Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1874 — Page 7

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

Allen County. About niidnhfht on the 3fith John Martin, Jr., of the firm of Martin Sons, druggists, fjort Wayne, found two burglars in his store, grappled with them, and succeeded in handing them.aver to the authorities. George J. Anveriue, of Fort Wayne, slipped and fell on Thanksgiving night, his head coming in contact with, the stone curbing. He was picked up insensible, never rallied, and died next morning. A son of Ira Williams, of Fort Wayne, was fatally injured the other morning by being caught between'he sides of a heavy sleigh and a loaded truck. Cass County. H. C. Thornton, a Logansport attorney, recently went into the country to plead a cause, and while there his horse’s tail was sheared and his buggy-top cut to pieces. Clark County. Ben Ferguson, collector on one of the ferryboats running between Jeffersonville and Louisville, was shot the other night by A. H. Singleton, who accused him of insulting liis wife. Ferguson lost the top of his right ear. Elkhart County. A disgraceful riot occurred at Locke Station the other night between the section men of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad from Bremer and the section inch at Locke. During tlie tight one man was stabbed twenty' times and several others were quite seriously injured. While a party of boys were skating at Goshen, a few days ago, the ice suddenly gave wa v, and several of the youngsters came near being drowned.

Two men were out hunting near Benton, the other day, when one of them, named Bowman, was shot through the hips by the accidental discharge of a gun in tlie hands of his companion, who was walking in advance with his gun cocked on his shoulder, and stumbled over a shrub, which caused tile gun to go off w'itn the above result. A drunken German recently attempted to commit siiicide by throwing himself in front of a passenger engine at. Goshen. He got off with the loss of his right arm. Floyd County. The Clerk of the county is tormented by impecunious youngsters who apply for marriage licenses without the money to pay for them. He seriously doubts whether it is good policy to take a wife under such circumstances, and wonders how they will manage to pay the officiating clergyman. Fulton County. The postoffice at Fulton was recently entered by burglars and robbed of a little money and about S3O worth of stamps. Jefferson County. Mollie Lockwood, an idiot girl, was recently burned to death at the County Asylum at Madison. She had to be tied fast with a rope, and a blast of wind blew her dress intothe grate. f ' . Import* County. Over 15,000 bushels of potatoes have been shipped from \Vanatah this season. A man named Denahoe recently applied to a Laporte insurance firm for work. It was given him in the country, lie hired a team of Myers & Itticli, and left for parts unknown. Marion County. The work on the Belt Railroad, which is intended to encircle Indianapolis, has been stopped for want of funds. - The-safe of H. W. Hildebrand & Co., Indianapolis, lumber dealers, was blown open by burglars on the night of the 38tli, and $6,000 in currency and $4,000 in United States bonds taken. » Robert J. Johnson, formerly ctnployed by the American Express Company at Indianapolis, was found dead in a stable the other morning. It is supposed he went to sleep w'liile intoxicated. The counsel for Carter has entered a motion for a rehearing in the case involving the rights of colored children to participate in the benefits of the public school fund recently decided in the Supreme Court. ' M. H. Conklin, a Supervisor of Streets in Indianapolis, lias been suspended from office, pending an investigation of charges of carrying two men on his' pay-roll, and of using the labor and interest of the city in the construction of private buildings. Ohio County. Two men recently froze to death near Ris] ing Sun. They were intoxicated. Posey County. There has been great excitement in the New Harmony hog market, to the manifest delight of the farmers. Prices, under the influence of outside competition, one day recently, advanced from six dollars-to nine dollars a hundred. Putnam Connty. i ,' On the 39th Thos. Martin, of Cloverdale, became offended at something said by his wife, and gave her three minutes to retract. At the end of that time he stood in the door of the house, and shot her with a pistol, the ball taking effect in her head, killing her instantly. A man named Stanton was in the house, and'inttirfered to save the woman, when Martin shot him, the ball taking effect in the shoulder. The wife of Martin had a babe in her arms when she was shot, and fell back dead clasping it. Randolph County. E. R. McConnell, of Winchester, lias been held to bail in the sum of $1,500 upon a very serious charge preferred by his own daughter. Vanderburgh County. Thomas Butler, an Evansville sewer contractor, recently went into a sewer lie was Constructing, and not venturing out that way on account of the deep mud was compelled to move on toward the other end, shouting in vain for assistance. When at length the workmen at the other end succeeded in reaching him he had been in the mud and water four hours and was insensible. Vigo Conn*y. John W. Fisher recently walked into the residence of his sister in Terre Haute, after an absence in California of some twenty-tWo years. He had long since been considered dead.

Indiana Posteffice Changes.

The following postoffice changes are reported in the State for the week ending Nov. 28, 1874: - “ Offices Established —Americus. John D. Chance, P. M.; Stone’s Crossing, Richard Church, P. M.; West Middleton, D. Dillman, P. M. Postmasters Appointed—Brownsville, George WiHoeby; Fenn's, James E. Adams; Goodiand, Ports Wilson; Ilerbemont, Amzi W. McCurdy; Lewis Creek, Taylor Bone; Little York, David J. Griffith; Liz ton, Thomns M. Dodsoa; Or-

chard Grove, Jerry M- Kinney; Reynolds, Thomas Beam; Rockford, H. D. Billings; Ross, Eugene M. Kronkright; St. Joseph’s Hill, John Eberle.

Collection of Taxes.

The Auditor of State has recently received numerous letters from County Treasurers, calling his attention to an apparent conflict between certain sec-!, tions of the old and new law relating to the imposition of penalties for the nonpayment of taxes. Mr. Wildman has recently addressed a letter to the AttorneyGeneral requesting him to prepare a legal opinion which would tend to settle the question. That opinion is liere appended : Offick of Attorney-General, Nov. 27.1874. Hon. James A. Wildman, Auditor of State: Dear Sir—\our letter of the 24th iust. is received, in which you inquire as follows: " Should a penalty of 10 per cent, be added to the unpaid second installment of taxes after Nov. 15, when the first half was paid on or prior to the third Monday in April; and if the penalty is added, can the real estate be advertised and sold when there has been no opportunity to make the taxes out of peusonal property?” In my opinion vour first question should be answered in the affirmative and your second in the negative. The act approved Dec. 21,1872, provides as follows: “ Sec. 155. In case any person shall refuse or neglect to pay the tax imposed upou him, the County Treasurer shall, after the third Monday in April, levy the same,-.together with hiper centdamages,” etc. This act provided for the payment and collection of the taxes due for the entire year in one snm-. > The act approved March 8, 1873, Section 1. provides, “ That each person or tax-payer charged with taxes on a tax duplicate in the hands of a County Treasurer may pay the full amount of Buch taxes on or before the third Monday in April, or may. at his option, pay one-half thereon on or before the said third Monday in April, and the remaining on or before the 15th day of November following.” The same section contains a proviso “ that in all cases where as much as one-half of the amount of tax charged against a tax-payer shall not be paid on or before the third Monday in April, the whole amount charged shall become due and be returned delinquent, and collected as provided by law.” I understand your inquiry, therefore, to be predicated upon the assumption that the one-half due as the first installment in April has been paid in lull. The act approved March 8, 1873, was intended for the relief of tax-pavers, by permitting them to divide the burden of their annual taxes into two payments, at their option. It was not intended manifestly to place any ob stacies in the way of the collection of taxes. Such would be the effect, however, if it should receive such a construction that tax-payers could fail or refuse to pay and no penalty be added. Such a construction should not be given unless plainly required by the terms of the act. And this is not the case in this instance. The repealing clause of the act of 1873 provides “that all acts, or parts of acts, conflicting with the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.” ; _. The provision by Which tax-payers are per mitted, at their option, to discharge their taxes in two installments is simply an extension of time for the payment of one-half of the sum which they owe. It is not in conflict with Section 155 of the act approved Dec. 21. 1872, as quoted supra. On the contrary, they are to be be construed and enforced together. As to your second inquiry, it is true that, inasmuch as the statute provides for the sale of real estate on the second Monday in February, the time is so brief after the November installment shall have become due as to make it inconvenient for the Treasurer to levy upon and sell personal property., within the requisite period before the sale of r.eal estate. But this is one of those inconveniences which sometimes occur as the result of legislation, especially where, as in the instance before us, two statutes are enacted upon the same sub ject matter with different and distinct objects in view in each. The remedy for such inconveniences, however, is with the Legislature, and not with the courts. The inconvenience under consideration cannot alter the plain requirements of statutory enactment and judicial determination that personal property of the tax-payer first must he levied upon and sold before there can be a lawful sale

of his real estate.

Pianos and Organs. Fine new rosewood pianos for S3OO. Fine walnut organs, six stops, $125. Good second-hand pianos, $l5O to S2OO. Reed’s Temple of Music, Chicago. A Walking Advertisement. Limestone Sfbinos, S. C. Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.: Bear Sir —I am a walking advertisement for your Golden Medical Discovery, Purgative Pellets and Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy, they having cured me of Catarrh of nine years’ standing, which was so bad that it disfigured my nose, and while curing it your medicines also cured me of Asthma in its worst and most aggravated form. Before using your medicines I had become reduced in fiesh from one hundred and fifty-five to one hundred and fifteen pounds, and I now weigh one hundred and sixty-two pounds and am in better health than I have enjoyed for twenty years. Yours truly, J. L. LUMSDEN. The above is but a fair sample of hundreds of letters which are received by Dr. Pierce, and in the face of such evidence who can the worst cases of Chronic Catarrh? The Great Favorite With the I.adies. Win. Forsyth, Bynum & Son, druggists, of Live Oak, Fla., write, Sept. 16th, 1874, as follows: “Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.— Your Golden Medical Discovery aud Purgative Pellets sell very largely and give complete satisfaction, as many of our customers and friends testify with pleasure. Your Favorite Prescription is indeed the great Favorite with the ladies, and numbers can say with joy that it has saved them from eking out a mifcerable life or meeting with premature death and restored them to health and happiness^ Thousands of women bless the day on which Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription was first made known to them. A single bottle often gives delicate and suffering women more relief than months of treatment from their family physician. In all those derangements causing back-ache, dragging down sensations, nervous and general debility, it is a sovereign remedy. Its soothing and healing properties render it of the utmost value to ladies suffering from internal fever, congestion, inflammation or ulceration, and its strengthening effects tend to correct displacements of internal parts, the result of weakness of natural supports. It is sold by all druggists. Dr. Pi erce’s pamphlet on Diseases Peculiar to Women will be sent to way address on receipt of two stamps. Address as above. - Safe,Permanent and Complete!—Wilhoft’s Tonic cures Chills and Fever, Dumb Chills and Bilious Fevers—those Titans that kill their thousands where this remedy is unknown. It cures Enlargement of the Spleen. It cures Hypertrophy of the Liver. It hurts no one. It" edres all types of Malarial Fevers and is perfectly protective in all 'its effects. Try Wilhoft’s Tonic, the great infallible Chill Cure. Wheelock, Finlay & Co., Proprie.tors, New Orleans. For Sale by all Druggists. • —‘ Now is the time to buy presents for Christmas. Combine beauty and utility, and give your gentlemen friends a carton containing one hundred Elmwood Collars. They will last him some time, and he will think of jou with pleasure every time he puts on one. Every wise business man shapes his business so as to make it conform to the eirchmstances by which he is surrounded. Believing this, the Sherman House, at Chicago, has reduced its rates —an act that should be appreciated by the traveling public. Dyball’s finest candies mailed free to ail parts at 00c per Jb. Address Dyball, Chicago. The Northwestern Horse-Nail Co.’a ‘ Nail is the best in the world. The Little Corporal,— The December number abounds in good things, among which is an illustrated story—“ What Happened on a Christmas DayI’—by 1 ’ —by the editor, Mrs. Miller. Parties raising: clubs at sl.lO for each 'subscriber receive trainable premiums, a list of which isp'nblisbed In the magazine. Single subscription, postage paid. $1.50; two names atone lime. $1.28 each: five. sl.lO each, and a premium to The person sending the elnb. Published by John E. Mm.kb, Chicago. 111. ...J- ■*_

• A Providential Man.—This title now justly belongs to a physician who has added to the list of medicines a new remedy, which appears to include all that is most valuable in the old pharmacopoeia, and not to include any of the drawbacks with which the so-called specifics of the Faculty are chargeable. The Providential man is Dr. Joseph Walker, of California, whose Vinegar Bitterß has achieved, in the short space of two years, a degree of popularity never before attained by any advertised preparation in this country. We have too much confidence in the shrewdness of the American people to suppose that this sudden and surprising celebrity is the outgrowth of a delusion. Indeed, we have reason to know that it is founded on innumerable and well authenticated cures of almost all the bodily ills that flesh is heir to. Not the least among the merits of the famous Tonic and Restorative is its entire freedom from alcohol, as well as from all mineral drugs. It is composed exclusively of rare vegetable extracts. 13 Seed House of David Landretli Sc Son. It is pleasant to note the flourishing fall trade doing by this long-established firm in the midst of dull times. In the prevalent stagnation, enterprise has the field almost without competitors. No determined are the Landreths to secure, as usual, a large share of the approaching year’s business,that they have now nine of the fast steam presses of McCalia <fc Stavely diligently at toork printing their “ Rural Register" for 1875. This has never before occurred in the history of their house. The “ Rural Reaister ” is furnished without charge to all who use Landreth’s seeds—and who do not? — Philadelphia Commercial List.

NEW YORK, Dec. 5. 1874. BEEF CATTLE SIO.OO @513.00 HOGS—Dressed 8.75 @ 8.87 H Live 6.87 tf@ 7.00 SHEEP—Live 4.25 @ 6.25 COTTON—Middling 14’a@ .15*4 FLOUR—Good to Choice 5.15 @ 5.75 WHEAT—No. 2 Chicago 1.10 @l.ll CORN —New Western Mixed... .90*4© .91 OATS—Western Mixed 69 @ .69*4 RYE 96 @ .98 BARLEY 1.50 @ 1.52 PORK—New Mess 20.50 @ 21.00 LARD—Prime Steam 1314© .13% CHEESE 12*/,© .15J£ WOOL —Domestic Fleece 43 @ .65 CHICAGO. BEEVES—Choice $5.50 @ $6.00 Good 4.25 @ 5.00 —= Medium 3.75 @ 4.25 Butchers’ Stock.... 2.50 @ 3.75 Stock Cattle 2.50 @ 3.50 HOGS—Live—Good to choice.. 6.75 @ 7.20 SHEEP—Good to Choice 4.00 @ 4.62*4 CHEESE—New York Factory.. .15 @ .15*4 Western Factory... .14 @ .14*4 BUTTER—Choice Yellow 33 @ .38 EGGS—Fresh 25 @ .26 FLOUR—White Winter Extra.. 5.00 @ 6.50 Spring Extra 4.1214© 5.50 GRAlN—Wheat-Spring, No. 2. .90 @ .90*4 sssEai Corn —No. 2 7t @ .7454 Oats—No. 2 52>4@ .54* Rye—No. 2 94*4© .95 Barley-No. 2 1.28 @ 1.2914 PORK—Mess, New 20.25 @ 20.35 LARD 13 @ .1344 WOOL—Tub-washed 45 @ .57 Fleece, washed 40 @ .47 “ unwashed 27 @ .34 LUMBER—First Clear;?— ... 60.00 @ 52.00 Second Clear 46.00 © 48.00 Common Boards.. . 11.00 @ 12.C0 Fencing........ 11.00 © 12.00 VA” Shingles 3.00 @ 3.25 . Lath 2.00 @ 2.25 CINCINNATI. FLOUR—Family, New $5.00 © $5.50 WHEAT—Red 1.10 @ 1.12 CORN—New 69 © .70 OATS. 56 © .60 RYE 1.07 © 1.08 BARLEY-No. 2 1.30 © 1.35 PORK—Mess 20.25 © 20.50 LARD... 13’a© .1414 ST. LOUIS. BEEF CATTLE—Fair to Choice $4.50 © $6.00 HOGS—Live 7.25 © 7.60 FLOUR—FaiI XX t 4.25 © 4.50 WHEAT—No. 2 Red Fall 1.07 © 1/8 CORN—No. 2 New 66 @ .68 OATS—No. 2 57 © .58*/ s RYE—No. 2 96 © .98 BARLEY—No. 2 1.32V4© 1.35 PORK—Mess.... 19.75 © 20.00 LARD 1254© .13 . MILWAUKEE. FLOUR—Spring XX $5.25 @55.50 WHEAT—Spring, No. 1 93 © .94 » “ No. 2 9114© .91 % CORN—No. 2 I 73’/,© .74 OATS—No. 2 55 © .5554 RYE—No. 1 95 © .96 BARLEY—No. 2 1.25 © 1.30 CLEVELAND. WHEAT—No. 1 Red sl.lo*4© $1.11*4 No. 2Red 1.05*/,@ 1.(6 CORN—Now 71*4© .72 OATS—No. 1 State.... - .57 © .18 DETROIT. WHEAT—Extra $1.17 © $1.17*4 CORN 74*4© .75 OATS .... .55 © .57 —; —. . -TOLEDO. — WHEAT—Amber Mich $1.07*4© SIOB No. 2 Red 1.0554© 1.07 CORN—Mixed, New 69i4© .7014 OATS—No. 1 55 @ .53 BUFFALO. BEEF CATTLE $4.30 © $6.00, HOGS—Live 6.50 @ 7.35 SHEEP—Live.,,. 4.25 @ 5.25 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE—Best $6.60 @56.75 Medium 5.75 @ 6.50 HOGS—Yorkers 6.40 @6 50 . Philadelphia 7.25 @ 740 SE3EP—Best 5.00 @ 5.25 Medinm 4.25 © 4.62*4

C. A. BUSKIRK,

Attorney-General.

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THE MARKETS.

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BUSINESSISS; Wanted in Every Store, jy State Rights, Northwest, for sale. Applicants for rights to manufacture and aell it should address A. L. Stimson, Purchasing Agent of the American Express Company, Chicago. This handy tool dust patented) is made entirely of spring steel. Sample sent, free of freight charges, on receipt of 81 Remittances of money to me for the purchase of tools or any other goods, in Chicago or New York, will come free of express charges. A. L. STIMSON.

the only Self-Threading Machine JK9H PaJESOjsar -Hem! WlPllMlfilff SHUTTLE; ■ AGFU7TS WANTED. AMERICAN SEWING MACHINE 342 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. U FOR NEARLY THIRTY YEARS THE RICHMOND PRINTS Have been held in hi*h esteem by those who nse a Calico. They areproaucedinallthenoveltiesofchanging fashions, and in conservative styles suited to the wants of many persons. Among the latter nre the “STANDARD GRAY STYLES,” Proper for the house or street—beautiful In designs and pleasing In coloring. “ Chocolate Standard Styles, ” In great variety, and widely known a*: most serviceable prints. Nothing better for dally wear. These goods bear tickets a* quoted above. Vour retailer should have thcm,and your examination and approval will coincide. NOVELTT M PRINTING PRESSES. the n«"it Vet l.vmted. SsMb)s3hK, For Amateur ot Business Pur. BegsMßSai poses, ami unsurpassed for general Job print leg. Over 10,000 In Use. JSSHhUhIu- BENI. O. WOODS, Manufacturer and Dealer i n every description ol PRINTING MATERIAL, iIU 349 Federal and 153 Kaeeland street-. Boston, s .-Si NMIBSfIY agents: E. F. MacKurltk.s Murray-st.. New York: Kelley, Howell & Ludwig. ”17 Markct-st., Phil adclphla; S. P. Rounds, 175 Monroe-st., Chicago. Cjjf'tiend tor Illustrated Catalogue. ~ 'AGENTS WANTED FOB THE HISTORY OF THE GRANGE MOVEMENT * OR THE FARMER’S WAR AGAINST MONOPOLIES. Being a full and authentic account of the struggles Of the American fanners against the extortions of the Railroad Companies, with a history of the nse and progress of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. to sells at sight. Send for specimen pages and terms It Agents, and see why It sells faster than sny other book. Address NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO-, Chicago, UL. or St. Louis, Mo.

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JlLnl.litJlillftft Dr. J. Walker’s California Yinegar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal properties of which are extracted therefrom without the use of Alcohol. The question is almost daily asked, “What is the cause of the unparalleled success of Vinegar Bitters?” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient recovers his health. They are the grea,' blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invigorator of the system. Never before in the history of tho world has a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing the sick of every disease man is heir to. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of *the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious .Diseases. * The properties of Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritions, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Alteralive, and Anti-Bilious. _ R. H. HRs DONALD St CO., Druggists and Gen. Agta.. San Francisco, California, and cor, of Washington and Charlton Sts., N. Y. Sold by all Druggists and Dealers.

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1875 PROSPECTUS 1075 CHICAGO TRIBUNE 1 - . O .O The Leading Newspaper in the West. Daily, Tri-Weekly and Weekly. TriCbicaso T»ibuhx, nnder the guidance of Its former editor, has resumed its old position at the head of Republican Journals, and will do battle in the future for the true principles of free government, and for a purified and honest administration of National, State and Municipal affairs. While giving to the Republican party a cordial and earnest support In all wise measures and to aU fit candidates, Til k Tki bun e will never be the organ of any individual, faction or tsm, nor will it cease to combat oppressive monopolies or fail to expoae and denounce ah corrupt acheines for plundering the Treasury or the people. It will wage perpetual war on lobbyrings who prowl around the halls of legislation in quest of spoil. The Recent Elections. The recent elections, while Inflicting temporary defeat on the Republican party, have done great good in sweeping away fanatical and side issues which embarrassed its freedom of action, and in crushing out those baleful and corrnptlng influences known as " Butlerisms,” which poisoned the cliannels of the public life, i'uritied, as by Are, of the evil things which had Infested Its garments, the Republican party will enter upon the tremendous struggle of 1816 with renewed vigor for the possession of the Government and the shaping of the policy of the nation when it enters upon the second.century of its existence. Perils of tbe Future. The Democratic leaders; misinterpreting the real causes of their triumph, are proclaiming the result a *• reaction” of the popular mind against the principles of the Republican party, and an indorsement of the fundamental doctrines of thp Democrat :c party, which means ”btaie Sovereignty.” and all ihat expression includes. When that partvobtains possession us the Government, under the resumed leadership or their Southern right w lug, steps will surely be taken In Congress to refund the cotton War tax from the Federal Treasury , principal and interest amounting to 1100,000,000 or more. A bill will be passed to compensate the Democratic rebels for losses anil damages sustained by them while resisting the Union armies and upholding the “sovereign" State right of secession. And lastly will come a demand for the value of the emancipated slaves, who, under the doctrine of State Sovereignty, are alleged to have been unconstitutionally liberated. These claims will more than double the National Debt. In the meantime, what will become of the rights and freedom of the colored race thus placed under the absolute control of their old masters? Against those perils to the future peace and welfare of the country all true Republicans must prescut a solid front. The Tribune’* Platform. .... The Chicago Tribune's position on tue leading measures now before the country may be condensed into the following enunciations: —: — As Agriculture is the basis of National wealth, whatever policy benefits that great Interest promotes the prosperity of the whole country. The cost of transportation of Western farm products to foreign markets consumes half the selling value, and the high duties levied to subsidize special interests doubles the retail price of the goods received In exchange for the crops—thus bleeding and burdening the farmer until he staggers from weakness under the weight of the load. Hence the chief cause of “ hard times” among farmers. Tariff and Tro ngportatlon Charges. The Tbibune will advocate the adoption of aneh measures as will cheapen transportation and reduce the taxes on goods. The lightest tariff which will provide the Government with necessary funds to carry It on and maintain its credit shonld only be imposed on Imports, and the national highways shonld be Improved to create a stronger competition with the railroad monopolies, which will compel them to lower (heir tariff of charge*. Redaction of State and Local Taxes. The utmost reduction of all direct taxes must be Insisted upon by the people. Within a few years county, township and municipal taxation has enormously Increased and become almost beyond endurance throughout tbe Western States. Steps must be taken to retrench these expenditures, as well as those of the National Government, and choke down the Insatiable greed of the local tax-eaters, before all the surplna earnings of the industrious classes are confiscated by tho*e tax-derourers. The Currency. Plenty of currency for all the legitimate wants of the country, with Elasticity as to quantity, and Stability as to value by convertibility Into coin. - An end should be pnt to thecontlDual fluctuations in the value of the currency, which Inflicts Incalculable Injury on industry and enterprise, as It Introduces an element of donbt and uncertainty into all transactions, and makes business little better than gambling. It la a National disgrace as weft as evil for the monetary standard of values to be kept In each vacillating and changeable condition. No Repudiation. The Tribune will sternly combat repudiation of public obligations In the form of watering and debasing the currency or any other guise it may assume. For every dollar out of which the public creditors may be cheated by any form of currency dilution ot repudiation the people will suffer the loss of a hundred which will result from the destruction of credit that will fall like a blight on State and'Munlcipal Governments as well as on corporations and individuals. The national credit must be maintained pure and unsullied, and, like the virtue of Csesar’s wife, above suspicion. No More Subsidies or Bounties. Subsidies and bounties of public lands,- -money, or credit to enrich railroad-rings, run steamship companies, or furnish capital to other corporations are flagrant abuses of the powersof Government, and tend to promote corruption, extravagance and peculation. The Tribune will therefore in the future, as in the past, fight all such schemes of public plunder. The general character of Tu* Chicago Tbieuxe is too well established to need recapitulation. It is always independent and fearless in the expression of its views. In Its news department it Is second to none in the United States. The Weekly Edition contains a carefully-prepared summary of the news of the week, brought down to the hour of going to press. Literary, political, financial, social and agricultural topics wrfl constitute, as heretofore, leading features of the Weekly Edition, and no pains will be spared to Increase its attractiveness in those departments. Its market reports are unsurpassed, embracing all the Information which farmers require for the Intelligent transaction of business, both as sellers and buyers. The Weekly Tbibune Is a large eight-page sheet, of the same size as The Daily Tribune, consisting- - of fifty-six columns of closely-printed matter, and, as a family newspaper, and in its general make-up, is unsurpassed by any paoer in the land. 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