St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 12, Number 19, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 November 1886 — Page 2

.id: INDEPENDENT. WILL A. ENDkEY, Editor. g3s& ■ . - --V Entered at the WalKerton Postoffice ng feecorid-class mail matter. HUBSCBIYtIoN: j^or One Year Fer Six Months I 5 For Three Months I ..... 5^ Walkerton, ind.; nov. 6, isse. The present Congress is composed of 184 Democrats and 141 Republicans. The idea of Boston being the bub tires us. We have spoke. — [Puck. Prince Salm-Salm, a member of she Prussian. Legislature, is dead. This is the last of hyuin.'— [Norwich Bulletin. The London Times throws the Weight of its powerful influence Upon the side of the Democratic party in Ameiica. Among the gifts to Sarah Bernhardt while in South America was a deed to ten miles of land in the Argentine Republic. Imitation statesmen should be stamped as well as imitation butter. They deceive the honest voter.— [New Orleans Picayune. Seventeen states chose Gover hors last Tuesday; 318 Representatives to the lower house of Congress were elected from thirty-rive states. A distinguished New York clergyman, who was going abroad, was offered SSOO if he would tarry and marry an ambitious pair, but he refused. A young woman of Harrisburg, Pa., utilized her wire bustle the other day as a cage for a flying bquirrel that she caught while in the cUhntry and wan ted to carry home. Thebe has never been a greater demand for orators than is now apparent—not in politics alone, but in all professions where public speaking is a necessity. If there are influences at work to supply this demand, however, they are not visible. The situation implies a — National poverty in that respect; and so far as all indications go, American oratory is not likely soon, if ever, to recover its former excellence and honor. — [St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. ' - Reports of an encouraging character as to the condition of trade comes from different parts of the country, and the reports become more satisfactory as the autumn advances. The Pittsburg Commercial-Ga zette says free trade prospects can riot be described as brilliant when men like Morrison and Hurd have to fight for their lives in Democratic districts. The Chicago Inter Ocean says -an‘ancient papyrus Book of the Dead, 3,000 years old and some lorty-two feet in length, has just been sent to this country-. Henry r Watterson will look it over for fresh chestnuts on free tiade. The wheat yield in the United States for the year 1886, would, it was estimated by the Department of Agriculture on the 11th, exceed that of 1885 by 100,000,000 bushels. The total oat crop was estimated at over 600,000 bushels, and the corn crop *at 1,650,000,000 bushels. An Indianapolis merchant struck a novel way of advertising. lie offered a handsome set of bedroom furniture to any couple that would be married in the show window of bis store, The offer was accepted by Otto Meyer and Miss Eva Joenson, of Morgan county. The marriage attracted 3,000 people. The Middlebury correspondent to the Goshen Times says that two more samples of their gold dust have been sent to a Chicago assayer, taken from different parts of the bill, and the report comes back that the one contains S2B in gold to the ton and s2.3oin silver, the other S2O in gold and $3 50 in silver. It is expected that a stock 'company will be organized in the near future and work be commenced. An exchange says that a man at Bt. Joseph, Mich., has a living curiosity in the shape of a fowl four months old that is half chicken and half duck. The upper portion is that of a rooster, with developing 'comb and other characteristics of his kind, but the wings and the lower half are to all appearances that of a duck, the feet being half\vebbed—yet insufficiently to permit the strange bird to swim. It stands upright in an unnatural position and waddles about the barnJf>rd just like a duck.

ELECTION NEWS! THE PARTY LASH. W’OO !«! Wk 1 Bn , ,4^. .’J r. — ' Wj l/p ■ // II AND NIP A TUCK. ‘ Shively. That’s what I said.” Packard was only fooling, anyhow. W. A. Dailey ran ahead of his ticket. Shakespeare is postmaster at Kalamazoo, Mich. Dailey received a handsome vote at home, which speaks volumes. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has been nominated by the Democrats for Cong ess. Good material is often spoiled by incompetent workman. Theie was good timber there. Belva Lockwood, the celebrated female lawyer, will pass through this place over the B. & O. on Dec. 16. Col Robert G. Ingersoll is said to be afflicted with cancei^of the throat, which must necessarily soon prove fatal. The jail is yet, empty. — [Albion New Era. What’s the matter with your prosecuting attorney? Senator Edmunds’ fortune is estimated at $250,000, principally made at his practice and by judicious investments in real estate. The words of the text are as tiue now as they were last week. The timber was good, but the mechanics were a failure in working it up. According to the Chicago Inter Ocean of Friday the Republicans have made heavy gains in Indiana over the election of two years ago.

Cornell University will confer no honorary degrees hereafter, and to become a ductor of laws under the new rules of the institution one must be examined. Walkerton wants a bank. Well, why don’t the editor of the Independent start one with the surplus means made in the newspaper business?—[Albion New Era. Our subscriber pays us in wood. There were lew men who performed better work for the cause of the Union soldier than the vet eran actor, James E. Muraock, of Ohio. At tho outbreak of the war he was playing in “Hamlet” at Milwaukee. The play was halt finished when there was a tumult in the house. The actors paused A man sprang upon the stage and read Lincoln’s call for 75,000 troops. The play was never finished, but Mr. Murdock, in the garb of Hamlet, stood bj’ the side of Matt Carpenter and made a speech for the Union. Next day he packed up his wardrobe and never reopened the tiuuks until the war was over.—[Ex. A SAGE OiV A BJitOAO GRAY. (Chicago Journal.]

A big liian commands respect where a little man with quite as much manliness is deemed iusignifi cant end not worth listening to. Brain commands respect when the man is known, but in a crowd there is nothing like bulk. Apropos of this subject I heard yesterday a yarn about the late Samuel J. Tilden that illustrates the point The venerable statesman several years ago was a good deal more active than during the closing years of his life, and was a frequent promenader of Broadway, where his slight figure and smooth-shaven face attracted no attention from those who did not recognize him. One day be was astonished by a teamster driving up to the sidewalk and saying: “Say, young feller, will you pick up that horse-shoe?” The sage of Gram mercy Park tripped out in the mud, restored the cast shoe to its owner’s owner and smiled broadly for a block.

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS. ?S!.irSS> ITEMS. KejiorJed by the I independent's 4 ’ o r r e s po n 4 en I. Edson Goit is preparing to move back Ui Walkerton. George Chapman arid son Byron will visit Fort Wayne before moving to the county farm. Valentine Hardy’s black horses look nobby with a new set of harness on. Most of the farmers are done husking corn. John Snell took a load of iron to South Bend lust Week. Mrs. Samuel HudDmyen of Walkerton and some lady friends were on the Island last Thursday. Mrs. Rebecca Snell went to South Chicago last Saturday to visit G. L. Smith ami family. John Smelts and wi‘b were among the callers uu the Island last Sunday. Charley Wisenbaugh is preparing to move to Ohio in about two weeks. Mr. John Hepler and wife, of Bremen, were visiting with the Mull families last week, returning home last Monday. Mr. Hessey, of South Bend, fath-er-in-law of W. M. Mull, called on the latter last week. Mr. Hessey says himself and son have lost about $2,000 worth of hogs with cholera. Died, Mr. Reuben letter, Monday, Oct. 25, 1886, aged 55 years, 5 months and 20 days. The funeral was held at the M E. church in Walkerton, Rev. Wolverton of ficiating The remains were laid to rest in the Walkerton cemetery. Pete. G lUIVEIUOin. Reported by the Independent's <"6rirespondei? 1. Quite a turnout on election day heje. Henry Allen is building a new barn. See the improvements here. Mr. Ashley Sullsuu is hauling lumber preparatory to building a barn. Ed Schrock is making preparations for building a dwelling in the spring. Mike Welch is going to build a dwelling in the Qeat future. W illiam Marsh is also going to build a dwelling soon. Chai ley Forsyth is making preparrtions for building a house to contain his ao i icult urM imph meets, as ho is now in that business. The Democrats had a large majority for every man on the ticket except one, at this [dace. Murphy came out ahead. Miss Emma Yeager is teaching the Marsh school. 1 Charley Forsyth, of this place, is now dealing in agricultural imph? meets, and is making quite a run. Wonder when? Abe Emerick found that coat? Quite an improvement, Abe. Miss Lilly Yeager is teaching the Fuller school. Quite a racket ensued at the dance the other night. Joseph Wilen has completed his new house. A ORT S 3 LIBERTY. Reported by 88ie Im.epraideiit s Corresponds nt. A barn belonging to R. E. Wilson, located on his fatm about two miles north of here, was destroyed by fire last Tuesday night at about 12 o’clock. Insured for S3OO. The personal property, two horses, corn, hay, etc, belonged to Clark 0. Philips. No insurance. Origin of lire not known. Mrs. Eb. Nicklos was buried at the North Liberty cemetery last Thursday. She has been an invalid for years. Funeral took [dace from the Adventist church, Rev. Whitmore officiating. Bowen's new roller mill is doing a good business. Election passed off unusually quiet here. Mis. Allen Nelson is expected heme during next week. J. N. Reece’s son Charley is sick again, suffering with an attack of diphtheria. Geo. food’s daughter Mabel is similarly afflicted. The children of Mary J. Tutt ’have placed a neat monument at the grave of their mother. M. E. quarterly meeting here this Sunday and Monday following. The M. E. church has been placed in nice repair, and presents a much improved appearance. Harness oil $1 per gallon at the Liberty harness shop. The best in the market. Try it. Buy your flannel and cloth shirts of Bender. They are HOME MADE and of superior quality. The Philadelphia Sture.

A FIGHT WITH A TRtJUT; — Meantime the trout, agitated by the appearance df these morsels just above I his head, piqued perhaps by his own failure to comfort his gluttonous appe tite with a dainty tid-bit, is balancing i himself over the hard, sandy bpttom;llD I tins slowly fanning the water, iris keeii eyes turned expectantly upward. Once I more these luring flies dance across the - water. There is a sudden movement of i the broad tail, a quick, rush upon the I prey, which gives an instant’s glimpse of dark, mottled-black and gleaming Vermillion spots at the surface, and then the cheat betrays itself. The angler, every sense on the alert, strikes quick and hard, and a heavy resistance to the bending, quivering rod tells that the hook is driven home. The palate of the trout is tickled by no choice morsel, but instead there is a sting of mortal agony. Downward through the clear water darts the fish, carrying that burning pain, while on the shore the angler’s reel sings cheerily as in derision. “You’ve hooked him well, sir. Now buckle your rod to him,” exclaims the guide. A fair and honorable duel was beglm. On one side an eight-ounce rod, a thread of silk, an almost invisible strand of gut directed by a human brain; on the other, the strength and cunning of a powerful maddened trout. A little below are dangerous rapids. If the fish bolts into the strong current and down the rapids there is a chance that he may free himself, and at best the neophyte must leap over the rocks or flounder through the shallows in hot pursuit. There is reason in the guide’s advice, “Buckle yer rod to hint. The rod is kept up well that all the strain of its - .“’jig may be felt by the lish. At each rush there is heard the music of the ?, r i, but the line is reeled back whenever a chance oilers, and the trout kept to the stiller water as persistently as the angler dares. And now there is silence. The fish is sulking at the bottom, shaking his head from time to time in vicious’ bull dog fashion, seeking to shake out the wounding hook or to rub it out against a stone. A turn or two on the reel brings a harder strain to bear, and there comes a rush which nothingscems to check. The lengthening line cuts iiito the white water, and is swept downward as the lish is hurried away In the current. “Snub him,” shouts the guide, and taking in all the line he dares, the neophite brings till possible strain to bear, until the rod bends perilously and everything is taut. A critical moment this, for if you “snub” your fish too suddenly or too hard, in a strong current, his loss may not lie the greatest of ail your disasters. Rather coax him firmly, yet with moderation, relaxing your severest strain when Ihe* weight of water begins to tell. Now, aided by a friendly back-set, tin- trout has emergi d from the foaming water and the angler's suq cnse b comes more tolerable. Who can explain the-"apav- ! . .-iim- | lion of Such a struggle:’ fl h almost affection that tlm true lisherman feels for his gallant victim, and y< t the v icape of that victim from death won! I well ni/h break the angler's heart. '1 he two are in close, fairly electriceoimnun m through this delicate tackle. Tno modes of the fish are elearlr read by th. brr.ih behind the roil. \\ h.-n eaeii slice etiine" rush grows shorter and feebler, when now and then there come a ..;inq>se ii whiti', as a side fie- ked with gold is turned up now, that brain be/’ins to compose a pivan of \ ietory. Tin- plucky trout is nearly doin' for. 11 s strength has turned to weakness, ami h > free, wild life in the clear Rangeie) waters is drawing to •m nnd. I'nint t an I famter ■im v his sirm/gies, as the Ime, -lean \ reeled in, draws him, swaying from side to side, toward tlm shallow water where the guide awaits him, and the mesho oi the landing net cuts short his last eonvulsive fight tor life. Out pocket-scales now! Is it a three or four or live pound trout,this rarely beautiful prize;- Let us give onr neophyte the benefit, of every doubt, and thus forestall him when he tel! - this lish story in after days.— Front Outinti. Japanese Boat Lift. In Poland some families are born and die in salt mines, without ever living aboveground, and in Japan some are born and die the same way on boats without over living on shore. “One of the most interesting features of Japanese life to me,” says a recent traveller there, “was the manner of living in the boatsand junks, thousands of which frequent every bay along the coast. The awkward junks always belong to the members of one family, and usually every branch of the family, old and ybung, live on board. “The smaller sailboats are made like a narrow flat-boat, and the sail (they never have bu,t one) is placed very near the stern, and extends from the mast about the same distance in either direction; i. e., the mast runs in the middle of the sail when it is spread. “In these little boats men are born and die, without ever having an abidingplace on shore. Women and all are nearly naked, except in rains, when they put on layers of fringy straw mats, which give them the appearance of being thatched. At night, if in harbor, they bend poles over the boat from side to side in the shape of a bow, and cover them with this straw —water-tight straw —and go to sleep all together, like a lot of pigs. “A child three years old can swim like a fish; and often children who will not learn of their own accord arc repeatedly thrown overboard until they become expert swimmers. In the harbors children seem to be perpetually tumbling overboard, but the mothers deliberately pick them out of the water, and, culliing them a little, go on with their work. It is really astonishing at what age these boys and girls will learn to scull a boat. “I have seen a boat twenty feet long most adroitly managed by three children, all under seven years of age. lam told that, notwithstanding their aptness at swimming, many boatmen get drowned, for no boat ever goes to another’s aid, nor will any boatman save another from drowning, because, as he says, itris all fate, and he who interferes with fate will be severely punished in some way. Besides this, the saving of a boatman’s life only keeps a dialing soul so much longer in purgatory, when it ought to be released by the death of the sailor which the gods, by fate, seem to have selected for the purpose.”— Youth's Companion. If it is not too late we would like to remind Mr. Jacob Sharp, with the kind permission of Benjamin Franklin, that “Honesty is the best policy,” purely ns a matter of policy. Fresh oysters at Jake Taylor’so23ct

Additional Local News. Gasoline at Arlington’s. 'ruin Wolfe sells the best rubber bot>i“, alul at the lowest jirim-s. 2m-3t FLOW ERIS FOR FA LL PL ANTING FREE. The enterprising jiublishers of “The Housekeeper” have engaged Maud Meredith, the brightest and most popular [>oet and author in the West, as editor, beginning with the November number. To any one Who subscribes now at $1 per year, the publishers will send Dee the three last numbers of 1886, which will contain the first chapters of some charming stories and serials, and one of the three beau tiful collections of imported lillies tulips and hyacinths for fall painting, or forcing in the house for wintei blooming. Ono lady agent wanted in eVery county to whom peimanent and profitable employment will be given. Address Buckeye Publishing Co, Minueajiolis, Minnesota. L PARILYZEB THE OH RT. [Exchange, i A young woman from the ebuntiy was suing her ex-sweetheart for breat h of promise, and the lawyers were as usual making all soils of inquisitive questions. “You say,” remarked one, “that the defendant frequently sat wry close to you?” “Yes sii,” was I lie reply, with a blush “How clos< I” “( lose enough so’es one cheer wa « all the sittin’ room needed.” “Ami you say h« put his arm around y> u? ’ “No 1 didn't.” “What did you say, then?” “I said he put both arms around me.” “Then what?’ “lie hugged me.” “Very hard?’ “Yes, he did; so duim d hard that I came purty near ’Hollerin' light out.’ “Why didn't you hollei?” “Cause 1 was afet rd- he’d stop.” the court fell efl' the bench and had to be cat i ied out and [Hit Ui - der the hydrant f< r the pmpose ol resuscitation.

Why an Actor Keforineil. Sheritlnn, the actor, paid us a brief visit, writes a correspondent of the Sacramento Bee. He came quietly, and as quietly slipped buck to Australia. Siteridan’s habits have undergone a complete change. It is a matter of public knowledge that few moi who trod the boards were such abnormal tipplers as that talented tragedian. Rut he looks upon the wine no more. Ho is a model of sobriety, and his appearance is intiniteIv in>y v ovrd bj 'die fortunate change. Few t'ow how the reformation came about. 1 had it from his own lips. “One afternoon,” said the, actor. “I was on the stage at rehearsal. Tho play was -King Lear,’ the linos of which jamas familiar with as you are with the Lonfs prayer. I came on, but, I judge of my dismay and astonishment when 1 found that 1 could not remember I a single phrase, or speech in the part. I sent the call boy for a bottle of brandY, took a couple of drinks, and tried i* again. The result was tho same. My memory was a blank. Then 1 slipped back to my diessing-room, took down a book of familiar recitations, and tried one which 1 had known for years and declaimed, 1 might say, without exaggeration, not less than a hundred times. Not a line of it could I remember. I tried more brandy, but my memory contined a, blank. 1 was terribly shocked. It seemed to mo that I was forever ruined, and that my profession had slipped out of my grasp; that this was the beginning of imbecility, and that 1 should wind up in a lunatic asylum. 1 rushed from the theater, jumped into a hack, and directed the driver to lake me to the oliice of a doctor in whom 1 had the utmost eonlidenee, and who had often braced mo up when enervated from the effects of a prolonged spree. Ihe fact that I could remember the number of his room tilled me with inexpressible delight. I felt that all was not lost. He told me not to be alarmed, that my brain was not seriously atlbeted, and promised that 1 should bo all right within a month. But only on one eonlit ion, and that was absolute and rigid ans! incuee. I followed his advice, though it was a hard pull at the beginning, and you see me now belter thim 1 have, been lor many a day.” And hi- looked it. Tho crimson nose, his most striking feature, was toned down, so that little of the old Hush remained. His eyes were clear and bright, and he, seemed in every respect a new num. ■— • o LAPORTE LETTER. FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. The Republicans are jubliaut, the Democracy despondent. The Ring is “busted by thunder.” Earl, Republican is elected sheriff by 629 majority over Snook, Democrat. Zharn, Republican, carries the county by 92 for county treasurer. (’atheart, Republican has a majority of 19 for Surveyor. The balance of the democratic ticket is elected by greatly reduced majorities. Packard is beat in the district about 900. Egbert, for prosecutor, runs behind his ticket >n this county and is probably defeated in the Circuit by a small majority.

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