The National Banner, Volume 12, Number 39, Ligonier, Noble County, 17 January 1878 — Page 2

-y N ek The Fatiomal Banney 3 i AR kL TRy Wi oo | J. B.STOLT., Editor and Proprietor . . LIGONJER,IND,, J AN’Y 17th, 1878. “‘No man worthy of the office of Prestdent should be willing to hold it ir counted in or placed there by fraud.”— - U. 8. GRANT. b st : BE a man or a mouse. ‘ i et GEN. EWING is yet a young man. He can make himself useful in the Lower House of Congress for two, three or " faur terms,and then step into the Senate or a position still higher. - ' THE INAUGURATION of Gov. Bishop, of Ohio, on Monday last, was a grand . affair, surpassing in display all preceding events of that character. Uncle’ Dick promises to take good care of the ‘public interest. b 'THERE ‘are those who want to hear from Mr. Hendricks on the silver question. Inquisitive fellows, be quiet. - It will be time enough for Mr, Hendricks to speak when ‘the returns are in. We don’t believe®in precipitating - matters, 4 L » " P A Ub rgvopie at ‘the next Bfé'c’fi‘bng?v‘v}}l‘l;' ¥e: “Put no coward on guard.” Indiana will see to it that not a simgle tool of the Shy- . lpcks, avowed or disguised; is senf to Washington. Earnest, outspoken men | will be in demand. = - :

SENATOR BAYARD, of little Delaware, may as well bury his presidential aspirations. His stand on the silver question effectually cooks his goose. Sorry for him. He is a capital good man, but- worshipers of the -golden calf will not be available in 1880.

BrLMmonNT’s kitchen organ, the N. Y. World, doesn’t take kindly t¢Montgomery Blair’s manifesto. . Of course not. When that sul sidized sheet passed undet the control of the Shylocks, a defense of the fraudulent administration was included In'the genersl;stipulation. et P

. WE wouLD dearly, lowe to see Tilden President of the United States, either now or in 1881; but eandor compels us to remark, that if New York persists in her wunreasonable course against the West, we can’t look eastward beyond Ohio for presidential material. ‘ e

¥ our democratic members of Congress are too confounded cowardly to join the republican implacables in demanding an investigation of the presidential bargains, we trust they will at least have-éecency enough to hereafter keep their mouths 'shut about that "gigantic fraud.” Putup or shut up, we say. ; ; G

" THE Cincinnati Enquirer discourages the Blair movement for an investigation of Mr. Hayes' title to the Presidency. The Enquirer folks don’tlike Tilden, never did, and never will.— Therefore,they would rather see Hayes kept in office than that justice be done ‘Uncle Samuel. -Some | people have queer notions. o N

MR. HAYES' Postmaster €eneral, D. M. Key, indicates a willingness to become a mongrel candidate for Governor of Pennessee. Just for the sake of having Key’s' political' status fixed in some definite manner, we want to see the proposed coalition formed. He may calculate to be snowed under to the tune of about 40,000.

THE REPUBLICANS of New Hamp;shire held their State convention last week and “everlastingly sat down” on Billy Chandler, the Author of that terrific onslaught on Hayes. The latter’s “policy” did not receive an unqualified approval, but.enough sweetening was put into the resolutions to make the Hayes crowd feel comfortable.

THE DEMOCRATS of. Jefferson county announce their determination to present to the Democratic State convention the name of Judge John R, Cravens, of Madison, as a suitable person for the position of Secretary of State. Judge Cravens was formerly a prominent Republican,’ identifying ¢ himgelf with the Liberal movement in 1872, when he was nominated for Lieut. Governor by the Liberal-Demo-cratic convention,. suffering defeat with the major portion of the ticket of that year. The Judge is a man of more than ordinary ability and would ~ make an excellent officer.

-OHIO has too many great men to make good use of them-all, There, for instance, is Groesbeck, Ranney, Payne; Ward, Morgan, Hurd, and a half dozen other' Democrats of superfor dbility, each of whom would make a very creditable U. 8! Semator. The Republicans also have about a half dozen statesmen of a high order of intellect. Inasmuch as only a very few of these eminent men can serve in the councils of the nation, it would be a good plan to call the attention of less fortunate commonwealths to this su-per-abundance of sfatesmanlike material. lowa, Kansas, N ebraska, Minnesota, and Colorado could make good use of some. ' iy ‘

© Tue EASTERN SHYLOCKS recently ‘sent Prof. Sumner, of Yale College, all the way out to Chicago to enlighten the businegs men of that city on the silver question. The learned Professor rehearsed his piece to a fair audience, but utterly failed to impress any- . one with the soundness or profundity of his arguments, which have since been unmercifully riddled by the 7'ri- - bune and several political economists. The facts are, there isn’t a grease spot left of %ermtmr’- learned dissertation. “He has probably discovered by this time that the practical men of the West are too well posted on the finance question to be misled or be- " fuddled by & smooth-tongued theorist,

' MONTGOMERY BLAIR'S MEMORIAL, - As already stated in these columns, the Hon. Montgomery Blair, on the Bth inst., in the Maryland House of Delegates, intfoduced & memorial to Congress reciting the ‘history of the Ele’ctora.l Com'misslo;l_ ‘which ‘decided the result of the last Presidential election, claiming that suck decision was brought about by an evident bargain between the friends of Mr. Hayes and certain members of the opposition in Congress, whereby the Electoral vote in the disputed States was frandulently counted in favor of Mr. Hayes, for certain political considerations, and praying “that needful legislation may be adopted by Congress to ascertain, judicially, who-was elected President, at the recent election, and to give effect to the will of the people.” ' The memorial was' aecompanied by a resolution instrueting the Maryland Representatives in Congress to favor the object of the memorial, which was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations, which has not yet reported, and is understood to be averse to taking up the matter. i c =

We regard the action of Mr. Blair as a step in the right direction, but have no hopes. of the movement becoming general. .As a matter of right, every democratic Legislature ought to sake precisely such action as indicated by Mr. Blaiiz Justothatramtiy iy, near1y every State with a democratic Legislature has one or more aspirants to the Presidency, and these aspirants are opposed to reopening the presidential dispute out of fear that-it would insure -Mr. Tilden’s nomination : in 1880. That’s where the shoe pinches. e — - Di— ; . DISGUSTING COWARDICE, :

Mutton-chop, statesmen of the democratic persuasion de not look with favor upon Montgomery Blair’s proposition' to reopen the presidential dispute. They argue that Mr. Hayes has now besn in office nine months; that he has succeeded admirably in disrupting the republican party; that he ought to be permitted to keep up this destruction policy; that, while the fact of Mr. Hayes’ fraudulenb occupancy of the presidential chair ought to be kept conspicuously before the people, it would be inexpedient to disturb him in the exercise of his public functions. That’s the kind of stuff these mutton-chop statesmen emit just now. We infer from this that when a man commits arobbery, prosecution and punishment should be adjudged inexpedient, but the facts may be harped.upon without, intermission.— Talk, talk, but no action. The latter might create some commotion and “disturb the business interests of the country.” And such twaddle is called sound discretion, conservatism, moderation. = It may be shch in the estimation 'of some, but in our judgment it is cowardice in the most odious sense of the word.

THE ringsteérs and jobbers who have been in the habit.of swarming about the Interior department have done their level best te force Carl Schurz out of the Cabinet: Every few days an important-if-true announcement is set afloat that Mr. Schurz is about to resign. It is now pretty well established that Carl has had no intention of resigning; that, according to his own Wway of expressing it, he is too ‘busy to resign just now. Mr. Schurz is about the only real civil service reformer in the Cabinet; and his official conduct gives evidence of a determination to put a stop to the abuses that have for ‘years existed in the department over which he presides. In view of these facts we shall be glad to learn that Mr, Hayes is determined to stand by his Secretary of the Interior, unwilling to yield to the pressure constantly being brought to bear for that gentleman’s removal. .

- THE ANNOUNCEMENT was made last week that Mr. Hayes had about concluded to sign the silver bill after its passage by both houses of Congress. The latest news from Washington contradicts the eorrectness of this statement. Senator Matthews says the silver bill will pass the Senate by a largé majority, but that Hayes will probably interpose a veto, and the indications were that the bankers would have it in their .power to eontrol a. sufficient mumber of Senators to prevent a two-thirds vote against the veto. In other words, the bankers will shell out freely Lo buy enough votes to defeat the will of the people. +lls it any wonder that an outraged people is' beginning to indulge in ominous mutterings? . =

Tue cAvcus of the democratic members of the Ohio Legislature nominated George H. Pendleton for U. S:Senator on the third ballot. Yesterday that gentleman was duly elected in joint session of the two houses, all the Democrats voting for him, while the Republicans, agreeably to caucus resolution, voted blank. This policy was agreed upon as a result of their inability to harmonize upon either Gov. Young, Gen. Garfield or Stanley Matthews as the recipient of the empty honor of a complimenta:y vote.’

IT 1S FASHIONABLE with a certain class of democratic politicians and journalists of the mutton-chop order to speak sneeringly of Montgomery Blair. That gentleman may have his faults,—and who has not >—but there

is one thing to be said in his favor,

| and that is this: no one is ever left in :{ doubt as to his position on any important question that from time to time | comes before the people. He is an .earnest, bold defender of what he con--ceives to be right, and as a general | thing he manages to be right.

Tue BANNER would have preferred Tom Ewing’s nomination for the Ohio U. 8. Senatorship; yet, at the same time, we are free to acknowledge that Mr. Pendleton has claims that could ‘not well be overlooked by a grateful organization. 8o far as party services are concerned, he has more than earn‘ed the office, and being a man of splendid abilities, we have faith to believe his future services in the Senate will be equally satisfactory to the -jfie. » ng will iwva ample Opportumj 0 make a glorious record,

| OUR COUNTRY’S WOES-~THEJREM-Prree R L b To the Editor of The Banper: . = - In-former communications 1 endeavored to point out some of the chief | causes of the financial distress which, | like a huge, repulsiye nightmare,broods over the country. The old year lett us in the midst of gloom, and the crash | and fall of all kinds of business enterprise, except one. The new year brings no cheering outlook for the anxious ones caught in the storm, and who still manage, ¥ almost utter hopeless- | ness, to swim in the vast, midnight sea of ruin sweeping so mercilessly over the country. One class alone escapes the storm. The gold monopolists coin their vast profits out of the disasters piled upon the country by unwise and wicked legislation. In the midst of so much distress and ruin, | itis useless now to inquire inte causes. The great need pressing upon us from all sides is to find a remedy—to save what may yet be rescued from" the wreck before everything is hopelessly | lost. No political sentiment is more thoroughly incorperated in the public conviction than the utterance of Abraham Lincoln, that this is “a government of the people, by the people and for the people.” The happiness: and prosperity of the whole people is on?e of the firstAnits L govorument. T | great want just now is relief. The government belongs to the people.— Congress: is the people’s agent. Let the people with one united, mighty voice thunder in the ears of Congress, that through Congress, or over Congress, a speedy remedy must come.— ‘There can be no doubt thiat the sentiment in the South, West and Northwest is overwhelmingly in favor of a ' g§peedy halt in the ruinous policy of the governthent. What is the remedy? In my judgmentthree things are needed, and that speedily, to give the relief needed. We should have the -standard silver dollar restored to the country, with all its legal-tender quality; the resumption law, to go into effect on the first day of January next, should be repealed, and we need more greenbacks. If the present Ccngress refuses to give us these things, I am firmly of the opinion that the mext one will; for there will no longer be any fooling in this ‘matter. The gold monopolists have conirolled the financial policy of the government just as long as the people will submit to it. — The people are determined to have some legislation for themselves. The last feather has been laid on the camel’s back. - The time has passed when ridicule ¢an be used in place of argument. “The dollar of the daddies,” “the rag baby,” and such epithets, is the silliest trifling with people who may, on'‘the morrow, see their little savings swept away to satisfy the heartless greed of the money sharks. If my propositien is true, that one of the first and highest duties of our government is to promote the happiness and prosperity of the people, then it follows ‘that such legislation as subverts these primary ends of government are only hartful and that continually. Let such harmful measures be at onee repealed. The Resumption Act of the 43rd Congress, approyed January 14th, 1875, providing for the resumption of specie payment on and after January Ist, 1879, compels the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem in coin the legal-tender notes, commonly called greenbacks. Now the trouble will not be, under this law, for the government to begin, and perhaps to continue, redemption of the greenbacks, for the law contemplates that by January next there will be not to exceed three hundred millions of greenbacks in circulation. The law ‘makes the most ample provision to ‘enable the Secretary to redeem legaltender notes; if the surplus revenues in the Treasury from time to time, not otherwise appropriated bvlaw, are insufficient to meet the demands for ‘redemption, “he is authorized to issue, sell and dispose of, at not less than par, in coin, either of the descriptions of bonds of the United States described in the act of Congress approved July 14th, 1870.” Armed with this authority the Secretary can go into Wall street and get all the gold he | wants' without any trouble. The trouble is not here. The government has always been able to get gold, no _matter -how scarce or high the premium. But what 18 to become of the ‘business man who must have the gold to meet his obligations? Can he go into Wall street and compete with the Secretary of the Treasury in the purchase of gold? If he hasapocket full of government bonds he can get gold, otherwise he cannot. Ilf the government resumes specie payment January Ist next, the creditor class will also demand specie resumption for themselves, and” where is the debtor class to get it? I have shown that the debtor cannoti compete with the gov- | ernment unless he is able to enter the market on an equal footing with the government. The private indebtedness of the country aggregates many thousands of millions of dollars. True, if the debtor owes five thousand dollars, and has that amount in legal-ten-der, he can get gold coin from the government, or the brokers, if the government had it on hand at the time, or he is willing to pay such premium as the broker might demand. Under | the law already cited, it is provided that the volume of legal-tender notes 'shall not exceed, on the first day of January next, the sum of three hundred millions of dollars. Now, in order to procure gold the debtor must have either greenvacks or government bonds. These may be mistaken views, | ;but I am strongly impressed with the | belief that the most appalling disasters are yet to befall the country. If,| therefore, the wide spread ruin upon | us is the result of vieious and unwise | legislation, then the first step would | be to-undo'it all, and get back as soon | HMMMWMM legislation has been in the interest of | A.é:miw m:,;ufig L granricelie g i Mg Bl

of the country; restore the silver dollar with all its legal tender attributes; repeal the resumption law in toto; abolish the national banks, and in place of ‘their issue substitute greenbacks, and add to the volume as the wants of the country may demand.— Nor, in my judgment, should we stop here. It was ‘thé intention‘of the frax@ers pf the law establishing a national currency, that the greenback should be a full Jegal-tender. Old Thad. Stevens, one of the wisest and ablest statesmen the country ever produced, was chairman of the committee on Ways and Means in the House of Representatives, and who drafted the bill, earried it through the House by his able and patriotic management of the measure; as it passed the House it provided that all debts, whether owiug te the bundhelders or otherwise, should be paid in greenbacks. When it reached: the Senate the gold gamblers were on hand, and they induced the Senate to amend the bill providing that the interest on the 5-20 bonds to be issued under the bill should be paid in gold, and that to procure the gold to pay such interest, all duties on foreign importations should be paid: in ‘gold. ‘- The bill as thus amended came ' back to the Houseé and it refused to i__cgggglj, and a Conference Committee Was apPOiNtea o AgTER < <2omuoro-

~mise. The Senate stood firm, and the Housé was compelled, much to the sorrow of Stevens, to acquiesce igthe ‘Senate amendments, Atanother ffim‘e: I propose to examine further the his--tory of this short-sighted legislation, | but will only say here that the authors of our greenback money intended that it should be used in not only paying the interest on government bonds, but also to pay the principal of the bonds, thereby kevsping our bonds at home and thus make our own people the creditors'of the government. I think the great mass, perhaps the entire mass of our people, outside the bondholders, have the convietion that the bondholder should be content to re"ceive the same-kind of money in return that he paid for the bonds. He paid depreciated greenbacks for his bonds, and no sooner had he them in ‘possession than he procured Congress, by means best known to himself, to enact a law that the principal and interest of the bonds should be paid in gold. In the language of Secretary Sherman in 1868, “The bondholder violates his promise when he refuses to take the same kind of money he paid for the bonds; he is a repudiator and extortioner to demand money more valuable than he gave.” But John Sherman has changed his tune. He told the truth in 1868, in the language I have quoted, but in 1878 he can eat his 6wn wbrds and not make a sour face over it. The government has thus done a very wicked thing, depreciated its own money by refusing to make it full legal-tender for all purposes; making in fact two kinds of [ money—one for the gold monopolist, ‘and another for the people. The green: ' backs are the people’s money. They ‘ have not asked to have it taken away. It put down the rebellion and saved } the union. The government paid-the ‘soldier with it and he was satisfied. It still pays his widow and his orphan, ‘and the crippled soldier in the same. Let us pay the rapacious gold shark in the same, and if he howls, let him ‘howl. Wipe out all the rascally legis‘lation of the last ten or more years ‘about this matter. Let there be no &, longer any fooling; if the people, - whose welfare has been so long ignored and neglected, longer submit, further hardships and exactions will be [ made. What are parties and platforms -worth in such’perilous times as these ? Platforms too oftén are made to be spit upon with contempt. They are miserable traps set to catch the unthinking masses, who too often, and indeed too long, have followed such jack o’ lanterns. Here.is solid ground where all the sufferers can stand and make common cause against the com‘mon ¢nemy. “There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;” the time and the tide are hare; will we take advantage of them? ILet those who prefer to linger by the way to question Hayes’ title to his office do so; let Beecher, and Swing, ard Thomas put out the fires of hell, and preach eternal punishment a bugaboo; we have no time to fool with such side shows.— The country is going to the devil. and no time is to be lost if people would save themselves from utter ruin. The people are ripe for action. On every hand we are asked what shall be done. Democrats and Republicans are comparing opinions and find that they think and feel alike. Let Noble county speak. Her people have everything at stake, 'All power in this matter is in the people. oo lohg ‘havé” we slumbered while the plunderers have despoiled us of our possession. A new Congress is to be elected next fall, and" Indiana must gird up her loins for the battle. One overshadowing question must be met and answered, and in the momentous issues involved, Noble county must speak and have her say. : 05 - UNoLE ToBy:

. THE HANCOCKE county Democrats, at their recent convention, among other resolutions adopted the following without & dissenting voice: Resolved, That the Democracy of Hancock county take great pleasure in recommending to the democracy of Indiana for nomination for Secretary of State the Hon. David S. Gooding, long an honored citizen df this county, as an honest man, a faithful public servant, competent and able as a political leader, and as one having few equals as a-canvasser, and in full sympathy with the business and industrial interests of the country; and our delegates are; hereby instructed to cast the vote ‘of this county in the democratic State conyention for his nomination for the office of Secretary of State. gl

SENATOR VOOrHEES, our own eloquent Dan, delivered his great speech ~on finance last Tuesday.. Every available space of the Senate chamber was occupied by admiring listeners. The speech itself is one of surpassing elcquence and deep earnestness, It will be read by millions, i

THE BANKERS VS. THE

PEOPLE.

Determination to B-u]e or Ruin.

Labor to be Crushed; Capital to Domineer. Ty

From Monday’s Indianapolis Sentinel

We have heard much in’our day of the “impending crisis,” but now we have a crisis upon the country. The eastern banks are against the people, and the people have a duty to perform, from which they cannot shrink. We are informed that the bankers of New York and Boston have held a meeting. Philadelphia had representatives. Leading trust companies and insurance companies took part in the proceedings. Such is the repert of the New York Tribume. The great purpose of these bankers and insurance presidents was to defeat the “Bland bill” in the Senate of the United States. The opposition is formidable. The meeting took place in New York last week. It was largely attended, and the New York papers giye the following list of “well-known bankers” who were in attendance, viz:

[Here follows a lj:g list of bankers, whose names we deem it unnecessary to publish—Ep,; : ; It will be seen that the list is formidable. These men have money,and we conclude they are determined upon using 1t to crush the people of the west. * x * They will use it to reverse the vote of the people’s represteniadives..in Congress. They have purchased Hayes, and pledged | him‘for a veto. They will work upon Senators and debauch them if possible. There is no mistal&ng the purpose of the New York meeting. Its programme is bold, defiant, cruel and aggressive, Mr. Dowd told his fellow bankers that it gave him “great satis‘faction to seeso many representatives ‘of financial institutions present,” and declared “that a protest should be ‘made on their part against imposing ‘apon the financial and other indus‘tries of the counmtry this attenuated ‘and ghostly shape called a dollar.” And then came all sorts of talk against the “Bland bill,” and against the dollar of 41214 grains, which .was the dollar that the government ‘' contracted to pay when its bonds were issued, and which, by the infamous demonetization act, was dethroned. Already the west has been threatened by eastern capitalists, 'and now the banks take the matter in hand. = A * * * * * R * *

- Their purpose is to unite {he banks of the country solid against the will of the people and against all measures of relief. It has come to this at last that a conflict exists betweeh banks and the people. It were supreme folly to doubt the fact. The issues are squarely and defiantly made. Theé banks are consolidating. They have money and will useit. Will the people back down? Weare confident that Indiana will not recede an inch. The efforts of this bank organization: will be to solidify the people. Relief is to come from some-source or the west will be seld out. If ruin is inevitable; if Hayes is to veto every measure of relief; if bankruptcy must come; if mortgages are to be foreclosed; if bankrupt courts are to furnish the hearses that are to convey the withered wrecks of western fortunes to pauper cemeteries, and sheriff hammers are to beat the funeral knells of western enterprises in obedience to the behests of eastern banks, or a combination of the banks of the country, then in the name of all the Gods at once let us know it. But we feel assured that Indiana will not recede. The people will stand by their interests like brave men, and in the future, as in the past, do all that honest men can do to save something from the wreck, and still ask for legislation that will afford relief. 'We do not believe that the present is the time to surrender all to eastern banks and insurance companies. We do not believe that a few capitalists in New York, Boston and Philadelphia should run this government against the will of the people. - Values are shrinking out of sight; business men arefailing; trust companies and savings banks are going to the devil; and, while bondholders have-been growing rich and everybody else poor, the tince is not auspicious for capitalists to apply thé screws, nor will the people stand it any longer.. The crisis is upon the country. It is banks vs:. bread. Itis money against the people. And though the ‘right ‘may be cloven down by a veto, or by the treason of Senators, the people will see to it that when next they go to the polls representatives and Senators are selected who will tell the President that he cannot uss his veto in the interest of banks and bondholders to deprive the people of their rights. . :

Barkis is Willing,

WASHINGTON, January 12.— Postmaster General Key was to-day asked what would be his course if, as reported from Tennessee, the anti-repudia-tors in that State should call on him to lead them in the next Gubernatorial campaign. The Postmaster General replied: “The campaign is a long way off—-next fall—and I do not at presgnt much "expect to be called on, I am, however, known throughout the State as being bitterly ‘opposed to the repudiation of the State debt, and if the honest party should get into a strait, and it were thought that by running me as its candidate for Governor the cause would ‘be strengthened, I would be greatly tempted to leave any position I might occupy to answer the call for me.”

Silver Meeting at Indianapolis.

A mass meeting was held at Indianapolis Thursday evening to consider the subjects of resumption repeal and remonetization of silver. The call,— which was signed by nearly 700 of the best citizens of the Indiana capital, urged that “the repeal of the resumption law and the remonetization of -silver are measures of ‘prime necessity,” an expression which is eloquent -in its brevity and comprehensiveness. There should be meetings of this kind held everywhere by people who appreciate the importance of the question. Congress cannot.wholly ignore the will of the voter, evea as expressed through mass meetings. —————— -~ B—— The Hancock County Democracy Speaks Out in Meeting. : GREENFIELD, Ind, Jan. 12.—The Hancock democratic convention today unanimously instructed for Judge Gooding for Secretary of State, and adopted a platform favoring the re+ monetization of silver and withdrawal of: the national bank bills and the substitution of greenbacks therefor,— and a sufficiency theirof to meet the business wants of the cotintry. Great harmony prevailed There was no dissenting vote on the candidate or platform. Messrs. Gooding, Offutt, Marsh, New and others addressed the convention. 3 2 :

A dancing master in New York lately waltzed twelve hours in succes‘sion, having a partner ready for the place of another who had tired. He i did not stop even for food, swallowing nourishment as he danced. The poor }lo_ol thinks he has achieved a great #eat, and wmmh admirers,

AROMANCING FEMALE. 1 Miss Russell, of Kendallville, Ind., Works Offa ' Good Story on Lient. Hood, but Her Sister Takes the Wind Out of Her Sails, | A rather prepossessing young lady, dressed in a fashionable butinot extravagant manner, reported to the station-keeper at the Twenty-second street depot, on the Michigan Southern Railway, that she had been robbed of all her money, and that living in Kendallville, Ind., she did not know how she could reach home unless the ‘conductor would pass her. The rules adopted by railroads precluded ‘any possibility of her getting home in this manner, and she was advised to report her case at the Armory and the city - would assist her to reach home, She - presented herself to Lieut. Hood and ‘told him that she had comse to visit a sister, who resides on Halstead street, and starting to the depot to take the train she met a gentleman, of whom she gave the Lieutenant a graphic description, who pretended to know her, and*walking a block or two at her side he excused himself and vanished.— Upon reaching the depot she found her pocket book with $5O gone, and was satisfied the man had stolen it,— as he could easily have done, as the pocket book was in a little inside pocket of her dress. She offered various reasonable objections for not going .back to her sister’s and Hood was about to make arrangements for sending her home when her sister came in and took her home, stating that it was & plan she had got up to get a free ride to Kendallville, Indiana, and that she never had the $5O she claimed t 831 Siie gave her name as Miss Russell.—Chicago Post, January 10.

- 'The Income Tax Bill. = . WASHINGTON, Jan. 12th.—It is now regarded as certain that a majority of the Ways and Means Committee will favor the imposition of the income tax. All the Democrats on the Committee, save Mr. Wood, are for it, and also Mr. Burchard, of Illinois. Good judges predict a majority for it of at least thirty or forty. This will be fought bitterly by the bordholding and rich element of the East, but with good management it can pass both branehes of Congress. The idea of leading friends of the measure is to tax only the excess of incomes above $2,000 two per centum, andthe excess above $5,000 three per centum. The policy will be to press the income tax bill as a separate measure, and it is probable that the sense of the House will be tested on it at an early day. 1t will get a nearly unanimous vote from the Western and Southern members, who of course may prepare at once to be denounced as swindlers by the New York press, for demanding an equalization of the public burdens.

Another Flood in Virginia.

- RicaMOND, Va., Jan. 11,—The heavy rains during the past two days have caused another rise in the rivers. The bridge over the Staunton river on the Richmond and Danville road, just replaced, was again swept away, the third time inside of two months. The iron bridge over the same river on the Midland road, between Lynchburg and Danville, was also washed away. This bridge was destroyed during the November flood, and was but recently replaced. The Roanokeriver at Weldon, North Carolina, is very high and the water is rising six to eight inches per hour.. The railroad bridges at that point are threatened.

The latest supposition inregard fo Bismarck’s ideas is that he wishes to cement all the Germans in Europe under one government, and thus de§ prive the Emperor of Austria of fifteen millions of his subjects. In return, it is said, he offers to seat Francis Joseph at Constantinople as Emperor over Hungary and Turkey in Europe. Russia would have to be compensated by Turkey in Asia, or something else equally desirable. -We should prefer to wait before believing the story. L =

' It‘is now an acknowledged fact that ConSUMPTION OAN BE CURED. It has been cared in & very great number of cases (some of them‘apparéntly desperate ones) by Schenck’s Pulmonic S:y"mp alone, and in others by the same medicine in connection with Schenck’s Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, one or both, according to the reqhiremonte of the case. :

The old supposition that ‘‘Consumption isincurable,” for many years deterred Physicians from attempting to-find a remedy for that disease, and patients aflicted with it reconciled themselves to death witheut an effort being made to save

them from a doom which was considered inevitable. > Bt

Dr. Schenck himself was supposed at one time to be atthe very gate of death, his physicians having pronounced his case hopeless and aban~ doned him to his fate ; he was:Curep by the afore-. said medicine and afterward enjoyed uninterrupted good health for more than forty yeats. Thousands of people have used Dr. Sc'fienck’g preparations with the same remarkable success.

Schenck’s Ahnanac, containing a thorough treatise on ConspmptidihLiyer Complaint, Dys--pepsia, &c., can be had gratis'df any druggist, or of J. H. Schenck & Son, Philadelphia.. Full directions for the use of Schenck’s medicines accompany each package. S Schenck’s ;Pulmonic Syrup; Sea Weed Tonic, and Mandrake Pills are for sale by all druggists. . THE MARKETS. - LIGONIER. GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, red, $l- - Rye, 50c; Oats, 25¢; Corny 80c; Flax Seed;, $¥ 00; Clover Seed, $4 25; Timothy Seed, $1 10, . ~ ProDUCE.—Hogs, live, P cwt $4 00, Shoulders, per pound, 06¢; Hams, 09¢; Bees Wax, 25c¢; Butter, 17; Lard, 06c; Eggs, P d0z.,12¢; Wool, b,25@ 85c; Feathers, 60c; Tallow, 07¢; Apples,dried, 6¢, green, 8 bu. $1.00; Pota-. toes, 30 ; Peaches, dried, ® 1b.08c; Hay, marsh, $5; timothy $B. T

CHICAGO, Jan. 16, 1878. GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, $105; Corn, 39% c¢; Oats, 2414¢; Rye, sbc; Barley, 80c; Clover Seed, $4 [email protected]; Timothy, $1 10@1 27; Flax, $l5O. PropUuCE.—Mess Pork,® cwt,slo 77 @1100; Lard, $7 37@7 8714 ; Hams; green, P 1b,06@06%c; Shoulders,4c; Butter, fair to g00d,24@26, choice,l4@ 18c; Eggs, ¥ doz, 15c; Potatoes, 45. PouLTrY.—Turkeys, dressed, 9 Ib, 07¢; Chickens, 9 doz. $2 00@$2 50. " TOLEDO.,—Jan. 18, 1878. GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, amber, $1 2614, N 0.3 Wabash, $120; Corn, 4215 c; Oats, 2s¢; Clover Seed, $4 75. | LIVE STOCK MARKETS. CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—CATTLE, graded steers, sis 00@5b 50; choice beeves, $440@4 80, good beeves, $3 Ts@4 25 ; medium grades, $3 25@$8 50; butchers’ stock, $3 26@%53 50 ; stock cattle, $275 @#%3 50; inferior cattle, $2 50@$3 50. Hoaos.—Sales were at $3.80@3 90 for light weights; at $3 80@4 00 for common to prime medium and heavyweight packing hogs; at $405@%4 i 0 for good to choice shipping grades. SHEEP.—Prices were about steady at s2B7@ss 00 {)er -1001bs for poor to cholce heavylots. . = . = . Bu¥raLo, Jan. 16.—Cattle, Shipp’g, $3 50@4 50; cows and heifers, “'llg§ §9O. Sheeps B a%b aa”&u* Hogs, good heavy $4 00; light #8 so.

To My Patrons and the Public in Generals Halving received, and ‘addiyn'gfvdaily',\a: large stock of ‘ : A : I a,m Pl;ep&i'ed to Sen Fihe .-2 - - Japan and Young Hyson Teas . Lower Than liver - Also, SpeCi{al" Bargains n Fine Syrups. I have the Largest - Stock of Candies for Holidays, at prices f{) suit everybody. Co . ey emboß OH Queensware, Glasswar?/a‘fia“f"”b‘f‘a e ——Cuwifery s Complete, and T shall offer extra inducements in order to reduce my very | o n s Aok e Ligonier, Ind., Deci 20, 1877, o J. DECKER. . BENGEL & CO'S ADVERTISEMENT. | | LARGEST AND LEADING CLOTHING AND HAT HOUSE IN | ‘ _NOBLE AND ADJOINING COUNTIES, - S . OUR STOCK OF :

Men’s, Youths’, Boy’s & Children’s Men’s, Youths’, Boy’s & Children’s CLOTHING! @loths, Coatings, Cassimeres, Furnishing Goods, EHATS & CALPS, - Isvery large and cc_)mplete. S OUR PRICES BEYOND COMPETITION. blothing {o ORDER is Onr Specialty, e E o e e S D s e L Beery one buying goods for - - MEN'Sor BOYS WEAR, will find.it to their interest to examine our large stock . before 'pl"lrchaiing elsewhere. ~ ENGEL&CO., e ost side Main strect. S} ~ Kendallville, Ind. Augunst 8, 1877.-11-87 ) : : : ; qoa - T.ook Out Foxr L PROMTHE--— = - JOHN WEIR. . ol el ; . .AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF . COOK AND PARLOR STOVES! ' CALLAND TAKEA | GOOD LOOK AT THEM. LIGONIER, sépt.‘z'z, 1877 ’ e . e :g & . WALK INTO .~ JSTRAUS,J», _ AND TAKE A LOOK AT - Furnishing Goods, @ A TRULY MAGNIFICENT SeAe i e e e e g e e e oTR e R e R %%‘ LOXRS