St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 15, Number 45, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 May 1890 — Page 1

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VOLUME XV.

ON DECK! FOR THE SPRING TRADE! With a Large, Fine and Well Selected Stock of STYLISH CLOTHING! SPRING SUITS, SPRING HATS, UNDERWEAR of Finest Quality for Summer Wear. A Fine Line of Watches and Jewelry always i n stock. New Goods con stastly arriving. Prices always reasonable, ami goods as guaranteed. Call ami examine my stock. The Old Reliable Clothing’ House of T. J. WOLFE.

ROSS & BOSE. DEALERS IN Baita, Tinware, Stoves, kHaving put in a new and complete stock of Hardwat e with a full Une of Stoves, Tinware, PAINTERS’ SUPPLIES, PLAIN & BARBED WIRE, Gasoline Stoves, etc we are now ready to make some very LOW PRICES! Hoping to be favored with a share of your patronage, we are. Yours respectfully, ROSS & BOSE. FRY-DOUGHERTY BLOCK.

THE INDEPENDENT STORE! IS HEADQUARTERS FOR Sporting* Goods! ‘'Base Balls of all Kinds and Prices^ including Spauldng's genuine league. Prices from 5 cents to $1.50 each. 11 full line of FISH’NG TACKLE Trolling lilies, spoon kooks, fishing rods, all kinds of lines and hooks, sinkers, bobbins, etc. We alway s keep a full line of notions, tobaccos, cigars, books, daily papers and the finest line of STATIONERY! in Walkerton. J. ENDLEY & ENDLEY. BENDER'S BLOCK.

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1890.

Robert Mummery, of Lake county, died the other day, at the age of 110 years. A Pittsburg couple eloped to Chicago and the girl’s pa by following in hot pursuit arrived in time to attend the suit for divorce. Sullivan has accepted a challenge to fight Jackson, the black man and thumper, for a purse of twenty thousand dollars. Sulliyan will pound that fellow black. Two factions of the United Brethren church at Muncie engaged in a regular fight Sunday, in which clubs, pokers and pistols were freely used. Several sore heads was the result and one person seriously injured.—Whitley County News. Ananias crowned himself with glory by getting his name in the Bible as being the most outrageous liar on earth. But when it comes right down to the modern country editor telling about the excellent qualities of his paper and in particular about the number of his subscribers, Ananias wasn’t knee high to a duck. A wise woman once said that there

were three follies of men that always amused her. The first was climbing trees to shake the fruit down, when if they would wait long enough, the fruit would tall off itself; the second was going to war to kill each other, when if they only waited they would die naturally; and the third was that they । should run after the women, when if they did not do so the women would be sure to run after them. Once upon a time we edited a bitterly partisan paper and prided ourself on the outrageous lies that we could make Up and publish about the opposing elements. But in reading the partisan papers of today filled with full-grown lies which would put even Ananias to shame, we are driven to confess that we possessed but a bare smattering of that now seemingly indispensable qualification, A reasonable per cent, of Lying by the partisan p'ess ?s expected and cheerfully tolerated by the reading public, it is to be presumed. May the Lord have mercy on some of the lying editors of the present, is our prayer. Me received the following request from a Christian association of Philadelphia the other day: “Mr Editor: Will yon kindly give to your readers the following report of an important meeting. We ask for editorial discussion of the objects sought and the conclusions reached by this conference, and in general for your co-opera-tionin the effort to maintain and promote the influence of the Christian religion upon our national lif^” Yes indeed. We are ever ready and

willing to do all in our power for thecause of religion. But being quite busy in looking after delinquent subscribers at present and not being a whole Young Men's Christian Association nor a complete church denomination ourself, we would respectfully refer the whole matter, so far as the religious discussion is concerned, to the devout Macy Monitor. Bad Tews For Newspaper Dead Beats. Cheerful news for newspaper proprietors comes from Ohio. A paper in ■ that state recently brought suit against । forty-three men who would not pay their subscriptions, and obtained judgement for the full amount in each case. Twenty-eight at once prevented attachment by making affidavit that they had no more then the law allowed. Under the decision of the Supreme Court they were arrested for petit larceny and bound over in the sum of S3OO. Six of these did not give bond, and went to jail. This is the result of the working of the new postal law, which makes it larceny to take a paper and refuse to pay for it.—Western Journalist. •— _ Eilert Extract of Tar & wild Cherry is a safe, reliable and pleasant remedy for Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, and all throat troubles; will relieve and benefit consumption. 'fry it and be convinced. Every bottle warranted; price 50c. and one dollar per bottle. Sold 1 by all druggists. Prepared by the Emmert Proprietary Co., Chicago, 111, Try E. McDaniel’s home made bread, pie«, cakes, etc. Can't be beat. Dr. Eliels Liver Regulator, for sale at J, Endly’s drug store.

LOCAL NEWSShall we celebrate the 4th of July? Walkerton keeps right on wanting a planing-mill. A son was born to the wife of Jacob Eberly, Monday last. E. Leibole is rapidly completing Noah Rensberger’s fine, large residence. First-class accommodations at E. McDaniel’s hotel. Guests always pleased. Charley Granger was in Plymouth, Monday taking orders for laundry work. Vegetation is growing rapidly, and wheat is looking excellent in this vicinity . If the town board will whack down some cisterns a reliable fire company cun be formed. The grist-mill ceased operations for a few days for the want of wheat. Booming again, however. Melvin Wright put up the brick wall for the Williams & Henderson Co’s, agricultural building. The citizens should see to it, that avenue Fis made smooth. It bothers the

i boys in running their bicycles in its . present humpy condition. For Sale.—A good brood mare. Is an excellent animal for farm or other 1 work. Apply to Rev. W. A. Mathews. The Walkerton cemetery should . have some attention in the way of cleaningmp. We would be very loth to be found dead in it in its present condition. The band stand subscription paper has been moved about a very little as yet, and the prospects are quite flattering. Nearly half of the amount necessary has already been subscribed. Mrs. Doc. Smith and Miss Ida Beach were in Chicago last, Saturday and purchased the finest invoice of millinerv goods ever brought to Walkerton. They invite the Indies to call, examine and buy freely. Ross & Bose, the hardware men, now have on hand a fine lot of buggies and carts which they will sell nt the very lowest figure possible. They invite you to call, examine stock and get terms before purchasing elsewhere. A Mentone preacher found the following note from a young lady of that town in his pulpit the other Sunday: “Deer mr. Wont you plese Be kind nough to preach slower To-Night? I’m studyin Shorthand and Caint Reap up.” Mart Nicoles, Attorney Nicoles’ eldest son, who has been operating in telegraphy at Brainard, Minn., has been transferred to Missoula, Montana,

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Our draymen, three in number, are kept constantly busy. The town board ought to fire in a few cisterns along the business lines. A full lino of all kinds of fishing tackle at the Independent Stoic. The Wolfenbarger boys Lave nineteen head of horses in their livery stable. E. McDaniel has fresh baked home made bread every day. It is the best in the world. Try it. Why not go at it in earnest and organize the agricultural society so much talked about heretofore? ihe Walkerton laundry people report quite an extensive run of business. They are doing considerable work for the neighboring towns. Last Saturday was a terribly stormy one, and farmers were prevented from coming to town. So Walkerton can now bo put down as having had one quiet Saturday. If the statements in the papers are to be relied on the peach crop has thus far escaped injury and the prospects good for a large crop. Peaches and cream, you know.

A Horse Wanted. A black or grey, between the ages of i and 6, weighing from ten to twelve • hundred pounds. Will pay cash. * Ed. Vincent. The lamiei inih' Charity. It has never been published anywhere although it is a fact, that there is a rule in each of the Vanderbilt households that, whatever the cost of running the house, the same amount in ' each instance is given to the poor. • This rule is strictly observed—in fact, a book of expense for the purpose is kept and in it is recorded all the household expenses, including even the hire of servants and the cost of boxes at the opera. So that whenever the expenses of these families increase the donations to the poor are increased correspondingly. One can fancy how large these donations must be from the statement that in one of the families there are no less than thirty servants, while all the family expenses will run up to several hundred thousand a year. When this amount is given away at the end of the year theie will be little or no publicity given to the fact of the magnificent donation. Even with this doubling of expenses none of the Vanderbilts is able to live up to his income without investing large sums in new enterprises. MAY THANK HER STABS. The narrow escape of Mrs. B. M. Searles, of Elkhart, Iml., from a premature death is wonderful. She states that "for twenty years my heart troubled me greatly. 1 became worse. Had smothering

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NUMBER 45.

SCSSI’LEK (WAVs IXXO. C 52 &CJ22 . The Solemn Declaration of s " je Statesman to a KkSsssMsan in Troy. Rev. Dr. George Colfax Baldwin, pastor of the First Baptist church of Troy, is famed for his eloquence and known and loved all over the country. He has recently published jan extremely interesting volume of personal memories, entitled, “Notes of Forty-one Years’ Pastorate,” in which he gives to the world the following impressive reminiscence of his cousin, Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, Vice-President of the United States during Grant’s administration : “The career of Schuyler Colfax lias had few equals. Early left an orphan, becoming a clerk at eleven years of age, he worked in a store and on a faun until he was twenty-one, ami then devoted himself to newspapers ami polities. He was elected io three successive Congresses ami thrice to the position of Speaker, in which he rivaled the fame of Henry Clay, a id after General Grant, was the most prominent candidate for the presidency. But „1 . 1 1 1 I - - , • ’

alas. that triumphant career was prematurely brought to an end by an unexpected disaster. On the single > charge of having received S2OO as a dividend on a small portion of “Credit Mobiher” st. :k he was politically ruined. In simple justice to his memory I state two facts. After his death, while absent from home, there was found on his person a letter addressed ■ to his wife, which closes thus: M hen our little boy is old enough to i understand all this, if he knows 'anything of the base and bitter calumny - to which his father was subjected by ' enemies and ingrates, he will realize ■ what an honest, a faithful servant received for twenty years of the prime of his life given to the service of his coun- ■ try, and that all that sustained me during that wild storm of calumny was the knowledge that God, at the last ■ day, would make my hone-sty and truthfulness known to all jnen, and that my wife knew it and confided to the utmost in her losing ami devoted husband. Schuyler Colfa... The last time he visited me we sat and talked on family and general topics until a very lat< hour of the night. Suddenly he exclaimed : George why- don t you ask me about the ‘Credit Mobilier?’ ” I replied that I did not care to do so unless he introduced it. Then, with solemnity, he asked: Do you believe that I am a Christian ?” “Most assuredly I do,” I responded. Well, then, he said, ‘You know the

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