St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 12, Number 15, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 October 1886 — Page 2

THE INDEPENDENT. WILL A. ENDLEY, Editor. Entered at the WalKerton Postoflice as Second class mail matter. SUBSCRIP rtON: For One Year 81.50 For Six Months 7D For Three Months . 50 WALKERTON, IND., OCT. fl, 188(1. In Illinois barbed wire fence are Used as telegraph lines. The top wire is insulated at every post and thus the line is established. The public debt statement shows the reduction in September to be $10,627,013,17, and the to! al cash in the Treasury $465,375,713 93. The Washington writers now state that it is an assured fact Secretary Manning will resume his work io the Trcasuary, and remain so long as his health will permit. The song which is sung in the second act of the “Mikado” on the arrival of the great ruler, is said to be a genuine Japanese song, which was very popular during the revolution of 1866. The editor of the Pioneer-Eagle, of Excelsior, Ga., has been offered a windmill in payment for advertising, but he has declined to take it unless it can be used to pump money from delinquent subscribers. Acting Secretary Muldron, recently rendered an important decision, carrying out the doctrin that where a court of one state having jurisdiction renders a judgement is binding on the courts of every other state. The Plymouth papers are agitating the ■ subject of the “Three I” railroad. Our ♦ neighbors south of us want to keep a sharp"lookout, or the road will be «stolen away from them.—Albion New Era. You’re mighty right. Walkerton has its weather eye on that road. ————» * Steel Mackaye says he does not believe in using force iu training children. When any of his boys are disobedient he reverses the oldfashioned process and makes them whip him. While two of them were quarrelling recently he heard one say. If you don’t stop that dad will make you lick him. —New York Graphic. iu Robert Smalls has been renomi\ated for Congress by the Republiof the Sev^hth SoaTirtja^ „ oSfrlcT. —Sonalis ia a colored man, •was born a slave, and has sat in Congress longer than any other member of his race, having been five times elected to the House. He is not a noisy fellow, but has retained a strong hold upon the people of his race in what is known as the “Black District,’’ owing to the preponderance of colored voters. Two men who passed a night in the hut near Pierceton, Kosciusko county, where the bodies of Frank Stout and his father were found after the murder by Chris Emmons, say that the place is haunted by the ghost of Emmons. They describe their night there as one of horror, and that Emmons appeared in spirit and re-enacted the tragedy, winding up by shooting himself, as he did in life. A Chicago physician claims to have resuscitated an apparent corpse by the hypodermic injection of a solution of nitro-glycerine. Ten drops were inserted, and during the first minute there was no sign of life; in the second minute there were six respirations, and these continuing To increase, the rigor of apparent death passed away, the patient recovered consciousness and will probably get well. The latest go on a newspaper man is being told as follows, about an editor of Wabash county: A j short time ago he took a lady out riding and when in the country the lady espied some calves in a field and exclaimed in asthetic language: “Ob, dear; look at those cute little cowlets!” The editor had evidently been to a cattle show, for he remarked in a decided tone: “My dear, those are not cowlets; those i are bullets.’’ The young lady hid behind her fan and the editor said not a word for an hour. Texas is suffering from the effects of a fearful drouth, and without assistance from those who are more fortunate, the suffering next year will he even greater, owing to the inability of farmers to secure seed grain with which to prepare for crops. The Courier Journal publishes this week a communication bearing upon this point, written by Rev. H. R Coleman, Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky Masons, and a gentleman in the fullest sense worthy of belief, which should arouse those barns are full, whose bank accounts are balanced on the right side, and all who feel the prompting to lend succor to the suffering.

The SIO,OOO libel suit of the Old People’s Mutual Benefit Society, of Elkhart, against the South Bend Times was concluded at LaPorte last week, the result being a vindication for the Times. James Reeahcn, a school-teacher of Maplewood, N. J., recently returned from a trip through Russia on a tricycle. He left New York June 12 and arrived at Archangel I early in July, and St. Petersburg August 11. His Dip cost him only two hundred dollars. The New York Herald estimates that the campaigns against Geronimo and his band has cost the United States $15,000,000 and scores of lives, not to speak of the number of citizens massacred by these Indians. The Walkerton Independent thinks there is a good opening at that place for a bank —LaPorte Argus. The Independent not only thinks so, Mr. Argus, but knows so. There is no better point to start a bank than right here in Walkerton. Such an enterprise hi this place would without a doubt yield a hand some income. Captain E. 11. Halleck, formerly Aid-do-Camp to General Grant, has purchased the log house near Richmond, Va., from which the Geueial issued his general orders and piodamation of peace, declaring the terms of surrender of Lee's army. The hjtise will be removed to New York, and presented to the Gt ant Memorial Association. The LaPorte Herald-Chronicle and the Michigan City Dispatch are having a little tilt. The following is from last week’s Herald-Chron-icle: “The Michigan City Dispatch claims that it is read in every nook and cranny. We should think if it was read at all it would be in just such places.’’ The Washington Capital says: “A friend tells me that since the death of her husband Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe has shown a decline in health and spirits that alarms all her friends. There is now but little that binds me here,’ says the authoress, mourfully. 1 reserved all my strength that I might the better look after and attend to the comfort of my busband, and now that be has gone, well—’and with a weary look in the once lustrous eyes she sighs as she concludes with the words: ‘Aly task is at an end.’ A sensational story is afloat to the effect that Emory A. Storrs, the late eminent lawyer of iUhyrroh) witlT digitalis, and thaj his death was not caused by paralysis oi the heart as was reported at the time of his death. Suspicion as to the responsibility of the crime rests on certain ones, who, it is believed, were anxious for Storrs’ ‘’removal,’' that certain unpleasant secrets connected with the Mackin case, and damaging to themselves, might not be revealed to the world by the attorney. Storrs had gained knowledge of these secrets in his capacity as counsel for Mackin. I have heard the story that when Charles Sumner lectured once at Ann Arbor, Mich., before the students of the university ho began his concluding paragraph with the words: “And finally, in conclusion.” At that one of the students howled out “Amen!’’ which so angered Sumner that he refused to take any part of the receipts of the lecture and insisted on paying his hotel bills and his other expenses from his own private purse. — Indianapolis Sentinel. A GOOD UAV. A good man and perfect gentleman, in our judgement, stopped the Independent because we can't agree with him on prohibition.Well we have this much to say, we are conscientious in our position bearing upon that question. Again, if the gentleman will take the trouble to carefully look the matter up be will find that our views on the question of prohibition are those of perhaps ninety per cent, of the whole population of the United States, and including the very best and wisest men of our nation. We are perfectly willing, yet awhile at least, to be caught in just such company. It may be that the comparatively handful of persons entertaining such views are correct, I and all we want, and what we shall wait for is the evidence. We believe that we have the same right to our views that the gentleman ; has and we believe that wo have I the same right to express them that the gentleman has, and we shall never, never try to injure any one by withdrawing suppoit because they can’t see as we do. We have really no encouragement from the saloouists for advocating the views we do, for the patronage from that scource is slim indeed, but two out of the five in this place even taking the Independent, The views we bold, are, and always have been, OURS. Enforce the already existing whole some liquor laws. If you can’t do I that, you can’t enact and enforce I still more rigid ones. *

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS. ISLAND ITEMS. flcported by IBt •-I ^dependent's Coi-respondent. The Island Sabbath school opens at 9 a. m. Robert F. Dare has returned home after a month’s stay at Stillwell. The Stillwell boys played a game of ball with the Island nine last Saturday. Score, 66 to 14, iu favor of the Island boys. “How’s ’at? Walker Place. Charlie Wolfe and Geo. Cook are making big sales of the Eureka fence machine. Good for you, boys. Rev. Wolverton, the new M. E. minister, delivered an excellent sermon at the Island church last Sunday morning to a good audience. ftEWVERTGVI’XSepoaded by liar Independent's Correspondent. It is time to commence to prophesy as to the coldness of the coming winter. Who is the first? Roony says bis buckwheat is so well filled that if you would put on another grain it would fall off. Good buckwheat, Roony. Mr. Geo. R Flood, of North Liberty, honored us with a short but pleasant chat as he was passing through our town on Wednesday last. Miss Clara Yeager ■was visiting her parents at this place on Sunday last, Rev. Shouly preached at this place last Sabbath will be here again iu two weeks. Mr. Ashley Stillson is taking a lay-off for a tew days on account of a sore hand. E. Davis is bringing down the ducks now by the dozen. Ella is a good shot. Wonder what the boys had treed in the box-car Sunday night. Potatoes are coming into mar ket now, but the price is very low. The work train bad quite a time getting a ear on the track last Monday. Rev. Thomas Uncapher preached at this place Sunday, Oct. 10, in the forenoon. Dr Abner is filling a and leveling his yard preparatory to sowing in gra^s. Mr. Boyer found his colts about fifty mile?) from houxt^-Lui^ot them _ I) a efr NORTH EIBEHTAL Reported by lb* 1 Independent's Correspondent. Last Tuesday was the 424 birthday of Mrs W. N. Pearse, and her friends and relatives from LaPorte County and this vicinity dropped in at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Pearse, one mile south of here, at about noon, taking them completely by surprise. The party were well provided with baskets filled with good things to satisfy the cravings of exacting demands of the most fastidious appetite. The day was all that could be desired. The company in fine spirits, and as a natural result all passed off in the best of shape. J. C. Miller has been afflicted for some weeks with deafness. He has consulted good doctors, but as yet can get no relief or encouragement. Pear-e Bros sold to S. S. Bosserman, of LaPorte, on last Wednesday, 317 sheep weighing 3,538 lbs. The old and reliable life insurance agent, Geo. B. Shoemaker, of Walkerton, was here during the week working in The inTeresT of The Home Life Insurance Co., of New York. Our friend Albert Young has secured a verv good siTuaTion wiTh a wholesale fumiTure house as book-keeper, aT St. Paul, Minn. Knepp ami Houser have recenTly purchased the foiTy acres Timber loT 2 miles easT of here from C. Eiseumanger. Henry Vanscoik Las moved back to bis iarm on the Walkerton road, Otis Beahn moving into the house vacated by him. Trustee Houser has put the Taylor school-house jn good repair. William Becker and family have returned from their visit with | friends in Ohio. Miss Cora Coil has taken her old position at the postoffice. Henry Bowen will start his new | roller mill during next week. His i mill is second to none in St. Joseph county, and Mr. B. has been to a very heavy expense in putting in the rollers, but we have no doubt he will be fully justified in bis outlay. by a very liberal patronage of our farmers. School commenced in this township last Monday. G. P. Cherry has been quite ill, but at this date is much better, •J. C. Anderson has returned from South Bend, where he had been engaged doing I some roofing. । Mary A. King has purchased the J. N. 1 Rnpel property on Cole’s street.

A MODEL VALEDICTORY. One of our exchanges recently turned up its toes to the daisies, from lack of proper support and appreciation on the part of the reading public. On the occasion mentioned, the editor deliver* d himself of a valedictory in which both humor of the grim sort and glowing sarcasm are embodied with the touch of a master. We have only room for the following extracts; The editor says: If any one feels regret or di.-appointment at the untimely end of this newspaper. let such kindly feelings be circumscribed by the knowledge that its editor quit when he felt he had got enough. It is a custom of newspapers to die in silence-such a course is more soothing to the community that lays them out —but the prefers to imitate the mythical dying swan and sing a little song while passing in its checks, and hence the gentle tootle of this aspiring toot. The dying should forgive their enemies. This the paper does, but its editor, who is still very much alive to his environment, makes certain reservations and will bide bis time, waiting for a turn in the long lane, which comes to him who waits. We love to heap coals of fire on the beads of our enemies—likewise mill-stones, biickbats, Ossa Pelion and any other debris we may find lying conveniently loose. Wo knew there were about a thousand prosperous people in this city who took from one to five Chicago dailies, but never helped the local press a cent’s worth. It struck us if we could establish a weekly, large and cheap, these valuable citizens might in a paroxysm of local pride subscribe for it. The scheme didn’t work—we never caught a shark! They are still swimming around with their pockets full of foreign newspapers and their hearts full of guile. They say the city papers are worthless, an 1 if they told the truth would it be a wonder, with such galoots for a constituency? There is no doubt a good independent weeekly would meet with unbounded success in this city provided its editor was ot a sufficiently frugal mind. Horse blankets could be used by him for shirts; gunnysacks would make nobby and w< 11ventilated pants for a man who was built that way, and an editor too proud to wear the yefiow cover of V ham on his head has got altogether too many dudish notions Lr this section. If such a costume as we have sugg- .-ted would n^. make • the editoi a conspicuous member ct the emmuunity we don’t know what would. As for foo !,it should not be begotten —and would not be in this city — that editors are too delicate to i eed much. Buckwheat straw and the best sawdust, may always be had for the asking, and the editor should not forget that other goats du not acorn the red and yellow labels ol discarded tomato cans. To those of our Christian friends who contemplate establishing in this city a journal devoted to telling the truth and nothing but the truth, we commeml the linos of this our valedictory. It is full of cold, clammy gobbets of the virtue they dote on. It will be readily perceived that Truth is mighty — disagreeable to some and mighty diverting to others. Don't meddle with it in a journalistic way, we beg of you. Finally, brethren, may grace, mercy and the somm lent peace with passeth altogether our understanding be and abide with you now and forever. Finis and Dinnis. In regard to gas wells in northern Indiana the Fort Wayne Journal says that “work has been begun on the gas well at Decatur. So far, the webs dug in eastern Indiana, except the Eaton well, have been almost entire failures, At Bluffton and Portland they have begun wells No. 2. However, the country about Decatur is almost an exact counterpart ot the noted Findlay, O , gas region, and the Decatur Natural Gas company hope to strike a boomer is gas or oil within the next thirty days.” Farm for Sa he A farm of 98 acres adjoining the town of Walkerton will be sold on easy terms, Enquire at this office, or of J. 11. Gregory. ATTENTION FARMERS AND EVERYBODY. Having purchased Mr. Baughers interest in the exchange and feed store formerly owned by Baugher & Simmons, 1 am now sole proprietor. and by fair, square ^dealing hope to retain all our old customers. 1 desire to call attention particnlaily to the fact that 1 always give fair and square weight. William E, Simmons. A fine line of genl’s scarf pins very cheap, at Endley’s drug stole.

FARMERS! Build your fence with the Eureka Fence Machine. Manufactured by the Eureka Fence Machine Co., New Paris, O. no■ . .XIHS “iIIJIBO Charles Wisenbaugh, of Walkerton, is the general agent for the counties of Northern Indiana. Local agents are wanted in every county and township in the state. Address, Charles Wisenbaugh, Walkerton, Ind. no!0vl2 HENRY SCHULZ, GERMAN WATCHMAKER. (twenty-six years’ experience.) Mr. Schulz, a first-class workman in his line, has established himself permanently in Walkerton, and will repair jewelry, watches and clocks in a satisfactory manner. Give him a trial and be convinced, tut ETOs&’ir?. '•i -.Ntc-. (Corv.) Chicago, April Gist, 1886. This is to certify, that the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank has this day received from the Union Cigar Company ofChicago, to be held as a Special Deposit, u. S. 4°lo Coupon Bends, as follows : . Ko. 220? sn. CSOO. Market Value of which is 512^5 ICO. $?O82. “ 6231 U 130- I U-'iG. / (S.) Cash. VZe cOr the r.bcvi* n; a FORF EIT, if our “ I A? W GHth»cs not prove to be a genuine Ilavana-fillcrCigar.-Union Cigar Co. ; I CIGAR Y T d eY q CH JAR Our LOMA 10c. Cigar is strictly Hrnd made. Elegant quality. Superior wo; kmanhip. Sold by all Grocers. I7ATO.V CZL’.-W Cf.UC4.VF, 75 X. Clinton St., • CiUCAGO. lietail by IT \. WOODWOKTH, Walkerton, lud. n012J2 tss tT e. r as it.” : South Bend Tinies. 1 At tin l airla-t week wKs exhibited one the queeiest specimens of the bi:\’ crealL’ii that has eve: been seen, and one that nuturali-ts have yet been unable to place, and that was a biid with the wings el an owl, scarcely any tail feather.-,a very small body, and with only three toes, while almost about every other known variety of birds has four. The queerest part of this bird is its head, which is large and every at pearanee of that of the ape. Its face is covered with short gray hair fringed at the edge with black: it has ears exactly like those of a Luman being, ami from the face looks out two eyes exactly like those of a human being in shape and expression. It climbs by means of its beak, and will iie iu the arms of Mis. Mann, the wife of its owner, ami be rocked to sleep, it cries like a child ami is in short, the most astonuding ami remarkable thing that anyone has ever seen in the bird family. It flew into Mr. Mann’s house at Fort Wayno one night ami was captured by them and became an object of wonder. He came near trading it for a bicycle; then was offered SIOO for it; then SSOO, an offer open at any time, but he thinks if it is worth SSOO to anyone it ts is also wortii that much to him. He took in $169 from Fort Wayne people who called to see it during the Fair there, and did well here. He will be at Indianapolis this week at the State Fair. Mr. and Mrs. Mann are old friends of Supt. Cartwright of the Studebaker Wagon Works. THE CHESTNUT BELL. The fiend who tells you a story old, Or grinning asks if it isn’t cold, Or plays you a trick, and then cries sold, While he laughs with a maniac yell, Is an angel compared to that other ass, Vfhose brain is a sad chaotic mass, And who never can let a moment pass Without ringing a chestnut bell.--| Dispatch. Mrs Isaac Hamburger, of Cincinnati and her two-week’s old baby have both been under a doctor's care. For the mother he presciibed morphine ami for the baby pepsin, both in powders were done up in papers much alike, and the nurse carelessly mixed them. The result was that the baby got the morphine and the mother pepsin, and the baby went to sleep and never awoke. Mrs. Langtry is said to have a gown which cost her $4,000.

J. Willis Cotton, WALKERTON, IND., I SELLS I I Studebaker One and Two-Horse I ■ WAG-ONS I AND Buggies. I I \ NV O x " ■ v 7; r A IJott _ sell Improved Chilled and Steel Plows, Fairfield and Toledo Chilled and Steel PlowsROLLER, GRAIN DRILLS, SUPERIOR HOE AND SHOE DRILLS, PICKET WIRE FENCE MADE IO ORDER, AND READY MADE, FROM 40c to 65c PER ROD. AND SUPPLIES. Machine Oik (HAMFION J’OWEIIK Fearers and . ItlX LERS. i WitUELBARROWS & ROAD SCRATERS. 1. all Your DHING, HATS, CAPS. BOOTS & SHOES, 1 is, Valises ent. FURNISHING GOODS, OF . . WOLFE, fie Cheap and Reliable Clothier' 3 you will always find BARGAINS and goods just as represented. THE WILLIAMS & HENDERSON CO-, DEALERS IN Hardware, Lumber FARM IMPLEMENTS, Etc-, Are offering inducements to the citizens of Wa kerton and vicinity that have never been equae d. YOU ARE GOING TO BUILD, If you need a Wagon, if you need a Carriage or Buggy? if ouy need a Harness, if you need a Stove, if you need a Plow, iu fact if you are in need of any tiling usually Kt pt in a liist-( lass -hardware Store you will always liid it at our establishment. GIVE US A CALL, And you will not regret it, , |