Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 10 December 1869 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. JAWES R. 8080, A-ttorney cat DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor's Office. vlOntitf R. S. PETERSON, Attorney n.t Xs»-w-. DECATUR, INDIANA. PROMPT 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’s Law Office. v!2n33tf DANIEL D. BELLER) attorney at DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywhete in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder's Office. v!ons2tf D. STUDABAKER, Attorney m,t liaxv, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice law in Adams and adjoining countie.4; secure pensions and other cbims against the government; buy and sell realestate; exam ne titles and pay taxes, and other business pertainingto real estate agency. 13-23. PHYSICIANS. f.a. JEiLErr. w.h. schrock. JELLEFE & SCHROCK, Physicians and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, opposite the Public Square. • vßn!stf. CHARLES £. CURTISS, Physician 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 ANDREW SOR G , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second fltreet, over W. G.Spencer & Brother's Hardware More. vßn42tf. A. J. ERWIN, H. D., Surgeon. Dispensary, Aveline Block. v11n25 * FORT WAYNE, IND. S. C. AYERS, M. D., RESIDENT Bar and. Bye Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE —South west corner Main A Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. ggy*Artificial Ej-es inserted. 12-44 REAL ESTATE AGENTS. JANIES 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. 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 NI. FRANCE, JYuctionoer, DECATUR, INDIANA. VNNOUNCES to the public that be is a regularly Licensed Auctioneer, and will attend all Public Sales when requested. OFFICE—In J. R. Bobo's Law office. J. P. WAGGONER, Licensed Auctioneer, RESIDENCE, near Salem, Adams Co., Indiana. Post-Office address, Wilshire, Ohio. Special attention given to crying public sales. HOTELS. NIIESSE HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. Third St., Opposite the Court Houte, DECATUR, INDIANA. THE traveling public will find this House a desirable stopping place. Good sample rooms. vlln9 MAYER HOUSE. J . W. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calhoun and Wayne Streeti, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. v!2n7 ts MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, Weit Main Street, near the Public Square, FORT WANYE, INDIANA, vllnll If ■ EDEKIN HOUSE, ‘A. J. 11. MILLS, Proprietor, On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts. FORT WAYNE. INDIANA. GENERAL Stage Office. Good stableingin conseslioß with this house. vl2n'Js ts 4 Watch Free-Givjw GRAT - ZxIS to every man who will act as agent in a nsw, light, and honorable businses. pacing fISO a day. No gift enterprise. No humbug. No money wanted in advance: Address R. Mobbob Kbb■swt A o*-. PiMsbwrg, Fa. Jtwb

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f artnj. They Say. They say—ah 1 well, suppose they do, But can they prove their story true? Suspicion may arise from naught, But malice, envy, want of thought; Why count yourself among the “they,” Who whisper what they dare not say I They say—but why the tale rehearse, And help to make the matter worse? No good can possibly accrue From telling what is untrue; And is it not a nobler plan To speak of all the best you can? They say—well, if it shotld be so, Why need you tell the tale of woe ? Will it the bitter wrong red ess? Or make the pang of sorrow less ? Will it the erring one restore, Henceforth to “go and sin no more?” • They say—o, pause and look within See how he heart's inclined to sin; Watch, lest in dark temptation's honr, Thou, too, should'st sink beneath its power, Pity the frail, weep o’er their fall. But speak of good or not at all, i ’” I The Telegraph. 4,000 Offlee., 5,500 Operatives, and 70,000 Mile, of wire in the United State*. From the New York Foot. A full and accurate statement of the number of telegraph stations and operators employed in the United States has never been pub lished, and it is not generally known, even amons telegraphers. ' According to official information, which we have taken some pains to gather, the total number of tel- . egraph offices now daily transmitting and receiving messages are as ■ follows: Western Union offices, 3,469; Franklin, Atlantic and Pa cific. Pacific and Atlantic, and Bankers and Brokers’ line offices, 545 ; total number of public offices in the United States, 4,014. The estimated number of private offices at which no public business is received for transmission, is 100— making a grand total of 4.114. Tiie number of miles of line now in actual use is as follows : West ern Union Company, 52,099; Franklin, Atlantic and Pacific. Pa cific and Atlantic, and Bankers' and Brokers' connections, 17,500. The number of persons em ployed, including presidents, superintendents, managers, opera tors, clerks, messengers, and line repairers, has been carefully estimated at five thousand. A large number of good operators have left the business during the past few years, and in the city there are many professional telegraphers engaged in other pursuits. THE GOLD INDICATORS. About two years ago a company began the distribution of the little box like ‘ gold indicators,’’ connecting with the Gold Room by telegraph ; and at the present time there are one hundred aiid u ft;,’-fre of these iiiiportant instruments placed in the counting-rooms of i subscribers throughout the city. The price charged per week for the use of this indicator is five dollars ; and as the company at no expense, except for the salary of the one operator required in the Gold Room, the profits are very large. Within the pa«t year a printing operator has invented an instru ment for recording the price of all the stocks called in the New York Stock Exchange. This machine is self-recording, and the figures are plainly printed upon a slip of plain paper. The name of this company is the “Gold and Stock Telegraph Company and so use ful and popular have these instru ments become, that they are to be found in the offices of all the prominent bankers and brokers of Wall and Broad streets, and Exchange Place. The price per week for the use oft!;’® ii?d!c?tor is six t! n ! lars. The clear profits of this company are estimated at five hundred and fifty dollars per day. Upwards of three hundred of these self re cording magnets are already distributed throughout the city. The number of branch offices in this city where telegrams for all important points in the States are received for transmission is 132. and the total number of operators employtd is 265. SYSTEMS OF TELEGRAPHING. The Morse system of telegraph- J ing has rapidly superseded all others. The House <fc Phelps combi- 1 nation printing system, although ' about one-third faster than the ' Morse, has been proved to be less ' I trustworthy and more expansive 1 than the latter. The newspaper ' press generally prefer the manu- ' script copy of Morse operators to, • the inconvenient printed tape, like!' narrow atripa, of the printing in 1 strument*. A prominent Boston | 1 morning journal at one time re-j* fused to receive spacial diapatebas

from their Washington correspondent, because they had been transmitted by the printing line. A rapid “sound-reading” Morse ' telegrapher can receive from thirty five to thirty-eight words a min I ute. and transfer them to paper in a clear, legible manner. Within the past five years the Morse Register (through which a slip of nar row paper was originally run by simple clock work to obtain the characters) has gone entirely out of use, and there are not probably half a dozen of them now working in New York. Nearly all the operators have learned to read the ■ signals entirely by sound; a skillful telegrapher can also read the signals distinctly by sight. The salary of first class Morse sound-reading operators is fixed at SI 18 a month ; but there are a large number in this city who receive but one hundred dollars. OPERATORS. The first class men in the em- ; plo-of the Franklin company here | I have but 883 33 a month or 81.000 per year until the firs* of the pres j ent month, when they succeeded, ' by striking work for one day, in : obtaining 8100 per moifth. A large majority of the more intelligent American operators in the business were originally from the country; and until very recently comparatively few students in the city had an opportunity to learn the business. In country offices, where business is light, there are unusual facilities for young m«n to j learn the method ot operating J tills ill a measure accounts for i the fact that the more skillful and proficient come from the small stations in the interior. Within the past two years the Western Union Company have annually received from the public •chool* a number of young men who have successfully graduated, and have taught them the businese. These youths invariably make good telegraphers. The time necessary for a person to learn how to send and receive a message varies from two weeks to three months. The young learn very rapidly. There are many children whose age does not ex ceed twelve years, who can transmit and receive dispatches; but to : become a first-class sound opera- j tor require# a practice of at lea«t a year and a half. A good musi cian, or any one fond of miraic. learns very rapidly ; but a person over twenty-five years of age rarely becomes proficient in telegraphing. It is believed there is notan exception to this rule in the country. THE WAR. During the recent war a number of the best operators entered the military telegraph service, and although the great value of their services to the Union cause was often acknowledged by President Lincoln and Generals in | command, they were never rewarded with a liberal pecuniary compensation—Bl2s a month was the highest price paid. A gentleman who was employed in the War Department telegraph office in the war heard Mr. Lincoln say on several occasions, when the value of i the services of this class of men was brought to his notice by their bravery and heroism, that every operator in the corps ought to; have the rank and pay of Brigadier • Generals. On several occasions the lines, of wire were extended miles beyond the outposts of Union forces, and it is a recorded fact that in the case of retreat the telegraph was always the last sent to the rear — Many operators were captured during the rebellion, and some were confined in the Libby Prison in Richmond as often as three times before the close of the war. Women have lately been em ■ ployed in American offices, and there are instances on record where them has received and cop- 1 ietl by sound news of ten thousand words. There arc i few, however, who are able to receive more than six thousand or seven thousand words, or four columns of newspaper type, without relief. NEWSPAPER DISPATCHES. Tn nn part of the world is the telegraph so liberally used by the newspapers as in the Unite<l States. The greater amount of this work is done at night, when the financial and commercial business of th« day is concluded, and the various companies can therefore afford to send news cheaply. The numlier of words contained in the press dispatches delivered to the different journals in the United States during the past year, by all the lines, is estimated at 400.500,000; and the amount of tolls upon this class of custom in the same year, was one million dollar*.

MISCELLANEOUS. The longest direct circuits, with which New York operators ex- 1 I change business without repeti- : tion, are from New York to ChicaI go, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Wilmington, North Carolina. The Franklin Telegraph Company about one year since, adopted the use of double transmitters, and are constantly working one wire to Philadelphia and one to Boston, both ways at the same time. This invention was made by Dr. Gintel, of Germany, a few years ago, and has proved a de- i cided success. There is scarcely a 1 day in the year but this company I work these instruments upon this system, without serious interruption by storm. Within the past two years several private companies or corporations have erected lines for their own use. Among others are two j wires recently completed between this city and Philadelphia, one for : Smith, Randolph <k Co , brokers, of this city; and Harrison Broth- | i ers & Co., dealers in paints, oils, i i etc. No public business is trans ■ ’ acted over these wires, which are : owned and managed exclusively bj’ these firms. A Fashionable Woman’s Prayer. Dear Lord, have mercy on my ■ soul, and please let me have that ' French satin that I saw at Taylor's this morning, for with black lace | ■ flounces and overskirt that dress ! I would be very becoming to me I ] ) ~aoW. If yon grant mv request I let me have a new black lace shawl, dear Lord. I kneel before Thee to-night perfectly happy, for Madame Emille has Bent me home such a lovely bonnet! a most heavenly bijou ! * composed of white aatin with coral ostrich tufts. For this favor I am feeling truly grateful. Give me, I pray Thee, an humble heart, and a new green ailk with point lace trimmings. Let me ' not grow too fond of this vain de ceitful world like other women,: but make me exceedingly gentle and aristocratic. When the win ; ter fashions come let them suit my style of beauty, and let there be ' plenty of puffings. pleetin£s. ruf ; • fles, and flounces, for I deafly love them all. Oh, Lord, let buiiiress detain my husband at M , for he is not wanted at home at present. I wish to become acquainted with the tall dark-eyed foreigner who ia slaying at Colonel Longswallow's opposite. Bring about an intro-1 duction, I beseech Thee, for Mrs. 1 Longswallow will not. Bless my j children and please send them a good nurse, for I have neither the time or inclination to look after them myself. And now O Lord. I take care of me while I sleep, and i pray keep watch over my diamonds. The Doctrine of Necessity. — Sheridan had a great distaste for anything like metaphysical diseus-; •ions, whereas Tom tried one day to discuss with his father the doc trine of necessity. “Pray, good father.” said he. ! “did you ever do anything in a state of perfect indifference — with -! j out motive. I mean of some kind or other ?” I Sheridan, who saw what was ’ coming, and by no means relishing [ such subjects, even from Tom, or anybody else, said : “Yes, certainly.” 1 “Indeeti!” “Yes, indeed “What, total indifference —total, entire, thorough indifference?” "j “Yes, total, entire, thorough indifference !’’ “My dear father, tell me what it is you can do with total, thorough i indifference ?” “Why, listen to you, Tom,” said Sheridan. i This rebuff, as Tom told me. so disconcerted him, that he had nev er fergotten it nor hati he sver’ again troubled his father with any of his metaphysics. Jfoore'x ATemoriet. Albert Wolf relates the follow ; ing anecdote of Count Bismark' ' which happened while he was am - ■ bassador to Paris: “Oneday Bis- , mark paid the Austrian ambassador a visit. He found to his stir- | prise that the Austrian diplomatist did not rise and greet the repre sentative of Prussia. Deeply in- j suited, Bismark took a cigar fqim his pocket, lighted it. and laid down at full length on the sofa, remarking : ‘Well. my dear fellow, let us cbat a little.’ ” Joe Coburn challenges Tom Al-, len to fight for 810.000. or not less than 82.500, and will pay Al- ( leu’s traveling expenses to Cali- j fornia.

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Bundling'. 1 i The Old Style ot Courtship—Did It Prevail In New England—An Interesting I Question of History. 1 From the Albany Journal. 1 Perhaps no antique custom has led to more historical dispute and ] literary controversy, than that which prevailed at an early date. , among the original settlers in certain portions of this country, , known by the euphoneous title of i “bundling”—by which was desig : : nated the practice among lovers of!; • different sexes, of occupying the ; | same couch at night during the pe- | riod of their courtship? This sin- ! gtilar, and, in modern estimation, decidedly vulgar practice, was probably imported with other social peculiarities from Ireland and , Wales, where it long prevailed among the poorer peasantry, and | | was supposed to have originated ; I from a desire to avoid the expense of maintaining a fire upon the ; hearth during the long hours in j which parties passionately affected ■ i chose to remain in each other's i company. Dr. Henry Reed Stiles. | in his “History and Genealogies! of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut,” having mentioned the prevalence of that ancient custom among the first settlers of that section, was severely taken to task by their descendants, who considered the assertion an imputation most un ; favorable to their family honor.— ! i In self defense, and in proof of the ' historical veracity of his original statements, he has prepared a j cmart and lively monograph, i which has just be n issued from I the press of Joel Munsell, of this ; city, under the title, “Bundling: its Origin, Progress and Decline in America.” The New’ England pioneers did '’Yiot originate the cnsi tom, but took it as it was transmiti ted to them by the parent stocks in the world, from which they sprang. When the Romans occupied*the I British Isles, it was already in ■ vogue, and led to a statement by , historians who accompanied Car [ sar. that the natives held their wo- i I men in common. Later, it became I the rule for a man and woman to ; i live together for a year. If, dur ing that time a child was born, the union became permanent: if not. ; eithei party was at liberty to dissolve it. This singular style of wedlock, which was called “handfastening.” continued in certain districts until the time of James VI of Scotland, and from the resulting of abundance of bastards originated many border wars and quarrels of clans, the effects of i which are experienced to this day. I In Wales, a lover calling on the object of his passions, would se ! cure admission by tapping three! times on her window. A bed of i rushes was made down, upon which i they reposed under heavy cover-1 lets, continuing their conversation : until morning. No shame was at i tached to the act, and travelers | within a recent period mention J ; seeing young couples thus arrange ; themselves in their presence, and • that of pther visitors, as if with-1 ! out the least idea that their con1 duct would be unfavorably thought 1 of. Yet, notwithstanding this gen--1 era! tolerance, a great deal of im--1 morality may be attributed to the habit, and it has very naturally encountered strenuous opposition from the clergy, and from all reforming agencies. In Holland, a similar practice prevailed, under , the name of “queesting.” It was referrer! to in a work written by Hon. Henry C. Murphy, now State Senator, formerly minister to the Hague, who furnishes Dr. Stiles an interesting note on the subject.— In former times an entire absence of clothing was allowed ; but mod- ' ern civilization is more particular, i In some cantons of Switzerland, ! and especially in the regions of the Unterwald. a similar social . habit may l«» traced. Going hack to the Orient, we probably find its origin, as well as that of many other singular religious and domestic observances. Among! many of the Affghan tribes, it is j usual for a lover to present him- > > self at the house of his betrothed 1 with a suitable gift, in return for i 1 which he was permitted to pass the , ' night upon her couch. Among I the fierce Dayks a lover will help i the girl he desires to wed in her | field work all day. At night he ( approaches her resting place. If she rises and converses with him, i all is well; but if, on the contrary, ■ she says, “Be good enough to i blow up the fins’.* or “Light the . lamb,” (a bamboo filled with rosin,) then his hopes were at an end. for that is the usual form of dismissal. Dr Stiles, having proven , the early existence and wide ex-' tent of the “bundling" custom. 1 proceeds to show that it was thor- 1 onghly established in the New World during the colonial days, , and especially in Virginia aod the j New England States He quotas

from historians ijpon the point—from Rev. Alonzo B. who edits the records of Connecticut—l7s9 91—from Worthington's History of Dedham, Massachusetts, and from other works. He shows that it was noted and ridiculed by travelers from other countries, and defended the people among whom it prevailed ; that it was denounced in a satire; recited at an Oxford Commencement; that Jonathan Edwards thundered against it from his pulpit. Rev. Gilbert Havens preached fervently in opposition to it, and pious divines prayed for its extinction; but that, nevertheless, the practice Continued more or less in vogue till after the Revolution. when it fell into disuse from various causes—the improved intelligence of the masses, their more refined social condition, their ! bettered pecuniary state, which cn- ! nbled them to live in larger and more thoroughly warmed dwellings. the influx of a higher class of immigrants from Europe, and so on. We think that Dr. Stiles has settled this point beyond controversy, besides adding a curious chapter to the primitive history of the country, showing from what I rude sources emanated much of the genius, intellect and enterprise i upon which we pride ourselves.— j The Yankee might not like to have it known thatr his ancestors were ■ given to bundling, or the F. F. V. : of the Old Dominion that his great great grandma was sold to some I speculator in the matrimonial mar ket. But the truth of history must be preserved. 1 wo Ways. “There are vour month's wages,” said Mrs. Steele, tossing some bills | into the lap of a young girl whom she employed in her kitchen, “and if I should do justice to myself, I should keep back full half of it; I hope next month you will try to ! be a little more help to me—not move 2bout quite so slowly as you are accustomed to. and take a little more pains in handling dishes. Many housekeepers would have taken the price of that pitcher you cracked, out of your month's wa ges. and I am not sure but I shall adopt some such plan in the future.” * The young girl took the money with a moody look, and went about ! her task with a heavy, resentful spirit. These hard words she felt - ! were undeserved. aS she had tried ! to please by doing her work faithl fully. But all through the house the system reigned. It was one continual scene of fault-finding from mbrning till night. No won-, der that the angels of peace and happiness spread their white wings and fled away. In a rose wreathed cottage, just over the way, it was also Bridget's pay day. “Here are seven dollars, Bridget. and may they do ybn a great deal of good. You are getting on nicely now, and learning very fast |to do work in my way. Mr. Howi ard thought you had quite exceed J ed yourself in yesterday’s bread ' and pies.” Bridget's broad face was all 1 aglow with pleasure as she opened . her hand to receive the money. “Indeed, ma'am, it's all from i the patient teaching I've had. My i last mistress called me a dolt and ; blockhead, and I didn't much care I for to please her. But if you . please, ma'am, I would like your advice on a,little matter. Would you wait till I get money enough for n shany silk dress, or would you just spend your money now for what you needs?'* “By all means get you a good, „ comfortable pair of shoes, Bridget; and 1 would advise a neat delaine dress, also. A cheap, poor silk is not neaJy as nice as a pret ty fresh calico.” Then followed some excellent ' advice to the young girl, which was listened to with the deepest respect, and which gave her some new and valuable ideas on the subject of what was tasteful and be- ■ coming in dress. Little by little she moulded and wrought over the plastic mind into something far better than the early promise gave her reason to hope for. For five years the young woman labored faithfully in the service of her kind employer, and only left her to en- , ter a homeL of Jier own. How much better was .she fitted for that position by the kind and judicious training of those five years. How much better, too, was Mrs. Howard seived than her neighbor Mrs. Steele, who looked upon her help as only machines, out of which to get the greatest possible amount of labor. It takes time and long patience to do this, bnt it is part of the work, desponding housemother, that God has given vou to do. “•Do it so bravely, so kindly, so well. Angels shall hasten the story totell.” — Country Gentleman. A lady of Williamsport, Pennsvlvania has not been able to sleep a wink in a month. Examination into the cause by eminent physicians revealed the terrible truth that her nightgown was out of fashion f