Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1898 — Page 8

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Linn Grove. Ths oil well on the E. Wanner farm put down by Stahley & Leeper was not a paying one. Lewis Reynolds returned from Oden. Michigan, Saturday. He says fishing sport at that resort is not flattering. Fred Studler is moving his old barn on his farm on the east side of the pike. Peter Baumgartner is doing the work. Jacob R. Grater, superintendant of the county infirmary, was looking after his property here the latter part of last week. Oscar Hoffmann is filling the place of Eugene Runyon in the Heller & Runyon store, while the latter is rusticating at the lakes of Michigan. Forest Nichols and Emma, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Yoder, were united in marriage at the home of the bride on Saturday evening last. Samuel Lahman and family of South Bend, were visiting the parental home over the Sabbath. Sam holds a position in the office of the Wilson Bros, shirt manufactury. Peter Meyer of Wells county, has purchased the fifty-five acre tract of land belonging to the Elizabeth Schlatter heirs. The land is located in the northwest part of French township. Berne. J. F. Lachot spent Sunday with his family. James Place was a business caller here Thursday. Sam Schindler and Amos Hirschy Sundayed at Fort Wayne. Phil Schug and Sam Riesen were business callers at Decatur Friday. Chas. Haenne of New Bremen. Sundayed here the guest of his mother. Calvin Saurer had a runaway last week and is now nursing a sore leg. Jacob Atz made a business trip to Kokomo the latter part of last week. E. K. Ray and wife are spending this week with friend# at Auburn, Ind. Mrs. John Saurer who lias been sick with typhoid fever, is slowly improving. Geo. Heller and wife are visiting their son, Noah, and family at Cleveland, Ohio. Miss Cora Gentis of Linn Grove, was the guest of Miss Emma Heller a few days last week. Miss Marne Bixler returned Monday from Bluffton, Ohio, where she has teen visiting for the past few weeks.

Cut Price China Sale Monday, August 22, and continue one week only. At this sale all our fancy imported China will go at first cost, and a great many things at much less. We want to put out what we have on hand, to make room for our immense Holiday line, which will arrive later. Please bear in mind that these goods to be sold at this special sale are all the very best French and German china, and the newest patterns —no old stale stuff, but bright, new and clean. You can save big money by making your purchases at this sale. Remember the best pieces always go out first, and to get your choice from the entire lot you must come early. We also will offer at this time Glassware and Dinnerware cheaper than you ever heard of it before. At this sale no goods sold on time or laid away. The Old, Reliable Place Sprang & True.

The secretary of the Blue Creek Fair was in town Tuesday to employ XX m. Sheets as manager o f the fair. Miss Barbara Lehman, step sister of Dr. Franz, revived a sunstroke Thursday of last week, but is now improving. Albert, son of John Lehman, died Wednesday of inflammation of the bowels and was hurried Friday in the M. E. cemetery. Rev.Sprunger officiating, Albert, son of David J. Moser, west of town, died Thursday of last week of typhoid fever and was buried Saturday afternoon. Funeral services were held at the Amish church west of town. 0. M. Harris and wife. N. H. McLean, Marion Buffenterger, XVm. Ray. Eli Ray, Norm Jacobs and Ed. Mahony are among the visiting guests at Cincinnati this week. Pleasant .Tills. Wilson Berry is quite sick with typhoid fever. Born to Tony Roebuck and wife a boy, last Sunday. Born to Stephen Roebuck and wife a girl, Monday night. Jesse Steele and family spent Sunday with A. N. Acker and family. D. B. Roop of Decatur, gave this place a business call Wednesday. Charles Bartling is making preparations to move on C. XV. Yager’s farm. Henry Jackson and family of Celina, Ohio, visited relatives here last week. Frank Winans left last week for Hecley, Ind., where he expects to attend school. J. Smith, XV. P. Porter and John Noll took in the excursion to Lexington. Ky., last Monday. Rev. Daniels of Decatur, preached an interesting sermon at the M. E. church last Saturday evening. Herman Schrank left Tuesday of last week for Whitley, county Ind., where he will engage in teaching a fall and winter term of school. The sad news of the death of Mrs. ' Lambert Foreman of Celina, Ohio, i was received here Tuesday morning. XVe extend our sympathy to the be- ' reaved family. More than twenty million free , samples of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve have teen distributed by the manufacturers. What better proof of confidence in it’s merits do you want ’ It cures piles, burns, scalds, sores, in the shortest space of time. Page Blackburn. “I Was Weak, Nervous and Run Down.” I want to testify to the good Brown’s Cure has done me. I was weak, nervj ous and run down in vitality when I commenced taking it; it has done evI erything for me and I am now a new I being. A number of my friends also ‘ speak with gratitude of the good your | medicine has done them—it is indeed a grand remedy. Yours Gratefully, ! Mrs. L. V. Criig, 907 Mass. Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Such is the testimony of thousands concerning Brown’s Cure, a Perfect Family medicine, the test remedy known for the liver, kidneys and bowels, a positive cure for dyspepsia and all bowel troubles, sick headache, nervousness, constipation and loss of sleep. If you suffer try this great remedy and find health and happiness. Sold by Page Blackburn. Price lets. Yi-Ki cures corns and warts. 15c Opera at Bosse’s opera house, Sepi tember 15.

From Oden, Michigan. Oden. Mich.. Sept. 5, lb9B. Dear Democrat: — There is an old saying which says, at a certain season of the year, "homeward the swallow flies, and it Mill apply to the numerous resorters who have teen spending their vacations in northern Michigan, as in the past four days about sixty have left this restful and delightful village, mostly people from Cincinnati. Ohio: a large majority of them of the circumcised tribe of Israel who have gone there for the purpose of getting their pound of flesh from those attending the meeting of the G. A. R. The Adams countv people returning home were R. K. Allison and two children. French Quinn, Doll Christen. Marv V. Allison and others, including P. XV. Smith and family of Richmond. Unfortunately for them, they went a little too soon, as I am informed they | arrived when the weather was beastly hot. Those who have returned who [ are fond of fishing have missed the | best sport of the season as there were i some very fine strings of small | mouthed black bass caught since. One string of twenty-seven Friday averaging three pounds, and another of five that weighed seventeen and one-half pounds caught after six o’clock p. m. by two gentlemen from ] Frankfort, Indiana, who are a part of I a jolly party who are now camping | across the street from our cottage. 1 think from this on we will get all the fish we want. Among those visiting Oden from Decatur I will mention Alex Bell, D. Railing and wife, J. XV. Vail, wife and two brothers, one from | Kentucky and the other from Ossian. I Indiana. Dan Sprang and wife I helped make up a party of merry bathers who spent several hours here. J. XV. X'ogelwede and brother Garret also came up on the excursion and spent a few days with the writer, and although they did not do any fishing enjoyed themselves hugely while here, they are most excellent men and I assure you I miss them. Last Thursday, Friday and Saturday were certainly the warmest days I ever recollect of in this country, the mercury registering as high as 90 in the shade at two o’clock p. m. Friday. Sunday, however, a high gale prevailed all day and cooled off the atmosphere so that we could have stood a light fire in the evening. Israel Miesse came here on Saturday night from Cheboygan and spent Sunday with me. I must tell a story on Is. He came upon the excursion but instead of getting off at Petoskey with others from Decatur, he went directly to Cheboygan to see an old sweet-heart, of his, but on his arrival found her married. However, she treated him nicely and recommended a couple of her sisters to him. I. J. in relating the circumstances to me was so excited that you could scarcely understand him and the words were so slow coming from his lips you could have taken a nap between them. He left for Petoskey this morning on his way home intend ing to stop off at Grand Rapids. XVe I have had the pleasure of entertaining I Mrs. Ellingham and baby, the Studa-I bakers, Mrs. Morrison and daughter.; John Niblick and many others since ’ coming up here and I assure you 11 have enjoyed their society ever so much as they could give me much news from home which I could get no other way. Sam Simison of Berne came up on the excursion on the 30th bringing along five carpenters who went to work in building a fine cottage for him and will certainly have it completed by the time the limit of their tickets expire next Thursday. This country is coming to the front in the ' cultivation of fruits as well as veget- | ables. A gentlemen by name of Jas. I Honts living adjoining Oden brought ■ me a sample of two varieties of apples j

he raised this vear on trees only four years old. and 1 must say it is as tine fruit as I have ever seen, large, firm and finely flavored. Then another in this neighborhood engaged in thecu tivation of apples, pears and plums and the samples of plums are very fine both in size and flavor. It will not be many days now till everybody except hay fever subjects will have gone to their homes further south amt it will be decidedly lonesome up here. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Allison and Miss Cook will leave about the 15th in st for home, they being the last Decatuntes in this village. May your shadow never grow less and your subscription list increase immensely is the wish ot your friend, Major.

NEWS FROM COMPANY B. Another Letter from Edwarl lacy, Our Regular War Correspondent. Lexington. Ky.. Sept. 4.1898. Friends of Old Adams. The 160th, as you are aware, have now pitched their tents upon Kentucky soil and we have a beautiful site for a camp, except shade, but as we have our large tent again we can hide ourselves from the sun’s rays to a greater extent than when we used our pup tents. Livelv was the camp when we left Indianapolis for Chickamauga as we thought we were advancing to the field of action, and the same enthusiasm was expressed yet on a greater scale when we were ordered to Newport News, but the move to this point and the stay here has been quite different. XVe notice that there is something lacking. Something to cause those hearty hurrahs that used to go up for the officers. XVe all. I say all, as I verilv believe I speak the sentiment of 95 per cent, of the privates, thought that the enthusiasm expressed by our line and regimental officers was that of true patriotism as it was with us. and now when it is a choice of either return to one’s home cares and livelihood or do 1 garrison duty under regulations governing the regular army we find those who draw well upon Uncle Sam’s purse the only ones who wish to go, while 95 per cent, of the privates have signed papers to the effect that we wish to be released and return to out homes.

The Colonel of the Fifth Illinois, ' like a gentleman, asked his men who wished to go and do their two years i garrison duty to make it manifested, and but twenty-four of the enlisted , men wished to go. Our Colonel has not done so and we wonder how he knows that two-thirds of his regiment wishes to go, as we understand he has telegraphed Governor Mount. There | is not twenty-five men in the regiment , who would join the regular army and |; we are puzzled to know where our i home papers get such items as ap- | peared in last week's issue. Me. the enlisted men of the regiment, enlisted ■ to defend our flag in time of war, but never could we be induced to live two . years within the lines of a military camp, where we know or see nothing of the happy holiday excursions, never go to the races, attend church festi-■ vals, see the elephants at the big show. 5 or even have the privilege of going to ■ church or Sunday school, unless we I run the guard line and go to some city church as many of us did lasti Sunday. We haven’t heard our Chap lain chirp since we left Chickamauga. The boys say he is too busy issuing “gold bricks” or the checks good on the regimental stand. The Chaplain sees to it and that takes up all his time. It would do no good for him to expound the gospel to the boys ■ now as they would naturaly think he i was drumming up trade for his “brick j work.” We can buy nothing any- J where but at the stand and we pay j good round prices for what we get as | they have guards placed aiouna the stands near our camp and allow them to sell to none but civilians and no peddlers are admitted within the lines. Our regiment is camped alone on a little noli and there are 140 guards around us, more guards than would | be placed around three times as many prisoners of war. Yet we are claimed to be the best dicipline and behaving regiment that visited Newport News. We of course once tried to go to town | and get the “nigger” that shot i Andrews, but the people of the city I or in fact no one except the Colonel i held any other opinion but that we ■ were in the right. Our tents are be- ■ ing floored with lumber furnished i by the citizens of Lexington. The people of this city deserve and have | our heartfelt thanks for all favors i shown the boys in blue, When the Colonel thought that we were in danger of being forced to the ! front it seems he had no inclination to go and he severely and continually called down Company B and placed us at the bottom of the roll of honor. But things have changed now as our Captain was one of us who wished to! go to the front against the Colonel’s! will and still wishes, with good reasons undoubted and respected by all, to remain in the sendees, by which he and the Colonel are now of one mind and his highness sends us his compliments and wishes to thank us for our civil action and also tells us personally that we marchedjluring|dress parade review better than any of the other companies. And now when we go to the mess table we are told to get all we want instead of taking what we get and only eome once as before. We also received 8*25 as a company fund with which to buy delicacies. It is of no use to try to “jolly” us now, because the case is too plain and as most of the enlisted men thought upon entering the army that the war could not last much, if any longer, than four months, and have left their homes, friends, families and work for that length of time expecting to return to them then should they return at all. and resume the responsibilities of a true citizen’s life.

The Oldest, the Largest and the Best. Incorporated. < apjtal »125.o 0o Medical and Surgical lElift No. 10 W. Wayne Street. DR - J - w - YOUNGE. aBESS®. President American Association Medical and Surgical Specialist, —the— ISPrSb f Ablest Specialist in the '• \ Country. Xigr will BE AT t he WK---' BURT HOUSE Jlimdiiy, Sept. 12, Imis Dr. Younge has treated more eases ~ of Chronic Disease- thaii ; ,nv three doctors ill the We can cure Epilepsy TWENTY-FIVE YEARS EXPERIENCE. DR. YOUNGE has treated over 40.000 patients in the State of Indiana since 1872, and with perfect success in every ease. A STRONG STATEMENT. Dr. Younge has deposited One Thousand Dollars in the bank as a forfeit that he has treated more cases of Chronic Diseases and performed more remarkable cures than any other three specialists in the state of Indiana. New methods of treatment and new remedies used. All Chronic Diseases and Deformities treated successfully—such as diseases of the Brain, Heart, Lung-, Throat, Eve and Ear, Stomach, Liver, Kidneys (Bright’s disease), Bladder, Rectum. Female Diseases. Impotency, Gleet, Seminal Emissions, Nervous Diseases, Catarrh. Rupture, Piles, Stricture, Diabetes, etc., etc. Consumption and Catarrh can be Cured. Cancers and all Tumors Cured without pain or use of knife As God has prepared an antidote for the sin-sick soul, so has He prepared antidotes for a diseased-sick body. These can be found at the Lounge’s Medical and Surgical Institute. After an examination we will tell you just what we can do for you. If we cannot benefit or cure you. we will frankly and honestly tell you so, Patients can be treated successfully at a distance. Write for examination and question blanks. and carriages direct to the Institute. Call on or address J. W. YOUNGE, A. M., M. D., President. N. B. SMITH, M. D., M. C., Manager. No. 10 W. Wayne St. FT. WAYNE. IND.

As far as the health of the regiment is concerned we have sustained but one death on account of disease, one I by accident and one was murdered in cold blood. Very few are now in the hospital. It is with pleasure we tell our home people that we consider it just as! brave to be ready to return to our home cares as it was to volunteer our services to our country in time of need. Hoping the higher authorities will soon lie able to gain an understanding of our circumstances through more reliable channels, ~e remain your friends, The Boys of Co. B. Hlh Worst OffenM. When it was proposed to lessen the list of crimes punished by death, Lord Eldon objected to the noose being banished in cases of petty shoplifting. “The small shopkeepers will be ruined by this exemption,” said the old Tory lord chancellor. Another Tory, a judge, so venerated the sovereign that he included in his regard any article belonging to the king, | no matter how far removed from actual possession. A tailor had been condemned for the murder of a soldier, and the judge tacked on this addition to the sentence of death: “And not only did you murder him, ! but you did thrust or push or pierce or I project or propel the lethal weapon I through the belly band of his breeches, ’ which were his majesty’s!” Fast Salaries of Actors. A number of autograph letters of Edmund Kean supply some interesting information about the salaries of actors early in the century. One relates to an offer by Mr. Ellison offering Kean £3 a week as acting manager of “the new theater in Wych street.” Later this rose as high as £25 a month. In 1826 Kean was offered $12,000 a year to go to America. In the prime of his popularity he received £2OO for a week in I Edinburgh, and apparently reached the highest point when Mr. Bunn wrote from the Theater Royal, Dublin, on Feb. 8, 1829, and offered him £SO a night to play in Dublin and Cork.— Liverpool Mercury. Life of a Battleship. Naval experts have put down the active life of a modern battleship at about 15 years. A hundred years ago battleships lasted nearly six times as long and were on active service nearly the whole time of their commission. The Victory, for instance, was 40 years old when she acted as Nelson’s flagship at the memorable battle of Trafalgar. A line of battle ship, the Royal William, was ! built at Chatham in 1670 and was not broken up until 1813, being rebuilt several times before her final demise. The Laplanders drink a great deal of smoked snow water, and one of the national drinks of the Tonquinese is arrack flavored with chickens’ blood. The sacred crocodiles of Egypt were buried with her proudest kings.

Naval Cadetship Applicants. Washington. Sept. 3.—The following candidates from Indiana for naval cadetships have applied lor the September examination: Third congressional district, Edward Kiutner; alternate, Earl Johnson; Fourth, John W Shaw; alternate, John S. Aiwiue; Tenth, Edward J. Larquart; alternate, Albert L Marshall. Keeping a List ot Wounded Soldier*. New York. Sept. s.—Major David N. Appel, surgeon U. S. A., has established a bureau of information at his office in this city, where he has prepared a list of the sick and wounded soldiers that are confined in the hospitals in New York, Brooklyn, on Long Island and at the several forts. Sick Keturuing From Porto Kieo. Washington, Sept. 5. —The following cablegram was received by the war department last night from General Wilson, at Ponce, Porto Rico: “Transport Panama sailed at 4 o'clock P. M. today with 246 convalescent soldiers; Surgeon Daly and three assistants on board; could accommodate no more. Unenviable Distinction. Camp Meade, Middletown, Pa., Sept. o.—New uniforms have been issued to the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Indiana, which enjoyed the unenviable distinction of being the worst equipped regiment in the Second corps. Senor Geezaro, chairman of the reception committee of the San Jalapa Civic association, addressing his asso ciates: “Now, senores, I think al- • in readiness. As soon as zee deesteen guished veesitors come in sight zee fire-bell will reeng and zee ancient cannon on zee plaza will be fired. Zen zee band will follow me and zee committee down zee highway toward zee coming guests. Behind zee band will mar rc zee seven school children of Jalapa wiz red, white and blue rosettes. Zen < zee Jalapa fire deepartmeut wiz ees ladder and bucket, and zee Jalapa p 1 lice force wiz eets club decorate zee national colors of zee gr-reat se Miles. Zen will follow both menibe . of zee Jalapa board of trade on . ‘j T and zee Jalapa senoras and senori as a band wagon. Zee rear of zee PJ'*' . sion will be made up of ceetizens o sexes and all colors. When we r zee mighty Senor Miles. 1 and my address, zee band will pi vaster we mar-rch to zee plaza ev, r -' ‘ will be at leeberty to embr-race z ble Americaines. Hark! Eeet trompet. Zeycome! Attention band str-tike up and zee chorus begeen. For-r-ward! Headed by the committee, v red, white and blue sashes, the ing column swept forward, the Issi chorus rolling forth in “ tones: Ta—ra—ra —Yank—ee-Do° d 1 ( Ta—ra—ra—heep— hoo-ray-Ta—ra—ra—how-iyou-do T Ta—ra—ra—tpleaat—,