The National Banner, Volume 12, Number 35, Ligonier, Noble County, 20 December 1877 — Page 2

4t anvyl 0. The atiomal Banwer .} ' r&ﬁk“;‘? A «\f\ g : SR Wi J. B.STOLY., Editor and Proprietor LIGONIER, IND.,, DEC'R 20th, 1877. “:N'o man worthy of the office of President should be willing o hold it ir counted in or placed there|by fraud."— U.B.GRANT. 20 B CoNGREss adjourned last: Saturday until the 10th of Japuary. Upon reassembling, the Senate will at once resume the consideration|of the silver bill, the passage of which by a two‘thirds vote is, now degmed a moral certainty. . | it o el @ W . A Flaur took place afew dayssince on the Texan border hetween Mexican raiders and Texans. Reports ¢onflicting, and probably greatly exaggerated. The 'Governor pf Texas has called on-the President for troops to resist the'invaders. | = | " Tue Fort Wayne Sepfinel reminds eastern Democrats that the St. Louis platform called for thp repeal of the resumption act. If these gentlemen have forgotten this fact, theii memories will be jogged at th next election for members of Congress. '‘Bos INGERSOLL, a short timesince, observed with aigood leal of force and truthfulness: “Peoplewholive.in cliimates wheve},ﬁ)the‘ shelter is required than the canopy of heayen are natural revolutionists.| It takes winters to make homes, and homes make good governm’eﬁis.” Lilie ;

‘WE fully concur in the opinion expressed by a-contem'por’ry that David _Davis, late Judge of [U. SSupreme -Court, seems to be the biggest small man that ever had a seat in the Senate. His ehief trouble all the time seems to be a studied -e¢ffort to be on both sides of every political question or on neither side. - | .

ACCORDING. to the 'Ntw York 77ribune, the gold ringsters who went down to Washington to bulldoze Congress on the silver question, are unanimous‘in théir belief that silvér will be remonetized in some|shape.. They have come to' the conclusion that *Wall street is not running the country so much asit'was. | | ¢

CoNKLING ‘and BLAINE have been enemies for ten or twelve years,the difficulty between them originating from some controversy in the House. Both being hostile to the Hayes ddministration, a reconciliation was effected last Saturday. They are now in position to join-forces in ¢rushing what little power there is left'of the Hayes regime..-. | | = - : G Ll e - o + AN immense mass meeting'in favor of remonetizing silver was held m the city of Chicage last Thursday night. The business men turned out en masse, and short speeches were made by about a dozen of Ki-l;icagd’s ost prominent citizens. - AWery largeand enthusiastic silver' meeting was also held at Terre Haute, this State, last Monday night. - Preparations for similar demonstrations are being made in a num‘ber of other towns and cities, - 2

o THE Senate Finance Fommittee- will report favorably on the Wallace bill which provides'that in lieu of the 4 per 'cent. bonds authorized by act of July 14, 1870, the S cretj,‘ary of the Treasury may issue :$100,008,000 coupon bonds of denominations of $25, $5O and $lOO, redeemable in eoin in 60 years/fromf date, beariing 4 per cent. interest, payable semi-annually and exempt from taxation. This is the people’s bond that 860 much has been said about in the newspapers. =~ S — e — SENATOR CONOVER, of Florida, opposed the confirmation|of one McLinn of that State as Chief Justice of New Mexico on the ground/that he knew nothing of law, had no moral nor political principle, and while in- Florida had devoted himself more to applejack than to anything else. McLinn was rejected by alarge majority, even Stanley Matthews declining to vote for his confirmation.—lnd, Journal.’ 1 'This fellow McLinn was a member of the Florida returning board which fraudulently certified the vote of that State to have been cast for Hayes. In return for his infamous service, the great “civil service reformer,” Hayes, appointed him Chief Justice of New Mexico; but thanks to a Senate:that has some regard for honpr and decency, the outrageous appointment was rejected. The hollowness| of ITayes’ pretensions to civil service reform is becoming more and more apparent.

e ‘T_-ﬁ l THE Wolcottville Guzette express-. es it in these words: {People should 5 remember that publishers of newspapers depend greatly upon the promptness of their patrons in paying up, to. - successfully carry on |their business. It is an easy matter for a city paper of long standing and gpod backing to carry accounts from three to ten years, but when papers in’smaller places are published, the people should be more ‘prompt. If we receive our moneyf readily, we areenabled to put more time on improving the| merits of the paper than we should, had we to pull the tug to get enough to pay our steady accruing debts. Patrons pleage take -ﬂQﬂC@L Call in and pay up your . arrearages in full, and give a starter by 'forking up’ for next year in advange.” ~ Very good; but the Gazette should know that city papers don’t carry accounts from thiee to ten yeurs, With them subscriptions are invariably paid in advance, and thair adverIt is estimaled that eigrants will swl SR WERE . PERALICC PR b e *W'wﬁ?« W}ﬁfg Ay gt sLT T R PR,

CANDIDATES FOR STATE OFFICES,

As the claims of a comparatively large number of c¢andidates for the several State offices to be filled at the election next October are now being urged and canvassed with a good deal of earnestness, both in private correspondence and in the columns of the publie press, we herewith publish, as a matter of political news, the list of agpirants as far as known: = For Seécretary of State — David 8. Gooding, of Hancock county; Lycurgus Dalton, of L.awrence county;: J. G. Shanklin, of ‘Vanderburg county; A. T.-Whittlesey, of Vanderburg county; Henry A. Peed, of Martin county; Jas. B. Hendricks,of Pike county; Wm. A. gfetle’ present Depqty Secretary: Qf State. . %

- For Treasurer of State—D. F. Skinner, of Porter.county; H. H. Walker, of LaPorte county ; Joseph Henderson, of St. Joseph county; William Fleming, of Allen county; John S. Williams, of Tippecanoe county; Edgar Henderson, of Madison county; John J. Cooper, of Marion county; Wm. O. Foley, of Decatur county; Patrick Shannon, of Vigo county; Benj. F. Welker, of Floyd county; Henry Kramer, of Spencer county; J. B. Ruger, of Tippecanoe county; James B. Ryan, of Marion'county ; William Walker, of LaPorte county. " : For State Auditor-—A.T. Armstrong, of Howard county; John Nester, of Warrick county; R. D. Slater of Dearborn county; James M. Hopkins, of Clay county; Louis B. Fulwiler, of Miami county; Col. James Keigwin, of Clark ceunty; Dr. John M. Youart, of sarion county; Dr. Jason N. Conley, of Green county. : : . Hor Attorney General—Hugh D, McMullen, of Dearborn county; Joseph Ristine, of Fountain county.

Other candidates - will doubtless come to the front before the convention meels, and a lively fight may be expected for each of the above offices. As the State is morally certain to go demoeratic, the anxiety for a nomination to a good, “fat” office is not surprising, . st

HAYES, THE GRAND PACIFICATOX.

- Obstacles thicken in the pathway of the President as the'grand pacificator. He has *“pacified” interests until he finds himself a President without support that can be .relied on in either :branch of the national Legislature—a ‘President without a constituency.— ‘South Bend Register (Rep.) ’ Yes, he has “pacified” . perjured scoundrels by appointing them to office, and yet has the sublime audacity -to set himself up as a civil service reformer. He connived with carpetbaggers to accomplish his fraudulent. induction into an office to which he was not elected, and then “pacified” their implacable enemies by turning the former the cold shoulder as soon as he had warmed higseat in the White House. He shed crocodile tears for the negroes of the South so long as he needed their assistance to declare him President, and when the foul deed was done he “pacified” their former ‘masters by turning Sambo over ‘to their gentle mercy. Ile greedily abgorbed " the sacrifices, contributions and efforts of active republican workers, and then “pacified” fine-haired independent theorists by ignoring the former and throwing himself into the arms of the latter. Te affects to be a “Peoples’ President,” and yet “pacifies” the bondholders and money sharks by pledging them the exercise of the veto power to defeat the wishes of an overwhelming majority for relief from financial distress. Isitany wonder that such a man has incurred the displeasure and brought upon himself the contempt 6f his'own party ? :

Tue EDITOR of the Selinsgrove Times bids his readers to look up and take 'his advice, as follows: “If ’u see an advertisement in the papersoffering any preparation to grow abeard or moustache in a short time on a smooth face, touch it not. It is a fraud. llf you see an advertisement that tells you consumption or cancer can be cured, touch it not. It is sure to be a' fraud. If you see an advertisement that pretends to remove freckles or pimples, touch it not. .It will surely prove a fraud. If you see an advertisement that offers from $5 to $2O per day, or from $4OO to $6OO per month, or from $2,500 to $5,000 a year, touch it not. ' It is a fraud. Avoid all such extravagant offers; for what people can’t afford to pay you at home they can’t afford to pay you elsewhere.” .- :

The many friends of Hon. Frank Landers in this State are already suggesting his name for Governor in 1880. Mr. Landers is a sterling Democrat and would prove a strong candidate before the people. Too early, however, to suggest names.—Columbia City Post. : )

Correct, And the Post might have added with perfect propriety that if Mr. Landers desires to be the democratic candidate for Governor 1n 1880, it will be to his interest to look exclusively to a democratic convention for his nomination. Tgle’folly of 1876 should not be repeated. =

. The eastern gentlemen, who loaned greenbacks to the west when they were worth fifty or sixty cents on the dollar, profess that they will be robbed if they are paid back in silver dollars. . The pretense is altogether “too thin,”—Fort Wayne Sentinel.

Not only “thin” but disgusting in the extreme. If. these insatiable bloodsuckers understand their own good, they - had better ponder over Mr. Bland’s warning. g

i p 5 4 Candidates for State offices next year are already multiplying. Asthe Democratic Convention is not likely to meet for a good many months yet, would it not be just as.well for anxious expectants to wait ?—Columbia Cig rost.. | - AR ;

Yes, .men, take it cool, and don’t fret, It won’t do you afiy good. -Lay the wires with due deliberation, and calmly await results.

Errzur Wrienr, of Boston, the celebrated life-insurance ‘actuary, insists that poliey-holders who have stopped payments are entitled to an -equitable share -of the accumulated reserve in cash, and proposes to open a registry of policy-holders who'would like to combine to test the question ‘before the courts, - - - Up to December 13 the eritire loss ; -ta';;tbﬁ'_:ﬂmimi‘gzw in the eastern

. NOBLESVILLE NARRATIVES. We are going to have a Christmas tree in the Chapel on Christmas Eve for the benefit of the Sunday school scholars, and all others who desire. to take a part in presenting their friends. with gifts. We hope the roads may get better by that time, as the projectors of the festivities calculate on a grand affair. B Wolf Lake will also have a tree on Christmas night. Come up, Mr. Editor. The Wolf Lake band will furnish music on.the occasion. Whether Noblesville will have any music besides the choir I am unable to say. A series of religious meetings will convene here next Sunday evening, and continue sometinie, undér the supervision of Elder Whitman, and Elder Winebrenner part of the time. | The growing wheat looks as if winter was gone and spring had set "in.——‘

The frogs are croaking, and everything looks cheerful. i Our winter term of school is in full blast, with a good attendance. : There will be one of the grandest shooting matches at this place on Christmas that was ever held in this locality. ‘Hogs, turkeys and a variety of other things will be the prizes. - Boys, if you keep as good order as you did in the church last Sunday night a week, Elder Winebrenner will never find fault with you. s A few more hitching posts at the business places in Wolf Lake would not come amiss when “we uns” go there on business. f 3 !

. There is one thing we would like to dwell upon at some length, but for fear it would hurt some one’s feelings, we will omit at present. Will remark, however, that we might mention it at some future time. € "The whistle of the steam thresher is still heard. We were certainly blessed with an abundant crop, and still we complain of hard times. This is all wrong; we ought to be satisfied. -+ NEW LEAF.

COLUMBIA CITY ITENS.

Mr. David Strong, son of Ephraim Strong, of this place, met with a terrible accident which terminated in death on Tuesday, the 11th inst. The particulars, as near .as we could get them, are about as follows: Mr. Strong, in company with, Arthur Thoman, was getting out some heavy timber in the woods and while sawing a tree down it started to fall and it seemed split up some distance and jumped the stump, shooting backwards, catching him before he had time to get away, severing one of his legs near the knee, and leaving only a little flesh and shreds of skin holding the other. He was brought to town on a mud boat, and everything done to alleviate his sufferings, which was great, but all to no pur pose, as he died at 11 o'clock the same night. He leaves a young wife and numerous friends to mourn his loss. B

A man named Dodd mysteriously disappeared week before last and nothing definite is known as to his whereabouts. ‘Some supposed he had been foully dealt with, but it is evident that he has “skipped” the town. His wife is greatly grieved oyer the event. She is highly respected and has the sympathy of the entire community. "There was quite a racket in town last. Saturday evening. A fellow from the country, named Ward, went into a saloon with a number of his friends, and called for the “ardent,” which they drank and refused to pay for, whereupon he was ordered out. He then became boisterous and got a severe thumping. Obh, whisky! what won’t youdo? - When have we had such weather in the winter as we'have had during the past week? - - ONWARD. ————————) & W—— A Son, Instigated By His Mother, Shoots His Father. CINCINNATI, December 14.—An account of a most atrocious fratricide; at the instigation of the mother:of the murderer and the wife of the murdered man, has just reached here. The murder : occurred at Lawrenceville, Dearborn county, Ind. The victim was a lumberman named Joseph Kungler.. He had- had trouble with his wife and had sued for a divorce, but ‘was yet living in the same house with her. On the night of the murder he went down town, and in his absence his wife persuaded their son, thirteen years old, to kill his father on his return. He promised to do so, and, loading a shot-gun, lay in wait for. his father. When he came the boy shot him through the back of the head.— He fell mortally wounded and crying for help. The mother then took the gun and laid it by his side, he being still alive and calling for help. The mother apd son then retired, but could not sleep, and finally arose, and, cooking supper; ate it, and thus spent the night, all the time hearing the moans and pleadings of the wounded and dying man. In the morning a neighbor came and.found Kungler still alive and lying 1n a pool of blood, but unable to speak. The wife was meantime at work, paying no attention to him. She said he had committed the act himself. After he died the coroner made an examination, found this could not be true, and began an investigation. The boy, being accused, finally confessed the whole affair and said his mother had been urging him to shoot his fatherfor a year.” Both parties are under arrest. The excitement 1n the town and surrounding country is intense. .

' Re-enacting the Usury Law in South 3 , Carolina. ! : CoLuMBIA, Dec. 11,—The bill to re- | enact the Usury Jaw passed the House of Representatives to-day by a vote of 73 to 16. This bill passed the Senate last spring, and has been debated in the -House for a week past. It prohibits the collection of infexest beyond seven per cent..per annum, but imposes no additional penalties, and does | not iuterfere with the existence of contracts. Gov. Hampton will approve the measure. : ‘ : G - — Tug little kingdom of Portugal has put in a claim to be numbered among the Catholic powers that exercise the right of vote upon the selection of a Pope. As is well understood, Austria, France and Spain, have ‘long. possessed this right to mteréme objections to the nominee of the conclave. Italy c;n‘x‘)’ﬁfrf,o#wrd a elaim | With much better grace than Portunl whose preterisions. will hardly be

- BEI'}CIiIER’,S ‘THEOLOGY. A Sensation Created in Plymouth by the ~ Pastor’s Sunday Sermon. New York Special to Chicago Tribane. ; Mr. Beecher preached an unusual sermon to-day, in the course of which he made statements in substance as follows: He said that he: believed there were three persons united in one Godhead, but if any one should ask him why he believed, he would tell him plainly that he did not know anything about it, only that it was easier to be-: lieve that which he thought coincided with the doctrine of the New Testament than to contradict: Orthodoxy says that men must believe 1n the Trinity or they cannot ccme into the church. That is called orthodoxy, but he called it heathenism. “It isan easy thing,” said Mr. Beecher, “for an honest, conscientious man to know just what to preach and what not to preach.” It was no easy matter to remove the. rotten timbers and replace them with sound ones, and not stop the voyage of the ship. It was said Adam was created perfect. It was also said that Adam sinned, and that; in consequence of that sin, the whale human race fell. The numbers of the human race were actually beyond computation, and for thousands and thousands and thousands of years they had been born into the world, had lived and struggled, and finally died, and gone—where ? “If you tell me that they have all gone to heayen, my answer will be that such a sweeping of mud into heaven would defile its purity, and I can not accept that. If you tell me that they have gone to hell, then I swear by the Lord Jesus Christ, whom I have sworn.to worship forever, that you will mbﬁl

an infidel of ‘me. The. doctrine that God has been for thousands of years peopling this earth with human beings; during a period three-fourths of which was not illuminated by an altar or a church, and in places where a vast population of these people are without that light, is to transform the Almighty into a monster more hideous than Satan himself, and I swear by all that is sacred that I will never worship Satan, though he should appear dressed in royal robes and seated on the throne of Jehovah. Men may say: “You will not go to Heaven.” * A Heaven presided over by such a demon asthat, who has been peopling this world with millions of human beings and then sweeping them off into hell, not like dead flies, but without taking the trouble even to kill them, and gloating and laughing over their eternal misery, is not such a heaven as I want to go to. The doctrine is too horrible. I cannot believe it, and I won’t. They say the saints in heaven are so happy that they do not mind the torments of the damned in hell, but what sort of saints must they be, who could ‘be happy while looking down upoh the horrors of the bottomless pit? They don’t mind—they’re safe, they’re hkappy. What would the mother think of the six-teen-year daughter who, when her infant waslying dead in the house,should come dancing and singing into the parlor and exclaim: ‘Oh I’'m so happy, mother; I don’t care for the dead baby inthecoffin!” 'Would she not be shocked? Andso with this doectrine. And by the blood of Christ I denounce it; by the wounds. in his hands and his side, I abhor it; by his groans and agony I abhor and denounce it as the most hideous nightmare of theology.”

A Judicial Opinion on “Drummers.” . In the trial of a suit before the lowa Supreme Court, brought by a commercial traveler against a railway for being: ejected from a train, Judge Hubbard, of Cedar,Rapids, took occasion to denounce “drummers” in the following fashion: “Itmay be stated now, as a matter of history that the Court will take judieial notice of, th%t this class of men are the “hardest lot” on earth. They monopolize alljthe best rooms in all the best hotels; they insult or seduce all the chambermaids between Maine and the Gulf of Mexico ‘and between the Atlanticcand the Pacific Oceans every month in the calendar year; they rush into the ladies’ car on every railroad in the United States and Canada every day, and crowd into- the seat of every respectable lady traveling alone, and insult her in five minutes afterward; they travel with harlots, and make assignation houses on every Saturday night of every hotel in America; they have flirtations, intrigues and elopements with . innocent, unsuspecting and respectable [young girls-in every city and village on the continent; they pursue virtue and goodness as sharks pursue a ship with.the yellow fever—and still the learned counsel thinks the conductors ought to love them. ‘There may be men in other callings who for a single vice can challenge a comparison with commercial tourists, but I have never seen them. But for a combination in harmonious blending, in dishonesty,imgudence, cowardice, poltroonery, lechery and leprous rascality, of all varieties, they stand without aTival and without a peer,”— Chicago Inter Ocean.

Baker’s Anti-Royalty Resolution. We had supposed all along that Hon. J. H. Baker had introduced a bill preventing the collection of royalty from innocent purchasers of articles patented, and that the Dbill hgd passed the House. It was so reported to us, cextainly. We were sadly mistaken, it appears, from statements since made by the republican paper here and at Albion. Mr. Baker’s bill turns out a simple resolution, according to these papers, instructing a committee toenquire into the expediency of reporting such a measure, the phraseology which such resolutions are generally couched in, This is a very cheap clap-trap way of some legislators in answering the appeals of their constituents and clearing themselves from all aceountability. It amounts to nothing. We do not say that it is 8o in this case, but to us it has that look. We take back all our commendations of “Baker’s bill” fox the protection of farmers and others, and await the action, if any, on his resolution of instruction. Why did Mr. Baker not introduce the biil himself, and see it pushed through, instead of instructing some committee to report one? Can any one answer ? —@oshen Democrat,

How Would a Little of their Own Medicine Operate? Selinsgrove Times. Now that the Deraocrats are in power in a large majority of the States, and can make laws tosuit themselves, how would it do for them to at dnce proceed to make such laws as will forever keep their party in power ? This the Republicans tried to do at the close of the war. By meang of the deluded negro and the power of the army they made election laws'that were intended to forever keep thisir party in power. To do this,under the form of law, the damnable Returning Boards were invented. These were made perpetual, and were to declare the result of the elections in favor of the Republicans, no matter how the people voted. Should the Democrats now adopt this system of carrying elections, no truly loyal Republicans could object to it, as it is an invention of the rap%blicm party .and was ,lon%wacﬁe‘ed, y them, A precedent ‘established by themselves they ought obe willing at all times to see pracWill they agreetoit? -~

General Items.

Peter Cooper favors the remonetization of silver as an important step towards a greenback basis, believing this to be the cnly true basis of national finance. . = :

Oswego, New York, has three hundred liquor saloons. Of these two hundred and eighty-five are ' unlicensed. The legal fifteen want the great majority raided by the Murphys.

A telegram from St. Joseph, Michigan, states that the continued warm weather has considerably develeped the buds on fruit trees, and that another week of'such weather will surely bring them out. - - - News was received at Cincinnati, Friday, of developments in the Cumberland mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee indicating the existence of very valuable and extensive oil deposits in that section. o The Supreme Court of the United States last Monday rendered a decision in the case of Cochran et al. vs. Deever et al.—the patent process flour case, denying the motion to set aside the decision of the court below. g

Schuyler county, Illinois, reports the largest number of bushels averaged per acre in corn in any county in that State. The average is sixty-two, and the smallest number is reached in Mason county at twenty bushels. ‘Commodore E. K. Collins, the founder of-the first American line of steamships, is now in extreme poverty and distress. A subscription Is now being actively urged in New York to raise funds to place him in comfortable circumstances. 0 2

Geérmany and Austria both decline to mediate between Russia and Turkey, on the ground that Russia has a right to dictate terms of peace.. This probably settles the question of mediation by the great powers, for the present, at least.

- Philadelphia has ninety-nine millionaires, of whom Asa Packer, with his $12,000,000, is the richest. They are not greedy in Philadelphia, and so we do not hear of any hundred million fortunes. A moderate competence satisfies a Philadelphian.

The. indictment in New York of a savings bank president for perjury, following soon after the conviction ot the president of an insurance company for the same offense, leads to the hope that at last big rascals are to be punished as well as little ones. . There are reports of the death of Osman Pasha. One account says he died from the effects of his wound, and another that he committed suicide, preferring death to the risks of a surgical operation. The report of his death is not well authenticated. :

-Alfonso, King-of Spain, is just twenty years of age. The announcement of his approaching laarriage was made on his twentieth birthday, and the news will be immediately’ made known to foreign powers by Spanish ministers at the several courts. . The first house in Tennessee that had a stone chimney and a shingle roof is still standing. It was built in 1774, The logs used were of chestnut, '{ and they are sound and well preserved ‘yet. The house is still used, being now part of a more modern dwelling. ~The few hogs left in the country are threatened with a scourge fully as dreadful as the cholera. The.swine of Pennsylvania are dying with the ~diphtheria. They are sick but a few “hours, and in some instances whole droves have been killed during a single night. U. S. Senator John J. Patterson was taken suddenly ill about 11 o’clock Saturday night, and has symptoms which are considered sericus.— His physician pronounced his illness paralysis’of the stomach, but say that he is now a little better, '[Later: He is steadily improving. ! - A new telegraph company, called the Continental; and intended to operate in opposition to theWestern Union, has filed articles of incorporation in New York city. Its first wires will be stretched between New York and Philadelphia. All the same though the Western Union will continue to do business. . ps

. Philadelphia is going te retrench her expenses, but instead of cutting off superfluous officials, as usual, the most. vital interests are sacrificed.— The fire department is to be reduced, and the first loss at a great fire will doubtless be large enough to cover three times the, wages of the firemen discharged. ' A cat show was opened on Tuesday in the American museum, New. York. The cats are of all degrees, sizes, ages and colors. There is one cat with double-toed web feet; an 18°year old cat that has never had a tooth, and eals like a monkey; a prolific cat; a performing cat, that does tricks and goes in a cage with birds without devouring them, and a cat that plays hide and seek with the children,

An Aged Miserly Couple Murdered and ‘Burned. il LewisTowN, Pa., Dec. 14.—An old man and wife were murdered in a thinly populated locality of Adams township, Snyder county, . Pennsylvania, a few nights ago, and their bodies consumed by fire, The husband’s name was John Kintzler, and his age about 77 years, while his wife was a few years younger. They had lived in an old leg house consisting of one room, and an entry, for about twenty years. Their occupation was telling fortunes, and by this means they accu‘mulated considerable money, much of which they had secreted about the building, while the rest was on deposit in a bank. "The old man has for years converted the house into a small arsenal, three loaded guns and as many pistols being at his command to defend himself against intruders. On the night of the tragedy several neighbors heard the report ot several guns, and soon after observed the aged couple’s house on fire, but as Kintzler was a terror in the community they did not proceed to render assistance until the building had almost been burned to- the ground. Kintzler was burned to a crisp, and laid near where the bed had stood. His wife, who was burned in a similar manner, was found in the entry. A dog and a pig kept in the house were also consumed. All the arms had been discharged, and one of the old man’s dogs was discovered with a club tied to his neck on the ground near the house, and in some bushes there was a small quantity of blood. Within the walls of ‘the building about twenty-five hundred copper cents, which are supposed to have fallen out between the logs, were picked up. It is supposed that the old people were first shot, and their bodies afterward committed to the flames to cover up the crime. Although a coroner’s jury has decided that the couple were murdered, a different theory is advanced by others. 1t is stated that Kintzler burned wood in his stove; that he used gmm long as a rail, letting one end rest on a chair, and that in this manner the house was set on fire, resulting in the inmates’ i& eath, | There is no clue {6 @%ﬁ REOELE, o

Indiana News Items.

Mr. John Studebaker, father of the Studebaker brothers of the South Bend wagon manufactory, died in that city on Saturday, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. o

' The business men of Rochester (Fulton county) and the farmers ot the community are holding mectings and organizing associations to aid in building turnpike roads thromghout the county. . ‘ Abe Mishler, of Clearcreek township, Hantington county, raised nine acres of corn the past summer that yielded seven hundred and fifty bushels. - This is certainly a good yield and will be hard to beat. j - ;

At ‘a recent school examination an applicant for a certificate to teach; in answer to the question: - 'What is the metropolis of Indiana and what of California? Answered thal the metropolis of Indiana was hogs, and that of California was gold. i John Cartwright, aged fifty-five, living at Fort Wayne, died last Sunday night from the effects of a dose of morphine, swallowed by him for the purpose of quieting his nerves and assisting him to recover from the effects of a prolonged drunken debauch. He was an old and well known resident of Allen county. We hear that one night this week the wolves killed and devoured a calf some months old, belonging to Geo. A. Smith, of Cleveland township. The farmers over there have put up a reward of $135 for the scalp of either of the old wolves that have infested the big marsh region for some :time past. — HElkhart Union. . Z

South Bend Register: The doctors report, an increase of scarlet fever. New cases are cropping out every day. Some persons allow their children, who have been exposed, to attend the schools, and to our personal knowledge .several have been taken ‘with it while yet in school. By this means the disease is spread.

The commissioners of Monroe county have appointed Mrs. Mary Deborah Rodgers to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the county recorder, McLaughlin. The husband of Mrs. Rodgers had been elected recorder for the term preceding McLaughlin’s,-and on his death Mrs. Rodgers was appointed to fill the unexpired term. Her administration of the office was so satisfactory that she was re-appointed as stated above. : .

Will England Help Turkey? The news from England is of a decidedly warlike tone. The Post (court organ) intimates that at a. council of the ministers it was decided to ask of Parliament, on the reassembling on the 17th proximo, an appropriation sufficient to place the army in such condition as the disturbed state of affairs on the continent seems. to demand. It also says that the incoming of the wew year will witness the inauguration of a positive foreign policy. The Standard says the new attitude of the ministry, and its appeal to Parliament for means to carry out its policy, is dictated by the evident purpose of Germany and Austria to allow Russia carte blanche in her settlement with Turkey. As a further indication of the warlike tendency® of affairs, it is stated that government has invited bids for 800,000 pairs of boots and shoes for the army —a larger number than has been provided for at any time since the Crimean war. The amcunt of testimony in favor of Dr. Schenck’s Puquoni'e ‘Syrup, ag a cure for Consumption, far exceeds all that can be brought to support the pretensions of any other medicine.— See Dr, Schenck’s Almanacgwhich can be had of any Druggist free of charge, cg?mtainiﬂg the certificates of thany persons of theé highest respectability who have been ;estdred to health, after being pronoupced incurable by physicians of acknowledged ability. ~Schenck’s Pulmonig Syrup atone has cured many, as these evidenees 'will show; but the cure is qftcn promo_l.ed ‘by the employment of two other remedies which Dr, Schenck provides for the purpose. These addi-~ tional remedies are Schenck’s Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills. By the timely nég of these medicines, according to directions, Dr. Schenck certifics that most any case of consumption may be cured. Every moment of delay makes your cure more difficult, and all depends on the judicious choice of a rémedy. Schenck’s Mandrake Pills are an agreeable and safe cure for constipation caused by biliousness, and also for sallow complexion and coated tongue. There is no better remedy for disordered stomach and all the evils resulting therefrom, Dr, Schenck. is professionally at his principal office, corner Sixth & Arch Sts., Philadelphia, every Monday, where all letters for advice must be addressed. - - Schenck’s Medicines are for sale by all Draggists, -~ : e 34-w3.

- THE MARKETS. - LIGONIER. GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, red, $l- - Rye, 50c; Oats, 25¢; Corn, 25c; Flax Seed, $1 15; Clover Seed, $4 25; Timothy Seed, $1 50. PropuceE.—Hogs, live, ¥ cwt $4 50, Shoulders, per pound, 08c; Hams, 09¢c; Bees Wax, 26¢c; Bufter, 16; Lard, 08c; Hggs, ¥ doz,l6¢c; Wool, 1,30@ 40c; Feathers, 60c; Tallow, 07¢c; Apples, dried, s¢, green, 93 bu. $1.00; Potatoes, 40 ; Peaches, dried, {9 Ib. 12¢; Hay, marsh, $5; timothy $B. - :

KENDALLVILLE.

GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, white $1 20, red $1 20; Corn, 85¢; Oats, 25¢; Clover Seed, $4 50; Flax, $1 00; Timothy, $2 00. : Ll . OTHER PRODUCE.—Hams, § 1 12¢; Shoulders, 10¢; Lard, 10c; Tallow, 6¢; Wool, 35¢; Butter, 15¢; Beeswax,2s¢; Apples, dried, 6c; green, § bu.,looc; Potatoes, 25; Eggs, ¥ doz. 16¢.

CHICAGO, Dec. 19, 18177.

GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, $107; Corn, 42%c; Oats, 2414¢c; Rye, 55c; Barley, 58¢; Clover Seed, $4 65@4 80; Timothy, sl2o@l 26 ; Flax, $1 32. PropUCE.—Mess Pork, cwt,sll 80 @1182; Lard, $7 7234@7 75; Hams; green, ¥ 1b,07@074c; Shoulders,sc; Butter, fair to g00d,20@26, choice,l4@ 17c; Eggs, ¥ doz., 20c; Potatoes, 55. PovuLTrY.—Turkeys, dressed, $ b, 08c; Chickens, P doz. $2 25@53 00. TOLEDO.~Dec. 18, 1877. | GRAIN AND SEEDS.—W heat, amber, $128%5, N 0.3 Wabash, $101; Corn, 49 }4c; Oats, 29¢; Clover Seed, $4 85. | ' LIVE STOCK MARKETS, | CHICAGO, Dec. 19.—CATTLE, graded steers, $5 25@b 50; choice beeves, $460@5 00, good beeves, $4 00@4 40 ; me dium grades, $3 50@$3 85 ;. butchers’ stock, $2 50@$3 10; stock cattle, $275 @#%s? 40; inferior cattle, $2 25@53 50. Hoas.—Sales were at $3.95@4 15 for light weights; at $4 05@4 20 for common to prime medium and he?yweight packing hogs; at $4 10@$4 25 for good to choice shipping grades.— The great bulk of the stock on hand were taken by packers at $3 50@3 75. _ Saeep.—Prices were about steady at s3oo@ 84 25 Ipet‘ 1001bs for poor to thoice heavy lots. e BurraLo, Dec. 18.—Cattle, Shipp’g, $315@4 60; cows and heifers, $4/75@ 520. Sheep, ¥ cwt., $390 @[s 20 Hogs, good heavy $4 20; light $4 25, L e Mgl _ —'Gene Clark is the city boot-black. RSE O e R e

POPULAR PRICES AT DECKER’S. 4 To My Patrons and the Public in General : & Having received, and adding daﬂy,a.large stock o o * GROCERIES, : A i hx L! : % - I am prepared to sell Fine Japan and Young Hyson Teas - Lower Than Hver. - Also, Special Bargains in Fine Syrups. 1 ‘have the Largest Stock of Candies for Holidays, at prices to suit eygrybody. Be o MY STOCK OF . ' Queensware, Glassware and Table - Cutlery is Complete, and I shall offer extra induce’men@g during the Holidays in ' order to reduce my 'very large stock. o Call and examine our splendid stock L of Holiday Goods = At Bottom Figures. 13 Ligonier, Ind., Dec. 20,1877, * = = = .y_ DECKER. LARGEST AND LEADING OLOTHING AND HAT HOUSE IN - NOBLE AND ADJOINING COUNTIES, . | ovmereemom - y ) e 0 AN AT Men’s, Youths’, Boy’s ‘& Children’s - CLOTHING! Cloths, Coatings, Cassimeres, Fﬁrnishing' Goods, - ca e -Is very large and complete. o _ ::v : J : OUR PRICES BEYOND COMPETTTION. blothing fo ORDER s Our Specially. - . Ej}’el'y one bﬁyiﬁgﬂgbods for - ‘ ¢ MENS or BOYS WEAR, will find it to their interest to examine our large stock - - before purchaii’ng elsewhere. ’ ! . ENGEL&CO., S Weatnide Main streot. =} ¢ Kendallville, Ind. August 8, 1877.-11-37 isisiE o o o . T.ioools Out For T e , '~+—’-‘——\l4‘l.’§'(‘)"M THE-—— T o - JOHN WEIR. . AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF - COOK |AND PARLOR STOVES! o dALnAaNDRAREA j;IGONJIER.S,GI‘)ﬁ.»2.7‘-,>187_7.T' " e L s e Etog Bte, Mees S A TRULY. MAﬁnyiam“%ﬁ Prisa i