Plymouth Republican, Volume 23, Number 8, Plymouth, Marshall County, 6 February 1879 — Page 1
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The Plymouth Republican.
VOLUME 23.
PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1879.
NUMBER S.
ADVERTISING RATES.
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tp-clal rat. plveutn regtflar advertisers. !-gal Adt-ertlSeineufs as rcgalatcd hy law. Moni and transient advertising aSarfe kaosn ott
medication.
Church auc torWjr anuoaset-meirt. tnarristr
, and death feoffees, it
Local nofif es. in IhmIv true. 10 cerJU not ;rn. Braf
insertion; second iasertion 8 cent. Job Printing on the moei favorable terms,
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
T. A. BORTON. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON OSUa ia Peat OOlce Btek. Iwllin on East Mi Bob :a Hi. tilt tut Street, PLYMOUTH, IYDIANA.
Or. J- M- JENNINGS lHYsIl'UN AND SURGEON, office with X r. N. Sliorman over Lauer' s titore. on Elchican streot. Plymouth. Ind. Residonce on Outer street, opposite Catholic church. box no AM ASA JOHNSON a TTOBNKY AT LA W . Prompt attention given A. te collections, BettleMeat of decedents' estates sjaJ gaardisnabipe, deeda, mortgages, and other con--rca drawn op and acknowledgments taki-u. p O. JONES, ttarnvatl.aw Notary Public Prompt atteutlon given to all claims and coltattoos left io his ears, Office in corner ot sr't brick block Plymouth Id 1
C. H. REEVE,
ArTOK.VE . Al LAW. Loeated In 184. Coliectioua anJ courof aneing a specllltjr Buys and sells real estate on ounimisloa. IsBsres lit ok and property in A. I comaaiee, Desirabl real estate for aale in the
eitr and adjoining.
Novi-7S
BR I. BOWER.
IaHYSICIAN A N l SURGEON, will be pleased to re'nro patients at his offl.e. Mo. l : ick bran street, whore he may be umJ a all uma. except when profos.-uonal-r aba ant, hia reiuace boinir at the same Jatr iitsW. m Wm. M. BAILEY. M. D.. PHYSICIAN SURGEON. Thirty years practice. Oraduate ol two Medical coteses. aud six rears Surgeon in the army of ha U. 8. (toI. eerv.) Can compete suecessully with any qunck in the Uuited State. ThaaAfal for paaf favors, is atil! im regular KacUce. and only requires to be better known Lk.H n i.nv nnn. Office in S -iirs
r jficntgan ana uu urw uly ist. me. 17
aw brick, eor.
mouth, la 1.
J). 0-, S. D- A J. W . PARKS, A TTOBNBTS AT LA W. Notaries Public and A Authorized War Claim Agents; Offices at IvirWn and Plymouth. Indiana. Em-eela! attention giveu to the settlement of decedents Batatas Conveyancing, and the collection of Soldiers' Claims for Peusions; will attend rrompt'.y to all proleasional business entreated to them, and practice in Mar-hull and adjaiatns cosnties. Plymouth office on Gano treet between Michigan and Center street. Basrsoa oAc ttvttt K Jwil office. 36tf
The End
The ronrae of the BMSWeSl river Km! in the great grey ses; The scorn, for ever and evT, Strives upward to the tree; The lainhow, the sky adorning, Miines promise through the storm; The glimmer of coming- moruinz Throngh midnight gloom will form. Hy time all knots are riven, Comolex though they he, A peace will st last lie given, bear, both to you and me. Then, though the path mat be dreary. Look onward to ihr goal; Though the heart tni the head be weary. Let (aith inspire the soul. Seek fh- right, though the wrong ba tempting Speak truth St any cost. Vain is 11 weak exempting When ooce the gem is lost. Let strong hand and k.-en eve lie ready For plain and ambuahr l foe. Tboagn earnest anil fancy ateaily Bear best onto tlio close. The heavy clonds raty be raining. Hut with evening comes the light; Through the dsrk are low winds complaining, Y-t tlir annriae gl' t" thf hfight; And lovr ha hia hidden treasure For the patient anl the pure; And Time gives bis full messurc To the worker who ndnre; And the Word that no law haa shaken Has the iutiire pledge applied; For we know thst when we swaken We shall he satisfied.
Orthotrrapliical.
did not intend that Patkul should be delivered to KiDg Charles. Although he s nt bis guards to delirer this unhappy man to the Swedish troops, he dispatched a secret order to the Governor of Koningstein to let his prisoner escape. The Governor, knowing that Patkul was very rich, endeavored to make him purchase bis liberty; but P tkul, relying on the law of nations, refused to pay for that which bo knew by good rights he
ought to obtain for nothing. During this iaterval he was seized by the guard, who delivered him to four Swedish Captains, who carried him to Altranstud, where be remained three months faeteued to a stake with a heavy Iron chain. Charles, forgetting that he was the Czar's Ambassador, and not his own subject, ordered a council of war to try Lim with the utmost rigor, who, abiding by the King's diieitions, pronounced
Ejes Omou. "Our minister said in his sermon, last evening," said Mrs. Beach, the wife of a prosperous wholesale dry goods merchant, on Market street, as she dusted BSf mantle of porcelain and marble on Monday morning, "that he who wanted to do good must be on the constant lookout for opportunities; that God does not And out our work, and bring it ready fitted and prepared to our hand ; hut be spreads the world before us, and we are able to walk through it as Christ and his disciples did, with eyes open, looking for the sick and suffering, the poor and oppressed." "Now, I am certain," said the lady, as she replaced a marblo dial in the centre of tbo mantle, "I should like to do somo good every day one feels so much better when they go to rest at night; and I'll just keep my ees open to-da)', and see if I come across
With ttagic air the Uv elorn heir ti- e chaed the chaste Louise; Sbr quickly guesed her . - i.-t war there To please her with hi i pleas.
rhu fMarfnl aonfpiint which whb ion.
u n v nnt kirt 1 1 m t oo (hnr ntu'or nrri nu
A J 1 1X16 a l U II i i 1 3 lUHb U II' I i l VIUIUH ry fircumstances I should let slip."
C. B. CM AN E Y. a TTORNKV AT LAW. Will pracUca Mj all the
gkjmm rtm la th täte. Office in wue tv Backer Wolf 'a dry goods store,
I'lynwath, sngliyr
M
BS. 8. W. Dt'WLAP,
uownPtTRin r iv.ii'ian and Dentist,
sad Dr. J A. Duulap. regular physician an J Bargaon. reapect ully orter th.-ir s;rvices to the puldlc. Offl.'e in Corbin's block; residsaee ob East (iano street.
Now at her sidr ht korline aislied Ilia aighs of worulslae; Oh. hear oic herr, lor lo. most low I rise before your eyi-a." "Thi soul is sole thine own, Louise 'Twill ntvrr wean, I ween. Tli love that I for aye shall feel, Tho' mean may be its mien '." "Yoa know I ran not tell yon no," The maid made answer true "I love yon snght, as sure I ought To you 'tis cue I do T' '"Since yon are woa, O fairest one. The in irriage rile is rightThe chapel aisle 111 lead you Bp This night," exclaimed the knight.
THE FATE OF FATKl L.
BT HABRIET E. S. CRES8Y,
mediately dispatched to
d'Eurriedel. A cbaplin came to inform Patkul of his sentence, without acquainting him of the manner in which it was lo be executed. Patkul, who had braved death in many battles, finding himself alone with the priest, and bis courage being no longer supported by pride or passion, poured u flood of tears into th e chaplain's bosom. lie
entreated the chaplain to wait upon Madame d'Enfridel, giving her all the consolation in his power, and also asHiiriug her he died full of the most tei.der affection for her. When he was brought to the place of punishment, and beheld the wheel and stakes prepared for bis execution, he fell into convulsions, and
the arms or the
ma'am."
WILLIAM B. HESS,
TTOBNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW.
Tk. Plymouth, luoiana.
janll
JOHN S. BENDER,
ATTOKNEY AT LAW, j AND NOT A K Y PI BUC, tttCOf Y HOC. PLYMOUTH. (NO fjporial attention given to the scttleiteut of es- j late sad partition of lauds; also the collection oi , daisae sad foreclosure ol Mortgages. Remittances j rras.pt. lX I
A, C. A A. B. CAPRON, Attorneys & Oounse lors AT LAW REAL ESTATE AGENTS. WCE-A. L. tUTHKKLER'S BLOCK. PbfOUTB. IND.
J. B. N. KLIMGER,
fublU, Caaveyaueer. Kxamiuer oi
Titles aad Civil Kuuiaeer. WIU faraiah a complete Abstract of Titles to lands a aarsaall county, lad. Office it hi residence, oa Uaiiavn street, north of Coort House square. rLYMUl lM. ISBIASA.
MERSHON,
Tencher of Instrumental Music.
W. H
Vocal and
Will be Id Plymouth evary Motday Plstto. Organ, Violin, linitar. v ic aar ii j pay. Leave orders at C has. W b
and TSMBaW.
ce culture and
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dec 5 3m
DENTISTS
F. M . BURKET,
All
It was midnight in Knasia on, of threw himself into
those clear moonlight nights for mluUter, who embraced him, covered questioned the lady. hich th- Vorth of Ttuaai. la rtiatin. him with bis cloak and wept over "He was three last April,
guished, where, by the aid of the him. A Swedish officer theo read j ' And Tom la four," mused the lady, brilliant northern HghU, It is as con- alroud a paper to the following effect: "Loo Mrs. Slmms, won't you venient to travel bv nlabt as br dar. ! "This is to declare that It is the ex- j Just open the lower drawer of that
Madame d'Enfriedel, the betrothed of press orders of his Mnjesty, our mo' t ' bureau and take out those four green
Patkul, was every moment expecting merciful Lord, that this man, who is j him to return from a tour to the a traitor to bis country, be broken at j Court of Poland, where he htid been the wheel and quartered, in order to, a number of monti.s on nn important atone for his crimes, and be an exammisHion as Ambassador and General pie to others, that every one may be- ! of the Czar of Russia. Madame d'En- ware of treason, and faithfully serve friedel bad ordcreJ her muids to re- the King." tire, Hud now, in solitude, ehe paced Ho teceived sixteen blows, and sufthe walks of the courtxard, wonder- j fered the most excrusiatlng torture1 ing, and still wondeiing why Patkul imaginable. did not make his appearance. M. De Voltaire says : "The King of The following day was the one ap- Sweden alone, educated in the princi-'
pointed by Patkul for the celebration pes of arbitrary power, thought be I tor." of their nuptials aud that night the tad only performed an act of justice. "Well, I'll place them on top of the one on which he I. ad declared his in-; while all Europe condemued his cru- i clothes," said the lady to herself, as tention to be in Russia. But, as the ; elty." j 9ho thought, -My eyes hav been moments lengthened into hours and ; When the Czar was Informed that opened once to-day." he did not come, Madame d'Enfriedel ptkul, his Ambassador plenlpoten- Not lou afterward Mrs. Beach was concluded to retire to hei chamber. tiary, was deliveied up to tho King of on her WHy to market for she was a After a few hours of uniefreshinR Sweden in contempt of the laws of notable housekeeper-when she met
slumber, she arose, and her maids at- nations, he loudly complained to the tended her to breakfast. As she sat, ! several courts of Europe. He wrote , dreamily sipping her chocolate, a 'to the Emperor of Germany, to the ; valet eutered with a letter for his Queen of Encland. and to others who!
I w " mistress. Madame d'Enfriedel eager- were in high authority. These letters ' ly snatched it from his hand and only served to set the power of the broke the seal Arter perusing a part King of Sweden in a strouger light, of its conteuts, she uttered a scream England, Germany, and Holland were j which tilled her maids with the ut- ' thpn fino-nced in a ruinous war with i
most terror: and. no sooner had thev I .....i k ' .1. ,,0. la .... with a cordial but
. . v . x louer, Uli', vuv.u uuuuu vswuiu a ii reached her side, than she fell Into a!lirjfmfB .hint? to exasDerato Charles
0 - XII. Thus there was no power that would interpose in behalf of poor Patkul. The day that Patkul was executed Madam d'Jaufridel, being aware of the
time, lay in convulsions many hours
afternoon was cloudy, and the day bad gone down in a low, penetrating rain.
Now, Mrs. Beach loved her husband with the love of a true wife, but he was not a demonstrative man, and the first beauty and poetry of their married life had settled down into a bare, every-day, matter of fact existence. But her heart was warm tonightWarm with the good deeds of the day, and remembering her resolution of the morning she threw down her book and ran down stairs. "Henry, dear," said the sort voice of his wife, uhas the rain wet you at all? Let me take off your coat for you." "Thank you, Mary, I don't believe I'm anywise injured, but you may help me just tor the pleasure of it;" rnd he stood si ill, while she removed the heavy coat, w.th the softness or touch and movement belonging to a woman. She bung it up and than the husband drew her to hit) heatt with all the old lover tenderness. "You ar3 very thoughtrul or me, Mary, my wire." he said. And there was music in Mrs. Beach's heart as she went up stairs music set to the words, "Eyes open! eyes open!" bmbBBbB bB - Hunibngf li,;j Farmers, ir every farmer in the land could read, and protif by the accounts given in the American Ajri ulturit during the past year only, or the vaiious special frauds upon farmers, it would, in tho aggregate, be a saving of hundreds o.f thousands of dollars to the farming community. Thero is a set of swindlers whose operation:: aie especially directed towards farmers. It is no refli ction upon the intelligence of farmers that this is so. These rascals know that all kinds or M-di are not to be caught with one bait ; hence they operate upon clergyman, doctors, a erchants and farmers, each In
wor&ted dresses in tho corner? Tom's I a different manner. It Is safe to pre
o tgrown them, biuce last winter, but diet that there is a new set of traps
Half an hour luter Mrs. Beach was in the nusrery with tho washerwoman, who bad come for the clothes. "I wish, Mrs. Simme," said she, as she heaped the soiled linen into the basket, "that you would get Tommy's aprons ready for me by Wednesday ; we are going out of town to remain until Saturday, and I shall want a good supply on hand for such a careless little scamp as he is." "Well I'll try. ma'am," said the washer-woman. "I've got behindhand a good deal since Sammy got the whooping cough; but now he is better, I must try and make up for lost time." "Has he had the whooping cough? Poor little fellow! How old is he?"
specimen fork, and also signed what he called an 'obligation for $100, and he and I agreed positively that the f 100 was to be paid only when I sold enough forks to realize that amount A few day ago I got a letter from the banker at our county-seat, saying that he held my note for $100, and that It was due and he wanted his money. I went to see him, and there, sure enough, was my 'obligation' to pay $100. That Indianapolis chap bad sold it to him at a shave He says I will have to pay it, though
Items of Interest. The Hous has passed the bill restricting Chinese emigration. There is great distress among the working classes all over Switzerland. Forty houses were demolished at Lockport, Texas, by a tornado on Sunday. It i? said that the new patent law
cent, on the expenditure for drinks would support the public schools of the State. Five per cent on that amount Is more than It costs to support all the ch ii roes or every def imlnation in that county. It is equal to the interest on 225 millions of the A percent United States loan. It i sufQcieut to buy bread for three mif-
time. Seven thousand miners are Idle in
I have not sold a single fork. Now, 1 1 Durham County England. The dis-
would like to know why our positive agreement can't be set up as a defense to the note." We are sorry for you, but you will have to pay the note. The note is a contract in writing; your "positive agreement" was not in wriiing. The law does not permitgan agreement in writing to be changed or varied by auy verbal agreement made at the
time. The law supposes that your J wk
whole agreement is reduced to writing, if any of it is. If you bad inserted in the note your "positive agreement," instead of making It payable at a certain time, you could not be compelled to pay only as you agreed to. It is well to remember, that when you put any part of a contract in writing you should put it all in, or none. Have nothing "understood" outside or what is written. We wish we could reach every farmer in the S ate with your letter and our answer, iu order to warn them against signing notes in fuvor or these raise patent-right agents, Indiana Farm-ir.
greut
tress is unequaled since the
strike in 1844. The Senate Finance Committee, by vote, decided to recommend the reduction of the tobacco tax from 21 to 20 cents per pound. The striking weavers of Kensington, near Philadelphia, after "standing out" three month?, and losing $37.000, have now asked to be taken
they are ulmost as good as new. Now, if you want them for little Sammy they'll do nicely without altering, I think." "Want them, Mrs. Baach! answered the washerwoman, with tears starting Into her dim eye, "I haven't any words to to tell you what a treasure they'll be. Why, they'll keep the little fellow as wurm as toast ull win
fainting Qt Medical assistance was soon procured, but she scarcely recovered from one attack before another, more alarming, ir possible, than
Thus pain
fully passed the day, with Madame
Consultation Is
free.
Dentist, Offee over A. B"-'cKr'iirroCtry opooaite Post Office.
All worn nirreaini I . , , to give eutire satis- j the former, succeeded.
(action in every ren . j
apuct. Ulaeasea ui the month and teeth successfully treated Tetth extracted withoat pain by the uac nf uit'oas oxid
work warranted. I
DR. A. C. HUME,
d'Eufiiedel, that was to have made she bad tbe weanh of a Princess, and her the bride of Gen. Patkul. her bridHi robe( which 8ne ordered to The terrible news, which was at- iaili asitla aod kept until it was tended with distressing consequences nee(iej to shroud her form in death,
a. ' i an I i -f.AWfsV t0 thiS ma8Dlflcent womao' waa lhat was in itself worth a large fortuue. TuJaiy Xm WWaBttT Ol UUl WW. Patkul was imprisoned at Al ranstad, Her jewels she ordered to be sold tor
under direction of Charles Twelfth, the benefit 0f the poor, and thenceKing of Sweden, already having been ! forward, while she lived, she attired tried by a council of war. who con- her8elf in a peasant's garb. Filled demned bim to be broken alive on wjtn tbe m0st melancholy reflections, the wheel aud then quartered. ehe never was known to smile arter
j Charles Tweirth was at that period a the death of her betrothed. Thus
monarch at whose name a quarter of two jive8 went out In sorrow at tho Europe treroblsd, although he atter-! caueUy of aQ ftmbltlous King. ward met with adversity and was as himseir detained a prisoner in Tur- Indiana Psteats.
DENTIST! Office Id Second story. Post Office Building
Teeth from one only, to a ke In the eal,ler prt of hi8 re,n
full get, so cheap that the
rich and poor can all GZT THEM. Pteservation of the Natural Teeth A SPECIALITY.
O. C. DURR, DENTIST! Office over Parks Bros.' Law Office, Gano Street.
Plymouth, Ind
The following is a list or the pat-
he was styled tbe Conqueror. In- ents Issued to citizens or the State or
deed, he was once beard to complain Indiana, January 21st, 1H79, and each or his constant success over his ene- bearing date Jan. 21st, 1879, rurnisbed mies, whom he repeatedly engaged in this paper by C. Bradford, Solicitor or war. He dethroned Augustus, the Patents, 18 Hubbard's Block, IudianKlng or Poland, and placed Stanis- spoils, Ind., of whom copies and inlaus Laaezinsky instead, and now, in formation may be obtained: defiance or the laws of nations, he To N. linker, of Cold Water, Michigan.
had caused the sentence of death to be pronounced upon the Czar's Ambassador. John Relnold Patkul was a native of Livonia, a beautiful and fertile
and A. Sowie, of Treniout, for improve
ment in car-coupling. To J Sline, of Mount Auburn, for ituprivvement in clover-seed sciarntors. To. J. F. Hmfield, of Dublin, for improvement in grain separators. To J. 8. Cory, of Dullon, for improve-
yrnoU
PHILIP BEST'S Milwaukee BOTTLED LAGER BEER! Ilarini tak'-n the aeiK-y of the above eebrated BoUled I.ager Beer, 1 can farnisl. It (or $1 25 per Dozen Bottles nd Jelivt-r st any ,. i oi tUe city. I ... MAX RUGE.
province belonging to Sweden, and mcnt in fane gates
was once condemned to deatn y t Ag an lrjtjcation of how the public Charles Eleventh fer carrying to the ' üme and money m wa8ted by tbe throne the complaints of the prov-' boa8ted "reformers" in Congress . IMs ince, the people of whom the King8taU(j tbat among the bills introhad stripped of their privileges and ; duced ln the House on Tu äday, were patrimonies, but made his escape to!forty ln identically the same landie a still more tragical death at the gUHge and differing only as to the
hands or cuaiies lwertn. After bis
nume of tbe beneficiary. In each
escape from Livonia he became the caae tho bU1 grHntg rent for tho use Miuister to Augustus, Ring of Po of iami8 occupied during the defense land, but afterward entered into the 1 nf Pennsylvania in 186.1 by the United service of the Czar. States troops. All the forty odd perThe most singular circumstance 80u coui baV8 been named in one connected with the affair was that biu As it is, tho valuable time of tho Augustus, now a dethroned King, and House was taken up with the reading one whom Pa.kul bad defended, was of tbe titles of tho bills, and a heavy the one to arrest him and cost him expense for printing will be iucurred, into prison. It was done from a sp4r- uoJer th" rules, 750 copies of each . . . t .i i , must be struck off for tbo tile, makit of revenge and jealously at Patkul s . . ( . . Furtm.r.
leaving bis service and entering into more, the bills have utterly no chance I band's step in the hall
I that of the Czar. Augustus, however, ! of being passed.
a boy who had lived a short time in her family the year before, to do errands, wait on the door, etc. fie was a bright, good-hearted, merry-raced boy, and had been a great favorite with the family, and Mrs. Beach had become interested in him; but this morning she was in quite a hurry, and would have passed the child
hasty "How are
you Joseph, my boy? Do come and see u,n had it not struck her tbat Joseph's ftice did not bear its usual happy expression. 8he paused aa the memory of last night's sermon flashed through her mind, and she asked, "Is anyth lug the matter with you Joseph?" The boy looked up a moment, with a half confiding expression into the lady's face; the latter triumphed. "Mr. Auderson moved out of town," ho said, pushing back his worn but neatly brushed cap f.om his hair, "So I've lost my place, and little Mury's sick, and that makes it very bad just now." "So it does," answered Mrs. Beach, her sympathies wai mly enlHted. But
never mind, Joseph. I remember, only night before last, my brother
said he would want a new errand boy in a few days for his store, and be would give a good one two dollars a week. Now, I'll see bim to day, and get the situation for you if you like." Tbe boy's face brightened : "O, I should be so glad of it, Mrs. Beach 1" "And you see Joseph, I am going to market, and perhaps I can find something nice for little Mary." The lady remembered tbat Joseph's mother, though a poor seamstress, was a very proud woman, and that this would be a delicate way or presenting a girt. 8o she found some delicate pears and grapes and a nice chicken to make some broth for Mary, who, as she learned, was ill with fever, before she proceeded to do her own marketing. But it was a pity that the lady did not see Joseph, as he spraag into the chamber where little Mary lay
wearily moaning on her bed. while her mother sat busily stitching in one corner, and held up the chicken and fruit, crying, "good news! I've got ull these things for Mary, and a place at two dollars a week !" Oh, how little Mary's hot fingers closed over the bunches or white grapes, while the sewing dropped from her mothei's lingers, as the tears coursed down her cheeks. It was evening when Mrs. Beach sat in the library, absorbed in somo
new book, when sho heard her hus-
ThouKh tho
i qiorntug had beeu so pleasant, the
reudy this spring to catch farmers. Of late years the "agency" dodge has been played sut -cessfully, and it has already been started thus eaily in the season. These swindles are all arter one pattern. A glib tougued chap. No. 1, wishes to e-tablish an "agency" ror some crinkum. It may be a slumppuller, a machine ror grinding the
knives or mowing machines, it may be a churn power, or a spring bed. Whatever it is, chap No. 1, s mehow or in some way. contrives to get tho signature or the rarmer. Here is where the trouUe begins. We have cautloued and reiterated tbe caution: "Farmers, be eareM what you sign," but this does not seem to be enough; no matter ho much care is exercised, tbe smooth tongued chap. No. 1, is usually too much ror the rarmer. So wo soy to farmers don't act as agents to anything, but if you will not heed this, and the temptation as to profit is too great to resist, and you will diregard warnings, we beg of you farmers, don't sign anything. You may be asked to agreo to become an agent, you may bd asked to give your address, so that the sample machine, to be sent free, will como all right; you may be asked for merely your
postofllco address. Take our advice which is tbe same as Punch's advice toyouu(; people about to marry don't! dou't! Don't, do not pray refrain from signing your name to anything whatever. Observe this and you are sufe. Sign your name on any pretence to anything whatever, and you open the way ror tbe visit of chap No. 2 fie is not smooth-tongued or persuasive. Ue has come to collect his bill. You have ordered so and so. The goods are at the depot, here is the bill, and he wants the money, as he must take the next train. You can't say you never ordered tbe goods, for there is your signature! You can't deny it, but you signed it as an agreement to act as agent, or signed it as your addressNo. 2, knows nothing about this cares nothing about it. but wants his money. Here we again say, don't. Don't bo bullied Into paying
it, but let him do his worst. Show him the door, and let bim appeal to the courts if he dares. The game has already begun, and hundreds or fanner.-, to avoid trouble, will throw away thousands of dollars tho coming soason. Don't be bullied into paying a dollar on any such claim. At lbs most, it can only go to a jury of your neighbors to deoide, but not one case
iu a hundred will ever come to that. One correspondent, in writing from Massachusetts, says tbat some of his neighbors think that an agricultural paper can teach them nothing, yet one of these very conceited farmers bad to pay $3U, which he would have saved bad he read our humbug article.-., as the very swindle was exposed here. - American Aqriculturisl for February. Law On. 'st. mi Answered. A farmer writes us its follows: "A few months ago a smooth-talkiug chap from Indianapolis called at my house md wanted ine to act as agent in our township for the sale of a patent hay-fork. He made tbe business appear very easy and profitable," and I concluded to act for him, aud so I
Nebraska Letter. Rock Ckkek, Lancaster Co., Nebraska, Jauuary 26, 1871). )' Editor Republican : Dkaii Sir We have noticed during the past few weeks several letters
from Nebraska correspondents in your excellent paper, and tor tbe sake of any of your readers who may have a desire to obtain cheap and beautiful homes in a fertile and healthM ccountry. we would say you may receive these pen pictures as faithful and true. Aud yet the region of country in which we have chosen our home is greatly superior to that of your Marshall couuty friend who rote you a few weeks since, in at least two respects. We have greater facilities for maiket, and while we have tha purest aud most excellent
water wo.ever drank, we need only dig rrom fifteen to rorty reel. The rarm or four hundred acres, of which I
bought eighty, has four wells of excellent water, tbe deepest of which is only forty feet, and one is only fifteen feet deep. Three of these were dug several years ago, and have never failed through the dryest season. We have here a deep, rich, fertile soil, splendid fruit prospects, good society, good neighbors, good schools and meetings, and splendid roads. And while you poor creatures in Indiana are plodding along through mud and snow, we are gliding about over dry and dusty roads. Tis true we have had one or two inches of snow four or five times, but it quickly passed away without any inconvenience to man or beast. Our little girl ten year old, and little boy of eight, have not lost a day from school aince we came here, about the middle of November, and they go a mile and a half. We understand that some or our rrieuds are much worried on our account. N jw that's useless; better save their pity for those who cuu't sell and come out here. But we invite no drones; we Und no "deadbeats here, and if any should come they would find it very lonely. We seldom meet a man here who has not a good share of what is so fitly called "git up and dust," and so let all the faint and fearful ones keep close by daddy's hearth aud home. The country is "right smart," and so the people have to be smart to keep up with it. Why, what would you think to see a man sowing wheat now in Indiana? And yet, here men have been sowing for several days past, and some are plowing. Oh ! this
is tbe country for those who wish to
work and thrive. "Our country Is broad enoagh, Oont he alarmed, Aud I ii' ic Sam is rich euongh To buy us all a farm." Yours t. uly, S AH. Ml A. AND M. O. Sluytbb. i ii - iaB"w-"waWi The recent death of tbe Hon. Caleb Cushing has revived an aneodote in regard to him tnat had a great run in the newspapers at tbe time. Miss Hannah F. Gould, who was one of the most conspicuous writers of verse in this country thirty years ago, perpetrated tbe following epigramatic epitaph upon Cusblng: Lay aside, all ye doad . Kur io the neil bed Itetxtses the body af CasMitf. lis had crowded his way Throagh the wurle, they ssy. And, ovcu though duad, wil be pushing. This was considered rather a neat Job by the wits, but Mr. Gushing turned the tables on the gifted lady by the witty response: Here IU nn.e whose wit. Without woundiux could lilt, Aod irr.n grows the grass that'a above her. Having sent every beau To the regions below, hUe hss gone dow n herself for a a Iocr.
Hon people. It exceeds the riDsnrlK
cannot be got through both bouses ture8 for brea(1 grocerie8t BDd m.ftt of congress this session f.r want of T , r .
mao j cm uw nun bui)ib were afi'ieo to tbe British merchant navy, thw greatest number built in say previous year having been 503 in 1864. The increase in the size at the vessels siace 1860 is remarkable; in that the average tonnage was 358 tons; in 1864 it was 063. in 1870 it bad risen to 596, and last year it was 717 tons. Wilkinson Call, the senator electfram Flordia, is a native of Virginia, but has lived nearly all his life inr Florida. He was a Bell and Everett whig in 1856, served in the rebel army and at the time of his election was a, lawyer at Jacksonville. He was elected to the senate during Johaeon's administration, bat was not aMtteti He is about 50 years old Mrs. Jayne. aged s the oldest inhabitant of Kalamazoo County Mich, was burned to death Thursday at her home in Agusta, T lady was MIbjbL and while in her room esoae aerdreaa caught Are from tbe store, am4 sto was burned So a crisp before being discovered by the fassrly. She waa a
iao8t remarkable lady, and at her expense age could recite a large portion of the Bible from memory. The Treasury Department states that over $25,600,000 in coin obligations. Including 1.400,000 of United States note?, presented for redemp. tion, have been paid during the current mouth, yet the coin in the Treas ury has steadily increased. Hereaf ter the Assistaat Treasurer will pay interest on Government boadskagoMk If demanded. Mo great demand, however is expected. The February tatterest amounts to about $6,000,000. Some time ago the Catholic congregation at Irvington New York, uar der the ministration of Father Mo Guire, grew so tbat it became neotasary to find a morn commodious, bouse of worship. This left the church authorities with the old property on hand, Don-produetive, snd,
being no longer used as a churoa edi-.
Prof. V. P. Hill, the Senator-elect from Colorado, was for several years connected with Brown Unlveaity, at Providence, It. I., as professor of chemistry. The entire sale of public lands government, railroad and state dur
ing tbe last year was 11.202 216 acres. This is a large excess over the sales for 1872, tb year preceding the panic. Justice H'.nt is improving. He is now able to sit up in bed and hear the newspapers read. Tnis is regarded as unpleasant new i for the applicants who look forward to Hunt's .plaoe on the bench. By boiler explosions alone in 1878 one hundred and thirty-nine persans were killed and one hundred aud eighteen wounded. Of the latter there is little doubt that several died
from the effects of their injuries. Margaret Cunningham, of Jacksoa county, Ind., an old, withered aod sin-stained woman, who has a Dumber of illegitimate daughters, has ust rallen heir to $40,000 by the death of her grandfather in Missouri. Greene Clay Smith is about to open an inn at Fruukfoit, Kentucky. A tempetance inn iu a Kentucky town seems like an absurdity, yet Greene Clay was the lost temperance candidate ror President or the Uuited States. 9
The Cldnease ln California are re- nee, sut ject to taxation. K was not
ported to have contributed more for
the relief or tbe yellow fever sufferers last summer than was contributed by the whole United States for the relief of suffering from the great famine la China, The corn crop of tbe United States last year showed an increase of fc0,000,000 bushels, barley increased 15,000.000 bushels ; or oats there was a large increase; potatoes fell off from 170,000,000 bosbels or the previous year to 124,000,000 bushels. The passage of the beck pension act gives new prominence to the arguments in fuvor or a restoration or the income-tax. Secretajy Sherman thinks ten million dollars a year can be raised in this way with less burden to the people than In any other. At a Democratic caucus, of Congressmen, last week, resolutions were adopted declaring for tbe restriction of Chinese immigration, for a modification of the Burlingame treaty, and urging the passage of a bill prohibitinga any vessel from bringing more than fifteen Chinese at one time. The quantity of grain in store in Chicago at present is 11,782,802 bushels; same time last year, only 3,250,956
bushels. There is also afloat In the harbor, and not included in tbe above statement of grain at present in store, '
459,830 bushels. The quantity in store at Milwaukee at present is 4,193 441 Lushels. Hon. George G. Vest, who will represent Missouri in the United States Senate for six years from the 4th of next March, is a Kentuckian by birth, aad was a leader of the Missouri secessionists, a member or the
Conrederate Congress in ism, and a Confederals Senator in 1864.
situated so as to make it salable, aod) it has been decided by Father MoGuire to dispose or it by rafHe at $X a. share. The Washington Pos; remarking on the recent sharp passage ia tka Seuate between Senators Edmunds rnd Blaine, thus contrasts their style; "Blaine pounds, Edmunds cuts. Blaine has vigor, Edmunds has nerve, Blaine wields a battle-axe, Edmunds carries tbe identical Damascus blade that Wendell Phillips gives in baa 'Lost Arts,' which was flexible enough for a cork-screw sheath. Blaine'a sarcasm is a robust affair a matter ..f inches and avoirdupois, ddmuods'a is of unknown quality, and renaiada. one of ohain lightning." We have an idea tbat much goodr will result from tbe recent explosions. in the House of fcepresentativea, caused by an over-charge of rebel claims. It will he a happy day for; tbe republic if it ever comes whet, there is no sueh thing ss a solid soutbv a solid north, a solid east, ot a solid, west nothing but a solid country. There is great danger ia oae whole section of the grand federation being arrayed against the other, either oq, political, reiigious, or social grouads. Nothing can assist in the perpetuation
of the republio so much as general and unrestricted intercourse between,, the people of all the States, the wiping out of old State lines, the fraternizatiofa of the American people, not as Virginians, How Yorkers, Callfornians, North Carolinians, Georgians, or New Engländers, but as American We think that Mr tlragg's statement
in the House that it the South solidly Democrat? simply for
purpose ot gettiog the assistance of, the Northern Democracy in plunder -
Tbe Indianapolis News says the j Qg the National Treasury, the soo
students of the Eyansvllle medical college got into a row during a lecture by Protessor Stillson on tbe brain, and pelted each other with portions of the brain of tbe dwarf, Jim Porter, ruining that anatomical specimen and putting aa end to the lecture. The total revenue col'eoted in Indiana during the year 1878 was $5,710,024, ot which distilled liquors paid $5,128,025; fermented liquors. $181,118; tobacco, $30586, and banks and bankers $69,565. From 1862 to 1878. inclusive, Indiana haa paid iajarnal revenue taxes amounting to $72, 601,558. Investigating the saloonsof Cincinnati, tbe Qazelte ot that oity finds thero are six miles of them 3,248 ln Hamilton county, not counting places
a division in the par;ty corass tha better, is one which will receive the. olosest attention of tbe Democratic leaders North and South, and may eventually result in a happy split. We do not want to see a solid Republican North any mere than a solid, Democralif South. Tbia ooupttj is too Urge, Us destiny la too greet, to, attow a couple of political parties to, d.vide it. the best frisnd of hie, oc uatcy toiday Is Ue w.ao thinks lese, of the State and more oh the jtdoo, Chicago New.
Bosooe Conkliug reeeived an honor never berore conferred upon any
The Rlvht Answer. A Syrian oonvert to Chiistianitx was urged to work ou Sunday, buJL be denied. "But." said the master, "does not the Bible soy that if a man. bos an ox or an ass that talis into e
where liquor is dispensed at whole- i pit on the Sabbath day he may pull
sale. There are paid into theio places i him out? "er," answered Ha job, each year, $7.678.460 per year for malt j "but If tbo ass bos a habit ot falling, liquors.and $2,000,000 for other kinds. ! Into the same pit every Sabbath day, This is doublu the entire state, couu- j then the man should either fill, up th,;.
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new loraer an election io lue uui-
signed au order to thu factory for a ( tod, States Senate for q, third term. ty, and municipal tax,. Severn per pit or sell the ass.