Ligonier Banner., Volume 21, Number 14, Ligonier, Noble County, 15 July 1886 — Page 2

Ehe Tigonier Bunaoy 3TOLL, McDONALD & CO., Publishers. | : ; L - THURSDAY, JULY 15,1886. -

DEHOCRA';IG CONGRESSIONAL TICKET, : ) For_(_Zz)’x;Eress. o .HON. ROBERT LOWRY. Tue Grepwsackers will hold their state convention at indianapolis on the sth day of August. Will Noble county be represented ? i :

Tur Republican managers in Pennsylvania are trying to work the submission dodge upon the prohibition Republicans in that state.

L T TR e e A riLLow looking after r,u?toricty Lad himself enclosed in a large barrel at Niagara Falls last Sunday morning and made a successful passage of the rapids.

- By raE returns made by'the county auditors n the stateit isshown that the decreage in |the assessments is nearly 250,000,000 as compared with the values six years ago. L o

. Tue Gresssackirs of the Thirteenth district haye called the congressional cdnvention to meet at Plymouth on the 98th of August. - Hon. B. F. Shively will undoubtedly be nominated.

‘Tue pemocraTic State Committee will meet at Indianapolis next Tuesday, when the date of holding the State conyention will be settled upon. 1t is intimated that August 10th. will be tho time set. =~ - L

How. Roserr Lowry has succeeded in. getting a resolution through Congress instructing the war department.to furnish 20,000 tents to the Tri-State Veterans Association, for the reunion to be held at Fort Wayne in August. The interests of few. districts are bettor cared for than our own.

Tax base ball excitement is still on the increase in the larger cities. Last week the two leading teams, Chicago and Detroit, “crossed bats on the former’'s grounds, resulting in three defeats for the Wolverines. - Thisleaves the championship in great doubt and raises public interest.several notches..

Ix Ruopk Istaxp the prohibition enactment has played sad hayoc among the large summer hotels at the resgrts. Where thousands spent the season lasi vear the hotels have clogéd on account of mo patronage.~ It seems that the pleasure hunters want more than bread and meat and if they cannot get it in Rhode Island they.go elsewhere. ,

wa-: wouLp most respeetfully inform the editor “of. the Kendallyille News that in 1882 the editor of this paper did adl he could toward défeating the nomination of Hon. Robert Lowry in an honorable way, but after a majority of tha party, expressed at the Kendullyille convention, said that he should be the standard bearer the Banxen .became one of his staunch’ gupporters and the writer gave his undivided aid.to the election of the party’s chaice. .

- Tue publication of the Pierceton Independent ‘has been discontinued and the office consolidated with the Goshen Times. The reasons given by the late puhlisher is want of advertising patyonage. . In our opinion the citizens of Pierceton were mﬂuenc‘(;d in withholding their patronage by. the ultra partisandhip shown by the paper especial pains being taken at every opportunity to abuse and belitile Democrats. A falling off of patronage was at once noticable and it has continued untiljthe sheet had to succumb to public opinion.

Jupce Lopruy, the Washington cotrespondent, pays this compliment to Judge Lowry in the Fort Wayne News: “Hon. Robert Lowry maybe found at any time during the session of the House or meeting of the committee of, which he is chairman or a member,’ at his post of duty. The Judge—not veferring to his politics—is still regarded as one of the most industrious and intelligent workers of the house of representatives, and his reports as chairman of his committees are always concise, comprehensive and exhaustive, and are neve? the subject of adverse criticism. He retains the esteem of his friends and the confidence of ‘his colleagues.” o . '

Tue following sensible suggestion is made by the Indianapolis Sentinel: The local financial dilemma mgy be met in two ways-— either expand the agsessments and pay more tax or reduce expén‘sej to the level of the normal income. There is noj escape whatever fromn one or the other of the propositions. In what way may the money derived from taxes L most judiciously expended and carefully administered? There are*many leakages in the way of extrayagant fees and commissions, and it would be well, while ¢onsidering the whole question as it will be by the next legislature, to pre- - pare for a thorough modifidation of a eystem that all admit is overgrown, costly and to sorhe extent corrupting. © Tuz Jacksonville Herald says that Johxn Kelly thonght Tilden too old and frail tormn a:second time as President. “Jolin Kelly -is dead. The. stalwart " Chandler wrested the Presidency from ‘Tilden. ‘ Chandler is dead.. Grant it.is said, would have arrested and imprisqned Tilden if he had attempted to claim the office he had been elected to. Gz‘q}nt is dead. Hanéock was chos¢n as a more likely man tolive through the presidency than Tilden, Hancock is dead. Hendricks seemed to haye a long life shead of him as compared with the man ' at-the head of the ticket. Hendricks . is dead. Seymour, McClellan, and all the old candidates are dead. Meanwhile Tilden thinks there .is.nothing so invigorating as working away before the maston his yacht. -~ |

A srupy of the statistical tables showing the return of the assessors of the state discloses many peculiarities. Nine counties show an increas in valuation; Huntington with $8,485 and Tipton with $836,590. : The smallest decrease shown is in Brown, where the falling off is $11,787, while Allen county shows a . difference 'of $3,517,810. ° The value & placed upon land shows a wonderful difference in the ¢ounties. In Brown, Crawford, Jasper and Perry the price " is less than $5 per acre,while in t{ouman counties in the state real estate’is valuod at over twenty-five dollars per acre. In Allen and Washington counties the

valuation is thirty-seven dollars and twelve cents. - In‘our own county but - fifteen dollars and seventy-one cents is _the average valuation per acre, © |

Tue senatorial aspirations of several leading New York Republicans make matters interesting in the legislative districts in that state. The friends of the contestants are carefully guarding their interests and in many instances the fights are waxing warm. Dunixg the pcMeW weeks some obliging friend has thailed us a few ¢opies of the Evansville Courier. From the way the editorial pages are crowded with matter pertaining to the congressional fight in the. Indianapolis district, it would seem that the editor had became a citizen of that district. If Mr. Bynum must have an organ, why not begin an Indianapolis edition of the Courier? - ;

' THE SEVENTEENTH annual meeting of the Northern Indiana Editoyial associ‘ation at Maxinkuckee last week was a most thorongh.success. A large number of the edi%r's and friends were present and everybody enjoyed the surroundings as well as the programme carried out. The officers elected for the ensuing year arve: President, Harry Fraucis; First Vice-President, Theron P. Keator; Second Vice-President, Major Bitters; Secretary,Thos. A, Starr; Corresponding Secretary, Quincy A. Hossler; Treasurer, A. D. Mohler. The next meeting will be held at Warsaw.

GEN.LOGAN AND PENSIONS, . : To every appeal made by Gen, Logan on behalf of the faithful and true soldiers w}}o fought, suffered and endured, and helped in any way to restore the union the people of the Uuited States will never turn adeaf ear. The nation has been and 1s generous and substantial in its gratitude as it was lavish of its blood and has been patient under the ‘burdens of the war. Butthe people of the United States are businesslike and just in their instincts. They believe in paying their debts fairly and in order. They do not believe in paying anything that is/not due. No people on the face of the eath are more gencrous in repaying scérvice. none more grudging of or restive under payment of what they do not believe to be due.

Until, Gen. Logan or those who attack the pension vetoes can show that injustice has been done to a deserving claimant in a single instance by a veto it is useless to appeal to the American public for sympathy. It matters not wlhat Gren. Logan might personally do for the relief of these claimants, as a United States senator he is a trustee of the people’s treasury, and he is a dishonored trustee in law and in fact who does not protect his trust by all means in his controll from imposition. Congress has' shamelessly abandoned'to the president the duty of guarding ihe public funds, and the country is in entire sympathy with the courageous manner in which he assumes the task.——Chicago News.(lnd. Rep.) , : ~

ON TO PROSPERITY. The Lisader considers it expedient to remark that “the democratic speakers and editors promised the workingmen prosperoustimes and better wages if a democratic president was only elected.” - They didso. Times are better, and wages are better than they were when a demoeratic president was elected. There is hardly a-mill in the country of any consequence idle now, while in the last days of the last republican administration there were hundreds. Right here in Cleveland there is more pros - perity now than there was during the last yeags of republicanrule. The mills are running. The workmen are receiving better wages. There are few idle men. Trade 1s better. There are fewer failures. The business men are well pleased and look forward hopefully. The farmers are selling their ‘wool for better prices this year than any year foralong time. Where is there any business man who will say that he would like to go back to where he was in the winter of 1884-5? Wheré is there one who will say that times are not better now than they were then. - = The republican party went out of vower leaving the business of the country prostrated. Trade was dead. Failures: were frequent and disastrous. More than half the mills and factories of the country were closed. down., The markets were terribly glutted with products that could find no purchasers. Where one man is out of work there were five idle thén. Wages were low and falling lower. Gloomand discouragement prevailed everywhers, . These are familiar facts that we recitB; so familiar - that there is no need to dwell upon them. It was so the democratic administration found the country. ‘With the incoming of the demoeratic administration the improvement of trade and business began. Prosperity did not come with a rush. It never does. Industries prostrate and almost dead do not revive in a day. The decent to rmin may be swift, but the.ascent out of the depths is a malter of time and slow toiling always, and so it has been. But these depths were reached in the last days of republican rule, and we have been climbing steadily up the hill ever since. The business men know this, the workingmen know it, the people know it. All know it but blind partisans like the Leader, who, hoping for: some party gain, skt their eyes and uplift a fegble screech in the darkness. They, too, can see if they want to see. They have only to.open their eyes and ‘behold the sun of prosperity shining over the hill tops.—Cleyeland Plain Dealer. > ; :

THE PRESIDENT AND PENSIONS. The plans of the Republicans to make an issue out of the President’s vetoesof pension bills, says the New York Star, cannot succeed if the public pays any attention to the vetoes.” The complaint that the President in his criticisms shows lack of respect for Congress is not well founded, because it is a noto-: rious fact that Congress never so much ag heard these bills read.. The only at tention ever given them wasein the pension committees of the two houses; and it is more than doubtful if even there any care was exercised. At ev ery stage of this legislation the work appears to have been perfunctory or utterly careless. Of such a vicious system the President declines to becotne a part, and his expose of the folly of the | bills ig enfirely jmstified. ; | Take the whole ninety vetoes, and the most haphazard selection gives similar | results. Even the cases which the Sen|ate committee attempts to justify are |absurd and scandalous. Here are a { few instances; L R, J. Mellwain enlisted 1861, dis‘charged in 1862 with one leg lost, for which he drew pension. Died in 1885 from overdoso of morphing taken while, under the influence of liquor. Widow

wants pension on the ground that his death was caused by his service in the army. S S - Mamilton Wallis enlisted in 1861, and was sent to a camp of instruction near Cincinnati. He went into that city one night, got into a brawl, was smash«ed on the head and killed. His widow wants a pension on the ground that he died in the service.. j ' . Canton W. Tiller enlisted in a Kentucky Union regiment in 1861, and deserted fwo years later. He was subsequently captured: by the rebels, and he died of scorbutis at Andersonyille. His father,. who has been a Louisville policeman with a fair salary ever since his son’s death, wants a pension because he says he was dependent on the deceasedy o ¢

. We might go on through the wholévi list, and nearly every chse would appear’ equally or more absurd, Then-1 mere publication svithout comment is’ sufficient to justify the President’s nosi-% tion. , It is only the claim agents, the bounty jumpers and the politicians who are interested in such legislation. The honest soldiers will not be caught byfrepublican demagoguery that prates about devotion to their interests while defending such frauds. The President is the friend to honestly earned pensions. Out of 655 priyate pension bills he has vetoed but 90. If he was opposed to pensions he would have yetoed ‘them all. Instead of so doing he has only vetoed the manifestly absurd or li:nproper ones. The tax-payers'of the conntry will indorse him, and soldiers | who really deserve pensions will giye this blow at coffee-boiler, bounty-jump-er patriotism their hearty applause.

- HOK.JOBEPH E. M’DONALD i Beligves Indiana Will Go Democratic, and Denieqf that He Ever Thought Otherwise. | Ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald returned home on Saturday after atwo weeks visit at Washington. It was his intention toremain liere some time, but in answer to a telegram calling him to Washington on private business, left for that city on the early train this morning. An Indianapolis Sentinel reporter called at his residence Saturday evening and found the Senator in usual good spirits, and quite confident the Democrats would be victorious in the approaching Indiana campaige. In answer to & question as to whether there was any truth in the report-lately put in cwculation that he had expresed doubts on this matter, he said: “Any rumors that Lave been put afloal that I had expressed an§ doubt about carrying the state at the coming election are utterly groundless. On tho contrary, Ifeel confident that we shall carry Indiana by a handsome majority and have a working majority in both branches of the legislature.” “Ts it likely that the President will make changes in his cabinet?” To this Senator McDonald replied: “In my judgement the President isnot contemplating any changes in his cabi~ net. All the rumors on' the subject are mere rumors. T am very sure the President does not desire any changes in the Treasury Department if there is any possibility of Mr. Manning’s return to: Lealth. He has been a great and val- ' uable ‘support to Mr. Cleveland thus far, and it would be very difficult if not impossible to supply his place, not only as'a confidential friend, but as a very able cabinet officer. The President naturally feels that if Secretary Manning’s health is restored so he could possibly go'back, he hopes and believes that he will do so. I do not think any change is thought of in the Attorney Generalship.” ! Senator McDonald is of the . opinion that Congress will adjourn not later than the first of August. - Thereis a strong feeling among Congressmen to adjourn at the ear}iest day possible. While Senator McDenald did not express himself on the subject, it may be said here that his most intimate person- ! al and political friends regard asabsurd the rumor put.afloat that his name would not likely be presented as a candidate for the United States Senate. On the other hand they propose to make a vigorous fight for him in that direction.

CULLINGS FROM OTHER COLUMNS. . Pith o_f_tie Press. : TOO FAR IN THE LEAD. ‘ It is not.so much that the Grand Old Man 1s left as that he has gone ahead a little faster than the rest. England will catch up to him by and by. —Philadelphia Times. A DUCK dF A PREsiDnNT. The democratic party is as much astonished by its President and as incapable of un(i’erstanding him as was the old hen which hatched out a duckling and was alarmed when he took to the water.—Bgstort Herald.

i KEERING UP THE RECORD. ~ The River and Harbor Bill as it came from the democratic House was a gigantic steal; but the republican Senate adds another $3,000,000 to this pile of pillage, as though determined to preserve the reputation of its party as the most corrupt and extrayagant that ever held power—Boston Globe. - . 'LOOKING BETTER. | The sky is brightening for the Democrats and the so-called jangling is dying away with the same rapidity that it came. When the mass convention meets at Kendallville, August 12th, the question of bolt or pull ahead will be fully settled and we hope the latter motto will be in the lead.—Garrett Clipper. . i

. REPUBLICAN TESTIMONY. _ The abuse of President Cleveland for vetoing pension bills is not always just. Mr. Cleveland has studied the cases, and if he is convinced that the granting of a pension is unjust it is his duty toveto the bill. His judgment is less likely to be biased than that of men who are rewarding party services.— Elkhart Review.

, NO REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN. Does anybody think the Democrats of the 12th district are going to play thefool by electing qreﬁublican congressman? We know the Democrats quarrel but th«(aiy have a happy faculty of kissing and making up just at the igroper time. Lowry is going back and Pon;;t; you forget it.—Columbia City ost. o ; i

'GETTING CONFURED. | The senators who are afraid that the bill doing simple justice to Fitz-John Porter is a deliberate attempt to “ rewrite the history of the war” are remindéd that it has been rewritten in the magazines of late to such an extent that all that is positively known about it is that the south did not get there.— Chicago Herald, . : ]

TESTIMONY¥ OF A WESTERN SOLDIER, . The editor of the Portland Oregonion, who seryved in the ranks of the Union army, declares that he knows of] his ewn knowledge that “since the pas-

sage of the arrears of pension act about every shirk and utterly worthless veteran of his brigade has been a successful ap'FHca,nb for a pension. -—Philade{phia imes. ,

' POLITICAL ECONOMY. 2 . “My dear,” said an anxious wife to her husban&, who was running for office, “we must _economize in everyypos- | sible way.” “I do ecomomize.” *“Yes,” she re‘fhed bitterly, “you spend $lO or, $l5 a day treating alotof barroom loafers to beer and whiskey just to get them to vote for you. Do you call that economg_ ?f” “Certainly; political economy.” — Life. o

A POINT FOR MR. RANDALL. We suggest to the protectionists in Congress that the farmers of New England find the competition of the west 50 strong that they cannot raise Indian [corn with profit, and they would be ‘greatly benefited by.a bounty: of, say, }ten cents a bushel. " It is not the correct thing, when all industry is unprofi}ta.ble to make it profitable by paﬁment -out of the national treasury?—Boston ' Herald. .

. SADDER, WISER MEN. No nmian who,is a true soldier is desirout of seeing frauds on the pension rolls. If a man isentitled to a pension he should receive it, and if he is not his claim should be rejected. This is the opinion of all veterans, and is the voice of the people. Demagogues differ from it, and President Cleveland will, of course, receive their censure for vetoing claims he regards as illegal.—Pike County Democrat.

LO, THE POOR DEMOGRATIC NEGRO. The refusal to confirm Mr. Matthews, the colored Democrat whom President Cleveland nominated for Recorder in the District of Columbia, shows that whatever rights were conferred upon the negro by the amended constitution, tHe right to be a Democrat was not one of them, in the opinion of republican Senators. No dombt was entertained of Mr. Matthews’s honesty or capacity. The color of his skin and his politics ‘defeated him.—Philadelphia Record.

CGAN BE SPARED. The democratic party in this district flourished for twenty-four years without patronage and the so-called spoils system, and should not now be destroyeﬁ by internal feuds. If the democrati‘gopart has no higher aims and purses tian the mere distribution of party patronage, the sooner the party goes to the wall the better; and the sooner men who are democrats simply for a place at the public crib are taught a lesson, the more good can the party accomplish.—Salem Demograt. . '

EVERY ,HONEST SOLDIER APPROVES HIS COURSE. " Twenty more vetoes of bogus pension bills t'>lg the: President—ninety-eight in all! This shows what he was doing the other evening when he declined to look out and see the fireworks. If he has steuck the bull’s eye as often out of a possible ninety-nine as he did out of a ‘possible seventy-eight, he has beaten ‘the record in all off-hand shooting. Seriously, the President is enhancing his ‘reputation for business thrift and honesty every time he vetoes one of those bills to promote mendicancy, and every ‘honest soldier who stood up to be shot at will think the better of him. Veterans do not thank Senator Sayer for classifying them with these freaks and frauds.— Washington Post.

Additional Local News. ‘ MA’MN\/\/\NV\N\/\/\/\AM/V\A 1 - ETHICAL CULTURE. . i . The society for Ethical Culture met ‘at E. B. Gerber's at the time appointed. Several of the members being absent only one paragraph of the essay previously read by Miss Harrigan was discussed. The paragraph reads as follows: : e : : “Plato declared philosophy fo be the study of death. Others have said that philosophy is the study of life. The ethical school proper raises no question ‘except the one inquiry: How best tolive ‘upon earth? But it seems to me that neither the study of death nor the study of ethics ought to preclude the idea that life lived in the brightest and best sense is a search after God.” :

"The ideas and thoughts brought out in the discussion tended to regard death as the antithesis of life, and that in a philosophy of life there must necessarily follow a correlative philosophy comprehending death. In theconsideration of life then the struggle seems to be how to live so as to avoid death except as a natural condition of old age. A life lived in harmony with natural conditions, ever free from disease, from the cradle to the grave, reaching the zenith of strength in the fulness of manhood or womanhood, then declining to a good old age, finally ending earth’s battles in a painless death, such as the old man described by Chaucer, whose life was soperfect and whose deéline so natural ! ill his soul from out his body crept,” ! Lifeseems to be a struggle of the nternal life-giving force with the external surroundings, and so long as the internal and external forces are equally balanced, harmony in life’s pro-, gress will prevail; the vitality of hu‘man effort will decrease as the environment overcomes the physiological laws of individual life. Health is an essential to moral action, for individuals are prompted to act from the necessary condition of their physical feelings. Persons, therfore, who violate the laws of nature suffer more or less physical pain, and to that extent their act,though unconciously performed, is within the domain of ethics, and must be considered moral when conducive to physical health, and immoral when it tends to lower vital action. ' From this stand: point Plato’s idea of philosophy is brought into harmony with the philosophy of life, and the philosophy of true ethics will gain thereby. It is a mistaken idea to think that acts toward individuals are the only: acts that are moral or immoral. Physical phenomena have their influences upon the mind, but so far they pertain to the personality of the actor, but the psycological manifestations arises when the subjective contemplates the objective or when the spiritual comes ‘ in_ contact with external matter. The act now becomes manifest to'the observer and enters the relations of persons and society. To regard the ultimate act’ as the motive, and as the one to be made the object of discipline under a moral code would be to lose sight of the true source of morality. There is a physical basis as well asa psychological basis, and to ignore the physical is to mstake the scientific basis { of a true system of ethics. The foundation of right lies in the nature of things, and in the comprehension of the relations existing the judgment determines ‘the right. Philosophers have differed as to the standard of morals, but from whatever source we reason it would seem that the happiness of individuals is the ultimate end.~ All persons shrink from pain, because pain lowers vitality, = All.seek happiness because happiness incroases vitality. The gloomy side of Tife leads to | a philosophy of despair, the sunshme of | happiness leads to a philosophy of

love, charity, and benevolence. Todo good - for the sake of good ought to be the aim of all. To enjoy life in the fullness of happiness leads to a mental disposition that can find grandeur in all things. The more one can comprehend the beauties of nature about him, whether in the individual or in nature in space, the more exaltcd becomes his idea of ‘God, hen_z it is not inconsistent with how best to liye on earth to believe that in that fullness of life in its higaest_ and best sense is a search after God: Not that we may thereby find God as a being of personal atributtes but that we may know men of the goodness and the kindness of the great Creator. In the general evolution of life no one can tell where such evolution shall end, and by induction we may logically conclude that a higher development may follow in thelife hereafter, death being & necessary cause to effect the transition from the perfect earthly life to the perfect spiritual life. . The next meeting will be held at D. W. Green's. . il

.+ FRISKY JULIA. I The Female Horse Thief Again in the Toils. : [Columbia City, Post.] L Who has not heard of Julia Fisher, the Noble county: horse thief, woods rooster, hay mow companion and straw stack sleeper.’ She is what might be termed a female monster; a piece of humanity utterly depraved. Oné of her peculiar fancies is to steal, and she was once sent to penitentiary for norse stealing. ' Qur readers will remember that about four years ago she stole a pair of black horses in Noble county and drove them through this place bare headed and bare footed. She was captured north west of town and turned over to the law. Since shat time she has become notorious in various ways as a very bad woman. Her last act of notoriety was a few weeks ago when she entrapped poor half-witted John Kempf into matri: mony. John is an unfortunate fellow g 0 far as reason and judgment is concerned and accepted Julia’s proposition. We gave our readers an accounf, of the affair and espscialy dwelt on the fact of Jim Sharp having failed to kiss the bride and of Squire Tulley getting 35 cents tor tying the knot. - They stayed together for a week or Swo when the blushing bride left the honey moon|to plunge into fairer fields and greener| pastures. For about a month she has laid around the woods near Peabody, liying upon what the deptraved boys.who sought her embraces, brought/to her. When this source ot subsistence i’a,iled she would sally forth from the woods and appropriate a chicken, duck, turkey or anything she could find in the vicinity of a farm house, and noast and eat it—without salt or bread. On one or two occasions she isi said to have stolem 35 pound pigs and roasted them. Her conduct had jannoyed the neighbors so much that talk of tar and feathers had become quite common, but the matter came to a gpeedy termination last Friday evening. ! Constable Reub. Smith, was returning home {rom & days harvesting at John Gross’ and at about 11 o’clock he saw a horse standing at the roadgide and on going closer saw a female | at the other gnd of the hitching strap lying on fthe grass at the. roadside. >he at once ivolunteered to tell him that she was on her way ta visit relatives at Coesse, but Reub’s keen eye at once discerned that it was John Kewmpt's late bride, and. proceeded to take her into custody, Shethen begged to be released so she could go to Columbia to see relatives, but’ Reub. stoutly held Julia with one hand and { the horse with the other while he called up Frank Briesh. , ‘When Fra}nk came out he found that his new| gaddle was on the horse, and Julia ﬂm}ia}xg herself canght owned up to the theft. She said she stole the horse from Mr. Young who lives on the Gleason farm near South Whitley and that she had become tired of rid.ing barebacked and straddle and had Jjust taken the saddle. :

The whole caboodle was taken to ’Squire Stickler’s, but he being sick she was taken before ’Squire Merriman at South Whitley where a preliminary examination was had and the frisky harlot' was taken to the Wkitley county jail to await trial in the circuit court. ‘ "Reub. deserves credit for making the capture and returning the horse fo the owner before he knew it was stolen. ¢ P LATER.—NIews has reached the city that would indicate that Tulley’s 35 cent investment ‘gaas no little thing after all. Kempf has ordéred him to begin a suit for divorce instanter.

: WELL AND TRULY SAID. In commenting upon the outcome of the Starr-Beyerle libel suit lately settled at Goshen, the South Bend Tribune gives a”; couple of Noble county editors a good pen picture: As we have said, the public expects oditors to abuse each other, but it places no more credence in the honesty of this abuse than it does in the quarrels between the ring-master and the clown. Why does the public expect it? Because a certain class of editors has educated the. public to believe personal abuse and -vituperation as part of an editor’s duty. Aneditor barren of ideas on current issues of the day must fill his editorial page with something and so he abuses his rival; He mistakes the billingsgate vulgarity and slang of the street for the keen wit and cutting ridicule of a George D. Prentice, and uses it on his opponents until his respectable readers are nauseated. Lo _ :

‘ A .BOOM FOR CEDAR BEACH. The stockholders in Cedar Beach are much elated over some purchases made a few days ago by two wealthy gentlemen near their property at Turkey Lake, which they think has doubled its value, The purchasers are Col. Eli Lilly, the manufacturing chemist of Indianapolis, and the other is- Mr. Nordyke, of the well-known firm of Nordyke & Morman, of that city. Their purchases consist of a thousand feet lake front on either side of and immediately adjoining Cedar Beach, where each of these gentlemen will build an elegant cotfage fronting the lake, without regard to expense, while the grounds surrounding will be turned into a park and made a veritable thing of beauty. Several other cottages will be built by Chicago and Indianapolis parties and the future of Turkey Lake as a summer resort is assured. New visitors from Chicago and other places are there this year and its popularity is fast increasing.— Goshen Times. =« ‘ A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. - ~ Mr. Clinton Miller, of Elkhart township, met with a serious accident on Saturday last, which may result in his death. He, with some assistants, was engaged in getting in hay and showing it away in the barn preparatory to going to Rome City to spend the evening. They had got the last load from the .field to the barn at about three o’clock in the afternoon. Mr. Miller was on the load while the others were putting the hay away, a hayfork being used to hoist it to the mow. It issupposed that in their anxiety to get through with the work, the fork was overloaded, when the fastenings gave way, and the fork and its load fell upon the unfortunate man, burying him beneath it. When he was extricated from beneath the hay, it was found that the fork had gfruck him, ‘cuttigg. 4 horrible gash across his forehead and down one side of his face and rendering him unconscious.—New Era,

b PERSONAL. . Rey. Samuel Strass is sericusly ill. = F. W, Straus, of Chicago, is in the city. V. Walter Teal returned to Chicago on Tuesday. L - _ Miss Minnie Baker of LaFayette, Ind., is a guest of Rev. and Mrs. Knotts, : Miss Ida Shoemaker. of Warsaw, visited with Miss Clo Kitson last Saturday. oW Tumbleson came home yesterday. He is nolv in the fruit tree business, . Lafe Winstead took in the sights of Toronto dupring the early part of the week. B offman went to Chicago Tuesday as attorney in the McKilvey-Skeldon case. P R. J. Stansbury, accompanied by his ‘mother, left for Toronto Saturday Evening. i M’:s. D. C. Lesh, of Goshen, is yisiting 'with a few friends and relatives in this place. S - i W. George Brown went to Huntington Baturday last on business. He returned yesterday, ° A | ~ Mr. Alvin Beazel, 6f Ligonier, spent the Fourth in this city, the guest of A. C. Keel. —Fort. Wayne Journal. - . Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Scott are at €olumbia City visiting with friends and relatives. They will return on Monday. : Mrs. Susan Lower, Frank MoEntaffer and Miss Cora Lower, of Waterloo, are visiting with Alex. McEntaffer, J. H. Becker, of Kendallville, was in town Tuesday, looking after his beer inests, and made us a pleasant call. Miss Jennie Foster and Mrs. Ida Knorr; ‘of Syracuse,.visited with Mrs. Belle Bouse last Saturday. They returned Saturday evening. i . Wallace Abdill, M. L. Jackson and —— Benthine, also left Tuesday eyening for Chicago as witnesses in the McKilveySkeldon case.

El. F. Ritson, of the Sturgis, .(Mich.) Mail, returned to Ligonier last Saturday, having been called home by the severe illness of his sister. : Miss Allie Wood, of Sturgis, Michigan, is visiting with friends here, She is still a servant of Ungle Sam, as assistant postmaster at Sturgis. : : =l Misses Ella Caldwell and Olie .Swinehart returned home to-day from Garrett City, where they have been visiting during the past two weeks. . : " Mr. M. J. Kimmellstiel, of New York ‘City, visited with the family of L. Schloss and other relatives and friends in this city during the last few days. S Abe. L, Brown returned last Thursday from Garden City, Xas., where he has been for the past three month. He reports everything booming in Kansas. Miller Hadley, of the BANNER force, was among the excursionists from this place who took in Niagara Falls and Foronto during the recent K. of P. conclave. . Mrs. E. W. Knepper and children, who had for a few days past been visiting with Dr. and Mrs. Shaw, retirned to their home in Ligonier on Monday.—Angola Republi- - can.

Abe C. McDonald, drum major of the Ligonier Band, made a pleasant call at this office on Saturday. He 1s connected also with the BANNER, one of the yvery best papers in this part of the state.—LaGrange Democrat. i . ° Abe C. McDonald, the manly drum major of the Ligonier Band, is a printer, and connected with the BANNER. This accounts for his finesappearance. We would acknowledge a pleasant call.—LaGrange Standard. - F. O. Gerber, Jobkn H. Green, Charley Morrell and M. A. Hutchison went out to the residence of Jonathan Keehn, Sunday last, to enjoy a ‘‘country dinner,”” and right royally were they entertained. Mr. and Mrs. Keehn understand fully the requirements of four hungry ‘‘town boys,” ‘and gave them all they could eat. Igaac N. Todd and John C. Peters went to Chiéago on Tuesday evening as witness-es-in the case of the State of Illinois vs. Charles Skeldon. This is the case of which we published .the particulars several weeks ago-in, which Migs Belle McKilvey made eomplaint against Skeldon for erininal assault. The trial came off yesterday. The Plymouth Democrat, in writing up a very fine musical entertainment that ‘was recently given at the parlors of the Paimer House, at Maxinkuckee lake says: “¢Mrs. Electa Green, of Ligonier, opened ‘the entertainment with a finely executed number on the piano. -Miss Lou Houghton sang a song which was duly appreciated.”, : . Mrs. William S. Kiser and daughter, Georgia, of Washington, D. C., arrived'in town on Friday of last week and are visiting relatives and friends here. They will probably spend the sumer in Albion., Mr. Kiser is chief of the military division of the treasury department under this .agdministration, and his duties there would not permit him to accompany them.—Albion New Era. :

* TO THE PUBLIC. In justice to Mr. Kistler, I desire to say that he has never had anything to do with the case now pending against Mr. Linville to disbar him from practising law, until the publication in last week’s BANNER. Mr. Kistler had never spoken to me about his having any trouble with Mr. Linville, and all the knowledge I had of such trouble came to me through third parties. Mr., Ritter came to see me in.regard to proguring the surrender of the note anq? mortgage of Mr. Linville, and authotizad me to demand it of him. I dids&haud told Mr. Linville that un--léss. he surrendered them befors the next.term of the court, the matters would be presented to the judge. - Upon the sworn statements of the Ritters as made at court, and often repeated to me, the first charge in the case against Mr. Linvilla is predicated’ The court appointed Mr. Zimmerman to file the charges, and directed me to assist as an attorney in the case. - By what means the affidavita of the Ritters as set forth in last week’s BANNER were obtained, I do .not know. All statements therein reflacting on me are untrue. Inasmuch as I am an attorney representing the public in this case, my professional duty forbids me saying anything on the merits of the case further than to repel any personal attacks made against myself. The case will be sifted to the bottom with perfect fairness to Mr. Linville, as well as to the public, and even handed justice done, strike where it may. - Respectfully, S P.V.HOFFMAN, -

. TAKEN UP. . At my res?éence, four- miles north of Wawaka, on Sunday July 11, ’B6, a chestnut sorrel marg, with white hind feet and white streak in face. 'Supposed to be about four years old, in good condition. Any one paying charges and the cost of this notice, by proving property, can claim the horse. JOHN S. GIBSON, 14w3 . b Wawaka, Ind.

—Last Sunday afternoon, at Warsaw William Rossean was kicked by a horse and instantly killed. He was leading the horse out of the barn to the buggy and noticed that it was not properly ourried, and attempted to curry without speaking to the horse, which was blind, when it struck him just back .of and beiow the ear, breaking his neck. He was 50 years old and leaves a wife and two sons. Mr. Rosseau was a brother of Mrs. G.* W, Chapman and a well known citizen.

. Good Results in Every Case. D. A. Bradford, wholesale paper dealer of Chattanooga, Tenn., writes, that he was seriously afflicted with a severe cold that settied on his lungs; had tried many remedies without benefit. Being induced to try Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, did 80 and was entirely cured by use of a féw bottles. Since which time he has used if.in his family for all Coughs and Colds with best results, This is the experience of thousands whose lives have been saved by this wonderful discovery. ; i Trial bottles free at Geo. S. Woodruff & Bro's. .11 e S R Lo e On the road between Ligonier and Diamond Lake, last Sunday -mornin%./ berween fen and eleven oclock, a silver wateh, Elgin works and open faced. A'charm was fastened to the chain, On oneside of charm “1886.” On the other side the letters “K. K. L. and “F. Gl B.” llf any one has found this watch a liberal reward will be paid for its return to'this oftice, .

LATEST NEWS. More Tory Trinmphs—Conservative Victories in Al the Great Ag- _ . ricuitaral Centers. . C..D. Graham, of Buffalo, Passes ° Safely Through the Niagara o e W hiripook - : fi e BurFraALo, N. Y., Julyl2.—Very few of the thousands of persons who visited! Nfgmgara Falls yesterday had any idea that another adventurous man ‘would attempt togass through the whirlpool raipids in which Capt. Webb lost his life. 'Such an attempt was made, however, at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, and 1f was successfully accomahshed. - For'some time past C. D. Graham, of Buffalo, has been making' prepara-! tions to brave the ra}l))idg in a cask, but few persons really believed that his courage would hold out long encugh for him to make the trial. Graham’s Ellan ‘had been made public, but the ime at which it was to be carried out kept secret among a few friends. Accordingly there were few witnesseés of the perilous act.’ : 5 Grabam kept the cask in which he intended to make his trip in a saloon in this city. About 11 o’clock last night he loaded it.in a wagon, and, accom;l)anied by several friends, started for the falls. Ther arrived there about 4 o’clock this morning and unloaded the cask at a point on the American sitle of the river below the falls and three hundred rods above the cantilever bridge. A policeman arrested Grabam on suspicion that he was a Tonawanda horse-thief, but his Buffalo friends secured his release on bail.

When everything was ‘rezu%iy‘? Graham ﬁot into the barrel and closed the manole at the top. At this point of the river the current is very slight. A small boat towed the cask out into the river to .a point where the current would catch it. After towing the cask a few minutes the stream caught the cask and started it towards the whirlpool. At first it moved slowly down then faster ard faster, until the mad current dashed it on with its full force. The cask bounded up and down ,over. the great waves, and several times J turned a complete somersault, but the wider portion remained uppermost, although it turned around like -a top. The cask kept pretty well in the center -of the river until it reached the whirlpool, when it struck a strong ‘side eur-: rent and was carried swiftly through, reaching the waters beg'ond in safety. From this point the journey was comparatively quiet. The cask was Eick ed up at Lewiston, about five miles elow the starting point, and Graham crawled out of the barrel with only a slight bruise on his.arm. Heé remarked: ‘““When I struck the eddies it was one continued round of jerks, but I am not hurt a bit.” Graham is a native of Philadelphia, 83 years old, and a cooper by trade. He is a poor man and did this thing for glory. : i The cask in which Graham shot the rapids is seven feet long, thirty-three inches in diameter at the widest portion, twenty-three inches at the to¥; and eighteen inches at the bottom. It is bound around with iron hoops which weigh 250 pounds. The ballast which was attached to the cask to keep it m position weighs 240 %ounds. Glrahaml will probably repeat the trip. e says he will yet go over Horseshoe Falls. . LonpoxN, July 12—The returns received up to midnight show that . the conservatives have elected 289 candidates, unionists 63, the Gladstonians 149, and the Parnellites 72.. The con%ervative gain- has been reduced by WO. e

Sir ‘George' Otto Trevelyan, who, with Mr. Chamberlain, resigned from the cabinet to op%ose Mr. Gladstone’s Irish policy, has been defeated as the unionist candidate in Hawick for %r--liament. At the last election Mr. Trevelyan was returned as a liberal from Hawick without o'};)p'osition. This %'ear Mzi. John Dillon stumped the disrict against him. The result has been that out of the total of 5,016 votes polled in Hawick borough Mr. A. L. Brown, the Gladstonian candidate, received a majority of 30, obtaining 2,523 to.the 2,493 secured by Mr. Trevelyan. The announcement of the result has produced a sensation throughout the country. : : e ‘. The total vote polled lé&)to_ Saturday night was: Unionist, 1,209,874; Gladstonian, 1,118,973. Of the 95 seats remaining to be contested, 561 were formerly held by Gladstonians, 19 by conservatives, 12 by unionists, and 18 by. Parnellites. . Lord Salisbury has proposed to Lord Hartington the. formation of a coalition ministry, with a platform of local government for Ireland, Scotland, England, and the empowering of rural laborers to acquire small holdings of land. Such a ministry would include Mr. Goschen, Sir Henry James, and the.dukeof Argyll,.. = = = o

MILWAUKEE, J ully]' 9.—District Attorney Williams, who conducted the grosecution .against the Anarchists, as received numerous letters in which threats against his life are made. So far no attention has been paid to them. Thursday afternoon George Mallory, a brother of Judge Mallory, and Lawg'erv Jared Thompson were attacked by two ‘drunken men on the street The latter were under the impression that they had encountered Judge Mallory and Mr. Williams, and declared that they had been selected at ‘a meeting of Anarchists held in Chicago Tuesday night-to take the life of the judges, lawyers and officials who had had anything to do with the trials, and the same thing would be done in Chicago. Before thef could offer any violence, however, they were convinced of their mistake in regard to names of the gentlemen V{*hom theg’ had followed -for several blocks, and disappeared. Today one of them was arrested. He gave his namne as Patrick John TFoley, of Wallace, Kan. Letters show that he wasemployed there as {;rajn dispatcher. Lately he said he had resided in Chicaﬁ.‘o. The other man i supposed to be ug Cleary, a well-known thug; of Milwaukee. The jurors who convicted the three Anarchists have also been: threatened wsith violence. .

¢ NEw YORK, July B.—The following is a summary of the Rural New Yorker’s crop report: From over 4,000 crop reports fromn all parts of the country, the winter wheat crop is, on the whole, good, the probable yield being 295,000;000 bushels, against 212,000,000 bushels in 1885, with a slight increase in acreage. Spring wheat has been consider-. ably inf' ured by drought and blight; the yield will probably by 140,000.000 bushels, against 145,000,000 last year. The total wheat crop wiil probably 083 435,000,000 bushels, against. 357,000, bushels last year. : | In oats there has been a slight increase in acreage; the crop has been considerably injured by drought and insect pests, and will probably - yield 600,000,000 bushels, against 629,000,000 bushels in 1885. - o o " Of rye and barley there will be excellent crops, on a slightly inecreased area. : There is a good stand of corn, and the outlook is excellent for a fine crog). Of early gotatpes the crop will be heavy, and the late }ilotatoes are promising, especially in the west. e

. GENERAL NEWS. Senator Edmunds is of opinion that congress will not adjourn before August. ; ! § Ex-President Arthur is still at New London, and is not improving in condition. ; . : The republicans of the Sixth Illinois District have renominated R. R. Hill for Congress. ) The Panama Canal company has decided to issue bonds instead of undertaking a lottery loan. e - The republicans of Kansas have renominated Governor Martin and Lieutenant Governor Reddle. : . _ There are ﬁft%/ cases of ty({)hoid fever in the village of Waterford, Wisconsin, and four deaths have occurred. 1t is probable that the citizens of Tuscola. Illinois, will lynch Henry Wildman for the murder of his wife. i ‘A telegram from Fort Keogh reports 8 temperature of 110 degrees in the shade, with the grass eurling up onthe, ranges. - S i Seventy citizens, of Coultersville, Illinois, were poisoned at a picnic by eating ice-cream. Several persons have already died. - N The swamp land in the southeastern -part of Allen ‘couniy{; Indiana, is to be reclaimed by the Little river ditch of forty-tour miles.. = R -~ John E. Leon, a__‘tight-ro‘?e.‘ walker, fell forty feet at Sprinmgfield, Ohio, striking on his head. “lis mmjuries are notdeemed fatat.. . o 0 j M. De Lesseps states that it is %ossi'-f ble to complete a level ¢anal at Panama within three years, at a costof GOOT,‘hOOQ,OOO,f?ancs‘. i‘.&l i ""‘i th f L .. The use of natutal gasin the factoties ab Pittsburg has thrown out of

work about five' thousand coal-miners Inghabdiatrioh.. o 0 o . The Union and Central Pacific roads are about to put on an ex'fress train to ! run from Ou;a{xa. to San Francisco in sixty honrsoridess, . 2 The criminal court at- St. Louis® has. overruled the motion for a new trial for Maxwell, the murderer of 'Prelle):.l An appeal will be taken. - ; Dr. Valentine Mott, of New York,. has performed upon the son of a Jersey City physician the first inoculation for the prevention of rabies. -~ = = ' Eighty Arkansas convicts at work in a brickyard, near Pine Bluff, made adash for liberty, and 'three of them were killed by the guards. ' - The coal-mining interest of southern Illinois has formed a syndicate and secured articles of an mco{x;&;)ramon,with a capital stock of $5,000.000.° & - The president approved the act to forfeit the lands f&anted the Atlantic & Pacific railroad ¢ompany and to restore the same to'settlement. - . Martin Conklin, one of the proprietors of: a planing-mill at Lancaster, Ohio, was crushed intoa mass of jelly by being caught.in the belting. ' Paul H. Hayne, the southern Boet, was buried Sunday, at Augusta, (zeorgia. An impressive funeral oration was delivered by Bishop Beckwith. Mrs. Arnold, residing near New Hol-, land; Ohio, has celebrated the 109th anniversary of her birth. - She has one sister aged 106'and another who is 112. .On a_forty-acre tract at Sharon, Pennsylvania, some Detroit capitalists have arranged to place a Bessemer gteel plant with a daily capacity of 160 018, ; ; Ee =

Newell Gleason, who was colonel of the 87th Indiana volunteers, was killed. at La Porte, by. falling down a .céllar stairway, receiving 'a fracture of. the skul,l.?- ‘ ; LEaiE Ol e ' In accordance with a recent act- of congress, the president has nominated Fitz John Porter to be colonel ' in'the army.of the United States from -May 14,1861, . ol e Levi R. Reese, treasurer ‘of the Knights of Labor at Fort Worth, Texas, hasbeen arrested for embezzling funds sent there to relieve sufferers by the strike. N

Poundmaker, chief of the Blackfeet Indians, who was contined in the Manitoba penitentiary for nearly a -year, died suddenly from the bursting of a blood-yessel. St ol b .. The reFub]ican state central committee of Missouri aéce,pt’ed the resignation of Chauncear L ¥ 'gllelv) as chairman and elected General: D. P.- Grier. to the vaecancy. . - | e ; ~ Cattlemen from Kansas and Texas are negotiating ,with the Osage, Ponca, Pawnee, and Otoe Indians for a_lease of all their available grazing lands at a few cents peracre.” = .o 0 A justice iy Cincinnati exacted bonds - of $l,OOO each from seven journeymen. bakers wiho- have . been boycotting Charles Binnie. The charge was attempt to blackmail. . - - - .- Someone who'had watched the operations of a miser hamed Frank Moore. | residing near. Pennshoro, West Vir‘gmia.,. took from his hoard $2,000 in ils and $5,5600 in' gold. - e - An application fer membership in’ the Railway Mail Service Mutual Aid associgtion has been made by Postmastér General Vilas, to show. 'his appreciation of its objeets. . . - ¢ Charles Marsh, the Boston dry-goods merchant, died from astroke of paraly:Bis,in his fifty-seventh year. His estate is estimated at $10,000,000, including life insurance for $250,000. L

About ten thousand bills have been gresent’ed in the present house, most of hem for private measures. This is more than was ever introduced in-both sessions of any other congress. . William Brown, the head:-of a gang of Canadian counterfeiters arrested at Coburg, carried in his pockets a large amount.of false money and orders for packages as high as $7,000 each. President Cleveland vetoed the bill for a publi’c"buildin%i)at Dayton, Ohio, on the ground that the federal officials at that point are well accommodated at a rental of $3,850 per annum. - . Jack Burke was arrested in Cincinnati for engaging in a grize%igh_t with Pete Nolan on .the 4th. The :Mayor and Chief of Police desire a decision on the legality of glove contests. The California congressional delegation handed to President Cleveland, engraved on a solid gold plate an invitation to attend the Grand Army encampment -at San Francisco next month. . e : < ; . A. G. Brown, Jr., amilitia lieutenant of Jackson, Michigan, has disaptpeared with sl,sool%ompany.funds. His friends claim that He went to Chica%ro to: witness the ball games and lost the money in bets. o , v ~_lnthe anarchist trial- at - Chicago, Friday, a vain atbéfapt was made to obtain ' some jurors, by summonin % bankers and leading merchants. Eight men have been accepted out of 725 examined. 4§ . - s = :

The chief of, the firé department at Evansville, Indiana, cut-all the :telephone wires in that city, and commenced to take down the -poles, because the comrpany ‘failed to comply with a recent ordinance. ~ . - The '%rand. jury at Boston has| indicted Parson Downs for adultery with a girl named Alice Walton, who last Mareh becamea mother, ap&.who testified that she yielded to the preacher in a disreputable hotel., == . . - Harry: R. Beasant; a leading light in society at Frederick, Maryland, was fatally shot by a Ealtimore dentist named Joseph S. Webb, for the ‘betrayal of the latter’s cousin, Miss Sears,. who is now in an insane asylum. = . The Louisville furniture-workers’ eight-hour strike, which began Mafy 10, has ended in ack,nowled%ed failure. The places of nearly all the-strikers have been filled; and they will find it difficult to’'get work at any terms.- ' William M. Jones, of Des Moines, brought suit in the federal court at Chicago to compel John -B. Alley, of Boston, to refund $lOO,OOO or more ac'%uired through . manipulation of the Des Moines and Minneapolis road. jSeventg-ﬁve republican editors | of Ohio met at Coliimbus Thursday and passed resolutionsearnestly requesting the United States senate to investigate the charges of bribery in connection with the election of Senator Payne. . - Sam Archer, one.of a family of Indiana desperadoes, was. hanfged at Shoals Fridlz)my for the murder of Samuel A. Bunch. In the Tombs’at New York the execution of a Cuban negro named Chacon was witnessed by forty=six persons, . | Dl In the jail at Ann Arbor, Michigan, after confessing the per§t’rqtion of a, murder, a man from New Mexico hanged himself in his' cell with a TOpe . cut from a - hammock, - Officers from Socorro are supposed to be on the way to claim him. SUsEE b e e

‘The International Bimetallist league, at a meeting Thursday in Cincinnati, passed resolutions asking that the coinage of silver dollars be susgended until concurrent action can -be taken by the igreat commercial nations, asthe Bland aw has proven g failure. - Dr. Gatling will .soon exhibit in ‘Washington a gun specially devised for the suppression of “riots. Its weight will be fifty pounds, and it will be capable of firing one thousand shots ger minute. The intention is to place he weapon on police patrol wagons. The people .of Shackelford county, Texas, are said to be in 'a starving condition from the-almost total failure of cro§§, amd cattle are _ratpldly perishing. No rain has fallen for fourteen months., The settlers in that region were mainly from the ‘northern states.

M. J. Haley, a specialiagent of the generdl land office; seized a lumberyard at Fort ‘Keogh for the unlawful cutting.of timber on government land. He was pr.omgtly arrested under the territorial statutes, and will be prose--cuted by the ablest lawyers in that region. 5 : ! o ! Early Friday morning, during .a heavy rain, the safe in the postoffice at »Minn‘ea%olis was drilled by bu;',%lars -who took sloo'in currency and $lB,OOO worthrof stamps. The mail-carrier’s horse and a mercantile delivery-wagon were seizeéd bg the thieves to carry their booty to St. Paul. e O. H. Carr, a New York cotton buyer, followed Gen. Joe -McKegéi: an ex-confederate officer, all. Thursd i mornmg with a drawn pistol, threatgﬁ ing to shoot McKenzie because he. insulted him. The {wo met in the afternoon and Carr renewed his threats whereupon MoKenzie shot him dead. “The- members of gxe Tammany Society, of New York, in full reg.llia, formally celebrated the national anni~ versary. Addresses were delivered by Senator Vance (who deniounceq‘,-c,i‘rgz ‘ service reform as s fraud%ungﬂﬂ : Randall, J. Ba’nac lph - Tucker, and. others, Letters of regret were read

Lo e e e i from Samuel J. Tilden,: B. F. Butler, and the Governors of a dozen States. At a meeting held in New York under the aus%ices of the Central Labor union resolutions were adogt,ed depotégpi'xlx%ihdgg Bagett anddhe jury in the Thiers boycott case, eclarlm% their conviction fo be abrutal outburst of class hatred, and asserting that it was the sacred duty of every workingman to discontinue all %ersona.l and business relations with the men who secured the verdict. : ‘A very severe drought prevails throughout the entire State of Michigan. For nearly six weeks there has een no rain of value to the farmer. Wheat is nearly all harvested, but in the northern counties the ‘berg has been badl{espnvel_ed. The wheat crop of the state is estimated by the Secretary of State at 22,239,186 bushels, an average of 18 and 68-100 bushels per acre. The shortage in the oat crop from the drought is estimated at from 20 to 25 per cent. Fruits and the later berries are suffering greatly, especially along the sandy west shore’ and from the northern woods the report comes that the- usuallﬁ‘ immense blueberry crop is ruined. 'The condition of corn is considerably above the average. ‘Rain fell for five hours continually in Wisconsin Friday, and did incalculable benefit to all kinds of crops and vegetation in general. The- parched ground was thoroughly saturated. The drought 'which had lasted through two monﬁ}s with the mercury goingas high as 100 degrees in the shade, has done extensive in]ux?r to the croi)s, ?ut this rain removed the danger of further injury.” Corn and winter wheat will alone be an average crop. Many growers had become discouraged, and before the drought was broken aban‘doned their tobacco gmnts and sowed buckwheat in the fields reserved for them. Quite a proportion of the tobacco glrants which had been set out have dried up and thl? acreage of the weed cannot fail to be less next fall -than it was a year ago.

2 ¢ ® Cares g ; ~ - CANADIAN RESOURCES. THE BRITISH LION AS HE APPEARS . . TO A NEW YORKER. The Dominten of Canada and its Parlias . ment Dulidfugs=lts Agricultaral Pe-v'elopm'-'mt-‘-lyé Mineral Resources and .Vast .I‘rumb'er Intérests. 4 L ' [Special Correspondenca] e - OTTAWA, July 12.—“1t is rather surprising that you Americans know so little about our country.” Such was a Canadian® official's remark to me shortly after reaching Ottawa. - - Before telling anything about Canada, it - ‘will be a matter of interest to know that all who live in the United States are called “Americans.” To a dweller in the states who | is .of the firm conviction that the United States are the sum total jf America, and that Canada and Mexico are -mere outlying, dis- i tricts, such en appellation is flattering. However, I soon learned that it ‘was orly a con< venient way of deSignation. “A United .Statesman,” or “a man from thestates” would _consumne too much time and waste breath. In fact; a Canadian likes to mount his lion and say: “Look &t mie,'at my country, and at ‘what I can do,” just as mugh as an American . delights in straddling the eagle and asking the world to gaze at the most progressive-and biggest affair under the sun. e

% . S A ‘ o é - ¢ ; 4 q _cw i L t‘:,‘j' 4 it ’ P B | L e By - ek ',Q"" e 7 | o d SZ earst et Y : . e \ s RTINS & ;(/N S ;,;g/.ez’h;a, e SEeEN o : Vemenm e ‘V TR ’J“;’:&i (o - 4 E%‘E“;T vxi'\t:f‘*;Aiiﬁh _.l | | " MR REI b ke IAK | AT e ety ' I'-;-‘-‘v*[, *‘ 'A!v\'L‘H Pl B ‘, L,/"" ,‘4‘}:’;l:’ -‘i\ 11 \\é I‘3\'{l f J!' | ' ":i T AT \»u‘\ls: Qi ﬁ’é“‘f iAR ERAT (B e -it L@i SN AT R . .‘ e : § %) .:};,_‘fifif“‘ - & ‘gﬁfi{:?}_ai‘:ﬁ"iﬁ{é—’i“‘—:‘-" = THE PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY AT OTTAWA. We Americans are far’ too ignorant -abbut our friendly neighbor. Canada consists of more than the St. Lawrence river, the Lachine rapids, pine logs, snow, troublesome fishing. grounds and imported American thieves. Ottawa, the seat of governmguit, is a pleasant little city of 25,000 people,pxdh good place to learn of Canadian resotirces. ‘Ottawa is not a pretty city, and is especially’ lacking in the attractive homesteads -one meets with in Ainerican towns of a like size. It _has, however, beautiful parliament buildings on one of the finest sites in the world. - The archifecture, as you will notice, is light and graceful. 'Bhe library is'called the “most beautiful building for the 'purpose in America.” The interior reminds one of the rotunda in the Capitol at Washington, only it is not so vast, and is made wonderfully attractive and:homelike. Directly in the center«is a good marble stdtue of the queen, as & young woman, . These buildings stand on a high elevation overlooking the Ottawa river. In the distance, to the north and the east, a range of low mountains forms a foreground to the ever varying sky. The sweep.of the eye extends over miles. Nearer are the Chaudiere falls and rapids, where can be seen great saw mills in operation. :

o3g - - ' C GAa B o A v:z;:_, 3l | RRMR L B et HIOUSES OF PARLIAMENT AT OTTAWA. " | It will astonish the reader to learn that | '!Llanada islarger than the United States, excluding Alaska. It covers an immense territory, and comprises 40 per cent. of all the: aggregate British possessions throughout the world. Nor is it all a frozen region covered with snowdrifts. The agricultural and tim‘bered lands cover an area of 2,000,000 square miles, of which 1,000,000 square miles are suitable for the production of wheat, and the wheat regions of Manitoba are claimed by the Canadians to be the finest of the world. The development of that vast Northwest is yet in its Babyhood, but the fine yield of 50 bushels of whicat to the acre and the extra fine quality ‘are new grounds for Canadian self inflation.

- Patriotic citizens are also proud of the fact that Canadianiron ore is finer than that found in the states, Much of the ore is sent from the Dominion to Pennsylvania and there ‘mixed with inferior ores in smelting. Canada produces enough graphite to supply all the- - bodies of the world with lead pencils, even if eveéry garrulous political-capital speechmaker had -first to put his diluted thoughts on paper. Gold is mined with financial success, copper ore is plentiful, while there are vast fields of phosphates. There is | an endless quantity of fine building stone. Canada, as well as Pennsylvania, produces coal oil, although the majority of Americans - dont know the fact. Her coal regions are fine. In truth, her mineral resourcesare not justly appreciated evén by her own country- - men. But sofar Canada’s greatest commerfal interest’is her lumber trade.. Her boards ke houses “‘from climes where the quarralsome Esquimanx dogs scratch and bite fo zones where the tarantula nestles in the banana plants. An American can’t keep down his bump of national pride when he-learns that a very great number of Canada’s wealthy and influential lumbormen hail from the land of the Starsand Stripes. : It is easy to see what vast manufacturing .interests Canada van support with these great _resources.: The Dominion of Canada, which possesses these riches, did not 'have: any :independent existence until 1867. At that date the British Srovinees of Nova Socotid, New - Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec formed the confederation, resigning all their powers to a -central parliament. Prince Edward Island, Manitoba and British Columbia afterward became membejs. There are alsoseveral territories with romuntic but unpronounceable names. The present population of the Do‘minion is about 5,000,000 souls. Her colleges rank well. Canadiansare not prouder of any‘thing that they possess than they are ef the ‘Canadian Pacific railroad, which is .-m& line, under one direction, running from the Atlantic to the Paocific. Americans like to - bink they oan equsl snything in the warld, but here our Canadian friends are ahead of 8. We have no continuous railroad frem ~ocean to occan. - One can take a sleaper at ‘Montreal and aligkt from the same car wherd ﬁ%;ggeﬁ;xgmmm o Ghina, Tnanothe lothdk aud herpolitics. ~ Pavr Wiot® o o e U R R e S S e SR R TG TR s PRI R T POl R g S