Ligonier Banner., Volume 18, Number 47, Ligonier, Noble County, 6 March 1884 — Page 2

bie Ligonier Banner, J.B. STOLL, Editor. ~ ’*—W‘,‘—“——.—_"—‘ . THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1884. MEETING OF COUNTY CENTRAL ST COMMITTEE, The Committeemen of the several Townships are h?l’reby requested to meet at Albion, Indiana, on :

Saturday, March Bth, 1884, - at 10-o’clock A. M., to arrange for holding a County Convention, and the transaction of such other business as mdy come before the meeting. = OWEN Brack,

Chairman Democratic Central Com.

THE COMBINATIONS mostly talked of at present in democraticcircles are: Tilden and Hendricks, Payne and Flower, McDonald and Patker, Morrison and Slocum, Holman and Dorsheimer, Bayard apd McDonald, JOSIAH GIN, the somewhat eccéntric editor of the New Albany Public Press, insists that Senator Voorhees must be retired, -on account of his views on the tariff. The Rockport Democrat joins in the grand chorus by saying that Voorhees must go —back into -the.-Senate for another six year term, It is quite probable that Dan is willing to go—that way. - v

IT 18 GENERALLY BELIEVED that Postmaster General Gresham will ere leng beappointed U. 8. Circuit Judge, in place of J udge Drummond, who is about ready to be retired, having credit-

ably served in that capacity for a period .of over forty years. A man serving

" his eountry that length of time surely , ought to be permitted to evjoy the - pleasures of private life. :

! ——etl s 4 +HENRY WATTERSON wants Congress to pass alaw for copyrighting the. news “that is ransmitted to the metropolitan journals. This proposi-

tion has created a storm of opposition and is pot at all likely to find favor amorg members of Congress, who generally feel dispossd to stand by the papers published in the smaller

towns and cities. :Even some of the

metropolitan . jouinals are opposed to the . Wattersonian idaa of putting a patent on the news of theday.

THE CHAIRMEN 'of the several democrgtic county committees of this congressional district met at Fort Wayne og'Tuesday of last week for the purpose of electing a district chairman and member of the State Central Committee, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the removal of J. B. Stoll to another district. All the counties of the district were represented. Col. C. As ZoHinger, of Fort Wayne, was chosen Mr. Stoll’s successor. : Steps will imediately be taken to efitct a thorough organization of the party. - . o 3; ————:——4o*—‘*‘"“Hon. JAMES W, CABBAGE, the more or less_famous Represéntative in the Legislature from Waerick county, announces himself a candidate for Lieutenant Governor. lle doesthis in a eharacteristic letter addressed to the editor of thd Evansville Courier: On the tariff he avows himself thoroughly “in harmony with the views ofgour “candidate| for President, the Hop. “Joseph.E. McDonald,” and in regard to prohibition he stands with the great

bulk of his party —in favor of sobriety ‘shd a we'l regulated license lawe “Jim” is a representative of the agricultural element, but- wants it distimetly understood that “availability” is met his only merit. If he were to enter .upon-a -general eanvass of the ‘State he would doubtless succeed in creating a sensation if not a commo--tion. e i |

TRE’ANNOUNCEMENT is made with an apparent air of truyh that Col. Tom Ochiltree, of Texas, the most notorious liar probably on the face of the earth, is goimng to. marry the daughter of Mr. J. W. Mackey, the Nevada millionaire of fabled wealth.~ It is said that the engagement was mada last summer while Col. Ochiltres was sojourning in Paris, where Miss Mackey and her mother have resided for the last four years. .In case rthe young lady has amy friends, in this eountry who may be inclined to deplore her fate we beg to assure them that they need not be alarmingly distirbed In consequence of the prevailing rumor, for it has: been pretty accurately ascertained that Col. Ochiltree started the story of the engagements himself. Large allowances may be made for the Colonel’s well-kmown failing. : e

-It 18 STATED that Bob Ingersoll has been deeded an interest in the big ranch eut in New Maxico owned by Mr. Stephen W. Dorsey in payment for legal services rendered in keeping the latter out of State prison. Now lif the latter will persuade the great infidel

to “go west” and settle down upon that

ranch to the quist life'of a sheep raisC er, the people in time may come to the

conclusion that they have been benefited ‘by the failure to convict on the , occasion of the star route trials. Bob Ingersoll has for the last twenty years passed his life in making light of the Christisn religion, delivering Republican campaign speeches and keeping . rascals out ef the penitentiary. His life has been barrem of any good whatever. If he'would now turn his atten- " tion to sheep culture the quality of his mutton might make amends for some of his blasphemy and harmful influence upon society. = |

THE wag of the Housé of Representatives’ at Washington is James B. Belford, formerly a resident:of Laperte, this State.. Abcut the time the editor of THE BANNER established the Laporte Argus, Mr, Belford spent a good deal of his time in the ediforial sanctum of that paper. He was'then an attorney of limited practice, a. Republican with a sore spot on the to% of his head, but always genial and entertaining.. In order to keep him within the party traces he finally obtained an appointment as territorial Judge for Colorado. Being 'a fine speaker—a natural orator—and a most successful mixer, he soon gained the coufidence of the Coloradoans, and in due course of time was elected and re-elected a member of Congress. He seems to maintain his | w arity, and may mﬂyhm ‘Senate. Belford does 8 good deal of: alking, but being witty and always entertaining, he generally commands attention. He is & pative of Miflin county, Pa., and was formeriy » Democrat. Under favorable ' circumstances he would readily return to his first love. Jim is s e, Ji

. AT THE MEETING of the Democratic State Central Committee last week there was not the usually large attendance of politiciaus from tha “Gutside counties,” Even the candidates were conspicuously absent. This is a hopeful sign--that people are paying closer attention to business than to politics,

THE most contradictory statements concerning the health- of Mr. Tilden are beirg circulated by the big dailies. Those favorable to Mr. Tilden again becoming 'a candidate for President pronounce him in excellent condition, while those of opposite opinion say he is physically a wreck. If it wasn’t g 0 far, we would be strongly tempm pay Mr, Tilden a visit; partly to agcertain’ which side does the tailest lying, and partly to give Bro. Prickett another opportanity to make a “startling” polit»igil revelation. ‘

JupGeE HOLMAN is in no sense a candidate for Governor or President. He is one among a ‘comparatively small nuimber of eminent men who does Pot permnit the “bee” to get into his bonnet. Strongly intrenched in the popular affection, he pursues the even tenor of his way, whelly unconcerned about political’ advai;cement; With Jacksonian firmness he discharges the duties of his;offize, faithfully guarding the public interest and manfully fighting every scheme that is caleulated to prove damaging to the country or burdensome to the people. A reprezentative of such sterling qualities is Indeed an honor to his constituency. : i o

Now mmaT Bro. Prickett, of sthe New Era, has divulged a -profound secret, to the effect that the editor of ToE BANNER has recently had a pleas: ant little chat with Senator Payne, it js to be hoped the vigilant editor of that enterprisiog paper will not with‘hold the equally impertant (though less truthful) information jast unearthed by the Indianapolis Journal ‘that J. B. Stoll has entered into 3 conspiracy with the Hon, Charles L. Murray and Luther Benson to .organize a prohibition party, for the expreas’ purpose of disrupting the republican organization! Here is richness for you, my countrymen. A well-told tale of this character will prove edifying reading matter for the good people of Noble county. We would enjoy .it ourself, ° b

—— e B— G OUR CONGRESSMAN. : An opponent refers -to Hon. Robert Lowry, the member of Congress from this district, in the following flattering language, during a late speech: e ‘Mr. Speaker, my friend from Indiana ng.jLowr({], who has beena judge in that State I understand for many yeats, gaye us an extraordinary speech Yyesterday. His | friends thought it unanswerable fr(?ﬂ the standpoint of the merits; and as toliching the action of the secretary of state of the State of Mississippi relating to the'returns of/Tate county, it was not without its torce and high moral sentiment. . We all admired his stromg physique; his ¢lear, rich voice; his classical language, and handsome delivery, He has withheld that speech for reyision.. Itought to be revigsed ; not in the particulars I have mentioned, but it should Be purged of the misapplications of the law with which it was s 0 pregmant., It was lemarkable in another respect. Beginning with the modesty of the shrinking, blushing school-giil, he grew in fiye minutes to the full-grown school-master, lecturing many members on this floor, his equal in age and experience. » I

e ~—L—~~Qo>—“’ : A REMARKABLE STORY,

There recently appeared iq the Washington‘ correspondence -of the Chicago News a statement made by Senator-eleet Blackburn, of Kentucky, to acitcle of friends at Washington, going to show that the late President Gtarfield prevented the accomplish‘ment of a program, that had been marked out by republican authorities during the pandency .of the examination made by the electoral commiission in 1877, which, if carried out, could only have resulted in bloodshed. The statement made by Mr. Blackburn he ‘claims to have had directly from Gean. ‘Garfield hiniself, and was related by the late President at a dinner party to Senator Bldckburn, the late Alexander H. Stepbens and other gentlemen.; In the course of conversation relating to the possible peril ‘which' the nation had‘escaped by the éonservative course of the demccratic. leaders at that excitipg period, Mr, Garfield said that perhaps none ot the gentlemen pres ent knew, 80 well as he did, how great },the danger wag, and he.added, reflect‘ively, that perhaps he had-been the 'means of suppressing a resolution of folly upon the part of his republican \ brethrerr which, if carried out, would certainly have resulted in a bloody oubbreak. | o As the circumstanee which was then narrated may possibly become a thems of much discussion during the | approaching’preaiden‘t.i-a.l campaign we give the residue of the story in the }( extract below as it is related by the News correspindént. : . Being pressed to particularize Gen, ‘Garfield remarked: “As we are talking among ourselves as gentlemen and ‘not as politiciaus, I have no hesitancy in giving you ‘the facts.” Instantly there was profound attention. liighting a cigar Mr, Garfield proceeded substantially as follows: : “There was'a panic among the republican leaders upon the day preceding the final counting in of Hayes by the house. It was believed by them at the time that “the filibusters would be able to defeat the count, and leave the country, upon March 4, without an executive. Late on thatday Garfield was summoned ‘to an importa_nt| conference of the republican leaders. He did:not say who were present or where it was held, but from what followed it was clear that Gen. Grant- and his cabinet and the general ot the army were at the meet~ ing. Garfield arrived late, and the conferenqe had just copqllxt%ed its work." Dan his/asking what was the object of t;he conference and what had been done he was told that those present believed that the fiflibusters in the house had powerto defeat the count unless extraordinary means were employed. It had been agreed upon, therefore, to march 600 men from the arsenal to the capital at 3 o’clock the next ‘morning and station them in the basement Of the hotise ready to be marehed up into the house lobby upon the floor of congress ‘when the house met. The filibusters were then £o be notified by an order from Gen. Grant that persistent filibustering_ in- the face.of the situation would be treated as an act.of rebellion. The objecting members WW s resolution, and -opposed it to the extent of his ability, saying ’mw“gmmn vhe SR P eeuoße o nat lstenad . offce and dsnonnc the whole ing o th,

that Gen. Garfield possessed the moral courage to do what he described ‘as having dope;with so much particularity but we see 1.0 ¥eason to doubt the statement. His standing in the party was of such a character that, if sufficiently gtirred up to declare a firm purpose, the plotters would be slow to move in the face of his opposition. It is well known that the military part of the program, qr something very like it, was conceived by Grant and very sud denly abandoned. Itmay be that Gen. Garfield’s declared purpcse produted that result. . :

In face of the well established revolutionary designs of the party in power there are Democrats to-day who are foolish enough to declare that Mr, Tiiden came short of his duty in failing to be sworn into office March 4, 1877, and to contest with R. B. Hayes the right to perform the funections of the Presidency, Had he done such a thing the country would have pg‘ainA been drenched in‘ blood. To the patient wrong suffered by Mr. Tilden the country is indebted for the continuance of peace. The wrong done to the country and our institutions will yet be avenged by an overwhelming expression of sentiment. . :

* THE CONDITION OF PARTIES. That frequently quoted individual, the oldest inhabitant, has probably naever seen the political waters so little agitated on the eve of the presidential nominating conventions of both the' great contending political parties a 8 at the present time. In three months the Republieans will meet at Chicago for the purposs of naming their standard bearers for national i'con’t‘est, and a month later the Demo‘crats will agsemble in the same city ‘for a similar purpose, Yet nobody ‘can forecast with any degres of plausibility] the action of either party. There aré eminent gsntlemen on both sides who would readily -accept the nomination of their respsctive parties, and their party friends no doubt ‘desire their success. But thereis very littie zeal manifested in their interest ‘and certainly nothing akin to excite’ment in their favor. .

On the republican side the fact that President Arthur is understood to desire to'succeed himself in the: presidential chair gives him something of an advantage over his competiters, for the: reason that he can rely upon a formidable ‘array of office holders to espouse His cause whenever their services are needed. The. fact that they can more certainly consider their tenure of position safs under the man.to ‘'whom they are indebted for the places they hold than under a chief magistrate who. might have fayorites of his.ewn to reward, will give Mr. Arthur a reliable support in. convention, although there has yet been developed no formal movement to bring about his nomination. Hence it may be regarded that his chances for success in convention are superior to the prospects that open up to such men as Logan, Sherman, Blaine or any of the leazer lights who havé been named in connection with the acliont of the Republican -cenvention. But even this advantage cannot be considered very important in the listless condition of public sentiment. At any woment some unforeseen event might transpire that would change the appearance of the situation altogether. -

~ Among Democrats much the same condition exists, with the exception that there is no man now at the helm of state having the means at command to make himself formidable through the use of patronage. Indeed, it may be sald that with the exception of ex-Senator MeDonald, of our own state, there is hardly an avowed presidential aspirant before the approaching Democratic National Convention. There have been a great number of men named in connection with the high office, all of whom would probably be glad to lead the hosts in the campaign of the present year. But they are.not openly seeking the nomination, and their immediats friends are not pressing them upon public attention. Anything akin to organizsd effort appears to be wholly wanting. There is an abiding impression upon the minds of the multitude that Mr. Tildén could have the Deamocratic nomination 'by merely indicating a wish'in that direction. ' But he is perfectly passive, pursuing the quiet tenor - of- his way in his retirement, and even his devoted and intimiate friends do not make any movement.that would naturally have political significance Under these circumstances it is nearly certain that the conventions to meet at Chicago in June and July will have bsfore them the entire’field from which to make their selections, without any great éxcitement to influence or affect the ¢hoice of the delegates. -~ We can cordially congratulate the Democratic party upon this coadition of the public mind. The success that has attended the Republican party for the past two decades has resulted largely from an excited and feverish condition .of public sentiment. Ap‘peals have been made, and not in vain, to passion rather/ than to reason. With an unruifled /temper on the part of the people the popular-judgment may be reached for the best intereat of society. It cannot be doubted that such interest lies in a change of national; administration. It is neither safe nor desirable to give any party a long lease of political power. The Republican party would be in better condition to-day to do a beneficial work in governmental control had it suffersd a defeat at the end of a dozen years of political management. " It is probable that the oflice-holding element will do its utmost to lash the people into a fury after the nominations have basn made by the most in~ fiammatory appeals to prejudice and passion. But we belleve the effort will not.succeed. Inthe calmness of reason the Democracy will achieve a. victory that will be “for the healing of themabion. v i s b wiile ke

BPECIFICATIONS FOR THE NEXT PRESG IDENT,. .

Ex-Attorney General Wayne MeVeagh eentributes to the Mareh Century a striking paper on “The Next Presidency,” in which he says in part: “There is at this time great and noble wotk awaiting s President ablé and “wil'l‘lng to'doit. It goes without saying that bhe must be absolutely untrammeled when he. takes his solemn ‘oath to defend the constitution and to execste the laws. He must not have sought the nomination, nor must he haye shown after his nomination what

President Woolsey so aptly called ‘a ‘most uncommon anxiety’ for his election, for he must be without friends to reward and without enemies to punish. Tln the present state of affairs at ‘Washington, he must not only be an ‘honest ‘man, bat he must be a cause of honesty in others. He must really ‘hate every form of thievery, and must be able to dedicate himself to the sol emn work of reforming not only the ‘administrative service of the national goverament, but the very atmosphere itself of the national capital. . “Four years of administration of the national government by such & man would transform the public life of America. He would recognize the just limitations of true 'civil*‘zervice reform, and know that all political officers in the executive department, all such cfliicers representing in any degree Lhe political action of the g vernment, ought to be in harmony with it, and that his cabinet —the official household —ought fobs composed of ‘men possessed of his entire political and personal confidence, and in earnest sympathy with him in the work he proposed to accomplish. “His Secretary of State would take care not to vex foreign nations with requests which he knew ought net to be granted, and whieh, if mads to us| under precisely similar circumstances, would be indignantly repelled; but while avoiding ' such requests, he would keep vigilant watch over the rights of every American citizen in the world, and maintaia not enly the dignity and honor, but the interests of the country, in every ‘quarter of the globe. Onur ‘foreign missions would be regarded as political offices, but they would be filled so as to reflact only credit upon the country; while our consuls would be regarded as commercial officers only, and be selected not because of their friendship with peliticians, or with the President himself, but because of their knowledge of the people with whom they wers to live, and of thair ability to.advance the interests of the American com-, merca. : < =

' “His Secretary of the Treasury would be able to devote all his time to the great fiscal problems ghich concern that department, andiould net be obliged to waste it upon Senators and Congressmen, or deputations of local political magnates, in listening to their appeals for the appointment cf a.pensioner upon the ti'gg;ury. In giving to Lis subordinates the assurance of a permanent tenurs while they discharged their duties effectively he would inspire them with new zeal for the publie service, and _secare a a larger measure of fidelity to the interests committed to their charge. .

“His Secretary of War would be able to secure puuishment for the men who sare now in such numbers tarnighing the fair nameof their noble gervice, and thus bring the army back to its earlier and bettsr state, when condict becoming an oflicer and a gentleman was not supposed to include what, in the language of the capital, is by a delicate euphemism called ‘duplication of accounts,’ but elsewhere is called swindling. “His Secretary of the Navy would cleanse that department of its rottenness 1n confracts and in navy yards as in ships, and the country would gladly #ccord him whatever moneys were necessary to place the American navy upon a footing creditable alike to the gallant and jllustrious service it repregants and the great country whose flag it carries in the waters of the world. ' “His Secretary of the Interior would so administer that vast department as to cleanse it of the agents-of the Indian ring, the pension ring and the lard ring; and it would then be possible ouly for honest contractors to furnish the Indian supplies, honest agents to represent .claimants for pension, and homest settlers te obtain titles to public lands. Congress would then possibly no longer h3sitate to vote the money necessary for the proper treatment of the Indians, as the wards of a rich, civilized and Christian nation. “His Postmaster. General would place the entire postsl service upon a basis of absolute honesty and economy. Defaulting vestmasters . would not only bo dismissed, but punished; and men convicted by the country of robbing the department would not be allewed to secure new countracts while they were being prosecuted for fraud in old ones. - - i .

“His Attorney-General would be able to secure the sslection of judges, marshals, and commissioners upon the ground of their fitness by character and ability to represent the administratiox_'\ of jastice in their geveral communities; and the country would ne longer be scandalized by :th‘e prosecution of unworthy, officials who ought never to have been appocinted to the places ‘they have dishonored. Of course, it is not intended to suggest that many of the incumbents of these offices have not illustrated the qualities mentioned, but only that such 2 President, surrounded by such a cabinet, would be able to do moreto purify and elevate the public service in a term of four years than can possibly be doné in any other way in the lifetime of a generation.” | g

’ REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION. Pursuant to call the Republicans of ‘Noble county met in mass convention at Albion on Tuesday last. Considering the weather there was a fair crowd in attendance, all of the townships be‘ing represented. The meeting was called to order shortly before noon by Mr. T. M. Eells, and on motion Freeman Tabor, of Kendallville, was chosen to preside over the delibsrations of the meeting. J. P. Prickettf, of the Albion New Era, was appointed Secretary. A committee on apportionment. was appointedjand the.meeting adjourned to 1:30 p. m. The afternoon session was opened on time, and the meeting got down to business which consisted mainly in the selection of delegates to state, congressional, judi;cial. senatorial and joint representative conventions, and the appointment ; of committeemen for the several townships, The great length of the list of delegates precludes its publication. The delegates 1o the state convention 10 be held in April, from the western tier of townships are Jesse L. Dun-| ning and Samuel Oblwine, with Michael Bouse as alternate. To the| state convention to be held in June ‘the delegates from this township are Jobn Weir and W. W. Latta_with E. Reéve and E. 6. Thompson, s al-|

The several toiygihips chose their their committeemen, as follows: Washington —W. N. Vorhis. 2 _ Sparta—John Scott. -, , Perry- Dr. G, W. Carr. 'Noble--John P. Kitt. . . - Green-—John Wright. . Jefferson--J. M. Harvey. e Orange--John Schermerhorn. : Wm.Wayne—A. Bunyan. o ~ Allen—Wiliiam Broughton. Swan—David Yarian: . h Alblon—Thomas M. Eells. : Just befora adjoarnment, on motion of Fielding Prickett, the. tollowing resolutions . wére unanimous’lyi adopted: gy ‘ 1 . Resolved, That wa the people of Noble county in convention assembled do hereby iastruct our delegates this day appointed to the state convention. to cast their votes in said convention, for Capt. John N. Runyan, of Kosciusko county, for State Treasurer. There being no further business, the convention adjourned. - After the adjournmsnt of the convention the County Central Committee met and organized by electing Wm. R Burnyan, of Kendallville, chairman. .

OUR NEIGHBORS.

- Twenty persons in “the Goshea jail. Itch is prevailing over in Whitley county. - % Great revival meetings have been held at Elkhart this winter.

Three ditches lately cdostructed in LaGrange county cost $2,866 60. Fort Wayne will soon be lighted by electricity, at a cost of $ll,OOO per annum. Fr e

The South Bend wagon works at Mishawaka wereé totally destroyed by fire last Saturday morning. ° . o .The Warsaw ‘ladies gathered ;to gether a large amotnt of elothing,tedding, ete., for the flood sufferers. A fellow calling himsélf Dr. Baker ‘has been doing Colunmbia City, The Post writes him up as a scoundrel. A couple of yourg fellows stole a keg of gin at Elkhart last week. They now linguish in the jail at Goshen. .

The new" court-house at Warsaw was dedicated Monday of last week. The ceremonies were impressive, and ‘occupied the whole day. - A converted Jew named Rosenthall has been geiting a large amount of free advertising in the papers of Steuben and DeKalb counties. One of the finest farm residences in Allen county, belonging t 6 - Alpheus Swift, was totally destreyed by fire last Friaay evening. Loss, $5,000. - Dauring a quarrel 1n the family of J. A. Drosgemeyer, at Fort Wayne, one evening last week, John, the eldest son, shot and severely wounded 8 younger brother. ; | Dr. Jno. Baker, spoken of in another item in this column, got into trouble at Fort Wayne, last Saturday. His actions while at private houses, ean-| vassing * for his nostrums, were of| such a character as to cause his arrest.,

Ex-Sheriff McGinley, of Columbia City, went to Dakota last fall on importznt business. For sume weeks| word wus received from him reghlarly, but sinee January 1 all trace of him is lost. His family amffrieudsj are very uneasy.

A young fellow named Glaze stole about fifty bashels of clover seed from Hawks, Messick & Co.at Goshen,some time during the fore part of January. He ‘has been sglling /it buskel by bushel since, but was arrested last week, and now lies in jail. { Mrs. Lilia Billingham, a resident of Kosciusko county, just acress the line from Wabash eounty, died on the 19th and was buried on-the 20th. .There were certain suspicious circumstances incident to the death of the woman, and the body was exhumed, when avidences of death from malpractice were discovered. No arrests have yet been made. ; |

The Whitley county republicans and their candidates for ‘the nomination for Judge in the district composed of Whitley and Kosciusko counties, Walter Olds, were badly *“sat.down upon”| by the Xepublicans of KXosciusko| county last week. A convention was called at Warsaw on Saturday, Feb. 23, for the ostensible purpose cf selecting delegates to the State convention and reorganize the county committee. Bubafter the ‘other business was transucted, a list of delegates to the judicial convention was presented and upon raotion adopted. The next turn of the erank of the well-oiled pelitical machine of the Koseiusko county Republicans passed a resolution.instructing the delegation to cast a solid vote for Edgar Haymond, a Warsaw lawyer who has aspired to this position for many yeara. The Whitley county Republicans are: justly indignant at the turn affairs have taken. A Great Surprise Is in' store for all who use Kemp’s Balsam for the throat and lungs, the great guaranteed remedy. Would you believe that it is sold on its merits and that each druggist is authorized to refut};i your mouey by the Proprietor of thfs wonderful remedy if it.fails to ‘cure you. Ildred & Son have secured ‘the agency for it. Price 50 cents trial }Ysize free, el eil ‘Examination for Diplomas and Prizes. '~ The examinations for the district 'scosols of this county will be held upon Saturday, March 15, at the following’ places: Wawaks, Swan, Wolf Lake, Wayne Center, Brimfield, Jefferson Center and Cromwell. This notice is given so. as to intorm all pupils attending the several schools named. No visitors are expected, as the work will bs of such a character as to need the undivided attention of ‘the tegcher and scholars, " ik ‘W. P. DENNY, Supt. .

An Eye to Business. Eldred & Son, the Druggists, are always wide-awake. to business and spare no paios to secure the best of. every article in their line. . They have secured the agency for Kemp’s Balsam for Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, and all affections of the throat and lupgs. Sold on a positive guarantee. Price 50 cents: trial siz free : o ALy - =Hear the Lady Quartet and Min‘nie. Wright at Union Hall, Monday .evening, March 10. - i o ] s ———— e Bucklen’s Arnica saive. 4 The best salve in'the world for' burns bruises, cuts, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, cancers, piles, chilblains, corns, tetter ~eh:& d hands, and all skin eruptions, an;i POt ;:ely cures Piles, or no pay required, It is guaranteed to give é:erfeet satisfaction or money will be raﬂ'.ndat. -2b cents per box. For sale by D, 8. Scott & Bon. = . fr-eg ————— b O ’ Glycerine Salve. : “The Mear&." can truly be said of Griggs Glycerine Salve, whielyxl is a sure cure for cuts, bruises,scalds,burns,wounds and all o&hemres; Wil gositivery‘ cure ?i({;‘s&'tet:en‘ ! :ﬁ. skin er ptionp;w.sggz. fa uaran _or money refn v | Only &ceuu. l?'eonale b&c;ﬁ!ﬂr@& of.

NEWS SUMMARY.

Bishop Clarkson, of Nebraska, is ill from congestion of the lungs as % excite the gravest fears. . =~ Six persons in Philadelphia who sold istols to boy Supﬂs in a public school gave been held for trial. i The snow blockade near Saratoga is 80 serious that no southern or western mails reached that ¢city Friday. Rodnei’ D. Wells, a relative of Chaimncey L. Filley, has been appointed postmaster of St. Louis. e The widow of the immortal John Brown, of Harper's Ferry, died Friday at San Franeisco. ; ;

A committee of citizens at San Francisco collected $5.200 in five ‘hours for the Ohio river sufferers. ; ; : Edmund Smith, an early abolitionist and an associate of Garrison, died last Thursday at Boston. : .

Gemﬁe ‘Wilson, who killedgpolicemnan A. E. Bullard, of Detroit, hasbéen sentenced to the state prison for life. . The mysterious fever which rayaged northern Mexico last. fall has reappeared at Mazatlan and Manzanillo. The Cunard steamer Cephalonia ran down and sank the tug Glen Island near Neéw York. Two lives were lost.

The senate of Towa has passed a bill prohibiting bueket-shops and option trading in agricultural products. >

Two [Chicago lads, Elmer Lyons and Alfred Stendt, died Wednesday in the agonies of hydrophobia. - . R. D. Hubbard, ex-governor of Conneeticut, died Wednesday evening at Hartford., ;

Megsies has this month carried off over gne hundred children of the Zuni Indians in New Mexico.

A |barglar chloroformed the night clerk/at a hotel in Hannibal, Mo., and; had started to rob the house when a guest entered and fired at him. _ Am unknoWwn man on a claim in Turner ¢ounty, Dakota, nearly killed -Oliver Parker and his wife and child with an ax, and made his escape. !

The ﬁovemor of New York has signed a bill prohibiting the making of contracts for the labor of convicts in the state prisons. s 2 Cattle near La Salle, Illinois, are said to be sufferine from a strange disease of the bowels, which in many cases has proved fatal. : ; By a boiler explosion in a saw-mill near Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, three men were killed by being blown sever‘al hundred feet. -

The leading spiritualists of thesouthern states have gathered at Chattanooga to secure grounds on which to erect a'tabernacle and hold annual meetings. Sixteen housges in the lower Eart of Harrisburg, Pa., were considerably dama%ed by an explosion of dynamite, caused by a fire in a shanty. ;

As most of the plantations for hundreds of miles above Shreveport are under water, the loss by overflow along the Red river will be very great. E. H. Funston, republican, has been ‘elected to congress from the Second [District of Kansas to succeed the late D. C. Haskell. s <

+ At Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Saturday @vemﬁg, Edwin Brotheras killed Willdiam Nichols on the street for the se‘duction of his sister: ' * Farmers in the vicinity of Vandalia, Ills., are nearly unanimous in the opin= ion that late sown wheat has been seriously damaged. .

_ The Boston I[;olice board, in response “to petitions, has advanced the liquor i %10%%5 of the larger hotels from $3OO . 10 o ! B

The eitizens of Youngstown, Ohio %ave a banquet and ball to Lieutenant arber, who brought back the bodies of De Long and comrades from Siberia. ~ Mrs. J. A. Brown, proprietress of the Shady Side Hotel at Muncie, Ind., fell dead in her kitchen, Thursday, from heart disease. <k : Large supplies of ¢lothing and provisions have been sent from Hillsboro, Ills., tothe sufferers by the floods in the neighboring towns. ‘ W. R. McDowell, a murderer under sentence of death, escaped from jail at San Bernardino, California, and reached Mexican territory on horseback.

The steamer Norséman, on arrivi,nﬁ at Boston from Liverpool, reporte having steamed along a solid wall of ice for 110 miles:- i

The woman’s Christian Temperance association of Chicago proposes to secure a charter and issue bonds for $350,000 to erect a seven story building. The postoffices department has received an application for the appointment of Miss Lizzie Nuttas postmaster of Uniontown, Pennsylvania. :

D. L. Regensberger, an attoi‘neg of San Francisco, was horsewhipped on Kearney street by two women, who sprang out of a carriage behind him. By the consent of nearly all the creditors, the city of Helena, Arkansas, has compromised its debt of $280,000 at 50 per cent. 3 : George E. Smith, an attorney of Union City, Michigan, for whose arrest a warrant had been issued, shot himse&f fatally Wednesday. . Vigilantes at Spearfish, Dakota, took from the hospital a wounded desperado ?amgd.Harry Tuttle, and hanged him 0 a tree.

‘The powder-house, of Steele, Johnson & Co., near Omaha, exploded Wednesday afternoon, kllhng- four lads and destroying much property. ¢ Lucius J. Knowles, one of the wealthiest citizens of Worcester, Massachu= setts, well known as an inventor, died in “fashington of heart disease. The ecitizens’ militax{-}v company at Hot Springs, Arkansas, drove from that city three gamblerswho had previously been warned to leave. . &

Rev, Nelson Ayres, of the Episcopal Church of Our - gaviSr, Balmr_ngre,» @as forced to resign because of his ritualistic innovations. : e v

The Canadian government has decided to send an ex({)lonng expedition to Hudson bay. an straifs, to remain out for three years. = :

A theatre panic, caused b{ an alarm of fire occurred in Montreal, Tuesday, among one thousand women and children, a lad being seriously injured. .M. M. Ellick, a dry-goods merchant of Richmond, Virginia, who is charged wit? cruel treatment of his wife, was shot twice in the back by his son, the wounds being fatal. - :

A disgatch from Dover, New Hampshire, chronicles the death of Colonel Joseph Cushing, one of; the pioneers g% ttlée circus business in the United ates. 5

Edward Merkle, a prominent politician of Louisville, who had %{rovm wealthy in the saloon - business, killed himself with a revolver at his residence because of over-indulgence in drink. - Michael Mann, one of the five dynamite suspects traced out in Paris, was last summer a laborer on the Lackawanna road in Buffalo, but enlisted in the regular army and soon deserted. . ‘By paying.experts $350 the authorities ff?‘ gihcenne’s‘, Ind., learned that City Clerk Tripps was short 50 cents in his accounts, and that ex-treasurer MeCarthy was a defaulter for $l.BO.

... Francis J. Smith, cify treasurer of -Bayonne, N. J., has ‘been -arrested for ‘the embezzlement of * $16,000. It is rugég%that the books show a deficit of

The works of thé United - States Stamping compang at Portland, Conn., emplogmg" five “hundred men, were burned: Saturday evening, causing a loss of possibly $2,500,000, Y ‘Charles Randolph gave up the secretaryship of the Chicago board of trade, Saturday, after thirteen years’ seryice. é[‘g‘l)e office is in charge of George F. ne. ; . : -

" Mr. Underwood, formerly lieutenant, governor of Vermont, has sued General Henry and others for ‘51,500,000 dam-| ages for confining him in a lunatic asylum. . : JLive women whose husbands were killed by the recent exglosion in the| West Leisening coal-shaft in Pennsylvania have commenced suit for $15,000. damage each. 1.. Governor Stoneman has resolved to eall an extra session of the California legislature to take measures to force the Central Pacific road b&gay its back | taxes a%gx,egatmg $1,000,000, Nine hat factories in B_eadinﬁ Pa.,| havé announced a reduction of per | cent. in wages, and the Weimer ma-. chine works, at Lebanon, haye made a| cut of 8 per cent. $ ! - A whale which was eaptured at Port Royal, 8. C., gave birt??o a yo_ung one | Wednesdaf x’Bhe(:lpair-he on the beach | at Paris island and are worth $2,500 to| thecaplomgd = | - ‘R. Ryau has been lodged in jail at Winnipeg for si?ning the name of the! adjutant general to a ‘cireular calling for five hundred recruits for frontier: Betylge, S _ The citizens of Medina county, Tex-| as, have hunted down ax,xd,wla{fd in| ,j_afl thirty-nine fence-cutters.’ de-

Pk e e R e S L tadhment of rangers is ptationed at istroville. : . SR r, Azel Ames, Jr., of Boston has been arrested on charge of malfeasance in office as pension examiner, for soliciti _aubwgptigns to the stock company in which he was interested. - - osegllas Beach, of Ridgeway, Minn., killed his divorced wife and then committed suicide. He made continuous efforts to secure possession of their child, but failed. : e ohn McGinnis, who is sentenced to be lexecuted in Philadeiphia next Tuesday for the murder of his mother-in-law, has been pronouncee insane by a m%dical commission. he banks of New York have since Wednesday drawn $3,100,000 in gold coin froni the sub-treasury, evidently in the belief that the yellow metal is soon to leap to a premium. . x-Governor . Kirkwood, of Towa, states that the party which went to M sxssqig} to secure the remains of Colonel Kinsman were unable to find ihe grave because’of the felling of the trae near which he was interred., - Fxperimentswith a combination of al¢ohol and water for fue] were being made on the tugboat Mattie Sargent, in Boston, when five hundred giallons in the boiler took fire, causing a loss of $15,000. kg

éeven seamen of the United. States steamer Michigan, now lying at Erie, have volunteered to go out with the Greely - relief expedition, and have passed the requisite examination by surgeons. .. - s ohn W. Hawkins, of Buffalo; confideglt;ial secretary to Nelson Holldnd, is -a defaulter for-$30,000. He also holds the pesicion of United States-inspector of lumber, but his accounts with the government are believed to be straight. - [Leonard Weindel, president of a vmzlanufacturing company in St. Louis, had a quarrel with his wife Sunday evening, and fired at her througha clpset door, inflicting a dangerous w%}md in the thigh. ; S The Grand Trunk road has placedbeforethe Canadian Parliament a_bill to authorize the consolidation of its capital stock and the imum‘in? of a cost of $13,500,000 to build ‘a double track from Montreal to Toronto.

[Charles Schneider, of Erie,; Pd., and three members of his family, were fgund by the neighbors almost dead from the effeets og coal gas. One of .t};f number was saved by’ the physiclans. 3 ey

{Hoyt Sherman, of Des Moines, lowa, the assignee of B.- ¥. Allen, has accepted an offer of $350,000: for the rentaining assets, with the approval of Judge Love, and the estate will be settled within the next sixty days.. |John ‘Lowell, who has been on the federal bench in Boston for nineteen years, surprised the public by tender ing his resignation as Judge of the irst circuit. He is in good health, nd is too young to be xetired. - = .. Mr. Gladstone, in introducing a franchise bill in the ilou:ga of commons, exressed the opinion that the . United tates recovered so rapidly from the ivil war because every: capable citizen had a vote., e ’ | The vigilence committee at lot Springg has banished several more undesirable citizens. S. A. Doranand his confederates have been_transferred to the state penitentiary at Little Rock for safe keeping. e . | The Hebrew Relief society of Milwaukee reports two _h’;axidreg Russian {)efuge(_es near Bismarck in a condition: ‘bordering on starvationand nakedness, and will endeavor to raise $5,000 for their relief. : S

&Ten fence-cutters were qa[i')cured, Tuesday, at Castroville, Texas, by the United States marshal, kvho promises to _bag thirteen more at once. They r'lll be turned over to the state rangers 0 be guarded. : TR | The Chicago and Northwestern road has declared a quarterly dividend of 2 er cent. on the preferred stocksand atified the tripartite contract. The ackawanna road re-elected President Sloan and nearly all the old directors.

| Officials of the Northwestern road beld a conference in St. Paul Tuesday in re%ard to a fast train from Chicago which shall connect with the Northern [Pacific and land passengers in Portland infivedays. 0 00l el

| A contractor in Philadelphia starts fthe: storf that he is to build a ‘railroad 1,050 miles from Winnipeg to Edmoniton; that $8.000,000 in bonds' have been placed, and the government grants 16,400 acres of land per mile. | . |* Sheriff Winney, of Jackson, Mich. swore out a warrant for the arrest of {Jud Cronch and Daniel Holcomb for ({the murder of Jacob D. Crouch, and {they were lodged in jail in separate ‘cells. They will have-a pieljminary ‘examination next Friday. | 2

| Marsh T. Polk, the defaulting state |treasurer of Tennessee, digg of heart 'disease at his home in Nashville, Fri'day evening. He had beenf sentenced ’to imprisonment for thirteen years, but 'was released on bail to awaii a hearing of his case by the supreme court. - Mrs. Mary Shanks, a wealthy widow |of Milwaukee, has brought suit to recover $lO,OOO damages from Marshall Field & Co., of Chicago, the ground be‘ing slanderous charges that she offered counterfeit money at their store in ‘payment for goods. g A collision get\veen a, passgnger. train and a freight occurred Thursday Tnoon on the Indianapolis and St. Louis road near Paris, Ills. Fireman Lind‘sey was killed and four other people seriously injured. The damage to engines ‘and cars will amount to $50,000. |, ¢ John Wentworth says the only remedy for the annual overflow of the Des Plaines river is the enlargement of the Illinois and Michigan canal, He favors ‘the expenditure of $20,000,000 for this ‘purpose; instead of playing Lazarus at the doors of congress. - 5 Father W. J. Hawillon, who was buried Tuesday at Louisville, was well known during the war for missionary work in the stockade at Andersonville, for which he was presented with a testimonial by the Grand Army of the Republic. The Mississippi has broken through the levee nearly opposite Vicksburg, and covers the railway track. Red river is the highest since 1849, and steamers are taking citizens and stock to ShreveFort from the plantations aboveand beow for one bundred miles. ] The Canadian government agrees to give Manitoba a census.every two and a half, years; to hand over the control of odd-numbered sections of unoccupied ‘@n@s; and to grant subsidy of twelve'thousand acres ‘per tnile for the construetion of aline of railway from Winnipeg to Fort Churchill. =

The federal court at Nashville, on the R‘etition of the railroad companies of ennessee, enjoined the state railroad commission from interfering with the business of the roads. The judgeshold that the act of the legislature creating the commission is in conflict with the state and federal constitutions.

A hostile politician of Ottawa has served a writ for $5,200 on Sir Charles Tupper, the Canadian minister of railways for haviné unlawfully sat in the house for twenty-sixdays. The offense congists in his haying held a portfolio while oecupying the position of high commigsioner to England. T

“The chemical works of Powers & Weightman, in Philadelghia; the most -extensive in the United States, were -destroyed by fire early Friday morning. “Explosions of fusel oil carried the fluid into the streets and spread the flames to adjacent buildings. The engines worked at the scene until' noon. The loss will exceed $1,000,000. e Dispatches Thursday night from'all over Ontario report -severe gales in progress, and in many districts’ they are accompanied b(;' snow. The highwagrs and railroads are badly .drifted and travel impeded. - Freight trains on various roads have been abandoned and J)assenger trains are all more or less delayed. . 9 In the Canadian house of commons, Sir Leonard Tilley made his budget speech. He claimed that for the gggt year the surplus had been over $7,000,000 from the tonsolidated revenue and $1,000,0.0 from Dominion lands. The present tariff had met the revenue demands, he stated, but the government would have tgﬂgrovide for the redemption of $30,000,000 of debt maturing next Janunary. ' R R R Leading bnsiness men ‘of Canada gathered at Toronto to protest a&ains_t he amaan of the (;,‘gand" (runk and Pacilic rodds. The French conservatives in parliament threaten to yote againgt the- government o 1 -the Pacific railway issue unless the North Bhotre road be subsidized to tge amount of $3,600,000, It is rumored that two of the ministers have resigned. . " Prentiss-Tiller, money. clerk of the ‘Pacific Express company at St. Louis, disappeared Sunday aftermoon : with %}k&%ﬁﬂ probably amo_unti% to $75,00 .f_;«‘kgvapgeaps that while the m. fuhy, Wb ut_Luhol Tiles lok S Siite. ger to his desk in the front office, but

the moment of his .departure is not known. Tiller remarked to the watchman that he would go out for something to eat, and when the front door was found unlocked it was suspected that something was wron{;.‘ The '.t[lmcb ages must have been near Y a bushel in bulk, and one person could net have carried them far. . e }

In the har,ness-shog at the Joliet penitentiary, Saturday, the notorious Frank. Rande seized a {mker and-crushed the skull of Deputy Warden- John MeDenald. He then attacked’Asglstant,DePu-v ty Garvin with & huge knife, and that official shot the desperado ,thre_e ‘times . through the head and body. Rande was taken to the dead-house, but soon revived: The physicians think his chance of living is small. The latest advices are to the effect that Frank Rande and Deputy Warden McDonald will both. survive their wounds. Rande feigns insanity, but boasts that he has previously killed twelve men, - S The sheriff at Jacksor\ Ohio, swung off Luke and William Jones for the murder of Anderson Lackey. They: were taken out of the front door of the jail to an enclosure surrounding the scaffold. William Jones struggled until his limbs touched his brother’sbody. Ben Gilliam was hanged at Bayboro, . N. C., for killing Henry Carter with a club. William Moore, anegro, was executed at Franklin, La., for the murder of a Chinaman. The sheriff found after the condemned man had been swung off that his feet’ touched the floor, : 1d he was raised to the platform and the rope shortened. S | CONGRESSIONAL: ; X e - SENATE. . GER Frp. 26.—1 n the senate, bills were formally reported to prohibit the mailiné of newspapers containing = lottery -advertisements, and for the relief of Fitz John Porter. Ana‘dverse‘report was “niade on the biil to abolish the militar%r reservation at Fort Rice. A joint resolution was passed expressing the: appreciation by the mnatien ofithe generosity og ‘Great Brifain .in presenting the Alert for the Greely relief expedition. A resolution was passed calling upon the secretary of the navy for informa~ tion regardin%f‘ the progress of work on the Panama canal. The bill to authorize the construction of additional steel vessels for the navy led to some debate. -

FEB. 27.—1 n the senate, Mr. Van Wyck asked immediate consideration for. areso~ lution directing the postoffice committee to inquire whether at “any time the Western Union and the Balfimore and Ohio. telegmph companies had negotiated for consoliation. Bills were introduced ‘to improve the channel between Galveston'aud‘the‘%}ulf of Mexico, and to_incorporate and aid the Yellowstone Park railroad. 1* resoluition was passed calling on the secretary of the interior for information as. to the rumored lease of the Crow reservation in Montana. The bill for the construction of eleven .vessels for the navy led to a hot debate. ‘ .. FEB. 28.—1 n the senate, Mr. Ingalls_introduced a bill to -remove the injunction of secrecy from the members of the ‘Fitz John Porter.court-martidl. The remainder of the session was,sggent on the bill to ‘authorize the construction of steel vessels for the navy. Anamendment that the number of shlgg be reduced from seven to four was defeated by 17 to 84. A s e

FEg. 20.—1 n the senate, a- favorable report was made on the original bill for the admission-of Dakota. - Mr. Ransom reportegl back adversely the joint resolution for an apgropriatmn of $500,000 for the eyclone sutferers in the south, the distress having been overstated, The bill for the construetion of steel cruisers was passed by 88 to 13. An adjournment to Monday was taken. - MAR. 3.—ln the senate, Mr. Vest. presented a memorial from the territorial council of New Mexico in regard to assumption of power hy the. clerk, and a resolution was adopted that the matter be mvestiqnted by the committee on territories. Bills were passed for the construction: of public buildings in twelve southern and western cim:si and authorizing the purchase of additiona ground for the postofiice at Sprinigﬁem lilinois. A resolution yvas adopted that the naval committee in(%mrg ‘into the expediency of egmpp‘ing a foundry for the manufacture of modern ,aml,leri' -of the Jargest caliber. - Messrs. Ingalls, P umb.-‘and,qgﬁers addressed the senate in regard to the honorable career of the late Representative Haskell, and a resolution of" sorrow ‘at his demise was adopted. N SR < . HOUSE. SER LT

Fesp. 26.—1 n tue house, Mr. Cobb-asged unanimous consent for the passage of the joint resolution of thanks to Great Britain for the gift of the Arctic steamship Alert, but Mr. Robinson “objected. The Hl,qmo—pneumonia bill was discusied to'the hour of adjournment, it being argued that the measure was full of unconstitutional provisions, and was in the interest-of a ring now being formed to control the cattle trade. - Feg. 27.—The house adopted a resolution directing the secretary of the treasury fo state how mueh money there is in the vaulis and to report- whatiamount can' af present be aiplie(l in l‘qumdatlon of the publie debt. Mr. Le Fevre otfered g resolution directing the preparation of a bill_to prohibit-option trading in %mm or provisions;. but: Mr. Cox objected. In eommittee of the whole, some amendments:-to the pleuro-pneumonia bill were made, but the house: adjourned without taking action on the measure, - - Fep. 28.—1 n theshouse, Mr. Deuster called attention to the resolutions adopted by the liberals in” the Germaii parliament; and expressed his cenviction that their action was a true index of the feeling of united Germany. By a vote of 155 to 127 the pleurogneumonia bill was passed. = Eulogies upon he late Representative Haskell were delivered by several members, when the hoase adjourned. TR e sL e

,FEB. 20.—The house adopted a resolution asking the secretary of the treasury if additional clerks are I'e(luir.e'd for the tobacco rebate claims. ‘A resolution was offered dirécting the committee on public lands to report whether the grant of the Portage Lke and Lake Su%)ql'nor Shifp Canal company is liable to forfeiture, In committee of’ the whole it was resolved that General Pleasonton be retired with the rank of colonel. The postoffice appropriation - bill- was reported. An evening session-was held for the eonsideration of pension bills. Gl L

MAR. I.—The house adopted a resolution calling on the secretary of the terior for information relative to -the unauthorized fencing in of publie lands. it several states and territories. Bills:were reported to provide for the issue of circulating notes to nahme,al banks; to establish a ;board of interst_a € Lummorooy to ineronse ponsions; to pro--vide for a canal between Lale, Union ‘and P.uget sound, and to construct the Maryland and Delaware freeship canal. There were seyeral sgpeches made on the naval appropriation Bl - 500 denn T MAR. B.—The héuse passed the bill bansioning survivors of the Mexican . war, the vote bem% 227 to 46, Mr. Randall “reported back a letter from the secretary of the treasury statm%that‘ the claims for rebate on tobacco can 9?dpa,id. in thxtee months. ‘A resolution was adopted that. the. commitfee. on naval affairs make an investi{gatiou -of -ther charges brought in connection with the Jeannette Arctic e)t:%)edxtion. It was resolv- - ed that the committee on banking and cur-| rency look into the alleged misconduct of federal officials in the collapse of the Pa-w‘ cific National bank of Boston. Bills were introduced for the erection -of Flbhc buildings at Zanesville, Ohio, and ¥Fort Worth, Texas, to prevent the importation of lazza-rofii-and beggars, and- to liquidate the war debt by the issue of $1,200,000,000 in“green backs. i e GENERAL MARKETS.

CHICAGO. : . WarAT—Lower; March, 89%@9%2¢c; Agnl, N{@9l34c: Ma;{, %%%%%c.. orN—Lower: March, 51%{@51%¢c; Apl., 51%@52¢: May, 563i§@563/4c. e ‘Blo%@l:‘3sll_l‘o‘3\?l.: lg'_zgch%ﬁgg@m}{c; Apl, ¥ ci. May, 4 26C. ; 1 e 3 105 Tll, - . 28935 ay, [email protected]. Lard — Steady: . Maron, ggg%g%g;%%; April, -59.45@3:45: May, CATTLE j\_[arkét steady. We quote:: Choice shipping steers. ... %6 .80 Fair to goo«i shipping steers...... [email protected] Medium to good 5teer5.......:.... [email protected] $0.55%0755 ot heavy: 86100080 Tor. HERE. u a or neavy. X .00 10X g Bmxn—steady.vy We quote: Choicé to Fancy Creameﬁ._at 31@32 %i 1b; ordinary to ood do. 26@30c; good to fancy Dairy ab 5‘2@2&:; common to fair do. m@e&_ i L NEWYORK 1T e B iYI SLAG . 3 Tll, §l. 1103 ay, ol 1.12%. . C%RN—Quie%; Mixed Wgstem Sﬁ‘o : MILWAUKEE, ‘- ‘WaeAT—Steady; March, 90¢; April, 9lc; May, 96c. Cory—Firm at 53¢, forNo. 2. Oars—Firm: No. 2 White,: 32¢.— Rye—Strong: Baﬁc for No.ll. BARLEY= Lower at 59¢ for No. 2. .- : CINCINNATL. .© . Frour—Fair demand: Family [email protected]. WaeAr—Firm at sl.o¢. CorN-—-Strong at boc. Oars—Firm at 37c. ,»Rm——s,tead&’ at e o it SR rm a v, ol * @9.25. Bacqn.s%s.%lo.m: ea - . L ELLOUIS: ot . WaeaT—Lower: No. 2 Red Mch,, $1.09 L00k: May, SLIO%@LII: June, gLWgK-* 1.09%, ConrN—Lower; 4 We;l{am $ }{@493¢c . April. ‘OATS—Lower; March,. 83Jge; May, 853 e. RYE: et: 59c.— %mv‘&m&at% : VISIONS — St RS $0.873, 1095, Lard—lower; $9.40. Hoas *lo’ Wét; i&h'a ’6- %‘M avy, eﬁ‘ lMye e i esIR RS R sk s T R e HEAT—Western higher; No. 2 Winter. .Blﬁ o OA% g %m e S iSO BT R e e

Michigan 3i@3x: combing and _delai - 30@4be: Bﬁgforfiaa@;??i;x “wesw‘nnwasligg ¢ 'good spring 28¢; ch'o{‘ce go%.ﬂcommon 7 i e - LIGONIER MABKET REPORT. 'GRAIN AND SEEDS.— Wheat. amber ‘$ 099; Rye, 60c; Oats,3s¢; Corn,.6oe; flax seed, $110; timothyseed, $2 00;° cloverseed, 575, = ‘ . PRODUCE.—Hogs,live,Bssotos6 25; Shoulders,per pound,loc; Hams,l2c; Bees Wax, 20¢; Butter, 16@ Lard 10¢c; Eggs, P doz.,2o¢c; Wool. b, 20@ 80c; Feathers,6oc; Tallow, 7c; Ap-. ples, dried, 7c; green.4oc,; Potatoes 30c; Hay, tame.sBso - - _ WASHINGTON. : "The decrease of the public debt: for F_"ebf ruary was $2,582,587, The available cash balance in the treasury is $145,5634,231. - Secretary Lincoln still holds $40,000° of t_he_cm}j«:ressional appropriation for ih\e Telief of flood-sufferers.

The bill to divide Dakotainto twosections and admit the southern portion as a state was reported to the senate Fmdn} ¥y

~ The United States government is pressing its claim against Spain for $1,092,000, for losses sustained by Americans in- Cuba during the rebellion. ~ e

There is said to be little doubt of the passage tt)ly confress of a bill granting mail carriers thirty days’ leave of absence with pay each year. ! LR

The house milifary committee is opposed to the bill providing for the perpetuation of | the offices of general and lieutenant general of the army. : T Information comes from the ‘white house that there has been no thou{;ht of recalling Minister Sargent from Berlin. : ‘W.'A. Hunt, United States minister. to St." (li’gersburg, died Wednesday morning: from PRYL e it

The bill of Mr. Henley; of .California, regxrlctln%() Chinese immﬁmtlon +has been agreed fo by the majority of the house com‘ittee on foreign affairs. £ : The S}(xipreme court of the United States ‘has decided ‘that notes of the government redeemed in time of - peace and reissued under the act of 1878 are a legal tender in the payment of private debts.

“The excess of the value of GKB_QI:?S over hpIfort_:s of merchandise into the United Statcs during January last was $19,677.487, and for the twelve months ended Jan. 31, 1883, was $104,370,280. - : \ i

] 2 . ; : . _AT s . ) Union Hall _Union Liall,, - - —ON—: . \ : b AN SNS AT RPN Y ". ~\‘.,"‘ % s\, !’ ‘,. —UNDERTHE AUSPICRS—' ' - 5 S —OF — ' o ; Stanshury Post, No, 125 NN IR G A A R A e A A SPLENDID CAST HAS BEEN Selected, and the public will be paid for the comtribufion they make to the Relief Fund of this excellent organization. Following-isthe cast:. Edwin Dalton (a Union man, afterwards WPV . oSt A D ANES Edward St. Clair (a Southerner and a vil--20 R R eR T T e e Park Bt. Clair (Edward’s father...... L?P Miller Chas, Dalton (farmer Dalton’sson.. .M Bothwell Farmer Dalton (@ Northerner and a man PR D S T RN S o Jake Sneider (a'fat Dutehman, trueblue e R e e RRB T T L Capt. - Mason (U 5A................J H Hoffman _ Pete éa colored %amman +e=22.....Charley Smith Gen, Sherman (U5A................J E Braden Gen, McPherson (US A............ A W Parsons Maj. Wilber (US A............v.5....J0hn Hays | Col, Harrison (U 8'A..n..ci........d A Linville Corp. Ogden (CS A..............., W G-Gardner Berg; Bates (OS A..........ccc5vne0- W H Bates ‘Maud Dalton (wife of Edwin....... Cora Turley .Carrie Dalton (sister of Edwin.. ... Mrs. C. Hays Mrs. Dalton (Farmer Dalton’s ife...... o Seatsaas saeivesuasss it sia s aMinoie Tumbleson ! Willie (the drummer b0y..........Char1ey Joray . Nannie (daughter of EXwin and Maud. . veriemesissvesen .o Maud Higginbotham BUY YOURTICKETS EARLY AT HOFF- . MAN’S BOOK STORE. . ADMISSION, 25 and 35 cents. = %

~ A High Compliment, * i . Nearly all of our readers will remember Ed. D.’Miller,\,whq many years ago was the publisher of a paper in' this town and later, connected with many other business interests.. He is now in Chicago publishing the Knights of Honor Associate, after many years rest from newspaper work. The following clipped from Saturday’s In- - ter-Ocean, shows that he is held in high esteem by -the members of the organization he represents: j - The” members of the order im Chicago have proven themselves to be Knights of Honor indeed, in that they stand ready to recognize and reward worth, The leading - members of some of the lodges in Chicago, being impressed with. the clllarncte'ii!stics of a brother member, Mr. E. D. Miller, edi- - tor of the Advocate, have written that gentleman a éomplimentary letter asking hifn to accept ’a,cumplimentary" benefit 'to be | given at Hershey Music Hall on:the eyeng of L_‘lai‘ch 3. In the letter reference is made'to the fact that Mr, Miller instituted 'th'e;_[ first lodge in Chicagoe. Mr. Miller's . reply is as follows: A " CHICAGO, Feb. 16.—Messrs. L. M, Tracy, F.J, Crane, C. C. Higglns, ueoige 1. niay IC. H, Dailey, T. J. Hodgson, J. J. O’:Con}/ nor, and Brother Knighté ef Honor of Chi- 'ﬁ eago:’ Your comm'unicm’on of the 12th inst, duly received, and I'can see no reasen. why I should not accept the worthy. compiiment you desire to extend to me. I therefore most respectfully accept. 'When I realize how short my acquaintamee has been with most of you, and that my merit and worthiness.as a man, and & Knight of ‘Honor, has nrompted you te these kind ex‘pressions, I feel I have =accomplished - -enough to satisfy a man with eyen greater ambition than myself, and have no hesitatiom in saying “1 place myselfin the hands of my friends.”” Fraternally yours, in O, ‘M. A, E,D.MiLLER, Editer Associate, -

" AN'EXTRAORDINARY OFFER, To All Wanting Employment. ‘We want Live, Energetic and Capable Agents in every county in the United States and Canada, to sell a patent article of great merit ON 'ITS MERITS. An drticle: ‘having & large sale, paying over 100 per: cent. profit, having no competition, and on which the agent 1s protected in the exclusive sale by a deed given for each and every county he.may secure from us, With all these advantages toour agents, and the fact that it is. an article that can be-sold to every houseowner, it might not be necessary:to make an ‘*EXTRAORDINARY OFFER’’ to secure good agents at once,.but we have concluded to make it to show, not only our confidence in the 'merits of our invention, but in its salability by any agent that will handle it with energy. Our agents now at work are making from $l5O to $6OO a month clear, and this fact makes it-safe for us to make our offer to all who are out of em- ° gloqunt.. Any agent that will give our usiness a thirty day’s trial and fail to %gar at least $lOO in this time, ABOVE ALL XPENSES, can return all unsold, and get their money back, No other employer of agents ever dared to make such offers. nor would weif. we did not have agegts RrOW making more than doeuble the amount guaranteed, and but twosales a day would give a profit of over $125 a month, and that - one of our agents took eighteen orders in oneday. Our large descriptive circulars: explain our offer fully, and these we wish to ‘send’ to every one out of employment who will send us three one cent stamps for postage. Send at once aund secure the ‘ageucy in time for the boom, and go to work on the teims named in our extraordinary offer. .We would like to-have the address O!nﬁ the agents, sewing machine solicitors=amd carpenters in the country, ‘and ask any reader of this pa%er who reads this offer, to send us at once ¢ ekmme and address of all such they know. Addressat ° once, or you will lose the best. chémceteyfe’r : offered to those out of employment to make money,: . i -J{nmu:‘u MANUFACTURING CO., . -~ 161 Smithfield St., Pittsburgh; Pa, . ARy C e G O G e NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT, _ Notice is hereb; given tha : ned, et fe fe il rs in final settlement of said estatein the | Koo Guronit tone da Nobts Gty St of Thah: v ich eilel O sedd Goige ASSTS: quired to appear and show cause, if #ny thers P e A et A eUI R e S i’,“f be e R e e soss s g Bk Mdentors; ¢ Can R Rl PAMUBL SMUTH,J lf B t Tigahie > . March ¢ %ﬁw‘ SN T ke, R S ke s SR e Pt S S e e s T eil