Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 4 November 1881 — Page 4

High Top Boots. You’d better not call ' aptnin Boota, I've tfrowu too big ior th*t| It k time that 1 played with girl* no more, And 1 think that 111 drop the oat! Old hen, it you anap your bill at me, * You will have to etand and fight with three,— a couple of boot*, and —a man, do you see Y Ho! pretty good boots! Ho! high top boots! Ho! gentleman 3 boots for me. Stand out of the way. I'm going to walk, I’ll tread on somebody soon Oh! how they do squeak! yes, how they talk! I think it aa good a* a tune They tie tbeniselvae without any strings. They match like a pair of angel s wings, New leather! I hope you smell the things. Hol pretty good boots! Ho! high top boots! Ho! gentleman's boots for me. I wish It was Sunday, to go to church. I wlJh it was Monday to play, I wish it was t uesday to ride my horse, I wish it was every day. 1 will wear them to bed.for uncle Jim Might till them wit h water up to the brim. As once I fide I bl* boots for him Ho! »ratty good boots! Ho' high top boot! Ho! gentleman s boots for m--. MADGE’S ESI APADE. BY INEZ IRVING. “I'll do something, 1 declare! I’ll runaway! I guess 1 can earn my own living. I wont be thrown at his head in this way. He must see tlirough her plans and think that father’s afool and I’m a little simpleton who will do anything my stepmother tells me. They’ll all see!’ Madae Bentley tossed down her hat on the l>ed savagely- and went to the glass to look at her hot, angey face, stained with tears of vexation. Her step-mother had invited Squire Clifton over to tea, had pressed upon him tlie good things on the tuble witli the prefixing remark that “M dge had splendid luck with that cake,” or, “Madgecould beat her now making piet and tarts,” and when he was g mg home had asked him to drive Madge down to the village on the pretense that she wanted an errand done. These were only specimens of the scheming she had been carrying on ever sin -e Sqnire Clifton came home, in hopes to get him to marry her step-daughter. The squire had seconded Mrs. Bentley in her request with a queer knowing look iu his eyes, Madge thought, and it angered her. She had got her hat with a half pouting, half defiant look on her pretty face, and had ridden to the village with him ha” averted fece, answering his pleasant remarks in monosyllables. “If father’s in debt to him, I don’t know as that is any reason I should be flung at his head and made to appear ridiculous in his eyes. He was laughing at me all the way down to the village to-night, I know he was Probably bethinks Im a little fool who would jump at the ehance to live in his fine house and be called Mrs. Clifton. I guess he’ll find his mistake. If father is easy going and lets her nose him round, it dosen’t follow that I am. During her soliloquy she was rearranging the things on the bureau with more emphasis than was necessary, her eyes flashing, her lips quivering. ... “What do I want of him anyway! He’s twice as old as I am—must be thirty-four or five, at least.” A softer feeling was succeeding her angry outburst. She threw herseif on the bed, and, hiding her faco in the pillow sobbed—“Oh mother, mother, why did you leave me. I have no home now, nobodv want me here. If I was out of the wav there would be mire chance for her children.” ♦ # * * * T *

“Madge! Madge!” called the shrill voice of her step-mother. ‘lt high time you were up and had breakfast underway!” There was no answer from Madge's chamber. “That girl’s grow.t.g lazy. If I encourage her in it I shall not be doing my duty as a mother to her.” u Let me go up and call ner, mother,” called Loo, one of the eight year old twins, from the chamber adj oinlng, who had been aroused by her mother’s voice. “Very well, go >n and shake her weil.”’And Mrs. Bentley got back into bed to indulge in a morning nap. In a few moments Loo’s bare feet patted down stairs in a hurry. “Oh, mother! Madge isn’t there, and the bed is all made up—and—” With a puzzled stare at the child, and an exclamation of surprise Mrs. Bentley threw on a wrapper and went up stairs herself. She glanced round the room hastily, and then opened the closet door. Some of her clothes were gone In the bureau she found a note. . “I have gone to earn my own living. I see lam not wanted at home. You and father can pay off the debt to Squire Clifton as you please. I won’t be flung at his heap any longer.” “You’ve driven her from home,” Mr. Bentley dared to say, startled into unwonted self-assertion by the sudden shock. “I’ve driven her from home? And I such a good mother to her! That's the thanks I get for taking care of her ten vears and then trying to ease you of some of that debt to Squire Clifton. I’ll risk her coming to grief. She’s too saucy and headstrong. She’ll hoe her own row, never fear. You are going to find her and bring her back? Indeed you’ll not bring her back, John Bentley. This house won’t be large enough after this to hold both of us ” * * * “Two chowders, two steaks rare, four teas!” Madge shouted down the dumb waiter for tne third time. “There is a new cook down there and she isn’t used to the place yet,” she explained, turning to the party of four Harvard Freshmen, who had been out yacting all day and nowhungry and hilarious hail called for supper at the Atlantic House. “W“’re in no hurry. Please don’t embarras her, I beg," said one as Madge stepped to the waiter to eall down for the order. “We have not had a mouthful since yesterday, but of course we can wait. Patience is a virtue we all seed to cultivate.” “Haven't you got that order yet?” Madge shouted to the lower regions. “Get it, and going to keep it. But it is immeterial to us isn’t it boys? However, if I knew the way to the subterranean recesses I'd gs down and The bell rung. Ina few moments Madge had drawn up the waiter, and placed the order before the hungy party. “Ah—ah, boys! It looks apetiaing. ‘Patient waiters are no loosers,’ ” and the speaker gave Madge a peculiar puolonged look that brought the color to her face.

In her new unprotected situation v she was growing used to being stared u at and commented upon in asides that were not always low-toned * enough to escaye her ear. “Confounded pretty, by Jove!” she j heard now, from the chief spokesman of the quartette, as she left them and went t<> a round table in the corner of . the dining room where two gentle- “ men had just seated themselves. The blush on her face grew deeper as she saw that one ot the gentlemen was Squire Clifton, He kad seen and recognized her ' when he first entered. Therefore had 1 got over his first surprise. 8 “Wbv Madge, 1 did not expect to find vou’here, he said, as he stood wafting for his order and that of the casual acquoirtanee he had she said, feeling ‘ But I had to - » got this chance

She took tne orders, and Squire Clifton watched the slender girlish figure in a neat fitting cambric and white apron as she went across to the dumb waiter. “So this is where the girl has found her way-,” he thought. She’s too pretty by half t<) be so exposed, and too young also. Whatever can her father be thinking about, or her stepmother.” Somehow the story had leaked out that Madge had left home because the latter had made it unpleasant for her. At home the squire had thought of Madge as a pretty girl whom her step-mother wished to force upon him as a w ife for reasons of her own. Under the circumstances there was little chance for sentiment. Seeing her here alone, unprotected, exposed to temptation, and, withal so young and beautiful, his chivalrous instinct was aroused at once. Before she had appeared as a child now he recognized the woman. He had run down to the “Point” a day or two for the sea breezes and recreation. The next evening he joined the ga_. crowd pouring into the Alhambra to see “Solon Shingle.” He had not

been long seated, when glancing around over the sea of bright, animated faces, rippling with plumes, fans and handkerchiefs, he saw Madge in cempanv with one of the party she was serving when he entered the dining room last evening. Here prettyface was flushed and smiling, and while Clifton looked, her escort bent towards her and made her smile more broadly. Before the play was over, Clifton feeling warm and tired went out for a solitary stroll on the sand, not really solitary- either, for the sound of voices and laughter from gay groups was all around him. The night was glorious. The broad expanse ofwaters was covered with crafts of all kinds, their white sails glistening in the moonlight as far as the eye could reach. His thoughts reverted to Madge as he paced along slowly. He had not seen her in the dining room that evening. A vague sense of impending danger to her oppressed him, a feeling that he was responsible for her. He had known and respected her mother before she died and known Madge her lifetime. A tender feeling was springing up in his heart toward her, a desire to pioteet her untried feet from the shares spread around them. He retraced his way back towards the hotel. But something impelled him in another direction, and before he was aware he found himself on a quiet private street. In a retired spot where no sidewalk had been lain he saw a horse and carriage standing,

> and, glancing around he saw a couple . hunying across a vacant lot and eviI dently making for the carriage. They gained the street and his walk brought , him face to face with them. His . heart gave a great bound, as, under i the drooping hat he recognise:! Madge’s face in the dear moonlight. Her companion, who was the one . with her at the theatre gave him a i careless, glance, but he could see that ■ Madge averted her eyes after the first . startled recognition. There was something wrong he knew. He turned and followed them. Just as Madge was being assisted into the carriage he laid his hand on her shoulder, and said, “Madge, child, where are you going?” Her companion faced him quickly with a dark frown on his handsome reckless face “By what right, sir, do you interfere with this lady when she is under my protection?” “By the right of a friend w-ho has known her all her life. Your motives may be all right, but the circumstances are, to say the least, suspicious.” “Which is however none of your business,” retorted the other, turning again to Madge to assist her into the carriage. She had stood looking from one to the other and when Clifton said, •‘Madge, come with me,” in a gentle, almost tender tone, she burst into tears. “I —I—” she stammered, “this gentleman knows of a nice home in the city where I can be companio i to a lady, and he is going to take me to it.” “Ah, that is the story. Look me in the face, sir, and say you are not trying to lead this girl astray.” ‘•Not by a darned sight,” returned the handsome young scapegre» coolly. “When were you constituted my father confessor?” “He is deceiving you Madge,” said Clifton earnestly. “Place yourself under my protection, you know you can trust me.” Madge stood irresolute. Afterrunning away from Squire Clifton should she now throw herself upon his protection. Her companion had paint' 1 in glowing colors the beautiful hon e to which he would take her. She bad pictured a life of e_i.se and independence with onlv the light duties o. companion and" how she would astonish them all at home, when she should visit them by and by, with a handsome wardrobe and newly acquired gift-- and graces, for he had told her she would have a chance to learn to sing and play, the lady being a friend of his who would treat her as her own daughter. She looked up into the fine manly face of Clifton and felt herself drawn toward him. Her companion's smooth tongued courtesy had vanished. The leaven of distrust was working in her mind. » Before he could speak again. Clifton had drawn her arm through his and walked off with her. “Well, this is a devilish piece of work for you, Nat Rhodes.” muttered the baffled young rascal as he jumped ‘nto the carriage and drove off without his game. “Thank God, I was in time to save yeu from going away with him,” said Clifton, in a low tone, drawing her arm closer within his. “Didn't you half suspect something wrong when he asked you to go out at such a late hour?”

"1 had left my place and had no where to stay until morning. He said he would take me to a nice place to-nighi. aiid iulruduee me to the lady in the nlorning.” Clifton shivered slightly as he realized the snare laid for her. He found a room in a quiet lodging house, and, telling her be would see her in the morning, he hade her goodnight and went to the hotel. In his room he pondered long and deeply. A strange new interest for the girl was creeping into his heart—from out of the unprotected situation in which he found her. He could detect the germs of a noble unselfish womanhood in her character, and the troubled face had looked very sweet and lovable in the moonlight’ What was to become of her! She had too much spirit to go back to her uncongenial home, he knew, and could not dame her. With her thoughts all in a whirl Madge cried herself to sleep. In the morning Clifton called upon her. After a little preliminary talk he electrified her by asking, “Madge, will you be my wife?” "To think that I should run away from you and you should follow rue ami ask ine to marry you,” Madge said when she had told him her story. “Did you think me such an ogre?” “I believe it was because I liked you too well all the time to have you think I was trying to catch you,” she whispered, nestling closer to him. , John Bentley speaks now of “Mrs Squire Clifton, my daughter,” am , his wife quotes, “All’s well that end: well."

THE DIPHTHERIA PLANT. Prof. Wood Explains How the Disease is Propagated. Some light was thrown on the origin of diphtheria last night in a lecture before the Academy oi Natural Sim-m-es by Prof. Horatio C. Wood, who gave the result of his researches in connection with Dr. Henry F. Formad, involving the important discovery that this fatal and insidious dis- . ease is propagated by a microscopic plant or fungi, existing in all human • beings, especially in the mouth ami . throat, but lacking the power of reproduction until given increased vitality by those disordered conditions of i the mucous membrane which attend , sore throat when caused by cold. The i investigations were made at the in- , stance of the National Board of Health, and extended, not only to the phenomena attending the ordinary epidemic diphtheria existing in Philadelphia, but to the more violent form occurring from time to time in different places. Dr. Formad visited an infected town on Lake Michigan, where one-third of all the children in a marshy district died of the epidemic, and’brought back with him specimens of the diphtheric virus, several of the false membranes which are invariably formed in the throats of afflicted persons, and portions of their viscera. In all blood, said the Professor, there are two kinds of corpuscles, the red or color-giving, and the white. By careful study and experiments, both in human beings and the lower animals, it was found that this infinitesimal plant fastens upon the white corpuscles and multiplies its cells, altering their character until, with the interior destroyed, they burst, and the plants, set loose in an irregular mass, sepeiate and go off individual- . jy, to continue the destructive ased, on other corpuscles. Thus inere vesthey poison the blood, choke theumsels, and are found in myraid work bers in the spleen and bone marr w, where the blood is manufactured. Professor Wood’s investigations show that the false membrane, supposed to invariably indicate the presence of diphtheria, may be caused by ammonia, Spanish fly or other influences in the throat, so that its presence is not infallible as indicating the existence of this disease, But in any case the false membrane is built up by this parasitical plant, which grows and multiplies upon its inflamed surroundings, whatever may I*e its cause. It is when the plant glow strong enough to extend to the blood, either : poisonin t themselves or carrying the poison with them, that diphtheria sets in. This little plant is exactly the same as found upon a coated tongue. When Prof. Wood putplants such as are found upon a healthy tongue in sterilized matter they fail to grow. On the contrary, plants from the throat or blood of a person affected with diphtheria multiply rap idly. The practical result of the investigation pointed out was the possibility that diphtheria, if existing theories hold good, may be prevented by artificial vaccination. In the case of splenie fever caught from animals. ■ which has been proved to originate in a somewhat similar plant. Pasteur has found that the plant, when exposed a sufficient time to the air, by the action of oxygen loses its poisonous character, and when then Introduced into the system makes the animal sick, but is no longer fatal. The deduction is that this diphtheric plant scientifically known as “microeoe,” may iu time be cultivated so that when inoculated with the system will be no longer subject to the disease in its fatal form. Concluding the lecture, Professor Wood was ayplauded when he said that these discoveries could never have been made but for the aid of vivisection, against which there is a foolish prejudice in the minds of many. A Ghost at Noonday. We have received the following extraordinary narrative from a correspondent for whose good faith and professional acuteness of observation we ean vouch. He substantiates his : story with full details of dates, names . and places, whieh, however, for the sake of the survivors, he does not wish to be published. Without any . further preface we lay his letter be- ‘ sere our readers: As my wife and I were sitting at breakfast with a guest whom I will i call Mr. A.—then on a visit for the first time to our house and neighbor- , hood—our maid servant passed out of the room on her way to the kitchen. As the closed the door Mr. A. startled me by saying, “I saw a spirit of i a man following that woman, who, i as he passed, said distiactly in my hearing, ‘God judgeth not as man judgeth. I was innocent of the murder for which I have been hanged. I ! was there but I did not strike the blow.’ “What is it'like?” I asked. He replied by describing a young Irishman whom I recognized at once as the husband of my domestic, < who a year or two before had been ex- i ecuted on the charge of murder. Mr. A. a complete, stranger to the locali- • ty, had only met me for the first time . two days before, and he was totally igaorant of the crime in which my servant was so deeply interested. For obvious reasons the subject wss nev- i er alluded to in our household where i the domestic was regarded with feel- i Ings of sympathy which led us to avoid as much as possible all refer- . ence to her husband's fate.

I had previously good reason to doubt whether the evidence against him justified his ’ execution. He. had died protesting his innocence. His wife and friends were firmly convinced that, although he had been in the fight, it was not by his hand the fatal blow had been dealt. In addition to this. I had good reason to believe the real murderer was still at large. You can easily imagine my astonishment when Mr. A. thus suddenly ventured on forbidden ground, and abruptly declared that the spirit of a man who had suffered the capital penalty, and whose personal appearance exactly coincided with that of the unfortunate Irishman, was actually following the-servant. about the house proclaiming his innocence in accents which, although inaudable to me, my guest declared were perfectly audible to him. I had heard that Mr. A. had been a “seer,” but I was not a iittie startled at this striking illustration of his peculiar faculty. I remarked that it was very strange, and informed him that the woman whom he had just seen for the first time with her ghostly companion was really the widow of an executed felon. Some time afterward he exclaimed: ‘There he is again, repeating the same words!” Intensely interested by this sudden and apparently supernatural confirmation of my suspicions, I determined to put the seership of my guest to what I regarded as a crucial test. I told Mr. A. that shortly afterward I was going into the town, and as I should be passing the spot where the murder was committed, perhaps his ghostly visitant might indicate the place where the dead man lay. Some time afterward we started for the town. When we left the bouse Mr. A. remarked, “There he is following us,” alluding to the “spirit.” When we had proceeded part of the way along the road, which was quite unknown to my friend. I made a detour to make a business call and went along another street, Mr. A. (following me. Just as, without a word on in v part, we were turning out of the main road, Mr. A. said, “The spirit is standing at the comer. He says we are ! not going the right way toward the ■ | place where the murder was committea, and which he Was prom-

ised to point out to me.’ I replied “Oh, we shall come out in the main road again by-and-bs before we reach the spot." We proceeded on about a quarter of a mile, and having done my business and struck the main road again—which differed, I may remark, from none of the other roads we had traversed—Mr. A. soon after declared, “There is that man just on there, waiting for us.” As we continued our walk, I purposely refrained from uttering a word, or even from thinking, as far as I could, about the murder, so as to prevent any possibility of my companion obtaining any clew. As we were passing tlirough one of the lowest parts of the town Mr. A. suddenly exclaimed.—“He tells me that it was here the murder was committed. It was just there (.pointing to the place in the road where the murdered man fell). I see the hubbub and confusion rise up before me as a picture, with the people round. He, however, again tells me that he did not strike the fatal blow He does not excuse himseif from being morally guilty as being mixed up with those who accomplished the [death] of the man, but strongly maintained that he was not the murderer..’ I will only add in relation to the last incident that Mr. A. described the exact spot where the murder was committed, and the circumstances in connection therewith. How eau you account for thatb Mr. A. had never lived within fa couple of hundred miles of it; he did not know till within a day or two be fore he arrived that he would ever visit it; he could not by any possibility have known that the poor woman in my employ was the widow of a man who was hanged. He had no conceiuable interest in deceiving me, nor was lie concerned to prosecute the matter any further.

LATE FASHION NOTES. Very broad hats are trimmed on the brim. Spanish girdles o’ blacx velvet are very stylish. Outside jackets are of plain and striped plush. Old fashioned Ilbuis XVI. pelisses are again in favor. The revival of the polonaise gives variety to the toilets. A new style of plush and Leaver hat has a four cornered crown. Flounced skirts like those worn I twenty years ago are stylish. Heal sacques are the standard cloak and are comparatively short. Black fringe on colored gowns is to be one of the winter's freaks. Pink will be the fashionable color for the season’s evening dresses. Newmarket coats and long casques are made in olive, green and brown. Bucharest lace disputes precedence with Mirecourt is fashionable estimation. Colored velvet bodices with tulle skirts are a feature of dancing reunion. Gigot puffs are seen upon many important carriages and dinner dresses. New plush costumes are trimmed with a stamped material resembling leather. Black Irish poplin trimmed with Sicilienne is much worn for mourning costumes. Silvered beads are taking the place of steel, and are much more dressy and elegaut The English shoe with low heels and half high is a late style adopted by young ladies. Ostrich plumes and tips constitute almost the only trimming worn on this season's hats. Surah moire is the name of a rawmaterial designed for dress trimings and millinery purposes. With the exception of steel beads, all kind <sf beads will be used in trimming during the winter. A new jacket, and one that promises to be very popular, is made of leather, in red and golden brown shades. Combs of every description, when not of ivory, are now of the tortoise shells aud the shell is more worn. A style of bat, which is termed "perfectly captivating” is in the Alsatian peasant shape rolling brim. Irridescent hues in agrafe hooks and eyes will share the popular favor with steel jet and gold for dresses, this season. The “Princess” collar is very stylish, and is composed of rows of the very narrowest lace in the finest of pleats. Short, transparent veils just reach the nose when adjusted. They are embroidered with beads of steel, gold or jet. Promenade dresses are very short. The skirt of a fashionable woman clad in walking attire clears the ground by several inches. New seal dolmans present a novelty in the princess sleeve which closes snugly over the arm. though preseuing the effect of a full sleeve. Pink toilets are very fashionable, and are stylishly set off with black silk stockings devoid of embroidery, black satin gloves of undressed kid.

Vennor predicts that the coming winter will be an open one. It remains to be seen what effect, if any, this will have upon the price of coal. Plush gloves for ladies are among the importations, but will scarcely meet with popular favor, as they make small hands look like bears paws. “Guy Fawkes” is the rather significant name of the hat construction of fine dark straw, a cluster of plush flowers and yards and yards of heavy lace. Scarf mantelets of plain velvet are w'orn in dark shades of seal-brown, myrtle-green or in black. They are trimmed with chenille fringe in the same shades. A novelty for neck scarfs for the street is dotted net, with the dots es large as a silver quarter dollar, and the spots may be flat or of raised chenille or else beaded. Visites made of India shawls are to be exceedingly fashionable this season. They will be trimmed with sable fur or with eostly oriental fringes, and fastened with large silver clasps. The last extravagance in French hose is a new stocking of cream white lace in “pen work designs to be worn over another one of spun silk tinted a flesh color. The lace stockings cost $2.5 a pair. Handsome marquis eoats of heavy, colored satin, handsomely embroidered on the vest front, pockets, cuffs, and deep collar, are to be worn upon the promenade over short walking skirts or black satin and surah. Tabiler. made of natural flowers to be worn over evening dresses of white, ars very fashionable and exceedingly , beautiful, but owing to their ephemeral nature they are effective only in the beginning of aa evening. Rich white moire antique, such as delighted the stately dames of olden times, is to be a favorite material for bridal dresses the coming winter. The new moire fabrics, however, show smaller wave than the watered materials formerly manufactured

Some Western. Yarns. A curious mass of insects lias been discovered by hunters near Eugene, Oregon. They say that every bush, tree and shrub is completely covered and stripped of every vestige of foliage by thousands of eaterpilllers of ail sizes under an inch and a half long. A hunter passing along the trail soon wears a coat of these insects and his gun is covered with them. Piety Flat, or Graveyard Bottom, is one of the suburbs of Miles City, Montana, but notwithstanding the promising names, the entire district will support neither church nor minister. On October sth, ice formed to the depth of half an inch at Virginia City, Nevada. The White Pine (Cal.) News tells the following story: “Dick Frank had quite an experience one night during his recent hunt. He got lost one evening in the thick chapparel, and deemed it prudent to camp over night. Justus he had comfortably fixed himself for a night’s freeze out under an overspreading sapling two large cinnamon bears hove in sight and commenced rooting a few yards from him. Having app-a- -d their hunger on the succulent roots, they lay down to sleen and kept the hunter company till near daylight. As Dick was not hunting bear he did not shoot nor sleep much, either.' He vows it was the longest night he ever passed in all his born days.” The English Lord Chancellor, (Roundel! Palmer) is suffering from nervous prostration, and forbidden all work for weeks.

Flour—Nominally unclian ged. Grain—Wheat unsettled but generally higher; No 2 Chicago spring, slß3\'; No 3 Chicago spring, $1 20. Corn active, firm and higher at 62t B c. Oats at 44c. Rye steady and unchanged. Barley firmer at $ 1 OH. Provisions — Pork unsettled but generally higher at sl6 50 cash and November; $1650@1ti55 Decemiier; sl7 80017 82'v January. Lard steady and firm at sl4 45 cash and November; sll December; $llBO 011 82 L 2 January. Bulk meatsactive, firm and higher; shoulders, $7 25: short rib, $9 00; siiort clear, $9 40. Whisky—Steady aud unchanged at $1 16. Corn to Buffalo, Call —Wheat, active, firm and higher; $1 34< s November. Corn, active, firm and higher; October. Oats, moderately active aud higher; 44 1 4 @44 1 ? c November. Pork, moderately active ami higher; sl6 55@16 65 November; sl6 75 bid December; sl7 85 January. Lard, firmer but not quotably higher. Hogs—Receipts, 23,000; shipments, 2,300; weak and a shade lower; mixed packing. $5 7506 25; choice heavy, st> 40@7 00; light, $5 85@6 10; culls ami grsssers, $3 5005 50. Cattle —Receipts, 6,000; shipments, 1,800; fairly active and generally firm; exports, $6 50@7 30; good to choice shipping, $5 4006 00; common to fair, $4 00@5 00; butchers’ weak; common to fair cows and mixed, $2 00 @ 3 25; good to choice cows and heifers, $3 40(34 00; stoekers very plentiful and slow; sales at $2 75(33 50; feeders scarce aud firm, $3 6004 X); range cattle strong; grass Texans, $2 90@350; half breeds aud natives, $3 60@4 60. Sheep—Receipts, 1,000; shipments, 400; good demand; common to medium, $3 00@4 00; good to choice, $4 60 @5 00. Baltimore. Flour—Quiet and steady. Grain—Wheat, western, inactive and steady; No. 2 western winter red. spot and October, $1 44' a 01 44 ‘ 4 ; November, $1 4501 45 ! 8 ; December, $1 sOigol January, $1 53> a 01 54. Corn, western, firm; mixed spot and Oetolter, 68tj@68 3 4 c: November. 69% @69%c; December,72%@72%c. Oats, more active and steady. Rve, dull at $1 05@l 10. Hay—Dull and lower; prime to choice Pennsylvania, $lB 00024 00. Provisions—Quiet: mess pork,slß 75. Bulk meats, shoulders and clear rib sides packed. $9 50@10 25. Bacon, shoulders, $lO U 0; clear rib sides, sll 50; hams, sls 00@15 50. Lard, sl3 00. Butter—Firm for choice grass western at 15@15%c. Eggs—Firm; fresh, 23@25c. Petroleum —Dull aud easy; refined, nominal at 7Jje. Coffee—Nominally more steady; Rio cargoes, B%ollc. Sugar—Steady. Whisky—Quiet at $1 1801 18%.

Mew York Produce. , Flour—Dull and weak; superfine state and western, $4 70a5 00; common to good extra, $5 60a6 60; good to choice, $6 70a9 00; white wheat extra, $7 70a9 25; extra Ohio, $5 75a8 25; St Louis, $5 75a9 25; Minnesota patents, $8 00a9 25. Grain—Wheat unsettled and feverish ; ungraded spring, $1 lOal 37; No 3 do, $1 33; No 2 do, $137; No 2 Chicago, $141; ungraded red, $1 1 511 a ; No 4 do, $1 25; No 3 do, $142; No 2 do, $1 49al 50|j; steamer No 2 do, $1 42b;; ungraded white, $1 39a 1 46)£. Corn higher, closing strong; ungraded, 68a72c; No. 3, 70a 70* a c; steamer, 70*-„a7o? 4 c; No. 2, 70 No. 2 white, 74* a a7sc; high mixed, 71c. Oats, higher and fairly active; mixed western, 45a46c; white western, 50a53*£. Eggs — Western fresh, quiet but steady at Provisions—Pork, quiet and unchanged. Beef, dull and weak. Cut meats, dull and unchanged. Lard, strong; prime steam quoted at sll 80. Butter—Quiet but firm at 15a37c. Cheese—Quiet and unchanged. Slew York Dry Goods. Business quiet with commercial houses. Jobbers report an improvement in order deniend. Cotton roods in new business, dull, but former orders keep trade brisk. Prints quiet with agents, and jobbing duller than desirable. Ginghams jobbing fairly. In spring woolens there is a moderate activity. Heavy woolens were rather more sought after to-day. Flannels being steadily distributed. There is considerable scarcity of dress flannels. Daughters, Wires, Mothers, t jf- . ■ Dr. J. B. MARCHISI. UTICA, N T . DI3COVKRIR OF DR MARCHIBI*B UTERINE CATHOLICOS A POSITIVE CURE FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS. This Remedy will ac‘ in harmony with the Female pyatemat all time? and ateo Immediately upon Um abdominal and uterin- matc t* and restore them to a healthy and ttrong condition. D-. Marchi-i'a Uterine CathoHcon wU! hifp failing of the Womb, Leucc<»rrh<ea, Chronic Inflammation and Ulceration of the womb. Incidea tai Hemorrha-je or Flooding’, Paint:’. Suppressed and Irregular MenatrnnHon. Kid’ey Cr»~.pla’nt and t* eapec ally adapted to the <%ai»ge ot Life. Send for pamphlet. free. Ail letter’of inquiry freely answered Addr •? as a vive FOR SALE BY ALL DR H<S«I£TS. Price fl asi per bottle. Be Mire aid aek for i -r. Marchjai’s Uterine C&thob' on Take no c»ih«-r. For sale by A. R. Pierce A Co.and Dorwin & HcJthouseJ

SMITH, LONGENBERGER & CO. DEALERS IN HORSES & MULES. We wish to purchase for the fall trade 2,000 Horses and Mules, for which we will pay the very outside prices in cash. Our trade demands good, nice, smooth, driving stock for for buggy and carriage horses, and heavy square made draft horses Persons having stock to dispose of can always find —A MARKET---for the same at our stables, at all times, and giving you the full value for the same. You can rely upon —SQUARE DEALING,— as we intend to make this a permanent business. All we ask is that you give us a call before disposing of your stock. Persons living at a distance will find it to their interest to give us a trial. It will cettainly do no harm to look around before selling. In short, if you wish to buy a horse; if you wish to sell one, we can accommodate you. In connection with our sale —S TAB LE——SMITH & LONGENBERGER——wiII run a first-class— Linn STABLE Where you can get a tip-top rig, on call, whether buggy, carriage or saddle Horse. GOOD STOCK

-—and — GOOD CARRIAGES—is our motto. Charges reasonable. vol 25 n 22 mb. Toledo, Pelpbos & Burlington R. R. 15 I 3 1 , Cvlumbus lime. Z 4 !• pm am pm am :pm am 1 OOU2 50 8 ..pnffalo... ar 4 101 8 15 7 40 ¥m am am pm pm am 25 7 00 3 06,1 v...Cleveland...ar 10 101 2 2* 1 <5 am pm pm jm am 15| 7 60 7 6OW.... w D«tr*tar 8 ib' I 30 1 10 am pm am pm .*m J m 7 30| 6 15 8 IfiflT ... Toledoar 5 45 8 25 6 L 0 8 40 5 52 9 16. .. Sooih Toledo ... 5 14 7 49 5 52 » 13 6 13 9 35Vf aterv’le 4 4 .56 5 O' JO 18 6 45 10 05 ...Grand Rapids... 4 26; 4 25 346 11 12 7 11 10 31!_Grellton 3 59 6 29 2 43 pm 740 11 00Holgate 329 6<* • if* 1 53 pa It 30 ...North Creek 3 00. am 12 1* 3 05. 11 661 Dupont 2 34 10 52 8 35 pin HunUtown_ 3 18j 10 27 4 18 U 34 ... It J.nniug 1 6ff w 40 4 55 IS 501ar....D0i, hoa ... W 1 40 9 10 17 n T 8 12 'lB am am ■ ■ pw. 715 1601 t... Delphos ... ar 12< pm 430 8 00 2 15Venedocia am 3 42 853 247 Enterprise 2 « 247 058 3 201,.. Wlllahire.._ 11 65 10* 10 19 8 31'...Pleat>ant Mills...ill 44 12 25 11 25 3 50jDecatur..,11 25 11 40 12 w 4 06:..poteiam 11 1(W 11 00 12 32 4 17.Curryville10 68 10 37 IM 4 44 Blufftonlo 31 9 00 2 25 5 01 ...Lfbejtj Centre... 10 14 8 23 2 51 B 16!Buckeye 9 5»l 7 58 8 15 5 29 .-Warren 9 46 7 28 355 5 47!Vaninren . 9z? 660 4 50 6 frrt 6 15, . North Marion... 9 00 6 16 6 GO pm | 8 <0 7 601..K0k0m0....... 7 25 3 35 atn 19 j 9 1 Dattom Div. 2 10 20 am am pm pm pm pm 6 (XH 1 30 ar 1 30| 7 35 .Ho I gat • am w... Delr w ... Del phot ...Iv It ... Delphos...„ar « s» 1 47 ..South th 13 Ms 7 OS •5“ iOO _ Spvnrervlll. U 45) 841 7 32 2 18 ~.Connell«vill« ... 18 27 S 10 ’ 57 2 32 Mvndos Ills 6 48 10 3., 6 <X> 3 H .Oel.ua 11 S 3 7 W 3 13 11 1«: e 17 3 20Montezuma. 11 Ifc 7 S7 2 OS It 44 8 32 S 44Clrt*Saw._... 11 01 7 21 1 30 11 571 6 39 3 61 St. John. 10 64 7 13 1 23 12 45 4 08 4 ( 8 .Osgood, 10 37 6 56 12 45 1 26 4 31) 4 30 Ver».:li«« 10 16 8 34 11 18 2 281 S 02 6 02 Covingt'o 9 43 6 02 10 « 2 56 5 18 8 18 ...PleMMt Hill.- 9 27 5 48 10 18 3 37 s2B 639 ,W.«t Milton. .. i 05 5 » 9 39 4 OS 8 49 5 64Union. 8 49 5 04 » 04 4 351 8 56 « 01 . ... Hnrrisbarg S 44 4 69 8 44 5 25 » 19 4 28 Stlllnur Jnnet'n S 20 4 35 7 25 pm 940 845 Dayton 8 001 415 7CO ’ll) pm Lebanon am pm am I Ciniu'ati W. W. RH4IVM, ijaa. Pm. Agt. H. G BUT tea. Gen.rst Mxnae.r Grand Rapids fit Indiana and Oinoinnati Richmond & Fort Wavne Railroads, Time table taking effect Hand ay October 31. MHI. ~T KAIBH QOINQ NOyTH. _ WATiowa. No J j Boj i M<» j MoT~ Cincinnatil 8 15 am Richmond 8 06 pm 11 1U Winchester 4 19 13 14 Bid<evUle 448 12 &*pm .. ’. Portland 6 16 1 07 Fort Wayne.. . Ar; 7 38 8 20 . Dv 3 36 8 10 am 8 30 a® 'tokabnrp| 706 641 12 28 KalamMoo Ar 7 » 720 13 66 Lt « 06 7 40 2 38 Grand Rapids... Ar 10 00 960 4 M Lt 8 00am 10 20 6 18 ‘ 982 11 56 647 Kwids io 27 12 49pm 741 Hone CityAr 11 50 1 30 « 11 Lt 11 50 1 40 8 17 Cadillac Ar|l3 »pm 306 10 00 Traverse City.. Ar .5 46 Wartteme ■■ Ar .." AGh AG AL.._... *.’*’*GG IKAIJiH (KliNti HUUIM. matiow. _ _KoJ N 0.4 . M 0.6 KJ" Mackinaw .... j— PeUMkeyl,| ...AG 6 46am • . . IS’- SSA?S“ I 6 21 1 » 6 18 Howxracttr I 8 19 I IS. 915 S™** £•‘’o" •» '«0 4 Ipa 10 K Grnnd Rapid, J, T»). m 445 .1» pm KaUmuoo ar 990 ' 845 383 'ieksbnrg 10 01 i ,7a 111 §*»«*!■ «• lIH 440 ForVWajno. .. ae 110 pm .... UCO 11 If Vort Wa,n« .. . lr| 1 00 8 V, an, Decatar 2 57 111 Portland .4 10 8 80 iUdjfevllle |4 45 854 i 1 Wtochester 6 08 9 14 h'cbmond 6 3U it» 10 Cincinnatil 3 10 ! 30 pm A• B. Lmrr GotAPium. - ? : -r United States Senator Conger, of Michigan, has purchased u handsome residence in Wasliington, and will probably occupy it this season.

A. G. HOLLOWAY. M. D.. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUB, INDIANA. Office in Houston's Block, up-stairs. Will attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Residence en north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart's Mill. 25jy"9tf a B. Aixaon, FresY W. R Nimmx,Cashier p SrenasASsa.Vic. I’rM’t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy aud sell Town, Township and County Orders. 26jy79tf PETERSON 4 HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DMCATUB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties Especial attention gireh 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 2,1. 0 0. F. building. 25jy79tf FRANCE & KING. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATVR. INDIANA. eTnTwicks, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DXCATVR, INDIANA. All legal business promptly attended to. Offite up stairs in Stones building 4ihdoor. v26n24 year 1. B. R. FREEMAN, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwin s Holthouse’s Drug Store Residence 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., DBCATUB, INDIANA.* IFill Practice in Adams and adjoining Counties. Collections a specialty. v24n29if S. G. M. D. HOMOEOPATHIST PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. All calls day or night promptly attended to. Office in Stndaliaker's building, first door soufh of Court House Square. Vol. 25 No. 14. iHE DECATUR WOOLEN MILLS RUNNING AGAIN! Having purchased the Eicher Woolen Mills we are prepared to announce t i the public generally that we have for sale at Bottom Prices at our factory on the corner of Ist aud Jefferson streets a tine line of strictly ALL WOOL GOODS, □four own Manufacture. We earnest ly solicit all former patrons of the Eicher Woolen 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 anv exchange for goods. Call and see our stock ofFLANNELS, BLANKETS, SATTI NETS, JEANS and STOCKING YARNS before purchasing elsewhere,we promise to furnish you a better article for LESS MOUET!

Than you can buy anywhere else. MY ERS BROS. Deeatu* May 5, 1881 ts Employment for all —'TO SELL A HOUSEHOLD ARTICLE The poor as well as the rich, the old a» well as the young, the wife, as well as the husband, the girl as well as the boy, may just as well earn a few dollars in honest employment, as to sit around the house and wait for others to earn it for them. We can give you employment, all the time, or daring your spare hours only; traveling, or in yourown neighborhood, amongyour friends and acquaintances If you do not care for employment, we can impart valuable information to you free of cost. It will cost you only one cent for a postal card to write for our Prospectus, and it may be the means of making yon a good many dollars. Do not neglect the opportunity. Y'ou do not have to invest a large sum of money, and run a great risk of losing it. You will readily see that it will be an easy matter to make from $lO to SIOO a week, and establish a lucrative, and independent business, honorable, straightforward and profitable. Attend to this matter NOW, for there is MONEY IN IT for all who engage with us. We will surprise you and you will wonder why you never wrote to us before. W’X SRND FULL PARTICULARS FREE. Address, BUCKEYE M PG CO. (Name this paper.) Marion, Ohio. no 28 m 6. The latest and most novel phase of “Boycotting” has just beert exemplified in a parish near Mallow, in the county Cork. A young lady, daughter of a well-to-do farmer, was engaged to be married to the son of a neighbor, also in comfortable circumstances,but who had the misfortune to come under the ban of the land league, s id was undetgoing “Boycotting" in its severest form. The night before the day appointed for the marriahe the bride elect was waited upon by a number of members of the local land league, who informed her that, should she marry the intended bridegroom, both she and all her family would be equally “Boycotted.” So great was the persuasion brought to bear upon her, that the girl has postponed the match. B. B. Provoost, one of the most prominent civil engineers of the west, dropped dead at Dubuque. He helped to construct the Michigan Southern and Illinois Central roads.

KEIIWII’S MH IM 7 TKENDALEsTIk ySPAVIN CUREfy fl w A * It cures Spavins, Splints, Curbs, Rj h? . bones and all similar blemishes, and re. moves the bunch without blieteiing. Forman it is bow known to be one of the best, If not the beat liniment ever diicovered. We feel positive ihat every man can have perfect success in every case if he will only use good common sense in ap. plying Kendall’s Spavin Cure, and preserve in bad cases of long standing Read below the experience of others. FROM COL. L. T. FOSTER. Youngstown, ()., May 10 1880, Da- B. J. Krndall & Co., Orntb.-— I had a very valuable Hambletonian colt which I prised very highly, he had a large bone spavin on one joint and a smaller one on the other which made him very lame I had him under the charge of two Veterinary Surgeons which failed to cure him I 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 I would give it a thorough trial, I used it according to directionsand by the fourth day the colt ceased to be lame, and the lumps had entirely disappeared. I use d but one bottle and the colts limbs are as free from lumps and as smooth as any horse in the State. He is entirely cured. The cure was so remarkable that 1 let two of my neighbors have the remaining two bottlels who are new using it. Very repecstfuly,, L. T. FOSTER. Perseverance Will Tell. Stoughton, Mass., March 16, 1880. B. J. Krndall ft Co., justice to you and myself, I think I ought to let you know that I bare 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 to take the large one off and two for the small one. 1 have used ten bottles The horse is extremely well, not at all stiff, and ' no bunch to be seen or felt. This is a wonderful medicine. It is a new thing here, but if it does for *1! what ithas done for n e its sale will be very great. Respectfully yours, CHAS E PARKER. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE. Acme, Mich, Deo 28, 1879. Dr B J Kendall ft 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! ever used. Yoats respectfully, HOMER HOXIE From Kev P. w.Uranger Presiding Elder of the St Albans Dsstrict. • St Albans, Vt, Jan 20, 1880. Dr B J Ken.iall ft Co, Gents:—ln reply to your letter I will say that my experience with Kendall's Spivin Cure has been very ratisfoctary indeed Three or four years igo I procured a bottle of your ageni. an! with it cured a horse of Uimbium ised oy a spavin. Last season raj horse became Arae and I turned him out fora few weeks when he became better, but when I put lim on the road he grew worse, when I liscovered that a ringbone was forming, 1 oroctired a bottle of Kendall s Spavin Cure ind with less than a bottle cured him so hat he is not lame, neither can the bunch se 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, ■early half as largo as a hens egg, and ■ompletely stopped the lameness aud renoved the enlargement I have worked he horse ever since very hard, and never las been iame. nor could I ever see any lifferenee in the size of the hock joints dnee I treated him with Kendall's Spavin ?ure. P. A GAINES. Enosburgh Falls, Vt, Feb 25, 1879. Sworn aud subscribed to before me this 15th day of February A D 1879. JOHN G JENNE, Justice of Peaoe KENDALL’S SPAVIN CURE On human flesh it has been ascertainel by repeated trials to be the very best liniment ever used for any deep seared pain of long statnding, or of short duration. Also for corns, bunions, frost bites, or any bruise, cut Or lameness Some are afraid to use it on human fiesh simply because it is a horse medicine, but you should remember that what is good for beast is go d for man, and we know fn m experience ibat “Kendall s Spavin Cure can boused on a child 1 year old with perfect safety. Its effects are wonderful ou human flesh and it does not blister or make a sore. Try it and be convinced. What is Good for Beast is Good for Man. READ ITS MEFBCTS O» BWX4N FL Patten s Mills, Washington co, N Y, 1 February 21, 1878. J B J Kendall, M D, Dear Sir—The particolsr case on which I used your Kendrll s Spavin Cure was a malignam > kle sprain of sixteen months standing. I had tried many things, but in vain. Your “Kendall Spavia Cure ' put the foot to the ground again, aud, for the first time sin-e hurt, in a natural position. For a family liniment it excells anything weever usnl Yours truly, REV M P HELL Pastor M E church, Patten’s Mills, N Y . Bakersfield, Vt, Dec 2-’>, 1879 B J Kendall ft Co, Gents—l wish to add my testimony in favor of your invaluable liniment, “Kendalls Spavin Cun-' In the spring of 1872 I slipped en the e and sprained my right limb at the kini jmM I was very lame and at times suffere-l the most excruciating pain. I wore > bandage on it for over a year, and tried most everything in my reach, but could find nothing that would give m» 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; hut having some of “Kendall’s Spavin Cure’ thought I would try it. I used one-third* of a Lottie, and experienced relief at once. Thejsin left mean! 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, Mrs. J. Bovtrli.. KENDALL’S SPAVIN CURE. Kendall's Spavine Cure is sure in its effects. mild in its action as it does not blister, yet it is penetrating and powerful to reach any deep sealed yain or to remove any bony growib or auy other enlargement if use i for several days, such as spavins, splints, curbs, callous, sprains, swelling!, any lameness and all enlargements of the joints or limbs, or rheumatism in man aud 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 itseffec's. It is used full strength with perfect siiety at all seasons of the year. Send address for Illustrated Circular which we think gives jiositive proof of its virtues. No remedy hasever met with such unq'inlified success to oar knowledge, for beset as well as man. Price sl. per bottte. or six bottles for $5 All Drigoists hav> 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 ft CO. Enosbarg Falls, Vermont. vol. 25. no. 28—1 year. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGIST’S.