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

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The Decatur Eagle.

Vol. 13.

JAIES 11. 8080, 2X.ttorii.oy nt. T_imxxr, DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor's Office. vlOnCtf R. S. PETERSON, -A-ttomcy jjaw, DECATUR, INDIANA. IyllOMI’T attention paid to all business entrusted to his care. Isa Notary Public, and draws Deeds, Mortgages, and other instruments in writing. OFFICE—In D. Studabaker's Law Of■fipxj. v!2n33tf DANIEL D. HELLLR, ■A-ttornoy at Xinw, DECATUR, INDIANA. AV 7 ILL practice his Profession anyv T where in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder's Office. v!ons2tf ». STHDABAKER,. Attorney at Law, DECATUR,‘INDIANA. "I'll ILL practice law in Adams and ad- I TV joining counties; secure pensions] and other 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. I- . A. JELLEIT. W. H. SCHROCK. .1 a: LL EFF A SCR ROCK, Physicians and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFjt E—On Second Street, opposite the Public Square. vßnlstf. CHARLES L. CURTISS, Pliysiclan and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permanently located in this place, offers his professional serviccstothe people of Decaturand vicinity. OFFICE— At the Burt Ifouse. U-3G AABi RE W S O <4 , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. . OFFICE—On Second Street, over W. G.Spencer & Brother s Hardware Store. vßn42tf. A. J. ~E RIV 3A, M. D. J Surgeon. Dispensary, Avclinc Block, i v11n25 ' FORT WAYNE, IND. S. C. A TERS, M. D.J RESIDENT Ear and. Eye Surgeon,' I’OUT MAINE, INDIANA. OFFiCE-r-South west corner Main & Calhoun str.-ets. over Drug Store. !• 4)”"Artificial Eyes inser.tcd. 12-41 DENTiSTRY. M CCO A A ELL, Surgeon Dentist, DECATUR, INDIANA. z’ — 'll work neatly executed A ind warranted to give sat-yUXLIAJ-Jisfiiction. Call and'examine specimens. OFFHT.- Oppusitc the Public Square, over Heller's Law oilice. vllnl'J REAL ESTATE AGENTS. ."lAJIEM R. 8080, Real Estate Agent, DECATI 11, INDIANA. rpHREE THOUSAND ACRES of good I farming land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. If you want to liny a good farm he will sell it to you. If you want your land sold he will sell if for yon. No sale, no charge. vlOnfi AUCTIONEER. CH AR LES M. FR AA< E, A.uctionocr, DECATUR, INDIANA. 4 NNOUNCES to the public that he is , . \ a jegularly Licensed Auctioneer, and will attend .ill Public Sales when reques’ed. OFFICE—In J. R. Bobo's Law office. J . P . W A <4 OAE R . ■Accused Auctioneer, I RESIDENCE, near Salem. Adams Co.. Ik Indiana. Post-Office address, 11 il- ] shire, Ohio. I BviF - Special attention given to crying I public sales. HOT ELS L HIESSE H O V S E . I. J. MIESSE, Propri.'tor. Third St., Oppo»it' thr Court House, DECATUR, INDIANA. I r pHE traveling public will find this I JL House a desirable stopping place. Good sample rooms. vlln'J MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, 07i>/ Main Street, near the Public Square, FORT WANVK, INDIANA, vllnll * If MAYER HOUSE. J . W. BULL, Proprietor, 1 Corner of Calhoun and M'ayne Slreetr, , FORT XVAYNE. INDIANA. v!2n7 ts HEDEKIA IIOI>i:. A. J. 11. MILLS. Proprietor. , On Harr, between Columbia and FORT VVAYNU.. INDI ANA. (~N ENERAL Stage Office. Good sta- ■ bleingin connection with thishonsc. 1 v12n25 ' ts

DECATUB, IND., FRIDAY SDDTFMBEIt 24,1869.

'Toctru, I' Wbo Will fare ? '; . " Who will care ? ' When we lay beneath the daisies, Underneath the churchyard mould, And the long grass o'er our faces Lay its fingers damp and cold; When we sleep from cure and sorrow, And the ills of earthly life Sleep, to know no sad to-morrow, With its bitterness of strife— Who will care? • i Who will care ? Who will come to weep above us, Lying, Oh! so white and still, Underneath the skies cf summer, When all nature's pulses thrill 1 To a new life glad and tender. Full of beauty rich and §weet, * And the world is clad in splendor That the years shall n’er repeat— Who will care? Who will care ? When Queen Autumn's flowers blossom, And she stoops in pity down, * With a white flower fur our bosom, Taken from her royal crown? Who will come to kneel in pity By our long and narrow b'd, 1 When the with winds sing .their ditty In the grasses b’er our head— Who will care ? Who will care? Whenthe Springtime's glad sinile lingers On the meadows, far and wide, And she drops from rosy fingers, Bloom an I leaf on every side; Who will come with tender yearning, To tfic graves of those they m ss? Who will sigh for our return To their presen a and their kiss— Who will care? Who will care ? Who will think of white hands lying j On a still and silent breast, Never more to knowof sighing, Evermore to know of rest ? Who will care? No,pne can tell us; But if rest and peace befall, Will it matter if they miss us; Or they miss us nut at all ? Not at all ? ] Ajrmi.irs story. BY JUDGE CLARK. | We had been out twenty-four | 1 hours, and eleven to one. The case ; : was a plain one—at least we elev- 1 i en thought so. | A murder of peculiar atrocity had been committed; and though no eye had witnessed the deed, circumstances pointeil to tlic prisoner's guilt with unfailing certainty. The rccussant juror had stood ’out from the first. He acknowledged the cogency of the proofs, confessed his inability to reconcile the facts with the defendant's iiinocenco, yet on every vote went steadily for acquittal. His conduct was inexplicable. It coiild not result from a lack of intelligence; for, while lie -poke but little, his words were well chosen. and evinced a thorough understanding -of the case. Though still in the prime of manhood, his locks were prema ; tt+wly white, and his face wore a . sittgufcrrly sad and thoughtful ex- 1 pression.__ He might be one of those who 1 entertain scruples as to the right: of society to inflict the death penalty. But no, it was not that: for i in reply" to such a suggestion, he frankly admitted that brutal men , like the vicious brutes they resem i ble, must be controlled through I fear, and that dread ot death, the] [ supreme terror, is, in many cases i the only adequate restraint. | At the prospect of another night of imprisonment we began to grow j impatient, and expostulated warm- ■ Iv against what seemed an unrea- ( sonable cautiousness : and some . not over kind remarks were indulged in as to the propriety of trilling wijh an oath like that under which we were acting. “And yet.” the num answered as though communicating with himself rather than impelling the im-. putation. “It is (. onseiencc that | t hindreth my concurrence in aver- 1 diet approved by my judgment.” “How can that be' - ” inquired several at once. “Consc eiicc may not always <lare to follow judgement." “But here she can know no other guide.” 1 “I once would have said the same.” “And what has changed your opinion ?” “Exffriexce!” The speaker's manner was visibly agitated, we waited in silence the explanation he seemed about to give. Mastering his emotion, as if in answer to our inquiry, be contin • tied: Twenty years ago I was a young ’ 1 man. just Imgiuniiig life. Few bad brighter prospects and brighter ' hopes. — - " An attachment, dating from ,1 childhood, had ripcneil its object 1 There had l»een no verbal deelara-

tion. and acceptance of love—no! formal plighting of troth; but when I took my departure to seek I a home in the distant West, it was ] a thing understood, that when I had found it and put it in order. ] sho was to have it. ■ Life in the forest, though solita-j ry, is not necessarily lonesome. ] The kind of society afforded by nature, depends much on one’s self. As for me. I lived more in the future than in the present, and hope is an ever cheerful companion. At length the time came for making the final payment on the home which I had bought. It| would henceforth be my own ; and in a few months iny simple dwelling, which I had spared no pains to render inviting, would be graced by its mistress. At the land-office, which was! some sixty miles off, I met my old friend, George ('. He, too, had come to seek his fortune in the] West; and we were both delighted j at the meeting. He had brought with him, he said, a sum of money , , uiltic.h he desired to invest in land.! 1 on which it was his purpose to set- i tie. I expressed a strong wish to have him for a neighbor, and gave him; a cordial invitation to aecompan "] me home, giving it as my belief that he con! 1 nowhere make a bet- ■ ter selection than in that vicinity. He readily consented, and we set out We had not ridden many miles, when George su-Llen-ly recollected a commission he had undertaken for a friend, which ] would require his attendance at a ! public land sale, on the following day. Exacting e. promise that he] would not delay his visit longer, than necessary, amb h iving given I minute directions as to the route. ] I continued my way homeward. ! while he turned back. I was about retiring to bed on] the night of my return,, when B; smnm >ns from without called me' to the door. A stranger asked shelter for himself and horse tor the night. I invited him in. Though a stranger, his face seemed not unfa-1 tniliar. He was probably one ol | the men 1 had seen at the land of- ] ! tipe, a place at that time much fre (piented. Oifering him a seat, I went to see his horse. The' poor animal, as well as I eotilTsee by the dim starlight, seemed to have been badly used. His panting side bore witness of merciless rid.ing, and a tremulous shrinking, nt slight- ■ est touch, betokened recent fright. ] On entering the house, I found the stranger was not there. His, absence-excited no surprise, ho] would doubtless soon return. It ' was a little singular, however, that; he should have left his watch lying! on the table. At the end of half an heur. my gaost not returning. I w ait again j to the stable, thinking he migh’ ‘ have found found his way thithu ] to give personal attention to the | wants of his horse. Before going out, from mere l forefc of habit —for we were, as yet, uninfected by either thieves or j or policemen, I took the preean- ! tion of putting the stranger's watch in the drawer in which 1 kept my ' own valuables. I found the hojso as I had left ; him, and gave him the food which ! he was now sutlieiently cooled to , be allowed to oat, but his master was nowhere to be seen. As I approached the house, a I crowd of men on horseback dashed np.-and 1 was commanded, in 110 gentle tones, to ‘stand! In I another moment I was in the clutches of those who claimed me as their 'prisoner." I 1 was. too much stupefied at fir-t 'to ask what it all meant; I did so at 1:1st, and the explanation came: ] it was terrible. My friend, with whom I had so l lately set out in company, had been found murdered and robbed near the spot jit which I. but I alone, knew we had separated. 1 was the last person known to be 1 uith him. 1 was now arrested on suspicion ot being his murderer. A search of the premises was immediately iiDtituteil. lhe watch was fotimHn the diawer in which 1 had placed it. and was identified ias the property a»f the mifrdered I man! His hoise. too. was lotrvl in my stable, for the animal I had just put there was none other. 1 recognized him myscli when I saw him in the lightWhat I said. 1 know not. My confusion was taken as ad liti«i:ial evidence. And when, at length. 1 ■ did command language to give :r i intelligible statement, it was rec-eiv - cd with sneers of incredulity. The mob spirit is inherent ii 1 man—al least in erowds of men It nnv not always manifest itsel with lynching Bn

I whatever its form, it is always re ] lentless, pitiless, cruel. As proofs of my guilt, one as- ; (ter another, came to light, low; 'muttering gradually grew into a I j clamor for vengeance; and but , j for the firmness of one man—the ! officer who had me in charge—l ] would doubtless have paid the pen ! alty of my supposed offence on the spot. It was not sympathy for nje that actuated my protector. His heart; was as hard as his oifittegbut lie ; represented the majesty of the la v, and took a sort of grim pride in - the position. 1 I As much under the glance of Isis ' eye as before the muzzle of his pistol, the, cowardly clamorers drew Lack. Perhaps they were no suffi- I ciently numerous to feel the full efi'eet of that mysterious reflux ; wliieh makes a crowd of men so , much worse, and at times so much ] better, than any one of them ; ' singly. At the end of some months ray I trial came. It could have but one result. Circumstances too pj.alnly ] declared my guilt. I alone knew . ! they had lie 1. j The absence of the jury was? brief. To their verdict ! pai 11 Tt was a single, hideous word: but I had long- antlei- j pat -d it. and it made no impression. ■ A little iinpfession was made by the words of the jn Ige which followed it; and his solemn invocation that G i l might have that mercy upon me which man was too . just to. vouchsafe, sounded like,the , h 011 owe s t moc ke ri es. It inav be hard for the con Umn- ' cd criminal to meet death: it is i still harder for him is innocent. The one, when the’ first ] shock is over, acquiesces in his ' doom, and gives himself to r •pentance: the heart of the other, filled with rebellion against man’s injhs- j tice. can scarce bring itself to ask | pardon of God. J had gradually overcame this” ' feeling, in spite of the good cler- | . gyman's irritating efforts, which ] were mainlv directed toward ex | trading a confession , without ; which, he assured me, he had n•> hope to oiler. j On the morning of the day fixed ] for my execution. I felt measura bly resigned. I had so long stood face to taco with death, had so 1 >ng ’ forced myself 11 look upon it as a .! momentary pang, that 1 no longer ] felt solicitous save that my mentory should one day ho vindicated. I She for whom I had gone to j ■ prepare a home had already found I one in heaven*. The tidings of my i calamitv h:'-’. broken her, heart I She alone of al! the worl 1 ' eliev 'ed me innocent: and she had died ] with a prayer upon her lips that the truth might vet be brought to ■ (light. ~ ‘ ! All this I had heard, and it’had | soothed ns with sweet incense my troubled spirit. Death, however I mi'veleonie th? shape, was now a portal beyond which I could see one-angel waiting to receive me. ■ I had heard. th > sound of tip : 1 profieliing footsteps', an 1 nerved 'j mvself to meet the exp-'ct-.’ 1 stinic 1110ns. Tb.e'dAor of my c. 11 open .J cd, and the sheriff and his atHuid1 ants entered. He hel lin his hin 1 : a paper. It was niy death warrant. • Ho began to read it. My thoughts I were busied elsewhere. The words I - ‘‘Fl'Ll. AND FREE i’AKDON Were tllO 1 first to strike my preoccupied seu--1 scs.' They affected the bystanders i- more than myself. Yet so it was : I was pardoned for an oilense I had 1 never committed ! The real culprit, none other, it 1! is needless to say. than he who had 1 soujiht and abused ihy hospitality. •’ had been mortally wounded ma re- • cent affray in a distant city, but hail lived long enough to make a t disclosure, which had been laid be'l fore the Governor barely in timeTo : save me from a shameful death, and condemned me to a cheerless v and burdensome life. I' This is my expekii nve. My I judgment, as yours, rii the case I before us. leade to but one coneltl--1 sion. that of the prisoner’s guilt: e but not less confident and appSr--1 enfly ucerring was the judgment . j that falsely pronounced my own. J- -, We no-longer importuned ortr 1 fellow juror, but patiently availed 1 our discharge on the ground ot I inabilitv to agree, which come at 1,1:1st. I i The prisoner was tried and con--1 vlcted at a subsequent term, and 1 at the last moment confessed his v] crime on lhe seailold. Between the mouth oftheWilla- •' met and Astoria, in Ore-jon. there ' are now twenty five salmon—iish- ‘ cries, giving employment to over ’ j.two hundred men. They have put ‘i up over l.Ov 0,000 pounds of sal mon in cans, and the salmon put 11 1 up in this form sells lor about B’. per case of forty-eight pounds ’ About" 2.000 barrels of sahnoi 5t h»ve a!>o been pat up on the river

A Sail Circumstance. - — ; BY MARK TWAIN'. There is some little talk about a circumstance that happened the j i other day to an exalted Washing- 1 toil official. It seems to be my j ' duty to record it. I will call the sufferer Gan. George Belding, for | the sake of convenience. He is ' ! said to be a right good man, but ' was always liberal in his , views, i ■ and a very social sort of person. ’. He used to go about a good deal, . Land among other places he used j_to 4 go up to Socrates, on the Ilud ' son River Railroad, every, now and then, aa 1 stay all night at a hot ■! ! kept by .Mr. and Mis. Wagner. In [due timehe f:l in love with a re- ; fined and cultivated young lady i i I Brooklyn, and immediately put j himself upon his very best behav- ! iour.' In the course of six months i I she mvrried him, and gave it as. I her opinion that she was marrying i perfection herself. The young' couple were happy. They began \to frisk aroun I and enjoy the : honeymoon. Presently they ran J j up to Socrates and camped at Mr. , Wagner's Hotel. In the evening. ' las George was sitting in the parI lor, with his arm around bride’s shoul lers, Mrs. Wagner entered. I She struck an attitude. She began to get angry in a minute. Then she said: “Look here, my fine fellow, I've had as much of this as I’m going to stand. There you are down on that register as •Gen. Geo. Belding and lady rr ’ You've don’o that tiling sixteen times in eighteen months, and you've fetched along a fresh trollop every time. Young woman, march! Vamos the rancho, you i brazen-faced huzzy!’’ It wis. a I very sad circumntanco. Now. • warn't it. interna! Revenue Decision. TheCalumhus -S7 ’or?/? has i the following grapevine dispatches from Washington, of the latest decisions of the Commissioner of Int- rnal Revenue: 7’-,> r f'o'h/r Ueorer.?.—Par ; ■ <•■ tics using paper collars, must use ■ them from the box in which they have been purchased and a three ’ cent stamp must be attached to each on ? when put on. When the collar becomes soiled, and is turnwith the clean Side out. it must re eeivc another thro? cent stamp, an 1 it must also be conspicuously i stamped with the word “turned." ■B >x s, when emptied cannot be'; j used the second time, but must be ■destroyed in the room where i ■ emptied, an 1 the Ass ss >r f:ir::is!i---e 1 with a certificate of the fact. If thrown out ol' a window, or carried, out in the coal scuttle or wadi tub, ; such boxes will be su'ject to ex piri duty. /{<•<:u-i' —An Englishmen ofthc name of Hale, who are engaged in the business of pronouncing, the name without the 11. shall pay,the license required of all brewers and ; distillers. ■?•-■ —Bootblacks are.re. ■ quired to use their blacking just as they ii i I it when the b >x is openJb. adding nothing to it whatever. The act of spitting in the box. •.■.nd sm t-ing the contents with a brush, constituted the bo otblack'll mixer, or rectifier, or mannfactur-: er of blacking, and he must pay the ordinary manufacturer's license. Each boot black? 1. for which the sum of five cents G paid by the wearer, inu<t receive a four-and- < • three quarter cent stamp. Tz • 0.-o's —Parties engaged in building castles in Spain, with the I proeecdes of the highest prize in future drawings of the Havana lottery, must be assessed twenty per cent, on the amount thus de rived and invested, which twenty Aper cent, shall be pai l in gold, .&* i-'/y/or A”- ( ’ Iddoome. —Ail parties failing to comply with the above rules, or failing unci ?r suspicion of -non compliance ■ therewith, will be trie'll by military commission, and executed on the :: spot. _ V» iiat Comes of Protracted Litigation, Tiie Forest, divorce suit was I commenced twenty years ago. 1 The first decision, in favor of E Mrs. Forest, was rendered by the Court of appeals only a year ago. In awarded her 860,000. The 1 New York i is responsible for ’ the statement that of this large ’ sum the plaintiff received but <a . ' bout 81.000. the remainder, 856.- [> C>o<>. going to pay the fees of the counsel. Mr. O'Conner and his r associate' the interest upon these t fees and their expenses. The i- . tern of interest on fees, alone ait ‘mounted to 9 the interest on various a Ivances i. made by the coifhsel in the course nI of the suit, amounted to some, r. 1 thing like *5,000 more.

“Mr. Rogers, s<y Husband.'* Ata revival excitement it\ don- , ueeticut, a respectable old lady i was struck with conviction and became a convert, ami was proposed for membership in the church. There was a meeting held for the -examination of the candidates, of , whom there were several in attend ante. | | , ‘•’Well, my dear sister Rogers,” . said the ex imiimr, addressing our venerable friend, “please relate ! your experience.” The old lady, ’on being thus addressed, lifted up her voice. ■ “Well,” she said, ,‘l don't know what to say, as I tol l my 1 husband, Mr. , Rogers, before I ' came here; but I believe d have exi perieneed a change, as I told Mr. ; Rogers, my husband, after I came home from the meeting, when I I became convinced that I was the •■'most sinful creature in the world, • as I told my husband, Mr. Rogers ; , and '’says he, ‘I think so, too.’ Then I told Mr. Rogers, my husband. I was going to lead a different life, was going to trim my ■ lamp, and have it burning agin the bridegroom come. Then Mr. R )gers, my husband, said Tie didn t ! see what I wanted of another, but he didn't make no objections. Then It oil Mr. Rogers, my hus- : band, that I would jine the bhurch, lan 1 prepare mysself for the place ■ where, the worm d'ieth not, and the fire is not quenched; ar.d my husband, Mb.' Rogers, toll me [l'd better.” A Novel Way of Catching Sharks. , The s.in Francisco says; “At‘Crescent City, Mp "the coast, they hava discovered a new metii;od of catching sharks. A short timC jine?. a crew of men, engaged in Mriving piles for a pier or wharf, were very much annoyed by a shoal of sharks which ma le it unsafe to work in the water, luaiiy of the piles had been drixen so that the upper ends w. re on a b vel. with the wat rat high tide. One of the workmen conceived a novel way of getting r'rd of these dread? 1 m >n tors and. during an h >ur when th.-y were not at work, ' the crew act? V upspr suggestion. They swung the pile-driver into position, and tying a piece of bait to the head of a pile which was about two feet under water, laid in vrait for a bit x Soon a monster shark made his appearance, and, turning on his back, made for the bait. The man stati ned at the monkey w?ig'.t let it go just as the shark's lien 1 w.ls over the pile, ami the effect was quite disastrous to the big fish. In this manner tire men killed a large nu:nber*of the sharks.” General Jackson's Porter. — —. ■ * 4 When Gen. Jackson wgs President, Jimmy O’Neil, the porter, was a marked character. He had his foibles, which were offensivi' to the f'Htid:pf:<ne-< of Colonel DoneLson, :m 1 caused his dismissal on an average of about once a week. But, on an appeal to a higher court, the verdict was invariablv reversed by the good na* tore of the General. Once, however. Jimmy was guilty of some ilag-.ant offense, and was sumone 1 before the highest tribunal at once. [ The General, after stating the details of the mi .deed, observ ■ ed : ••Jimmy. I have borne with you for vears, in spite of all complaints, but in this act you have gone beyond my power of endurance." “And do you believe the story ?” asked Jimmy. “Certainly 1 ” answered the Gen- •■! have just heard it from , the Senators.” “Faith," replied Jimmy, “if I believed all that twenty “senators said about you, its little l'n think you tit for President.” “O. pshaw. Jimmy"—concluded the President, “dear out and go on duty, but be more careful here-, alter.” * , Jimmy remained with his kindhearted patron, not only to the closcofhiS Presidential term, b it accompanied h>m to the Hermitage. and was with him till the day of his death. . ■ ■ I'seiu! Hints. A bit of glue dissolved in skim milk wilTre-tore crrqvc. Ribbons of every kind should be ■washed in cold suds and not rinsixl. If vonr flat irons are rough rub them with tine salt and it will tnako them perfectly smooth. If von are buying a carpet for durability choose small figures. : A bit of soap rublved on the hinges of a door will prevent its creaking. Scotch snuff put in holes where crickets gome out will destroy I them. Wood ashes and common salt wet with water will prevent the cracking of a stove. Strong Ive put in waler wilt make it soft as rain water. Half a cranberry, it is sai«l, ’ bound on a corn will soon kill it. e| Germany has about 300 trades . • unions with about 30,000 members. • *~g

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