Decatur Democrat, Volume 24, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 25 November 1880 — Page 3

THE |ECATUR DEMOCRAT Advei Hmim nt». Lccalsk-Place, Martin. Do w n .< ji! p house. fLVITm i n ;s anti HOLISM EN. In view of the fact that Epizooty, 01 Catarral al Influenza i prevailing among the horses in this vicinity to an alarming extent. Pholty. the druggist, has purchased a work, on this and other diseases of the horse, written by J. Shelton Dodds, the most eminent Veterinary surgeon of this country. Thefbook will be sold at SI.OO, and every .farmer and owner of horses in Adams county should have one now. Cali at Sholty’s before they are all gone. To Opr Patrons.—To ths pa’rong of The Democrat we desire to speak a word or two. During the campaign we let business go to the dogs, as it were, and the consequence is, nearly all our earnings for several months last past are standing out in small dribs over the county and elsewhere. Now, we have not the time to go to the house of every patron to collect what is due us, and even if we had it would eo»t nearly as much as the account, amount to to hire livery teams and travel over the county. To avoid this unnecessary outlay subscribers can send ju.- the amount by registered letter,or by postofliee money order, and in all such eases the subscriber can deduct the cost for so sending from his indebtedness, as we are willing to pay ferthii’. If you don't know how much you owe send snare, no matter how lirtle, ati'l we will give you he proper credit, he need a new press very much, and have ample means for that purpos», but it is standing out in small dribs. Now if each patron of the office will do a little for us we will purchase a new press and improve the paper correspondingly. And now a word with our b isiness ssen. Nearly every business man in Decatur is a subscriber to The Democrat, but we are sorry to say that very few ever think of paying for it We admit the fault is largely our own, beaause we don’t go and collect the pay, butii isuopleasant thing to run all over Decatur and collect little dribs, when it is just as easy and much better for all >to eoine to the office where the ! boel are and square up. However, if eart wns people are too busy to call I to the office they can pay money to •ur carrier boy, Henry Donovan, who is authorized to receive and receipt for money due the office. Wi have upwards of $3,000 standing •ula- above indiea ed, and it muss »ow he collected. Send it by registered letter, <postoffice money order, to the carrier .or come to the office. Thanks Till your ice houses. The flax factory is doing a fine business Quarterly meeting at the M. E. las’ Sabbath. Many cisterns throughout the town are froie up. Andrew Fritz is around again af'er an illness of a week. if be Defiance Democrat office has a new Cranston press. A large lynx was killed in Wood coup y, Ohio, last week. The Geneva Triumph is mw located in a building erected purposely for it. The dye house continues lobe one of the liveliest places for busin ss in town. Scarlet feveris prevailing to an alarming extent in some localities of the state. The remains of the late Mrs. Boner were brought to this place last Friday for burial. The toa n of Delphos has a new fire i •ngine. Wish we could say the same of D ■catur. 'The M. E. folks have dispensed with eoa) Moves for their church. They now burn wood. ... Many papers throaghou the coun try have suspended publication sine the campaign. 9 From the appearance of the county papers Decatur dealers are not going to have any holiday goods. I Th.' election in Noble county was a tie. The Democratic and Republican electors each having 2,878 votes. little fellow whose name we did L Bo: learn fell while skating last Satur day. inflicting an ugly scalp wound. Mr. Wm. Hendricks, of Monroe I Hte > " n3 h’Pi b rou t:ht us the best load of hist week we have bad in a long

j - | The Pythian ball was well attend- ] - Everybody i» buying pan candies a' ! , I Place's.' Lou Cor'd;', of Winchester, w.u .n town last w\ k. If you know of a news item tell it , to The Democra r. 11. B. \llisou, Esq , has been quite ir sick for several days. g The health of this community is very 1 good at the p esent time, u I Mr®. M. T.'s suggestion would hardly be the square thing in print. I . Counterfeit silver quarter, ami half • dollar, are said to b<- in circulation. Tb it hickory nut pan candy at : Place's beats 'he Jew, all hollo,V. Try ’ it. 1 Krick & Mangold have leaied KoII . vet's Hall. They purpose fixing it up ' some. | A livery stable, saloon and grocery I store were destroyed by fire at Angola _ : recently. 4 The Fort Wayne papers beat the l_ : world on making charges and then retracting them. Mt ' : I If you have anything for which to ; be thankful, to-day is the day for get- ' I ting in vourwork. 11 I If this is squaw winter the latter must have got the bulge on the squaw and froze her to death. R. H. Weaiuer has leased the Rec--1 ord office at Butler. May you reap | many dueats therefrom. R. H. 1 Wood, wood, wood, WOOD' We ‘•wood" be almighty glad if you “wood'' : wood us to the extent of several cords , of wood. Hay will be very scarce here before I spring. Our farmer, are making a ' mistake by letting it be shipped out of I the county. John Miller, the tonsorial artist at j the parlors tie Whipple, thinks this I : country will have a king sometime in I the future, recently. Hunters report hating seen a flock ; ' of oiu hut died wild turkeys about I , foul miles south of Decatur. Now | don t ail rush there at once. If you d ui't intend to pay for your paper in wood, you who promised to 1 do go, must pay for it in cash money 1 •so we can buy the wood elsewhere. 1 We need the wood’ or the monev. * Please bear this in miiid. The city of Fort Wayne could dis- 1 pense with three or four newspaper very ' conveniently. One morning and one ' evening paper, together with the weekly edition of each, are all that a city of that size can well support. More than that number is an imposition on the people. i Garret Burling was united in wed- ! lock this morning to Miss Ilefeu Hart- r man. The ceremonies took place at ' the Catholic church. The Democrat extends its congratulations and trusts < their happiness will remain with them i through all the years of a long and pros- ' i perous life. | i Mannager Morris, of the Olympic, , ' Fort Wayne, has skipped for unknown 1 parts, leaving about SBOO wo tli of creditors to mourn his surreptitious j . skip. Thi' Go-.rtte says the Olympic i will now pass into the hands of a re- i sponsible mana.' r from Chicago, all of which ill be perfectly saii-faetory i to the average Duaturite. Mother Earth is < rapped in a winding sheet of pure, white snow. Nature's beauties are hid from sight, and all that makes life happy seems to be lost forever. The trees look dead, the fra ' grauce of flowers is gone, the song birds ' have all gone to a warmer clime, and 1 all that is left seems dreary end desolate But soon the snow and ice will i melt, the meadows will become green, i flowers will bloom, song birds will re- 1 turn, and space itself will seem to be < toying with elements of inspiration. And so the world moves on There is every indication that this ‘ will be an ex -client winter lor getting out timber of all kinds, the result of , wh ch will be that next summer our factories can run uninturrupted, giving employment to many men and boys, all of which adds largely to the up-build-ing of a tewn. When our factories are all running on full time business becomes active and there is an air about the town that indicates prosperity. We hope that spring will find the yards of our mills and factories filled with material for the summer's work. Shakespeare hath said that the clothes oft proclaim the man, and likewise do (he wrapper and style oft proclaim the cigar. The dandy, or the fop, or the g< nr who wishes to ook tony a'ui'.st invariably calls for a moulded cigar. He does so because it is the smoothest, the prettiest and more fitingb, become, ' himself. He : aucies, too, it is the best, but in this he is often mistaken The ' d best smokers to be found in any mari I kt-t are the car' fully put up hind made . cigars The sweetest and purest Hav , 1 ana c ; gars are rough looking things i just such as the kind of a man above re 1 ferred to w ill pass by as utterly worthless. But they are the best cigars in the ■ wit d. They are all made by hand by f first class cigar makers. If you would r smoke the best always call for a hand made cigar.

Kokomo is to have a free library. Indianapolis is to have another eve i ning paper. It is now proper to start a new railroad project. Prof. Clancy has been eloeuting at Bluffton and Warren Go to Martins for holiday candies, fruits, cakes, etc adv. Mosquitoes are as scarce now as cash in-advance subscribers. Miss Marian Perry, of Richmond, was visiting the Misses Stndabakcr last week. Joseph P. VauCleve. an old resident of Hartford Cit'. died at that place one day last week. The Journal claims eight hundred subscribers. Bet a ten cent piece they haven't three hundred. Jerome Reiff, of Bluffton, has been granted a pension for disabilities contracted during the Mexican war. The Mason & Morgan combination played to a packed, jammed house last Friday night. They gave very good satisfaction. The Huntington Herald is out for Gr int and a strong government in ’BO. The Herald will not be disappointed as to the candidate. Martin will have the largest and most complete stock of holiday fruits, candies. cakes, mils, - fancy fixings." etc., to be found in Decatur, adv. John Walters, of Middlepoint, presented the Van Wert Times with an ear of corn twelve and a half inches long. That's some corn for you. W. G. Spencer and daughter, Miss Flo. spent several days of last week at Indianapolis. W. G. was in attendance at the G r an' Lodge of I. O (). F. A smiling face often hides an empty pocket hook. We've been practicing on smiling ever since Dive Tolan, of the Delphos Herald, perpetrated the above. Rambo apples, bard cider, waluuts and a good warm fire make evenings very comfortable. Weekly visits from Tit Democrat will make them doubly so. Every lawyer in the State should take the Indianapolis daily Sentinel. It is the best law reporter ta be found, as it makes a specialty of reporting de cisions, etc., in the various courts. The Mayer House, Fort Wayne, had a dead-broke theatrical company on its hands last week. Even a company of that kind seems to hitch onto the prevailing idea and stops at the best hotel. The Indianapolis Review, George Harding's paper, is one of the most interesting publications in the State. It’s subscription price is *2 a year, and $2 could be invested in no more profitable way. Some fellow has discovered that the difference between forms and ceremonies is that you sit upon the former and stand upon the latter. If that be true we don't particularly care about having any ceremonies out of doors this weather. The Hartford City Telegram, after an absence of many, many weeks, makes its appearance at this office. It is full of good things and we are happy to know that Bro. Timmons has concluded to permit it to make us weekly visiti again. The Bluffton Chronicle man wants Cumback for senator. There is an idea lingering about us that it makes but little difference one way or the other to the Chronicle man who gets to be senator, only so he holds onto the po-toffice. The N' « York Commercial Advertiser is nothing if not cruel. It says the last seen of Mr. William English he was try ing to beat a newspaper boydown to a cent for a paper containing the news of his defeat. Mr. English's parsimony is as diaphamous as a piece of glass. Now that election is over Bro. Snider, of the Celina Standard, has gone to work and discovered that much of the Christianity of the present day is like a pair of boots, polished up every Sunday morning for church. There is more truth than poetry in the discovery. The New York Independent is exceedingly cheeky. It sends us its prospectus and local notices with the cheeky . information that if we publish the I same a copy of the naper will be sent us for one year. The st bscription price of t .e Independent is $3.00 per year. | and the advertising sent us. at our regular rates, would amount to s2l 50. It may be independent, but it can't shove its independence off on us that easy. Last Saturday a f irmer came to . town with eight uiaefat turkeys. They were alive, ami in some sort of a coop which be had rigged up to haul them to ton ii in. Well, to shorten what voul'l bear being elaborated upon, the ci.i.p failed to do its duty, the turkeys escaped and flaw in all directions, while men, women, childrt n and dogs gave chase. The farmer gave himself as little concern as any one in the crowd. O»e of the turkeys was shot Sunday afternoon while sitting in a tree on First j street.

The McNeil Sisters arc still goini westward. Most .1' the flag poles in Decatur ari I yet standing. That itinerant dead-beat, J. N. Free t is again perambulating in Northern In diana. 4 Bob Bla-kburn of Bluffton wamarried last Thursday to Miss Nora Mills «f Manchester, Ind. s Joe Beegan, formerly of this place was married on Wednesday night o! last week to a Miss Blont.of Wabash The Lagrange Rrgistsr advertisi-i two weeks of Indian summer as beinp 1 k, .. It hasn't shown up in this neck e o woods. The B uffton B inner says the demo 1 cram will begin the presidential cams paign of 188-1 by carrying Indiana twi years hence. 1 Bill Starr, late of the Goshen Times. ■ has purchased a paper at Jacksonville 111. Bill used to teach the writer how ) to tear God. 1 Why wouldn't it be a good idea for some of our enterprising grocers to run a delivery wagon or sleigh. It r would draw custom. The whistle of old Boreas for the past 1 week or so around the corners has been kaen enough to make a fellow dance t like a plantation darky. If you have a friend in some remote , part of the country send him The Democrat for a year. No better holiday present could be ma'le. i I A subscriber wants to know why we gave up so soon after election. Because we were defeated. Our victory is to be sometime in the near future. I ‘ t The Chicago Times has ordered type ■ setting machines from Germany. It is said that one machine will do the work of seven compositors. Poor printers. It is now pretty well understood by most people that the leaders of the Greenl ack party in Indiana sold themselves out to the Republicans just the same as a man sells a drove of hogs or cattle. The innocent voter sees it now. but it is everlastingly too late. The Narrow Gauge Company is having trouble with the citizens of Kokomo. The town council granted the company the right of way for their road along one of the principal streets of the,town, but the citizens residing on that street protested, and now se rious tiouble is feared. Mason & Hamlin organs can be purchased at factory prices, fully warranted, by corresponding with J. W. Cunningham & Bro., general agents, Portland, Ind., who sell a large line of Pianos, Organs, and other musical instruments lower than other agents can sell them. Any piano or organ manufactured will be furnished at bottom prices. Correspondence solicited. .LZt-. 2w. Our own Dr. DcVilbisi is regarded a very successful dentist, but he will have to’ take a back seat for his professional brother at Elkhart. Here is what the Elkhart fellow did, as described by the Democrat of that city : "Dr Short reports rather a strange and uncommon operation in the dental business. About three months ago he h-<d his brother Frank extract a tooth for him which was pretty badly dej cayed. He took the tooth, cleaned it, ■ filled it with gold, and placed it back into the cavi'y from which it had been dr.: rn. It was a pretty painful operation, but to-day. the tooth is apparently as solid as ever, and the tooth is a trifle sore yet, at does not give him 1 any trouble. The pain experienced in extracting the tooth he claims, is nothing compared with putting it back in ! and it '■equires extraordinary nerve to endure the operation, but you get a much nicer job of filling and do not experience that fearful sensation produced by drilling.'’ It seems that Robert R Harvey is one of the bad boys brought up in Bluffton. Some years ago he conducted himself in such a manner as to get inte the Allen county jail for a few months. Gaining freedom he hastened to the far weat, but returned to Bluffton some months since. He declared his intention todo better, whereupon Mr. Frank Wiley employed him to solicit orders for fr_.it trees. He reported big sale’ and returned amazingly large orders to Mr. Wiley, for . which the latter promptly cashed the . commission agreed upon. During his r leisure hours Harvey assisted the Ree publican Central Committee of Wells t county, and bet on Garfield's election B But now Bob is gone, and Mr. Wiley • finds that the duplicate orders in the r hands of the iarmers don't call foi I near so many trees as do the orderi t, returned to him by Bob. The result ii t Wiley is cheated out of over one huu dred dollars in commission*, and hai a large lot of trees bu his hands to can 0 lor this winter. y , _ p Big Hog.—Mr. Wm. Hendricks, o n Monroe tuwnship, sold on Tuesday tt Mr. Samuel Smith, of Berne station, a e hog that weighed 650 pounds. The s beg ne.ted just twenty six dollar... , : —. -»— s Home Again.—Mrs IV. G. Spencer f jr., me Ella Dent, returned from the I. west this morning. Her husband will '- be here in a few wicks, when they t contemplate making their future home I at Boyne Falls. Michigan.

ig Hi. ‘Will—lt is with feelings oi inexpressible pleasure that we are able o announce to u yawning world e,. j b that Raudy is up and on his pins once more. No lever or other disease lurks e > about his anatomy now, and if you 1 want to see him in ail h s glory, just call at his place of business on Monroe street. So help inc gracious I a ~ A Rn.'i'i.a -Th--cli’G'-h trial must occupy a little space again this week. B ' By a glance at last, week's impression it will be seen that The DEMOCRATwas ’’ laboring under a wrong impression as s io who was the defendant in the ease. {{ I The Democrat was of the belief that k Mr- Theodore Kinncdy was the defendant. but we arc in receipt of a | eommunication from 51r. Kennedy J which gives a clear explanation of the o I case, which is that bis wife. Mis Keni nedy. was the plaintiff, she having I the oase brought to a trial for a ' vindication of hirst If. This she ' ! obtained, and that i« all there is of it. I f inis ! r Dear Tcrkey.—Old father Fitzger--0 aid has bought a great many turkeys in 1 his day, and always prided himself on getting the btst end of the bargain t ou turkeys, ns well as everything else, a But la-t Saturday changed the order e I of things somewhat and his diary for i that day will show an exception to , I the general rule. He knew that Thanks. ; givingw i-not long in the future, and as a farmer stepped up X- him with a medium sized hen turkey in his hand he concluded to buy, provided the far--5 iner offered to sell. I! hadn't long to wait, however, whtyi the fanner asked how much lie would give for the turkey. “Fifty cents, said father Fitzgerald, j and the farmer dropped him the turkey t as quick as a dog would drop a hot ! dumpling. Father F. fancied he had r an excellent bargain until he laid his Thanksgiving roast on Donovan & Adelspergers scales, when he found" he ; had paid over eight cents a pound lor it. He was beat. - — - r He Wasn't Mvrd: red. —One day L last week a very respectable looking gentleman called at this office for the purpose of paying for his paper and having it discontinued. He gave his name and the postofliee, but our list at ! that office failed to “show up'’ his name. r Strange, we thought. We inquired if 5 he was receiving the paper regularly, ’ to which he gave an affirmative answer. Stranger still, thought we. Finally a thought struck us, and we suggested ■ the probability of his being in the ■ wrong office. His eyes fairly sparkled at the suggestion, and he asked : "W hy this is the Journal 1 We told him it was not, but that the cause of Dexnoc- ■ racy was espoused in The Democrat, I and that here is where The D. mocuat . ■ is published. We told him the Journal was published in the next building to the north when lie made a hasty jump for the door. Gaining the latter hej stopped and said ' -‘Well now. see here, 1 I owe it to you to say that I am sur- j prised. I always fancied that if a Re- i publican was caught in a Democratic printing office he would be murdered. But you appear to be as quiet and peaceable a man as I ever met. 111 call and see you sometime.” Doubly strange, thought we. A Waif—One night last week, just as Lee Linn, the energetic and able editor of the Wabash Conrur. was sitting down to tea the door-bell attached to his front door was vigorously sound- j 4 ! ed. He responded promptly, but, as ( he says, tin person who had evidently ( sounded the bell haa disappeared and all that met histision was a basket. Os what then occurred he says in his 4 paper of -last Saturday : “Carefully t picking up the basket it was carried inside and opened. May the good Lord grant that we may never be called upon again to pass through such an ordeal as the opening of that basket and the i disclosing of its contents proved. , Snugly wrapped in good warm clothing was a healthy looking babe, of the female gender! Pinned to the. sleeve of •the little one's dress was a slip of paper on which was traced in a delicate ( hand the following : “Lee Linn, please take care of your baby." The “better-half ’ of the household B read the note, and then directed a lock of stein inquiry at the -wosser half r It was a perilous moment for the late ter, but by a strong effort he recoverg ed his presence of mind su fficieutly to remind her that twelve years of mar s ried life had failed to develop any j such little annoyances at home, and _ ths t that fact ought to go a long way ing his inn > euce ia the , r present case. The species of argument -g stilled what at first gave high promise i s of developing iuta a domestic cyclone, and the little one was removed from lM the basket and given the best the house - e eould afford. We promise that the poor wait shall be kindly cared for. but we do hope that time and remorse of >f conscience may some day impel the ii unnatural parents to come forward and a prove to a doubting world that the edie toi id' ibe Com i' ris not iu the remotest degree responsible lor the little stranger’s appearance on this mundane r, sphere.' I A W, stern Trip.— Mr. W. 11. y Hughe’ returned last week from a e trip to Nebrt-.ska, and famishes us with a brief extract of his trip : “A°

& ibPiPiwww l i if I have a few Jsiaure hours I will girt e The Democrat a brief sketch of tn) u western adventures. 1 left Fori c Wayne Nov. 9, arrived at St. Louis s about nine hours later. Our trait u was crowded to such an extent that t seemed as if everybody from the east e was aboard. Thousands of excursion ists from the east aud from Canada were A n their way to different points ‘ in the west. The railroads were war ■■ ring with each other on rates. They 1 are carrying passengers from St. Louis 8 to Kansas City. 280 miles, forfcl and er--3 erybody seems to be taking advantage '• of the cheap rates. After we lef'. St. 1 Louis for Council Bluffs, lowa, we had a colli.- j.n with a freight train, but 1 fortunately, no one was killed, about '' twenty were more or less injured, how - ever. 1 left Council Bluffs. lowa, for Kearny Junction, Nebraska. and I < must say that 1 saw some of the most 1 beautiful country it was ever my priv ' ilege to look upon. 1 left Kearny by stage for Mendo, Kearny county, where ] found Dre. McLain and Blood, ready to welcome the people of old Adams county. They tell m< i they are well phased with their new home and their practice is very good. t considering the healthful climate. All • in all I was much pleased with my I trip. While there Mr. Hughes killed a jack rabbit, the ears of which ho > presented to The Democrat. 3i oultl br Funny <o Kr«* Pat Burns excited. Noah G'ass on skates. Tom Shields’ bull pup. Bev. Carns on high stilts. John Welfley dance a jig. Bub King on a tight-rope. John King dressed in white. Sam Hale stand on his head. Cui Whipple in a bible class. Three months good sleighing. A big revival in the churches. Byron Dent shoot a buck deer. A decent hall for show people. Jud Hill in a swallow-tail coat. Doc Dorwin with a plug hat on. Tony Holthouse riding a small mule. Every delinquent subscriber pay up. Dr. C. M. White to the extent of! 810, The written contract male at Mentor. Jesse Niblick doing a pantomime act. Is. Miesse and Jim Place spit at a mark. John Quinn running a chuck-luck board. J. McGonagle turn a double somersault. A new leader for the Democratic party. Smith Peterson dressed like a circus clown. Hank McLain after a Democratic , victory. Walt Schrock run a rare with Jim I Fristoe. A little civil service reform in this ! I country. Doc Curran doing slight o' hand per | formance. Norval Blackburn play -keeps'' with • Judge Bobo. Dal Trout in the character of Autln-. adab Steel-. Godfrey Christen with a song and dance suit on. Judge Studabaker riding down hill ' on a hand-sled. The pile Bill English contributed to ' the campaign fund. Garfield entertaining Chester A. Arthur and John Sherman. Twenty cords of wood stop in front I of this office and unload. John Kelly relegated to that obscur- : ity which he so richly deserves. The producing class understand that a protective tariff is no benefit to them. ■ The business men of Decatur brace ■up and show to the world that they know how to advertise. 3-j?" J- W. Place is selling a great many oysters to festivals and oyster suppers this season. ST*J. W. Place is selling more oysters this season than ever before.

| 1 IP Hl' "I ■■—■■■■! A. F’E'W r REASONS WHY f'oh.t wayne, ij\riDi2AJxr-aL, ! Can supplv you wtih ready made clothing cheaper than any other house in Indiana: Ist We are the largest m»n ifactures doing business in the state 2nd . Being manufacturers an I buying as we do, all our clothes and trim nings in a large way and of first hand, enables us to produce a suit or garment at a price way below . our competitors. . . 3d. Our Manufactory is located at Ctaca, A. Y., where we use all the improved machinery now in use for the busine'-. such as the Steam Sponger and the new patent cutting machine. Capable of cutting one hundred pairs of pants in ten hours. And all other garments . i in like proportion. sth. Selling at our price and crediting no one 6th Garanteeiiig satisfaction to the purchaser by return of the goods, and money refunded; or if worn and not proving satisfactorly paying to the purchaser of such garments enough to satisfy the customer. Upon the conditions we solicit your natronage and agree to save you from 20 to 40 per cent on all puachases of Clothing and Furnishing goods. j J and 17 < ourt Streeet. and 1 HWFN DIYI CTV P Pft 38 and 6() Clinton Street J UwftWj I IAL»C»T UV« I • ■ » I

swap (Greenbacks eoii I A N C Y BACKS’ n I ■■■ .. ... j Fancy Backs vs. Gi eenbacks, We show to day a splendid line of FANCY I NLINED OVERCOATS, now all the rage: “Fancy Back' unlined Ulv -ters. Several hundred more making, coming in daily. Our J stock of Overcoats changed twice since Ist September. Bad place to find old unfashionable goods. New, stylish, band* e some, nobby, well made CLOTHES, and SQUARE DEAL- , ING thrown in. by the spirits of the Cloth in trade, sleepless h llows that work hard all the time for customers to keep. ' PETE<<?MA3L, FORT WAYPJIt:, INDIANA.

‘ DITCH NOTICE. i . Notice is.bereby <iveu that the &tf>* o i.Ecr, 18*0 ‘-t i ih - Board of Comt.f the County A.Jams, and State of lu<ii.»i; i. a pcHnon wa prwri(,ed by D. Tiukhitai, et. al . , praying the o*r<l to e&lahhfib the following JeMßrih i ditch in Mhl County of AAim?, th ' coni • ncenient. direction and *’ termination being described in said petition, which is ou fEe at the Auditor’s office of said as follows, to-wit : ? Commencing thirty-one rods east of the south west corner of the north west quarter . of the south west quarter of section thirty1 four, :34) township twenty-six, (26) north range fifteen (15) cast, tn Adams County, Indiana, running thence north 30 degrees east 18 rods, thence north 42 tods: thence ■ east 220 feet: thence north 5 degrees east 30 i ils,4hence north 20 degrees east forty rods, thence east 30 ro Is. thence south 70 deg;, es e st 12 rods, thence south 60 degrees east 18 rod.-: thence east 24 rods, thence north.'ist 30 rods, thence in and with the n Hural channel of the creek or stream D Hthc.i’t to a point on the State line IS ro g -outh o! the northeast corner of section 4 aforesaid, thence north along •he .State line 102 rode, thence north 80 dvgiecs rods, thence west 90 rods, 1 thence t» uihwest 96 rods, thence north 80 1 I degrees east 6 rods, thence north 40 degreen east 24 rods, thence north 50 degrees east 90 rods, thence north 80 degrees east I 12 rods, thence to the bridge on the public highway at a point 12 rods south, of the northwest corner of the northeast quarter lof the northeast quarter of sec- : tion twenty-seven township twenty-six (26,) north range fifteen (15) • east, thence east 80 rods to the State line and there to terminate, being all in Blue ■ Creek township, Adams County and State | of Indiana. Sa‘.d fjeritioners representing “that a I large potion of the lands through which sat! ditch will pass are totally unproductive for want of proper drainage : that the construction of a ditch will not only be conducive of public health, convenience or welfare, but the same will be of public benefit and utility, and that such drainage . can not be obtained without entering upon laud passing th"ough the lands adjoining rhe owner- of a portion or which are uu- 1 willing to engage in the enterprise of im i provement.” The Board being satisfied it the peti- i titione 1 8 had in all respects r nplied with the act approved March 9, . <5, entitled j “An act to enable owners of • T lands to i drain and reclaim them,etc granted the' prayer of said petioner.<; and npointed G F. Kiniz, John Hisey and Ri rd Winan: viewers, who proceeded to i w the pro posed location of said ditch, i. . have filed i their report and estimate, an apportioned the work according to law, and made oath io the same, and report the work to be of public benefit. The following list shows the tracts of land benefitt dby said improvement and the owners names thereof. John Sipe, commencing four rode north ot the southwest corner of the southwest quartern! section 34 thence east 146 rods, rhence north 77 rods, thence west 146 rods, ; thence to the place of beginning, tp. 26 n r 15 e. Willian Tiukham, w bfnw qr sw qr sec. 34 | tp26, north lange 15 east. Dennison Tinkbaine hf nw qr hw qr sec. I j 34, tp 26, north range 15 east. do ue qr sw qr sec. 84 I ' twp. 26, nonh range 15 east. Charles S Tibbet, sw qr nwqr sec. 34 twp 26, north range 15 east. Abel J. Hawk, se qr nw qr sec. 34 twp [26, north range 15 east. William Sipe, ne qr 34 twp. 26, i i north rage 15 east do ebfseqrs 27, twp. 26 I I north range 15 east. Dayton Vied sc R. R. Co., nw qr se qr 1 sec. 27 twp. 26. north range 15 east. Denison Tiukham, e hfsw qrsec. 27. twp. ! \ 26 north rauge 15, east. Zephaniah B. W ood, sbfse qr tec 22 wp j 26 north tange 15 cast. Janies W. .Jones, commencing at the n w corner of sec. 27, thence cast 110 rods, thence south 160 rods, thence west HOro s thence nonh to place of beginning, t<ec. 2" township 26. north range 15 east. Boston Hoblet; Marth** Hoblet, Benjamin Hoblet, John Liaar and Carrie Ellen Lizar. heirs at la w of John Emory deceased, commencing at the n e corner of the n w quari ter of sec 27. then e east 20 rods, thence : south 160 ro is, thence west 70 rods, . thence nor h 160 rods, thence eastso rods to the place of beg.nning twp. 26, north range 15 east. Commissioners of Adams County on the 1 public highway running north and south through sec 27; twp 26 n range 15 east. Heniy Stacy, • hfne qr sec. 27 twp. 2’’ north rauge 15 cast. du Commencing at the n e i c ruer of the n w quarier of the northeast quarter of sec. 2’. thence west 60 rods, thei.ee south 160 rods, thence east 60 rods i thence to the place of beginning. Fra cis M H’ay,commencing at the n w corner of the sou he quarter of sec 34, i thence east 51 rods, thence south 160 rode ' thence west 51 rods, thence north 160 rods to the placed beginning. Now, therefore, bt it known, that the Board of Commissioners of the County of Adams, will giant a hearing on the above i petition and report on Wednesday, theßth day of December, 1880, when all persons

interested or aggrieved will bo heard. All parties who claim compensation fur land or damages by the construction of ! said work are hereby notified to make ap- ’ plication in writing and file tho same in the office of the Auditor of tho Count v r cu or before the day sot for the heo-intr o’* said petition and report. •I G. CHRIST EY r j Auditor’s office. Adams County. d3O 1 Decatur, Oct. 27, 1886. DITCH NOTICE. ’ Notice is hereby given, that at the September, 1880 session of the Board of Cota r ‘ missioners of the County of Adams, State 1 of Indiana, a petition was presented by ' .Mathias Striker, et.al. praying the 'Board ' to establish the following described ditch in said County of Adams, the commencei u ent. direction, and termination being de- ( I serit-e Itn said petition, which co file in ■tb Auditor’s offce of said c -in' said di • ir located ou the follow; I vis : Commencing 18 rods east of the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section twenty-one (21), towuship twenty-six (26) north, range fourteen (14) east. In Adams County Indiana, running theocs west 18 ro 'e, thence north 12 rods, thence north 60 by orees west 30 rods, thenco northwest 60 rods to the Cincinnati, Richmond, & Fort Wayne Kail Road, thence north 8 degree.’ and thirty minutes east, along said railroad 80 rods, thence east 46 rods, thence north 2 rods, thence north 85 degrees eaet 28 rods, thence east 18 rods, thence southeast with the meanderings of the old ditch 18 rods, thence stuth 70 degrees east 30 rods, thence southeast with the mesndarings of the ditch or stream 104 rode, tbruce east 54 rods, thence northeast 71 rotfe, thence north with the natural channel of the stream 104 rods, thence northeast to Blue Creek, and there to terminate at e point 34 rods and 20 links north oft point 45 rods east of the the southwest corner of the northeast quarter of section 22, township and range above mentioned. Said petitioners representing "that a large proportion of lande through which said ditch will pass are totally unproductive for want of proper drainage ; that the construction of a ditch will not only be conductive of public health, convenience ; or welfare, but the same will be of public benefit and utility, and that such drainage cannot be obtained without entering upon and passing through the lauds adjoining, the owners of a portion of which are unwilling to engage in the enterprise of , improvement. The Board being satisfied that the peliioners had,in all respects, complied with the act approved .March 9, 1876, entitled “.An act to enable owner’ of wet lands to drain and reclaim them,’' etc, granted to prayer of said petitioners: and appointed G. F. Kintz, George M. Haetling and Henry H. Meyers, viewers, rho proceeded to view the proposed 1 oca: ion of said ditch, and have filed their report and estimate, and apportioned the work according to law, aud made oath to the same and report the work to be of public benefit. The following list shows the tracts of land benefitled and the owners names i thereof: The ew qr of the se qr see 21 tp 26 north, ! range 14 east, owned by John Wineman. The se qr of the seqr sec 21 tp 26 north, , range 14 east, owned by Christian LukeI bill The e hf of th nw qr of the se qr of see 121 tp 26 north, range 14 east owned by ! Mathias Striker. The s hf of the ahf of ih« ue qr ot tie !se qr sec 21 tp 26 north, range 14 east ; owned by Frederick Scbroll. The sw qr of sec 22 tp 26 north, j 14 east, owned by Isaac Wolf. Commencing at the northeast earner of the sw qrsec 21 tp 26 north, r 14 east, thence south 80 rods, thence cast 14 rode, ; thence north 80 rods, thence to the place | of beginning, owned by George Handley. The right of way of the Cin. Richmond & Ft. Wayne R. K. Co., through sec 21 tp •J'> north, r 14 east. The west hf of the se qr sec 22 tp SO north, r 14 east, owned oy Levi IF. Ray. The sw qr ne qr sec 22 tp 26 north, rl4 east, owned by John W. ReiCe. The ne qr sw qr sec 21 tp 26 north, r 14 ! east, owned by Clara M. Durr and George Duer, minor heirs of Chrlstena Durr. The ehf w qrsec 27, tp 26 north, r 14 east, owned by John H Jeffery. The n hf nw qr ne qr sec 27, tp 26 north r 14 east, owned by Ambrose Durbin. The ehfne qr sec 28 tp 26 north, range 14 east, owned by Thompson Bmith. The ehfwhf ne qr sec 21 tp t|6 north, range 14 east, owned by Daniel Steiner. Now, therefore, be it known, that the Board of Commissioners of the county of ! Adame, will grant a hearing on the abova I petition and report on Wednesday, the Bth : day of December 1880, when all persons interested or aggrieved will be heard. All parties who claim compensation for ,4 land or damages by the construction of said work are hereby notified to make ap- ’ | plication in writing and file the s&ina in the : office of the Auditor ot the County, on or before the day set for the hearing of said petition and report. G, CHRISTEN. Auditor's Office Adams County, Nov. “ 3, 1880. >