Decatur Democrat, Volume 24, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 13 January 1881 — Page 1

E DEMOCRAT. Ofiicial Paper of Adams f.'ounty. Hgfi. * Xtehy ■'PC’'illi«axKx®, Proprietor. f Terms: One Dollar amd Fifty Cents Per Year. J. T. ATT Y AT LAW J. P., niCATUB, I THAN 4. lliil rtictiev in ams and aJj doing I CouiHits. Cfillectioiie . *pHciai(y. v24n2‘*tt .< ~ con, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON, GENEVA, INDIANA. Office over Harrod’s Furniture Store QK r Pr.ilessional culls promptly attended to at I all hours. 25jy79if S. 19.I 9 . SUi D., Fiiywician asitl PLEIBANT MILLS, IND. tCfi... in Gepheert’s buibling, where he Sil? be r - ’iu I when not professionally enapr!6t; A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, D> ATCK. INDIANA. K< Ofii ein Houston’s Bo k up-stairs W I K&T nd to ail [•■• « - •. i* calls promptly. Kb ght or day. Charges reasonable. Resi Kdence au north f Monroe street, 4(h Khxi3e cist of Hart s '.til. 25jy79tf B. Alusom. Pr&i’t. W. H Niblick,Cashk*r. D. brvBABAKF.B, Vice Pres’t. ■the ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is t.ow open for the transacts lion of a general banking business. I W’e buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf <. T.raAscr. e o. timers a Franer it Hooper, I ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DKCATtK. INDIANA. ■ Will practice in Atl.ims and adjoining WT|K'' ; ■ d*?s*. Collections a specialty. Lh-eda, m'rigsfl-s and otbi-r iust: uHirn’s of writing »« d® with neatness an«l <iisj..itch. Will bin i an 1 sell real ef’nte and pay taxes. I’»e- i nuonable. Office over Stone s hardware « Won, east side Second Street. 31oct 9 i P. C. SHACKLEY; i Ko'iu, SRfl, and Cjiiiaie Paialer, And I Linger. -«ininC’Jsouii n’n/, W hitewashing. ei< . I’ric* a io Min the limes. Sixteen yean* in A L.uk county. Giv“ m* a call an t save tabpey- h*»p on Rou’he.ist corner of Jes Iwvon tnl Second streets W Vvvi itur. I nd., Aug o, 1879. Baug79

PETERSON & HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DSCATUB, ISDIAXA. !g»W 1| p a.-'ice in Ados ,m<l adjoining enn.i i-s. E-peeinl n :t*u:ion A ivrn to coliter - "■! rijl.,iot<: •;'• te. Are No •»ru-.-l'.il • in<l<l a» and luortgn „•<• Rail es ate bought, so' 1 ant rented on ie»tor 1 : I 1 i > 0. F. bi.idins. J.jyiotf ?rank Leslie': Weekly. fST'.ie only Detnicratic Illustrated Nt- qri i.r publish will be sent postpaid, lor live weeks (until end of eaupaign) for thirty cents. Agents wanted in every town. Send thirty tor eriplion or six cents in postage stamps for sample cpy ai.d illii-tiatcd catalogue. Club.- ■ - ;i> <■■ Wcek.s for sl. Address Frank Leslie Publish ing Co., 15 Dey street New York. JOHN SHIREY, jYUct ion f.e I-:. wUbre to say to the neo| ’c of Decatur . t’int he now the only pro jwjrfot U atsetioneer in tho county and that k will a!! tin s ir ly to attend to e sin h — oe . i Thirty-five will enable him to give ion beyond, a donht to nil who ctn-n-loyfei a. will be very rt-apana-ife. Krders left at the 1 .w office of F -nnce & will receive prompt, attention. JOHN SHIREY. He I AJ TO TEACHERS. • i« 1 jtf -.cn there w ill b a r«fclio Qxnrnknftjiim of teachers at the offfe • cuPy ..undent, on the *iy of •• h month. Appfcantß i for SBfctV o DM2 el prQovfil “the proper truaor otbe; sausfactory eviifc'rrce of flood moral character,” and to l»e must i •:-s a good examination in Ortho? phy, Efendwg, Writing, .tfrrihme "Apby, English Gr;n mar, Phyeio fb<*y„«nd History cf Uu^tevlStates. G. W. A. LUCKEY, Jun? 13.1879 Oonnty Bttp t. j Is’b Great t-h.ir/e lomake m<»n s— a U'ck a pt»r> .d in ev •t y t ( . I.r mi iptio-is for the h dii i brs’ i fnthi li ‘ oa in ’-h® world Any one can WOtfme a e.ent. Six elegaiU Wiirkiß of art given nee t > subscribers. The jr!»*••{ ii >o low tha- almost verybody sub•er . king 120 subscriber* in a day. A lady reports making •ver >)le i r pr. fit in ten Hoys. AH who engage make money fast. Yon can devote tU you tim** to the fiu-i: or only your eysarf You noe»l not be nw -y from | b«*?»? - V't niglit Con c a- it as well as ' oU)m s Ful .jnv ions ? u t inng free. Lie-| gjjnr ;LT.< expendvc outfit free. If you want vKKP -work gend us pur addies? at ©no®. J: cost rod’ing -v try the s:< No one •■;ige ■ • • ’• t Addrf■■!:• Ge >ege Stinscn n. Co., Portl imf, Maine. Br. J. B. f* nipsun's Bpeeific ySedloine. J. IL Rimpson’s Hpeeifio Nedieine is g jMMik ' e eurn for bp^rs?aterrhen. Inpot«n ty, Wr-kaws all mulling fr<tn felf-Abuw, an Nerves® DnMllty, hritofeilftr. Mniita’ Anxiety, Lasjunr, Lassitedn, £.prr#sioa of Fplrits, and functional ef lhe nervous system genernUy, in Bank or Fi/e, Lcs-ef memory htm r* aid wnrona. afier ggnEbd dinaui I**''* « that lend tn tf*->'*ir * * C •oaarmptUn . 31 TA. , m t»rij 1 er toU M. 5-. =-v4-s 'Z- - BU bnir ehYlir-.a tr»srs»na m*T be frewj fSs- s»» »f s;.j V .1 r. sheet eentse of fbfcßwiHelne will leniere tbs 'ost fuaettci s acAijta-e-wv.-® kenhh and hnppinoas whire b ■'• ■■■• Mr-iciuc io r*s>;'J se»t free ! » v‘f. Write vw th- * 1t.4 ret full ptrt ;a ~.r>. J. sii-' «■ ft er 8 P»’kSr ?5. W ; ’dbeee- by null oa rer • -'7- AiWrtsn si l o. .'ere. J i! e:'iPf.ON fl ’?! ■'•!•<£ CO. > e .- .IM Meis . Bafl»!o. K. T. n3gt>‘ S.’l'i >o Decatur by D' B*l!t S *)«■ AQUSB. MbuotiSyl

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DRESSMAKING! Notice is hereby given to the ladies of Decatur and vicinity that I have a Dressmaking Shop in Decatur, and am prepared to Cl T AAD MAKE OR Cl T A AD FIT| ladies' and Children's Dresses tn the latest N»»w Y<* and P. I do my cutting hy • l-e <*h PERFECT-FITTING MODEL and am the only ore in the city ‘■o doing Having several yes»re practical er jerienoc I gunrS’itce oat >tf!»e»ir>n in each and every instnev.e, and I conHaHv solicit a share «f patronage. CHAKffEB HRASONShop on 2nd Street, over onter & laohJiouae’H Shoe store. MRS. K. £. FRJSTOE i April 2, WBO.

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TT xx cl ertalat. iri g;. HISKEY & SPANGLER UNDERTAKERS Opposite Adams County Bank, Call the attention of (he public generally to a large and comblete line of BURIAL CASKETS AND COFFINS, And to thn fact th it *h» v . )»• i:s : ngthe ANTI-SEPTIC FLUID, For Embalming, Mummifying, Disinfecting and Purfuming the flesh of the dead, and of Preserving the Features in a natural state. A fine line of SHROUDS Are also kept on hand. In addition to their undertaking establishment they have the largest and most complete stock of

FURNITURE Ever offered to the people of Adams County. Dot't purchase one dollar’s worth of Furniture before examining their stock and prices. HISKEY & SPANCLER. Decatur, Ind., Sept. 9. ’BO ly. Gray’s Specific Medicine. TRADE MARK The Gr&at TRADE MARK English Remjfa 33k el> y an unfailcure for jSlj /J 7-seminal weak Ww nea s, Spprmatency.Jand a I.w* B£FBRf TAHIHIL ■* B ' s "«'<HEB TASIKI. lui w as a consequence of Self-abuse; as loss <*f memory, Universal Lassitude, Pain in the Back, Dimness of Vision, Premature Old Age, and many other dispa-ie* that lead to Insanity. Consumption ai d n prern itiß'P grave Fuli | »T»i<t bir ii • reiriLLr. V. |u/< W« • <i: • <• --T .. V »■< • ' -.-• ‘y • > • » - • ir ; . • «. Al .v I i>U IN i ( ‘ , No. 10 Mechanics Block, Detroit, M:cb Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all kinds of Skin Eruptions. This salve is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction tn every case or money refunded Price 25 cents per bnx. For sale by Dorwin & Holthouse. HEALTH IS WEALTH! Dr. E. C West’s Nerve and brain Treatment: a specific for Hysteria, Dizziness, Convulsions, Nervous Headache, Mental Depression, Loss of Memory. Sp rmatorrhce.i, Impotency, ItiAoluntary Emissions self-abuse, or over-indulgence, which lends 10 misery, decay and death. One box will cure recent cases. Each box contains one month's treatment One dollar a box, or six boxes for five dollars; sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price. We guarantee six boxes to cure any case With each order received by us for six boxes, accompanied YYitli five dollars, we will send the purchaser our written guarantee to return the money it the treatment dots not’effect a cure. Guarantees issued only when treatment is ordered direct from us. Address or call on Dorwin & Holthouse Druggists Decatur Ind. 6ms.

Ft g "Tbtisiness now before the public •SE.w • You can make money tasier at work for us than at anything else. Capital not required. We will start you. sl2 a day and upwards made at home by the industrious. Men, women, boys and girls wanted everywhere to work for us. Now is the time. You can devote your whole time to the wotk, or only your spare moments. No other busit ess will pay you nearly as well No one willing to work can fail to make ; enormous pay by engaging at ones. Costly outdt ami terms free. A great opportunity for making money easily anil honortbly. Address True & Co., Augusta, Maine. 22jy SI,OOO Forfeit. Having the utmost confidence in its su-1 periority over all others, and after thousands of tests of the most complicated and severest cases we could find, w feel justii fird in ofleripgto lui feit Uiu- 7i cunftud Do* i iars *or » r».e* oi c-'-uv-< s '■*»’ *• liiim r$L 1, . Wt CMU’i i L»* Wil! V. . .*« * Ci‘ugh Syrup, when taken according to ui» I reetions Sample bottles 25 ant! 50 cents; i large bottles one dollar. Geuuine wrapper. • only in blue. Sold by all drugffDws, or sent by express on receipt of price. JtlllN ; C WreT & CO., sole jToprietorv, UH and IRB W Madison St., Chicago, 118. w,,e k > n your own town. $5 outfree. No risk. Bmitur, if you want a tnisinrss nt which r*reorjs of either wwx csin make grpu pay all the rime they work, write for paAiotwars to 3. & Cm. Portland, Maine. jy22

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, JAN. 13, 1881.

INDIANAJNDIANS. Where They Live, and flow They l.lve. [Wabash Plain Dealer.] Less than fifty years ago, living in villages from five to fifteen miles distant, the whole section of Indiana now denominated "The Upper Wab.ish Valley," waa the home of the Miami tribe of Indians. The villages extended from near the present city of Fort Wayne to Lafayette, and in a strip of territory extending south of Eel River about thirty miles. Noith of the Eel River, the Pottawatamies had their home. At that time the Pottawatamies were the larger of the two tribes, numbered about 2,500 warriors, ' -lit. s.‘\;iufß 11 (jm<*L»*»* which probably represent d a membership • >!" from live to six thousand souls. But while the Pottawatamies were the larger tribe numerically, the Miamis were much the more intelligent and civilized people. The Pottawatamies were filthy in their habits and low in their natures. The Miamison the other hand, were disposed to be cleanly possessed of considerable native ability and, as a tribe, were regarded as a fairly honorable race of people. At the time of which we write, (1830-35), the national chief of the Miamis, was Russiaville, (a half breed,) the war chief, Godfrey. Russiaville’s home was south of Fort Wayne, while Godfrey lived near the present site of Peru. The village chiefs were Chappeen, at the village east of Rsanoke ; White Loon, in the same vicinity; Black Loon, east of Antioch ; Big Majeniea, near Antioch ; LaGrose, near Lagro ; Little Charlie, north of Wabash; Al-10-lah, south of YVabash,(his village was upon the bluff, now the farm of Allen Smith); Cot-ti-cip-pin, on Treatycreek ; Joe Russiaville, on the Missistinewa ; and Me-shin-go-me-sia, west of Lafontaine. There were other villages of minor importance, among them the White Woman’s village, Good boo vil- 1 lage, &c., the name of the chiefs of which are no longer remembered. The White Woman’s village was so called, because it was the home of the Slocum girl, who it will he remembered was stolen from her parents in Wilkesbarre, Penn., adopted into the tribe, afterward discovered by her friends, but refused to return to civilization. She married an Indian and raised a large family, living to a ripe old age, and dying about twenty-five years ago, as thorough an Indian as any in the tribe. Her descendants are s'ill .living on the reservation west of

Oft“e village chiefs, perhaps the •i-'.st nfluential, and certainly the most vindictive in his hatred to the whites, was chief Majenica. He was a fine specimen, physically, of his race, and it is said, he was greatly feared by both the whites and his own tribe. In council, both the national chief and the war chief paid him great respect, and seldom, if evey, thwarted his wishes. In striking contrast with Big Majenica were the chiefs Al-10-lab and Me-shin-go-me-sia. These were ever the friends of the white race. Long before the county of Wabash was organized, Al-10-lah was entrusted with the duty of escorting prisoners to the primitive courts, where their trials were had and was really the first sheriff of the county. Me-shin-go-me-si.• was quite an important personage, and was frequently the Ambassador to Washington on matters connected with his tribe, lie died in 1870, at his home on the reservation. When the treaty was concluded with the Indians, about 1832, by which they were sent west, the government consented that the families of Godfrey and Russiaville might remain in Indiana, and set apart certain sections of land as their future homes. The Indians, generally, disliked the removal, and all who could, in the remotest degree. claim any kin-ship with thechiefs did so, and as a result, a considerebla portion of the tribe remained in Indiana. The Indians now living in Allen. Huntington, Wabash, Grant, Miami and Tippecanoe counties, are the remnants of this once powerful tribe.

THE MIAMIS OF 1880. Hating thus briefly sketched the condition of the Indians of the Wabash Vai ley fifty years ago, as gathered from different members of the tribe now alive, we propose to give our readir< aom» idea of their present condition. '"‘ >.re are now alive 324 membrrs of ike tribe. About eighty have t.l ,'r hon e upon the reservation in Wabash and Grant counties, fully a hun- ! dred live on the reservation in Miami ! county, fourteen are found in the vil cinity of Lafayette, twelve at Hunting- ; ton and thirty-four near Fort M ayne. , Forty-nine members of the tribe are in Kansas, and the remainder are scatter!ed in Michigan, lowa and at different I points in Indiana. The government of the United State*

is a good government, and an honeat one. What it promises it fulfills. It was agreed in the treaty that in 188 J, a certain sum of money should be paid to the descendents of the Miamis, the government meanwhile to pay the interest upon the principle annually in the form of annuities. The annual interest amount? to nearly $12,000, which with unfailing regularity has been promptly met, and which, pro rated among the members of the tribe gives to each, from the youngest to the oldest, an annual pension of something over thirty dollars. It was while acting as special Indian Agent for the payment of these annuities, last September that the writer began the task of enumerating the Mian.t . J ’T*- 1 ritva,. Indians of 1 As many of the Indians, especially the women, either cannot or will not speak a word of English, he engaged as his interpreter, Ching-quah-saw (alias Wiliam) Pe-cong-e-oh, grandson of Me-shin-go-me-sia, one of the leading men of the tribe. Ching-quah-saw signifies “the thunderer," but Pe-cong-e-oh's character is hardly in harmony with the name for he is an Indian who abstains from fire water, is well educated very quiet and never boisterous or rough in his demeanor. Indeed, Pe-cong-e-oh is an exceptionally upright man in all the walks of life, a devout Christian and one whose companionship , ought to have an elevating influence I even upon a newspaper reporter.

The manner of taking the enumeration was to drive from house to house and enroll the names of the members of the different families. The reservation is yet pretty wild, although quite a number of Indians have erected good houses, and are comfortably circumstanced. Many of the cabins are located off the main road and we found considerable difficulty in driving within even hailing distance of them. Our appearance was always a signal for a scampering among the children, and by the time our horse was hitched, we were confronted by from two to six dogs. Entering the cabin almost invariably without knocking, Pc-cong-e---oh would explain that “the Father ’ — think of the writer having so venerable a title ! —had come to take the census and the enrolling of the names begun. The conversation was always in Indian and the jargon sometimes almost made one's head swim. Occasionaliy some eexisylable like Kit-tah-ke-mung-go-quah or Me-tah-quah-he-sah-quah , would strike the scribe with revibrating force, but before taking our leave the name, sex and age of every member of the family, together with a brief reference to their ancestors, had been carefully noted down.

After completing the enumeraation of the Me-shin-go-me-sia band, we I drove into Miami county. We were accompanied on this by YY ah-pe-niung-quah, (alias Robert) Pe-cong-e-oh who acted as our interpreter, pro tempore. All in all, the Godfrey band is not so thrifty as the Me-shin-go-me-sia band. Their habits are not so good, and the field is ripe for a temperance movement of forty horse-power. We saw j no absolute suffering, however, although it was evident that but for the . annual visits of “the Father" many of the aborigines were in a fairway to go hungry and scantily clothed the coming winter The enrollment in 1880 showed the tribe, although now only a handful, was still decreasing. The number of i deaths during the year exceeded the > births by twenty-five. The Indian race is not prolific, there being but nineteen births in the whole tribe during the year. The Indians, howewever, seem to very proud of their offspring. The day before we called at the home of Ke-cop-e-cop-wah. alias Judsin Bundy, a son had been born. The little fellow was marked with what is known as a hair lip. The parents were quite distressed over the mal-for-matiin, but when we told the mother we thought the YVabash doctors could : almost entirely remedy nature's mis- ! take by a bit of surgery, she listened attentively, and in a few weeks the little one was brought to the city and successfully operated upon. The enrollment completed wc prepared our rolls for payment, which was made for both the years 1880 and 1881 and amounted to something over 165 for each member of the band. Most of the Indians were quite anxious for speedy payment, but in two or three instances there was a demand for long- . r time. And even after the rolls were i campleted, one of the boys came tearing into YY’abrsh at break of day hoping to have his new born child added to his family the Payments. Time was, we are told, when the payment of the Indians was an event of no little commercial importance, and was distinguished more for the presence of their creditors than the Indians I themselves. The Indian Bureau rec J ognizes no power of attorney, but in-

; I structs the Agent to pay directly to > the Indians, and hence in the hope of collecting their money, the store-keep-ers and traders were always out in force. As indicating how desperate the traders sometimes were, it is related that General Shanks, while making payment, was once compelled to shoot at a trader, who had seized the money from the General s hands while he was passing it to an Indian, and was making off with it. The General promptly gave chase, but not until he heard the “ping” of a bullet did the ths thief stop and surrender the funds. Hon. Calvin Cowgill, while acting as agent, once went to the payment ground, but finding so many traders and roughs thare, and so few Indians, adjourned the payiiienv ----T -1.. J_ y J .1.place. Happily, however, the payments are not of as much importance as formerly, (although a good number of creditors still gather upon the grounds), and the Agent is in no danger of having his cash box robbed either by treacherous whites or untutored savages. The first nayment made by the writer was upon the Me-shin-go-me-sia Reservation, at the residence of Mrs. Aw-taw-waw-taw, and the first to sign the rolls with her mark was the venerable niece, .aged 75 years, of Aw-taw-waw-taw. The largest payment made to anyone family was to Pe-met-o-shc-naw. (Joseph Winters), who drew for himself, wife and nine children. We were assisted in the work by James McCrea, John H. Ray, and Wm. Pe-cong-e-oh, and Left somes6,ooo on the Reservation. Every member of the band signed six different pay-rolls, and the labor of writing the names literally made our jaws ache. At Perue, payment was made at the Bearss Hotel the bar of which enjoyed a very fair run of patronage while the money was being distributed. Payments were afterwards made at Lafayette, YY abash, Huntington and Fort YY ayne. The total disbursements being something over $23,000.

If there is anything romantic about the Miamis of Indiana, we fail to observe it. YVe found them hospitably inclined, fairly intelligent, andfrequeut ly as indolent as Dicken’s fat boy. They possess some ot the best land in the Valley, which, after next June, becomes their own property absolutely. Quite a number of the tribe are onlywaiting until that time to sell out, when they propose to go YYest. Next year the principle will be paid to them, amounting to some six or seven hundred dollars each, after which they become citizens and must shift for themselves. It is safe to say that one half of the tribe will be but little benefitted, as the money will be squandered almost as soon as received, but such men as the Pe-cong-e obs, the Godfreys, Bundys, Dixons, &c., still make good use of their funds. The Godfrey band are all voters now. and under the leadership of Cop-pier-goh (Gabe Godfrey) and Pim-y-o-tah mah, vote the Democrat ticket but the Me-shin-go-me-sia band are notyet citizens. When tfi>y are “of age” (next June) the Me-ghin-go-me-sias can be counted as Republicans. NOTES. Among the Miamis are sixteen Eel Rivers —the remenant of the tribe .which was so unmercifully threshed at the battle of Tippecanoe. They are nearly all women and children. —The women are very good housewives, and the cabins are usually neat and cleanly kept. A grand daughter of old chief LaFontaine is the wife of an official in an adjoining county, and is a highly educated and intelligent woman.

—Since the death of Chief Me shin ) go-me-sia. last December, the tribe has j no chief, although there are two or j three principal men among them, whe ' exercise considerable authority. YY in. Pe-cong e-oh and Gabriel Godfrey are reallv the head men of the two Bands. —YVa-ea-coon ah, the well-known I Liberty Township Indian who died last Spring, although enrolled as a Miami, was in reality a Pottawatauiie. The storv is that when the latter tribe ; was sent west, Chief Me shin go-me-sia hi J the boy, and afterwards succeeded in getting him upon the rolls as a member of the Godfrey family. The bane of the Indian is now, asev- i er. whisky. The love of it seems to be , inherent. The story goes that one of . th -m not long ago applied at a Drug Store in Lafontaine for four quarts of whisky, his son having been bitten by a snake. It was suggested to the anxious father that one quart would be an ample sspply for the emergency. "No, no.” was the emphatic rejoinder “heap big snake! ’

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4 TELL-TALE LET7EH, 4 scrap of Writing that May Take Janie** lliekman to the Gallows. [St. Louis Republican.] The Vandalia train which arrived at the Union depot yesterday morning had on board Sheriff Heber of Greene county, Missouri, and a young man named James Hickman. The latter was a prisoner in the hands of the sheriff. The two were bound for Ash Grove, Mo., a station on the St. Louis and San Francisco road, not far from Springfield. The outward bound train did not leave until ten minutes till 9 P. M., and in the interim the Sheriff took his prisoner to the Four Courts as the easiest place io .evp mm. it was there that the sheriff was interrogated by a reporter. He said that Hickman was charged with murder. This caused the reporter to get his pencil out aaid get to work. The sheriff told the story of the crime, and it is an interesting one. Only a year ago James Hickman was a thriving farmer. Ho kept company with a girl named Kate Rice, who was one of the bells of Ash Grove. They loved too well as the saying is, and ere the marriage day arrived a child was born. She hid her shame, living on and not letting her friends or his know of her trouble. He seemed

true to her for a while, and always promised to keep the vow that he had made, that he would marry her, but the marriage day never arrived. One day he went to her and told her that he loved another and intended to marry her. This cruel confession so wrought upon the girl’s feelings that she threatened to expose him, if he did so, to the people of the village and to his father and mother, who were alive and who wore well thought of. He did not exp :t this, promised to break off the new engagement he had already made and marry the woman he had wronged as soon as the bvnns could be duly proclaim -d. Instead of doing this he returned to his new love. Time flew by and the day came when Hickman had to marry at least one of the women. That one was his latest love who had brothers who had an inkling of Hickman's treatment of his first victim and who were determined that, he should

jilt no sister of theirs. Hiekman, find- j ing himself between two fires, wrote a letter to Kate Rice. He told her as she valued her life to keep the contents of it a secret and to meet him that i night at an out of the way place. She obeyed his request, leaving her home i on the night of Sept. 19, 1879. She was never seen alive again, but two ' days later her body was found at the side of a field with a bullet through herbrain and a pistol by her side.! There was no signs of a struggle. The | pistol no one had ever seen before. Those who knew of her troubles supbosed that it was a case of suicide, and those who did not know of them thought the same thing. The body of the girl was laid in a grave. Hickman, it would appear, was so over-burdened with guilt that he resolved to leave the scene of , the murder. He transferred his worldly goods into cash as soon as possible and left, telling those who took the trouble to ask that he was going e st 1 to embark in the mercantile enterprise. 1 But little was said concerning his departure and less thought of until one ■. day about three month ago the mother of the dead girl made a discovery. ■ While looking over some of her daugh- ■ ter’s old letters she found the one that had been written to her up an the very night of'the murder. The mother con-1 eluded almost at once that that letter was the decoy which led to her daughter’s death. She consulted the authorities and they were quick about 1 investigating the case. The mother i still held the revolver that had been i found with her daughter's body. She i had never found the real owner of it—in fact, no one had looked for the real owner as it. The nut orities lo ~ d, ' and strange to say, feutal upon very short inquiry that Uickui in had purchased the revolver but a few days be fore the giri s death, i :>i- ■ t-q-,i- : u-1 «r with.his sudden disappearance, cau.-i ed further inquiry to be made. His i parents professed ignorance as to his whereabouts. Thisitself, 't was thought. | ! implied guilt. They were watched, and | 1 it was found that they did receive let- ■ ters from him. These were postmark cd Paris, 111. The deputy sheriff wns scni, on to hunt up the supposed murderer. He found him farming on a piece of ground not far from Paris. The, result was his arrest and transfer to the scene of his crime, Since the authorities first commenced investigating the murder they have found overwhelming evidence of Hickman's guilt.

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.a IJ. SORTS. • Tim.' is full of new wrinkles. A land league—three miles. Ta';, ii on the spot — the measlea. I he divorce lawyer’s favorite fruit—a tart pair. Th? ear’s apprentice <-.■?> sid«Ml himself lord of the ilea. Many persons confound the spirit of liberty with the liberty of spirits. If thine enemy revile thee, revile not again. Present him with a Guinea hen. It doesn't requiie a pci." i horse* t« draw out a miserable existence. Aid. Haldeman! There\ a name for an Englishman to wrestle with.— Boston Globe. When the end of the world arriveo it will be unueee.- - .ry to hire a man to move your furniture. All swell that end swells—the only thing to which a-swell is of any use ii an organ. The man who is fond of his little joke, is rarely fond of another's joke big or little. When one sees a man thrown from his saddle over the head of his horse ne must recognize me power oeuiuu the thrown. Maiden lady’s quotation slightly altered from an old aphorism —‘While singleness is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. The Boston Courier calls love’s young dream a nightmare. Wouldn’t a night filly be more poetical ? It is not necessary for a man to keep his mug the barbei - sb. but he must tnke it there to be shaved. A candidate for the situation of coachman advertises in a Cork paper that he has good testimonies, and is both courageous and a good shot. Not everybody will be able to see the Nautch girls, but everybody can get a pretty good idea of their dance by dropping a hornet down the housemaid’s back. A prisoner at the gate. Turnkey, “Are you in for contempt?" Prisoner with indignation ; “No sir.- 1 haven’t fallen that low. It’s a simple drunk.” The Boston Globe remarks that it is madness for some men to marry. Maybe so, yet all lunatics hive their Lucy’d intervals. It is clear that the Philadelphia News man has some pretty daughters for he says : Nothing will ehap lips quicker than going out into the cold after a good night’s kiss.

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Young ; port-man wants to know; “M bai is the best kind of a d . for me to buy ?” A dead one, Sporty and have it buried the same day you buy I >*• Next year will produce among other things, a gorgeous crop of lunatioa, who will make night hidjus howling about the end of all things. When a grocer advertises every kind of raisins for sale, does he iutlude derricks, pulleys, jack screws, yeast, and all that sort of thing. We see an article in papers about boy inventors. We hope they will invent a boy who won't whistle through his nngers and yell on the streets at night. “Come right into the house, children," shouted Mrs. Shuttle. “You are making more noise and uproar than a session of Cougtess. What do you i suppose the neighbors think? One of the grandest pleasures in tar- ! get shooting consists in the fact that I the target can’t shoot back.— B.ision i Transcript. And that it has no occasion to.—New Haven Reg.

Beaconsfield ascribes all bis greatness to woman. Adam la-d all h's troubles to the same source. Adam we are ashamed of you. Beaconsfield you are a gentleman. — New Haven Register. “What does encore mean? an exchange. It is only one p’-- -.- of a universal desire among the sms of men to get something for nothing, and I get that something right off.—Boston Transcript. A new Paper is ealled the-Idiot. It iis not as one might suppose a branch i of the New York Tribune. --Boston Post. No ; the Tribune is complete in itself.—Louisville Cour. Journal. A California heiress was left $50,000 worth of diamonds, which she could take possession of on her wedding day. and it is not surprising that the fir.-; fellow who offered himself I was accepted. The weather yesterday wasjiist what ‘ might have be n expected. The President will know better another time ; than to put a greenhorn on the weather Bureau just bdfore Christmas—Phil, i Bulletin. There was a fight imminent between | two boys on Elm St., Monday evening. I One of In tn darkly intimated that he was bigger than the other. The smaller. who is the son of a deacon, ieikintly retorted, "I don t care if you are as large as a church debt you cant, scare i me.’’ —Danbury News. A celebrated preacher nuke.- the -ecomicot.datnin of Ayer Pill ; matter " of religious duty. \’’h n p<-- -I - are bilious and dyspeptic, wh it th need - is the Gospel ol Health, it ■■<. >’ the bc-t creed to swallow <• -n-ists of s the thirty sugar-coated articles in a [PIU-boj.’