Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 25 June 1869 — Page 1

THE DECATUR EAGLE. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. j. hill, ■DITCH, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE —On the west, side of Second Street, ov«r Donrin & Brother's Drug Stere. Terms of Subscription. ®»e copy, one year, in advance. . $1 50 If paid within the year 2 00 .» If paid after the year has expired, 2 50 Papers delivered by carrier 25 cents additional will be charged. No paper will bC discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at the option of the publisher. t • J Rates of Advertising. r “ * ’ I O , H C H S’ O = < e * =• J s ft © ft Q “1 ft i -s f g i i - C"SS = K : , S § : - 5 gs i : Hatfinch.. so 1 00 1 50 -2 50 350 5.50 300 One “ 75 135 200 360 450 60011000 Two “ 125 200 .350 500 700 10 0017 00 Three •* 175 275 4 50 6 50 900 14 00,22 00 Poor “ 225 350 5.50 300 11 00 18 00'27(0) Qtmr.UoL.. 275 425 625 9 50,1.3 00 21 00 32 00 H;df *t 425 6«0 91514 65 18 65,30 00 48 00 3-4 “ 575 765120020 80 24 30.39 00;64 00 One “ 700100015 00 25 00130 Op!48 00'80 oy Special Notices.—Fifteen per cent, additional’to the above rates. Bvsinesb Notices.—Twenty-five per cent, additional to the above rates. Legal Advertising. One square [the space of ten lines brevier] one insertion, $2 00 Eeach subsequent insertion. 50 No advertisement will be considered less than one square; over one square will be counted and charged as two; over " two as three, &c. Local notices fifteen cents a line for each insertion. Religious find Educational notices or advertisements may be contracted forat lower rates, by application at the office. Deaths and Marriages published as news —free. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. District Officers. Hon. Rob'd Lowry -Circuit Judge. J. 8. Daily, Circuit Prosecutor. Hou. D. Studabaker Coin. Pleas Judge. B. F. Ibach.. .Com. Pleas Prosecutor. County Officers. Seymour Worden Auditor. A. J. Hill.. Clerk. Jesse Niblijk Treasurer. M. V. B. Simcoke. Recorder. James Stoops, Jr . .Sheriff. H. C. Peterson. Surveyor. Sam. C. Bollman School Examiner. Josiah Crawford, ] Jacob Karfi’, I ..Commissioner. George Luckey, J Town Officers. Harrison B. Knoff Clerk. Tabasco Burt Treasurer a Marshall. Herman Bosse, 1 - David King, >.. Trustees. David Showers, J

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The Decatur Eagle

Vol. 13.

ATTORNEYS. JAMES R. 8080, Attorney ext Law, * DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and ,Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor's Office. vlOnGtf R. S. PETERSO A, Attorney a,t Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. I)ROMPT attention paid to all busi- . ncss entrusted to his care. Is a Notary Public, and draws Deeds, Mortgages, and other instruments in writing. OFFICE—InD. Studabaker’s Law Office. vl2n33tf DAAIEL D. HELLER, Attorney a.t Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywheie in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder's Office. vlons2tf PHYSICIANS. F.A. JELLEFF. W. 11. SCHROCK. JELLEFF & SCHROCK, Physicians and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On .Second Street, opposite the Public Square. vßnlstf. CHARLES L. CURTISS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permanently located in this place, offers his professional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE,—At the Burt House. 11-3(5 AxAD RE W SORG , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, over W. G.Spencer & Brother's Hardware Store. vßn42tf. A? J. ER WI A, M. IL, Surgeon. Dispensary, Avcline Block, vl 1n25 * FORT WAYNE, IND. S. < . A YERS, M. D., RESIDENT Sar and Eyo Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main & Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. Artificial Eyes inserted. 12-41 DENTISTRY. ii. m. McConnell, Surgeon Dentist, DECATUR, INDIANA. gyrrJtZSs All work neatly executed and warranted to give satisfaction. Cull and’examine specimens. OFFlCE—Opposite the Public Square, over Heller's Law office. . v11n49 REAL ESTATE ACENTS. BOBO, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT,. DECATUR, INDIANA. rpHREE THOUSAND ACRES of good I farming land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. If yon want to buy a good farm he will sell it to you. If you want your laud sold he will sell it for you. No sale, no charge. vlOnG

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AUCTI ONEER. CH A R LFS M. FRA A €F, Auctioneer, DECATUR, INDIANA. I NNOUNCES to the public that he is . \ a regularly Licensed Auctioneer, nnd will attend ull Public Sales when requested. OFFICE—In J. R. Bobo's Law office. HOTELS. MIESSE HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. Third St., Opposite the Court House, DECATUR, INDIANA. rj'MlE traveling public will find this 1 House a desiraLdc stopping place. Good sample rooms. vlln’J. MAIN STREEf EXCHANGE, A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, West .Wain Street, near the Public Square, FORT WANYE, INDIANA, vllnll If MAYER~IIOUSE. J . W. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calhoun and B'uyne Streets, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. ▼l2n7 ts HEDEKIY HOUSE, A, J. IL MILLS, Proprietor, On Durr, between Columbia and Main Sts., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. (1 ENERAL Stage Office. Good staI bleingiu connection with this house. v!2n25 ts

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DORWIN & BRO., -DEALERS INOrugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Toilet and Fancy Articles, Sponges, Brushes, Perfumery. Coal Oil, Lamps. Patent dtledicenes, 6fc. DECA TUR, INDIA NA Physician's Prescriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered with care and dispatch. Farmers and I’hy T sicians from the country will find our spek of Medicines complete, warranted genuine,and of the bestquality. ▼91135 ts. O. D. HIRD, Manufacturer of SASH, DOORS & BUNDS, North side Canal, west of Gas Works, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. o*o ustom work promptly executed. v11n25 DAVIS & BRO., BOOK BIDDERS, -A-ZVID Blank Book and Paper Box Manufacturers, No. 25 Calhoun s t:; Opposite Court House FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. ——:o: Magazines. Music, and old Books, etc., bound and re-bound in any style desired. ; attention paid to county work. T. ADELSPERGER, Agent, viOnl. Decatur, Ind. MATER & GRAFFE, -DEALERS INWatches, Clocks, Jewelry, SILT Ell AX!) SILfEK.ri.ATED WAKE. Gold, Silver and Steel Spectacles, Columbia Street, vllnolyl. FORT WAYNE, IND.

NEW WAGON & CARRIAGE SHOP, IN DECATUR, IADIAXA. JOHN KINC, . Anxovxces to the citizen** ot Adams county and vicinity, that he is now prepared to put up WAGONS, BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, SLEIGHS, SLEDS ' and anything in my line. None but the best seasoned stock used in their construction. and all work warranted ns represented. Giveroe a call. £htf“’All kinds of repairing done to order on short notice. SHOP—On corner of Front and Monroe streets, east of the Burt Eo'isr. vlln2yl, JOHN KING FORT WAYAE HOGP SKIRT FACTORY, Nu. 91 Columbia St. Hoop Skirts in New-Styles, Made of the very nest material, cheaper than ever, and will be Repaired Free of’ Charge when broken. CORNETS, an immense Stock, Cheaper and Better than the Cheapest. Every Corset Warranted all Whalebone. DRESS TRIMMINGS and BUTTONS, an entire new stock, well selected and rich. LADIES' UNDERCLOTH, a complete stock. PARASOLS, a full line. NOTIONS, WORSTEDS, and other articlestoo numerous to mention. Will be sold cheap, at the HOOP SKIRT FACTORY* JOSEPH BLACK, vl2a7yl. Proprietor. Notice to School Teachers! ——:o: Office School Ex vnixer. | Adams Cocxtv, Ixn. j Exaraiuantions of Teachers for License will be held at the office of the Schoo! Examiner on the following days, to-wit: Tbe last Friday of each of the following months: January, February, March, April. May. June, July. August and September. And upon the second and last fkidays es the foliowing named months: October, November and December. . Applicants will be required to present certificates of good moral character. — ' This rule will b< strietly enforeed. Under no circumstances will an examinalioa be given on any day other than here advertisedTeachers will he required to pass an examination in the sight branches reanired by law. RAM. C. BOLLMAN. July 12, '67-lf. S. Ex. A. C.

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Unconscious Influence-

Two kinds of influence arc exerted by man. That which is active and ; voluntary, by which lie endeavors I to.sway others by argument or persuasion, and that which is ; unconsciously flowing out I from him. The importance of the ’ former is everywhere acknowl- . edo-ed, but the latter is seldom appreciated. It falls on the world j unobserved. History is silent on '■ its effects; public laws make no ■ account of its mischiefs or its ben- ' efits: the discipline of families societies or schools, passes it by ' unnoticed, and no human power' can trace it with sufficient accuracy I to make its authors responsible, i Because it is thus overlooked, it' is not therefore insignificant Noth- i ing is more silent than the soft i and genial light flowing spontane- I ously in all directions, and filling I the world unconsciously with its I beams. It would scarcely wake an infant, yet&is perpetually recreating the world, and rescuing it from darkness. Its absence would i destroy life, and render the globe itself a dreary, useless ball. Is lijflit than a tame and feeble instument, because so noiseless and ! so gentle, and are the angry earth- ■ quake and the noisy thunder sup- J erior forces in the natural world The greatest powers are those which lie behind the commotions of nature, and the outward efforts that we make to sway others secure but a fraction of the good or evil that is done in the world. Words we control at will, but looks, tone, motion, and conduct, all of which spring from the internal character,.compose a great reservoir of influence, which is ever affecting mankind. The child begins his life cxperiance by simple imitation. He looks and listens. ! and soon reproduces the petulance j 'i or*the gentleness the passion or the tranquility, that he witnesses in those around him. lie delights .to copy all that he sees and hears, and is every moment-receiving irn- i pressions which through life can not be removed. As he grows ! , older the desire for approbation and respect for others ■ takes the place of imitation. Fash ion, so powerful as often to become a tyrant, owes all her strength to this unconscious influence. Enthusiasm of any .kind kindles and catches from one to another, till sometimes the whole nation blazes in its heat. Fear and si.perstion. party spirit and speculation, will j often spread through a circle or a ' community by the magnestism of unconscious influence, without any direct effort to produce them.— The same is true of all the active feelings and impulses of ftmriviml. Even when the direct intlnchcc manscemsto be greatest, itisdiKin a large degree to the insensible in\ fluence which accompanies it. The' heart, filled with its subject, gives expression to the features, tone to the voice and light to the eye—all involuntarily, but powerfully aid ing the language and directing et\] forts. It is thus that hypocrisy so often fails to produce the effect that might be expected. Words tflay be used where the heart is absent, but the effect of earnestness is hard to contcrfeit. Every one, however humble, is thus daily and hourly altering and molding the character of all w ith whom he mingles, and exerting a power that will reproduce itself through countless generations. The trust method of doing good is thus first of all to be pood:, thay the character will necessarily communicate good to others. An influence will always accompany true and right principles, while, no effort without them can be successful. The sun ’ could never make the were it not itself luminous. A full surrender of the heart to duty and to God will make us partakers of His nature, and we shall ys uatundlvromuuicate good to those | as we receive it from Him. OfatrurlionN. David Rittenhouse, the celebrated astronomer, who was skillful in . measuring thb size, and determin- ’ ing the position of the heavenly » bodies, found that a thread of ordinary sewing silk drawn across the glass of his telescope would completely conceal a star. The . finest fibre of silk would hide a » distantstar for several seconds. So the smallest speck of prejudice ( or the finest thread of worldly _ policy or ambition drawn across the lens of the mind obstruct the -1 light of divinest truth and hides r j half the glory of the heavens. Tc I see the spiritual world we must keep the poasions. cares and loves lof the earth from the lens of the {•soul as the astronomer wipes th< steam and dust from his glass.

Brains Vs. Uabor. The following beautiful passage is by the Rev. J. 4T~C'orning. It I will be appreciated by all ■‘‘brain i workers”: I While I sit at my study table with my pen in hand, the fingers movi ing with tardy pace at the beckon !of brain, I hear right below my ' window, in the adjacent field, the i monotonous ring of a laborer’s I hoe upon the corn hills. While he hoes, he whistles hour by hour ! till the clock strikes twelve, and ; then with ravenous appetite repairs ,to his bountiful yet simple meal, i only to resume his task again and • pursue it to the setting of the sun. !As I stood at the window watch- ; ing his toil, and turned again to ( my pen and paper, I asked myself ■ how it happened that the man with [the hoe will labor his eight or ten ! hours a day with less fatigue than : the man with his pen will toil his | three or four. Hugh ilillier was . a great worker with the shovel and i pick—would have made a good a hand in a slate quarry, in grad ing a railroad, or digging n canal. I But one night, as you know, lie shot himself in a tit of nervous fever. What was tiie difference • between the great geologist and I the man with the hoe whist.ing i under my window ? Simply this , the former was a w’orker of brain, and the latter a worker of muscle. . Let this man with the hoe lay i down his husbandry fur a little while and set himself to studying i pne of the stalks of corn, or the chemistry of one of those hills of I soil, and very likely he would soon I learn what it is to lose one’s ap- ■ petite, and hear the clock strike ; nearly all the night hours in fever- : ish wakefulness. Ami thus ive get at a great organic law of our ■ being to-wit: that brain ivork suhi tracts vitality from the fountain, i while muscle ivork only makes ‘ draughts upon one of the ramify- ' ing streams of life. It is’ estimated by scientific observers that a man wall use up as much vital -fbree in working his brains two hours us ho will in working ; his muscles eight.”

Faces — . i: There are faces which we meet • in the street into which ffas puss-1 ' oil a subtler mystery than the mind . can think on. They belong to that: higher type of face of which the ■ standard is thought. They are of j the order of face that provoke ! speculation whilst it repels it. We, would give something to lyiiow. whence cOmes that subtle thing , which has so marvelously incor- ; porated itself with the physical lineament It may be born of trouble —a trouble that has fasten- j ed upon the face, and teased it ■ into beauty as the winds make beautiful the snqw-flake. Trouble Ikfirc surely has been, for there is no without sadness, and sad ikvstdry. of those faces nibtrf h^ve bhrni wrought by the vexing tff yearns. There arc faces that haunt the memory—whore met, when encountered, may not be recalled. They stamkout from the darkness of night* ami fade and faint along the drehms of sleep. You have seen them in the street, but did not pause to consider them/ at the time. There was nothins , indeed, about them to startle you\. into attention. It is only when 1 they reapcar that they surpisc, or : alarm, or horrify; nay,such faces ' 1 that seem to give their spirit to the mind of the passer by have been known to drive him mad. | There arefaees to be encountered,i J all dispassionate, save in the eyes • I which burn with the passions that f deny their intelligence to the face. When the wearers of such fleshly i masks die. their souls escape j i through their eyes. 1 They would 1 find them the only outlet. With | other men the spirit might depart | as the perfume departs from the I 1 flower. The soul seems to chafe j at being pent up within swell narrow limits as the eyes. You can ! i see it dilating and contracting up i jon the keen retina, as one who. I approaches a widow to find egress 1 ; ami retires, and icturns again and . again. These are facts which all j men meet, which all men know,: Which all men lov.c. When they; reappear unto the eye. they do 1101 1 haunt—they soothe. They are > .ministering faces; laces which] scent crowned with a halo of light of whose subtle irradiation the the heart is alone sensible. In such faces are to be found no per-' sonitications of the darker emo- j 1 tion* oflife. The lips and the eyes are genial with a tenderness . i to which wisdom has imparted the 1 1 exquisite refinement of a faint sad- ' ness.- > • A grindstone which was sent to I * England in a bale of cotton has > ; come back to the ohl plantation ; in a cask

What a Gentleman Doesand Does Not. lie is above a mean thing. He cannot stoop to a mean fraud. He invade? no secret in the keeping of another. He betrays no secret confided to his own keeping. He never struts in borrowetljflumage. I lie never takes selfish advantage of our mistakes. He uses no. ignoble weapons in controversy, j He never stabs in the dark. .He is ' ashamed of inuemloes. He is not [ one thing to a man's face And an- i other behind bis back. If by ac- ' I cidcut he' comes in possesion oft bis neigbor's counsels, he passes : upon them an act of instant oblivion. ITe bears scaled packages i jeithout tampering with the wax. i Papers not meant for his eye, ■ yvhe'ther they flutter at his window ■ or he open before him unguarded exposure, are sacred to him. lie invades no privacy of others however the sentry sleeps. Bolts and bars, locks and keys, hedges and pickets, bonds and securities, notice to tresspassers, are none of them for him. He may be trusted himself out of sight—near the thinnest partition—anywhere. He buys no olllces, he sells none, he intrigues for none. He would rather fail of his rights than nin them through dishonor. He will eat honest bread. He tramples on no sensitive feeling, lie insults no man. If he has rebuke for another. he is straight forward, open, manly, lie cannot descend to scurrility. In short yvliatever he judges honorable he practices toward every man. Go’s Barf Traits. The Reese River /’cvcjV/c says : It appears to us nearly impossible to feel any sympathy for the Indian—that is, for the “buck,” the male of those lazy, sneaking, cowardly, cruel bipeds. In disposition they are akin to pie coyote, with the addition of worse traits. Is anything more shocking to manhood than cruelty to women and children ? We saw this, morning a party of Indians, consisting of two men. two women, and three children—little girls of six or | eight years—coming up the grade. The men sauntered in advance, with their blankets drawn around ■ them and feathers in their hats, i looking like a couple of monkeys. ■ Tnc women and children wore bent ! double by their heavy loads of ' wood ; indeed the little girls wore , so tired with carrving what would . be an armful fora man, that they : could scarcely walk, and as they ; stopperl ’to rest they were urged forward by tbe male beasts, who laughed and jeered at their dis- ( tress. It were well that such men ■ should become extinct.

Building Character* There is a structure which every body is building, young, and old, each one for himself. It is called f'h'ir.'cti'r, and in it every act of life is a stone. If day by day we be careful to build our lives with pure, noble, upright deeds, at the end will stand a fair temple, hon ored by God and man. But as one leak will sink a ship, and one flaw break a chain, so one mean, dishonorable, imtru.hful act or word wilrfbr ever leave its impress 1 and work its influence on our characters. Then, let the several deeds unite to form a day. and one by one the days grow into noble years, as they slowly pass, will raise at last a lieautiful edifice, enduring for ever to our praise.—Ayrictdiitrixt. X?" Husbands and Wives. — Are you living with each other, husbands and wives, in the truest spirit of love, and iu the largest sense of wedding? Are you \pne, or are you foreyer ami forevermore two? Are you living to help'each other or to annoy each'other? Are yen living in the true excusatory spirit which always acoinpanies real conjugal love ? And do you find yonrself moved to patience, to gentleness, and to forbearance ? Obscexe Stories.—Even profanity in its worse garb docs not more surely tend to moral decrep-1 itude and death, than the habit so very prevalent among young men of indulging in obscene remarks and stories which are pointed only I with filth. This evil is a great and j growing one. and is the more to ; be deprecated* because it has the countenance of—or at least is tolerated by—those who are esteem . ed good men and Christians. .X pure blood Yankee likes two : things clear through—a capacious and lofty shirt Collar. and a big I iack-knifc. He doesn’t mind if ! his tiowsers are a little short, but , there must be no discount on shirt collaiuand knife. j -2-

PURE LOVE AND SACRED MAKRIAGf. Dr. Wary Walker in the Rostrum—A 0,11,er Ofllce-Hrtiitin< Trouble* promised. The lecture of Dr. Mars Walker, at Union Liague Hall, in Washington, on Monday'evening, On “Pure Love amt Sacred Marriage,” was attended bj- a very I respectable audience, notwithstanding the heat and threatening aspect of the weather. The fair Doctor exhibited one of the failings of her sex in stopping to take one mork look nt the glass, and it was not till 81 o’clock that she made her appearance, escorted to the platform by Mrs. Or. Lockwood. She was dressed in fashionably cut unmentionables of neat checked green silk, with black lace stripes down the side, short | dress of the same material, renchI ing just below the knees, also : handsomely trimmed, and a heavy ; flounce. A white laee collar and i embroidered bosom, and neat flt- ! ting number 3 gaiters, with a war . prisoner's badge completing the I cosLqme. The speaker opened i with a definition of what love, j “pure love,” should be to make it ; lasting, and claimed that it should be cherished and guarded as other holy emotions. In regard to j men’s boasted love and protection ; for women, the fair doctor said : “Some men love women as children love dolls, and treat them just as dolls are treated. They dress them in all the finery they are capable of doing—fit them to exhibit until their clothes become old, and the beautiful color of the : face is gone, and the eyes contracted anti dim, and then like dolls . they are laid aside for neighbors’ dolls, or for more beautiful tlolls in in the wiqdbws of fa sc society’s ' market.” said there must be ! stability in the affections or there could be no true love. Th : s position she elaborated at some length. Mutual confidence was also urged as an absolute necessity. I Jealousy so often charged upon 1 mai-ried ladies, she claimed tvas 1 often a sorrowing over infidelity, which they could not prove by man’s law, but of which they felt too well assured. She denounced the law which compelled man and wife to live together after hatred has been engendered which led to hatred of the now born child. She claimed that Sf. Paul meant no such submission on the part of the wives as was claimed at the present day. Alan’s laws were severely criticised, and condemned. A sketch'of courtship and marriages in other times and countries, by , society in different stages, from savage to enlightened was given, and the conclusion drawn that there were greater wrongs perpetrated in the enlightened than in ' the lower grades. " - We hear the fair doctor purposes shortly to give a lecture in which she will recite her experience in pursuit of official position. When this comes let the .officials stand from under. — Wasdiingf j-i llepiibh'cfiii. - . . —— .

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■ Influence of the Newspaper. , T~ A school teacher, who has been engaged a long time in his profession, and witnessed the influence of the newspaper on the miiiSs of a family of'children. writes as follows : have found it to boa ■ universal fact, without exception, that those scholars of both sexes, ; and of all ages, who have had ac--1 cess to newspapers at home, when compared with those who have not, are better readers, excelling in , punctuation and consequently read « more vmderstandingly. They are better spellers, and define words with ease and accuracy. They obtain a practical knowledge of geography in almost half the time iit requires others. They are better grammarians; for having become so familiar with every variety in the newspaper, they more readily comprehend the meaning of the text, and consequently analyze its construction with iuoro accuracy.” The Spider's Counsel. One day, on removing some ’ books at Sir William Jones's ehami bora, a large spider dropped upon the floor, upon which Sir William with some warmth, called to his friend Day, ‘ Kill that spider! kill that spider!” “No,” said Day, coolly, "I will not kill that spider, Jones. Ido not know‘hat I have a right to.kill that spider. Suppose . when you are going in your coach to Westminster Hall, a superior being who may, perhaps, have as I much power over you as you lyive over this insect, should say to his companion, “Kill that lawyer! j kill that lawyer!' how would you like that, Jones? And lam sure . that to most people a lawyer is a , more obnoxious animal than a spider.” For one of the offices in President Grant’s gift there sre, accor - — i ding to a correspondent, thq fol- ‘ lowing applicants: “A Bloomer —,- : woman, a loyal negro, a roconr st rue ted rebel, a Republican IFishc i mau, a wounded soldier, and a red I hot politician.” Each of them Is 1 “confident of success.”