Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 1, Number 16, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 10 July 1879 — Page 2

jv 1m $• ■■ - ■— A. B. SMITH, Editor. THURSDAY, JULY 10,1879’. TO WHOM 11 A4J’ CCNC ERN, Seine let) Wetks ago we hired a man(?) by the name of John J. Fireslode, to assist us with our labor oo The News. He was a good priuter, did his work entirely satisfactory; but he was a man with no principal what ever. He bad been contemplating going to vValkerton to spend the Fourth, and did go, as we supposed; but instead of visiting Wilkerlbn, ’he stole his clothes out of the house after night and took the night train to Chicago There he scent part of two days hunting Work, and, failing in this he came back here with the expectation of going to wjrk again. We were sick at the time he left, and he made his brags that he was going away to stay, W bile he was gone we heard of several accounts he had collected and bad never reported to us, and of course we had no use for that kind of a man in our establish, ment, so we settled with him, and paid him what was coming with the exception of an account be had at one of our business houses, and which he said he did not intend to pay. The reason why we write this article is because the young man has asserted here, and he may elsewhere; that we did not pay him. We look pity on the poor cuss and paid him 83 40 more than was comiog to him, and this is our thanks for it. He can not be trusted with yonr business, and with hardly anything else. We treated him like a gentleman, spoke well of him to everybody, and tried to build him up to society; but all to no pu'pose. He was certainly one of the most shiftless men that ever struck Nappannee ' We are sorry that we are obliged to write this article, hnt we do not wish to be injured by a man with such a degraded principle as he has. He has also borrowed money of several of our oitizens, and left without paying it back; and was “ cheeky ’’ enough 'to tell them that he did not intend to pay it back.

The Fort bill for the _recoinage of trade dollars will take|'a rest in the Senate ndjil the next regular session The bill provides that the government shall redeem them at par and recoin them into standard silver dollars. Its effect won dbe to canse the govern* ment to pa; a sum for 420 grains of silver what will buy in the market in silver bullion 480 grains of silver The trade dollars were never United States mono;, but were coined for private parties b; the United St .tea mints, for convenience in trade with China. This redemption b; the United States is therefore* entire); uncalled for, and the re salt of sueb redemption would be to pa; a liberal gratuit; into the pock, eta of the speculators who have bought up these dollars at a considerable discount; with tbe expectation of the passage of just such a measure as this Fort bill. Practical); it would com* pel the government to bu; several million dollars worth of silver sod pa; about 15 per cent, more for it than tbe same thing in silvejr bullion oould be bad for eUfewbere, Thu wires* are ever; da; flashiog over tbe country news of shocking murders, usual); committed “in a fit of paarioo.” Men shoot their wives in a “ fit of jAloiis; " and kill one another “in a quarrel." Most mao* slaughters are eommitied on the impulse of the moment. The underlying . cause of three fourths of crime ia lack of self-control. Anger, or some other passion, takes possession of a man, and under its Influence he becomes a homicide. Anangry wor&a hast; blow, aod life has been and remorse siesee upon tbe homicide to gnaw at hie heart forever. Unoontrolled pterions have brought and are bringing e notices thoosends of human beings to bad ends. The remedy lies in truer and better education, a wise home training for the young.

o uii coun r r expands 7VREB. No county in the state having the population, and the lengths of streams to b idge that Elkhart has, can show a more economical administraiion of affairs than is demonstrated by the Auditor's annual exhibit published in the Times. The county expenditures proper for the year ending May 31, 1879,j were 844,363.79, against 853,259.18' for tLe same items fir the year ending .May 31, 1878. We'_are aware, that the Goshen Independent, by including temporary loans, special school funds, township tuition taxes,- dog taxes and, other funds that simply passed through the hands of the Audiior, and had nothing whatever to do with our county expenditures proper, magnified our expenses to 8150,000 in 1878-9, but the editor ocly deceived himself by these foolish and malicious statements. The fact that the exhibit of 1879 shows a decrease of expenditures of nearly nine thousand dollars over the exhibit of 18<8, is proof that our excellent board of Commissioners has a sharp eye on the interests of the taxpayers. We believe it is only about a year since the board became entirely Republican, and the results are entirely gratifying to the tax-payers. Mr. Elliott, who has beeo called the watch dog of the treasury,” undoubtedly feels himself complimented by the term, as nothing in the shape of expenditures escapes his eagle eye. Messrs. Werntz and Kessler have also faithfully and judicously discharged (heir dutjfj and we feel quite satisfied that their successors, Messrs. Zion and Mather, who will soon assume the robes of office, will not be*T>und wanting in the care and firudence that are demanded by the position to which they have beeu elected Republican economy is something tangible, and not a mere ignia faluut reform that don't reform. —Oothen Timet.

WASHINGTON LETTER. - X l/rom nur own Correspondent. Washington, D; C., Ju1y(8, 1879. —Nothing has been done in Congress in maoy years which is as important as) the bill lately passed concerning the improvement of the Mississippi river/ The commission appointed to report plans has on it such men Benj. Harrison, of Indiana,’ Gen. I. A. Gilmore, of the Eogineer Corps, and Capt. Jas B. Eads, now completing his jetties at the south-west pass of tbs Mississippi. The report from such a board infallibly receive favorable consideration from Congress, and this greatest of water highway! will doubtless receive from the government the consideration it deserves. Adjournment was not followed, as many thought it would be, by an immediate call -for another extra session. It has, however, been seini-officially announced that the President will re-assemble Congress at the end of September, if, by that time/the failure to provide for the payment, etc. of U' S. Marshals shall be found to • , C. obstruct the business of the courts. All the Senators and Representatives went away in the best of humor. May they all to-day enjoy at tbeir homes, a genuinely patriotic celebration of the birth-day of our government; and if summoned back they can hardly do better than remember when they e immence the work of legislation, tbe lessons taught a century ago. There are many indications of a very active can* vass in Maine from this time on to election day in September. Tho only Democratic Representative in the state writes encouragingly of the prospeet in bis di-tnet, but ventures no prophecy oo tbe general resdh. Senator Blaine writes that he expects the Re publicans to redeem tbe state. Whit. t. Terrible ravages are being made by bog dhotorea in north-western lili noil and part of low* and out hero Wisconsin. The- disease seems to be taking whole droves, and is very contagions and fatal. Many farmers have bean already beggared. Pno ■ LB going into tbe country will do well to take religion with tbeup

From our Correspondens GKA VEL TCN. Harvest is In full blast, All -summer crops are very good. Levi Fisher has a boss reaper od be is a boss binder too,-he gad, n<w, and don’t you forget it. Cherry Bounce is also a good billdeclared the other day whin ‘abouT half roaslered, that if his toy got big and would try to fight him, le would beat all bis ribs loose, tear u his liver, cut the gall off and give it to the cat. We have a very religious man in our neighborhood, who is so ridiculoisly religious that he believes it to )e his duty as a Christian, to use tobaoo, and especially to advise small boysto use it. When a man gets, so intimate with his hired girl that hd will drive avay his owu girl and cast her out upon he cold charities of an uofriendly wotld, that he may have a better oppertuuiy to accomplish his hellish designs, he should be compelled to wear a coat of feathers combined with tar, and he people talk of presenting him w’th that kiud of a garment. A man whom we will call Waxid End and who wears a cloak of piety, approached a couple of h ird-shells iecently and tried to induce them to alter into a conspiracy with him to make a raid oo a certain man who had money, but the boys wouldn’t conspire. He is a strong advocate of tobacco. SWIFTY.

GENERAL NEWS. Joseph Finch, of Cayton, Ohio, is mysteriously missing. The Empress Eugene is better, but her sleeplessness continues. The wife of Daniel Pridemore, a f rtner residing near Anna, o-hio, committed Buicide, Saturday. ” The Senate rejected the nomination of D. S Corbin to be Associate Jus ticeof the Supreme Court of Utah, For the killing of Mrs. Foster, near Memphis, last April, William Parker (colored) has been found guilty of murder in (he first degree. The seventy-five hour waljc at Chi cago, between 0 Leary and Ciossland, was won by O'Leary, who made 250 miles, Crossland going 225 miles. Siturday morning at Celton, W, Va. oo the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a boy named Elijah Aditns, agel twelve years, while playing about a keg faofaotoiy; was caught in a shaft aud instsnstantly killed Henry Done, a colored barber of Marshal Texas, became enraged at his wife Saturday week and struck her oo tbe bead with a heavy glass tumbler, fracturing the skull/from which she died at eight o'clock Saturday morniog A three year old child of WilliBuckner, liviug near P.aiofield, Indiana, was fatally injured, Saturday, by falling out of a second story window. The number of hogs packed io Chicago during the present summer season is 1 ,090,000, against 1.100,000 lor the corresponding period last year. The French Government's determination to require an oath of allogiance is owing to the fact that a number of Generals atteoded the requiem mass for the Prince Impel ial. Fiiday night, James R Evans, leading salesman of Detroit, Mich,, weut on the roof of 4fis bouse to obtain cooler air. He fell asleep and rolled off to tbe ground, forty feet. He died Saturday. Saturday afternoso A'onzi Cartobgle, aged seven, was bitted by a rattlesnake near Fort Wayne, lodiaoa. He was taken borne, bis body swelled up and be passed through a succession of terrible convulsions. His case was pronounced hopeless. General Howard has returned to Portland, Oregon, from the lodian Country. He reports the tribes ex - press a witflogoess to go on their new reservation, only one chief) Gerry, of the Spokanes; refusing. Many will occupy lands under the Homestead Law

One of the meat remarkable sea ts ever accomplished in railroading was performed Saturday by the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad ( in a change of gauge on 700 miles of road. Heretofore tbe gauge ou 700 miles of r-ad. After twelve o’clock Friday night it was redueed to the standard width of four feet eight and oue-half inches AG EAT LITE ARY WORK'. A work that every lover of go and literature wauts at constant command, because, while it is superlatively attractive and interesting in itself, it is also a key and index to all other good English li-erature enabling one to see and judge for itself what authors and are most desirable for him to read — such is the Acme editiou of Chamber's Cyclopaedia of English Literature. In its nearly 3,500 pages it gives biographies of the noted British and American authors from earliest times to the present, with choice and- characteristic selections from tbeir writings, thus being a concentration of the best produc. tions of modern intellect. It is published iA- eight handy aud beautiful 16mo volumes, at prices so low as to " seetf) rcihy . astonishing Uo-jnost book buyers, viz: in m0r0cc0,~f4.75; half morocco, the four volume edition,B3.7s; iu paper, complete, 82.00Jfc10tb,83.00. From these low rates a discouut of 10 per cent is allowed to thoße ordering very soon, and a further discount of 10 per cent. WbeU ordered in clubs of five or more. It is not sold by dea'ers or agents, but only to buyers direct, by the publishers, the American Book Exchange, 55 Beckman street, New York, who will send i specimen pages, etc., free on reouest.

Real Estate tor Sale. —Solomon Rinebolt has 40 acres of timber land for sale at a bargao. For particulars enquire of him or at this office. For Sale. —Three hundred and sixty acres of land, situated three and a half miles south of Nappanec. Will he .sold in lots of 40 acres or more, just to suit the buyer. For particulars inquire of 11. flulder and W. J Ackci, nl The above named place, or at this office. - For Sale.—A good house and lo on the corner of Main and Randolph streets. -This is one of the best dwell ings in town, and will be sold at a bargain. A glance at this properly is enough to convince any one that it is a good home For pat ticnlars inquire of Nathau Spencer. “ For Sale —A house and one acre of good land, situated close to the school-house; is well adapted for gardening purposes; fruit aud shrubbery abundant, and will be sold cheap for cash. For particulars enquire of R. M. Sanders, or at this office. _ Also a small shop building, suitable for most any kind of small business. 152 t —— —♦ —— —We have four fine steel engravings size, 30x40, and which retail at 815 each. ’We propose to give them away sg premiums to parties raising clubs for Tue News. We will give one picture to each party that gets up a club of ten cash iubtcrU>ers, Tbe pjetures are in our office for inspection. Sample copies of tbe paper will be furnised to those who wish to try it.

Noticr. —Having sold my resterannl to Mr. I Wolf, and it being my mtention to leave as soon as possible, I wish s!l those knowing themselves indebted to me would please rail and settle immediately and save extra expense Tnaokiog yon aii fur your kind aud. liboral patronage, I am yours respectfully, Daniel Kile > —We have just received a largo stock of stationery from Chioago. which we bought at low figures, and oan turn out as good work lor less money than any office Northern Indiane. Util and see our samples. —ls you want pine lath or tbingi les, cheap, go to J. C-. Metlioger k Cos., Nappanee, Indiana. 14—3 mt nmifinut m liallll 111 entitles a soldier IUIIUIUIVU. of the late war to a pen,, bn. All pensions by the law of Jan. IB7K, begin back at date or discharge or death or soldier. All entitled should apply at once. Thousanda who are now drawing oenelons ale entitled loan increase. Soldiers and widowsof the warorißlSand Mexican wat entitled to pensions. Foes in all eases only |IO. Send two stamp# for new laws blanks and instructions lo N rWABD FITZGERALD, U.B. Claim At. tornoy, Box SSB Washington, D. O. M4I THIB PAPERS^ Bwwepaper Advertising Bureau ( 10 Spruce fcfefaiEWYOßK.

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