Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 12 November 1869 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. J.IHES R. 8080, ) A.ttorncy sxt Law, > • DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Laud aud pays » Taxes. OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor's Office vlOnCtf R. S. PETERSOY, Attorney at iia-w, DECATUR, INDIANA. T>ROMPT attention paid to all busi--1 ness entrusted to his care. tary Public, and draws Deeds, Mortgages, amlotherinstruments in writing. <> OFFICE—In D. Studabaker's 6tyw Osj; See. Vl2n33tf ** ' : O DANIEL D. HELLER, " Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. r OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder's Office. v!ons2tf I>. STUDABAKER, r -A.ttomcy at Taaw, J DECATUR, INDIANA. practice law in Adams and adv V joining counties; secure pensions and other claims against the government; buy and sell real estate; exam ne titles i and pay taxes, and other business per--jtainingto real estate agency. 13-23 a PHYSICIANS. a — — F.A. JELLEFF. W. H. SCIIHOCK. ,JELLEFF A SCHROCK, Phy sician* and Surgeons, 11 DECATUR, INDIANA. C OFFICE—On Second Street, opposite the Public Square. vSnlotf. gs lIARLES K. CURTISS, Cc 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 n|A A DRE U SOR « , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, over W, JjG. Spencer & Brother's Hardware Store. Il vbnPJtf. A. J. ERWI A, 11. D., s« Surgeon. t'Dispensary, Avcline Block. vl ln*2s * FORT WAYNE, IND. II j iU S. C. A VERS, 51. D., RESIDENT 4 i<Ear and. Eye Surgeon, | e< FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main & | 'alhoun streets, over Drug Store. icc SfciF'Artificial Eyes inserted. I’2-44 I,f DENTISTRY. !j,II. 51. 51r< OAAELE, n; Surgeon Dentist, ‘ DECATUR, INDIANA. - g. work neatly executed " unw9W 1,,11 l warranted to give s»tisfuction. '(,':ill and examine specimens. • OFFlCE—Opposite the Public Square over Heller s Law office. vllnl'J REAL ESTATE AGENTS. j.I A .TIES R. ROSSO, Real Etdate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. rpHREE THOUSAND ACRES of good ’ 1 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 gold he will sell it for you. No ' sale, no charge. vlOnß AUCTIONEER. CHARLES 51. FRA ACE, -A.iiction.ocr, DECATUR, INDIANA. 4 NNOUNCES to the public that he is i a regularly Licensed Auctioneer, . I and will attend all Public Sales when requested, ; OFFICE—In J. R. Bobo's Law office. 1 J. P. avakkdaer, 1Licensed Auctioneer, . T)ESIDENCE, near Salem, Adatps Co.. 1 I t Indiana. Post-Office Wil- . shire. Ohio? feiy Special attention given to crying public sales. MMM- - [ sail I ■ I _ - - : HOTELS. TI lES S E HOU SE , I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. , Third St., O/ipotitr the Court Route, DECATUR, INDIANA. r pHE traveling public will find this 1 House a desirable stopping place. Good sample rooms. vlln9 "MAYER HOUSE? J. W. BULL, Proprietor, i jCbrnrr of Calhoun and Wayne Streets, FOHT WAYNE. INDIANA. [ vl‘2»i7 ts MAII STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, We»t Main Street, near the Rublie Square, FORT WANYE, INDIANA, vllall If HEDEKIA HOUSE, A. J. 11. MILLS. Proprietor,. On Barr, betueen Columbia and Main Sti. FORT WATWE, INDIANA. GENERAL Stage Office. Good «tablelngia oonneetioa vilh-thl«house ' vl2n9> if

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The Difference. MAX. • If he wear a good coat. Lift him up. lift him up; Though he be but a bloat, Lift him up. If he's not common sense, And boasts a few pence, Lift him up. » ° If his face shows no shame. Lift him up, lift him up;“ Though crime is his name, Lift him up. Though disgrace be his sport, Let your daughters him court— Lift him up. WOMAN. If woman once errs, Kick her down, kick her down; If misfortune is hers, Kick her down»Though her tears flow like rain, And she ne'er smiled again, Kick her down. If a man breaks her heart, Kick her down, kick her down ; Redouble the smart— Kick her down. And if in low eotidition, On. on <o perdition— Kick her down. Good Advice. Nobody is more liked an honest man than a thorough rogue When yon sec a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock within. Do not choose your friend by his looks; handsome shoes often pinch the feet. Don’t be tond of compliments, remember, ‘•Thank you, pussy, and thank you. pussv,” killed the cat. Don’t believe in the man who talks most; for mowing cats are very seldom mousers. By no means put your self in another person’s power; if you put your thumb between two grinder's they are very apt to bite. Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it. and make sure that it means no more than it savs. Don't go to law unless you have nothing to lose; lawyer's houses are built on fool’s heads. In any business, never wade into water where you cannot see the bottom. ■ Put no dependence upon the label of a bag; and cotint money after your kin. See the sack open before you buy.whatisin it; for he who trades in the dark asks to be cheated. Keep clear of the man who does not value his character. Beware of him who swears; he who wonld blaspheme the Maker would make no bones of lying or stealing Beware of no man more thanyourself; we carry our worst enemies with us. When a new opinion of a doctrine comes before you, do not bite till you know whether it is bread or stone; and do not be sure that then gingerbread is good because of the gilt on it. Never shout halloa! till you are quiteout of the woods; and never cry fried fish till they are caught in the net. There is always time enough to boast—wait a little longer. Don't throw away dirty water till you have clean water; keep on scratching the roads till you can get better work ; for the poorest pay is better than none; and the humblest office is better than being out of employment. Always give up the road to bulls and madmen, and never fight with a coal heaver, or be content with a base character, for they will be sure to blacken you.—[ Rev. JI Spurgeon. F»llen Men- — The latest suggestion from the enterprising ladies of the Revolu-i tion newspaper is the immediate' cstablisment, at eligible points, of ••Hanv’s for the Fallen Men." This idea has the merit of origi nallitv at least. These men, they say, do not desire to be bad. ••They are led estray by a false curl, a little paint and powder a pretty foot, a nicely rounded form, a wink of the eye. a smile, or the flutter of the handkerchief." From there temptations the “strong minded" desire to remove them. But will the “fallen men" accept their good offices? We expect not. Very Indefinite. An old lady was asked what she thought of her neighbors of the name of Jones, and with a knowing wt»k. replied: ••Why, I don’t like to say anything about my neighbors; but as to Mr. Jones, sometimes I think, apd thep again I don’t know; after all, I rather guess he’ll turn out to be a gooddeal such a fellow as I took him for." — — Mark Twain is 36 years old.

Historical Sketch of a Woman’s Voting. I In the Agitator, a paucr devoted to woman’s suffrage, and published at Chicago, we find interesting briefs in regard to women’s vot ing ■ In Manchester, England, eight women, whose names were by ac-1 cident left on the registry, voted at the last election. Eight others,! freeholders, voted in Southeast Lancashire. In Ashford, East Kent, fifteen out of thirty-five who ■ were registered, recorded their votes. In Finsbury the same num- 1 ber also went to the polls. In Dublin one woman, and in London three women voted. In Canada, as in several of our own States, women are allowed to vote for and serve as school trustees. In Pitcairn’s Island, which is inhabited by mutineers of the country, the Government, which is based on a written Constitution, is shared on equal terms by men and women. Ladies of title formerly occui pied seats in the House of Lords. ! where they were entitled as Peer losses in their own right, or when ; their lords were dead and heirs were tn their nonage. They also' held the office of High Sheriff, which must be held by one possessed of the electoral qualification and other dignities. It has also been stated that the late investigations tend to show that the Parliaments were origin* ally founded on the idea of uni versa! suffrage, the manifestation of which was the “showing of hands.’’ In the British Australian colon}’ of Australia, women universally assumed the right to vote some four years ago. having found that the law had, probably inadvertant- ( ly, been so framed as to permit I them. It works admirably, ac- I cording to all reports. - In Sweden, chiefly through the exertions of Fredrika Bremer, an indirect right of voting was, in 1862, granteil to ail women possessing specified property qualifi cations. By the Italian code, a widow or wife, separated from her husband, who pays taxes, is allowed to vote through such child or other relative as she may designate. In Holland, widows and single women, possessed of property, are entitled to vote on all questions of taxation, etc., likely to affect its value. In 1867 Moravia granted the franchise to all widows who pay taxes. In many towns in France women possess the right to vote in municipal affairs, and in one of them it is said that the council was recently composed wholly of wo men. In Austria women can vote as nobles, in their corporate capacity as nuns, and as tax payers. In Hungary, up to 1841, widows and single women, who were landed nr n prietors, possessed the right to vote. They were deprived of it by the government, and they are now petitioning in large numbers for the rcstora- . tion of this right. Learn to Keep House. No young lady can be too well ■ instructed iu anything which will affect the comfort of a family. Whatever position in society she occupies, she needs a practical knowle<lge of household duties. She may be plaeetl in such circum ■ stances that it will not bp nceessa Iry for perform much do j mcstjrDabor, but on this account i she iiNi* no less knowledsv than ; if she was obliged to preside per- ' sonally over the cooking stove 1 and the pantry. Indeed, I have ■ thought it more difficult to direct others, and requires more experit nee. than to do the same work with our hands. Young people cannot realize the importance of a thorough knowledge of housewifery; but those who have sffered the inconvenience ■ and mortification of ignorance can well appreciate it Children should be early indulged in their disposition to bake, and experiment in various ways. It is often but a troublesome help that they affortl; still it is of great advantage to thani?- I know a little girl who, at nine years old. made a loaf of bread every week during the winter. Her mother taught her how much yeast, salt, and flour to use, and she became quite an expert baker. Some mothers gives their daughters the care of housekeeping each a week by turns. It seems to me a good errangement, and a most useful part of their education. Maine boasts of 40,000 discharged soldiers and sailors

Trying for a School. — A gentleman from Swampville was telling how many different occupations he had attempted.— Among others he had tried school > teaching. “How long did you teach asked a bystander. “Wai, I didn’t teach long ; that is, I only went to teach-’’ “Did you hire out ?” “Wai, I didn't hire out; I only went to hire out.” “Why did you give up “Wai, I giv Up for some reason ; or nuther, you see I traveled into a doestrict and inquired for the trustees. Somebody said Mr. Knlckles was the man I ivanted to see.. So I found Mr Shickles—named mv | object, intcrduced myself, and I axed him what he thought about letting m.e try iny luck with the i boys and the unruly gals in the deestrict. He wanted to know if | I raaly considered myself capable: , and I wouldn't mind his asking me a few easy questions in ’rithmetic, jography, or showing my ■ hand writing. He said -no. never mind, he could tell a good teacher by bis gait.’ ” “L»'t me see you walk off a little ways." said he. “and I can tell jest I as well's I'd heard you examined.” “He sot in the door as he spoke, i I and I tho't be looked a little skit- I ■ tish ; but I was considerably frustrated and didn't mind much, so I , turned around and walked on as j smart as I knowed how. He said ' . he’d tell me when to stop, so I . kept on till I thought I’d gone fur enough; then I s'peeted s’thing , was to pay, and looked round.— Wai, the door was shet, and Snick- . ' les was gone." Crawled Up. An exchange gives the follow-j ing: Once upon a time a gentle i man found in his henroost a simple minded soul of the invisible means of support. “What are you doing here, you ; rascal? Stealing my chickens?" i “No, sir," was the response, “I ain't tho't of doin’ nuthin of the j sort.’’ It unfortunately happened that the simple minded ii dividual wore a high straw hat, of the dimensions . of a bee hi ve; and the crown there- 1 j of was dilapidated to a serious ex- . I tent. Just as he put in his denial. , the head of a half grown pullet was j seen to protrude from the aperi ture ! “See there," said the gen-' ; tieman, “how did that chicken , get in your hat ?’’ “Well," exclaimed the simple- ' I minded individual, with an air of honest surprise aud embarrass- ( inent, “that is the strangest thing that ever happened to me. I suppose the durn'd critter must have I crawled up my trowsers'leg!’’ . ! Bar Wit. I The New Haven Register says :' “A pungent little incident occur-j . red in an argument before thd Su preme Court, on Friday last, be- i tween Messrs. 11. B. Harrison and. T. E. Doolittle, Esqrs.. counsel in the matter of the Derby railroad i injunction. Mr. Harrison was conj tending that, inasmuch as one leg- ; islaturc did, only ®ix days before ' the expiration of the charter, cxe- ' cute important legislation in reference to the completion of the Derby railroad, it was ridiculous to i argue that its charter could be for-; feited by the old terms of non- j completion at a certain period, or ' I that the legislature could possibly! i expect the railroad to be edmplotled in six days. At this point, ■Doolittle' (who was making a sharp fight on the other side) suggested that ‘possibly brother Har rison had read of a little incident' in sacred historv, in which a work i of nearly the size nnd importance ■ of the Derby railroad was comple-' ted in six davs? He referred to • the creation of the world.’ (Responded Mr. Harrison),‘Ah, -cs ; J that is very true ; but brother Doo little omits to mention a very important fact in that connection.— He should remember that during! the creation Satan was not hang- j ing around with his pockets full of remonstrances and injunctions, imi>eding and obstructing the work.' ” “My competitor.” exclaimed a political orator, “has told you of the services he has rendered his country in the late war. Let me tell you that I. too, acted a humble part in that memorable contest. When the tocsin of war summoned the loyal masses to rally to the de sense of the national flag, I, fellow citizens, animated by that patriotic spirit which glows in every American bosom, hired a substitute, aud the bones of that man now lie bleaching on the banks of the Rap pahaunock.’’

The Prophet of the Period. It was not very long since that an-enterprising German professor, cidled Falb, predicted that certain 'parts of South America, say Peru and Chili, would indulge in earthquakes. The prophecy excited at first a broad grin, but, as the time fixed for the exhibition approach- ■ ed, and the symptoms of old moth-1 er earth daily grew worse, the Peruvians began to realize that Falb’s ' i performance was in time, and ' would not be postponed. The i time arrived, the great shake came off to the entire satisfaction of Falb, w|io is no w the only author-I ity in hie line of business An 1 English officer named Saxby has ‘ i been equally ambitious, and pre- ; dieted the time and place of all the late piiucipal hisrrii anes 1 and storms with remarkable exactness. 1 Thus the two greatest affairs of i the period are now under the dii rcetion of Messrs. Falb and Saxby. They should-form a partner- . ship under that name and title, and : give their undivided attention to the business. They should charge handsomely for an earthquake performance, and visit with storms • any country not careful of its man--1 ner toward England and Germany. , They would 15e rather uncoinforta--1 ble people to know, though, for if . you should chance to offend them.-j you might have vour house shaken ; or blown down«about your cars — Persons desiring a hurricane or an earthquake, should not fail to pat- ! ■ i onize them. They prepare them on short notice, in every style, ; and they will be found by married i men to be an agreeable recreation . after their domestic ones with the ■ wives of their bosoms. . The Romance Taken Out of Her. I It is hinted by the New York papers that a recent very stylish wedding thereof a person claim-1 i ing the title of lord, has made v dupe of the .rich and beautiful. ■ young lady to whom he was united. Concurrent events almost J proved this consequence. But ■ nothing serves to teach caution Not long ago a beautiful girl, the daughter.of a rich banker in Lon- ■ don, England, saw from the gratI ing of the ladies’ gallery. in the House of Commons a pensive Mahommedan. His rich dress proclaimed him a noble. His melan-j ' eholy eyes showed that he had i been deprived of his kingdom.— Pity moved the heart of the young lady—the pair met, loved ano were married. The nobleman took hi* wife to_Calcutta. where she was much amazed to find herself driven ‘to a wretched dwelling, in which three other wives of her husband were installed. Being a woman of ! some firmness and courage, she returned to England by the ship which had brought her to India — I Her husband turned out to be a I “Moonshee”—a teacher of lan ■ gnages — earning sixty rupees i (about B'lo in gold) a month — One young woman at least has got over all silly notions about the i “romance of the East” fur the rest of rhe life. A Sad Speech by Win. (uHcn Bryant. One of the saddest and most touching speeches that w? ever read, is that of tha venerable poet. Wjllianm Cullen Bryant, at the late commencement of William* Coli lege. Being called upon to speak at the annual dinner, he said : “It has occurred to me, since I, I in the decline of life, came to visit once more this seat of learning, in which our youth are trained to succeed us on the stage of the world, that 1 am in the situation of one who. standing on a spot desolate with winter and dim with twilight, should be permitted, by a sort of miracle, to look upon a neighboring region glorious with the bloom of spring, and bright with the beams of morning. On the side where I stand are herbi less fields and leafless woods,pools sheeted with ice. a frozen soil and the shadows of approaching night. On the side to which I look are emerald meadows, fields of springing wheat, orchards in bloom, transparent streams and a genial I sunshine. With me. it is too late i for any further hopeful tillage, and jif the plow were but into the ground. its coulter would be obstructed by the ice bound sods. A single English colony has lately bought 30,000 acres of land lin Kansas. The tract is to be divided among no fewer than 1.200 I families, consisting of well to-do fanners and artisans. German and j Swedish colonists have also pur ■ chased largely. The Unitarians have 315 societies and 383 ministers in the United States.

Thomas Carlyle Swears that w« are Going to Hell. W W i From, Mr. Ripky'i Letter in the Tribum„ The condition of America was descanted on by Mr Carlyle in terms less remarkable for flattery than force.— “Aa sure as the Lord ' reigns," said he, “you are ms ing down to hell with desperate vei locity. The scum of the world Ims possession of your country, . a d nothing can save you from the d-vil’s clutches. Not perhaps,” ■ cried he, raising his voicA.to its shrillest notes, “a hell with material of fire and brimstone, but the wide withering firery chaos of corruption in high places, and ; the misrule of the people. A fine republic that! England follows in I the train, and is even now on the brink of the” infernal precipice—and hell below.” Os course I ■ could make no reply to these “prophetic sounds so full of woe,” but waited in serene silence for the tempest to pass over. Twain'* Biography* Here is Mark Twain's latest account of himself: “I have but little character, but what I have I iam willing to part with for the pul Iji good. 1 would have been a betterjnan if I had had a chance, but things have always been ngainst me. I never had parents hardly,—only just a father and mother, —and so I have had to - struggle along the best way I could. I do not boast of to hi? character, further than that I built it up myself. at odd hours, during the last ' 30 year?, and without other edu- ; cational aid than I was able to pick up in the ordinary schools and colleges.” An Alarming Branch of Study. Some very ardent students of physiology are now engaged on | what they call ‘Experimental Hel ininthology.” which seems to mean the cultivation of parasites in the human body and in other animals; I for the purpose of tracing their habits and the effects they produce, i Even poor Polonins was only inj vited to supper—“not where he cats, but where he is eaten”—after ■ he had ceased to have any use of ■ his own flesh and blood ; and any ! "convocation of politic woims” that propose to hold a diet over us ! might wait, one think, as i long. But those who happen to have an “experimental helminthologist” in their families Lave no choice: he will be making them subjects of experiments whether ; they will or not. —* — . — Personal Influences. i Blessed influence of one true, iloving soul on earth! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic; but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by j which the tiny seed is quickened and bursts forth into tall stem and j broad leaf and glowing tasseled flower. Ideas are often poor ghosts ; our sun-filled eyes cannot . discern them as they pass athwart ns in thin vapor, and cannot make ■ themselves felt. But sometimes they are of flesh, they touch us with soft responsive hands; they ■ look at us with sad eyes, and speak itous in appealing tones; they are clothed in a human soul, with all ’ its conflicts, its faith, and its love. Then their presence is a power; • then they shake us like a passion, i and we are drawn after them with gentle compulsion. as flame la ! drawn to flame. Curiosity, . The Dunkirk Journal says that a curious individual was greatly perplexed at the opening of the Masonic rooms, the other night, to understand the whys and wherefores of the three large candles which had conspicuous positions?; He viewed them on all sides, thoughtfully summing up in his mind their probable use. At last his patience was exhausted, and taming suddenly about, he made bold to ask a Mason "what those ■ candles were for ” The Mason, looking about him to see that no one was near, and exacting the most solemn promises of secrecy, got close up to the ear of his ;riend. and with abated breath whispered: -The candles are to burn.” The curious man hasn’t told any person ' about it, but somehow, such things will leak out. The American Churchman, of i Chicago, says that the knaves of Utah are nearly all Yankees, includins the “apostles," “bishops.” and “elders ” and all who get the tithes : while the dupes are mainly very degraded European peasants, 4nany of them from England and • Wales, and members by l)aptism of 1 the English Church It says :— 1 . “There never existed but one Mopmon Irishman, and a Morm >n 1 Irish woman is something totallj ’ unknown to naturalists ” It would give character to iha cry, “The colored troops fought bravely‘The colored laborers work industrioosly ,’ but few liars the mendacity to claim thia.

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