Decatur Democrat, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1880 — Page 1

7HE DIMOCRAT. BY S. RY WILLIAMS. Terms: $1.50 l Year in Advance. DECA UR, INDIANA. Thursday July 29, 1880. / Lu lr i WINFIELrS.HANCOCKIJ I j 01 WILLIAM H I F!4CUSH'» ”‘' |J *~ >!t "'~' ■ DEMOCRATICTICKET. For President, «EH. W. S. HANCOCK, of Pennsylvania. For Vice President, HON W!B. H. ENGLISH, of Indiana. MEF.TiXIi OF DEMOCRATIC CEXtkal committee. Decatur, Ind., July 29, ’BO The members of the Democratic Central Committee will meet at their rooms in Decatur, Ind., on Tuesday, August 3d, 1«SO, at 2 o clock, p. m., sharp. Business of importance. A full attendance is requested. N. Blackburn, Chm’n. ■■'■ ■ ■■"■- I —The Democrats of Ohio have nominated Judge William Land, of Senaca county, for Secretary of State. The Judge is immensely popular, and will make a strong rut —The SpanishLovernment has been sued by a Mr. JcfctPH Pt drohita, an American citizefi of Cuban birth, for alleged fabe imprisonment. He claims damages t< the tmount of $200,000. ■ —One r eek ago last Saturday the Democratsof Monroe township raised a seventy foot pole, from the top of which floss a beautiful flag and Hancock and inglish banner. It was the first pole rising for this campaign in the count'. Some friend of the good old causr should have reported it for The Demomat. —The Cincinnati Enquirer ought to learn betofe long that its thrusts at the Hoi John G. Thompson are as harmless® were the kicks of a jack at the moon | As regular as campaigns come an aid just so regular does the Enquirer thrust its paper wads at John G., and jdWt so regular does John G. walk off With the laurals. The Enquirer is an able paper, but John G. Thompson has more and better brains than the entire Enquirer gang. —Cam. Schurz don’t command the respect of fair-minded men as he once did. His key-note effort at Indianapolis is regarded by his former admirers as the most bungling sophistry, while manv supporters of the present admin istration freely admit that Schurz can not consistently take the political stump in behalf of any man. let alone one whose official record is so abominably besmirched as is Mr. James A. Garfield s. Republican candidate for President of the United States. Mr. Scut RZ is one of the Civil Service Reformers who utterly disregards what ho preaches. —/ With a deep sense of my obliga- ; tionS under the Constitutitution, I re- i ganiit as my plain duty to suspend you | in filer that the office may be honestly adafinistered. ’ —/?. B. Hayes to Collec- j tor Arthur January 31, 1879 frross abuses of administration have and increased during your insumbency.”— Sherman to Collector Jurthur, January 31, 1879. ‘•Persons have been regularly paid ]y you who have rendered little or no service; the expenses of your office iave increased, while its receipts have ©minished. Bribes, or gratuities in the shape of bribes have been received 1 bv your subordinates in several branches of the Custom House, and you have in no case supported the effort to cor- j rect these abuses.’’ — Secretary Sher- i man to Collector Arthur January. 31, j 1879.

CREDIT MOBILIER. There are perhaps very few people who do not know that Mr. James A. Garfield is guilty of having purchased stock in what is known as the Credit Mobilier, but there are many whose minds are not clear on “what was the Credit Mobilier ?” This same question has been asked the New York Sun, and it gives the following explanation which we believe will be of use to the readers of The Democrat, hence we take pleasure in reproducing it. Read it and then preserve it for reference : “Several correspondents, among them an esteemed clergyman in a neighboring town of New Jersey, have requested us to answer this question. They understand, we suppose, the relations of Mr. Garfield to the Credit Mobilier; the broad .relations of the Credit Mobilier to Congress and to the people I are less clear to their minds. “A few years ago the United States endowed magnificently with its lands and bonds, and many valuable privileges, a company organized to build the Union Pacific Railway. When certain shrewd managers of this concern came to count up the cost of the work and to count up the assets to be applied to it, they found an enormous balance on the right side of the book. In order to absorb this balance and transfer it t» their own pockets, they immediately proceeded to form an inside Ringto build the road. They bought an old Pennsylvania charter called the Credit Mobilier, which was admirably adabted for the swindle in view, and under that charter name began the execution of one of the most remarkable and successful frauds in his history. “As officers of the Union Pacific, the members of the Credit Mobilier contracted with themselves for the construction of the line, and fixed their own figures for the work. They thus stripped the Union Pacific of everything of value belonging to it, and set it over to the Credit Mobilier. With one hand they robbed the treasury of the railway company, and with the other they stuffed the blunder into the treasury of the construction Ring, whence it was distributed to the individual conspirators in the form of divi- ( dends of cash, bonds, and stocks. “But the United States, in slight return for its unexampled bounty, had taken a first mortgage on the property. This was inconvenient to the Ring. Having absorbed everything else, they now desired to put a first mortgage on I the road, and take the bonds of that also. But that could be done only by getting rid of the first mortgage of the United States; that, again, could be effected only by act of Congress. To simple-minded and honest men this would seem like a very difficult thing to accomplish; to them it appeared easy enough. They set apart acertain amount of the enormously valuable stock of the | Credit Mobilier—stock which represented both the blunder of the past and the blunder of the future—and gave it Ito Oakes Ames, who agreed to “place 1 it where it would do the most good.” ' He was a member of Congress, and was, i not unjustly, supposed to know exactly how to employ it in order to corrupt I the sources of legislation. With this | corruption fund he bought the VicePresident, several Senators, and the Chairman of the leading committees of the House. Then, by the votes and influence of the these men the desired legislation was had, and a new field of pillage was laid open to the Ring, in j which the Government and the stockI holders of the Union Pacific were equal | sufferers. “It was not possible that a series of i transactions at once so colossal and so ; infamous eould be concealed forever. There came a day when the N’ltti spread I this iniquity before its readers in almost every detail. It was the most shocking revelation of official venality and corruption ever made in the whole course of our history. Investigation followed, and the guilt of the accused members was clearly ascertained. With ; a few exceptions, they added the crime 1 of perjury in their testimony before the committve to the crime of bribery. “Among others. James A. GarfieVd ; was bribed: swore that he had ar hj-ln ■ bribed; Mas convicted of hr 1 ’ perjury by the fl by documentary evideuZ - fIL

character; and the committee, composed of meinbers of his own party, reported him as a bribe taker and a perjurer. k —ln speaking of the rumored change in the editorship of the Journal thu paper did it as a matter of news, an<i the man who is too dull to discriminat between a news item and a personal attack ought to be relieved of any responsibility connected with a newspa per. Week before last the Journal told its readers that on the following week an important change would take place in that office, and upon inquii, we found that our people, almost universally, understood the change to just as The Democrat stated it last week, and the rumor was told The Democrat by a gentleman whose he-1 publicanism has never been questioned, and it also further understands thar it is the State Central Committee that insists upon the stepping out of Mr. Dal Trout. If there is anything wrong in speaking of a change in business affairs, 1 we are not aware of it. It seems, however, that Mr. Trout is, but neverthe- ( less indulged initfor afewweeks to his c heart’s content. —For a thing that pretends to have life the so-called Greenback party is the deadest thing we know of. Two j years ago there were some men of brains c who identified themselves with the par- b ty, for the purpose of making what they could out of it. Having sucked away n j its life there is nothing left except the th enthusiasts, like a fellow whom they I speak of as Jack Studabaker. Jack is a blatant mouthed extremist, so i incessantly talking his worse than non- | sense that he doubtless believes he has some good ideas on the financial ques- ea tion. —— wi —We are authoritatively wwi that a change is actually t/> take place in the Fort Wayne Sentinel, that Messers. Nelson & Morss are to be succeeded by our esteemed journalistic brother, E. A. K. Hackett, of the Bluffton Banner. To all parties interested The Democrat wishes unbounded success. Under the management of Mr. Morss the editorial department of the Sentinel was ably conducted. He is an able journalist, and really the only argumentative writer on the Fort Wayne press. —The Kendallville News responds to our “demand” for justice in the following manner, for which we are thankful: The Decatur Democrat wishes to be placed among those papers which did nothing regretful in their course toward that great Statesman and pure man. Samuel J. Tilden. We can heartly vouch for The Democrat and accord it a prominent position among those papers which did justice to the elected president of the United States. —The Republicans of Cleveland, Ohio, are engaged in a serious fight. There are now two factions, pretty evenly divided, and the chances are, if a judicious nomination be made, that the Democrats will elect the next congressman from that district. • • • —————— —Hancock’s wounds were received in battle, Garfield’s in the halls of Congress. Ntate Mews. Wabash’s population is 3,871. The wheat crop around Delphi is short. Mrs. Schrober, of Jeffersonville, missing. Union City has a population of-■ 487. Madison county has a population ol 27.363. The Marshall county wheat crop is excellent. Wm. Nichols, a mute, was killed by the cars at Connersville, Wednesday. John Vungunde, of Shelbyville, suffered a fatal sunstroke Wednesday. A man named Marshall suffered a fatal sunstroke at Elkhart Wednesday. < Illie Casto, of Rushville, had both , legs broken by the falling of a lumber < pile. f Charles Johnson was fatally injured bv the cars at Richmond, Wednesday, i It is said that a gang of prostitutes t is responsible for the incendiary fires ; Lat Lafayette. *

James Howard, of Jeffersonville, is ■ the latest mysterious disappearance. DIED. j Mathewson— Dallas Freeman, son of i 11 Joshua and Eva Mathewson, died July 1, 1880; aged 3 weeks and 2 days. ' —I I kF”Watermelons at J. W. Place’s, i — ( of the latest styles at < Hiskey & Spangler’s new store. jy22 J tSTTry J. W. Place’s new five cent cigar for a good smoke. 1 O A Just received a lot of fine folding chairs, at Hiskey & Spangler’s—cheap for cash. jy22 cF”When you are in Decatur don’t 5 fail to see J. W. Place’s new style of ( candies. I — JSTSaiI and see Hiskey & Spangler's new furniture, and remember they will not be undereold. 22jy W. Place is receiving some of g the finest peaches ever brought to this ( market. ’ r , c STRemember that you will save ' one dollar and fifty cents by purchasing of Hiskey & Spangler the Woven Wire t Mattaess, price $7. 22jy 8 _ M WhlVwaalilns Pleyed Out. Call on P. C. Schackley and have c your Offices and Rooms covered with 1 Alabastine. It beats calsomining, and ' costs but one half. References : W. r G. Spencer and Peterson & Huffman. , v jF’lliskey & Spangler, the new fur 1 litarc firm, are splendidly located ajff hatold brick corner, opposite Ad/ams unty Bank. New goods ar/riving aily. Call and see them. jy22 Important Mortice. The undersigned derinres all persons nowing themselvesvfndebted to him to ill and settle befjbre the 15th of Auust, 1880, as a&fter that date accounts ill be nipped in other hands for collecP” .otnrTliaikful for past favors, j Frank Hiskey. For new hrniture call on Hiskey & Spangler. FIR-WOIKS! FIREWORKS! Th firewrks on last Saturdny evening vjere th< source of no little amuse- ? mentibut te delight of the farmers . knew no bonds, when W. G. Spencer expldned t them the workings and ‘ advaltages f the Willoughby Patent Gun SptriruGrain Drill. It was just wha has betn wanting years and years, and at last he has secured it at no greaer cost than a common iron-feed ( graii drill. ’ Lsten, wllo he gives you eight reason! why yo. should purchase the Wil- : loufhby Parent Gum Spring Grain > Dril: t 1 It jka,> a Rubber Feed, which j willdistrilKui the grain evenly and not I allow idtolta out in lumps. I i 2 It not crack or break they [ gran, as c®y ether drill made will do. jl r 2. It halthe Timothy Sower in tlup| ; rea-, causii j it to fall evenly allewing th plows to cover it to®^m ee p as n some lases. 4. You tan arange the in > any position Jy 5. It is light aid duralfl^] e weight . lesb than tw|-third }W y other i drill l Jr 6| It caiihot weu 7. It is i force 8. The imouiiZ to the acre can be regulated vitheyut disarranging ari Y I the gearim. even gettiir’ y our i ao «t. ~Z I Lome and examine it and satisfy yourself, for satisfaction is guaranteed or the Drill to be returned at our ex ‘ pense. For sale bv W. G. SPENCERDiscovery. For the speedy cure of Consumption and all diseases that lend to it. such as stubborn Coughs, neglected Colds, Bronchitis, Hay Fever, Asthma, p a in tn the side and chest, dry hacking couHi. tickling in the thioat, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, nd all chronic or lingering diseases of the throat and lungs, Dr. King s New Discovery has i no equal and has established for itself aj | world-wide reputation Many leading physicians recotnmen.l :" 11 * use '* in their practice. The formula f° rni wl iich it is prepared is highly recommended by all I medical journals. ' The clergy and the have complimented it in the most ; glowing terms. Go to y° ur d ru gg’ 9t an(l i get a trial nottle for ten cts., or a regular size for sl. p or 8 ., 1e by Dorwin & Holthouse. More people suffer from Billiousness than any one ailment. If Bilious you will be restless y Our Headaches, low Spirits, Costiveness, no Appeti> e > want of Energy and other symptoms which never fail to give warning i ii; impending danger from a siege of sickness. All this can be avoided, and at. a nominal cost, without any expense j for physicians. Bo to your druggists with a silver dollar or » greenback either, and ' tell him you want a bottle of Dr. Marshall’s Bromoline for the above complain's, and ; take according to directions. You should | take of the Bromoline until you feel entirely free from all sickness. Sold by Dor win , & llolthouse. [July.]

DECATITK MAIF~ — CORRECTED EVERY THVHSDa ’OR.NINO. Eggs, 8 Chickens, - Butter, 8 Turkeys, 6. Lard, 6. Ducks, 5. Tallow, 5. Geese. 4. Wheat, 85 0 90. Timothy seed, i Beeswax, 20. Apples, green, 30 Onions s<) Apples, dried, 4 Honey 18@20 Wool, 35@38. Clover seed, $3.50. Flax seed, sl.lO. Corn, 30 Rye, 50. Oats 25 Hay, SB.OO. Hides, green, 7. SELLING PRICE. Flour, perbbl.,s6 00. Meal, per cwt. SI.OO Salt., per bb1.,52.00 i PPOINTMENT of ADMINISTRATRIX Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Administratrix of the Estate of Chris ian Mitch, late of Adams county, deceased The Estate is probably solvent. MARY E. MITCH, July 29, 1880. Administrairix. Y DMINISTRATRIX S SALE. Notice is hereoy given that the undersigned, administrairix of the estate of I Christian Mitch, deceased, will sell at pub-jk •' lie auction a’ the late residence cf the de-j®S cedentjin St. Marys township, Adams coun-MK ty, Indiana, Ind., on . , 1 Saturday, August 21st, 1880, the personal property of said estate, consisting of hay, oats farming imp’e tg and household goods. Terms of Sale.—Sums of $3 a >. * ide , fl cash; on all sums over Lff'acredi nin months will be givenyye purchaser ing his note with sure^ry^ tithe Bstisfact o', the undersigned /waiviij benefit of vai ation and appr-.rtisement I WB . gale to commence at KO o'clock a. m , J mar: .£ MITCH, •Jfruiy 29, 1880. administratrix. S SALE. Notice is hereby g'ven that the undersigned, Administrator of the mate of Benjamin Baum, deceased, will sell at public sale_ at the late residence of the decedent in Kirkland township, Adams county, Indiana, on Friday, the 20th day of August, 1880, the personal property of said estate, consisting of 1 mare, 2 cows, 2 two year-old heifers, 1 yearling calf, 12 head hogs, II geese, fanning mill bob sleds, hay in the mow, wheat in the bushel, harnesii, twehorse wagok, Buckeye mower, plows, harrows, 2 stove, and many other articles. i <• < Terms or S\ LE _s um 9o f $3 iin( j under 1 cash; on all sutV over $3 a credit of twelve '■ months will be kven by the purchaser giv- I<r ing his note withXurety to the sati.'faction of the undersigned waiving benefit, of valuation and appraLement laws. Sale to 01 begin at 10 o’clock U. el \ 8. C. MILLS, vill July 29, 1880. y Administrator mu ~~ dune / K MEDICINE /4I business now before the public ■ fcjtw I You can make money faster at work for us than at anything else. Capital p not required. We will start you. sl2 a day and upwards made at home by the industriouß. Men. women, boys and girls wanted 1 everywhere to work for us. Now Is the time. You can devote your whole time te t the work, or only your spare moments. No r other business will pay you nearly as well | No one willing to work can fail to make enormous nay by engaging at once. Costly outfit and ‘terms free. A great opportunity for making money easil anil honorably. Address True & Co., Augusta, Maine. 22jy '1 —feF' dIMh (Cray’s Spec-ilk Jledicine. TRADE MARK TllE GREAT TRADE MARK English Remihy S. . an unfailing cure yjlJjgsa&E for seminal n<-ss. Spermati r. / rlie i. Impotency, TS and all BeforeTakcruD h at follow n* a.4/'fgr Taking consequence >f Self-abuse; as loss ! memory, Universal Lassitude, Pain in the Buck, Dimness of Vision, Premature Old Age, ind many other diseases that ien l to lus mity, Consumption and a premature grave. I fitejy-Full particular in <mr pamphlet, which we desire to send froe >y mail to every one. The Specific Me iicine is sold by all druggists at $1 per packaas, or 6 packages for $5, or will be sent irce by mail on receipt of the tnon“V bv addressing THE GRAY MEDICINE CO., No. 10 Mechanics Block, D'Uroit, Mich. 1 Y; Great ehancet tni ike monies Mmi »<y. We neek a person in every town to take subscripti »ns for the largest, cheapest and best i lu<Tated family publication in the world. Vny one can become a successful agent. >ix elegant . works of art given free to subscribers. The price is so low that almost everybody sub- ▼ scribes. One agent reports taking 120 sub- i scribers in a day. A lady reports making over S2OO clear profit, in ten dovi. All who engage make money fast. You can devote . ■ all your time to the business, or only your | epare lime You noed not be iway from ; home over night. Cou cun do it an weH as ' others Full directions and terms free. Elegant and expensive outfit free It you want profitable work send us your address at ' once. It costs nothing to try the business - B ’No one who engages fails to make great pay iH ; Address George Stinson x Co-. Portland, >■ Maine. 'J’J’y f