St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 8, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 8 September 1894 — Page 4

Jnbcpeniient. WALKERTON. INDIANA, SEPT. 8, 1894. W. A. ENDLEY, Editor. '1 he state ballots will be printed on light red paper. A million and a half have been ordered.

rhe prayer of the masses is that we may be spared any more tariff tinkering for a long time to come. New wheat has been bringing 36 cents a bushel in the Kansas market. That haidly pays for the raising. The people want a rest.—New York World. They’ve been having plenty of it. A series of joint debates is being arranged between the democratic and republican candidates for secretary qf state. The wheat crop of.North Dakota is estimated, nt 20,000,000 bushels. This is aiHiverage of 12 bushels to the „ atfre.

speeches in the fall campaign. His > general health seems to be declining. Freeman Kelly, he of the foghorn voice, has been nominated by the populists of the 12th district as their candidate for congress. Kelly trained with the democrats until recently. Business men of the country now know exactly where they stand. They are not groping in the dark. Certainty has taken the place of uncertainty. We are now on the upward grade again. Samuel J. Kirkwood, lowa’s war governor and a member of Garfield’s cabinet, is dead. He was a prominent and interesting figure during the stirring times of the “late unpleasantness.” A correspondent to the Indianapolis Journal says that Congressman Conn will make Washington his future home, making occasional trips to

Elkhart to look after his business there. Editor Atwater, of the Wanatah News, was elected Great Fast Commander of the Knights of Maccabees of Indiana at the Grand Tent Meeting of the order held at Fort Wayne the fore part of this week. There would be very little trouble in this world if it were not for the fools in it.—La Forte Herald. True. But how are the fools to be picked out? Take all the fools away and the earth would be a very lonesome place, for everyone is a sort of a fool in the eyes of somebody else. Those delegates from St. Joseph and Lal’orte counties who voted for Mr. Bingham at the Flymouth judicial convention have signed a certificate showing that they gave the candidate their support. This gives Mr. Bingham a majority of six votes over Mr. Ford. This may have some effect in settling the judicial squabble, and again, it may not. The first number of the Ijil’orte Republican has been issued, and the Independent has been favored with a copy of it. It is an eight column folio and well filled with “mealy” editorials and interesting news matter. The editor is Charles G. Powell, an old time northern Indiana editor, who has held a government position at Washington for the past twelve years. > — Newspapers, in their eagerness to give the public something sensational. i startling, some times get too previous’

and malte a mess or it. Especially is , this Hie ease with newspapers of the Indianapolis Sentinel stripe. The Sentinel on Friday of last week published an untruthful story connecting the name of Hon. Clem Studebaker, of South Bend, with the Vanderbilt family troubles. The story is entirely without foundation, and the Sentinel apologizes very humbly to Mr. Studebaker for its serious mistake. Another new party is about to be born. It is to be called the Good Citizenship party. A call is being issued for a meeting to be held at Indianapolis for the purpose of organizing. The new party is to be backed, by a number of church organizations. The basis of the parly will be opposition to saloons and their interests. It is not expected that the party will have a ticket of its own in the field the idea being to work with other parties in order to gain certain ends. This party expects to swallow the prohibition party bodily. It is getting its expectations up a little too high, perhaps.

Governor Peek lias been re-nomi- * nated for governor by the Wisconsin - democrats. The newly elected city officers of South Bend were formally installed in . office on last Tuesday evening. i One can hear more distinctly on a damp day than on a dry one because damp air is the better conductor of

sound. e The populist state central committee of Indiana, it is claimed, would have j nothing to do with Coxey as a speaker, and he is now making speeches in this state on his own hook. "Why should any man’s oath be worth more than his “word?”—Goshen News. When you come to think of it, what, is there in an “oath,” anyhow? The democratic council of Plymouth created a new ward and the mayor appointed two democratic councilmen from the ward. The mayor’s term expired with that meeting. With his vote the council was democratic. The republicans are mad as wet hens and dechma-thn proceedings Illegal.

gresslona^mnv miHee of the Thirteenth district, which met at Plymouth last Tuesday, decided to hold a convention at South Bend Tuesday, September 11, for the purpose, of selecting a candidate in place of Mr. Conn, who declines to be a candidate. Congressman Bynum has been sued by an Indiana farmer for the difference between the former's predicted price of wheat, |1.25 a bushel, and what he sold 2,000 bushels for—4s and 50 cents a bushel. The farmer claims that he was induced to vote for Cleveland under Bynum’s promise that if Cleveland was elected wheat would rise to 11.25 a bushel, and he now proposes to compel Bynum to make this promise good if possible. It is a queer case. Bob. Ingersoll's stout defense of suicide is bearing fruit. There is an epidemic of suicide in the east and it is attributed largely to the influence

of Bob and a New York journal which voices his sentiments on this question. Bob has about worn out his old lectures against the bible and he must needs take up something new and sensational in order to attract special attention, that the lustre of Ids fame, may not grow dim before the public eye. That he will have quite a following in his new departure is quite conclusive, as Bob is infallible in the estimation of many ardent followers, who are ready to believe anything and everything if Bob Ingersoll says it is so. The ordinary run of church going people are becoming tired of listening to Sam Jones, and his type of gospel expounders, says an exchange. As a general thing the people who are preached to are a class who have been ordinarily good and respectable people, and good citizens, though they may not have had their names enrolled upon the church roster at hii early day in their lives. Therefore, it becomes any thing but an agreeable duty to listen to some man tell them how they should live, etc., when the teacher himself, perhaps, has been a bloated whiskey bum and spent the prime of his manhood in riotous living, and only mended his ways at a point when it was either reformation or death. Such fellows are not shining examples to place in the pulpit and on the lecture rostrum. They should be kept off the boards, to give place to a class of citizens I whose intellects have never been dulled, and whose lives have been

examples of what they teach. The following cheerful outlook from the Indianapolis News makes good reading just now: “The last crop report of the weather service in Indiana is cheering. The drought . was broken almost everywhere in the I state last week, and the result is 1 greatly improved prospects. While! corn was not already utterly ruined the rain was of much benefit, even in clay soil. In some counties the prospects for corn are better than in other years. Indiana is to be congratulated on her crops. The wheat crop was one of the finest known for years, and , the oats crop was good. The state, ■ like other corn states, suffered from the drought, but it is reasonable to . suppose that there will be three-fourths 1 of a crop which will sell at an unusually good price. Surely the Indiana r merchant has reason to feel encour-, . aged. With these favorable crop s signs, with the tariff agitation out of ; the way, and with the stocks of goods , at a low ebb, it seems reasonable to believe business will improve,”

It is said that an effort will bemad® at the next session of the Indian® legislature to make the office of justicH of the peace a salaried one, instead of being dependent upon fees, as at pre® ent. The twinkling of stars is caused lA the passingof non-luminous bodies lw' tween us and the stars, thus

oft their light for an instant and gifk the appearance of twinklings * - Paste this in your scrap-book the war of the rebellion, Indiana lU" ' 156 regiments and 34 companies infantry, 175,776 men; 13 regim^tf cavalry, 21,605; 12 compan.es audits batteries of artillery, 10,906— toj 25 208,367. These troops were in engagements. In Virginia, 90; nesee, 51; Georgia, 41; Mississippi Arkasas, 19; Alabama, 18; Kentuf 24 ? 16; Louisiana, 15; Missouri, 9; Carolina, 8; Maryland, 7; Texasf‘ rth South Carolina, 2; Indian Terrtf 8 ’ 2; Pennsylvania, Indiana and fl‘ Hy ’ 1 each. Total, 17 states. Pointedly Put. jb “The editor of a hewKpaper*?^ qneutly adviHad to

on certain institutions and iudi^pah,” says an exchange. “A dog fig^L will frequently attract a crowd, but woue of the spectators are willing to hie the dogs. A day seldom passes ip the office of a newspaper without a visit from some one who has a fault to find with some one or something. He wants the editor to attend to at for him. ‘Why don’t you score ’em.” he says. Then he goes into detail^ talks about this and that being an outrage, etc. When the editor tells him he will publish this and that complaint provided he signs it, he says: “No, I don’t want to get into any trouble with those people. Don’t you see." , Can’t you put it in the shape of an editorial ? lie doesn’t cure what trouble the newspaper may get into by pub lishing his grievance, but is too polite or cowardly to resume the respomdbili ty himself. There are plenty such people in every community, and the newspaper men always find out who they are.”

LOCAL IIRIEFN. Sam Hudelmyer's condition is not so favorable at this writing—Friday—he having taken a relapse. His chances for recovery, however, are thought to be good. । s - 4 tiamember that you cai get all kinds of repairs and needl^for the Wheeler A Wilson sewing ml&eliiue at the Globe clothing store. A citizen of Lai’erfe has a- stone pile in his yard which he pointe out to tramps who ask for something to eat. He is troubled but little by knights of the road.

A party was held at Mr. afhd Mrs Geo. Leslie's Wednesday evening in I honor of Miss Lizzie. Those’present were: Misses Ellie Beall, Aj sta I^eibole, Josie Bobbins, Nora Bess Reece, Messrs. Will Flacd Claude Wolfe, Rat Vincent, Charlf; ’ Goodtrich, Waler Beall, Howard $ Walters. Ice cream and cake were servi d at 10 o'clock. The evening was 8 pent in music by Mr. Flace and Goodi ich. Sporting Department The Walkerton baseball ch b hereby desire to state that if the North Liberty nine wish to play Ikall in earnest that they will play th£K*n at any time agreeable for $25 a side.— Independent. All right gentlemen. S< t your date any day except Sunday, ; md we will take the scrubs that play ed you before and you play the sane men you did. We can raise the $25. Come on.- North Liberty Herald.

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