The National Banner, Volume 12, Number 36, Ligonier, Noble County, 27 December 1877 — Page 2

- $ ) Ry - I, . o o ‘ ARSI~ SRy i i e e L S e I;S_I:OLL. Editor and l’ropflet_qfr s LIGONIER, IND., DEC’'R 27th, 1877 ¢ : . > ‘ L st No man worthy of the office of President shovld be willing to hold it iy counted vn or placed there by fraud.”— U.S. GRANT, ; ' - " Tue Ohio Legislature will tneet January 7, and balloting for a U. 8. Senator will commence January 15th. “HoxgsT John” Tatterson, Senator; from South €arelina, is quite ill, and his recovery may be considered some+ what doubtful. He is. going to his home in Pennsylvania., & - = - Or the »genfil,emen 80 far named in connection with tlfe demncrg}tic. nomination .for Secretary of State.—llon. David 8. Gooding i 8 by far the ablest and most effective public speaker. 1f David should be placed at/the head of the ticket, th§ pzople of Indiana will have more solid facts presented to them than has béen the cdse in dny “off-year for a long, long time. David is a “rouser” on the stump.

1T 1s saln'of oflice-holders that “few die and none resign.” Thisvsaying, however, is not atrictly correct. Some do resign, especially after heil;'g ihvngtigated by a special agent) sent out lsgy the confirming power.. 'l"h;_‘(-"silé,pf'cmn'su, are rare ‘cases, and Dbeing “such, a 'li'll_;’l(-, insido history might not come amiss! Wonder how the publication of atew aflidavits would be” received by u'peuplfl' in seareh of light and information ? oo '

“ Rerorts from Washington indicate that the republican opposition to the Hayes, administration will be more aggressive and defiant than ever.— Blaine, Conkling & Co, no longer conceal their determination to show no quarters to the man who by the grace of the Returning Board occupies the presidential chair. Old Ben Butler also manifests 4 disposition to hurl a few bricks at the forsaken administration. Sail in, Messrs.’ Republicans Democrats enjoy the fun hugely.

" To oUr BRETHREN of the press who with scarcely an exception have . given utterance to the kindliest and #7 mogt friendly sentiment toward the editor of THE BANNER, in refuting the malicious falsehood set afloat by the ' common libeller of the Kendallville - Standard, we desire to make profound _acknowledgment of sincere gratitude. -~ It is some consolation to know: that _throughout the length and breadth of Northern Indiana there is not a soli- - ‘tary person éoiin;ected with the press who has sunk so low as/ to join the perpetrator of thatinfamy in gleating . .over the alleged misfortune of a con- . temporary. ‘

. WE NoricE from Washington dispatches that Senator Voorhees proposes to deliver his speech on Matthews’ silver lesolution, and against resumption, immediately after the reassembling of Congress, probably as early as January 15, and will' remain in . Washington during the recess for the better preparation of what he in tends shall be the greatest effort of his life. . His text will be the following quotation from Edmund Burké: -

“It is to the property of the citizen, and not to the demarid of the creditor of the State, that the original faith of society is pledged.. The claim of the eitizen is prior in time, paramount in title, and supreme in equity.” -

FUNNY THINGS oceur in this queer world. “De facto” Hayes, for instance,

re-appoints a very __éontempt,ible fellow Postmaster of a little city. The nomi ination is sent to the Senate for confir: - mation. The committee on post offices and' postal affdirs is made familiar ./ with the rottenness and general de-

pravity of the re-appointed P, M., and

sénds ont a -special agent to obtain facts and proofs. The s. a. returns well supplied with documentary proof

of the most damaging character. The Senate committee gives tha P. O. Department to .understand that such a vile creature eannot be confirmed,and the P. O. Department promptly calls for a resignation, which was soon forthcoming. - A new .appointment is made and promptly confirmed. The

“furny” part about the whole business is that the rejected P. M. is bark-

ing at the heels of the power that

scandalously re-appointed him, while 111?;_/ anti-Hayes Senators are being

lduded for their hostility to the administration. e e

Tne BANNER has no fault to find with _the action of the Democratic State Central Committee in fixing upon the 20th of February as the time for holding the State conventien. As - a general thing we are opposed to early conventions; but as a good many of our democratic brethren are anxious to engage in & political fight, it would be cruel to deny them that pleasure. Thfiwho are not thus inclined need “not buckle on their armor until later in the campaign. Xhen there are several very good reasons that might be “ussigned in. favor of an early convenslon, chief among:then beitig these: ) wfimmw%%ay alarwiigly “mumerous, » goud dedd of unxioety lias ;Been awakened in their breasts, and Bhey want to knbw wlhiat is to be their , "'.ont being kept in suspense toolong. 2. Owing to the gerrimarderel situation of the legislative distriets, a good deal of time will be required to make sure off a majoiity in the Legislature, 3./The peopls' of most if not &M of the counties will. in--Bist upon « speech from eloquent Dan Voorhees, which of itselt. demands a . Wdoot by ou sationss fallptme m R T R G A Y e W

'THE PROPOSED INCOME TAX LAW, ; It'_, has already been stated in these | columns that Chicago’s most active and” wide-awake representative ~in Congress, thé Hon. Carter*H. Harrison, a few weeks since introduced a bill to revive the income tax, proposing a tax of three per cent. on all incomes over $2,000. e ‘We notice that most of the metropolitan journals are opposing the ‘enactment of such a.law, and it is therefore proper that the public beinform- | ed of the reasons assigned by them why Harrison’s . bill ought not to be come a law. The Indianapolis Journal, for example, commits itself against the propusition in this:language: “This would except a large class of citizens, and probably, so far as the amount is concerned, it would not be much felt by ‘the comparatively wealthy class on whom it would fall. But. there are radical objections to any -income tax. . The colledtion of such a tax involves a degree of espionago and inquisition whieh is, to say the least, very disagreeable to the citizen and caleulated to bring odium on the government. In Europe, where inquisitorial processes are much resorted to, and wliere governments do not aim at popularity, income taxes are very common, and yield large revenues; Lut the conditions are very different in this country. Another great objection to ‘them is that they ‘ are a proliticsource of fraud and perjury. The tax collector 18 of necessity largely dependent on the tax-payer tor a return of his income, and with the foose ideas which generally prevail in auch matters, false returns will be the rule rather than the exception. If Mr. Harrison’s bill should become a law, we apprehend there would be - precjous few men in the United States ~who would not be able to figure their { net incomes below two thousand dollars, o T Shr The fact is, such & law iy a temptation to fraud and a premiumi on perjury. If an increased revenue is needed the goveérnment shouldlesort to other measures.” The Jonrnal’s vbjections are probably the strongest that can be.advanced .on that side of the house, and we are ftee to confess that they are not at all destitute of force. = Yet, there are many points that argue strongly in favor of Mr. Ilarrison’s bill.- Chief ‘among these is the generally admitted | fact that men of large incomes do not vay their proper proportion of tax. | The person who will go to the trouble of examining tax duplicates will be surprised at the elasticity of conscience discernible in many of the re- | turns by men of great wealth. = This, of course, has reference to State and local tax returns. So far as U. S. duties are concerned, the inequality is still more conspicuous. - There are . many cases wherein poor mechanics actually contribute more to the duty on imports fund than is obtained from men whose éarnings vary from $5,000 to $lO,OOO per year.: A judiciously framed income tax law would rem|dy this injustice, . :

If the exact-facts were obtainable throughout the TUnited States, it would be found that the men whose incomes exceed $2,000 per year manage to lighten the burdens of taxation in a way that the poorer and middle classes would notg&ream of. There are, of course, honorable e‘xce}ptions among men of ‘wealth, but such will hardly be found ‘among those who 8o vehemently protest against the passage of Mr. Harriscr’s bill,

Ben. Butler on the Silver Bill. .

Ben. Butler spoke in Boston before the Middlesex club Saturday night, on: the political issues of the day. The New York Z%imes report says: “In sixsy days the silver bill will have becomeé a law of the land. It will pass Congress, and if the President vetoes it, and I don’t believe he will, it ‘will be passed over hiswveto. It will pass the ‘House by a three-fourths vote; and in the Senate there will be enough strength to passit over the veto.. The objection to the free coinage clause of the bill, and the claim that the bill is designed to benefit the silver industry of the country, were econsidered and inveighed against. He argued that the statutes of the United States, previous to 1869, permitted payment of bonds in greenbacks, and that the act of 1869 only removed all doubts as to the purpose of the Government to pay in coin, which term, he contended; included both gold. and silver. = He closed this portion of his speech by predicting all sorts-of prosperity as the result of the Bland bil!, . These, I believe, are the leading questions to be settled by Congress.” P :

Prébably the oldest married «couple ! in the State is now living three miles, south-east of Frankfort. William | West and his'wife are the ones we refer to. . lle is now 88 years old,| while hig wife enjoys the ripe age'of 86 years. They were married just 68 years ago to-day.. ‘Mr. West is in feeble health, caused by hernia. The old lady enjoys good health, and from her appearance, is good for 20 years to come. They are now living with one of their sons-in-law. They have gone hand in hand throaugh life for more than three score years, with nothing to rufile the serenity of their life long honeymoon. They are as affectionate and considerate toward each other as they were more than half a handged years ago. It’s the sunshine ef love ‘after. all that strews. our paths with roses. May their happiness increase with ‘their declining years.—Frankfort Banner, - : g

THE several Qountiés composiné the Thirteenth Congressional Distriet will be entitled to the following number of delegates at the coming Democratic State Convention, to be held on the 20th of February: ciy RN i TORMNREL, ... ... .0l o e IRORENNRG .. e TS ~ .. . i e 8 Marshall. .ol L, SO v v see s T 18, DIBEON ... .oo o Sl il B o el 4 — 2 : G _, Sherman Playing Peacemaker. ~ Considerable interest ‘attaches to Secretary Shérman’s visit to N ew%’ork! 1t is understood that his purpose in visiting New York is to talk with g:em-' bers of the syndicate and leading bankers upon national finances, but many persons believe he will take occj:ié%on there to confer with leading Republi“cans with reference to furbherlxrg the ‘movement said to be on foot to heal :gg _breach ®etween Conkling and the adminispratton. - . < Ape Hewrrr admits that it would be strictly legal to pay the govern--ment, debt in silver, but doubts the Wi of ov duiog. ek mineloh Wrgéflfi; s:: *ii i ; « f«m; y

ROME CITY ITEMS.

‘TuAT DAm.—Let everybody now rest at ease, and feel secure. We mean those living on the Elkhart river, between here and Elkhart. The G.R. & I.R. R. Co. have just completed and put in the most substantial timbers and wood ‘work known to the whole dam business, and the rains may descend and the floods may come, and even the gates of h—l (we mean Beecher’s last hell) cannot prevail agaiust it. ; o

Senator Weir and the editor of the Wolcottville Gazette are having a little “set-to” on the finance question, in which the editor seems to have the better of the Senator. The finance question is now the question of the country, and Senator Weir should be careful and not get himself too much on paper, it may rise up in judgment against him,—especially when he is suspected of being on the hard side of the question. . .J. C. Geisendorff, of our town, is starting a feed and supply store at Kendallville. Newt. Berry is to run the concern. We wish all parties to this new enterprise the very best .of suceess. - ,

Our home dramatic troupe are making extensive preparations for their cdmingentertainments on this (Thursday) evening and Saturday evening next. We have no doubt but the entertainment will be good,.and our home talent should be liberally patronized and encouraged. I.et everybody turn out and give the troupe a good send off. e ‘

A big dance is to come off at the Lake Side ITouse on New Year’s night. It will undoubtedly be a big time. Everybody and their “gal” always come to Rome City to the New Year’s dance, knowing it will be a success.— Hobson’s Rome City band will furnish the musie, Al. Tompkins furnishes the grub, and Peter St. Marie the beverage. i { b Peter St. Marie has built a new ice house and is now patiently waiting for providence to furnish the ice. ~ Our' schools are now indulging in a two weeks, vacation. The boys are having a noisy time. & “Mud billiards” have not played out yet. Oh, what a winter ?

David H. Bodle, formerly of Ligonier, made our town a visit this week. Daye talks of moving to Rome City..

* HAUNTED HOUSE.—A sftrange mysterious glimmering light is often seen late at night in the building known as the “Hunters Home,” now vacant.— Some superstitious persons think that the building is haunted. Can it possibly be that any pérson was ever murdered there ? '

Wee are happy to hear that :there is to be a greenback club organized in Ligonier. This a move in the right direction. 'We expect to organize here as soon as a good speaker can be obtained. e

Dominoes is supposed to bethe most innocent of all games. There is no harm in it and but very little good. . We were brightening up our theological idéas for the purpose of attend-. ing the great discussion at Ligonier. If is provoking to think that it fizzled out. Why don’t the Advents either put up or shut up? : : Our meat market has the following card conspicuously posted in their “shop: : = ¢ *ln God we trust, : < All others cash.” Frank Van Arman has moved into business row. ‘ e ~ The following persons were installed as officers of Rome City Lodge, No. 451, F. & A. M., on Monday evening last: J. W. Teal, W. M.; David Law, 8. W.; G. W. Clark, J. W.; C. C. Cain, Treas.; W. W. Skillen, Sec’y; M. V. Hall, 8. D.; W. J. Houston, J. D.; F. ' Lamb, Tyler. ° - 8. 8. Fitch still tussels with yellow | jaundice.

The woolen mill will probably resume operations as early as February. No ice yet appears upon the lake.— Ice harvest will probably be late this year, ... ' ‘

- The mill-sheds at the flouring mill are now completed—a splendjd improvement. Our town cows are all educated thieves. ALEXIS.

The Improved Dollar of the Daddies. Washington specials say that the new silver one dollar pieces, of which a small number has been coined as specimens, are exceedingly perfect and beautiful in design and workmanship, and are said te sarpass in sharpness and finish any coins heretofore struck in this country or elsewhere, The specimens have been struck from two designs. Each is the same in weight and size, contdining 41214 grains, and conforming in device and inscription to the legal requirements. The most marked change from the old dollar is the representation of. Liberty, which, instead of a sitting figure, is a large, shapely-cut female ' head. On one of the specimens the hair is worn confined in a circlet, on the front of which is the word “Liberty.” On the other a loose cap is worn, the hair flowing and wreathed with grain and flowers. both is a legend, “In God we Trust,” on one the letters being in old and the other in moderg English text. The obverse of bot specimens is a spread eagle. A scroll in’ the eagle’s beak contains the legend,“E pluribus unum,” while around the margin are the words “United States of America,” and below the eagle the words “one dollar.” In the talons of the eagle are clutched arrows and an olive branch. A wreath of oak “and laurel encircles the lower part of the coin. The few pieces of this coin struck are for speicmens from which to select a design should Congress authorize the issue of this denomination of silver coin. There is a great de--mand for these dollar pieces from collectors ‘of coins, and large sums have .been offered for them. -

Tnr spectacle of Mr, Henry Greenebaum as an applicant for relief in the Bankrupt Court will awaken a good deal of sympathy. Mr, Greenebaum has been @ctive and enterprising, but cotild not succeasfully face the storm that is raging in the financial world. ‘He has taken the better course in promptly filing a petition in bankruptey, if he is convinced that the difficulties of the firm cannot be compassed in any other way, By egiv‘ing‘ ap whatever he has to his 4;'}l'l itors, he will be able to face the world withot 00, 2 i ought to be met with the good will of "%%M '.Ji:; SARE L ; 5 2

EPISTLE FROM ADAM CHRISTIE, : Renewing: Snbudpt_lon-—?l‘he ‘Weather—Modern - Churches—The Finance Question—How to Pay Off the National Debt, &c., &c. = ; Wepron, LaSaLLe Co,, Tir,, | . December 17ti§. 1877, } / To the Editor of The National Banner : SIR:—My paper came up last night with the X mark, and in return you will find inclosed a piece of paper called fitty cents, which will enable you to send forth the glorious old BANNER with healing in its bright pages. ° Mr. Stoll, and to the respective read--ers of your worthy paper: I am happy to. inform you that we are still living, moving monuments of the amaz- | ing merey of Him who said, “Let there. be light, and there was light,” and not forgeting to hope that this may find you all clothed and in your right minds. We are having beautiful Indian summer weather here at present. Oats, corn and potatoes, and all vegetables very good; also very cheap in this part of the globe. Corn husking is among the things of the past. The farmers paid $1 per day for husking, and here let me indulge iu a little contrast with twenty years ago, which | would be the year of 1857. The dad.dies that lived then and now well re-

‘member the money panic of that year. Your humble seribbler was living at ‘that time in Peoria Co., Tilinois. I got a dollar a day for work that fall. This fall I also got a dollar. In 1857 I paid three dollars a barrel for flour as good as ever a woman kneaded into bread. In 1877 I paid three dollars per hundred weight, and poor at that. Then you could get ten poands of coffee for a dollar; also from eighteen to twen-ty-four pounds of New Orleans sugar for a dollar, and now you ean only get feur pounds of coffee and eight pounds of sugar for a dollar. Sincethat time our leaders or rather those that ruled us have killed a million of men and created a debt that will never be paid until eternity’s deor-bell rings. ‘And why is this the case? Why, my fellow countrymen,in my opinion (which is the opinjon of -all good men everywhere) the cause is on account of hate and strife burning in the bosom of man, You see they have set the man free who God said should be servant upon servants even until the last generation. I mean the negro, of course, who once paid well his way in the sunny South, but has now become a burden even iunto himself and has brought misery even upon us, who I believe were intended by God himself to be his peculiar people. But as the thing now stands religiously I would as soon. indorse Ingersoll’s theory as many, other croaks that are now so prevalent. i ' _ Mr. Stoll, I ndtice in your paper the question asked, “How long will it be until the leading churches will have hotels connected therewith?” Well, now, my fellow hearers, I will'answer: this question in a way that no man can dispute it; if he does, he hasn't ‘good mother wit; for the Lord does | say that “Ye have made my temple of worship a play house and my word merchandise.” ' And is it not only too | true? : : '

I will now digress for a few moments from the main question and call your attention to the money question which agitates so much the minds of the people. Let’s have the silver dollar of the daddies replaced, and more of them, and repeal that base fraud, the resumption act, and "give us more greenbacks, and tax the bondholder, and pay him off with the same money that other men have to take, and if this don’t suit the bondholder, then here is another proposition, and that is this: Let him come up like a man with a christian spirit’and pay with his thousands or millions in proportion with men who have to labor by the day, early and late, to keep up church and State, and we will pay off this na‘tional debt and will leave no cause for a man to fret. ; It is said if each inhabitant would pay eight dollars, the entire national debt could bhe discharged. Why don’t the rich say, I am strong; I will relieve the poor and needy. Uncle Toby has written to the point on the *money question. I ‘was going to say if each man, woman and child would pay eight. dollars right down we would free the nation from the unjust national debt, and the question may arise how can this be done? Simply, by bearing each other’s burdens, as the Son of God said we should, and let the richest man in this nation come up with his millions and pay a thousand dollars to the poorest infant’s one dollar. Then we will become nearer free and equal, and be endowed with inalienable rights, which is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But what does Uncle Toby say about those money. sharks, of being weighed in the balance? What do they care for the balance, only that they get the balance. ' 1 will now leave this important theme to whittle at again some time in the future, for to undertake to add aoything to the brilliant' speech of General Thomas Ewing would be vain and futile, for it is as the old negro says: Like new corn mush,and opossum fat—too good to'talk about. I ‘will now close by saying our dear ones at home Intend to have a Christmas tree, which I hope will be enjoyed by them. "We wish you ail a happy Christmas gift, which is the gift of knowledge. Since I commenced this letter we ‘have had a change in the weather, it is raining here to-night,—— It is gettihg late. I cannot wait, I ‘must close this letter. For conscience sake, let us hear from you all, brethren, soon. - . ADAM CHRISTIE.

The latest news from the Pope represents him better in health and as cheerful in mind as ever. He chats, jokes, receives visitors in his bed-roorn, and is just now eagerly interested in a project for opening a new school. A correspondent. in-Rome reports that ‘the fever has gone, that the asthma is not 8o bad as it was, that the Pope eats with a relish, that his general condition has improved, and that the doctors talk more hopefully. - *They want to hurry me,” he sald jokingly the iother day, referring to the Qfigdinals, - who dread. foreign ‘interference in the -choice of his successor, “but I am in solmmpdoge’ « nooe 0 b s

‘General Items. e 2 Py A .The death of “Flora Temple” is an important incident in turf annals.— She was nearly thirty-three years old. . Between thirty and forty. employes of the Treasury Department have been notified that their services will be dispensed with from the Ist of next month. The discharged were mostly females, and have been for the past six months on the temporary rolls. The State expenses of South Carolina in. 1872 were $1,090,070, and in 1873 they amounted fo $1,046,367.— This was under carpst-bag rule. For one year under Governor Hampton’s administration the expenditures foot up $282,839, a little less than onefourth of the thieve’s budget. 'The figures bear théir own commentary.

* A new counterfeit five dollar note on the First National Bank of Hanover; Pa., has made its appearance.— The paper is thin and the color dark, the bank number 187, the date February 20, 1864,and bearing the signatures of F. E. Spinner and L. E. Chittenden. It. is printed from the same plate as the First National Bank of Tamaqua, Pa., which made its appearance about the 20th of September, 1877.. All notes on these banks of the denomination of $5 should be refused. One arrest was made in New York last Friday night for passing the new counterfeit. : :

Norfolk was;hanged in Annapolis, last Friday, for wife-murder. and Vandyke was hanged in Canton, New York State, also :for wife-murder, Hunt, who suffered at Nashville on Tuesday of last week, was likewise a wife-murderer. Dennis Mackay, who beat his wife to death in Rhode Island, got off with the remarkably mild penalty of eleven months imprisonment. Louisa Lawson, of Virginia, whose sentence was commuted on Thursday, had been a party to the murder of her husband, and one of her accomplices was hanged some months ago. 'These facts form an inferesting subject for students of social science. 4

THE telegraph brings us the report of a shocking casualty in New York. The boiler under the large candy manufactory of Greenfield & Co. exploded on . Thursday evening with terrific force, completely wrecking the building, and causing the death of many of the operatives and the serious wounding of many more. Owing to the large demand for goods incident:to the approach of the Christmas holidays a double force of hands was employed, the gangs ehanging at five o’clock in the evening, at "'which time the accident occurred.. It was, therefore, impossible to learn Thursday night how many were in the building at the time, the estimates varying from one to three hundred. A few were taken from the ruins of the building, all more or less severely injured; but as the flames which broke out soon after the explosion rapidly enveloped the building, ityv£,s impossible to save all, and it is thought there were at least forty or fifty roasted in the fire—many of whom, in all probability, had escaped injury by the explosion. What makes the tale all the more harrowing is the fact that a large proportion of the victims were little girls -and boys, whose ages ranged from eight years upward. Altogether it is one of the saddest events of the year, b d

That New York Disaster. ° The first reports of the explosion in Greenfield’s candy manufactory were accompanied with statements to the effect that the engineer was a very ‘careless person, and had occasionally been found sleeping beside his engine. The next report was that the careful engineer had repeatedly warned the proprietors of the fact that the boilers were unsafe, and that he had left home on the morning of the fatal day in a very despondent frame of mind—fearing that disaster would overtake him. Then the ruins were explored, and the boilers found to 'be intact.— The theorists then decided that the destruction had been wrought by the explosion of a vat of sirup, and that opinion prevailed for twenty-four hours. Now we are told it was a can or cans of oil of lemon that exploded and wrecked the building. The affair is one that seems to demand a careful examination by experts, that truth may be made known. If oil of lemon is so dangerous an explosive as is claimed, the fact should be clearly established, so that it may take its proper place by the side of nitro-glycerine and dynamite. . . .

Senator Voorhees Preparing a Spéech - on.the Silver Question.

Senator Voorhees is making great preparations for his speech on finance, to be delivered January 15. He will devote all the time between now and ‘the reassembling of Congress to the question, and means to make it one of the great efforts of his great political career. He will take new ground on both the operations. of the silver bill and the resumption repeal. It will ‘be remembered that when General Ewing made his speech. he quoted from Edmund Burke to show that in the present crisis it is the highest duty of the Government to keep faith with the citizens, rather than with the creditors of the Nation, because the claim of the citizens is paramount in title, and superior in equity. = Mr, Voorhees intends to follow up and elaborate this principle fully, and will thus pregsent a view of the question which is comparatively fresh.. He regards his appointment on the finance committee as the greatest political honor he has yet had. e

Terrible Suffering from the Snow. - . LonpoN, December 24.—A ' corres‘pordent at Bucharest telegraphs that it is impossible to find out anything concerning the condition of the Turkish prisoners en route from Plevna, or the Russian troops caught on the march by the snow-storm. The cold weather and driving snow produced a terrible effect on the transport train, which halted near Cotraceni, a suburb.of Bucharest, to await the cessation of the storm on Sunday. Wagons and horses were entirely buried in'the snow, and working parties were extricating the train. Forty horses and twenty-nine men had been found dead. The men sought shelter in wagons and -were frozen within half a mile of Co‘traceni. 5 = :

ERrzEROUM, December 24,—Thesnow has ceased and the weather is now fine, and will facilitate the operations of the Russian reconnoitering detachment. The Russian cavalry frequently appeared in villages in plain sight of Erzeroum. ey 4 ATEm— The Income Tax. WASHINGTON, December 25.—Congressmen Burchard and Tucker, members of the Committee of Ways and Means, express. themselves as in favor of tha restoration of the income tax. These gentlemen compose the subcommittee having charge of the tax portien of the revenue bill now being matured, and Mr. Burchard says the proposition to reimpose-the income tax wiil be favorably reported to-the full eommittee. A report prevails to the effect that efforts are being made to secure a combination of Western and Southern members to reimpose the income tax and r%thtez% on ‘whisky and tobacco, the West thusseMf free whisky while the %(mtb st assade R Gl il o el 0 Be 0y

- . Probable Fate of Tnrkey. | Indianapolis Journal. FELt '1 4 ~_The blue light telegraph and underground tunnels of Europe are being vigorously worked over the Eastern |- . aestion at present. England is making a great deal of ‘quiet preparation and talking little. Signs of suppressed understanding between the friends of Turkey crop out occasiunafi;y, and if the Russian allies are gathering | they are doing it very silently. Germany has expressed herself decidedly, but no unusual movements 0{ troops are reported. Austria’s position is said to be understood, but she refrains from speaking., The irresistible advance of Russia and her uncompromising attitude argue that she understands the lay of the land and just what she can depend upon. On the other hand England has set her mili- | tary actively to work to- burnpish up | the armor. Woolwich has begun to heat her metal-pots and get ready the cannon molds. Four eighty-ton guns will sooni frown from the port-holes { of the Inflexible, and field»géms will focllow. The prime minister encoura- | ges the Porte to hold the fort. Melta and Gibraltar are being frefurnished with war material, and additional guns are being mounted. France and : Englard are beginning to understand one another. Altogether it looks as though there would be a quarrel over

the already well-picked skeleton of Turkey. Proyisions are getting scarce and higher in Constantinople, Famine, which skulks in the train of war, and is more cruel, threatens to clutch' at the vitals of the Turks. At present the case of Turkey looks lfi)opeless. She has already suffered terribly, and no matter how much help she may get, her condition can not much improved by further struggles. England’s motives have not the iwhitest color. She has chestnuts in the Russian fire, and it is a great temptation to use Turkey as a cat’s-paw. Between the mercy of England and the magnanimiby of Russia there is little, choice. . It England and Russia must come together, Turkey’s safest place is anywhere rather than ulfetween them. She would be like a_miouse in a cider-press. -

THERE is in Berlin an organization known as the housekeepers union.— There are four thousand members, and all their buying is done on the cooperative plan. The clerks jare all women and'girls, and promotifions are in exaet ratio to ability and business integrity. All purchases are made in large quantities, and sales are made at actual cost. There were two hundred members when the uniorzr_was organized, each paying two dollars as working capital. Thisamountis paid by all new members, only one dollar yearly being required from each person in the union. This amount covers the entire expenses of procuring all the articles needed, purchases of course being made at the low%st possible rates. j Ly

THE news from England is interesting. The frequent cabinet douncils held almost daily for a week past, the gemi-official utterances of the government organ, and the announcement of the early meeting of Parliar’ng{t have created a feverish state of public feel--ing. Thig is intensified by the warlike preparations of the government. The Times says the army is to be in_creased 20,000, and the navy is also being put upon a war footing. The stock market is unsettled, ahd there is a general feeling of uncertainty.— All this does not prove that the British government has determined upon war, but very evidently it is preparing for that contingency. |

The amceunt of testimony in fayor of Dr. Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup, as a cure for Consumption, far exceeds all that can be brought to

support the pretensions of any other mkdicine.— See Dr. Schenck’s Almanac, which can }be had of any Druggist free of charge, contajniné the certificates of many persqns-of the highest ‘ respeéctability who have been restored to hdalthl after be-

ing pronounced incurable by physicians of acknowledged ability. Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup alone has cured many, as these evidences will show; but the cure is often promoted by the employment of two other remedies which Dr. Schenck provides for the purpose. These additional remedies are Sghemek’s Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills. By the timely use of these medicines, according to directions, Dr, Schenck certifies 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 & remedy. Schenck’s _Mandrake Pills are an agreeable and safe cure for constipation caused by biliousness, and also for sallow complexion and eoated tongue. There is no better remedy for disordered stomach and all the evils resulting therefrom, Dr. Schenck is profesrionally 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 Droggiats. : ; 84-w3.

THE MARKETS. LIGONIER. - GRAIN AND SEEDS.— Wheat, red, $l- - Rye, 50c; Oats, 25¢; Corn, 25¢; Flax Seed, $1 15; Clover Seed, $4 40; Timothy Seed, $1 50. : . PRODUCE.—Hogs, live, i cwt $3 25, Shoulders, per pound, 08c; Hams, 10c; Bees Wax, 25c¢; Butter, 15; Lard, 08c; Eggs, § doz,ls¢; Wool, 1b,30@ 40c; Feathers, 60c; Tallow, 06¢c; Ap-: ples, dried, 6¢, green, P bu. $1.50 ; Pota~ toes, 26 ; Peaches, dried, { ib. 10¢; 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, $2OO. -~ — it . OTHER PRODUCE.—Hams, ¥ 1 12¢; Shoulders, 10c; Lard, 10¢; Tallow,6c; Wool, 85¢; Butter, 15¢; Beeswax,2s¢; Apples, dried, 6¢; green, ¥ bu.,looc;. Potatoes, 25; Eggs, ¥ doz. 16¢. - CHICAGO, Dec. 26, 1877, - GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, $108; Corn, 43%c; Oats, 241gc; Rye, 56c¢; Barley, 58c; Clover Seed, $4 65@4 80; Timothy, $1 20@1 26 ; Flax, $1 32, ProDUCE.—Mess Pork,{ cwt,sll 70 @1182; Lard, $7 71215@7 15; Hams; green, P 1,06@06%4¢c; Shoulders,4c; Butter, fair to g00d,24@26, choice,l4@ 18¢c; Eggs, # doz., 20c; Potatoes, 55. - PouLTßY.—Turkeys, dressed, 81, 10c¢; Chickens, P doz. $2 00@%2 50.

TOLEDO.—Dec. 25, 1877." GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, amber, $13115, N 0.3 Wabash, $112; Corn, 501s¢c; Oats, 29¢; Clover Seed, $4 70. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Caicaao, Dec. 26.—CATTLE, graded steers, $5 256@5 50; choice beeves, $450@5 00, good beeves, $3 80@4 25 ; medium grades, $3 50@$3 85; butchers’ stock, $2 50@$3 10; stock cattle, $2735 @s3 40; inferior cattle, $2 25@%3 50. Hoags.—Sales were at $3.95@4 15 for: light weights; at $4 05@4 30 for common to prime medium and heavyweight packing hogs; at $4 10@$4 20 for good to choice shipping grades.— The great bulk of the stock on hand were taken by packers at $3 50@3 75. ~ BuEEP.—Prices were about steady at $4 00@%54 50 per 1001bs for poor to. choice heavylots. . . : " BurraLo, Dec.2s .—Cattle, Shipp’g, §330@4 503 cows aad heifers, %1&% 5 20, %fiee% B cwt, $3OO @520 Hogs, good heavy 84 30; light $4 25,

POPULAR PRICES AT DECKER'S. . To My Patrons and the Public in General € Having received, and 'addihgi da"ily,alargestock of - e GROCERIES,: : - lam prepared to sell Fine =~ - Japan and Young Hyson Teas = ‘ - Lower Than Hver . Also, Special Bargains in Fine Syrups. I have t:h_’e Largest Stock of Candieg for quidays, atpri;:e_s to suif; everybody. LMY STOGER o Queensware, Glassware and Table - Cautlery is Complete, @ = and I shall offer extra inducements during the Holidays in ' order to reduce my very large stock. ‘ Call and examine our splendid stock e of Holiday Goods = o At Bottom Figures. Ligonier, Ind.,, Dec. 20,1877 . = ' F. DECEKER.

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