Decatur Eagle, Volume 12, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1869 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. R. S. PETERSOY, Attorney a,t Xm-vcr, DECATVH, INDIANA. PROMPT attention paid to all business entrusted to his care. OFFICE—In D. Studabuker's Law Office. Vl2n33tf D. STIDABIKER, Attorney zat X*a.-W, Claim & Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice Law- in Adams and adjoining Counties;sect]re Pensions and other claims Hguinst the ttcverzHßent; buy and sell Beal Estate; examine titles an<li»ay taxes, and other business ; ptfrtainine to Real Estate Agency. He is also a No- I I tary Public, and Is prepared to draw Deeds, Mort- 1 othertustruments in writing. vlOnll. PHYSICIANS. ~ F.A. JELLEFF. W. H. SCIfEOCK. F & sc BROCK, Physicians and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, opposite the Pub i 1/c Square. vanlstf. CHARLES E. CURTISS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permancntlv located ip this r *rs bis professional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. JJJCE—In Houston’s Block. Besldpnccnt the Burt Hcnred vll nY. ts. AYDREW SORtt, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—Ou Second Street, over W. G. Spencer’s II ardwa re Store. v 8 n 42t f. A. J. ERWIN, JI. D., burgeon. Dispensary, Avfeline Block, v11u25 FORT WAYNE, IND. REAL ESTATE ACENT. JAMES R. 8080, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECATUK, INDIANA. At’RENof p«»od farming Innd.scr" , , , , era l Tow n Lvtiaud u In] of wild land for If Vou want t<» bu¥ a good i farm or wildland he will it to veu. ifvouwant ; your land sold ho will soil ft for you. No Male, no ’ C • Mrr * z> vlonfxf. DENESTRY. ' H. .11. H rfO A A ELL, Surgeon Dentist, DECATI R, INDIANA. ,' T 'l rk n "”lr wcutorf and w.nrv<UJXT_l_rrnnt<.d to gfr,. i>ati.«nctf<.ii. Call '.(I’TTi-f , ■«nnax.mu>4> »r»*rlmeiis. Law om-J J Hover, building, wer HeHor'a ' vllniutr. au CTI°NE er. CHARLES 11. FRAACE, W,, WILSHIRE, OHIO. 7°f' h *’ public that 1... i. a reg I all rubik V.ll; • "" d ’'ll att-nd HOTELS. MIE SS E HOUSE. I. J. MIESSE, Propri’tor. TAirrf St., Oppotite the Court House, I DECATUR, INDIANA. "7? ncc, ‘7> «ip> lhl« Hoii.c there 1. a Stage whichconn'lct f^ n -‘.> l^ C “- Ur '‘ nd M, '" r ue'lllc.dailv, wnmhconnect, with train, running both wav., a. ~v 2 vuu«tt. MAIN STREETIICiGE, A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, JTof .Vain Street, near the Public Square, ' Tllnlllf WAXVE ’ MAYER"? house. J. W. BULL, Proprietor, Cor nt r of Calhoun and BTiynr Str re ft ’ vHnlltf FORT WAY?Or ’ HEDEKIN HOUSE, A. J. H. MILLS, Proprietor, On Harr, between Columbia and Main Sts.. FORT WAYNE. INDIANA. of Auburn and Deeatnr Stage line. Al- I ~* bling in connection with thdloiwe. 'iiniitT. | JEWELERS. JIAIJER & GRAFFE, -DEALERS INWatches, Clocks, Jewelry, I SH-mt AND SILVKK-Pr.ATED n-AJit:. i Gold, Silver and Steel Spectacles. l - O<Ruint>ia Streef, 1 vllnulyl. FORT WAYNE, IND. NEW JEWELRY STORE! - X»T DECATUDR. JAMES LALLEY, Announces Io the citizens of Adams Couuty and vicinity, that be has purchased the JEWELRY STORE in Dscatnr, of Mr. Ezra Lyster, and will continue the business al the old stand, where he will keep constantly on hand a large and complete assortment of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Notions, He, which he Offers at prices ( ttmwtt th. UtnM Repairing of all kinds doh. on short notice. .J - * . AH work wArraat.d u represented.

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[From'lhe New York lodger.] JACKMAKBI.E. BY MARY, DALLAS. “Life is worth nothing to me if I cannot dress well!” She said it, and she meant it, from her heart. And she looked down scornfully and angrily upon her coarse dress and common I shoes. Many and many a time j the thought had been in her mind ; and now it formed itselffhto words ! which she uttered aloud ; and, as ‘ they fell upon the evening air, a hand came down upon her shoulder ; and, turning, [[she husband. “Is it really so, Bell ?” he asked, and drew her to him. A babything, though she had a woman’s years and stature —a beautiful creature, with a creamy skiu and eyes blue -as sapphires.— Not a common woman; one in whose veins blue blood ran. You could see that at a glance, though the man whose wife she was, was a common sailor. They told a romantic story about her in that sea side place.--How, on a voyage across the oi cean with her father, the sailor had won her heart. How there were afterward, secret meeting and troth-plightings; and how, in the end, the discovery of her love affair, and her parent's anger had only driven Bell Raymond to eloptft-, with her sailor lover, and marry him despite all opposition. She had been disowned and disinherited ; and now, were they to meet in the street, her own father, would have passed her ns he would a stranger; for, to his mind she ■ had disgraced herself and her family irretrievably. That Jack Marble was good, and handsome, and love was no excuse for bis daughter, in Mr. Raymond’s eyes. He was a common sailo.r, of vulgar parentage — that blotted out all merit at once and forever. Other people marveled at Bell Raymond’s choice, and blamed her too. But she was very happy. Her j’oung husband idolized her; and, at the first, money was plenty, —certain sums which Jack’s hard working father had scraped together for a rainy day, and so bequeathed to his son. were with ! drawn from the bank in which they ' bad been deposited ; and Bell had i a tasteful wardrobe—for this her father had sent her, with a cold ■ message to the effect that her[own personal property was all she ever need expect at his hands. Then soon Jack hoped to be a i mate; after that, a captain; some day. captain and owner—the grand clmax of a sea faring man’s ambition. And to Bell, the fact that her husband was a sailor, threw a romance about him which a landsman could not have had. Their life passed on to a pleasant sort of: waltz music, and’ neither dreampt of any change. .1 Y'et change came. Jack left his voting wife for a voyage, under-1 standing as she could not, how the little hoard had melted away ■ and would continue to melt like snow under a sunbeam, and the voyage was a disastrous one. ending in shipwreck. Many were . Jost, and Jack was only rescued at ! death's door with a broken limb, and a miserable experience of ' starvation and consequent ennni--1 balism. Indeed, Jack himself, came near making a meal for two maddened messmates, who after- ! wards wept like babies at the remembrance of their horrible ; thoughts. i Jack had a good constitution, , and recovered. His roses came I back, and his hair, long and lank, I when they took him from the float-' ing raft, curled close to his handsome head again. But he came back to Bell with a wooden leg and a knowledge that his sailor life was over, and that he could never now aspire' to the title of mate, and master,’and owner. Bell loved him all the more, and pitied him. and cherished him: and, had they been rich, their life might have glided on to the old waltz music—a little ndder, but no less sweet. But, alas, they were not rich; but growing very poor. So, a* the money grew lees, the comforts fell away. They left the pretty rooms to which he had taken her, for a very humble place; and poor Jack, salt to the very soul end unfit for any landsman’s work as a parlor cage, humbled himeelf and said nothing of that ' aching place where his dreams of , the sea and of advancement lay . covered up. and sunk into the vaI cant place left by an old boatman who hail plied hit trade at the whtrf and along the shore of the 4 - -a ■■ * « •- •.

. . . - < ■»-, - .i, y town where Jack bad been born and had lived all his life. He had strong arms yet, and was a wonderful oarsman, and they •di<l not starve. But their life was the pinching life of the poor, and it came soori to the coarsest dress; and Bell, who had been used tp dainty food and elegant attire, suffered more than the sailor who knew what hardtack was and was used to roughing it. He never knew how bitterly she repined until coming upon her in her day-dream be heard those • words: j . “Life is worth nothing to me if j 1 must go shabby.” She wept on his 'shoulder, as he bgld her to him, and sobbed ouf at heart. “It was more than she could bear. It was terrible. Their housemaid at home had better clothes. It was horrible to look out of the window and hear the sailor's wives quarreling with their h isl a ids, or scolding their children. or beating down the fish mongers, the blast from whose tin horns filled the street from dawn until sunset. Was such a life worth anything; and she could not rid herself of it for an hour, for her clothes were not fit to wear where people were well dressed, and she would be seen by her eid i friend now.” So she sobbed. And Jack’s hatid smoothed her fair hair, and his lips touched her cheek; and by and by, he whispered : “I wish I had never mot you, lass ; or I wish I’d drifted by without a signal; for, dye sec, this is all my fault; and you'd be safe in harbor now, if you hadn't sailed out of it with me. Only I couldn't foresee the future, lass; and I thought to make you a captain's wife by and by, an owner’s* lady. It wonld hare been better for you lif Jim and Bill had made a mar.lj of me I've come to thiuk. Rid of j me, your father would take youj home; well—it may happen yet.” And then Bell put her arms a bout his neck and whispered, “that •he did not regret her love for him.” . But struggle as slio might with it, the words that bad been said of her folly would recur to Tier mind and she knew that she did regret something. It was hard to help it Jack knew it also. He eat his humble supper sadly, and went out : again. His day’s work was over i but he wanted to be alone. | He limped down tlie shore where | it was lonely and washed the highi est by the sobbing waves,Rand stood looking out. “I mean to makejiera captain's lady,” he muttered. “I meant to show the old hunks ashore that she should have everything he could have given her.” There’s a house with a sea-view and a lookout top. that I meant to buy; and for rigging, why no lady in the land shouhl have been sprue er. No woudef she frets; soiling her white hands with dirty work, and going shabby, too. What right had I to turn pirate, and tow ; her away from her moorings, and then make shipwreck of her. Yes ■it would be better to lie down below, amongst the wrecks, a great i deal better. She must think me an enemv: I’re only done her harm ; I who love her better than my life.” Then he looked sea-ward again. A terrible storm was coming;l his sailor eves saw that without ai doubt. He felt it in the air; heard it in all sound*; and the leaden foaming of the distant waves, the black meeting of sky, made it manifest to any oue. A ship had been wrecked the day before, and her wreck was lvj ing beyond the harhor-bar. Jack i fell to thinking of her. “She’ll go to pieces, to-night,” he Said. “The storm will make an end of her,” and he thought of the ship as of ft sensuate human being whese troubles were nearly ended, with a kind of envy, toq.— If he should live until Bell hated him could he bear it ? His earthly hopes bail gone. The ideal ship' he named the Bell Marble would never be his, and he must limp painfully through the world to his life's end now. But he could bear that if he could only keep Bell's heart. Could he without money ? He put bis curly head down on his bronzed hands, and prayed a strange, innocent, simple prayer. “Please to give me money enough to keep my wife’s lore, and forgive me if I'm wrong, for I’m only a poor sailor adrift without a' compass, and not a chaplain, aud ' don’t know.’’ # Perhaps his theology win at fault: hut he had heard that he mint pray ft>n what he needed, aad he tried the advice practically. After that he stood up * looking! along the beach ?aw further ou an l

W ■■ IWW——MB—JIM M UWLMWC 5 excited group, and went to join them. Sailors, boatmen, a spruce captain in his ashore clothes, an idle woman or two, some children and a gentleman who had nothing seafaring in his appearance, and wore his arm in a sling. This gentleman was talking. “A thousand dollars for the man who brings them. Is no man anxious to make money so easily.— Two hours’ work. I’d do it myself if I had not sprained my arm. I saw the wreck from the lighthouse. There will be no difficulty and she will go to pieces before morning. A thousand dollars.— There’s an offer for these men. Captain Taylor.” “Only mon are fond of their lives,” said the captain. “Look at the sea and then sky. I should like to help you to your casket, but, I can't advise the men to go. It would be m'.nd.T.” “Pshaw, the fellows at our college would have done it for fun.” “A sailor would not,” said the captain. “If the ship lives through' to-night there is a chance.” “But can she ?” cried the strang er. “I think not.” said the captain. “Good heavens, think of it,” cried the man, “the fruits of five ; years' labor in Europe are in that casket. I've toiled with brain and body. I’m ruined if it is lost.” “There are men who would do it for a trifle. You hear my offer, all of you. Bring me that casket before sunset, and I'll give you more. Then a brawn hand touched his arm, and a voice husky with emotion said: “I’m your man, on one condition.” The gentleman turned. “O/ie who is not a coward,” he said. ,1 “There ain't a coward here,” I said Jack. “I know the danger as I well as they, but promise me one thing. Promise it before these people, so that you must hold to it. The money you will give me. if I got ashore again ?” “The money I have promised . will be paid at once,” said the gentleman. “Hear me out. please,” said Jack. “That money, if I die out there, you'll qiav to my wife.— Swear that, and I'm ready.” “Jack,” cried the captain, “it is sheer madness.” Jack smiled; a strange, heartbroken smile enough. “I’ll try it,” he said, “on that 1 condition.” The gentleman had torn a leaf from his pocket book, and wrote it hastily : “This secures a thousand dol lars to vour wife,” be said. “Your name ?” “Jack Marble.” said the sailor. “To Jack Marble's wife,” said the man. “No danger, though, as I said before, our college T>nvs would have made sport of it. Hurry, my man hurry. Jack glanced over the papers. “Keep it for me. Captain Tavlor.” he said. “I'm ready now, sir.” Then he went to unmoor his boat and make her ready. Afterwards, as he dropped the oars in the water, and put from shore, he looked back, and wid in [ a whisper, blown front his lips as’ it passed them by the furious gale:! Good by. Bell. Good-bv, darliner. Good-by.” Thor watched him out of sight. The little bark, a mere eggshell for the storm to play with such a night. “lle[ll never come back no more nffasler,” said a woman who stood near the gentleman, and the faces of all about them said the same. An hour thence a tempest had burst over them, such as only one old woman in all that seaside place could remember having known before. And then (it was fifty years or more since the day) twenty dead bodies had been cast upon the beach the next morning: bodies of fishermen caught outside the har-bor-bar by the storm. There were sad hearts in town —a *town filled with sea going folks, nearly even’ household of which had some dear one afloat upon the ocean. But every woman there had a thought to spare | from their own sorrow* for poor I Jack Marble, aud the young wife j who wept for him. She bad been proud, and held I herself above them; but they for- i ; got that when they saw her cast j down upon the sand in the gray | dawn, all her golden hair about j her face. She had heard the story I of her husband's compact with the j •tranger, and knew why he had j been ao ready to barter hia life ! for gold. i Knew as none there knew that 1

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..... ______ he had no hope of ever coming back. Touch that monej’—not never, though she starved. Js>r would she go back to her luSuri- j ous home, where doubtless she would hare been welcomed.— i There she should die, and they i should bury her in the sea, to float ; away and .find Jack. the' world was nothing without him ; i nothing, she knew that. Life was . worthless without Jack. And no one gave her anj’ hope. No one dared. The wreck had vanished. Bits 1 of her came in with the tide. Soon it might bring that which had been Jack, to her feet. All day she i Watched for it with maddening eyes, with a horrible, soul-render-ing hope and fear mingling in her sonl. But the sea brought only in the dusk a little boat. One old man in red flannel, with a tarpaulin upon his head, at the oars. A stranger who came up to the men on the beach; and said something to them—something that set them al! to shouting, screaming, cheering, uttering Jack Marble's name with odd grasps and sobs; and before they told her. Bell knew that her husband had been saved. He lay the fisherman's hut, bus fetted by wave and wind to an infant’s weakness, and she bent over him her lips to his, aud words were spoken then that bound hearts more firmly than they eVer had been bound before. Jack had not brought the casket and would receive nothing from the mau who had sent him forth, Bell urged him with tears in her eyes to this. c “I will not hare it Jack,” she said. “It is as though I could have taken money for your life.” So with Jack's health the two returned to their old humble life. They were never happier. Jack often said, than in these days,, though afterwards wealth came to them ; for Bell’s father relented at his death, and made her his heiress. And Jack’s great hope of beeping owner of a splendid steamer came to pass. Although he made but one or two voyages in her after all, and those with Beil Marble. I And people who knew how rich | they were wondered sometimes i that Captain Marble's wife would I not be finer. Always neat, she , never decked herself as many woI men did. She knew why, and so did : Jack, who tried to move her often | Imt no one else, unless my reader ' guesses how those words which I she had spoken had haunted her on the night through which she wept for Jack Marble as for one dead. Temperance Girls. Down at Downy. lowa—a live little town near Davenport—the other day, the girls organized a new method of getting rid of whiskey. It seems that their beaus have been so naughty as to use thjp fluid once in a while and the girls aside from their strict tem perancc proclivities, didn't like the smell of the • vile stuff on their lovers' breaths, an bverj’ sensible are they to think so. Finding that the dealer in the tangle leg had sent for=> n new supply, they waited till it arrived, when they went to bim and asked what he I wonld take for the whole lot. He ■ told his price, they produced the amount forthwith, and then had a high old time knocking in the casks and turning the abominable contents upon the ground. If those beaus don't take the hint from that and quit drinking whisky we are in favor of sending a nice lot of desent youngmen to Downey to marry those glorious girls. Such women should never be the wives of drunkards and the mothers of disgraced children.— Des Moines Register. Ilcftv do you like the looks of the varmint?” asked an Arkansan of a Down-Easter who was gazing with distended eyes at an alligator with open jaws on bank of the Missisippi. “Wa’al,” responded the Yankee, recovering his mental equipoise, “he ain't what ye w’d call a han-some critter, but he’s a deal of openness when he smiles.’ i r — * “Vat's de matter, vat's de mati ter ?” exclaimed an old Dutchman l as he tucked up his apron and j ran out of his shop to know the I me&Ling of a crowd in his neighi borhood, “vat’s de matter ?” “There is a man killed," answer- . ed a by stander. , “Oh, ish dat all! —shust a man kilt! Humph! I tout it vas a fight.' A maiden lady, alluding to her ! youthful accomplishments, said 1 I that at six minutes of age she went alone. A malicious • individual ' present remarked; “Yes, and you I have been going alone ever sinqe.’'

Miscellaneous Items. -To remove stains from the character—get rich, -Butter break yonr word than do worse by keeping it. -The late lamented king of Siam left two thousand widows. -In prosperity prepare for change, in adversity hope for one. -Thank God for what you have, and trust Him for what you want. -The plesure of doing good is the only one that never wears ont. -What ever j’on dislike in ah- | other, take care to correct yourj #e 'f- ' -The paper that has the largest , circulation—the paper of tobacco. -Practice flows from principle ;' ' for as man thinks so will he act. 1 -Agreeable punishment for a ; hungry man—drivings ‘steaks' into : bim.--Keep yourself from opportunities, and God will keep you from sins. I -Fourty guests at a party in Brooklyn were poisoned by coli ored confectionary. ) -Legal proceedings have been j instituted in California to recover the value of an egg. -Go slowley to the entertainments of your friends, but quickj ly to their misfortunes. ;; q-Why is a lawyer like a saw U i Because which ever way he moves, i “down must come the dust.” : -Instead of complaining that roses have thorns, we should he thankful that thorns are surtnouTitI ed by roses. ! -When a fish is wounded all the other fishes fall upon and devour . him. There is much of human i nature in fishes. -The London Times assorts that ' every industrious working-man in | England carries a pauper on his ; | back.’ • I What did the King say when in- , formed of the confusion of lan- ' gusges at the Tower of Babel ?—\ 1 “Nix-ver sbtay.” ■ . The man who failed to call for a table according to promise, was ' mildly denounced ' ■ person. . ' -Long-Kee, a California Chinn- ' j man, has gone into bankruptcy. He did too much business with Lis t relative—wbis-kee. I -Dean Swift said : “It is remark- . ; able with what fortitude and rer | aignation we can bear the misfor- ;, tunes of other people. •j -“Wine is a mocker,” wears - told. No doubt it is, in most i cases, if the drinker thinks he is i i consuming the pure juice of the j i grape. * i -One of the manuscripts brought i ; from Abyssinia is illustrated with ■ a picture of the Isracl’tcs crossing ’ the Red Sea, armed with muskets. , I -Secret societies are of ancient ,! origin. Cain married the dauhg- .: ter of a Nod fellow, and onr first , ; parents are supposed to have had ( i a Hodge” in the wilderness. | -The proud should remember i that by dieing they leave no vac- ‘ ancy in the world, no more than -1 they can leave a hole in a bucket of *. water by pulling their finger out 1 , of it. -It is a common saving that the ’ i lower order of animals have not i the vices of man ; yet it is certain \ that some of the insects are backbiters. and all quadrupeds are tale- “ bearers. ,! -Josh Billings says: “When a ’ young man ain't good for any- , thing else, I like tew see him cflrrv : a gold headed cape. If he can't . bny a cane; let him part his hair , in the middle.”,. j I -A woman can keep a seert, for s a San Francisco paper montions a t i lady in that city who surprised her i! husband with a present on which .! she had been at work over two ’' years. -If there is a man who can eat his bread in peace with God and man, it is he who has brought that jbread out of the earth. It is cankered, by no fraud, it is wet by no ' ters, and it is stained by no blood. I -The plural of Mussulman is i Mussuimans, not man, as it is not . English word man that is used. A correspondent of a New York paper, evidently ignorant of this fact, once wrote: The Turkish Sultan has ju«t sent one of his sons a little mnssulboy of nine years, to be educated in Paris. -An Ohio editor is getting particular about what he eats. Hsar him : “The woman iHjo mads the i butter which we bought last week, is respectfully requested to exercise more judgment in proportioning the ingredients. The last batch had too much hair in for butter, and uot quite enough for a waterfall. There is no sense in making yourself bald-headed if butter is thirty-fivs cents a pound. -Ererv day is a little lifb, snd our whole life is but a day repeated -Death is as near to the yoaag as to the old; here is all the dif- ' ference; death stands behind the young man’s back, before ths old ‘ man's face . • • •