Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1891 — Page 1

VOLUME XXXV.

Vote for water works. A. Van Camp made a business visit to Ossian this week. Wanted.—Two girls at the Burt immediate! v. Secure seats for commencement exer cises—Mav 7, 1891. at Nachtrieb’s. Mrs. Noah Baker, of Fort Wavne, wa* in the city last Monday visiting friends Work has been commenced on the new livery barn and it will soon be completed M. S. Elzey, the jeweler, was at Fort Wayne the forepart of the week on business. Remember that the large stock of spring and summer footwear has arrived at A. Holthouse’s shoe store. 5-4 The F. M. B. A. organized a township assembly in Union township Tuesday evening consisting of six’ lodges. Marshal Fristoe brother James, were called to Pleasant Mills last Tuesday on account of the severe illness of their mother. The F. M. B. A. lodge of this city have changed their regular meeting nights to the second and fourth Tuesday evenings of each month. Farmers, remember that when you are •’ in the city and want a square meal or lunch that the best place in the city is kept by Coffee Bros. 6-4 Wanted, to trade a one or two year old colt for a good driving horse. Colts are large and of good stock. No plugs wanted- 5-3 J- E. Ellsworth & Co. The work of excavating the dirt for the new building on Madison and Second streets was finished last Monday and the building will be pushed forward as rapidly as possible. Bishop D. B. Kntckerbacker, of the Episcopal church will hold services and preach next Monday night, May 4th, at the Christian church. The public is cordially invited to attend. The proprietors of the Marion Leader are receiving quite a liberal dose of tree advertising, They have two big libel suits qn hand, but as libel suits never come to nothing our brother editors will still hold on to their filthy lucre. Marshal Fristoe has appointed the following election marshals for the election to Le held May 5, First ward, David Buckmaster and Ira Blossom; Second ward, A. S. Parrish and E. M. Gross; Third ward, Aaron Devinney and J. D. Andrews. Preble Station is soon to have a debate. The question to be debated is “Resolved, That the Republican party has been the most corrupt that ever held the reign of power in the United States.” Jerry Arch bold will take the affirmative and Sam llowk the negative. “Mystic Qure” for rheumatism and neuralgia radically cures in i to 3 days. Its action upon the system is remarkable and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the disease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits. Price 75c Sold by Holthouse & Blackburn/ 47-+ — • Marriages, Theodore P'etters to Ida Foster, John B. Stoneburner to Mary E Barnett, Curtis Shady to Alice Ritchey, Henry Weber to Charlotte Beibrick. Louis Weber to Mary Beibrick, Henry Schroeder to Anna Droege, John Wi. Ceain to Lydia Byrd, Eli Beer to Liseta Lichty. If you intend to paint or paper your house in the near future it will be to your' interest to call on us and examine our stock of paint and wall paper. We have a complete stock in either line, we are selling the Heath & Milligan paints and tinted leads which we guarantee to out wear and outspread any pamt in the mar ket. Give u% a call. Sold and guaranteed by W. H. Nachtrieb. 49*03 Decatur can afford only one ticket for city officers. The Democrats over there have been allowed to monopolize the bus iness.— Bluffton Banner. , . Well, you see, Bro. Sturgis,JEditor Ashcraf, of the Journal, had an axe to grind with some of his Republican enemies and made a botch job of the necessary credentials to put the candidates names on the tickets. He will be given another trial some day. The great strike at the coke regions in Pennsylvania is still on, and the strikers '' seem determined to hold out for some time to come, regard less&f the Pinkerton thugs that the barons of ttys country have shipped in. Whenever a set of men undertake to run a state as they are de ing by putting armed forces in for the purpose of controlling their laborers, then it is time tor some action by the executive ol the state, and if he lacks the ability, ther he had better resign. ; 1 Jacob Hendricks, —the Subject ot this •ketch was born in Cumberland county Pa., Dec. 27, 1819 and died near Decatur Ind, April id, 1891, aged seventy-on< years, four months and fifteen days. Hit death was hastened by heart trouble o which he had been ill for a vefy shor time. He was married in 1843 to Eliza beth Walter Who died four years ago lasi h < February. There was born unto then four children two of whom are living, Jo •eph A. and Byron D. He enlisted li Company I of the 89th Ind. Reg’ll, it |B6; and served until the clots of the war

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Vote for water works. Mrs. J. W. Burk is on the sick list. ZlfosT.—Fiat key No. 2531. Leave at th.is office. Albright Christen was at Ft. Wayne last Friday. t Reserved seats for commencement at Nachtrieb's. Samuel Moses and his aged companion ire on the sick list. Judge Studabaker made a fljing trip to Gohrarn last Friday. To rent or sell—a desirable dwelling house. Call on T. T. Dorwin. 6 2 Postmaster Rape, of Geneva, was in the city this week attending court. Mrs. Daniel Death, of Rivare is not expected to recover from her illness. w ’Squire Hill acquitted John F. Spuhler last Saturday on a charge of tresspass. Fred Johns will soon close out his saloon and grocery, and move to Muncie, Indiana. Lillie and Della, the “chippies” who infested this city last week, are cooped up at Delphos. Henry Bremekamp received a fine English terrier from Wooster, Ohio, which he prizes highly. Tames Wagoner is offering his service to those in need of having colts thrown. Address him at Monroe Ind. 5-2 Jack Fordyce and family will leavfe for Little Falls, Minn., next week, where they will reside in the future. a • - Editor Ashcraft, of the Journal, should explain his reasons for making such blunders in the election petitions. Fess up, Billy. Deputy Sheriff Dailey, of Wells county -passed through the city Monday on his way to Richmond with an insane man. J 0 The agent of the Chicago Daily News one of the best Independent papers in the west, will furnish the same to you at 10c. a week or 40c. a month. For Sale.—A house and lot in Crabb’s south-western addition all in good repair, Seven good rooms with all necessary improvements. For particulars call at this office. 47 ts Ephriam Mosure and wife, of Bluffton, spent Sunday with Mrs. Mosure’s niece, Mrs. Jennie Phelps, and other friends. While here they attended the meeting of the I. O. O. F. and Daughters of Rebeckah’s. The health officer, street commissioner or city marshal should take a day off and sweep the floor ot the council chamber. The floor is covered with ashes, paper and other filth.. This is the time when a general cleaning up should take place. A certain man who is opposed to waterworks said a few days ago that “he didn’t seewhat we wanted water-works for: that very few people here drink water.” That man is eternally lost; there is no hope for a man who will thus slander the moral city of Decatur. C. Altman & Co , of Cauton, Ohio, shipped over the C. & E. a train of twen-ty-five cars loaded with steam engines and threshers of their manufacture, bound for Alton, Illinois. They had the National colors attached to each car. Their train made all daylight runs. Soldiers Attention—Now is the time to apply for increase, under present laws many pensioners are entitled to larger pensions than they are now receiving. No pay unless successful. James T. Merryman, 2itf Att’y and Claim Ag’t. Chris Bucher, of Root township, came very near losing a valuable colt last Sun.day night. The colt t had jumped the yard fence and broke through the plank covering of the cistern and plunged in Assistance was called and the water dipped out and the colt rescued from a very unpleasant place. Sonfe mathematical genius has figured it out like this: From a bushel of corn the distiller gets four gallons of whiskey, which will retail at sl6. The government gets $3 60; the farmer gets 40 cents; the railroad $1; the manufacturer gets $4; the retailer gets $7, and the consumer gets drunk, and then gets ten days on the stone pile. For Sale—A fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres, in Sou‘h Dokata, the farm is in Beadle county, sixteen miles south of Huron, m a rich farming country, with eighty-five acres under cultivation, a good frame house, good and all necessary out buildings, good well of water, over one hundred bearing apple trees, with, plenty of small fruit. School house within onefourth of a mile. A bargain. For particulars call at this office or H. S. Porter. 481! Again we feel the necessity of calling attention to the filthy condition of certain allevs immediately contiguous to the public square. We have spoken of this matter so often that it would seem- there should be no necessity of doing so again; but it appears there are some property owners who have no regard either for the convenience and comfort of the public or the appearance of their own premises. It would be a splendid idea if the law could be so enforced as to make all such pay a good, big fine-for their slovenly carelessness and utter disregard of common decency.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 1,1891.

Remember and vote for water works. Lase Reiker, of Willshire, 0., was in the city last Tuesday. When you go to the polls next Tuesday, remember ahd vote for water works. Eli Reber provoke on C. L. Brentlinger, tried before ’Squire Smith, Tuesday; plea of guilty; fined $2.00 and costs. For Sale—lmproved farms and timber lands, also town property at prices to suit purchasers. Schurger & Reed. 42* Joseph E. Mann was called to Fort Wayne last Monday on account of the serious illness of his mother-inlaw, Mrs: Keiss. r Kirk Mann was before his honor Mayor Reed, Monday morning charged with assault and battery on a fellow named Willows. Fined $5 and costs. Mrs. Sam McFarland, of Anderson, Ind., and her brother, Pete Tonnellier, of Findlay, Ohio, are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Tonnellier and friends and relatives in this city. Henry Mayer is the local agent of this city for the famous Centlivre beer of Fort Wayne, and the Fred Miller beer of Milwaukee, Wis. When wanting pure beer give Henry an order. ;o* This is the time of the year when a general cleaning up should take place. The city health officer should be taking a squint around the back yards and alleys and notify all property owners to at Once begin work. A few people about town who seem to know all that occurs and have a most happy way of telling it will soon close up their fly traps and not talk quite so much. They sometimes make very good but mighty unwilling witnesses before his honor. The commencement exercises of this year’s graduating class of the city high school will take place next Thursday night at 8 o’clock, Meibers opera house Tickets on sale Saturday morning and afterwards at Nachtrieb’s. Get your seats reserved without charge. The decision of the Indiana supreme court in the case affecting the Pennsylvania company, that where a wrong coupon on a round trip ticket has been torn off by Ihe conductor in the first case, the pas senger cannot be ejected for having the wrong coupon on, it is feared will be used to advantage by the scaipers - f I When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Mias, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria, List of unclaimed letters remaining in the postoffice at Decatur, Ind., for the week ending April 25, 1891: F. W. Zurmehl, John Joans, Jones & Co., Wm. Fillers, Wm. Mahoney, Miss Jennie McGill, Mrs. Minnie Hartman, Mrs. R. Blazer, John Binnin. Persons calling for the above will please say “advertised.” ’ B. W. Quinn, P. M. Worth hundreds of dollars. My wife used only two bottles of “Mother’s Friend” before her third confinement Says she would not be without it for hundreds of dollars. Had not half as much trouble as before. Dock Miles, Lincoln Parish, La. Write the Bradfield Reg. Co., Atlanta, Ga., for further particulars. Sold by Holthouse & Blackburm m Two important sales of short Korn cattle will be held at Cambridge City, Ind., on May 6th and 7th. On Wednesday J. D. Spahr will sell forty head of first-class cattle. On Thursday M rs. Merideth will make tbe thirteenth public sale of short horns from the Oakland Farm herd which was established in 1851. These sales will be held in a comfortable building near the railroad station. As cattle are going up in price, now is the the time to buy good ones. • A. Holthouse invites the publics to call and see his new spring stock of goods which has now arrived. The assortment contains all the latest styles and of the very best makes, and at prices to correspond with tbe present hard times tor cash. He has but recently refitted his salesroom and is now able to show you the largest stock of goods ever handled by any shoe dealer in the city. Call and see Tone and be convinced that he is selling good goods at lower prices than any other house in the city. 5-4 One of the most serious wrecks that has ever taken place on the Clover Leaf road occurred Tuesd ay morning gt Greentown and resulted in the Instant death of the engineer, Isaac .Krumrein, who was literally ground to pieces in the wreck. The train was a through freight and was running at the rale of about twenty miles an hour when it struck a cow near the depot, the engine leaving the tyapk and plunging info a ditch alongside. T h P train pqn tistefl of twenty -ft vp cars, flftppn of whiph were loaded with cattle, two with hogs, three with shelled corn, and with 'Mead” freight. About twenty-five head of cattle were killed and the three car loads of shelled com were dumped in one mass. The loss will probably reach

Go to John Mav-r tor first-class brick iStf Try Adolph Hart’s new barber and se<his new chair. “ Nathan Ehrman. of Peterson, ha* been granted an increase of pensfon. All seats sold tor commencement exercises. Thursday night will be reserved free ot charge at Nachtrieb’s. Money to Loan—At from 6 to 7 per cent on five year’s time on improved farm and city property. Call on Schurger & Reed. 42* Charles Lehrman, of Allen county, was in the city last week shaking hands with his old comrades here, he having been a members of Co. I, of the 89th lediana regiment. The National Express Company sue ceeds the American on the Clover Leaf road to-day. This gives the company an outlet to St Louis, the farthest west they have ever operated. Cot. W : lliam Myers, ex-secretary of state, met with a serisous injury in a railroad mashup last Sundav on the Big Four road near Indianapolis. His lower jaw was broken and he was otherwise severely inj ured. '1 ■ J. E. Ellsworth & Co., are filling up their salesroom with wagons, buggies and surreys which they warrant for two years and at very reasonable prices. They are’ working three blacksmiths, three woodworkers and one painter in their establishment. See them before buying. 5-2 James R. Smith, living just outside of the corporation line south, had a narrow escape from fire last week _by a spark from a passing engine which set fire to a lot of saw dust which he had banked up around the house and the fire had got to the weather-boarding when he saw it. Hereafter he will not use saw dust for that purpose. Worked like a charm. Bradfield’s Female Regulator worked like a charm; improvement been wonderful; cinnot express my gratitude. Wish every lady as flicted would try it. I know it would cure them. Mrs. Lulu A. Long, Spring Grove, Fla. Write the Bradfield Reg. Co., Atlanta, Ga., for further particulars. Sold by Holthouse & Blackburn. . m Editor Ashcraft w.s interviewed Monday afternoon by two young ladies who are stopping at the Park H tel, whom he roasted in his paper of last week We are unable to say whether he came out first best or the girls. Th“v claim to be members of a show company which is being organized here by M’ss Agatha Singleton, the divorced wife of Gralnm Earle, who played here last winter. Many pe -pie are embarrassed by uncontrollable fit* of sneezing in public places, which makes them very conspicu ous. It can be easi’y stopped. Just press firmly upon the middle of the upper lip with the finger, and the tickling sensation in the nose that precipitates the sneeze, will immediately disappear. It rarely fails. The theory is that a nerve that plays an important part in the sneezing, lays under the lip, and is paralyzed by pressure on the lip. La gr'ppe and its effects on, the systgm. The first symptoms of this disease, is pains in the back, stomach and bowels; followed by a violent cough, which if not attended to in time, lead into that dreaded disease “pneumonia,” or inflamation of the lungs, causing physical wrecks and consumptives. Last season in all cases where Dr. Marshall’s L.ung Sprup, had been prescribed for this cough, no symp toms of “pneumonia” appeared and the disease was quickly mastered. Try this medicine and be convinced. Sold by all druggists. 1 6 On last Saturday we received a pleas ant call from William Mehaffey, editor of the Lima, Ohio, Times and Democrat, W. E. Melville, druggist, E. J. Little and S Breckenridge. They are the gentlemen who are prospecting for oil in this county and have a very fine well on the farm of Phillip Huschey, two miles soy th ot Berne. The well is now flowing and bids fair to be one among the go .d ones. They will proceed to sink more wells this summer in foat ne'ghb rhood, where they have about 8,000 acres of land leased for that purpose, and which they intend to deyelop at once, as their leases expire in a few months. Some of our farmer friends along the proposed pike running southeast of the city are very much opposed to the building of a good and •substantial road, but would rather have the olfl gpfl wadp mud the year ’roqnd. Again, they seQirnto think that the construction of said 4*» a d would cost them iyom ten to fifteen dollars per acre, when if they would examine the records at the court house in regard to the cost of constructing the gravel roads in the south part ts the c >unty they woqld find that those rqads df.-J not evjpeefl ppr gprp, for foe flrgt hglf foife aqd a«me even lower than that, including foe inter est ( qnd Which you wcuid be called upon tn pay in eight installments. Now is the *ime to investigate these facts and learn what it costs to build good roads The people of Adams county are as a general rule a thrifty class and should at proceed to have good roads In all directions. Nqw is your ahgnoe.

The Dem >cra>s ofG.-neva,in their failre to file c-rtificates of nom : nation foi town < ftyces, are without a ticket in tht ield, to which editor Ashcraft says “they are in the t-oup. They went to the painof nominating a full town ticket but theif knowledge of the election law was deli eicut ahd they failed to certify their nom inat ons to the town clerk as required b> law. Now the howl is said to begoing up 'tom the irrate Democracy that the Republicans are to blame for the state of as fairs. They should have informed the Democrats concerning the law. Tht howl is not good, however, Republican* have been teaching Democrats on points of law and in the methods of good government for the past quarter of a century, and now is an exellent time to throw'our friends, the enemy upon their own re sources. The town election at Geneva will occur on the 4th cf May, and the Democrats will not have a ticket in foe field. Happy Genera?’ To which ex-General-Postmaster Clarkson will wonder, and the Republicen candidates for office in the city of Decatur will swear, that is will swear at the early education ot Editor Ashcraft. When they recollect that through his incompetency, or for the parpose of having their petitions thrown •ut there might be a better chance t j complain of the Democrats not treating them fair and thus create a sympathy in their favor, and discord in the Democratic ranks in the future. Also for the purpose of widening the breach between the saloon element, and the temperance element, thinking thereby to benefit the party that has taught the Democrats for the last quarter of a century that it was right to steal, rob and murder only so it was done under the sanction of the Republican party. There have lately been upon the market several cheap reprints of an obsolete edition v6f “Webster's Dictionary.” These books are given various names, “Webster’s Unabridged,” “The Great Webster’s Dictionary,” “Webster’s Big Dictionary,” “Webster’s Ercyclopedic Dictionary,” etc. Many announcements concerning them are very misleading, as the body of each from A to Z is the same, —forty-four years behind the times,,and printed from cheap plates made by photographing the old pages. ' The old book has been padded out by various additions culled from various sources of questionable reliably, but the body is the same that was published when Polk was president and duly buried at the incoming of Lincoln. The Webster, current from Lincoln to Harrison, is the popular copyrighted “Unabridged” which has just been superseded by Webster’s International Dictionary.—See advertisement in another column. A quiet observer says the custom of raising girls and b >ys in idleness is most pernicious indeed. They are thus denied that healthful development necessary to long life, and that training essential to usefulness. Better, far better, leave them without a dollar than without this training In fact those that have reached the highest points in the matter of usefulness as welt as lame, had no o her capital than good moral arid physical training. They retained their vigor ard youth longer than those whose youth was spent in affluence and in the enjoyment of the pleasures purchasable by wealth. If\ou live right you need have no fears of old age, becausit will grow on you unawares; neither need you tear the future, because you will be fitted to enter the new and higher life, and to enjoy its pleasures. It is a premature old age, induced by wrong living, that is to be dreaded. The wild cat and test well drilled by the Morgan Oil Company, Bre kenridg and Anderson, and J. L Patley & C>. all of Lima, Ohio, and the Pl il ip He - shey farm, two miles south ot Berne, was finished Thursday ot last week at 1073 feet, with 23 feet of Trenton rock. The parties who drilled this well are well pleased with results, and will put it pumping at once, being satisfi d from examina tion of the Trenton rock, the response to the shot, and the way the well filled up that it wi|l settle flown to a good fifteen nr twenty barrel producer. These: three companies representing 20,000 acres ot' leases are now thoroughly satisfied that oil can be found in paying quantities in Adams coup ty and will proceed to drill other t st wells immediately. A farmer living southeast of the city in formed us last Saturday that he would willingly give SSOO to have a gravel road run past his farm. He says that he has done nothing during the past three win. ters on account of the bgfl raada, but had there been a good pike near him he would ngt have lo>t a single day’s work. There is not one farmer in a dozen but what is in favor of good roads. The cost is but a trifle when compared with the comforts and benefits you would receive from them There always were and always wil| b« a 'ew cranks whq oppose of ppb|ip Vpprqvpmefo, hut when foey are made Wy arp always the Ipqdest in ihoir praise of them. §o goes the world. Dr. Wells will close his meetings tonight at the Presbyterian church. His sermons, which usually occupied one hour, have been listened to with marked attention. All who have heard him beaf fitting witness to the help they haye rece*X e 4 from him. night V

Fresh bread, pies and cakes at Coffee Bros. ‘ . 6 4 Hon. Newton Burwell, of Bluffton, was in the city Wednesday on business. M. V. B. Spencer, attorney of Foit Wayne, was visiting his brother, William and G. family last Friday. Mrs. Mark McConnell is steadily growing worse, having been confined to the bed for the lastjthree weeks. Coffee Bro’s, have opened up their Ice cream parlor for the season. Young men take your sweetheart in and treat her. 6-4 Dibble & Meibers, the bus men, have purchased a fine match team of coach horses, and which they are driving to their bus. With the improvements that our streets are receiving, and with water works and natural gas, our city will be among the finest in the state, John Brown, of Kirkland township, who has been confined to his bed for the past ten weeks with the “grip” was able to be out and around last Sunday for the first time. J. B. Hutchison of the Chicago Board of Tr£de fame, has failed. His $5,000,000 has disappeared and so has “Clutch.” He left for the South broken in health and wealth. Teet Members was called upon, Tuesday, to answer the charge of keeping, a gitning house, before Mayor Reed. Teet plead guilty and the mayor assessed a fine of $lO and costs amounting in all to $18.90. ■ fl The road leading north from Patterson & Pillar’s mill toward Monmouth will be stoned this summer, at least a part of it. The same will be done on subscriptions of parties. This will give our folks a chance to find foe of construction of stone roads. Sheriff McConnell took Willard Elzey to the Michigan City penitentiary Tuesday. Willard received a warm reception from his old friends who were glad to see him again. Mark reports that Fred Richard and Charles Werst are in good health. Fred is the biggest man in the pen weighing over 300 pounds. Benaville Schlegel was born tn Burke county, Pa., March 10, 1826, was married Dec. 8, 1848, to Elmanda Welder. To them was born twelve children, ten of whom survive him. his wile having died four months ago. They moved to this place in 1862, where he has resided since, until last Friday morning when without any warning he was stricken down with hemorrhage of the brain. The funeral service was Sunday at 2 o’clock from the Evangelical church. The Democrats of Geneva, Adams county, are hopping mad. They nomina ted a town ticket but were not sufficiently oosted on the new election law to know they must certify to and file with the town clerk, the names of all nominees, at least fifteen days before election, hence they ire strictly/“not in ir,” and the Republicans of that place are smiling.— Bluffton Chronicle. Ditto, the RepublicanS'Ot Decatur, who trusted their great and only to make out the necessary papers and which were very badly juggled. One of the pupils in the fourth grade of the schools would have known something about making them out. The initiation of several members into that new and noble order the “Never Sweats,” was to have taken place last Sunday, but through some misunderstand ing as to the place of meeting the honors were not conferred on the distinguished candidates. Some ot the members claim that the meeting was to have taken place in Oklahoma, while others designate another place, and the next meeting will in all probabili'y be quite a stormy one. The C. P. of L. has tendered nis resignation *o take effect at once, as he has had conferredjtpon him the honors of C. of F. and will proceed to institute lodges at Bluffton, Portland and other cities. What was the matter with the chairman of the Republican central committee for the county when he drafted the petitions for the different Republican candi dates for the city offices? Did he recollect that in the caucus in his office that he was not in favor of a Republican ticket, and thus butchered the petitions so that they could not be used; or is he standing in with those who are opposed to t ie reduction of the high license, while patting the other fellows on the back, and telling them to go jn and defeat fte other nominees of the Democratic party. one whose early education had been so carefully attended to would not commit so egregious an error as the petitions he drew contained A young man by the name of Charles Hower, of Craigville, accompanied by another young man of the same place, eon eluded that the young lafliqs qf Adams county were better looking than those of Welle county, and a sow evenings ago left home for the purpose ot calling on the fair daughters of foe trustee of Kirkland township, but not being acquainted with the geography of this county, got lost and in their wanderings around saw a house that in their mind looked like the one they were in search of, and after maneuvering around they ventured up to the door, whefo w«re met by Wm, fo^o^mevotfoehQMse, who asked wfcat thej( wanted. When one of fo?W told WPU he invited them to get out, the hqra got so fast that their coat foils stack straight out

NUMBER 6.

The Election. As the last issue before the election, a word to the voters may not be amiss. There will be no tickets only those in the hands of the election board, and they will be furnished to voters on application when entering the room, the voter will take foe ticket and the stamp and enter the booth where he will stamp the square opposite the words “Democratic ticket,” if he wants to vote a straight Democratic ticket, but in case he wants to vote a mixed ticket, then he will stamp the square opposite foe name of the candidate he wishes to vote for, and will not otherwise deface or mutilate the ticket in any manner whatever except as to the vote for or against water works. When it happens that a ticket is spoiled in any way, the voter must return it to the pell clerk and receive another. Should anyone vote, or attempt to vote a ticket in any other manner than the law prescribes, they become-liable to a penalty upon conviction of a fine of not less than . one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and not less than six months imprisonment nor more than one year. So that it will be necessary that all voters be sure that their ballots be free from all defects ot any kind, and especially from any marks or stickers whereby they can be told from another ballot, and further that all ballots that do not comply with the law will be by the election board thrown out, or not counted. So you see the necessity of your ballot complying with the law, and in no case place a sticker on the ticket. While an amendment to the law was passed by the last legislature making provisions for the use of a sticker the same does not go into effect until the laws are published, distributed and the receipt ot the county receiving them last is on file with the secretary of a state. Look carefully to the ticket you vote. Linn Grove Items. Fred Wacher, one of our barbers, has gone to Anderson this week prospecting it is said to go into business. John N. Sillivan, of Geneva, was on our streets Wednesday to place a bid for the carpenter work on our school building. Rev. B. Howard, of Poneto, filled the pulpit for Rev. Chas. Winans, at the Baptist church, Sunday. Rev. H was ■ a former pastor of the church. Theodore Schlagenhauf caught an eel in the Wabash here. The reptile was some longer than his name, measuring two feet and five inches and was the first of the season. Milo Harris, of Monroe, was a caller here on Saturday. Feeling as good as ever we promised Milo not to divulge the purpose for which he came and we will keep our promise. A nitro glycerine wagon passed through town last week on the wav to the oil well located four miles east of u%. The well was shot which resulted in a copious flow of oil and a limited amount of gas. John Meshberger is making prepani. tions to establish a meat market, in our town, which will give us two shhps of the kind. He has just returned from Ellwood which he says is ing a hoom just now, but is liable so collapse without giving notice. Dan Gilliam who has been driving a well on the school grounds for some three weeks past has met with reverses that causes considerable delay. The piping became kinked in driving it and in withdrawing the pipe pulled in twain, leaving about twenty feet of piping down in the well. He abandoned the well and commenced anew. There seems to be a wonderful formatina of the earth as is demonstrated ip this fact alone. Some tw» years ago Mr. Gilliam drove a wbM far Peter Hoffman not more than two hundred feet away from the one he is now putting down in which weH rock was struck at twenty feet* seven feet in the rock water was found plenty. In the late well so near by, rock was reached stt forty-five feet and had drilled ten feet in 'tone when the well was abanduaed na stated above. A large number of tbe Odd Fellows attended church last Sabbath. It wouM be a good plan tor the different societies to> have a day set apart for services of that kind once ancy to bring out to church those who never attend only on such occasions. Major Gander of the 4th Regt., will inspect Co. B. of this city next Thursday evening. Capt. Byers says his company will toe the mark in proper shape, and is very empha'ic in the remark that he han the best drilled company in the 4th Regiment. C C. Myers and George Niblick: together with several others will leave for Hurtlburg, Tenn., next Monday. They will take with them several teams and logging outfits and will work for thes Myers Bro*, formerly of this place. Alfred Matthewson, one of Adams county’s most respected died last Saturday evening of Bdght’g disease. His funeral was held at Pleasant Mills on last Monday afternoon. The Clover Leaf road changes time Sunday. Tw»s leave Decatur as follows: Going siut at 6:32 p. m. and 6:04 a. tn; gqjag west at 9:52 p. m, and iomj a. m Mrs. John D. Merica died last nir nt at her home in Cook town after a Haftering sickness of over a year. That fa»nl disease consumption being the cause. Wanted.—Partner canftal of SBOO to engage in * Wi„ e ss [hat yield an income of foaao a year. box 83, DecgUvh >nd. ™ Hktwy Devinney returned to Buf&fo, K* ¥« fest Monday night, after a. two w«eks visit with his parents and. nther Ttwncls here. Recollect that in voting aw scratchlias of tickets or pasting on ot stickers will be legal; that all so dgfeead will bn thrown out. John Petewm, Bob Ehinger and Dad* Sfudabake* attended commencement exerases at Bluffton Thursday evenhw.