Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 22 November 1867 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. JAS. C. RRAXTAN. HOMES J. RANSOM. BR,LNYAN & RANSOM, -Attorneys at Law, Claim & insurance 4 penta. Also. Notaries Public, DECATUR, INDIANA,' References.ji-Rom John U. Petitt, Wnbaeh, Ind , Wm. H. Tramm'!, EsqHon. I. R. Coffroth, First National Bonk, Cnpt. U. D. Cole. Huntington, Ind., Hon. H. B. Ssyler. Tn lianspolis, Ind. is Deputy Xruitecwtinp AHnn<. vll nl9tf. ». I). lUU.I.ER. Attorney at, Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will p~nctic<’ his profession anywhere in Tndinninor Ob'o. . OFFICE—Wi’h Dr. Sorg, over Spencer & Meibers' HaTdWnre’Store. _____ vlOn-W' f._ JAMES R. 8080, .Attorney at Law, AISTD Pension ft Bounty Assent, DECATUUR, INDIANA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. R edeems L? mis, bars Taxes, and collects Bnunttes and Pens'o-s.-OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor's Office. vlOnGtf. .A_ttorn<w at Law, -ZV'VT-v-s Claim ft. Real Estate 4<rent, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will prac.tioe law in Adams and ndioining counties; secure Persons nnd o*her c'aims ngninst the Government; bur and sell Real Fstn*e; emmine titles and rmv taxes, nnd other business per taining to Rani Estate Auencv. He is also a No*s.rv Public, nnd is nrenaTod to draw Do»ds. Mortgages and other instruments of weitih'’. ' vlOnlltf. REAL R STATEACENTS. JAMES" R. RO-80, Llfi'M'jrn q r u fstitc unruT. DEC A TUR. INDIA NA, I/'h/'A/'h A.CRRB of good farmlng . I F* *? F Isn't, several Town Tots, and a larpe quantity of wild land for “ale. Ts von wont tn bur a good farm or wild land he will S" 1 ! i-t to von. Ts von wnnt vnur land sold h» wiil it for you. Fo sale, no charge. vlOnGtf PHYSICIAN*. F. A. JEIXEFF, Phvß’Hsn Rnd <? nr<»Aor>. nncmi?. mvh.lv* OFFICE—On Second Street, over Dollman's Store. vAnlstf. A M)REW“snRG, PhVsiQ’an and F?’7r<r<?nn, nsrirrß. rw>wr.4. OFFTGir—On Seoond Street over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vßn42tf. S. C. AYERS, NI. D.n —RESIDENT— Eyc and Ear Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, OFFICE—No, 80 Calhoun Street. vllnOtf. AUCTIONEER. C. M. FRANCE Would finnounoeto thepublicthnt ho is a renninrl” Hoor>sod auctioneer, nnd will attend nil Public Sales, whenever requested, upon addressing him at Wilshire, Ohio. HOTELS. MIESSE HOUSE, Third St., Opposite the Court Howie, OECATFR, IJVD., I. J, MIESSE, ::::::::::: Proprietor. In connection with this House there is a Stage run to and from Decatur and Monroeville, daily, which connects with trains running both ways. vllnOtf. MOARWHOUSE. MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. L. WALKER.-. ::::::: Proprietor, This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. nsvl Its. MAIN STREET EKWGL A. FREEMAN; Proprietor. West Main Street, near the Public Square. FORT IFAFJCE, IJVD. vllnllyl. HEDEKIY HOE S!] On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts. FORT WA YNE, IND. ELI' KEAItNH, . . Proprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage linos. Also good stabling in co anection with the House. vllnllyl. MAYER HOUSE. J. LlSMAN,Proprietor. Corner Calhoun and Wayne Sts., FORT WAYNE, vllnllyl. Indiana. MONROEVILLE EXCHANGE. MONROEVILLE, IND. E. G. COVERDALE, Proprietor. — —:o:— Mr. Coverdale is also a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insurance Agent. vllnllyl.

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One Step More. What though before me it is dark, \ Too dark for me to see? lask but light for onq.step piory;. T',isquite enough for me.y Each little humble step I take, The gloom clears from the next; So though 'tis very d irk beyond, T nevefam perplexeS. And if sometimes the mist haugs close, So close I fear to stray, Patient I wait a little while; And soon it clears away. I would not sec mv further path, For meroy vails it so; My p ,- esentsteps might harder be Did 1 the future know. It maybe that my path is rough, Thorny and hard and steep; And knowing this my strength mtglitfail Through fear and tearor deep. .j It may be that it winds along A smooth and flowery way; But seeing this I might despise The journey of to-day. Pprhapjj my path is very -hort, My journey nearly dbrt-e, And I might tremble at the thought Os ending it so soon, Or, if I saw a weary length Os road that Ijnust wend, Fainting, I*d “My feeble powers Will fuil mee e the end. And so I do not wish to see My journey or its length; Assnred that through my Father’s love Each step will bring its strength. Thus step by step I onward go, Not looking far before; Trusting that I shall al ways have Light for just “one step more. —British Messenger, How to Discover tike Newly Married. The fall Season has fairly set in, and we find the matrimonial market buoyant in our city, hundreds of miss-guided young men rushing into the holy estate.— A more than usual number of wedding tourists are noticed by travelers and conductors on the different railroads. Os course, it is not on account of being ashamed of each other that they try to disguise their situation, but simply to avoid being criticised and remarked upon by profane strangers. Thus they lay thefond function to their souls that they are traveling In coj. Bit, good gracious, how badly fooled they are. It is one of the easiest things in the world to the careful eye to tell precisely how many days or even hours, they have been “spliced-” They can sometimes be detected by the great pains they take to appear either like old mar - ried people or cousins as they promenade the deck of a steamer or sit so demurely in the cars, — In many cases their dress, in part exposes them. It is so apropos to the occasion, being neat, symmetrical, and bran new. In cases where the parties have good taste, there is no gaudiness or “flubdub|>ing” about their attire. All glitter and display are thrown aside, and the city belle appears more like a Quakeress in her simple traveling dress of drab or mouse color. Sometimes the yontful culprits engage in playing at lovers or affect a flirtation, but it is always a stupendous failure. Their eyes betray too much happiness for wit and repartee; there is such a peculiar softness and tenderness in in. their confidential whispers, and such a pride in the possession of each other, that none around them are decided. It is generally the case that the bridegroom makes the discovery first, and throws lira arm carelessly around the shoulders of his wife, as much as to say, defiantly to the envious, “Who’s afraid ? Who knows but that we have been married many years ? Not known ? The guilty slyness in the way that arm steals round first on the seat-back and then gradually closer while the bride evinces a silent

pleasure as she acquiesces in a very unperceiving way. Indeed, it is she who “lets the cat out of the bag” most quickly. The narrow gauge seats are preferable to the broal gauge, audifyou sit on the seat back of tSeru you will observe; at first that the lady’s shoulders are not even—they incline jpst a little to her partner.— After traveling in this position a few hours, her nee® gets as limber as a washed paper collar, and her head gravitates to the broad shoulders ofher husband, and there it nestles, innocently iu the repose of honest, pure and truthful love. At times, in spite of all precautions a tress or two of her golden locks will get loose and drop on her shoulder. Bat it almost seems that there is order and neatness in their very disorder and abandon. So they go, fancying themselves lost in the crowd—unnoticed, unknown, with their secret locked up in their own palpitating bosoms. Poor young people!— Louisville Courier. A Return of Kindness. A lady from Georgia, writing a gossipy letter in the Leader, mentions the following incident. “ Near the end of the war, some of our Confederate soldiers passed my home in Georgia with a number of Federal prisoners. The day was intensely warm, and, filled with pit/ for the poor, tiredlooking men, I sent some three or four of my negroes out with buckets of cool water for them. In the meantime, two young ladies who were with me on the piazza, made some thoughtless remark about the prisoners which were well calculated to wound their feelings. •Girls,’ said I, ‘please remember that we are conquerors in this instance, and it is neither generous nor just to stab a fallen foe.’ I spoke low, but was overheard by a soldier who stood near, MayGod bless you, madam! I will never forget your kindness.’ ‘•Nearly three years have passed since then, and I had entirely forgotten the incident, until it was recalled hi this manner: A few days ago, as I was walking down Broadway, a gentleman touched my arm, and, with a smile of re cognition, held pqt his hand. ‘Beg pardon, sir,’ I said.‘l do not remember ever having met you .before!’ ‘No, I hardly thought you would recognize me but I a:n sure lam not mistaken;’ and then he repeated what I huve already related, and, to my surprise, I found it was the same soldier who had invoked God’s blessing upon me. And mist nobly has he repays I the simple act of kindness, and it is with almost shamo that I received not only his thanks and favors, but tokens of gratitude from his mother and sister.” Bound to see it Through. Two unsophisticated country girls came to New York last week on a visit to their city aunt, and while there were taken to Niblo’s to see the “Black Crook.” When the nymphs of the ballet appeared on the stage, some with very brief skirts and gossamer clothing, and others in the peculiar undress uniform for which the play is remarkable, the girls gazed in astonished and embarrassed silence awhile, wnen one whispered to her sister: “Oh, Jenie!” “Well, Mary.” “It ain’t nice. I don’t like it.” “Hush, Mary—don’t!” “But I want to go. I should’nt have thought aunt would have brought us here.” •‘Do keep still; folks will laugh at you.” “I don’t care, it ain’t nice.” “Well,” said Jennie in a determined manner, her own face a viv id scarlet. “ this is the first time 1 have been in a theatre, and I bet it will be the last, jo I shall stay it out if they dance every rag off their backs.”

The Speed of the Horae. The failure of the race horse “Kentucky” to run four miles in seven minutes and twenty seconds, carrying a weight of one hundred and twenty pounds, may be accepted as proof that jt is impossible for a horse bearing that burden to accomplish the task. The only known intance of the performance of the feat was evidenced in the performrnce of “Lexington,” the sire of “Kentucky,” who, in April, 1855, at the Metairie course, Louisiana, ran four miles, with one hundred and three pounds weight, in seven minutes, nineteen seconds and three-quar-ters. At <a subsequent race, at the same course, with like weight, he accomplished the feat in seven minutes twenty three and threequarter seconds. In order to win in this race against time, “Kentucky” would have been compelled to over each mile in one minute and fifty seconds. He accomplished the whole distance in seven minutes thirty-one, seconds and a half. He went over the first mile in one minute and forty-eight seconds, and the second mile in the same time; but here he fell off and was not able to run the third mile in less than one minute and fifty three seconds, and the last in two minutes and twenty-four seconds. Although the horse failed to make the time, his performance, under the circumstances,, is the best known. It beats o ton’s” time, when the additional weight of seventeen pounds, which “Kentucky’ 1 carried, is taken into consideration. If .the race had been but for two miles, the task would have been performed in three minutes and thirty-six seconds. Even to persons who take no interest in horse racing, this proof of the speed which the horse may attain is interesting. Probably no case of better time can be presented, with the weight carried. It is said that “Flying Childers,” in the last century, ran, over the Newmarket course, a mile in a minute; but turf meh generally discredit the story, upon a belief that the course was not measured, and that the stop-watches were imperfect. This time of “Kentucky” is rarely exceeded, even by a locomotive, and never reached by those engines, under orlinnry circumstances, with trains attached. A Feather Bed Advmtarc. A ludicrous encounter between a gentleman who resides near the corner of Dubois and Maple streets and a burglar occurred on Sunday night last. The latter had reached in through a window, and was industriously engaged in dragging a feather bed through, when all at once it refused to budge. Suspecting it was caught on a nail or some other obstacle, he tugged away furiously, but the harder he pulled the more it wouldn’t come. At length he raised his head, and peeping cautiously over the window sill, to his intense astonishment discovered the owner of the aforesaid tick at the other end, exerting himself to the utmost to draw it in. With a single exclamation of disgust, the adventurous burglar sprang to the ground and broke for cover, plunging head foremost through a pieket fence, aud tearing off do wu the street as if a whole pack of imps were nipping his heels at every jump. No pursuit was male doubtless owing to the faet that the proprietor of the house did not fully realize what was the cause of the rumpus until too late to overtake the fleeing man.— Detroit Free Press. A question for engineers, which measures the most, the exact disof a statement that is “beyond belief,” or the precise elevation of the man who was “above telling a lie?” Fontenelle says that have a fibre more in the heart, and a cell less in the brain than man.”

How a New England Minis- , ter Speculated in Chicago. I • A Chicago letter-writer relates the following incident of speculation in that city. | A certain preacher from YanI kee land visited some friends here I before the wir and, never having been West before, came fully pos- j ■ essed with that pleasant little belief that New England cuteness and ‘ superiority which characterizes i most people iu that delectable j land. The old fellow had about | four hundred dollars, the saving lof a life time, and some of his I friends insisted that he should ini vest it’in real estate, urging that | in a year or two he would double, | perhaps treble, his capital. Well the old slab didn’t altogether like to risk it but concluded to canvass the matter for a few days, and while walking along the street one day, he happened to drop into a real estate auction room just when a sale was going on. The auctioneer was dilating to a small knot of men upon the advantages a certain tract possessed, that it must ienvitably double in value within a year, etc., etc. Bidding, however, was not spirited, no one wanted to go above the figure named, three hundred and forty dollars. While the auctioneer had been talking, the parson had been examining the map, and thinking that now was his chance, offered three hundred and forty-one. Those present gazed at him with a small degree of astonishment, but pretty soon a little man bid three hundred and forty-two. New Englander looked at him with an air of proud disdain, as much as to say, “I ain’t afraid of a dollar,” and immediately ran it up to three hundred forty-five. Then the crowd were in that condition generally called, “thunder struck,” their eyes fairly banged out, but the old coon wasn't dismayed, he knew the little business, and was prepar ed to go the whole four hundred. Finally it was knocked down to him, and the words were hardly out of the auctioneer’s mouth before the little man who had bid against him slipped up and whispered, “I’ll give you one thousend dollars for your bargain.” Now was the preacher's time to be astonished, anJ for a while he failed to comprehend. Come to find out he had been bidding three hundred and forty-five a front foot for a piece of ground five hundred feet front. No wonder that his one thousand fivehundred raise startled folks. He took his thousand dollars and wisely left Chicago that night, satisfied with his real estate transactions, aud not careing to risk any more. Volunteer Drill for Youn; Men. Fall in love with some good And industrious young woman.— Attention pay to her faithful and respectfully. Right face in pop ping the question, like a man.— Q lick march to her parents, and ask their consent. File right with her to church and go through the service of matrimony. Halt and reflect seriously upon the new duties which you have assumed, and then perforin them. Right about face from the haunts which you frequented when single, and prefer your own home. Advance arms to your young wife when out walking with her, and never leave her trail behind. Break off stayipg out at night, and other bad dralnts, if you wish to have a happy home. Printer’s Devil. “I ain’t going to be Called a printer's devil any longer—no more, I ain’t,” exclaimed our filibuster, the other day, in a terrible pucker. “Well, what shall we call you, hey ?” •‘Why, call me typographical spirit of evil, if you please, that’s all!” -What is the worst to hold one up ? Self conceit.

Items., -Hon. Aaron Shaw, anex-Judgt of Illinois, white attending court at Lawrenceville, chatenged the proiecuting attorney to a foot race tor five, dollars a side. The challenge was excepted, the race run, and won by Judge Shaw- The grand jury Jias found an indictments. ! gainst both gentlemen for gaming. -Buffaloes on the Westem Plains are just now very plenty. A party often men went out from Fort Hayes, dfi’the Eastern Division of the Union Pacific Railroad, and brought in nineteen buffaloes. A train on that road, having the Pacific Railroad Commissioners on board, recently ran upon a herd of about forty, and chased them for about a mile and a half on the track. The party fired at them from the cars, and brought one down. -The dearest living in the world is probably that which is procured in New York. The comparative statement of prices in New York Philadelphia, Paris, London, Berlin aud other prominent cities in all parts of the world, shows that New York is the most expensive of all in the matter of food. Tha whole cause of this social misfortune is said to be that the food itself comes to the consumers through too many middle men, all of whoih must take their per centage. -A race between a man named James Griffon, pedestrian of considerable fam?, and the noted horse Captain McGowan, recently came off at one of the Boston riding parks. The man was to run five and the horse ten miles—the one making the distance first to win the stake of two thousand dollars and the race. Griffin fainted and fell just after begining his fourth mile, at which time the horse had the advantage of him by a few rods. Griffin was rfemoved from the track, whiie the horse" continued the race aud completed his ten miles. -One of the most unpleasant features of the manufacturing interest has been the steady decline during the past season of cotton. Cotton has fallen over six cents a pound since July. The English cotton market is now exceedingly heavy, There is at the present time little or no speculative demand, and the Consumers are about the only . reliance of the American shipper. One great cause of the decline in the price of cotton is found in .the fact that the cotton of India has been improving wonderfully within the past year or two. A Live Man. The *i .’•e man iz like the little pig, he is weaned young and begins tew root arly. He is the poper saas of creation ; the allspice ov the world. One live man in a village is like a case ov itch at a district skool; he sets everybody tew scratching at on st. A man who kan draw New Or. leans molasses, in the month ov January, thru a half inch auger hole, and sing ‘Home, sweet home’ while the molasses iz running, may be strictly honest, but he ain’t sudden enough for this climate. The live man iz az full of biznes az the conductor of a street kar; he iz often like a hornet, very bizzy but, about what the Lord only knows. He lights up like a cotton faktory, and haint got enny more time to spare then a skool boy haz on Saturday afternoon. He is like a dekoy duck, always abuv water,, and lives at least 18 months during each year. He iz like a runaway boss, he gits the whole ov the road. He trots when he walks, and lies down at night only bekaus every body else duz. The live man iz not always a deep thinker; jumps at conclusions just as the frog duz, and don’t always land at the spot he iz looking at. He is the American pet, a perfekt mistery to foreigners ; but he haz dun more with charcoal to work out the greatness ov this kuntry than enny other man in it He iz jist as necessary az the grease on an axletree. He don’t always die rich, but always dies bizzy, and meets death a good deal as an oyster dux, without making any fuss.— J&Kingm

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