The National Banner, Volume 10, Number 49, Ligonier, Noble County, 30 March 1876 — Page 1

: i ; : : The Fational Bammer S <% < CUBMLISOED BY : N P QTN - . JOHN B. STO%L. ‘ LIGONIER NOBLECOUNTY,IND. ; = ; :.f“\. o j : i - Terms of sub"s(;rlpllonﬁ 2 s ﬂl;eiynr, 10 AAVANCE .<. uinaismisanasdaonan $2OO Six monthe, inadvange ...........1..c..... 100 Eleven copies to one afidress, one year, ...... 20 00 - g@-Suabscribers ougside of Noble county are + harged 10 cents exira [per year] for postage, which is prepaid by the publisher. Sk

ooy ' TS ! CITIZENS* BANK, LIGONILER, . INDIANA. First-Class Notes wanted at a Low Rate of Discount. Vi e All parties having **Pablic Sale Notes,” will do well to see us befors disp. osing of hem elsewhere. _ - 3 Exchange Bought and, Sold, and F reign Drafts drawnon all the Prin ipal Cities of Eu.ope. . i : Agents for First-Class Fire and Life Insurance Companies. { , . STRAUS BROTHERS. M. M. RITTERBAND, Notary Public. - Ligonier, Ind., Dec 16, 1875.-6-2 1 L JAMES M. DENNY, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. . Utfice 10 the Court House, =~ ALBION, + : - - - <& IND. 815 Sl = s 3 - L COVELL, o+ 7 Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public . - Giarrett, Indiana. ) Ofiice in the Seeley Block, west side }uain Street. . D, W. GRE'EE, ' Justiceofthe Peace & Collection Agt,

_ Omice—Second Story, Laadon’s Brick Block; . LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. g 7 P.'C. VANCAMP, -ATTORNEY AT LAW, . Ligonier, : : ¢ Indiana. ) Special artention given to ¢collectionsdnd conveyancing, and thezwriting of deeds, mortgages, and coatracts. Legal business pmm;gly attended to. ‘Office over Jacobs & Galdsmith's Cash Store. 9-50 1. G. ZIMMERMAN, Attorney at Law & Notary Public, Office over Gerbef's _Hardwa.re,’ Cavin Street. : : Ligonier, Indiana. i January 7,.1875.-9-37 i L e e I, E. KNISELY, By ATTORNEY AT LAW, . LIGONIER, - - - INDIANA. g@—Office on second floer of Landon’s Block. 7-2 . ALBERT BANTA, Justiceof the Peace & Conveyancer. LIGONIER, INDIANA, v . Specialattention given toconveyancin andcollections. Deeds, Bouds and Mortgages cﬁ'm&'n up;, and al! legal basiness attended to.promptly ahd accarately. Office oyer Strane & Meagher’sstore, - May 15 187315-8-3 ; ©. EE. WAKEMAN, @ ’ [N B ¥ i . - n TnsuranceAg’t &Justice of the Peace " KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. Office with A. A: Chapin, Mitchell Bloek.” Will receive sabscriptions to T NaTioNaL BANNER. D& & DEPPELLER, : TROSCOPIC AND ECLECTIOC .7 PIIYSICIAN. Office over Junningham’s Dm};_r Store, east side ot Cavino Street, Ligouier, Indiana. 10-2

P W.CRUM, - Physician and Surgeon, ; -LIGONIER, : INDIANA, 7. Oﬁa_: over Banm's Grocery Store. . - ¥9 n3-Iy.. . &, W.CARR, iR Physician and Surgeon, - LIGON.Ef - .« IND., Willpromptiyattendall calls intcustedto him. Otfice and residence on 4th Strget. R . Dr. G. E. LONG, Homeopathic Physician, Ligon er, .- - - Indiang. o " Surgical and Medical Aid promptly and care- | ‘faliy attended to. Direapes f Fenigles and *hil- - dren a specialty. Office/and Residunce over Sol. Mier's Banking Honre. ! 10 44 e J. M. TEAL, | . > -DEN™T.S T, : Rooms over L E. Plke’s Grocerv, Corner of Main and Mitchell Streets, ppoxise the Post Office. Kendallville, Ind__:® Al] work warranted <6% - . Kendallville, May 1, 1874. - R Joemy Langhing Gas! W 2 N ~FCR THE- | ’ ’Z»‘n".‘ . - - r ¢ A PAINLESS EXTRACTION 8 ‘ S ,:_ (5 R S ‘-/ . N . ‘ 15 N.TEETH N ke \\%—:/#- !“egv 5 N |\ I Gty Of N 7, 4V I ants Utiee c / \ . # o —_— _\/ Dt Filling Teeth a Spesi dty igonier, Ind., Nov. 11, 1875, : “1-1 TEEGARDEN HOTUSE, : Laporte, Indiana. V.W.AXTELL, :| : ; Proprietor. Laporte, Aprils.lB7l.} . CONCORD & CATAWBA WINE. We keéep c«)nﬂzantiy on hand and sellin large or - - =}l gaaalitiey, to suit customers, ‘Wineof Our Owa Manufacture, Pure — Nothing but the Juice of ¢ -ithe Grape. ; s '~ . SACK BROTHERS. Ligonier,July 3,”71.-tf P .

- Winebrenner'& Hozworth, HOUSE, SIGN AND o‘nﬁAyw'uL ; PAINTERS, (#u_iners,uluziers and Paper-Hangers, Shop near corner of Fourth-and Cavin Bts.,; oppo- : site Kerr's Cabinet Shop. ; Ligomier, - - « - Indiana, - ¢ ATOP AT TEZE| i EENDALLVILILE, INDIANA, 5 NEW COMMODIOUS THREE STORY BRICK AN Hotel,only ten rods trom the L. 8. & M.S. R, R. Depot, and four squares fromthe G, R.R R — Oanly dve minates walk to any of the principal basinesshaonsesxoftheciry. [raveling menandstranier- willfind thig a Arst-class honse. Fare 82 per ay. 1 -J. B. KELLY,Proprietor, Kend” 1vi11e.Ang.3.1870,-14%. _ + 3 R e e A L L R R : PJI'ILI’P'A. CARR, g AUCTIONEER. “Offers his services to the publicin genenal. Terms moderate. Ordersmay be'left at the shoestore of _P. Sisterhen.. ol s ‘ - : ~* Gigonier, fanuary 8,’73-37 o p : cou SV TS DEALERIN MONUMENTS, . Vaults, Tombstones, AND BUILDING STONES . LIGONIER, IND. S g Apri112,1871.-50 . ¢ ok :

: :w- An» BROWN, 3 > Manufactarer of and Dealerin all kindsof FURNITUR E, SPRING BED BOTTOMS, | ;. . WILLOW-WARE, . ¢ ’ BRACKETS, &c COFFINS&CASKETS “Also: LADIES’ SHROUDS of various patterns, Alwayson hand, and will be farnished to order lug::::: mr:‘t‘led with hearse when desired. Cer. Cavin and 2nd Str.} ngonl:er ? Ind = 2 . . |August7th,lB73.-8-15.

=,2 GILES Ouree Ysuraigia; Faco Ache, Kbeamatism Gout Frosted Fee: Chilbiains, Sore Thront,hrynlfvlu Bruisesor Wounds ofeverykind in man or animal, ~_Dr. William Osgood Page, of No. 265 4th avenne, New York, suffered for mar.y years with stiffpess and intense gﬂn in. his knee, and at imes was nnable to walk. cau ed by an Injary received -on the Hudson River Railroad. = He tried every remedy that skill or ecience could devise, without “bemefit. Girms’ LiiiMent lonive oF AMMONIA #ave instant rellef and effecied a complete cure. T&i& s : A L 50ld by all Draggists. Dépot 451 Sixth ug.e i o e

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, KiING HOUSE . . [ i« ; ety ‘ <] —QF——" | -l g : . . . SOL. MIEXR, - fonrad!s,h’e%w Brick Biock, LIGONIER, IND’NA. | Money lna;bed on long and shorttime, - ¢ | Notes discpun\ted at rearonable rater Moniex received on depositandinterestallowed on specified E’ime. : g Exchange bought and e6ld, and:Foreign Drafts drawn on principalcities of Europe, 8-2 § | —_— - TO THE FARMERS: ’&’OU vﬂllﬁﬂeas'e take nolice that T am stillengagedin buying wheat, for which I pay-the highest market price. s ’ i Tfyou do ot find me on the street, call before selling,at my Banking Office. in Conrad’s Brick ‘Block. 150 g : SOL. MIER. » Ligonier.lndiana, May Tth, 1874.—tf .

HIGGINBOTHAM & SON, VO% & @ Q”.\\ : :4| e ] \ v =N (D N o, | gt c .‘g\ﬁ""! . \,"), ”/, . \":ar 7 ( ) S / ) @‘:& w 2 | WATCH-MAKERS, CJEWELERS, . | —and dealers in— N - | <o ' ior i Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, ‘Ji ) Vi AND— ', o Fancy Goods, - e :fR,BP_AIRING ' Neatly and promptly executed and warranted ¥ Agents for Lazarus & Morris’ celebrated Spectacies.. - . o & BF-Nign of the Bi§‘ Watch, opposite the Banner Block, Ligonier;ylnd. e Sep. 30, ’75-35

Frencl Linimet

This Liniment possesses great curative powers for various ailments. For asthmatic complaints, difficult breathing tightness of the. Dreust, anc ailments of the lnugs, itis applied externally ow the breast, and beiween the =houlders. in care of soarp paing in the back and limbs, head-actic, ear uclie, affcctivus-ol the taroatjor in carer otin terual mjuries, whether resuiting from a zereit Blroke, fuli or brui~e, this Liniment 1s especiali, etlicacious. It rerieves ulcers, vpen wounds, sal rheum. whnite swelling, milk leg, and work charmingly oun corus, chilvlaing, ' frosted hauds feet ana ears. Nursing mothers suffering fron swollen brearts, resuiting ffom a stagnsiioua o the wacteal flaid, will find this Lo nimeut of incal culable beuetit by way of separating the sweiling alluying ‘the fever:and beallug the Ligast. b, several applicationis per day, highly satistactor) results may be obrained Irom tue use of this Liy imeot iu the préatment of tumors fistala; cance! piles, and tike diseares ; also, for wounds respiting from scalds, burus and cuts, and from the biter ot wasps. snakes+hd mad dogs, orpoisoning from poxivus vlangs The trench Liniment will alsc be found a vzluable household reinedy in cisex ot rheamatism,crouy, scarlet fever,dipntheria, quin’ ¢y, bronehitis, scrofula,. erysipelas,--for exteruu applications. -Cholera, cholera morbus, ceolic, cramps, spasams;-flux, diarrhea and gripings iv the buowels may be effectually checked by the invernal use of this celebrated Liniment, as follows: Oue-hall teaxpoonful four to tive times withii a period of from one-half hour to two or three hours, accordiug to the severity of the case.- Foi colic, take one ur two doaes? For flux or diurrheea, infants, one yeur of ag€, require from 5 i, 6 drops; two years old, from 10 Lo 12 drops. giver in sugar. Rub the abdomen with the Liniment For inflammation of the bowels, use the Liniment internally and externally, - ' Price 50 Cents per Bottle. Prepared and manufactured exclugively by R . . — q . . Dr. Geo. Cleis, 10-14tf = ' GOSHIEN, INK

Drs. PRICE & BREWER VISITED LAPORTE . FIFTEEN YEARS. HA&EH:HH:E)r;}}ﬂirnparallclal success in the Chroni'c Diseases .rf ', OFTHE s THROAT, ~ - ‘LUNGS, . HEART, STOMACH, . LIVER, s e HEAD,

Nerves, Kidneys, Bladder, Womb, and Blood Affqpﬂ'l@nﬂ of the Urinary Organs Grayel. Scrofula, Rhéumatiém, Catarrh, Asthma, Bronchitig, Dyspepsias&c : b Ourreputation hasbeenacqairedbyé¢andid,ionest dealing and years of suc¢cessful practice. Our practice. notune of experiment, hut founded onthe laws .of Nature. with' years of experience and evidence to suxtaln it, does notteardown, make xick to make well; no harsh treatment, no triﬂinf. po flattering. . We'knowthecauseandthe remedy needed; no guess work, bup knowledge wained hy years of experience in the treatmert o 1 Chroinicdiseaser exclns'ivel?v,;, 00 encouragement withont a prospect. Candid in our opinions, rensonable i our.charges, claim not to know everything. or cure everybody, but do lay ¢laim to ren#on and | common senge. V\“elnviu{ the rick, n» ‘matter'what their ailment. to ¢all and investigate hefore nTey abandon’ hope, makeinterrogations and decide for themselves ; it will cost nothingas consulta fon i free S : ik Drs. Price & Brewer can be eonsulted ‘asfoliows: Ligonier, Ligonier House, Monday, May 1,%& . ; 2 Kendallville, Kelley House,Tuesday, May 2d. "~ . : i LaGrange, Brown’s Hotel, Wednes‘day, May Bd. ~ - - Ly | * sl y ‘ i _ Visits willbe maderegularly for years. : Residenceand Laboratory: WAUKEGAN, ILLI- - NOIS. ; e 20-tf

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Ia Delayed and Life Prolonzed by using R. & T. Tonfe Elixir and Ligaid Extract of Beef. Thig medicine ¢an not under eircumstanee iail to cure Indigestion (‘ogsnt%ntion', Dyspepsia, Headache, Nervousness, ﬂoaq of Strength and" Arpeme‘- Lung Liver Bladder; Kidney, Stomach, Bliood, and Thildren’s ﬁisease_s. All Female diseases and weaknesses this medicing will positively cure. 41l cases of Piles ariging from natural causes or by the cuse of imjurious medicines are permanently cured, 'The pure Beef Juice and Blood prepared from raw meat furnishés strength and nourishment. Prof. E.B. Wux’np. Chemist and President of Cincinnutl College of Pharmacy, says: ; ; ~ . Crverxwam, April 2, 1815, lln-‘-*. Ricrisrosox & TULLeE: | @ * Gryrs—Having been made acquainted with the com= _E)siuhn of your R. & T. '}onle Elixir and lq?kl' Extract of Beef, would ray.that it pos« sesses valuable me,fllclnal P_rmrtleu. as all the ingredients eniéring into ils composition have wen-'ruown and positive medieinal value, which combined together must form an excqllen!,‘» toriic, catirartic, and sutritive medicine, and one well Buited to relieve many. complaints jucident to our climute. - Respeetfully, - E. 8. WAYNE., If you donot find this medicine at one drug store, ¢l at anotlier, aud if it I 3 wot on sale in your place, ‘have your druggist order it, of send directious, = o =‘;i§~ WG IRY DOB o= “w#%i; SEART & TU TDEE, Cineiny O PR TR e T S L, s e LB e T

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LIGONIER. NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1876.

HIRAM JENKINS' MISTAKE.

| Hiram. Jenkins drove slowly up the hill road that led to the farm ‘house of Deaconi Bates. It was plain even . to the causal observer that the errand ' he was bound upon was of no common importance.: No man would have arrayed ‘himself “so gorgeously simply for the purchase of a tub of fall butter or a yoke of stéers. His hair was in a state of distressing smoothness. and seemed almost a part of the glossy hat ‘'which covered it. - His coat and pantaloons were marvels in their way, and his boots, which had I been elaborately blacked, reflected bick the beholder. And yet, notwithstanding his superiority in iall these lespects to the lillies of the field, there - was apparent-in all his actions a'singular sort of nervousness, a . trepidation almost, which rendered his appearance at once ridiculous and awkward. This trepidation was in mno wise lessened'by the sudden vision:of a red-headed urchin watching him from the barn dvor, and who, as the teani approached, with a ever widening grin sped off in the direction of the farm house, and disappeared thiro’ the kitchen door, - Hiram was conscious a minute afterwards of being the target of half a dozen pairs of | eyes from the sitting-room windows, and it required extraordinary strengtiy of mind on his part to drive past the house to the shed where the horses of [ all the visitors ‘were hitched. There are few more awkward things to do than to get out of in a carriage when women “are watching, and though Hiram had probably never thought of the fact 'before, he” fully experienced its truths, as endeavoring *to spring gently from’the buggy, his foot slipped on the wheel, and he came down on his hands and knees in the dirt. His'remarks as he scrambled to his feet were confined to one word, but though short, was the most expressive one of the English-language. " “I’l} have to go round to the barn pump and wash my hands before I can go in,” he said to himself. “I suppose they are having their fun out of me in the house now. Confound it! I wish I hadn’t started!”

As he passed the door of the horsebarn, which was partly open, he heard tlre sound of voices. He listened and his. heart sank as he recognized the tones of his rival, Elanthan Rogers. “I want her bad,” he was saying; “she just suitsime. You can’t always have bher you know, and you'd - better call the thing settled.” . - “I don’t know about that,” said the Deacon, aoubtfully. “I’ve always said come what would, I wouldn’t part with. Jenny; but-you hang on so, I don’t know—" “*So- it’s a bargain, deacon. I've thought it over a good while, and Jenny I must have. T'll itreat her well, you may be sure of that.” The deacon hesitated, blew his nose, and finally saidz . ¢ . “She’s got some little tricks that nobody don’t know nothing about but me, and 1 don’t want to .impose upon a neighbor.” : B : . “Oh, pshaw! that’s only an excuse, deacon. I'm willing to risk it.” ~“She k&ked me in the stomach;last winter, afid bit little Sammy not more than six weeksago. I can show you the sear now!” 3 e *Great king!” thought Hiram, and here I was going to_pop the question this very night. Who ever would have thought it!”, | . f - “I’ll take that out of her,” said Elnathan, continuing the conversation. “If she so much as lifts her foot against me, I'll give her a licking that will last her a month.”- : “Lick!” ejaculated Hiram to himself, astonished beyond measure. “Lick Jenny Bates! -Well, that goes ahead of anything I evér heard of. ~And the old maa aoesn’t say a word! What next?” e i A" pause ensued which ‘was at last broken by the deacon: , d « “Well, if you: must have her, you must. I expect ‘the old lady’ll want something to say about it, though. She thinks as much of Jenny as I do. Won’t you come into the house ?”- ~ *“Not now. I've got-to go down to the village before dark. I'lkbe round sometime to-morrow.” e

Hiram Jenkins waited until he saw his suceessful rival climb the fence between the two farms. Then he deliberately unhjtched his horse and drove off, never casting a look toward the window where the fair Jenny sat in watchful. expectation. Not until he reached his own door did he draw a long breath. { : “It seems just like a dream,”. said he to himself, as he slowly unbuckled the harness. “To think of Jenny ‘Bates kieking her own father and biting her own little brother, and she looking as though butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth!” It is just as mean, though, in the deacon.to lick as ’tis for her to kick. The old hypocrite! Well, I must say I’'m mightily deceived in them, Bateses. ‘I s’pose Elnathan Rogers feels cranky enough mnow he’s got her. I just hope she’ll kick his head off.. Luecky for me I overheard what-I did.” !

Notwithstanding this self-gratula-tion, Hiram felt all the pangs of disappointment and jealousy. He had not only lost his *‘girl,” but he had been cut out in the madst mortitying manner by a man he held in thorough contempt. He felt that even with what he now knew of Jeuny’s faults, it he_could gain her hand he would carry her off in spite of his rival or the deacon either. : i . A week passed by, and Jenny was never out of Hiram’s thoughts. One day he went to the village, and while there standing ‘in front' of the postoffice, Elnathan drove by with the deacon’s mare, : “I B’pose he'’s got-Jenny, -and thinks he’s got a right to the whole property,” muttered Hiram. *I wish to gracious the mare would put her feet through the dash board!” e That night the singing school met at the academy.. Hiram.camse late. He used to sit with the tenors just behind Jenny Bates. Now he chose a different seat, and tried haxd to’sing bass. He could not, however, . help seeing Elnathan Rogers pass 'peppermint lozenges to Jenny, and also write something on the blank leaf of her singing book, which she read and answered. G ’ e

“Of lcourse, he’ll go home with her to-night,” thought Hiram. “Itlil be the tirst time I've missed it for a year. He’s welcome, though.” S All the intermission he kept his seat, and pretendéd to be very busy looking for some tune in his singing book that refused to be found. Jenny did not:look'athim. v .

‘The doxology closed the school at last, and there was a grand bustling about the door, and an eager pushing among the young men to make sure of their favorites, - Hiram was trying to make his way through the crowd, when he found himself atthe elbow of Jenny Bates, and at the same mo~ ment the hateful voice of Elnathan Rogers was heard in the words: ‘Shall I see you home to-night, Miss Bates?. - ...0 0 i < “No, sir,” was the prompt answek Ishall walk howe alone,” =~

Hiram . was totally übprepared for this. e i “Perhaps it’s-one of.her fits,” he said' to. himself. “The deacon said she had ’em; that nobody knew but himself. I'm glad she: mitteneéd him, though:” A i i The word reminded Hiram that he had left both hiss on his seat in the school room, and he stepped back just as the candles were being put out. “Here’s J enﬁy Bates’ singing book,” he Leard one boy say to another. “She went off insuch a hurry to-night ‘that she forgot it.” g ; - “Give. it to me” said Hiram, who remémbered what had taKen place that - evening, and with eager look sought out the!written messages that had passed between Jenny andghis rival. They wereas follows: ; o “Tell your father he cheated me when I bought old ienny. I thought by her pame she must be good for something, but she Kkicks and bitesten times worse than he ever?old; we. I.wish now I had spoken for:the Jenny in the house instead of the one in the barn.” : = And-the answer: S . “I guess the horse ig as good as you deserve. As for .your choosing between the two you mention, you won’t be. ‘able to do that this year. You have got the only Jenny you can ever gef. from my father.” i - A light broke upon Hiram. o “Well, of all the infernal fools”T ever heard of I am the biggest! A dog would have had more sense. It’s not too late now, thank heaven.”

i The departing crowd started as Hiram, with the singing book in his hand, rushed down the stairs, two at a time, and up the road which led to Deacon Bates’. If he was not too late he ‘was nearly so, for. Jenny was just opening the gate of the front yard. - “Stop, Jenny!” he exclaimed, panting for breath, “here’s your singing book. You léft it on your .seat. I tried to overtake you.” = . 2 “You needn’t have taken the trouble, Mr. Jenkins; guess ' no, one would have stolen it,”'said Jenny, with a great display of dignity, and making ‘4 show of going into the house, - “Don’t, Jenny! Wait—wait, juft a minute. I know I’ve.acted like a tool; but just let me explain.” : Jenny hesitated a moment, made another start toward the door, themn turned and went back to the gate, where the discomfited Hiram stood waiting. ; e ' “Well,” she said, in as freezing.a tone as she could eommand. ! : “Now don’t look and talk that way, Jenny Bates. You kwoow I never would have acted as I have if T hadn’t thogght I had a good reason for it. 1 thought you wére going to marry Elanthan Rogers.” .- ; : “What business had you to think any such thing?”? asked Jenny, firing up. “A'pretty explanatjon that is!” and again she turned away from the gate. Ty _ '

“stop! Let me tell you. Can’t you listen a minute?” said Hiram in desperation.: He felt that there was no other way than to make a clean breast of it, and .plunged into his. work at onee. Word tor word he related the conversation he! had heard in. the horse barn, and the effect, it had -upon himy - H- was deeply in earnest, and in closing humbly ‘appealed for forgiveness. He saw her tremble and put her-hands to her face. Poor girl.! she pittied him! lis heart rose, and. his hand was upon the gate to open it, when a peal of laughter,louder and . longer from being so -pent up. rang out upon the night air, almost startling Hiram out of his boots and waking the deacon and his wife from a sound sleep in the upper front bedroomacc | § v Up went the window, and a nightcapped head was thrust out, with a demand as to what was the mafter, Still Jenny laughed, :while Hiram stood silent by the gate angry and ashamed; not knowing whether to advance or ‘go back. At last Jenny ‘found her voice. j . “Go "home. Hiram Jenkins,” she said; “say your prayersi and go to sleep, and if you want to say anything more to me, come up to-morrow evening after supper. But mind, don’t go listening at any horse-barns on your way home;” dnd she went off in another peal of laughter. | - :

« Hiram did not wait to say goodnight. Whether he slept or said his prayers that night is not recorded, but it Is an established fact that -eight o’clock the next evening found him in Deacon Bates’ parlor. ‘The interview was a long and probably an interesting one, and its immediaté result was that before Thauksgiving the deacon had neither a Jpnny in the house nor in the barn. - i

That was years ago, and Hiram has since done the town some service as selectman, and is likewise a dignified justice of the peace. But in the midst of :all his dignities and honors,if he ever happens to insist upon having his own way, the threat of telling about the horse-barn brings him to terms at once. It is the one check to his independence—the magic charm by virtue of which Mrs. Hiram Jenkins wields the bhousehold sceptre.

Better Times Coming. .’ A correspondent of the-New York Evening Post, after observing “that times in New York are very hard,” and that “real estate is unuisually depressed,” records the opinion of one of the old retired merchants ot the city, who has marked the signs of the times with great attention; has lived through several panics and periods of depression, and now believes that the lowest round of the ladder has beenr reached, and that a “day of prosperity such as the city has never seen is at hand.” . Six or seven-very cogent reasons can be given for this hopeful belief, which may be condensed thus: 1. The California mines in 1876 will produce $100,000,000, and in 1877 $50,000,000 more. fghe 2. The excess of our exports over our imports in the fiscal year of 1874 5 was $57,000,000.. "This wiil be increased: in the year which ends in June, 1876, probably to 3,@70;0()0,000. :

3. The centennial will "bring to us 7,000,000 of people, whose average expenditure will not be less than $lO, making $70,000,000. A Philadelphia calculator estimates the visitors at 100,000,000 of people. A 4. We are nearly out; of debt,which' is ‘the corner-stone of our improvement, and we are to build on this solid »roclt. The amount of debts ' liguidated the last year cannot well be estimated. j i : 5. Our general economy, which has been taught the last three years, dur‘ing which time our. merchants have ‘been sorely. tried... .« v .6. The overwhelming crops of our country. will make us all rich, A mfﬁt‘a,i&imm»q&.cmpsm Europe, with our own cash capital comparatively unemployed, would pwdmnﬂmahi ?“"h“e?“i Dever scen, There hat of our gold,silver aad. Gopperi—Boston Jow of' Commere ”. e e e eST Sl o ‘5%‘% G o TR L

- GOV. HENDRICKS. His Integrity and Honesty as a - Citizén and Official. Reepublican Testimony in His Favor. (From ex Congressman Jasper Packards La- . ‘ ,Porte Chronicle)), ; We do not credit the reports that are abroad affecting the character of Goyernor Hendricks. We know how teady our political opponents are to: _catcelr up and publish as true anything whether true or false which affects injuriously the character of any distinguished Republican; but we are ‘not disposed to imitate their bad example. - We do not want to make political capital at the expense of the good name of the Nation or the State. We have frequently condemned this ‘course on the part of the newspaper press, and we now pronounce it reprehensible in the highest degree. We had occasion to condemn it recently when an exchange, knowing how false was the statement, accused Senator Morton of a corrupt act—a statéement which had been previously shown to have no foundation in ftact. And now we say squarely that we do not believe | a word of the rumors touching the character of Governor HendricKs: and we say frankly that if he should be proven corrupt in the magter alleged, we should'regret it exceedingly. We have no sympathy with the/political views of Gov. Hendricks; we detested his course duri::g the war, and will give all the stréligth we havé to drive him from political power and influ-. ence. But he is now the Governor of Indiana, elected to that high and honorable position by the people of the State, and any stain upon his - character ‘would be a stain upon the reputation of the State.. We could not rejoice over it; we should 'scorn to make, partisan capital oyt of it. Lo Though ad'(tngerous\;%olitician, we beiieve the Governor of Indiand is pure as to his private character, and | as a citizen of’the State, trust our convictions in this respect will not be forced to any change.” ’ ] {From the LaPorte Herald.) > We are frank to say that we are unwilling to-believe that Governor Hendricks was ever concerned in any corTupt Gatling Gun contract; nor has anything worthy the name of évidence vet been developed pointing to his guilt. . As the case now stands, there, is no stain orsmell of “Gatling grease” otk the Governor of Indiana—so far as we can see or scent. - |

.oG i X ! True, Every Word of kt. We clip the following article in ref- ! erence to,President Grantifrom the Cincimiatil Compnercial, every word of 'which is true; : o Grant began | his administration, some years ago, by sowing the seeds af the harvest of swindling-and scandals that he is now reaping. = Hecould only see in public affairs a’chance to reward personal, friends. He regard-, ed himself the savior of the country, and thought he had made @ sacrifice in taking the Presidency. So ‘far as| he had relatives or cronies, he was ready and anxious, without the slightest reference to their fitness, to thrust’ them into office. His Cabinet appointments provoked derision. The shower of appointments of relatives that followed was a puzzle to the country} In Cincinnati, in New Orleans, in San Francisco, in Covington and New port, in Germany -and Gautemnala, in the District of Columbia and -Oregon, were ~instances of flagrant misuse of public trust in behalt; of ~persomrs whose ouly claim wuas that of connection with the President. If nothing else could' be found; a second cousinship to the Chief Magistrate was an ample discovery to ateount for appeintments otherwise altogether ixv‘ ekplicable. When the cousins of all dégrees were . exhausted, and camp | cronies were played out, and all their acquaintances were supnlied, some attention was paid to republican politi . cians, and in- all'the departments the precedent of the use of relativés and of recognizing personal favors as the great grinciple of the administration, has been followed. Then the Presi‘dent has been wandering up and down the country, mneglecting the public. business, turning it over to his illegal, private secretaries -accepting shoddy hospitality and dead-head railroad accommodations; until the eciviljservice: is rotten, and negligence and nepotism are supplemented by vulgar insolence and flagrant corruption. Whisky rings, Indian rings, army rings, ngvy rings, District rings have flourished, and the President has always stood obstinately by any one of the many with whom\ he has been associating, who was freely suspected of being a seoundrel, and there has- been a long series of sean“dals from the Black Friday of Broth--er-in-law Corbin to.the Black Thursday of Belknap, and with . them the - history of the atlministration is smeaired from London to China, either way around the world; and this sort of thing has yet a year to run. ' - L el e

| ©Origin of the Great Lakes: | ‘ The question of the origin of the great lakes is one that requires more. obseryation,and study than have yet been given to it, beforg we can be said to have solved all the problems it involves, There are, however, certain facts connected:with the structure ot the'lake basins, and some deductions from ‘these facts, which may be regarded as steps already. taken toward the full understanding of the subject. These facts and deductions are, briefly, as follows: s ot 'First. Lake Superior lies:in a synclinal trough, and its mode ¢f forma--tion, theretore, hardly admits of question, though its sides are deeply scored. with ice-marks, and its formed aréa may have been somewhat modified by this agent. - i : { Seeond. Lakes Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario are excavated basins, wrought out of one continuous sheets sedimentary strata by a mechanical agent, and that ice or water, or both. That they have been filldd with ices and that this ice formed great moving glaciers, we may consider proved. The west ehd of Lake Erie may be said to be carved out of corniferous lime--stone by fce action, as its bottom, and sides, and islands-—horizontal, verti‘cal, and even overhanging surfaces—are all furrowed by glacial grooves, which are paralleled ‘'with the major axisof the lake, .==7oo o 0 - All .our great lakes are probably very anclent, us, since the eloso of ths Devoniun_period, the area they oceupy has never been submerged beneath the ocean, and their formation may Iraye begun dusing the coul epoch.. axeaval “Qfﬂ”w lake g;‘ sing, that 4' G ovic bl ii kL e ﬁmw%w@z% | Posea Lo observauion, i cComposed ot Pagtidasd raterinli. bk lanisbatibio

. The Way to Victory, | . Bray a fool in ‘a mortar, yet will his folly not depart from him. General Ewing, of Ohio, is one of the men whom the Democracy of the United. ‘States have to thank for the defeat of their party in Ohio and in! Pennsylyvania last fall, by foreing into their platforms in those States an endorse-. ment of theé rag-money doctrine and practice of the republican patty. ILike the Cincinnati’ Enquirer, that ex-re-publican General exhibited his politi-. cal astuteness by obliging the Democracy of Ohio to relieve the republican. party of half its crushing odium as the rag-money and inflatign. party. The result was defeat in |Ohio and defeat in Pennsylvania on the eve of a Presidential election. - f & i The same General Ewing, ‘attributing the hard times to a contraction which has not taken place, and preseribing rag money as the cure for all the evils rag money has caused, lifted - up his voice in Ohio the other day, exhorting the Democracy of that Stateand of the Union to follow him into the ditch of dishonorable ‘and disas-: trous defeat. : ' ot o

: Ohio votes in’ October, and great efforts are mdking by the rag money men to give to the early election in ‘that State u significance which it!is not now possible for it to possess. ' If ‘the Democrats of Ohio repeat this fall their folly and their infidelity to the. party, which last year gave their State to the Republicans, of course there is no reason to suppose the result will be different. If they repudiate the authors of that disaster they will still be encumbered with the record so recently made, and their journals will. be gagged and their orators confolinded by an inconsistency so palpable and so sure to be charged home upon them with most dantaging effect. : ¢ Ohio is therefore a State which no prudent politician will dream of taking into the list of States whiceh the Democracy must carry if they hope to win the Presidential election. | : Indiana, for similar reasons, ism a precisely-similar case. Like Ohio, it votes in October. Like Ohio, it is out: of line with thie Democracy of the rest. of th€ Union, of Illinois and Wisconsin, of Connecticut, New Jersey and New York., . o L R The Southern; States which were carried by the Democrats in their latest. State or Congressional elections (all save South Carolina and. Forida) gatst,lz’? electoral votes. . ; Che Pacitic. States whick wére carried by the Demoerits in their latest State or Congressional elections (Cali= fornia, Oregon and Nevada), east 12 electoral votes. - : : :

The Metropolitan States, which were carried by the Democrats in their latest State or Congressional “elections (New Jersey, Connecticat and New York), :easc 50 electoral wvotes. - And ‘the Meiropolitan States, like the Pacific States, were carried upon a hardmoney platform, and can be carried #gain by the Democracy wupon that platform but upon no other. - . - These three groups of States cast more than 4 majority of the electoral votes, of which number 185 is a majority. o Ve Southern democratic 5tate5,......127 Pacifie demoeratic States...) .. . 12 Metropolitan democratic States... 50 y o ‘ e e 189 Upon a hard-money platform, but not upon any other platform,.it is possible also to carry Illinois (21 votes) and Wisconsin (10 votes), which would increase our majority:to 210, * | . This is the path of victory,if the St. Louis Convention shall but point the: way. There is no other path. No. other combination of 185 votes is anyhow possible. 2 s The ‘most widely ‘cireulated and ablest journal of ‘Ohio, the independent Cincinnati Commercial, has said of this plan that it- has force enough to earry the Democratic Convention. “There is force enough in this to. carry the Democratic Convention. It is upon the hard-money platform that the Democracy have a chance of winning; and with Tilden bidding with hard money for New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and the Pacific States to reinforce rthe South, the Republicans have no strength to waste on ragibaby, or whisky - ring favbr_it‘?s, but they must fight throughout the nation as they fought in Ohio last fall ‘or they will be beaten.” N But there. are “deliberate fools,” as Portia says, like-General Ewing, still inviting the democratic party of the Union to a suicide like that of the Ohto Demaerdey. 0 gl " +0 these deliberate fools! when they do choose, Tney have the wisdom. by their wit to lose.” . , Lo —N.Y. World. -

i The War Debt. | Said Hon. J. C. S. Blackburn, demos= cratic member of Congress from the Kentucky district formerly represented by Henry Clay, in a speech-to the Democrats of Reading, Februaryl2: “ I do not complain of the creation of .a war debt, but the Republicans bave made it too big. Instead of making it one billion they made it three billions. It is impossible for a finite mind to have a proper conception of the amount. Since Jesus Christ was born the eclock has not ticked off one billion of minutes, and yet the republican party has made a debt.of three billions of dollars: With such a-record staring them-in the face how can they have the effrontery to come before the American people and ask for ‘a continuance in power?” I wish every man in this land. who is entitled to vote could make a pilgrimage to Washington and stay: .there thirty days to witnegss the extravagance and seething ~corruption prewvailing there” - ¢ Sna ol " Hiow She was Fooled. B

~ A lady 1n an adjacent eity suspected that her husband was in the habit of kissing Kaly, the cook, and resolved t®detect him in the act. | After watching for days, she heard him come inoneevening and quietly pass through into the kitchen. ' Now Katy was out that evening and the kitchen was dark. Burning - with jealousy the wife took some matches in her hand and hastily placed her shawl over her head as Katy ‘sometimes did, entered the kitchen by the back «door,and was “almost immediately seized and embraced in the most ardent manner. With her heart almost bursting with . ‘rage_and jedlousy, the injured wife ‘prepired to administer a terrible re~ -buke to her faithless spouse. Tearing herself from uhiﬂs- foul ‘embrace, she struck a mateh, and stood‘face to face with—the hired man. Her husband ‘gays his wife had never treated him’ 80 well since the first month they were married as she has for the past fowdiye 0 R The Wﬂ% fate Republiean

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-~ . HMadaQuestion. | “'ln one of the union schools the other day a teacher departed for half an hour from the usualprogramme and asked ‘her scholars such guestions as might interest them. . After she had' ‘asked “What makes the wind blow?” “What causes rain?” “Who invented the locomotives?” and so forth, and -helped to explain them; she said: ' - - “Now, children, any of you who:so desire ean ask me questions.” | | " No one seemed to think of anything, except, a freckled-faced boy about 14 years ‘old. -He raised his hand, and the teacher said: S _“Well, Robert, my boy, have you a question ?” R “Yes mum. 7T’'d like to know ‘what they miean when they say o a feller ‘Oh, puil down yourvest!'” -« .. The :teacher had to admit that she ‘}\;as ~behind -the - age.—Detroit - Free' PSR N s e M

' Holman Ready to be Geovernor. . (Washington Cor. Indignapolis News,) .. . If Mr. Holman ever seriously tho't of \declining the tender of the mnomination/for'the Governorship of this State, he has” evidently reconsidered that decision,. and like “Barkis” is more than “willin’ ” to serve his ¢ountry in that proud capacity. Thereis in the democratie side of the- House at this time no -more popular: man, or one more universally " respected for v}ﬁs* sterling qualities than-the great economist. Outside of his party he has many warm friends who esteem him for what he isasaman. . .

THE Very juiciness of richness eomes to. us “in -the Logansport Journal, whieh suggests Morton. as a remedy for the follies: and crimes of Grant’s administration. -We cannot wish the country’ such -misfortune.” The im‘provement ' would be like that of the growth of a cow’s tail—downward.— New Albany Ledger-Standard. . .. Give us Grant as perpetual President ratlier than “Bloody Shirt” Mor‘ton in‘the chair. for one year. Ninetenths of ‘the:Democrats prefer Grant to such a bundle' of meanness, corruption‘and vindictiveness as Morton, —Vincennes Sum, " --t 5 CAIeRE o ctl ae oetes LT ' Theé Highest Point in Indiana’ Prof. John Collett, assistant geologist, informed us while here last Sunday, that the hill known 'as “Weed Patch,” in-Brown county, about nineteen ymiles ‘west of this eity, is the highest poiut in the State. This young mountain is 550. feet above Nashville, and 200 feet higher than_ any other point in Indiana. 'The top of this hill is:a beautiful level plane, embracing near 600 acres of| land.: ' The: view from ;this point (i§ grand, romantic and pictaresque.—Burtholomew Demoel e A el e il

A party of well known scientists on Thursday last. began the work of exeavating and exploring the mounds at Spoonville,"Mich.,” which were supposed to conceal the-remains of prehistoric inhabitants of that. region. ‘The mounds ~were opened. There were ' found -human skulls, pottery, copper utensils, hatchets, needles, ete. It was the unanimous verdict- that ‘they were at least 2,000 years old. Further explorations. will be made forthwith. The scientists are of the opinion that this will prove among the richest discoveries of the Kind on this eontinente:. o Sl o

THE South Beénd Herald says that A. H.: Knapp, of ‘that city, has an interesting centennial paper—a quitclaim deed, given to Thomas rﬁnapp, one of his fere-fathers,by Caleb Smith, The deéd was executed in Litchtield, Conn., and conveyed twenty-five acres of land “for the consideration of 20 £ lawful money.” "It will be 100 years oldin April next. - ¢ iEL

Greensburg Standard : ““There is a woman new living in - this town who fhas been ‘martied five times to three different. men: “She. is at: present a wife.. She was: divorced: from her first husband and remarried him; left a widow, she married the second man ; he dying, she married the third, was divoreed from him, married him again, ‘and 18 r}ow, forthe fifth time, a happy Brigeb s - niodiei s Se ot

- “The hundredth year of the repub--li¢,” says the. Indianapolis Journal, “is not a good time to surrender the government, into the .hands ofits ‘ enetnies.” " That i true; but itisan excellent time to- take it out of their hands, and that we propose to do this fall. Théy have already 'had control, of it too long.—Connersville. ExamBNRET: o ps e e g . e

A special from Laramie reports that an engagement fook place about ten days ago between the miners:on Deadwood: creek, ‘in the Black Hills, and the Indians, in whichithe former lost 'one man and the latter thirteen. The Indians had been stealing horses, and weve pursued by the miners with the above result. e

_ SENATOR MoRrToN has presented to Congress -a petition signed by 15,000 women -and 9,000 -men of Indiana, asking that-body to passsa law making total abstinence a requisite for securing the appointment by the government to any. offiee, civil, military orfiaval. doi sl B

Richmond, Ind. has a city ordinance that cany . establishment. which may locate there for the manufacture of goods not already manufactured there, and which are of general utility, will be exempt from any;and all taxes for ¢ity purposes whatever, for the period of five years from the date of lacabion: - v velg b

. THE wives of New York city workmen have, ¢lubbed together and are attempting to have employers :pay their husbands on Mondays instead of Satur.dags, By the former means much of .their wages, that are usually spent .in Sunday ecarousals, will be saved for their familiés. « .-~ -

> e ey L 2 ‘ Gen. ‘Reynold’s -expedition, - which left ‘Fort Fetterman, W. T., on the: Ist inst. to punish the Indian marauders under Crazv Horse, have returned, having been very successful. A large amount of ‘ammunition: accumulated . by the Indians was destroyed. « - . The. heavy rvain storm which pre“yailed ‘all Saturday, eaused considerable damage in and around New York city.. Several land-slides on the Hudson’ River Railroad caused much delay anavel. o Ll o _ Gold-seekers’ tickets ns far west as “¥ankton have béen placed on sale at Indianapolis—frst-class, $26.65; seeond class, $22.90. Yankton is within 200 miles of the Black Hills. .~ “Set a_watch over thy mionth, and e St ?ﬁ% M L

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i' - WIT AND HUMOR., | S TR [" B 7“ - The man who had a project on foot went to a corn doctor. - : : .. At arecentspelling-match, one man | é_pelt; it “pasqip”_andgot beet. S A Corcord|(N. C.) man tried a lon ,time to open the first postal card he ever received. [ e Why should it be easy to bréak into an'old man’s house? Because his gait is broken andL'his locks ‘are few. - It has been found thatin nearly every civilized countrythe tree that bears the most fruit for market is the axle-tree. . ; . -“That was very greedy of you,Tommy, to eat your little sister’s share of ‘cake!” “You told me, ma, I was always to take her pait,” said Tommy. . “I take my tex dis mornin’,” said a ‘colored preacher, “from dat portion ob de scriptures whar de Postal Paul ‘pints his pistol to de Fessions.” Very definite.: o i g

“Don’t you think,” said a husband in a mild form of rebuke to his wife, “that women -are possessed by the devil?” - “Yes,” was the answer, “as. soon as they gre married.” An 'old lady recently directed the attention of her husband to a pair of twins, remarking, as she did so, “how much those two children dolook alike, especially the one this way!” ; ° : S While an Towa woman was strug- - gling in the water, and likely to drown, her husband yelled out: “New bonnet —swim for life!” 'and she kicked. out and safely reached the shore. | | 4 . : \ A genius has discovered that the word “debt” is composed of the initials of “Dun everybody twice,” and that. “credit” is formed .of the initial letters of “Call regularly every day; I'll trust.” Correct. _ ; - Nothing is calculated to make a young man more deliberate than the spectacle of seventeen pairs of striped stocking hanging on the clothes-line of a house where there is enly one young lady in the family. Lo

A Buffalo man dreamed that he was going over the Falls, and he had his wife by the throat when he woke up. Next: night she had a dream, and broke his:nose ag she struck atan Indian. -Retalliation, “What cdn I ‘do to make you love me more?” asked a youth of ‘-his girl, the other evening. “Buy me a ring, ® stop eating onions, and thr‘(')(w your -~ shoulders back when you walk;” was the immediate: reply. : S T

- A doctor attending a punster ‘who ‘was very ill, apologized for being late one day by saying that he had to stop to see a man who had fallen down a well. - “Did he kick the bucket, doctor ?”’ groaned the punster. :

. Little four-year old playing wilh her dolls: “Now, you lay there, my dear, and you lay there.” Mother—- “ Why, Edie, you know that isn’t right ; you should say lie.” “Oh, no, mathma; I'm playing they are chickens.”™

A boy at a crossing having begged for something of a 4 gentleman, the latter told him that he would give him something as he came back, The boy replied, “your heonor would be surprised if you knew all the money .I lose by giving credit that way.” Audacityl i CeRaE ]

A younglady dressed-in much false hair ‘was warbling at a piano, 4} when lier mother summoned her td 4ssist in some household duties, her rosy lips opened poutingly and snapped out, “O, do it yourself!” and then went on singing, “Kind words. can never die.”": E ‘One of the sweetest little s¢hool. marms this county contains undertook to_whipsone of her larg(; scholars—a boy some fifteen years of age—a 'few days ago, but when she began the operation, the young man, cooly clasping’ ‘Miss ‘L. around the neck, gave her a hearty kiss. It is unnecessary to state that he escaped puuishment that day atleasbi 'oy R e -

The New York Mailsays thatmany™, of the brown stockings work by ladies * are so poisonous as to endanger life. Those who wear them assume an un-: lovely color. You've got your cue now, dear reader. When you see a - lady friend assume an unloyely color, - you should pull her stockings right - off, and light out for a stomach pump. - Danbury News. j i In the Rondout Methodist Church, ! on a recent Sunday morning, the usu- - al donning ‘of overcoats was proceed--ing amid considerable confusion, but had not been completed when the pastor arose to pronounce the benediction. He paused a moment, and said: “Brethren, I guess I will put on my overcoat hereafter during the benediction, so as not to lose any time.” Good idea. < Sl Said His Honor: - Mr. Peters, why . don’t you sit down, sir?” *“I don’t'sit ' down any more, sit.” “But youmust.” “I can’t,sir.” *Why can’tyou?” “Well, - sir, she said we couldn’t both sit in one chair, and I tried to demonstrate . that we could, and she picked me up - and settled me on top of a red hot stove, and—ll don’t believe I care to sit down, if it pleases the court.” The " court agreed with the witness. e When aman comes home and tries to bolt his door with a sweet-potato, pokes the fire with the spout of a cot-fee-pot, attempts to wind up the clock with his boot-jack, tries to cut kind- - ling wood for the morning fire with a paper knife, takes a cold potato in ‘hand to light him to bed, and prefers - sleeping with his hat and boots on, - you may reagonably infer that he ,%‘:i-;f been making the.acquaintance of some very friendly.people. o, % iz T .A Fort Madison man went mtongxsi cow stable the other day, and, by nijstake, mixed her up a nice magh in'§ ‘box full of ‘saw-dust instead of bran, - The cow, merely supposing the hard times had come and they were all go= - ing to economize, ,meekly ate Fer supper, and that mani never Jiscovered his' mistake until the next mom%@ ~ (vivhen hle;lngﬂked ltil(ljat cgv:, and %ih““ own half agallon of turpentine, & quart of sh'oe'gpegs, and &rgmldla i laths.—Burlington Hawkeye. = ' ' Remember This. ': Now is the time of the year for Pneumonia, Lung Fever, Coughs, Colds, and fatal results of predisposi. tion to Consumption and other Tiront. ‘man_Syrup has been used in thig £ & uaihencmibdhabiehin biy b e e R tasSh S e A Y s DYoL o |lf you have ne “M'z\ 1 y m el it oly - A ‘Q‘ : i | N