The National Banner, Volume 12, Number 5, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 May 1877 — Page 2

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|~ No'man worthy of the office of President should be willing to hold 3t if oumbed v or placed there by fraud.”— .S GeaxT. ot

' TuE Presbyterian General Assembly s been in session in Chicago during Ihe past few days! g

It turns out that the reports of a emeral uprising of the Mormons are ¢vessly exaggerated if not wholly untrme. Singular how prone some people are 1o setting afloat false reports. =

,Tme New York State officers persistently refuse to “recognize” either Tayes orany of his cabinet officers. Like the N. Y. Sun they regard the whole administration as the creation «f astopendous fraud. = :

IT 1s salD that Senator Morton has given “Bueck " Terrell the cold shoulder in his aspirations to the consolidated pension agency. There are many applicants for the position, as might be expected. It is a “fat” office.

W. K. Rocers, President Hayes’ private sea'etary has addressed a note to the publishers of the New York Swn, intimating that a gratuitous copy of that sprightly daily would be agreeably received at- the. exeeutive mansiom. The Sun people decline the “liberal” inmvitation, very properly, we Ihink. If Mr.Eayes wants to read the Sun he ought to be willing to pay for '?3{ as other people do. i

' Tuar badly “soured” politician, old Simon Cameron, in his speech at the parting with Grant at Philadelphia, on Thursday, said: “I believe when be returns to us, he will be asked to take the helm again when the ship of State is seen to be going to destruection” Absurd, Simon. Gen. Grant will never again be seriously ‘theught of in connection with the Presidency. The country has had niore’ than enough of Grantism. |- :

CoL. WHITTLESEY, of Indianapolis, is taking a lively interest in the red ribbon movement. In -one of his rec&nt 'speeches he announced it as his conviction that he had been making'a -fool of himself in thinking that whisky was necessary to his physical well‘being. Since he had braced up he had felt, beiter than ever before. "He feTicitated himself upon the step he had takeln, and invited all his friends togo and ‘do- likewise. The temperance movement is making great headway ut the State capital.. . _ *

!éow coMes Judge Crawford. of Geodrgia, with the open declaration that when he was in Washington at the beginning of the civil war and tryimg o have a peaceful recognition of the Southern Confederacy, that Secretary Seward indorsed the plan, and favored allowing the seceding States to depart quietly. He said that in three vears, if this was' done, every State would be back in the Union or clamworing for admittance. The probabiliTies are that Seward’s prediction would have been verified, but it was too much of a risk to consent to a dissolution.

I_‘nr.citizens of 'Chaftanooga. Ten-

~ messee, have extended the following _ Imvitation to President Hayes and his | Cabinet and their wives: “The peo- ' pile of Chattanboga, without regard to paity lines, liereby invite youto at- . tend the decoration of the graves of " the Federal dead in the national.cem- . #iery, mear this city, by the late sol_dliers of both armies on the 30th inst., and alse to a dinner to commemorate . the peace and prosperity inaugurated ' W the Southern policy.” Some of the most, prominent men in the country * will be present and participate in the =Xercise. s 3

- Frox eastern papers we gather the information that the forest fires in morthern New York continue to rage, and the owners of timber lands are fishting them with might and main. From the middle of May to early June, The Sun says, is the period of their ordinary occurrence. They annually consume vast numbers of valuable trees =t this season, and the inhabitants of the regions they afflict are kept at work might and day in trying to prevent their progress. When the underbrash has fairly grown and the trees’ are in full leaf, their devastations are‘*( mo Jonger dreaded. They may have' begun a few days earlier than usual this year. -As to their extent, that seems to have been very great, and the ‘ damage they have done this spring has ‘ leen enormous. :

~ T=E Selinsgrove T'imes, one of the - strictest democratic journals of i.the - old Kevstone,"says: “We read a good #ieal im republican papers about Mr. Hayes having “gone back on the principles of his own party.” Well, ‘what - =principles” did he go backon? Who - =amtell? We cannot see what princi- - piesbe lias deserted, excepting one, and m:& hoped for shame’s sake, no ent Republican will admit as a.prin-| ciple of their party although in fact it 2<, mumely, that the Southern States should forever be governed by mili~ zsry rale for the purpose of keeping " Ui vepublican party in power ad inJimitwm. This is the whole head and - Tromt of Hayes’ offending, that heaboleshed military rule; which none but «n infernal scoundrel would favor in « fyee country in time of peace. Gen- - shemen, this is the wholeqnegtion ina mutshell. These politicians are op- | pased to Hayes, not because he comssibed 2 wrong, but because he did a moble and patriotic deed. Whether This depd was done from an honest wd conscientious motive, he J}lone . kmows; but no matter what the’motive was, it is nevertheless mn ~ ®he President in this single act of : ‘M B e S S :J-%‘a:ﬁwﬂ~ S.- g A S g~m

& R o r:%« ¢ 5T' ~ Reports from the western add northoutlook for a rich harvest§s of an encouraging-and promising @haracter. Admitting that some unfoféscen caTamity may et blaat thedfond hopes and expectations of western farmers, the prospect af prm ateould reasonably be desired. This is especially 80 in Northern Imdiana, and a somewhat’ careful analysis of the re_ports from other portions of the State “enables us to say that what is true of our own .immediate neighborhood, also holds good as to the general condition of the groufiﬁg' crops in all other sections of our great commonwealth. With scarcely a single excéeption the reports indicate a most flattering prospect in every county of the State.

From Illinois the reports are somewhat varying.. According to' the extensive reports recently published in the Chicago Tz‘mef it would appear that culture of wheat and the smaller cereals in Northern Illinois is gradually dying out, and that the chief crop hereafter will be corn, to be consumed: in raising hogs and feeding cattle. In a word, butter and cheese and pork are to be the staples of that part of the State, and those farmers who have been the first to recognize the necessity of a change.in the products -of the region have grown rich; and prosperous. In Southern, Centfal and Eastern Illinois, on the other hand, it is expected that the wheat crop will be very large this year-—fully 40 per cent. Leyond what it' was in 1876 and equal to the great yield of 1874—Dbut the cold weather and the rains have retarded corn-planting, and a portion of the south-west @f the State .was quite recently almost literally under water.— As anatural consequence the corn.crop outside of Northern Illinois is estimated at 35 per cent. bélow' the average. One of the T'imes reporters, whose path lay through the southern part of the State, declares that the farmers -with whom he came in contact were working hard and living frugally, weighed down with mortgages and badly discouraged. o ‘ln Wisconsin, on the other hand, the farmers are in good spirits, and expect a crop that may restore them to the prosperity which. they enjoyed before the panic of 1873. The production of wheat will be increased and the other grains will at least hold their own. The corn is not yet entirely planted, but the ground has been prepared for an extensive crop.. The weather has been admirable, neither too wet nor too dry. P o

From the vas} fields of Minnesota comes the same pleasant story, and the best agricultural authority in that State estimates the wheat crop at 40, 000,000 bushels; while even such farmers as may be designated chronic grumblers, say that all will go well if the grasshoppers let things alone. .

- In Jowa the same tendency towards ‘a decrease in wheat productioh that ‘has been observed in Northern Illi)nb’is 18 discernible, and}a very large ‘number of the farmers of the State are abandoning that cereal for corn. The fear of the prairie .eagle,” by which ‘, title local journalists designate the locust,isin Jowaa serious dread, and not, '-as in Minnesota, an idle anticipation. " In Nebraska thereare no complaints ‘made against the climate, Lut the farmers can do nothing in the shape offsowing with the certainty that they shall reap the harvest, since the grasshoppers are ha.t'ching out in nearly all parts of the State, but the destructive .poﬁvers of the insect seems failing. A ‘red paraéite has ?iilled off many of the young, the rains have drowned others and not a few are-said to have adopted the habit of eating each other when better food gets scarce. It is notlikely, therefore, that there will be any! ‘such flight of the locusts as that which! took place last year, when a column of them two hundred miles in width consumed threé weeks in passing. Those that are hatching out the farmers are doing what they can’to exterminate, -catching some of them in ditches, and burying them, gathering othersin large scoops smeared with turpentine, and burning othersin straw laid along in swaths to lare them to shelter from the night air. g ‘Kansas may suffer from the same ‘plague, but in the mean Wwhile it has plucked up courage and planted from 10 t@2o per cent. more wheat than usual. In some counties. the Brospect is more than ordinarily ‘good, though the late floods may have done considerable damage. - S With favorable weather, which thus far could scarcely have been wished better, the American people have wellfounded hopes of an abundant harvest. A realization . thereof will relieve the country of the depression'which is being so terribly felt in almost every locality and which is largelv due to the disasters that have fallen upon the western farmers during the past féw years. . - 3 seal B

- Ex-Gov. CHAMBERLAIN has been admitted to the bar of New York. He will remove to the city of New York in June. In conversation with a reporter the other day, the ve(x-‘(?overnor remarked that there is no republican party- in South Carolina;, and that there will not be any. -An indication of‘the failure of Mr. Hayes’ policy 'was 'visible in the recent election in Chester. The Democrats cartied the place by 700 majority, the same that the Republicans used to poll. " The republican party is dead in the State, because its organization has been destroyed. In the next State election there may be, two parties, but if so, they will result from a division of the Democracy. _As for Governor Wade Hampton, Mr, Chamberlain regards him as in advance of his party. f

The crop reports which we print this morning are, as a rule, very favorable. Wet weather . has delayed the corn planting somewhat, as well as hindered the sprouting ot that already put in, and replanting will be necessary to a considerable extent; but, on the other band, winter and spring wheat and grass never looked better, and everything is favorable to an exceptionally heavy crop all around.—Chicago T'ribune, May 21st. =

' ASEVERE wind, rain and hail storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, Ppassed over Washington City, on'Sunday night last, doing congiderable damage. Houses were unroofed, fences, trees and telegraph poles blown down, and carriages and wagons demolished.

- KENDALLVILLE LOCALS. 1t seems that Kendallville is desti b ed to become nototious, but the v’vojt feature of this fact is that of late her notoriety is turning upon the frequent occurrence of crime within our midst. The shooting affray of last. Friday morning eclipses, perhaps, anything in the shape of genuine tragedy that has ever been connected with the history of our usually peaceable city. It sent a thrill, yea, a shock as of an electric current, through the entire city. The sudden announcement of a shocking and! bloody murder (it' was at first thought to besuch), and at the hands of one who§, until that moment, was supposed to be hundreds of miles -away, as may we}i be supposed caused 4 wild sensation. Owing to the nu» merous and, varied rumors immediately set afloat, it is next to impdssible to get at the facts connected with the sad affair. We are cdhstmined to believe, ho‘w’ever, thfat the “green-eyed monster” played a conspicuous part in the affair and was probably the main incentive to the rash ack. It appears that J. Wesley Bixler, Prosecu-tor-elect for this (the 35th) District, while attending to his duties atWashington, as clerk in the Land Office Department, had recein’d an anonymous letter, conveying the intelligence that there existed an illicit familiarity between one W. D. Pike, of this cityand his wife. TFired with rage, Bixler arrived on the early morning train from the south, procured a revolver at the hardware store of Geo. B. Teal & Co., stating that he wanted to kill a troublesome cat, proceeded to the residence of Pike and invited the latter to accompany him tu‘h/is home. Mrs. Bixler being sick, the guest was invited

into the bed-room, where, after a brief injterview. he was assaulted by Bixler, three shotjl being fired in quick suecession, - inflicting frightful and very dangerous wounds in the head and neck of the defenseless vietim. One shot ‘took effect near the temple and was 80 serious as to leave the brain oozing from the wound. He was also wounded in the thumb, In this condition Pike escaped from the house: and wads picked up 'ogx the sidewalk and assisted to his own home. The sick woman, in her fright, got out of bed and ran up stairs, while the hired girl, in a.né' adjoining room, seized the child and fled from the house. Bixler was immediately arrested and placed under bond of $1,000: to appear for prelimihary examinatibn on Sla.turday next.. This bond was thought by Pike’s friends to be insufficient, and was subsequently increased to $3,000 and Bixler again released on bail. It does not yet appear that there was any positive evidence of guilt on’ the part ot the parties charged with-illicit intimacy, and public sentiment condemns the proceedings of the enraged consort as rash and unwarrantable in the extreme. There may be developments on the day of trial which will throw the matter in a different light. W. D. Pike is a brotheg,of L. E. Pike, who has for some six or seven years been engaged in the grocei‘y business in this place, and by whom he was employed as aclerk. Hehas a family and, though he had been in the place but a few months, was generally respected by those with whom he:had formed acquaintance. TRy

‘ B. R. Sheffer met with a serious accident on Saturday, by which 'he nar‘rowly escaped losing his life, as did, ' also, a young girl, daughter of George \ Leighty, of Lisbon. The particulars ‘are as follows: Mr.S. had been in the ‘¢ountry on business and was returning ‘to town. Near Lisbon he overtook the little girl (aged 13 years), on her ‘way to town, and invited her to ride with him. ‘A train of cars passing on the G. R. & L. R.‘R., which runs paral~ lel with the wagon road, first attract- ‘ ed the attention of his horse—a spirit‘ed animal—bat he had little trouble in governing him, until a team coming up behind excited him so that in going down the hill he became unmanagable and when near Reed’s grove dashed between the fence and a tree, striking Mr. Sheffer’s head against the tree and running the wagon against the fence on the opposite side. Both were thrown from the wagon and frightfully bruised.f The girl was insensible for a few minutes, and for a while her ‘recovery was thought doubtful. -We ‘learn since that she is improving. Mr. Sheffer was severely bruised about the head and shoulders, but no bones were broken. He is up and areund town, but will not be able to work for a few days. -The horse soon freed himself from the wagon and ran home, without sustainigg any injury. L In the list of crime we have to record the robbery of Mrs. Job Rendel, living some three miles north of the city, which occurred at the G. R. & L railroad depot this (Tuesday) morning. She was about to purchase a ticket, and laid her pocket-book on the win-dow-sill of the ticket office, when her husband ' came up and purchased the ticket for her. She then turned to pick up the pocket-book, but it was not there. Some thief had, unobserved, secured the booty and made good: his escape. The book contained some gixty-five dollars. .

Rev. Cone delivered & stirring temperance address at the Tinion temperance meeting on Su‘pday evening at the Disciple church. Their regular meetings are held on Tuesday evening of each week. i

< G. 8. Merkling has commenced the erection of his new marble shop on Mgin street. = | Amos and John Bloomfield, living some ‘three miles west of this city, were an‘ested last week, on charge of stealing hoop-poles and timber from a neighboring farm, the property of a man residing in Chicago. The amount claimed is $3OO. Both have given bail for their appearance at the next term of ¢ourt. Though that is but a mote in comparison to the Bixler case, we do not covet their chances for a term at Michigan City. /* ‘James Nellis has made some ifportant Improvements in front of the postoffice building, in the shape ‘of a new sidewalk, &e. Good, . - The new marshal is on duty, =~

+ Preparations are being made for the due observance of Decoration Day. Turn out, patriots, and let us give one day to the memory of our departed brave. s : ' - *Deectors Gilbert, Myers and Abell have been appointed by our city dads

to serve in the ca‘ipacity of a Board of Health. o i Jonathan Rimmel got worsted a little in a tussle with a vicious cow the other day. The cow had made an attack upon Mr. R’s liftle boy and the father came in a$ protector. %

The handle factory of this city only runs semi-@ccasim}ally. 2] Mechanics complain of having but little to do, and when they do get an occéasional ‘job' they are generally obliged to trust and take slow pay. . The prospects for.an apple crop in this vicinity are inot flattering. Of peaches, cherriesand other small fruits there will be an abundance. Wheat never looked better at this season. Except a few cases of ineasles, health is genei'ally good. - SIE V. '

Blder Winebrenner lin Virginia. "To the Editor of The National Banner: Here in Newport, Page county, Virginia, where on yesterday eyening (May 15th) I lectured on Elen White's Visions, now by the side of the Shenandoah Riven, I write this article. Here I met with Eldex‘sﬁ‘-Corlfiss and Lane, the latter a brother of S. 11. Lane of Indiana, and arranged to tiscuss the Sabbath question. - We commenced on Monday, May 9th, uﬁd-closed on Saturday, the 12th infg\t., Jasting four days. - Six hours constituted a ddy, and was made up of three gsessions, oune in the forenoons: one -ip the afternoon and the otl‘ner at lamp-lighting. On the two first days Elder Corliss afiirmed the Decalogue Sabbath as binding gfpon_‘ christians in its sacred observanpé. The last two days I aflirmed the sacred observance of the first day of the week; Lshowed up that the Bible nowhere taught christians to sacredly observe the sev-enth-day Sabbath. I demanded of

him to tell us how often the seventhday Sabbath occurred in ‘the Bible. ‘He evaded the question for awhile, but I urged an answer until he oWhed up that it nowhere‘oceurred in the Bible, but claimed that the \\‘*or(il “Sabbath” meant- seventh ddy. But he utterly failed to show that the seventh ;(;lay was 'bi‘m;]ing upon christians,while ‘I showed.that the Greek word Sabbaton, ete., when used with and for first day, was a sabbath just as much as when used with or app}ied'to the seventh day, and that this gives us a Lord’s day Sabbath ; “that the old Sabbath was in its end, Matt. xxviii; 1, and Mark xvi; 1, it was past. In the first instance, the Lord’s Sabbath was dawning, approaching; in the second statement, it is here, hence the old is past and the new fully come, established. I showed up its type in the wave offering (Gen. xxiii; 15-21)which found its antetype in Christ’s resurrection, and the day—the day, upon which He arose, convocation or meeting day. Christ appointed the-first meeting on the first day.—Matt. xxvi; 32.;, Mark xix; 28. Then after He arose, ‘Matt. xxviii; 16, “Then the eleven disciples went away .into. Gallilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.” Also, Mark xvi; 7. John'xx; 19, gives us the meeting.

We showed that the old covenant embraced the ten commandments, and T 7. Smith, of Battle Creek, Mich., says if it does then, according to Hebrews, it is don_e away. 3

The interest of the con“grggations was good, large and attentive. The President and my moderator decided that the first day’s sacred observance was a complete 311éC¢_ss. Our people are well pleased with the result, and think that Seventh Day Adventism is about at an end in this place. I Jearn that some-gave it up who were pretty firm in the Advent faith. -The truth convinced them of their error. The Adventists appeared mueh diseouraged, the ministers were disappointed and could not hide it. They tried to rule Ellen’s book out of the erate, but the ruling was against them. “When I return ‘I will give some-| thing on the country and people., * | PETER WINEBRENNER.

- Michigan Revisited. "EDITOR BANNER:—It has been so long since we have written a letter tor THE BANNER that we hardly know how to go about it. B Ag items of interest arge scarce -in our own neighborhood, we thought that a little news from the Wolverine State, ‘and what our business was there, might be of some interest to the many readers of THE BANNER, especially .those who are interested in the welfare of the Lutheran Church.

+ Qur Conference met May 15th, at Mottville, six miles west of White Pigeon, and as it is the conference to which we belornig it was a question’ of study how to get there. In these hard times, when everybody is trying.to economize, how can a minister who has no field of labor find it possible to go to conference? : For, without money it is useless' to. try to ride the “iron horse.” But we concluded to walk, and ‘'we did so. " After walking nearly all day we reached White Pigeon, and finding our ministerial brother, Rev. A. McLaughlin, and taking a little rest we soon found -ourself in a buggy bounding over the prairie for Mottville. Our conference is composed of twelve ministers, eight of whom were in attendance. ‘ ! .

- After spending a few days together very profitably, and’ transacting the business of conference, we. reached home on Friday evening at 9 o’clock. Though tired, yet we are glad that we did 'attend the meeting of the North District Conference’of the Synod of Northern Indiana. ‘ b 'Chis was;our third visit to Michigan, attending Synod unce at’Constaritine, Conference once at Three Rivers,: and now at Mottville. ALiS. A. : i'loods in Kansas., |

’- A Lawrence, Kansas, dispateh, of the 21st insti says the heavy rains of the past week have raised the streams in that vicinity to an nnusual height. Kansas river at this poiritis now higher than it has been at any time since 1858, The Atchison, Topeka & Santa TFe Railroad is under water west of the city for a distance of one-fourth of a mile, and no trains had passed on. that day. The Kansas Pacific has a washout a mile out of about 100 feet, the track being carried away. A bridge still further west went down this evening, and an accommodation tramn is ¢aught between the breaks. Both roads are using the track of the Carbondale road; by which route they are able to take their trains through with regularity. further rise of two feet is expeeted, but it is not thought it twin cause any serious losg of prop-

Indiana News Items. No less than 800 poor, hungry wanderers visited Notre Dame, South Bend, during the -past year, who received such refreshment and.clothing as their immediate wants called for. « At the 'semi-annugl session of the Grand Lodge M, at Indianapolis last week, therenorts showed 515 effective lodges in the State, with a membership of over 26,000. . The amount paid for relief,and charity for six months is $40,000.} The resources of the lodges are over $1,500,000.

A gentlemanicalledjm Monday, who proposgs to start a Laundry if he ean tfind room ‘in town for his family. He had searched the town over and'had nof as yet found a place. ‘He reports two other families who would move In, if they could find houses.. Now is a good time to build some tenant houses;—Lagmngq Standard. -

The Grand Lodge of F. & A. Masons met in the city of Indianopolis last T'uesday. Grand Master Devoll’s address waslengthy, and full of informa= tion as to the standing of'the order in the State. After its delivery, routine business occupied the session. Receipts of the year, $41,420.80 ; expenditures, $35,867. Dr. A. J. Hay, of Charlestown, was €elected Grand Master. - Mr. John Luse, a citizen of Pierceton, Kosciusko county, fell dead -of heart disease, in frontof the Indianian office, at Warsaw Monday. He was in Warsaw .in answer to a summons as a juror, and was conversing with some friends when he complained of 4 pain in bis breast, and at once fell upon the pavement dead. IHe leaves a large family. e :

The Black Hills Pipneer, of May 12, says: Mr. J. M. Studebaker, of South Bend, Indiana, the¢ famous. wagon manufacturer, bought claims No. 14 and 15 on Deadwood, below Discovery, for $12,000 cash. Finding in the Hills three of s former employes -who had served him faithfully. for over ten years, he divided the interest of this valuable property with them as a recognition of past services.

* Mrs Badger, £l. young widow, Who is attending the Tort Wayne conservatory fof musie, met with a sinqulﬁr and distressing accident the other day. In passing through the hall she tripped against a lamp left carelessly standing on the floor, ‘and fell full length, striking her face upon the chimney, which was thrown from the lamp, gashing her face in a shocking manner and completely cutting her right eye in two. o The Dearborn county court has an interesting case, in which Hon. Wm. S. Holman is one of the attorneys. It grew out of a transaction ot this kind: A man bought a house and some land of another, and in tearing up the floor of the house found; $1,400 in gold, which the former owner had hidden there, and forgot to remove when he sold the property. The finder wants to keep it and the other man wants to cluteh it once more.

© The Deadly Tornado. 1 DEs Moings, la., May 21.—A tornado near Harlan, Shelby county,on Friday evening, blewjaway 4 houses. The inmates escaped injury, except a babe of Mr. Headley, which was found dead some distance from the house. The mother and three chil‘dren were- left sitting on the, floor, 'the house having been blown to fragments.. Mr. Headley was in his barn; which was blown down, and he escaped from the ruins, only to find his house demolished. :

. Loeaxsporr, Ind.; May 24.—The ‘most severe storm for years visited Marion, Ind., on Sunday. Houses were unroofed, trees uprooted, and fences destroyed. A brick church nine miles rorth of Marion was demolished, and at the time it was filled with people attending the Dunkard service. The roof was uplifted, and the walls fell in, burying the inmates. The scene that followed was a terrible one. A youngman was killed and 10 or 15 seriously injured. sl ~BostoN, Mdy 18th.—John Hayes was killed and several injured by lightning at Greenfield, this afternoon. About the same time a violent hail and thunder storm passed over Northwestern Rhode Island: In Pascoag much glass was broken, and great damage done to, furniture in dwellings'and ‘machinery in mills in the neighborhood:of Bennington. Crops were much damaged by hailstones, one of which svas five inches in diameter, another ten inches in circumference, and another weighed 104 ounces. . e i

EXIT ZACH CHANDLER. - Disgusted Retirement to lis Western Home. | : WASHINGTON. May 20.—Ex-Senator and ex-Secretary and ex-Chairman Zach Chandler turned his face yesterday from Washington towards “his home in the bright setting of the sun.” No man with sadder facé or heavier heart has shaken the dust from off his shoes and commenced @ more weary pilgrimage from Washington these twenty years. For the first time in. fifteen yeans he has closed his house here, one of the largest in the city, and shipped his furniture to Detroit. Neither will ever return. The great chairman of the cdmmittee on the misconduct of the war goes back out of pocket with the republican committee and out of mind with the Administration. Since that awful day in the kalends of March, when he heard that Schurz had succeeded him in the Cabinet, he'has not been himself, though known to have remarked “that he had lived to- see the greatest travestic in the history of American politics.” For weeks past his fayerite reading has been Phillips’s lecture on the “Slave-hound, Cabinet,” with its graceful reference to, the reward of the “Swiss Soldier,” which improved his mental health not a little; but his taking off at the close of a ptblic life in Washington of twenty years has been that of unwept and unhonored, if not unsung. : i !

The Rockford Aceident. ' Rooxrorp, 111., May 15.—The coroner’s jury, |after several meetings, in which little evidence, and that unimportant in character, was taken, to-day examined H. L. Gay, the architect of the falling court house, at great length. Gay testified that Richardson had carried out the plans and specifications carefully and accurately. Subsequently the four Chicago architects were examined. Willett testified that the piers ‘which gave. way were not piers in the proper sense of the term, as they should be but part of a common wall; they should have been of great strength. and then the accident would hardly have happened, He thought the brick was not of a fit quality, nor did it comply with Gay’s specifications. The walls were built smaller than the plans called for. He placed thé responsibility on the technical ignor.ance and incompetence of the. local superintendent, Latham. The other architects coincide with these views. Contractor Richardson gave his figures, which showed that the support. as planned gy Gay seemed insufficient to him, and said that Superintendent Latham had called the architect’s at‘tention to this, e did net think Gay & man of sufficient experience for such a rezgonaible job. The architects under cross-examination refused to jndorse Gay’s plans, though they gerier;’g,ny upheliim, - . 0 : ISR T A

' THE PEESIDENCY. | Revival of the Report that Mr, Tilden will Conte ‘_ st Kﬂ;ﬁl’l“l‘iﬂm e - [Special Dispatch to the N. Y. World] WASHINGTON, May 20.—The National Republican of yesterday revives the Ql&ist’ory current here a month ago that Mr. Tilden intends to test i'tﬁ’ Hayes’s legal right to the Presidency uader the last section of the Electoral Commission bill, to whieh, - according to the same authority, Field’s Quo Warranto .bill is to be supplemented. The latter bill is to be pressed to a passage in both houses at the next session, and under it Hayes is to be ousted, it says, upon the evidence taken: by the Congressional, committees sent to the doubtful Stdtes and are now in ‘the hands of Mr. Tilden. The Republican gives +this statement the prominenee of a double-leaded editorial and adds as its reason for it an alleged interchange of views during the recess between Mr.: Tilden and his friends “and the disaftected and unregenerated Republican party.” There is no .doubt that all but one of the members of the Louisiana Returning Leard would now honestly certify the electoral vote of Louisiana to Mr, Tilden, if they had the opportunity, and regret they had counted both Tilden and Nicholls 6ut. Even old Wells says that if Nicholls is the lawful Governor of Louisiana, Tilden is the lawful President vf the United States; but, at the same time, it is doubted by the latter’s. friends herelif any proceeding in the nature of quo warranta is to be instituted to depose Hayes. Mr. Merrick, of counsel. before the; Commission, knows nothing of it. : : [The World editorially discredits the Republican’s statement.]

A Burying Grief in Death. ‘i (From'the Brazil, Ind,, Mirror, May 10.) i& sad death oceurred in Harmony on Sunday evening last. Mr. George Halstpad, who was well known throughout Clay county, committed suicide by shooting himself, on the above named evening, at about seven .o’clock. He was one of the bondsmen of John Steed, ‘and it is supposed that mengal depression over his pecuniary responsibility was the cause, He had beena very industrious and hard-work-ing man all the days of his life, and it is said that his estate will foot up somewhere near $25,000. His liability on the bond, even if heshould have had to pay every dollarof it; would not, we are told, have exceeded $3,300. This was indeed a singular action for a man possessed of so much property. He should have borne his financial reverses in a more philosophical manner. He leaves a wife and step-chiid to morn his unfortunatedeath. Mur. Halstead had always been regarded as the very soul of honor and integrity, and was never known to do a mean act for the sake of gain, Ie was 47 years of age, but from his youthful appearaunce would have been taken I)for a much younger man.; He was scrupulously exact in all his business relations with his fellow. men, .and never owed a .dollar that' he would not pay promptly and willingly, which, by the way, i 8 much more than can be said of a large per cent. of the human family. He had many noble qualities; he was a kind husband, and an obliging'and accommodating neighbor, and all who knew him respected him for his many noble qualitiesand fine sense of honor. He had been very despondent for several days before he committed the rash act, but no one supposed that he would terminate his life in the manner he did. ' ;

S Rl <D B—— | ALL BOSH. 2, THE SENSATIONAL STORIES| ABOUT A§ ' MORMON UPRISING. - [St. Louis Globe-Democrat.}? { ; - CoicAco, May 9.—‘—Lieuténél,n¥:-(}e_;l- - Phil, Sheridan informed your correspondent to-day that the news being telegraphed from RSalt Lake City to New York, in regard to a Mormon uprising in Utah, was all bosh. He oaid that Cslonel John - T Smith, who is stationed at Salt Lake with the fourteenth Infantry, kept the military department informed as to the state of affairs there. He did not believe that arms were being shipped to the Mormons, or that they were secretly drilling. If such were the case Colonel Smith would have considered it his duty to telegraph the War Department immediately. As to Brigham Young’s speech in jthe tabernacle on Sunday last, he did not think the wild' utterances of the old sinner amounted to anything, one way or the other. The Government apprehends no trouble worth speaking of from the Mormons, and should an uprising take place, troops enough could be sent into the Territory to cripple the polygamists in ten days. =~ = =

i | A Russian Victory. | To offset a dispatch by-way of Constantinople, giving the details of a small engagement near Sukum-Kaleh, in which the Turks were victorious, an official: account is’ received of an important Russian success at Ardahan, a strongly fortified town about mid-way between. Kars and Batoum. The official réport pf Gen. Melikoff, sent to the Grand Duke Michael, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army .of the Caucasus, recites the splendid as: sault by the Russian regiments upon the fortifications after the artillery hadialready prepared the way by making a breach inithe walls. The Turks fled, leaving the town and its defenses, and' large stores of provisions and ammunition, in the hands of the victors. The capture of Ardaham is of great importance to the Russian plan of operations in Armenia, as it removes ore serious obstacle to the advance of that wing of the army operating to the northward of Kars in the direction of Erzeroum and Trebizond.

- Five Children Burned to Death. BINGHAMTON, May 16.—LittleYork, Cortland county, is a flag station on the Syracuse and Binghamton railroad, fifty miles north of ‘the city. «The station house was occupied by Frank Dunigan, section foreman. ‘At about 5 o’clock he started the kitchen fire and with his wife went across the tracks to the barn, leaving |their five children asleep in the house. The mother returned from milking shortly afterward and found the house in fiames. Calling her husband, both went into the building, but could not reach theisecond story on account of the fire.; The mother: attempted to rush into the flames, but was restrained by the husband. Both were severely burned. The children were burned to death. The bodies were recovered about twb hours afterward. The oldest child was aged about nine years. It is supposed that the fire caught from the kitchen stove.

| 50,000 Deaths fecom Cholera, WASHINGTON, May 15.—Capt. Henry Small, his sister, Chief officer Dyer and three seamen of the American bark Edmond Phinney died of cholera ~abt Akijab en the 25th of March last. i The cholera prevailed to an alarming extent about Chittagong and the isdands inundated by the great storm wave of the 31st of October last. F'ifty thousand deaths have been reported from cholera, and in addition to these there have been large numbers from ‘pestilence and fevers attributed to the decompesition of human beings and cattle. L e D&—— e . . There are rumors that the Eastern war is certain to assumeé such proportions that the immediate parties to it halt for a moment, dreading to take the inevitablé plunge. There is a possibility that the magnitude of the struiggle _impending may appall Europe into a peaceable adjustment, When the issue is certain to be no war or a general war, the chances are in favor of no war.—~Chicago T'ribune,

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A heart-rending calamity occurring last Tuesday at Chester, Pa., converted into a sickening horror an_tbc'casion usually of the most joyous arid agreeable nature. At the launching of a large iron steamship built in the Chester yards, a number of workmen who were under, the hull tailed to hear the warning given, and 'when the blocking was knocked away the great monster passed down to th%/‘ watqr over the mangled remains of |the unfortunates. Latest accounts put the number of killed at séven and the wounded at three. e A Mrs. Harris, of Matvoon, 111., @izwé birtlz) the other day to t'l'oml‘ets whose combined weight turned the scales at 22 pounds. The half frantic father contemplates suicide. They were all doin% well af last accounts and an enthneihgtie inventar ic trying to havae the process patented. . - :

. THE MARKETS. . o 'LIGONIER. GRAIN AND SEEDS.— Wheat, red, $l- - Rye, To¢; Oats, 40¢; Corn,! 50c; Flax Seed, $1 35; Clover Seed, $9 00; Timothy Seed, $2 00@2 50. _ Propuce.—Hogs, live, {? cwt $4 00, Shoulders, per pound, 08c; Hams, 10¢; Bees Wax, 25¢; Butter, 12@13; Lard; 12¢; Bggs, § doz, 9¢; Wool, 1b,20@ 30¢; Feathers, §oc; Tallow, 07c; Apples, dried, 4¢, green, @ bu. 50c; Potatoes,l 00@1 05; Hay, ) ton, marsh $6, timothy %8. o L .

. KENDALLVILLE. '+« GRAIN AND SEEDS.fg"}ie&lt, white $1 85, red $1 %5; Corn, 48¢; Oats, 42¢; Clover Seed, $5 00; Flax, $1 00; Timothy, $2 25. S OTHER PRODUCE.—Iams, R 1b lic; Shoulders, 08c; Lard,ll¢; Tallow, 6c; Wool, 83¢; Butter, 12¢c; Beeswax, 25¢; Apples, dried 4c, green, ¥ bu, 00c; Potatoes, 1 00; Eggs, ¥'doz. Se. = -

CHICAGO, May 21, 1877, GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, $154; Corn,47¢; 0at5,39%5¢; Rye, 75¢; Barley, 75¢; Clover Seed, $650 @ 6 00; Timothy, $1 50@1 65; Flax, $1 65@170. ; : : i ! PropwcE.—Mess Pork, Pewt; $l3 80 @lB 82; Lard, $9 12/ @ 9 20; Hams, green, P Ib; 7}{ @loc;' Shoulders, 05¢; Butter, fair to good, 14@17, choice,2o@ 23c¢; Eggs, @ doz, 10c; Potatoes, 110 @sl 20. , ' L . PouLTrY.—Turkeys, dressed, { Ib, 14@15¢ #Chickens, B doz. $3 00@3 50.

| 'TOLEDO.—May 12, 1871, - ‘ GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, amber, ‘sl 90, No. 2 Wabash, $1 85; Corn, 54c; Oats, 45¢; Clover Seed, sg3 00! LIVE STOCK MARKETS. j CHICAGO, May 21st.—Cattle, heavy, B cwt, $5 50@5 75, good to:choice si--10@5 40, common to fair s3' 75@4 755 cows and heifers, $3 00@3 53. Hogs, extra heavy $5 50@5 62, common to choice heavy $5 10@5 20, light $5 00 @5 20. Sheep, good to choice heayy, # cwt, $4 00@6 50. : . | Burrro, May 21.—Cattle. Sllipping,f $5T6@5 90, butchers’ $5 40@5 60, stock cattle $3 50@3 00. Sheep, fair to gopd, P cwt., $4 15@5 25. = Lambs, averaging 75 Ibs., $4 00. Hogs, light $5 30, good heavy $5 40. ine e

| MANEOOD : ‘How Lost, How Restored | ‘ UST pub:ished, a new editidn of Dr. »\!I Culverwell"l}"()elebrated Essay on %thc radical eure (without medicine) of -~ SPERMATORRH(EA Or Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Seminal Losses, ImporrNoy. Mental and Physical Incapacity, Im;])i?dlments'_to Mar~ riage, efc.|; also Consumprion, EviLErsy and Firs, induced by self-indulgence or sexual extravagance. &c, i 3% Price, in a sealed envelope. ounly sixieents.The celeprated author, in this ndmlmblo'esgay, clearly demonstrates, from a thirty years’ successful practice, that theé alarming congejuences of self-abuse may be radically cured without, ' the dangerous use of internal medicine or the application of the knife; pointing out & mode of cure at onceé gimple, dertain and effectual, by meansof which eyery sufferer, no matter what his condition may be, mayicure himeself cheaply, privately, and 'r,udimll | : / i ¥ This I&c‘mre should be inthe hands ofevery youth and every man in the land. ; Sent under seal, in a Flajn envelope, to any address, post-pard, on receipt of Bix centd or two posts age stumps, Address the Publishers, ~ siyl THE CULVERVIELL MEDICAL CO,, 41 Ann Bt,, New York; Post Office Box, 4586, Pl IR YVs WA RO IR R S PR RIS AR MeSR A N GRE VRO Baet 5203 SPEN soES RN 0

LIST OF LETTERS | REMAINING'M the Post Office.at Ligonigr, J Indiana,duringthe pastweek: | . Billman, C. A, lTea]. Mrs. Maggie = 7 ‘Hite, Wm, : Robingon, €, M. ; "~ Yoder, Miss MaryA. : Letier addressed Mr. Asenath Otis, Warsawj N. Y., is detained, no stamp. And one mailed with« out address. - g Look well to your *letfairs” and see that they arestamped. i E?g;‘%u; calu‘gz‘ for ﬁnyé '9l' the above letters ase say “‘advertised.” it rt S ﬂ\!' Q% &. GOODSPEED, P. M, Ligonier, Ind., May 24, 1877, = °

EBNGEL & CO’S ADVERTISEMENT. LARGEST AND LEADING OLOTHING AND HAT HOUSE IN . NOBLE'AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. L e i ‘ , L. % E ; We are|now receiving the Largest;: ~ and most complete assortment of GOODS for MEN'S and BOYS' Wear To be found anywhere in Northern ol indiande - - We Invite Our Patrons and the Pllb]iQ o oo generally 10 - , CALL AND EXAMINE OUR STOCK AND LOW - PRICES BEFORE PURCHASING. - I WILL PAY. eok ENGEL & CO., T‘lw'Leml‘i,l?!] CLOTHIE,BHS’, “_]{ATTERS & TAILORS, N Wenthide Maim street, U} | Kendallville, Ind.

F:~‘ ST 2 jWTT Th—-— "‘,_‘——‘—-—————————" e Clapman & Stll's Loan Agene i ’ ‘.:Money._ loaned on long time on Farms in Noble county. 10 per cent. ‘on sums of $l,OOO and $1,500. 9 per cent en sums 10£:82,000 and over ~ Call on or address , e e Ohapman & stoll. 1 e ’»Bannel‘ Block. Ligonier, Indiana.

L JUST RECEIVICD o Ui ammliee L Ladies’ Baza s Mnthe Ban{ner ﬂßlo_ck, Ligonier, Ind.,)’ oA ik ARGE éTQCK-?oF ELEGANT Spring Hats and Bonnets, Silk Neck-Ties, Lace Bibs, Latest - Style Neck and Hair Bows, Fan¢y and Cheap Embroideries. e Also, a New Invoice}o,ﬁf" i : Elegant Silk Handk'rehiefs ' and Ladies’ Back-Combs. A FULL ASSORTMENT OF LADIES FANCY - GOODS CONSTANTLY KEPT ON HAND. | e L ___-t,_.___q Bleaching Done 'on Short Notice.

J. DECKER v» _ e o N%Vill soon issue an important | ,:A | : _To‘th-ev‘people of ’ |,‘ ' NOBLE COUNTY.

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