Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 13 January 1882 — Page 4

HOUSE ANO Home, The’ opinion of Dr. Peeholier, an enii ent French physician, is now cited in tavorof milk diet in the treatment of disease of the heart. A complete cure for danuruffis said to he ettnoed by washing with a solution of borax once each tenth <!ay,and using bay rum each alternate day. At first use it every day. No person bolting their food, can ever have a clear fresh skin, because the digestion will have a stoppage somewhere and this will produce a sickly, vellow, faded anpearance on the skin. The extraordinary exhilerating power of laughing gas is weli known; but a similar property has been discovered in a liquid mixture of phosphate of soda and the tincture of the ergot of rye. It is stated that Mr. Gladstone has found the house temporarily rented by Lord Aberdeen at Mill Hill so convenient, and the air of the place so healih giving, that he is disposed to become its tenant himself for a lengthened period. Mill Hill is probably the most retired spot now remaing within ten miles of London, and it presents quite the appearance of a country village. The following receipt for removing the stains of copying-ink from linen may be relied on: Make a strong solution of good bleaching powder (chlorinated lime) in cold water and apply to the stains; then apply a strong aqueous solution of oxalic acid (cold). Repeat if necessary until the stains disappear, then rinse thoroughly in cold water. Cideb Jelly.—One box of gelatine, one-half pound ot sugar, one pint of cider, one pint of cold water, juice of two lemons and grated peel of one, one quart of boiling water. Soak gelatine in the cold water, add sugar and lemons, pour over all a quart of boiling water. Put in cider last; wet moulds with cold water and set away to cool. Turn out of moulds when firm and cold. Baked sour for invalids—This receipe is of use for invalids; it is easy to make, and cooks cannot well blunder. Take a pound of juicy steak from which all the fat has been remove; cut it up in pieces of about an inch square; salt and pepper it slightly; take a stone jar to hold two pints; pour into it a pint and a haif of cold water, a teaspoonful of whole rice; covet the jar with a saucer and let it bake slowly for four hours; remove any fat present. Sealoped oysters. — Have readybread crumbs not very finely grated, butt, r a pudding dish and put it, a layer of the crumbs, then a layer of oysters and another layer of crumbs. Season with pepper and salt, and sprinkle thickly with pieces of butter. Then another layer of oysters and crumbs seasoned as before, and so on till the dish is filled; place a layer of crumbs over the top well seasoned, cover with little pieces ol butter. Put in a quick oven and bake slowly for an hour and a half; cover with paper when brown enough, so as to prevent binning. Careful housekeepers prepare their plum pudding a week or two before they are needed, and Jet them hang in a dry eool place, where they attain a richness and ripeness by hanging that no fresh made fruit pudding ever has. The following is a well tested recipe of an English housewife: Take one and one quarter pounds of raisin.-, seeded and chopped, one pound of sugar, one of currants, one of bread crumbs, one quarter of a pound of citron, half a pound of suet chopped fine,with a leaspoouful of salt, two large spoonsfuls ot powdered cinnamon, two of nutmeg, two of maee and one of cloves; half a pint of milk eight eggs, one lemon peel chopped tine, onq gid of brandy and one of wine. I’ut the whites of the eggs in last, beaten to a stiff froth; use only the thin outer peel of the lemon. Many cooks add to the citron onequarter of a pound of candied lemon and orange peel mixed. Grease several large china bowls with sweet butter and pack the pudding in them, leaving no room for it to rise as is usual with other puddings. After placing on the table pour a glass of brandy over it and set fire with a taper. How to Cleanse Mica.—Every woman who has been obliged to spend half a day several times during the winter cleaning the mica in her coal stove, usually by taking them out and washing them in soapsuds, will rejoice to know that there is no need to take them out or let the fire burn very low, in order to do it successfully. Takes little vinegar and water and wash the mica carefully with a soft cloth, the acid removes all stains, and if a little pains is taken to thoroughly clean the corners and wipe them dry, the mica will look as good as new. If the stove is very hot tie the cloth to a stick, and so escape the danger of burning your hands. It is a great care to see that stoves are kept in proper order, and not many servants can be trusted to do it as it' should be done. The task might be madesomewhat easier by choosing stoves which are not too highly ornamented. Unless the trimmings are kept absolutely spotless or white, which is a very difficult thing to accomplish, they i cannot lay the least claim to being ornamental; indeed, a stove which, I by reason of its excessive decoration is rendered the most prominent feature of the room demanding the at- j tention the moment one enters, is certainly bad taste. A clean, wellpolished stove, with graceful shape, which fulfils the end of its being by heating the house, is all that a stove should be. The fire may be, as it has been, called the soul of the room, but it ought not to ask too much attention to its body.

FAT PLUMS. How Decedents' Estates in Indiana are Legally Plundered —A Bad Case of Hasty Legislation. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec.3l. —Prior to the Bieeting of the last Legislature of this State a committee of three old, experienced, and competent lawyers was appointed, styled “The Revision Commission,” whose duty it was to revise and codify all the existing laws of the State, making such changes and amendments as they should deem proper, and drafting such new bills as they should consider necessary. Much complaint had been made by attorneys because of the confusion which existed in the laws by reason ot there hawing been no revision made since theadpption of the code, in 1852. Biennially the • Legislature had met and enacted new laws, ana, as may well 1« imagined by any person familiar with the work of the average Legislature, the aggregated mass was : greatly in need of being “worked over” and reduced to harmonious consistency. And so the Revision Committee was appointed, and set themselves to tlie herculean task. Two yejtrs they labored, and accomplished mifch good work, and, in view oSthea labors,great re-nits were predicted and expected of the Legislature of 1881. The event, however, scarcely justifies the sanguine predictions which were made, for the people now find, to their surprise and indignation, that at least one of the laws lately enacted is about the most vicious tliat has ever been placed on the of Indiana—l mean the law for th* settlement of deeedent’* estates. An ex-Judge of this citv who has had long experience in the ’business of probate courts, ohar--11 * ci«es the ia» a * designed for tht idizwi plundering of estates am legalize* 1 J ule wou i<j be mon suggests tnai

appropriate if it read: "An act lor the settlement and distribution of decedents’ estates among Clerks of Court, attorneys, aud Master Commissioners.” The tax which the law will levy upon the estates of deceased persons is very nearly unlimited, and has been variously- estimated at from $100.0(X) annually for the entire State. The fees of County Clerks are probably doubled. In this county the clerk will realize anywhere from SIO,OOO to $15,000 a year more than he did under the old law. Administrators are not permitted to pay any claim, no matter how insignificant the amount, or how manifestly just the demand, until it is filed, docketed, and passed upon by the court; so that it often happens that the costs attendant upoq paying the claim exceed the amount of the claim itself. Nor is this alt. The law provides for the appointment of Master Commissioners in the several circuits whose duty it is to examine and pass upon all bonds, inventories, sale bills, accounts current, final reports, et .. tor all of which services they are entitled to tax up fees, both real and constructive. Where the Master Commission’s revenue will end •depends only upon his conscience and his ability to estimate the value of his services. This much, however, is known: that the office in many circuits is worth as much as the Judgeship, while in this county it is said, by persons in a position foknow what they are talking about, that the fees of that officer (a young attorney who had barelv entered upon the practice of his profession) amount to double the salary of the Judge. I have before me as I write the bar docket of the Circuit Court of a neighboring county, which contains the schedule of fees, as fixed by the Judge, for the Master Commissioner. It is probably a fair specimen of the fees prescribed elsewhere. Here are some of the items: For examining the bond of any executor, administrator, or guardians, $5; for examining inventory, sl, and 10 cents for each additional SIOO contained in such inventory in excess of $1,000; the same fees for examinining sale bills and accounts current aud final; for the examining into the condition of an estate generally, not to exceed sls per day. And so on. Now, when it is remembered that there are several hundreds of these estates to be settled up in populous counties annually, it will not be difficult to see how the receipts of the Master Commissioner may easily run up to a handsome income. Under the former law this work was done, and done without substantial inconvenience to the other busi ness of the court, by the circuit juuge in moments of leisure. It is safe to say that one-half the services for which the master commissioner is permitted to charge liberal fees, are in the nature of a sinecure, and without s-üb-tantial benefit to the estate. i What, for instance, is to be gained by ! that officer’s examining inventories andsale tills? He can learn nothing more than is disclosed on their face ybsueh an examination. The judge could examine them and the bonds, i :eo. equally well and without inconI venience. But why, it will be asked, did the revision committee, composed of able and experienced lawyers, perpetrate such a vicious piece of legislation ? The history of the bill is a little peculiar. A committee of the State Bar Association had been appointed to prepare a bill on this subject, but failed to do so, and when the legislative session was nearly ended, the revision committee, not having time> themselves to do it, requested Judge Malott, of the Vincennes Circuit, who was considered one of the finest probatejudges in the State, to draft the bill. He did so, and in the hurry which always attends the elosing hours of a legislative session, the bill was passed without proper scrutiny, and. with much that is good, was suffered to become a law containing the unfortunate provisions to which reference has been made, affording i another and towering illustration of the evils of hasty legislation. It cannot for a moment tie supposed tiiat i Judge Malott intended any such result as has been produced by his bill. His character is too well known to permit of such an imputation. He I meant well, but in this case he had i the misfortune to reverse the familiar | maxim, and builded worse than he ’ knew. By trying tocoverevery point, where fraud and iniquity might creep I into the administration of estates he uninteutio.iallv constructed a law j with too much technicality and red tape, which robs the probate courts ' and persons occupying trust-positions of all discretion, and ties them down by a cast-iron rule. In spite of the ability and good intentions of its author, the law is undoubtedly destined to become one of the most unpopular that has ever i-een placed on the statute books of this State. It is believed in Jamaica that the stimulus which the fruit trade and I the prosecution of the minor industries have lately received will prove : the turning point in the future of the I island, which have long been at low ebb. The shipment of oranges to the I United States is enormous, several i large steamers having their whole: tonnage engaged for this purpose. What might be called a reformed train robbery happened lately on the Missouri Pacific railway. The engineer on seeing a danger signal stopped the train, but, catching sight of masked men with revolvers, he put on steam and got away with his train i before the robbers could get aboard. To add to this four of the unsuccess-; fui party have been arrested.

Slew VorK Produce. Flour—Weak ; superfine slate and western, $4 00a4 75: common to good extra, $4 90a6 00 ;good to choice, s6loa 9 50; white wheat extra, $7 25a900; extra Ohio, $5 20a8 25; St. Louis $5 10a 9 00; Minnesota patents, $8 00a9 00. Grain —Wheat unsettled; opening 1 lower; afterwards became ■ firm and recovered %a% of the deI cline, closing steady; ungraded i spring, $101al36; No. 3 do, $1 21%a 1123; ungraded red, $1 30al4o;No. 3 do, $139; No 2do, $1 40%a 1 44; new, $1 45al 45%; old ungraded white, sl3Bal 38%; No. 2 do, $1 38al 40. Corn, %a%e lover, closing weak and declining; ungraded, 63a 71%c; No 3, 69a69%c; No 2, 69%c for new; 71%c for old; low mixed, 76a 78c- No 2 white, 72a79%c. Oats, cash lots firm, active and a shade easier; mixed western, 49a-52c; white do, 50 as3c. Eggs—Western fresh, dull and’unsettled at 28a29c. Provisions—Pork easier and less active; new mess, sl7 75. Lard weak; prime steam, sll 30all 32%. Butter—Firm for choice at 12a40e. Cheese—Demand fair; market firm at 8%a11%c.|

tuicaso. Flour —Quiet and unchanged. Grain—Wheat unsettled and generally lower; No. 2 Chicago spring, $l2B. Corn, unsettled aud low“r;f regular, 61%c; fresh, 63%c. Oats, I , steady with a fair demand, at 45%c. I Rye, steady and unchanged. Barley, easier, at $1.06. Flax Seed, dull, . weak and lower, at $1 28al 29. I Provisions —Dressed Hogs, fair demand, but at lower prices, at $7 40a 7 55. Pork, active, firm and higher, and unsettled, at sl7 35a17 40, cash ; I sl7 37%a17 40, January; sl7 47%a17 50 February: sl7 70a17 72%, March; sl7 90 I I al" 92%, April. Lard, fairly active! .lands shade higher, at sll 20. cash, , and January ; sll 27%a1l 30 Febru llary; sll 42%a1l 45, March; sll 55a i All 51%, April. Bulk Meats, moder. ,1 lately active; -shoulders, $6 40; clear! ■ e l rib, $9 10; clear, $9 35.

Whirky—Steady and unchanged at $1 18. Call—Wheat firm but not quotably hig.ier. Corn steady and unchanged. Oats easier, 44%@44%c January. Provisions steady aud unchanged. Hogs—Receipts 50,000; shipments 1.300? Opened strong but fluctuated, closed firm all sold. Common to good mixed, sii 15(3)8 40; heavy packing and shipping. $6 45@6 70; Philadelphias and lard bogs, $0 75@6 90; light, $6 15@6 40; skips and culls, $4 40@ 5 70. Cattle —Receipts, 6,000; shipments, 2,300; fat cattle, market slow, irregular, lower and declined 10c; exports, $6 25a6 50; good to choice shipping steers, $5 50a6 00; common to fair, $4 75a" 25; mixed butchers, s',’ 50a4 40; mainly, $3 00a3 75; Stockers and feeders. $3 00a4 40. Sheep—Receipts, 3,500; shipments, 300; generally weak; common to medium. $3 25a3 75; good to choice, $4 50 a5 00; Montanas, $4 00a410; extra, $5 60a6 00. Ctiiciunati. Flour —Firmer; family, $6 20@6 40; fancy, $6 75(87 50. Grain—Wheat strong; No. 2 red winter. $1 40. Corn, good demand, heavy receipts; depressed market al Oats, stronger at 49c. Rye, dull at $1 03%. Barley, dull at $lO5. , Provisions—Pork, Firmer at sl7 75. Lard, strong at sll 10. Bulk meats, stronger at $6 L7%@6 "2‘^@B 912%.. Bacon, firmer at $7 50@10 25 (810 50. Whisky— firm at $1 15. Combination sales of finished goods, 1,090 barrels on a basis of $1 15. Butter—Firm and unchanged. Linseed oil—Dull and lower at 60c. Hogs—Active and firm; common and light, $5 25(86 50; packing and butchers’ $6 40(86 85. Receipts, 5,300; shipments, 105. Baltimore Market. Flour —Unchanged and dull. Grain —Wheat, western, steady and dull; No. 2 winter red, spot, $140% al 40%; January, $1 40al 40%; February, $1 42%a142%; March, $1 44%@1 45; April, $1 46%al 46%. Corn, western steady and dull; mixed spot, 68a68%c; February, 69%a69%c; March, 71%a71%c; May, 75c. asked. Oats higher; western white, 51a52c; mixed, 49a50c; Pennsylvania, 49a 52c. Rye nominally $1 00. H ay—U nchan ged. Provisions—Unchanged. Butter —Dull; western packed ; 18a40c; r011,29a28c. Eggs—Dull at 25c; limed, 20a22c Petroleum nominal. Coffee quiet—Rio cargoes, 9 l 4 alo’ 4 c. Sugar higher—Soft, 9%c. Whisky—Nominal, $1 17%. ♦ . ♦ Toledo. Grain —Wheat, dull but easier;No.2 red spot, $1 39. Corn, dull; No. 2 spot and January, 65c. Provisions—Dressed hogs, $7 60. Cloverseed —Prime, $5 12% ; do February, $5 17% ; No. 2, $4 97% ; No. 2 mammoth, $5 20. Closed—Wheat, dull and quiet Corn, No. 2 spot amt January, 64% @6sc. Oats, dull; No. 2, 45%@46%c. Sew York Dry Goods. Business irregular with commission houses and jobbing trade is fair for thetimeof year. White goods, quilts and hoisery fairly active in first hands. Cotton goods quiet and steady. Prints in better demand and ginghams active. Woolen goods in moderate request and steady. i Grand Ranids & Indiana and Cincinnati Richmond & Fort Warne Railroads. Time table IMtiog effect 1 hursday, Noy. 17.1881. T BAINS GOIMG MOBTH. 81ATIOM8. 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Daughters, Wines, Motas, Dr. J. B. MARCHISI, UTICA, N. Y , du»covbr«r <»r DR MARCHISrS UTERINE! ATHOLHOX A POSITIVE CURE FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, This Remedy will ac in harmony with the Femaie !*y®t**m at ail time* and also immediately upon the’ abdominal and uterine muee'ea and restore them to a healthy and atrone condition. Dr. Marcbi’i'a Uterine Uatholicun will cure falnne of tbe Womb, Txuccorrhcea, Chronic Ini flammaiitm and Ulceration of the womb, Inciden i tai Hemorrhaje or Flooding. Painful, Suppressed I and Irregular Meuetruat’nn. Kidn?y Comp'aint. j and in eepec ally adapted to the Ch».-.rge of l ife. I Send for pamphlet, iree. All l-tt*r-of it uniry j free)y answered Addr>-*« a- aov FOH HALE BY ALL DIU t.GIvfS, I Fraetl fin per bottle. Be sure and a-k for I >r. ' *** aj*i <e Uterine Cathohcon Take no •rfher.

KENDALL'S SPAVIN CUKK / KENDALL'S ZCUREfS It cures Spavins, Splints, Curbs. bones and all similar blemishes, and removes the bunch without blistering. For man it is now known to be one of the best, if not the best liniment ever discovered. We feel potitive that every man can have perfect success in every case if he will only use good common sense in applying Kendall’s Spavin Cure, and preserve in bad cases of long standing Read below the experience of others FROM COL. L. T. FOSTER. Youngstown, 0., May 10, 1880. Dr- B. J. Kendall & Co., Gents.’—l had a very valuable Hamhletonian colt which 1 prised very highly, he had a large bone spavin on one joint and a smaller one on the other which made him very lame; 1 had him under tbe charge of two Veterinary Surgeons which failed to cure him 1 was 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, 1 used it according to directions and by the fourth day the colt ceased to be lame, and the lumps had entirely disappeared. 1 used but one bottle and tbe colts limbs are as iree from lumps and as sn.ooth 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 bcttlcls who are now using it. Very repecstfuly,, L. T. FOSTER. Perseverance WiEl Tell. Stoughton, Mass., March 16, 1880. B. J. Kendall & Co., Gents:-*-ln justice to you and myself, I think I ought to let you know that 1 have removed two bone spavins with Kendall s Spavin Cure, one very large one, don’t know how long the spavin had been there. I have owned the horse eight months. It took me four months to take the large one off ahd two for the small one. 1 have used ten boules. 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 all what ithas done for n e its sale will be very great. Respectfully yours, CIIAS fckPARKER. KENDALL’S SPAVIN CURE. Acme, Mich, Dec 28, 1879. Dr B J Kendall & Co. Gents:—l sent you one dollar for your Kendall s Spavin Cure last summer which cured a bone spavin with half a bottl*. The best liniment 1 ever used. You is respectfully, HOMER HOXIE. From Bev P. v. Granger Presiding Ebler of the St Albans Dsstrict. St Albans, Vt, Jan 20, 1880. Dr B J Kendall & Co, Gents:—[n reply to your letter! will say that iny experience with Kendall s Spivln Cure has been very tatisfbetory indeed- Three orfouryoais igo 1 procure t a bottle of your agent, and with it cured a horse of laments' caused by a spavin. Last season my horse became ame and 1 turned nim out fora few weeks when he became better, but when I put rim on the road he grew worse, when 1 iiscovered that a ringt» »ne was forming, I procured 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 >e found. Respectfully yours, P N GRANGER. Statement Made Under Oath. To whom it may concern--ln the year .875 I treated wi h Ken Lail's Spavin Cure, i bone spavin of several months growth, learly half as large as a hens egg. and lomplelely stopped the lameness and renoved the enlargement. 1 have worked he horse ever since very hard, and never ias been lame, nor could 1 ever gee any lifference in the size of the hock joints lince I treated him with Kendall’s Spavin Jure. R A GAINES. Enosburgh Falls, Vt, Feb 25, 1879. Sworn and subscribed to before me this 25th day of February A D 1879. JOHN G JENN E, Justice of Peace. KENDALL’S SPAVIN CURE >n human flesh jt has been ascertained by repeated trials to be the very best liniment ever used for any deep seated pain if long statnding, or of short duration. Also for corns, bunions, frost bites, or iny bruise, cut or lameness- Some are if raid to use it on human fi 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 from experience that “Kendall’s Spavin Cure can be on a child 1 year old with perfect safety. Its effects are wonderful on human flesh and it does not blister or make a sore. Try it and be convinced. What is Good for Beast is Good for Man. read its bffbcts oh human flesh! Patten's Mills, Washington co, N Y, 1 February 21, 1878. f 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 sian iing. 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 favor of your invaluable liniment, “Kendalls Spavin Cure." In the spring of 1872 1 slipped on the ice and sprained my right hmb at the knee joint I was very lame and at times suffered the most excruciating pain. I wore a bandage on it for over a year, and tried moot 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 “Kendall s Spavin Cure’’ thought I would try it. I used one-third of a bottle, and experienced relief at once. The ja n 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 it is penetrating and powerful to reach any deep seated vain 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, acring 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 has ever met with such unqualified success to our knowledge, for beast as well as man. Price sl. per bottle, or six bottles for $5. All Druggists have it or can get it for you, or it will be sent to any address on receipt of price by the proprietors. DR. J. B KENDALL A CO. Falls, Vermont. v>l. 25. no. 28—1 year. BOLD BY ALL DBUGGIST’B.

beforTUe] AVOID THE JAM I “hlnce a AN OPEN SECRET. Te Ser’ouslv we Must get rid of this Elephant. Do you understand? PROFIT out of the question. It is the principal we are after. Ask no questions, but call if you want to save money. Clothing Way Down. SAM, PETE & MAX.

A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDiANJU Office in Houston’s Block, up-stairs. Will attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Residence on north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart's Mill. 25jy"9tf U B. Allison. Preet. W. H. NliUCl.OMhiir. B. Studasa««b, Vice Preet. 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, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and Mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2. I. C O. F. building. 25jy79tf FRANCE A KING - ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATIB. INDIANA. E. N. WICKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DECATCB, IMDIAMA. All legal busines. promptly Attended to. Office up stairs in Slone s building lihdoor. t25u24 year 1. B. R. FREEMAN, M. D., PHYSICIAN 4 SURGEON. DECATUR, INDIANA. Office oxer Dorwin St Holthouse s Drug Store Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe. Profeasional calls promptly attended. Vol. 2,5 No. 22. ts. J. T. BAILEY, ATT’Y AT LAW J. P., DECATCK, INDIA!!A. (Till Practice in Adams and adjoining Counties. Collections a specialty. e24n29tf S. G. HASTINGS, M. D. HOMOEOPATHIST PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. All calls day or night promptly attended to. Office in Studabaker s building, first doit south of Court House Square. Vol. 25 No. 14. THE DECATUR WOOLEN MILLS RUNNING AGAIN! Having purchased ahe Eicher Woolen Mills we are prepared to announce to the public generally that we have fir sale at Bottom Prices at our factory on the corner of Ist and Jefferson streets a fine 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 woo), or make anv exchange for goods. Cal! and see our stock of FLANNELS, BLANKETS, SATTINETS, JEANS and STOCKING YARNS before purchasing elsewhere, we promise to furnish you a better article for USS M01OT! Than you can buy anywhere else. MYEIIS BROS. Dccatu* 1 May 5, 1881. ts It is important to know what point ■ of dress to emphasize. For instance, i one may expend a large sum on a gown, and if the shoes be shabby or Hl-made, the gloves worn, end the bonnet lack style, the gown is entirely thrown away; but the gown may be no longer new; it must now be careful!v brushed and well put on; the collars and cuffs, or other neck and wrist trimmings, must be in perfect order; the boots well made and well blackened; even if not new, the gloves faultless and the bonnet neat and stylish. The effect is of a well dressed woman; no man, and fewwomen, perceive that the dress is not a new one. Almost every person has it in himself to be better than he is. But there are few who are impelled to good by other motives than worldly appreciation; and to most persons this appreciation is doled out in very small quantities.

SMITH, LONGENBERGKR A CO. DEALERS IN HORSES & MULES. o 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 vou 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—-limi 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 m 6. Toledo, Delphos & Burlington R. R. Ifi 3 1 ; teiumbus lime. X 4 !• pm am pm am pm am 1 0012 50 8 851 t Buffbio _ar 4 10 8 15 7 41 pm am aau pm |>m am 7 251 7 00 3 05 lv„XieYelMd„.ar 10 10j 2 2*> 1 4fpx am pm pm t m am 7 15! 7 50 7 soir Detr’t.... ,ar 8 ill 1 so 1 10 am pm am |pm am I m 7 5 15 8 4&W ... T01ed0...... ar I 5 45 R if, fi fti 8 4& 5 6k 9 South To • o ... 6 14 7 49 5 52 9 13. « 13 » 35. Waterv’la 4 55. 4 56 5 O-'< 10 18; 6 45 10 i4i_Grand lUpida... 4 25 4 26 3 4t 11 1> 7 11 10 31! Orelltoa 3 59 6 29 2 6S p-a i 74011 W. Hulgata 3»6 (O 105 1 58 pai 11 30 ...NorthCreak 3 00 am 12 M» 3 Oft 11 56 L. Dupont 234 10 52 8 36! pm Hantstuwn_ . 2 isi 10 27 4 181 11 34... Ft Jerniug...... 1 56 9 4u 4MI 11 6uUr....Dcl, hoa ... It 1 4O| 9P n ill I 7 Fl 12 18 am ta pm 711 1 60>1t ... Delp boa ... ar 125 psn 430 8 00; 215 Vanadocia am i 342 8 53i 2 471 Enterprise 2 28| 247 9 Mi 3 20i..„.. Willahira 11 Ml 10* 10 l»i 8 31... Pleasant Mills... 11 44 12 26 11 8 60! Dacatur 11 Zfil 11 40 12 id 4 061 Paterson 11 iq 11 00 12 S 3 4id Cnrryrille fto 58 HO 37 1 6d 4 44 Bluffton 10 31 • 00 2 261 I 01;...Llbart j Centra... lo id 8 23 2 61| I llj .Buckeye 0 59| 756 8 15l 5 20 .Warren.. 0 4«i 7 28 3 55 6 47 Van nren 0 28 6 50 4 50 8 0O 6 Ifii _ North Marion.. 0 0O 6 15 • 01* pm 8 40| 75q Kokomo. 725 j 385 am 19 9 1 | Da iron Dir. t| 10 20 |.......Jf01gate ..... am far Delp boa ll< ... De!|4Ma..._ar 6 32; 1 <7 . -Southworth 12 M 7 08 16 5® 2 00L. Spencerville 12 46 •43 , 7 31| 2 »!_< onnell-eiHa ... 12 27 C 1G 7 57] 2 32 Mendoa..... 12 13 6 48 10 Sol 8 8 lk| -Celina 11 S 3 7MI 12 U 14 • 17 3 29 Montesnma. —ll 1* 7 87 2 03 11 44, • M 2 8 44 C*ickaaaw. U 01 7 21 IM H 57 6 39 3 51 St. Johns.—Jlo M 7 IS 1 23 12 45 4 O 4 (8 Osgood 10 V • 66 12 46 1 25 4 430 Ve-aaiUes 10 Itt •84 11 66 2 28 5 02 5 02 (kringt’n 0 4® • 02 10 48 2 56 5 1* S 18!... Pleasant 0 27 I 40 10 18 I 3 «7. 8 28 5 301—Woat Milton.. 0 051 5 20 0 30 4 OH- 8 40 5 66j Union 8 40* 5 04 0 05 435855 60U Harrisburg—.. 8444 M 8 44 5 25 0 <9 « 25 Sti.lwata-Junct’n 4 20 4 M 7 25 pm 040 046 Dayton jI 00 416 700 am pm ..... Lebanon am pas am Cin in’at! I W W. KHODIS. r«K Aft. R Q Buyi.sb. Ge De-* I Manager ■M | MmßiiMß | Bimß | nsmmasimißiaHHn9Rßßß Hlllß Last spring ex-Governor Stamford, |of California, planted 250,000 grap«vines ou his farm.

DLACK brocade silks. V;irU-tI !»iiwn »he prices of three linesof rich Black Brocade Silk (2# ■lichee wide «i d <-i< g»ul uvsignr) for the purpose of closing then, out this week : IO pl' re’ reduced from $1.95 to 1.00 19 pieces reduced ti oiii 1.50 Io 1.95. 15 pieces reduced from 1.15 Io 1 40. Os these scarce and very desirable goods we have now in atook aver 76 pieces in aU <ne leading colors now used. BLACK C 4 Bill V Ms. IIIHHZI WH’B. seal bkowa. rLi vi iiibtle. xWAVY BLUE 01.11 GOLI* OMBRE PLUSHE S 3, $9.15, SB, $3,50. $4, and $5 per yard. 13la.cK nrocado VelvotH Colorod Brocade XT civets, STRIPED VI3UVZETS BLACK SKIRT VELVETS 27 inches wide, $2 50, -2.75, $3 00 and $3,50 per yard, all very cheap ALL COLORS Plain Grot Grain SILKS 50e. ROe 75c, sl, $1,25 and SI,SC pervard.su: bin for evening or street use, to ma'ch any shade of silks or dress go > Is. BLAGK SILTVELVETS For trimming use (17,19, 21 and 24 inches wide) sl, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 and $2. per yat I superior color and finish. H.OOT dfc? COMPAKV 16 and 4S Calhoun St. THE NEW YORK CLOTHINGHOUSE! GRAND milNfil SAMUEL GATES has just opened in the Studabaker and AUison Block the LARGEST -zatxtid BEST selected stock of MEN’S BOY’S and YOUTH’S clothing and Gents FURNISHING GOODS ever brought to this city, which will be sold at the LOWEST BOTTOM PRICES, for cash. Give me a call. No troucle to show goods. Come one, Come all. and see the new clothier.~Nu2Bm3. 4,000 TONS \ OT Ths StrawWanUd —fob Which I WILL PAY THE BEST PRICES When delivered dry ani in od condition at the Decatur FLAX MILL. TSOS.

Thia hoarding of thirty million dollars in specie in a fortress, for war continiencies, by the German government, savors much of mediaeval barbarism. Absolute security might be ohtainen by loaning it at two to three per cent, on terms which would enable the government to realize on it at a week’s notice. The interest at three pel cent, would pay half the officials in Prussia. Mrs. Bonanza Mackay is a miserable woman, says the Boston Star. She owns the largest sapphire in the world and can’t buy a match for it. Mr. Blaine's new house will be the finest in Washington.

The schoolmistress at Ri Ohio, is short and slender. C aider ing her lightness, nine of the biggest boys concluded that it would be a trifling feat to pick her up bodily and carry her out of the house; but they did not take her activity into account, and when they undertook to carry out the plot she fractured one skull with a heavy ruler, scratched several faces terribly, and discolored three eyes. Irishmen denounce the publications purporting to come from America, recommending assassination and use of dynamite. Emery Storrs lectures at Indianap olis next Wednesday.