The National Banner, Volume 11, Number 40, Ligonier, Noble County, 25 January 1877 — Page 1

- The Fatiowal Bannes : éus_'msﬁxn BY -~ JOHN B. STOLL, LIGONIER NOBLECOUNTY IND. : Terms of Subseription: (}aeye‘r.intdvmce,.-........-.:...._'......,5200 Nix months, in BAVADNCE. ..ovaimenceomcanenons 100 - Eleven copies to one address, one year,......2000 #5-Subscribers outside .of Noble county are harced 10 cents extra [per year] for postage, which isprepaid by the publigher. . | _—"—_"_"'T’ }, S R . CITIZENS BANK, LIGONIER, . INDIANA. . First-Class Notes wanted at a Low . Rate oleisconnt. i , ' All parties having ““Public Sale Notes,” will do well to see us befors disposing of them else- , where. g | : Exchangé Boughtand Sold, and_Foreign ! Draftsdrawnon all the Principal Cities of Europe. S i Agents for First-Class Fire and Life | Insurance Companies. ey STRAUS BROTHERS. - ) M M. RITTERBAND, Notary Public. Ligonier, Ind., Dec 16, 1875.-6-26 7 B.W.GREEN, St : . ’ Justiceofthe Peace & Collection A, OFce_-Second Story; Laadon’s Brick Block, - LIGONIER, -t - INDIANA. ¢ " . €. VANCAMP, ATFORNEY AT LAW, : Ligomier, : : @ Indiana. . Special attention eiven to collectionsand convey--sancine, and the writing of deeds, mortgages, and comiracts. Legal business promptly attended to. Gifce over Jacobs & Goldsmith’s Cash Store. 9-50 - . &G. ZIMMERMAN, Attorney at Law & Notary Public, Office over Gerber’s Hardware, Cavin Street, : : Ligonier, Indiana. A January 7. 1875.-9-37 : : 1, E. K.\'ISELY, ’ LIGONIEE, - - - INDIANA. g=r~Office on second floor of Landon's-Block. 7-3 ' ALBERT BANTA, Justiceof the Peace & Conveyancer. -~ . ‘LIGONIER, INDIANA. S Spec%! atfention given toconveyancing andcolection® Desds, Bonds and Mortgages drawn up, nnd‘a‘x}ﬁiegal business attended fo promptly and sccargtely. Office over Straas & Meagher’sstore, . b *May 15187315-8-3 = H. WAEKEMAN, : ; Lo 3 TnsuranceAg’t &Justics of the Peact KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. fice with A. A. Chapin, Mitchell Block. Will r recéive sabscriptions to THE NATIONAL BANNER, . __!_—————-—————_——'_'__ | ' P. W.CRUM, Physician and, Surgeon, : LIGONIER, ° INDI{ANA, ©fice ovgr Banm’s Grocery Store. | V 9 n3-Iy, &, W.CARR, , ] - Physician and Surgeon, LIGONIER, - - - - - - IND, i Willpromptlyattendail calls intrustedto him. | _{Ofice and residence on 4th Street. e [ - J. M. TEAL, DENT TS T, Rooms over u. E. Pike’s Grocery, & Corner of Main #nd Mitchell Streets, opposise the Post Office, Kendall+ille, Ind_. #¥ All work warranted. <&l : Kendallville, May 1, 1874. - L Laughing 6 Lgiein Laughing Gas! z , B PAINLESS EXTRACTION L NS N —OF— S % N\ TEETH § | N A NS ey /| D G ’Um N /LU ants” Ulice. \ 1 . — . : / . - Filljng Teeth a Specialty JLigonier, Ind., Nov. 11, 1875, 2 =1 e g e e ,_4___ S it y TEEGARDEN HOUSE, ~ Laporte, Indiana. ‘ . V.W._AXTELL, : : : Proprietor. Leporte, Aprils.lB7l. CONCORD & CATAWBA WINE. %é keep consiantly on hand and sellin large or : =mall gaantities, te sujt customers, 0 Win:efOur Own Wanufacture, Pare — Nothing but the Juice of , the Grape. . SACK BROTHERS. . Ligomier,July 8,771.-tf " ° Winebrenner & Hoxworth, - i ’ HOTUEE, SlG}i’N AND OBNAMENTAL : " PAINTERS, Grainers.Glaziersand Paper-Hangers. Shop near corner of Fourch and Cavin Sts., opposite Kerr’s Cabinet Shop. ¢ Lizomier, - - - - Indiana, s e EENDALLVILLE,INDIANA. ‘ EW COMMODIOUS THREE STORY BRICK <X motel, only ten rods from the L. 3/ &M.S. R. R. Depot, and four squares fromthe G, R.R.R.— . ©uly fiveminutes walk to any of the principalbu- _ imesshoasesofthecity. Traveling menandstrangers willfind thisa first-classhouse. : Fare 82 per dsv. - J.B. KELLY,Proprietor, Ken("_-‘lville.Augi.?sl.lB7o.-14 i ; . PHILIP A. CARR., = A UCTIONEER., OFershisservices to the publicin gen‘era]. Terms, moderate. Orders may be left at the shoestore of P. Sisterhen.. i Y Ligonier, JanuaryB,’73-37 - : CLV.INKS, DEALERIN MONUMENTS, ~ Vaults, Tombstones, AND BUILDING STONES .LIGONIER, IND. - : A prikl2, 1871.-50 ’ - . AT AVILLA For Sale: Bargal - For Sale £ Bargain!

The subscriber offers for sale, on favorable terms, - A HOUSE AND LOT, favorably situated in the town of Avilla. The Honse was bailt two years ago, and is a yery gubstantial and conveniently arranged dwelling. Any person wanting to procare a comfortable houseat Avilla, willfind this a rare oppertunity. _ ¥or terms, &c., address the subscriber,or call spon LEONARD 8. HERSH, at Avilla, who iB’ @aly sathorized to sell the propertg. bl J3.B.BTOLL,* = T 4 . i Liconier, Indiana. ‘ e | HIGGINBOTHAM & SON, —— l 'o— \ i . N GNFL, ) B A RS -— AP I .; /’ R@ W H A 0 B W i 1 Aot o] © I \ AR .. =g : T =5 g i o) ' g . A\ : ) A : WATCH-MAKERS, JEWELERS, ; ' —and dealers in— - Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, - ; ~AND= o ¥Fancy Goods, = REPAIRING = sad y executed and warranted. %m & Morris’ celebrated %ﬂ W.N.m

dhe National Bannet.

NV0L.31,.. A _“—M e O F—— - : o SOL.L. MIER, Conrad’s New Brick Biock, LIGONIER, IND’NA. Moneyloaned on long and shorttime. Notesdiscounted at reasonablerates. T Moniesreceived on depositandintereetallowed onspecified time, -, . Exchange bought and sold, and Foreign Drafts drawn on principalcities of Europe, . 8-2 'TO THE FARMERS: = .Y ou will please take notice that I am still engaged in buying wheat, for ‘which I pay the highest market price._ 2 . Tfyou do not find me on the street, call before selling; at my Banking Office, in Conrad’s Brick Block. - 5 SOL. MIER. Ligoniér,lndiana, May Tth,lB74.—lf 'Bakers & Grocers, ; GavinStreet,Ligonler,ln(}lala : Fresh Bread,Pies, Cakes,&c. ChoiceGroceries,Provisions, Yankee Notions,& ThehighéstgnshpricepnidforCouEtry Produc © Mayl3,’6Bstf - - SACKBRO’S CEMPIRE Billiard Hall Billiard Hall . T AND—— . ‘ in All Ten-Pin ey 'L. B. HATHAWAY, Prop’r, ' ' HAS BEEN REMOVED TO THE ‘ | 01d Pierce Bullding,= 3 ¢ ¢ % Ligonier, Ind. \ e 2 . R | o Tobaeco and Cigars, Candies,Nuts, "\ CHICAGO CIDER & FRESH LEMONA DE,: All lovers of a nice, quiet game of billiards or ten- | ping,will find this to be just the place 4t f - < —— - THE SUN. | 1877.° NEW YORK. P 1877. - The different editions of Tre Syx during the next yeas will be the same as during the {ear _that has just passed. The daily edition will on week days be a sheet of four pages, and on Sundays & sheet of eight pages, or 56 broad columns; while the weekly edition will be a sheet of eight pages of the same dimensions and character that are already familiar to our friends. Tue Sux will continue to be the strenuous advocate of reform and retrenchment,. and of the substitntion of statesmanship, wisdom, and integrity for hollow pretence, imbecility, and fraud in the administration of public affairs. It will contend for the government of the' people by the people and for the people, as opposed to government by frauds in the ballot-box and in the counting of votes, enforced by military violence. It will endeavor to supply its readers- a body now not far from a million of souls — with the most careful, complete, and trustworthy accounts of current events, and will employ for this purpose a numerous and carafully selected stafi’of r‘egorters and correspondents. Itsreports from Washington, especially, will_ be full, accurate tn;d fearless, ﬁnd it will continne to deserve andenjoy the hatred of those who thrive by plundering the Treasury or by usurping what the law does not give them, |. while it will endeavor to-merit. the contidence of the public by defending the rights of the people against the eneroachments of unjustitied power. The price of the daily Sup will be §5 cents a month” or $8.5( a year, post-paid, or with the Sunday edition §7,70 a year., The Sunday edition alone, eight pages, $1.20. a year, post paid. | The Weekly Sun, eight pages of 56 broad columns, will be furnished during 1877 at the rate of #1 a year pest paid. The benefit of this large reduction from the previous rate for the WEEKLY can be enjoyed by individual subscribers without the necessity of makiag up clubs. At the same time, if any of our friends choose to aid in extending our circulation, we shall'be grateful to them, dnd every such persun who sends us ten or more subscribers from one place will be entitled to one copy of the paper for himselt without charge. At one dollar a year, post paid, the expenses of paper and printing are barely repaid; and, considering the size of the sheet and the quality of its contents, we are.confident the people will consider Tue WEEkLY SUN the cheapest newspaper pullished in the world, and we trust also one of the yery best.. . v Address, by 34-w6. 4 THE SUN, New York City, N. Y,

Ge W, CHAPMAN, ' . 3, B. STOLL ok an & Stoll - Chapman & Stoll, AGENTS., | Office in the Banner: Block, LIGONIER, - - - - - ' INDIANA. ‘VE have & large list of preperty for sale, consisting of’"dwellings, choice town lots, farms and western lands. *Those wishing.to buy or-sell will find it to their advantage to call and see us at our office. D April g, 1876, - WEOFFERFORSALE A TRACT OF LAND, situate one. mile west of Ligonier, consisting of 12 acres more or legs. The land is all improved excepting one acre. There is & good hewed log house, smoke house, spring house, cabin stable, a splendid well of water, &c,, on the property. | A FARM OF 170 ACRES, 150 OF which ig under improvement, in Washington twp. Fifty-five acies are in. clover, and all isin-good congitgon. On the property is the best orchard in the county, a good two-story frame house with 9 rooms, good cellar, well-and cistern, 2 springs of sufficient volume to water stock, good barn and out-baildings. &c. Between 45 and 50 acres of wheat were seeded in the fall, . 214 LOTSIN WELLMAN’S ADDltion to the town of Ligonier. Theabove are allin one Block and are corner lots, fronting on Martin and Union streets. A "CONVENIENT- HOUSE. — A Frame House 1! stories high,. containing six rooms, in good condition, in Miller’s addition to Ligonier, on reasonable terms. | . Al NICE LITTLE TRACT OF Land, containing 30 acres, lying ‘one mile from Ligonier, 14 acres cleared ready for corn. A very desirable home forany one who wishes to live near a thriving town. A GOODSMALL FRAMLE HOUSE in Chapman’s addition, with six rooms and good cellar, situate on a corner lot, has good well of water and cistern, on good and easy terms, A NICE DWELLING HOUSE on Cavin street, one and a half stories high, contain. ing 8 rooms, good cellar, well and cistern, and isthe handsomest location on the street. One-half down ; palance on long time'with interest. A FARM, containing 320 acres, lying four miles south-east from Ligonier, on the Albion road, the most desirable farm for raising stock and grain in the couniy, well known as the Dia‘mond Lake Farm, for sale on good terms, VACANT LOTS in Wood’s addition to Ligonier for sale on inviting terms; algo, four Vacant Lots in Miller’s addition to Ligonier. Now is the time for bargains. | | A LARGE FRAME HOUSE, two stories high,;contninin% 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, currants and grapes. The most desirable situation in the town of Ligonier or a retiring farmer who wishes to educate his children. For sale on terms easy to purchaser, CHAPMAN & STOLL. s : PERUSBPYRERERNG To the working Ciass.—We are now prepared to furnish all classes with comstant employment at home, the Whole of the time, or for their spare moments. Business new, light and profitable. Persons of either sex easily earn from 50 cents to §5 per evening, and a proportional sum by devoting their whole time to the business. Boys and girls earn nearly as much as men. That all who see this notice may send their address, and #est the business we make this unparalleled offer: To such as are not well satisfied we will send one dollar to pay for writing. Full'particulars, samples worth several dollars to ‘ commence work op, and a cop{) of Home and Fireside, one of the largestand best Illustrated Publications, all sent free by mail. Reader, if you want permanent, groﬂtahle work, address, GEeoreE STinsoN & Co., Portland, Me. 11-8-mlB ! 1 Can’t be made by every agent levery month in the business we - furnigh, but those wimnF’ to work can earn a dozen dollars _& day right in their own localites. Have no room to explain here. Business pleasantand honorable, Women, and boys and girls do as well as men. We will furnigh youa complete outfit free. The business pays better than alg'y;hinﬁ else. We will bear expense of starting you. articulars free. Write and see, Farmers and mechanics, their sons aad daughters; and all classes in need of paying work at home, should® write to us and learn all about the work at once. Wow is the time. Don’t delay. -Address Trur & Co., Augusta, Maine, : ‘ 11-8-mlB e S T ol i encLisH § 10 Printers. ews, Book and Job Inks, = all warranted of Superior ?ntmy, No: &mot in- % E . bcyriorgnd«v made : g us. i EXCELSIOR ; INTING INK CO, : MANUFACTURERS, : (#Formerly of London, England), 184 & 186 MONROE ST., CHICAGO, ' "And 13 Barclay Street, New York, | o p— - l FOR SALE AT THIS OBFBICE,

: —THENATIONAL DISEASE. IS IT CURABLE ? TBOSE who have suffered from the various and complicated forme of disease assumed by Ca~ tarrh, and have tried many physicians and remedies without relief or cure, await the answer to this question with considerable anxiety. .And well they may; for no disease that can be mentioned is 8o universally prevalent and so destructe= ive to health as Catarrh. Bronchitis, Asthma, Coughe, and serions and frequently fatal affections of the lungs follow, in many cases a case of simple but.neglected Catarrh. Other sympathetic affections, sueh as deafness, impaired eye-sight and loss of senge of smell, may be referred to gs minor but neverthless serious resulte of neglected Catarrh, bad enough in themselves, but are nothing compared with the dangerous affectiong of the throat and lungs likely to follow. 5 IT CAN BE CURED. IT can be cured, There is no doubt. about it.— The immediate relief afforded by SANFORDP'S Rapicar Ctre ror CaTAßeH'ig buta slight evidence of what may follow a persistent use of this remedy. The hard incrusted matter that has Jodged in the nasal passages is removed with a few applications; the ulceration and inflammation subduned and héaled; the entire membranous linings of the head are cleansed and purified.— Constitutionally its action is that of a powerful purifying agent, destroying in its course through the system the acid poison, the destructive agent in catarrhal disesse. . |

Each package contains Dr_ Sdnford’s Improved Inhaliu%Tube, with tull directions for use in all cases. Price, $1 00. For sale by all wholesa.e and retail druggists throughout the United States. WEEKS & POTTER, General Agents and Wholesale Druggists, Boston. ¢ "~ jan

Colling’ Voltaic Plaster - .IS THE BEST. ASK FOR . i Collins’ Voltaic Plaster. © Collins’ Voltaic Plaster. ol - Colling’ Voltaic Plaster. Collins’ Voltaic Plaster. Collins’ Voltaic Plaster. B o 07 Collins’ Voltaic Plaster. Collins’ Voltaic® Plaster. 5 Collins’ Voltaic Plaster. .Collins’ Voltaic Plaster. ; lins' Voltaic Plaster ¥ Colling’ Voltaic Plaster NEVER FAILS TO.QUICKLY Relieve! Affections of the Chest. Relieve'Affections of the Lungs. - Relieve Affections of the Heart. ‘Relieve Aﬁ”ezctions‘ of the Liver. Relieve Affections of the Spleen. Relieve Affections of the Kidneys. Relieve Affections of the Spine. Relieve Affections of the Nerves. _ Relieve Affections of the Muscles. ¥ Relieve Affections of the Joints. Relieve Affections. of the Bones. . Relieve Affeciions of the Sinews. . Price, 25 cents. Sold by&all druggists. Mailed on receipt of price, 25 cents for one, $1.25 for 6, or $2.25 for 12, carefully wrapped and:warranted, by WEEKS & POTTER, Proprietors, Boston, Mass, M. Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup. SEA WEED TONIC, AND MANDRAKE PILL.— These deservedly celebrated and popular medicines have effected & revolution in the healing art;,and proved tlie fallacy of several max- - in¥s which have for many years obstructed the progress of medical science. The false supposition that **‘Consumption Is incurable” deterred physicians from 'uttemPtmg;to find remedies for that disease, and patients afflicted with it reconciled themselves to death without making an effort to escape from a doom which they supposed to be unavoidable. Tltis now proved. however, that Consumption can be cured, and that it has been cured in a very great number of cases (some of them apparently desper- | ate ones) by Schenck’s,Pulmonic Syrup alone ; ‘ and in other cases by the same medicine in conneetion with Schenck’s Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, one or both, according to . the requirements of the case. ; Dr. Schenek himself, who enjoyed uninterrupted good health for more than £ol‘t¥ years, was supposed: at one time to be at the very gate of death, his physicians having pronounced his case hopeless, and abandoned him tothis fate. He was cured by the aforesaid medicines, and, sir‘ce his recovery, many thousands, similarly affected*have used Dr. Schenek’s preparations with the same remarkable suceess. Full directions a¢company each, makm%)lt not absolutely necessary to personally see Dr. Schenck unless patients wish their lungs ex- | amined. and for this purpose he is professionally at his principal office, corner Sixth & Arch Sts., Philadelphia, every Monday, where all letters for advice must be addressed. -~ »

Schencks ’medicines are sold by all druggists.

ATTAINED AT LAST! A TRIAL will INSURE ITS POPULARITY , EVERYWHERE. : A ' iing i A - SSeand o e L e Jo) TS ““",'J”"d ﬂ“'ﬂ‘!ﬂ'}!‘” 8 T “mmﬂjwﬂ‘/ i ”w‘ i R NG \RMN N = o A e ’IV il e ﬁ"ﬁ“\igf LS A AAW YT N R AIGNNEBIL d W {5 4 (A v A ;’L’:’{a‘ e WAITE SEUTTLE SEWING MACRINE. ‘When once used will retain its 3 place forever, Bk IT IS CELEBRATED FOR ITS ADVANTAGES IN THAT IT IS ONE OF THE LARGEST SEWINd MACHINES MANUFACTURED,—ADAPTED ALIKE 70 THE-USE OF THE FAMILY OR THE WORKSHOP. IT HAS THE LARGEST SHUTTLE, WITH %H%%%m THAT HOLDS ALMOST A SPOOL OF. THE- SHUTTLE TENSION IS ADJUSTABLE mtmt& REMOVING THE SHUTTLE FROM TH THIS MACHINE IS SO CONSTRUCTED THAT THE POWER IS APPLIED DIRECTLY OVER THE NEEDLE, THUS_ENABLING IT TO SEW THE HEAVIESi"MATKERIAL WITH UNEQUALED EASE. IT IS VERY SIMPLE IN ITS CONSTRUCTION, DURABLE AS IRON AND - STEEL CAN M&KE IT, ALL {TS:WEARING PARTS - CASE-HARDENED OR STEEL; AND INGENIOUSLY PROVIDED WITH MEANS FOR TAKING UP LOST MOTION, SO WE ARE JUSTIFIED IN S ; Warranting Every Machine for 3 Years. IT IS THE LIGHTEST AND EASIEST-RUNNING MACHINEIN THE MARKET. ITIIS,ALSO, THE MOST ELABORATELY ORNAMENTED. AND PRETTIEST MACHINE EVER PRODUCED. WITH ALL THESE ADVANTAGES, IT IS SOLD FROM $l5 T 0 $25 LESS THAN OTHER FIRSTCLASS MACHINES. ' EXCLUSIVE CONTROL OF TERRITORY GIVEN TO AGENTS, : EXTRAORDINARY INDUCEMENTS OFFERED FOR CASH OR ON CREDIT. SEND FOR CIRCULARS AND TERMS T White Sowi ' hito Sewing Maching Co, 358 Euclid Avenue, wantes.; CLEVELAND, 0. For Sale in Noble County by D. Nicodemus, Al- . ; 3 bien, Ind, T H-38-I%y b R 0 UR B 5 . —_—— |RI 8 ~ ,”ér,—.”;::?—, e‘ : = ‘; | i ‘ i‘ K - ~ - " \_.i/“ "mm_" ‘ THEBESTWOOOD COOKING STOVE ‘ T 0 BUY? : * £ 1 It is the Quickest Baker, Economical, Mos I Convenient ! . and Durable. Sizes, Styles & Prices to Suit 6very on. Manufactured by 4: 0 WM. RESOR & COO., Cincinna® 8, :3.R " i ; 1 For Bale by John Weir Liconier,

LIGONIER. NOBLE COUNTY, INDI:NA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1877.

“T CAME TO ASK—"

Two pretty, old-fashioned cottages standing near each other on a secluded tree-shaded country road, separated by a little meadow, which from the ‘birth of spring to the death -of autumn rejoiced in waving ' green grasses and white daisies and yellow dandelions, and after that wore a robe woven of snowflakes as fair and pure as when they fell from the skies, until old winter, to whom the robe belonged, hearing the returning birds ask for the violets, gathered it about him and vanished again. In one of them, the larger, in front of which was a neatly kept lawn, and at the back a small hot house and miniature vegetable garden,. lived Miles Guernsey and his man Mike, the one an old bachelor, the other, as he described himself, “a widdy man, thanks be to the Lord that sint her rest.” ; i

‘» Jln the other—Rose Cottage as they called it, for in rose time it was completely surrounded by roses; they filled the space in frout and clambered over the porch and up the sides of the house—had lived a quiet, elderly couple for many years, until about a month before my story (if it may be dignified by that title) begins, when they went to heaven on the very same day, as they had often prayed to, loving old souls, and left- Rose Cettage waiting for new tenants. “Just as I'd got comfortably settled,” grumbled Miles Guernsey, to be all upset again! Other old men and women live till they’re a hundred. Why couldn’t these have done so, instead of dying at the early age of, eighty? And there’s nro knowing who’ll take the cottage.. Somebody with ecats, dogs and babies, I’ve no doubt—three kinds of animals I detest.” %

. “Thrue fur ye, boss,” said Mike with an ominous shake of the head. There was something else " Mr. Guernsey insisted he detested, and that was an old maid. “A man,” he used to say, “don’t need smiles and kisses and -pet names and children hanging around him to keep him sweet, but a woman does. 'Of coursé some of the poor things can’t help their forlorn state; the men don’t propose, or they do noS run away, or their parents cut up rough, or they have invalid relations to take care of. I’m very sorry for them; they have my heartiest sympathy;. but, all the same, I don’t like ’em.”

{And so when Mike came one lovely June morning to tell his master the cottage was rented, adding with a sly grin, “An’ shure it’s a owld maid an’ her mother,”Mr. Guernsey said semething of which he ought to have been ashamed, and which, for that reason, I shan’t set down, and then went on, sarcastically, “and now we’ll have all sorts of ‘Sweet, cunning pets,’ I suppose; but if any of them come near my premises”’—furiously—“l’ll poison ’em, drown ’em, wring, their necks. Do you hear; Mike?” - , ’

“Faith, I do,” said Mike, grimly. “I’ve lived here ten years,” resumed the master, “in peace and quiet, driven here by an old maid in the first place, and it will be hard indeed if I am driven away by another. With a piano or guitar, no doubt ?” “Aither that last or a fiddle, sur,” said Mike. “I sor the gurril a-carryin’ it in-yisterday in it’s own nate little coﬂin-” - = i

“She’ll play and sing from' morning till night, out of time and tune, and I shall be obliged to close all the doors and suffocate.” = ) 3

“Anyhow,” suggested Mike, “there, can’t be no babies.” i “Thank heaven for that! said Mr. Guernsey, ferrently; “though I don’t kuow but what the guitar’s worse. You can'scdre young children by making faces at ’em. When do they move in, Mike?”” *. |

“To-morrow, sur,” said Mike. “Oe}, but it’s dreadful!” 3

“We'll go a-fishing, Mike. Be ready to-morrow morning at daybreak, and we'll stay away a week. I never could bear the noise women make when they’re putting a house to rights, as they call it, and if I can’t stand it after we come back, why, I'll pull up stakes and go for good, that’s all.” ““Yis, sur,” said Mike. When Miles Guernsey and his man returned from the fishing excursivn, Miss Osborne and Miss Osborne’s mother and Miss Osborne’s maid of all work were installed in Rose Cottage, and, sure ‘enough, -the first sounds that greeted the ears of the fishermen were the pleasant tinkling of the guitar and an equally pleasant voice singing an old-fashioned love song—not out of time, however, and decidedly in tune.

And the very next day a sma]l dog, after.sniffing curiously about on the outside for a. while, squeezed himgelf nearly flat, and, crawling under the front gate, frisked gayly over the tiny lawn, and from thence up to the porch, where sat the lawn’s owner reading the newspaper. . G The intruder was a bright-eyed little terrier, slightly lame in one of his hind legs, and he proceeded to caper about >the old bachelor as though in him he recognized an early but longlost friend. : e

“Mike!” shouted Mr. Guernsey. “Sur!” shouted Mike, running out with a potato in one hand and a knife in the other. - - .

“Remove this dog.” ' “Ramove it is, sur,” said Mike, dropping both knife and potato. But “this dog’.’ clearly objected to being removed.; He skipped nimbly around, barking' all the time in a “what larks!” manner; darted under the garden chairs; got entangled in a woodbine that was climbing to the roof of the porch, and tore it dowh; seized the knife Mike had dropped, in his mouth, and made off with it; and the “widdy man,” making after him, slipped on the treacherous potato and came down with a whack.

“This thing must be stopped at once!” exclaimed Mr. Guernsey, setting his broad-primmed hat firmly upon his head, and grasping his .cane. Out of his own gate he marched in the most dignified style, along the path, through the rose-crowded garden, to the door of Rose Cottage. “I want to see yoflr mistress,” he said to the black-eyed maid-servant who answered his ring. s Ao “Which ?” asked the girl. “What?” retorted Mr. Guernsey. - - “Oh! I thHought p’r’aps you didn’t know the old lady’s laid up with rheumatiz’—got cgld moving. Will Miss Osborne do?” | ’

“Anybody,” said Miles, walking into the parlor, as she threw open the door.- Evidently Miss Osborne was extremely fond of roses.. The white muslin curtains were looped back with sprays of half opened ones; a vase filled with them stood on the center-table; and on the hearth lay shells from which they peeped, and a vine that ran| up the window outsidehad been coaxed through a broken pane, and hung heavy with sweet white buds, lover the picture of a ‘handsome young man in the dress of a clergyman, | The guitar leaned lag@inst the arm of a cozy, old-fash-ioned crimso}n sofa; a hanging shelf ! ;

of books ‘occupid one corner of the room ; ‘a mirro, Whose tarnished frame was almostaidden by! a pretty arrangement of afumn leaves, hung in the other. *Tumph! ‘she’s got some taste,” said #e old bachelor to himself and began Wwithout knowing why, to wish he yere at home—in fact, was'meditafiz an inglorious retreat, when the ol¢ maid entered the

room.. i EE iy “Qur neighbor, Mi Guernsey, I believe ?” she said, in emarkably pleasant:voiee. i 1 1 ea sbt

' “Yes,” replied Mi. Guernsey, blushing violently (the i®a of it! an old bachelor, 45 his last birthday, blushing because an ol¢ maid looked at 'him!), and, having ittered this mono‘syllable, he dropped his hat and put his cane through tl¥ crown of it as he stooped to pick t/ up again. The hat in his hand ore more, he: went on: “I've called toses if you—that is, your mother—l meat both of you, of course—in fact,” wih sudden inspiration, “I came to askif you would like isome trout; just ut of “the water yesterday.” - o i

“Oh! thank yof; you're very kind,” said Miss Osborre, a little surprise in her voice, and a puzzled expression in her eyes; and at ttat moment Mike’s rough tones bioke in from outside: ““I’ve got him, boss, an’ the divil’s own time I've lad fo Ketch him. Bedad he’s the liveiest lame dog I iver met in me loife, an, he’s pult down the other vine an-" ,

| “Good day,” larriedly said fthe boss,” flying befire the ‘old maid’s questioning looki and spinning off the stoop with sut impetu?; as to almost knock downhis faithful retainer. “Shut up, ya idiot!” le said, in a hoarse whispe. = “Drop that dog and go home and fasten the vines up again.” . = ‘ e “Howly Moses! ejaculated Mike, as he disappearec in a hurry; “is it nrad heis? = '

+ “Oh, dear!” excliimed the old maid, raising her pretty hands and reyebrows as she cauglt sight of ¢he “fine little fellow’s” dirtr paws and drooping tail, “he’s beenin sdme mischief’; I’'m sure he has; | saw your man.— What has he been doing, Mr. Guernsey? In the kindiess of your heart you're screening lim; I know you are. Oh, Wait! Waif! if you weren't lame, I'd whip you. I picked him up in the street one chy, Mr. Guernsey” —the pink roses were in full bloom now—*where some wicked boys had left him after breaking his leg, and took him home anl nursed him well again, and the poor thing became so attached to me 1 couldn’t bear to leave him behind when we left the Ciit:y-” 3 ¥ “Of course, not,” said Mr. Guernsey, adding, rather .irrdevantly, “I don’t wonder at it. Goo¢ morning.” And: so the acquaintanece began.- ™

. “What a fool I’ve been!” said Miles, as, once more on his own porch, he picked up his newspaper again; “but bless me, who’'d went to hurt a lame dog ?” X - . A week passed avay, during which Mr. Guernsey oamly caught occasional glimpses of his fair neighbor, as she came out into the garden among the roses, with a plain straw hat shading her face, and tied with a bit of blue ribbon under her c¢hin. {“I always liked blue ribbon,” sighed the old bachelor. -“She used to wear it.” “She” was the young girl he had loved some ‘twenty years ago, and from whom he had been separated by the machinations of his father and her old maiden aunt. o !

All was calm and serene, when one morning Mike burst into the library, where his master sat, and gasped out: - “Thim lamb chops, sur, the delicate,

tinder ones I mint for yer dinner, they 're gone, an’ the ‘burrid’s most frightened to death, sur, an’ no liss—or may I never shpake another wurrid —{than fourteen kittens in the woodshed, an’ all on account of Miss Osborne’s cat, the thafe of the wurrild.” . “T'his certainly must! be stopped at once,” saia Mr, Guernsey. ‘‘Give me my hat, Mike”; and away he went, growing angrier and ‘angrier at every step. . His lamb chops! and no more to be had until to’morrow—good gracious! And fourteen Kkittens—gracious goodness!—to say nothing of the canary in a fit, perhaps its power of song scared away forever! v He actually banged the gate of the garden of roses; but ‘his anger, which was up to “butter melts” at least, fell to “zero” when he entered the pretty parlor. There sat the old maid, in & low rocking-chair, idly swaying to and fro, dressed in a loose, flowing white wrapper, without a ruffle or puff, with a golden-hearted daisy in her hair and another at her throat, and by her side stood the lean, lank cat with a squalling kitten hanging from 'its mouth; “Poor Mary Ann!” she was saying;

“but where, oh, where are the other —” when she raised her kind eyes.and met the not-at-all-irate gaze of the old bachelor. “Glad to see you again, Mr. Guernsey,” shé said, in her frank voice, rising and holding out/her hand. “Mother is much better, thank you”— in answer to some rather indistinet query on the spbject. “Run away with your kitty”’—to the cat. “Not a very handsome cat, is she, Mr. Guernsey? Poor thing! she came to our door one cruel, cold night last winter, half starved, and with the tips of her poor ears frozen off. : I took her in, warmed and fed her, and she wouldn’t go away again. To tell'the truth; I did n’t try very hard to make her.; and I could n’t bear to desert her when we came here, any more than I could Waif. He and she, odd as it may seem, are very fond of each other. But one bad habit, I’'m sorry to say, I can’t break her of, or'have n’t as yet —a result of her, early vagabond life in the streets; she steals.,” Then,suddenly noticing a queer expression on the face of her listener, she continued, eagerly, “I hope she hasn’t been annoying you in any way?” ; Straight into thoSe child-like "eyes. did Miles Guernsey look, and say, deliberately: “Oh,no,notatall. Icame to ask if you—-that is” (growing a little incoherent), “your mother —of course I mean both of you—would

like a fresh: cucumber or two and some green peas” (with a flush of pride); “I am ahead of all the neighbors.” He meant the peas were. el “A thousand thanks,” said miss Osborne. o PR

- “Nine hundred and ninety-nine too many,” said Miles, actually smiling at her. “Good day.” And when he reappeared in the study he had a daisy in his buiton-hole. - ° |

Mike came out of the dining-room, where he had been soothing the canary, with a crisp lettuce leaf. “Well, sur?” said he. | : “Hang the bird’s cage where the cat can’t reach it, lock up the chops after this, and drown thirteen of the kittens,” quietly said Mr. Guernsey. “Mad, is it?”° Mike soliloquized. “He ’s madder, nor fifty hatters.” . “Good heavens! what man in his sober senses,” Miles Guernsey asked hi;r;gelf, “would, hurt a frozen-eared cat?’ e ey

Summer passed away, carrying with her the fragrant rose and thousands of other flowers; autumn, in richly tinted rustling garments, gathered the

gold and brown and crimson leaves to her bosom, and bade the earth farewell; winter came and flung downy snow-flakes upon and hung glittering icicles from the roofs of the cottages and the naked branches of the trees—‘and the neighbors had met a dozen times. But in that dozen times Miles Guernsey had managed to learn (principally from the olda lady, a delicate, sweet woman, from whom the daughter had inherited her pleasant eyes) that the picture of the handsome young man in the parlor was the portrait of Rosa’s lover, who had died fifteen years before in a foreign land, where he had gone for his health. *“Rosa was well-. nigh broken-hearted at first,” said the old lady; “but time has softened her grief, and now she can speak of him as calmly as she can of the darling little sister who died when she was a little child.” From the same source he learned that Rosa’s father had been a speculator, unlucky in all his speculations, and that when, his lasé; great disappointment breaking his heart, he departed this life, there was very little left for his widow and children. “Robert, my only son,” said. the old lady, “helps us all he can; but lately he has married a sweet girl, who has patiently waited for him five long years, and now Rosa and I will have to live mere economically than ever, if that be possible. But, dear me, how I dorun on, and how Rosa would scold me if she knew it! but you are sokind andisympathetic, Mr. Guernsey, that, shor't as our acquaintance has been, I almost regard you as one of the family. Rosa, my dear, I should like Mr. | Guernsey to hear that new song your brother sent you last week.” e “And would Mr. Guernsey like to hear it ?” Rosa asks. L

“How can :you ask me?” says ithe old bachelor. “I am always pleased to hear you sing.” By which remark you will perceive he had become entirely reconciled to the guitar. | 1t was the evening of Christmas day. Miles Guernsey sat alone in his parlor, thought on his brow and a®pipe 1n his mouth, when Mike entered with a dainty rose-perfumed three-cornered note.

. “From the owld maid, sur,” said he. ' “Miss Osbormne, you mean,” said . his master, sternly. “Don’t call her an old maid again.” : ; “Would Mr. Guernsey”—so the note ran—*“give Mrs. and Miss Osborne the pleasure of his company this Christmas evening? ;Brother Robert and his wife -have come down from the city, and there would be a little musie, a little supper, and whist.” “Wait, and I’'ll write an answer,” said Mr: Guernsey. And while Mike waited he began to talk again.— “Shure ye heard the news, sur? The village is full uv it. They say she oughtn’t ’a done it; that it’s incouragin’gviekedhess an’—” ! “Who the dickens are you talking about?” asked his master, turning impatiently around, pen in hand. ek

“The owld—l mane Miss Osborne, sur,” answered Mike. [ 1w “And pray what shouldn’t ishe have done?” ' . |

“Taken Bessie West’s baby, sur.”

“‘Taken Bessie West’s baby?’ Go on this moment, Mike, or I’ll brain you with the peker.” St “Well, you see, sur,” Mike, thus admonished, went on glibly enough. “Ye know that unfortunate story about Bessie West, the purkty sewing gurriley.. oo : Ll “Yes, yes—heaven knows I do. Not a woman’s tongue within;ten miles, except one, but has wagged about if.” “Well, sur, last might she died, an’ she sint for the owld—l mane Miss Osborne—for she was frighténed uv the other women, they’d been so hard to her—bad ’cess to ’em!—an’ half uv ’em wid childher uv their own, an’ not-knowin’ what their comin’ to; an’ the owld—l mane Miss ‘Osborne—wint—? »' [

“Of course she did,” interrupted his master. “Go on.” : z’

“An’ she prayed wid the poor thing, an’ closed her eyes; an’ whin she came away she fetched the young wun wid her, an’ they do say she’s a goin’ to ’dopt it, an’ they’ll niver shpake to her agin.” o oy “Which would be a very great pity!” said the old bachelor with emphasis, and rather a diabolical grin. = | “Yis, sur. An’ how I suppose we'll be afther movin’, shure, for it only naded: the baby to make it complate; owld—l mane Miss Osborne, cats, dogs and babies.” “Get me my great-coat,” was the only reply he received. “I’ll answer the note personally.” And, the great-coat on, away started'Miles Guernsey for Rose Cottage once more.

“Bedad,” said Mike, with an intoxicated wink, “it’s myself knew he wouldn’t shtand the baby.” L Miss ‘Osborne’s parlor was |that night, if possible, brighter and cheerier; than it was on the summer| day the old bachelor first entered it., Instead of roses, Christmas greens dotted with brilliant red berries looped back ‘the curtains; enwreathed the pictures, and drooped from vases and shells; and right over the talll wax candle burning on the center-table hung a bunch of mistletoe (sent with kindly greetings and a :real Eunglish plum-pudding from some kinsfolk across the sea), its waxen .betrries gleaming like clouded peals among its slender green leaves. Miss Osborne had evidently not expected her guest so soon, for she sat before the glowing grate fire with Bessie West’s baby on her knees, its small toes held out toward the welcome warmth, and it~ self cooing and gargling after the fashion peculiar to extreme youth. ,

How lovely she looked, with a spray of holly in her lair, a tender light in her eyes, and the loose sleeves of her dark silk dress falling back from her shapely white arms, as she held the child with motherly grace, and softly sang a.dreamy nursery rhyme! Miles Guernsey thought of a beautitul Ma'donna he had seen in Rome/ as he looked earnestly at her a moment before she became aware of his presence. (The black-eyed maid-servant going out in a hurry as he reached the door, he had entered unheard.) At last she started up, the roses | in her cheeks sweeter and pinker than ever. “A merry Christmas!” she cried.— “How good of you to come so early! I’ll go call Brother Robert.” | | ¢« don’t want to see your brother,” said the old bachelor, “at least not yet. I came to ask—" ; ' “I was sure you would,” said Miss Osborne, breaking out into a laugh like a young girl’s. “I told motlier so this morning. Iknow what youcame to ask.” . : : ey 5 “Are you quite certain you do?” said the old bachelor, an odd smile spreading over his face, until it danced in his handsome dark gyes. “Quite certain,” said the old maid, seriously. “But we really don’t need your help, Mr. Guerney ; for, although we are far from rich, we have enough to share with this dear little one, sent to me, it seems-—don’t think me foolish-—as a precious Chr as gift on the blessed Christmas day—the day Mary clasped her beautiful boy to her heart in the stable of Bethlehem, See, isn’t she pretty ?. Andso plump! |Take her in your arms, lam sure ' you, who are so Kind to cats and dogs, 1 N

must almost love this motherless little girl.” And she laid the child in the arms of the man who had never held a bady before, and who looked down upon it with something very like tears glittering in his eyes. ' “Yes, it is pretty and plump, and everything you say. Rosa — pardon ‘me, Miss Osborne; but please take it back, I’m afraid of it. It’s making fearful mouths at me, and I’m sure it’s going to scream,” said -the old bachelor, after holding the baby exactly two minutes, the tears, if they were tears, gone, and ‘the smile back again. “Do take it, I beg, or I shall drop it.” i i : Theold maid held out her arms. He placed the child in them. _ “And now you must go to bed, baby,” she said, turning away; and then turning back to say, with another merry laugh, “you’d scarcely believe it, Mr. Guernsey, but Waif is jealous, and so is Puss and her daughter.” : And there they were—Waif on one side of her, and the cat and her kitten on the other; all the objects ot his detestation grouped together in one terrible tableau! o e ~ “One. moment, Misg Osborne, before you go,” he stammeréd. “I have come fo ask— 7 St

“Ask anything 1 can. grant,” said Miss Osborne, encouragingly, “and I will grant it, for you have been a kind neighbor—l hope I may say friend—and this is merry Christmas—" “You to be my wife,” interrupted Miles Guernsey, a wonderful look of love lighting up his face. : The baby would have been dropped then if he had n’t caught it. But he did catch it, and the old maid, too, in his strong, tender arms. I won’t tell you what she said, but I will say that nowhere on earth was there a merrier Christmas party than at Rose Cottage that Christmas night; and I will say, further, that the following summer a Mrs. Miles Guernsey helped to superintend the culture of the early cucumbers and peas in Miles Guernsey’s miniature vegetable: garden, and that a number of rosebushes found their way across the daisy-spangled meadow and over the fence to the border of the neatly-kept lawn, and on that same neatly-kept lawn a wee baby girl tumbled about unreproved, with Waif as a constant companion and Mary Ann, the cat, as an occasional visitor. And I will stillfurther say that the next Christmas there was a grandma in the house, anq, a grandson with his mother’s light/ brown hair and his father’s dark eyes, land the most abject slave to both little ones was Mike, the “widdy man.” ‘—Harpez;’s Weeklg. £

OCCASIONALLY a person asks us to furnish the Sentinel for a year for less than the regular subscription price. We invariably reply that no paper of the size of the Sentinel, and containing the amount of reading matter that it does, can be published for less than $2 per annum unless it is published in connection with a daily paper. Every now and then a country publisher attempts to compete with city weeklies in size and price. The result, so far as our observation has been, is that the paper becomes sickly arnd eventually dies with not enough money in'the editor’s pocket to give it a decent interment, Our subscription price is inflexible.— We publish “the Sentinel for the good of the people of Fulton county and for the support-of ourself and family, and in order that we may continue in the publishing business and live we are forced to adhere to the old stand ard of $2 per year in advance.—Rochester Sentinel.

Once in a great while wé, too, run across an individual who thinks we ought to furnish him THE BANNER at less than established rates. But we have very little |difficulty in convincing reasonable men that it is simply out of question to publish a paper like THE BANNER for less than two dollars per" annum. The unreasonable we never try to convince. We allow them to depart in peace. -

THE POLITICAL SITUATION in South Carolina affords some striking contrasts, the Harrisburg Patriot observes. While Gov. Hampton’s-author-ity rests on the mor?l support: of the people, Chamberlain’s power is propped by the bayonet. Ham,pg?n peacefully resorts to the highest legal tribunal of the State for the settlement of the contest, and Chamberlain apveals to the military gower of the administration at Washington. Hampton’s appeal to the people for the payment of taxes to support the Government of which he is the head meets with a prompt and liberal response, ‘while Chamberlain cannot collect a dollar except by levy and distress.— Hampton’s government depends on the popular will, and Chamberlain’s with the withdrawal of the prop of the bayonet would sink into contempt. Is it hard to determine which of these is the true and legitimate government of the people of South Carolina? :

Happy Infiuence of a Great Specifie.

. For the preservation or recovery of health and strength, the diet should be wholesome and nutritious. When it happens that the alimentary processes ‘ are disturbed by impropper or half imasticated food, the best remedy for ' the evil results of abusing the digestive organs is Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a most agreeable, prompt and gentle remedy for dyspepsia, and for bilious and evacuative irregularities which result from it. The liver and bowels, in common with the stomach, experience, its beneficent influences. The refuse of the system is carried off through its nmatural outlet, a healthy flow and secretion of the bile is promoted; and a powerful impetus is given to assimilation in ‘consequeuce of its use. It healthfully stimulates the bladder and kidneys when they are inactive,and by its tonic and regulating action fortifiés the system against malaria. R o BT-w4, : —_—-q--—-.o——————L— e The Yosemite Qutrivaled. - A magnificent valley has recently attracted attention on King’s River, in Fresno county, California, which is forty-five miles from east to west and averages half a mile wide at the bottom. The Fresno Republican thus describes this beautiful valley: It lies five {housand feet above the sea, and its walls, which are about three thousand feet high, are very precipitous, In this valley a new grove of colossal redwood trees has been discovered. One of them eclipses all that has been discovered on the Pacific Coast. Its circumference as high up as a man can reach and pass a tape line around is a few inches less than 150 feet. This is beyond the measurement of any tree in the Calavaras Grove. The highest is estimated at 360 feet, and a part of the;jsor l{ing on the ground is over 100 feet in length. sl

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LEGISLATIVE ITEMS.

Gleaned From the Daily Reports of ‘the Proceedings. =

- Senator Riley has introduced a bill providing for the election of township officersin Aprile.. & o 0 /The regular biennial avalanche of bills to!prevent empiricism -in medicine has begun to pour in. ‘Won’t the doctors please give us a rest. ~ Representative Adams has introduced a joint resolution providing that all voters shall have resided within the precinct 60 days previous to the election in order to be qualified.

Senator Baxter, of Wayne, Tas introduced a bill making the instruction of all children between the ages of 8 and 14 years, compulsory, for a period of 14 weeks in each year, and for 7 years consecutively: .. .

Senator Dice, of Fountain, has introduced a resolution to gmend the constitution and restricting the right ‘to vote to citizens who have paid their taxes and: re(}mring them to present their tax receipts at the polls. f

| Though the salaries of members and clerks are fixed by law, very few people are aware what is paid for-their services. Members receive $6 perday, the door-keepers and ‘clerks &5, and other supernumeraries $3, per day. ‘Representative Cole has introduced a bill authorizing County-Commisson-ers to construct gravel,macadamized or pavedroads, upon the petition of a majority of the land owners along the line of ‘said road, and providing for the'assessment of the lands: adjacent thereto. v i i i

'Representative Lane has introduced a bill defining .the crime of libel and prescribing punishment therefor. In suits for libel against a newspaper, action shall be brought against the prin‘cipal -editor.: On . conviction punishment shall not exceed a fine of $50,000 or imprisonment for more than 10 years, or the court may inflict both tine and imprisonment. - 5

‘Mr. Dykeéman has introduced a bill in the State Senate, opening our public schools to colored citizens on something like terms:of equality. Mr. Dykeman’s. bill provides that in any /Aistrict where there are fifty or morecolored children they/shall have sepa‘rate schools; but where there is less than fifty they shall be admitted to the. regular schools on the same terms as white children. .. It also p{oirides ‘that beyond the graded schools white 'and colored children shall be educated to gether. There is'something like justice/ ‘in this, and we hope it will pass.

Senator Harris hasintroduced ajoint resolution to so amend the Constitution as to prohibit-counties, townships, towns and cities from extending aid to railroad. or other corporations by taking stock or making donations of money or eredit, and forbidding legislation authorizing counties, cities or townships to assume any debt of any individual or corporation. ‘

The Gospel of Merit.

‘Where there ‘is- so much rivalry as in the manufacture of family medicines, he who would succeed must give ‘positive and convincing proof of merit. This is an age of inquiry., People take nothing for-granted. They must know the “whys” and “wherefores” before acknowledging the superiority of one article over another. .Among the few preparations which have stood the test, those manufactured by R. V. Pierce, M. D., of the World’s Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y. have for many years been foremost. The truth.of any statement made concerning them can be easily ascertained, for Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy and" Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery -are now prescribed by many physicians in curing obstinate cases of Catarrhiand inecipient Consumption. The Discovery has no equal in curing Coughs, Colds, Bronchial and Nervous Affections. It allays all irritation of the mucous membrane, aids digestion, and when used with Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets readily overcomes forpid liver and Constipation, while the Favorite Prescription has no rival in -the field of prepared medicine in curing diseases peculiar to females. - If yon wish to “Lknow thyself,’ procure a copy of “The Peoplé’s Common Sense Medical Adviser,” an illustrated book of nearly 11,000 pages; adapted td'the wants of everybody. Price $1.50, postage prepaid. Addressthe author, R. V. Pierce, Buffglo, N Yo 7o oe 20000 | ¢ Negro 'l‘esumony. ‘ Ui The Arkansas Legislature has elected Gov. A. H. Garland to the Senate, One -hundred and twenty-one votes were cast, of which Garland received 113. Out of 18 Republican votes Gar‘land teceived 10, of which 5 were colored. < The Republicans voting for Garland said they did so because they regarded him a safe conservative Democrat, who had brought peace and quiet to the State, and would represéent; the whole people without regard to party. . Garland is ‘the man who was elected Governor when the State was redeemed from the rule/of Republican and carpet-bag thieves, and all the Republican papers of the North deeply deplored the: fate of the poor negroes who were to.be controlled by Garland and his political friends. Northern people should note the result. The State, which was one of the most turbulent of the -South, has since the change been peaceful and prosperous and the support the negroes and Republicans gave to Garland in opposition to the republican carpet-bagger Dorsey is significant. It. plainly shows-that the negroes of the South have begun to see that the ‘white Democrats. are the true friends of the country and the whole people without regard to color. — LaPorte Argus. Tov ol e

“Intimidation” was ‘carried to a frightful extent at Darien, in Georgia. At the recent local election there the Democrats actually nominated a respectable black man, against. a white scalawag suported by the friends of “Hayes and Reform.” And oné of the most respectable negroes in the place, to whom twins were born on election-day, caused one of them-to be baptized *“Tilden Centennial,” and the other to be baptized “ Hendricks Centennial”!. -. . = / ; :

The aged Senator Christiancy did not bring his’ young wife to Washington this winter, and this is what happened to him. Oz the cars $3OO and the check for his baggage were stolen from his pocket. On arrivingin Washington he learned that the check had enabled the thieves to steal his trunk, containing -his wardrobe and all the funds he had brought. with him. He-drew a month’s pay as a. Senator in advance, and that night burglars took it and his wateh. . Senator Chaffes, of Colorado, has introduced a bill in° Congress to compel; railroad companies to heat their ‘coaches by some other means than by stoves. . el

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Indiana News Items.

' | A one-third interest in the LaPorte Herald is offered for sale by Sims Majors, on accouny of ill health. .The diphtheria has become so prevalent that the minister at New: Bethél refused-to allow the child of ex-Officer Amus to be buried from his church from fear of Contagion..—lndianapolis Journal. i 1

The democratic organ of Vigo Co., ‘the Terre Haute Journal, was sold at Sheriff’s sale on the 15th, and fell into the hands of Major O.J.Smith, of the Express, who quietly pocketed the whole concern, and the publication will be suspended.. =~ Michael Wintrode, an old resident of Kokomo, in what'should have been his mature years, ran away with another man’s wife, and ;last week his wife got a divorce with $5,200 alimony and $5,200 for the maintainaPce of the children., : by

A Warsaw Epecial of Jan. 17, says Geo. Meyer, employed in a saw mill hiere, whlle putiing a belt on a pylley to-day, had his arm caught, tezjringi and lacerating it in a terrible manner, It was amputated at once, but he can hardly survive the shock, and.is now very low. . iy ! 2

. The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad company owns nearly 14 miles of track in this city. There are a little more than eleven miles of side track, and 214 miles of main track. The amount of taxes paid by the company to the city isabout sl,soo.—Ekhart Review . e

© Godlove S, Orth refused to speak at a Republican meeting in Lafayette recently, because, he said, he ¢ould not work himself up to the beélief that Hayes was elected. Even Godlove is too decent to give himself away for the benefit of the Chandler and Morton Conspirators. =

The newspapers dare warning the people against a speecies of swindlers that are probably coming this way. Their mode of operation is this: They travel through the country asking farmers to sign their names to _contraets for a machine to cook food for stock. The farmers are appointed agents for a certain territory, and agree to sell four machines in four years, which agreement they think they are signing, but which in reality proves to be nothing more nor less than a promissory note of from $lOO to $3OO. ILook out for this stripe of fellows. o e

“Tell Governor Hendricks for me .that I will never forfeit his confi- ' dence,” was the message sent through the Warden of the. Indiana State prison by Buck McKinney, who had .been a prisoner for 19 years, and whose pardon was the last official act of Mr. Hendricks as Governor. Over twenty years ago McKinney fired a pistol at one man, missed him and killed anotlier. For this he was sentenced to imprisonment for lz}e. He studied so much on the subject of his release that 'he became a monomaniac. Ie and Gov. Hendricks had been schoolfellows. : : J

A special meeting of the Indiana Editorial Association was held in Indianapolis on the 4th inst. The only -impeortant business transacted ' was the election of officers to serve till the, | regular annual meeting next June, ! and the adoption“of a new constitution. Following are the new officers: » President, W. S. Lingle, Lafayette CGourier; Vice-President, H. E. Wadsworth, LaPorte Argus: Secretary, 1. (. Tuttle, Indianapolis News; Treas“urer, W. A. Bell, Indiana School Jousnal; Executive Committee—TFirst District, Sam: Magill, Rockville Republican,; Second District, Isaac M.Brown, Columbus Republican,; Third District, E. N. Halford, Indianapolis Journal; Chairman; Fourth, District, Wmn. Fleming, Fort Wayne Sentinel ; Fifth ' District, George I. Reed, Peru Republican. ' b ‘ ! The South Bend Register says: “A serious case of pork poisoning occurred at the residence of James Platz, ‘ in the third ward, on Tuesday of last week; resulting in the severe illness of five: persons. Platz’s family is’ composed of himself, his wife and a young son, and they invited to dine, - with them Mr. and Mrs, William Porter, residing on West Washington street. Fresh pork spareribs were ‘freely partaken: of by all, at dinner, and at bedtime the boy was seized ‘with severe sickness and excruciating pains in the stomach, followed shortly after by the rest who had eaten of the spareribs. None of them. were able to go for a physician, and they were compelled to pass -the night without other attendance than they were able to afford each other. Mr. and Mrs. Porter were unable to return homg until Wednesday after-. noon, and all look as though they had ‘passed through a severe siege, A swine-breeders organization was completed at Indianapolis about two weeks ago, by the adoption of a constitution and the elegtion of the following officers for the ensuing year: President, W. A. Macy, of Louisville; Vice-President, Joseph Gilbert, Terre Haute; Secretary, L. A. Burke,Lafay‘ette; Treasurer, C. Dickson, Indiana‘polis. The constitution sets forth the object of the association to be to encourage the interest and promote improvement in the breeding and management of the various breeds of swine by thedissemination of reliable and practical information on the subjeet; to devise, by united action, if * possible, some remedy or preventive for the disease commonly known as hog cholera, and by co-operating with the officers of the State Board of Agriculture in making large and attractive exhibitions of hogs at the annual State Fair, Itis provided thatannual meetings of the .association shall be held on Thursday after the first Monday in January. B !

.. No Failure Known. . There is no ‘case on record where Dr. Morris’ Syrup of Tar,Wild Cherry and Horehound has failed to give satisfaction. On the other hand, wherever it has been used by our people, in fevere colds, coughs, asthma, bron- - chitis, eroup, hooping-cough and. consumption, they are enthusiastic in its praisé., Containing no opium or other dangerous drug, it does not constipate, and is safe to administer in all condi- ° ‘tions of health, - This is an important: announcement, and the suffering are advised to heed it. Trial size, 10 ets.; large sizes, 50 cts. and One Dollar. Sold by C. Eldred & Son, Ligonier, Indiana. . Also ﬂkvgents‘ for - Prof. Parker’s Pleasant Worm Syrup, which is - sure death to worms, pleasant to take, - and requires no physic. - Price 25 cts. - ey ibren vt 8-eOW. - “Do you know what bulldozing is?” asked & man of an old farmer, “I thcl;g‘ﬁ’lﬂ‘d," said the g{:ng : “but ‘the bull was n’t dozing; he was only ‘making believe, and being in themid. the WA‘mmm.»@ o