Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 March 1878 — Page 2

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Preached at Newtonville, Mas3 by Rev. E. Franke Howe.

Ths ReversneJ Gen.leman Thinks There is a Hall and That Punishment is Eternal.

Scripture and Analogy Both Furnish Arguments. ,,,

We present below abstracts from three sermons by Rev. E. Franke Howe, formtfriy of this pi ice, delivered in Ins church *».t Newtonville, Mans. Th GV/uTTRhafi already pnblished a very jjreat deal of matter relating to this subject by a number of ministers and laymen. Our readers, who knew Mr. Howe, when here, will be interested in teein# his views on this question He discussed the subject in three sermons, on three successive Sundays and we gire abstracts ot all. The report of the first one is taken from the Newtonville Journal and of the oth two from the Boston Journal. Without further comment we inlioduce the reverend gentleman.—[ED.GAZKTTE.

FUTURE PUNISHMENT.

HEHM3N PREACHED BY REV. E. FRANKS HOWE AT NEW I OMVILLE, JANUARY I3TH.

At the Central Congregational church, Newtcnviue, last evening, the pastor. Rev. b. Frank Howe, spoke upon the subject of future punishment. He chose lor his text, Matthew 25: 46. "And there t-hall po away into everlasting punishment but the righteons into life eternal," and spoke as follows:

I assume that there is future punishment. because this is now so generally admitted on the part of those believing in a future life that it may be considered as one of th« points which is settled. The absurdity that death immediately throws open the gate6 of paradise to the impendent as well as the penitent thief, to Herod and Judus as well as to Peter and John, to the murderer slain while committing his crime as well as to his victim tbe absurdity that death makes it all ri^ht witn a man, no natter what his character has been, belongs to the past. So we may pass directiy to the question whether there is endless future punishment. I sh ill not discuss the nature of this punishment, though my belief is that the punishment inheres in the sin itself, that righteousness, which is harmony with God, is blessedness, and that sin destroys harmony with God and destroys blessedness, or produces misery. But this is not to be discussed to night. Neither do I discuss now the question of the relative number of the saved and lost, nor the question whether in any case repentance and forgiveness are possible after death. One thing at a time. The ®ne thing before us to night is the question of an endless future punishment.

First, appeal is taken to the New Testament. Tracing the passages in which the word translated ''eternal" and "everlasting" occurs, showing that it is one of the strongest words that canba employed to denote what is absolutely eternal, that this in admi ted to be its general meaning, and that, in the same verse, it 1* applied to the rewards of the righteous and the punishment of the wicked, the conclusion is forced upon us that when Christ and the apostles employ that term 111 connection wi\h punishment they must have meant absolutely endlessness. The passages from the teachings ot Christ and the apostles bearing upon thi« subject were cited and dwelt upon, and tne preacher said, what a strange thing is here presented! Endltss future punishment not true, and motives drawn from it unworthy, and yet tha Savior and apostles constantly weaving it into their teachings! "These shall go away into everlasting punishment ''better not to have been born "worm that dieth not "punished with everlasting destruction "whose en is destruction these and other terms of like import scattered all through the New Testament, force upon us the conviction that Christ and th^ apostles did teach that there is an endless future punishment.

But the mo«t conclusive argument, to my own mind, in reference to endless future punishment, is not drawn from the Bible. This doctrine does not come primarily from the B.ble, any more than the doctrine that thelt, murder and adultery are wrong comes primarily from the Ten Commandments. Any amount of reproach has been cast upon the Bible, and the teachings of Christ, brcause they contain this doctrine. But the fact is that this doctrine, or the true doctrine of endless future punishment, is so plainly declared in the "nature of things," that there is need of revelation to show that it is not true a thousand-fold more than to show that it is true. Whatever of crueltv, whatever of injustice, whatever of barbarism there is in the doctrine of endless future punishment, must be set down to the account of the natural laws of man's constitution, laws which existed before the Bible, laws which exist and operate independently of the Bible, laws which never had changed since the crea tion of man, laws for the change of which at some time after death there must be some projf ere we can get rid of an endless future punishment. \V henever, under the pressure of an earnest desire that there might not be a single human being who should fail ot final harmcny with God, and the peace and joy born of this harmony, I have been inclined to question whether if. might not be possible that a Wrong interpretation had been put upon the teachings of Christ and the apostles, and that this doctrine might not be tru* 1 have come squarely against a wall of argument more solid, and higher, and offering less, possibility of scaling, than any found in the Bible. I have, in everv such instance, found that the Bible only uttered the voice of natural law, and that explaining away the Bible would Jo no good. The wall against which 1 have conic when a'.tempting to escape this doctrine by changing my interpretation of the Bible lias been the tendency to fixedness in character. Man can only secure his highest good and real blessecfness through harmony with God or the right. All admit that. So long as there iu lack of harmony, or

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long as «in con

tinues, punishment will continue. All are agreed on this point. On every hand we see the tendency to fixedness in character, good and baJ, the tendency to fixedness in harmony or out of harmony with God, or the right. Tne time comes, not when man cannot change, but when he will r.ot change his choices We are uncertain what i* to be the character of the child we begin to have some confidence when youth or early nrtanhood comes what the character is to be in adult years we rare'y exp ct a change, and ii old age we regard a change of character as utterly improbable, though never impossible. So all the way from the cradle to the gra/c every step, everv moral choice tends to settle, to fix character. On everv hand men and women are goingjto their graw with apparently fixed chaiacteis, and yet we are told that, beyond death, all this is to be changed, that even those who have resisted every holy influence here iro birih to death, those whom remorse, loss o( choicest earthly treasures of charcter, mind and associations, could not persuade to change, are to be changed hereafter!

The law of man's constitution which is fking character, that law the sure operation of which gives the guarantee that the good will continue good through time and eternity, and which, working thus to fix character in goodness, must, if disobjyed, work just as surely to fix evil character. This law, working 60 plainly and constantly before our eyes down t) the very verge of the grave, indicates as plainly as can be that endless choice of wrong, and

But, my friends, sin and suffering, as we too well know, are not a dream, but rather fearful, aye. inexplicable realities terrible but stubborn fact*. Yet I do know that you and I, if we had existeu before this "world came into being, and been shown just as much of the plan as we are now familiar with, and no more, would have declared that the sin and c®nsequent suffering which we know to be here, would not be. We would have preached universal holiness and happiness in the world to come into being, founding our belief upon the power and love of God. Why God has permitted these thousand} of years of sin and misery on the earth why he allows such fearful hells with their victims to exist as we know are now on the earth: why he will continue to allow mei. to sin and be punished during years to come on this earth, as he doubtless will why ha will allow men to go out of this world and be punished in the next world until they repent and turn to God, as those believing in universal salvation now generally admit and whr he will allow men to go on sinning and suffering the penalty of si.i forever, as the Bible and natural law de clare that he will, are all mysteries which none of us can explain. All these mysteries. except the last, are as r^aflily admitted by those who believe in universal salvation as by any others, sndnot one of thsse

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mysteries can be any plained than the lis'

endless punish

mentlies beyond. And turning from the workings of this natural law, which if it continues hereafter must leave men forever out of harmony with God, and so forever taking the consequences of continued wrong choicest turr.ing from the workings of this law to revelation, in stead of finding th.*re anything to en courage the hope that this law is to be 6taid in its workings, we find it spvaking, just as we were forced to exetpt, ot "eternal punishment," the filthy to be filthy still, the unjust to be unjust siill, well as the holy and the righteous to he holy and righteous still. And hence, listening to the voice of natural law and of revelation, I am compelled, I dare not do otherwise than to accept and declare the doctrine that there is an endles* future punishment. ..

ENDLESS PUNISHMENT.—OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED. January, 20.

The following is an extract from the discourse of Rev. E. F. Howe, at the Central Congregational church, Newtonville, last Sunday evening, on the subject of "Endless Punishment."

The objection is made against endless future punishment, that it is inconsistent with God's sovereignty and love. The argument is, il God is sovereign he can remove sin and restore the sinner, and if he is moved by love he will do so. This was put tersely and well last Sunday evening, by our friend, whose al in every good work we admire, and in whose honesty and Christian character we have unquestioned confidence. He lid. as reported, "Tjie power of'God and the love of God are the cornerstones of Universalism." Let us see how we can build thereon. Just as convincingly and just as logically as my brother can build on these two stones an argument for universal salvation in the future, can 1 build an argument for the universal holiness and happiness of the race in the present and in all past ages. You tell me that men have sinned and been punished for it in the past, and are sinning and suffering punishment now. I reply that it is utterly impossible. God is infinite in power and couL: have prevented sin, and can now prevent it. I-Ie is also infinite in love and thtrefore must havp used his powjpr to prevent sin and suffering in the past, and must be so using it now. Therefore, taking my stand on God's love and God's power, I declare that there never has been anv sin in the world and never anv suffering. God's power and God's love are the two corner-stones of universal holiness and happiness in the past and present. Thase attributes of God forbid the entrance of sin into the world, and its continuance here, just as imperatively as they demand the removal of these in the future. Therefore there never has been a drunkard with heart-broken father, mother or wife, and with disgraced, diseased, and poverty-cursed children. There never has been a defaulter, cheating widows and orphans out of their inheritance. There never has been a murderer, with friends disgraced, heartbroken, with victim dead and mourned by widow and orphans. There are no penitentiaries where criminals are suffering for their crimes, nor hospitals where victims of vise are writhing in foul and ter-r rible diseases, born of their violations of physical and moral laws. Look up, and be glad! That such things have been is but a wild dream. It is impossible that such sins and such misery should exist in a world created and ruled over by a God at once infinite in love and power. Why should such a God punish sin and suffer ing here? You cannot tell? Then he has not done it. Or do you say he will bring good out of it, in the tuture, and so demonstrate his love and power? But I say that, being infinite in love and power he would have brought the g"od without the sin and suffering. Therefore the sin and suffering are not, and never have been.

Therefore finding my reasoning as to what God's love and power will permit, so entirely overthrown by what I know does exist and has existed in all the past, instead of setting up my judgement as to what his love and power will permit in the future, I am compelled to yield my judgementastowhatwill.be the teachings of God's natural laws and of the Bible, both of which unite in a "lara tion of endless future punish 1 I accept the doctrine ju-t as I i,c. cnt the fact of sin and suffe-i the past and present. We ail ni-KiitV our notion of what is consistent with God's love ana po ver by what we know to have been a id to be now. We all modify our notions of what God's love and power will permit to morrow, during years to come on the earth, and most ofu«, during at least a portion of the furture life, by what we know of the past, of the present workings of law, and by the teachings of God's word. So tar .ve all, thoce ot us who relieve in endiess future ponihment and thoSv of us who do not, go together. And F, and many of you. go farther, and modify our notions of wiiat God's love and power will permit to exist for an eternity by what ems to us the plain de clarations ol'God's word, and the olai ncr declarations of God's immutable law under which charater tends to permanence.

WHERE AND W I AT IS HELL AND WHO GO THERE?"

FEBRUARY 3D.

At the Central Congregation il chu rch Newtonville, last Sunday evening, the rastor. Rev. E. Frank Ho ve, preached the third of a series of sermons suggested bv the recent discussion of future punishment. Selecting tor a text the words, "For behol the kinsrdim of God is within von," he spoke substantially as follows

One of the greatest difficulties which the religious teacher has to meet comes from the materialistic notions which pervade men's minds in reference to spiritual matters. Christ met this. The Phari sees asked when the kingdom of God should come, assuming that they knew the nature of that kingdom. The Master answers in reference to the nature of the kingdom, telling them to look within and not here or there without for it. The fa-t that the kingdom of God is w.thin men indicates that the opposite kingdom is there also. Heaven and hell belong to the same re dm. and what is not heaven in that realm is hell. The questions, Where and what is hell, ar.d who go there, an I why? which is my theme, may seem to many to be answered in a single sermon, but "when we get an answer to the first we can make short work of the rest.

Fsrit, what is hell? Evidently the passages referin^ to t'lis matter are not to be taken in a literal or in a materialistic sense. If they are literal terms they cotradict ea-h other. It hell is a "bottomless pit" it is not a "lake on fire. Men cannot be cast into "everlasting fire," and also into "darkness," eaying nothing of being in fire and not consum ed. Why f'id Christ talk of worm fire," srulf and the like if he did Wiot mean them to be un derstood literally? For just the same reason that the mother uses the word the child is familiar to to warn it of danger. ^She cries •'Bite! Bite!" to the child to warn against cutting itself with the knife, or burning itself on the stove. To the child and to her, as she uses it) the term means danger. So 1 he Bible taxes language to the utmost to represent the blessed results of righteousness and the fearfull results of 6in, and uses 60 many and such varying terms that there would seem to ,be no danger ot appplying them in a lit ral (sense. Almost all spiritual language is borrowed from the material world. Th.* one plain meaning of all thosejrefering to future punishment, is that the results of a sinful life here upon the tuture state are fearfnl. Bui b^ciuse these passages are figurative it does not follow that they hive not a meaning which can be learned.

The passages which refer to God as saving "depart," and the sinntr as "going away" into punishment, have their key in the antagonism between sin and holiness.

God's character repels the one of sinful character. There is need of lips to utter the words depart, or of ears to hear it. The whole character of God cries out, in all its elements, to the one choosing sin, Depart and the soul in all its elements is an ear to hear. Just as a mother's purity, and wisdom, and even loving anxiety for a wayward son, repel him, so that he can only find comfort away from home, and so bid him depart, do God's wisdom, purity and sin repel the one loving sin. Not as in the old pictures are there angels t* drive the sinner away from heaven, and the demons to drag him reluctantly to hill, but men fixed in their love anJ choice of sin turn away from the gate of a holy heaven. Such a place were the hottest hell imaginable to the soul in love or evil. And if those hav ing permitted an unholy character to become permanent are allowed to go as it were to a seperate abode, it is a mercy to them. At all events the antagonism which we see and experience between sin and holiness, and which we know must exist between th* o.ii loving sin and a God loving holines, is a key which unlocks the meaning of that element of the tuture results of sin described as banishment from God.

By the same process we come to the meaning of those passages which represent the good and the bad as separate from each other. The good and the bad give pain to each other, repel each other, especially are the bad uncomfortable with the good. The one fixed in his evii choices is fixed in his repulsion from good associates. If he is with them he is miserable. If away, he is cut off thereby from good influences and aid. These moral sympathies a even stronger than ties of affection. There is not a puie mother who woulJ allow her son, however much she loved him, to turn her home into a rendezvous of gamblers, thieves,drunkards-slibertines and harlots it" she could not reform hi-n, »hc would say. ''A' son, much as I love you, as

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ready as I am to lay down m\ life for you, if you must and will be the com

and years, aye, ag-s, of sin and suffering -panion of the vicious it must be elseare con-istent wrh God's love and power? It amounts to nothing to say that good is to be wrought out in the end, for then the equal mvstery remains why a God ot such power and love did not work out the good without the sin and suffering. The entire mystery concerning en '.!e8punishment, and the perplexities connected with it, are wrapped up in the existence of sin, which cannot be satisfactorily explained. God, in a wisdom higher than ours, saw fit to permit sin to exist, and sin exiting, it is not for you or me to say how love and power mus. deal wi it.

where than in my house and under myeye. We must separate." And the son. unless held mv selfish motives, would be only too glad to get away.

So permanence of evil character is permanertce also in repulsion from the good. The sheep and the goats are separated by mutual repulsion. It is simply carrying out to its full extent what we see and experience here in time. The gcod and the bad are in antagonism t: each other and ever will be, and the degree of antagonism is in exact :atioto the difference in character.

Men say they'd rather go to hell with their children than to heaven with out them. Not to a hell of this to.-t. Nc pare mother, because she loves her daughter, says. I would rather be a hirlot with my daughter than pure without her. No fat..tr says, I would rather be a thief with my son than an hone6t man without him. All ths talk comes from the low materialistic notions of these terms. Again, sin produces dissatisfacton,a sense of degradation, and leaves the sting of a contrast with what might have been. As men do wrong they attempt to find excuses therefor, and are led into error. There is no more prolific source cf wrong vi.'ws of important tiuths and duU* than wrong choices. Christ says," If any man will do His will, he "shall know cf the doctrine." Willingness to do Wright is a great clasifier of the intekct as to '"hat is right. Unwillingness to do right prodnces the opposite results, and hence choice of evil casts into intellectual and moral darkness. Fix men in evil choices, and they are fixed in "outer darkoest."

Repulsion from God and .lie good, dirsatisluctton in the wrong, a sense of guilt and shame, a recognition of better things .cast away and the darkening of intelectual and moral judgment, are some gf the results which wc see coming from sin here arid if character tends to permanence, then there is a tendency to permanency in this state, and this answers the Bible descriptions of hell. If any say it is "only a condition then," I at.&wer that it is only the condition of the soul which cou make heaven to be heaven, wherever it is, or hell to be hell.

Where is hell Evidently it is where the soul is that has fixed itself in antagonism to God and the good. Is it a place I do not know or car**, and the Bible gives nothing, or not enough to settle my convictions as to the next world. I know there is a degree of antagonism which will lead both the goodand the bad to get nway from each other it thev can. \Y ho will to hell In Revelations it is said tiiat "Without are dogs, sorcerers, whosoever loveth and niaketh a lie." Interpret these terms by the principles of the Sermon on the Mount, where lust is adultery, &c., and you have tho^e who are fixed in their sensual affections. Christ in the Sermon on the Mount also represents God as saying to those who had been very religious "Depart from me ye that wo 1 iniquity." Here vou have all who arc fixed in their love and practice of the wrong whether in the church or out of it. In Matthew,- 25th chapter, Christ declares that cno-e who have not been controlled by th=ir fellowa in need, will go away into everlasting punishment We have, then, as going into punishment these who are *e i«ual in their lives, those who re-t in their professions and do not the will of God, tnose who are out of love with their tellows, tiiose who will not have Chr st as Lord and Sivior, an I the reason that their punishment is endless is that they have suffered themselves to become fixed in evil character.

THIERS' LOVE FOR ANIMALS BU NOT FOR CHILDREN. A Paris correspondent writing of the late ex-President of the French Republic, says: "In his dear gazelles M. Thiers was happier than Moore's Ilinda. The pair sent him by the Egyptian Paha in 1S40 lived to an old age and founded a dynasty. M. Thiers used to be irresistably drawn into the garden of hi« ministerial residence to caress them. He taught the doe to lie at his feet, with her head against him, when he was working at budgets, writing those dispatches which 60 agitated our court in 1S40. His love of horses amounted to a passion. He cultivated "horsey" men to talk with him about thoroughbreds, and though he did not bet regularly, attended Longchamps and Chantillv. He had thought of writing a history of the horses, to obtain n.ateiials for which he overcame his aversion to the Ducde Morny, one of the leading turfists of the empire. He used to speculate on the eloquent things the norse would utter if it could sptak What it conveyed through its ej'e and nostiil* filled him with admiration. Ibrahim, the 9tced he rode about Paris in our Princess' Royal's babyhood, was a rival of the gazelles. On days when he could not go out, he u.ed to send for his «teed to the mews, ana have him led around to the window of a ground floor sitting-room, where he talked to him and pulled his ears. It is surprising tiiat a man so alive to natural beauty, to the graceful, the gracious, and who was himtselt so spontaneous, should have cared so little for children. A child hardly ever crossed his door after Mile. Dosne grew up. No heir-adoptive was seen or talked of. It was whispered that he bequeathed to the Louvre his art collection after the death of Mme. Thiers and her sister. These ladies devoted themselves, with an abnegation for which it would be hard to find a parallel, to M. Thiers. Though rich, handsome and accomplished, the youngest of the sisters preferred remaining unmarried to disturbing his arrangements. She was Co heiress of Ihe house in the Place St. George, in which 6he reserved for her private use a drawingroom and bediojm on the first floor. Mme. Theirs, was a little girl when Mme Dosne became acquainted with M. Thiers, and conceived the idea of securing to him by a marriage her daughter's large fortune. She brought both her. children up to regard him with filial love, and to shrink from no sactifibe his greatness and well-being might demand. During 3 years and upward she was his political Egeria, and presided over his saloon. The prominence she thus attained exposed her to the intense malignity Of party writers.'

A cat belonging to a family on South Hill has reached the ripe age of eleven years and has entirely lost all power of expressing its emotions bv audible sounds. And it is just heart breaking to see that voiceless cat go out in the moonlight and imb on to the shed roof and trv, by violent aid e.notio:ial pantomine, to express a yowl that could break a pane of window glass eight hundred yards away.

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NO. 9S98. STATE OF INDIANA VIGO COUNTY, IN THE VIGO CIRCUIT COURT, ANDREW

JACKSON ROBERTS vs. ELVYLINE ROBERTS, ARCHER ROBERTS, et al, in Partition. Be it known that on the 18th day of February, 1S7S, it was ordered by ihe court that the clerk notify bv publication said Archer Roberts and Elvyline Roberts, as non-resident defendants of the pendency of this action against them. Said defendants are therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said action against them, and that the same will stand for trial at the April term of said court in the year 187S,

Attest: JOHN K. DURXAN. Clerk. Hendrick & Pierce, Pl't'ft"' Attys.

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No 9,986. STATE

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INDIANA VICO

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VIGO CIRCUIT

COL'KT, DAVID WOODS

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LOUDON BEATY,

LOUDON

AND THE UNKNOWN HTTLRS

ET AL,

in Action

to Quiet Title. Be it known, that on the 22nd day ot February, 187S, it was ordered by the court that the clerk notify by publication ?aid Loudon Beatv, and the unknown heiri of said Loudon Beaty, as non-resi-dent defendents of the pendency of this action against them. Said defendants are therefore hereby notified of the pendency of sa action against them, and that the Rime will stand for rial at the April term of said court, in the year 1S7S. Attest: JOHN K. DURKAN, CK rk. H. D. Scott, Pl'ffs Attv.

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Roofing Felt

CUSTOM SAWING.

Planing end wood turning

Done to order, Manufacturer

Croquet Sets, Plain and painted

!i' .« T:

All Work Warranted.

Corn IT Ninth ami Mnltierrv etrtvt*.

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the h'crh st Hi.u'kt-t. pri the follow* ii«g ar leli: i. or \v« will il iben: for V"U on 6 pera.-iit. rom is Imi:

Butter, Cheese, Eggs,j

O A A O FEATHERo, POi'ATOEri,

APPLES, GRAIN FLOUR. FEED, FUR, HIDES, WOOL,' PEANU.8, B:%OCM CORN, DRIED! FRUI rs,

HAY, HOPS, See., tco.

Libjralca-li i-dvaacos made on large con-t gi.mi'ius of Mtuule rticle».

Farmers, Shippers, and Dealers!

in general niTthan'Mse should write for| references, jiric' currenc, stcm-ll, &.j.. Whonf il ing us. ate whether you wish t-» shipl] on consignment or tell if you wish to soll.|] name the HI-t RIE ami mnunt wf a-n, and} ur very lowes' price for me, delivered F.§ 0. B».(free on board carsl ar. your nearest® •hipping point. Also if possible, s°nd|| iDinpl''by mall, to balky, by might.

Address, IS«Y, •In. ('omm M'onsnd Sh'pping MerchintsJ 22.1 & 340 X. Waters .. Plnla, Pa.

OTRZO

1,000 to 15,000 coptM from ilaglt wrltUa IUIMU. dtMpMl, quIckMi aad b«it m*thod of producing alrcnlan, pti litU, m*p«, drewtnp, nnile, blwki, tie. Xrirj |l*« bt»li»: firm, eorpnaUM, tank, Kho«l, church and rtfcwt, eaa tic' and moMj by aih| It. A ptw ba*inu In *r*ry tow* for ft»Mnmaa. 6,000 In mt aad tm dtmud Ucrmdnc. BUD

Tm*] lumota STAT* Paammaav, JolM, lf®». M, Tfc* Etwtrfa P«a ouUt, purchaMd from toa, SapUmbtr '. gl*« maliatMbctloa. W« W* tavtd la pnatlag Maiidnafe mora (baa tha cwt of th* ootflt la 1«M than two moathi, and cardial!? nrwaiwd It ta aay jar^r who wltht* to

MV*moat}

MCCIMWIT, Wardtn.

Wa hav* hand red* of voluntary *ndon*aunU «qual ly im aa Ifca abova. ftpadal ladao*tn*nu will ha obnd to a«r apiljlai wlthia lilt dan. Stnd for ciralan and **npM flra. H. BUM, 0

I llflf dlVL ft* aca H. BUM, OMffal Maaac* 1 Wad* St., Calci

StOlatt*]

No. 10,005.—STATE

COUNTY,

INDIANA. VIGO

IN THE

VIGO

IRCUIT

COURT. ELVIRAJ. WALLS vs. WIL-5 LIAM R. VVALLS, in Divorce. Be it known, that on the 28th day ol February, 1S78, it was ordered by tfye court th *t the clerk notify by publication. said W.l'.iam R. Walls, as non-residenll detcndent of ihe pend-ncy of this action'i agant him. Said d. fendant is therefore hereby notified of the pendency of this ac ion against him. and that the same wilj stand lor trial at the April term of saidj courf, in the year 1S7S.

JOHN K. DUKKAV, Clerk.

S2J

Every

Ij vjirrtntcd usiv^cnv

£r|j| Well Anger

Drills.

Wn eell cn year's timo. Too!c First ?reml«K pt tha ^poaittc-n. It onrca en? .Hamster &:."•• epth. 100 feci a (t&yf ia fv.fU cartii. roek. Pxc •„ort.-.'i, i.f"1'". AAdreaa,

Vv JIZ-v CO.( Si. Loulit

Wall Mree* Specula

1 Chicago.

MOJTH *W EXF*M»*YF iD rCommiMioatoarnrgood I laH II I -it ~rr

TEA* DEAEFES. Contract

11*71 a —The choicest In the world— JL JOj i3Lc?«lin porters' prices—Largest Company In Mneri a—staple artUle-pleases evervtiotly—Trade eont nualiy increasing— Agents wanted everywhere—best inducomea s-djn'i wast ti n«-scnd for Circular toliOBEKT WELLS P.en. ot the Original Atnericiu lea Co., 4i Vtaey St., N. Y., P. O. Box 1287.

tion. .,7.

The reliable house of Alexanoer •r« thioj tiaru & to.. io 12 Wall *t!*»ot. I*rw Yurli ,mblifha handsome eight psgo vefekly patier, called the Weekly Financial Report which they send fr«'n to any winircss. In ad' iitiou to a larice number of editorials 01 financial and busineds topics, it contain! ij very fall aud aenrate report of tire sales an otanding oJ every bond, st«ck and aecurit^ dealt in at tbe Stock bxf.luuige. Messrs Frothingham 4 are extensive brokers of lar.e experience and trisd integrity. Ii addition to thoir stock brokerage businesi they sell what are teimed "privileges.*' oi "Pots and Calls," no ene of the favoriti methods of legitimate speculation. Thei advice is valuable, and by following 1 have made fortunes*—I New York po"

ills.

OTIUE1N .TTMHMEST.

Be itknowo that on the 8'h aav of Feb, ruary, 1878, John A. Ray llled an affidavit li due form, showing thaf.*t F. McC»y is anon resident of thest tcof Indiana. 8j»id non residentdetendaut is hereby notified of tb pen-ency of an Motion in attachment again* him, ana that tbe same will stand for tral on theStft day of March, 878, at my office, il Sugar Creek rowaship, Vigo founfy.

WM.K Lirri.E, J.p.

E. N- Freshman & Bros.

ADVERTISING AGEWTS,

186 W. Fourth St, CINCINNATI, Are authorized to receive advertisement! for this paper. Estimates furnished fre| upon application.

J3p"Send two stamps for our adve* isere' manual.

W. W.

rt«-

Sharp

Co^

PUBLISHER'S AGENTS, No 25 r* Bo* VuW York,at^ anthoriicd town t^I,ui erh*intr fn onr r»an»*

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To active men selling oar Lett8i* Cpyini f^ook. No press or waier uA Samplf coov worth f3Cfl,irev Send st»m- fur cii nlur xTKt!-I( 11 MA S UFA 1V EIN CO. 110 Dearborn ..treet,Chicago.