The National Banner, Volume 13, Number 17, Ligonier, Noble County, 15 August 1878 — Page 2

The Fationial Binner ! ik ! '“/ma‘.i'i ; sz e pßenCh ki « ; set 2 +GI g ; 7 ";\ T | ¢ ‘\\‘\ 5 e | 3 Q:\',,\\_‘ e Y § i 7. B. STOLL, Editor and Proprietor. 4 e ! : 7 2 LIGONIER, IND,, AUG. 15th, 1878. ,___._._—-——v-—-————————'———_"'?—_—-" ' wNo man worthy of the office of Fresident should be willing to hold it if counted in or placed there by fraud.”—U, 8. GrANT, \ a "Pemocratic Congressional Con‘vention. | RS R i . Notice is heréby given that a delegate convention of the! Democrats of the 13th Congressional District, and all others in said district who subscribe to the principles enunciated through the Democratic Stafe Platform, adopted- at indianaﬁ’olis on the 20th of last February, will be held at KENDALLVILLE, On Tuesday, August 20th, 1878, At 100’clock, A. ~ for the purpoge of nominating a candidateé for Congress, and for the trans--antien of such other business as may be presented. In accordance with the basjs of representation heretofore established the several counties are entitled to send the following number of delegates to raid convention:( : KeKalb....i:oiinns .26 1 KOBCINBKO & s e saaosn BT Lagrange,; ... e ..«-12]INableiiscadvoin i, 2 87 E1khnrt.......j..,....31”5tenuen.............. 8 Marshall .ci..c.......28 By authority of the Congressional Central Committoe, Q O, A.O. MoCLELLAN, Ck'n. |

POLITICAL EXCITEMENT is beginning to run high in the southern and central part of the State. Ilerein the North people do more thinking and less blowing. S

PoriTicraNs should ever remember

“ that dignity and honor is as essential !, in a properly conducted ‘campaign as tin any other transaction. © Mud-throw--ing ought to be discountenanced by ~every good citizen. - ; '

/I 1 19 eLAIMED that the Nationals of 'New York have been captured by the {Tammany chief, John Keliy, and that they areto be used to return Coukling to the Senate. ' Boss Kelly and Adonis .Conkling are said to have formed an alliance.’ 0 . iy

, BEN. BUTLER, it. will be noticed, bids adieu to the republican’ party.— He will probably be the workingmen’s candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, expecting to receive suflicient aid and cemfort from the Dgmocrats to elect him. i o]

BiuLy WILLiAMs has turned his back on'the people’s cause and now espouses the Shylock and national bank policy. ‘As a reward for his somersault he expects to be made the republican candidate for Congress two yeaxs hence. : g

- WE have carefully read Gen, Ben. Harrison’s Richmond key-note speech, and in all candor must pronounce most of its arguwments fallacious and susceptible of easy refutation. There is just enough plausibility about it to deceive and mislead the superficial reader, el e

Tae New York Sun has information thatthe Greenbackers are likely to wield a “disturbing influence” in -the Twenty-ninth, Twenty-fifth, Thirtieth, Erie, Oswego, Montgomery and Otsego districts. Some of the New York city districts-are also believed to be in more or less doubt, from the same causes, - i

| DENNIS KEARNEY, the chief of the ,+ - California workingmen’s party who came East to “enlighten” his fellow- . workingmen of Massachusetts on their ' duties as citizens, has been making a number of vindictive and ill-temper-‘ed speeches, ' The success which at- - | tended his operations in California . has evidently turned the young.man’s ~ head. Inflated with ideas of his great- .. ness and inwportance, he indulges in expressions and ‘denunciations that

cannot possibly comn%end themselves to men of good judgments i

- | TEE congressional dis trict commit- | tee of the National Greenback Labor . party met at Rome'City yesterday.— Four counties were represented, yiz: Noble, Thomas L. Graves; Lagrange, J. R, Rheubottom; Steuben, B. F. Dawson; Elkhart, A.N. Chamberlain. ‘Col. Wm. C. Williams was placed in ‘nomination for Congress, receiving the -votes of Messrs. Graves, Chamberlain, -and Rheubottom. Mr. Dawson de‘clined fo vote, he being in favor of - calling & convention to fill the vacancy - occasioned by the declination of Judge Tousley, « v &

THE Mexican dollars were put in - circulation by national and some pri~ ‘vate bankers for the double purpbse of rendering silver odious and profiting by their redemption. The people received them for 100 cents, ‘but now the bankers take them for only 90 cents. The people lose 10 cents on every Mexican dollar,and the bankers * who set this foreign coin into circulation pocket the profit. This operation is simply an outrage. But it ought to set the people to thinking--ought to im- " press them with the necessity of having mnothing but full legal tender money, 2 L

CONGRESSMAN BLACKBURN, of Kentucky, is reported as having expressed himself thus on theé political situation: “The coming election will be the first instance of a great pitehed battle along the skirmishing lines. If welose, our defeat in the fight for a President will follow.” Mr. Blackburn said the Na- ~ tional party would be a potent factor in the elections. Its principles had ‘become popular and its strength 'will extend, but as a general thing it will not bother the Democrats. :lle further remarked: “The Nationals’ ‘movenent is also assuming a communtic phase wherever it is strongest. 5:?;&:10 the surest way of killing it. The sending of Kearney to the East as their apostle will also hurt them. 1n the mm&or;uis fanatic the people will see the dangerous proclivities «or ig Blanton Dancan, who Hever did a stroke of work in his life, Their

DEMOCRATIC EGONOMY VS. RADICAL

PROFLIGACY,

The Democratic Congressional Com‘mittee at Washington has prepared a comparative table of appropriations ‘made by a Republican Congress with the appropriations made since there has been a Democratic majority in the House,; which it is meant that every doubtful voter shall have opportunity to peruse and every speaker to read to the people. i The public debt of the United States reached its highest fizure in August, ‘1865, when it was, less bonds issued to the Pacific railroads and less cash in the Treasury, $2,756,431,571.43, of which sum there bore interest $2,381,530,204.96. The total public debt, less cash in the Treasury and bonds issued to Pacific railroads, on July 1, 1878, was $2,035,786,831.82, of which sum ‘bearing interest. was $1,800,330,210.26. The expenditures for the year endin'g’.l‘l)mc 30,1875, were.......... 5171,529 848 57 -For year ending June 30, 1876... ... 184,857,813 36 For year ending Jane 30,1877...... 144,209,963 28 For ynnren(ling June 30, 1873...... 134,473,452 15 Net ordinary expenditures, 1875-6.5336,387,661 93 | Net ordinary expenditures, 1877-8. 278,683,415 43

Total gaving by Democratic H0u5e.557,704,246 50 -The expenditures of the United States, exclusive of pensions, public debt principal and interest and premiums for the ten years from June 30, 1867, after the war, to June 30, 1876, were $1,528,917,137.87. The expenditures for ten years prior to the war, from June 30, 1852, to June 30, 1861, were $572,872,260.562, an increase of $950,044,877.35. Since the Democrats have cpnti‘olled the House, if apprcpriation bills had passed the Senate as passed by the House $114,788,289.92 would have been saved over the Republican appropriations for the four years previous to 1876. The actual saving oh appropriations by the House for the two terms in which Democrats were in a majority is $88,276,256.47.

NATIONAL ’GREENBACK COUNTY CON- . VENTION. : ; . The National Greenback Labor party of Noble county met in cqijunty con-. vention at Albion last Saturday. Nelson Prentiss was elected chairman, and J. P. Chapman secretary. =~ In the afternoon the following ticket was nominated by acclamation :- Representative—Nelson Prentiss, of Albion. 0, oo Auditor —W. W. Skillen, of Rome City. ' . Treasurer—Rev. Wm. Waltman, of Sparta township. Sheriff—George T. DBrothwell, of Orange township. . Surveyor—A. P. Frink, of Kendallville. , Coroner—John B. Pepple, of Albion. County Commissioners—George T. Ulmer, of Washington twp., for the southern district, and H. H. Haines, of Avilla, for the ‘middle district. ' COUNTY COMMITTEE: . Washington—Wm. N. Voris. ' Sparta—Spaulding McMann., Perry—John W. Higginbotham. . Elkhart—lsaac Tibbott. S York—Jonas Bowman. : Noble—(to be appointed) Green—Henry R. Veasy. ; Jefferson—David A. Schaff. Orange—EDEN . FlSHER,chairman. Wayne—Charles MeMillan. Allen—Nelscn Drake. . Swan—Robert Taylor. | Albion—sB, C. Hardenbrook. . On motion the county' central committee was authorized to fill all vacancies, and also to nominate a candidate for joint representative.

A resolution was adopted recommending the nomination of Col. Wm. C. Williams for Congress, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the declination of Judge Tousley. i

Republican Doctrine in 1874,

Gen. Harrison accuses the gemocratic party of inconsistency on the financial question. The Ft. Wayne Sentinel remarks that the General perhaps fails to remember that the republican party which now favors contraction and resumption, was yelling for inflation but four years ago, as will beseen from the following plank in the State Republican platform of 1874 :

We are in favor of such Jegislation on questions- of finance as shall make national banking free, and shall furnish the country with such an additional amount of currency as will-be. necessary. to meet the wants of the agricultural, industrial and commercial int%re,sts of the country, to be disturbed between the sections according to populaticn, and such as is consistent with the credit and honor of the nation, and will avoid the possibility of permitting capitalists and combinations of capital from controlling the currency of the country.

GREENBACKS and the standard silver dollar are legal tender money. They can’t be scaled by bankers: and brokers. They must be received for 100 cents on the dollar. This is the | reason why the Money Power had shaped legislation so ag to get rid of both. National bank notes are not a legal tender, but are redeemable in greenbacks. Wipe out the greenbacks, and coin remains the only legal tendermoney. National banks have managed to send their bills far away from sheir respective localities, so as to render it practically impossible to present their issues for redemption at their counters. These national bankers are sharp fellows. They know how to “fix things.” _ L

THE PASSAGE of the subjoined resolution, at the recent Kosciuskocounty republican convention, will perhaps convince some of our republican friends in this locality that the demand for a reduction of the legal rate of irterest is not confined to the Democracy alone: ‘ i ,

Resolved. That as values of everything have so greatly depreciated in the last half dozen years, that the rates of interest upon money should correspond with the general depreciation of values, and that the legal rate of interest should agree with the rates regulated by the courts—at six per cent., per annum. ; -

Wheat in Kansas,

KANsAs Crty,”Mo., August 12.—A great deal has been said about the failure of crops up in Nebraska, lowa and the Northwestern States, but the products of Kansas this year are something almost unheard of. ' The wheat crop is especially fine, and at the present time the Kansas Pacific railroad is bringing to this city over 100 car loads daily, all of which has been raised on land adjacent to the railroad. It grades above the average, and will add millions to the wealth of“droughty Kangas.” ' : : :

Republican Congressional Con- : vention. ; Tranimouns Re-Nomination of Hon. John H. Baker. ' The convention was called to order dt Kendallville, on the 14th of August, at 10 o’clock A. M., by the chairman, Hon. H. G. Thayer, by reading the call of the convention. ! ‘ “_ On motion of M. F. Shuey, of Elkhart, the convention then proceeded at once to a permanent organization,and J. D. Farrel, of LaGrange county, was chosen chairman, and Q. A. Hossler, of the Warsaw Republican, and J. P. Heatwole, of the Middlebury. Record, were chosen Secretaries. -On motion, all the republican editors of the District who were present were appointed assistant secretaries. On motion, the roll was called, and the following Vice Presidents chosen: Steuben, J. W. Thomas; Noble, Capt. H,lddings; Elkhart, M. F. Shuey; LaGrange, J. P. Jones; DeKalb, J. R. Cosper; Kosciusko, Wm. Cosgrove; Marshall, J. ‘M. Hesss ' : !

The convention then proceeded to the nomination of Congressman, and Hon, H. G. Thayer- placed the Hon. John H. Baker in nomination, and J. P. Jones moved that it-be made unanimous, which was done amid cheers.

Mr. Baker was called for and responded with a dpeech which was loudly applauded. i T " On motion of Dr. Rerick, of the LaGrange Standard, it was resolyved that the chairmen of the several county republican’committees, act in connection with Hon. H. G. Thayer, member of the State Central Committee of this District, as a Congressional Committee. :

On motion of Hon. J. H. Defrees, the convention adopted theresolutions of the State Convention, held at Indianapolis in June last. * ° . - On motion of Js . Jones, the time and place of holding the next convention was left with the Congressional Committee. :

- On motion of C. K. Baxter, of the Waterloo Press, the convention adjourned. L .

After the adjournment -of the congressional convention the delegates from Elkhart and LaGrange counties met in judieial convention and r@ominated W. A. Woods, of Goshen; for Cireuit Judge, by acclamation; and James S. Drake, of LaGrange, for Circuit Progecutor. '

The delegates from Elkhart and Noble counties met in joint representative convention, and unanimously nominated lon. J ohn E. Thompson, of Elkhart county, for joint representative. ; . 425 —— ) - E—— e £ REVOLT AGAINST GODLOVE S ORTH, .The nomination of Godlove S. Orth for Congress has created considerable of a disturbance in the republican ranks of the Ninth District. An anti-Orth club has been organized at Crawfordsville, and Gen. Lew Wallace has published a manifesto from which we extract the following: - — - The purpose of the Republicans who have agreed to engage in the organization of Republican Anti-Orth Clubs, in 'this and other counties of the Ninth District, is by such organization to work more efficiently and thoroughly for the Republican State and county tickets. In other words, we propose to print and veote our own tickets, which will be Republican entire, except that tife name of a eandicate for Congress shall be omitted. More plainly we cannot vote for Mr. McCabe, because he i 3 a Democrat; nor for Mr. Orth, because, in our judg‘ment, he is unworthy and unfit to represent us in Congress. @~

*. % * x Tn course of time there will be occasion to state the reasons for our opinion .on this point collectively and in full; enough for the present that the cause which impelled the republican party of Indiana to shake Mr. Orth’s name ignominiously. from Its last State ticket, remains now exactly as then, without denial, without explanation; and for this good reason—explanation consistent with official rectitude is impossible in his case, while denial is not within even his audacity. If now we presume to shake his name off the present ticket, we simply -do what| the Républican opinion of the whole State heretofore required and has done; and, the-justi-fication still remaining, there is much cheer for us in that standard and honorable example. ;

National Nominations in Allen County. At their county convention last Saturday, the Nationals of Allen county made the following nominations: | State Senator, Jas. S. Carr; Representatives, Jas. Ross and F.W. Underhill; Prosecuting Attorney, S. F. Swayne; Clerk, J. S. Batchelder ; Treasurer, J. A. Fisher; Auditor, G.N. Worley; . Recorder, Joshua Kaywood; County Commissloners, D. Giesking and G. I. Haswell; Coroner, J. Dreibelbiss.

Among the resolutions adopted the following 1s of speeial merit-and importance: b

Resolved, That we plédge ourselves, as a party, and shall require our Senator and Representatives to pledge themselves to do all in their power to reduce the rate of interest in the State to 6 per cent. and to abolish forever the law authorizing the enforcement of attorney fee stipulation in notes, contracts and bills of exchange.

The Elkhart Democracy.

-The convention of the Elkhart county Democracy, last Saturday, was a harmonious affair. Judge Osborn acted as chairman, The following ticket was nominated :

For Auditor, C.D. Henkel; Clerk, M. M. Gallentine; Treasurer, Aaron Work ; Sheriff, Wm. B. Garman; Recorder, William Miller; Commissioners, George Milburn and Joseph Zollinger; Surveyor, Henry Cook; Coroner, Jerry Bowen. . o

A resoiutieﬂ :wrae adopted endorsing' J. B. Stoll as a candidate for Congress

Those papers that were so keen in censuring Judge Tousley, for what they were pleased to call his ‘manipulation of the greenback party congressional convention,” will now see that they indulged in a line of criticism without knowing what they were talk.ing about. The Democrat who cannot indorse Judge Tousley’s sentiments as expressed in his letter of declination, ‘has some other motive thanserving ‘the Democratic party. If there are any better Democratic sentiments than those contained in that letter of ‘declination, we-confess our ighorance of them.— Warsaw Union,

EPISTLES OF ADAM CHRISTIE.

A Tribute to The Banner.—Mr. Mahin Review. edl.—A Word for the Demoeracy, &c., &e¢.

MR. STOLL:—I presumeé my paper will come with an X marked on it this week ; therefore enclosed you will find fifty cents to renew my subscription to the brave old BANNER. : - There has been. many a hot day on this earth sifice ‘you have heard from me last: Old Mother Earth has truly sent forth her increase abundantly, even in these parts where many live that say they put their trust in the great “I am,” which I hope they do; but as actions speak louder than words, I believe they don’t care anything about God, neither do they regard man.

‘My fellow-countrymen, and especially those that write, speak, and talk upon the topics of the day, have a big task to perform if they please all. I, for one, am not satisfied the way Mr. ‘Mahin followed Mr. Ingersoll in his | logic. Now, Mr. Mahin, as you have failed to show us what or who a rich man is, please let me inform you who' heis. A truly rich man is one that has the love of God, his fellow-man and his country burning in his soul, and anything short of this man fails to be rich or happy. Ingersoll 'saysno rich man that rides in a carriage will ever go to hell. How can they go to hell when there. is no such place, as Ingersoll claims? He knows no more about it than many others, Another item I would like Mr, Mahin to explain, and that is of infidelity being of the heart and not of the head. As weare: informed that man is blessed with the five senses, which is seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, smelling, and thosel are so minutely and scientifically connected that their werkings are past finding out by man. But, blessed be God, we all have a right to our opinions about those matters; therefore I differ with Mr. Mahin, for in the first place thought takes place in the head .or brain and then penetrates the heart, which is the seat of life, and if it is a good thought it will produce a good deed or action, and if an evil thought it- will produce a bad deed. This is as natural as it is for the sparks to fly from smitten steel. We read in the holy writ: “Young man, remember ‘thy creator in the days of thy youth while the evil days comes not nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them.” fWell;S now, my friendly readers, look if you please how many there are that commit suicide, and how many discontented people we find. Now, Mr. Mahin, ‘in your next please give us an understanding of what and how infidelity ~originates. If I had time and space I - would like to give you my opinion on it, but may that true light which cometh from above give you a clear conception of its origin and then reveal unto us the same, which I would like you to do at an early date, and you will oblige me, yours with respect. Now, Mr. Editor, a'few words to you. THE BANNER came last night, but no mark of expiration onit. You can bet your trade dollar that I was pleased to see your name mentioned as a candidate for-Congress, but you informa the Greenbackers that I am down on their side issue. Democracy islike Methodism if it was ever good, it is good now, and it would be better if better lived up to. . “ " Mr. Stoll, I was pleased to read your Fourth of July oration. They must read and travel before they can better it . ' - : ‘The old settlers’ pic-nic takes place next Thursday, in Ottawa. A good time is expected. ; Health is good in this vicinity as yet. I hope it is the same ‘with you. As ever yours with respect, i e . * APAM CHRISTIE.

_ ! ELKHART LOCALS. -~ Farmers are having difficulty plowing other than stubble ground, in consequence of dry weather. Every season has its rain, its dry weather, and this is not very remarkable. Then let us as farmers be not in too great a hurry, and the season probably will yet be all right. = Mankind very frequently is a little in advance of what the Supreme Being has designed for his good, and after murmering and much tribulation by the people, time brings all right. 'So with political matters. ~ There are some leaders always in a hurry, gtry to rush things to a consummation, and sometimes. are successful. Buu when the solemn deliberation of the people is felt, political quacks, political wire-pullers tremble, for it is a fact that the common people have been sold out, haye been wronged so frequently that they are trying to raise the standard of politics to that of principle. And in my humble judgment if the proper men, men of principles, be not nominated, that two-thirds of our Democratic tickets will be scratched at the ensuing election. And the same result will likewise take place with the other parties. Then let the people exercise especial judgment in making their nominations. b ‘

Greenback meeting in Wawaka on Friday night. Let us turn out and hear—learn of all, and cling to that which is good. e Samuel Swank returned from Kansas a few days ago. He purchased 160 acres of land. e expects to remove thence next week. ‘Success, Sam.

The caucus was held at Wawaka Saturday.- It passed off very quietly, with considerable enthusiasm:for Mr. Galbreth for Sheriff, = Locals very scarce. a 80,

| A Solemn Fact About Batler, | [(Washington Pest.) ! Butler says he is tired of Con%’]resg,_ a 8 it strains a.man awfully to throw bricks at imaginary opponents. ' And then, again, Ben needs a majority.back of him, The aphorism that one'man with God on%is side is a majority,seldom applies {o Ben. : e ety e Mason & Hamlin’s Employes on Strike. BosToN, Aug. B.—ln consequence of a reduction of ten per cenf. in the wages of the employees of the Mason & Hamlin organ manufactory, of Tre: mont street, 500 men have struck work, The factory is cloged. ° i 2

Delegates to the Democratic. Comnty -~ Convention, - 2 s AEMEON TOWNSHTP, .. . | John Epp, Michael Beck, S. C. Hardenbrook, Thomaﬂmler. James M. Anspaugh, W. P, ugh, E. P. Ray, N- B’ Rmigemp Nnﬁo Kuhl, A. J. Sill' grey, P. A. Sunday, H. ¥, Noegan. : ' SWAN TOWNSHIP. Simon Whansettler, Harrison Fulk,. Wm. J. Rodgers, David Wilkinson, Abram Lyons, John B, Renkenberger, David McCartney, James Berry, Isaac Harp, Samuel Christlieb, Eulo MeCartney, Horace Renkenberger, Benjamin Renkenberger, Joseph Whetsel. , PERRY TOWNSHIP. | F. B. Stoll, E. B. Gerber, David Hough, A. Banta, Eli Guffey, Solomon: Miller, F. E. Hepler, John Cavin, Hiram P. Cooper, Levi Glant, John Marker, Jacob Sheets, C. V. Inks, J. P. John, William Hills, Joe McDowell, William Nelson, D. F. Ohlwine, Joe Henderson, ¥. W. Shinke, Jolin B. Lane, G. W. McConnell,Mathias Straus, Ferd. L.oeser, Sol. Mier, A. McConnell, Samuel Goshorn, Samuel Krichbaum, A. Hires, E. J. Dodge, Wils Knappenberger, John Kinney, John Flanagan, Jonathan Keehn, Silas Harper, James Crockett, C. C. Buchtel, J. E. Flemming. . : YORK TOWNSHIP. William Warvel, John Walker, N. Sherwood, Peter Banta, Geo. H. Lane, G. W. Smith, Jacob Beard, —— Murphy, Josiah B. Lane, E. F. Hile, Ambroge Xiester. - ; J : GREEN TOWNSIIIP. Charles Hottinger, Benjamin Krider, Matthew Bonar, Levi Hosler, Henry Shambaugh, James Cunningham, Christ. Kinsey, William Bonar, D. A. Leitch, H. R. Veasey, Adam Engle, James Hanlon, J. Frank Stanley, Wash. Keller, John Favinger, John B. ‘Gilchrist, Thomas Young, Charles Weeks, Levi Diller, William Arthur. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP. ~ Jacob Rider, Levi Keister, T. J. Wilson, R. H. Buckles, Geo. Seymour, J. W. Weigel and L. S. Clayton. WAYNE TOWNSHIP.

The Democrats of Wayne township met in the office of C..G. Aichele. C. G. Aichele was elected chairman and J. H. Shauck was chosen secretary. On motion, the chairman selected the following committee to select delegates to the county convention: Dr, Parker, J. L. Gallup, Thomas Lyman, O. Rossbacher and T. Bachelder. The committee reported the following delegates and 46 alternates, R. Miller, A. S. Parker, Jno. E. Walters, C. G. Aichele, John Gappinger, O. D. Willett, Jos. Berhalter, John Deibele, G. F. Bachelder, Abram Orr, H. Krueger, Oscar Rossbacher, Jackson Lehr, Geo. Merkling, Louis Beckman, Albert Wichman, Henry Campbell, C. Richey, Isaac Loeb, David Koons, Emanuel Waltman, A. H. Moyer, Peter Ringle, Jack Weatherford. Henry Moyer, O. C. Forker, Arch Crofoot,Jackson Iddings, V. C. Mains, Samuel Brumbaugh, M. Burnham, J. W. Learned, J. Sawyer, John Johnson, Sampson Emerick, J. W. Emerick, Andrew Alshouse, Geo. Fink, Thomas Lyman, Jacob Young, Wm. Mueller, Geo. Randall James N. Childs, Jno. Gallup, and George Gretzinger. :

Alternates—Jos. Repine, J. A.Swogger, Fred Bucher, Ephraim Acton, Jos. Hall, Fred Meesing, Fred Kiehl, Job. Randall, Peter Mutéer, J. J. Schneider, jr., Dan Roushe, Hiram Lovett, L. E. Pike, Wm. T'ish, Banner Sheffer, J. W. Sheffer, Isaac Evers, Geo. Aichele, Lee Zern, John Sticht, Phillip Wolf, Jacob Kann, George Uhl, P. E. Jones, Jacob Beck, John Ortstadt, E. O, Wallace, Alex Orr, Jacob Hovarter, A. B. Stanton, Martin Spatz, J. Hall, John Berhalter, Xavier Wissler, Xavier Nagel, Geo. Lobhman, Wm. Trindle, Geo. Bruee, Noah Gyer, J. W. Miller, Jas. Kelley, Judge Wildman, Wm. Willett, Ferdinand Ahrns. On motion, it was agreed that the delegates and alternates have an equal voice in'the convention. :

~ ELKHART TOWNSIIIP, | David Lower, Phillip ‘Ridenbaugh, J. J. Johnston, J. J. Knox, Reason Franks, John Rendel, John Pancake, sr., George Swank, Isaac Pancake, J. ‘B. Smith, A. H. Smith, W. Gage, John Zimmerman, M. M. Dodge, A.ugustus Boss, Christian Helsel, A. G. Gibson, Abram Franks and Jos. Marshal. On motion the delegates were requested to use their best endeavors to secure the nomination of Wm. Galbreth for Sherift. ORANGE TOWNSHIP. Moses Arehart, H. I%dings. Thos. H. Smith, A. C. Iddings, Samuel Meiser, David Shafer, T. P. Kessler, Wm. McEwen, Joseph Baily, Samuel Kimmel, B. F. Myers, David Law, Lee Owens, C. C. Sutherland, Wm. Sapp, S. Miller, W. Fox, James Lake, A. Routsong. ABLEN TOWNSHIP. | Thomas Graham, Josiah Darrow Wm. McCartney, Davis Black, J aco‘s Mahnesmith, Joseph Wadsworth, Jno. ¢rone, jr., Jno. Crone, sr., G. H. Fairbanks, S. C. Fairbanks, E: I, Sherman, Robert Halferty, Edward Halferty, James Amos, George Weaver, James McCartney, S. K. Randall, Sol. Baum, Henry Yeiser, Charles Fisher, Moses Fisher, Wm. Boszer, Lewis Fryer, T. Story, John Most, Robert Maloney, Lewis Schutt, Reuben Stahl, Frank King. : | L ——————- ——— - Manton Marble’s Vinaieation of Tilden. ]\ 5 (Cincinnati Enquirer,) | | The ‘most serions charge against Mr. Tilden for about a year and a half has been that when the people of the ‘United States had given him the Presiidency he had not the courage to take it. It has been urged among Demo‘crats that timidity prevented Mr. Til‘den from asserting his rights. If it 'should be found that it was the folly 'and the timidity of men supposed to be his friends and representatives that wrought the mischief, it would lift Mr. Tilden largely in the National Democratlic esteem. The letter of Mr. Manton Marble to which we alluded yesterday, was an attempt, and an attempt more successful than many be‘lieved possible, to free Mr. Tilden from this charge under which he had labored. That he did not countenance the Electoral Commission Bill, which made his defeat possible after his elec--tion, seems evident from this correspondence, now newly published. It will be asserted that this publication is made to promote the chances of Mr. Tilden for the Presidential nomingtion, Grant that, and it does not alter the facts that should become recorded ‘higtory. Mr. Tilden will be largely advanced in his hoﬁestor 1880 if the ;Damoc_rﬁv of the Union can be fully persuaded that he eénafstentgy and foreibly opposed the ~acg;em' _that made possible ,thai%wet;;o f the republican party in the Executive Depart‘ment for this Executive term, ~ = s Mows Destiny. . . . Was man ordained the slave of man to'toll, . Welght i the tyranth bal g wg}*g* ot Rularo stan heavenly mould; i d Teer S i RaeVaßth TS w‘ﬁj? S s A R T e e e ]

i, THEEARENIND. som Death and Deostrucsion In the Toruade’s Track. =y w? prevailed in a part of Conneobicut Friday evening. At Wallingford it blew -over houses, upxooted trees, and caused the greatest devastation. gis estimated that the killed '\zﬁw imber at least twenty, while the wounded will reach twiee that number. Forty dwellings were demolished, and at least fitty barns.— The wooden houses were carried clear off their foundations, from a few feet ‘to an eighth of a.mile. In theline of the tornado nothing was left standing, and-on each side of the track more or Liess damage was done, chimneys especi-_ ally suffering. The Catholic church, wooden, and the new . brick highschool were totally demolishcd. The top of the brick factory of the Wall-’ ingford community was carried away. The tornado was confined to a belt of territory about a half a mile wide.— Reports from various points in Massachusetts an@ New Hampshire, particularly along the copast, indicate a ‘storm the same day as the severest ‘of the season, causing great damage. Dispatches from various parts of Ontario report ‘a severe thunder and wind-storm, accompanied by hail, doing great damage. The storm on the St. Lawrence and in Northern New York Thursday was the fiercest ever known in that region. The Black river rose five feet that night. Thun--derstorms have been continuous down the Mohawk Valley all the week, with heavy rain and damage to farm buildings by lightning. . LATER.—Four of the injured at Wallingford died -Saturday, making the number killed twenty-five. The extemporized morgue contains twen-ty-one dead bodies. Inthelowerroom of the town hall cots were placed and seven of the most severely wounded laid there. The dead were mostly Catholics. The damage is estimated at $250,000. This would have been more but that the wrecked houses :were tenements owned by poor me--.chanics and were small, cheap struc~tures. The condition of the survivors is pitiable. At least thirty families are homeless and without household articles or clothes. A reliefcommittee has been appointed, who are caring for the survivors. A large crowd of visitors throng the streets, and liberal contributions of money are collected from them, and also from passing trains and the public generally. luneral services of the ‘dead were held in the Town HaH Sunday., The tornado also sweptover the southern -part oft Dunham and through the town of Killingworth, and several buildings were blown down, trees uprooted, and crops injured. :

el <O ER—— Billy Williams’> Flop. [Warsaw Union.] . .

Heon. William Williams has once more taken up his carpet-bag and proposes to pack it through the country in the interest of the radical party.— But a few months ago Mr. Williams delivered an agrarian speech at the Opera House, which 'speech to the best interpretation we were able to give it at the time, and we don’t seem. to have been mistaken, was a bid for an Independent or Greenback nomination for Congress. - The pilgrim into a new party met with poor success, he was shipwrecked before he reached the goal of his ambition, and now he turns back like a prodigal son, not for repentance, but for the crumbs that may fall in his way from a radical canvass. If Mr. Williams thinks the people of Kosciugko county fail to see. through his maneuvers, he is simply mistaken. He has committed himself againgt the republican party and republican policy too often, bothepublicly and privately; he has confessed to the sins of the radical administration in too plain terms to go back now.— He admitted that the financial wrecks with which the whole country is strewn is the work of the resumptionigts, and the resumptionists are the spirits that guide the republican party. Mr. Williams may not be sensitive upon these points, but it is safe to say most men are. : e

Gien. Butler in Maine.

BIppEFoRD, Me., August 10.—E. H. Gove, the Greenback candidate for Congress from this district, presided over a meeting at the City Hall last night of the citizens of York county and in a short speech introduced General B. F. Butler, who spoke for two hours. He said he came not to make a speech, but to commune with the people on the public interests of the day. He had left the old parties and had belonged to the democratic party until it. attempted to sever the Union. He was with the republican party till it deserted its founders, the laboring men. - Capitalists now held the republican party bound hand and foot. Hayes has violated every pledge and betrayed the negro of the South. The effort of Grant’s administration to strengthen the public credit was a swindle. He reviewed the history of the Greenback currency and claimed that it should be made a legal tender for all debts, public and private.

He Believes in a Greenback Currency. (Ft. Wayne Sentinel.) An .attempt is being made in certain quarters to misrepresent Senator MecDonald’s financial views, although he expressed them very clearly in his recent speech at Logansport. While he believes that every system of cur-. rency should have a specie basis, he is opposed to resumption so long asit involves hardship and distress. For that reason he voted for the repeal of the resumption act, and would do so again. He believes in the greenback currency, and has the fullest. faith in the power and duty of the government to use its credit in furnishing the people with a safe, convenient and steady currency. He is opposed to the national banking system, which he thinks is becoming a dangerous power in the country, and favors its gradual abolishment. Thege are Senator McDonald’s financial views as expressed by him with admirable clearness and force in his Logansport speech...... .. ~During. the last three weeks, al‘though ‘every effort has been made by: ‘the Treasury to get the new silver: ‘dollars :into circulation, it has only sticceeded in putting out: $33,000 in ‘excess of those which have returned. Being receivable for customs they come back nearly as fast as they can be pajd out—lndianapolis Journal; . . This i 3 a poor, driveling, idiotic statement of Shylock organs, the purs pose of which is to make the Bilver legislation unpopular. It is very effectually squelched by the New York Srophambon fiyasies f the efforts. of the Treasury to get gold into circulation do not meet with the same fate. Gold finds its way back into the Treasury more rapidly, if possible, than the silg&f _doillags. l 1 g;e : a:gxﬁx;ent* is good against silver it is equally strong againet, gOldLlAiGßapolis Gehtons &el detes sol L e T G*E ifed AL UL (Baeton ey ¢IR i?.hg;.t%? fey‘?i gemgg;ﬂ_7 ady. to started down hill h o%n*vﬁﬁ :ﬁ ‘ m@:}ﬁiﬂw%ﬂ faster than he can be B i that the heavy mmmymmﬁ ~' Aty rulned [ois 0P v SOEIGE N e

General Items.

There'is a general rush from Viéﬁéﬂ burg to escape yéllow fever. . ‘The town of Shasta, Cal., was onethird destroyed by fire last Monday.

President Hayes will attend the Minnesota State Fair the first week of September. ; e :

‘The receipts of wheat at Toledo for 24 hours ending at noon on Monday were 400,000 bushels. G

Say, Mr. Sherman, why don’t you pay. off some 5-20 bonds with . those silver dollars?—lnd. Sun. = = ' - Yellow fever prevails to an alarming extent at Gernanda, Mississippi, and .there is great excitement over it in Memphis. . ; bLo

The St. Louis Post alleges that there is a deficit amounting to nearly half a million dollars in the State Treasury of Missouri. : R

New cases of yellow fever att New Orleans last week, 233 deaths of the week, 66. Total cases to Aug. 12, 466; total deaths, 126. e An A

‘The war upon labor saving' machines, so much talked abeut in the east as raging in the west, is pure fiction. There is no such war going on in the west. SiSmislion o BIR s

It is asserted that strychnine enters largely into the composition of the poorer kinds of lager beer, and a quarter of a grain of the poiscn has. been known to kill. .. G eile :

- Potter called his committes to order again in New York last Monday.— Stanley Matthews was summoned,but replied that he had i_mpo?tant business on hand at Newport. t '

A telegram from New Orleaus reports: A panic prevails throughout western and northern Mississippi, on account of the appearance of yellow fever at Vicksburg, Grenadaand Port Hudson. Only a few cases are reported at Vicksburgand Port Hudson, but at Grenada the fever is raging with unparalleled fury, and a fearful state of affairs exists. gt :

~ Eight hundred shoemakers are on a strike in' Chicago, and the Six Companies of San Frarcisco have offered to supply their places with Chinamen at 75 cents a day. This is bringing the Chinese question pretty nearly home, but there is not much fear this offer will ever be carried out. There would not be a pig tail of them left in two days after they struck the Garden City. e AT

The boot and shoe manufacturers of: Chicago held a meeting Saturday afternoon and considered a proposition. of the Chinese Six Companies of California to furnish them 1,500 Chinamen at 75 cents per day for three years, in place of the 800 strikers. %he plan was favorably regarded, buf the general opinion was that forty to sixty cents per day was enough. No. action was taken, but a furtheér con-. ference will be had with the agent of the Chinese Companies, who is here. A sad fatality happened Friday evening at Calamity, a town near DPittsburg. A young man named Thomas George had been lying ill at home with typhoid fever. Notbeing rational, he required watching, but noone supposed there was any danger of him jumping ‘out -of the window. Suddenly, however, he sprang from his “bed, made a dash for the window and leaped out before any one could stop him. The window was on the second floor, ‘and the man received such injuries: that he died an hour ortwo afterward. The session of the International Monetary Conference opened in Paris Saturday. Leon Say waselected President on motion of Reuben E. Fenton. ‘After the nomination of Secretary and the delivery of a short address of welcome by the President, Mr. Fenton briefly explained the objects of the Conference, the Powers who responded to the appeal of the United States, and he hoped the distinguished men taking part in the Conference would facilitate the accomplishment of the work which would further the pacific interests of the world. = = it

. The funeral of twenty-five of those killed by* the tornado in Wallingford took place Sunday. ,Ten thousand people were present, and fully two thousand carriages. . The services were conducted by the Rev. Father Leo, of Winstead, assisted by three other Catholic clergymen. The interments were made in fifteen graves.— All the dead with one exception were of Catholic religion, and the diocese will take prompt measures to aid the. suffering relatives. People of all denominations are contributing generously. Several persons fatally wounded remain in the town hall. Twentyeight deaths are thus far reported. Washington was visited by two very severe storms of heavy rain and strong ‘wind Saturday afternoon at intervals of an hour. Some of thelarger residences in the city were unroofed, hacks and wagons were upset,and half of each of the glass fronts of the Wes-, tern Union Telegraph office were blown in, and one. of the messenger boys very severely mangled by falling glass. Some of the oldest-trees in the city were badly broken, and all the parks in the section about 'the White House were considerably .damaged.. The fall of water was again very great, and the overflow from the sewers caused much damage in geveral parts of the city. S Bl

Friday morning occurred one of the -most desperate cases of insubordination that has ever been- known at the Michigan - City prison. A conviet named McPherson, from Muneie, sent there for assault with intent to murder, was reported to the Warden for threatening to Kkill hig foreman. .He Was*ﬁiken to the office and asked if the charge was true, -He said that it was, and that he would do it. 'The ‘Warden then ordered him searched, and told him-to take off his coat. He replied, with an oath, that he would not, and backed into the corner of the room. The Deputy Warden then at‘tempted to search him, when he drew ‘back to strike, but before he-could do ‘BO ‘one of the guards knocked him down.. When he fell a large knife which he had concealed in his coat gleeve fell to the floor. DBeforehe gave up he had to be struck several times. He wag lying in a critical condition, and it is thought death will result from higs wounds. - i ad

A Brilliant Metedr Seen Sunday Night. TiTUusvILLE, August 12.—A beautiful meteoric display was - witnessed from_here last evening. The meteor made its appearance in the.west at 10:80, moving in a northerly direction It was of a greenish color and shone with great brilliancy, lighting-up the entire surrounding country with a light that for the time prevailed over that of the full moon. Its appearance was only momentary, when -it . burst %3% divided itself into three fragments, two of which assumed a reddish color. Calculating from the time the explosion was seen until it was heard, the meteor was about twenty-five miles distanti. OIL CIIY, August 12.—A meteor of unusual ‘brilliancy pagséd here last evening at a few minutes past 10. It was nearly twice the aize of a cannon ball, Its course wasnorth. . .

Judge Tousley’s Letter,

- 'We cal¥ special attention to the supplement issued this week, containing the letter of Judge Tousley, declining the nomination for Congress. The document is well worth a careful perusal by all who are interested in the national finances. It.contains more argument than we haye seen from any other source in the same amount of space. Read it.— Aubwrn Courier.

Judge Tousley, in a long letter discussing the financial question, declines the nomination for Congress tendered him by the Greerback party of the 18th District. The letter is well worthy of perusal, and will attract a large share of public attention. ~—Columbia City Post. i i

=S’ Moranm, Tr, Aug, 10,18, - EDITOR NATIONAL BANNER, Ligonier, rav o Indiang: e :

Dear Sir—Enclosed find stamps for which please send copy of your paper containing the letter of Judge Tousley, declining the nomination for Congress. I saw an extraet from the letter published in-the Clicago Z'imes, and am of ‘the opinion from what I read in that paper that the letter will be a-valuable political document to have. - . Yours truly, :

G o LR RRRNS, Meeufnctnrer of Buggies and Spring Wagons

- It is with regret that we announce to our readers that Judge Tousley has been compelled to decline the nomination already conferred upon him by the National Greenback party for Congress. ~ Judge Tousley, has stood high for many years as a man of keen perceptive qualities and rare judgment; even as a staunch Republican, he was regarded -as a shrewd, uncompromising opponent by the Democrats. But his Superior qualities as a man and fitling him eminently for the position for which he was nominated by the Greenback party, were never so well brought to public notice and so sharp-. ly into contrast with political aspirants either on the democratic or republican side, until the publication of his last letter. - His letter declining the nomination is of considerable length, and occupies ‘about seven and a half columns ‘of ordinary newspaper print. It is a documefit that should find a liberal circulation, not only in this Congressional District and State, but thro’ out the Union. ' If is one of the most concise, able and complete documents and deals harder and more blows to the republican party policy than any that has come into print for a long time. It is a great loss to the people of this district and to the State that Mr. Tousley is compelled by serious ill-health to decline to serve them in the capaecity of representative, to which position he would have been elected beyond a doubt.— Warsaw Unwman. § R 5 2

Would Be Right, Ifeemses (Columbia City Post,) =

- 8. E. Alvord, Clerk of Noble county, takes issue with-the decision of the- - Court in their holding that . a three weeks’ notice of a legal publi‘cation necessarily means only 21 and not 15 days. He would beright if the publication counted forward instead of back. 00l Wi SRR ;. ANNOUNCEMENTS. S e COUNTR AUDITOR, WiLLIAM S. KISER, of Albion, will -be & candidate for the nomination to the office of .+ County Auaitor, before the democratic county ' . convention, i : 2 ok James J. LasH, of York twp., begs "leave to announce to his friends and to the Dem- - - ocracy inégener,al that he will be a candidate before the democratic convention for the office of Auditor of Noble ceunty, Your support is respectfully solicited. = . iy 7% . COUNTY TREASURER. = ‘WiLLiAM IMES, of Orange township, begs leave to inform his friends and the Democracy of Noble county in general that he will be a candidate for County Treasurer, subject to the de cision of the demoeratic nominating convention . GrORGE KEEHN, of Perry twp., will be a candidate for County Treasurer, sabject to the decision of the democratic county convention, and respectfully solicits the support of his fellow- N § citizems througgogt, the conpty. ¢ $ - Henry W. Schaefer, of Kendallville, will be & candidat%fot the ofics of County Treas- - urer, snbject to the decision of the democratic convention to be held at Albion, August 16, 1873, By request of MaNyY VOTERS, e S i ! < i .'. - JASON ProuTy, of Jefferson twp., is . 8 candidate for the Democratic nomination for -Treasurer of Noble county. . : ; - N. P. EAGLES, of Albion, will sub- . mit his name to the forthcoming Democratic county convention for the office of Treasurer. : .. SHERIFF. . " ALBERT C. HARDENBROOK, of Ligs onier, will be a candidate for Sheriff, subject to the decision of the democratic county convention to be held at Albion, on Friday, August 16th.

WILLIAM GALBRETH, of Ligonier, will be a candidate for Slteriﬁ‘. of Noble county, subject to the decision of the democratic convention to be held August 16th. :

- Mr. EDITOR :—-Please announce the name of RroaaArp Wirriams, of Green townshi{), ag 4 candidate for the office of Sheriff of Noble county, subject to the decision of the democratic convention-to be held -on Friday, August 16th, 1878, -and oblige : MAxNY FRIENDS,

- e s Cxrus PoLLOCK,of York township, now and during the past two years Superintendent of the Asylum for the Poor, will be a candidate for Sheriff, subject to the decision of the re~ publican county convention. &

- JouN R: SmltH, of Kendallville, respectfully announces to the people of Noble coun= ty that he is a candidate for Sheriff, subject to the decision of the democratic county convention. =

CIRCUIT PROSECUTOR. DAvip H. PEREW, of Noble county, is a candidate for the office of Circuit Prosecutor for the counties of Noble, KeKalb and Steuben. T e e T THE MARKETS. LIGONIER. : GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, amber, 98¢; -Rye, bsoc; Oats, 20c; Corn, 30c;: flax seed, $1 25; timothy seed, $1 75. Propuce.—Hogs, live, {§ cwt $4 00; Shoulders, per pound, 10c; Hams, 12¢; Bees Wax, 28c; Butter, 08; Lard, 06c; Eggs, P doz.,, 8c; Woeol, 1b,20@ 30c; Feathers, 50c; Tallow, 06¢; Apples, dried, 4c; Potatoes, 25; Peaches, dried,os¢; Hay, tame, $8; marsh, $6. CHICAGO, August 13, 1878. GRAIN AND SEEDS. —Wheat, 9831 ; Corn, 39}c; Oats, 22} c; Rye, 51%5c; Barley, 95¢; Clover Seed, $4 50@4 60; Timothy, $123@1 37; Flax, $l2B. - Propuce.—Mess Pork, P cwt,slo 85 @1095; Lard, $775@7 80; Hams, sweet pickled, 10@10%c; Shoulders, dry salted, [email protected]; Butter, good to choice creamery, 20@22 ; choice dairy; 14@18; medium, 9@12; Eggs, 10@ 11c; Potatoes, 40@4bc¢. N o - Flour, per bbl.,, $4 50@5 50; Bran, per ton, $9 [email protected]. PovrLTry.—Turkeys, live, Ib., 07c,; Chickens, ¥ doz. $2 50@3 25. | (RRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, amber, Michigan, $1 00; Corn, 42¢; Oats, 24, “ LIVE STOCK MARKETS., . CHICAGO, Aug 13, —CATTLE, graded, steers, $5 02%6 50; choice beeves, $440@4 75 ; med: ﬂmm 85@%4 255 ,bu&tiheis'., Gsohg‘e‘k, (?D 06 *ﬁ h 00; ‘stock cattle, $2 60 @ %3 00; milch cows, per - Hoges.—Light weights, $3.00@3 60; choice heavy 8425 @ 475; packing . SHEEPR.~—Choice $4 00@4 50; fairto mﬁﬁé@sﬁef gfﬁ G _BUFFALO, Aug 18.—Cattle,Ship’ing, s iogei; Sepiitifoe