The National Banner, Volume 13, Number 36, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 December 1878 — Page 2

_ Clothing of every description Retailed at Wholesale Prices at the Enterprise Clothing House of May & Hirsch, Nerth Room in Union Bllvﬁ!\'k

The Fatiomal Banney 5 g e B 3 : \ : 7 - ¥ A [ ~.':\.'l e "‘f\ SHe : o NWA NS ] : J‘[ B.STOLL, Editor and Proprietor. LIGONTER, IND., DEC. 26th, 1878. O T X S s Bank paper must be suppressed, and the ¢irculating medium restored to the nation, to whom %t belongs.... Let banks continue, if they please, but let them discount for cash alone or for "lfreasury notes.—Thomas Jefferson. M - A HirPY NEW YEAR to each and every reader of THE BANNER. [PLENTY of applicants for the Berlin mission. The vacancy will not be filled till the reassembling of Congresd. A WASHINGTON special states that Semator Voorhees has a carbuncle on his nose, which m:xies him so far from prepossessing that e remains indoors for the present. ‘He will not go tolndiana untit the middle of January. AND now cou”ies the informafion that the treasury department has no funds at its di;r-@sal wherewith te defray the ekpenses of the Blaine * outrage” machine. _This announcement is received with ecstatic joy by the republican Senators who look with contempt upon Blaine’s latest tomfoolery. THE Boston Herald has been studying the trade outlook, and thus concludes: “Jt may be said that in general business men have more confi dance in the prospects for 1879 than they have had at any time during the past year, or had-in the outlook for 1878 in December, 1877.”

BraiNerefused to serve on the “cput-u‘ rage” committee ecreated at his own instauce, and all the mere conspicu- ‘ ous republican Senators followed suit. They didn’t want to have anything to ‘ do with Jim'’s nonsensical scheme.—It required considerable coaxing to secure the requisite: number of Re- | publicans to serve om the committe.— | The democratic portion of the committee is composed of stronger maters A 3

ELSEWHERE we reproduce from the N. Y. Sun of last April an article headed “Will Resumption Produce Inflation ¥” We clipped the article with a view .to reproducing it in the columns of THE BANNER about the time fixed for the resumption of'specie payments; and because we believed it to be substantialty a correct prognostication, founded on reason and good sense. Preserve the article for a few weeks and see how near the Sun hit the mark.

. SEVERAL western railroads, whose stock has been on the Board on Wall street for years, are coming out with dividends of the most encouraging appearance, This, the Cincinnati Enquirer observes, will gratify the stock‘holders, of course, and stimulate them to buy more stock; Wall street will thereby be relieved, and the country be made to booem and to 'blo‘ssom, as the rose. The era of resumption is at hand, and New York has a schems for inflation on her hands, s

. THE ADVOCATES of the Sherman resumption policy are disposed to be somewhat ' boisterous over the prospectof the Secretary’s ability to maintain specie payments after January Ist. A little moderation, at this patticular moment, would not be amiss. They should bear in hind that resumption ‘can only be maintained, if ‘maintained at all, by the forebearance of the holders of United States notes. Sherman’s policy will be successful only so long as the people do not call for actual resumption. ‘

THE MORTALITY during the precent Congréss is unprecedented. Two Senators—Morton and Bogy; and five Representatives—Weleh of Nebraska,. Leonard of Louisiana, Quinn 'of New, York, Williamg of Michigan, and Douglass of Virginia — have died since the 45th Congress has been jin’ existence. ~Congressman Walker, 'of Virginia, Saylor, of Ohio, Riddle, of Tennessee, and Stephens, of Georgia, are now reported very low, and the illness of all save Stephens is ascribed to the same cause that produced Douglasg’s death. : i eee = | GEN. A. 8. WILLIAMS, the only democratic congressman from Michigan, .died in thefcity of Washington last Saturday. He had been ill but a few days, having beem prostrated in his committee room on Thursday, Mr. Williams was born at Saybreok, Conn., ‘Sept. 20th, 1810. He graduated from Yale College in ’3l, and removed to Detroit in 1836, where he begun the practice of law,and where he has since resided, save the time that he was in the Mexican war, the late Rebellion and at the republic of Salvador as United States minister. Gen. Williams’s public career has been long and distinguished, and, either as judge; soldier or legislator, has ever held his _ country’s interests as paramount.

BEVERLY DOUGLASS, the Virginia member of Congress who died rather suddenly last Saturday, literally drank himeelf Into a premature grave, He ‘'was once a man of fine parts: The Indianapolis Journal’s Washington spe- ,‘ cial says that when he was JYoung he 'was a man of genius, and until his - faculties became impaired was one of “the finest parliamentary orators in - Virginia. His integrity was above suspicion -and he died' a poor man. ; His sad fate is generally regretted, ~even by those whe had .ne sympathy. _for him when living. He was defeat..ed for election in the next Congress, on aecount of his unfortunate habits, * and since this rebuke he has plunged “more deeply into intemperance than _ever. Hehad a most estimable. wite . #nd ¢harming daughter who did everyeTN S S i eLR A ~,} et L R o

POLITICAL EDUCATION

-~ OB THE— Z SCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT IN THE SCHOOL. ‘Senater REEVE, of Plymeuth, Ind., in his essay on “King Caueus,” which was published in the Chicago T'imes, December 14, says: i i “The actual ignorance in portions of the country is appalling, when we think of the power placed in the hands of those so ignorant. Go through the country districts and see how many read and keep up with the common news of the day, and you will be astonished to find how few they are. On the other hand, inquire how many read the police news, the wash of the New York story papers, sectarian religious journals a little, and * meral. reform ” statistics, with no general news or philosophical reasoning, and you will be more astonished. '~ Go among the school-teachers and ask them questions about the constitutions, the principles of government, the laws of society and life, and again you will be astonished at how little they know; and when we ask how much of this is taught in our schools there is no answer.”

~ That such isjthe state of intelligence in a land of schools and newspapers is truly appalling; that Indiana, with a ‘permanent scliool fund of eight and a half million dollars, has ten per centum of her voting population unable to read and write is more appalling, But because of this, it must not be inferred that a man who is able to read and write a little, can on that account exercise the rights’) conferred upon him by the ballot, more intelligently thdn the illiterate. He no doubt has hold of a lever which, if rightly exercised, may raise him to a full conscious: ness of' political responsibility; but -apart fromgthat, his superiority over the illiterate is mil. Political institu‘tions are most complex fabrics which often baffle the comprehension of the most abstract reasoner, and eéonsequently those who are unable to think abstractly, ars, from the very nature of the case, unable to grasp the work‘ings of their simplest elements. Ev/er'y issue capable of becoming the leading idea of a great party is, either an abstract element, or a bundle of abstract primciples, which the party labors to reduce to concretenessjor practical aplication ; and for this reason, it is evident that no issue, however plausible, wanting in the principles of right,can for any length of time hold a party together. Right, then, must be the ba--Bis of true politics; but the ground of right, again, must be sought for in the, nature of things; therefor'ei right can not become a controlling force in the action of man, until he, through the effort of his intelligence, becomes conscious of the true relation of the elements which constitute the right and the wrong of his acts. - ; -He who thinks at all, must think in relation; fer, it is impossible to evolve thought from barren facts that admit of no correlation; therefore, all the elements of thought necessarily are abstract, and the ability to réason correctly, must depend upon the pow-

er of the mind to think abstractly. | Now, in as much, as the political machinery of a government is a vast correlation of forces it seems impossible for any one to vote intelligently, who has not a clear idea of the force of the measure for which he votes, in its relation to the government as a whole. But it may be said that a nation which fosters universal suffrage cannot expect so much from her voting' population. That may be true, but the objection will not hold as an argument against higher education. The thinking public agree that the perpetuity of the republic 1§ dependent upon the general intelligence of } the people; but what kind of intelligence is meant, if not that culture which requires the individual to com- ‘ prehend fully the multiform organisms of the government he desires by his vote to perpetuate? It is that kind of intelligence only which can, when properly exercised, supplant “King Caucus.” It is also evident that an intelligence of that kind is a ‘product of culture, not met with in school books and newspapers,—these are auxiliaries but not ultimates by any means. It isaculture which presupposes a mental discipline of the severest character,—a discipline almost foreign to our public schools. But, while the public schools are, as a general thing, wholly deficient in what is true mental culture, the teachers of those schools are not always responsible for it. The mania of some parents to have their children go through a book rapidly is one cause, another is the tendency of the parent to dictate the kind of training his child shall have. Such parents too often act upon the principle that a little knowledge of reading, writing and arithmetic is sufficient for all practital pur‘poses. They do not view the child’s school life, as a life for mental growth ‘and development, but a life in which their children are to accumulate a sufficient number of pebbles, as it were. to hurl at butter and eggs, or some i other article of barter in the world of trade. ; - i

KING CAUCUS,

in his shrewdness, observes in this tendency oif a thoughtless public, a chance to perpetuate his regal power, and consequently he sends out his minions all over the country to cry down higher education, alleging that it 1s of mo use, and an expensive luxuury forced upon the tax-payers of the State. Under the hypocritical disguise of reform, he aims to eliminate the high school as ameedless appendage to the public school system. e must have the teachers’ salaries cut down to the very lowest point of subsistence, ‘What, I ask Mr. Reeve, 4s the teacher to do under the combined force of parental dictation and the teachings of law-makers and demagogues? If the evils of which Mr. Reeve complains are to be eliminated, he must doctor the cause, not the result; he must com‘mence with the body politic, and out of that s ot ignocaseserolve an Behools, in the main, are the reflex of bitaies e S s se gt oo 3oigind %%‘WW LTS R AT B . sl R U e S i

teacher, as a general thing, is at the mercy of the community, and when he is made a tool in the hands of the people he can do nothing to elevate the character of the schools. Mr. Reeve's indictment against schoel teachers is in the main true.but it is consoling to them that they have company among the lawyers, theologians, dectors, politicians, editors, and many others.

. Mr. Reeve is a lawyer of more than thirty years’ practice, and we venture that he can justly say, “go ameng the lawyers and ask them questionsabout the constitution, the principles of government, the laws of society and life, and again you will be astonished at how little they know.” -Of course there are honorable ‘exceptions, as there are among teachers, but the exception Is nct the rule, = : Mr.-Reeve says: ;

~ “The three great and dangerous evils in this. country are: 1. Cheapness of the elective franchise and full rights of citizenship; 2. Absence of teaching in our schools of the principles and praetice of government; 3. The system of appoiutment to office as a reward for party labor and fealty.” - The absence of teaching in our schools the principles and practice of government, rests upon the shoulders of vfhose opposed to higher education, or to that discipline which is necessary to develop the conceptive powers of pupils sufficient] y toenable them to understand the principles of government. The science of government inyolves a history—the philosophy of which 1s indispensable to the student. - This again implies quite & degree of culture to understand, and therefore a higher education must be insisted upon. History is the physiology of government, the algebra or mathematics, 8o to speak, of: political science. Persons untrained in mental labor find it, on that aceount, a dry study, and consequently histerical reading is almost nil among the general public. The habit of reading nothing but daily papers, unfits the mind for solid study. In this respect there is no difference between the influence of story papers or trash, and the regular newspaper. The daily has a place that can not be supplied by anything else, but the habit of relying ngn it for sound mental culture is pernicious to the extreme. e

Mr. Reeve thinks “there are but two remedies for public abuses. -One is education, the other is perpetual restraint of offenders. If our youth are educated in the fumndamental principles of governmenﬁ and a general outline of the details-of its administration—the value, power, rights and duties of cit%zanship-—gradwall y,the coming voters will not be misled. They will know a demagogue or a simple orator from a statesman. They can judge of propositions and of admini‘s-. trations.” : ;

The education which Mr. Reeve insists upon is of the most solid character, and if our schools could be placed upon that basis, with a public te endorse - their efforts, a great change ‘would be wrought within the next deeade. But as it iﬁ now, the public must be brought up to a full realization of the necessity for such education, before the schools can do much. Therefore, the education demanded by Mr, Reeve must commence with the general public. - Those in authority must insist upon it, and in course of time the work will be accomplished. To prepare the pupil for a higher culture, reading affords an excellent means of discipline: Not that kind of reading which only consists in calling the printed words correctly, but that which involves an intellectual process. The word calling system is the one principally used in almost all schools. The intellectual process is seldom thought of. In this particular, nothing is go badly taught in many schools as reading. Itis through reading that teachers ought to cultivate a desire for higher forms of literature, and thereby lay: the foundation for solid reading outside of school. » i o D. D. LUKE. . T Saloon-Keepers, &o Siow, [Madison Courier. ] ;

The Supreme Courtrenders an opinion in the case of the State vs. Henry Ruge, where he was indicted for selling liquor on the 4th of July, in which they hold that the defendant eould not be fined, for the reason, among others, that the 4th of July is not a legal holiday: but that decision was made under the Baxter law of 1875, and the impression prevails that persons may now sell liquor on the 4th of July, Ist of January, 25th of December and Thanksgiving day. And before the saloen keepers undertake to sell they had better examine the law passed March, 1877, the first section of which reads as follows:

“That it shall be unlawful for any person to sell, barter or give away, to be drank as a beverage, any spirituous, vinous, malt or other intoxicating liquors on Sunday, the Fourth of July, the first of January and the 25th day of December, commonly ealled Christ‘mas and Thanksgiviog Day, or upon the day of any State. County, Townghip,: primary or municipal election ‘where the same may be holden; and upon conviction thereof the person so offending shall be declared guilty of a misdemeanor and be fined in any sum not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars; to which' may be added imprisonment in the ceunty jail not exceedinz sixty days.”

That’s a Fact. : i ; {Crawfordsville Journal.] It is a shame to our civilization, the Rev. Joseph Cook thinks, that a woman should be required to strain all her strength in performing the same work as a man, and then be allowed about onae half what is paid to a man. We don’t see why every reasoning person shouldn’t think that way, and yet we call to mind the fact that women school teachers, who do the work in most cases better than men, do do not receive the same pay. _ : S R e S Several thousand dollars of gold was brought into the banks of this city and deposited within the past few days. The banks are paying out and the eagles are leaving their nest. This is hopeful.—lndianapolis Journal. Certainly. Only Be careful that the ‘eagles are not imduced to return to their nests for another indefinite perfod. Keep them a flylng! .~ :A‘H“

KENDALLVILLE, [LOCALS.

Keller Moyer, of Cadilae, Mi¢h., has bzen visiting his relatives here in the city. . ‘

- Now come’ some-of the Elkhart county Greenbackers asking for favors from the democratic House of Representatives. Is not that,in a very miid sense, a little cheeky ? L The Hon. J, H. Shauck has been confined to ths hff)dae‘ for several days on account of a very severe attack of sore throat. To-day, Christmas, he has again made his appearance on the streets. : : Since the sleighing has been good the City has been lively; and as the Holidays approached the toy trade increased until Tuesday night, when it reached its climax. Now the merchants would be happy to get first cost on all unsold goods gn;that-line. There were about 100 persons in attendance at the 40th anmiversary of the marriage of Mr. P. €. Isbell and wife, on Tuesday. The gathering was very pleasant and social, and all partook of one of the best dinmers: ever prepared for such an eccasion in Northern Indiana.

. The L. 0. G. T\ gave an oyster supper last evening. The Christmas tree in their ball was well loaded with presents and many were' made happy. thereby. : But the gala crowd was found at the Christian Church, which gociety gave their Sabbath School scholars a free supper. ‘ - The paper money issued by the Dominion of Canadais worth 80 cents on the west side of Main street, while on. the east side it is par. Who would have thought that 90 feet would’make so much difference in paper money ? The west side of the street must be getting down to “hard pan.” : December 25th. BISMARCK,

lltems gleaned frow the Kendallville News.] Kendallville has shipped 10,000 barrels of apples this season. : Uncle Christ. Foster, from Missouri, has been back on a visit to this ¢ounty. He likes that country and owns a Targe tract of lands - Elder Stewart expects to become a migsionary in the inferests of Spiritualism and Liberalism in the State of Minnesota. He will be employed by the State Society and enter upon the ‘work immediately. : __The following figures are taken from Messrs. C. C. Bell & Bro’s books and show the number of barrels of apyples shipped from this point by this firm, also the business done elswhere by them: Kendallville—apples, 9,133 barrels; cider, 4,767 gallons; jelly, 943 gallons; dried apples, one carload. Number of barrels shipped from other points: Goshen, 1,331; Waterloo, 135; Corunna, 85: Butler, 75; Bryan, 30; Wauseon, 154 ; Sturgis, 110; Burr Oak, 872. 'This is unprecedented here and shows that Kendallville is a superior point for this trade. Messrs. C. C. Bell & Bro. are first-class business men and have established a good reputation in this town and vicinity.

———) < [— A Reasonable Demand.

The Charleston News and Courier denies the reports of wholesale frauds 'on the part of the demoéracy in the recent South Carolina election, and says: it :

The eourts are open in South Carolina. All the officers are Republicans, and the assistant district attorney is as bitter as gall. They can arrest whem they please, for they can get what, affidavits they want. The accused are reddy to stand their trial.— They rely en their innocence and an impartial jury. What we demand for them is that, when they shall have been tried and acquitted in the courts, they shall not be arraigned again at the bar of northern public opinion, shaped by a sensational and prejudiced press. .

Sycamore Dan Safe. (Evansville Courier,)

Stories are still being invented about the trades to beat Senator Voorhees. The last one is that Dr. De La Matyr is to be elected bp a combination of Republican and National votes. This story comes from Washington, but is flatly 'denied by Dewees, Chairman of the National Executive Committee, who' says that De La Matyr is not a trading man, ard that he is more likely to work to secure the election of James Buchapan' to succeed Voorhees. As the Democrats have a clear majority on joint ballot, we rather guess Plan Buck will have to wait a little longer. Voorhees will be elected for both leng and short terms on the first ballot.

Notes in Bank. (Seymour Democrat.)

" We find a very sensible article in the Columbus Democrat advecating the passage of a bill by the coming legislature abolishing The exclysive obligations that notes payable in bank® have over other promises to pay. The payment of an ordinary note of hand may be resisted for want of consideration; but there is no such defence against a note payable in bank, and it is with a knewledge of this fact, and their opportunity to take advantage of it, that has induced the patent right swindlers: to make their swindling contracts and dispose profitably of the notes of their vietims.

Btill Scheming Against Dan. ~ [Columbus Democrat.]

Another sensational storyis reported from Indianapolis to the effect that a combination of the Kepublicans and Nationals is forming to defeat Dan Voorhees. It states that Hon. John Caven, Republican, is to be made Senator fer thelong term, and Mr. Tipton, chairman of the National State Central Committee, is to be made Senator for the short term. 'The average poli) tician don’t place very much reliance in this statement. : ]

Bull-dozing Isn’t Jug-Handleg. [Springfield Republican.] The bull-dezing is not all on the side at the south. The evidence is cenclusive that a negro who yoles the ‘democratic ticket very often runs serious rigk either of personal violence ~or of social or even religious ostracism| .at the hands of his ewn race, = “Honesty” in Republican Minnssta, e : (Bt. Paul Pioneer-Press.) ¥ 1t seems there are about 20,000 more people in Minnesota.who favor a swindling and dishonest policy towards the State’s creditors, than of those who prefer honesty and fair dealing, “Jack” Kehoe, ex-king of the “Mollie Maguires,” was executed at Pottsville, Pa. on the 18th inst. Kehoe _was the recognized chief of the “Mollies,” and for several years ?nided. and diz;ecﬁgggi:be.ixggtder%g%w{h aér of %m _organizat on throughout the coiling rogiony of sie Tastern Statcs, and un: pbhatfiiy own political po WEr Was 80 s O e S A :“ “:M—,x "‘L',:é,:zl‘ . ‘ :;’: e : ﬂ%%

; - CROMWELL ITEMS.

S‘lunday‘ school has glosed for the winter, . = >~ i Lo

Vanderford & Stoner are in the fur business, ° - . )

I is zerously eold and not much sleigh riding. =~ ) Scott is snugly housed in his new building on the corner. i Swazy Goodrich feels lonesome. He no doubt thinks that the bachelor life bas no charms. '

_Fifteen cans of oysters were got away with at the grand supper at Marker’s the other night. : Joseph Calbeck is shipping two cars of hogs to-day. Twp dollars and twenty cents per hundred is the price paid. All those who are not taking THE BANNER ought to commence the first of January, as that is the time for resumption. . And now we wish all the readers of THE BANNER a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, especially the editer and his correspondents. Some eavesdropping in town. Better look a.*“leetle out”” The widow says she has a revolver laying on the stand and she will use It, you bet.

~ Webster McCamman is married as ‘& previous notice in THE BANNER in‘dicated. - Web. and his little duck now .compose a part of the population of ‘our burg. May he live long enough to become a Daniel. e

Oue evening last week some twelve or fifteen of the citizens of Cromwell (ourself among the number) met at the residence of cur esteemed friend, Albert Marker, on the Hawpatch.— Qi\ite a number from other localities were also present. After enjoying ours)pl}ves hugely with chin music for a few hours the assembled multitude (seventy-six in number) partook of a splendid supper, and after all were filled, behold! there was enough left to fill' twelve baskets. May they live long to enjoy the blessings ‘of this world’s goods. . Quite & large number of the citizens of this place is overwhelmingly.engaged in the useless practice of edchre playing. They gambfle in ‘that way for turkeys, \chickens,‘&ic., and then call it a shooting match. Who ever heard of ladies att_endi@ng shooting matches ? The church going here is almost abandored on account mainly of those vile practices.. The young man that fails to win the turkey at euchre steals it and becomes sole pessessor, and then is counted amongthe thieves. Boys, if you will spend the best part of your lives at cards, don’t steal. j : Deec. 24. , VALET. e ——— D Q) W — i AVILLA TIDINGS. '

There will be no school until Monday, January 6th, 1879. e

Mr. Woodruff, the Wawaka teacher, gave us a call on Tuesday morning.— He is a jolly young man, and in our judgment a superior teacher. 2 Mr. James, ason of Jonathan James and a son-in-law of Mr. Haines, are yet visiting friends and relatives here. They live in northern Michigan. ~ Lawyer Haines and Doctor Cessna have concluded it would be better for each to haveseparate offices. The Doctor is now in the Hilkert House.

‘The agent and operator of the B & 0. R.R. Co. says it is a fact that the depot on that road is to be removed to the crossing of the G. R. & I. R. R.

The man that was frozen to death on-last Sunday night at' Garrett was under the influence of liquor. We have not been able to learn his name. Reub Stahl is in the chromo business, and has given his old stand to a lady of ‘Avilla. Annihilating humanity by dealing out fire water to the weak minded is the business.

Owing to the pleasant wea_ther?, on Sunday, & sleighing party left Kendallville’ and called at the new hotel at Avilla., They said they would not go again such weather if they received parden for that time, . The social dancing party to be held at the Avilla Hall will be New Year’s evening. No one bul sober and respectable are to be tolerated there.— Supper at the St. James House; and dancing numbers forty-five cents each. Come 2all and have an enjoyable time. -Many of the teachers will teach the days intervening between Christmas and New Year. They should give their pupils a little rest and time for gayety. ‘They should understand that those days are usually known as holidays; and that holidays should be dgys of joy, mirth, festivity, anq gayety. A i

Pursuant to the call of the trustee of Allen township, the teachers of said township met in institute on last Saturday. The teachers will hold the next meeting at Lisbon on the 18th of January, 1879, at which time the teachers of Wayne township are to be invited and hold a joint institute. Let the teachers prepare and have an interesting and wel} gpent day. : sy o NoM DE PLUME.

NOBLESVILLE NARRATIVES. Health is good in this loeality. Good sleighing; conldn’t be better. _The saw-mill trade was a grand fizzle. . ; i Mr. Samuel Buker is on a visit to Ohio. = s Aad b S - Our cider boys have at last gone in-

to winter quarters. ot Doctor Moaore contemplates building a new dwelling house next summer. Doc. is one of our strong mun, and when he undertakes anything he goes through with it, . “.

* Murs. George W. Brown, of Green township, made a little over 28 hundred gallons of sorghum molasses this geason, and at 20 cents per gallon she realized quite a nmice little sum ot money. - ' . e There will commence on Saturday evening, Dec. 28, a series of religious ‘meetings in the Christian Chapel, and continue over 2 weeks, conducted by Elder Peter Winebrenner and Elder MThemas Whitman, . = 1 | “So,” since you have been elected Justice of the Peace, have you buried your talents 80 deep We can’t hear from you any more? Wake up and gt LS s e SRR e P S s s e e s

~ ROME CITY NEWS. ’ | EDITED BY “ALEXIS.” Levi Parks and wife are visiting friends a¢ Elkhart. : . Local items this week are provok- ‘ ingly scarce and distressingly thin. ~ The R. R. hands were very busy ‘and miserably cold keeping the snow off the ice last Sunday. ' Fishing through the ice is now regularly on the “bill of fare.” The perch }_and‘ shad come up freely. i ~ Peter St. Marie’s family have been on the sick list for quite a while, but are now slowly recovering. Our sehools were dismissed for the ‘holidays on Tuesday last. #They will ‘convene again on Mornday, the 6th of

January. S - H. G. Zimmerman, our very efficient school superiutendent, in ‘company with Trustee Jacou A. Waldron, visited our schools on Menday last. _ Saw logs are coming to town rapidly. We long to see that old engine once more in operation, and hear the sound of that familiar old whistle,

Peter St. Marie, S: W. Dodge, Cobbs Brothers, J. C. Geisendorff, and the G. R. &. I. R. R. Co. are all making extensive preparatibns for ice harvest. Another little one added to the family of neighbor Shumway; usual weight and spry as a gimlet. It was ushered into the world with the snow sterm on Saturday last. |

. The teachers institute at the seminary on Saturday last was presided over by trustee Weldron. There was a fair attendance of teachers, and a general good time. ‘We were not able to be 1n attendance.

Forty-five persons bought fifty tickets in the Masonic Gift Concert of F't. Wayne on Monday last and “pooled” their chances. If ons'wins all share alike. This is strictly a Rome enterprise, We will do our best to furnish results next week.. :

Last week our city was thrown into a feverish excitement from a report that’ Elder Krum, of Brimfield, and Dr. Clatk, of Albion, had been arrested and taken to Indianapolis for trial. There must be some mistake about this. Will the Squire please rise and explain? : o i

- Our new hotel is to be built of stone from cellar to garret. The teams are now hauling and one thousand perch of stone have already been purchased 1n the neighborhood. It is intended by the projectors of this scheme to make this the most attractive and impesing building in the county. . Rev. Doctor Hosier returned home on ﬁl‘onday last, after attending a protracted meeting 2t Welf Lake. The day was severely cold and the Doctor arrived with a cold spout. We like Dr. Hosier. He is a goed citizen, a good preacher, a splendid school director, and a thorough “mind yeur own business” sort of a man.

General ltems.

The ' Murphy mevement in New York city is steadily growing in importance. ‘

The condition of England’s working people is worse than has been known for a gemeration. . . :

Zero and below is the prevailing condition north of the Ohio river and east of the Rocky 'mountains.

The English arms have met with a complete success in Afghanistan. The Russian mission has withdrawn from Cabul, and the telegrams say that the ameer and suite are accompanying the missien towards Russia. Complete anarchy is said to prevail in Afghanistan. o

Stephen D, @ftlards was arrested at-Mount Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio, Saturday, on the charge of murdering Mrs. Harrison and her three children, fifteen miles south of Kearney, Nebraska, on the Bth inst.’ The bodies were secreted in a hay-stack, ‘where they were found on the 11th inat. | Ll &

A most dastardly murder was committed near Carlinville, 111,, Saturday night. Antoine Dariels, a negro aged about nineteen, while out hunting met Henry Proctor, a young man about his own age. Both parties had dogs with them, but Proctor was not armed, while Daniels had a .double-barrel-ed gun. As the parties met their dogs commenced to fight, and Proctor urged his on. Daniels warned him that if he did not desist he would shoot, and did so, Kkilling Proctor instantly. Daniels came to Carlinville, ard was arrested and placed in jail a few hours later. :

Congressman Riddle, of Tennessee, is almost on the; verge of lunacy, and is kept under 'surveilance by his friends. It appears that subsequent to his being elected to the Forty-fitth Congress he held the position of Master of Chancery in his State, and in effecting a sale of property accepted some funds to the face-value of $2,000 which have proved worthless, and which Riddle is being pressed to make good. He imagines that he is looked upon a 8 a defaulter for this reason, and also that he will not live long. He has frequently brooded ever his apprehension of anearly death, and that such an event would leave his family destitute, ‘

The sudden death of Mr. Bayard Taylor is still the subject uppermost in conversation at the German Capital. It now transpires that Mr. Taylor has suffered for a long time from kidney eomplaint, but attached ne importance to the maiady, which his physicians, unfortunately,always mistook for symptoms of dropsy. These symptoms increasing,he was twice tapped. He confidently believed in his reeovery to the last, and was in no wise alarmed at his condition. On Thurs‘day morning, after being dressed, he .conferred officially with his Secretaries. Feeling weak toward noon, he retired to bed. His mind began wandering, and he calmly expired at four in the afternoon. : : ;

Representative Hewitt, of New York, having carefully examined the statement sent to the House by Secretary Sherman in reply to Judge Kelley’s resolution relative to the balanees to the credit of the Treasursr in. ~various National Banks, and also having examined the last report of the Fifth National Bank of ,New York, says it is a fact clearly proved that that bank, which is the pet institution of the Treasury Department, has “made $OOO,OOO in interest on the $3O, 000,000 of Government moneys which - were deposited with that institution, which amount the QW%{";%‘BM could, ‘have saved if Sherman had invested ‘the funds for the United States, iugsad AR Lo Bk jupess B (PR sl il e B SRt g S s“'\s—x“ oo

. Death of Bayard Taylor. - S WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 19.—The. Secretary of State has a telegram from the Secietary of the United States legation at Berlin, amnouncing the death of sMinister Bayard Taylor at 4 this afiernoon. s Ao At

SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. -~ Bayard Taylor was born in Kennett Square, Chester county, Pa., January 11,1825. In 1842 he became an apprentice in a printing office in West Chester, and in 1844-5 made'a pedestrian tour in Europe, .publishing in 1846, after his return hame, his first book of travels, entitled “Views Afoot, or Europe Seen with Kaapsack and Stafl.” “After editing for-a year a newspaper in Phceenixville, I'a, he went to New York and wrote for the Literary World, soon after: becoming. a member of the 7'7ibune editorial staff. In 1849 he went to Califernia and Mexico, and in 1851 made a protracted visit to the old world, visiting Egypt, Syria, portions of Asia Minor and Europe. Leaving Engiand in 1852, he crossed ‘Asia to Calcutta, thence to- China, joining Commodore Perry’s expedition to Japan. Ile was secretary of legation at St. Petersburg in 1862-3, part of the time being charge d’affaires. In 1874 he visited Egypt, and attended the miillennial celebration in Iceland. at which & poem by him, translated in Icelandic, was read. -He had always been a great traveler, as well as an- enterprising and prolific writer. His travels have ‘been graphically deseribed by hisown pen. His poems have been numerous, and some of them of considerable length. Many of his works have been translated into German, French and Russian. At the time of his death he was eungaged upon a: combined biography of Goethe and Scbiller, begun in 1862.° A few months ago he was appointed by, President' Hayes Jinister of the United States to Germany. The fatal symptoms came on suddenly. He had been out of bed, and was transacting business: with the officials at-the American legation the day before. His death was peaceful and painless, SRR S

Gl Political Dynamite. . = - - . ! (Ueoual Georgia Weekiy )" s Thurman, the Old Roman jof the Senate, demolished Blaine’s:hg]ood_y-, shirt harrangue in exactly 20 minutes by the wateh. Lamar would have squelched the. South-hater had. not Thurman finished him. Tamid THE MARKETS. R LIGONIER. /- - 1. : GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, amber, 87c; Rye, 45¢; Oats, 20¢; Corn, 25¢; flax seed, $100; .timothy; seed, $lOO. clover seed, $3.75. Lot il PropuceE.—Hogs, live, ¥ cwt $2 003 Shoulders, per pound, Oc; IHams, 00c; Bees Wax, 25¢; Bufter, 12; Lard, 04c; Bggs, P doz., 20c; Wool, 15,20@ 80c; Feathers, 50¢; Tallow, 05¢; Apples, dried, 3¢. Potatoes, 603 Peaches, dried,o7c; Hay, tame, $8; marsh, $4. w‘ S i : Chew Jaockson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobaece. v g A 3 aly I.O.O.F.~ELECTION NOTECE: The members of Excelsior Lodye No. 263, T, O, 0. F., are hereby notifled to me¢t at, their Lodge Roomon ; ‘ e Vi e Saturday Evening, Janunary 11, 1879, at 7 o’clock p,'a., for the purpose of electing three Trustees for the ensuing yeér. 2 vl Witness our hands this 24th day of December, 1878, FERD. SANDROCK, N. G. . - ANDREW JACKSON, Secretary. . . 36-t3 . Noble Co. Agricultural Soeciety, Annual Meeting fo‘l." the -E]écﬁon of Directors. THE Annual Meeting of the Stock-Holders of. . the Noble County Agriciltural Society will be held in Kanu’s Hall, Ligenier, Ind.. e Monday, January 6th, 1879, At ten o’clock, A, m.. at which time twelve directors will be elected for the ensuing year, and’ such other business transacted as may be bronght ‘before the Society: The:presence of all stockholders is requested. - el e ORLAND® KIMMELL, Pres't,. J. H.HOFFMAN, Seeretary. Slpln e Ligonier, Ind., December 12th, 1878. = . 34t4

NOTICE TO CORTRACTORS,

SEALED PROPOSALS will be received by the undersigned, Trustees of the Protestant Methodist Society and Church, at Salem, on the Hawpatch, up to TUESDAY;, DECEMBER 31st, 1878, at noon, for furnishing material, except the stone for foundation, brick for walls, joists, rafter:, collarbeams, sheeting and sand for and constructing a church edifice at the- location above mentioned. Each bid shall contain the full name of every person interested in the same, and shall be accompa ied by a sufficient gnarantee of gome disinterested person that if the bid i 8 accepted a contract will be entered into and tke perforinance of it promptly secared. = . 7o e The said Trustees reserve the right to reject any and all bids. o 5 roge e Plans, in part, and specifications can be seen-at the Express Cflice on Cavin street Ligonier. | : ;- G K., POYSER, 5 Ca Wi ACKING, - December 19, 1878.-3 t. - - ‘Trustees. ; Sz ; SHERIFIF'S SALE. BY virtue of a certified copy of a decree and an order of sele to me directed by the €lerk of the Noble Circnit Court of Noblecounty, Indiana, in the case of Taylor J. Vail ys. Joseph Henderson and ‘Mati'da J. Henderson (John Lane bail), I will offer. for sale at gublic auction at the door of the court-house in the town of Albion, county of Noble, and State of Indiana, on. - - Bt EFriday, January 15th, 1879, Between the hours of ten o’clock, A. a, and four o’clock, ». ~ of said day; all of the right, title and interest of the said defendants for, to and in the following described real estdte, to wit: = “The undiviaed one-third () of Out-Lot Nam-' . ber sixty-two (62), in the town of Ligonier, 2, County of Noble. and State of Indiana. NATHANIEL P. EAGLES. Sheriff Noble Conunty, Ind, Isaso E. Knisery, Attorney for Plaintiff. & - _Albion, Dec. 18th, 1873 -36w3-pf $6.. e e e e e e et —————— SHERIFT'SSALE.,

BY virtue of a certified copyof a decree and an order of sale to me directed by the Clerk of the Noble Circait€ourt of Noble county, Indiana, in case of Christopher Hooley, as Administrator of the estate of Amos Newhouse, deceased, vs. Geor%e W. Brill and Francis M. Buker, replevin bail, I will offer fo:héale af public auction at the door of the court honse, in the town of Albien, county of Nqbls,.and S‘mte‘o{lndla‘nn, on Friday, January 3, 1879, Beftween the hours of ten o’clock, A, M., and four o'clack, ». u., of said day, all of the right, title -and interest of the said G. W.:Brill and Branecis. M. Buker, replevin bail, for, in and:to the follow-: ing described real estate, to wit: © o oo The south-west one-fourth-of the north-east one~. fourth of section twenty-one, in township thir-. ty-five north, in range nine easty supposed to_contain forty geres of land according to government survey, all in Noble county, Indiana, i ‘' NATHANIEL P, EAGLES, R Sheriff of Noble County, Indiana. I. E. Knisgry, Attorney for Plaintiff. = ‘Albion, Ind., December 7th; 1878.-34t4-pf $6B. '

‘ : Iy TN SHERIFFS SALE. BY virtne of two exscutions to me directed by the Clerk of the Noble :Circuit Court of Noble County, Indiana, in the case of The Howe Sewing Machine Company vs. Melzer McDonald and Leo. Solomon vs. Melzer M¢Donald, I will oft2r for sale at gublic anction at the door of the. -court house in the town f Albion, County of Noble and State cf Indiana, on = -~ . FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1879, Between the hours of tén o'clock, A. M., and four o'clock p. M., of said day,all of the right, title and interest of the said Melzer McDonald for, to and in the following described real estate, to wits = The east half of the soutli-east quarter of section . twenty-one (21), and the west half of the souths west.quarter of section twenly-two (22), all in . township thirty-three north, range eight east. ‘in Noble County, Indiana, == .~ = e "NAT%ANI’EL.P,EAGBESL;‘ . Bheriff of Noble County, Indiana. Prroxert & KnispLy, ;Atmmﬁxggg,tox Plaintiffs, Albion, December 8, 1878 -33-wa.pfss,oo. e Rt e S R SEg eiR TheGreqt Family Weekly, Nhnintial Tlasall RORRINRARE RER IR g ] @k% R RERIRL A IR AN AN RERRRREINE CERRaR ERARR AR LR Bltßßll 1 W e Rt O

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