Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1869 — Page 1

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The Decatur Eagle.

Vol. 13.

ATTORNEYS. JAREB R. BORO, Attorney a,t Uaxv, DECATUK, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFICE--Opposite tho Auditor’s Office. vlOnGtf R. S. PETERSOY, Attorney «xt DECATUK, INDIANA. IjROMPT attention paid to all business entrusted to his care. Is a Notary Public, and draws Deeds, Mortgages, and other instruments in writing. OFFICE—InD. Studabaker’s Law Office. ~ ’ v!2u3Btf DANIEL D. HELLER, Attorney *xt Law, DECATUK, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywheie in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder’s Office. vlons2tf D. STUDABAKER, Attorney ext Laxxr, • DECATUR, (INDIANA. WILL practice law in Adams and adjoining 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. f.a.jelleff. w. n. schhock. JELLEFIISdIROdi, Physicians and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, opposite the Public Square. vßnlstf. CHARLES L. CURTISS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUK, INDIANA. HAVING permanently located in this place, offers his professional servicestothe people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—At the Burt House. 11-36 ANDRE W S ORG , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, over W. G.Spencer & Brother's Hard ware Store. vßn42tf. A. J. ER WI N,’ M. D., Surgeon. Dispensary, Aveline Block, v11n25 " FORT WAYNE, IND. S. C. AVERS, M. D., RESIDENT Ear and Eye Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main & I Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. feSP’Artificial Eyes inserted. 12-44 DENTISTRY. 11. M. HcCO.Y NELL, Surgeon Dentist, DECATUR, INDIANA. A-lgSk All work neatly executed and warranted to give satisfaction. Call nnd]examine specimens. OFFlCE—Opposite the Public Square, over Heller's Law office. vllnPJ REAL ESTATE ACENTS. JAII ES R. 8080, Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. rpHREF. THOUSAND ACRES of good I 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 you. No sale, no charge. vlon6 AUCTIONEER. CHARLES 11. FRA ACE, A.wotionoer, DECATUR, INDIANA. ANNOUNCES to the public that he is a regularly Licensed Auctioneer, and will attend all Public Sales when requested. OFFICE—In J. R. Bobo's Law office. J. P. WAGCOAER, licensed Auctioneer, RESIDENCE, near Salem, Adams Co., Indiana. Post-Office address, Wilshire. Ohio: Special attention given to crying public sales. HOTELS. II IES S E HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. Third St., Opporite the Court IToute, DECATUR, INDIANA. THE traveling public will find this House a desirable stopping place. Good sample rooms. vlln9 MAYER IIOVSE. J . W. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calhoun and Wayne Streeft, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. Vl2n7 ‘f MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, Wett Main Street, near the Tublie Square, FORT WANYE, INDIANA, vllnll A If HEDEKIA HOUSE, A. J. H. MILLS, Proprietor, On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sta. FORT WATNE, INDIANA. F.NERAL Stage Office. ’Good sta--1 bleingin connection with tkishouse. v12n25 H

DECATUR, IJNFD., FRIDAY OCTOBER 29 1869.

Alone. ‘‘l could have stemmed misfortune's tide, And borne the rich one's sneer, Hive braved the haughty glance of pride, Nor shed a single tear; I could have smiled on every blow From life’s full quiver thrown, While I might gaze on thee and know I should not be ‘alone.’ ” I could, I think I could have brooked, E'en for a time, that thou Uyon my fading face liadst looked With less of love than now; For then I should at least have felt The sweet hope still ay own, To win thee back, and while I dwelt On earth, not be “alone. 1 ’ But thus to see, from day to day, Thy brightening eye and cheek, And watch thy life sands waste away, Unnumbered, slow and meek; To meet thy smiles of tenderness, And catch the feeble tone Os kindness, ever breathed to bless, And feel I'll be “alone.” To mark thy strength each hour decay, And yet thy hopes grow stronger, As filled with heavenward trust, they say “Earth may not claim thee longer;” Nay, dearest, 'tis too much—this heart Must break when thou art gone; It must not be—we may not part— I cannot live “alone.” Wonderland Mysteriesot the Grand Canon. I.ectnre From Majnr I'nwel, of the Explorin< Expedition--Habit*. CiiNtoma, and I.nnsuase of the Ute Nation—Relisioua Notion* of the Native*->Gcolo«y of the Colorado Country—lnterestinc Statistics. At a meeting of the Chicago Academy of Science, on Tuesday evening last, Major Powell, of the Colorado Exploring Expedition, was introduced, and addressed the Society. The Ute nation, said he, extended over a great territory in the western half of Colorado, most of Utah, and a part of Arizona. It wils once a mighty nation, but now divided into bands or tribes. Any man, who had a little influence and could get two or three lodges, could start off and make a new band, and thus they were split up. When a chief died his band divid ed among others. For a long time these chiefs had not been hereditary. Most of his intercourse had been with the- Tabwah band of ninety lodges.. They had once lived with the Coinanchcs and Apaches ; but, when those Indians obtained horses, they drove the Moqnis into the canons and lodges and occupied the country themselves. He had studied their language, and collected eight hundred words. As for nouns, there was no change for number or person, some change in the oblique case. The adjectives had no proper comparison, and they used a word meaning “very” a great deal. Like '’hiltlrcn, they dwelt on a word to give it the greater force. It was a peculiar characteristic. One had not only to get the words but the force with which they were uttered in relation to each other. They had three tense signs, for present, future and past. They had a great number of proper nouns, and learning with them seemed to consist in learning many names, The Utes’ idea of a disease was that it was an entity—a something which took possession of the person and had to be driven out. He never knew them to use any medicine. Their system was one of incantations and songs. A sick child troubled with scrotula was brought in. The medicine man began to chaut, and a dozen Indians joined in. While thej' sang the medicine man put the child’s feet on his head, lay down and howled, and gesticulated, took water in his mouth, and made another series of sounds. This was kept up for five hours for as many weeks. The<Utcs believed in one God who had two sons. The elder was bad, and the younger good. They quarreled about the government of die world. The father gave the younger a champion clad in stone and an antelope which was all eyes. The elder brother was went to go up a mountain. The antelope saw him, and informed the champion, who wept and slew him, but he turned up again the next morning. Finally, the antelope slept too late, the cham pion killed, and the younger brother left and bad spirits rulevi. The sun and stars represented the spirits they worshiped, and the animals were the earthly representatives of the same spirits. The evil spirit was represented by thewolf. liiey too, gave names to stars and planets. Those people now lived around the canon of the Colorado, a river formed by the junction of the Grand and Green, both running through canons. The I nitah Mountains, spurs of the Wahsatch, were ent through by the Green. At some points the cliffs

were 2,800 feet high. In that range there was an immense geological section, beginning with the tertiary* rocks and passing through cretacean, permian and 9000 feet of siluvian rocks. The granite was not reached. The rocks were conformable down to the carboniferous, but unconformable below, by erosion. Between the carboniferous and siluvian age there is much erosion. Huge pinnacles of red sandstone testified to that. The same series appeared in an in verse order after passing the axis of the Unitah Mountains. He tuG ilyut the valley was made during the progress of the upheaval. The constant change in geological structure in passing down the valley always gave something new. A region of soft, friable sandstone was succeeded by one where the wallsi rose higher and higher, occa sionally broken down latterly by incoming streams, till they come to a point near Little White river, where they were in what he called the Canon of Desolation. The walls were three thousand feet high. They were not continuous, but numerous narrow, lateral canons put in, which, in turn had their canons. For twenty miles back from the river it was so cut up by these canons that the country was inaccessible. There was little sage and now apd then a cedar, but it was almost bare rock, of a repulsive color and unpleasant to the eye. They found only lizzards, hardly a bird and no game. He went up one lateral canon of three miles, the walls rising vertically with lateral canons. The valley was from one to thfee hundred yards wide, and throe miles long, and walls five miles high. It was dry eight months in the year, and at the highest, it was a mere brook, yet it had worn out such a chasm. These topographical features were due to the complication of rocks, the difference in their texture, and the fact that at many points there had been an outpouring of ignen ous rocks. Below the Canon of Desolation came a softer sandstone, with occasional beds of ignite. Then they came to underlying permian rocks—a beautiful orange sandstone, and very homogeneous. The river ran through that in a very tortuous course. This was called Still Water Canon. The river fell 5000 feet from the place where they embarked, to the river Virgen. This was about six feet to the mile. Most of this fall came in 125 miles, where there were four or five rapids. In the first rapids, in the Unitah Mountains, it ran with great rapidity, fifty fecit to the mile. Then came a succession of quiet water and rapids. At the junction of the Grand and Green to a hard lime stone. Some peculiar features connected with a great fracture at that point were described in detail. At that point they found another series of falls. The rocks there were 130?) feet high. Twenty-five miles below they were 2500. He gave the names of the various canons which they ran through till they reached the Little Colorado, where the river wheeled to the west. It was only in limited places that the walls were vertical. It was hard to determine what the walls were, or their height. In the great southern bends they had a granite base of 800 feet; then came a terrace, and then walls of four or five hundred feet, with detached pinnacles one or two thousand feet high. The lateral streams had worn only very slight beds in the granite. At every sontheru bend there was a series of cataracts and falls. The terraces he mentioned had at one time been inhabited, and they found there the remains of Moqui villages. These people built stone houses with several compartments, and had pottery. The Utes said the Moqnis once held the country they themselves now do. In Grand Canon, from Little Colorado to Mormon Valley, the lower walls were granite or marble. To estimate the height was difficult Half a mile back the height would be 4000 feet and further back 6000 feet In the southern bends there were always terraces, and a ’wall 3000 feet high back of it. In the rainy season, great cascades of uright red mud poured over the rocks. There were a few cascades of real water. From Mormon Valley to the Virgen, the rocks suddenly dipped down and made a broad valley on each side. After various windings the river cut through tho granite, and then proceeded through granite and lava ridges. 'The Mount Ccnis railway is making good progress. The mountain has been penetrated by the tunnel to the distance of six and-a quarter miles. The remaining distance to be tunneled is shout one mile.

Four Hundred Mlles up Stairs. “Reading about electricity, lightning, and the telegraph, the other day,” said Uncle “reminds me of a curious story I once heard when I was in England.” It seems there was a newspaper in the city of Glascow, in Scotland, which employed a London correspondent, and made it his duty to gather news every day and send it to Glascow every night by telegraph. Heohad made an agreement with an operator at a certain office, by which his news was sent to Glascow at a reduction, by the year. One night he arrived at the landing at the foot of the stairs leading np into the telegraph office. The door was locked and he could not open it. The telegraph office was away the top of the building, in the sixth story. The operator had a bed there, to which he retired promptly at three oclock: and it was now half past two. The operator up stairs yawned and looked at his watch. “Jenkins won't come to-night,” said he, “I may as well go to'bed.” And there was poor Jenkins at the foot of the long stairs, unable to get in. “Hillo! up there!” he cried, looking at the window of the telegraph office that glowed with light. “Hello! Jones! somebody has locked the outside door, and I can’t get in.” n “What's row,” eaid a policeman coming along. “I’m locked out," said Jenkins. “Here I've got a batch of the most important news for iny paper—a murder, three fires and a riot—and the door locked in my face, and I can’t get in. What will Ido ?” So the policeman began banging the door, but Jones, the operator, up in his office was as unUonscious of the tumult as if it had been in the moon. He was whistling to himself and yawning prodigiously. “Why don’t you go to some both- ; erhoffice ?” asked the policeman. “No authority to Use any other line,” said the correspondent.— “Ah! I’ve got it!” he added, and before the policeman could ask for what “it" was, the excited Jenkins had dashed off down street as if a mad dog was after him. Jenkins rushed breathless into another telegraph Office, six blocks off. “I say,” said he to the operator, “I’m in a fix! Got news to go off in half an hour, and the stupid op erator at my office has gone to sleep, and I can’t get in—and—and—’’ “Well, that is a fix." “Tell you what I want," said Jenkins,, endeavoring to catch his breath, “I want you to telegraph down to Glascow, and ask the operator there to telegraph up here to Jones, and Bid him to come down stairs and let me*in." The operator roared with laughter at this, but went at once to his instrument aud began rattling away at a great rate. This is the message he sent: “Glascow wake un Jones. Station X ; tell him Jenkins at the foot of the stairs cant get in." Jones was looking at his watch again, and concluded that he had better put out the lights and go to his little bed room across the way, when clatter, clatter went bis in etnunentQ “There’s Glascow calling me," said Jones, and hurried to his instrument and ticked off: “What's wanting * Back came the answer t “Jenkins down stairs—door fast —go let him in.” Off’went Jones with a rush down stairs—threw open the door—and , at last the anxious Jenkins got up and sent oft' his news. So you see how a man sent a message through r solid door, and up four pair of stairs, four hundred' miles around and byway of Glascow and all within twenty minutes. Wasn’t that four hundred miles up stairs. A young fellow at a ‘donation' supper called out tojan acquaintance at the other end of the table; ‘Moses, just start the milk this way if you please." Upon which a buxom girl eager to be accommo-1 dating, seized the creamer and passed it along with the remark “My name is not Moaes; but I can start the milk!’ At which Moses and his friend smiled. Grant once boarded with Mrs Porter, whom he has now made postmistress of Louisville. — Had ical Exchange. If there are any more unliquidated board bills, now is the best time the holders will have to get their pay, as those post-offices can’t hold out forever. •—- /

Zadkiel’s Prophecies for 1870 “Zadkiel”—Lieut. Morrison—has issued in London bis Almanac predictions for 1870, of which the London Daily yews says: The work is indeed a multurn in parvo. It is suited to the wants and requirements of all ages and stations. Those who have neglect- i ed the warnings of the last number ' had better examine the list of fulfilled predictions at the end of the almanac, and note how foolish crowned heads have been in not seeing to their nativities in time, I The queen of Spain was warned j that Mars was inimical to her, and ! so it turned out. The conserva-■ tives of our country received due notice that the sun was in Aries, and not having made preparations for the event, the} 7 were overthrown If people defy Sagittarius or Virgo, and even turn their backs upon Taurus and Leo, what had thcyto expect? k Zadkiel particularizes in the most courageous manner. For example on the Ist, Gtli, 11th, 16th, 20th. 29th of January, deal with mer chants, bankers, or clergymen, and begin new undertakings. On the sth, 24th, 29, woo, marry, engage female servants, visit or invite friends, and so on. On the 4th, 9th, 19th, 23d, deal with farmers ‘and old folk.’ ‘Farmery and old folk this is a strange conjunction and seems somehow disrespectful to the agricultural interest. In March, Victor Emanuel (it alive) is likely to be in a bad way. Jupiter. by moving in Taurus, seems well disposed to Ireland ; but Uranus, by retrograding in Cancer, brings strange and sudden mixchief on Holland, Scotland, and ManChester. ‘Those born on the 15th of February will prosper in all Venus matters about the 15th of this month, which gives them exactly a month and a day to improve the privileges granted by a fading custom to the votaries of St. Vai entine. April promises to be lowering and dark. Mars squares Uranus, and there is turbulence on that account in England. During May, Ireland is expected to be troublesome. Both the prince imperial ami the prince of Wales are exposed to perils in November. In December, what with Virgo squaring at Jtipitea, Uranus retrograding in Cancer and Saturn entering Capricorn from an unexpected quarter, a complete Irish shindy will take place in the skies, and we shall all be in danger from ill health, grief, losses, crosses, Ac. The Vagabond Sage. An old man of very attractive physiognomy, answering to the name of Jacob Wilmot, was brought up before the police court. His clothes looked as though they might have been bought secondhand in his youthful prime, for they had suffered more from the rubs of the world than the proprietor himself. “What business ?” “None; I'm a traveller.” “A vagabond, perhaps ?” “You arc not far wrong. Travellers and vagabonds are about the same thing after all. The difference is that the latter travel without money, the former without brains.” “Where have you travelled ?” “All over the cont nent.” “For what purpose?” “Observation.” “What have you observed ?” “A little to commend, ranch to censure, and a great deal to laugh at.” “Humph! what do you coinmend ?'’ “A handsome woman that will stay at home, an eloquent preacher that will preach short sermons, a good writer that will not write too much, and a fool that has sense enough to hold his tongue.” “What do you censure F* “A man that marries a girl for her fine clothing ; a man who stud-, ies medicine while be has the use of his hands; and the people who will elect a drunkard to office.” “What do you laugh at ?” “I laugh at a man who expects hia position to command that respect which his personal qualifies tions and qualities do not merit.” He was dismissed. Those mild-mannered. Chinamen are not in as great demand for servants since the gentleman of the above race killed his family includ ing himself, in New York, the other day. But they improve with Age- J A Radical Mississippi judge has decided that the intermarriage of whites and negroes is “lawful in the State of Mississippi, the law of the State to the contrary notwithstanding.” We trust his judgement was not biased by family considerations.

A Race for Else. On Sunday afternoon the Fort Wayn6 Railroad Company sent a construction train up the road pre* paratory to the commencement fd work on Monday morning, as is the usual custom. The engineer, anxious of course to make his Sunday work as short as possible, rushed the train out of the depot and around the curve to the bridge, at the top of her speed. Upon arriving at the bridge, however, ho saw that which caused him to reverse the engine and apply the brakes with all his force. A mart with his wife and two children were on the narrow portion of the bridge, where it is just wide enough for a train to pass, about midway of its length of six hundred feet. Neither end could be reached by the imperiled family before the train would rush upon them ; but the husband and father was equal to the emergency. Catching up the children in his arms, he told his wife that he would see to them, and bade her run toward the end of the bridge, until the train should reach her. and then jump into the water. She must run for her life, as her safety depended upon her getting near enough to the shore to find shallow water before being overtaken by the train. She did as directed, and when she felt the hot breath of the iron monster, jumped from the bridge, alighting in not more than two feet of water and weeds, and the train passed her in safety. But what of the father and little c n-s? He could not run with them ; and while almost attracted with fears of his wife's safety, he was bound to find some escape fjr them. Taking the little ones in his arms, he cooly and steadily, in the face of the approaching train, lowered himself with them to a brace beneath the bed timbers, and there held them fast, within a few feet of the water, while the train came thundering over them. About the time the engine ■ reached the center of the bridge the exertions of the engineer and brakemen effected the stoppage of i the train, and their assistance was ■ rendered to extricate the frightened ; family from their yet perilous po- ; sition, and they went on their way, : thankful for their deliverance The French Police, The degree of perfection the police system in France has been ■ brought to is wonderfully illus- ! trated in the way the detectives managed the Pantin affair. The ingenuity, coolness and courage of these men",, as shown in their skill in ferreting out the author of the crime, reads like a clever romance. Their pride in their proi session, the remarkable way in wlych, with but a slight clew, they unravel the most hopeless affairs, is indeed astonishing. When once they get their hands upon anyone, however so remotely connected with a murder or a theft, the swiftness with which they sift and weigh everything, trifles and all, surprises even the culprits themselves. The efficiency of the French police system is in striking contrast with our bungling method of dealing with the dangerous classes. The police of our cities arc as a general thing worthless ; many owe their positions to mere political influence or bargain and corruption. Those simple-minded people who depend on the police for protection, by night or by day, show a degree of credulity which is pitiable. In France a detective has all the esprit du corps of a soldier, and desires nothing more thau the honors of excellence in his profession. Here every policeman is thinking when he will be mayor, or what is worse, in the legislature. The Effects of Alcohol on the System. Dr. Letheby states that the effects of alcohol are much modified by the.substances with tfhich it is associated in different alcoholic liquids; beer and ale for example, act on the respiratory function by reason of the saccharine and nitrogenous matters they contain ; wine also, as well as cider and perry, have a similar actidn, and, in proportion to their saccharine and acid constituents, brandy aud gin lessen the respiratory changes, and the latter acts on the kidneys by reason of the volatile oil it contains; whisky is uncertain in its effects upon the lungs; while rum, like beer and ale, is a true restorative, as it sustains and increases the vital powers; and he says that the old-fashioned combination of rum and milk is the most powerful restorative with which he is so quainted. The secret of the success of Chicago newspapers lies in the fact that every man and woman in the town takes every newspaper, for fear a divorce notice in which they are interested may be published and they not find it out *——■ • A gentleman at Decatur, Ala., is said to have killed thirteen out of ‘ sixteen desperadoes who attacked his house. He was one of your quiet, timid fellows, who didn't want any fuss.

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