Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 7 October 1881 — Page 4

THE RESCUE. < I 1 BY MARTHA A. BURDICK, Guarded by mountain*, whose towering Yield not t« tempest, and bow notta Ending through valleys, whose silvery “X’songswe have Ses the steel track of weXten That plannees like wad oer WldleTountaiu and forest re-eehohis cry. And the breath of hlsnortril. rod up to the aky. rl ‘- 8 ’ . tiin./ where children at Snug Uow» «* W® ne»thug, play , Penile and carol the livelong uaj. =■ Keenly evading their watchful gate. Ou Startles the birds from their quiet nook. Wovderinglisllessly. glancing not “• bans totberai Bind -k And then t., = >p^be^aus of l oy9 Sits down on the ‘* ul " ,1 .luuor with deafening With clatter aud damoi, screams- ..hom of steam, With furious si«eed that u The on-coming train all «• B ‘ Sht ’ .nd. are clapped with delight. “Xthe Whistle; th. rail is But Son-he distance aud too steep the gradC . >..i»v runs forward to fling Then the innocent a > u thnlg , " n ,twere t though the train lessons The .Xm of the daring men tieken with A „d gravest has taken but one glance ahead. . r eh.* engine the flreman leaps; pomt on the pilot be When'S, b»t amekly. he ptauU himself And & «•’ out. swings the child in the air, Ro.em.ai Aid weii ma, ye shout the glad And the deed on the bright page of Honor reThen when Eu rnity's morning shall burst

THE PARSONS’ LEAF YEAR. •■lt’s a very pleasant parish,” said Rev Mr. Racquet, “and very pleasant people. 'I he elderlad.es are r C a XeXd eutatXitic. I X° U if I had possessed the Sege ot’-ieuing L myself I could have found a more de.ightful Roderic Racquet was s x and twenty, with a straight nose, P*£ as f“* hide eves, and a general talent for being Pleased with everything and everybody. He was located in his first pari-li, a picturesque little knot of Souses, overhanging a br.sk cataract which made work lor mills and factories, ami tilled all the adjacent woods with its noisy melody; and so far he was one of those exceptions in life, a perfectly sat sfied man. * “Ah,” said his friend, Mr. Alton, who was a misanthrope, “lhe ladies, eh “ Yes,” said Mr. Racquet, quietly; “for of course you know that much of the prosperity of a country parish depends upon its female members. “Yes,” observed Mr. Alton, dryly, “you are unmarried, 1 believe. “I an. an unmarried man—yes, certainly.” “And this—leap year.’ “Nonsense!" cried the parson, brisklv. a , „ “I hope you may find it nonsense, said Mr. Alton, pursing uy his lips; “but lam told that there are a good many single ladies this year who are driven desperate by the prospect of spinsterhood—” “Nonsense!” again exclaimed Mr. Racquet. “Mv dear Alton, this a little too much of a burlesque. You don’t seriously believe this absurdity?” Mr. Alton only shook his head as he rose and reached for his hat. “I’ll get my book. Racquet,” said he "as lie looked lugubriously around the room, “and go out for a stroll in the delicious pine-scented woods. Mv doctor says that pine sap is very healing tor lungs that are consumptively inclined.” “Ven well,” said the Rev. Mr. Racquet, with a glance at the scattered sheets of the half-completed sermon that lay on bis desk. “I will join you soon.” He took up his pen, dipped it determinedlv in the inkstand, and went resolutely to writing; but, in spite of all his industry, the words of h ls conoclastic friend rang persistently in his ears. “If there should be any foundation for Alton’s absurd idea!” he pondered with his pen suspended above the partially written sheet. “But, of . course, there can’t be; but if such a possibility did exist, and a married man is really a better member of so- . cietv han a'single one. • “I never did adhere to the rigid , doctrines that clergy men should oe . celibatvtt!” , And all the while Rosa Appleton s e’-erry cheeks and tangled yellow hair w< re dancing a human will-o’-wisp before the horizon of his mind’s , eJ “She’s voting.” he said to himself, “ and i-erli ips a trifle inclined to be giddy, but she’s certainly very el ■irmin-' And, since the Appletoll’s have failed, and the mother has onenedjt boarding house, and Lucilla has gorm to teaching, 1 do not think I could dobetter than to marry—- “ Rose Appleton’ sir, if you please.” It was a timid little VOlce tl,at 1 broke in uixm the thread of his re- i flections, and Rosa herself stood be- ■ tore him , ..loriug ail over like a pink < cannition, with a basket of late i peaches in ler I.and, and while fluttering ribbons in her hat. -I’ve called on business, sir,’ R jhe Rev. Racquet moved for a 7 i,e seated, Miss Appleton,” a said he, not without confusion on his f

'’Yf'they had been living in the palace of truth now. and Rosacould have seen into the depths of his heart! And Miss Appleton aat down pulling nervously at the fingers of her brown thread gloves. “It’s about our Lucilla,” said she. ••Indeed.” said Mr. Racquet. SO “We want to get her well settled in life," said Rosa, appealingly. “But I thought she was teaching!” .ried Mr. Racquet. “Shu doesn’t like teaching," eon- . Lt Rnsa ‘or rather, to be candid trustees don’t like her. ■with you- vo qng, vou know, and Bhe * 8 ! ,e xIJ Formal little ways and has aoiiie <x • a ehHdren make fun‘ V of ben 11,1,1 V‘ e trUBteCB 8 “ y has no fortunate,” »*id Mr. Bae-

display toward the tribulation of others. “If there was anything 1 could do—” “Oh but there is!" said Rose. “Eh?" „ “She thinks, and mamma thinks—- " Well?” , .. “That she might come here, , said Rosa, with her blue eyes fixed full on the young clergyman’s faoe. Click! click! and the two pieces of the severed paper cutter flew into op posite corners of the room. _ .-H eie _to the parsonage?” cried Mr. Racquet. “Yes,” innocently assented Rosa. “She isn’t pretty to look at, t< be sure, but, as you yourself sa d in your address to the Sunday school last we -k, beauty is a mere nothing; and you’d find her very intelligent and accomplished.” “Indeed!” said Mr. Racquet, fngidbeen higely educated, went on Rose, gaining confidence as she talked, “but at the same time she would not despise descending to menial duties for the sake of one she loved and knows as she does you. And so, Mr. Racquet, she wants to know if you’ll have her?” A cold persiiiratoin broke out around the Reverend Roderic’s mouth. He drew back his chair with an instinctive movement of self-de-fense. Leap year was upon him in every truth and fact. Alton was right, and he should be coerced into matrimony before he knew it, • lather not!" said Mr. Racket, very decidedly. Rosa looked at him half amazed, half offended. “Rather not!” she repeated. “I don’t think Lueilla expected that decision. Perhaps she had better come and see you herself about it." , "No, no! she needn’t do that. My ' decision is irrevocable.” Aud hurridlv gathering his papers, he caught his pen and feigned great assiduity once more. “I see you are busy," said Rosa, softly, after an instant of hesitation. 1 “Yes,” said Mr. Racquet, “I am rather busy.” Then perhaps I had better bid you you good morning. “Good morning, Miss Appleton,” , said the clergyman, with his eyes glued to the paper. . And she rose and passed from the room down stairs. , “What!" he cried, after the fashion of the soliloquizing heioesof the stage, "marry that wrinkled, one-eyed hag 1 against my will, Just because she wants some one to provide for her, and it is leap year! And worst and eruelest of all, t > think that Rose herself should come to propose it!” Just then Rosa’s voice, soft and plaintive, talking to the old housekeeper in the kitchen below chimed upon his ear. Involuntarially he listened. "I know it is very foolish of me to I cry, Mrs. Megson,” faltered Rosa, “but, indeed, I can’t help it. You i see ws heard you were going away next week, ana Lueilla was so anx-j ious to obtain the situation of housekeeper. She’s so middle aged and steady-going, you know, that it would lie the best place for her.” “Certainly, certainly, Miss Rosa!” said good-natured Mrs. Megson. “And what objection did the master have to it?” “I don’t know," said Rosa, “but h? was so eold and stein and short with me. He didn’t seem a bit like himself. And, Oh! Mrs. Megson, please to give me a glass of water, for I feel all in a flutter. I didn’t even have a ehance to tell him tiist Lueilla was willing to come without wages for the sake of learning the household ways, and —” But Roderic Racquet heard no more. Scattering the sermon sheets right aud left he seized his hat and rushed down the back garden to a certain 1 shadowed walk, which commanded , the high road by which Rosa Apnlej. ton must return to her own home; and when the light figure came movingsoftly like a shadow, he stepped out and stood directly’ in front other. She started like a frightened fawn. “Rose,” he said, “do not be afraid, I —do not think we quite understand one another just now. Your sister wants to take the position, which old Megson is about to vacate, of housekeeper at the parsonage?" “Yes, sir,” said Rosa, with downcast eyes. "But 1 should prefer another house- . keeper, Rosa,” boldly spoke the parson. “I'd prefer you as my wife, darling—my own beloved life treasure."

“I never thought of such a thing,” said Rosa, beginning to color up and tremble. “Think of it now’,” went on Mr. Racquet. “Luciiia and your mother can live with us if you like, but you mustbethe little housekeeper, my Rosa. And after a singularly short period of deliberation, Rosa Appleton decided to accept the situation. When Mr Alton came in from his solitary meditation among the pine groves, Roderic met him with a radiant countenance. “Old fellow,“he said, “I am safe! No more of your leap year intimidation for me. I’m engaged.” “So she has asked you, eh?” groaned he. “No,” said the parson , “I asked her.” Elizabeth, the young Queen of Roumauia, speaks admirably six languages, and is a clever, handsome and kindly woman. Suffering has made her tender; —her great grief is the loss of her only child, a beautiful and gentle little girl four years old. The Queen keeps an album, in which she writes down her stray thoughts, and a Continental journalist has copied some of them. Here is one queenly sentiment: “Life is an art in which too many remain only dilettantes. To become a master, one must pour out one’s life-blood. Again: “White hairs are the crests of foam which cover the sea after the tempest.” “Sleep is a generous thief; he gives to vigor what he takes from time.” “If you could throw as an alms to those who would use it well the time that you fritter away, how many beggars would become rich!” “Duty only frowns when you flee from it; follow it and it smiles upon you.” -There is a keen satire in the following: “The world never forgives our talents; our successes, our friends, nor our pleasures. It only forgives our death. Nay, it does not always pardon that.”

A Strange Monument. , Fifty years ago an aged farmer in ' Turner. ’by the name of John Sweet. ’ tLd a disagreement with a neighbor ! as to the boundary line lietween their i 1 farms. . The old man declared acer- 1 1 tain big rock marked the line and 1 dramatically layirg his well-worn ■ family Bible on that rock took oath a to that effect. He then covered the a Bible with a fiat stane and instructed p his descendants to allow it to remain 1 their foiever. A few days ago an 8 Auburn gentleman, walking across 11 the field with a friend, came across c the big rock and found the Bible a under the flat stone where it had re- a posed for half a century. The print 8 was legible.— Lewiston, Me., Journal. 8 ■ — . ■, A Seventeen-Ton Hammer. 1 The big steam hammer which was Y i made tor the Black Diamond Stael- r e works is in operation. The hammer t e weighs seventeen tons, and will l work steel ingots two feet square. The i . motive power for this monster will be - r furnished by an engine with forty- i inch cylinders, requiring eighty o pounds of steam.

“HELL’S HALF-ACRE.’’ Twenty Murders in Kansas City in the Last Six months. Kansas City is eminently a city of travelers. Her sobriquet, “The Gate Citv,” is not misapplied. The depots and hotels throng with emigrants, stock-men and travellers, for profit or pleasure, and not a night comes down but hundreds of strangers with thousands of dollars are housed with the city’s walls, and with a police force so effortless and inane that it would seem as if they were in the pay and service of crime, it is not strange the foot-pad finds here a harvest standing ready to his reapinghook. The convenient border line between Kansas and Missouri, running to all intent and purpose through i he heart of the city, yet in law dividing the sections as by an impassable gulf, and the muddy river flowing swiftly and silently by, faithfully hugging within its breast the dark secrets committed to its care, and also important adjuncts tojsuecessful crime, and are so made use of without stint or limit. Many a bold villain with pelf in his pocket and the blood of his victim still warm on his hands, has galloped Ins horse across the border leaving the paralyzed and constabulary of Missouri as helpless and powerless to apprehend Him as if he bad galloped into his tomb instead. A case in point occurred three days ago. A teamster shot a hackman dehd in his tracks. Tho teamster had twenty minutes the start of the police and beat them over the line. The pursuit ended ;now no more is said or thought about the matter. Within the last week two bodies were taken from the river They were entirely devoid of clothing, and the gashed and battered heads told plainly of foul play. Yet not a muscle was moved, not an inquiry made to discover how or by whom these men were done to death. The coroner’s jury returned their verdict: “Death from causes unknown.” And all further investigation closed with the graves of the murdered victims. These above mentioned are the most recent of twenty similar cases that have hapt>ened within the last six months In fact, so handy is the river for the concealment of an inconvenient stiff, and the state line so invaluable for the purpose of escape,that this portion ;of the city has long been given over I to the occupancy of the worst class of cut-throats the country can produce, and it is now their favorite habitat and stamping ground. It has long been known to all in this section by the suggestive title of “Hell’s Halfacre," and certain it is that no honest deed or worthy act committed by one lof the inhabitants of that locality ever disgraced or discredited the name.

They Mixed Those Bodies Up. Few stranger incidents have occurred within the memory of living man than that which recently was the means of causing several thousand persons of high social and artistic position to follow to the grave, with every conceivable outward manifestation of sorrow and respect, the body of a voung lady, absolutely unknown to them, they all the while believing that they were paying honor to the mortal remains of Professor Nicholas Rubinstein, the late director of the Moscow conservatoire. This eminent composer and artist died in Paris, and as he had shortly before his death expressed a wish to be buried in * Moscow, liis body was dispatched by rail to that city by order of his only surviving brother, Anton Rubinstein, the first of contemporary pianists. At Moscow station the coflin was delivered by the railway authorities to a deputation of notables specially charged with its reception. Upon'the same evening it was buried with extraordinary pomp. Three days later intelligence of a very startling character reached Moscow by telegraph from Vilna. A noble family resident in tile last named city had just received a coffin purporting to contain the corpse of a young female relative who had recently died at Paris. Upon opening the coffin, in order to identify the deceased lady’s remains, its contents were found to lie the body of a man somewhat past the prime of life. Inquiries were at once instituted as to what might have become of the body originally expected. While these inquiries were being eagerly prosecuted, the substitute was discovered to be none other than Nicholas Rubenstein, in whose stead the miissing lady had been solemnly interred at Moscow. This amazing contretemps has naturally caused great pain and embarrassment to the taniilies of both the deceased. It is in Contemplation to effect the necessary exchange lietween the misdirected bodies as privately as may be, and not to celebrate the interment of the “real Simon Pure” at Moscow by any public demonstration atsoever.

The Sacred Jorda 1 The Rev. Theodore Cuyler, of Ne York, now sojourning in the Holy Land and writing letters to the Evangelist, does not go into the usual ecstacies over the Jordan. He says: “A scorching ride we had across the barren plain of the sacred Jordan—which disappointed me sadly. At the place where the Israelites crossed and our Lord was baptised it was about 120 feet wide; it flows rapidly and in a turbid currant of light stone eater. In size and appearance it is the perfect counterpart of the Muskingum. a few miles above Zanesville. Ils useless waters ought to lie turned ofT to irilgate Its barren valley, which might be changed into a garden. For beauty the Jordan will not compare with Elijah’s brook Cherith, whoes bright, sparkling stream svent flowing past our lodging place at Jericho. There are no more singular types of heathens than the Ka-Khyans, who live in a section of the Burmese Empire, and among whom the brave little band of missionaries whom the Baptist clergy of Brooklyn recently bid an affectionate adieu are to carry on their Christian labors. The people are ruled by King Theebaw, of whom the missionaries speak in unflattering terms as the most cruel and wicked King who ever held sway in the empire. The Rev. William H. Roberts, who is the senior member of the missionary band, first visited the domains in 187", and received preemptory orders, in common with other Christian workers to quit the country about the time that the cheerful mobarch, to appease a sanguinary i vengeance, broke the necks of ninety’ | of his near relatives with rods of bamboo. Having escaped the malignant intentions of the sovereign, Missionary Roberts returned to America, and after a year’s sojourn returns to his chosen field with new assistants to labor for the conversion of a class who seem to the lay mind to afford the most unpromising material for successful evangelization. The Ka-Khy-ans dwell upon mountain heights, and refuse in their unconverted state to credit the existance of any sort of supreme being or power, regard with utter contempt those who bow down in worship to idols or any other type of gods. Strangely enough, however, while the people believe in no God, they entertain, according to the testimony of the missionaries, a lively bebef in the existauce of demons. They fancy the mountains in which they dw ell to be peopled with evil spirits whom they hold in in awe, and whose anger they dread with indescribable fear. While they will re-

eeive any form of benefit or blessing with cold and silent indifference, they are keinfy alive to visitations of evil, and will hastily offer up sacrifices to appease the wrath of the mythical demons of the mountains, employing as a sacrifice sometimes a buffalo, or bullock, at others pigs and fowl. Should a land-slide or any other natural disturbance occur they regard it as the work of the incensed evil spirits and by offering sacrifices will seek to prevail upon them not to repeat their unwelcome and disasterous manifestations of anger. They often keep quantities of fowl and other sacrificial animals inclosed in pens for immediate use in case of need, and will not sell or dispose of them in any way under any consideration, believing that sickness or some other calamity would befall the people were the sacrifices notin readiness for prompt use. The Ka-Khyans are one of the few peoples of the world who posess no written language. Missionary Roberts is the only white man alive who speaks their language, which is very strangely constructed. Animals in The Lebo'-atory.

Vivid pictures have been drawn of the sufferings of animals in a physiological labra tory, and misled 'by by these, great numbers of people have been induced to join in the agitation and consequent legislation against vivisection, forgetting entirely that the pain inflicted in a vivisection experiment., except in the very rarest instances, is far exceeded, both in intensity and duration, by the sufferings of very many human beings in the course of a mortal disease, and of almost all animals except those slaughtered by man or killed and eaten by other animals. Every Winter hundreds and thousands of birds and beasts die of qpld and hunger and thirst must always hasten the death of all wild animals. Sometimes they starve just simply because no food food is to be obtained; but the result is the same if weakness or disease renders them unable to reach it, although it may be plentiful around them. For while the death-beds of men are usually soothed by the kindness of the friends who moisten the parched lips and administer such nourishmene ts the sufferer can take, animals dying from old age, weakness, or disease have no such alleviations to their sufferings. The experiments of Chossat on starvation aw generally quoted as the most cruel ever performed in a physioalogical laboratory, and yet they were only repetitions on an exceedingly smaly scale of the experiments which are constantly’ being performed bv the conditions of life on thousands or millions of wild animals throughout the world. -The animals on which Chossat experimented did not suffer more pain than those which die in the fields or forests because their death was w itnessed by an observer who utilized it to gain knowledge of great importance to man, while the sufferings of their wild companions, were unseen by any human eye. Yet many people seem to think that this is the case, and that the mere fact that pain isi in Acted for a beneficial purpose renders it much less endurable than if it were simply inflicted thoughtlessly or in sport. More pain is caused bv the whip of a London cab-driver in one day than is inflicted in any psycologieal labratory in this country in the course of weeks; and the householder who puts down a pot of phosphorous paste to poison tile rats which plague him inflicts upon them a more painful death titan any they would tie likely to sutler at the hands of a vivisectionist. —Nature Fashions in Jewelry. There is just now a special fancy for silver jewelry. Long lace pins of silver are used as brooches and necla- ■ ces, which fasten closely around the high collar of the dress, and are formed of one, two, or three strands of round silver beads. Lace pins in ball pattern are very popular. Some silver necklaces in G'eek designs are chased in classical style and have a beaten, marred look, which is copied from dug up jewelry, One necklace is formed of a succession of coin, each wrought with the figure of a god or goddess of Olympus. The centre coin, larger than the others, contain a figure of Father Jupiter, his eagle bearer by his side. Gold lace pins are varied from the conventional long slender shape, and new designs are the head of an owl with cbat-oyant sapphires for eyes or a bird «f paradise with gray crest, set with diamonds, diamond eyes, and having a pearl in its long beak; a bar of music is another pattern with an enameled square in the centre representing Cupid playing on a lute. A little paroquet or a water snipe with diamond eyes and diamond necklaces are other fancies. The prettiest of all shows a trident on which rested an intaglio cut in aquamarine and pendent from which is a hoop with many tiny fresh-water pearls hung upon it.

Volta ire’* Brain. When Voltaire died the task of embalming his body was intrusted to M. Mitouard, a notable surgeon, who kept for himself the philosopher’s brain in spirits of wine. Twice during liislife time Mitouard offered Voltaire’s brain to the Bibliotbeque Nationale; the first time the government refused to accept the gift; the second time, after the revolutioh of 1830, no reply whatever was made to Mitouard’s offer. Mitouard’s daughter inherited the brain on her father's death, and gave it to her cousin, M. Paul Verdier, a barrister This gentleman, who died in 1838, bequeathed this brain to the Academic Francaise, but that learned body refuse the gift. In 1879, Mlle. Virginie Mitouard, grand daughter of the surgeon, died and bequeath' d the brain to a certain M. La Brosse Torcher, a chemist’s assistant. M. L. Brosse Torcher died in his turn shortly afterward, and the brain of Voltaire was sold by auction with the furniture and other belongings of the deceased, and since that all traces of it are lost. A German war schooner named the Noutilis, which reached Sydney some weeks ago from Tahiti, reports having passed through a storm that was both violent and extremely odd. On the afternoon of May 11 the whole heavens appeared to l»e enveloped in one black, inky cloud, which made it so dark that the crew could scarcely see the length of the ship, while the thunder became almost deafening and the flashes of lightning almost blinded tue sailors’ eyes. All around the vessel the lightning was striking the w’ater, so that persons} on board expected the vessel itself would be hit. But this they were spared. The effect, however, was singular and grand, and at limes the vessel appeared to be in flames in several places at once. Bolts of lightning on several occasions fell to the water within 20 or 3ff yards of the ship’s side. While this peculiar storm lasted very littie rain fell and the sea was almost entirely still.

Farmer Dalymple, the great hornyhanded of the Northwest, is described as a slender, quiet looking man of clerical appearance. He is more accustomed to the book and pen than the plow, and his fingers are as soft and while as those of a girl. Thompson received a fatal blow on the head from Willott, at Columbus, Ohio, but bet ween the blow and his death three days intervened, during which he made several attempts to get at Willott. in order to retaliate by killing him.

INDIANA. Jasper is without a vacant house. Boonville has a large number of opium eaters. Petersburg is to be connected with Evansville by telephone. The Iconoclast is an infidel paper edited by W. H. Lamaster, of Noblesville, Spencer county has nine representatives at the State University at Bloomington. Pike county has one field of corn, (120 acres) which it is claimed will average 60 bushels per acre. Vincennes is going to build a new citv prison, the old one having been condemned by the commissioners. A falling derriek at the new Jaii building Crawfordsville, seriously injured Lew Long, one of the workmen. W. C. Crampton, a brakeman on the Indianapolis and Vincennes Ratlroad, had his arm badly crushed at the elbow while coupling cars at Bpeu cer. Joe Lee shot and killed William Boyer while the latter was attempting to put him out of his saloon at Logansport. Lee is still at large. In compliance with the requirementß of the new laws, Governor Forter reappointed Elias H. Swayne, of Richmond, state coal oil inspector. Mrs. Hammond, of Wells county, was fatally bitten the other day, by a rattlesnake which crawled up through a hole in the floor and upon the bed where she was lying. The defective heating apparatus and ventilation of the Indianapolis Court House caused sciatic rheumatism in a juror, aud he has brought a suit against the county’ for SIO,OOO damages.

John Hooper, a farmer of Tippecanoe county, while returning home w.lB shot by an assassin concealed in a fence comer. His brother Henry was arrested therefor, and the grand jury indicted him for murder in the first degree. A ten thousand dollar damage suit for slander has been commenced in Rushville, involving two of the leading families in that town. It will make one of the ugliest eases ever fought in the courts. This trouble has been brewing tor years. John Morrison and Thomas Mikels, both of near Yountsville, stole thirty bushels of wheat from HenryTaylor, near that place, on Fridaynight. They’ were tracked to Hillsboro, where they were caught, shortly after they had sold the wheat and received a check for it. Mr. J. C. Richardson, Clerk ofSpencer county, has a briek-monld made by the father of Abraham Lincoln, in 1828. It is an oak mould, out together with wooden pins, nails at that time not having come West. Mr. Richardson bore off brick from this mould in his twelfth year, near Gentryville. Oh Monday evening Miss Lydia Radcliff, living near Livonia, died. On Wednesday night one Jaek Durnill dug open the grave, opened the coffin and stole the jewelry from her person. He was caught in the act but escaped. Thursday he was retaken, and on Friday he was tried and for want of bail 'was ordered to. jail. He has not arrived at the jail, and the supposition Is that he dangles from a limb. C. W. Jones, late City Treasurer of Vincennes, was found by the report of experts, to be a defaulter in the sum of $28,000, and fled toparts tin known. Now comesa new and startling feature in this remarkable ease. Jones’ cash books, containing all the evidence upon which a conviction could be had. have been stolen. They were last in the hands of Judge II Burns, one of the attorneys for Jones’ bondsmen, and now connot lie found. There is considerable excitement.

The Mohr 4 Mohr distillery at Lafayette and contents, valued at $125, 000, owned by a stock company and operated by Paul F. Mohr, of Cincinnati, was completely destroyed by file. Total amount of insurance. $91,525, atmut $40,000 with Cincinnati companies. The flames spread in spite of the firemen, and also destroyed the Emory woolen mills, valued at $13,000; insured for $4,590. Two hundred head of cattle were burned, out of four hundred in the distillery pens, belonging to Henry Klopfer, of St. Louis, upon which there was $14,000 Insurance. Tn July, 1879, Jacob Pitzer, armed with a revolver and iron bar, forced his way into Eli Paul’s residence st Laporte, where Pitzer's divorced wife was living, Paul attempted to eject Pitzer, and a terrible struggle ensued. Paul, though beaten with the bar and wounded with the pistol, succeeded in beating Pitzer into quietness, and in throwing him out. Pitzer escaped, but, returning a few days ago, was arrested. Wednesday, in the circuit court, he was convicted and sentenced to the state prison for seven years. Joseph MeClintoek, age 1 fifty-five years, an old resident, who followed teaming in Plymouth, was found dead. The deceased was last seen about 10 o’clock Saturday night, when he was under influence of liquor. It is believed that in starting for his home in the southern part of town he became bewildered, and wandering in an opposite direction, fell from the high roadway leading to Bailey & Capron's mill, near the magnetic flowing well, where he was found lying on his face at full length. No marks of violence were found on his person, and no evidence of a death struggle. From the fact that a sum of money, his watch and other valuables were undisturbed no foul play is suspected.

,01d Style Farming. Consul-General Schuyler sends from Bucharest an account of the very ri uitive agricultural methods in Roumauia, where he thinks there is an opening for American agricultural machines and implements. According to the authority of Mr. Grant, an American engineer resident there, the majority of the plows used are simply a curved branch of a tree pointed with a piece of iron. There are five steam plows, but their great cost, difficulty of repairs, want of drainage system's to remove soft spots in the field, and the weak bridges will prevent their considerable use. There are no barns for storing unthreshed grain, and the newly cut crops are, threfore, stacked in immense piles; the old way of thrashing was by treading out' by horses’ feet, but now 1-50 steam thresh-ing-machines of English make have been introduced by a single man, and they go from village to village, doing nearly all the work. The use of harrows is by no means universal. Seed is sometimes covered by the timehonored method of dragging a treetop behind a pair of bullocks; sometimes it is sown broadcast and covered by the plow. Drills or sowingmachines are coming into use, but even with them the soil should be harrowed beforehand. Cultivation of maize and potatoes is very slack. The “ shovel plows” used iu this country for cleaning weeds and grass from between the rows are ausent: hence the hoe must be used instead, but the hoe is so heavy and cumbrous that the weeds have nearly full swing. In handling hay and other crops wooden forks made from forked brush-wood are used, with which about half as touch is lifted as with the light and effective American steel fork. For potato.digging. awkward steel shovels, made by gypsy smiths, take the place filled by the light five-pronged steel 11 potato hook” of this country,

which has twice the speed of any previous implement. The sicklestill cuts grain. Reaping-machines have been used somewhat, but as the peasants generally refuse to bind liehind them, insisting that if they hire to bind they must also cut, the self-binding reaper will have to be introduced in order to effect any general use of machinery in this work : when this is attained, much larger areas can be devoted to grain. A monstrous submarine plant is growing in the North Pacific Ocean. It is one of the Melanospherms, and ie known to botanists as the Jfocrocwtix Pyr-tera, and it said to dwarf all vegetable products yet known by its prodigious proportions. It grows sometimes to such a size as to cover great areas of sea bed, one specimen having been discovered that occupied by measurement- three square miles, while the stem was eight feet thick. It is difficult to conceive of such a plant, and to understand bow any adequate system of nourishment can be maintained through so extended channels. The macrocist leaves the famous big trees of California immeasurably behind, making them seem, indeed, like small reeds. It has an infinite variety, some specimens being so small as to be visible only under a powerful microscope. The much talked of wonders of nature are more wonderful than has ever been conjectured, as research and science are daily teaching us. Aud still it is fair to presume that we have not yet crossed the threshold of the temple of discovery, within which are hidden marvels that the most active and exuberant imagination is unable to conceive. The realm of poetry is beautiful and inspiring; but the world of fact exceeds it in every way, illustrating constantly the olu idea that truth is stranger than fiction. Indeed, fiction seems, even when m.st exaggerated, to be little more than the pale shadow of truth. Pearl Fisheries In Tennessee. A gentleman who arrived here yesterday from near Old Jefferson, Rutherford county, says that a new industry has suddenly sprung up along Stone River, in that vicinity. At first only a few persons could be found wading in the river and assiduously hunting mussels which yield fine pearls, which were readily sold. Now not less than five hundred people are engaged daily in raking the bottom of that stream, delving down in the mud for mussels, which are piled along the banks, opened and critically examined for the treasures contained in many of them. It will not be long before a mussel may not lie found in the river In the locality mentioned. The American’s informant says that one pearl was secured tnat brought SBO in New York. The genoral range o, value, however, was from 60 cents to $25. “I know,” said a tourist in New Jersey, “that the owner of that farm was a famous apple-stealer when he was a l>oy. He keeps two dogs in his orchard.

Chicago. Flour—Good demand at full prices. Grain—Wheat active, firm and higher; No 2 Chicago spring, $1 30© 1 30’ 4 ; No 3 do, $1 30@l 30Q ; No 3 do, $1 20. Corn active, firm and higher, 67Q®67$»e. Oats active, firm and higher, 41<$41IgC. Rye steady and unchanged. Barlev firmer, $1 10© 1 10’- 2 . Seeds —Flax seed easy; crushing, $1 39. Provisions—Pork moderately active and higher,sl937,!y@l9 50cash ;sl9 35@ 19 S7Q September and October; $1955 ■II9 57 1 .. November; sl9 25(319 30 the vear. Lard fairlv active and a shade higher; sl2 05 eash; ' s October; sl2 November. Bulk meats fairly active and a shade higher; shoulders,s7 75; clear rib, $lO 55; clear, $lO 85. Whisky—Steady and unchanged, $1 16. Call—Wheat moderately active and higher; $1 30 bid; $1 30 3 4 asked. Corn fairly active and a shade higher; 67kjc. Oats in good demand at full prices; 41L,. Pork easier; declined 2‘ s (§sc. Lard easier; declined 2' 2 c. Hogs—Receipts, 21,000; receipts, 4,100: market strong and fairly active; good heavy 5 cents higher, others steady; mixed packing, $6 15(36 75; light or bacon, $6 40(36 75; choice heavy, including Philadelphia*, $6 90 (37 35; culls and grassers, $4 00(36 15. Cattle —Receipts, 1,500; shipments 3,900; choice In good demand: exports, $6 40(36 85; good to choice shipping, $5 60(3.6 00; common to fair dull at $4 00(35 20; native butchers weak at $2 25(3 4 00, mainly $3 75; extra cows, $4 25(34 50; stackers and feeders weak at $2 75(34 40; grass Texans, $2 75(36 25; half breedsand natives, $3 90(34 60. Sheep— Receipts, 1,500; market fairly active and firmer, with sales at $3 75@4 .50. —————— ♦ > ♦—— ■ .. Mew York Produce. Flour—Firm; superfine s’ate and western, $5 30(36 00; common to good extra, $6 00(36 60; good to choice, $670 @8 00; white wheat extra, $7 00(3 8 00; UKtra Ohio, $6 30@8 00; St. Louis, $6 30(38 50; Minnesota patents, $7 50 (38 25. Grain—Wheat higher but closing with less strength; ungraded spring, $1 22,31 24; No 2 Chi "ago anil Milwaukee, $1 40; hard No 2 spring, $1 42 te ; ungraded red, $1 23(31 49; No 3 do, $1 4.3’_, (31 44,14'; steamer do, $1 32; No 2 red, f l 48(31 48J4; steamer do $1 43’ s @l 43*4; No 1 red, $1 49' 2 (3 1 50; mixed winter, $1 44(31 ungraded white, $1 31@1 45; No 3 do, $137; No 2 white, $1 43. Corn firm; ungraded, 68(373> 2 c; No 3,71 c • steamer, 72@72> 4 c; No 2, 73@73«c; No 2 white, 86(387c; white western, 75c in stare; yellow, 76c. Oats higher and less active; mixed western, 41@ 43c; white western, 47@55c. Eggs—Easier at 21(321, ; s c. Provisions—Pork dull; new mess sl9 75(320 00. Beef steady and in moderate demand. Cut meats steady and unchanged. Lard opened s@7Qc higher and closed with the advance nearly lost; prime steam, sl2 12 42tg.

Butter—Dull and unchanged. Cheese—Dull and weak at 8(312. (iiKliiHall. Hour—Firm and unchanged. Wheat—Quiet at $1 46. Corn stronger; No 2 mixed, 70c. Oats in’ fair demand; No 2 mixed, 44c. Rye stronger at $1 13^. Barley strongNo 2 fall, $1 15. . Provisions— Pork quiet at s2l 00 Lard m good demand at sl2 00. Bulk meats nominally unchanged. Bacon steely at $9 50(3:1 82ig@l2 37’, Whisky—Steady at $1 14; combination sales of finished goods of 890 barrets on a basis of $1 14. Butter—Steady and unchanged. and firm; common and light, $5 25@6 85; packing and butchers, $6 50@7 25; receipts, 1,.500; shipments, 1,500. New YorkTsrv «;wd». Business was only moderate with com mission houses, but the tone of the market was very firm. Cotton goods moving steady on account of back orders and prices remain firm Spring woolens in steady demand rhe Bulletin says: “Sales of black prints, cambric, etc., within the last few days has bee* simply enormows.” . lolTdo Noon board opened strong and closing easier. Wheat ’ No- 2 red spot, $1 44. Corn easier; high mixed, 69c. Oats nominal; N 0.2,.2,44 c. Closed—Wheat easy; No. 2 red *1 S b ’r>’ No. 3 red,’

Stendhal. He was with Napoleon in the Russiancampain. He stepped outjfromhi* quarters to sue the burning of Moscow, thinking that the aurora borealis. On the terrible retreat from Moscow, across the snow, it was through hie dexterity that the army were supplied with three day’s rations—the only provisions they had until they reached Beresina. This important service he performed at Orsha, a town between Moscow and the Polish frontier. 1 et, with all his readiness.he was as absent minded as a phPoso' her and as careless as a beggar. On this same expedition into Russia, he wore a coat upon which his sister had carefully sewea twenty and forty franc gold pieces for buttons. These coins were covered with cloth like ordinary buttons, so as to conceal their real value, in hope that, should he be reduced to great straits for want of money, he might have recourse to them. On his return his sister inquired if the device hud lieeu successful. Then, for the first time, he recalled the matter, aud was obliged to confess that, the coat haviing become shabby, he had given it away to a waiter without a thought of its valuable buttons. Again, during the campaign of 1809, be distinguished himself by his readiness and courage. He was left in charge of a little town whose garrison had been withdrawn. Scarcely had the troops left when an insurrection broke out. The people proposed to kill the, sick and burn the military stores. The few French officers present knew not which way to turn. But Beyle was equal to the occasion; he made every soldier in the hospital get up, and he armed them with such weapons as he could find. He formed them in a platoon—cavalry, infantry, and artillerymen—ail in the monotonous hospital uniform, and with them he made a sally on the crowd. At the first charge the crowd fled.—[Pe in Monthly. The man who is about to marry for the sixth time, and who replied, “We’ve usually sot.” when asked by the minister to stand up, has been heard from again. He recently led No. 7 to the altar, and when asked for the ring, replied: “Parson, I've hooked onto six of’em without a ring, and I reck’n we can get along this time. I’ll try aud remember it in future, though.”

A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office in Heuston’s Block, up-stairs. Will attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonsible. Residence an north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart’s Mill. 25jy79tf K B. ALUNR, Prea’t. W. H. N iblicK,Cashier. K Studabakek, Vice Pre«’t. THE ADAMSCOUNTY BANK. DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf petersoF&^uffjianTATTOßNEYS AT LAW. DKCATCR, IXDIAXA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. 0. 0. F. building. 25jy79tf anceTk ing~ ATTORNEYS AT LAW. DECATUR,IN DIANA. E. N. WICKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DICATVB, TVDIASA. All legal business promptly attended to. Office up stairs in Stone s building 4th door. v25n24 year 1. “ B?R. freeman, m. d. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwin A Holthouse's Drug Store Res’dence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe. Professional calls piomptly attended. V 01.25 No. 22. ts. J. T. BAILEY, ATT Y AT LAW J. P., DICATt'B, IXDIASA. Will Practice in Adams and adjoining Counties. Collections a specialty. v24n29t f S. G. HASTINGS, M. D. HO.VOEOPATHIST PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, DECATOB, ISDt.AXA. All calls day or nig'cl promptly attended to. Office in Stadabaker's building, first door south of Court House Square Vol. 25 No. 14.

THE DECATUR WOOLEN MILLS! RUNNING AGAIN! Having purchased the Eicher Woolen Mills we are prepared to announce to the public generally that we have for sale at Bottom Prices at our factory on the corner of Ist and Jefferson streets a fine line of strictly ALL WOOL GOODS, Os our own Manufacture. We ea rnest ly solicit all former patrons of the Eicher M oolen Mills to come and see us, as we expect to reciprocate your patronage by honest, fair dealing. _ We will pay you the highest market price in cash for your wool, or make any exchange for goods. Call and see our stock of FLANNELS, BLANK SA TTLNETS, JEANS and STOCKING YARNS before purchasing elsewhere,we promise to furnish you a better ar- ’ tide for less uomr 3 Than you can buy anywhere else. ’ MYERS BROS. Decatur, May 5, 1881. ts

KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE. “SPAVIN CUREyjI It cures Spavins, Splints, Curbs, Hin>f. bones and all similar blemishes, and removes the bunch without blistering. Forman it is now known to be one of the best, if not the best liniment ever die. covered. We feel positive that every man can have perfect success in every case if will only use good common sense in applying Kendalls Spavin Cure, and pre serve in bad cases of long standing R e4 j below the experience of others FROM COL. L. T. FOSTER. Youngstowk, 0., May 10 1880 Db- B. J. Kindall & Co., Guts:—l h a ,j a very valuable Hambletonian colt which 1 prised very highly, he had a large bone spavin on one joint and a smaller one o tt the other which made him very lame; I h a d him under the charge of two Veterinary Surgeons which failed to cure him I Waa one day reading the advertisement of Kendall s Spavin Cure in the Chicago Express I determined at once to try it and got our Druggist here to send for it, they ordered three bottles; I took them all and thought 1 would give it a thorough trial, I used B it according to directions and by the fourth day the colt ceased to be lame, and the lumps had entirely disappeared. I a9e d but one bottle and the colts limbs are as free from lumps and as smooth as any horse In the Slate. He is entirely cured. The cure was so remarkable that 1 let t* o of my neighbors have the remaining two bottles, who are now using it. Very respectfully, L. I FOSTER, Perseverance Will Tell. Stouohtox, Mass., March 16 1880 B. J. KxttDali. A Co., justice to you and myself, I think I ought to let you know that I have removed two bone spavins with Kendall s Spavin Cure, one very large one, don't know how long the spavin had been there. I have owned the horse eight months. It took me four months io take the large one off and two for the small one. 1 have used ten bottles The horse is extremely well, not at all stitl, and no bunch to be seen or felt. This is a’wunderful medicine. It is a new thing here, but if it does for all what ithas done for me its sale will be very great. Respectfully yours, CHAS E PARKER KENDALL S SPAVIN CURE. Acme, Mich, Deo 28, 1879. Dr B J Kendall A Co. Gents:—l sent you one dollar for your Kendall's Spavin Cure last summer which cured a bone spavin with half a bottle. The best liniment I ever used. Yours respectfully, HOMER HOXIE From Rev P. .v.GraiiKer Presiding Elder of the St Albans Dsstri cu St Albans, Vt, Jan 20, I gyo Dr B J Kendall i Co, Gents:—( n re n]y to your letter I will say that my experience with Kendalls Spavin Cure has been verv satisfoctory indeed Throe or four roars ago I procured a bottle of your agent' aud with it cured a horse of lameness caused by a spavin. Last season my horse became lame and 1 turned him out for a few weeks when be became better, but when I pat him on the road he grew worse, when 1 discovered that a ringbone was forming, I procured a bottle of Kendall s Spavin Cure and with less than a bottle eured him so that he is not lame, neither can the bunch be found. Respectfully yours, P N GRANGER. Statement Made Under Oath. To whom it may concern—ln the year 1875 I treated with Kendall s Spavin Cure a bone spavin of several months growth nearly half as large as a bens egg, sn .j completely stopped the lameness and removed the enlargement. I h»>e worked the horse ever since very an ,i never has been lame, nor cou'.d 1 ever see antdifference in the si>e o f hock joints since I treated h,m with Kendall s Spavin Cnr ®- R A GAINES. Enosburgh Falls, Vt, Feb 25, 1879. Sworn and subscribed to before me this 25th day of February A D 1879. JOHN G JENNE, Justice of Peace

KENDALL’S SPAVIN CURE On human flesh it has been ascertained by repeated trials to be the very best liniment ever used for any deep seated pain ’ of long statnding, or of short duration. Also for corns, bunions, frost bites, or j. any bruise, cut or lameness- Some are f afraid to use it on human flesh simply because it is a horse medicine, but you should remember that what is good for beast is good for man. and we know from experience that "Kendall's Spavin Cure ' can be used on a child 1 year old with perfect safety. Its effects are wonderful on human flesh and it does not blister or make ! a sore. Try it and be convinced t What is Good for Beast is Good for Man. BIAD ITS OX HVMA» TLKSH ! Patten's Mills, Washington eo, N V i February 21, 1878. f B J Kendall, MD, Dear Sir—The parI ticular case on which I used vour Kendrll’s Spavin Cure was a malignant ankle sprain of sixteen months standing. I had tried many things, but in vain Your “Kendall Spavin Cure" put the foot to the ground again, and, for the first time sinee hurt, in a natural position. For a family liniment it exeells anything weever used l ours truly, REV M P BELL Pastor M E church, Patten's Mills, N i Bakersfield, Vt, Dec 23, 1879. B J Kendall A Co, Gebts -I wish to add my testimony in favorof your invaluable liniment, "Kendall s Spavin Cure.' In lhe spring of 1872 I slipped on the ice and sprained my right limb at the knee joint I was very lame and at times suffered the ! most excruciating pain. I wore a band- . age on it for over a year, and tried most , every thing in my reach, but could find nothing that would give mo permanent relief. When I overworked it would pain me very much. In April 1878 I began to think I should b“ a cripple for life; but having some of "Kendall s Spavin Cure" thought I would try it. I used one-third of a bottle, and experienced reliefat onte. The pain left me and has not troubled me since. 1 feel very grateful to you and would recommend -Kendall's Spavine Cure to all who suffer with sprains and rheumatism. Yours truly, Mbs. J. Bout ell. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE. Kendall s Spavine Cure is sure in its effects, mild in its action as it does notblist er, yet it is penetrating and powerful to reaeh any deep seated yain or to remove any bony growth or any other enlargement if used for several days, such as spavins. splints, curbs, callous, sprains, swellings, any lameness and all enlargements of the pointe or limbs, or rheumatism in man and for any purpose for which a liniment is used for man or beast. It is now known to be the best liniment for man ever used, acting mild and yet certain in its effects. It is used full strength with perfect safety at all seasons of the year. Send addrew for illustrated Circular which we think gives positive proof of its virtues. No remedy has ever met with such unqualified success to our knowledge, for beast as well as’man. Price sl. per bottte. or six bottles forfo. All Dkuggists have it or can get it for you. or it will be sent to any address on receipt of price by the proprietors. DR. J. B KENDALL & CO.• Enosburg Falls, Vermont. ▼ol. 25. no. 23—1 year. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.