The National Banner, Volume 13, Number 35, Ligonier, Noble County, 19 December 1878 — Page 1

The Largest and Most Elegant Stock of Millinery Goods in Ligonier, at the Ladies’ Bazaar, Room No. 3, Banner Block.

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N , » G‘ t, | @’ 4 s { X U Clie Fational Bannes ot PUBLISHED BY ! gPZ A % JOHN B. STOLL. L(GONIER,NOBLE (}JO‘U NTY,IND. . oo i g Ferms of sabscription: ‘Dre year, inadvance,...... .. emeen. 8200 |ix months, in AAVANCE. coaenereenvomsedeens 1 00, - Blevencopies to ong address, one year,.>.... 2000 h.L 3 % 7 g#-Subscribers cutside of Noble connty are charget)l 10 cents exira [per year] for, postage, which is prepaid by the publisher.. i 3 ; L : Ll i STRAUS BROS., Transact a general banking business on . favorable terms. s i “Farmers' & Commercial paper disconnted at reasonable rates. 3 ) I ' Buy and a('ufßeal Estate, and all those v wishing larje or small tracts will do well to see us before purchasing. s d - Negotiable Y.oans, from one to five years’ time, soowred by first mortgage on tne- - provcd farms. ! ) © _gents for first-class Fire and Life In- ' surance Cénupavties. Dealers in Yo ; rain, Seeds, Wool, &c. - «special Notice to Farmesrs.” Grain placed in onr name in L; 8. & M. S. R. R. Elevators is at owner’s risk in case of fire, if not actually sald tqi us. When requested, we will snsure same in flrst-class Companies. Ligonier, Ind., May 31, 1878.-27-1 y . bl i R tertSpß S e T BANKING HOUSE i (el F—- . s it ; ! SOL. MIEIR, ' :parad’sNew Brick Bioek, LIGONIER,IND’NA. : Mbney loaned on lon-gaind gshorttime. . ! Notes discounted at reasonable rates. | Monies recéived on depositandinterestallowed onspecifiéd time, | : gxchange bought and sold, and Foreign Drafts drawn on principalcities of Earope, 8-2 O TIHE PARMEBRS: YOU will please take notice that I am stillen- | gaged in buying wheat, for which I pay the nighest market price. ; . s ifyou do not find me on the street, call betore | selling, at 1y Banking Office, in ‘Conrad’s Brick /. Block., ) » SOL, MIER. Ligonier,lndianga, May 3,1877.—1. f X B e H, A. laﬂ.NVl[‘lJli, i : . ATTORNEY AT LAW, S Ntgonieny oLd Indiana. " Office with Bsq, Banta, over Jacobs & Goldsmith’s dry goods store. . : S 13-30 e Ll e D. W. Geies. © | ¢ F.P.BOTHWELL, : GREEN & BOTHWELL, Attorneysat Law & Notaries Public : - LIGONIERS :¢ : INDIANA. | ; Office in Landon’s Block, over Scott & fandrock’s i Drug Store. | ) vig-n3l-tf, | e e e et - JOFN L. GALLUE, . { ~*Manufacturer of the , / « : . o I.X.L.Drain Tile And Red, Common :}gd Pressed Brick. Hard. wood, Basawood and Poplar Lamber and Dimen- * gion Stuff) oy . KENDALL VQDLE, INDIANA. } Mill and Yara three miles northeast of the city. 'Orders promptly filled and satisfaction guaranteed. % 4 . § 13-16-1 y

L, ANDREW JACKSON, JUSTICE of the PEACE, i quonler,lndlapu. i speéciat attenilon given to collections and convey- « gucing. Officewith D, C. Vancamp, over Beazel’s Harnegs shop, 13-2 . LOAN AGENGQY. *_“6-.\.' nW TH LOAN, in small or large - I amonnts, on long or short time. Pl i e A SRR i ¢ Attorney at Law, L_.ig;(mier. Tudiana.. S e, .B, GARD, - Physician and Surgeon. | Prompt attention to calls day andnight. Oflice ..on East-third street, Ligomexu Ind i 12. S . O VANCAMP, . ATTORNEY AT LAW, 1 Ligonier, ; : : Indiana. | Special attention given to collectionsand conveyancing, and the writing of deeds, mortgages, and: contracts. Legal business promptly attended to. . Office over Beazel’s Harness establishment, 9-50

ALBERT BANTA, Justice of the Peace & Conveyanéer. 2 ; LIGONIIER, INDIANA. Specialattention given toconveyancing andeol--¢ctionss Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages drawn up andall legal business attended to -promptly and accurately. | May 15187315-8-8 " . WAKEMAN, 3 A | InsuranceAy't &Justice of the Peace . KENDALLVILLE; INDIANA. . Offite with A. A. Chapin, Mitchell Block. Will receijie subscriptions to Tur NAjrlouAi. BARNER. G, W. CARR, @ | Physician and Surgeon, . LIGONIEE, - -« - - - IND, Willpromptlyatiendail calls intrustedto him, Office and residence on 4th Street. ST e et ————— s .et S 0 et bl . J. M. TEAL, D B xS 2y JFrESe oy Roomis over L. E. Pige’s Grocery, . [TVSeERtas, Corner of Malin undMitchellStreegs. SLLYY Y Popposise the Post Office, Kendallville, Ind. W‘PAH work warranted.<®B . } Kendallville, May 1, 1874. F cony, Langhing Gas! s i‘.‘;’)r‘, \(f“’% (1 ~FOR THE- i sAi ; i ge, e PAINLESS EXTRACTION 7 . < o b WEom - OF—n@ \TEETH - i MEE [ \-s-"- IR ) b’ S N /| Dr. Gants’ Office, NN aihdies st Ligonlier, Ind., Nov. 11, 1875, 11 : ] i O. V.INKS. DEALERIN MONUMENTS, Vaults, Tombstones, | AND BUILDING BTONHS Sl .

PHILIP A; CARR, AUCTIONEER, Offershisservices tothe p blicin general, Terms moderate, Ordersmay be'?eft at the shoestoreof ' Bisterhen., 1 $ ~igonier,Jantary 8,"73-37 j i o b it bttt CONCORD & CATAWBA WINE., We keep constantly on hand and gell in large or % p‘:qau %nanm.m, to suit ¢us{omers. . WinzofOur Own Manufacture, Pare— Noth ing but the Juiceof : thoﬂraape.;' . ! ! ACK BROTHERS; Ligonier,July 8 '71.-tf it A SACK BROTHERS Bakers & Grocers, ~ OavinStreet,Ligonter,lndisr Fresh 2z2ad,Pieq, Cakeér. &, Choice G‘*ocer!el"w, i’l;'«}vini»»ga‘.‘ Yr“%'ke‘a;‘ N"’“:;’;" & bhe highesi cash price paid fol untry produce. ‘iy‘{l?qaau;“’_; b ,' e g Aqlﬂlmq R - worker ofgithers ex, tight i ! ) v opte I:‘M - w],‘;{ i \

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LIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1878,

i CHRISTMAS. oo “Mamma, what is Christmas?” How can I say? I will try to answer you “true as true.” It is just the lovellest, lovely day, - That is steeped in rose-color all the way through! When miniature toy-shops in stockings are found That are left in the chambers without a sound; And papa gives gifts with a tender cheer; ‘ And brother **hurrahs for the top of the year;” And sister looks on with her wistful eyes, With a soft, sweet smile at every surprise; And Christmas meang this: A little child’s Lliss, z : And the love of the dear Christ felt like a kiss. And a piled-up glory if hard to express; And "“What is Christmas?” is wonder for all, It is when earth puts on holiday dress, Made spotlessiy fair wich snowflakes that .'.11; When hearts are lavish with treasures of love, And the pale, pure stars shine brighter above; And the dancing firelight seems to play ' In the most mysterious, haunting way; And the houge fairies wander from sweet to sweet, With an unexplored kingdom laid at their féet; ~ And Christmas means this: A little child’s bliss, : e And the love of the dear Christ felt like a kiss. And still-“ What is Chrisimas?” Darling come Lere. 1t is meant for the birthday, ‘‘true as true, Of a beautiful child that was born in Judea, That His mother loved, a 8 I loved you; That grew up to teach you how you should seek To be in your spirit, *lowly and meek,” And onward higher and higher t¢ go,! ; Till you changed to an angel, whiter than snow; And offered freely (that all might take) ‘ The gift of Himeelf for the whole world’s sake? And'that Christmas means this: ; . A little child’s bliss, | - And the 10ve of the dear Christ felt like a kiss,

THE CHRISTMAS ITREB. . ; BIGNIFIES LOVE. CONETANCY AND HOPE. " . Again at Christmas dld we weave . The holly round the Christmas hearth, The [silent snow possessed the earth, © And calmly fell our Christmas eve. ‘Do you ever think, as you hold in your hand the cedar-weund emblems with which we adorn lour homes at this festive season, of the deep significance hidden in the choice of the “cedar green” for our Christmas-tide decorations ? e Think of it, green is the ¢olor which symbolize . hope—=And Noah sent forth a dove to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground, and the dove came in. to.him in the evening, and in her mouth was an olive leaf plicked off”.—The color of spring which typifies new birth, the color that in Christian art js oftentimes used to represent regeneration. 1t was green, too, the ancients chose to signify love and constancy in their selection of the emerald as the “stone of love.” Thus, as green is the beautiful undertone that, like tenderest note of musiec, thrills in every vibratien of nature, so it typifies the love, hope, regeneration which, thrills in every heart that harkens at this Christmag season to the Christmas song that rings out in g]ad accord, as men and angels chant—“ Glory to God.” Does not the glory hold hope? *On earth peace”’—is not that peace love? “Goed will to men”—is not this good will the amen to regeneration ? Surely, if all this is signified by the color of the branches kissed by sun and shower, wooed by wind and calm into green of deepest dye, the cedar of which we twine our emblems must have.for us, too, far-reaching meanings; the cedar, so fragrant in its spicy odor, so incerruptible in its fiber, 8o glorious for its height; the precious cedar, so treasured for it§ healing virtues in the broad land of the East:

the tree so exalted in scripture narration. ‘

These are but hints we give you of the all that is meant by the choice of the cedar evergreens for our Christmas festival. : :

Not thoughtlessly, then, but with sacred awe and tenderness, let us bind the green twigs into emblem forms—remembering the Cross;, though it be but a cross of cedar, typifies the grand central light of our Christian trust; remembering, as we twine the wreath, the circle is the type of eternity; as we form the triangle, that it sym®blizes the Holy Three in One; remembering too as we bind the anchor that it whispers of hope, that hope of the soul, that never with so much of realness as on: Christmas day “enters within the veil.” e

And, thinking thus, let us forget the beauty of design in the deeper beauty of the symbol, till our heart-thoughts are uplifted from earth’s Christmas evergreens to that unfading “rainbow round about the throne,” where reigns Bethlehem’s babe—the bow of hope, “in sight like unto an emerald.”

CHRISTHAS IS COMING.

. The brightest, cheeriest, most human and most universally observed of all holidays is at hand. The signs of its approach are seen, heard and felt, They are seen in the‘carefully-arrang-ed shew windows, tlie gayly-decorated stores, the tempting display of merchandige, and the busy crowds that perambulate the streets on shopping thoughts intent; heard in the whisé pered secrets of the home circle and the joyous exclamutions of children, and felt in the heart and pocket. 'We have said Christmas is the brightest, cheeriest, most human and’ most universally observed of all holidays; and why should it not be? It is the most ancient of all holidays, the most tender and holy in its origin, the most cosmopolitan in its sympathies, the most direet and moving in its appeals to the heart of humanity. Other holidays are comparatively local or circumseribed in their observance, buf Christmas belongs to Christendom.~= Its influence in humanizing and christ~ ianizing the human race is simply inestimable. In the darkest ages of the world it has still shone out, a red letter day amid the gloom of the centuries, oasting @ light Lefore and after it that was not born of earth. It is. T e %ﬂ%&m

happiness and cheer, of tender charities, of kindly thoughts, of elevating influences, of all-pervading and allpermeatingjoy. Thelittle child leam"'gfj to anticipate it before he can speak. the young look forward to it as the culminating point of the year, and the old hail it as a sweet reminder of the past and a mirror in which they see bright visions of departed joys. All hail, then, to 6 the rosiest, happiest, cheeriest day in the year. . The day and its memories would be dishonored did we not remind our readers of their duty to the poor. It will be but poorly observed by him who does nothing to add to the happiness or alleviate the sorrow of some fellow mortal. It will be a cold and hungry Christmas to thousands in this land of plenty, unless they are remembered by their more fortunate fellows. THE BANNER canndtgiveto all its readers 'a surer reecipe for enjoying Christmas than the simple one —Remfember&e poor.

An Italian Romance.

A sad affair has lately been brought to light in Italy. In'a small cove near Udino, a woman was found who had been imprisoned thére 33 years. In 1844 she became attached to an Awustrian officer, but her father, a vielent nater of the Austrians, who at that time were in possession of that part of Italy where he resided, refused his consent to a marriage. The girl stated that she would then marry without his permission. ‘He dissimulated his anger, and during a walk in which he accompanied her, induced her to descend into the cave with him by means of a rope ladder, with a view of examining It. He was the first te ascend to the surface, and, withdrawing the ladder, left her. She was kept regularly supplied with food and clothing. Even when her cruel father died she was not released, for her sister whose hatred to° the Austrians was equally great, continued the imprisonment.— The unfortunate woman, on her liberation, had a complexicn of death-like pallor, caused by the darkness in which she had so long lived, and her voice had departed through constant cries for liberty during the early part of her sequestration. She could only speak in a hoarse whisper. - ;

e - B —— That Rulnous 10 Per Cent. * [Huntington Democrat.] :

Among the important questions that will come before the Legigiature this winter, none are.paramount, or of more Importance to the voters of Indiana, than the passage of a law regulating the rates of collectable intetest to an amount proportienate with the general condition of affairs thro’ out the country. Our rates of interest are entirely too high, as compared with the Eastern States, and should be reduced in corresponding proportion. As long as we have a law upon our statute books legalizing the collection of ten per cent., just that long will we find moneyed corporations spreading mortgages over the farms of this State upon their own exacting terms., A farmer may at times borrow some money at ten per cent. to buy stock to feed, but we statesa fact when we say that no one can afford to borrow mioney at ten per cent. to pay for lands, and that hundreds and even thousands of our people, under the general depression of all kinds of business during the past few years, have been compelled to borrow at that rate from the fact that we have a law legaliZing its collection.. ‘

Preachers af Clrenses.

The, editor of a religious paper in lowa gives the following reasons for his love for the circus: i “As we gaze at the lions, tigers and monkeys, and think that nature made all of them, we are not so sure. And when we look at the beautiful young lady, with nothing on but a blue ribbon around her waist, with one leg pointing to 6 o’cleck, and the other to high noon, and think that nature made her, too, just ad she was, except the ribbon, we begin to lean up to the circus. . But, when the brass band begins to play and the elephants go round, we rush in for a front seat to get in ahead of the ministers, who always wear stovepipe hats, and won’t sitdown in front seats.” el - P——— Not Booming. : [Fort Wayne Sentinel.] The “Grant movement” is not #boom.ing” so much as it was, and the managers thereof have informed Ulysses that he had better not return home just yet, least the “enthusiasm’ and excitement die out before 1880. When \ the conditions are “ripe” Grant will be summoned home, and his arrival will be duly signalized by a grand flourish of trumpets and beating of the tom-tom. But the American people are not all fouls, and this kind of spectacular politics will hardly blind their judgment so faras to lead them to replace Grant in the high position where, for eight years; he did little else but disgrace himsslf and the counbry. -———-—’a-—— e The Free Trade Hobby. | - [New York Sun.] : - It is significant that at Birmingham and Sheffield there begin fto appear advocates of protective duties, a fact which mugt prove disecouraging to the doctrinaires of our Free Trade %eague, who have spent many years in the vain attempt to make the question of free trade a leading issue in our politics. Probably at no time within a quarter of a eentury has there been so slight chance as now that the dreams of the free traders will be realized, The issue will not enter into the%residential campaign of 1880, and our free trade friends will be unable to interest any large number of the voters in it; - D e 4 A — e ’; MAcHINERY for shoemaking produces marvelous results. One class of machines sewed last year 45,000,000 pairs of shoes, while another pegged 55,000,000 pairs in the same time. Ten men can make 600 pairs of shoes a day. In New E:‘flaml 460 bushels of shoe pegs are made in a day, and one ,nenis worth of pegs will peg four pal h%‘e shoes. 'iéhm, lteﬁ‘i:n:{‘aﬁ;&% on shoe pegs and peggers, and 2,000 on shoo muchinery. ' Machinery tarned out over two million shoe lasfs in | SAR N e si t not better to purchase Dr. ! v, atook We Bekt of Reun bk ‘adulterated. unhealthy toflats: Heoanse Shae Tha Ghesiaid Fesk Giin Lent *”“*“é‘*@f“@ Goas R e omo

- TAXES AND INTEREST. ' 5 llndfanapolis Journal] - 'We are wont to attribute too much of our financial depression te the legislation of Congress, and to look ‘too much to Congress for relief. A very large proportion of the hardships the people of Indiana are suffering grows out of unequal and inequitable stat‘utes of our own State, and abuses of statutes which are in themselyes all right if properly executed. We: have already shown the great inequality, abuse ahd hardship of the working of the fee and salary law of the State. ‘We have also shown that the real estate is paying an undue proportion of ‘the taxes; that a very large proportion of the men who have gone down under ' the pressure of the times have been simply taxed out of existence.— Tho appraisement of the real estate for taxation was made when the currency was depreciated and when values . and reats weré high, and while values of real estate have depreciated from thirty to seventy-five per cent., and rentals have depreciated from forty to eighty per cent., yet the value for taxation remained and the taxes had to be paid or thie land sold. That in consequence of gross frauds and a loose system of enlisting personal property for taxation, no abatement, and in many cases-an increase, has been made in the rate of taxation, and the real estate owners receiving no abatement on aceount of mortgage indebtedness, they were simply crushed out, and their property in many. cases configcated for the taxesalone. We know of ome case in this city where a property is assessed for taxation at $160,000 and the ewners are unable to obtain’ $55,000 for it, and more than that sum has been advanced and paid in taxes upon it inside of six years. The Legislature of two years ago was guilty of a gress and criminal neglect of duty 1n not readjusting the appralsement of real estate and the assessment laws so as to secure some degree of equality in taxation. There is another measure of equal importance and looking in the same direction which should command the attention of the Legislature this winter. . Wae refer to the rate of interest to be allowed on meney. The time was when supply and demand furnished the best regulation that could be given upon this subject, and yet the State Legislature has always limited the rate. 'Fhelimif of the presentlaw i 3 10 per cent., but that is simply a dead letter for want of a penalty. We are perfectly aware of the difficulties that beset interest legislation—that is the difficulty in making usury laws effective. They are made effective, however, in many of the Eastern States, and if the same kind of law is adopted they ‘will be effective here. These laws provide for a forfeiture of both principal and interest of a debt where usurious interest is received, reserved or contracted for. Money-lenders and bankers are very careful about the vio'ation of such a law, The contracting to pay, or attempting to pay, the old ten per cent.rate of interest under the new order of things simply means that one man contracts to turn his estate over to another without-any consideration. The process may be a slow one;-but it is none the less sure. 1t is as sure to follow as that the contract is made. The man who owes ten per cent. of the value of his real property in Indiana to-day and attempts to pay the present rate of taxation and ten per cent. interest on this small indebtedness is about as certain of ultimate financial ruin as if he owed seventyfive per cent. of the value of his property.. Itis only a matter of time with ‘both if there is no reform in the rate of taxes and interest. The rate of interest should not be put toc low, but it should 1n no event be more than seven per cemt. and if all values are to remain as they are to-day six per cent. should be the limit. With the opportunities and habits of avoiding taxation on money, the man who has his means in money running at six per cent. is'making more money than any other cldss in the country. There is a system of brokerage which has sprung up during hard times, and which is being indulged in by some bankers, which is gimply eriminal, and should be made punishable as other crimes.

Another Railroad War.

It appears from a Montreal dispatch to the New York Wofid that Commodore Garrison, the new President of the Wabash Railroad, and Mr. Hickson, the manager of the Grand Trunk of Canada, in their war against Mr. Vanderbilt, have made or intend to make certain arrangements whereby the Wabash shall gain a through route from Kansas City to Montreal for all its grain shipments to the seaboard. This action, if it should be consummated, may unsettle all the points agreed upon at the Saratoga Conference held in August last,to which both roads were parties, and bring on another general railroad war.

Pr\eachers Using Tebaceo. Bishop Harris, at the session of the Ohio conference, gave the young minigters a chart lecture on the use of tobacco. He said the conference had adopted a rule refusing to admit young men linto the ministry who use tobacco. It has been found necessary to allow old ministers to cling o this unfortunate habit; and while he did not wish to hasten the departure of these old men, still they could not live always, and when they went home their places would be filled by young men free from the worship of tobacco, and then the church would have a clean handed, clean liearted and clean mouthed ministry. - !

Kentucky and Indiana.

Kentucky has 987 criminals now confined in her penitentiaries. = Four hundred and forty-three of this number are white males, 513 blacks, and 30 white females and one colored fe‘male. Indiana has over 1,800 male conviets in her penitentiaries, to say nothing of the female convicts in the women’s reformatory at Indianapolis and the boys at the reformatory at Plainfield. The Kentucky convicts range all the way from ten to eighty years of age, and represent every crime known in the eriminal calendar. ; —~:-—————-—-‘0'-—-—-——-. - There has been a vast shrinkage in the business of life insurance, partly because of the severity of the times and partly because the rottenness of ‘many eompanies has been exposed through the inability of officers to ‘keep them longer afloat. The statisties of companies doing business in New York State may be taken as a fair sample of the general &e& cline in business of this kind. In 1872 poliod to B “f’:’w& s o

Forward, March! flndianapolis San. |

It is the duty of every able bodied person to get a situation or engage in some legitimate work. It is the duty of all business men, well-to-do in the counfry, to hielp unemploged men any way they can to get work, in order that such persons shall be able to live decently, and become patrons of business men and _ﬁ'omen; There is need for a lively distribution of merchardise among the common people. . Business operations should have been, long ago, extended and the means of consumption should have been lefé in the hands of the people inatead of being withdrawn. (A s g Let every live man and woman in the land have thisthought Uppermost in the mind, that all of this suffering and demoralizafion, conséquent on the withdrawal of the means of doing business and keeping working men and %mep employed, is vanity and vexation. It is the worst of folly. There has been no more need of all this loss and-straining to get along than there was to engage in schemes to circumvent God or the laws of nature, The whole course of legislation by Cengress has been prohibitory of just and righteous things, and the suffering dependent thereon has beemr unparalleled and ahsolutely unremunerative in a material point of view, but on the contrary disastrous.. Morally, it only serves as another lesson of warning against traveling in the wrong direction. % : j ¢

Remove the Discrimination. [Fort Wayne Sentinel.].

Gen. Ewing says he believes there will he no finanecial legislation at the present session’ of Congress. In this we trust he will prove mistaken. Congress, before it adjours, should remove all restrictions on the coinage of silver; should pass the bill for the issue of silver certificates; should instruct the Secretary of Treasury to make no diserimination between gold and silver in any of his transactions, and should take measures to cempel the. national banks of the country to treat silver exactly as they treat gold.— While we believe in offering no opposition whatever to the execution of the resumption act, we think it is the sense of the country that Congress should take no backward step on the silver question, and instead of making any concessinns to the gold bugs sho’d not stop until it has placed silver on an entire equality, in every respect, with gold, and compelled the Secretary of the Treasury and the banks to respect the spirit as well as the letter of the law. @ @ - 3

Slander.

Yes, you pass it along whether you believe it or not; and that one-sided whigper against the character of a virtuous female or an honorable man, yowdon’t believe it, but you will use your influence to bear up false report aud pass it inte current. Strange creatures are men and womeén. How many reputations have been 10st by 'surmise. How many hearts have been bled by whispers. How many benevolent deeds have been chilled by the shrug of the shoulder. How many individuals have been shunned by a gentle, mysterious hint.. How many chaste bosoms have been wrung by a nod. How many graves have been dug: by false reports. Yet you will keep it above water. by the wag of tongue, when you might sink it forever. Lisp not a word that will injure the character of another, and as far as you are concerned, the slander will die. i s e el - ERE—— £A What the South Wants. - The Commercial Convention which ‘was in session in New Orleans for ‘some days during the past week, in a ‘series of resolutions, requested the President and the Senate to review our commercial treaties and have such changes made as will inure to the benefit of trade; asked the House 40 so modify the revenue laws as to give effect thereto; to establish new post routes between certain ports in this country and South and Central America and the West Indies, and asked the aid and influence of all interested. The convenrtion also expressed its high approbation of the projected Franco-American commercial treaty. ! |

American Horges for tire French Army. (Indianapolis Journal, Dec. 13.) A cable dispatch from Paris to the New York Herald, of Monday, says: “The first shipment of horses from Anmerica for the:use of the French army arrived during the past week at Havre, and were ordered through Consul Bridgland. The French military inspectors are much pleased with them.” These horses were purchased by Colonel Bridgland during his recent visit to this State, and it was his belief expressed while here that it is the beginning of a profitable trade. * Batler Building a Party. L (Washington Speecial.) " General Butler is very active in his efforts to form a national labor party, and while in New York has communicated on the subject with leading trades-union people. Butler favors a rigid entorcement of the eight-hour law, and such amendments to the homestead act as will enable actual settlers to provide themselves with agricultural implements, the money to be refunded to the Treasury after a certain time with interest. The Bayards. ' (Indianapolis Journal.) i, . The Bayardnpamily of Delaware has a somewhat remarkable record of political service. 'The present Senator entered the Senatein 1869. His father ‘was his Immediate predecessor, and occupied the same seat for eight years. The grandfather of the present. Senator oceupied. it for thirteen years, and an unéle of thé present Senator was also for many years a member of the same body. They all ranked high as lawyers, . . i : . Joe is Looming Up. 5 ; - [F. Wayne Sentinel.] . ' Senator McDonald is being widely discussed in connection with the next 'Presidency. But the Senator himself is heart and soul for Hendricks, who, by the way, has decidedly the best ghatos fur the pemiasiion: o the mwmﬂmwm for President, Mr. McDonald would loom up r«ggm’*vmmmoyﬁ% iﬁwwimfmﬂr‘* | Attehass of youl drigsias « hatits of 6 iy certain. Sold by druggists TR T R R e RV WANLe. Jﬂi{iﬁ"

Living for Her Dear Children. (Detroit Free Press,) g

The young son of a widow living on Park street entered the house the other day with excited step, and called to his mother: Sndan “Youd better get this houss all slicked up, for there’s a strange man going to call as soon as he gets thro’ talking with the grocer on the corner!” “Man with the gas bill, I suppose,” was her indifferentreply. -~ - . “Not by & jug full!” continued the boy. “He’s all dressed in broadeloth, has a big gold watch, looks as-if he owned a bank, and he was asking me for you.,” e S “Js that possible? - I wonder who it can be? What did he ask ?” :

' “He asked if you were as handsome as ever, and if you had grown old very fast, and if you had married again!”. ‘;)H?’did? Gracious! ‘but who can it be?” s :

“I don’t know, only he is good look: ing and rich, and—and—"? = :

“And what did yon tell him?” = - wsF-told - him your wotlldn’t marry the best man in the world, and that it wouldn’t do him any good to come spooking—” . - . - s “I'll give you an awful licking if you don’t split the rest of the wood!” interrupted mother with sudden energY, and he was run into the back yard and given a cuff on the ear as he left the door. He leaned on the axhelve and surveyed the back windows in wonderment, and by and by he mused : “She is allus saying she’s going-to live for her children alone, but if this looks like it, then I don’t know the family..” j TR e~ 1 : Looking After the Money, . ! (Wishington Special.) e Judge Kelly, of Pennsylvania, with others, has a suspicion that certain banks have been allowed to retain custody of funds which properly sho’d’ have been in the United States Treasury, and in order te ‘ascertain the truth of the matter he offeted, and the House adopted, a resolution to-day directing the-Secretary of the Treasury to inform the House whether any money belonging to the United States was in the possession and custody of any National or State Bank or private bank on the 30th of September or November, 1878 as on deposit, or otherwise than deposits made by Disbursing Agents. There has been an impression that the banks were permitted to retain the gold received in subscription for bonds, which should have been turned into the Treasury, and especially that during the extensive operations of the Syndicale gold was retained and loaned by the banks at a low rate of interest. Thé Secretary’s answer to the resolution will determine whether there is any foundation for these suspicions. . - - |

How to Prepare Coal Oil Barrels for - - Meat Packing Use. *=

The kerosene or coal oil bartel has for many .years been thought to be worthless, except for use again in the shipment of kerosene, but a few days ago Mr. Jesse Hartzog, now of Van Wert, but who was at that time resid--ing in Willshire, engaged in mercantile trade, having a large amount of pork to pack and being short of theregular barrels, conceived the idea of utilizing for packing purposes a number of empty coal oil barrels he had on hand. For this purpose they were unheaded and then filled with straw or shavings, and this was set on fire and permitted to burn until the coal oil barrel was thoroughly charred on the inside. On testing it the pork packed in such barrels kept sweet . and in better condition than that packed in other barrels. Many of the farmers around Willshire since the discovery have been using -kerosene barrels in which to pack their meat’ and with uniformly good Success.—e,l Van Wert Times. = : ot |

Caught a Tarvar. ‘[New: York Sun.]

The Republicans appear to have caught a Tartar in Daniel S. Russell, whom they elected to Congiess by a coalition with the Greenbackers from the Third District of North Carolina in'place of Col. Waddell: - The Wilmington: Star, in reporting the proceedings of a republican mass meeting-to celebrate their victory, states that Russell “declared in favor of the payment of all Southern claims, whether the claimants were loyal to the Union or not, and the pensioning of Southern as well as Northern soldiers of the late. war, each of whom fought for their country.” re S

Truly & Quotable Sentence.

Mr. Hayes’ publie papers almost always have one quotable sentenee. 1n the message, it is the one declaring “the right of every citizen, possessing the qualifications prescribed by law, to east one unintimidated. ballot and to have his ballot honestly counted.” — Boston Herald. - - : e

‘The sentence sounds well enough, but it would sound better if it came from a man who held his office by virtue of ballots honestly counted.—ZFort Wayne Sentinel. BT A

A Common-place Document. [Fort Wayne Sentinel.] -

Taken as a whole, the message is a tame and common-:place document.— It is—a simple compilation from the Secretaries’ reports; and does not con~ tain one original suggestion, er any trace of thought to indicate that the author has the slightest grasp-of the great problems which now confront American statesmanship. ‘A weaker, and in every way more contemptible state paper has never emanated from the executive mangion. - .~ 7 . ¢

Beecher as a Doubting Thomas. | (LaPorte Argus.) =

Beecher says that the stories about Eden, Adam and Eve, the flood, Noah and the Ark--and other incidents found in the Pentateueh are mere myths and are not to be accepted by Christians as authentic. .He also says the tales of ILilizabeth are all fiction and should not be believed by Christians anywhers, but, somehow, there are good. Christians everywhere who do believe them. i LAR e

Doctors Gave Him Up. . ' ~ “Isit possible that Mr, Godfrey is up and at work, and cured by 80 simple a repiedyr e . “I assure you it istrue that he isentirely cured,and with nothing but Hop Bitters, and only ten days ago his doetors gave him up and said he muatdie!® “Well-a day! If thatis so, I will go. this minute and get some for my poor George. Iknow hops are good.” 8562 ..The temperance clibs of Decatur, Tl aeo meviag for an amendment, 1o ‘the State Constitution prohibiting the ‘manufacture Or sale of intoxicating e lﬁﬁ T e

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General Items.

This yaar’é cotton crop is 5,197,000 é

Attorney-General Devens will not retire for some time. :

‘The House has adopted a resolution for a recess'from December 20 to Janual‘y 6;,' o : ~ National bank bills are neither a legal tender nor redeemable in coin, notwithstanding which the hard money organs insist they are not “soft.?" ~Professor Tenney, the geologist, has expressed his opiniom that the Black Hills eountry is destined to be the gtéaltgist gold producing region in the world. %

A mob of herders burned two stock thieves t 0 death who had killed a herder attempting their arrest, in Custer county, Neb., on Tuesday night of last week, i I ik Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a° s'taﬁdiﬂ!?‘ﬁ-‘ﬁi‘% “If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.—Hdward Everett. : Hayes’ message fell like a shower of autumn leaves, and has made about as deep an impressisn on Congress and the country as so many leaves would make on the ground.—XN, Y. Ewpress. ; :

. John Sherman’s scheme is to lock up greenbacks after they are redeem‘ed, though Congress has expressly declared that he shall pay them ouft again. Hayes upholds Sherman’s nullifying scheme. ; ¢ ¢ - In the last 15 centuries Japan has had 140 destructive earthquakes. One every ten years has been the general average, but for the past century the ratio has increased to one severe one every five years. | - Some of the radical papers complain because Southern Democrats did not eleet megroes to Congress. Northern radicals did not elect any negroes to Congress. Northern ‘negroes are quite as intelligent as their southern brethren, : .

Postmaster-General Key threatens to discontinue the postal-car service throughout the country on January 1 unless Congress shall in the mean time ‘make an appropriation or in some other way provide for its continuance. -

The new bill for the reorganization of the army provides for a reduction of the general officers from eleven to Bix, and for similar reductions in every arm of the service. The number of enlisted men is limited to twentyfive thousand. ; Sy

. 'The largest plow in the world has been built for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. ‘Paul railroad company. It is to be used for ditehing for railroad congtructions in lowa, and is to be drawn by & locomotive. It will cuta furrow 87 inches wide. '

In this message Mr. Hayes fails utterly to recognize the great and pressing questions of the times; fails to make any new suggestions worthy of a man of affairs; and again shows himself to be an incompetent as he is a Fraudulent President.—New York

. Judge Rives, of the United States District Court at Danville, Va., %:,v--ing decided that trials of colored men by juries from which colored men have been excluded are illegal, because they are in violation of the civil rights act, a .new difficulty stares the bulldozer in the face. «

The fighting ground in Afghanistanis historic. Alexander the Great spent much time on the Oxus, and established acolony at Candahar, founding there a city. -On his march to the Indus, he fought his way through the passes, for whose possession the English troops are now struggiing.

|- Prince Bismarck is said to be very superstitious. He will not eat at a dinner with a party of thirieen, will not have his hair cut while the moon is waning, will not negotiate on the anniversary of any great disaster, and will not.conclude a treaty on a Friday. He. beliéves that he knows the year of his own death. ‘ o

- A dispatch from Peth says: “The negotiations between Russia and Turkey relative to a definitive convention continue to proceed favorably. Turkey acknowledges her liability to pay 300,000,000 roubles indemnity, and agrees to pay itin yearly installments. The point still pending is the insertion of the provision relative to Montenegro.” - ! :

They have a gold mine in Chili which is expeeted to vield a profit of $17,000,000 a year for something more than a century. That sort of talk was cemmeon abeout the Pacific slope bonanzas a year or bwe age, but itisn’t now: Possibly some of the discouraged Californians and their romance ‘writers have transferred their interests to the South American geldfields. 5 St :

A court of inquiry will meet in Chi- } cago on the second Monday of January, for the purpose of investigating the conduct of Major Reno in the en‘gagement on the Little Big Horn “River, where Custer was massacred. The court has been appointed at the request of Reno, and, as the subject of ‘the inquiry has excited a great deal of fesling in army circles, as: well as ~much public interest, the investiga_tion will doubtless be therough and exhaustive. i . The .Londen correspondent of the New York Sun says there is a scheme on foot Lo colonize Palestine with Jews from the south of Russia and ‘Roumania. ' This is not an English scheme, buf it is thought that it w meet with favor in England; . Asiili offers & home to Jews who have been ‘subjected to certain methods of persecution, it is more likely to be successful than a:scheme inviting emi- ' ‘gration of Jews from America or England. Thesuccess of the venture 'will depend, after all, on the influence ‘England exertsin Asiatic Turkey. ~_The plan of introducing California salmon into the rivers of Germany, 'England, France, and the Netherlands . ‘has been attended thus far with a deA 8 RITLIRE HMDHINE: DS AEEN TrSS Jith aB, bryc s SUF {ispotied OR N I ﬂ“‘g‘m ng not -above five ; }‘n 24' IV T 4 : o