Ligonier Banner., Volume 18, Number 48, Ligonier, Noble County, 13 March 1884 — Page 2

Dhe Figonier Banner, T . 48, STOLK, Editor. THURSDAY, MARCH 13,1884, . DEMOCRATIC STATE CONYENTION, - Call of the Central Committee, INDIANAYOLIS, Feb. 28, 1884, The electors of Indiana, fegardiéss of past Ppolitical affilliations, who are desirous of cooperating with the Democracy in the support of its principles and nominees, and who are in favor of an honest and economical administra- | tion.of our public affairs, and opposed to the corrupt practices of the Republican party, are invited to participate in the meetings throughout the State for the purpose of selecting représentatives to attend a delegate convention to be held ini the city of Indianapolis, Wédnesday, ' June 25,1884, at English’s opefa house, for the purpose of adoptjng a platform of pripclples and the nomination of candidates to be sup_borted for the following offices: - Governor, # : - Lleutenant-Governor, ° ' One Judge Supreme Court, o Becretary of State, ~ : | ' Auditor of State, ! . Weasurer of State, Reporter of the Supreme Court,. 2 Attorney-General, - e . Baperintendent of Public Instruction, 'The ratio of representation will be one dele--gate for ‘each stwo hundred votes cast for. Wm, R, Myers for Secretary of State in 1882, and one delegate for each fraction 6f one hundred or over, i : The delegates from' each Congressfonal district will meet on the evening prévlotu to the convention, at places to be hereafter designated by this committee, for the purpose of selecting and reporting to the convention— g . One Committéeman on Permanent Organization. v One Committeman ‘§n Platform and Resolutions, i ; 3 One Vice-Pregident for the Convention, One Assistant Secretary for the Convention, Two delegates to Nationial Democratic Con- | vention, { i ; 1 Two alternate delegates to National 'Dcmo-l . eratic Convention, ; ¥ One Presidential Elector, : One contingent Presidential Elector. One member of the State Central Committee : to serve for the ensuing two years, | . One Committeeman on Credentials, . | The €éommittee on Platform and Resolutions | will meet immediately after adjournment of, District meetings, say 9 o’clock, p. m,,at the ¢onsiltation room of the Supreme Court, Tuesday evening, June 24, { The committee on Permanent Organization will meet at the same hourin ‘the State Auditor's office. It will be their duty to name a President and ;Principal Secretary of the convention, four delegates at large and four ajternate delegates to the National Conventionjtwo ‘Electors for the State atlarge and two comtingent Blectors, and also to‘recommend rules for the gdvernment of ;the convention, , The committee on Credentials will meet at 8 o'clock &, m., Wednesday, June 25, at rooms of ‘the State Central Committee, to determine such contests as may be submitted to them, Delegate tickets of admission to the convention will be issued to the chairman of each county delegation and to authorized representatives’ of the press upon the presentation of " credentials at the State Central Committee - rooms, 3 y By order of the State Democratic Central Committee, . :

JosepH E, MCDONALD, Chairman Jos. L. RelLy, Secretary; = . - .

DEMOCRATIC MASS CONYENTION.

In acgordance with a resolution passed at a meeting of the Democratic County Central Committte on Saturday, March 8, 1884, the undersigned aschairman of said committee was directedl to call a mass convention of the Democrats of, Noble county at the court housesin Albion, on . o Foiad

Thursday, May 29, 1884, 7 for . the purpose 'of selecting delegates i . and alternates to the Democratic State . 'convention at Indianapolis, June 257 1884, ' Congressional, Senatorial and such other ‘district conventions as may hereafter be called. .1t is earnestly requested that each township ‘be well represented at this meeting, as the business to be transacted is of an impeortant ¢haracter,. | OWEN Brack, Chairman, . '», - —ie il & e y: :. S ALBION TOWNSHIP, =~ - | ' The Democragcy of Albion township will meet . -in mass convention at the court house in Albion on i ? - Satuvday, April s§, at 2 o'clock, for the-purpose of placing in nomination candidites to be voted for at the April " election. It will also be the duty of the con- . vention to select a township committeeman’ for _ the ensuing two years, OWEN BLACK, i _ Township Committeeman, . ; ~ JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, . . The Remocracy of: Jefferson township will meet in mass convention at the ‘Jefferson Center sohool house, on . & : e L saturday, March 29, .+ atlo'clock p, m,, for the purpose of placing in . nemination candidates for thefollowing named offices, to be filled at the April election: - . One Trustee, two Justices of the Peace and two Constables, It will alsb be the duty of said convention to select a township committeeman for the énsuing two years, and the tramsaction’ of such Other business as may come up in the meeting, ; *J. J, TRUMBO,. _ N Township Committeeman,

ELKHART TOWNSHIP,

* The Democracy of Blkhart township will meet “in mass convention at the school house in Wa- & waka, on i s ? 5

. Saturday, March 29, at 1 o’clock p.m., for the purpose of placing in nomination candidates for the following named offices, to be filled at the April election: - One Trustee; one Justice of. the Peace, and two Constables. It will also be the dlity of said convention to select 4 township committeeman for the ensuing two ydars. A. H, SMITH, of it : S hip, Committeeman, & " NOBLE OWNSHIP. tan The { Democracy pf Noble township will meet. in convention af the old school house on Thursday, March 27,

at one o’clock, p. m., for the purpose of placing in - nomination candidates for the following named offices, to be filled at the April election : One Trustee, ons gﬁlﬁm% “of . the Peace, and two constables, It will also be the duty of said convention to select a township committeeman to serve for the ensuing two years, i : 25 ) G. C. SEYMOURE, . Township Committeeman.

GREEN TOWNSHIP,

The Democracy of nyen townghip will meet in mass convention at Green Center school house, on ! :

IBatarday, March 20, < | at 1 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of. placing in nomination candidates for Trustee and such other offices to be filled at the April election. 1t will also be the duty of said convention to select & township committeeman to, serve for the ensuing two years,’ = Wu, C. Davis, - | Township Committeeman,

WAYNE TOWNSHIP,

+:“The Democratic voters of Wayne township will hold a caucus at Gappinger Hall on Saturday, March 29th,at one o’clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for trustee and to transact any ‘other business that may properly come before the convention, ° g N, B. NEwNAM, Committeeman,

ORANGE TOWNSHIP.

¢ 'The Demograts or(-)-rahze township are requested to meet in the Town Hall, Rome City, Indiana,on .. ° o+ Saturday, Marech 22, 1884, at 2 o’clock p. m. for the purposé¢ of nominating township officers. and cransacting such.other business as'may come before the meeting. *' T.-H. BMITH, - de ' Committeeman.

‘TrE decision of the Supreme Court, again affirming - the.constitutionality of the legal tender act; is caleulated to _make the “gold bugs” more friendly to

silver, They have done their utmost to decry and depreciate silver, now - -that the highest judicial tribunal of the land has decided that Congress bas the pdwer to invést paper money with & legal ténder guality~-or, in other words, make money out'of paper —it may be found advisable to trest the silver dollar with a little more consideration than has been the case for the past ten years. The “dollar of i the fathers” has intrinsic yalue, even . though it be worth 15 cents léss than its o diminutive yellow brother.

- THE legal tender greenback- decision of the Supreme Court was the brainwork of Justice Gray, of Massachusetts, one of the ablest and purest members of that tribupal. Itislucky that the opinion came from an eastern man, else the organs of the money power would howl themselves hoarse over the “wild financial vagaries” of crude western lawyers. . S

MAJoR G. T. MENZIES and Charles J. Jewett both decline to go before the 25th of June convention as candidates for Lieut.-Governor. This leaves the field to Hon. Charles H. Reeve, of Plymouth, Freeman Kelley of Ds Kalb, and James W. Cabbage of Warrick. Other aspirants may, however, come to the front as the day for:framjng 4 State ticket approaches. ;

THERE isn’t exactly the harmony in the Republican camp that the managers of that party would like to see. Serious trouble is brewing in New York between the stalwarts and independents. The latter are organizing, and plainly tell the machine men that they will under no ¢ircumstances:support Arthar for the Presidency. There is also trouble in other States, and the outlook for the Republicans is far from assuring. : : J

THE Albion New Era states that “congiderable opposition is developing to the selection of J. B. Stoll as chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee.” Inasmuch as J. B. Stoll never was, is' not now, and, for that matter, never expects to be a candidate for that position, the alleged oppdsition will have precious little to encounter. But let us inquir¢, why ig it that there should be such pergistent lying about this matter? A moment’s reflection should satisfy any sensible journalist that editing two newspapers far away from the capital and. officiating as chairman of a State Central Committee in a presidential year, at one and the same time, is simply preposterous.

IT 18 quite apparent that a good deal of ill-feeling is growing out of the Calkins-Dudley contest- for the governorship.. The friends of Major Calkins charge Col. Dudley with being guilty of duplicity in this, that the latter had all glong pretended.that he would under no® cir'c;-.mstancé permit the use of his name in connection with .the gubernatorial nomination. On the strength of these assurances Major Calkins entered the race as a full-fledged candidate,and just as soon as his nomination became regarded a. moral certainty, Col. Dudley proclaimed himself a willing candidate for the same office. The friends of Major Calkins, who are devotedly attached to him, will endeavor to rebuke this underhanded way of doing things. : i v ,

IT 18 not to be disguised or disputed that Justice Field, in disserting from the opinion of his colleagues in the leg/a,l tender decision, gave utterance to some very formidable arguments.. We are constrained to say thys in the face of the fact that we endorse the decision of the court, and therefore dis-sent-from the dissenting opinion of Justice Field—for reasons elaborately get forth/in another column. Justice Field is deubtless a man of eminent ability, and his reasoning is worthy of gerious consideration even by those who are glad that he'stood solitary and alone in‘maintaining that Congress cannot constitutionally emit a legal tender paper currency., No possible harm can grow out of; the maintenance of the present volume of greenbacks; the danger consists altogether in an indefinite enlargement of the limit fixed by law. Of this, however, there is no immediate or even remote liability. .. Experience has taught that & government can easily maintain at par a volume of paper money equal to the demands of the government: upomn the people in the way of taxes, import duties, etc.

LaAsT week’s Auburn Courier ‘comtains an unqualified 'and cordial ‘Bndorsement of Hon. Freeman Kelley’s candidacy for the Lieutemant-Giver-‘norship. As the Courier had previously committed itself to the candi‘dacy of Col. Isaac P. Gray for Governor, it is fair to assume that our political brethren in DeKalb county will go to the State convention with the fixed determination to put Gray and Kelley at the head of the Demoeratic ‘ticket. Gray and Kelley would sound well, but we fear that the Hon. James W. Cabbage, of Warrick county, will object to this combination, mainly on account of territorial considerations Gray and Kelley both reside in the extreme _eastern part of the State, and Mr. Cabbage may insist that the south western section shall not be entirely ignored in framing' a State ticket. However, territorial considerations do not always control the action of conventions, and the contest may therefore in the main be determined upon the relative merits of zival candidates. As was the case in 1880, Mr. Kelley will enter the 25th of June convention with the ‘earnest and enthusiastic support of his friends and somterE. 0 0 :

THE abrupt and marvelous conyer:glon of the Wabash Courier from pro‘gressive Democracy to Bourbonish Republicanism is likely to. prove a source of annoyance to the Republican brethren rather than a “stunning blow” to the democratic party. The gudden departure of the Courier, and the fdilure of its editor to give a sin« gle valid and substantial reason, or even excuse for his “flop,” renders the: parformance entirely harmless. Instead of making votes for the Republicans it will intensify Democratic partisanship in that stronghold of Republicanism. But the mischief to the Republicans will come in this manner: The hostility of the Democrats to their late party organ will materially enlist the sympathy of a portion of the Republican party for its editor, Mr. Lee Linn, who is personally a genial sort of a man.: Patronage will be thrown to him that would otherwise go to the old republican organ, the Plain Dealer. Such a course will be certain to produce jealousy and sharp rivalry, and th:g;ul outeome of the whole business will he strife and factional contentien. ‘We vzatnre the prediction that the Republicans of Wabash cotinty will see the ddy when they will wish that the “conversion” of Lee Linn had never taken place, ~ ~For a fine job in dentistry eall on

- LEGAL TENDER MONEY. The determination of the agreed case of Juillard vs. Greenman in the supmmecoulﬁdumm:&ﬁ&. which has been announced during the past ten days, fixes beyond ﬁ%fﬁu cavil the status of the legal tender or greenback currency. ' This‘is the third decision that has been promulgated from the highest judicial tribunal of the Federal Government affecting the legal tender quality of government treasury notes, issued with a view of permitting their circulation as currency. The first decision wag delivered by the late Ch o Sa P. Chase, and the tenor of his decision was to the effect that paper issuéd as a legal tender could not be supported under the terms of the constitution. This decision emanated . from the father of greenbacks, whoss genius, while serving as Seeretary of the Treasury, had devised the measure ag a necessgfty in the time of war, in order to preserve the life of the federal ‘Union.’ The great money power of ‘the land was, at that time, carrying too heavy a load of these evidences of national indebtedness to rest'quietly under the adverse decision of Judge Chase, and influences were brought to ‘bear upon President Grant to make such appointments upon- the Supreme Bench as would result in a reversal of the Chase decision.. Two vacancies occurring in the <court, the vacani places were supplied by the appointment of Judges Strong, of Pennsylvania, and Bradley, of New Jersey, both of whom were understood to ‘stand ready to serve the money power. With a full court the Chase decision was reviewed and reversed. The constitutional right of the general government to issue paper with a legal ‘tender qualily, designed to circulate as money, was affirmed. With the value of the money appreciated under the high authority of the Supreme Court, the money, kings had no difficulty in unloadingtheir,burden. Freed from their load, it became their interest to rid themselves of the effect of | the decision of the court which had maintained the legal tender quality of greenbacks. - Their permanent benefit would be established by making gold the sole standard of value. In the opinion of the large money lenders the time had arrived when they might rely upon constitutional authority to ‘destroy the value of greenbacks by raising the ‘question of the right of Congress to re-issue, from time to time, the greenback currency first circulated under the war power. ‘Hence the agreed case of Juillard vs. Greenman was carried up, by rapid legal process, to the supreme judicature for final trial. Contrary to the expactation of those who sought to depreciate the value of the re-issue of greenbacks the highest tribunal has determined favorably to the validity of that reissue, the only limit being that Congress has no power to issue paper designed te circulate as money beyond the volume authorized during a time of extraordinary calamity, and that volume was fixed by Congress at $400,000,000. To that limit, then, it may be -understood. that the government will maintain a legal tender currency at least during the present generation. There is a large and intelligent class of people that will approve this last decision of the Supreme Court as one that ought to be maintained and upheld at all hazards. It gives color to the theory that the government may issue its own paper currency. It is the entering wedge that looks to the eurtailmen t of the power of the national banks. With competent authority resting in Congress to make provision for a suflicient volume of money, to answer the demands of trade and commerce, there i likely. .. to. . .grow. up '8 healthy sentiment in favor of such ‘curréncy being issued directly by the government rather than indirectly through national banking institutions. In fact, the people have had such a kindly feeling for the greenback that they have been loth to let it go. Public sentiment has been 'decidedly in faver of its maintenance, In making its last decision the Supreme Court of ‘the United sStates has recognized this ' manifest sentiment of the people. It

(has been strong enough to overcome the active influence and power of the meney lenders, whose interest would ‘have been served and enlarged by giv--ing to the hands of private corporations pewer that onght only be exercised by the supreme authority of the Federal Govprm?'ent. ; : .. The approaching national convention of the Republican party is likely 'to pass some kind of 3 resolution designed to assuage the grief of the ‘money power because of this last assertion ef reason and law given out by the Supreme Court, against the power of corperate monopoly. But the masses of the Democracy will acceps the deeision” of the Supreme Court as beirg in the interest ef-and for the protection of the pecple, as well ag in -accord with-the high authority of established law. It is another step in the direction of reserving an important power in the hands of the people, te be exercised by the people for their own benefit rather than for the exercise of the same power by corporations for the enlargement of the wealth and influence of enormous capital. - : : . Excited Thousands = . =« Allover the land are going into ecstasy over Dr. King’s New Discovery for .consumption. Their unlooked for re‘covery by the timely use of this great life saving remedy, causes them to go ‘nearly wild in its praise. It is guaranteed to positively eure Severe Coughs, Colds, Asthma., Hay Fever, Brenchitis, ‘Hoarseness, Loss of voice, or any Affection of the Throat and .Lungs, Trial botttes frée bt D. 8, Scott & ‘Son’s Drug Store. l.arge size $l.OO,

At Bouth’ Whitley one night last week some person who had objections to the starting of amether saloon in that thriving little town, set fire to a building that wds to be occupied. The fire fiend soon accomplished its work but the next day the would-be saloonkeeper purchased an old building and hegan moying it onto the lot. He now: gfeeps in his new building to guard against again losing his place of business. ; & oAR RS Db eIR TR 1 A . How many hard-working ministers and lawyers sit at their mﬁd in their studies, who are sufferin ttgm over-work and indigestion, dyspepsia, nervousneds, sleeplessness and irritability, who might by the use of Rheumatic Syrup regulate their digestive organs, cure their dyspepsia, sleep goundly and thus resttheir nerves and be the better fitted for their daily labors: Try it and you will be convineed o&lt& merits, -

A Cardfrom Reporver. : To THE EDITORZST b . spate enough for a few expla%ﬁ; ' request I reported: for your columns the evidence in the ?@5 urder frial That report was the most complete: that appeared in any of the papers, and for the most obvious reasons. No other business engagements were allowed lo interfere with my purpose to make it full ‘and complete. ‘Others were &po’i'r&ng the case for publication, and gavesuch time to it as they could spare from ottier duties. ‘I #aid nothing about the.report of -the case.;as it appeared. iu other papers, not a word, until my. own was brought in.question. I well understood why their reports were not as full as mine—l had more time than’ they. James J.Lash’s paper saw fit to challenge my report, and in a dirty, sneering way to institute a-oomp_arispn with his own. He knew I was report- . ing for the BANNER, and that was the. sole reason he had for his attack; prompted by motives to me well known, but not needed to be paraded here, ¢I struck back, and so well directed was the blow that he has been howling ever since. He wanted a quarrel. He had a newspaper and he thinks quarreling is the proper busi‘ness for a mewspaper, Had I not been fully cognizant of his motive and purpose, I.should have passed his affront in silence., Those who know how, and by whom his paper has been conducted need not be told that, since Lash has owned it, he has every few weeks changed his managers and editors.. Much of the time it has been in eharge of drunkem tramps and dead-beats, who, getting on their accustomed drunken sprees, have been either bounced or left on their owfi notion. . As between Lash and myself, it is his own business, net mine. But it s the business of the party to whom he looks for support to require that he shall have his celumns under control of thuse who have the best interests of the party at heart,-and not be made the organ of sneers, insults and quarrels with other Democratic -papers. Those who know James J. Lash need not be told that his - training, education, . political knowledge and other essentials, are not such as to warrant him in assuming to lead his party in the county. Parties are too. pearly equal in strength for such hazardous experiments. The party just now. does not need a paper that seems to have no higher aim than to make its columns the vent hole of very cheap and watery wit, 1t is hard work for a party to carry such papers. ‘ln the thickest of the great battle to be tought this year, when every man on either side, ig expected to be.a hero; when every party paper- that has a thinking head on it, is expacted to setjforth, expound and defend the faith that guides the party, how much help could be ¥t nished by a paver fhat has no higher aim than pitiablé efforts to be funny, and that solicits subscriptions because it ¢s going to. be funny! In the:name of Common Sense! What does the Democratic party in this county Wantl this year with a fuany paper! And to make for the party a funny paper its columns are now in charge of a silly young witling, scarcely old enough to vote! And this young man is to teach the veterans the art of war! A thousand times better wonld it be if there were no Democratic papers in the county! Does any one' that knows the man, expect, James J. Lash to fill the place of a leader! No one thought of such a thing a year ago; nor thought it worth while to know what his opinion on any political subject might be; well might; I ask, “ Upon what meat has our Cmsar fed that he has grown so great? ” and all in the space of a few revolving.moons! I:have slapped this sneak in the face because I well understood his motive in attacking me in the first place. His charges against me in his last issue, if he will repeat them, and say he meant them for, and applies them to me, will receive the proper attention at the pioper time, ‘but not in the columns of a newspaper. And now. Mr: Editor, I shall have nothing further to say about this man Lash in in your columns.

; Wu. C. WILLIAMS, Albion, March 10, 1884, ~ =

Moeting of the County Cenfral Com: = mittee.

In pursuance with the eall published in these columns, the members of the Democratic Central Committes met at the court house at Albion Saturday, March B,Bt 1.80 p.m. Owen Black, of Albion, called the meeting to order. When the call was made by towships, all were represented but Perry and Orange. Mr. J. B. Stell, the member of the cofamittee from Perry, huving removed to another part of the State, his resignation was duly accepted. Upon motion ¢f Mr. Smith, ot Elkhart township, J. E. McDonald was selected as committeeman for the unexpired term of Mr, Stoll. :

After a full ana free interchange of -opinion from the several members of the committee, 88 well as a large number of Demoerats from various parts of the county, it was by the commit: Ji | LPR B

. Resolved, That a mass. convention for the purpose of selecting delegates to the State, Congressional; Senatorial and other district conventions be held at the court house in Albion on Thursday, May 20, 1884. : ; ' Resolved, That the township committeemen be empowered. te ¢all the conventions in their respective townships at such time as circamstances would suggest. : W

It was alsorecommended by the committee that every Democrat in Noble county, and all others who are willing to act 1n harmony with the demosratic party in support of its: candidates in the coming township elections, rally at these township eonventions and assist in making strong nominations and in fthe important work of party organization, lookigg toward an: united effort for success. . On: metion, the ocommittes adjourned. . OWEN'BLACK, . J.E.MoDoNALD, Chairman, Cobl oo Becretarys 1 oy J ﬁmlng. to all Mankind, . In ‘times when our newspapers 'are flooded mwpmﬂ?moﬁim advertisements, it is gratifying to know ‘what to ‘procure’ that ‘will” certainly cure you.- If you afe Bilious, blood! out of order, Liver inactive, or generally debilitated, there is nothing in the world that will'eure you so quick as Electric Bitteis. i'rﬁveﬁnmi blessing to aummlmmgm& had for on‘g,:‘fty cents a bottie of D. 8. m &

Local Correspondence. BRIMPMIELD FLASILES. ae GST INDEE - . Miss Jen ""“ ited friends in York twp. , ‘f‘?} it for the wedding of .J, Mack .v;",!:, cke Depew, of York township, visited with friends in thmvicm«;nsund? g il - Last Satu one of Brhnﬂaldﬁ,.uﬂmsble younf ladles;‘hih txllllmn of Miss May Cosper, ms ed to the monial altar by Don. K. tcheock. Don m won g most excellent 'E%;meg‘tor life. . their %ﬂy thmu&l; ebe one of sunshine and happiness, is wish of “ye scribe.” ao tod teach I‘irnetttiise T m‘h’h"} :&lxools.v:f ‘ er e primary e.of our %by Miss May ,(m" ‘marriage. Our trustee hasmade a most excellent choice, A.. 0. Hamilton, of Kendallville, was on our ‘streets one day last week. - ? ' YORK TOWNSHIP. BY P, P.C, S - Didn’t we have fun at the party? Our writing school at Pleasant Hill is in good TOgTess, : ¢ ng had a boss time at Mr. Smith’s one night Inst week. . ! boThe Daper gtrgork Center struck some of the 8 pretty hard, ) ; S‘élhool,at District No, 1 will ‘close next Wednesday, s The Merchant Telegraph Co. men Sund’%ed with C. Butz, A. Poppy and G. Cretzinger, They are a pretty good lot of boys. We understand that A. C, Steinberger sipent Sunday with U. Butz, Albert says he will farm this summer, i : . +_Frank Chisler broke his leg the other night at Pleasant Hill while scuffling, James Tyler drank some poison from a bottle thinking it was whisky, gl ; Orley Reynolds has moved in with his father-in-law, N, Niles, ¥

WASHINGTON TWP. | r——— R MILTON. s

" A child of Ray Scott at Hecla died on March 7. Yi‘g:glg‘ Bftél;l: h«ﬂnerd' , of Starke Co., Ohio, is here Samuel Rider has purchased the Burnheimer o nwnmmvshwmm.' Penn., is the guest of - Miss e of Penn,, is the guest of Mrs. Line and otherrelaﬁves.". i : | Jacob Bowllgg of near Hecla, is'a Republican candidate for Supervisor in Etna tw%ns Marion Wright, of Noble, twp., traded farms with Wesley Surfus, of Etna twp. W. H. Palmer, of Etna twigh gbllcan cans didate for trustee, is-ddngercusiy ill. ¥ Mr. Crider, of Etna townshiﬁl will mi'ﬁ:ate to Kansas soon, as his sale was billed.for Tuesday. Miss Annie Luckey will wield the scelpter at Hecla during the summer term of school. We can say authoritatively that H. E. Baker has purchased an interest,in the Cromwell hardwarestore. Suecess to you, chr{. We are not interested i that road, but hope a compromise may be effected, if that step has not yet been taken. | The *big” meeting at Salem is a suceess. _ This township posscsses an inVention, we are informed, emanating from the brain of one of its'own sons. ] ! i _ | P 1 NOBLESVILIIS. | B NEW LEAF. . After g 0 long an absence Ithought I would try and pen a few lines that gould prove of interest to the many readers of the Banner. - Health is Soor. g 1 : ?’m. Gandy is confined to his hed. i rvin Haney is convalescing. Mrs. C. Treer had a slight stroke of palsy one daE last week. . The large dwelling house owned by Uncle .John Young and occupied by Lﬁd Haney, was burned ;to the ground last Wednesday night. Everything in the house was saved exoeﬁ)t about 30 bushels of potatoes, ‘which were in the cellar. No insurance. 7 Jerrard Skinner has a new boy—usual weight. Our saw mill yard is being piled up with logs. Jerome will have plenty of work this summer. Jacob Keister 18 making preparations for tm”nglingda house, : : - Lem, Marker's house is progressing slowly. ; John Maggart is talked of as a candidate -on the Democratic side of the house for constable for this end of the township. John isa No. 1 man, and would make a good officer. i Andy Keister has refused $2OO for oneof his horses. Andy says he can own a good horse as well as anybody else. A% - ' Boys, by the looks of thigfs there is a wedding near at hand, Watch him, and make him set’em üB. ‘ : » Henry Pfaff and James C, Riddle and wife are off on an extended visit to the west, taking in Kansas and Missouri.

MENTONE.

i 5 DORA. - - ‘Bleighing good for March 10, - Several cases of sickness. o _ 'Dr.Chandler is at Leesburg, g One more saloon in town. | - John Burns, of Columbia City, is in town. . -J. F. Johnston goes to Burkett this week. * - Miss Lydia Damman is quite sick. - *i C. E. Doane has bought the Manwaring buildng. | Runior says the eontract for building the 8-I's road has been let. = - :

~While at Logansport, last week, we met our old chum, F. P, Bitters, of Rensselaer. : Will Reed is still confined to his bed, -

A, C. Manwaring’s health is failing him so as {:o necessitate his retiring from busjgess ere ong. : oG Riesa Blue returned from Kansas last Saturday. He thinks Kansas is solid for McDonald for President. I

So far as'the Democrats are concerned there is no stir in reference to the nominations for county offices. They are not in‘a hurry, W. A. Clayton and Miss Olic Myers, of Wilmot, spefxt a part of last week in town visiting the tamily of your humble servant, - ! Our merchants in every line are filling in: their sfpring.stock‘ot goods with-the expecta~ tion of having a heavy trade this coming spring. : Several lots and residences have already changed hands, and in connection with those alreadi/ pre’faring to build will make things quite lively in that line. : The editor of the Indianian has gotten into a %)]litical‘ quarrel with E, Green, of that t5)13»(:& is, in connection with the general dissatisfaction now existing with/,the people of thia county gives the Democrats a decided opportunity for g‘i&tﬁry this fall, . Will they improve the opporY. : ?

HHAWPATCH.

BY A.T. B.

The sick are about the same as last week, - Charley Matthews sprained his ankle last week, and is scarcely able to get about. . The concert given at Sycamore hall last Friday evening was a grand treat to all who heard it, although the crowd was small. Prof. Case spared no gaing in making it pleasant for those who attended. - . : 5 J EEBS Morrell, of Goshen, was in. town last un . : 3 Miss’iianda Kime and Miss Manda Caser from nlear South Bend, are visiting friends in. this ace. = : P Réne Medlam sold his Latta colt to Alfred Ramsby for $125. s | There will be prayer meeting at the Dunkard church Wednesday evening, and singing on Saturduﬁ evening. g ‘ John Kime has a new @lerk in his store. - J. Zook shined a lotof automatic gates to East Lynn, Mo. g L : [ The gycamore Litemr{' Society will give an entertainment at the hall on Friday evening March 14, consisting of a play entitled *Bombastus Furioso.” [The_proceeds will be sent to Milo Coldren, who isin India preaching to those who are {{G}t in!darkness; ' M. D. King, E. 8. Wenger and H., Coldren ’started for school at Hillsdale on Wednesday. . C. M. Stoltz is taking orders for J. Zook’s automatic gate. Tom Simmons and Joe Kime went fishing on j'tl‘huesday, but we couldn’t buy a single fish of em, ' % > - ‘ If straw hats indicate the approach of spring I think %labtown will get it soon, . .J. K. Byler went to Goshen on business last ‘Tuesday. '~ . - ! ‘ Everybod&is going to hear T, P, Keator's lecture on Wednesday night at Sycamore hall, =E. E. Stutzman has returned home, We hope e will stay. St It was noised around that Wm, Roderick’s straw stack fell down a few days ‘since and killed a lot of sheep, and that he had about forty shee;;l-pelts for sale. A certain Hebrew' in Goshen heard about it and he madea straght shirt-tail for the plgze. Bﬂ\‘xt‘ 10, and behold, when he reached his destination he found the sheep quietly grazing around the straw-stack, excepting one that died dbout two years: ago. Farmers are beginning to inquire about seed corn. i E.}Bunderbe}rg, of Wolcottville, is moving to ‘Slabtown. { X : Mr. Daniel Gerber and family started for Missouri yesterday. His son-in-law, John Yoggr, and Grandmother Morrell will g 0 with em, : ; Office-seekers begin to shake hands with everybody. Rt i : Lo Meﬁm‘en was in town Monday. . Sugar-making is close at hand, : ]

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NEWS SUMMARY.

General Grant is at Fortress Monroe, for a sojourn of a menth or more. The Lonﬁgenow Memorial association holds: $l2, in cash and land fora monument site worth $75,000. . .

Joel T. Griffin, an”old resident of Omaha, who was postmaster in 1870, died Monday.- : A. M. Sutherland, secretary of the grovince'of;Ma_nitoba, died of typhoid ever, at Winnipeg, Friday. _ .Bobg 8. Morrison, a bank cashier of Ta Porte, Ind., died Friday évening of pneumonia. . Toron"ii‘ohcelebrat%d its fiftieth ﬁ%nnl}versary Thursday, by opening a free library and firing salutes.’ s,

Four members of the Salvation army have been sent to jail for parading the streets at Bridgeport, Conn. 3 The winter packing at Cincinnati was 865,451 hogx,la decrease of §9,949 from the preceding year. - ;

-In a starch factory at Madison, Indiana, Joseph Daily had a jaw torn off by the cogs of a corn-sheller. =~

The steamship Arizona took from New York for Europe $2,000,000 in gold coin and bullion. i 5 : Peter Johnson, a teamster at Des Moines, killed his wife and himself with a revolver. dnt

A jury at La Porte, Indiana, gave Au%:stine, who murdered his uncle, a ign. nce of five years in the penitenSNy gy o

Géorge Ciagin, one of the founders of the Oneida community in 1848; died %ft‘hea.tt disease at his home near ica. .

Bishop Clarkson, of Nebraska, was relieved of his sufferings’ by death at an early hour Monday morning. .He was 57 years of age. b

Postmaster Thffin, of Bennington, Vt., fled while his bondsmen were haying an examination of his affairs made by tederal officials. e By thebreaking of alocomotive wheel ‘near Astor, Jowa, an engineer and fireman were instantly kilied, and a brakeman suffered the loss of both legs. - The cotton exchange of Galveston unanimously adopted resolutions urging" Texas congressmen ‘to oppose the further coinage of silver dollars.

A serious break occurred in the levee fifteen miles above New Orleans, and the Texas Pacific and Morgan railroads have been overflowed., . e

At Alta, Utah, a snowslide on Friday killed eleven 11'>erson and swept away the works of the new Emma mine. The snow was piled forty feet high.

The rePﬁblican coh(greésmén of Michgan, will ask President Arthur to appoint ex-Senator Ferry minister to Russia. ~

Heavy rains have fallen in California for the East few days, and the railroad track has been washed away in several places. The relief steamer Carrie Caldwell distributed at New Libertéy,ﬂls. ,eightyfour thousand rations and thousands of quilts ana blankets. A man reported to be Tiller, the St. Louis express-thief, was on Friday arrested at Wichita, Kansas, and handed over to the sheriff. S

A [-)é'op'eller which reached Milwaukee Friday reported Lake Michigan completely frozen over, with occasional icebergs twenty-five feet high. ‘All the gambling establishments at Hot Springs, Ark., were closed Friday morning and the sporting fraternity have evacuated the town. The democratic state convention of Illinois will be held at Peoria, July 2, and the basis of re(fresentation will give twelve hundred delegates.

~ John McMahon, city coliector of Hoboken, New Jersey, is missing, and the gmyor has taken possession of his ofce. ; .

Hunters in Chester county, South Carolina, captured a ferocious animal, with the head of a lion and the body of a goat, after it had killed flve dogs. The cigarmanufacturersof San Franciseo have locked out 8,500 Chinamen and propose to employ 2,500 white men from New York. - - :

General J. K. Moorhead, an aged citizen of Pittsburg, always a leader in business and politics, died Thursday from cancer of the stomaeh. Petroleum has fallen below the dollar line, and the demoralization caused the failure of A. L. Lowrie, A. F. Hemings, and Rice & Ryder, of Oil City. The republicans of Minneapolis have nominated Hon. George A. Pillsbury for mayor. The democrats will probably renominate Mayor Ames. The hardware store of J. P. Cooper, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, has been closed on attachments and judgments aggregating $40,000. : A lockout by the cigar manufacturers of Cincinnati, on the question of advancing avages to two workman for making a peculiar brand, throws over one thousand men out of employment. Abraham Breath, an old resident of Adton, Ills., who passed away Monday was one of the sixty men who enrolled themselves to defend Owen Lovejoy in the riots of 1837.

William - Hoagland, employed as a farm hand near Waynesville, Ills., has been placed in jail at Lincolp for comgh(lntyk in the triple murder” at Mount ulaski. ;

A damage of $500,000 is said to have been inflicked upon the Santa Clara Valley, in California, by the storm of the past ten days, and the rain is still falling. > . Sixteen colored persons were received into the Ebengzer Baptist church at Pittsburg, Sunday, by immersion in the Monongahela river between the icebergs. A colony of fifty leading farmers has left the vieinity of F?gretteville, Arxkansas, for Idaho and Washington Territory, and will soon be followed by a %grty of one hundred. he Canadidn government has been advised that a quantity of arms and ammunition was shipped from ' the Fenian headquarters in Chicago to the Dakota boundary. : :

A committee of stockmen has made a demand that the Texas land board restore the price of leéases to 4 cents per acre. under threats that the cattle-men will leave the state. .

. The colored Eeople of Washinicon are dissatisfied because Secretary Lincoln refused to appoint & negro minister from Maryland to a regimental chaplainey in the army.

Luke Blackburn, ex-governor of Kentucky, is about to establish at Louisville an asylum for inebriates and lunatics, the city having leased a building for the institution. ;

A suit for :$lO,OOO for breach of promise and seduction has been commenced at Winnipeg against Geortge H. Mec'Douggll, superintendent of the Canadian Pacific railway telegraph..

Noah Jackson was_ executed Friday at Lake Providence, Louisiana, for the murder of hiswife. Harrison Williams was hanged at Corsicana, Texas, for killing his sister-in-law.

Thomas A.. Hendricks has-returned to Paris ill-pleased with his trif)‘ to -Southern Europe.. He considers Ttaly unhealthy for Americans to visit at this time of the year. : William D. Handley, who sued the Brooklyn Eagle to recover $lO,OOO damages for alleged libel in' publishing the report of his arrest on suspicion of arson, was awarded a verdictof six cents. A: wooden water‘?ipe laid in 1844 in State street, near Washington, Chicago was exhumed in good condition, and Wiltl be presented to-the historical Society. . . Some eastern banks, finding that they ‘eould not obtain small greenbacks in return for mutilated currency; have _i)ﬁered to accept standard silver dol~Miss Clara Barton has been tendered the free use of the steamer Joseph V. Throop, t 0 go down the Ohio from ‘Evansville with a load of supplies for ‘the needy. :

. One man was killed and two others fatally injured b{ a boiler explosion in the dyeing establishmentof J. T'. Trees, at Lawrence, Mass. Three buildings .were shattered to splinters. . Twelve members of the Canadian parliament have expressed themselves: in favor of the widest reciprocity in ecommergial relations with the' United Ntategs. .. .. - i C \ * The ml%bi’ tionists of Conngeticut nomin_a?ed lisha fl Palmer :Eg;@ governor, and adopted resolutions demanding a constitutional amendnient to sup‘press the liquor traffie, ok . In the police ‘eourt at' Great Fallg, New Hampshire, Desire Boudoir con= fessedsthe murder of Frederigk Grant, of which crime his fatherhad been conyicted, : R - An aged couple at Monroe; La., named Hodgers, were ngurdered by two men to whom th?{ had extended hospitality. The murderers failed to secure theé old man’s money; which was con-

Almost a panic prevails in Ha.vana‘ over the monetary strinszenc¥ and the low prices of sugar. The failure of three extensive exporting and banking houses is reported, and other firms are regarded with distrust.. The Ontario,!ed;isl_ature ‘has decided that ' women shall be admitted as students in the Toronto Provincial University, and the fair sex are. now petitioning the local government for the right to, vote. : . The executor of an estate at Spartanburg, S. C., has beensserved with a _claim for $3,000 arising from a note for $l6O, given some years ago, bearing com;ggund interest at 6 per cent. per -month. ;

Charles H. Reed steps to the front with a ‘statement that on the day preceding his execution Guiteau declared most positively - that no one but God and himself knew anything of his intention to kill President Garfield. © -

Rev. John G. ‘Hull, residing near Watertown, Wis., long ago commenced to use soda fer the relief of adisordered stomach, and has for years consumed from ten to twelve pounds a week without appdrent injury to himself. . Richard Fellows, who has the finest residence and grounds in New Haven, has been stricken with paralysis. El Whitney, the rifle manufacturer, is | slowg recovering from an attack of_typhoid fever. oo > Two members of the jury which ac%uitted Dukes of the murder of Captain utt, at Uniontown, Pa., have c¢ommenced proceedings for eriminal libel against a newspaper, and will institute suits for damage against its editors. While sleigh-riding with her teacher and schoolmates at Rockford, Illinois Miss Laura Morton' became paragzed in the tongue and entire right side of her body, accompanied by utter loss of memory. : 3

A party of ten prospectors who recently left Rathdrum, on the Northern Pacific road, for the Ceeur d’Alene mines, are believed to have perished in the snow, as they-have not been heard from for thirteen days - . At Delaplane, Virginia, John Glascoclk killed his wife and three children and firéd the house containing their bodies. He then went half a mile to 1;110 woods and shot himself through the leart. :

. Andrew Peacock, known throughout the southwest as one of the most expert drivers on the turf, ended his career Monday in_the lunatic as]ylum at New Albany, Indiana. He lost his mind through §rief~at the death of his son. i - B {

The Brewers’ association of Chicago has resolved to contest the Harper law by legal means. At a meeting of the liquor dealers and beer sellers, Peter Hansbrough urged every saloon keeper to take out the cheapest license and retail anything he chosa. ; Boston capitalists have invested $29,801,500 in the Mexican Central road, the government granting a subsidy of $15,000 per mile. Iresnillo, where the divisions join, is 750 miles from the American border and 475 from the City of Mexico. . .

Frank Rande, the noted desperado, who was serving a term in the penitentiary at Joliet, committed suicide durmg Thursday night. By tearing his underclothing into strips he made a rope, and hanged ‘himself to the grating in his cell door. _ 2

A bill has been introduced in- the Canadian Comimons to amend thie present copyright law by pla(‘:m% .dramatic authors in the same Eosi ion as to copyright as other authors, the cogyright to be vested in the author and his heirs for fifty years after his death.

. Rev. J os&ph Cook, while taking anap at Keene, N. H., wasaroused by a local clergyman to attend a prayer meeting at.his church. As it was seven minutes too early, Mr. Cook seized the offender by the coat collarand removed him from the door.

The sum of $14,000 was recently abstracted from the office of the county treasurer at Carrollton, Ohio. A Chi~ cago detective worked quietly on the case until he found the ,tfreater pOl‘th& %ln an old safe in the hall of the cour ouse. sl

Nathan B. Pratt, the ,resfgonsible treasurer of a savings bank at Reading, Mass., the duties being- fulfilled by his son, has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment at hard labor for a defalcation of $40,000. He is 73 yearsof age and has been confined since the commencement of proceedings in 1879. The whisky interest of Louisville was largely represented at a meeting held Monday to promote exportation to the West Indies. Committees wereappointed to secure transportation to the seaboard and to send an agent to Nassauéto inspect the warehouses at that port. - Mzr. Miller, of the lower house of the Towa legislature, opposed the postal telegraph bill. A Des Moines newsBaperimnounced the fact that he had een presented with a‘Western Union telegraph frank, and he was compelled to explain wh¥ he accepted a gratuity worth $3.60. - ! e

Samples of gold from a new mine at Mount Unianke, N. 8., were shown at Montreal,which Caribou Cameron,their owner, says have been analyzed at the Institute of Technology, in Beston,and found to yield from $165 to $l6B per ton. The mine was accidentally found by a boy discovering a lump of qguartz.

The stockmen of Texas are said to be moving: for a division of the state on the 100th meridian, as theirinterests are totally differént from those of citizens in the eastern portion. The adjutant general is advised that fence-cutting has nearly ceased, and that inclosures are being rebuilt. P i

The Union Pacific road reports gross earnings of $21,000,000 for the!year, with an income of $2,660,000 from other sources. The oFeratmg expenses were $10,640,000. Hugh Riddle and James A. Rumill were elected direct# ors in the place of Augustus Schell and Solon ITumphreys. : :

The re%)ublican state central committee -of ‘Wisconsin met in Milwaukee, Thursday, and called a state convention at Madison; April 30, to select delegates to Chicago and nominate an electoral ticket. Theé- convention to nominate state officers will be held in September. : Coroner Sheftall, of Savannah, Ga.,’ stopped a negro funeral,and,pu]ling.oif the shroud,showednine serious wounds on the corpse. The doors of the house were locked, a &'ury and witnesses were summoned, and a verdict of murder was rendered against the colored man }ln I\ghose cabin the obsequies were being eld.. | e Oliver P. Baker, one of the wealthiest farmers it the region of Dayton, Ohio, with a wife and ten children, mysteriously disaYpeared in January. It has just been learned that he was fascinated by a woman named Grace Harger, with whom he spent the winter in the south. 'Mrs. Baker has commenced divorce proceedings. -

The death list of. the week includes the names of Hon. Kenneth Rayner, §O- - of the treasury; Amos P.Morrill, %mge of the Eastern District of Texas; dward D. Payne, of Dayton, Ohio, a brother of the senator-elect, and Captain John Archer, a retired shipmaster of Salem, Mass., who was a prisoner at Dartmoor. . A few days.ago a peddler was murdered in a negro cabin near Cahokia 111. The body was cut to pieces and distributed in the fields. A negro named William Brown was arrested Saturday and made a confessionto killing the geddler and cutting the body to pieces, burning portions and distributmg the balance in the fields. Several others are implicated. =

The will of the late Hon. L. J. Knowles, of Worcester, Mass., in addition to a large number of be%lests to publie institutions in New England gives $lO,OOO to Carleton College, at orthfield, Minn.; $2,000 to the American Board of Foreigén missions. After the death of his widow $5,000 goes to Doane College, in Nebraska, and $5,000 to Washburne College at Topeka, Kan. A package containin% $27,000 in currengy was abstracted from the vaulb ip the main office of the Chicago, Burm%ton and Quiney road, about noon on Saturday last, undey circumstances which cauge a suspicion that some emglOVe was gonnected with the crime, G, . Bartlett, for many years tigymaster of the road, was discharged for negligence in Jeaving the safe unlocked, Martin'Q. Vanfleet, dounty treasurer at Norwalk, Ohio, absconded Saturday night, an%ﬁ:roves to be a defaulter for $60,000. . His bondsmen are thwtﬁ—‘ﬂﬁ! gitizens 0% Wakeman, who are liable. for $150,000, Vanfleet was a large Wwool buyer and #gicu.lt‘uml implemen 'de%?r‘ and stood ‘u%-h in public esteem, 0 ﬁ;and jury at Norwalk indicted M. O. anfleet, and 'suit has been brought dgaingt his bondsmen for $47,608. A true bxllt;\%zasv fouxix}(,li'l')agaixi‘)st" Gegrg‘% §; anfleet for rece embezzled public gzm(g%“ and o was held i bodds of ‘ Py Oy é % CIGRD O

W. B. Cash, who killed two-unarmed men in the streets of Cheraw, 8. C., is said to have fortified himself in a barn near his fatlier’s mansion, and keeps a Harty of negroes constanﬁy on picket uty. - Colonel Cash is said to “have threatened to burn the town- if his son is shot. The governor’s indignation is is at white heat, and the military of Columbia have tendered their services. There are ten thousand acres of swamP in the immediate vicinity of the Cash homestead. Later: 're%o‘r{s' say that the chief constable and his armed forceé captured Col. E. B. Cash by leveling their rifles at him, but Bogan Cash escaped.to the swamp. A strong guard was placed around the mansion, and the prisoner was sent to Chesterfield jail, A large force of men familiar with the swamg have been " summoned g'om Cheraw to run down the mur‘derer. R e

Late reports confirm the reported prevalence of a terrible scourge among: the cattle in Woodson county, Kansas. Governor Glick, William Sims, Secre-: t:;xx of the State Board of Agriculture, and Dr. Holbrook, United States Veterinary Surﬁeon, have visited the infected herds and find the malady an aggravated and extremely contagious form of foot and mouth disease. The disease attacks the. bones of the hoof and ankle which completely rot- awa{ the flesh s'ugpura.tes, and the feet fall off. Every effort will be made to check the advance of the disease by rigid quaran« tine, - Of one herd of 120 head, 90 have lost a hoof or a portion of aleg. : GoOv= ernor Glick has been urged to call a special session of the le%islatur:e topass laws to stamp out the plague. A (&uarantine has been established around the infected herds, and diseased dnimals are being killed and burned. . i

WASHINGTON.

Minister Sarﬁent has decided not to resign on account of the Lasker resolution, butwill submit his case to the state department. 'The_treasurfr department las information that trade dollars are being purchased in the eastern cities at a heavy discount, to send abroad for sale to emigrants. - = - ¢ The senate committee on public lands gas ‘ordered a favorable report on the house bill forfeiting the Texas Pacific land grant in New Mexico, Arizona and California. :

Until thedeficiency approlpriatio’n bill shall De passed, 105 clerks in the census bureau are suspended, for lack of funds to pay their salaries. : . . et

The house committee on public lands has. decided to recommend the forfeiture of the %rgmt to 'the Atlantic and TPacific railroad ying west of Mojave and eastof the junction with the Santa Fe road. = £

J. H. Johnson, the mayor of Danville, Vlr[ginia, testified before tlie senate investigation a,it‘ »Waslxixl%ftoxx that had a ng{.{ro shown himself on the street during the election riot there would have been a million holes bored in him. - ;

Joaguin Miller appeared befolfe the house commuittee on territories ta state his belief that polyglamy is decreasinig, that the Mormon ‘people are extremely ignorant, and are led by cranks. lie opposed repressive measures, and urged education .as the eure for political disorders in-Utah., . s The- German minister at Washington has received from Berlin the. congressional resolution on the death of Hert' Laslker, with an expression of regret by Prince Bismarck: that he felt compelled to return it. . 1n the reichstag, Friday, when the deaths during the recess were announced, -an” independ ent member expressed gratitude to the American congreéss, whereupon-he was callfd to(‘lorder, and quite air excitement folowed. ) : S

* About fifteen educational bills are before congress for action. Senator Blair proposes 1o aPpropriate -$120,000,000 for . common schools, to be expended within-fifteen years in the states and territories in Prg)]pomon to illiteracy. - Representative Willis has. introduced a measure to set aside $55,000,000 within ten years. . Senator Logan’s bill gra—vides for the -annual appropriation of $50,000,000 from the internal revenne, and Representative Perkins introduced” a -similar measure for disposing of $30,000,000. - .

A subcommittee of the senate committee on gostqﬂiges and post-roads Friday examined' William Hem'({*;Smith, general manager of the associated press, in regard to.the relations of the association with the West‘ern Union Telegraph company. Mr. Smith )xglamed that the associated pressis a private business, enjoying no.exclusive contracts; that its news is personal property; that its wealthiest members takeupon themselves the largest payments for exlpenses, and that at some points it Ba{s_ the telegraph company more than is asked from .the papers receiving the reports. - . .

INTERNAL REVENUE TAXES, Members of the wa¥s— and means committee have-given careful attention to the arguments presented last week by southern: ¢ongressmen in fayor of, the present reduction and the ultimate extinetion of internal revenue taxes. Members.of the committee state that, although no formal action has yet been, had, they have every reason to believe that the committee will recommend the removal. of the tax on the spirits produced from fruit, sometime before congress adjourns. ‘The former tax yielded $25,033,741 97 in 1883, and the latter yielded $1,095,164 60 in 1883, Probably no action will bo taken until the house has indicated the fate of the tax bill. At present none but the ‘res)ublvi(:ap members are known to favor the scheme. ; W

CORN AND WHEAT,

The report of the conswmption and ' distribution of corn’ and wheat in the United States, from refurns ‘to the department of agricuhure on Mareh 1, will show about 67 per-cent of the corn erop has gone into consumption, leaving 83 per- cent still remaifing on hand, against 36 ger cent of the crop of 1882 on March 1, 1883, This shows a reduction -of :about_ 70,000,000 bushels. In Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota’ the stock 1s but 9,000,000 bushels, against 24,000,~ 000 bushels last March. In the belt including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and- lowa, produc(i)%g 558,000,000". bushels, the stock 1s only 152,000,000, which is ' less by 34,000,000 than the stock on March 1, 1883." The proportion of mérchantable corn is 60 per eenf, or 9361000,000 bushels, In average years, according to thesereturns, it is 80 per ¢ent. Fivesixths of all unmerchantable” corn, Ol 'more thah 500,000,000 bushels, is found north of the Ohio river and west of Pennsylvania. The avemgbq price of merchantable corn is &ggced at about 51 cents per bushel, or $480,000, ‘Unmerchantable makes an average of 37 ceénts per bushel, or $167,000,000, Seven. I)e‘r cent of the croy;l isyet in the fields un--larvested. . The wheat of 1883 remaining on hand is returned as 119,000,000- bushels, or 28 per cent of the crop. On Mareh 1, 1883, the' quantity on hand agﬁregat'ed 143,000,000 bushels. The report will give the results of the investigation of the comparative quality of the crop of 1883. e :

CONGRESSIONAL.

-+ SENATE. . MA%,‘L——T-he senate %as‘sed_ -the militalg' academy a;(()lpropriation ill, with an amendment srow ing that any cadet hereafter dismissed for hazing shall not be reappointed. A bill wag _fa.vorabl}v religrted to relieve members of the Fitz John Perter court-mar-tial from their oath of secrecy, and a.memo-. rial was presented from a Grand Army post of Kansas protesting against Porter’s. reinstatement.. Mr. Sherman introdueed a bill granting to newspapers or press assogiations a co%yrllg(ht on their news for eight hours. Mr. Cockrell reported adversely on the bill to lend tents for the soldiers’ reunion at Chicago. as none were on hand. - A bill was nasse& to punish the counterfeiting of securities of foreiﬁg governments. A resolution was adopted instructing the attom@y general to report the awards for damages caused by the erection of dams on the Foxand Wisconsin rivers, with other information on the same subject. | : = :

= MAR. b.—The senate passed a bill to extend the limits of- Yellowstowe park, The Judlcxg,\r¥ committeg made a favorable report on the-bill ,ﬁrov.'ldihg for the collection of marr})afe-an -divorce: statistics. A bill was introduced forapublie building at Jackson, Mio%)igan._ An act was eFassed} to authorize ‘the postmaster general to lease buildings for postoffices of the first, second, 'antd third classes for ten years, at reasonable rates. ¥ , Rl

MAR. 6,—ln the senate, Mr. Legan ser cured the.%assage of a'bill to refund $l5 to Fraily & Duverne, of Chicago, Mr., Cockrell presented a memorial from the united labor organizations of * St. Louis, praying that the wholesale emgﬁm;.ion of l@,urogean mechanics be_restricted. A memorial from the senate of New Jersey op’i)osixﬁ the Morrison tariff bill was presented by Mr. Sewell. - Bills were R)assed to _approprigte $200,000 to Colonel ‘Albert H. Emery.for invenhng a machine for testing iron and steel; to provide for a system of courts in places outside the territory of the United States, and to. af)propriate $B,OOO for the Mississig)pi delta, In executive session it was agreed to reconsider the vote on the Mexican treaty, and the document will be taken up. for ‘discussion next Monday, tend 4 MAR. 7.—ln thesenate, bills were passed: | appropriatin%’aﬁzso,ooo forthe erection of a fire-proof building for the hall of records, constituting a majority of the judges of t%gv supreme court sﬁmomm,’ and to- re%%y - $7O to the heirs of Maurice Grivot, of " New Orleans, A favorable report was made on the bill to forfeit lands granted to the Texas Pacific railroad company, i : MAR. 10,—In the senate, twa resolutions were/introduced for a constitutional an en%. “ment to make onlg gold and silver .aniegal, tender in pﬁm’en of debits. A bill was ‘ported for tHe sale of the Cherokee :Indian veaervatlgg in §ansas, and 4 measure W; Introduced to lsgoae 2of the i%chgm ‘minished peservation in theme state: The ‘pleara-pneumonia bill was made the spi order for Tuesday, ‘Three hours were z in debate on the' Mexican treat% in_Secre session, and there is every ﬁro ability ‘of ‘speedy action on the document, . © = .~ MAR, 4—ln the ho,use}fb , were reported to amend tiﬁa Chinese mmﬁtionact, to prevent the adulteration of teas, and to ggx; ’mane‘n‘tli‘-‘impmve the Erie eanal for traftic. Incommittee of ‘the;‘whole%: -th B b Toiy b Boms o @ §tail corps shail J D . ﬁduegd»byrxamn. A a’ chi g MAR, s.~The house adopted s’ res n ‘nseating 'lxmq\m“m ?u‘!.t.nu as del A Wl SR b

from New Mexico and admifting F. A, Manganares,” who:was. promptly sworn in. An adverse report was made on the resolution for the relief of sufferers b{ the overflgw of the lower Mississippi and by the cyclone in North Garolina, but a favorable report was, handed in on a resolution mquestmgl»the secr_etm?r_of war to inform the house whenever relief is needed alm&tlm Mississippi. Trolonged debate on naval apmg;intmn bill was relieved by the antics of M. Belford,.of Colorado. . i . MAR. 6.—The house passed the naval appropriation bill in very much the shape recommended by the a,pﬁpmpriation cominittee. The only important amendments added at the suggestlon of outsiders were one proposed b% Jelford providing for the demﬁ of naval officers to act- as instructors in col--le;ies, and another pemuttmg retired officers below the relative ranks of major“in the army, navy, or marine.corps to acce%t elvil employment from the ﬁovernment. he rePublicans and a few democrats under the: dead of Dorsheimer of New York tried to : inmtg:&rate an- amendment appropriating. - $449,000 for the new cruisers, but they were i %efeated by the majority under Randall and OX. : R

‘MAR, 7,—The house voted to reéommit the bill to retire Alfred Pleasanton with the: rank of colenel, and a new measure was introduced to give him a pension of $lOO Gper month. A bill to pension the widow of General Frank P. Blair was reported. Bills-were.. %usedm inerease the pension of Ward B. Burnett to $lOO Eer month, and to grant relief to Louisa. odd§ for injuries at the hands of the Modoc Indians. An evenin;; session was held, for the consideration o pension bills. : e | MaR. B.—The house, by a vote of 115 to - 1;;27,» refused to go-into committee to consider the bonded-whisky bill. A favorable réport was made on the bill for the erection ot Pnbhc-bluldmgs, at Akron, Ohio, and Duw uth, Minnesota. : et ek e MAR. 10.-<ln the house, bills. were introduced to incorporafe the Yellowstone Park and the Sf{)okane Falls and Cceur d’Aleneroads, and to grant the rigﬁt of waz.through Indian territory: to the Kansas ‘ltEaForh Scott and-Gulf, the St. Louis and Baxter Springs, and the St. Joseph and Rio Grande roads.. Two . constitutional amendments were proposed, %ivh:F congress the &ower {to make only fgol and silvericoin a tender in payment of debts. A bill was introduced igranting copyright to . newspapers. A message was received from the %n'eside‘nt trans‘mitting documents from the seeretary of | state relative to the resolution on the death |of Herr Lasker, Mr. Hiscock offered a res--‘olution expressing surprise and reégret that | the ehancellor of Germany should return a friendly and respectful communication; am{{\, reitemging expressions of regret <at the de¢mise of Edward Lasker and of sympathy E’ith the parliament df which he was a memer. il ; 5

FOREIGN

British ship-owners threaten to register their vessels under a foreign flag if the proposed shipping bill b?‘omes,a T, 5 My, Spurgeon, the-London preacher, was left 4 lrge fortune by the late Joseph ’l’ool, of Leicester, - . ; = - Parnell and his followers intend to work uf excitement in Ireland for the amendment. ot the land aet, and to- O})e_n subscriptions ‘toward-a specxal agitation tund.. @ - |

" The pope has madda formal protest against the conversion bfy' the government of real estatzeé owned by the Propaganda into Italian rentes., - : : }

A cablegram from Havre announces the presence of thirty Irish-Americans, and says ‘close watch is kept over a dynamite factory between Amiens and Boulogne. ' - :

Nineteen suicides have oceurred at Monte Carlo since the year opened, on account of losses by gambling, and demands that tiie play be suppressed are becoming frequent.

Osman Digma is at Handoob, ready for battle,” and " General Graham will love against him from Suakim, with: three thousand men. g Lol

- A black bag, made of American cloth, con= taining forty-five pnckaies of dynamite, has been found in the cloak room of the, Tua- _ gate Hill station in London. VR e

_ The German governtent will ask eredit for 19,000,000 marks, to be nminl\l/3 used in gonsgmctmg,torpedoes along the Baltic seaoard. : : i

A box containing clock-work exploded in the postoffice at Guesen, Germany, wounding ‘an official in a severe manner. The French government has decided:to expel all suspected dynamiters. : Z The czar of Russia has decided to convene ‘a council,-.composed of representatives of the- - to consider whether a powertul nihilist party -really exists, and how to crush it out or satisfy its wants.

In the British house of commons, Sir Wilfred Lawson charged the government with ‘cowardice and butechery in regard to the campaign in Eg{pt. Mr. Gladstone 'stated that at present 1t was neccessiry te hold Suakim to repress the slave trade. o

In arecent debate in the British house of commons on the Egﬁpman olicy of the fgovernment, W, T. a.rriqt€ member from Brighton, declared that the ministry, had lost the confidence of the country. Ile immediately. resigned, and has been, re-clected by a majority of 1,317, N

The London Police foind a large quantity of explosives under the Charing Cross mi[yway station, and a_clerk- discovered in the cloakaoom a box thought fo contain dynaniite. A statement was made in the house of commons that an infernal machine of American manufacture had been found at the Paddington railway station. shorot

The English government is about to send to Washington a courteous dispatch relative to the countenance and assistance given to dynamiters by American citizens. The clocks diseovered in the London ’railwag( stations are. said to .have been made in the United States, and__in one of the valises ywas a copy of the New York Sun' of February 6. The police arrested three men and seized their stock of dynamite, on.nformation that they intended to blow up the courts.

" Tln the British house of commens,the marquis of Hartington moved an. ap})r gnation of £380,000 for the expedition to the 'Soudan. Heur&)glabouchere moved toreduce lihe sum £lOO,OOO. M. Gladstone said the goveérn.* ment had no intention of arssumin%~l control of Egy{)t, but would withdraw the troops at the earliest possible moment. - : Seventy picked detectives of London are receiying instructions for the pursuit of dynamiters. The Invincibles of Paris have selected four men to take the life of Me-: Dermott, the informer. 'The Ip()lic_e of Vien- . na and Pesth Lave discovered an extensive plot. A {)olicmmm atthe.capital of Moravia ‘was murdered by anarchists. - o The S}aeech from the throne, at the opening of the German reichstag, announces a scﬂemc for accident insurance, and. foreshadows the presentatien of a bill for insurance for the infirm and aged., - Bills wereintroduced to extend the anti-socialist law and to eontrol joint stock ‘companies: The secessionist and }l)rogressist parties will combine to form the liberals. The Lasker. matter will not be discussed until some international settlement is made. : L L a 0 - : GENERAL MARKETS.

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WanAT—Lower; March, 90%@90140f Apxil, 05@05o; May, 959;/%95%& i JORN—Lower: March, 513{@51%c; Apl., 51(}){@51}«’(:(: May, 56@s6e, - : 3lo§il'}s€—zL§{wer;, %&%@h, Si@3le; Aprily @ c¢: May, 35@35ke. - PROVISTONS--Mess Dotk lower: Maroh, $17.50g17.50; A}il“il, [email protected] May, [email protected]. ard — Steady; Mareh, - %99222(1(}9.22% s Apl., [email protected] May, $9.421¢ (@9, Qe b i+ ; C:_&T'i‘LE Market steady. We guote: Choice ship&)ing [email protected] Fair to good shipping steers..:... 5.65%6.20 Medium to good 5teer5............ 5.3%25.60 SGI£(())@G§Z~S-(l)\'l?.rkeﬁ firm. sSillesg§6l§etl ]fr(l)réx .3 50, for heavy; $6.15@6 or light. ‘.BUTTER—-Steady.V yWe l)l%te; Choice to Fancy Creame%‘ at 38@35 %ﬂ 1b; ordinary to. ggod do. -80@s2c; good to fancy Dairy -at 24@28cy common to fair do. 16@?22e. - " NEW YORK. iagnnz'r—TlHﬁher:@l{lgb % Mﬁh., 311271%%% 07545 April, [email protected]%; May, $l. 1.11%.’ &n&—Qmez; Mixed Western Spof, Wo@ee, S : . - MILWAUKEE. | - . WaeAr—Steady; March,. 90c¢; April, 91c; May, %e. CorN—Firny .at’ 53¢ for N 0.2. OATs—Firm: No. 2 White, 82— ,Rm—Strong:—sogc for N 0.1.. BARLEY— Lower at 61¢ for No. 2. ' a CINCINNATI. e FrLour—Fair demand : Family [email protected]. ‘WaeAT—Firm at $1.06. Cong—%mg at 50c. OArs—Firm at 37c: Ryr—Steady: 65¢. ProvisioNs—Pork sbeadx at $17.75.— Lard firm at 359.10_%20. Bulk Meats $7.121¢ ‘@9.25. Bacon §B. 10:50., i T : o Ak BICEOORN L WaeAT—Lower: No, 2 Red Mech., $l.lO 1105 May, [email protected]; June, $1.10% @LIOS Corm_——Lower;,-iSﬁ)@«iS}gc Mareh; /- 4 Jgc April. OaTs—Lower; March,’ 88%ec; May, .85%e. = RyE—Quiet: 59c.— . BARLEY-—-Steady at ssgpsoc. PROVISIONS—--Pork higher: $17.8% ~ Dry Salt Meats quiet.: at $9.10, 9.25, 0.50. - Bacon steady at $9.80,, 10.00. Lard—lower; $9.25. Hoas ‘;%LB:OWCI‘; light, [email protected]; heayy, - s6.o@ . BALTIMORE. . e WarAT—Western higher; N 0.2 Winter Red Spot and lfarch. $1.08%(@1.09; Ath%, . i{l.l(;%()g?l.lox. CorN — Western 'hi fers ixed Spot and March, 58: 'April, .58@ gl:%{c, - OaTs—Western = White, 43 2 | Mixed do. 42@43c. RyE—Higher at 7« 4. s SOSTON. el - Woor—Firm with" moderate demand; ‘Ohio and Pennsylvania extras &?ﬂ}f;‘:; ! - Michigan - .wsombimze and delaine m' ] _l._naa?@mh ¢} western unwashed . 3 Ladilornia 8 . I common . LIGONIER MARKET REPORT. ‘ i;um ms%n%‘—;yhutmm 1'00; Rye, 60¢; Oats, *@lﬂg. flax seed, $110; timothyseed, $2 00; cloverseed, #650. = - . il g RODUOE—Hogs,live,BssoloBo3s; 10‘6; 3, ;’ 07..1 00l 1 * 208 m 3 S }»; i@m s "-s-'széi;égi;{’-v‘»;% R “‘f%“ Ay TPas E R R G &‘i 4o -;#1*: a N 'ii*i’i*;?:‘ SGaaiEE g & eI o T RRy S TR T St i S A T