Decatur Democrat, Volume 24, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1880 — Page 10

THE EAST DEAL. The Confession of a Reformed GsmMor—A Might That Made Him Swear off Farever, [Leadville L'hronia!*.] “I never dealt again !" These words fell from the lips of a gentleman well-known in Leadville, yet few recognize in the elegant, easy-going man who now commands the respect of his fellow-citizens, the once cool-head-ed, imperturbable gambler, who, in his day, figured prominently along the Pacific Cost, and was almost universally recognized as the shrewdest faro-dealer in the west. “As for the game's morality, that’s neither here nor there. When dealt upon the square it is much like any other game. It is not to be thought that the laws will hinder men a bit if they want to play, and often they are forever cured of playing when they find it doesn’t pay. I dealt the game for twenty years, but I’ve quit now. I made nothing, nor lost anything, and, but for a sight I once saw, I should probably be a gambler still. Hereby hangs a tale. Let me tell it : “Some three years ago I run a high toned game at a certain place you probably know, for it strikes me I saw you there. It was a square game, as I will leave any one to say —a thriving game, for I dealt for half the bloods in town, and often I had as many as five layouts at a time, with too much business on hand to even get time to rest. One evening a young chap strolled in, with a sort of curious stare on his face, and I concluded right there that he was green. He was fair-haired, and had a pair of blue eyes and clear cut features —an innocent looking young fellow if ever I saw one. It only required a glance to convince you that he was a stranger in the gambling room. He soon was at home, though, for I saw in his blue eyes the love of play, and after that evening he was a constant visitor. He played his pile right up and up and never growled if his luck was hard, and on every card he'd stack the limits up in blue. Take it altogether, his luck was hard—sometimes the hardest I think. I eyer saw. I’ve known him to lose at a single deal seven double shots. “Business for me, of course; but somehow it almost seemed too bad. I couldn’t say a word, though, and yet I liked the boy. lie had lots of the filthy. I think from the day he began he must have dropped a cool SIOO,OOO on the game, and he never growled. “We both quit gambling the same night; he, poor lad, for sufficient reasons, and I, because I loathed the game. It was in this wise :

“His coin gave out in a deal or two, and he put up a diamond ring just to see his ill luck out, you know. The chips soon went. He had a pin, a flaming stone in massive metal. He passed that in without a word and drew SSOO cold. So help me God ! I wished him luck as heartily as any player there; but. no. his last stack went my way on a losing ace. lie drew S3OO more, I think, on his watch and chain, and tried his line of bets again, but his luck was gone. .My God 1 I’ll never forget the pale, haggard look that crossed his face, but he was game. He uttered a word, and kept his chair like a pillar of stone. For a moment he seemed dazed at his reverses, but suddenly his eye caught the thin, worn circlet of dull gold on his little finger. He looked at it a little while, and a dark wave of hot. crimson blood passed over his face, for this circlet seemed to cling even faster than the flashing gent he had passed in before. He at last stripped it off his finger and handed it to me. It came reluctantly, this worn, old ring. -What can I have on this ?’ he asked. ‘I don’t know what its value is, hut I’ll redeem it first of all. It might have cost five dollars when new. but it was worthless then. Still I passed out a fifty stack in return, just to let him try again. He planked it down in the pot, and then low upon the table he laid his face upon his folded arms. Well, for a wonder, his luck changed and he won three tames. lie took no notice of me as I told him when the limit barred, and so we played two fifties on each card. Would you believe it? In the deal the pot won out and never lost! And still he lay with his face hid in his

arms. The deal was out and I shook him up, but not a muscle moved, and, raising his face, I started back in ho»ror at the glassy expression of his eyes, for the boy was dead ! “I’ve often wondered to myself since that night what thoughts went flitting through his brain as he bowed his head and hid his face from our sight, what pledges of a better life, regrets for a fortune he had thrown away with lav - ish hand, and loathing of his irrevocable course. Who can but guess at them, but may never feel. His face showed years of hell endured in that brief game, but it was not until the coroner’s jury sat that I learned all. Before them was developed the fact that the ring which had changed his luck, as it did his existence, was one given him by his dear old mother years before. Poor boy ! I never dealt again.’

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GRAND RAPIDS&INDIANA RAILWAY In Effect June. 20, 1880. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. C4C EX. NO. 3 NO. 1 Cincinnati 730 P U1 • 2(la “i Richmond 1020“ 1040 ! 3 2opm Winchester 1122 ‘ 11<5 “ 437 Ridgeville 1145“ 12i»-pm 50.5“ Portland 12 23 “ 1230 “ ,5 35 “ Geneva 12 50 “ 105 “ 605 “ Decatur 134 ‘ 147 “ 650 “ Monmouth 140 i '53 656 “ Fort Wayne arrive 3 25am 2 46' "45“ Fort Wayne leave! sno “ 305 “ Kendallville 6«2“ 4 2fi“i Lagrange 640 “ 5 10“.’ Sturgis 7 01“ 535 “ Kalamazoo 2 ‘ 705 “ Grand Rapids arrive 10 25 “ ■ 9XO“ Grand Rapids leave 10 45 “ lioupm Howard City 6.Mpmi 915 “ Big Rapids i 7 .%• “ ,10 1? ‘ ‘ Reed City arrive; 525 ’1046 “ 1 Reed City leave M 5 “ :10 46 “ Cadillac arrive 335 “ 3 2.5 am; Cadillac leave Traverse City 54S “ 556 “ Petoskey arrive’s 00 “I7 <5 “ I GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. NO. 2 ' NO. 4 N 0.6 Petoskey 9 10pm 700 am Traverse City 1100 “I . 900 “ Cadillac arrive “ Cadillac ... leave 1 3'”im 1127“ Reed City arrive “ 1246 pm Reed City leave “ 1 06 “ Big Rapids “ j 1 43 “ Howard City “ 2 41 “ Grand Rapids arrive; 550 “ 4 15“ Grand Rapids leave) 730 am 4 45 “ Kalamazoo ; 945 “ I I 7 05 “ Sturgis 11 22 “ 1 8 40 “ Lagrange 1149“ 907 “ Kendallville ’l2 36pm) ,955 “ Fort Wayne arrive 150 “ . 1115“ Fort Wayne leave 2 10“ I 6 35am 12 35am Monmouth 300 “ 722 “ “ Decatur 307 “ i 728 “ 134“ Geneva .349 “ 812“ 222 “ Portland ’418“ 838 “ 252 “ Ridgeville 443 “ 904 “ 335 “ W i nchester 506“, 925 “ 357 “ Richmond 6 05 “ JO3l “ i 500 “ Cincinnati ) 8 50 “ . 1 45pml 735 “ A. B. LEET, Gen. I’ass.As't. »I P. WALCH. Ag’t, Decatur. TOLEDO, DELPHOS & BURLINGTON. In Effect Jauftary sth, 1880. WEST. ‘ ! EAST. STATIONS. MAE. FRT MAE; FRT 1 1 i a. m. p m.j p. m. p m. 6:30 12:45 J Holgate 7:00 12:30 6.50) l:osiNew Bavaria 6:36 12:09 7:00) l:ls'Pleasant Bend .... 6:24 11:55 7:16i l:33|North Creek 6:09 11:40 7:28] l:44)Detiance Pike ! 5:58 11;30 7:58) 2:14 Dupont 5:26 10:57 8:20' 2:33 Evansville 5:09 10:39 8:25’ 2:3BlHuntstown . 5:C5 10:35 8:85; 2;49|Millers 4:51 10:22 9:01 3:l6|Fort Jennings ...) 4:25 9:55 9:30) 3:45 Delphos 4:00 9:30 a. m p. m j )p. m.) a. m. p m a m. ... Ip. m. p. tn. 4:00 6:oo’Delphos 12:30 8:00 4:36 6:44 Venedocia 11:53 7.10 4:53 7:oolJonestown 11:3b 1 6:49 5:11 7:22 l Shasta 11:20 6:26 5-201 7:331 Van Wert Jnnct’n 11:12 6:15 5:44 8:02 Beldon 10:49 5:44 6:11 8:35 Willshire . .10:21 5:10 6:26 8:54 Pleasant Mills . . 10:06) 4:47 i 6:55 9:40 Decatur 9:40! 4:09 7:15) 10:08 Peterson 9:15' 3:38 732 10:281 Cora 9:00! 3:14 7:38| lo:36!Craigville 8:54l 3:06 8:00j 11:07 Bluffton 8:30) 2:33 P-m-j a. m. 6:00; Bluffton . ’. ■ ’ 1 6:14 11:26 Crosby 8:16 2:10 6:22 11:39 Liberty Center .. . j 8:08, 1:56 I 6:85|11:58 Boehmer ■ 7:56! 1:35 6:42 12:06; Buckeye 7:60 1:26 7:oo'l2:3O'Warren ) 7 : 30 ux) . <U G. GRIND, L. J. G AST <,en 1 Pasacnger Aaent. Ag t Decatur.|

FOR THE LAST SIX TEARS I HAVE SOLD THE BEST mar made clothihgi And still continue to do so at Ffiees ttafc yWf * A / /; w J? °* »» zr i ' i ilwi4 | No Misrepresentation! THE COODS I SELL I GUARANTEE! In every respect. I can show the largest and most complete stock of Men’s, Youth’s and Boy’s Clotning in the market. All 1 ask is a close inspection before purchasing. MEJSCHAHT TAILORING I also, in addition to my Ready-Made Clothing, run the only first-class ’tailoring Department in Adams county. All work done in this department warranted to fit. I keep a large stock of the BEST PIECE GOODS * to be found in the markets, East or West. Give me a call and be convinced that I mean business. I. Strass, Decatur, Feb. 26, 1880. The Clot hied. ■ 4 Ilk j THE DOCTOR’S TESTIMONY. A. S. Russell, of Marion, Wayne county, N. Y., says: The wonderful sue cess of Thomas’ Eclectric Oil in all cases of acute and chronic inflammation catarrh, bronchitis, lame back, etc., make, the demand for it very great. THE DRUGGIST’S TESTIMONY. Columbus, 0., Feb. sth. 1880. Messrs. Foster, Milburn & Co.: Regarding the sale of Thomas' Eclectric Oil, we are gratified in being able to inform you that since we took the agency, three months ago, for the sale and introduction of Eclectric Oil, our very large sales prove conclusively to our minds, this remedy has extraordinary merits as witnessed by the unprecedented sale. We anticipate a large increase in the sale, as its virtues become more generally known. Yours, truly, R. JONES & SON, Dealers in Drugs and Surgical Instruments. Sold by Dorwln & Bolthnufie, Decatur, Ind. Go to Dorwin & Holthouse for Mrs Freeman’s New National Dyes. Forbrightness and durability of color are unequaled. Color from 2to 5 pounds. Price 15c.

ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. Notice is hereby givwn that I, the undersigned, administrator of the estate of Daniel Pontius, deceased, will, pursuant to the order of the Adams circuit court, made at the May term of said court, 1880, on and after Saturday, the 7th day of August. 1880. at my residence ibout two miles west of Geneva in said county of Adams, sell to the highest and best bidder the following described real estate of said decedent, situate in Adams county, state of Indiana, to-wit: The undivided two thirds of the east half of the northwest quarter of section fourteen (14), in township twenty-five (25) north, range thirteen (13) east Terms.—fine-third cash, one-third in nine and one-third in eighteen months from day of sale; deferred payments to bear six per cent interest and to be secured to the satisfaction us the undersigned, waiving valuation and appraisement laws. JOHN A. MARTIN, July 8, 1880. Adm ini st mt or. Studabaker & Quinn, att’ys.

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k PPOINTMENT or ADMINISTRATRIX Z Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Administratrix of’the Estate of Christian Much, late of Adams county, deceased. The Estate is probably solvent. F MARY E. MITCH, July 29, 1880. Administratrix. DMINISTRATRIX’S SALE. 2 Notice is hereny given that the undersigned, administratrix of the estate of Christian Mitch, deceased, will sell at public auction a' the late residence of the deccdent’in St. Marys township, Adams county, Indiana, Ind ,on Saturday, August 21st, 1880, the personal property of said estate, consisting of hay, oats farming implements and household goods. Terms of Sale. —Sums of $3 and under, cash; on all sums over J 3 a credit of nine months will be given, the purchaser giving his note with surety to the satisfaction of the undersigned, waiving benefit of valuation and appraisement laws. Sale to commence at 10 o clock a. m. MARY E MITCH, July 29, 1880. Administratrix 8 SALE. Notice is .hereby g ven that the undersigned, Administrator of the estate 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 proper’y 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, harness, twohorse wagon, Buckeye mower, plows, harrows, 2 guns, stove, and many other articles. Terms of Sale —Sums of $3 and under cash; on all sums over $3 a credit of twelve months will be given by the purchaser giving his note with surety to the satisfaction of the undersigned, waiving benefit of valuation and appraisement laws. Sale to begin at 10 o’clock a. in. S. C. MILLS, July 2s, 1880. Administrator ~ SHERIFF’S SALE. Sarah Bailey, Mahlon Bailey vs. Edgar J. Hunter, Eva M. Hunter In the Adams Circuit Court of Adams county, Indiana. By virtue of an order of sale to me di rected and delivered by the clerk of the Adams circuit court, of said county and state, upon a judgment rendered at the May term, 1880, of the said court, I have levied upon the real estate hereinafter mentioned, and will expose for sale, by public auction, at the east door of the court house in the town of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of Saturday, August 21st, 1880, the rents and profits, for a term not to exceed seven years, of the following described: premises, in Adams county, Indiana, to-wit: In-lot number eighty-five [Bs], in Brandeberry's addition to the town of Monroe, Adams county, Indiana, as the same is designated on the recorded plat of said addition to the town of Monroe. And on failure to realize threfrom the full amount of judgment, interest thereon and costs, I will, at the same time and in the manner aforesaid, offer for sale the fee simple of the above described premises. Taken as the property of the defendants to satisfy said order of sale. HENRY K'RICK, July 29, 1886. Sheriff Adarns Co. Sheriff’s Sale. William Trout, George Brothers vs. Elisha A. Guy, Mary Guy. In the Adams Circuit Court of Adamscounty Indiana. By virtue of an order of sale to me directed and delivered by the Clerk of the Adamscircuit court of said countyand state upon a judgment rendered at the September term, A. D. 1879, of the said court, tn favor of said plaintiffs and against the defendants 1 have levied on the real estate hereinaftey mentioned and will expose for sale, by publicauction, at. the east door of the court house,in thetown of Decatur, Adams counity, Indiana,between thehoursof lOo’clock ' a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m.,on SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1880, the rents and profits for a term not to exceed seven years of the following described premises,situated in Adams county, Indi ana, to-wit : The southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section five [s], township twen-ty-eight [2B] north, range fifteen [ls[ east, containing forty acres, more or less, in Adams county, state of Indiana. i And onfailure to realize therefrom the j ful! amount of judgment, interest thereon i and costs, I will, at the same time and in | the manner aforesaid, offer for sale the fee I simple of the above described premises. I Taken as the property of the defendants ; to satisfy said order of sale. HENRY KRICK, July2®. 1880. Sheriff Adams Co. ! TO NON RESIDENTS. J The State of Indiana, Adams county, Ss.. •In the Adams Circuit Court, September term, 1880. t Emma N. Kelly ) vs » Divorce No. 1337. Joseph Kelly ) It appearing from affidavit, filed in theabove entitled cause, that Joseph Kelly, the above named defendant, is a non-resident of the stale of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said Joseph Kelly that she be and appear be- : torethe Hon. Judge of the Adams circuit court on the first day of the next regular ) term thereof, to be holden at the court house in the town of Decatur, commencing on . Monday, the 27th day of September, A. D. • 1880, ano plead by answer or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in his absence. llitness my name and the seal of said court hereto affixed, this 31st day of July, A. D.IBBO. N. BLACKBURN, Clerk. Aug. 5, 1880.