Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1897 — Page 6

BARGAINS! FOR EVERYBODY. J. THBS. W. LUCKEY, Who has been confined to his room most of the time on account of poor health, will start, in a few weeks, on a western trip in search of better health; hence the stock of goods now on hands and situated in the Luckey Building, will be CLOSED OUT AT PimiTE AS» Al'fl’lH SALE. REMEMBER Stef and Fixtures all go I al Your Own Price. AMONG THE STOCK IS 1,500 Itos. Package Coffee. Such as Lyon, Arbuckle, 4-X, Jersey, &c., all going now at 15c per package. 4,000 r>oxinc3Ls Sugar, Reduced to Wholesale Cost. 2,000 Bars Soap, Ivory, Santa Claus, Jackson, Lenox, Bannar, Star and Brown Soaps, at 4c per bar, and other less noted at 2|c per bar. The Majority of Shelf Goods, At one-half the former retail price, or a consid ecable Less than wholesale cost, but then it is any way to ..... . CLOSE OUT QUICK! And first come will be first served, for when a line is once out, no more will be replaced. So come early and quick, and don’t forget your money, for at such a sacrifice nothing will be charged or allowed to leave the store until paid for.

DECATUR DEMOCRAT. I ZDeoatxir, Ind. I DEMOCRATIC PRESS CO., • ■ PUBLISHERS. I WHAT CONGRESS IS DO;NG. i Washington, Feb. 16. — Senator . Chandler addressed the senate on biiwetalism. and then the bankruptcy bill ' was taken up, the senate being addressed by Senator Hoar. The house devoted the dav to private pension bills. Piesident Cleveland’s vetoof.the Nancy' G. Allabach pension bill was sustained by a vote of 115 to 79. Washington*. Feb. 17.—The senate passed the immigration bill by a vote of 34 to 31 and it now goes to the president for his signature. The house passed a hill to open up the reservoir sites in the arid country reserved by the pfeo.ogical survey. The conference report on the legislative, executive and i judicial appropriation bill and a bill to remove the disabilities of Colonel William E. Simms of Kentucky were passed Washington, Feb. 18. — The house spent the day considering the HopkinsKendall election case from the Tenth Kentucky district, seating Mr. Hopkins i>y a vote of 197 to 91. Eleven Repub- i licans voted with Democrats. The conference report on granting a pension of #75 per month to General Julius H. Stahel and one of 150 per month to the widow of General Stoneman was agreed to. The senate was in executive session ; the whole day. i Washington, Feb. 19.—The house considered die general deficiency appropriation bill. Later in the day the conlerenc ■ report oa the bill to give the | widow of Major Joseph B. Carr a pension of $75 per month was rejected. An J

- -- , . evening session was held lit which a 1 number of private pension bills were i I considered. The senate was in open \ t session just 30 minutes, the.jproc.eudrngs- i 1 being formal, and then w/nt into execu- ] tive session on the arbitration treaty. | ( Washington. Feb. /20. —The house ] ■Consumed the entire dky discussing the ( general deficiency bill. \ln the senate J an attempt was made to\nass the Bill | providing for the appointment of a commission to inquire into tub problems of labor, agriculture and capital, but it I , was laid aside and the Indian dippropri--ation bill takeh up. After.discussing ! the bill the remainder of oie<dav Mr. Platt gave notice that he ■wpiild.press ■ the measjjxe. for a final voty/dOondav. ’ WASrfiMrh'dTT'Ft’b'.'23 ’ The senate listened/o the reading of/Washington’s farewelradslrpss apd th turned its attention! to the Indian appropriation bill. A res lution was/also passed that | session begin at 11 o’clock. The house passed thbsjieflcieiiyy' appropriation bill and took up Thtr'naval bill. It refused to vote an appropriation to reimburse members of the last congress for salary withheld on accounted absence. - * 'GENERAL ST ATE. NEWS. Henry Grady Burned So That Flesh Dropped From His Face. Montpelieh, Ind., Feb. 20.— A ter- j rifle explosion’completely demolished ; the Citizen’s Gas company’s ‘station ' here yesterday and Henry Grady -re- ’ ceived injuries that may result fatally. Grady had shut down for repairs, but

there was a leak in the pipes and when he entered the building with a light the gas ignited and the explosion followed. Grady was blown through the side o" the station and was terribly burned, one arm being roasted to a crisp. The flesh dropped from one side of his face and one eye is probably destroyed. INFIRMARY BURNED. Engineer Fatally Injured Bnt the Inmates Were Safely Removed. Warsaw. Ind., Feb. 22.—The Kosciusko county infirmary, located south of this city, was totally destroyed by fire Saturday night. The fire originated from the explosion of a tank containing gasoline, which had carelessly been taken into the boiler room. The building was the finest of its kind in northern Indiana, and was completed four months ago. The 47 inmates were re moved in safety but Samuel Royer, the engineer, was dangerously and perhaps fatally injured by the explosion. Loss, $43,000; insurance, SB,OOO. HON. JAMES BROWN DEAD. Apparently In the Bent of Health He Suddenly Expires. Newcastle, Ind., Feb. 23.—Hon. James Brown died of heart disease late yesterday. He had been in good health seemingly. He left his office yesterday and went to the home of his son and partnef, W. A. Brown, for the purpose of preparing a brief. He was seated in the library dictating to his daughter, who was at the typewriter, when, without a word, he fell over and died almost instantly. Raid a Fjpdiioiiable Boardinghouse Muncie, Ind., Feb. 22. —For weeks

highwaymen and burglars have been pitying their work here and have baffled the police. Yesterday officers raided a fashionable boardinghouse kept by a MfSxHickman, who, along witfi several of was taken iijto custody. Hundreds oUdolliirirworttrbf the stolen goods were found buried in Mrs. Hickman’s backyard. Feared a Lynching. Washington, Ind., Feb. 22.—Walker, the murderer of Marion Tow, at Shoals was brought to this place Saturday night for safe keeping. The sheriff of. Martin county received an intimation that there would bo an attempt to lynch Walker, and as the jail' at Shoals is a weak affair he caused the removal. Melting Exonerated. Montpelier, Ind., Feb. 23.—George Melling, who probably fatally shot Thomas James, was exonerated from blame by the coroner. James by mistake attempted to enter Melling’s house late at night, and the latter shot him for a burglar. Janies was intoxicated.. Railroad Lecture. For Purdue. Lafayette, Ind,. Feb.. 23.—PresidentSmart of Purdue University is arranging for a series of lectures on railroading. A number of prominent and lead ing railroad men have signified then willingness to talk to the students on The subject. Subscribe for the Democrat.-

IRELAND’S GREAT BOGS. Wlvy They Move and Destroy Hute aud People. \ . Th«) reports from Ireland to the effect that a beg is moving down the course of the Flesk river, engulfing cottages and hamlets, threuteniug the town of Rathmore, the ruins of Holy Cross abbey and many other interesting remains in the vicinity’ of the lakes of Killarney has brought to life the old superstition concerning the nature of bogs and their mysterious power of destruction and concealment. The sea gives up its dead more readily. There are no tides in that solidifying mass, whose permeating waters are blacker than the Styx. But a bog can no 'more move from its eternal moorings than can Lake Michigan. It can overflow indeed, as can the swamps of the Kankakee, and flood wide districts. The difference would be that in the swamp the sodden vegetation would remain anchored, while in the bog the spongy surface peat becomes loosened and goes down with the flood that moves silently imd unseen beneath. What wonder, then, if the sim pie peasantry, watching the insidious advance of apparently solid peat, should revive the legend of the days when fairies put their shoulders under the bog . and moved it to a distant place. In re-1 ality the tiir f wool has no density, but | is compacted by pressure from behind, and it is drained dry b&ause of its porous, nonputrescent substance. When the flood subsides, the bog will be found in its ancient anchorage. A j dry, brown, worthless peat will be scat- ; tered before doors far distant. Some turf i cutters’ cottages, timbered with bog oak and thatched with- the spagnum, will ! have disappeared, and perhaps with them some hapless families, but the stone built towns will get an antiseptic wash and the ruins sustain no more damage ■ than a purifying inundation, such as they have encountered many ; times since saints laid the foundations in the isle of sanctity and learning. There will not even be slime upon the holy walls. Swamps are primitive masses of earth or deposits of alluvia along river courses, water soaked and choked witi I decaying vegetation that gives off mia :- I matic gas. "But bogs are ancient lakes, often fed by springs underneath, and feeding in th ?ir turn swift rivers. The water is never stagnant. The turf is an accumulation of vegetable matter on the surface, but often 20 to 40 feet in depth. This vegetation has undergone a peculiar change under a degree of temperature that prevents decomposition. As might be well understood, ordinary aquatic plants of much succulent leafage would decay. The plant peculiar to the bog is a kind of moss known as spagnum, something between the woody fiber of Spanish moss and the porous compactness of sponge. Giv ,n a shallow pool, mud contracting around the roots of true water plants and spagnum flourishes,, a parasite* abserbirg the other plants, sending out new ones of its own, spreading above and solidifying below and gradually replacing the water with connected fiber.

On tcp, each year’s growth is dry, brown r.nd crumbling, but eight feet below it is often as hard, black and valuable fcr fuel as coal. Underneath this strata is water to an unknown depth, and there is water oozing to the surface up through the porous mass, seemingly unsafe, but in reality treacherous orly in the bog holes left by the peat cutter, where nature has not had time to heal the wound with a new growth of spagnum. ♦ The water flows away in great rivers from all sides, for the begs aro all extensive and more elevated than the arable lands. If the outlets become obstructed, there is an overflow, causing floods, when the matted brown spagnum moves on the surface, as the trades moved the Saragossa sea with its islands of seaweeds. Only this surface moss can float, as each successive year deposits its strata and ccnstantly increases in density with pressure from above and below. Anything falling into a bog hole becomes imbedded and mummified. Very much’of the surface must at one time have been covered with forest trees, as trunks of numerous varieties are often dug up, so perfect as to be useful for the builder, but black as ebony and much harder than the originalwood. —Chicago Times-Herald. He Got the Glove. s “Two inseparable comrades,’’ say? the Philadelphia ’ Record, “both members of the Loyal legion, are General H. S. Hui*’ koper and State Senator Francis A. Osbourn. Both are veterans of the civil war, in which unpleasantness each lest an arm. But while General Huidekoper is minus his right arm Senator Ost. urn mourns the loss of his left. For years it has been the practice of the two veterans to ihake one pair of gloves do for both. Whenever the general purchased a new pair, he invariably sent the right glove to the senator, and when the senator invested the general would get the left glove. Up to last Monday the senator hadn’t received a glove from the .general for about a year and had concluded that his old friend was getting parsimonious, when a pad age was banded to him in his seat at Harrisburg. Cn opening the bundle the senator was overjoyed to find a right hand glove. ’ ’ Pay a Tax or Marry. A queer law has been introduced cy the legislators of Argentine Republic. It jvent into effect Jan. 1 and reads in part as follows: * ‘Young celibates of either sex who shall, without legitimate motive, reject' the addresses of him or her who may aspire to his or her hand and who continue contumaciously unmarried, shall pay the sum of 500 piasters for the benefit of the young person, manor woman, who has been refused. ’ ’ Another clause reads, “That every male from the age of 20 to 80 shall pay a tax till he . marries and shall pay it once in every month. ”

COST OF A TRAIN. The Expenio aud Profile of Travel oi> tCngrliiili Railway Lluen. How many people who travel in train s ever think of the cost of running them? It will probably surprise most people who have traveled from London to Edinburgh to know that every mile of the journey costs the railway company over half a crown. The cost of (he whole journey from the English to the Scotch capital is £SO. The average cost of running a train in England is 2s. 7d. per mile, so (hat, the fare being reckoned at Id. per mile, a train with less than 81 passengers for each mile is run at a loss. There arc few trains, however, that do not curry more than this number of passengers, and muny of them carry the nun.lx i doubled many times over. It is ncces sary frequently to run trains (hat do uci pay—usually in thinly inhabited country districts—but for every train run a loss probably 100 are run at an euor mous profit. for instance, the journey from London to Edinburgh, which costs tin 1 railway company £SO. The average number of “through” passengers in these (rains is probably 00, in which case the total fares would be nearly £lO0 —a clear gain of nearly £SO. When it is remembered that these tr”'ns run several times a day, ami every day in the year, it will be understood what an enormous revenue a single line yields in the course of 12 months. Supposing the r.VA rage number of passengers to be 60, the midnight train from London to Edinburgh yields over £20,000 for dividend in a year! The longest railway journey iu the United Kingdom would probably be from Penzance,.in Cornwall, io Thurso, in the north of Scotland, a di t-.uce of over 1,000 miles. A train runt., g between these two places \vould exhaust an ordinary clerk’s salary for a whole year, the cost being no less than £l3B. —London Tit-Bits. To Grow Teeth. A Moscow dentist has solved the problem of supplying the human moqth with false tehth which will grow into the gums as firmly natural ones. Dr. Zamensky has pci Aimed several successful operations on dogs as well as human beings. The teeth are made of guttapercha, porcelain or metal, as the case may be. At the root of the false tooth holes are made. Holes are also made upward into the jaw. The tooth is then placed in the cavity. In a short time a soft, granulated growth finds its w r ay from the patient’s jaw into the holes in the tooth. This growth gradually hardens and holds the tooth in position. It is stated that it does not matter whether the cavity in which the tooth is to be placed is one from which a natural tooth has been recently drawn or whether it has been healed for some years.—Moscow Letter. One Better. Jim Faro—l’m in luck. I got SSOO last night on the ace of hearts. Cracksey Joe —Dat’s nothin. A frtn o’ mine cracked a jewelry crib las’ week an got five t’onsand on a tray of diamonds.—Exchange. Cheerfulness bears the same friendly regard to the mind as to the body. It banishes all anxious care tent, soothes and composes the passions and keeps them in a perpetual calm. The toothpicks of orange wood, which come from Japan, are made by hand. It is said that a Japanese workman can whittle from 12 to 20 dozen a day.

I NERVOUS. DESPONDENT, I WEAK, DISEAS.D t.iEil I Cures Guaranteed or No Pay e YOUNG or MIDD. E-AGED ME -You | may have been the victim of Self Abm-e a when .mung. Later Fx e eee or e poeiire 3 to blood die-ea ee may have completed the £ work. lon feel the b. mt toms stenlin 6 <>Ver you. You d cad the future reßUlte. A You know you are not a man im ntn ly aud u sexual y, uhy not I o cure t in lime "nd W avo ; d the ead ex eriem-e of other wrecks ■ of these disea es. Onr NEW ME HOUR 1. LATMENT WtLL CURE YOU AFTER E ■ LI. ELSE FAILS. i L m ss ons, Varicoceio and | ' : 7 iis Cured W.K. W. M. MILLER M C R T 1 d I Before Treatment After Treatment "At. thu age of 15 I commenced to ruin my lu-a th. later on as “ONE OF THE Is< >Y->” 1 contracted a serious blood disease —SYPHILIS'. 1 was weak and nervous, d-snondent, pimples, sunken eyes, bone ■ pains. 1 leers, hair loose, sore tongre and mouth, drains in nrine, varicocele!—l was 11 wreck. I was in the 1 >st stages when a rend recommended Drs. Kennedy & 5 K rgan. A dozen other doctors had 'ailed Sin curing me. Drs. Kenne ty & Kergan n ci.rod me in a few weeks by their New JSj M.'ihod t entment. 1 would warn similar Rdise-i ed men to beware of Medical Frauds. ITv- are reliable honest and skillful ,; physicians.” W. M. MILLBH. M CONSULTATION FREE. 4 sa e tre t mid cure Varlcoj’c le, -ynh'its, Emissions, *««;!- t, “btetur •• Nervous •>»-- ... n mv. Unnatural nlHcliargew, . It! 'ri y anil Bladder Disil7 YEARS IN IYICHIGAN 200,000 CURED ?N<> cure, IN<» Hay. Write for ouea’in Wank for Home T-- atm**nt. Books Free oiiHultation Tree. Drs.KENKEDYI KERGAN No. 148 Shelby St. DETROIT, - - MICH. ■ ill iuii sr— mW Coffee & Baker still lead in fine bread. The same tjld price—two loaves for five cents, and the loaves are larger than any five cent l°a f su’d in town.

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4/ The G. R- 6k I. (Effect Sept. 27.1896.) TRAINS fIORTII. • *No. 3. +No. 5. *No. 1. Richmond 11:00am 11:45 pm 2:50 pm Parry 11:10 “■ 2:55 “ Chester 3:01 Fountain City. 11:35 " 3:11 " Johnson 11:35 “ 3:21 “ Lynn 11:40 “ 3:20 “ Snow Hill 11:46 * 3:33 " Woods 11:40 " 3:34 " Winchester.... 12:00 " 12:30 pm 3:44 Stone 13:10 pm 3:55 “ Ridgeville 12:19 “ 12:45am 4:05 “ Collet 12:32 “ 4:13 “ Portland 12:42 “ 1:03 am 4:30 “ Jay “ 4:40 •* ] Briant 12:50 “ 4:40 * . Geneva 1:07 “ 4:50 * 1 Ceylon 4:58 “ Berne 1:18 “ 5:06 I Monroe 1:32 “ 5:21 J DECATUR 1:45 “ 1:51 am 5:35 “ Monmouth 1:53 " 5:41 “ Williams 2:01 “ 5:51 •• Hoagland 2:00 “ 5:56 “ Fdams 0;ll Fort Wayne.... 2:35 ‘ am .6:25 ♦Dally, except Sunday. tDally to Grand • Rapids. TRAINS SOUTH •No. 2. rNo.O tNo. 4. Fort Wayne.... 12:35 p m 12:45am 5:45am Adams 5:58 Hoagland 1:00 “ 6:13 Williams 1:05 “ 6:18 Monmouth 1:18 “ 6:24 DECATUR. .. 1:19 “ 1:32 “ 0:30 ‘ Monroe 1:32 “ 6:44 Berne 1:44 “ " 6;56 Ceylon 7:<M I Geneva 1:53 " 7:06 Briant 2:00 “ Portland 2:14 “ 2:20 i:3O Collett 2:23 “ 7:41 “ Ridgeville... . 2:35 “ 2:42 “ 7;50 Stone 7:59 Winchester.... 2:50 “ 3:02 “ 8:09 Woods 8:22 " Snow Hill 8:25 Lynn 3:05 “ B:3t Johnson 8:11 " 8:38 Fountain City. 3:20 “ ” , 8:49 Chester 9:01 Parry 9:08 Richmond 3:40 “ 4:00 " 9:15 ♦Daily Grand Rapids. tDaily ex. Sunday. Jeff Bryson. Agent C’L Lockwood. Gen. Pas Agent. Erie unes. j| ij I \fl 111 6. 1896. Trains leave Decatur as follows: WEST. , No. 5, vestibule limited, dally for m ■ Chicago..... ■: 12:23 p. m No. 3, Pacific express, dally for Chicago 1:48 a. m No. 1, express, dally except Sun- . day for Chicago 11:06 a. m No. 31, local, dally except Sunday..! 10:10 a. m No 13. Wells Fargo Limited Ex- . press, dally except Monday 6:43 and day after legal holiday EASTj ’ ( *No. 8, vestibule limited, daily for j. New York and Boston ":57 No. 2, express, dally except Sunday for New York 2:00 p. m No. 12. express, dally for New . York . 1:30 a. m No. 30. local, daily except Sun-* day > 10:10 a. m ( Through coaches and sleeping cars to New York and Boston Tyai ns 1 and2stop at all stations on the'O DE. Ivlslon. Train No. 12 carries through sleeping cars to Columbus, Circleville. Chillicothe. Waverly, Portsmouth. Ironton, and Kenova, via Columbus. Hocking Valley & Toledo, and ( Norfolk & Western lines J. W. DkLong, Agept W.O. Mac Edwards. T. P.A.. Huntington. The Cloves ueaf. ' T., St. L. * K 0. R. R. -In effect Jan 3.1887 ( EAST. 1 Passenger ™ ■ ® eBS -• r:::::::::::"ife £» ’ B , WEST. Passenger a'm ' - p‘“ Local'.'.'.’.’.'. :. m ' ' EA. Whinhsy. Agent. '

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DRAINED TILE. We manufacture and keep in stock all sizes fron 3 to 18 inches. Call or write and get prices. Special shipping rates. Satisfaction guaranteed. KRICK, MEYERS £ CO.. 'DECATUR INIIANA. Look Here! lam here to stay and c»n »el t Orsans and Ms cheaper than anybody else can afford to sell them. I sell different makes. GLEANING AND REPAIRING done reasonable. See me first and save money. J. T. <I«OTN Decatur, Ind. AT Merryman's Factory Yon can Ret all kinds of .— 000 Hard and Soft Wood, S'dlrig, Flooring. Brackets, Odd Sized safeh and Doors. In fact all kinds of building material made or furnished on short notice. , —a JOHN S. BO WEBS —DEALER IN — STONE, ....CRUSHED STONE.... T Can deliver on line Also. HERCULES POWDER. For Stump Blasting, Always on Hand. CURED WITHOUT COST. . — BLOOD POISON. “The life of all flesh Is the blood thereof Leviticus xvli, 14. The late I^ - . Rioord, of Paris, was the most celebrated authority in the world on SvpblHs, Scrofula, and other blood diseases. These disorders, whether Inherited or acquired, cause skin eruptions, sore throat, ulcers, swelling of the glands, fallingout of hair, dlseaseof bones nervlousuess, impairment of sexual power and permature medtal and physical decay. To any sufferer we will send, on receipt of six cents in stamps. Dr. Ricord’s famous prescription for the blood. Positive and permanent cures guaranteed. Address The Rioord Medical Co.. Marlon'L It*