Decatur Democrat, Volume 24, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 10 February 1881 — Page 1

T he democrat. C asataKar’e/.- " - - Official Pa ; er of Adams County. SB. IT-rvy ’W j llxamß, Terms: One amd Firry . Cents Per Year.

J. T. BAILEY, I ATTA AT LAW J. P., DKCATUB, I- DIANA. K Hili Practice in Adams and adjoining RCounties. Col; ~ specialty. v24n29tf s. g? Ralston; PHYBICI \N & SURGEON, GENEVA, INDIANA. Office aver Harrod’a Furniture Store. Proles.iona! culls promptly attended to at all hours. ' 25jy79if S. I*. SieicM.e..W. If., .■ Physician azsd Surgeon, PLEABAST MILLS, IND. B Office in Gepheart's building, where he gltl On when net professionally enp»grd. aprlbt A G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., i PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DKCATL'R, INDIANA. |L Oftoe in Houston's Block, up-stairs Will mtetid to h!1 pro'--BiOnal culls promptly, light or day. Ch;i /• ” reasonable. Keai | dim oe au north aid' of Monroe street, 4th I ease of flari s Mill. 25jy79tf K B. AusWml I’rwfi t W. Il Niblick, UtwlMer. D. Btl'3abakf.b. Vke Prert. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, T This Bank is now open for the transac- . tion of a general banking business. He buy ond sell Town, Township and Cennty Orders. 2ojy79tf f.J.riescr. e. o. iteopxa Franrr h Hooper, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, PBCATL R, IN DI ANA. Will practice in Ad.njsi ojid adjoining OMTOlies. Collections a specialty. Deeds, Wi-i{r*£*B and other iustrumiAUs of writing atfMtk with naatnM a; I dispatch. Will buy I sod sell real ewrnte aud pay taxes. Fees rmsfiliable. Office over Stone’s hardware <Wtf, east side Second Street. 310ct~9 P. c. shackleyT - House, Sign, ani Carriage Painter, And rer Hanger. Gr*inine, Cab .i.niu r, Whitewashing, etc. Prices to suit ;h- . o <. Sixteen years in Adams county. Give mo a call and save money, on southeast corner of Jefferson and Second streets. Decatur, Ind., Aug. 5, 1879. Baug79 f PETERSON & HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DBCATUR, INDIANA. WiTl practice in A i tins and adjoining ••unties. Especial attention given to collections and title* io real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bough . -oid nd rented on rearenable terms Office, rjoms 1 and 2, I. 0. 0. F. building. 25jy79tf

Frank Leslie’s Weekly. The only Democratic Illustrated N»w«paper published--will be sent postpaid, for five wc ks (until end of sampaign) for thirty cents. A0«“ ts wanted in every town. Send thirty erots for «ceks subscription or six cents in postage stamps for sample copy and illustrated catalogue. 0 >s offour will be sent forfive week.s fc sl. Address Frank Leslie Publish ing Co., 15 Dey street New York. JOHN SHIREY, A IT C T ION E E R, Wish es to pay to the people of Decatur a»l Vicinity that hi* is now the only protosttnal auctioneer in the county and that be will at all uar- ready to attend to •alls in hia line of t in Thirty-five mrs experience will enable him to give sa Ma fear on beyond a >»ubt to all who employ him Cbarg*« will be very rnisonah)e. Orders left at the liw office of France k Hooper will receh •.* j.rwnrt attention. jyi’ArS JOIIX SHIREY. NOTICE TO TEACHERS. Not/ke is Uereix jiven that there will b a public exnuDtu*. ion of teachers at the often of the County Sir. wintendent, on the Hat Saturday of < xionth. Applicants far licence must pre i t “the proper trustee’s certificate, or other rat is factory evidence of good moral character,” and to be mocessful must pass a good examination in Orthography, Reading. Writing, Arithme tie, Geography, Eng • ' Grammar, Physio logy, and History • ? United States. G. W. A. LUCKEY, June 18,1879 County Hap t. fa Greater met* to make monVi w/Iml/aey. We t. ek a person in •very town to tak ,s -••riptiorni for the largest, cheapest and i lustrated famiJt publication in the world. Any one can fatmio a successful agent. Six eleg*Mit <erks of art given free to suU-cribers. The prioe is &o low that almost everybody subscribes. One agent reports taking 120 subscribers in a day. A 1 idy reports making ever •e* lelaarprofft in ten <’oys. All who engage make money fast. You can devote aU yeur time to the business, or only your W»rs time You i- -I not be away from home ovw night. Cbu con .lo it as well as ethen Fall dinmi'.ons and terms free. Elegant mud expmisil- .-St. five. If you want prehlahle work wr'iti us your address at en.II It costs nothing lo try the business Ko one who enrages th i's to make great pay Address OboSge STixsos & Co., Portland, Maine. 22Jy Br. J. B. Sim pts aas speetnc Medicine. »r. J. B. s Specific Aediotse is a pneisive enre Ssr fipermatrrrbca, hnpotsov ivnd atl dtewwma resulting ftma Bslt-Ahws*. m> Kervone PeftiJity, [rntoMStw. Mwtsl lri*J Laagner, LassiMA. »f sprt .t> and functional dfrt AwgMnt'B'* of rmvonn system geciera*< Fwins n> B=.ek m Sl-e, Loss of memory hoewr. eM BsroSß. XTTU. *> and OiMM , t . u gMHvr IMW cfeM «*e<S ths may be «*<?**»«* a twvoe of fth mefWiua will th* loot fnn.tions tars promT. haotik aird b-.ppinew where to*er. ww d»»p*rvri»cT and gleam. The Medicine is being coed with woo |fc»«os. nmsf%f ns svri free to all. Write for •aa awl get perrioataw*. Ms*. SH-MU.gi r-v p.Aaeu. or* paek- ■ MB* Mr & Wl*l he vo®> hy mail o« roMBa <f mo«ae AMrass all at tiers, B J B Bisnr ." S KFC-dflKB co. fta. «M oei IM M.ln M , RuAels M. T. SMd in Decatur by PcRWIIf k aSSIWUSB. SWuov'fcyl

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Stop That Cough. If yeu are suffering with a cough, cold asthma, bi enohitis. hay fever, consumption loss of voice, tickling in the throat, or any affection of the throat or lungs, use Dr. King 8 New Discovery for consumption. This is th*great remedy that is causing so niuch excitement by its wonderful cures curing thousands of hopeloss cases. Over •ne million bottles of Dr. King’s New Dit oovery have been used within the Inst yeir, and have given perfect satisfacHon in event instfMtce. We can unhesitatingly say that this is really the only eure cure for throat and affections, and oa*i cheerfUPy rvcotnnienu it to all. Call and get a frtnj bottJe for ten cents or a reeul&r sixe fbrsl. DORWIN & HOLTHOUSE, Decatur. Ind. 4

CENTS TO JAN. 1. The Uhicago Weekly News will be sent, postpaid, from da’e to Jan. Ist next, for »ocenig. Thia trial yui'Hfilpi on will I ou*!-le readers to bacome acquainted with the chesiMetroI politan weekly In the I U.S. Independent lx? I politico, ail the news. eorrect aiarket reports, •lx earn Dieted stories | In every Issue. A favorite family paper. Send 10 cents (silver) al onoe ami gi t it until Jan. 1, Eleven tr al sn bscriptlons for 11. HO. Regular price is 7<sc’s. a year. Address Publi-lier Weekly News, Chicago, 111,

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IVotiderfitl HiAcortry. For the speedy cure of Consumption and all diseases that lead to it, such as stubborn Coughs, neglected Colds, Bronchitis. Hay Fever, Asthma, pain m the side and chest, dry batking cough, tickling in the thrufttk Hoarseness, Sore Thrust, and all chronic or lingering diseases of the throat and lungs, Dr. King's New Discovery hns no equal and has established for itself a world-wide reputation. Many lending phynwians recommend and use it in their praecipe. The formula form which it is prepared is highly recommended by all Uiealcal journals The clergy and the press have complimented it in the most gfcvwing terms. Go to your druggist and gvt a trial Dottle for ten cts., or a regular rieeforsl. For sale by Dorwin & Holtbouse. •

THE NEV/ FOOD b .MEDICINE M I ILKRJC h» no Blood Producer and Lito-suß-X t'riuclAle in the world of Food ami tniidjBfa« iLtoci AIALT BITTEUS, prepared from I ttQerroenreil Mult, Hups, Qubiiut. IXey feed Um body and th* brain, *-nrich ibe bluud, so'fcMty tk” buti'-fi. Ixn'iHi iheiDiucles. qiu t the n«i W**, dwr the mind, perfect diyettion. retaliate the rtoniach axiil bowde, denee tbeliber and kidneys. Midvttnlib; with ne* Mi- exen fluiu of the body. Beware otkoUtalivkui ataiilurly named. Look for the Cotnvfuiy’s ‘Signa’Lure which appears plainly on the Übci -4 every hot. Sold aven wn-— Ma I T BtTTEHS ( pETITION TO SELL REAL ESTATE. The State of Indiana. Adams ccunty, Ss. Notice is hereby given that David U.rck, tt'lmimstratrix of the estate of Ab-oiotn McCurdy, deceased, has filed his petition to sell the real estate of the decedent, bis personal estate Being insufficient to pay his debts; and that said petition will be heard at the next teim. 1880, of the Adams circuit court of sai l county. Witness my hand and the seal of said court, ibis 7th day of December, 1880 N BLACKBURN. Clerk. Decatur, Ind., Dec. 9th, 1880. n 36 w 4 Fiance & Hooper att’ys ’ lanhood ; •E£ffiwKHow Lost, Restored! Just published, a new edition of DR. CULVER TELL’S CELEBRATED EASY on the rtdteai cure (without medicine) of Spermatorrhoea or Seminal Tcaknsss, Involuntary Seminal Losses, Impotency, Mental and PbyHie il Incapacity, Impediments to Marriage, etc.; also, Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits, induce I by self-indulgence or sexual extravagance, &c. The celebrated author, in this admirable Essay, clearly demonstrates, from a thirtyyears’ successful practice, that the alarm ing consequence of self-abuse may be radically cured without the dangerous use of internal medicine or the application of the knife; pointing out a mode of cure at once simple, certain, and effectual, by means of which every sufferer, no mutter what his condition may be. may cure himself cheaply, privately, and radically. I should be in the hands of every youth and every man in the land. Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to any address, poet-paid, on receipt of six cts. or two postage stamps. The Culvcrweil .Medical €-0.» 41 Ann St., New York, N. Y., PostOffic 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

CUT AND MAKE OR CUT AND FIT Ladies' and Children's Dresses In the latest New York and Parisian styles I do my catling by the celebrated PERFECT-FITTING MODEL Mid »m the only one in the city so doing. Having several years practical experience I guarantee satitfaeidon in each and every instance, and I oordiallv snliclt a share as veur patronage. CHAbCES RBABON-ABL-E. Shop on ‘lnd Street, over -'onter A. Holt house's Shoe Store. MR3. K. E. FRISTOE AprilS, 1880.

Decatur Democrat.

TJxicXex’ta.Sx.lja.g. HISKEY & SPANGLER UNDERTAKERS 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 MIL 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 s 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 Great TRADE MARK Xgfrt EnoLISH R fi»- yffgSjga bdy an nnfaik ‘“R o u,-e f o r A-S.® ? seminal weak gjS tency.Jand a BEFORETAIUIIB- ~l i e »« e " ,tul! AnX« TAIIM. tuiu.w ns a con»<xp>vnc« of Self-abuse; as loss of Universal Lassitude, Pain in the Back, Dimness of Vision, Premature Old Age, and many other disoiues that h ad to Insanity, Consump* tion and a premntufe grave. gtsy-Full particulars in our pamphlet, which we deerire to send free by mail to ev. ery one. Tho Specific Medicine is sold by all druggists at $1 per package, or 6 pack ages for $5, or will be cent free by mail on receipt of the money by addressing THE GRAY MEDICINE CO., No. 106 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y. Bucklen’* 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 ease or monej’ refunded Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Dorwin <fc Holthocse. HEALTH IS WEALTH"' Dr. E. C Wk«t’» Nbrve and brain Treatment: a specific for Hysteria, Diisiness, Convulsions, Nervous Headache, Mental Depression, Loss of Memory, 8p rmatorrhoea, Impotency, Involuntary Emissions, self-abuse, or over-indulgence, which leads to 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 with five dollars, we will send the purchaser our written guarantee to return the mon ey if the treatment don not eflect a cure. Guarantees issued only when treatment is ordered direct from us. Address or call on Dorwin & Holthouse Druggists Decatur Ind. 6ms. now before the public ■ You can make money faster at work for us than at anything eioe. 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 work, or only your spare moments. No other busii ess will pay you nearly ns well No one willing to work can fail to make enormous pay by engaging at once. Costly outfit and terms free. A great opportunity for making money easily and honorably. Address True & Co., Augusta, Maine.

SI,OOO Forfeit. Having the utmost confidence in its superiority over all others, and after thousands of tests of the most complicated and severest cases we could find, we feel justified in offering to forfeit On** Thousand Dot lars for any case of coughs, eslds, sort throat, influents, hoarseness, bronchitis, consumption, in its early stages, whoopinf cough, and all diseases es the throat a«d lungs, except Asthma, for which we only claim relief, that we can’t cure with Wests Cowgh Syrup, when taken according to dlremions Sample bottles 25 and 50 large bottles one dollar. Genuine wrappew only in blue. Sold by all dnimsLws, st wnt hv express on receipt of price. JOHN C W tteT & 00., sole proyrvwwi'*, 181 aijd 188 W. Madison Bt., L’bte*<s, FR

XXa week in your own town. 36 outypfrltOfii free. No riok. Hander, if yw whiW a buainene nt which peraons of either era (oru make great nay all the time they ovk, write for prertioulare to H. HauMTT Ch, P.rt'.iDd, Maine.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FEB. io, 1881.

POKER AND STOCKS. <«aiiiblaiig, Past and Present — The Bay» When Slave* Were the Bank. [Washington Cor. Philadelphia Times.] From time when the memory of congressman runneth not to the contrary there has been gambling in Washington. Games of chance of all descriptions have been played here by public men since the creation of the republic. There have been seasons when gambling was ' popular, and seasons when to play cards publicly for money would insure social ostracism. There have been times when vast sums were staked on the turn of a single card, and periods when twenty-five cent faro and penny ante flourished beyond comparison. At those epochs in the history of the country when money has been abundantly plentiful the largest games of chance were played. In seasons of financial distress Washington gamblers have suffered the pains of poverty. Before the war of the rebellion a vast majority of the men who were nightly devotees of poker or faro tables came from the South. Their slaves were the bank upon which they drew to meet their losses at cards and their winnings were invested in purchases over the auction blocks in the slave markets in Southern cities. Poker was the favorite game, and men whose names are treasured in the history of the country as a statesman of the higher order gambled with a recklessness which made them celebrated in other circles than those of law and politics. During the great struggle for human liberty a game of more intense interest than any taught in the pages of Hoyle absorbed the attention of public men. There was plenty of gambling in Washington during the war but the men who played were soldiers, officers, contractors and persons who made fortunes by purveying for the troops. After the surrender of Richmond and during the period of inflation which led up to the panic of 1873 Congressional gambling revived. Senators, representatives and heads of departments and bureaus played poker, whist, faro, rouge et nois and hazard at public and private card rooms, winning and losing large sums of money With SRPniincr nrinnbolnn«» ** 1 - now occupy high places in congress, and who are never seen to touch a card in public, then gambled desperately. Due-bills given in payment of losses at cards, and which have never been met, arc to-day held by public men who would be ashamed to own their possession. Western men were the most reckless gamblers from 1865 to 1873. Poker was also their favorite game and the amounts staked on bobtail '‘lushes” and unfilled “straight?" were calculated to demoralize the impecunious looker on. Business panics cause reforms. Poverty is the surest guarantee of economy. The mania for gambling which prevailed among many public men during the period of inflation was simply a relax of the general speculative tendency of the outside public. The people gambled in business, their representatives gambled with cards. When the crash came the card sharpers were held responsible for the evils which the people had themselves chiefly caused. A year ago gambling in Washington revived. Northern and Western men were this time the heavy players. The New York Stock-Exchange was the table and “puts” and “calls,” “blinds” and “straddles” were the cards. Two rooms at one of the principaljuptown hotels were devoted to pokerplaying, but operations in stocks had superseded the old time amusement. The men who gambled had never enjoyed the felicity of an all day game on the top of a stump in a mining camp, with piles of gold dust for chips. They preferred to buy and sell shares in mines of the location and actual existence of which they had no knowledge rather than risk their fortunes with dice or cards. A very wealthy firm of New York brokers, Prince, Whitely & Co., saw at an early stage the possibilities of Washington as a speculative field, and they had promptly established an office here. A special wire to New York was obtained and the head quarters were made at Williards hotel, the center es social, political, and commercial life at the capital. In the morning, before Congress met, a crowd of Senators and Representatives might be seen in the brokers’office eagerly watching the black-board, upon which were recorded the quotations of the exchange as rap,dly as they could be ■ transmitted by telegraph. This arrangement was not entirely satisfactory to many members who transacted business with the firm. They wanted to know the situation of the market from noon to three o’clock, at which time they were at the cspitol. Permis- , siou was obtained to put a wire into the capitol from the brokers’ office. A table with* telegraph instrumeat

was placed in one of the window alcoves on the house side of the building, and an operator was stationed there to receive quotations direct from the hotel. At times half a dozen representatives might be seen leaning over the railing which surrounded the operator watching the quotations as he wrets them down on the lists. It was evident from the start that this arrangement would be short-lived. There were many “old fashioned” members who commented severely upou this new scheme. They talked about the temple being turned into a den of thieves and wondered how congressman who were speculating in securities over which the government exercised control could perform their unbiased duty as representatives when matters affecting the value of those securities were pending in Congress. The boldness of congressional operators became a question of common wonder. Bills were introduced whose object was undoubtedly to influence certain stocks. It was amusing to see how often the congressional operators were bitten by their sharper antagonists in Wall street. One instance will suffice for an example. A bill was introduced in the Senate to open up the Indian territory for settlement.—The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, owned by Jay Gould, passes through the territory. In the hundreds of miles through the territory along the line of this railroad there is hardly a settlement worthy of the establishment of a station.— There is no local trade beyond the transportation of Indian and militaey supplies. It was known that the passage of the bill would send thousands of immigrants into the territory, and almost in the twinkle of an eye build up a most valuable local trade for the railroad. Every intelligent Senator and member of Congress knew that there was not the slightest chance for the passage of the bill. If it had managed to get through Congress, the “President” was committed to veto it. It is possible, however, to manage a committee where the action of either of the two houses can not be controlled. Mr. Gould visited Washington. He encouraged his strikers in Congress to push the bill ahead, saying that a favorable report from the committee ou 11 ~ — k*r>zl)rr ndunnfip the price of stock. The word was passed along the line to buy M., K. and T. Everybody who had the cue loaded up, and the sub-Committee of the Senate Committee on Territories, it was announced, agreed to report favorably upon the bill. Newspaper corrrespondents were informed of the action of the sub committee one evening, and dispatches were sent broadcast over the country announcing tho fact. At 10 o’clock the next morning the members who had profited by the “point” were awaiting the opening quotations. They had figured up anticipated profits and simply wanted to see how far the thing would move. M., K. and T. opened steady. It moved up |of 1 per cent. The Speculators were contented, although they had expected a bigger rise. At eleven it showed signs of weakness, and before the Exchange closed it had fallen 3 per cent. Information was 1 that Gould's brokers were selling the i stock. Curses both loud and deep were ■ showered upon the eminent financier, and those lambs who had bought upon 1 a margin settled as best they could and pocketed the loss. Nothing more was heard of the opening of the Indian territory at that sessoin. An Accommodating; Vlan. An amusing incident occurred on a street-car the other day. A woman of fifty made up to look about twenty-five years, got aboard at a crossing to find every sea occupied. She stood for a moment, and then selecting a poorlydressed man about twenty-five years of age, she observed. “Are there no gentlemen on this car ?” “Indeed, I dunno,” he replied, as he looked up and down. “If there hain t, and you are going through, I’ll hunt up one for you at the end of the line.” There was an embarrassing silence for a moment and then a light broke in on him all of a sudden, and he arose and said: “You can have this seat, madam, I am alius perfectly willing to stand up and give my seat to anybody older than myself.” That decided her and she gave him a look which he will not forget t* his dying day, and grabbing the strap she refused to sit down, even when five seats had become vacant.

“Do you throw in a fire-escape with this whiskey ?” was asked in a W heeling bar-room the other day— Wheeling Ledger. Sick Stomache at once relieved by Rinehart’s Liver Pills. Only one for a dose. Sample dose free. Ask your druggist for them. no. 45.2 w.

: 'SQUIRE McCLEM.AN’S HLED. lion the Newly-Converted Miser wait Overreached. Probably the largest wood-sled ever built in county, says an exchange, was one devised by ’Squire John McClellan, a Great-Uncle of General George B. McClellan. For a number of years it was one of the local curiosities of the town of Woodstock, Conn., the early home of the McClellan family. The narrator’s father, who saw it frequently when a boy, sajs it was nigh thirty-two feet in length by three in breadth. The beams were of squared eight-inch timber, with studs to match, and the shoes, or runners were over a foot in width. For drawing it there were two ‘tongues’ or poles in the forward end. It was never used save on one speeial occasion, when the team consisted of fifteen yokes of oxen. The story of its origin is as follows : In the parish where ’Squire McClellan resided it was the custom every winter for such of the men who had wood-lots to give the parson a cord of hickory wood each, and thus make up to him a winter’s supply of fuel. The ’Squire in particular was always punctual in December with his cord of nicely prepared hickory. In the parish'there was a man who had the reputation of being ‘snug,’ niggardly, and apt to shirk his due share of the o burden of paying the minister. Indeed, his remissness in the matter had been a standing grievance in the place for many years. One autumn there was a revival of religious interest in the place and many members of the church were stimulated to earnest labor, and to live more strictly. Among these was the penurious man above alluded to, whom we can conveniently designate as Brother Z. Not a little to the astonishment of his neighbors, who had had ample experience of his miserable dealing, he arose in prayer-meeting one night, and exhorted to liberal giving, not only to the parson, but to all benevolent objects. Waxing exceedingly earnest in manner and tone, he declared among other things that he would that winter give the minister a load of wood. “Yea brethren," he exclaimed, “the Lord has opened my heart i i wjn a „, a him a load of wood, and a hig one. I will give him the biggest load you caudraw from my woods to his yard." This unexpected outburst from so drouthy a source was the parish wonder for a week. Many thought that brother Z must be near his end. “Truly,” said ’Squire McClellan, at the deacons’ meeting, “the Lord must have opened Brother Z ’s heart; but,” he added with characteristic Scotch shrewdness, “it may soon close and may never open again. It behooves us in the parson’s interest, to avail ourselves of it. Let us build a sled that will carry ten cords and do it at once.” So thought the others. The monster sled was privately but expeditiously framed in a back yard, and early one snowy morning in December, Brother Z was amazed to see drive to his door apparently all tho ox teams in town, drawing the titanic sled, accompanied by a shouting throng of teamsters, and all the small boys in the parish. The ’Squire was riding on the sled. “We've cotue for the parson’s load of wood, Brother Z 1” he called out. “You bade us haul the biggest load of wood we could, and I am glad to hear that you have lately had a fine lot of hickory ehopped.” Brother Z , however, seeing the magnitude of the sled, tried to explain and to demur, but in vain. The crowd roared him into acquiescence, aud with a wry face he finally led the way across the snowy fields to his freshly corded tiers of hickory in the lot. It is said that fully ten cords of wood were loaded upon the big sled under the ‘Squire's supervision, aud then, to the tune of a most vociferous gee hawing, the enormous load was successfully sledded to the parson's doorway. The worthy minister, equally amazed, 1 but more agreeably so, issued forth to learn the cause of the uproar. “Good people, good people, he cried, ! rubbing his hands, “what meaneth this ? Have the wiudows of heaven opened ?’ “Nay. nay, parson!” exclaimed the ’Squire, “but the Lord has opened ! Brother Z ’s heart, aud that so i great a gift could have issued from so small a receptacle is one of the wonders of saving grace. Question not, but take it and keep ye warm. The minister had roaring fires that winter, but it was long before Brother Z recovered his equanimity.

The public are indebted to Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., not only for their standard medicinal preparations, but also for improving the looks of the community by their incomparable Hair Vigor.

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New York. February 1 —Samuel Sondheim, of the firm of Sondheim Bros., cotton brokers, at 101 pearl St., was married about a year ago to a young and beautiful widow with one child. He bought a handsome residence at Yonkers, furnished it elegantly, kept fine carriages and horses, his wife handsomely, and lived in good style. They went much in society, to balls, parties, the operas, and the watering places. Mr. Sondheim was considered a fond and devoted husband. His ample means supplied even the most extravagant tastes of his wife. When she desired to take an European tour a few months ago he gave bis consent, although it was impossible for him to go himself on account of business engagements. He supplied ample means, and Mrs. Sondheim went alone. She returned from Europe on the 7th of January. On her return he presented her with a handsome bracelet worth SBO9. He escorted her whenever business permitted, and they seemed to be liv.iig happily. About a week ago Mr. Sondheim, on returning from business, found to his amazement, a letter from his wife informing him that she had gone away. She had made no complaint. Her every wish and whim had been gratified. Only the day before she left she had asked for SI,OOO and got it. Mr. Sondheim, when questioning the coachman learned that Mrs. Sondheim has been in the habit of receiving a stranga man as a visitor during his absence. Closer inquiry developed the fact that messages had passed between them. Then Mr. Sondheim traced his wife to a hotel in this city where the stranger had been living, but ha had left, and no one knew where he had gone. It was learned that he was a passenger on the steamer with Mrs. Sondheim on her return home. On the night of his his wife's disaj •earanco Mr. Sondheim had an engagement to go with her to a family dinner party, which was broken up by her disappearance. It is hinted to-day that the stranger with whom Mrs. Sondheim eloped is no other than Mr. J. DeTafford Blackstone from whom Mrs. Sondheim a year or so ago obtained a divorce, the details of which, owing to the social position of the interested parties created quite

.. . Til 1 .. . _ •_ *Vson of Lorenzo Blackstone, President of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company, and married Miss Lillie Osborne now Mrs. Sondheim, who was then playing in the Park Theater in this city. The couple lived unhappily together, and finally separated, Mr. Blackstone retaining their infant son. Some months afterward she visited her husband’s home in Norwich, Conn, during his absence, and secured her child, which she brought with her to this city. Proceeds were commenced for the possession of the little one in the'courts and after a long legal warfare the son was restored to the custody of its father, and the couple were legally separated. A year ago Mr. Sondheim met and wooed her, and they were married, and her elopement is the latest event in her somewhat eccentric career. A brother of Mr. Sondheim said to-day that investigation rendered it almost certain that Mrs. Sondheim aid not elope with her first husband, but that it was ‘some other man.’ It is said he will apply at once for a divorce. Chlorotor me<! [Cincinnati Enquirer j

Richmond, Ind., February 2.—When Louis Meyer, proprietor of the TivoliGarden, near the Court-house, woke up yesterday morning with a dreadful headache, and turned over to tell his wife how to prepare some medicine for him, he found himself alone in the room. He crawled out and went over to the bureau to wait on himself,thinking that she had gone below to cook his breakfast; but he found a scrap of paper on the floor that satisfied him that she was neither cooking his breakfast nor caring whether he ever got one. It read : “My Dear Darling—How I wish I was with you, I would never get doneand on the other side, “Dear Lou—l can and will not live with any one I

am afraid of. You know you had the hatchet for me. It is so cold that 1 ean scarcely hold the pen to write. Dear Lou, think better of me in the days to come than in the past. Goodby. Nettie Meyers.” She had evidently started to write a note to soma other man, and changing her notion, had turned the paper over and hastily dashed one off for him. Meyer* took the matter coolly, and went about his business as if notli- | ing had happened. He breakfasted off his free lunch counter and opened up the place. A customer went in and drank, and laid down a quarter. He I pulled out the money draw to make the change, when he discovered that j every cent wa* gone, Then he visited

his other hiding-places about the house with the same result. Suddenly it flashed across hia mind that his terrible headache and disordered stomach might mean something, and he visited his bedroom, where ha plainly recognized the fumes of chloroform. His first impulse was to call the police, but he was afraid the papers would get hold of it, and discreetly kept his mouth shut until hj thought the Enquirer had gone to press, when he informed his friends of what had happened. They were all at a loss to know who the ‘‘Dear Barling'’ is, but surmise that it is some one at her old home, Trinity Springs, Indiana. She took the 10:40 train for Cincinnati in the morning. Meyers says he went upstairs with a hatchet in his hand Monday night, intending to fix a broken door, but finding no nails he swore by the great horn spoon that things should be kept in better repair about the house in the future. Mrs. Meyers thought he wai after her with the hatchet, and jumped from the bed, screaming bloody murder. He quieted her and went to bed, to wake up in the morning chloroformed, robbed and wifeless. He says now that she has gone she can stay. DOMESTIC TRidBDT. Dicatur, 111., February I.—A terrible domestic tragedy was enacted here to-day, the details of which are decidedly thrilling. It was a case of attempted wife murder, and the horrible suicide of the would-be-assassin. John A. Hornstine, a German citizen, aged fifty-seven years, who is familiary known as ‘Long John," and Miss Emma Wetzel, then aged seventeen, eldest daughter of Joe Wetzel, were united in marriage at St. Louis, in October, 1879. It was a union of winter and summer, and the wedding at the time caused much gossip hereabouts. Hornstine and his bride went from St. Louis to Wellington, Kansas, where he engaged in the liquor business. The husband was of a jealous disposition, and the couple did not live happily together. While at Wellington Hornstine was arrested for mistreating his wife, and was fined about $25. After the trouble there the couple removed to St. Louis, where they resided for about six weeks, at the expiration of which time the young wife camo to her home in this city, where she has continued to reside. The separation took place in April, 1880, six months after the strange marriage, and was induced by the quarrelsome and inhuman conduct of the jealous husband. Since the return of Mrs. Hornstine to the home of her parents she has been constantly annoyed by the overtures and advances of the deserted husband. Once he paid her a formal visAv, lu uvuipauj wim a ixcrroan iriend, and attempted to induce the wife to go and live with him again. The parents of the girl were present at the interview, which finally ended in a general quarrel and the expulsion of Hornstine from the house. On several occasions he has sent messengars ta the house and has followed his young wife about the c : ty. Last Sunday lie walked a block behind her on the way to the Catholic Church, but he never assaulted her until to-day, though it is stated he threatened to kill her and himself if she persisted in staying at home and away from him. This forenoon the husband, armed with a revolver and a sharp bladed knife, called at the habitation of his wife, and made several ineffectual attempts to stab her to the heart with the murderous knife, aud to crush her with a heavy iron kettle. He would doubtless have accomplished his hellish purpose had it not been for the prompt arrival of two men, who seperated the combatants. Then Hornstine shot himself twice in the head, inflicting two bloody wounds. He then fled to a cellar, where he found a rusty saw-blade, and with this in both hands he hacked at his throat until he tore open the jugular vein, when he bled to death in a few minutes. Ho left a letter, in which it is stated that the suicide intended to kill his wife and then shoot himself. He lays all ’heolame on the parents of the young girl, but the girl asserts that she never would have lived with the old fellow under any circumstances. Ths affair dteatea great excitement among the German population. A Great Chicago Enterprise. The Laboratory forth« manufacture of Eclectric Bitters is one of Chi-

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