Logansport Weekly Journal (Newspaper) - March 2, 1872, Logansport, Indiana PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY Proprietors Journal Building Broadway over P 0 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE A IS ADVANCE are prepared BOOK AND JOB PRINTING In all brandies in trie of the art rates 2 HOST J DAGUE Republican State Keport of Proceedings The Convention met at 10 oclock A M February 22d at the Acad emy of Music Indianapolis I ml and was called to order by Cnl John W Foster Chairman of the Republican Slate Central Commit tee Or R Andrus pastor of the Meridian M E Church offered prayer The Committee ou Organization made the following report which was unanimously adopted Morton C Hunter of Vice District Heilinan of Vanderburgh Second Dis R S Heistell of Clark Third F J Bellamy Fourth Hon Bias ing Shelby Filth Judge Chas H Twt Marion Sixth Gen G K Parke Serenth Jos C Judge Tipton Ninth W A Tenth Hon Timothy Lagrange Eleventh W W Butterworth E W H Ellis of Elk hart assistants The President addressed the Con vention briefly and appropriately after Vice Presidents and Secretaries came forward and took seats on the platform Gen Hunter then announced that nominations for Governor were in order Hon Godlove S Gen Ben Harrison M Browne were put in nomination with the following result Whole number of 1532 necessary 10 a choice 792 FIRST Browne Orth 424Ji Harrison 4il SECOND BALLOT Browne 8S3 Harrison 405X The result was received with the wildest and most enthusiastic ap plause and the nomination was made unanimous amid a perfect storm of cheers In response to continued calls Gen Browne ap and said gentlemen of the Contention To say that I am sincerely thankful for the honor yoa have this day conferred upon 1 am proud of this gener ous expression ol your confidence is to express but feebly the emotions with which this occasion overwhelms me To be nominated to a position so much importance and dignity ib indeed most nattering to the ambition of a young man But I the havo as signed me conscious of its ties and with a determination of devot ing toit whatever of energy aud ability Applause 1 know and I feel what 1 Bay that have TO POLITICS Vol 34 3 1873 9 wrought have been enclosed in thn prisons that are opening to receive thorn until the claims of our Southern to an enjoyment of equal rights before laws fire estab and until the c tlie negro 19 made safe against mid night assaults of barbarian Democrats Applause Our mission has been to bring freedom and equal civil rights to the enslaved of the land aud we would bo recreant to ourselves and the great principles we espoused if wo the until wo can protect every hum bio cabin that furnished in our late war a aate refuge and a welcome abode to every soldier of our army needed it ve nuke tho colored mao safe in his person and family tha assaults of the old friends of shivery Let us goou aud complete thia work Thc happy that surround the sunshine without and intelli gence good omens of final success To achieve that success wo have only to do ouj duty and trust in an over ruling which favors every effort in behalf of what is right and true iu the cause of human progress Thanking with all the fullness of a grateful heart the who have to day favored me with their support and being myself entirely content with the result I conclude with tho earnest wish that the issue of tha canvass today in may be to tho confidence hopes and for myself I will add that so far as I can help you iu tbe cam it will bo my pleasure to do so Applause The President of Ihe Convention announced the next thing in order to be the nominations tor ant Governor The following nom were made Hon Leonidas Sexton Rush county Hon Geo AV Carr JackJ son county Hon M C Garber Jefferson county Hon Fisher Wabash county Hon Sam uel P Oyler Johnson county Hon M Sullivan county Hon W II Calkins Laporte county Hon Thomas C Jacques Posey county The first ballot stood 464 122 Garber 139 tain county too faint to be at the Reporters desk lrm G S my Congressional I District say thiy will stand by me aa in bin fl days and that private variances until he was to Hie Stale Senate in 1SG2 lie bore a dis tlie head of Hie disloyal Democrats of 1 but county reported to a con ami part in volition assembled in Salem a of 13G3 and was declaring thai they would public good and if that good man Sp A delegate of tlie tbe friends of General Spooner I move to make this nomination lion G S have smother good friend voted for Ilo and I have life long friends ard far be it from mo to stand in tbe way of so gallant a soldier true friend fta Gen Hovey A delegate us a friend of Gen seconded tho motion of Gen friend to make the nomination of Mr Orth unanimous I Hon G S this nomination to inti unsought ns I know it dots if it cornea to me with the wish of tbe Convention without a dis senting voice if there is one man here who dissents I will not take it Is there one man who dissents Shouts of no Then I am as I have been since tile Republican party to to tbe end of tho fight Tie applause bold and in his oppo sition to the revolutionary ami treasonable measures attempted measures a Democr lime He his seat in the Senate in enlisted as a soldier in the Union army was elected Captain of a company soon after commissioned ant Colonel of tlie 7th Calvary and in thai capacity went to thc Held Serving with gallantry and distinction in Missouri and the Southwest he participated in celebrated Cavalry raids and at the Mis had his horse phot from under him and received a severe wound in the on the KMh day of June 1301 lie was tho every lo Jeff Davia patriots Glover fought these rebel senti ments an entire Ony and when he failed to defeat them in Convention raised a company for tho 33 th Regiment o Volunteers to defeat treason by arguments of ball and powder Me was promoted to tbe rank of and came out of service at the end of the with a record surpassed by no other of the brave Uvo hundred thousand shed upon the name of Indiana Glover is now serv ing his term as Treasurer of and Is reported to make a most popular and cient officer Tho Convention paid a these three Faith Hope thy greatest of these is Charity If we knew the ami crosses Crowding round our neighbors way K we the little Sorely grievous day by ilay ive then so often chide For Inck of thrift and piin Leaving on his a Leaving on our lives a If we the cloud above us Held but gentle blessing there Would wo turn away ail trembling In our blind aad weak despair Would we shrink from shadows the grans If wo knew that of Eden Were iu mercy If wo knew tbe atory Quivering through the heart of pitin drive our Back to haunts of guilt again Life hath many a tangled crossing war In ISO President Grant ap Thc President of the Convention I pointed him United States Altor ly Brigadier General by j compliment to Col James A Black Joy hath many a break of woe Lincoln ami remained I in his for i Rut the cheeks are whitest in ihe to the close of the Reporter of the Supreme Court I Kent in life la Dowers by suow said it was necessary that he put to the house the motion to make tho voto unanimous The question was put and the President announced the result to be a unanimous vote The following nominations were made for Secretary ol State Iton W W Curry of Vigo Ceo Arnold of Wells Hen William T Spiceley of Orange Prather The first ballot resulted as fol lows Curry Spiceley Arnold 2fO Prather 2iS The nomination of Mr was made unanimous The appended list constitutes the aspirants for tho position of Audi tor of State W B Funk Kosciusko General George F McGinnis Marion Jus Oyler Buff Calkins 120 I A Wildman Howard Dr A J Hay Clark Ezra A Mor gan John W Marion T confided the causa to the keeping of safer and abler hands than mine but 1 promise yoa zeal in the advocacy of Re publican principles and tbe strictest in the performance of every Prolonged applause It shall be my aim indeed my highest ambition to merit the great compliment you have paid me and if in the past by eating meat I have offended my brother I wil eat no more meat while I live Shouts of applause renewed after Lhe first burst of approval had subsided Gentlemen we must redeem Indiana We can do it and we will Applause Let us forget the dissensions that weaken us aud the divisions that have crippled us let us forget our personal disappoint ments and let us enter into tbe contest inspired and animated by tho glory of our past achievements and will a deter to conquer in the coming If we make but a united fight we can march right over thc entrenchments of the enemy to a glorious victory for tho Republican party can point with pride to tha work of its hand It has written iia tory for eternity It has done that which the statesmen and the philosophers ol the past omitted to do It has put Goo in tie Constitution by recognizing tbe rights of His man Applause For inasmuch as ye did it unto tbe least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me is the language of di vine law Gentlemen let Da go into tbe canvass confident that victory will greet us I should be very glad to speak further to you bat I am admonished that tilers is other work for the Convention to do I will give you an opportunity if the Lord spares my health and I believo He will for I know He has work for me to do laughter in the campaign I will promise to make at least two hun dred and fifty hours of speeches to you between this and the end of the cam Applause Upon the of General Brownes speech deafening calls for Hon Godlove S Orth brought that gentleman to the front Mr O said Jlr President and Gentlemen the Re publican I am admonished of the fact that you have yet much work before you that I must be brief in tbe few remarks I shall make to you In the first place to my friends from various parts ot tbe State who have so generously yielded me their support oa this occasion I return the thanks of a grateful heart and whatever the future may have in store for them or for me I shall carry with me to the la test syllable of my time upon earth a feel ing of gratitude to men who have preferred me among my honorable com as their choice for the high pe tition of Governor and to tbe Republi can delegates here assembled and thro them to their constituents in every coun ty in the State I say to you that the nomination you have made so unani shall receive at my hands as a support as 1 am sure would have been accorded to by my honor able and successful competitor did I oc at thia moment the position he oc cupies fellowcitizens T should like to talk to Ton longer and I can do it between now aad tbe second Tuesday in October nest Applause I retire from this platform into tbe ranks as a private citi zen to labor there fcr that cause for I have labored faithfully from childhood to this cause of uni versal humanity and I will do it if God gives me life and strength so that even my bitterest enemy in Indiana may not have it to say with truth that Orth failed to do his duty Applause Loud calls were now made for Harrison Harrison General Ben Harrison then made bis way from of the house toward the platform When JIB appeared Ihe Presidents stand he wan greeted wilh the heartiest applause He said Mr President cJ the Contien The second ballot resulted in the choice of Hon Leonidas Sexton who received 1103 vote and was declared for ant Governor Great enthusiasm followed the announcement that the nomination of candidates for Large was in order Comparative quiet having finally been restored the following gentlemen were named Hon Godlove S noe Ho a Ben Dearborn Hon Ben Hon Win Williams Kosciusko lion R Thompson Vigo Hoff Al vin P Hovey Hon Cyrus T Allen Kuox Hon Samuel Da vis Franklin W H Ellis Elk hart C Slaughter Harrison The first ballot stood WiMman Funk HIS Hny Cunau 9 Slaughter I The nomination of was made The following gentlemen were placed iu nomination for Treasurer of State A D Lynch Shelby E J Mc Harrison K H Milroy Jar roll K L Spencer 1 H Popp Wayne John U Glover Lawrence The first ballot stood Lynch Milroy ncy for the Indiana District which position he has filled with marked ability und success until the pres ent tiim His civil and military uro without a stain and ho in full measure all those qualities Unit will inspire the en support of the masses and give dignity to the high office lor which he has been named Gentlemen Democrats I there is our candidate Match him il you can Hon Sexlon of Rush counly the candidate for ant Governor is one of the beat known mid ablest lawyers of East ern Indiana Lie we be in lhc of which he is still a resident and id about forty years of age He lias b Col Black has discharged every Inn with the greatest to ihe profession and we know him to be a most pains aking and conscientious Reporter During thc last campaign he made a finu canvass of the SLuto and re a vote fully equal to that accorded his colleagues He will be as welcome to the Republican party now as then and will con tribute his full share to the work of tho and the strength of the ticket For Clark of the Supreme Court tbe of Die Slate presented a moat competent can and he was nominated by a handsome majority on the first bal lot Mr Charles ScholL was born in Cologne in 1S32 He received a both in his native Let ua reach into our For the key to other lives And with loye toward erring nature good that still survives So that when our disrobed spirits Soar to of light Wo may say Dear Father lovo ua Eun ua we have shown our love ed wilh the neighbors in the Slate Legislature and in Ihe campaign of was District Elector for tho Fourth District in which capacity he an earnest and effective canvass of many counties of the Stale to the great acceptability of the party Mr Sexton is a man in every way qualified to fill fhe re sponsible position to which he will icn honor city and Munich Bavaria After ion of his the troubles in 1819 Mr Seholl em chosen by tho people of the be Stute ant will short in no sin gle regard from the performance of every duty which Lhe ant Governorship may impose up on him The is more impor tant Limn many are wont tu grated to America Washington he spent so mo time in the profession of teaching In 18GO he immigrated to Chirk county where he has since been engaged in Mr Scholl is a gen welleducated with a thorough f and will make as acceptable a Clerk aa any niun to be found in Ihe State Thc more ho becomes acquainted thc warmer and more numerous will be tils personal and political friends Wilson Smith the nominee for Superintendent of Public In The Hoosier SchoolMaster IIV i from the and CHAPTER A INSTITUTION When Ralph got to Miss Sawjers Shocky was sitting up in bed talking to and Sa His cheeks were a little Hushed with lever and the excite ment of telling hia story theirs were wet with tears Ralph whispered Miss Nancy as she drew him into the kitchen I wane you lo sleigh and go ri get ight buggy or a over to the poorhouse and fetch Jiat boys mother over here Itll do me more good than any sermon I ever that Thats out of the led side Sound as a nut on that side But Ralph began to wonder where he should find Hannahs mother go in there cried the girl as Ralph was open ing a door Ole there and shell cuss you Oh 1 welt if thats all her cure 3 wont hurt said push the door But the volley of blasphemy and vile language that he received made him stagger The old hag paced the abus ing that came in her wuy And by the window iu the same room feeling the light that struggled through the dusty glass upon her face sat a sorrowful in English woman Ralph noticed that she was English at once anil in ii few moments he discovered that her sight was de Could it be that Hannahs mother was lha roommate of this loathsome creature whose profan ity and obscenely did not intermit lor a moment Happily the hud not dared to brave the curses of Mow Ralph forward to thc woman by tho window and greeted her Is Mrs Thompson That is my name sir she said turning her face toward who not hut remark the con trast between the thorough refine ment of her manner and scant unshaped of blue drilling I saw your daughter yesterday Did you seo my hoy There was a in lior voice and an agitation in her manner which disclosed the emo tion she strove in vain to conceal For only the day before Jones had informed her that Shocky would be bound out on Saturday and that she would find that goin agin him warnt a so much as some others he mont mention Ralph told her about beard to see that boy in his 8afcty I shall not write down Ux ers arms tomorrow WQ can keep conversation here Critics 37li 28 Gen Harrison when his name I was called advanced to the front of the stage and said I am exceedingly obliged to those kind friends who have made this suggestion his voice was with cries of Keep still You sit I and other like expressions You must hear me for a moment Those who have favored my for Governor aud at much trouble to themselves have en to secure it I shall always keep in warm remembrance for their efforts in my behalf but I must aay to them that on DO consideration whatever can I allow my to go before the Conven for The names of Hon Wm and Col R W Thompson were also withdrawn and amid much enthusiasm the proceed ed Orth leaving his competitors Glover 320 Oakley 5 Col B W Oakley of Allen coun Convention and tho votes cast for him were unauthorized A delegate withdrew the name of Col J No choice having been effected a second rtg tilted ns follows Lynch 50 Milroy 12 CIO Glover 761 McBride 1 Genera Milroys name was here withdrawn On the third ballot Glover re it and it may become extremely HO j is a native of Clarks burgh West Virginia He has just birthday lie came to Indiana in 184G and commenced his career as a common school teacher in from the Indiana Asbury Universi ty tbe chair of ancient languages two years in Cornell College Iowa returned to Indiana and fur ten years continued his ca reer as teacher during which time he was Superintendent 01 schools of Aurora and President five years of Valparaiso College Following this lie was pastor two years of Centenary Episcopal at thc next meeting of the General Assembly The Republicans of Indiana have reason to themselves thut they will huve one so worthy and so competent is Leonidas Sexton to be the Presi dent of Iho Senate Our candidate fur Congressman at Large is too well known to require a word of eulogy or His name ami faint introduction belong to tho nation Godlove S Orth was born near Lebanon Pennsylvania April 22 1S17 lie came to the bar in 1830 locating hi Indiana In 1813 was not a candidate before the I and 18iG lie was elected lo the Stale Semite serving six years in nil in that body one year of which be was its President In 1818 ho Church reer varied in of Terre Haute His ca has been and extensive covering a Presidents Elector und was ap several years oi duties in thc offices tion and U gi 913 votes 609 far behind from the very Be and Ihe former was declared tho nominee for Treasurer of Col James IS Black and Ed A Davis of Marion nom for the position of of the Supreme Court the former being successful on the first ballot by a vole of 1141 to 111 For Clerk of tho Supreme Court Copt AV McCoy ol Clark county Charles tit the same county James A Bell of W H II Graham Noble C Butler Floyd Frank A Hawkins Hamilton and Capt Duvid Marion were placed in nomination Prior to the ol the vote Mr W II 11 Graham drew his name in of Mr Scholl The ballot stood Scholl Duller Hawkins 201 McCoy 100 Mr Scholl being declared the fore the vote was taken Mr Orth who hail left the stage somo time before was seen making his way through the crowd to the platform closely followed by iTr W S Lin gle of Tippecanoe Who after some with Mr Orth addressed the President just as the latter was about to announce the result of the said President and Gentlemen of the Con vention Before thia yote is announced it is duo to the distinguished gentleman who seems to be tbe unanimous choice of thia Convention for Representative of thc State at Large that I should say to you that when be left the stand a few min utes ago after thanking you for vour complimentary vote Governor I soli cited him and him to consent that his name might be presented to the Convention for you now indicated that he ia your choice but he refused and I took the gentlemen of placing him in nomination lor tbe place and I shall insist in behalf of the Republican party of Indiana that he stand fast to tho post to which he in assigned I will detain you but a moment only to say that with Browne at the head of the ticket and a Sexton on it I think we can bury the Democracy so deep that thc trumpet of the resurrection will hardly reach have a Sexton to attend to that very business renewed to bury them face downward so that as attempt to dig out they will hut dig deeper in Merriment and continued laughter The vote for Congressman for the State at Largo was then announced follows g li ll and my personal endorsement to tie action of Applause of who urged my name for this nomination all others in the Convention will bear roe witness that I have not sought it with much personal effort Indeed my have most complained ot me for manifesting so little personal interest in the result Gentlemen I am glad to approve what you have done In all this contest as in all our personal relations before as far aa I andl may speak positively for there has not been one un kind word or thought between General Thomas M Browne aud myself Ap plause You have chosen one who will I carry the standard of our party lo triumph and one whose vigorous de fense of our principles and whose ener getic assaults upon what is left of our po adversaries laughter will over whelm them with I only regret for him that be has aol a more compact foe upon which to expend tho force of Renewed laughter Our adversaries are BO scattered that I am afraid we shall have to follow them as we did tbe guerrillas whea the rebel lion ended into the moun tains the fastnesses and tbe caves of the earth laughter is left of tbe great party which once combatted us is today shattered and broken a mere fragment of that organi which was honorable when it stood for the defense of the flag the con and the equal rights of men But it It now prostituted to treason to slavery and to every base thing AH that was good in it has left it abd we have in this Republican Conven tion a large best of that hich once constituted the great Democratic party in this State Laughter f But gentlemen our work ts not done it will not be until civil affairs been settled oa an enduring basis of justice in tie Southern States until those earnest Democrats of the South who will not mit to the which war Spooner 228 Hovey 360 Scattering 20 announcement of the vote lor Congressman at Large Hon G S Orth hurriedly advanc ing front of the stage said Vr President and Friends of thc Conven tion Let me say one word before you take any further action I want to talk to you aad if you will be quiet I will not detain you five minutes and 1 will speak loud enough to be heard five minuted ago 1 heard of this action here Fellow Republicans I am afraid you are placing me in a false position I came to this Convention a candidate for Gov ernor I told my best friends was u candidate for Governor and for else 1 dont want the impression to go out in the State of Indiana that Orth is a chronic officeseeker I didnt want my friends fo present my namo for this place Only a few moments ago 1 told you and if 1 spoke the truth ever in my life it was 1 told you I intended to go from pointed by Gov Morion a mem ber of thc 1eacc Congress of 3SGL In 1802 ho wag elected to Congress from the old District and was for three successive terms serving as a leading member of the House Committee on For eign It is not too much to sny Unit Mr Grills influence as a Congressman was second to that of none other and he the pub lic service one year ago to the great regret of many very warm friends in various portions of tho State and country The unanimity with which his nomination was seconded by the Convention is a fluttering evidence of in which he is held by the Republi cans of tho State and an index of the support he will receive at the polls in October The Indiana Congressional delegation will be strengthened and its influence for good increased by he addition of Mr Orth as its member in general Although both his were able and strong men the nom of Hon W Cliffy of Vigo or Secretary of Stale had seemed lo bo a foregone conclusion for some time Mr Curry was born in Jefferson Ken lucky and is now fortyeight years of age in Ihe prime of life and in ihe enjoyment of the full vigor of his menial and physical powers what education he obtained was gathered from Kentucky schools before his year at which age he was thrown upon the lo fight his own battle He pre pared himself for the ministry and after removing lo Indiana devoted himself for years to that exclusivo has been a citizen of Indi John C Putnam B C i ana about twenty years and for the last ten or twelve has been more or less conspicuously identified with Ihe political movements of the State In 1801 ho was a candidate for Congress in the Second District against Mr Kerr and in the face of ils made nominee lor thc Clerk of the Su prema Court the nomination was made unanimous Iu to loud calls Mr S stepped upon tbe and briefly thanked the Convention for this mark of its confidence this a soldier in tbe private racks the Republican battle and I beg you will let mo stay in the private ranks Cries of Xo no from alt parts of the house I put this to you now want you to look at it I stand here in antagonism to two gallant Republican soldiers one with a sleeveless arm Wont force mo into such a position an that Orth IB not Ihe man to any Republican soldier ol Indiana In my own Congressional District where I have fought for eight long years under the of God an T B W Smith Ma rion A J Vawter Montgomery and John M Bloss Floyd were nominated iov the of Su of Public Instruction The first ballot stood Hobbs 471 Smith 794 Red path Vawter 10 Bloss Thereupon B W Smith was de clared the nominee Por Attorney General the follow ing gentlemen were brought for ward Hon Thomas J Judge James C Dunny of Knox and Hon Nelson of Fav J Judge Denny was nominated the vole standing 840 Deaoy 802 Trustee and Comity Examiner lie one of the oldest members of the Slate Teachers Association and haj from their inauguration been an active worker in the coun ty Institutes With a broad and liberal education extensive ex a knowledge of tho wants of as well as radul schools ability as a public speaker and lecturer untiring in dustry and zeal combined with su business qualifications we the Convention very fortu nate in ils selection fur this im portant office Onr candidate for Attorney Gen eral was the work of fifteen min utes but a better could not have been made if the Conven tion had spent the day upon that particular business alone Judge James C Denny was born in Knox county in 1820 He was raised a farmers boy completing a common school education by in tho In 1851 he entered the profession of tho law crowded like chickens in a having previously studied in the office of Hon Samuel M dental eep tlie old lady over Sunday Ralph Was delighted so delight ed that he came near kissing good Miss Nancy Sawyer whose plain face was glorified by her geuer osity But he did not go to the poor honse immediately lie waited until he saw Jones the Super of the PoorHouse and Pete Jones the County who was slill somewhat shuck up to tha courthouse Thon he drove out of the village and hitched bis horse lo tho poorhouse fence and took a survey of Ihe outside Forty hogs nearly ready for slaughter wal lowed in a pen in front of the for lorn and dilapidated house for though the commissioners allowed a claim for repairs at every meet ing the repairs were never made and it would not do lo scrutinize Mr Jones bills too closely you gave up all hope of a nation to office One curious effect of political aspirations in county was to ehut tha eyes that they could not see to close the ears that they could not hear mid to destroy the sense of smell But Ralph not being a politician he the and thc stench hoj within without and saw if 9 Democratic majority spirited canvass of the District In the last campaign he contributed very generously of services lo the work I tale but particularly i f his time and in the whole Stall in thc Sixth District Mr Curry is a man of fine In a pleas ant and convincing speaker ITe is in all respects a strong candi date lion James A Wildman of How ard county for Auditor of State was born in county Indiana in 1SO1 Ho work ed upon a farm until 18 years of age picking up an education was possible from ihe winter Mr Denny was a Tresi iu 1SG1 Circuit Judge at Hie siino period auc aft was on the Common Pleas bench Since the expiration of hit term of service as Judge ho has been engaged in the practice of his profession Judge Denny is an able lawyer a gentleman of un impeachable integrity and a speak er of more than ordinary ability This completes the list of candi dates the Republican party presents to Ihe people of the Stale for their in October neit We may safely challenge for it an en and earnest support for a better licket has seldom if ever been constituted in the history of Journal Stute On Thursday evening the new Republican State Central Commil tee met in their room for organiza tion Tho following gentlemen 4UO j schools ill the country In 1S52 he Tbe ticket being now complete j went tu Hanover whore he spent the assistance never suffered ol gc the It ood friends I bare banner to trail in the dust for a moment but td is unfortunate division of sentiment I do not see how I can among ua today FellowCitizens take this nomination I see before mo now my venerable friend Governor Lane I want him to rise and teU me whether Montgomery county desirea that nomi nation or not and whether she wijl sup port it heartily Hon Henry S responded that Montgomery county gives her vote unan for Orth believing that she knows better what be is fit for than Lie own county does Laughter Hon G S I want my friend Richard Nebeker to tell about Foun tain county What does my friand Ne beker say Gen Lenis Wallace addressed the Chair Hon G S I would like to hear from General Wallace General Lewis As Mr Orth has told you there has a difficulty in my district and now in order that there might be peace hereafter in the Republican ranks in that district I my caat the voto of Montgomery for Mr Orth J y Voices Nebeker Nebeker Hon G 8 L thank my good and Dane for their ex pressions of confidence A delegate responded for Foun the President called for the report of the Committee on Delegates at Large and Electors which report ed as follows XT 1 Governor Conrad Baker 2 Hoc II S Lane Montgomery i Gen Geo K Steele 1arke 4 Col J C Slaughter Harrison 5 Col C W Chapman Kosciusko ti Gen Sol Meredith 1 Hon C W Cathcart 2 Hon Horatio Marion 3 Hon Thos C 4 Col Ira G Grover Decatur j lion John Beard Montgomery C lion W C Carter Clay FOU STATK AT Rfi K 1 General Nathan Kimball 2 Judge James S Buckles Delaware 3 Captain John Schwartz Dearborn ELECTORS 1 Hon William A Woods 2 II C Kry Wayne C Isaac B Our Candidates Gen Thomas M Browne worthi ly Ihe ticket He is a man whose character commands respect whose brilliant talents excite ad miration while his manners give him popularity with all classes of men He is eminently a man of the people Born near Paris in Preble county Ohio he came lo Indiana a poor lad in 1843 and for several years served in Ihe capacity of store boy for a merchant at Winchester in Randolph county He was denied the advantages of a collegiate education and with tlie exception of a short session in the Winchester Seminary his educa tion was wholly derived from the common schools He began the study of the law in tho office of Judge Wm A in 1848 waj admitted to the bar the year fol lowing and continued in practice year at which ho taught school in his native county for six months a short res idence in DCS Iowa he lo in Howard county in tho year 185G where lie again embark ed in the profession of leaching until appointed Deputy Treasurer of the county and then Deputy Auditor In 185 he wits elected Auditor and in reelected by Ihe largest majority ever given any candidate in ihe county In 1808 he was elected a member of the Slate Legislature serving in the regular and special sessions of 38CB and 1870 having the pleasure of being one of the Republican major ity that ratified the Fifteenth Amendment on of the State were present from tho Districts named First District John W Foster Vanderburg Second D W Voyles Third John G Berkshire Hipley Fourth Adams Lo Oge Hancock Fifth William Wallace Marion Sixth Linns a Burnett Vigo Seventh J P Park er Demon Eighth Hon D R Brown Hamilton Ninth J W Burson Delaware Tenth John D Duvall Lagrange Eleventh Thos Busline White The Committee unanimously elected the following officers J W Fosler C Burnett Marion John D How land Marion Executive Chair man anil Messrs L A Burnett of Vigo and William Wallace of Ma business of public in was four the transparent fraud and heard the echo of Jones cru elly A girl admitted him and as he did not wish to make his business known at once be affected a sort of idle interest in tlie place asked 10 be allowed to look around Tho girl od him He that all thc women with children twenty per sons in ail were obliged to sleep in one room which owing to the hillslope was partly underground and which had but half it window for light and no ventilation ex cept lhc chance draft from the door Jones had declared that the women with tho children must stay there warnt to have brats the whole house Hero were vicious women and women wilh their children ed like chickens in a coop lor market And there were as in stich places helpless idiot ic women with illegitimate chil dren Of course this room was the scene of perpetual quarreling and occasional fightin In thc quarters devoted to insane people slightly demented and racing maniacs were iu tho same looms while there were also those utter wrecks which sat in heaps on the mumbling and muttering unintelligible words the whole current of their thoughts hopelessly around upon itself in eddies neverending That air woman said the weak eyed girl used to holler a heap when she was brought in here But pap knows how to subdue em He slapped her in the mouth every time she hollered She dont make Id say that it was an overwrought scene As if all fhe world were as cold as All I can tell is that this refined woman lnd all she could do to control herself in her eagerness lo get out of her prison house away from iho blasphemies of away from the insults of Jones away from the sights and sounds and smells of the place and above all her eagerness to fly to from whom she had been banished for two years It seemed to her that she could gladly die now if she could die with that flaxen head on her bo som And so in spite of thc opposi tion of Jonesson who threat ened her with every sort of evil if nhe left Ralph wrapped Mrs Thompsons blue drilling in Nancy Sawyers shawl and bore the feeble woman olf to Lewisburg And as they drove away a sad childlike voice cried from the gratings of tlie upper window Goodby goodby 1 Ralph turned and saw that it was Phil poor Phil for whom here was no deliverance And all the way back Ralph pro mental maledictions on Ihe Dorcas Society sending garments to the Five or tho South Sea Islands whichever it was but lor being so blind to Ihe sorrow and poverty within iis reach lie did not know for he had not read the reports of the Boards of Slate Charities that nearly ail almshouses are very much like this and that the Stale of New York is not better in this regard than Indiana And he did not know that it is true in almost all other countries aa it was in his own that Christian people do not think enough of Christ to look for him in these And while Ralph denounced the Dorcas Society thc eager hungry of tho mother ran How to ward the little boy No I can not doit 1 can not tell you about that meeting I am sure that Miss Nancy Sawyers lea tast ed exceedingly good to the pauper who had known nothing but cold water for years and that Ihe bread and butter were delicious lo a pal ate that had eaten soup for dinner and coarse poorhouse bread and vile molasses for su and that without change for three years But I can not tell yon how it seemed that evening to Miss Nancy Sawyer as the poor English in speechless rocking in tho old chair iu the she pressed to her bosom with all the might of her enfeebled arms the form of the little Shocky and over und over ag gain God hanl forgot us moth r Cod hant forgot us CHAPTER XXIV TDK GOOD The Methodist Church to which no now but jist sets down I Mrs Matilda White and Mies Nan cy Sawyer belonged was the lead rion No nal of Indiana At thc Communication of the Grand order man is at present Mark of a No man ig a gentleman who without provocation would treat with the humblest of his species It is vulgarity for which no accomplishment of dress or ad dress can ever aione Show us the man who desires to make all around him happy and give cause of of fence to no one and we will show you a true gentleman though he may worn a suit of nor ever heard ot a engaged in merchandizing in Ko komo where ho bears tho reputa tion of being a very careful and successful business man Ior two years he was associated with Mr T C Philips in the editorial con duct of Ihe Howard Tribune Mr will bring to the Jt ho Louisville charge of the duties of the office of I cruelly trashy lexicon We are proud to say for tho honor of our specie there are men in every throb of whose heart is a solicitude for the welfare of mankind and whose every breath is perfumed with kindness poetical the Graud Duke suffered under when in that city All hail bully boy I The undersigned Auditor of Stale an experience and capacity which will an hon est and faithful administration John C of Law rence county for Treasurer ol Slate is an excellent of the soldier boys by whom he was carried triumphantly through the ballot He was born in Orange and is thirtyeight yeara of age Before the war ho was en gaged in school teaching in Wash ington county At out of the rebellion it will be membered that Horace Heffren at lie I can lie but I And the rest of the assoa here solid as Would lick your imperial boots as we pass Ob child of your mother 1 Oh son of a gun Mark Twain says I am differ ent from Washington I have a higher and a grander standard of principle Washington could not that away all day and keep Ralph understood it When she came she was tho victim of mania but she had been beaten into hope less idiocy Indeed this state of incurable imbecility the end toward which all traveled Shut in these bare rooms with no treatment no exercise no variety and meager food cases of slight derangement soon grew into chron ic lunacy One young woman culled Phil a person apparently a farmers wife came up to Ralph and looked at him kindly playing with the buttons on his coat in a childlike simplicity Her blue drilling dress was sewed all over patches of white representing or buttons and the womanly instinct toward adornment had in her taken this turn Dont you think they ought to let me go home she said with a sweetness and a wistful longing look that touched Ralph to the heart He looked at her and then at the muttering crones and he could see no hope of any better fate for her She followed him round tho barnlike rooms re turning every now and then to her question Dont you think I might go home now The girl hatl been called away for a moment and Ralph stood looking into n cell where a man with a gay red plume in bis hat and a strip of red flannel about his waist He strutted up and down like a drill sergeant I am General Andrew Jackson he began People dont believo it but I am I had my head shot off at Buena Vista and the new one that isnt nigh so good as the old one its potato on one side Thats why they take advantage of me to shut me cp But I know some things My head is potato on one side but its all right on tother And when I know a thing in the left side of my head I know it Lean down here Let me tell you something out of the oat of the po tato side mind ye I wouldnt you hadnt locked me up for nothing Sill Jones is a He sells the bodies of the dead paupers and then sells tho empty coffins back to the county agin But that aat all Just then the girl came back and as Ralph moved General Jackson called out That ant all Ill tell the rest another time And that ant out in one in Lewisburg as it is in most villages in Indi ana If I may be permitted lo ex press nvy candid and charitable opinion of the difference between the two women I shall have to use the Quaker locution and say that Miss Sawyer was a Methodist and likewise a Christian Mrs White was a Methodist but I fear she was not likewise j As to tho first part of this tion no room to doubt Miss Nancys piety She could get happy in for who had a better and could witness a good experience in the quarterly But it is not upon these that I base my opinion of Miss Nancy Do riot even the Pharisees the same She never dreamed that she had any right to speak of Per fection which as said of total depravity is an excel lent if it is fived up lo but when a womans heart is full of devout affection and good pur poses when her head devises liberal and Christlike things when her hands are always open to the poor and always busy with acts of love and selfdenial and her feet are over eager to run upon errands oi mercy why if there be anything worthy of being called Christian Perfection in this world of imper fection I do not why such an one does it What need of vacua ont soul How Nancy managed to live on her slender income and be so generous was a perpetual source of perplexity to the gossips of Lewisburg And now that she de clared that Mrs Thompson and Shocky should not return to the poorhouse there was a general outcry from the whole Committee of that she would bring herself to the poorhouse bo fore she died But Sawyer was the richest Lewis burg though nobody knew it and she herself did not once suspect it How iliss Nancy and the preach er conspired together and how they managed to Thomp sons case up at the time of he Sacramental Service in Hie af ot that Sunday in Lewis burg and how the preacher made a touching statement of it just be fore the regular Collection for the Poor was taken and how the warmhearted Methodists put in dollars instead of dimes while the Presiding Elder read those passa potato side you can depend on ges about and other lib eral people and how the congrega tion sani lie dies the Friend of Sinners dies more lustily than ever after having performed this Christian all this happened 1 cannot take the readers time to tell But can assure them that the nearly blind Eng lish woman did not room with old any more and that the pauper frock gave way to something belter anil that grave little Shocky even danced with delight and declared that God hadnt forgot though hod thought that He had And Mrs Matilda While remarked thut it was ashame tlie collection for the poor at a sacramental service should he given fo a wo man who was a member of the Church of and like as not never soundly converted J And Shocky slept in his mothers arms and prayed God not to forget Hannah while mother knit stockings for the store day and night and day and night she pray ed and hoped XXV HUD The Sunday that Ralph spent in the Sunday that Shocky spent in an Paradise the Sunday that Mrs Thompson spent with Shocky instead of old Mow ley the Sunday that Miss Nancy thought was like heaven was also an eventful Sunday with Bnd Means He had adored Miss Martha in his secret heart like many other giants while brave enough to face and fight dragons lie was a coward in the presence of the woman that he loved Let us honor him for it The man who loves a woman truly reverences her feels abashed in her presence The man who is never abashed in the presence of womanhood the man who tells his love without a tremor is a heart less shallow egotist Buds nature was not fine But it was deep true and manly To him Martha Haw kins was the chief of women What was he that he should to possess her And yet on flint Sunday with his crippled arm carefully bourn up with his cleanest and with his heavy boots freshly oiled with the fat of the raccoon he started hopefully fields while with snow to the house of Squire Hawkins When he started his spirits were high but they de exactly in proportion to his proximity o the object of his love He thought himself not dressed well He wished his were not so square and his arms not so stout He wished that he had enough fo court in nice big words And so by recounting his own de he succeeded in making himself tecl weak and awkward and generally by the time he walked up between the long rows of hollyhocks to the Squires front tap at which took all his remaining strength Miss Martha received her per spiring lover most graciously but this only convinced Bnd more than ever that she was a superior being If ehe had slighted him a bit so iis to awaken his a lit tic his bashfulness would have appeared it was in vain that Martha in quired about his arm and compli his courage Bud could only think of his big feet his clum sy bauds and his Blow tongue He answered in monosyllables using bis red silk handkerchief diligently Is your arm improving asked M iss Hawkins Yes I think it is said Bud hastily crossing his right leg over his left and trying to get his out of sight Have you heard Mr Pear son No I hant answered Bud re moving his right foot to the again because it looked so big and trying to push his left hand into his pocket sunshine said Martha Bud stick ing his right foot tip on the rung of the chair and putting his hand behind him This snow looks like tlie snow we have at the said Martha snowed that way the time I was to Bosting Bnd not thinking of the snow at all but thinking how much better iie would have appeared had he left his arms and home suppose Mr Hartsook rode your horse to Yes he did and Bud hung both hands at his side You are very kind This set Buds heart agoing so that ho could not say anything but he looked eloquently at Miss Haw kins drew both feet under the chair and rammed bis hands into his pockets Then suddenly re awkward he must look ho immediately pulled his hands out again and crossed his legs There was a silence of a few minute during which Bud made np his mind to do the most desper ate thing he could think clare his love the conse quences You see Miss Haw kin E lie be gan forgetting boots ind fists in his i thought as how Id come over here here his heart failed him I am glid to sec yon Mr And I thought Id tell you Martha was sure it was coming now for Bud was in dead and I thought Id just like lo leh you of I only knowd jest how lo tell it here Bud got fright ened and did not dare close the sentence as he had thought as how you might like lo I wanted to tell all of we are going lo have a a night Im real glad to hear it said the bland but disappointed Martha We used to have at the East But Miss Martha could not remember that they had them Hard as it is tor a bashful man to talk it is still more difficult for him to close the conversation Most men leave a favorable a bashful man U with fhe forlorn hope that some favorable turn in may let him out without absolute discomfiture And so Bud stayed a long lime and how he ever did get he never could tell CHAPTER XXVI A LETTER AKI ITS this is too Lett u no that u beter be hoo yoo an yore family tacks cities with fer Stan it too hsv the Msn wata wats robin ua sported bi yor Fokes kepin with em u been a tbe Lau yor Ha wil hern as as to an yor so Tnk kere No aior ud pres ent its pur pose The squires spectacles slip ped off several limes while he rend it His wig had to be adjusted II he had threatened personally he would not have minded it much But the haystacks were dearer to him than the apple of his eye The barn was more precious than his wig And those who hoped to touch Bud in a tender place through this letter knew the RATES Spaco I Ivr One square Two squares Three tour 1m jSm 3ni i 6m ss S I 12 12 16 IE i 20 13 I If M column C 10 16 22 i 33 40 co umn 8 13 j SS i 42 I OOj column 10 1 30 I 60 i TO tuc IS 25 45 1 H i 90 I US 1 12 23 28 25 56 SO The space by ten of type constitutes a 5ocial place or advertise ments from ten to twenty per cent Special Notices will percent additional to the above rates Local however for Irts tban Jl Notice of for license Legal advertisements Uess tban a month the party ordering publication Communications for the promotion of pri interests charged as advertisements All presented Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance Squires weakness far better than they knew thc To see bis red barn with iis large Mormon inside and the mounted Indian on Ihe vane consumed was loo much for Ihe Hawkins lo stand Evident ly the danger was on Ihe side of his niece But how should be in fluence Martha lo give up Bud Martha did not value the hay stacks half so she did her lover Martha did not think the new red barn wilh the great Mor mon press inside and the galloping Indian on the vane worth half so much as a moral principle or a kindhearted action Martha bless her would have sacrificed anything rather limn forsake ihe poor But Squire Hawkins lips shut tight over his false teeth in a way that suggested astringent pursestrings and Squire could not sleep at if tho new red barn wilh the galloping Indian on the vane were in danger Martha must be reached Fonie how So with many of that most adjustable wig wilh many of that reversible glass eye the Squire managed lo cn Martha by the intimation he had been threatened and to make her understand what it cost her much lo understand she must lurn Ihe cold shoulder 10 chivalrous awkward Bud whom she loved most tenderly partly perhaps because he did not remind her ol anybody ahc knew in ihe Hast Tuesday evening was tho fatal lime was the fa tal occasion Bud was thc victim Pete Jones had his revenge For Bud had been all the evening try ing lo muster courage enough lo himself as Marthas escort He was not encouraged by the fact that he had spelled even worse than usual while Martha had dis herself by holding her ground against Teems Philips fur half an hour But he screwed his courage lo ihe slicking place not by quoting to himself the adage heart never won fair ludy which indeed he had never heard but by reminding himself you donl resk youll never git nothin So when Ihe spell had adjourned he sidled up to her and looking dreadfully solemn and a little foolish he said Kin I see you safe home And she with a feeling that her uncles lite was in danger aud that j his salvation depended upon her with a feeling thai I she was sentence of death on her own great hope ans wered huskily thank you If she had only known that it was the rod barn with the Indian on the top that was in danger she would probably have let the gal loping brave take care ol himself It seemed lo Bud as he walked borne mortified disgraced disap pointed hopeless that all the world had gone down in a whirlpool of despair Might a knowed he said to himself Of course a smart gal like Martha ant to take a big burly fool that cant in two syllables Whats the use of A Flat Cricker is a Flat Cricker You cant make else out of him no more nor you can make a China hog into a Berkshire CHAPTER A LOS AND A GAIX Dr Small silent attentive Dr Small sel himself lo work lo bind up the wounded heart of Bud MCMIS even as he had bound his broken arm The flattery of his fine eyes which looked at Buds muscles so admit which gave attention to his lightest re mark wus not lost on the young Flat Creek Hercules Outwardly at least Pete Jones phc wed no in to revenge himself on Bud Was it respect for muscle or was it Ihe influence of Small At any rate Ihe concentrated ex tract of the resentment of Pete Jones and his clique was now ready lo empty itself upon the head of And Ralph found him self in his diro without the support of Bud whose good resolutions seemed lo give way all at once There have been many men of culture and more fa surrounding who have thrown themselves away witli less provocation As it was Bnd quit avoided Ralph and seemed more than ever under lhc influence of Dr Small besides becoming the intimate of Walter Johnson SmalTs student and Mrs Matilda Whiles son They made a strange with his firm jaw and Silent cautious Wal ter Johnson with his weak chin his nice cravat ties and general dandy appearance To be thus deserted in his dark est hour by his only friend was the bitterest ingredient in Ralphs cup In vain ha sought an interview Bud always eluded him While by all the fuces about him Ralph learned that the storm was getting nearer and nearer to himself It might delay if been Pete Jones alone it might blow over But Ralph felt sure that the relent less hand of Dr Small was present in all his troubles And lie had j only lo look into Smalls eye to know how inextinguishable was a malignity that burned po steadily and so quietly But there is no cup of bitterness With an innocent man there is no night so dark thit some star does not ghine Besides his religious faith Ralph had one On his return from Lewisburg on Monday Bnd had handed him a note on com mon blue foolscap in round old fashioned hand It ran Anybody who can do BO good a thing an you did for uot jo bad I hope you will forgive me All tbe in tbe world and all that anybody says can not make me you else but a good maa I hope God will reward you You must not answer this and you hadnt bolter see me again or think any more of what you spoke about the night I shall be a slave for three years more and then 1 must work for mv mother aud iut I felt so bad to that I had spoken so hard to you that I could not help writing Respectfully To MR Ralph read it over aud over What else he did with it I shall not tell You want to know if he kissed it and pul it in his bosom Many a man as intelligent and manly as iias done quite as foolish a tiling as that You have been a little silly it is you have acted in a sentimental sort of a way over such things But it would never do for me to tell you what Ralph did Whether he put the letter in his bosom or uot be put the words in his heart and metaphorically speaking he shook that little blue billet written on coarse foolscap shook that little letter full of confidence in the face and eyes of all the that haunt ed him If Hannah believed iu him the whole world might dis trust him When Hannah was iu oue scale and the whole world iu the of what account was the world 1 Justice may be blind but all the pictures of iu Ihe world can not make Love blind Aud it was well that Ralph weigh ed things in this way For the time was come iu which he needed all the courage the true billet could give him TO EE CONTINUED 1 Lecture On Rattlesnakes from the ruins to Press Two miles out on our road back we found Straddlebug sitting like a gazing at something in the road just ahead of him Come here General Bradley he called 1 want to introduce yon to one of tbe inhabitants of this delightful the same time pointing to a monster rattlesnake ceiled in the centre of the trail 1 have been plaguing him continued old Strad dle and he is a fellow See he added holding oat his sabre toward tbe reptile Quickly the snake raised his crest aud sprang his length in two feet of the legs of old Straddles horse Look out there or hell bits you cried General Bradley Xot a of it replied Straddle the fact is I have been studying tais specimen of the natural productions of the country for more than an hourand I have found out first that he will not bite second that he can only jump the length of himself when coiled He then made the snake coi up again and strike two or three times He aint much of a traveler cither continued old Straddle whipping the reptile when stretched put and making it run as fast as it could He coils tail first continued the experimenter making him coil like an honest fellow gives fair warning before he strikes which is more than some of our own kind do General besides 1 dont believe hed strike iu the dark at all You will readily ob serve continued old Straddle growing the difference between the natures of the snake and Ihe dog a dog shakes his tail to show you he is pleased the snake shakes his tail to show you he is mad Look at that eye sir I have looked a mutineer in the eye and disarmed him but I would not like to look that fellow ly in the face for lire seconds The snake was coiled his body rest ingon his tail and his head raised to tbe bight of a foot and bis neck proudly curved His eyes shone like two little diamond aud his yellow skin glistened in the sun The spots or his back seemed ever changing from dark brown to a bright red copper color Come now said old Ill bet theres not a man iu the crowd can shoot him in the head to be almost impossible to shoot he head off a rattlesnake The hunters declare that their sensi is so greet that they can feel Ihe wind of a coming bullet and dodge il Be this as it may I have seen men who could hit a bulls eye or drive a nail at 100 yards that could not shoot a snake in ihe head Several revolvers were leveled and discharged at him but the suake remained unharmed A soldier then dismounted and a carbine at Ihe shot nearly severed the body of the reptile Foul out Strad dle you hit him iu the body but take off the rattles tbe game is yours Thc man did as he was bid and there were eleven rattles and a button Sorrow Too often it is the case that men remember their sorrow and do not register their joy But even under affliction if mou did but know it there are musical tones which might strike through the requiems wail There are lights that might illumine their dark sorrows Men fall into a mania Sorrow takes on a diseased form It becomes morbid It whets and stimulates itself It overflows It tinges ihe whole mind from top to bottom wilh its color As just aft er a drenching rain every twig on Ihe Irce is with drops aud every leaf weeps md as when some gust of wind strikes it Vie tree rains again as if it were a cloud so when sad experiences come upon us we are apt to be re with ourselves and to work upon our own We do not put hope over against despair and cheer over against gloom Therefore much of lhc which in life much of the gloom which they are under results from the not using of themselves wisely I see in many who come me a morbid taste for suffering It is a hideous form of at last even come lo a state in which want 10 rather want to be thought o suffer They want to reap in the fields of sym pathy this abnormal and what seems to me hideous praise of seeming to suffer Sometimes no can be given than to compliment persons on their health and happiness aad prosperity For they arc martyrs and they walk under a cape of sadness and uot to recognize that is to deny them thc chief pleasure almost of their life To be is their TilUE country is at present flooded with cheap sud inferior goods of every description which are heralded to the public in flaming advertisements and which find a market who have yet to learn that true econo consists iu buying a first class article from an established and first class house For example pi anos of various makers are offered at about onehalf the price of those of really first class manufacture Among the latter none are more deserving of tbe really first class than those manufactured by Messrs Win Knabe Co of Baltimore a firm which dates over a third of a aud whose pianos for excellency of workman ship durability and sweetness of lone stand absolutely unrivaled ami containing many valuable pat en led improvements to be tound in no other instrument made by the very best workmen and of strictly fast class and seasoned ma terial The socalled cheap piano may present a fair external appearance but it is made of inferior and often entirely unseasoned material and soon becomes a wreck which defies the art of the tuner We make special mention of the piano as the most forcible illustrations of oui remarks which can be applied lo almost every article we use in our families White stones COMPARATIVE WEIGHT OF Coax AND 111 Sast November eight farmers compared of their corn of the years crop Four ears of one lot were weighed and the weight found to be two pounds eleven ounces An equal weight of each sample was then taken when each was shelled and thc shelled corn weighed weights varied from 2Ibs 2 07 to 2 Vbs 4 oz The eight sam ples 21 Ibs Soz shelled IT Ibs 11 oz The weight of the cob then was 117 per cent of gross weight These samples were all of dent corn and may be supposed to be of the best corn raised iu Illinois last year In selling corn in the ear the weight allowed for a of shelled coru varies ranging from 68 to 72 pounds the latter when the corn is not well dried the former for good corn late in the season These selected lots showed a weight of a little lesi than pounds of cobs for each bushel of shelled or pounds in tlie ear would give 5ti pounds of shelled corn
