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VOL. XLIVJ
RICHMOND. WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, FEB. 10. 1 875.
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JtW HACK USE.
DAVID SAINTMKYER
Una extahlished a HACK CON VEYAN'CF
from this city to Williamsbunr, threedaia
tn each week, J
XMday, Tharadasjr and Salarday, '
I-avlnc Richmond at 3 o'clock, p. ni. each
dav. AUi.nleni l.-ft at the 1'ostorUce bv S
ocl.K-k. B.i,,. will he called for. Rime'sUv-iiIir-l.V,,Vr
'orrlce or Neal's Dininn
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ater, KemiiMiiy A niUraHlnira- -
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Ikepla f Aaaerieaw tltc.
There is a mi-sterv about the Amer
ican lakes. Lake Erie is only GO or
70 feet deep; but Lake Ontario, which
is 502 feet deen, is 230 feet below the
tide-level of the ocean, or as low as
most parts of the Gulf of St. Law
rence; and the bottoms of Lake Hu
ron, Michigan, and Superior, although
the surface is much higher, are all
front their vast depths on a level with
the bottom of Ontario. Now, as the
discharge through the River Detroit,
after allowing for the probable por
tion carried off by evaporation, does
not appear by any means equal to the
quantity of water which the three up
petitken reoHTe it has been conjec
tured that a subterranean river may
run from Lake Superior, bv the Hu
ron, to Lake Ontario. This conjec
ture is not improbable, and accounts
tor tn smgular tact that salmon and
herring are caoght in all the lakes
commumcatmg with the St. Lawrence,
a m.ers- ,As the Fa" of Niag
,?J XI 1 ,lwy-e"ted,it would
I3S .Vl "tVllMt y how these
aonianh?40 th Upper lakM without
anvterSc r7ntn riT-er-' moreover,
It wSnn,Ca,-t.bstruet on of t nr-.
futfor. If Kr,mh not Probable so-
i No. 3. 1 No
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- mw-r crowd. ,
In't crowd, the world la large enough
For you an well a me;
The doors of all are open wide
The realm of thought ia free.
4Tu all earth's places you are right
To chase the beat yua can
Provided that you do not try
To crowd Bome other man.
Don't crowd the good from out your heart
By foateiing all that'w bad.
But give to every virtue room
The best that may be had;
To each day's record auch a one
That you mar well be prond;
Give each his right give each his room.
And never try to crowd.
Chableh Dickkits.
Ttie LsHlalana In vea(laatlB.
From Cincinnati Commercial, Feb. 4, 1875.
Had not the intricacies of Louis
iana politics exhausted public patience
. tl - i A 11 I
no lneonsiaeraDie interest wouia ue
taken in the evidence supplied by the
Committee of Investigation, and of
which we have had a pretty fully re
nort from dav to day.
.Those, however, who have read the
evidence can not tail to nave been
impressed bv the fact that the result
of tne lapi election in uouiBiana was
shaned by such influences as consid
erably diminish the claim set up for
it as a fair ana tree election ty tne
people, if the colored citizens of the
fttate are to be reckoned as people and
ntitled to the frHuehise. NVhfther
1 theta influences were (sufficient to in
validate the election and justify the
Returning Hoard in throwing out the
vote of whole oarishes and districts.
as was done, is a question we do not
nrnnosn here to consider, but it may
be safely predicated, ou the action of
previous iioards, ana tne temptation
to secure partisan ends, that this
Board omitted no pretext upon which
it could, with any show ol decency,
reject a vote whereby an opponent of
. - ii .: u l
tne ivenogg aaunnisiruiiou cuuiu ue
returned to the Legislature.
The point we wii-h to make, and
which tho evidence confirms, "is that
there was .an organized attempt to
persuade the colored voters that it
would not be wholesome to get to the
polls with a Kellogg ticket in their
bands. The devices resorted to pro
duce this impression were as various
as the emergencies of the different
districts demanded, and ranged from
simple assurances of non-employment
to downright murder. There is no
going back of the evidence in these
Sarticulars; it is too specific in names,
ates and circumstances.
As to intimidation by tbreatenings
of non-employment, there was no
articular effort to conceal that,
iesolutions were in many places pub
licly adopted urging the whites not to
employ those who voted the Radical
ticket, and after the election the
names of those who did vote it were,
in one - instance at lease, puoiisneu
with no other object in view than to
mark them out as persons who must
in this way be punished lor voting ac
cording to their political convictions.
That this method of intimidation had
the effect ot keeping huudreds of col
ored voters from the polls there can
be no doubt; and the evidence ia con
elusive that such was the result. The
laboring men counted the cost and
staid away from the polling places.
Bat this method did not work suc
cessfully in some parishes where there
were more intrepid voters, or where
they had such backing as made them
bold in their avowal of a purpose to
vote the Radical ticket. It was in
these parishes that warnings of eril
and murder were frequent just before
the election. It does not appear that
murders were - committed from any
mere bloodtliirstiness. The victims
were selected with some care, and
were chiefly those whose taking off
would serve as a most salutary ad
monition. In how far the'White Leagues were
responsible for this blood -shedding is
not clear. It was a political associa
tion, organized on a military basis,
and though not like the Kn Klnx, an
avowedly secret society, it was adapted
to accomplish all that secrecy could
achieve, having quite as effective ma
chinery, and moving to its purpose as
quietly and with as certain an issue,
ilad it not been for the mobility de
rived from its military character, and
its thorough subordination to the au
thority with which its head was in
vested, the revolution of September
could not have been carried into effect
so silently and promptly that neither
Kellogg nor any of his Radical associ
ates had more than a suspicion of its
extent and power. That it was pre
pared to shed blcod to accomplish its
ends, either in turning out the exist
ing administration, or in controling an
election, may be-fairly inferred from
what it did not do, owing to the re
straining influence of the United
States forces, or from what it did do
in dealing with the Metropolitans.
The fact also that it armed it mem
bers is presumptive of a meditated
purpose to use them, cither as an or
ganized body, or for individual t mer
gencies. When a man is put on trial
for murder, the fact, if proven, that he
was armed before its commission, is
taken to be evidence of deliberate in
tent to shed blood.'
But if the murders, of which there
is abundant proof, were committed at
the instigation of the White Leaguers,
it is to be said they were committed
only where other and milder methods
would not succeed. The Leagues, we
have been repeatedly assured, are
composed of high-toned gentlemen,
and high-toned gentlemen do not co
about shedding blood miscellaneously,
and with the freedom of a Texas des
perado. There was no needless noise
about the bloo4y business. As the
evidence shows, the victims selected
were put cut ot the way quietly so
quietly in most cases that murder was
not suspected until there was a disap
pearance to be accounted for; and
then came the alarming intimation,
which was quickly spread about, that
such or each a Radical bad been dis
posed of as a warning to others.
It is a serious mistake for those
who defend the action of the Conscr
vaftves in Louisiana to deny these
facta. They are matters ot proof, and
the evidence is - accumulating . in a
formidable mass. If they wish to ob
tain credit for intelligence and sin
cerity, they will not undertake the
folly of denial, but dwell upon the
provocation which led the people to
adopt such desperate remedies. And
this is, indeed, the only mitigating
circumstance.- Believing the Kellogg
administration to be a fraud fastenea
upon them by National bayonets, they
undertook to carry an election against
it by extraordinary means of intimi
dation and violence. The programme
included discharge from employment,
poverty, starvation, menaces and mur
der. And it was successful. We have
no doubt whatever, that the Conserva
tives by those means carried the elec-
tion in November, and returned to
the Legislature a majority of the
members if only the votes actually
cast are counted.
Whether the Returning Board was
justified in going behind the lists, and
arbitrarily throwing out tho votes of
parts or parishes and entire districts,
is a question which, as we have said,
we do not now propo.o to discuss.
The present purpose is now simply to
point out the fact, which the evidence
abundantly supplies, that the election
of November ia Louisiana was greatly
influenced by organized effort to deter
colored voters from going to the polls,
and that the means resorted to were
such as would invalidate an election
in any State where the rights of voters
are properly protected by the law.
What la 1 all About T
While the country is drifting into
an acrimonious political agitation, the
end of which puzzles and confounds
wise statesmen who were hopeful all
through the compromise troubles of
1S50, the fierce struggle between free
dom and slavery for the possession of
Kansas and Nebraska, as well as dur
ing our terrible war for the Union it
is well to bear constantly in mind the
whv and wherefore of all this ter
rible commotion. It air turns on a
single point that of an enforced legal
inequality of men. All of the talk of
"the oppression of the noble people ot
the South," '"military despotism and
interference," the denunciation of
carpet-baggers all of the riff-raff of
weak-kuecd Republican and Demo
cratic speeches is simply a mass of
irrelevant slush the merest froth
and scum on the gTeat deep current
which moves ever on beneath the sur
face. It to-day there were in the
South a concession ot the equal legal
rights of men as men, the agitation
would be quieted instantaneous-ly. No
man of the Republican party has ever
contended for the enforcement of
social equality of the Macks and
whites, for that is a question which
every man regulates for himself. But
what the White Leagues of the South
and their Democratic abettors in the
North demand at this time what a
limited number of place hunting Re
publicans are willing to concede is,
that the laws of the country shall con
tinue to give to the white race a
position of legal superiority advan
tage over the colored race. That is
all that this great agitation is about,
wheu you get at the kernel of the
whole business. That is what the
Republican party contends for that
is the issue which everybody thought
the war had settled for all time. The
question now before the American
people is simply this: Miail all the
fruits of the war be wiped out by
fraud, intimidation, and violence? Is
this the entertainment to which, the
country is invited, after all" our strug
gles to perpetuate the government,
and our more than paternal kindness
to tho worse than prodigajs who
sought to destroy it ? The iRsue is
just as well defined to decay as k was
when Alexander II. Stephens declared
in 1861 that human slavery was the
corner-stone of the new confederacy !
There is a fixed and clearly defined
determination on the part of repre
sentative Democrats in the South to
break down and overturn the last ves
tige of the results of the war. They
intend to win back on the floor of
Congress all that they lost from 1800
to 18G5, and tho great danger to the
country to-day is, that Nort hern dem
agogues, with their eyes fixed upon
the Presidency, will become as com
pletely subservient to the South as
that brood of reptiles was previous to
liltiO 1 There has been a gradual en
croachment upon the enfranchised
race by "the noblo people of the
South"eversince they commenced tak
ing part in politics after the war. In
some parts of the South colored men
have been sold into limited periods of
servitude for alleged crimes? What
is this, but the first step in the direc
tion ot making that again their per
manent condition? Their intimida
tion from he polls places them entire
ly at the mercy of their old masters,
in whom rankles a spirit of hate as
bitter and envenomed as hell itself.
Shall we give all an equal chance in
the race of life, or shall we confer up
on the Southern white men any aids
save those of his own brains? In all
the Northern States, we ask liat no
brand of legal inferiority shall be put
upon any race of men ! We concede
to every man the chance to win all
that his mental powers enable aim to.
Shall we concede a different right to
white men in the South? This is the
great question of the day, and the one
not to be lost sight of. We believe
the couutry will say. No I and with
more decided emphasis than ever be
fore. "Nothing ia settled which is
not richt." Inter-Ocean.
' Rebels to tlie Front.
. The next House of Representatives
will be practically under the control
of ex-rebeli, The total number of
this class in the next Congress is said
to be eighty-five, ot whom five will be
in the Senate and eighty in the House.
That is to say, out of 292 members of
the next House, there will be eighty
who either served in the rebel army
or held civil iKsitions under the Con
federate government. The total
Democratic strength in the next
House, as it now stands, with seven
teen members to be elected, in the
spring, is 161; so that the ex-rebel
members constitute just about one
half of the Democratic strength. No
person at all acquainted with the po
litical history of the country and with
the aggressive character of Southern
men can doubt that this element will
control the Democratic party and
shape the legislation of the next
House. As all appropriation bills
and bills for raising revenue must
originate in the House of Represen
tatives, these men will hold the purse
strings and control the finances of the
government. Ind. Journal.
The Smithsonian Institution has
received an ocean telegram announc
ing the discovery of a new planet at
Berlin, in right ascension twenty
three degrees; declination eighteen
degrees twenty-six minutes north,
twelfth magnitude.
Ffltbaisterlac Eae.
The unexampled contest in the
House of Representatives, beginning
on Wednesday, in an effort of the Re
publicans to take up and pass the
civil rights bill, and only ending at 10
a. ru.. Friday, demonstrated to the
country what was apparent to the
initiated before: that, under the rules
of the House which have prevailed
for many years, no bill can be passed
or other business transacted if a small
minority of the members are deter
mined to resist it with dilatory mo
tions. One-fifth of the members
standing together fully resolved, have
it in their power to block the wheels
of the government. The battle was
fought out by General Butler as the
leader, sustained by the grange mem
bers, mainly in the South and West.
When it was thus made apparent that
nothing could be done against the un
scrupulous Democratic minority, the
determination was reached to change
the rules one of the few things a ma
jority still can do so that henceforth
filibustering shall cease, and the ma
jority have the power which properly
belongs to them under our form of
government. They will hereafter pass
such laws as they deem best, and take
the responsibility of their acts. The
change is likely to be a permanent one,
and so mark a new eooch in the his
tory of our national legislation. If
any Congress passes hard or unjust
-laws, the country will have to see that
a better set of men are sent in their
places. It is a little singular that the
old-time Republican leaders of the
House, who generally do the talking
aside from General Butler, were not
in this fight. They gave it little at
tentiondeeming it a mere side-show
or by-play and seemed altogether in
clined to yield to independent press
clamor and Democratic domination.
But the House, thanks to the younger
and more courageous members, burst
through these leading-strings, and
fought the issue out until the conclu
sion is forced upon the country that
it is futile longer to allow a mere
minority to obstruct all progress in
legislation. Our friends who made
this fight are entitled to the highest
firaise. Let them now go on fearless
y to pass such just and good laws as
the welfare of the country demands.
And, as it is not a good rule that will
not work both ways, let the Democ
racy have the. same opportunity when
they come into power. The more
rope they have the quicker will they
hang themselves for if the House of
the Forty-fourth Congress is not a
conspicuous failure ana a fraud from
the very start, then signs and portents
have ceased to be of any account or
significance. Inter-Ocean.
How to f'ondnrt m Courtahlp.
From the Territorial Enterprise.
Don't be too sudden about it. Many
a girl has said "no" when she meant
"yes," simply because her lover didn't
choose the right time and pop the
question geutly.
Take a dark night for it. Have the
blinds closed, the curtain down, and
the lamp turned most out. Sit near
enough to her so that you can hook
your little finger into hers. Wait un
til conversation begins to flag, and
then quietly remark:
"Susie, I want to ask you some
thing." She will fidget around a little, reply
"yes," and after a pause you can add :
"Susie my actions must have shown
that is, you must have I mean you
must be aware that that "
Pause here for a while, but keep
your little finger firmly locked. She
may cough and try to turn the subject
off by asking you how you liked the
circus, but she only does it to encour
age you. After about ten minutes
you can continue :
"I was thinking, as I came up the
path the other night, that before I
went away I would ask you that is,
I would broach the subject nearest
my I mean I would know my "
Stop again and give her hand a gen
tie squeeze. She may give a yank to
get it away, or she may not. In either
case it augurs well for you. Wait
about five minutes and then go on :
"The past year has been a very
happy one, but I hope that future
years will be still happier. However,
that depends entirely on you. I am
here to-night to hear from your own
lips the one sweet '
Wait again. It isn't best to be too
rash about such things. Give her
plenty of time to recover her compos
ure, and then put your hand on your
heart and continue :
."Yes, I thought as I was coming
through the gate the other night how
happy I had been, and I said to my
self that if I only knew if I was only
certain that my heart had not de
ceived me, and you were ready to
share "
Hold on; there's no hurry about it.
Give the wind a ehance to sob and
moan around the gable. This will
make her lonesome and call up all the
love in her heart. When she begins
to cough and grow restless you can go
on:
"Before I met you this world was a
desert to me. I didn't take any pleas
ure in going black berrying and steal
ing "rare ripe peaches, and it didn't
matter whether the sun shone or not.
But what a change in one short year !
It ia for you to say whether my future
shall be a prairie of happiness or a
summer fallow of Canada thistles.
Speak, dearest Susie, and say that
that"
Give her five minutes more by the
clock, and then add :
"That you will be that is, that you
will I mean that you will be
mine!"
She will heave a sigh, look up at
tho clock and over the stove, and then
as she slides her head over your . vest
pocket she will whisper:
"Yon are just right I will."
WlBteraaa&e Piacfcj.
Yankton, January 30. In the
Wintermcte case to-day, after argn
ment in behalf of the prisoner, the
court rendered a decision discharging
Wintermute, and then ordering him
in charge of the sheriff to await the
further action of the - grand jury.
There is now little prospect that Win
termute will be punished. His friends
are elated and General McCook's
friends correspondingly depressed.
The laws of Minnesota will not al
low a man to whip a child who ia over
sixteen years old, but he can beat his
affectionate spouse a3 long as he
chooses.
Tree Plastlnc
Many of our citizens have taken ad
vantage of the cold weather lo trans
plant large maples from the forest to
the sidewalks in front ot their resi
dences. When the ground is frozen
solidly, by exercising care trees of
large size may be transplanted and
made to live, and thus, at a cost of
from ten to fifteen dollars, a tree may
be secured that it would require
twenty years to grow. In - winter
transplanting care should be taken to
select trees from some open pasture
rather than from a dense forest, as
trees that have grown in exposed lo
cations are less liable to be injured by
the hot summer sun. Most of the
trees now being transplanted will die
next summer, if not protected.
Colonel John C. New spent much
money in trees last winter, and lot-tthe
most othem durin the summer, from
neglect. A board driven into the
ground on the southwest side of the
tree, and protecting the trunk from
the fierce rays of the afternoon sun,
will answer the purpose. In trans
planting, thoush the frozen earth is
removed with the tree, the cutting of
the roots necessarily entails a deficient
circulation of sap for the first season,
and the southwest sun blisters the
tree on that side, and eventually kills
it. The safest protection, however, is
to make a rope of hay or straw and
wind it closely around the trunk up
to the branches. By doing this, and
watering when needed, every tree re
moved with ordinary care may be
saved.
Indianapolis is famous for its ediade
trees, and we are glad to see so many
of our cifiwns planting more of them.
All who plant this winter will please
remember the advice ot the Herald
when the critical time comes. Ind.
Herald.
A Couple of Sebooi-Boya Coinpo
altiontt. We give below a couple of school
boys' compositions, said to be just as
written by the boys presenting them.
Here is the first one :
johnny's essat on "the tope."
Todes is like frogs, but more digni
ty, and wen you come to think of it
frogs is wetter. The warts wich todes
is noted for can't be cured, for they is
cronick, but if I couldent git wet Ide
stay in the house. My grandfather
knew a tode wich some body had
tamed till it was folks.- When its
master wissled it would come for flies.
They cetches 'em wjth their tung,
wich is soma like a red werni, but
more like litenin. only litenin haint
got no gum onto it. The fli will be a
standin a rubbin its bine legs to gether
and a Uiinkin wat a fine fl i it is, and
the tode a settin some distance away
like it was a sleep. Wile you are see
in the fli as plane as you ever see any
thing, all to once it aint there. Then
the tode he looks up at you sollem,
out of his eyes, like he said wat's be
come of that fli? but you kno he et it.
And this is the other :
WHY DO I GO TO SCHOOL?
I go to school to learn to read and
rite and sipher and so forth to slide
on the ice and trade oS an old nife if
I haye one, in summer to pick wild
flowers and strawberries and to get
out of work hot days, some boys has
to go to school and gel out of their
mother's road, but I would rather
stay in winter than go to miles and
set by a cold stove and freze my tose.
I like to go to school to see the teach
er scold the big girl when they cut
up. some goes to school to fool but I
go to study when we are old we can't
go to school and then we will feel
sorry that we fooled when we was
young and went to school. I don't
get no time to tool any way tor 1 have
enough to do when it comes to my
geography. Detroit Commercial Ad
vertiser. The Milwaukee News gives its read
ers this bit of reasonable advice:
"Getting up in a cold room to make a
fire is like getting up in life. It' you
crawl timidly out of bed, go on tip-toe
to the stove, and allow the shivers to
get control of you betore the kindling
starts, your fire will be a failure, and
you will probably halflreezeto death
in the operation. But if you jump
out bravely, bustle around, pull on
your clothes, knock over a cbair or
two, and pilch in the etove wood, you
will probably be too warm by the time
the fire gets to burning, and you will
have to open a window. So in life.
Attack it timidly and you will fail.
Grapple with it. hurry up things, stir
around, conquer fortune and you will -be
a success. ' .
Flowers.
Flowers, of all created things, are
the most superbly complex playthings
for childhood; ornaments for the
grave, and companions for the cold
corpse! Flowers, beloved by the
wondering idiot, and studied by the
deep-thinking man of science! Flow
ers, that un"easingly expand tq,heaven
their grateful and to man their cheer
ful looks partners of human joy
soothers of human sorrow: fit emblems
of the victor's triumphs, of the young
briJe's blushes; welcome to the crowd
ed halls, and graceful upon solitary
graves! Flowers are in the volume ot
nature what the expression "God is
love" is in the volume of revelation.
What a desolate place would be a
world without a flower! It would be
as a face without a smile afeast with
out a welcome. Are not flowers the
stars of earth? One cannot look close
ly at the structure of a flower without
loving it. They are the emblems and
manifestations of God's love to the
creation, and they are the means and
ministrations of man's love to his fel
low creatures; for they first awaken
in his mind a sense of the beautiful
and good. The very inutility of flow
ers is their excellence and beauty, for"
they lead as to thoughts of generosity
and moral beauty detached from and
superior to all selfishness; bo that they
are pretty lessons in. nature's book of
instruction, teaching man that he liv
eth not by bread alone, bat hath an
other than animal life.
Labor trouble have thrown one
hundred and twenty thousand minora
out of work in South Wales. At this
time of a year it is a frigid piece of
information. ' '
The Tipton Advance, requests, as a
special favor, belief in its story of a
dog taken to Kansas last fall, which
recently footed it all the way back tt
that county, making the trip in six
weeks.
i. C rertawa.
It affords us real pleasure to note
the prosperity of our friend J. C. Fer
guson, who was a citizen of Richmond
for so many years; but who has, for
about twenty-five years been establish
ed at Indianapolis. It does us good
to copy the following notice of the
firm of " J. C. Ferguson & Co.," which
we find in the State Sentinel:
The senior member of this firm has
an experience of over twenty years ih
the packing business at 'this point.
When he commenced it was, as com
pared with the present, an insignifi
cant business and, indeed, did not at
tain much importance until the sea
son of 1S6S 69. The supply of a home
demand, with an occasional shipment
to Baltimore or Boston via New Or
leans, was the extent of the business,
and even as late as 186 the aggregate
slaughter at all the houses did not
reach 50.00U hogs per annum. In the
seasou referred to, lStiS t5). Messrs.
Ferguson & Co. occupied their new
house on the south side of the I. &
St. L. railroad, and continued there
four years, until, in the summer of
1872, they sold that house to Messrs.
Kingan & Co., and erected their pres
ent extensive establishment. The
main building is located on the east
bank of White river, is 200 feet loDg
by 126 feet wide, having two floors
and a cellar of tho full size of the
building. The first floor, on a level
with the railway platform alongside
the building, is used for the storage of
pork and lard in barrels. The upper
floor is fitted with every convenience
for slaughtering and cutting. The ca
pacity of the house is 2,000 hogs per
day. The average number killed i.
however, not above 1,500, so as to al
low special care in handling. The
killing season this year commenced
November 1, and closed January 10.
During that time 46,01(0 head of hog
were manufactured into the various
styles ot side meat, bams, shoulders,
mess pork and lard, all of the refuse,
even including the blood, being dis
posed of to the fertilizer company.
The cellar, 13 feet deep, with a ca
pactty of eight or ten millions of
pounds, is now nearly filled with cut
meats in tho various stages of cure.
The season has been unusually favor
able and the entire product is in prime
condition. A uoticeable feature is the
cleanliness which pervades every part
of the premises; no unpleasant odors,
which in many houses are so offensive,
can be detected here, and it is enough
to sharpen one's appetite to inhale the
refreshing fragrance from the sweet,
well cared meat. It is unnecessary to
notice, on behalf of the citizens of In
dianapolis, the high character which
the house enjoys for its superior hams,
bacon and lard. During the twenty
years that Mr. Ferguson has been put
ting his products on tne markets, it
has never disappointed the purchaser.
Siuce the occupancy of the new house
their lard has-especially attracted at
tention. It is made in coil tanks, so
that the steam never comes ia direct
contact with it, and during the entire
process it is kept free from any dele
terious substance, and is never adul
terated. They have also introduced
improvements in the manufacture of
kettle lard, greatly -to the advantage
of the quality produced. They are
now constricting capacious smoke
houses and canvassing rooms, and will
immediately enter the market with
the
"monogram" ham,
and propose to furnish, also, every va
riety of smoked as well as of bulk
meats that may be called for by the
trade. ' They are adopting a novel
method to protect their customers. A
patent brand will be burned into the
skin of every smoked ham which is
pent out of the house, and, if canvass
ed, it will also be labled with a beau
tifully lithographed monogram com
posed of the firm initials. The ex
perience, careful pains-taking and the
unquestioned integrity of the firm will
insure to purchasers of the "hams or
breakfast-bacon" bearing the mono
gram trade-mark, entire satisfaction."
mA. Reminiscence.
A local correspondent of the Bos
ton Globe relates this reminiscence of
anti-slavery times: In the year ISJ'J
or 1850 the Hon. Manlius Sargent,
writing over the signatur e of "Sigma."
in the Transcript, used in one of his
articles very deprecatory language to
ward the Rev. Theodore Parker, be
cause of his advocacy of the cause of
emancipation. The next day a manu
mitted slave, whose wife and two chil
dren were still held in bondage in
Baltimore, and who had been sent
North with a letter from their master,
stating that if the negro could raise
$00 he would free his wife and chil
dren, called at a printing office to have
printed some copies ot said letter,
which was itself somewhat illegible.
On receiving the copies the man asked
the printer if be could send htm to
some benevolent person. That gen
tleman, who had just read the article
in tha Transcript, gave him the ad
dress of Mr. .Sargent at Armory Hall,
where several wealthy gentlemen had
desks and were accustomed to roet
daily, telling bim to say that Mr.
Theodore Parker sent him, with the
request that he would read the letter.
"Did Mr. Parker send yoa to me?"
said Mr. Sargent. "Yes, sir," said
the man, who was as ignorant of the
joke intended as he was of the name
of the party who sent him. " Well,
M me read it," said Mr. Sargent.
Then attaching hi- name and putting
down $20 "there," said he. "tell Mr.
Parker that I bear the Mave no ill
will, but am as willing to do some
thing for him as he is. But stop,"
said he, "you may come back here at
1 o'clock: there will then be three
other old covies here, and I will get
twenty dollars apiece from them." He
did so, and they each responded with
a like sum. The man then called up
on the printer, saying, "Gorry, Sir,
yoa esn send me to somebody else!"
Mr. Parker's address was then given
to him, with the remark that Mr. Sar
gent had sent him. Mr. Parker was
surprised to see such names, and. an -dcr
the circumstances, especially that
of Mr. Sargent, and immediately gave
him twenty dollars. The printer then
sent him to Wendell Phillip, and the
result of the joke for that day was
$120. The man subsequently obtain
ed the sum required, and was soon the
legal proprietor of his wife and chil
dren. - - -
Smallpox in Evansville.
STATE SEWS.
Greencastle hones after an opera
house.
Frankfort is talking of a new $16,-
000 church. ;
Nathaniel Shawcross is a Brookville
whisky thief.
The Crawfordsvilie Journal harbors
a wood engraver.
Miss Jenny Tyler is the handsomest
girl in Covington. . , . . ?
Shanklio,tit the Evansville Courier,
is seven feet high.
A Congregational church is to be
established in Brazil.
Elder Black is engineering a great
revival at Shelburne.
A Tipton farmer harvested 8,507
pounds of honey last season.
A Crawfordsvilie blacksmith made
$150 in one week shoeing horses.
Infants of tender age are dropped
like cats in folumbus, as we learn
from the Democrat.
Frank Brewer, fiddler, and as drunk
as one, froze to death in a Hamilton
county graveyard.
Mr. Price, Randolph county, climb
ed over the fence, gun in hand, and
shot himsell through the heart.
We suggest to the Crown Point
Register that it won't do. The beast
business was played oat in Beuton
county.
Mr. Burns, of Evansville, under
took to thrchh his dog, when that ani
mal, a large mastiff, mangled his good
right arm. .
31. D. Emig, lawyer, is fugacious,
and in good request at Columbus,
where he forged 000 worth ot Col.
John A. Keith's name.
Lew. Moore, prescription clerk in a
Winchester rummery, has decamped
with his employer's horse and buggy,
and $100 in money.
The Wabash Free Trader offered to
bny arsenic enough for a tramp printer
named Wilson to shuffle off, but he
spurned the proposition.
In Huntington, Mr. London didn't
know it was loaded, and playfully shot1
away the top of his brother-in-law's
head. , . , ,,
Jeff. Wolfe, of Liberty, has "sch wore
off," and publishes a card warning all
liquor dealers not to sell him any of
the damnation called liquid.
During the last two months, T. II.
Montgomery has purchased 30,000
bushels of corn at Tipton, and paid
out the sum of $15,000 tor the same. ,
Jim McColIy, a gentle student in a
Jasper county school, caressed his
teacher with a brick, cutting open her
scalp and breaking one of her wrists.
The Brazil Miner has the following
apology for a "Personal" column just
started by it: "Well, we have got to
do it all of our first-class Indianapo
lis papers have a "Personal " column,
and we are bouud to do so, too. It's
very easy for an Indianapolis editor to
"do" up his friends and foes in this
pathetic manner, surrounded as ho is
by the elite, wisdom, beauty, fashion,
rum holes, churches, faro banks, assig
nation houses, chimes and dilapidated
State House of our imperial city; but
in the rural districts, where folks are
staid, st-ttionary. pious and virtuous,
it is mighty tough at all times to find
enough people sloshing round to justi
fy an editorial assault."
Tuig-Che, Emperor of China, is
dead. He arrived at majority but a
short time ago, and was married to
one wife and four assistant wives, with
a score or so of concubines thrown in.
He showed discretion by dying
promptly it was his only means to
escape. His successor is five years
old, and should indite an autograph
letter to Alfonso, of Spain.
m a
Care lor at Felow.
As soon as discovered, take some
spirits of turpentine, in a cup. dip the
finger in it, and then hold the Land
near a hot fire till dry; then dip it in
again, and repeat for fifteen minutes,
or till the pain ceases. The next day, ;
with a sharp knife, pare off the thick
skin, and you will find something like
a honeycomb filled with clear water,
open the cells and the fellon i gone.
If the felon is too far gone for turpen -tine,
oil of origanum, treated ia the
same way, will cure. If too far ad-
vanced for either to euro, the felon
will be benefited, as it will be less
painful., Never draw it. Ex.
Tk.l ..l.l r.atrlnt At - V
jk if s v ai villi t- v 1 1 vs 'm i astuuvMj
f 3Iarion, exclaimed eloquently in
his argument on focal option: V here
was Bill Baxter when oar fathers
fought, bled and died for oar liberties?
He was bounding over the plains with
a red coat ou his back, upon the tail
of which you could play marbles, flee
ing from our fathers who were in pur
suit of the liberties we enjoy." This
is a very vivid picture of revolutionary
times, but, considering the fact that
Mr. Baxter is lame, and is a Quaker,,
the scene of his war-like retreat mast
be credited entirely to Mr. Kennedy's
poetic imagination. By the way, the
less said about "our forefathers ' in
this temperance debate the better,
considering that the forefathers of
more than one elass of our citizens
were hired oat in the uncongenial par
suit of slaughtering the revolutionary,
patriots at the rate of a shilling a day. '
State Sentinel Feb. 4.
Much excitement prevailed a
rnong politicians in Washington on
receipt of the news announcing the
election of ex-President Johnson to
the United States Senate to sac
ceed Brownlow. The . Democrats
did not relish the news exhibited
no manifestations of delight' at the
sending of Johnson to the Senate.
The Republicans are ' far better
pleased than the Democrats, and
express satisfaction that an . unre
pentant rebel, who served in the
confederate army was not elected.
A little girl fonr year old created
a ripple by remarking to the leach
er of her Sunday school class:
-Our dog's dead. I bet the. angels '
was scared when they saw bim com -ing
up the . walk. : He's cjoss to
strangers.' Rome Sentinel.
SotlOMl OrsMSSO.
The National Grange of tho
order of Patrons of Husbandry has
begun its eighth annual session in
Charleston, S. CV The proceedings
are expected lo occupy two weeks,
and to be of unusual, importance.
At the present time5 the order
cLiims 22.000 granges, of 1 which,'
three states Lave the largest num
ber, 2,000 each, these States being
Indiana, Iowa and Miaonri. At a
reasonable estimate" this leeord
would give a membership of abont
1,430,000. The largest enterprises
in which the Grangers are interest
ed at present 1 are " the various
unions for direct trail, both home
and foreign,- the grange banks,
shipping associations, etc Tho
State Agency of this State is said
to conduct a business requiring;
annual purchases amounting to a
million and a quarter dollars.
Among the points tu b diwussed
and decided on at Charleston ruay
be mentioned the disposition of the
grange surplus fund. The order,
has now some $100,000 or over in
bonds and cash, and it is denirtd
that this amount shall be returned
to those who contributed to it, or
else secureits investment in some
common national eater prise. An
other question that will engage at
tention is the proposed removal of
headquart era. Heretofore at Wash -iogton,
they will now go farther
West into the heart of the grange
communities. Among the compet
ing points named, are St. Louis,
Louisville and tins city. Other
minor questions will receive discus
sion, and the session bids fair to
be one of the greatest interest not
only to Grangers, but also to all '
those who aid in developing the
material prosperity of the country. :
Indianapolis State Sentuael ,
ii i
John Bi ight addressed bis con -stituentsat
Birmingham recently.
He said the present Government
had never doue anything, and nev
er intended to do anything unless
they were obliged to. The S.sot
tish Churches only could be united
and free when disestablished. The
remainder of bis speech is princi
pally against the connection of
State and Church in England. He
pointed to the division ankwng the
clergy and bishops, condemned the
excessive church revenues, the ap
pointment of clergymen by private
patronage, and the sale of livings.
The Church of England alone
among Protestant denominations
furnisu numerous converts to Home
In conclusion, he did not ask his
hearers to declare for disestablish
ment; be would only ask them to
consider the question its reasonable
beings. He declined to enter upon '
an agitation to test disestablish
ment, but that would be a great
day for freedom, Protestantism,
Christianity, which would see the
full, free, disestablishment of the
Church. Mr. Bright, in the course
of his remarks, pronounced a glow
ing eulogy of Gladstone. The
meeting , closed by unanimously
adopting a vote of confidence in the
distinguished speaker. It is esti
mated the audience numbered up
ward of 15,000.
i Work ataMt Wlsu
Whatever you try to do in life, 1
try with all your heart to do well;
whatever you devote yourself to,
devote yourself completely; in '
great aims and small be thorough
ly in earnest - Never believe it
possible that any natural or im
proved ability can claim immunity -from
the companionship of the
steady, plain, bard working quali
ties, and hope to gain its end.
There is m sncb thing as such
fulfillment on tle eartlu Some
happy talent and some fortocafe
opportunity nay from the two i-ides
of the ladder on which some men
mount, but the rounds of that lad-'
der must be made of stuff to stand
wear and tear; and there is no sub
stitute for thorough going, ardent
and sincere - earnestness. " Never
put one hand to anything on which
you cannot throw your whole self,
never affect depreciation of your
work, whatever i is- ' These you
will find to be golden rules.
- - Waofcfaartwai Coats sv
Many years ago, when David
; Crockett was s member of Con ?ress
and had returned to his const itu
ents after his first session, a "na
tion" of them surrounded him one
day, and began to interrogate him
about Washington
"What time do they dino at
Washington, Oiloneir asked one.
"Why," said be, ' common people
such as yon here, get their dinners
at one o'clock, but the gentry and
log uns dine at three.? As - for the '
Representative", ws dins st fonr;
and the aristocracy and the Senate,
they don't get their , victuals till
fiva." . , - :.-.,
"WelL when does the President
fodderf" asked soother. s
"Old Hiokoryf exclaimed the
! colonel, attempting to appoint s
j time in accordance with the dignity
of the station. "Old Hickoryl
well, he don't dine till next day."
."l-ii ii aS sfr -f -L - ,r r ,
; A man in Michigan procured s ,
divorce from his wife, intending to
marry another woman.; , The latbT,
however, got tired waiting and
married another man on the day
the divorce was grsnted. . Then
the fellow hesitated whether or not .
to try sad make it np with his aife
again, sad while he was hesitating
his wife married another fellow.;
This is what would be naturally .
I called getting left all around.