Plymouth Democrat, Volume 21, Number 4, Plymouth, Marshall County, 23 September 1875 — Page 2

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SiGov. IIwni.rick returns to Ol:io t.'ie present week to aid tho Democracy. ; --A 1- i-:rurtiv f n- occurred at Little Kork, Ark, S-it. 19. An entire J !.,,. incln-iing !! Anthony Hotfl, w.-u 4V.tr-.-d. I . heavy and no insurance. , yj.. ,it,t returns from the Jr-i:.-,.. i-;. t i.a pives Connor, Hi-publican, for governor. 4,71 J majority. The Ix-m,K:rary g.dn eight members in the houh of r j rfcrit.itivcs over the vote of hwt year. The Republicans will hsV? this vear s on juint ballot. t-iTThe attorney general says he is unable to in any law now in force in the st.tt which authorizes justices of th; a to U up costs for the attendance or milage of witnesses. lie i.i inclined to think, however, that justices still iKwsess the power, notwithsUnding. to cmpfl the attendance of witnesses lfore them. l-i?A di.-pntfh to the associated prf-MS, iht'.e-l Philadelphia, S-pt, 20th, states that the jury in the Westervelt r;ti, rf furriwl a verdict of cuiitvon the ast three counts in the indictment. As the words fell from the foremau Western-It cried aloud and sank do n "a the dock completely overcome sol.J.ing J.'ke a child. If is wife ac children joined their cries and lamen tations to his, and the b jene was most aflVrting. fr. Ford immediately moved f.r ar. arrest of judgment and a new tri d. Judgo Klcock ha3 given" f ur days for argument. The first two counts, on which the prisoner is acfjuit (!. charg'd a participation in the actual ubiaction of Charley Hons. The last three, on which he is convicted, charge a conspiracy to conceal and a guilty knowledge. Ji;."The supreme court has recently math; a derision touching the validity of indictments found l.y grand juries consisting of twelve members. As a inatier of general interest, we give the Bviiabus of their decision as follows: "We are of opinion that grand jurors duly selected before the- act of 1ST5 took t: fleet, are legal grand jurors, and will V. continued to be such until selection shall Ikj made under the act of lS7.-, or until their functions shall be otherwise legally terminated. The act nominally took effect from its publication, but it can have no practical effect nnt.l tho time shall come when grand juries can be selected in accordance with the terms of the act. The court is of the opinion that the object of the legislature was to preserve all indictments which had been or might be. found by grand juries selected in accordance with former laws before the time at which they could be selected under the act in question. t?7"The Chicago 2'ime.v prides itself on the amount of abuse it can publish abcut tho Democratic party in the ,?p '"t sytoe ..-Oil?'. It has been pl.itiag into the hands of the administration for the past four years, and has been one of its strongest props in tho west. The sort of argument it makes use of to convey its contempt for the Democratic party, is of th lowest pothou;v. order, and is disgusting to the mure respectable class of community. It also wishes tho people to be informed that what it don't know Wut matters and things in general, is not worth knowing. It champions th 1 Republican financial !olicy and the kind of argument it uses to sustain its position is coutaiued in the following item vhich Appeared" in its issue of the 17th: "Xo wonder the resurrected putridity is an nidation party. It is no uncommon tiling for the cadaers at a ceresiormorsly. And it is no uncommon thing L.r such inilated corpses to attract ail the buzzards and coyotes within smelling distance." " "Resurrected putridity;" "cadavers;" "inilated corpses;" "buzzards" and "co otes," ought to convince the most ol-tuso comprehension that the Democratic party is dead and politically damned beyond redemption, at least so far as the Times is concerned. But, in our opinion, by the time the coming i-r uh.r.tUd campaign is over the will find that the "resurrected putridity" will be the liveliest corpse it ever met with. I-ifA correspondent of the Bourbon JJinor. hking time by the forelock, suggests to the Republican party of MiLishuli county the propriety of making no nominations for county ofiicers next year. This is an acknowledgement of weakness that was not expected thus earlv in the campaign. The political management of the Republican party of Marshall county since its organization has been the mrt:.-j7itm.'f the continuous defeats n t;us met iro.? year w J tar. me managers conducted the campaigns on false premises. Charges of "corruption," "cliiiue," mismanagement," "incompetency," etc, were sounded far and wide, and in almost every instance fell V the ground for want of proof to sustain them. .The people said by their votes: If there is corruption. mismanagement and incompetenor, in what department of the pullie service is it f Satisfactory ansv ers to tiiestj questions were not to be givt 11. and defeat was the result. The di'iaociacy, although n the majority, have necessarily 1kh;u on the defensive and as a consequence have labored tin lor many disadvantages. They Lave bee;i compelled to defend the charge of "clique" when there was no clique, and defend the charges of corruption;, misinanagemeui and incompetency when nothing of the kind worth iiK-ntioni'isexbtei It is not claimed that the Democratic pariy of Marshall county has ta without spot or ble-m-iih in every particular. Mistakes have, undoubtedly, been made; some thig have been done that ought not t. hive I -era doue, and twine things klve Iut'.i ;'t undone tl ..t ought to ncltiti dui,e; but on the whcle, it le t :i (. .:- 1 a; ,y, that t e affairs of Mar ty lae Uta as ellmanof the ( our.tit s about it u' u 'Hula. l..".ie,ng this e ui .1 v,t',h thicorred cf t! in rfecin.s be made i'jr local I 1 i 'li'I.tt... .rs : utv rs i.i.it J -ar.

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Thin issue of Ti.K Dkm at is; printed on a cylinder press, with steam , power-Uie first uewspat-er ever printed in the county with the best and latest improved machinery. Our new steam engine, manufactured expressly for us by V. J. Adams, machinist, of this city, was, put in position last Saturday, and on Monday the first nide of The Democuat was printed. To say that we ai'J proud of this new addition to our printing facilities, is to draw it mild; in fact, all who have seen it, or heard of it, are proud that our city contains an establishment alike creditable to the proprietors and the ieople who support it. The en gine is of 6-horse power, neatly and honestly made, and is capable of dri ving as many presses as we will probably have i.se for for some time to come. We are not only proud of the engine as an instrument for good, but because it is a product of our own city, and is unsurpassed by those manufactured elsewhere. Daring a residence of nearly forty years in this county, the proprietors of this paper have worked hard to make an honest living and save a competence; the living we have had, but the competence is all invested in our busi ness, with other meann we hope to retilac when due. if ire receive that support which we think our enterprise Ss entitled to. Every dollar of our means is invested in our business, and in a place in which to live: and while we are working hard to build up an establishment which will be a source of reasonable profit to ourselves, and while we publish a paper worth every cent we ask for it, w? think the citizens of the county will be doing themselves a credit by extending to it a greatly increased patronage. We earn estly believe that they will do this. It would le impugning their intelligence and public spirit to make any other assumption. In this day it is expected that people will not patronize newspapers until they prove themselves wor'.hy of patronage; and acting on this belief, we have endeavored to make our paper equal to the best country papers, and superior to ninetenths of them before making a general effort to extend its circulation throughout the county. Our establishment is now a permanent fixture, with fa' .ities equal to those possessed by the largest city oilices for turning out any kind of printing that may be desired. Our facilities being superior to others, will of course enable us to do work in the best manner, and at the lowest living rates. "With many thanksfoF- the kindly interest which our friends have manifested in the progress which we hays' made in our business, we hope that they, in common with ourselves, ray reap thp benefits of our labors or tho Democrat. Plymouth, Sep. 21, 1S75. To The Editor: A short time ago an article on Evolution appeared in your columns, from the pen of a talented and ready writer, in which, she spoke in terms of ridicule and contempt of tht-t theory. vYhile I entertain the highest regard for the writer of that article, I regret that she should take that particular method to attack that which she regards as error and deems worthy of an attack. One who says so many fjood things and says them so well as t,he does, commands the homage of mind, and the charity that hedges her about, should never be rent by ze;d. The brighter an object is the more plainly anything shows on its surface; and the more lofty the homage we pay to the possessor of true worth, the more painful is the consciousness that the object of that homage is in error, and that that error is promulgated by means of ridicule. AVhile I am not going to criticise her article or its conclusions, or attempt to establish the correctness of the theory of Evolution as put forth by Mr. Darwin, I desire to say a few words dissenting from the policy of using ridicule as a weapon with which to attaek grave problems. Honest differences of opinion are an outgrowth of human intellect, as absolute as differences of physical development; and the same objection exists to the use of ridicule against a grave and important proposition of any kind, as would exist against its use to censure one for being alllicted by . congenital, physical deformity or imperfection. The writer says, in substance, "give us facti. We don't want theory. Produce your proofs. That alone will suilice." That is easy to say. But w Mat proofs can you nave of. an un known cause except negative proofs? How will she stand as a logician, if the legitimate results of her own theory or her logic shall be measured by the standard she demands ? Her article in derision of Evolution is written because she regards Darwiu s uoctrme as inimical to ttie suc cess ot inristian tneoiogy as sue wshes it to u proumIg Theologyi3 th gated and bethe "science of God" that is, a system of knowledge which, proves there is a God, and such a God as the bible reveals to us ; and that that bible is his revealed will. Xow, take her demand. "Give us the proofs. Facts are what we want, not heory." "What proofs has she except negative proofs? What single, tangtr'e fact has she to present to '.he great mass of human understanding, except theory llrSi and deduction next, and then induction; and the facts broujiit forward as inductive proof ba.-cd wholly for their force on faitht Here comes an infidel and resorts to ridicule to strike down her theory. Ha says : "Your God self-existent, omnipresent, omniscient boundless in knowledge and power, knowing all things thai would happen, designed a world made it made man designed him for perfection. The man was a failuvj. Then He drove him forth as a beast to live as he could, but opened a way for him to lhe a good '-life. Ills descendants tru&Uatecl taut di-.a zu

md He wept them away with a Hood,

saving only one perfect lamiiy. ana from that began again to rear a ierfect race. Again, the design was frus trated. Then lie selected certain agents and sought to save a part and made them a chosen teople. Again was He frustrated. At length He be came flesh and dwelt on earth to save that people, and they rejected and cru cified Him, and still do; and again was his design utterly defeated; and to-day. of fifteen hundred millions of human beings, less than four hundred mil lions recognize the truth of the Chris tian theology, and those who do, build up over eio;ht hundred different schools of doctrine." Xow, here are tangible facts pre sented, most of them supported by the history she presents as the veracious record to prove her science of God. What answer shall she make? Ridicule will never convince that infideL and yet bis salvation is the thing desired. Yet, to be consistent, she must overthrow his facts, or her theory becomes the object of ridicule. She cannot reach him by argument based on faith, becanse he rejects the faith as she rejects the theory of Evolution. He wants facts. Then, she must educate him and to do that, she must attract him and make him understand she will treat him fairly and not ridicule him or his notions. But for such men as Lyell, Huxley, Darwin, and the great scientists of every age, we would have had no civi lization, and heace no Christian religion. But for Gamaliel and his phi losophy, the Savior and his followers would have been annihilated and left not a trace. But for Paul and his theory and deductions, there would have been no Christian church. Paul never spoke in derision of other beliefs. Bus for the Calvins and Luthers with their false theories (true for their day, but rejected now) put forth as true, there would have been no emergence from the dark ages. But for Coperni cus, and Gallilleo, and Voltai, and thousands of other theorists, specula ting as to the Uuknown, by means of theory and negative evidence, finally reaching positive, there would have been no religious freedom and no chance to ridicule grave theorists, and the conclusions of great minds searching for truth amid the boundless Unknown. The "origin of species," and "descent of man," as suggested by Mr. Darwin, may prove to be all erroneous; but in the researches made and the arguments put forth as a result of his theory, the world has become possessed of facts of incalculable value, and they have opened the door to a wrorld of things heretofore entirely hidden, which bring Man nearer to God than he would have been for centuries to come, but for these discoveries so made, and which we may believe would not have been made, but for the Darwinian theory. Professor Huxley, Herbert Spencer, Sir Charles Lyell, and all the great scientists are no infidels; and while they declare that "Modern civilization rests upon Physicial Science." "for it is physical science only that makes intelligence and moral energy stronger than brute force," they also declare that science discloses a Great Designer, whose designs are a living law, and though this God is and must be the Great Unknown, the adoration for such a Power felt by the true scientific inquirer is as much greater than that felt by the mere zealous orthodox believer through faith, as the highir pleasure of scientific knowledge is above superstitious belief. The scientist searches for facts. He cares not what they prove he wants them to enable him to go further and learn more facts. If he conceives a theory, it is based on facts already known and used to learn more f ac ; not to prove his theory. If further search does prove the theory by facts then a new system of facts is established, and he uses it to go further ; if the facts discovered overturn the theory, he abandons it and tries some other. So with Darwin. The future may establish or overthrow his theory. He conceived it on facts discovered and to account for certain phenomena, in the unknown. If time and discovery shall confirm it, it will itself become a fact. If they do not confirm it, like a dismantled ship it will be abandoned for some other, and the search will go on. , Xot so with theology per se. And but for the scientists the theology of to-day would be as gross as that of thousands of years ago. The early sermons of Lyman Beecher would sound strangely m the mouth .of a modern divine, and the early doctrines of the founders of the church ot which the lady writer referred to is a wmthy member, would hardly be dissemenated by her eloquent and philosophic husband. Philosophers have no quar rel with orthodoxy. "With eyes fixed on the noble goal to which 'per a&pera ttardua? they tend, they may, now and then, be stirred to momentary wrath by the unnecessary obstacles with which the ignorant, or malicious, encumber, if they cannot bar, the diffi cult path ; yet, the majesty of fact is on their side, and the elemen tal forces of nature are working for them. Xot a star comes to th e merid ian at its calculated time bu; j testifies to the justice of their meth Is their beliefs are 'one with the falling rain and with the growing corn.' By doubt they are established and open inquiry is thtir bosom friend." There let us leave them in their great and noble work, which tears down false theories and builds up fact, exposes error and reveals truth, as to the mTAired world, and leaves theology and tiie scientists who search in that field, to their own deductions from such negative proofs as satisfies themselves. It will not do to sneer at that which seems to loosen the hold we have had on beliefs, because we have had those It-lie's. Science does not ask us to surrender anything. When Melauethou went over to the new faith, his mother Manted to go with him; but he, philosopher as he was, told her to rest content in her old belief; while he went forth to announce a new theory, and "turn the established faith up side down by argument based on negative evidence. In other words, to demonstate the truth of "Evolution" to a certain extent. " The great theory of Evolution la Its general sense admits cf no argument. Whether in the Darwinian sense as applied to animal life, is, yet, in theory u. d i-t .m:E..:.d:E " th 't.iVc-' ..: retii t :ii t' ! it ' m : fe i, : is oZ

Christendom. As a class, no more true, pure, moral, exemplary, and upright men and women live than thos engaged in scientific research. Were they possessed of the peculiar mental organization which would make them great leaders in the church ani movements for moral reform, they could not be scientists. The ability to search after facts, to acquire the knowledge necessary to make the search a success,

to continue tne pioneer struggles on the frontiers of the Unknown comes of an organization not made to be af fected by superstition, or dogma, or faith, or hope, or fear. It is, in a measure, un impressible; not chagrinned at failure on experiment, not elated by success. The Newtons and Herschells, the Kants and Hunters, the Darwins and Tyndalls have little conception of the feelings of impressible people, and hence live in a world of fact. They conceive of Matter and Motion and Force. That Force is the "Great Unknown," but it is certain, direct, ceaseless, and unerring. It is God; and they bend befcre It ingreverence, witnessed by upright conduct and energies devoted to obtaining a knowledge of the laws by which It controls matter, for the benefit of man; and not to make him an infidel and a brute. If the facts they bri.ig io light seem to militate agaiast l rceived theory, man can stake his belief on the fact or the theory as he chooses ; but because the discoverer enunciates the fact and it clashes with the theory is no reason be sh.ould be condemned or the fact be denied or ignored. Nemo. State Jews. A new distillery at Muncie. Pat oka claims 1,000 population. Jennings county has go'd fields. Allen county is importing stock. Greencastle is proud of her police force. Mishawaka has a pop-the-question avenue. Beport3 ef a great corn crop still comes in. Spencer county soldiers will have a re-union. A blast furnace at Itockport is a probability. But one log school house is left in Allen county. South Bend ships 8,000 barrels of flour per week. Terre Haute has been holding a musical festival. The Randolph county court house is to cost S70.000. Knox circuit court has fifteen divorce cases to try. The Fort Wayne fair was not a brilliant success. A spiritualistic college is talked of by the mediums. Terre Haute proposes organizing a greenback club. A zouave company is to be organized in Ft. Wayne. A centennial tea party at Pervi last week, cleared S240. The cranberry crcp about Winamac is better than ever. Mitchell is to have a town clock, which will cost S450. Jeff Davis did not speak at Columumbu? as was expected. Lagrange ladies will assist in the centennial movemeut. The new court house at Mt. Vernon was opened recently. The canal at Fort again a few days ago. Winchester has no Wayne broke empty houses, and wants more built. Cholera is reported near Versailles. Beware of green apples. The total receipts of the Cass county fair were $5,000. Incendiaries are trying to destroy Huntington. One arrest. Diptheria is prevalent in many portions of Delaware county. Valparaiso claims to be a village no longer, but a dignified city. The Worthington Industrial Fair will commence October 4. A new Albany temperance organization numbers 150 members. Gretncastle is forgetting her fires and will soon be better than ever. Four prisoners broke jail at Xew Albany Friday night of last week. Two colored lads applied for admission to the Terre Haute high school. The gold, discovered near Butlerville, has turned out to be yellow clay. The old settlers will meet at Old Indian village, Jasper county, October 9. Tarties in Fort Wayne are in trouble for selling whisky on a marriage license. The Lafayette, Muncie and Bloomington road is to be finished by October 20. . . .Vincennes had four incendiary fires Sunday night, but, none of serious dam ige. The Elkhart Centennial Journal is a new venture issued by the ladies of that city. The corn crop of Miami county has never been better, and the potatoe crop is excellent. The cadetshJp of the 8th congressional district, was won by S. E. Allen, of MitcbelL - Counterfeit S10 bills on the First National bank of Philadelphia are in circulation. Anderson had another fire Sunday night. Loss, 810,000. Spontaneous combustion. At Milton, Saturday night, the paper mill was burned by an incendiary. Loss $25,000. Counterfeits on the national bank of Richmond are in circulation. Look out for them. The Rrndolph county fair was in every way a success. The entries numbered 1,300. Ten of the principal buildings in Thorntown were burned Saturday night. Loss 823,000. A grand reunion cf the old settlers of the Wabash Valley is to come off some time in October. The Old Settlers picnicked at South Bend last Saturday, and revived recollections of by-gone days Eight thousand dollars were paid the Jeffersonville women who sew for the government, last year. The Paoli Xews is invited to pay a chap $2-3,000 for saying he was drunk and committed a murder. All tramps found upon the streets of Terre Haute after seven o'clock find rest ia the station house. Tramps are making raids on the farm houses, and are carrying away matt; valuables in Allen county. A grain elevator at Peru, belonging to John "Wittenberger, was burned to the ground laat wwJt. Loss, $13,003.

Asbury university wants ?40,000 for building purposes. Of this amount Henry S. Lane has subscriled $3,000. There are 21 flouring mills in Montgomery couity, one of which manufactures 45,000 barrels of Hour annually. A threshing machine engine fired a barn near Goshen last week, and one person perished, being unable to get out. At Geneva Sunday night Alvin Ilenrich shot dead J lin Reed without any warning or knon cause. Xo arrest. Captain J. M. Atkinson, of Lebanon, committed suicide Sunday, by both hanging and shooting himself. Insanity. The number of school houses in Tippecanoe county with an at tendance of 8,530, an increase over last year of 2,122. According to the Brazil Review, X. C. Leek, of the Bowling Green Herald, eloped with the daughter of Jason Brown a few days since. They have a Chiquesalonghi Paik in Benton county, and all they want to make them happy now Is a Henigiperapateticaphriconical Grove. Mr. C. X. Walls, of the Danville In-

dianian, is about to commence suit for i damages against John X. Scearce, of the Danville Union, for calling him a confidence man. Vincennes Sun: There were Jour fires in Vincenne3 oa Monday night, destroying in succession a smoke house, a hay stack, a pile of rail j and a stable. Loss, $650. A dwarf, twenty years old, recently died at the asylum at Lugansport who weighed only seventeen pounds, was but twenty-three inches high, and only thirteen inches in circumference. The soldiers of Xorthern Indiana will hold a reunion, at Fort Wayne October 5 and 6. Prominent speakers will attend. Free dinner, &c. All other soldiers are invited to attend. At Terre Haute Saturday the corner stone of the Hose Polytechnic Institute, the industrial school endowed with $45,000 by Chancery Rose of that city, was laid with appropriate ceremonies. Thomas Harrell, of Richmond, put his foot upon the hammer of his gun and blew into the muzzle to see if it was loaded. His foot slipped and the contents of the gun blew away the entire top of his head &nd killed him instantaneously. While the citizens of Huntington were at church on the evening of the 12th an attempt was made to burn the city. Fires were started in a number of places distant from each other simultaneoi sly, but, happily, all were discovered and extinguished before any serious damage was done. Warren Ashley has been arrested as the incendiary. Lafayette Courier: Mr. Crocker is acting under the direction of Maj. Gillespie, government engineer, and will remain in Lafayette for some time, during which he will make a critical examination of our river from the head of navigation to its mouth, with the u'teiior object of constructing a canal from Lake Michigan to a point of intersection with the river which may be deemed most favorable for the purpose contemplated One day last week, whilst Mr. E. C. ! Evans was cutting an oak tree to make ' tobacco sticks, he found ir the heart of the tree a wooden pin ' about three inches in length and one inch in diameter. Splitting the piece of timber he found at the bottom ot the auger hole, into which the pin had been driven, a lock of auburn hair about eight or nine inches in length. The growth cf the tree indicates that the hair was placed in it about forty years ago. Who put it there, and why it was done, will perhaps be forever shrouded in mystery. Decatur Prtss. The Galveston Inundation. Xew Or.eea.xs, La., Sept. 20. The Times, from information obtained from papers and passengers, gives the following particulars of the storm at Galveston, Texas : "To briefly summarize the disaster: The gale from the south, by Wednesday at midday, reached such proportions that captains of steamers who were accustomed for generations to traversing this portion of the Gulf, declined to put to sea. Almost simultaneously with this determination came the report that a ship-yard, at the extreme eastern end of the island, had been inundated, and the men were fleeing for their lives. A rapid falling of the barometer indicated an increase of the storm, and the waters of the Gulf, which 13 on the south side of the island, and in the rear of the city, gradually commenced to 'mcroach. The gardens of the scattered residences skirting the beach were soon overflowed, the water during the day reaching the depth of two feet, remaining all day long, and during Thursday it blew a hurricane, pushing the Gulf water over the entire island, and covering even th& highest elevation to a depth of 2 feet. This ridge embraces an area of perhaps twelve blocks, extending from Mechanic street to Market, a distance of two squares latitudinally, and from Centre- street to Bath avenue, about six squares longitudinally. In the rear of the east and west ends cf the city, the water rose to a depth sufficient to float large wooea edifices, many of which are very valuable. The residence portion of the city was most affected. From Tremont street, where this section begins, for a distance of at least 1 J miles west, every garden and every foundation is destroyed. Domiciles are scattered promiscuously in the center of the thoroughfares, many of them being jammed together.. Farther to the west, in the neighborhood of Oleander Park, where there are many small farms and a number of stylish residences, the water is reported to hare reached a depth of from 6 to 9 feet. A similar story is tcld of the eastern end of the island, which extends from Centre street at least 1 miles. In the business poition of the city, large stocks of goods are kept in the city, and one can estimate the injury which 30 inches of sea-water would involve. It is fair to presume that the earnings of an entire year will be exhausted in repairing the damages. Probably vegetation has been utterly destroyed, but that the island is involved in wholesale ruin we do not apprehend." T,p a. 7 ... 7 .IS k i.U J "... is spreading In

Miscellany. Journalists are the terror of Secretary Fish. Small-pox lingers persistently in Xew York. St. Louis has 116 churches, worth nearly $3,ioo,oyo. What's become of Weston ? has his sole stopped marching on. Five German editors are enjoying Prince Bismarck's hospitality in a Frankfort prison. j Fernando Wood still declines the presidency, but he still wears an ele gant white mustache. The Xew York tombs are so crowded that four prisoners have to be confined in a single narrow cell. A miser lately starved to death in Xew York, with $1,650 to bis credit ia bank, and lots of coin hid away in his house. The Kentucky lottery swindle i3 before the Louisville courts with favorable prospects that the iniquity will Ve wiped out. The vomen of Xew England are arming and becoming expert shots, the laws being ineffectual for the protection from tramps.

Siecial prayers are offered up at Georgia camp meeting, in hope of wean ing the editors of that state from their fighting propensities. British virtue is on the move against opium, and the people in India hint darkly that it is better to take too much opium than too much gin. Xeary, alias the "fiddler," the pugilist, has just married a young, fair and wealthy girl, whose highest ambition was to marry a prize fighter. A certain English ale manufacturer pays a single railway nearly a million dollars a year for freight. The Sharpe's rifle company are experimenting with a new rifle, which can be fired three times a second. One Illinois county, besides Cook, is said to furnish more mail matter than the whole state of Arkansas. Duucan, the bursted banker of Xew Y'ork, has a father. He lives in Scotland, and is only worth $3,000,000 The potatoe disease has again appeared in many parts of Ireland, and it is feared the crops will be a failure. The Chinese, in San Francisco, make 86S0.0O0 worth of opium annually, but their whisky Dills are next to nothing. The Dailiris, the largest irr-n-clad in the world, will soon be launched at Xaples She wtfl throw a 2,000 pound shoe. In the 225 churches in Brooklyn, $l"0,S50 is annually paid for music. And yet the Brooklyn people are not good. It has been suggested that in order to check the depredations of the clergyman of the period on his flock, a regular article of diet for the clergy should be raw onions. A strong-minded young lady said to her dressmaker, the other day, "If women were ever allowed to vote, what do you suppose will be the fashion for voting dresses." A lady missionary in India has converted a whole neighborhood by simply inducing the people to wash themselves. A marked improvement in morals at once followed the wash. Two rival belles met at a Long Branch hop hist week. "How well you look under candle light!" exclaimed one. "And how charming you are in the dark !" said the other. Turkish tailors are never reproached for misfits. They have only to cut two bags, hitch them together, and the customer has a first-clas pair of trowsers. Eor a pull-back they take only one bag. Danbury has the champion patient boy. He went to a neighbor's for a cup of sour milk. "I haven't any but sweet milk," said the woman pettishly. "I'll wait till it sours," said the obliging youth, sinking into a chair. A man was recently found dead in Rhode Island with three pairs of trowsers on. There is reason to believe that he had succumbed at the end of a determined struggle to prevent his wife from wearing the breeches. A Jewish Empire in Russia. During the second half of the tenth century a Jewish empire existed in Southern Russia, known by the name of the Chasari-Empire. .It was very extensive and powerful; its true his tory, however, has been shrouded in obscurity. The utmost that was known was, that up to the time of the victorious contests of Swjatoslaws 954-005 it comprised a large extent of territory on the Caucassus, in the Taurian peninsula on the Dom and the AVolga; but its real dimensions could not be determined. Recent literary discoveries justify the hope that light may be thrown on the subject. Chisdai Ibn Shabrut, who occupied a high position at the court of the Spanish Kalif Abdarrahmans HI., had received information of the existence of a Jewish empire in a foreign country, and he believed that the dynasty at the head of the Jewish Empire would be successful in re-establishing the empire of the lost ten tribes. Delighted at this idea and anxious to have better information, he addressed a long com munication to the Jewish king, which letter duly reached him. The letter of the Ibn Shabrut is full of interest, but of greater importance still is the reply of Ivmg Joseph. All that was known of his correspondence was an extract published in 1577, but the full text has been discovered in the manuscript col lection of the late Karaite ssavant Abraham Firkowitsch ; he had brought it from Egypt, and the scholars who have examined it pronounce it genuine. It furnishes a valuable contribution to the knowledge of the extent and his tory of the Jewish Empire, Of course some of the geographical appellations occurring therein will be very difficult to explain, but scientific research will no -doubt solve these problems. Russian students have already gone to work at it with zeal and assiduity. The well-known scholar, Dr. A. Harkavy, has lately published an article on the subj-ct in the Russian Review. He produces both letters in German translation, with explanation. The same scholar is preparing a book on the subject in the Russian language, which is no being published in numbers. It will be interesting to have the light of authentic history thrown on a subject which has thus far lived mostly in the obscurity of tradition.' IT. T. Jetruh Times.

Laniar GriQin. of Lodi. Ohio, is 116 years old. He disliked Washington, and didn't vote for him. Since then he has been at the polls early every year. He has one arm; drinks rum, chews tobacco, and smokes cheap cigars. Give a boy a market basket of groceries to carry home and he swings it across his spine, bends half way to the ground and groans with agony, but give him that weight of base-ball bats and he will skip along as merry as a potato-bug in a ten-acre lot.

LEGAL NOTICES. Notice. The tax payers will bear in mind that the last installment of the lr7 tax will, if not paid before, go U hrxiueiit after the first day of Novvmbcr next. AKT1II P. L. THOMSON, Treasurer of Marshall t'ouutr, Plvmoutb, Marshall county, lmt., s-it."2S. 1875, H-p-iiUO. Notice to rVon-Ilesiilent. State of Indiana. Marsha!) County, ss; lu the Marshall Circuit Court, lecmtor Term. 1S75. Xussbaum & Meyer " Mary Ellen O'Brien f Foreclosure. , and John O'Brien J The pl.-iintitU in the tove eraitle! cause .by their attorneys, have filed in my office their complaint asainst the defendants, and it appearing by the affidavit of a competent person that the said defendant. Mary Kllen O'Brien and John O'Brien are non-resident-i of the State ol Indiana, they are therefore hereby notified ot the tilius ud pendency ot aid complaint airaint them, and unless they appear and ans".ver thereto, on or before the ealliiisr of said cau;, on the first day of said terra of said court, to be Vwsnin and held at the court hcust in Plymouth, Marshall county, Indiana, on the third Monday of December. l.73, said complaint, and the matter and thing therein alleged, will be beard and determined in their absence. Daniel. McDonald. Clerk Circuit Court. sept23-3t Sheriff's Sale. 1445 By virtue of an order of sale and a decree of foreclosure of mortmain-, issued out of the office of the Clerk of the Marshall Circuit Court, to me directed, on a judgment in favor of Eli Ilartzell and James N. Hartzell, und against John W. Barton aud Louisa Burton, his wile, and James Barton who became replevin bail, I will expose for sale at public auction, on SATURDAY, OCT. 16. A. I. 1S7-5, between the hours of ten o'clock a. m. and f.iur o'clock p. m., at the door of the court bouse in Plymouth, .Marshall eoiinty.Indiuna, as the law direct, the following described real estate, to-wit: The east half of the south west quarter of section number thirty-live (ST) in township number thirty-four (34), north of range, three (3) east, containing eighty acres of land more or les, witli all the tenement and improvements thereon, situated in Marshall county, Indiana, To the hiirhest bidder for cash.without regard to appraisement laws, subjwt to redemption. LEWIS C. FINK, Sherift ot Marshall Cunty. Win. B. Hess, plfl's atty. s-ept2at4 MISCELLANEOUS. Nearly all diseases originate from Indigestion and Torpidity of the Liver, and relief is always anxiously sought after. If the .Liver is Reeulated in iia action, health is almost invariaHy &eeurwi. Want of action in the Liver causeu Headache, Constipation, Jaundice, Pain in the fchoulderSj Couirh, Chill, Iizzins, Sour Stomach, bad tante in the mouth, Mliotit attack, palpitation of the heart, depression of Hpirib, or the blues, and a hundred other smtoms, for which SIMMON'S LIVER KEUL'LATOK in the best remedy that has ever been discovered. It act mikilv, effectually, and l'iui? a simple vegetable compound, can do no injury in any quantities that it may be taken. It w hai-mlr in every way ; it has been used for 40 years, and hundreds of the good and great from alt parts of the country will vouch for its oeing me purest sua nest. lid::: cr 1MB) Is harmless, Is no drastic violent medicine. Is sure to cure if taken regularly, Is no intoxicating twveratre, Is a faultlew family medicine. Is the cheapest medicine in the world, Is given with safety and the happiest results to the most delicate infan-, Does not interfere with business. Does not dirtarTantfe the system. Takes the place of Quinine and Bitters of every kind, Contains the simplest and best remedies. MAS L'FACTCKED ONLT BY J. II. HM V CO., MACON, GA and PHILADELPHIA. Price, SI.OO, Sold by a!l Druggists. mv6-ly SHINGLES ! SHIKGLES !I GOOD. WESTER YELT COOPER Have them and will soil them LOW, LOWER LOWEST. GLL. V1VI SEE. SOwlO IXES' lEflf IODIDE OF AffklONlA t arwj Neuralgia, Face Aehe, Rheumatism, Gout, Frwrted F-t, Chilblains, Sore Throat, Krysijwtas. Bruises or W ou ii'L ot evry kind ia man or auinu-.i. Wsc harjred from the M&nachtuetU general hm piial a incurable, with irtflamiualonr rh..-nmatiim id my nhoaldera, fin:reea and f-t; snif-red fearfully for three yearc trii euerytliiny, lost ajl how. Dr. lilLES LlSlMKXT lOUIDB OF AHHU.XU eSvCtod complete cure. ELLKS SMITH, Xo- 72 Plane St, FU Eiver, Ma. Sold by all Pruesrista. IKpot 451 SLilh ATe, X. VOnly 54 cenu and tl a bottle. G. Blain & Ox, AgenU, Plymouth. aep'.S-U Great Bargain BRICK Hoi iD LOT! "VTEXT best house in Marshall county ; IoJu cated one bloek trom the business ceo! er of the city. Is a first--ia residence, with an modern improvement; hard and itoft wai -r in the building; h?atetl by a turnate, ett-. The building ku made without regard to exexpense, but with regard to quality. Will nold very low, and will take other property :n exchange for one-third the amount, the lalanee in payments With an addition, this would inakrt the Jiriet boU 1 in 3Jarhall Co. Kor fur her particular, enquire of apr-'i-tX ii. li. I'K&sUlSO. C. PALMER & SON, KCTAII. DCAltK I ill KINDS OF FOBRITOBE AXD UNDERTAKERS GOODS. Latorte Sirtt,

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25 "TOTICE OF -mINT.MENT. .Notice i hereby sHen that the underfilled hi been sfuxiimed Adinim.-lrator of the f1Uleof William lUand, Sen, late ot Marsltatl County. Indiana. det-eatd. S-aid etat t utp1 to be "wilvent. Airmen p.i,am. MAKIOX A. BLAM), m j".t3 Administrator. ASSIGNEES' SALE S'rtiw is iHvvn that n SaUmViv. OcuWr 175, at the Fi-titir H-k Slrv, in i'iTrwvKuh, I will -fT f 'f !' at jmUic miction, th- -mn urn-clt of rarrhaniif?, o.ntitutinr th IVt,iMf Rnok t .rv; eunitiu of -t-apie throughout, in rr-t tmifr, cvlaiu and .wrw cft c mmn, ami lr -wrtMfnt of TMd fU for t raj in a varitjr, "aook, atH nation ffitn. Th will frv for eh Thw art! are A. I, axxi thre ia t letter tctittn oru-k. fT aom mar dtHnff u c? into Hiirt ihan that n off mi, oHvr will he riw1 for vri rate k dnrin? this notice. SSrhtluiw and pMKis can be meu by cUn on mc V. v(. rAXSON, Awlga. POSTSCRIPT. Ou and afkr Wedm-swiar, Sptrowr 8. an, if not Ki then, then on theauie rcMion, at abore aeireTw tim. I will otter fr aaJe, at lhe Kme Hre a tta k f mtrvh.tKii' and tun furniture, tstk.a an chalmiliar:1, con stine of tHwtk. tatanrr. 1 and aiirer ware, ptrr-i.in au-i a!aHur jrHii, uo I lions tf ail kiD't-, MHi iounu ihe lt m the via.show (jwh, and ether raIualV furniture, in ail worth over f dutiable to tit up a room with furuitur and t k, and often affvod hiiMue. and there i- no r-iter !ira.ion thitn this. orte will be onsideed lr prirate aale, and for joint pun haej of entire property with that offered !y V. j laxsum. aitore. The entire st4-k contitut one of thtmort div-iraole ever oflVrJ in t'ni i.w ali:r. C. H, UKEYK, Att y for Mortjraeor. Sheriff's Sale. 1137 By virtue of an order of sale and a decree o( foreclosure of mortsrsin?. Is-ned out of the orliee of the Clerk of the Marshall Circuit Court, tome directed. on ajudjr.iientin tavor ot Samuel W. Miller and against Jaiuc liustell and Zenoliia Russell, I will expose for cale at public auction, ou SATURDAY, OCT. 2, A. D. 1875, letween the hours ot ten o'clock a. m.. and tour o'clock p. m., at the court house, in Plymouth, Marshall county, Indiana, s the law directs, the Jollowing de-scribed real estate, to-wit: The west half of lot numlier three (3), in Kobe's addition to the town of Plymouth, in Marshall county, in I. idiana. To the hiche.t bidder for cah.without resrard to appraisement laws, sutiject to redemption. LEWIS C. FINK, ecpt!-3t Sheriff ot Marshall County. Sheriffs Sale. 1434 By virtue of an execution issued out of the office of the Clerk of the Mai-shall Circuit Court.to me directed, on a judgment in lavnr of Samuel Sullivan lor the use of M. A. O. Packard, and against Horace Corhtn and laniel Van Yalkeiihurh, I have levied upon the following described real estate to-wit: The undivided one-thild part of the northeast quarter of section nuiulx-r thirty-one (31), township numler thirty-two (32), north of rang numlHT three (3) east. Also the undivided one-half of the south twenty-two (22) leet of lot number thirtyseven (37), and the undivided one-half of the north two (2) feet ot lot number thirtyeight (3S). both of said lots ly ins nl bvitifi in the original plat of Plymouth, Marshall county, and State of Indiana. And I will expose lor sale av public auction, the alove described real eate at the door of the court house, in Plymouth, Marshall county, Indiana, as the law directs, on SATURDAY, OCTOBER A. D. IS 75, between the hours of ten o'clock a. m. and four ocloek p. ni., on said day, to the hih-t bidder for cash, without regard to appraisement laws, subject to redemption. LEWIS C. FINK, Sherift Marshall County. sept9t3 Sheriff's Sale. By virtue oi an order of sale and a decree of foieelosure of mortiraire, issued out ot the oflice of the clerk ot the Marshall circuit court, to me directed, on a judgment in favor ot Samuel T. Ilauna, aud aaamst Joseph Kesler and Edith Kessler, I will offer for sale at public auction ou SATURDAY, OCT. 2, A. D. 1ST5, between the hours of ten o'clock a. m., and four o'clock p. m., at the door ot the court house, in Plymouth, Marshall county, Indiana, as the law directs, the following described real estate, to-wit : Commencing fourteen (14) roda (and ten feet for alley) east, from the north-east corner of lot number one (1), in the town plat of Tippecanoetown , thence east eight (S) rods ; thence south ten (10) rods ; thence west eight (S) rods ; thence north ten (10) rods to the place of beginning; containing one-half acre. Situated in Marshall coun:"7, Indiana, to the highest bidder for cash, without retrard to appraisement laws, subject to redemption, LEWIS C. FINK, Sheriti of Marshall County. Capron & Capron, Att'ya for PI "IT. srptt3 STotice to Xon-Eesidents. State of Indiana, Marshall Count? In tho Marshall Circuit Court. iJecember Term, 1S75. John C. Berlin, ) vs. Partitlon V m. Berlin, Abner lL B:rhn, Thomas Berlin, Mary A. Coe, Julius . Coe. The plaintiff in the a!ove entitled cause, by thei r attorney s,have tiled in my office their complaint against the defendants, and it appearing by the ailidavit of a competent person, that the defendants. Win. Berlin, Mary A. Coe and Julius S. Coe are nou-rt .dents of the State of Indiana; they are therefore hereby notified of the tiling and pendency of said complaint against them, and unless they appear and answer thereto, on or before the calling of said cause, on the first day of said term ot said court, to be begun and held at the court house, in Plymouth. Marshall county, Indiana, on the third Monday of December, 1875,saia complaint, and the matters and things therein alleged, will be heard an-i d termined in their abem-e. Daniel Mcdonald, Clerk Circuit Court. seplt;t3 Notice to 'on.Resideat, State ot Indiana. Mar-hall County jss : In the Marshall Circuit Court, December Term. 1S75. Stephen Cole, ad-) miuistrator ot the j estate of William (Complaint to Bright, deceased 'Cancel Mortgage. . r vs. I William C. Brown. J The plaintiff in the alxive entitled cause, by his attorneys, bat filed in my office his complaint airaiust the defendant, and it appearing, by th" ailidavit of a compctmt person thai tlie di&ndant, William C. Brown, is a nonresident of the State ot Indiana, he is therefore hereby notified of the ft I in; aud pendem-y of ca.d complaint against him, and unless he appears and answers thereto, on or before the calling of said eausv, on the first day of uid term of said court, to be begun and held at the court hous;,in Plymouth, Marshall county, Indiana, ou the third Jlonday ot December, 1875, said complaint, and the matters and things therein alk-ged. will be heard and determined in his aln'-e. DANIEL McDOXALD, Clerc Circuit Court. John S. tender, Att'y tor fep23-St TOIVH PROPERTY FOR fSVLlil. Several vacant lots south of Brink's Planing Mill, and one Improved lot, for sale on very reasonable term. They lie together, nd axe desirably located. For U-rnis, etc., apply to JOH2-I HOXLAXX, PLYMOUTH, Or I'. MYEHN, IelrK, 11. pl5-U '

RAILROADS.

rittsburgb. rt. Wayne V hlengo lift II way. On and aft- r May 'i-X l7:.trsm will l.-rv statiot daily, unday ejwppt'-d, a tlJow: TRA IX S GOIX'J WEST. RTATioN-. mr. M 1 1- r.xv. Hr. Pittbursb.... 1. itJci5.""p tM" 4.,f,T Iioiieter 3 jr. AlUanee ... .Vi5 Orrriile T.l Manneld..,.. 9.07 4R 9 i) Crestline tR 10.00 s.;2 a.rt 4 5.15 11. 25 5.85 7.27 HA ;'. J 1.2 t r..2larn Fores 11. 1 Lima 12.-0pm. f'U Wayn.... t-1 Plymouth Chicago 7-V i..Win 1 1 ..J-" 2.44ani .:' J.5-" -SO .5 rjiAlXS UOiSG KA S T. ftTAlIO.NS Chicago .... Plymoulh .. . Ftl Wayne.. Lima.... Forest AS... CrrKlline ... KXP. KXf. KF. Mll, ,lo.2"pni i'iam .'.S-'-i.tu S.'i'niu . 2.ls"iJ 1 2.1"pin !U.V S.-.'o 5.40 2.45 11.45 li.-.'-T-m . rt.10 .11.25 4.35 5.S4 6.55 l.,ani 2.40 3.01 4.40 5.,"A 6.10pm 6.4'J 9.12 11.20 2.04 ..11.40am 7.15 4.50 .lilf-tpm 7.4S. 5.20 .1.5S 3.::o 7.10 .. 3.37 11.10 !'. . 5.50 l.uTam 11.12 Mansfield ... llrville Alliance. . .. Kochc-sur.,. Pittsburgh.. .. 6.55 2-10 12.15pm F. ii. M K r"x. cn. Pass. and Ticket AgenV. I.. I. Jfc C. KailHHT. On and after Jane 23. l!75, trains will tvz OB this road, Sutitiav rsccpted. a fuiiowK OOiNU .NORTH. Indianapolis... li.l'pra NobiesvUI.... 12. IS Tipton .-. I.CS Kokomo 1.43 Hunker 11:11 C Peru Ioche!er. Walnut Arsro 1 ' i :iiou tn , TToer VaikM-tou. ....... . lamrie Michigia City

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Mlchiiran Ciiy 9 30a ra l.nporte. ....10.1 s Waikrrton 11.03 Tjrixrr .'i.y ll.-.'4 J'Jvnumili 11.43 i .'.' Walnut lJ.c.'pm ltochtHer 12. 4 1'eru 2.-7 Banker Hill C S M Kokomo 3,'ft Tiploi 4-21 NohIcv1,l S.lHI Inrfiaaapoiia 6.20 9 42 JOJ'2 10 .SO W.Stl 11.10 12 .7 a m 1.02 6.C7 1.42 r.4.1 2.2) 7.27 S7 S 14 4.10 7.30 WAGONS AND CAKRIAGKS. Steinetiacli & Acker JIANUFACTUEHG COMPANY BOURBON, IND. MAXtFACTVRKHS OK WAGONS, SPUING WAG0xS, SLEIGHS, ETC. We are now prepared to call the attention of all d.irinsc frood Wagon. Hu2"2rie, etc., to our stck and work, and ascertain our prict-a In-fore buying- elsewhere. We have UH) wmzoiiw in pnvceaM of completion, and seasoned material for over l,Ooo more. We are making a Farm Wason that will surpass any yet made and sold in this locality. Come and Judge for Yourselves. ALL WORK WiKRAXTED. tMi-ly PLOWS. ATTEMIOX, FARMERS. A TE PLOW, AND A GOOD PLOW. IMPnoVD WOODEN BEAM PLOW. W. J. ADAMS, FOUNDER & MACHINIST, Is dow manufacturing his new Center Dranitt CMllel Hoi, Which runs lighter, will last lon-er, and do liettcr work, than any ether piow in the market, without a Kindle except ion. Fanner ar-i requctit ? call and exunin thi plow, and tra-t iw mmu. It u warranted to do ail that in clainjed for it bv the manuacturer. The piow may tie e.n at my hcp,oo East Laporte Street, PH raouth, Lid, u"J-tf W. J. ADAMSfok. sa: FOUR ACRES OF GROUND, With house, good we ll of water, orchard and small fruits, iituat.-d near Argoa, Ind. Terms rcasonahle. Apply to or add rts - J. A. MlilXS, i29 Anjo, lad. MONEY TO HO. T a -LR'.NCity and Farn Prcpsrty in st. osrpli,Jaarshau at. 1 Larort Coujs luiln and IVriritrii County, M ii., &t S cent. A.!.!ress i..r.- A IfSc-c-cr, ifend, or N, J. Clute. Asreot. PI. mouth. at jr th oitu-e of Capron & Capron. Attornc ; s. iwSMk fJUQA I'LXO El