Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 3 December 1869 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. JAJIES R. 8080, Attorney «.! Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Laud and pays Taxes. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor's Office. vlOnbtf R. S. PETERSOX, Attorney a.t Ibftxv, DECATUR, INDIANA. PROMPT attention paid to all business entrusted to his care. Is n Notary Public, and draws Deeds, Mortgages, and‘'therinstruments in writing. OFFICE—In D. Studabaker’s Law Office. vl2n33tf DAVIEL IK HErrLER, Attorney rat Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywhete in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder’s Office. vlOns2tf D. STLDABAKER, Attorney «,t Xja.-xxr, DECATUR, INDIANA. "VX? - ILL practice law in Adams and ad- ■ V V joining counties; secure pensions l and other claims against the government; I buy and sell real estate; exam ne titles i and pay taxes, and other business per- | tainingto real estate agency. 13-23 ■ PHYSICIANS. “ F.A. JELLEFF. W. IT.SCHROCK. JELLEFF& SCIIROC K, Physician* and surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, opposite the Public Square. vßn!stf. CHARLES L. Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permanently located in this place, otters his professional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—At the Burt House. 11-36 AIT DRE W SOR <F, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, over W. 1 G. Spencer & Brother s Hard ware Store. vßn42tf. A. J. ER Wii<, 11. D., ‘ Surgeon. Dispensary, AveJine Block. v11u25 FORT WAYNE, IND. S. C. AYERS, JI. D., RESIDENT Ear and Eye Surgeon, FORT WAYNR, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main & Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. tay- Artificial Eyes inserted. 12-44 DENTISTRY. JI. JI. JIcCOAXELE, Surgeon Dentist, DECATUR, INDIANA. g*—All work neatly executed nd warranted to give sat-LT-L-J isfaction. Call and exam- J inc specimens. OFFlCE—Oppositethe Public Square ! over Heller s Law office. v11n49 I REAL ESTATE ACENTS. .1 AJI EM R. BORO, Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. rpHREE THOUSAND ACRES of good 1 fanning land, several Town Lots, ■ and a large quantity of wild land for sale. If you want to buy a good farm I he will sell it to you. If you want your . land sold he will sell it for you. No ; sale, no charge. vD'nG - I CHARLES JI. FR A ACE, A,u.otlonecr, RECATUK, INDIANA. 1 VNNOUNCES to the public that he is a regularly Licensed Auctioneer, ’ and will attend all I'ublic Sales when requested. OFFICE—In J. R. Bobo's Law office. J. P. WAGGOXER, Licensed Auctioneer, RESIDENCE, near Salem, AtlamsCo.. Indians. P st -Office address, Wilshire. Ohio. ErnST* Sp'cial attention given to crying public sales. HOTELS. JI IES S E HOUSE, 1. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. Third St., Opposite the Court House, DEIATUR. INDIANA. r |NHE traveling public will find this 1 House a desirable stopping place. Good sample rooms. vllnV MAYER HOUSE. J . W. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calhoun and ITajrne Slrerft, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. vl2n7 if MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, West Main Street, near the Public Square, FORT WANYK. INDIANA, vllnll - If HEDEKIX BOISE. A. J. H. MILLS, Proprietor, On Barr, betsoeen Columbia and Main Sts. i FORT WAYNK, INDIANA. I GENERAL Stag. Office. Good eta-| blelngin •MMMian with thishoase. v!2aM ts

DECATUR, IND., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 18,(59.

Come Back. The sad waves are falling In low monotone; My heart it is/calling In cry, nnd in moan, Come back, come back ! The rob’ns are sleeping The evening grows chill; My heart wildly weeping Cries out to thee still, Come back, come back! The daylight is waking, My tired h art is still. Worn out with its breaking, And never you will , I Come back, come back! When you shall discover The grave where I lie, My lite and love over, Mayhspyou may cry, Come back, come back ! Jhkrl glbrdlnmi. i The Cocos Islund'Silver • A Highly Sensational Story—Ten >lii- ' Hons of Silverßuried by Spanish Pii rates Found—The Story oi a Dyin< Sailor. Os retpondence of A’. Y, Sun. Panama. Nov. B.—Your readers will retneiwber the story concerning 810.000.000 in silver buried . on the Cocos Island, which was started in San Francisco ten years ago. and has been probably published in ev. rv country newspaper in the United States. The tale was that a doctor in San Francisco was one ni dit called to the bed side of a sick*and poverty stricken sailor. I Thedoctor watched over hitn - care fully, nnd made and paid for all his own praseriptions. in s; ite of all his precautions, the shilor grew worse, and at last the doct >r told him he must die. The m m was detjjly affected, and wept b tte.rl;.'. Death came over him s o vly but surely- — ► On his dying bed. with tears in his eyes, he thanked the doctor for all his kindness, and said that he could and would pnv him for all his trouble. In a few short breaths he told him that in his younger days he had been a pirate With twenty companions he had sl>ioped at Callao on a Spanish treasure . ship bound to Cadiz. When live days out they rose and butchered lhe officers and passengers, after. which the course of the sli p was changed due west. Three weeks i afterward, during a drunken ca- I ronsal. the ship ran upon a reef of rocks fringing an island in the Pa cifie, and before morning eight of the bucancers were drownecl.. At the break of day they reached the shore in boats, and found the. j island fertile and pleasant After three days’ hard work. ! they brought the kegs of silver ■ dollars to the shore, and buried i them. The treasure amounted to [ over 810.000.000. As water was ■ scarce, and the provisions on the wreck were totally damaged, the twelve pirates took to their boats, and steered for the coast of South I America. Nothing was ever heard from one of the boats, nnd it was : probably swamped in a great storm ! which occurred three <lavs after . lli4>\ had left the islan 1 Tit.* or •- I vision-in the other boat s »on gave I out. and the men gradually became ' delirious for want of sustenance, i Two jumped overboard and. wore j drowned. One of their companions died in the boat, ami a fourth I was killed by his comrades, who drank his blood Aft-r drifting under a burning sun for t'-vo weeks, | the survivors were picked up by a- - vessel. One nt them <lied on the follow ingxlay. and the other lived to tell his story to humlreds 4>f incfedti-1 hvua listeners, and to seek in vain for the means to return to the island. He was now about to end a life of disappointment in death At the conclusion of his story the dying sailor drew from uinler his bolster a roll of papers giving the latitude and longitude of the island as near as possible, and handed them to the<loctor; but before the physician could examine them the old sailor die*l. The mutitiy oc- • curred just during the Peruvian I revolution against Spain, and the sailor died in San Francisco some thirteen years ago. A careful study of the chart located the island in the vicinity of Cocos — The doctor embarked in the scheme with all his wealth, rigged out a schooner, and saihsl from San Francisco in search of the El Dorado. lie returned a ruined man,. unable to <liseover the island — i Other cxp?«litions were fitted out, but none were successtul. « In .lulv, 19BS. several gentlemen in this citv bought a schooner and I fitted out an e«pe«iition. There were twenty six persons in the party. They left in high spirits. I with complete charts, and seemed confident of success The most of

the party were old Californians, and were used to a life of adven tnre. Among the party was one George Cummins, a man of large experience, who had accompanied one of the previous expeditions. They reached the island after fifty- ■ six days’ navigation, thoroughly ' worn out and disgusted. They I spent nineteen days there vainly looking for the hidden riches, and then gave no the hunt as entirely I Utopian. Setting sail again for j Panama, they finally brought up I jin LaUnion, whence Cutnininsl ' came to this city, with the news of I their blasted hopes. It was thought that the failure ‘of this expedition would put an end to al! attempts to recover the! specie. This was not the c:t.~e —i Last winter some of the supersti 1 tious and wealthy citizens of Costa ' Rica began to agitate the subject! anew. A company was organized, i composed of some of the promi-1 j nent Government officials. The j : matter was brought before thei Costa Rica Congress, and after an ! investigation they authorized tl^e; 1 purchase of several shares of the . spick on Government account. A large maj >ritv of the members of I the new expedition were soldiers. ' probably sent to look after the in terests of the Government. A i priest was sent along to look out! ifor their spiritual welfare. They I left Costa Rica in June last Noth-1 ing has been heard of them until; yesterday, when a letter was re I ceived from one of the party by a : friend in this city, containing in- 1 telligenee of the discovery of the 1 treasure. The letter states that I all the treasure h is not as yet been obtained, and therefore no er.ti mate of its value can be given.— The greater part of that which has; already been dug out is in silver, i the most of it Spanish dollars. — — * — Men Who Win Women. G>»d has so made the sexes that women, like children, cling to men ; lean upon them as though I they were superior in mind ami body. They make them the suns of systems, and their children re I volve around them. Men are gods, if they but knew it, and women ! burning incense at these shrines , Women, therefore, who htyw; good minds and pure hearts, watk men Ito lean upon. Think of theiW'es' ! erencing a drunkard, a liar, a fool, or a libertine. If a man would i have a woman to do him homage, 1 he must be manly in every sense; a true gentleman, not after the ; Chesterfield school, but polite because his heart is full of kindness! to all; one who treats her with re ! spect, even deference, because she ■is a woman; who never conde I scends to stv silly things to her; who brings her up to his level, if his mind is above hers; who is never over anxious to do right; who has no time to be frivolous with her. Always dignified in speech and act; who never spends; too much on her; never yields to temptation even if she puts it ini his way; ambitious to make his mark in the world whether sheen courages him or not: who is never familiar with her to the extent of. being an ad >pte'l brothc.i orcous- > ;, who is n >t over careful about . dress ; always pleas i;;t and con I siderate, but always keeping his I place of the man, the head, and! never losing it. Such deportment, 1 with noble principles, good mind. I energv and industry, will win an;, j woman in the world who is worth winning. r— Obeying Orders. At Ply,n >uth, there is. or was, a 1 small green opposite the Government House, over which no one was allowed to pass. Not a creature was allowed to approach save the general’s cow; and the sentry I had particular orders to turn away ! any one who ventured to cross file forbidden turf. One day, old La ' dy I) . having called at the 3 general's, in order to make a short' ent, bent her steps across the lawn, I when she was arrested by the sen try calling out, and desiring hert<>' return and go the other road. She; remonstratcvi. The man sai«l he i could not disobey his orders, which were to prevent any one crossing' that piece of ground. “But," said Lady D , with a stately air, “do you know who I am “I don’t know who you be. ma’am." replied the immovable; sentry, “but I know who you baint. —von baint the general’s cow." - - — —* “Why. dear me, Mr I.ongswalj low," said a good >»l«l lady, “how can you ,drink a whole quart of that hard cider at a single draught?"- As soon as the man could breathe again he replied : “I beg partion. Madam, but upon my soul it was so hard I couldn’t bite ■ it off." (I -

A Singular Story. Resurrection of the Dead—TJie Restored to a Decapitated Criminal. From the Pall MaP Gazette. | A Florence newspaper, L Italic. extracts from the “Anuales de la Medicine ct de la Chirugie Etran- ■ gere” the following extraordinary I I history. The Italian paper, for reason easily to be gathered, does , not give implicit credence to this ; I statement, nor lend it the editorial : sanction. On the 18th of April, 1868. in ; the prison of Villarica, (province of Minas-Geraes,)in Brazil, two men named Aveiro and Cannes were executed at the same time. ■ln Brazil executions take place ■ with close;', doors, in the interior , |of the prison. Dr. Lorenzo Y. , | Carino, of Rio Janeiro, well known by savants for bis remarkable , • works on electricity applied to ■ physiology, his surgical skill, and i ; his success in autoplastic opera ; I tions, obtained permission to pro ■ | tit by this event in order to experi- ' meat on the power of electricity. ( and illustrate its analogy with 1 some of the phenomena of life. , The numerous experiments hither- ■ to attempted have been made on • the head and trunk separately. , ! Dr. Lorenzo Y. Carmo's design • was, if possible, to unite the head 'to the neck after decapitation ' . 'Die heads of the two criminals fell ! within a few minutes of each other I into the same basket: first that of i Curines, then that of Aveiro Im- ! mediately after this second execu i tion a compression was effected i by a pupil of Dr. Lorenzo on the ■ carotid arteries of one of the heads. so as to stop the hemorrhage. The body was then placed on a bed already prepare 1. and Dr. I Lorenzo stuck the head as exactly as possible on the section, auik kept it in that position. Thecells of a powerful electric pile were ap plied to the base of the neck and on the breast. Under this influ- . «► , mice, as in •former experiments the respiratory movements were |at once precept ible. As the blood, I which penetrated in abundance j through the surface of the scar, threatened to stop the passage of air. Dr. Lorenzo hud recourse to tracheotomy. Respiration then 'Die head was fastened to the body by stitches and by a special apparatus. The physiologist wished to ascertain ! for how long a time this appearance of Ijfe could thus be artificially maintained. His astonishment was great when he saw that at the end of two hours not only did respiration still continue under the i influence of the electric current, I but that circulation had even,.re j sinned a certain regularity. The 1 pulse beat feebly, but sensibly The experiment was continued without intermission. At theend of sixty two hours it was evident, to the astonishment of every one, that a process ot cicatrisation had commenced on the lips of the sec I tion. A little later signs of life I manifested themselves spontane ously in the head and limbs, till ■ then deprived of motion. At this moment the director of the prison : arriving for the first time in the experiment room, observed that by i singular mistake, dm* to the haste >f the operation, the head of Ca i pines had been laken for that of 1 Aveiro. and had been applied to I the body of the latter. The ex ; periment was continued notwith- ' standing. Three days later the ! respiratory movements reproduced themselves, and electricity was suppressed. Dr. Lorenzo Y Carmo and his assistants were stupefied, frightened, at a result so unexpect- • ed, and at the power of an agent which, in their hand, had restored life to a body whose right to exist the law had forfeited. The learned surgeon who had ! only had in view a simple physio] i ogical experiment employed all . his skill to continue this work, which sc'ence, aided against all expectation by nature, had . sod singularly commenced. He assist;ed the process of cicatrisation. I which progressed under the most favorable conditions. By means :of an evsopnagian probe, liquid I nourishment was introduced into I the stomach. At the end of about three months the cicatrisation was ! complete, and motion, though still j difficult, became more ami more, extended. At leugth. at the end , I of seven months and a half, Avirp 1 Carine was able to rise and walk. feeling only a slight stiffness in the I ueek and feebleness in the limbs. _ _ - I A voting woman of Tonlonse i kicked in her coffin Just in time to , prevent burial alive. They were, i lowering it into the grave. I Tennessee is wool-growing. One thousand sheep passed through Nashville for Warren county the ; | other day, and were quickly fol-1 lowed by three thousand more.

Something Coming. A Column nf Tjl-rht frnm the Snn Stretching Out Towards the Earth. The sun's atmosphere, snys the ' scientific meh, is in a highly exci -1 ted condition. A column of mag-: netic is shooting out further and further from the solar sphere, ; and it is now stretching out forty-, five millions of miles. In other words, it has accomplished half the distance between us and the sun. The interesting quest! in,! and one On which, perhaps, we do not wish any more light of this character, is : How long will it be before it finishes the rest of the distance, and bridges the gigantic j chasm between the earth and the . sun ? Is it a messenger sent out to snatch us up as food for the in- ' satiate monster that keeps himself ; i warm by devouring planets and ' whose fire eating propensities this > ' whole earth would satisfy for a tew Jdavs only? If so. how long will ! • this emmissary be in reaching us. : and carrying the globe awav as if i we* were a gigantic lump of coal i for a roaring furnace ? i This column of light at inter- 1 i vals indicates its approach by flash- ! ing and corrnscating with fresh I i brilliancy. So decided are its of i feels that two astronomers,_pne at London, the other at Oxford, and neither knowing the experiences ,of the other, suppos'd that the , dark glass of their telescopes had been brok-n or put out of range, so strong was the flash of golden . light upon the visi >n. It is pre dieted that befor • the end of next year this m igne ic light will have . got near on mgli to us to make its immediate and actual influence up.on the earth distinctly felt. It is announced that in consequence we may expect to" see phenomena that ■ have never been seen or known before by the human race. If any : of our readers are, therefore, yet disposed to c implain of the wcath:er and the earthquakes, let them , remember that, by this time next year, they mav have an entire new line of experiences to explain and 'endure, in comparison with which the fitful winter and rough, rude autumn of to day.-mav seem like a June morning in paradise, j.id the earthquake's shock and light ning s storm, a placid rocking in the cradle with a pleasant lullaby of thunder. The Tara Brooch. A child playing near Drogheda, found a curious piece of metal, and gave it up to an old woman. She look it to a dealer in old iron and marine stores, who allowed a shil ling for her “find ” Examining it a little more cl >s<‘ly. he suspected he had a prize ; wonderful workmanship showed itself, and lie was shrewd enough to think that, al though the metal was not all gold or silver, the work was something uncommon : accordingly he raised its price, and at length parted with it for £2 10. The time came when £3OO was offered tor it by a public museum, and £SOO by a private collector. It was the eele br.ited “Tara ' brooch, one of the most remarkable pieces of skillful goldsmith's work known to exist. It is formed of v bite bronze—this probably saved it trom the melting pot. to which countless treasures of gold and silver have been con signed—the surface overlaid with gold filigree work of surprising intricacy and marvelous delicacy of execution. Such is its exeel- . lenev. that one of the most accomplished living goldsmiths declared that he could not find a workman, with every apparent advantage of modern knowledge and appliance, competent to make such another. It is now deposited—having been obtained frdm its possessor on very favorable terms—in the mu seum of the Royal lysh Academy in Dublin — Dublin Magazine. A Husband Hunting W doiv. A novel wending was celebrated in Memphis on the 28th of Oct A widow from North Carolina. Mrs. M. Blackwell, on her way to the Red river country with all her household goods, including several children, determined to fill the place of the late Mr. Blackwell upon short notice. Procuring a , marriage license with a blank for , the name of her husband, she explained her wishes to the landlord of the wagon yanl. where she rested while in transitu, who introduced to her a young strapping fel ; low named Dalton, who was noth- • ing loth, and the two were made one five tninufos afterwards, where they stood in tne wag<»n yard As I ter the ceremony the new matched > pair took up their march for their new home. For many years before Hum I boldt's death he was never sc?n al a place of public amusement.

Death of ft .Free Govern* ment. - It js a melancholy spectacle to behold a free government die — The world, it is true, is filled with .evidence of decay. Al! natnret speaks the voice of dissolution, and the highway of life is strewq with the wrecks which time, the ! great despoiler, has made. But ! the hopes of the future, bright | visions of reviving glory are no- ! where denied, ty the heart of man, save as he gazes on the downfall lof legal liberty, lie listens sor- : rowfuily to the autumn winds as ; they sigh through the dismantled ' forests, but we know that their breath will be so'.’t and vernal in ' the spring, and that the dead flow- ■ ers and withered foliage will blossom a: d bloom again. He sees the skv overcast wff angry frowns . of th • torn »est. but I e knows the * s::u will re appear, and the emblazonry of God cannot perish. Man himself, this strange connecting link between dust and deity, tottors wearily onward under the ' weight of years, and pain, toward i the tomb, but bow briefly his life i lingers around the dismal spot.— ; It is filled with grief and tears, and I the cypress gather around it with loving but mournful embrace.— ■ An-1 is this all? Not so. If a man die shall he not live again ? Beyond the grave in the distant Aiden hope provides an elysium i of the soul where the mortal assnmes immortality, ai I life bei comes an endless splendor. But i where, sir, in ail the dreary regions 1 of the past, filled with convulsions, wars and crimes, can you point your finger to the tomb of a free commonwealth on which the angels of resurrection have ever de scended, or from whose sepulcher the stone of despotism has been rolled away ? Where, in what age, an 1 in what clime have the reins ! of constitutional freedom renewed their youth and regained their lost estate ? By who-' e grip has the dead corpse of the republic, once (fallen over, been raised? The ‘ merciful maker who walked upon . the waters and hade the winds be still, left or ordained apostles with po'wer to wrench apart the jaws of , national debt and release the vic, i tim of despotism. The wail of the i heart-broken over the dead is not - so sad to me as the realization of the fact. But all liistorv, with a loud, unbroken voice proclaims it, j and the evidence of what the past 1 has been, is conclusive to my mind of what the future will be. WherI ever in the domain of human con- ! duet a people once possessed of liberty, have surrendered these ; great gifts of God at the command ’ of the usurper, they have never i afterwards proven themselves worthy to regain their forfeited treasure.—D. IF. Voorhees. Tbe Right Hand. We are “right handed” as the result of education or for some i other reason ? A writer in Once ’ a IFee.l- thinks nature distastes the habit. He says: “It universally goes far to prove that it is instructive; for among existing nations none seem to be gifted as Benja- . min of old. The left arm is the weaker, but whether naturally or i from disuse remains to be ascer- ■ tained. It w'ould appear that the difference of strength extends to the onjan of locomotion. When ' we meet an obstacle in walking, tiie right foot is put forward to move or step over it. as if the right leg had the most power and freedom of motion; and it is said that if a man lose himself on a plain, without any guide or landmarks, he will, in his efforts to go 1 straight forward, insensibly- go to the left, the dexter limb imperceptibly taking longer strides Even a left handed man uses bis right mauuel for many purposes; and a right handed mortal has to train some to be ambidexterous. Only one suggestion can afford to account tor a general righthanded ness: it is that nature has designedly kept the working arm away ■ from the heart, that the violent actions of the one may affect as little as possible the delicate functions of the other.” Notice and Notions. The milk in one of Grant's cocoanuts is philosophically accounted for. by the eminent natu.alist who attends to the scientific department of the Chicago Times. In a recent issue of that paper he says: “In book 533 of deeds, at pnge 1.‘»2 (to be seen in the Recorder's office in that city). there is recorded a deed from J. Russell I Jones to U- S. Grant, conveying about one hundred acres of land, for the nominal consideration of one dollar. The deed was filed for two rd on the 2lhh day of May, 1869. J. R. J , you know, was appointel Minister to Belgium at about that date. I A scientific article in a magazine■' r savs that not fifty diamonds, large I and small, are discovered during any one year, although over twen- .' ty thousand are sold during tliat t (-period, an I be concludes that paste diamonds are fashionable

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