Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1869 — Page 1

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The Decatur Eagle.

Vol. 13.

ATTORNEYS. JAHES R. 8080, .Attorney a,t Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. y" OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor's Office. vlOuGtf R. S. PETERSON, Attorney a,t Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. PROMPT attention paid to all business entrusted to his care. Is a Notary Public,anddraws Deeds, Mortgages, and other instruments in writing. OFFICE—In D. Studabakcr’s Law Office. vl2n33tf DANIEL D. HELLER, Attorney nt Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywheie in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder’s Office. vlons2tf D. STUDABAKER, Attorney a,t Law, * DECATUR, INDIANA. ■TXTILL practice law in Adams and nd- ▼ V. joining counties; secure pensions and other claims against the government; buy and sell real estate; exam nc titles and pay taxes, and other business pertainingto real estate agency. . 13-23. CHARLES M. FRA ACE, Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. PROMPT attention paid to all busisiness entrusted to bis care. Is a Notary Public, Draws Deeds and Mortgages and other Instruments in A'tiling. Office in J. R. Bobo's Law Office. 13:37 PHYSICIANS. F.A.JELLEFF. W. 11. SCHROCK . JELLEFF & SCHROCK, Physicians and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, opposite the Public Square. vßnlotf. CHARLE SL. CIRTISS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permanently located in this place, offers his professional serviccstothc people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE— At the Burt House. 11-3 G AND RE U SOR G , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE —On Second Street, over W. G. Spencer & Brother's Hard ware More. vSn42tf. _ j it uia, m. d , Surgeon. Dispensary, Aveline Block. v11n25 " FORT WAYNE, IND. S. C. AYERS, M. D., RESIDENT Ear ana Eye Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main & 1 Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. I fikSr”Artificial Eyes inserted. 12-44 REAL ESTATE ACENTS. JAMES R. 8080, Real Estate Agent, - DECATUR, INDIANA. rpHREF. THOUSAND ACRES of good I farming land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. If you want to buy a good farm he will sell it to you. If you want your land sold he will sell it for you. No sale, no charge. vlOnG AUCTIONEER. CH AREES M. FRA ACE, -A-uctionecr, DECATUR, INDIANA. 4 NNOUNCF.S 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. WAG GOA "ebF, Elccnsed Auctioneer, T) ESIDENCE, near Salem, Adams CoJ.V Indiana. Post-Office address, Wilshire, Ohio. Special attention given to crying public sales. HOTELS. MIESSE HOVSE, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. Third St., Oppotite the Court House, DECATI'R. INDIANA. THE traveling public will find this House a desirable stopping place. Good sample rooms. vlln'J MAIER HOUSE. J. W. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calhoun and Wayne Streets, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. vl2n7 »■ ts MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, Wr»t .Vain Street, near the Public Square FORT WANYE, INDIANA, vllnll ■" If HEDEKIA HOISE, A. J. 11. MILLS. Proprietor, . On Harr, betraeen Columbia and .IQrin Sts. PORT WAVNF., INDIANA. CN ENKR \L Stage Office. Good ata’ Tbleingln eonneetioß with tbishouse- - v!2n25 ts

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DECATUR, I2SED., FRIDAY DECEMBER 24, 1869.

Hope on the Inscen Shore. Beyand the clouds that o'er us form, Beyond all earthly bliss, Hope raintsa bright bow which no storm, Will never reach from this; So glorious and divinely fair It's blended hues appear, We know that God hath placed it there, And dwells forever near. ✓ Though torrents roar, and mountains frown, And oceans roll betsveen, And tempests pour their fury down To veil thy silvery sheen, With crystal touch each polished beam Shot from thy radiant bow, Like twilight stars, doth bi ightergleam, As night the darker grows. Oh, matchless Hope! that buoys me up Through life’s dark, gloomy, halls, Thy footsteps have yon river crossed Where mortal never falls: Os golden sands the Unseen Shore On which ye waiting stand And beckon me forever reore, With gcnllc-waving hand. Our vision may not pierce the gloom, That darkens o'er the Ifide, And veils from v'eiw the roses' bloom Upon the shining side; . But there's a bliss weoften catch In fragrance from the gale, Which seems its sweetness to have snatched From flowers beyond the veil. We will not mourn for long by goncs That died in mortal strife, But rather send these dusty bonds Which chain the crystal life, While Hope beams brighter on the strand, And shadows lengthen fast, /Is nearer to her waving hand Each day our anchor casts. modi: axi> tease. A GOOD STORY. Father was gouty, and often detained from the office for weeks together. Sometimes he was in a I very pleasant and genial humor. ' and sometimes touchy : sometimes in a mood to pore over ) his old musty law hooks, some- j times engaged with his pen, and | occasionally, npt very often, in- ; . deed, disposed fora little conversation with “us three,” as we prepared our school tasks around the library table. Now and then he would lend us a helping suggestion in regard to some puzzling example" in arithmetic, or an explanatory remark on some Latin construction, or Freirch idiom; buthe did noj hold, he said, to getting lesson’s‘for scholars, nor to the modern custom of having everything so simplip.ed for them 1 that no mental effort was necessary; so we generally had to solve our difficulties as best we Could by continuous and patient application. One morning the poor man was more restless and fretful than usu-, al. He had a bad night and kept mother awake so much that she had ffone to her room to get an ' hour’s nap while we studied our lessons and waited upon father.—«-* But be could hardly be patient; with us while we did it, lest our > skirts should swing against his muffied feet. “Be careful, girls, be careful,” he cried, deprecatingly, and nourishing his hand all about him.— “It's sore all around here.” We laughed at the idea, but understood his precautionary device, and tucked our drapery into the very smallest possible compass whenever we went near him. “How stupid this grammar is,” said Maria. “Nothing but mode and tense, mode and tense for, twenty pages, here. I don t see' much in inode and tense; I wish ' there wasn’t any.” “Mode and tense !” spoke up my . lather, suddenly. “Don't see any- j thing in mode and tense? I am afraid you are a very dull girl.— , Yes,” girls,” he said, addressing, us collectively, to the great relief of poor Maria, "there’s a great i deal in mode and tense*; much | deep plMlosophy, many profitable and practical suggestions. Do you see how that can lie ?” Wc were obliged to say that we did not understand. “Well. I suppose not,’’ said father. "But what is meant by mode and tense ?” All of us began at once: “Mode is the particular form of the verb in which ’’ "Pshaw,” interrupted he. “I don’t want any of your grammar book definitions. It's the general idea I am after.” We were posed . and silenced . for if there were any other idea, particular or general, than the I grammar book set forth, we were guiltless of its acquisition. “Manner and time, manner and time, girls,” cried he, impatiently ; “that's the meaning of mode and . tense, in plain English. Why, what io the world is all your

———— schooling good for if you can’t tell that yet ? Don’t you see now that mode and tense need not belong exclusively to verbs, or even grammar itself? That it may belong just as properly to circum stances, events, actions, men and things, as to language? Do you not see this? I am afraid not.” That we looked blank enough to confirm such a fear, there is no doubt; but we had no answer to give, for we had never dreamed of such a free translation of those blind words “mode and tense.” ‘‘Well, well,” father went on, “perhaps I ought not to expect it at your age; but I trust tlm time will come when you will be able to perceive and apply principles whether found in books or anywhere else; in short, to generalize and not to be forever cramming your heads with particulars and details. But now, as I have sadly perplexed you all, I must tell you a story to make up for it as well as to illustrate the importance of mode and tense according to my more enlarged application of it Aha! that brightens you up at once, I see. Well, shut up your grammars, and now pay attention. It is a short one, and perhaps you'll think it a dull one, but it is all true, and affords a very interesting reminiscence, to your father.” “Is it about yourself?” asked Maria. “You mustn't be inquisitive," replied father, evasively. “It’s enough to know that it’s true, and that I know personally the characters in it; and don't interrupt me any more.” “My friend Manning, you know,” commenced father, “was an obscure but ambitious boy; and having abilities not of an every day order, he early resolved upon turning himself to sonic ac count in the world. But he was a poor man’s son, and of a large family, and the question was howto bring it about under circumstances as unfavorable as could well be imagined. His parents 1 were plain, hard-working, honest. ; church-going people, having little ! to do with the refinements of lifd. but possessing plenty of stronggood sense and innate perceptions of social intercourse. And they had carefully and perseveringly inculcated the notions which this good sense suggested. One rule they really insisted on—one. we regret to say. which is too often disregarded by people in their station. “They scrupulously enjoined and enforced if necessary, a respect ! and-deference for superiors either in age, condition or character; never allowing an infraction of this rule to pass without suitable rebuke or punishment; a practice which a’l parents and educators of youth would do well to imitate; £s>r. depend upon girls, there is nothing in the world so prepossesses one in favor of another as civil and respectful behavior or address. I care not whether old J or young.rjich or poor, wise or : ignorant, it is the passport to good will, and has, in many instances, been the stepping stone to fortune. “Well, my friend Manning, at this period of his history, was as green and untutored a little chap as need be; bashful and awkward beyond all description; but he got this lesson by heart, though be seldom had a call to put it into practice. "One bright autumn Sunday, young Manning and one or two of his brothers were standing on the terrace of the village meeting I house; for though they lived at a distance they were regularly required to be punctually at church las Qften as Sunday came; for the ; parents, though not professedly I religious, held very correct no- : tions about church-going. ‘lts , respectable,’ said they, ‘and we ■ wish to be respected. We cannot; • leave you money, but we will see; ; to it that you acquiic right habits.'! “They stood on the terrace. I said, making their boyish observations on the various equipages of ■ the good old town's people as they ; cracked up their steady old nags. |in order to flourish up to the ! church door, there to deposittheir load of women and children.— Among the last arrivals thev no-; fiieed a horse and chaise which; contained cnly a lady and a little girl, both dressed in deep mourn ing. "The lady stopped her horse anti looked around in some per I plcxity as to what she sliould do with it. Young Manning instantly comprehended the matter, anti i springing to her assistance, bi* s ■ face hot with blushes, he took the reins from her hand "while she I alightetl and helpctl out theTTnle , girl; and though she expressed warmly her pleasure at his unso . licited politeness and attention, bis r diffidence was such that he could

not utter a single word in reply; ; for he had recognized in herawid-! ow lady who had very recently ta ! ken up her residence at a fine old mansion not very far from the vil- ; lage, of whose wealth and grand- ! eur he had heard fabulous rinitors. ! So he only stood Iw the horse, blushing and smiling, till the late occupants of the carriage were j safely on the ground, and then carefully secured the horse in a neighboring shed, while the lady ’ and the daughter went into church. ; “Now, girls, trivial and unim- ■ portant as this occurrence may seem, it essentially modified the whole after life of that lad. It i wasn't simply the act itself, but the 1 mode and tense of it, which had such power to affect his destiny.— Do you understand ? The manner and time of doing a thing, often ! does make an ineffaceable impres- j sion.” Father stopped short and looked j earnestly, but very pleasantly. “Yes, sir,” answered Rebecca. ; thinking he awaited some response ; on our part; “yes, sir, but that 1 isn't all, is it ?” “Not quite,” replied he, with a : queer twinkle in his eyes, ‘‘unless you are tired of listening.” . “No, indeed, father, do go on.” l urged we all. in the same breath, j “Well, then,” proceeded father, 1 “after service, the wadow Mrs. D.. ’ and hep little girl, found their, chaise at the door, and the same , boy in attendance, with the same insurmountable diffidence holding ; him tongue tied. “Mrs. D. took a silver quarter from Iler pocket, and was going: to slip it into the boy's hand, as an accompaniment to her thanks, but he was out of sight the moment they were seated in the chaise. “‘Who is that boy, Elizabeth?’ inquired the widow, as they drove ' homeward. “‘I don’t know, mamma, but I saw him in the Sunday school: his class is near mine,’ replied Elizabeth. i “-Indeed?’ said Mrs. D., ‘but I ; might have known that he belong- i cd to the Sabbath school, and that he had been carefully trained at home, too, by his civil and oblig- i ing behavior. Quite extraordinary. in a raw country lad. I shall; keep my eye on that boy, Eliza- | both, for you may rely upon it he i will yet be heard of in ' whatever his situation and pros-1 poets may now'be.’ “Elizabeth was pleased to hear; him commended, and added her' own remark to the same purport, j “Through the succeeding week! the lad was often mentioned ; and, ( by taking some trouble, his name l and address were ascertained, to- j gether with certain particulars re- j speeding his ambitious purposes for the future; all of which infor-! mation only served to convince the willow D. that she had not; Iteen mistaken in her first estimate ! of the youngster. “We now pass over an interval of ten years, which to my friend Manning ‘•re years of stern but resolute struggle and toil. Bent on the course which had been the theme of his prattle, he had under- ! taken single-handed to grapple with the thousand obstacles which rose mountain high between his poverty and a liberal education and a professional career. But he never faltered nor wavered in his determination, though sometimes ready to sink in unequal contest with untoward circumstances. He fought his way through a preparatory process, entered college in advance, and graduated with the' highest honors of his class. “Rut results like these, (at least j he thought so.) could never have been achieved had not his courage, energy and resolution been sustainetl from some unknown and mysterious source. He felt a con- ; viction that there was somewhere . ; those who watched his conflict, ! with deep and earnest interest;! and though he could not conjecture where they were, nor who. he determined that those invisible eyes should not witness a defeat. Now and then, in hjs greatest emer gencies, (for these seemed to be understood by others besides himself,) he would find some solid I testimonial of interest appearing just at the moment of need; and I in a manner, too,, so considerate and delicate as no other , feeling than the liveliest gratitude. "More than once, when with a I rueful lace he made known the im- ! possibility of discharging certain l»ecuniary obligations at the appointed time, he found them al- ! ready cancelled ; and when he entered on the study of law, he was | not uiffrequently astonished,by the ■! arrival at his quarters of packages I of books, just the ones he needed : to aid his progress." t Here father looked complacentlily at his own capacious and well

I filled shelves with deep and earn-, ' est interest. “When he was admitted to the | bar. and dubiously casting about , \ for some humble place where he • might open an office and commence j ■ the practice of his laboriously ac- j quired profession, he found friends i hitherto unknown to himself, ready to lend him assistance and counsel, saying they had been for years ac- | quainted with his stout hearted en-1 ’ deavors. How it ?ould be he was ■ i unable to divine, but he thanked t Heaven and them all, and made ; good use of their kindly sugges- 1 j tions. | “Soon after advantageous partnership was offered by an elderly . gentleman in a large and wealthy j : village, and from this time forth ; ' he was a rising man. “During all these years our Stu- ; dent had enjoyed only a spchking j ■ acquaintance with the widow D., , I and her pretty Elizabeth ; but soon I ! discovered that his newly formed business relation was likely to i , bring him into tire society of the ; respected family, inasmuch as his [ partner proved a near and valued | ■ relative. Os course Manning was ! I enchanted, for now his bashfulncss ■ ■ was somewhat worn off, and — i ■ well, to be brief, things took their i ' own course, at which none who ■ ever knew Elizabeth D. would nt ' ! all wonder, and—our young attor : I hey began to be haunted with as-'° ! pirations of a nature quite differ I ent from those which had incited and stimulated his literary career. “And still more singular to relate. the improvident fellow, with , the full knowledge and consent of I the good widow and her charming daughter, did actually squander the very first hundred dollars his profession yielded him in doing the honor of a nuptial occasion with the young lady 1 A consumj mation of bliss which he could i scarcely believe awaited him, till '.all was over and he called her his lawful wedded wife. - ’ Father stopped a moment and looked at ns as we listened with ‘ breathless interest to his story, onlv of its terminating too quickly. but we thought his eyes were a little moist just at this moment, for ; he went on in a voice somewhat lowered: “It was not till a long time after this event that he became aware : how much 'the mode and tense of j one trifling act of his boyhood ' had to do with his enviable desti I ny for " ; At this moment the library door being ajar, mother hastily entered ’ the room, saying with an odd expression of countenance: i “Husband, husband, what in the world are you talking to the girls i about this morning!* I overheard a few remarks: come, girls, it is time to go to school; start off this moment or you will Ije.too I late.’’ “1 was only explaining their grammar,’’ replied their father, laughing, ami putting to his lips the hand with which she was about to adjust his cushions. We looked at them and then at one another, and the truth seemed to flash simultaneously upon us. “ Twas mother, 'twas mother!' we exclaimed all at once, and rushing upon her we clasped her in our six arras and overwhelmed her with kisses; whilst father, forgetting the risk of his toes for a moment, laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks, and mother chided. and blushed, and laughed al- , ternately. We needed no other confirmation that father had been letting out family Secrets; and after a 1 scene of merriment, such as that library never witnessed, to our knowledge, before or since, .we obeyed mother’s reiterated injunc tion, and started off for school with a glorious opinion of mode and tense. A Change of Costume. We are informed that, by special request of Mrs. Grant, the ushers, doorkeepers, and detailed police at the Excutive Mansion, are to be clad in swallow tail coats. Oii occasions of reception and levee, they ace to add white “chokers" end wline vests, and, for all we know, small clothos and patent leathers. As a change of costumes is to be made, why not go the whole figure? Meantime, we would like to know if this metamorphosis has been referred to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and received the approval of Senator Sumner? Because a few murders take i place in the Southern States, the > editor of the New York Tribune i thought that martial law should be I established over therp, * A murder has just occurred in' the Tribune ■ office. Shouldn’t the military code 1> lay its claws upon the concern ?

Miscellaneous Item*. It is proposed to work the Virginia coal fields with convict labor. A man in Harrison county, Mississippi, bolds eight offices. - The negroes of New Haven are forming a trades union, with dis fraction of color. An Englishman proposes to preserve fresh meat for exportation by dipping it in fluid india rubber. Saratoga water is said to be better than yeast in making buckwheat cakes. The great body of Methodist Protestants in Virginia will” unite with the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The number of emmigrants arrived at New York in October bv water was 4,339. of which 2,161 were males and 2.178 females. There are a htandred/thoiisand men in New York out of employment. and twice that number in employments worse than none at all. A short and stout woman got caught in a “squeezing machine’’ in a Dundee yarn factory, recently, and came out lifeless, but twelve feet long. The total number of rectifiers in the United States, as shown by the report of the Internal Revenue Bureau, on the 6th instant, was 1,704, and the number is increasing. Washington will raise five hundred thousand dollars to kill the i scheme for removing the capital. A good many Congressmen will be ready to assist-in removing that i capital. — Detroit Free Prest. There is a steam hammer at Danville, Pennsylvania, which cost 850,000, and which will crack a ; nut without breaking the kernel, or crush a solid cannon ball with a sixty-ton blow. At the late army reunion, General Sheridan addressed his comi rades thus : “I can’t make a speech, 1 but if you want me to tear up a : railroad or burn up a haystack 1 when the enemy is going to get it, and—and—and—.” And he anded himself back into his seat. Seven millions of dollars of Northern capital is being invested in Georgia this year. And yet the nigger papers North keep up the howl about its being unsafe for a Northern man to show his face down there. A Radical administration of a few years in North Carolina has i increased the State debt from £B,000.000 to over 834,000.000. It now proposes to liquidate a yor- ■ tion through the aid of icpudiation. Josh Billings says: “Anybusi•.less firm that hasn't got sand I enough in its craw to expend a few I dollars in making its business known to three or four thousand people, ought to pack up and go ; peddling peanuts.’’ Spring has come in California with the fall rains. Grass is green for the first time { n six months. The volunteer wheat and oats are sprouting, early vegetables are ripening. and the farmers are begin ' ing their ploughing for the great crops of next season. I Eugenie’s visit to Constantino--1 pit has carried all sorts of French fashions into the harems, and j threatens to work a social revolni tion. Many of the Turkish ladies now appear in the streets without the veil, wearing Parisian bonnets I and Parisian boots. Bishop Simpson, in a speech at the Methodist Missionary Anniversary in New York the other night, made a curious statistical • statement. He said there were 700,000.000 persons still out of the pale of Christianity, and at the rate the work is going on the entire world would not be converted in less than 3.000 years. Robert Hall did not lose his power of retort even in madness. A hypocritical condolcr with his misfortunes once visited him in the raad bouse, and said in tone: “What brouglyt/you here, Mr. Hall?” Hall/signifpcantly : touched his brow with fiis finger, 'and replied: “What will never bring you, sir ; too much brain.” “James! James!” etied an author's wife. “I have been calling I you this last half hour, and dinner is getting quite cold.” “Oh! is it? Well, you know. I have just killed the cruel old uncle. Hia property, of course, comes to his nephew. Charles, and I am marrying him to Emily. Keep the mutton hot till the yercmony is over; there’s a dear.” An Ohio clergyman, severs! years ago. received a bright new cent as a wedding fee. The other day he met the bridegyoom, who mentioned the circnnwtnec. and said: "M v wife waa a comparative stranger to me at the time we were united in wedlock. I had not learned her value, and paid accordingly. I find her a jewel—so here is an additional fee” at the ■ same time banding tbeiastonished ‘ minister a S2O gold piece.

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