believed that I had ‘a liver affection, and yet more than “one medical attendant had pronounced 'my disease Consumption, and that I would: fall with the: autumn leaves. In that book I found my symptoms perféctly portrayed. I was then confident that I had not deceived myself.. I reagonedithus: “Any man who can ‘so truthfully depict my feelings, and apparently understand my constitu-* ‘tional tendencies, must know just ‘what my physical system demands. I will .trust my case with Dr. Pierce. I will take his Golden Medical Dis‘covery as recommended for my disease.” The result is, that after having perseveringly followed his prescribed treatment, I once again enjoy the blessings of health. Therefore, I would say to the afilicted, “Know thy opportunity,” and take Dr. Pierce’s’ Golden Medical Discoyery: QUIS. ety & RE——— |

A Centenarian Preacher. The Rev. Henry Boehm, the oldest Methodist preacher in-this country,: and probably the o6ldest minister in the world, died Deéc.:2B, at the house . ‘of his grand-daughter, near Richmond, Staten Is‘lJ?pnd. This venerable man was DOIN J UNEe 3UO, I'%, I LAncaster county, Penngylvania, where his father, Martin Boehm, -was a Mennonite preacher, and afterward prominent in the organization of the church of the . United Brethren. Henry received a plain ‘German education and'a careful religious training, and at an early ‘age became connected with the Meth- - odist Church, then newly orggnized in this country. He preached in German and was thé cempanion of Bishop Asbury in his tour of the State. Hav-~ ing now fully acquired the use of the . English language he preached to large audiences at Harrisburg, Reading, Columpbia and other places. In 1807 he was stationed in Lancaster county, where the Methodist, Church first became established through his influence, and while there translated tlie discipline of the Methodist Church into the German language. = At this period Bishop Asbury again chose this preacher as his traveling companion, and this time their labors extended over the States of Ohio, Indiana, ‘Tennessee, ‘Georgia, South Carolina,‘and other points South and West. In ‘1790 he . made a visit to the Eastérn States and New'York, and was everywliere the recipient of marks: of re- . spect and attention. ' He was a member of the General Conference of 1832 and that of 1844, when the separation ‘took place between the Church Naorth and South. On the Bth of June last his one hundredth birthday was cele-: ‘brated, at:J erse%vCity, by the Newark Conference, of which he was a member. - On this occasion he submitted . an outline of his busy life and labors in the Methodist Church,and addresses were made by a number, of promiunent - clergymen. The excitement of the occasion prostrated him, and though he rallied, he was again seized with illness on the 12th of themonth,while attempting to preach in the Village Church at Richmond. ;

“Murder and Perjury. { * A short time ago ‘Lodicia Fredenburg and her son Albert Fredenburg, of Herkimer county, New York, were’ convicted: and sentenced. to be hung on- Dec. 81st, for the murder of Orlo Davis, an aged cripple. The testimony that convicted them was that of ‘Mary Davis, a daughter of Albert: Fredenburg, -married to Franklin Davis. She swore in courl that her grandmother, Lodicia, -and her own father, Albert, murdered Orlo Davis after midnight in the barn, and that she was compelled to hold’the light. Since convicted and awaiting ésecu- | ‘tion, Albert Fredenburg persistently ‘declared his innocence, and said that if he could have an interview with “his daughter he could prove his innocence. The interview was so arranged that two persons concealed could hear all that passed between them. . 'She made a full confession of hLer perjury ‘and admitted that her father. knew nothing of the murder, but that ‘ghe held the light while her grand- ‘ mother, Lodicia, alone comimitted the _murder. Gov. Tilden has respited the prisoners for 35 days, and it is proba-: “ble they Lw\ill,nofi ve hanged. It looks, ‘however, a 8 if the old woman oughtto _be promoted upwards a little. S o mememher R "VP ‘Now ,i_s.th?L i‘tlime‘ %gétlm year for Pneumonia,. Lung ver, ego ighs, (%n}dagag%afiahl results oot’;gr i&'fifi' ‘tion to Consumption and other Throat and Lung Diseases. Bos ;eei man Syrup has been used in_this neighborhood for the past two or three. years without 2 single ufurs o cute. It you have not used this medieing Joumset oo toous Ve, Sanl b osaa will reHeve tha Wonsk ok | German Syru) &za s and try it,