The National Banner, Volume 12, Number 24, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 October 1877 — Page 2

The Flatioml Lanmer I Aammae | i i vu SERYY Wi o . J. B.STOLJL., Editor and Proprietor., e S LIGONIER, IND,, OCT’R. 4th, 1877. —_—— _ “No man worthy of the office of President should be willing. to’ hold it ir “counted wn or placed. there by fraud.”— U. S. GRANT. - i It is the hight of folly to expect a ‘return of good times so long as the Sherman resumption act and the silver demonetization statute rerrain unre--pealed. ; (e THE Rgconcum'_rmN_spéeches of - President Hayes have already brought forth the suggestion ‘that he and Wadé Hampton would make a presidential ticket which would sweep the country in'lBBo. Better wait a little. DurING the month of September the national debt was reduced nearly four million dollars. Sherman is bent on decreasing the national debt in undue haste and relentlessly contragting the currency. ' : A FEW DAYS since it was reported _that Senator Conover, of Florida, had expressed a determination to assist the Democrats in organizing the U. S. " Senate. About 48 hours later tlhie report was flatly contradicted. These big " dailtes’ do a tremendous business in manufactured news. :

IN Néw Jersey all politi¢al parties— Democrats, Republicans, and Greenbackers—lliave adopted a plank in their respective platforms that the rate of interésg“ should at once be reduced to six per cent.by explicit legislation. A similar demand will doubtless be made in a'number of other States.

CoL. DAVID H. ARMSTRONG, an old citizen of - St. Louis, and the wheel horse of the Democracy of Missouri for the past 25 or 30 years, was appointed United States Senator last Saturday evening by Governor Phelps, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis V. Bogy. Colonel Armstrong is at present Vice President of the board of police commissioners of St. Louis.

.MR. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS introduced into the New York Republican State' Convention a proposition declaring that “the lawful title of R. B, Hayes to the Presidency is as clear and perfect as that of George Washington.” On a call of the yeas and nays the convention rejected the proposition by a vote of nearly three to one, the yeas being 109, the nays 295. |

JUupGE TAFT recently delivered an. able speech on the silver quéstion. He claims for silver an equal place with gold in the currency of the world, and points out with convincing clearness the great advantage to the . United States which will result from Its restoration as a standard of value in aiding the resumiption of specie payments and in paying thenational debt. sl

Tug St. Louis Globe-Democrat says that Mr. Armstrong, Bogy’s successor in the U. S. Senate, *is a man of good sense and good character,and will make as creditable a showing in the Senate as any person named for the place, except the person named by us: Heisa Democrat of the old school, was rated as a ‘southern man’ during the war ‘and is now a warm admirer of the Pygesident’s policy,” This, comi_ng from a republican organ, is a pretty fair endorsement. Gy :

"UNCLE SAM is after General John C. Fremont to recover a snug little sum of over-pay. F%emont‘was appointed Major-General on the 15th of May, 61, but did not fake command until the 25th of the following July. He drew his pay, however, as is alleged, from the former date for full salary and allowances, the sum being-about $3,000. ‘The Government has instituted a suit against General Fremont in the United Stateg District Court for the district: of Columbia to recover the amogynt: above named, which, it is:claimed, was an erroneons payment. = ;

Cassius M. CLAY, Minister to Rus_.Bia under .President Lincoln’s administration; last Sunday shot andﬁ:illed, - & negro named Perry White, a reputed. desperado. A telegram from _.Ri‘cgh-‘ mond, Ky., gives the following yerdict “of the coroner’s jury: “Perry White came to his death by a 'pistol .shot wound inflicted by C. M. Clay, Sep- _ tember 80, 1877, Testimony. being - given us under oath by C. M. Clay, he being the only witness, we are constrained to justify the said Clay, and believe he ‘did it in self-defense.” No.

particulars accompany the telegram as | to how the killing was brought about. It/ is understoed that White attacked Clay because of his mother’s dismissal from Clay’s farm house near Jeffersonville, Anderson county.

THE TRUE WAY to resumption is thus pointed out in a recent Issue of the Chicago Pribune; *lt will be found that the only practicable’ and economical road to specie payments is in the free coinage of remonetized silver dollars, and that the way tohasten specie payments is to hasten the restoration of the silyer dollar. Every month's delay in the restoration. of silver postpones

specie payments; every month’s delay postpones the coinage of four millions _ of silver dollars; and those who are " opposing the restoration of silver coin- - age for the purpose of forcing resumption in gold coip alone are deceiving themselves with the hope of an impossibility. The only deliverance from legal:tender paper and from an exclu- * slvepaper currency mustcome through a free coinage of legul-tender silver.” - If this- plain and simple proposition ~ eould be Submitted to a popular vote - for adoption or rejection, it would be endorsed by an overwhelming majoriAL T e Dol ol Mmon Bhoii L L S e

- THE NEW YORK REPUBLICANS. The Republicans of the Empire State held their convention for the nomination of a State ticket at RocHester on Wednesday of last week. Thomas C. Platt, a gentleman who wanted to be Postmaster General under the present administration, was made temporary chairman and subsequently retained as permanent presiding officer. The main fight was over the platform. Senator Conkling, having marshalled his hosts with consummate skill, at once became absolute master of thesit- \ uation. 'The Hayes party had for its leader George William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly. This gentleman delivered an able and eloquent speech ‘in defense of the President’s concilia‘tory southern policy and civil service reform. Conkling followed in aspeech of great power. ' He severely criticigsed the special champions of the Hayes faction, and ~eloquently declaimed against the demand for an unqualified endorsement of the President’s course. Mr. Curtis offered a resolution affirming the validity of Hayes’ title to the Presidency and cordially appm'ving his southern- policy and civil service reform measures. This resolution was voted down by a vote of 109 in favor and 295 against—an overwhelming verdict against the Hayes party. . The feeling in the convention must have been very bitter, The presiding officer, on taking the chair, delivered ‘himself pf. a fiery speech against the administration, openly denouncing Evarts, Schurz and other cabinet: officers. The galleries seemed to be filled with a decided majority of Hayes men who rep’eated‘ly hissed the more offensive passages of Senator Conkling’s remarkable speech,

Under such cireumstances it is not to be wondered that some difliculty was experienced in finding candidates to accept nominations at the hands ef this turbulent’ convention. Defeat is inevitable, as admitted on all sides. The meaning of the action of this convention is thus interpreted by the New York Bun: . = +A State convention of the: whole party, by a majority of three to one, repudiates the Administration in referenca to its so-called Southern policy and its scheme of what it calls civil service reform. But behind all this, and of necessity involved in the relations of Senator Conkling to the Administration, lies the question of Mr. Hayes’s right to be considered as the lawfully elected President. One sufficient reason for the dissatistaction of the great body of the party with Mr. Hayes is that they cannot regard him as rightfully in the possession of his office. If we weredifferently situated, if his title to the office were one that upright Republicans could respect, the measures of his Administration would receive far greater toleration at their hands than they are now receiving.— A President who'failed to receive a majority of the votes of the people, and who nevertheless obtained possession of the office by fraudulent tampering with the electoral votes and a cunningly devised scheme for counting out electoral votes that belonged to his opponent, is weighted down with a load which it is difficult for his party to CAEEY.. . ol

" This is what predisposes many of those who voted for him at the polls to be particularly sensitives about his policy and measures; and when they find him repudiating not only the men who made him their candidate and gave him all the popular votes he obtained but also the principles- on which the entire campaign was conducted by them .and which constitute the whole essence of Republicanism, it is.impossible for them to be quiet. The re- ' publican party has so long been con- - ducted upon a policy toward the South which Mr. Hayes has upset, that when they find him reversing all that they have maintained, they know that the very existence of their party as a power in the land is gut in peril. It is just so with regard to his civil service reform. It never was a doctrine of the republican party that officeholders are not to be permitted to take an active part in politics. It has been, 1n its day, the most proscriptive party that has been known in our politics; Imore so than even the old Jackson Democracy. ‘lt has managed elections through the men who have obtained the spoils, and having done this for so many years, it cannot learn any other way to manage them. There is, moreover, a plain injustice in prohibiting a public officer from doing what every citizen has aright to do, namely, | to exert his individual influence to promote the interests of the political organization to which he belongs. ‘ Mr. Hayes is thus in direct antagon- . ism to the party which made him its candidate for the Presidency. The line that is now dividing and is to divide the. party, is that which separates those who profess to believe in Mr. Hayes’ title and those who do not believe in it. On the one side of this line are those who affect to consider the decision of the Electoral Commis‘sion and the Commisesion itself as a legal sanction of his claim to be regarded as a constitutional President. On the other side are all those Republicans who are téo honest to be blind- ' ed by technical devices, who are disappointed by having a President put into office by such means, and who feel the weight with which their party has been handicapped by having to carry such a burden as a President installed ‘through fraud. These men are .too wise as politicians not to see how surely the people will repudiate the doctrine that State officers may manipulate the popular votes for Presidential electors as they please, and that thei “two Houses of Congress are powerless’ to correct or even look into the frauds that may have been perpetrated. They do not mean to have their party responsible for the odium and danger of such a doctrine; and as they expect and mean to save their party, they will be more and more confirmed in their opposition to an Administration ‘whose whole official existence depends upon it. e

Tue New York Republicans are not alone in casting doubts upon Mr. Hayes’ title to the Presidency. In the recent convention of the Pennsylvania RepublicansAn implacable from Philadelphia offered the following: : “Resolved, That this convention regards with admiration the Presi‘dent’s faithful attention to his Christian duties, and we cordiallv recommend that to the morning and evening services at the white house be added the little hymn, ‘When I can read my title clear,” * =~ - ' It is of no consequence now whether the resumption bill should bave been passed or not. 1t was a piece of foolishness, and the question now is how can lpbe.row&)oaﬂ | or modified.— South Bend Tribune. . . By the people making it plain to representatives in Congress that if they Mw mﬁ"'m” T

: SAM, RANDALL, It may be that Hon. Sam. Randall will have his attention fully occupied in preserving his own scalp without starting out on the warpath for-the speakership. He is charged with having secured ship contracts for Philadelphia parties on which he received a dividend.: The charge was used against him' in the last race for the speakership, and as the case has just come up for trial in the .Philadelphia courts, it is of renewed interest.—lndianapolis Journal. '

Those who are familiar with Sam. Randall’s political and congressional career know that he has ever been a tool in the hands of republican jobbers. -Thesegentlemen have more than once helped him through in his’political fights, and it is a well-known fact that he has as often done the bidding of republican managers. We have excellent reasons for stating that he was guilty of base treachery in 1872. He was chosen Speaker, after Mr. Kerr’s death, not bLecause he was believed to be the most worthy person to succeed that distinguished statesman, but because it was expected he would use his acknowledged parliamentary skill to defeat the schemes of:the conspirators who were determined to count out the people’s choice for the Presidency. He conducted himself well enough in the start, but when the critical period was reached he basely and treacherously deserted the band of true and noble menswho insisted upon enforcing the popular verdict.— Such a man is not worthy of being made the head of a democratic house of representatives. .

IN DISCUSSING and consider’ng the silver question, the fact should be borne in mind that the issue does not concern silver half-dollars, or quarterdollars, or dimes, as now coined,which are legal tender in small sumé, and are known as subsidiary coinage, taking the place of fractional paper currency. It only involves silver dollars, and whether they, if coined, shall be a legal tender in any sum or for any obligations to pay money. And it only concerns coinage, since we have now no war on our hands, and no one proposes ' to use these silver dollars as a means of carrying on- waf, or of borrowing money, like the.greenbacks authorized in 1862. The silver dollars are not to be redeemed in anything else. They are money in themselves, and from 1792 until 1873 were an unlithited legal tender. The question now is: Shall resumption be undertaken with gold alone as a legal tender, when every sane man must know that the government cannot possibly accumulate half enough with which to redeem its promises.to pay;' or shall the government make use of silver, which it can obtain in ample quantities, to pay its obligations as per contract? The issue is so plain that a child can understand it. -

The probability of the orgamzation of the United States \Senémte passing into the hands of the Democracy is increased by the report that Senator Sharon, of Nevada, will not be able to be present. Senator Morton will certainly be absent. Senator Conkling would not lift a finger, possibly, to retain control, and Senators Sharon and Spencer will probably be absent. There is enough uncertainty about the matter to make the question one of considerable public as well as party interest.—lndianapolis Journal. - The democratic Senators will proceed cautiously in this matter. Knowing that they will have a majority in the next Congress, they can afford to abstain from taking advantage of the present: misfortunes of the Republicans.

A worthy gentleman from the country was in town the other day, and meeting Judge Woods on the street, asked him for information concerning a rumor which he said was in circulation among some of the country people, to the effect that President layes had issued an order to prohibit the exportation of wheat from the United States to Europe. The Judge could not suppress a broad smile at the idea of such a ridiculous report, and relieved the good country gentleman by informing him that the President of the United States had no more right to issue such an order than our city marshal had, and that the report was perhaps put in circulation by speculators who want to buy wheat cheap. As ridiculous as the idea is, it seems that some people in the country actually believe it, and begin to denounce President Hayes for his supposed interference in the matter.—Goshen Times.

The best news we have heard lately is, that Billy Free, who is generally known to every printing-office in Indiana and Michigan, as a tramp printer, and who had become very much dissipated, has joined the red ribbon movement, and is evangelizing with Hallenveck ‘and Cassady. We -have known Billy from youth, and learned him to “hold the stick.” He has the reputation of being one of the fastest typos in the State, is naturally smart and if he “holds the fort” and discards the use of rum, is destined to make his mark in the world. He was recently in Fort Wayne, and the Gazette thus speaks of him: “Following him came Billy Free, who gave a thrilling and affecting account of his downfall through intemperance. Billy displays an earnestness and zeal that dispels any and all doubts that he does not mean business.”— Wolcottville Gazette.

An oil Train Burned.

CLEVELAND, Oct. I.—While passing Painesville early this morning the westward bound oil train on the L. S. & M. 8. railroad broke in two sections unknown to the engineer, who halted, as usual, at the crossing of the Painesville and Youngstown railroad. The sections collided and leff the track. A tank of crude oil exploded, setting fire to and burning up the Painesvilleand Youngstown depot building, saving its contents. Ten or eleven cars of ol were destroyed. - The amount of the loss is yet unknown.

ANoTnER delegation of Indians is at Washington. It comprises Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, Young-Man-Afraid-of-his-horses and the same gang -of braves who were there several years ago, who smoked the pipe of peace with the great Sachem and getting a fresh supply of guns and ammunition, clothing amd provisions for their tribes, went home and made war on the frontier ever since. They are at Washington at government expense and will possibly humbug some of tlhe Indian bureau that théy mean peace. —SBouth Bend Herald., B J S M“»—*» The secret seryvice bureau in ‘Wasl:{ lnzbo"gf?l;: on hand ov.;r‘ ! Oﬁ%ﬂggﬂ :u counterfeit money, much of it in bogus trade dollars, halves and quarters,

e (Com.) oln - That Virginia Discussion. ‘ ' Ep. BANNER :—I notice in the Christian Age an extract from your paper { which says that S. H. Lane, “Seventh Day Adventist,” claims that Eld. Peter ‘Winebrenner gained no yictory over Rev. J. O. Corliss in the discussion on the Sabbath and Law question at Newport, Page county, Virginia. Now what I want to say (in the fear of the Lord), through your. columns, is this: Before Elder Winebrenner came to. ‘Virginia, they had (I am sure) not less than fifty adherents, or in common phraseology, Disciples. Siunce the discussion referred to by S. H. Lane,which he claims as a “victory,” they have dwindled down to not more than one dozen, if that, and tliey are feeble indeed; left without a shepherd to take care of themselves at present. If they had such a decided “victory,” why give up the field ? 'lf they had such signal success, why ig it that they have diminished ever since? If Corliss defeated Winebrenner, how is it that out of three regular preaching places (where they had good audiences of respecta‘ble citizens) that they gave up two out of three, in. consequence of not being able to get a congregation, and fall fback upon cne, and the most obscure ‘one at that? ' The truth, the stark‘naked truth, and nothing but the trath, 'ig that they are dead, dead, DEAD, here, ! compared to what they were ’prio“x:' Lci)_ ‘the debate. ~Any and 41l persons who claim in said discussion a victory for 1 Advents, are guilty of gross misstate‘ments, which can be proved by ninetenths of the citizens of the communi- ‘ ty where the discussion was held, and I would most respectfully refer Rev. S. H. L., or any one else that sets up such claim—they being great “law people”-—to the precept in the Deealogue which says: “Thou shglt not bear false witness.” Now, to all into whose hands this may fall, I say again: We are not now, and have not been .Since the Winebrenner visit to our valley, troubled with Seventh-day Adventism, and consider it useless to waste ammunition on “dead ducks.” The Christian Age will please copy the foregoing. ELD. W. A. DOFFLEMYER, Pres. of the Virginia Central Chrisiian Conference. ~ Inglewood, Va., Sept. 15, "77.

Republican Fight in New York. Special Telegram to the Indianapolis Journal. W ASHINGTON, September 29.—The Republicans of New York are said to feel sooutraged over Conkling’s display at Rochester that it is very probable public-meetings will be held to disown the ticket made by the convention. A prominent New York Republican says that the animus of the convention should be condemned in an unmistakable manner, and the administration approved, so it would be understood the Rochester convention did not express the opinion of the Republicans of New York. General Sickles favors holding. a public meeting to enable ‘those who are disgusted with the spirit of the Rochester convention to express themselves. He thinks a meeting of this kind in New York City would be followed by a series of meetings throughout the State. By ‘this means the ticket nominated could ‘be sustained, and the ill-timed insult of Conkling’s speech rebuked. Friends of Conkling say he has-burned his ships and does not propose to take one "step backward, bubt. will open a bold warfare on the administration as soonflas Congress assembles. In order to create the impression that he:is sustained by the people, it is proposed in New York to get up-a public meeting at the Academy of Musie, before Conkling leaves for Washington, 80 as to afford him an opportunity to make another speech, in view of his convention harangue. Conkling is re-. ported as having said, after the meeting adjourned, that the trouble in the Republican camp arose from the effort to transfer the party to its enemies,: but before the session is over it would be found that the delivery cannot be made good. This may be accepted as the keynote to Conkling’s ag-. gressive campaign.

Sympathy for Morton. - RicamoND, Ind., Sept. 25th.—This morning the Rev. F. C. Holliday and the Rev. Dr. -Bayless, old personal friends of Senator Morton,and leading ministers in the Methodist church in this State, called upon the Senator in obedience to instructions from the Southeastern Indiana Conference, and presented him with a series of resolutions passed by the Conference at their session yesterday. i Theresolutions declare that the Conference regarded the Senator’s condition as of such grave importance as to demand from them a formal expression of sympathy, and of their high appreciation of the eminent services the Senator has rendered the State and nation, both during and since the war, wiaich commanded their high respect, and prompted the wish that his life might be spared; and that the calamity that had overtaken him was one before which the clamor of parties should be hushed by the voice of patriotic prayer. : : The interview between the Senator and the committee was very affecting. The Senator assured the:committee that nothing in his personal history gave him more pleasure or greater gratification than to receive their resolutions and visit. A o

Shipment of Silver to China. ; . SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20.—Sailed— The steamer Oceanica, for Hong Kong, via Yokohama. Her treasure list was upward of $1,300,000, including $723,000 of finé silver. This added to the shipment by the steamer of the 12th inst., makes the export of the fine silver for the current month $1,062,000; leaving the market almost:bare of that commodity. The total sales of fine silver during the month, to government and for export, ‘aggregate about 2,800,000 ounces. Gl Confederate Soldiers’ Reunion. Mewmpuis, Tenn,, Sept. 29.—The reaunion of the Ode Hundred and Fiftyfourth and Thirteenth Tennessee Confederate regiments was held here to‘day. It was attended with unusual interest. Ex-Confederate and ex-Fed-eral soldiers, with some prominent officers -on either side, participated in the ceremony at Estival Park, where speeches were made and a banquet was held. . 'l}xere was a reunion of blue and gray, as well as of comrades of the two famous regiments. ; , Q—-'?.lf*’ll' ; »’ The Republicans of New Jersey on the 25th ult. 3omin‘&ted Hon. Wm. A, Newell for Governor, and adopted a platform cordially indorsing the policy of the President as to the reconciliation of the South and the reform of the civil service, and declaring in.favor of carrying out the attempt to resume specie payments at a date not lnter than that fixed by the present law. “General Kilpatick mem the convention, and ex-Secretary RobSuos s Gikiziman of the Somigiiee

Indiana News Items.

The Miami Sentinel has been sold to Mr. 8. F. Winter, formerly editor of the Huntington Democrat. The Michigan City cranberry marshes have given employment to about 200 women and children this season. The berries are barreled and sent to Chicago. :

One of the Methodist churches at dlndianapolis has received $51,785.38, with a total membership of 693, or a contribution of over $7 from each member. | e

Sandford Luibard, a prominent citizen of Fort Wayne and State adjuster of the Phceenix Insurance company, died Sundaygmoming of Bright’s disease, aged 25. Mrs. J. N. Massey, a South Bend heorine, found a tramp: fooling around in her house, and made him disgorge some money he had stolen, under pain of being arrested. A Rush county physician has sued a brother knight of the pill on a $lO,000 note. The note was given last year for the seducfpn ot the plaintiff's wife twenty years ago. - Rockport Democrat: A Perry county man has four daughters—Mary, Ellen, Susie, and Charity—whose net weight is in excess of 900 pounds. But the greatest of these is Charity—weight 285: 2

The weather for the past few days has been of extreme heat, and as a consequence sickness has somewhat increased. But, on the whole, it has been most excellent in its effects upon the harve?ts yet to be garnered. A movément is on foot in Jeffersonvilletoward organizing amartial band, which, it is promised, will outrank anything'in the State. The baand will be composed of twelve young men, wfho are sanguine of making asuccess of it. ; 4 :

- Dr. Gould, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, writes to Gen. Terrell that Indi--ana men are the tallest in the world. “Young Williams, of Waterford, just deceased, was a good sample. He was nineteen years of age, and six feet nine inches in height. S Gen. Joseph Orr, at the late session of the Northwest Indiana Conference, donated $5,000 in United States bonds to Asbury University. This institution 'will soon be well provided for, if its friends are as liberal in the future as they have been in the past. Mr. and Mrs. Buck, of Tippecanoe county, visited a neighbor a short time ago, leaving their three children alone. While they were gone, the oldest boy got possession of his father’s loaded revolver, and while “fooling” with it, shet his baby brother, killing him instantly. 24 ; . - - 'The business men of Indianapolis .at-a meeting held on the eveninglof ‘the 22d ult., demanded a total repeal of the bankrupt law. Having aided in giving a superficial value in real estate in that city and finding that their dupes cannot even pay interest, they wish to close the door for escape. ' " Dr. Daniel Kiser, for near fifly years a resident of Allen county, committed suicide on Monday evening, Sept. 17, at the residence of his daughter, in Ft. Wayne, by taking morphine. He died at seven o’clock next morning. Poverty and domestic troubles. are supposed to be ‘the causes of the rash act, e

Mrs. Stutsman, of this city, owns a cow and dog, and the two are inseparable companions. The .cow goes to pasture in the morning, and the dog follows, remaining near her all day and returning at night. The case is a remarkable instance of canine fondness, though the cow exhibits an affection for the dog.—Elkhart Review. Lafayette Journal: One grainfirm in this city contracted, during the past two days, with farmers for 35,000 bushels of old corn at 40 cents a bushel—sl4,ooo worth. . There is yet in the country a vast amount of old corn, which will be soon put on the market. The prospects for the new crop is very flattering. = The wheat will average a third larger crop than ever before. £

‘'The State Board of Agriculture closed last week at Indianapolis one of the most successful State Fairs ever held in Indiana. It was successful as an exhibition and pecuniarily. It evidenced one fact, says the Indianapolis Journal, in summing up results, that Indiana is as far ahead of all the other States in logs as Kentucky is in horses. Improvement in cattle is algo one of the marked features of the fair brought to light. Warden Howard, of the State prison south, will institute 4 new reform in that institution next month. He proposes to weigh every conviet upon being received at the prison, and will al--80 heft him when he is discharged. As a general thing, convicts come in too thin to make a shadow, and go out fit subjects for a hotel advertisement. The gain of avoirdupois will be duly and elaborately reported for the use -and benefit of Charles Coffin, the great prison reformer, who will doubtless ' incorporate it in his next report to the Prison Cougress. : “A kernel of corn planted in a South Bend young man’s ear twelve years ago did not come up until Wednesday, whe&'Dr. Partridge brought it to the surface with his instruments.. He had poked it into his ear while playing boyish pranks with a companion, and though it was in plain sight he was unable to remove it, and as it gave him no pain or annoyance he allowed it to' remain without calling on a physician. On Tuesday, however, it began to trouble him, causing a dull, heavy - pain and he determined to have 1t removed. It came out in two pieces, partially decayed, and his ear feels as well as ever. i i

Governor and Mrs. Hendricks sailed from Liverpool last Saturday, and, with- fair winds and weather, will arrive' in New York on next Sunday. They will reach hox%e,) about the middle of next week. e understand it is the intention of Governor Hendricks. to resume the practice of law, and that he will beceme an active member of the firm of Baker, Hord & Hendricks, of this city. It is pretty well understood among the faithful that the name of Governor Hendricks will be kept beforeé”the party, and that his friends will demand a fullfillment of that- more than implied agreement, that if he would accept the second place on the ticket in 1876 he should enjoy the first place in 1880.—Indianapolis Journal. :

Conkling’s Conduct Will Lose New York. Cincinnati Commercial. Senator Conkling was able (o control the Rochester convention, but his influence falls short when he comes to the press, With the single exception of the Sun, which is stark mad on Tilden, there is not a newspaper that does not censure the Senator for his exifi bition of petty spite, wounded vanity and malignant hatred. The Tribune, Times, Herald, World, Post and Ewxpress have but one opinion of his performance, and eondemn it as ill-judged, ill-timed and harmful to his political rospects, It insures thedefeat of the gtam Republican ticket in advance, and destroys the Senator's chances of a re-election, ‘The Republicans of New York are doomed to defeat in Fowwbe, .

General Items.

The storm of last week has been very disastrous to the rice crop of Louisiana. The loss is estimated as 30 per cent,, and will fall heavily on the planters. The myriads of miners in the Wilkesbarre (Pa.) anthracite region went to work last Tuesday, accepting an advance of 10 per cent. on the prices which caused them to strike so detecminedly. Gl ‘ -The five-dollar circulating notes of the First National Bank of Tamaqua are being retired, on account of the issue of a dangerouscounterfeit, and no more five-dollar notes will be issued to that bank. : e

The Democrats have fought many good fights under the banner of peace and good will to all sections. We should noev be driven from that platform because Hayes has planted his feet there also.—Columbus Democrat.

Putnam, a thriving village in Connecticut, was, on Sunday, swept over by a fire which burned about $200,000 worth ‘'of property, and left nothing of the business portion of the place except the Natioral Bank and the new hotel. . : :

During the year 1876 the sugar exportation from this country amounted to over 73,000,000 pounds, on which the drawback under the law of 1875 was $2,609,876. The sugars thus sent abroad were mostly of the higher grades. :

From the oil region comes the unwelcome news that competition in petroleum has again been throttied, and that the unctuous monopolists will soon lock their yoke firmly upon millions” of nécks not yet free from the galls of the last extortion. The “rebels” of the South complained bitterly of Key. for “loyal” words spoken in the North. The *“loyal” people of.the North swore because of “disloyal” words spoken by Hayes in the South. Our politics are becoming terribly mixed.—Columbus Democrat. Two ministers at Bloomington, 111, have entered upon a theological discussion, which is to last six days and settle the question of the divinity of Christ. TFor some reason, which baffles human philosophy, the greatest of public interest and excitement attends the outcomes of this debate. :

A drunken tailor of New York forced his wife to jump out of a third story window at the point of a pistol, and then shot a lad in the head who attempted to rescue her. When arrested he was still intoxicated, and unconscious of the crime he had committed. - A text for Luther Benson. & Railroad robbers thicken. The Illinois Central was attacked near Sandoval, 111, last Tuesday night, a passenger train thrown from the track,seven persons killed and a large number wounded. Masked men were seen in the darkness but were undoubtedly frightened away, as noboby was plundered. - e B

THE Grand Lodge 1..0. O. F. of United States has selected Austin, Texas, as the place for the next annual meeting. The initiations the past year di--minished 10,000 as compared with the previous year, and the revenue about $25,000. The number dropped for non-payment of dues increased about 5,000. Hard times. . LIEUTENANT WILLARD YOUNG (a son of Brigham Young), who graduated with distinction at West Point last year, and is now. a seeond lieutenant of the Engineer Corps, and stationed at Willett’s Point, is said to have received not long since a gift of $lOO,OOO from his father. He now comes in for a share of the estate. i

SIDNEY MYERS, late manager of the busted Merc¢hants, Farmers and Mechanics bank has been lodged in jail in Chicago and bail has been fixed at $200,000. Now'if Spencer of the Sav--Ings bank and the manager of the Fidelity Savings bank could be caught and put in the same place, it weuld ha:vc(al_a healthy effect on the public mind. ‘

THE coroner’s jury in the case of the burning of the Hale pianoforte factory censured Mr. Hale for carelessness in haying no adequate precautions against such a catastrophe. In the meantime the €harred remains of the victims of the holocaust lie quietly in their graves and Mr. Hale goes on to coin money out of those who are left. '

There is ¢onsiderable inquiry as to the cause of the discharge of the engineers on the P., Ft. W. & C. railroad a short time ago. The managers say ‘it was because they had more engineers than they needed, but it is suspected that their prominence in the Brotherhood is the cause. ' If this is the case there may be trouble, as the Brotherhood will make common cause with the discharged engineers. In Memphis last week a colored woman begged permission to stay all night with a benevolent family. She was-given a good bed, but about daylight arose, stole the baby of her hostess and'decamped: The child is but three weeks old, and there is no possible motive for the infamous deed.— The parents are crazed over the abduction, but as yet there has been no clue found for the dastardly act. A fleet of twenty English iron steamships has been chartered for the purpose of carryin% grain to various European ports from New York., .All that is nmow needed is that farmers send their crops forward. This a great. many of them are not disposed to do, as they have an idea that the foreign demand for their products will be so large within a month as to cause ‘marked advance on present prices. Another big savings bank gone up—- | in Brooklyn, this time, and thousands of poor have lost the savings of years. The failure of the Brooklyn bank was duplicated across the river of New York within a few hours, the great Broadwell savings bank going by the board. . The examination into the managentent shows downright robbery. If a few savings bank officials could be collected together and hung ‘it might - contribute to the safety of funds entrusted to their charge by in‘nocent depositors. e A negro preacher of Houston county, Georgia, whipped his little danghter, a girl of 12 years, to death a few days ago. She lost a key to one of the doors, and for this offense hie beat her ‘with a wagon whip until she dropped dead under the lash. He buried the ‘body in the woods, and still kept on with his ministerial, labors, believing ‘his crime would not be found out.— Some children, however, saw him at his brutal work and told the neighbors. He was arrested while preaching, but denied his'guilt until confronted with the body of his child. . In the criminal columns of the dailies are narrated the salieht features of a very marvelous chapter of crime ‘plains.. Eight rascals attempted the rormous theft of 7,500 caiile, horded on the plains of Colorado. The maiß eAt B e e e culprits at the Kansas State line, they sioned by a simple, but superior, soSlely were, in o exyrssion of Jobn iy e il Tl R e

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. JUST RECEIVED AT THE LADIES’ BAZAAR. ' CALL AND EXAMINE THEM. T'he Farmers Grocery!l '= - - The Tradesman’s Grocery! -t . Everybody’s Groeeryl ~ HEADQUARTERS FOR STPALE AND PANCY, GROCERIES, Cured Meats, Provisions, -, . &oc., The Best the Market Affords. =~ el e s An immense stock of STONEWARE and CROCKERY just received. Extra bargains. Extremely low price. o . Motto : FROMPINESS IN FILLING OKDERS. ' ; I DECEEIER Sells Groceries cheaper than any other house in town. . e Sells nothing but first-class goods. : B a g Keeps the largest and best stock to select from. . Has constantly on hand a full line of FANCY GOODS,such as candies, toilet soaps, money.purses, pocket-books, table-cut-lery, pocket-knives, &e., &e.© - - ot Sells a CIGAR for & CENTS as good as you can get elsewhere forlo. ... s P o e - Buys for Cash and sells for cash; hence his low prices. | Country Produce Wanted. - . J. DECKER, Ligonier, Ind. Ligonfor; Ind., Sept. 27,4857, v e

ENGEL & CO’S ADVERTISEMENT. LARGEST AND LEADING CLOTHING AND HAT HOUSE IN ~+ NOBLE AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. © | . OUR STOCK OF . G ' 1. bt i Y. =Y ) Men’s, Youths’, Boy’s & Children’s - CLOTHING! Cloths, Coatings, 'Cassimergs, Eurniéhing ,quds, HATS & CAPS, e . Is very rlarge and complete. =~ ° = OUR PRICES BEYGND COMPE’_I‘ITION. Clothng to ORDERS Our Specialty. o Every,'oné 'bli'yihg goods for.. 453 will find it to their interest to examine our large stock . Tt obeloke purc‘:haiing‘ elsewhere. .~ = ~ ENGEL&CO., e st side Main streee. =} Kendallville, Ind. August 8, 1877.-11-87 L . } ' B S

* Trial of General Pearson. PITTSBURGH, Sept.” 29.—Gen. A. L. Pearson, who -was arrested on the charge of murder in connection with the late riots in this city, had a hearing in the criminal court this morning, on the application for his release on bail. Several witnesses. were examined for the prosecution, all of ‘whczam_-_ testified that they distinctly heard an order given to fire, but most of the witnesses would not swear positively that Pearson gave the order. ' The counsel for the defense said they wo’d offer no evidence: at present. The court directed Pearson to enter bail to the amount of $lO,OOO for his appearance at the present term of the court.

GEN. PEARSON, of Pittsburgh, has been arrested on the charge of murder, the victim being Father Nicholas Stoppel. The statement is that Gen. ‘Pearson was in charge of certain regiments of State troops during the “strike,” and that he gave the order to fire on the crowd. Stoppel was sitting in his doorway when shot, not being in any way connected with the people gathered about the railroad. General Pearson says that' the arrest was at the instigation of the Mayor, who was inefficient during the trouble, and who hopes by this means to keep-General Pearson from rendering his official report, where his incompetency will be set forth. The railroad officials are jubilant over the arrest, believing: it will turn the tide of popular sympathy in Pearson’s favor, but public sentiment 1s still strong that the order to fire was unnecessary and premature. The arrest of the General will probably unravel the whole matter and ‘make it straight before the people. A POOR, miserable old man Saturday night went into one of the Cineinnati station houseuwmmim a wooden leg, and from continual walking (forhe was a tramp) thestump of his IW{mﬂb@h ‘the knee became 80 painfu mzmmni ?ﬁﬁ gghd?xsfgmmh;; bled down to ‘the river bank and jumped into the ‘ x“?iggﬁﬁw was dead before *%ﬁﬁw

- THE MARKETS. : LIGONIER. GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, red, $l- - Rye, 55¢; Oats, 25¢; Corn, 35¢; Flax Seed, $1 20; Clover Seed, $5 00; Timothy Seed, $1 75. f PrRODUCE.—Hogs, live, cwt $4 25, Shoulders, per pound, 10¢c; Hams, 12¢; Bees ‘Wayx, 28c; Butter, 14; Lard, 10c; Eggs, ¥ doz., 12¢; Wool, 1b,30@ 40c; Feathers, 70c; Tallow, 08e% Ap-: ples, dried, 6¢, green, $ bu. 60; Potatoes, 25 ; Peaches, gr., per b, $2.50; Hay, marsh, $8; timothy $lO. y T KENDALLVILLE. : GRAIN. AND SEEDS.—Wheat, white $1 27, red $1 25; Corn, 85¢; Oats, 25¢; Clover Seed, $5 00; Flax, $1 25; TimOthy,s2oo. o { : e ) “ - OTHER PRODUCE.~—Hams, ¥ b 12¢; ‘Shoulders, 08c; Lard, 10c; Tallow, 6¢; ‘Wool, 00c; Butter, 15¢; Beeswax,2s¢; Apples, dried, sc; green, ¥ bu., 60c; Potatoes, 25; Eggs, P doz. 11c. : .. CHICAGO, Oct. 3, 18%7. . ‘GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, $111; Corn, 42c; Oats, 233¢c; Rye, bic; Barley, 59¢; Clover Seed, 8500 @ 5 20; Timothy, $1 18@1 85; Flax, $1 22@120, s : - PRODUOCE.—Meéss P«irk&s:!%ﬂ& @1 4504¢; Lard, $8 85@8 00; Hams; green, mmmmgg ‘Butter, fair to 2004,20@26, choice,ls@ 18¢; Eggs, P doz. 163 o; Potatoes, 50, : 9 I’%\,’3’l‘3& irke , ressed, ¥ 1, ©° TOLEDO.—Oct.B,IB7I. GRAIN AND SEEDS—Wheat; amber, 48¢; Oats, 25 o; Clover Seed, 8515, @B3 40+ infartar satite &% fo %ﬁﬁsmﬁiﬁrﬂéiﬁ r Bkt A pem e RO MEPNIEER S onl SR SV NS U G - L mon to g i 9 ?‘%’»’ o s gt e "" N : ::*%m:,,w-. h“ ‘-2112-':-;’.“'»"‘;:"-, e e RN S FE VN

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