The National Banner, Volume 11, Number 38, Ligonier, Noble County, 11 January 1877 — Page 2

) V *._;—’l A »-'_", : _':\ NI (‘“:.\ 29 ; i S YA RN : P e J.B.STOLL.,Editor and Proprictor. ‘—: ¢ 3 o LIGONIER.IND, JAN. 11th, 1877.o O T A 50 oAB3 5 235 Ex-Goy. STEARNs of Florida, will now relapse into merited obseurity, for which tite Lord be praised. , Tue WATCHWORD OF THE HOUR: “Demand nothing that is not right,and submit to nothing that is wrong.” e AT SR S Rev. Barr has instituted a $25,000 libel suit against the publishers of the New Albany Ledger. The case will come to trial next week.

IT is now pretty generally believed _in New Orleans that Eliza Pinkston 'and her paramour black, Brooks, made. “way with Pinkston and her child. :

JrpeEes Buskirk, Pettit and Downey have stepped down and out, to make room for their successors. /The Supreme Court, as now constituted, consists of Judges Biddle, Worden, Perkins, Houk and Niblack. = _

KELLOGG’s State Senate consists of fifteen negroes and four white men—one of the latter 'being a Democrat who, as _the, Columbus Democrat asserts, was kidnapped to give the bogus ,‘dncem rm}_n}\i'liéy n-;ul a guoarwixas

LETTERS have been found in Fort Wayne, containing: “startling disclosures” relative to an alleged conspiracy for the assassination of Mayor Zollinger. We hardly think the .gallant Colonel will allow. these threats to disturb his slumbers. e

* GraxT does not look with favor upon the magnificent demonstrations at the capitols of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio on the Sth. The probabilities are that those who participated in these popular gatherings don’t-care a continental farthing whether Grant likes or dislikes them.

. Gov. HAYEs might have immortali;'.éd';himself by going before the convention which assembled at Columbus last Monday and declaring that there is but one way of settling the presidential controversy, and that is by réeogjnizing the voice of the (major%ty as expressed at the ballot-box. -+ =

Tug Radicals in Louisiana propose to pass a law conferring suffrage on women. Having lost a large number of negro voters, it is evidently the purpose to recruit their failing ranks with women. Whereupon the Columbus Democraet nominates Eliza Pinkston for Governor on the ~returning board ticket. . L R

THREE OHIO GENERALS—tne gallant Durbin Ward, George W.Morgan and Tom Ewing—spoke in no wncertain tenor at the great popular demonstration®at Columbus on Monday. There was no mincing of words in their patriotic addresses. They spoke “right out in meeting,” as becomes men‘who understand their rights, and understanding them, have the courage to maintain them at all hazards. |

‘ErizA PINKSTON, who, it will be remembered, was about the most reliable and important prop upon which the Radicals leaned to justify that Louisiana returning board count, has not only been shown to be a perjurer, but also a half idiot, a strumpet and a child llqm‘aerer. ~And these are the ,kiﬂld of tools the radical ring-masters have employed to carry out their nefarious scheme to pervert the popular will.

THE BANNER seconds the proposition of the Ohio Democrats for the holding of a national convention, at Waslyj.ngton on the 12th of February. let it be a méss convention. The presence of four or five hundred thousand earnest Democrats at the national apitol would prove an interesting sight, besides having a good effect by way of familiarizing the powers that be/ with the real sentiment of the masses. - | - . =

/ THE RESOLUTIONs adepted at the Indianapolis convention on Monday are exceedingly mild and temperate—much more sO, we opine, than the/majority of that body really desired them. A little more of Jackson’s “By the Eternal” would not have come amiss; but, then, having found: it impossible to personally participate in the convention, we are not in position to find fault. The resolutions are good, as far as they go. ‘

. As TIME rolls on, many who recently rlaigculed the idea of a plain, common sense farmer like Uncle Jim my Williams, officiating as Governor, will arrive at the conclusion that the interests of the State are fully as safe in the hands of a man who has made State affairs a practical study for nearly thirty years as if entrusted to a brilliant lawyer who - thoroughly understands Blackstoneé but knows precious little about the wants of the, masses, ! a 0

THOMAS B. BUCHANAN, editor of the Indianapolis Sun, the great greenback organ of the Indiana Independents, has been elected Chief Clerk of the State Senate, as the result of the coalition formed by thé Independent Senator, Major, with the: Democrats. Major held the balance of power, and was therefore in excellent })psitlon to dictate terms satisfactory to himself. That “balance of power” is a very convenient thing for elevating isolated politicians into office. : i

James HOPKINS, a member of the last Legislature and a practical builder of 40 years’ experience, has come out in a letter condemnatory of the old State House at Indianapolis. He says it is. an unsate and insecure bailding, liable to tumble into a mass of ruins at any time. The timbers througheut are rotting, and the whole structure is settling to the center. Hopkins says he is “not writing to alarm or bulldoze any one, but is treating of facts as they exist.” The old building has served its day, aid a w State Houseé has become an imzﬁn necessity. The people of In:;mm able and willing to pay

DOUBLE TAXATION.

THE BANNER desires to call the attention of our Indiana legislators to a subject that is worthy of thoughtful consideration and prompt aetion. It is the proposition, frequently discussed in the public press, of sp amending our revenue laws as to prevent mortgaged land from paying double taxes. The distinguished political economist, David /A. Wells, some time since expressed himself on this subject in the following language:

“I come now to- the point, whether a tax on land at its full value and a tax on a debt for money loaned, secured by a mortgage on the land, isin substance and legal effect a tax on the same property. -We all know, as a miatter of general notoyiety, that al-. most universally, by a stipulation between parties, the mortgagor "is obliged to pay the tax both on the land and on the mortgage. Practically he is twice taxed on the same value if he has still in his possession . the borrowed money to secure which the mortgage was made. ~The law taxes in his_hand both money and land; and.by his stipulation he is re;quirgd to };ay:tax on the mortgage debt, and also, if the money has pass,ed out of his hands into the possession of some other tax-payer, it is taxed in the hands of the latter, so that the money bears its share of taxation and the land its share, in the hands of whomsoever they may happen to be?? _ o We call upon Senator Weir and Representatives Kimmell and Zimmerman to invite the attention of their associates in the Legislature to this important question. The decision of the Supreme Court of California furnishes some excellent reasoning in support of Mr. Wells’ argument, and in favor of removing the burdensome double-tax system which prevails in Indiana.

{ '+ . A CHANGE NEEDED. o A bill will be introduced in ‘the \ present Legislature to extend the time ‘ of City Treasurers and City Assesors, some four months. Under the present law, the term of service for all municipal officers expires in May, as | soon as their successorsareelected and qualified. The Assessor cannot commence his assessment before the first day of April, and, as is the case in'this place, must have his lists completed and réturn the same to the office of the Town Clerk on or before the last Friday of said month, thus giving him less than one month in which to do the work. The experience of every official who has served in that capacity, in a town or city of any size, will bear us_ out in the assertion that the time is entirely too limited to admit of the proper performance of the arduous duties of that office. The City Treasurer is required by law to receive taxes until the ' ,third Monday in April, which gives him no opportu-nity-to finish his work in the remnant of time between that and the second Tuesday in-May, and no opportunity: whatever of collecting a dollar of his delinquent tax. , A’large portion of. tax-payers defer. payment until the last day, and the Treasurer hasno right to refuse it. | Then comes the registering, checking, footing, and making up his report—work that must be done carefully and cannot possibly be completed in the time allotted. An.extension of the time for the performance of these duties woild, doubtless, be an advan'tag'e‘ to every City Assessor -and Gity Treasurer in the State. What say these officials and our brethren of the press? Now is the time to discuss these important matters. :

ANNUAL ASSESSMENT.PROPOSED. The State Auditor, Mr. Henderson,in his annual report, cuts deep at the ex-. isting laws governing the assessment of property,/ and recommends the enactment of a law requiring the assessment of real estate every year, instead of every flve years, as the statue now specifies. ‘Thereare abandant and weighty reasons for _the proposed charige. ,Among these may be noted the frequent transfers of real estaté and the liability of taxes being assessed to the wrong persons, thereby involving a deal of trouble and embarrassment, -and often unnecessary expense, to ﬁave the lists properly adjusted. Then, there is a constant rise or depreciation in the value of real estate, especially in cities -and towns, occasioned by local influences, which would render the previous year’s assessment, no matter how just it may haye been when made, a very inade‘quate and uncertain base upon which to levy .a tax for the current year. There have been ‘instances where an -enormous assessment was maliciously made upon the property of an individiual and allowed to remain five years ‘upon the tax duplicate before it could be corrected by a reassessment. The correction. of these and. other evils growing out of the present system, would, we think, amply repay the additional expense, if any, attached to ‘the annual assessment plan. 'Mr. ’ Henderson invites the attention of the Legislature to the matter, and we th.ope they will give it'due consideraion. - i e

HARPER’S WEEKLY is the ablest and most influencial republican journal in the couatry. Its circulation is 140,000 copies weekly. Its editor,Geo. William Curtis, is one of the most eminent men in the country. This journal, in speaking of the ‘counting of the electoral vote, says that “if a question between two" certificates ariges, the two houses must, of necessity, decide which is the one duly authorized by the State. But the President of the Senate, as such, has no more ,cbnstituti_onal authority to de-' cide it than the Speaker of the House.”

' SPEAKING of Gen. Barlow, Harper's Weekly says that he “is as positive a Republican as there is in the. country;” that “he is a lawyer, a man of expérience and ‘sagacity; he was on the spot; he heard the testimony; he weighed it carefully; he talked with the Board, and is friendly to them.” He says that Tilden carried the State of Florida by 55 majority, and Harper's Weekly says “he confirms the impression of every candid man who has followed the case at a distance.”

. THE INAUGURATION of Gov. Williams and Lieut. Governor: Gray, on Monday last, was a grand affair. Everything passed off pleasantly, Republicans vieing with Democrats in exfending greetings to the newly in stalled officers. Mr, Williame’ inaugural address is an admirable document, replete with common sense and practical suggestions, . -

THE PEOPLE SPEAK.

Popular Demonstrations in Ohio,

_lndiana, Illinois, &e.

Immense jmass conventions were held on the memorable Bth of January in the States of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Oregon, and in the district of Columbia, to protest against the wicked conspiracy of Chandler & Co. for the inauguration of a President repudiated at the ballot-box. The attendance was large beyond expectation, the enthusiasm for the legally. chosen President and Vice President unbounded, and the .determination to submit to nothing that is wrong unmistakable.

In the Illinois convention the prin--cipal Speakers were Judge Turmbull, Cyrus 11. McCormick, and Generals Palmer, Farnsworth and MeClernand. The resolutions are firm, dignifled and patrietic. ~ = _ - & :The demonstration in Ohio was a complete f‘rouser.” The speeches were agg,riassive, ‘bold, fearless, and the resolutions admit of no- doubt as to their meaning. "L'he principal speakers were Hon. George H. Pendleton, and Generals A. J. Warner, Durbin Ward, Geo. W. Morgan, and Thomas Ewing. . S The Oregon demonstration indicates an unswerving determination to ingist upon a recognition of the popular will. » Sl '

‘. At the meeting in Washington city speeches were delivered by Congressmen Banning, Tarbox and Watterson, dnd Messrs. Pullitzer and Merrick.. Mr. Pullitzer, an‘old Republican, was particul'a.ﬂy severe in his denunciation of the Chandler conspiracy. - Mr. Watterson declared his belief that the vote would be counted as it ever had been counted. Civil liberty cannot be wrested from the people under any circumstances. All the applianees' of peace would be resorted to to settle the questions at issue, but the people would not:submit to usurpation, and, should they need a leader, another Jackson would stand ready. - The demonstration at Indianapolis was in- every respect a brilliant success. Hon. David 8. Gooding, a Lincoln elector of “1864, presided, and delivered a ringingspeech. The principal speech was delivered by the Hon. George W. Julian. His remarkably brilliant. effort was greeted with unbounded enthusiasm.' It .was clear, forcible and pungent, schol:irly in style and conclusive in argument. His treatment of the frauds of the Louisiana Returning Board was most masterly, and his condemnation of the Radieals composing them was most scathing. His ¢omments .ugon ‘the course of the republican commitiee which witnessed the canvass of the returns were models of polished, but biting and withering, irony and sarcasm. . Every ; citizen of Indiana ought to read Mr. Julian’s masterly address. X '

Bayless 'W.. Hanna also spoke at length and with warmth upon the legal aspects of the controversy, and severely denounced the Morton-Chand-ler conspiracy. A grand ovation was tendered Indiana’s idolized orator, D. W. Voorhees, whose appearance on the platform was greeted with such sfxout_s as have never before been heard in any public assembly. The crowd was evidently eager to hear from their favorite orator, and it is therefore to be regretted that he was last on the list of - speakers.: He ought to have followed Julian, that his admirers might have feasted upon his matchless oratory and patriotic exclamations. . : :

The resolutions, though not as emphatic as the convention evidently desired, breathe the spirit of true patriotism. They set forth that in Florida and Louisiana -Tilden received fair majorities, protest against receiving the verdict of the Louisiana Returning Board, and demand that the vote of Florida be recorded as the Supreme Court of the State declares it. They denounce at length and in detail the action of the: Louisiana Board, and say that four millions of people cannot be expected to acquiesce in being deprived of‘the fruits of the contest by such means as the Board employed. They denounce the proposition that the President of the Senate shall count and declare the result of the vote, and say that if he attempts it they shall call upon both Houses of Congress to assert their consfitutional. prerogatives in that regard; that “if Congress shall provide by law a° just plan for counting the electoral vote, one whi¢h will be fair not only in the present emergency but for all future elections as well, we pledge our acquiescence in the result, whatever .it may be.” If-the President of the Senate shall attempt to declare the vote they call upon the House to reject the usurpation, “and we pledge it our support with all the resources which a people whose fundamental liberties are threatened can constitutionally command.”

" Hox. W. C. DEPAUW, of New Albany, met with a severe accident last Friday evening,in the following manner: While coming out of his residence his feet slipped from under him just as he stepped off the stone step, causing him to fall backward, striking his back against the corner of one of the steps. The fall was a very heavy one, and Mr. DePauw is thought to be badly injured. Mr. DePauw is widely 'known throughout the State as an extensive manufacturer and business man, who has given employment to hundreds of industrious laborers, ag-well as furnishing relief to the poor and destitute. To his untiring efforts toward the development of the resources of the State may be attributed in a large measure the remarkable progress upon which Indianians have just cause to pride themselves. But above all, an appreciative people hold in grateful remembrance his generous bequests to religious and educational institutions in various localities. Ie has indeed proved himself a public benefactor—a true philanthropist. - THE BANNER is therefore safe in saying that thousands of warm-hearted friends and admirers will learn of Mr. DePauw’s affliction with feelings of deep regret, and unite with us in wishing him a speedy re-

LOUISIANA.

A Dual Inauguration.

The People’s Governor Duly Invested in the Midst of an Immense Popular Demonstration, 3

Wiiile Packard is Formally Induct” ed Into Office Under Cover of Lo Darkey Ba'&gmots. i

‘Two Governors were “inaugurated” in NeW,Ox}eans‘ on Monday. Packard, elected by the Returning Board and the government’s bayonets, was sworn in at the capitol, and obtained immediate control of the State administra--tion; while Nichells, claiming the place by 'vintu}e of a majority of over eight thousand of the people’s’ votes, went to St. Patrick’s Hall and there, in presence of five thousand people ‘ ‘and the most intense enthusiasm,took the oath-of office. The hall was beaytifully decorated, the fromt balcony being draped with flags of all the lib--eral governments of the world, surmounted by the star-spangled banner; and the three columns just outside of the platform, arrahged for Gov. Nicholls, from which theinaugural address, in assuming the governorship of the State, was delivered, were twined with the national-colors. : 5 When Gov. Nicholls and Wiltz ‘made their appearance on the gallery in front of the hall, they were greeted with cheer upon cheer.. ¥n the hall ‘the Governor and Lieut-Governor met the General Assembly and over 3,000 persons, at least-two-thirds of whom were ladies, who waved their hand-: kerchiefs “as the party passed down the aisle, escorted by D. B. Penn, Gen. Beauregard, and Senator Robertson. The inaugural ceremonies were performed on the balcony, Rev. Dr. Palmer opening with prayer. Judge Tissot administered the oath of office to the Governor and Lieut-Governor:. Gov. Nicholls then made the following address: ? : ~ GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: In obedience to the call of my fellow-citizens, as expressed through the ballot-box by a ‘majority of more than 8,000 votes, I assume the duties of Governor of my native State, under circumstances of marked difficulty, and at a period of very general distress. For nine years a few men having no identification with the people of the State, either in feeling or interest, have shaped and controlled their destinies. The result of this unnatural condition of affairs has been that in spite of the rich soil, genial climate, and immense resources, we find people to-day in wretchedness and poverty. - The very gifts of a kind and beneficent Creator have served ‘to these men as additional incentives to acts of oppression and wrong. Not satisfied with the injury they have inflicted, the authors of these calamities are again struggling to maintain -their ascendency by fraud, and to establish over this people an “usurpation more glaring and infamous than that which ends to-day its baneful existence. The people of this State arée determined, and I also am deftermined, that this: effort shall be foiled. : The rights and liberties of Louisiana mustinot we suirered to be destroyed. = = ! % The ceremonies, over, the Governor and party retired to the executive office at Odd Fellow’s Hall, and remained for some time, signing, as his first official act, a bill repealing the law creating the Returning Board. The situation at : 2 THE OTHER lIJAUGURATiON

was vastly different, The State House building bore a martial appearance of a very aggravated character. A few stragglers lined the sidewalks, looking up at the dilapidated structure with amusement. -A number of people guarded the entrance on the outside, and a whole army of them held the fort within. Against the railing on that part of the building exposed to Exchapge alley there was erected a barricade made of wood, and bored with rectanguiar port-holes. The same sort of barricade appeared :at the corner of Royal and St. Louis-sts. The reason of all these warlike appearances was a prolonged fear that the Democrats might go down to capture the House after the inauguration of Gov. Nieholls. A United States soldier paced the pa,ssage-way between Orleans hotel and and the State House, and the Governor’s rooms were thronged. All the offices opened on the street were closed and guarding either by police or militia. | '

The Bogus Government Tottering. A singular popular demonstration occurred in New Orleans-on Tuesday, its most remarkable features being the sudden appearance of an organized army of citizen soldiers upon the streets; the capture of the Supreme Court building, the installation of Democratic Judges, and the complete quiescence of the United States forces during the movement. The Aaffair arose from the commissioning of Judges of the Supreme Court by each of the Governors. Kellogg’s Judges were in possession, but the Sheriff chose to recognize the Nicholls Bench, and he called for a posse to put its members in possession. The call was quickly responded to by companies recognized by Nicholls as part of the State mjlitia. .= The court-room was garrisoned by a number of Kellogg’s police, who figured so prominently at his inauguration; but whgn the Sheriff and his posse apveared, the black policemen retired without resistance, the new Judges opened Court, proceeded to,business, and soon adjourned. Not a shot was fired nor a blow struck. There were apprehensions that the successful raid on the Courtroom would be followed up by a dash at the State House, where Packard was guarded by some three hundred of the police, but with great: good sense the temptation to capture the capitol wasresisted. Within a block or two of the centre of all this revolutionary activity the federal troops were posted, not under arms, but alert for a summons that might at any moment bring them into action, At last accounts ‘everything was quiet, the citizen-soldiers had nearly all dispersed, though enough remained, according to one regort.‘to’ ‘maintain a close blockade of the State House, the intention being to starve out the Kellogg gang. A ; LA

“A Criiié te be Detested.” (Extract fromGov.HgnﬁHcks’ last annualmessage)

In- my message two years ago it was my duty to refer So the invasion by military force of free Representa~ tive G'avernme’_xﬁf in the State of Louisiana. I asked your predecessors “to’ protest against and denounce the usurpation as a crime'to be detested and not a precedent to be respected.” An outraged public opinion compelled a partial correction of that wrong. It is my duty now to refer to a similar outrage in the State of South Carolina. Although it was the constitu{ional right of each branch of the Legislature of that State, without hindrance, to meet and to judge of the qualifications and election of its own members, yet, in’ the recent attempted organization of the Legislature, members were required to enter the State House between armed men, and were’ admitted or refused at the pleasure of’ those: who had no legal right or authority to interfere, but who were supported by the troops of the United States. Members duly chosen were refused admission, while others not ‘members were admitted. Not even the pretext of domestic violence' can be urged as an apology for the outrage. It was the attempted overthrow of civil authority by military power and an unmitigated wrong against the people of that State and of the whole country: Accompanying that transaction and forming a part of it was the inteiposition by a federal judge, supported by the military, to overawe the State judiciary and defeat its judgment upon questions resting wholly: upon local and State law. The constitutional and independent authority of State courts and Jegislatures is endangered, if not now supported by a patriotic and libertyloving sentiment so strong among the people that party and partisans dare not defy it.

e e~ P——— § Vanderbile.

The long-expected death of Commodore Vanderbilt occurred in New York on the 4th ‘inst. For some months he had been in a very infirm state of health, and had necessarily relinquished the odres of business to his son. The clos¢ of his long and busy life will not, therefore, materially affect the great railroad interests with which he was connected, and, in fact, the event, although ‘'the an- ‘ nouncement came without any immediate warning, hardly produced a perceptible variation in the price of stocks. Mr. Vanderbilt’s business career was one of vnbroken success.— He had accumulated a splendid fortune in ‘his steamship ventures before turning his attention to railroads, but it was after all but a fraction of the vast sums afterward -extracted, according to current belief, from the manipulation of the roads and stocks of which he obtained control. @ Of all the. enterprises of| his active |career, incomparably the greatest were his stock-watering’ operations. In these, by the.simple stock certificates, he ‘'was able to multiply his wealth as) often as he pleased—or, at least, as! often as the increasing demands of speculators furnished a market for this sort of paper. He was mot the inventor of the questionable art ot watering stock, but his great wealth and adniinistrative. ability -enabled him to give it a development and perfection never before dreamed of. As loug as skill in cutting a dollar into half a dozen parts and passing them all for dollars finds admirers, the memory of ' Commodore | Vanderbilt will be held in high esteem among the “railroad kings” of the country—Chicago T'tmes.

THE LETTER of Gen. Francis C. Barlow as published a few. weeks since, showing that the majority of the:votes of the State of Florida were for; Tilden, and not for Hayes, hds had a considerable effect, especially upon the minds of those Republicans who do not wish to become parties: to a great political fraud. This class of men desire the alection of thair acn didate, oL gourse, but they are nob willing than it should be brought about by cheating; and Gen. Barlow’s opinion has much influence upontheir judgment. He was present in Florida during the whole canvass of the votes by the Returning Board, and was the advocate of Gov. Stearnsbefore the Supreme Court when the Governor proposed to ‘canvass the votes' himself, and the Supreme Court were inquiring into his power to doso. For these reasons the views of the General have. a greater weight with Republicans than the statements of those representatives of the democratic party who were present at the same proceedings. Very naturally, the republican conspirators are much dissatisfiedswith him. They do not want any such witnesses to expese the true character of their transactions.—New York Sun. : Gd

e The Fopular Vote. s The following tables show the popular votes of all the States for President in the year 1860, 1864, 1868, 1872 and 1876: Bk : 18600 e Fiicoln, Rep. ii i sl L 1 BRe 58p I)ouila,s, DORIGI Veil an vidroniaid STEIBT Breckinridge, Dem.{.........00iive o, 845768 Bell, Union.......ooifoeesivieennnn. .., 589 581 HIPOERE il o A L e : 1864. ) - Tiineoln, Repii.. osii il ik ia2 9161607 McClellan, DeMleeeeveniniiinaanian..il. 1808725 Fotal: .ol atiic Lol 405 339 1868. ! : Grant.Re%.........‘....................3015071 SeyMour; Dem. . .ot e ai 12700618 TOtAl..ovuratutvnreareeisiariunnnn ... b 724684 : 1 1872. Glase - Graut,Rep........................;_.....2597132 Greeley, Liberal........cooveeevvene....2 834125 SPOAF ik siwss dhin vt o+ Finwinisntis 41 018 400 BN 1876, . Titden, Demfj--vsoiis i biiniesn, Jadal oo Hayes, Repediii.aivanaiiinas 14042070 Cooper, Ind . coeiioive liarliaion e a IRIBRY Smith, Prolibition..... . deee. veueeees 6000 Al e

THE INDIANA LEGISLATURE Wwas duly organized for the dispateh of business on Thursday of last week. ' As indicated last week, the Democrats obtained control of the Senate by forming a coalition with thelndependent Senator, Mr. Major. The House, wherein the straight Republicans bave a clear majority, was organized by the election of John Overmeyer, of Jennings, as Speaker, and Cyrus T. Nixon as Chief Clerk. Mr. Overmyer delivered a very segls,ible speech on assuming the chairi He advised the House to devote as little time as possible to political disputes, and to con< fine its labors to' the transaction of such business as the interests of the State require. ILet us hope that the suggestion may be generally heeded.

" There is astriking contrast between Mr. Hayes and Mr. Tilden since the election. = Mr. Hayes has been going around making speeches, getting himgelf interviewed and attempting compromises with Southern politicians, Uncle Samuel has been quietly attending to his gubernatorial duties, perfectly satisfied that he has been elected and that he will be inaugurat—ed. The republican politicians do not consult Hayes. The slightest wish of Mr. Tilden is regpected by the democratic leaders.—Dawiess Co. Democrat,

- Stanley, the Herald explorer, has turned buccaneyr and has geen plundering and bufchering the natives of Central Afrit),, under the British flag. And thatgovernment proposes to arrest himon his return. - . ¢

Indiana News Items.,

- Fort Wayne buried 401 persons last year. 1. : e

. Mrs. A. O. Miller is very sick,atv Fort Wayne. ; ;

~ Greenburg has a breech of promise suit. Damages $10,600. ;

‘Several cases of small-pox im one family are reported in Union City. A girl named Hellen Mize was reeently burned to death in Brownstown.. ! :

. Bwenty-one thousand hogs havebeen’slaughtered by a Richmond firm this winter. :

. The temperance folks of New Albany are preparing for another raid on the rum shops. {

. The Columbus Democrat of last week publishes a brief chronological history of Bartholomew county. | Laporte is going to have a series of wunion meetings, to be conducted by the Rev. Mr. Bonn, the evangelist. Dr. ‘Wrightsman sues the South Bend Register for $5,000 damages inflicted through calling him a quack.

The frail old State House is in a darigerous condition and is said to be liable to tumble down at any moment. The Columbus Democrat says there is a bear roaming through the big woods on the line between Wells and Adams county. ; ) A party of fishermen at Lowell recently caught thirteen hundred pounds of fish: Five of the fish’ weighed two hundred and ten pounds. .

_On Christmas the warden of the northern prison had the convicts served with 680 pounds of roast turkey, with desserts of pies, cakes, ect. - Laporte Herald : * Judge Noyes, of Tiaporte, has recently come into the possession of a handsome fortune by the death of his father in New York.

- Belgium plate glass manufacturers with $8,000,000 or $10,000,000 capital contemplate establishihg a manufactory at Evansville. It will be a big thing for Indiana. . - v ‘The Newton county teachers’ institute, held at Kentland the other week, “resolved” in favor of the enactment gy our present Legislature of a comulsory education law.

The citizens of Greensburg are not disposed to tolerate Sabbath-breaking. Twenty-five hands in ‘a pork house there were recently arrested for :cutting up pork on Sunday. i : The Bedford Star is authority for the statement that a man named Bailey recently killed eighteen .quail at one shot, and a Mr. Williams got three wild geese at a single shot.

Marion Democrat: Oursaloon keepers all obeyed the law by closing their places of business both Christmas and New Years. There are but few other towns in the state where this was done. ’ ;

On Thursday of last week, in the criminal courtat Fort Wayne, Charles S. Hayes was convicted of swindling a countryman at a confiidence game and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. i An Odd-Fellows lodge at New Albany has a member who has been on the sick:list, and drawn' benefits for twenty-four years. He has already drawn over $6,000, and.is still drawing his weekly stipend. v The old South Bend paper mill, ‘which under misfortune has been idle so long, resumed active operations, this week, under the management of its new owners, and will be devoted to the manufacture of Print and book paper, ! ' :

Alvin Wooden, a young man in the imploy of Andrew Caldwell, at Bourbon, Marshall co,m;ty, was instantly %{rlzlmlﬁldo}lvggél ‘i;’ﬁ%sv bl?rfg ll'a&{'d‘m?ﬁ:ﬂ';aa into a runaway team he was trying to control. o e

R. J. Miller, better known as “Yankee” Miller, the well known comedian, died at the Mayer House, in Fort Wayne, last Thursday, of pleurisy. He had been on the stage thirty-two years and had a provinecial reputation g)lgtending from ' New York to the ississippi. Deceased was an uncle of A. O. Miller. 3

A valuable horse and sleigh, belonging fo Mr Wm. Coover' of Warren township, was stolen from the First M. E. Church in South Bend last Sunday evening. The horse is described by the Register as a dark bay, with white hind feet.- The sleigh was a good one and contained a whip, robe, cushions ete, -He estimates his loss b BlabL L 3

| "Moody, the evangelist, would have a splendid chance for fame if he would only tackle '‘Greene county. The following, a few extracts from the court dockets for last year, shows a rare chance for this great man. - Twentyeight suits for bastardy were instituted and fifty-four divorces were grant€d. This is the way they start out on the new year: nine divorce suits, séven bastardy, one slander and one for seduction will be called up at the -next term of court. : \ . Decatur Press: We have it from a source which makes-it' impossible to doubt its authenticity that on Monday evening a member “in good standing” of one of our churches called upon a sister, who “set 'em up” until the member beecame. so tired that he was dumped into a little bed in the upper story to dream of crystal streams just beyond his reach.. On the following morning he didn’t rise with the lark, but with a fearful case of “busthead.” All for glory. :

.The delegate State Board of Agriculture, of this State, on the third inst. elected J. W. Cofield, of Ohio; T. Vi Mifchell, of Rush; Thomas Nelson, of Parke; W, H. Ragan, of Hendricks; A.B. Claypool, of Fayette; H. T. Sample, of Tippecanoe; and H. Caldwell, of Wabash, menibers of the regular board. R. Mitchell, of Gibson; R.. P. Haynes, of Daviess; F. C. Johnson, of Floyd; Jacob Mutz, of Johngon; W. B:. Seward, of Monroe; T. Davidson, of Fulton; John Sutherland, of LaPorte; and R. M. Lockhart, of DeKalb, hold over. . Cofield is the orly new member. :

Several ‘months ago, says the Fort Wayne Sentinel, a young woman belonging to a respectable family in Fort Wayne eloped with a bar-keeper, since which time. nothing was heard from her until last week. It appears.that she went to the house of a friend at Bull Rapids, in Allen county, where on account of her condition, she concealed herself as much as possible. One night last week she left the house where she was stopping, and proceediled into the country, where she gave ‘birth-to a child, all alone in a snowstorm. fhe returned.to the house, where she had been very ill until Sunday night, when she died. There is great excitement at Bull Rapids over the matter. e f

~ The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has sustaiged the lower court in its decision that Israelites imust be held amenable to the laws of that State regulating the observance, of the Sabbath, '%he case grew out of an attempt to keep a store open on

The committee of a district school in' Connecticut recently refused to employ a young lady because she lad a beau., They wrote: “Wedoant wiht our gals taut by a nuther gal who has such notions about such things” .

- General Items. : The treasury will pay the January interest on United States bonds on 1 the 26th inst. without rebate, andiinterest on District ofColumbia bonds, due January Ist, the same date and without rebate. : e - During the past six months the circulation of the legal tenders has been decreased $6,000,000, and the fractional curreney about $18,000,000, while the deficiency has been supplied by the issue of $25,000,000 of silver coins. : o The total .summing up of the results of the Ashtabula railroad catastrophe is as follows: TPassengers on the train, 128; employes, 19; total 147. Rescued passengers, 63; .employes, 9; total, Y 2. Known to have perished, 70; unaccounted for, D | i |

A young man named John Binke, was instantly killed, and another man named Schwitzer, probably fatally injured, at Finlay’s brewery, Toledo,on the 28th ult ,by the bursting of an immeénse beer cask into which air was being forced by a steam pump to facilitate the flow of beer from the cask into barrels.

A desperado named Chas. Leighton fatally stabbed another man near Springfield, Missouri, Christmas day. Inthe evening he attend: ed a ball in Springfield and in an unprovoked and most blood-thirsty manner shot and instantly killed a youny man named Masom. Great excitement followed this act and 'a speedy lodgment in jail, only perhaps prevented the lynching of the brute. o

; . Wheeler Talks., The pretended vice president elect, Wheeler, in a late interview, said that “congress ‘cannot investigate ¢ whether Louisifana has gone’ for ¢Tilden or Hayes. The action of ‘the returning board on this point ‘has been final and conclusive in ‘Louisiana. It is my honest belief ‘that i[* there had been a free and ‘fair vote, unobstructed by intim‘idation or fraud, the republicans ¢would have carried the state by at ¢‘least 15,000. Inthefive ‘bull-dosed’ ¢ parishes the registration shows that ¢ these parishes belonged to the re- ¢ publicans.” blin : Wheeler shows :himself in this utterance to be simply a stupid and malignant partisan. If- there has been anything established concerning the Louisiana business it is that the registration was a most stupendous fraud. Witness after witness, republican as well as democrat, has sworn that the registration lists were made up from grave-stones and other similar sources; and that thousands of names were thus registered of men who are dead or who never had an existence. Wheeler must know this; and the fact that he is willing to thus grossly misstate facts, and to base his conclusions on a lie, demonstrates that he is utterly unfit for the position to which he aspires. — Chicago Times. i ]

‘There is a vast difference in the conduct of a man and woman in new, clothes. 'When a woman gets a new suit she immediately prances off to the nearest promenade, and for hours will walk contentedly along a crowded throughfare, receiving fresh impulses of joy every time another woman ‘scans her wardrobe. But a man ic cn diffanani - TTo nnddbipaad on hisnew clothes for the first time until after dark. Then he goes down so cautiously as-to almost create the impression’ that he is sneaking along. If he sees a crowd at the corner, he will slip across the way to avoid ihem‘, and when he goes into his grocery, he tries to get behind as many boxes and barrels as he can. All the time he is trying to do his best to appear as if the suit were six months old, and all the while he realizes that he is making a failure of it. ! o

MARRIED.

% X 2 § v GERBER—MORRELL.—December 17th, 1876, af the residence of the bride’s parents, in Elkhart township, Mr, Geoxﬁe W. Gerber, of Holden, Mo., to Miss Annie M. Morrell, daughter of David Morrell, Jr." . i

Inasmuch ‘as Mr. Gerber has been compelled to come all the way from Missduri to secure the bean ideal of his youthful conceptions{—a Noble county lass—we extend to him our warwmest congratula-~ tions, and wish the couple a glorious fruition of the golden promiges held out for a happy marriage, May their trials be few, their happiness unbroken, and may those necessarS* care@ come only as mile stones on the path of life, each one marking a happier era in their united lives. .’

HOSTETTLER—-LEPlRD.—January 4th, 1877, at the residence of the bride 1n LaGrange county, by Rev, G. W. Chapman, Mr. George Hostettler .to Miss Electa Lepird, i o WEIRICK—HOSLER.—December 31st, 1876, at the residence of the bride’s parents, by Jefferson Addis, Es%., Francig M. Weirick to Catharine Hosler, all of Noble county. ; SHAMBAUGH — SHAMBAUGH.—December 25, 1876, by Elder John Parker, .at the bride’s residence, in Green township, Isaac J. Shambangh to Miss Nancy A. Shambaugh, all of Neble Co. SHIRER—SW EET.—Janusry Ist, 1877, by Elder J. H. Bliss, at the Bradley House, in Albion, Clifford M. Shirer, of Elkhart county, to Miss . Tilla Sweet, of Noble county.

] DIED. gl OHLWIFE.—On Sunday evening last, Janunary' 7th, in Sparta twg.. after'an il'ness of only ten days, Mrs. Eliza Ohlwine,: wife of Samuel Uhlwine; aged about 33 years. J Sy HAMILTON.—January 2, 1877, in Gilliam townshif)i Jagper co., Ind., of membranous ctoug. _Lilly May, daughter of Alexander and Lydia B. Hamilton; aged 1 year and 10 months. .

She has passed from our family circle and has gone to dwell with the loved ones above. Her sufferings are all over. Why should wé weep? for we have the promise of one day meeting her where parting will be no more. ) i Dear little hands, they have gone from us now, Never again will they rest on our brow; Never again smooth our sorrowful face, Never clasp ours in their childish embrace. - And oar forehead grows wrinkled with care, Thinking of little hands once resting there. But we know in a happier, heavenlier clime

Dear little hands, we shall clasp you some time, WlLKlNS.—December 26th, 1876, in Noble township, Elizabeth, wife of William Wilkins; aged 18 years, 2 months and 2:3 days. HARTER.—~November 30th, 1876, in Green twp., of typhoid fever, MatiJda A, Harter; aged 21 years and 8 days. ¢ HARTZLER.—Jannary 10th, 1877, on the mgpatch, Noble conntg. John Hartzler; aged 80 years, 6 months and 4 days,

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