Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 1, Number 13, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 19 June 1879 — Page 2

SSUmu Oteros. > A. B. BMITH, Eilttorr THURSDAY, JUNE 19,1879. THE "EE fF<!>.” Three months ago last Monday the first type was “stuok” on The News, and on the following Thursday the first issue was given to the publie. In looking back over these three months of labor and anxiety, of alternate defeat and triumph,, and of continued trials, such as always accompany the launch* ing of a public enterprise or the building up of a great institution. The News congratulates itself, and thanks ice patrons for the wide favor with which it has been received. It takes money and time to build up a newspaper, and pot the least important element is time. The paper our fathers read, and with which we were familier in childhood, is the one we read, even though it does not keep up with the times,and is seldom anything but stupid. In spite of the disadvantages of being anew paper and the closeness of the times, The News thus lar been a success to its publisher, and to-day addresses as large a number of readers us, any paper in the county, (with the exception of thteGosheo Times and Demo ■ oral) and if it is not as large as some leading county papers, we have the satisfaction of knowing that it is read, respected and heeded in every quarter of the county, and is firmly established where it can never die—in the hearts of the people. Never has any paper under, such circumstances made such steady and sure steps forward. Surrounded by e jealous and unprincipled opponents, who are seeking every opportunity to block its way, it has held, its ground, and every day approaches more nearly the goal set before it. The News has in- • creased five hundred and forty names since our first issue, and is still increasing every day. This article is written in no boasting spirit. It makes us feci good to recount the steps by which The News has arrived at its present high standing and influence in the community. And feeling thus at the end of this quarter we divide our satisfaction with our readers, friends and patrons. Leaving the past and looking to the future, we have no promises for The News that are not found in its character and history as known. Having always been on the side of truth, houesty and independence, we close this our first quarter with a view to improving during the next. a

. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company has now facilities for the shipment of live stock to Europe from® Baltimore second to no railroad • company in this country! Throe steamers —the Mercedes, Alton Towers, and Milanese—have lately been put on the line running between Baltimore and Liverpool especially designed for the live-stock traffic. These vessels have Three deoks, two of which are laid of iron ; also poop, bridge, and forecastle connected by means of gangways. They have four holds, aud carry water ballast in the main and after holds and have trimming tanks in the forepeak They have also ample fresh water accommodations, and their veutilatiop has been thoroughly at tended to. A very stringent tramp law has been passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature, which provides that when a man goes about begging, and has no residence or occupation in the county in which he may be arrested he can be taken before a Magistrate and committed for trial as for a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, may be sentenced to. jail or to-the work house, for a term no exceeding twelve months ■ 1 ——.. ..fW.'v,' Western papers speak of the emigration of uegroos, to Kansas, as the ■fl ing blacks." We are glad to know that the oolored element has a winged movement somewhere. Wonder it Liiy Pinkstou hss wings ? Quess she has, for she fled to the aid of fraudu* lent Kathy, anyhow. *

CAD WALL AD EE’S SCREECH The Elkhart Democrat says it is now in order for our city council to pass an ordinance to prohibit the blowing of railroad whistles within the city limits, and intimates that the law was only intended for operation ih the couutry Whether it will prove a wise measure for the country remains to be seen, and that much can be said on both sides of the question; then admits that it is an unmitigated nuisance in ibe city, and the sooner it is abolished the better. An unmitigated nuisance it certain'ly is, and no greater to the city than it is to the countrjf,'"only that they have a jittle more of it in the city. Wherein it is calculated to be of more benefit to the country than it, is to the Qlty is pas' finding out; and what he can find in defense of the law is more than the jack that presented or the legislature that passed it governor that signed such a bill, so as to become a law, knew at that time that it is an outrage to civil zation and the morals of all peaceful and law-abiding citizens of the state of Indiana, there is no doubt. The only defenie that can be offered for such a law is the utter lack of good judgment and common sense that the average legislators show in the majority of the bills effejed and passed by them. This infernal scieech of the locomotive, to comply with a law, that, if enforced, will be the cause of more accidents to persons and teams and do more harm and damage to property than an of the state of Indiana iB worthy The people in the country have to endure and put up with it, as they have no redress or remedy to abate the nuisance. And viewed from a moral standpoint, Cadwallader, legislature and governor should be held responsible for.all the “cuss-words” that the people are compelled to use whenever they bear the screech of the engine that is the result of the bray that was originated by the wisdom of the “jacks” that congregated at Indianapolis last winter as lawmakers. People living along the line of railroads are not free from the nuisance,by day or night, as when, in the still hours of the night, you arc awakened 'from your peaceful slutfibers to oall forth a short, Bharp, and perhaps a more forcible than elegant prayer for the makers of such a humane, wise and thoughtful law for your protection and benefit. Well, never, no, hardly ever, would you call down blessings on their devoted heads, cither by day or night, for such a boon for the especial benefit of the people of Indiana. Perhaps it was intended for a boom for “Blue Jeans,” if so it Is the loudest boom that has been started yet in favor of any one, especially along all the railroad lines in this state, and knocks the Grant, Tilden, Sherman and Hendricks boom all to pieces.

PniLiP Robinson, a married man of Newark, Ohio, left a note for Mrs. Robinson telling hers, that the tears forced themselves into bis eyes as he wrote, but he must leave her forever. As it happened the spry Mrs. R. got the note before it was intended Bhe should, and before long she had got at the bottom of the mystery—Phillip was going to elope that night—last Tuesday night—‘with Miss Armina Boyle, a lass of 16. But he didn't, not by a long shot. A newspaper and a newspaper ed itor that people don’t talk about aud sometimes abuse are rather poor concerns, a? The man and busiuess that an editor sometimes feels it a duty to defeud,at a risk of making enemies of an other class, are often the very first to show gratitude. The editor who expects to receive much charty or gratitude will soon find out his mistake \ but he should go on aud say and do what he conscientiously thinks right with regard to frowns aud smiles. — Lime City News. The Senate has remembered George Wushingtoo, among’ other things, to the extent of a few thousand, for the purpose of ereciiog a monument at his birthplace. And, by the way, wasn’t their a similar undertaking begun in the city of Washington some oyoles of years ago ? Is it intended now to inaugurate a sort of oompetetiou bo* tween the two sot (be purpose of seeing which one will be completed list?

PROOFS. <h One measure of intolleot is the amount and kind of evidence neoessary to establish.conviction. A great many men hear a scrap of evidence in a case, and on that form their opinions, and all after study and thought are for the simple purp"- of -trenurhenlng it. They do nut luvcMigatc any matter for the sake of the truth, but only for the argument. They are not in a state of mind to receive the truth when they see it. They are aptly called opinionated, and whether from phrenological peculiarities or natural stupidity, they are unable to weigh, Investigate and decide by the evidence. Such men i place enormous value upon the fact that they really and sincerely believe, them selves, the doctrines which they have become possessed of. Between this outside limit, next to the donkey and the-man at the other end of the line next to god—who is of the judical frame, of mind, whose mind is like a sheet of white paper, on which may be written all the evidence, who reasons from cause to effect, lies every form and degree of credulity, Men who are influenced by every vaiiety of circumstance and argument. The breakfast they eat in the morning settles the question for everything that comes up, with some men. What a friend says, wha,t they have read in some newspaper, or what their mother told them, stops some folks’ minds to the truth as tight as an oyster. They may have only got hold of a scrap of the evidence in the case, they may only look at one little corner of it, and very few of them look at more than one side of anything, yet they are as firm, indeed, much firmer in their beliefs than the man who wastes the midnight oil in study. The small mind is easily made up and bubbles and rattles when an attempt is made to turn it, like a small stream. A chip will change it or.a falling and any chance send it wide of its course. The river sweeps on its way in the true channel unless systematic work compels it to change; and it should bo the same with men. They, speaking by the strict letter of reason, should change their minds just as soon as the evidence, by reason of weight and value, turns the scales and not before. Human passions and prejudices are so strong, however, that men will be many centuries in making any perceptible change in their ability to decide on proofs alone.

GIVE EVERYONE A CHANCE. Land monopoly is a curse. It retards progress, stifles agricultural development, and holds the mass of nonlandholders in a sort of bondage. As a matter of equity it is uojust. A man has as much right to the soil -he treads as the air he breathes. It is a great, political evil. Men who own no land cannot bo expected to have .the patriotic love of country they would have did they possess a portion of its soil. A man with a farm, be it ever so small, feels that he is a monarch within its boundaries. Here in Indiana, where the area of tillable soil.is limited, there should bo uo large farms, The smaller the farms are the higher is the state of cultivation reached; laud beeomes more valuable, better crops aro produced, employment given to more people, and a iurger population sustained. Besides, the general prosperity is greatly enhanced. The solid foundations of France's enormous wealth are the six millions of small farms into' which her territory is sub-divided. The intense patriotism of the French people is more than anything else due to these small farms. Every man who owns a patch of land feels that he andjiis laud are integral parts of his oouutry, and that in upholding his country’s credit and honor he is doing it as much for himself as for anybody else. If the lands of this country were out up iuto small farms like France we would be more prosperous, more patriotic, more moral and more industrious than we are now ) and fewer tramps would be walking our highways in search of work. A man has the right to own as muoh money as he oan accumulate, m many houses as he oan ereot, or as m&Dy ships and railroads as he oan build, beosuse they arc all oreatiousof man's iugeuuity

and industry. But no man has the right to monopolize the soil of god’s footstool, the common heritage, like life of all. A man has a right to all the property he can honestly make, but ho has no right to exclude his neighbor from that which is his by a natural, inherent and inalienable title. From our Correspondents LOCKE. * Farmers busy plowing corn. That juke cost the druggist 15 cents. Ask J. S. what was in the package he received, Saturday evening. There is a certain man in town that gets mad whenever we talk about road work. __ David Frymyer has been very sick for several days, but is now slowly recovering. G. W. Eby intends to make starchboxes, fiddles, pianos and organs. The shop will be under the supervision of H. W. Eby. Mrs. Crowel is lying dengerously ill at the residence of Samuel Mays. She is under the care of Dr. J. K. Julicn, of Nappaoee. *' Married, —At the residence of the bride’s parents, near Locke, by M. 11. Murlan, J. P, Mr. David Boyd to Miss Etta Robinson. , If the preacher wants to save that gate of his he had better get the pick ets" well iroued on fop, or the the P. M will have it all gnawed to pieccß, ■ Those boys that get on streets on Sunday and throw clubs and clods at each other, had hotter be at home reading the bible or sumo other book. Dr. Paxon has moved to this place from Three Oaks, Micb., and intends practicing medicine. Wo are glad that we have a doctor in our town aeuin, as wo have had none’ siuce Dr. Julicn left us. We would advise the young gent who received that express package, never to lift another wheo he does not know what it contains. Or, if he does and shows the contents to the boys, he had better not get mad. A. S. K.

' MILFUED. The storm last Saturday blew down a portion of the iron fencing fro m the top of our school house. Bro. Miller visited Bremen quite often some time ago; aud now he objefets to others going. Business, BrO. Miller. The M. E. Churoh was given a thorough cleaning" last Saturday. A new Bofa and Bible now ornaments the pulpit, which adds materially to its appearance. Anew minister from Missouri held a scries of meetings at the Christian church Saturday and Sunday. He says there is not another ohurch organisation from pole to pole, in Europe or America that preaches the gospel as taught by the dceiples. * * W. E. Groves, Esq., took his first lesson in solemnizing matrimony last Sunday. Mr. Oscar Gillett, Irom noar Ligonier, to Miss Ellen Wehrly, of Jefferson township, iu this county. The 'squire says he thinks he mado a success of it, as all parlies appeared satisfied. We saw them goiug through towo uu hour later aud thought they had been well tied at they remained quite close together. Simon. QUA VELTON. A singing-school has been organized in this place. \ ■* Jim., if you want toplSyTtick, leave sour mi-k and orackers alone. An elderly lady says, “l am really proud of my two soos-io-law; it's a ecueolation to know that they are highly esteemed I” Charley hag renewed the pledge, and says he would not enter a saioOn for #lO. How often do we observe the iufluenoe of a young lady. We think it would be more’ suitable for a superintendent to open Sundayschool with prayer. An individual wishes that the first flash of lightning that strikes to this vicinity would strike L. Fisher, the seoond J. Wysoug and the third Thus. Felkner. If this person" had any influence we would advise the gemlemau to invest largely in lightuing rods.

HARTMAN BROS. NAPPANEE, INDIANA, Is where you can find one of the largest and complete stock of dry goods, mmm AN Dr— GROCERIES. A FULL LINE OF MEN’S FUR, Wo6l AN.D STRAW ft ATS —A Speciality made of— BOOTS l-S-i SHOES, Just received. Also a complete stock of Men, Women, Misses and Children Shoes, and a full line of Men's Fine Boots, which will be sold very edeap. —We keep on haud a full liuo of — TOBACCOS AND CIGARS. We pay the Highest Market Price for . PRODUCE, WHEAT AnD WOOLEXAMINE OUR STOCK BEFORE BUYING ELSEWHERE. P. C. STAHLEY, —DEALER IN—FURNITURE 0$ UNDERTAKER. • . . 1 •. \ 'i. My rooms may be found on arket Street, opposito the Post-office where A LARGE STOCK OF GOOD FURNITURE a 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 Btore is the place to buy. [^^-UNDERTAKING -• flu *ock of Coffins, Burial Cases, &c„ be kept constantly on hand, and ntJVipg a tjood hearse, I aifi 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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