Plymouth Republican, Volume 23, Number 16, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 April 1879 — Page 2

The Republican.

J. W. SIDERS, Editor. Thi rsday.Ai-rii. 3d, 1879. The Legislature has adjourned, and tue people rejoice.

The MUbawaka Enterprise thinks that Grubbs should have had hia name changed instead of getting a libel law enacted. The moat outrageous Concessional "gerrymander" ever perpetrated by a State Legislature, was recently en acted in this State at a cost to the people of nearly fifty thousand dollars. The new four per cent. $10 certificates, which the tart Congress auth orized the Secretary of the Treasury to issue, are now ready for the pub'i -, and any man with ten dollars can become a bond holder. Carter Harrison, Dt-mocrat, was elected Mayor of Chicago, Tuesday. He was a candidate for both Democrats anu Oreeubt.ckcrs, and the question now will be, which party has swallowed the other.

tionment bill and other disgraceful party measures; and in this instance no doubt thought he was representing a portion of his supporters that he could net represent in any other way. i If the Democrats who are so bitterly condeming htm now, can be made to understand, that they can only secure a better Representative by voting for u Republican, the lesson will not be given in vain. EAerybody knows that James Lowry would not have thought

it necepsary to go to such a place as Crone's beer garden to represent his constituents.

A reporter of the Indianapolis Journal claims to have discovered a dark skinned son of Thomas JtfTeron.at Indianapolis, in the person of Robert JeftYrson, an aged and wealthy Mulatto, who has long been a resident of that city. James Haiaes is viry popular at Indianapolis just now. A culled suasion of the House during the recess, Friday, ordered that bis name be enrolled among the list of members and that he be allowed bis per diem from the beginning of the session.

Secretary Thompson declares his willingness to remain in Washington withe ut pay, until 1881, if it is necessary to defeat the programme iadd down by Democratic members of Congress. If all Republicans had hi grit the Confederates would not get away with the government. There are now in the Hatted Fta'rs Senate nineteen ex-Cosifadi fto officer, and hut four ex Fe eral office! a. IHm outh RepnUimn. Auy rebel war rla:m-t paid or nercs put buck inUi slavery yet? Mv9mmjk (111 J Dnuerat. The Confederate Senaters have been too busy Unding fat offices forleuding southern rebel thieved, like Burch and northern doughfaces and thieve like Blight to attend to any thinp else, Does ot Bro. Hammond wish that J. Wilkes Booth Lad leaped and lived, o that he would uw he iu CoBgress as the leader of the Democratic: boats?

Qnodayt Kofecfowsko, Marshall, and Elkhart " Lagtaagi has bsaa torn away from btr beloved, and now goes into the captivity of bit; Democratic Allen. Farewe'l ! 'Lagrang? Standard. Farewell! Let the word be a talisman of slice, ss! In 1880 the. Damoc racy will hear thundsr all al ag the line and the new Thirteenth district, created to gratify the ambition of several Democratic Congressional aspirants, will elect a Republican by a majority so overwhelming that the Democratic "gerrymanders" will hide their heads in shame. Take courage Bro. Rerick we hope on that glorous November day to bear that even "big Democratic Allen" Is redeemed. Her people will not always grope in political darkness. Have faitb, unite with it work, and Marshall Kosciusko and Elkhart will send up a shout be cause the Twelfth district has sent a Republican to Congress. Senator Reeve in bis letter to the Drmocrat last week, after speaking of being called from his place in the Senate to the bedside of his sick sister, says: I get back in time to take p:rt and in tiie important act of apportionment lor Congrestonnl purp.es. :tnd Indiana once more has n fnir and tightly division 01 territory in Which Ut aelt-cl Congressmen. Wkatavarafcji atay be mid, tiie majority liax hcaa bur and honorable in the trr lionmcnt tor state and national sapVBMMI ta'iven, and the men now living, who in day gone by, "gerrymandered" the täte so shamefully to sccute Ke;ublican alone, should blush, (if Maible,) iu face ol the coat a t between their work and ours; and the people t-houli say to the Democrats, "well d ine " We sent out a mp of that apportionment last week and our readers need not be toll that a mora disgraceful and partisan "gerrymander" was iiey. r made, and we do not believe that there is a Democrat, or any other man in the State of Iudiana except the Seuator that has the "cheek" to say what ha has said. The Republican apportionment was bad enough and it lost the nartv thousands of votes; but contrasted witb the Demcraric "gerrymander it seems like fairness and honesty perfected. The uuthors of this infamous Congressional apportionment will yet live to curse the day they voted for It.

Senator Reeve says iu last week's Democrat. "The in vestigation of the

benevolent institutions makes a great 1 noiae in the papers, but it is more j

wind than anything else. Yd a, thing has been fouad on which ceusuie of Dr. Jamieson or Dr. Everets, can be founded." This is the opinion of a Democrat ic lawyer and legislator, who would be as quick to discover aod denounce anything wrong in a Republican official if wrong existed, as any man is the State, aud it may be taken for gruated that Dra. Everts aud Jauuisoa have done nothing ItMkg. The Chicago ftlegraph, which is considered an independent Glienback organ, says: "Gold is fLly and fully in circulation. A bank all honor any ordinary check witb gold as readily as with currency, and the yellow Lev s are taken and given In change in business Uansactious everywhere. Resamptr n is a pre -enr, permanent certainty. The country has cot gone to the bow-wows, and wire only failures in consequence of resumption are the smash ups of some thr ee hundred Greenback newspapers. Their editors all wanted more money, and mistook their own personal condition for that of the country at large. Brother Haskell, the evangelist, whom every body in this city knows, ani who is believed to be a humbug by aine-teaths of all who know him, has been holding a "revivul meeting" at Amt y, Illinois, and sending dispatches announcing success, -just such letters and dispatches as Haskell always sands, to every part of the coustry. The last dispatch from Amboy, says: "A man took no food for many days, and was given up for dead. The good people of the tawn then prayed for his recovery, and he is now eating three meals a day, and will be appointed collector next week." We do not know who sent this dispatch, but it sounds like Brother Haskell, and it leaves the reader in doubt whether prayer or the prospect of office cured the man.

The Indianapolis Joui nil ol Thürs day gave an account of the proceedings of twenty flve or thirty members of fbe Legislature, at d one's beet garden Wednesday evening, whiob. to say the least were disgraceful. It closed by saying that "the climax was reached when one old member followed two street walkers out upon the street, and was arrested. He was slated at the station-house under the name of "James Haines." The Neu-a of Friday stated that the member arrested was Dr. Confer, of this city. We learn that he was released without any fine being imposed, but our readers, with us, will be sorry that the Doctor allowed himself to be persuaded to go to such a place. He has been in some respects a good legislator, but be alowed his party to Influence him to vote in opposition to a constitutional amendment favoring fair elections, and was dragged into the support of the infamous appor-

Tiie Inter Ocean's Washington correspondent says: "The publication of the past records of Burcb, the uew Secretary of the Senate, and Bright, the new Serget'at at arm9, caused a sensation among Senators, to whom the meu were represented to be beyond the reach of criticism. Had these facts been known before the elections took place neither of them would have been chosen, but now that they have received the indorsement of the Senate there is some embarrassment aa to what shall be done. It will not do to let the charges go unanswered, aud it is probable that the Democratic Senate will s art out on its career by eau-ing an inveatL'u'don of the past offences of the officers it elected a few days ago. Some of the Senators who realize that the country is watching the man ner in which the Democratic party is going to run the Senate are very much disgusted, and they say very fraukly that they supposed they could And at least five men iu the Democratic party to fill the offices of the Senate who had never committed a crime. Burcb is consulting with his friends and may demand an investigation without wailing for the Senate to order it. Bright says he don't care a blank what the newspapers do say, and shall take no notice of tbo publications, but his record is much worse than that of Burch. One Democratic Senator said to-day that his tarty had already found something besides pleasure in being in the majority in the Senate." While Bright was State ptinter of Indiana he swindled the State out of large sums of mouey by presenting and swearing to accouuts for paper furnished which it was known could not have been used foi public printing. When the Iodianapolis Journal published these vouchers and asked for an explanation; he replied: "Whru on je: a good thine, aere it, save It; When you catch a tack cat. skiu it tu tbe tail." He said in response to the bills that bad been presented that he proposed to make evry dollar out of it he could legally, and added: "We hope it will produce a sufficient amount to satisfy our modest oesiree, and leave on Land some balanoe to spend, if necessary, to aid in continuing Indiana Democratic rule." He waa afterwards indicted for perjury in swearing to these accounts, and after a trial of sixteen iay in which it was proven by tbe men who did the work for Lim that that the paper was never used, he escaped on a technicality, and by having tlx Democrats on the jury which stood six for acquittal aud six for conviction. But then he Is a fair representative of the Confederates who dented him, and stole millions of dollars in mouey aud arms from the national government.

A Chinaaian in California whose life was insured, waa seriously hurt by falling from a wagon. There was some doubt of bis ever getting better, and at length one of his friends wrote to the insurauce company : "Charles half dead. Llkee half caoney."

Indianapolis Letter. Indianapolis, Ind , Mar. 21, 1879. Editor Rejiubhcan: This letter will be my last from this city, and no one will te more pleased at leaving h re than myself. I have done my duty to my constituents, as I believe, and have wasted no time, either in long winded speeches, or ia running about. Rut have faithfully stuck to my post night and day; so ends my first experience iu law making. The week past has been one of .solid work; many bills of great importance to the people have been passed, and will be transferred to the statutes of the State. Among those of special importance I may mention the married woman's bill, which allows a married women to hold property ac quired by descent, device, or gift from seizure for debts contracted by her husband, and prevents her from encumbering it iu any way, for her husband's liabilities, though she may be willing to do so. Another bill was also passed, by which a husband cannot cut off the light of hi wife to the one-third of his personal property by a will. The homestead bill was finally passed after numerous conferences and amet dments; it assumed as maay foims as the chameleon has colors before it could be finally disposed of. It now gives a man $600, and allows him to decide for himself whether it shall be be personal or

real estate. Its general provisions

are much the same as tbe old law, with the exception that $300 is made to read six hundred. In my last week's letter the Dentist's bill was reported as lost. So it was, but now it has been found (like the Prodigal Son) and has passed, and unless the Governor sits down on it as he did on the Doctor's bill, it will become a law. The bill as passed, docs not eff -ct any person engaged in tbe practice of dentistry at this time, but all dentists who straggle in from other States, or come hereafter, will be required to undergo an examination. The item $63,000 in the specific appropriation bill reported last week for the purpose of purchasing the State Agricultural Fair grounds has been reconsidered and not allowed in consequence of which the State of Indiana will not be compelled to go into the Fair business. The expenditures Incurred by tbe Bureau ot Statistics (off State smelling institution), will be confined to t'2,000 a year instead of $1,000 as first agreed on. The people can sport upon the muddy banks of the Kankakee river, during the in nt!is of March aud April, and decoy the flauy tribe into seins, nets, or pots, or chase them with the barbed spear, as the law does now freely allow. The county Treasurer can pursue the delinquent tax payer now for C per cent, instead of five, aa formerly, buthela ebaved a little iu some other paints in the Fee and S liar bill. A bill was passed two weeks ago allowing the people of a school district to select their teaeher, but in tbe coditledlaws which have dually pass ed, tbe duty of selecting the teachers will be performed by the Trustees. The Ooveinor 00 yesterday returned the House bill No. 377, or Doctor's bill, with bis objections, among which was the folloiriug: "If the bill had been a law during the days of our S ivijr, the good Samnritau would havo bveu prosecuted for nriwf ioi n rv an rrv are vjitlinnt la lin ji

aiuvtiviwg ' r 4 J vw.w m and thus a valuable lesson on charity t

and philanthropy would have been lost to the woi Id." Two efforts were made to pass the bill over the veto, but did not secceed. The investigation of public oftlciuls so eft tu ally accom.pl i abed by this exhra session, will not only have the effect of covering back into the Trna.iiirv m.tnav urn i;m iImi ixi hv Sr-vtn

. j ... 1 11 1 1 1 j officers, but will most effectually block up the way through which thousands of dollars have been lost to the people, and thereby amply re- 1

pay the expense of the extra session. In conclusion I hop, that what was Intended by these letters, has been to some extent accomplished, (namely; reporting some of tbe transactions of the 51st general assembly. I have carefully culled the items which I deemed of the greatest interest to my constituents in a brief style, and with as little verbiage as was consistent with a fair description of the subject. Censure and prejudice have been avoided, partisan strictures discarded, that my judgment might not be swayed by political attachments, believing myself to have been the servant of the people of Marshall county it may be presumed that my political educatioa did not oompell him to be partial, except on those great State questions, where the path of my political duty was plainly defined. I have sought no oratorical or rhetorical notoriety in the arena

of oral discussions, having obaerved that such efforts were being carried J

LO eillOIJ3MOCMUIUOS U J umei t wuo were apparently oblivious of the value of time, or at whose expense they fritered it away to no good purpose. I have a nmber of notes taken on my visits to the State institutions, which will be coutinued in your valuable paper next week. J. M. Confkb.

The strike of the coal miners of the Monongahela valloy is ended, the operators conceding the demands of the ailners, and will pay 8 cents per bushel, an advance of j cent. This was brought abouc by tbe fact that many operators were under contract and heavy bonds to furnish certain amounts of coal to parties at downriver cities. About 7,000 men were out and went to work Friday.

Ten and Scissors. President White, of Cornell university, is to succeed Bayard Taylor as Minister to Berlin. It is thonght the Tennessee Senate will pass the House bill to settle tbe public debt at 50 cents on the dollar. They do hot worry about changes of venue in Kentucky. They merely kill the Judge, and see if a fresh one won't decide differently. Theodore German, one of the oldest men in the United States, died at his home in Talmad.e, Mich., Faiday morning, aged 114 years. There was once a war of the rebellion, but it will now be difficult to convince any one who knew nothing about it that tbe South got licked. The Democrats iu Congress assembled, do not dwell together in entire unity on the proposed revolutionary legislation. A bolt is not impossible. 'Tis a sin to steal a pin, but it isn't anything more than a few weeks anxiety to have u "shortage" in cash of many thousand dollars. Indianapolis News. The Chicago Newt thinks if the next President of the United States is a Democrat he will be cross-eyed, able to straddle a political fence, look at one thing and see another. The war horse that Hayes rode is dead. Old White was his name, and he departed his life in Fremont, O , last week. Whitey went into service in '63, and saw thirty battles. He was 29 years old. In his speech, Saturday, Gen. Garfield, showed that the law, tho repeal of which is embodied iu the Army Appropriation bill, oiigioated with and wns carried through Congress by the Democracy. Mrs. John Horine. of Anderson county, Ky., on Thursday night gave birth to five children. All reported alive and doing well. She is 27 years old, and bas borne children twice before, the first time twins. The national greenback poll was no' long enough to balance tbe parties at Washington. As balancers, the Greenbackers are an ignominious failure. The child will never walk until it can balance. La Orange Slamlard. The State Department is in correspondence with tbe Canadian government, relative to Sitting Bull's proposed invasion of this country, and the idea is to hold Canada responsible if the Indian chief is permitted to return to the United States. The Democracy of Ohio determined, on Friday, to hold their State convention on the 4th day of June, being the same day fixed by the Greenbackers for their convention, ard at tbe same place, Columbus, and now the ques tion is, which Will be the whale? Indianapolis Journal, These Communicants are all foreignere, and iu politic ai Democrats or Greenbackers. Tbe country 1 really in serious danger from them, as they claim to be preparing to "strike for their rights." This means rapine, bloodshed, and inceudiarism. Fond du Lac Commonwealth. There are not two destinies marked out by fortune fur this people, one for the North and auother for the Sjuth. The North aud S uth must go up together. Providence has bound them together by cbaius forged by uature, which are as hard as adamant and as strong is iron. 0en Shield. If Senator V oorhees could be induced to come home aud make "the greatest speech of his life," ho might possibly allay the rising trouble botweet the Democracy and tbe Greenbackers in this State. Senator Voorbees it a man of parts, as it were, and now is the time to utilize him. In li anapolis Journal. Au attempt was made laat Friday eveniug to throw a passenger traia fr-jm the track on a trestle, 104 feet high, on the Pittsburg & Castle Shannon Railroad, by placing a big block of wood on the track. FortuuaUly tbe train did not leave the track, else the destruction of life usust have been terrible. When the yellow fever is raging in the South next summer by reason of the failure of the qnarentine bill in Congress, the able Democratic Congressmen who killed it can soothe the dying hours of their coustltutents by telling them that while the fevei is a bid thiug. to be sure, still it would have been much worss to have al lowed the time-honored principles of State lights to be sacrificed to the success of the bill. Denver Tribun. The census of 1880 will go far toward settling the "balance of power," which desperate politicians are eadeavoiiag to locate arbitrarily, as suits their personal interests. Nebraska, for instance, it is estimated, has not far froaa 400,000 inhabitants. Yet she sends only two members to Congress, while Tennessee, witb little more than three times that population, sends ten members. The "course of empire" will carry the center of the country a geod ways west. Indianapolis Neve. A famine next year in Russia is predicted by Russian Journals. Last year about one-third of the crop was destroyed by beetles and marmonts, so that the seed has been deficient, and the cattle plague took off nearly ninety per cent of the cattle in many places. To these things must be added the extraordinary drought of the past half year. Then in Russia there are too many holidays, (about 100 in the year); drunkenness, also, is a widespread vice, whose wastefulness is greatly felt. Most of the land in Russia is under mortgage to bankers, and the proprietors are hardly able to pay their interest, aud the ar

rears are everywhere about 20 per cent. Tbe ?rain, which is the chief article of export, and which furnishes tnxes and a'd supplies, is devoured by parasites while growing, after being gathered, and on railroads. Washington Correspondence, Washington, D. C, Mar. 27, 79. The excitement of Saturday, Sunday ami Mouda, which largely grew at first out of Springer's announcement of a Democratic caucus, and was continually aggravated by the thousand and one sensational rumors flying about, bas moderated down to about our usual level. Tho' some were misled into supposing Springer's declaration iudicated a genuine conversion from the gall aud bitterness of Bourbon maligna. icy in which he has wallowed all the days of his publie life, many others from the very outset believed it covered a trick and this view became general before the close of the week, as a knowledge of the intrigues of the Democratic losses became more widely diffused. The situation at the close ol the week was bubstantially as follows: Those charged with carrying the Confederate-doughface programme into practical effect had been secretly plotliug for days to devise a plan for capturing the president, or at least to secure his neutrality so between Democrats and Republicans in Congress on the political riders with which the two pending appropriations bills were to be loaded down. Negotiations were opened witb bitn and persistently pushed; but the boastful propensities of some of the oversanguine negotiators gave lit publicans an iakling of what was goiug on. From that time excitement continued to increase until Rspublicans became satisfied that the boasts of their opponets to the eff-ct that President Hayes had committed himself to a modification of the supervisor law th t practically amounted to a repeal and an absolute surrender of the Repub Mean position, were without fouoda tion in fact. But though everyone is now apparently convinced that the President has not formally given a single pledge to the effect claimed, it would be a patent misrepresentation of tbe sit uation to say that Republicans are free from doubts as to the future course of the executive, and a very panley feeling pervades Republican circles from bighest to lowest. The action taken at the joint meeting Tuesday of the H use and Senate caucus committees confirmed the

apprehenalon that they would ad- j here to the course marked out by 1 their predecessors of the forty-fifth j congress relative to the test oath tawa that relating to soldiers at the polls .

ana tne supervrsor law. mere was cordial agreement bettfeeu the two representatives of the Houses that the riders should be poshed through at every hazzard and the Democratic

caucus yesterday of both House and j

Senate endorsed the decision of their respective cotninitteea, Mr. R rudall sboutiog ameo to this Mexican programme. There is no apprehensions of a back dowu on the part of any Republican, outside the Wbite House, charged with the duty of reslstiug these revolutionary encroachmentsIf numerical superiority has intpired the majority to push their sckdmes for utilizing tbe armies of fraudulent voters abounding iu our large cities the minority will go iuto the struggle upheld by the onvicliou that their cause is j jst and that they constitute tbe inuer arid last Hue of defense against tbe confederate hordes aud tln-ir allies iu their mad rush for the U. S. Treasury, and to sweep away the last ditinction betweeu treason and loyalty aod scatter to the winds the few fruii s remaining to us from tbe late war. Tbe moral status of Democracy is indicated in the character of the men that have been chosen te All the higher offices of the House and Senate. No one has for

gotten the trouble tbe House bad with its doorkeepers and others Now comes very ugly rumors criminally affecting the men chosen the other day by the Democratic Senators to ffll tbe position of secretary and sergeant-at-arms of the senate. The reverberations from Sitting Hull's slogan of war have reached the war department awaking a feeling of distrust a nong the officials there over the probabilities of another all summer campaign against tbe chronic hostiles. Tbe foul details of the-Cameron Oliver suit have aroused the social world to a high pitch of hysterical excitement and expectancy and the end is not yet. Southwest Misaouri. From a letter writen to Samuel Beckner, Walnut township, dated Conway, LaClede county, Mo., March 24the. 187U, we take the following: At this writing we are all in good health as generally we are, in this latitude, breathing as we do, the pure mountain air which incessantly sweeps over the qulot valley from off the grand old Ozark mountains. The breath of spring has touched a month ago, this fair land of ours, and the yards are perfectly green and beautifully bedecked with flc wers. Since the First of Feb. farmers here have been engaged in the busy pursuits of husbandry, and already tho uir is rife with the songs of birds and the hum of bees. But, uncle, I am only wasting words when I attempt to describe the season scenery of south-wect Mo., for well do I remember hearing my father tell me the story of moving to this western country nearly forty years ago. (He is now eitting by me, looking hale and hearly, able, and doe do as good a day's work, every day of the week, in the field, as either cf his three sons; he is 01. Stock

range is not so good here as it was twenty years ago, yet there Is ample range for as much more stock as the west now affords; and as for timber, there are beautiful groves now, where forty years ago, I am told, the tali prairio grass grew mo9t profusely. There are now, I think, over two hundred families iu tl t county who bail from your State, and there is ample room for as many more good families. Now, perhaps, is the best time for purchasing lands, both improved and unimproved, that has ever been since you emigrated to this country from Elkhart county, Ind., in the yearr 1830 When I visited you in the year 74, I saw many families who lived on small or rented farms, and who may always do so, not knowthat there are hundreds of broad acres and splendid homes for them within the reach of thfir means. Should you have a friend, neighboi, or acquaintance who may desire to come west, give him my address and tell him I will give him any information desired, and, if possible, assist him or them in making a choice selection of a good home in this, or adjoining county. Respectfully youi's, J. K. Beckner.

Kewa or the Week Candensed. Tbe Sandwich Islands sugar crop is reported above the average. Australian advices up to Feb. 27 say the harvest prospects are excellent. The political and commercial outlook in Great Britain is exceedinglygloomy. A New Orleans dispatch says that 60.000 aegroea will leave Louisiana for Kansas within six months. About 400 striking miners gathered at Pomeroy, O , Thursday, and forced the miners of a few mines that were working to joiu them in a strike for higher wages. Nearly 2,000,000 cattle, mostly young, will be driven from Texas this spring. The number of cattle in a "drive" is generally 3.000, though it is sometimes much larger. The City flour mills, at Minneapolis, owned by the First National bank, were entirely destroyed by fire Sundayjmorning. Loss, $70,000; insur

ance small. The fire caught from the !

smoke-stack of an adjoining mill. Little Wolf aud his band or Cheyenne Indians, numbering 35 lodges, with 250 ponies, were captured by Lieutenant Clark, of the Second cavalry, with 85 men. on Box Elder creek near the Yellowstene river, Tuesday, the 25th inst. The State Senate of Tennessee, on Saturday, concurred iu the house amendment to the bill to compromise tho state debt at fi ty cents, with four per cent iuterest. to be submitted to the people for rutiilcaliun, if tbe boud holders accept the proposition. Bill Howard, who committed an infamous outrage upon a twelve-year old girl, was taken from the Jail at Fort Scott, Kansas, by a mob, and and hanged to a lamp post; after which a fire was built of dry goods boxes and coal oil and the remains roasted. The Cincinnati Enquirer published Saturday morning careful estimates of the wheat and fruit crop from nearly eveiy county in Ohio, Iudiana and Kentucky, froru which it is indicated that the wheat crop will be bouuteous, but a very poor prospect for prospect for peaches and apples. A tramp applied at the house of NL'k Ernee, three miles northeast of Topeka, Thursday, for a meal, which was furnisbwd him. Seeing a watch on the wall, be attempted to take it, but was prevented by Mrs. Ernee, who shot him in the arm, wounding bim severely. He was not captured. There is no longer any doubt that the British forces iu Afghan, will have much more hard fighting to do. An advance upon Cabul is expected to begin immediately. The troops in column will move on Jelladabad through Shutengarden Pass, where it is thought the first resistance will probably be encountered. Sickness among the troops contiaues, and tbe necessary details for tbe hospitals materially decrease tbe available strength of the army.

Strictly Cash I Square Dealing Low Prices ! Have been the cause of our good success in business in Plymouth. And by practicing these again this spring season we hope to increase our trade more than ever before. We have already some of our Spring goods in Btore, and next week will

get in tho balance of our stock. We can assure all that we shall show up a larger and better stock then ever before, and will sell everything in our line at prices that no one can beat. We are bound to sell goods and will try our best te please all that will give us a trial. We buy and sell for cash and cash only, and by so doing we own otfr goods cheaper than those that buy on time, and will sell at only a living profit. Call in and see us wheathtr you wish to buy or not. We have instructed our clerks to wait on all our numerous customers cheei fully whether they buy or not. KLOEPFER & BOFINGER.

We want everybody to Remember The People's Drug Store, Which is in Boom No. 8, OF Hoham's Block, -ONLaporte street,

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City of Plymouth,

In the County ot Marshall, ant! in the Slate of Inc'.ana,

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POE t CHAPMAN,

Jan 9 79

PROPRIETORS.

Nollee ef A ppoiat meat, Eatate No. 711. Notice i hrrcbr gtren that tbe no'lervineS kM Wn appointed Administrator of i a aatala of KWira Wilcox, Utc of Marshall county, Indiana, der eased. Said estate la supposed to be sotoest, CHARLES II WILCOX. aprStS Adanlmistraior.

BEFORE Submitting our prospectus for the Spring season of 1S79, we feci it incumbent upon ourselves to extend thanks to our customers for their very liberal support and encouragement during the past twelve months, which ha. Inren to us the most important era in our business history. We realized in the early part of 187S, that in order to command and merit a position as the leading house in our line in I'lvm outh, we must visit the eastern markets personally, that we might not only be enabled to place before our customers a class of goods of an established standard lor quality, workmanship and reliability, but to sell the same at suchw prices as to render competition with us entirely out of the question. Our Mr. M. Wolf has just returned from New York and Boston, and so thorough has been his investigations and so judicious his selections that we Unhesitatingly Challenge any Merchant in Plymouth to display as Large or as Complete a line of Dry Goods and Notions ! Or to sfll at such Low Rates as vc arc now enabled to otTcr, and wc respectfully, though earnestly urge our readew to teVi 1 v Honest Comparison the truth of our assertions. Twentv-ontr years in the people's ser vice has taught us how to do business, and how to do it well. Respect fully submitted to the citizens of Plymouth and vicinity.

BECKER & WOLF.

GRAND SPRING OPEN! Saturday, April 5th,

To the Offltersantl Members of Buurboa Lodge, o. 20-1.I.O.O. I Bourbon, lau., March 29. 1879. Whereas, It baa pleased the All Wise Belog to call our beloved brother, John Whittaker, from the weary trials and walkd ia this life, to the more congenial laud of rest aud love, from the fretful worry acd vexatious of this cold world, to the beauty and sunshine of that brighter laud, to the bosom of his friends and brothers gone before, be it Ktsolrfi U That while w- hambtjr submit to the wi 1 ami acknowledge the wisdom ot All Wise, we deplore the loss of so efficient and deyoted a member of our beloved order, n the prime of bis manhood aud in tbe midst of hi naeialness as a citizen, an o. lit Fellow and a chrsstia'i. Resolved. That in the de tb or brother Whitaker, we recoguiz.' the low of a kind, ongi-uinl companion and brother, a trne and faithful Odd Fellow, and the public a worthy, upright citiai-n, bis family a devoted husband and lather; still we feel that he bas been so blessed, that we should not feel grieved but rather rejoice, and so live in friendship, love and truth, that when our bodies are tiretl a:uiworn, we will be prepared to meet all brothers who have left oa here below, ''where the wicked cease from troubling and tbe wrary are at rest." Fraternally submitted In lriendabip, love and truth.

Black Grog Grain Dress Silks. Colored Gros Grain Drse Silks, Faacy Summer Bilks, Black, and Colored Alpacas, Tbe Celebrated Jamestown Alpacas, New 8tyles of Brocade Dress Goodr, Cashmeres in all the prevailing shade. Domestic Dress Goods to eadleisvarMy, iu price rangin? from 6 cents upwards. Trimming 8i ks, Sstins and Velvets, Brocade Milks fur Trimming, Black and Colored Fringes. Our Stock of Hosiery and Gloves ! Was never so complete as at the present time. We are prepared to show all the leading novelties In this line. Carpets and Oil Cloths, Housekeeping Goods, Domestics, Circulars and Cloaks, Silk and Linen Handkerchiefs. Ruching and Embroideries, Buttons and Laces, and in a word everything kept in a well regulated, first class Dry Goods store. Come and see us, we will eadeavor to make your visit pleasant and profitable. While admitting all of the above for our Dry Goods Department, we will state tbttt we have lost none of our love for the

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The fairest and cheapest line of Clothing ever brought to this city, just received at S. Becker's.

Hon. Scnt'YLKn Colfax will deliver his reaowned lecture on the life and character of Abraham Lincoln at the Centennial Opera House, Thursday evening, April 17th, 1879, by special request of many of his old friends. Admission 25 cents, lie served seats Stents; tickets can be procured at the poatoffice. John Hob am, t n U. G, Thayer. Uom'

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Department; quite the contrary, we have bought 'quite extensively. Our Men's Spring Suits, Children's Spring Suits, Youths' Spring Suits, Are without exception pre-eminent in quality of material, pre-eminent in excellence of style, pre-eminent in the low range or prices which alwaya command reads sales. New and Nobby Hats, New and Nobby Neckwear, New and Nobby Collars. New and Nobby Cuffs, Now and Nobby White Vests. New and Nobby Hosiery, We are prepared to meet your demands. Our treatment will tuit you. Our goods will please you. Our prices will be profitable to you. BECKER & WOLF, Plymouth, Ind.

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