Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1881 — Page 1

THE DECATURJDEMOCRAT. Official Paper of Adams County. O. Uny Williams, I’ropri otor. Terms: One Dollar ajid Fifty Cents Per Year. C J. T. BAILEY, ATT’Y AT LAW J. P„ DKCATUB, I.VDIANA. IFill Practice in Adams and adjoining Counties. Collections a specialty. v24n29tf S. G. RALSTOnT” PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, GENEVA, INDIANA. Office over Harrod's Furniture Store. Professional calls promptly attended to at all honre. 25jy79tf S. P. Stevens, .11. D., Physician and Surgeon, PLEASANT HILLS, IND. Office in Gepheart’s building, where he • illbe found when not professionally engaged. aprlGt. A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUB, INDIANA. Office in Houston's Block, up-stairs. Will attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Residence on north side of Monroe street, 4th Loose east of Hart’s Mill. 25jy79tf U B. Allison, Pron't. W. H. Niblick, Cashier. D. Stvdabakf.b, Vice Prea't. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is npw open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 2ojy79tf 9 . T .f BANCF. P. G. IIOGPEB France A* Hooper, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, l> ECAT IK, IN VI AN A. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Collections a specialty. Deeds, rnortgag’-s and other instruments of writing made with neatness and dispatch. Will buy and Bell real estate and pay taxes. F»es reasonable. Office over Stone's hardware Store, ea-t side Second Street. 310ct~9 P. C~ SHACKLE?, Haass, Siga r aid Carriage Painter, And Pei per Hanger. Graining, Calsomining, Whitewashing, etc. Prices to suit the times. Sixteen years in Adams county. Give me a call and save money. Shop on southeast corner of Jefferson and Second streets. Decatur, Ind., Aug. 5, 1879. Baug79 ~ PETERSOFF HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, WtCATUB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining conntirs. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are No tanea Public and draw deeds and mortgages Kaal estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I 0. O. F. budding. 2ijy79tf Frank Leslie’s Weekly. The only Democratic Illustrated Newspaper published—-will be sent postpaid, fur 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 offour will be sent forfive week.s fer sl. Address Frank Leslie Publish iug Co., 15 Dey street New York. JOHN SHIREY, JYTTCT IO N Ei :IL Withes to s»y to the people of Decatur tnd vicinity that he is now the only pro fevsional auctioneer in the county and that he will at all times be ready to attend to •alls in bis line of pusiness. Thirty-five yfcire experience will enable him to give eatiefaotion beyond a doubt to all who employ him. Charges will be very reasonable. Orders left at the law office of Fratice & Hooper will receive prompt attention. jyi2m3 JOHN SHIREY. NOTICE TO TEACHERS. Notice is hereby xiven that there will b a public examination of teachers st the office of the County Superintendent, on the fast Saturday of each month. Applicants for license must present “the proper trustee’s certificate, or other satisfactory evidence of good moral character,” and to be snccessful must pass a good examination in Orthography, Reading, Writing, Arithme tie, Geography, English Grammar, Physio logy, and History cf United States. G. W.A.LUCKEY, June 18,1879 County Bup t. r% Great chance to make monwt*■ Lwaey. We neek a perron in every town to take subscriptions for the largest, cheapest and beet illustrated family puhlioatiou in the world. Any one can heeeme a successful agent. Six elegant works of art given free t o subscribers. The priee is so low that almost everybody sttbseribss. One agent reports taking 120 subscribers in a day. A lady reports making ewer fiOO clear profit in ten doys. AU who engage make money fast. You can devote all jOur time to the bustneev, or only your span time. You noed not be away from home over night. Cou can do it as well as others. Full directions and terms free. EleJ'»»t apd expensive outfit free. If you want profitable work send us your address at onbe. It coats nothing to try the businessNo one who engages fails to make great pay Address Geobclk Stinson & Co., Portland, Maine. 22jy Or. J. 3. Simpson’s Bpeeltle Hediclne. Dr. J. B. Simpson’s Specific Medicine is a positive cure for Spermatorrhea, Impo: enuy, Weakness and all diseases resulting from Self-Abuse, as Nervous Debility, Irritability, Mental Anxiety, Languor, Lassitilde, Depression of Spirits, and functional derangements of the nervous system generally, Paine in Back or Side, Loss of memory Premature old before. after. age and diseas ee that lead to C onsumption , Insanity and “ CrP] jS an early grave < -lA AjS or both. No matter how shat cred the system may be from excesses of any kind a short course of this medieine will restore the lost functions and procure health and happiness where before was despondency and gloom. The Spoeifio Medicine is being used with wonderful success. Pamphlets sent free to ell. Wrice for them and get full particulars. Price, Specific, $ I per package, oi 6 packages for ffi. Will be sent by mail on receipt of money. Address all orders, J B SIMPSON 8 MEDICINE CO. Ros. 404 and I£H5 Main st, Buffalo. N. Y, Sold in Decatur by DoRWIN k HOLTHOUBf. SBnov7kyl

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Stop That Cough. If you are suffering with a cough, cold asthma, bronchitis, hay 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 thd great remedy that is causing so much excitement by its wonderful cures curing thousands of hopeless cases. Over one million bottles of Dr. King’s New Die oovery have been used within the last yeir, and have given perfect satisfaction in every instance. We can unhesitatingly say that this is really the only ture cure for throat and lung affections, and can cheerfully recommend it to all. Call and get a trial bottle for ten cents or a regular size for 51. DORWIN & IIOLTHOUSE, Decatur. Ind. 4 M CENTS TO JAN. 1. £3 ThcClUcago dWVA Weekly News will b« sent, postpaid, from date to .lan. Ist MMkeSS PTcS next, for lOcent,. This K*Sfl| trial subscription will enable readers to bee£??Xs| BcMSI conie acquainted with £ gr<T'«!| the cheapest metroS&aflt Ks&il 1 olitan weekly tn the ■SH Rh PEfejgSl r S lntfapoi.dat.l lu BreVel politics, all the news, RoQ9 EdSM correc t inaiket reports, E'T slx completed storlei ■m| Jn every issue. A favorEsH ErasS Itr family paper. Send IO cent* (silver) at WBgSi once and set It until Bfeya Ja". 1, ISBI. Eleven EJU EEgW trial subscriptions for Mn*i 11.00. Regular price is 75 cis. a year. Address PnbU«!ier Weekly WfiEraa News, Chlcaoo, 111. a tronderfui Discortry. For the speedy cure of Consumption and all diseases that lead to it. such as stubborn Coughs, neglected Colds, Bronchitis, Hay Fever, Asthma, pain in the side and chest, dry hacking cough, tickling in the throat, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, and all chronic or lingering diseases of the throat and lungs, Dr. King's New Discovery has no equal and has established for it-elf a world-wide reputation. Many leading physicians recommend and use it in their practice. The formula form which it is prepared is highly recommended by all medical journals. The clergy and the press have complimented it in the most glowing terms. Go to your druggist and get a trial bottle for ten cfs., or a regular size for sl. For sale by Dorwin & Holthouse. til Air * THE HEW FOOD M MEDICINE HERE no greater Blood Prodncer and IJfe-RUf-taiuiug Principle in the world of Food and raedi--ine tlinu MA LT i’.ITTERs, prepared from Unferm**ntcd .Half, Hops, mid Quinine. They f-ed ♦he body and the brain, enrich the bhmd, solidity the bones, harden the unlades. qui-t tin- nerbes, cheer the mind, perfect div vet ion, regulate the stomach aid bowels, c lense the liber and kidbeyN, andvitalize with new life exery fluid of the laxly. Beware us imitations Rimilarh named. Look for.the ( oinpnny 'b Si«n»«tore which appear- plainly on the label ot every bottle. Soldevervwhere. MALT BITTEBS CO., Boston, Ma.-s. ' 24- *l. Manhood; EEfeL~silnw Lowt, Hectored! Just published, a new edition of DR. CULVER B’ELL’S CELEBRATED EASY on the radical cure (without medicine) of Spermatorrhoea or Seminal B’eaknsss, Involuntary Seminal Losses, Impotency, Mental and Physical Incapacity, Impediments to Marriage, etc ; also, Consumption, Epilepsy and Fils, induced by self indulgence or sexual vstruvagance, &c. The celebrated author, in this admirable Essay, clearly demonstrates, from a thirtyyears’ successful practice, that the alarming 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 matter what his condition may be. may cure himself cheaply, privately, and radically. is Lecture should be in the hands of every youth and every man in the land. Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to any address, post-paid, on receipt of six cts. or two postage stamps. The Cnlverwell Medical Co., 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 AAD MAKE OR CUT AAD FIT Ladies' and Children's Dresses in the latest New York and Parisian styles I do my cutting by the celebrated PERFECT-FITTING MODEL and am the only one in the city so doing. Raving several years practical experience I guarantee Batitfaction in each and every instance, and I cordially solicit a share of your patronage. CHARGES REASONABLE. Shnp on 2nd Street, over Conter At llolthouse's Shoe Store. MRS. K. R FRISTOE April 2, 1880. Given Ip by tlie Doctors. Where doctors have failed to cure, and have given their patients up to die, Eclectrie Bitters have often been used, and a cure effected, greatly to the astonishment of all. Diseases of the Stomach, liver. Kidney, and Urinary Organs are positively cured by Electric Bitters. They invariably cure constipation, Headache and Billious atr tacks. Try them, and be convinced tjjat they are the best medicines ever used. Sold by B. W. Sholty Decatur Ind. TEACHERS mor. F*»r jxtrticuhww addnpw J. C’. Mc< UW Pi i CO., Phltnttrlfkhiia. Pa.

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TJrtcl crtaliing ■. HISKEY & BROADBECIT UNDERTAKERS Opposite Adams County Bank, Call the attention of the public generally to a large and complete line of BURIAL CASKETS AND COFFINS, And to the fact that they are using the M. &L 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 must 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 & BROADBECK. Decatur, Ind., Sept. 9, 'BO ly. THE BLADE PRINTING ANO PAPER CO. Meet all competition, both as to Quality and Prices, in supplying BLANK BOOKS, PAPER AND STATIONERY At Wholesale. 154 SI, Clair St., TOLEDO, 0, February 10, 1881.—45m3 Cray’s Specific medicine. TRADE MARK Tur Great TRADE MARK English Remei>y an unfailing cure for eminal ness, Sperms- jSSSS? torrhea, I in tency,Jand ai IEFBXE TAKIIL di9easeH ,ba, AH£l YAKINS. follow as a consequence of Self-abuse; as loss of memory, Universal Lassitude, Pain in the Back, Dimness of Vision, I’remature Old Age, and many other diseases that lead to Insanity, Consumption and a premature grave. gviyFull particulars in our pamphlet, which we desire to send free by mail to every one. The Specific Medicine is sold by all druggists at SI per package, or 6 packages for $5, or will be sent free by mail on receipt of the money by addressing THE GRAY MEDICINE CO., No. 100 Main streot, Buffalo, N. Y. sale by Dorwin & Ilolthouse. HEALTHIS WEALTH”' Dr. E. C West's Nerve and brain Treatment: a specific for Hysteria, Dizziness, Convulsions, Nervous Headache, Mental Depression, Loss of Memory, Sp< rmatorrbcea, Impotency,,lnaoluntary 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 money if the treatment does not effect a cure. Guarantees issued only when treatment is ordered direct from us. Address or call on Dorwin & Holthouse Druggists Decatur Ind. Gms. Farm For Sale. The undersigned wishes to sell his farm in Root township. There ars 40 acres, 30 acres cleared, good farm house and barn, two wells of excellent water, good orchard and good land. Price, SSO per acre—one-half cash and balance in four years. For further particulars inquire of Dr. T. T. Dorwin. of Decatur, or address the owner at Fort Wayne, Ind. Christian Eix, 47 m 3 Owner. Bucklen'i Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cats, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, anti 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 Dorwik & Holthovse.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, APRIL 14, 1881

XTATIOITAL Baking Powder! THE PUREST AND BEST IJt' THE .H.IRKET. $300.00 Will he paid Cor any Alum, To■•••«* till*" purities ion nd in This Powder! Sold in Tin Cans. Try It! SOLD ONLY by J. WELFLEY, Decatur, Indiana. NATIONAL BAKING POWDER CO., MAK ION, OHIO. March 17, 1881. 50m3 L. C. FELLERS, CONTRiCTOB AND BUILDER, And Denier in Building Stone, Brick, Masonry, &c., And Proprietor of THE DEC ATI It Steam Pressed Brick AND TILE WORKS. I would respectfully inform the citizens of Adams .and adjoining counties that 1 have located a Steam Pressed Brick and Tile Works in llecalur, and will manufacture a superior quality of Brick and Tile, and will be prepared by the 15th of May, and from that time on, to furnish parties Building- Brick, Sidewalk Brick, Sewer Brick and Tile of every desired caliber by the rod, st very low prices. Call at the Yard and examine Stock and Frices. Contracts for all kinds of stone and brick work will receive prompt attention. March 3, ISBI. 48m6 GEO.WOODS&CO.’S Organs! Unequalled fer QUALITY OF TONE, Beautiful Musieal Effects! Strength and Durabiliy ! BEAUTY OE DESICA! They will outlast all common, cheap Organs, while their musical and mechanical qualities commend them to all who wish a strictly high grade instrument. Agents Wanted in this Vicinity. Address, CEO. WOODS fit CO-., Cambridgeport, .Hass. CITY MEAT MARKET. C.WEIBLER, Proprietor. In Luckey’s building, Numbers block. —:o: — FRESH MEATS of all kinds always on hand, —:o - — SHOP Neat and Clean. •©“Give me a call. C. Weibler. Decatur, Dec.. 3,'80. 6mn35. Pengelly’s Woman's Friend lor Malden, Wife and Hollier, In a test of nine years iu thirty different States, has proved iuelf rightly named. It needs no Balderdash and Puffery, but only a plain introduction . into a community, and always after it lives and grows through the good words of those who use it. It is a remedy for those complaints (no mention needed), peculiar to women, young or old. Dorwin & Holthouse agents.

THE PRICE OF A SECRET. BY MBS. E. COLLINS. “Who was she ?” It was the phototograph of a fair, girlish face, with smiling eyes, and dimpled chin and childish mouth. A woman bent over it, drinking in every dainty, beautiful feature—a dark woman, with eyes in whose depths there smoldered the fire of repressed passion—a woman who could love devotedly—idolatrously—but whose hatred was something to fear. ‘I will know!’ she continued. ‘Who is she, Herbert ?’ turning to the man who lounged on a sofa at her side. ‘She? Why, did I never tell you? She is my ward, Nora Deane.' ‘Your ward ? How is it, Herbert Clayton, that I, who have been your wife for nearly a year, have never before heard of her?’ ‘Why Bene, to tell the truth, I did not think much about it. She has been at school for several years; but not having finished her education, she will remain with us until her family sends for her.’ Nora Deane came—a sweet faced, laughing girl; she brought sunshine into the house, and silent rooms echoed to the sound of musical laughter. But wherever she went a pair of fierce, dark eyes followed her, there was no escaping them, for Rene Clayton was ever on the watch for any chance word or action upon which to feed the jealous fire which was consuming her. And so days flew by. No word yet of Nora’s intended departure, and in the meantime Herbert was ever at her side, attending to her comfort, while the wife looked on with clouded brow and compressed lips, and uttered no mur mur of complaint. But the end came at. last. One night—could she ever forget that dreadful night? they were gathered in the snug little library, when Rene was called away to attend to some household care. Returning, an hour later, she was about to re-enter the room, when her ear caught (the door stood slightly ajar), the sound of Nora's voice in passionat earnestness. These were the words that fell upon the ears of the wife, and seared and blackened all hope and trust in her breaking heart: ‘You will care for me just the same. Herbert ?’ A burst of tears followed the words. ‘Just the same—always!’ Herbert’s voice replied, in soothing, earnest tones. Softly pushing open the door Rene glanced into the room ; they did not perceive her, as she gased, and beheld a scene which seemed to turn her heart to stone in her breast. She saw her husband the man who bad sworn to love and cherish her even ‘till death do us part,’ with his arm about the waist of Nora Deane, and her fair head resting on his shoulder. Then Rene closed the door quietly, and went away. There was murder in her heart. That night, at midnight, the door of Nora's sleeping apartment was stealthily opened, and a woman with wild, starting eyes, and a stern, ghastly face, softly entered the room. In one hand she held a spouge and a small vial labeled ‘chloroform.’ To this day the smell of that drug has power to deprive Rene Clayton for hours at a time of life and consciousness. With her dreadful, burning eyes devouring the fair face of the sleeping woman she approached the bedside—and saturating the sponge with the chloroform, she applied it to the nostrils of the sleeper. When satisfied that the drug had done its work of stupification, she took from her pocket a small, sharp lancet; then she bared the arm of her victim, and bent closely over her. One quick, decisive puncture, and the warm blood spouted out. The murderess drew a sigh of relief, and gazed for a moment upon the unconscious form before her. ‘lt will be pronounced a suicide,’ she whispered, at last, as she turned and glided from the chamber of horors. But what is that lying upon the carpet, at the bedside upon which the pale, still form is sleeping? Rene Clayton saw it not in her haste to escape from that dreadful room—its dreadful occupant. It was a diamond ring, which shone and glittered, and scintilled upon the carpet; it has slipped from her finger unnoticed, while she was engaged in her fearful work. The morning sun arose clear and beautiful. The dew sparkled upon the grass like diamonds ; ths birds were wild with song ; the lilies at the window drooped with the weight of their own fragrance ; and those two—man and wife—stood at a bedside and gazed upon a white still form. Down upon his knees Herbert Clayton fell, and wound his arms about the slender figure of the dead woman. There was unutterable woe in his eyes. But—what was that- shining and flashing at his feet ? He raised it from the carpet; his heart grew cold with horror ; he turned to the woman who bore his name, and held it up before her gaze. ‘Reno, lie demanded, sternely, ‘how came this ring here ?’ Something in his eye warned her that deception was useless; the farce was at an end, the curtain must fall now. She turned wildly towards him, | her eyes flashed fire ; poor creature —- . pity her she was crazed with her love, I and her anguish and her guilt. ‘Since you suspect me,’ she eried at last mockingly. ‘I suppose concealment is useless. You are right, I murdered Nora Deane.’ ‘Great God!' Herbert Clayton sprang to his feet, and strode like a madman towards the cowering creature. ‘God forgive you Rene Clayton ! he eried. ‘you have murdered my sister!' ‘What do you mean ?’ There was death in the eyes which turned towards him.

‘I mean this!' he cried wildly; ‘that this wretched secret, which for so many months I have kept sacred, because I had sworn to do so—would have all been explained to-day. I told her,' pointing to the form on the bed as he spoke, ‘last night. She is my father’s child, by a second and secret marriage. The proof of this marriage was lost; and it was found. I had promised tojtake charge of Nora. If it was never found she could not be honorably received in the family, and we never would have revealed the truth ' to her. Yesterday I received word that the missing proof is recovered, and Nora was to go at once to take the position lawfully hers, and claim her share of my father’s estate. I would have explained the whole mystery last night, but you absented yourself the entire evening. He >au*ud, with a tnulden panir nf pity at his heart—his wife lay upon the floor in convulsions. The family physician arrived, gave the necessary directions for the care of Mrs. Clayton, and ordered her removal from the chamber of death. Then he turned to the still, white form upon the bed. ‘Suicide !’muttered the doctor. Strange, that such should be the case; and she so young and beautiful. A sudden thought seemed to strike him ; he stopped, and observed the face of the dead girl attentively ; he seized her arm, and cautiously examined the wound ; then he rang the bell ■yHerbert Clayton rushed to the room, follow-ed by the servants. •Have my orders carried out at once, Mr. Clayton,' said the doctor hurriedly. ‘Pay strict attention to the directions. lam going to give you. I have reason to believe that this was hui » •*' suspended animation.’ It was true — true indeed. For hours they worked over the form of Nora Deane ; and then—oh, the great waves of gratitude that swept over the heart of Herbert when the blue eyes opened again, and the spirit, which had hovered on the confines of the grave, came back to the world once more. With tears of joy he wrung the hand of the good old doctor, while he explained to him the relationship existing between himself and the young girl: When Rene Clayton recovered from the severe illness that followed her attempted crime and the shock of its disclosure, her husband came to her side, and quietly and calmly broke the good news to her. •There is joy iu heaven for one sinner that repenteth. Henceforth Rene Clayton was another woman. They all live together now; it was Rene's request, and she endeavors by a life of earnest devotion to atone for the terrible crime she had so nearly committed. And Herbert Clayton will never again keep a secret from his wife. Ha by Is Dead. ‘•Baby is dead !" Three little words passed along the line; copied somewhere and soon forgotten. But after all was quiet again, I leaned my head upon my hand and fell into a deep reverie of all that those words mean. Somewhere —a dainty form, still and cold, unclasped by mother’s arms tonight. Eyes that yesterday were bright and blue as skies of June, dropped tonight beneath white lids that no voice can ever raise again. Two soft hands, whose rose-leaf fingers were wont to wander lovingly around mother's neck and face, loosely holding white buds, quietly folded in canfined rest. A silent home —the patter of the baby feet forever hushed—a cradle bed unpressed. Little shoes half worn—dainty garments —shoulder knots of blue to match those eyes of yesterday folded with aching heart away. A tiny mound, snow-covered in some grave-yard. A mother's groopiug touch, in uneasy slumber, for the fair head that shall never again rest upon her bosom. The low sob, the bitter tear, as broken dreams awake to said reality. The hope of future years wrecked, like fair ships that suddenly go down in sight of land. The watching of other babies, dimpled, laughing, strong, and this one gone ! The present agony of grief, the future emptiness of heart, all held in those three little words,“Baby is Dead !” Indeed, it is well that we can copy and soon forget the words so freighted with woe to those who receive and send them. And yet it cannot harm us now and then to give a tender thought to those whom our careless pen strokes are preparing such a weight of grief.—Kokomo Tribune. Head Heads. [Xetv York Mail.] Members of the press are literally hunted down by all sot's of people who have axes to grind. The managers of a public meeting who do find the reporters at the table,suffer stings of disappointment; the judge who sonorously blows his nose before reading his opinion, looks anxiously for the stenographers; even the burglar on his way to State prison, covets a talk with j I the “newspaper men.’ Yet the out- | | side barbarian thinks that all newspa I per men are dead heads, and envies . them the fine d’nners and free tickets to all manner of shows. There never j was a greater mistake. People do not . seem to realize that, on the part of the | jurnalist, it is merely a matter of bus- 1 iness ; that the editor or reporter goes , to these places, so attractive to the ' outsider, much as the horse goes to the plow—because he must do so. We venture to say that four-fifths of these entertainments are to journalists intolerable bores. The press u the victim of the public's rapacious and unceasing demand for services without pay. t us have the boot on the right foot.

Mahone, Mahone was elected as a Democrat. He voted for and stumped his state in behalf of the Hancock electors, who received a majority of 44,127 votes, which shows plainly how strongly Democratic Virginia is and how grossly she is misrepresented by a man who votes with the Republican party. During the campaign Mahone stated at all times that he was in entire accord with the National Democracy, and made all the capital he could out of that statement. In regard to a local State issue he was a “Readjuster,” or in other words, he was a repudiator. He favored the repudiation of a large portion of the State’s indebtedness. A significant fact is that the obligations to pay, which he would wipe out with dishonor, were largely incurred under Republican earpet-bas rule. No boubt many of those obligations were forced upon the State contrary to the wishes of her bonafide taxpayers. Yet those taxpayers, constituting the bulk of the regular Democratic party of the State, feel that it is better to pay than repudiate. The debts were incurred according to law, and the only honorable way to cancel them is to pay them. To their honor, be it said, they preferred to divide their party, on State issues, than to incur the just opprobrium of being repudiators. The monstrous absurdity of Mahone’s present position is that byway of showing his objections to Republican carpet-bag debts, he goes over to the very party that incurred the obligations which he is so anxious to repudiate. For his conduct there is no possible excuse. He is simply a traitor, who has sold out his State for a prize. The Associated Press is endeavoring to bolster up pAaitmn L-- all over the country that Virginia approves of his course. A strong Democratic State, with a majority of forty thousand, approves of his voting as if he was a Republican ! Bah! If that were the sympathy of Virginia she would have given her votes to Garfield and would have elected a Republican Senator. The truth is that a sovereign State has been robbed of her just representation. The patronage of the Government has been used and promised for the corrupt purpose of buying a Senator. The will of the people has been defeated in order that an unfair party advantage may be gained. The whole transaction is disgraceful. Infamous as it is on the part of the creature Mahone, it is no less so on the part of those who consent to advantage by his infamy. Public morality is at an end if the whole patronage and influence of the Government can be employed to buy up Senators. Government by the people, in that case, is impossible. Those who have bought Mahone know this. For the advantage it brings them they love the treason whilst despising the traitor. MarkTwaln'i Marriage San franciaco Chronicle On his return from the Holy Land, and after the publication of his book, he tried Journalism at Buffalo, but managed somehow at this time to induce an accomplished lady to believe him serious enough for a husband. This lady was a sister of Dan”—made famous in “The Innocents Abroad”— but her father, a gentleman of wealth and position, looked unfavorably upon his daughter's alliance with a Bohemian literary character. “1 like you,” he said to Mark, “but what do 1 know of your antecedants ? Who is there to answer for you anyhow’ Mark reflected a moment and then replied that he thought some of his old San Frausisco friends would endorse him. It was an almost fatal error. His prospective father-in-law wrote letters of inquiry to numerous individuals to whom his daughter’s lover referred him in our city, and the answers, with one exception, severely denounced Twain, especially deriding his capacity for becoming a good huspand. Mark sat beside his affiance when the awful letters were read aloud by paterfamilias. There was a dreadful silence for a moment, broken only py Mark’s faint gasp: “Well, that's pretty rough on a fellow, any how.” His betrothed, however, with true womanly devotion, was not to be dissuaded, and with the memorable words, “I’ll risk you anyhow,” overturned the mass of testimony against him. So he was married and made a lull confession of all his past sins, drawing somewhat upon his imagination (“Roughing It, I published in 1872,) and set up as a respectable married man, with two coats and everything eomfortable about him, at Hartford, Conn. Lincoln and the Aegro. [Sentinel.] Secretary Lincoln is the idol of the colored folks, who crowd the War office by the hundreds daily, and are allowed I that for which the crowd ofwiffice seek i ers sigh in vain, an audience. They I come to bless the man who lineally bears the name of Lincoln.—Aeici. I Just, how much regard Abraham I Lincoln had to the square inch for the colored folks may be ascertained by reading his letter to Horace Greely, written August 22, 1862. He said: ! “If there be those who would not save j the Union unless they could at the I same time save slavery. I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slave-1 ry. If I could save the Union without 1 freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and letting others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union.” In all of this there was no sympathy for the slave. No desire—the slave alone considered—to strike off his shackcis and give him freedom. There is not a particle of humauitarianism in it. The propositions laid down by Lincoln are

utterly devoid of philanthropy, or any consideration of the rights of the slave to freedom. Lincoln cared nothing for the slave. He was willing to use him as he would any other war material to save the Union. Any intelligent colored man can not fail to see the point, and those who hold up Lincoln and the Republican party as the special friends of the colored people, are guilty of bare-faced duplicity. Lincoln’s declaration forever settles the question. Mixed Fodder. The world is a masked ball. Love renders women discreet. Prosperity makes few friends. Prejudice is the reason of fools. Tears are the strength of women. Death is the panacea for all evils. To laugh is characteristic of man. Devotion is the last love of woman. Man, I tell you, is a vicious animal. Gold is the sovereign of sovereigns. Strong reesons make strong actions. An early rye sir—A whiskey cooktail. Gratitude is the memory of the heart. Common sense is not a common thiim. Antiquity is the aristocracy of history. The cleverest of all devils is opportunity. There are few things that we know well. Superstition—a foolish tear of the Deity. The breaking of a heart leaves no scars. Man laughs and weeps at the same things. A delicate thought is a flower of the mind. Let us respect white hair—especially our own. Heaven made virtue ; man the appearance. The ruses of women multiply with their years. By attention ideas arc registered in the memory. Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body. He who tries too prove to much, proves nothing. Wrinkles disfigure a woman less than ill nature. He who knows his incapacity knows something. Fortune does not change men ; it unmasks them. We are never as happy nor as unhappy as we fancy. Jealousy is the homage that inferiority pays to merit. Grief counts the seconds; happiness forgets the hours. Woman is the sweetest present that God has given to man. God created the coquette asjsoon as he had made the fool. We like to give in the sunlight and receive in the dark. Better a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices. Prosperity unmasks the vices; adversity reveals the virtues. He who is never guilty of follies is not so wise as he imagines. Women are too imaginative and sensitive to have much logic. The man who was cured by a mesmerist says he was trance-fixed. An indiscreet man is like an unI sealed letter—every one can read it. Experience is the name men give to their sorrows or their woes. There are no oaths that make so many perjurers as the vows of love. When one has a good day in the year one is not wholly unfortunate. The chap that puts the meat into the brine is the real corner in beef. There are people so sensitive that they afflict us with our own sorrows. A republic is not founded on virtue but on the ambition of its citizens. He who has neither friend nor enemy is without talents, power or energy. Strong thoughts are iron nails driven in the mind that nothing can draw out. There are people who are almost in love, almost famous, and almost happy. To discuss an opinion with a fool is like carrying a lantern before a blind man. We shall all be perfectly virtuous ; when there is no longer any flesh on our bones. Honor is not a matter of any man's calling, but rather of his own actions in it. Cheerfulness or joyfulness is the heaven under which everything not poisonous thrives. College mostly makes people like bladders, just good for nothing but to hold the stuff poured into them. At a recent dinner an eminentgrocer was urged to contribute something to the occasion, if “'twas but a little faded flour.” Another poet comes • forward and says, “And I hear the hiss of a scorching kiss.” Beats all what a man can hear if he is only mean enough to listen Beds of Down Fell Hard.—Al) beds seem hard to the rheumatic. Then hearken ye peevish sufferers! Apply Dr. Thomas’ Eclectric Oil to your aching joints and muscles Rely upon it that you will experience speedy relief. Such, at least, is the testimony of those who have used it. The remedy is likewise successfully resorted to for throat and lung diseases, sprains, bruis- : es, etc. Sold by Dorwin & Holthouse. Ayer's Ague Cure has saved thous- , ands of lives in the malarial districts iof this and other countries. It i,i war- ! [ rented a certain and speedy remedy, ! and free from al! harmful ingredients, /

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