Decatur Eagle, Volume 12, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 5 June 1868 — Page 1

THE DECATUR EAGLE. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. a. j. n i i.k. EDITOR, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE—On jthe west side of Second Street, over Dorw'in & Brother's Drug Store. ■fbr Terms of Subscription. One copy, oneyesr, in advance,, §1 50 If paid within the year, 2 00 If paid after the year has expired 2 50 Papers delivered by carrier tweentyfive cents additional will be changed. No paper will be discontinued until all arrerages are paid, except nt the option of the publisher. Rates of Advertising. One column, one year, S6O 00 One-:half column, one year, 35 00 One-fourth column, one year, 20 00 Less than one-fourth column, proportional rates will be charged. Legal Advertising. One square [the space of ten lines brevier] one insertion, $2 00 Each subsequent insertion, 50 No advertisement will be considered less than 6ne square; over one square will be counted and charged as two; over two as thrie, &e. Local notices' fifteen cents a line for each insertion. Religious and Educational notices or advertisements may be contracted for at lower rates, by application at the office. Deaths and Marriages published as news—free. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. District Officers. llon.Rob t Lowry, . . . . . Circuit Judge. T. W. Wilson, Circuit Prosecuting Atty, lion. R S. Taylor, . . Com. Pleas Judge. J. 8. Daily, Com. Pleas Prosecut’g Att y. County Officers. Seymour Worden, Auditor. A. J. Hill,Clerk. Jesse Niblick Treasurer. M. V. B. Sinicoke,. .. Recorder. James Stoops, Jr.,Sheriff. Henry C. Peterson,Surveyor. Sam. C. Bollman, .... School Examiner. Conrad Reinking, ] „ Jacob Sarff, L. . . Commissioners. Josiah Crawford, J Town Officers. Henry B. Knoff,Clerk. D. J. Spencer,Treasurer. William Baker, . Marshall. John King, Jr., ] David King, >Trustees. David Showers, J Time of Holding Courts. Circuit Court.—On the third Monday in April, and the first Monday in November, of each year. Common Pleas Colrt.—On the second Monday in January, the second Monday in May and the second Monday in 8 ‘ptotnber, of each year. Commissioners Court.—On the first Monday in March, the first Monday in June, the first Monday in September, and the first Munday in December, o's each year. — 1 1 I 1 CHURCH DIRECTORY. St. Mary's (Catholic). —Services every Sabbath nt R and 10 o'clock. A. M.; Sabbath School or instruction in Catechism, at II o'clock, i*. M.; Vespers at 2 o'clock, P. St. Rev. J. Wemhoff, Pastor. Methowist.—Services every Sabbath nt 10J o'clock. A. and 7 o'clock, P. M. Sabbath School at 9 o’clock, A. M. Rev. D. N. Shackleford, Pastor. Presbyterian.—Services nt 10J o'clock, A. M.. nnd 7 o’clock, P. M. Snbbnth School nt '.•} o'clock, A. M. Rev. A. B. Lowes, Pastor. DRUGS. DOR WIN & BRO., -DEALERS IN Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Toilet aud fancy .liiiclcs, Spongtt, ItniKhcK, Ptrfumeru. Coal Oil, Lamps, Patent Jlcdicines, DECA TUR,- - - - IXD I AXA Physician's Prescriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered with care nnd dispatch. Farmeis and Physicians from the country will find our stock of Medicines complete, warranted genuine, and of the best quality. v9u35 if. HARNESS, &c. SADDLE & HABIsTSHOP, ~ — R. BURNS, v-MAMUFACTUBER AND DEALER INSaddles, Harness, Bridles, Collars, Halters, Whips, Bridle-Bits, Hames, &.c, Decatur, - - • Indiana. I keep cons'antly on hand and manufacture to order, Saddles. Harness, Bridles Collars, Halters, whips, FlyNwta, Ac., which I will Sell Cheaper than any other establishment in the county. All Work Warranted to be of food material and put op in a substantial manner Repairing Done to Order on short notlot. Cal! and examine my work and pri•es. A good stock always on hand. BHOB-—On Second street, in Meibers' MldiU. v11n47, R. BURNS.

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Vol. 12.

ATTORNEYS. HOMER J, RIASOYI, Attorney a,t Law, NOTARY PUBLIC ANO INSURANCE AGENT, DECATUR, INDIANA. ALL bus In gas entrusted to Ihr care promptly attended to. Especial attention given to C’ollectionsand Probate busineM. OFFlCE—Opposite the Clerk’s Office. vllnWtf. DA A'IE I? D.IIELLER, Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywhere in In(liana or Ohio. -» OFFICE—In the Ikcorder’s Office. vlOns2tf. jahes r.7 b o b o, Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deed., MorlengeH and Contracts. Re--deenu LaO<l and para Taxes. OF PlCK—Oppt,site the Auditor’s Office. vlOnS. D. STU SI ABA KK R, Attorney at Laviz, Claim & Real Estale Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice Law in Adams and adjoining ' Counties; aeeure Pensions mid other claims against the Government; buy nnd sell Real Estate; examine titles and pay taxes, and other business pertaining to Real Estate Agoncv. lie is also a Notary Public, and is prepared to draw Deeds, Mortgages and other tnstrurofntp in writtag. vlnn'H. PHYSICIANS. F , A . JELL EF F , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. . OFFICE-Oli Second Street, over A. Crabbs ,t Sm s Hardware Store. vSnl.'df. CH A R LES £Tc UR Ti SS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. H a ving pnrnianently located in this place, offi rs Ins professional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—In HoustonX Block. Residence at the Burt House. vl hi.V.tf. A w dhFk w so r Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—Ou Second Street, over W. G. Spencer’H I lard ware Store. vßn42lf. REAL ESTATE ACENT. J A VIES R. 8080, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT, DECATUR, INDIANA. ACIUESof lkxkl farming land, aevr *own 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 waut your land sold ho will sell it for you. No sale, no ebargw. vlOnßif. DENESTRY. 'll. W. HcCO.WAEEL, Surgeon Dentist, DECATUR, INDIANA. /ÜbAfi&gk All work neatly executed and war-AJ-l-J I * YTr' i| n t, ‘ l1 Kiv< ’ satisfaction. Call ... a »d examine specimens. 01 Fl< h-U ith Dr..ldled, over A. Crabb. A- Ron’s Hardware Store. vllnlvtf. AUCTIONEER. UHARLES JI. FRAIVCE, Auctioneer, WILSHIRE, OHIO. Would announce so the nubile that he is a reg. ularly Licensed Ancti net. mid will attend all Public Sale*, whenever requested, by addrea*ing liiui as above, or calling at his residence in Bine- < reek Township, Adams Oo„ Ind. ts. HOTELS. VII ES S E HOUSE, 1. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. 7 Ai'rrf St., Opposite the Court lloinc, DECATUR, INDIANA. In connection with this Rouse flier, is a Starr run toand from Decatur and'Vleiiroevillc, duilv, which connects with trains running Is.th ways. vllnStt. MONROE HOUSE; MON' KO EV 11.1.E, IN 1)1 AN A. jL. WALKER, -. l',,. r ri-f r, to: This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates nsvlltf. MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. .4. FIIEE.H.IN, Proprietor. Il'r»t Main Street, near the Public Square. PORT LVif. vIInIIyLHEDEKIN HOUSE On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts. PORT H'.l VXE, IXD. ELI KEARNS, Proprietor. Office of Auburn anti Decatur Stage [lines. Alsogood stabling in connection with the House. vllnllyl. MAYER HOUSE. I ./■. JU. HULL, . . Proprietor. Corner Calhoun and ir«yne Sts., FORT WAYNE, vl2n7yl. Indiana. MONROEVILLE EXCHANGE. M OXR O E VII. LE, IXD. IK. COVER DALEPr'prtef'r. r -"7 7 Mr. Uoverdnle is also a Notary Public, : Heal Estate and Insurance Agent, vllnllyl. JEWELERS. HAVER A GRAFFE, -DRAtkas isWatches, Clocks, Jewelry, F/LI KK AXD SILfKK-PLATKD n SKK. Gold, Silver Spectacles, Columbia Street, vllnfilyl. FORT WAYNE, IND. DOORS, SASH, Ac. LILLIE A BROTHER. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 'UK, CEMENT, PLASTERING BAIR, FUSTII UTB 4 COAL, Calhoun Street, on the Canal, ‘ vl2n7«>fi. FORT WAYNE, IND.

DECATUK. UNTD., FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1868.

A QUAINT SERMON BY YOUNG. ----- He urges his Followers to a "Thorough Reformation in Eating and Drinking,” Accuses his Bishop of Laziness, and Exalts the Whole Female Sex. ----- Brigham Young made a quaint speech at the New Tabernacle, in Salt Lake City, one day last month. From a report published in his official newspaper organ, we take the following curious sentences: A thorough reformation is needed in regard to eating and drinking, and on this point I shall freely express myself, and be glad if the people will hear, believe and obey. If the people were willing to receive the true knowledge from heaven in regard to their diet they would cease eating swine's flesh. I know this as well as Moses knew it, and without putting it into a code of commandments. When I tell you that it is the will of the Lord to cease eating swine’s flesh, very likely some one will tell you that it is the will of the Lord to stop eating beef and mutton, and another that it is the will of the Lord to stop eating fowls and fish, until the minds of the people become bewildered, so that they know not how to decide between right and wrong, truth and error. The beef fed upon our mountain grasses is as healthy food as we need at present. Beef, so fattened is as good as wild meat, and is quite different in its nature from stall fed meat. But we can eat flesh; and I ask the people of this community, who hinders you from raising fowls for their eggs. Who hinders you from cultivating fruit of every variety that will flourish in the different parts of this territory? There was not a day through the whole winter that I have not had fresh peaches and plenty of strawberries and apples. Who hinders anybody in this community from having these different kinds of food in their families?— Fish is as healthy a food as we can eat, if we except vegetables and fruit, and with them will become a very wholesome diet.— What hinders us from surrounding ourselves with an abundance of those various articles of food which will promote health and longevity? If it is anything, it is our own neglect; or, in otherwords, which will answer my purpose better, the want of knowing how. It is the duty of the Bishop to take a course to make their lives characters, doings [sic] and saying fit examples in all thing [sic] to the peopie of their wards. Some of the Bishops have made no improvements for eighteen years. I have asked the Bishops to sow a little rye to make straw for hats and bonnets. A few have done so.— I have asked them to do the same thing this spring, that the sisters of their wards may have straw to manufacture. If the Bishops have not time to do this, or have not the ground, get some of the bretheren to do it who have time and the ground, and let there be an acre of rye sown to each ward, and then ask the sisters to gather it in the proper season. Some say that wheat straw is as good as rye, if properly prepared. Gather the straw, and make your bonnets and hats, and wear them when you come to the tabernacle; and make hats for your husbands and sons to wear, and for your brothers and your sisters, your daughters and your mothers, and let us see all the sisters and all our children wearing hats and bonnets of material produced and manufactured by ourselves. I have been pleading for this for years and years. Ever since I knew that my mother was a woman I have loved the sex, and delight in their chas-. tity. The man who abuses or tries to bring dishonor upon the female sex, is a fool, and does not know that his mother and his sisters were women. Women are more ready to do and love the right than men are; and if they could have a little guidance, and were encouraged to carry out the instincts of that nature, they would effect a revolution for good in any community a great deal quicker than men can accomplish it. Men have been placed on the earth to bear rule and to lead in every good work, and if they would do their duty to-day in our own government, and then throughout the world, they would stop whining about the “Mormons” marrying so many wives, and the ladies would have somebody to protect them and they would not need to flee to the "Mormon" elders for

protection. But outside of this commnity [sic] they are destroying the sex, ruining all they can, and then they boast of their villainy. I wish the whole people of the United States could hear me now. I would say to them, let every man in the land over eighteen years of age take a wife, and then go to work with your hands and cultivate the earth, or labor at some mechanical business, or some honest trade, to provide an honest living for yourselves and those who depend upon you for their subsistence; observing temperance, and loving truth and virtue; then would the women be cared for, be nourished, honored, and blessed, becoming honorable mothers of a race of men and women, farther advanced in physical and mental perfection than their fathers. This would create a revolution in our country, and would be of incalculable good. If they would do this the elders of this church would not be under the necessity of taking so many wives. Will they do this? No, they will not; and there are many who will continue to ruin every virtuous woman they can, 1 buying the virtue of woman with money and deception, and thus the lords of creation proceed from one conquest to another, boasting of their victories, leaving ruin, tears, and death in their pathway; and what have they conqured [sic]?— A poor, weak, confiding, loving woman. And what have they broken and crushed and destroyed ?— One of the fairest gems of all God’s creation. O man! for shame. If the men of the City of New York alone had done for the last twenty years as the men of this community have done, from two to four thousand females, from sixteen years of age and upward, whose, dishonor and ruin are mercifully converted into the grave would now be in life and health, moving in the circles of happy homes, prayed for, respected, loved, and honored. ---<>--- Proverbs of Josh Billings. It strains a man’s philosophy j the worst kind to laugh when he ' : gits beat. I All of us complain of the shortI ness off lite., yet we awl waste more time than we use. - I Don’t mistake arrogance for i wisdom; many people have ; thought they were wise when they' : were only windy. The man who kant git head , without pulling others back is a I very limited cuss. The principal difference between a luxury and necessary is the price. Whenever the soul is in grief it is taking root. ’ * ‘ Give the devil his due,” but be ' carefull that their ain't much due j him. After a man has ridden fastonst he never wants to go slow ugain. Those familys who are realty fust class never are afraid that' they shall git cheated out of their respectability, while the codfish i families are always nervous lest: i they mite. It won't do to stir up a man when he is thinking, any more than it will a pan of milk when the I cream is rising. It is easy enuff to raise the devil btiyhe'sjuhard crop to reap. The Negro Delegates I There were sixty three negro j ■ delegates appointed by the radical I 1 convention of the “tinreconstruct ed” States, to the Chicago Con- » vention, but only nineteen ofthem. i it seems, found their'wav to Chiea- j I go and participated in the proceed-1 J ings of the convention. What became of the balance? Some of the ' radical papprs account for their absence by saying that they had not the money to pay their expen-' see, and so were compelled to stay at home and give their places to t j white negroes who had the necess-1 ary funds. Perhaps, this may be true of some of them, but we no- i , tice in an exchange that one Cam- ‘ bach. ( no relation to the radical; candidate for Lieutenant Gover-' nor,) a delegate from Mississippi was recently indicted by the Grand | Jury of Jackson for the popular' negro amusement of appropriating : to his own use the property of an -1 other dblegate—or in other Words • for the crime pt larceny. The Sheriff of the county, not having j the fear of the Chicago Couven-1 tion before His eyes, interfered * , with, Mr. Cambach's proposed visit . to Chicago .—C'hireigo Times. John Nagle, of Prince William County. Virginia, has brought suit. for damages for 320,000, against' ‘ Secretary Stanton, for injuries ■ done his house and farm, by some j ’ cavalry sent down by older of ’ Stanton in the summer of 1883. t — > Six thousand editors want to exr change with the R«rohitio*.

An Abyaslnlan Beau. The natives distil a spirit from their barley, which is said to be something between gin and Hollands in flavor. I have not yet tested any. Very thick is the throng round a Parsee belonging to the comiasariat, who is buying up all he can get for government at a dollar for nineteen pounds.— Near him another comissariat employee is similarly engaged in buying up ghee—that is clarified' or boiled butter—for the native troops. It does not look very nice, and what does not make the sight the pleasanter is, that the women, when they have emptied the jars into the commissariat casks invariably wipe them out with their hands, then plaster the remainder upon their heads. An Abyssinian does not considhimself properly dressed unless fiis hair is shining with oil, not put on or rubbed on, but plastered on, and running down his neck as the sun melts it. The idea is not according to our ideas, pleasant. ’ but it is a matter of taste. When i an Abyssinian really wants to make a great effect, he uses butter, not ghee, and puts it on until his head is as white as that of a London I footman. Then he is conscious that he has indeed done it, and walks with a dignity befitting his appearance. There were several swells of the period so got up at j the market, and as they stood un- ■ der the shelter of their straw um- , brellas—for the sun would melt and destroy the whole effect—l could not but wonder at. and admire the different forms which human vanity t-ikes.—Letter from ; the British Camp. Mixed up Slightly. Here is a little article from the pen ot Mark Twain, giving an account of a visit, while in New York, to the great Bible House : Still on the fifth floor is a huge room with nineteen large Adam's steam presses, all manned by woi man (four of them confounded | pretty, too.) snatching off Bibles iu I Dutch, Hebrew, Yam yam, Chero- [ kee, etc., at a rate that was truly fructifying to contemplate. (I ! don't know the meaning of that i word, bat I heard it used someI where yesterday, and it struck me as being an unusually good word. Anv time that I put in a word that doesn’t balance the sentence good, I would be glad if you j would take it out and put iu that I one.) Adjoining was another huge I room for dying the printed sheets (very pretty girls in there, and young), and pressing them (the sheets, not the girls). They used I hydraulic presses, (three of the 1 prettiest wore curls, and never a 1 sign of a waterfall—the girls I | mean) —and each of them is able "to down With the almost incredible weight of eight hundred tons of solid simon pure pressure, (the hydraulics lam referring to now, of course,), and one has got blue eyes, and both the others brown. Ah me! I have got this hydraulic i business tangled a little, but 1 can swear that it is no fault of mine. You need’t go to blame me about i it. You have got to pay jifst the same as if it were as straight as a qhingle. I can't afford to go in dangerous places, and then get my wages docked in the bargain. “So Secret, Doctor. ’’ “I noticed,” said Franklin, “a mechanic, among a number of others, at work on a house erecting but a Tittle way from mv office,' i who always appeared to be in a j merry humor; who had a kind and! i cheerful smile for every one he met. Let the day be ever so cold, i gloomy, or sunless, a happy smile I danced like a sunbeam on his • i cheerful countenance. Meeting! him one morning,. I asked him to i tell me the secret of his constant happy flow of spirits. ‘No secret, doctor,’ he replied, ‘I have got i one of the best of wives, and when I go to work she always has a kind won! of encouragment for me; and when I go home she meets me with a smile and a kiss; and then i tea is sure to be ready; and she ' has done so many little things to please me, that I cannot find it iu iny heart to speak and unkind won! to anybody.” What influence then has woman over the heart of man to soften it, and make ;it the foundation of cheerful and pure emotions! Speak gently, then ; a kind greeting, after the : toils of the day are over, costs 1 nothing, and goes far towards making home happy and peaceful. 1 Young wives and girls, candidates | for wives, should keep this in | mind; as to older wives, expenJ ence may have already taught them this important lesson. And what; we say to wives, we say also to I husbands. A loving word and kiss | go very far with a woman ’ -

No. 9.

Miscellaneous Items. Chestnut hair is the rage. A hugry Cincinnatian recently stole a sawdust ham that was left out as a sign. There is a judicial district in lowa, comprising ten counties, in which there is not a single lawyer. A Missourian has strawberries from plants that have berne fruit all winter. Pittsburg has ten nail factories. Kansas City boasts a man aged 117. A yong Mormon was accidentally boiled up into soap the other day. “Smutty Nose” is the euphonious name of au island off’ the Maine coast. “Inveigling a lacteal distillery'” is the Cincinnati reportprial for stealing a cow. Speaking of hepatic diseases, the Lowell Coarier mentions the high-liver disease as quite fatal. Over 5,000 head of cattle passed throug New London, Mo., last week destined for the prairie pastures. A man in New Orleans shooting pigeons from his window, slew a dove of a baby in the arms of its mother. A negro in Nashville lias poisoned his mistress because he was weary of her and wauted to live with another woman. Miss Rye, of Montreal, is “emigrating” young ladies of good character to Australia. Not more than 10 per cent, of those taken there have failed to give general satisfaction. All find good places. Toledo fisherman recently caught a salmon weighing 45 ponds and measuring three feet and seven inches from nose to tip of tail.— The prize was found in Lake Huron. Last Friday, a negro in Buffalo riding in a wagon, Leaned over its side to give a boy, who was stealing a ride, a sharp cut with his whip, when he lost his balance, and the hind wheels of the heavily laden vehicle passed over and almost instantly killed Frederick Jueger, of Cleaviand Ohio, while laying a street sewer, on Wednesday last, was suddenly covered over with the falling earth and nearly killed. Two hours passed before he could be extricated. He will recover. A young man, having letters in his possession dated May 4. 1866 at No. 1.113 Locust street, St. Louis, Mo., jumped upon the steamer City of Cairo as she was leaving New Madrid. Mo., on the 18th, retired to a state-room, and cut his own throat with a penknife. He was probably insane when he boarded the steamer. A peeping Tom was arrested in Memphis, Tenn., on Saturday last, at the city post-office. He had selected a. convenient crack in the floor just under the entrance to the ladies’ department, for observation. The police put him in the lock-up, when he owned to the name of James Brown. The Rev, Albert Barnes, the eminent biblican commentator, is suffering from a serious diffieuultv in his eyes, b hich threatens total blindness. He has been obliged to write with the aid of a machine, j such as was used by Mr. Prescott i His blindness is not yet total; but there are indications that he may i vet become like so many other l literary laborers, a blind old man. A San Francisco paaer has found i a rat story equal to that of the I headless rooster. “A gentlma# of this city was greeted with something peculiar in his rat-trap the other morning? He found a complete rat skin, and—nothing more. I The snap had caught the animal bv the nose, and, in struggling to escape, he walked entiiely out of his skin. Attached to the skin were portions of the bone of the head, the hind feet, and the whole tail. Leading from the trap to a hole near by were tracks of blood What the sensations of the rest oi the tribe were when the animal come home thus stripped of his clothing, may be imagined.' II any other family catch the rest ol this rat he may be re-constructed.’ A gentleman who has spent somt time in Washington City, arrived here yesterday morning. He in formed us that the prevailing feel ing among politicians there is. that Hon. George H. Pendleton will be the Democratic nomine* for President, and Governor En glish, of Connecticut, the notninet I for Vice-President This will make i a strong ticket— Cotsmbar. Ohio, | Stafetman.

VVays of Committing Suicide Wearing thin shoes on damp nights in rainy weather. Building on the “air-tight" principle. Leading a life of enfeebling stupid laziness, and keeping the mind in a round of unnatural excitement by reading trashy novels. Going to balls in nil sorts of weather in the thinnest possible dress. Dancing till in complete perspiration, then going home through the damp air. Sleepingin feather beds in seven by nine bed-rooms. ■ Surfeiting on hot and very highly stimulating suppers. Marrying in haste, getting an uncongenial companion, and living the rest of life iu mutual dissatisfation. Eating without lime to masticate the foodAllowing love of gain to so absorb our minds, as to leave no time to attend to our health. Following an unhealthy occupation because money-eau be made by it. : . *■ Tempting the appetite with niceties when the stomach says no. Contriving to keep in a contjiial worry about something or nothing. ® Retiring in the small hours and [ rising at noon. Neglecting to take proper care of ourselves when a simple disease I first appears. AL _ A Queer Baptist Church. The Second Baptist Church at ' I Newport has a peculiar history, i It was founded two hundred and ) eleven years ago. It was a SixPrinciple Baptist Church, and [ still holds the rite of confirmation ; , ' and that rite is administered to , all who come into the church, in [ the language used by the bishops of the Episcopal Church. For a • ; hundred years ho singin g was al- ■ j lowed. When it was introduced, 1 it was amid a violent opposition. 5 i Out of tender regard to the coh- • [ sciences of those who thought siug- ! ing in church a sin, a vote was r ■ passed, allowing all such to withj draw while the music was perfortn- ! ed: and when the hymn was sung, a part of the congregation went out doors and stayed in the cold. Thirty years ago the church adopt- ( ed the practice of open eommu- ( nion, tnd its present minister, 1 Rev. Howard Malcom, recently inI vited the Congregational and i Methodist ministers and churcb.es J to a united communion, which was jaccepted. A thousand communicants filled the house. Three ministers presid d at the table, t The deacons of the Baptist and , Congregational churches, with ■ stewards of the Methodist, disi tribued the elements. For this act > the First Baptist Church of Newport has, by vote, withdrawn its [ fellowship from the Second Church, ! and we learn that the aetign.of M r. Malcom is to be considered at the nexT meet of the Association. Tbe New York Press on the Platform. I The Ai/n says the Chicago ticket ■is a strong one and will receive ' the enthusiastic support of the I Republians. The Times, while generally ap- , proving the platform, thinks it a , j matter of policy, not less than I propriety, that the whole subject • jof impeachment should have been ‘ avoided. The lierai l says the platform is ? a work of some ingenuity. Like ? an old campaigner, the convention moves with a bold step where the e ground is firm, but treads cautious--9 ly and gringerly over the boggy r • places. - . ] The Commercial supports the j ticket, regarding it as insuring victory in advance, expresses gratification over the defeat of Fenton. j condemns the 2d and Bth sections . of the platform, and cordially ap- . proves the balance thereof. I The Post eulogises the ticket • and says whatever faults a minute’s I - criticism might detect in the lan- ! guage an 1 in the form of some of f the resolutions, they are as a whole explicit and satisfactory declura- - tions of the general sense and justice, as applied to the living questions of the dav. 1 \ An Affectionate Farewell. f j A Mrs. Carson, of St. Joseph, II Mo., has eloped with a doctor, e leaving the following touching e note for Mr. Carsou; Dear Hubby—You’erplayed out. I like the doctor so well that I prefer going with him than staying I with you—you guod-for-nothing 8 degenerate cuss. It’s none of you business where we're gone. It won't do you-a bit of good to follow us, for I wouldn’t live another e day with you to save your life, d Your made a mistake in thinking I i- loved you. I never did. I mar- |. ried you merely for convenience sake. I Ukc the baby along, and n ' ril take care of it You can au« e for a divorce or get married m i. soon as you please. Th* woman who gets you next will have a e healthy old prize. Be virtuous and >t you’ll be happy. Youa Late Wir«