The National Banner, Volume 12, Number 44, Ligonier, Noble County, 21 February 1878 — Page 1

VOL. 12.

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LIGONIER. NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1878,

KATIE'S ANSWER. -

Och Katie’s a rogue, it is true; ; But her equ, like the skies, are so blue, - And her dim‘)lea £0 swate, And her ankles 8o nate, She dazed and she bothered me toc—

Till one morning we wint for a ride, When demure a& a bride by my side, The darlint, she sat, Wid the wickedest hat ’Neath purty girl’s chin iver tled. -

And my heart, arrah, thin how it bate— For my Kate looked so temptin’ and swets, ** Wid cheeks like the rores, An’ all the red posies That grew in her garden so nsate.

But I eat jost as mute as the dead, Till she said, wid a toss of her head, *lf I'd known that to-day Ye'd have nothing to say, : I'd have gone wid me cougin instade.”

Then I felt meself grow very bowld, For I knew she’d not scold if I towld Uv the love at my heart, ; ‘ That would never depart, Though I lived to be wrinkled an’ owld

An’ I said: **lf I dared to do so, . I'd let go uv-this baste, an’ I'd throw Both arms ’round yer waste. An’ be stealin’ a taste . Uv thim lips that are coaxin’ me sO.”

Then she blushed a more illigant red, . And she said widout raisin?”her hiead, .= An’ ber eyes lookin down, ~ ’Neath her lashes so brown, s ¥ould ver like me to dhrive, Misther T'ed?”

THE BLUEK RIDGE.

In the early autumn of the year 1849, within about half an hour of sunset, I drew rein in front of the large double log-house on the very ridge of the Blue Ridge mountains of Eastern Kentucky. The place was evidently kept as a tavern —at least so a sign proclaimed; and here I determined to demand aceommodation for myself and servant,Bose, a dark-skinned body-guard. Bose and I.had/been playmates in childhood, and I need hardly say that the faithful fellow was attached to me, as 1 was to him, and on more than one occasion he had shown his devotion. . There had been a shooting match at the Mountain House that day, and, as I dismounted, I saw through the open window of the bar-room a noisy, dranken, and evidently quasrelsome. set of back-woodsmen, each of whom was swearing by all possible and impossible oaths that he was not only the best shot, but could out-fight. outjump, out-wrestle, run faster, jump higher, dive deeper and come up drier than any other man on the mountain. “] say, Mars Ralph,” said Bose, in a low tone, as I handed him my bridlerein, “I don’t like de looks ob dem, in dar. S’pose we go on to de next house, ’tain’t fur.” _ . ! “Nonsense, Bose,” I replied; “these fellows are only on a little spree over their shooting. We have nothing to do with them, nor they with us. Take the horses round to the stable,and see to them yourself. You know they’ve had a hard day of it.” And, throwing my saddle-bags over my shoulder, 1 walked up the narrow path to the house. iy :

I found, as I have intimated, the bar-room filled with a noisy, turbulent crowd, who one and all stared at me without speaking as I went up to the bar and inquired if I and my servant could have accommodations for the night. Receiving an affirmatiye reply from the landlord, a little, read-head-ed, cadaverous-looking, specimen of the clay-eater, I desired to be at once shown to my room, whither I went, but not until I had been compelled to decline a score of:requests to “take a drink,” much to the disgust of thestalwart bacchanalians. ' : The room to which I was shown was at the far end of a long, twogtoried structure, evidently “but recently added on to the main building, which it interseeted at right angles.— A gallery extended along the front, by means of which the rooms were reached. I found my apartment to belarge and comparatively well-furnished, there being, besides the bed, a comfortable cot, half a dozen “split-bot-tomed” chairs, a heavy clothes-press and a bureau with glass. There were two windows, one along side the door and the other in ‘the opposite end of the room. The first-mentioned was heavily barred with stout oak strips —a protection, I presumed, against intrusion from the porch, while across the latter was drawn a heavy woolen curtain. - et

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In the course of half an hour Bose entered and announced that the horses had been attended to; and a few minutes later a bright-faced mulatto girl summoned us te supper. e

Supper over, I returned to my room, first requesting to be aroused for an early breakfast, as I desired to be’ en the road by sunrise. Thoroughly wearied with my day’s ride, I at once began preparations for retiring, and had drawn off one boot, when Bose camein rather hastily, looking furtively ovet his shoulder, and then cautiously closing and locking the door. “Mars Ralph, dar’s going to be vrouble in dis house afore morning,’™ he said. . =~ _ I saw in a ‘moment something had occurred to upset the faithful fellow’s equilibrium. b “Why, Bose, what is it? What do you mean ?” I asked, barely restraining a smile. : : ’ “I tole you, Mars Ralph, we’d better trabble furder,” was the rather mysterious reply. “You see that yaller gal dere tole me dar would be a muss if we stayed in dis ’founded ole house all night.” By close questioning I elicited the fact that the girl had really warned him thatfourmen whom I had noticed talking together were a desperate set of villaing, and probably had designs upon our property, if not our lives.— The girl had seen two of them at the stable while I was at supper, and, by cautiously creeping into the stall next the one in which they stood, had heard .enpugh to convince her that they meant mischief. Subsequently to this, she also saw the landlord in close confab with the entire party, and from ‘his actions judged that he was urging them on in their nefarious work.

“I tell you, Mars Ralph, dem white trash ain’t arter no good-—now you heard me,” persisted Bose. . - I had begun to think so myself; but what was to be done? The situation was full of embarrassment, and I felt that nothing could be done save to wait and watch, and, by being on the alert, defeat their plans by a determined resistance. I found that from the barred window,in which there was a broken pane of glass, a good view of the stable could be had. Then, for the other window. I crossed the room, drew aside the heavy curtain, and, raising the sash, looked out. A single glance was sufficient to cause me a thrill of surprise, and I gave a low exclamation that instantly brought Bose to my side. Far below I could see the faint glimmer of water, the low murmur of which came indistinctly up from the should have been the ground, I dimly AW ngm@w@wﬂmr gen-

breeze, and knew that the windew overlooked a chasm, the sounding of which I could only guessat. Inother words, the house, or that portion ofit was built upon the yery verge of a cliff, the solid reck forming a foundation more lastix&_ mkany that c@ld be made by the hands of man, I leaned far out, and saw that theére was not an inch of space left betwégn the heavy log on which the structfite rested and the edge of the precipl ®; and then 1 turned away with s full conviction that, if escape musPgbe made, it certainly would not be in tliat direction. There was nothing vé strange in this; there were many houses so constructed. I had seén one or two myself. And.yet when I drew back into the room, and saw thé look in Bose’s duskay face, I fell that danger, quick and deadly, was hovering in the air. Without speaking, I went to my saddle-bags and got ouf my pistols—a superb pair of long double rifles—that I knew to be accnrate anywhere under half a hundljg_d' yards: .i\ ss S oRS =

| “Dar! Dem’s what I like to see!” exclaimed Bose, as he dived down into his own bag and fished out the old horse-pistol that had belonged to my grandfather, and which I knew was loaded to the wuzzle with number one buckshot. It was a terrible weapon at close quarters. : The stable in which our horses were feeding could he watched, and by events transpiring in that locality we would shape.our actions. I found the door could be locked from the inside, and, in adaition to this, I improvised a bar by means of a chair leg wrenched off and thrust through a heavy iron staple that had been driven into the‘wall. Its fellow on the opposite side was missing. We then lifted the clothes-press before the window, leaving just room enough on one side to clearly see, and, if necessary, fire through; dragged the bureau against the door with as little uoise as possible, and felt that everything that was possible had been done.

A deathlike silence reigned over the place, broken only once by the voice of the colored girl singing as she crossed the stable-yard. I had fallen into a half dose, seated in a chair near the window facing the stable where Bose ‘was on watch, when suddenly I felt a light tonch upon my arm and the voice of the faithful sentinel in my ear. k

“Wake up, Mars Ralph ; dey’s foolin’ ’bout de stable do’ arter de horses, shuah,” brought me wide awake to my feet. ' . Cautiously peeping out, I saw at a glance that Bose was right in his conjectures® There were two of them—one, standing out in the clear moonlight, evidently watching my window, while the other—and I fancied it was the landlord—was in the shadow near: the door, which at that moment slowly swung open. As ‘the man disappeared within the building, a low, keen whistle cut the air, and at the same instant I heard the knob of my door tried. The thing was now plain. While'those below were securing the horses, those above were either attempting to gain access with murderous intent, or else. on guard to prevent my coming to the rescue of my property. e

A low hiss from Bose brought me to his side from the door where I had been listening. “Dey’s got de horses out in de yard,” he whispered, as he drew aside to let me look out through the broken pane. “Take the door,” I said, “and fire through if they attack. lam going to shoot that fellow holding the horses.” . “Lordy, Mars Ralph, it's de tavernkeeper! He ain’t no ’count. Drop de big man!” was the sensible advice, which I determined to adopt. Noiselessly drawing aside the curtain, I rested the muzzle of my pistol upon the sash where the light had been broken away, and drew a bead upon the tallest of the two men, who stood holding three horses out in thé bright moonlight. The sharp crack of the weapon was instantly followed by 4 yell of pain, and 1 saw the ruffian reel backward and measure his length upon the earth, and then .from the main building there rang out: : ~“Murder! Murder! Oh, help!” Like lightning it flashed across my mind. There were three horses outin che openlot! There wasanother traveler beside ourselves. A heavy blow descended upon the door, and a voice roared: M Lpa et ]

“Quick! Burst the infernal thing open, and let me get at him! The scoundrel has killed Dave!”

“Let them have it, Bose,” I whispered, rapidly re-loading my pistol.— “There, the second panel.” With a steady hand the plucky fellow leveled the kuge weapon and pulled the trigger. = ; "A deafening report followed, and again a shrill cry of mortal anguish told that the shot had not been wasted. “Sabe us! how it do kick!” exclaim-. ed Bose, under his breath, L ; - The blow had fallen like an-unex-pected thunderbolt upon the bandits, and a ‘moment later we heard their retreating footsteps down the corridor. ~ “Dar’ll be more of ’em heah ’fore long, Mars Ralph,” said Bose, with an ominous shake of the head. *“’Spect dese b’longs to a band, an’ if dey comes, an’ we still heah, we gone coon, for shuah.” : This view of the case was new to me, but I fell the force of it. I knew that such bands did exist in these mountains. - . .

A hasty glanée through the window from which I had just fired showed me that escape in that direction was impossible. I looked out and saw a man with a rifle in his hand dodge around a corner of the stable. He was on guard, and then I knew that they had sent off for /reinforcements. Stunned for a moment, I turned round and stared helplessly at Bose; but Le, brave fellow that he was, never lost | his head for an ingtant. 1 “Bound to leab heah, Mars Ralph.” he said, quite confidently. *“An’ dar ‘ ain’t no way gwyne 'cept tro dat window;” and he pointed to the one overlooking the (i]liff. | I merely shook my head and turned to watch again, hoping to get a good shot at the rascal on guard. : ‘ . Bose,left to-hisown devices, at once went to work. I heard him fussing about the bed. for some time, but never looked to see what he was after until he spoke. . ' “Now, den, for de rope,” I heard him say, and in an instant, I caught his_ . He had stripped the bed of its covering, dragged off the stx‘mg t«i? ‘and the stout hempen. rope with which it was corded. *ln five minutes he had drawn the rope tmmsumgémw ! imﬂmf;’ﬂmmfwm oil in his ‘hands he threw up the sash and pre%’w M‘W ' f? uch bottom ; but, nowise dishearten-

spliced on. This succeeded, and the cord was drawn up preparatory to knotting it in places of cress-pieces.

In the meantime the silenee with‘out had been broken more than once. A shrill, keen whistle, such as I had heard befobe, was given by the man on watch, ané réplied to by some one seemingly a little. way off. Then I heard’ fdotgj;eps-—;é&ft, cat-like ones—on the veranda outside, showing that the robbers were on the alert at all points. - S At length Bose announced the “ladder” ready. It was again lowered from the window, and the end we held was made fast to the bed we had dragged over for the purpose. : “Now, den, Mars Ralph, I go down fust and see if um strong ’nough: to barx us.,” And he was half way out of the\window before I could speak. “No, Bose, you shall not,” I answered, firmly, drawing him back into the room. -

- “You must—" S The words were lost in the din of a furious and totally unexpected attack upon the door. The dull heavy strokes of the ax were intermingled with the sharp, quick clatter of hatchets as they cut away at the barrier, and once in a while I could hear deep ®aths, as though they had been rendered doub: ly savage by our resistance. iy “Here, Bose, your pistoll. Quick!” I whispered, and the heavy charge went crashing through, followed by shrieks and curses of rage and pain. *“Come, Bose hurry, or all will be lost.”

. The brave fellow now wished to insist upon my going first, but he saw that time was wasting, and he glided down the rope, gradually disappearing in the heavy shadows. e

The fall of one of their number had ‘caused only a. momentary lull, and I heard them renew the assault with ten fold fury. I dared not fire again, for I felt that every bullet would be needed when affairs were more presspg. : ‘ ' '

It seemed an age before I. felt the signal from below that the rope was ready for me, but it came, and I let myself down, pausing an instant, as my eyes gained a level with the sill, to take a last look into the room. As 1 did so, the door gave way and the blood-thirsty demons poured over the threshold. I knew that I had notime for deliberate movement. They would instantly discover the mode of escape, and either cut the rope or else fire down upon me. I had taken the precaution to draw on heavy riding gloves, and my hands, thus protected, did not suffer as much as might have been expected. / . With my eyesfixed upon the window, 1 slid rapidly down and struck the earth with a jar that wrenched every bone in my body. Quick as lightning I was seized by Bose and dragged ;some. paces on one side and close against the face of thecliff. Not a second too soon, for down came .a volley, tearing up the earth about the foot of the rope where, a moment before, I had stood. : ; “Thunder, they will escape! After them—down the rope!” yelled a voice, almost inarticulate with rage. - Isaw a dark form swing out -and hastily begin the descent. “Now, Mars Ralph,” whispered Bose, significantly, and with a quick aim J fired at the swaying figure. : ‘R Without a word the man released his hold and came down like a lump of lead, shot through the brain. Another had started in hot haste, and was more than half way out of the window, when suddenly the scene above was Lrilliantly lit up by a glare of a torch. , :

Again the warning voice of the watchful black ealled my attention to the figure now struggling desperately to regain the room; as beforse, I threw up my pistol, and, covering the exposed side, drew the trigger. With a convulsive effort the wretch, springing far out into .the empty void, turned once over and came down with a rushing sound upon the jagged rocks that lay at the foot of the precipice. - A single look to see that the window was clear--we knew there could be no path leading down for a long distance either way, or they never would have attempted the rope—and we plunged headlong into the dense forest that lined the mountain side. We got clear, it is true, but with the loss of our animals and baggage. The next day, when we returned with a part of the regulators, we found the place a heap of smoldering ashes, and no hiving soul to tell whither the robbers had fled. : :

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E. F. Kunkel’s celebrated Bitter Wine of Iron will effectually cureliver complaint, jaundice, dyspepsia, chronic. or nervous debility, chronic diarrhceea, disease of the kidneys and all diseases arising from a disordered liver, stomach or intestines, such as constipation, flatulence, inward piles, fullness of blood to the head, acidity of the stomach, nausea, heartburn, disgust for food, fullness or weight in the stomach, sour eructations, sinking or fluttering at the pit of the stomach, swimming of the head, hurried or diffieult breathing, tuttering at the heart, choking or suffocating sensationwhen in a lying posture, dimness of vision, dots or webs before the sight, dull pain in the head, deficiency of perspiration, yellowness /of the skin and eyes, pain in the side, back, head, chest, limbs, etc., sudden flushes of heat, burning in the flesh, constant ingatherings of evil and great depression of spirits. Price $1 per bottle. Beware of counterfeits. Do not let your druggist palm off some other preparation of iron, he may say it isas good, but ask for Kunkel’s Bitter Wine of Iron.. Take no other. Kunkel’s Bitter Wine of Iron is not sold in bulk —only in $1 bottles. I.F. Kunkel, proprietor, No. 259, North Ninth-st., Philadelphia, Pa. Sold by all druggists and dealers everywhere.

Tape Worm Removed Alive, . Head and all complete, in two hours. No fee till head passes. Seat, Pin and Stomach Worms removed by Dr. Kunkel, 259 North Ninth-st., Philadelphia, Pa. Send for citreular. For removing Seat, Pin or Stomach Worms call on your druggist and ask for a bottle of Kunkel’s Worm Syrup, Price $l. It never fails. Common sense teaches if tape worm can be removed, all other worms can be readily destroyed. 42-t4 ; ] A QR — e : . Speaking of the greenback element .in politics, the Cineinnati E;?ufirer says: “Thisseparate, determined force in our politics must not be ignored. Within a few months we have seen it cast 17,000 independent votes in Illi‘nois, 15,000 in Indiana, 85,000 in lowa, 10,000 in Kansas, 9,000 in Michigan, 52,000 in Pennsylvania, 26,000 in Wisconsin, Without comment, we call the attention of the East o these el R

2 AR W s Sl ‘ : The Declaration of War. National Banks vs. The People, No Act of Congress Can Displace the Shylock Power. Money Stolen from the People to be Used in Perpetuating the Infamous Ropber Laws. . (From the Trish World.) . . ; Power is never timid, and, conscious -of their power,the bankersare in open rebellion at the proposed action of Congress. The Greenback ﬁt:ress. quick to discern the animus of these Barons. of the purse, at once quoted their pronunciamento. The New York 7'ribune, their ‘organ,: gives Vit in these words: o o ““The iime is néar when they'(the banks) will feel themselves compelled to act strongly. Meanwhile a very good thing has been done. ‘The machinery” isB now farnished by which, in any emergency, the financial corporations of the East can act together at a single day’s notice, and with sach power' that NO AOT OF OONGRESS OAN OVEROOME OR RESIBT THEIR DECISION.” | e

It is the Inost defiant assumption of power ever before hurled/by the arrogant vampires of the %‘rea‘sury at what they assume to be the weakness of our National -force of resistance. It is a plain, unvarnished declaration of war. #As sueh let us accept it. They are confident enoug,fjh of the power of $2,000,000,000 of money to‘capture all opposition. The banks control directly about $900,000,000—5350,000,000 is paid-up capital; $550.000,000 in deposits. Their |stockholders and those dependent upon them are masters of as much more,or enough to aggregate the sum of $2,000,000,000. They exercise a more-direct control over this sum than the great majority. of producers exercise over their own production. The reasod is apparent; their wealth isalways convertible; its value is fixed and certain; it is omnipotent, because it is everywhere the one positive power to command labor and ivs products, man and his genius, and all the moving, active elements of progress, as well as the defensive ‘means of resistance. This is the otdinary power of money. Combine the power of money with the power of educated ' experience, lash them into action, with all the energy miserly care .can rouse to resist encroachments, and you have the programme. To-day, seeing the battle they have to fight to retain the monstrous privileges and oulrageous bounties, secured to them in war times to obtain their support, they think themselves prepared for the contest. They think this, because they rely on their own welldrilled and perfectly organized power.

.The old Democrat remembers the days when Andrew Jackson was forced to exercise all the enthusiasm his great name and herculean strength of - will could command to cope with the -power of a single bank corporation,,. *having a capital of $35,000,000, or onetenth the capital of the National Banks to-day, and controlling not to exceed $200,000,000 of sympathetic support the National Banks now command. For years this bank,under the direction of Nicholas Biddle, was able to resist all the political power of the people. It called to its aid thestrongest intellects of the age.. Webster, and Clay, and Calhoun, even, with the whole range of statesmen in sympathy with them, were its advoecates and supporters. - . P

Jackson, after long contests, prevailed. He prevailed because the people at last beécame organized into a concrete power which swep#t the bank and their supporters into subordination. The bank was the representative of individual capital. Jackson was | therepresentative of the people, The power of this bank was such that it swayed and held the whole political | power of the masses at bay. The opposition in its triumph laid deep the foundation of its opinions in the heart of the old Jacksonian Democracy: Hard money was its demand. Paper money, then issued upon individual responsibility, with no other fized and reliable basis, and made the weapon of political warfare, was the thing they denounced. The influences of that contest are yet strong, and thousands are still honest adherents to coin as the basis of all currency, from the influence produced by that contest. The old leaders of the old school of Democrats cennot give up the idea they devoted so much energy to suppnrt. They do not stop to see that the times, the means, the production, the power of the United States haveall changed. Then we were in the chrysails state of governmental formation—young in power; in the veéry beginhing of our development; our resources yet sleeping where God and nature had arranged them; our finances yet the dependent of foreign capitalists; infine, our government yet experimental. But now a century of gigantic labor, crowned with a success, tried by war, “attacked by rebellion and opposed by all the .crowned heads of European and Asiatic:power, has given us a position among the nations the proudest of any since thedaysof Hadrain,when to be a Roman citizen was the grandest type of manhood in Tgovemment the world had known.. To day to be an American citizen is to be all the ‘Roman boasted, if, as Americans, we _will unite, throw aside the swaddling clothes of the cradle, put on the armor of manhood, and, looking at the products of our labor, see in them what confidence in each other, what unity of purpose, combination in design, and conformity in action will produce. The United States Bank, with its $35,000,000 of capital in the days of Jackson, was regarded as too great a power to be trusted to any combination of individuals, or to any authority but the highest known to men, the _government itself. It was then con‘tended, and is as true to-day as it was undeniable then, that the government _ceases to be independent when the national currency is sulject lo the control of any combination of individuals;or “f’%ﬁﬁﬁiﬁhéhaﬂkarli-%iwtheit pro~which in_any emergency the financial W%ﬁe East can act together on a single day’s notice.and with %ﬁwewwm - They dare make this boast of thein T %‘*ﬁ“”%ﬁ”ﬁ«%w . %s&%@w& SV Seens. o S UAE S L i eatent Al L TGRS,

Neptunes who preside over the flux and reflux of their issues. All property is at their mercy. The price of real estate, of every growing or gatheréd crop, of every article of production manufactured or raw, is at their command.” This was said when $35,000,000 of money was the capital, and when $200,000,000 was in Sympathy for its support. To-day the same kind of corporate power, with $350,000,000 of capital and $1,650,000,000 of supporting capital, say they can defy “any act of Congress to resist them.” ' They are a Colossus of moneyed tyranny. Huge is their capital. Infinite the cunning of their combination, and they are as unscrupulous as the devil. We have Satan to fight, and we will fight him. We have $2,000,000,000 of supplies to resist, but we have .$7,000,000,000 of annual production-educated-into power which we will marshal into action fo rout, uproot and overthrow the monster, -~ .~ . - . The banks have shbwn their hand. It is theold tyrant; dead capital,speaking through its self-opinionated Shylocks. Why, let the people unite, and these monopolists,with all their chains and handcuffs, can be shaken from their gilded seats of arrogance as the 1 hurricane sweeps the dust of wornout rubbish before it. . : o -Who is it that thus defies the nation? It-is the pampered child of the nation—the national banks, the monopolists of money, the p‘riv;iieged-l few, the untaxed aristocracy of the money power—taking from the people $30,000,000 annually as a bounty. ‘That is, it makes every head of a family in the whole 40,000,000 of our population pay $4 each annually to these boasting defiers of congressional power. They force taxes on the people to pay for theirluxurious idleness. They live on the unearned tribute law forces on the people to pay them. . ‘And, enJoying the aristocracy of luxury, they boldly declare that “no act of Congress can overcoms or resist their decision.” In the namewf the outraged:people, 1 declare THEY LIE! It is a slander to the sons of 776! It is a huge libel on the American-people! It is an insult to Congress, Congress dare not leave unnoticed.: _ It says, in defiant tones,’ the banks of the east can manipulate Congress, BRIBE CONGRESS, and make the Legislators of American. people their dupes, their slaves. We say to the boasting braggarts that the South and North and the West are prepar--ing to sweep them from their monopolies. ' One crop, or rather the profit of one year’s produgction, is enough to outway their:capital and their deposits; and, thanks to the school-house, to the press, to the age, we no longer live in the ‘cowakrdice of ignorance, fawning to the.felony of the usurers’ power, for the light has shown us France in 1770, when privileged capital drove the people-to live on grass and roots, gnawing the bones which fell from the rich man’s abundance, till .hunger ripened outrage into resistance, and resistance into revolution. - It has shown us England trem‘bling at its own usurpations of moneyed power, with its millions of pauperized humanity; with Ireland man+ acled by -outrage, injustice and barbarity, ready to smapits fetters and strike thetyrant; with India bleeding and starving under the dictation -of the money decrees of its Parliament; with the whole world ready to revolt at its crimes, revenge its usurpations, and break down the monstrous. injus-~ tice of its oligarchies and moneyed POWeEr. - s s

‘The baukers are fighting to maintain the inequality of their priyileges, and they are continually asking the populace what they are going-to do about it. We answer everything. We are going to make them issue green- ! backs, and gold and silver, or nothing. We are going to take from them every privilege or. prerogative which gives them thelegal right to dominate over money :and over the people. We are going to take- up all their bonds and pay them just as we agreed to pay them, just as the bond, by its letter and spirit,; requires us to pay them. We are going to have but one kind of paper currency, the greenback. We are .going to repeal the act making forced resumption of specie payments a law. .We are going to remonetize ‘silver and make it, as it has been for 8,000 years, the: money of the people. ‘We are going to repeal the infamous law which changed the obligations of the nation, an act which, had it been done by an individual creditor, would have been a felony, a forgery, a crime. 'We are going to: pay our debts as we agreed to, and not as scheming knaves would try and force us fo pay them; finally we are going to kill the privileges and robberies of the National Bank system. . . B These are the issues. The nation on one side; banks on the other. .1t is industry against idleness; equality of rights against privileged inequalities, It is thé money of the nation representing 'its people, again-t the money of monopolized corporations representing individual wealth. It is living humanity against dead aceumulations. . . The battle is raging. 'We are soon to see whether the arrogant boast of the monopolizing few, that “no act of Congress can overcome or resist-the decision of the American Bankers' Association,” is the froth of a doomed monopoly, or the inscription on.the monument of time recording a nation’s disgrace. =~ STEPHEN D. DILLAXE.

: Have Youn Tried It? = ] We refer to -that most remarkable compound, Dr. Morris’ Syrup of Tar, Wild Cherry and Herehound, for coughs, - colds, blood spitting, weak lungs, eroup, wheoping ecugh, asthma, . bronchitis, and all diseases of the lungs and throat. Probably no similar pre-. paration ever before so.quickly found: its way into public favor as this. Its. sale in our community is simply enormous. Those who have been disappointed in other ‘so-called. remedies, are specially invited to try this. Be sure to get the genuine Dr. Morris" Syrup of Tar, Wild Cherry and Hore hound. There are imitations in the market. ILook out for them. Trial size 10 cents. Regular sizes, E’%cgnté and One Dollar, . For sale by C. Eldred & Son, Ligoniér. .~ .- 0o 0 ~ Very pleasant, and always effective is Prof. Parker’s’ Pleasant Worm Syrup, and no physic reéquired. Askus. A terrible story is tald in the New Yotk papers of a libe 6 Eati December 8 8 hooner en rounte from Charletion to Baltimce S Uiivit iy 5 gre erce storm out tosea. The crew fasted for seven days, and then suffered the most horrible pangs of hunger. they ate the flesh of a .; ‘L‘L_.;j; 0W f‘ ‘defense. One of the men said he ate T e ﬁ*ﬁc&:ﬁiuéww"«h j:\;fg":;-‘?i one piece, but “I'd rather die than do “it again.lf we had not been reseued T would Shys sotanii #%g;,m

NO, 44,

General Items.

Horses in Michigan are dying from a brain disease which as yet the doctors do not seem able to ecure. - -

- Josh Billings says very truly, “You’d better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain’t so.” - “A colored woman in Louisiana re‘cently gave birth to four children—two white and two black.” This is practical “equal rights.” ilet The Utah Legislature has passed a law making bona-fide residence in the Territory necessary in orvder to take glcllvantage of the divoree laws in force - ere. » - ®

. Reports from the Ohio peach districts are to the effect that the peach has not suffered either from prema- - ture swelling of the buds, or from inJury by severe frost. : i The Mormons are building a mag‘nificent temple on.the summit of a high mountain in Manti, Utah. Five hundred men are at work on it, and it - will not be completed for four/years. The Moffatt bell-punch, in use in . Virginia bar-rooms, is a good colleckor. of statistics for the‘temperance /reformers. The Richmond bell-p uch registered in seventeen days 256,000 drinks. SR

The New York Legislature has mgdeit a felony, punishable by imprisonment or a fine of $5,000, for any person to use language to a'crowd of twentyfive or more persons calculated to ineite riof.

. If Anderson belongs in the State prison, then Hayes does not belong in the White House; and if Anderson is compelied to step down and out, then Hayes should be compelled to step down and out. © -+ j

Ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina, is charged with stealing all.the personal property of his wife—jewels, wearing apparel, &e., together with a good deal belonging to other members . of the family. Detectiyes are now on his track. , : " “The next wedding among the “upper ten” of New York society will be that of William B. Astor and Miss Paul, of Philadelphia. Jewelers have already rented several thousand dollars worth of silverware to fashionable friends of the contracting parties. s A bill before the Virginia Legislature, requires all persons selling cigars to take out a State license and ba furnished with a Moffatt register. Every time the dealer sells a cigar he is to turn the crank of the register, jand at the énd of each month he is to make ‘oath, to the number of cigars sold and ‘to pay a tax of one.cent on each. - . Settle your accounts promptly. That is the way. to bring about good times. If every ohe would pay what he owes it would give a new impulse to busi‘ness. Try the experiment. Itis worth your while. By paying your debts you may save those you owe serious financial embarrassment. - The times require that eyery man shall strain a point to pay his debts. Many farmers and fruit growers make mistakes at this season of -the year, by taking the saw and pruning shears and spending a'few days at triming -at; their orchards. Experienced ‘horticulturists say that this work ought to be done in July or August, ‘then there will be no water sprouts choking the trees, as there are when pruned in the early spring, , It is said that Judge Whittaker, who is presiding at the trial of the Louisiana Returning Board, is a gallant Fed‘eral officer, who served-four years in the Union army, lost a leg in defense of the Union, and is now ready to die in the last ditch in upholding the Constitution and his principles of selfgovernment, which is the right of the people to have their yotes counted honeostly. L

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