Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 21 July 1881 — Page 2

THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT. BY S. RAY WILLIAM Thursday, July, 21, ISBI. Long live the President The President is getting al<*ug ?s well as could be expected, and there is now no doubt but that he will recover. Guitteav and the Star Route ran cals must take back scats: if the government officials fail to do their duty the people will be heard from soon. T«>*: democrats of Ohio are much encouraged, and if we read die signs of the times correctly they will surely I carry the state by a handsome tuajori- ‘ ty- — <> • This thing of shooting popularity into a man is disgusting in the extreme. and we doa t believe the President will swallow the silly stuff to any very great extent. Miller was elected last Saturday to fill the vacancy in the U. S. senate caused by the resignation Thomas C. Platt. Mr. Conkling’s successor has not as yet been elected. Miller, the successor of Thomas C. I Platt, didn't respond to war's stern alarains with as much enthusiasm as his friends would like. In fact, there is a strong and apparently well-founded suspicion that he didn't respond at all. +++ Even the Ft. Wayne Gazette, the paper that slopped and slobbered all over with Mrs. Garfield gush, has come to its senses and declares that the woman has done nothing more than a devoted wife and mother should do.

One R. B. Hayes and Gen. Grant are about as dead, politically, as politicians generally get in this country. One is an oblivious creature of fraud and perjury—the other a misguided creature over the subject of his own importance. The Huntington Herald, the Republican organ of Huntington county, is a Stalwart of Stalwarts. It denounces Blaine, Garfield, and the whole pack who arc«trying to ruin Roscoe (Conkling. There is much bad blood it) the Republican ranks, and even a bullet shot into the President by a lifelong Republican don't seem to purify it. Jeff Davis wrote the following letter to a friend in Seymour, this State, on the attempted assassination of the President: “Beauvoir, Harbison Co., ) Miss., July sth. ’Bl ) Mn. Findly 8. Collins: Dear Sir. — I have received yours of the 4th inst. and thank you for the kind expressions it contained. The evil influence to which you refer as causing the bitterness felt towards the Southern men, it way be fairly expected, will give way before the sober sense of the people if they shall, like yourself, oetect the sordid motive for which stimulants arc administered. I will not, like the telegrams you cite, in regard to the attempted assassination of the President, say lam “thankful the assassiu was not a Southern man,” but will say I regret that he is an American. The crime, black enough in itself, has a deeper dye from the mercenary motive which seems to have prompted it. I sincerely trust the President may recover. and that the startling event will arouse the people to the consideration .of a remedy for the demorlization which a wild hunt after office is creating. With the best wishes for your welfare, I am, very truly yours, Jefferson Davis.” — — Condensed Teleirrams. o W. A. Johnson, aweilthy cheese manufacturer died at Buffaloyesterday. Over 1.000 men at the lumber mills, at Eau Claire. Wisconsin, have struck for less hour's than twelve, to be considered a days labor. At the State Council of the Junior Order of American Mechanics held in Lancaster. Pa., yesterday, resolutions of sympathy with President Garfield were adopted and ordered forwarded I Ao Attorney General McVeigh.

The Lincoln National Bank has organizcd in New York w th a capital of $300,000. With it is incorporated, under the same board, the Grand Central Safe Deposit Company. Mayor Grace is at the head of the enterprise. The dead body of Thomas Barnck, of Chicago, was found on Pacific avenue early yesterday morning. The man is supposed to have been pushed i down stairs by a colored prostitute with I whom he had quarrelled, and the fall broke his neck. A stranger in Detroit, giving the name of E. C. Alexander, presented two certified cheeks for $3,81)0 on the Traders’National Bink. Chicago, to the first National Bank of Kalamazoo, Saturday, and secured an advance on them of $l4O. Tbev are forgeries. ' t The National Amateur Press Asso- t ciation will hold its next annual session ■ in Detroit. The following officers were elected: Corresponding Secretary, Warren J. Nilee, of Detroit; Recording Secretary, John J. Weissert, of Pittsburg. First Vice President. Frank .E. Day ol Cedar Rapids. lowa. a The dreaded at my worm has made ' its appearance in Will County, 111., for the first time, and in the northern > portion of the C runty is committing great depredations in the o.it fields, destroying large fields in.a few nights. ; The farmers are beginning te harvest, ; their green to give a ptrtul crop. The prevalence cf cholera iefautum ■ iu L luisvillls has caused the inauguration of free Steamboat ewursians ou the river every afterpoou. The first excusioas on Monday O-trr.e 1 children. aul the second yester lav tul- !».»>. A"

are taken out for four hours The movementis popularand the excursions prove highly beneficial. FOREIGN FLASHES. Minister White, of Berlin, starts for America in August. A Loudon cablegram says Samuel Emery comedian, is dead. It has been agreed to give the whole of the Transvaal to the Boers. The Queen expressed most profound grief at the death of Dean Stanley. The Aeneland furnaceincn. who are out on a strike, return immediately. Forty thousand francs were subscribed in Paris for the sufferers by the late Quebec fire. A Tunis dispatch says the holy city of Kaironau has revolted. The Arabs from Sfax are gathering there. The Canadian Pacific Railway shareholders have passed a resolution authorizing the issue of $25,000,000 for bonds. The heat continues at London and Paris. In both cities the water supply is very limited and watering the streets has been discontinued. An unsuccessful attempt was made to shoot two editors of anti-ministerial papers, on public promenade at Athens. The perpetrator was arrested. A dispatch from Tunis states there was an engagement Saturday near Sfax. The insurgent leader. 300 natives of Sfax ane 200 Arab horsemen are reported killed. A New York dispatch from Rome announces the appointment of Rev. W. M. Wigger as Bishop of Newark, and Rev, M. J. O Parrel, now pastor of St. Peter's Church, and first Bi-hop of Trenton. At an anti-Jewish meeting, held in Berlin yesterday, 2.000 people were present. A resolution was adopted to the effect that anti-Semiticks should separate from ant-Progressists, as the conservatives have deceived them.

The Republican’s Sherveport, La-, special says: “Wash Allen, a negro, was taken from the Mansfield jail last nigh by thirty or forty masked men, taken to Kingston, and hanged for the killing of M. J. Scott, of that place, last Saturday night. SUMMER RESORT NOTES. Newport boasts 130 hacks. An Irssh jaunting ear is attracting attention at Newport. Miss Augusta J Evens, the novelist, is at Niagara Falls. All the Long Branch hotels of the better class are well filled. Ex Governor Thomas Young, of 0., is on the Pacific slope. Every young lady at Sag Harbor is said to be a good boat-puller. Some people think it is more fun to ride on the top of a Catskill Mountain stage than to go to Europ 1 . The dancing season at the Grand I’nion, Saratoga, will open on the 21st instant with a garden party. The colored waiter nt the resorts is said to be able to spot a “shoddy" boarder quicker than a detective can a thief. The influx of visitors at Saratoga is something prodigious. The arrivals to date are far in advance of those of any previous year. I’pper Michigan is the paradise of men who catch fish and Southern Michigan is the Hailes of the man who is compelled to listen to fish stories.

What a row there must be in Utah during the summer excursion season. Mormons who are going on a summer trip invariably only take one wife with them. BEKNH ITEMS*. BY “CiesAß.” No rain. Very hot. Partners are about through with their hay and wheat harvest. The hay harvest is far beyond the expectation, yielding about one-half ■ more than was expected. The unfortunate man that was bit- i ten by a rattle snake some weeks past : is among us again. The Awmiller pie-nie was well at- | tended by our Berneitss last Saturday. R. B. Allison & Co. arc invoicing . their dry goods store at this place. N. Gaser his started in the livery business with Jacob Wahli as hostler. Dr. C. A. Zimmermut met with a ' severe accident last Friday evening. He started for ho ue about 6 o’clock p. m, and getting about a quarter I of a mile from town when he ! began to think he was riding one of j Barnum's circus horses, and was about to make a leap through the hoop, and the result was he lit on his right arm. and he now carries his a'rm in between the boards and wears a sheet of cort plaster on his face. We were not heard from for the last ■ two weeks, and don’t for a moment think we went with Rus-ti-cus.

• Rover, wc greet you with the op n hand of fellowship. On last Monday .i. B. Williams, ticket agent, sold 29 tickets to Decatur. of which he sold at a reduction of 25cts each. The south end of the county'will be more interested in the next election than heretofore, especially in getting a good piece maker. A Vision of Beauty. Telegraph.) P.lßis. July 1. —It is something of : a elimb to mount to the vast, airy, well lighted studio o’’ Jules Lefebvre, which is now occupied by a vision of exe eding beauty—the ceiling ordered 1 by Mr. Vanderbilt for Mrs. Vanderbilt's bed chamber. It. raads like the tale of I the *• Arabian Nights”—-a sleeping . apartment with such a dream of vague. I ponic loveliness enshrined overhead to | greet the owner's gaze a t the moment i. -t u-.s or her awatentng; f„ r the ex ' - quisitely i.ljal talent of .1 ales I, .febvrs J | has never produced -anything more t charming. it is the dream nV a poet d who has sunk to sleep uudur the stars -of J. me with an invocation so the Gmilt dess of Night upofi bis lips.. The de

sign represents the dawn, but with a graceful originality the painter has chosen to represent, not the arrival of Aurora, but the departure of the night. Personified by the beauteous Phoebe, the sister of Apollo, Night, with the crescent moon up:n her brow, is drawn by two lovely nymphs, representing the Morning Hours, in a silvery car that rolls over the dispersing mists. The nude and graceful goddess has just launched a shaft of moonbeams against a rosy Cupid, who, hovering in mid air, shelters his laughing face with I one dimpled arm. Behind the goddess the parting clouds show the blue skies I of morning. This group occupies the upper half of the canvas, while beneath is seen, reposing on the rose-flushed mists, a second on exquisite group representing Sleep. A beautiful slumbering nymph, her fair form draped in a transparent robe of palest lilac, floats upborne on her airy couch, while one winged elf nestles fast asleep at her side, and another with outspred butterfly wings bends over to awaken her with a kiss. At the lower right h ind corner of the composition the rising vapors give a glimpse of the sun just showing his rim above a tranquil sea. This is the only vestige of prosaic reality in the picture. All the rest belongs not to earth, but to dreamland —to the vague and divine realm of the ideal. In looking at such work as this, executed for the home of an Amer can millionaire, one feels as though one were transported hick to the days when Guido Rem painted ceilings and Michael Angelo executed frescoes at the bidding of patrons as geueious as th: great railroad king.

Modern Courlsh’n. 1 ■•And you really love me dearly? he asked, as he coiled his arm around her wasp-like system. ' And you 11 always love me so ? " “Alwas, Frederick: over so " “And you pledge me to sew but —” ••Sir !” “You pledge mo to so beautify my life that it will always be as happy as now?' ■ With my last breath, Frederick.'' “And darling, you will mend my soc—” “Your what, sir?" “You will mend my sot-i d ways and draw me upward and onward to a better existence?"’ "It. will be the pride of my love to do so, Frederick; I will sacrifice all for your complete happiness.' “I know that, sweetheart. lut suppose in the fullness* of time some accident should happen to —to, say the trou — • You forget yourself, sir. To the what? ’ “To the trousseau, it would defer the hour that makes you mine. ’ "Never, Fredrick. I am yours heart and mind and naught can separate us." • But what I want to say is, that should my pant—" “Begone, sir, what do you mean?’’ “Hear me, my life. I say if my panting bosom should grow cold in death, would your love still warm it?" "As the sun melts the iceberg, so would the rays of my affection thrill your heart again.’’ “And you will care for me ever, my soul, and 1 for you; for though I may never have a shir— ’’

“Enough 1 Leave me forever.” "But listen. Though I may never have a shirking disposition,- I shall sometimes, perhaps, in the struggle of life, forget the plain duty — • And I ll remind you of it. Frederick. in tender actions and make the duties of existence so pleasant of performance. that to avoid them will be pain. ’ And so on. That's modern courtship. Lots of abstract swish, but a manifest disinclination to contemplate such conveniences as buttons, socks, trousers and shirts. — _ Naughty Nell. O J Wabash Courier. Tho neighborhood of the corner of Allen and Hill streets was all aglow last Tuesday over the punishment in- : dieted upon a little Iwy by Ed. Nell I and his sister, the latter of whom is the boy's mother. People liv’ng in the vicinity were much incensed over what apjiearcd to be the brutal punishment of the boy, and so angry were they tiiat i Marshal Hann was sent for. who upon ' arriving made an examination of the ! lad's person and found a few black and I blue marks upon the boy's back and arms, but deeming it of too little ! importance to warrant his interference, I the Marshal made no arrest. It is' charged by Nell's neighbors that both he and the boy's mother are in Mio habit of beating him unmercifully for the most trival offenses. Circumstances do not bear out this version of the affair. That the boy his been treated bruitally cannot be denied. The marks on his back give evidence that he has been punished much more severely than his offenses warranted and both Neli and the mother have shown that they possess hearts of adamant. However it is possible that the neighbors have displayed just a little more indignation than the matter called for.

1) ARI NG D ESPERA I JOES. Further Particulars of the Rock Island d rain Robbery. Rock Island, July 16.—This evenings will contain the fol owing i 1 account of the train robbery on the ■ I Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway: : the train was boarded at Winslow by : a gang of men, while a number of aei ‘ omplicy* were already in different cars.

When the signal was given the robbers rushed forward and shot the conductor and made an effort to kill the engineer. The engineer escaped in thedarkness, and a stone mason, who was one of the passengers was mistaken for the engineer and killed. Immediately after taking possession of the train, one of them ran to the engine, steam was applied, and the train started over the track at a furious rate of speed. The robbers then started for the express messenger and another squad started to go through the cars, when the order was given the passengers to hold up their hands and give up their money and valuables. The men sent to the express car succeeded in knocking the messenger down and securing his keys. With these they opened the safe and secured all the money and valuables which it contained. The messenger was knocked down because there was not enough in the safe to satisfy’ the robb rs, and they threatened to kill him, but spared him when he told them there was no money in his possession. Before the robbers succeeded in robbing the passengers a brakemen who had not been noticed by the gang pulled the brake and the train came to a stop. This frightened i the robbers, who left the train and made for the woods. As the pass-; engers and the few train men renamed recovered themselves, the engine wts steamed up and the train started for the citv. The passengers arrived hereabout 11 o'clock this morning, having been detained some time on account of a wash-out on the other side of Davenport. Among the passengers was E. L. Martin of Kansas City. He gave the following account of the affair. The train left Kansas City at 0:30 last night, and consisted of six' cars well filled with passengers, in eluding a sleeping coach. Supper was • furnished at the regular eating station and no event occurred to excite the suspicion of the passengers on the ' train until Winslow was reached, which was 9:30 o'clock. At that station four ■ , rough appearing men got on the train with handkerchiefs held up to their faces to partially conceal theirlcaluits The first intimation that the passengers received that there was anything wrong was the cry “all aboard" which appeared to be a signal. At that instant four men, as well as several others who had come from Kansas City and Cameron, made a rush for the engine and forced the conductor. Charlie Westfall to start the train. Firing was heard in the front cars and on the engine, and then the train was ; put in motion at the rate.of forty miles | per hour. On a given signal two of I the men made for the first coach where the conductor was standing. One of the men went up to conductor Westfail, and pointing a pistol at him said, j ■ You are the man I want." After saythis he fired his pistol, but did not prove fatal. Westfall attempted to j run. and as he did so the robber fired twice at hrm. Westfall reached the ! platform, and then a second robber fired a shot which kill, d him instantly. ; The conductor fell dead on the platform. He was wounded in several places, but the last shot took effect in the brain, producing instant death. Three robbers then started ior the engine with the intention of shooting the engineer and taking possession of the engine. The engineer seemed to , i apprehend that there was danger, as on the approach of the trio he started back on the engine and seereted himself on the tender. A stone mason i named Mitter came forward off the baggage car while the shooting was in progress. The robbers mistook him I for the engineer and shot him, the ball taking effect in bis heart. Charlie

Murray, the express uiescnger. was also visited by some of the robbers, lie was knocked over the head and made I to deliver up the keys to his safe. The : robbers ransacked the safe and secured 1 SSOO in money S3OO in valuables and government bonds to the amount of SI,OOO. Murray was threatened with instant death if he concealed anything, but was permitted to live on informing them that all his valuables were in the safe. The brakeman on duty, whose name cannot be ascertained, as soon as be learned of the murder of the conductor, rushed through the train and informed the passengers that an effort would be made to rob them. A< soon as this was accomplished the brakeman started forward and when in the second coach the robbers entered both . doors with pistols in their hands, demanding money. The brakeman pulled the cord attached to the air brakes. □nd soon afterwards the train stopped and the men jumped off the cars and i made for tbe woods. Mr. Martin stat;ed that not more than fifteen minntes ' elapsed from the time of leaving Winslow till the robbers jumped from the cars and made themselves scarce. The sleeping car porter lucked himself up it: a state room of the sleeper and did not make himself visible until the train was near Washington. Conductor Westfall, who was killed, lived at Wilton, where his remains were left this morning. The robbers numbered thirteen, and only two of them had handkerchiefs lied about their faees. St. Loris, July 16.—The generally accepted theory out on the road is that the robbers we:e professionals. One of them, the tailist one, was seen in Cameron all day yesterday, and could bp identified by see’eral people. The

men who have been searching for the robbers to-day found where they had their horses hid in the woods and say j that in their hurry to get away they i did not untie them, but cut the halters and left them hanging to the trees. A TERRIBLE CYCLONE. It Sweeps Through New Ulin, Minesota, Wrecking it Completely. A Great Number Killed and Wounded at New I Im. Also at West Newton and Milford. ■ , Stone and Brick Buildings Raised to the Ground and the Air killed With klying Debris. Sr. Pali, Minn., July 17.—The town of New Vim, situated on the Minnesota Rirer, some sixty-five miles from St Paul, find containing about 3,500 people, was wiecke i by a cyclone late Friday afternoon. The wires went down in the river, a . 1 only meagre details can be given. It seem? that two currents of air swept the vally simultaneously, coming from different directions . The sceue wa.i appalling. Stone and brick buildings were razed to their foundations and ihe air was full of debris. • The town and its suburbs are now a mass of ruins. West Newton in the neighboring couny

of Nicolet, was visi’edand-i fixnily of three killed. Their names could not be learned. The following is an imperfect list of the killeland wounded in the ill-fated valley: The killed in New Ulin are Mr. Eckert and a twelve-year-old K>n; a little son of Mr. Eckey; Laura 11 light, aged eleven years, found on the prair’* decapitated; head not yet found; ft son of Mr. H ulcer, aged fourteen. The cnly bodies found killed in the town of Severance, near by, wre Martin Frank, Joseph Killubs, wife und thiee children; one child badly wounded—the sole survivor of the family. 11 \st New:on —A child of Mr. Loomis; an old gentleman, mine mt known, who was found with bis arms clasped to a tree. H-’otin led in New Ulin - John Palmgu est: Mr. Leisch, wife and child, probibly fatal; 11. Fidtier, serimMy, probably fatal; J. J. Kuntz,arm and legbioken and cut; George Fegle an I wife, seriously; Carl M. Reetz; Jacob Miller, leg broken, Mr. Harner and wife, seriously; Mr. Nelson, slightly; U'ilhain Sliarpar.s, internally; very serious, and Fchut longer, bad'y cut by glass. Town of Mil ford—Pfifcr, seriously; three persons, not yet ascertained. Ihe County is peopled almost wholly by Germans, forty-eight of whom were in Minueapol s at the time, in altemleuce on the Turnfest and none knew of the catastrophe until to-day, when all left inmrdintely for their ruined homes, wiih no knowledge as to whether they would find family, frit nds or property. A Pioneer Press special, via St. Peter

says - “The track of the cyclone was a B.eue of awful girndu-r during the ttotni, nnd an appalling wreck after it. The air was full of debris, and was wicrdly lit up by blazing balls of electric fluid Everybody is wild with excitement, and it is al most impossible lu secure a correct statement of the catastrophe ordnmige dose. The following is a p rtial lis'.- Brisling, , Veilar & t’o., store, Br.orn County It in’s, B. & E. C Bebbeuks, J. Bohletler s drug store, postofiice, C Sommers store, Citizens Natioral Bank C. Wagner s store, Da kola House, Dr. wedokeu s drug store and dwelling, weidham & Sliriim s stores, B. CrO*» stable, A. Ke’slings blacksmith shop, three school houses, Colonel I’. S Ander s residence, M. Stuutter's hardware 1 store and livery stable and fine threshing , machines, ser s residen c, Union i Hall, Frank Ikvrnskerph, a complete wreck ' and building all flooded with water, An- [ drew Smiths residence, almost a conplete wreck: B. Berry’s resideuse, Griffs brick house, C w. Krook's store, almost a complete wreck: Cigele's ho-tae-in-1 shop, to tally destrowed; E Vogle s s i’o>n, c irried away; a wagon shop au I residence completely destroyel; KrotU’lTs hirlware store, a complete wreck; Epple's spleudid brick a complete wreck; Brook s wagon i factory, a complete wreck: A committee ca'led on Governor Pillbnry i this evening to soli it State aid, anl was assured that everything in the power of tha Executive shiMld be Jone for the suf- : fcring people. LATE* CARTICCLISS. St. Pail. Minn, July 17.—The Pioneer Press received the following special from New Ulm. via Mankota- “The people of New Ulm are organising f-*r the work that is before them, and will be prepared to commence the rebuilding of their city tomorrow. w orkmen from St I’.anl, Si. Peter and Mankota are on hl 14, and things are beginning to assume some system . The Governor's guards are on duty protecting the property. Large crowds visited the scene of the disaster to-day, and a special train from Keuwoo-i Falls was run. “The following is a partial list of the ! killed and wounded, and also the estimated i losses of the losers. Killed in New Ulm: : Laura P.eitr, Ai.ua Warner, Anna Leisch ; . Meggart. wounded. Mrs. Warner, struck by lightning She was lying on the floor with a small babe, which was killed. A licit struck her on the breast and extended to her feet, leaving the body ns black as coal. She cannot remember any event in her life anterior to the time she was struck, anl will probably die. Mrs. Brill, left arm broken twice; Ida Leisch, left leg broken: a Swede boy. name unknown, badly wounded iu tbe neck an l head, skull | fractured and internal injuries, probably fatal; Mr. Huffmore’s two sons, injuries I iu head and back. Henry Fidler, com-' pouud fractures of left thigh and sun; Charles Spooner, bole in the jaw; Mrs. Kate Wesson, throat cut, laying bare the jugbir vein. At Oairo, 11.neville County, fjur and one-half miles northwest, John Holland, wife and two boys and one girl were kill ed; One boy escaped by running away from the house. Tlitf boys, when found, were in a tree eighty rods from tbe house, • conipjgtc-ly denuded. At West Newton five tidies bad been found up to ths time of this writing, the names of whom could not be learned.’ 1 ESTIMATED LOSSES. i Chicago, July 17.—Tbe principal prop--8 ; erty owners' loss in New Ulm, as near as

jau be found out is as follows Catholic CaiheJral and .Nunnery, complete wrecks, foes $10,000; lliinlsuriin, brewery, completely demolished, $12,000 to $15,000; Eppie s Block, complete wreck, loss SU,OOO Win. Mullen, store badly wrecked, loss $4,000; house demollshel, loss $3,000; Dr. We schke, loss on one building, $3,000; stock of drugs, $2,000; Duseman brick block badly damaged, loss $2,000; Schullachers brewery, badly damaged, loss $3,000 to $4,000; Esuck, brick store, completely destroyed, loss $3,001); Public School building, roof off and part of north wall gone; loss, $'3,000. The Methodist, Lutheran and Congregational churches are entirely demolished. Losses ranging from $2,000 to H°oo- These are the largest losses sustained. There is not ft building but what is more or less damaged, h can be safely said that $250,000 to $>300,000 would not put the town back where it was. THE BODY OF POPE PIUS IX. Removing it from St. Peters to the Church ofSan Lor-enzo-Disgraceful Scene.

Rome. July 13.—At 12 o clock last night the body of Pope Fius IX was removed from its resting place in St. Peter’s to the tomb provided for it in the church of San Lorenzo. Immediately after his death the body of the late Pope, encased in several coffins, one within the other, was elevated to a nitebe prepared for it high up on the walls of the chapels if St. Peters. Meanwhile, in accordance to his will, a simple and inexpensive tomb Ind been prepared as its last res ing place, under the altar of the Church of San Lorenzo, which is some distance from the Vatican. Pius IX had certain tender reminiscences con nected with this church, and wished his body to repose there. The tomb in the Church of San Lorenzo has been completed for some time, but for reasons satisfactory to his executors the removal of the holy was postponed until last night. During the day ihe stones forming the outer door of the niche were removed, and soon after sunset the coffin was drawn out and let down to the pavement of the chap el. A careful was preserve over it tin til al! the arrangements were complete. At midnight the coffin was carried from the chapel. and placed upon a bier drawn by horses. The bier was surrounded by a large body of Priests bear ing lighted candles, and was followed by an immense number of members o! Catholic associations with torches. Ihe scene was solemn and sombre in the extreme. Hardly had the p ocessiou left the steps of St. Peter s than a num her of young roughs swarmed around it. hustling the priests, code voring to extinguish the candles an I to overturn the bier.and shouting, “Long live Italy ' Down w : th the Pope! “Away with the blaek gowns;" and so on. The dis tu'rbatiee became so great that the city authorities were compelled to inter vcne t The police force proving inad equate, some companies of soldiers were sent for. The military soon dis persed th >se who did not belong to the cortege, ami the procession moved on tu its destination. The ceremony of placing the body in the tomb was com pleted before daylight. TO MARY IM HEAVEN. [This sublime and affecting Ode waeoniposed by Burns iu one of bis tits of melancholy on the anniversary of High laud Marys death. Ail the day he had been thoughtful, and at evening he went out. threw himself down by one of his corn ricks, and with his eyes fixed on “a bright, particular star, was found by his wife, who with difficulty brought him in from the midnight air. The song was already composed, and he had only to commit it to piper. It appears in the M itcum.] Tttou ling’ring star, with less'ning ray. That lov'st to greet the early morn. Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seesi thou thy lover lewly laid? Hear st thou the groans tiiat rend h's breast?

’That sacred hour can I forget, Can I forget the hallow d grove, Where by the winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love? Eternity cannot efface Those records dear of transports past; Thy image at our last embrace; Ah! little thought we twas our last! Avr. gurgling, kiss'd his pebbled shore. O'er hung w ith w ildwodds, thick - ning green: The flagrant birch, and hawthorn hour. Twin’d am rous round the raptur'd scene; The flow'rs sprang w anton io be prest, The birds sang love on every spray Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of wing'd day. Still o'er these scenes my meni'ry wakes. Ard fondly broods with miser care! Time but th' impression stronger makes. As streams their channels deeper wear. My Mary, dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that Tend his breast? I'Bclaimed Letters. List of unclaimed letters remaining iu the Deeatur Postofficc Adams couu- . ty. Ind.. 4'or the week ending July 18, i 1881. If not called for in four weeks | will be returned to the dead letter offiee. ; Eastman W. W. Hancock William Robbins O. G. Persons calling for the above letters i Mill please say advertised; B.W.Sivalty, P. M. Now, that your harvest, is in, would be an excellent time for subscriljiug for The Decatur Democrat

CI IA T - It is now lawful to shoot woodcocks. There is considerable sickness in this i vicinity. A new harness shop has been opened to the public. The Presbyterian church at Auburn is without a pastor. Pla.'c is making pretty good cream this season. Try it. Johnny Miller is adding conrcn i iences to his barber shop. The Middlebury llccord has changed hands, lieatwole retiring. If you want to succeed as a teacher fail not to attend the normal. Hot days and cool nights are good for ague and quinine dealers. Walt. Tiger has returned to Ft. Wavuc. lie didn’t like the w st. Read the story of the maniac ou the first page of this paper and liieu shudder. Ray Berg's father is lying at the point of death at tiis home in Pennsylvania. The Wapakouetla /L of was sold to T. D. Baker and M. I>. Shaw for SB,S(H). Henry county is having a poor farm investigation. Cruelty to paupers is charged. Moon & Citristen have commenced work on the machine shops and depot at Delp hos. Falb. the bo >t aa l shoe m to. introduced the Biulitonians to the latest phrase. “ A’ell, 1 should si ibber. A drive into the country last Sunday makes the fact very clear that, mi less we get lain soou, the corn crop will be for nix. The memory of the oldest guy runneth not back to the time when there were more hickory nuts man there will oe this year. Aul Walnuts too.

“How utterly utter, said :i Lily excursionist at lite top of the White Mountains, as she described her cum lions on witnessing the sit t ri e. Lee Linn says its but a stop ladder from the sublime to lit? ridiculous, which, being translated, means Mill a step ladd.-t float .lie floor to the Iran SOUL It is written in s >u : that I >ve l.ug'tat locksmiths, but it occurs to u-la u it would have to be a dcsperat : case <>l Iqvc that would even laugh at a bright eyed editor this hot weather. A new threshing machine engine passed through town on Monday’ on its wav to Root township. We have for gotten the purchasers names, but il.ey are going to lead in threshing, they say. Give them a call. We'.fley now has the nicest lot ol lemons ever brought to this market. It may not be generally known, but it is a fact, nevertheless, that good lem ous are at present very scarce and high-priced. Call at Welfley s and gel •some good ones before liny are .II gone. The Comet! He is on his way. And singing as he flies; The whizzing planets shrink before Tne spectre in the skies: Ab! well may regal orbs burn L-’.ie. And statellitcs turn pale; Ten million cubic utiles of head, Ten billion leagues of tail. Mini- »<«</«// Holmes. What Decatur needs is a large m intifacturing establishment, one that will employ several liumired hauls: but just write it down in your tueniora tdu ns that, if the Chicago & Atlantic road is located siuth of us. it will be a desperately eold day when tho aforesaid large mwuufaeturing establishment gets ready to start up. We have been complaining nmeh of late because of the extreme dry weather. but this. Thursday, forenoon the rain is coming down i>- torrents and all natuyc scents refreshed. The corn will now come along all right, and we wi 1 have no more cause for fault-find-ing. A heavy rain also fell last night Let us return th inks to the ruler of the universe.

We are in receipt of a copy of -lui'oiy th< Clouds, a neat little sheet published at the top of Mt. Washington. New Hampshire. Mt Washington is the highest of the White Motin tains, it being 2.263 feet above the lev el of the sea. O.t the morning of the sth of July ice froze solid on the platform in front of the Summit House the principle hotel on the mountain. .tmoHy thr Clouds is a 5-column folio, ably edited, and containing a list of Dames of all excursionists visiting the mountains. We are under many obit gations to the friend that sent it. Jas. France and Ed. Bailey desire through this paper to sincerely thank those young ladies for the rido they received Sunday evening, but are more thankful for being requested to leave tbe carriage befare arriving at their destination, a& the carriage- had been maliciously appropriate-1 by the ladies from some unsuspecting farmer, wh> was then seen a short distance ahead • awaiting for the return of the carriage and the guilty appropriakirs. Girls, ' the bays say the next ride they take they lope it will h_- in a covered carriage with horses that tho crows aud I 1 uzzar-ls have uo mertgage on.

Go to Rome City next Saturday Geneva has the daily y r ;„ ttgain. ' County, district and state f a i r , ffil) soon begin. Young squirrels are said to be ver „ plentifully. Old papers, nice ami clean. f or Sa | e at this office. Roscoe Conkling, ex-boss of Atneri can Impierialism. Remember the Roma City next Saturday. The breeze on Monday morning Wj . very invigorating. Tickets on sale at the depot f, ir the Rome City excursion. New wheat is turning out much l K . t . ter than was expected. Good beef cattle are reported as la> ing very scarce in Ohio. By request we publish in this i ia - e Burns' “To Maryin Heaven.' One dollar will take you toll, me City and return next Saturday. Read what Thus. J. Mylott has t , say regarding the cutting of flax. The teachers throughout the county are preparing to attend the normal. W. G. Spencer bought a Lands,,, he ph.vton of King the carriage bnildy The advertising house of Freshman A Bro.. C ncinnati. is a fraud. 1',., Il h.,s been discovere I that Eve w w created for Alams Express C.mpaiqA young attorney from Fowler, ladiaua. is iu town looking m> a li, cl . tion. Dick Townsend has traded his bin for a li.ii k much to his and his gnests’ convenience. Farmers, tnceh inies. laborers, every, body turn out an 1 enjoy a d ty of pleasure next Saturday. The corner stone of th,. Van Cl.we opera house was laid at Hartford City one day las week. I’ncle John Shirey buys morehorret •iml pays batter prices than any other man in the business. If it dosn t result in “grs" two weeks hence will find half the population ~f Di i-atnr at Petoskey. Mich. The daily J >nnnil. publish-J for the In'ticfit of the Island Park Wseuibly, failed to give satisfaction. There will be no tents allovtsl on the island*next year during the Assembly. Why is this thus? Aag’ist Ki eeliter is g >i i r to st irt i eigtr factory in the new fr i ae l>ni|.|. ing in emrof erection by St a I i ~Gr inJ Allison. Dr. S. G. Hastings has moved his office into the Studab.iker building o: » >loi,r south of Court Park. (hir readers will please tn ke a note of it. A dozen ton'/nes to gossip, A thousand ears to hear An obscure twit of solid facts And the old she gossip's on her ear. That after-harvest-tim •. wb si fie; hutidred good subscribers were going t i step up and pay us from two to three dollars each, is now here! And so are we.

It is thought that D.ivi-l I’.ixi ei. of Jay county, murdered his wile. The authorities are investigating the case. It’s t 1 e same old story- -no love in ths marriage from the start. The assassin's brother spells the name Guittcau. ami prenounees it as it spelled Git tu. and not Gito. The na >e is a conglomeration of CanadianFreach ami Anierie.iii Stalwartisat. An auteiiJuviin scribbler said th.it man is bortt to be honest. M«vebe it thinking about that proposition today, and have arrived at the conclusion that that scribbler never run a newspijter. To be. or not. to be; that is the question:—Whether 'tis nobler in the miml to suffer the heat and dust ami ehills ami ague of Deeatur. or to take up your grip sack against the wishes of your pocket, ami hie away to Petosscy ami catch black bits an l brook trollA visit to Geneva l ist Saturday attermion convinced us that the yiilig’ is moving along iu about the right shape. Her in m are up doing, their streets are being graveled —in their minds—and the town is i i a prosperous c.iudiion. • Rustieuhas gone, and the opinion seems to pre- . vail that the town is much the better lor it. IV r»OII :i I •». —G eorg ? Hollow a)’ started so- Cleveland, via Northern Michigan, yesterday. George i-s ;l young man. who will surely utake an enviable mark in the world. Mr. Joint Kiting has boon bi to.rn for a few days. John McMullin, of Ft. Wayne, w-c* in Deeatur on Sunday la-1. D. M. Goodsell and family start for Northern Michigan next week. Dick Townsend and Charley Spencer were al \'att Wert last Sunday. Miss Wheelock, of Auburn, is the guest of her sister. Mrs. Showalter. Mike McGriff. Dr. Ralston. J. Kelly, and nutuerous other Geuevaites were in town on Monday. Mr. Jesse Niblick visited a friend at North Manchester a few days ago. while there called ta.-ee Rev. J. I Cfll’its and family.