Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 42, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 February 1880 — Page 4

Y * * G) The Ligonier Banner, J. B. STOLL, Editor and Proprietor. D e e b Sy THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1880.

Gov. WiLLIAMS visited Chicago the other week, and sensibly refused to talk with a T'imes reporter about politics after half past nine. He preferred going to bed.. : :

Tue REPUBLICANS of Pennsylvania met in ‘State Convention yesterday. Cameron felt confident in the morning that he would easily “get away” with the opponents of Grant. :

A REPORT has been sent out from Scranton that President-elect Samuel J. Tilden is soon to be married to a Miss Fannie Ranck, of T.ewisburg, Pa. It is probably a ‘canard. ,

IT 18 STATED that ex-Gov. Lucius Robinson’s first choice for President is Tilden; his second, Hugh J. Jewett.— Gov. MeClellan, of New Jersey, 15 said to be an avowed Jewett man. i

Gov.sANDREWS, of Connecticut, recommends that the right of voting be extended to women, as far as. it can be done, by legislative act. He says: “It seems to me that logic and wisdom both dictate that women, especially property-holding and tax-paying women, should have this right.” -

JoHN H. BAKER succeeded in defeating Capt. Eden H. Fisher, a legless soldier, for census supervisor of this district, but he couldn’t’, get his pet I.o¢khart through the mill. The Hon. Carl Schurz, remembering Dr. Griffith as an ardent Liberal and anti-Grant man, probably thought that inasmuch as the Democrats have one supervisor and the Republicans iour, the Greeley Liberals ought to be remembered also! Well, we are not disposed to-quarrel with Carl on that point. 3

GEo. WiLLIAM CURTIS, the accomplished editor of A arper's Weekly,says: “What we need is not the Government of a strong man, but of a strong people; that is, of a people strong in their loyalty to law, strong in their faith in free popular institutions, strong to maintain every bulwark of liberty and the republic, which the experience of a century and the example of our best and wisest patriots have erected. Our Government cannot be ‘stronger’ than it is without ceasing to be a popular Government.” ! o

- THE Church Union thinks Congress ought to provide against a recurrence of the trébles of 1877. To meet the present exigency the members of both parties should immediately combine in the passage of certain measures, which will indicate just how the vote is to be counted, and who shall be the umpire in case of two returns coming from a State. This adjustment cannot be difficult, and to delay it is to provide for very serious quarrels, which may result in a partisan war and the Mexicanizing of the United States.

IT'ls PROPOSED to amend the Constitution of Maine. If Mahomet will not go to the mountain, let the mountain come to Mahomet. Ifthe Republicans will not conform to the Constitution, the Constitution should be conformed to the wishes and practices of the Republicans. The N. Y. Express thinks it is quite useless to continue the plan of making returns. The couting of votes might be dispensed with. In fact, there is'little use in votingfor Governor and State officers, as the republican convention can fix that little matter. ‘ :!s % '

THE ORY comes from Ireland that the people are starving. Three deaths from starvation occurred last week.— Living here in comfort and plenty, with prosperity on every side, it is almost impossible to realize that only # few thousand miles away fellow men and women are dying for want of food. The necessity is pressing; let the response be liberal from every village, town and city of the Union. Already the contributions from this country have been large, but the'suffering is great and the gifts should be.in proportion. When human beings are starving it 18 no time to parley.

DR, FrAaNcis P. GRIFFITH, of Lagrange county, has been appointed by the President census supervisor of this (the sixth) district, instead of R. M. ' Lockhart, as stated last week. Dr. Griffith was formerly a member of the Legislature, and for the past three or four: years he has held a clerkship in one of the departmentsat Washington. The Dr. was an ardent supporter of Hor'ace‘G,xeeley\in 1872, and entertains very liberal views in regard to politics. In a political sense the Democrats may poseibly be as well satisfied with the Doctor’s appoint:nent as the Republi<ans. His nomination has not yet been acted upon' by the Senate, and the friends of Dr. Seymour still entertain hopes that the action of the President in withdrawing his name may yet be reconsidered—in the event that Dr. Griffith should not be confirmed. -

ColL. SHRYOCK, a leading Republican of Fulton county, this State, expresses the belief that Grant’s nomination would split the party. '

THE DEMOCRATS of the Senate still think that they will be able to secure an equal division of the census supervisors. 'l'heir actions don’t indicate anything of that kind. They have already confirmed four republican supervisors for this State. -

Tue Vincennes Sun, in discussing the proposed amendments to the constitution of Indiana, thus disposes of one of the plausibilities of their champions: , - It is a specious argument of those favor-ing-the amendments—that amendment No. 3 does not make it obligatory on the Legislature topass aregistration lJaw. Butmark the closing words of the proposed amendment: ‘“‘and shall also provide for theregistration of all persons entitled to vote.” Let not the voters of Indiana be deceived by Repuplican sophistry—if the amendments pass we shall most certainly have a registmttion Jaw with all the fraud and expense and corruption that the name registration implies. -

REvV. W. R. ALGER, of Chicago, said in a recent lecture that Christendom has been worse than pagan in its ideas of the future. We were taught to suffer here that we might enjoy hereafter. The known interests of time were sacrificed to the supposed interests of eternity. We were to postpone a real heaven on earth for a possible one in the skies. But the apoealyptic vision was for a celestial city to ¢ome down to earth. True statesmanship was in transmitting what was into what ought to be. No nation at any time had ever known that statesmanship. Favored classes governed for their own privileges. Governqlent should interpret the will of the people. Democracy is a transition from a feudal to a Christian civilization. Rev. Alger is evidently a man of good practical sense.

THe Steuben Republican says the supreme court in the case of John Clare vs. the State of Indiana, appeal ed from the DeKalb circuit court, has decided that the act of March 21, 1879, creating she 40th judicial circuit of Indiana,” is valid—-and that the proviso in the ninth section does pot conflict with any constitutional provision; and does neot impair the validity of the act. The decision of the court is thus epitomized by the Indianapolis papers:

The act of March 21st, 1879, ( Acts 1879, p. 118, ) which purports to be an act to amend seatioh 74 of “an act to divide the State into circuits for judicial purposes,” ete., approved March 6th, 1873, was evidently intended by the Legislature to be an act to amend that section of the actof 1873, supra, which created and congtituted the Thirtyfifth Judicial Circuit, namely section 36 of said act. The act, therefore, of March 21st, 1879, is a eonstitutional and valid law ; and the Fortieth Judicial Circuit is legally established, composed of the counties of Steuben and DeKalb. Judgment aflirmed.

4 i : - TrouGu the Mathe muddle is now disposed of, it cannot eome amiss to call attention to some of the false impressions created in the minds of some people by the gross misrepresentations of the republican press. One of the oldest papers of Pennsylvania, the Greensburg Argus, makes a point that deserves to be put on record. It says:

Many of the newspapers in this country are classing the recent action of the Governor and council of Maine with that of the Louisiana returning board in 1876. This is all wrong, as there is not the slightest comparison between the two cases. The Louisiana returning board violated the laws and stole the electoral vote for Hayes. In Maine the Governor and council obeyed the law and gave the certificates of election to those entitled to them under the law. In Ihe first case the law was defied, in the lat“er it was heeded and enforced. So you see there is no comparison between the two cases. The truth is, when the Maine Republicans passed the eléction laws in that State to cai’afim%va,ry Democrats, they did not dream that they would be caught in their own snare, And they squirm as though the situation was uncomfortable.

BAY ARD’S SPEECH in support of his amazing scheme to deprive greenbacks of their legal tender quality does not meet. with the favor which his admirers had expected. In fact, it has caused the slightest kind of a ripple. The Illinois State Register, a pronounced hard money . paper, in its issue of the 28th ult., disposes of it in this summary manner: ; '

Senator Bayard wagged his gold-covered tongue on the money question in the Senate yesterday. The telegraph gives us an incomplete report of his remarks, but enough to enable us to see the sizeofhis argument. The Benator assumes all things, on his side, but proves nothing. . If his speech is the best that can be made infavor of demonetizing the legal-tender Treasury-note —and we presume it is the best-~then there need be no surprise that the Senate Finance Committee so emphatically sat'down on his resolutions the other day. One assertion made by the Senator in behdlf of his' vieawvs is absurd, He asserted that the ‘demonetization of the Treasury note’ would not impair its value. Applying the same, ‘asserfion to the whole system of, American finance, 'he might with equal regson say that the demonetization of gold or of silyer would not impair its value.' Benator Bay+ ard odnstepdstder v eLo batalin g b © Yes, Ko can sfep aside.’ ' Tho-people are not such consummale fools as to inflict an injury upon themselves simply to gratify a few gilt-edged doctrin-, aires like Thomas Francis Bayard and ‘the millionaires of Gotham.

! KANSAS CORRESPONDENCE. . LINDSBURG, KAN., Jan. 28, 1880. Ep:. BANNER:—It is my prerogative to write to you at this time, and it is also my duty to send you enough of the circulating: medium to enable THE BANNER to continue its weekly visits to the Elysian fields of one of the most beautiful as well as one of the most productive States in the Union. It may be that I am far in arrears, but place all I send you to my credit, and send for more, but don’t you ever withhold The Banner from me until I am too poor to pay for it, and when such time comes I will inform you. : Maybe some of your readers think that I ecan’t prove to them that this is the most beautiful State in the Union. The only way by which 1 can demonstrate it to them is for them to come and live here for two years. If, at the end of the second year, they don’t like it- better than living in mud knee-deep, then I have lost, and will “set ’em up.” (No, thank you, I have quit.) Every paper that comes from Indiana and the East, speaks of mud! mud!! mud!!! Oh, delightful here; no mud at all, and the roads are as solid as a board, and have been so almost all winter. I tell you, kind friends, we have had but little winter here so far. Before Christmas and later.a few days it was pretty cold, the “diameter” stood at 12° below zero at one time. 'We have had-no snow yet. During the first few days of January, we had almost a week of foggy weather with mist ard a little rain connected, &c. Ice froze on the Smokey Hill River to the thickness of eight or mine inches, and our good people lost no time in filling their old and new ice houses. . Old Sol cameout too soon for some arfd softened up the icecrop. | .

I think that I have said enough about Kansas to convice any unprejudiced mind that it is what I claim it is. It is true, we have a few “gentle zephyrs,” but you will soon get used to them and not pay any attention to them. "These gentle zephyrs of which I speak, are hard enough, sometimes. to blow the gum out of your mouth. (Thank you, I don’t chew tobacco.) In speakingof Christmas reminds me of | the fact that we had a XKansas Christmas tree for our Sunday school (of whichthe writer is superintendent). Some of you, perhaps have never seen a Kansas Christmas tree. Well, 1 will describe the one we had, then you will be more able to judge what kind of a tree we had. Ours was a tree plucked from the banks of the “Smokey” with- ‘ out leaves or anything green, but it‘ was dressed in white cotton from top to bottom and presented a very beautiful apg)earapc‘e when all the presents ‘ were inx. position. Each and every member of the Sabbath school got a present; and “Old Santa Claus” enlivened the occasion by his presence with a’ basket filled with candy and nuts for the little folks., The:.e were some nice presents on the tree, among the number was an overcoat,for the Methodist minister. Ye scribe got a pretty fine present also. I merely mention these facts so th your readers may know that we are nof all heathens “out in Kansasg.” . N : g : ‘QOur little\city has lost its “boom” to some extent.\ The Railroad has gone to McPherson _city and has taken a good deal of the trade with it. Business is a little duN here now, and money not very plenty, but our marshal occasionally aprests and shoots 2 man, which has a tendency to break the monotony of things. One day last week he arrested an old farmer and put him in the *cooler” for being a little intoxicated. The old man made some resistance, when the officer used his “billy” a fe‘lw times and then dragged him to the qity jail. Some of the boys and a few of the citizens became indignant and wanted him out in ordet that he might be sent home to his family. By request the Police Judge (thank you, I am “your honor,”) sent the marshal to bring the prisoner into court. The defendant was found guilty, gave bondfor the payment of fine and costs, and was sent home. ‘ John Haney, of Ness county, did not tell alé in his last letter. He.did not say anything about that boy which came to make his home with John and his wife.: . : : : : ~ “Your Honor” has got a bad cold and the rest of the. family are grunting some. Well, Mr. Boss, 1 expect you think this quite lengthy for a dollar. You need not publish it if you don’t want to, but yon know there will be one whe will look for it as soon as the ‘paper comes. Well, friends, 1f you see ‘any one inquiring for me, give them a ‘quarter and charge it to the poor house. I would like to see that lady who ‘wears 2’s and 4’s. Not long ago' a coyered wagon passed through here eastward bound with the following inseription on its cover: “In God we frusted, ‘and in Kansas we busted.” A man can “bust” in any State if he is too lazy to work. Fraternally yours, : R M EKNOX M, -Diy Pl 3o

Mr. Hayes Afier 18S81. : (Philadelphia Times, Ind. Rep,) “At high noon on the 4th of March, 1881, Mr. Hayes, that poor player on the White House stage, yields up that scepire of power which he has played with as a child plays with squares and cubes, knowing nothing of their meaning. What is left for him ? He is despised by the IDemocrats and pittied by the Republicans, and both will be glad to bid him a long farewell. He will return to Fremont, serene in Lis own mental weakness, and, without healthy attrition with the world, he will gradually lose the little worldly wisdom he has learned ‘here and relapse inte dot~ ing idleness; telling ‘over' the things: that only he will remémber of his va~: cillating 'and trifling administration. Dressed in his bla¢k clothes, his hair: nicely " greased ‘and'' ‘turned 'ander ‘at ‘the ends, his hands gloved and carry~ ing'a gold-headed cane, he will go ddily ‘to the village post office tor his mail, ‘and dicker with the marketman 6n his: way over the price of fresh meat for: his noon-day dinner, People outside ‘of Waslington have very little idea’ ‘with what little respect Mr. Hayes is ‘regarded among those who'know him. ‘The mention of his name generally prodnces a smile. Alllook forward to ‘the happy day when he leaves the ‘White House,’ : :

BROADWAY. d The roads are getting down to hard pan again. e i ' The paster of the church here received some nice presents at his last appointment, ; e _ - Noble county pays its public school teachers the smallest wages of any county in the State. | Sicxk List.—Daniél Ohiwine, Mary Weade, Daniel Holverstott, John T. Pollock and Grandma Clingerman. Madison Haursey: is the boss rail splitter. Five hundred periday or no pay. He is not a candidate for President, however. That young snoéLwho undertoo.” to play a joke op a young lady at church last Saturday evening, got badly lert. Served him right. : “Nic. Cinnia” asks the question, and wants to know “if a mule ever died a natural death.,” © Don’t know, Nie,, please ask us an easy one, next time. It is apparent that the miasses of the Democrats have come to the conelusion that if a presidential candidate is to be nominated, they may. as well take a hand in the performance. . { The people of Sparta have got the sand and stone hauled, and are now putting the brick on the ground for that church. Ob, 1 tell you, the people over there have “got the sand” to finish whateven they undertake. Girls, girls! what do ;you mean? Here an entire month of this glorious leap year.has passed, and you haven’t got a husband to support| yet. Don’t neglect your opportunity until it is everlastingly too late. { The Advents at Wolf L.ake observe Saturday as their Sabbath. Ah, dear; that will make two hard-working and lively days in the week instead of one. This thing is getting to be very hard on the young men of that enterprising place. ' ‘ . A noted temperance lecturer, while arguing for prohibitior, said: Why not pour the rum into the gutter? It is destined to the gutter at last; why ‘not pour it there at once, and rnot wait to strain 1t through a man and spoil the strainer in the work? ; We were treated to a genuine oldfashioned stand-up-and-spell- yourselfdown, at the Broadway school house Friday night. It seemed very appropriate when a young school teacher went down on “champaign,” a kind of wine. Next a man goes to grass on “gosling.”” We collapsed on “adieu”— that word being like the darkey’s trap: “It’ll kotch de coon eder a gwien or a cumin’” But when a young lawyer spells “vitals” with two t’s, he simply ‘and positively ruins the word in any ‘and every sense, for all living purposeg. That is all.

Correct, Mr. Secretary; we have your grade 99 in the shade. If we are ever so lucky as to become the cashier of a savings bank, and the stackholders discever that we can’t balance our books by a hundred thousand dollars or so, we’ll send for you, or some member of the Senior Class, to solve the problem. We complied with the demand of the Secretary and constructed an “enjine” out of the material given, and actually”l got up steam and started the thing, when the eccentric slipped into the ash pan; then just as we got it ready to go again the urim thummmim—er—ah—eh —hitch up the mule and pull us out; stuck, by jingo. i - We know of some Sparta Spartans -~the wheel-horses of the Democracy in this township—who say if Tilden is nominated for President by their party and Grant is tlie nominee of the Republicans, they will vpte for Grant, sure pop, this time— [We don’t wish to dispute your word, X. L.. C. R., but if your statement is founded upon faets, you will have no hesitancy in telling who these Democrats are. We have an intense anxiety to obtain a glimpse of the Democrat who indicates an inclination to vote for Grant and a third term of military usurpation and unparalleled corruption in preférence to a statesman of such eminence as Samuel J. Tilden.--EDp. BANNER.] One day last week as a procession, consisting of two four-horse teams and four men, was passing this place, it was noticed that a huge animal of the bovine race was being led by one of the men with a rope attached to a ring in the animal’s nose. The animal becoming disgusted with the state of the roads and ths company he was in, got mad and charged on his leader; the ‘man let go the rope and busied himself in seeking safety and thusstopped ‘the entire procession. An ineffectual }efiorb was made to re-capture him.— ‘ There he stood sneezing and shoveling mud and sand over his back, and bellowing every now and then. But the grangers were all men of pluck, and they surrounded him. Then the bull made a pass at the men and uttered a bellow that sounded perfectly frightful ; picked up on his horns and tossed one of the men over a staked fence, the bull crashing through after the prostrate man, the other men beating the enraged animal with clubs, while the prostrate man would tumble about and throw one hand-spring after another 8o fast that the bull began to get uosettled too,and didnit know where to start in. But by and by the man got away; then they blasphemed ' their luck in a way that made the whole at- ' mosphere' there ‘about smell of brim--stone. ' I tell you,a mad bull and four mad men ‘is a bad combination. A gun was sent for and after five bullets had been fired into the animal, was at last kif{ee} on the battle fileld. - . A man who is quite an extensive ‘traveler and who mingles in !elifiious,] and secylar me 'tin%g.;figgrggas,m s H leeard !-g,?&ns,rfb‘ ism, and the chureh, Hasaysi ey . “He, finds-a copy of that notorious Bob' ~:lxige'ts<i§}e t:yg;s f%@,t gfiryfiere(’ This is an al %‘sf&te{ irB, and the day ;’i‘fq‘“cmghj‘g*f the church'will be com- ' pellsd to abandon the field Or send out 'a ‘more eapable class of ministers, .. %hia, is an eithw:h*@l Ople are A imi hinkers, and are reating e hook o the hour, h%fiai‘é ,flgip ‘more “of it thay the preachßFd;" There' Ts’a erists coming ‘and the church must meet-it or ow The day o@‘old‘fogy;sm is gone. %’he‘ plan gfiel_‘ymg and exhorting the i'gefiple’i;ntq the church has had its day. Now you must teach and reason t&,e_m in by the truth as it is in Christ. And the p’;eakcber whose in-

telligence and ability ismot up with the demands of the hour will not be heard. Infidels are better versed in the ‘word of God’ than many preachers. They read Dboth sides, but some who preach hardly read and study the Bible, let alone the oppesite side. Brethren, you have this questioy to meet, or else be captured and overwhel\med by infidelic influences.” 3 \k Ignorance of God’s revealed will is the very mother of crime, while a thorough knowledge of the Bible is the very foundation of all true wisdom.— Conecerning the conflict bet ween science and religion there need be no uneasiness. True science will not-harm trae religion. nor will real religion oppose real science; but ignorance and fanaticism must be overcome by intellectual and moral education. The religious frenzy of the ignorant and unenlightened ministrv only tends to muke skeptics and scoffers of the average unbeliever. The writings of Tom Paine and Ingersoll have done a goed work for the ministry by setting it to studying and thinking that it may be able to give a reason for the hope that is within it. X 1 R

SANCTIFICATION. : sSalem Boliness Prayer-Meeting. MR. EpiTor:—Our glorious work of holiness is rolling on; opposition has staid its hand; souls aré coming anxiously inquiring for salvation. Seventeen more bhave claimed sanctifiedtion ; nine have claimed justification, four of whom eclain: to have received “pardon for sins,” then seeking also for “cleansing” as a separate and distinct work, are able to testify to the glorious Truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. May the work move on, until the whole world may see it. Praise the Lord. : - -J. W. WEIGEL, Unspeakable Words.(Republished, by request, from ‘‘The Morning v ' o Star) " Some Christians are too reticent, others tell too much. “The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him,” and is not to be too freely published. Paul was “caught up fo the third heayen;” entered into the “higher life;” experienced a fullness of loye, *‘not lawful for a man to utter,” and he did no¢ attempt to describe it. Is he not a safe example? Common blessings are for common use, but some gifts of the Spirit are unspeakable, and it is a mistake to attempt to declare them. They belong to the inner sanctuary of the soul, the hidden life of love, the private whisperings of God, which are too divine for words and safely revealed. by the blessed Holy Spirit only. ‘Words are too gross for such messages, and mortal ears too stupid to receive them.

Happy the man who helieves in this “higher life;” still happier he who has experienced it. His sweeténed, mellowed life is the only suitable testimony of the gift the public can receive. Christ being “able to do exceeding abundantly, above all that we ask or think, according to the power that wgorketh in us,” we should not expect even to understand, much less to ex plain, his ministry upon our hearts. His revelations often have a scope and interest we do not suspect. Exactly. what he has done, i 3 doing, or intends to do, within, we can not comprehend. “We know in part,” and the Spirit only knows ir full. Haste to report “sanctification” is terribly presumptuous. “] am living without sin,” on mortal lips, are delusive words. - Paul never ventured so far, but protested, “I judge not myself. For 1 know nothing of myself.” He knew that Gods eyes were sharper than his own, and might discern sin where he did not suspect it. To souls that hunger and thirst for holiness, rich blessings are given. How much they signify is for the Lord,- not man, to decide. il . 1t is perilous to publish extraordinary spiritual blessings Grateful acknowledgment easily merges into boast ful glorying. Danger increases with favors. "“Heavenly places” are both glorious and dangerous. The mountain crest is delightful, but it requires a steady head to escape a fall. *“And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh; the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure,” desecribes the.seguel of Paul’s high experience. Yet,he had not reported the vision, The excitement of testifying to the favors God had conferred upon him might have made the mischief incurable, . Some of the worst failures. that have disgraced the cause ot Christ have followed unusual blessings. With rare ex.ceptions, it is unsafe to give large measures of the Spirit to Christians, because it makes them heady, fanatical, conceited, wild. Even “thorns in the flesh” will not keep them meek, and childlike, A great revival often reacts, and genders prideand indolence. So very difficult is'it for God to bless us, without begetting dizziness and folly. When great blessings come we need a double waich. ® % oL g gliige tge seE gt ik . As great wants appear, new acts of faith, new appropriations of Christ, new steps upward, new blessings come in course. To pardon, to keep, to endue with power, to render mighty in prayer, to inspire with enthusiasm, are parts of the work of Christ on Christian character. Every step is conditioned on faith, and followed by a blessing, Hence we ought to seek the “second blessing” and also the third and fourth, until. Christ is fully approptiated as opr Mfe. ..~ . -0T

: Crazed From Sanctification, = " Rev. Chas. Poucher, a most excellent young married man, of thirty years, who resided npon the farm of his uncle, Rey. Charles Poycher, sr,. four miles west of New Albany, has for some time been greatly exercised upon the daoctrine of sanctification or chris: tian holiness, as expounded by modern teachers aud peculiar methods. Jt was. evident to his friends some. time ago that there was danger .he would:become a lunatici,. Wednesday forenoon he went gut to his barn and fastened a zope.to a rafter andtied one end.tights ly around his neck. He climbed into the mow and jumped down some eight feet. lis neck was jnstantly broken by the fall. .

Don’t Stop My Paper. Don’t stop my paper, printer, | Don’t strike my name off yet: You know the times are stringent, Anddollars hard'to get; But tug a little harder = - Is what I mean to do, - : And scrape the dimes together, Enough for me and you: I can’t afford to drop i ' I find it doesen’t pay = = To do without a paper, i However others may, I hate to ask my neighbors - . To give me theirs on loap; e They don’t just say, buf mean it, ~ Why dow’t you have your own? You can’t tell how we miss it, If it, by any fate, e Should happen not to reach us, - - Or comes a little late; = T Then all is in a hubbub, - - And things go all awry, And, printer, if youw’re married, You know the reason why, I cannot do without it,. .« = It is no use to try, - S For other people take it, And, printer, so must 1. I, too, must keep mé posted, And know what’s going on, = Or feel, and be accounted ‘ A fogy simpleton.. . . . Then, take it kindly, printer, ° - If pay be somewhat slowii For cash is not so plenty, San And wants not few you knos, But I must have my paper, Cost what it may to me, : I’d rather dock my sugar, - ; And do without my tea, SO, printer, don’t you stoép it, : Unless you want my frown, For here’s the year’s subscription, And credit it right down, = And send the paper promptly - And regularly on, ° ek And let it bring us weekly Its welcomed benison. 5

XNO MORE COSKES. A Matter of Interest to Drive Weil ) : - Owners. ; : _ .. (LnPorte Amgmsd i L On Monday, the 27th inst., in the United States Court at Indianapolis, two more of the driven well cases were disposed of. The plaintiffs were not ready for trial, but by consent of the counsel for the defendants, a decree was taken against them; the same as in other cases, and then an additional order was taken to the effect that if the defendants would give a bond agreeing to pay ten dollars royalty for each well and the costs: of suit, payable only in case the validity of the patent shall be affirmed by the Su: preme Court of the United States, then an injunction will be withheld and proceedings stayed until the determination of the Supreme Court of the appeal of Jacob Wahl vs. Henry B. Hine and Amos T. Stephenson, tried last spring in the Circuit Court and afterwards appealed. cLen ; Judge Gresham further suggests at the hearing that if persons who are using driven wells and are threatened with suait for infringement, will give a bond or agreement securing the payment of the ten dollars royalty, which, also, is only to be paid in case the Supreme Court affirms the validity of the patent, then he would not permit such user of a driver well to be molested through his court, - : : Judge Gresharp alsosaid at the hearing that if the parties who are attacking the patent will petition the Supreme Court to advance the appeal case and pass upon it at an-early day before it can be reached in the regular order, he ,will write a letter to one of the Judges of that court requesting them to grant the petition. The ap‘plication for the advancement of the case will be made at once. Itisa matter of congratulation_ that the litigation has'at length got into this shape, ‘and that the patent speculators have ‘heretofore got so little money from LaPorte county and are likely hereafter to get but little more from any part of ‘the ¢ountry. But the parties who are fighting the patent are all poor farmers. They are really making the contest for the-rights of the publie, and ‘not specially for their own rights. No one of them has any more interest ’in the result—except to the matter ofi ‘costs—than any other user of a driven ‘well..> Séveral hundred dollars are ‘needed to carryon the appeal and this ‘amount should be contributed by the ‘public to have 'this nuisance promptly ‘and finally abated. It would seem to ‘be a matter of regret that such large sums, in the aggregate, have recently been paid to the patent speculators in ‘adjoining counties. No one neéed run ‘any risk in refusing to pay if he will ‘take the course suggested by Judge Gresham. I oy W.N.

l (We understand-that the citizens of LaPorte county have raised the required sum. of one thousand. dollars for the pyrpose of prosecuting the ap- | peal before ‘the gsupreme court at ) Washington.) ’- u e i WA S | Important Decision. § (Lagrange Standard.) : Judge Holman, of Indianapolis, last week, decided that the wife of a mortgagor and debtor, during his life time, cannot redeem land sold under the mortgage at Sheriff’s’ sale. The law gives the right to redeem to “the owner thereof, his heirs, executors, administrator, or any mortgage or judgment creditor hayving a lien upon the same may redeem such real property,” within one year, ete, © The Judge concludes that during the life time of her husband, the wife could make no pretense to & right to redeem except as “owner” and that claim he thinks was nof intended to be covered by the law. This is an importact decision, as we judge there have been ‘'many redemptions by wives, of the _property. of their husbands, sold at sheriff’s gale. This, thpugh it may be ~well to recollect, .is not a Supreme ‘Court, decisjon, and therefore not final, but it wil} do to abserye as warning. jng, Of the Deeline. . o b (Crawfordgville Jonrnal, Rep.) ..‘The Granl fever 1s- abafiq‘% all over the country. The people are beginning to open; their eyes to, the fact that it there is but one man in the Nation who can save it that it hangs on buta mddo%tbread . There_are tOO many men who are conscientiously opposed. to a third term to make Granta stron candidate; so '-“l:gani"»im facy "tl;a"t; 5% »» makes him the weakest man that has beennpmed, o 8 00