Decatur Eagle, Volume 8, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1864 — Page 3

THE EAG I.E. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. .T*! J.u- r - -•*** LOCAL & MISCELLANEOUS. Remember! Remember!! Our terms of Subscription is, one copv one yeai in advance, sl. within the year $1,50, at the Expiration of the year, $2,00. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid up, tint‘Sß at the option of the Publishers. ihe paper will be sent to subscriber 4 ’after theii time of subscription has expired unless notice is given to the contrary. We receive no t itscribers, for a less period than 6 months. Special Notice. TO ADVERTISERS.— AllativertiSHilcntsta kauJot a specified time, and ordered out before the expiration of the time specified, wUlbe chary cd the re qul ar rates for ths same up to the time they rre ordtred out.

County Ticket. FOR RErnESRNTATtVE. P. N. COLLINS. FOR TREASURER, JESSE NIBLICK. FOR SHERIFF. JACOB STULL’S, FOR CCMMISSI.IFF.R 2XO DIS'T, JACOB SARFF. JUDICIAL CONVENTION. A Convention of Delegates to nominate Democratic Candidates for Judge nfi’fl District Attorney for the 20th Judicial District, wifi be held in Bluffton, Wp’.ls county, on Saturday 16tii July, at 12 M .APPORTIONMENT OF DELEGATES. Adams, 12 I Huntington, 16 Allen, 38 I Wells, 11 Total, 77 By order of Central Committee, W. G. SEEN CEIL Adams, THOS. TIGAR, Allen, F. P. LUCAS, Huntinston, J. G. SMITH, Wells, “

BOY WANTED At this office to learn the art of printing; one with a fair English education, from to 18- s ears of age. A good studious boy can find rm excellent opportunity to Ltain one of the best of trades. Dentistry.—Dr. V. B. Simcokc, has n ide such arrangements ns will enable n to do a very superior job in the way of putting up and inserting artificial teeth, on one tooth to an entire set. either on Id, Silver, or Rubber. The Doctor nfts shown us sime very beautiful and a 'client sets of teeth, that he is now putting up for different individuals, wc ' o never seen them excelled in this or ny other place. He dries his work very "ov and warrants the same for one year. He may be found at all times, miles professionally absent, at hjs office in the !> ck building one door south of Nattti <fc Crawford's sto-e. Decayed teeth tilled, or extracted, without pain.

Dress Makin■ ; —Miss Samantha Grim 1 Miss Mary Close have opened a scvv- . .;r shop immediately over Jacob Gloss’ Monee, where they are prepared to all kinds of work in their line on the >rtest possible notice, and in the latest fashion and the most, approved style.— r.ve them a call. We the undersigne! Merchants and Mechanics of the Town of Decatur, do hereby agree among ourselves that we will close our Establish meats, for business, on the 4h day of July, 1861, that we and our employees, may enjry the priviledge of celebrating, in the old time honored way, the Aniversary of our national Independence. JOSEPH CRABS. CRABS <t MOSES, NUTTMAN &CRAWEORD, J. MEIBEPS & BRO. BRASS BAND. Thete will be a meeting of the stock holders of the Decatur Brass Band at the Court House, on Saturday evening, July 2, 1864, for the purpose of electing officers and transacting other business. 11. DERRS,) J. STULTsJ Stockholders. ' C. BURT, ) ifirThere will be a Union Sunday School Celebration at Decatur, on the 4th day of July, 186 L the several schools ( throughout the county are requested to attend. Csrlce Cream to-night, and every evening during the hot weather, at the Billiard Saloon. irg’Grim Mickle have fresh beef for eale at Niblick’s old shoe shop every Tuesday and Saturday mornings.

Wanted! Wanted! A.l Crabbs & Moses, all the ashes in the country, for which the very highest market price wri! be paid.—june 4, L 864.

Dr. Hoback’s Constituents. 1 We learn that Che distinguished and popular inventor of those fa.mous Scanpinavian Remedies the Btho-n Pitts bnd Blood Purihsr, advertised incur ausiness columns receives pearly as many letters by every mail as the Treasury Department. The average is more than 200 per day! Ilis patients scattered over the broad West the Southern States ami New England are said to reach the enormous and almost incredible aggregate of 100,000! By his patients we mean those who use bis preparations as their only medicines. We persbme that such a connection is without a parallel in Medical history. SHAKE and BURN ! Shake and Burn!! Shake and Burn!!! This is the life of agony endured by the sufferer from Fever and Ague. He wanders like an uncetain shadow, never knowing what moment lie may bo prostrated, nnd therefore disinclined to give any se-1 rious atten'ion to business. This is the i condition of thousands in town and country, It is no exaggeration to say that Fever and Ague kill-, more people tbad any twenty other diseases in America. For a sure and speedy cure of this terrible affliction, we take great pleasure in roeom- ' mending Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, , which have already achieved a wide reputation for rapid and powerful effects in renovating the system prostrated by this disease. For sale by Druggists and dealers generally, every where. [lmo

BRANDRETH’S PILLS. While brandreth’s Pill are so potent for good diseased bodies they are hermless as bread, The babe at the breast or the man of ripes years and delicate females are certain to receive an increase of health from the use of these Pills blessed of heaven. It has been said by an aided pliysicirn, that‘this medicine always benefits and never injures.’ Wherein is the superlative quality. The Brandreth Pills have no power or action but upon impure humors in the blood. They seize only the impurities in and around the parts affected by disease; all (lie parts involved in diseased actions are operated upon and cleanced from all foulness and reinfused with ‘Life,’by the wonderful curative powers contained and inherent of the most justly famed Brandreth’s Pills. Millions of people whose lives appeared to be at the last ebb, worn out by fever’s consuming fires, by/Consumption's insidious ailyances by racking torments of inflammatory rheumatism, have i been cured by the use of these pills,. The I persons are living witnesses and thous. ■mds are residents/ in every city of Am- | erica. PrincipalOffice, No. 291 Canal Street New York. Sold by T. T. Dorwin Decatur and by ! all respectable dealers in medicines. Ask for n-r style. ~G

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned guardian of the estate and persons ol Frank Neff. Catharine Neff, Noah Neff and Minerva Neff, minors, by virtue of an order of tli« court of common pleas of A dams countr, made at the May term of ’aid court, 1864. will sell at private sale, bv bis attorney, D Studabaker, at Decatur, A lams county, Indiana, on and after the 30th day of June, 1864. The following described real estate, towit: One-eleventh part nf the following described realestate, to-wit.’ Tlie south west quarter of section fifteen, and the north east quarter of the south east quarter of section thirty-six, and the south half of the north east quarter of section thirty six, all in township twenty- five (25) north, range thirteen (13) east, in Adams county, Indiana, containing in all 380 acres, more or less, on the followiutr conditions: One-third of the purchase money to be paid in hand, one-third in six and onethird in twelve months from date, wiih interest, and to be secured by note with approved security. MICHAEL NEFF, Mny21.1P64. Guardian.

C. L. HILL’S Piano Forte Warerooms and Music store. No. 54 Calhoun street, Fort Wayne, Indiana, opposite court house. The largest Musical Instrument Warcrooms in the West. Keeps constantly on hand a large assortment of PIANO FORTES, CABINET ORGANS & MELODEONS From the best Manufacturers. Sole agent for Steinway & Sons, New Yd'Vk.— Chickering & Sons, Boston. Win. Knabe & Co . Baltimore, whose Pianos are acknowledged by al! first class musicians the best in the world. Also, Pianos from many other first class Manufactures. S. D. &H. Smith’s and Mason & Hamlin’s Boston Organs, Harmoniums and Melodeons. The best instruments manufactured in America. Also, all kinds of small instruments., such as guitars, violins, flutes-, aacordeons, drums, Ac., Music books, instruction bcoks and sheet music. My arrangements with manufacturers are 1 such that I can make it to the in‘.ere«t of purchasers to buy here instead of going further, as I shall ceitainlv sell as low if not lower than the manufacturers. Having »ecured the services of a competent Tuner, Pianos and Melodeons will be tuned and repaired in the best possible*manner. Fort Wayw, June 1.1864.— Iv

•• / HOSTETTER’S CELEBRATED STOMACH ■ BITTERS. A pure and powerful Tonic, corrective and alterative of wonderful '‘fTicacy in disease of the Stomach, Liver and Bowels. Cures Dyspepsia, Liver complaint, Headache, General Debility, Nervousness, Depression of Spirits, Constipation, colic, intermit tent fevers, cramps and spasms, and all complaints of either Sex, arising from bodily weakness whether inherent in the system or produced by special causes. Nothing that, is not wholesome, genial and restorative in its nature enters iqfo .(ha Compo sition of UvSttetter’s Stomach Bitters. I'liis popular preparation contains no mineral of any kind, no deadly botanical element; no fiery excitant; but it is a combination of the extracts of rare balsamic herbs and plants with the purest and mildest of all diffusive stimulants. It is well to he fotearmed against disease, and. so far as the human system can be protected by human means, against maladies er.gondcrod by an unwholesome atmosphere, impure water and other external causes, Hcrttetter’s Bitters may be relied on as a safeguard. Tn districts infested with Fever and Ague, it has been found infallible ns a preventive and irresistible as a-remedy and thousands whoresort to it under apprehension of an attack, escape the scourge; and thousands who neglect to avail themselves of its protective qualities in advance, arecurixf bv a very brief course of this marvelous medicine. Fever and Ague patients, after being .plied with quinine for months in yain. until fairly saturated with that dangerous alkaloid, are not. unfrequently restored to health within a few days by the use of Hostetter’s Bitter 4 *. The weak stomach is rapidly invigorated and the appetite restored by this agreeable Tonic, and nence.it works wonders in cases of Dyspepsia and in confirmed forms nf Indim stion Acting as a gentle and painless apperient, as well as upon the liver, it also invariably relieves the Constipation superinduced by irregular action of the digestive and secre live organs Persons of fefeble habit-, liable to Nrrrnns Attacks, Down's* nf Spirits , and Fits of \ Langsur, find prompt, ano permanent relief from tie Bitters. Th? testimony on this point is mos 4 conch sive, and from both sexes. The agony of Bilious Colic is irtimediately assuaged bv a single dose of the stimulant, and | by occasionally resorting' to it, the return of the I complaint, may be prevented. As a general Tonic, Hostetter’s Bitters pro dnce fS-rts which must be experienced or witnessed before they can bo fully appreciated.— Tn cases of Constitutional. Weakliest, Premature Decay and Debility and Decrepitude arising from Old Age, it. exercises the electric influence. In the convalescent stages of all diseases it operates as a delightful invigorant. When the powers of nature are relaxed, it operates to re inforce and re-establish them. Last, but not least, it i* The Only Safe Stimulant, being manufactured from sound and innocuous materials, and entirely free from the acid element = present morn or less in all the ! ordinary 1 >« ■cs and stomachics of lhe day. No family medicine has been so universally, and, it may be truly added, deservedly popular with the intelligent portion of the community, as Hosfettef’s Billers. Prepared by Hostetter Smith, Pittsburgh, Pa. Sold by all Druggists, Grocers and Storekeepers everywhere.

TTelmbold’’ Genuine PreparationsCom round Fluid Extract Buchu, a positive and specific icmcdv for diseases of the Bladder. Kidnevs. Gravel, and Dropsical Swellings. This medicine increases the power of Diges t ion,and excite the absorbents into healthy i action, by which the watery or calcareous de positions, and all unnatural enlargements are reduced, as w<dl as Pain and Intiamation. Helm bold’s Extract Buchu.—For Weak nos ! ses nri«!ng from Excesses, habits of Dissipation, Early Indiscretion of Abuse, attended with the following symptoms:—lndisposition to Exertion. Ldss of Memory. Weak Nerves, horror of Disease, dimness of Vision, Universal Lassitude of the Muscular System, Ho;, Hands, drvnesA nf the Skin, loss of Power, difficulty of Breathing, Trembling, Wakeful ness, Pain in the Back. Flushing of the Body, Eruptions on the Face, Pallid Countenance. These symptoms, if allowed to goon, which this medicine invariably removes, soon follows Impntency Fatuity, Epilectic Fits. in one of i which the Patient may expire. Who can say I that thev are not, frequently followed by those I ’Direful Diseases,’ ‘lnsanity and Consumption.’ j Many are aware of the cause of their suffering BUT NONE Will confess the anconds of thf. insane 1 asylums. And melancholy deaths by Consumption bearaniple witness to the truth of the assertion. The Constitution once effected with Organic Weakness r quires the aid of Medicine to strengthen and invigorate the System, which Helmbold’s Extract Buchu invariably does. A ’ trial will convince the roost skeptical. ; Females —Females—Females. —In uianyafftc- ’ tions peculiar to Fcma’es the Extract Buchu is ■ unequaled by any other remedy, as in Chlo rosis or Retention, Irregularity, Painfulnes«». or Suppression of customary Evacuations, Ulcerated or Scirrhous state of the Uterus, Leuchorrhoea or Whites, Sterility, and for all comI plain’s incident to the sex, whether arising from indiscretion habirs of dissipation, or in the decline or change of life. Take. no more Balsam. Mercury, or unpleasant Medicines for unpleasant and dangerous diseases. Helmbold’s Extract Buchu and improved Rose Water cures Secret Diseases in all their stages, at little expense. Little or no change in diet. No inconvenience, and no exposure. It causes a frequent desire and givc c to Urinate, thereby removing preventing and curing Strictures of the Urethra, allaying Pain and Inflamation, so frequent in the class of diseases, and expelling Poisonous, Diseased and wornpui Matter. Thousands upon Thousands who have been ths Victims of Quacks, and who have paid he icy fees to be cored in a short time, have found thev were deceived, and that the “Poison” has, by the use of “powerful astringents,” been dried up in the system, to break out in an aggravated form, an I perhaps after Marriage. Use Helmbold’s Extract Buchu for ail affections and diseases of the Urinajy Organs, whethei existing in Male or Female, from whatever cause originating and no matter of hew long standing. Diseases of these Organs requires the aid of ? Diuretic, Helmbold’sEx

tract Buchu is the great Diuretic, and is certain to have the desired effect in all Diseases for which ft is recommended. Evidence of the most rel’ ble and responsible character will accompany the medicine. Price SI.OO per bottle, or six for $5.00. Delivered to any address, securely packed from observations. Describe Symp'oms in all Communications. f Hires Guaranteed ! Advice Gratis!! Address letters for information to 11. B. IIEL.MBOLD, C hemist, 10‘l South Tenth-st., be). Chestnut, Helmbold’s Medical Depot, Helm bold's Drug and Chfmual Warehouse, 591 Broadway, New York. Beware of Counterfeits and unprincipled , Dealers who endeavor to dispose “of their own'* : and • other” articles on th reputation attained by llelmbold’s Genuine Preparations. “ “ Extract Buchu. “ *• Sarsaparilla. “ Improved Rose Wash. Sold by all Druggists everywhere. Ask fnr llelmbold’s. Take no other. Cut out the advertisement and send for it, and avoid imposition and exposure. [dec 26, 1863-1 y.] Twenty-Sixth Birth-Bay of lhe STAR PAPER OF AMERICA

JANUABY 1,1 SO». The New York Mercury FOR THE COMING I EAR. /Ifter more than a quarter of a century of uninterrupted success, fi he New York Memury—standing first orr the muster-roll rs the Literary Press in this country—points proudly to its past as a guarantee of new triumphs in the future. Heretofore, it has eclipsed all rivalry; but it proposes to make ths coming year memorable by eclijfinq its own past history, ard looming up before the world as the most marvelous specimen of a fascinating, brilliant, amusing, and comprehensive Literary Newspaper that has ever boon published in either hemisphere THE GENIUS OF EUROPE will be laid under contribution to give brilliancy to its columns, and side by side with original productions of the most popular romancists of the Old World will bo placed the chef d'acuvres of the most eminent stoty.wri-' ters of the New. MISS M. E. BBADDON, Authoress of “Aurora Floyd,” “Lady Andloy’s ' Secret,’ ’ “John Marchoftt’s Legacy. ” etc., etc., ' who has suddenly risen, like a ‘Star’ of the first magnitude in the literary horizon of Great. Britain, has been specially engaged to c upply The New York Mercury from time to time with the wonderful creations of her go nius, at a cost which no other weekly in America could venture to incur. Among the multitude of distinguished w;i tors and artists who have, become familiar to the masses through the vast circulation of the Star Weekly of Jmf.rica, may bo mentioned the following, all of whom are still upon its, staff: Dr. J. IT. Robinson, Margaret Bi.ount, Ned Bunti.inf, Arthur M. Grainger, Grace Gard ner, Felix O. C. Darley. Miss M. E. Braddon. Cousin May Carlton. W. O. Eaton, Georoe i Martial. Julia S. Ingraham, Edward Willett, I Mary Chief, George Albany. ! Scores of other distinguished literati, under j various news de plume, contribute to its col [ urns, while its pictorial illustrations are from the inimitable pencil of Felix O. C. Darley, Esq., the best draughtsman of the ago. The War which has given the cowp cfe erfitee Jo so many pretentious publications, and half destroyed those that still survive, lias added thousands to the circulation of The New York Mercury. Its heart stirring short stories, its military historiettes, its matchless serial romances, its racy burlesques, its genial wit and humor, its delicious gossip, its fairy tales for little folks, its rare poetry, its fresh and vigorous editorials, the infinite variety of its contents, and the large amount of reading matter it comprises, i render it welcome everywhere and to all classes, Containing, as it does, FORTY COLUMNS of closely-printed matter, it may safely be pro nounced the cheapest as well as the best Lite rary Newspaper extant. Three favorite writers. Doctor J. IT. Robinson, Cousin May Carlton, and Ned Buntline, are now preparing three stories for The New York Mercury. One of these productions will be commenced in the Opel ing Number of the New Year. The authors being aware of this fact, are engaged in’an emulative contest for precedence, and the result will unquestionably be that the most effective story ever penned by any of the t! ree, will commence in the NEW YEAR’S NUMBER the great Representative Weekly of the Western World. The New York Mercury is sold by all newsmen and periodical dealers in Jinerica, loi snbscriners, it is regularly mailed every Saturday morning, for $2 a year; three copies for $•"»; six copies for $9; eight copies for 13, wit h an extra copy, free, to the getter up of the club.— Six months’ subscriptions received. Always write plainly th? name of your Post Office, County, ■ and State. We take the notes of all solvent banks at par. Payment must invariably be made in advance. O’Specimen Copies s-nt to all applicants. Address all letters and remittances, postpaid, to CAULDWELL <fc WHITNEY, Proprietors of The New York Mercury, Nos. 46 Ann street and 113 Fulton st., [decl9[ New York City.

Sheriff’s Sale. By virtue of an execution to me directed and delivered by the clerk of the couit of common pleas of Adams county, in the State of Indiana I Lave levied upon and will expose to sale at public auction, at the court house door, in said j county, between the hours of ten o’clock a. m. j and four o’clock p. m.,on Saturday, May 7, 1864. The rents and profits for a term of years not exceeding seven, of the undivided one-half of the following described real estate,to wit: The south west quarter of the south west quarter , of section three (3) also the east half of the north ' east quarter of section nine (9). all in township twenty-six (26) north, of range fifteen (15) east estimated to contain sixty acres Hi ore or less, in Adams county, Indiana. And on failure to realize therefrom the full amount of the execution. 1 will at the same time and place, at public auction as aforesaid, expose to sale the fee simple of said described ■ real estate. Executed as the property of William Hill at i the suit of David Showers. JACOB STULTS, April 16, 1864. Sheriff. I Notice. Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned Overseer of the Poor will receive sealed propo sals at his office in Wabash township, Adams county, Indiana, from this date till the first Monday in May next, for tue maintenance of James R. Tucker, a pauper of said county, for one year r *oin the first Monday in May, 1861 by the week. I. G. BAKER, April 16, 1861. Overseer of Poor.

HBE fflim AT THE NEW STORE (1* Spring and Summer Goods! CRABBS & MOSES Have received and are exhibiting one of lite finest and best selected stock of FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC MI ttOMI Ever brought to this market. IMST GOODS! From-the finest Mohairs of British, French and German Manufacture, to the cheapest quality of Prints. A full assortment of Domestic Spring De Laines anil Calicoes. Prints of the best Brands, such as spragues, cochecos, pacifies, Richmonds Dunuels, Ac,, for 25 CENTS. BEADHIiriE fLOTllffll OF THE L.ITEST STILES 4 BEST JLITERI.IL! Standard sheetings, tickings, shirtings and checks. HATS & CAPS! Il ARB WARE, Queensware! and GROCERIES 1 All kinds of Country Produce taken in exchange for Goods. Ashes and Diack salts wanted. Cash paid for Wheat and Wool. Sep-26 ONE PRICE STOBE TOWNLEY, DE WALD & BOND. SOT COLUMBIA STREUT, FORT - WAYNE

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arc now exhibiting a large and attractive assortment of new styles of NEW SPRING Dress Goods! ' Poplins, valencies, mohairs, satin de russe, noil de chevres. alpacas, de laines, prints, etc., etc. Black and colored silks. New are am and spiing shawles. IVe offer at the lowest prices standard brown sheetings, bleached shirtings, apron checks, tickings, ginghams, etc. .Mens wear in great variety: gloves, hosiery, embroiderids. laces, collars, setts, etc., etc, Fort Wayne, Indiana, March. 1864.