Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 25 October 1895 — Page 6

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LOOK! j Bananas, mifTl Oranges, I J M Lemons, 11111 j Candies, Pies, K Cakes !, " d BREAD ./ • I at Colchin’s. a AT""> • Gilliam’s You will find the Best and Cheapest 4y Goods The only exclusivedry goods house in the city You will find him next door to Jake Martin’s bakery. tai' mm n Train. Anderson, Ind.-, .Oct. 22.—Ar the noon train from Cincinnati on the Panhandle pulled into this city yesterday it was discovered that a, parlor car was in flames, and a call on the fire department was made. The blaze started in the roof from and spread so quickly that passengers had a narrow escape in getting into other cars. The burning car was detached and partially destroyed before the firemen could get to it. '

Sale of Cholera Hog Meat Stopped. Muncie, Ind., Oct. 22.—City Health Officer Reid and Superintendent of Police Fortner yesterday stopped the sale of 15 dressed hogs at W. H. Halnier’s meat shop. They Were taken from a drove of 40 head brought here from Springport. Yesterday several of the hogs remaining were dead and others sick with choiera. Sues For Back Pay. Muncie, Ind., Oct. 22.—Elizabeth Sivers yesterday brought suit to collect . <1,200 owing her for work. She claims ! pay for 400 weeks’ wages from John I Lindsay, rich farmer. There is one medicine which every family should be provided with. We refer to Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. When it is kept at hand the severe pain of a burn or scald may be promptly relieved and the sore healed in much less time than when medicine has to be sent for. A sprain may be promptly treated before inflammation setsin, which insures a cure in about onethird the time otherwise required. Cuts ■and bruises shoulD receive immediate attention, before jhe paits become swollen and when Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is applied it will heal them without matter being formed, and without leaving a scar. A sore throat may be cured iu one nieht. A piece of flannel yampened with this tffiiment and bound on over the seat of pain, will cure lame back or pain in the side or chest in twenty-four, hours. It is the most valuabe, however, for rheumatism. Persons afflicted with this disease will be dedelighted with the prompt relief from pain which it affords, and it can be depended upon to effect a complete cure. For sale by Blackburn & Miller, druggists. o Water Work* Plants Sold. Shelbyville, Ind., Oct. 22.—The water works and electric light plants in this city and Warsaw were sold yesterday at master’s sale to George H. Holt of New York. The Shelbyville plant brought <75,000 and the Warsaw <40,000. Cheaper Than Ever At Hughes’Granite &„ Marble Works. Fifteen per cent, of a discount for the year 1995. All work warranted to be new and Qrst-clrss. Lettering done in German and English. You are invited to stop and get prices. L. C. & Wm. Hughes. 47tf (Successors to W S. Hughes.) Smith a Bell are,paying the highest cash prices for Clear White logs, cut 12 feet long, 12 inches and over-at the top end, must be clear and staight 48tf

WTERJKWIELD What Senator Sherman’s Book of the Ex-President. OHIO PEOPLE INSTRUCTED. Nine of Them, However, Voted For Blaine —Letter Urging Garfield As Ono of the Delegatee to the Convention— Charles Foster Accused of Not Using Uh Best Endeavor* For' Sherman. Chicago,'Oct. 22.—The full text of that portion of Senator Sherman’s memoirs relating to the late General Garfield, which has stirred up bo much discussion, has been furnished the press. Mr. Sherman discusses the sentiment for his nomination throughout the state of Ohio, which was almost unanimously in his favor, but wrote to a friend of his in April in reference to General Garfield going to the convention as a "delegate. That portion of the letter referring to Garfield is as follows: > There is a strong feeling that Garfield, in order to save his district, should go t# the Chicago convention as a delegate. He is placed in a very awkward attitude now. If his district should be against my nomination, it‘would be attributed to either want of influence on iiis part, or, what is worse, a want of sincerity in my support. In view of the past this would be a very unfortunate thing for him. This is a delicate matter for me to take any partin, and I leave it entirely to yotir good judgment and kind friendship. The senator, after speaking of the friendly feeling for Blaine existing in Ohio, and the probability of his support

tU// J / / SENATOR SHERM/N. going to that gentleman in the event that his nomination was found to be impossible, makes the following reference to the state convention: "The state convention which met on April 28 was exceptionally large, and was composed of the leading Republicans of Ohio, who proceeded at once to the business before them. The persona named by the convention as delegates-at-large to the national convention, were William Dennison, James A. Garfield, Charles Foster and Warner M. Bateman, who were instructed for me.” The district delegates were also instructed for Mr. Sherman. However, pine of the district delegates disregarded the instructions of the conveneion and voted for Blaino, which fact, Mr. Sherman says, made it impossible to turn his vote to Blaine on account of the hostile feeling engendered by the division. What Might Have Been. The senator, in reference to the division in the Ohio delegation, says: "It is probable that if I had received the united vote of the Ohio delegation, I would have been nominated, as my relations with both General Grant and Mr. Blaine were of a friendly character, but it is hardly worth while to comment on what might have been. The course of the Ohio delegation was the subject of severe comment and perhaps of unfounded suspicions of perfidy on the part of some of the delegates.” When Mr. Sherman heard of the movement to nominate Garfield he sent a telegram to William Dennison urging that his supporters vote for the Ohio man, and alter the nomination he sent a telegram congratulating Mr. Garfield upon his nomination. After the convention much information was received by Mr. Sherman showing that delegations from many states were ready to vote for him whenever notified by the Ohio men, but for some reason this notification never came, and a letter which was sent by Mr. Sherman to Charles Foster, one of the Ohio delegates-at-large and the man to whom the assistance was proffered, is printed in which the senator unburdens himself in his characteristic manner, virtually accusing Mr. Foster of luke-warmness which was little short of treachery. After a sea voyage, Mr. Sherman returned to .New York and found letters from General Garfield relating to the canvass and asking his opinion of the letter of acceptance. Mr. Sherman replied saying that he thought General Garfield’s reference to civil service was not strong enough. The threatened results of the silver law was also commented upon, saying that he feared it would produce a single silver standard. The letter ends with a reference to Conkling, the senator saying he thought the New York politician was an overrated man. OUT OF QUARANTINE. Ex-President Harrison Leave* Saratoga and I* Now In New York City. New Xobk, Oct. 22.—Ex-President Harrison came to this city yesterday from Saratoga. He will remain until tomorrow, going then to Indianapolis. On Saturday he will go to Chicago. Sentenced For Mnrder. Carlinville, ills., Oct. 22.—Bryant, Frost and Reinoged were yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary for the brutal murder of Engineer Holmes several months ago. Reinoged’s attorney made a motion for a new trial,which will be heard this week* No hopes are entertained for his release. It is said that five of the jurors were in favor of hanging on the first ballot.

* WHEAT. Better Food for Stock Than Corn. From many parts of the West we hear us successful results of feeding wheat to domestic animals Its value as a food for cattle and horses, whether the whole grain is fed or it- by-pro-ducts, has long been well known, and the present experience has confirmed that knowledge But the greatest good likely to result from the corn crop failure of 1894. and the consequent use of wheat in its place, will be the feeding of wheat to swine. Its value here, when the price makes it practicable, is incaluculable. We have fed too much corn. We have for many years made this cereal the a'most exclusive food of swine, and we have thus brought on severe punishment. Excessive corn leading to hogs has given us a race of domestic animals which are debilitated at birth. No animal can be fed on such a highly carbonaceous food as corn without being physically demoralized. We do not think first-class pork was ever made on such a diet. Swim thus fed, when slaughtered, alwav have more or less inflamed viscera, the result of impaired health. Perhaps rhe greatest harm resulting from this one-sided diet is that it impairs the animals vitality and makes it an easy prey for contagious disease which a well fed and healthy animal would readily resist. This has been a prominent factor in making bog cholera the destructive agent that it has so long been. With the range of clover pasture for the swine, and some wheat in the grain ration, this pest would soon cease to be formidable —Western Agriculturalist. * The Indiana Duroc-Jersey Breeding Company, breeders and shippers of Duroc-Jersey swine, prices reasonable Inspection and correspondence solicited. J. C. Johnson, Bec’y 30-4 Bloomingsport, Ind. FIVE HANDSOME LOT’-' tor salt in Grant Railing’s addition. Enquire 3tf Grant Railing. Farmers Attention! lam now ready to cry sales. Terms reasonable Satisfaction guaranteed. Address, J. W. Hill,. 48tf Pleasant Mills, Ind. A fpw choice lots yet tor sale at an ex tremely low price in the new addition to the city of Decatur. and terrtis call on GraSt R'Ailing 43-ts- , \ I have lands n North Dakota and Texas. I will sell or trade for lands in Adams or adjoining counties and in proper case will give difference ir money. 52tf David Studabaker.

NOTICE. I will be at mv office on Tuesday of each week. George W. Brown, Trustee of Kirkland township. w 29 6m Corydon, Ind., Oct. 22.—After three months of continuous shipping, during which time about 40,000 barrels have been shipped, there appears to be no . diminution of the apple crop of south-1 ern Indiana, and the shipments last week were larger than ever before. Not less than <l,soo„per dav is being paid out to the growers, the fruit having been grown on the rugged hillsides that are unfit for cultivation and are valueless except for fruit culture. The crop this year has been the largest ever known in this section of the state. Along the bank of the Ohio river from New Albany to Evansville there are hundreds of fine orchards in which i much of tjie fruit yet remains unpicked, while at every landing are great quantities awaiting a rise in the river in order that the crop may be brought to market by boats. Jumped Into a Well to Escape Arrest. Jasper, Ind., Oct. 22. -r William Postlethwait, a citizen of this (Dubois) county, was indicted last January for forgery, but he has been dodging the officers ever since. The authorities received information that he was at his father’s home and officers were sent to arrest him. Postlethwait, upon seeing the officers surround the house, rushed from the back door and jumped head-1 long into a well 30 feet deep. The sheriff soon had a noose slipped around his body and he was drawn from the well and lodged in jail. Damage* for SIO,OOO Asked. Morristown, Ind., Oct. 22.—Aurelia ; Creger of this place yesterday brought suit in the circuit court of this (Shelby) county against the Cincinnati, HamiL t<n and Dayton railroad for <IO,OOO damages. She alleges in her complaint that her husband, Theodore Creger, a traveling man, was injured by being thrown from a train by employes of the road while en route from Indianapolis to Morristown, from the effects of wnich he died nearly a year later. Loses Hi* Life In a Burning Bara. Valparaiso, Ind., Oct. 22.—The barn of William Hansford, near this joity, has been totally destroyed by fire, together with contents. The fire was of incendiary origin. A tramp who was seen near the barn is supposed to have perished, as he can not be found. George Glancy, a farm hand, was seriously burned in tryftig to save three horses, loss is <3,0U0. Awarded Big Damages. Greenfield, Ind., Oct. 18.—In the ease of Richard M. Young of Indianapolis against the Citizens’ Street Railway company of that cjty, demanding <25,000 damages for injuries received in an accident in May, 1894, a verdict was returned yesterday awarding the plaintiff <12,500 damages.

'FIGHT ISJIIiCLARED OFF Fitzsimmons Appears to Be Afraid to Meet Jim Corbett. IS OFFERED INDUCEMENTS. Manager Julian Decline* All Proposition* to Postpone the Fight and the Australian Will Claim the •9,/VOO Forfeit at Dalia* — Governor Clarke Cau , Now Best Casy. I \ Hot Springs, Ark.. Oct. 22.—Unless 1 Robert Fitzsimmons recants and through his manager, Martin Julian, accepts the extraordinary condition which confronts the fight situation hero, there will be no contest between Corbett and Fitzsimmons unless it be an impromptu one, shorn of purse offerings, of ring rules, of referee and sec-1 onds, for Corbett says that unless Fitzsimmons acts the mau aud accommodates himself to circumstances he will "send him to a hospital" the first time he meets him, and that he will go quite away out of his scheduled theatrical route to meet the attenuated Cornishman.„ Yesterday there was a conference between Dan A. Stuart, Joo \e idig and the fighters, the latter by proxies, Brady representing Corbett, while Julian appeared for Fitzsimmons. Tojfiay the ruling of Chancellor Leatherman is to be taken before the supreme court by the attorney general and the tribunal of last appeal may consume several days in handing down a final hearing. In view of this fact and anticipating a favorable decision, Dan Stuart called the parties in interest together and stated the conditions. Mr. Stuart wanted a postponement until Nov. 15. He argued that even if the court of final resort sustained the decision of the chancellor it would, take that long to restore confidence and get the crowd to Hot Springs. Brady for Corbett was willing. Julian was not. Despite the fact that Corbett went into training a week before his prospective opponent, Julian contended that his man was too “fine” and that to train for several days after the original time would militate against the physical condition of Fitzsimmons. The ■ proposition was then made to have the men fight in private for the main stake, <IO,OOO a side. Here Stuart interjected an offer, of an added <lO,000. Brady was again willing, but Julian demurred. He opined that the club, if it pulled the fight off on the 31st of October, would have to make good its full promise of <41,000. Fits Want* His Pound of Flesh. In all equity, in the face of the entanglements which have beset the path of Stuart and Vendig, this cannot be done, where a month ago hundreds of excursion parties were being organized for the trip to the fight, there are none today. Stuart asked for time. Corbett has granted it. Fitzsimmons has exacted his full pound of flesh. As matters stand at this moment, to use the words of Howard B. Hackett, the highest pugilistic authority in America, Corbett wants to fight, Fitzsimmons does not. » What Governor Clarke has been making such a display of doing Fitzsimmons has done easily and without much flourish of trumpets. The Florida Athletic club at 12:30 yesterday declared the contest between .James J. Corbett and Rob- . ert Fitzsimmons off. | Martin Julian, Fitzsimmons’ mana--1 ger, refused to agree to the postponement of the date as desired by the club. He said Fitzsimmons had trained to fight Oct. 31 and was unwilling to train two , weeks longer; moreover, Fitzsimmons had contracted to fight Corbett to a finish and he was unwilling to change tne programme to a boxingmatch for points. It is given out that Julian will have Fitzsimmons in Dallas on the 31st, where his contract stipulates the fight should occur, and claim the forfeit of <2,500. I This is the latest status of the case : and the most decisive knockout in the whole proceedings. Any amount of disgust and disappointment is visible on all sides over the turn affairs have taken. The programme now is to substitute Peter Mahdr for Fitzsimmons in a contest with Corbett and another man to be found will be depended on to entertain Steve O’Donnell.

John L. Sullivan’s View. New York, Oct. 22. —At Maspeth the BDorts discussed the Corbett-Fitzsim-mons situation at length. Fitzsimmons had more friends, but the prevailing opinion seemed to be that the Australian was to blame. “I think it looks rather bad for Fitz,” said John L. Sullivap, “although I really know nothing about the inside. Still if the two men meant to fight they could have come to an agreement. There should be no quibbling if everything is on the level, and this makes it look bad for Fitz.” Hot Springs Citizens Mad. Hot Springs, Ark., Oct. 22.—There was a meeting of citizens last night at which some very unpleasant things were said about Governor Clarke and Pugilist Fitzsimmons. No resolutions were passed. Three Emperor** Will Meet. a Berlin, Oct. 22.—The Lokananzeiger says that Prince Lobanoff Rostovsky, the Russian minister for foreign affairs, on his recent visit to Emperor William at the latter’s shooting box at Huberstock, informed his majesty that it was the earnest wish of the Czar to meet and converse with Emperor William and Emperor Francis Joseph after his coronation. Still There’s More to Follow. Decatur, Ills., Oct. 22.—The Macon county grand jury has returned to the circuit court 177 true bills, making a total of 228 returned in the four weeks that they have been in session. On Wednesday next the jury will again convene and resume their labors, having notified the court that they still had business to engage their attention. Barney Kalvariska pays cash for bld iron and rubber. 25tf *

0 Not How Cheap But how gOOfl IS MS'Hutl’S motto. ' Why buy inferior uoi'd*'*"•*’l M'ti can buv Hie besl tor I tic smi>e I’ll'inr) Al* -hi Sk I•<>!.•.- XXXX Square Wafer Butter Crackers. 581-6 30-4 It you want a b uht. clear and odor- , less light buy th- Green Lunt <O’ Oil for sale al ‘ H N ic-ii icon- 31 fit The inventor of the celebrated "Beeseiner process” ia the most modest of men, shunning rather than courting observation. A few years since ho was sometimes to he seen taking a “constitutional” in the neighborhood Os his unpretentious abode at Denmark Hill, in England, but the venerable gentleman with the benevolent face, in the okl fashioned fnxik coat and voluminous, many folded choker neckcloth, is novi*" rarely seen even by his immediate neighbors. The Britifth public, the British government and British manufacturers did their very best at cue time to crush cue of the most useful men ever born fti Britain, and failed ignominiously. Sheffield laughed at him, and Woolwich gave him the official cold shoulder, but Sheffield, and Woolwich would be crippled indeed at the present time were it not for “Bessemer steel.” Yet, even now, although foreign potentates have showered crosses and stars upon him, the English government has not conferred upon him raiy honor more important than an 'orf’.nary knighthood, and this in spite of the fact that he has created one of the largest and most important industries in the world. Some fascinating calculations, made by Sir Henty himself, prove that on# year’s production of Bessemer steOl might be represented by a solid column 16 times the height of St Paul’s cathedral, and as thick through as an ordinary gasometer—about 100 feet. Henry Bessemer, son of the late Mr. Anthony Bessemer, was born in Hertfordshire in the year 1813. His earlier years were devoted to art, and we find that he was an exhibitor at the Royal academy at the age of 20. At this earte age he had discovered a means by which impressions of the designs on ooinjk medals and other reliefs could be reproduced m any numbers on cardboard. Some of his work in this line is still extant, and when specimens come into th# market they bring high prices. This led him indirectly to a mon important ii. vention. He discovered that the government of the time was robbed to the tune of £IOO,OOO per annum by unscrupulous persons, who were in tfie habit of removing the embossed duty stamps on legal and other documents and using the same again. Young Bessemer invented the useful little contrivance by which the stamp is embossed on the caper or parchment of the document Itself, and submitted it to tnetnen cmet of the stamp department at Somerset House. The potentate in question saw the advantage of this system at a glance, and Soon afterward the authorities expressed their willingness to make use of it. A. pretty little story is connected with this invention. When his model was com- , pleted, Bessemer showed it to the young lady to whom he was then engaged. Her first comment upon it showed that she was well fitted to become the wife of an inventor. She said:

“Yes, I understand this, but surely, if all stamps bad a date ptit upon them, they could not at a future time be used again without detection. ” , This proved a very valuable suggestion, for Bessemer soon hit upon the idea of a steel die with a space for a movabte date, and in that form invention WRB adopted by the authorities. Will it be credited that he never received a solitary farthing from the government for his i services or the use of his invention? Such is nevertheless the fact, and when he hinted mildly at legal remedies he was told by the solicitor to the stamp department that he was entitled to no compensation, inasmuch as he had presented his invention to the government gratis! This was at a time, too, when he was by no means well off, when indeed he lacked the necessary money to set up housekeeping with the clever young lady whose brilliant suggestion had resulted in a perfect stamping machine I He received many generous promises from various ministers, of course, but one government went out of power after another, and to this day he has never been compensated in any shape or form. A man of vast wealth now, Sir Henry Bessemer can afford to regard the troubles of that period of his life with comparative indifference, though he has since had more ample reason to cherish a dislike for all British governments and politicians. But his disappointment 1 in this instance taught him a very salutary lesson. When he made the great discovery of his life—-that by which it is possible to convert pig iron into steel by a simple and inexpensive process—he kept his discovery a secret To some extent it is a Beeret to this day. The importance of the discovery can hardly be overestimated. Before the Bessemer process came into use steel could not be bought under £SO a ton, and its price prohibited its use in numberless departments of industry where it is now considered essential At that time, too, only 51,000 tons of cast steel were produced in Sheffield in a year. In 1892, 88,546 tons of steel were manufactured in the world every day according to the Bessemer process, the selling price per ton averaging £8 perhaps. It is chiefly due to. Sir Henry Bessemer that one is almost as safe on a modem ocean steamship as on land, that the modem structure of steel fin nearly as imperishable as the Pyramids. Such a discovery, it might be supposed, would be hailed with enthusiasm by those interested in the iron trade of Great Britain. Not a bit of It. Bessemer met with every possible discotcragement The steel manufacturers of Sheffield were dead against him, from the first, and the government ignored him.—Boston Commercial Bulletin.