St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 28, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 17 January 1891 — Page 1

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The South Bend Tribune tells of a young lady actress connected with a commie opera troupe who is very pious. Can that be true! If there is one thing more nauseating than another it is to see a fool newspaper trying to ape another one possessing some quality or eccentricity peculiar to itself. Pettit was taken to the northern prison Monday to begin his life sentence. It is »mjd that he had his hair cut and his beard sha>.,j ( qy ] )e f Ol - e going there. He dreaded thfluuniliation after donning the stripes. There is a new morning daily in South Bend, the Daily about to make the other irnr-R and gather like a cat eating The former dailies, which are about to hump and gather, osteiv ibly give it a cordial welcome. It is not u difficult

thing, however, to notice that the welcome is thin. “The tendency of the present day is decidedly to a less stiff ami formal punctuation than that, laid down in either Murray’s or Goold Brown’s Grammar, and no one now would punctuate so closely as their rules require. It has become a recognized principle, that | Punctuation is as much a matter of taste and judgement as of rigid rule; and while certain rules are positive, and to be followed absolutely, much is to be left to the discretion of the author,” says Marshall T. Bigelow in t he eleventh edition of his hand book of punctuation issued in ’BB. There are 140 religions in the world, and yet the average man goes on being as big a sinner as he always was.— Michigan City Aappeul. Senator Francis reminds ns of the story of t wo other senators who know so much about the Lord's Prayer. How can there be more than one true religion when it is defined to be "The light feelings toward God as lightly apprehended ? Numerous denominations, systems of worship, and the like, certainly do not mean different religions, that is, ‘'true" religion, of which there .surely can be but one. There surely can be but one “right feeling as rightly apprehended." One religion is enough for us, Senator. We are all hypocrites! and there is no use in denying it. Every liar is a hypocrite, and the psalmist said truly “that all men are liars." LaPorte Herald. Don’t you have to strain a little to make the word “hypocrite" apply strictly to a common every day, harmless liar? Don't you mean by “hypocrite,” strictly speaking, one who assumes a false appdranee of virtue or religion? i Honest Injun? Os course you do. And that's the class of sweet-scented pink-toed individuals to whom people usually refer when they say “hypocrite,” The Herald in the course of an editorial by straining the definition of the word “hypocrite” until it cracks its skin, not the Herald's skin, but the skin of the word or definition, we have just now become so muddled that we don’t know which, attempts to show that we should be easy on hypocrites because in its stretched definition it includes a harmless liar. ’Twon’t work. Editor Endley, of the Walkerton Independent, is down on hanging criminals. He is down on the practice with both feet. The beauty of bis odjection to the practice is that the objection is well taken. We are in the same boat. There is no scuao iu keeping up such a revolting relic of barbarism as the murdering of murderers. While we do not believe in letting criminals escape with a light punishment, yet do we think that at this day and age of the world some other method should be adopted. Bro. Endley is right. We think so, and so does Dan McDonald, of the Plymouth Democrat. Are there any more. —Bremen Enquirer. Amen! Let us arise and sing. Another editor solid on the main question. The above from the first copy of the Enquirer that we have seen since it passed into the hands of its present eminently sound editor, Cal Binninger, causes us to rejoice with exceeding great joy. Shake! We find Editor Binninger to be a pencil driver ■ away up in the pictures, eminently solid i on the capital punishment topic, a racy, j rat tling writer of whom Bremen should ' feel proud. “Dan McDonald with us!’ . ; . h , 1 MM there’s Editor Wad- ; s worth. of he ! aPortt Argus, we think : j the Plymouth Republican, the Chicago i ■ Inter Ocean, yes, hundreds of them, all of them in fact, if they but dared to speak out in meet ing, are with uscu that momentous question.

LO CAL NEWS. There w plenty of traveling men in Walker last Tuesday, A protn meeting is in progress at the M. “• chu ^h in this P laee - Young ^ eo - Spitzer, of ear here, has lone to Janesville, Wis., for the purpe !e of learning telegraphy. Alii ford I n( R» a t<nvu six °r seven hundred i 'habitants, is without a saloon. There’s aF Qcat ion for some enterprising saloonist.. The Cfr Grated Singer sewing machine is nl, w ^‘l by J. F. Strang. Offieo ut • ‘fence, first door south of Oottenft pliment store. leases of measles have oeSevere >j own rece ntly. In one ease, 1 f nil-grown ad nit. He aet1 ed awkwlydly monkeying with a child's disease. J

Dr. A| F. Schafer, at Dr. J. A. Kettring’s illd office, Oliver opera house • dock, South Bend. Diseases of eye, ear, node and throat. Fitting and furnisbingiglasses a specialty. Mr. J. H. Riley, night operator at the B. & O. at this place, and Miss i Elizabeth Penn, of Ripley, Ind., were | married at Kendallville, the home of the groom. Dec. 24. 1890. They expect t 0 make Walkerton their home. The INDEPENDENT extends congratulations. FjflV six marriage licenses were issued Joseph county during the montl of December. Marriage is no fnilmfi in St. Joe county, so far as numhers Ire concerned, anyway. Ten per centfwill jtrobably sti k, about the Kanu percent as in baptism. Fl mi the S. B. Timos we learn that I), f . Place contemplates removing to that >luce. The I imes says he has pur chai d ground ami will erect a hand, son: residence there 'ii. What Cemmissio| it Place’s notion for leaving lu re and tak Ig up his idwde m that iniquitous vill ge is, is another conundrum. K Whiteman, an employe of the Ind ialv Paper company at Mi-.haa i, fell itt<Ta vat of boiling acid last I'iidav eve >iig about 9 o'clock, and was so bad lyburned that he died in a f< w hou rs after ward. He left a nite and one child. He was about forty years old. Such a death is terrible to conten; plate. I rom twenty five to thirtv of the litt 'e boys ami girls, including a few of mature years, snrpiised Widow Gai rett the other evming by making hern donation of various articles in ’ the’ "ay of the necessaries of life, i Flour, meat, sugar, coffee, potatoes, and the. Lord only knows what not. Good thijg. gang of five slick ducks, traveling men, were arguing about the size of the diflirent towns in this section in one of ouiA hotel offices a few evenings ago, when one made the statement that Nappatfee had but a trifle more than five hmjdred inhabitants. We settled him by telling him that the last census gave Naipanee fifteen hundred. We now turn his nibs over to Editor Murray, of tbelNews. r &ie Alilford Alail dashed boldly into its ‘liird volume with its last issue. Editor proves is surely an editor for all the A’s in it. He makes an excellent paprr, and we know he has to work -p HHI that town. It is tW lirstsucees.s in the newspaper linel^‘ a t we have seen emanate from Mil»i'd. The citizens of the place can Jot consistently do otherwise than give it their hearty support. AVe shall be obliged to cut off a numberjof non-paying subscribers with this issue of the reflector. Our jmr.se isn't deep enough to scatter jiajiers around indiscriminately without remuneration. — Argos Reflector. Same here. 'They ought to have their heads cut off, too. — Walkerton Independent. How’s that brother, we thought from reading your editorials that, you were against capital jmnishment. Now you are advocating cutting delinquent subscribers heads off'. Isn’t that a little bit ‘ inconsistent.? It looks so to us any i way.—Kewanna Herald. Never, never, never did you see a word, phraso or sentence in these columns opposing capital jmnishment in case of such a heinous crime asdhe nonpayment of newspaper subsci ipfion. No,never We ojqio.se capital punishment in murder, and so on. But when it. comes to such crimes as flic non-pay-ment of subscription, it’s altogether another thing. j

A single jiage in an issue of the Century, taken for advertising purposes, costs five hundred dollars ; in Harjier’s four hundred dollars down to one hundred dollars. A yearly advertisement in one column of the New York Herald costs $30,000 for the lowest and $310,000 for the highest priced column. These figures will doubt less be of interest to men who invest two or three dollars per month and flatter themselves with the idea that they are extensive and liberal advertisers.—S. B. Tribune. A Whitley county farmer lost a cow in a peculiar manner last week. She ate about fifty pounds of butter and it was so strong that it killed her. The

Commercial vouches for the above as a fact.—Juigouier Bunner. Had the “old heifer” partaken of about two loaves of our Milford bread baked by our home mission ladies, she would have undoubtedly pulled through.-—Milford Mail. Never! It would have required heroic doses of stimulants to pull that bread through, and Milford has no saloons. An exchange that oughl to know says that persons who patronize papers should pay jnomptly, for the jiecnniary prospects of the press have a jieculiar power of pushing forward public prosjierity. If the printer is j>aid jnomptly and liis jx>cket-book kejrt plethoric by prompt paying jmtrons, he j>uts his pen to his paper in peace; his paragraphs are more jminted; he paints his jiictures of jiassing events in more pleasing colours, and the jiernsal of his pajier is more jileasent to the peojile. Pasto this jiiece of ]>roverbial jihilosojdiv in some place where all jiersons can jierceive it.- Plymouth Republican. Then, so far as Plymouth is concern-

ed, immediately behind the most popular bar would probably be the place to paste it. Nappanee promises to enjoy a great boom the coming year. Heal estate continues solid, with a healthy and steady advance. Nappanee News, ‘ There isn't a town in all Christendom that will make lugger promises to enjoy a boom than Walkerton, if the boom ’ will only come. Indiuendent. We feel sorrv for Walkerton! Put, the people of Nappanee are already fill 1 filling the ab >ve promise, mentioned by the News. Nappanee News. Yes, Yes. We did not mean to try to cast the slightest reilection, notwithslanding our squib is somewhat ambiguous. Walkerton would be proud to be able to compete w ith the enterprising and rapidly growing town of Nap. Oair New CKi<e. The Lord willing, our health continuing good, the weather permitting, our money and credit holding out, to begin with, having but a smattering of either, we shall at once build an office for the Independent, the latter- of which, until the building is completed, will become the “Dependent” instead of the Independent. We have leased for five years IS x4O feet on Seventh street, at the rear end of the Benderblock. The office will front to the j southeast. It will have a double front 1 door, one in the rear, of w indows there ' will be a sufficient number, of the tints iin paints as yet we can’t say. E. LeiI bole has the contract. For other particulars call at office, where you’ll find a man who will devote the next two months to explaining. Street Lamps. The members of the town council at their last meeting considered the advisability of putting up a sufficentnumber of street lamps to light Avenue F, aud arrived at the wise conclusion to do so. They have written to various places for prices and as soon as answers are received the lamps will be ordered and put up. There are twelve to fifteen private lamps already up and the council decided to furnish oil and see that they are kept running. This is wisdom on the part of the council, and for which steps they- will have the hearty applause of the entire community, that is of those not prone to evil deeds and who love darkness in which to perpetrate them. But thank heaven that . element in Walkerton forms but an in- | signifieent factor in the make-up of the : inhabitants of our pious place. Police. Any one knowing the ■whereabouts of James M. Mead, formerly of this place, but lately of Big Rapids, Mich., will please give information to the undersigned. Exchanges please copy. M. E. O Connod.

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'll) e’s a jiajier over in Elkhart, over whose editor considerable dispute arose some time ago as to his sanity, who has underfaken to clean out the houses of ill shape in that town. The South Bend Tribune prints the riot act to the editor and explains to him that he will have to tight that battle all by himself, because the hoe handle faced of the town, same as in all towns, will urge an editor to tire hot shot into them with a promise to stand by him and see him through, and who, when the war is fairly under way, will keej) mum as inice and let the editor go plumji to. These hoe handle-faced enjoy very much showing their contempt for such resorts of iniquity and urging “somebody” to

clean them out. But they are the last ones to HV* complaints, in which case “they” would share the and might also be out a few pennies, possibly, in some way before the matter of prosecution -could be settled. They seem to imagine their whole duty in the premises fully and well discharged when they condemn in their assemblages, public and jirivate, these houses of ill fame and other resorts of sin. But the matter is thoroughly understood by the jmblic ami therefore scarcely demands even a pasf-ingmention, and hence we turn the whole mat ter over to Parson Enyart, editor of the Christian Advance, alias Alaev Monitor, whom, we feel quite confident, can discuss the matter at considerable length. Hiram Doolittle, aged G 5 years, died at his residence in this jilace, Saturday, January 19th, of neuralgia of the heart. He was buried from the residence, in the Walkerton cemetery, Monday. We have no further jiarticulars.

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