Decatur Democrat, Volume 24, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1880 — Page 2

Th * jB DEMOCRAT. Oemocratlc Mate Ticket. For Governor, FRANKLIN LANDERS. For Lieutenant Governor. ISAAC P. GRAY. For Secretary of State. J. G. SHANKLIN. Auditor of State. 31A11 LON D. MANSON. Treasurer of State, WILLIAM FLEMING. Judges <>f the Supreme Court. JO U N T. SCOTT, .1. A. S. MITCHELL. Clerk of the Supreme Court. GABRIEL SCHMUCK. Reporter of the Supreme Court. A. N. MARTIN. Attorney General. T. W. WOOLLEN. Superintendent of Public Instruction, A. C. GOODWIN. District t icket. For Congress, GENERAL JAMES R. SLACK. Joint Representative —Adams and Jay, DAVID V. BAKER. Joint Rerepentative —Adams. Jay and Wells, DAVID F. KAIN, Prosecuting Attorney, JOHN T.' FRANCE. Democratic* ounty fickel. For Treasurer, ROB’T. D. PATTERSON. For Sheriff. HENRY KRICK. For Surveyor, G. F. KINTZ. Commissioner —Ist Dist. JOHN RUPRIGHT. Commissioner —3rd Dist. LEANDER DUNBAR. For Coroner. JOHN E. SMITH. laneock'N 'cntiments. The true and the proper use of the military power, besides defending the National honor against foreign Nations, is to uphold the laws and civil government and to secure to every person residing among its the cngoynient of life., liberty and property. The right of trial by jury, the habeas corpus, the liberty of the press, the freedom of speech, the natural rights of property must be prser ed. Power may destroy the forms but not the principles of justice. These will line, in spite of the sword. The great principles of American liberty still are the lawful inheritance of this people and ever should be. Armed insurrections or forcible resistance to the law will be instantly repressed by arms. Noth in gca n in timit I ate me from do ing what 1 believe to be honest and right. Arbitrary power has no exception. s —.- ' • TUI'. SOUTHERN XEG ROES. Why They Now Live in Peace and Love Willi Their Old Masters and Vote the Same Ticket. By Judge James IFalher, of Waco, in Waco, (Texas) Examiner In 1835 my father, quitting farming, sold his plantation and negroes, except Hannah and her family. Hannah was the only servant given my mother by I her father at the time of her marriage ; with my father in 1846, Jim, the bus- j band of Hannah, worked the garden, drove the carriage and superintended ’ generally, while Hannah attended to ! Ihe mansion. Felix and George, sons of Hannah, wen? my playmates during my boyhood days. In 1846 I left them all in Georgia and came to Texas. In 1 1860 my mother, brothers and one sis- ' ter came to Texas and brought with • them the family of negroes and stopped . in Freestone county. At the close of ■ the war the family of negroes number- ■ ed forty-six. We had grown up togeth er and loved each other, white and black, j notwithstanding color and previous condition. At the close of the war we of- ; sered to give the negroes 640 acres of land, if they would settle and live upon it. But like all other negroes, they were crazed with the idea of freedom and listened to the extravagant tales that were disseminated among them by the Radical emissaries and they scattered off to different localities and many have died. After the war I removed to this plade and have seldom seen them since. A few years ago on my return from court at Fairfield. I was surprised to find the two old negroes Jim and Hannah, on the road. They had been watching for me from breakfast until noon, when I came along, and such a sceneoccurred as I never before

! and hope never again to witness. They ' told me they had in like manner waylaid the road twice previously, but now they had once more laid eyes on me and their eyes were full of tears. They told me they never in all their life had worked so hard and lived so hard as since freedom. “Come, Mars Jimmy you have got land—let s all go and settle down ami live as we uster live —if you will, Mars. Jimmy, every one of us will come and live with you just like we uster." When I told them I was broke down by the war and like them had to work hard to support my family, the old woman gave vent to a flood of tears and in the extreme of anguish exclaimed : “Mars Jimmy, I nursed and carried you m my arms when you were a baby and now I am old and almost helpless do. Mars Jimmy, come back and less all live together like we uster. Oh. this freedom, this freedom. I never did want to leave you all. hut Dick made us.’ He is to blame, for all of dis, for he no business believin dem Republicans gwine to do what they said they would do. Finally I told them to go to Tehuacana Hill and li\e with their old Mistress. I would let him have land there to cultivate, etc. My mother lived then, as now with my sister and brother-in-law, near Tenuacana Hills. The old negroes and myself parted in tears. \\ ith grateful hearts they declared they would ••mind me this time. Last Saturday : received a note from Tenuacana reminding me that last Monday was the 84th birthday of mother and I must come and take dinner with her. I arrived at Tenuacana about eight o'clock Monday morning and sou nd I had traveled and been up all night ; Sunday night on the train, to attend a “negroe dinner! 3 es, a negro dinner, ; and never did I enjoy a dining occasion | more than I did that one. Last year, old Hannah succeeded in moving up and settling with old Miss and carried with her some six or eight children and grandchildren. This year she conceived the idea of giving old Miss a birthday dinner, sent word to all of her children ' and grandchildren to be sure and come , to the dinner ami caused the note to be written to me. About twenty-five of the old family negroes attended and a more cordial, heartfelt greeting and pure, unalloyed enjoyment never occurred. We all shed tears of joy and gladness once more to meet together. To see those two old folks, who had lived together as mistress and servant half a century, with their children and grandchildren once more assembled together as of old, drawn together voluntarily by family ties, sundered by those who cannot, or do not, appreciate the true relations which once subsisted between ourselves and our slaves —sored upon me the thought that if our Northern persecutors could but look in upon that family scene they certainly would relent in their persecution. Especially since it was a celebration of “Old Miss birthday, ' gotten up by themselves and they did not even let old Miss know of it until the dawn of her 84th anniversary, old Hannah being her junior by about eight years. When dinner was announced ready, old Hannah escorted mother to the table and seated her and then the rest of us in turn. All of the whites being seated,old Hannah gave the word, "Now. gals, hop around and wait upon the table, like you uster do in old times.’ We had a bountiful supply of well barbecued meat and quite a list of garden vegetables, with a stand of ripe peaches and cherries and pastry such as few can excel old Hannah in fixing up. We had a good, not to say glorious old fashioned dinner and all. white and black, enjoyed it beyond description. We parted full of good feeling and with the assurance by old Hannah that it should be repeated every year as long as. old Miss live. Now, although such demonstrations may not be common throughout the South, yet I know it was simply a more clearly developed outward expression of similarities—not to say love—subsisting between the blacks generally and “old Massa and Mistress. ‘ From experience and loss of confidence in their new friends, the blacks are beginning to long “for de old folks at home. - ’ It is tins that is now at work among them that gives “de ole folks’’ the superior influence over them and not, as charged by Northern fanatics, intimidation, &c.

HANCOCK WKBTIM«. Never, in the history of Berne, has I there been such a meeting and such ini terest manifested by the Democrats of the south part of the county than that which took place at that patriotic town on Saturday last. A hickory pole 110 foet long was raised, on which was suspended a beautiful flag 11 by 21 feet, that is an honor to the town, and to the Democratic party. Andrew Gottschalk, Henry Michaud and others deserve great credit for the interest which they manifested on the occasion. 1 hen three long and hearty cheers were given for the unfurled flag and Hancock. Still we were greatly disappointed in failing to get the speaker promised us by the committee. A. Gottschalk called the immense crowd together and introduced I. Hook, Esq., who very eloquently, with appropriate remarks <or the occasion, entertained the meeting for an hour, at the conclusion of which the speaker was loudly applauded. Upon motion of 8. Smith a meeting of the Democrats at the School House in Berne, in the evening, was announced, for the purpose of organizing a Hancock and English club. Whereupon the Democrats present signed the following articles of organization, to-wit . HANCOCK CLUB. Ist. The undersigned agree to organize a club for patriotic purposes. 2d. The club shall be styled the Hancock and English Club of Berne. 3rd. The officers of the club shall consist of one President, two A icePresidents. one Secretary and one Treasurer. , 4th. The object of this club shall , be to forward the political interest of . the candidates of the Democratic paity in the great political campaign of 1880, by all honorable and patriotic means. sth. Every person who shall sign these articles shall be a member of this club. 6th. The members of this club shall form a military company to attend political meetings, but no one shall be compelled to become a member thereof. 7th. The club shall hold one meeting on Wednesday evening of each week, and shall provide speakers to address the club on each occasion. On motion of 11. Michard. Andrew j Gottschalk and Harvey Haruff were chosen Vice-President. On motion of L. Hedington, Geo. W. Gates was chosen Secretary. On motion of S. Smith. Wm. Sheets was chosen corresponding Secretary. On motion, 11. Michard was chosen Treasurer. On motion the club adjourned to meet on Wednesday evening at the school house in Berne. The club which was numerously signed extend its thanks to the many democratsof Geneva for their assistance in raicing the pole, and particularly to the Geneva Coronet Band for the fine music which they furnished on the occasion. Samuel Smith, Pres. George W. Gates, Sec. Our farmers and owners of stock now have a chance to procure a copy of Navin s Explanatory Stock Doctor, now being canvassed for in Adams county by Mr. J. Baxter, who is thf authorized agent. It is a valuable work, and should be in the hands <! every stock owner. Hs Mrs. Dora K0ch,454 Elm Street. Buffalo says: I have used Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil for Neuralgia. Croup and Burns, and in each case it proved very successful. I consider it the best family medicine I know of and would not be without it. Sold by Dorwin & Holthouse. Count Andrassy, the Austrian di plomist, recently had a narrow escape, lie was visiting his elder brother at the family estate, where he had not been for forty years. Some iron works were being inspected, and a journey had to be made down a cutting in the face of a precipitious cliff, in a wagon drawn by a rope worked by a steam engine. The Count and his sister-in-lay and another lady for traveling companions. The seat of the wagon broke down, and the whole party would probably have been killed, had not Count Mano, who was watching the decent, instantly stopped the engine. The Count was flung into the cutting, and just escaped being crushed.

‘ Here is a criticism of Bernhardt by Alice Harrison, the burlesque actress: “I think the American public will be ■ disappointed, They will go once to see I her and that’s all. I paid $lO for a seat up in the fourth tier of the Gaiety Theater, London, to see the best advertised actress in the world. I call her unevenly great; that is my opinion of her as an artist. She is the female Barnum of the day. W hy, she even advertises her thinness. I have seen plenty of actresses far thinner than she. But she uses everything as an advertising dodge. She decends to little tricks, too, which I think are out of place in a legitimate actress, and are only becoming in a soubrette like myself. She wares thin, long mnscatelle gloves, and toys with them, pulling them up and down. She bangs her hair, and the frizzes reach to her eyebrows’, and she does these little tricks,” and .Miss Harrisson illustrated the feminine habit of smoothing the bang down over the forehead. “Now. those tricks are not worthy of a great actress —that is soubrette’s business. She has very high cheek bones, and her face is not remarkale. Her very eyes are flashing and penetrating But their expression is peculiar, they remind me of a whipped hound.' M. A. St. St. Boniface. Manitoba. writes: “Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil is a public benefit. It has done wonders here, and has cured me of a bad cold in one day. ' Sold by Dorwin & Holthouse. A Hungarian officer named Szerk remesky swam across the Flatten Sea. The distance was twenty English miles, and the time seventeen hours. The only refreshment taken was a little wine. F. Burrows of the firm of Burrows & Winstanley, Sarnia and Wilkesport, writes that he was cured of a very dangerous case of inflammation of the ungs solely by the use of five bottles of Eclectric Oil. Feels great pleasure in recommending it to the public, as he had proved it, for many of the diseases it mentions to cure, through his friends, and in nearly every instance it.was effectual. Sold by Dorwin & Holtnouse. —Subscribe for The Decatur Democrat. (Inly $ 1.50 per year.

STUDY BAK ER & QUINN. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over the Adams County Bank, Decatur, Indian« 25jy79tf PETERSON&~HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice in Adorns and adjoining coun’ies. Especial m tent ion given to collections and titles io real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. O. O. F. building. 25jy79tf V G. HOLLOWAY. M. I)., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office in Houston's Block, up-stairs. Will attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Kesi deuce on north side of Monroe street. 4th house east, of Hart's Mill. 25jy79tf 8. G. I!ALSTON. PHYSICIAN A SURGEON, GENEVA, INDIANA. Office aver Harrod's Furniture Store. Pr-uessional calls promptly attended to at all houis. 2ojyi9tf P SHACKLEY, House, Sign, and Carriage Painter. And Puper Hanger. Graiiiina, Calsomining, Whitewashing, etc. Prices to suit the times. Sixteen years in Adams e->unty. Give me a call and save money hop on southeast coiner of Jefferson ami Second streets. Decatur. Ind., Aug. 5, 1879. Baug79 R B. Allisos, Bres't. W. IL Niblick,Cashier. It. STVKAiiAKER, Vice Pres't. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUB. INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf j JOHN SHIREY, .AUCTIONEER, Wishes to say to the people of Decatur and vicinity that he is now the only professional auctioneer in the county and that he will at all times be ready to attend to calls in his line of pusiness. Thirty-five years experience will enable him to give satisfaction beyond a doubt to all who employ him. Charges will be very reasonable. Orders left at the law office of France & Hooper will receive prompt attention. jy:2w3 JOHN SHIREY.

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