Plymouth Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Plymouth, Marshall County, 23 January 1879 — Page 2

The Republican. J. Y. SUPERS Emm TWT'RSDAY, J AXl'ARY 1879. The terms of twenty-flvo United States Senators expire on the 4th of March next Men to Uli nearly all ol these places will be or have been elected this week. Voorhees waselected United States Senator, Tuesduy, for both the long sod short terms. Don Cameron was . 1-jcted in Pennsylvania, Piatt, In Conneticut and Test, in Missouri. Gen. John A. Logan received the saucas nomination ol the Republicans of the Jlllnuis Legislature Friday night. The vote stood eighty for Logan, and twenty-six for UgUs'cey. Reports from Washington indicate that tbe Sen ate. Finance Committee is divided in regard to the tobaeco tax. The probabilities are that the Comnittee will report this week, and that a compromise will be made and the tax Used at twenty cents. J . . -Lg The Indianapolis Evening Sun dbd Saturday night. It waa ten moaths old. Its death was probably caused by the course pursued by the Democratic members of the ludlana Legfemture. It was useless for a Greenback pap-r to live any longer.

The Democratic members of the Legislature last Monday night in caucus, nominated D. W. Tourheesfor United States Senator both long aud short terms. Senator Reeve of this city placed Hon. Geo. W. Julian ir nomination for the short term, and made an eloquent speech in bis favor, but flvo votes were all that

I could be got for Julian, The Demo

crats don't like boltiag Republicans. A bill has been introduced in Congress looking to the admission of Da

kota as a State in the Union, and it is j thought the bill will pass. Dakota embraces the tenitory lying Just!

north of Nebraska and west of Minnesota. Its area is about twice as large

as tbat of Illinois. There are said to be $100,000 white persons within its j limits at present, aud it is claimed there will bo 150,000 before the com

pletion of the necessary steps for its admission into the Union. Tho Democrats ot Indianapolis having sold out to tho National party, there Is no Democratic party in Iadl ana. Honest Democrats should at once usits with the Republicans. There is no longer any hope for the

Democratic organization in this State

The Legislature is now fairly settling down to work. Senator Reeve,

I'en and Scissors. Rents have fallen in Boston, and in

after helping Lieutenant Gray in his j 0ue case a suite of chambers whtoh little game of "shenanigau" in organ- formerly commauded $10,000 a year izlng the Senate, seem to have have been let for 2,000.

waked up to a realization of the responsibilities resting upon him as the Democratic leader in the Senate, and"

: seems to be taking a stand in favor j of honesty and reform. We shall al- ; ways be ready to accord to bim honor when we think it is due, and if he gets ! off the track we shall let tho people i know it. Dr. Confer started off right i by voting with the Republican in fa

vor of a non-partisan resolution for

dividiug tbe State into Congressional

and Legislative districts. We have not seen the ayes and uayes on the foolish resolution adopted by the House, Friday, by which the Democracy was sold out to the Greenbackers, but fear the Dr. 's name is among the ayes. The handful of Greenbackers In the Legislature, forced the Democracy, Friday, to declare that they demanded the unconditional repeal of the resumption uct, and favored the issuing of thirteen hundred and fifty millions of legal

Even if Senators Reeve, Sarnigbauasn oder This th nnd Winterbotham. with Sneaker ! c? did to ßet tyro OT threo vot" for

Cauthorn, should attempt to resist

The Crowu Point Cosmos says: "It seems like it would be necessary for the Democratic Legislature of this State to increase the number cf prison directors. If something of tbe kind is not done, a great many Democrats who did the party good service last fall, will be obliged to eurn their living by bard labor. It makes oLe tired to think of it." The Democrats of tho lower bouse of the Indiana Legislature put themselves ou tbe record, Friday, as demanding tbe unconditional repeal of the resumption act, and of the aot exempting bonds and greenbacks from taxation; the abolition of all bank is sues, tho free and unlimited coinage )f gold and silver, and the govern-

the delivery of the entire party to the Nationals, which now seems doubtful, they cannot hope to accomplish anything after the action taken by the Democrats is the House last Friday.

Voorhees. It looks just like the Democrats at Indianapolis have determined to sacrifice everything in order to prevent the nomination of Hendricks as the Democratio candidate for President in 18SJ0. Mr. Hendricks went to Washington to be out of the way when Voorhees was eleoted to the Unitod States Senate, so that it could not be charged against him that be influenced the Legitsla-

General James Shields has beta elected to tho United States Seuate frcui Missouri, to ilil a vacancy for the? short term of live weeks. This

makes tbe third time that General j ture in favor of the arch demagogue. Shields has been elected to the He now sees perhaps, that be bud United States Senate, each time from : 1etter reinaiued at home, tho a different state. In 1849 he was elect- ' Democrats having surrendered ed from Illinois, and served six years. to the Nationals, he can no longer exile afterwards emigrated to Minnesota j pect to secure the nomination, with and in MM waselected from that co Democratic party iu his own Stute

state, serving two years. His eiec- to back him

tion from Missouri makes a Senator from three states, and is without a par.. llrl in the history of distinguished neo.

Senator Reovo is said to have de-

jrinnr i4iin nf i..,r,. I . t n 1 1 r nnn.tr nur.

' . T , aov olared in his speech in the Democrat rency at least to the amount of $30 , .. . , , . .

per eapita. This would be $1,300,

000,000.

Conkling has beeu uuauimously nominated for United States Senator bj tho Republicans of New York. Vest is the nominee of the Democrats In Missouri, Voorhees of the Democrats in Indiana; O. H. Piatt of the rtepubHcans ef Connecticut, Don Cameron in Pennsylvania, and John LSgan In Illiuois. All of these men have probably been elected bofore we go to press. There was a dead lock iu the Republican caucus of Wisconsin, tho votes being about equally divided between Keyes, Howe aud Carpenter. It muy take several dhya to elect them. Governor V.iaoo, Democrat, is the Senator from North Carolina. The State municipal authorities of Alabama last week arrested United States District Attorney Mayer and United States Marshal Tumor for contempt of Court, for not returning tbe ballot boxes aud ballots of the tbwn ofSeltna used at the fast election; although they knew that the Bore and ballots were not In possession f'tboee officers, but wer" In the euetody of the United States Circuit Cotsrt. The District Attorney was released on writ of habeas corpus, but tbe M irshai, not being prepared or so situated as to make immediate application for such a writ, was committed to jail. Thse authorities evidently fear tho evidence of their fraud, as shown by the ballots and ballot boxes, and have become reckless, not seeming to care what they do under the name of law. A Washington spect d to the Cincinnati dazttte 6uys: "As the National banking act provides that after specie payments have been resumed, no notes shall be issued to National lanks of lower denominations than ti o National bank redemption

agency iefnow assorting all $1 and $2

Just now there is considerable of an outcry in somo quarters against lawyers in Congress and State Legislatures, the charge being that lawyers frumo laws to make litigation, etc. The charge is gratuitious and wi'bout

I a particle of proof. A Conuress or a

it eaucus Mon tay night, thut in bis

opinion majority of Democrats Buu Lcfislftiufl without a due pre

portion of lawyers would be not only

this state hold views at variance with

those of Mr. Voorhees. The Journal reporter says: "It was whispered that the action of Reove and his associates in tke eaucus followod by their quiet acquiescence in the result, was simply done to teach Mr. Voorhcos a lerson in party allegiance, and to convey a bint that when the national Democratic convention two yqars hence should declare for hard money he would be expected to fall in lino.

Cannon, the Mormon delegate, Is at work explaining the effect of the receut decision of tbe Supremo Court, which subjects all who have lived in polygamy since July, 18ti2, to a fine and imprisonment, and renders all ohildren illegitimate. Mr. Cannou wants a relief aot passed that gives amnesty for past offenses under thi

law. which the Government itself has ßom8 nionths since, Leon Lewis,

allowed to remain a dead letter, with for many years a story writer for the

a useless but a pitiable body. As a rule they know better than any other class what laws aro needed aud how to draft then, Take tne last flvo huudred years together, and lawyers have done more than any other class to secure equal rights, to advance the cause of the people against kingly and priestly prerogative, and generally to Improve tbe laws and their administration. Of course there are bad men in tho profession, but, take them as a whole, they have done more for tho cause of liberty and progress than any other class. The outcry ugaiaitt them is utterly absurd and unjustiüable. We truet the S'ate of Indiana will never have a Legislature without u due proportion in it of good lawere. Indianapolis Journal,

the piovlsion that In future all shall be held strictly to account by the Government under tbe criminal sections of the law. He says this will graduully but effectually break up polygamy. A number of members aie in favor of adopting such a law.

New York Ledjer, sent us a notice of

a new paper to be called the Pen Yan Afyslf j. which he proposed to start about the 1st of January. He proposed to pay us liberally for publish iug the notice, but not liking the proposition we declined It. Almost

aud we shall not be at all surpilsed h11 tB0 P"Prs in this vicinity, and in

fact throughout the Lotted States; published his prospectus and notices. A few weeks ngo we received the first number of the M-jtery, uud after examining it, nt once came to the oouelusion that Leon Lewis was insane.

to find the law still remain unexecuted, or at least evaded by tbe "Saints" to such an extent as to render It nou-tuVotlve.

According to the 10th annual report of the Indian Commissioners, onehalf of the Iudians wear clothes such as are worn by civilized people. It is the opinion of the Terre Haute Express that wheu the Greenback party triumphs it will be "over the prostrate form of the dead Democracy;" Prof. N. P. Hill has been elected Uulted States Senator from Colorado to sueueed Hon. J. B. Chaffee. Senator Jones has been re-elected from Nevada. Tho man who drafted the new army bill must have been brought up on a newapaper. He boiled down foorteen pages of tho Burnside bill into a single sentence. In Louisiana there are fW,883 white voters who can write their names, aud 13,030 who can not do so. Of colored voters 10,300 write their names, and 00.300 do not. Heavy shipments of grain are being made to Cincinnati from points on the Illinois Central road. It i quito unusual to seo the cars of that line moving in the direction of Cincinnati. A uumber of ourexohanges express the belief that the prioe of money oan-

not be regulutod by law, and that an

Hews ef the Week CondeoNed. About Ave million dollars worth of

property was destroyed by

New York city last week. Lieutenant Dodd has gone to the Pine Ridge agency to get tho assistauc of some of Bed Cloud's Sioux to hunt tho fleeing Cheyennes. The seoretary of the treasury on Saturday oalled for the redemption of twenty millions of five-twenty bonds of 18G5 and consols cf 1807. Mr. Edmunds, Monday introduced a relief bill in the senate to grant amnesty to those now living hi the bonds ofMormon wedlock. Six ootton mills at Preston, England, running 183,114 spindles, have given notice of a reduction of wages from five to ten per oent.

Weston started Saturday morning j others

.Neighborhood otes. Kosciusko county has a very large

lire in delinquent tax list.

Huntington has eight churches and sixteen saloons. Starke county paupers are to be kept by J. W. Seagraves during the present year, at $1.70 per week. Tho Starke county Ledger says oorn sells at from 30 to 35 cents a bushel, or from five to eight cents more than it sells for in Chicago. Water was turned into the pipes of the new city water works at Peru last Saturday. The Jeugines worked admirably, aad Peru is delighted. A gang of burglars seem to have been woiaing Crown Point last week. An entrance into several stores was effected and attempts made on

from tbe Royal Exchange at London, to walk over the high way$ 2,000 miles lu 1,000 hours and deliver titty lectures. It begins to be evident from the delay of the liou6o committee on ap-

The enow is drifted oa the north and south roads ra some parts of LaPorte county, to such an exteut as to render it necessary to resort to tho fields for passage.

Aaron Einher, of Miami county, was

propriations, that the Demoorats are : at his own rcqest taken to the iasane

determined to force an extra session a3yium last week. His is one of the of congress. few cases of insanity where the paTbo sales of provisions in Chicago j tlent understands his condition. on Suturday last aggregated 115.000 I Rev Evan Stevenson, a well known barrels of pork, 43,000 tierces of lard, Methodist minister or Northwest In- - m I

sad BJUU.UUU pouuas or meats, vai- diaaa. died at Eowler .Benton countv.

ring a horso fiddle or the Baptists buying a steam oalliope. When you are making a noise to the Lord It is just as easy to make a big one, if you have the necessary machinery. Verily Peru is a "toney" town, Peru Heyn bücaji. The Greenbackers of the Maine Legislature voted to send the names of Garcelon and Smith to the Senate as candidates for Governor. This was to spite the Republicans of the Senate. Compelled to choose between tbe two, the Republican Senators voted for Oarceron, and he was elected. This was to spite tho Greenbackers. When Oareelon came to read his message, and spoke in favor of hard money, the "Greenbackers hissed him. Everybody ooneerned in the busfness seems to feel very much as did the !eHc-w who bltoff his nose to spite his faee. Inter- Oceiru

Special Rates

FOR

Job Printing.

tied at 2.500,000.

Henry Morrissey died a few days 0f the Fifteenth Indiana Regiment ago at Halifax, aged 4M. He fought duiing the war.

Interest law is worthless so far aa It oa the Victory at Trafalgar, saw Nci- j Mrs Harrow, a lady 88 years of

attempts to fix the percent to be paid as interest for mony loaned. When the fees and salaries of county officials are reduced to a basis oommensurate with the times, und thv paupers sent to tbe roor house, where

son fall, and afterward had his own '

leg broken by a splintor. Martin Bergu, the nineteenth Mollio Maguir hanged for murder, met his sentence at Pott"ville last Thürs lay in a cool mut'er of fact way

Tho Norwegian nation ia one of the smallest in Europe, yet its commercial fleet is the third largest in tho world; combined with that of Sweden, It is fast gaining upon that of the Unitod States. Tho Norwegeian, of cl' foreign flags, next to the British, is that which is moat frequently seen in the harbor of New Tork. Through the Sound whieh connects the Battle

with the German Ocean, forming Ihe highway from London to St. Petersburg, often from three to four hunched Norwegian vessels pass dally. i- eThe Vicksburg, (Miss.) lUrald, no-

age, living in Peru, is having her j cing the raot thut jrov. ÄiohoHs, of

third set of teeth, the last eet being j Louisiana, conoedes that thers was

so far grown that she is able to use j bulldozing in certain parishes in them. This iß certainly a wonderful i lhat 8ta,e. wanl8 t0 know why h freak of nature. didn't take the bulldozing spirit by

last Monday night. He was Chaplain

they belong, it will be in order to and died without flinching.

Tho Waterloo Frt$ says: "We give it up on Tom ;M;iys. While we

The Occidental Hotel, nt Omaha, supposed be was iu Colorado prlntNcb with A. Schultz's cigar factoiy ! lug a Republican paper, we was elecaud other frame buildings, burne.1 j ted as?istant Clerk of the Democrat -early Monday morning. Total loss ; ic House at Indianapolis.

20,000; Lnsurance, $1.500.

Water in Valparaiso is becoming scarce. Many families are compelled to hire it hauled. Another week or two without i it;, and chalk will find a rea'ly market. Already we imagine signs out "Shirt fronts renewed." Mccsemjer. 8ome of Valparaiso's cruel papas think the times too hard this winter fur a stove in the iarlor, aud the anxe e a t t m

zlement. The court room is densely i luUi l,oaux caD W ,OOK wwumuy orowded. 1 mto tue pleasant sitting room, mon-

! tally consigning the bothersomo par

ents to a warmer place. Videite. A China mug was exhibited at the

Bismarck has sent Privy Counsolor Wuhlenburg to Vienna to arrange with tho Austrian sanitary authoii ties oommon measures against the spread of the plague westward. The trial of tho direetors of the

City of Glasgow Bank is proceeding j at Ed in burg. The prisoneis are charged with fraud, theft an'd embet-

The bouse committee on printing '

will report favorably oa Mr. Singleton's bill to reduoe tbe expenses of public printing and binding. It is expected tbat 300.000 will be saved an nu il y. Lieutenant-Governor Hull, of of Florida, has been indicted by the

Cnitod Srates graud jury on a charge of coospirscy with others in ob'aining false returns of tho election in Brevard county. The hotise committee on coinage, j

wel ;hts and Measures has authorized

Mr. Mul'lrow to prepare a bill for the

Episcopal social at Kokomo last week which is said to be thr?e hundred years old. It belongs to the Mitchell family, who have a number of other relics from eighty to one hundred and fifty years old. The Winnamac Democrat was not issued last week. The wife of Dr. Thomas, the editor, died Sunday, Jan. 12th, after a short illness. She was an estimable woman, nod tbe

I bereaved husband has tno sympathy

of the entire community.

In notlciug the fact last week, that

the Democracy at Indianapolis, on the II PPr now that there was metl. d M.h of January, ignored General Jack- j ln hiä urndnoss. as it has Jtrannpired son, we said it looked as though they ' ,hut n ha8 Balled for Europe, taking were preparing to cut loose from the llim tUt Pretty nelee of Harriet National Democratic party and "go it j L8 and l-'W received as subalone." They did this sooner than I aorlptlon for the Myslenj, and Ieavws expected. Last Friday the Dem- j ing about tirty thousand dollars of ocrats of the lower house of tho Iudi-1 uupaid debts Pen Yan. Loon Lewis ana Legislature declared by a vote, was a spiritualist, and tho first and in the ratio of ton to one, that they j only number or his paper gave, we were In favor of the piiuciples advo-, think, unmistakable evldtueo of a

hilrs that are fit for circulation, and cated by the "Brick" Pomeroy wing , diseased brain, ovon though he has

khown himself sharp enough to swln-

dlo his creditor.- and patrons out of

seventy thousand dollars. J U! . P 1 L Governor Williams said in his message: "It is not tho Siato taxes,

returning them to tho banks. This i of the National Greenback party, wlil leiiuve tbe scarcity whioh might Thero is no louger any Democratic otherwise result from the lmmodinte , party in Indiana. Individual mera-

dslroctiou of ones and twos, aud the law is not violated by returning old notes, tbe statute ouly requiting tbat uo new notes shall be issued. The treasury authorlu s tldnk that it will be fully twelve mouths beforo, iu tbe erdiomry course of bualnt-as. the outstandjng ones and twos of tbo National banks will become unlit for circulation, and bo consequently presented for cancellation."

ber of tho old party can now vote as they please, and we expect, to see numbers unito with tho Republican

talk gravel roads. West Lebanon Statesman. The Mormons are rather retioent in regard to the decision of tho Supreme Court sustaining the law of Congress for the suppression of polygamy. The Moimnn pspers say that the decision is wrong, but they say nothing about obedience to tho law. At some points on the New York Central road the snow-drfits have reached such a d-pth that when trains pass through them the coaches uro as dark as when passiug through a tunnel, and in somo instances ths drifts seem to bo a mile or moro In length. Senator Bruce is negotiating for the purchase of 3,000 ncres of land in New Mexico for a cattle ranche, and has made a large investment to stock It. This enterprise Is a mere matter of speculation as tho senator intends to retain his present residence in Miss isslppl. A correspondent of the B son Advertiser notices tho fa t t' at Indian orn grown Hi tho Mississippi valley li sent to England and sold there In the Market for one cent pir pound, and a part of the proceeds returned t us in Yrih and Scotch oatmeal nt 8 cents per pound. A number of farms nround the Vershiro Vt., copper mines have been made valueless by the sulphurous smoke from the furnaces used for smelting ore, and somo time ago the Vermout mialng compauy was sued for $T00.000 damages by property owners In the vicinity, but tho court deelded for tbo company. If all the Judges in Utah should hold court for every hour of the twenty-four, and every day of the year, and every year of the century, they could not begin to dispose of all the bigamous marrlges of the Territory, Lot an example be made, if possible, of somo of the leaders.- Cincinnati Timcx. Tbe ales ot governments four per cent, bonds from January 2 to January 17 amounted to 79,095,150. As every million dollars of four per cents sold saves $2n,C00 a year Interest, the above cales represent a saving of more than a millicn nod a half of dollars. This is one of the results of sound Republican financiering. Hiram Y. Reese, who died in Frank lin county, Peunsylvauia, a few days ago, at tho ago of ninety-two years, was the father of tweuty-flve sous, of whom twenty are now living. Tho . . . 1 1

uua IB WW MUX-NX. "my ui i - I badlT. but nun of hla boun. were

nt iiiiiriii i)i nc v um iriinrL in um i

recovery of the body.

tbo throat and choke the lifo out of it. The Herald warns him that he must do this or confess tbat tbe Republicans aro excused for interfering to protect voters in their rights.

John A. Logan was elected United Senator from Illinois. Tuesday, and Roscoe Conkling was on tbe satne day elected iu New York. About five midion dollars worth of property was destroyed by fire in New York city last week.

Ladies' Yiattlng Cards. We desire to call the attention of tbe ladies to our Bevel, Gilt and Stiiped edge cards. For prices sre our advertisement. Crown Card Co.

resumption of tho trade dollar at nar.

and to nrnhlhl' it. furthor circulation ! Tu DPtl9t councU at Warsaw has

- -. in tho United States. The President is guarding against

any necessity of an extra soshIou of Congress by forwardiDg nominations for offices whose occupants' con-missions expire before the next regulsr meeting of Congress. Both tbostatlou-houses at Indianapolis wero beset Saturday with swarms of trampaapplylug for temporary shelter, the suddeu resumption of tho cold weather having driven them from their lurking places in the suburbs and river bottoms. Tho evidence has accumulated tbat Mrs. Stewart to her intimate friends has had uo hesitation In declaring that her husbund's remains are recovered; that they have been under tho control of Judge Hilton for some time past, and that with six hours notice they could be removed to Gardon City and delivered at the pnlace sepulchre whichj is ready for them.

It is said Mrs. Stewart told a fiienJ

withdrawn ministerial fellowship from Rev. A. A. Hopkins, and recommended tbe church at Warsaw to exclude him from membership. The char

ges against him were lying, impoetuie

Koonti' headquarters for Oysters, Bread, Piea, Cake and everything it; the psstry Hue, fresh and of the best quality. !tw Barbershop. Sylvester Young, of Valparaiso, a former resideat of Plymouth and a barber of experience has consolidated bis shop with W. Young on LaPorte street, whore he would like to meet all his old acquaintances aad make many new ones. AH who want the best woik done should rail on Young & Young. LaPorte Street. janlßta Horse Wanted. The undersigned wishes to buy flfty heavy Draft Horses and a few driving horses. I will be at Plymonth, Tuesdays; Bourbon, Wednesdays; Warsaw, Thursdays, of each week duiing

As every tumnes mm is preparing f r the spring openinp ot business, it voeli sdd greatly to his conveni nr and als to the appearance of his httsiueps if he hud some neatly printed Stationery, snch.ss LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS. NOTE HEADS. STAEEMENTS, ENVELOPES, CARDS, TAGS, ETC. All of the dwve vM be printed to order. For the information of tUeee that are not aw are we are nflMig extra kw tijiurcs on ueli work wr p ibiisli a statement ol prices : Letter Heads, 500 - $2 -S Bill Heads, 500 assorted sies a.s;o 14 hirjje vzc $2.7 nnd 5.

Note Heads 0

Statements, 500 Envelopes, 500 X

XX -

2.00

2.25

1.50

Ti

XXX

3.00

2.2

and conduct unbecoming a minister, ' January. 1879. Farmers having above

all of which were sustained. An old gentleman named Dr. Harper, a resident of Middlebury township, Elkhart county, for forty years, recently made threats against bis newly-married daughter and ber busband, and was adjudged Insane

kind of stock to dispose of will do

well to bring them in early, as I will stay but one month. w6 to jun 23 H. B. Alobich.

Our American Magazines. The marvelous bea ity of the illustrated magazines of this country is

and taken to the Indianapolis Insane j attracting attention throughout tbe

Asylum on Wednesday night. A young lady from Michigan at-

world. The edition of Scsiukbr in England has doubled within a few months. The London correspondent of the New-York Ti men says: "The whole lot of magazine annuals (English; put togeather, are not equal in

tracted a great deal of curiosity on the street last Saturday from her unusual size. She is sal 1 to be only H Y.nra old but weiha 417 nounda.

I,. . ... ... . pictorial art to a single number of She is visiting relatives in the city . , L , , 1

Ii 11 1 . 1 utiuir.n o ..lu.iuiLi. um tue i'iivo seem j to be in good houlth, and . .

at wuicu our magazines are aoiu is e Yen a greater marvel. For example a einglo number of Scbiumcr, "The Midwinter Number," Just Issued, has a full-page frontispiece Portrait of BoMRMMt of rare excellence, aad con

tains one hundred and sixty pages of

her movements denoto the usual activity LaPorte Artjns. Saturday afternoon, while J. D

the sons has died a natural death, four having beeu killed lu tho lato war, iu which niuo of them served. In the course of a recent lecture on "The Abuse of Books," Mr. Fred-

party, tho purty to which thsy ought , but the county aud township taxes eiiek Harrison, tha eminent essayist, to belong, i-nd with which they would and fees of ofllcers, that oppress tbe ! enij that he was Inclined to think the

htive voted er this,-but for a little prejudice.

Secretary Sherman has more than realized his expectations in tho sales of the 4 per cent, bonds. It is said that he did not anticipate a safe of aaere than a million dollars daily, but the demand was so great that during tbo first ten days of tho new year he cold more than forty millions, aud the de maud tili continues. These bond Uavo thirty ye.-.rs to ru-., aud every million dollars worth sold and 6 per sent, bonds redeemed saves annually to tbe government twenty thousand dollars in Lntesest; thus tbe sales of lbs first tea days will reduce the Interest account of thi year nearly a million of dollars. In lbUS our anuu-

peopio." The fact here so plainly mogt ,,6(ri part 0f reading was to stated is being recoguized all over j unow an4j what to avoid. The enortbe country, and is likely to demand inoiw multiplication of books is not large share of tho attention of the f(iVOrnble to tho reading of the best.

from Elkhart and Noble counties, has various State Legislatures for somo I There never wan a time durine the

introduced a bill in the Legislature years to come. In order to cover tho a9t three hundred years when the

Judge Osborne, ltepresentatlvo

broken. Ho is using crutches. LaPorte Chronicle. A widow Leach, living near South Bend, was very angry tbe other day because her son, who had suppoited

to atolish the system or paying coun- , whole ground, muneipnl taxes should

ty officers by fees providing for the ; bo added to those of county and payment of all fees luto tho county township. These three -onstitute treasury; fixing the salaries of Clerks ! the great bulk of the burden of taxaand Treasurers at $1,000 each, in j tion, and ths fees of officers aro the eounties having a voting populution added load which uiuke .1 all but inof three thousand; provi ling a grad- tolerable. It is o to a greater or less exual scale of salaries iu counties bav- j u.ut in all the States. The last twelve ing a larger population. The bill also : or firteen years have been years of provides for changing the law gov- extravagance and inflation in tbe exeraing court fcs, by compelling liti- , penseof looal government as in aeargscu to pay for work as litigation , jy everything else. They have been

progresses, thus preventing the accu

mulation of costs. Some of our exchanges, wc thick, have fallen into an error iu regard to the fees beihg abolished. We do not uudurstaud that Judgs Osboiues bill abolishes

diflieiilii"9 In the way of making an cllleient use of books were greater than to-day. A dispatch from Home states that in adition to the proposed appointment of several vieurs ia the parts of America destitute of Episcopal churches, the Vatican lutonds to establish several new bishops in the United States and institute a new hierarchy different from the present one. The pope has sent a circular to

that it was not likelv she would have Reighard was walking on tbe bilde of

e vented to her neices marriage be- I one of bis ioe house8- behlod 8ome In celebrated with ereat publicity ! ke whicü wu in tDe act of biD&

while her husband's body was still in stored, the jack slipped, letting four , . . 8erentT

the hands of the robbers. Judge kea of ic. weighing 860 pounds lllustratlou8. maDy of whicn m

works of art suchas before the advent of ScniBNEB appeared only in gift wo: ks and purely art magazines, and yet it is sold for 35 cents. The subscribers for the cunent year, get, in Sikiuner, not only four of these full-paged portraits of American Poets, and uenriy two thousand pages of text (equal to ft.OOO book pages) of the choicest current literature, with more than 1,000 illustrations, including a complete novel, "Haworth's," by Mrs. Burnett, but shorter stories, poems, reviews, descrptions of travel, biographical sketches, etc., and also the splendid series of papers und pictures of exploration in the great

South American empire of Brazil, de-

for

debt-making years. At the same time , the bishops outside of Europe, with a

official fees have been multiplying and increasing until together tbey constitute a load which the people can hardly bear. We have said this stale of things is general. The Gov-

view of extending the collections of Peter's pence in ail countries of the world. It is claimed by persons in Europe

who profess to be apiainted with the

President Brown of the Northern Indiana Normal school at Valparaiso, reads a paper at the recent teachers'

association in which he dwelt on tho ; her for many years, wanted to marry value of tbo uewspapor as an educa- the daughter of a neighbor. The tor. He said it was often the case ' girl's parents objected because Mrs. that the young man who staid at Leach objected. Tbe couple run homo was better versed in the affairs ' away to Niles, Michigan, and were of life than the college graduate, be- married. Now Mrs. Leach refuses to cause tho boy that staid at home give tfeea a homo with her. read tho newspapers and tho one that Major Burger and wife, father and attended the college did not. no j mother of Mrs. .Zack Williams, are placed newspapers in the reading . here on a visit from their homo at room of tbe school each week, being Itipley, Ohio. They aro 85 and 80

carciui te sereci papers ruai were icpii ui3ij, uuu m j livered free of postage aud all

free rrom startling and long reports ; uoiu lormeriy siuves in me ooum. . four (1 iHT9 of criminal deeds. In a few weeks an j Mr. Burger bought his freedom when I In CuihlleD;- Periodicals, too, Amer- ..... .. .1 -io mi j j

eager crowd ol students were discus- ai me ngo 01 oo. xury were inarneu ,oa lcRlis tho wor,d ith y Nicholas

Business Cards, 00 $2.o and 3.00 All other printing st very low pik-cs. Wc iurnUh the blttioucry in all caei. Republican Job Office, J. W. S1DERS & CO., Proprietors. We want everybody to Remember The People's Drug Store, Which is in Room No. 8, OF Hoham's Block, ON Laporte street, IN THE City of Plymouth,

In the County of Marshall, and in tbe StaU- of Indiana.

1870.

1879.

POE & CHAPMAN, jin 0 79 PROCKIBT0R8.

SPECIAL

. HO imiHT!

Iu Mr. lirewna own

iu Kentucky and after the war cume

North where they hare since resided. They have 14 children and are spry

and hearty.

James Kay, of Warren townspip, St. Joe county, left his home several

a! Interest on ths national debt was fes, but that It provides tbat they ; ernors of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, I facts, that a project for a constitution one bundled and forty million, now shall be paid into the treasury, thus I Pennsylvania aud New York, as well j for Russia already exists, that it is

complete iu every detuil, und now

it Is lees thau a hundred millions. A j iucreaeing the couoty fund instead of saving ot a million dollars a week enriching the officers. To abolish may not seem anything in tke eyes fees would be to compel meu who of those who have so bitterly opposed j ivr go into court to help pay the

Sherman's policy, but when the peo

ple look at It dispassionately tbey will see that it is ouite a sum. With the Same good management, keeping our credit ui tue.amiuui interest will be reduced furry minion more within Uie next Üve years, to say nu thing of tho great rcuuutidu uf ths debt.

expenses of those who do, and com

as the Uovernor of In iana, all refer to ths suhject and call the attention of their several Legislatures to tbe need of practical reform iu this re

gard. The wiping out of existing

pel the poor, who have no real estate ! uebts and a reduciiou of the expente transfer or money to loan, to help ' Hs of local government are likely to pay for the recording of deeds, mort- givewteady employment to tbe peo-

gacea, &c. This would be unjust, , pie of most of the Northern States 1 in dealing with Knropo;or whether

and we do not think Is contemplated j for a good many years to come. In- jt ehall be reserved as the iuuuKnt-l by the bill J MgMftNi Journal I measure of tiw utt lagtrare: ptffft

waits at the Imporiul Wiutor Palace for tho time of its publication to arrive. One question alone, it is said, remaius to bo settled -whether the constitution shall be at onco promulgated, so as to give tho Government a fresh opportunity and Impetus

ing the news

words: I noticed the change, in their OOBVCrSSUm at the dinner table, at the tveetaf i.ttii rings, ad on all MttMtftN whcic tesre was any oollsciioe of young people. Instead of the erdlnsry dlsscttssioa of the lesees ll the mcIiouI room. I hey were con venting nhout the pmstal toples of the day; and now there ure lew iu school who are not taking some puier or umgarnie. Thin has hud iu effect in another way

tlso, Wc find that this dlvsfStOM pre I pures thein heiter for their (woik. The result is a close uppliculi u to Mudy, and! lu.! ir L,ntj H i' f'iwl itlkii ll.il mir !

library is used more, ami ihe ctfeet on e- ! generally supposed that he had been

Prof. Proctor, the astronomer, writes from London: "What a wonderful magazine it is for the vouue folks!

Crawordsville Journal. Uur children ore quite as much de

lighted with i. as American children can be. I will not say they are more

weeks sinoefor the purpose of buying ! delighted, as that may not be pos-

somo sheep. Ho hud a large sum of money with him and not returniug when bo was expected, search was made for him, but nothing could be heard of his whereabouts und it was

savn, oralions nu l teinitiiig exercises is re uuu kahle, liihlend of .diaensaing whether "there ia more phaMiire in pursuit than posKCftSion ; whether "a man will do more lor thu love of money than the luve of TTTtlMSe." they take Bp living, practical topics.

A girl in Louisville chewed gum until she could not stop working ber jaws. It required chloraform to artest the MfcMM of the muscles.

murdered. One day last week he came home safe and sound, having been to England, as ho says to look after some interests there.

sible." St. Nicuolas is sold for 25 cents a number, and fourteen numbers (November, 1878 to 1880) are given for $3. SoBOHOni & Co., 7iS Broadway, New-York.

Backleii'H Aru'-vs SaUe. Tbe Bk8T Balve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Bores, Ulcers, Salt Kheum, Tetter, Chapped Hands, ( ' 1 1 i 1 1 il h ! i . 'ni'fte anH all binHa nf

While Bro. Cooper has introduced ; akin Eruptions. This Salve is guat-

the bruss liorus and big Addle, tbe i anteed to give perfect satiof.totl-in in

Methodists, not to bo outdono, are using a brass Drum, which thsy say U uot to be beaten. We look to heur next of the I'reebytcilans procu-

' every caae or money refuudod. Price

25 ceuls per box. tf L. Tanner. Plymouth lud. Ckown Curd Co., adveiti: meat

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