Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 25, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 October 1880 — Page 4

The Figonier Lanun Uhe Figonier Lanuer. J. B. STOLL, Editor and Proprietor. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1880. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET. ‘ FOR PRESIDENT, : WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK, : -l OF PENNSYLVANIA:. ‘ - | FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, . WILLIAM H. ENGLISH, . OF INDIANA. S pniens il DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. For Governor—FRANKLIN LANDERS. Lieutenant-Governor—lSAAC P. GRAY.- . ‘Secretary of State—JOHN G. SHANKLIN. . Auditor of State—MAHLON D. MANSON. Treasurer of State— WILLIAM FLEMING, . ° Attorney-General-THOMAS WOOLLEN. Clerk Supreme Court—GABRIEL SCHMUCK. Reporter Supr.Court— AUGUSTUS N. MARTIN. Sup’t Public Instruction—ALEX.C. GOODWIN. Ju«lge Supreme Court—JOHN T. SCOTT. 7w v JOSEPH A, 8. MITCHELL. DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT TICKET. Meinber Congress; 12th Dist.—W .G, COLERICK. Joint Representative—SAMUEL b. SHUTT. Circuit Prosecutor—GEOßGE B, ADAMS, . DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. Representative—CHAßLES V. INKS. Clerk-~-SAMUEL E. ALVORD, . : : Treasurer—GEOßGE KEEHN. Sheriff —RICHARD WILLIAMS, : : Recorder—J AMES J. LASH. . e Commissioner, North Dist. —~ABRAM H.SMITH Coroner—JOHN BURWELL. i ; Surveyor—JAMES A. BERRY. !

. Gen, Grant’s Testimony. - ( Extract fram Gen. @rant’s speeck at Bloomington, : Illinois.)

“T have been gratified with niy reception . in the recently rebellious States, I passed from Philadelphia to Florida on my way to Ilavana, and on my return came via Texas “from Mexico, thus passing throligh all the . rebellious States, and it will be agreeable to all to know that lmspitalit?y was tendered me atevery city through which I passed, and accepted in nearly all of them by me. The same .decorations were seen in every State that are seen here to-night.: The Union flag floated over us everywhere, and the eyes of the people are as familiar with its colors as yours, and look upon it as guaranteeing to all the rights and privileges of a free people, without regard to race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

It is significant that the only way the republican orators hope to carry Ohio for Garfield is by neglecting to mention Garfield in their speeches.

TaE Springfield Republican observes that General Hancock’s letter has knocked the Southern issue into daylight. Yes. And the republican party is preparing to follow it on the 2d of November. ;

DR. S. VANSELZER, of Columbus,o,, one of the foremost Republicans in that disttict, has come out for Hancock and English. He wrote a telling letter which very clearly gives his reasons for deserting the republican party, ‘ Lo

MR. HiIrAM BARNEY, of New York, collector of the Port under Lincoln, in declining to preside at a republican mass meeting, announced his intention of voting for General Hancock, together with Generals Sickles, Sigel, and Jones, and said: “The best medicine for the republican party at this moment isdefeat.. The South to-day is as loyal as the North, and the stories of the payment of the rebel claimsand another rebellion is all bosh.”

LET EVERY DEMOCRAT be on his guard, and have the polls so watched on election day that no illegal votes can be received. The republican leaders, especially in republican localities, evidently intend to colonize illegal voters. Their papers are now raising a great cry about frauds being committed by Democrats; but this is only. to cover their own purposes, Watch every persorf about whom there is any suspicion, and be prepared to have any one arrested who, not having the right to vote, attempts to deposit his ballot. We want an honest vote and a fair count. o

A FEW YEARS AGO James A. Garfield declared in the halls of .Congress: “I believe, Mr. Speaker, that THE FAME OF JEFFERSON IS. WANING, abd the Same of Hamilton waxing, in the estimation of the American people, and that we are gravitating toward aistronger form of govemnieht.” And he added, “I am glad we are.” He is the fit leader;of a party not satisfied with the government of Washington, and Jefferson and Madison, and Jackson. He wants a stronger government than that" with 'which Abraham Lincoln put down the rebellion againat the predictions and machinations of twothirds of Europe. But he will have to wait a long time. hefore the A merican people’ will change their great republican inheritance to an empire.

WHEN ANYBODY talks about the republican party having anything to ~do with the prosperity of the country, call his attention to these facts in history which are frésh in the memory - of every intelligent voter: That from ' the close of the war, during the entire time the republican party, had full sway, prosperity steadily diminighed, until the culmination was widespread bankruptcy, financial ruin and general prostration of industries; and that ' the return of prosperity began when the Democracy obtained control of the House of Representatives, times improved still more when the Democra¢y gained supremacy in the Senate, ~and all that is lacking to restore the “good old times” is to finish the work by electing a democratic President.

- GRANT]S tribute to Garfield: —, 3 ———————————- A vom% for Landers is worth two votes fori Hancock. : 5

GENERAL BUTLER feels quite as sure of Ohio as of Indiana, of which he is cergain. o :

'WHEN [Hancock is elected and the republicap officeholders” are bounced, the Demgcrats will take a peep at the books and find out where the money has gone.; - ; ’

- “WHEN] parties change their principles, paxtljotq change their parties,” said Bur { . That is the reason why 80 many_!)er{sons are leaving the republican ijparty now and joining the democratic ranks. i

IT was Roscoe Conkling who declared that no Republican could be elected and inaugurated but General Grant. This being a fact, what use is there in Bro. Tomlin tearing his nether garment over the inevitable—Hancock’s election to the Presidency ? :

. DEMOGRATS know what arguments are; and they know what insulls are, too. To charge that the democratic party is inimical to the business interests of the country insuits every Democrat individually and he should resent the dirty aspersion whenever a proper occasion offers. ! '

PERSONS who came into the State before the 12th day of April, 1880, and are American born, or foreigners who have been in the country one year acd declared their intentions to become citizens, can vote at the October election. Those who have come into the State since that time have no right to vote, and if they attempt to do so should be arrested. ' : - | REPUBLICAN ACHIEVEMENTS. Everybody who knows anything of the Hon. Wm. S. Groesbeck, of Cincinnati, readily concedes both his great ability and unqueéstionable honesty.— He is in no sense a mere politfian, he is a profound statesman and philesopher. In a recent speech this disti_n-! guished gentleman presented in a most vivid light the wastefulness and ex-‘ travagance of the republican party.— He showed among other things that prior to 1861 there had never been the donation of an acre of land directly to & railroad corporation. According to land office estimates the republican.party, since 1861, hias granted to railroad corporations more than 137,000, 000 acres, about one-twentieth of the whole United States,—larger in extent than New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky; larger than the German Empire, including Prussia, Saxony and all the Dutch principalities; larger than France and Belgium, and much larger than Great Britain and Ireland. It belonged to the people; it was given to a few individuals, who, for convenience, organized themselves into corporations. Is there, in all history, such an example of waste? 'l'he government loaned to six of these railway corporations more than $64,000,000.— When the bonds mature the loan, principaland interest, will amount to $390,000,000. This large loan was made a first lien upon these railways, but its priority has been surrendered. It may be considered as lost, and should be charged to the republican party. He also showed that the aggregate expenditures of the government the last nineteen years, omitting what was paid as interest, have been more than $5,800,000,000. The aggregate expenditures the preceding seventy years were $1,600,000,000. The last nineteen years we have spent, say, $4,200,000,000 more than during all the balance of our national life. The average civil and miscellaneous expenditures of the republican party, the last nineteen years, have been $52,000,000 a year. In the nineteen years: before they were less than $17,000,000. The aggregate Indian expenditures, the last nineteen years, amounted to $97,000,000; forthe preceding nineteen -years, $44,000,000. War and naval expenditures, or pensions and interest, are not referred to for they are not fairly the subject ot comparison. ' -

It would appear that if the government had been economically administered, say at a cost of not more than two hundred millions per annum, which is not a low estimate for the ordinary expenditures, the whole of the public debt ought by this time to have been paid out of the revenues collected. In nineteen years the cost of the government at the rate of $200,000,000 per annum, would be $3,800,000,000. The remainder of the $5,800,000,000 collected from the people, namely, $2,000,000,000 should have been available for the reduction of the principal of the public debt. The latter sum is nearly equal to the amount of the public debt a 8 it ‘stood shortly after the close of the war, and which amount has been but slightly reduced since then. What became of this immense surplus revenue?}‘ That is a secret which will never be discovered till the books of the treasury are wrested from the custody of the republican politicians. . :

GEN. W. S. RoSECRANS has been nominated by the Democrats of the San Francisco; California, district for Congress. : .

A vore for Franklin Landers for Governor is° equivalent to a vote for Hancock for President. Elect Landers Governor, and the success of Hancock becomes a certainty. : .

THE Christian Union declares that “the republican party is primarily to blame for the ‘solid South.” It has never done anvthing to make it other than solid.” That is gospel truth, Bro. Tomlin. : :

BE IT RESOLVED that every democratic voter shall be brought to the polls this year. Let none be left behind. The lame, the sick, the halt and the blind—all should exercise their rights as American citizens and deposit their ballots on election day for the democratic ticket.. | : -

- THeE Washington Post says: “One of the gratifying signs of the timeés is seen in the fact that the young men of the country—those just coming on the stage “of political action, are largely allying themselves with the democratic party.” Theyoung men are disgusted with the pernicious course of unscrupulous republican politicians.

HORACE GREELEY said In a' letter to John Jay, President of the Union League Club of New York, what the republican speakers would do well now to heed: “Your attempt to base a great enduring party on the hate and wrath necessarily engendered by a blcody civil war is as though you should plant a colony +on an iceberg which had somehow drifted into a tropical ocean.” i ‘

THE Hebrew Leader says that “in the last twenty years the Republicans have succeeded in- driving our f{lag from the ocean, 30 that there is not a single steamship leaving an Atlantic port for Europe which carries the stars and stripes. Under the last democratic administration our flag whitened every sea. At that time 'a hundred thousand men were employed in the work of building ships, and every ship-yard was busy through the entire season. Now we thave but one shipbuilder in' the entire land, and he is idle—John Roach, of Chester, Pennsylvania. Why is it? Because of the heavy tax placed by the Government on the articles that enter into the con struction of steamships and other vesgels, a tax placed upon them by the tariff ring, and kept there to swell the wealth of pampered favorites of the party. Remove these iniquitous taxes, and the building of ships would again prove profitable.” ' :

ON WEDNESDAY, September 18, 1872, Horace Greeley, “the founder of the N. Y. 7Tribune,” uttered these words in Lancaster, Pa., the home of President Buchanan: '

“I am one of those who believe political parties ought not to be permitted to exist too long in a government such as ours; that they should rise, flourish and pass away when they have subserved the purpose for which they were created. The dangers which threatened our country in the past are gone. We struggled and suffered together to preserve the Union ot theéJe States, and not in the next hundred years will any attempt to divide it be made, We want peace and the complete restoration of fraternal relations. It is time for us to forget the animosities engendered by the war, and to kindle instead of baleful passions a feeling of universal love. It is time for us to invite those who have been opposed to us to seats around the common table.. There is room enough.” .

- If Horace Greeley were alive to-day he could not get these true and manly words published in the 7T'ribune which he founded. . i

THE Cleveland Plaindealer hits the nail squarely on the head when it says that without doubt the hard working men and women of the country, who have produced the crops.and the manufactures which we are now sending to Europe, have done more to bring the greenback to par than have all the professional politicians in the country. The earth has produced bountifully the last two years, and, though prices have been unnaturally low, there has been a good foreign demand for whatever we could produce.” But it was the democratic legislation for remonetizing silver and for continuing the greenback as money after the first of January, 1879, which gave the country assurance that our currency legislation was not to be wholly controlled in the National Bank interest as it had been during the previous ten years under Republican rule. With that assurance business has revived and men began to work with some hope of seeing the fruit of their labors. Against these measures of popular relief the republi. can party has fought to its utmost ability, but it has happily been oyerborne and the davs of darkness and misery have been “shortened.” It must, however, be years before the country can recover from the losses caused by the bad financial legislation while Congress was under republican rule. {

FeELLow DEMOCRATS, be of good cheer. The year of jubilee has come at last. Hancock will be our next President. He will be elected beyond all doubt or peradventure, and no- returning boards can count him out.

THE CLATM made by the Republicans that, ay we are now prosperous, a change should not be made in the political complexion of the Government, is an idle one. We are prosperous now in spite of, and not on account of, the republican party. They are not responsible for the warmth of the sun’s rays, nor for the fertifity of the soil; and to its teeming fruitfulness alone do we owe the prosper'ity which the country is beginning to enter upon. —RUFUs W. PECKHAM. , PORTER’S TESTIMONY OF LANDERS' ; SOBRIETY. In his speech at South Bend, according to a special to the Cincinnati Commercial under date of Sept. 3, 1880, Albert G. Porter, the republican candidate for Governor, is quoted as having said that he “HAS KNOWN MR. “LANDERS FOR THIRTY YEARS, “AND WOULD BE DELIBERATE“LY FALSIFYING IF HE CHARG“ED HIM WITH BEING A DRUNK“ARD, WHEN HE KNEW HE WAS "NolL o ‘A more complete, self-evident and convincing disapproval of the slanders against Mr. Landers’ sobriety could not be produced. It is all that his friends could desire; it comes from the lips of his opponent. Republican newspapers and many republican speakers have wickedly, maliciously and falsely charged. Mr. Landers with drunkenness. Mr. Porter squarely and emphatically charges those papers and speakers with LYING. The lying scamps in this locality who have had the cussedness to repeat this vile slander may put this in their little pipes and smoke it. :

- FIRST PAPERS. Important to Foreign-Born Citizens. : [Fort Wayne Daily News.] . . The question has been asked: Can persons of foreign birth, who have resided in the State six months, and who have declared their intention to become citizens by taking out only what are called “first papers,” vote at the coming election for all officers, members of Congress included ? The answer s that such persons-are beyond all question entitled to vote. Section 2 of Article 1 of the constitl;ution- of the United States is as folOWS: ‘ :

~ “The House of Representatives shall “be composed of members chosen every “gecond year, by the people of the sev“eral States; and electors in each State “shall have the qualifications requisite “for electors of the most numerous “branch of the State Legislature.” Section 2 of Article 2 of the constitution of the State of Indiana fixes the qualifications of all voters at general elections in this State. It is as follows: *ln all elections not otherwise pro“vided for by this consfitution, every “white male citizen of the United “States of the age of 21 years and up“wards, who shall have resided in the “State during the six months immedi“ately preceding such election; and “every white, male of foreign birth of “the age of 21 years and upwards, who “shall have resided in the United States “one year,and shall have resided in s“this State during the six months im“mediately preceding such election, AND “SHALL HAVE DECLARED HIS INTEN“TION TO BECOME A CITIZEN OF THE “UNITED STATES CONFORMABLY TO “THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES “ON THE SUBJECT OF NATURALIZATION “SHALL BE ENTITLED TO VOTE IN THE “TOWNSHIP OR PRECINCT WHERE HE “MAY RESIDE.” ;

- The coming election is nof “otherwise provided for by this constitution.” 2 The word “white” where used in the above section is rendered nugatory by a later amendment to the constitution of the United States. : The same qualifications as above set forth will entitle persons to vote 1n this State at the presidential election in November. ' The 2d clause of section 1 of article 2 of the Constitution of the United States provides that electors for President and Vice-President are to be appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State may direct. This State has directed that such electors shall be chosen by popular vote. It follows from the foregoing provisions with reference to the qualifications of electors or voters in the State that persons of foreign birth who have “declared their intention,”.or taken out only their “first papers,” as it is called, and resided a sufficient length of time in the State, are entitled to vote at the October election “for members of the most numerous branch of our State Legislature,” and consequently for Congressmen and all other candidates to be voted for at that election, and also for electors for President and VicePresident at the election in November as fully as persons of full age born in this country. : , | Of the correctness of this statement there cannot be a shadow of doubt. The question is too clear to admit of controversy or discussion, ° : R. C. BELL, ALLEN ZOLLARS, : : JOHN MORRIS, ; - - J. Q. STRATTON, : _ E. O'ROURKE, : T. EEELLIIsON.

I concur in the foregoing, and to correct an impression which seems to have been entertained in some quarters, beg leave to say that I never expressed any opinion to the contrary anywhere, R. S, TAYLOR,

FOR A FAIR ELECTION.

Correspondence and Agreement Between the Democratic and Republican State Central Committees of Indiana in Relation to the Selection and Ap- : pointmenf of Election Judges ‘ and Clerks. i b

: ROOMS OF THE i DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL Com., _ INDIANAPOLIS, September 28, y Hon. John €. New, Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee : J

Dear Sir—l consider it not oaly essential to good government that the purity of elections be preserved, but that all appearance or suspicion of fraud be removed, and for the purpcse of securing these objects I propose that we, as chairmen of our respective committees, issiie a joint circular embodying an agreement that in all town. ships or precincts where the inspector is a Democrat he shall appoint a judge and clerk to be selected by the Republicans of the township or precinct, and where the inspector is a Republican he shall appoint ‘a judge and clerk to be selected by the Democrats of the township or precinet. Your early answer is requested. Respectfully, - WM. H. ENGgLISH, Chairman.

~'| ROOMS OF THE 3 REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL COM., - INDIANAPOLIS, September 30. s Hou. Wm. H. English, Chairman Demoecratic State Central Committee :

Your letter of the 28th instant is at hand. I fully indorse your sentiment as to the necessity for the “purity of elections,” and believe that “every legal voter in the Nation should have the right to vote as he pleases, and have his vote counted as he cast it.”— This committee most heartily accept your proposition in regard to the selection of judges and clerks in the various precincts of the State, and I will join you In a circular embracing the agreement.” Yours truly, JouxN C. NEw, Chairman. AGREEMENT. : . INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 1. “ With' the sanction of our respectivé committees, and by .their authority, we request and direct that the agreement set forth in the foregoing letters be carried out—that is to say, that in all election pleeincts where the inspector Is a Democrat, he shall appoint a judge and clerk to be selected by the Republicans of such precinet; and where the inspector is a Republican he shall appoint a judge and clerk to be selected by the Democrats of the precinct. : i NEME ENGLIS?[, Chairman Dem. State Central Com. ~ Joun C. NEw, Chairman Rep. State Central Com.

: A Worthy Nomination. , (Angola Herald.) o From the l.agrange Register we learn that Mr. P. P. Miner, of Lima, has been placed in- nomination by the Greenbackers for County Treasurer. We are pleased and happy to note that at last the men who did their duty in the late war as private soldiers are being recogniged by the people as fit candidates for official favors. We know well, from personal experience, that the truest hearts of this country stood under our imperiiled flag 1n the humblest uniform. P.P. Miner is the third son of our worthy townsman, Mr. Milo Miner. He entered the service of Uncle Sam when but 19 years of age. The record of the entire family during the war is one of exceptional patriotism. Of the father and four sons not one was left behind—each wore the blue at the same time in different sections of the South. J. D. Miner, the eldest son, tested the hor-‘ rors of Libby prison for more than a year. J.J. Miner, the second son, lost three fingers off his left hand at Antietam, and P. P. Miner, the third son and subject of this communication, was severely wounded at the battle of Missionary Ridge. Nor would it be just, in mentioning the services rendered by the Miner family, to omit the name of Mrs. P. P. Miner, at that time Miss Rena L. Littlefield, of Sturgis, Mich., who left her school which she was teaching to wait and attend to the )sick and wounded soldiers, and for two years devoted her time and energies to this noble work. Success to P. P. Miner, we say, and all other candidates who are equally as worthy. el O E—— Murder and Suicide at Warsaw, - WARSAW, Sept. 26.—Annie C. Chaplin, daughter of a wealthy citizen and a director in the first national bank of this place, was shot and instantly killed yesterday afternpon by Glynn L. Smith, 8 sewing machine agent, who then shot himself through the head and died instantly. It appears that. Miss Chaplin, about three weeks ago, presented a check fors3oo with her father’s name on it, at the bank and had it cashed. The father declared it a forgery and had his daughter arrested and. put in jail. After enduring her imprisonment for three days she accused Smith of the forgery, He was arrested, and after a confinement of two weeks released on bail. - Miss Chapiin was allowed the freedom of the jailor’s house and yard, and yesterday as she was eoming out of an out-house, Smith leaped over the fence and shot her through the heart. As she fell he fired again putting a shot through her head. He then placed the weapon to his own head and shot himself dead in his tracks. Miss Chaplin | was an attractive young lady, and public sentiment is bitter against her father for his stern treatment of her. It is' stated that he kept her in conflnement to prevent her from eloping with Smith, who had a wife and two children.

A Great Chicago Enterprise.

. 'The laborabory for the manufacture of Electric Bitters is one of Chicago’s greatest enterprises, giying employment to a large number of hands. The extensive sale already attained for this wonderful remedy is astonishing. Wherever onceintroduced and becomes known, it i 8 almost impossible to supply the demand, because of their true merit—curing where all others fail—and at a very reasonable price (fifty cents.)—Ex. i »

*PDr. Gants still takes the lead in dentistry, ‘

OUR NEIGHBORS.

~ Senator Doolittle and Chas. 8. May will speak at Lagrange to-day. ;

‘The employes of the Lake Shere railway were paid-in gold at their last pay day, el The authorities of Plymouth have made arrangements to have that city lighted with gas. -~ = . & -~ All things considered, the Fair resulted very satisfactory to the managers.— Lagrange Register. =~ - : - $329 struck Goshen® on Thursday night and every available place on Friday morning bore the cabalistic, $329. Independent, . . & . - The Democrats had an immense ral- | ly and barbecue at South Bend last Thursday. Mr, Hendricks was the principal speaker.: = - . . ‘The Lagrange Register says; Lagrange county was uever more thoroughly canvassed, politically, than-it has been thisfall.: .= - .. ° i - Wm, M. Starr/late of the Goshen Times, has made arrangements to engage in-the printing business at Jacksonville;. Tk, -a town: of about 12,000 inhabitants, oo Seo ok At the recent_hook and ladder race at, Elkhart, the Angola company was awarded the prize of $l5O and a goldmounted trumpet. - Two. runs were made; the first in 24 seconds, the second in'2414.7 =7o : : ‘ Hugh M. Diehl, the republican marshal of the c¢ity of Fort Wayne, has publicly announced that he will support the democratic ticket. = Seven old republican friends joinéd the Democracy with him at the same time. Potatoes have been selling in this market at fifty to sixty cents per bushel. This is an unusual price at this geason of the year, and indicates that the crop is short-or that farmers are not yet ready to marketit. We hope it is the latter cause.—Angola Herald. ~ ELKHART, Oct. I.—The remains of . G. L. Smith, the murderer of Annie Chapin and 'suicide, arrived here this morning from Warsaw. The remains were followed to Grace L.awn cemétery, where -they were laid away. A small crowd followed Smith to his last resting place. v il --Last Friday a week, at Fort Wayne, a young man named Bourie threw a stone, in a'playful manner, at Herry Gerke, a boy nine years old, and unfortunately struck him, in the pit of the stomach, injuring himso severely that he died on the following Saturday atternoon. - Young Bourie has been arrested. e .

The Northern Indiana Medical Association met at Lagrange on Tuesday of last week. Amongthose present were, ; Drs. Wood aud Crane, of Angola; Gilbert and Teal, of Kendallville; Spaulding, of Applemanburg; Mrs. Dr. Crane, Drs. White, Niman and Griffith, of Lagrange.. Questions of importance to the profession as well as the people at large were discussed. e 'J. A. Boozer, general agent for Buckeye machinery, while in the act ot spinning some tarred rope around the line "shaft in motiop, was caught by the wrist throwing him with-great force once aroundthe shaft. Mr. Boozer realizing his situation immediately braced himself-and succeeded inbreaking the rope, but notuntil his arm was broken just above the wrist. Drs. Casebeer and 'Niman dressed the wound.—Lagrange Register. .. ‘When will enterprising railway com= panies and real estate ‘agents cease - sending farmers to Western Kansas and other parts‘of the country where no man raises crops enough to keep himself from starvation? Not until all the fools atfe dead. To-all intents and | purposes a man mig&t“as well start grazing and farming‘in the middle of the Sahara Desert as to go to Western Kansas, yet they will go.—Goshen Independent. - | e The Republican estimate on the 13th : Congressional Distriet, gives it to Calkins by 700 majority, as follows: LaPorte, 300 Dem.; Marshall, 100. Dem. ;' Stark, 250 Dem.; Elkbart, 500 Rep.; Kosciusko, 800 Rep.; St: Joe, 50 Rep.; while the Democratic gives it to MeDonald by 500 majority, as follows: Kosciusko, 600 Rep.; Elkhart, 400 Rep.; LaPorte, 600 Dem:; Marshall, 100 Dem.; St. Joe, 500 Dem.; Stark, 800 Dem. We would say these figures are liable to be changed Oect. 12th, and bets had better be made Oct. 13th,— Goshen Imd, % 0 i :

- On Sunday, Sept. 26, a 8 Miss Annie Brandenburg was returning to her ‘'home from the old cemetery southwest of Fort Wayne, when she arrived at the Pittsburg crossing she found a long line of cars.on the side track, with no engine attached. Noticing an opening of about two feet be&ween two of the cars, her y,oung_'brgther, who was with her passed through and Miss Brandenburg was following, when a car that had been switched from the main track struck: the end of the detached car driving them together and crushing the young lady betweeh the draw-bars of the two cars so that she died within two hours. - .. : Soae

’ NEw Paris, Oct. I.—This village is 'wild with excitement by the discovery by one Smith this morning of a hat ‘and- case of physician’s instruments on the bank of Tuikey Creek, a quarter of amile west of here, covered with \ blood ‘and hair. -The hat and case belong to Dr. James Hughes, who was ‘known to Liave collected considerable | money here during the day yesterday. ‘He was last seen about 8 o’clock last . night. A little distance from the hat and case lies a large rock, which was also covered with blood and hair. Mr. Hughes lives just four miles west of here, and his wife says she has seen nothing of him-since he left yesterday morning. There were two tramps lying around here Yyesterday, who are looked upon with .sugpicion. They were last seen about the time Hughes was. Officers are in search of them. The citizens turned out to-day and dragged the creek for the body to no avail. Hughes carried a life insurance policy of several thousand dollars, ana some think he has not been murdered, but is playing a game, while others (fiully ~assert that foul play has been one. o G