Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 1, Number 1, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 27 March 1879 — Page 2

The News. A. B. Smith, Editor. THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1879. SALUTATORY. It is with pleasure that we present to the people of Nappanee and vicinity the initial number of The NAPPANEE News. We have launched out in this enterprise, thinking and feeling that this place really needed —and would support — an independent home journal, for such we shall always strive to make The News. As sections of a country grow older, get to be more intelligent, and become more thickly populated they demand a press to give utterance to the demands and necessities of their respective localities. An advocate of truth and justice is needed in every community, that is sufficiently large to support one ; and Nappanee will not be so blind to her own interests as to not throw every mite toward the building up of an influential and popular journal within her boundaries. This she will do; we feel confident that every citizen will aid all he can. The first year’s existence of a journal is always its hardest, and therefore to make a sure success of The News, it behooves every live citizen to put his shoulder to the wheel and help push it along Regarding the policy of The News, we can only say that it will always maintain a strict independence in poli tics and religion. Independent but not neutral; which allows us to speak of any wrong which we may; from time to time, observe. Never shall we stoop to low personalties, nor allow communications of such complexion to enter our columns. Our greatest aim shall be to work for the best interests of Nappanee and vicinity, our Faber will never tire of advancing the interests of this community ; and the press with its influence shall work unceasingly to place Nappanee in the front rank of towns, though it is already the livelist town for miles around. We are here to labor for you and respectfully ask a care ful consideration. We hope to merit your confidence and patronage.

THIS ISSUE of The News will find its way into the hand of many persons who are not regular readers, and we desire to call the attention of such to the fact that it is the cheapest weekly paper published in Elkhart county. The News is $1.00 per year, in advance —50 per cent. cheaper than any other Indeed, considering the amount of matter published, the money expended for the general character of the paper, The News is the cheapest paper published in the West. Copies of to-day's issue can be had at this office in single wrappers for mailing. Price, three cents per copy, Okder for 31,000 silver dollars were received at the Treasury on Wednesday last, making 208,000 ordered the pres ent mouth. PENNSYLVIANA was visited with sulphur showers on the 16th. In Reading and Allentown sulphur fell to the depth of half an inch. The first biil introduced in the Forty-sixth Congress was for a claim by Voorhees for the relief of J. G. Harrison, formerly Assessor of Internal Revenue in Indiana. We breathe easier now. The counterfeit $1,000 notes now in circulation can be detected by their “greasy feel. It eats into an editor's salary fearfully to get stuck with four or five such notes in a week. The Indians cultivate five times as much land as they did ten years ago and glow five times as much food. Considering the natural aversions of the red man to labor, and especially to the drugery of fram life, this is an encouraging record. The time is coming, and is co...r in the dim future, when the aboriginals will have to choose between starvation and self support.

A NEWSPAPER'S FUNCTION. There has grown up a sort of common law of obligation, recognized mutually by the press and the people. by which the people expect that the press, as distributors of useful intelligence, shall inform them, as well what is to be avoided as what is to be sought, as well who is to be suspected as who is to be confided in. And a newspaper, as a garnerer and distributor of news, is a public monitor, and it is its duty, to admonish the people against frauds and shams, and impostures and dishonesties. It is to be a beacon as well as a guide ; and whenever a public newspaper, through its diversified appliances for the collection and distribution of information, discovers anywhere in public avocations, whether it be a lawyer, or a clergyman, or a physician, a man who, instead of securing the public welfare by honorable methods and practices, simply prowls about in the back yard of his profession, and uses the means and instrumentalities which honorable title gives him to pander to his own lust or avarice, or any other vile passson, and that paper fails to send out some admonitory voice, and sound some signal of warning, it is recreant to every principle of duty and responsibility, and should be stigmatized by the public it pretends to represent and to serve. JOHN M. MORTON, son of the late Senator Morton, who has been special agent in the charge of government interests in Alaska, and who was dangerously ill at Sitka for several mouths at the time of his father's death has been appointed Consul at Honalulu, Sandwich Islands. ONE feature of the Senate committees which will attract national attention is that Withers, of Virginia, who had commanded of the prison pen at Danville, Va , during the war, where Union solders suffered almost as much as at any prison in the South, is made Chairman of the Committee on Pensions, and to him disabled soldiers are to look for relief. THE beer and liquor statistics of Cincinnati present some astounding facts. It is shown that not less than twenty- five thousand persons in the city live upon the profits of saloons. There are 300,000 people in Cincinnati, each of whom expends on an average $23 20 for beer, and $30.12 for distilled liquors. Here is an aggregate of $15,000,000 spent for beer and liquors alone by the people of one Western city in a single year. IN the publication of a weekly paper iu a village like this,we are not ex pected to compete with papers from the larger cities. As publisher, our only aim and hope is to make our paper of local interest, while their's find an in terested reader as readily in the me chanic of Massachusetts as in the farm er of Minnesota. This will explain in part the seeming wide difference in the subscription price of the two papers. Then, too, from your city paper you get no knowledge of your immediate neighhood, your own town, your own coun ty. Thus it will be seen, the one has come to be as much a necessity as the other. SOMETHING like the following is proposed as an additional section of the revised statutes: "That at all elections it shall not be lawful to use ballots, either written or printed upon tissue paper, nor upon paper that, shall be less than five inches in length and three inches in width, of a weight equal to that which is commonly used to print newspapers upon, such ballots to have no distinguishing marks, or designs, of any description whatever, upou lhe reverse side of them. Ballots which do not correspond with this description shall be rejected, and not counted. All ballots casts at any election shall be handed open and unfolded to the election officer, who shall fold the same in plain view and in presence of the voter, and place it in the ballot-box, and no ballot shall be placed in the ballot-box if it shall be folded when received by the office of election. The person who shall be

found guilty of folding two or more ballots together, or who shall attempt to deposit or cause to be deposited more than one ballot, or who shall attempt to deposit or cause to be deposited any ballot not answering the de scription herein contained, or who shall aid, countenance, or encourage other person or persons to deposit or to count any such ballot, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $1,000 and by imprisonment of not less than one nor more than five years.” THE MESSAGE. WASHINGTON, March 19.—The following is the President’s message, transmitted to Congress to-day : FELLOW CITIZENS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES : The failure off the last Congress to make the requisite appropriations for legislative and judicial purposes, for the expenses of the several executive departments of the government, and for the support of the army, has made it necessary to call a session of the Fortysixth Congress. The estimates of the appropriations needed, which were sent to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury at the opening of last session, arc renewed, and are herewith transmitted to both the Senate and House of Representatives. Regretting the existence of the emergency which requires a special session of Congress at a time when it is the judgment of the country that public welfare will be best promoted by permanency in our legislation, and by peace and rest, I command these few necessary measures to your considerate attention. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. Washington, March 19, 1879. A LITERARY REVOLUTION. Chambers Cyclopaedia of English Literature, in the new ACME EDITION, is meeting with such extraordinary sale that the publishers, to make it still more popular, have further reduced the prices. Purchasers ordering before April 30th will get the eight volumes complete, in paper, for $1.75 ; cloth. $2.50 ; half morocco, gilt top, $4 00 ; or bound in four volumes, half moroc co, gilt top, $3.20. Sample volumes sent post paid for 30 cents, 45 cents, 65 cents, and 90 cents. This is not only one of the choicest works in the language, but really wonderful in its low price Specimen pages and terms to clubs will be sent free on request by the publishers, the American Book Exchange, 55 Beekman st., N. Y. PENN YAN MYSTERY ! The new Illustrated Weekly, Family Newspaper of Leon and Harriet Lewis, 8 pages containing Stories. Lady Redwoode’s daughter, by Mrs. Harriet Lewis; Count of Monte Cristo, by Alex. Dumas ; Sir Allyn’s Enemy, by Leon Lewis, etc. Portrait of Dumas and other illustrations. Voyages and Travels. A Ride Through Islam, Turkey to India : Year in South Africa, by Lady Barker ; Six months in the Sandwich Islands; Around the World, by Mrs. Brassey, etc. Illustaited. Geographical. Vestiges of Atlantis, the Continent that existed 12,000 years ago between Europe and America; the lost. Anchor of Columbus ; Current Exporations. etc. With Map of Atlantis. Science. The Religion of the Great Pyramid ; Discovery of Vulcan ; The Moons of Mars. History. Lake Dwellings of Switzerland and other parts of Europe; Glimpse of Babylon. Leading Articles. The real Business of Existence; True Capital and True Riches; the Relations of this Life to the Life to Come ; Is an Age of ‘‘Miracles’’ at Hand ? Terms. Single copy, one year, $3 ; four hopies, $10 ; eight copies, $20 ; single number 6 cents each. The remitter for Club of eight entitled to a free. Delivered to News-agents and Booksellers in any quantity direct from our office at $4,25 per hundred. Remittances at our risk only in P. O. orders on Penn Yann, or Banker’s drafts on New York. Address, Leon and Harriet Lewis, Pulishers, Penn Yan, N. Y. As an old colored man and his son stopped in front of an umbrella store, the son saw some umbrellas with covers on them, and questioned his father: “What’s, de covers on them dar um'rellas for ?” “Why, chile, ‘ems put ober de um rellas to keep em dry when it rains,’ was the father’s response.

The Proprietors OF THE PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE Desire to return thanks to their Many Customers, and friends, for their liberal patronage in the past, and hope to merit a continuence of the same in the future, by KEEPING THEIR STOCK at all times supplied with PUR FRESH GOODS OF Standard Quality. And they would announce to everybody that their store will at all times be supplied with a CHOICE STOCK IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. With the best selected stock of Drugs. Medicines! OILS, PAINTS, DYE STUFF, School Books, Stationary, Sundries, Toilit Soaps, Perfumery, and all the Standard Patent Medicines of the day. The best Cigars aud Tobacco. We aim to make the lowest possible cash prices, so as to merit a continuance of that same liberal patronage and trade in the future as in the past. Respectfully yours, nl . D. BINKLEY & CO. The Old Reliable, BOOT & SHOE M A K ER. RICHARD SANDERS. NEW WORK made to order, and reparing done on the shorted possible notice, at prices to suit the times. GIVE ME A CALL BEFORE GOING ELSEWHERE. Nappanee, Indiana. nl FISHER BROS. Dealers in and Manufacturers of B R I C K NAPPANEE, INDIANA. We make and keep constantly on hand No. 1 Brick. WE DEFY COMPETITIO N IN PRICES. Give us a call before buying elsewhere. Brick yard opposite THE NEW SCHOOL HOUSE. Look Here. JUST RECEIVED A FULL Assortment of Womens, Childrens & Misses Shoes of various Styles, which l will sell at bottom prices. Those in need of such ware would make money by calling and examining my stock before purchasing elsewhere. WE CALL SPECIAL ATTENTION To Ladies fine ware. I also have some substancial ware for farmers. Please call and get prices. \ I Also invite Shoe-makers to call on me if they want LEATHER & FINDINGS And save time and money. I also manufactor to order, garentee all work, and fear no competition, either in quality or workmanship. I have in my employ a superior workman. Repairing done on short notice. Now l invite all to come and see me and be convinced of what I say. E. McDannel.

HARTMAN BROS. —DEALERS IN— DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES. BOOT AND SIIOES, HAT & CAPS, DRESS GOODS, HOSIERY & WHITE GOODS. ...ES AND EMBROIDERIES, CORSETS. FANCY GOODS AND NOTIONS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Choice Tobaccos and Cigars always on ONE LOW PKICE TO A LI,, AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT. REMEMBER BARTMAN'S CHEAP CASH STORE. Main Street, NAPPANEE, INDIANA. P. C. STAHLY —DEALER IN—FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKER, My rooms may be found on Market Street, opposite the Post office whe A LARGE STOCK OF GOOD FURNITURE! Embracing everything usually kept in such stores. I expect to keep such a class of goods and offer them at prices that will convince you that my store is the place to buy.

UNDERTAKING !

A full stock of Coffins, Burial Cases, &c., be kept constantly on hand and having a good hearse, I am prepared to attend all funerals on short notice. Terms as reasonable as any other establishment. I also have in connection a complete stock of WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY

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Repairing done on short notice and all work warranted. I am also agent for

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All kinds of Sewing Machines, and keep on hand all the different machine needles. Give me a call before buying elsewhere.