Decatur Eagle, Volume 12, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 27 November 1868 — Page 2

THE EAGLE. ornciAL paper or the county. DECATUR, IWBIAWA, FRIDAY, MOV. 2T, 1868. " THE MEWSk Grant's majority in Indiana is •,574. Os New Jersey, Seymour’s vote 82,725; Grant’s, 79,871. The official vote of Louisiana give? Grant, 34,224, Seymour, 74,672. The public debt statement for November will show a still further increase of the national debt. Admiral Davis was to have left Rio Janeiro on the 27th, ult., with the Guerriere, Kansas, and Quinnebance, for Montevido, having as passengers on his flag-ship Gen. McMahon, our minister to Paraguay, with his family. At Montevideo, Gen. Davis will probably determine to ascend the Paraguay river. The Americans and Englishmen held as prisoners by Lopez should have previously been released on demand of the l British and French men-of-war, | which went promptly to their res- I cue. The Brazilian mail steamer ; South America, which left New| York on 23 inst., took out full dis-! patches to Gen. McMahon and; Admiral Davis. Afae Intelligencer ot the 24th, j announces on the authority of a Republican Senator that Secretary : McCulloch intends to recommend an increase of taxation. The estimate for the war and navy departments will be about 345,000,000 less than last year. The estimates of expenditures ■ of the secretary of the treasury, i for the next fiscal, yeanfinding ! June 30th, 1870, will be from S4O-, ' 000,000 to $50,000,000 less than ■ they were for the -present fiscal I year, unless the Indian war should i become more formidable than is - indicated at present. Last year' the estimates for the expenses of the navy department were placed i at $35,000,000; but over the next■ year, it is understood they will not go much beyond 820,000,000. The secretary's estimates for the receipts and expenditures for the coming year arc based principally on the general average of those for thepast month. The report of the speial commissioner, recently appointed by the President to examine the entire line of the Union Pacific railroad, has agreed on a report to the effect that the road was found to be according to the require- ' meats of the act of Congress, a first-class road. It is said that counsel for the I government, in the case of Jeff Davis, will ask a further' continu-1 ance, for the reason that the government is not ready to proceed with the trial at the December term. Had not the court better grant a change of venue to.the su- i promo tribunal in tile next world ? That is the only court in which 1 the government will ever be ready to proceed. The Timer, of London (Eng.), ; appears very highly pleased with the election of General Grant.— Now, it has been the constant habit of the radical newspapers of this I country, for the last half dozen I years, to assert that anything which pleased the London ZVmej in reference to affairs in this country, must b? hostile to our interest. Will the radical newspapers now accept their own logic and its conclusions with respect to the Times over Grant's election?—C.Vcajo Times. General Grant returned to Washington on Saturday, and was received at every station :)ongthe route with the ‘wildest enthusiasm.’ The verv moment that Grant has filled all the offices, he may travel a dozen times from New „Y<»rk to Washington without being given a welcome by a corporal's guard of the populace. All this “wikj, enthusiasm” is based upon that species of gratitude which has been wittily defined as a “lively sense of favors to come.”—Chicago Times. Brazil keeps a standing offer of • S ,000 in gold to any one who will . invent a mode of preserving beef, to that it will be suitable for ex- i portauon. and though 1.400 pro-J cesses hare ■ been put in competi- | tion for this prize, none ban yet re- j ceivcd it The Buiietin eiaiins that San Fra ttaica has now * population of 15t,W. j

Whiskey Ring in Mew Yerk. : A lively fight is in progress jn : New York, gro wing out of alleged . frauds against the . treasury department, by dealers in whiskey. - It seems that one Binckley employed in the attorney general’s , office, Washington, has been employed to investigate these frauds. , Binckley claims that the district attorney, Courtney, and collector, t Bailey, has conspired with distillers and sundry dealers in whiskey, to defraud the revenue. They of , course denied the soft impeach- ,! meirt. Binckley declared war and ‘ commenced investigating. The I “whiskey ring,” like the national banks, is a big institution, and so he found it. Instead of being I supported by the powers that be at Washington, he was declared a meddler and deprived of his office. i BinckleV declares that if he had i been sustained he could have beaten the thieves. Judge Fullerton has since been appointed by the President and commenced the investigation. So j far the swearing has been about eI qual, andfrom the close intimacy I existing between the “ring,” heads !of departments and members of i Congress, it would seem that to j assail the “whiskey rings’" is to ■ assail all these, and furnishes con- • elusive testimony of the corrunifc «♦ I . tion in connection with the col- ! lection of revenues. ——— From Washington. Washington, D. C. Nov. 23. — The state department received from Minister Johnson, volumiu ’ ous mail dispatches, which came over in the City of Baltimore.— j Secretary Saward declined to fur ; nish any details of the same, but assured inquirers that the Alabama and Shanendoah question had ; been adjusted in a manner entirely satisfactory to the government, ; at least in accordance with .the instructions given onr minister by i the president and secretary of ■ i state. It is believed that the ca-| 4)le telegram is correct, to the es- j feet tiiat a joint commission is to ■ sit in Washington to adjust the claims which may have been pre sented. Gen. Grant having returned to the city from his northern tour. He expressed much gratification! at the fact that, of the very large number of gentlemen he met, both in New York and Philadelphia, not one solicited him for an office, neither, for himself or a friend.— Senator Cole, of California; the Hon. E. B. Washburn, of Illinois; Gen. Schofield; Gen. Price; Gen. Phillip St. George Cooke, and a number of distinguished of fleers and civilians, had inter- , views with the president elect. It is worthy of note that office seek--1 ers have subsided almost entirely so far as their presence at army • headquarters is concerned. The commissioner of Indian affairs is in receipt of letters from from government officers in the . west, which gives rise to appre-1 hensions of serious trouble on the ‘ ' plains, Di September last, Gen. j W. B. Hazen was ordered, bv' Lieut. Gen. Sherman, to Fprt' i Cobb, in Indian territory, to reI present the Indian peace commission in that quarter, and to carry : out its policy in reference to the southern Indians.—particularly all those of the Kiowa, Camani chc, Arrapahoes, Apache, and ! Cheyenne tribes, —who were dis posed to remain at peace, and go ■ upon the reservation set apart for them bv the peace commission.' I Agent Wynkoop had been sent to i the same place by the secretary of i the interior, to co-operate with I Gen. Hazen in the work of collect- ' ing these Indians, pcotecting and I subsisting them during their trans ! for from a hunting to a pastoral | and agricultural life. The Indians . in answer to the demands made ] upon them, are moving, in con- . siderable numbers, towards Fort Cobb. At the same time, r volunteers from Kansas. Colorado, and New Mexico, —and of the latter force there are 800 Ute Indians, who are inveterate enemies of the plains Indians,—arc all marching in the same direction. These are fo kill Indians whenever and wherever found.—contemplating, it is said, a massacre of them, even at Fort Cobb, where they are under the protection of i our government. Gen. Sheridan ' is supposed to have gone south to i the vicinity of Fort Cobb, to as- ■ ' siime command, in person of all the troops against the Indians. It j will depend wholly upon him ■ whether or not an attack will be I made on thes Indians, who are de- i pending on the United State* for , . safety.. Commissioner Taylor submitted these letters to the secrets : ry of the interior, with a request to do all in his power to prevent another massacre, and to remove all possibilities of such a calami- ' Ity.

jCiTThe following poetic jjem we find travelling without an author. It is the golden rule in a new dress, and we can only wish the sentiments it teaches were more widely diffused: Mouth to Ear. o(J Nay, speak no ill; a kindly word Can never leave a sting behind; And, oh to breath each tale we’ve heard Is far beneath a noble mind; For oft a better seed is sown By choosing thus a kinder plan; For if but little good know Let's speak of all the good we can. Give me the heart that fain would hide, Would fain another's faults efface, How can it please our human pride Toprove humanity but base! No, but let it reach a higher mode, A nobler estimate of men, Be earnest in the search of good And speak of all the best we can. Then speak no ill, but intent to be, To others' failings as your own! If you're the first a fault to see, Be not the first to make it known. For life is but a passing day. No lips can tell how brief the stay; Be earnest in the search of good, And speak of all the best we may. Miscellaneous Items. -A Connecticut grocer recently discovered a Chinese idol in a chest of tea. -Gutta percha houses arc suggested for earthquake countries. -Introducing the daily papers as readers in the public schools is thought of in Philadelphia. -Owing to bad ventilation, three persons fainted in the Presbyterian Church at Corning, last Sunday. -A German, of Hamilton, Ontario, starting to shoot snipe the other morning, put a lighted pipe into a quarter of powder in his pocket. The result severe inju ties. -John Shannon, a river pilot, won a wager of 8120, at Dubuque, > on the 27th ult., by walking with ’ a wheelbarrow four miles in 47 ! minutes. The increase of licentiousness in this country is pronounced before the Scientific congress to be very great, -A man in Hartford carries an umbrella that was bought in 1847, and has never been stolen but once. -In Boston it was just five months and five days t'rbin the last snow of last spring to the first snow this fall. -Tne Vermont legislature is discussing laws compelling children to attend school, and regulating the legal rate of interest. -European physicians, it is said have successfully used electricity to restore persons who have taken ; an overdose of laudanum or opi urn. ■o ■ , • -Tobacco has been used in Japan about 250 years, and was in troduced by the Portugese. -Cranberries have advanced 81 per barrel. The crop is greatly below that of last year. -Quito a lively business ie done in New York, in cat skins, which sell at 10 to 50 cents each. -A peddler was found dead, near Pittsburgh,— starved to death!— and near him his dog, not quite dead. New York is to have street-let-ter-boxes that will admit newspn-; pers and parcels, that cannot be ! stolen from, and that will indicate ' on a dial the hour of next collec I tion. Speaking of the exit of the White Fawn, the St. Paul Dispatch says the girls of the ballet were “barefooted up to the neck.” In Australia they have fenced in 10,000 acres, where ostritchos arekept, and it is found that the feath- I ers of a full grown bird will sell for SIOO a year. -Old Tammany Hall will be o pened. as a place of public amusement, by Messrs Jarrett <fc Palmer in about a month. -Rev. Dr. Tvng’schurch has a disnensary in one of its apartments wh n re the poor are liberally supplied with medicines. -The prison choir at Sing Sing is said to be surpassed by butafew in the country, either within or without prison walls. -It is stated as a Curious fact ■ that the nations sneaking onr lan- ! guaire own three fourths of all the coal in the world. A political priest of the name i of Hall, in Guilford, Connecticut. I was dismissed bv the parish, reIcently, for hansrin® out a partisan banner on election-day. If men who sot up for ministers of the . gospel, but prove themselves to be mere fifth-rate politician*, were . disciplined in that wny more frequently, it mierht impress upon the sectarian priesthood a lesson in theology which it is feared they will not learn in any other way.— • Ckienga Timas.

-Fivethousand dollars insurance was paid last week by a Hartford company on a single sheep, which died in Middlebury, Vermont * » " • “ r ' ~ ■ -A law suit, brought in New York in 1867’ for the foreclosure of a mortgage, was still hefore the courts a few days ago. NEW~ ADV ERTISE M ENTS R. S. PETERSOIV, Attorney a,t Xja.'w, DECATVIt, INDIANA. PROMPT attention paid to all busiuesa entrusted to hjs care. OFFICE—In D. Studabukor’s Law Offics. v!2n33. “Unquestionably the best sustained work of the kind in the World. HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. (Critical notices of the Press.) The most popular Monthly in the world.—N. Y. Observer. We must refer in terms of eulogy to the high tone and va. ied excellence of Harper's Magazine—a journal .with a monthly circulation of ab<jpt-470,000 copies—in whose pages are to be found some of the choicest light and general reading of the day. We speak of this work as an evidence of the culture of the American people; and the popularity it has acquired is merited. Each number contains fully 144 pages of read-ing-matter, appropriately illustrated with good wood-cuts; and it combines in itself the racy monthly and the more philosophical quarterly, blended with the best features of the djtilr journal. It has great power in the dissemination of a love of pure literature.—Trubner’s Guide to American Literature, London. We can account for its success only by j the simple fact that it meets precisely ‘ the popular taste furnishing a variety of pleasing and instructive reading for all. —Zion's Herald, Boston. SUBSCRIPTIONS—IBC9. Terms: Harper's Magazine, one year $4 00 An extra copy of either the Magazine, Weekly or Bazar will be supplied gratis for every club of five subscribers at $4 each, in one remittance; or six copies for S2O 00. Subscriptions to Harper's Magazine, Weekly and Bazar, to one address for one I year, $ 10; or two of Harper's Periodicals, i to one address for one year, §7. Back numbers can be supplied at any ! time. Address HARPER & BROTHERS, ▼12n33 New York. “A Repository ot I’ashlou, k leastire, and In=> slruction.” HARPER’S BAZAR. A .supplement containing numerous full-sized patterns of useful articles accompanies the paper e/ery fortnight, and occasionally an elegant Colored Fashion Plate. Harper s Bazar contains 10 folio pages [ of the size of Harper's Weekly, printed on superfine calendered paper, and is published weekly. (Critical notices of the Press.) Harper's Bazar contains,.besides pictures, patterns, etc., a variety of matter of especial use and interest to the family; articles on health, dress, and housekeeping in all its branches; its editorial matter is specially adapted to the circle it is iatendSd to interest and instruct; audit has. besides, good stories and literary matter of merit. It is not surprising that the journal, with such features, has i achieved in a short time an immense success; for something of its kind was desired in thousands of families, audits publishers have filled the demand.—N. Y. Evening Post. Wa know of no other English or American journal of fushios that can pretend to approach it in completeness and variety. —N. Y. Times. It has the merit of being sensible, of : conveying instruction, of giving excel- ' lent patterns in every department, and of being well stocked with good reading matter. —Watchmatn and Reflector. To dress according to Harper's Bazar will be the aim and ambition of the woolen of America.—Boston Transcript. SUBSCRIPTIONS—IB69. 1 erma: Harper’s Bazar, one year $4 00 An extra copy of either the Magazine, Weekly, or Sazar will be supplied gratis ; for etery Club of five subscribers at $1 eachMn trfie remittance; or six copies for . 320 01. * Subscriptions to Harper's Magazine, ' Weekly, and Bazar, to one address for i one year, $10; or, two of Harper's Periodicals, to one address for one year, $7. Back numbers can be supplied at any time. Address HARPER & BROTHERS, v12n33 New York. Guardian 8 Sale. N’OTICEis hereby given that the un- ' dersigned Guardian will sell at public sale, at the Court House door in the County of Adams, in the State of Indiana. on Friday. December 25tii, 18CR, j between the hours of 10 o'clock’A. M. and 4 o'clock P. M., of said day, the foli lowing described real estate, to-wit: The south half of the south west quarter of section thirty-two, in township . twenty-eight north, range fifteen east, , in Adams county, Indiana, containing eighty aeres; known ns tho Beck farm. ' TERMS:—One-fourth of the purchase money cash in hand, one-fourth in nine months. one-f>urth in eighteen months, ' and one-fourth in twenty-seven months, * with interest on deferred payments, and security to the satisfaction of the undersigned. DANIEL RAILING, Nov. 27, Guardian of Mary Beck. .Votice of Surrey. Notice is hereby given that I will, on the 28th day of December, 1868, at nine o'clock. 4. M., be?in the survey of sections No. six and seven in township twei.ty-six north, range fifteen east, and the location and perpetuation of tines and corners lh«r?of. Said survey to begH at the north-west corner of said section No. seven, and continue from day to day until the said survey of the above said sections is completed. By order of Robert Spenoo and James ' Danner. H. C. PETERSON. S A. C * Nov. 29, 1868. wB.

1868. 1868. NOTICE TO TAX-PAYERS. If . R 1 ■ —- ■'-■■ ■ - -' ■ r .. ... s HAVING received the Tax Duplicate for the year 1868, notice is hereby given, that the Treasurer is now ready to receive the several TAXES FOR ADAMS COUNTY, the: Treasurer’s Office, in Decatur, Ind. —Mu ————— The law requires that after the third Monday of April, A. D. 1869, a penalty of ten per cent, on each dollar, with interest until paid, shall be attached. All who wish to avoid paying cost will call and pay their taxes. The Taxes for 1868 are as follows: » u © o 2. o~■ x i q cT; J*72. S= p F TOWNSHIPS. 8 : • • • «' c < . • • * <• • 1 Poll.. jGO 50' i 110 Unionsloo 201 00.25 16>10 2O>lo!2 10 Root'sloo 20,1 00,25 10,10 20 25 2 16 Preble'slool2o 100 25 16'15 20 5i r 201 Kirkland .7 i slooi2o 1 00 25(1645 20!25j|2 21 Washington J-8100 20 1 00 25 1040 20 5:4 9G St. Mary’sßloo 20 1 00 25 16 10 20 25i 2 16 Blue Creek■ SIOO 20 1 00 25 16 10 20-25’ 2 16 Monroe’. .7. ,|isloo|2o 1 00 25 16 16 20 25 2 16 Frenchi 8100 20 1 00 25 1645 20 25 2 21 Hartford 3100 20,1 00 25 16 l0;20 20, 2 11 Wabash‘Bloo JO 1 60 25 16 20 20 15/2 16 Jefferson . I 8100 20 1 00 J 5 16 15 20 15 2 11 •• — Decatur Special. SIOO valuation. 10 cents. DecatuPCorporation, 3100 valuation, 25 cents; Poll, 25 cents. From this date up to the third Monday of April next, you will find me at the Treasurer's Office, in Decatur, to receive the above levied Taxes. After the third Monday in April. 1869, those remaining unpaid will be collected with cost, penalty and interest, as the law directs JESSE NIBLICK, Treasurer A. < ’o. Nov. 13, 1868. By D J. SPENCER, Deputy.

CRABBS, MOSES & RICE, «• DEALERS IN . FOREIGN & DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, HATS A CAPS, 'i BOOTS & SHOES,' Groceries, Q IE E .V S W »f R E , CARPETS, <O X Xs CIjOTIIS, ♦ NOTIONS, &<Jn ; DECATUR.. INDIANA. of the above goods will: be sqjd veiy cheap for Cash or I Country Produce. v12n31 < -—— — Petition for Divorce. State of Indiana, 1 g Adams County, J In the Court of Common Pleas of Adams. County, January Term, 1860. Cassimere Laukhart, 1 ’vs. >• Divorce. Caroline Laukhart. J" It appearing from affidavit filed in the above entitled cause, that Caroline Lnukhart is a Non-resident of the State of Indiana, Notice is therefore hereby g : ren the said Caroline Lnukhart of the filing of this cause of action, and that she beand appea •beforethe Ilon.Judgcof the Court of Common Pleas, on the first day of the next regular term thereof, to be held at the Court House, in the town of Decatur, in the said County, on ihe second Monday of Januniy, 1869, and answer or drmur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in her absence. Witness my hand and thesealof (1.5.) said Court, this 21st day of Octo-ber,-1868. A. J. HILL, October 23. w 4. Clerk. Administrator's Sale. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Administrator of the Estate of John W. Ey mson, deceased, will sell at Public Auction, at the late residence of the decedent, about three miles east of Decatur, in Adams county, Indiana, on Satvbday, December 12th. 1868, All his personal property, net taken by the widow, consisting of the following articles, to-wit: Two head of horses, two Cows, two head of young'cattle, twenty-five head of Sheep, lot of Hogs. Hay, Corn. Oats, Wheat in the grout d. Wagon, Harness. Plows, Harrow, Household and Kitchen Furniture, and various other articles not mentioned. TERMS:—A credit of nine months will be given on all sums over three dollars, by the purchaser giving his note vyth approved security. Sums of three dollars and under, cash, JOHN KINO, Jr, IJNov. ST, w 4 Administrator.

License Notice. Notice is hereby given tQ the citizens of Washington Township, Adams County'', Indiana, that the tindetsigned will apply to tl.e Board of Commissioners of said Adams county, at their December session, 18G8, for a license for one year, to sell spiritous, vinous, malt an I other intoxicating liquors, in less quantity than a quart," at a time, at the premises situate in the t&wn of Deeatur, in the eount.y of Adams in the State of Indiana, as follows, to-wit: ’ Commencing at n point on the east side of Second Sticet, in the said town of Decatur twenty-one feet north of the south west corner of In-lot number fiftyseven (67), thence running north twentyone feet along Second street, thence east at right angles with Second street sixtvtwo feet, thence south twenty-one feet thence west sixty-two feet to the place as beginning, to be drank and used as a beverage on said premises. Nov. 6. FRANKLIN W. MIESSE. License Jl'otiec. AtOTICE is hereby given to the citi.l v zer.3 of W -shrngfon Township, Adams county. Indiana, that the undersigned will apply to the Board t.f Commissioners of Adams county. Indiana, at their session, 1868, for a license, for o)tc year, to sell spirituous, vinous, malt anil other intoxicating liquors, in less quantities then a quart at a time, to be used and drank ns a beverage at my building situate on the following premises in the town of Decatur, in Adams county, in the state of Indiana, towit: Commencing at a point on the north side of Monroe street, in said town, forty feet west of the south east corner of In-lot number two hundred and seventyfour (274), thence west along Monroe street twenty feet, thence north at right angles with Monroe street fifty feet, thence east twenty feet, thence south fifty fe»’t, to the place of beginning. Nov. 6. HERMAN BOSSE. IPLAMIW MILL. (At the old FORNAX MILLS.) DECATUR, INDIANA. 4 LL kinds of Lumber dressed to order. Persons bringing lumber any distance can have it dressed so as to take it back the same trip. Shingles (joiqt) kept constantly on band. JACKSON & WILSON, v!2n29 Proprietor.. SIEMO.W, BRO. & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealer, in BOOKS d- STATIONERY. i' holographic Album* and Blank Book*, Can, Letter, Note, Wall anti Vratn FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. School Books of all kinds at Publishers' prices. ’ vl2n2a. Estray .Totice. rpAKEN tip by C. M. Kohr, in Union 1 Township, A<l»ms county, Ind., on the Ist day of October, IWS a red and white spotted Con. with crumpley bonis, and of medium site. No other mark, or brands. Appraised at $25. Reported by George D. Hacket J. P. A. J. HILL. Nov. 6, 1888. CUrk. JOB of every description, neatly executed at lib* Eagle Offlcw

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