Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1893 — Page 4

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®he democrat X. Proprt.lor FRIDAY, MARCH. 31, 1893. Rates of Subscription. One Tear, In advance * l w •la Month* 75 Tour Month! 50 All rabecrlptioni not paid during the your will be charged at the rate of 12.00. Office in Democrat Building, oast side of Second Street—ground floor ' Wit will have our gravel roads made this summer. Even in prohibition lowa, Judge Lynch performs the duty of courts. A number of Democratic Congressmen are at work on a tariff bill that will be presented at the beginning of the session. A good County Fair will quicken the interest taken in farming. It can not be otherwise than a great benefit to those concerned. By virtue of the creative power the city officers will continue in the discharge of their official duty for the next two years. JcwjjjfS A county fair and good roads and Adams county will be to the front. Then there will be no better place in the State tor a comfortable boom. Hoke Smith is not the “Hoke” for a railroad corporation. He is with the people. And of course acts in perfect harmony with the administration. The republican press thinks that this will be one of the most cousinly administrations on record. If it beats its predecessor in that respect it will have to be a hustler. Notwithstanding theMcKinley tariff of 5 cents per dozen, on eggs the price of that commodity is likely to fluctuate considerably to-day and to-morrow. It will be the old story of “supply and demand.” Col. Shepherd, editor of the New York Mail and Express, died last Saturday while under the influence of ether administered by the family physician pending an exam- * ination for a stone in the bladder.

Samuil Morss, editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel,, has been nominated for Consul General to Paris. The press throughout the state will recognize the wisdom of the appointment and congratulate Editor Morss on his good luck. There are some mighty good men in the West when the administration needs them. But they haven’t contracted the demoralizing mania for spoils, and they are not likely to be heard from while New YorK and Massachusetts are squealing around the swill. Many thousand acres of land in southern California have been opened for entry and settlement by land decision of Secretary Hoke Smith. This land is taken from railroad corporations that failed to fulfill their contract with the government. The Democratic party is the party of the people. Maine is preparing to come in out of the cold. The most of the State held their municipal elections last week and from the way they went, it looks as though the State will cast her vote for the right in the next election. Blaine’s old home, Augusta, went with the rest, Democratic. How he must feel were he alive is hard to tell. Our city is in a bad conditio*. It is high time for our officers to shake up the property owners and cause the streets and alleys to be cleaned and put in good sanitary condition. During the long cold', winter a large amount of garbage has accumulated that with the opening of spring is sure to bring disiease. The only way to avoid it i» ’ to clean up. The sooner it is done the better tor the people.

Ten years ago a good many of our farmers could be beard to say that ditching would “break them up.” Ditching worked contrary to their predictions, so will gravel roads. Improvements and civilization walk hand in hand. The State Sentinel attempted to control the Federal patronage of the state. While not left as bad as our friend Shanklin was in the gubernatural nomination, it is enough to make it squeal. Ove leading Indiana papers are still in favor of our farmers painting their fences and barns along railroads where the World’s Fair visitors will pass through. They have failed to name the color desired. We would suggest the color that the World’s Fair visitors will use in painting Chicago—red. The president intends that the pension bureau shall be conducted on business principles. Demigogical politicians need not apply. We will have business at the head of government, instead of politics. Dudleyism will not thrive under this administration. George W Peck, Governor of Wisconsin, took the right step when he informed the principals in the Fails-Lynch .fight, that if they enjoyed their personal liberty they would do well to get outside of Wisconsin when they fought. The joke is on pugilism this time instead of the governor. At the reassembling of Congress among the vast number of bills that will be introduced for the benefit of the poor man, should be one to amend the constitution of the United States, so that every officer, from the President of the United States to the road supervisor should be elected by the direct vote of the people. Officers being servants of the people, should be so selected that the people may have a choice in saying who they will have to work for them.

A few years ago we had a law that made a man put jewelry on his dog or became liable for a violation thereof. While the new dog law makes it a misdemeanor punisnable with a twenty-five dollar fine to fail to register your dog with the assessor, paying for one male dog one dollar and three dollars for each additional male dog and three dollars for one female dog and ten dollars for each additional female dog, anybody being authorized to kill an unregistered dog at sight. Hoosiers had a similiar law a few y§ars ago, but the farmers kicked on it. It is fair, however, that every dog should be taxed for all it is worth.. At different times we have been called upon to refute some willful malicious statements made by some unscrupelous anima! in the shape of a human being, who has been circulating falsehood for the purpose of stirring up a sectional strife in our peaceful city. It is an old saying: “That a liar is worse than a thief,” for you can lock against a thief, but a liar there is no way to escape his vile and slanderous longue. Within a few days past This “being” has been getting in his work, and when confronted by the ■ones he has lied about, he attempt•ed to place the blame on some one ■else. Such stories sometimes start ’without any intention of wrong, but i generally by some one who would rather tell -a lie than the truth. While in this case they have been traced to their starting point and affidavits given showing them to be lies. While they are such that few people will believe them, yet we always have a clasfl of people who like to tell them. In this case, like the man who wished he owed twice as much to an unfortunste individual. The sooner we get rid of such people the better for the community.

Usurpation B the Federal Courts. The Republic is under obligations to the Toledo, Ann Aarbor & North Michigan Railroad for a copy of the orders made by Federal Judge Augustus J. Ricks while attempting to deny to railroad employes the freedom which is supposed to be the birthright of an American citizen. On behalf of the corporations he represents in his character of Federal Judge, Mr. Ricks asserts a right to prevent a railroad employe from leaving the service of the company without his consent. He puts the railroad employe in the same category with the common soldier, who may be punished for desertion if he leaves the service without the consent of his superiors. “You are engaged m a service of a public character,” he says, in addressing the men whom he had summoned before him for contempt of his or-« der to go on working, “and the pnbhc are interested not Only in the way in which yqu perform your duties while you continue in that service, but are quite as much interested in the time and circum stances under which you quit‘that employment. You cannot always Choose your own time and place orterminating these relations. If you were allowed to do so you might quit your work at any time and place that would involve irreparable damages to your employers and jeopardize the lives of the traveling public.” This was addressed to engineers —to men who are notoriously as faithful to their trusts, often at the expense of their lives as Fedpral Judges are notoriously unfaithful to theirs. Mr. Ricks, though he denies that he is attempting to hold men in service against their wills, assumes that in the absence of any contract, expressed or implied, binding both employer and employed. Railroad men may still be held in involuntary servitude by order of court and by order of court imprisoned for contempt if they attempt to assert their liberties under a constitution which declares that there shall be no involuntary servitude except for crime. It is perfectly fair and just where men make a contract to serve for a certain length of time they shall be held to it, but it is infamous to attempt to give employers control of their employes in the absence of snch a contract. And it is still more infamous to stretch the theory of contempt so that the employes may be imprisoned for not working when ordered to do so by a court. The pretense that railway employes can be imprisoned for not working because their employment is of a semi-public character is absurd. If any engineer willfully or carelessly “jeopardizes the lives of the traveling public” he can be imprisoned in the penitentiary of the State in which the crime is committed, but only after a fair trial by jury. The theory that he can be imprisoned w’ithout trial and without jury for contempt of court on the assumption that if not thus dealt with he would jeopardize life is conceived in that spirit of craven subserviency to money which has made the Federal bench a byword of reproach among honest Americans. The employment of a Judge on the bench is of a wholly public character; so is that of a President or of a United States Senator; but where is the imbecile who would claim that any of these could be imprisoned for refusing to continue in their employment? Nearly a hundred years ago Thomas Jefferson lamented that impeachment had proven an entire failure as means of checking the usurpation of the Federal courts. Surely we have much greater reason to lament it when creatures of corporation power now on the Federal bench attempt to create a system of involuntary servitude under which .a court order would be all that would be required to deprive of liberty an American citizen who had coinmltte d no crime and violated no contract.—St. Louis Re. public. It is an established fact that flour dust ,n mills is almost if not quite as explosive as gunpowder. Why, then, is not some plan of ventilation adopted that will prevent it from accumulating in sufficient quantities to cause explosions such as wrecked the Planpt Mills at Litchfield and the Bain Mills in St. .Louis? It ought to be hn easy matter for any competent mechanic to arrange the mechanism for producing and controlling air currents so as to make such explosions impossible.

HERE WE ARE! read; this Before Buying BOOTS AND SHOES For Spring. ■ '» I ’ • J. 11. VOGLEWBDE AT THE OLD STAND. \ ‘ • • r' ' . ... . New IQoods! Lower Prices! Notice the Following: 0 "• - • * Present Former ~ "■ Price Price Ladies Fine Kid Shoes . . $2 00 ' $2 50 to $3 00 “ “ “ “ ... 150 200 “ 2.25 “ “ “ Blaches . . 300 350 “ 400 “ “ “ Oxfords . 100 125 “ 150 Misses “ “ Shoes • . 125 150 “ 175 “ “ Goat and Grain Shoes 125 150 “ 175 Child’s “ :* “■ “ “ 75 100“ 125 Mens Best Rubber Boots . 2 25 50 “ 275 “ Kip Boots. Tapsole . . 175 25 “ 250 “' Buffs Shoes (Good Stock) . 175 22 25 “ 250 “ ' “ “ 1 9A 1 Aft “ 9 oo “ Good Work Shoe . . ' . 100 Boys “ “ “ . . 90 115 to 125 6 • ■' > „ ■ I ... We have bought goods lower this Spring than ever be fore. That is why we can sell you at the above Prices. J. H. VOGLEWEDE.

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DEL L L OAKMER. Stricken Down with Heart Disease. Dr. Mileo Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. Gsntuemqi : I feel It nw duty, as well os a pleasure, to publish, unsolicited, to the world the benefit received from on. Miles- Rcbtoß*ti»! Rimcoics. I was stricken down with .Heart JMsease and Its complications, a rapid pulse varying from 90 to 140 beats per minute, a choking or burning sensation in the wind pipe, oppression glon of the heart and below lower rib, pain in the arms, shottnesa of breath, sleeplessness, weakness and general debility. The arteries in my neck would throb violently, the throbbing of my heart could‘be heard across a large room and would shake my whole body. I was so nervous that I could not hold my hand steady. I have been under the treatment of eminent phyeMane, and have taken gallons of Patent MedMne without the least benefit. A friend recommended your remedies. She was cured by Dr. Miles'remedies. three bottles of your New <7ll D R [1 Heart Cure and two bottles T** 7 11 *7 Nervine. My piflae is normal, I have no more violent tbrobmng of the heart, i AM a will man. I sincerely recommend every one with symptoms of Heart Disease to take Dr. Miles' Restarts. Uve Remedies and be cured. Gypsum City, Kans. L. L. Cabmkb. sold on a Positive guarantee. FRY DR. MILES’ PILLS, 50 DOSES 25 CTS. Dr. Miles’ elegant books free at Druggist CINCINNATI, RICHMOND AND FORT WAYNK RAILROAD COMPANY, Notice to Stockholders. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Cincinnati, Richmond & Kort. Wayne Rail Road Company will be held in the office of C. C. Hinkley, Esq., in the city of Richmond, Ind., on Thursday. April «th, 18KI. at 9:30 o'clock, a. tn., for the purpose of electing eleven directors to servo for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business us may com* before the meeting. The books for the transfer of stock will be closed from March 24th until after the election. Polls open from 9:30 until 10 o'clock a. m. Hv order of the Board of Directors, 37-2 Fr A. OOKHAM, Secretary. , Executofs Sale. Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned executor of the, estate of Jacob Stults, ceased, will offer for sale at public auction. M the late residence of the decedent three miles’ northeast of Decatur, Adams county, I ndlana, on Tuesday. April 11.1991, tho personal property of said estate consisting of two work horses, one fresh cow, three calves, four head of hogs, harness, lot of oats, corn, wheat, hay, farming implements, household and kitchen furniture, and various other articles. I will also on said dav offer for salp tl,e famous pacer/"Blue Belle.” She has a record of ’ TanMSi-Sums of three dollars land under, cash; over three dollars a croc It of nine months will ho given, the purchaser giving note with surlty to the satisfaction of the undersigned, waiving benefit of valuation and aPP^en t law March 17,1898 ■' l>2-3 Notice. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commisslonersof Adams county, will moot in special session, on Tuesday, the 18th day of Anril. 1893, to receive sealed bids fertile building of stone abutments and bridges to be constructed in the following townships, to-wlt: One Atone abutment and bridge in Root township, one bridge in Union township, and in Sts Marys, Monroe and Wabash townships, one stone abutment and bridge In each. Sealed blds will be received at the Auditors Offioo until 10 o’clock a, m. on Tuesday the 18tlt dH /lnn^tnd"pMfleations nwsnMeat the Surveyor’s Office. W. H, H. Faanor, 58-3 Auditor Adams 00.

Notice toTeacners. Notice is hereby give that there will be a public examination of teachers at the cilice of the county superintendent, in Decatur, Indiana, on the last Saturday of each womb. Applicants for license must"prcsent the proper trustee’s certificate or ocner evidence of good moral character.” and to be successful must pass a good examination In orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography. English grammar, physiology, history of the United States, science of education and inone of the following named subjects: For September, October and November 1882, “Evangeline.” For Dceembei 1882 and January 1883, "Snow-Bound.” For February 1803. "Holme's Autocrat of the Breakfast Table." The change as above announced was made by the State Board of Education at a recent meeting. Examinations will begin promptly at 8:30 a. m. No license will be granted to applicants under seventeen years of age. ' J F. SxowCo .Sunt. Notice ot InsoWency e matter of the 1 In the Adams Circuit , , estateof J- Court, John King,deceased. ) No, 559. ■ Notice is hereby given that upon petition tiled in said! court by Sarah'King, administratrix, of said estate, setting up the insufficiency of the estateof said decedent to pay the debts and liabilities thereof. the Judge of said court did. on the llth day of February, 1883, find said estate to bo probably Insolvent, and ordered the same to bo sett led accordingly. The creditors of said estate are therefore hereby notified of (such insolvency, and required to file their claims against said estate for allowance. Witness, the Clerk and seal ot said court, at Decatur, Indiana, this llth day ot February, 1893. * John H. Lenhart.Clerk. Coverdale, Bobo A Son, Atty's, 49-4 Administrator's Sale. At the lato residence of Daniel M. Miller, i deceased, one mile south of Buena Vista, Ind., 1 on Friday, March 17, 1883, the following property, to-wit: Three head of horses, six milch cows, two head of yearling cattle, ten bead of hogs, one new Gibbs plow, one single Champion reaper, one Empire binder, one Empire mower, one 1 spring wagon, one, broad-tired wagon, one narrow-tired wagon, top spring wagon, ono buggy, one hay rake, hay ladders, hog rack, , set log bolsters, < ne set heavy double harness, (nearly new) two sots single buggv harness, • two milk cans, three stands of bees, about nine acres of wheat tn the field, farming implements, and many other articles t<x> numerous to mention. 1 Terms:—A credit of nine months on all sums over five dollars with six percent Interest after due, with security to the satisfaction of the administrator. W. H. SnKPHanp, Administrator. WANTED- FOR THE UNITED STATES ARMY, able-bodied, unmarried mon, between the ages of 21 and 30 years. Good pay, rations, clothing, and medical attendance. Applicants must be prepared to furnish satisfactory evidence as to age. character and habits. App'v at 4th floor, Bass Block, Calhoun street ’ Fort Wayne, Ind, . 49-19 J. D. HALE, > —DEALER IN i Grain Oil, ' Coal, Wool, Lime, Salt, Fertilizers, Elevators on the Chicago & Erie and Clover Leaf railroads. Office and Retail , store southeast corner of Second and l Jefferson streets. 44 tf PATRONAGE SOLICITED. Sherllf’s Sale. 1 The State of 1 ndiana, A dams county, as i j In the Adams Circuit Court of Adams county. Indiana, i Barney J. Terveer, ) VS. f No. 1708. Delbert Walters. I By virtue of an execution to mo directed i by the clerk of the Adams circuit court of said • county and state. I have levied upon the real ; estate hereinafter mentioned and will expose I for sale nt public auction at the east door of the court house, in theoltyof Decatur, Adams ' countv, Indiana, between the hours of 111 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. on Saturday. March 31,1593, The rents and profits for a term not exceeding . _ seven years, or the following described real estate, situated in Adams county. Indiana, to-wit: The undivided dne-flfth (l-5> Interest belonging to Delbert Walters, of the south half of the northwest quarter (*i) of section twentynine (29), township twenty-eight. (28) north, range fifteen (15) oast, all in Adams county, Indiana. And on failure to realize therefrom the full amount of judgment, interest thereon and costs, I will at the same time and tn the same manner aforesaid, offer for sale the fee simple of the above described premises. Taken as the property of Ilellwrt Walters, to satisfy said exception, this Bth day of March, 1893. Bamu»p Doak, Sheriff. 1 81-3 By Daniel Erwin, Deputy. ►a* :"r • ' • ... 41 -I