The National Banner, Volume 11, Number 33, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 December 1876 — Page 2

The ationa] Banuer s * - = > \[ :'-&——& » : : - : yo I-WLL.W and Proprietor. - IGONIER, IND, DEC. 7th{. 18786. d‘ ; : k. Evex Senator Sherman has become disgusted at the outrageous acts of Kelloggs Louisiana returning board. i ety >I — n Cor. FRED GRANT, son of President sirant, was last week arrested in Chi~ago and fined 810 for disorderly: conSact. “Let us have Peace.” S ' ~LeT no guilty man eéc;pe”%_thuﬁ"s | =hat Grant said. Avery, Hesing and McKee, whisky thieves, are now out of prison—this is what Grant did.. . Gov. Tﬁ.m-:.\’ received the largest vote ever cast for any man for the office of President. And yet the radival tricksters are making every possihle exertion to “count him out.” “L,l. MapisoN WELLS, President. of Ihe Louisiana Returning Board, has lwen defhulter to the State of Louisiana since 1540, He was a Tax Collec--lor, and came out $12,672,67 ahead.

Hox. JaAMEs M: STODDARD, of Crawfordsville, who was elected a member of the Legislature by the ‘Jludependent voters of Parke and Montgomery counties, died on the 25th

Tue political complexion of the Indiana Legislature is as follows: -Senate—Democrats, 26; Republicans, 23; Independent, 1. House of Representatives— Democrats, 47; Republi«3ns 32, . P -

Tue President’s apologetic insinuatiom that the blunders of his adminisiration are chargable to the evil counil of his political associates, will not go down well with the Mortons, Chandlers, Logans, ete. %

SPEAKING of Grant’s forced inauguration of the Chamberlain Legislatare, the N. Y. T'ribune takes occasion %o administer this sterling rebuke:— “We deplore and condemn the use made of the United States troops the «other day at Columbia.” "

I¥, in addition to the 184 votes that have been all the -while ‘conceded’ to Tilden by the Republicans, hehad received the vote of some other large State liké Illinois, thus placing his election by a decisive majority beyond all dispute from the start, does anvbody-doubt, the Daviess county Democrat “inquires, that the votes of Louisiana, Florida,and South Carolina would have been counted for him—especially the twoformer—\yithout the ~lightest controversy ? i

~ THE RULING of the Returning Doards of Louisiana and Florida need not give the friends of Mr. Tilden the slightest' uneasiness. No such highharnded usurpation will be counte: nanced by Congress, and Mr. Hayes ~aiinot obtain possession of the presi<ential office on the strength of a fic~titious majority in the three disputed -~tates. Tilden has a clear, honest and fair majority in Florida and Louisiana, and no set of infernal scoundrels.will be permitted to thwart the popular wiill. - .

MamsaaL CoNCHA has just made a brilliant proposition for ending the Caban insurrection. It is simply that Spain “isolate” the insurgents in the .wooded wastes of Eastern Cuba and J=ave them there to eat each other up -#i their leisure. = Something of this sort was attempted by the English lomg ago with the Maroons in Jamai<a, but not with happy results. Moreover, if no more loans are raised, and ~ mo more money spent by Spain in Cuba 1o put down the insurrection, what will become of the great numbers of + faithfal subjects of Spain, civil and . =military, who have been earning a livelibood for years now by “putting down the insurgents ?” o

A SPECIAL to the New York World, dated Nov. 30, says: “The story that % movement would be made by the - Republicans to transfer the electoral voles from Hayes to Grant has again taken life here, and was freely commented on to-day by members of Con“gress and others who had heard Reputlicans of note speak of such a ~ontingency. Itis asserted that Hayes cannot be relied on by the party as well' as Grant, who isin a position from what he has already done to contizwe himself by force in office. It is every day more evident here that Grant, Patterson and Don Cameron are managing .the republican campaign mihje contested States.”

OxE of the local courts in Nebraska was asked, the other day, to issue an imjenction restraining the ‘presiden-

13al electors in that State from exer«ising their constitutional powers. “is® grounds of the application were rechmical, and as there was no possible

<Joubt thata very large maierity of ile people intended to give the vote

«f the State to Mr. Hayes, the Court—

the presiding Judge being a Democrat —mrery properly refused to take action

in any way obstructing or interfering with the éxecution of the popular

wiil. The aétion of Court fu—m_isheu

~ sm example that might be profitably ! fellowed by officials of various grades | = ail other States.

1 Tae country has other matters just | wow on its mind than Secretary Rob- ~ =som’s report of his p roceedings dur- _ iag the past year, and the House of Eepresentatives, with Mr. Randall in the Speaker’s chair, the New York World suggests, may-be safely left to westow -upon that report in due time &4 the attention it deserves, if not, indend, more than its author will find entirely agreeable. But it is worth - mothing that the. Secretary makes an eiaborate effort to. show that if our savy is'inferior to those of other maritime powers it is Mtnnqmt should ®e so. To have made he United States pay more for a weak navy, proportionately; than other powers pay | & masterly i, entitling his adminisSt 10t lplction 804 entt: Sudgof aconfiding people. '

What has been done in South Carolina has brought ‘the whole nation to a dead stop. There is no turmoil, no confusion, little excitement even.. The American pepple are absorbed in grave, anxious thought. A new and alarming phase of a military ;dmini}straﬂon has developed itself in the midst of a most critical time. What are the facts? Simply that United States soldiers, acting under the orders of President Grant, and a representative of Gov. Chamberlain, excluded from the State House at Columbia persons claiming to be members-elect of the Legislature, who bore certificates of election from the highest court in the State. This is an absolutely impar‘tial statement of the facts. No Re‘publican, no Democrat can dispute it.

Argument is wasted upon such a deed; quibbling with it is infamous. These- troops had no more right to prevent the entrance of these members than they had to remove members from their seats, no more right than they have to enter your house and drag you away; no more right than they have in a time of peace to

drive you to prison at the point-of the bayonet, when you have committed no offense. They had nothing to do with the legality of these certificates; that 1s for any parliamentary. body. to settle for itself. Of such a crime the details are not necessary. The bare fact stated here is alone a law-defy-ing violation of the first principles of constitutional government. It is just such another outrage as that committed in Louisiana, because there is no practical difference bhetween taking persons claiming to be members-elect out of a State House, or keeping them out. Itwas the same unlawful interfereuce exercised, in the one case inside; in the “other, outside the State House. 4o N

; We have said the people dre thinking. They are, and-thinking hard They are thinking whether a party which resorts to bayonets teels sure that it has won at the polls. They are thinking whether an’ Administration which persumes to thrust its bayonet into a State Legiskature may not march its troops into the House of Representatives. They are thinking what shall be the best punishment for a party which violates the Constitution in the name of gooed government, and stuffs the ballot box in the name of liberty. ~ Because there are no outbreaks it:dees not follow that there is no indignation. It is smouldering fiercely, and when it strikes, it will be by peaceful, legal methods, but its stroke will leave the republican party a blackened wreck,a warning for all future time. . . e

The South Carolina. outrage is denounced by men of all parties and opinions. Joseph H. Choate, Wm. M. Evarts’ partner, and President of the Union League . Club, denounces- it. The New York | Evening Post denounces it. The kew York Herald denounces it. The New. York World demands President Grant’s impeachment, and. the New York Herald predicts it. This is a question that arises above the Presidency, though it closely concerns-it. It is a question of the very life of the nation, and the men who have committed this outrage will shortly find 'themselves‘ on trial for an attempt at political murder.

INTERESTING FACTS CONCERNING THE POPULAR VOTE.

{ The N. Y. Woild has published some very interesting tables, giving an_elaborate analysis of the official returns from twenty-seven States, casting seven-eighths of the entire vote of the nation. They present some suggestive facts in connection with .the overwhelming revolution that has been wrought during the last 4 years. The World’s tables show conclusively -that in every quarter of the Union, and notably in the strongholds of Republicanism, the Democracy has made immense gains,-aggregating nearly a million votes, while the radical party has gained a few -hundred votes in four States, those of Belknap, Pomeroy and Bill King, and Nebraska, where, while the total vote has increased over 100 per cent., the republican strength has increased only 66 percent. ‘The vote of 1876 18 31 per cent.. greater than that of 1872, and will very nearly reach eight and a half millions, which is a million more than the highest estimates made before the election. The census of 1870 gave as the. number of citizens entitled to vote, 8,307,305; so.that, even after allowing for the natural increase of population and for immigration, an Immense vote was brought out. Large as was the vote ot New York, the ratio of increase was much less than that of the whole Union, and absolutely less than that in Pennsylvania, where, however, republican frauds in Philadelphia ahd Pittsburgh swelled the total unduly. ‘Mr. Tilden has a clear popular majority of a quarter of a million votes. Not the least remarkable feature.of the election has been the utter collapse of the greenback /movement, the returns even more than justifying the' World's declaration of two years ago; that the centennial campaign was to be fought between the two great political parties alone. Those who examine the tables closely will notice some singular facts with reference to representation in the Lower House of the National Legislature, to say nothing of ‘the Electoral College. ' Thus, Kansas has just as many Congressmen as Ver‘mont, which casts only half as many votes; Rhode Island’s 26,000 votes are twice as potent in the. House asNebraska’s 52,000; Tennessee, with 222,000 votes, has ten Congressmen, ‘and Michigan, with 317,000, nine; Ohio, casting 106,000 more votes than Illinois, has but one more Representative, and Indiana, whose delegation is‘numerically the same as that of Missouri, brings 80,000 more voters into the field. Finally, we commend to 'the attention of the papers that have 80 P‘“‘jh to say about the Republican-. ism of the Northern States, the following facts: In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and New York, the republican party has lost 180,845 votes. In Pennsylvania and Ohio it R e e 4 AS ] e ’ ta, Kansas and Nebraska, it has lost 88,034. - Dare any Republican assert it i xm&. fght wors o e

W W 7 ﬁ.,.?.,f\., la e e s THE SITUATION. The Rascally Returning Boards Count Hayes in. Florida, South Carolina and Lou- _ isiana Each Send Two Sets. | of Electors, , Leaving the Result 'Wiih Com- : gress. = s -;5 i | iro Which Body the People Must Herve- ' . after Look for J_tuﬁce. : A ‘ As had been suspected, and what was evidenced: by the outcroppings of the programme of the radical ringmasters in the several contested States for. some, days past, the returning boards of Florida and Louisiana have at:the last moment footed up their columns, having manipulated the returns to their own liking, and declared for the Hayes electors, and a majority of the radical tickets. Hayes’ majority in‘Florida is declared to be 900, and in'the latter State about 4,000. The face of the Louisiana returns shows over the promulgated returns 2,017 for Hayes and 11,720 for Tilden. The fradulent electors received certificates from Kellogg and met yesterday to cast their vote for Hayes. The' Tilden electors likewise met, armed with - certificates from McEnery, claiming to be Governor under the election of 1872, nd formally cast their vote, preparacory to a reopening of the Louisiana case in Congress. .

In South Carolina and Florida the Tilden electors have pursued a like policy and fermally cast the vote of those States for Tilden and Hendricks.

The Democratic Legislature of South Carolina has now been sufficiently re-enforced by republican negroes who have deserted the Chamberlain body to give them a quorum without the members from Edgefield and Laurens counties. Hampton will, therefore, undoubtedly be inaugurated Governor. Meeting of Presidential Electors. - The Presidential Electors met yest=rday, as provided by the constitution of the United States, and cast the vote of their respective Stats for President and Vice President, as fellows: | For Rutherford B. Hayes and Wm. A. Wheeler—Colorado, California, Iliinois, Towa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin, 163. , . ° | For Samuel J. Tilden and Thos: A. Hendricks— Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Ken_tuqky, Maryland, Missouri, Mis-;} gissippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, ‘Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia,..lB4. j ~ The electoral votes of Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana were cast, by two sets of electors, for both Hayes and Tilden. .

: THE MISSING VOTE. Oregon comer to the rescue andsupplies the missing vote. The Secretary of State issued a certificate to Cronin, a democratic candidate for elector, upon the grounds that Watts, the republican candidate, being a postmaster, was ineligible. The two republican eleetors then refused to serve; tworepublicans were appointed to fill the vacancy and the vote was cast, 2 for Hayes and 1 for Tilden. Watts, the ineligible elector, and the two Republicans who refused to serve with Cronin, then met and voted for Hayes.— The vote of both colleges were sent to Congress. : " < IN SOUTH CAROLINA the Supreme Court has decided the democratic body the legal House of Representatives.

JUDGE BECKWITH ON “THE COUNT.” This well-known jurist, when asked for his opinion as. to what Congress would do when the electoral returns were opened before that body, remarked: -“I will suppose that the two Houses meet for the purpose of verforming, the ducies required of them by the 12th article of the amendment to the Constitution. Having met, the President of the Senate is the presiding officer of the body. If any question should arise, it- would be his ‘dnty, in the first instance, to pass on it, from which decision any member may take an appeal; and, like every ‘ other body, it must determine its own order of procedure. There may be a wide difference of opinion as to the proper order of procedure, but those differences must be settled by the body itself. Some people think the Senate and House can proceed as independent bodies, and others think" they must act jointly, There must be a power to determine this, and that power must be vested in the body itself. Suppose you and I quarrel on a -certain proposition, and discuss it ‘up hill and down dale” Each concedes that the other is honest and intelligent.. How is the question to be decided? Now, in Congress, there must be procedure, and what is there to determine the order of that procedure; in the absence of a rule, except the body itself? There being np rule describing how the House and ‘Senate shall act, are the members to determine it each fellow tor himself, or is ‘the combined body to decide? The Constitution don’t say how they shall meet. Who shall say how? In the absence of any rule the body must determine.- If the House says one thing and the Senate another, and they meet, tliey are one body. If they don’t meet, they are no body. Haying.once met, there is a body.”

. It was reported the fore part of -last week, that the residence of Gen. Wade Hampton, near Columbia, South Carolina, kad been destroyed by an ‘incendiary fire. Later reports con‘tradiet this, but state thay it was the ‘residence of a sister of Gen, Hampton ‘that was burned, the fire supposed to be the work; of an incendiary.

Tue South Carolina rump Legislature consists of 53 negroes and three white men, Ty

PeTER COOPER got 9533 votes in Indiana, 17,107 in Illinois, 9,001 in Towsa,-and 8,057 in Ohio. 2l

THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE.

A Glamnce at the Contents of that . f . Doenment. r

' The eighth and last annudl message of President Grant was read before both Houses of. Congres on Tuesday. Contrary to public expectation, that document contains no direct reference to the present state of political excitement. The President commences by giving a short retrospective glance at his own life, previous to entering | upon the high and responsible duties of an executive, and intimates that whatever errors and short-comings are chargable to his public career are attributable rather to inexperience in politics and the evil council of party ‘leaders, and must be regarded as errors of the head and not of the heart. It reverts to the condition of the country during the past year, the emi‘nent success of and advantages to accrue to the nation from the Centennial, to the finances, esp}euiz*lly to the ‘successful negotiation, so far, of the funding loans, and to:the negotiation ‘ of the revised system of extradition 1 between the United States and Great Britian. A referenceis made to the mode of electing the President and | Vice-President and to the embarrassments to which the present system is liable on a close vote. It suggests a constitutional amendment deflning the powers and duties of Congress in the premisies, and ’:espécial]y .the reciprocal function® of the states, so that the complications which now 'threaten the settlement of this important question ‘may in the future be averted. ' :

The Presiden renews l'iis‘ recom- | mendation of a treaty for the annexa- | tion of Sante Domingo to the United | States, and claims that- if his views had been concurred in the country would be in a more prosperous condi- | tion to-day. ~Ah important feature, t however, is a supplementary message, in which the President has taken all his previous messages and 'collatedl them in one general summary toshow l | that his reccommendations, policy and l actions- have been in strict harmony. The important results accomplised i'nAi the reduction of the national indebtedness and the satisfactory condition of our credit are also shown, and the most’ flattering exhibits of the- suc_cess of the Administration are made. The document closes with the unnecessary statement that with the present term of Congress his offi¢ial. life terminates, and says it is not probable that public affairs will ever' again secure attention from him, further than as a citizen of the Republic always taking.a deep interest in the honor, and integrity, and prosperity of the whole land.

| “ THE PINKSTON ATROCITY. ~ The Tribune’s New Orleans correspondent unites with the World in de- ‘ claring that the Pinkston atrocity had no possible connection with or plausif, ble relevancy to the voting in the re‘cent, election, or the counting of the ! ballots act’ually cast. He says: “Governor Palmer, Mr. Smith and Govern!or Bigler, after talking with white men from that parish, are firmly convineced that politics had nothing whatever to do with the case, and that the men who have been accused are all innocent. They do not undertake to give any theory of the murder, but say that the attempt to make the Presidential election-turn on this one case of murder is infamous. They .condemn the crime as much as ever, but also coudemn the attempt to make political capital of it.” That there have beel ruffianism and barbarity in the Southern States, says the World, no one can deny. The doings of Frank Powers, hired by Kellogg to “bulldoze” the Felicians and the southern counties of Mississippi, are mournful examples. Northern carpet-baggers have devoted themselves to_ the wretched business of stimulating and promoting this dreadful hostility of races till the women on each side have been brought into a condition of panic fear of the men on -the other side. For months past in many places the poérer classes of the two races, under .this maddening influence, have stood thus face to facewith nerve and muscle strained to the highest tension. Which race can longest endure such a strain? One day the negroes are guilty-of atrocities which are equal to anything that the passions of race, sect or religion can inspire either in Africa, Bulgaria or anywhere else. and the next day senSeless and brutal whites are guilty of similar acts. To attribute these crimes solely to votes and voting would be simply absurd, if 1t were not also wicked. Where bad. and designing men have a selfish interest and purpose in influencing the two races against one another, such crimes will be perpetrated where thére is no voting, and where the negroes never had a ballot. The labor ‘problem superadded to the hostilities of race affords inflammable material enough for the outside carpet-bagger. Does dny one claim that *“voting” brou?t on the brutalities of race and sect in Roumania or Bulgaria or Serbia? { Did Russian carpet-baggers in’ the latter country need the ballot to bring on the dreadful antagonisms of which we have read so much? The Grant administration which has filled the South, under Boutwell in the Treasury, with vile and desperate Northern men as customs and internal revenue agents, is more responsible for such race hggtdty as exists in the S&)uth, than all other causes combined. ¢ ! e \ S

: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, In reference to the system of electing the President and Vice Presinent of the United States, the President’s Message contains this paragraph: The attention of Congress cannot be too earnestly called to the necessity of throwing some greater safeguard over the method of ‘c%ooslng and declaring the election of a President. Under the present system there seems to be no provided remedy for contesting the election in any one State. The remedy is partially, no doubt, in the enlightenment of electors. The compulsory support of the free school #nd: the disfranchisement of all who cannot read and writethe English language, after a fixed probation, would meet my hearty approval. 1 would not make this apply, however, to those already voters, but: to all becoming 50 after the expiration of the probation fixed upon. Foreigners coming to the country to become citizens who -are educated in their own language would acquire the requisite knowledge of ours during their necessary res‘idence to obtain naturalization. If -they did not. take enougli interest in: our language to acquire -suflicient knowledge of it to enable them to study the institutions wnd laws of the ‘country intelligently, I wou'd not confer upon them the ﬂf‘ht.w make laws nor tg select those who do.

Interview With Hou. Abraham . £ < . HMewitt. - (From the N. ¥ Evening Telegram, Nov. 29.] ~ Mr. Hewitt, Chairman of the National Democratic Executive Commit-tee,-was found at the rooms of the Committee in the Everett House.— “Certainly I wiil give you my opinion,” said Mr. Hewitt, “about ﬁhis deplerable business in South Carolina. The situation, as you know, is substantially that represented by a Democratic Legislature on a Supreme Court basis, and a Republican ' Legislature, with the backing of United Stites troops. It is a deadlock, and unless the soldiers withdraw nothing can. be done until Congress meets. I have no particular fear of 'the result then. This question has ceased to be a partisan Jne; and belongs to the entire people. All fair-minded Republicans will unite with tte people in seeing that right does not go to the wall. MODERATION THE SPIRIT OF THE ‘ : " HOUR. 3 e “The conduct of the people in South Carolina has notonly been admirable; it has been very remarkable. . The disturbed section has demonstrated how it can keep itself within the bounds of moderatior® under provok- | ing eircumstances. This theory has been maintained by the National Committee during the entire canvass. 1t is our constant desire that our people should remain always 'within the most rigorous limits of the' law. The Committee has always urged this, and always will. Anything intemperate is to be 'deprecated. We trust that l the sober ' judgement. of decent and honest people will see to it that law !‘and- order will conquer in the battle { with disofder and usurpation. One i thing is certain in my mind. The peol ple of South Carolin® will not take the initiative in any disturbance.. They will wait for, Congress, where the remedy is. Itiis certainly not in vio- ! lence.” ; - i

WHAT THE NORTH WOULD DO. “I do not think the high-handed action that we witness in the South could have been attempted without troublé in the North. The peculiar position of the Southern people is such that they recognize the futility of cbjecting just now to a system of oppiession. They prefer to submit silently until the moment ot legal deliverance. 3 s o

“In-all this matter the managers of the democratic party have taken no advantage of accidental omissions or commissions. If Mr. Tilden is elected by the voice of the people, in accordance with law, the democratic party wants to see - him inaugurated. And it victory has perched upon the banner of Mr. Hayes, the democratic party wants to see Mv. Hayes inaugurated. But we do not intend that'the-Repub-licans shall obtain fraudulent returns from States, for the purpose of count-ing-in Mr. Hayes, and then object to the Democrats taking advantage of accidents elsewhere, in order to geta chance to argue the case. We should look upon ‘it.as a monstrous outrage if by &:ud in Louisiana the Republicans were to get 185 votes in the Electoral College, and then put it out of our power to avail ourselves of a vote, say in Oregon, in order to force them to go behind the facd of the- certificates and search the real merits of the case in each of the contested States. In other words, if a certificate should bé given in Oregon.to a democratic elector, it should be quite ready to have it inquired into, just. as I would demand an inquiry into the Loeuisiana case.”. < o

THE January number of Peterson’s Magazine, that paragon of ‘{tlhe lady’s books, is out in advance, dnd is, we think, the most superb we ixa‘ve ever seen. There are two- beauﬁit’ul Steel enéravings. one of a little giri and water-lillies; the other “The Wanderer,” illustrating a story 'by Fraik Lee Benedict.. The mammoth colored fashion-plate is unusually elegant; it is a picture as well as a fashion-plate. Single copies are.two dollars a year, but we have made arrangements with the publisher (Charles J. Peterson) which enables us to send it to subscribers of THE BANNER for $l5O, <. e., we will send both THE BANNER and “Peterson” oné year for $3.50.

THoMAS W. GARDOZA, a notorious negro, ex-Superintendent of Publie Instruetion (Heaven save the mark!) in Mississippi, made his appearance in New York last Sunday at a respectable church soliciting aid for the public schools of Mississippi, pretending that the deuﬁ:at@c Legislature had refused apprOpriations for thdse schools. ' This Cardozo is now under indictment for official frauds and other offenses, and fled the State on that account. And now Mr. Rutherford B. Hayes sends him with a subscription list to practice on the charity of honest people at the North!

Why Louisianians Voted tor Tilden. The following is an_ extract from a letter from Dr. Thebault, of New Orleans, who presided at a reecent meetingiof property-holders in that city, at which the statement was ‘substantially adopted: ; : L | The tax-payers of this eity have paid in ten years $109,000,000 in taxes ‘on a total property, real and personal, worth less than 100,000,000, and we now find ourselves confronted by a socalled indebtedness, principal and interest, exceeding $100,000,000 more. Tilden’s Vote in the Cities.

_ The vote cast by the eight largest cities in the United States at the late election was as follows: s

. Tilden Hayes T's maj. New Y0rk:.......112 208 58.638 53,550 Philadelpßia..... 61,047 76 474 e i Brooklyn 'h...... B 4 256 37.306 16,950 Chicag0.....c.... 33645 - - 28,574 5,071 Cincinnati........ 29 166 | 28,770 | 696" 8a1tim0re......... 33,199 23 100 . 10,099 80rt0n........... 28,688 20,388 3,300 I T TRI (e 18,849 | 2,308

, T0ta15........367,666 = 291,119 . 9L¥H Hayes’ majority in Philadelphia was 15,427, phnds e

. AR S W e ] $ STATE SENATOR CREE, from the district composed of the counties. of Delaware and Madison, died on the 27th ult. Mr. Cree was elected two years ago as an Independen!, but acted mostly with the Democrats.— This creates another vacancy in the Senate. The district is Jargely republican and will most likely elect a republican to succeed him. That will not change the political complexion of the Senate, however, as we have 25 Democrats and the presiding officer.

MR. TILDEN had one hundred and eighty-four electoral votes conceded to him the morning after the election. Since then, says the Elkhart Union, the Army and the Navy and the whole Fedeéral puw'e:; of the Government:has been put in motion to back up a conspiracy to proclaim the election of Hayes by one vote. All this delay and uncertainty and stagnation of business is the result of this infamous conspirdcy. ‘What say the people ? : Lhocs

T GENERAL WADE HAMPTON Will un--doubtedly ‘be ipsugurated Governor. by the Democrats of South Carolina. to-day, = J

General Ttems.

The Indianapolis Herald says it was “Belknapery, Babcockery, and Bullpupery” that beat Hayes.

Ex-Governor O. D. Richardson died in Omaha Wednesday, night, Nov. 29. aged 81. G

. The home at Philadelphia for aged and indigent members of the order of oOdd Fellows was dedicated Thursday last. | :

A 'baked-beans company is doing a

thriving business in New York, supplying nearly all the hotels and restaurants. :

. The stock of the tobacco warehouse of Newburg Bros. &Co., of Cinciunati, was destroyed by fire lJast. Wednesday night. TLess, from $20,000 to $25,000: insurance, $50,000. . . On the 24th, ult,, E. F. Carr, a farmer living two miles south of Calmus, Nebraska, murdered his wife :«u%ld two male children and then hung himself. No-reason is assigned for the deed. - ‘The estimates called for by the severul departments of the. Government for the ensuing year, amount, in round numbers, to $175,000,000, against $l5O- - appropriated at the last session of Cungress.

A special telegram to the Louisville Courier-Journal from Frankfort, Ken-

tucky, says. that the drawing of the Kentucky cash distribution company in which persons all over the land own tickets was commenced Thursday last. § : R ¢

‘Maines potato crop is_very large his year. It will probably reach 2,-

500,000 - bushels, worth $1,000.000. Aroostook county Starech Mill® will take from 300,000 to 500,000 bushels, A great many thousand: bushels will be exported. _ . ' ‘The largest cotton mills in the Uni:

ted States are.the Harmony, of Cohoes, N. Y., which have 275,000 spindles. The largest mills in the world are in Russia, at Narva, on the Gulf of Finland, eighty-one miles from St. Petersburg. There one. company owns and runs 400,000 spindles.- =,

. The official vote in the State of New Yorkis: ‘Tilden, 522,612; Hayes, 489.54%7; Cooper, 1,987; Smith (?prohibi-’ tion), 2,359. Tilden’s majority, over Hayes, 33,065.; Tilden’s majority over all, 28, 725. = Those who bet that Tilden would not carry his own State by 25,000 -majority can fork over their currency. ;

BULL-DOZING EXTRAORDINARY" .. When the South Carolina Legislature convened on |the 29th of November the rump or Chamberlain House had 59. members and the Hampton or demoeratic House 58 members, exelusive of the 8 members from Laurens and Edgefield c{)unties and including those, 66. Since then has occurred the most extraordinary instances of bulldozing on record! five republican ne. gro members who first met and organized with the rump or Chamberlain House have, whethey by murder, hanging, whipping or some other system of scourging and intimidation déserted the rump House and gone over to the Democrats; thus increasing the democratic House to 71; leaving in the republican House 54 members, or 9 less a quorum. Now we venture the assertion there is just as clear and reasonable ground for charging intimidation .ag the cause of this hegira from the republican House in South Carolina as in ninety-nino out of every hundred reports of intimidation charged to have produced the demoeratic majorities in Louisiana and Florida. We anxiously await the report of Grant, Chamberlain & Co., to the people of the North upon this last case of bull-dozing.extraordinary!

- August Flower. The most miserable béings in' the world are those suffering from Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint. : .More than seventy-five per cent. of the people in the United States are afflicted with these two diseases and their effects; such as Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Habitual Costiveness, palpitation of the Heart, Heart-burp, water-brash, gnawing and burning at the pit of the Stomach, Yellow Skin, Coated Tongue and disagreeable taste in the mouth, coming up of food after eating, low spirits, &e. -Go to your Druggists. Scott and Sandrock, and get a 75 cent Bottle of ‘Avaust FLOWER or a Sample Bottle for ten cents. Try it—=Two doses will relieve you. : 25-eOW

Mr. T, C. Mays and his wife started for the éast on Monday evening. Mrs. Mays and young master Hardie will spend the winter in eastern Ohin, with the exception, perhaps, of a trip to Washington during that time. Mr. Mays himself will proceed to the National Capital after a brief rest in the Buckeye State, so as to. be in readi.ness to attend to his duties under the igovernment during the session of Congreéss. * And since our predecessor is not here to object to the paragraph, as he certainly would if his eagle guze should rest on the same, we may add, ‘there are but few, in public positions, who have discharged their duties more conscientiously than Auburn’s delegate to the .seat of government.— Courier, Nov. 30. S 7 !

The Peoria National Democrat cooks the goose of the carpet-bag Governor of Louisiana after the following style. It says that “Pitt Kellogg’s antecedents are in perfect harmony with his present conduct. In years that are gone he lived in this section, specifically in Farmington. - In these days he came to Peoria to get his ‘good clothes” A merchant is doing business in this town to-day, who, years: ago, made him a suit of clothes. The unpaid bill for those goods is still in the merchant’s possession, and the last time Pitt visited Peeria he didn’t have the grace to call on his qld friend, and even avologize for his neglect. That’s the kind of a rooster Grant’s Governor of Louisiana is.”

A colored boy named Caleb Ferguson broke into Russ’ grocery store Thursday night of last week, and was captured by S. A. Russ and H. E. Russ just after abstracting $1.25 in change from the money drawer. They had been watching in the store for several nights, the store ‘having been entered also last week Friday night. Two others have been taken into custody for having been in on the first night, bein% implicated by Ferguson.—Sout) Bend Tribune. - :

WiiLE lvoking around for Holiday Goods, don’t fail to call at Higginbotham’s. No trouble to show goods.

The judgement in the case. of Frank éust “by his_best friend,” Fredrick Gust, against Royal: Hill, et al., appealed by the defendants to the Supreme Court, was returned to the St. Joseph county clerk last Saturday affirmed. The defendants were railroad contractors, and the pl_nintiﬂ',a*boy, had a leg cut off under an engine while in their employ in building the Baltimore and Ohio road in LaPorte county. The damages granted were 84,09%. ok

. THe official vote of Indiana is given a 8 follows: = Tilden, 218,526 ; Hayes, 207,971; Cooper, 9,533, Tilden over Hayes, 5,655, !

- Indiana News Items. |

‘Rey. George Dawson, the English lecturer, is dead. 7

The city of Fort Wayne has an Indebtedness of $687.405.72. : ~ There are 21 pupils enrolled in the colored school of LaPorte. = - :

- It will require $lO,OOO to liquidate the indebtedness of the Allen county agricultural society. ;

Angola is blessed with eleven physicians and sixteen lawyers. How many preachers deponent sayeth not. :

Messrs. Frentzel and Feudner have retired from:the publication of the Fort Wayne Democrat, German.

1 Jacob M. Harshbarger, of Whitesville, recently sold three pure Leicester ewes, two years old, for $75.

. The Whitley .count,jg' Commercial has been changed from a six column’ quarto to an eight eolumn folio. @ - Fifteen complaints for divorce are already on the docket for the December term of the Marstga]l Circuit court. This shows an amount of conubial in-felicity-not generally supposed to exist.— Plymouth Democrat. o William S. Edsall, Esq., a gentleman well-known in the Wabash valley; the first clerk of the .court Hun‘tington ever had; an old citizen of Fort Wayne, and a prominent politi_cian, was Btricken with'paralysis, recently. i .

= E. 0. Crosby, of Carpentersville, while at Chicago recently with hogs, lost all of the money he received for them, over $1,30 in all. I%' was abstracted from his person while he was making a ehange. oﬁftreeq cars. ‘Merit Barker, his partifer; shares equally the loss. Bl o

-~ W.G. Thoman, late city: editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel, will have charge of the Auburn Courier during the absence of Tom Mayes at Washington, during the coming session of congress. Tom is clerk of the committee on public grounds, of “which Hon. W. S. Holman is chairman. = =

A Vincennes deputy marshal arrested one Frank Avery, a few days ago, and taking him to the calaboose, stepped inside‘the cell to allow the prisoner to pass. But Avery’ didn’t pass that way. He quietly shut the door and locked ‘the deputy up, when he made tracks across the bridge into Lawrencecounty, ... . . There is some “game” about the employes of the Elkhart Union, judging from this item, from ldst week’s issue: “Our foreman won two Thanksgiving turkies by .raflling, and one of our compositors won a half a dozen geesg¢ in the same day. They think rafiling is fully as interesting and Qroﬁtable as church fairs and socials.”

The report of James H. Smart, Superintendent of Public: Instruction, for the year 1876 shows that the common school fund of the State of Indiana amounts to .$6.428,871.04; Congressional fund, $2,442,189 ; total fund, $8,870'871.93 ; increase during the year, $71,680 29.. There: are 9,244 acres of Congressional school lands still unsold. : . ; :

State Agent Green, who has represented the Indiana Centennial Board at the Philadelphia ‘Exposition, has made a report, in which he states that there has been an excess of expenditures over receipts of about $l,500.. The Boaurd compliment Mr. Greene for' the thoroughimanner in which he has . discharged his duties, and commend_ him to-the patriotic citizens of the State for proper relief.

A full line of Gold, Silver, Nickel and Steel Spectacles and Eye Glasses: to suit any eye or condition of the eye at Higginbotham’s. : 33-w2. i e — -D— The Returning Board Judged by its {2 5i : Acts, . §(From the Splingfield Republican, Nov. 29.) - _ Republican organs which censured independent journals for trying to “discredit” the Louisiana Boafd, because they seconded President Grant’s: motion to bring public sentiment to bear upon it and “see that the Board make ‘a fair count of the ‘vote actually cast,” were insisting, a tweek ago, that the Board ought to he %judged by-its acts.” Let us review thejr acts to date. The law requires that the Board shall consist of five mem-. bers; it continues to sit with but four. The.law requires that it shall consist of representatives “fromn all political parties;” it refuses to fill the vacancy with a Democrat, and so givethat party a single representative. '[Fairness demands that the Democrats, thus illegally denied representation on the Board, should atleast be allowed the presence oi counsel; the Board peremptorily refuses. The -country, forced to see its President chosen by four men, one of whom ‘has been removed from a responsible office for dishonesty, and anothér of whom keeps a rum-shop, calls for the utmost publicity in'.all their proceedings; rule 7 of the Board provides that “the returning officers, if they think it advisable, may go into secret session to consider ‘any néotion, argument, or proposition which may be presented to them.” Common decency would prompt honorable men, when. they found one of their servants privy to a gross fraud, to dismiss him; the Boaid continues in his position the Secretary whose crime was exposed on Saturday. Such has been the “unjust, illegal, and arbitrary action” of the Returning Board in 1876;. yet there are still organs that would have the public repress the*emphatic disappro-. bation” it already feels; as Vice-Presi-dent Wheeler did, last year, until the expression would -come too late to restrain the Board from carrying out Gov. Kellogg’s and Mr. Packard’s pro-. gramme, . ! . :

Holiday Gifts.

Solid Silver Spoons, Butter Knives, Sugar Shells, Fruit Knives Napkin Rings, ete. Triple Plated Castors, Cake Baskets, Pickle Stands, Ice Pitchers, Sugar Bowls, Cream Pitchers, Syrup Cups, Goblets, Cups, Vases, Table Knives, Forks, etc., engraved to order at Higginbotham’s.

A Man Falls Ninety Feet, but Catehes a Rope and Saves His Life. ; ; {From the Pittsburg Gazette. ] il

Owing to the necessity of pushing the work as fast as possible the contractors of the new Point bridge had their men, who are employed in join-, ing the three cables, engaged -all day yesterday. They are compelled to work in a “basket” or platform, which is suspended above the river at the height of ninety feet. from the water: Yesterday. afternoon, a workman, whose name we did not learn, by some accident fell off the platform. ‘Huanging from the platform was a rope that reached nearly to the water,— In his frightful descent the man attempted to grasp the repe, but as he kept turning{s’omersault@ . the. air ' he was unable to reach it until within about twenty feet of the. river, whén he succeeded in grasping the rope with both hands. He was at first'unable to stop his descent, and slid down the rope for about fifteen feet, until his feet nearly touched the water. ‘Then, to thé astonishment of the crowds of people on the banks who had seen with tiorror his terrible fall, he commenced clilnbing back up the rope, hand over hand. Then the crowds cheered him lustily, and his companions on the platform’ drew him up uninjured, except the inside of his hands, which were badly lacerated. His presence of mind was as remarkable as his wonderful escape fromdesth, = o bl S ‘-*_.»“;,.‘___ e Tae Chamberlain Legislature in South Carolina, has 54 members and |

CATARRH! | oL | § Sneezing' Catarrh, Chromic Catarrh, Uloefa,tive Catarrh, , permemently ctired by SANFORD’'S

RADICAL, " CURE.

Sanrorv’'s Rapioar Cere voB CATARRH is a safe, certain:and permaneut cure for. Catarrh of every furm, dud is the most perfect remedy everdevised v is purely a vegerable distillatioh, and isapplied Iu:mllly by insufflation, and constitutionaily by internal administration, Locelly appiied relief is instantaneous. 1t soothes, heals, and cleauses the nusal passages of every féeliug-of heaviness, obstruction, duilness ordizziness. Constitntionally administered it renovates the blood, purifies it of the acid poison with which it is always charged i Catarrh, stimulutes the stomach, liver and kidneys, -perfécts digestion, makes new blood, and permiis the formation .0f sound, healthy tissue, and flually obuains eomplete control over the disease The remarkable curative powers, when all wother remedies utterly fail, 6f SANFORD'S RADICAL *'UrE are attested by thousands who gratefully recommend it to fellow sufferers. No statement is m «dé regarding it that cannot be sabstantiaied by the most resvectuble and reliable references. It is a greatand good medicine and worthy of contidence. Euch package contsins a Treatize on Catarrh and Dr. Sauford’s improved Inhaliug tube, and full directions for its use in all cases, -

2an¥oED's Raproar Curk is sold by ail wholesale and retail druggists throughout.the United States. ‘Prige $l.- Devot,’ . : / i ‘WHEEKS.& POTTER, Bostoy. -

' CmesRFULLY RECOMMENDS ~ COLLINS l ‘ -c‘ Pl ( t S. VoltaiC Plasters. FI‘IIEY contain the grand curative e’ement Electricity combived with the finest compound of. medicinal gums ever united together. It there- ' fore seems impossible for them to fail in affording prompt relief for a'l pains and aches. . ! ‘e I 'REFR AQTER THE BEST PLASTER. Méssrs; Weeks & Potter, Gentlemen.—Please send st.e Bix CoLLINs' VoLraiC PLasters. Send by re--turn mail I.think they are the best Plaster I ever used. Please tind money enclosed. . o " ‘HASKELL LEWIS. Mirrokrp; DeL., Jnly 14, 1876." .. { “AN EXCELLENT PLASTER. ‘Messrs. Weehs & Potter, Gentlemen.—Please send | -me another Corrins’ VorTaie Praster. I find them to be an excellent Plaster,—the best T have everused, lam sorry that the druggists here dv ‘not keep them. . = - F. M. SNIDER. Broapway, O;, July, 1876, SE o . SOLD.BY- ALL DRUGGISTS. | Price, 25 cents. |3ent by mail, carefaily wrapped on. receipt of 25 cents for. oue, $;.25 for sBix, 'or $2 25 for twelve, by WEEKS & POTTER, Proprietors, Boston, Mass. -~ - | * . Biwd Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup for . Ihe cure of Comsumption, ! Coughs and Celds. .~ 'The great virtue.of this medicine is that it ripens the matter andthrows it out of the system‘purifies Lbe’lblood; and tlius effects a cure. © Souenck’s SEA WEED Toxig For tae CUBE oF i DYsrepsiA, INDIGESTION, &0, - y :The Tonlc produces a healthy action:of the stomach, creating an‘appetite, forming chyle, and curing the most obstinateé cases of Inaigestion. SouENok’s MANDRAKE PiuLs, For TiE CURE OF - Livez CouphalnT. &c. $= : “These Pills are aiterative, and produce a heal_thy action of the liver. without the least dﬂéuger, ~as they are free from calomel,:and yet more éffica-: cious in restoring a healthy action of the liver,” These remedies are'a certain cure foronsumption, us the Pulinonic Syrup ripens the matter and purities the'blood:: The Mandrake Pills act upon the liver, create a healthy ‘bile, ana remove all -diseages of the liver,often a cause of Consumption. The Sea Weed Tonic gives tone-ahd strengtu to the stomach makesva‘g‘y‘ud digestion, and enables the organs to form good blood; and thus creates a healthy circulation of healihy blood: “The combited action of these medicines.as thus explained, will cure every case of Consumption; f taken in time, and the use of the medicines jersevered in

- Dr. Scheunek 18 professioually at_his prineipal office, corner SixTu and Aron Sts , Philadelphia, every Monday, where all lettérs for-advice must be addressed. .. . - So ; - dwW=3l

Three Points for Considération.

During the past five years the VEGETINE has been steadily working ‘itzeif into pablic favor. aud those who were at first most incredalous in regard to-its merits are now its most ardent friends and sapporters. . L : il There are three essential causes for those havipg such a horror of patént. medicines, changing their opinion and lending their influence’ toward the advancement of VEGETINE. lst—lt is an hovestly prepared medicine from barks, roots and berbs. 2d—lthuncstly accomplishes all that. is claimed for it, without leaving any bad effects in the sysrem. “Bd—=lt presents honest vouchers in‘testimoniils from honest, well-known'citizenx; whose. signatures are a. sufficient guarantee of their earuestness in “the matter. . Taking into cousiderition -the vast. quantity -of medicine broaght couspicuously before the pablic through the faming advertisements in the newspaper columns, with uq proof. of merit or genuinue vouchers of what it ins done, we should be pardoned for manifesting a small degree of pride in presenting the following testimonial from Rev. J. 8. DICKERSON, D.D., the popular and evergenial pastorof the:South Baplist Church, Bos‘ton : o { r |

‘ The Tired. Body Sues’for Sleep, 1 T 2 4. Bosron;March 186, 1874, H.R Srevexs. Fsq.: ok | . Dear Sir-—lt is as'mnch from a sense of duty as .of gratitude that I write to say that your VEGE-" Tl%{ts-even if it is a patent medicine—has been .of great help to me whennotbing else seenied to avail which T-conld safely use.' Either excessive ‘mental work orunusoal care ‘brings npon me a -nervous. exhaustion that desperately needs sleep, -but as .dcspemt,ely defies.it. . Night after night the poor, ‘ired body snes for sleep until the daydawn is welcomed back, aud we begin our work tired -out with' an almost froitless. ¢chase afier rest.. Now I have found that a little VEGETINE taken jurt before I retire gives me sweet and Im- . mediate sleep, and without any of the evil effecis of the ustal narcotics. ‘l.think two things would ‘tend to muke brain-workers slee.g. Ist—a little less work: 2d--alittle more VEGETINE., This preséription has helped me. = _ I Now I have a particular horror of “patent med.icine,” but I have greater horror of being afraid .to tell the -traizht onttrath. - The 'VEGETINE has helped me, and I own it up, - < - ..Yoursete:, A . J.B DICKERSON, - [ - .. Valaable Evidence. The- following unsolicited = testimpnial from Rev. O. T. WALKER, D. D, formerly pastor of Bowdoin Square Church,and at present settled in Providence.: Rhode Islaud, must be esteemed as reliable evidence o s No one should fail to observe that this testimonial is the result-of two years’ experience wiih the use of VEGETI VE in the Rev. Mr. Walker’s fam--Ily, who now pronounces it invaluable: e Provivenoz, R. L., 164 Transit Street. H.R. Stevens, Esq.: .0 - - e I feel bound to express with my signature the high value I place upon your VEGETINE. = My family have used it for the last two years. In nervous debibility it is invaluable, and I recommend it to all wha maiyf need an invigorating, renovating'tonie. . Yoursete., Y et -, 0. T. WALKER. Formerly Pastor, of the Bowdoin Square €hurch, Boston. . . Pl i 5 - The Best Evidence. ' -~ The following letter from Rev. E. S. Best, pas tor M. E, Church, Natick, Mass.. will be read with interest by many physicians. . Also those suffering from the same disease as aflicted the son of the gev E. S. Best. - No person can doubt this testimo y, and there is no doubt obont the carative poweis of VEGETINE: -{: = .- © . : 5§ .7 " NariCk, Mass., Jan 1, 1874, Mz. H. R. StevEens, EsqQ.: o e o ~ Dear Sir—We ‘have good reason for ,regar&lngh your VEGETINE amedicine of the greatest value.: We feel assured that it has been the meaps of suv-' ing our son’s life. Heis dow seventeen years of ~age; for the last two years he has suffered from necrosis of his leg. caused by scrofulouns affection, and was 80 far reduced that nearly all 'who saw ‘him th..uiht. his reeovery imposgible. A council of able physicians counld give us but:the faintest hope of his ever rallying, two of the number de-. claring that he was beyond the reach of human remedies, that even amputation could not save him, as he lad not viger enough 1o ‘endure the operation Just then weé-commenced giving him VEGETINE, and from that time to the present he. bas been cont.nuously improving. ‘He %as- lately | resuined his' stnd.es, thrown away crutches ana cane, and walks about cheei fully and strong. . Though there is still some diyschzxrze from the | opening where the limb was lanced, we have the faliest confidence that in a little time. he will -be perfpctly eured, -0 o 0 Ge b E i ‘He has taken about three dozen bottles of VEGETINE; buy iately uses but Hum; as'he declures that he is too weli 10 be.ug;mg; edicine, - - S aßespdetfally youes, 1o oot - e LT Y i clepas oot Mgl B BreT,

: Reliable Evidence, 178 Baltic Street, Brooxryn, N.Y.,Nov. 14, 1874, ‘H R Strvens, Esq.; : Dear Bic— Fr.m personal benefit received by its use, as well a 8 from personal. knowledge of those whose cures thereby haye seemed almost miracuTous I can most heartily and sineerely recommend the VEGETINE for the compiaints.which it is claimed to cure. ‘ AMES POLUDLOW, Late Pastor €alv, Bap. Chuich, Sacramento, Cal. 32 L meien ! ‘. lm Vegetine is Sold by All Druggisis, “50 _ punienoalle 50 veazs UNIVERSALISM, xxdes Bl S o in 1877, All inte 'no:«r!nf.% OEE ntury o 1877, & iamn.l :l.ionlll(‘l"iublofl(go ffél' the l:mi:a(;eutenl:ugl',‘"ve:;. t will shine for ALL: Eight , weekly. ail the Nows. Markets e, vfat{'s:‘pom' oL JOHN MUR: .:1;..::'« to all :übm Ator g3t w;l;am.. i'a.;g BandweLL Poriisting Go., anoinmotl'&. W B for Printor . ‘ o gAg " JENGLISHE TOP FIIRERrS. News, Boolsud Jol Tnks, ! B all warraw iol Superior ! ki ?nlﬂity; No cheap or in- : = - ferior grades of lunik made : : by ne. A W S EXCELSIOR . PRINTING AVK €., - MANUFACTURERS, < oo (Formerly of nndogl,.}',llglfl’)(‘x‘h - 184 & 186 MONROGE ST, (Ii10AGO: _And 18 Bagclay Sirect, Nese Yooaks

3 gt v i gzm gh bertisements. X 7 : . + THIS PAPER IS ON FILE WIH i "o_n DWEL 25 : : ¢ F‘.é—:—f‘%e"t.ﬁ:‘t’ v ADVERTISING ACENTS > — -——-——\,—m f : ; Y Panic oW : ; YWhere Advertising Contracts can be mavd. ﬁT__i S T'he Little Rock - UR | i . ~ and Fort Smith LM AR Faﬁél'inz Landg, Graziog Lands, Fruit Lands‘, Vine-Lands. Coal Lands,Wood Lands,some Prairie Lands Bottom Lands, and Uplands on serms tosuitthepurchases. NiX percent. in- } terest on d-ferred %‘&?mems. ‘Ven per cent. discount for cash * For full particulars, maps and pamphlets, apply to W. . sL a¢ K, Land Commissivier, Little Rock, Arkansas. . :

have b@en awarded a Medal and Dl;-lo-ma at the Centennianl Exposition and ‘commended by the Judges for d “SUPERIOR STRENGTH —AND— h L —OF— Ay SPOOL COTTON.” S N | - » | { : ) " 7. GOSHORN, Director-General 5 Al SHORN, Director-General, SEaar: J. K, HAWLEY, Pres. ApnretE xR BoTELER, Secretary pro tem. 25 Extra Fine Mixed Cards, with pame, 10 cts.. &9 postpaid. L.JONES, & 0., Naussan, NY. — A T “JACKSON'S BEST” JA NS BEN s%&:nr NAVY was awnrdéd the highest ;irize_ at Centennial Exposition Sept, 27, 1876. If you want the best tobacco ever made ask your grocer for this, and see that “Jackson’s Best” is on every plug. Sold by all wholesale dealers. Any one car get & sample by applying to C. A ZAUNUN & CO., Manufactu. rers, Petersburg, Virginis. : S @ »™a week to aze;t;.'vé;z;xglesrz—n—n. $55 = S77P O. VICKERY, Augusta, Me, 500 A MONTH a certg\iuty,,to any person relling our LETTER Boox. No press, prush of water used. ‘Sample Book worth $3.00" sent free. Bend stamp for circular. EXCELSAOR €O, 17 Tribune Building, Carcaco. $3 ™ 85 a day to : A all. Article of mer‘it, Sample 15e. Seud stamp forcircniar. POOR & CO., 80 1-2 North sth St , Philadelphia, Pa. 'C‘ABINIECF SHOP bl U AN e e

CABINET WARE ROOMS " R.D KERR, Wouldx-esf:ectfully announceto the citizensol Noble county, that he hasconstantlyon: ; h‘un‘dalargeanq;uperiorstock of : i\ ] 3 s ’ CABINET WARE, Consistingin part 0t . | DRESSING BUREAUS. - WARD-ROBES, ' ‘_' i . ' et DARLES. © . BTANDS, . L ;. LOUNGESR, - o . Sy R | " CUP-BOARDS, o el _, MOULDING CHAIRS AND BEDSTEADS, Andinfacteve.ything usually keptina First slass Cabinet Shop. Particularattention paid tothe Undertaking Business, : COFFINS ALWAYS ON HAND. And made to order. upon short noice. Also all | kinds of Shop Work made toorder. Furniture Ware Rooms.on west side of Cavin Street corner of Fonrth street, Ligonier, Ind. 43~ A good Hearse alwaysin reaciness. Lizonier, May 2 1874.1 =~ <

Drs. PRICE & BREWER

4 R T AR i w . FIFTEEN YEARS. S i R T S PRk RAR.v € ML NR T R 7B L B GTR IR, 1 T SRR 5 I_]‘AVE‘~ met with anparalleled guccess in the .. treatment ofz\l} 1 * { Chronic Diseases m .. "OFTHE ' THROAT, —__ _“ : 2 & ' HBART : HEART 3 ? EEDERA RGN MORTNCTE ~ LIVER | o - RIVER. . < RN TR RSNy . . HBAD, INerves, Kidneys, Bladder, Womb, and Blood Af- | fections of the Urinary Organs, Grayel. Scrofula, Rheumatism, Catarrh, Asﬁ]ma, Bronchitis, Dyspepsia, &e. iy : 1 ) Ourreputation hasbeenacqaired by candid,honest dealing and years of successful practice. Our practice, notone of experiment, but founded onthe laws of Nature, with yeare of experience ind evidence to sustain it, doesnol tear down, make sick to make well; no harsh treatment no trifling, no flattering. We know thecauseandthe re_medg needed; no guess work, but knowledge zaiuedyb years of experience in the treatment ox | Cm-onicgiseasen exclusive:{; ‘no encouragement ‘without a prospect. Candid.in our opinions, reasonable in ourcharges, claim not to know everything. or cure everybudy, but do lay claim to rea. som and ¢ommon sense. Weinvite the sick, no matter what their ailment, to call and investigate before they abandon hope, m'akeluterroiat.funs and decide for themselves ; it will'cost not ingas consulta ionisfree. : ‘Drs. Price & Browercan'be eonsulted asfollows: _ Ligonier, Ligonier House, Wednesday, January 10th, 1877. I - Kendallville, Kelley House, Thursday, January 11th, 1877. : Visits will be made regularly for gears. Residenceand Laboratory: WAUREGAN, ILLI. NOIS, = . = 2 20-tf

Notice to Heirs of P'etnloi 10 " - Sell Real Estate.

STAI%‘EB&F;"(I)EB;?NA:} IVQJbIc Cireuit Court. NO"‘IOE is hershyrgiven that: William D Hays, Administrator of the estate cf Brice D .Knapp, | decensed, hae filed his petition to sell the Real | Estate of the decedent, his personal being insufiiclent to pay his debts; and that said petition - will bé heard at the next term of the Noble Cir cait Court of said County. ! Attest: i SAMUEL E. ALVORD. Nov, 16, 1876, Clerk Circuit Cour't Noble COMI. s R B s L il 3 v A 2 . Centennial Reduction in L [ ” ' i Advertising! ‘Three thogeand, two hundred and ffty dollars wotth «f newspaper sdvemumg. ‘at pnyhnsher’‘schedule rates, given for §7OO, and a three months’, nete a(mﬂ!wﬂ in payment from advertisers of respougibitity. A printed list, giviog name; character, actual Daily and Weekly circnlation, and Schedule Rates of Advertising, sent free to any address, Ap‘rl‘ymﬂoo P. Rowell & Co., Newspaper Advertising Agents, 41 Park Row, N, Y. 26 _Brazil has four newspapers now—three englishand one German. s Politically, two. Democratic, one Repulican - ‘MOM 110 et e o