The National Banner, Volume 13, Number 22, Ligonier, Noble County, 19 September 1878 — Page 2

;M' g ¢| s #&ig ki T 7E SRy ] . PR ) : OV ol SR PRSI o RIEETITPNCINT © 2 TR SANW y J. B. STOLL, Editor and Proprietor. e e e LIGONIER, IND., SEPT. 19th, 1878. “No* man worti;y of the office of Presidcnt shonid be willing to hold it if counted in or placed there by frand.”—U. 8. GraNT, - : & DEMOCRATIC TICKET. . BTATE: For Secretary of State, . J. G. SHANKLIN, of Vanderburg Counnty. gl For Auditor of State. , MAHLON D, MANSON, of Montgomery County., i For Treasarer of State, . WILLIAM FLEMING, of Allen County. . For Attorney General, gt THOMAS W. WOOLLEN, of Johnson County. For Superintendent of Public Inatruction, > ¢ JAMESH. S&;AI{’P, of Marion County. 5 DISTRICT: ; For Representative in Congress: . - J. B. STOLL, of Noble Co. For Juint Representative — Rlkhart and Noble 2 Counties: J. D, OSBORN, of Elkhart County. For Circnit Prosecutor: GEORGE B. ADAMS, of-Stetiben County. : COUNTY : Dy For Representative : | JACOB H. SHAUCK, ofW’x;)‘ue townghip. For County Auditor: ¢ | WILLIAM 8. KISER, of Albion. A ; For Treasurer; GEORGE KEEHN, of Perry townehip, ; For Sheriff: "’ .’ . RICHARD WILLIAMS, of Green townghip, For Commissioner—Middle District: JOHN' A. SINGREY, ot Jefterson townghip, For Commissiongy—Southern District’: JOHN P. MoWILLIAMS, of Green towmhi;p ; For Surveyor: i A. P, FRINK, of Wayne townehip. | S 00 ) Cor(mer:‘} ([ i : B. F. MYERS, of Orange’ township,

GOV. HENDRICKS Will speak at, Kendallville on Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 24th. Rally, Freemen, Rally! ’

GENERAL Miles wasn’t captured, as reported, by the Indians. “On the contrary, - quite’ the reverse.” Te bagged quite a lively assortment of redskins. e ! 4

' Toe National-Greenback speakers at New ITaven, Conn., were, the other night, assaulted with rotten eggs, pctatoes and stones. Neither Kearney nor his followers did it. :

BeN BuTLER has succeeded in capturing the biggest portion of the Massachusetts Democrats- who have nominated him for Governor. The anti-Butlerites will run. a straight candidate. i :

. THE Boston Herald says that to make the credit of the Government the basis of a paper currency jis to “found our whole financial system on “ashadow.” Yes, “a shadow that will prove the substanee true.” e

CREMATION, the Cincinnati Enquir- ¢ thinks, ought to be established in stead of burial in the fever infected cities of the South. There is little that is repugnant about it in comparison with the Lorrors of burrial that prevail there now. e

TnE latest returns from the Maine election show that the house-will consist of sixty-five Republicans, twenty- - seven Democrats and fifty-seven Greenbackers. Of the Democrats sixteen were chosen over both Republi- . cans and Nationals and will hold the | balange of power in the house. The ' other thirteen were elected by aid + from the Nationals.

- TeE Kennebec Journal publishes the gubernatorial vote of Maine, with the exception of afew small towns and plantations. They are compiled from oflicial returns and give Connor (Rep.) 56,419 votes; Garcelon (Dem.) 27,872 .votes; and Smith (National) 41,404 votes. Connor's plurality over Garcelon i 3 28,547; plurality over Smith, 15,015. The vote for Smith and Garcelon combined aggregates 69,276, and therefore Connot lacks 12,857 votes of an election by the people. The aggregate vote thrown was 125.£102161 91:Theyl;ol:al vote last year was

REPUBLICAN speakers try to impress the people with the idea that during and immediately subsequent; to the war the country was on a big financial drunk with its accompanying extravagance, and that it has simply been recovering from its effects for the past few years, and necessarily feelsbad. At the same time they say there is more monéy now than ever before. If this last is true, why, the Cineinnati Enguirer asks, is the country not on a big financial drunk now? If there is more money now than in 1865, there have been inflation, but we see no evidence of unusual excitement in the way of business, speculation or production. These different statemerits of republican orators ‘ do not dove-tail very well.

Tue New York Tribune is still harping on the southern claims bagaboo. The Louisville Courier-Journal thus comments: “Ouly two republjcan papers were foolish enough to. copy its $350,000,000 article. That game 1s played. -People understand that the policy of paying for property taken, used and destroyed in the South during the eivil war was inaugurated " by the republican party when the people of the South wére denied repré“sentation in Congress. The republican Congresses voted with alacrity for the payments of such claims in one or two sessions. The money was paid'to individuals known as the ‘truly loyal’ ‘

Sinee the Democrats have got control of the house, the first steps have been taken to stop this free handed use of the treasury funds:’ The significant part remains that us long as the republican party could plunder the treasury, they advocated the limitless %meg“ of fi?uflod'm claims.’ thwt“ the house they denounced t own]legislation as rob-

For many reasons there cannot be a more interestihg subject than the wheat crop. An abundant or a light harvest of the product that constitutes the staff of life means the well being or the distress of many thousands. It is estimated that the wheat crop of 1878 in the United States far exceeds that of any former year. So abundant is ‘the yield that many persons have given themselves needless concern as to what will be done with the excess of breadstuffs. lln the southern part of Minnesota and in middle lowa the crop has been considerably injured; but the injured distriets. in thosé ‘States -constitute but a small portion of the territory of the country devoted to the wheat culture. An estimate has been made that 1n a regionstretching from Cedar Falls, lowa, to Saint Paul, two hundred miles long and about one hundred and fifty miles wide, there bas not been more than half a crop. On the other hand there has been 80 gréat an ineréase of the wheat producing ‘area in that region that much of this loss has been made up. It is reckoned that the wheat of Minnesota which before the injury trom heat and storm was estimated at 48,000,000 bushels, amounts to 31,000,00C bushels, or 4,000,000 bushels less than last year. According to other estimates the crop in Minnesota is as great as that of last year, In lowa where the damage was less than in Minnesota it is believed that the increased area of production will more than make up for the loss.’ Mr. Fawcett in his annual review published in the Chicago T'ribune expresses the opiuion that the wheat crop of these two Stales equals or exceeds that of last year. | : i According to an estimate in theChicago Commercial,in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, [llinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and lowa 9,750,000 acres were sown with wheat which produced 190,000,000 against 150,000,000 bLushels last year. Here is an increase of 40,000,000 bushels, the greater part of which is made in Illinois and Kansas. Fawecett estimates the crop in these two States somewhat lower. He reckons an increase of 447,000 acres and 7,031,379 bushels of wheat in Illinois and an increase of 450,000 acres and about 10,000,000 bushels in Kansas. Without taking into account the increase in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Missouri he estimates the wheat crop of 1878 at 407,000,000 bushels or 82,000,000 more bushels than the yield of last year. B

" Reports from California show .that 2,779,000 acres of land in that State were sown in wheat this year, an in‘crease of more than 400,000 acres,and that the cropvalfionnts to: 41,356,000 bushels. The San Francisco Call estimates that after deducting what will be required for home consumption California will be able to export 33, 000,000 bushels of wheat this -year. Mr. Fawcett estimates the increase of the California wheat, crop at 12, 000,000 Hushels. :Aceording to these figures the increags east of the Roeky Mountains amount t0'70,000,000 bushels. They give promise of cheap bread at home and abroad for the millfon. With such an abundance it is not probable that there will be an increase upon present prices at home unless there should be an extraordinary demand for exportatfion of which there is no present indication.

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SQUIBS.

These are delightful nights for the weary sons of toil in which to rest their tired and-aching limbs, |, Lovers of gossip in this vicinity are kept very busy of late. Wonder when they take their rest, . : On account of the late rains our farmers have been delayed about two weeks with their seeding. . Only fifteen wagons in the emigration train last week. Several families from this place will join it next week, among them will be H. L. Finley and and Peter Baugher. Eo o

Salem Sunday School will give a eoncert next Sunday at 3 r. M. Arrangements are being made for good speakers. All are invited., Boston was about 90° above zero—. in the shade— over the sudden departure of J. B. Hannum, our grocer and post-master, on Wednesday night of last week, for some other port, leaving Sam Beck to view the empty shelves and feel in his pockes for about $4OO. Sam doesn’t think “booh! big ingen me” now. He has n poor opinion of Hannum, as there is no reason assigned for his conduct.

Boston resumed on last Monday under the firm of Beck & Howenstine, who intend to enlarge the room and keep a first-class store. Give them a call. f 48

Wonder if Ben. HarriSoE got any inmates for his asylum while at Ligonier? We judge from the way we heard a few Ligonierites blowing their bazoos next day he has engaged some to help build it Hip! hip! Bah! The “Nationals” are meeting with rather poor success in Adams county. All the leading men of that county are bitterly opposing them in speeches, and. the county paper ditto, just because they nominated John Studebaker for congress. % By the way, our mind was--very much enlightened, while in Ligonier recently, by Mr. Stoll, of THE BANNER, making Mr. Hoffman acquainted with facts concerning the contraction of the currency, and the position he occupies ‘in general-as our candidate for Congress, who, we hope, will be elected, and will earry the people’s banner until victory will perch upon his brow, and it will be said “’tis enough, come up higher.” Then we will pull offour old hat, adorn an lfnt.ire new outfit, take the stump,—and—and—well, we will think of the rest by that time.

Mr. Editor, please pardon us, for we don’t often boil over thus ; but we mean it, and in the language of “J a.g” say “Hurrah for Stoll, J acob, and the - rest of the b’hoys.” - DoRrA. : T — & A ——— i -THe ,DEMOCRACY of Huntington eounty pine for the return of the John Sherman apostle, Billy Williams, ° A | few such speeches in the county as that delivered in this city would give us a demoeratic majority of one thousand.—Huntington Democrat. -

- The unwise policy of Secretary Sherman in issuing interest-bearing bonds for the purpose of buying and hoarding gold for the redemption of green-" backs is attracting considerable attention and exciting no little indignation since the full facts have come to the knowledge of the people. It is shown that the total increase in our bonded debt since Mr. Sherman took his present oflice, is $97,980,400. We find the following statement of ‘the increase of this debt during the past four months in the Philadelphia Times, whigh derived it from official sources: $ Principal of Coin Debt, : Increase, § 31 March, 1878, §1,721,736,850 : ; ; 30 April, 1878.. 1,732,735.650 $15,998.800 1 month ‘ 31 May, 1878 .. 1 768,735,650 30,000,000 1 month 30 June, 1878.. 1,780,735,€50 . 12,000,000 1 month 31 July, 1878.. 1,795.677,90 ~ 14,912:250 | month § Incrcsz;e... Smfi INTEREST INCREASE FROM MARCH * |Bl, 1878, 30 April, 1878_.. .8 669 928 over prece:ading month 31 May, 1878.... 1,445,600 over preceeding month 30 Juue, 1878.... 505,000 over preceeding month 3LJuly, 1878.... * 526,335 over preceeding month Potal: i ..S.},_O;t:ib—? since March 31, 188 - The bonded debt at the close of Mr. Grant’s administration was $1,607,067,500, and after seventeen months of Sherman’s management of the finances it had grown to $1,793,677,900, showing an increase of $97,980,400, and the increased interest paid on the public debt from April 30 to July 31 ‘was $3,068,463. T This increase 1 our bonded indebtedness is a part of the Sherman resumption policy. lle has been selling four per cent. bonds ostensibly for the purpose of redeeming the 6 per cents., but in reality for the purpose of preparing for resumption. He has been gathering in about a million a day for several months, and has failed to call'in the six per cents as promised. He is, therefore, now paying six per cent. interest on the old bonds and 4 per cent. interest on the new bonds. This is bad financiering. ‘lt is doing great injury to the business interests of{?e country and brings no corres-

ponding benefit. Even the hard money organs of the east-admit that this is a mistaken policy, and one of the ablest of them, the Philadelphia T'imes, thus comments: % e

. Just when resumption has been al‘'most entirely effected by the natural and gradual drift of the business of the country to specie payments, Secretary Sherman exhausts himself to make it practically impossible, by forcing an increase of the debt, an increase of the interest, and thie retirement of tens of millions of money, exclusive of the enforced retirement of bank cireulation to prepare the banks for resumption.’ Specie resumption is but faith in the prosperity and resources of the country, although tlge essential . standard of the money of the world; and it can be maintaintd only when general thrift of business and the general trust in industry and trade make paper preferred to specie in transactions between men. No statute can arbitrarily enforce resumption any more than it can reverse the gseasons or shorten the days of summer, and the one road that will lead the nation to permanent specie resumption is the road thatclearly leads to business confidence and the substantial prosperity of the productive industries of the republic. Then resumption will come and come to stay.

Wolf Lake Loeals. . * Thej Wolf Lake Sunday school tatended the Union pic-nic held in Buckel’'s ‘Grove, Saturday. Al report an enjoyable time. . - - The bell for the Baptist Church arrived here last week, but damaged to some extent by shipping. We are informed that it has been returned to the manufatory. - . Remember the dedication at this place on the 29th. Come and respond cheerfully and "'gelfei'ously in .donations, and thus enable our Baptist friends to a completion of an enterprise thus far successtul. :

Irving Jones and family, formerly residents of this place, but during the last two years living at Walkerton, has returned to this village and intends to remain.

Mrs. Jenny Hamilton nee Whittacer, of Walkerton, is visiting friendsin this vicinity. : Since Dt. Randall’s exit our town has been supplied ‘with two more doctors—Dr. Fuller, of Kokomo, and Dr. Welker, of Columbia City. : Farmers are busy. 5 v What clever fellows are these political aspirants! We metone the other day who, with an extended hand, accompanied with the usual “ How do you do?” made us fancy him a celestial personage and earth a heavenly paradise. He very modestly inforried us that he was engaged in an active political missionary work, and after explaining in strong convincing pow: er we expérienced a change of heart and hecame converted. ' Sept. 16. - , ] ® X

ROCHESTER ITEMS.

* Rochester is in a prospering condition, and is steadily improving. Farmers, in and around this place, are being blessed with an abundant crop of eorn, most of which is being harvested. > i The wheels of the grist mill are still on the move. A large amount of custom work is being done. A new brick school house is beigg erécted in this district. 1t occupies a site near the old one. Born:—A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. T. J.John. : Thanks to Mr. E. B, Gerber for that diteh, as it adds some to the looks of the place. < : ‘A number of persons from this village will attend the Fair on Ffday. Sept. 18. v Mac, : , - j , Senator Johnston’s Enterprise. WASHINGTON, Sept’r Bth.— Senator Johnston has returned to Vir%inia from New York, where he has been engaged in an attempt to interest capitalists in the mines of his State, and to induce farmers to till the fertile soil of Virginia. He says that he has conversed with many influential citizens of New York and ho;l:les that he has partially accomplished his purgam. His friends in the metropolis have advised him to return to that city next October, when many capitalists who are now in Europe and at the Wawinxgg ! ,;‘.‘%fi‘fllfin retn‘zneaw their places of business. e will act upon this advice. = T

CROMWELL ITEMS: Fine Autumn weather now. This is a good time for political harangues. o 0 : No use talking, J. B. Stoll’s chances for election to Congress are about as good as need be. He will at least have one thousand ‘majority. John H. Baker’s third term business has lost its charm. : J. D, Berger expects to get into his new buiiding in a few days.

The Wolf Lake Band gave us a happy surprise last Saturday evening.— They make somie very good music. Many thanks to the boys; come again. . Will McMeans was on our streets last Saturday looking up the music business. -

‘C. R. Miller, of Nappanee, was in town last Saturday. - . J. D. Berger &-Ce.'s job press is in full blast. : te

‘G. W. Reed is doing a rattling business in the grocery trade, considering the close times,

The foundation for J-hn Secott’s new store building is «hout vompleted. We cannot see how any Greenbacker can vote for Nulson Prentiss after having accepted the republican nomination, There must be a screw loose somewkhere. ; 3

Frank Stoner and',): . Bartley aresupplying our citizens daily with excellent beef. 3 ;

Nelson Prentiss says if he goes to, the Legislature there will be one independent man there. How does that set with the Greenbackers who are out-spoken. He must have renopnced his greenback theories.

Ben. Harrison’s good old stocking money is democratic money, made so by the earnest efforts of D. W. Voor: hees last winter. So says Dr, Parker very truthfully. ;

. A Republican here says the Democrats stole the republican platform. We say the Republicans have adopted the Belmont view on finances which the Democracy discarded long ago. - Hon, John H. Bakgr, republican candidate for Congress, spoke to a large audience at this place on Monday evening. His special aim seemed to be to talk smoothly -and yet indulge in as many thrusts as possible at the Democrats and Greenbackers. It was a deceptive lawyer’s plea, designed to ignore facts, make a favorable showing, and mislead his.audience. He saidin the beginning that he differed from a great many of his republican friends in regard to the resumption question, .thus endeavoring to make himself agreeable to those who questioned the expediency of the general policy of the Republicans. Properiy analyzed, - his speech amounted 1o about this: — The republican party in Congress has committed many errors in financial legislation, which he did not approve; yet he wants the republican party kept in power. The Democrats generally voted right in Congress, he (Baker) voting with them in numerous instances; yet the Democrats ought not to be put into power! This is the ‘best showing the honorable gentleman could make for his party. Ile made quite a number of gross mis-state-ments, notably so in regard to the Mexican dollar, the trade dollar, &c., knowing full well that from the year 1861 to 1875 the Republicans had undisputed and absolute control of every branch of the government. Ile referred to Judge Tousley’s letter by attempting to conviet the Judge of perversion of facts, yet in his oily way sought to soft-soap the Judge’s friends by speaking of him as a gentleman for whom he entertained the highest regard, and in whose court he had the pleasure of practising a number of | years.” |This was intended to soothe | the Ohlwipes and' Weades.] The most amusing and demagogical part of Baker’s speech was that wherein he sought to convey the impression that Gov. Williams levied all the taxes, and that %e is to blame if taxes are high and burdensome. The honorable gentleman evidently thought he was speaking to a set of “greenies” who didn’t know that county commissioners and township trustees control the levying of local taxés. Too thin for this latitude, Mr. Baker— Though we may not be the most enlightened people in the world, yet we know something about these matters and cannot be persuaded to swallow | such stuff. He had no remedy for the prevailing hard times; his panacea for our troubles is an adherence to the ruinous resumption scheme of John Sherman, which has had the effect of ‘making ‘times harder all the time, making money scarcer and scarcer, throwing men out of employment, reducing wages, crippling prices of farmers’ products, and of creating untold misery and distress throughout the country. No, Mr. Baker, you can’t ‘make people believe that a continunation of this policy is to their interest. ‘Hard times may suit such men-as yourself who draw good salaries from the treasury, and who, as lawyers, are directly benefitted by the distress of business men and farmers in making forced collections, foreclosing mortgages, &c. What the peoplée now want is to send such men as John B, Stoll to Congress, who understand the wants of the people and who sympathize with the laboring classes. We 'want a man in Congress who has the boldness to stand up for the people’s | best interests, instead of catering to | the demands of the Money Power, We want a man who will say to John Sherman; this thing of issuing bonds 'to buy gold for the benefit of Wall street must stop; the $129,000,000 of _coin ,now locked up in the gtreasury ‘must be used to pay off a portion of our 0 per cent. bonds; enough money shall be issued to set the wheels of industry in motion and farnish employ~ment to laboring men, and secure better prices for agricultural products, Such a man we have in J. B. Btoll,and the people mean to elect him in place of the oily lawyer from Goshen, m passage to & Congress over

THE BLATHERSKITE AT ROME CITY, | - On Thursday-of last week Billy Williams arrived in Rome early in the day, solitary and alone, save-the livery man who accompanied him. He took quarters at the Mansion House, where he remained until the time of the speech, at 2p. M. Very few distinguished guests from the village called upon him with a friendly greeting, to welcome him with a cordial shake of the hand as in days of yore About one o'clock the citizens were surprised at the sound of music, and soon it was ascertained that the Albion Band was on hand. This Band plays well and treated the meeting to ‘some very good:music.” Attwo o’clock the Band marched to the Baptist Church, when the once honored gen- { tleman —now the bloated, ~ depraved blatherskite—took the pulpit and be--gan by saying “that he was now out of polities, that he came to tell the truth, and the people here might expect notiing from him but the truth.” Ile paid his first respects to the Greenbackers, the rank and fiie of whom he believed were honest, but he would fitst mtronuce their leaders. Ile. said Peter Cooper was a good old man, bat he was 88 years old and had never read the Constitution of the United States. But how he obtained this valuable piece of information he failed to inform his audience. e next took up Brick Pomeroy, and gave him a very bad: character—denouncing him as a licentious, lousy, dirty pup. Br!ck‘si pedigree was very ‘similar to the one ‘ that the Kendallville Standard gave | to Billy a few years ago, when it cost $6OO to make the Stendard dry up. He next paid his respects to Ede Fish- ‘ er’s “Financial Facts for the People.” He compared it with Brick’s figures, and said they were just the same, at which the audience stamped and seemed much pleased. Biily was talking to a crowd who have been all the J while wishing that little document was not true, for here permit me to remark that the crowd was composed of men from Kendallville, Wolcottville, Albion, Ligonier, and from all | parts of the county,—the leaders and candidates and office-seekers were here to the number of about one hundred persons. They all came here to get some comfort and consolation from Billy, and consequently they were hapPy to hear him pitch into Fisher’s document. But he did not show that either Fisher’s figares or Brick Pomeroy’s figures were not correct. Ih order to make them appear incorrect he asserted falsely that the 7-30 treasury ‘notes were not circulated as money, gwhen everybody knows, who knows ‘anything about it, that.they did circulate as money from hand to-hand, and Lewis Iddings knows that he as.treas“urer of Noble county received enough '7-30 notes in payment of taxes in Noible county to enable him to go to Chicago and make a nice little speculation out of the interest on these notes. He said the amount of interest-bear-ing bonds was not as great now by over eight hundred million dollars as they were at the end of the war. This proves that Billy lies wilfully or is totally ignorant of the facts, as all the figure’s in Fishers circular are cor‘rectly taken from the official reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, and can be compared at any time by any one who may desire to do so. Billy argued thé hardest of hard money, and said greenbacks never were and never could be money. He read garbled extracts from decisions of the Supreme Court to prove-that it was unconstitutional except as a war measure. He proved to the satisfaction of himself and some others that the constitution meant one thing in war and quite a different thing in peace, and said if he found anybody who disputed it he would take him around the corner of the house and talk to him. Like all other republican demagogues he shook the bloody shirt and arraigned Dan Voorhees on his war record, but had no word of condemnation for Postmaster General Key, Gen. Longstreet, and the famous guerilla Mosby, who are republican traitors and connected with the administration. He was at times quite severe on Democrats, but never failed to eulogize “the grand old republican party” which saved the country. He said the government contracted with the soldier to pay him $l6 per month, but actually paid him only $5.92 per month face value of the greenback. The question was asked, this being the case, whether the government was not still in debt to the soldier $lO.OB for each month’s service rendered. Billy answered that it was and that the government intended to pay it, but failed to ‘tell ‘when, where or how. His speech, from first to last was a labored effort to deceive. He said he used to think as the Greenbackers new think, but he had changed his mind. He failed to tell whau brought about the change. A listener gave this as the cause: He said when Billy busted and lost all his. property by contraction of the curren¢y, he then thought as the Greenbackers now think; but since the Republicans, in'the Interest of John H. Baker, have hired him to make speeches at $3O a day, he sees things in a different light, A

At 4:30 he took a seat in & buggy, with “his head in the lap” of the Kendallville Standayd. He departed for Kendallville to repeat the same dish of hash. - SPECTATOR. i e e Ladies, Delicate and Feeble. Those languid tiresome sensations, causing you to feel scarcely able to be on your feet; that constant drain that is taking from your system all its former elasticity; driving the bloom from your cheeks; that continual strain up your vital forces, rendering you iritable and fretful, can ,e‘;lsig{ be. removed by the use of that marvelous remedy, Hop Bitters. Irregularities and obstructions of' gour- sgestem*are relieved at once, while the special ‘eause of periodical “Painyfare permanently removed. Will you heed this? BéeTrathe.’ o o s g . Mr. Al F. Ruch, nominated by the democracy of Kosciusko for Auditor, has declined the nomination. Col. J. Bi Dodge has been placed on ‘the'ticket in-his stead: NBRE MR

ROME CITY NEWS. ' EDITED BY ¥ALEXIS,” Who is golely responsible for the contents of this - Have you heard from Maine? Yes, the rag baby has driven the old folks out of the hcuse and is having things all its own way down there. ' The Republicans have held uninterrupted power in Maine ever since the organization of that party, but she has fallen, gone fdrfaver. So much for denying her progeny and going back on the rag baby. Where. oh where, is Jim Blaine ?

Billy Williams commenced his speech on Thursday last by saying that he had no interest in the campaign, was no candidate and never expected to be; that he came to tell the truth and deal 1n facts. He then commenced lying and misrepresenting facts, and tontinued to do so until the end of his speech. - > .’

Our h#dle factory has again-start-ed up and is getting out some very nice ax handles.

Billy Williams said last Thursday that our Government contracted-to pay the brave soldier sixteen dollars per month and in lieu thereof only paid him $5.92 per month. Question : Don’t the Government still owe the soldier $lO.OB, balance for each month he soldiered? Billy said that there was still that amount due and that the Government would pay.it,and Billy “came to tell the truth and deal in facts.” The little scamp! :

The cellar wall for Johnson Rinehart’s new brick building is now being put in and the brick work will soon be commenced. : ~ Judge Osborn, of Goshen, will address the people of Rome on Saturday evening next. Give the Judgea good turn-out.

Billy Williams attempted to ridicule Ede Fisher’s “Financial Facts for the Peaple,” giving his verbal statement that the figures were not correct. Why did he not refer to the Secretary of the Treasury’s official report which he could have obtained in five minutes? Ede’s document is correct in every respect and can be provenso by the above mentioned official report.— Billy falsified the truth either ignorantly or knowingly, yet he said he came to deal in nothing but ‘truths and facts. ( : G

Four of our citizens left here last week and emigrated to Missouri. Four Greenback votes lost to Orange township. ; & - Billy Williams says “Peter Cooper never read the Constitution of the United States:” No man but a political bloat would have the cheek to make such an assertion. But Billy has no interest in the campaign, and only came to give the people of Rome “facts.” e

. Billy Williams said he was a friend to the laboring man, but failed to tell him why he had voted to demonetize thie old silver dollar and to pay the bondholder in gold, to increase the price of bonds and decrease the price of .labor, make money scarce and times hard? Billy is a fraud, a deceiver and a hypocrite, and a wilful falsifier of the tenth .~ :

Uncle Robert Moore presented us with an apple of the Alexander species or variety which weighs 24 ounces and measures 1514 inches in circumference. Who can beat it? Tally one for Rome City. 5 , . Billy Williams asserted that the '7-30 treasury notes never circulated as money. when every intelligent man who listened to him knew he was uttering a falsehood when he said so. This is another of the “facts” he had dished to convert the Nationals of Rome City. o

Joseph Bushong has just completed a first-class job of grading for the R. R. Co. east of the depot. Billy Williams asserted for a truth that our bonded interest-bearing debt had been greatly decreased since the war ended, which shows that he is very ignorant or very untruthful and dishonest. It hasbeen increased over one billion of dollars. and the only way that the interest has been decreased was dqne by re-funding bonds at a lower rate of interest. Any one who will take the official reports of the Secretary of the Treasury can see that our bonded debt to-day is greater than it ever has been. Let people examine the matter for themselves and they will see that Ede Fisher’s circularis correct to a fraction’, yet the Hon. Billy Williams said Ede lied to the amount of eight hundred millions of dollars. This positive falsehood is another of the “facts” he came togive to this people, - ) ; Isaac N. Berry is now permanently installed as clerk in the store of Mr, F. U. Miller. Newt. makes a good one. : i :

Billy Williams says that the constitution means one thing in war and quite a different thing in peace. So with the Greenback. It is honest money in time of war, dishonest money in time of peace. . Another fact for the people. e

S. Walter Gauntt has got Dodge’s new building about completed. It is a good job and quite an improvement to the town. When Walter takes hold things haye to move. ‘

Go to hear Judge Osborn on Saturday night. Take your songs alongand give the Judge some good Greenback . music. « T e - Fielding Prickett, of Albion, intro. duced Billy Williams who;, he said, would tell the people the difference between honest and dishonest money. Billy explained like this: When the greenback paid the soldier and saved ‘the country it was dishonest. Sixteen dollars in greenbacks was thien hon- | ‘estly worth $5.02. * But since the war i 3 over and the greénback has been converted into U. 8. bonds, and both the principal and interest of said bonds _payable in coin, it is now honest, and ‘BO says every Shylock and bondholder inthe U. 8. .And Billy came to give - Wm, Layman and Levi Parks have started aflnagarmtqrymw#n&on \ iAR R e ST

with Layman’s cider press. =~ Those wishing pure cider vinegar can get it here at the exceedingly low price of $l5O perbarrel. . nR

Billy Williams said gold was always the same whilé paper money fluctuated. Now let us see if thisis a fact. We claim that it was gold that fluctuated and that greenbacks remained stationary. Don’t we all know that ten years ago a greenback dollar was ‘worth a hundred cents and that a gold ‘dollar was worth two hundred and fifty cents? We will put the case plain. You owed a note of $lO in bank. You called tor the note, gave & $lO greenback and your note wag cancelled. Butsuppose in lieu thereofyou gave the banker a gold piece stamped ten dollars. He gave you your note and six dollars in greenbacks for -the note he held against you. Now, if gold was not above par value, why was thisso? This is the sophistry’ and subterfuge that the tools of the Shylocks and boudholders are forced to resort toin order to deceive the people and try and make them believe that they have been fairly dealt with, and this is why Billy Williams was forced tosay that the government now honestly owed every soldier a balance of $lO.OB per month, and he was forced to say that if the government owed it they would pay it, when he knew that there never had been and never wo’d be‘any probability of the Government. doing any such thing. Another sampleof Billy'sfacts: - = - .

. Saturday last was pay-day-on the G. R. &. L road, and the laboring men were made glad by jumping aboard and receiving the ducats for the last month’s labor. 7 e e Billy Williams said “if the mission of the republican party was ended, the ministers of the gospel should gather together their bibles; and their hymn books, ceasé preaching righteousness and a judgment to come, for all was lost, lost, and the country not worth looking after.” Another fact discovered and brought to light by this modern prophet. - i g - Doctor Willson, of the water cure establishment, was taken very sick last: week and driven ‘home by his good wife in a buggy, on a pillow. It 1s well for doctors to be sick occasionally, they learn better to know how to sympathize with their patients. . The Nationals will hold meetings every Saturday might in Rome City from the present until the election is Qver. : S

B. F. Hardy, of our town, died Saturday afternoon, and was buried at Jackson, Mich,, on Monday.: . ° Billy Williams was sent to Rome to convert the Nationals. He succeeded most beautifully by his falsehoods, misrepresentations, and deception in making them all mad. It has waked them up to a doupling of their diligence, and election day will show the. results of that speech. - = Deputy Sheriff Miller was in town on Saturday last. Dave seems to have abiding' hope in the success of the democratic ticket in this county at the coming election.. But then he is no doubt “considerably prejudiced in that behalf. He seems to do well in that “left field.” S i

Perhaps the most persistent electioneerer in America is J. W. Griffith, of Ligonier. Jim sticks to his subject like a fly sticks to molasses. It is said you are compelled to promise him just to get clear of him.: Jim was here with Billy Williams. Indeed, the candicates all followed Billy, hoping thereby to get some consolation. But Jim beats ’em all. Jim says he has a sure thing of it; he knows whereof he speaks. After hearing his story we were almost inclined to believe that Jim might possibly come -within five hundred or six hundred votes of being elected. s R e

There has not been a candidate at Rome City during the present season whe has not professed to be ‘a’Green~ backer, no matter what party he belonged to. Yet some of them have had the cheek to ask Nationals to support them, for the reason that they might throw away their vote by voting with the Nationals. Very thin! A vote is never lost when voted from principle. : : :

Lindeman B, Mouvre, of our town, assisted the Albion band in the capacity of snare drummer. Lind ecan make a drum talk. The boys make good music. i Fielding Prickett was at Kendallville and introduced Ben (idiot) Harrison. He was also at Rome City and introduced the little blatherskite, Bil-. ly Williams. Fielding has heard from Maine. Fielding sees the hand-writ-ing plainly written upon the wall, “Mene, Mene Tekel.” Fielding feels troubled in mind, but the die is- cast. Fielding now talks about “honest money!” Poor fellow! Has he now found out that the glorious old greenback which saved thg country was dishonest! We pity him; he was ‘al—wa?s acleverfellow! . . = | =t o

.If the greenback which saved the country was at the time dishonest, and if as a legal-tender it was unconstitutional (as Billy Williams argues) then .our country was saved by fraud and 'dishonesty, and saved unconstitutionally. Again, if the greenback is unconstitutional, where do our Sherman’s and Hayes’ find a law to redeem unconstitutional money with gold and silver coin? -Is not a political party hard up to produce such arguments as these? .. . = ' ' Should J. B. Stoll and John H. Bak‘er meet in joiut discussion, we move that Col. W. C. Williams. act as refer~ ee, and that he beallowed one hourto give in his decision, and to give a reason for the hope that is within him, [All right. The democratic candidate is ready to enter into almost an'y ‘kind of an arrangement whereby Mr. __ Nationals should subscribe for Tag oo iberaly, as ¢ the only pc e w“tmfi the appearance of the stone work which 1s now: **f? e S R

Public Meetings. o e © ’; L & gl U L) “:iv:‘_* R & { ’: ."fl";:"‘:: 4 o IS AR igfaf ” /\\4Vl : ~\? it : , ;

Hon. J.D. Oshorn,

"OF GOSIIEN.

Democratic candidate for Joint Representative for the Counties of Elkhart and Noble, will addres the people of Noble courty as follows:

ROME CITY, Monday Eve., Sept. 23.

KENDALLVILLE, Tuesday Eve.. Sept. 24.

s AN EA, ; Wednesday, Eve.,Sept. 25.

-~ ALBION, Thursday Eve., Sept. 26.

- WOLF LAKE, Friday Evening, Sept. 27.

. LIGONIER, Saturday Eve., Sept. 28S.

Judge Osborn will be accom: codpaied by g

- JACOB H. SHAUCK, Cdnd”idate for R_epresentative. ~ Let the people, irrespective of party, turn out and hear the, issues of the day ably and fairly discussed. - =

k& The Committeemen for the townships of Noble, Albion, Allen, \gatyne, Perry and Orange are expected to make all necessary arrangements for the holding of the above meetmps e -

Peru is seriously afficted with much sickness, the cause supposed to be the large amount of fresh dirt thrown to the'sun by the excavations made for ‘the water pipes.

THE MARKETS.

LIGONIER.

GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, amber 88c; Rye, 46¢; Oats, 18¢; Corn, 30c; flax seed, 98; timothy seed, $1 25.

PropuceE.—Hogs, live, I ewt $3 00; Shoulders, per pound, 7¢c; Hams, 08¢; Bees Wax, 25c; Butter, 12; Lard, 06c; Eggs, P doz., 13¢; Wool, 1,20@ 30c; Feathers, 50c; Tallow, 06c; Apples, dried, 4c; Potatoes, 35; Peaches, dried, 06¢c; Hay, tame, $7; marsh, $4.

2Fy Fancy Cards with name, 10¢. Plain or Gold, &) Agent’s outfit, 10c. 150 styles. lall & Co,. Hudson, N. Y.

’ SELLERS' LIVERPILLS have stood for 30 years the Standard Remed{ for the cure of Liver Complaints, Costivenéss, Sick Headache, and ali derangements of the Liver.- Read : ‘‘Sellers’ Liver Pills cured me of Liver Complaint, which compelled me to quit work.';;:P.Andrews, Baltimore. *‘ I oan recommend Sel Liver Pills, | They havesaved Aundreds of dollarsin doctor’s bills.” ~Thos. Adams, Big Sandy, Kentueky. Price 25¢. s Box. Sold bll:" Drngs!(;u and oountry Store Keepers, °_R. E. SELLERS & 00, Prop's, Pitisburgh, Pa. N RR R R RN i

Administrator’s Sale. 'NOTICE is hereby given that the unders%ned. administrator of the estate of Joseph Whet-zel,-deceased, will offer for sale at J:ubuc outery at the late residence of the decedent in Swan township, Noble connty, Indiana,: three and a ‘half miles sonth-west of Avilla, on ~ : Friday, September VY fl}, 187 s, the folowing described personal prdp’erty. to-wit: One Mare and Colt, Two Cows, Cne Spring Calf, 15 Head of Sheep, 10 Head of Hogs, 120 Bushels Oats, 6 Tors of Hay, One Fanning Mill, One Wagon, One Pair of Bob-Sleds, and other farming implements, and various other articles too numerous to mention. ; TERMS:—Sums of Three Dollars and under, ‘cash. A credit of nine monthes will be given on sume over Three Dollars, purchaser to give notes, waiving valuation and appraisement laws, with approved security, to draw interest at therate of efght per cent. from date if not paid at maturity. Sale to commence at 10 o’clock, A. x. - s ; SAMUEL WHETZELL, Danizi REagarw, Auct’e. Administrator, Avilla, Ind., August 31, 1878.-20t4 ;

& o L : : i L R e e R . — emam : -e R :-_‘.- m‘:»':) y_:lff.}?if:;’ I have moved my place of business from the Banner Blo<k into Dr m ing, opposite Brown’s Furniture Rooms. 1 have purchased the nicest and best stockc of = = . PIECE: GOoOCYs S 0 Ever brought to Ligonier. Those wishing Clothies Cheap for Cash can do well by calling on . :_o B, RAISCH, — EDON'T be Deceived by Buying Hisewhere. s Ligonier, Ind., Sept. 4, 1878 44 tf . C : e - " ““