The National Banner, Volume 13, Number 11, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 July 1878 — Page 2

The Pational Bawner . | vy | A Cha y V. . ‘ ,"\’: ’f.- P (t\f; s o, © ey AW Bl J. B.STOLL, Elitor anj Proprietor. LIGONJER, IND., JULY 4th; 1878, - “No man.worthy of :the office of President shou!d be willing to hold it if connted’in or placed ¢ there by frand.”—U. 8. GRANT. i "IT is rumored that the noted F't. Wayne lawyer, LM Ninde, will be an independent greenback candidate for State Senator from Allen county. i e ee i & ey - ELsewHERE we publish in full the - platform of the Ohio Democracy.—It is a noble declaration of sound principles. Let it be read and studied by al. . L s . IN MAKING CALCULATIONS for the next Presidency, the name pf General Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, can not be " *safely overlooked. - Tom has made a - record that has endeared him to thousands upon thousands of A mericen citizens. . e WrEN the Democrats of such States as Maine and Vermont adopt greenback 'platforms, it heging'to look as if there weuld be very little trouble about procuring the adoption of & stout _greenback plank in the national platform for 1880. s ;

"WArroLE G. Corerick, of Fort Wayne, received the democratic nomiréat,io,n for Congress from the Twelfth Dfistrict,' on thq 124th ballot. Mr. C. is an able lawyer and an eloquent speaker, but Allen county was not entitled to the momination. llis election is beyond doubt. » - . = L !

I'T SEEMS to be generally understood that the convention of the Ohio Democracy, last week, gave Senator Thurman a great boost for. the Presidency in 1880. The brethren grew very enthusiastic over their -distinguished Senator. e ~

" Four legislative bodies of this State have tried their hand at pass‘ng aun act to authorize incorporated townsto lizense the sale of intoxicating liquors. Neither of these acts have stood the test, each and every one having been declared null and void by the Supreme Court. Of such is legislative wisdom.

TiE PAPERS that have been making false statements in regard to the action of Gen. Ewing and the greenback men of the House generally—in voting against the Senate substitute for the resumption act repeal bill—can obtain some valuable information by reading the article headed “The ArchTrickster.” ! o s

lIoN. SIDNEY BREESE, one of the most eminent jurists of Illinois, died at Pinckneyville on Thursday of last week. e entered public life with Stephen A.Douglas, was a distinguished member of the U. S. Senate, and since 1858 occupied a seat on the supreme bench in lilinois, with marked ability. - Politically hé was always a P;g_mocrat. : ‘

f Tom MAYS announces in last week’s Courier that he has sold that establishment to Eli W. Brown and Theodore Reed, of Columbia City, who take chagge of the paper this week. Mr. Reed becomes a resident of Auburn and; will devote his undivided attention to the Courier. Being a good writer and an dccomplished gentleman, we extend to him a cordial welcome to the corps editorial. ’ :

ONE POINT, at least, should be impressed upon the voters in choosing candidates for legislative and congressional positions néxt_fall,gind that is: not to vote for any man who has not bestowed careful thought upon ‘the great economic problems which underlie the existing distress and paralsis of our great industries and of our working-people all over the country. The man who has not considered this grave subject has no business in the halls of a State Legislature or of ConATCRE.. i

OF THE MEMBERS of Congress who displayed the deepest concern for the alleviation of the distressed industrial classes, the following are entitled to the highest meed of praise: Gen. Tom Ewing of Ohio, Ben Butler of Massachusetts, William A. Phillips of Kansas, Richard P. Bland of Missouri, John M. Bright of Tennessee, Hendrick B. Wright of Pennsylvania, and Greenbury L. Fort of Illinois. Of the Senators: Messrs. Voorhees, Beck; J. P. Jones, and Hereford of West Virgintia made the bestTecord on that subject. e : i

Tne Lagrange Standard lays._great stress upon the discovery that the government made a large saving by the conversion of the 7-30 notes (bearing interest at the rate of seven and Athree-tenth per cent. per annum in currency) into bonds bearing interest at 6 per cent. in coin. The fact that currency was at that time largely depreciated, and the further fact that it was optional with the holders of the 7-308 to receive either seven and threetenth per centum in currency or 6 per centum in coin, seems’to have escaped the Standard’s attention. Wil the ‘Doctor be kind enough to give his readets. some- figures of the “great saving”? - i e

H=RE are a few figures which we especially commend to the thoughtful consideration of our esteemed contemporary of the Lagrange Standard: Secretary Boutwell, in a “statement of bonds purchased by &he Treasury Department,” showsf that the total amount of bonds purthased by him te, July Ist, 1872; was. ~ .$271,551,150.00 For which he paid.... 304,808,689.17 Premium paid....... .$35.257,589.17 The amount, which the government owed was the face of the bonds: the amount paid exceeded the amountowed just $33,257,539.17, and none of these R mmmmw‘o when: rchased. This is perhaps a sample o Jights to speakof. .

FOURTH OF JULY.

One hundred and two years ago today was consummated the greatest deed in the annals of American history, if not of the world—a deed, greatest In point of heroism, as well as in point of its ‘general sequence. Then a freedom-loving people declared the shackles of British tyranny and usurpation -rent asunder, and instituted themselves a free and independént ‘power in the constellation of States; then was signed the great “Declaration of Independence”—the noblest existing monument in the archives of any nation—a monument evincive of patriotic devotion to principles Then the great American Republic was founded—founded upon the noble and enduring principles of human liberty—founded upon the rational idea of Plft} ‘mutual independence of Church -and State—founded upon the dictations of an exalted reason, and a sublime re‘gard for the true happiness and prosperity of her subjects. Then was “ac'hi‘ew_'e(l the act which has-changed ‘the whole current of human eévents and paved the way for the world’s true civilization and enlightenmenit; then began the caveer of true political liberty, considered but ex periméntul and temporary in the monarchical view.

Our;country’s history bears stfi!ging testimony to the fact that, the éycles of time since that memorable era have not always been unaccompanied Dby thrilling scenes and momentous events. The civilized world has directed its gaze upon us during these years and marveled at'the unexampled progress and unprecedented prosperity of the American people. Instead of the original thirteen States, we now have thirty-eight, besides eight organized Territories and a Federal District. The population has increased from three millions of people’ to that of forty-five millions, with a present annual increase of one million. ‘The primitiveness of the then unexplored wilds-have so yielded to the benign influence of pioneer sagacity and enterprise ‘that the tilled acres have deserted their millions for their &undreds of millions—that,even what was then three thousand miles from fcivilization, has become the agricultural Eden of the West. The then unknown iron rail and elettric wire nagw cover, as & network, our Union’s broad domain. The East and West, the North and South may now commune. As the mighty forest oak sprang from the tiny embryo and became the symbol of strength and dignity, so did American liberty arise from an unrelenting fidelity to the cause of eternal right, and develop into a potent and exalted power among the nations of the earth. There have been times, however, in our country's history when the darkcloud of misfortune pended over her, portending national calamities ' and even her annihilation; but it-ever has lifted, leaving her in a better condition and with brighter prospects than before. - The Rebellion was a threatening heur for the star of republican freedom. Liberty’s support,the constituéional guarantee of the land, was in imminént danger of subversion, but treason in arms was conquered—adversity: yielded to fortune—and that star shone brighter than before, for it was now untarnished by the stain of human bondage. - Andif to-day our condition is not as favorable, and our ‘hopes for an immediate revival of trade are not as,: sanguine as they might be; if the general depreciation of values has materially affected the ‘business interests of the country in all the channels of commercial prosperity ; if we are threatened with a communistic uprising, the objset of which is the utter subversion of all law and order and a grasp at the helm of state, yet these form but temporary impediments to our national progress and prosfmerity. The great expanse of our Union’s fertile soil still untilled, its countless treasures of yet unearthed mineral wealth, the native ingenuity, energy, and patriotism of her citizens, and a government established upon the .imperishable principle that “all men are created free and egual,” will ‘now, as they ever haye done at other critical periods in her history, eventually impel her onward in her rapid development of national potency and grandeur. e

CORRUPTION IN CALIFORNIA.

The wonderful success of the Workingmen’s party in California, at the recentielection, is attracting considerable attention in political circles. The issues involved in that contest are not generally understood, but are likely to be pretty well ventilated in the near future. A leading San Frang§3oo journal thus speaks of the situation: “Our government has been ‘and still is extravagant. Promises of retrenchment have been made, but never kept. At a time when the State and city are progressing slowly, if at all, and property is rather depreciating than appreciating in value, the men in power add to our yearly expenses and in-. crease the rate of taxation. Taxes are thrust upon the people in every form. ' If a man has accumulated a little property he is taxed 40 per cent. of its income. If he has nothing, and wants to go into business, he must pay for the privilege and take: the chances of success. The average citizen works one-third of the time for government. Accumulating slowly, if at all, and paying largely of his earnings in the form of taxes, he sees the public money wasted on every hand. Large salaries, double and treble salaries, perquisites, stealings, are some of the wastes which he sees but eannot prevent.” [ ;

1f this terrible indictment is founded upon facts,~and we know nothing to the contrary,—no one need be surprised over the complete political revolution just witnessed in the Golden State. The people usually submit to a great deal of wrong and injustice betore *wreaking vengeance ‘upon faithless servants, but once thoroughly aroused, their blows are crushing. sl : ‘ ‘ T ) A — . ; _T¥ the people in this part of the State could have had a voice in the ‘nomination of a candidate for Congress in the Ft. Wayne District, the choice ‘would have fummum Col. 1, B. Me-

Congressional Convention.’

By advisement, the time for the National Greenback Labor Congressional Convention, for the Thirteenth Indiana District, is changed from the 18th inst. to the 17th of July next; to be held at Kendallville, at 10 o’clock A. », fomthe purpose of putting in nomination a candidate for Congress. - T. H. STEWART, Ch’'m Com. Kendallville, June 13, 1878.

THE DEKALB COUNTY DEMOCRACY.

The -Democrats of DeKalb met in county convention on the 22d of June —C. A. O. McClellan occupying the chair. The following nominations were made: | Sl

For Representative,Samuel S. Shutt; Clerk, Thomas (. Mays; Auditor, Cyrus C. Walters; Treasurer,. Daniel Gonser: Sheriff, Wesley 1. Work’; Coroner, James J. Latson; Surveyor, Jay J. Van Auken; Commissioners, Edward Kelham and John Shoub. Of thie above named gentlemen we are well acquainted with only two—‘Messrs. Shutt and Mays. T'lre former is weil fitted for the oflice of representative, being a man of extensive information, strong practical sense, and of the strictest integrity. Mr. Mays, for eight years editor of the A üburn Courier, is an energelic, progressive, genial sorbof man; amply&’q?alified for the office to which lLie aspires, and well calculated to prove an eflicient, popular officer. We hope to have the pleasure of announcing the triumphant election of both. |

- Tne Sapreme Court of °Michigan has' just decided that the fee-clausein mortgages and notes is null and void. The Court says: “A stipulation for such a penalty, we think, niust be held void. Itis opposed to the policy of our laws concerning -attorney’s fees, and it 13 susceptible of being made the instrument of the, most grievous wrong and oppression.”— South Bend Register. - e In Indiana thé Legislature, a few years since, passed a law the plain object of which was to do away with attorney fees in promissory notes. . But the act, like many others, was bunglingly drafted, and the courts, taking advantage of the author’s lack of legis)ative eapacity, practically made the law inoperative. Whenr the people throughout the State once reach the conclusion that qualiication and capacity are; as essential in a candidate for the Legislature as the possession of qualities that go to make a man “a good feilow,” we may expect legislation that will “stick” and that will not be annulled as soon as it comes under the s_crutir'iizing eye ‘of‘t.he Supreme Court. S . e

" Some predict that flour will be dowa to $4 per barrel. This will be bad for the farmer, but good for the mechanie.—Crawfordsville Journal. : ~* Are you quit'_e certain that extreme1y low prices for flour are réally good for the mechanic? Will such shrinkage in value not have a tendency, especially in an agricultural State like Indiana, to still further reduce wages and render employment more difficult -of obtainment ? Extremely low prices benefit none but those who least need itfig:an in inaependént’circums;ances .and money lenders. In acountrylike “this, carrying ‘an indebtedness of at 'least nine “thousand million dollars, ‘chiefly contracted at' war rates, extremely low prices for any kind of goods or commodities only aggiavate the great evils now upon us. It doubly taxes the energies of the industrial classes which, in the end, must bear the entire burden. . = ' .

Tur LaPorte Herald thus reports Congressman Calking’ response. to a demonstration of welcome upon his return from Washington: = : “He alluded to the many tnjust critieisms indulged in by the press against Congress, which. contains many able and pure-minded men, fully peers, of the- trained . legislators of the Old orld, and paid an eloquent tribute to the worth of Ewing, Garfield and Speaker Randall. Ie echaracterized the slander of the Chicago 7'imes (a charge of drunkenness) as an absolute and malicious falsehood. He thinks we are on the eve of a great revolution, whether peaceful or not depends on the people. He predicted the disintegration and final dissolution of parties,; counseled forbeéarance and kindly feeling, that life was too short for bitterness aund bickering; that doing right, and the consciousness of a life well spent, should be the first aim of all.” :

_Senator Hill says he will, in the next session of the Congress, champion a bill permitting States and ecorporations to issue paper money.—Ex. o Senator Hill be hanged. The people want no such stuff as that for a circulating miedium. What they do want, besides gold ard silver, is a sufficient quantity of full legal tender treasury notes (greenbacks) to meet the: business requirements of the country. The first thing to be done is to repeal Sherman’s absurd resumption act; the second, to substitute ‘greenbacks . for national bank bills; the third; to provide for the free coinage of silver; and the fourth, to gradually pay toff the bonds according to contract. * ; & :

_ Another important secession from the National Greenback party has occurred in Pennsylvania. Ex-Congress-man Armstrong, of that State, has abandoned the party and given in his adhesion to Republieanism. The ground of his action is that, in his Judgment, the Greenback organizatfon has come under the control of the Communistic element.—South Bend Register. ol The real cause of his action is that he failed to receive the nomination for Governor. Billy Armstrong is a. man of ability, but never has been, and probably nevexr will be, anything but- a republican trickster. 4 e— & A —— e . ‘The pVemocracy have called their Congressional convention to meet at: Valéiaralso, August 7, to nominate a candidate for Representative. It is pretty well understood that Morgan 11. Weir will be the nominee.—7aPorte Herald, s | If such should prove the cage, Major Calkin will be remanded to private Jife. Mr. Weir is in full sympathy with the people on the finance question which he has made a study for years, With that advaatigo in bis favor, we feel assured of his ability to carry the district by around majority,

THE ARCH-TRICKSTER.

Renewed Proof of Sherman’s Double Dealing and Treachery to the Pcople. 2

(Washington Correspondence to ‘(;hc Cincinnati ] : Eaquirer.) = . i

It seems to be impossible for John Sherman to be honest in his dealings with the people. It will be remembered that the House Dill for the repeal of the resumption act was amended by the Senate, or, rather, the Senate agreed to a'substitute making greenbacks receivable forthwith for the purchase of four per cent. bonds and for-the payment of custom dues after October Ist next. This substitute received the votes of so many hard-mon-ey men in the Senate that when it was sent to the House for its concurrence, the greenback men were apprehensive that there was some trick in it, for the reason that Secretary Sherman, as well as the President, approved the Senate substitute. It .was decided, therefore, to write Secretary Sherman, and request - from him a statement whether he would or would not use the proceeds of tlie sales of four per cents for Tesutiplion purposes. Accordingly :Congressman DPhillips,. of Kaunsas, wrote him two letters, asking that very pertinent question. The first reply was decidedly evasive, and. the seebnd, \\'h'i‘levlming less so, wus_"su'sceptible of the construction that he would use the greenbacks thus received for resumption purposes only. The greenback nien or the House very wisely foresaw that such an interpre-. tation of the law would act as a still further contraction of thie currency, and they refused to concur in the Senate substitute, although it was notice“able that nearly every Eastern Republican voted to concur. Sherman is now trying to turn the Phillips correspondence to a good political account. 'He has had the same printed at the expense of the publie, and it ig being circulated through the West and South at the public expense thro’ the mails, with an explanatory note aflixed that, while a Republican Senate offered this means of financial relief, a Democratic House reéfused to’ aceept it. Of course among the more intelligent .greenback constituencies. this will not have weight, but the obJject is to scatter this insinuation, unjustly conceived, broadcast, with the hope that the tares may fall onto ground where they will yield fruit. Sherman fails to add in this new political circular, that, had the House passed the bill as it came from the Senate, further contraction of the -currency would have gone on to the extent of the purchase of the.four-_per-cent. bonds with gréepbacks; and moreover, to state that, had the bill been concurred in, he had made an arrangement with a number of National Banks to take the loan, and thus almost at one fell swoop have contracted the currency many millions of dollars. The wisdom of General Ewing and other greenback leaders of the House .in refusing to bhave this trick of Sherman’s forced down their throat by passing tl‘lsgsenate bill now stands out pre-emineintly. ; ‘ eeO B 2 The Gentleman Who is Caught by the Short Hair. ' : (B:;’.timore Gazette.y James E. Anderson, the red-headed ‘man of destiny, rather prevailed over Stanley Matthews the other day. He refused to testify b%ore the Senatorial whitewash cominittee; and that committee having no power to compel to testify, had to adjourn and leave Matthews in his sables. The reason was this: Anderson has already confessed to matters that might subject him to a criminal prosecution. He has a right not to criminate himself before a hostile committee, where he will have no chance to:cross-examine “his adversary. In the Senate committee Matthews would haye it all hisown way, but in the Potter committee he and Anderson would both be on alevel or neutral ground. Matthews would be compelled to stand a cross-examin-‘ation and the bottom facts would come out. Stanley Matthews, with all his cunning, has now%otten himself in a worse fix than ever. He must go before the Potter committee. To refuseé to do so is suicide and suicide is confession. 4

A Stalwart Opinion of Mrs. Jenks. : ‘[3t. Paunl Poincet Presg.]

- ‘Some kind friend of Mrs. Jenks” should suggest to her that her appearances before the Potter Committee are dangerously prolonged. She testified once that the air of Washington had a bad effect upon her memory. This effect is bécoming so aggravated, it seems,. that she can not remember now the facts to what she testified two days ago. lence notable contradictions arise. In the mafter of the Sherman letter she sought to mystify the Committee by leading them to believe that Weber ‘was her associate in the forgery she confessed. Now she undertakes to carry the mystification further by distinetly announcing that Weber knew nothing of the forgery. In weaving this web of mystery, however, she seems to have permitted herself to make statements which to Louisiana people are palpably inconsistent, and discredit her whole story. Mrs, Jenks had better get out of the witness business while she has some little reputation left. : S rag

Information has been received of a most brutal and sickening outrage and murder: which oceurred in Pitt County, N. C.,, on Friday. Miss Lucy. Cox, a young and beautiful school teacher, was walking along the country road near the school, when, it appears, she ‘met a big buck nigger named Johnson. This fiend, for such he turned out to be, ravished her. He then cut open both of her breasts and fled. Itissupposed that Johnson left her for dead, but she managed to make her way to the school-house, whereshe left a note which was just legible enough to disclose the above facts. When the lady was found she was dead. The last words in the note were, “Burnhim.” It 18 reported that the negro was arrested. : i 5 : — et > —— gt The experts who are making an examination of the condition of the Stark Co.. (0.) Treasury, under orders of the Commissioners, have so far advanced with their work that an approximation of the amount stolen by George Fessler, the decamped Treasurer, can now besliown, Over $50,000 isshown as the deficit. TFessler is supposed to be in Canada, with $33,000 of county funds. L et el A e ot ~An Ohio Man, as Usual. [Pitisburg Post.] 4 The Ohio Democratic Convention showed itself unmistakably for Thurman, If he wasn’t an Ohio man! Jt's getting monotonous running the Government machinery that way and no other, B ; e el A i . Bring Forth the Artlst. . [NewOrleans Picayane. 5, As Mrs. Jenks will not talk out, the photographer who made a new copy of o Sherman it lould b fonn. -Hi@&emmmg,wl be in the negative. CrEs R T b R

~ GENERAL EWING. | He Reoeives the Thanks of the New . York Nationals. ' NEW YORK, June 26th.—A commit-. tee, composed of George W. Gibbons, ‘Walker H. Shupe and E. P. Miller, representing the National party, called upon Gen. Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, this evening, and thanked him for his opposiJtion to the resumption act, and congratulated kim on the defeat of the _deceptive Senate substitute bill in the House. By invitation from Peter Cooper, General: Ewing accompanied the committee to Mr. Cooper’s house, where a general conversation ensued upon the greenback question. General Ewing asked Mr. Cooper what ought to be done to insure a return-of prosperity to the American people. Mr. 1 Cooper replied that the time had eome when the American people would de'mand the establishment of justice.— ‘Without justice it would be impossible to secure domestic tranquility. The people were coming to understand that the money found in circulation as a_currency at the .close of the war had become the people’s money, over which theé Government had lost all control: except to tax it as so much property. The people will come to see that thé money was wrongfully taken from them, aud.converted into a national debt. ° Justice can not be established, and the general wellare promoted, without the return of the peoplé’s money by the purchase of all the Interest-bearing bonds of the government, and in that way putting an end to the national debt; by the payment of the bonds now due $1,500,00%()0 of the currency would be put int® eirculation which would flow into ‘dll the chanunels-of business like new blood to reinvigorate the whole commercial body.

MURDER AT ROANOKE.: An Old Man of Sixty-One Gives a Boy of : Eighteen His Death Blow.. The Trouble all Over a Glass of Beer. ¢’ (Ft. Wayne Senlinel. June2B.) = Last night about eleven o’cloek a bloody deed was perpetrated at Roanoke.' And old man named Robert Hilton keeps a small peanut shop and groggery near the depot in that village. At the hour named, three young fellows entered his place and called for beer. Hilton was slow about filling the order, and one of the boys, Wm. Kennedy by name, demanded that he hnrry and draw beer. Hilton responded that he would not be hurried, and immediately drew a.revolver and fired at Kenuedy. The ball entered the head just above the eye, producing a wound which is believed to be fatal. ey Hilton at oné¢e surrendered himself to the officers. This morning Judge Slack ordered his removal to the Allen county jail, and the sheriff of Huntington county arrived here with him at two this afternoon.. Ile was locked up in a cell at the jail. Hilton is about. sixty-one, and presents a seedy and desperate appearance. . . The sheriff says that when he left tor Ft. Wayne with Hilton, Kennedy was unconscious and believed to be dying. - He' is the son of a worthy widow, and is only about eighteen years of age. - - - !

e - —— e ANOTHER CONFESSION.

Eliza /yl'nkston’s Quickened Conscience Prompts : /l(er 1o Give Away the Visiting Statesmen.

" NEw Yoßrxk, June 29.—During the counting of the Presidential vote of Louisiana in New Orleans before the Returning Board in November, 1876, the country was startled by the introduction as a witness of a victim to ‘the savage Democratic’ bull-dozing of & dolored woman nameg Eliza Pinkston. She has since married again, and is living comfortably with her second husband in Mississippi. : Eliza related to a Herald reporter that she received $5OO for her appearance and testimony; thatshe was carefully instructed what to say before the visiting statesmen; ' that, though entirely able to walk, she was laid on a sofa, when she was about to enter the chamber of the Returning Board; that her testimony was false; that her husband- was murdered and she was assaulted, not by Democrats, as she testified then, but, as has alwaysbeen believed,by celored men who had threatened to kill her husband, and that the quarrel had nothing to do with politics. She was brought by Republicans from her home in New Orleans, and. instructed by them to pretend she was more seriously hurt than she was, and also instructed to lay the blawe of the Kkilling and assault on the Democrats. Her present husband testified to this story, which he has always heard from her. i

Fair Warning. (Chicago Post,)

. The effects predicted by friends and foes alike as certain to follow upon the passage of the silver bill have not been realized. The obvious reason is that the silver has not been put into circulation. The order to exchange silver dollars for greenbacks, which was issued by the secretary of the treasury, was svon rescinded. The products of the mint, is'being poured into the vaults of the treasury and there hoarded. Meanwhile the country, unwilling to hamper Mr. Sherman in his efforts to accumulate suflicient coin for resumption purposes, has without protest permitted ‘itself to be deprived of the coin for which it called so loudly a short time ago. But it is too much to expect that this course will be permitted much longer. The business of the conntry is prostrate, and the silver money is only needed to glive it a reviving impuise. Weare still doing business on a failing market. And sc long as that is true we must -look for more failures, more losses, and less inducement to. capital to engage in business. The operation of “natural causes” in re-establishing business is too slow, in fact those eauses are operating in the wrong way. More money must be had, and if the coin is not furnished, or if furhished it does not afford relief, an impetus will be given to the greenback movement which it will be very difficult to resist. It will be W(:,é},f’or Mr. Sherman, and well for th€ country, if the silver begins to circulate before the fall elections, . ' o ‘ e : ~ 'The Great Railroad King. '

On Monday of last week the Michigan Central road passed into the hands of Wm. H. Vanderbilt. The annual election was held in Detroit, and at the start it was believed that the Vanderbilt party had nou secured a controlliug iuterpst, but tke result showed they held two-thirds of the stock vofed, W.H. Vanderbilt was elected president and hisson, Cornelius, treasurer. Vanderbilt has been trying to get control of the Michigan Central for the past two years, as by so doing he would control the whole railroad system east of Chicago, and be able to dictate his own terms, lle had already obtained control of the Canada Sguthern. He has designs now, it is said, on the Great Western, and if he secures it, will cutoff the Grand Trunk from any western outlet. To the ayerage railroad man it looks as 1f Vanderbilt had a monopoly of :the busis ness.~South Bend T'ribune, A

~ Indiana News ltems. < Burt Smith, of Goshen, while working Thursday errning",fifell from a scaffold and received fatal injuries, from which he died in the afternoon. - Steps have been taken to organize a cremation society at Indianapolis. The resurrectionists are jeffacing the prejudices against this method of disposing of the dead. B * The work of the Congress just closed may be summed up in the following: There were 6,600 bills introdueced, and 340 passed, of which only 140 ‘were public measures. ' According to a decision recently rendered by Judge +Perkins, of the Supreme Court, it is not unlawfnl for a billiard room proprietor to permit minors to indulge in the game of bil« liards when nothing is staked upon the result of the game. % e ‘A well-to-do farmer by the name of Burroughs, living near Winnamace, recently committed the dastardly act of refusing to support his aged mother, and caused her to be remoyed to the Poor Heuse. 'And yet such men as Beec'her and Ingersold say there is no hell! : e ¢ .

At I’ly‘ujouth, on Sanday, while out riding, DrJ J. M. Jennings was seriously, and probably fatally, injured by a herse running away, throwing him violently to the: ground. . His head struck on a curb-stone, making a deep scalp wound. He also had two ribs broken. : : * . i

A Kosciusko county:farmer was recently taken in $5OO worth by a hay fork swindler. Good enough; we no longer have any sympathy for wen who are such blasted fools as to bite at a swindle that has been exposed by every newspaper in the land.— Wabash Courier. : ,

The annual report of the Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago Railroad to the Autitor of State was made last week. 1t reports property to the amount of $791,683 in the class called “railroad track.” The rolling-stock amounts to $255,230. The company owns 146 miles of track in Indiana. ' The capital stock amounts to $12,000,000, of which but $2OO is ownédin this State.

A small boy in Greenfield, last week, was the vietim of an outrageous piece of scoundrelism. He picked up a small tin blacking-box in the rear of a saloon; and when he *attemped to open it half his face was blown off by dynamite and powder, with which the box was filled. Four caps had been so arranged as to explode thebox. No clue to the perpetrator of the outrage has been obtained.

A shooting affray took place at Roavoke on the 27th, about fifteen minutes past eleven o’clock. Wm. Kennedy. Robert Tate, and -Vietor Vincent were in a saloon at that place. One of the number called for the beer, and Kennedy told Hilton, the saloon-keep-er, to hurry up. He said he was not going to be hurried by any one, and pulled out'a revolver and shot Kennedy. The shot will prove fatal. =

Ben. Harrison’s Insult to the Nationals. [erre Haute Express, National.] :

~Gen. Ben. Ilarrison is the chosen leader of the Indiana Republicans. He is their candidate for the Senate. Ile presided over their convention yesterday. He sounded the key-note of their campaign, and this is one of his utterances: :

“Demagogues say that. a species of _money called fiat money is the money of the poor man. We have no asylum Jor idiots in. Indiana, but I think it would be well for the next Legistature to turn its attentionin that direction.”’

We put that in black letters for the greenback men of Indiana to read. We want them to remember it. It would be well fo cut it out and show it around, and keep it for reference. Bear in mind that it is the first duty of the greenback men of Indiana to see that Gen. Ben. Harrison is beaten for the United States Senate.. Charles Sumner ‘once said thap Stephen A. Douglas could not be-President because he-pronounced negro nigger.— T.et it be understood that the man who travels out of the way to insult the greemback men of Indiana can never be elected to the United States Senate from this State. Harrison was the last Republican ' candidate for Governor. He had a good deal of prestigelwhen he started, and very. little when he ended. He undertook the discussion of the financial guestion, and he demonstrated that he had never given one day’s study to the subject. He peddled the exploded “milk: ticket” argument over the State, and he doubtless thinks that it is still’ sound. He . thinks that the whole greenback cause can be baftled by a sneer. He scoffs at “fiat money,” and. in the next breath he bewails the fact that laboring men are swindled with Mexican dollars, worth only 95 cents. The Mexican dollar has three grains more of silver than the American dollar, worth 100 cents. What but the “fiat”’ of the government makes the inferior dollar worth the most? Let him ponder that question over seriously, and he will come to know a good deal more thah he did when he got up to make his silly speech. _ B

Packard and Hayes. (Cincinnati Enquirer.)

- Governor Packard said,in testifying before the Potter Committee, that he | believed his title to the Governorship’ of Louisianh as good as that of President Hayes to the Presidency. Ile believes that if the President had supplied him with troops the opposition would soon have died out. Packard. ig right so far as being able to crush out all oppogition to himself if he could have had the aid of the army. Louisiana was kept under -for years. by that branch of the Federal service, but President Hayes thought it just as well to give the people of that State a chance of selecting theirrulers.

That Bulldoze Lie. (New York San.)

Tom Jenks was one of the witnesses by whom John Sherman expected to prove that there was a reign of terror in the, Feli((:;%was during the period of registration and electionin 1876, but when Jenks came to testify he had to admit that he was in the parish Oi(;)}/East Feliciana only two days ‘before the day of election, and when asked to enumerate acts of violence and intimidation on the part of the Democrats, he could not name one later than the Kkilling of John Gain, which occurred fully 18 months before the presidential election.

- Who She Is, 0 - ; (Pittsburg Post.) Mrs. Jenks, the now famous witness, is Scotch-Irish by descent, and was b in the north of Ireland. Her father’s name was Murdock, and he drowned while in the confederate army, near New Orleans. - Her mother was a doctress, and practiced quite extensively among the poorer class of politicians. = -~ 3 : Bk

A portion of atunnel near Schwelm, Germany, fell Friday night, burying twenty-seven persons. Seven bodies have been recovered. Search for the others continues. : A shoe-maker named Hicks, committed suicide Saturday at Bowers: ville, Qhio, by taking laudanum. Financial difficulties is the supposed gauMe, ekt

~ THE OHIO DEMOCRACY. . A Strong Ticket and Sound Plat- . The Democrats of Ohio met in State cconvention June 265 h. Gen. Durbin /Ward, hitherto a pronounced hard money man, was elected permanent chairman, and on taking thé chair, delivered a most eloquent speech in support of the g/véenbacg‘ doctring and in bitter denurciation of the Shermanresumption poliey,. [ o 0 ‘A popular ticket was nominated, composed of the following named gen« tlemen: Secretary of State, David R. ‘Page, of Summit eounty; “Supreme ‘ J udge, A. F. Hume, of Butler county; Member of the Board of Pablic Works, Tgsh Fleld of Maashald = =

'The following platform was adopted amidst great cheering and with entire unanimity: o g ‘The’ democratic ‘party of Ohio, in convention assembled, hereby reaflirms the following clauses in the platform' of the convention of July 23, 1877,indorsed, by a majority of amore bthan 22,000, last fall by the people -of Ohio. We renew its pledges of devotion to the Union and the Constitution, with the Amendments. It declares as essential to the preservation: of' free Government a faithfal adherence’ to the following principles: A . strict construction of home rule; the supremacy of the civil over the military ‘power;separation of church and State; equality of all citizens before the law; liberty of individual action, unvexed by sumptuary laws; absolute acquiescence in the lawfully expressed will of the majority; apposition to.all snbsidies; the preservation of the public lands for the use of actual. settlers, and the maintenarice and perfecting of the common school system. As pertinent to the issues now pending before the people: £l Resolved, ' That an investigation .of frauds committed at the last Presidential election in Florida and. Louis--lana ought to have been made by the Electoral Commission. Itsrefusal to do so was in violation of the spirit of the law under which it was organized and |a gross outrage upon the people 3,f the United States, and whiie the lecision, as made by the Forty-fourth Congress, of the question .as to:who shjuld be declared President of the Ugited ' States for- the present Presidefitial term was, in our judgment, final, that decision ought not to preclude an authentie investication and exposure of all frauds connected with that election, and thé due accountability of all who were guiltily concerned with them. : i G S

Resolved, The commercial and:in-. dustrial ‘stagnation that has so long prevailed throughout the country and the consequent depression and suffer~ ing are due directly to the perniciouslegislation: of the -<republican party, which we hereby arraign for its acts. and charge: - First, That at the time when the country was weighed down with debt, created on a basis ¢f a full | volpme of paper added t 6 both the Jprecious metals as money, it enacted a sweeping change in the measure of value wholly in the interest of moneyed capital by demonetizing silver and . decreeing the destruction of legal-ten~ der paper, and thereby wrongfully added, in effect, hundreds of millions to the burden of the debt and taxes upon the people. Secondly; by pursuingits merciless policy of contracting the paper currency and hoarding gold, it has increased, continuously, the value of money and securities that partake of the enhancement of money, and decreased the value of all other property, and especially of capital designed for productive use and required for the employment of labor, thus repressing instead of fostering industry ; com-~' pelling idleness instead 'of sustaining frade'and commerce, and now this party in Ohio puts. forward in, its platform the declaration that the financial question has been settled.. We deny this declaration, and while we .congratulate the country that the downward course to bankpuptey and ruin -involved in the republican policy has. been partially averted by 'the Democratic measures passed at the late sesgion’ of Congress, restoring the debt:paying power to silver dollars, madea law in spite of the Presidential ‘veto, and stopping the further destruection of greenbacks, we demand as further acts of justice, as well as measures of ‘relief, the absolute repeal of the Resumption Act and the liberation of" the coin hoarded in the Treasury; the removal of all restrietions to the coin-: age of silver and re-establishment of silver as a‘money metal the same as gold—the same 4as;it. was before its fraudulent demonetization; the grad- | ual substitution of United States legal‘tender paper for National Bank notes, and ‘its permanent establishment as the 'sole paper money of the country, made receivable for all dues to the Government, and of equal tender withcoin, the amount of such issues to be | so regulated by legislation or organic’ law -as to give the péople an assurance. of the stability in volume of currency | and consequent stability of value; no further Increase in the bonded debt and no further sale of bonds for the purchase of coin for resumption purpeses, but the gradual extinetion of the public debt; rigid economy : and the reduction of expendifures in-all branches of the public. service, and taniff for revenue only.. . .=~ o Resolved, That the interests of the industrial wealth-producing classes is the paramount interest of the people of the United States. Those whose labar and enterprise produce wealth should be secure ‘in its enjoyment.— Our warmest sympathy is-extended to the laboring classes who have been thrown out of employment by the ruinous financial policy and unjust legislation of the republican party, and we pledge the democratic party to a reversal of that policy and a restor-: ation of all the rights they are entitled to upon its ascendency to.power, = ~ Resolved, That there can be no legitimate employment-of organized force in this country except to execute law: and to maintain the-vnblifizpéz@@efii% lab | no violence should be countenanced to obtain redress for any alleged griev- | ance, but should be repressed at every | cost, until relief can be secured. by le- | gal methods. We congratulate -the country on the adoption of the con- | stitntional and pacific wfi@?@mi -’ government in the gtatesflme South, so long advocated by the democratic party, and which has brought peace %}rdif ‘harmony to that section-of the. ndon. o e : ‘:‘." J ;'3“":5 ».,-:5:2"‘:_;

: Grant and Hill, W (Bg]timore,(}az'etfté,)- el " 1f it should turn out that Ben. Hill saved the country from anarchy and civil. war during the electoral count, by repressing the Southern members of Congress, something will haveto be done for him. - He would look well as a candidate for Vice President on the ticket with Grant, Tt would be a ticket cowposed entirely of savers of hecountiy, - oot e 5 R e S e RO * Don’t Swallow the Seeds, = . INDEPENDENCE, Mo., June 18;—Ed-~ ward Robinson, a young man of this glwdifld quite sudde %% Sunday From tha efects of swallowing herry stopes, . o 0 00l Sl g S N R e

5o Becondof July, South Bend Register] = . ; _This day, the second of July, is the | troe birthday of American liberty.— On this day, one ‘hundred and two years ago, Lee's resolutions declaring the separation of the colonies from the mother country to be an accomplished fact, passed the Continental Congress. ’l‘h.@!-deé)‘arat‘:iop of the act, passed two days afterwards, was quite a subordinate affair; but somehow it got the anniversary, instead of the act of prime importance. - Tt o . THE MARKETS.: . 1 oo LIGONIRR, 0y - _GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, amber, 93¢; Rye, 50c; Oats, 21c; Corn, 30c; flax seed, ~—— timothy seed, $1 75. - ProDUCE.—Hogs; live, ¥ cwt 83 00; Shoulders, per pound, 06¢; Hams, 06c; Bees Wax, 25c; Butter, 08; Lard, 07¢; Eggs, ¥ doz,, 8c; Wool, 1b,20@ ©oc; Feathers, —— Tallow, 06c; Apples, dried,s¢; Potatoes,so; Peaches, dried, 06¢c; Ilay, tame, $8; marsh, $6. : -+ 'CHICAGO, July 2, 1878. - GRAIN' AND SEEDS. — Wheat, 89;° Corn, 36%3¢; Dats,23% c; Rye, 4814 c; Barley, 48¢; Clover Seed, $4 15@4 403 Timothy, $1 00@125; Flax, $1 25, PRODUCE.~Mess Pork, B cwt, 8912 @ 915; Lard, $6 80@6 8214 ; Hams, green, 03 @ 09'5¢c; Shoulders, 043;c; Butter, good, 17@19, choice, 12 @ 14; Eggs, P doz., 10c; Potatoes, 56@60c. Flour, per bbl., &5 75@6 00; Bran, per ton, 89 [email protected]. L . PouLTßY.—Turkeys, dresSed, ® b, 8¢; Chickens, ¥ doz. $2 50. i | - TOLEDO.—JuIy 2, 1878. - GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, amber, Michigan, $1 03 ; Corn, 373 ¢; Oats, 27.° . LIVE STOCK MARKETS. . CHICAGO, July 2.—CATTLE, graded, steers, 85 00@5 25; choice beeves, $430@4 75 ; medium grades, $3 80@$4 25 ; butchers’ stock, $3 25@5375; stock cattle, $2 75@%53 50. ’ e * Hoes.—Light weights, :$3.00@4 10; choice heavy $390 @ 420; packing hogs, $4 00@$4 10. SHEEP.~—Choice $2 50@4 00; fairto good, 83 50@375. e . BU¥FavLe, July 2.—Cattle, Ship’ing, $420@4 80; Sheep, $3 25@375; Hogs, good heavy $4 40; light s3'7o. - e Adbertisements, - THIS PAPER IS ON FILE WNH | OPROWELI s, ; R S =P | s it (=8 INGTACENT S : SO ~Where Adveriising Contracts can be mauds Pl e e NEWSPAPER - ADVERTISING

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