Decatur Democrat, Volume 24, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1881 — Page 1

FHE DEMOCRAT Official Paper of Adams Coun ty. &. rroprie ioi-. Txrms: One Dollar amd Fifty Cents Per Year. jTtTbailey, ATT’Y AT LAW £ J. P., D RCA TUB, INDIANA. WTiJ Pi notice in Adams and adjoining Count'ea. CoJleciionß a specialty. v24u29tf ~sTck RALSTON, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, GENEVA, INDIANA. Office over Harrod's Furniture Store Professional calls promptly attended to at all hours. 2'»jy79tf s. i 9. n., Physician and Surgeon, PLEASANT MILLS, IND. i « Office in Gephe»!!. b building, where he Will he found when not protessionally engaged. nprl6t. A~ G. HOLLOWAY, M. I).. I PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office in Houston’s Block, up-stairs Will attend to all professional calls promptly, sight or day. ('Burges reasonable. Rest 4ence on north side of Monroe street. 4th Mum east of Hart's Mill. 26jy79tf R B. Allison- I’rw’t. W. II Niblick, Caahier. D. STvDabaker, Vice Pres’t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of m general banking business. We buy ai.d sell Town, Township qjm! I Centrv Orders. 25jy79v J T # F»AN«’*. P.O H»OPES Prana A’ Hooper, ATTOHJIEFB AT LAW, • KUA Tl’h . t MUI AMA. Will practice in Al ms mid adjoining counties Collections a specialty Deeds, and other it strunMUsof writing Mutte with ue.itnc* and dispatch. Will buy and sell real etfate and pay taxes. Fits reasonable. Office over Stone’s hardware «iort», east side Second Street. 3loot 9 P. C. SII ACKLEY, Bouse, Sign, and Carriage Painter, And Paper Hanger. Graining, Calsomiuing, Whitewashing, etc. Prices to suit the times. Sixteen years in Adams county. Give me a call and save money, on southeast corner of Jefferson and Second streets. Decatur, Ind., Aug. 5, 1879. Baug79 HUFFMAN,' ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DICATUB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are No ♦anes Public and draw deeds and mortgages R«ul estate bought, so; I and rented on ieasonable terms Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. 0. O. F. building. ‘J'jy7i»tf Frank Leslie’s Weekly. The only Democratic Illustrated Newspaper published—will be sent postpaid, for five weeks (until end of campaign) for thirty cents. Agents wanted in every town. Send thirty cents for five weeks' subscription or six cents in postage stamps for sample copy and illustrated catalogue. Clubs of four will be sentforfive week.s for sl. Address Frank Leslie Publish ing Co., 15 Dey street New York. • JOHN SHIREY, ALT C TIO X EER, Wishes to Fay to the people of Decatur •ad vicinity that he is now the only pro fusion al auctioneer in the county and that be will at all times be ready to attend io •ails in hit line of pueinees. Thirty-five ye*rs experience will enable him to give aauefamion beyond a <kiuht to all who employ him Cbitgia will l» v«ry r»n.-ot»A-xl* «Orders leti »t the l<w office of F auce < Hooper »ill 'ecene t rvnirt atteunon I JOHN SHIREY’. NO HUE TO TEACHERS. No?Ue is hereby uiven tbat there will b a public cx:tm‘Mia’i(rn of teachers at the office of the t.'.'unry upi-iiniendent, -n the Vut Saturday of eich month. Applicants for liceu-e mum preaeoi- “the proper trustee's certificate, nr other satisfactory evidence of good moral character,” and to be successful must pass a g.iod examination in Orthography, Reading. Writing, A’rlthme tic, Geography, English Grummir, Physio logy, and History cf United States. G. W. A. LUCKEY, June 13,1879 County ftup t. 1 Great ebtmcc to make motive geJ’sey, We nefck a person in every town to take «u : ..scriptiona for the largvst, cheapest and bf-st i lustrated family publication in the world. Any one can a successful agent. Six elegnjul wo , <8 of art given free t o subscribers. The price iJ w l« w that almost everybody subO'’'* a g* nl reports faking 120 sub•eriher. in a*• *". A lady reports making »vrr »*>IW clerr p’C-ID tvn doys. All who npipcMke mon-,' fa”- You can devote « all ymri time to the bo/’ness, or ooly your ep.ir« time You noel no! be aw iy from han,. owr night O>u cam do it as well as «ih«vw Fell .ijrtrtione *>nd terms free. Liegnat ;md expwurriw outfit fnw It you want ,reliable work wtid us your addiess at anev It costs netting to try ’Be business* Mo one who engage- tai’s to make grest pav Ad.Jrres OeoHof. RtWOI & Co, I’ortlsnd, W Maine. 2 ”D

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Stop That Cough. If you are suffering with a cough, cold \ asthma, bronchitis, bay fever, consumption loss of voice, tickling in the throat, or any affection of the throat or lungs, use Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption This is the great remedy that is causing so much excitement by its wonderful cures curing thousands of hopeless cases. Over f one million bottles of Dr. King’s New Dit covery have been used within the last yeir, and have given perfect satisfaction in eve- - ry instance. We can unhesitatingly say * ’hat this in really ihe only sure cure for throat 'ind hi 11/ affections, and <jn.® cheer- “ fully recommend it. to all. Call and get a trial boule for ten cents or a regular size forsl. DORWIN & HOLTHOU3E. Decatur. Ind. 4 « Z A iie hi<• a£ o 3 Weekly News M b- J »et, post!aML mA fiJ 4 reXSaa frosn date to Jan. Ist k' Beit, for ■()cents. This Ma |<* .4 trial su'wrrlpi on will ■ 1 •< enable rc-a-.iere to become s.<qu with wi the el*eap<'wt metroB .A tolltan v.-ckly in the B V.b. Indi pendent lr H politic*. e!J the news, £• &<■ ’ri j k* coi rtil marketreports, a ■ Kfcrffii F in even isyue. A favorm '4 f ' 3 hr family paper. Neud rs L l f I<> rents (silver) h€ 3 fck>■-» 1 F Sf-’fl once «u i gtl it un’ll £ V''-4 F W Jan. 1. IFBI. 3 fv-’I [ Ajis t J ’ al svi'scriptiiins for Br V• I f l ' « Regular price is V ' *y» ,• f 75 •’ s *yt ar. A<idr» sb V J Pul.ll her Weekly News, Chicago, 111, 1 Wonderful For the Kp'viy cure of Consumption and al! (iisrises that lead to it. such as B»ub- ' horn Coughs, neglected Colds, Bronchitis Hoy Fever. Asthma, pain in the side an<s chest, dry hacking cough, tickling in the ro’lt, Ho:i.r*rness, So»e Throat, *nd all ohronic or lingering diseases of the throat and lungs. Dr King s New Discovery h <i» no eq'wil end has established for it elf a world-wide reputation. Many leading physicians re- ommend and use if in their practice. The formula form which it is prepared is highly recommended by all nit'dical journals The cletpy and the ptoas have complimented it. in the most Rowing iorms. Go to your druggist and gt t a trial oottle for ten cts.. or a regular size for sl. For sale by Dorwin & Holthouse. iifl A 0 LA * I UL i’i' Zz z-u-- X , j>* MEDICINE QifrEP IB ERE is no ctculer Blood Producer and Life-sus-taining PrkicUle in the world of Focd and nu<licine ti an JkAL J i.i iTElib, pr>-jMr<<l from roeutrd .Malt, mid Quinine. Tl.<*v ted tike and th? brain, • nrich the blood, solidity th»-b-Mva. harden the utiucl< u. quj t the i.ei bus,cboer the mind, perfecc citytunuu. rvunialo the irtomacb und boAAri*, vleiise theUbvr ami kidueji. andvltulize with u«-u PA- exery fiui < t the body. Hewan- ui auimtions similarly named. l.<« k fottneCumptiuy’itMigna--1 ure v Uic!. *pp< ar.-v pl?u».'y on the lulx-l of ewry botliv. Sold everywhere. MALT BITTEBS UO., Boston, Maas. 21- 4. ' jpETITION TO SELL REALESTATE. The State of Indiana. Adams county, Ss. Notice is hereby given that David Uirck, administratrix of the estate of Ahsolora McCurdy, deceased, has filed his petition to sell the real estate of the decedent, his personal estate Deiog insufficient to pay his debts; and that said petition will be heard at the next teim. 1880, of the Adams circuit court of said county. Witness my hand and the seal of said court, this 7chday of December, 1880 N BLACKBURN. Clerk. Decatur, Ind , Dec. 9th, 1880. d 36 w 4 Fiance & Hooper att'ys Manhood, if ■ <• •iaMaJaiHow hoi»1, KeMort’d! Just published, a new edition of DR. CULVER R'ELL’S CELEBRATED EASYon the radical cure (without medicine) of Spermatorrhoea or Seminal Weakness. Involuntary Seminal Losses, Impotency, Mental and Physic;' Incapacity, Impedimenta to Marriage, etc ; ilso,» onsumption, Epilepsy and Fits, induce • hy self-indulgence or sexual extravagance, &c. The celebrated author, in this admirable Essay, clearly demonstrates, from n thirty- ’ years’ successful practice, that the alarm ing consequence of self abuse may be radically cured with* ut the dangerous use of internal medicine or the application of the knife; pointing <,ut a mode of cure at once simple, certain, and effectual, by means of which every sufferer, no m liter what his condition may be. may cure himself cheaply, privately, and radically. I venire should be in the hands ■ 1 of every youth and every man in the land. t Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to any address, post paid, on receipt of six cts. 1 or two postage stamps. The Cnlvcrwell Medical <’o.» 5 41 KnnSt., New Yorn, N.Y., Post Offic Box 4586. [2Cfebßoyl] • |

DRESSMAKING! Notice is hereby given to the ladies of Decatur and vicinity that I have opened a Dressmaking Shop in Decatur, and am prepared to < I T AA» MAKE OK €1 T AAO FIT Ladies' and Children’s Dresses in the latest New York and Parisian styles I do my cutting by the celebrated PERFECT-FITTING MODEL sad am the only one in the city so dying. I Having several years practical experience I guarantee a.itittac-inn in each an'i every instance, and 1 cordially solicit a share of rear patronage. CHARGES RBABONxBUt. Sti« pon*2txl Mree*, over tinter & tlulthnuse’w Shoe Store. MRS. K. K. rRISTOX April!, 18W

TT xx dox* t lx. ixi g;. J HISKEY&SPANGLER vi'' Tv A W --W 7 : UNDERTAKERS J ■ Opposite Adams County Bank, Call the attention of the public generally to a large and comblete line of BURIAL CASKETS AND COFFINS, And to the fact that they are using the lUL ANTI-SEPTIC FLUID, For Embalming, .M’lmmifying, Disinfecting aud Purfuming the flesh of the dead, and of Preserving the Features in a natural stare. 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 Fmnm 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. Iniay’s SpcciJsc Urdicine. TRADE MARK 11IE Gbeat TRADE MARK JS-rx English Rem3k ei>t au unfail- js t9w Dig cure for I ) b'eminal weak jjy ness, Bpermator rb en, I m tency,Jand all ’W* BEFORE TAKINB. Lseanes luiivw ss a consequence of Self-abuse; as loss <*f nie&ory. Universal Lassitude, Pain in the Baek, d'imnees of Vision, Premature Old Age, and many other diseases that lead to Insanity, Consumption and a premature grave. particulars in our pamphlet, which we desire to send free by mail to every one. The Specific Medicine is sold by all druggists at §1 per package, or 6 pack ages for So, or will be sent free by mail on receipt of the money by addressing THE GRAY MEDICINE CO., No. 10 Mechanics Block, Detroit, Mich. Rueklen’s krnlra Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cnl.s. Brni«es, 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 box. For sale by Dobwin <V Uoi.thousf. HEALTH IS WEALTH! Dr. E. C West’s Ninvs and brais I Treatment: a specific for Hysteria, Dizzi-1 ness, Convulsions, Nervous Headache, Men- | •al Depression, Loss of Memory, Sp rmatorrhos i, Impotency, Involuntary Emissions self-abuse, or over indulgence, which leads to misery, decay and death One box will cure recent Cases. Esch box contains one month s treatment One dollar a box, or six boxes tor five dolla-s; sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price. We guarantee six boxes to cure any case Wi’h each order re ceived by us for six boxes, accompanied with five dollars, we will send the purchaser our written guarantee to return ihe mon ey if the treatment does not effect a cure. Guarantees issued only when treatment is ordered direct from us. Address or call on Dorwin & Hollhouse Druggists Decatur Ind. Glaß * gJC‘T* b "sinese now before the public I You can make money faster at I work for us than at anything else. Capital I not required. We will start you. sl2 a day I 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 work, or only your spare moments. No ■ other business will pay you nearly as well No one willing to work can fail to make enormous pay by engaging al once. Costly outfit and ‘terms free. A great opportunity for making money easily and honorably. Address Tans & Co., Augusts, Maine. 22fy

! SI,OOO Forfeit. Having the utmost confidence in its su- ' periority over all others, and after thousands at tests of the most complicated and ! I ! severest cases we oonld find, we fed justi. > fled in oflering to fmfeitUn” thousand Dot | Sirs for any case or coughs, celds, sort ! throat, influents, hoarseness, bronchitis, s consumption, in its early stages, whoopins cough, and all diseases of the throat and lungs, except Asthma, for which we only claim relief, that we can t cure with West's I Cough Syrup, when taken according to dl. " reClions Sample bottles 25 and 50 I large bottles one dollar. Genuine wrappers t, ; on’v in blue. Sold by all druggiwta, or e ' senl by eaprpjs on receipt of price. JOHN y ! C WEST & CO., sole pgoprieaore, 181 auti f I 188 W Madison St., Ch ten go, 81. 45". x-» x-» a wees in yon- own town. St- otttr fjajfit free. No risk Reader, if you wkru a Iwisinesa at wbi.li persons of either can make great pay all the tboy ; work, write for particulars to 4. Haujxi * P»rU»»d, M*m>. Jr™ I

DECATUR, ADAMS COUM Y, INDIAN A, JAN. 27, 1881.

! “SHE HAS OVTIeIVED HER Not long since, a good looking man in middle life came to cur door, asking for ‘the minister.’ When informed that he was out of town, he appeared disappointed and anxious. On being questioned as to his business, he replied : “I have lost my mother, and this place used to be her home, and as I uiy father lies her# we have come to lay her beside him.’ > Our heart rose in sympathy, and we r said: “You have met with a great loss." “Well—yes, ’ replied the strong man with hesitancy, “a mother is a great loss in general; but our mother had outlived her usefulness. She was in her second childhood and her mind was grown as weak as her body, so that she was no comfort to herself, and was a burden to everybody. There were seven of us, sons and daughters, and as we could not find any one who would board her, we agreed to keep her year about; but I have had more than my share of her, for she was too feeble to be moved when my time was out, and that was more than three months before her death. But then she was a good mother in her day, and toiled ver hard to bring us up.” Without looking at the face of that heartless man, we directed him to the house of a neighboring pastor, and returned to our nursery. W’e gazed on the merry little faces which smiled or grew sad in imitation of ours—those little ones to whose ear no word in our language is half so sweet as ‘mother.’ I Wc wondered if the time would ever come when they would say of us : ‘She has outlived her usefulness, she is no comfort to herself and a burden to everybody else,’ and we hoped that before such a day would dawn we might be taken to our rest. God forbid that we should outlive the love of our children. Rather let us die while onr hearts are a part of their own, that our grave may be watered with their tears, and our love linked with their hopes of heaven. When the bell tolled for the mother’s burial, we went to the sanctuary to pay our only token of respect to the aged stranger, for we felt that we could give her memory a tear, even though her own children had none to shed. ‘She was a good mother in her day and toiled hard to bring us all up—she was no comfort to herself and a burden to everybody else 1” These cruel heartless words rung in our ears as we saw the coffin borne up the aisle. The bell tolled long and loud, until its iron tongue had ch’onicled the years of the care-worn mother. One—two—three —four—five. How clearly and almost merrily each stroke told of her once peaceful slumber in her mother’s bosom and of her seat at nightfall upon her weary father’s knees. Six—seven —eight—nine—ten—rang out the talc of her sports upon the green sward, in the meadow and beside the brook. Eleven—twelve - thirteen—fourteen—spoke more gravely of school days and little household cares and joys. Sixteen—seventeen —eighteen —sounded out the enraptured visions or maidenhood and j the dream of early love. Nineteen brought before us the happy bride. I Twenty spoke of the young mother, whose heart was full to bursting with the new, strong love which God had awakened in her heart. And when stroke after stroke of the bell told of her young womanhood—of the loves, and cares and hopes, and the fears and toils, through which she pazsed during these long years, till fifty rang out harsh and loud. From that to sixty each stroke told of the warm hearted grandmother, living over again her own joys and sorrows in those of her children and her children’s children. Every family in all the group wantied grandmother then, and the only I strife was who should secure the prize i but. bark, the bell tolls an 1 Seventy, seventy-one—two —three—four. She , ] begins to grow feeble, requires some ’ i care, is not always perfectly patient or , satisfied, she goes from one child’s ' house to anothet, so that no one place

seems like home. She murmurs in plaintive tones, and after all her toil and weariness, it is hard she cannot be allowed a home to die in ; that she must be sent rather than invited from house to house. Eighty—eighty-one —two —three—four. Ah, she is now a seoond child—now, she has outlived i her usefulness, she has now ceased to be a comfort to herself or to anybody else,’ that is, she has ceased to be profitable to her earth craving and money-grasping children. Now sounds out, reverberating through our lovely forest, and coming back from our hill of the dead. Eigh-ty-nine. There she lies now in her coffin, cold and still, she makes no trouble now, demands no love, no soft 1 words, no tender iittle offioes. A look i of patient endurance, we fancied also, j tn exprewion of grief for unrequited

< love sat on her marble features. Her children were there, clad in weeds of woe. and as an irony we remembered the strong mas’s words. ‘She was a j good mother in her day.’ j When the bell ceased tolling, the strange minister rose in the pulpit. His form was very erect and his voice j strong, but his hair was silvery white. 9 He read several passages of scripture 0 expressive of God’s compassion to feeble man, and especially of his tendere ness when gray hairs are on him and t his strength faileth. Ho then made some touching remarks on human frailty, and our dependence on God, urging all present to make their peace j with their Master while in health that j they might claim his promises when 3 heart and health failed them. ‘Then, he said, ‘the eternal God shall be thy t refuge, and beneath you shall be the everlasting arms.’ Leaning over the 3 desk and gazing intently on the coffinj ed form before him, he then said rev , ently : ‘From a little child I have ( honored the aged, but never till gray , hairs covered my own head, did I know truly how much love and sympathy , this class have a right to demand of their fellow creatures. Now I feel it’ ‘Our mother,’ he added, most tenderly, ‘who now lies in death before us, was a stranger to me, as are all of these, her descendents. Al! I know of her is what her son has told me to-day—that she was brought to this town from afar sixty-niue years ago, a happy bride—that here she has passed most of her life, toiling as only mothers ever have strength to toil, until she had reared a large family of sons and daughters—that she left her home while in the weeds of widowhood, to dwell among her children, and that till health and strength left her—God forbid that conscience should accuse any of you of ingratitude or murmuring on account of the care she has been to you of late. When you go back to your homes be careful of your example before your own children, for the fruit of your owe doing you will surely reap from them when you yourselves totter on the brink of the grave. I entreat you as a friend, as one who has entered the evening of life, that you may never say in the presence of your families, nor of heaven : ‘Our mother has outlived her usefulness—she was a burden to to us.’ Never I never I a mother cannot live so long as that I No 1 when she can no longer labor for her children, nor yet care for herself, she can fall like a precious weight on their bosoms, and call forth by her helplessness all the noble, generous feelings of their natures.’ Adieu, then poor toil-worn mother, there are no more days of pain for thee. Undying vigor and everlasting usefulness are part of the inheritance of the redeemed. —Jfrs. J. D. Chaplin, in the Advocate. The Secret. “I noticed,” said Dr. Franklin, “a mechanic, among others at work on a house erecting but a little way from my office, who always happened to be in a merry humor, who had a kind word and cheerful smile for every one he met. Let the day be ever so cold, gloomy, or sunless, a happy smile danced like a sunbeam on his cheerful countenance. Meeting him one morning, I asked him to tell me the secret of his happy flow of spirits. ‘My secret, doctor.’ he re-1 plied, ‘is that I have got one of the best of wives, and when I go to work she always has a kind word of encouragement f«r me, and when I go home she meets me with a smile and a kiss; and then tea is sure to be ready, and she has done so many little things through the day to please me that I cannot find it in my heart to speak an unkind word to anybody.’ What an influence. then, hath woman over the heart of man, to soften it and make it the fountain of cheerful and pure emotions! Speak gently,then : a happy smile and a kind word of greeting, after the toils of the day are over, cost nothing, and go far toward making home happy and peaceful.’ The experiments begun tenor twelve I 1 .. . I years ago for natura izing in certain parts of India the best varieties of the ‘ cinchona or Peruvian bark tree have been attended with the most remarkable success, and there are now in vari- | ous stages of growth probably millions

. of cinchona plants already yielding the Peruvian bark so plentifully and so perfectly that the price of quinine has fallen considerable in Ceylon and othj, er parts. There is every probability J I that in six or seven years the Indian I production of quinine will be so large 5 and the price so low that it will become 5 a considerable article of export. r Forty years experience has stamped j public approval on Ayer's Cherry Pecf toral, a» the most reliable of all remedies for Throat or Chest diseases, Its L continued and increasing popularity js ■ 'i conclusive evidence of its superior cur- j i stive qualities. |

r A BAW CROWD. f ; The Hobber Gang lii the Mown tains of Pennsylvania—Wild 3 Hairy Bill and His id i futures. 8 [Churchtown, Pa., Cor. N. Y. Suu.] Mart Buzzard, Abe Buzzard, Joe Buzzard, Ike Buzzard, and Jake Buzzard. are five brothers, whose names a ’ are now before the public in the role of leaders of the Welsh mountain I gang of plunderers. Two of them, Abraham and Joseph, are in the Lancaster jail, and their hearings will take J J » O place on the 19th of the present month. The remaining three arc at large. Two t of the alleged members of the gang, i Diller Clarke and Henry Howes, who ■ were arrested with the two Buzzards are also in jail. Seven of the band are , now in jail, and three are in the East- ( ern penitentiary at Philadelphia. The Five Buzzard brothers have all served out different sentences in prison during the last five years. Joseph and Isaac labored for eighteen months in the Lancaster jail for horse stealing. Jacob was in the same prison five years for burglary, escaped and was recaptured, Martin has also secured a similar record, and his terms have numbered more than one. In February of last year, the five were in the Lancaster jail together, serving out their sentences, but during 1880 their various terms expired, and they were released. They at once repaired to their old haunts, the Welsh mountains, a strip of wild and barren backwoods country and forest lying along the borders of Berks. Lancaster, and Chester counties. Rising out of a rocky and scrub-oak region of barren is the Welsh mountains, with its caves of limestone rock, caverns, and dreary, yet safe and secure hiding places, where officers of the law never visit. Prior to their departure for the old haunts, they made many vows and promises that they would never again ‘take to the road’ for a living, and they pointed to the fact that, notwithstanding their absence from their hunting grounds, the robberies, burglaries and high handed outrages had ccn inued the same as ever. Old Martin said to the sheriff : ‘You see. we are not to blame, because we weren t thar ! Now, if these stealings go on when we re down thar, don’t blame it on to us.’ Martin Buzzard had spoken truthfully, for when himself and brothers had been captured and been convicted a young and handsome man assumed charge of the then almost panic-strick-en gang of thieves. His true name was Henry Birt, although he had many aliases. He was a daring and intrepid | outlaw, and always had charge of run- I ning the stolen plunder into market ■ after tho gang had captured and deliv- ' ered it in a neighboring county. When the five Buzzards had been run down | and the band scattered and dishearten- : ed, Birt's occupation was gone. He therefore came to his own rescue, mounted his horse, penetrated the wilds of the forest and mountain country. and rallied the men once more. They left their huts and followed his leadership as bravely as they did under ■ the old regime, Birt soon became known as “Wild Harry of the Welsh mountain.” As an innocent-looking i peddler he roamed the country during the day. On off evenings ho courted I the farmers’ pretty daughters. His ! hair was long, black, and wavy: his eyes were dark; his complexion olive. He had a black mustache, very pretty teeth, and was well formed. He was not au educated man, but his conversation was entertaining, and his unaffected, plain, blunt manner engaging. These girls liked his brusque, careless manner, and after he had won his way into their affections he took good care to take sufficient points to enable him to work his way into the house a few evenings afterwards on a mission of plunder instead of love, A volume might be written of the ■ romances of this modern Claude Duval. > He could write fairly, and many of his I love-letters found their way into the ' hemes of the richest farmers in that i j section of country. So far as is known 1 j his conduct to the young women was 8 I perfectly honorable. M hen he was at f last run down and captured, and his ' many sweethearts heard of it, they not ’ only denounced the officers and pro-

nounced the charges untrue, but earnestly entreated their friends and rela- j tives to go to his aid. Birt was captured with a load of plunder, and committed to the jail at Reading. His ■ red necktie, velvet coat, corduroys,and top boots were changed to prison stripes, and he served a long term, after '[ which he went to Mexico. The Buzzard boys, after their liberation, found the gang nearly broken up and very poor. It was some time before they were again mustered and ori ganized. Martin Buzzard went to his | hut on the mountain at what ie called

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“Buzzard's Roost, and commenced making baskets. He was determined 1 to reform and quit the road. All of i! the present winter the burglaries have gone on. Nearly every night the bold band has been abroad. Churches, stations, stores, offices, and private houses, e to say nothing of barns, stables, and smoke-houses. have been broken open 8 and burned. Vigilance committees, e horse-thief detective associations, and 3 other companies for the prevention of ’ crime and the assistance of the constabulary, have been organized, but the 3 burglaries go on. Many farmers are ' afraid to take active part in the ’ prosecutions, lest their barns miy be ’ fired. Indeed, many notices, some- ’ thing similar to the ‘ .Molly Maguire" J warnings have been sent, cautioning 3 farmers to beware how they volunteered to give evidenoe against certain par--3 ties under arrest. * The Buzzard brothers are middle- ’ sized, broad shouldered men ranging 3 from 27 years of age to 45. Isaac is 3 the youngest and Mart the oldest. They have red complexions and brown 1 hair, gray eyes and heavy, shaggy eyebrows. Their boots are of course hide, and their corduroy pantaloons are stuck in the tops. Generally they wear short, heavy pea-jackets, which enable them to ride more freely Three are married and have several children each, all living in the same cab.ns. The Buzzards are desperate men,and fora long time it was considered certain death to attempt to arrest them in their homes. Some of the banl live in “Lousetown,” a small mountain village near the home of the Buzzards. The arrest of the two brothers is to be followed up, and it is expected that the entire quintet will soon be brought in. Some say that Martin is aiding the officers, while others deny it. Martin has written a letter for publication, in which he declares his innocence, say that he has reformed e: iroly, and thanks God | that he has luck ly escaped the gallows. , 4 tiemark J»le Blind Man. There died in ’he summer of 1880, i ■in the town or Burlington, Conn..l James Goodsell, who was from his j i birth, during a life of nearly ninety years, totally blind. Tn early childhood, however, Mr. G. said that the darkness was in a few instances broken by faint-glimmerings of light. Os four children, he and his sister were blind, the others could see. The sister, though at first possessed of ordinary vision, soon by a mysterious change, became wholly deprived of sight. In absolute darkness the ordinary employments of a work-day life would seem I impracticable, but this blind man would ! swing an ax, and actually felled trees; jhe was an accomplished grain thresher, ■ and would frequently go along a distance of two miles to thresh for the Burlington farmers, climbing to the > mews to throw down grain ; could hoe corn or garden stuffs, as well as any- ’ body, having no trouble to distinguish the weeds; he would set a hundred bean poles with more accuracy than most persons who can see, he would load hay beautifully, and was as good a mechanic that he manufactured yokes

and other farm articles with success. He had an excellent memory and was an authority on facts and dates. He could generally tell the tinn of day or night within a few minutes. One instance is given when he slept over one day and woke at evening, thinking it was morning. For once he ate his sup- ' per for breakfast, slept another twelve ■ : hours so aS to get sTaight- again. He I : was familiar with forest trees, and knew j just where to go for any timber he deI sir"d. He could direct a man where Ito find a chcsnut, a maple or an oak, ! and the children where to go for ber- ; lies. He was a good mathematician, ■ and could compute accurately and rapidly. In olden days he was quite musically inclined, and like most blind peo pie, lie had a genius in that direction- . He was at one time leader of he Prea- . I bytcrian choir in that place. For two i i years he and the blind sister kept ; house together, though she and the otht’ er members of the family have long i since passed away. To crown all, he 3 I possessed one of the happiest of dispot sitions, and was ever genial and cheers ful. To this end his generally excellent t i health must have largely contributed.

——- - ( Dickey, aged 5, made a call on a young friend. The young friend had | lately come into possession of a pair of , rabbits. So when Dickey came home he was asked what he saw. “Saw two rabbits.” “What did you think of them, Dicky ?" “Didn't think much about ’em" “What did they look ; like ?” “One of them didn’t look much ; like anything, and the other one he j looked like him.” A young man at Ilion. N. Y., killed himself the other day on account of I his impaired digestion. He wanted to show the public that he could digest m w«U •» anybody.

Popular LinuNomenta. It is of the utmost importance that the amusements of a psople should be of a high moral tone and character ; the experiment of denying the publie al) amusements has been repeatedly ;ried. and has always resulted in a ter* j rible reaction. A society debarred from lawful pleasures will seek relaxation in unlawful on.s. The Puritans of England determined to put down all amuse* ■ ; meats, as wicked ard immoral; so cut 1 ■ down the May-pole upon the greens, d , denounced dancing as inimical to the f 1 principle of religion, and, shutting up e | the theatres, put the players in stocks ; 1 in short they established hypocrisy and - called it decorum. But the moment this iron rule was removed a tide of 1 corruption and licentious pleasure 1 swept over the land, and the reign of , Charles 11. is infamous in English an--1 nals as that of uniiersal licentiousf ness. The same thing might have been 5 marled in New England had the pop- > ulation been more mixed, or her publie > duties and private toils been less ini teresting and exacting. As th’e Puri- - tan sway was relaxed here, the effect we have noticed was not so glaring, and ' yet many social excesses may be I traced, we think, to the too rigid sway ■ of the Puritans. Habitual dramdrinking was one the fruits of that iron regime, because that was a vice : which could be indulged in secret, and 1 to a certain extent in defiance of the censors. The Friends of Penn’s colony were certainly of the most straightlaced set, and yet Philadelphia is now as fond of pleasure as Paris itself, and, we may add, at times is quite as turbulent; while the city of New York shows no traces, as to morals, of its staid and frugal progenitors. True philanthropists and sound legislators will not seek to trammel the tendency of the human mind to seek pleasant excitement, but they will rather endeavor to promote and regulate amusements. Museums, theatres, and public gardens, these are all legitimate sources of entertainment. In apciet Athens, which possessed a theatre capable of accommodating thirty thousand spectators, the intellectural character of the people, who were admitted free to these entertainments, was of ihe highest order. In Rome, i on the other hand, the rulers and can--1 didates for popular favor, instead of > seeking to divert the minds of the peoI pie, by ennobling, or at least in supplying innocent recreations, pandered to their cruel tastes by the fiendish and : demoralizing combats of the arena. In the ampitheatres, armies of gladiators fought against each other, or contended for precedence with the fiercest of wild animals. In Spain the national amusement of the bull-fight has succeeded the old Roman gladiatorial shows; and the character of the people evinces the nature of their sports. The old chivalry of Spain is extinct, and the ferocity of the population is displayed in their readiness to commit assassination, and their almost incredible ferocity in war. They behave like savages and brigands.— American Cultivator. Conversational Talent. If our readers would try to acquire the talent to which Prof. Hart alludes in the following, they would bless both themselves and others : A talent for conversation has an extraordinary value for common, everyday uses of life. Let any one who has this gift enter in a social circle anywhere.

How every one's face brightens at his entrance ! How soon he sets all the little wheels in motion, encouraging the timid, calling out unostentatiously the resources of the reserved and shy, subsidizing the facile, and making everybody glad and happy! To converse well is not to engross the conversation. It is not to do all I the talking. It is not necessary to talk ’ with very great brilliancy. A man may talk with such surpas ’.ng power and splendor as to awe the rest of the company into silence, or excite their envy, and so produce a chill where his aim should be to produce warmth and sunshine. He should seek the art of making others foel quite at home with him. so that, no matter how great may be his attainments or reputation, or bow small may be theirs, they find it insensibly just as natural and pleasant talking to him as hearing him talk. The talent for conversation, indeed, more almost than anything else in life, requires taet and discretion. It requires one to have more varied knowledge, and ui have it at instant and absolute disposal, so that he can use just

as much or just as little as the occasion demands. It requires the ability to pass instantly and with ease from the playful to the serious, from books to men, from the mere phrase of courtesy to the expressions of sentiment and passion. Emma Abbott says that kissing on the stage is no fun. Os course it isn't. There's none of the feeling that you re doing something you ought not about I >tA bill is to be introduced in the ' Delaware legislature exempting from [ taxation for teu years at least all per- . sons coming into the state with the in* I taotiu of oilotiiioj. • .... .