Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1869 — Page 1

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Town Officers. Fam. C. Bollman ’•Clerk. Chas. Stewart Treasurer a Marshal. Horman Bosse, l David King, I . Trustees. David Showers, ) TownNbip Officers. Union.—Trustee, David Erwin; Justice of the Peace William Cellars, and David Gleckler; Constables, Geo. B. Cline and Nelson D. Suttles. Root.—Trustee, John Christen; Justices of the Peace, Henry Filling, and Samuel S Mickle; Constables, Reuben Baxter and John Schurger. Prfble.—Trustee, F. W, Gallmeyer; Justices of the Peace, John Archbold and James Ward; Constables, Joseph E. Mann and Henry Dearman. Kirkland.—Trustee, Jonathan Bowers; Justice of the Peace Wm. D. Hoffman; Constable, Manassas Sarff and David Stule.

Washington.--Trustee, Cjnrad Brake; Justices of the Peace. C. M. France nnd Samuel Merryman; Constables, Frederick Meitz and E. P. Stoops. St. Mary s, —Trustee, Esaias Dailey; Justices of the Peace, Samuel Smith, Win Comer and S.B. Menis; Constables, S. B. Fordyce, Washington Kern and Isaac Smith. 1’ Bluecreek.—Trustee, John Emery; Justice of the Peace, Lemuel Williams and J. C. Tindall; Constable, J. McCardlc. Monroe.—Trustee, Geo. 11. Martz; Justice of the Peace, Lorenzo D. Hughes. Samuel Smith; Constable, John M. Jacobs. French.—Trustee, George Simisson; Justices of the Peace, Ixjt French and V. D. Bell; Constable, Edward Leßrun. Hartford.—Trustee Peter Hoffman: Justices of the Peace, Martin Kizer, sen. and Benj. Runyan; Constables, John Simison, Lewis C. Miller and David Runyan. Wab isn.—Trustee, Henry Miller; Justices of the Peace, A. Studabdker and James Nelson; Constables, Jacob Butch«r and A. G. Thonqison. Jefferson.—Trustee, Justus Kelly; Justice of the Peace, John Fetters; Constables, Daniel Brewster and Jesse McCallum.

Time of Holding Courts. Circuit Court.—On the third Monday in April, and the first Monday in No-, ▼ember, of each year. Common Pleas Court.—On the second Monday in January, the second Monday in May, and the second Monday in September, of each year. Commissioner's Court.—On the first Monday in March, the first Monday in Jnne, the first Monday in September, and the first Monday in December, of •ach year.

CHURCH DIRECTORY. - _ Bt. Maiy s (Catholic). —Services every Sabbath at 8 and 10 o’clock. A. M., Sabbath School or instruction in •hiatn, at U o’clock. P. M.: Vespers at 2i » clock, P. Si. Rev. J. Wemhoff. Pastor MtntomiT.— Services every Sabbath at 10J o'clock, A. M., and 7 o’clock, P. M. Sabbath School at 9 o'clock, P. M. Rev. Charles Wilkinson, Pastor. Pimrmuir.—No Pastor. Prayer Meeting every Sabbath at 1 o'clock, and tabbath School at 2 o'clock. P M.

The Decatur Eagle.

Vol. 13.

ATTORNEYS. JAHES R. 8080, Attorney ext Uaw, DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pnyp Taxes. OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor's Office. vlOnfitf R. S. PETERSOX, .Attorney Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. I)ROMPT attention paid to all business entrusted to his care. Is a Notary Public, and draws Deeds, Mortgages, and other instruments in writing. OFFICE—In D. Studabaker’s Law Office. vl2n33tf DAM EE D. HELLER, Attorney zxt Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywheie in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder's Office. v!ons2tf D. STEDABAKER, .Attorney a.t Law, DECATUR, UNDIANA. WILL practice law in Adams and adjoining counties; secure pensions and otjier claims against the government; buy and sell real estate; examine titles and pay taxes, and other business pertaining to real estate agency. 13-23.

PHYSICIANS. F.A.JELLEFF. IV. II.SCHROCK. JELLEIIAS(HRO(K. 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 toThe people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—At the Burt House. 11-36 Alf DR E~W «6 RG , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE-—On Second Street, over W. G.Spencer & Brothers Hard ware Store. vßn42tf. A. J. ER W1 A, R. D.. Surgeon. Dispensary, Avelinc Block, v11n25 ' FORT WAYNE, IND. S. AYERS, Tl. «.. RESIDENT Ear and. Eye Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main & Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. Artificial Eyes inserted. 12-44

DENTISTRY. W. 11. .11 cto AA EL L, Surgeon Dentist, DECATUR, INDIANA.* -Gl work neatly executed Mso&»2kand warranted to give satisfaction. Call and'examine specimens. OFFICE—-Opposite the Public Square, over Heller’s Law office. vllnUJ REAL ESTATE ACENTS. JAIIES R. 8080, Real Estate Agent, DECATUB, INDIANA. rpHREE THOUSAND ACRES of good L farming land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. If you want to buy a good farm he will sell it to you. If you want your land sold he will sell it for yon. No sale, no charge. vlOnC

__ AUCTIONEER. CHARLES H. FRA ACE, -A-iictionecr, DECATUR, INDIANA. 4 NNOUNCF.S to the public that he is _i \ a regularly Licensed Auctioneer, and will attend all Public Sales when requested. OFFICE—In J. R. Bobo's Law office. J. P. WAGGONER, Licensed Auctioneer, RESIDENCE, near Salem, Adams Co.. Indiana. P?st-Office address, Wilshire, Ohio. BS?” Special attention given to crying public sales.

HOTELS. HIE SSE HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE. Proprietor. Third St., Opposite the Court House, DECATIR, INDIANA. rjNHE traveling public will find this I House a desirable stopping place. Good sample rooms. vl lnO MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, IFrsl .Vain Street, near the Tublie Square, FORT WANYE. INDIANA, ▼llnll If MAYER HOUSE. J. W. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calhoun and Weyne Streets, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. ▼l2n" *f

HEDER IM HOUSE, A. J. 11. .MILLS, Proprietor, On Barr, bttrtm Columbia and Main St»., PORT WAVNK, INDIANA. f't ENERAL Stage Office. Good •tai' bleingin connection with this house. v12n26 ts

DECATUR, IND., FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17,1869.

Going and Coming. DT EDWARD A. JENKS. I Going—-the great round sun, Dragging the captive Day Over behind the frowning hill, Over beyond the bay— Dying: Coming-.-the dusky Night, Silently stealing in, Gloomily draping the soft, warm couch W here the golden-hair'd day had been Lying. if Going—the bright, blithe Spring: Blossoms! how fast ye fall, Shooting out of your starry sky Into the daikness all Blindly! Coming—the mellow days; Crimson and yellow leaves; Languishing purple and amber fruits Kissing the bearded sheaves Kindly! hi Going—our early friends; Voices we loved arc dumb, Footsteps grow dim in the morning dew; Fainter the echos come Ringing: Coming to join our march— Shoulder to shoulder pressed: Gray-haired veterans strike their tents For the far off purple West— Singing! IV Going—this old, old life; Beautiful world! farewell! Forest and meadow! river and hill! Ring ye a loving knell O’er us! Coming—a nobler life; Coming.—a better land; Coming—the long, long, flightless day; Coming—the grand, grand Chorus. Hearth and Home.

>elrrt pisallnnij. A Radical Congressman. An Alle<e<l ThieQ Forger mid Murderer in t'on<rr«»-C. C. Bowen, of South Carolina Shown up by a Brother Kadical. The Charleston Daily News, of Friday, contains a communication to the public from T. T. Mackey, a Radical Alderman and politician, and brother of Dr. Albert G. Mackey, who was lately removed , from tlic Collectorship of the I’ort of Charleston. The Radical mem-' ber of Congress from the Charles-' ton district, C. C. Bowen, was instrumental in getting Dr. Mackey turned out, and a war between the factions in. the city has ensued. Alderman Mackey, after defending himself against certain charges brought by Bowen, carries the war into Africa in the following style: But how stands it with C. C. Bowen, whose name, by a civic fiction, now bears the prefix “Honorable?” He is a New England man, born and reared in Rhode Island, near the very alter of liberty. He entered the Confederate , army as Lieutenant of cavalry, 1 and after an ignominious career of two years he was cashiered (as I can show by the official record before me) for the crime of forgery! It is also true that I was indicted with Gen. Walker on the charge of violating the neutrality laws of the United States, but I have yet to learn that this fact could detract from my standing as a gentleman. Immediately after my trial and acquittal on that charge, I was appointed by the authorities at Washington as Examiner of the United States surveys for Kansas and Nebraska. I was not a clerk, but the examiner of accounts in the Freedmen’s Bureau, and in that■ capacity 1 became acquainted with the evidence on which C. C. Bow- j en was arrested and committed to . prison by Gen. Sickles on the ‘ charge of stealing money from the freedmen. It is true that I was Private Secretary to Gov. Scott, , the same gallant soldier and wor thy gentleman whose duty it be- I came, as assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau of South Carolina, to have Bowen arrested (for stealing.) and to make him, through the military authorities.l disgorge a large amount of his illgotten gains. It is true that lam ••well-known in Texas.” In the summer of 1865, as noting United States provost marshal over twenty counties of that state, I arrested many criminals, some of whom were executed for the crime of murder, on far less evidence than that adduced to prove that C. C., Bowen murdered Col. White, by the hands of a hired assassin, in his bedroom, at Georgetown. South Carolina, in November, 1864, for which bloody deed he escaped punishment, through the flight of his accomplice, after a full confession. He was confined in prison here on that charge, and was released at the general jail delivery made by the United States forces on their entry into Charleston in 1865. This dark but truthful story of Bowen's crimes is not inconsistent with the ante-war record. He came

to this city in 1859 as the head of a band of the lowest class of gamblers, and soon signalized his advent by stealing a valuable set of faro checks from an establishment in this city, which he sold in New York, where they were recovered by the owner, together with the written proof of Bowen’s guilt. This fact I can prove by a cloud of witnesses. The municipal authorities of this city have been frequently appealed to during the last month by his wife at Louisville, whom he has abandoned, although a worthy woman, to aid her in procuring a support from him, while he is living in open ipfarny with another in thjs< city? Bowen charges that I over socalled Union-Leagues, where, for a fee of fifty dollars, he puts through resolutions to slander good Republicans.” It is true that I am President of the Union League of Charleston, the same league that subscribed money earned by the hard hands of. the labor ing men who chiefly composed it, to feed Bowen's putative children in this city in 1867, while, he was imprisoned in Castle Pinckney on the charge of stealing—a charge which the members of the League were led to believe untrue from his plausible representations of innocence. The resolutions to which Bowen refers were passed to op pose appointment of his friend, G. W. Clark, as collector of the port, and to stigmatize the politic al treachery of Senator F. A. Sawyer and C. C. Bowen. Surely it did not require “a fee of fifty dollars” to induce me to support such resolutions. It is worthy of note that United States Senator Sawyer, who is now Bowen's bosom friend and co conspirator, was charged by Bowen, on oath, in July, 1868, with having committed the crime of perjury in taking the ironclad oath—a charge which is true. I have thus briefly glanced at the criminal history of this “Honorable Representative from South Carolina.” It is to be hoped that justice will yet overtake him, ■‘A nJ put in every honest hand a whip, To lash the rascal naked through the world.'' T. J. Mackey. The Dead of the War—What Sonic Men are Accused Os.

Bford Corrcapo*dence of the Botfon Traveler. “That,” said our guide, “is the ‘National Cemetery. Bcauford. S. C.’ There's many a chap buried there, —that is, many pieces of chaps. Ten thousand, if there's one.” We drove a little nearer, and.looked over 20 acres of death's harvestiijg. The ground everywhere was literally white with a snow-storm of tombstones. While wc stood between the ceini etcry gate and the keeper's lodge. 1 our guide volunteered some curi- ! ous and sepulchral information i Said he : “I tell you gents, there ;is many a boy in blue there, and I then again, there are some chaps i in that place who ought to grin in ! their coffins there.” “How so ?” we asked. “Why, he replied, “the burying was done by contract, and a fellow got 810 a head -for bringing them in. I tell you, some chaps were brought in that the Yanks hadn't declared dividends on,—a ' good many gray jackets, for ini stance. But the strangest tricks I were these: They dug up men, and then divided them, so that a i 810 job, by separating arms, legs, and head, was made to pay 500 I per cent. It was a cute thing j —you bet; and I should not wonder ,if some bummer's skull was at , that gate and his big toe a clean half mile away down in vonder , corner.” Os course, we were Vast 'ly entertained by this queer com I mentary; but more awful revela- ■ tions were behind. Our driver continued. “They did worse than that They dug up two of our j children out of our graveyard, and ' I swear, sirs, to my certain knowledge those picaniniues are buried yonder as ‘unknown’ boys in blue. I reckon they are among the infantry.” We asked this absolute man whose monument it was that rose above the common graves around. He knew all alxiut it. and , thus ejaculated: “Oh that’s Mrs. Potter’s memorial monument. I i know all about that, for 1 put it up. She collected 85,000 in the north to build that figure head, and it cost 82,500. Some people call the cemetery Potter's Field ; but such fellows, you know, are unre constructed.” As he concluded, the whip lash took the dozing mules by surprise, and they began to budge on lazily. Everything has its poetical aspect in Tennessee. A county editor says: “Here at Squan. where apple-jack is the common beverage. red noses sre called appleblooms.”

Our Expenses and what we Tax. A writer in the Evening Post of New York says: We need for expenditure abouti 300 millions of dollars. We agree to raise from customs 150 million dollars. To obtain this sum, about 38 millions more than England raises from 6 articles, we tax more than 4000 different articles of imports. But we can actually get 75 millions of dollars revenue from the following 5 articles : Coffee, tea, sugar, wine, ’ and spirits, tobacco and liquors. ‘ To obtain the other 75 millions only, therefore, we see fit to lay duties on nearly four thousand articles, and charge a duty as high as 150 per cent, on „ some goods, to * get these 675,000,000, we tax no • less than one thousand million j dollars of consumable commodities annually, and thereby enhance their price on the average 50 per cent. We raised, for instance, a revenue of not quite $1,000,000 from 100.CQ0 tons of imported pig iron. But we consumed 1,600,000 tons, of homemade iron besides in 1868, on all which the price was raised to the amount of the duty on foreign iron. Thus the tariff compelled the people to pay the domestic pig iron makers a bonus of $14,500,000, gold, during that year. We did not raise oue dollar of revenue front woolen blankets for the last three years, as there is a heavy duty on this article, nevertheless, the duty , compelled the people to pay the manufacturers forty cents in currency a pound, for what can be bought in England for twenty-four cents currency. The extraordinary number of articles of import taxed, compel us to keep a custom house staff that outnumbers the armies with which we formerly fought and conquered the savage Indians, but put temptations in the way of these public servants which have bred corruption among them. We offer a premium for smuggling and false swearing,. The New Orleans sugar scandal at this moment, and the New York silk scandals of last winter will testify to this. Wfe tax the poor man’s clothing, glass, crockery, bedding, fuel, and •gas, we tax the woolen socks of the baby 100 per cent, and the') brass coffin nail 45 per cent. And all the misery, vice, corruption and fraud caused by these bad laws are perpetrated to raise seventy -’ five million dollars revenue from several thousand articles, when the Mime sum could be got from only ten articles. But then the siiiipler system would not enrich five or six thousand monopolists, who, under the name of “protection to American industry, - ’ impose these grievous wrongs on the people. Extraordinary Seir-lnimola- * lion.

The following statement appears in the Pall Afa/l Gazette: All the extraordinary proceed ings of the many fanatical sects who.se rapid increase has excited so much anxiety in Russia are fairly thrown into the shade by a terrible act of self immolation which is reported from the government of Saratow. A tew months ago the prophets of a new religion made their appearance in that part of the empire, preaching self-de-struction by fire as the only sure road to salvation ; and so readily was their dreadful doctrine received by the ignorant and superstitions peasantry, that in one large village no less than seventeen hundred persons assembled in some wooden houses, and having barricaded the doors and windows, set the building on fire and perished in the flames. The authorities are doing all they can to stay the progress of this new madness, but their task is obviously a difficult one. The punishments which the law can inflict must have little terror for enthusiasts who deliberately choose a death so horrible as the true road to heaven.

Whether time goes rapidly quite depends on the object in prospect. A young lady on her way to church to get married regards every mo ment as an hour; a man on his journey to l>e hung thanks an hour concentrated into every momen The youngdehap who is waiting for an answer to his proposal looks upon a week as an age. while the man of 35 waiting for his divorce papers believes every hour con tains full five hundred minutes. A hungry man half an hour before dinner thinks it will never come, and a dyspeptic wished time stood a whole day. So it goes or don’t go. according to the individual case in hand. Spotted carriage dogs are in fashidn in New York. Fashion itself is considerably spotted also.

Miscellaneous Items, Can fruit be preserved in ‘family ‘ jars ?’ Sure cures for office seekers— Sinecures. Grasshoppers in Missouri kill; small children. Can a man who avoids writing be considered a pen shunner? Advice to the Secretary of State i —Never Fish in troubled waters. | j Punch recommends salt in the j men with tails. - j People go down to the sea to ' get their failing health shored up . An interesting story for the ' southern negroes—A Chinese tail. > I The Spanish gunboats are evi I dently harmless; they won't go I off. The only people who never suffer in the long run —Managers of thenI o o tors. A Minnesota youth has been I bitten by a rattlesnake, and now j hisses and tries to rattle. A married woman of 50 has left her aged spouse, in Washington, toelope with a youth of6o. To be “struck with admiration” only hurts when it is of a pretty woman who don’t see if. Now for a toast—the two L’s, the object of the Sorosis societies ■ —“Loquacity and Lunch.” Huri rah! The Order of Free Masons have icalled a grand meeting of all Ma- ! sons, to take place at Geneva, Dec. i 8, 1869. Mr. George McDonald, the novelist, has been very ill in the ; Shetland island*, but is now cori- ! valescent. Madame Methua Scheller, an (.actress, is so popular at the west that a pacific railroad town is to be named in honor of her. Lellingwell is going to California, and “Jaffer Jenkins" will appear there the night after his arrival. I I Speaking of the bill for civil i marriage, a lady writes to Punch in behalf of a bill for civility after marriage.

A man in Rhode Island was sent 4xijail for ten days for sleepping iiiybu->yh. Nothing was done to -flic clergyman. The Boston Post says : “Long Island, among other notabilities, had a school of whales last week.” What was taught thereat ? Why, spouting, of course. Somebyfy says the reason why Chicago aid no fall within the itlie of the total eclipse was because the Lord did not dare to trust that city in the dark. President Fnincy once prayed, if a Western paper is to be believed, “Oh, Lord, wc so abominate’ ourselves that we could spit in our faces and kick ourselves into hell!” ..John ! John !” shouted an old gentleman to his son.“get up; the sun is up before you.” “Very well,” said John ; “he has further to go than we have.” All seeds arc very plentiful at the West this year, and the farmers who believe the theory that nature will take care of the seed the year after they-are provided, are looking for large crops next year.

An anatomical observer asserted a few days since that there were 489.981 feathers on the wings of a butterfly. “I don't believe it,” said one of his hearers. “Then count for yourself,” was the reply. The qnanHtyWf amber lately found in the Knrischen Half, to the north of Konigsbeig, is said to be s-Y great that the market price of life article has fallen. Work on the Pensacola and Louisville railroad is being pushed forward as rapidly as the limited labor force will allow. The superintendent has gone in search of additional laborers.

The cathedral of Cologne is rapidly progressing. The northern tower now equals in height the southern one. and the chapter house and sacristy are completed with the exception of the iron roofing; 385,617 thalers were spent on the building last year. Dr. Osgood gives his impression of Spurgeon in this language : ~ ‘•Ile does a largo and good business in souls. His gifts are as much of the bowels as of the brains, and he seems to be full of sympathetic juices, in which his great audience floats like a great navy in an ample harbor.” No wonder Mr. Osgood's New York . congregation accepted his resignation.

The “improvement” of the falls of St. Anthony, Minn, for commercial purposes, will utterly de story their famous natural beauty. A polite philosopher once said to a lady who had been singing to a party for an hour: “Madam, yon have wasted our time charmingly." A little boy disputing with his sister on a certain subject, exclaimed :■■ It’s true, for ma says so, and if ma says so, it’s so if it ain’t so." In most quarrels therais a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint as well as steel; either of them may ham mer on wood forever, but no fire will follow. Down on Chloride Flat says a White Pine paper, there is a miner’s cabin built out ’Gf chunks of highgrade chloride ore, estimated at S2OOO a ton. The house is sixteen feet square, and the rock in its walls, if crushed, would yield a bout $75,000. That house is for sale. A Philadelphia paper comments on the weather thusly: “The showers Os the last three days will cause every stock of corn to carry ears like a jackass, while every water melon will fancy itself a iagej beer keg dressed in Paris green.” A startling situatiod was that of a fellow in Titusville, on a runaway horse, with 12 pounds of nitroglycerine in one hand and an “exploder” strapped on his back. He managed to save the glycerine, but broke half-a-dozen ribs. The St. Petersburg journal an nonnee that the Soriat is, a Christian sect of India, numbering 600,- | 000 persons, who trade extensively . with Russia, have joined the Greek- ■ Russian church, to which their creed is analogous. Tiie dome of the Invalides at ■ Paris is at last completed, and pre- ' seats a magnificent appearance : sparkling with gold. It was gilded i for the first time by Louis XIV., ' for the second time by the first ' Napolean in 1806. and now for the (third time by Louis Napoleon. A French emigre, in search of ' pupils,, called on a lady blessed I with a large family of children, ' and asked if she wouldn't like to study French as a dixtrocii'oM. ■•No, Monsieur, ’’ she replied, looking her boisterous offspring; “I’m almost distracted already. A quaint writer says: “I have seen women so delicate that they were afraid to rßle, for fear the ■ horse running away; afraid to , walk, for fear the dew might fall; ; afraid to sail, dbr fear the boat i might upset: but I never saw ono ; afraid to be married, which is more riskful than all of them put together."

No. 24.

The negro waiters at Niagara hotel recently struck against the employment of a white waiter in the same establishment. Why are not the Radical organs denouncing the “infernal spirit of caste” in this case, as they .did. in that of young Douglass in Washington ? Ono of the professors of tho French Academy of Music has received the follow ing letter: “Sir— My eldest daughter will die to-day because she did not obtain the first medal. My youngest daugh ter undergoes her examination tomorrow. If a similar thing occurs von will be the cause of the death of my two daughters.—Femme X.” The frightened examiner did his best. Beside the new Russian universities of Warsaw and Odessa, afid the old universities of Moscow. St. Petersburg, Kiev, Charkov. Kasan, Dorpat. and Helsingfors, a new university is to be established at Saraton. a city of 110,000 inhabitants, which possesses already a Catholic seminary. The czar also proposes to establish nine new schools of navigation in B.dic ports to further the steady increase of the Russian merchant navy.

One ol Fashion’s Devotees—A $35,000 Toilet. A Saratoga correspondent of the Boston Traveller gives the following description of the makeup of a lady who appeared at one of the hotels in that rendezvous of fashion and folly and who, an old bachelor lounger sneeringly says. evidently needs but the ballot to render her A perfect woman, nobly planned, indeed, a very “phantom of de- r light” Here is’ the bill of particulars : Mrs. M—, from the Hub, appeared yesterday in the most gorgeous costume of the season, at the Clarendon, where she is spending a few wgeks. Her dress consisted of a magnificent coriletinted satin ent with the long train (12| feet), low neck and short sleevs. The material is said to have cost SIOO per yard, while the gorgeous trimming of white point Face, valued at $75 per yard, and ! a point shawl worth $750 made up the dress, and jewelry, diamond* in the hair, and other ornament*, made a toilet reported to be worth $35,000.