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VOL. 'XV,
PEREYSBUEG, O., 3THT3DA.Y, OCTOBER 18, 1867.
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OSLIXGEIt Sc THIMOSS,
Publishers and Proprietors.
BUSINESS CARDS.
JOHN A. SHANNON,
Attorney and Counscllor-at-Law,
Office in rhocnix'Block, up gtaira,
Perrysburg, Ohio.
3TAttcation given to t'ue collection of Soldiers
Claims.
GEOUGE STKAIN,
ATTORXEY-AT-LaW, Pkrrtsiidro, 0.,
WILL ittend to allbusinessconflded to Ms care
in the several Courts of Ohio. Military
Claims will receive particular attention.
AlsoInsurance taken at reasonable rates.
Office New Hardware Building, up stairs, cor
ner of Louisiana Avenue and Front street, lzx
F. & D. K. HOLLES1IECK ,
rerryaburg-, Wood Co., o
.Attnn.evs-at-l.atv; Notaries Publics Conveyauc
era; "Collecting Agents ; Real Estate A goat;
Having large quantities of Wild Lands and many
Improved Farms, for sale ;
Agents to Pay Taxes, and redeem lands sold for
taxes; also, to purchase lands and investigate
title.
War Claim Agents,
To procure the back pay and bounty due to rel
atives of deceased soldiers ;
To procure pensions tor those entitled to them ;
To procure lor soldiers liberated from prison
. commutation of rutiona wliito they were confined,
etc., etc 3z
ROSS & COOK,
" ' AOBSTS FOR Tni
METROPOLITAN INSURANCE CO.
Of New York City.
Rates as low as any good, first-class Company.
Business solicited. Office, corner of Front-street
and Louisiana-avenue, Perrysburg. 29
j. r. & S. II. FKICE,
Attorney s-at-Ijaw,
Ferrphnrfi Wood County, O.
WE have large quantities of Real Estate for
sale; attend to Tax-paying; also, procure
Bounties and Pensions for Soldiers.
All business promptly attended to. 16
INSURE! INSURE I ,
INSURE WITH TIIE
FIREMEN'S INSURANCE COMPANY,
OF DAYTON, OHIO.
THIS Company has fairly earned the right to
solicit the patronage of th citizens of this
county, having paid $5,700 in Losses in the county
within the last year. Rates as low as any reliable
Company. Losses equitably adjusted and prompt
ly paid.
J. A. SHANNON, Perrysburg, O.,
41 General Agent for Northwestern Ohio.
F. W. ITNDimillLL, ftfO.
Dealers in - i
American & Italian Marble
. and. Granite Stone;
No.' 290, corner of Summit and Cherry, Toledo, 0
'. . .. , . . mail or otherwi8Q.fj iOit
SLEVlN & BROWN,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, and
General Land A?ei ts. .
Land bought and sold ; taxes paid : titles exam
ined, tic . Extra bounty, local bonntv, back
psyj tension, etc., promptly collected and
paid over.
7" Office ia the Courthouse, Perryshurg,
Ohio. 9I
PERRYSBURG MEAT STORE.
JOHN G. HOFFMAN
HAS rerfloved his Meat Store to the building re
cently occupied by the Hardware Store, on
Iiouiaiaaa Avenue. An excellent quality of Meat
Is alwayakepton hand.tJ which he inritesthe at
tention of all lovers of a juicy Roast, or atender
Steak.
.Perrys'bilrg, November 6, 1885. Sis
II. C. EBERLY)
feURGrEON DENTIST,
PEUUYSBXI.G, OHIO.
("Charges moderate, and all work warranted.
Uf" Office over 0. Beach's Store, on Louisiana
Avanue.
46zs
if; II. REII5;
,. ' Attorney ntiLaw,
HA3 resumed the practice of bis profession, at
Horryabiirj, Ohio, where he will give prompt
nnnmoo win ittirai cosiness en.rua.cu w uia vrj
vmca in the tiauk building.
7zx
VrlLLIA H. JONIS. JOHN A. BHAMNON
ioNlis & SHANNON,
ItEAL, ESTATE AGENTS
OFFICE O VER KREl'S' STORE,
Joss Perrvsburi, Ohio.
'A. McMAIIAN.
(Lata Brevet-Culonel U. S. Volunteers,)
W ar Olciiixx Agent
Postoffio Address East Toledo, Ohio.
ALL ITimesl Claims against th Government
can b ooljpted. VI any of th lata oXcera
and oMi(ir of tha, army, and also widows and
heirs of daoeaaed nftioer and aiddiura, do not keep
well informed of th laws ralating- to heui. All
Claimanta fur whom 1 transac) busiuea ar
promptly inCurmed, by mail, of any law aBecting
them, t 7 charge mad unless claims are
fwoceaafully f ruaecutud. . CSii
REAL ESTATJIQENCIES.
0I0ROI WXnOKLt. W. g. BBXRLT
VFDIELli ft EDEKLY,
GENERAL LAND AGENTS,
I'errrsknrs;, Wood County, Ohio.
Will buy and sell Lands, examine titles, pay
taxes, redeem Landa sold for taxes, ic, &.?.
I-rT" Office in the Court-house. 37zx
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
TnE undersigned having established a Real Es
tate Ageucy in Perryshurg, ofl'er for sale the
following Keal Estate, situated in Wood County
Ohio:
O In -lots in Perrysburg, with good Ilnnse, Ram
Orchard, Well, Ac. very desirable. Can be bad
at a bargain, and on liberal terms.
A Furm of 120 acres, in section 10. of Pl..n
Township, under good cultivation, with 800 fruit
trees, good buildings, and well drained. Two
miles from Tontogany.
An Improved Farm of IOO Acres, in sec
tion 34, i'lain Township i 80 acres under cultiva
tion, and nearly all under fence ; a large orchard,
and good well, together with a good frame house
and barn,
A Farm containing ns Acre, in same
section, all under fence mostly improved ; orchard,
guou guru anu large nouse, wun good Irame house
in cursK oi construction.
The NK. i of the NE. 4 of section 28, town 4,
north of range 10 east. Good House snd Orchard.
All under fence.
UNIMPROVED LANDS.
E 4 so qr soction 35, tp 5, range 1180 acres.
N i sw qr seo 3fl, tp &, range 1180 acres.
80 Acres, in section 4, Cci lor Township, well
timbered with black walnut, white wood. An.
SO Acres, in section 10, Liberty Township,
prairie. r
40 Acres, in section 16, Milton Township
Lot No. 8. '
"P Acre!l' in Motion 12, Henry Township
800 Acres In seclion 11, Portage Township
hearilv timhrrp.t
Twoveor fifteen choice TOWN LOTS, in Per-
RTTh above Real Estate will be offered a
low rates, on terms to suit the pnlfhnsor.
SLEVIN A UROWN,
4 Real Estate Agents, Perrytsburg, 0,
Cheap House.
A
SMALL FRAME HOUSE and two Lots in
Perrrsbure : title Derfcct tor nk n "7i
by ROSS A TOOK.
FOR SALE.
FOUR desirable residences in ferrvsburg.
Price ranging from $1,200 to $1,800 ; for Rule
y ROSS A COOK.
BARGAINS INREAL ESTATE
A millFnrm of 43 acros, more or less
Out-lot 240 one mile nortji or Perrysburg. A
vcrv desirable location. Possession' at any time,
On lease or sale.
For Sale, cheap, in prompt pav or in nav-
ments, a new dwelling-house and lot 110 feet front
a no leet roar, ot m-lots 08. 3'J3 and 400, Per
rysburg, Ohio.
100 acres of land for salo cheap, in Warren
county, Illinois.
In-lots No8. 35 and 36 for sale in Philinns' addi-
tion to Toledo, Ohio; at a bargain, in payments if
ufHireu.
Also, a business lot in Pes Moines. Iowa low
. 80 acres, n seqrs c 21, Middleton, good land,
at viu per acre in payments.
80 acres, n 'A no or seo 30. Webster, ditchinfr
paid for, at $10 per acre in payments.
100 acres, nw qr sec 20, In Portage, good land,
at $H per acre in payments.
80 acres, w sw qr sec 27, in Lake, at a low
figure.
80 acres, w 14 sw qr seo 5, town 3, range 10, in
Henry, at $3 per aero.
A number of fine in-lots for sale chenp in Per
rysburg. Desirable lands in Laporte and Steuben Co's,
Ind., for sale nt a bargain.
300 acres of tax title lands., in Wood County, for
sale cheap.
I will show my lands with pleasure, and in sell
ing, will make payments to suit.
J. RICKETTS.
Perrysburg, February 8, 1867. 41xx
J 18. W. BOSS, ASflER COOK, ELBERT P. ROSS
KOSS & ' COOK.
ABSTRACTS of TITLE.
OFFICE i
Corner LoulHlana Avenue nnd Front
Street, 1'crry kbury, Ohio.
WE have the only set of Abstract Hooks
now in Wood County, containing a complete
Inpfx to all Lots and Lands therein.
tdtf" Certificates of Title given upon reasonable
terms.
-tTA1ro, Agents for purchasing and selling
Real Estate, getting up Tax Titles, paying Taxes,
6tc, &c.
Business solicited. 37zx
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For the Immediate Relief and Speedy
Cure of Coughs, Colds, Hoarse
ness, Sore Throat, Bronchitis,
Catarrh, etc., etc, etc.
RELIEF OBTAINED IN FIVE MINUTES.
PUBLIC Speakers and Singers will find these
Troches invaluable for strengthening and
clearing the voice, and allaying all irritation of
the Throat and Uroochial Tubes incident to vocal
exertion. Aa tbey contain no Opium or any
thing in the least injurious to the most delicate
constitution, they cau be taken as freely aa necea
snry. Slight Colds, Coughs, Hoarseness and Sore
Throat, which readil r yield to the Pine Tree Tar
Troches, should be checked immediately, and be
fore the inflammation reaches the Bronchial Tubes
and Lungs, which would produce Bronchitis and
Consumption. The valuable medicinal properties
of the Tar of the While Pine Tiee are almost uni
versally known, and is regarded as one of the
best remedies for all diseases of the Throat and
Lungs. It soothes and allays all irritation, re
duces inflammation, and has a peculiar and marked
beneficial efl'ect on the Organs of Respiration. Th
White Pine Tar, when refined, possesses these val
uable properties in the highest degr.ee, and haa
bean combined with other valuable ingredients to
form the elegant and convenient preparation,
known as " Hkntunx Pinc TribTah TkoCdks."
Observe the fae-aimile of the Proprietor'a signa
ture on the wrapper of each box, without which it
cannot be genuine.
bV-ntou'a Pire Tree Tar Troches ar prepared
only by
- C. O. BENTON, Chemist and Druggist,
13 and 141 Detroit-street, Cleveland, O.
m '
For Sale by all Druggists.
Price 8tt Cents. 4
TnOTOGRAPII GALLERYj
On Fifth-strt, east of th Union School-hoaa
Perrysburg, Ohio, '
rpHE undersigned would call th attention of th
I people of Herryaborg and ticinity, that ah
ia still taking Picturea of the Beat Quality, 'fall
sitea anJ kinds, from th 4-4 aiie, or largest, down
to th smallest Ambrutypes and Oeros i also copy
ing from other picture and enlarging them in
oopying. .
fell will flnish Hp Pictures In India Ink, or
paint in water colors in th (neat approved style ;
will also furnish. Frames and Cases of all kiud
and sites that may be required. .
Hut would respectfully invito her friends to
call and see what their dn artist can ia befur
going elaewbcr. Jt will ost yon nothing if you
cannot b suited. All ah axka i tojhow what
ah can do, sod feels confident of riviag satis
faction, it as. NICHOLS. .
N. It. No pictures tak on Sunday.
PrryburfAril 8; IbOI.' 0
The Castalian Fount.
[For the Perrysburg Journal.]
LITTLE CARRIE.
LITTLE CARRIE. To H. L. and M. C.
In th lonely, quiet chamber,
There's au empty cradle-bed,
With a print upon th pillow
Of a baby's shining head t
'Tia a fair and dainty cradle,
Iownv son, with pillowa white,
But within th blanket folded,
Lies no liltl form to-nilit.
Onco the mother sat beside it,
When the day was growing dim,
And her pleasant voir waa singing,
Holt and low, a cradle-hymn;
Kow, there' no more need of singing,
When the evening shadows creep,
For the cradle-bed is empty,
And th baby gone to sleep.
Little head that used to nestle
In the pillowa whit and soft
Little hands whose restless fingers
Folded there ia dreams so oft
Lips they pressed with fondest kisses
Eyes they liraised for purest ray
Unilemesth the graveyard daisies
They have hidden all away. '
Ah I the empty, useless cradle I
They may put it nut of sight,
Lest their hearts should grieve too sorely
iur their little one to-night
They may think bow safe forever,
In tho better home above,
That young lamb, for which they sorrow,
Reitcth now in Jcsus's love.
F. V. Y.
PERRYSBURG, October 4, 1867.
STAND BY YOUR CONGRESS.
Stand by tour Congress I aye, stand y as men
Who thrice were the victors, and will be again I
Stand at the biillot-hox I fearless and true
Those w ho have suffered are looking to vou I
Stand by your country I no tluiiingogue snout
Shall put tho grand army of freemen to rout.
Stniid by your Congress ! the day is at hand!
Freedom and Justice shall rule in th land.
Stand by your birth-right I yon atsnd not alone ;
The Ood of your fathers His cause will still own.
Stand by your Congress I though Hell shall arise I
Led on by the arch-Hcud once hurled from the
skies,
While a timing of earth's devils shall join in his
train.
Once more to the breach, and a proud victory
gain I
Sketch From Life.
"DOING" A RICH UNCLE.
Deaf Uncle Jeff. and the Little
Old Maid.
BY ABBOTT LEE.
[Concluded.]
Tha little old maid's eyes were drowned
with tears whatever pools m(ty say in
rhyme of the snperl.itiveiioss of the beauty
ol bloodshot orbs, and their red curtains,
and all lhat, we h.ive always been accus
tomed to consider theso sort of things veiy
unbecoming. But it happened that our lit
tle heroine forgot to conxult her looking
glass npi it the occasion, and consequently
lit r eyes became something like the Hid
Sea. The poor litilo body, however, pro
Ci'cdod as expeditiously as might be to lay
her et ai ty wardrobe at slruit;hlly as pos
sible in a wooden box, which was both
large enough and small er.ougji, and to o il
lect her titetlles and her knitting, and a
fow letters curefully tied up with a faded
red ribbon,. ami dates which proved chrnn
olnt: it-ally tlr.it the paper hail been made
full twenty years aeo, all of them writtfD
in a mat masculine hand, like that of a
school usher and dated as many years back;
to look very particularly at and sih over
a morsel of sandy hair ; to stroke her pussy
lor the last time; and then to take her c'o0'fl,
her reticule and her umbrella to look at
the old summer-house; to gather two or
three leaves from at) old tree ; and then to
pass on through those inhospitable doors
into the wide, wide, bleak and cold woild
alone alone.
There are some hearts like somo vogU
bles they take root anywhere, no matter
how blighting the atmosphere.'' Thus it
was with the little old maid. In spite of
derision, and scorn, and bulTetings, her
feelings had grown to the inanimate s one
walls that surrounded her, Bimplr because
they had nothing, else to cling to ; and if
the mere impulses ol a loving nature could
thus attach her to repelling and repulsive
objects, how tenderly might she have loved
what was really lovable 1
Poor little Funny Can-, with the liberal
large, rnd inexhaustible sum of somewhere
about five shillings in her pocket, looked
mentally round for a shelter for her head,
and having bethought herself of one of
Mr. l'ukenhiiin's disenrded servants, who
had married and settled, delerm,'0! 'Z). onJ
In a little cottags by the the roadside, as
clean as those dear cottages of England
ever ure, with a neatly trimmed garden
without, luxuriant iu summer blossomings,
and with the whitest of curtains within,
and the reddest of red floors, end tho
brightest of round tuMes-; and the most re
Hp'en Jan' of fire-places, sat the old maid,
diehsed as neally as if fairy hands had been
her tirewoman and working at her lite lie
as blithely as ird perform their daily
task of inr.iiig. What though her five
shillings were very i.ear exhausted, tho
oouM earn almost six ponce a day, and thut
was independence, aud independence was
hupi iuess.
There came a great dust whilst the litile
old maid was dtlving fur hapi in and
six p nee a day, ami a noise of curriuge
wheels; and looking up to see what might
be coming, she saw a plain, respectaole,
grave, steady, brnwo livery before, and a
ei vant sen ted in the box behind, slid In aud
behold, it slopped at the very cottage door
where she was working, and so the little
old inaitl jumped tip, aud threw down her
cotton and hvr scissors, and hastened to
tell them that it was a mistake, when to
her partirulur astonishment, alio saw deaf
unt ie Jeffrey, gelling down the steps, and
walking across the ootlage garden, and
coming to the door. And having gone
thus far j the old gentleman took hold of
her diminutive hand it. his great gigantic
paw, and gave it a squeeze, which, al
most made the little old maid cry out,
which however she did not do, for ladies
of all sizes very seldom ery out si
a squeeze of tha hand, generally bear
ing that sort of pain very philosophically,
and then uncle Jeffrey proceeded to draw
One of the brightly-rubbed wooden bot
tomed chairs to himieU, for hi own partic
ular use, and set down upon it close to the
1 ttle old maid. ,
" I hope you are well, Mr. Jeffrey,"
ehonied the little old maid; "it is very
kind of you to come aud see me. 1 hope
you are quits well."
" Quite well, thank you," replied uncle
Jeffrey, " and now tell what you ti.iuk has
brought me lo see you t " .
Perhaps." said the little old maid col
oring slightly with the remains of a well
whipped, well-worn down, and well-subdued
pride, perhaps you wanted me to
do some plain w oik for you, Mr. Jeffrey.
1 aio tufciug iu fUio wotk."
" You red not speak so h ud, mr dear,"
said deaf ancle Jett; "you will lire your
self, you will exhaust youraelV
"Oh, Mr. Jeffrey I" saul the little ohl
maid, the tears rnshing into her eyes. " Oh
Mr. Jeffrey, ptaT believe that I never com
plained, nor even felt il a trouble to talk lo
you. Indeed 1 did not I I don't know how
soon 1 may be atllicted myself."
Uncle Jeff'.-ey took poor Fanny's band,
and gave it another squeeze that almost
threatened it with compression. " I know
you did not. Yet, nevertheless, you must
not speak so loud."
' lint yon have rot yonr ear-he n,"
said Fanny Carr, persisting in shouting,
hat her visitor should ihink. that she
grudged the trouble ; " but you have not
yonr ear horn,"
"lint you know that I always told yon
that 1 was not deaf:"
The little old maid look perplexed.
But you never believed mo waa thai
itt"
The little old maid coloiod crimson, but
she could not deny it. . .
" 1 am glud of it, with all of my heart,"
said the little old maid, " for it must be a
miserable tiling nut 1,0 bear a word lhat is
S till to us.
"Yet sometimes it is better not to hear
what is said of us," re, lied uncle Jeff.
The little old maid colored deeply. She
remembered too well all thai had been said
of him and before him.
" But do you know lhat I had. even when
I was at tho worst, quite hearing enough
to know how kind you w re to me, aud
how amiable to everybody else.
"Oil, you are too good to think so," said
tli old maid with ablush.
" And now tell mo yonr j l tns, and iT there
is any thing I can help you in, and really
ypu need not speak so loud. You know 1
always could understand you even when I
was vciv hard of hearing. Now tell me
your iditns."
"Oh," raid the little old maid," they nre
soon told. Tho people who live here were
.Mrs. l okenliam s servants, and they are
very kind to nio.'and I have got plenty of
work, and I am quite happy and contented
Only if yon want any sliirls made "
' I certainly would not let you do thorn."
Oh I exclaimed poor r uny Larr.
" N'o, lhat I would not ; for 3'our gentle
ness, your kindness, your simplicity, your
disinterestedness of character, deserves
something belter. Now you have told
your plans, shall I tell you mine t" "
" Yes, if you please, said tho little old
maid.
" Well, then, to begin with myself,'' said
uncle Jeffrey, ' I have a few thousands a
year, 1 havo a carriage and horses, and Bar
vants, aud a very good house, and garden
and orchards, and pleasure grounds ; and
believe that all my own country consider
mo rather a respectable man."
Fanny Carr got tip anil courtseyed.
" But yet I have tho character of being a
severs and sarcastic, ami morose man."
" Oh ho, that you are not 1 " warmly in
terrupted the little old maid.
" I am glad you do not think so. Wei! 1
have ono want in my house. Can you guess
what it is?"
Fanny looked puzzled. " Money will
buy everything."
'Not the thing I want."
" Then it must bo something veiy-1 artic
ular indeed."
" It is ; and I wish you to help me find if."
"Oh, I'll help yorr-f!ii A." '
" That is very kind, and I hope you will
I want something to lovo."
" The world is full of such things," said
tho little old maid.
" To you who love everything from the
overflowing of your heart, hut not to me."
Poor Fanny looked infinitely perplexed.
"I wish I could do anything to help you."
'' You can. I told you I had a carriage
and servants, and house aud ftsrnituro, and
plate and money, but have no one to share
them with me ; no one to ride with me, sit
with mo, walk with mo, talk with mo, take
the bead of my table, to love tne if they
could. Iu short I want a wife. Will" you
take this troublesome office T"
" Oh, Mr. Jeffrey 1 " exclaimod Fanny
Carr, with a face aa red as bluthes could
make it. -
The plain brown chariot with the brown
horses and brown hammercloth, and the
servants in brown liveries, drew up wilh a
great dash, quite in au unusual manner, at
Mrs. Pokenhaai's door. It was very evi
dent that everything belonging to the
brown affair was in a considerable sia'e of
excitement, in fact quite in a brown fover
or tort of effervescence; and some way or
another the agitation was communicated to
tho family of the I'tikeiilu ms within.
" Who can it lie ? ' exclaimod Mrs. Po
kenham. " Don't bring them in here, but
show them into the draw ing room. I al
ways like to reo -ive carriage people in the
drawing room 1 and, Jane, letch mo a clean
"ha, mamma, a weiitiingi iook at tnc
white favor 1" exclaimed Miss rokeiiham
the first.
"Then there's one less chance in the
world," said Miss l'okenham the second.
" It's nil right," said Master Daniel, "I
liko bride cake, and I don't care how many
marry and got miserable, so lhat 1 get a
good feust by it."
" I like the quarielling quite as well as
the cuke," Kuid Master Humphrey.
" Look," exehiimed Mrs. l'tikeuhain. " I
declare if it is not deaf uncle Jeff! I
thought he would be glad to come hack to
us; I made him so very comfortable wilh
his chicken aud easy chairs, thut I thought
he'd want to come back again, if tluil Iml i
decei'ful Fanny Caur- hadn't poisoned his
mind."
'' He is a good customer," said Master
D.vni.1.
'' Mamma's legacy will keep well ; it will
be fine high game, said Mr. Humphrey.
" How smart Uncle Jtff is, said Miss Po
kenham the first.
" White nilks, and pumps, I deolare, and
a flower iu his button hole I "
' - " Aud whal on earth is that little lump of
finery behind lii'mY b'JroWk--Fuliuiiliuii)
the second. I
"Why, goodness gracious I you don't
think uncle Jeff has been such su old stu
pid as to get married himtitlt!" said Mis
Pukeuham the first.
" I shall faint at tha bare supposition,"
exclaimed Mrs. Pukeuham ' au unnatural
monster t "
" Here lie comes, and his queen doll with
him," ' '
Uncle Jeffrey walked into (he room as
stately as Ibo tallest grenadier in the ser
vice of Frederick the tireat; dragging after
him a bundle of white. sahn and white lace,
aud French blonde and white kid gloves,
ml orange blossoms', and it really was as
tonisliing to sos how many dozens Of yards
they had managed to lie up together.
" Is it you uncle Jeffrey f " shouted Mrs.
Pokeuhaio, of course not at all expeeiio
an answer lo her question,' ,,. i
' Yea, I have brought you mystlf and my
better half."
" What do ydft" rfteap, Uncle Jeffrey."
" Yon used iu t speak so loud," said un
cle Jeffrey,
" True, true, said Mrs. Polce nhain, " I had
forgot that you are not at all bard of bear-
' I am not," said uncle Jeffrey.
M rs. Pokeuham started in spit of her
elf.
" I always told you that I was not deaf."
" You did, of course you did."
" But you never believed me."
" O ves, (hat I am suro I did." shouted
Mrs. Pokeuham.
"'Speak in a whisper a ten. wsod to do.
Can't you tell each other what a fool, and a
dolt, and what a pit'o of ugliness is cross
undo Jen.
" O, undo, and oun you really bar."
"Ay, a pin fall to the ground, I always
had excellent hearing."
" Yes, nnole, I knew yon bad."
" But you don't, believe it."
" O, certainly, certainly."
" Well, if some people are hard of bear
ing, others are hard of belief. Perhaps
you won't believe uio when I tell you 1 am
mart ietl."
" Mnried I and to whom t "
Umle Jtffrey lifted np the veil of the
bundle of w hite satin, and pomps, and va
rieties, nnd introduced " Mrs. Jeffrey."
" Fanny Carr t " exclaimed the whole con
gregation. " Wretch of a man !" exclaimod Mrs. Po
kenbam.' " I m St thus you ootne to wound
our feelings t "
" And to make yon what I hope you will
consider a handsome present."
'' Vlow liberal 1 bow kind 1 exclaimod Mis.
Pokeuham, her hopes reviving.
" Yes, indeed, 1 have brought you my
enr horn tied with ribbon, and 1 hope you
will keep it hung up hero in the drawing
room (o remind you of cross, deaf undo
Jell."
Selected Miscellany.
The Earth on Fire.
[From the Corinth, (Miss.) News, Sept. 3.]
Several persons were iu Corinth on Satur
day Inst who gave somo slai tling accounts
of the earth being on live about four miles
south west of Hamburg, Touiicssuo. We did
not see the parties who gave the pal iicuhirs
of this stmlling event, but compile the
follo'ving us the substance of Ihoir repre
sentation of the facts. Mr. Brooks who
lives fourteen miles northeast of Corinth,
lad a pasluro in which was a pond of
water about twenty-it ve ty soveniy live
feet, and the water during Hie summer
having disappeared, he cleaned off the
ground to sow it in turnips. While burn
ing the brush from Ibis pieoe of ground,
(he locality that had been covered wilh
water, ignited from the burninJbrush, and
the entile space where the pontl had form
erly stood has continued to blaze brilliantly
for the past ten days, lie becoming
alarmed and fearing that bis entire farm
would beennsnmed and turned into an em
bankment of ashes, dug ditches around the
burning space nnd filled them with water.
He lias poured lui go quantities of water on
the burning esrlh but it did not extinguish
the flames. The smell from the burning
eat t'n is represented us being peculiar aud
marked. ,
If the facta bo substantially correcf, it is
a question for scieulifio investigation. Our
conjectures are that it is petroleum. Pe
troleum is an iuflainmabln, bituminous sub
stance, exuding from the earlh aud collect
ing on the surlnce of the water in wells and
fountains, or oozing from cavities iu rocks.
It may be (he deposit of a substance of a
bituminous character. Bitumen is a min
eral pitch, a substance having a pitch-like
odor, and burning readily with a bright
flame, without any residue. If the burning
arises from either of these, it may result in
a discovery more valuable ihan if it had
been a vein of gold.
The fire it is said has consumed the earth
or bituminous substance to the depth of
twelve inches, and does not appear to di
minish its vigor. If it should prove tp be
the oozing of potroleum from the surface
nt that point, it would indicate a ri'.'h or
bold vein of that invaluable fluid. No
doubt some enterprising' man will, at an
early day, sink a shall to test Ihe quostion,
whotlier coal oil can be found or not.
The Use of Humor in the Pulpit.
The Advance, the new Congregationalist
organ in Chicago, defends the ucrof humor
in tho pnlpit. It says :
Those who ore offended at humor in
Henry Ward Beecher, should listen to Spur
geon, both in nod out of the pulpit. We
shall never forget tho eveniiifi when we
stood in adenne crowd in the Free Church.
Assembly Hall mi Kdinhiirgh, and heard him
address (he Scotch milliliters and elders on
an elf. ctive way of preaching the gospel,
for more than an hour. He insted O.u
brief antl varied exeroises in iftoeiirgB for
prayer and conference, adding : -1 never
like to have one of my deacons pray for
half an' hour, and oonclilde with asking
the Lord to forgive our shortcoming!"
That pun doublless cured many of bis hear
ers of the habit in question, although, as
we looked into the luces of the s.idienoe.
we saw not a fow of the grave Scotch eld
ers twisting their feature!) in , their efforts
to avoid as sinful a thing as a anile in a re
ligious meeting. We may ss well learu to
be natural in religion, and laugh at natural
things, as well as to weep over those that
are monrniul, The wisemuii suid : "There
is a time to weep, and a tame to laugh,"
and who shall not say that both do not find
thuir time during a sermon T !-aiali once
preached on thefolly of idolafry, and drew
a picture of tho ridiculous conduct of (he
man who selected a 1 g of wood, and made
a god out of one part and cooked bis din
ner w i i the K'liiaiuder I We suspect it was
one ot the most effective of his discourses,'
evmif it excited a smilo when delivered.
Tho question of ri;:l)f is not to be decided
by the gravity or humor or what is saidj
but by tho motive of iho speaker and the
adapiationto a good end ol what be says.
Lost by Not Taking a Paper.
' Some time ago, a geutloman in Charles
town was appointed auditor to distribute
the funds in the hands of the administrators
among the creditors. Notice of the audit
ing was published. It eo happened tfyat a
few creditors residing In a certain portion
of (he country who had, collectively, claim
to the amount of seveu or eight hundred
dollars, from the neglect of taking a country
paper, never heard of (he audit until after
tho report of the auditor had been confirmed
by the court. They then came into town
to inquire about tho likelihood of -securing
their claims called ti'pon their attorney,
who examined into the matter and informed
them that they had forever lost their money,
and we presumo charged thrro five dollars
for the information I All this resulted in
leiii(j t(5 penurious, or too oareless to sub
sci ibo fur a paper. These gentlemen have
learned a lesson that will last them (he rest
of Iheir lives, and serve as a warning to
others who, through th earn;, motive, fail
to take a paper. Virginia Frta Pre.
ifbcifj beet discovered (hatjOthelio held
a legal as well as a military office iu Venice.
He was a tawny general.
Bi temperate in diet. Our first parents
(fe (Il'euisulvls out of hou4 and Lome.
"I Don't Know Where We are to Sleep
"I Don't Know Where We are to Sleep To-Night."
It was one of two women who spoke.
The place was one of the most public
thoroughfares in the eify of Columbus, in
frant nt the Union Block. Time, about ten
o'clock, at night to be exact, last Thurs
day night. There were, perhaps, a score
ot people in front or the Flock, walking
hurriedly in differnt directions, one of whom
heard the woi d, spoken iu a weak, wretch
ed voice.
There was ro mialnkins; the character of
the women. They ware " tramps," of (he
very lowest grade, dressed in dirty, shabby
clothes, exhaling pestilential odor, and
loading the pure moonlight air will! the
taint of disease.
The titter sadness and helplostness of
Ihe words, the weary and weak tone of the
woman's voice, and the misotnhle poverty
of the- dress t the hurrying of the other
passers by. some to happy homes, some
bent upon having a night of it elsewhere ;
th gay glancing gaslights from open
windows, made a picture of startling con
trsst mellow light and sombre shade
such as seldom breathes from canvas.
Let no one Imagine it is a fanoy sketch
we have peuoilcd. It is (Jod'a truth, every
word.
" J don't know u-Aere tr ai'j to tlerp to
niriht!"
The words j tri ed upon tho ear of (he un
sentimental person who heard (hem, with
painful emphasis. If he bail heard the
story, ss you do, bo might have said,' im
patiently "Pshaw, the ptdice will provide
them wilh Ihoir usual lodgings, at th
calaboose." But tho woman was weak and
ill, as her voice showed, aud she was a
woman. Absurd as this h oks in print, it
is really worth considering.
Is thero not something fearfully defec
tive in our social system, when weak wo
men degraded outcasts by their own act,
if you will degraded outcasts by the
fault of society, it may be but degraded
outcasts still go about our streets at night,
not knowing where to lay their heads t To
say nothing of the moral malaria bred by
such creatures, the temptation to crime,
the unsafely of life ami properly, and all
the unn unable ills which sooiely suffers
from (hem, is it not a shameful cowicaaion
that no provision is matte in tliil Christian
community for the resoue and care of these
poor erring creatures, for the sake of divine
womanhood, degraded and outraged in their
persons t
How msny of these poor creaturos, liv
ing a life of loathing and shame, have been
tenderly iiitriured in Iheir girlhood T Is
thoio one among them all who has gono
open-eyed and shamelessly into the hell
leading mode of life whiih ihoy have been
drawn into? Let us not so far misjudge
the purity of woman nature. 1 llier J want
of honest employment for wemenT Let
uhy householder consult his or hor experi
ence. Where then is the fault T Look up
on jour streets nay, look to your own
households seo idle, reckless young men,
loafing at ease rpon the corners, festering
wilh the moral pollution begotten of idle
ness, preying upon man and womankind.
How much better are they than the Sod
omites? What inscrutable 'Providence
clothes them like the lilies, while honest
toil goes bare-backed t,. How many sons
of luxury tirev nixni foiuale innocence and
virtue, to be rewarded with iho smiles of
" society now, and the love of yonr inno
cent daughters hereafter f Who doses
his door against the gay youth who has
only conquerod a young person of tho
chtunhnrmuid persuasion? Gallant fellow I
But what virtuous indignation is poured
out upon the bead of the chambermaid I
Serves her right she had no business to
be a woman to believe oaths to have
faith in man. Let her be turned into outer
darkness. If alio afterward preys upon
mon, there is some compensation in that.
Society is impotent to protect her or her
victims. Tha chief end of society is lo
glorify dollars, and enjoy them forever,
What has society to do with the objection
able young person ? Ohio Stat Journal.
Newspaper Success.
Brick Poraeroy, who says many
and untruthful things, sometimes says
somo very scnsiblo aud good things) among
which is his wholesome advice (o (he Wis
consin editors who recently took a spree
at La Crosse under the name of a Slate Con,
vention t . .
(Jo horria from your Convention when
your spree is ended. Tutce off your best
clothes and go to work. Sweep your office
and thou mop the floors. Pick up your
scattered type and keep it tu place. . Wash
your winnows, viuau your presses, anu
make your office attractive, tiet ready to
print a paper or a job, then stay in your
oflice during business hours. Keep outof
laloons. Let liquor alone. Read your ex
changes. Hunt out the local items and in
citlouts of your'own town or village. Throw
away your scissors and use the I qn. 1 II
you caunot originate, condense ami give a
variety of news. Publish a good paper,
but never ask a mail to subscribe for it.
An editor is never a canvasser. Make a
good paper and folks will take it fast
enough. Keep 6iU of saloons and rum
holes. Employ none , but sober; capable
workmen. Pay your employees liberally
and promptly, not grudgingly, but aa a
pleasure. Don't bey t Beggars have no
inlliionce. Don't tllak a huckster shop of
your sanctum, ami cover your doun w ith
advertisements of wood,' eggs, milk, chick
ens, corn, paper rags, tin nips, old clothes,
soap grease, medicine, fresh saiisagei ma
I Iu sugar, tic, wauled at this office on sub
scription) etc. Ask pay for what you do
pey lor what you get. Let your word be
sacred as your bond. Know what ynit are
doing) or do nothing. Keep out if saloons.
Don't spend your profits iu liquor, aud ruin
both health and credit. And do not risk
your manhood for. soiii'e liitfe office, or a
I reo puns over sbmo ruilroad. . Pay for
what you have. II you have no money to
pay hue, stay at home. If you need re
creation go to the woods rather tliau a sa
loon I po not. ask1 people to support you
support yowsetf. Make your paper in
to rent somebody, and it will have friends
and influence. If th business will not pay,
quit it. If you must beg fpr a living, get
a ddj and siring . aud. go l " in earnest,
but for the sake of manhood do hot dis
honor the press. Be something else than
a political dancer for cold victual. Be
temperate. - Kep out of saloons. , Lei
whisky alone.'tor il will beat (be best man iu
(he world. Ornament your oflice. Make
it attractive. Tueu stay (here to do your
work.
How Adv4btisxm.i(nt8 JfoBit. A.FrenoH
paper.thus traces the sensation of a reader
of advertisement.
The lirstadvert'sement he doesn't ee it.
The , suooud insertiou he see il, but
don't read it.
The third Insertion h reads. -
The fourth insertion he look at th
price. .
Th fifth insertion he speaks of it to his
wife.
The sixth insertion lie is willing to buy.
Th seventh Ii'ssrtiou he purchase.
TENNESSEE ANTIQUITIES.
Researches Among the Bones of Dead
Centuries—A Wonderful Mausoleum—
The Remains of an Extinct Race.
[From the Nashville Press and Times.]
Tennessee contains many wonderful an
nuities which, like her other resources"
so. to speak, have been but little developed,!
tier granu mountains,, iep ana wiagnin
cent forest, her noble rivex and wild ear.
queslered valleys roust bare been cbet
lahed and loved with an intst.se patriot
ism by the former races w(io one .dwelt
in tne country we now can our own. The:
grand snd picturesque scenery In which
Tennessee abounds, must have found ia the
I . r .1. - - 1 . .. i . m -
near vi mo aunrigiusi inoee a Oiling re
sponse. It must have been thickly in
habited and peopled by hardy ahd enet; .
golio races. The supposition is atrenttv
eucd by Ihe remains whioh .ara alineei
everywhere found ao plentifully, i
We remomber iu our ramble over..
Lookout Mountain to have detected nu
merous vestiges of a now extinct race) and
at Chattanooga, in the National Cemetery
. .itiMt., ,m iiiviiiliu, nuiliU, III IUV
courte of excavations made two years and.
hall ago, was found to be lull ot th
bones of the dead, the domestic and war,
like imidemenls of a neoule whose history
is lost forever. In the caves of the moan.
tains, in the deep valleys and meted fastr
nesses, whioh abound in the eastern portion
of the State, wonderful revelation bav)
been discovered. Fortifieatiotie and the.
sites ol towus have been detected with the
imprint of antiquity stamped upon them)
winch places ineru beyond the Indian
who roamed the forests, at the disooverr
ot Amerioa by Columbus. , , ' .
It may be i.ot geneially known that tha
grounds on which tho city of Nashville now
timis was once Ihe sue of an ant-lent and
populous (own, yet such is supposed to bo
ino tact. , .
Some ef the most interesting antiquities
of our State are found along the lower;
course of Stone River, but a few miles front'
Nashville. A wide , area of the conntrs
there ia covered thickly with thousand of
graves of a now forgotten people! .1 . .,
liit a lew days ago several gonUeraan
matte some researches in this region, ana
found their labor richly rewarded bv
ime striking discoveries. At a plaoe
known as Sohells Spring, they fouud s
mound of consider tide height and of per
nape torty teet in diameter, which proved
upon examination: to be nothing less (had
a vast mausoleum of the dead. The grave
wero found to be made of flat rooks., sym
metrically joined together, and threaders
do p from the base of the mound to it
apex. Bones were found in eron a kahle
state of 1 r sorvationj togetier with pottery
and h 1 s. Very large ornament have
been (hi it out of this locality, mad from
shelhfonnd only in tho Gulf of Mex'qo, 1
A gentleman of kuoweledge. skill and
authority in autiojuuriau matters, who rjou
dubted.the researches made a few day ago)
estimates that the remain which they unr
earthed could not have lee ago than
six or seven .lutndrpd years.. Whata.ior
muiKiiuie, no warlike implement sro
found in Ibis locality, from which it is in-
foired that they were a peaceful rope, and
were probably exterminated or djiyen away
by Indians. In one of the araVes was found
beautiful little vase, which , had been
placed in the hand of the inmate of' tho
tomb at the time of biliinl. . Upon this little
bit of earthenware was the model of a
diminutive animul. The care which these
people took of (heir dead shows a bifili do
gtne of humanity. . s. 1
We learn'-(hat other investigation in
thin section aro tu Iia mmb Ar Innir Thi.
held is certainly aiich ono for the an(i-
quariun. . .. .
A Young Lady Abducted and Her Ravisher
Skinned Alive.
A Memphis paper of September 28 oar
rates the following horrible incident in
Mississippi liiet, Three or four day have
elapsed since the dark a"d horrid transao
tinti narrated. below-transpired, at or near
Fitwcllvig's Cross Road. .Mississippi. . A.
young . lady of the highest respectability
and most amiable character, was proceed,
ing, to a neiglibor'B bouse, Vhere a party)
to whioh she had been invited, was given,
when she was overtaken by a man end,
forcibly drawn from the high eotfd ihta.tbe
woods, Ijer cries stifled by a cloth of some,
sort pressed over her mouth) Taken lo a
secluded and desolafe spot, she was lieej .
and (here detained for a wcefc, jyblle .the
scoundrel, effectod his vile purpose). w'jthT
out (h miserable victim being1 able to
offer (he slightest resistance. Two men,
who were out houting, unexpectedly came
upon her. still tightly bound and alone.
Her captor had left bor at ()ie juom,etil)
ejther to procure food of. pursue, some
other purpose. Learning from Ihe Wretch,,
ed girl the circumstance pf the atrocity
prtcticed upon her, they concealed ,thali
selves until he should teturn., Nor,, had
ihoy long to wait ; and, upon bis coming)
they at once seized and secured him.
Believing that the victim should fro
nouuee sentence upon him, they awaited
lor decree,. It, was to flay him alive)
They at once proceeded with tlieii; httpi-ing-kuivea
to relieve . him of his' epi-,
dermis. The fores,! reaoundej Wiih his '
cries and imprecations as tljey stripped, (he
in from the soles of his feet to his body)
By the time they bsd progressed to his
middle nature, he could stand no more)
bill) completely exhausted, yielded op. the
ghost the monster dying a horrible deaih)
Tho girl was conveyed to. her, home; Wher
everything was don to relieve her suiter
ing, but tine ilied tiie next day iu great an
guish. ''..'.
The National Disgrace.
Tho spirit that governs the While House)
is whisky. The correspondent of .the . P
troit Tribune', asserts. that the President is
in the constant habit of drinkingthat he
is a steady, persistent brandy aud whisky
drinker, and worse than that, fJi White)
House contains, (or tho first., titu gince it
was built,', a dritiking, drunken family.
The President is a steady drinker. Hi soil
KoliKsr) who is one of his private . aecie(a
ries, is a sot. His son-in-law, Senator Pat
tkbsoh, who. lives in the White House, is a
terrible drinker. lie. never get drunk, but
he is not fufiitT ftorii the ileFlrttiro tremens.
He sallies forth every hour or Iwo lo Whit
ney's restaurant to take a fuil tumbler of
raw whisky. Nine mun out of ton Would
die in a year of his habits. He swill raw
whiaky enough to slaughter a regiment.'
Sixtici.a-t. Tho othei day the rare Inw
stsnc oi a bnriaj thirty years after dea'lt.
oocurred at Jh-i lin. The dead who lingered ,
so long shove ground is Ifachel Levin, th,
oelebratod beauty, author and wit, th
wile of the Iota Herr Von Tarnliagen. well,
known a a Prussian dinlcmatiat and writ
of conkrnp nary history. Hivipjr, a portal
fear of being buried alive, tho lady ordered
in h'r testament that th upper Dart of he
colli 11 should be made with a glass Window.
tha ooltin constantly watched for a month
after death, anil deposited In a spat ial lis 1,1,
for a period of thirty year. All hii,li
wae uuiy carried out.