The National Banner, Volume 12, Number 31, Ligonier, Noble County, 22 November 1877 — Page 1

VOL. 12.

The Fational Lanner } g PUBLISHEDP BY . S - JOHN B. STOLL., LIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY,IND, ; ; ko i Lt DI z ~ Terms of snpserlpuon: i Otie year, in AAVANCE, .eacebotssenrassasnoana. $2OO Six months,/in AAVANCE: <esssnsenteoceacssios 100 Eleven copies to one address, one year,.....-2000 g@-Subscribers outside of Noble county are charged 10 cents extra [per year] for postage, which is prepaid by the publisher. ; ”‘ i ¢ W : STRAUS BROS., o - Do ageneral Banking Business. ! Buy Commerecial and Farmers’ Notes nt reason- - ableratess ; % Buy &nd Sell Home and Foreign Exchange. X Agents for Life and Fire Insurance. = + Special Attention Given to ColX & . b 3 ' I _ lectionms, LG . 3 ,: L i ‘ ' i - Agents for Eastern Capitalists For:the loaning of money on Mortgage security. Ligonier, Ind.,_ October 25th, 1877.-27-1 y , bt S e S BANKING HOUSE o ' S e;/ e 2 1 Conrad’s New Brick Brock, LIGONIER, IND’NA. Monéy loaned on long and shorttime. Notes discounted at redasonable rates. Monies réceived on depositand interestallowed on specified time, § ‘ . Exchange bought and sold, and Foreign Drafts drawn on principalcities of Europe, : 8-2 . 70 THE FARMERS: : YQU will please take notice that lam still engaged in buy_in§ wheat, for. which I pay the highest market price. : % If you do not find me on the streetl, call before sellingyat 1y Banking Office, in Conrad’s Brick Block. 2 : SOL. MIER. . Ligonier,lndiana, May 3,1877.—1 f : } e Y e e e e “H, G. ZIMMERMAN, D. W.GREEN, . Notary Public. Justice of the Peace. | 'ZINI.NIERM,AN & GIEEEN.' o Omcé in Landon’s Block, Ligonier, Ind. il, —w——-——-‘————f“———"‘v——l—""——_——‘—'.“ : T Dr. J.F. GARD, Physician and Surgeon. Prompt attention to calls day and night. Oflice over Eldred’s Drug Store, Ligonier, Ind 12,

To-Horsemen vnnd;tho;e having Blgmlsheﬂ Horses . Dr. F. L, HATIHAWAY, ‘ g ¥ VETERINARY SURGEON an old and reliable citizén of Ligonier, Ind., is veady to treat diseasesin horses, break and’, ~ handle colts for #peed, ete., etc, ©an be found.at Shobe’s Tivery Stable. 42-Iy. ,___._______L‘b_________;._____—————.————-———_ " .€. VANCAMP, 5 ATTORNEY AT "LAW, . Ligomnier, : : : Indiana. Special attention given to collectionsand conxeyancing, and the writing of deeds, mortgages, and contracts. Legal business promptly attended to. Office over Beazel’s Harness establishment. 9-50- ~ I, E. KNISELY, & ATTORNEY AT LAW. LIGONIER, .- '- - INDIANA. g@r-Office on second floor quandon‘s Block, 7-% : ALBERT BANTA, Justiceof the Peace & Conveyancer. LIGONIER, INDIANA. s . Specialattention given to conveyancing andcol_ections. Deeds, Borids and Mortgages drawnup and all legal business.attended to promptly and accurately. Officeover Straus & Meagher’sstore, . : » May 15187315-8-3 . . WAKEMAN, o At &Justof e o TnsuranceAq’t &Justice ot the reace . KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. Office with A. A. Chapin, Mitchell Block. will receive subscriptions to THE NATIONAL BANNER,- ' P. W.CRUM, Physician and Surgeon, < LIGONIER; : INDIANA, Office over Banm’s Grocery Store. v 9 nB-Iy. Ll e ee RO S B L L e . G, W.CARR, Physician and Surgeon,

LIGONIEE. # - - = - - IND, | Willpromptlyatiendail calls intrustedto him, '‘Office and residence,on 4th Street. 4

. M. TEAL, i DeE oINS, Rooms over L E. Pike’s Grocery, mmﬁncr of Main und Mitchell Streets, e opposise the Post Office, Kendallville, Ind. 'All work warranted. <&@ - - Kendallyille, May 1, 1874, ‘ ' ¢, LINIGER, ; MERCHANT TAILOR, " Shop over Shinke’s Shoe Store, - Ligomier, ~ = « = = = Indiana. Suits made to order in fashionable style, and at reasonable rates. CUTTING done promptly and satisfactorily.” Patronager respectfully golicited. 5 15241 g 5 L whing G : gy, Langhing Gas! 7 ’)\ H' AN Y ¥ S\ y ‘)‘ ~FOR THEg ) /! v : 4 B/ PAINLESS EXTRACTION 9% TEETH R s ey 1 ; ; R e 10 : AL N X o’y S ‘ ’ Nay” /! Dn.Gants’ Ofice. b "L Pilling Teeth a Specialty Ligonier, Ind., Nov. 11, 1875. . t 11 . PHELIP A. CARR, A UCTIONEER, Offers hisgervices to the publicin g}fneral. Terms moderate. Orders may be left at the shoestoreof Sisterhen.. ¢ A 3 igonier,JanuaryB,’73-31 . . i | O.V.INKS, . ~ EALERIN MONUMENTS, - Vaults, Tombstones, AND BUILDING SBBTONES . LIGONIER, IND. ; Yl J.-W. HIGGINBOTHAM, ¢ ; / WQQ" b, B . : il R A °o) ‘-v'(‘\o'g‘ ; 2 : [ '% a_f’,. : S ."‘ "*"l‘ \;,. : ‘ <l k“ﬁ:ﬁ '*';) on u( . - @y i s ‘*'W %‘ Bl ER. R R R e i !l ¥ S e S A RURNER B 7 . Q]o} “,’ ”":’s’ s . Kancy Goods, ‘i&?ﬁz}‘:“' Gt ‘ rhels -‘-"l“fq’;.f:;.»{ir "1:?;“"=/;A’r"r¥p’5‘§‘§i

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Taﬁ"” SR 3 .;!"uﬁ%ff‘l}:r' SR R BT RN G fu_.x":?* I *‘lg;z \E LS 511; g N N T RO \% S W R A ARI - R B L A&ﬂ'; » SRR A R R TR R Y TS e . =Y 3 NN TR OO JOROUSTPEASTERS. R N The Greatest Medical vl)_lscovgry simce the Creation of Man, or since the Commenecement of the Christian Era. : Therd never has been a time when the healing of 80 many different diseases has been-caused by outward application as the present. It isan undisputed fact that over half of the entire population of the globe resort to the ure of ordinary plasters. g { 5 Dr. MELvin’s Caprsioum Porous PLARTERS are acknowledged by all who have used them to act quicker than any other plaster they ever before tried, and that one of these plasters will do more real service than a hundred of the ordinary kind. All other plasters are slow of action, and require to be worn continually to"effect a cure; but.with ‘these it is entirely different: the instant one is apl_;‘)lied the patient will feel its effect. hysiciang in all ages have thoroughly tested ‘and well know the effect of Capsicum; and it has: always been more or less nged as a medical agent for an outward application; but it is only of very recent date that iis advantages in a porous plaster have been discovered. Being, howewer, convinced of the wonderful cures effected by De. MEeLvin's Carstoum Porous PrasTers, and their superiority over all other plasters, they now actually prescribe them, in their practice, for such’ diseases as rheumatism, pain in the side and back, and all such cases as have requiréd the use of plasters or liniment. After iou have tried other plasters and liniments, and they have failed, and you want a certain cure, ask gour d-uggist for Dx, MELvIN’s CAapsioum Porous PLASTEE., You can hardl{y believe zonr own convictions of its wonderful effects. Although powerfal and quick in its action, you can rely on its safety for the mosi{ delicate person to wear, as it is free from lead and other ;:oisonous material commonly used in the manuacture of ordlnar!y plasters. Oune: trial is a suffi_cient gnarantee of its merits, and one plaster will sell hundreds to your friends. Ask your druggist for Dr. MeLviN’s CApsiouyM Porous PrasTeg. and take no other ; or, on receipt of 25 cents for one, $i for five, or $2 for a dozen, they will be mailed, post-paid, to any address in | the United States or Canadas. - | | MANUFAOTURED BY THE- ¢ | ey Loweil. Mass,, U. 8. A, . G. E. MITCHELL, PROPRIETOR, - Manufacturer ‘of Plasters and Plaster Compounds, FOR SALE BY C. ELDRED & 50N.12:3-1y ; Bakers & Grocers, CavinStreet,Ligonler,lndian Fresh Bread,Pies, Cakes,&c. Choicg Groceries, Pfcvisiona Yankee Notlons & the highest cash price paid for conntrky xin-ocluee. Mayls,’6B-t1 é - BACKBRO’S W ANTED—TQ make a permapent en- : : 44 f“ ement with aclergyl:lg having leisure, or a lh‘io Reader, to introduce i Noble County, the CELEBRATED NEW Centennial Edition of the HOLY BIBLE,. Forde- ‘ scrlgnon. niotice editorial in the idsne of July sth | of this paper., Addrmrt once | s - #¥. L Horton & Co., | Publishers & Bookbinders, 60 E. Market-St, 12-m6 . . Ixpiawaporrs, Inp, OONCORD & CATAWBA WINE, We keep constantly on hand and sell in large or small ‘gnsnu%igs, to suit customers, ¥ . Win 2 o 0 Aoll‘l' Own Mannfactore, ‘Pure— Nothing but the Juice of s KR ¢l BROTHERS ~ Winebrenner & Hoxworth, BN il ol ot oot Gealnors, Gladlers shd Paper-Hangors, TrgONTER . NDIANA.

- LIGONIER. NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1877.

LOVE, DRINK AND DEBT.

Son of mine! the world before you Spreads a thonsand secret snares, Round the feet of every mortal Who throngh life’s long highway fares, Three especial let me warn you, Are by every traveler met; Three, to trlvjyo_nr might of virtue— TLey are Love, and Drink and Debt, Love, my boy, there’s no escaping, 'T'is the common fate of men; Father had it; I have had it— But for Jove you had not been. . Take your chances, bat be cauntions; Know a gquab is not a dove; Be the uprisht man of honor; i All deceit doth murder love. : As for drink, avoid it wholly; Like an adder it will sting;. N Crush the earliest temptation, Handle not the dangerous thing. See the wrecks of men around us— Once as fair and pare as yon— . Mark the warning! Shu% the pathway And the hell they’re totiering through. Yet, though love be pure and sentlo. . And from drirLk you may be free, With a yearning heart I warn gou 'Gainst the worst of al. the three, Many a demon in his journey Bunyan’s Christian Pilgrim met; ; They were lambs, e’en.old Apollyon, To the awful demon Debt! With quaking heart and face abashed The wretched debtor goes; He starts.at shadows lest they be . e The shades of men he owes, Down gilent streets he furtive steals, The race o fman to shun; He shivers at the postman’s ring, And fears the dreadful dan. Beware of debt! Once in, you'll be -A slave for evermore ; Lo If credit tempts you thunder *“No!” And show it to the door; e Cold water and a crust of bread o 2 May be the best you’ll get; AcceYt them like a man and swear—“l’ll never run in debt!” =

A STORY OF A BALL DRESS.

“Fifty dollars, Nettie; not one cent more,” Mrs. Locke said, decidedly. ‘““Fifty dollars!” Nettie echoed, discontentedly. “Oh dear! how far will fifty dollarsgo? Dress, shoes, flowers, gloves—that last packet Aunt Nell 'sent me is exhausted, that is, all the evening tints, and I'll have to buy a pair. Let me count up; gloves, three dollars and a half; shoes, I can buy a ‘pair for five dollars—cheap, but they’ll have to do; I ean manage with ten -do}lars’ worth of French flowers if ‘I use them with diseretion. Of course Phil will send me all the natural flowers I'll need. That leaves thirty-one dollars and a halt for my dress, not counting the dressmaker’s -bill, of coursey; Mme. Perot will wait. Do you think I can make it do, mamma ?” “You will have to make it do, Nettie. Your father says "he can’t possibly give you any more. Youknow he: has had heavy losses in two or three directions, owing: to the recent failures.” . 1

“It’s so provoking! Just now, too, when I espécially want to make a good appearance at this party. I'm sure 1 can’t see why the banks couldn’t have waited a little longer before bregking up in this horrid way. If they had only waited till next week, I.shouldn’t have cared so much,” Nettie said, poutingly. R ‘ “They. didn’t break simply to vex you, Nettie, rest 'assured of that; so forgive. them the misfortune,” her mother returned, half laughingly, half reprovingly. “And be content, my dear, that it is no worse. Think how many girls there are who cannothave warm and comfortable clothing even, much less fifty dollars to expend on ball fineries.” ;

“] don’t believe such people exist except in novels. I don’t know any girl who hasn’t comfortable and elegant clothes. Why, even our servants dress with a certain style. Their clothes are not only comfortable, but: really handsome, of good material, and: as fashionably made as any one’s and all my friends dress elegantly.' Nellie will spend three or four hundred dollars tor her new ball dress; Clara will | spend quite as much; then Maud Campbell is to have a magnificent set . of new jewels, and her dress—l went with her to madame's to have it fit-| ted yesterday, and it’s grand. I can’t begin to describe its magnificence in the way of lace and flowers. One single spray cost forty-seven dollars; and fitty—one beggarly fifty— for my entire dress, shoes, gloves, flowers and ‘ever;,thing! Oh dear! oh dear!” “You have a dozen dresses, Nettie, that are plenty good enough to wear.” ¢ “Your ideas of ‘good enough’ and mine are very different. I haven’t a’ thingﬁtg) be/seen.” - ! “Your apricot silk.” “Is entirely passee.” s “Your velvet ?” 2 S - “Never was becoming. DBlondes of my style are horrid in violet.” “Your Nile green ?” : “‘Ol%don’ttmention it, please, mamma; every blonde I know has worn green, green, green, till I am sick of the sight-of it.” _ - “Your scarlet satin? I am' sure that is a color blondes don’t often indulge in. It is certainly becoming, and undeniably an elegant dress. You can take off the white applique flounces and remodel with my black Chantilly, trim it with white and red roses, and | you have a dress fiv for an Empress.”

“Too imperial, mamma dear. It’s entirely too early in the season to appear in such a brilliant dress.” : “Then wear your blue gros grain.— It is a beautiful dress, Nettie, and certainly can’t be objected to on the score of not being becoming.” “Yes it 18 becoming,” Nettie said, casting a conscious glance toward the mirror; “but the truth is, mamma, I want a new dress. I'd be mortified to death to wear one of my evening dresges of last season.” “When I was a girl, Nettie, one silk dress for occasions of ceremony, and 'a quiet muslin with pink blue ribbons, were considered a very nice outfit. I remember the night your father fell in love with me I wore a white mus> lin, with scarlet roses in my hair, and he says it is the loveliest dress a girl can wear,” S

“I can assure you, mamma dear, times are changed. A simple muslin and a scarlet rose dresses the-heroine of a novel very prettily, but such commonplace clay as Nettie Locke requires ‘a gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls,’ if she expects to reign ‘queen rose of the rose-bud garden of girls.’ I'd wait a 'long time for Phil to fall in love with me dressed like such a guy,” Nettie said with a laugh and a blush. o

“Well, my dear, here is your allowance; make yourself as gay as possible with it,” Mrs. Locke returned, laughingly. “If you will permit me to make a suggestion,however, I think the blue gros grain and your white lace overdress will be much handsomer th;an a new cheap silk.” “I don’t intend to buy a cheap silk, mamma; I'm going to have a trailing silk illusion, trimmed with pink azaleas—the frailest, loveliest things—exactly like the real ones. Illusion will be much prettier than silk or satin at this time of the year, aud diaphanous dresses are so becoming! It will be an improvement on ym‘;u:‘quietx%mﬁn | and scarlet rose, mamma,” Nettie cried, gayly, as she opened her prefty

purse and pushed the crumpled notes In. L . "~ “Well,' Nettie,” her father asked at dinner, “did. your money go as far as you expected? I can give you five dollars more to help you out, if it didn’t stretch as far as it should have ‘done:” ‘ , : “I baven’t ordered my dress yet, papa; I've been so busy looking over the styles all the afternoon. I’ll take the extra five dollars, though, if you please; I can make good use of it.” “So can I,lf you don’t really need it,” her father returned, smilingly.— “Here, little Essie, is your share,” he said, dropping a crisp new note in his. younger daughter’s lap. “I don’t know what I shall do when Essie gets. old enough to go to parties, unless Fortunatus should die and leave me his purse. It’'s lucky I have no more girls to dissipate my substance— Nettie going to balls, and Essie inviting her young lady friends to opera matinees and luncheon parties!” “If you please, papa, I haven’t invited them yet, and I'd like to dosome= thing else with the money; may I?” little Essie said, looking up from the paper she was reading. ‘ : .“What do you want to do with it?” *“Lend it to me,” Nettie cried, laughingly; “it will be a charity.” “Is that what you want to do with it?” her .father asked. “I’d rather you'd devote it to your original inten--tion.” ety

“No, sir,” she said, blushingly; “I want to give it away. I want to send it— Ob; papa, I've been reading in this paper about that terrible factory fire, and of all those poor people who lost not only the places where they worked, but their homes and furniture too, by the fire. This paper says they are starving—men, women and children, even little babies, papa—and they need food and clothes and everything. And doen’t you think I ought 1o give this money to them instead of spending it? We don’t have to go to the matinee, but they must have something to eat. Isn’t it’ dreadful, papa, for a person to have nothing to eat?” *Very dreadful,” her father said, smiling thoughtfully down on the.pretty, earnest little face. - .

~ “I want you to sénd it to those poor people, papa. I couldn’s enjoy the matinee; it would spoil all my pleasure thinking how selfish I'd be to spend so. much money just for pleasure when they need it so much to buy clothes and things to eaf.” , - *L think you put your money to a .wise use, little girl,” her father said, approvingly. “It is your own, my dear; do what you like with It. And some other time, when papa has more .money, you can take Alice and Blanche to the matinee.” ! :

“Thank you, sir; we can go to the matinee any time, but the poor people need the money now,” Essie said, giving the bright new note back to her father. ;

“Yes, now is their hour of need. I will send the money immediately—in your name, my little girl. I wish I could add fifty or a hundred dollars fo your mite, Issie; but it is impossible for me to sparé it now.” ° : “I hope you didn’t think I was mean, Nettie, not to lend my money to you; but you have so many pretty dresses already that T thought I’d rather give it to those poor starving people,” Essie said to her sister as they were going to bed that night. e

“Certainly not, little goosey. I think, like papa, that you put it to a good use.” . o . -Nettie lay awake a long while that night, for a sudden, startling and perplexing question presented itself unceremoniously to her consideration; if Essie had made a wise use of her money; was not she going to make a very foolish use of hers? Shedebated the question in all its bearings, and tumbled and tossed uneasily on her very easy and comfortable bed. Nettie was not used to making sacrifices. There had been no need of any selfsacrifice in her bright young life; and this was the first time she had ever felt called upon to deny herself in any WAY. e 0 i P o

“Fifty dollars will go but a little way in relieving their great distress,” she thought; “and there is no use of wearing my old dress, and having all the girls make disagreeable remarks about me, because a lot of people whom I never saw and never will see, and who, I'm sure, would never help me, happen to be poor and needy.— There are plenty of people who will help them, and there is no need of giving up my dress.” : But then if every one should think as she did, and selfishly leave it to some one else fo relieve the necessities of the poor? But then, again, everybody was goi(nag tohave a new dress for this party ; and Phil would be there, and he always liked her to appear among the best. Well, it was perplexing and disagreeable either way,' so why not decide on the most agreeable alternative? - e

“I’il buy my dress the first thing in the merning; then I can’t be tempted to— No, I'll ask papa which T ought to do. " No, I can’t do that, for he’ll only say, as he did to Essie, ‘Spend your money as you like; it is your own, aud will contrast the difference between our modes of using it, and think how selfish I am to spend it fox myself. Oh dear! I wish I had bought my dress this morning; then there would have been no question of right and wrong.” L 53 Nettie ran up to her room the first: thing after breaktast, to-take a look at the old blue silk. She threw it on the bed and looped the lace dress over it with some pale pink rose-buds, and it certainly looked lovely—not much of ‘a sacrifice, affer all, to wear such a beautiful dress, most girls would have thought. But then Nettie had certainly worn the dress many times before; and her friends were well acquainted with all its defects; as well as its beauties. ;

“There’s where Eve Mason put her foot on the train the first time I wore iv; I always knew she did it on purpose, mean, spiteful thing, although she apologized and was so sweet and 8o sorry! lere's where Allan Page dropped chocolate-ice over the ‘back width; I can cover that with the lace and flowers. There’s where Arthur Delano splashed it with champagne the night he was so dreadfully under its influence; that's the ‘worst place, and I don’t know how /I shall eonceal it; perhaps I can drape my sash gracefully over it, pinning it tight to the skirt beneath the loops, and it won't look 80" dreadful. Oh, dear! after all the worst thing about it is that I've worn it half a dozen time already, and everybody knows it, and will say, ‘There comes Nettie Locke in her old Plusgaln'” v fon il oy This last tho;‘;gtgt, was 8o harrowars, and they fell; drip, drip, on the ‘fold;i:_;n&.‘_ ” and added another stain to its already damaged beauty,

- “Right on the bosom, too,” Nettie said drying her tears quickly. “However, it isn’t so bad; I can cover it with some natural roses.” = - ~_ She sat down on the bed beside the still lovely dress—though it had cerItainiy seen its best days—and pinned a ?‘Wer here and a ribbon there, singing Boftly the while one of Strauss’ exquisite waltzes, The delicious air she was singing took her thoughts captive presently, and carried them far @way from the present and all its perplexities. She dropped the flowers, richiribbons and laces from her listless hands, as a mental vision passed betoge. her of the coming ball—a vision of a fair young girl in a cloud of mistJlike tulle and rosy blossoms; a vision alluring as Aurora herself when she comes through the gates of the dawn, scattering roses and dewy diamonds in the pathway of the day god; a visiogf that brings a flush to her cheeks gl a sparkle to her eyes. She sees the tender light in her-lover’s eyes as he bends to tell her how fair she is in ‘his*eyes and in the eyes of all men; she hears the passionate sweetness of waltz and galop, the passionate sweetness of whispered words and low replies; but above the music of the bands, above the sweeter music of her lover’s voice, above the sound of laughing voices and dancing feet, she hears a cry for help and succor. She gave a last deciding look at the old blue, with its stains of: wines and sweets, and a last despairing thought to the vision of herself, radiant, beautiful, in fleecy tulle and rosy blossoms; then drew her purse from her pocket. She choked back a few rising sobs, but resolutely counted out theamount necessary ,to purchase shoes and gloves, and laid the remainder aside to bear Essie’s mrite company on its mission of ehairity and mercy. j - “Mamma,” she said, as she seated herself at the luncheon table, “I am going to wear the old blue, after all; and if Phil doesn’t like me in it—well, I can’t help it.” 4 1

“Phil will like you 1n -anything, I fancy,” her mother said, smiling.— “But why have you abandoned the diaphanous robe that was to be so becoming ?” A “Because,” she returned, between a laugh and a sob, “I am going to use my money as Essie did hers.” . “Well, my dear,” her mother. said, softly, “I can only echo your father’s words to Essie—you have made a wise use of it; for has not He whosuffered all things for us said, ‘lnasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the:least of these My brethren,ye havedone it unto Me.’ ”— Harper’s Bazar, '

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J. B. Bloomer, Virgille, N. Y.,writes: “Your ‘Eclectric Oil’ cured a badly swelled neck and a sore throat on my son in 48 hours; one application also removed the pain from, a very sore toe; my wife’s foot was also much inflamned, so much so that she could not walk about the house, shée applied the Oil, and in twenty-four-hours was entirely eured.” | . ' , Sold by all medicine dealers. Price, 50 cents, and $l. Trial bottle,2s cents.

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Pilain Truth.

In domestic happiness the wife’s influence is much greater than her husband’s. By her management of small sums her°husband’s honor and credit: are created or destroyed. No fortune can stand the constant leakages of extravagance and mismanagement; and more is spent in trifles than a woman would easily believe, The one great expense, whatever it may be, is turned over and carefully retlected upon ere incurred; the income is: prepared to meet it. But it is pennies, imperceptibly sliding away, which do the mischief; and this alone the wife can stop, for it does not come within a man’s province. There is often an Jnsuspected trifle to be saved in every household. Itis notin economyalone that the wife’s attention is so necessary, but in those matters which make a well-regulated household. An unfinished eruet-stand, a missing key, a buttonless shirt, a soiled table-cloth, a mustard -pot, with its old contents sticking hard and brown about it, are really nothings; but each can raise an angry word or cause discomfort.

B e4A —— e { . THE last indictment that the grand jury at Columbia, South Carolina, has handed out, is a true bill against the irrepressible John J. Patterson, churging him with bribery in securing his seat in the United States Senate, — Twenty-four witnesses, all of whom are ex-members of the Legislature, swear that they were bribed to vote for Patterson, When the case comes to trial it will probably require something more potent than a mixed jury to save him from a verdict of guilty. . To prevent fraud in the sale of postAgo stamps the: Postmaster General will recommend a law providing that Dol Mt 14 et eML 10 paid a per eentage.on he ameunt of stamps canceled by thew,

FORCED SPECIE RESUMPTION. |

Facts Which Every Citizen Should Fulv ly Understand. o : BY GEN. THOMAS EWING. | The purpose of the resumption law is to destroy the greenback currency. It was hid by its author under the word “redeem.’” The law was framed in a caucus seerecy as profound as if ‘the act meditated were a erime instead of a great measure of public policy. The part of a day permitted to the Senate for its consideration wasspent in extorting from Mr. Sherman an indirect admission that to “redeem” meant to pay and destroy. This interpretation is approved by the treasury department in destroying the fractional currency when redeemed—the same language being used in providing. for redemption of that currency as for redemption of legal tenders. Secretary Bristow affirmed this construction in his report for 1875, saying that “the faith of the government now stands pledged to the final redemption and removal from the currency of the country of the legal tender notes as fast as they shall be presented for redemption;” and Secretary Morrill reaffirmed it in his report for 1876, saying that by the resumption law Cougress “declared, in effect, a monetary system composed of coin and national bank notes redeemable in coin.”

* That the law will effect the early and complete destruction of the legal tenders is obvious. A very large accumulation of gold in the treasury is not necessary for the purposs. The ‘amount of redemptions per day will no doubt be limited to one or two millions, which could be furnished by a patriotic syndicate in exchange for five per cent. bonds. In fact, the New York gold ring alone could supply the most of the coin needed; for it would flow through the treasury and back to Wall street without disturbing the gold market much more than the water drawn through a millrace disturbs the general course and current of the stream. ‘ ; But. will all the legat tenders be presented for redemption? The people, for whose use they were issued,do not want them redeemed, but do want them preserved as the best paper currency -they ever had or ever will have. Y et, after resumption day the treasury will be the great supplier of gold to the banks, to all who must ship cain to meet foreign débts or expenses, to importers, to the bulls and bears of the gold ring, to the:curious and the cautious who want to hoard it. These large and incessant demands will send legal tenders to the treasury for payment and cancellation as fast as the gold can be paid over itS counters, until they all shall have been redeemed and destroyed. s : Our currency will thus be:contracted over one-half; for it is obviousthat no other currency can take the place of the legal tenders. The banks can not supply their place with new issues redeemable on demand in gold. They have already in effect declared their inability to maintain even the whole amount of their circulation existing when the resumption law passed, by a, net surrender of thirty-seven millions of their currency up to August 1,1877. Nor will gold-go into general circula~ tion to supply the place of paper money redeemed and cancelled, for the very demdnds which will cause it to be drawn from the treasury will still exist, to send part of it abroad and keep therest at home withdrawn from general circulation. - That resumption can. be reached without further contraction is true;. but it can not be maintained without a rapid reduction of our effective circulation to one-tlrird or one-fourth of its present volume. The reasons. are obvious. . We have not the coin indispensable to float a considerable volume of redeemable paper; we can not get it, and we can not keep it. We bad two hundred and eighty-five millions of coin in 1860, our mines have supplied probably seven hundred million "since, and yet we now have but one hundred and fifty millions left. It ‘has nearly all been shipped abroad to pay coin debts and expenditures. We owe abroad a year about one hundred and fifty millions for eoin interest on national, State, city, railway and other bonds, and we pay for foreign shipping and foreign travel about one hundred millions more. In paying this annual interest and expense a favorable balance of trade sometimes helps us, though for the last 7 years the:balance has‘been against us, on an average, about thirty millions of dollars annually. This annual demand is paid in part by an average annual shipment of about fifty millions of coin and bullion—more than the whole coinage product of our miues. The balance, amounting to from one hundréd to two hundred millions a year; we pay by negotiating new' loans. abroad, thus making wider and deeper the compulsive current which sweeps the precious metals from our shores. In this situation—having nota third as much coin as any other great people; having three times as much paper currency as was ever yet maintained redeemable in coin by any _country, however rich in the precious -metals; borrowing and expending abroad vastly more than any other na‘tion, and therefore utterly unable to keep coin if extracted from foreign markets — resumption can only be maintained, if at all, by an enormous contraction of our paper currency. The premium on gold is no eriterion whatever of the amount of contraction necessary to maintain resump“tion, or of the consequent fall in values. Mr, Sherman says it is. So says Ricardo, the author of the British borrowed scheme for starving 'the workers and fattening theé;r% But though the premium on gold was but four per cent. when the British resumption law was enacted, its execution compelled a contraction of the: ‘bank currency of forty-five per cent., and a consequent shriukage of all val“ues on the island, whether of land, la‘bor, or product, in the proportion of the contraction of the paper currency. Our resumption law Lias already caus%amﬂ%wmwgwnmﬁ by hoarding; and a consequentaverage fal!oﬁﬂn“mwﬁffﬂiiﬂvﬁreéﬁt e . Before the law was enacted,our business and values were adjusted to a vol‘ume of about $750,000,000 of curren- | the most prosperous nation on earth. ' he %w“%%@gj’"‘*ﬂ | Germniny %‘mﬁn’f’wm%ﬁ@ wmﬂw Gorrogadael b abe i i inbr "'e ”" “ﬂ?fct’q@é,w"\;,ﬁl‘“i‘ Y':u,?’; o 4 ; P “ﬁ x! ”‘“‘FR‘\ ‘ 1 ‘A*}.

this law will be to double and probably treble or quadruple all debts and takes by shrinking in that proportion the value of everything with which money can be got to pay .them. We are already the most heavily taxed people on earth. = We:pay for the support of general and national governments $750,000,000 annually, or $17.50 per capita; while the British: pay but sll,the French but $11.41, the Germans $9.34 and the Austrians $7.22. The reduction of values already accomplished by the mere threat of the law has almest doubled the tax burden, and the people are alreadysinking under the added load." In Chi-. cago 200,000 pieces of real property have beer forfeited for taxes thisyear; other debtor communities are suffering almost eyually; and relief or repudiationis athand. .

. The fall of-'values consequent ‘on this law has already nearly doubled all private debts, of which tha aggregate is about $7,000,000,000, or three and a half times our national debt.— The debtor class so-called are the chief workers of the land. This law robs them of their property, closes their mercantile and manufacturing establishments, and sets adrift with them millions of laborers to sink into pauperism, vice, and despair, It is esti‘mated by Harper's Weekly that already three millions of wage people, men, womep, and children, are in enforced idleness. Their loss of daily payatan average of seventy-five cents is two and one quarter millions of dollars a day, or $700,000,000 a year. This ig exclusive of many millions of laborers ‘who still have work on reduced time or lowered wages, aud are hanging on the ragged edge of the chasm into: which their fellows have already fallen. fo

- This law enacts a robbery of debtors, taxpayers, and laborers more gigantic than ever was perpetrated by a conquering ou a conquered people. It ought not to be, and can not be, executed.. If permitted to stand, it will bring on a general destruction of business, and more dire and widespread woe than the great rebellion itself inflicted; and it will at last go down in ‘a tempest which will shake our social fabric from turret to foundation stone. Let it be forthiwith repealed. Lel us withdraw the threat of contraction and permit our industries to revive and prosper. Let us devise measures to bring home our foreign debt, issue legal tenders in -place: of bank ‘notes, and with' the new issue buy up and destroy a part of our bonds; open our mints again to the free and unlimited coinage of the silver dollar; bring all our money to one par hy making it all equal tender except where otherwise provided by contraet; and when our paper, silver and gold dollars are of equal value we need not fret about resumption of specie payments. . =

REAL ESTATE SECURITY,

Savings Banks and Crushed Landhelders. Nashville American, . R e

New York and Massachusetts savings banks have for the last 50 years been in the practice:of lending the ‘money of depositors on real estate security, regarding it as the safest investment that could be ‘made of trust funds on |which “intérest: was. to be paid. Now, to the surprise of many, institutions that have done a largeand. successful business in this way for the lifetime of a generafion find themselves bankrupt by the .disastrous shrinkage of improved lands, partly in tity and village property. The facts of the case are of great moment, and every man should understand them. The liabilities of the savings banks of the six New England States are $451,335,981 ; those of New York are $351,829,147, making a grand total of $803,165088, | ®. 0 oo ot ety

Here are seven States out of thirtyeight which report the receipt of trust. funds, drawn largely from laboring peopie, to the amount of eight hundred and three million, one hnndred and sixty-five thousand and thirtyeight dollars. The other States,doubtless, have a larger sum in savings banks, but how much larger we have no means of knowing, and, therefore, to be within the truth, we estimate it at the same, or call the aggregate for the nation one thousand six hundred million dollars placed in savings institutions, one-half of which is irretrievably lost by the contraction of the currency to one-third of what it was five years ago. “That real estate has felt this remarkable and sudden contraction of our circulating medium no truthful, intelligent man will deny. It has played the mischief with all landed securities. .; i

For whose benefit has this great ~wrong been done alike to landholders, ‘and to the laboring masses, whose weekly and monthly savings from low .wages have gone in part intosome savings bank? A bondholders’ organ in ' New York says: T ' ' - “The oldest savings bank in Pennsylvania the other day succumbed to the pressure of distrust “with a schedule of assets - not much better than that made familiar by Chicago recklessness and ‘mismanagement. Nearly all it held in trust had been sunk in real este securities, on which ¢ash c¢an not now be realized. The four Massachusetts banks, whose doors have recently been closed, do not appear to have erred in this respect to the same extent, but in their ‘case ‘bonds and mortgages’ are an item disproportionately large.: The same characteristic prevails throughout New England,” The same paper says: “Thepresent outlook would be ‘more satisfactory than it is if the amounts invested in mortgages and United States honds were reversed.” - Very true; but who. knew in advance, or. could reasonably believe, that the great landed interest and -labor*fmtrefgggtgof. a free people were to be sacrificed that a few holders of federal bonds, bought with a. highly depreciated paper currency dur‘ing the war, might double and quad-: _ruple their investments? . While the bondholders have gained a million through ‘corrupt legislation, the country has lost ten millions by the same meanß, - o e ane s

SEORETARY MOCCRARY has issued an order forbidding any attache of the War Department from taking ‘spirituous or malt liqguors between . the hours of nine o’clock in the morning gnd four o’clock in he afternoon.— The next thing you hear the Mrs. R. B. Hayes' Temperance Association ‘will be changing its name_to the (0. W. McCrary Temperance Band, SAWYER, ex carpetob% United States Senator and ex-assisl Wm tary of the Treasury, recently convict--ed i the criminal court of the eity of Washington of défrauding the gov. emmmwnmﬂa*m ‘waﬁﬁfﬁg G andlo e o e o

\NO. 3t.

-~ THE DOUBLE §TANDABBa b A Veteran’s Yiews as to the Impossibil- © tyof Resuming Withoutlt. Thurlow Weed in New York Tribune, = In your editorial of yesterday, on . the silver question, you said: “We make & broad distinction between them and the bi-metallists. The latter thinx specie payments can better - be sustained by the use of the two precious metals than by one,” This isprecisely what I have earnestly urged in letters which you were kind enough > to publish, but which, I regret to say, found no favor w-i%x our leading journals. .And this is precisely what can be accomplished with the consentand -co-operation of such journals. In taking ground for constitutional money standards, the press would disarm the' “inflationists,” “repudiators,” “dema~gogues,” etc., whose: malign. influence ‘is always to be dreaded. Let the ‘friends of resumption content themselves with the money standards.of the constitution,and a selution of that. question will soon beé reached. Resumption without prosperity will - prove alike temporary and disastrous, “Our specie basis should be as broad a 8 possible. Congress i® invested by . the constitution with full power. The silver and gold dollar can be made of ‘equal value. Neither has any money value without the “superseription” of government. Silver was “degraded” - by its demonetizationy while gold was appreciated by the passage of the law ‘of 1873. Repeal that law and author‘ize the coinage of the silver dollar equal in value to the gold dollar, and . we shall soon realize that truth of the ‘proposition which you deny, namely, .that silver and gold will “find a com-, ‘mon level.”” : Wi . . Resumption with one standard will signally fail. 'The basis will be nar- - row. But by availing ourselves of . the double standard, bgﬁh equally pre‘cicus in the language and spirit-of the ‘constitution, resumption and prosperity, twin financial hand-maidens, will scatter their blessings ' beuntifully - -amidst a rejoicing people. Itisurged ‘against the double standard that the | single one has been adopted by the Latin governments, and that for this reason we should voluntarily deprive ourselves of one-half of the money power of our country in working out the resumption of specie payments.— - To this I reply, that our first duty is to be just and true to ourselves. Silver and gold coin ‘are the monetary standards of the constitution. We agreed to pay the national creditors the inferest and principal of their debt -in coin. We have for twelve years been paying interest, in gold, upon. more: than $2,000,000,000. The bondholders, while gold is at a premium, receive largely more than, the 6 per-cent.. “nominated in the bond.” And these premiums, as has been truly said, weré “squeezed, drop by drop, from the sweat of labor.” Neow,labor ‘has borne, with exemplary patience, quite enough of justice and oppres- :° sion, and it behooves Congress and the administration to bring their best judgments and their paternal sympathies to the consideration of this question. When the insidious law 6£1873, demonetizing silver, shall have been repealed, we shall be prepared to confer with other governments in relation to the double or single standard. International congresses have been convened for the ‘consideration of far - less important subjects. Meantime,, ° let.us hope that our government will mature and establish a financial sys-".; tem which will equally protect the credit and honor of the nation with - the prosperity and happiness of the people. . i Foewety :

""" The Danger of the Hour. ' Goshen Times (Rep.) : ‘ No more serious question has.ever been brought before: the American people than that of the resumption of specie payment. When England re-. turned to specie payment, in 1821, the act was accompanied by a shrinkage in prices that was appalling, and that period. in England’s history'is one of - -bankraptey, disaster and shame. And yet the Peel Resumption Bill did not. provide for resumption in full at a “fixed time, as does the Resumption act of Congress. Gold payments were ordained to begin at a given date, to be ‘sure, but prior to that time a scale of gradation was fixed. At the first per“iod the bank of England was bound to redeem its notes.in gold bullion, over_valued, taking the mint price as a ‘'standard, seven per cent.; then, after another period, it was to pay bullion. ‘at the mint price; and, finally, gold coin. Last week, Mr. Gardner, a re- \ sumption member from Ohio, presented a plan similar to this in Congress. - He proposes a graded scale of one-half sper cent. per annum, taking gold at a -premium of 103 as a starting point.— This would make 1884 the period of - full resumption. With the silver dollar remonetized, an intelligent management of the fiseal affairs of the ocountry bythe United States Treasury, and a necessary amount of metalic accumulation at Washington City, resumption might be effected tinder this plan without material disturbance of values. . But to attempt full resumption within a year; with an in-’ adequate supply of speeie, would be nothing short of financial suicide. Our National Legislature owes itito the people whose destiny they have in ‘their hands, to look at this matter carefully, and to act promptly. No party or administiation could stand against - the outbreak üblic -indignation that would follow)the success of the" deep laid schemes-of the eastern mon-ey-sharks, and the consequent finan‘cial ruin of the country. It would be ‘sheer madness, nay, criminal, for members of Congress to shut their eyes to the terrible experience of Engla and other countries uuderﬂrcnm ‘ces similar to ours. And when Price, of lowa, remarked in Congress, the other day, that “while values ip England at that time (1821) may have ‘gone down 20 per cent,, values here ‘have gone up because gold has gone a crazy man, because every man, wo‘man and child knows that valass have Wnﬁn ly in this countty within a few years, and thousands up‘on thousands of persons have gone to - P P,m;:gb - ﬁf&*‘&@% ﬁ%ﬂ*«:t’%;w"sﬁ% St o _t}ai;::%@ gum“wm LT R APO A 0 D& e eoS TADS OF (it 8000 l on 3 e %“"‘*;‘;‘?f"‘“"m é"“f Ap g‘r ‘i‘x o Lok u | now Wwilling and ready to help undo