The National Banner, Volume 13, Number 10, Ligonier, Noble County, 27 June 1878 — Page 2

The Fational Banwex e e e gty 'h':\’,‘\\" el J. B. STOLL, Elitor and Proprietor. LIGONJER, IND., JUNE 27th, 1878. “No. man wo;by of the office of Presidcnt should be willing to hold it if connted in or placed there by frand.”—U. S.‘Gm‘w. ; e L e Tue New Era is quite right in statiog that Tire BANNER takes no stock in the new doctrine of the sacredness o’ accomplished fraud, no matter by whom advocated. Ly : el & G—— Tue Chicago Post has degenerated into a very commonplace, if not stupid, republican organ,. Under Mr. Willard’s regime it was a sprightly in-dspendent-republican paper; now it it is the reverse. : TIiIE NOMINATION of Some very weak timber for the Legisiat’turé in strongly democratic counties, is complained 'of in some quarters. The worst kind of 'blunders are frequently committed in localities where the majority is so large as to render a nomination-equiv-alent to an election.

WHENEVER the Waterloo Press can make it appear that the so-called “fiat money men” are not generally denominated “greenbackers,” ‘then, and only then, can its attempted defense of Ben. larrison’s “idiot fling” be deemed worthy of consideration. ‘The snappr ish edicts of the Press do not always pass as authority. : :

OLD Zach. Chandler, in hisspeéch before the Michigan Republican State convention, denounced the leaders of the National Greenback party as “demagogues, idiots and disappointed oftice-seekers.” DBen Harrison, of this State, referred to the Nationals as being fit subjects for an “asylum for idiots.” 'We have an idea that these roundly abused Nationals can stand this sort ofs talk a good deal better than Messrs. Harrison and Chandler.

" Tue DeMocrATs of Allen couuty met in convention last“ Saturday and nominated the following ticket: Senator, T./J. Foster; Representatives, O. K. Fleming, Elihu Reichelderfer ;Clerk, M. V. B. Spencer; Auditor, M. E. Argo; Treasurer, John M. Taylor; Recorder Joseph Mommer; Judge of the Superior Court, Robert Lowry; Judge of the Criminal Court, Jas. W. Dorden. There are some good as well as-some indifferent names on this ticket. The nomination of Judge Lowry is an eminently good one. L

. WE skk it stated that Judge IHammond, of the Jasper Circuit Court has decided that incorporated towns in Indiana have authority under section 6 of the liguor law of 1875 to license the sale of intoxicatingliquors within their limits; that the recent/decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Cowley wvs. the Town of Rushville goes only to the extent of holding that the -act of March -1, 1877, (Acts of 1877, page 144), is unconstifutional, on account of being an amendment toan invalid law; and that said decision does not apply to, or in any way affect any “part of the liquor law of 1875. A somewhat caréful examination of the sevy eral acts above referred to enables us ‘to say that Judge Ilammond states the -case correctly. ‘Section ¢ of the liquer law of 1875 is, however, so clumsily drafted as to .create the impression that it is based upon some pre-exist-ing act. s {

- Business men of Indiana who aie struggling. under adverse ' circumstances, farmers who are trying hard to make both ends nieet, property-own-ers who are carrying mortgages, taxpayers of all classes, must contribute their share towards paying the expenses of the Pottér investigation to make campaign capital for the democratic party. The first appropriation of $30,000 has already been made, — Warsaw Indianian. ks e

Every dollar expended for the purpose of exposing the knavery of the parties who falsified the national verdict of 1876 is money spent for a good and laudable object, No one who believes in the supremacy of the ballot can or willfind fault. But will the Indianian be kind enough to tell the people in whose behalf it laments over the $30,000 appropriation, that according to the Davis investigation report the books of the treasury department show a shortage of two hundred million dollars, which no‘body "seems able to explain? And how about the $19,000,000 in compound interest notes that, are missing in the treasury? Come, General, tell your readers something of these “pecaliar” transactions. s

. The decision of the supreme court depriving the towns of the authority to levy a fee for liquor license, will shorten the purse of the town treasuries, It will shorten the purse of this town :about $2OO annually.—Lagrange Stapdard. gr

That depends. If your town ordinance is based upon theé amended act of 1877, then it is null/and void. 1f based upon the general liquor law of 1875, the purse of Lagrange is not in peril. : e, ] A [P

The Democratic . Victory in Oregon. SAN FRANCISCO, June 24.-+~A Portland dispateh gives full election returns, which are as follows: For Congress—Whitaker, D., 16,5564 ; Hines, RR., 15,384 ; mpben, ind., 930. For Governor—bßeekman, R., 16,009; Thayer, D., 16,063; Wilkins, Ind., 1,353. - Secretary of State—Earhart, R., 16,146; Reams, D, 15,852; Cates, Ind., 1,289, Treasurer —Hirsch, R.,16,555; Brown, D, 15,498 ; SButherlin, Ind, 726. State Printer —Carter, R., 16,160; Noltner, ~ 16,663; Craig, Ind,, 1,298. Superintendent of Public Instruction—Powell, R, 15,951 ; Stiles,D., 15918 ; Parker, Ind., 1,108, L Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, is alarmingly ill. He has been suffering for some years with gravel, and as a choice between life feebled him that he o dungerously - mear death’s door, LATER: | Hwﬁ

' THE VOLUME OF CURRENCY IN 1865, - Our esteemed contemporary, the La | grange Standard, evinces no dispogition to take a positive stand for or against the theory that the 7-30 notes constituted part of the qivculating’ medium at-the close of the war, Its main reliance for the statement that there has been no actual contraction of the currency is based upon a single currency statement made to order by Secretary McCulloch, in, 1865—a method devised by that gentleman for the purpose of preparing the public mind for a reduction of the_circulating medium and early resumption of specie payments. All other facts are made subordinate to this single éxhibit.— The repeated declarations of President Grant and his Secretaries of the Treasury that the volume of currency had been largely reduced by the retirement of 7-30 notes and other interestbearing obligations is of no concern to. our esteemed contemporary. * In its rejoinder to a recent article in TiE BANNER thé Standard says: “Interést-bearing obligations are not properly currency. Some of these were made a legal tender during the exigencies of the war, to induce the people to hold them as investments, and thereby savethe issue of too many greenbacks and their conseqaent depreciation. . But for these the green{)acks would have been almost worthess.”] : e

« The reason why no more greenbacks were issued was because Congress had ‘pledged itself not to increase the volume beyond $450,000,000. But more money was needed to defray the enormous expenses of the government.— Greeﬁbabks could not be borrowed to any great extent, because absorbed by the budiness requirements of the country. Hence some other form of paper money, had to be resorted to, towit: interest-bearing legal tender obligations. Among these were the 7-30 notes, convertible into 5-20 bonds, bearing 6 per cent. interest in coin, and .compound interest notes redeemable gof convertible into ¢ per cent. bonds.

Now let us inquire into the manner of issuing these notes. = In the report of lon. W. P. Fessenden, then Secretary of the Treasury, dated December 6, 1864 (Finance Reports, 1864, page 21,) he says: “More fully to accomplish his purpose the Secretary resolved to avail himself of a wish expressedby many officers and soldiers through the paymasters, and offered to such as desired to receive. them 7-30 notes of small denominations. He was gratified to find that these notes were readily taken in payment to a large amount, our gallant soldiers in many instances not only receiving them with alacrity, but expressing their satisfaction at being able -to aid their country by loaning money to the government, The whole amount of notes thus disposed of exceeded twenty millions of dollars, and the Secretary has great satisfactionin stating his belief that the disposal thus made was not only a relief to the Treasury, but;proved a benefit to the recipients in affording them a safe and valuable investment, and an easy mode of transmitting funds ot their families.” - ' e

Mr. Fessenden appears to have subsequently disposed of two 'hundred and eighty millions, in all three hundred millions, léaving $530,090,000 undisposed of. How these were issued, is -shown by the f@llowing extract from page 200 of the “Financial History of the.War” by Hon. E. G Spaulding, chairman of the Sub-Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives during the war: “Upon the inauguration of President Lincoln .for the second term, Hugh McCulldch was appointed Secretary of the Treasury in place of Mr. Fessenden, who wished to lge relieved from the duties of the office and who again returned to the Senate. Secretary McCulloch did not increase the issue of United States notes (greenbacks or legal tenders,) but continued the issue of bonds, 7-80 Treasury notes. and compound interest-bearing Treasury notes made a legal tender at their face value. - After the surrender of the rebel armies to General Grant and General Sherman, the volunteer army was mustered out of the service and had to be paid in full. - Secretary McCulloch obtained the means to pay them chiefly by’ the use of 7-30 Treasury notes, which . were negotiated under the general agency of Jay Cooke, at par. The amount required for this purpose was very large, and ' the amount of 7-30 Treasury notes outstanding in October, 1865, after paying the army, was $830,000,000, which were convertible in three years into 5-20 six per cent.bonds.” ;i ' From this choice bit of financial history it appears that through the agency of Jay Cooke, Secretary McCulloch placed into the hands of capitalists $530,000,000 of interest-bearing notes, at par, in order to pay thaarmy with depreciated greenbacks which bore mo interest and which were not convertible into bonds. Of course Mr. McCulloch knew that these treasury notes were largely more valuable than greenbacks, but being the accredited hireling of the money power he play-' ed into their hands in such a way as to yield them a net profit of, $190,000,000. 1 e

But enough of this to-day. I.etour _contemporary ponder over these facts, examine the official reports, and then tell us candidly whether or not inter--est-bearing notes served the purpose of money, and whether the conduct of Secretary Fessenden was the more patriotic as compared with that of Secretary McCulloch. We cannot, however, close this article without giving our esteemed contemporary the benefit of an extract from a most excellent work by W. L. Fawcett, entitled “Gold and Debt; an American Hand-book 'Qf Finance:” - “The propriety of including the 7 3-10 per cent notes, the compound interest notes, the 3 per cent certificates, and the various other ferms of unfunded .debt of the government among the forms of currency, will doubtless be questioned by some; but it is well known that all these did circulate to a large extent as money, though not as rapidly as the non-interest-bearing treasury notes. Heference to the law authorizing the 7 810 per cent notes ‘will alsoshow that they were intended to q!;g;:t,e,.ns go%y'i‘\ the Meltazyl; ‘was authorized to issue them as legal tender fo all creditors for the amount date of tender, [see Digest of Laws, ikt ‘*"WW‘?{"’W’ 3d, . e L R T e e

140 of compound interest notes, out~ standing on July 1, 1865, werse issued under authority of the law of June 30, 1864, which made them a legal tender for the face value of the notes and the accrued interest. The 3 per cent certificates. also authorized by the act of March 2, 1867, were intended as a substitute for $50,000,000 of United States notes, which were by that means released from the vaults of the national banks, where they had been held according to law as a reserve against circulation and deposits. These certificates were therefore practically an addition: of $50,000,000 to the currency in 1867.” 5

ROME CITY

1t was generally understood two years ago, when General Ben Harrison consented to run for Govérnor on the republican ticket, that he was to be the coming man for U. S. Senator.—Upon the death of O. P. Morton' this thing became a fixed fact with the Republicans of Indiana. Tn order to keep him 'perrﬂa.nen tly before the people he was made c¢hairman of the Republican Convention lield at Indianapolis on the sth of the, present month. On- taking the chair he favored, the convention with an eloquent speech which was no doubt intended as the key-note of the coming eampaign. In his remarks he took occasion to express “his regret “t_hat there was no asylum in this State for idiots, for such would (in his opinion) be the proper place to assign all National Greenbackers who believe in fiat money.” Now, what is the duty of the National Greenback party of Noble county in this emergency? We say emphatically that it is their most sacred duty to see that all such men as Gen. Harrison remain in private life. If the Greenback party of Noble county should mnot manifest suflicient strength to elect a straiglit-out Nationa'l Greenback Representative, it is in our opinion ,their duty to unite with those who advocate the same gentiment, and thus securé Representatives who will be sure to cast their votes for.a U..S. Senator who will carry out onr views on the great question at issue. Although there is a great deal of prejudice still existing toward Dan Voorhees, for his course during the war, and although Gen. Harrison was very popular with the people in consequence of his services durir‘xg the same period, take the political senvt'ii ments of these two gentlemen now, and what greenback man can hesitate a moment to choose between them ? Nationals,consider this matter carefully, and then act as your reason and good judgment will dictate in the matter. e :

On Friday, June 14th, candidates and political aspirants were almost as thick. in Rome as potato bugs,” but somewhat less annoying. = - - ’Squire Dunn, of Brimfield, the localizer for the Kendallville Standard, was in town on Sunday of last week, and took in the whole of the Universalist meeting as well as the surroundings. The ’Squire seemed to enjoy himself very much in this “Sodom” of greenbackism, and was enabled to get up a very interesting local in consequence of his visit. Come again, ’Squire. Come on thé Fourth of July. We will see that you are well taken care of, and if you should catch the greenback disease it will be the making of you. : ; . The Decatur (Ind.) Cornet Band, as well as the Lagrange band, will be here on the-Fourth of July. i

~ DPic-nicers' from a distance are beginning to quit bringing their dinners, since they find that they can get a good square, first-class warm meal at the Lake Side House for thirty-five cents. - * ! - ;

Don’t forget the matched game of base ball to be played between the Ligonier and Kendallville clubs here on ‘the Fourth of July. o - The prize dance to come off on the Fourth of July at the Lake Side Hall at two o’clock, P. M., between David Law, Esq., of Newport, and Ed. Parkman, of Brimfield, promises to be of a very exciting nature. James MecConnell has been invited to an honorary seat with the referees. : :

“Valet,” your voice has the right ring. Wiy don’t you call a meeting and organizp" a greenback club? Mr. Prentiss will furnish you a speaker.— The country needs your help. Do all the good you can. = s

“New Leaf,” you are becoming tardy. ‘Why don’t we hear from you oftener and more of it? Take the advice we have administered to “Valet,” and don’t compel us to come down and wake you up. o p " X.L.C.R.: Ifgreenbacks were not worth 100 cents. on the dollar when you received your pay for soldiering, the.government must be still largely indebted to you, in dollars and cents, besides the loss of your health. Don’t you think that if greenbacks were gooud enough to pay you soldiers, that they are quite good enough to pay bondholders? Organize a greenback club at once, and bring old Sparta back to her ancient landmarks.

If Republicans are friends of the Greenback (as they profess to be), why do they eall it “rag baby,” and why did Gen. Ben. Harrison lately wish for an idiotic asylum co send all the Greenbackersto? Echo answers why ? Rome City can now boast of two bakeries. Visitors hereafter need have no fears of going away hungry. - The cold, rainy weather last week made it rather bad for pic-nics. ' But we had them every day, “all the sime.” Kendallville celebrates the Fourth of July this yeat. Jake Kraner says there was a celebration there last year, but everybody came to Rome City. - ‘Albion, Ligonier, Wawaka, Brimfield, Wolcottville, Lagrange, South Milford, and all the country intervening between these points will celebrate the Fourth of July at Rome City.: .. It seems to'us that it will be impossible to deliver a Fourth of July oration without touching largely upon the finances of the country. Let everybody turn out on the Fourth and hear what Mr. Stofl has to say. Our spring term of school ended on. Friday last. As previously announced by us, Mr. J. P. Chapman will now

give his attention to the greenback question. IHis maiden speech is now ready for delivery. What say you, Wawaka; give him an invitation and get up a good meeting? Our Glee Club will come also. A

- D. H. Perew, Esq., of Woleottvilie, is favorably spoken of for Prosecuting Attorney of this District. ‘Dave is an energetic young man of very fair qualifications, and if elected to that position would no doubt fill the place with houor to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. { -

Peter St. Marie has given his place ‘of business a new coat of paint which gives it quite a nice, COsy appearance, and adds materilly to it 3 beauty. Jo Potts did-the job. . -

- 8. W. Dodge, of the Lake Side House, in addition to accommodating his multitude of guests, is now prepared to give lessons in the piscatorial art. He keeps (a good supply of his favorite bait (green grasshoppers) constantly on hand. J ;

The mineral baths will be ready for patients by the first of July. Patients are now lere waitivg 'to try their wonderful results. v

We would like to ask g%m’Ben. Harrison a question: If the Greenbackers in 1864 and 1865 had been sent to an “asylum for idiots,” where would the republican-party be to-day, and where would the republican candidate for Governor have been two years ago? » Capt. W. N. Voris: DPlease take notice, Washington township, needs a greenback organization, needs 1t badly; let it be done quickly. *“lt is time to work;” attend to it at once, and your children and your neighbors will rise up and bless you, in time to come for the good you have accomplished. Ten cents a dance pays the bill at the Lake Side House on the Fourth of July. So sayvs Hobson’s Band.

ALBION RUMMAGES.

- WANTED—Tifty’ men from each township who will allow their names to be used as candidates before the demoecratic county convention, which will be held in July or August." : “Country school ma’ams” are again remrr}in g to town after their summer’s work. Trustees {ind them heavy on the greenback guestion, yet they don’t deny that they sfand upon a hard (earned) money “platform.” - ~ Farmers throughout the county are keeping their corn fields in excellent order, and nothing but a bad corn season can keep them from having a good crop. : : S

We have now three telephonie lines in cperation. Aumond and Fulton are the constructors of the same. The court house is the terminus of each line. o ;

Prof. F. A. Clancy, of elocutionary fame, will give an éntertainment in our town on the evening of July 2nd. Everybody who enjoys a hearty laugh should be there. gie

Ligonier Democrats allow themselves to smoke Republican cigars.— (landidate Whitford should know the man who introduces him.

The following are the late issues of marriage licenses: Sylvester J. Hartsock to Stella A. Bartlett, George Fulk to Roshanah Growcock, Albert Shulty. to Mary Rathwell, Benjamin F. Gerber to Sarah A: Maxwell, Michael Reis to Mary Hess, Benjamin Bricker _to Margaret A. Jarrett, Edward Pilgrim to Susan Stahl. During the present term of court a Kendallville attorney foreclosed a mortgage against the estate of Wm. Plank, deceased, who committed suicide last winter by shooting himself. And upon filing a precipe for order of sale, the following poetry was gotten off, which contains a great deal of truth as well as poetry: :

Issue your writ, sir ; issue your writ, : Nor think of the children, no never a bit, That widowed young wife and children in gries May not hinder the law in its speedy relief. Bid your sheriff away, without any delay,

Let 115tliing him hinder, let nothing him stay ; Command:him to seize both homestead and + lands, ; Command him to take what they earned with

their hands, b And offer for sale at your court house door, And give to the rich, that he takes from the

poor, ; Co_mman"d him to fellow the rule of the law, ‘Which is equal and just and without any flaw, That no wrong may be done the children and 8 wife, LA aa :

Of one theugh a debtor—-_-depa;ned this life,

The Adelphians will play a dramaentitled “The Times and the Hour,” about the middle of July. Due notice will be given, .

Albion has for a freight house a grain elevator, &c., two freight cars run side by side on'the north side of the track. Albion has also other improvements, not here mentioned. : : JAP.

NOBLESVILLE NARRATIVES.

Health is exceeding good in this lo cality. o el gy

About seven hundred people attended the German Baptist communion, at their church two miles south of here, last Tuesday evening. I am informed the very best of order prevailed.

Mr. George Ott and wife, of Green township, have returned fiom an extensive tour through the west. Our supervisor has made splendid roads by the way of graveling them. Candidates for county offices, please give us a- call and tell us how you stand and what are your opinions on the finance question, : |

Joseph Bittings has commenced the. erectiop of his new ‘house. Push it through, Joe. ' esgn

Considerable lumber is being shipped from this place to Ligonier., Mr. Supervisor: A little gravel on. our streets wouldn’t come amiss. Do you think it would, Doc; ? : I meant no harm when I mentioned that little feminine fight, for I do not want to write anything that will offend dnyone. - abt It is the wrong time of the year to wear overcoats, but it can’t be helped. Father Grimes. you had better be a little more careful with your horse or the next time you may be hurt worse, and then you would’need the help of Mac. i G Mac, where is that excursion for you scrives at the Era office ? I believe it is ausgespielt. i Neighbors, keep your peace and say, peace on- earth and good will to all women, New Lear,

Congressional Convention.

~ By advisement, the time for the Na- 1 ‘tional Greenback Labor Congressional Convention, for the Thirt%'tnth Indi-l ‘ana District, is changed from the 18th ‘inst. to the 17th of July next; to bel ‘held at Kendallville, at 10 o'clock A. 3, for the purpose of putting in nomina- ‘ ‘tion a candidate for Congress. . i T, . STEWART, Ch'm Coni, Kendallyille, June 13,1878. w 4 »'—A*——.*’-T——*-——: o e ‘ | - The Woman Jenks. | ! ' {1 (New Yosk Sun.) j ~ The woman Jenks, who testified be- ‘ fore the Potter Committee on Satur- | day, is even more surprising than she 'was expected to be. Contemplating “her, one wonders what the muddy waters of Louisiana politics will 01l up next. s . Here is a woman, not yet old, who }has been steeped to the lips for: years. | past in political intrigue; who ¢orresponds confidentially with party leadI ers. confers with Senators, talksabout “rings” and “fights” as glibly as an or’dinary woman might about worsteds. and laces,-and according to her own l story, was not the least important factor in the trickery which imposes a Fraudulent President upon the A meri}can people. She describes herself as ~versatile in her political attachments; ! “I did not know in the morning,” she says, “what my politics would be in ‘the evening.” She has .private business in Washington, but she finds time to help in the public business too “I am interested in the nation gener-: ‘ally,” she says, with a fine irony that ‘sengs off the more susceptible listen;[ers into convulsions of laughter. “I -am devoted to the nation.” If sheis ‘not quite at ease as she tells her story, it is not any womanly modesty, still less any qualm of. conscience, that causes her embarrassment. She is satisfied with herself; it is- Gen. Butler,: with his awkward questions, his unexpected documents, and his polite persistence, who is objectionable.

g e ———l] <@ RSt . Mrs. Jenks’ Silly Story. .~ [New York Sun ]

A LEXIS,

Mrs. Jenks was an old friend of Anderson and \%er. She met Weber in the streef®one day while the visiting statesman were in New Orleans. He had in his'possession a letter which he and Anderson had addressed to Mr.. John Sherman, asking him to puf in writing the promises he had made to them orally. She volunteered to take the letter to Mr. Sherman. They supposed -she did so. An answer was returned to them signed John Sherman. They supposed—and she allowed these two old acquaintances and friends to suppose—that the letter was genuine. At this late day she comes forward and swears that the letter was spurious, and was gotten up by her to deceive Mr. Anderson and Mr. Weber. She covers herself with fraud, forgery, duplicity, and treachery, if her story is true. How likely a woman, without any apparent motive, would be to do such an eccentric thing the public will judge. We do not suppose that one intellgent person in the world will believe this story. If Mr. Sherman had not previously condemned himself by his own testimony, this foolhardy attempt to palm off such a ridiculous statement as the "truth' would be sufficient. to condemn him. ° , ]

——— O W— One of the Coming Issues. " [Baltimore Gazette.] |

Both the republican and democratic parties have been brought to grief in California- by the anti-Chinese party which is called there the “Kearneyite” or “Workingman’s party.” Theliving issue has swept the State, and the new State Constitutional Convention is in the hands of the anti-Chineseé leaders. There cannot be no doubt that the laboring classes suffer a great deal from the competition of “Chinese cheap labor.” | The Chinese habits are filthy; their dwellings are dens; their vices abaminable, their modes of life wretched—but very cheap, Living cheap they can underworkLﬂ)e'more expensive American laborer. It isreally a fight for existence. The State Constitution will now probably be recast 80 as todrive them out of the country. It is difficult however to do this with-ouf-asserting a State sovereignty doctrine as strong as that of the seceding States before the late war. The proble m will be watched with great inter. est. i

The Crops in Nebraska.

OMAWA, NEB,, June 22.—The Daily Republican to-morrow morning will publish crop reports from all the counties on the line of the Union Pacilic and the Omaha and Republican Valley Railroads. It was feared that the long season of wet weather, which prevailed up to a week ago, had not rusted the wheat, and that the severe storms had generally injured all the crops, but such is not the case. There is no rust whatever. Corn is somewhat backward, but a good stand and immense acreage. The rye harvest will commence one week hence, barley ten days Jater and wheat about July 20th, " A fair estimate of the wheat yield will be twenty to twenty-five bushels per acre. If we have favorable weather for maturing the crop. the yield will be the largest .ever known.

The Fort Wayne District.

ForT WAYNE, Ind., June 25.—The city to-night is full of delegates to the democratic congressional convention which meets here to-morrow. There is a hot contest for the nomination, which is equiyalent to election, as the district gives six thousand majority. The leading candidates are Walpole G. Colerick, of this county, Hugh Dougherty, of Wells county, and Col. 1. B. McDonald, of Whitley county.— ‘This afterneon Colerick seemed to be in the lead with good prospects of success, but to-night the name of Gen. J. R. Slack, of Huntington, was sprung, which. complicates matters seriously. It is believed now that there will bea prolonged contest with the possibilitythat all the above named gentlemen may be slaughtered and an entirely new man selected. 5 .

A Train Loaded With Tramps. - DAVENPORT, Towa, June 23d.—The train from the South, on the St. Louis Division of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, which arrived ‘early this morning, brought over four hundred tramps. They were the hard-est-looking crowd that has come this way, being mostly young men from sixteen to twenty-four years of age. They were fed by the city authorities of Rock Island and Moline, and advised to go West, which they have done. ——— ] O D—— : What Worries the Old Man, . {Detroit Free Press.) Hayes doesn’t mind it-much because the lowa Republicans ignored him, although he has any lowa man in his ©abinet, for lowa never showed much kindness toward him; but he feels almost as sorely over Michigan’s rejection of him as he did when Ohio forgol how much he had done for Ohio mes o : L =ilA E—‘The Only Communists, * [New Haven (Conn.) Union.] The only. Communists to be feared iu this country are the Jay Goulds and Tom Scotts, who manage to get in their possession the property of the yﬂuplejsy;}llaq&jﬁmm means.

General Items.

- ‘Oregon not only elects a Democratic Goverror and a democratic Legislature, but a Democratic member of Congress. Cronin has hurt that State, evidently. . Let’s put a Cronin in each of the States. - . Not content with owning a hundred millions of property in New York, Wm. H. Vanderbilt has made araid on Michigan and eaptured her main railroad. Who says there is any distress in the country? i Senator Bruce (colored), of Missise sippi, and Miss Josephine B. Wilson, of Cleveland, a very light mulatto, who would pass for white in any company in the land, were married Thursday of last week. A

The Consul at Lambayique, Peru, writes: “The country round ‘about has been flooded by rains, crops destroyed, railroads washed away, and dwellingsleveled. The lossis estimated at $1,500,000.” Kearney, the Communist, is on his way Kast. His party has lately been suceessful in an election held at San Francisco. lle comes this way to inspire and organize. e will doubtless get a warm reception. | : Al] the lock-tenders on a part of the Erie canal suddenly quit work Satur: day night, from expeeted” discharge and failure to raise wages. Some 150 boats. were delayed in consequence. Thelock-tenders resumed thé next day. - The wife of Peter Smith, 2 moulder at Pump’s Skein Works, at Delleville, 111, was horribly and fatally burned Saturday at noon by the explosion of gasoline, which she was pouring from an open vessel into the reservoir of a lighted gasoline stove. o : ' The mostdestructive fire that Akron, Ohio, has had for years occurred on Tuesday morning of last week, totally destroying the beautiful Academy of Music and the Commercial block, the finest buildings of the kind in the city. The loss is estimated at $150,000 to $200,000. ' v

Anderson has lost his place as night editor of -the Philadelphia North American. Anderson lied himself into a government office and lied himself out of a newspaper office, but after all, in or out of office, he is better off than Stanley Matthews or John Sherman. ; :

General Crook says it is hard to be forced to kill the red men when they are clearly in the right. Ile says the Bannocks are starving, and must fight or die. An army sent against the thieving Indian traders would do. more toward keeping the peace than all other measuyres. | Mrs. Jenks, like many smart people, shows eoff best when mangling the truth. DButler and McMahon says that they will be able to explode her whole story. Should her testimony be proved false John Sherman would be worse off than ever. Tlie man with lizzard juice in his-veins is having a rough time of it. (o - Potter, the wheelbarrow pedesﬁian, en route from Albany, N. ¥, to San Francisco, arrived in Omaha, Saturday afternoon, and left on Monday for the West, to complete the last-half of his journey. He is about fifteen days. ahead of his time, is in most excellentspirits, and confidently expect§.to arrive at his destination on time. - Thomas Winans, the great locomotive builder and contractor, of Balti-/ more, died recently in his native city. He is said to have been worth ten millions of dollars at the time of his death. TForty years ago he began life as a machinist in his father’s unpretentious shop, thus showing to what. “dizzy hights” fhe untrammeled genius of Young! America is- capable of attaining b%; the, due exercise of industry, frugdlity and perseverance. Great damage has resulted from severe storms in the. South-weéstern portion of Kansas, last week. A farmer named True, living on Beaver Creek, near .Oxford, awoke Wednesday morning to find his house surrounded by water, and, cairying his wife to a place of safety, hastily returnéd for their children; but before he could reach the house it went down, and the children were drowned. Mr. Bell, a sheep-raiser on' Bridge Creek, was also drowned wlile attempting to -¢ross the stream.: - : The body of young Devins for which, Mr. John Harrison was searching when he found the remains of his father in the Cincinnati Medical College, was recently discovered in the medical deparfment of the Michigan University, at Ann Arbor. It was found by the detective nicely “pickled” in a vat containing about forty other bodies all waiting the scalpel of the students upongtheir return in the fall. = One member of the medical faculty is a near relative of the deceased—a fact which only adds to the horrorsof the affair. i S ¢

It appears from a summary of the appropriation bills passed at the late session of congress, that the whole amount devoted by them to the expenditures of the goyernment is $158,773,493. To this js'to be added appropriations made at the extra session, which Mhe total to $172,908,165. As rome excuse for these enmormous figures, it is shown that $14,534,672 had to be appropriated for deficiencies, a large part of this being required for arrears of the last administration, including some of Robeson’s contract steals, .

- The spectacle of a man sailing around in the air at will was enjoyed last week by the residents of Hartford. . Whether this air-ship will stand the test of further experiments remains to be seen, but enough is already developed to prove that the principle upon which it is constructed is worthy of examination. In: this instance the operator was able to elevate himself to a height of one hundred feet and sail away an eighth of a ‘mile with the wind, and then return to his starting-point against It. This was certainly a successful test. A case of death from starvation. was brought to light in Allegheny City, Tuesday morning of last week. The victim was John McCune, of Detroit, about 85 years of age. He went to that city recestly to seek employment, but had no success, and his scanty funds dwindled to the last cent three or four days since. Since Saturday he had partaken of no nourishment, and, becoming weakened by his long fast, he lay down on the Foit Wayne railroad track to die. e was found in this condition, and food placed within his reach, but it was too late. Death ensued in a few minutes. “A curious pair of twins, who were born in Canada seven months ago, were exhibited at the New York Aquarium Saturday ‘to a large number of medical men. They have perfectly formed heads, and bodies as far as the last rib; below that the bodies are fused into one.. Each has two arms, buf only one leg. When a pin is thrust into the right 1? the right girl will cry, while the left girl t&%e‘a no.notice of the injury., These curious babies are in good health, agg have apparently a good chance of growing up, A phbysician who was pedent asaecla thal 1L ISOE Bl bt born separately one would s@é%j a boy and the othera girl, . .~

Indiana News Items.

General Manson, the Demoeratic candidate for Auditor of State, and’ General Miller, his Republican epponent, went out in the war of the rebellion in the same regiment. They are strong personal friengs. - 0 Xk

The United States revenue authorities have decided that mixing spirits with tansy, horse radish, or other herb or root is rectification and demands a special tax, Therefore beware how you mix your bitters.— Waterloo Press,

. Friday night DPeter Etticher -apd Isaac Kay, two farmers, on théir way home from‘ Plymouth, a féw miles South, got into a drunken ‘altereation, resulting in Kay being stabbed in the abdomen by Etticher, which ‘caused death in a few hours,: - et

What we need in this’ country’ t - day, is work for idle hands, and that system of actior, be it legislative or otherwise, that will tend to give the willing workmen employment, is the sure outlet to theuniversal hard times which environ our people.—New Albany Ledger. SIELEs e a 0 z

George Hiatt, a Grant county farmer, fatdlly poisoned a five-year-old daughter the other week by giving her morphine, supposing it to be quinine. The morphine had been left lying around the house ina careless manner and by some means became mixed with the quinine powders. . = .

Severai weeks ago it was reported that the growing wheat in Wayne county had been seriously damaged by the {ly, and that the yield would fall considerably short of an average crop. The reports which-now -come from that section are quite flattering, the real damage done by the fly having been very slights. - .. U

- David Leaming, of Arcadia, decided in an insane freak that his infant had not been properly baptized, and proceeded to hold it under water until life was nearly = extinet. He next stirred up his bee-hives and compelled his wife to stand and suffer thestings of the insects.. He is to be taken to the agylum. b e

" A burglar, while iattq"mptijng to enter a store at Laketon, Wabash county, Monday mormng of last week, was shot and instantly killed Ly theé clerk who Wwas sleeping in the store. The burglar was a stranger, who had been seen in the town_ during the day.— There was nothing on his person to indicaté who he was. o e

The bill for holding sessions of the United States Distriet; and Cireuit Courts at Fort Wayne, Ind,, has passed both louses of Congress. - Under this bill two sessions of both the District and the Circuit Courts will be held in'that city each year. ‘A deputy Marshal and a deputy Clerk will be appointed to reside there. .. . . -

Harry Hans, of the Bill Poster, has in him the seed of the martyrs. Aifter being adjudgéd guilty and fined $25 by a jury of his peers, he raises the cry of persecution and declares himself a “religious journalist.” ' Har1y playing the 7ole ‘of a missionary, and calling sinners vo judgment, is teo good a joke to be lost.—South Bend Hergld,: - cxh i s

' Last Saturday. afternoon while two iittle boys, named Sherry and Reeder. of Connersville, werg playing upon 3 pile of lumber near the tanyard, the: lumber fell, catching the boys under it andicrushing the life out of the former, aged five years, .instantly, and breaking a leg and otherwise injuring the latter, who is somewhat older. Reeder will probaldy recover. =~

Lawrence Churchill, onee a rather weil-to-do citizen of Whitley county, died at the poor house in that county, two weeks ago, at the advanced age of seventy years. Though he had several grown up sons and daughters living within a mile of the place where his death occurred not one of them attended him in his last mements or followed his remains to the grave.

The Winamac Republican has heard of the meanest man in the State. ‘He brought his old, decrepit mother to town a few days ago, and turned her over to the cold charities of the world or.the poor-house; not because he was unable to support her, but because he -was tod contémptibly mean and stingy. - The old lady is over eighty, the widow of a yeteran of the war of 1812. . ' Twenty-five years ago McCauley, the great English historian, in a letter addressed to a friend in this eountry, prophesied the downfall of ourrepublican institutions from the amount of corruption that would insidiously work its way through. party.leaders to the masses of the people. Are there not a sufficient array of facts developing themselves all ovér our land. for the most serious {o contemplate with fear and trembling? Was the distinguished Englishman a prophet ?—New Albany Ledger. - . -

~ NOTICE. Parties having stored grain in our name in Railroad Elevator and Warehouse at Ligonier and Wawaka, are hereby notified that the same is at their risk until actually sold to us, and that we will not be responsible for same in case of fire. Lo e BOLG MIERR . SHEETS & WERTHEIMER. Ligonier, Ind., June 12, 1878,-Bw3 me s

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LIGONIER.

’ GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, amber, 94c¢; Rye, boc; Oats, 20¢; Corn, 30¢; flax seed, $1 25 ; timothy seed, $1 10. ' Propuce.—Hogs, live, ® cwt $3 00 Shoulders, per pound, 06¢; Hams, 07¢; Bees Wax, 25c; Butter, 08; Lard, ‘,060; Eggs, ¥ doz,llc; Wool, Ib;2o@ 50c; Feathers, 50c; Tallow, 07¢; An- ) ples, dried,s¢; Potatoes, 50; Peaches, dried, 05¢; Hay, tame, $8; marsh, $6. " ~CHICAGO, June 26, 18%8. GRAIN AND SEEDS. — Wheat, 93; Corn, 36%c¢; 0at5,24%4¢; Rye, 5215¢c;Barley, 48c; Clover. Seed, $4 15@4 40; Timothy, sloo@l 25; Flax, $125. . - PRODUCE.—Mess Pork, ¥ cwt, $940 @ 945; Lard, $6 95@06 9715 ; lams, green, 09 @ 09%¢c; Shoulders, 043%c; Butter, good, 17@19, choice, 12 @ 14; Eggs, ® doz., tic; Potatoes, To@Boc. . Flour, per bbl, $5 75@6 00; Bran, per ton, $8 [email protected].~ . - . Pourrry~Turkeys, dressed, ¥l, 8c; Chickens, ® dox. $2.50. ! 4 e 5 R . TOLEDO.—June 26,1878. _ GRAWN AND SEEDS.—W heat, amber, Michigan, $1 00; Corn, 373 c; Oats,2s. . LIVE %’"%K "cmm CilcAao,June 26.—-CATTLE,graded, steers, $5 [email protected]; choice beeves, $445048 ; medium grades, 83 85@94 90; ‘butchers’ stock, #3 25@53 755 stock cattle, $2 15@5350, . . i _Hoos—Light weights, $3.00@4 00;choice heavy $4OO @ 410; packing. hogs,msaghama,x _ Snuer.—Choice $2 50@4 00; falrto. gog(ix,k, ~ BurrALo, June 26—Cattle, Ship’ig, #4204 80; Shoep, $3 50@3 75 ; Hogs, e e P RE T el SR A

) e o g S & e Adbertisements, - THIS PAPER IS ON FILE wng Lo ke GE =OO SR R T g (O o e eNN N R N RRS ' SSO ,_‘_4._,___“,.__._.__.__.“.? N R - Where Adyertising Contracts can be MBada IWSPAPER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEENTH EDITION Containinga cemplete list of all the townsin the United Sjates, the Territories and the Dominion of Canada, having a population greater than 5,000 _according to the last census, toiethcr with the’ ‘names olg the newspaper having the largest local - circulation in each of the places namegd. Also, a “catalogne of newspapers wifich are recommended to advertisers as givie? greatest value in propor_tion to prices charged. A’so, all newspapers in : the United States and Canada primin% over 5,000 copies each issue. Also, all tb.e Religious, Ajﬁ;w «cqura_-L Scientific and Mechanical, Medics,lgn 8sonic, Juvenile. Educational, Commercial, Insurance, Real Hstate, Law, Sporting, Musical. Fash:ion, and other special class journals; very com--plete lists. . Also, many tabies of rates, showing - ithe cost of-advertisifg in varions newspapers,and feverything which ‘a begioner in advertisine Lwou{d iike 10 know, Address GEO. P, ROWELL -& CO., 10 Bpruce St., New York. i % OWEET NAVY Chewing @EST gl Tl o Awarded highest prive at Centénnial E: ition for fine chrwbryjqualé’z?:s. and ezrellencaaclmd %ny char- . @cler of sweetening and flavoring. . 'The best tobacce ever made. As our blua, strip trade-mark s closel imitated on: faforier goods. see that Jackson’s Best g 8 on every plue. Sold by all dealers. Send for sample, frée, fo (4 % JacxuoN. & Co,, Mfrs., Petersburg, Va, e T e e e T ; A Beautiful Concert Grand ; sl“"iga.noss. coslt) B],6(:loéqonly ! 5, Superb Gran nare¥: . I’xanos, cost $l,lOO, only $255. Elegant ”prlgﬁt, Pianos, cost $800; only $v1.55. New Style Upright Pignos, §112.50. Organs, $35. Organs 12 stops, $72.50. Church Organs, 16 st%)s. cost $390, only $ll5. . Elegant 8375 Mirror Top Org; 8, only $lO5. Tremendous Saecrifice t 0 c¢lose out presentstoek, New Steam Factory soon tobe erected. Newspaper with much informasion avout cost of Pianos and Organs, SENT ‘FTREE. Pleaseaddress & DANIEL F. BEATTY, Washington, N. J. [ Z A DAY to agents canvagsing for the | Kireside Visitor. Termsand ont. | it free, Address P. O. VICKERY, AuM gusta, Maine. ’ e Her own physician, Ini formetion and prescripE o i tions of the greatest value > ‘0 every lady, sent’ free oA byaddressing with stemp ; Dr. J, C. Stone, 2802 Pop - : 3 lar Street, Philadelphia, : ; Pennsylvania.

CATARRH. A Man Cured of Catarrh of 40 i . Years’ Standing ! L SO BAD THAT IT IMPAIRED HIS EYESIGIT, MADE TIIM-ALMOST DEAT. H ~TROUBLED WITH T Droppings in Throat, Buzzing in Head, and. s - Fetid Breath. : o : : ? 7 : The CONSTITUTIONAL CATARRH RenMepy is the first: ariicle placed before 'the public that proposed to cure Catarrh by burlding up the Constitrs~ tiof. 1t struck at the root ofthe whole difienlty. ‘and thousands gpon thousands of letters bave been received by the proprietors, settin & forth the marvelous cures, and, what is remarkable, curing not only the Catarrh, but all other ailments at the same time, This is what it alwa{s_ does, The | following statement is only a sample of what we are constantly receiving from well known people, to whom you can write, and not to bogus ones,— Cam_r.rlé and its attendant evils, cold in: head, hacking cough, incipient consumption, headache, ains in back and loins, dizziness, languidness, loes of appetite and general weakness, all leave together when the Constitutional Catarrh Reme< dy is taken as recommended. : S LOWELL, Mass., Feb. 12, 1276, ' Mgesses. LITTLEFIELD & Co.: - 5 : .~ I have been entirely cured of Catarrh by:the ase of the Constitutional Catarrh Remedy. I have had 2t for forty years,’and so severely that my -evesight was impaired by it, I was almost dead, my head. was always stopped up I could not. breathe freely, often at nignt I could not sleep, heing kept awake by a dropping in my throat, sometimes 80 badly as to almost strangle ame.— The- discharge from my nose’ wasfetiq and my breath was always foul; I had, too, a continual h_uzzinﬁ in my head,.and headac&e almost all the time. During forty years 1 haye £ ied almost eve‘ry medicine for Catarrh in the market, but withouf receiving any permanent bemefit until I used gdns"ﬂtutiona] Catarrh Remedy. After using two ottles I was much relieved, and used ip all six botties and am now COMPLETELY cared. =My cyesight is good. 1 can hear as Wﬁu agever-I could. Ihave no disagreeabie disc arges from my nose,no droppings in my throat, can breathe perfectly free and sleep every night soundly.. My general health is better than it has been for fourfeen years, and all owing to the Constitutional ‘Catarrh Remeey. s o : +(Signed) EDWIN GOODWIN, ¥ oouttonie Do Street; Lowell, Mass. Price §1 per bettle, A Pamphlet of 32 pages, giving a treatise on Catarrh, with innumerablecases of cures, sent ¥R by addressing the proprietars, Lrrrierienp & Co., Manchester. N, H. - Forsale by SCOTT & SANDROCK, Ligonier, Ind. : 10-m2 Te L T s

o | : ~ LOESER & SAX Would respectfully inform their friends and the public in general that’ they have entirely withdrawn from the saloon business and have refitted b ’_their establishmensintovn ; 1 ( 5T 2 . axK r VO] N ] . STORE. They have a ln.rée and j¥dic'iously selected stoék i : T - ,Freshand Pure Groceries, v:vhich_fthey offer the public at the very . sk Towest prices. s il __Call and sec us. We will make it an object for | tae peoplé to favor us with their pfpmqgs. i Highest Market Price Paid for . Country Produce. - Loeser & Sax. ' Ligonier, Ind., April2s. 1878188 © AR R e =) i (o) Carriage & Wagon Works . GERBER & TREASH, Proprietors. Favin tly in ved our facilities for th s e g el o e et . - "Believing thata dpoor article is dear at any price, _we have concluded to make-only tirsi-clase work. - Each department of onr Works is under the management of a competent mechanic who is m:;‘geothuown bxancr Dithetende: . - o "—:'K“; ‘. ¢ Iv‘..’- x 3 Nig cm . ir‘ 3 :‘ ~ : ¥ Special Attention Given to Order- ~ We cordially invite the public to call and ex-_-%ﬁi}ﬂﬂsgﬁ?;m{;&'% " B Ghei of ;’&ﬁm y to represent it a 8 out wor Noue are genuine, however, withon t the name. % defir E@&g‘ - Q~§E§ i e e it e O s gpyw%mx_?mmm«A«,.nfqgr-"’“ ef\“"~,. T ~ﬁ{:{%&