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Work. such as Posters. Bale Bills. Programmes,
Invitations, Cards, Labels, Pamphlets, all kinds of
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t-jf Printing of ercry kin'1, whether Job work
or Wurtininff, which is done for any nssocition,
ociutr, public meeting or political party, will b
ehirged to the person or persons ordering the
same, who will be hold responsible for payment.
OBLIKGER A; TUl,lIO,
Pnbliiihcrs and Proprietors.-
BUSINESS
CARDS.
F. W. lIiVDCIUIILL
!V (O.
, Dealers in .
American & Italian Marble
and. Clranite Stone,
No. 200, eorner of Summit and Cherry, Toledo, 0
lgf Monuments furnished to order.
, til.t.lnii' or otberwise.jtj
Address br
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' SL.EV1N fc I3UOWN,'
Attorney and Confllors at Law, and
General Land Apei ts. "
Land bought and soldi taxes' paid : titles exam
ined, Sic. Extra bounty, local bonntr, back
pay, pension, etc., promptly collected and
i ',t,. .;, paia over, ..
' S31" Office in. the Court bouse. Terrysburg,
Ohio.-.-- I V" ' 1 - M '
PERRYSBURQ MEAT STORE.
JOIIi IIOFFIIIAN
I.
HAS removed his Meat Store to the building re
ceatlyueeupiod bytlio Hardware .Store, on
LtuUiana Arenue. An excellent quality of Meat
is always kept on liand.t 1 which he in rites the at
tention of all lovers of a juicy Roast,or a Under
Steak.'
Porrydburjr, Jfovom'ier 8,18(15. '. 3t'
4 $. ... .ii ,
B. C. EBGIILY,
SURGEON DENTIST,1
PElIltYSBUUG, OHIO.
tf"Charges moderate, and all work warranted.
jf Office over G. lleach's SUirc, on Louisiana
Avenue. 4llxx
j. 11. litem,
Attorney - nl - Law,
resumed the practice of his profession, at
I'drrvdburir. Ohio, where he will ive urompt
aiieniion 10 an ie?ni onsines enirusiau im uib cure
Office in the Hunk building. 7xz
WILLIAM H. JONRS. JOHN A. fillANN'ON
JOKES . SHANNON,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
OFFICE OVER KItEPS' STORE,
46xx , - . Perrysburg, Ohio.
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A. McMAHAN.
(Late Brevet-Colonel U. S. Volunteers,)
"Wo-x Olatm Agent
fostoffice Address East Toledo, Ohio.
ALL Honost Claims against the Government
can be collected. Many of the late ofliccrs
and ildiers of the-army, and also widows and
beiri nf deceased officers and soldiers, do" not keen
well informed of the laws relating tn them. All
claimants for whom I transact business are
promptly informed, by mail, of any laws affecting
tliom. J VT !o enarge mane uuiess claims are
successfully prosecuted. 4Jxx
JOHN A. SHANNON,
Attorney and CoanscHor-at-Law,
Offico in Phoenix Block, up stairs,
t-STArWtieo givee ki the oulleetioa ef Soldiers
Claims. U
GEORGE STHAIN,
ATTORN EY-AT-LtW, Picaareiiuito, 0.,
tttILL attend toallhnslnessomiflJedtoblscare
VY iu the several Courts of Ohio. Military
Claims will receive particular attention.
Also Insuranoe taken at reasonable rates.
' OtHee New Hardware Building.up stairs, cor
ner of Louisiana Avenue and Front street, las
I.' D. Ki JIOLLGN UECli) t .
Perryafcurg, Wood Co., O
Attorneva-at-Law 1 Notaries Public; Conveyane-
era; Collecting Agents; Real Estate Agents ;
Having large quantities of Wild Lands aud many
Improved Farms, for sale: .
Agents to Pny Jaxea, and redeem lads sold for
taxes; also, to"' purchase landa and iuresUgate
titles.
War Claim Agents,
To procure the back pay and bounty due to rel
atives of deceased soldiers ;
To procure pensions for those entitled to them ;
To procara for soldiers Itbenttatt from priaoa
eomraotatlon bf -rations wUils Ihey were Confined,
etc., etc Sxx
IIOSS & COOK,
AOKNTS FOB TBB
METROPOLITAN INSURANCE CO.
Of New York City
Rates as low as any good, flrst-ciass Company.
Buaineas solicited. Office, eorner of Front-street
and Louisiana-avenue, Perrysburg. 29
j.' r. & price;
Attorneya-at-Law,
Perrysbatrs;, Wood County, O.
WE have large quantities of Real Estate for
sale ; attend to Tax-paying; also, procure
'Bounties and Pensiona for Soldiers.
All business promptly attended to. 18
INSUKEI INSURE I
FIREMEN'S INSURANCE COMPANY,
OF DAYTON, OHIO.
THIS Company has fairly' earaed the 'right to
solicit the patronage nf the eitiiini of this
ounty, having paid I&.700 in Losaea iu the county
within the last year. Kates as low as any reliable
Company. Loises equitably adjusted and prompt -
I P"J j;V. SUANJfO. Perrysburg, o!," '
41 Uuueral Agent for Northwestern Ohio,
REAL ESTATE AGENCIES.
.'.' BOSS, . A SHIR OOOR, SLBIBT . ROSS
, IIOSS. ti COOK,
ABSTRACTS of TITLE.
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Corner tnnMana Avenue and Front
(Street, ferrrwhnra;, Ohi.
WE have the only set cf Abstract Hooka
now in Wood County , containing a complete
Ixdkx to all Lota and Landa therein,.
t-9 Certificates of Tills given upon reasonable
terms.
Mf" Also, Agents for purchasing and selling
Real Estate, getting op Tax Titles, paying Taxes,
&.C., do.
llnainess solicited. J7n
OIOEOR WIDDCLL. . W. R. IBXHLT
GENERAL. LAND AGENTS,
Ferrrafcurs;, Wood County, Ohio.
Will buy and sell Lsnds, examine titles, pay
taxes, redeem Lands sold Kir taxes, &e., ie.
10 Office in the Court-house. 3 7 is
VALUABLE REALESJATE FOR SALE.
'T'nE undersigned having established a Real Es-
J- late Agency in ferrysburg, offer for sale the
following Ileal Estate, situated in Wood County
Ohio: 3
Io-lots in rerrysburg, with good Ilonse, Bnrn
Orchard, Well, Ac. very desirable. Can bo had
ai a oargain, and on liberal terms.
A Farm of 120 acres, in notion in r Pi..
Township, under good cultivation, with 300 frui
trees, good buildings, snd well drained. Two
miles trom lontoganv.
An Improved Farm of IOO Acrs, in sec
tinn31. Plain Township I DO acra.i u:i(.er mltir.
tion, and nearly all under fence 1 a lnrirB orelmr.l
and good well, together with a good frame house
ana ourn.
' rnrin cuaiaininv km Acres, in um
Section, all lllldpr fni-A mnallvimnMir.fi
good burn and large house, w ith good frame house'
ii niuiKc 111 uwiiiiriicimn.
The XE. of the NE. 4 of section 28. town 4
north of rango 10 east. Good House and Orchard
aii uncier icnoe. , ' '
' 1 UNIMPROVED LANDS.
K i se qr section 3S, tp S, range 1180 acres.
N li sw qr sec 31, tp i, ranito U 80 acres.
SO Acres, in section 4, CciUr Township, well
' ere wivil uiaca WRlllIU, Willie wood, Ac.
t0 Acres, in section 16, Liberty Township
prairie.
f Acres, in section 10, Milton Township
Lot No. 8. . J .
SO Acres, fn seotinn 12. ' Henrv Town. I, In
800 Acres in section 11, Portage Township
heavilv timbered.. -
Twelve or fifteea ehoiceTOWN LOTS, in Per.
rjaourg.
taT"The above Real Estate will he nffvr1
low rates, on terms to suit the purchaser.
4 Real Estate Agents, Perrysburg,0,
Cheap House.
A SMALL FRAME HOUSE and two Lots in
XV. ferrysburg : title perfect i for sale at 275
by
ROSS A COOK.
FOB SALE.
F
by
OUR desirable residences in . Perrvshiirir
fnce ranging from $ 1,200 to $1,800 : for sale
ROSS A COOK
BARGAINS INREAL ESTATE
A Smull Farm of 4.1 acres, more or less
ont-iot ;mi -one nuie son In of Terrysburg. A
very ueairaoie location. nssession at any time,
011 lease or sale.
ror nnit', chesp, in prompt par or in pay
ments, a new dwelling-house aud nt, 110 feet front
and r.13 feet rear, of in-lots Nos. 393 and SOU, per-
100 acroa ff -Jand, for- sals clieap, in Tfarrcn
county, iiunoMt.. ,
In-iaita Nos. 35 and 38 for sale in Phil! nna' add!
tion to Toledo, Ohio; at a bargain, in payments if
ui'mreu.
Also, a business lot in Pes Moines. Iowa low.
80 acres, n Kseqrse 21, Middleton, good land,
at C10, per acre in payments.
80 acres, n ne qr sec 38, Webstor, ditching
paid for, at $10 per acre in parincnts.
100 acres, nw qr see 29, in Portage, good land,
at $0 per acre in payments.
80 acres, w yi gw qr sec 27, in Lake, at a low
ngnre. .
80 acres, w sw qr sec 5, town 3, range 10, in
Henry, at $3 per acre.
: A number of flue in-lotg for sale cheap in Per
rysburg. ' v'
Desirable lands in Laporte and Steuben Co's,
Ind for sale at a bargain. ; ! -
300 acres of tax title lands., in Wood County, for
brio cneap.
1 will show my lands with pleasure, and in sell
ing, will make payments tn snit.
J. UICKETTS.
Perrysburg, February 8, 1867. 41
NEW GOODS 1
NEW GROCERIES I
NEW STORE-ROOM
GEORGE BOETSCH;
HAVING purchased the building formerly oc
cupied br the Hardware Store, haa thor
oughly repaired, repainted and remodeled it in an
attractive style, and blled it with a stock of
Groceries,
Produce,'
,., . Provisions,
1 1 - Notions. &o
Unsurpassed by any other Grocery Stock in Per-
rysourg, comprising, in part
Teas? Spices, Coffeei, Sugars, Sirups, Canned
r runs, noaps, Canutes, oroau, vracaers, can
dies, Tobacco, Cigars, Wooden Ware in vari
ety, the Produce of the Garden, the Farm,
and the Dairv-in short, almost every
Article and Notion that enters into the
healthy Economy of the Household.
3T A enrdial invitation Is extended to House
keepers and all others to call and judge for them
selves .of this excellent sttiek. v
GKOIIGE BOETSCH.
Perrysburg, November il, 1808. SI
AN EXCELLENT OFFER
TO THE 8CBSCEIBERS OF THE
PERKYSBUBG JOURNAL.
The price of Harper's Monthly Magsxine is $1
per annum the Perrysburg Journal 2; we will
furnish the two for 5 25.
The price of Harper's Weekly is t4 per annum
the Perrvsburg Jourual $2 j we will furnish the
two for $i ii.
The price of Harrier's Baisr is 4 per annum
the Perryabarr Journal 2; we will furuisb the
two for ti 2.i
1 he price of the Lady's Friend is tJ 50 per an
num the Perrysburg Journal is 2 j we will fur
niah tbe two for 03 sit.
The price of tbe Saturdar Evening Post is ti 60
per anautn the Perrysburg Journal 2 ; we will
furnish the two for f J 60,
The pries of Godev'i I.adr s Book is (3 Der
annum the Perrysburg Journal 02 ; we will fur
nish tbe two for -
CROOERY
, a v " . - . ii
Fahliiy Groceries,
.. . 1 AT, ' '
Jtodoce4 Pinces.
'THE undersigned, having recently purchased
1 the Orooerr Siore. on Front-street, formerly
occupied by Aaioa A HbeeU, take tbia method o(
lufonuing Ute ciusena 01 rerryaourg ma nicy win
at all liinea keep on band a full supply of almost
every article needed by familie i the
.Grocery Mod 1'roduco t,ln,
which will he disnosed bf on terms that shall prove
satisfactory to all. They are dutei mined aot to be
undersold, aud are eoulideut that their stock can
not be snrpasaed in variety or qnaliiy. Give then
a call before purchasing elsewhere, and you ma
be oartain of securing rood bargaina.
. . ....... . . a 0 n v
lUa. itll't'r-KliAAU ai. ou.i.
Perrysburg, January 21, 1S7. 3Vu .
The Castalian Fount.
"DON'T STAY LONG."
How many a loving heart ulters the refrain of
the following lines, Don't Stay Long I " There
is nothing of portry In the phraseology, buf there
is in the touching maimer In which the words fre
quently find voice in the " yearning tenderness,"
fond hopes and deep sympathy, of which they be
eome wio imperieci interpreters. Uis experience
ib the poetry of life and lore must have been bar
ren Indeed, who does not find these lines thrill like
the echo of Cathedral musio to bis heart of hearts 1
A look of yearning tenderness
llerlealb nor lashes lies,
And Uona and Iore unutterable
Are shadnwvd in bor ert's,
As in the Same deep, unruflled stream
Are clouds and Hummer skies.
She passed to earl Womanhood,
From dreamy, sweet Girl life,
And cmssec' the roav threshold but
To fiud herself a Wife;
Oh I gently should ho lead her steps
Along the path of Life I
- And aa she clasped her .small white hands
Upon his Sfms so strong,
How often, like a Summer sigh,
Or a sweet, pleading song.
She whinpers, with a parting kiss,
"Beleved one, don't stay long."
It's almost always on her Hp,
Her gentlest parting words.
Sweet aa the fragrance from rose-leaves,
When by soft xephyrs stirred,
And lingering in the memory
Like songs of Summer birds.
And in his heart they nestle warm,
When other scenes amid ;
.He stays not till sho weary (,-ows,
And her fond eyes are hid
In tears which lie in bitlerncss
llcueath each waiting lid.
And, Oht how many hearts are kept
Hy that love-utte'-iiig song 1
There's acnrcely one who on Life's waves
Is swiftly borne along,
But what iias beard from some dear lips
These sweet words, Don't stay long."
THE PRINTER'S TOIL.
Blow, ye stormy winds of Winter,
Drive the chilly, drifting snow,
Closely housed, the busy Printer
Heeds not how ,tho winds may' blow.
Cliek, click his type go dropping
Here and there mto his ease,
And he stands for hours popping
Every letter in its place.
Heaven send tho useful Printer
Kvery comfort mortals need,
For our uights were dull in Winter
Had wo not the news to read. v
Sad would be the world's condition
If no Printer boys were found
Ignorance and Superstition,
sin and bullering would abouud. t
Tes, it is the busy Printer
Rolls the car of Knowledge on,
And a gloomy meutal Winter
Soon would reign if ha were gone.
Money's useful, yet the minlera
Fill not hall' so high a place
As the husy, toiling Printers,
Fing'ring' typo before the case.
Yet while the tyre they're busy setting,
Oft some skiiitlint popinjay
Leaves the country, meanly letting
Printers whistle for their pay.
Oh t Ingratitude ungracious I .
Are there no enlightened souls T
M n with minds so incapacious
Aa .to slight the Printer's toil 1
See hint I how extremely busy,
Fing'ring type before the case,
Toiling, till he's almost dizzy,
To exalt the human race.
Thrilling Sketch.
[From Beadle's Monthly.]
THRILLING STRUGGLE IN A GRAIN
ELEVATOR.
" If it hadn't been for England and Chi
cngo, 1 dmi't think my left Hleeve would be
empty. 1 here 8 a rulille you can t guess
roiiiaps you 11 not think much of iriy rid-
dlo when the story a tola ; but you must
not forget that it cost mo my arm. and
you'd place a big price on your arm yes 1
upon a utile uit 01 your iittiu linger.
' My parents, buxom, bal8 und hearty
couple, with a lieartinesa of life and livinir
tliut sweeleued their food with wholesome
fliiTor, were email farmem in England.
llioy were poor and had six children
Children are the teeth of poverty and bite
tiarn. - ...
' Even now I cannot decide whether I
was right or wrong in going to another
oountry. At that time we heard lota of
Rtories of how people thrived in America 5
how they had a little ease and comfort and
independence 111 that country before they
died.
' It wr.8 all arranged among ourselves
and lather, out ol Inn little Havings, gavo
mil money which I wne to return to him if
1 got along finely in my new home. Hut I
(li t not intend to set out on this long and
oncBome journey without taking with me
is my wne, a little lair haired lass : as
modest and industrious a girl as could be
found in the country. This lassie was
Bessie Tillutt. One day I spoke out my
ove.
" Bessie, dear, will you go to America
with mo? Do you iovs me enoiir-li for
that?'
"She put her arms about my neck and
oked up into my face with her great hazl
" ' Robert ,' she said, I will go with thee
anywhere, and be glad all the time.' Then
he kissed ma.
' But Bessie, girl, I'm poor, you know,
and there's the great ocean to' be crossed.
hen that betwixt us and the old talks,
we'll be among strangers, and I have much
to sudor. There's hard work to be done.
nd worst of all there's tearful loneliness
and homesickness. Eh I Bess
bearTtunger in many a way ?' ;
can you
"'Trymal I'll go with thee, Dob, and
help thee all I can, and be good wile.' I
new sue was as true as steel.
" One night, going home from a visit to
Bei-s. I met Tom Biinton. lie was waiting
for me at the b'g elm just at the turn in
the road. An id e fellow, given to beer
rin kinf,' and low voinpaniuns. he had more
nmney than any one 111 his station of life.
Win re lie got bi money was uncertain.
Learned in horst's and jockey inz. he bad a
oack of tickling tho pride', of ,th owners
f nice nags in the neighborhood, lie was
not a haudsome follow, by any means j bul
his smart ways and speeches made him a
favorite with many of both sexes. Tbe way
came to Know him was because we lived
i th iu mile of each other, and met him on
ie highway and at country fairs and frolics.
had seen him, loo, a half dozen tunes at
illott's hoiiae during the previous years,
bed never liked, only endured him, know
ing him 10 ! a very muscular leliuw, a
good wrestler, and no mean player with
is fiats : 10 fact a bully, as ypu call that
ind man in tbis country. . lie was silting
on a log by the roadside.
" 'Oood eveumg, Bob, he (aid, as I came
' ....
a
is
a
as
opposite biro. 'Going away soon, 1 hear,
"'A toriuight hence,' I replied, tint stop
ping in my walk. Seeing this ho jumped
tip from tne log and came running alter 111 ,
" stop, iiou, he commanded. ' ctop, rve
something to say to yon, aud I want to any
it to-night, now, because I am going away
in tne morning.
" 'Well, what hi it T 'I said stopping, I'm
in a hurry.' 1
" 'Tea, yes I And aro you truly going to
America T lie silked once more n a musing
sort of way, and looking at mo from toe to
head. ' And--Riidcoiifuund youiisBoe
going with Tout
Do yon know. Boh Campbell, that I
loved that girl, that I lovelier now? aud
that she Ban! .
" 'There, there, don't tell me yonr secrets!'
I cried, wnh a wish iu my heart to get
peaceably away from the fellow, who, it
was plain to me, had been drinking
'"But I tri'Htell thee. Whv not listen
quietly until I've done. I loved her and
told her so. And she refused me, but did
ti't tell me who loved you. She throw me
olf for your baby face aud (he few pounds
you ve begged or
"Stopr 1 commanded, pushing him
away from me. ' I'll hear no more such
v le stuff,' an I walked off. But I had t ot
gone three stops when I foit his arm clufpod
around my waist, holding my arum close to
mj side.
" 'You shall hcartno, curse yon ! ' ho
shouted, close to my ear. ' I've waited for
you. to tell yon that I hato you hale you
because yon are going to tuko away the
only woman on earth I can love. You
needn't try to get away. Bo still or I'll
kill you. So lung as I live you will have
an e-ieniy.. You'd be'ttt-r remember that.'
"Just then I heard tho rumbling of
wagon coming towards us. lie heard -it
t it), and for a minute atond and lift, nod
Then, with nu oath, he suddenly whirled
mn around and struck mo tin eo heavy
blows lull in II. e laco Willi Ins hat, knock
ng tne senseless to the ground. When I
opined niv eyes again, a I rmr(- n i;hl or
ol ouis, had my head mi Inn knee, a'id was
wiping the blond liom niv face; the rascal
had given me one blow that had cut open
my iheek, &nd lelt a innrk until tins day
Ti m Ilrintoii had run like a dver across the
lii Ids the farmer aid. Anyhow, (hat was
the lust seen ot linn in tde iictlihoi liood ns
long as I remained. Bess and I were mar
ried and enme to America, us happy ami
loving a couple as ever crossed the waters
When I landed in New 1 oik, my pockot
was ptcRod ot all my money tho tew
pounds 1 hud saved to buy men littlo land
audi was Inemtlrsg. it was an awlul
time that followed, sir.
'After tins misfortune I tried to obtain
work. Now and then I got a job that gave
me enough to buy us a littlo tood. But
whut could I, a farmer, and a farmer's son.
do in a great cily that needed artisans, not
runners 1 It was a hard struggle for life.
I had just trot a place as porter, at good
wages, whtu wlieu my darling Bessie
died.
" Af!f r Bessie's death," he continued
with a shudder; ' I took to liquor just to
stop' thinking, to have an easy spell. But I
only mudo mallets worse, nud liually, after
a touch ol the . trfmeus,. 1 . went nu board
ship and sailed to .Cape Town Africa. Il
was five jonrs boforo 1 got buck to Amer
io . - I wa tired of sailing and of l.fe ; I ut
not huving the cownrdice to commit sui
cide, though I was always-, wishing myself
dead, I struggled along, as nfold, to get
my daily bread. 'Drifting hither and thither,
wirking u week in one pln'co, a. mouth in
another, 1 finidly brought up as a laborer
in an elevator in Chicago. It is not nice
work I must say ; but one grows to be
proud of the great things that dot the
wharves along (ho nasty cree.k. To mo tho
elevator seemed a monster, restless with
hungry life, and we poor fellows did noth
ing but tend to its wants, running up and
dowu stairs through clouds of choking
dust, and deafened with the din of rattling
tnachinory no light job I can asattro you,
seeing than an elevator is seven, eight, tui
stories high, and big enough to hold -the
houses of a smul village. Ah, they are
wonderful things, those elevators .' and
now that I am away from them, I foci tho
strength ol their sine,' and what a little
thing I was in such a place. Then the rat
tle of the cups going up and down with
their fill ot grain made music to my ears,
and started many a querr thought through
my mind as I went through my hours of
day or night work. It was strange to see
how quick these armies of banded cups
would drink to emptiness a car or vessel
loaded with grain, and carry it nptoeiddy
bights to be tumbled into huge bins. These
bins, sir, are forty to fifty leet deep, and
funnel shopped at the bottom, where there
is a sort ot valve or gate, which, when
opened, lets the graiu into a spout. If a
gate is lowered when a bin has six orueven
thousand bushels in it, you can judge there
would be a whirpool that would suck
down the strongest man to a horrible deatjh.
Wonderful, terrible monsters these eleva
tors, with their humps of houses on their
roofs, their awkward spouts, their dizzy
highls, and dismal, dusty chasms of empty
bins. It makes 111 e sick to think of tlieiri
now."
The man really did look a little whiter
in the laoe,' and nervously fingered the
empty sleevo of his jacket t but ho ' was
over with (he feeling in a minute, aud went
on with his story 5
"Iliad been atwoik about a week. in
one of the largest of these elevators, when
one afternoon I was sent in company with
another laborer a big whiskered, swear
ing, ruffian fellow to tend to a bin that
was about to bo emptied. We were si4lit;
on the edge of the bin, waiting for the
trrain to run. wlien niv companion, wno
seemed to bo under the iiiQueuue of lio)aorW
called out
"I ay, Miket
" Aa I have said, the fellow was a rnffi;n
in appearance. lie eeemori to liavo quiv
liking to me, as he tried to be with k'.
in my work as much as possible; bin J
couldn't bear him,, lie knew my name we I
enough and it angered me to have hiirr Cal
me iu this way ; so I said, sharply : 1
"' My name is not Mike !' '
" ' How should I know f he asked look
ing angrily into my face, as if ho wjubed
make me quarrel with him.'
"'You have heard it more than once,' I
faid, 4 Yon know very well what it is, Joe,
and there's oo sense 1u giving a man a
name as doesn't belong to him.' t
" ' Then doir t call me Joe I That am t my
name. It a counteifcit. 1 in lorn, which
a bet'er 1 ame.'
He hud a niece of 'ialk (n his band,
and began lo print with it 011 the big beam
where we were billing, T o m,T-o-ro, T-o-ro,
scratched in large letters, scraggy
etters, all the while looking at me from
under hi heavy eyebrows. Then he made
H, and rubbed bis hands ai ross it as soon
it wsa mad. , .
" ' Bob, it's a long way down there
pointing into the half filled bin.
" Twenty feet, perhaps. .. 1
'"Twouldn't kill a nr.au, the fall, eh TV
moving rloser to mo.
" ' But it's as (pod as water, to drown
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moving and the dust
He wouldn't live fong, that is sure.
"'Then go down there,' ho yelled, a
ing mo a mow ana a push mat hurried me
headlong from my seat, 'tlo down there f
Stay there 1 die there I rot there I Bob Camp,
bell, and don't forget, when you're a dying,
that Tom Brintnn sent you.'
"ine rail did not hurt mo a bit, andl
began to crawl toward the rope ladder
hanging against the side of the bin, thank-
ing Wod that the grain hadn t begun to
move, else Id be a dead man in no time
inn ns aooti as tne rutlian saw what I was
alter, he worn rouud aud pulled up the
ittiliirr.
'' ' Let that alone.' I shouted, feel i no- hnw
little hope of escape I had with the ladder
out of reach. Ho laughed and flung the
open ovor a ucam. .
Do you moan to murder mo T' I cried.
" ' No, I'm going to leave you there, Bob.
You've lullen in you see. That'll be the
verdict when they find your body. You'll
want your shovel, man, to make the thing
look natural, i n throw it to you in a niin.
ute.'
" I felt quite sure that it was so dark in
the bin that ho could not see me very plain
ly, if at all, and that he would try to hit me
with tho shovel. 1 crawled closo to the
side, with one cheek against the wood ;
looking up I could seo him directly above
me, peering down into tho gloom, and with
the shevol in his outstreachod arm ready
to spear mo ns if I wore a fish. Then fol
lowed a stillness that continued for five
minutes, during which ho stood on his
guai d. Suddenly 1 heard a muflled rattling
of machinery and felt a Strang power
pulling at my feet, whdo my whole body
st'imed to be. gliding gently down a bot
tomless pit. In uti iutmtit i knew what
was hnp oning.
" The grain irns running.
'I madly flung up my arms, and my
fingers clutched one of tho upright beams.
As I drew myself tip against the receding
torrent I heard a laugh above mo and the
words :
"' Kcmemher Bessie T.llott, Bob Camp,
bell, and that I loved her, and tho words 1
spoke to you by the big elm. Good by!'
'' When I looked up the man was gone
from my sight. I don't exactly know how
I maungod to climb that hugs beam. I
think tlicro were nails here and there that
bullied my foot and hands; for after I was
roscuod my body was found to be covoted
from head to foot with gashes or scratches.
Anyhow slowly and painfully I managed
to reach the top, nud threw my arm over
the edge of tho bin and grasped for breath.
Then, when 1 was so near to safety, to hope,
to lifo, I felt a horrible, sickening blgw up
on my arm a blow from somothing neither
dull nor sharp, I seemed to foil tho cutting
of the flesh and to hear the breaking of the
bone. Tho arm battered nud broken lost
its grasp, and I fell back into tho darkness
and horror of tho bin. Hardly hnd I
touchod the yielding wheat when my shovel
was thrown from above and struck within
a tew inches ot my head. Though my arm
hurt me terribly I didn't faint. I was help
less. Tho dust was stilling. Tho grain
was whirling and lin-slng as it slid toward
the vortex a few foet distant. I heard tho
murmur of machinery in motion aud the
rushing sound of tho wheat as it rushed
into tho spout. Whore I lay the graiu had
not yet begun to move into the littlo whirl
pool ; hut I knew it would only be a min
ute or two before I should bo toRsinur and
struggling in that treacherous quicksand,
and then, stifled," -mutilated nndilend f the
spout. Tho dust seemed to tsircle above
and IouytnttA littlo air to gasp.
' Lying thus hopeless and helploss, a
carelessness of do.Uh came upon me. My
uoearao to mo again in all Us details, its
oya and sorrows. 1 Jiad visions of erecn
lields, and hebril the soft enrirle of brooks
and the songs of birds, and tho rustling of
leaves. 1 lieu uessio s sweet lace, as it wits
when wo w ere married, smiling and pretty
with dimples, seemed to bo above and
closo to mine as if wailing for a kiss as in
olden time before Bite was taken from me.
forgot all else but her faoe. I had only
consciousness that I was going to her.
that she was waiting for mr release that
she might go with ins on tho last great
journey, it seemed as if the great relief
would nover couio and give to mo luv
lniling. .
I must have been growing unconscious.
think, for a sudden throb of pain iu my
arm robbed me of my wife's face cud
brought back the old feeling of resistance
against death. I felt that I was going
downward, gently but irresistibly ; that
every grain beneath-tjib was-moving and
shit'tingtiid slowly descending. The circle
of the whirlpool had reached me aud was
dragging roe down to torture and to death.
must live. It was horrible agony of soul
and body, sir. 1 screamed for help ; but
tire dust, eulering my mouth, nose and eye,
strangled and blinded me. I looked for
the shovel. It bad disappeared, 1 was
'zoing too. Maimed, and gasping for
breath, I fought against that power that
was shiwly but surely dragging me down.
plunged my arm deep into the wheat and
tried tn pull myscll up. In the dismal,
murky light of this hideous den I struggled
as bul few men have ever rtruggled. I
was a giant in my battle for life. 1 thought
no more of my broken ai m. 1 was burn
ing with heat, parched with thirst, blinded
and choked with the fine dust, but 1
fought ami shrieked for help all the time.
In my fierceness I tore my clothes from
'my 'body and flung them away and the
grains of wheat scraped my wounds and
pierced my nuked flesh as I tried to spring
for'vard ; but nothing hurt me, hot ' even
my arm.- -
"Hard as I struggled I could not get
clean away from the whirlpool. If I lonpod
forward or cntwled a littlo way over the
treacherous surface,! found whin I stopped
that I was swiftly sliding back again
the old place. It seemed as if I strug
gled iu this way for hours, yet I accom
plished nothing. Tired and breathless I
looked around and felt sure that in less
than three minutes I should bo in the spout
and a dead man. My efforts in vain. There
was a certain circle beyond which I could
not go. Once the thought came into my
mind that, to save myself Irom the horrors
the death liet'ore me, I had better open a
vein and bleed to. death ; but I con Id not
find my knife, and had 1 found it I might
not have been able to use it. Well, I saw
everything plainly. There was no hope
me. 1 must die, and mrustlook a"d wait
my death. When hope deserted ms,
kind of resignation to my fate succeeded,
ud I closed my eyes wearily, never think
to open them again. '
"Gradually my body slid downward.
The noise nl the grain rushing through the
valve or grate became louder and louder 1
stilling dust was thicker and heavier.
thousand unseen, irresistible forces were
drawing me to destruction. Suddenly my
body tell several feet. I felt the tremen
dous auction of the whirlpool. The grain
crept up my legs; it readied and pressed
heavily upon my breast and back as 11 to
squeeze the life out of me it ascended
higher and ctasped my throat. Then I
closed my eyes and awaited death. I no
longer feared ita terror.
him if the grain he
and chuff firing- ?'
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and
you
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" At this moment t felt that there was a
strange silence even in my balf conscious
condition I realised a change in my eur.
rounding. The dnst began to settle.
realized what had happenod.
"The valve was closed.
" As the very gate of drath npened tn
receive me, there was an nbstaole, and t
fainted away with joy. When I becamo
onst ions again. I heard h voice Crying ont:
"'la anybody down there V said this
voice. That question was twice repented
before I could answer, and then so faintly,
that it was a husky whisper.
" ' It's all a Immbnr, a false alarm, Jim,'
said another voloe. 'We are fooling uwy
time by traveling up and down these twenty
stories. We cau't stop work (or such non
sense.' "Mi's not a humbug said tho one who
had first spoken. 'You saw, as well as I,
the shovel, and hat, and shift come through
the spout. Theri-'a a, mini to follow, this
way or that. Hillo, there r
"It seemed to me that I had the night
marr, so hard did I try to speak out, bet 1
didn't make a noise. Yet w hen I heard
thenf going away leaving me tu my horri
bio death, the noiso in me got the better of
mv throat, and I yelled so that 1 myself was
frightened. The men came back.
" ' I know ho was there,' said Jim. Are
yon hurt, man T Of course he is or he
would not be there. Where the devil is
the ladder T That looks strange i t's hang
ing ovor tho boam. Give me the rope aud
lantern.'
" f saw the light, a blcRsod star of relief,
come slow ly down against the wall of the
bin ; a little later I was raised, as tenderly
as possible, to tho top of the bin. and tlunce
carried to earth, A surgeon was soon ob
tnincd. He looked at my arm that was
making hie cry with pain.
"'Moitifieation. Ainnutation.' was ha
judgment, and the arm was cut off. That
Is all, satd my guest, drinking hia liquor
and rising from his seat. .
" And what has become of Tom Buctont"
I naked ns he re..ohud tho door. .
" I am looking f6r him," ho answered,
with the old ugly look about tho eves and
mouth, and he stalked out of the door into
the night.
ELEVATOR. Selected Miscellany.
A Question in Long Division.
"A WRONG BEGINNING MAKES A DAD ENDING."
A boy, named Uichard Waltora. was nn
his way to school ouo dav. with hia slat
ana hooks neatly strapped in a bundle
under his arm, when he felt a hand resting
on bis shoulder, and. on turning around, ho
saw a pleasant looking gentlordan, who
said tu him :
" On your way to sclrool, I suppose T"
" Yos, sir," said Uichard.
" I see you have a slate in vnnr bimrltn
and I suppose yon have an arithmetic, too.
U'L.i J.. 1 ,
i nuv uu you cypner ill t ,
ijnng division, said uichard.
" Will you lot mo try and work a ones-
tion in long division ou your slate !'' the
man asked.
Hiclmrd looked at him in astonishment.
and scarcely knew what answer to inuke.
lid did not know bul the man was crozv:
for who over hoard of a sane man stonninir
a boy in tho road, and asking his permis
sion tn use his slate for cyphering T How
ever, Uichard thought he' would See what
uie man would do, and he unbuckled his
bundle, ami handed elate and Dcucil to the
gentleman, -1
lho stranger took them without snvlnea
word, and stopping to one side of the oath.
figured away in silence for two or three
minutes. By the time ho had finished,
some half dozen of the school boys came
along, aud stopped to oeo what was going
on.
"(Jood morning, boys I'm glad to see
you," said the gentleman. " Here's a qnes
tion in long division I've boon working out,
and I want yon to look at it, aud seo if it
is right." v '
Uichard took the elate whilo tho boys
looked over bis shoulders at theso figures s
29)383012(12538 " Wrong f Wrong I"
29 " It is wrong 1" shouted
so veral voices at once.
73 "What's the matter
58 with if, boyst Where
is It wrong,"' said the
' ISO gentleman.
145 "Why," said Richard-
" yon made a mistake al
111 most at the very start.
, 67 Nine from eighteen
- leaves nine, and you've
242 - got it seven."
232 "And is that the only
" mistake T ' said (he man.
10 " That's all 1 saw," an-
swered Richard.
"I guess the rest is all right," said an
other boy.
" Work out the question yonrself and let
me see the result," said the gentleiiiuu to
Richard.
Uichard diJ so, and handed the slate to
the man, who at once said :
" Yonr quotient U 13,228, and is right, j
Mine was 12.538, and was wrong ; and the
boys were all wrong in saying that the ooly
mistake was that made in the beginning ;
for as that was wrong, everything that fol
lowed it was wrong. Those figures, though
right iu themselves, gave me a wrong an
swer, becauso of the error in the com
mencement "And that is just the way you'll find it
through life. A wroua committed while
young, will cling to you in join shape or
otner as long as you Jiy-v And though
you may afterward repeat-and do right,
yet the results ofyoor life will be different
from what they would have been had you
always done right t for life is a Question in
long division, and you are daily working it
nut. The results which will be seen at the
day of judgment will be the quotient. The
boy who lies or swears, or is dishonest, is
making a mistake in the commencement of
this great question which will very seri
ously affeot the quotient when the work is
Ouislied."
By this time the school-bell rang, and the
boys went on their way, thinking that the
strange man had taken a strange way to
teach them very useful lesson.--Jlerry'i
Museum.
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The White House Oracle.
CuliU Seienrd. Here's Mrs. Columbia
wants an opinion of yon. Now, Andy,
overhaul your hititellect wignrons, arid
give us an opinion as is an opinion. How
about the niiiger."
Jack JJuKtby Jahmon" My hopinions
my hohservations gets to two pints
either this here nigger is to wote, do you
mind, or th;s here nigger aint to wote, do
see. Now if eo be as he is to wote,
why so and if so be as he aint to have a
wote, why so also.' That's my opinion,
I don't care who knows it." J"Vank
Leslie $ Illustrated ATeiespaper, .
Joan ftif.l.iNos says a. man running for
office pots him in mind of a dog that's loat
he smells of everybody he meets, and
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wags himself all over.
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The White House Oracle. To our Walling Exchanges, and Whaled
Renders.
In many thing we profoundly admire
General Grant.
We have t;ot thought it wis or stairs
manlike lo "go for " him as our nominee nt
this crisis, because we not only belivhe
Is bettar where be is, bnr we believe, at
this crisis, such policy i an obvious con
fession of weakness.
It is a weak w ant of conrnge tn make a
vigorous rally and retrieve annoying tf
versea 1 ,
It is a weak want of faith in th Repub
lican party w hich, by tho for of Heaven,
is " the power that has made and preserved
a nation."
It is a woak confession, that the Repub
lican party has become so demoralized that
but one man can save it.
W are no snuli weak-kneed advocatee
of llepitbticanisiVf
We havo no weakness to deetr to bo
foremost in fabricating a public opinion for
any one.
H affirm that in the election just paisett
ihe K'iublicin party ha not been beaten in
nny single State where it had a majority on
a fair, square Republican issue.
If we stand alone upon the Republican
platform, we are so confident of tho recti
tude of Republican principle that we
would rather resolve to endeavor to build
a party around ns than to resolve to look
around for eome one to whom w could
tie to buoy us nf a briof four years' span.
H the Republican party i alanghtered
by the hands of it own friends, It had bet
ter fold itseir in lho flag of the nation,
whi'.-h it has just saved, and sink decently
at the foet of Liberty, than meanly seek a
t mpornry savior, and craven bessech, like
Queen rjlirabetb, for a briof prolongation
ol a miserable existence upon any terms.'
Bucyru Journal.
A Pithy Sermon to Young Men.
You are th architools of yonr own for- 9 Pf.-
tunes. Uely upon your own strength nf "n a y
body and soul. Take for your motto, Self.
Kel anre, Honesty and Industry. For your
star. Faith, I'eraeveiano and I'luek. ami
inscribe on your banner, " Be just and fear
not." Don't take too much advice s Veen
at tho helm, and ateer your, own ship,
Think well of yourselves. Strike out.,
Firo above the mark yon intend to hit.
Assume your position. Do not practice
excessive humanity yon Can't get above
yonr level. Wa'er don't run up hill ; put
potatoes in a cart over a rongh road, end
small potatoes will go to tbe bottom. Err--orgy,
Invicihle Determination, with a right
motive, are the levers that movo the
world. Tbe great ait of commanding is to-'
take a fair share of the wdrk. Civility rosta
nothing and buy everything. Don't
smoke. Don't chew.. Dou t twenr. Don't
gamble. Don't lie. Don't steal. Dnn't
deceive. Don't tattle. Be polite. Bo gen- ,
erons. Be kind. Stndy hard. Bo in earnest. '
Be self-reliant. Head good books. Love ,
your fellow-men a well a God. Love i
your country aud obey tho laws. Lovo '
truth. ; Love virtne. Always do 1 what
your conscience tells you to be a dntj( and
leave the consequences with God. . . ,, , . ,
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A Famine in Sweden.
An appeal I made in the London Time
on behalf of the starting population of
Norland, a wide stretch of country in tho
northeast of Sweden., ' A communication
"y ' .
Here nt the best of times, a thrifty and ,
industrious people gain a scanty subsis
tence from an unwilling soil, and it is t
rarely fine summer that enables them to (
lay by anything against their dreary irctio 1
winter. For seven year past tho crop iu ,
that country hate been extremely 'poor. '
Last, winter wa one of the longest and "f
severest ever known even in the north of '
Europe, and before the fitful summer sun
and rain had timo to ripen them ur, early
frost blighted and entirely mined the corn
crops on which the Inhabitants were dc- '
ponding for subsistence during the coming i-
winter. The population is estimated at 1
70,00(1 to 100.000, and already the most
pitiable reports come of their condition
how bread is not to bo had for money, and
peoplo are living on roots and the barks of '
trees. The wealthier classes 1n Sweden
have already done much to help their nn-. .
fortunate neighbor, but Sweden is not a' : '
wealthy country, and much more is re- -quired
than she can do. , !
The Prairies on Fire-Farms and Forests,
Fields and
Furious Flames.
Sweeping, surging flames are spreading
ovor mile and hundreds of miles of our
te.ritory, and dense, heavy, stifling smoke,'..,
like a pall, haa settled upon the w holo
country. For a dlataiirn ni nprtv km.
dred miles along the Illinois Central Rail- ,
road, throughout a large portion of , Alex
ander and Pulaski CohntieB, and a wide
scope of Southern Missouri, in forest and
field, prairie and hill, the destroying ele
ment is sweeping and noower has been
able to stay it. In the central portion of ,
this country, much damage has been Hone.
Fence and barn, fine timber and atarka
of graiu have been destroyed, and to power ;
seems sufficient to cheek the onrushiug
ucniiujei. vmro (iu ) Jjemocrat. , ,
Thr author of " I'romethens in Allanlia"
makes the following offerj which is to ba
hoped some one will except!. "To any..-';
pculisher, or other person, who will pay
me a reasonable and proper price for them, ' ;
will send a aerie of mathematical demon- ' "
stations proving that Xewton' theory of
Jlie motions of the heavenly bodies i false, . 1
that the Copernlcan system ia only appar-" ,
ently iroe, -nd that another aud new aye
tern is absolutely true." . ..,
Tuc most severe fall snow etoitn, slnco , ,
1842, occurred in Connection!, November '
la and 20. Ou th latter morning, tho
show wa ball a foot deep in the streets of '' '
Hartford, considerable damage had beeM . '
done to fruit and shade tree, and some of
the fairest willow lw ju private yard
have snffered in particular, th now cling.,
Ing to them with a death grip and break- ,
ing down large limbs snd branches. ' :' '
. 1 .-. f ;' :
Tii it New Albany Ledger' ay that (hero .1
a family in (hut city, the father aud . ,
moitier of which, though Intelligent and of
respectahlo connections, are supporting 1
themselves by compelling their two danifU. -teia,
aged twelve aud fourteen, tnleura th ir .
living a prostitute.
Tbk record of th Fuatoffle Department !"' '
show that during (he lust ca) year there U
were 13,300 change of I'ustmustera made,
being over titty per cent, of the whol
numuer 111 me country, ami 3 find
than were
yer.
ever before mad ia one ficel
moia
Tucnif onr grandmother, .iy a. cotenv
Por'r. striking instance whv wome.-i
should vote. Hlie' paid taxes ou'a dog ir ,
last ten years, and now declares alio
won't stand it any longer-sbe'll either
vote or kill the dog I
.JYbuo executions have been ab. i;0h
Ii w Jersey. - M '' r
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