Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1869 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. J AWES R. 8080, Attorney at Law, DECATI’K, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor's Office. vlon6tf R. S. PETERSON, Attorney a,t XievxTv, DECATUR, INDIANA. IyROMPT 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'e Law Office. vl2nß3tf D AAIIEL D. HELL ER, Attorney Law, / DECATUR, INDIANA. practice his Profession anyT v wheie in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder’s Office. vlons2tf D. STUDABAKER, Attorney- a,t Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. TXT ILL 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 and pay taxes, and other business pertaining to real estate agency. 13-23 PHYSICIANS. F.A.JELLEFF. W. 11. SCIIROCE . JELLEFFI SCHROCK, Physicians and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, opposite the Public Square. vßnlstf. CHARLES L. CURTISS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permanently located in this place, offers his professional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—At the Burt House. 11-36 A ND REWS OR <W , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, over W. G.Spencer A Brother's Hardware Store. vßu42tf. A . J . ERW lA, JI. D., Surgeon. Dispensary, Aveline Block, v11n25 * FORT WAYNE, IND. S. C. AYERS, JI. D., RESIDENT Bar and. Eye Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main & Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. toy*Artificial Eyes inserted. 12-44 DENTISTRY? JI. JI. JIcCOAAELL, Surgeon Dentist, DECATUR, INDIANA. ££* All work neatly executed and warranted to give sat-<4'4j-l-LIJ-Jisfaction. Call and examine specimens. > the Public Square, oyer’ftellcr's Law office. v11n49 R E AL ESTATE ACE NTS. JAJIES R. 8080, Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. rpHREE THOUSAND ACRES of good 1 farming land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. want to buy a good farm he will sell it to you. If yon Want your land sold he will sell it for you. No sale, no charge. v!on6 AUCTIONEER. CHARLES JI. FRA ACE, -A-uctioxieer, DECATUR, INDIANA. VNNOUNCES 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. IVACiCOAER, Licensed Auctioneer,. RESIDENCE, near Salem, Adams Co., Indiana. Post-Office address, Wilshire, Ohio. Special attention given to crying public sales. HOTELS. JIIESSE BOISE, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. t Third ‘St., Oppotite the Court Iloute, DECATUR, INDIANA. FpHE traveling public will find this I House a desirable stopping place. Good sample rooms. vlln9 MAYER HOUSE. J. W. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calhoun and Wliyne Street!, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. vl2n7 _ U_ MAIN STREET EXCHfNGL A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, West Main Street, near the Public Square, FORT WANYE, INDIANA, vllnll If HEDEKIA HOISE, A. J. H. MILLS, Proprietor, On Darr,tteeen Columbia asd Main Ste. FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. (X ENERAL Stage Office. Good staT bleingin connection with this house. HIsM

DECATUR, IND.,FRIDAY NOVEMBER 17 1869.

Young America. BY MRS. ELIZA A. HARRIMAN. There’s a bachelor, over the river. With a cabin and plenty of means ; He asked me to marry him, mother, And lam but just in my teens. He has a cat, and a cow, and a piggie, Two hens, and a barrel of beans; He said, just ?nough for a starting: And what if I am in my teens? There are Katie, and Susie, and Sarab, And Jennie, and Dorothy Deans, Were not done with crockery playthings, And scarcely had got in their teens, Till they had been married a twelvemouth. And now I would like to know why I can't have a beau and a wedding, And not live a maid till I die. There are some things in life quite uncertain, As mamma, you very well know ; And net in the least are the chances Os getting and keeping a beau. There's no use in saying he’s older Than I am by nearly a score; He’s had all those years to be learning, And I shall be petted the more. And no use to talk of our waiting, For John wouldn’t do it, I know; He'd marry some other young lady, And I be left minus a beau. So now I'm in haste forthe wedding; I'm earnest, and can’t be denied ; 'Twill seem such a beautiful romance To be called “the little girl bride.” Expensca of Congress. Hon. Mr. Van Trump, member of Congress from Ohio, has been unearthing, before the people, of that State some of the wasteful expenses of the two Houses of Congress. He says: The official reports now before me, show that the contingent ex penses of the House for 1867, a short legislative year, were 8622,231 40; for the Senate, for the same year. 8298,889 96, making in the aggregate, the sum of 8911,121 46! How was it for the year 1868? It was for the House, 8522,143 40; for the Senate, 8410,241 20—making the aggregate for 1868 the sum of 8932,384 61, and the total contingent expenses of the Fortieth Congress, the enormous sum, for such a purpose, of 81.843,506 07 ! And yet, notwithstanding both the Clerk of the Senate and of the House, for each year, report a large unexpended balance of this contingent fund on hand, the Fortieth Congress passed what are called deficiency bills, in aid of the same fund, in the further extraordinary sum of 8721,503! All this is exclusive of the salaries of the members. This report shows (he adds) that the House employs, as clerks, folders, laborers, messengers, clock winders, washers, paste mak ers, heating room operatives, librarians, postmasters, mail carri ers, chaplains, doorkeepers, car rir.ge drive:':, upuoisierers and stenographers, 234 persons! The Senate employs as clerks, Inborers, doorkeepers, heating room operatives, capitol police, watchmen, folders, librarians, chaplains, mes- j sengers, washers and temporary clerks, 183 persons; making the .total number of persons employed i /by Congress 417 persons! I wish | to call your attention to this semi-' military organization, called the Capitol Police, this Prietorian band, to guard the sacred bodies of Republican Senators after the, manner of the Roman Civsars!, It consists of thirty-three men, j (gaptains, lieutenants and privates, | dressed in blue uniforms, armed with Colt’s silver mounted revolv- i ers, and finely polished hickory i canes, all paid for by the sweat of the people. They parade through the halls l of the capital as a mere pageant, with no apparent duties to perform and none actually performed; for, independent of this merely orna-' mental body of Republican lazza ! roni, there ia a corps of ten watch-! men employed to guard and watch the Capital, at an annual salary of 81,000 each. And yet you will find, and I merely quote it as a specimen, that when C. W Woolley, of Ohio, was arrested and im prisoned in the Capital baatile, by order of Butler, for refusing to disclose his private business as a witness in the impeachment case, this sort of entry, on page 64 of. House report for 1868 : “Paid G. W. Chipman, extra policematr in charge of C. W. Woolley, June, i 1868. 8129 57.” Whywasnotone of these fine looking, athletic fellows of the Capital Police detailed to act as jailor for Woolley ? What is the Capital Police for, unlees it ia to attend to the police

business of the Capital ? The reason is, Mr. Chipman was some hungry hanger on of some importunate Radical member of Congress, and he had to be provided for in order to pay expenses in his devout pilgrimage to the Mecca of office at Washington. CONTRASTS. Mr. Van Trump then draws the following contrasts: The number of employes in the Thirty-fourth Congress, in 1856, the last year of Mr. Pierce’s (Democratic) administration, being a full Congress, with every State in the Union represented, was one hundred and fifty eight, two hundred and fifty-nine less than the “Rump” Congress of 1868, and at a total cost of 8172,610, being 8176,405 less than that of 1868! Let us make a few more of these comparisons, although they may be ‘odious” to our Republican candidate for Governor. The For tieth Congress used 489 tons of ice, at a cost of 86,796 17. The Democratic Congress used 1,415 bushels, at a cost of only 8707 25. a difference of more than 800 per cent! What makes this ice business ai little amusing is the fact that the House, for 1868, is charged with 12,574 pounds of ice in the sultry month of January! I The Fortieth Congress spent for I pocket-books, gold pens, scissors, I and visiting cards, the sum of 816,I 466 25 ; the Democratic Congress the sum of 81.379 40, a difference ,of more than 1,200 per cent.' The ! Fortieth Congress invested in 588 ' pairs of fine kid gloves the sum of 81,214 25 ! The Democratic Coni gross made no such investment. I The Fortieth Congress paid for matches ( when the Capital is light ed by gas ignited by an electric battery) tl esum of 8887 17. The Democratic Congress paid 810 85 ! The Fortieth Congress is charged , for nail, hair and hat brushes and combs in the sum of 82,206 41! Some of these hair brushes cost as high ns 86 a piece. The Democratic Congress in the sum of 838. The Fortieth Congress spent for fine toilet soap the sum of 81,504 65. The Democratic Con gress, 825 08 ! The Fortieth Con gress spent in 14,652 pencils (87 ! to a memlier) the sum of §2.125, ;43 ! The Democratic Congress in 4,320 (18 to a member) the sum |of §llO 47. I might run out these parallels to an indefinite extent, hut it would only consume my time aud weary your patience. Estimated Sum Total of Presents to Grant. Leaving out any mention of the items, as only calculated to con sumo time and confuse the judgment, we may say that the money value of these various presents, accepted and pocketed by General Grant at the outset of his administration as a sort of preparatory exercise, we suppose, for an im maculate career, amounts to a sum ranging from one to two hundred thousand dollars, and nearer, we believe, to the latter than the form er fit’-nra. Our honest belief is that, somehow or other, General Grant is to day at least three him dred thousand dollars better off than he was six years ago, and that his proper salary in that time would not*equal one hundred thou sand dollars, out of which would come, of course, bis family expenses. The mysteries of all this we do not affect to guess at; the known presents are what we mean to write of just now, amounting, as above stated, to much over one bund red thousand dollars. — B asAington Express. To judge from the Washington correspondents, Congressmen will not be so much engaged in the ap proaching session in useful legis lation as in gorgeous entertainments. Surely, if the capacity of Senators and members for public business were to be estimated by their ability to rent handsome residences and give large parties, we might now expect to behold anew the legislative wonders of Solon and Lycurgus. But we arc inclined to believe that the large body of Congressmen will live, asi usual, in a quiet and modest way. I and not excite the suspicions of ! their constituents by converting the Washington winter season into a Neapolitan carnival or Green wich fair. The Utah News says: “In no community on the continent can a stranger express himself in antagonism to the views and prejudices of the inhabitants of that community with so great impunity as in Salt Lake City. Hence all this outcry about the daring and courage of Mr. Colfax amounts to no more than froth and feathers; it is like crying ‘wolf,’ ‘wolf,’ in the en tire absence of danger."

Peaceful End of a » roubled ; Lif e—Death of a Once Notorious Man. We notice in one of our ex- ' changes the death of a man at Pittsfield, Lorain county, Ohio, on the 23d instant, whose name will bring to the recollection of many of the older readers of the Journal the circumstances of nn excite ment in about the year 1833, which, for intcusitj’ and wide spread prevalence, has scarcely been excelled by many of the thousand and one events that have since absorbed the publie attention for the time being. The body of a young girl by the name of Sarah A. Cornell, of Fall River, Massachusetts, was* found by the side of a haystack, in a field remote from the highway, with the indications of a great struggle and atrocious murder up on and about it. A Methodist minister of the place, named Ephraim K. Avery, was suspected, arrested and tried as the author of the atrocious homicide. Mr. Avery was a very talented and popular preacher, and the girl was a member of his church. The ecclesiastical court, acquitted him, with full conviction of his innocence, and the civil court failed to make fl, case against him and discharged him. But that did not settle the question of bis innocence in the minds of a great portion of thfe people thereabout, and of the whole country, for the excitement on the subject was as intense in Ohio and other distant States, as in Massachusetts. One half of the people believed him in nocent, and the other half were well persuaded of his guilt. Mr. Avery, after his acquittal, resumed his occupation as a preacher, and labored in several localities, being settled for several years at Richmond, Massachusetts, and other places in that neighborhood. Hundreds, for a while, went great distances to see and hear him; but it was evident that curiosity, more than anything else, tended to swell his audiences ; and he could not outgrow or outlive the suspicion that existed against him. So he finally retired from the ministry and removed to u distant country, to seek the quiet and freedom from annoyance which he could not expect in Massachusetts. For the last twenty or thirty years he has led the life of an industrious and quiet farmer at Pittsfield, Ohio, where he died on the 23d instant, going to the grave with the respect and regret of his neighbors and acquaintances. Hi- age at death was aeveuty years.—Co/at/ifiwa Journal. IMflsing With an Appetite. .There was a certain religious society, one of whose peculiarities was to greet each other with a kiss at their meetings. Among them was a young man and a very pretty girl, “whose lips," probably, as the poet bath it, “were like strawberries half smothered in cream,” and when they met, they, of course, saluted each other with the regeneration ku s. After some weeks, at one of the usual meetings, a staid and venerable brother said: “That while they regarded kissing as very proper, it had been observed by him, as well as some of the venerable and unmarried sisters present, that the young brother and sister when they met were in the habit of kissing with rather too much of an apgetite, and they ■ thought with such young people, who were not always considerate of the feelings of the" maiden sis-; t( rs, that hereafter the accustomed , salutation might very properly be omitted, else it might create un pleasant feelings in the society." j A Sermon Well Applied. In a country parish in Scotland the minister and the ruling elder went over the muir to visit an old , parishioner, on a “catechising" ■ visit, and the walk being a long ’ one, their appetites were pretty i keen when they arrived. Before commencing the serious business, they suggested that the “inward i man" was clamorous, t Janet acI cordingly went to the ••press,” and ' placed on the table country re-1 freshments, bread, milk, etc., and seating herself at a little distance, 1 requested her visitors to fall on.-r They soon cleared the board, and the minister remarked. “Now, Janet, we begin the serious business. Do you remember the text I last Sunday, Janet?" “ Deed I Ido,” replied Janet; “I mind it * weol; it was the miracle of the loaves and the fishes." “And have ' ye pondered the subject during the 'week, Janet?” “’Deed I have, ■ an’ I’m thinkin' the noo that gin i you and the elder had been there, | they wad no hac taken up sac many baskets fu'.’’

A Wonderful Phenomenon. On the first day of September, j 1869, two astronomers, one at Oxford, the other at London, were at the same time watching the spots on the disc of the sun; and both i at the same moment saw certain ; strange bright patches of light break out in front of the cluster.— So brilliant were they that the observers at first thought that the j darkening screens attached to their i telescopes must have become frac- i tured. But this was found not to be the case. The bright spots indicated a process that was going on upon the sun’s surface—a pro- , cess so rapid that in five minutes , the spots had traveled over a space of pearly 34,000 miles. At the very same time that this was taking place, magnetic storms swept instantaneously—so subsequent observations proved—thro’ 1 both hemispheres of our globe.— At Washington and Philadelphia the signal men in the telegraphic offices received sharp electric shocks; the tracing pen usedin Bain's system of telegraphy was followed by aflame, and in Nor way telegraph machinery was set on fire. Boreal and astral auroras were seen that night with unusual splendor, as the disturbed needle vibrated, waving their colored .streamers in the heavens, Insomuch that it was evident that the disturbance on the sun’s surface had in atantaneously communicated to the earth magnetic thrills which vibrated from pole to pole. j Nor is this all. There is a strange connection, oftentimes, be I tween the action of those magnetic I forces and the phenomena of earthquakes and volcanoes. Indeed, it has been recently argued that the cause of the latter is to be found, not in the subterranean fires of our globe expending vapors and giving them a destructive agency, but in the electricity communicated to our globe by the sun. But be this as it may, it is a startling fact that there is a force manifesting itself on the face of the sun simply as a brilliant light flashing over its surface, that can, through an interval [of ninety-five millions of miles, instantaneously operate on our earth, blaze along our telegraphic wires, give electric shocks to the signal men stationed by them, flash northern lights through the heavens, thrill the very globe from pole to pole with magnetic influences, disturb the repose of nature, and, perhaps, rock the ‘■olid earth as if its surface, in some places at least, were a mere scale on a boiling sea of fire. ( College Anecdote. A party of college students, ripe for mischief, laid a plan to draw their Professor's carriage into the woods at night, and there leave it But some one among the students, who knew the design, had scruples in regard to it, and quietly gave the Doctor a hint that it might be well for him to lock the door of his carriage shop. The Doctor, however, did no such thing; but about ten in the evening settled himself comfortably (a stout,heavy man) in the carriage. He did not have to wait long. The young men came, and as agreed, drew the vehicle into a dense piece of wood. They were quiet at first, but when out of hearing of any one on the college grounds, they grew mirthful and excited, talking jocosely, aud calling one another by name. They turned to go heme, having agreed that “the carriage was hea\ y ; enough to have the old Doctor and all his tribe in it” When said the Doctor courteously, putting his 1 Lead out of the window: “Young gentlemen, you brought me here for your pleasure: be so kind as to carry me bfcck for mine." What a “change” had “come o'er the spirit of their dream!": In silence and consternation, they retraced their way, restored the 1 carriage to its place, and went to I their rooms. Probably the mor row’s dread account haunted their | sleep. But the kind hearted (and fun loving) Doctor never called the heroes of that night to account,' enjoyed the joke immensely, and i had no more trouble about his car- j riage. _ _ The late Admiral Colpoys, who i rose to that high station as the es- ■ sects of bis meritorious exertions, used to be fond of relating, that on : first leaving an humble lodging to join his ship, as a midshipman, his landlady presented him with a Bi- ‘ ble and a guinea, saying, “God bless you. and prosper you. my lad ; and as long os you live, never super yourself to be laughed out of yoifr money or your prayers" The young sailor carefully followed this advice through life, and had reason to rejoice that he did so; . while thousands have unavailingly | regretted that they hare pursued a different course

Miscellaneous Mem*. Virginia has a 8100,000 negro in its Legislature. The California Democracy have elected 11 out of 14 District J udges. Never apply the whip to a donkey. One fool should never strike ; another. A lady in this city is trying to better her disposition by dieting on sweet potatoes. Down in Mississippi thev call a i colored man a “Fifteenth Amend’ merit.” The oldest commission in the I army is that of General Sylvanus ; Tbaver, who entered the service in 1808. Fanny Fern having said that ■ “men of the present day are fast,” I Prentice replies that “they have to j be to catch the women.” * Philadelphia has an estimated population of 785.000 souls, which makes it the fourth city as regards i size in the civilized world. I The total amount of sugar now consumed by all nations, may ba estimated at 2.500.000 tons. America consumes about 530,000 tons. An Englishman suggests th® ' punishment of wife-beaters by means of a galvanic battery —a • shocking punishment for a shock* [ ing crime. The Boston Post says: “Th® fitness of women for office will no I longer be questioned. A postmisi tress in Pennsylvania has been [ caught robbing the mails. ! An irritable man having been ' disappointed in his boots, threati ened to chaw up the shoemaker, but compromised by ft ' cobbler. The United States contains 6,000,000 of dogs. A tax of 81 a head on these valuable animals would go a great way toward relieving the income tax. A statue of Mr. Peabody is to [ be erected at Rome, by order of i the Pope, whb is deeply impressed by the charity of the great American philanthropist. The Public Ledger, Philadelphia, has a daily edition of over [ seventy thousand copies, and, with ; but one exception, has the largest ! circulation of any daily newspaper in the world. There is a man in New Jersey , who insists on having his marriage ceremony repeated every year, go--1 ing through the whole ceremony ' of new- dross for his wife, dinner • ■ to his friends, cic. The Hartford Courant takes high moral grounds, politically, and savs that “next to the minis- | try of the Christian religion, there is no nobler profession than that of the politician.” ? A number of lowa Radical papers are denouncing the registry law of that State. They claim that all registry laws simply disgust voters without preventing fraudulent voting. The defeat of ex-President Johnson in Tennessee excites great ini dignation throughout the State.— I An exposure of the most “rascally plot ever attempted to be carried out in American politics” is to bo forthcoming soon. Joshua Kannock, of Ossipee. N IL, is, “according to the best i information,” 106 years old, and has just left otf the use of tobacco, because “its effects are injurious, [ and it tends to shorten life.”. Radical autlflSfitics at Washington intimate that a strong effort will be made to prevent ths re-ad* ' mission of Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas, on the ground that these States intend to undo all that they have done in compliance with the instructions of Congress. The following item illustrates the beauties of protection : “Th® Onondaga Salt Company sends salt , into Canada, where it is a<lmittod free, and is sold, on the average, at 81 50 per barrel of five bushels, while their neighbors in Syracuse. New York, can not get a barrel of five bushels for less than 82 25. ‘ A teacher of one of our young i ladies' schools, in endeavoring to i inspire his pupils into hard study and its resultant proficiency, urged i them to stand by their tasks like a man. Some of the 19-crs were } heard to whisper that they would prefer to stand by a man. Human i nature, like murder, will out, The New Orleans papers com plain that free negro labor is a failI tire. The freedmen will not work, : but skulk in the cabins, and drag their worn out finery to meetings i and societies, by the thousands.— There is a strong disposition, if not an actual necessity, to introduce Chinese labor. Two Americans at Baden-Baden, the other day. were dining with ft j pair of Paris ladies, when a Russian prince, who perhaps wished •! to pick a quarrel, purchased two glorious liouquets, and sent them to the ladies with his compliment*. I The American* merely glanced • I over to his table, bowed cordially, • and sent him back by the waiter* k 1 two Napoleons. He wa* so much chagrined that he left-the room

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