Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1881 — Page 1

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The Democrat. Official Paper of Adams County. Published by the Democrat Printing Co. Terms: One Dollar amu Fifty Cents Per Year in Advace, and Two Dollars per Year, if not Paid in Advance. THE DEMOCRAT'S AGENTS. A* teal <*" aalUlm’tOVV arrajwemenr.can h, ; wndcWH will hnve »•! Aaeut lor I ho Diin- ■ ~rui nt each poatoMcr In the I ounti. the t ime, ol whom will hr kept otnndm* In the linpor. W> du thia tor the convenience of our oubecribora, nod trout they ~IH appreciate it Oubscrlbero can pa> their anhacrlptloa, or part thereof, or ant sum ol Money, to iu “lente, who .nil receipt fnr the name, and who also will lake the name. and cuh of new •übacribers. The lollowlna are the name, ofnaenla ""J: patrons at the •everal o®«©« will ao u» a great favar by remitting to them a lit-le mwue> on •übacriptioa:*’ 4 . W. HOCK EK itiilN I>. HAKE Weaeva El GENE-MOK ROW Line Grove ■T. T BAILEY, ATT Y AT LAW # J. P-, 1> ECATVk, INDIANA. Will Practice in Adams and adjoining Counties. Collections a specialty. v24n29tf sgThastings, m. d. HOMOEOP A THIST PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. All calls day or night prompil r attended to. Office in Studebaker's building, first door south o’ Court House Square. Vol 25 No. 14. A. g'TiOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office in lUuston's Block, up-stairs. Will attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Rest dence an north side of Monroe street. 4th Louse east of Harts Mill. 25jy79tf lUn AI.I.IMUS. IT.-e-t. W. H. Niblick, Cashier, fl. Stcdabaksr, Vice Pre. I. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK. DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general hanking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy"9tf PETERSON & HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, nSCATVR, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Noi iricsßublie and draw deed* and mortgages Rer.l estate bought, sol.l and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2.1. 0. O. F. building. - <I.V 19,f _ FRANCE & KING. attorneys at law, IIRCaTVR. INDIANA. , SI aSc—. Llj- | —' , " ,; I'' ■■TsJa-rek '' ■—E. Notice to Father*. Mothers. Sisters, Brothers. I’ncles, Aunts, and all Relatives. Secure Certificates an your relatives lives in the PIONEER MUTUAL ASSOCIATION’ of UNION CITY, INDIANA,— i he ckeapes' Relief offered by any Association in the United States. Cirtifieates given on all males and females that are of sane mind and good health, from 20 to 85 years of age at the following low rates: $6 for a SI,OOO Certificate. $lO for $2,000: sl6 for $3,000 $25 for $5,000; or a total of sl6 to secure Certificates for $3,000 in the First Division: SSO to secure Certificates far SIO,OOO in the Second Division; SSO to secure Certificates for £IO,OOO in the Third Division; ssoto secure Certificates for SIO,OOO in the Fourth Division; Yearly thereafter only $1 on each one thousand during life, with the following asses ments in each class nnd division: At the death of a 'uber, $1.25 on $1,000; $2.30 on $2,1 *l0; s> u .. " a 83,000; and $5.50 on ss,Ofi.. - iiAll males and fema.-i to »u yeart of age, are respectfully requested to secure certificates. Regular etoek Insurance Companies do not insure over 65 years. Therefore, as this is your oaly chance for relief we advise you to accept this great o6er at once, as it is dangerous to delay. Remember, you have no risk to become a member of this association, as its officers have each given bond to the amount of ten thousand dollars for the faithful performance of their duties. Call on or address France A King, Agents, 4mG. Decatur, Ind. swi*ay*N Specific flledicine. TRADE MARK The Gsbat TRADE MARK KCTanunfaii- ~ Ji i“« cure for seminal weak ness, torrkea,lmpo"aj’M:.' NSS tenoy,Jand BEFORE TAKIIL'I' seaae " ,ha 'AFHB TAKIMfI. follow as a consequence of Self-ahuee; as loss of memory, Universal Lassitude, Pain in the Back, Dimness of Vision, Preqpatnre Old Age, and many other diseases that lead to Insanity, Consumption and a premature grave. particulars in our pamphlet, 'which we desire to send free by mail to every one. The Specific Medicine is sold by all druggists at $1 per package, or 6 packages for so, or will be sent free by mail or receipt of the money by addressing THE GRAY MEDICINE CO., No. 106 Main streot, Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by Derwin & Dollhouse. FOR LICENSES. To the Citizens of the town of Geneva, Adams County, Indiana. Notice is hereby given that we, the undersigned, Tboe. McKee and J. W. McDon aid, will make application to the Board of Commissioners of Adams County. Indiana, at their next regular session, fo r a license to sell spirituous, vinus and malt liquors in less quantities than a quart at a time in and at our place of business, situated on the following described premises, towiL In-Lot No. one hundred and eighty (180), in the town of Geneva, Adams County, Indiana, at ths same is recorded and designated on the recorded plat of said town. Tnos. MoKez, J W. McDonald. August 1,188 J.

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, Dissolution ol Co-Partnership. — By mutual agreement we the undersigned have this day dissolved partnership. All parties knowing themselves indebted to us will please call at the Treasurer's office and settle by cash or note. Thanking our friends who have in the past favored us with their patronage, we remain yours very truly. Comtek & Holthouse. Decatur, June 13, 1881. New Firm. The undersigned having this day formed a co-partnership in the boot and shoe trade respectfully invite the lead- • ittg public to call and examine their large and varied stock. Good goods at the lowest living prices will be their motto. VOGLEWEDE <fc CONTER. ! Decatur, Ind., June 13, 1881. To the Public. Having this day formed a co-part-ner ship to be known as Voglewede and Conter, I request all parties knowing themselves indebted to me to call and settle by cash or note. Thanking my friends for past patronage and soliciting your favors in the future, I remain yours, J. 11. Vogi.ewf.de. To Whom it May Concern. Notice is hereby given that my wife, Hattie Luckabill, left my bed and board on the 27 th day of June last' without cause or provocation, and that I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by her. Daniel Luckabill. August 11,1881. APPLICATION FOR LICENSE. To the citizens of the town of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana. Notice is hereby given that we, the undersigned, J. J. Tonnellier & Son, will make application to the Board of commissioners of Adams county, at their next regular session, fora license to sell spirituous, vinus and malt liquors in less quantities than a quart at a time in and at oar place of business, situated on the following described premises to-wit: commencing at a point on the north side of Menroe street In the town of Decatur, j sixty-six (66) feet west of the southwest corner of in-lot 250 in the original plat o* ' the town of Decatur, thence running north at right angles with said Monroe street 132 feet, thence west parallel with said ! Monroe stieet 66 teet to the alley, thence ( south along the alley 82 feet to a stake, thence east parallel with said Monroe st. 41 feet to a stake, thence south fifty feet to the said north side of Monroe street, thence cast ‘2l feet to the place of beginning.* J. J.Tonnelueb i Son. Aug. 11, ISBI. \PPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR. • Notice is hereby given, that the under- | signed has been appointed administrator of the estate of Frederick Cook, late of [ Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. COAT COOK, Administrator. Aug. 11, 1881. Heller & Hooper, Atty's. 4 PPLICATION FOR LICENSE. A To the cilitens of Hartford township, Adams county, Indiana: Notice is hereby given that I, Jacob Branoetnan, will make j application to the board of commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, at their regu- ■ lar session in September, 1881, for a li- I cense fcr one year, to sell vinous ond malt : liquors in less quantities than a quart at : a time, at my place of business in and at I the building situated on in-lot No. 7, in the town of Buna Vista, Adams county, : Indiana, as the same is designated on the recorded plat of said town. JACOB BRANNEMANN. Aug. 11, 1881. REPLICATION FOR LICENSE. To the citiiens of the town of Deoatur, Adams county, Indiana. Notice is hereby given, that I, the un- I dersigned, John IF. Voglewede, will make application to the Board of Commissioners | of Adams county, State of Indiana, at their next regular session for a license to sell | spirituous, vinus and mail liquors in less quantities than a quart ala time, at my place of business in and at the building situated on the following described premises to-wit.- Thirty-three (83) feet off the west end of in-10l number two hundred and seventy-four (274), in the town of Decatur, as the same is designated on the records in the Recorders Office of said Adams tyJOHN W. VOGLEWEDE. Aug .4, 1881. pETITION TO SELL REaL ESTaTE. The state of Indiana, Adams county, S 3. Notice is hereby given, that Catharine Tonnellier, administratrix of the estate of John Tonnellier, deceased, has filed her petition to sell the real estate of the decedent, his personal estate being insufficient to pay his debts; and that said petition will be heard at the next term of the circuit court of said county. Witness, my hand and the Seal of said' court, this 10th day of August, 1881. N. BLACKBURN, clerk. Aug. 11,1881. Application lor License. To the eitiaens of the town of Geneva, Adam" county, Indiana. Notice is hereby given that I, the under-1 signed, Alexander Robinson, will apply to the Board of Commissioners of Adams ; county, Indiana, at their next regular session, for a license to sell spirituous, vi--1 nus and malt liquors, in leas quantities than a quart at a time, at my place of business, in and at the building situated on the following described premises in the town of Geneva, Adams county, in the Stote of Indiana, to-wit: In-lot number one hundred and nineteeu (119), in the town of Geneva, as the same ia recorded end designated on the recorded plat of said town. ALEXANDER ROBINSON. Aug. 4, 1881. JgLECTION NOTICE A Stockholders meeting of the Chicago i Atlantic Railway Company, is called to meet at ike office of said company, in Huntington, Indiana, on Thursday, the Isf. of September, 1881, all o'clock p. tn., to elect new Directors and transact sueh other business as may properly be brought before the meetiug. Ry order of the Board of Directors. L. P. MILLIGAN, Julj 28, 1381;—w3. Secretary.

Soldier s Dreams. Detroit Free Press. A week previous to the battle of 1 Fair Oaks a New York volunteer who passed the night in a tent of a number of the Third Michigan Infantry, got up in the morning looking very glum and down-hearted, and when rallied about his fancied home sickness he said: “I have only a week to live! 1 had a dream last night that settled the business for me and lots of others. A week from to-day a battle will be fought and thousands will be slain. My regiment will loose a hundred mon, and I shall be killed while charging across a field.” The men laughed at his moody spirit, but he turned upon them and said: ‘‘Your regiment will also be in the fight, and when the roll is called after the battle you will have nothing to be merry over. The two sergeants who were in here last night will be killed among the trees. I saw them lying dead as plain as I now see you. One will be shot in the breast, and the i other in the groin, and dead men will be thick around them." The battle took place just a week ! after. The dreamer was killed in sight of every man the third before the ! fight was an hour old, and within twenty minutes after, the two sergeants and six of their comrades were dead in the woods, hit exactly where the dreamer said they would be. More than fifty men will bear witness to the truth of this statement. Just before the battle of Cedar Creek a camp sentinel who was off duty temporarily and trying to put in a little sleep, dreamed that he went out on a scout. A mile to the right of our camp he came upon a log barn, and as it began to rain just then he sought shelter, or was about to, when he heard voices and discovered that the place was alreaddy occupied. After a little ' investigation he ascertained that three confederate scouts had taken up their 1 quarters in the place, and he therefore moved away. The sentinel awoke with- such a viv--1 k id remembrance of details that he ask■ed permission to go over and talk with one of the scouts. IV hen the log . barn was described to this man he locatit at once, having passed it a dozen I times, The dreamer described the ■ highway exactly as it was, giving evej ry hill and turn, and the scout put such faith in the remainder of the dream that he took tour soldiers, one of whom was the dreamer, and set out for the place. Three confederate scouts were asleep in the straw, and were taken without a shot being fired. The dream and its results were known to hund- : reds of Sheridan’s cavalry, and has been alluded to at reunions. The night before the cavalry fight at Brandy Station a trooper who slept as his horse jogged along in column dreamed that a certain captain in his regiment would be unhorsed in a fight the next day, and while rising from his fall would be wounded in the left knee. Everything was so clear to the dreamer that he took opportunity to find the captain and relate his dream. “Go to Texas with your croaking! was all thanks he received, but he had his revenge. In the very first charge, next day, the captain was unhorsed by the girth and was pitched heels over head in a patch of briers. As he staggered out a shell killed his horse and two men, and one of the flying pieces of iron mashed the captain's left leg to a bloody pulp. He is now a resident of Ohio, and his wooden leg is indisputable evidence that dreams sometimes come to pass. While McClellan was beseiging Yorktown, the fun was not all on one side. The confederates had plenty of shot and shell, and they sent it out with intent to kill. One morning a Michigan man who was in the trenches walked back to a spot on which three officers were eating breakfast and warned them that they were in great peril. On the night previous he had : dreamed that he had looked at his I watch aad marked that it was a quart- ’ er of seven, when a shell hit the earth behind him and tore up the ground in a terrible way. It was now twenty minutes of seven, and he besought the officers to leave the spot at ones. His earnest manner induced them to com : ply, and they had only reached cover when a confederate shell struck the earth where they had been grouped ! and made an excavation into which a ' horse could have been rolled with room to spare. Three days before the affair at Kelly's Ford, a corporal in the Sixth Mioh-' igan Cavalry dreamed that a brother of his who was a sergeant in another company, would have his horse killed , in action, and would almost immediate-: ly mount a dark bay horse with a white I nose. Within five minutes both horse and rider would be killed with a shell. Thia dream was related to more than

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a score of comrades fully two days before the fight. Early in the action the seargent’s horse was struck square in the forehead by a bullet, nnd dropped dead in his tracks. It was scarcely three minutes before a white-nosed horse, carrying a blood-stained saddle, galloped up to the sergeant and halted. He remembered the dream and refused to mount the animal, and soon after picked up a black horse. The whito-nosed animal was mounted by a second corporal in another regiment, and horse and rider were torn to fragments by a shell, in full sight of four companies of the Sixth. These things may seem very foolish now, but there was a time when a soldier’s dream saved General Kilpatrick’s life; when a dream changed Custer’s plans for three days; when a dream prevented General Tolbert's camp from a surprise and capture; and when a dream gave General Sheridan more accurate knowledge of Early's forces than all the scouts. Anecdote of Napoleon. Shortly before the battle of Jena, Napoloen had well nigh fallen a victim to one of those accidents which maybe considered as reinforcements to the legitimate hazards encountered in the glorious trade of war. At Weimar the Emperor disposed his forcos in order of battle, and bivouaced in the centre of his guard. He had ordered a passage to be hollowed in the rock, and toward two o’clock in the morning set out on foot to ascertain how the work was proceeding. Having remained an hour on the spot, he resolved to make an inspection of the outposts, before returning to his bivouac, This solitary excursion nearly cost the Emperor his life. The night was so dark that the sentries were unable to see the slightest object at the distance of ten paces One of them hearing footsteps, challenged, and immediately presented his piece. The Emperor prevented from hearing the </u( vive by one of his tits of absence, made no answer, and was roused from his reverie by a ball whizzing past his ear. Instantly aware of his danger, he threw himself flat on the ground. No sooner had he adopted this precaution, than a shower of bullets passed over him; the first sentries fire having been repeated through the whole line. The momentary danger past, the Emperor rose and walked straight to the learest outpost, where he was immediately recognized. In a few minutes the sentry who first challenged and fired, was relieved from his post and brought before Napoleon. The soldier was a young grenadier, in one of the regiments of the line. “You young rascal,” said the Emperor familiarly, “It seems you took me for a Prussian! The dog does not waste his powder, on nothing less than an Emperor serves him for a mark." The psor soldier in the utmost consternation at the idea that he might have killed the Little Corporal, whom he idolized not less than the rest of the army, could only stammer out a few broken sentences: “Pardon. Sire, but I had orders to fire; if you will not answer, I am not to blame; another time you must putin your orders that you don't choose to answer.” The Emperor laughed, and to reconcile the poor fellow to himself, said as he withdrew: “My brave lad, it was not your fault, for a random shot in the dark, yours was not amiss; it will soon be daylight, take better aim, and I’ll provide for you?’ How he Made a Fortune. Will S. Hayes of Louisville has made a small fortune by writing songs. Among his popular compositions are “Mollie Darling,” “Norah O'Neal,’' and “Evangeline.” But he got no money for the latter, though it gave him a start in bis business. “Just before the war,” he says, “I was with some young visitors up in O'dhain County, Kv. Among them was a beautiful girl who resembled the ideal pictures of Longfellow's ‘Evangeline’ so closely that I called her by that name. We danced at an out-door frolic, one evening, and soon discovered that four of us could sing together. We tried popular quartets, and got along so well that we became enthusiastic. About 2 o’clock we started to walk home. The night was as bright as day, with the full moon hanging in the sky, and as we walked we sang. We sat down in a nook to rest, and ‘Evangeline’ began to suggest other songs to sing. ‘l’ll write you a song,' said I, ‘if you’ll promise to sing it before we go home.’ This was agreed to. On the opposite side of the road was a white plank fence. Where we were sitting a party of negroes had been roasting ears of corn, and the charred sticks lay all , around. With those I wrote the first i verse of the song on the top board of the fence, and the notes for four voic- ’ es on the four boards beneath. Then ' we stood off and sang it. The girls were delighted, and insisted on having

a chorus. So I wrote the chorus on i the board. Weil, we sang it over and over, and went home singing it. Next morning ‘Evangeline’ came down stairs humming the air, and asked me to write it out and finish it. I told her I couldn t do it, but she might go down and copy it off the fence. She took an umbrella and a sheet of paper, and soon came back with the words and music. Then she insisted on having another vsrse, on condition that I was to have a kiss for it, and she to have the music. Hayes sent the composition to various music publishers but couldn t sell it, and it was at length made public by the voice of Campbell, the negro minstrel. Three hundred thousand copies have been sold, but the kiss was the only pay the author has received. The best Stimulant. George D. Prentice has contributed largely ts the gems that sparkle in our English literature. This, upon stimulant, may be placed with the golden saying of Pythagoras: There are many times when the pulse lies low in the bosom, and beats low in the veins; when the spirit sleeps the sleep which apparently knows no waking in the house of clay, and the door is hung with invisable crape of melancholy; when we wish the golden sunshine pitchy darkness, and are very willing to fancy clouds where no clouds he. There is a state of sickness when physic may be thrown to the dogs, for we will have none of it. What shall raise the sleeping Lazarus? What shall make the heart beat music, and the pulse dance to it through all the myriad thronged halls in our house of life? M hat shall make the sun kiss the eastern hills again for us, with all its awakening gladness, and the night overflow with “moonlight music and flowers?” Love itself is a great stimulant, the most intoxicating of all, and performs all these miracles, but it is a miracle itself, and it is not a drug store, whatever they say. The countvrfeit is in the market, but the winged messenger' is net a money changer, we assure you. Men have tried many things, but still they ask for stimulants—the stimulants we use but require the use of more. Men try to drown the floating dead of their own souls in the wine cup, but the corpse will rise. Wo see its lace in the bubbles. The intoxication of drink sets the world whirling again, znd pulses playing music and the thought galloping but the fast clock runs down sooner, and the unnatural stimulation only leaves the house it fills with the wildest revelrymore silent, more sad, more deserted more dead. There is one stimulant that never fails, and yet never intoxicates-du-ty. Duty puts a clear sky over every man—up into his heart may be into which the skylark of happiness always goes singing. The Indiana State Fair. The remarkable success attending the State Fair last year, and the efforts now being made by the managers, give assurance that the coming State Fair will excel in every respect. The premium list has been increased 20 per cent. New improvements are ordered and every arrangement will be made for the comfort of exhibitors and visitors. Arrangements for special attractions are pending. The Capital City will put on its holiday attire.* The Public Institutions will be prepared to receive visitors during the Fair week. The railroads will, as usual, carry passengers and freight at half rates, and all combined will make the State Fair the great event of the season. Preparation days, September 22, 23 and 24, so that the fair will open and Committees on Awards begin work on Monday, September 26. The in creased interest is demonstrated by the unusual amount of applications for space and other business connected with the fair thus early. Late applications last season could not bo provided for. The Women's department promises to be more attractive than usual, and will include every variety of woman’s work. Among other new feature* maybe mentioned a large display of fine and decorative art, needle work and a number of inventions. The anu ual fairs of the present day are peculiarly American institutions. They originated in imitation of the “Harvest Home festivals” of the older countries, and the social enjoyments have been so combined with the industrial pursuits as to become indispensable to the progressive spirit of the age, and the annual occurrence is anticipated with the same degree of pleasure as the Christmas festivals.

How the English Debt is to be Reduced. The particulars of Mr. Gladstone's scheme for the reduction of the National debt have now been disclosed. Terminable annuities amounting to $73,617,000, and expiring in 1885, are at present payable to the National Debt Commissioners. For $2,000,000 of these annuities having only four years more to run the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed to substitute an annuity of neatly $460,000, which will continue to be payable for twenty-five years. By this transaction the Commissioners will receive pecuniary equivalent for the annuities they now hold, and by the saving of the present annual charge of sl,540,000 Mr. Gladstone will be enabled to cancel stock to the amount of sixty millions. From what sources can this stock be most easily obtained? is the question which at once rises in the mind. The answsr is easy. Out of the stock held for the saving banks the National Debt Commissioners offer to provide one-third of the requisite amount, and the Lord Chancellor has satisfied himself that the residue can be spared, without detriment to the interest of the suitors, from the Chancery funds.— [Pall Mall Gazette,} London. Good Night. “How tenderly and sweetly fall the gentle ‘good night’ into loving hearts, as members of a family separate and retire for the night. What myriads of hasty words and thoughtless acts, engendered in the hurry and business of the day, are farever blotted out by its benign influence. Small token, indeed, but it is the little courtesies that make up the sum of a happy home. It is on'y the little courtesies that can so beautifully round off the square corners in the homes of laboring men and women. The simple ‘I thank you’ for a favor received, will fill with happiness the heart of the giver. True wealth is not estimated by dollars and cents, but by the gratitude and affection of the heart. If a home be happy it is of heaven the truest symbol. If a home be happy, whether the owner possess a patch of ground or a thousand acres, they who live there are wealthy beyond mathamatical calculations. Then how much more lovingly are the sable folds of night gathered around the happy home. How much more confidingly do its members repose their weary bodies in the care of divine goodness, smoothing their overtaxed minds to the living realities of beautiful dreamland.” Will the Pope Leave Rome. [St. James Gazatte Aug 9.] A public meeting was held in Rome yesterday to protest against the laws which guarantee his palaces to the Pope. It fas presided over by a man ' who had spent sixteen years in the Pa- | pal prisons. When the meeting ap- | preached the resolution, agents of the ■ Government appeared and prevented j it being read. The Chainuan said the people knew its purport, and, putting it to the meeting, it was carried by a unanimous voice of 5,000 persons. Serious proposals have been made lately that the Pope should transfer the seat of the Holy See to America, where an independent position would be assured him. In the Vatican Councils it is considered almost impossible that the Pope should leave Europe, but the proposal has been noted, and will be taken into consideration with others if the Pope should eventually decide to leave Rome. Most of the powers are understood to have expressed the opinion that the Pope should not leave Rome. The Old Man Wants Them Guns During the siege at Nashville a Confederate battery upon a hill was seriously annoying a part of Pap Thomas' line. Riding up to Col. Bronlow, the old man said: “Col. Bronlow, I want those guns, and I want them bad.” at the same time pointing with his sword toward the offending battery. Drawing his sword he stepped in front of his line, Col. B. stepped in front of his regiment and said: “Men, the old man says he wants them guns, and says he wants them bad. Everybody was silent for a moment, and then a sixfooter in the ranks sung out, “Boys, r> the old man says he wants them guns, he oughter have them. Let's all chip in and buy them for him, for it looks mighty unhealthy up that way." A perfect storm of laughter swept along tho line, and then the boys startfor the guns, and got them for the old man, though many a poor fellow who started for them never got back again.. No griping, no sickness, in using Rhinehart's liver Pills. Only one for dose. Sample dose free. tj0.21w2.

Thistle. I’m a queen of pride and splendor, Throne and purple lack not I. Never vet did I surrender, Foe and lover I defy! Me, at least, the red mouthed cattle May not crop as simple grass. Arms presented, I give battle If a step to near they pass. Yet I've friends to make merry, I have bribes to win the bee; My fine bird, the wild canary Doffs his jaunty cap to me! In the autumn I go sailing, Up, and out of sight of men; Till the lazy zepher, falling, Lets me down to earth again. I'm a queen of pride and splendor, Throne and purple lack not I; You may say that I'm untender, You may praise—or pass me by! A Wall-Street Man’s Wallet. Col. Bryson, of Wall street, New York, lost a wallet containing $55,000 while going up to the TrempOr House, in the Summit special Ulster and Delaware train, last night. Discovering his loss on leaving the train at Phcenicia, he followed the train with a swift horse, and overtook it at Dean's Corners. Meanwhile Elmer Emmett, one of the brakemen, had picked up the wallet and said nothing. At Dean’s Corners. Col. Bryson and the conductor searched the train. After allowing them to search dilligently, Emmett, satisfying himself ‘as to the ownership of the lost property, produced the wallet, containing $50,000 in Government bonds and $5,000 in cash. He received S2O and was told to call at the Trempor House, where Col. Bry=o,p promised him a choice of positions, either as conductor on some leading railway or a fine berth in one of his Mississippi steamboats. Emmett is a fine deserving young man. The Railroad. Work is progressing satisfactorily on the new railroad. Since last week the temporary track has been laid nearly to the cut and on Sunday last the engine was run across the Wabash & Pacific railway tracks, and is ready for duty at its new work. The steam shovel will be here next week, it is thought, and will be at once put to its work. Twenty-five flat cars have been received at this station, and will be put along the line to be used in the work. Everything is moving along smoothly and nicely and a vast amount of labor is daily being done. Mr. D. M. Lewis, of the firm of Lewis, Skidmore & Co., called at our office on Tuesday. These gentlemen have the contract for grading and bridging the Chicago & Atlantic railway between this place ar.d Lima, O. A force will in a few days be put upon this work between Huntington and Markle, and the remainder of the line will be manned as fast as the line is ready.— Allen County, 0., Democrat. Seeking Lost Treasure. At Fort Morris, on the Hudson river, the tug Hudson, of Norwich, specially fitted for the purpose, and carrying a corpse of experienced divers, is engaged in a search for a treasure amounting to about $5,000,000 in gold, 1 lost in the British frigate Hussar about one hundred years ago. The work is conducted under the direction of an electrician who claims to be able to locate the treasure acurately. ' Two English divers are employed, who work four hours each day beneath the river bed, and have thus far penetrated to a depth of eighty-four feet. Operations can only be carried on in slack water, which occurs twice in twentyfour hours. Valuable Suggestions. Always tell the truth, you will find it easier than lying. Always do a kind act in a kind way: to do it otherwise destroys its value. Do a mean act in a mean way: so it will have a keener sting—for your own breast. But better not do it. Whatever you dislike in another, correct in yourself. Better be upright with poverty, than wicked with plenty. Time never rests heavily on us when it is well employed. Do your duty in that station of life j in wh’ch God in His providence has placed you. Mind your own business. Acting on a theory that human be ( ings were made to stand upright, and . ought never to lie down, a Californian I sleeps in an apparatus which sustains I him comfortably in a perpendicular po-' sitiou. A Nebraska physician is equal- ! ly certain that the vital organs are injuriously affected by being jolted down ward in walking, and to counteract this, he stands on his head five minutes every day.

Facts and Fun. Too much sensibility creates unhap piness; too much insensibility creates crime. Young men should be careful about dropping remarks. They may be pieked up by a bigger man Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, andknowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. A blow from the leg of an ostrich will break a man’s leg. An ostrich feather will break a man's pocket book. When a New Orleans man wanted hia picture taken in an heroic attitude, the artist painted him in the act of refusing to drink. Love in laughing mood: A Brooklyn young man calls bis sweetheart “Silence/’ because when he wants to kiss her she “gives consent.” Never shoot a cat with a brick until after bedtime. You may catch the hired girl's lover, in the back, then you’ll be under the necessity of “Wantled, etc.” “Europe is treading on a volcano,” reads old X. in his paper aloud. “Papa, what is a volcano?” asks the youngest son. “Why, it’s something to tread on, my boy.” “If you grasp a rattlesnake firmly about the neck, he can not hurt you,” says a Western paper. Keeping about a block ahead of the snake is also a good scheme. Musical : Jones, on hearing a band of “picked musicians” torturing a tune at a recent concert, said : Ah, I understand; they were picked before they were ripe !” “I'm sure," said a confiding old Boston lady at Congress Hall, Saratoga, “that my son never drinks anything at night, because he’s always so awful thirsty in the morning.” It is seldom that a nobleman disguised as a tramp is found in this country, but tramps disguised as noblemen flourish like green bay trees at our watering places year after year. Lessons for young housekeepers: “How can you tell a young fowl from an old one?” “By the teeth.” “By the teeth? But fowls have no teeth.’” “I know they haven't, butl have.” A great many people, who try to make you think that they are the great and only woolly elephant in the circus of life, ain t any more when you come to know them than a common tent-pin. The criminal was a philosopher who refused to eat his breakfast on the morning he was to be hanged, on the ground that he had made it the rule of his life never to eat anything which he could not digest. An Ohio man : That was a funnymistake of the man who took up a Testament, and, glancing at the running title, “S. Matthew,” said he alway knew Stanley was smart, but didn't know he ever wrote on religious subjects. A colored cook expected company, some of her associates, and'was at loss to entertain her friend. Her mistress said : “Susan, you make an apolo gy. ' “Good Lord, misses, 1 got no eggs, no butter, nor nothing to make it with.” The Irishman has his brains close to his lips. “Pat,” said a conceited coxcomb, “tell me the biggest lie you can on the instant and here are two shillings for you." “Ah,” said Pat, with a significant leer, “Your Honor is a gin tieman.” A handsome lady entered a dry goods house and inquired for a “bow.” The. polite clerk threw himself back and remarked that he was at her srrvice. “Yes, but I want a buff, not a green one,' was the reply. The young man went on measuring goods immediately. “Scenes and associations long sin e forgotten are sometimes brought vividly to memory by the perfume of a flower,” writes the school girl in her composition. Correct, sis. Every time we see a cowslip it brings vivid memories of the old cowhide that first assisted us in our early gymnastic exer _ cises. The New York Tribune has the following : “The bones of A. T. Stewart have been searched for in several States and at least two countries, and a private detective is uow digging fur them at Cyprese Hills. So far he has found nothing but cobble stones, and seems in a fairway to become the laughing stock of the public. , Something for Nothing —Young la • df “And you really mean to say that a - . I times you do not have enough tts ett. , Why, I always thought that poor p- - 1 pie in the country could get eggs, b.i 1 con, milk andjvegetables for nothing ’ Country woman; “Only three thing a we gits fur nuffin, Miss—air, water > d ' the parson s advice !”—[Fun.

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