St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 March 1893 — Page 4

JndtptndenL WALKERTON, INDIANA. MARCH 18, 1893, W. A. END LEY, Editor. Gunpowder was discovered from the falling of a spark on some materials mixed in a mortar. The new administration lias now been in control for two whole weeks and not a sign of that democratic wildcat yet. There are sixty United States senators not college gradmites, forty-eight I of them having never even attended college. It is claimed that the republicans are taking steps to test the constitutionality of the apportionment bill passed by the last legislature. An exchange pertinently remarks: Do not keep on scolding about the badness of the bad. It makes people t ired. Praise the goodness of the good awhile for a change. President Cleveland has recalled the , Hawaiian treaty from the U.S. senate, i He councils protraction and more thorough investigation of the matter before taking decisive action. Ex-President Harrison will resume the practice of law at Indianapolis,: and in addition to this will deliver pe-' riodical lectures on constitional law in ] Stanford university in California. The partisan spirit having subsided to a great extent since the campaign the Independent takes the liberty of reproducing the following little squib from an exchange: “The Elwood tin plate works are to be enlarged at once, giving employment to 100 more hands.” Gen. Lew Wallace's long promised novel is at last completed and in hand j for publication early in the summer. । Its title is “The Prince of India; or I Why Constantinople fell,” and it is de- 1 scribed as a “stirring historical ro- , mance of the fifteenth century, brilliant with pictures of oriental magnificence, and abounding in scenes of intrigue, statecraft a; d valor.” Postmaster General Bissell gives out the information that a primary election for postmaster would be the best kind of an endorsement, and that anyone receiving an office worth more than SBOO a year must not be encumbered with any other kind of business, but devote his whole time to the government and not run the office through an assistant. Also, no person can be a candidate for office who was an of-fice-holder under the former Cleveland administration. A negro is to be sold at auction in Missouri, the particulars of which are . given by the following dispatch from Payette, Mo., under date of March 13: “One week from tomorrow will take place tb.e second negro sale in this state since the war. It will be under the new vagrant law. George Winn : is a lazy, worthless fellow who, it was proved in court, had only worked six days in six months. He was accord-1 ingly advertised for sale at public outcry for cash in hand for a term of six months.” In his letter to the Plymouth Democrat, Hon. Daniel McDonald, who is i In Washington, has this to say for our 1 retiring congressman: “The Fifty-] second congress closed at noon Satururday and with it ended the congres- ! sional career of a large number of members, among whom was Hon. B. F. Shively, who so ably and satisfactorily represented the Thirteenth district the past seven years. During Mr. Shively’s service in congress he rapidly came to the front and during the past congress was considered one I of the leaders on the Democratic side. ( General regret was expressed among • the members that he had determined to retire, temporarily at least, from j public life.” Sam Jones still continues hismouthings at Kokomo. The following are a few sentences of one of his recent speeches: “This town is rotten at the top and rotten at the bottom.” “Brethren, I’m afraid the devil’ll get some of you, but I’ve got this joke on the devil; he’ll not get much.” “Some of you people are mighty good folks, but mighty simple. When you get to heaven the angels will say: ‘Take your places over there in the A B C class.’ Ad you'll be there a hundred years before you’re readin’ Greek.” “Brother Walk, you’ve got 200 in your church, and all they lack of bein’ in hell is just dyin’.” Friday night Jones talked to I .e men exclusively Und more than dF'D heard 1 im.

Long-winded articles on short sub- * ' jects are tiresome. ” ( Only twenty out of every million " . letters go estray. The Washington Post, an independ- : ent paper, nominates Harrison for president in 1896. It thinks he can be elected. » Almon L. Filmore, a nephew of Millard Fillmore, once president of the United States, died in LaGrange county recently, in the 60th year of his age. One of President Cleveland's articles of faith to which applicants for office must, subscribe is, that they have not been office-holders under the former Cleveland administration. The president is emphatically and pronouncedly opposed to this second and third term business in holding office, and is a valiant champion of the one-term idea, except, of course, in the case of Mr. Cleveland. But that’s different, you know. Mary Belle Freely says that the em- . blem for the world’s fair woman’s f building should be an apple, and she iadds: “But for Eve the men would ' be to this day, I suppose, idle, naked, sunburned loafers, like Adam, no better than the beasts, the serpents, and the insects. But she courageously took the apple, rescued the world from sloth, indifference and stupidy, and lifted the human race to a level a ! -little lower than the angels.’ ” Good ' i for Mary Belle! Put the apple right there, and let it be a Belietlower.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A “Cape Codder" tells how he cured a setting hen. “I made,” he says, “half a dozen snowballs and soaked them in water. In the morning they i were solid ice. I shaped them as near like an egg as possible and then . placed them under the setting hen. ] She smiled. 1 stood by and watched ; her. She cuddled the ice eggs under ; her and chuckled softly to them. In about ten minutes she appeared to get uneasy. She arose and scratched the 1 darlings together and shook herself; then, evidently satisfied, settled down ' again. Soon she got up once more, I this time with evident concern; something was wrong, surely; perhaps the : weather was getting cold. She felt i wet and chilly, but, with great perseve ! rance, she sat down again, and again ■ got up, this time for good. She walked out of the box and then turned and looked in, but she had had enough.” TAe Tiff er Shows Its Claws. Down at Columbus, this state, “high" society is in a serious sate of excitement, says the Elkhart Truth. The ministers and the Law and Order League began a tight on the gambling ‘ rooms and filed an endless amount of 1 information before the grand jury : The proprietors of the gambling halls : । retaliated and have caused the ultra- ' i fashionables to appear before the ! grand jury and explain what the) know about progressive euchre prize winning. Forty well-known men and women have fled the town during the temporary activity of the authorities and those who have remained have . been forced to realize that in their j case, at least the law is no respecter iof persons, and they have been compelled to disclose their knowledge of the doings of the society folk. After the ordeal was over the jury took the cases under advisement, and all Co- , lumbus society is breathlessly waiting to see against whom indictments will be returned. The situation is highly . interesting. The point is that it is as much gambling to play for prizes as to play for money. SFIRIT OF OUR EXCHANGES. Domestic happiness is often disturbed by foreign relations.—South Bend Sunday News. A loud profession of religion is no sign of Christianity, neither is the parading of a flag and a few yards of ! bunting a sign of patriotism. It takes something more than a bluebird to make a spring.—Wanatah । News. I A Michigan preacher is responsible 1 for the statement that “God made the I earth in six days then rested. Later lon he made woman, and, - ’ said the preacher in tremulous accents “since : that time neither God nor man has had rest.” Then the lady members of ; the choir abruptly left the sanctuary. • —Goshen Democrat, Judging from a letter from Senator I Sam Parker, of Marshall county, in the Plymouth Democrat, he has been , misrepresented in the reports of his , i opposition to the newspapers of the , state. He favored the modification of the Grubbs law and voted for the amendment the newspapers asked for. This is the issue the press should ■ make with its enemies. On other matters Senator Parker lias been about right and he denies the use of the ' language attributed to him. The pa- ' ( pers that have him “on the list” ought ■to scratch him off, -LaPorte Argus.

AN OFENL ETTER FROM CONGRESS MAN CONN. Editor Independent: ... . Washington., D. C. ’/arch, n, 1893. Now, that the policy of the administration with reference to the appointment of postmasters, has been defined, there can be no further objection to the select ton of these officials for the thirteenth Indiana district; and whereever a majority of democratic voters, patrons of the same office, —present a petition before April 15th, 1893, requesting me to call an election for the selection of postmaster, I will do so under the following conditioife: 1. No person can be a Candidate for the office of postmaster foho was an office holder under tie former Cleveland administration. I 2. No person cun be a eLndidate for any postoffice, where the Shary of such office exceeds SBOO p<r annum who is connected with any <®ber ness of any kind or character 3. No person can be for the office of postmaster wa tty n °t a democratic voter ip goodJß^ d * n K ; who is not a man ofgo^n^siflpss ability; who does not bear Mj'eputation for honesty, morality off’ Sobri ety, and who has not been<_ native worker for the democratic party in past years. 4. No person can be a candidate for a post office who will not pledge himself to give hia time and attention to the duties of the office, provided he is elected. In other words, every postmaster in the thirteenth district ! is expected to be jxistmaster, and not I to turn the office over to the manage- j ment of a paid employe. 5. No petition for the selection of a postmaster will be accepted for con-! sideration, after April 15th, 1893, and ' all recommendations for postoffices * will be made before May 15th, 1893. The above qualifications of post- j masters are necessary to all candi- i dates for postoffices, whether they are elected or apj»oiuted on recom- - memlation, and I earnestly request all democratic voters in the thirteenth district to give me their assistance in selecting postmasters who will discharge the duties of their several offices with fidelity, zeal, and honesty to the general public. C. G. Conn, | M. C, Thirteenth Indiana District. , Why sutler from indigestioi j dyspepsia? Simmons Liver r is pleasant and cures.

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