Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 11 November 1881 — Page 4

lia Herald THE GlFi WITHHELD. Lusty life, in whose veins, 'stead of blood, there pulsed tire. Close caught him, and bore to her Mount of Desire, And she showed him her world and the glory from there. “All this “halt be thine, if thou kneel down and swear To worship,” she said. And he bent low hi« head. “I am king of the world,” as ho rose, then he cried; Yea, one of the gods!” so exultant in pride, “Ye, the vessals of Life, haste to do my swift will. Bring me beakers of Joys, and see that ye fill, Rose-crowned, to the brim!” And they brought unto him. And he saw that the danghteisof mon, they were fair, God's san light was meshed in the gold of their hair, With the blue of His skies traced the delicate vein Os round limb; and white bust; His sunset’s warm tain Reddened lips made to kiss. Beauty taught him loves’ bliss. Aureoled with the splendors of glory s bright star, The laurels Fame gleans in the red Helds of war, They are chrismed with curses, and dewed with salt tears Os nations that shudder through hideous years, Bat applaud a great name —He was crowned thus by Fame. And he looked in the deep th’ unfathomable eyes Os Wisdom, who showed him her high mysteries. To him seeretest secrets of truth, she revealed Bent for him the veil that dark errorconcealed Till, through grandeur of law. Good and evil he ,aw. So life gave of her best, and he drank long and deep, Bnt turned from each draught to more bitterly weep. For pain struck against pain as waves dashed 'gainst a wall. TUI he cried out to Life, “It is weariness, all. And a soul death denied. Is not full satisfied.” Hetty A Morrison. THOMAS GARFIELD.

An Interview With the Brother of the Late President. A drive of sixteen miles from the brisk eitv of Grand Rapids down the road to Grandville and beyond leads one to the northeast corner of Ottawa county, Mich., a country beautiful enough in the main, and covered with a heavy growth of beech and hickory above which the tops of the pine appear solitarv or in dumps. Our mission was to find, for the Inter Ocean, a brother of the late President Garfield, said to be living in comparative obscurity somewhere in that neighborh<Before starting, political friends of Gen. Garfield in Grand Rapids was soughtout and questioned, and but few had heard of this brother. Maj. A. B. Watson, however, President of the Farmer’s and Mechanic s Lank, recalled the fact that three years ago the General had canceled »n engagement to speak in Grand Rapids tn order to drive south-west to his brother s hoube. Major Watson was asked to accompany him, nut could net, and hence knew nothing of the brother’s exact whereabouts. Other people were equally uninformed, and the

majority of the citizens had never even heard that the President had a relative in the state. The mission of your correspondent, therefore, was one almost of discovery, and right glad was he to learn from Postmaster Blake of the smart town of Grandville that Thomas Garfield, a bonafide brother of the President, lived some six miles beyond on the Griffith” place, purshased bv him a number of vears before. The road from Grandville to Garfield’s is followed with difficulty, for at almost every crossroad you turn south or west, until the highway is left far behind, and you reach the house of Thomas Garfield by a road so obscure as to resemble a bridle path. .... , Inquiries made of neighbors along the wav developed the fai ts tha'. Mr. Gat field was at home, and that he was a worthy man, in moderate circumstances, noted neither for superior intelligence nor thrift. But his home was reached shortly, and I c'imbed the hilly door yard to the front door of a one story house, built of wide pine boards, nailed upright and un-1 painted. Through the window’s of the principal room, which occupied ; half of the house, a spinning wheel, decked with fillets of wool, looked .Y. knock brought Mrs. Garfield, a

stout, pleasant lady of forty odd years, to the door. “Was Mr. Garfield tn ?” “No. but she would call him from the field.” The reporter offered to save her that trouble, and was directed to his whereabouts, “in the corn across the swamp,” and so at the end of a hillside field beside a shock of corn was found sitting the brother of the late lamented President of the United States. He was husking corn into a w’heel barrow. As Thomas Garfield looked up from

under his broken straw hat, his faee disclosed little to remind us of his illustrious relative. His complexion is light, and hair turning from brown to grav, while the beard, which grows full and thick, entirely covers the lower part of the face, and all but hides the broken teeth. “Yes,” said he, “I am James A. Garfield’s oldest bro-her. I am glad you have come to see me, and we’ll go into the house and have a talk," and he led the way with a vigorous stride that seemed at varience with his age and stooped shoulders. “I have been engaged all my life as you see me now, grubbing roots and splitting rails, and with these hands,” holding them out. “I have had to do •he nest 1 could in my humble way.” At the house the reporter was introduced to Mrs. Garfield, and all were soon at ease in the sitting room. The interior suggested the tidy housewife who makes the most of her surroundings The room was plainly and cheaply furnished, to be sure, and among the few pictures that hung on walls lithograph or painting of General Garfield there was none. “I shall be fifty-nine,’ said Mr. Garfield, “on the 16th of this month, and am the oldest son of Abraham Garfield, and the oldest child but one, a sister, Mrs. Trowbridge. In 1849 we were married at Warrensville, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. My wife’s name wrs Mary J- Harper, a native of M ine. Fourteen years ago I sold what personal property I had and came out to hunt a new home, and after going back again returned the next year and purchased forty acres. There were but few openings in the woods then, the only one here being

on the spot where this house stands. ( We had at first intended to settle at — ) where was that, dear?” “Owosso, rejoined the wife. <<Yes Owosso; but I finally came and began clear i.g the woods the place which I bought, payfron}J. i as I could. I nequently had ing tor i akene d my constitution fits/wnw 1 ihat mem ory now is and®ln<L hJ seemed to go poor. . * Four years ago our again 3 * nl •. j wc were able to house burned from the fiames.

“Oh, yea, Janies has always been kind toHie; lie gave me sso.’' “And has since.” pursued the reporter, “aided you on various occasions?” “Oh, yes, lie gave me $lO now and then, and was kind enough to come out here in the woods to see me three times.” “Then you have probably received in all about SI,OOO from him?” the reporter. “No, not so much in money. Twelve years ago lie purchased 40 acres adjoining the place and gave the deed to me. My son lives there, and you m ght have noticed his new frame house as you came along. He is 31 years of age now, a tall and likely young man, who is out to-day with a party of surveyors, AVe named him after his uncle, James Abraham Garfield.” “Yes,” added Mrs. G., “and he is the picture of James. None of his family look so much like him. We have but one more child, a daughter, and she too is married, and wt live here alone.” It was not a difficult task to to turn the attention of Mr. Gartild to the characteristics of his illustrious brother and their early life aftei the death of the father left Mother Garfield and her family of small children to face the world in poverty and alone. “I was a child between ten and eleven when father died.” said the old gentleman, “and Janies was the baby of eighteen months. Mother was often urged to find places for her children among neighboring friends, but she always refused, and eat in her home spinning and weaving for sueh people as would give her employment while I set out working with all my might among the neighbors to contribute what a child could for the family support. I used to earn 25 cents' per cord for cutting fifteenfoot wood, and from my slender earnings paid nine shiftings a bushel for meal, which I backed two miles and a half from the mill.” “Wasn’t it a mile and a half?” asked Mrs. Garfield.” “No,” replied the husband, with a keen remembrance of his poverty, which bad outlasted his brother's prominence, “it was two miles and a half. “And that winter mother wove a large piece of cloth for the children and I paid for the dyes to color it. James was seven years younger than the next oldest child and was teaching school when we were married. I well remember carrying him on my back to the school house when he was a child. His mind seenled fully occupied with his studies, and. if Ido say it myself James was a good and , smart man.” “What truth,” asked the Inter |

Ocean reporter, “is there in the story about James hiring out as a driver for a eanal boat ?” “Why,” replied Mr. G., “James never was regularly employee in the business. He hired to his cousin Amy Letcher, until something better turned up, and drove one round trip, aud was preparing to go on the second, when he fell sick and quit the business. He was the? fifteen or sixteen years old.” “When did you first hear of the the assassination of President Garfield.

“On the evening of the day it occurred, at 5 o’clock. A neighbor coming from Grand Rapids brought a copy of the Eagle with him for me. A dispatch was brought to the house from the nearest railway station later in the evening, and every day afterward until Harry Garfield returned to Williams College he sent mg a dispatch, which was brought over from Hudsonville or Grandville by friends. After Harry went back to college I heard nothing from the President until the dispatch came from Elberon i announcing his death, and signed by Mr. J. Stanley Brown.” “Why did you not go to Washing-! ton to visit the president during his illness?” asked the reporter. The old gentleman hesitated, and the reporter kindly suggested that perhaps the great expense incident to; the trip hindered him. “Yes,” said Mr. Garfield, “that was . it, and besides I had been told that nobodv would be admitted to see ’ him.”' “Did you attend the funeral at Cleveland'?” “Yes, sir. I was gone from home three days, and when I reached Cleveland was directed to go to the house of Mrs. Col. Sheldon, where mother and sister were.”

“I read,” said Mr. Garfield, “that Mother Garfield had said that James was her only son. This must be a mistake, for Mother was not the kind of a woman to disown her own children. She had too good a heart for that.” “What do you think will be the ultimate effect'of the death of James upon his mother’s health ?”

“I think,” said Mr. Garfield, “that she w ill yet experience a relapse, for she was so much wrapped up in James. lean never forget,” added he, “the last time I met him. It was at Mentor, last New’ Year’s, when we held the family meeting. No money could buy of me the remembrance of our parting. He took me by the hand and said: ‘You are going back to your peaceful home, while I must encounter trouble and anxiety increasing.” The reporter shook hands with the president's brother and wife, and Mr. Garfield said in conclusion: “You may tell your people that you have seen the humble farmer,” to which Mrs. Garfield added the request that the report of the interview might be sent to them “at Jamestown, Ottawa county. We live on Section 11,” she said.

A glance around the place showed a few improvements. An arbor hung with grape vines led down to the gate, ‘ and a corn crib and one other sina'.U dwelling were visible, but there was! no sight of barn or stable or shelter for a possible and unseen horse or cow. “How often do you go to Grand Rapids?” asked the reporter, turning back. “Only once a year,” said Mr. Garfield. “and we go up then to buy clothing. What grain we raise is hauled to neighboring villages gener- | ally by my son, James.”—[Correspondence of the Chicago Inter Ocean. How Gould’s Riches Increase. A New York letter to the Cincin- ! nati Gazette says: “The wonderful railroad autocrat is increasing his em-! pire at the rate of a half dozen millions a year, the acquisition being the elevated road. He found the stock selling at an lucrative figure and at once purchased a controlling interest. As soon as this was known quotations began to advance. Gould now controlls the longest and shortest steam roads in America —the Union Paciffic on the one band and the Ni-w York Elevated on the Jotfier. Everybody now predicts that he will bring the latter out of all its difficulties, but this

is'a labor which will certainly test his genius to its extreme capacity. He has also had a tremendous task in the New Jersey Central, whose condition is not altogether satisfactory.” Japan has enacted a code 'of criminal procedure and a penal code based on the code Napoleon and framed by i a French jurist. They retain the an- > eient customs and laws of Japan so r far as is consistent with the spirit of > modern jurisprudence. Hanging is , substituted for beheading, and all . classes are subjected to the same punishments and procedure, from a noble t of the highest castle down to the j poorest laborer. This is a great step tor Japan.

SOME ODD ACCIDENTS. How Certain Silly or Unlucky Persons Have Recently been Injured or Killed At Pine Bluff, Ark., a sheriff’s posse surrounded the residence of a desperate thief. Hejumped from a window and ran for the woods. One pursuer outstrip ed his fellows, and the next fleetest mistook him for the thief aud shot him. At Rock Castle, Ky., as the Rev. Mr. Petrey entered a house, a hen flew in and perched on a hanging rifle; it fell, and falling on the lock was discharged, and killed the minister. At Kansas City, as a man was sitting ou the balcony of his house, a steamboat ran into it and crushed him to death. (This was during the April floods.) At Baltimore, a man who was being shaved heard a runaway, ami, thinking it was his team, jumped up and had his nose nearly cutoff. At Canton, 0., Janies Little drank some eoid beer which paralyzed his stomach and, forming carbonic acid gas, charged his whole system, causing instantaneous death. At West Point, Lieutenant Archibald Gibson could not, while on parade, lift his hand to remove a spider from his ear, tor a whole hour. When parade was dismissed his ear was full of blood. The insect was only taken out two days later and Lieutenant Gibson ultimately died of inflamma-

tion of the brain. At Charleston, Mass., Alfred Anderson crawled into a sand-house he built, and it fell iu on him and smothered him. At Nanticoke, Pa., John Dafsehusk broke a bottle of whisky in bis pocketi saturating his clothes: when he sub, seqently lit a match they took fireand hd was fatally burned. In Adair county, Me., two young men agreed to be photographed with pistols drawn on each other. The artist, while arranging its position, discharged one of the pistols, shooting the opposite sitter through the lungs. At Eastport, Me. a sailor, wanting a drink of water and finding the cask pump frozen, poured hot water into it, and while attempting to suck a drink from it inhaled the steam and was scalded to death. At Pittsburg, Mike Maroaey entered a core oven in a foundry to warm himself, and other workman placed a core on the truck, ran it in, closed the door and roasted him alive.

At Rixford, Pa., Garthwait lowered a forty-quart torpedo of nitro-glycer-ine into a well, when the well made a sudden flow, struck the torpedo and blew him to pieces. At Green Ridge, Pa., Johu Thomp- > son and his brother tried to stop a I dog fight, and the latter threw a stone at the animals and, missing them, i smashed his brother’s skull. At St. Louis, Thomas J, Wharton, jr., took up a large oyster, said, “This is the kind of oyster Walter Brooks choked to death on!” tried to swallow it, and was choked to death. At Creedmour, a friend snapped a cherry pit at Lieutonaiit W. A. Moore,and hit him in the eye. It struck the optic nerve, causing paral- ; ysis and congestion of the bra n, and - he nad a narrow escape from death. ’ At Louisville an old man aimed a kick at his wife, lost his balenee, fell and was fatally injured. At Indianapolis, the weight of a casket of water smashed the teeth of a “Man With the lion Jaw,” and falling on his breast killed him. At Dovercoat, England, a boy named Boast, swallowed the sting of a wa-p, while eating some preserves, aud died while Tuning to the doctors. At Boston, Simon Long, while playing with the cat in his hallway, made a misstep and fell against the wall and broke his neck.

At Dublin, Ga., a chimney swallow filled the muzzle ot Wm. Swigg’s gun with claw, and when he disaharged it the weapon blew off his hand. At Neodosha, Minn., Albert Grant I was playing with a New Foundland dog and'dragging it by the tail, when it jumped intothe pond pulling him, in and he was drowned. The Wages of Artist’s Models. “Models are plenty as beggais,” said one speaking of Paris. “There are men and women of all sizes, colors and nationalities, and they all have children whom they are willing j to let. or sell outright if you would take them. You can ge't a whole family to pose for you for ten francs a day. In the little class al the Acad emy here I think the instruction is< excellent, but they have to rely on , four or five models the year round, i and the students are forever drawing . the same man or woman.” “I have noticed too.said Mr; Sword, i “that they draw them in the same |h>sition alawys, and give no attention i to the composition of the picture. ; Take a new figure, no matter how good it is, it cannot make a picture in itself, Think of Hans Makart’s March of Charles IV., or Couture’s Decline of Rome, in which there are a score or more of nude figures. The great merit in the work, however, is in the composition, the grouping, and in the color.” Mr. Hahswasof the opinion that if Professor Faktus, of the Academy, taught students how to draw the figures the rest would come afterward. Mr. De Grano said that figure paint era w ere at a disadvantage in Philadelphia because there no models to be had. “We have to get our friends to pose,” said he, “and'even then I have had to paint a blonde from a brunette model, or vice versa. Young ladies in society sometimes make very beautiful models,’, he added, “but they are often surprised to find that posing for a picture was not an easy thing, and that sitting or standing in one position for four or five hours was as difficult for one who was unused to it as any other kind of work, and much more trying on the nerves.” For models such as can be had artists pay fifty cents an hour for costume ladies, or seventyfive cents for undraped figures. Mr. De Grano said that he had had one picture unfinished for months for want of a suitable

female figure. In Europe they were pieuty at JI or $5 per day although Lefevre, Meseonler, and other celebrated painters paid very large prices for famous models. The Wrong Piece. Only a short time since it was the unpleasant duty of the Courier to i give an account of a fight that occurred at Schnepper’s saloon, near : the Louisville and Nashville depot, in which both combatants used their teeth to good (or bad; effect. It will be remembered that Smock lost a piece of his chin in the fight, and Sehnepper the left aide of his nose. Just as the fight was brought toaclosean.l the parties separated, a gang of railroad boys came up to see what was going on. Entering the saloon they saw Sehnepper in a deplorable condition, bleeding very proftrsely and doing his utmost to stop the flow of blood. Learning his loss, they consulted together a few m inminutes, and finally one of them said: “Charlie, if you have the piece, and it is atill warm, apply it to its proper place and it will grow on again." But Charlie had not the piece, and so informed his friends, at which they immediately went outand commenced a vigilant search. With their lanterns to aid them they began poking around in the mud, and after awhile were rewarded byfinding a piece of flesh that answered d the daecrfptioh very well. They informed Sehnepper of their find and ■ suggested that he apply it at once. - ! Another difficulty presented itself—--1 11 I *. .A**?? v-as cold—and another PI bright light’ in the partv recom- | mended him to hold it in his hand

until it became warm, which be did. When it arrived at a certain temperature it was placed in proper position and secured there by strips of court plaster. The doctor, who had been summoned to attend the wound arrived in the course of time and proceeded to fix up the job. Removing the plaster he saw the piece of tiesh that had been stuck on and asked what it was. Schnepper replied that it was the missing portion when the doctor replied with considerable emphasis: “H—11! this has hair on it. Had it grown there you would have had a beard on your nose.” The truth flushed across all atonee. Instead of the part of Schnepper's nose it was the piece frem Smock's chin that had been found. FOR THE CHILDREN. The Song of the Squirrel. Chip. i>«*p! Chip, peep! Wh»t a sham* To th a name Os that horrid great creator* < ailed man I At the rise of the san. To come out with a gun, And pursue us wherever they m*. Ker, chip! Ker, Chip! We declare ’lls'nt fair To keep us lu consUat a'arm* For a man Is *o tall. And a squirrel so small. They ought to protect us from harm. Chip, peep! Chip, peep: When we play, Through the day. We must never forget to be shy. 0. ‘’bang” goe* a gun, ▲nd It spoils a>l 00. fun When we fall from a tree-top and di*. —[Youth’s Companion.]

The Pet Squirrel. A great man was ill; the greatest man in all the land—the greatest man In the whole world, the children thought. Now they had one pet and beloved plaything, and what do you ! think it was? Don’t guess dolls and balls and marbles, or dogs or kittens lor such improbable things. No; their pet was a lively little squirrel, who lived contentedly in a wire house of hisown.and used to eat nuts out of the children’s hands whenever they came to visit him. Amy found him when he was a bit of a baby squirrel, lying on the ground at the foot of a great oak-tree iu the park. Now, whether he had fallen out of his home, and his mother had so many other children that she never missed him, or whether his mother had been killed and her baby had fallen into the cold, cruel world i while he was hunting about the squir-rel-house for her, nobody ever knew. At any rate, here he was, a poor little | helpless, shivering baby, and Amy i spied him. Now, grandma Burton loves her | grandchildren very much, only she bad “ideas” about bringing them up. But the ideas had never included or - thought about spuirrels. So she i couldn’t help saying “yes” to Amy’s pleading face and coaxing voice that begged to be allowed to keep the squirrel. So a tine new cage was bought for this four-footed baby to set un housekeeping in, aud he soon came to know that Amy and Paul were his very best friends. Aud oh, how much they loved him I

Now to go way back to the great man who was ill—so sick that from day to day the whole nation waited anxiously to know if lie was only just a little better. Tne children waited and were anxious, too. Every morning alter the paper had come, and Grandma Burton was reading it, they tip-toed carefully into the dining room hand-in-hand, and stood waiting patiently, as they had been taught to do, until grandma looked up with a “well, chibiiren?” “How isthe great man, Grandma?” they would ask. And their faces were bright or sad, just as the answer was that he was better or worse: for he was such a good man that all the children ioved him, and wanted him to get well, and asked the great Father of all to make him well again in their prayers every day. Tnereeame a morning at last when the news was very good indeed. The great roan is ever so much better,” Grandma Burton said,“ever so much, and he thinks that if he only had some squirrel soup to eat he should like it very much.” “borne squirrel stup.” The children went out of the great room hand-in-hand, through the long hall, and iato the terrace before either of them said a w’ord. Then Amy drew a long breath and said: “We ll have to do it, Paul.” “Yes” said Paul, soberly, “we will.” “Our squirrel is not very large, and he won’t make very much*soup,” said the children, “but he is all the one we had aud we loved him very much, aud we hope he’ll make the dear, good, great man well. I know you”ll be glad to hear, little children, that the great man wouldn't have the children's treasure killed, no matter how much he longed fora taste of squirrel soup. And he had a letter written to tell the children that he should keep him as long as he lived, even if he gre'v to be the oldest squirrel that ever was, to remind him of the little chiieren who did what they could.—[Churchman.]

Some Hints to Boys. .iv id that which you see amiss in others. Follow the examples only of the good. Keep your ears open to all that is ; worth hearing, and closed to all that ; is notAn older person’s experience is of bo value to you unless you profit by , it. , ‘ You are not building on the future, but on the past and present, , Evil communications corrupt good manners. Nobody wants to deal with a double minded boy.

Be industrious: tbe world wants boys who are not afraid of hard, steady work. Ihe empty vessel makes the greatest sound. Some boys inherit good fortunes, but no boy ever inherited a scaolarship, a good character or a useful life. If you would be capable, cultivate your mind; If you would be loved, your heart. Never excuse a wrong action by saying some one else doss the sama thing; tfila ia no excuse at al) How Far Wrong is this “Old Maid?’’ She had been called an old maid, and rather resented it. She said: “I am past thirty. I have a good home. I think you know I have had abundant opportunities to marry. I have been bridesmaid a score of times. I ask myself with which one of the beautiful girls that I have seen take the marriage vow would I exchange to-day ? Not one. Some are living apart from their husbands; some are divorced; some are the wives of drunken men some are hanging on the ragged edge of society, endeavoring, to keep up appearances; some are toiling to support and eductate their children, and these are the least miserable; some tread the narrow line beyond the bouudery of which lies the mysterious land, and some have gone out, in the darkness and unknown borders, and some are dead, i A few there are loved and honored wives, mothers with happy homes; but, alas! only a very few.”

Tbe New York Central will put on fast train to Chicago.

Among the Quakers, the marriage ceremony is of the simplest character. At some 'week day sheeting the loving couple stand up in the congregation and John says: “Friend Mary, I take thee for my wife;” aud she replies: “friend johu, I take thee for my husband,” and the ceremony is ended. There is no marriage ring, no flowers, no cards. Every tnnig is of the very essence of simplicity. Aud yet, did anybody ever near of a Quaker divorce? Cbieago. Flour—Dull and nominal. Grain—Wheat active aud firm ; No 2 Chicago spring, $1 30> 4 @l 30; a ; No 3 Chicago spring, $1 17; rejected, 95@ 97c. Corn in good demand at full nrices; 62 5 4@62’ 8 . Rye easier at 99c. Barley steady aud unchanged at $1 08. Flaxseed-Strong and higher; good crushing, $1 47@1 damaged, $125. Provisions—Pork, demand active; j sl6 50(817 00 cash; $1635 November; sl6 45 December; sl7 uary. Lard active but lower: sll 30 <Bll 35 eash and November; sll 47'j @ll .50 December; sll 60(811 62’., January. Bulk meats dull, weak and lower; shoulders, $6 87tj@7 00; short rib, $8 90(88 95; short clear, $4)30(8] 9 35. Whisky—Steady and unchanged atl $1 15. ' | Call—Wheat irregular at $1 31. Com steady and unchanged. Oats! irregular at Pork dull and I lower sl6 30 November; sl7 55 January. Lard dull and lower; sll 30 asked November; sll 40asked Deeemt«er; sll 55 asked January. Hogs—Receipts, 33,000 head; shipments, 3,400 head; only moderately active, mainly for choice; quality of offerings fair, and generally s@loc lower; mixed packing, $5 95(86 25; I choice heavy, $6 3C@6 90; light, $5 75 (85 90; culls and grassers, $3 50@5 25; market closed weak, with manyoommon unsold.

Cattle—Receipts, 6,500; shipments, 2,000; market fairly active and steady; exports, $6.50(87.25; good to choice shipping, $5 50(86.00; common to fair, 4,00(85.25; range cattle steady; Texas cows, $2 [email protected]; haff-breeds, $3.75(8 4.50; butchers unchanged; cows, $2.20 4.00; steers, [email protected]; bulls, $ 'o@ 3.60; stockers more active, $2 90: i; >0; stock calves, [email protected] per bead; feeders, [email protected]. Sheep — Receipts, 2,000; exports, 400; market steady; common to medium, [email protected]; good to choice, $4.20 @4.75; extra, [email protected]; Texas aud Territory, [email protected]. New York Produce. Flour—Dull; superfine and state western,[email protected]; common to good, extra, [email protected]: prime to good, choice, [email protected]; white wheat, extra, [email protected]; extra Ohio. $5.50(8 9.00; St. Louis, [email protected]; Minnesota patents. [email protected]. Grain —Wheat 1 @l%c higher; fairly active; ungraded red, [email protected]; No 3 do, *[email protected]^: steamer do, $1.30@ 1.32; No 2jed,51.43 1 [email protected]‘- 2 ; new and old steamer, No 2 red, No 1 red, $1.45% @1.46'2; ungraded white,[email protected]. Com ,%@; 8 chigher; ungraded, 65@70%e; No 3,69 c; steamer, 69@69' S c; No 2, 69?4@70b!c; No 2 white, 74c; low mixed, 71@71.%c; steamer yellow, 72%c; steamer white, 72c. Oats stronger, closing weak; mixed western, 45@48c; white do, 50 @s4c.

Provisions—Pork dull and nominal; new mess, $lB 00. Cut meats dull and easier; long, clear middles, $9 25: short do, $9 50. Lard lower and heavy; prime steam, sll 50@ll 55. Buffer —Dull and unsettled at 14@ 36c. Cheese —Dull and nominal at 8(2 12J$c. Baltimore. Flour—Quiet and unchanged.

Grain—Wheat western strong; No 2 winter red. spot and November, $1 39?»@1 40; December, $1 ! 1 44\ ; January, $1 4-5 3 j <Bl4o 7 i; February, $1 41’4 @1 42. Corn, western firmer; mixed, spot and November,67 @7l}ac; December, 71Jj@71t£e; January, 73?4 Z @74c. Oats firmer and quiet ■ western white, 50@51t mixed, 48(g4Sc; Pennsylvania, Y9@soe. Rye steady. Hay—Quiet. Provisions—Quiet and easy; mess pork, |lB 50; bulk meats, loose shoulders nominal; clear rib sides nominal; packed, $8 7S@lO 75; bacon and shoulders, $9 75; clear rib sides, til 25; hams, sl4 00(815 00. Lard, 412 75. Butter—Firmer; for choice western grass. 15@25c. Eggs—Scarce and firmer; fresh,2sc. Petroleum —Dull and nominal. Coffee —Firm and quiet. Sugar—Dull. Whisky—Lower at $1 17(81 17 1 ,. Cincinnati. Flour—Easier; family, $6 50@7 50; fancy, $7 10(87 75. Grain—Wheat quiet; No 2 red, $1 41 > a . Corn dull and lower; No 2 mixed, 67c; new ear, 50c. Oats quiet; No 2 mixed 44(844'40. Rye firm at $108(81 09. Barley in fair demand; No 2 fall, $1 13@1 14. Provisions —Pork quiet at sl9 00. Lard dull st sll 35. Bulkmeats scarce at $7 00@9 00. Bacon scarce, firm and unchanged. Whisky—Active and firm atsl 11. Combination sales of finished goods, 623 barrelst on a basis of $1 13. Butter—Dull, weak and lower; creamery, 37c; choice western reserve, 26c; choice central Ohio, 20c. Hogs—Steady; common and light. $4 60(86 00; packing and butcher’s, $5 75(86 40; receipts, 5,000; shipments, 1,100. Toledo. Noon board—Grain —Wheat weak; No 2 red spot and November $135. Corn weak; No 2 spot and November, , 6314 C; 64c asked. Oats steaty; No 2 j 44kc. Closed—Wheat firmer and higher; No 2 red spot. $1 35* 4 Nojvember. Corn firmer;No2 spot and 1 November $1 63? ac asked. Liberty. Cattle —Receipts, 442: best. $6 00(8 6 25; fair to good, $5 00@5 50; com--1 mon, $4 00(84 50. Hogs—Receipts, 1,600; PhiladeiI phias, $6 60@6 90; Yorkers, $5 65(8 :«00. Sheep—Receipts, 600; selling bo oft. Daughters, Wwes.Mothers, • ■ • f Dr. J. B. MARCHISI, t UTICA, N.Y, » dicCOvzrib of DR MARCHISI’S f UTERINE ( ATHOLK ON 1 ' A POSITIVE CURE FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS. ’ 1 Thw Remedy wU ac in harmony with the 1 • Female at al.’ time* end aleo immediately » I anon the abdominal and uterine mitfc’ee and $ restore them to a healthy and strong conn;non. L Dr Marchisi's Uterine Catholics will cure 7 i fallina of the Womb. Lenccorrhce*, Chronic In--1 flanima’ion and UJcvratiou of the womb. Incidcn x tai Hemorrhage or Flooding. Pain faSuppre»«ed j and Irregular Menstruation. Kidney Complaint. • and i* especially adapted to the Change of Life. . Send for pamphlet, tree. All letter’ of inquiry j freely anewered. Addre#« a? a M»ve. 1 FOK SALK BY ILL DRIGGISrS. J Price fl ft) per bottle. Be sure and atk for I *r. Marchjefa Uterine Cathol.con T-.kr i<< other. j For sale by A. R. Pierce kC J Dorwin & HclthoueeJ

SMITH, LONGENBERGER i CO. DIAURS 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 tind -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 -STALL E——SMITH 4 LONGENBERGER——wiII run * first-class— LI VERT 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 1116. Toledo, Delphos & Bu lington R. R. !•> 3 1 Cviuiubaa Time, i 2 4 | pm am }m I •am pm !am 1 00 12 110 8 35 It Buffalo... ar| 4 UH 15 7 40 pm ana am | ;>m am 7 25 7UC 305 I v...Cl«T®land...ar lu It 22' 1 45 rb :am pm ; fm tm l am 15; 750 750 It Detr’tar Blbl 21 110 am ’pm am pm *m • m 7 30 5 15 I 45 It ... Toledo._..ar 5 45 8 25 6 tu 8 4V 6 52 9 16 ... fioutli Toledo ... '. 14 7 4w, 5 52 » 18 613 9 86W atetT’ie ... 4 55, 455 505 10 18 6 45 10 Operand lUpidt... 4 25 4 25 3 46 11 12 7 11 10 81 Gre’ltou 3 59 6 29 3 63 P* ! 7 40 11 Holgate 3 29 6 ri> 1 05 158 pa 11 30 ...North Creek 3 00 am 12 10 3 oft. 11 66« Dupont 2 31 10 M 3 35 ; pm J«r Rftnutown..* 2 18 10 27 4 lb 12 34 . Ft Janntug.. ... 1 5€ 9 40 4 55! u 50-ar....Del. hoe ... It 1 40 9 10 IT |ii”i t j s in is am * Ma pm 716 150 It ... Delphoe ... ar 125 pm 430 8 00* 2 15 ... Venedocia am 3 42 8 63 2 47'...-Enterprise 2 28, 2 47 958 3 20... Willshire 1155 10ft IV 19 3 31 ...Plaaaant Milla... H 44 12 25 11 25 3 50} Decaturll 25 11 4C12 10| 4 06jPeterson 'll I'M 11 00 12 33| 4 17 10 58 10 37 1 s«| 4 44Bluffton.10 31 9 00 2 2M 5 01 ..LibertjCentre... 10 14 • 23 2 51| 5 16;.Buckeye 9 69 T 51 8 15 6 29 .Warren 9 46 7 28 3 55 6 471 Van uren . 9 28 6 50 4 60 6 Ot- 6 15s . North Marion... 9 CO ft 15 6 00 rm 8 40| 760 i 715 335 am 19 9I 1 | Daytos Drr. t 10 [2O am am pm I pm pm pm 6 00| 1 30 ar 1 30( 7 35 |H< Igate am »ar...Delphos ..It llt ... Delphos... jar « 32 1 <7 ..Southworthl2 5® 7 06 6bh 200_. Sr encerrllle 12 45. 642 7 32 2 18 ..lonnellsTille ... 12 27 6 10 7 57 2 32Mendon 12 13 6 46 10 3 8 3lz 11 » 7 56 3 12 Il 16 6 17 3 29 Montezuma- 11 15 7 37 2 03 ll 44 8 j 344 ...C’icbaaaw 11 Olj 721 136 11 57, 6 39 3 61 St. Johne Lu 54 7 13 1 23 12 45 4 Obj 4 C 8 Oegnod 10 3’ 6 6f ,12 45 1 23 4 3*l 4 3oVernalise 10 15 6 34111 56 2 28 5 02 6 02 CoTingt’n 9 43l ft 0210 48 2 66 6 18 5 18 ... Pleaaant Hill_ • 27 5 4E 10 18 3 37 8 2« 5 39 ...Weat Milton. . 9 uft- 6 SO 9 39 4 08 R 49 5 56 UnionJ 8 49 5 • 05 4 36. 8 55 6 01 .... Harriaburg 8 44 4 59 8 44 5 25 9 19 625 Stillwater Jnnct’n 8 201 4 35 7 25 pm ‘ 9 4<> 6 45Dayton t 00| 4 15 7.00 am Ipm Lebanon am pm am I I j Cin in’ati W. W. RHODES, Gen Paa, Agt. S. G SfcFLaa. Generei Manager

Brand Rapids 4 Indiana and Cincinnati Richmond 4 Fort Warne Railroads. Tl™. table taking effect Hundey October SI. 1881. r HAIMS obisS~NOBTH? ~ cr.Tiose. No.l 31 0.l HoA Ita.7 Cincinnati I | 8 15 am ! ‘ Richmond ....I 1 OSpco 11 Id Wlacheeter 419 13 14 I. Bldffcvlllc 444 1238 pm Portland t It 107 Dcoenir ! ( 28 3 30 Tort Wayne.... Ari 7 a 330 L.Z.i Lt IM SKmb lbw yickaborg 706 641 12 35 Kuamaaoo ..... Ar 7SV IK 13 M - __ , Lt 806 740 la Grand Baplda.. .Ar 10 00 9 50 4S _ Lr 8 00am 10 30 IU Howard Olty aS3 11 M 547 BeM (Jltr Ar ;H «o 1 30 8 17 _ Lt ,11 50 1 40 8 87 OedUlao Ar U3opm 305 10 00 | 17 30 Mfcctlnaw I ’ OadUlae.. .... ar "Ci 1115 1 *' ’ U » I J »am ‘.3 i 2 JIS Grand BaffMa.... ar 740 Z":"? 4M pm KIM Grand Baplda... .It 780 am . ....... I 4 45 1X pm Kalamaaoo ar 9 80 S 45 3(0 Kalamaaow Jt 9 S 3 700 3SJ Vtckebarg 10 01 .7 0S Stt Fort . ar 110 pm 11 00 ?1 j Fort Warn* .... It 100 826 an Fort land . 4 10 B M*?lbcheater BOF |• 14 H ch mood 4 2U 1C 10 n‘ i n natl I 2 10 1 20poJ *' ’' ’’ ’ A Agay Hie residence of Claries E. Merritt near Eaton Rapids,Michigan, burned, together with most of the contents, loss, $5,000

A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DKATUR, INDIANA. Office in Hsuston’g Block, up-stairs. Will attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Residence »n north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart's Mill. 25jy79tf K B. Au.noN.rrw’t. w. H Nisi.icn.CMhisr. p. STniAßAksa, Vice Pros t. THE ADAMS COUNTY 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 PETERSON & HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. DECATUB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and titles co real estate. Are No Uries Public and draw deeds aud mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2. I. 0 0. F. building. 25jy79tf FRANCE 4 KING. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DBCATDR.INDIANA. ~E. n/ wicks, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DECATUB, INDIANA. All legal business promptly attended to. Office up stairs in Stone s building lihdoor. v25n24 year 1. B. R. FREEMAN, M. I)., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwin & Holthouse s Drug Store Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe. Professional calls promptly attended. Vol. 26 No. 22. ts. J. T. BAILEY, ATT Y AT LAW $ J. P., DECATUR, INDIANA. Will Practice in Adams and adjoining Counties. Collections a specialty. v2*n29tf S. G? HASTINGS, M. D. HOMOEOPATH IST PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. DECATUR, INDIANA. All calls day or night promptly attended to. Office iu Studabsker s building, first door sou'll of Court House Square. Vol. 25 No. 14.

THE DECATUR WOOLEN MILLS RUNNING AGAIN! Having purchased the Eicher Woolen Mills wc are prepared to announce to the public generally that we have for sale at Bottom Prices at our factory ou the corner of Ist and Jefferson streets a fine line of strictly A.ILL WOOL GOODS, Os our 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 any exchange for goods. Call and seeourstock ofFLANNELS, BLANKETS. SATTINETS, JEANS and STOCKING YARNS befonpurchasing elsewhere, we promise to furnish you a better article for LESS UOHEY! Than you can buy anywhere else. MYERS BROS. Decatn r May 5, 1881. ts Employment for all —TO—SELL * HOUSEHOLD ARTICLE

The poor as well as the rich, the old as well as the young, the wife, as well as the hutband, 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 giro you employment, all the time, or during your spare hours only; traveling, or in your own neighborhood, among your friends and acquaintances. If you do not eare 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 you a good many dollars. Do not neglect the opportunity. You 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. Wi sxxn ruu particulars free. Address, BUCKEYE MTG CO. (Name this paper.) Marios, Ohio. no 28 m 6. An Old Coin’s History. Mr. William McClintock, proprietor of the Downington marble works, West Chester, Pa., is in possession of a five-dollar gold piece, dated 1807, that has connected with it quite an interesting history. He received it this week from Mrs Mary Ann Tay> lor, in whose possession it has been since 1847, when it was bequeathed to her by her father, Casper Peterman, who died in that year. Mr. Peterman had owned it since 1812. It came into his possession as his first earnings after he arrived in this country. We said while he lived “it should never be spent unless it had to go for bread.” For sixty-nine years it has never been in circulation. Mrs. Taylor had intended to present it to her nephew, Samuel Jones, who died last year, on his becoming of age, but this being denied her, she Invested it as part pay for a cradle enclosure for her grave.

KENDALL’S SPAVIN CURE. / TkendaleslW CUREj Fl J A It cures Spavins, Splints, Curbs, Si b 2 bones and all similar blemishes, and r , moves the bunch without blistering. Forman it is now known to be one as the best, if not the best liniment ev er j,,. covered. We feei positive that every man can have perfect success in every case if u will only use good common eense in plying Kendall's Spavin Cure, and p r ,' serve in bad cases of long standing R ei; below the experience of others FROM COL. L. T. FOSTER. * Youngstown, 0., May 10 18go Dr- B. J. Kendall & Co., Gents—l a very valuable Hambletonian colt which 1 prised very highly, he had a large bone spavin on one joint and a smaller one oa the other which made him very lame; I tai him under the charge of two Veterinary Surgeons which failed to cure him 1 WIJ one day reading the advertisement of R eo . dall’s Spavin Cure in the Chicago Express I determined atonee to try it and got our Druggist here to send for it, they ordered three hotties; I took them sail and thought I would give it a thorough trial, I use j according to directions and by the fourth day the colt ceased to be lame, and the lumps had entirely disappeared. [ used but one bottle and the colts limbs are ss free from lumps and as snooih as anr horse In the State. He is entirely cured The cure was so remarkable that I’let t w , of my neighborshave the remaining t» u bottlels who are now using it. Very repecstfuly,, L T FOSTER. Perseverance Will Tell. Stoughton, Mass., March 16, 1880 B. J. Kendall fit Co., OrntsAh justice to you and myself, I think 1 ought to let you know that I bare removed two boae 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. I have used ten bottles The horse is extremely well, not at all stiff and no bunch to be seen or felt. This is a w )n . dertul medicine. It is a new thing here but if it does for all what itbas done for n e its sale will be very great. Respecfully yours, CHAS E PARKER KENDALL’S SPAVIN CURE. Acme, Mich, Dee 28, 1879. Dr B J Kendall A Co. Gents—l sent you one dollar for your Kendall s Spavin Cure last eummer which cured a bone spavin with half a botll**. The best liniment 1 ever used. Y'ouis respectfully, HOMER HOXIE From Her P. .w.ttraiiger Presiding Elder of the St Albans Destrict. St Albans, Vt, Jan 20, 18c0. Dr B J Kendall a: Co, Gents:——in reply to your letter I will say that my experience with Kendall's Sptvln Cure has been very tatisfoetary indeed- Three or four years tgo I procured a bottle of your agen:. and with it cured a horse of laments'caused by a spavin. Last season my horse became ‘ante aud I turned aim out for a few weeks »ben he became better, but when 1 put tim on the road he grew worse, when 1 iiscovered that a ringb .ne was forming, I procured a bottle of Kendall's Spavin Cure and with less than a bottle cured him so hat he is not lame, neither caa the bunch >• found. Respectfully yours, P N GRANGER. Statement Made Under Oath. To whom it may concern- In the year 1875 I treated wiih Ken 101 l s Spavin Cure, t bone spavin of several months growth, tearly half as largo as a hens egg. and lompletely stopped the lameness and renoved the enlargement. I have worked he horse ever since very hard, and never its been lame, nor eould I ever see any iifference in the siie of the bock joints tince I treated him with Kendall s Spavin ?ure. R A GAINES. Enosburgh Falls, Vt, Feb 25, 1879. Sworn and subscribed to before me this 15th 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 any bruise, cut or lameness Some are afraid to use it on human fi*sh simply because it is a horse medioine, but you should remember that what is good for heast is goid for man. aud we know fn ni experience that “Kendall’s Spavin Cure sn he used on a child 1 year old with perfect safety. Its effects are wonderful on human flesh and it docs not blister or msks a sore. Try it and be convinced. What is Good for Beast is Good for Man. READ ITS BTraCTS OH HUMAN FLESH! Patten s Mills. YVashington eo. N Y’,l February 21, 1878. j B J Kendall, M D, Dear Sir—The particular case on which I used your 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 sin’e hurt, in a natural position. For a family liniment it excells anything weever used Yours truly, REV M P BELL. Pastor M E church, Patten's Mills, N 1 Bakersfield, Vt, Dec 23, 1879.

B J Kendall & Co, Gents—l wish to add my testimony in f»vor of your invaluable liniment, “Kendall s Spavin Cure.' In the spring of 1872 I slipped on she ice snd sprained my right limb at the knee join: 1 was very lame and at times suffered the most excruciating pain. I wore a bandage en it for over a year, and tried mutt everything in my reach, but could find nothing that would give me 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 “Kendalls Spavin Cure thought I would try it. I used one-third of a bottle, and experienced relief at once. The pwn 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, Mrs. J. Boutell. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE. Kendall s Spavine Cure is sure in its effects, mild in its action as it does not blister, yet ills penetrating and powerful to reach 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 joints 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 address for illustrated Circular which we think gives positive proof of its virtues. No remedy hasever met with such unqualified success to our knowledge, for beast as well as man. Price sl. per bottte. or six bottles fors ' All Drlcgists hav* it or can get it for you, or it will be sent to any aadress on receipt of price by the proprietors. DR. J. B KENDALL A CO. Enosburg Falls, Vermont vol. 25. no. 28-« l year. 6OLD BY ALL DRUGGIST'S.