Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1895-07-25

veteran VINO experienced nara service
in the war and is living monument of
the hardships OF the battle field. He
carries five gun shot wounds from rebel
bullets and scar in the forehead from
the stroke of saber in the hands OF a
rebel officer He was a member OF Co.
f. 10, Mich, Inft. enlisted in Kalamazoo
and in 1863 was in a number of battles
in Tennessee. In one engagement a
rebel officers, with raised saber, rode
up commanding him to surrender, he
answered never; when the officer struck
at him with great force twice, the blow
being warded off with his musket, but
the broken blade of his saber fell on
his forehead cutting a deep cash the
scar of which remains. The rebel then
being disarmed, Harrington made him
prisoner and marched him to head
quarters. At the battle Of Springfield,
Tennessee, he received five gun shot
wounds, one Of the bullets piercing his
right leg through the thigh breaking
the bone and lodged just under the skin.
Mr.. Harrington fell and on recovering
from the shock, felt the ball and re-
moved it with his jack knife which has
ever since that memorable event been
carried by him as u pocket piece, no
amount of money could buy. He was
taken prisoner at the time and confined
in Libby prison four months when he
was passed out on certificate of
parole given him by IA dying comrade,
who with others would have been re-
leased the following day. The comrade
died in the night while Mr.. Harring-
ton was attending him and with the
certificate he also gave him gold ring
to send to his wife which he. did. Ia
the morning he took his place in the
line of those who were to go out
answering to the name OF the dead
comrade. He draws seventeen dollars
a month pension which with the light
work he is able to do affords him
comfortable living Besides handling
the Journal he does janitor work at the
Congregational church and the old
school house.
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The Republican party has won the
latest of its many victories upon the
tariff issue, and, in taking firm stand
upon that popular platform it has
voiced the wishes, the hopes, the deep
seated and the intelligent convictions
of the wage earners Of this broad land.
Upon that issue as the paramount fea
ture of the next Presidential campaign
it will move again into national con-
recognizing the demands ard needs reeds Of
American labor, the progressive party
of the United States will not be blind
to all other pressing and timely ques-
tions. The Republican party has
always and ever responded to public
expectations; it has kept faith with the
country's creditors, and it has met its
financial obligations on the day of
their maturity in the best currency
then existing in the world. 1t can be
trusted in the future, as it has been in
the past, to manage the difficult and
complex questions of national finance,
realizing that these are days OF con-
slant fluctuations, and that the wisdom
of 1895 may be the folly of disclaimer
lean Economist
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Some people who favor free silver"
and Is to | ratio between silver and
gold talk as If fixing the relative values
of the two metals were a matter merely
of legislature-that is, mere legisla-
tive fiat can just as easily establish the
price of wheat, corn and potatoes whose
price is regulated by the law of de-
mand and supply. Silver bullion
worth 80 cents can not be made worth
81 by the stamp of the United States
mint except for limited use in the
United States If 1t goes into the mar
kets of the world it will pay for no
more than 80 cents worth of goods. If
50-cent silver dollars are forced into
ClTculdJlOn W COlHpcIc Win Wndb Jnc
commercial world calls dollar in gold,
the result inevitably will be that the
cheaper will drive out the dearer and
take its place Gold will be driven out
of circulation and silver will take its
place; hence this will become nation
OF monometalism, and the one metal
will be silver. So it is plain that those
who cry out for bimetalism at 10 to |
ratio are really in favor Of monometal-
ism.
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Hon. N. B. Hayes, the most extensive !
farmer in Ionia county, has practically
failed, having recorded with the regis
ter of deeds, mortgages aggregating
more than S25, 900, while others amount
ing to 3d. 600 are already recorded. OF
those recorded last week 81, 800 mort
gage runs to the Ionia County Savings
Bank; S., 600 to his wife: 81, 900 to Will |