The National Banner, Volume 11, Number 6, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 June 1876 — Page 2

e e ot oy 120 el . RTI e, ‘ iye iy Aoaa o Fa 7 The Fational Banner e’ .. SN ARY Vs J. B.STOLY., Editor and Piroprietor, ee e M LIGONIER, IND. JUNE. 1, 1878. e — PEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. P For Governor: e JAMES D. WILLIAMS, of Knox. : For Ligut. Gevernor: : - ISAAC P. GTEXY, of Randolph. For Judges df the SapremetCourt: ) ist Dist.-@ﬂ} USKIRK, of Monroe, 2d Dist.—ATTC. DO\V‘NEY, of .Ohio. 2d Dist.—J. PETTIT, of Tippecanoe. Ith Dist.{~J. L. WORDEN, of __AVells.i ; !Fur Secretary, of State: - 5 : JOHN E. XFF]‘, of Randolph. ¢ ' 7 ; For Auditor of Statex & ' EB. HENDERSON, of Morgan. ' : For Treasurér of Sfate: BENJAMIN C. SHAW, of Marion. ! For Attorney Gen&a)‘.‘" SRR ~C. A. BUSKIRK, of Monroe. v For Superintendent of Public Instruction? i JAMES I SMART, of Allen. . Fot Clerk of the Snpréi:;e Court? GABRIEL SCHMUCK, of Perry. For Reporter of til(": Supreme Court: AUGUSTUS N. MARTIN, of ‘Allen.

Editorial Convention. : The annual meeting of the Editorial Association of, Northern Indiana will be held at Columbia City, on ‘Thursday. Juno Bth, 1876. A full attendance is desired, as business of importance will be presented at this meeting for the consideration of the members. By prder of the President, ; . HERBERT S. FASSETT, Sec’y. | eL — 7 HEXDRICKS AND LNGLIsH would make a good team. Hendrieks* can carry Indiana, and English can secure us Connecticut. | e ' —_———— . —— . SENATOR BAYARD, of Delaware, is developing considerable strength as a presidential candidate. eis a good man, but his time is not yet. -

_ PAYNE, of Ohio, is occasienally mentioned as a ¢compromise candidate for the Presidency on the democraticside of the house. . He,is a good man.

Ir ‘WE cAN'T get Hendricks for President, Joel Parker, of New Jersey, or Gen. Hancock, of Pennsylvania, would fill the bill|very acceptably.

TILDEN’s chances are not as bright as they were a few weeks ago. The opposition to him in his own State is assuming formidable proportions.

~ JoeEL PARkKER for President and . ex-Gov. [John M. Palmer, of Illinois, for Vice l’resi%nt, ‘would arouse a good deal of centennial enthusjasm. . TmE Indemnﬁ-};;ty, of which Peter Cooper e;is[ the reluctant -stand--ard bearer, probposes to invert the; monetary system of the: world by founding credit ‘{upqh indebtedness.

s THE fnendshf'p of the Cattells, of New Jersey, is something to, be de_sired.. Those genereus souls give to Navy Robeson & house, and pay his notes and buy hi% horses—all for love. \ i m—- ' SmovLp Blaine obtain the nomina- : : tion at Cincindati, Gen. llancock’s " chances for the presidential nomination at St. Louis could be urzed with great propriety. Hancock and Doo- - Httle would cause a rattling among ‘the dry bones. - -1 : _° COMMODORE | VANDERBILT was 82 years old on the 27th of May. It is ~ - said he has been in /ill health forty _ years, and _especially so for the last twenty years, having received a rail‘road shock twenty years ago from . which he has never recovered.

‘Wita Hendricks for President, and some able New Yorker (Gen. Slocumy;, Elijah -Ward, or Wm. Doorsheimer,) for Vice Dresident, we could count ‘with reasonable certainty upon carrying enough western and eastern States to - triumphantly electour national fieket. 1 1. b

~ TeE “Independents” have made a sad beginning at Indianapolis. Cooper swallows the platform but repudiates the nomination; Booth quarrels with

the platform and turns his back to his

admirers. A;ani exchange thinks. not , much of atree can grow from such unpromising seed. ~ | s _v*{..:-..—-«;‘—‘ ;

TwO CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES have already bgfaen ‘placed in nomination by the Indiana Democracy. Hon. Benoni S. Fuller has been unanimously renominated in the First District, and the Democrats of the Eighth District have placed in nomination Col. W. E. McLean, a War Deniocrat of Terre Haute. - Both nomiinations are first-class. b & s

AN ATTEMPT hds-been made to connect Speaker Kerr with a questionable transaction in 1866, it being alleged that he procur#d an appeintment inthe Armhy for a New Yorker who paid 8600 for the favor. The story is evidently a base slander which no one who knows anything, of Mr. Kerr would entertain for a single moment. We venture the assertion that Mr. Kerr never accepted a dollar for ser-, vices of this nature. i ~ f

THE veteran political stager, Thurlow Weed, says ‘he does not like the

proceedings of the FifthcAvenue Con-

. .ference. It wßuld be extremely surprising if he did. Weed ‘thinks the - “bloody shirt” the most effective party banner that can be ‘uplifted in the campaign. He wants Jeff, Davis and - Andersonville “utilized” "in order to keep up a healthy state of irritation’ -in this centennial year. ~What: an . . * amiable old curmudgeon Thurlow is, - tobesure. , g 5 ; : ”“““"“.’T’"" ~'_‘ v 3 IN the State temperance conven- ' tion, recently held at Indianapolis, a - memorial to the Legislature was adopt- - ed recommending an amendment to © the constitution of the State of Ind- ~ iana making the hanufacture and sale - of intoxicating beverages unlawful - within the State,and that a State asylum be established . for inebriates, - Where such-shall be treated as dis- . eased persons, and where such may < place themselyes voluntarily, or where . staneo of rolaives and friends. -

w_———-———ﬁ—*—‘“—— e POLITICAL SLANDER. - It has come to be one of the fashions to'abuse. men who submit their names for office. Men of all grades and stripe of opinion seem to think they have a perfect right to malign and slander those who run for office. No one is safe. The tongue of slander is hot with words-which burn deep and are more cruel than the grave. Does it follow that because a person ‘desires a certain office he is therefore a minion of evil, and evil only? Must a man who stands fair in the community be blackened by his opponents, simply because he submits his'‘name for office? 1t is indeed strange—yea, is it not wicked ?>—to injure those who desire political honors at the hands of their constituents. The American peeple must frown down this evil, which is becoming a sourceé of alarm to our institutions. - :

Everybody, almost; seems to think it is not wrong.to steal from a railroad, or slander a man.who desires an office. But the. sin of stealing or lying will be just as potent in making him heinous who follows his wicked ways. |t AT S The time has come when we must educate the better side of our nature, exercise a spirit’ of forbearance, and of charity, and show 'men ‘that we have faith in humanity. We hope to see in the-many new questions now coming before the-people a:better view taken of men, and more attention given to the real ‘points at issue. | All men need the warm and hearty support of those who are good, and all men should strive to develop thé kindly spirit which will crown the wearer with. the emblems’of peace.— Plymouth Democrat. | g Noble words, fitly spoken.: Let them be remembered as we progress in the political contest- of ’76, especially by the press which can confribute so largely to-a reformation in the direction indicated by -our Plymouth contemporary. :

The indiscriminate denunciation of "rr_r”en offering themselves for the suffrages of the people has had a most damaging .effect upon our political system. . Good and pure men hesitate to become candidates for public oflices for the good reason:that they prefer private life to encountering the. vile slang of malicious and unscrupulous partisans. The result is that individuals of a less sensitive turn of mind are enabled to thrust themselves upon the people, not because they are wanted by good, honest and upright citiz‘ens} but because men of a higher standard do not care to enter the eon-| test for political promotion. A bum-' mer or scalawag, running for. office, does not and:need’ not eare for-eriti-cism. His deficiency in point of character and principle is already notorious; hence ventilation would excite but little: commotion and attract less aftention. Besides this, the bummer element i 3 always the most profuse and extravagant in maligning and slandering men who move in purer circles. 'The true gentleman would scorn to circulate a bare-faced lie, while the bummer regards the dissemination of slanderous reports a légifimate weapon in the rhana,gement’ of a political contest.: 9 Unless a radical change soon takes place in this particular, high-minded and sensitive men will hesitate long before offering themselves as candi‘dates, and the inevitable result will be a further and continued demoraliz-&-ion of the public service. It should therefore be the aim of all good citizens to denounce on all suitable occasions the abuses so-aptly rebuked in ‘the above extract. ’ ) .

: POWER OF BAD MEN. TUnder the above caption the Grand Rapids Z'vmes delivers a brief sermon which contains more- pith, truth and forcible argument than we have' seen crowded. into the same amount of ‘space for along time: - Evil has a strong ‘foothold in the Cworld. Bad men often have great power and intfluence. - Judas was only oune man out. uf twelve, blit the Judas element. obtained a temporary and gigantic victory in the old world, . It is a stubborn fact that right generally travels up hill, while wrong slides ‘along s;lip-shod. This is true in politics, in Teligion and even in the vegetable world. Weeds will always choke out the fine grapes, and rare fruits will surely freeze out and die, while there is no death or check for the coarser- varieties. So it is-that truth can never travel with a lie, and it isa constant struggle for justice and honor to hold their own. One bad man is like the small pox in a community. ‘The virus catches and spreads. Itis like the stench of a morass impreg‘pating a whole neighborhood. i " Bad: men, too, have almost inbounded power in law and legislation.— | Their ' base oaths and slanders run like a fire ‘over a prairie. By their ‘burning, damning influnence the fairest reputations are scorched and ‘withered. : Poison will kill, even if Satan administers it. = - o Tue carLs forsa Republican and a Dechr@tic&ﬁ‘gressional convention in this g, e 13th) District are issued by the respective. chairmen of -the committees. Both" conventions ‘will this time be held.in the city of :Goshen—the Republican on the 28th of Jupe, and the Democratic-Liberal on July 11. The former will doubtlgss renominate the present member, Hon. John H. Baker, without serious opposition, and a like compliment is probably in store. for Mr. Freeman Kelley. An exciting contest may be anticipated, it being Mr. Kelley’s determination.to “put in his best licks” to overcome that 58 majority. 2

THE Tndianapolis Jouirnal recently took occasion to speak in commendatory terms of THE BANNER’S demand for fair and honorable treatment of political opponents. We regret to notice, however, that the same Journal falls far short of adopting the same courge in its treatment of democratic candidates. Its article on Uncle Jim Williams in Monday’s issue js about. as fair a specimen of partisan malignity and falsehood as has yet been exhibited. -+ . ;

- THESE consoling lines are found in an eastern exchange: “Truth has got its boots on at last in the case of Hon. George H. Pendleton. His whole con- | necqon with the railroad claim against ‘the government which he succeeded in collecting appears to have been entirely free from the suspicion’of overreaching or dishonesty of any kind.” THE BAN;{ER earnestly hopes there may be no mistake about this exculpatory statement. : ' - WHo says Ex-Governor Parker, of New Jersey, would not make a good candidate and a good President?— Harrisburg Patriot. . = = | " Nobody! If any one did, Greeley’s terse expression: “You are a horse%m‘*ﬂﬂy”mld certainly be in

OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. o W“‘li)ﬁlm—]’; C,. May 96, 1876. : THE ST. LOUIS NOMINEE, - | It is a pleasing feature of the contest between the several candidates for the St. Louis nomination, that no bitter feeling is éxhifbited by any .. of them, nor hard language used. The Southern members of Congress, particularly, express themselves on the exciting topie of the day with a moderation worthy of all praise. They are pretty firm, however, on one point. They say “we must have a Democrat.” In 1872 we met the Liberal: Republicans more than half-way. We accepted as our candidate a man whom our people and the democratic party of the North had looked upon, for more than a quarter of a century as a bitter and able foe," but who, at the eleventh hour, impelled. by the great good that was in him, had become our friend when le saw us weak and oppressed. We forgot and forgave, and tried our best to elect him. He was beaten, and the effect of that.defeat is still felt. It will operate ‘against the r;qmina’tipn of any man at St. Louis who is not identified with the democratic party. There is no evidence that any mare sectional differences - will be allowed to interfere iwith the selection of the most available ‘candidate. The South gives assurance of this, by refusing to put forward an extreme man from that section. The Soulth demands that the North and West - shall unite with them on: a candidate who cannot be defeated.- The leading issue of the campaign will be Administrative Reform. - Not an;empty promise of Reform, made simply to be broken, but the assurance: of such a. complete change in the administration of the Government, as shall. drive corrupt men from office, and substitute official honesty for the dishonesty that now disgraces every department of affairs. ‘The man who can best represent these princjples, and who can draw the largest support from dissatisfied Republicans, as well as from Democrats, will bé the choice of the St, Louis C-ouvexition; and he cannot be defeated. At the present writing, that man is generally>conceded to be. Samuel J. Tilden, of New York., ; :

-~ THE.VICE PRESIDENCY. : iGilbert C. Walker, of Virginia, is strongly urged for the second place on the St. Louis ticket by prominent men of all seetions. - Virginia, herself, hesitates, as the most prominent Southern State, to advocate the claims of Mr. Walker; it being tacitly understood that no citizen of the South isto be presented at St. Liouis for either nomination. The fact, however, that Mr. Walker is of Northern birth and education, that he became a ‘gitizen of Virginia after the war, and that he made himself s> acceptable to the Mother of States as to get elected Governor, and afterwards a Representative in Congress from the Metropolitan District, may cause his case to be considered exceptional by the Convention. The needs of Virginia and her undeveloped . resources require that_she should have efficient repre‘sentatives in every department of the Government. No man could serve her more effectually as Vice President, and no man would work for her more faithfully, than Gilbert C. Walker. “WIIO THE DEVIL IS BEALL 9"

“Who the devil is Robeson!” was the universal query when an obscure Jersey lawyer was called to a place in the Cabinet. - The desire for information was quite as keen when Grant made Akerman Attorney General, Borie, Seeretary of the Navy, and Belknap. Secretary of War; and it was some time before people could be made to understand that these worthies were great,K men -and. deserved well of their country. The question is now asked, “Who the devil is Beale?”—the individual nominated for Minister to Austiria. The answer is quickly given. Beale is a personal friend of General Grant, and was a Lieutenant in the Navy when: Grant was fighting on the Mississippi., He is a wealthy man, having made money some way or another during the war, and retired from the navy, several years agb.' While a man of education, he has seen nothing of public life, and is utterly unfit to represent the country at one of the principal courts of Europe. It is somewhat doubtful whether he will be confirmed by ‘the Senate; for that body, understanding the hrevity of Grant’s tenure of office, is getting positively disrespectful in its treatment of “His Alcoholie Majesty.”" The Senate has already PASSED GNE BILL OVER HIS VETO, and threatens to pass another—the bill to reduce the salary of the Chief Executive to' $25,000. - This bill, which was vetoed by the President, was originated and.urged on the Senate side by a Republican, (Wright' of Jowa) who, on the 25th inst., reported it back to the Senate with the veto message, with the recommendation from his: committee (Civil Service and Retrenchment,) that it pass notwithstanding the veto. The question of the advisability of reducing the President’s salary is not a party one. Mr. Bayard and ‘several other democratic Senators spoke and voted against it; and last session, in the House, Alexander- . Stephens made a speech in opposition |to reduction, in which he took thé view that the President’s salary should be increased instead of diminished. He held that it should be at least $100,000; that Judges of the Supreme Court should receive $25,000 each; members of Congress $15,000; members of the Cabinet $25,000, &e. It is not believed that the bill can be passed over the veto of the President, who asserted -in his message that he had no personal interest in the matter, but disapproved it from a sense of duty. =~ =

At the meeting of the delegates from the 18th congressional district, at Indianapolis, the evening before the State convention, a resolution was unanimously adopted recommending the district committee 'to call a convention for the purpose of nominating a candidate for congress, at Goshen, on Tuesday, the 11th day of July. The date selected will enable judges, attorneys, emcel‘s. newspaper men, farmers, ete., to attend without interfering with their home duties, and we anticipate a rousing convention. If the Democracy pull together, and there is no doubt of it, with an acceptable nominee, We shall be able {0 overcome. the 58 majority and add several hundred to it.—Plymouth Democrat,

. Death of a Noted Journalist, ‘The sudden death is announced of George M. D. Bloss,one of the editors of the Cincinnati Enguirer, who was run over by the cars and instantly killed last Sunday evening while walking along the track of the Little Miami Railroad, near Branch Hill Station, where he resided. Mr. Bloss had been connected with the Enguirer for twenty-five years, and was widely known as an able political writer and statistician. Though a life-long and prominent Democrat, he had never held office. He was nominated for Congress two years ago, but was,unsuccessful by reasonsof the lukevwﬁialjm support rendered by his party. ~ Mr. Bloss, even more than Horace Greeley, was famous in the newspaper world for the remarkable eccentricity ofs/his handwriting; which to an unpracticed reader was absolutely illegible ‘and unintelligible, and could only be de‘ciphered by certain special compositors in the Enquirer office. - He was in his fiftieth year, and leaves a wife and four small children to mourn his sad and untimely death.—Chicago T'ribumne. PR

The statement that Mr. Bloss was nominated for Congress two years ago is incorrect. Mr. Bloss was a candidate for nomination before the Third Distriet Convention two years ago, but he: withdrew his name after receiving a number of highly - complimentary ballots. . lle never held an office, and was never norminated to one.

The Indianapolis Journal has it on trustworthy duthority that during the war, honest Jimmy Williams repeatedly refused to give his promissory note’ in business transactions, on the ground that he “wouldn’t contribute so much as a revenue stamp, to the prosecution of this infernal .abolition war.”—LaPorte Herald. e

. We regret exceedingly to see so barefaced and self-evident a falsehood as the . above reproduced in a paper of the Herald's standing and pretensions. What can be the object of giving publicity and currency to such nonsensical twaddle? - Is it to deceive the ignorant and to furnish food for the slanderer and traducer? Or are we to accept such publications as.a _notiﬁl cation that the impending contest is to be conducted’ upon falsehood and. villification ? I so, let the Herald take warning that men who love truth and fairness, even in politics, may determine _to turn in disgust from a party which finds it necessary to resort to such warfare in order: to incite opposition to so worthy a citizen as Uncle Jimmy Williams, the people’s favorite for Governor.

- Tae pLATFoRrM of \the National Prohibition party, of which the goodTooking Kentuckian, Gen. Green Clay Smith, is the. piesidential’ standard:bearer, declares against the sale of ‘liquor in the Disttict of Columbia and the territories_and against polygamy,; and Afd'em,andS' the reduction of postal, telegraph and railroad rates, the Bible in the schools, and the election of President by a direct vote of ‘the people. The currency question, +the tariff, and eivil service reform, receive, no consideration in this singularly comprehensiye platform. | ‘

Ir 17/ sHOoULD be made clear that the opposition to Gov. Tilden, in his own State, emanates from the members of the Canal Ring and the old Tammany dynasty, it will add largely to that gentleman’s support in the St. Louis convention. The fact that a presidential aspirant enjoys f)he bitter hostility of men who haye plundered the people, will commend bhim very largely to delegates who mean what they say when they declare that administrative reform shall be the bat-tle-cry of 1876. ;

WE BEG LEAVE to compliment LaPorte Heefner, Esq., on his comprehensive and well-worded call for a Democratic-Liberal congressional convention. Mr.¥Teefner evidently understands the situation.

TUesDAY was Decoration Day—properly observed in most of the larger towns thrqughout‘the country.

CROMWELL ITEMS. ’

The weather is very warm, draw on your, linen. . . [ -

' The.roads are dusty and meed rain. . The lightning rod men both vanished. . et Business is lively at the depot today ; loading stock, lumber and grain. Wheat is coming in lively. ; H. G. Tucker has vacated his dwelling and moved to the -eastern part of town, to remain until his building is completed, which will* be about the first of July. - : e

Sabbath' School was. well attended yesterday, notw.i‘thstanding the warm weather. Sh 7

An eloquent discourse was delivered by Rev. A. J. Douglass, of Columbia City, to a large .audience, yesterday, at the Lutheran Church. :

There will be services at the M. E. 'Church, in this place, next Sunday, by Rev. F. A. Sale, of Milford. - We had a pleasant call from Mrs. D. C. Hostetter, of Milford, last week, who was on her way to visit relatives and friends in Ligonier. ; - John Calbeck and lady were the first of this vicinity to start for the great “show of the world,” or Centennial. They expect to visit Baltimore, Washington and New York cities on their trip, and will be absent’ about four weeks. Who next? ‘ - As the weather. is so warm and items of interest rather scarce, I will not burden your niind any longer, but will lay down the pen, drop the curtain and take a nap. MOLLIE.

The Evansville Journal, the leading republican paper of Southern Indiana, refuses to' accept/ the explanation which Mr., Orth. made before the House Committee the other day, touching his connection with the fraudulent Venezuelan claims. It declares that it leaves him in as bad a ‘plight as he was before, and says unless he completely exonerates himself he will get very few votes in that section. It looks very much as though Mr. Orth would have to retire from the ticket.—Ft. Wayne Sentinel. —-—t——-‘ -— The Cincinnati Enquirer is probably doing moresthan any other paper in the ecountry: to aeccomplish the nomination of Mr. Tilden at St. Louis. llts course has tended to weaken and divide the democracy of the west, and has thus rendered the eastern democracy so much the more formidable. The HEngquirer is really the worst enemy the democratic party has in this country.—Ft. Wayne Sentinel.

Peter Kiser, a citizen of Ft. Wayne, recently convened himself together: and nominated a full reform ticket, He constitutes the entire party. ;

- 'NAPPANEE NOTES.. = EDITOR BANNER:— As Nappanee contains several of the former citizens of Noble county, we thought a few’ items from here would be of interest to some of your readers at least. Nappanee is a thriving little village on the B. & O. railroad, midway -between Milford Junction and gn‘emeq, near the corner of ‘Elkhart county, and: surrounded by % fine farming country, occupied principally by Germans. . The town was first laid out in April, 1875, by D. Metzler. Since that time it has grown till we now, have a population of about three hundred. The town at present contains an area of about thirty acres. Several new -additions have been laid out and lots are selling like hot cakes. At present we have the following business houses, all doing a good business: Three general stores, one hardware, a drug store, post office and news room, and one saloon. As to manufactories, we can boast of a goodly number, considering the age and size of the town. They consist; principally, of the fol< lowing: A planing mill, box factory and pump shop, combined, in a large, two-story building; one steel plow factory, two blacksmith shops, one carriage and wagon shop, one saw--mill, carpenter and cabinet shop, besides several smaller establishments There are at this time several new buildings going up, prominént among which we r\nay mention a large, twostory agricultural store, 22x70, by the Good Bro's & &o.;. also, a two-story building, to be used as a dry goods house, 20x40 feet, by Sears Bro’s. Mr: Bailey, also, intends building a twostory store building on his corner, and will stock the first floor with hardware. ‘Mr. Jos. Strohm is-vputtihg himself up a nice little ‘office on his lumber yzuj'dﬂ, where he will spon be prepared to furnish all kinds of building magerial; He has/already several car-loads of shingles, lath, ete., on hand. i e “We have a hotel and two or three boarding houses to accommodate the traveling public; also, a fine large .church and school house. . - o

Two physicians are engaﬁ;ed in making provision that all may have pills that desire. T_}ut we are happy to say they are not very busy now. =

. Already the tofvn is chuck full of mechanics, and wages have been put down to “hard-pan.” e Perhaps we haye already encroached too much npon your space, but if you consider this worthy of a piace in THE BANNER, youmay probably hear from’ us again. ° " Yours, &c., s P. E. RINE, * t -———l—-‘o,————— y NOBLESVILLE NARRATIVES.. -

I saw in THE BANNER, some weeks itgo, the name of our ex-Sheriff, David Hough, mentioned as a candidate for Joint Representative. 'I do not think’ Mr. Hough would accept the nomination for that positien if tendered him. But he made as good a;fsheriﬁ’ as ever held the office in Noblejcounty, and I, therefore, suggest the name of David Hough as a candidate for Treasurer of Noble county. I think .a better choice could not be made in the democratic ranks, and I say, let us go soul and body' for the nomination and eleotion 0f David Hough for the next Treasurer of Noble county. I have conversed with sl.evera_l on this subject, and all; think no "better choice could be made. e e

Some of our farmers are not. yet done planting corxf. - B

- I said some time ago that I did not know whether we were going to have a crop of “tater” bugs or not. I'can now say that we are going to have.the largest crop that we have ever had since their first advent into this locality; o ; : Mr. A. Yoder is manufacturing bee hives in this place. ~They beat anything in that line that has ever heen introduced in this locality. e Protracted shindigs are the order of the day here. As this is the/centennial year, the boys. mean business;, - Our school is in full blast, under the supervision of Mr. Lawrence. - . | ‘While in Ligonier last week I received silver for change, which is an assurance that democratic days are fast approaching. NEw LEAF. ——— > —— © % WAWAXA MEDITATIONS. .

‘Our Sabbath School children arel busy selling tickets for Robeson’s Panorama next Friday evening. Bible scenes reflected from a magic. Lantern and glass blowing illustratéd.

We have now in Wawaka a genuine telegraph office. Communications, for aught I know, from the Centennial and from'Japan and the islands of the sea. : ; /

We have a new meat market, and we suppose that sounding horn predicts meat ih readiness for customers. “Our ladies are all happy that the ordeal ;of house-cleaning is over, and they -all still live to'enjoy the results of cleanliness. o Mrs: Hattie Tibbott is visiting her husband’s parents in this place. : ' M. M.iDodge had a knee uncapped last week in a pully, but is on duty again dodging around among the machinery, looking for another attack from friend pully. : T : ’Tis said that the first telegram across the ocean from the President of the United States to Queen Victoria, read: . “Peace on earth and good will to all men.” The words are found in Luke 2d chapter and 14th verse. This is my sentiment, only we poor mortals do not fully comprehend all it means. | - CENTENNIAL.[

Prof. Smart, superintendent of Public Instruetion, has made the apportionment of school funds. There are 679,230 children in the ‘State, and the fund provided forjtuition will amount to $1,079,975/70. This is an, increase of 12,000 children in enumeration, but a falling| off in the amount of the fund owing!'to several causes. Returns from counties show only about 3,000 illiterate children, while the census of 1876 gave the State 27,000, The Pennsylvania Company has determined to substitute‘steel rails for the iron ones now in use on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago road as rapidly as the latter becomé worn out. Seven -hundred tons of steel ra‘?g per month, for that purpose, are being received -from the Cambria works, Johnstown, | S A down-east editor says “the ladies’ spring hats are pretty, and worn on the upper edge b?‘thé‘ left ear, which makes one look arch and piquant, like a?hickg,n looking through a crack in a ence' 5 ¥ SR ey eYU

- GENERAL ITEMS, . - _San Francisco suffered a $3u0,000 loss by fire, Friday, in the destruction of the Britian block, corner of California and Davis streets. =~ =~ ~Following the lead of Robert T. Lincoln, the son of President Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., son of President, Grant, has been admitted to the Bar, and entered upon the profession of the law in New York City, ' . Counterfeit gold coin, made of platinum plated heavily with genuine: gold, has of late been circulated in Cal> ifornia. 1t isi exceedingly deceptive, being of the right'weight, color, and feeling. The platinum is worth half as much as gold, making these counterfeits costly of production. : The committee appointed to inquire: into the affairs of the Ireedman’s Bank at Washington has reported to ‘the 'House. It was run by the real estate pool of which Grant was the silent boss and swindled the colored people out of séver%l hundred thousands of dollars. They, recommend the indictment of the managers. Reports from Custar state, that every body is rushing north to the Deadwood Mines. (General Crook has ordered two companies of cavalry and three of infintry to be stationed .on the road between Fort Laramie and the Black Hills for protection against the, Indians. Several pérsons have been killed in the mining region by Indians within the past week, ' :

A fire at Midland, Mickigan, destroyed the International and St. Nicholas ‘lotels, two grocery stores, one dry-goods store, two barber shops and saloons, several unoccupied stores, the Masonic and Odd-Fellows’ Lodge rooms and about twenty dwellings. The burnt distriet comprises four entire blocks and several buildings in others.. Total loss estimabed atslso,ooo. Colonel Thomas A. Scott and a number of his friends have just sub‘seribed $1,500,000, which they hope to increéase to $2,000,000 at once, for the purpose of -building an extension of the Texas Pacific Road 120 miles westward to Fort Worth. The extension is to be finished by August. This action is rendered necessary in order to prevent the alb'sorption of the land grant by the rival California Pacific. The road is to be laid with steel rails, and in the mest thorough manner. . Official- dispatches received by the State department from Matamoras convey the inteligence that Gen. Diaz’s revolutionary force has suffered terribly, losing many men for want of supplies. The infantry and artillery has fallen back on Matamoras, where the fortifications are being hastily prepared for a siege. = The government eayalry are ‘reported advancing from Victoria to intercept the -retreating revolutionists and recapture Matamoras. b :

Thetestimony:in the case of Secretary of Navy, Robeson, has been printed and reveals an amount of rascality that is astonishing. He let contracts to one Roach in Philadelphia, amounting to $3,000,000 and in return received a princely income and a cottage at Long Branch. The first year he held office he cleared sBo,ooo—while his salary was only $B,OOO and his expenses more than twice his salary. The sworn statement of thése who transacted the business /for him, have no doubt he is ten fold more a thief than Belknap. et

A letter has been published in! New York from James (. Blaine to Warren Fisher, jun., of Boston, offering for $25,000 to procure for Fisher the one hundred and ninety-second part of the entire franchise of the. Northern. Pgeifi¢c Railroad, including the. Land Company’s stock. Mr. Blaine has made -a statement to the effect that some Boston friends. of his wished to purchase such jproperty, and that the opportunity being:open to liiwg, ic uffered LW ke thic puirClidse for them'as a matter of friendship, and to oblige them, as the opportunity was offered through Mr. Rice, Vice-President "of the road, a neighbor; of Mr, Blaine in ' Augusta, Me. The purchase was however, not consummated, and even had it been, Mr. Blaine claims that it would Have been of no pecuniary interest or ad-. vantage to him. : ] 4 : P Coming Down. . ' A heavy shrinkage in provisions hasbeen going on during the past two: weeks, prices having declined about $2.50 per bbl. on pork, 234 cents per pound on lard, 1% cents per pound on meats,—anh average decrease of about 16- pér cent. Serious losses have resulted, thoughi up to this time but three failures have:occurred. = The fear of a general collapse'in the mark-; et has made it weaker than it otherwise would have been, the effect being to; increase the number of those anxious t) sell. There is, however, good reason to believe that /the, worst is over, but not mueh promise; of an immediate improvement, ‘as the break in prices appears-to have influenced *farmers to hurry forward their hogs rather than risk a further decline. Experienced and cautious operators had for some time regarded prices as too high for safety, and had held aloof, and the_ dectine has seriously hurt only the moreventuresome and speculative parties. It is believed that the consequences to the trade will not be more di: astrous than ‘they have been al | réady.—Chicago Tribune, May 30th.

SRt A Neck Eaved. g A Fort Wayne telegram dated May 29th ' announces that the celebrated Wall murder case came to a brief termination to-day. Wallis a colored preacher, who murdered John Cronkheit on the 2nd of last July. The trial lasted fourteen days, and resulfed’ in a death sentence. The case was carried to the Supreme Court, which | granted a new trial. Wall then se--cured a change of venue from Judge Borden to Judge Slack, of Huntington. ‘Afterwards, motion was made of a change of ‘'venue to another county. | Judge Slack to-day granted the change of veénue and sent the case to’ Whitley county to be tried in Septem‘ber. . Atterwards Wall’s attornies offered. fo withdraw thé motion and put in a plea of guilty of murder in the second degree. The State’s Attorney accpted the proposition, a plea of:guilty was made, and Judge Slack then sentenced Wall to the penitentiary for life. He will be taken to Michigan. City in a day ortwo. . | -

.Tae €., W.'& M. RAILROAD.—On last Sunday the officials of the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan railroad effected arrangements with the officers of the Bee Line for connections with the: early trains of that road from this city at -Anderson crossing. This opens a northern outlet to Indianapolis which has been a long-felt - want by our citizens. Passengers en ‘route for points iy Northern Indiana or Michigan will find ‘this route decidedly preferable to all others, as it enables them to arrive at their destination several hours in advance of any -other line by taking the 4 o’clock A. M. train of the Bee Line which arrives at White Pigeon, Michigan, -about noon. This new route runs through Anderson, Marion, Wabash, Elkhart and several prominent points in Northern Indiana—lndianapolis Journatl. € niin A e -’”‘”‘""“""’—"—,! : " The extracts published in anothér column favering. Mr. Tilden for the Presidency makes a new feature in newspaperdom and accords with our idea of the duty of candidates to pay | ‘for what they gef, in a regular busi-. ness way. Notices inserted at ten | cents a line, same as referred to above, ~Boonville Enquirer, . - -

INDIANA- NEWS ITEMS.

Levi T.eaky, a well known citizen of Dudley township, Henry county, who has been a well fo do farmer, having sold his farm and obtained his. wife’s signature to the deed, has taken her half-sister, a certain widow Scott, and departed to lowa, leaving his wife in destitute circumstances. Much indignation is expressed at Leaky’s conduct, who is an old man and a grandf{lthel‘. * . 135 y 1 ‘

. Now.thata Coroner’s Jury, composed of an equal number of Republicans’ and Pemocrats, has returned a verdict tastening the whole responsibility of the Indianapolis election riot upon. the Republicans, let us hope that Republican newspapers and Republican orators will.allow the corpse of Carter, the brawling negro who was killed in the riot, to rest quietly in its grave. Its occupation in the martyr line is gone.— Wabash Courier. e ° fiiit i The; ; Coroner’s ' inquest heldg over the remains of Carter, who was killed during the riot at Inslianapolis: on election day, establishes!the fact that as early as eight/o’clock in the morning the negroes, armed with revolvers, clubs and razors, under direction -of their republican leaders, took possession of the polls in some of the wards, and drove white men from-‘them. It is also well established that the negroes. went from ward to'ward in mobs, voting in every one; and this is the way that Indianapolis was carried by the. Republicans. boe

There is a 4 low dissolite fellow in this city who makes a practice of whipping his wife every time he gets drunk. But his wife is not without: her reyenge, for when he sobers up shie arms’ herself with all the loose furniture around the house and opens up hostilities on her unfeeling husband in® manner calculated -to make him igelJas if he had been propelled through a brick wall by a ton of ni-, tro-glycerine. A nice arrangement: She licks him when he is sober, and he licks her when he is drunk. ' No need of a divorce there.— Wabash ' Cowurier.

A Logansport special of the 28th says George Byers, a real estate dealer “of Winamae, Ind., left there a few idays ago for Kokomo, where he. was -to have been married on Thursday. Not returning with his bride at the. appointed time his friends telegraphed to Kokomo, and were astonished to learn that Byers had not been there. The conductor of the train on which he left Winamac states that Byers got off at Logansport. Nothing has been heard from him since. He had considerable money with him. eis highly connected at Winamaec. His friends are here in search of some traceofhim. o ' i i

. DEMOCRATIC = Congressional Convention.

In accordance with a resolution adopted at the Democratic Congressional Conveution, two years ago.lagd in obedience to the wishes ofithe Democrats of this Congressional District, expressed at a meeting of said district at ‘lndianspolis, April 18, 1876, the Democrats and Liberal Republicans of the 13th:Cons:ressionall])jxsmct, and all others opposed to President Grant’s administration, are invited to meet in MasB CONVENTION, A'l:‘ e

Groshen, Tuesday, July 11, 1876, at 1 o'clock. to nominate a candidate for Congress, and unite earnestly in the coming ‘important campaign. | : e Our District, 4hat until'two yedrs agd was republican by a majority of more than 2,000, calj'be redeemed by u"vigo,rous effort. -~ A candid exposure of Grant’s corrupt administration j:a hearty espousal of the earnest efforts of the D&mocratic Housé,of Representatives;for réform ard pure government, notwithstandibg Republican oppoiiition to the r,cduéx.ion of public expenditures, and their pacisan and persistent attempts to check and discourage jnvestigation of the criminal acts of government ofticers, and—in marked contrast to & blemished n’ntio"na) government—the creditab]e’ administration ‘of our State affairs under a phre and able Executive mua uvuner nonest and chmpetent Democratic State officers; ought to'secure to the Liberal Democracy every cotnty inthe district.. : : Tk

Let there be such an_ outpouﬁng of the people on' ;July 11th as to convince our opponents-that the 13th CongressionaljDistrict of Indiana is no longer “reliably Republican,” but one of the probAable Démocratic Districts of the State. P : LAPORTE HEEFNER, Chairman Democratic Congressional Committee.

REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL b CONVENTION, . ° . The Republicans of the lath\'Congressi'ori’gl Di.fl tricy will meet in convention in the city of Goshen, on ! g A Wednesday, June 28th, 1876, At one o'clock p. u. for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Congrgss.; The geveral counties’ ar¢ entitléd to delegates as.follows: - : ¢ Elkhart. 27; Kosciusko, 24 ;- Noble, 21; DeKalb, 20; Marshall, 16; La.Ggauge, 17; Steuben, 15.' By order of Central Committee, e : H. G. THAYER, Chairmau, . E. W.H. ELris, Secretary. E e : 'LIVE AGENTS WANTED. To'sell Dr. Chase’s Recipes; or Information for Everybody, in every county in the United States and Canadas. Enlarged by the publisher to 648 pa%es. It contains over 2,000 household recipes and is suifed to all classes and conditions ot so-’ ciety. A wonderful book and a household necessity. It sells at sight. Grewtest indacements ever offered to book agents.. Sample copies sent by maik, post-paid, for $2.00. Exclusive territory given. Agents more than double their money.— Address Dr. Chase’s Steam Printing House, Ann Arpor,Michiganp, £ v L 18w-6

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