The National Banner, Volume 12, Number 41, Ligonier, Noble County, 31 January 1878 — Page 2

The Fational Banuer Z ¥ | ' ST ' R RNy L ‘ 1. B.STOLY, Baitor and Proprietor , LIGONJER, IND, JAN'Y 31st, 1878, “‘No man worthy of the ?fice of President should be willing. 10 hold it i counted wn or placed there by fraud,”— U. 8. GRANT ; : " Tue Whitley County . Democrats have sounded the key-note of the coming ‘campaign. Their platform will be overwhelmingly endorsed at the ballet-box. , LI D& A — e THE vote on the Matthews silver resolution in the Senate stood: Yeas, Democrats, 23; Republicans, 20; David Davis (Ind.) 1. Nays, Democrats, 7; Reépublicans, 15, - ; THE GENTLEMAN who“d‘raftqd the resolutions of the Whitley Democracy should be chosen to represent the Twelfth District on the committee on resolutions of the forthcoming State convention. He carries a level head.

THERE is but little doubt that the Indiana Democracy will.take a decided stand in favor of areduction of the rate of interest. The old war rate of 10 per cent. will be wiped ont by the. next Legislature, G

PAPERS professing to be favorable to the remonetization of silver, and yet ever ready to give its most pronounced advocates a dig, without ever having a word of censure for the arrogance and blackguardism of the Shylock organs, are either insincere in their firo_fessiong or very shortsighted. in-the pursuance of their policy.

FELLOW CITIZENS, you have every

cause to rejoice over the victories [ which have been achieved in your be- { half in the Senate aqd House by the - passage of the Matthews silver resolution.” 1t is the first victory of the kind in fifteen years. IHeretofore the - bondholders and capitalists have had everything their own way. Now the people’s veice is -heard. g '

“ YEs, my friend, you will miss a rich intellectual treat if you neglect to read the masterly speech of Senator Voorhees. It exposes in the most fascinating and eloquent language the iniquity of the legislation of the past ten or fifteen years in the interest of capitalists and bondholders as against the rights and best interests of the laboring and producing classes. It is pre-eminentlv a plea in behalf of the latter. ‘As 'such it merits the most thoughtful perusal of every laborer. -

THE most aggravating circumstance connected with the discussion of the silver bill is the concern which the Shylock organs affect to entertain for the workingmen. They have the audacity to declare that the workingmen will be the losers by the remonetization of the silver dollar! Just think of the absurdity of this “argument.” Silver has always been the workingman’s friend. It is emphatically t{le people’s money.. It is handled by the masses, while gold is carefully stored away in the coffers of the rich.

ONE THING at a time, gentlemen. Let us first secure the remonetization and free coinage of silver and the repeal of the Sherman resumption act. That secured, we can next turn our attgntion to the national banks. Some very important points are to be cohsidered in regard to the latter proposition, - We doubt the expediency of ‘wiping them out of existence by hasty legislation. - The period for which they were originally chartered expires in a tew years, and before steps are taken to extinguish them priorto that time, care should be taken that something better is devised to take their place. : e 5 sl

~ The Ligonier BANNER, irt addressing itself to the Hon. Tom Hendricks, uses this forcible and appropriate figure of'speech: “Be a man or a mouse[” » The BANNER is a recent convert to silver, and Tom is a “poor_ trembling galoot!”"—Goshen T'imes. L . We are both sorry and surprised to see such perversion in the columns of a paper which hitherto has treated THE BANNER with the utmost fairness. When we placed the line “Be a man or a mouse” at the head of our’editorial paragraphs neither the silver question nor Mr. Hendricks oceupied our thoughts. The “figure of speech” was (designed for quite another purpose—the treatment of the electoral. fraud. As to THE BANNER being “a recent convert tosilver”—that’s too ludicrous totalk about. The Times certainly kifows better. . :

- ‘Rev. Thomas K. Beecher has a paper in the Christian Union arguing that it would be honest beyond all question to “pay our bonded debt in silver, éven were silver cheap as iron and common as gravél. This question __of honesty, he says, lies fairly within “*his domain as a teacher of ethics and .religion, Ile also bloats the bondholder, and says it is a duty to pay him ~off as cheaply as can be done with honor,—N. Y. World. To offset Thomas K’s admirable argument, thb New York Shylocks have set Henry Ward to denouncing the dollar of the fathers. ThomasK. has the truth on his side, and his name is a guarantee of his political honesty. and independence— “which the same” can hardly be claimed for his dis- - tinguished brether. @' '

Emiry HA\\i-TE(dR?E ‘re[.)orts 7Gen. ‘Manson as saying in his speech at Shelbyville last Saturday : “You see, said the General, presenting a one dollar bill and a five dollar bill, that these bills are the same size and have the-same amount of peper in them. The material is the same, but the goyernment says by its stamp that oné is worth $5 while the other is only worth $l.” Vg : If the Gieneral is correctly reported in the above extract, we would advise him to immediately enter ‘upon the study of the elementary principles of finance. In the main his arguments were good, but sentences like the above have a tendency to cast a shadow upoo the protundity of his research. -

THE PUBLIC WILL AT LAST RESPECTED. We have the proud satisfaction of announcing to our readers a great and glorious victory of the people over the grasping Shylocks. The U. S. Senate, on Friday last, took up the resolution of Mr. Matthews, declaring the right of the government to pay its bonds in silver. All amendments:were voted down by decisive majorities, and the resolution passed by a vote of 43 yeas to 22 nays. Christiancy, of Michigan; Hipple-Mitchell, of Oregon; Paddock, of Nebraska; Windom, of Minnesota; and Lamar, of Mississippi, were the only ‘Senators outside the New England States, New York., New Jersey and Delaware who voted with the gold ‘bugs. Both the Pennsylvania Senators voted for the resolution. There were a number of absentees, but if all hal voted the relative strength of the measure would have been substantially the same. S The House, on Monday last; took up the Matthews resolution and promptly ratitied the same by the overwhelming vote of 187 yeas against 79 nays. . ‘The -goldites now admit that the Bland silver bill is certain to pass(with perhaps a slight modification) by the requisite two-thirds majority, should Mr. Hayes conclude to exercise the veto power. The Senate is now considering the Bland bill, but a vote is not likely to be reached before the latter part of this week.

KRESTORATION, NOT REPEAL.

The superficial. manner in which even men of somg prominence consider grave aud important questions was last Saturday strikingly illustrated by the committee on resolutions of the Shelby county (Ind.)silver meeting. “W. Scott Ray,one of the brightest in“tellects of Shelby county, and a prom“inent candidate for Congress in this “District,” so the press report informs us, reported -a series of resolutions wherein the “immediate and unconditional repeal” of the silver demonetization act 1s demanded! Now, if Mr. Ray had given the silver demonetization act- the attention which”its importance so richly nierits, he would have made the discovery that demonétization was brought about by simply ((clandestinely, we believe,)- omitting the silver dollar from the fifteenth section of an act entitled “An act revising and amending the laws relative to the mints, assay offices, and coinage of the United States.” No act was ever passed declaring that the dollar of the fathers shall no longer be coined; hence it:is folly to talk about repealing such an (imaginary) act. What the people demand is that this dollar be restored to the position which it occupied prior to the act of February 1873. . .

DIVISION CALLED FOR.

The New York World, in discussing Voorhees' great speech, declares itself in favor of political separation on the finance question; 7. €, it wants the Democrats and Republicans who believe in an exclusive gold standard to uniteina distinet organization against the Democrats and Republicans who advocate gold, silver and greenbacks. If this be the wish of the Shylocks, we presume they can be accommodated. Indeed, the organization already perfected by members of Congress in favor of th‘e latter progositi‘on, irrespective of party, looks as if the World’s desires had been anticipated. The result of such a divisi(_)n is easily foretold. It will be the complete annihilation of the gold party outside of the New England States -and little Delaware. We very much doubt the ability of the “gold bugs” to carry New York, when the issue is once fairly presented to the people. The only difficulty we see about the matter is how the “gold bugs” .would manage to find ‘members enough to constitute a quorum in Ohio and Indiana! :

The Democracy of Whitley have put themselves squarely on the record as favoring the reduction of the rate of interest to 6 per-cent. It will be ‘well if the Democracy incorporate a resolution of like tenor in the State platform.. The agitation of the question has reached a point where the Legislature. to assemble in 1879 will have to act.—Columbia City Post. . ‘ The probabilities are that the example of “Little Whitley” will be emulated by nearly every county in the State. We congratulate our neigh‘bors’'on their sagacity and boldness in thus taking the lead in this righteous movement. : pras ? . ] < E—— The Anti-Shylock Movement. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Mr. Buckner and the other leaders in the movement for the remonetization of silyer and the repeal of the resumption act have been obtaining signatures to-day in aid' of their movement initiated yesterday to create a public opinion in the Nerth and East in favor.of these measures. Mr. Buckner says that all the members of Congress favorable to repeal and remonetization will come into the movement, and that committees will then be appointed to take charge.of the. various branches of the work. They hope to obtain: subscriptions of money to a large. amount -and to circulate documents extensively in the North and East, especially .in localities which are now permeated only by the subsidized press of bloated bondholders. |

| The Returning Board Villains, The members of the Louisiana Returning Board forfeited the bonds under which they were placed to appear for trial, last week, in answer to she charge of felony in tampering with election returns, and three of them were found on_Saturday concealed in Custom-house at N'ew Orleans. The Custom-house officials resisted the sheriff who went to arrest the fugitives, and the sheriff telegraphed the situation to Attorney-Gieneral Devens, Word was received in reply directing the Custom-house officials to refrain from interfering. The sheriff then took Anderson, Cassanave and Kenner to prison. Wells was still at large Tuesday night, but the trial of the other three raseals is now in progress, ‘The propriety of abolishing all the Pen&tgnfilfg‘enci&e!s in- t.lgsi Untilon and ' the pensioners directly from g:g-bumus in Washington has reiantly been discussed. ;Seqretarg; Schurz, of the _lu-sem:fn:fmmm, as signified his approval of the proposed change. ng%g’qlq#fin&w?} the

ROME CITY ITEMS.

It is now a self-evident fact that both of the old political 'parties ‘have outlived their usefulness, and the people now call for a new deal. Thereis at present but’ one living issue, and that is the financial question. Upon this vital question we find both of the old parties in the East taking sides ‘with the bondholders and aristocrats against the producing and laboring classes. In the West and South the people are in the main of one mind. The issue is now fairly made up and contest must surely come. All those who believe silver should be remonetized and made a legal-tender for all debts, dues and demands, both publie and private, and all those who believe that the government should issue her own greenbacks and make them a le-gal-tender the same as silver, and issue an amount commensurate with the den?ands of trade, will be found battling and voting for the interests of the.people and the prosperity of the country. And all those who belieyé that all bonds issued by the government should be paid in gold, and that every commodity should be brought down to a gold basis, and all greenbacks confracted out of existence in order to make the rich richer, and the poor poorer, will be found on the opposite side. Tet the people now organize, for they have a great work before them. Above all let the people inform themselves on' this great and important question. Every voter should read the speeches of IHon. John Hanna and Hon. Tom Ewing, delivered in the House of Representatives.— But above all others procure and read the speech of Hon. D. W. Voorhees, delivered in the Senate only a few days ago. The speech, in my humble opinion, is positively: unanswerable. No man can vote intelligibly unless he intorms himself, and how can he inform himself unless he reads? Let every voter equip himself and make ready to do his duty, and the result will not admit of a doubt. The next President of the United States will be a man holding the same opinions and adyocating thesame principles of those now held by the Indiana delegation in Congress. : : ~ Iceis now of greater thickness on the lake than it has been at any time during the winter. : Strange as it may seem; it 13 now probg.ble that some good buildings will be erected in Rome City the coming season. o :

Some of our citizens seem to be earnestly trying to arrange and settle up a Lagrange and Rome City scandal. We forbear comment until the whole matter becomes public. As soon as the clergy settle the question definitely Whether there really is a hell or not, we presume some of our Romanites will quit fishing on Sunday, especially if the question is decided in the affirmative. ]

We have not yet learned when our dramatic’s will be ready to show their Hidden Hand. 4 v ‘

The'great speech™of Dan Voorhees has been extensively circulated in thi} vicinity, and is read by all. E. H. Fisher hands them out, and we believe has a few on hand. Dan has certainly recovered a portion of his missspent life. ’ Orange township is desirous of showing her hand at the spring election.— There will be a full silver-greenback ticket in the field. When shall we organize? - Let us hear from you, “Brimfield.” e v

Philan Markham has been supplying the Lake Side House, the city of Ft. Wayne, and the town of Lagrange with fish. It keeps him agoing. . Levi Parks has invented another patent. It isinkthistime. Bully for Rome City. ] - THE BANNER is the only paper in this county which has a correspondent in the Michigan City penitentiary.— The article of our old friend, A. J. C., is loaded down with good sense.— Write again, A. J. We have several old acquaintances under your care. - Rome City is operating the “telephone” on a small seaie, £

The first fox chase of the season (in this vicinity) took place on Monday last, a mile or two west of this place. Mr. C. C.Cain, with his trained hounds, was the leader in the chase, but was assisted by others'in and about town. A fox was started’ and (it is claimed was) caught but made its escape. At any rate the hunters failed to bring it in. No further particulars. The Rome City mails were all carried past on Monday evening last, ahd in lieu thereof the Wolcottville mail was left here. The éause can only be accounted for upon the grounds of inexcusable carelessness. But it is of no use to complain, as no notice is taken of the matter. < ALEXIS.

INDIAN VILLAGE ITEMS.

News items are terribly scarce this week, . Lo

~ Who ever heard of another such a winter as this? Now, don’t all speak at once. : e £

The protracted meeting still continues. Judging from the number converted, Indian Village and] vicinity will soon be minus a goodly number of sinners. 'We sincerely hcpe it will; but still, you know, we can’t help but fear that we shall be “kinder lonesome like” at first. If it goes too hard though, we Shall take up our hat and walk. e

We noticed our friend “Jap’s” smiling phiz here one evening last week. From his beaming countenance we were led to believe that he was enjoying himself hugely. How is it, Jap? We know of a wedding that is to be, but we won'’t tell. No,sir. We'll go to the stake first. i o

J. W. Miller started for Valparaiso last Friday. He will attend school there for the next few months, ‘Alvin Eagles and Leslie Bothwell started east the other day. Theyshould have taken the advice of Horace Greeley and-gone west., e If we tread on any one’s toes this week, we most humbly beg pardon, i pbut will remind them that we are only b - 'l‘ng\sm .

ALBION RUMMAGES.

‘We must now acknowledge a mistake; a mistake, siich as is entirely| foreign to our innate nature, and one we have seldom, if ever before, been guilty of. We “perpendicularized” at 4:30 o'clock A. M. instead of 7:30, our! usual hour. In considering and try-' ing to interpret the above named phe-' nomenon, we have taken a bri‘ghterf: view of the world and our immediate surroundings. Why, sir, we believe, and must slly it, that the possible welfare of the two new groceries,in town, has now become probable. And the streets, where we deemed them impassable before, we now travel with only the risk of demolishing team, vehicle and driver. Yes, this is a glori~ ous nation; a nation in the events of which we are called upon to rejoice or mourn, as the case may be, even though we are not to blame. A nation which has always had money,—by borrowing. A nation, that from time to time, coins a little money for itself, but never could believe in “old Ray,” where he says: 100 cts. equal $l. Is “Ray” really wrong about this? If he is, oh! how often we have trained the young mind to “over-shoot” the mark. But no harm done, we hope, for has’ not the whole nation played the same trick upon its workers for years ? By Hoakey! “New Leaf;” we wish some of you fellows would bring afew loads of hay to market, and befoffi weighing it, would stop on the square: a short time. We are beginning to tire of running the gauntlet between the house and barn every morning, yet we can hardly blame the cows, for they are getting exceedingly “thin.” - May Saturday be so dull; that we will not even see the “shadow” of a ground hog. : When a man speaks of a train of cars being within a few thowsand yards of the depot, does he really know the ‘distance ? ; '

How many are going to the Beecher, Thursday, Feb. 7th, at Goshen ? ‘On Monday morning sheriff Eagles started for Michigan City with James Campbell, who was sentenced for two years, after a few days’ wrangling in which Prickett thought we had taken an active part. Butthe wise men of our country, yea, even the judge spoke and said, “so shall it be.” -

In some people the power of imag: ination is absolutely wonderful. While hopping railroad ties between Wolcottville and Rome city a few days ago, at 6 o’clock A. M., we were startled by the brisk ringing of sleigh bells. We stopped and wondered ; there was no snow on the ground. The mystery was solved. In a barn,standing a few rods to the east of the G. R. &I, R.R,, was a young man vigorously shaking a string of bells, while he, in his mind; was gliding away over fleecy fields of snow with his *Dinah” by his side. So completely was he taken by the thought, that the ringing was kept-up until distance lent enchantment to the hearer. *“Yet, this is Rome.”

Court is slowly but surely coming to a close. At the opening of the term the docket numbered one hundred and eighty-three cases. It will close with about two hundred and twenty. A great many judgments are taken, upon which executions are issued almost immediately.. The meaning of this we can hardly give. : The Senate is not pitched on the scale of Bto 7, but 2 to 1. To-day (Tuesday) court is again more fully attended. Among the foreign attorneysin attendance are Judge Lowry, on the bench; Capt. Mitchell, of Goshen, and Judge Carpenter of Warsaw. A

“We.cannot account for it, but never yet were we so fortunate as to make personal acquaintance with “Alexis” and “New Leaf.” But judging from their writings, we certainly would enjoy a hearty “shake” with them. i o JAp.

Yillainous Qutrage at Richmond,

RicamoND, Ind., Jan. 26.—An outrage that was perpetrated nearly four weeks ago has just come to light.— Two young men started home from a party with two respectable‘young ladies of this city; but instead of taking them home, ,they went to a vacant house, where the ladies were ‘drugged and outraged. One of the ladies was. 80 badly abused that for a time it was thought she would die. She has, however, recovered. The father of the girl had to be restrained by force to keep him from hunting up the villain and shooting him. The matter was hushed up for the time, but has since leaked out and is now the town talk. Great excitement prevails among the friends of the ladies. On account of the standing of the families in society, names oOf the parties are for the pres--ent withheld. : ;

The Silver Resolution. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—The friends of the silver bill achieved a grand triumph in the Senate by the passage.of. the Matthews resolution, declaring for the faith of contracts in regard to the bonds, and reserving to the Government its option to pay either in gold or silver coin, as the law and the bond stipulate. The law is so plain that the resolution can not make it plainer, but the passage of the resolution by a decisive majority protects the Government from the consequences of Mr. Sherman’s unauthorized pledge to the bordholders, and paves the way for the passage of the silver bill and its signatures by the President. _ The Morton Eulogies. The New York San. Lt It is not given to every public man to secure such praise, even after death, as Senators paid yesterday to- Oliver P. Morton. It did not conie from one section or parly. If the one colored man in the Senate eulogized him, so did the ex-slaveholders ; and such Democrats as Thurman and Voorhees testi-: fied that in all the hea‘ed political controversies of two decades their private, friendly relations with Morton suffered no interruption. Mr. Conkling’s brief speech will be read with interest, as the tribute of the living leader of the Sehate to the dead leader, his predecessor,; . - . Pia e A young man named John Repp, residing two miles south of -Angola, Steuben county, attempted suicide on last Friday night bgr cutting his throat with a butclier knife. He cut a-terri-ble gash before the knife could be taken from him. - His recovery is ;"fii”i“iia An .n;nsbgcomtui%mwfiig,im hich he was interested caused him memmitm aeh,- e

Gehéfa,l Items.

The marriage of King Alfonzo and Princess Mercedes was celebrated in Spain, Wednesday of last week, with great pomp. ' <

A Washington dispatech says the gold standard men now offer to concede the coinage of $150,000,000 in silver, with a legal-tender limit for private debts of $lOO. :

_Senator Conkling was engaged in a good work last week—presenting petitions from the farmers of several counties in New York, asking for the remonetization of silver. o Senator Blaine is a convert to the idea that there should be an equated value between the gold and the silver dollar, and advances smiling half way toward the demonetized chinker. - . Residing near York, Pa., is a farmer who has kept a record of the number of tramps visiting Liis premises. From April 1, 1877, to Nov. 18 there were 545 or an average of 16 per week. Down in the vicinity of Union'county, Ohio, some animal, which goes about'like a roaring lion, devouring sheep and pigs, has raised the hair on the_whole community. It lately attacked a man and broke his leg.

Several of the New York banks are Baid to be investing their reserves in gold, in order to be prepared for the adoption of that curreney as the basis of all their transactions as soon as the premium falls below 1 per cent. ' The soldiers’ orphans’ home at Gettysburg, Pa,, will soon cease, there being no further use forit. = There are now but nine inmates, and they/are able to:take care of themselves. Thus one by oune are the terrible wounds of the war healing. : ;

It is said that the President will recommend to. Congress that the postmasters “in the smaller towns” be selected- by the popular vote and that the Postmaster-General shall merely confirm the selection made.—J/ndianapolis Journal., ‘

Dr. Henderson, the Superinténdent of Public Instruction for the State of Kentucky, says in his report to the Legislature that since-1871 “the State ‘has declined in wealth $50,000,000, ‘which lessens the school revenue ‘sloo,ooo annually.” ) »

It is when a dry goods clerk of nine-ty-seven pounds weight attempts to help from a farm wagon a farmer’s wife of two hundred and three pounds weight, that the reporter seats himself contentedly on the curbstone and waits for-the catastrophe.

An exchange truthfully remarks that it is easier to raisea hundred dollars for the purpose of a gold watch to be presented to somebody who does not need it, than itis to collect the same amount for some poor man, from the same persons who owe him the money. ; S Ty, ¢

‘Watermelons are looming up in the near future as the “great American product.” Experiments in California show that sugar can be extracted from the lemons at the cost of two cents per pound less than from sugar cane. Besides this, oil is made from the seed and alcohol from the rind. Secretary Sherman’ has been . requested to furnish Congress with a statement of the amount ot money annually paid to the national banks for interest on the bonds held as security for currency issued to them. This looks as though somebody was preparing to open fire on the national banking system in earnest. When thé Presidential cohtest was in doubt and Bill Chandler was down in Florida-aiding in stealing the elec“toral voto of that Stace, he was spoken of in the most respectful terms by the, republican papers as Hon. William E. Chandler, Now they style him Billee Chandler.. When a thief exposes his pals, they always repudiate him. Reports from Colorado show that the Ute Indians are in a dangerous stale of discontent, on account of the Indian bureaun’s neglect to furnish and -distribute the supplies due the tribe. Some of the more turbulent bands threaten to go north and join the Sioux in a general war next summer. The necessary legislation for the transfer of Indian affairs to the war department, should be hurried along as fast as possible, It may be the means of preventing a large and costly amount. of trouble with the savages during the coming summer, An appalling accident happened to a Frenchman named Guirpet near East Middlebury, Vt. He was hauling aload of stone, and a short distance from the town passed over a portion of the road which curves around the taop of a precipice one hundred and fifty feet in height, a shelf wide enough for a road having been blasted into the solid rock and a board fence erected, some years ago, to prevent accidents. Arriving at this point, the load began to slew around with great force, striking and destroying the apology of a fence, and throwing Mr. Guirnet into the awful gulf with 80 much force as to crush hjm into a shapeless and lifeless mass. '

The Russo-Turkish War Ended.

The Russian terms of peace which were given to our readers yesterday are severe but they are not unjust.— True to 'his original promise to England, the Czar does not attempt to add any European territory to his dominions; unless he should insist on the little sandy strip of Bessarabia, whieh ‘was taken from him by the treaty of Paris. In Asia he ‘adds materially to his domain by the ownership of Kars,. Erzeroum and - Batoum; with; of course, the'surrounding territory. The occupation of Constantinople and Gallipoli is avoided, and the free navigation of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus is left to be settled by a conference. The chief stumb-ling-block will be the exaction of a hundred millions of dollars of money, indemnity, a sum which the Turks are utterly unable to pay. Ifitis insisted upen, then Russia will have to take some security therefor, and the intended security is supposed to be the fine fleet which Turkey owns, and ‘which wasbuilt with money borrowed from England. To this the British may seriously object.—Chicago Post, January 26,

————— - P—— Blaine’s Half-way Conversion. Saturday’s Chicago Post. - : Senator Blaine admitted, yesterday, in his . remarks on the Matthews reso- | hution, that the bonds of this country were payable either in gold or silver coin, but he thought that the Govern‘ment should not take advantage of the law and pay in silver of 41214 grains. One great feature of this hard money fight has been the denial by the anti-silver men that silver eould be used in discharging Government in- | debtedness; and the people of the West have been dubbed repudiators because they claimed what Mr. Blaine has admitted. The Senator opposed the resolution, he'said, because he thought honor required those bonds should be paid in gold. In other words, we ought to do more than we agreed to do in paying Government debts. As Gen. Butler said in his Boston speech, we ‘cannot, in this matter, afford to be ganemufl,; and never less so than in these times, E

SOUND DOCTRINES

Enunciated by the Whitley County De-

; mocraey. . - | Resolved, B’% the Democracy of Whitley in Convention assembled this 19th | day of January, 1878, that th‘ey.de-I ‘mand-as measures of vital importance to the whole people: . i First, The remonetization of the silver dollar of 41214 grains, with f’ree; coinage, and full legal-tender capaci- | ty for all debts, public and private. | Becond, The unconditional répeal of the odious reaumption act of 1875, now | ‘bankrupting the country. | Third, That the ruinous policy of | withdrawing the greenback currency from circulation should be stopped at| once, and that Congress shouldl, with-| out delay, authorize. its volume to beii 80 increased as to meet the wants of| the people. ¢ | - Fourth, The total abolition of the| national banking system, and a with-| drawal of national bank notes, their place as a circulating medinm to be| filled by the issuing of greenbacki notes with fall legal-tender capacity. | - Fifth, That as the people are the| Government, it is the duty of the law| making power to keep inviolate its| contracts with the people, paying to! the bondholder that, and only that,| which his contract demands. Thatas the holders of national securities have twice repudiated their contract with the people, to their own benefit, and still further demand usury, it is time “to call a halt. : |

- Siéxth, That we .demand a tariff which shall equalize more justly. the burthens| of Government betweeu the producers of the West and the manufacturer and capitalist of the East. . Seventh, That in view of the enormous depreciation of property, both personal and real, and the depressed condition of the times, entailing unusual burthens upon the producing, laboring, commercial and debtor class, that the war rate of 10 per-cent. interest on notes: and judgments should be abolished and the old rate of six per cent. interest be made absolutelfl the legal rate in this State. f

Fighth, That the attorney fee law in force in this State, should be either entirely repealed, or so modified by a judicious fee bill, regulating the charges to be made for collections, as will be just between creditor and debtor. | ‘ Ninth, That we abhor and hold up to public detestation the leaders in the Republican party who secretly connived, and with bare-faced revolutionary effrontery, carried out the scheme, by and through.venal Returning Boards, whereby Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks, the people’s choice for President and Vice, President, were wrongfully defrauded from the positions to wlieh a free people had called them. We hold it up as the monster crime of the age, a crime against free Government, a crime againgt the elective franchise, and a crime that can only be condoned when the malefactors who seated a Fraud in the Presidential chair are driven from power and consigned to oblivion by the people whom they have outraged. ; -

Polygamous Marriages. ’ - SALT LAKE, Jan. 26.—0 n Thursday the Endowment House, in this eity, was opened to accommodate' persons from a distance to take polygamous wives. Between thirty and forty went through the ceremony, one Moxmon taking {wo women said to be ‘mother and daughter. Yesterday, several others went through the'cen}emony. The great marrying day will be Thursday next, it being the%egul‘?.r day authorized by the church. I ) -m__fi Ht is now an acknowledged fact that CdnSUMPTION OAN uE CorEp. It has been cured in a very great namber of cases (some of them apparently desp'ergite ones) by Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup alone, and in others by the same medic{n'e in connection with Schenck’s Sea Weed Topic and Mandrake Pills, one or both, according’ to the requiremcnts o_f the case. ! ; ! The old 'qupposition that **Consumption is_!iu‘cfirab]e,” for many years deterred Phyeicig'ms from attempting to find a remedy for that disez:iae, ‘and patients aflicted with it reconciled Lhemse]éves to death witheut an effort being made to save them from a doo_li) which was consgidered inc‘bitable. ’ S z '_ I Dr. Schenck himself was supposed at (‘meolfime to be at the very gateof death, his physicfi‘ans' having pronounced his case'impeless and-ar,n-doned him to his fate { he was Curen by the aforesaid medicine dnd afterward enjoyed uninterrhpt. ‘ed good heaith for more than fortyrseqwrs. lexousands of people have used Dr. Schengkfis prepia.rar tions with the same remarkable success. l Schenck’s Almanac, containing ‘a thor(?ugh treatise on Consumption, Liver Compla.nt, Pyspepsia, &c., can be had gratis of any druggist, or of J. H. Schenck & Son, Philadelphia. 'Fnil directions for the use of Schenck’s medicinegs accompany each package. . “ ' Séhetxzck’s"l"nlmon}'(: Syrtip, Sea Weed T?onic. and Mandrake Pills are forsale by all druggists,

THE MARKETS.

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GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, red, $l- - Rye, 50c; Oats, 23¢; Corn, 30c; Flax Seed, $1 15; Clover Seed, $4 40; Timothy Seed, $1 50. A Propuce.—Hogs, live, ¥ cwt $4 00, Shoulders, per pound, 06¢; Hams, 08c; Bees Wax, 25¢; Butter, 12; Lard, 06c; Eggs, R doz,loc; Wool, 11, 25@ 35c; Feathers, 50c; Tallow, 06¢; Apples, dried, 6¢, green, P bu. $1.00; Potatoes, 45 ; Peaches, dried, @ ib. 08c; Hay, marsh, $4; timothy $B. i | - KENDALLVILLE. | GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat,| white $1 14, red $1 14; Corn, 35¢; Oafs, 23¢; Clover Seed, $4 50; Flax, $1 00; TimOthY9 $2 00. S i v ~ OTHER PRODUCE.—Hams, ¥ b 12¢; Shoulders, 10c; Lard, 06¢c; Tallow, 6¢; Wool, 85¢; Butter, 14c; Beeswax,2s¢; Apples, dried, 6c; green, ¥ bn., 100 c; Potatoes, 25; Eggs, ® doz. 11¢. CHICAGO, Jan. 30, 18%8. GRAIN AND SEEDs.-—,Wheaft, $104; Corn, 40 c¢; Oats, 2415¢; Rye, 50c; Barley, 50¢; Clover Seed, $4 45@4 70; Timothy, $1 10@1 27; Flax,jl 50. ProDUCE.—Mess Pork, 3 cwt,slo 50 @lO 60; Lard, $7 22@7 274; Hams; green, ® h,@os%c; Shoulders, Bisc; Butter, fair to g00d,24 @26, ct]oice,lq‘@18c; Eggs, 9 doz., 15¢; Potatoes,4s. PourTrY.—Turkeys, dressed, ¥ b* 07¢; Chickens, R doz. $2 00@$2 50. : . TOLEDO.—Jan. 80, 1878. - GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, amber, $12214, N 0.3 Wabash, $117; Corn, 40%5¢; Oats, 26¢; Clover Seed, $4 65. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. CHICAGO, Jan. 80.—CATTLE, graded steers, $5 00@5 50; choice beeves, $430@4 Sp,agood beeves, $3 60@4 15 ; medium grades, $3 25@53 50; butelers’ stock, $3 25@%3 50; stock cattle, $275 @#%3 50; inferior.cattle, $2 50@$3 50. ~ Hoes.—Sales were at $3.76@8 80 for light weights; at $3 80@4 00 for common to prime medinm and heavy‘weight packing hogs; at s4os@s4 10 for goag-to‘chqiw shipping grades, ~ SuEEP.—Prices Wem&gmmnt $350@%4 00 per 1001bs for poor to choice vh%??}ff’t&ié S BurraLo, Jan. 40.—Cattle, Shipp'g, | $400@460; cows and heifers, $3 00@ |

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