The National Banner, Volume 13, Number 38, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 January 1879 — Page 1

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L STRAUS BROS., Transact a general banking business on favorable terms, ; fill i Farmers' & Commercial paper disconnted at reasonable rates. Buy and sill Real FEstate, and all those wishing larjeor small tracts will do well , -toseeus before purchasing. Negotiable J.oans, from one to five years’ time, secured by first mortgage on improved farms. : g Agents for first-olass Fire and Life Insurance Companies. s Dealersin Dnnat 5 | Grain, Seeds, Wool, &c. ssSpecial Notiee to Farmers.”’ _ . Grain placedin our name in L. S.-& M.S.R. ! R. Elevators is at owneér’s risk in case of fire, lf mot actually sold to us. When ‘requested, we < | will snsure same in first-class Companies. : Ligonier, Ind., May 381, 1878.-R7-1y ]

JANKING HOUSE BANKING SE : SOIL. MIER, ' con_ncl’sXew Brick Brock, LIGONIER, IND’NA. Money loaned on lon;;_;xd shorttime. Notes disconntgd at reagsonable rates. . Monies reeeived on depositandinterestallowed on specified time, Exchange bought and sold, and Foreign Drafts drawn t}n pripcipglcltles of Kurope, 8-2 TO THE FARMERS You will g)leasq’ take notice-that I am stillengaged in uyin§ ‘wheat, for which I pay the niFhestmarketfPr e, i iy . 1 you do mot find me on the street, call befere. selling, at 10y Banking Office, in Conrad’s Brick Block. & || - SOL. MIER. Ligonier,lndiana, May 3, 1877.—Lf : Ry e : . JQ A. IJNVILLE, . ; ATTORNEY AT LAW, ~ Ligonier, : : { : Indiana. Office with Esq. Banta, over Jacobs & Goldsmith’s dry goeds store, - i | 113-30 D, W. GrEEN. {ll F.P.BOTHWELL. GREEN &£ BOTH\VELL_, . 'LIGONIER, : ¢ : INDIANA, = Office in Landon’s Block, over Scott & Sandrock’s Drug Store. ! vl3-n3l-tf, e e ettt e e ¢ ; JOHN L. GALLUP, $ Manufacturer of the ' e . . I.X.L.Drain Tile And Red, Common and Pressed Brick. Hard’ wood, Basswood and Poplar Lumber and Dimen- . sion Stuff, L KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. i Mill and Yara three miles northeast of the city. Orders promptiy filled and satisfaction guaran‘teed. I © 13-16-1 y i s ANDREW JACKSON, JUSTICE ofthe PEACE, ! - Ligonier, Ipdiana, = Special attention given to collections and conveyancing. Ofice with D, C. Vancamp, over Beazel’s Haruoess shop. . s R ——— R u(_) NEY TO l‘o.‘\iﬁ, in small or largé 4! amouutg, on loug or short time. o ‘ ¢ © 718AAC E. KNISELY, 1 et ~Attorney at Law, Ligonier, Indiana. ST eSR GARD, . Physician and Surgeon. - Prompt-attention to calls day and night. Oflice on East-third street, Ligonier Ind - 2. ~ D.C.VANCAMP, ATFORNEY AT LAW, -Ligonier, : : : Indiana. Special attention given to collectionsand conveyancing, and the writing of deeds, mortgages, and contracts..’ Legal business promptly attended to. Office pver Beaz¢l’s Harness establishment, -9-50 : ALBERT BANTA,

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. LIGONIER, INDIANA., ' - . Specialattention given'toconveyancingandcol.ections. Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages drawnup and all legal business attended to promptly and sccarately, - . May 15187315-8-3 . M. WAKEMAN, ‘ , 1 1] *Ao't } InsuranceAg’t &Justice of the Peace . KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. Office with A, A, Chnmg: Mitchell Block. Will receive subscriptions to THE NATIONAL BANNER. . e i &G, W. CARB, Physician and Surgeon, . LIGONIER, - - -~ - - - IND, Willpromptlyatiend all calls intrustedto him. . Officeand residence on 4th Street. : e B M, TEAL, | '_‘D:;ENTIS'I!,M _ Rooms over u. E. Pike’s Grocery, Corner of Main and Mitchell Streets, o Xoslse the' Post Offlce, Kendallville, Ind. "I 11 work warranted.<¢#% Kerndallville, May 1, 1874. : >

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JENNY STROTHER’S MARRIAGE. “Now, tell me one thing, Fred Webster,” said Jack Longley to his friend, as they seated themselves in a retired nook. in one of Mrs. Baxter’s parlors, on Lexington street, Baltimore, at a fashionable party given by that lady, “ig ip really true that you and Jenny Strother dre engaged ?” . Fred Webster shrugged his shoulders. : “That’s what they say,” he replied, laughing. i e ; “Well,” Fred,” rejoined his friend, “will'yeu tell me what you find to attract you in that sickliy-looking girl ?” “Maybe that’s the reason I want to marry her,” said Fred. | . “Don’t talk in riddles, Fred. You are a fine-looking young fellow, in good business. Why throw yourself away upon that emaciated little creature ?” L ‘ “Let me tell you, Jack, why I want to marry her. You know she is an orphan, and of age; she’s got $25,000 in her own right, and that sum would help me most wonderfully in my business.” . . Jack shoek his head. “Twenty-five thousand dollars is a pile of money in these hard times, but it is, after all, not much, considering that you are to be:

: " CHAINED FOR LIFE To a weman who looks now already as if in need of the doctor and apothecary, let alone whatshe will be when she is a few years older.” - “Ah! Jack,” said Fred, with a significant smile, “I have inquired about her of the physician, and elicited from him, in a roundabout way, that she has the consumption, and that he does not believe she will live another year. I will marry her, get her property into my hands and bury her before the year is over. Ha! ha! hal” ol “Give me yovr hand, old bey!” cried Jack, enthusiastically. “That’s smart, after all!” :

“And when she isgonel will marry the finest girl I can find.” ] They rose to take a glaes of wine.— As they left the parlor the curtain of the bay window was drawn aside, and a pale, slender girl looked after them with i / FLASHING EYES. “How glad I am that I witnessed your heartless conversation, villains,” she muttered. *“Oh, gentlemen, you will ind éut to your cogt that Jenny S'u;other is not what you take her to be!” - 7 : . For a moment she stood still, trying to calm herself. Her’s was evidently a strong will; for a minute or two later she returned with a placid, smiling face to the room where they were dancing. Shelooked, indeed, pale and frail, but by no means as the two young men had painted her. On the contrary, there was in her spirituelle face something sweet and pensive that would have beem very attraetive to a great many men. This expression of her countenance was neutralized omly every now and then by the peculiar luster of her large black eyes, which showed very plainly that she was a woman of strong passions, and endowed with considerable firmness. ' ek "With the sweetest smile she beckoned to Fred Webster, who hastened to hex side with a most obsequious air. :

"~ “Why, Fred,” she said, 1n a honeyed voice, “you neglect me to-night. What did you leave me with your handsome friend Longley for?”’ : “Qh, we had to talk about:a little business transaction,” he replied with an : . ; ALMOST PERCEPTIBLE SNEER IN HIS ; VOICE. 3 She pressed her lips together for a second, and then said: : “Is Mr. Longley as good a.business man as he is handsome, Fred ?” Fred frowned a little. - “Indeed, Jenny,” he replied, “J can’t see that Jack is especially good-look-ing.” ' ; “Well, I think he is, Fred. But it is getting late. I don’t feel very well. Will you take me home?” As she said that she was not very well, she fixed hereyes with a peculiar expression upon him, but he did not notice it. ‘ : 5 As a matter of course he accompanied her immediately to her aunt’s house. On the way thither she treated him with the uttermost amiability, and when he bade her good night, she begged him to call on her next day sure, as she had to tell him something highly important. When he came she said: “Fred, have you decided upon the day on which our wedding is to take plaee?” i ~ “I have hitherte always been put off by you, Jenny. If I have my way we ‘will get married to-morrow.” : “Oh,” she cried laughingly, “that would be too early. But how would to-morrow two weeks suit you?” - “All right, Jenny, I will make the necessary arrangements.” . : Cards ‘were sent out, and the wedding came off at the appointed time., Jack Longley was one of Fred Webster’s groomsmen. ; _The bride looked unusually good on the occasion, 80 that Jack remarked to Fred as they were alone for a moment after returning from church: ‘Fred, I'll be hanged if Mrs. Webster looks like a consumptive!” “Bah!” replied the bridegroom, “she isonly : : :

FLUSHED WITH EXCITEMENT.” But during the following weeks the young wife began looking healthier and healthier. Her cheeks became rounder and dimpled, sBhe had an excellent appetite, and was in exuberant spirits. To every party, every concert, every ball that was given she insisted upon going. And on those occasions she had to have new and costly dresses. | , : At first ber husband did not object to her extravagance, but when one heavy dry goods bill after another came in, he began to grumble.

He told her he could not afford it, whereupon she laughed at him, called him an old skinflint, and gave more extravagant orders than ever before to dress-makers and milliners, . She also gave frequent parties of the most brilliant style, which caused people to wonder how Fred Webster, who was after all buy & young merehant, could afford to spend so much money. , ’

Bat still he did not come to an open rupture with her, because he wanted her to let him’ have full control of her $25,000. . He had repeatedly alluded to them, and hinted how handy they would come in his business, and how -easily he could make a fortune out of thew ; but she had al ways managed to put him off. : i ~One day, while meeting a friend on Baltimore street, the latter had cautiously told him he had better - ‘ ‘“‘fwrx_z R R e e kb

WATCH HIS WIFE . A little more cautiously. She had repeatedly met Jack Longley at fashionable restaurants, and people had begun to make unpleasant remarks about their intimaey. | - | Fred Webster was naturally a jealous man. Although, in reality, he cared very little for his wife, this piece of news made bhim very angry, and he left his friend with the firm determination to come to a full understanding with his wife both about the money matter and her alleged familiarity with Jack ILongley. i That Mrs. Webster had flirted with the latter was enly too true. She had cunnirgly managed to draw the vain young fellow into her net; she had dinned into his ears how handsome he was, and had obtained such power over him that he was ready to commit any folly with her. SR Fred hurried home. / In the hallway his wife’s maid met him with an air of consternation. “Where is your mistress?” he inquired. The girl burst into tears. : “It was not my fault, sir,” the girl sobbed. “I didn’t know a single thing about it.” | : “About what ?”* thundered Fred. “Mrs. Webster hds gone away,” said the girl. *“She left/me this little note, sir.” : : He snatched the piece of paper from her hands, and read: “SALLIE: Pack my trunks,and come with them to Philadelphia, where you can find me at the Continental Hotel -under the name of Mrs. Bright. Start by next train. J- W, Fred was perfectly beside himself with rage. He hurried to the depot and took the firgt train for Philadelphia. H Al At the Centinental Hetel there he found on the register the names of Mr. & Mrs. Bright, from Baltimore. ‘I want to see Mr. Bright,” said he to the clerk. g . ‘“He is in thereading-room,” replied the clerk. g Upon entering the reading-room whom should he meet but ‘ JACK LONGLEY. He rushed at him furiously. “You infernal rascal!” he roared, in grappling with him, “i’ll teach you to run away with my wifel” "The two men fought furiously, a crowd gathered round them, officers arrived and teok them to the stationhouse, where Mrs. Webster, alias Mrs. Bright, soon joined them. : Fred received her with a flood of reproaches. She scornfully laughed at him. : , “I overheard your conversation at Mrs: Baxter’s party, gentlemen, about me, where I sat in the bay-window, unnoticed by yoeu. This is my revenge, Mr. Webster—- - I HAVE RUINED YOU Both in money and reputation, and made a fool of you, Mr. Longley. You, Mr. Webster, thought I would die ina few months, and then you would get my money into your hands; and you, Mr. Longley, ecordially -approved his heartlessness. I do not propose to die yet for a good while; and as fer my money, 1 have taken good care to place it where you and Mr. Webster cannot get hold of it!” ‘ The two former {friends gnashed: their teeth in impotent rage because of this unexpected revelation. Neither of them wanted to prefer a charge, and so they were allewed to depart.

Fred Webster returned to Baltimore, where his Philadelphia adventure soon became bruited about. Everybody laughed at him, ag well as at Jack Longley. i : Mrs. Webster refused to live with her husband, and went with a cousin to Paris, where she wrote to Fred that the climate was peeuliarly salubrious to consumptives. -

THE ATTORNEY FEE LAW. The Way It Operates Sometimes. ! (Columbia City Post.) _ The attorney fee law, as now enforced in the courts, is one of the crowning relics of the war period of radical legislation, and should be swept out of sight without:a dissenting voice in the: legislature. The extortion practiced under it is not equaled in injus . tice to the debtor class by any law on the statute books. If the law had fixel a definite Ilimit as fo the amount to. be paid for the collection of a note if" suit had to be instituted, then there would have been some. proteetion from the avarice of many in the legal profession; but as now enforced in the courts, the poor unfortunate debtor has no chance of redress from downright robbery. If he would make a defense by calling witnesses to testify he is debarred from doing so, be cause not belng members of the legal profession they do net know the value {of such legal services. Henes it is that the mockery of doing justly between man and man is gone through before the court, by calling alawyer to swear for another-lawyer what his “reascnable services” are worth. It is - like calling a doetor to prove a doetor’s bill, and so on ad infinitum in all the trades and professions. Where men are allowed to make their own fees, the love of gain steps In, like with the usury: collector, to do injustice betweern man and man. : It was only last week that we felt and appreciated—not the first time, however,—the injustice practiced in this attorney fee law, when we : were compelled to pay for another, as surety. near $25.00 collection fee to a law | firm in this. place, on & note of $2OO and a small amount of interest, when the actual services rendered did not amount to one hour’s work. Redress we had none, because a member of the legal profession testified that this fee was a “reasonable” one, notwithstand- | ing the fact that we could have secured that same attorney’s service to do l the same work for five dollars. This one is but a single case of many like extortionate fees we have paid as surety. None appreciate pain so well in others as those who have been hurt themselves. Let it hit whom it may, the Post proposes to lend its feeble ‘aid to striking from the statute books of Indiana alaw whieh, as in the collection and charge of interest, allows one class of individuals to extort from another, just because they have the power and will to do so. s The Post believes the laLorer is worthy of his hire, and that the lawyer, like all other protessions and business men, should ve fully compensated for his services, buntdoeangb believe in a law which robs the debtor class. Strike the oppressivelaw from the statute books. Make the repeal ‘BO sweeping and comiplete that neith- | ‘er courts fuferior or courts supreme oemavaß s _ The best mixed paints i{g | the market are to be found at Eldred’s drug aole. 0 o

¢ - Prosperity in the South.,; 5 |lndianapolis Journal.l " The New York Herald of Saturday published special correspondence from eight Southern States relative to the comdition and prospects of business in that part of the country. The States %;x;ed by the correspondence were firginia. North Carelina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana, and the reports are-uniformly to the effect that tﬂ":re are unmistakable signs of revivifig prosperity in all these States, and that the business situation and outlook are better than ak any time since the war. ' The conditions mainly cited as giving rise to this improved state of ‘things are large crops, a general reﬁval of industry, an increase of manufactures, and a return of confidence among all clasges. Of the States above named the report from Georgia is, perhaps, the most decidedly cheering, though all are more or less 80. The Herald correspondent, writing frem Atlanta,says: -

“The truth is, the merchants of the Seuth arelwithout exception buoyant and hopeful beyond what I have known since the crazy days of inflated values. Their trade has been larger than in several years, the surplus being more than large enough to account for the early movement oi the cotton crop. The busines of the railroad and steamship lines have been heavy beyond precedent. The Central line, via Savannah to New York, reported a surplus of $85,000 net pro[}ltﬁ over the same month of 1877, and the stock of the road has advaneed in 3 months from 48 to 74. 1t is indicative of the increased briskness and confidence that the'stock and the earnings of every road in Georgia have advanced heavily and steadily within the past year. The Central has gone within that time from 388 to its present figures. Within that time four ocean steamers, costing together over $l,000,000, have been purchased by a Georgia company from Reach’s shipyard, and are plying between Savannah and New York. A new line of steamers have been put on from Savannah to Cuba. The Northeastern railroad and the Elberton railread, both developing new sections of ceuntry, have been finished, and the Minetta and North Georgia railroad is rapidly approaching cempletion.— Within about one year over $500,000 hag been invested in cotton factories in the State. There has been a falling off in the total values of the tax-books, but the percentage of decline has been only about one-third of the general decline in values.” The writer says the old sysiem of large plantations is nearly done away with 1n Georgia, comparatively small farms taking their place, and instead of raising mothing but cotton and depending on the North for grain and meat, the Seuthern farmers are now to a large extent raising their own food. The corresponaent says: “The negroes in most cases prove te be good tenants, and generally make their wives and children hoe and plow. In this way they méenage to make good rental for themselyes and a living for themselves. The negroes have shown a wonderful "capaeity for saving and for acquiring land. They new own over s6,ooo,ooo.worth of property, as shown by the tax-book. This represents an immense amount of land, as at its reduced price it sold for nominal figures. The property owned by the negroes is almost entirely land.” With the new system of small farms, better ideas and improved methods of farming are being introduced. Sheep raising and fruit culture are far mote general than ever before, and very profitable. The report from Alabama is ‘much to the same eéffect. 1n that State the negroes are buying even ‘more largely.of land, and are rapidly becoming steady, tax-paying and re‘sponsible citizens. 1n Florida the orange crop, which is now being marketed, is said to be the largest and finest that has ever been grown. The fruit commands gcod priees, and it is estimated that this year’s crop will -bring abeut thirty per cent. more than ‘was ever realized before. In Louisiana the year’s.crops are estimated al follows: Cotton 650,000 bales, sugar 200,000 hogsheads, rice from 150,000 to- 160,000 barrels. The methods of farming are impreving, and the yield this year is larger than ever before. A new industry has sprumg up in Louisiana in the manufacture of cot-ton-seed oil. - There are now six of these factories in New Orleans, which represent a capital of $12,000,000 and give employment to 2,500 operatives. About $1,000,000 is expanded vearly in transportation and seed, the proceeds of which last, of ceurse, go into the pockets of the planters. This industry turns out about 80,000 tons of oil cake yearly, and about 65,000 barrels of oil, most of which last goes to the Mediterranean. This is the tenor of the reports from all the States—better farming, better crops, greater life and energy, new industriesspring‘ing up, etc. Money in most of the States is reputed as fairly plenty, and easily obtained on good security for all legitimate purposes. Prices of all kinds of products are very low, and farmers are compelled to economize, but the people are balancing accounts and getting out of debt. Public sentiment is sald to be generally in fayor of the resumption of specie payments, and there 18 no apprehension of evil results from this pelicy. These reports are in every respect gratifying. They show that the Southern people and States are on the up-grade, and that there is a prospect of better times in that section of the country ? ‘well as in the North. The natural -resources of the Scuth are very great, and if the people will but avai] themselves of their oppertunities in this regard, and adopt a liberal and telerant policy towards all, there isagrand and prosperous career in store for _that section, Nature has dome much for the South; if the people will do «their duty, and adopt an honest, just and fair policy in political affairs, they can inaugurate an era of prosperity Jﬁgh as the ‘South has never known ore. : e : :

- Feels Young Again, : “My mother was afilicted a long time with Neuralgia and a dull, heayy, inactive condition of the whole system; headache, nervous prostration, and was almest hopeless. No physician or medicines did me any good. Three months ago she began to use Hop Bitters, with such good effect that she seems and feels young again, although over 70 years old. We think there is no other medicine fit to use in the family.”—A lady, Providence, Rhode Island, 87-ws, - Weather répoiis t.uin il portions of Califuinia show u general 1 quite pieatitul in the southera eounties, lighter i ili¢ norgheffi portion, but with « prospuct ofcontinuance,

A Year Without a Summer. The year 1816 was known throughont Europe and the United States as the coldest ever experienced within the degrees of latitude which beund those countries. Very few persons now living can recollect it.. The following is a brief abstraet of the weather during each month of the year:} January was mild; so mueh so as to render fires almost needless in parlors. :

February was not very cc}ld; with the exception of a few days as it was mild, like its predecessor.

March was cold and boisterous during the first part of it; the remainder wasmild. A great freshet on the Ohio and Kentucky rivers caused immense loss of property. _ 5 - April began warm, but grew colder as the month advanced, and ended with snow and ice and a temperature more like winter than spring. May was more remarkable . for frowns than smiles. Buds and fruits were frozen ; iee formed haif an inch thick; corn was kiiled, and the fields, again and again, were replanted until deemed toolate. - . - Ss i ~ June was the coldest ever known in this latitude. Frostand ice were common. Almost every green thing was killed, and fruit was nearly all destroyed. Snow fell to the depth of ten inches in Vermont, seven in Maine, three in the interior of New Yeork and also in Massachusetts. Considerable damage was done at New Orleans in consequence of the rapid rise of the Mississippl; the suburbs were covered with water, and the roads were only passable in boats. ~ July was accompanied by frost and ice. On the sth ice was formed to the thickness of common window glass throughout New England, New York and some parts of Pennsylvania. Indiam corn was nearly destroyed, although some favorably situated fields escaped. This - was true of some of the hill farms of Massachusetts. August was more cheerless, if possible than the summer months already passed. It rained daily, more or less, for 49 ‘consecutive days. Ice was formed half an inch thick. Indian corn was so frozen that the greatest part was cut down and dried for fodder. - Very little corn ripened in the New England and Middle States. Farmers supplied themselves from the corn in 1815 for the seed of the spring of 1817. It sold at $4 to $5 per bushel. Almost every green thing was destroyed both in this country and Europe. It was cold, rainy and ungenial in every part of Europe; particularly so in France, where constant rains fell during ‘the months of July, August and September. The low grounds of France becamwe flooded, the crops were destroyed, and even on the higher lands the harvest was seriously injured. But for an abundant potato crop, famine, with its herrors, weculd have been her lot.. On the 3d snow fell at Barnet, 40 miles from London. Papers received from England stated that it would be remembered by the present generation that the year 1816 was a year in which there was no summer.

September furnished about two weeks of the mildest weather of the season. Soon after the middle it became very cold, and frost and ice formed a quarter of an ineh thick. Octeber produced more than its share of cold weather, and frost and ice were common. : November was cold and blustering. Snow fell so as to maka good sleighing. December was mild and comfortable. The above is' a summary of “the cold summer in 1816,” as it was called, to distimguish it from the- winter, which was mild. Frost and ice were common in every month of the year. Little vegetation matured in the Eastern and Middle States. The sun’s rays seemed to be destitute' of heat throughout the summer. All nature was and in a sable hue, and men exhibited no little anxiety concerning the future of this life. The average whoiesale price of flour daring the succeeding year, in the Philadelphia market was $l3B per barrel. The average price of wheat in England was 97 shillings per quarter. Bread riots ocecurred in all parts of Great Britain in 1817, in consequence of the high price of the staff of life.

. The Dead of 1878. - ; Victor Emanuel, Kingof Italy, aged 57, Rome, in January. Pope Pius IX,, at the Vatiean. Samuel Bowles, editor, Springfield, Mass., 61, in January. , Gideon Wells, ex-secretary of the navy, Hartford, 75, in February.: . ' C. M. Conrad, ex-secretary of war, New Orleans, 73, in February. | B. F. Wade, ex-United States Senator, Jefferson, 0., 77, in March. C. L. Wilson, publisher of the Chicago Evening Journal, 56,in March. O. A, Williard, editor of the Chicago Evening Post. : . William M.Tweed, ex-chief Tammany ring, 55, in April. v : William Orton, President Western Union Telegraph Company, New York. 52, in April. e

" Lord John Russell, ex-prime minister of England, 86, in May. ; William C. Bryant, poet and editor, New York, 84,in June. General Fitz Henry Warren, ex-as-sista;t Pastmaster General, 62, in June, : : . Dr. J. C. Ayer, patent meédicine man, Massachusetts, 62, in July. v George S. Appleton, publisher, New Yorkl; 87, in:July. - John H. Raymend, president Vassar college, 93, in August. i . Gen. Henry Raymond, veteran of 1812, New York, 88, in September. Gen. G. J. Pillow, ex-confederate geneptl, Arkansas, 60, in October. -L. A. Godey, publisher Godey’s Lagy’rlßook, Philadelphia, 74, in November. | :

George H. Lewes, author, Londen, 60, in December. Princess Alice, third child of Queen Victoria, 85, in December. | Bayard Taylor, author, poet, diplomat, 54, in December, i Geueral Thomas C. Delvin, United States army. ; Beverly B. Douglas, member of Congress from Virginia. . . Alpheus 8, Williams, member of Congress from Michigan. Frank Welch, member of Congress from Nebraska. . e eneral John O’Neil, Fenian leader, in Omaha. g i Sidney Breese, Supreme Court of Illinobis. , : o - JI F., Tracy, ex-president ~ R. L. & P.&,&um&d. i : ; i . 8. O’Brien, the bonanza king, California. : : v-Gov, Onmslow Stearns, of NeWw Hampshire, 60, December, . ' _For coughs andm% ', Marsarids. TRecomuitud it to your friend and neighbor. Priee only 25 cents, Sold by all droggists. e Sl LT T e R R e MMMWJ

° Drunkenness and Cinchona, Some months ago Dr. D'Unger, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, announced that he had discovered drunkenness to. be a disease of the sensorial nerve cells and that a properly made tincture from pure cinchona rubra was a specific for it. Dr. D’Unger was immediately assailed on every side as a quack and a charlatan, notwithstanding he is an old school physician in high repute at home, and his cure for drunkenness -hooted at and classed with the quack opium. cures of the day. Thess attacks, through the press and by letters, so aroused ‘the ire of the doctor that he pubiished a letter, offering to make a test proposition, which if accepted and faithfully earried out on the part of the person or persons subjecting themselves te the test would solve the problem as to the eficacy of cinchona in the disease known as dipsomania, or drunkenness. His proposition was to send, free of charge, a bottle of pure cinchona rubra tincture to: each of geveral of the worst drunkards in Chicago,: who would satisfy him by a respectable referetice that mey-éﬁmmgﬁﬁea‘ to be saved from alcoholic rwin;, and would take the remedy according to directions. He required their age, weight, complexion, the length -of time they had been drinking . and fair, general health. In teturh he guaran-: teed they would have neither “horrors,” delirium fremens, "or any other sickness from the change cinchona would produce in their systems. . - The cases were taken, both in Chicago, and the doctor seeing neither of them. The first was a well known physician who had been am' inebriate for years. It was his custom to take three or four drinks in the morning before he could ‘hold his paper, the same number about four. o’clock before he could eat his breakfast, and a dozen er more during the day to keep alive. For a long time he had been in the habit of drinking a quart of whisky a day. ® It had become the.necessity of his life. He had.deliriums on various occasions, had been carefully treated for it, and had recovered. Soon after reeovering the irresistible craving, the burning thirst for liquor came on bhim again, and it seemed to him as if it were impossible to resist the temptation. =He drank all the time, and had te get up a couple ef times in the night¢ to take a drink. He had to drink before breakfast—had become an absolute thrall to liquor. He"used the cinchona rubra according to directions, commencing on the 28th of September. and continued the doses every three hours until 9 o’cleck in the evening. - The next day he temained in bed' thinking he was much better, but yet hardly hoping “for it, and inclined to attribute the feeling to an exercise of his imagination. He Btill pursued the same eourse, eating little or nothing, and drinking tea, ete. He says he felt no fatigue, no nervousness, no suffering, and no desire for a drink of whisky. Monday morning he got up, dressed himself without assistance,——whi%h he had not done before for months,—breakfasted, sat areund the house for a while, went to market with his wife, feeling immeasurably better.. Tuesday he felt stronger than ever, spent a part of the morningin the park, and returned 6o a late breakfast, with a better appetite than if he had drank three big drinks of whisky. He says he niow has not a single desire to drink, although_ there is whisky by him ‘all the time, and confegses that a permanent cure has been effected. : ST

Another Chicago patient,. who had been a hard drinker fertwenty years, declares he has not drank since he began the treatment; that he has worked and attended to his business regularly; and that he has nodoubtin the world but that the remedy of Dr. D'Urger will eure him permanently of the hapit of drinking. vl alie . We quote these as most convincing proofs of the efficacy of the cinchona cure, and believe the matter will be studied with interest by the ifriends of all who have suffered and are still suffering from this uncentrollable liguor disease, and, also by the sufferers themselves.—South Bend T'ribune.

Bull-Dozing in Massachusetfs. (Washington Special.) Those RepuMlicans who have beenfelicitating themselves over the possible fact that' Judge Thurman put his foet into' it when he offéred an ~amendment to the Blaine: reselutions extending the election inquiry to the Northern as well as to the Southern States, have miscalculated the purpose: in view and the real object in offering it. It was: thought by ‘them that F Thurman. weuld not be able to make good the assertion that there ‘was in-. timidation at the North, and that an inquiry in that direction would only result in trouble for the pains. Within the past few days Senator Bailey, of Tennessee, a democratic member of the Teller Committee, lLias received a batch:of affidavits from reputable witnesses, making broadly the allegation that they were coerced to vote against their convictions in the recent Gubernatorial election in Massachusetts.—Ameng these are affidavits from fourteen colored men. Three of them set forth that they are employed in a shoe factory. at Lynn, and that they were: given to understand by the Superintendent of the factory that if they ‘voted-for Butler their services would be dispensed with. Eight other colored men join in an affidavit to the effect that they are employed in & mill at Lowell; that on the day of the election they were not only hounded and requested to vote the anti-Butler ticket, but.that the Superintendent accompanied them to.the polls, and personally made it his business to see that they voted the ticket their employers desired they should. One of them refused to so vote, and was dis- | charged the next day. Another affidavit is subscribed to by a colored man and an Irish employe of a bank. They wrote in the statement that the President, who had never before spoken to either, called each into the bank office the day preceding the election, ‘and told them that if they voted for General Butler it would be ‘direotly against the interests of their employers, and that ;ql%torc@:m; the bank would have to g&u@gwmm*a P A LT ‘have been sent without request or re- | ‘straint to Senator Bailey, Judge Thurplaints, 1618 alleged that Ben Butler. ﬁ”mmm; ing this ciass of | gvidence, and that when s 1 the testi | ‘mony is forwarded the fact will be (demonstrated that even in Beston, the | Betes of Ibttidit e e o ‘«m“eﬂﬁi"‘. «“(i""?ﬂ’fw&,ﬁ“h?a‘ R Rt “1 ‘W%*Jffb#\%;&f"fg ’ﬁéo‘%”;‘p‘%’?‘ﬁ* P SR ‘.»f

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- How Contraction Affects Farmers. ~ The St. Paul Pioneer Press (Rep.) remarks that “for nearly fifteen years “past Minnesota farmers have been “paying 10 and 12 per cent. interest up“on borrowéd money, and thousands ‘“have bitterly realized lately that they “can not pay these high rates andlive “and support their families decently. “When many of these loans were made “wheat was worth $1.50 and $1.75; “oats, forty cents, and corn sixty and “seventy cents a bushel—then the “farmer could pay his interest prompt*ly. But being unable te meet his “principal, the loans have been renew“ed again. Now, however, these crops “do not bring one-half these figures. “Hay, hogs, cattle, horses—every thing “he had to sell —yield the farmer less “than one-half former prices. But his “interest has not been reduced one-half *“to meet " these changed conditions.” - That certainly is not a pleasantgtate of affairs, neither in Minnesota nor any where else. Itis the condition, however, of all thenew States. = | But we will ask the Pioneer Press ‘whether the purchasing power of gold is not double now ‘what it' was when the farmers contracted dpbt‘s_{or‘ whieh they agreed to pay interest at the rate of -10 and 12 per cent. Mr. Hayes,, John Sherman, and the republican speakers and newspapers generally’ held up and magnified the fact that the purchasing power of one dollar of gold, now that the country 18 near resumption, is equal to the purchasing power of two greenback dollars in flush times, and that, therefore, farmers and all others are really in as good and better condition at present than * they were in 1865 and 1866, when money was abunidant. That was the ene great-fact on which the Republican argument was based that contraction of the curreney to get to resumption was'a blessing instead of a curse, as charged by Democrats. We do ‘not remember any thing that was urged more vehemently by the Republicans during the late canvass than that. It -was regarded by them as the knockdown argument against the position taken by the Democrats, that the contraction of the currency had brought on the country its distress and paralygis of business.

It seems, however, that the argument does not reach in a beneficial - form the farmers of the country, and especially these who have mortgages on their farms bearing 10 to 12. per : cent. interest. The prodqtcts of the farm donot bring sne-half as much now as when money was plenty before the policy of contraction was inexorably pushed. It takes double the number of bushels of wheat new to pay the farmer’s taxes that it did in flush times. And it takes double the number of bushels of wheat now to pay the annual interest of 10 and 12 per cent. on the farmer’s mortgage that it did when money was abundant and times good. The farmers were sim- . ply imposed on by that argument. All owners of real estate that believed in and acted on it were impesed on by it. The farmer finds he has to do double the work to pay the same ameunt of taxes and interest now that he did in 1865 and 1866. The owner of houses to let receives dimijnished rent, while he has to pay as much tax as ever. ‘The ewner of unproductive lands has ‘had his epportunities te turn them to . productive account greatly diminished, while his taxes thereon have not ' shrunk adollar. The condition of the currency that enables a greenback dol- . lar of to-day to purchase as much of ' the farmer’s produce as two greenback dollars did when the circulating medium was abundant benefits no one but the money classes. The farmers of Minnesota are discovering thaf it helps them and their class least of all. —Cincinnati Enquirer, Dec. 28,

An old Shaver. An English physician relates an anecdote of ome of his patients, which is not .only amusing, but expressive of that particular type of man, who, as a rule, does not practice what he preaches: A patient of mine, a middle-aged clergyman, was suffering from some slight symptoms of gout. I recom‘mended a glass of hot whisky and water every day, in preference to physies of any kind, but my reverend friend, with upturned'eyes, absolutely refused to accept my prescription, saying: “No, no, doctor, I have -all my life preached against alcohol in any form. If that is the only remedy I must continue to suffer. Besides,” said he, “if I rang for hot water my servants would guess its purpose.” - Said I, “You shave; ring the bell -for shaving water, mix your glass of medicinal . whisky, and who will be the wiser but yourself ?” £ ‘The parson at last submitted, and ‘we_warmly shook hands and parted. In a few weeks time, my carriage passing the clergymanr’s door, reminded me of my clerical friend. I touched the bell, and the thin care-worn face of a ence robust housekeeper answered me, : : “Well,” I said, “how’s your master ?” _ “Stark, starin’ mad, sir—mad as he can be!” G ciaa * “Mad! how! what! how mad?” ~“Lor’, sir, mad as mad can be. Why, he shaves himself about twenty times every day!” was the innocent reply.”

A That Atiorney’s Fee Swindle, (Sullivan Democrat.) A wery general demand will be made on the Legislature this winter to pass another enactment prohibiting the “attorney fee”’ feature of promissory notes. In many instances it works a _great hardship. It may be said that a man who éxpects to pay his debis without suit will not object to the attorney fee, but sometimes unforeseen _circumstances render it impossible for him to doso; and sometimes it falls on a surety to pay. Even then it ‘would not be 80 bad if attorneys wo’d be disposed to do the fair thing; but they seem to hayve formed a ring fer each other’s benefit and selemnly swear that five or ten per cent. of the amount of the noteis a reasonable fee “for collecting, when the helder of the note, could contract in advance with any of them teo perform the service for, one-half or ome-fourth the sum.,. While this state of things continues a well digested law prohibiting attorney’s fees is absolutely demanded. g ¢ -‘-———-—-—-‘W R . Unsolicited Tostimonials, It would be eady to fll an entire paper with the unsolicited tgﬁim@hﬁﬁs‘ which have been given by physicians, clergymen, and other edv @ gons, in favorof Dr. Price’s Craam Baking mwdmgm professional man Who has used it in his family will cer-_ tify to its being wholesome, and the gl il“ﬁi - _Cornelius Vanderbilt has just purchased a sit rente for . oW L e