Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 6 March 1868 — Page 1

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Commissioners Court.—On the First Monday in March, the First Monday in June, the First Monday in September, and the First Monday in December, of each year. CHURCH! DIRECTORY? St. Mary’s (Catholic.) —Services every Sabbath at 8 o'clock and 10 o’clock, A. M. Sabbath School or instruction in Catechism, at 1] o'clock, P. M.; Vespers at 2 o’clock P. M. Rev. J. Wemhoff, Pastor. Methodist.—Services every Sabbath, at 10J o’clock A. M. and 7 o’clock P. M. Sabbath School at 9 o’clock A. M. Rev. D. N. Shackleford, Pastor. Presbyterian.—Services at 10J o’clock A. M., and 7 o’clock P. M. Sabbath School at 2 o’clock P. M. Rev. A. B. Lowes, Pastor. drucsT DORWIN & BRO., -DEALERS IN- * Drugs, Medicines, 'Chemicals, Toilet and Fancy Articles, Sponges, Brushes and Perfumer*!. Coal Oil and Eamps, Patent Jfledicenes, Sfc. DECATUR,-.INDIANA. Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered with care and dispatch. Farmers and Physicians from the country will find our stock of Medicines complete, warranted genuine, and of the best quality.

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ATTORNEYS. < D. D. HELLER, _A_ttorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. OFFICE.—In the Recorder’s Office. JAMES'R. 8080, vY Horney at Law, DECATUUR, INDIANA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Lamd and pays Taxes. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor’s Of-fice-vlon6tf. JAB.C. BRANYAK. HOMKR .T. RANSOM. BRANYAN & RANSOM, .Attorneys at Law, Claim & Insurance Agents. Also, Notaries Public, DECATUR, INDIANA, References.—Hon. John U. Petitt, Wabash, Ind., Wm. H. Trammel, Esq., Hon. J. R. Coffroth, First National Bank, Capt. U. D. Cole, Huntington, Ind., Hon. H. B. Sayler, Connersville, Ind. J.C.Branyan is Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. vllnlOtf. D. STUD ABA KER, -Attorney at Law, -eXINTIO Claim & Real Estate Agent, DECA TUR, INDIA NA. P rac tjce law in Adams and adjoining counties; secure Pensions and other claims against the Government; buy and sell Real Estate; examine titles and pay taxes, and other business pertaining to Real Estate Agencv. He is also a Notary Public, and is prepared to draw Deeds, Mortgages and other instruments of writing. vlOnlltf. REAL ESTATE'ACE NTS. JAMES 8080, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT, DECATUR, INDIANA. 3 666 ACRES of good farming Jv’uF land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. If you want, to buy a good farm or wild land he will sell" it to you. If you want your land sold he will sell it for you. No sale, no charge. , vlOnGtf PHYSICIANS. F. A. JELLEFF, Physician and Surgeon, BFAMTUR, LVDLtX,!’ OFFICE—On Second Street, over A. Crabbs & Co’s Hardware Store. vßnlstf. C. e. curtiss, Physician & Surgeon. DECATUR, :::::::: INDIANA. Having permanently located in this place, offers his professional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. Office in Houston’s Block. Residence at the Burt. House. v11n36 AWEW SORG, Physician and Surgeon, i.vdm.v.i. OFFIC E—On Second Street over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. DENESTRY? ' A. J. RAUCH, Opperattve Mechanical DENTIST, DECATUR, ::::::: -. INDIANA. All work neatly executed and ’warranted to give satisfaction. Call and examine specimens. OFFICE—With Dr. Jelleff, over A Crabbs & Go’s Hardware store. v11n39 HOTELS. MIESSE HOUSE, Third St., Opposite the Court Howse, DECATUR, LCD.. I. J, MlESSE,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. MONROEHOUSE. , MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. L. WALKER,-. ::: : : : : Proprietor, This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. nSvlltf. iir streeTlxMge. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor. West Main Street, near the Public Square. FORT WAPNE. IND. vllnllyl. HEDEKIA HOUSE On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts. FORT WAYNE, IND. ELI KEARNS,Proprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Also good stabling in connection with the House. vllnllyl. MAYER HOUSE. J. LESiIAN, Proprietor. Corner Calhoun and Wayne Sts., FORT WAYNE, vllnllyl. lndiana. MONROEVILLE EXCHANGE. MONROEVILLE, IND. E. G. COVERDALE,Proprietor. Mr. Coverdale is also a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insurant). Agent. vllnllyl.

DECATUR, IND, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1868.

-f. aetni. AGREEABLE FRIEARB? BY E. R. CARDOVAN. There are some people in this world, You'll find where’er you go, Who’ll always answer if you fail, “I always told you so.” If you some lines have sent to press, And they have been rejected, Some friend will whisper in your ear, “It’s just what I expected.’’ You loan some money to a friend, That friend will money lack, The folks will say, !‘I always knew You’d never get it back.” You go to walk in bran new clothes, And think how nice they set, The rain comes down, some friend will say, “I knew you’d get them wet.” You vote a friend for office high, At which all else agree, He'll chance to go a little “I knew how it would be.” You say you’ll take a little skate, And, doing as you said, You chance to fall, you hear the words, “I thought you’d crack your head.” lou tell the truth unto your wife. That she has dressed in haste—“lt’s just like you in every thing, I knew you had no taste.” It’s really hard to have a friend, That you regard as such, And hear some envious creature say, ••I never thought him much.” lUhuLUoutw. [From tne Boston American Union.] THE LAST EFFORT. BY DARIUS COBB. I had eaten my supper and was puffing the smoke in wreaths over my head, when the landlord broke into the room, and with a long face, exclaimed: “Stranger, it was not my fault, for Jeemes will bear witness that I kept as good watch on the be.ast as a man with a pair of eyes could; but you see, it was no go, and he’s clean cut, and nowhere to be seen I”

“Well, out withit—what’s clean cut?” said I. “Why, yer horse, to be sure.— lie’s made off somewhere, and the duce only knows where!” I leaped to my feet, and, eyeing him in no friendly manner, left the inn for the stable. Sure enough my horse was gone, and no trace could I find as to the direction he had taken. I returned to the inn foaming over with wrath. I stepped up to mine host, and seizing him by the collar, shook his fat carcass about as one would twirl a barrel. “You rascal!” I cried, at the top of my voice. “This is all your doings! I know you for a knave; and unless that horse is returned to me-when I come back, day after to-morrow, I’ll fix you for a barrel of brine!” Saying this, I hurled him from me and stood eyeing him in a violent rage. “Now see here,” I continued.— “Bring out your best horse, and get him ready for me in five minutes ; or I’ll make you fit for pork on the spot!” With these words I pulled my revolver out far enough for him to see the butt, and tapped it in the most significant manner. “Certainly, stranger; you can have the best animal in the stable and that is the only one I have.” “Well, then, bring him out and have him ready without more talk,” I added, not paying much heed to the look of satisfaction which passed over his bloated countenance, nor to the answer he threw out about the talking being done by some one else beside himself.— He left, and soon returned to announce that the horse was all ready for me. I must have been heated indeed, to pass by so readily the astonishing celerity of this stub-born-looking landlord, in furnishing for me his horse, merely because 1 command him to do so. As I was leaping into the saddle I heard a voice, close to the horse’s head say: “A pull on the left ear doesn’t go amiss, when a horse gets a little wayward. I looked in the direction of the voice, and saw a pale-looking fellow, who had strayed around with his hands in his pockets, and who was noy, moving off toward the inn. The innkeeper came out of the stable immediately after, with a bag of oats, and throwing these in front of me, bid me take good care of his animal, as he was too poor to lose even a second rate horse. I struck off for the northern road. The sun was still an hour high, and I calculated to push mine host's precious donkey all he

could stand, calculating to reach home by foir or five o’clock in the morning. The moon would be up by ten c[clock, and after then I should hare alighted road, if not so straight and even. The evening began with an adventure ; for ; as I wa« turning around a hill, some three miles from the inn. I saw an- immense eagle swoop down from the clouds and seize upon a kid that was frisking about in a mbst joyous manner, while its motier was viewing it, no doubt withja mother’s pride.— My sympathies were arroused at once, and thqugh I hud no time I could spare,,' l determined on making an ejfoA? 3 ’’escue the poor little fellow. The kid was crying piteouly, and struggling violently to escape, the motlKr was in dire distress, and rushed toward the eagle to rescue her offspring. The eagle was too muck for both, and was mounting from the ground with the unfortunate kid in his talons. I was a good Shot, anc[ now I had a full opportunity for testing myself. The kid was still struggling frantically to free itself, when I took quick but sure sight and fired. A shrill cry from the bird and an erratic motion of the body showed me that my first shot had taken effect. I quickly followed it up with another, which I think missed its mark, for I noticed nothing but a sudden turn of the head, as though it expected another blow from the same sound that proceeded the wound from the first fire. The third shot was more successful. I threw all the power of my eye into the aim, and was rewarded by a second and louder scream, and a wild flutter of the eagle, which after vainly striving to maintain itself on the whig, fell in a heap by the side of the bleating goat. The kid lay- stunned for a moment, but the next leaped up and ran to its mother, whose joy could hardly be described. I could not stop to secure the eagle, but started on again, feeling well satisfied with my philanthropic performance. When I started up my horse, I heard a low whistle in the wood at ray left, which suggested to my mind so much of the old stories of brigands, that my imagination could not help running ou the incident of the kid and the eagle. It seemed to me that it would be singular if that scene was to be re-enacted in human form. A whistle is nothing to speak of, but sometimes the imagination may make a vast deal out of it. I did not forget that I was in a region noted for violence and that I was known to have been east on business: in fact, I was aware that the morals of the country were rather slack, and that the various members of its society did not do hard work for a living. I struck off at a good pace, and kept my eyes about me. I had good reason for this, as I soon found I had not proceeded many rods, ere a shot was fired in the forest at my right. The ball whizzed past my ear, and I heard it strike with a thug into the trunk of a hemlock at my left. To stop and cry defiance and then run, or to stop and show r fight would have been mere brag, and the second folly. I could not see nor count my foe, and so I thought prudence the better part of valor, and laid the lash on the innkeeper’s horse with a vengeance. 1 never shall forget the leap he gave when I laid it on. It was tremendous, and showed more vim than I had given him credit for. But I soon found that he was a horse with his own ideas of whither he should go, for it was not long before a sharp whistle was sounded in the woods at my left, some distance off in a quarter behind me. The horse pricked up his ears in an instant, and with a loud neigh reared on his haunches. A second whistle was heard in the same direction, and then if you ever saw a mad horse mine was one. If spirit is the test the innholder’s animal was at once changed into a war-horse. In spite of my strongest efforts—and I was no fool on horseflesh, I can assure you—he wheeled in the road, and leaping a Virginia rail fence, dashed off among the trees at a springing pace. In vain I shouted to him, in vain I pulled and kicked. He had set his face in the direction of that brigandish whistle, and do all I could, I could do nothing with the beast.

I now recalled, for the first time the expression of the rascally innkeeper when I told him to bring out his confounded nag. I must have exaggerated that look now, foe it seemed nothing more nor less than that of the legendary devil, but whether I exaggerated or not, I am quite sure that I was right, when I recalled it ns that of villanous triumph.

I now realized that I had fallen into a trap; and become tiie too ready victim of men who chose to rob instead of work. Perhaps I might be only robbed, but it was far more probable that I would be murdered ; for it was a too familiar proverb there that dead men tell no tales. I thought of ray wife and little child, and became desperate. My revolver was five-chamber-ed three of these had been emptied on the eagle, and I had two left to fight with provided I chose to fight, and this I determined upon, most certainly. All this time the horse was going over the ground and through the forest at a tearing pace, no more heeding my tugs and threats than a circus-mule heeds the frantic efforts of the ambitious horseboy. Here was an animal as thoroughly trained as any in the circus ring; not, however, for the innocent amusement of the crowding spectators, but for the entrapping of a single victim. I had given up the idea of escape from the robbers, that I knew were awaiting me at the end of my dashing ride, and could only hope in the fortunate use of my pistol.— In this I of course could place but little reliance, for the rascals who had planned the trap of the horse were certainly with sufficient numbers to reap the advantage of such contrivances, Tthought I saw a figure some thirty or forty rods distant, through the great trees, and I was in my desperation, discussing the feasibility of a leap from the horse when the words of the pale fellow at the inn flashed through my mind: “A pull on the left ear doesn't go amiss when a horse gets a little wayward.” Did you ever catch at a straw while drowning, or at a shingle when falling from a high roof?— If you ever did, then you may imagine how I caught at these cabalistic words, They flashed-, like fire before me, and lean[gg furward I grasped the left ear .of the galloping nag and gave it a vigorpull. To my astonishment and delight he wheeled to the right,- and just as a pistol-ball hummed over his head, he made off at the same breakneck pace back towards the road. I heard pistol-shots and curses, and looking back of me saw a dozen men rushing into sight, shouting to the horse, and blazing away. It was of no use. The old nag struck out at a more dashing rate than ever. I was soon on the road and out of danger, though with a tingling wound in my thigh, and two holes through the flap of my coat. Two days after I went up to the inn, accompanied by some brave fellows, to deliver up the innkeeper’s beast, and claim my own. The horse was not forthcoming, neither mine host, the innholder, and this was just what I had expected. What become of the pale fellow I never knew, but I hope that no harm ever came to him. He looked like a shrewed one, and I rather think he kept an eye well to the windward, and himself at a safe distance, when news came back to the inn of my escape.

Cure of Croup.—An exchange says that croup is always cureable ,by a very simple remedy, even 1 when the patient is on the verge of suffocation. This consists, first in applying water to the throat by means of a spong or soft cloth, so hot as to be very painful to the hand of the operator—instant relief being usually afforded. After this has been continued fifteen to thirty minutes, a poultice of linseed meal, rolled up in a cloth, is to be applied while very hot, and left on for some time. The remedies are to be repeated should the attack 1 return; but the writer states that after a long experience he has never known them to fail. A San Franciscan has invented a means of propelling vessels without steam or sails. He connects three boats together in a line, and expects the two on the ends, by the rise and fall of the waves, to move machinery in the central vessel which shall propel all three. The present estimate of the number of cattle in Texas is five million head. Raising beeves and selling cotton to Mexicans are yielding a good profit to the people of that State. Joseph Smith’s widow has received by a revelation from the soul of her husband, a revised edition of the Mormon Bible, arid it has been published at Plano, 11l iinois.

Tiie Dangers of Benzine.

Our lady readers should be in-: formed that the liquid called ben- j zine, which they use so freely for i removing grease and stains from clothing, is a very dangerous article. It is one of substances distilled from petroleum, and, is highly volatile, inflammable and when the vapor is mixed with air, explosive. We have frequently been much alarmed, upon visiting neighbors and friends in the evening, to observe a phial of this fluid standing in close proximity with a lamp, or gas flame, and the odor prevailing the room- A very small quantity is capable of doing irreparable mischief. The contents of a four-ounce phial, if overturned and vaporized, would render the air of a moderate-sized room explosive; or, if ignited, a whole family might be seriously burned or lose their lives from it. It should never be used in the vicinity of flame ; and it is important to re member, that through the medium of the escaping vapor, when the phial is uncorked, flame will leap to it through a space cf several feet. Benzine is often sold under various fanciful names; and therefore any article procured from druggists for removing oil or grease from fabrics, should be handled with the utmost care. — N. K Observer. A Beautiful Thought.—Dickens wrote; “There is nothing—no nothing, beautiful and good, that dies and is forgotten. An infant a prattling child, dying in the cra--dley vvUlJive - again in—the better thoughts of those who loved it, and play its part, though its body be burned to ashes or drowned in the deepest sea. There is not an angel added to the hosts of Heaven bnt does its blessed work on earth in those that loved it here.— Dead oh ! If the goods of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful could even death appear; for how much charity, mercy and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves I” Switzerland still preserves the custom of beheading by the sword criminals condemned to death. — An execution took place in this manner at Mpnden, in the Canton of Vaud, on the 10th of last month. An immense concourse of people was present, estimated by some to number as many as twelve thousand. The condemned man was seated in a chair, with his eyes bandaged, and his hands tied behind his back. An assistant seized his hair, the principal executioner raised his sword, which was short and broad, and weighed about five pounds, a sort of whistling sound was heard, and the head fell.

Talking of the nakedness of the fashionable women in London, a correspondent ways : “I learned more about human anatomy in five minutes, in a West End drawing room, than 1 had .acquired before -in all my life, but at a sacrifice of all the respect I had hitherto felt for the circle in which I found myself.” “Any seats in the next car ?” asked a passenger in a crowded car, of a well known waggish conductor, as the The Toledo train was leaving the depot a day or two since. “Plenty of’em,” was the reply, “but”—as the passenger gathered qp his effects preparatory to emigration—“they’re all full !” ■ » ■ »l —" - ■ —• Two girls in Wheeling stole their brother’s clothes to go and see the “Black Crook,” being under a delusion that raiment was necessary at that entertainment.— Brothers recognized the raiment in the theatre, suspected robbery and collared the girls, who revealed their sex by shrill squeals. Frankfort, Ky., wants - an appropriation of 8400,000 to commence the enlargement of the State Capitol; but the Louisville Courier instructs the Legislature not to vote it. The Courier wants the question of location to be submitted to the people. The fifteen hundred vessels engaged in the oyster trade in Chesapeake Bay bring annually to Baltimore 14,000,000 bushes of oysters. At the late great celebration of the British Viceroy of. India, four hundred elephahts appeared in the gorgeous procession. ---<>--- Over two millions acres of land in Mississippi—one-seventh of all in the State—are advertised for sale under execution. ---<>--- The name of “Great Salt Lake City” has been changed to “Salt Lake City” by an act of the Utah Territorial Legislature.

An Intelligent “Colored Member. A correspondent writing from New Orleans, relates the following incident illurtrative of intelligence and personal importance of a negro member of the Louisiana Black-and-Tan Convention: Upon entering the cars at Ponchatoula, ou the 2d instant, for New Orleans, on the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad, the first thing I saw was Bill Butler, a nigger member of the menagerie, occupying a seat near the stove leisurely pretending to to read a newspaper upside down, every now and then casting a contemptuous glance at a number of passengers, who kept up a per feet titter at his stupidity. Finally finding the car had caught the same cue, and all eyes were turned upon him, he furiously put on the cap sheath by demanding, in a very angry manner: “What all you white fellers arc laughing at? I want you to understand I’se none ob your common niggers; I'se one ob de convention members, and I order you all to stop laughing in my presence.” This only increased the mirth, and a general yell was the result. This infuriated the darkey, and he left the car, soon appearing with the conductor who, when told the joke, heartily joined in the laugh himself, at the same time telling the delegate if he was not satisfied with the passengers in that car, he could repair further forward to the car allotted for niggers, which invitation Bill declined to accept, an I folded up his paper. A Fenian Outwits Hie Detettives.

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An English paper mentions an instance of a clever strategem successfully resorted to in order to elude the vigilance of the Lublin detectives. A telegram from the police of Holyhead transmitted the intelligence that a supicious looking person was on board one of the mail steamers. His appearance was minutely described, and it was stated that he had two revolvers in his possession. An ordinary observer who saw him going on board would have supposed that he, of all men, was not likely to be dangerous rebel, as he hobbled along with great difficulty upon a pair of crutches and a wooden leg. The police, however whose sympathies are not easily excited, evidently looking upon him as a Fenian veftran who had been in active service, and so they telegraphed to the force in Dublin to be on the lookout for the invalid. The “G” men were alive to the importance of the intende capture, and when the steamer came alongside the pier at Kingstown, the approach of the cripple was eagerly awaited. The file of passengers passed out, but still no sign of the expected visitor appeared. At length the detectives began to get impatient, and thought it desirable to search the vessel lest he should be attempting to hide himself. They proceeded to the cabin, and discovered that the stranger had drawn the stumps and left them to wonder how such a marvelous cure had been effected during the, voyage. They expected to find a Fenian and two revolvers ; they only found two crutches and a wooden leg. Disturbance at the Southern Almost every piece of intelligence we receive from the conventions being held in the Southern cities, conveys some story of turbulence and brute violence. last affair of this kind occurred at Tallahassee, Flordia, the day before yesterday. A disturbance took place in the convention, a mere conflict of words ; but it was settled after the adjournment by a physical force' demonstration out of doors among the negro delegates, in which one was shot and a goodly number were arrested by the police. This is the incipient bud and blossom of negro rule which is one day to bear terrible fruits if the present radical legislation is to be maintained. When power is placed in the hands of a barbarous element of society, what can we expect but violence and bloodshed ? It must be remarked however, that the conflict in most of these cases is not between the whites and blacks, but between the unfortunate negroes themselves, deluded and elated as they are by the possession of power which they are wholly inedmpent to use in any other way than in accordance with their barbaric instincts. A Day.—A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girted round with wonder, a new creation of life and light, spoken by the word of God. In itself one entire and perfect sphere of the sun. Every past generation is represented in it; it is rich and better than all other days which have preceded it. And it is for this we are pressed and surrounded with these faculties: The sum of our entire being is concentrated here; and to day is all the time we absolutely have.— Chapin.