Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 22, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 September 1879 — Page 2

The Ligowicr Banner, J. B. STOLL, Editor and Proprletoro. LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA.

. THE OLD WORLD. IT is stated that the crops in Ireisnd Lave been virtually lost this year, in consequence of the recent heavy rains. : THE Egyptian Government has acceded to the demand of the United States to be represented oa the Cominission for the liquidation of the Egyptian debt. SoME of the principal points in Novi Bazar were occupied by the Austrians on the Sth and 9th.- They met with a friendly reception, e o A GREAT fire occurred in the Town of Viazama, in Russia, on ‘the 9th. . The latest dispatch was to the effect that. 200 houses had been destroyed, and that the flames were still raging. ~ St. PETERSBURG papers recommend the partition of Afghanistan between Great Britain and Russia. S TaeE fobt and mouth disease has ‘broken out among the cattle in Switzerland, and pleuro-pneumonia has made its, K appearance in Alsace-Lorraine. o "A LoxpoN dispatch of the 12th says that King Mtesd, ruling near Lake Victoria Nyanza, in Africa, had abolished slavery throughout his dominions. S REPORTS from India received on the 12th state that Herat, Badaskan and the Balkh provinees in Afghanistan had all revolted against the Ameer. A holy war against England was being preached throughout the country. - : i o AN explosion occurred in the Crewe colliery at- Leycett, England, on the 12th. Five persons are known to have been Kkilled. ALL the Directors of the West of England and South Wales' District Bauk, but one, have been committed for trial for publishing a false balance sheet. A MEETING has been called in Russia to consider the propriety of abandoning the Russian method of reckoning time.

THE English Embassy has fled from Mandalay. Fears were entertained on the 12th that King Theebaw would follow the example set at Cabul and massacre the members of the Legation. : : SEVERAL heavy failures among the iron-workers of Great Britain were announced on thie 14th. : : - ADvICES received at Constantinople on the 13th and 14th_represent that Eastern Roumelia was in a state of complete anarchy. Sclav committees multiplied daily and openly preached the extermination of the Mussulians and the union of Eastern Roumelid, Macedonia and Thrace with Bulgaria, forming . one Sclav Kingdom. | ki , THE Zoological institute commected . with the Kial (Denmark) University was destroyed by fire on the 13th. . ' ~ AN Ali Kheyl dispatch received on the 14th gives the following account of the messacre of the British Legation at Cabul. “Four thousand men attacked the residency where the Embassy was quartered, and brought up artillerg to bear upon it. Major Cavagnari was sta bed in several places ard all the bodies of the dead were mutilated. The British made a vigorous defense, and over 300 Afhans were killed. The Ameer did not interfere, being intimidated by the priests, except to beg for the lives of the members of the Embassy.”’ fanina : _ A LoxpoN dispateh of the 15th says a treaty had beensigned by the terms of which Russia agrees to evacuate the Kuldja within three years, and China agrees to pay Russia 5,000,000 roubles, the latter retaining suflicient territory for a military road to Kashgar, It was reported from India on the 15th that the Afghan insurgents had arrived .in front of Jelalabad. The opinion prevailed jin Candahar that the Ameer had declared “against the British. At all events he had is€ued orders for the stoppage of all direct communication with them. : - Frrry-FOUR iron furnaces in Scotland -have been blown out; because of the unwillingness of the owners to .accede to a demand for better wages, and 3,000 men are idle. The cotton operatives at Ashton, England, have also struck for better pay, the idle numbering 12,000 on the 15th. o i

THE NEW WORLD. Tue Wisconsin Democracy held their State Convention at Madison, on the 9th, and nomjinated, by acclamation, Hon. Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, for Governor. The resolutions declare the Union to be indissoluble, and that the National Governmert is, within the limits of the powers delegated by the Constitution and its amendments, supreme; that 'all powers not thereby delegated to the [Jnited States, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people; denounce the course of the Republican party in the * use of the military to overawe electors and control elections,” etc.; ' declare the inauguration of Mr. Hayes = *“into the Presidential office, to which Mr. Tilden was constitutionally elected,” ‘to have been the ‘“highest crime ever successfully perpetrated against the spirit of the institutions of republican liberty;”- denounce and condemn whatever of intimidation, violence and fraud has been practiced by lawless and unscrupulous partisans on either- side, and wherever done; declare against the payment of any claims of any character to State or individuals engaged in or supporting the late rebellion, resulting from or growing out of the fnjury or destruction of property in the war; declare that the Constitutional currency of the country, and the basis of all other, should be gold and silver coin, and that all National Treasury notes and authorized currency should be convertible into the same on demand; etc., ete. g

THE Nebraska State Democratic Convention met at Lincoln on the 10th: and nominated E. Wakely for Supreme Judge, and Dr. A. Bear and A. J. SBawyer for Regents of the University. Judicial District nominations ‘were made in the First, Third and Fourth Districts. The platform affirms all the timehonored principles of the party; deprecates the violation of treaties made with the Indians; declares that the military should be in strict subordination to the civil power; denies the right of the Federal Administration to keep an army to control the vote of the people; insists upon a free ballot, and opposes the appointment of Supérvisors to control elections; demands economy in the administration of affairs, and arraigns the Republican party of the State and Nation for its extravagance; etc., etc. Four steamers which reached New York on the 10th, from Europe, brought $4,881,800 in coin and bullion from England, France and Germany, to pay balances on trade accoynt. . 0 G

THE Greenback-Labor party of Maryland held a State Convention at Baltimore on the 10th and nominated Howard Meeks for Governor. The customery resolutions were adopted. . : ; '

THE Cincinnati Exposition was formaliy opened on the 10th. President Hayes was among the -distinguished visitors present, He was réceived in a welcoming address by the President of the Exposition Board, and responded in a short speech.

THE prosecution in the case of Henry J. Gully, on trial for the murder of Cornelia Chisholm, rested its case on the 10th. The object had been to establish a conspiracy on the part of defendant and others to Kkill Judge Chisholm, Gilmer and Rosebaumw, and that, in carrying out the conspiracy, Cornelia and other persons were killed. The defense had a number of witnesses to testify. :

A SPECIAL telegram from Washington on the 10th stated that prominent colored men just arrived from the South reported that all attempts to dissuade the blacks from going West this fall were futile, and that sothing remained but to let them go and cive the matter a practical test. They say that the exodus will set in In dead earnest the latter part of October, and that where one went last spring five will go this fall. The movement, however, will not be confined to Kangas, but all Western States will receive accessions. - : L HoN. ALEXANDER MITCHELL, who was nominated for Governor by the recent Wisconsin State Democratic Convention, has cabled from London his absolute declination of the candidacy, and says he will not serve if elected. - ; AccorDING to a Washingfon special of the 11th it bad been decided to appoint exGovernor Fenton, of New_York, as Minister to the Court of Bt. James. . ANNOUNCEMENT is made that the promoters of the negro exodus will hold a convention in Philadelphia on the 15th of October.

Tee New York Democracy held their State Convention at Syracuse on the 10th and 11th, A platform was adopted demanding honest ' elections and an honest count of votes; -opposing all favoritism, and declaring ‘that no single interest or class of persons should be-protected at the expense of any other; declaring a beliel in gold and silver as the Constitutional moncy of the country, and condemning the speculative methods of he present Secretary of the Treasury, and the questionable favoritism he has shown to particular monetary institutions and so-called syndicates, and the extravagance he has permitted in his Department in connection with his- refunding scheme; looking ¢ with shame and sorrow on the disgraceful repudiation of the professions of Civil-SBervice reform by the Executive and his supporters,” and declaring that the 104,000 Federzl officers constitute an army which is being used to Keep the Republican. party in power; etc. After the platform was read and adopted nominations for Governor were made amid considerable excitement, the Anti-Tammanyites nominatina Governor Robinson and the Tammany men General H. W. Blocum. A motion was ‘then made to nominate Btate Senator John C. Jacobs (the Chairman of the Convention) by acclamation, which motion was,amid much confusion, declared by the Secretary to have been ‘carried. Assoon as order could be restored Mr. Jacobs said if he had been consulted concerning the nomination which had been made he would have declined it. A motion was subsequently made and carried to call the roll for nominations for Governor, pending which the Tammany delegation, headed by Messrs. Dorsheimer and Schell—who emphatically declared that under no circumstances would the Democracy support Governor Robinson—retired from the hall. Thevote on the nomina~ tion for Governor'was then taken and resulted as follows: Robinson, 243; BBlocum, 55; scattering, 2. 'The nomination of Mr. Robinson was then made tinanimous. Clarkson N. Potter was nominated for Lieutenant-Govern-or; Allen C., Beach, for Secretary of State; James Mackin, for State Treasurer.

TaHE Tammany Hall bolters from the New York State Democratic Convention met in Shakespeare Hall on the aftérnoon of the 11th and organized a State Convention by the choice of David Dudley Field as Chairman. John Kelly was nominated for Governor, and accepted in a speech in which he declared that he would defeat Robinson, if he was not himself elected. A committee of fifteen was raised to decide as to the remainder of the ticket, after which the Convention adjourned stne die. . | 1

DECRETARY SHERMAN’S attention having been called to a published statement that he had directed that -the silver dollar should not be received by the Treasury in certain cases, he says, according to a recent Washington dispateh, that the statement is absolutely false, and without a shadow of foundation; that the law makes the silver dollar a legal tender for all purposes, and it has always been received by the Treasury in payment of demands of every kind, and as fully and frecly as gold coin. :

A RECENT Jersey City (N. J.) dispatch says the improvement in the iron trade had induced the owners of one of the largest furnaces in the State to put it in blast, after six years’ idleness. A large force of men were preparing to work. When in operation the furnace gives employment to many hundred hands. r

THE Maryland State Republican Convention met at Baltimore on the 12th, and nominated ex-Postmastér-General Creswell for Governor. Mr. Creswell declined, and James A. Gray was nominated. A platform was adopted favoring the purity of the ballotbox; condemning the Democracy for their disorganizing efforts at the extra session of Congress; ete., ete. Tue Massachusetts Greenbackers met in State Convention at Boston on the 12th and nominated General B. F. Butler for Governor and Wendell Phillips for LieutenantGovernor. | The usual Greenback resolutions were adopted. o : : :

THE trial of Henry J. Gully for the murder of Cornelia Chisholm closed at De Kalb, Miss., on the 12th, the. jury, after deliberating for less than half an hour, bringing in a verdict of not guilty. The theory of the defense was that the parties who came armed to the town had done so simply to assist the Sheriff in the arrest of the parties charged with the murder of John Gully, in case they should resist, and that there was no premeditated design or conspiracy to take the life of any one; that the defendant had himself no gun at the time of the shooting of Miss Chisholm, and that he invoked the crowd who were just about to shoot at Judge Chisholm, to leave the jail and go away. ; THE Secretary of the Interior has recently directed the sale of Kansas trust and diminished reserve lands to actual settlers.

Mg. BURCHARD, Director of the United States Mints, has issued a circular with a view to preparing statistics relative to the production and consumption of gold and silver, asking those who are employed in the

arts and manufactures to furnish statements showing their yearly or monthly average consumption of United States coin, native bullion and metals obtained’ from old manufactured articles. The fullest specific information on these points is regarded of vast importance in its bearing upon the economic history of the metallic currency of the country.

. A NEw York dispatch of the 12th says ex-Governor John T. Hoffman had resigned the office of Sachem of the Tammany Society, and announced that he would support Robinson for Governor.

TBE New York Produce Exchange has issued a circmlar to manufacturers of flour throughout the country recommending that all flour intended for that market shall weigh 200 pounds to the barrel, and that the number of pounds be marked on each package. " WirLiaM KEENE, Assistant Cashier of the Minneapolis (Minn.) Northwestern National Bank, wak arrested on the 13th for embezzling §185,000 of the funds of the bank. He says he lost his money in Chicago wheat deals. i

A REUNION of the prisoners of war during the rebellion will be held at Toledo, Ohio, on the Ist and 2d of October ‘next. A MRs. BONESTEEL, of Fort Scott,Kan., gave her two children morphine on the 13th and they died. She then tried to hang herself, but was discovered and cut down before life was extinct. She had been deserted by her husband. i ;

THE printed report of the Commissioner of Education for 1877 shows the income for all the States and Territories (Wyoming not included) to be $86,866,166; expenditures (Wyoming not included) £80,233,458. - School population for thirty-eight States and Territories, 14,727,748; number of normal schools, 152, with 1,189 instructors, 37,082 pupils and 2,763 graduates, of whom 1,874 are teaching. Ohio reports the greatest number af normal schools—fourteen. ERNEST VON SCHOENING, of BrookIyn, in a swimming match ‘at New York a few days ago, won the championship of America and £1,500.° Captain Webb, of England, and Daily, of California, were his competitors. ; ; A LITTLE seven-year-old boy died of hydrophobia in Philadelphia, a few days ago, the result of bites by a dog inflicted about two months before. ; .THE Grand Lodge of the United States of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows bégan its fifty-fifth annual session at Baltimore on the 15th, John Behannon, Grand Sire, presiding. The report of the condition of the Order at the present time is as follows: Number of Grand Lodges, 5); Subdinate Lodges, 6,975; Grand Encampments, 39; Subordinate Encampments, 563; Lodge initiations, 33,360; Lodge members, 442,291; Encampment members, 82,408; total relief, $1,740,405; total revenue, $4,266,936 ; decrease, $156,065. . GENERAL SICKLES is visiting Paris with the view of organizing a joint FrenchAmerican Commission under the Presidency of General Grant, to make a definite choice between the Panama and Nicaragua Canal schemes. : : "AusTIN BURCHARD, uncle of President Hayes, an old and honored citizen of Windham County, Vt., died at Fayetteville in that State on the 15th. JEFFERSON DAvls is represented as gaying, in a recent letter, that his name wi}l not be, with his consent, included among the candidates for United States Senator from Mississippi. ' TaE Kennebec. (Me.) Journal of the 16th publishes official returns from the entire State with the exception of twenty small towns and plantations, with the following result: Davis (Rep.), 65,012; Smith (Greenback), 47,088; Garcelon (Dem.), 21,181. Davis’ plurality over the Greenback ticket is, according to these ficures, 20,924, and over the Democratic ticket, 46,831. The returas from the remaining towns will not essentially change the result. Davis will lack a thousand votes of having a majority over both competitors. »

THE monthly report of the Department of Agriculture, issued on the 15th, shows the general average of “the cotton crop to be eighty-five, against ninety-one the month previous. The average condition of corn in the whole country on the Ist was ninety-five, against ninety-three in August. The tobacco erop averaged eighty-seven, an advance of ten per cent. over August, and of six per cent. over the condition of the crop at the same time lagt year.

YELLOW-FEVER NEWS, THE Cairo Board of Health on the luth removed all quarantine restrictions on trains except from Memphis. Health certificates were, however, required. - A WASHINGTON special of the 10th says all fears of yellow fever in that city had subsided, and it was then generally believed in medieal cireles that the disease would not spread much outside of Memphis and New Orleans. ; THERE were fifteen new cases (eleven colored) and eight -deaths in Memphis on the 11th. The Preachers’ Aid Association (colored) had appealed for pecuniary aid. They had 150 orphans under their care. All remittances sheuld be sent to Rev. A. Holmes, President. g ' A TELEGRAM to the National Board of Health in Washington, on the 12th, reported five new cases of yellow fever at Morgan City, La., and gwo mild cases in the infected district of New Orleans. TWENTY-ONE new cases (eleven colored) and eleven deaths made up the fever record in Memphis on the 12th. A second do nation of §5,000 was received by the Howards from Jay Gould, of New York, .making the total receipts of the Association for the day $6,169.85. : THERE were twenty-three new cases (thirteen colored) and four deaths reported in Memphis on the 13th, and one case and four deaths on the 14th. The weekly report showed 132 new cases (seventy-two colored), the total to date being 1,136; number of yel-low-fever deaths during the week, forty-eight. A TELEGRAM was received at Cairo, IL, on the 15th stating that there were eight cases of yellow fever at Concordia, Miss. Quarantine against the latter place had been -established by the surrounding neighborhood. ONE case of yellow fever was reported in New Orleans on the 15th, the victim being a young man lately from Morgan City. NINETEEN new: cases (twelve white) and eight deaths were reported in Memphis on the 15th. S d g

——A pretty style of hé,ir-dressing for the morning,” says a fashionable journal, “is to wave all the hair.” We agree with the above. lln the morning iug is not only a pretty but a useful fashion for women to shatch all their hair off the back of the chair, where it has reposed during the night, and wave it around the room to chase out the flies. — Pliladelphia Chronicle-Herald.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Hox, J. W. BMmITH, Clerk of Rush County, died on the Sth. ' AT Milton, Wayne County, a few nights ago, while James Siples was in the second story of his house, hunting for medicine for his sick child, the oil lamp which he was carrying exploded, setting the house on fire and burning it to the ground. THE other afternoon as the work-train on the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis road was going south, when about. three miles south of Franklin, as it rounded a curve it ran into four tramps who were asleep on the track, fnstantly killing Charles Wilson, aged about nineteen, and’ seriously injuring Theodore Gruntman, aged seventeen. They were all tramping and had stopped to rest, and fell asleep on the track. Wilson was horribly mangled and his body cut in two. JoBN F. MUSSELMAN, once a wealthy citizen of Logansport, is in jail for two months for perjury in making a false affidavit, charging several prominent citizens with having made a forged transfer of an insurance policy in the Masonic Mutual Benefit Society, some time ago. :

JosEpH ZixTs, of New Albany, a lad of fourteen years, died recently from stoppage of the bowels, caused by swallowing the seeds while eating water-melons. : Last November W. F. Harper, President of the Central Normal SBchool, of Danville, disappeared from Indianapolis, and no clew was left. The other day Mrs. Harper received a letter from him dated somewhere in Colorado. It stated that he was alive and at himself again; that he had just come to himself and realized where he was. He further stated that he was knocked down and robbed late in the evening in Indianapolis. Since that time he has known nothing, and been a raging and raving manjac; that when he eame to himself, a few days ago, he was with a band of Indians in the West, and that he had escaped from them, and was on his way home; that he was out of money, and wanted them to send him enough to get home. On this, the Professor’s father immediately left to meet hin. = . " TaERE will be a reunion of the soldiers of Hendricks County, at Danviile, on the 25th and 26th of September, under the auspices of the following regiments, represented by Hendricks County soldiers, to-wit: The 7th, 11th, 14th, 20th, 2¥th, 47th, slst, 53d, 54th;, 59th, 63d, 70th, 71st, 77¢th, 79th, 99th, 117th, 124th, 132 d, 135th, 14Sth and 156th Reziments of Indiana Volunteer Infantcy, and 4th and 9th Cavalry and 3d and 21st Batteries. A FAaMiLy of five persons, named Mopps, living near Carbon, were recently poisoned by eating what they supposed were mushroome. Three of them are dead and the others are notexpected to recover. JAas. MCLAUGHLIN, an inebriate of Crawfordsville, committed suicide on the evening of the 11th by swallowing two ounces of laudanum and whisky. Sicknessin his family is what caused the act. : : _

A FARMER living.seven miles northwest of Goshen arrived in that town on the afternoon of the 12th, about erazed over the loss of a little daughter, whom he declared a band of gypsies had stolen. A band of gypsies passed through Goshen the same afternoon, going southeast. Officers well armed immediately started in pursuit, acecmpanied by the distracted father. I ' Mgs. WirLiaM .JITcHELL, 2 flady ‘about thirty years of age, living near Marietta, Shelby County, fell in the fire place at her residence on the evening of the 11th, andwas burned to a crisp before found. An epileptic fit is the supposed cause. _ : A PARTY of forty masked men at Wesley Chapel, eight miles northeast of Scottsburg, a few nights ago, took six young men from their beds—three brothers—and tied five of them to trees and whipped them nearly to death, one ‘escaping in the darkness. ~ THE Grand Lodge of colored Masons, lately in session in Indianapolis, elected the following Grand officers: Grand Master, Charles E. Bailey, of Indianapolig, re-elected ; Deputy, William Ellis, of Kokomo; Senior Warden, Dennis Rouse, of Evansville; Junior Warden, 'A. H. Brown, of Kokomo; Treasurer, Benjamin Thornton, of Indianapolis; Secretary, E. P. F. Whetsell, of Fort Wayne; Chaplain, the Rev. R. McCary, of Indfanapolis. BeEX Davis, of Lafayette, committed suicide because he heard he was to be indicted for forgery. A ! A FEW nights ago, during the absence of Sheriff Hay, some person became possessed of the keys to the White County Jail, which had been left in charge of the Sheriff’s wife, and a general jail delivery was the result.

A DIrecTOR of the State Prison South states that every convict in the prison is now employed—four hundred and ninety-five by contractors, and the balance by the State on the new building now being erected, and that the prison is now self-supporting. THE large ice-houses at Cambridge City were recently destroyed by fire. Loss $5,000. Pror. HAYES, of Abingdon College, Illinois, has been elected Professor of Natural Sciences in Butler University, vice Jordan, who goes to the State University at Bloomington. JOHN PARKER, a merchant, of Eminence, Morgan county, lost a pocket-book, a few days ago, which contained #3OO. Afterhaving four persons arrested, on suspicion, including one Justice of the Peace, he found his pocketbook among séme rubbish under the countér in his store. o

THE hardware store of Ireland, Stephenson & Co. at Pendleton, in Madison County, was entered by burglars on the night of the 13th, and robbed of goods valued at #2OO. Roßert 8. McKEE’S house in Madizon was damaged by fire on the 14th to the extent of about #2,500. Tramps sleeping in the stables did the business. : ' THE residence of Aaron Smith, of Franklin Township, in Hendricks County, was burned on the morning of the 13th. Damage, 32,000.. ; ' 3 THE other night burglars entered D. G. ‘Graham’s store at Muncie and got away with &500 cash. . THE following are the current prices for leading staples in Indianapolis: Flour, #4.5) @5.40; Wheat, . No. 2 Red, 93@JI¥5:; Corn, Mixed, 33%@34¢; Oats, 234 ’ic; Rye, 50@51c; Pork, :[email protected]; Lard, 53 @>s3%c; Hogs, [email protected]. The following are the Cincinnati quotations: Flour, FamUy, [email protected]; Wheat, 94@%c¢; Corn, 35@ 86c; Oats, 24@26c; Rye, 53@5ic; Pork, $8.2 @8.50; Lard, 5% @53%4c; Hogs, [email protected].

: FACTS AND FIGURES. « OxNLY 110,776 Frenchmen have settled in America for the past thirty-two years, and of that number 109,002 were Catholics. , ~ THE importation of horses from Canada to the United States has increased thirty-fold in the last four years, from 214 horses with a value of $28,955 in 1876, to 6,682 in 1879, valued at $491,285, ; i

ForMERLY the Turkish Government allowed only 800 Jews to dwell in Jerusalem. Within the last ten years restrictions have been removed, and

now over 13,000 inhabit their ancient capital. e - THE San Francisco Bulletin believes that $10,000,000 ' would be - required to make good the bank losses in that city brought to light within the last four years. It attributes them nearly all to incompetent or dishonest banking. » LAST year the aggregate steel production of the world was somewhat over 2,000,000 tons. Of this quantity the United States made 782,226 tons, Great Britain 807,527, Germany 240,000, France 140,000, Belgium 75,000, Sweden 20,000 and Austria 25,000. o During the month of August 12,135 immigrants were landed at Castle Garden, making the arrivals for' the year 76,809, which gives the remarkable increase of 22,654 over the arrivals last year. The increase this year comes mostly from Scotland, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. The other European countries have only furnished about the same number of immigrants as during the past few years. The greater portion of the néw arrivals come with minds made up as to where they will settle, and proceed at once to their destination, which, in most cases, is the West. P

THE Vienna New Free Press gives some statistics of the number of postal establishments in Europe at the end of 1877. Altogether there were, it appears, on the 31st of December, 1877, 58,466 postoffices, with 233,517 persons employed; there being, th.ei'ef()re,' on an average, one postal establishment for every 6,134 inhabitants throughout Europe. These postoffices are most thickly planted in Switzerland, gnd after Switzerland, Great Britain and Ireland. A striking contrast to these two countries is afforded by Russia and Turkey, there being in the: former only one peostoffice to every 5,708, and in the latter one to every 2,105 square miles. THE marriages, an infallible sign of general prosperity, in England during the first quarter of the current year have been a sixth below the usual average for the last forty years, the nearest approach to the unfavorable showing this year being in that year of commercial disaster, 1841. The birth-rate has also fallen off seriously, and” the average number of suicides,in London during the latter part of the summer has doubled as compared with the past ten years. Vital statistics are not the only ones which show wide-spread distress. Railway earnings steadily diminish, and the average rate of profit for 1878 on $2,850,000,000 invested in English railways, '4.38 per cent. was the lowest for years, the percentage of profit having' decreased yearly since 1872; the business this year warrants the expectation of still smaller returns in 1879. The emigration from Great Britain continues to exceed that of last year by about a third, and it is Eng%sh, not Irish or Scotch. Out of 7,305 English subjects who emigrated from Liverpool in July last, 6,053 were English, and only 1,037 Irish, and three-fourths of the large number of English-emigrants came to this country.

Platform -Adopted by the Liberal - League at Cincinnati, : The National Convention of Liberal Leaguers called to meet at Cincinnati assembled in that city on the 13th and elected Elizur Wright, President of the League, Chairman. After addresses by Mr. Wright and others resolutions were I'eport:(’el%l to be acted upon the next day. e President of the League was authorized to call a National Convention at his discretion to nominate candidates for President and Vice-Presi-dent in 1880. The meeting on the 14th was largely attended, and, after an address by Colonel Ingersoll, the following resolution, offered by him. was unanimously adopted: e : Resolved, That we express the deepest sympathy with D. M. Bennett and his family, tor the reason that he has been convicted of religious bigotry and ignorant zeal. and has been imprisoned and is now languishing in the cell of a felon, when, in truth and in fact, he has committed no offense whatever against any law of this country. A resolution was then offered and adopted that the National Liberal League affiliate with all liberal bodies. At the afternoon session, General Morton, of New Haven, Conn., was elected President of the Convention into which the Liberal League had now resolved itself, and, after wemarks by him and others, a Committee on Resolutions was appointed. The fpllowing platform was subsequently reporte and adopted: The deg;gates to the Convention of the National Liberal party, held at Cincinnati on the 14th day of September, 1879, recommend and adopt the following preliminary declaration and platform to the consideration of their constituents and the Liberals of the United States, for the purpose of producing a general cooperation and thé organization of the party preparatory to their General Convention and the nomination of candidat& in 1880. In the meantime it is left to the ecutive Committee appointed in each of the States to take such action in regard to the fall elections of this year as in their judgment may be for the best interests of the Liberal party. Preliminary declaration and platform of the National Liberal Party: : WHEREAS, The National Liberal League has advised the Liberals of our country to unitein action as a political party; now, as the preliminary declaration and platform, be it " Resolved,, That the general purpose and motive of the National Liberal party is to realize more fully than ever yet has been done the main object of a Government by the peogle as exgressed in the Declaration of Indeggn lence and the preamble to the Constitution of the United States, to-wit; That it shall be made true as far as gossib,le, in our country, that all persons shall hereafter be born free and equal and be endowed with certain rights, among which shall be liberty and the right to the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these urposes it has become necessary, in our })udg-ment, that a new party should administer and reform the whole of our National and State Goverments, so as to effectually ** establish justice and secure the blessinfiof liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” That, as the best governmental policy to effect these ends, we adopt and rely upon the noble maxims ot Jefferson’s inaugural, which, he said were ‘“‘the bright constellation that had led our fa. thers through an age of revolution and refors mation,” and which, we believe, should be our guiding stars in the similar work to which t)ie National Liberal party is now called, to-wit: Equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace comfixercc and honest friendship wi'th_' a Nations; = entangling alliance with none; the sugeport of ‘State Governments in all their rights as the most competent administrators of our domestie concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-rcgublican -tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole Constitutional vigor as the sheet-anchor of our peaofi){w home and safety abroad; frcedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of perso_ns.un&ec the Pmtoetlon of the Q‘abeasc.o us and trial by {ur o 8 Jm,part!a‘lalx seleeted. !mat in order to cffect the needed reformation of our National and State Governments, we recognize and lncorgar%te; as mmt the practical measures gl&-t ne - National %g_ntmfly the substance of the prominent reforms now demanded by our pcople; and we‘-dasiw;'thc‘c? :g. ::&-‘J ustly, prudently :md,poneeamyaegmv i

1. The reform in the interest and welfare of sabor whereby the products of labor shall be justly distributed among the producers of the country, and the hosts of non-producers: and parasites shall be reduced to a-minimum ; that the hours of labor shall be lessened; that women should haye eql}ml compensation with men for their labor; that the employvmeént of children under fourteen years of age in factories and similar works should be prohibited. That all laws for the fining and imgrisonment of those unemployed workingmen whom necessity ' compels to wuander as so-called - tramps. in = search . of work are, in our judgment, unconstitutional and inhuman; that poverty is thereby made a crime, and, as those laws are executed in the interest of a class, we demand their repeal; and finally, on these subjects, we extend our cordial sympathy to and desire the co-opera-tion of all organizations whose objects are to increase and improve the opportunities of the laboring people now struggiing in unequal competition with the great monopolists of the country. e ! e : e 2. The reform in the currency of the country by which' it shall pass out of the hands of usurers, speculators, and a banking aristocracy into-the hands of a Government respongible to the people. . . : - ; 3. The reformin the use. and occupation of land, by which the title thereto shall depend upon its use, and its ownership may be limited in amount for the public benefit. A 4. The reform by -which\ women shall be practically emancipated,.and be given the control of herself and of her destiny. : 5. Universal, ecompulsory and secular education, fitting all children as they become citizens for their practical, political and social duties in life. . 4 ;

6. That neither the General Gevernment nor the States should create any corporation except for the public good; and when corparations become inimical to the interest: of the whole people, the Government holds in- regard tothem the right and power of eminent domain; and that power should be exéreised g 0 that the grants to such corporations may he limited or wholly withdrawn, and generally the incomes of corporations derived from the people over and above a reasonable eompensation to the incorporators or- investors should go to the Government granting the corporate privileges: for the benetit of the people. . ! 7. That the present methods. of legislation, by which the passage of important measures is.aceomplished by direct or indirect bribery,| log-rolling and pressure at the close of <es-| sions, withoyt any possible knowledge by the people of: \?‘%«t is done, should be radically. reformed; and to that.end the peopie should, asi far as possible, have the refereendum or power of passing upon all public and important laws, ot o{l_\' in their .passage by their representatives, but also threugh their own votes, as is now done in. adopting our Constitution, and that this 'method should be madel practical in our National,State and municipal legislation. : : 4 = [ 8. That public officers should, as a general practice, be elected directly by the people, zm@ be made directly and effectively responsiblet them; that Electoral Colleges €hoiild be abol ished, and the appointing power of officers elected be greatly limited. 3 ol 9. That good morals and habits can be better fostered by .education, persuasion, industry and healthy amusements, ratherithan by force and Governmental interference. In this view we favor the repeal of all Sabbath, Sumptuary and Temperance laws, and demand that every phase of Government and State eduecation should be secular-in .spirit -and .practice, and emancipated from all ecclesiastical or clerieal control or influence. : sl - That to this end this Convention adoptin substance the platform and principles of the National Liberal League. . - = = An Associated Press dispatch says the Socialist element was largely predominant in the second day’s session, and af times the-Convention was- exceedingly boisterous. GEG R

Dog Law. i IN Flansburg against Basin, our readers will find a good current topie for dog-days. The substance of the decision is that in an action to recover for a dog bite it is not necessary to prove that the dog had a customary inclination to bite, but it is-sufficient if he has evinced' it on rare occasions to the owner's knowledge... The appellant was riding home at night from a debate at the school-house on horseback, when the defendant’s dogs came out from the owner’s house and one of them bit the appellant’s. horse, - ~which thereupon threw him and broke. his leg. From the opinion we have difficulty in making out whether it was the horse, the dog, or the man whose leg was broken, but we are inclined to -suppose it was the man. The report does not show whether the dogs had been at the “‘debate’’ and there become excited. ' The court say that the rights of dogs ‘‘are better protected now than in more barbarous times;” that -a ‘dog wantonly kicked might lawfully bite in self-de-fense,”” but not when he had had several months for his passionsto cool; and - that “a d’b’gxlike'men may have -idiosyncrasies,”” as for example +a - disposition to attack horses with or .without riders, whereas he might ‘“have refrained, from prudential motives, when there was an ally of the horse or horses, who could defend them from the fortified position of a two-horse wagon, or a buggy.’’ The court concludes ‘‘that it is not necessary to show that the'keeper of the dog has allowed him to bite a very large nitmber of his neighbors or their-animals, before he commences to - be liable, but :that there is enough to show that there is, with his knowledge, a probability that he may do so.”’—Albany Law Journal. -

—There is a great deal of outery at Leadville against the capitalizing of mines put upon the New York markets at $10,000,000 and $20,000,000, when they did not cost the promoters of such companies $500,000. .

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