Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1870 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. JAMES 8080, AfTORJIEY AT LAW, DECATUR, Ind. Draws Deed*, Mortgages, and Contracts, Redeems Landgand pays Taxes. Office oppositp.Lbe Auditor’s office. R. S. .PETERSON, ATTORNfcV AT LAW, DECATUR, Ind. Prompt attention paid to all business .Entrusted to his care. Is h Notary Public, and draws Deeds, Mortgages, and othei 1 Instruments in writing, Office over Dorwin & Bro's Drug Store. ~DANIEL D. HELLER, 4 TTORNHT AT LAW; WECkTUR, .Zllnd. Will practice his profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. Office opposite the Recorder’s office. 10:5*2 D. Attorney at law, decatur, Ind. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties, secure pensions and other claims against tlie government, examine titles, buy and sell land, and attend to other business peitaining to the real estate agency. 18:23 ’"CHARLESMFRANCE Attorney at law, decatur, Ind. Arompt attention paid to all business entrusted to hi- care. Is a Notary Public, draws Deeds, Mortgages and other instruments in writing, Office in J. R. Bobo's Law Office. 13:37 P. T. WEEKS, Attorney at; law,; decatur, Ind. Will practice law in Adams and adjoining counties. Is deputy Prosecutor. Office opposite the Recorder's office. ; 13:42 piiysTciansT” r. ts. JELEFP. W. n. SCHROCK. JELEFF & SCHROCK, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS , Decatur, Indiana. Office on Second street, opposite the Public Square. 8:15 ~CHARLES M? CURTIS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, DECATUR, Ind. Having permanently located in this place, tenders his professional! services to lhe people of Decatur and vicinity. Office at Burt House. 11:36 ~andrevv" sorg~~ PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, DECATUR, Indiana. Office on Second street, over W. G. Spencer & Bro's. Hardware store. 8:42 ~A. J. ERWIN, M.”d7~ SURGEON. DISPENSARY, A VALINE BLOCK, FORT WAYNE, Indiana. 11:25 ~S.’C? A YERS, m7d?, _ I)ESIDENTEAR & EYE SURGEON, VFort Wayne, Indiana. Office southwest corner Main and Calhoun streets, over Drug Artificial eyes inserted. 12:44 ?BEAL ESTATE AGENTS?. JAMES R. 8080, Real estate agent, decatur, Ind. Three thousand acres of good farming land, several town lots, and a large quantity of wild land’for sale. It 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 chaige. "AUCTIONEERS. . CHARLES M. FRANCE, . 4 UCTIONKER, DECATUR, IND A. 1 \ announces to the pub’ic that he is a reguloily Licensed Auctioneer, and will attend all public Sales when requested. Office in Bobo's Law office. J. P WAGGON Est, IICENSED AUCTIONEER, RF.Sljdenoe near Salem, Adams Co., Ind. Postoffice address, Ohio. Special attention given to crying public sales. 13:24 EMANUEL IICENSED AUCTIONEER, DECAjTUR, Indiana. Will attend Public Sales in the country on short notice. 13:47 HOTELS. MIESSE HOUSE. I J. MIESSE, PROPRIETOR, On 3rd Street, opposite the Court House, Decatur, Indiana. The traveling public will find this House a desirable stopping place Good sample rooms. 11:9 MAYER HOl T SF;~ JW. BULL, PROPRIETOR, Corner of Calhoun and Wayne streets, Fort Wayne, Indiana. 12:7 MAIN STREETEXCqANGE? 4 FREEMAN, PROPRIETOR West Y near, H*j Pubfe Fort Wa/he, fndianrf’. 11:11 " hed’ek inTioise,* 4 J. H. MILTA PROPRIETOR, On JV Barr; between Columbia and Main' Street, Fort Wayac, Indiana. General , Stage office. Good stabling in connec- ' tion with this houac. 12:25 ‘ SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS? O. D. HURD, M anufacturer of sash. Doom, i iA3O Bitxns, northside Canal, west j of 4as works, Fort Wayne, Indiana, j Custom work promptly executed. 11.25 I JOB PRINTING. ! Decatur eagle job officr. A. HILL, Pn prictor. Plain and Ornamental Job Printing done on" short notice., Oniers by mail will receive I prompt attention. Blanks of all kinds constantly on hand. Office on ..west side Second Mrept. over Dorwin A Bro’e. I prug. Store. ’ '

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sllij«Unn;i. Paper Handkerchiefs. The Japanese paper handkerchiefs are assuredly coming, if a contemporary be right. The pa per collar manufacture now has been extended to less prominent but more important garment of great strength and flexibility, which can be sewed with a machine, giving seams almost as strong as a woven fabric. The inventor has particularly applied it to the production of petticoats, which are either printed in imitation of sash I ' ionable skirts of the day. or stamp- | cd out with open work of such beauty and delicacy as no amount , of labor with scissor and needle I could imitate. The marvel is that 1 these really beautiful productions can be sold at retail at 15 cents j each! I Imitation cretonnes and chintz for bed furniture are also made, a set costing at retail about $1 50. ■ The felted material is so flexible ' that a cutain may be twisted into a [ rope and shaken out again, showing as little creasing as chintz ' similarly treated. There arc also tableclothesembossed with designs of great beauty. The felted paper ’ may in the end have a serious influence on the production of the i woven fabrics it is intended to dis- ! place. Imitation leather, imper- ■ meable to water, is likewise made of it, and produces a cheap and useful covering for furniture, and ' even serves for shoes. A New Name for It. I • I - > We heard a new name for wife whipping yesterday. Ifi n certain locality in this city resides a family ■ whose domestic relations are not ’ altogether as loveable as they . should be. Th<* husband, in par- > ticular, is said to be very irascible in temper and quick to anger. A ? few nightsago there was a commo- ■ tibn in the family, loud and uneasy noises, and the like. Next day the > wife appeared with her face bound up, eyes blackened and looking very much as though she had been • principal in a prize fight. The ■ neighbors inquired anxiously the ’ whys and wherefores, and the woman finallj- explain that on the previous night, a large rat had clitnb- - ed upon the bed and attacked her > in the face, scratching and biting ■ her; and that being alarmed she had screamed out at the top of her voice, suddenly awakening her husband who in the excitement of the moment struck wildly’ several times at her face in order to drive ! away the rat, but unfortunately t missing the rat every lick he made r and implanted his fist with uncom--1 sortable severity in the immediate ! neighborhood of his wife's mouth. • The moral of all this is that irate husbands should bo careful ip driving rats from the faces of their wives that they miss the face in stead of the rat —that they'batter ■ the rat instead of the face.—A*e»r J Albany Ledger. Get Naturalized. The Cleveland Plaindealer gives . this advice to persons born in a . foreign land, who have taken the • the necessary means to get natur- ; alized: 1 “Every naturalized citizen now entitled to his naturalization pa- . pers should at once take them out. ■ The naturalization obstruction bill is beinfr pushed through Congress with all possible speed, and as soon as it becomes a law every foreigner not then a citizen will be placed by its provisions in the position of one who has just immigrated to the country He may have resided here a score of years, or he may have declared his in- I tentions, but the law of Congress will require him to renew his declaration in a United States Court, | and live five years longer before he can become a citizen.” Shortest Sermon. 1 a The shortest sermon on record ' was one preached by the Irish Dean Kirwin. He was pressed, while suffering from a severe cold, I to preach a charity sermon in St. j Peter's cluirch. Dublin, for the I benefit of the oqdmn children of the parish school. The church was : ! crowded to suffocation, and the I I good dean, on mounting the pul- ; pit and announcing the text, point-1 ed with bis hand to the children ur| • the aisle, and simply said : “There I they are!” The collection exI ceeded all belief. I' During the cadetship qnarrcl in { ■ the House, Niblack went over to poor Whittemore*, and said: “I’ll tell you, WbttteriHirtN how yon Can : keep your scat in spite of them.*' eagerly asked Wbittc-1 more. “Why,” responded Nib- j ; laek, “get some Democrat to contest it " . . .: 1

Woman in Adversity. Where is the man that cannot confirm the truth of the following 1 remarks : Woman should be more i trusted and confided in as wives, s mothers and sisters. They have a 1 quick perception of right and ( wrong, and, without knowing why. 1 read the persent and the future, f read characters and acts, designs 1 and probabilities, where man sees I no letter or sign. What else do < we mean by “mother wit.” save I that a woman has a quicker per- 1 ception and readier invention than f man ? How often, when man 1 abandons the helm in despair, wo- < man seizes it, and carries the home < ship through the storm ! Man of- I ten flies from home and family to ] avoid impending ruin. Wotnkn i seldom, if ever, forsook home thus. ’ Woman never evaded mere tern < poral calamity by suicide or de- ’ section. Tfie proud banker, rath < er than live to see Lis poverty i gazetted, may blow out his brains, : and leave his wife and children to j want, protectorless. Loving wor > man would have counseled him to accept poverty, and live to cherish his family and relieve his fortune. Woman should be counseled and confided in.’ It is the beauty and glory of her nature, that it instinctively grasps at and clings to the truth and right. Reason, man’s greatest faculty, takes time to hesitate beiore it decides; but wo ; man’s instinct never hesitates in ! its decision, and is scarcely ever wrong where it has even chances with reason. Womau feels where man thinks, acts where he deliberate, hopes where he disappears, and triumphs where he fails. Female Influence. How often have I seen a com nany of men who were disposed to be riotous, checked all sconce into decency by the accidental entrance of an amiable woman; while her good sense and obliging deportment charmed them into at least a temporary conviction that there is nothing so beautiful as fe« male excellence, nothing so delightful as female conversation. To form the manners of men, nothing contributes so much as the caste of the woman they converse with. Those who are most associated with women of virtue and understanding will be always found the most amiable characters Such society, beyond anything else rules off the protrusions that give to - many an ungracious roughness; it 1 produces a polish more perfect and more pleasant than that which is received from a general commerce with the world. This last is often specious, but commonly superfi cial; the other is the result of gentler feelings, and a more elegant humanity of the heart itself is moulded, and habits of undissembled courtesy are formed. AXlturcli Built with Mortar Made of Wine. The Rev. Dr. Prime, the venerable editor of the New York Ob server, who lias s been a famous traveler, and has seen some things which few mortals have beheld, tells the following strange story, which would seem almost incredi ble if told bj’ a less reliable man : “I was in a region in Spain where wine is more abundant, sometimes, than water. Wine, good wine, better wine that is in common use in America, is somet times used in great quantities instead of water to mix mortar with for building. A church was pointed out to me that was built with winejuade mortar, becanse they had great quantities on hand for which they had no sale, and it was | cheaper to use it than to haul water a long way to the building site But there was little intemperance iu that region.” A “National” School Room Scene. Instructor Sumner — Highest class in Republicanism, stand up. Give me the grand result of five 1 years of war, half a million dead, two hundred and fifty thousand niaimed.nien, and over twenty five thousand million of debt? Class—( all at once with enthu-i siasm) —A Negro United Statesi l Senator! Instructor—Right, my children , > —you may resume your studies ou [ \Tax(tffbn —Albany Argus, -r According to Miss Anthony's account, it has taken women six i ' thousand years to become “suri feited with men. The more (as in. I Susan's onSe the men keep aloof ’ . from the girls, the more the girls i ; are satiated. M > I I An old Arizona trapper who-has! rjilst scal|>ed his fifteenth Indian' says: “Its good slaying out here, I this season.”

Burying a Fort. In 1696 a large Russian army beseiged the Turkish fort of Azof, < which was situated on a plain, < strongly fortified, and had a small, but well disciplined garrison. No common approaches could be made ! to it, and the Turkish cannon ■ swept the level with iron hail. In : this case the engineering skill of the Russians was baffled, but Gen- ; oral Patrick Gordon, the right hand man of Peter the Great, and i the only one for whose death it is said he ever shed a tear, being de- 1 termined to take the place at any ' cost, proposed to bury it with earth by gradual approaches. He had a large army. The soil of the plain was light and deep, and he sat twelve thousand men to work with spades, throwing up a high circumvallation of earth, and advancing nearer and nearer every ' day to the place, by throwing up the huge earthwall before them in advance. The men were kept in gangs, working day and night; the earth being thrown from one to another, like steps of a stairs, the j, top gang taking the lower every half hour in succession. 4n ; five weeks the huge walls was car- ’ ried forward nearly a mile, until it rose to and above the highest ramparts, and the earth began to 1 roll over them. This caused the ; Turkish Governor to hang out the white flag, and give in. Had he not done so. General Gordon would have buried the fort. “l¥ow Squirm, Old Vatur.” A stingy Christian wnet to a char-1 ity sermon. He was nearly deaf, ; and was accustomed to sit facing ‘ the congregation, right under the I pulpit, with the ear trumpet directed upward toward the preacher. The sermon moved him considerably. At one time he said to him- . .self: “T give ten dollars;” again . he said. “I'll give fifteen.” At the ' close of the appeal he was very much moved, and thought he. would give fifty dollars. Now, the boxes were passed. As they moved along his charity began ooze out. He came down from fifty to twenty, to ten to five, to j zero. He concluded that he would not give anything. “Yet," he i said, “this won’t do—l am in a bad ; fix. My hopes of heaven may be in this question. This covetous- i ness will be my ruin. The boxes i .were getting nearer and nearer. . The crisis was upon him. What should he do? The box was now under his chin—all the congregation was looking. He bad been holding his pocket book iir his hand during the soliloquy, which , was half audible, though in his ' deafness he did not know that he 1 was heard In the agony of the | final moment, he took his pocket book and laid it in the box, saying • to himself as he did it.—“ Now I squirm old natur.” ' I The Good Heart. “Charlie. Charlie!” Clear and sweet as a note struck from a silver bell, the voice rippled over the common. “That’s mother,” cried one of the boys; and he instantly threw down his bat, and picked np his ‘ jacket and cap. “Don’t go yet!’’ “Have it out!" I “Finish the game!*’ “Try it a ' gain !” Cried the players in a noisy chorus. “I must go right otf—this very minute. I told her I'd come when ever she called.” “Make believe you didn't hear her !" they all exclaimed. “But I did hear her.” “She won't know you did.” “Brrt I know it. and—■” “Let him go,” said a bystander, i “You can’t do any good with him. j He’s tied to his mother's apron string.'* “That's so,” Said Charley, cheer • ily; “and it's to what every boy i ought to be tied, and in a hard knot too.” ’ “But I wouldn't Im? such a babv ato run the minute she called!” i said one. . “I don’t call it babyish to keep one's word to his mother," answered the obedient boy, a beauti- j ful light glowing in his blue eve.' “I call that manly; and the boy, who don't keep his word to her will never keepdt to any! one else; you see if he does!” And he hurried away to his cottage home. Thirty years have passed since i those boys played ball on the com-1 mon. Charles Gray is now a prosperous business man; and his mercantile friends say of him that “his won! is as good as-a bond." ■ We asked him how he acquired such a reputation. “I never broke my word when a boy, no matter how great the temp-1 tation and the habit formed then . has clung through life.

Miscellaneous Items. • ' i Negro preachers in Virginia are : ; trying to check the emigration I*, southward. A bill to legalize marriage with ! a deceased wife's sister has had its { 1 first reading in the English Parlia-1 : meat. ’ A Tennessee Court has occupied ' a week in reading two hundred letters, which an ardent lover was two years in writings The medical students of Michi gan University are so rapacious' for “subjects” that Ann Arbor • people don’t care to die I Donn Piatt says Sumner never j offers his seat to a lady unless sire is colored, and then he does so not through politeness, but principle. , A niece of Wade Hampton i° teaching “the untutored mind” of, a schoolhouseful of papooses on I the Upper Michigan peninsula. Three fourths, of-the inmates in ' the New York Asylum for Fallen Women are of respectable families itnd bear assumed names. i Three hundred tons of white clfiv (terra alba) were shipped from Aiken, South Carolina, the other j day, for Northern confectioners! 1 and cracker bakers. The exodus of negroes from Virginia still continues. About• i one hundred men, women and chil- ' left Lynchburg on Monday , i by the Tennessee cars. Philadelphia has a “Day Nurse , ry,” where, on an average, twenty- I ; three children per week are taken I care of and fed while their mothers I go o’ut to work. “Man, the Weaker Sex,” is be- I j coming a common head line of newspaper contributions, wherein i women serve up,the shortcomings ’ j of their “oppressors.” | Olive Logan says: “The solid ! roast beef of sense and cultivation j is among the main of fem- : 1 iniuitv " Olive must wear that ! kind of cprsccts, then. A clergyman, preaching against marriage in Massachusetts, has i been found to have nine wives scattered about over the country, i He speaks from experience. | It is said the wives of General S'irman and Admiral Dahlgren, | and other ladies of Washington, j propose to organize a formal op I position to Woman Suffrage. A prominent Mormon lady thinks that some of the Congressmen who are for abolishing concubinage among the Mormons, sho'd first aboliih it among themselves. A widower in Muskingum conn- , ty tHul his two sons married three sisters, all of whom have children by their respective husbands. What relation are tlieir; children ? The President is in affliction.. | That “rejected pup" turns out to ! have been worth one hundred dol I lars, and to think that he might have had him for ten." “It was I ever thus." A New England paper alluding to the “holy horror' of certain sec- : ular journals of New York, at the part Beecher played in the Richardson affair, says : “It is always : lovely to see the devil go to church j with his tail tucked into his bootI k ‘gs.” That's the wav it goes. A Sab I bath School teacher at Newark 1 went to church early and found I ' his class throwing dice for punctu j ality tickets. Bring up a child in | ’ the way he'sbould go, and he will l i beat you gambling. I I Jordan, the Cuban General has . ’ notified the Spaniards that he will I hang ten of the Spanish officers among his prisoners for every Cu , I ban they hereafter kill. Hair-cioth shirts, to take the | place of hoops, have recently been 1 imported. There is a flounce' I around the bottom in round plaits | on all except the front breadth, and the np|>er part of the back has rolls of the material, for a quarter of a yard, in imitation of the I bustle. During the delivery of Miss ! Olive Logan's lecture on “Girls,” { in Buffalo, the other evening, the j fair lecturer, in her confidential | talk with * pretty girls,” said; , I “Shall I tell you how I feel ? Well. I tell you, I never saw a pretty I ' girl in all my life, one upon whose cheeks the roses were blooming.l hut that I wanted to fold her in my arms and kiss her." A [>erson of the male persuasion, who had not seen more than twenty five sum- • mere, forgetful of the dignity of • the occasion evidence of a I fellow in quite a loud | voice, saying, “I foci just so. | 1 too.’ 1 * -

iir i>i rriiiij; Birds and Their lines. The following facts tire dertfld from correct sources of information of how to get rRI of Baron Von Tschudq the welTkhowii Swiss naturalist, siA'h: “Without birds, successful agrigijltuije is impossible. They annihilate, in a few months, a great number of destructive insects than hupqan hands can accomplish in the same number of years. Among the most useful birds for this purpose may be classed the swallow, wren, robin redbreast, titmouse, sparrow and finch.” Tschudi tested a titmouse upon the rose bushes of his neighbor, and rid the same in a few hours of innumerable lice. A robin redbreast killed in the neighborhood of eight hundred flies in an hear.' A pair of night swallows destroyed, in fifteen minutes, an immense swarm of gnats. A pair of wrens flow thirty six times in an ! hour, with insects in their bills, to their nests. He considers the j sparrows very important, a pair of them carrying, in a single day, three hundred worms and caterpillars to.their nests —certainly good ' compensation for the few cherries they pluck from the trees. The j generality of small birds carry to ! their voting ones, during the feed- ■ ing period, nothing but insects, ! worms, snails, spiders, etc. i Sufficient interest should bC ; manifested by all to prevent the I discharge of firearms in the vici»> 1 ity of orchards, vineyards, and flower gardens, as thereby the use- ; ful birds become frightened. ! . Commercial Value of Insects. Commerce brings into the marI ket almost everything that has a being in the water, on the earth, ■ and in the air, from the whale that ■ spouts and foams-in the great deep !to the smallest insect that exists iin the land. “The importance ot‘ ! insects to commerce is scarcely ever treated of. Great Britain does j not pay less than a million of dol-. - I lars annually for the dried carcass- | cs of a tiny insect, the cochineal. ! Gum shellac, another insect product from India, is of scarcely less • pecuniary value. A million and a | half of human beings derive their i sole support from the culture and ; manufacture of silk, and the silk j worm alone creates an annual cir- ' culating medium of between one hundred and fifty and two hundred millions of dollars. Half a million of dollars is annually spent in England alone for foreign honey ; ten thousand hundred weight of wax js imported into that country each year. Then there are the gall nuts of commerce, used for dyeing, and in the manufacture of ink, etc., while the cantharides, or Spanish fly, is an important insect to the medical practitioner. In this way we see-the importance of certain class of the insect race, while in another view, the rest clear the air of noxious vapors, and are severally designed by nature for useful purposes, though we. in our j blindness, may not understand . them.-” Looking for ParaMiteN In a Michigan School. An occurrence took place in one of the school districts in this ’ town, a few days since, which deserves at least a passing notice. A self constituted committee entered the school house during the i session of school, and professed , to examine the scholars' persons, it having been reported that some J of them were troubled with parasites. The whole school, boys • and girls, were carefully examined 'by the investigating committee. ! and two lice were found. The ' boys were ordered to strip themselves in the presence of the girls. , but when the girls were examined the boys were let out of doors. ; The director of the school, natur- ’ ally feeling outraged at this high . handed proceeding, had the parties 1 arrested for assault and liattcry, but the jury returned a verdict of no cause of action. The reason ! assigned by some was that there was no violence used toward the ' children, to induce them to strip ! for the examination. I — Things I Don't Think Advisable - . I don't think it advisable for ono nice girl to say to another that her "beau is not at all nice. I don’t think it advisable for a man to lie always telling his second wife about “the dear angel that s ! dead.” I don't think it advisable to coincide too stronglv with people when speaking disparaging of themselves. I don't think it advisable to ask a few friends to dinner without • first consulting your wife. I don't think it advisable to enter into lover’s quarrels. I don’t think it advisable to commence a story with, “I'm going to tell you a remarkably good thing.” I don’t think it advisable, after, , praising a mother’s dear darting baby, for the mamma to catch you • ' grinning at it.

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