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attorneys. DAXJEL D. HELLER, Attorney «.t Law, PBCATLM, INDIANA. -WETItL practice Mi Pllrituiiuu auywhereln In omciTAiwShe :be Recorder’! Office. v10n52 , - ■ , - JAttES R. 8080, JAttoxrxxey Xbantv, DECATUR, INDIANA. MTRBAWB Deedi, Mortgages And Contracts. Ro MFd<>ems Land and pays Taxes. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor's Office. vlon6. D. STUDABAKER, Attorney «.t luaw, C laim & Real Estate Agent, 4 DECATUR, INDIANA. practice Law la Adams end adjoining v v Coun>ii*>;«cuk' Penslen* other claims against thelacvernnient; buy and sell Beal Estate; examine titles andnay taxes, and other businees la prepared to <fraw ?>e< dii, Mortgager and otbertnstruments in writing. vlOnll. "~PRYSfCI~ANS. ~ F. A. JfLLEFF. P. M. SCHROCK. JELLEFF A SCHROCK, Physicians and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, opposite the Publie Square. van I.iff. CHARLES L. CURTISS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permanently located in this pis'*,offers his prof<«tional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—In Houston's Block Besidenceat the Bnrt Holme.vllnT6tf. AADREW S O R O , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE -Ou Aecond Street, over W. G. Spencer's Hardware Stor*..vSniiff. A. J. ERWI A, H. D., Surgeon. Dispensary, Avelinc Block. - v11n25 FORT WAYNE. IND. REAL ESTATE AGENT. JAH ES R . B O 80, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT, DECATUR, INDIANA. ACHES of good farming Innd.aer- • < end Town Lotaand h large quantity ;of wild land for Ante. If yon want to buy a g<*»d • farm or wildland he will n»4I it to you. If yon want vnur land gold be will well it for you. No pair, no chargv. vlundtf. DENESTRY. 11. 11. UcCOAWELL, Surgeon Dentist, gpjjgggil DECATUR, INDIANA. \ll wnrk neatly ageciitedand war" T T I, t T r antcd to gir* Call ». , examine «n*cinion». CIHj ?. In Rover’s building, over ITcllrr’a Law office. vllnintf. AUCTIONEER. CHARLES H. FRA ACE, -A.ixction.oer, WITMHBE, OHIO. RV" HIM gftMOMrtrr •’ ’ r| ].<• ill n rep ▼ ▼ tdarh Licensed Auctioneer, and il! <ttci»d all Public Sawhenever requested, by ’drew-hij. ' him a* above, or ending nt bh rctidenee n BlueI Creek Township, Adami Co., Ind. ts. 21 H °TJELS._ ' HIE S S E II OU SE , I. J. MIESSE, Propri?tor. Third St., Op/ioritr the Court Tloute, DECATUR, INDIANA. In connection with this Hoaer there 11 a Stage run to and from Decatur nnd Monroeville,daily, which connects with trains running both wayg, viin9tt. MAIN STREET EM. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, IFr-tf Main Street, near the Publie Square, „ FORT WANVE, INDIANA. vllnHtf. MAYER HOUSE. J. W. BULL, Proprfelor, Corner of Calhoun and Wayne Street!, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. jllnHw. HEDEKVIV HOUSE. A. J. H. MILLS. Proprietor, On Barr, between Columbia and Main Ste., FORT WAYNR. INDIANA. /YFFICK otjViburn nnd O-catnr Stere lines. AlvF so K'wxl stabling in connection with the Houae. vltnlltf. JKwrLEfti. HATER A GRAFFE, -DgALKBg IBWatches, Clocks, Jewelry, sitruß akd srtrFK-pi.ATHD warp: Gold, Silver and Steel Spectacles) Columbia Street, vllnfilyl. FORT WAYNE,IND. NEW JEWELRY STORE! DECATUB. JAMES LALLEY, Announces to the eitixens of Adams County and vicinity, that he has purchased the JEWELRY STORE in Drcalur. of Mr. Kira Lystov, and will continue thi htrtinewv at the old stand, 1 where he will keep constantly on band a large and complete aeaortment of Watches, Clocks. 2/ I Jewelry, I < Motions, Spectacles. &e„ which he offers at prices ' I to •nit the time" w ( Repairing of all kinds done on short , notice. All work warranted at represented.! 1 vl2en jar. LALLEY |<

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>tUct ROME IB THE AIGtJITAX ERA. Else an< Manner* In the Eternal City. The streets of' Rome were not at all straight, and were besides cluttered up with all sorts of stalls grogeries, and workshops, to the utter discomfort and inconvenience of the promenaders of theno. “Al! Rome,” says Martial, “is nothing but an immense tavern, , where mercers aud trailers of evi ery description, butchers, inn ; keepers, and barkers so possess ; themselves of the streets as everywhere to mask anil encumber the sills of the houses ” The prajtor as well ns the common citizens, was < o npelled to tramp through ■ mud aud amid the filthiest sheds and tenements. Thera was constant excitement in the streets, owing to the immense crowd, composed of a population living out of doors, and of strangers flocking into the city from all parts of the world. Rents, as now a days , in a court city, were four times as high as any where else. Noise and tumult greeted the ears incessantly day and night. Horace complained of, and delighted to get away into the country. « , At early dawu ,the bakers begAn to bawl-out bread, schoolchildren to spell in chorus, saws and hammers to clatter in the workshops, carts to jolt along over the massive slabs of the pavement, loaded with timber and stone, and animals charged with heavy burdens to press against and jostle the pedes triaps. Pickpockets and beggars abounded, and processions of chanting pne-ts, hawkers of peasoup and smoking sausages yelled in concert, and loud cries issued from within the walls of the tern pies ; and to all this, the rattling of traveling and huckster vehei cles, which seem to have been con sidered a great nuisance, and which were prohibited from cir dilating during certain hours, and we have a pretty good idea of a daylight scene in Rome. At night all was still and dark; or, at. all events the hubbub was of a different character. Insecurity was great every where, ami at all hours. Roblieries and assassinations were very common and went unpunish ed. Young men delighted in nocturnal adventures. Other dangers were imminent in the shape of or dure d opped from windows and apertures, loose tiles dropping from the roof, and cracked earth enware smashing on the pavement below, and on the beads of pass ers by.Other and constant perils men seed y the inhabitants of R.rne — Houses were badly kept. House •peculators were as numerous and sb irresponsible as in New York. Every body tried to build as cheap and ns frail us possible So negligent were their constructors that the houses were marked by cracks and crevics. and always in danger of falling. “Most of our mis ery,” says Seneca, “is due to our roofs.” Even in the great palaces decorated with printing, everybody frequenting them stood in dread, and ready to scamper at the first intimation of weakness.— Houses frequently crumbled and buried their inmates. To these features of insecurity must be added frequent conflagration, and oc casional earthquakes, inundations and famines. Roman senators possessed vast establishments throughout the Italian peninsula. Every lake reflected a palace in its waters, and every gulf of th¥ sea was overlooked by one of their villas. Immense tracts of land were cultivated by captives of all nations — Every grand mansion, with its thousands of slaves and freedmen, formed ayunall township capable of self-support. One of these splendid habitations in the city of| Rome, with its planta'ions of Italian pines, plantains, and laurels, its baths, porticoes, and wide avenues, and numerous fountains, j might be compared to a great city. | Senators of the second rank enjoyed a fortune of 880,000 and j 8300.000 per annum. The fortune’ of Pliny the Younger amounted to j a very large sum, all of which seems to have been bequeathed to friends and the public in the liberal i spirit of a modem millionare.— | the town of Como, for Instance, j being-endowed with a library, a, school for the education of both i •exes, a pnblic hath, and a sum e- i qnal to 8100.000 with which to re j gal the entire population. Rome possessed schools and, teachers. The life of an instruct or was a hard one; the dutiesD were burdensome and thecompen II satton light. Schools were open | ed before daylight »‘The master |l

was compelled to rise earlier than ■ the blacksmith or weaver, and to . : breathe the eflfluvia of the lamps I brought by the pupils.—the smoke ■ of which blackened the busts of; , Homer and Virgil placed in the ; schoolroom.” The stick and cat-1 , *o-nin6 tails served to maintain! i order. Not less painful was the i life of a client, —a dependent upon > some rich aud powerful man of . the itj’per class. A pitiful stipend of fiftv cents per day had to i earned by ignoble service, the most essential of which was to vis it his patron before dawn and pay him homage. The poet Martial; ; seems to have been one of these ! . victims, and alt hC asks as a rei ward for his verses is, “to have a i • night to himself for sleep,”—the , impossibility of obtaining this i privilege, together with other vex- ; ations, finally driving him out of I . Rome. Work, of course, was; , -done by slaves, and labor was con- . sidered “ungentlemanly.” t A day’s occupation for Roman . citizens consisted principally of f honoring birthdays and weddings j visiting the sick, attending on » fetes and trials, supporting and » congratulating candidates for offlee, acting as witness on the J n- • numerable and tedious ceremonies > attending the bargainings, wills, and funerals of his friends; and i worst of all poets’ invitations to i hear the reading-of their last effusion, which, as Juvenal says, were , more dreaded than the crumbling, » or the constant conflagration.— i Lawyers and physicians seem to j have been the most independent a- > mong all classes of citizens, the latter being generally strangers, ; and, under Julius Csesar, endowed F with the freedom of the city on establishing themselves in it. Pal tients, it seems, placed more conI fidence in strangers, most of the physicians at one time being E i ; gyptians and other orientals.— Fashionable doctors were richly remunerated by the aristocracy.— Piny mentions a case in which 200.000 sesterce (810,000) were Rtipulated for a recompense to the i physician succeeding in the cure, c Galena received for the cure of a I consul's wife 85,000. One physi ■ cian died leaving a fortune of o j ver 8500,000, “after having rebuilt . the walls of his native town, and > executing other works not less costly.” A surgeon is fined 8500.000,—“a sum which he regains, i however, in a few years, during his exile among the Gauls, and on I his return to Rome.” I The details of domestic life a mong the Romans arc vorv scant. ; Such ns thev are, they exhibit a state of things nearer to that of our own aocia' system than one would imagine. Girls, for instance, were taught labors of the , sex appropriate to the times, snch as spinning weaving, and the manufacturer of the family raiment.— Tombs of Roman woman have l»een found with a weaving apparatus engraved nn the floor, it being placed there, perhaps, , as a tribute to superior skill and industry. Instruction to girls among the upper classes was undoubtedly given at home, while, as before stated, those of the less wealthy were sent to school in the neighborhood. Mothers often read Homer and Virgil to their daughters. Special pains were, taken to perfect females in the arts of music and dancing. Some attained to great proficiency in singing. and playing on the lute. On the occasion of religious festivals, choruses of virgins of noble fami’y sang hymns in pnblic proees s<on Stem- judges in society s mnetimes condemned these studies, on the ground of their enfeebling and over exciting the girls especially those of Greek extrac tion. Girls generally married between the ages of 13 and 17. and accord to the will of the parents. The 1 engagement ring was made of 11 iron. On the approach of the I wedding-dav. the entire household • gave itself up to the procuring of. i the necessary bridal presents — The bride hade adieu to her past • I bv consecrating her dolls and her < I playthings to the divinities who . i I had watched over her infancy.— ! < On the we<lding-dav the dwellings i < of the betrothed parties were ’ < crowded with relatives and clients.' 1 who at the same time acted as i witnesses to the marriage contract I —at least ten of these being re I quired. The two houses were < splendidly illuminated, especially ■ ’ the atrittm, in which stood the I containing wax masks of the 1 families'ancestors, blackened with 1 the smoke of sacrifices, and open < on the occasion to the inspection i of the guests of the house. Tap- ' esUv. crowns, and green branches I hung about the walls. ’ i A woman, ohsrged with the dn-|< tv of giving the bridge »<»r, join-.l i

'ed the hands of the couple and . led them to the family altar to I sacrifice to the gods,-— a sacrifice 1 again repeated in the to i ; which the party proceeded in pro- ; cession. Curious crowds gather-) ’ ed, of course, by the wayside, to j I gaze on it as it passed.. At one period the party waited until the evening star had appeared in the firmament, before conducting the bride to her new home. Always, however, the bride was conducted : to the conjugal domicile by the! , light of flambnnx. Arrived there! a grand banquet terminated the i day, the bride reclining at the ta- ! ble by the side of her husband.— ! Gifts were made to the populace ' i and to clients on such occasions; I and, so expensive sometimes were J the weddings that parties marry ' ing often retreated into the conn- j try in order to avoid this expense, ■ ;as well as the cards incidental to the invitations and honors which their acquaintance ordered them. Who can see much difference between ancient modern times in this respect? A great difference there is, however, between the family life of that day and oLthis day, Women ; were substantially under the legal tutelage of the men, whether father, husband, or brother, —enjoying certain property rights however, aud a certain degree of personal freedom, as society developed under the empire. One phase of their property rights is curious, and seems to have been imitated in our land: “If the husband, suspending payment, had disposed of his fortune in favor of h s wife, before declaring himself insolvent, his creditors lost all claims on it. Wealthy women had their own business men, and of course, confidant, who is resresented as “absurd and insipid” before men. but “a cunning and perfect lawyer” with his employer.— Sometimes, as might be expected, the relationship proved to be caiminnl. Our author very ungallantly states that “it is in the nature of things for women, thus in an independent position, often to take the reins of government in their own hands, and rule the house and their husbands in the full sense of the term.” Juvenal knew of nothing so insupportable a* a rich wife. The position of Roman women in society was not less independent than within the household. Even in former times under the republic they were never subjected to tho same restrictions as tho wedded Greeks, whose greatest ambition was to be spoken of as little as possible among men, whether for! good or evil, and who recognized, i in the threshold of their dwelling,' a harrier which they could only a’.iow tliems dves to cross excep-• tionallv without peril to their re- ' pntation. Although in ancient Rome the domestic virtues were also only Or principally appreciated ' in the family circle, still, custom never excluded the matron from society, or from public places.— Women were not afraid to show themselves at frequent public spectacles and festivals. With the dissolution of the ancient regime of the family, and tho disappearance of social austerity, there prevailed ‘ more and more the tendency of ■ women to emancipate themselves from all external constraint; and ; already, at the commencement of the empire, scarcely any barriers I remained to oppose, in any important degree, the influence of Roman women within the sphere of their social position. The social rights and liberties of, women certainly originated in an-; cient Rome, along with the politi-1 cal rights of man; that is to say, | when contrasted with Greek and oriental views of the position ofi women. The effect of this eman | cipation is a subject of great im- j portence, and one which legislators ; will do well to consider seriously. ' The noblest types of Roman fe- I male character belong to the early times of the republic, and not to the empire, when Roman women enjoved moat freedom Certain it is. Roman society became terribly dissolute and corrupt The causes of this corruption mentioned by our author are, the levity with j which marriages were made and | unmade; or, in other words the | facilities for contracting marriage ‘ and for effecting a divorce. Seneca savs “that women dated their years not according to consulates, hnt according to the number ofj their husband*”: again, to slavery which provided for the sv«tem of concubinage: again, to the im«mr al literatures of the dav like Ovid’s work* ; and. shore all. perhaps, to the lore of, and attendance on spectacles such as gladiatorial. combats, which destroyed all thst nice eensibility without which no i

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moral power can subsist in man or in woman. The depravity of women at . these spectacles, and at banquets, ; their pride in competing with men !In the gymnasia, their fencing, in ■ passing the night in drinking orgies, affords a sickeningjMCture of degeneracy. The Christian religion was all important to revive the moral sense, and rescue both men and women from the surely political progress characteristic of ! the spirit of Roman civilization. — j ! Christianity was not a political scheme,Jand it is a question, whether the political extension of j “woman’s rights’’ is an advantage •or a disadvantage to the sex.— : ; The great political lesson taught ! by a study of Roman life is, the 1 danger of centralizing power; and ' ' the great moral lesson is, the dan- ■ ger of regarding woman’s advancement as dependent on political theory.— From il ßomnin» du llegne d' Augu»te," by Jf. Friedlander, friet trantlation by Ch. Vogel. An Apostolic Ku-Klux. Bishop Beckwith, of Georgia, recently had a congregation dis- ! pereed in a ludicrous manner, in a remote corner of his diocese: The negroes were excited, and ! they determined to attend church in mass. Tl)e house of worship was not an Episcopal Church; consequently it had no vestry ■ room in which the Bishop could ' put on his vestments. This difficulty was, however, remedied by ! some one suggesting that the ■ Bishop should robe himself be ■ hind the church, and come round ! and enter at the front door. So ihe sent a friend with his surplice ’ who placed it behii.d a tombstone, where it would be at hand, when he should require it. Long before the time designated for the ' opening services the little church I had become filled with the whites of the vicinity, and the negroes, finding that there was no room for them inside, stood packed before I the door. The Bishop, at the ap- ' pointed time entered tlie graveyard by the back gate, went u) to the tombstone and donned Iris episcopal garments. The wind was blowing rather fresh, and just as he turned the corner of the church a i flaw spread out his white robes.— A negro immediately bawled out , 1 “Kn-Klux! Ku-Klux!” They all looked around and beheld the flaunting white garments ap ! proaching ; the whole crowd took !to their heels, shrieking “Ku Klux!” In ten seconds notasin- ! gle darkey could be sccn v but the sound of their footsteps in the disi tance fell upou the ear, and for j half an hour afterward could be , 1 heard the terrible words “Ku-Klux! I , Ku-Klux!” far off in the country 1 as the affrighted crowd were makfor their homes. A San Francisco letter gives an alarming account of the ravages of small pox throughout the State. It says the streets are filled with funerals, and the grave digger has his hands and graves full. In j some cases burials arc made by night. Despite every precaution ' j the contagion remains as deadly ' as ever, and though it can scarcely 'be said to be increasing, its decline is hardly perceptible. All the pest bouses are full. In some ! cases vaccination seems to have ■ entirely lost its power, and men, ! women and children with vaccine ■ ’ scabs on their arms as large as a twenty shilling piece, have fallen victims to the epidemic. Whole* families have died, but the plague j spot of the State thus far has Wn ! the town of San Juan, in Monte-; ! rey county, some 100 miles from [ San Francisco. Out of a populai tion of one thousand, four hun- j ! dred were taken down with small! ’ pox. and of these four hundred : persons, one hundred and sixty . ' died. “Reconsructiom.” —A young man was arrested in Wilmington, |by a negro policeman, and taken ; before the Mavor. who fined him •' 850 for accidentally stepping upon j a negro woman’s dress. The J young man brought evidence to prove that he had been in his of- ( flee all day, but was refused a ( hearing. The negro policeman ( testified that he had been watching t the young man all day, on the streets and the Mayor, taking the , policeman’s evidence, fined the t gentleman as above stated. — ( Goldsboro (-V. C.) Jfasenger. , — ■ — I < John Mitchell tried to borrow money in Peru, and failed. Then he bought a glass of beer put 1 somthing white in it. and remark- 1 ed that it was the last glass of beer > he would drink. He told the i trat& In ten hours he was cold < i and stiff- ■ 1

Anecdote of tTas&fngtott.' In “Beyond the Breakers.'’ MrRobert Dale Owen tells the fallowing : ' “Washington had accMfepfed an invitation from Arnold to breakfast with him at West Point on the very day the plot was discovered but was prevented from keeping his engagement by what men call ebance—by the earnest request, namely, of an old officer near whose station they passed, to spend the night there and inspect some works in the neighborhood. Next day, while Washington, with his staff, including Lafayette, were seated at the table at this officers quarters, a dispatch was brought to the American General, wliieh he immediately opened and read, then laid it down without comment. No alteration was visible in his countenance, but he remained perfectly silent. Conversation dropped among his st ite, and after some minutes the general beckoning Lafayette to follow him, passed to an inner qapartment t irned to his young friend without uttering a syllable, placed the fatal dispatch in his hands, and ■ then, giving way to an ungovernaple burst of feeling, fell on his neck and sobbed alond. The effect produced ou the young French Marquis, accustomed to regard his General (cold and dignified in his usual manner) as devoid of the usual weaknesses of humanity, may be imagined. ‘I believe,’ said Lafayette, in relating this anecdote, that this was the only occasion, throughout that long and sometimes hopeless struggle, that Washington ever gave way even for a moment under a reverse of fortune; and perhaps I was the only human who ever witnessed in him an exhibition of feeling so foreign to hie I temperament. As it was, be recovered himself before I had perused the communication that had given rise to his emotion and when wo reterned to his staff, hot a trace remained on his countenance either of grief or despondency,” A Woman Outwitted. Mr. L. affronted his wife, who to punish him resolved to act dumb whenever he was present and so well did she maintain her resolution, that nearly a week passed away, during which not a word did she utter in his presence. She performed her household duties as usual, but speak she would uot. He tried to coax her out of her whim, but in vain. At ! last he tried the following plan to over come her reso’ution, by working on her curiosity—tho most ungovernable of female propensitiness: Returning one evening from his employment, bls j lady sat there as usual, mute. He immediately commenced a vigorous search throughout the room. The closet was examined, the bedroom, drawers, boxes, shelves —everything that could ba thought of was overhauled. His wife wa* struck with astonishment as his unaccountable behavior, and as be proceeded in his search, she be- , came nervously anxious to find out what he was looking for. What could it be ? She looked in his face to glean if possiuble, from his exprssion, the object of his Search, but no go :he was as sober as a judge. He lifted the edge of the carpet, looked under the table cover, and finally approached her chair—looked under i it, and even went so far as to j brush her dress partially aside, as if what he sought might ba there. 1 She could stand it no longer. She burst out; Bob, what are you looking for He smiled and answered; “Your tongue, and I've found it" Charles Dickens says that “the first external revelation of the dry rot in men is a tendency to lurk 1 and lounges; to be at street cori ners without intelligible reason ; to Ibe going anywhere when met; ta be about many places rather than 1 any; to do nothing tangible, but I to have an intention of preforming j a number of tangible duties tomorrow or the day after. An informal meeting was held ! in Boston, last week, to consider tbs project of holding a grand inj teruatioual exhibition in thiscoun- ; try, commencing on July 4th, 11876, in honor of the one-hun-dredth birthday of the nation.— Dr. George B. Loring, of Salem, presided, and a committee was appointed to report on the sub- r ject at some future meeting. Parties from Portland, Me., are now fishing in Lake Winnepiaiogee under very favorable circumstances. They have a house en the ice, which they move from place to place at pleasure. They make their holes through the ice directly under the house, and then fish, with a good fire near at hand and entirely protected from the cold. Os the 414 primary planets aow recognized in the solar system, only six were known prior to 1781, in which year Herschel discovered Uranus. Twenty-three— nearly one fifth of the whole—were diacovered by Assericxu sstrouamera.