The National Banner, Volume 11, Number 34, Ligonier, Noble County, 14 December 1876 — Page 1

. ry. a . ! The Aational Banner ‘ P PUBLISHED BY ~* JOHN B. STOLL, 'LIGONIER NOB_:LE COUNTY IND. b Terms of Snbscﬂplioﬁ: 8 auneyent.i'n5dv5nce..............'..m...... $2OO Siix months, in 3dVANCE. ..cioiovosaanaaainn- 100 Eleven copies 10 one address, one year,...... 2000 a@-Subsoribers outside of Noble county are harged 10 cents ettrs {per year] for postage, which is prepaid by the pub)isl‘ler. :

- ] roy e ‘ CITIZENS' BANK, . LIGONIER, INDIANA. Mm Notes wanted at a Low : Rate of Discount. 3 431 parties having *Public Sale -Notes,” will do well 1o see us befora disposing of them elseo where. e T : o m-ugc Bought and Soid, and If'oreiyn Draftsdrawnon all the Prinqigal Cities of Europe. | _ Apents for First-Class Fire and Life Insarance Companies. | STRAUS BROTHERS. LM RITTERBAND, Notary Public. ; figonier, Ind., Dec 16, 1875.-6-26 ¢ A ) JAMES M. "!\)ENNY, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. . ¢ Otfice in the Court House, \ ALBION, - - ~ - %~ IND. 8-15 " D.W.GREEN, - Justiceorthe Peace & Callection Ag', . | ©Ofice—Second Story, Lazdon’s Brick Block, LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. - ¢ e e ol D. C. VANCAMP, . ATTORNEY AT LAW, f . 'Ligemier, 3 : Indiana. - ! | . Specisl attention given to collectionsand conveyapcing, snd the writing of deeds, mortgages, and comiracts. .Legal business promptly attended to. O Fre over Jacobs & Gpldsmith’s Cash Store. 9-50 { "M. G. ZIMMERMAN, “u Attorney at Law & Notary Public, . Office over Gerber’s Hardware, . Cavin Street. : : Ligonier, Indiana. - L January 7. 1875.-9-37-K E. !&NIQQLY, ~ ATTORNEY AT LAW, LIGONIEE, "V - "= INDIANA. . ﬁoﬁce on second f!nox_-of Landon's Block. 7-2 o 4 _;r,gn:n"l‘, BANTA, © Fasticeof the Peace & Conveyancer. . L LIGONIER, INDIANA. | ' ¢ | Specialattention given to conveyancingandcol_ections. Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages: drawn up 2ud a 1 legal business attended fo promptly and ‘ sccarately. Office over Straus & Meagher’sstore, . T .. May 15187315-8-3 ' T M. WAKEMAYN, ieo ) ’ TnsaranceAg’t &Justice of the Peace » - = | L ' EENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. ; . Office with A. A. Chapin, Mitchell Block. will receive sabscriptions to/'THE NATIONAL BANNER. B e L P, W, CRUNM, 7 . - Physician and Surgeon, LI’GQNIER,»' L 0 INDIANA, _ “Office over Banm’s Grocery Store.’. v9.m3-Iy. o G, W, CARR, . Physician and Surgeon, LIGONIER - - - - - -~ IND., Willpromptlyatiendail calls ‘intrustedtc‘) him. Office and residence on 4th Street. , 14

af 'JF. M. TEAL, : . DYTFTEANTI TS D, m‘ﬁoomé‘o“ver 1 E. Pike’s Grocery, : Corner of Main und Mitchell Streets, opposise the Post Office, Kendallvilie, Ind. ¥ Ali work warranted: <GB Kendailville, May 1, 1574. Fo SR, Laighing § g Laughing s | L p i, 'k . -FOR THETSP PAIVIESS EXTRACTION — ‘l, B ! op— S % . TEETH - P = B T {—AT— N\ s O N /UL wally Unce, : I\ P Hoe S . ; +~Filling Teeth a Specialty _ Ligonier, Ind., Nov., 11, 1875. T 1-1 TEEGARDEN HOUSE, Laporte, Indiana. : V.W.AXTELL, : © : Proprietor. -Laporte, Aprils.lB7l. © ST CONCORD & CATAWBA WINE, We keep constantly on hand and sell in'ldrge or . =mall quantities, to suit castomers, Win:oiOur Own Manufacture, Pare — Nothing but the Juice of « . theGrape. . . , SACK BROTHERS. -Ligonier,July 3,’71.-t{ Winebrenner & Hoxworth, HOUBE, SI6N AND ORNAMENTAL ) PAINTERS S 9 &rainers, Glaziersand Paper-Hangers. Shop near corner of Fourcth and Cavin Sts., opposite Kerr’s Cabinet Shop.. g Ligomier, - - - - Indiana, BRICK KELLY HOUSE ° EKENDALLVILLE,INDIANA, : N EW COMMODIOUR THREE STORY BRICK <% Hotel,onlyten rods trom the L. 8. &M.S. R. R. Depot, and four squaresfromthe G, R.R R.— Only five tnin%ez walk to any of the principal bia-] imesshoasesofthecity. Traveling men an‘d'stra‘n-t gers willfind thisa first-classhouse. Fares 2 per! 4sy. : J. B. KELLY, Proprietor. Kené”dville.Aug.3.lB7o.-14 —_—— .- _PHILIP A. CARR, AUCTIONEER, Ofers hisservices to the publicin general. Terms moderate. Orders may be left at the shoestore of P. Sisterhen.. i | Ligonier,JanuaryB,’73-37 C. V.INKS, : DEALERIN MONUMENTS, Vaults, Tombstones, AND BUILDING STONESLIGONIER, IND. Aorill2, 1871.-50 i el AT AVILILA ' : Bargal For Sale: Bargain! mmbsgnber offers for _s;’e.‘on favorable terms, - A HOUSE AND LOT, favorsbly sitnated in the town of Avilla. The House was built two years ago, and is & very gubsizutial and conveniently arranged dwelling. Any Person mm to prdcure a comfortable house at, Avilla wil this a rare oppertunity. = For terms &c , aidress the subscti{er Lor call mpon LEONARDS. HERSH, at Avilla, who isduly suthorized to séll the property. : : J. B, BTOLL, e : Ligonier, Indiana. 116 THAM & SON, e "> °© ..',"7,' . :\.\ , . H £ @‘3 \ F 72 - -{3 { -8 RN O . (RPN~ = | % Sord e E £ : - YL i 4 i - ».:r—‘;// : ¥ : WATCH-MAKERS, ¥ i ~i d INS ,‘ . JEWELERS, el ke —uddulerria—-} el . i . - : 3 ~ Fancy Goods,

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BANKING HOUSE e O ; SOL. MIER, | Conrad’s New Brick Biock, LIGONIER, IND’NA. - Moneyloaned on long and shorttime. Notes discounted at reasonablérates. . Moniesreceived on depositandinterestallowed onspecified time, " . Exchange bought'and sold, and Foreign Drafts drawn on principalcities of Europe, 8-2 | TO THE FARMERS: YOU will please take nofi&¢ that I aim still en- -~ gaged in ‘buyln§ wheat, for which®l pay the hi hestmsrketﬂpr se. i ffyon do mot find me on the street, call before selling, at my Banking Office, in-Conrad’s Brick Block; i SOL. MIER. Ligonier,lndiana, May 7th,1874.—1 f

Bakers & Grocers, ) Lt Cavinrs'treet.Lig’onier,lndian Fresh Bread,Pies, Cakes&c. ChoiceGroceries,l}rovi‘siéns,YankeeNotions,& ThehighestcashpricepaidforCountry Produc Mayl3,’6B-t1 o SACKBRO’S Billiard Hall ‘ i ANDE— Ten-Pin Alle; Aen-rin ey ¢ ‘L. B, HATHAWAY, Prop'r, HAS BEEN BREMOVED TO mk . s 01d Pierce Bnllding. 3 ¢+ ¢ : Ligenier, Ind. Tobacco and Cigars, Candies,Nuts, CHICAGO CIDER & FRESH LEMONADE, All Tovers.of a nicg, quiet game of billiards or tenpins, will find Lh-l_s to be just the place * ! 24tf |

DR. GEO. CLEIS

Freneh Linment

__This Liniment possessesgreat curative powers for various ailments. ~For asthmatic complaints, difficult breathiusg tightness of the breasi, and silments of the Jungs, it is_applied externally on’ ¥r " -cast, and between the shoulders. In case . €uarp paing in the back-and-limbs, head-ache, ear-ache, affectiops of the throat, or in cases ofin‘ternal injuries, whether resuiting from a severe stroke, fali or bruise, this Liniment is especidlly efficacious. Itrelieves ulcers, open wouands, salt rheum, white swelling, milk leg, and works charmingly on corns, chilblains,', frosted,hands feet and ears. . Nursing' mothers suﬁ"engg from swollen brearts, resulting from & stagnatioa of the lacteal fluid, will find this Lifiment of incalculablebenefit by way of separatipg the swelling, allayirg wne fevér, and healing the breast. By weveral applications per day, highly satisfacthry resulfs may be obrained from the nse of thisLinimentin thetreatmentof-tumors fistula, cancer, piles, and like diseases ; also, for wounds resulting from scalds, burns and cuts, and from the bites of wasps.snakes and mad-dogs, Or poisoning from noxious piants The French Liniment will also be found & viluable household remedy in cases of rheumatism,croup, scarlet fever,diphtheria, quin¢y, bronchitis, scrofula; erysipelas,—for external | applications. - Chelera, cholera morbus, colic, cramps, spasame, flux, diarrheea and gripings in the bowels may be effectuilly checke:%by the internal use of this celebrated Liniment, as follows: One-half teaspoonful four to five ttmes within a period of from one-half hour to two or three ‘hours, according to the severity of the casé. For colic, take one or two doses. For fiux or diarrhea, infants, one year of age, require from 5 to 6 drops; two years old, from 10 to 12 drops, given in sugar. Rub the abdomen with the Liniment. For inflamation of the bowels, nse the Liniment interhally and externally. ’ . : Price 50 Cents per Boitle. Prepared and manufactured exelusively by * . - t ~ r { . Dr. Geo. Cleis, . ] 1 : 10-14tf GOSHEN, IND,

Go W, CHAPMAN. 3 i J. B. STOLL hapman & Stoll, Chapman & Stoll, , AGENTS. ‘ Office in the Banner Block, . . LIGONIER, - - - - - ‘INDIANA. WE have a large list of preperty for sale, con- ¥ sisting of dwellings, choice town lots, farms ar;'d western lands. Those wishing to buy or sell w! g find it to their -advantage to call and see us &t onr office, ' - April g, 1876, IWEOFFERFOR SALE i A TRACT OF LAND, situate one mile west of Ligonier, consisting of 12 acres more or less. The land is all improved exeepting one acre. There is a good hewed log house, smoke house, spring house, cabin stable, a splendid well of water, &5.. on tbe property. :

- A FARM OF 170 ACRES, 150 OF which is undér improvement,'in Washington twp. Firng'-ﬁve acies -are in clover, and all isin good condition. On theproperty is the best orchard in the county, a good LW(:-&!LO? frame -house with 9 rooms, good cellar, well and cistern, 2 springs of suflicient volume to water stock, good barn and out-baildings &c Between 45 and 50 acres of wheat were seeded in the fall, ~ o

236 LOTSIN WELLMAN’S ADDltion to the town of Ligonier. - Theabove arc allin ong Block and are corner-lots, frouting on Martin and Union streets. 5 .

A CONVENIENT HOUSE. — A Frame House 1% stories high, containing six rooms, in good condition, in ¥Miller’s addition to Ligonier, on reasonable rerme,

- A NICE.LITTLE TRACT OF Land, containing 30 acres. lying one mile from Ligonier, 14 acréscldared ready 1%1- corn. Alvery desirable home ‘for any one who wishes to live near a thriving town. oo

A GOODSMALL FRAMI HOUSE in Chapman’s addition, with six rooms and good cellar, situate on a cormer. lot hus good well of water and cistern, on good and eaey terms. -

A NICE DWELLING .HOUSE on Cavin street, one and a half stories high, containing 8 rooms, good cellar - well and “cistern, and is the handsomest. location oi ghe street. One-half down; pulance on long time with interest.

A FARM,containing 820 acres, lying four miles south east from. Ligonier, on the Albion road, the most desir}ible farm for rairing stock and grain in the county| wellF known as the Diamong Lake Farm, for sale o zood terms,

. : oF 3 oy VACANT LOTS in Wood’s addition to Ligonier for sale on inviting ‘terms; also, four Vaeant Lots in Miller’s addition ta Ligonier. Now isihe time for bargains. -

" A LARGE FRAME HOUSE, two stories high, containing 10 rooms, with closets, wardrobes, and -outbuildings. such as summer kitchen, wood house, barn, corn crib and hog pen, about one acre of land, a good orchard—apples, peaches, cherries, cufrants and- grapes. The most desirable sitnation in the town of Ligonier or a' ‘retiring farmer who wishes to educate his children. - For sale on terms easy to: purchaser. © CHAPMAN & STOILL.

BEREERERBERENE

:To the working Class.—We are now prepared to furnish ull classes with constanti employme vt at home, the whole of the time, or for their spare moments. Business new, light and profitable. Persons of either gex easily earn from 50 cents to $5 per evening, and a proportional sum by devot.lng their whole time to the business. Boys and -girls éara nearly as much as men. That gll who see this notice may send their address, ang test the business we make this nnparalleled offer: T(zsuch as are not well satisfled we will send one dollar ‘to pay for. writing. Full pasticulars, samples worth several dollars to commence work on; and a copy of Home and Fireside, one of the largest and best Illnsirated Publications, .all sent free by mail = Reader, if you want permanent, groﬂtable work, address, GEroreE STingoN & Co,, Portland, Me. ' 11-8-mlB

; ’ Can’t be made by every agent 3 : every month in the business we 2 farnish, but these ‘wimnF to. . work cam earn a dozen dollars a day rignt .0 wsert own localites. Have no room to explain here. - Business pleasant and honora+ ble. | Women, and boys aud giris do as well as men. We will furnish you a complete outfit free. The buginess pays better than: anyl.hing elge; We will bear expense of starting you.. Particulars free. Write and see. Farmers and mechanics, their sons and dan%:uers, and all classes in need of paying work at home, shonld write to us and learn all about the work at once. Wow is the time, = Don’t delay. = Address True & Co., Augusta, Maine, X - 11-BemiB

‘A YEAR. AGENTS WANTED. Owivg to-the wonderful success of our . - great' 50 Book Combination, we ‘have been induced to enlarge it, and now offer a grand Combination Prospectus representing -

wanted everywhere. It isthe biggest thlng ever tried: Sales made from this whep all other books fail, Also agents wanted on our Magnificent Kam ily Bibles. superior to all others, and our complete Bible Eucyclupedia, with 3000 Superb lilustrations, alse for = - AGENTS WANTED for the STORY OF

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CENTAUR

LINIMENTS. ¢ t * ) : ¥ So nearly perfect are the receipts of theée wonderful pain soothing and healing Centaur Liniments, that' we can coufidentially say they will alleviate any pain arising from flesh, bone or musc'e derangements. We.do not pretend that theyawill mend a broken leg. .o, exterminate bt%:' but evenin such cases they will reduee 'thfinflammation and stop the pain. Nor can we guaranlpé the proper resolts where the body is poisoned. by whisky. Temperance is as necessary to a proper physical, as mental condition. ) . . The White Centaur Liniment isparticularly adapted to all cases of Rheumatismm, Lumbago, Neuralgia. Erysipelas, Itch, Sprains, Chillblains, Cuts, Bruises, Stings, Poirons, Scalds, Sciatica, Weak Back, Paing in.the Side. Wounds, ‘Weeping Sinews, Burns,, Frosted Feet, Palsy, Ear-ache, Toath-ache, Head-ache, Ulcers, Old ' Sores, Broken Breasts, Sore Nipples. Sore Throat, - Croup, ‘Diptheria. &c, The most of these com .plaints the Centaur Liniment will cure; all of: them it will Yenefit. Tt will éxtract the poison from bites and stings. and ‘will care barns aund sealds withont ascar. The following is but a sample of a thousand similar testimonials: - AxnTrocs, ILn., Dec. 'l. 1874, My wife, has, for a long time, héen a terrible sufferer from Rheumatism = She has tried many physiciansjand many remedies. The only thing | which hax Liven her reliet is Centaur Liniment. % | am rejoiced to say this has cured her. ! L W. H. RiNG.’Postmaater. . Itis an indigputabie fact that the Centaar Liniments are performing curés never before effected by any preparation in existence—like Chronic Rheumatism of thirty yenrs’slanding, straightening fingers and joints which had been stiff for six years, taking the soreness from bh’ms, &ec. ' One dollar, or even fifty cents, invested in Centaur Liniment- will be within reach when =2n acéldent occnrs, and will do more good than any amount of money paid for medichl attendance. When physicians are called they frequently tise Lhis Liniment, and of course charge several prices for it. i i

7 Lt £ o ol The Yellow Centaur Liniment is adaptedit.o the tough skin, muscles and flesh of the animal creation. Its effects upon severg cases of Spavin, Sweeny. Wind-Gall, Big-Head and Poll-Evil, are little less than marvelous.

Messrs. J. McClure & Co., Druggists, cor. Elm and Front Sts., Cincinnati, 0., says: °

~ In our neighboroood a number of teamstérs are using the Centaur Liniment, They pronounce it superior to anvthing they have ever used. We sell as high as four to five dozen bottles per month to owners of horses and mules

We' have. volumes of testimonials deseribing cures of Spraing, Kicks, Galls, Poll-Evil,. Big-

Head, and Founders, which are little less than marvels, No owner of an animal can afford to be

without a bottle of Centsur Liniment,Avhich any day may prove‘worth twenty times its costs. 8013 everywhere, but prepared only at the - Laboratory of J. B. Rose & Co., 46 DY ST NEW YORK. : :

Castoria!

Cross, sickly babies af‘ld children may enjoy health, and mothers have rest,.if they will ‘use Castoria. Worms,_te‘pthing, wind colic, sour stomach and undigestefi food make children cross and prodaces sickness. i g Castoria will assimilate the food. expel worms, and correct al:l these th“mgs. For 20 years Dr. Pitcher experimentéd in his private practice to produce an]eﬂ"ecuve cathartic’ and stomach reguiator which{ would, be as effective as Castor oil, without it? unpleasant taste or recoil. | e,

The reputation of his.experiment-extended. Physicians and nurses ra“(pid]y‘ adopted his remedy, to which he gave the name ef Castoria.

Castoria is as pleasam?to take ag honey,' regulates tl:e stomach' and bowels; and does not gripe. It is adapted to 94')1 ages, contains no alcohol, and is absorutely hnrmiess to the most tender infant. | .

Try Castoria once, and you will mever be without it. \ ; .

Prepared at the Labom}tory of J. B. Rose & Co., 46 Dey street, New York. | .ch qr-Iy-9-tc

. Gl i CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. PHILADEL;PHIA, PA, ¢ ] b i i . THIS GREAT INTER-NATIONAL EXIPIBItion, designed to conimemorate the Cne Hundredth Anniversary of American Independence, opened May 10th, and W:“l close November 10th, 1876 . All the Nations of the world and all the States and Territories of the Union are participating in this wonderful denﬁonstration, bringing vogether the most comprehensive collection of art treasures, mechanica. iuventions, scientific discoveries, manufacturing achiévements, mineral specimens, and agricultural productg ever-exhih-ited. The grounds devoted to the Exhibition are situated on the line of the Pepusylvania Railread and:embrgce four hundred and fifty acres of Fairmoui:t Pask, all highly improved and ornamented, on which are erected the largest buildings ever constructed,—five of these covering an arer of lifty acres and - ‘costing $5,000,000. The total number of buildings erected for the purposes of the Exhibition is near two hundred During the thirty days imwediately following the opening of the Ex‘tllibitlun a'million and a quarter of people visited it.

The Pennsylvania Railroad,

THE GREAT TRUNK LINE,

FAST MAIL ROUTE OF THE UNITED STATES, is the most direct convenient, ahd economical way of reaching Philadelphia and this great Exhibition from all sections of the country. I:s trains to and from Philacelphia will pass through a GRAND CENTENNIAL DEPOT, which the company have erected at the Main Entrance to the Exhiuntion. Grounds for the accommodation of pasrengers who wikh to stop at or start from the numeroux large hotels contiguous to this station and the Exhibition,—a convenience of the greatest value to visitére, and afforded gxclusively h% the Pennsylvania Raitroad, which is THE ONL LINE RUNNING DIRECT TO THE CENTEN: NIAL BUILDINGS. : Excursion trains will 180; stop at the Encampment of the Patrons of Husbandry, at Elm Station on' thisroad. =~

'\ The Pennsylvania Railroad is the Grandest Railwav Organization in the World. It controls seven thousand miles of roadway, formingi continuous lines to Philadelphia, New ork, Baltimore, and Washington, over which luxhrious day and night cars are run from Chicago, St. Louis, Lonisville,z Cincinnati, IndianapoHs, Col?mbns, Toledo, Cleveland, and Erie, without changes ' i | : : ]Lsgnuin line islaid with double and third tracke of heavy steel rails u%on a deep bed of broken stone ballast and its bridges are all of iron or stone. Its paseenger trains dre equipped with every known Improvement ffor comtort and safety, and are run aj faster speed for greater distances than the trains of an,y Jine on the continent. The company has lnr‘;e]y nereased its equipment for -Centenuial travel, and will be prepared to build in its own shops locomotives and passenger cars at ghort notice suflicient to fully accommodate any extra demand. Theunequaled resources .uf the command-ol the company guarantee the most perfect accommoaations for all its patrons during the Centennial Exhibition. : : THi’ MAGHIFICENT SOENERY for whi((:F the Peunsylvania Railroad isgo jusily celebrated pre‘sents to the traveler over its nperfect roadway an ever-chianging panorama of river, mountain and landscape views quuul%! in America. : THE EAIING-STATIONS on this line are nnsurpassed. Meals will be taornished at suitable hours‘and an(:)ple time ullowed for enjoying them. EXCURSION IICKETS. atreduced rates, will be sola ai all principal Railroad Ticket Offices in the West, Nurth-wesb..anlg South-west. . - BE.SURE THAT YOUR TICKETS READ via THE GREAT PENNSYLVANIA Roure 10 2HE CENTENNIAL, ! e § FRANK THOMSON, . D,M.BOYD, Js., : General Manager Gen'l Pass'r -Agl, ~ ALL BINDS L el P L.egal lanks FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICH.

LIGONIER. NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1876.

SILENCE IS GOLDEN.

It is the sweegr warm rain in silence dropping, That sinks with freshening pow?lxr': Not the wild wind-borne storm, ordriving torrent, " Which breaks the tender flower. e It is the keen, quick lightning, s@:arp and silent, That splinters, scathes and kills; b Not the huge bellowing of the noisy thunder, - Echoing among the hills! s i

It is the;still, small voice, whose silence pleading -‘Persuades the deepmost heart ; ! Not the lond speech the hoarse and vulgar jargon, The rude stentorian’art. :

The mightiest forces in the world around us, We neither hear nor see; ) ) The shallow brooklet pent among its eddies, Babbles Inceasingly.

The stars march on in their eternal conrses, Uttering no voice or sound; The rushing meteor flies—explodes in ether— Falls hissing to the ground. The human soul. whose grasp is widest, grandest, Of things in heaven avd earth, : Discovers not its royal truths and treasures, In hours of noisy mirth.

The heart of love. bereaved, yet uncomplaining, Bowed o’er the fresh-turned sod, -- o Hears whi pered forth: ‘‘Be still, my son, my daughter, ; 2 . And know thatl am God!” . - -—Sarah:H. Browne, in Seciibner’s Monthly.

FIDEKI.ITTY.

~ Near the corner of a small street that intersected, the Jager Strasse and within a dozen. yards |of the spot where the porters used to congregate, there stood in the days of Frederick the Great, a quaint old building, the upper portion of which was inhabited by tenants. who rented rooms, while the -ground -floor was used as a china Shqp' - & . e . In a couple of these chambers dwelt

Madame Kransler, a-French lady, the widow of an officer of the King’sarmy, who /lost his life in the assault on

Glogau. Previous to Col. Kransler’s death he had been a-great favorite with the King, who had bestowed upon him a liberal '‘pension; but during the march into Silesia, the King, in one ‘ofhis capricious moods, became offended at some trifiing irregularity .of Col. Kransler,and never recognized him afterwards. W : Stung with. mortification, and chafing with wounded pride, Col. Kransler, had no longer a desire to live, and after many attempts to find a soldier’s grave met it at Glogau. *° i ‘During the life- of her husband, Madame Kransler had beén surroundes with every comfort, but when she becarhe a widow, her husband’s income stopped. She was left without protection, and had not suflicient interest to obtain from the Court any

pait of the pension which her husband had enjoyed. She wrote to the minitters, and finding she could obtain no reply, she ventured to send a pétition to the Xing, but ill luck attended her here likewise, for the King either did not receive hex appeal, or, it he did, he tossed her application

into the waste basket. The condition of the/poor lady was truly deplorabple, and she was at length compelled to part, in succession, with her jewelry and_ part. of her furniture, and there appéared to her to be no visible means of support. On account ot her taste for solitude and: her-piety, she had

lived in retirementsince her husband’s death, and gradually had withdrawn herself from the world. So, at thirtyfour years old, and, to some degree still pretty, she found herself unable to procure herself suitable employment, and was brought face to face with penury. ' ; In this extremity shie had recourse to theionly true dispenser of consolation and aid to Him alone who could soften her lot, and give her courage to patiently bear her trials. = She threw herselt upon her knees, and prayed with so much confidence that she arose calm and fortitied. She had only seated herself in a chair when Ernest Schropp, her servant, entered. Schropp had beétr in the service of the;’ Colonel for:many years, and at his death absolutely refused to leave his mistress, who explained to him that her altered circumstances would

not permit her to employ him.! - But Ernest,, whose nature was naturally rough, and his manner taciturn, heard

his mistress, and in a/sullen mood declared that he would rather starve 1n her service than fatten in another’s; Madame Kransler, touched with the poor fellow’s fidelity, eéndeayored to reason with him, but finding it fruit-

less, allowed him to take: his own course, hoping that some unexpected event might enablé her to reward his great goodness. i “I have something to tell you, Ernest,” she said one day, as he was engaged in kindling a fire, = - :

Ernest looked up, and momentarily suspended.his employment.” “l am now utterly ruined,” continued his mistress; “IL have sold nearly everything of value that I possess,and L.am satistied that there is no hope of the King granting me my pension. We must respect the decrees of Proyidence, however,” and the poor womun began to weep. b, i Ernest laid down his hatchet and meditated for a moment. Then he spoke with vehemence. e *You shall nov suffer!” he exclaimed, “I can work, and svoner or later they will be more just, and grant your pemsion.” e ol ;

~Madame Kransler shook her head sadly. i i “I have never doubted your attachment, my good Ernest, but I will not abuse it. This is what yon ‘must do for me.. Go and hire a couple of small ‘rooms in some ,obscure house and then try and find me some customers, and 1 will spin. In this way I may provide food for us both.” - “For twelve years you have fed and clothed me,” said Ernest, “and paid meé liberally likewise, and shall I witness you toil? No, I cannot do it. I -will procure cheaper lodgings, because I am satisfied it is necessary; -but hope still; there is a brighter day to Wcome_ to you,” and the honest fellow éaicl down his hatchet and went down { tairs. : ‘ Later-in the day he returned and placed in Madame Kransler’s hand 60 guilders. . P .

~ “Thanks to heaven!” he said, “here is something I have saved.” s She was going to push it to one side, when he gazed at her in such a ‘way that she saw. he felt wounded to the heart. It

“When you had money you gave it to me,” he said, “and now that yeu have none, I give it to you.” . “And I receive the fryit of your years of long and faithful service? Thi§ cannot, cannot be, my good Ernest. S oy

“Madame,” replied Ernest, with a determined voice, “you know me to be a man of few words, but when I make a deliberate assertion, you as well as any one who knows me, will be tully convinced that I mean every word I utter.. Therefore, if you refuse my gift, I promise you upon my honor that I will hang myselt this very night for I cannot endure the sight of your suffering.” , That afternvon Ernest had a porter remove Madame Kransler's few remaining effects to het new home. Then he went to the yard of his friend Christian Stuler, sooen

Every evening he would visit Madame Kransler, split her wood, bring her water, and do other Ithll9 errands

She had to humor him for fear of wounding his feelings. And yet,after his hard qay’s work, it made her heart ache to see the poor fellow busying himself to save her labor. Regularly every Saturday night he laid a little money beside her, which she placed away for him, having now employment in, spinning, which yielded her enough for her frugal wants. : On Saturday evening Ernest did not, appear, and when' Sunday came without a message from him, explaining ‘his absence, Madame Kransler began ‘to fear some accident had happened to her friend. = On Monday she went promptly to‘the stone-yard of Christian Siulen and there learned that Ernest was ill at his lodgings. = Oune of the workmen kindly showed her the way, wondering all the while what so fine a lady could want with Ernest Schropp. : | Away up in a miserable garret she found the poor fellow lying upon a blanket (he having no mattress), and -suffering from a fever. I Madam Kranster knelt beside the sick man and/wept; while he looked wildly in ker:face. Poor fellow, he was deli’rig‘l'»?’?r’ But when she heard that he had’no medical 4id, she darted down stairs and ran into the street. At that moment Winterfield, the chief physician of the king, was passing in his carriage.. He had formerly known Madam Kransler well, and when he saw her rushing like one. distracted, he sprang from his carriage and was soon at herside. A few words revealed her grief, and , the good doctor accompanied her to Ernest’s garret, gave a prescription, topk her'address, and leaving some money-forSchropp’s use, departed. The following day astrange physician called’on' Ernesf, removed him to a more comfortable room in the house, and attended him regularly until he was convalescent. . i :

In the meantime Winterfield called on Madam Kransler, and learning her condition, had made it all known to the king, who had long repented his harshness to poor Colonel Kransler. Immediately the king had a house purchased for the 'widow, bestowed the pension on her, and otherwise improved her state. One day Winterfeld called at Madam Kransler’s in a barouche. “Behold,” he said, “this is yours; it will convey you to your new residence, where the king trusts you will be happy.” ; e

Madam| Krahsler pressed the good doctor’s hand. ' “May heaven reward you!” s,h; exclaimed; “but:now let us 20 to that worthy man,Ernest Schropp, that T may show him my gratitude.” “Be it sO,” replied Winterfeld. . (During the drive Winterfeld and Madam Kransler had a long conversation, in which sHe learned that the king had never seen her petition. In due time they arrived at Schropp’s lodgings. Madam Kransler and her: friend went directly to Ernest’s room, and found him walking slowiy to and fro. 5 g

“My friend,” exclaimed Madam Kransler, taking Ernest’s hand, “you are.to come withus.” - Before Schropp could well comprehend where he was going, Winterfeld and Madam Kransler had walked him out to the carriage and seated him.— They then entered and were: driven away to a splendid residence, where the carriage stopped. ; ; j Winterfeld conducted the party to the door, and then handing Madam Kransler a couple of documents with large seals, spoke as follows: “Madam, this house and all it contains is yours, and'you will find that the King will never again lose sight of you. These, in fact, are the words of the great’ Frederick, which he bid me deliver to you. Madam, adieu.” ~“And all this is yours?” cried the delighted Ernest. | e “Say ours, my friend,” responded Madam XKransler; “say eours, for in future you shall have no cares or toil, if I can prevent it,” . There is little more to be told. Madam Kransler died before the honest old man, and left him her fortune. Every one who heard the story of his kindness to his mistress repeated it, and held him in great respect. Even the children learned to revere him, and would cry out when they spied him hobbling " along on his cane: “Ah! here comes Papa Ernest!” and they would at once crowd about him, each striving to grasp his hand.

~° The Hoosier State. : Indianastands first in railroads and telegraphs, having one mile of railroad to every 395 of her population, the largest proportion ef the most important interest of any civil or political division on the globe. In wheat she ranks only second to Illinois which is nearly one-half larger than Indiana. In corn she ranks third, Illinois and Obio alone surpassing her. In farm products .and machinery she ranks fourth and fifth, New York, lllinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania exceeding her. In live stock she ranks seventh in the scale. s ,

Indiana is now supporting a population of 50 on an-average, to each section of 640 aeres. By comparison with foreign countries it will be seen that she has the capacity of supporting a population of 17,000,000. While India, with her arduous system of irrigation and most earnest.labor, is supporting a population of 400 to the square mile, upon a yield of 16 bushels of wheat to the agre, and riee, and sweet potatoes and ‘such like other vegetables, all produeed without any modern machinery, and while a great portion of Europe, from well worn fields, is supporting 300 to 400, and Massachusetts with- thin soil and skilled labor is supporting her 200, and less favored States are supporting 100 to 250, Indiana has an average of to her cultivated lands, embracing only about 18,000 square miles, yet produeing sufficient to support 5,000,000 people. | e ey [

' One characteristic feature that gives foree to and interest in her manufaetures, is the tact thatin all her manufacturing enterprises she is not making a silly or useless ornament. On the other hand, she is producing nearly every kind of labor saving machinery, furniture and implements, - ~;lndiana with less than 2,000,000 people; is producing more useful machinery, to lighten the manual labor of the world, to create wealth, give comfort and advance civilization than all. Asia with her 800,000,000 of people. Utility is a distinguished trait in ‘our national character. oo :

At the Centennial exhibition, a register was kept wherein visitors tenered their names. Each name tenered entitled its owner to one chance in the drawing by lot for the two millionth sewing machine manufactured by the Singer company. Six large volumes .were thus filled ‘with more than 65,000 names.. The e?hibition being ended, the drawing of this free lottery took place on the #2d of November. The prize, a family sewing machine, exquisitely ornamented and enclosed in a superb cabinet case, was drawn by Ella M. Wood, 825 Queen street Philadels

THE BROOKLYN HORROR.

Nearly 300 Bodies Taken From the ; Burned Theatre. ‘

Some of the Particulars concerning ' that Heart-Rending Scene :

‘From a New York special to’' the Chicago T'ribune we glean the particulars concerning ‘the burning of the

{ Brooklyn Theatre, on Tuesday night of last week, which resulted in great loss of property, and a L(%s of life that ‘'was t‘ruly- "appaaling; Three hqndre"d -people miserably perished in the smoke and flames. A large majoxity of them were men and boys. Only a few women‘and children were lost, as far as known. Most of thoselost were occupants of the gallery or third tier of the theatre. In descending the stairway they were met on the second Janding or second floer of the theatre by a blinding and suffocating -volume of smoke, and fell in heaps on the stairway. This gave way under thgir agcumulated weight, and they were precipitated upon the lobby on the first floor of the building.. This also gave way, and the entire body of men ‘thus ‘entrapped fell victims to the flames. Of those: who occupied the dress circle (ground floor) and family: circle (second tier) only a few appear to have been lost. Two actors were burned alive. Three scene-shifters and other assistants were seriously if not fatally injured, and it is possible that several supernumaries on duty behind the scenes also perished. The greafest confusion and consternation prevailed in Brooklyn, and full and accurate details were not possibly obtainable. The list of missing persons,. it is hoped and believed, contains many errors inspited by the fears and anxieties of the friends of those sup- | posed to be lost, which later developments may correct, but the evidence is indisputable that fully - |

300 PERSONS HAVE PERISHED.

The Morgue was early overtaxed in affording shelter for the burned, and one of the unoccupied market-places ‘was converted into a temporary ‘Morgue. The scenes at both these places were heart-rending. '* At the scene of the disaster itself the excitement was intense from early morning to midnight. The details of the awful calamity which has fallen on Brooklyn it is almost impossible to write. The whole city 1s not merely in a state of fear and anxiety, but in a state of alarm. Every street .approaching the scene of the disaster is filled with erowds at once anxious, excited, and almost violent. About the Morgue, where hundreds of bodies are deposited utterly unrecognizable, are crowds of excited people, utterly uncontrollable. About the markethouse, which has. been teriporarily formed into a Mo_;rgue, are thousands and thousands of people whom it 18 impossible for the police to restrain, and utterly impossible for them to satisfy.: i L "The curtain had just risen on the last scene in the “Two. Orphans,”— that of the boat-house scene, that closes in on all sides, a low roof manufactured of canva_f, heavily painted, with great sduors in"rthe rear, through which gensd’armes at the eritical moment break to rescue the two sisters. Four or five actors alone occupied the stage. The wind was blowing strongly from the west, to which the rear or: stage entrance'to the theatre faced, and persons entering at the stagedoor enabled the wind to blow one of the “flies” againsc a gas jet, which ignited it. The scene-shifter stationed about.the stage in what is technically called the “flies” immediately cut away the burning scene, as instructed to do on such occasions, and permitted it to fall, as they thought, on the stage floor. Contrary to the pxpectat‘iions,‘ however, of everybody, the part of the burning fly cut away fell upon the painted canvass which represented the roof of the ship-house, and =~

. INSTANTLY IT WAS IN A BLAZE, as though it had followed a silent explosion, and 1 a minute more the whole upper part of the theatre was in flames.. Composed, as it was, of combustible material, it spread with the utmost rapidity, and broke through the roof, alarming not only all Brooklyn, but all the lower part of New York. - The actors on ‘the stage immediately fled, after seeing the extent of the disaster, and most of them escaped. o ; ey The actors escaping through the ‘back entrance threw wide open the doors; and the west wind rushed in with fury, 'driving the smoke and flames toward the auditorium in the lower or dress circle, as it is called. There were only' 250 persons in this quarter, besides the ushers and police. Almost all of those escaped. In the second tier, or family ' circle, there were 300 persons, and of these probably fifty perished. In the upper tier, or gallery, there were 408 persons, two-thirds of whom fell victims to the flames. The dress icircle and parquette opened on the level of the street. Persons on this lower floor were consequently warned in advance and escaped. Those in the second gallery, also, weré warned early, Miss Claxton rushing to the front of the stage and informing them that the theatre was on fire. They had only one broad staircase to descend: This opened into a wide lobby, thizty feet wide, and from thence their escape to the street was easy. But the stairway from the top gallery, which was crowded on this occasion, was narrow and circuitous. From the third floor to the second if was wide enough to enable five men to walk abreast. ~ On the level ofsthe second floor there ‘were twenty feet of level walk along the front of the lobby and first story. Thence there was a narrow stairway where, probably, three men could walk abreast, leading to the street.— When the-great mass of people, mainly young men and boys, in the gallery rushed down the upper' stairway from the third to the second floer they encountered a volume of smoke driven in from the rear doors of the. theatre, which had in the meantime been opened as I have described, and ~on this landing numbers of them fell down, and other§ toppled over them, until their accumulated weight =~ 'BROKE DOWN THE SBAIRWAY, and they were precipitated o¥r the balustrade- into the lubby of the second floor, a distance of probably fffteen feet, .This-mass of human beings were thraws.shonse: with a violent shock, upon the floor of the lobby, ‘broke it through, and the mass, were precipitated, two hundred of them, one upon another, into the cenqr,pf the building, The stairway %ﬁ_‘.’l%,ﬁ?@” ;meg;;andl?‘fwy burned until nothing ‘was left but their charred remains, which the firemen ?hwgfbeew«ané}dag taking out of the tping, . &

© A Broken Teapot. Notwithstanding that we are annually making rapid strides toward a higher civilization, * the barbarous practice of parents flying into a passion and beating their children within an inch of their lives for some trivial offense, has not yet become wholly obsolete. Mrs. Sharker is one in whom this inhuman custom finds a strenuous supporter. . Whether or no she ever meditated upon Sblomon’s prediction, “Spare the rod and spoil the child,” we cannot say, but that no other left-handed woman in the (iquntry, inflicts more unnecessary punishment upon her children we will wager a box of strawberries in December or an Ulster overcoat in July, just which the taker of this bet, prefers. The day that Lynn was to make her great demonstration in faver of the election | of Hayes to the presidency, Mrs, Sharker’s sou James, while in the act of conveying the ‘teapot from the stove to the breakfast-table, rather than suffer the skin to be burned from the palms of his.hands, let it, drop upon the floor, breaking it into more pieces than there are letters in William Loyd Garrison’siname. . Without stopping to gather up/the debris, she hurried out into the yard to procurea bludgeon sufficiently large to deal out. to her boy the punishment which his cat had merited. Seizing an old barrelistave, she was on her way back to the kitchen when she was unexpectedly brought to a halt. James had turned the key in the door. How he dared to do such a thing can only be’ accounted for on the grounds that self-preservation is.one of the first laws of nature. It was a cool morn- | ing, and being thinly clad besides just emerging from a warm room, Mrs. Sharker was in great danger of taking cold. Turning the knob and giving a push at the same time she brought her nose up bang against the door, wich added not 4 little to her wrath; and when she found that the door had not stuck, as she at first supposed, but was fastened” and the key in her sorf%s hands, her anger knew no bounds. Tt

she could have laid’hands on that b_oTL that moment he would never have spoken afterwards, and another cry of murder would have been heralded through the land. Giving the door a furious blow with her foot which nearly unjointed her big toe, she shouted—*“Jimmy?” = = ' The person addressed gave back no sign of recognition. ? i “Jimmy,” -she shrieked, as only an impatient woman can shriek; pounding on the entrance with her fist. :

“What ?” innocently inquired Jim: my, in a whining voice. ; “Open this door,” she answered twitching the corners of her mouth. |

“You'll lick me,” said the boy in: ide. L Wi -

She waited a moment. , *“Open this door, I tell you,” she soon exclaimed, dealing the top part of the door a kick with her foot. -

“Won’t you lick me it I’ll let-you in_?"’ ‘inquired thie boy, presently.

Feeling'that she was endangering her health she said, after some little hesitation: : i

“I'll see about that part of it by-and-by.” o e : The boy began to grow more bold. " “Throw away that stick then,” he said, peeping at her through the glass at the side of the door. ; 5

. She was not in the habit of being dictated to, and this galled her proud spirit fearfully. Tightening her grip upon the stave she decended the steps; and went and tried the cellar door, thinking to get into the house by that means, but it was fastened. Returning, she gave the door another 'spiteful shake and said,” with great 'vehemence: -

“Jimmy, open, this door, instantly.” - “Won’t you lick me?"” inquired the boy. b : z

“I shan’t promise.”, . ! “Then you don’t get in.” o “Come, let me in, Jimmy; that’s a "ggod boy,” she said in a subdued voice, after waiting several minutes, .- | “Say you won’t lick me,” urged the boy, holding up the key it her view. "Seeing that he was determined, and that he had her athis mercy, she finally said: . i

“Well, I won’t.” L *“Won’'t, lick me at all?? : *No,” she replied, taking hold of the knob. i

“Won’t tell father to, neither?” . : - She reflected a moment, and then RO g “Won’t tell him, either,” persisted the boy. She promised notto. = | “Let me go out and see the procession to night?” he continued, putting the key in the door. ! - “Perhaps so.” Lol “No perhaps about it. Say yes.” -

“Well, yes;” said she, beginning to tremble with the cold. - Ce

“And to-morrow night, too?” - “I guess 80.” ; - “And buy me-a torch-light?” he added. : ko

“Youll have to ask your:father, said the mother. e

“He’ll buy me one if you let him,” answered the boy. “Will you?” £ “Y-e-s. Come, now, open the door. Do you want your mother to get cold and die ?” she inquired, shrugging her shoulders with the cold. S “Not if she won’t lick me any more,”. replied Jimmy. ; - He heard footsteps on the walk, and soon beheld the face of a good-hearted neighbor, in whose compdny he felt he would be safe, when he turned the key and allowed them to enter.. While they were engaged in conversation in the sitting-room, he gathered up the broken teapot, threw it over the back fence, and then stole off to school.— Danbury News. i

» ‘No Failure Knoyn. There is no case on récord where Dr. Morris’ Syrup of Tar, Wild Cherry. and Horehound has failed to give satistaction. . On the other hand, wherever it has been used by our people, in severe colds, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, eroup, hooping-cough and consumption, they are enthusiastic in its praise. Confaining no opium or other dangerous drug, it does not constipate, and is safe to administer in all conditions of health. This is an important announcement, and the suffering are advised to heed it. Trial size, 10 cts:; large sizes, 50 cts. and One Dollar: ‘Sold by C. Eldred & Son, Ligonier, Indiana, ‘Also Agents for Prof. Parker’s Pleasant Worm Syrup, which issure death to worms, pleasant to take, and requires no physic. Price 25 cts.. Try it.. e 8-eow. - . - A ‘Charitable Endowment. : . By the will of the late Edwin J. Peck, of Indianapolis, Wabash @ollege is bequeathed the sum of $llB,OOO. This is divided as follows: As a permanent fund, $60,000 in gas bonds; for the professorship of Chemistry, $20,000.in gas bonds; for the professorship of natural philosophy. and astronomy, $15,000 in gas bonds; &gr erecting suitable buildings for these _departments, $lB,OOO in gas bon’dﬁ;v for the college library, $15,000 in rolling mills stock.” He also bequeathed to Edwin B. and Henry R. Thompson each $l,OOO, and to Edwin P, Thomp- | gon $8,000."1, ; e :

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’ (L Eteetion Lie. - ' Why did not Governor Kellogg pre- ’ veni the fraud and intimidation of . which he makes so much complaint . in Louisiana? 'He was at the head of the State Government. All of itg | subordinates were-of his appointment: { All the machinpery of the election was | completely under his control. The | Federal, troops can be had at any time for the asking: Prof. Sumner, of Yale, jin his - recent letter, says that “the election was held under a complicated - and elaborate corps of officers afpoipzti ed by the State Government, and free from® any of those popular ‘checks, !,wh’icl; we in the North regard as esisential toself-government.”* Turther on. he says he sees “no guarantee ‘against fraud, except in the vigilance and interest of the opposing parties. Such guarantees exist in Louisiana, ~with the vast preponderance ot che chances in favor of the party in power, which appoints all the officers of election, has the Federal officers onits side” ~ “%- ' % . ‘and controls’ the Federal troops. “The election law is intricate, and while apparently adapted to provide for ‘all contingencies, really creates a hundred technicalities. and machinery which render popular. elections impossible, - The mgenuity with whieh. devices are planned and practiced for producing fraudulent results is simply diabolical;y - The party in. power, having control of this machipery,” can make any election 2 ‘mockery, and the community finds itself locked in a network of crafty arrangements, from which escape seems impossible. Against this prodigious tyranny the peopleof Louisiana have made one more united and determined | effort.” : G :

- Remember that these dre not the words of a politicigh of a stump speaker. They ate t-l%é deliberate ex‘pressions of a scholar, a professor in one of the first.of American colleges, a man with enly & patriotic interest in politics, and aaftan, too, accustomed to study and weigh his words. Remember this, then try to believe that Gov. Kellogg, with all his 'trem‘endou;\ power, could not have prevented the | frauds and violence-and' intimidation that he pretends characterized the election in-the “bull-dozed” parishes! Yes,and-prevented them by raising his! little fingev!—Fxchange. = & ? . . A _School Boy on Corns, ' Corns are of two kinds—yegetable and animal. Vegetable corn grows, in rows, and animal! corn grows on toes.. ‘There are- several -kinds of eorn; there is the unicorn, capricorn dodgers, field corn,and the corn which is the corn you feel most, . It is said, I believe, that gophers like corn, but persons having ocorns: do not like to “go fur” if they can help it. ‘Corns have kernels, and some colonels have corns. Vegetable corn grows on eays, but animal corn grows on the, feet at the other end of: the body. Another kind of corn is the acorn; these grow on oaks, but there 'is no hoax about the corn. The acorn is a corn with an indefinite article indeed. Try it and see.. -Many a:man when he has ‘a corn wishes it wasan acorn. Folks that have Corns sometimes send for a doctor, and if the doctor himself is corned he probably won’t do as well 48 if e Isn’t.. .The AUCLOr Says corns are produced- by tight boots”and shoes, whiclr is probably the reason why whein a man is tight they say he is corned. If a farmer manages well he can .get a good deal of cornon an ‘acre, but I know of a farmer that has one corn-that makes the biggest acher -on his farm.. The bigger crop of vegetable corn a man raises the better he likes it; but the bigger erop of animal’ corn he raises the better he does not like it: Anether kind of cornis the. corn dodger.. The way it is made is as follows—that is if you want to ‘know: You go along the street and meet a:‘man you know has a corn, and arough character; then you step on the toe that has a:- corn on it, and see if you don’t have occasion to.dodge.— In that-way you will find ont what a corn dodger is.— Har{ford Post. .

. " Electing Presidents, - . - Facts about'past Presidential elec‘tions are 'ofgintexgeff just-now. Washington and John Adams were elected by Electors chosen by State Legisla‘tures. Thomas Jefferson was elected ‘in. 1800 by the House of Representatives ' over Aaron Burr: and John: -Adams. John Quincy Adams was ‘elected in the same way.in 1824, These “elections ‘were attended by considera“ble political' excitementi ~ They are the only two instarces in the bistory of the United States where Presidents - have been- elected by the 'House: of ‘Representatives, Therehavebeen five “minority Presidents,” so far as the ‘popular vote has'been concerned, viz: John Quincy Adams, in 1824; James, K. Polk, in 1844 ; Zachary Taylor, in 1848; James Buchanan, in 1856, and Abraham Lineoln, in 1860.. " .Jln 1824 the contest was a most exciting one. .There were four candidates—John Q. | ‘Adams, Andrew Jaekson, W. H. Crawford and Henry Clay. Adains recejved 105,321 popular votes; Jackson 155,872 the combined vote for Crawford and Clay scarcely exceeded 100, 000. Tn 1848 Taylor received 1,360,000, against 1,500,000 cast for Cass and Van Buren, - In 1836 Buchanan received 1,838,169, against 2,215,798 voies cast for Fremont afid others. In 1860 Lincoln received 1,866,352,again5t 2,810,601 yotes cast for Douglas and Breckinridge. The majorities of Grant, over Seymour in 1868 and Greeley in/ 1872 were vepy large: - 0w o b

Prianting Office Seerets. | The following from the LaPorte 4rgus, with réferénce to printing office | ‘secrets, hits the nail on the head ex-. actly: “A properly conducted print/ing office is ‘as much.u secret society as a masonic lodge.- The printers are not under an. outh of secrecy, but al_ways feel themselves as truly in honor bound to keep secrets as though | they hLad been put through triple oaths. An employe of a printing office who willingly disregards this rule in regard to printing office secrets, would not only lose the respect of his brethren of the craft, but would lose ‘his position in the office &t once. We ‘makesthis statement because it sometimes happens that ascommunication appears in a newspaper under an assumed signature which excites comment, and: various parties try to find out whos- is the author. - Let all be saved the trouble of questioning the employes or attaches of a printing of- | fice.. They are “know-nothings” ‘on. such points as thiese, for they ‘have .eyes and ears, but no mouth, and if . ‘they fail to observe this rule let them be put down as dishonored members.” Wonddes in Engineering Skill, -~ The east river bridge piers are whol- . 1y built of granite. © Hach contains over 900,000 cubic feet, and weighs | over 70,000 tons. = The base of the pier. covers 17,000 square feet, and it is estimated that the total weight of the | ‘bridge proper, when loaded with pedestrians, :ailw;a{iaﬁtmﬂs,;: carriages, | ‘and - horses, will be about 5,000 tons, ‘The predsure upward from the base of ‘the pier will be only a little over }ﬁ%mﬁ;mmqmm;:foa‘t.;em Y Eo g . b

HOUSEIN NOBLE COUNTY! ;' .« i -—SUEOB,AS—-‘b.‘ L ; }i-v : : : Gards, Bill-Heads Cirenlars, Posters! o &o-,&o.,xxr%omnvro:onnznxif-mn L ’Neatest and Promptest Manner ANDATREASONABLE RATES. & Apply Here ‘»lééfor;aderinq E}'spwl‘xe‘re’.m . WIT-BITS, | J . 'What the volitisian it the Sbuth wants—His returning board and L...gf: ‘ ing. o o 3: | “Courtship is;bliss,” said an ardent ' 'young man. “Yes, 21.1,1({_1I matrimony is blist_er,” snarled an oldsbachalor. |

A tall man having rallied a friend on the shortness of his legs, the friend replied, “My legs reach the ground, what more can yours do ?” 4 A city young man who. .read “Now + is the time for husking Dees,” chased a bee fifteen ‘minutes to ascertain what kind of a husk it had on.—Nosristown Herald, - L : . . “I meant to have told you of that hole,” said a gentleman to his friend, who, walking in his garden, stumbled - into a pit of water. “No matter,” said' his friend, “I have found it.” .

Little Robbie went to a show, and saw an elephant for the first time in his lite. When he came home his mother asked him what he had. seen. ““An elephiant, mamma, that gobbled hay with bis front tail.” = S

' “Well Mr.——, how do you ‘feel #” said a friend to a defedted . candidate a few days after election. “I feel, I suppose,” he replied, “as Liazarus did.™ “How -was that?” “Why,” said he. “Lazarus was licked by the dogs and so am, 1.” e e - Perkins observes that whereas men are impatient and anxious while awaiting returns election night, there aré thousands of women ‘who await returns everys night, and never get impatient a bit.. They only grasp the poker a little {ighter. i v As the rainifalls’ impartially on the Jjust and the unjust, so the pale moon})feams, that lend ingpiration to -the overs’ vows, creep through the cracks in a hen-house and show the midnight naturalist where the best pullet is roosting.—Fulton Times. '

- “What do you sell those fowls for ¢ inquired a person of'a m#n atfempting to dispose of some chickens of a questionable appearance. “I sell them for' profits,” was the apswer. “Thank you ‘'or the information thdt they are tophets,” responded the querist:. “I' ook them to be patriarchs.” e e O E—— . W KAHSAS ¥S. ILLINOIS,

+ook on| This Picturé and on That! . Where food is plenty there men mul,ﬂipéy, there manufacturers inctreass, and there arts flourish. /| ). The October .report of the Depart ‘ment, of Agriculture, compiled for the Government by J. R. Dodge, statistician, contains some figures well worthy the consideration of such as are interested in the development of.the Great lﬁest. = G We quote lrem the table found on page 394, showing comparatively the condition of the crops by States on the first day of October, 1876

17 ! 1 i . ‘ . P ”\\'um'r.l BYE, 1 OATSl.);J;Am,f:\'.;t:\:;:x.i ; Rl e fak Db ey 1 ‘ 88 e (a 8 |&2 |EB STATES. , g'&‘g g;q‘%l}g;g,{ §2~ !53:: 5 o i aeT BB 3D IEEs e ﬁ—p_'ﬁ;m,'r‘:..ﬁ;_&,._,l% i nunqié...tl 2{ W T o Towa. ...l 02 95 200 oo 88105 Kansas,. .. 97 113 49 105 100, Nopraia. | 110 |da2 ,i | |1 ] ' ] ; - The supremacy so long ejnoyed by Tllinois as the leading grain-growing State of the West wo@d appear to be falling from her, and in the: natural - order of events someone of the newer | States must shave the honors, if indeed it does not take the trick. i The figures before us would seem to point to Nebraska as the probable hq%r of the winning hand, and to _suclv as are conversant with the superior natural :advantages of this promising young State, the idea will canse no surprise. e L - The position of Nebraska in the.inevitable course of the tidal wave of migration and settlement; her healthsustaining climate; her fertile, easily- . -cultivated soil; her pure. and abundant waters, and her ample rainfall: ‘have given the infant State a growth far beyond her years; and whether it | ‘be for grain-growing or stock-raising, she promises at no distant day to out‘run her elder sisters and carry off the ' palm.—[ Communicated.] 8501 \ ’ —— e — L | a Valuable Medical Treatise. | - The edition for 1877 of the sterling | | Medical Annual, known as Hostet- | ter’s Almanae, is now ‘ready, and may 1,» be obtained, free of cost, of druggists | and general, country dealers in all parts of the United States and Brit-/ - ish America, and indeed in every civ- . ilized - portion of the Western Hemi- - sphere. It combines, with the sounaest practical advice for the preservation and restoration of health, a large amount of interesting ‘and amusing light reading, and "'the calendar, ° astronomical calculations, chronologi~ cal items, &e., are prepared with gredt care, and will be found entirely accurate. The issue of Hostetter’s Almanac for 1877 will probably be.the Jargest edition of a medical work ever . published in any country. The proprittor‘s, Messrs. Tostetter & Smith, Pittsburgh, Pa;, on receipt of a two ,c,g’n‘tt stamp, will forward a copy by mail Opo any person who cannot pro: cure one in his meighborhood. 83-4 w.

© pennsylvania’s Niclkel Bed, The formation of nickel ores near g Lancaster, Penn., is pronounced by . the American Manufacturer to be the- | heaviest so far discovered in any part ‘of the globe. The ore is exceedingly rich,; of a grdyish tint, very heavy, g.nd iz so hard and closely united to ‘the surrounding substances that it has to be got out by {ﬁ)la‘sting. Assoon as the ore is mined it is crushed into. small pieces, and then transferred to L kilns of a capacity -of from eighty to. - ninety tons each, It is then subjected to heat obtained at first by burning wood, and whieh is continued by the : converson of the evaporating fumes. - The manipulation is concluded by.the fused metal being placed in a smeléeing furnace and undergoing a 4 proeess similar to that adopted in the- « treatment of iron-ore. . = - :

_The Toledo, Wabash & Western. The F't. Wayne Daily News of Nov. 28th, contained these paragraphs in reference to the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway: | ‘ ‘The Wabash road goes out of the hands of a Receiver in February. * The Wabash road now has been placed upon a good footing. .At recent meeting of the.stockholders at Clevéliind, 7,700 shares were~represented, and they voted for an additional cash assessment of $lO each, thus putting $77,000 additional cash capital in the road, and thereby secur- - ing the benefits of the road for the ;}toookhamsbﬁgwﬁqmlcmf the Cox_management. This. places its stock on a sureand good footing. ? Anothor English Polar cxpédition ig getting ready to ledve for the Arctic regeons next spring. T