The National Banner, Volume 12, Number 40, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 January 1878 — Page 2

The Pational Binner e ,:‘m\?—"‘;." ‘\f\ By ; 1. B.STOLY., Bditor and Propﬁeh:' : LIGONIJER, IND., JAN’Y 24th, 1878. | “\No man worthy of the office of President should be willing to hold it ir counted wn or placed there by fraud.’— U:S.GRANT. : SAM RANDALL, the speaker of the House, is some time talked of as a presidential eandidate; but the talk is all moonshine. = . 'WHEN years ago THE BANNER and other papers argued in favor of gold and silver as the basis of our paper currency, gold alone was meant, the gold bugs now tell us! : Tue HAYES ORGANS need not spend any more time in proying Billy Chandler a great little scoundrel. Chandler established that fact himself wheu he manipulated the Florida returning board in Mr. Hayes’ interest. DAN VoORHEES, Tom Ewing, Buckner, Bland, Kelley, FTanna, Carter Harrison, and a few otlrers we might ‘name, ought to-be induced to make “about a dozen speeches in New Yaork State. That would warm up the Shylocks. : g f G o el e A i * NAsTY NAsT has turned his attention to caricaturing the advocates of the “dollar of the daddies.” Who cares? - Everybody knows that he would tlo the san e thing against the gold bugs if his masters had -bheen bougit by the other side. ;

-JAY GOULD is becoming positively cruel. He now—compels his young man in the tall tower (Whitelaw Reid) to write nasty editorials against Carl Schurz, Whitelaw’s bosom friend and ideal of a true statesman. Verily, the occupation of a metropolitan organ grinder has its drawbacks, e

Tre New York Democraey has for three years in succession resolved in favor ‘of- a currency interconvertible with gold end silver. But now the Belmont and Wall street crowd say silver is. a debased metal apd gold alone is fit to be used as moner. - Consistency, thou art a——gold bug!

ll¥, as is now generally admitted, it was agﬁinst the people’s interests to pass the coin act of 1869, the silver dollar demonetization act of 1873, and the Sherman resumption act of 1875, does or does it net follow as a natural consequence that the people’s interests demand the repeal of each of these enactments? The people answer yes; the bondholders say no! =~ - - .

" Witn Thurlow Weed and loratio Seymour squarely committed to the advocacy of the remonetization of silver, and these eminent men cordially endorsed by thousands of New Yorkers, it would seem to be:a comparatively easy task to'show the Shylocks that while they have muzzled the metropolitan press, they have not yet succeeded in muzzling the people. ! o. - : WE can kave some charity for the man_who innocently or otherwise pleads that Hayes was really elected, but when we hear a man say, “Yes, it is a blamed outrage that Tilden was swindled out of his seat; but since the thing is done we’d better not raise a fuss about it,” we feel like repeating the somewhat inelegant but expressive exclamation of Jim Ashley upon hearing the verdict of the Johnson impeachment court. Vo P

WHAT the anti-Shylock leaders want to do from nbw on is to carry the war into Africa, by holding meetings in New York and the New England ¢ States, so that the people of those States may get at the facts which ‘are

being studiously withheld by the subsidized press of the East. All that is needed- to make a break in those.regions is a comprehensive statement of the issues involved in the great currency eontroversy. =

~ AFTER a protracted contest the Kentucky Legislature elected General John 8. Williams U. 8. Senator, for six years. ~Williams has been a eandidate for this office and for Governor two or three times, but was always ddfeated, although receiving a plurality in every contest. lle is a Granger, a pronounced Greenbacker of the Bill Allen schoel, and is very popular among the people but not well liked by the politicians. His election is the result -of outside pressure, produced by the excited state of public sentiment on the money quegt,ion.ﬁ~ ]

Iv any of our readers were at the - time deceived into giving credence to the scandalous falsehood that Mr. Tilden had evaded the payment of income tax during the war, we begall such to give the speech of Mr, Vanderpoel a thoughtful and atfentive perusal. They " will learn therefrom that the accusa- | tion is utterly without foundation in fact and unfounded in law—trumped up agajnst a distinguished citizen for mean, contemptible party purposes.— Ot course, Mr. Tilden will be triumphantly vindicated by the courts, but ‘how about repairing/the injustice done him by the dissemination of the falsehood? : - - Tt ¥ A —— e . BaM McLiN, the rejected scamp who ~rendered himself eternally infamous by stealing the vote of Florida from ~ Tilden; had the sublime audacity to- - recently declare that Manton Marble ‘offered him riches and office if he (McLin) would certify to the vote as cast ' in that commonwealth, instead of manipulating it 8o as to give Hayes a majority. Mr. Marble goes to the trouble of publishing an emphaticand -unequivoeal denial of the perjured villain’s absurd statement; at the same Wﬂ"ﬂ%m lighly interesting ac- ~ Florida.| We say interesting; perhaps _ #ad would be more expressive of an T e e

THE BARGAIN APPLAUDED,

The New York World, after beating around the bush for a long time, has at last mustered sufficient courage to openly applaud the disgraceful bargain, by which Mr. Hayes came in possession of the presidential chair. It doés it in this manner—the italicized portion being the most significant: | -

“The story as Mr. Marble sells it of the events which preceded the action of the Florida Returning Board is an interesting contribution to our knowledge of a dismal episode in American history, Itshows hiow impossible it would be.to maintain free government for any length of time in this country if the business of “visiting statesmen” were to take its place among thg recognized contrivances of American politics. ~ And Mr. Marble’s concluding picture of the camp fires ot the ‘Federal soldiery surrounding the Capitol of Florida vindicates afresh—if that were needed—the course.of the southern men who rightly regarded the liberation of their States from bayonet rule as the first and chief object of alt American politics for them.— “What the Democrats of. the North wo'd not.dr could not insure to them when the final crisis came, they were entirely right.to take Srom My. Hayes, and in taking it they did their duty to the whole country as well as tothemselves.” - We would like to know by what process of reasoning the World could. make it appear that “the Democrats “of the North would not or could not “insure"; the liberation of Southern States from bayonet 1"111‘9? Tilden’s 'inallggratiQn itself would have brought that about instanter, withoutrany bargaining. We had the Tlouse, and—as subsequent developments proved—the Senate would not have made factious opposition to the lawfully elected executive. - All that was needed was firmnegs and pluck. When Conkling was shoved aside to make room for. Morton as a member of the electoral commission, and! that tribunal was packed on the republican side so as to insure the very opposite of the purpose for which it was -created, the. Demoerats oughit to have “busted” the wholg'concern and listened to nothing else but the inaugaration of the man | who was elected. Buf such timid fellows as Abe Hewitt felt a deeper concern for their money bags than for the vindication of the great principle of self-government. They were afraid of a little row and a consequent decline of their bonds. The voice of the people was kept in subjection, and thus it happened that instead of the great city of New York taking the lead by rising in her majestic proportions and demanding obedience to the popular verdict, her bondholders beseechingly ‘cou-nseled the most abject submission to whatever might be decreed by the Chandler consgpiracy. And now, to cap the climax, ¢omes the “democratIc” organ of the Wall street sharks and cowards with a public commendation of the disreputable bargain which’ worked the betrayal of Tilden and the Democracy on one side, and Chamberlain and Packard on the other.

WE OBSERVE that “Mr. F. S. Winston, President of the New York Mutual Life Insurance Co., has found’it incumbeiit upon himself to write and publish a piece against silver remonetization. His argument is that if silver is not remonetized, and bonds and mortgages are payable exclusively in gold, as contemplated by the resumption act, these securities will be worth just so many millions more than otherwise! That’s it, exactly, Mr. Winston! The people understand that very well. They also know that while your bonds would be worth so many millions more, all other pr;ﬁerty will be worth so much less; and because they do not want the price of.real estate reduced to.a mere nothing, they protest against the very policy which Mr. Winston upholds. o

- Now the gold bugs affect to be worried over the probability of the silver dollar not satisfying the demands of the anti-Shylock people; that instead of being content therewith, the issue of more greenbacks will be the next ‘demand. To a eertain extent this is doubtless true, but not alarmingly so. Only a few hair-brained fellows of the Brick Pomeroy school’ demand anything like unlimited inflation." Men ‘of a practical turn of mind generally agree that the volume. of greenback .currency ought to be restored to the amount stipulated by law, viz: four hundred million dollars, and kept at that figure, without the power .of in‘terference by any scheming Secretary of the Treasury, who may be tempted to operate in the interest of Shylocks.

DANA, of the New York Sun, is making it uncomfortably hot for some of the mutton-chop Demoecrats who helped to swindle Tilden out of the Presidency. In. Saturday’s issue of that sprightly sheet appears a full statement of a little transaction whereby John Young Brown, a Kentué¢ky Congressman who figured :conspicuously in the Stanley Matthews-Foster bar‘gain, received $11,241.20 as pay for services in the Fortieth Congress, to which he had been elected but never admitted by the then existing republican -majority. The appropriation which awarded him the above mentioned $11,241.20 was, on the 8d of March, 1877, engineered through the House by Zach Chandler’s son-in-law, Eugene Hale, » B ;

ANGTHER presidential aspirant has dug bisowngrave. Benjamin H. Bristow, by arrangement, went over to Boston last weck, had himself dined and wined by the nabobs of that city, and, being tickled with seductive promises of a prospective occupancy of the White House, hé spoke against the remonetization of the silver dollar. Benjamin’s prospects were slim enough before he tarried Bostonward, put now they are not worth mentione - THAT FEEBLE EFFORT to switch the Indiana Demoeracy from the antiShylock track onto a free trade plank’ won’t win because it is too thin. Free trade, as an abstract theoty, may be all right; but just now the people are dealing with practieal questions of momentous importance, 'a;xd' these must first be satisfactorily disposed of before the fres srade BObbY o ot NGy,

' ROME CITY ITEMS.

- Talk about your Hallenbeck and Cassady; talk about your Luther Benson and Jimmy Williams as temperance reformers; but when you come right down to. the “Nebraska” of the thing, Hayes and Sherman have done more to subdue tippling and drinking than .all the temperance lectures in the United States—Moody and Sankey thrown in. As money matters now stand, no man of moderate means ever thinks of taking a drink (except somebody offers to treat him). Liguor sellers cannot afford to trust dead beats; consequently saloons are closing up all over the country, and many. others are starving and eking out a miserable existence. Inthis way, and in this way only, are Hayes and Sherman the poor man’s friend! : We heartily congratulate THE BANNER on its bold and courageous position on the finance question. 'We are ever willing to forget the past, remembering only the present and looking with hopes to the future. What an incalculable amount of good THE BAN* “NER would have done had it advocated the greenback cause two vears ago in the same fearless and bold manner in which it now speaks out. But we smile when we read the. Albion New Era, the independent sheet which advocates Hayes and (mildly) curses his policy. : Ice harvest commenced and ended here last, week. 'Triplett, Fitch, Cobbs & Co. put up one house full of ice of a very respectable &euality about five inches thick. OtMers thought they would take their cliances on another fréeze. - ;

Dr. R. B. Williams has not been seen on the streets for some time. It is reported that he had the misfortune of getting some of his ribs broken, and in consequence thereof is cornfined to his room.

Isaac Barber’s horse ran away and collided with the fence, and broke his shoulder blade. The horse was a valuable animal, but will probably die from the effects of his injuries. , P. S. O’'Rourke, -Superintendent of the G, R, & I. R. R, has ‘increased the size of that Company’s gravel bed here by making an additional purchase from the lands of Mr. Barber. It is now rumored that we are to have an engine house here and the Kendallville water-tank removed to this place, all of which will probably c¢ome to pass. 0 : '

~ Clapp, Fisher & Zimmerman have disposed of a part of their real estate here, known as one of the twin houses in the south part of town. Aunt Sallie Miller is the purchaser, and is now occupying said premises. . Saturday last was a great day for fishing .through the ice on the lake, and multitudes of the finny tribe were brought to land. It was our second effort at that business, and our luck was prodigious. The only inconvenience we experienced was getﬁing home with our enormous load of fish. A few of the ungodly continued the exercises on Sunday. - : Mart. Hall is running a blacksmith shop in Brimfield for the time being. He says it is quite lonesome over there.

' The teachers’ institute held here on Saturday last was quite liberally attended, and passed off vexfy satisfactorily, so we are informed. s Martin Merrett, who lived a short distance north of this place, died last week after twelve hours’ illness. He leaves a wife and a- fourteen year old boy to mourn his loss. =~ ~The. excitement over scarlet fever, &c., in town has died out. . Not a single case terminated fatally. : Where is S. W. Dodge? He will please take notice that -he can catch all the bass now he desires, provided he can procure his favorite bait (green grasshoppers). Otherwise minnows will answer. iy

The few freezing nights last week changed the color of the wheat fields in this vicinity very materially. It changed from a bright green to a brownish color. ' The best name we have heard for the old “greenback” is “the fighting dollar.” It sayed the country. It paid the soldiers or fighting men at its face value.. Is it not then the fighting dollar? ‘

Dan Voorhees has delivered himself in the U, S. Senate, and nobly has he done it. Dan was a salary grabber, for which we denounce him; Dan was a very poor patriot during the war, for which we hated him; but at present Dan is a giant greenback man, for which we love and adore him. His last days are his best days, and we cheerfully forgive the past. Indiana is sound to the core on the finance question. - ;

Uncle John D. Kerr “gigged back” on the gravel bed question. He will probably find out he made a mistake.

The.G. R. & L. R. R. Co. have bought and located another pic-nic ground at Portage Lake, between Mendon and Vicksburg, Mich. Excursion trains on this road will be numerous next year, .

Our dramatic troupe have leased the Good Templars Hall for the benefit of their troupe the coming season. In our opinion’ for all the good that institution seems to be accomplishing here, they may as well make the dramatic’s a quit claim for all time to eome. “... :

“Jap” was in town last week. He ‘was working at the sheriff’s trade, Uncle Toby has been heard from again. Sound on finance. But, my dear Uncle, why didn’t yon help us a year or two ago? i

To all those in this region round and about who have heretofore been. frightened and tormented by the ghost of “old shoddy,” we will say let your souls be at peace; that spectre has departed. Hereafter the Rome City Woolen Mills will manufacture all their goods, jeans, flannels, blankets and yarns from clear stock. No more prepared or vegetable wool in any of their goods. A wise and sensible conclusion. i i The hoop pole business in our town still continues with wild and unabated

FHTRG T Av":uv““m;,:g\ .;::\%'1..: :"'v_""i'"‘f-v:' The new landlord of t_zhis.gplaca is not a very successful hotel-keeper. He says he would be more contentand make more money at farming. He has an idea that tavern businessis a trade and he has not served out his apprenticeship. ; - The dry goods, hardware and grocery men are doing a good business, considering the dull times and bad roads. G

Miss Lottie Neff, a teacher from Albion, gave her friends of Avilla a call last week. She was on her way to Swan, there to greet her friends. _

Deputy Sheriff Miller gives Avilla a call every few days. He certainly is good on the travel; sometimes comes and travels in the country two orthree niiles, reads his papers to some parties, and returns in due time to take the next train homeward.

The B. & O. railroad company is making preparations to move the devot east to the junction of the B. & O. and G. R. &1. Railroads. The implements have been secured, all that is wanting is somebody to use them. The young folks are very sociable, and have surprise and birthday parties. Thesurprise has never been so great as to shock any person dangerously. As tothe presents received at any of the parties, I am not able to speak. - : el The Lisbon Dramatic Troupe pl_a‘s"'g; ed “The Gypsy Farmer” on the nights: of the 12th and 19th.. They make a perfect. success of their plays. All whovli_ke-to take a hearty laugh, now and then, should attend the plays given by this troupe. - , 20 The Weekly News of Kendallville ‘'states that a contest arose between & teacher and a pupil at Avilla. We wish to remark that it was one of the teach~ ers of the surrounding neighborhood of Avilla. We alsostate that the discussion is one of great benefit to the teachers of Noble county; and that it was highly sanctiored by the surrcunding people. A good way to waste the public school fund would be to pay it to a teacher and then allow the young chaps to govern the schoel. This would no doubt place it in‘a worse condition than a hundred years previous... ‘.

The sidewalks are of a peculiar nature. 'They sometimes nearly strike some of the boys in the face. It appears by this that they, the boys, at times are a lictle intoxicated. Boys, you would better attend church more regularly 'and listen 'to ' what the preacher says about these .things; and then make up your minds not to let the sidewalks get the better of you.

Mr, Stewart and Mr. Walker: went to Ft.-Wayne last Saturday on special business, but did not aeccomplish very much, as there Were more men on the same business and not much income for all.. ' ’ The constable said he wished the young boys of this township would mind their teachers, as he does not like to go from place to place to subpeena witnesses and then not receive any compensation. 3 - The town ordinance should Ve enforced when some of those undutiful horsebackers tiy to save the mud by riding on the sidewalks. Our marshal does not like to be repairing sidewalks on accounf-of persons that cannot mind their business while in town. The Allen Township Teachers’ Institute, held on Saturday,January 12th, awakened the thoughts of some of the teachers in the reading and writing of decimal fractions. = Some of the. parties were asked to write a few that were too much for them. The trouble was the word “and” occurred in each one three or four times, and they were unable to}find a denominator. : © LANTZ. g O ————— $2 ‘INDIAN VILLAGE ITEMS. i ! The roads are“awful.” Martin Reed, of this place, sold his horses, farming implements, ete., at auction Saturday. e intends going to Webster, or near there, we believe. ‘We regret to lose so good a neighbor as Mr.R. . - j During the past week our little village has been favored by visits from representatives of most all of the leading cities and towns, viz: Boston, Dayton, Ligonijer, Albion and Cromwell, We think that; in time, Indiar Village will become first and foremost in importance, while Chicago, New York, and the vest of those little hamlets will have to take back seats. - Harrison Galloway’s health has so far improved that he was able to attend church on Thursday and Friday evenings. Mr. G’s health has been very poorly for a year or more. = °

Churches and church revivals may be very good, but we can never frame our mind in such a way as to make ug believe they should interfere with our public schools. LR Frank says when he gets that other mitien he will be able to “stand the storm” better than ever, this winter. We know of some ministers who pray after the same fashion that some teachers teach the alphabet. ' - Considerable meanness is exhibited by one or two of the patrons of the Broadway school. The teacher, Miss Caskey, we are told, was arrested and given trial, for eorporally correcting a little girl. If patrons of schools would perform their duties .toward their children, at home, and allow the teacher the same privilege in 'school, it ‘would be:vastly better for all. When will foolish parents learn that bad children must be restrained ? | , TRAsSH. S el 4 R —— WE HAVE Americars who have brains enough to form a Cabinet,without have Shurz, the foreigner, oécupy his position. , *_ : - 'Lhe above choice bit of polished literature appeared in a paper called the Huterprise, published at Millersburg, Elkhart county, Indiana, U. 8. A., and. edited by one Joel P, Heatwole, said to be a schoclmaster. Mr. “Shurz, the foreigner,” will take due. notice and get right out of that Cabinet. ﬁc has no business to hold office while_ m%mAmm. a 8 Joel P.

" “MR. TILDEN'S INCOME TAX,

An Fasy Victory for the Defense on the

~ Very First Cdunt of the Complaint. {From Sunday’s New York World) - ~The income .-tg:suit of the United States vs. Samuel J. Tilden came before Judge Blatchford in the United States District Court yesterday on de- | maurrer. Mr. Aaron J:Vanderpocﬁ appeared for Mr. Tilden and District-At-torney Woodford for theUnited States. ‘ The first count of the complaint sought to recover $3,000 as a tax on an alleged annual income of the defendant ‘during the year 1861, with interest to June 30, 1862. In his remarks on this “point Mr. Vanderpoel said : : . “The demurrer is general. The defendant is the only person upen whom it has been attempted fo impose or from whom it has ever been attempted to collect the tax for the year 1861. No one has ever paid a dollar of it.— The executive officers who allgw this suit to be prosecuted, the District-At-torney whose name is subscribed to the capias instituting ‘the suit, and the gentleman now holding that high office, never have paid one cent of in ! come tax for that year, and never have. been asked to pay a cent of it, and we may venture the assertion that after the lapse of sixteen years they never expeet to pay a eent of it; and yet it was deemed expedient by a DistrictAttorney on the:day preceding his retirement from that office to commence this action.' This suit was commencon the 27th of January, 1877. The political annals tell that at the time it was commenced Congress and the whole people were excited over the question as to whether Mr. Tilden, the | defendant, who it was conceded had a Jarge majority of the popular vote for | the Presidency,had been eiected to that: | office =according to prescribed rules and modes of procedure. It was not a sectional question. It threatemed our peace. A great experiment was to be tried which should relieve us |.from the peril. An electoral commis-_ sion had been proposed, and was about .to be concurred in by both Houses of Congre:s; to which the solution of the vexed iquestion was to be | submitted, in the zlope that the dangers which threatened us might be averted. The scandal of the heated political canvass which had slept twe. months was revived just at that time, and two days before the President approved the bill under which the commission was appointed and acted it was blazoned through the party press that one of the icandidates against whom and againét whose purity. of life, respect for-law and rectitude as a man no charge gcould be found, was sued for income tgx, as if he had defrauded~the Government, when the instigators of thejaction well knew he had in obedience to the law paid all demands that had been made upon him. The magniaficent spectacle of a great people subrﬁittingfto a commis- | sion and abiding by its decision of the question who should be its chief magistrate, with all | the patronage and power incident to that position, is marred by a prosecutfion such as is here presented, and it will not surprise | any one. to hear that all the counts in the declaration are utterly without foundation in fagt, and as we hope to prove them, unfounded in law. Ad- { mitting as we do by our demurrer that this tax for the year 1861 has not been paid, we are able to give a reason entirely satiagactory for it. That reason is that the law imposing the tax was repealedi Under the laws of 1861 no officers were appointed by the '| Government to assess or to collect the ‘tax, and on the 18t of July, 1862, before any attempt had been made to assess or collect it, the sections of the law authorizing it to be imposed were repealed by Congress.” ; : . Judge Blatchford sustained the demurrer on this ¢ount, and the argument on the 'rer'gaining eight counts was taken upon the same grounds.

A Defense of the Hampton Goyernment. NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—The Evening Post gays:. The people who have been waiting for evidence to show that Governor Hampton, of South Carolina, was not sincere in the pledges which he made that exact justice would be done, so far as possible, by Democrats ‘iof his State toward all classes of citizens, or that he would not be able to carry:into effect his own wishes, are in a fair-way of becoming discouraged. South Carolina outrages on colored men have ceased, taxes are willingly paid and State expenses largely reduced. Members of old rings offered trials, and when cenvicted the evi‘dence against them is so clear as to leave no room for honest excuse in their behalf, and when Republicans take interest enough to bring out a majority vote, as has recently been the case, they elect candidates without any unlawful opposition. e E—————— . That Inexplicable Mania. Auburn Courier, W. E. Grose has started in the attempt to publish a paper at Churibusco. Now he may succeed for a short time, but we believe it will prove a failure in the end. This thing of publishing a paper at every cross road will play out as soon as the supply of inexperienced shoemakers are exhausted. No good, live, wide awake printer will start at a point so hazardous,and you will find on-close observation, that these ventures aud failures can be traced to those who have neither fitness nor ability as newspaper men. Wecannot wish this and that one success in a business fthey know nothing about and we won’t make a show of friendship by doing so. Zach Chandler Stirring up a Muss. W ASHINGTON, January 21st.—Zach Chandler has been airing himself in the corridors, Tobbies and chambers of Congress for several days past. There has-beenmuch speculation as to the object of his visit. The real purport of his visit is to stir up strife between the President and the Congressional faction opposing the Administration. Chandler became alarmed at the prospect of peace between the Republicans and the President at the opening of Congress after the recess. He has been particularly active in stirring up the Michigan delegation to strife.— I}low well he has succeeded time will show. . ) e

The Silver Question in Ohio.

CorLuMmßuUs, 0., January 19.—This afternoon the Senate passed the joint resolution favoring the remonetization of the silver dollar, favoring the passage of the Bland bill without amendment restricting free coinage, and censuring President Hayes and Secretary Sherman for their position on the silver question. The resolutions wereé adopted by a party vote—Democrats in the affirmative and the Republicans in the negative. Dip it ever oceur to you Bro. Stoll, that we are as near resumption as we can get, and if we do not resume by the time required, we must slide back where we were ten years ago.—Millersburg Enterprise, e No; that thought never occurred to. us.. It is too ponderous.to be entertained by an ordinary mortal. - We do not wish to be captious about the matter, but, thinking our ministers have given us quite enough of hell, we suggest that they take up heaven. The world cannot have too muchof that, - ..

NOBLESVILLE NARRATIVES:

‘There is one thing in our midst of which Ido not approve, and that is the way our mail.arrangements are carried on between Albion and Churubusco, via Wolf Lake, Merriam' Green Center and Alma. One great fault I find is this: All mail matter that we want to go west, we mail here on Wednesdays and Saturdays; and the mail we send from here on Wed--nesday remainsB in Wolf Lake until Friday afternoon, and the mail we send from here on Saturday remains ‘in the same place until Tuesday afternoon.! Now, you see, our mail matter remains near home so long a time when it could just as well be arranged toshave the mail run clear through from cars to cars, <. e, from Churabusco to Albion. Then, if it was that way, our mail that is destined to go west would be a thousand miles from here; but under the present arrangement, it lays at Wolf Lake. Ido hope this thing may be changed so when our mail starts from ‘here that it may go on its way rejoicing. - . - The German Baptists are holding a series of mieetings in their church, two miles south of here. These meetings are eonducted by Elder Sturgis, of South Bend. i

Boys, keep a sharpj look out.” There is a wedding near at hand. # Oh, “Jap,” where art thou? Have you gone to sleep or have you put your pencil behind your ear? I would like to hear from you and learn how your cows are gettixxég along this winter? Rise and explain. As I ‘have not been to the “hub,” I don’t know how things are running. S Jan. 18, MB, - NEW LEAP

* A 2ERIOUS railroad accident happened on the Connecticut Western Railroad:justyeyond Tariffville,about ten miles fron Hartford, Conn., at ten o’clock Tuesday evening, Jan. 15. An excursion “train returning from the Moody and Sankey meeting at Hartford, fell through a trestle bridge into the Farmington river. Two engines, one baggage, and three passenger cars ‘went down. The number killed is not yet known. Fifteen to twenty-five are wounded, and from five to twenty ‘persons are Kkilled.| The names are not learned. ‘The train contained ten crowded cars. Five dead bodies, two men and three wom{?n, haye been recovered. There arellarge numbers yet in the wreck. i :

. These are terrible accounts that we are receiving through the cable of the sufferings of the multitudes of Turkish refugees of both sexes and all ages, who have been and stiil are flying to Constantinople befere the advance of the Russian armies. How wretched must be the spectacle at that station, where fifteen thousand women and children are ouft in the snow among the hills in a state of starvation.

The creditor who will needlessly make a debtor costs and expense in these times, without he is compelled to, is guilty of an outrage.—Columbia City Post,, e : - And whas would the Post say of a man (?) who goes 'Pround buying up claims and notes far the express purpose of making such@ costsand expense ?

It is now an acknowledged fact that ConSUMPTION OAN BE CORED., It has been cured in a very great number of cuées (some of them apparently desperate ones) by Schenck’s Pulmoni¢ ‘Syrup alone, and in othq&s by the game medicine i connection with Schenck’s Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills,. olle or both, according to the requirements of the éuse. :

The old suf)_ﬁb'sltion dlat “Consumption js in-

curable,”| for many ye’prs deterred Physicians ‘from' attempting to find * remedy g‘or that"disease, and patients afilicted with it reconciled themselves to death witheut an-effort being made to save them from a doom which was considered inevite able. 5 |

Dr. Schenck himself was supposed at one time to be at the very gate iet‘ _death, his phyeicians having pronounced hisgca;se hopeless, and aban~ doned him to his fate ; heé was Curep by the aforesaid medicine and afcemfard enjoyed uninterrupted good health for more?than forty years. Thousands of people have used Dr. Schenck’s preparations with the anme'remiarkable success. -

Schenck’s Almanagc, icontaining a thorough treatisq on Consumptlo:ﬁ, Liver Complant, Dyspepsia, &c., can be had gratis of any druggist, or of J, H. Schenck & Son, Philadelphia. Full directibns‘ for the use of { Schenck’s medicines ac-

company each package. s Schenck’s Pulmonic Byrup, Sea Weed Tonic, and Mandrake Pills are for sale by all druggists. - THE M%RKETS. ' LIGOE R GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, red, $l- - Rye, 650¢; Oats, 25¢; Corn, 30c; Flax Seed, $1:00; Clover Seed, $4 50; Timothy Seed, $1 25. : ~ PropuceE.—Hogs, live, ¥ cwt $3 75, Shoulders, per pound, 06¢; Hams, 09¢; Bees Wax, 25c; Butter, 12; Lard, 06c; Eggs, P doz., 10¢c; Wool, 1b,25@ 85¢; Feathers, 60c; Tallow, 07c; Apples, dried, 6¢c, green, @ bu. $1.00; Potatoes, 30 ; Peaches, dried, ¥ 1b.08c; Hay, marsh, $5; timothy $B. i - KENDALLVILLE. - GRAIN AND. Swgps.——'Wheat, white $1 14, red $1 13; Corn, 85¢c; Oats, 23¢c; Clgver Seed, $4 45; Flax, $1 00; Timothy, $2OO. = , OTHER PropucE.—Hams, ¥ Ibl2¢; Shoulders, 10¢; Lard, 06¢c; Tallow, 6¢; Wool, 85¢; Butterr 14c; Beeswax,2s¢; Apples, dried, 6¢c; green, {8 bu.,looc; Potatoes, 25; Eggs, § doz. 11ec.

CHICAGO, Jan. 23, 18%8. GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, $104; Corn, 89% c; Oats, 241¢c; Rye, ble; Barley, 61c; Clover Seed, $4 45@4 70; Timothy, sllo@l 27 ; Flax, $1 50. : PrRODUCE.—Mess Pork, ® cwt,slo 62 @lO 60; Lard, $7 22@7 271{; Hams; green, B 1b,@05%c; Shoulders, B%c; Butter, fair to g00d,24 @26, choice,l4@ 18c; Eggs, B doz., 15¢; Potatoes, 45, PourTrY.—Turkeys, dressed, @ Ib, 07¢; Chickens, ¥ dox. $2 00@$2 50. i TOLEDO.—Jan, 22, 1878, GRAIN AND SI%DS.—-Wheat, amber, $12414, No. 8 Wabash, $129; Corn, 4644 c; Oats, 26c; Clover Seed, $4 75, LIVE s'ro-qx MARKETS. CHICAGO, Jan. 28.—CATTLE, graded steers, $5 00@b 50; choice beeves, $430@4 80, good beeves, $3 60@4 15 ; medium grades, $3 25@%83 50; butchers’ stock, $3 25@%53 50; stock cattle, $275 @#%3 50; inferior cattle, $2 50@$3 50. Hoas.—Bales were at $3.76@3 80 for light weights; at $3 80@4 00 for commoinh? pré:ine adin-%; :;;%ségzvy--weight packing hogs; at $4 06@34 10 for gpqﬁo choi shipgﬁz grades. SHeEp.—Prices were about steady at 83 50@$4 00 {mnf 1001bs for poor to ehﬁi&;hmy‘ﬁ 4o e h e 'UFFALO, Jan. 22,—Cattle, Shipp'g, 34 bgoﬂébwi _COWS ﬁ%%ﬁ] Mﬂgﬁ;‘“ﬁm. light. $: 30-‘

__ NEwW ADYEnrissMenT, LARGEST AND LEADING CLOTHING AND HAT HOUSE, mf NOBLE AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. f During the Next Sixty Days o We‘"vs‘jh‘d‘l\lléld‘sé out ',bﬁiahce of our .{ | nN\ WUI it And oﬁhgf :Goodé for Men’s é.nd ‘Bojs? Wear, - . it ~ Regardless of Regular Prices!! ClothingtoOrderisOurGreatSpecialty i An ‘extra Discount on all work-in' this Department Quring the r ' o- 55 Nexk Sixty'Days! A(i g Loeok Through Our Steck Before You Buy any Goods for Men’s or - Boys? Wear. It Will*P'ay. : - ... FENGEL&CO. - The Popular Clothiers, Hatters and Tailors, era e} - Kendallville, Ind. POPULAR PRICES AT DECKER’S. To My Patrons and the Public in General : Having’ réceivéd,’fandiadding ('liﬂa,ilvy, a_]al_'ge,stock of | | GROCERIES, ~ lompreparedtosell Fine Japan and Young Hyson Teas . Lower Ihan Wver Also, :Spe'cial Bargains in Fine Syrups. I have the Lai'gest Stock of Candies for Holidays, at prices to suit everybody. : i MY STOCK OF | e Queensware, Glassware and Table - Cutlery is Complete, - and I shall offer extra inducements in order to.reduce my very L v ' | large stock. i : Ligonier, Ind., Dec. 20,1877, - - - . .J. DECKER. o T.ook Out Kor -

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