Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 28 January 1870 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. JAWES R. 8080, Attorney o-t Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor's Office. vlOnGtf R. S. PETERSON, Attorney o.t Law, 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—InD. Studebaker's Law Office. vl2n33tf DANIEL D. HELLER, Attorney Low, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywhcie in Indiana or Ohio. ,■ OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder’s Of-'i fice. vlons2tf SAB AKE R, y o,t Law, TUR, {INDIANA. law in Adams and adT I joining counties; secure pensions and other claims against the buy and sell real estate; examine titles and pay taxes, and other business pcrtainingto real estate agency. 13-23. CHARLES M. FRANC E, Attorney at Law', DECATUR, INDIANA. PROMPT attention paid to all busisiness entrusted to his care. Is a Notary Public, Draws Deeds and Mortgage? and other Instruments in Writing. Office in J. R. Bobo's Law Office. 13:37 PHYSICIANS. F.A.JELLEFF. W. H. SCHROCK. JELLEFF A 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 servicestothe people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—At the Burt House. 11-36 AADR E W S O RO, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, over W. G.srncer& Brother's Hardware Store. vßn42tf. A. J. ERWIN, M. D., Surgeon. Dispensary, Aveline Block, v11n25 FORT WAYNE, IND. S / c. __ A Y E RS, MUD?, RESIDENT 0 Ear and. Eye Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main & Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. £l3?“Artificial Eyes inserted. 12-44 REAL ESTATE ACENTS. JAMES R . 8080. Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. rpHREE THOUSAND ACRES of I farming land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild lamp for sale. If yon 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 JI. FRANCE, ■Awctioiicei-, DECATUR, INDIANA. A NNOUNCES to the public that he is y V a regularly Licensed Auctioneer, and will attend all Public Sales when requested. OFFICE —In J. R. Bobo’s Law office. j. p. wa®go We r , Licensed Auctioneer, RESIDENCE, near Salem, Adams Co., Indiana. Post-Office address, Wilshire, Ohio. attention given to crying public sales. __ HOTELSMIESSE HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. Third St., Opposite the-Court House, 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 Oalhoun and Whyne Streets, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. vl2n7 , ts -MAIN' STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, ! B’ml .Vain Street, near the rublie Square I FORT WANYE, INDIANA. ■ vllnll if I HEDEKIN HOUSE, A. J. 11. MILLS, Proprietor, I On Barr, between Cvlumha and .Vain Str- 1 FORT WAVNK, INDIANA. ft ENERAL Stage Office. Good ata" I hlelngin connect ion with this house > ' vl2n2. , if ’

DECATUR. IXD., FRIDA Y JANUARY 28, 1870.

Heirship. BY JULIA C. R. DORR. Little store of wealth have I; Not a rood of land I own ; Nor a mansion fair and high Built with towers of fretted stone. Stocks, nor bonds, nor title-deeds, Flocks nor herds have I to show; When I ride, no Arab steeds Toss for me their manes of snow. I have neither pearl nor gold, Massive plate, nor jewels rare ; Broiderer silks of worth untold, Nor rich robes a queen might wear. In my garden’s narrow bound Flaunt no costly tropic blooms, Ladening all the air around With a weight of rare perfumes. Yetto an immense estate Am I heir, by grace of God— grander than doth wait Any eajthly monarch's nod. Heir of all the Ages, I— Heir of all that they have wrought, All their store of emprise high, All their wealth of precious thought Every goldcd deed of theirs Sheds its lustre on my way; All their labors, all their prayers Sanctify this present day ! Heir of nil that they have earned By their passion and their tears— Heir of all that they have learned Through the weary, toiling years! Heir of all the faith sublime On whose wings they soared to heaven ; Heir of every hope that Time To Earth's fainting sons hath given! Aspirations pure and high— Strength to dare to endure— Heir of all the Ages, I— Lo! I am no longer poor! The Japs In California. An Interesllmc Sketch of the Colony Near Gold Hill. From the San Francisco Morning Call. Up to this time the Japanese have accommodated themselves in their household matters at consid arable inconvenience, but this will soon be at an end, and in a few weeks they will be settled down as comfortably as you please, with houses of their own, each family reposing “under its own vine and fig-tree.” Among their number are four carpenters, and these men are now engaged in erecting buildings for the use of the party. The houses are to be 12 in number, dimensions 36x30, each containing four rooms, and built after the real Japanese fashion, with low. pitched roofs, the eavesextending far over the sills, and forming a balcony or awning around the entire house. The outer walls and partitions are all of sliding panels, i that can be shut together at the corners and folded into boxes, j leaving nothing bur the roof and its supports, during the hot sum-1 mer days, affording a luxury that can only be exceeded by “taking > off your flesh and sitting in your bones.” The partition walls are ■ of paper, the outer walls of wood ; one room is to be u3ed as a sleep-; iiff; room, another as a kitchen, j and the two others—in each house —for silk raising, w here the worms will be kept and nursed and the silk weaved and otherwise manipulated. I had omitted to mention that silk culture w ill form an im- 1 portant branch of this enterprise, 50,C00 mulberry plants having already been sent out for a begin-; ning. The Japanese carpenters are ingenious workmen, and their work is done with marvelous neat ness. A curious feature of their houses is That they do not contain a nail, all of the joints and tim-1 bers being dove tailed together by | many ingenious devices, and the' whole work, even to tke rafters, is as smooth as if it had been polished down with sand-paper. And 1 the Japanese arc a neat people, for j they use no paint to hide any blemishes of construction or oniamen-1 tation, no filigree work or plaster of Paris gewgaws, bnt every stick in the building is exposed. Every morning, as regular as she cooks the breakfast, or sweeps the ; floor, the Japanese housewife takes a wet cloth and scours the whole interior of the dwelling, leaving > no part untouched, and no stain or dirt spot to mar its cleanly ap- ■ pc&rancd. Then the Japanese do not come into the house with fluid dy boots, after the style of the American “sovereign but, hav-‘ ing covered the floor with a neat i matting, always remove the dirty . sandals before stepping upon it. 11 stood and watched the Japanese j carpenters at their work for some 1 minutes, and noticed the pcculiari ity of Jheir movements. The Jap I auese works “toward him”—that , is, instead of shoving a plane from I him. he reaches out. sets the plane ; on the board at arms’ length, and pulls it toward him, aud he cuts, ■ chops and saws in die same way. • His saws arc fixed io handles, like

a butchers cleaver, and the teeth slant or “rake” toward the handle. The p’anes are constructed like ours, but the wooden portion is very thin and wide. The adze is fastened to the end of a hooped stick, like the handle of one of the crooked canes that are worn on the arm on Montgomery street, and altogether, their tools are different from ours, yet I cannot ob serve that they are awkward in appearance or awkwardly handled. The men are bright, intelligent, and polite, lifting their hats and bowing to strangers, and the wo, men stay at home, do the cooking, take care of the babies, keep the house in order, and manage pretty much as American housewives do, even to the wearing of the Grecian bend. Take them all in all, they are a superior race to the Chinese, and resemble them in no manner except in their physical appear- ' ance. Female Africa in Washington. .From the St. Louis Republican. We are gratified to obseive that the persistent watering of Sumner and his colleagues is beginning to : make the waste places of the Dis- ’ trict of Columbia bud and blossom like a genuine African rose of unimpeachable color, and unmistakable fragrance. Ethopia is stretching forth her hands there, and Sambo has taken firm root in the social garden, and is growing with vigor and luxuriance which puts all green bay trees to open shame. It is only a few weeks since a lightheaded and light hearted Frenchman wooed, won and wedded a dueky damsel through whose veins flowed the warm blood of Daho mey, and the nuptials were witnessed by a select company of both complexions who exchanged smiles and champagne over this practical and pleasant blending of the two races. Now the Neu’ York tribune, alluding to the festivities of the new year in Washington, says cxultingly: “Several of the young gentlemen of Afaican descent paid their calls i in stylish equipages, and found at several housestables coverod with the most sumptous repasts and more elegantly served than could be fqund among the Anglo-Saxon race." The implication is, of course, that they called upon men of the same physical tint as the callers, but mark the cheerful signficance of the lines which the Tribune, has clothed in the dignity of italics. The tables were “more clgantly served than could bp found among ■ the Anglo-Saxon race.” Blissful ! assurance! Encouraging sign of the times! Happy illustration I philanthropy ami progress ! The wife of the President, the wives o! ! the Cabinet officers and of grave ; Senators and learned Represcnta i tives, to say nothing of the female ! relatives of numerous other white • people who reside at the national capital, received their friends on ; New Years day, and dispensed the usual refreshments, but of all these ladies of the Anglo Saxon race, none could so “elegantly serve” her guests as the dark skinned i beauties aforesaid. | Perturbed spirit of John Brown, deceased, fold the wings of thy • troubled and wandering soul ini eternal calm, for here is a triumph over caste and conventionalities! which all can appreciate! The! i Tribune bids the unfortunate wo | men qf Caucasian extraction learn , j manners at Timbuctoo, and, until j they do. consigns them to a merit ! jed inferiority. In*Wasbington. at ( i least, the Radical millennium | seems to have already begun, and : so far as it has gone it is novel . and interesting. Watch Springs. Tt has recently been discovered that the springs of Girouameters and watches, which are construct-! ed of steel, are frequently magnet I ic. Steel is at all times liable to j become magnetized from causes •I beyond man’s control. Watch j makers arc advised to test their : springs as to magnetism by placing them near to a very small and! I truly balanced mariner's compass.; If the spring exhibits in none of its circumference any tendancy to j move to one pole of the compass ] more than the other, it may be considered free from magnetic influence ; on thp other band, if the North pole moves to one part, and the South pole to the other, the spring is decidedly useless; for in watever position the time-keeper may be placed with such a spring, it will be affected by the earth's magnetism — Sept im us Pi esse, A crusty okl bachelor says he ' thinks it is woman, and not her i wrongs that ought to be redressed.

1 The Oneida Communists. Worse (ban Mormoniam From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The Oneida. (N. Y.) Communists, who have a branch establishment at Wallingfora, Conn., and who are well known for their sue- ! cess in making Socialism pecunia : rily a success, are getting ambiti- 1 ous of making converts we judge. 1 At any rate, their head man, John ’ 11. Noyles, the life and brains of 5 this peculiar organization—as ’ Brigham Young is of Mormonism * —has written a book giving a his- ( tory of Communism in the United ( States, and setting forth with greater plainness than ever before the ' belief of himself and his followers. The foundation stone of the com- J munity is the apostolic idea of ! having “all things in common,” in- s eluding persons as well as proper- J ty, and this idea is thoroughly car- * ried out at Oneida, while we are in- ( formed that the Connecticut es f tablishment is one with the other . c “socially and financially.” No such distinctions as husband and ■ wife, parents and children, are rec- 1 ognized by this community, but ( all are considered as belonging to e one another, relation being regu- 1 lated only by attraction that one ' has to another. Among the arti- * cles of the creed, that legitimately ! follow from this fundamental be- ■ lief are that shame is sin ; holiness comes first then free love; the abolition of marriage and the substitution of communism is a Chris- ' tian duty, and so on. ' This statement of the belief of '' the Oneida Communists is no new j I thing, and is only worthy of notice i! from the Broadness and frankness I! with which it is now stated by the ; < leader of the community and the ( ' evident attempt to attract the at- i' tention of the public by. means of i 1 this book. It is also worthy of'.’ note that the people professing and j 1 practicing those principles—as ' t much viler and more demoraizing J than Mormonism as can be im-ji agined—are subject to no molest- ; ’ ation, either legal or unlawful, j: though closely surrounded by . s neighbors to whom their is only < less abhorrent than their actions. < If any great assignation establish-’ < ment like this had been .set up < without the pretence of religious < belief to buoy it up it would have : been disposed of pretty quickly. < But Americons are very lenient to , I all forms and phrases of religious ; ’ belief, and there is no denying that j I it is a much better way than to jm- ; itatc the religious persecution® of •' the old world and the sixteenth : 1 century. Bnt it is equally evident i that this tolerance permits some t < strange anomalies, both of govern ': ment and social life; and it is hard- ' i ly to be wondered at that foreign- | < ers who cannot be expected to i' know ns thoroushlv, sometimes get a wrong impression of us when ' told that we permit the Oneida , Communists to flourish in the heart of New York and allow the Mor- ' mons out in Utah to have as many wives as they want, though every- ! body else is strictly limited to one. Can't Aflord It. The Erie Republican has seen j the man who couldn’t afford to take a paper. It giveslhe history ■ as follows: “There arc men who don't take ! ! a paper, because they can't afford . j it—they are too poor—they re | | quire all their money to keep up : , their family expenses ‘these hard I ; times.’ We met one of these the • other day. and wo said to bi in he | I ought have the Republican. “Well, i ! really,” said he, ‘I would if I could 1 afford it —Would like to oblige you; but things are so terrible i tight just now that it is hard to ' make both ends meet.’ We did not press the matter upon our ‘ hard up” friend, but knowing his I habits, we made the following caldilations, based on that kuowl- * i edge. Two glasses of ale a day at i | ten ccnts.-573; three cigars, one as-! ' ter each meal, 8109.50°; board of a ' big dog,^:>o—all in one year, two ! hundred and twelve dollars and sis-1 , ty cents; sufficient to buy six bar-' rels of flour,, one barrel of sugar. 1 • one sack of coffee, ane good coat, i a resectable dress, a Irock for the j baby, anil a halt dozen pair of' ; shoes, and all the daily papers i* l ; I the city, to say nothing of books. | . magazines, etc. You see the point | . I —the man couldn't afford it, ami' . I thcie are thousands just like him I! for the same reason.” r | An old lady, on l»cing examined • r as to her place of legal settlement. . wag asked what reason she had for s supposing her husband had a legal • settlement in that town. The old | lady said: “He was born and mare ried there, and they buried him r there; and if that isn't settling j him there, I don’t know what is."

Senator Pratt, Addtional Reason* Why lie Did Not Resign. Waehinyton.(Jan. 14) Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial, I metagentleman yesterday who saw the written resignation of Sen ator Pratt, of Indiana, and held many conversations with him on the subject of his withdrawal from the senate. It has been given out that Mr. Pratt, proposed to resign because he found himself “unfitted” | for the position. The correctness ' of this statement depends upon the definition you give to unfitness. From Mr. Pratt’s standpoint it was the same kind of “unfitness” Oliver Twist may be supposed to have experienced when he found himself in Fagin’s garret, the as- i sociate of Bill Sykes and the Art ful Dodger. In the sense of being I incapable of serving his constituents as their representative in the senate, Mr. Pratt certainly never . confessed any unlitness and never ' felt any. It were strange, indeed, ■ if he should, when the senatorial i average is scarce above that of a city council, except in the unrival- j ed splendor ofits capacity for plunder. And even this latter branch of public service most of our city councils are fast catching up. It turns out, however, that Mr. Pratt required a vast deal of “sitting up” with to induce him to withhold his resignation. The wily Morton and the slimy Schuyler had alternate exhortations with him, and each, in his way, present ed the alarming consequences of his contemplated act of conscience. Schuyler with a rapid volley of grins and grimaces, assured him that he feared the next legislature would be democratic (which is a bout the only sensible thing Gentle Dullness has said in several years), and then it would elect Hendricks —and, oh, what an awful thing that would be, to be sure ! Notwithstanding Morton's wiles and Schu.’der s smiles, Mr. Pratt was still almost persuaded to be an honest man, and to read him self, by a sinple act of decency, out of the re üblican party, when Grant sent for him. L lysses showed the trepidation of the other radcals. and seemed even more solicit ous for“the ruinous effects of such an exhibition ot spasmodic honesty. The unsophisticated blockhead was oven alarmed lest Pratt's virtue prove** contagious, and infect the whole senate, as with a sort of conscientious small pox. The slightest investigation would have convinced him that every radical senator is thoroughly vaccinated, and perfectly sale against any such attack as that. After much persuasion, and all r nner of appeals to his sense of party obligation, Mr. Pratt agreed to withhold his resignation until after the fall elections, with the understanding that if the republicans carry the Indiana legislature he will tender it; if not, he will retain his scat. And so the matter stands at present. It presents a strong inducement for active work among the republicans, by enlisting the friends of rival cand.dates for senatorial honors, but gives no hope of reward to zealous effort on the part of the democrats, except the feeble one cf compelling such a political monstrosity as a conscience-stricken radical to keep | his seat. It narrows the question I down to whether Indiana shall ' have a radical senator with a con I science, or a radical senator without a conscience. lam in favor I of the former, of course, for I con i aider him a brevet democrat.

■ - - - - Wanted tlib Han Thrown In. A Canadian clergyman, not long i since, was called upon by an Irish girl, who asked how much he ; charged for “marrying anybody.” I “lie replied, “a dollar and a , half,” and Biddy departed., A few evenings later, on being summoned to the door he was accosted by the same person, with the remark that she had come to be married. ••Very well,”*said the minister; but perceiving with astonishment that she was alone, he„ continued, “where is the man ?” An expression of disappointment passed over Biddy's features as she ejaculated: “And don't wu find the man for a dollar and a half?" A blushing damsel wled at one of the agencies the bfwer day to buy a sewing machine. “Do you want a feller ?" inquired the modest clerk in attendance. The ingenious maid , with some asperity, “No,'sir? I have one.” A little girl, seehig a litter of i kittens sos the first time, expressed 11 her opinion that “somebody had • shaken pussy all to pieces,”

Miscellaneous Items. . ® ' A hand-to-hand affair —Mar- . . I riage. Ladies wear corsets from instinct—a natural love for being squeezed. A sign in one of the streets in Indianapolis reads: “Skates sharpint hear.'' . | A very eulogistic obituary of a lady says: “She was married twenty-five and in all that time never once banged the door. Lebanon claims to have the’ stingiest man in the state. He charges his customers a cent for “trying an apple.” Anything to please the child, as the nurse said when she let the baby crawl out of the third story window. A New Orleans youth ate a box of castilc soap to remoye freckles. - I It isn’t known how he succeeded inside, but outside he remains the same. A woman in Mansfield, Ohio, sued a saloon keeper for damage done her by selling her husband liquor, and got a verdict for 8250. A writer asks, throush the Farmer’s Department of a contemporary, if any one can inform a poor man the best way to start a little mysery. Get married'. The difference between the bachelor and the married man is that the former has to look out for number one, and the latter for number two. The Rushville Republican announces a gratifying a*nbition among the matrons of that town to make a good showing wnen tae census man comes along. A little boy being asked if he knew whero liars went, answered yes—that they went to New' York and wrote for the newspapers. Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail; and it is only after .it has slipped through many thousands of hands, that some fellow, by good luck holds on to it. A convent for the negro “Sisters of Providence”,is being built in New Orleans. Shall we not soon have a convent for Sisters of Providence of Chinese birth ’? Dobbs having been advised by his doctor to add more vegetables to his diet, now smokes nine cigars a day, because he says they’re made of the vegetables he likes best. Palez quaintly observes that the difference between the rich and the i poor is simply this: The poor have plenty of.appetite, but nothing to eat; the rich have plenty to I cat, but no appetite. James Rusk, of Fountain county, sat a bucket of hot ashes just ' outside his door last Sunday and • . went to church. When he came back he couldn’t find his house nor the bucket of An awkward man attempting to carve a goose, dropped it on the floor “There, now,” ex -laimed his wife, “we've lost our dinner.” “Oh. no, my dear,” answered he, "it is safe—l have got my feet on it.” Os all the sweet !nd beautiful things said of a faithful mother’s love, the words used by Theodore Parker in speaking of Daniel Webster's mother seem most previous: “When virtue leaps high on the public fountain, you seek for the lofty spring of nobleness, and find it far off in the dear breast of some mother, who melted the snows of winter and eon densed the summer's dew into fair, sweet humanity. which now glad ' dens the face of man in all the city streets.”

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If we may believe half the Radical press says of the late Mr. Stanton, he had but one vice, and that was the “vice of honesty. It is said that, with every chance to steal millions, he stole nothing—with every chance to grow rich, ho died poor. At this his political friends ara naturally astonished. There has been nothing in their ,own otlicial experience to prepare,them for the development of such an eccentricity on the part of .Mr. Stanton. Yet, forgetful of self, they cheerfully accept the fact that he was not a iheif as “his best eulogy.” During a recent balloon ascension at Memphis some interesting phenomena were noted. Ihe highest altitude attained was 16,670 feet, at which elevation the temperature was 50 degrees Fah. The -balloon in ascending always assumed a whirling motion from right to left, while descending it turned from left to right. hour , good English lever watches were taken up. two of which stopped at the height of two miles. A very delicate pocket compass was com pletely depolarized, and though it has since been gradually regaining it* polarity, it is still worthless. The aeronaut was a confirmed dyspeptic before he began ballooning; but several voyage* have effect*! • radical cure. “ *4