St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 21, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 December 1891 — Page 4

e . The Independent, e e et WALKERTON, INDIANA, Dec. 12, 1891, T % A BNDULEY, B SWEEPING REDUCTIONS —AT THE—— During the next month we have decided to make sweeping reductions in all our departments, Dress Goods Department. In our Dress Goods Pepartment we have made such reductions that it seems to us every lady could have a new dress: e ~ Our Cashmers, Storm Ser- ~ ges, Cloths, Bedford Cords, Flannel Plaids, Henriettas, Silks and Camelets have all been reduced to such low prices as we know will please you. Cloak & Jacket Department. Here we have put the knife into high prices and before you purchase a cloak or jacket just inspect our line as we know the goods will please—the prices suit. Underwear Department. We are showing the best of everything found | in the market in Underwear and you do not consult your own interests by buying Underwear without first having seen our stock and learned our prices, ‘ Furs! Furs! Furs! We have laid in our immense stock of Furs, and we are told are 25 per cent under the regular prices. Blankets & Comforters. Here it is that we know we have such goods as will please you, everything you may need in tiiis line can be found in our immense stock: | Qur elegant line of l‘ Gent’s and Ladies’ Gloves, Saxony Yarr, i Corsets, Handkerchiefs and CHILLAS, ADLER I 127 South Michigan St. BT \ " SOUTH BEND, IND. The Leaders of Low Prices. Store open Wednesday and Saturday ' evenings. { | —TO SEL— ) \SAHORSE . l || BLANKETS] . \ -A 4 | /fi% ~ 4, l siy 7'_.'.:: i"\‘. R f>. ! YR A & /%3\%‘:&% \' ~a., ‘ :i. = —’/rf_—."‘ ,1\; . L “_.‘ t < . 3 »“7‘(. \'47;{: (Aol = ey X & ’ = f E / 3 *‘-"" 3 == EVERYBODY WANTS ONE. ‘ Two or three dollars for a 5,4 Horse Blanket will save double its cost. Your horse will eat less to keep warm and b worth fifty dollars more, | \ our mammwoth line of ROBES & BLANKETS, The BA in all grades and styles. 1 am prepared 1o furnish you with the finest line of Horse Clothing ever brought to Walkerton, r‘;r «{?fi-' AKE'

- ‘Both branches of the New York | legislature are democratie. - B R R | Indianapolis democrats are making - |an effort to have the democratic national convention meet in that city. 3 T T R E The irony of fate is manifest in the case of Dr. Andrew McFarland, of Ilinois, the great insanity expert. He lost his reason and committed suicide the other day. IR AT T SIS W G A young man of Illinois while playing the guitar and singing ‘‘Annie Rooney” fell dead recently. The above item is going the rounds of the press, but it is strange that nothing is said as to the fate of his listeners. ; A ( The Medical Record publishes an article by an American physician who recently made a voyage from Europe to this country in an immigrant ship. He says that out of 153 of the steerage passengers whom he examined not one-half were found to be physically sound, though the unsound passengers were not afilicted with such disease as would prevent them - from landing at any of our ports. “If this ship load is a fair sample,” he says, “the amount of disease imported annually into this country must be appalling.”—Goshen Democrat. { Another good argument in favor of restricting foreign immigration to this country. A ik GROVERTOWN. Rev. Clark filled hisregular appointment at this place last Sunday at half past ten a. m. Mrs. Sam Botarf whose illness was mentioned some time ago is slowly improving. Mr. and Mrs. Newt Covet, of Marshall county, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Chris Seider last Saturday and Sunday. Nearly all of our farmers are having their cattle dehorned. A birthday surprise was one of the social events of last week and occurred last Friday evening. The honored one being Mrs. Ruey Holdeman. The customary elegant supper was served ab seven o'clock and all partook of it with | a keen relish, for it was, indeed, an i elegant supper. Mrs. H. wus the recipient of a number of nice and useful presents. There is to be a meeting held at the school house on Wednesday evening of | this week to decide whether we are to | have s Christmas tree or not. Itis : hoped that our people are not foclish enough to decide in the negative. It { wonld do us all good, the grown people not so much, perhaps, as the little] L o et sterirc iy VO X" cite their interest, and cheer them on, | in Sabbath school work. We must ’ say our people have been lying sadly ! dormant upon this subject for a num- | ber of years; let us not fail this year;| there is to be a shooting mateh in town ; the day before Christmas, so let there | be a Christmas tree in -~ ening also;| we have just as much timber to have aé Christmas tree with as there is to have | a shooting match with, if we only have ; the energy and resclution to carry it ; out. l }’ TEEGARDEN. i ~ Hank Ford made a business trip to | Chicago last Tuesday. ‘ Ed Morris’ wife is dangerously sick with dropsy. t N. Aldrich the wood worker at black- | smith shop is still unable to work. l H. Sheets is nursing a sore thumb 3 this week. i Samuel McCombs will move on the; Dan Beall farm near Walkerton in a | few days. l A. Hanson spent last Tuesday in South Bend on business. B. Williams has purchased the Samuel Cudney Jr. farm; the consideration is SI6OO. H. Ford gave his saw mill shed a new roofing. : ; D. M. Barber was presented with a} couple of owls by Frank Clark several ¥ | days ago. One has made its escape to i | parts unknown while the other can bci ' seen passing the time away in the post- | office room. ! | J. M. Schroeder and Peter Bodinef i caught 14 rabbits until one o’clock . when their ammunition gave out and% li went to dinner. About three o’clock | |J. M. and the Rev. Mattox went out ' ! and caught three more making 17 in all l | for the day. ‘ ‘. The meetings at Tyner still con-| | tinne with increasing interest. Rev. | r! Mattox is the pastor. l Colman Watkins will return to school | at Valparaisoin a few daysifhis Grand\pa Watkins continues to improve. ; | A few uncouth and bad behaved ‘ young men are shadowed that go to | church and misbehave during services, 11 unless they mend their ways they will | be treated to a small piece of law de- - | mendiog a compensation for auch con%"\hct. i

Lo SRR e | Wanted, 50,000 Hoop-Poles! Hickory and Oak, 83 feetlong; must | be 14 by 2 inches at top end; delivered at Tyner City between now and the first of April. 'Will pay %fir thousand. A.D. JOENSON. Mr. Edward Grider having sold his interest in our firm, we must have all the dccounts on our books elosed up, either by cash or note. This must be done by January 1, 1892, "vfmhoSo indebted to us will please give heed to this request. Respectfully, BRUBAKER & GRIDER. e R LA PAZ. . ooy Intended for Last Wee_k.. Jacob Rothenberger has been on the sick list for some days. ' - Billy Bessler’s babe has.been quite sick but is better. Grandmother Bachtel, wife of David Bachtel, living about 2} miles northwest of this place, in St. Joseph eounty died on Thursday morni‘g of last week after a lingering illneagl’ Herage was a ltttle over 73 years. @be-2eaves a husband, aged about 80 g#Brs, and quite a number of ohild 1% grandchildren who all dearly lovedther. She was an earnest christian laiv, highly iesteemed by all who knew her. She was a member of the Brethren church, Her funeral was preached at the church near the Fair cemetery on last Friday to a larae and sympathetie audience by Elder J. H. Swihart. The remains were laid at rest in the Fair cemetery. I . Ollie, little daughter of Enos Bnch-i tel, living near the Claybaugh school | house is quite sick with lung fever. i Three persons were commeenced on } | Thanksgiving day near the residence} iof Sam Hostetler by Elder J. H. Swi- | | hart. » ‘ ! Thanksgiving services were held at | the W. M. church on the evening of | ‘Tbanksgiving day. ’ ’ Will Rothenberger and John Willard, . {of Kosciusko county, are visiting | | friends in this vicinity. ' The Misses Samantha and Emma | Swihart, nieces of Jacob Rothenberger, | %spent last Sunday "in this vicinitv.% | They went to Plymouth last Monday. | Jesse Riggins, of Etna Green, Ind., spent Sunday visiting friends here. ‘, { The Rev. J. H. Palmer came backi 'here yesterday after his goods. He | ‘ will make his home at Rossville, Ind., t é He is to preach for Mt. Pleasant Breth- | ren church near the above named place. | @ He is going to spend next vgimday in f | Michigan, where he is todem { store is doing a booming business. He | keeps on Lhand the very best quality of flour to exchange for wheat, He keeps grubam and buckwheat flour, corn ‘meal and mill feed. ' Billy Bessler has moved his meat | 'market on the east side of Michigan | street. He not only keeps meats of all | kinds, but an extra quality of bread, | cukes, pies, ete. He keeps a reguluré lunch counter. | W. L. Johnson & Co. shipped a lot : of stock to Chicago last week. % Jonathan Burger and George Fil- | hour have their new blacksmith shop | nearly ready for business. ! YV INEDRESSER. f ———— S —

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WALKERTON, IxD. ——\—— HORATIO NELSON, Pres., W 3. ATWOOD: Cashisy, e, Does a general banking Dusiness; | buys and sells exchange, makes collections on all points at lowest possible expense. Accounts of individuals and corporations solicited. Real Estate and Insuranco,] Real estate bought and sold on commission, lnsure yowr property in the ola veniable Springfield Insurance Co. H. NELSON, agent, writes yvour pol icy here, thereby avoiding delay in getting policy. : e L L Proprietor of } | BAKERY = | i Nice line of i Family Groceries. | ! Fresh Bread !a’(’/i(‘(’l'd(/ every day at your | . . . residence. Watch for the delivery wagon! | | ; ' Meals at all hours. |E McDaniel’'s old stand, one door | north of Beall's meat market. | LAUNDRY! | Having leased the Walkerton steam | %lanndry I hereby announce to the peo- | wple of Walkerton and vicinity that r§ am evquipped with ail the lll'i't‘?ii-ill!‘}" machinery to do ftirst-class work, and { propose to turn out a class of work that will please my patrons. I solieit | a fair share of the public patronage. %(;ivc me your work. Satisfaction 3guar:mtm-¢l. C. M. GOODRICH. i e s | Dr. A F. Schafer, at Dr. J. A. Ket :triug'fi old office, Oliver opera house | :blOCk, South Bend. Diseases of eye, le&r, nose an throat., Fitting and fuar | i nishing glasses a specialty, ! The largest and finest line | : . : i 7~ 2% :77 £ 2 ‘ o/ Albums at the lowest prices) \at Endly’s drug store.

T T TN TT£Pt o e R S e- - MINISTER WASHBURNE. An Error Corrected by One Who Was in Paris During the Siege. A correspondent signing himself “A.” writes as follows to the N. Y. Tribune: In the London Zimes of recent date appeared a paragraph calculated to reflect upon the American minister in Paris during the siege of 1870-'7l. The Times said, speaking of ‘ the late J. J. Weiss: *Shut up by surprise in the siege of Paris, an ingenious idea attracted general attention to him. Mr. Washburne, the American minister, who, unlike his colleagues, had remained in Paris and | was a medium of communication between besiegers and besieged, had permission to receive the Zimes, which kept him posted up in events that were a secret for Parisians, and especially for the government of national defense. Weiss succeeded in bribing Mr. Washburne's valet. The 7umes arrived during the day; Mr. Wash. burne read it in the evening. His valet, on entering his master's bed-‘ room to put out the light, took away the ZYmes, jumped into a eab and went to Weiss, waited while he skimmed the paper, brought it back, and the next morning, on entering the bedroom to draw back the curtains, put the TUmes back in its place.” Were these statements true they would tend to show that Mr. Washburne was a careless diplomat, little anxious to justify the contidence placed in his discretion by the German be- | siegers, who allowed the foreign pa- ' pers to reach him through their lines. he had occasion once to teach them a | good lesson in that regard. The mail | bag for the American legation was | usually received from or remitted to | the Prussian military post, usually by Secretary Wickham Hoffman, at the | Sevres bridge, outside of Paris. Oue day the Germans insisted on opening | (it, and Mr. Washburne declared that if that was done he would decline to - receive or to send any mail, leaving to | | the besiegers the responsibility of the consequences. The latter might have ' beea grave, inasmuch as Mr. Washburne was, with Mr. Kern, the Swiss represeuntative, the only foreign minis- | ter in the invested city, where he had | been intrusted with the care of all for- | eigners whose ambassadors had left | Paris. Prince Bismarck, who had already some motives to appreciate the | spirit of absolute wveutrality displayed | by the American minister, approved | Mr. Washburuoe's protest and ordered | that the mail bag for or from the | United States legation should never | be interfered with. | | Several London and American pa- | | pers, and not the Loundon Zimes only, were received by Mr. Washburne, who | - did not allow them to be spread on the I | table of the legation’s parlor, Avenue | ' Josephine, but kept them in his rri- | vate oftice. He did not use either to | take them iuto his residence, Rue | | Spontini, where he stayed seldom, livinr rather at the houses of friends with | whom he partook the scanty provisions they could procure. Mr. Washburne's ' valet is an imaginary personage, unless | the London Zwumes should have taken | for a valet the worthy Antoine, a colP ared mian who acted for many years in { the eapacity of messenger in the legation, where he became very popular. | dJo Ji Weiss was a polemist, a doctrinarian journualist, not given to running after “vews,” still less to using any improper tricks to secure it. He held at that time the place of chief editor of the Paris Pulrie, an evening paper, where those who had seen Mr. Washburne in the forenoon conld sea

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=7 - o 5 .l. -“l',‘\ . ‘ him 1o the afternoon, quietly writing some brilliant article on the general situation, but not on the unconfirmed aud so-called *‘news” of the day. No information of a political or mii« itary character ever leaked through the American legation during the siege. Still, Mr. Washburne openly made use of the London Tunes and other London papers in a highly charitable and proper manner. The English papers published daily, in the form of advertisements, columns which were headed *Family News,” as near as J can remember. Those advertisements, or rather short notices, for instance ran thus: *Mrs. X. and the children are in Londom, St. —— street, No. ———, in good health.” Other notices gave news of a wife, a daughter, old parents, ete., who had left Paris previous to the investment, and were residing in Belginm, Italy, Switzerland, ete. Those “family” columns were cut off from the London | papers by Mr. Washburne, and handed | by Lim to a French journalist, a tried | friend of his, with the permission of ‘ having them published. That journal- | ist.though a friend also of J. J. Weiss, did not give these ‘‘family notices” to La Patrie, but to Le Gaulois, a morning paper, which could publish them more convenieutly, having more time to set them than an' afternoon paper, and which also had a larger circulation. i _ : ® JONAN ANV IIAM *“I wonder if that man reads my articles before he rejects them,” remarked a writer. ‘I suppose,” re- ! sponded his non-admiring friend, “‘vou ; want the comfort of revenge.”— Washl ington Post. | Wooden (reading the athletic ecol- { umn)—*Just think of this! Here's a | fellow that jumped twenty-two feet ™ | Edgely—O, that’s nothing. I ounce | knew a fellow that jumped the State.” | —Boston Courier. : | Sanso—**When I was In China—=" ' Rodd—*l never knew vou had been in China.” Sanso—*l was once whesn I was in college. 1 was jammel through the earth ina football tackle.” | -—N. Y. Herald. . Jaysmith—*Can you oblige me with ' a ten-dollar bill?” Gargoyle—*'The obligation is yours.” Jaysmith (pleased)—“You flatter me.” Gargoyle—- . “You misunderstand. You oblige me to refuse.”— West Shore. | Hicks—*l suppose after those In- ' dians have finished their daucing | they'll go to scalping.” Wicks—*Yes, | and just as it is with the paleface bal- | let, you'll find the bald heads at the | front.”—Dßoston Transcript. | Cuostomer (purchasing a fountaia | pen)—“What's this it is wrapped ap | In?" Clerk—*That,sir, is a tract. Raad { it and it may counteract the terrible | effect on you caused by sweariag at | the pen."—Boston Traveller. ‘ Sanso — I have been lecturing | through the country for the last | couple of months.” Rodd — “Umj | well, old man, I'm awfullv sorry, but I'lent my last fiver to Brown about | ten miinutes.ago.™ —N. Y. Herald: i *lts a most remarkable thing,” said ‘ Swithers, ‘‘but I never set foot in thas plaee without there being a very dise | agreeable person inside.” And Smith» ers wondered why his friend laughed so infernally much.—XN. Y. Press. - Holiday Goods below cost at Endly’s drug store.