The National Banner, Volume 12, Number 25, Ligonier, Noble County, 11 October 1877 — Page 1

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The Wational Banue : A PUBLISIED BY } LIGONIER,NOBLE COUNTY,IND. Uy N : . . Terms of sabscription: One year,in AdVANCe, .caeeaeevenseneanaaace. $2 00 Bix months, in advance....;.e.caicencreanas 100 Eleven copiqs to one address, one year,......20.00 sa-Subscribers outside of Nobte connty are charged 10-cents extra [per year] for postage, which is prepaid by the publisher. | i : ¢ BA&‘I KING HOUSE . 2 o : . -———o F_—- d L SOL. MIER, . poknd":!eiv Brick Bnock,LIG)ONIER, IND’NA, Money loanéd on long and shorttime. Notes discounted at reasonable rates. 4 Monies received on depesitandinterestaliowed on specified time, i i Exchange bought and sold, and Foreign Drafts drawn on principalcities of Kurope, . 8-2 TO THE FARMERS: ' You will please take noiice that I am still en- * gaged in buyln% wheat, for which I pay the birheut market‘{)r ce. 2 | f you do not find me on the streel, call betore selling, at 10y Banking Office, in Conrad's Brick Block. ; ; SOL. MIER. Ligonier,lndiana, May 3.1877.—tf ' T ,'l*-—-—-————"—""——_'—'__-‘ ’ T = H. G. ZINMERMAN; . ; . W. GREEN, Notary Public. Justice of the Peace. ; ZIMMERMAN & GRBEN, » ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office in Landon’s Block, Ligonier, Ind. 12,

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LIGONIER. NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1877.

- A Vintage Song.’ : BY E. D. R. BIANDIARDI, Once more the iear its follness pours To cheer the heart of toil; : Once more we take with Fmtjt.ude o The blessing of the soil. ¢ I*hear the children laugh and sing— . They pull the grages together; .And gladness breathes from everything - ’ln this October weather. *' The winter days were long and dark, ° : v The epring was slow to come ; And summer storms brought!fear and doubt To many a humble home. | ; ¢ But rain and sanghine had théir will And wrought their work toigether, And see! we heap our basket, still, i In this October weather. | : My heart has had its winter, tioo, : . And lain full bare and gray I'did not think a spring would. come, Much less a summer day. | How little did I dream that life ! Would bring us two together, And I shonld be a hapgy wife| In this Octover weather! | ' Doubtless the froBts wiil come again, . Aund some sweet hopes musti diej Bnt we shall bear the passing pain, And smile, as well assigh; | i Nor let us cloud with fears of ill This golden hour together; For God is in His garden still ; . In this October weather, : —Seribner for October, i i

Our camp which we named “King’s Castle,” was situated "in what would be termed a bay if the ground had been water. A straight line of cliff was. suddenly broken into ler scooped out in a half circle. A line across the mouth of this half circle. would not have shown over two hundred feet, and the bay or “jog” extended back about twice as/far. 'Thus, on all sides but one we had almast perpendicular walls from fifty to a hundred and fifty feet high, in some spots bare rock, then streaks of shell and gravel, and then bushes and small trees. In addition to being rich in promise, it promised security from Indians; and that was of no small moment in the selection of a spot which might be our home for the winter. -~ =

- On the day we began to make ourselves at home by constructing a house of .boulders, rocks and mud we were joined by astranger. He was a burley, big fellow, having a second-class outfit of tools, and it is a fact that we smelled whisky before we sét eyes on him.. He introduced himself as “Bill Adams” and stated that he was from a camp about nine miles away. We afterward discovered that he was a renegade, living with the Indians and planning with them to betray us into- their clutches. We didn’t like his looks a bit. He had a thievish, skulking air, and hedidn’t walk-into camp like an honest miner in search of friendsor a job. After one of the men had repeatedly declared that he smelled whisky in the air we began to look around. The stranger was watching us from the bushes fringing the mouth of the bay, and seeing that he must be discoyered, he stepped out and advanced. Holding a bottle of whisky extended in his hand, and trying hard to smile, he ;;J)ed out: g “#1! boys—glad I've found you! Let’s take a drink and be friends!” Now, the “Medina party” was composed nearly altogether of married. men, whose thoughts turned homeward a hundred times aday. Wehad made the long journey to “strike richness” and then go back to our loved ones and enjoy it, and we didn’t shirk hard work, play cards, nor drink whisky. The stranger’s manner of introducing himself therefore turned all against him at once. Ben. Healey, who had always been “mayor” of our camp, walked out to meet the tellow, took the bottle from his hand, and dashed 1t against 4 rock with great force, replied: . “That’s the use we make of such stuff in this camp e There was an awkward silence for a minute. Adams tried hard to conceal his wrath and chagrin,and finally choking back his feelings he smiled lugubriously andfsaid: , L “If that's the square thing, then I hain’t got used to the ways out here. Howsumever, beys, I'm dead broke: Injuns are thick, diggings are few, and I'd like to stop with ye & few days. What do ye say?” - : Lack of -hospitality was almost a crime out there in those days. We had never turned a: wanderer or a hard up man from our camp, and when the stranger struck us on this point we took hjm in. We drew off, held a consultation, and decided to-:Jet him tarry for a week on an equal footing, though old Ben spoke the thoughts of every mind when he bluntly said: * “Yes, he kin stay, but we must keep an eye on him day and night. He’s a rascal, sure, and at the first sign of treachery, I'm going to put a bullet through his head.” | > ~ Well, the fellow turned in and helped us complete the house. It was a‘ good big one, capable of holding the whole party, and the front, facing the ‘ mouth ot the half-circle, was pierced with loop-holes for the use of ourrifles in case of attack. The man didn’t hurt himself at this work, but when it came‘to eating he was a second-class rhinoceros. He was a great “blabber,” always having his mouth open, and he used an oath at almost every word. ‘None of us could be hardly civil to him, and every movement was closely watched. : We had with us an undersized man about 80 years old whom we called “Our Little Dan.” -He was good-na-tured, rather boyish, and a general favorite. He was not married, but he had an old mother in the States and could never speak of her without tears filling his eyes. He had her daguerreotype with him, and he never let a day puss without looking at it a score of times. We were used to this,-and respected the sentiment, but it was that very picture which brought about a tragedy in camp. Perhaps Our Little Dan and the stranger hated each oth~er on sight. At any rate Dan would not speak to him, even if directly questioned, and on the other hand, Adams lost no opportunity to annoy and anger our comrade. e Indian signs were so numerous that - we kept asentinel posted at the mouth of the bay every night to prevent a ‘surprise. One man stood the whole ‘night out.and was not required to work next forenoon. One night when it was Dan’s turn to go out, and he was about ready to move, he took his | mother’s picture from his ?w;ket and knelt at the fire to see if she had changed any during. the last four hours. ;Pen;hsge Adams had been wait- ' across to Dan; and emptied the tobaco juice @g&gsmouth:: over the picture, - %@; There, baby, that will add to her ~We were all around the fire, and every man saw it and took it as a perhatars 4 ‘f“'; i eid ST (e Sl The i | Dan, chewing his tobacco and half b smitior: and hiis viotitn wisths fst “w ;m-n ’{»»;,r;.«,;fﬁv 27 ?ﬁ “' fi“‘a ”’ :ah*éggﬂ;'*w ‘

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dropped the picture and rose up, and as he reached his feet he had his knife in his hand. . ; e “Ah-hal he’s a gamy little ,bé&am, isn’t he?” growled Adams as hé leaped back and also drew his knife, and almost before any of us had realized the situation the two men had, ig their first struggles, scattered the file and left us in darkness. 20 “Kill him! ggloot him!” screafhed a dozen voices, but no one daredifire a shot. The combatants were dodging, twisting, turning, ‘advancing and.:retreating, and we could not fell one from the other. As their knives ‘met sparks of fire flew in showers, and the oaths of the renegade brought no word from Dan. They foughf back to the house, over the ﬁrebram and down almost to the mouth of the bay in less than three minutes, and they u&ere coming back when old Ben called out: 5 . 16

“Gather up the brands and light a fire! = Quick, now, for your lives!”

- Every man of us worked to_get the fire started, and around us and almost over us those two dark shadows "]unged and slashed and found each other’s blood. As the fire blazed up we had ‘our revolvers ready to shoot the renegade, but we were toe late. As the red tongues leaped up and united and began to light up the dark spot, there came a yell of pain and rage from the giant, and he threw up his_arm and fell beside the fire, thrust through the heart. Then Little Dan spoke for the first time. Throwing away his bloody knife he called out:

“Where’s my picture? Where’s my picture? Don’t step on my mother’s picture.” v It had miraculously escaped our feet, and he was 'the first to find it." Liftingit from the grass he bent tothe fire, wiped it tenderly and joyfully eried outi: : L e

- “It’'s all right—motherisn’t damaged a:bit) ‘ =

And you will hardly believe that he had no less than thirteen cuts and stabs about his hands, arms, face and body. He was almost carved up, though nhone of the wounds were severe. He was covered with blood, and he fainted before we could get his clothes off. .

Adams, the renegade, had more stabs than Dan, and was beyond creating further trouble. Two of the men dragged him down to the bit of prairie by the legs, and all through that long night the sentinel heard the wolves at their horrible work. Dan had nothing to say. Fever came on at midnight, and as his wild eyes looked around the shanty he whispered: = - : “Don’t tell mother—den’t let ’em take mother’s picture away.”—Detroit Free Press. e :

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Greenbackers in Council. A meeting of the prominent members of the greenback party, from all parts of the State, was held at the Grand Hotel, Indianapolis, on the 26th ult. Delegates were pretent from seyenty counties. The meeting was-call-ed by the State Central Committee of that party, and for the purpose of strengthening its organization and making arrangements preparatory to a State convention, which it is expected they will hold during the latter part of the coming winter. Judge Charles H. Test, of Indianapolis, presided, and Major O. J. Smith, of the Terre Haute Express, acted as secretary. A series of resolutions demanding the repeal of the resumption act, the remonetization of silver, the abolition of N a-| tional banks, and the direct issue of a paper money by the government, was passed. A committee of one from each congressional district was appointed t(# make arrm?‘eme‘nts for a State conveng ‘tion, and to issue an address expressive of the party’s policy. Speeches were 'made by those present, and the old parties received the usmal amount of abuse, It was declarsd that they would effect no combinations whatever. But ‘among the resolutions was one aakin,g‘the co-operations of the workingmen’s party and the grangers, and all opposed to the policies of both the republican and democratic parties, to unite with them and send delegates to their State wnveaton, 0 o

' The Elecforal Commission. . ‘Hon. H. B. Payne, late member of Congress from the Cleveland (Ohio) ; district, in a speech recently delivered at Sandusky, gave the following history of the electoral commission which | foisted upon the American people a President who was not elected by the votes of the people. He was a member of the commission, and his opinion possesses value on that subject: He gave a history of the creation of the electoral commission, and said: As certain members of the electoral commission, and certain of the distinguished counsel who appeared before it, have frequently criticised its action and discussed the merits of its 'decisions, it is not.inappropriate for me, on this first appearance of mine before the people of Ohio since my return from Washington, to relate my experience and publish my views respecting the most remarkable drama. I learn, too, that among the Democrats there exists some misapprehension as to the motives and considerations which induced the creation of the commission, and the hope is indulged that a brief narrative from one who was present, as a witness, as'an actor, from the conception to the final consumma-, tion, and who has no cause or inclination.to conceal or withhold any fact or occurrence, will dispel all doubts and suspicions as to the fidelity and courage of the democratic members and senators. Let me recall the situation. The excitement ot the election had been prolonged, and was intense. The house was democratic, the senate republican. Each claimed that its candidate had been elected. Each thoroughly understood its own position, its strong and weak points. Never did it understand the tact and resources of its opponents. The returns, single and duplicate. were in the actual custody of the president of thé senate, and he was ready to count or dispose of them at such time and in such manner as his party friends in caucus might direct. The twentysecond joint rule, under which a presidential count has been determined, and, which it enabled either house by its dissent to reject the vote of the State, had been abrogated on the part of the senate. The Morton bill of the: ‘previous session, which substantially granted to either house the same power, had been curiously but unintentionally suspended by a motion to reconsider. The Edmunds proposition: to submit the contested cases to the: supreme court had signally failed.— There was manifestly no recourse but to one of the following methods: Congress must by law create a tribunal for the trial of the contesting cases, or matters must be left to, work out some possible result. In the absence of legislation, there was. no . doubt what. the action of the President of the senate would be. Though many of his own party questioned and even denied his right to count the votes, yet, if no other way was provided to avoid confusion and anarchy, the entire body of republicans, excepting perhaps three or four, would have justified and sustained the action of the President. He was under no legal obligation to go to the hall of the house, when the house would have been protected in the demand of its equal rights, but first inviting the attendance of the house in the senate chamber, he would, protected by its police, have opened the returns, counted the voteés, and declared Hayes elected, and the 'house would have been utterly helpless in the premises. It would have returned to its own hall, and pro- | ceeded to vote by States, and elected Tilden; but, this would have been revolutionary and fatile, inasmuch as thecontingency provided in the constitution for such action had not occurred.. The creation of a tribunal, therefore, for the peaceful and orderly settlement of the controversy, was the dictate of the duty and patriotism, no less than of sound policy and political expediency. The proposition to raise a committee of conference originated, not in the ‘senate, but in the house,. and with a republican member. Each committee matured its plan, and theh submitted it to the joint meeting.—: That of the house committee, drafted by Mr. McCreary, the present secretary of war, and unanimously approved, proposed a tribunal to consist of the five senior asgociate judges of the supreme court, and submit to it without reserve all the papers and evidence in the possession of the president of the senate, or either of the houses of congress, with power to take such additional testimony as they should deem necessary. The plan of the senate committee was a tribunal to consist of four justices and nine members of congress, five to be chosen by each house, and one of them fo be cast out gz lot, and the submission of the pa-, rs and testimony under severe restrictions. I need not detail the long struggle between the committee, the ‘agreement to the ten members of congress equally divided between the houses and the two parties, their inaDbility to agree upon the fifth justice, we offering to accept Mr. Davis and they offering to take Swayne and Mill--er and give us Clifford: and Davis, our insisting upon Clifford and Field, and their finally assenting to that, but on condition that they might drop Swayne, and take Miller and Strong.

The democratic members of the two ‘ committees assented to this measure, with the full belief and expectation that Judge Davis would be appointed the fifteentlr member, as umpire. He was the senior of the remaining associates, and the only one qualified by freedom from partisan bias, which together with his learning and unsullied integrity, eminently fitted him for the place; and when, in addition to all. this, twq of the four associates were Democrats, it was not strange that we were all confident that no one else than Judge Davis would in any event be placed on the commission; and I feel warranted in affirming that had it been' probable that Judge Bradley or either of the other judges would have been appointed to a seat on that tribunal, that electoral bill would never have been reported to the two houses, or enacted into a law. The selection of Judge Davis was anticipated and expected by both-parties in eongress and by the country at large. It is but justice to Messrs, Clifford and Field to make public the fact that at the‘ﬂr-st‘meeting.. of the four justices they voted for Judge Davis, and persisted in so doing, though Judge ".&tmndg assured them that Judge Daviswould not accept, and it was only at the meeting on the following mz ‘when Mr. Strong presented a written Ssigtorly’ Netiniog tns postiion peremptorily declining the position, : MWM&‘WVMM Judge Sratlay. gﬁrf,%mgw have been ‘this great public duty, Senator Mat-

thews attributes it to the interference of providence, in causing him in the -meantime to be elected to the United States senate. It is difficult to perceive how his election to an office, the’ term of which would not commence: until. the labors of the commission were closed, could possibly conflict with his discharging his duties as commissioner. Possibly the persistent opposition of the senate, implying distrust or fear of his impartiality, may have influenced his decision.— However that may be, his refusal to serve was the occasion of ‘profound disappointment . and deep and_ bitter regret, 'While no man, so far as I know, is authorized to say what his final opinion would have been after hearing the cases, yet the demoecratic party and the whole country would have accepted his decision as that of an upright, learned and fearless judge, and would have respected it accordingly. 4 . :

The speaker then gave a history of the Florida case, characterizing the action of the republican members of the commission as afraud. He spoke in some plain terms of their action in the Louisiana case. |

Immense Forgeries.

The quietude of Wall street was disturbed Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 2, by rumors of 4 great forgery, which upon investigdation turned out to be. true. William E. Gilman, an old reputable broker and dealer largely in insurance scrip, is the forger. Monday afternoon: Mr. Jonas, the President of the: Atlantic Mutual Marine . Insurance Company, had some certificates sent in and immediately discovered that they had been altered or raised. There were two certificates dbf the Atlantic Mutual for $lO,OOO each, which, upon examination, showed that they had been raised from $lOO each. Yesterday ten more certificates came in, amounting’in the aggregate to $87,320. These, upon critical examination, it was found, had each been raised, five from $lOO, one from $9O, two from $5O, one from $7O andone from $5OO. The total legitimate value of these certificates was only $l,260. Two of these raised certificates for $lO,OOO were hypothecated with H. Talmadge & Co., and the ten certificates raised to $87,320 were hypothecated with the American Exchange Bank. 5 i 2

The Mutual Insurance Company will lose nothing, as they are only liable for the original amount of the certificates. . Exactly what part Mr. Gilman played in this business remains to be. explained. He has always borne anexcellent reputation, and was one of the best: known and most highly respected insurance Scrip brokers in the city. He went out of town Saturday, and has not been seen since, although it was rumored that he was in town. The American Exchange Bank people are very ‘reticent about the affairs. Detectives are working up the case, and it may be several days before the full extent of the forgery is known.

Hand Shaking.

General Grant has been called upon tosay that the promiscuous hand shaking of the present day is.a nuisance and should be abated. The custom is one derived from the dark ages, when the hand was extended as a token that no hostile intent was lurking in the breast of the shakers, as they were without arms. The New York Herald, in commenting on the subject says, that long hands, hard hands, fingercrushing hands, dirty hands, greasy hands, and, worst hands of all; those cold, clammy, corpse-like hands, which make one feel as if he had taken hold of a toad, are held out to usevery day. There is the person who nearly dislocates your joints to show his friendship,and the man who extends a couple of fingers, as if to express his contempt. “The hand of brother in a foreign land” may be welcome; but generally the custom is one more honored in the ‘beach than the observance. It is a pity that some less familiar method of salutation or farewell is not adopted. Certainly, unpleasant as hand shaking frequently is, it is better than ‘the nose rubbings of Africa:or the kissing and embracing of continental Europe. Probably the bow of the Japanese or the Chinese, who are in many respects more civilized than even we are, would bo the best substitute. As it is, the custom of hand shaking has ‘become altogether too common to have any valueas a token of civility, and, indeed, it often happens that when we shake hands with a .man, if we obey?'ed our honest impulse, we should kick him down the stairs.—New Albany Ledger-Standard. : :

The Army.

The great demand of the times, until- the tax payers have recuperated their wasted energies, is economy.— Economy not only in the civil administration, but in the military. For the present we have no need of a standing army, and its increase, or even maintenance at:its present proportions, is a crime against the people. In arepublie, constituted as ours, every State can and should look after the peace within its bounds, and all that will be left for the national government is to look after the Indians on the borders and to rub up the guns in the fortresses. For this purpose fifteen thousand men are ample. Indeed, such a force is more than sufficient. Every man employed more than sufficient for this purpose is a crime against the republic and an injury to those who are compelled to draw upon their resourcesor its maintenance. The idle ‘and the vicious, the speculator and:the gAmbler may thrive when a large standing army is employed, but the actiye industry, which really makes a n n, will be grossly wronged by such wanton outlay. Cut down the army to a mere nominal force, sufficient only to look after the border,should be the demand of every American citizen who cares for the freedom of the people and the welfare of the country. Down with the army.—New Albany Ledger-Stand-ard. S ey -

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S SRR e TR R POLITICAL NOTES.

The democratic majority on joint ballot in the California legislature is only forty-eight. - B ‘The Philadelphia Chronicle nominates McClellan and Hampton for President’ and Vice-President in 1880, which is a pretty good way to kill them off. = S e e

The Cincinnati Enquirer, -is the authority for a very scandalous and we think foolish insinuation that there is a bargain between Governor Williams and Lieutenant-Governor Gray, whereby, in case of a vacancy, the former is to become United States :Senator and the latter Govornor of the State. In France there are nearly 4,500,000 of rente helders, although: the total number of-adult males is only 7,000~ 000. Doubtless’ the fact that the national securities are held so generally by the laboring classes, artisans and persons generally of moderate means, explains to a great extent the eontinued prosperity of France. 25 ~ The Qazette quotes the New York World on the silver question.” The World is an' able journal, and upon many questions its views areeminently sound. But it is thoroughly identified with the gold ringsters and the Shylocks, and in no sense represents the people or the democracy in its attitude on the silver question.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. s

A remarkable interview with Gen. Grant is published in the New York Herald. Grant talks veryfreely. He says he is in favor of Hayes’ conciliation policy, but down on civil service reform, which he says is a sham. He expresses a great deal of bitterness towards. Sumner and Motley, who are in their graves, and accuses Sumner of having been a deliberate liar. He also pronounces Schurz a humbug. The interview will produce a :sensation. ! e cogiiae Ay

The Bankrupt Law.

. The present bank~upt law is becoming more and more odious to the business men of the country, and it.is not unlikely that the demand for its repeal will yet become too strong to resist. It is urged that it furnishes:a strong inducement; to' rascally men to engage in business for no other purpose or expectation than to take advantage of its provisions. They manage to secure credit for the outstanding stock of goods; pay up promptly long enough to increase their credit purchases to the utmost limit; force sales for a time as fast as possible and pocket the cash, and then go into bankruptey and buy up claims against them for 25 cents on the dollar and start in again. The stock with which they renew business can be sold at prices which defy competition,and the ‘honest dealer must not only suffer in this respect, but also by payiug still higher prices for his goods, in order tomake up to the wholesaler his loss sustained by the retailer’s knavery. It is not pretended that honest men do not fail, and that their misfortunes entitle them to-consideration. But itis declared that no set of creditors, finding that a debtor had consecientiously given up to them all he had, would refuse to give him a receipt in full, enabling him to start over again in life, unincumbered. To thosedebtors, however, whose failures were voluntarily bro’t about for fraudulent purposes, no such forhearance would be exhibited, and they would not be able to force the creditors to cancel the accounts honestly due them -for 25 per cent., when the other 75 per cent. was jingling 1n the honest debtors’ poekets.— The absence of any ' bankrupt law would result in hardship to a few, but it may certainly be questioned if such hardship is not large_lg over-balanced by the evils to which the existence of the law subjects the dealers who pay their ' debts, ‘and who ‘are obliged to carry on their business in the face of: competition with those who are constantly compounding with their creditors.—South Bend Tribune. - -~

A Scotch Courtship.

" A shy young man of -Scotland for fourteen years had wooed the lassie of his heart.. Omne night Jamie, for that was the young man’s name, called to see Jennie,and there was a terrible look about.his eyes—just as there is sometimes -when they’ve made up their minds to pop the question." And Jamie came in and sat down by the fire just-as he had done Tuesday and Friday night. for fourteen years; and they talked of the weather, and the crops, stock market, 1 was going to say—but no, they didn’t talk about that.. And finally Jamie said: . =

“Jennie, I’ve known you for a long time.” - e , o “Yes, Jamie,” said she. | 3 . «“And—l've thought I'd always like to know you, Jennie.” ‘ - “Y-e-s, Jamie,” i “And so I've bought—a lot--Jennie.” “Y-e-s— J-a-m-i-e - : L “So—that <when—" ‘ : “Yes—Jamie—yes.” = : ' “We're dead we can lay our bones ‘together.” e B i The fool had gone and bought a lot in a graveyard, but Jennie was not discouraged. She knew her man well —after fourteen years she ought to—and so she said gently:- - - ; onlamie® - ooxr Lo m LRt “Yes, Jennie.” “Don’t you think ’twould be better to lay our bones together while we'fe yet alive?” - bt s G i el & E————eee 5 . . How It Is Done. - i ~ The first object in life with the: American people is to “get rich;” the second, how to regain good health. The first can be obtained by energy, honesty and saving; the second, (goed health) by using GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER. Should you be a despondent sufferer from any of the effects of dyspepsia, liver -complaint, indigestion, &e., such as sick headache, palpitation of the heart, sour stomach, habitual costiveness, dizziness of the head, nervous prostration, low spirits, &e., you need not suﬁér:anothet-da{éf Two doses of AuaUsT FLOWER will relieve you at once. Sample bottles 10 cents.. Regular size 75 cents, Positively sold by aﬁﬁnt;\mdwu in the United States. Forsalein ] g onier, by Scott & Sandrock. 25-eOW. The Differonce Between the Parties De--Bt. Louts Ropublican, Dem) =~ ° - The nearest approximation to a defi‘nition of the difference between the deny My Haved's (ki 5 the. ofiue bt bt Rt eRS SR e e&y oat e e S

Genera¥k Items. .

- The yellow fever is raging violenfly at Vera Cruz, Mexico. e j

The city of London covers 700 square miles, with. 4,000,000 people in

" The secretary of the treasury retired $5,723,222 in greenbacks during September. § - " There has been al decrease of $2,767,800 in the national bank circulation for the month of September,

An investigation reveals the fact . that three hundred divorces have been granted to non-residents by Utah courts, during the past year. A stop : is likely to be put to the infamous - business. S 4 il ~ The country will be- gratiﬁedl to learn that the base ball lunacy for 1877 18 about at an end. Base ball as a passtime or an amusement is all well enough, but turned to the purposes of gambling it should be suppressed, just as faro or draw poker. B

‘The commissioner of patents says that the loss by the fire-in the patent office building aside from: the building, is very immaterial. Well, we shall learn more about this after Congress meets. But at the same time the cause of the fire should be penetrated. ~ They are enjoying a strike among the railroad employes on the Kansas Central narrow-guage road. This time the men ask that the pay due them shall be forthecoming. There is considerable excitement near: Circleville, a(tlxd one or two men have heen wounded. * , ;

The Alliance (Chicago) wants to see fewer sects and a better quality of christianity. It can get along with less' quantity, but must have better . quality. That seems true. We often hear how many “professed religion,” ° but the number of genuine, pious and - holy in a px;actgcal sense, is'what we need in conversions. :

~ The late fire in the patent office is . reported to have consumed 103,800 models of different patents, valued at. $1,390,000. ' The first patent was: issued to Samuel Hopkins, July "14th, 1790, for making pot and pearl ashes, since which time 195,000 patents have been issued. The annual receipts are about $BOO,OOO ; expenditures, $660,000.~ It don't make the least bis of difference whether Geil, McClellan favors. the increase-of the regular. army ornot. His habits of thought, due to his education, like all other regularly educated military men, would bein favor. of large armies. The people in this country, however, -do not desire such an establishment and they will not have it.—NNew Albany LedgerStandard. b : B

Recent reports show that the printing for the national treasury has cost ‘hundreds of thousands of doHars more than there" was any necessity for.— . There seenis to be a ring of bank note:. engravers who are engaged in the regular plunder of the treasury, and they - have employed -counsel to pull the 'wool over the eyes of the treasury officers. It is hoped that they will be defeated. e : We are a little fearful that the venerable Alex. H. Stephens is becoming somewhat garrulous, and that he will say things to-day that he will gain-say - to-morrow, doing infinite harm to his own reputation.. -Such venerable fossils are excellent to hold in check the- - but the old man of Georgia is rather too far in the rear for his voice to be heard by the advancing columns of progress.—New Aldany Ledg-er=-Standard. 5 et R e

The prohibitionists, in their national convention in New York, set forth as a declaration of principles: That it is'neither right nor politic for: the State to afford legal protection and - sanction to any traffic or system that tends to increase crime, to waste the national resources, to corrupt social habits, and to destroy the health and lives of the people. The declaration goes on to state this peint at considerable length, and concluded by resolving to a#ote -for no persons for public office except those who favor these principles. e o Gen. McCleHan says, in Harper’s Magazine, that our army loses a larg--er proportion of officers killed in time of peace than the British army: loses in peace and war -together. Taking the number killed in the half ceptury from 1804 to 1854, and d-eductigg the losses during the wars of 1812, of Mexico, of Florida, and the ‘Black Hawk, and consider the intervening peaceful periods, the percentage of killed is greater to the whole force than that of the British army in the same period, though Great Britain was at war nearly the whole time. ; -

. Yolume of Currency. 7 A large portion of the people are under the impression that, including gold, the volume of money in circulation, ‘although gold is not in circulation at all, -amounts to #bout $875,000,000.—' This is not true in faet. It is probable that including the gold and silver, there-is not more than $650,000,000, or about $l6 per capita, or exclusive of gold a fraction over $l3, This is ‘insufficient for the operation of the business of the country. The result of this severe contraction of the currency 18 felt in every mercantile department and among out manufac- | turers. If for no other reason Secretary Sherman sheuld at once putan end to contraetion, even if it becomes necegsary to refuse the further exten- - sion of the national banks until after ‘Congress meets. The business of the country and its general pmsp‘eriby’ cannot afford to travel the road it has been pursuing for nearly two years,of contracting the paper currency at the rate of more than $2,000,000 per month, ‘unless the treasury should provide ‘gold as a substitute. No other country in the world has ever'?hgmmdd ‘: such a severe contraction of the circulating ’me‘dju§ as the United States © since 1864, Nearly three-fourths of ‘the currency has disgsppqg;d, and yet ‘the demands of the country for ordi‘nary business operations has been in‘creasing. If astate of war existed it . would have been impossible to have ‘moved the machinery of the governmtmewifhm gﬂiggmww In ~ a stateof peace,the government should. ‘have been less violent in its financial policy and given the business of the mwi its normal condition, —New Albany. . LeigeStondiod - oo a 8 Amw = , %«»w??*"v‘rw%&*@m‘jw FREDEEL. el e