Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 11 February 1870 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. JAHES K. 8080, .Attorney z*.t Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor's Office. ’’ vlon6tf R. S. PETERSON, Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. PROMPT attention paid to all business entrusted to his care. Isa Notary Public, and draws Deeds, Mortgages, and other instruments in writing. OFFICE—Over Dorwin & Bro's. Drug Store. v!2n.33tf DAAIEL D. HELLER, Attorney eat Lauv, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywheie in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder's Office. v!ons2tf D. STUDABAKER, Lavu, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice law in Adams and adjoining counties; secure pensions and other claims against tiie government; buy and sell real estate; examine titles and pay taxes, and other business pertainingto real estate agency. 13-23. CHARLES U. FRAAC E, Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. PROMPT attention paid to all busisiness entrusted to bis care. Is a Notary Public, Draw s Deeds and Moi tgages and other Instruments in #riling. Office in J. R. Bobo's Law Office. 13:37 P T WEEKS, Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. A'ITILL practice law in Adams and adY V joining counties. Is Deputy Prosecutor. Office opposite the Recorder's office. 13:42tf. PHYSICIANS. F.A.JELLEFF. W.U.SCHROCK JELLEFF&SCHROCK, Physicians and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, opposite the Public Square. vSnlbtf. CH AR L E SE. C ’ VRTISS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permancnlly located in this place, offers his professional servicestothe people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—At tlie-Burt House. 11-36 A A D R E W~S O R <- , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, over W. G.Srncer & Brother's Hardware Store. vßn42tf. A. J. ERWIA, TI. D., Surgeon* * Dispensary, Avelinc Block, v11n25 FORT WAYNE, IND. sT c7~a a e r ? d7, RESIDENT Ear and Eye Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main & Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. • ftaJ“Artificial Eyes inserted. 12-44 REAL ESTATE ACENTS. JAMES R. BORO, Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. rpHREE THOUSAND AGUES of good JL 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. CHARLES YI. FRA A CE, ■ZLuotioneer, DECATUR, INDIANA. VNNOUNCES to the public that he is a regularly Licensed Auctioneer, and will attend all Public Sales when requested. OFFICE—In J. R. Bolib's Law office. J 7 P. A «oA ER , Licensed Auctioneer, RESIDENCE, near Salem, Adams Co., Indiana. Post-Office address,. Wilshire, Ohio. tap*Special attention given to crying public sales. t HOTELS. MIESSE HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. Third St., Oppotitt the Court Iloute, DECATUR, INDIANA. THE traveling public wi(l find this House a desirable stopping place. Good sample r<M>ms. vlln9 MA\EK HOUSE? J.W. BULL, Proprietor,Confer of Calhoun and Bayne Street*, ' FOBT WAYNE, INDIANA. v!2n7 ts A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, ITeit Main Street, near the T'ullie Sfttar* FORT WANYfc, INDIANA, vllnll • if

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s The Dlfterence. i. Men lose their ships, the eager things: > To try their luck at sea, But none can tell by note or count, How many there may be. One turned East, another South—- • They never come again, And then we know they must hare sunk, But neither how or when. i K ' . God sends his happy birds abroad—- ‘ They're less than ships,” snj - we; No moment passes but He knows How many there should be. One biiildcth high, another low, With just a bird's light care— Ifimlyone, perchance, doth fall, God knoweth when and where. ' . . — j The Torpedo Problem. j i For some tune past the naval | department has been engaged in solving the problem of a torpedo boat, capable of firing rapidly and with certainty, under water, a torpedo of 100 pounds or more. This problem has at length reached a satisfactory solution, and a boat ' has been completed which is prov-1 ed by experiment to be faultless : in machinery and arrangements. : On the 2d irfst>.‘Seeretary Robeson, | Vice Admiral Porter, and Commo- j dore Chase, chief of the bureau of ordnance, went to the navy yard at Washington to witness the ex- . periment with this new engine of! destruction. After examining the workings of the machinery, and ; the manner of firing, one of the I destructives was put in the frame. ! and the parly proceeded to the I shore to witness the result. A i torpedo of only 36 pounds was run out with rapidity and fired; | but the result showed that this ; small amount of powder, even, ■ would have been sulTscient to de j siroy any ship, by lifting her out i of the water and breaking her back, even if her bottom was not knock- j cd out altogether. Mud and wa- I ter were thrown up together, and i the concussion was felt far up in the navy yard, the ground being shaken by the shock of the pow dor against the bed of the river. The concussion felt on board the | torpedo boat was not more than that caused by a wave striking a vessel at sea. Several torpedoes were Cred from the vessel, the explosion of which the party witnessed on board as they desired to ascertain for themselves the effect of the shock. The ie a ult seemed satisfactory, as no change whatever is contemplated in the machinery, which is very simple, and “wbrks to a charlh.” i The torpedo vessel is the Nina, a j very strong iron boat of three; hundred and fifty tons burthen. I capable of crossing the ocean, and ! having a speed of seventeen knots h an hour. She is not impervious to . heavy shot, but can be made so. ■ and is capable of resisting any or- • dinarv projectile that could be | brought to bear on her from the J decks of a ship of- war,* Her decks will be made torpedo and shot | proof, and several arrangements i will be applied, now that it is! known that the torpedo system is a success. Such vessels as the Nina, attacking an enemy’s squadron on our coast some dark night, or entering an enemy's port, could destroy half the vessels in the har j bor, and easily escape, as few vessels could overtake her. Such a vessel could, for instance, enter the barber of Havana and destroy every vessel of war in the port, . under cover of darkness. A ■ squadron supplied with such boats ■ to be used to attack, after the fight began, and the ships were cnvel- i oped in smoke, would have a most decided advantage against an enemy not thus armed for torpeAi warfare. It is reported that onr torpedo navy will cons'st of 20 ■ vessels, none of wluefr will have a less speed than 12 knots, and the fastest of them will go 17 knots. A few Aphorisms- —Be contented with your lot, especially at a public auction. The darkest hour (as a rule) is just before the gas is lighted. i You cannot do without money; ■ you inay do without « mother-in-1 law. Keep your temper, snd your carriage. A woman reporter who ascertains facts about sewing women, • tells the New York Star of a young woman who was making “chemis es” fur n Broadway iloliar store at five cents apiece. She could make two a day by dint- of hard work, j Three women in Brooklyn made up Balmoral skirts for seven cents each, and together earn forty cents ' a day.

Storms In the Sun. Professor J. D. Steele has communicated the following to the Elmira 5 “There appeared in the Advertiser some weeks since a paragraph, copied, I believe, from a Michigan paper, declaring that a column of magnetic light is shooting out . from the sun at a prodigious speed ; .that it alrcudy reaches half way to I the earth, and, that, in all probability, by another summer, wc shall have celestial and atmospheric phenomena beside which our rudest'Winter winds will seem like a “June morning in paradise.’’ In fine, that when this big tongue of fire touches the earth it will likely lap np our globe at one mouthful. . Very many have made inquiries of Ime concerning this prodigy, and ! with your leave, I will try to sati isfy their curiosity, and perhaps ! allay their fears. “It has been known for some time that during a total eclipse red flames were seen play about the edge of the moon. Duringtheeclipses of 1868 and 1869 it was definitely settled that they were entirely disconnected from the moon, ! and were vast tongues of fire darti ing out from the sun's disc. By I observations with the spcctrocopes ; of the sun taken by DeLa Rue dr.r- --| ing the eclipse of 1869, it was dis- ' covered that these great moun--1 tains consisted mainly of burning hydrogen gas. This was precious information to secure in the midst 1 of the excitement, and novelty, and ■ in the brief duration of a total ei clipse. It did, however, satisfy I scientific men. For two years Mr. j Lockver, aided by a grant from ! Parliament, to construct a snperi or instrument, had be?n experi- ! menting and searching hi order to ; detect these flames at other times j than at the rare occurrence of a to- ! tai eclipse. On the 20th of Octoj her, 1868, he obtained a distinct I inqage of one of the prominences, l which he afterward traced entirely ; round, the sun.—Astromomers [car, therefore, now study these I flames at any time. “The result of observations now being taken show that storms rage upon the sun with violence of which we can form no conception. Hurricanes sweep over its surface ; with terrific violence. Vast cyclones wrap its fires into whirlpools, at the bottom of which our earth could lie like a boulder in a volcano. Huge flames dart out to eiTormous distances, and fly over the sun with a speed greater than that of the earth itself through space. At one time a cone of fire shot out 80,000 miles and then died away, all in ten minutes’ time. ! Besides such awful convulsions, I the mimic display of a terrestrial I volcano or earthquake sinks into I insignificance. “There is nothing in these phenomenas to alarm us. They have lin all probability, happened coni stantly for ages past. That we ! have no means of investigating { their nature and measuring their ; height and velocity, furnishes no 1 cause of anexiety. Rumors of i these discoveries have crept into ■ th? papers, and, exaggerated by j repeated copying and sensational ■ additions, have given rise to these 1 mysterious and uncalled for pre- ! dictions.” A Specimen Urick. — Mississippi will shortly be admitted to Congress, and among her representatives elect is one General Henry W. Barry, ex-Un : ion soldier. This is the fellow i whose villainies I exposed thiough i your columns a year or so ago. He was a Colonel of a negro regiment stationed at Paducah about 1863—i, and was, I believe, cashiered once, but was subsequently retained. He is a common swin-' ; dler. victimizing the tradesmen of i i every city which has been infested with his presence. Louisville tail- [ j ors, merchants, etc., suffered the I ; loss of several thousand dollars by his swindling practices. Here, I have authority for stating, he vic- [ timized various persons, and finally ' ran away to escape punishment for a criminal assault upon a young j woman. Before he left, however, I he succeeiled in obtaining a brevet as Major General on foiged papers. ! This I get from an ex-Geueral of the Federal army, who swears that . Barry is the greatest rascal in the land. Yet this scamp, being a Radical, will l»e received with open . arms by his party friends. Intellect, honesty, merit, is nothing here. “Will you vote right and do- all sort of dirty work ?"—that is the passport to Radical confidence and influence. Barry’s antecedents will entitle him to a distinguished place.— Washington I Correspondcnct Lon is t die Courier Journal.

Climate Changes at the Pole. There are many proofs that a milder climate once reigned in the northern regions of the globe. ! Fossil peices of wood, petrified acorns and fir-cones- have been ■ found in the interior of Banks’ ■ Land by McClure's sleighing parties. At Anakerdluk, in North Greenland, 70 degrees north, a large forest lies buried on a monn tain surrounded by glaciers, 1.080 feet above the level of the sea. Not only the trunks and branches, •but even'the leaves, fruit-cones, and seeds have been preserved in the soil, and enable the botanist to determine the species of the plant to which they belong. They show that, besides fur and sequoias, oaks, plantains, elms, magnolias, and even laurels, indicating a cli mate such as that of , Lausanne or 'Geneva, flourishing during the j miocene period in a country where I now even the willow is compelled ;to creep alon r the ground. Dur- ■ ing the same epoch of the earth’s , history. Spitzbergen was likewise [covered with stately forests. The 1 same poplarsand the same swampevpress which then flourished in ' North Greenland have been found i in a fossilized state at Bell Sound. 76 degrees north, by the Swedish naturalist, who also discovered a plantain and a linden as high as 78 degrees and 79 degrees in Kinng’s Bay—a proof that in those i times the climate of Spitzbergen ('cannot have been colder than that i which now riegns in Southern | Sweden and Norway, 18 degrees ' nearer to the line. What may have been the cause of these amazing changes of climate ? The readiest answer seems to be; a different distribution of, sea and land! but there is no reason to believe that in the miocene times there was less land in the Arctic zone than at present, nor can any possible combination of water and dry land be imagined sufficient to account for the growth [ of laurels in Greenland or the plan tains in Spitzbergen. Dr. Oswald Heer, is 'iiclincd to seek for an ex planation of the phenomenon, not in more local terrestrial changes but in difference of the earth's position in the heavens. We now know that our sun, with his attendant planets and perform a vast circle embracing perhaps hundreds of thousands Os! yean, round another star, and that wc are constantly entering new regions of space untraveled by our earth before. Wc come from the unknown.! and plunge into the unknown ; but; so much is certain, that our solar system rolls at present through a space but thinly peopled with stars, and there is no reason to doubt that it may once have wondered through one ofthose celestial • provinces where, as the telescope shows us, constellations are far more densely clustered. But as. every star is a blazing sun, the! greater or lesser number of these ! heavenly bodies must evidently! i have a proportionate influenct? up ■ I on the temperature of space: and! j thus we may suppose that during' j the mloceue period our earth, be-1 i ing at that time in a populousi sidereal region, enjoyed the ben-i efit of a higher temperature, which! clothed even its poles with ver i dure. Biew Food for Babies. M. Nestle, of Vevay, has pro-1 posed the introduction of a new; food for young infants, to which) he give the name of lacteal farina. I This food is composed of perfectlvl pure milk, evaporated in a vacuum at a low temperature, and of bread! which has been submitted to high' temperature, aud sugar. These' ingredients are incorporated in' ■certain proportions, calculated to) produce a food of similar eoinpo i 1 sition to human milk. If some; ottier. benefactor of his raee®wonld I 1 supplement Monsieur Nestle’s) [contrivance by a patent autom ; aton to administer the maternal! fluid, wonderful results might be 1 i obtained. I’he old and tedious[ ; system of bringing orphans up bv i hand would lie superseded, fashion ! • able mothers would be relieved I ! from the onerous task of nursing. 1 ‘ and no one can donbt that the crop i lof aristocratic infants would be! j largely increased in consequence. I 1 It would lw only necessary to con-1 ! sign the babeto the tender embrace, [of the machine, fill the tank with ' “lacteal farina.” connect a hose ■ provided* with a valve opening outward, place the end of it within the and instinct and! suction might be relietl on for the rest. By judicious apportionment | ' of the aqueous and lacteal elements ■ of the .mixture, moreover, a fat or lean article cfchildren—-according! to the taste of the doting parents—; I could be produced to order, v

Miscellaneous Items. v There are seventy papers in ■ America called the Telegraph. The first iron building ever i ; seen in America was erected in ; Boston in 1842. The Massachusetts savings! banks gained 817,000,000 in deposits last year. The anti-Brighamites now have nn organization in every county in Utah Territory. The cify council of Montgomery, Ala., have resolved not to receive an}- pay for their services. Nr.-Isaac Stratton, of Keene, N. H., a few days since, sold • boards from one pine tree to the ; sum of 8125, A Virginia negro who stole a valuable horse and killed him for his hide, has been sent' to prison . for eighteen years. A couple of New York doctors ' have chartered a steam yacht to ! take their patients around Florida ■ this winter. Philadelphia claims 88.000,000, of the 810,000,000, worth of prop ' erty destroyed bv fire in the United , States in 1869. During the summer months the ! consumption of lager beer in “tiie ' i city of New York is estimated at' i -10,600 kegs. Every day a dove visits a fruit stand in Boston, lights upon the shoulder of one of the attendants, and is fed and petted. No citizen of Japan can leave ' that country witliout giving bonds ! that he will return at the time specified. Out of 392 Ohio divorce cases > granted last year, the custody of! the children in 334 suits were given ' to the mother. The Sall Lake Reporter knows ! of one Mormon family that has [ buried one hundred and forty-1 eight child rep. The mercury at San Francisco ! lias been above ninety degrees on-' ly six times for the last nineteen i years, and seldom goes below! forty. William Parker of Morgan. Vt.,' i has a cloak in his possession made ! I in 1660, and it appears to be good for another two hundred years of! service. J „ The Red Wing Argus says that : I at Pine Island there is an interest | ! ing item for the medicos : A pair ‘of twins, one white, the other black. The mother is white. The “small sewing machine” which some rascal in New York sends to those people who respond ito his advertisement by enclosing him 81, is a shoemaker's awl, worth about fifteen cents. The Army and Navy Journal * j says that out of the 2,771 officers !of our army, between"7oo and 800 entered the service as private sol- : diers, and that only 622 ever en- ! joyed the advantages of West Point. It is estimated that j 1 are deposited in the various sav- ! ings banks of the United States. I Estimating the population at 40,I 000,000, tiiis would give 812 50 to I every man, woman, and child in ' the country. The White Pine (Nevada) News j says the total shipments of bullion i for December are : From Treas- ! ure City, 8129.128 13 : from Ham ; ilton, 8121.744 66; from Sherman- I , town. 851,335 61; making a total | of <302,214 67. At Appleton. Wisconsin, the; i merchants have an organization to ' to protect themselves against bad 1 debtors. Those who will not pai lat one store are not trusted eisei where. . An Ecumenical dead beat kas I been thrust into the own i prison. He was passing himself I off for the bishop of a distant see — I not so distant, howevcf, but the . Holy See saw the deception. It is stated in a Rhode Island I paper that there are now living in I the town of Smithfield, in that 1 State, a man and his wife, Jonathan ! and Salona Buxton, he being 102 iyears old and his wife 101. Says the New York Sun : “The ! amendment confers the ballot upon I about 900,000 negros, 800,000 of i whom resides in the old sJkve-, ! holding States. It gives the SuP • ! frage to 86,000 in three Southern I States which the Democratic party ; now holds tenaciously, namely : in i Kentucky, 47.000, in Maryland, i j 34,500; in Delaware, 4,500,—a force whice may prove sufficient, ' to revolutionize their politics if it should all be thrown against that; | party.

Tobacco costs the citizens of New Orleans three times as much as bread. There is a professorship of the Irish language in the Roman Catholic University of Notre Dame, Indiana. A Boston’ paper say: “Dr. Livingstone has gone further into the heart of Africa than Sumner.” To be anybody nowadays one must be viewed, reviewed and in- ! terviewed. An Eastern editor notifies con I respondents that “if wc should de- • sire stupid articles we cun write l them ourself.” There is a man out West who hrfs discovered a method of steering a flying ship, but he can’t get tee pesky thing to fly. What sort <>f boarding-houses do they have in Cincinnati ? A man died at one from over eating at one, Monday. A young woman of Indiana keeps twentj-seven engagement rings hung up in her bourdoir, the spoils ! of live years. • ! Sydney Smith says somewhere i that ‘‘correspondence is like trowsers before suspenders came in fashion—hard to keep up.” ! South Berwick has the oldest ■ academy in Maine, and it charter bears the bold sighaturo of old ■ John Hancock. Mr. Dalrymple; the great farmer ; of Minnesota, is said to have made , one hundred and fifty thousand ! dollars clear gain in three years of i farming. It is ordained, in the eternal ! constitution of things, that men ! of intemperate minds can not be free; their passions forge their fetters. The Illinois Legislators get furnished at public expense with penknives said to cost 88 25 a piece. ! Os course Radicals control legisI lation in that State. An escaped lunatic in Connec- ■ ticut is on a begging tour with a ■ skunk in his arms. He uses that I animal's peculiarities to enforce I his requests. A New York exchange says Sai tan has one great advantage over i Horace Greeley, to-wit: when lie i quotes Scripture he quotes it cor- ; rectly. The . inhabitants of Maine are i looking out for the main chance ; by inducing Norwegian emigrants .to purchase the waste lands they . can't sell to each other. The latest “ridiculonsity” is the j proposal of a Milwaukee paper to i construct a railroad tunnel, eighty- | six miles long, under Lake Michi- ! gan. The expense would be i trifling—only 8115,000,000. ! Collin county, Texas, boasts of I having more rich land, corn and wheat; more fat cattle, fat men and_women : more money and less debt, ancU oT” being generally in easier circumstances than any oth- ) er county of the same population in the United States. Miss Julia Hubbard, the trangcribing clerk of the Wisconsin ; Legislature, is young, and well ed- ( ucated. A bashful young member 1 called her the transporting clerk, in his confusion, the other day, and was immediately called to or- , dcr by all other uumarried members. , The playful negroes of New Orleans occupy the whole breadth ! of the sidewalk when promenading. The other evening a gentleman protested against being thrust ; into the street, and a facetious negro shot him dead. Another jocular black shot at him as he fell ■ dead, but missed his aim and winged an aged negro across the street. : The police being thoroughly rei constructed, these were no arrests. I Ileae is a specimen of republican simplicity wc exhibited at the PuiiH'e Arthur kali the other niffht; , “Mrs. General Grant wore a crimson velvet dress, with long train ; the front breadth composed of white satin, cut low in the neck, with short sleeves. The bertha was trimmed with narrow pippings of white satin and deep point lace. Her hair was dressed with white jnponicas ami strings of pearls, with pearl necklace and diamond 1 brooch and bracelets.” What would Solomon, ®rrayc<l in all his glory, have said to that ? It would I have made him ashamed of his best clothes. One of the most extraordinary divorce cases ever brought before a New York court is now being 1 tried by Judge Barnard, in the Supreme Court The plaintiff is Commodore John T. Gleaspn. a veteran officer of the United States naviß six?)’ four years. The . defendant, his wife, is au old lady • of fifty-five, and mother of two ; grown sons. The alleged adulterer is another elderly person, John B. Howell, who is also a parent of grown children. The wAne«»e« against Mrs. Glexsou, who wcro ; examined yesterday, were the wife and dAnghter of Mr. Howell. The i alleged criminality wa* committed in Pro rideace, Rhode Inland