Decatur Eagle, Volume 10, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 1 February 1867 — Page 1

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DECATUR EAGLE, imbued every Friday morning, by A. J. HILL, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE —On Monroe Street in the second rt..ry of the building, formerly occupied by Jois* Niblick as a Shoe Store. ■ ■ Terms of Subscription: On* copy one year, in advance, $1 .50 If paid within th« year. 2,00 If not paid until the year has expired, 250 JTPapors delivered by carrier, twenty five «*nu additional will be charged. Jj*No paper « ill be discontinued until all arrerages are paid,except at the option of the publisher Rates of Advertising: One column, one year, *,-’22 One-half column, one year 3>. ” One fourth column one year, . Less than one fourth column, proportional rates will be charged. Legal Advertisements: One square [the spa-e of ten lines breTier] one insertion, ” Each subsequent insertion. . , Jj*No advertisement will he considered less than o'ne square; over one square will be conn ted and charged as two; over two ns three. Ac. d notices fifteen cents a line for eaca insertion. ’EFReliginus and Educational notices or adrertiiements. mav Ao contracted for at lowir rates. by application at the office. JTDeathsand Marriages published as news —free' JOB PRINTING. Ye are prepared to do all kinds of Plain and Fancy Job Printing, a’, the most reasonable Giv us a call, we feel confident that satisfaction can be given. A man was lately invited to a dinner, and * dish of ice cream was placed be-; fore him. It was a new dish to him. He , tasted it, then, beckoning to the waiter, said audibly, •‘that’s very good pudding, but do you know its frog-? A reporter, hunting up items in Nashrille, a few nights ago, was chased by two poliecemrn, who mistook him for a burglar. Ee eluded capture by getting up a tree on the dark side of the street, j nfi d remaining theie until the polieeeraen went by. ‘•Where are you going so fast. Mr. Smith?” demanded Mr. Jone*. “Home, Mr. don’t detain me, I have just •bought my wife a r.ew bonnet, and I trust ■dt liver it before the fashion changes.” — ■■■—-— “John,” said a careful father, “don t give Cousin William's horses to many ; ■oats—yen know they have hay.” Tes, j air, said John, moving toward the barn. •■And hark ye, John; don", give them, too much hay, you know they have oats.” When the Irish priest rebuked his parishioner for drunkenness and told him that “whenever he entered an alehouse J to drink, his guardian angel stood weep ' ing at the door.” ‘‘And if lie lad j I sixpence he’d be in himself, was Pat s veply- . 11 A Wisconsin official who bad arrested , a couple of rescale, was riding with Ins j prisoners, when a prairie chicken made;, -it? nppearence, end the officer drew •revolver and fi.ed two or three shots a:. , it One cl the prisoners suggvsted that heceuld do belter and the revolver was , handed over to him. The pr.soner however did not trv ids skill on the chicken, | but presented the shooting iron at the operand “backed off,” le.-ving the offi-j certu cogitate on the “unCe.Utnly of man.” and to return home minus the prisoners and a 820 revolver. Brom to Sei citotgo Tribune hss made a discovery Hear it: . The orgrnizalion known as the ,fln Army oi the Republic, seams to have been perverted from its origmal and j avowed object, which is that of a ben-, evolent sod patriotic order, to a secrete j ■ political organization Secrete soct.es ( , organized to secure public offices, contrary to the genius of out institutions. , They rarely hold together more than two , O r three years. Public opinion keeps up , * constant .tuition ag-ast them t. e members gel to quarreling among them,elves, and finely they fall to pieces am. .re heard o< no more. Thi ’ R ease with the Grand Army of h. Re I public if ill main purpose* cwtwael to’ be politic*’-

| The Price of Flour for Seventy Years, The Cincinnati Times publishes a table giving the price of flour in that j city in each year, from 1795 to 1867. i inclusive. The price on the Ist of January of each year was as follows: 1796 sl2 00 1832 $5 50 1787 10 00 1833 575 j 1798.. i 800 1834 525 1799 950 1835 487 1800 11 50 1836 650 1801 11 50 1837 11 05 1802 700 1838 6 25 1803 650 1839 025 1804 750 1840 340 . 1305 (-Jcrop) 11 00 1841 302 >IBO6 750 1842 575 1807 750 1843 275 I 1808) ~ 600 1841 :.3 95 1 1809 f * mblgo s 50 1815 370 *llßlO 755 1846 431 ‘ 1811 .11 00 1847 355 1812 (War) 10 50 1848 490 ! 1813 (War) 11 00 1849 380 i-18l4(W»r) 925 1850 465 1 1815 (War) 800 1851 368 ’ 1816 900 1852 314 1817 13 50 1853 385 i 1818 10 00 1854 .5 60 1819. 900 1855 785 ' 1820 600 1856 76G 1821 400 1857 515 . 1822 625 1858 380 I 1823........ 700 1859 ...4 80 1824 600 1860 530 1825 .4 87 1801 450 1826 475 1362 400 1827 575 1863 510 1828 500 1864 575 1829 ....... .5 00 1865 975 1830 462 1866 725 1831 612 18C7 13 00 I The lowest point reached by flour was in 1841, when it ranged at from $2,75 S 3 per barrel. The next year j of low flour was in 1852, when it ranged 'from 83,14 to $4.35 from January Ist to March Ist of that year. In calculating the value cf flour during the late war we must look to the price of gold, which was as follows oir the Ist of each of these months: January. January. I 1862 .... ....101 1865 131 '1863 151 1866 225 1864 ....••” .144 Reduced to the gold standard, the : price of flour was as follows: January. January. 1863 $3 89 I 1864 §3 87 1865 4 23 | 1860 5 03 The p-ices during the war have really been quite low. Only in 1843 had flour ever touched so low a figure as in Feb,' 1864. Then when we consider the fact. ■ that flour in that month would not pur-| ' chase as much of the necessaries of life as it would of gold, we find that this product of the farm was really lower in that year than ever before. The figures for the years of the war are especially interesting. They show that in spite of the drain of the agricul-. tural labor of ths Great West of at least, 250.000 men 'per year, the quantity cf wheat produced was kept up, and was pushed so far beyond the demand as to | continue the decline of the price that had been going on since 1820. This was I dene by the use of machinery and by greater effort on the part of those left on the farm who seemed to fear that the war would produce a serious defi- . ciency. tl 11 —— A Home TiiausT.—A correspondent of the Nashua Gazette, writing from a town out West, gives the following specimen of the smartness of i’i» children: ‘•We do have some smart children here , and here is one of them. A religious | 'society, worshipping not many miles, ! fre-mt he residence of the scribe hereof, | ' decided to build a new church thissesson , and the pa-tor, among others, was chosen to solicit funds. He did his work very zealously, taking not only the | widow’s but the child’s miles. Weil. he. has a class of children in the Sabbathschool. and one Sunday, not long since, I while instructing them, he compared him- ■ seiftolhe Good Shepherd, and then inquired what the latter did with liis flock. One bright-eyed little fellowl promptly replied, ’He shears themThere was some smiling at that answer. < When a girl is kissed by her lover! what newspaper would aba mention? A Dg —No “Guardian,” no “Spectator. ny “Observer," but M m»ny “Times as, I you pleas#

"Our Country’s Good shall ever be our Aim—Willing to Praise and not afraid to Blame.”

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FEBRUARY 1, 1867.

I - . . - —— Love of Beauty in the French. ’• It is quite certain that unless you go - into the very haunts of vice, where mit- , ery is born and bred, you will never see ■ any Paris. The bootblack, from the peculiar nature of his occupation, appear* ) to be on less familiar terms with soap ’ and water than any other of the human • family, and in England and America j j holds his rags and dirt as prerogatives. >' But the Paris bootblack is always a man; 5 he is always clad in uniform, g nernlly ’ of blue plush, and any lady might shake > hands with him without gloves and 5 without fear. His box is very large and , 5 he carries a camp siool, which super--5 eedes ths necessity of balancing on one I leg during the process of polishing.' - When avked what is due them they in-, j'variably reply, “what you please.” The ); fee is about five cents, but 1 tried one ' once with a one cent piece, to see how II . ■ 4 much sincerity there was in his “what - youplatse.” Off came his hat—down I went his bow—and you might hrve sup5 pcseil from his “merci, monsier," that I j i have given a franc. j The workmen also have a uniform 1 or ) they all dress alike, w ith white pants anil ) ■ blue blouses. Instead of our poor tatter 1 demalions, in fluttering rags of every J hue, vests wrong side out, grandfathers’ . coate on small boys, shocking and ovet--5 grown bvots, one sees in the French 5 laborers a respectable and really pic. *, turesque company. r ; I think there must be some law against 1 ( rags, for the very beggars wear the same white pants, and blue hocks, cheap and I coarss hui decent looking until eotirly - worn out. The women who sell ginscracks at street corners, and over the fat ■ fishmongeis in their gi easy stalls, look i fresh and blooming as possible in their i i starched white caps and clean calico.! ■ The very herrings seemed graceful under their touch, though they had arms like Amazons. It was wonderful to see into 'iwliat a garden the vegetable market 1 could be traastormed, merely by the ari rangements of carrots and cabbage. Workman, fishmongers, beggars and all, hsd flowers. It doesnot seem like, 'ideal Slate life where everybody is rom aniic.” “ Is it possible that these are I real men and weinen. or is all a dream that so bewilders me!” Then you walk' ! through the gardens of tee Tuillenes ; again, where hundreds of women have brought their families to pass the day under the shades of the trees. There the ' children of the rich and the poor play together, but there is no squabbling or ' rolling in the dirt, no screams of delight or of fear. Goon Anvica —Never use a lady's jname in an improper plaie, at an im pro- i per time, or in mixed company. Never . make assertions about her that you think i are untrue, or all usions that you feel she i herself would blush to hear. Many a worthy woman’s character has been forever ruined and her heart broken by a ! lie, manufacture 1 by a villain, and re- i psated where it should not have been, , j and in the presence of those whose little I ! judgment could not deter them from cir- , dilating the malicious report. Respect | ! the name of a woman if you would have ' ! their fair name untranished, and their ; lives unembittered by slandering, bitiug , Itongnea. Heed the ill your words may : !bring upon the* mother, the sister, or the wife of some fellow creature. Peculiar Death of a Rate Squire Carey, one of the keepers of the Hammond Street Station House, , found recently a curiosity in the shape of i a dying rat, that was being choked to Meath by* very peculiar collar. The j collar consisted as a section of a ham. or I j veal bune, from which the marrow has i been taken, and his ratship had eviden.lv; I gotten it upon hi* neck while feeding' s Voraciously, in Lis juvenile days, and > there it remained, weeks and months. f !growing smooth and polished with' , wearing day after day, wh.le its doomed | msophagn. was gradually, I -rrowir.or and filling it “P 10 ltie choking . J l point °whieh seems to have just been ( j reached when th. little animal was found lying on rts Side, weak for the lack of;’ Efficient breath. It died m a few mom-; ! en’.» after. - Cincinnati I

—! .2. 1 'll. ■ I ■ 'F 1 1, 2 . Home Polituess. There is nothing more agreeable in one’s manners than true politness. It secures favor and wins esteem evrywhere, It strews one's path with pleasant flowers ofhaman speech and action and secures for its possessor testimonials of respect from al! he meet*. Some people seem to be naturally polite, but most people will be awkward and ungraceful and many even clownish, without some attention to the culture of politeness.—Tibc cultivated successfully, it must be done al home, and while young. Home politeness is the only lasting politeness. It must be cultivated, io become natural. And this cannot be without a daily en- ; deavor to be polile at home. There are a thousand little courtesies that are trnly polite and agr.eable, wlitch many entirely neglect at home- Calling nicknames using positive commands, abrupt and course forms of speech, repeating cant phrases low and local vulgarisms, forgetting, always to thank persons for little favors done, and indulging in rude ways and words at home, is only so habituating one to those things that he will be ■sure to do them when be goes away from home. What one is at home, he ts likly to be abroad. Home characteristics and habits stick fast. Lesro to be habitually polite at home, and you will be so among strangers. Girls Learning to Keep House. No young lady can be too well instructed in anything that can ass-ct the comforts of a family. Whatever post tion in society she occupies, she ntede* a practical knowledge es household duties. Sh. may be placed in such circumstances that it will not be necesary tor I her to perform much domestic labor; but oa thie eec«unt ahe needs no les* knowl ledge than if she was obliged to reside p»r»ona)ly over the cooking stove and pontry. Indeed, I hav# often thought it more difficult to direct others, than io do the same work with our hands. Mothers are frequently so nice and particular that they do not like to give up any part of their care to their children. This is a great mistake in their ■ management, for they are often burdened ■with Rbor,and need relief. Children should be early tanght to make them'selves useful; to assist their parents every way in their power and conctider it a j priviege to do so. A Costly Nuisance. We learn from an official report just published, that there were on duty, connected with the Freedmen’s Bureau, prior to April Ist, 1866, three hundred and sizty-oight Bureau officers, ' consisting of ore Major General, seven I Brigadier Generals, nine Colonels, seven (Lieutenant Colonel’, twenty nine Majors, one hunded and fifty seven Captains, and one hundred and fifiy-eigin Lieutenan's the aggregate pay. per month, I being 845,099, fir 8541,188 per anum. ; All this money comes out of '.he pockets lof the hardworking white laborers and jothers who pay taxes sor __the benefit I mainly of the New England ” Radical ' baggage-smashers,” who provide the ! Major Generals the Colonels, the Lieutenants, etc. The pretext is, to benefit the freedmen—but the pretext can not be sustained by facts. The freedmen, the white man, everybody Seuth, would get, alone better without than with th's Bur- I can —-yet, notwithstanding all that, Mr. Senator Wade gives notice of a bill to continue the nuisance. It ought to be entitled" an act to take millions ot dollars out of the pockets of northern working men for the benefit of Loyal Leaguers of Massachusetts and New England."— N. Y Eipreii. ■ » HI Thad. Stevens is a very irreverent person. Early this session be was conversing with the chaplain, and expressed fears that some of the members horn Ohio would get weak kneed when the time camo for “standing up to the work. Tho chaplain said he’d pray to the Lord to give them strength. “I hope you’ll pray to someboby;” said Thad, “for if| they don’t get straLgth from eutside I Rhe’ll etvs io, sate,” ’

—sswsssM—wyiwy— si——a—i A Very Valuable Discovery.) “What do you knoyr abeut this nsw , disinfectant, deodorizer and fresh mea’preserver that we are just beginning to read about?” asks C. F. D. in a iats letter. We know something reliable, from the 1 London Chemical News, an d more from several late experiments of our own.] One day last week we treated two pound I |of sirloin steak and about three of lamb chops—the former growing green, and ; 1 the latter slippery and actually slinking, i to a ten second carboilic acid 'bath.' : Hung up both samples five days. Then i soakvd ten minutes in tepid water— i washed off the carbolic varnish, salted, ’ seasoned and broiled, and found both steak and chops looking fresh, smelling sweet, and tasting as correct as if just' 1 slaughtered. ' Carbolic acid is a colorless, nearly ' tasteless fluid, distilled for coal, end j when incorporated with sulphuicua acid ' ’ in the proportions of about two parts of ! the latter to one of the former, forms '; the best disinfectant and deodoriztr ; ; known. ' : Our opininion is that all sort* of meats I poultry, and fish may be preserved through carbolic agency, perfectly sweet and good for about fifteen days—per- ' haps longer, much more convieutly, and at a cost infinitely less than the ice practice. Wo are going to experiment further, and as we leain more will report, , I V II ; A Church Custom Criticized. i The custom which requires a gentle . man, when seated in a church, to jump . up and rush into tho asile when a lady wished to enter the same pew, is thus l criticised by an exchange, Il is the custom, we all knew, and it is said to have ' originated in the olden times, when our I forefathers were engaged in skirmishes i • with the Indians aad earned their trusty . '! rifles always with them. In order to be ' ready to spring to the defence of their' dear ones at a moment** notice, the men ' alwajs look their position near the aisle, | but in these latter days, there is no necessity for such precautions. Why may . not men and women sit promiscuously ' together in church as well as elsewhese? ! Why should a man be compelled to hop up, step into the aisle, and show ( himself a half dozen times to let in an equal number of belated females, who arrive lat» for the purpose of making a sensation? There are some very foolish fashions yet in the world, nnd church , ceremonies arc not entirely free from them. A Little Mui. The Milwaukee SeUinel says: “About a month ago a ragged little urchin called upon one of our East Watrr street tner-1 chants snd asked for a loan of fifty cents ; for which he promised to give his note, i bearing interest at ten per c«nt. Th* inerch ant, struck with the novelty of the proposition, and evident straightforward-' ness of the boy, gave him the money and took his note, as the boy insisted on giving it. Our merchant bad almost for- I got'en the occurrence, when he was sur-1 prised io see the little fellow walk into' his store yesterday and ask to redeem his note. Upon inquiry the merchant learned from th* boy that he had in - i | vrs'.ed the money in papers and oranges, ' 'and by dillii'ent attention to business I had already made about 840, which he ’ was about placing in the swings bank. : He had no father nov mother, and did chores at a friend's house for his board. We prediet’lhat that boy will one day be one of our wealthiest capitalists." , The Louisville Journal letls of an wf- j fray between two mon named Roberts ’ and Johnston, at Elizabethtown, Tennessee, a few days since, in which both lost thrir lives. They were the sole survivors of two families, of whom fourteen hav* lost the ir lives in a feud which has lasted for twenty years. . A man at St. Athanasa (Canada) applied coal oil to a cuton his wrjst, whereupon hi* arm began to swell, and the /swelling extended to hiswbol* body, < (enuring bis deatb In two dayc.

Muximsfor Farmers. An Illinois farmer gives th* following •nsxims for farmers to practice. When you wake updo not roll over, but roll out. It will give you time to ditch all your sloughs, bterk them np, harrow them, and sow them with timothy and red clover. Ou* bushels of’timothy j is enough. Make your fence high, tight, sud strong, so that it will keep cattle and | pigs out. If you have brush, make I, our lots secure, and keep your hogs , from the cattle, for if the coin is cksfo i they will eel t better than ij it is not. Be sute to get your hands to be! by seveu o’clock they will rite tarly by the force of circumstances. Pay a band if he is a poor hand, all ; you promise him; if he is a good hand, i pay him a little more; it will encourage ■ him to do still better. Always fee 1 your hands as well as i you d<i yourself, for the laboring meta ' are the bone and sinew of the world. and ought to he well treated. I ntn satisfied that getting up early i industry and regular habits are the best medicim-s ever prescribed for health. 55 lien it comrs ratuy, bad weather, so ' that you cant work out of doors, cut and I split your wood. , Make your tracks when it rains hard cleaning your stables, or fixing something which you have to stop the plow for and fix in good weathor. . Make your tracks fixing your fencss J or gate that is off its hinges, or weather ' board ing your barn where the wind has I blown off the siding, or patching the roof of your house or barn. Study your interests closly, and d >U’t ! spend your money and lime in electing ’ Presidents, Senators, and other small i officers, and den't talk of bard times ' when spending your time in town whittling on store boxes Take your time and make your calculations; don’t do thing, in a hurry, but do them at ths right tim«, ml kicp j your mind as well as your body employed. • Liquid Honey. The following process for makeing a delicate beautiful and better liqiutl honey tl.ai ever inset honey maker storsJ away, is no whit less valuable for coming from authority as reliable as that of our ; honey and bee king—Mr. Long stroth, » though we used to do the same thing 'in just about the same manmr twenty- ; five years ago, when the rule was to li'g ; home on deck6’teen or twenty h j gsheads 'of honey every time we brought a cargo ; of sugar hotn* from Cuba. We used to save all the waste honey ' that overran out of the open bungs in hot weather, and m-.ke meat exquisil* 'ho uey Os it in it is way;—lu pure rain water was dissolved so much of the ! cleanest sugar in the ship—t! e whiter I the better—as the water would hold io solution. The syrup was simmered moderately for two hours skimming off I. . ° j ail impurities that rose to the surface. ! Thea to three quarts of'.he syrup (or in 1 that proportion always,)#as added one !of honey, and during another hour the skimmings and simmering was continued ! after wich the kettle was set by until the material was very nearly cold, when it was turned carefully off, leaving a’l sediment in the bottom of the kettle. One ! quart of the crude honey will impart the genuine honey beaver to three qua t» of syrup, and there will be about it not a i symtorn of that rank, cloying tartness ■ w| id, al or oat all honey-lovers object to. i No real bee honey that we hav ever tas- ■ ted is a quarter so delicious as the matI erial made in this manner. AnvEasavoLiTlOATioM —A New Hampshire blacksmith beiug urged to bring a suit ngeiost a calumnious neighbor for eluidrr, replied that be c<mld go into his shop and hammer out a better character than ail the courts in the Stats eouid give him. With excellent wisdom tins man pr e’er re 4 to keep out of lawsuits—a coursa that is generally found in <h» long rua to be the best.

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