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177G. CENTENNIAL
"HEBE'S THE MONET THAT
$1.25 in intrinsic value for every 81.00 Green
back presented at our Counter.
Having leased for a term of years, at a
snown
CORXER OF HIGH AND
WOODROW HOUSE,
we respectfully announce that we have fitted
01 we largest and most attractive stocks or
HATS, BOOTS, SHOES AND CARPETS,
to be found in any market.
In deference to 4be crowine demand
PRICKS, we have adopted for oar business in this house, the new and popular
system 01 -
RETAILING GOODS AT
Strictly
and hope that oar patrons, by a liberal and cheerful compliance with our terms, will
aid us in makine this enterprise mutually beneficial to the community and to ourselves.
CRemeniber that onr terms are STRICTLY CASH, and come prepared to
vail yourselves of the extraordinary bargains which we shall offer.
Our stock will be found complete, and prices uniformly the very lowest at whioh
goods can be placed in the hands of consumers. Note a few of onr prices :
GREETING. 187G.
JINGLES IN THE POCKET.'
mere nominal rent, the fine new building
as the
SEECH STREETS, OPPOSITE
up the north room of the same with one
for GOOD GOODS at LOW
WHALE PRICES,
for Cash,
t Paper, mod Pins for 10 cents ;
t Paper best English Needles for 10 cents ;
Spools best Machine Thread for IS cents;
Spools best Hand Thread fur W cents.
HOSIERY.
1 Pairs Ladles' extra Heavy White Cotton Hose
ioc ia cenia ;
t Paira Ladies' Fine Cotton lor 15 cents ;
t Pain Ladies' Balmoral (or S5 cents :
Ladies' plain Navy Bine and Brown Cotton for 10
cents per pair ;
Ladies' fine Cotton, regular marie, for Sfe. per pair;
Ladles' uerman Knit Cotton, Hoc, wortn 40 cent
Kisses and Children's Hose in great variety.
Gloves In all Grades at Iiow
Prices.
Look at onr t-bntton Kid, in Black, Opera and
odors, at w cents and upward .
Handkerchiefs.
Children's Fancy Bordered H'dk'fs, t for 10 cents;
Ladies' Fancy Bordered, at 8 cents each ;
Ladies' White Cambric, for 25 cents ;
Ladies' Wide Hemmed, I for 26 cents ;
Ladies' Embroidered, t& cents, worth 60 cents.
LADIES' NECK-WEAR.
A superb line of Ladies' Neck-Wear, comprising
Baches, Lines Collars, Silk and Lace lies, at
lowest prices.
1 Roches for S cents ;
Wide Silk Ties, long knotted fringe, only SS cents,
worth 60 cent :
Great Bargains in Bash and Gro. Grain Ribbons
and Guipure Laces ;
Job lot of Ham berg Edgings and Inserting, at
W eeat on the dollar;
Parasote, Son Umbrellas, and Fans in endless Ta
ndy. A complete line of
WHITE GOODS,
Comprising Swiss Molls, Nainsooks, Victoria
Lawns, Jaconets, French Lawns and Organdies,
White 'Tarletons, Piques, Birds-eye Diaper, in
linen and cotton, Linen Lawns, Fronting Linens,
Bobinets, Crepe Lisse and Bias Tucking,
A large line of Standard Prints
is good styles. Scents per yard;
Uood 4-4 Bleached Sheetings, 8 cents per yard;
Fine 4-4 Bleached Sheeting, lOcenls per yd, worth
IX cents:
Good 4-4 Fine Brown Sheeting, SH cents per yard ;
A Magnificent Line of
Dress Goods
in si grades and prices.
Genuine Lyons Bilk Poplin at 75 cents, worth $1 ;
Striped Silks at 80 cents, cheap at $l ;
40 Inch Black French Cashmere, TS cents, sold
heretofore at S5 cents ;
Black Bombazines, Henrietta Cloths, Grenadine,
Linen Saltings and Knickerbocker Polonaise Cloth
at equally low prices.
The attention of eonsnmers is called to onr
stock in all n ambers and qualities of the celebrated
"Slack Haven" Alpacas and
monairs,
which are conceded to be the very best goods In
the market for service.
No lady should purchase this class of goods
without first giving ours an inspection. We shall
make
LADIES UNDERWEAR
s special feature in our business, and are now
having manufactured to order an elegant line of
Night Robes, Chemises, Irawere, Tucked Skirts,
Corsets, Ac Oar lady friends will be surprised at
the low price in this department. Extraordinary
bargain in Turkey Bed and Bleached Table
Damask, jurseilles limits, Towels, Napkin,
Doilies, Ac
Ladies', Misses' and Children's
Fine Custom-Made Shoes
and Slippers
In great variety of style and at very low prices.
Special Bargains for the Gen
tlemen,
in line Boots, Shoes. Hats, Collars, Handkerchiefs,
Suspenders, Ties, Underwear, Ac.
Gents' Mixed Cotton Hose, I pairs for 85 cents;
naunorai nose, s pairs ior so cents ;
Super Stoat British yi Hose, 20 cents ;
Super Fine British X Hose, 5 cents ;
" German Knitted Hose, only SO cents ;
" Fancy Bordered Cambric Hdkfs, 16 cents;
" Fine Linen " "lucent,:
" " White Shirts, only 98 cents ;
" "Broadway'' Shirts, $1.75, worth $2.S ;
" Vnlanndried Shirts, of best quality, In all
ea. The Finest Stock ol
Fancy Cassimeres & Coatings
ever brought to the "Model Town.''
If 'the Ladies are cordially invited to visit on
CARPET DEPARTMENT
on second floor, where goods will be shown with
pleasure and no one importuned to ouy. We have
a large bujck oi Brussels, ingrain, sua nemp un
pets. Floor and Table Oil Cloths, Cocoa and Straw
Mattine. Crumb Cloths. Rugs. Hassock. Cambric
and Nottingham Lace, Curtain Goods, which we
are offering at lower prices than ever before known.
GcTPersons in porenit of bargains, should eaxx eably, as we have now in stock many
goods which cannot be replaced at present prices..
SPARCUR BROS.
MAS0NI0 TEMPLE BUILDING.
X. B. We shall continue the business as heretofore at the Old Stand, Music Hall
Building, Main St, where our friends will find the usual large and attractive stock at
lowest market prices. Give as a call. ap27m2
Hillsboro, April 25, 1876.
J. S. SHAW.
SHAW
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&
Wholesale and Retail
STO YE DEALERS!
Our long connection it ith the firm of Messrs. Red way & Burton, of Cincinnati, the
Leading Stove Founders West of th- Alleghanies,
Enables ns to assure our friend that oar Good are FIRST-CLASS, A 1, made of the Best HOT
BLAST CHARCOAL IRON, Mounted and Fitted in a Superior Manner, I- EVERY STOVE IS
WARRANTED.. We call especial attention to onr
a.
A WOOD COOK
66
EVERLASTING, "
FOR COAL. These Stores are made of SELECTED Iron, and have NO equals.
WE ALSO KEEP A FULL LINE OF
TT A H.DWAR.E,
HOUSE FGMSMG GOODS & AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
tr All kinds of JOB WORK, ROOFING and SPOUTING done promptly to order.
marSOtf SHAW A Rials' HARD.
1 lalr
I merean Italian Marble, J- JJvt
Itp M0NTJMENTS akd tombstones,! t Sjj 1
A'kvi '""Portera of Fin Scotch Granlt Monuments. if t E
v"' ii-iTTi 1 i liTr'aTi p3
I wish to errs ess mv gratitude to mv old customers
eafyed during the last twenty years, and now in connection with my son respectfully ask a ror.tlnn.nVi
lJ' are better prepared than ever to do all kinds of Cemetery work on short nWice it the
very lowest price, and in tne latest style, with neatness and ivnn,n.n ' notice, at tne
UTSATISFACTIOS WARRASTKD.
Jon 8, 1874.
Walnut Street House!
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it i h : t v::" "-4 i -- t- t i: mm a rt- j: i i .. i m
Walnut Street, between Sixth and Seventh,
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
This House is one of the largest and pleaeantest in the city, located
within two squares of the Fountain and the new Custom House. Street
cars pass the door for all parts of the city.
The House has recently been newly painted, papered and furnished
throughout, and now offers superior accommodations to guests, at very
reasonable price. Board $2.50 per day.
THOS. C. GAPDIS,
Clerks.
w. w. WEBB,
J. H.BEEEY, Book-Keepen
HARRY D. RIANHARD.
RIANHARD,
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and the nubile inr it.. bii .
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PAUL HARSHA A SON.
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& KEYE, Proprietors.
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Adyertising Rates.
From and after January 1, 1875, the Rates of Ad
vertising in this paper will be as follows :
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1 50 3 511 5 Oil 50 10 00
4 00 6 SO 7 00 00 15 00
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20 00 30 00;.'15 00 AO Oil
The above scale of prices is for ordinary single
column display advertising. Solid Legal, Official
and Tabular advertisements w ill be charged at the
inch rate for space occupied. Rule and Figure
work 60 per cent, extra.
SrsciAL Notices, advertisements in other than
siugle column measure, and tlioee in a prescribed
location, SS per cent, additional.
Local Notices 10 cents per line for first, and 5
cents per line for each addil ional insertion.
CaBusin BuBiuess Directory One inch, 1 year,
f 10: months, $6; 3 mouths, t5. One-half inch 1
year, $5 00; mos. $3; 3 mo, ti.
OatTuaav Notices (other than simple announce
ments of deaths,) Tributes of Respect, Cards of
Thanks, and announcements by Societies 6 cents
per line.
Notices of Marriages, Births and Deaths when
furnished by proper authority free.
Attachment, Divorce, Administrators and Exccu
tors' Notices, must be paid for before insertion
as also Foreign and Transient Advertising gener
ally. CALIFORNIA!
2h4 Chicago & North- Western
Railway,
Embraced under one management the Great Trunk
Railway Line of the West and Nortb-West, and
with it numerous branches and connections, forms
the shortest and quickest route between Chicago
and all points in Illinois, Wisconsin, Northern
Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Californir
and the Western Territories. Its
Omaha and California Line
Is tha shortest and best route for all points In
Northern Illinois, Iowa, Dakota, Nebraska, Wyo
ming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon,
China, Japan and Australia. Its
mJhitago, Madison and SC Vard
I the short line for Northern Wisconsin and Min
nesota, and for Madison, St. Paul, Minneapolis,
Dnluth and all point in the Great Northwest, Its
Winona and St. Peter Line
Is th only route for Winona, Rochester, Owa
tonna, Mankato, SU Peter, New Ulm, and all points
in Southern and Central Minnesota. Its
Greer Bay and Marquette Line
Is th only line for Janegville, Watertown, Fond
Du Lac, Oehkosh, Appleton, Green Bay, Escenaba,
Negaunee, Marquette, Houghton, Hancock and the
Lake Superior country. Its
Freeport and Dubuque Line
Is the only route for Elgin, Rockford, Freeport, and
all point via Freeport. Its
Chicago and Milieaukee Line
Is th old Lake Shore Route, and is the only on
passing through Evaoston, Lake Forest, Highland
Park, Waukegan, Racine, Kenosha to Milwaukee.
PULLMAN PALACE CARS
Ar ran on an trains of this road.
Thi is the ONLY LINE running thes cars be
tween Chicago and St. Paul or Chicago and Mil
waukee, or Chicago and Wionna.
At Omaha our Sleepers connect with the Over
land Sleepers on th Union Pacific Railroad for all
pointa west of the Missouri River.
On th arrival of the trains from the East or
South, th train of the Chicago ft Northwestern
Railway leave CHICAGO as follows :
Foa Council Blui-ps, Omaha and Calttoknta,
Two through train daily, with Pullman Palace
Drawing Room and Sleenine Cars thmnvh to
Council Bluff.
toabT. Paul and Minneapolis, Two through
train daily, with Pullman Palace Car attached on
both traina.
Fob Greek Bav and Laks Superior. Two
traina daily, with Pullman Palace Car attached,
and runniug through to Marquette.
Fob Milwaukee, Four through trains daily.
Pullman Car oiTnight trains, Parlor Chair Car on
day trains.
Fob Sri eta and Winona and points in Min
nesota. One through train daily, with Pullman
Sleeper to Winona.
Fob DusuqiTB, via Freeport. Two through trains
dally, with Pullman Cars on night train.
Fob IM'icm i and La Crosse, via Clinton, Two
traina daily, with Pullman Cars on night train, on
McGregor, Iowa.
Fob Sioux Citt and Yankton. Two tnim
dally. Pullman Cars to Missouri Valley Junction
roa l,ake Geneva, irour trains daily.
Fob Rockpurd. Sterlino. Kenosha. Jinn.
VILLE, and other points, vou can have from two to
ten trains daily.
Nw Yoak Office, No. 415 Broadway; Boston Of
fice, No. 5 State Street; Omaha Office, 853 Faruham
Street; San Francisco Office, 121 Montgomery
Street: Chicago Ticket Offices; ex Clark Street, un
der Sherman House; corner Canal and Madison
Streets; Kinaie Street Depot, corner W. Kinzie and
Canal Streets; Wells Street Depot, corner Wells and
Klnile Streets.
For rate or information not attainable from
your home ticket agents, apply to
W. H. STENNETT, MARVIN HUGHITT.
Gen. Pass. AgV Chicago. Gen. Sup'L Chica-o.
feblOtianl
Thi Company, having determined to outdo al
rival lines in the character of accommodations and
facilities offered western bound emigrants, have
established three daily lines of cars between Cin
cinnati and all important towns and station on the
Mississippi & Missouri Rivers,
INCLUDING SUCH POINTS AS
Quincy, Burlington, Keokuk, Fulton
Clinton, Prairie-du Chien, St
Paul, Kansas City, Leaven
worth, Atchison, St
Joseph, Browns
ville, Nebraska City, Council Bluffs and
Omaha.
rwTralus leave Hillsboro, Ohio, at 6.15 A. M
and t.SO P. M.
Trains leave Cincinnati via I. C. A L., as follows:
7.30 A. M. for Indianapolis, Lafayette, Chicago
and the Northwest.
X.10 P. M. Great Western Fast Line, for Indian
apolis, Danville, Springfield, tjuiucy, Macon City,
Cbilllcothe, St. Joseph and intermediate stations
arriving at Kanaaa City at 8.46 next evening, roua
hours in advance of all other mutes. Arrives at
St. Joseph 7.33 next evening, EIGHT HOURS in
advance of all other routes.
7.00 P. M. Chicago Express for Indianapolis
Lafayette, Chicago and the Northwest.
7.00 P. M. Night Express for Indianapolis', Dan
ville, Springfield, Quincy, Macon t'ity, ChiUicoIhe,
St. Joseph snd Kansas City, arriving at Kansas
City at 9.28 second morning, and St. Joseph 8.10
second morning hours in advance of all other
routes.
The 1.10 P. M. and 7.00 P. M. Trains have
Through Car attached for Omaha and all inter
mediate station via Burlington without change.
PARTICULAR KOTICE.
Passenger holding second-class tickets, will be
eut through to destination on First Class Passen
er Traina, an advantage the traveling public can
not fail to appreciate.
All communications in regard to passonger fares
or freight rate on house good, or tock, promptly
attanded to.
It ia no trouble to answer letters.
Pasasnger arriving in Cincinnati on trains of
th Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad make connec
tion in same depot, thereby saving the expense and
annoyance of a long and tedious ouuiibua ride
through the street of Cincinnati.
Ask for tickets via Indianapolis, Cincinnati A
Lafayette Railroad, and do not be prevailed upon
to take any other.
Ticket are on sale at the M. & C. R. R. Depot,
Hillsboro, Ohio, and at the. following places in
Cincinnati : General City Office, Northwest corner
Fourth and Vine streets, opposite th Post Office,
and the Plum Street Depot.
F. B. Kennedy, General Ticket Agent, Jno.Egan,
General Passenger Agent, J. M. Kelley, General
Emigrant Agent, to whom all communications re
lative to Vi esteru Emigration should b addressed.
octxsmx
To Western Emigrants
For Map. Railroad Time Tabirtu Land Circitlnra.
Land Exploring Tickrit, Imo Jiata on Hvuaekntd
Gvodt and Stock and ReliabU Inonnation rtlatirt
u in
SJSJ EST!
CALL ON OR ADDRESS
J. M. KELLEY,
General Emigrant Agent, N. W. Corner Fourth and
Vine Sts., directly oouofite the Post Office. Cincin
nati, lUIO.
TO LAND BUYERS I
Jk. Froe Ride
OVER LAND GRANT ROADS.
I am the ONLY AGENT East of the Miasiasiiml
River, acting under apiiointnicut receiv-Rd mm
Governors of Western States. My duties are to
see inai jou gei lu-nanir inionnailnn ana the Best
Possible Hates on TRANSPORTATION.
Don't fail to call on or write to me before rloxW
Hiynxiui:ui rcinuvc iw uiuviug your reopie Or
rroueny.
Make o Charge for Services.
novti
Examinations of Teachers.
THE Board of School Examiners of Highland
county eive notice, that examinations of Ap
plicants for Certificates will take place in the Hills
boro Union School building on the first Saturdav of
every month, and on the third Saturday of Februa
ry, March, April, August, September and October.
me examination tee prescribed oy law is 60 cts.
The attention of Local Directors is called to Sec
tion 03 of the School Law, in which they are for
bidden to employ any person as a teacher who shall
have first obtained a certificate. Also, the at
tention of Township Clerks to Section 94, in which
they are forbidden to draw orders for Teachers'
pay, unless a certificate covering the whole time
taught is filed with them.
By order of the Board.
aulOyl H. 8. DOGGETT, Clerk.
S. M. PETTINGILL and Co.. ' 10 State Street-
Boston, 87 Park Roe, New ; York, and 1701 Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, are aiithurixed Agents for pro
curing advertisements f'ir the News in the above
cities, and authorised to contract for advertising at
lowest rates.
"At Home."
Yon will always find the Printers "At Home'
from I A. M. Mondsy till P. M. Saturday, ready to
print at At Home or any other style of Cards, at
seplStf NEWS OFFICE.
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Centaur
Liniments.
WHITE, for the Haman Family.
YELLOW, for Horses and Animals.
These Liniments are simply the wonder of the
world. Their effects are little less than marvelous,
yet there are some things which they will not do.
They will not cure cancer or mend broken boucs,
hut the will always allay pain. They have
straightened fingers, cured chronic rheumatism of
many years' standing, and taken the iain from ter
rible burus and scalds, which has ucvet been douo
by any other article.
The WHITE LINIMENT is for the human
family. It will drive Rheumatism, Sciatica and
Neuralgia from the system; cure Lumbago, Chill
blains. Palsy, Itch, aud most Cutaneous Erup
tions; it extracts frost from frozen hands aud feet.
and the poisou of bites and stings of venomous
reptiles; it subdues swellings, and alleviates pain
of every kind.
For sprain or bruises it is the most potent rem
edy ever discovered. The Centaur Liniment is
used with great efficacy for Sore Throat, Toothache,
Caked Breasts, Earache, and Weak Back. The
following is but a sample of numerous testimonials:
"Indiana Hons, Jsrr. Co., Ind., May S, 1ST3.
"I think it my duty to inform you that 1 have
suffered much with swollen feet and cords. I
have not been free from these swellings in eight
years. Now I am perfectly well, thanks to the
Centaur Liuimout. The Liniment ought to lie ap
plied warm. uenjamin jUkown."
The proof is in the trial. It Is reliable, it is han
dy, it is cheap, and every family should have it.
To the sick and bed-ridden, the halt and lame.
to the wounded and sore, we say, "Come and be
healed."
To the poor and distressed who have spent their
money for worthless medicines, a bottl of CEN
TAUR LINIMENT will be given without charge.
The Yellow Centaur Liniment
Is adapted to the tough muscles, cords and flesh of
horses and animals. It has performed more wok-
DERruL cures of Spavin, Strials, Wind-galls,
Scratches, Sweeny, and general Lameness, than all
other remedies in existence. Scad what the great
Expressmen say of it :;
"NEW YORK, January, 1874.
"Every owner of horses should give the CEN
TAUR LINIMENT a trial. We consider it the
best article ever used in onr stables.
"H. MAR.SU, Sup't. Adams Ex. Stables, N. Y.
"E. PULTZ, Sup't. U. S. Ex. Stables, N. Y.
"ALBERT S. OLIN, Sup't. Nat. Ex. Stables,
N. Y.".
"Montgomery, Ala August IT. 1874,
"Gentlemen: 1 have used over one gross of
Centaur Liniment, yellow wrapper, on the mules
of my plantation, besides dozens of the family
Liniment for my negroes. I want to purchase it at
me wuoiesaie price, ana win uianK you to ship me,
by Savannah steamer, 'one gross of each kiud.
Mcssra. A. T. Stewart Co. will pay your bill on
presentation.
"JAMES DARROW."
The best patrons of this Liniment are Farrier
snd Veterinary Surgeons. It heals Galls, Wounds
snd Poll-evil, removes Swellings, and is worth
millions or dollars to Farmers, Livery-men,
Stock-growere. Sheep-raisers, and those having
horses and cattle.
What a Farrier can not do for ISO, the CENTAUR
LINIMENT will do at a trilling cost.
These Liniments are warranted by the proprie
tors, and s bottle will be given to any Farrier or
Physician who desires to tost them. Sold everywhere.
Laboratory of J. B. Rose & Co.,',
46 Dey Street, New York.
Castoria.
Is s pleasant and perfect substitute, in all cases,
for Castor Oil. Castoria ia the result of an old
Physician's effort to produce, for his own practice,
an effective cathartic, pleasant to the taste
and free from griping.
Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Mass., suc
ce ded in combining, without the use of alcohol, s
purgative agent as pleasant to take as honet,
and which possesses all the desirable qualities of
Castor Oil.
It is adapted to all ages, but is especially recom
mended to mothers as s reliable remedy for all
disorders of the Stomach aud Bowels of children.
It is certain, agreeable, absolutely harmless, and
cheap. It should be used for Wind Colic, Sour
Stomach, Worms, Costiveness, Croup, &c; then
children can hare sleep and mothers may rest.
J. d. Rose & Co., 40 Key street. New York,
are the sole preparers of CASTORIA, after Dr.
Pitcher' receipt. mar!6wl3
Ayer's
Hair Vigor
For restoring to Gray Hair its
natural Vitality and Color.
A dressing
which is at
once agreea
ble, healthy,
and effectual
for preserv-
2ing the hair.
i5 Tt snnn re.
Kstores faded
or gray nair
to its original
eotbr, with the gloss and freshness of
youth. Thin hair is thickened, fall
ing hair checked, and baldness often,
though not always, cured by its
use. Nothing can restore the hair
where the follicles are destroyed, or
the glands atrophied and decayed ;
but such as remain can be saved by
this application, and stimulated into
activity, so that a new growth of
hair is produced. Instead of fouling
the hair with a pasty sediment, it
will keep it clean and vigorous. Its
occasional use will present the hair
from turning gray or falling off,
and consequently prevent baldness.
The restoration of vitality it gives
to the scalp arrests and prevents
the formation of dandruff, which is
often so uncleanly and offensive.
Free from those deleterious sub
stances which make some prepara
tions dangerous, and injurious to the
hair, the Vigor can only benefit, but
not harm it. If wanted merely for
a HAIR DRESSING, nothing else
can be found so desirable. Contain
ing neither oil nor dye, it does not
soil white cambric, and yet lasts
long on the hair, giving it a rich,
glossy lustre, and a grateful perfume.
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co.,
Practical and Analytical Chemists,
ZOWEZZ, MA8S.
OLD BY ALL DBDGOIlTs EVERYWHERE.
MUSIC!
WE would respectfully call the attention of
Music Teachers and the public generally to
the fact that we are
MIMACTuMG ORGANS,
of a Superior Quality-
Onr Case are made by skilled mechaniofl, and of
the beet ot thoroughly seaaoued tfiack walnut lum
ber, aud fiiiifihed iii varnish or oil. in the finest
style. The style of our Caftea ia peculiarly our
own, and tt)y make a beautiful piece of Parlor
Furniture.
The music is all flrst-class. both for tone and vol
a me, and we challenge comparison. We have also
invented a
DOUBLE-ACTING KNEE LEVER,
(which ia exclusively onr own) bv which the per-
iormer haa tuli control ot tne instrument, changing
instantly from the softest to the londest tones with
out having to remove the fingers from the keys.
n e aiso use oi our own invention;
A Double Forte Stop,
that is superior to anything now in use.
With the above description we place our instru
ments before the people upon their merits, willing
abide by their verdict.
w e respectiuiiy soncii a can irom an those wish
ing to purchase, feeling; satisfied that we can please
the most fastidious.
For fnrther particulars, call on or address
MUKPilY & WOODKOW,
Manufacturers, Lynchburg, Ohio.
Jan. 20, 1S76. jaD20m6
8. H. PARVIN. AdvertWneAm!nt.No.l88Vin
Street, between Fourth and Fiflth, is Agent for th
New in Cincinnati.
The Brooklyn Board of Health has
been notified that a sea captain residing
Brooklyn hwkept the body of afavor-
cbiid in nis house lor seven vears.
The child died at ihe age of two years in
South America, and the captain had its
remains placed in a metallic cottin.
When he came to Brooklyn he brought
with him, and has had it in his house
ever since.
Advices from Salonica sources state
that a battle was foupht near Hes.-es, in
which seven hundred lurks ami one hun
dred insurgents were killed. The Turks
Scutari had a celebration over the
murder of the German and French Con
suls at Salonica.
The Highland News.
HILLSBOROUGH, OHIO.
HILLSBOROUGH, OHIO. THURSDAY,---MAY 25, 1876.
MINOR TOPICS.
Plon-plon, otherwise known as Prince
Jerome Napoleon, has finally been elected
to the Assembly, from Corsica, His suc
cess was only rendered possible by the
emphatic refusal of the Assembly to re
ceive M. Kouher, and by the latter's
withdrawing his oposition to Prince
Jerome.
In Califuruia a Daniel has come to
judgment in the person of Judge McKee,
who decided that the tax imposed ou
Chinese laundries and their teams by the
authorities of San Francisco is "unrea
sonable, unjust, and oppressive." It was
intended to extinguish that branch of
John Chinaman's business, but Hong
Hair appealed, and San Francisco can
revel in the luxury of clean linen a little
longer.
In 1849, Prince Torlonia, the great
Roman banker, advanced 200,000 francs
to a Neapolitan on a diamond so large
and limpid and piercing in the polish of
its many faces that none but the keenest
connoisseur could distinguish it from the
famous " Regent." At the Hotel Drouot,
in Paris, that selfsame "precious stone"
was sold, early in April of this year, for
twenty francs fifty centimes, or about
four dollars!
A computation of the time required
for the for mat ionofa seam of coal has
been made by Mr. J3?AVWunsch, of the
Glasgow Geological Society, based upon
his own observations in the Isle of Arran.
He thinks that as many as twenty gen
erations ef trees are compressed into
three or four inches of coal there, and
that eighteen centuries are requisite for
the formation of one foot of coaL
A letter from Berne mentions the
discovery near Sonceboz, at the entrance
to the valley of the Bernese Jura, of a
grotto in the form of a gallery, the open
ing to which was concealed by a thicket.
It is about one hundred feet long, from
six to eight wide, and from twenty to
thirty high. Beautiful stalactites, some
three feet long, hang from the roof, aud
the extreme end is decorated by nature,
and forms a sort of chapel, with columns,
cornices, etc This retreat was inhabited
by a family of badgers.
A Chinese History of the French and
German war has been presented to the
British Museum. It was compiled by
the authors, Wang Taou and Chang
Tsungleang, from the European news
papers, and is said to be a performance
very creditable to the critical abilities of
the authors. Probably it will not be in
very great demtind as a work of refer
ence, but as a literary curiosity is inter
esting. The names, done into Chinese,
and restored to English, look curious in
the transformation. Benedetti becomes
Peen-ni-teh-ti, Ems is Ims-zee, and Sedan
is Sze-tan.
General Pleasanton, of cavalry
fame, has elaborated a new theory of the
universe that is to upset Newton's law of
gravitation, and reduce the circulation
of blood and all vital force in animals
and plants, as well as the phenomena of
light, heat, and magnetism, to manifesta
tions of electricty. He rejects wholly
the theory that the sun is surrounded by
aluminous atmosphere of metallic gases,
and holds that it is simply a huge reflec
tor and magnet, regulating, by its at
traction as such, -t'na. movement of the
planets. The most curious feature of his
theory is the application of it to the
phenomena of life in man, as to which he
claims that all vital forces in the human
system depend upon electricity, and that
he finds in our bodies that precise
relation of acid and alkaloid fluids neces
sary to the development of electricity.
The centennial collection of revolu
tionary relics has just been enriched by
the addition to its treasures of the actual
minature portrait of Washington worn
by his wife up to the time of her death.
The medallion is an oval, about eight
inches in circumference, faithfully
painted and plainly mounted in heavy
gold. The face bears a striking resem
blance to Stuart a portraits of Washing
ton. The reverse of the miniature con
tains a liberal lock of hair, light brown,
freely sprinkled with gray, taken from
the head of the " Father of His Country."
The portrait was evidently taken while
Washington occupied the Presidential
chair. On the death of Lady Washing
ton this medallion, by request, went to
Mrs. Tobias Lear, her niece, whose hus
band was Washington's favorite private
Secretary. It is now owned by Mrs. Wil
liam Eyre, of Newport, Rhode Island,
formerly of Philadelphia, who is a grand
daughter ol Mrs. Lear.
One of the fine charities of New York
which is growing in popularity every
year is the Flower Mission, which collects
flowers from all sources and distributes
them among the sick in the hospitals
and asylums, and at their homes when
they are too poor to buy them. They
are impartially distributed, without re
gard to party, sect or class, and often
carry messages of kindness and sugges
tions of care and comfort and love which
are more helpful and invigorating than
medicines. One excellent thing accora
plished by the mission is that it gives an
Lapportunity tojw many charitable ladies
to visit those thf y can help and cheer.
Last year over a thousand poor nick peo
pie were visited by the flower-giving
ladies, who but for the flowers would
have had no excuse for visiting them,
The expense of the mission has been only
about f 100 in six years, which is another
recommendation of it to public notice.
Then it gives young ladies something to
do which is calculated to initiate them
into the deep mysteries of sorrow and
habits of practical benevolence.
ihe iteading (l'a. ) . M.agle s corres
pondent reports that as he was passing
the farm of a wealthy Bethel township
farmer, his attention was called to a
woman in the distance who was follow
ing after a span of spirited horses at
tached to a large spike harrow. As she
approached nearer she was seen to be the
daughter of the owner of the premises, a
beautiful young lady of about nineteen
summer?. She was cheerfully walkine
behind the harrow, in the plowhed
ground, line in hand, guiding the horses,
and when she came to the fence a
" Betawoa !" was uttered as clearly and
distinctly as though she had never done
anything else but drive team. Ihe Eagle
representative approached and remarked
" that her work was hard for one of her
sex," when she replied, "Oh, no; I cheer
fully do this." She then said that she
rose at four o'clock in the morning,
milked ten cows, fed the pigs, then
helped to getbreakfast ready, and by six
o'clock went out into the dump field to
complete her day's work. After a few
remarks about the grain fields, the
weather, etc., she turned her horses and
off she went across the field.
OHIO.
George H. Holt, Esq., of the produce
and commission firm of Asia Van Warner
& Co., No. 57 West Court street, Cin
cinnati, recently committed suicide, it is
supposed, about 5 o'clock in the morning,
in the cellar of his late residence, No.
134 West Ninth street, near Elm. His
wife, having been for some time suffering
with rheumatism, Mr. Holt occupied a
room with his son Oliver. On parting
from his wife at night, he kissed her,
inquired how she felt, and bade her good
night. He appeared to be in a more
cheerful state of mind at that time than
he had been for some months. Mr. Holt
had been exceedingly melancholy at
times during the past few weeks, owing
to the knowledge that he was afflicted
with an affection of the kidneys that he
deemed incurable; but none of the
family dreamed that his melancholy
portended a suicidal end. A few months
ago, when reports of frequent burglaries
were rife, he purchased a pistol of large
caliber, which was kept in a closet in hia
son's room, to protect the house against
depredators. This was the weapon with
which he inflicted the death wound.
Benjamin Stuttler, a conductor in the
Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central
Railroad yard at Columbus, was run
over by an engine, the other evening,
and instantly killed.
In Cincinnati custom obliges eleven
street cars, containing one hundred and
twenty-five passengers, to halt and wait
until a stone wagon throws off its load.
A little son ef Grorge Friend, of Lan
caster, was charmed by a black snake.
The boy could not stir until the snake
was killed, and has been very sick since,
crying incessantly and afflicted with fear
ful nervous spells.
A serious accident occurred at the mills
of C. A. Walker, at Kenton, occasioned
by the bursting of an emery stone,
Mr. Walker was sharpening tools on the
stone when it burst, one piece striking
him on the left breast, knocking him in
sensible. The injury was considered
fatal.
Hiram Garretson, late President of
the Second National Bank of Cleveland,
died lately of heart disease. He was to
have represented the district as first del
egate to the National Convention at Cin
cinnati. The annual report of the Secretary of
State contains a tabulated statement of
mortgages on railro ids recorded in the
State during the year ending June 30,
1875. The total amounts to $396,515,
993, which is alarming. Among the
items given in the table, however, is a
mortgage of $15,000,000 on the Michi
gan & Ohio, an imaginary road, and this
mortgage, recoided in nine different
counties, is counted as many different
times, whereas the actual incumbrance
upon the road, if it existed at alibis but
$15,000,000. Eight times that is $120,
000,000, by which amount, at least, the
above table should be reduced in order
to arrive at anything like the actual in
cumbrance on Ohio railways.
A young man named ihompson, a
clerk in the drug-store of Wallace &
Postlewait at Columbus Grove, was draw
ing burning fluid, in an open bucket in
the cellar, when by some means it caught
fire. He attempted to carry the bucket
up stairs, and as he reached the top his
foot slipped and the burning contents
were scattered over the floor. Thomp
son fell into it and was shockingly
burned in the face and hands. The
flames were extinguished before any
damage was done to the store.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, of
Ohio, met in Cleveland, May 8, and con
tinued their session during the week.
There are now over six hundred lodges
of the Order in the State, and the session
was very large.
A blind boy, who wa3 taken into an
elevator for the first time in a Cleveland
hotel set up the most terrific screams
when the cab began to rise, and would
not be pacified until it was stopped. He
explained that he supposed he had been
misled, and was being taken down into
the dissecting room of a medical college
to be used as a subject.
News comes of the death of George A.
Benedict, one of the proprietors of the
Cleveland Herald, having been connected
with that paper as editor since 1853.
Mr. Benedict was well and favorably
known to newspaper publishers through
out the country, and was not of an age
to cause any expectation cf his death.
He was a member of the Protestant Epis-.
copal Church, and was well known in
the councils of that body. His career
as a journalist has been a successful one.
The Herald, it is announced, will remain
in the hands of Mr. A. W. Fairbanks,
the senior proprietor, with whom Mr.
Benedict was long associated.
The Ohio Democracy had a warm lime
in their State Convention for the elec
tion of delegates to the National Con
vention. At the opening of the Conven
tion the friends both of Thurman and
Allen claimed a majority of delegates,
but the final action proved the supremacy
of the friends of Allen, who was recom
mended to the National Convention by
a vote of 308 to 300. The Committee on
Resolutions presented two reports to the
Convention.
On behalf of the Committee on Reso
lutions, Mr. Frank Hurd stepped forward
and read the majority report of the com
mittee, stating at the same time that they
embodied the sentiments of a large ma
jority of the committee.
THE MAJORITY REPORT.
The Democratic party of Ohio makes this
declaration of principles:
1. Htnolved, T hat in the present corrup
tion in the affairs of the i ederal govern
ment, the public credit has been impaired,
and the public honor has been damaged, and
we demand, in the name of the people of
Ohio, that every investigation already in
augurated by the House of Representatives
shall be prosecuted, and every new ellort
necessary shall be made to expose the frauds
ol J; ederal othce-seeters, aud bring the guilty
to punisnment.
2. That we thank the House of Represen
tatives of the Congress of the United States,
for its efforts iu the reduction of public ex
penditures, reducing them, as is promised,
nearly forty millions of dollars; for its ex
posures of the frauds and corruption of the
Republican administration, which have been
all pervading; and we ask the people of
Ohio to condemn them for attempts to pre
vent such exposures, and the Republican
resident, who has refused to surrender
papers when demanded, and declared that a
confessing criminal should not be punished;
the Republican Senate which refused to pass
the bill passed by the House, granting
amnesty to witnesses wno testinea agaiust
their co-operators, aud the Republican
judiciary which have discharged witnesses
in contempt of the authority of the House,
ior reiustng to answer questions necessary to
tne exposure oi guilt in otnee.
.1. that we lavor a return to specie pay
ments when the same can be done without
striously disturbing the business of the
country, and to the end that the debtor class
may not be .further embarrassed with at
tempting the repeal of the resumption act
of 1875, we oppose any measure of legisla-
ion which shall arbitrarily fix a day for
resumption.
4. That the charters of the national banks
ought not to be renewed, and each -aid
bank should be wound up at the expiration
of the term for which it is chartered; and
in lieu of its circulating notes, Treasury
notes of the Unites States, convertible into
coin on demand, and receivable for all duties
or tax duties to the United States, issued to
the extent required by the necessities of the
government.
o. that we favor a tarin tor revenue only.
S. That on the celebration of the one hun
dredth anniversary of American independ
ence, the lieinocratic party congratulates
tself and the people of the whole entintry
in on the proud pail it lias taken in our past
glorious history, llpointsto nearly a cen
tury of civil administration, without domes
tic strife; to foreign wars acceptably prose
cuted ; to the extension of American terri
tory ; to the glory of the American name ;
is
as
to the most astonishing development of in
terior resources ; to such maintenance of
exterior power as compelled always respect
to the American flag, and it invites the peo
ple of Ohio to sustain it in its present efforts
to reduce the expenditures of the govern
ment, restore old-time honesty in the admin
istration of public affairs, and to establish a
kindlier feeling between the people of the
States, that the bond of their union may be
perfected.
Each resolution, as read, was received
with great applause, and most of the del
egates seemed unprepared for the thun
derbolt about to be launched in their
midst.
It was evident from the manner in
which Gen. Morgan approached the
front of the platform that he had some
thing to say. He said :
Mr. Chairman and Okotlemkn of thk
Cos vkntion : 1 desire to say a word or two
in presenting the report of the minority.
A Delegate When you have read
your report sit down.
Gen. Morgan When I am ready to receive
instructions from you I will inform you.
The agents of the bondholders can neither
intimidate the people nor their delegates.
On behalf of the committee I desire to say
a word or two. The committee was actuated
and governed entirely by two great and con
trolling motives. The first was to adhere to
the Democratic cause, to adhere to the ac
cepted platform of principles that were in
dorsed in the last campaign applause by
40,000 votes more than ever before given to
a Democratic candidate. Being actuated by
motives of not desiring to furl our flag in the
presence of the enemy, we believe the cause
we represent is the cause of the people, and
here, with profound regret, in behalf of the
rights of the people and the cause of the
Democratic party, I present the minority re
port.
Gcu. Morgan then read the minority
report which follows:
THK MINORITY REPORT.
Eesoloed, That, recognizing the duty of the
Democratic party as the time-honored
champion of the rights of the many against
the aggressions of the few, to express its
purposes in the pending currency conflict
without reserve or equivocation, we declare
that we shall urge against all onoosition.
ione from-what quarter it may, measures to
effect the following object : -""
1. ine immediate aud unconditional re
peal of the Republican Resumption Law.
2. The defeat of all schemes for resump
tion which involve either contraction of the
currency, perpetuation of bank issues, or
increase of the interest burden of the
debt
3. The gradual but early substitution of
legal tenders for national bank notes.
4. The issue by the General Government
alone of all circulating medium, whether
paper or metallic.
5. No forced inflation, no forced contrac
tion, but a sound currency equal to the
wants of trade and industry, to be regulated
in volume and gradually equalized with gold
by means of appropriate legislation, such as
making it receivable for customs aud inter
convertible, at the pleasure of the holder,
with a bond bearing an interest not to ex
ceed 3.65 per cent, payable in gold, so that
the volume of currency shall not be deter
mined by the pleasure or caprice of either
Congress or the banks.
6. A gradual income tax to meet at least
the premium on gold needed to pay interest
on the public debt.
7. That public policy and a sense of com
mon justice requires that the silver issued by
the Governnient.sn.oald be a legal tender in
payment of all debts, public and private,
and that we demand unconditional repeal of
the so-called silver act so far as the same
limits the amount for which said silver coin
age shall be a legal tender.
8. And we denounce the Republican
scheme of resumption as intended and op
erating, through a large increase in the
bonded debt and a sudden and enormous
contraction of the currency, to double the
burdens of taxation, rob debtors of their
property, paralyze productive and commer
cial industries, cast laborers out of employ
ment, and fill the land with want and misery
for the wicked purpose of doubling the
values of money securities, and subjugating
the mass of the people to the imperious
sway of the money oligarchy.
9. That the Democracy of Ohio present
to the thirty-seven other severeign States of
the republic the name of William Allen, as
the choice of Ohio for the Presidency.
10. That the delegates-at-large to the Na
tional Convention be instructed, and the
delegates appointed by the Congressional
districts are hereby requested, to vote in the
National Convention lor him for President,
and to use all honorable means to secure his
success.
1 1. That we are in favor of a tariff for rev
enue only.
General Morgan then moved the adop
tion of the minority report as a substi
tute. An excitiDg discussion here fol
lowed, in which Hon. Frank Hurd,
General Tom Ewing, Mr. Lteislcy, of
limn, and others took part.
rr- i, r .1 .- ..
iue can 01 we counties men pro
ceeded, and it had not proceeded far
before it was evident to those keeping
count mat tne majority report was
doomed to defeat. Those near the Sec
retaries, who figured up the Allen col
umn first, saw that Uncle William was
bound to rise up, and as the face of Gen
eral Sargent turned to the Convention,
wreathed in smiles, a yell went up from
the Allen side that shook the echoes.
Before the vote was announced the baud
struck up the "Star Spangled Banner,"
forgetting that they had already favored
the Convention with it three times.
When the President announced the vote
he stated, in what seemed a very grati
fied frame of mind, that there were 670
votes in the Convention; that 668 votes
had been cast; that 335 votes were
necessary to a choice ; that the substitute
had received 368 votes in its favor, and
300 against. He then declared the sub
stitute adopted. The following State
ticket was nominated :
Secretary of State. Wiu. Bell. Jr. : Juripe
of Supreme Court, Win. E. Fink ; Member
Board ot Public Works, II. I. Clough;
Presidential Electors, Wm. Lang, Granville
Stokes; Delegates at Large to National Con
vention, Geo. 11. Pendleton, W. 1 O'Brien,
Geo. W. Morgan, Thns, U. Kwing; Alter
nates, Henry Bohl, Charles liilb, Adolph
Kramer, John Scbreiner.
The delegates to the National Con
vention are as follows:
First District: W. J. O'Neil and Judge
Isaac C. Collins, who have not declared
themselves. The alternates are O. J. Dodds
and W. P. Wallace.
Second District : Thos. B. Paxton and S.
W. Hoffman. Both are for Allen.
Third District: Win. Howard, of Cler
mont, and Isaac Glaize, of Fayette. Both
are for Allen.
Fourth District: Geo. W. Houk. of Day
ton, Montgomery County, and Jacob Baker,
for Allen and for ex-Governor Curtin for
Vice-Presideut.
Fifth District: F. C. LeBlond, of Celina,
Mercer County (Allen) and Judge Carter, of
Defiance (not committed).
Sixth District: General J. B. Steedman,
of Lucas County, and William Sheridau, oi
Williams Connty. Instructed for Allen.
Seventh District: Doctor Nipgen, of Chil
licothe, and Col. Higgins, of Pike County.
Both for Allen.
Eighth District: Georee Lincoln, of Lon
wi Miccuiiiic. xr.c I.UUDIV, lUSiruciea
don, Madison County, and M. V. Marquis,
of Bellefontaine, Logan County. Both for
Thurman.
Ninth Disrtrict: James M.White, of Ken
ton, Hardin county, and John Thompson, of
Mt. Vernon, Knox county. Both for Alien.
Tenth District: Georee'E. Senev. of Tiffin.
and C. S. Parker, of Norwalk, Huron county.
Both for Thurman.
Eleventh District: R. E. Reese, of Logan,
Hocking county, and if. J. Chapman, of
Jackson couuty. Koth for Allen.
Twelfth District : Judge J. E. F. Bingham,
of Columbus. Franklin county, and Charles
F. Rainev. of Lancaster. Fairfield conntv.
Both lor Thurmau.
Thirteenth District : Adjourned on motion
to refer the matter t- the District Conven
tion, which will meet at Coshocton on the
20th of June.
Fourteenth District : Referred to a Dis
trict Convention, to be held on the 13th of
June.
Fifteenth District : Hon. P. B. Bueli, of
Lowell, Washington county, aud F. A. Davis,
of McConnellsvilie, Morgan county. Both
for Thurman.
Sixteenth District: J. M. Eitep, of Cadiz,
Harrison county, and B. Sprifgs, of Cald
well, Noble county. Instructed for Thur
man. Seventeenth District: R. S. Shields, of
Stark connty, and Wm. L. Brown, of Ma
noning. Mr. Brown is known to be a Thur
man man, and Mr. Shields is not comi'.itted.
Eighteenth District: A. II. Commins, of
Akron, Summit county, and M. W. Axtella
of Elyria, L rain county. Both for Thur
man. Nineteenth District elects at Warren,
Ohio.
Twentieth District: Judge R. P. Ranney
and W. W. Armstrong, of Cleveland. For
Thurman.
r
A siiRSTi'i n E for the imMtal-card, that
bciiijr considered by the IVstollice Ie-
parlment, is a stamped sheet (about note
paper size), with gummed edge, to serve
both paper and envelope, and to cost
two cents.
Political Items.
New Yobk Herald: Whenever the
archaeologists discover an ancient mound
or fort they always find broken bottles,
which proves that even before the time of
Columbus the Democratic party was in
power.
New Yobk Tribune (Ind.); A very
simple explanation suffices in the case of
the ship Mary Merrit which some peo
ple imagined would give trouble to Sec
retary Bristow. Briefly, it was not a
smuggling case, Mr. Bristow was not em
ployed in it, and he had no part in its
settlement. Next !
Editorial correspondence Columbus
Journal: 'Old Jimmy Williams," Dem
ocratic nominee lor Governor of Indiana,
is one of the most conspicuous figures on
the floor of the House. He is six feet
high, thin as a lath, and uglier than
Durbin Ward. He wears a homespun
suit of indigo-blue Kentucky jeans. He
has served sixteen years in the Indiana
Legislature, and one term in Congress,
without any other known qualification
than that suit of Kentucky jeans. Any
other suit of Kentucky jeans would gov
ern Indiana as well as "Old Jimmy
Williams."
Colfax declines to run for Congress,
explaining to a citizen of Lake county,
Indiana, that " the happiest years of the
past quarter of a century have been the
recent ones, in which I have belonged to
my family, and not to ' the rest of man
kind.' With unabated devotion to Re
publican principles, I must be excused
from attesting that devotion, except in
the ranks with its millions of voters,
where I have found such genuine happi
ness and independence, as well as freedom
from the ceaseless cares, the exactions
and injustice, and the burdensome and
wearing responsibilities of public life."
A Georgia correspondent of the New
York Times writes : As I have already
intimated, the delegation from this State
to the Cincinnati Convention will prob
ably go unpledged and uninstructed. Up
to thus time na one of the Presidential
candidates, except perhaps Morton.' has
been represented here, and the leeling ol
party leaders, if tne i ederal officials can
be called so, is very evenly divided be
tween tfristo w, Hayes, and Blaine. The
Democrats seem to have a preference for
Bayard or Hancock, though they state
positively that they are willing to let
their Northern and Western friends
select the man, and that they will abide
by the choice.
New York Tribune find.): The
Democrats in Congress are in a fair way
to discredit themselves bv the investi
gations now under way, far more than
they can hope to Qiairrace the administra
tion. They seem to imagine that all the
people of the United States are quite as
anxious as lemocratic politicians can be
to prove General Grant a thief, Mr.
Williams a public robber, Robeson a
worthy comrade of Belknap, and Bab
cock a burglar. They are ransacking
bank accounts, turning the Departments
inside out, listening to the chatter ot hu
man magpies, hanging upon the lips of
garrulous detectives, getting together
the tag-rag and bobtail of the civil ser
vice, and setting up a scandal bureau
in every committee-room of the Capitol.
No story that comes to their ears is too
gross for immediate belief. No charge
against officers of the government is so
ou trageons that they are not ready upon
the slightest testimony both to accept it
the mselves and to spread it before the
public.
The Blaine Explanation.
[Indianapolis Journal.]
Mr. Blaine has made a full and com
plete denial of each and every allegation
connecting him in any manner with the
fraud upon the Union Pacific Railroad
Company, by the transfer to that com
pany of $75,000 of Arkansas land grant
bonds for f b4,U00 in cash. He has called
as witnesses to vindicate him the present
and former president of the racihe road,
Mr. Rollins, the treasurer of the com
pany, and Morton, Bliss & Co., who were
the fiscal aeents in the transaction. It
is not consistent with reason or common
sense to suppose that any one of these
witnesses' is ignorant of or unable to state
lust what that transaction with Morton,
Bliss & Co. was in its fullest details. Yet
it is. very remarkable that while each oi
thean denies Mr. Blaine's . connection
with it, each of them remains dumb as
to the real history of tne matter.
It may not have occurred to Mr.
Blaine, or to either of these highly re
spectable affiants that the best possible
vindication of him would have been a
revelation of the whole truth ; but such
is nevertheless the fact, and this is just
what they carefully avoid. The vindica
tion of Mr. Blaine is complete so far as
his own positive denial can vindicate
him. Hut why leave this whole matter
shrouded in darkness? The record of the
Pacific Railroad Company is not ex
punged. This shows that Morton, Bliss
& Co. received 164,000 for the $75,000 of
worthless bonds. 1 hey certify that they
did not know Mr. Blaine in the trans
action. Whom did they know? Are
their transactions so colos-al that they
have no recollection of a little matter cf
$64,000? Bosh ! They know all about it,
and justice demands that they should
frame a third certificate. Take Mr. Rol
lins' letter. He knows the record ol
the transaction is on the books of the
company. He knows that Mr. Harrison
sjiecifically charged that he (Rollins)
said: "Its investigation will involve
Mr. Blaine." He knows, or ought to
know, just what the transaction with
Morton, Bliss & Co. was, and a simple,
plain statement of the facts would have
better vindicated Mr. Blaine and the
company, and convicted Mr. Harrison of
falsehood. What docs he do? We give
his certificate in full:
OKFtca Uhios Pai-ific Kaii roadCo.,1
Bostus, March .11. J
To Hon. J. O. Blaine, Woshiiuiion, U. C:
Deae Sik In response to your inquiry
beg leave to state that I have been Treasurer
or the Union Pacific Railroad Company
since April 8, 1871, and have necessarily
known all disbursements made since that
date. During that entire period np to the
present time I am sure that no money
has been paia in any way or to any person
by this company in which yot were in
terested in any manner whatever. I make
this statement in justice to the company, to
you, ana to niyseii. very respectiuiiy,
Signed, E. H. Rollins.
Now will Mr. Rollins please rise and
explain this dealing with Morton, Bliss
& Co., to an anxious public? There was
no evidence to implicate Mr. Blaine from
the start except the statement of Mr.
Rollins to Mr. Harrison ; and it is strange
that he should hand in this certificate
and leave Mr. Harrison standing with his
mouth wide open lor a further explana
tion. It is evidently, the intention of
the witnesses in Mr. Hlaine s defense to
leave Mr. Harrison before the public as
an interested slanderer ot Mr. Hlaine; in
short, a liar. Well, the record does not
lie, does it? It corroborates Mr. Har
rison fully. There is a press copy of
letter written by Mr. Harrison, in 1872,
in his letter-book showing conclusively
that it was written in lo72 giving the
details of the transaction precisely as he
gives them now. These are facts which
cannot be denied. They show two things
conclusively. J; irst, that Mr. Harrison
has told the truth ; second, that he did
not tell it to defeat Mr. Blaine s nomina
tion, because Mr. Blaine was not thought
of for the Presidency when Mr. Har
rison fmt revealed the facts as given to
him by Mr. Rollins. We must have
some further and better letters from the
Union Pacific officers.
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Punishment of a Wife-Whipper.
An Attica (fnd.) man, who was
brought before the Police Court for whip
ping and ill-treating his wife, was fined
$10, but he would not pay it, and said
he would die before he would work on
the streets. So the Marshal got a very
large cannon-ball, chained it to his leg,
and locked it around a lamp post on a
Htreet-corner ; after letting him stand
there all forenoon, he next rolled a store
box into the street and placed a chair on
it, and the man, ball and all, on top of
it, and let him sit there all the afternoon,
with a placard with these words on it :
"He whipped his wife." The man took
very coolly and philosophically, and
made no answer to the jeers of the boys
and the gemn of the people.
To be ostentatiously thankful for what
we grasp exceeding our proportion is to
add hypocrisy to injustice.
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UNSUNG.
BY T. R. ALDRICH.
As xweet as the breath that goes
From the lips of the white ruae,
A weird as the el tin lighta
That slimmer of Irosty nights,
Aa wild as the winds that tear
Theurled red leal in the air,
Is the ong I have never sung.
In slumber, a hundred times
I'ye said the enchanted raymes,
But ere I open my eyes
This ghost of a poem flies ;
Of the interfluent strains
Not even a note remains;
I know by my pukes' beat
It was something wild and sweet,
And my heart ia strangely stirred
By aa unremembered word!
I strive, but I strive in vain,
To recall the lost refrain.
On Rome miraculous day
Perhaps it will come ami stay;
In some uniinagined spring
I may HDd my voice, and siug
The I have never
—Jane Atlantic.
TRUTHS AND TRIFLES.
The deeper the sorrow the less tonzue
hath it Talmud.
He who loses his conscience has
nothing that is worth keeping.
Tailors are said to be like some of
their customers ; they sponge first, and
then cut.
TRUTHS AND TRIFLES.--RUMOR is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures;
And of so easy and eo plain a stop.
That the bluut monster with uncounted heads,
The still discordant wavering multitude,
Can play it.
-Shakspere.
Carpenters might prevent a vast
amount of profanity in this world if they
would only set the door-knobs far enough
from the casing to allow a person with
an ordinary sized fist to shut the door
without skinning his knuckles.
It is generally known that he who ex
pects much will be often disappointed ;
yet disappointment seldom cures ns of
expectation, or has any other effect than
that of producing a moral sentence or
peevish exclamation. Johnson.
Observe a method in the distribution
of your time. Every hour will then
know its proper employment, and no
time will be lost. Idleness will be shut
out at every avenue, and with her that
numerous body of vices that make up her
train.
Norwich Bulletin .- There are many
trying things in life, but a man's self
respect is never so wounded as when he
sees a silver ten-cent piece lying on a
show-case ; makes up his mind to steal it ;
gently reaches out his band to take it in,
and then discovers that it is glued on to
the under side of the glass.
The growing superfluity of brigadiers
in the army recalls what O'Connell said
to a British officer when he was being
cross-examined. " Well, soldier," said
the Irish barrister. ' " I am no soldier ; I
am an officer," was the indignant inter
ruption of the irate Br i ten. "Well,"
said O'Connell ; " well, officer who is no
soldier " .
An English lady was sittingon a lawn
with her three young children playing
around her, when there came into the
inclosure a rabid dog, pursued by men
who were determined to kill him. Instead
of screeching and wildly grasping her
children, the lady . rushed forward and
seized the dog's head in the folds of her
dress, holding him until relieved by .the
men, and so all escaped unhurt.
A wag, who had wrapped a piece of
cloth having the word " Centennial " on
it around an egg and then boiled it so
that the word appeared plainly on the
shell, sadly deceived a Portland (Ct)
farmer who took it out of a nest where it
had been placed, and exhibited it at the
office of a local newspaper as a wonderful
manifestation of the hen's intimate
knowledge of the history of the United
States.
SONNET.
Day follows day ; years perish ; still mine eyes
A re opened on the self-same round ol space ;
Yon fadekas forests in their Titan grace,
And the large splendors of thaee opulent skies.
I watch, unwearied, the miraculous dyes
Of dawn or sunset ; the soft boughs wnich lacs
Round some coy dryad in a lonely place.
Thrilled with low whispering and strange sylvan
sighs ;
Weary f the poet's mind is fresh as dew,
And oft re-filled as fountains of the light.
Hia dear child's soul finds something sweet sad
new
Even in a weed's heart, the carved leaves of com,
The spear-like grass, the silvery rime of morn,
A cloud rose-edged, and fleeting stars at night I
Paul H. Hayne, in June Atlantic.
Be brave always. Mis-fortune, sorrow,
and obstacles call for all the courage of
humanity. To be brave is to be beneficial;
it is in time of trouble that we most need
courage, for by it we pot only strengthen
ourselves, but can help others. The
dross of the metal is always eliminated
by the fire through which it passes. So
shall sorrow purity and strengthen ns;
they are the bravest hearts who go to the
front.
Tennyson has been ordered te write
an cdeto the Princeof Wales, and it is
amusing to behold England's poet
laureate walk fretfully up and down his
garden aad hear him mumbling, "The
Prince of W ales favoring galea spread
ing taihi tigers' tails the people yearn
his return our bosoms burn our
love he'll earn we'll tyrants spurn
jungles, lunglts India Indiai Ind
dia dia," then snap out, "O, 'ang the
hode."
The Oregonians have invented a
pumpkin powder, one spoonful cf which
makes a pie. They also have a new way
of cutting onions. They are packed in
slices in five-pound boxes. A letter writer
says of them: "Unlike the scentless
black fi-onions, so popular with French
conks, thefe loek bright and golden
colored. They are moist and full of onion
flavor gently subdued. They are war
ranted to keep indefinitely. Every ship
buys them. One bushel raw makes a
five-pound box oi cured onions."
Hard Philosophy, but Doubtless True.
The Science of H allh, in speaking of
nature's remedies for disease, says:
Although the doctrine that nature or
Providence has provided some remedy
for every disease (if we could only find
it) has been believed in all ages and is
now taueht in all the medical schools in
the world, with the single exception of
the Hygeia-Therapentic College, we can
conceive ef nothing more absurd.
Diseases are the penalties of disobedience
to vital laws. Has nature attached a
penalty to disobedience cf her laws, and
then provided a remedy to do away with
the penalty? That would be such a
self-stultification as no human legislation
has ever yet been guilty of. Yet there
are in the civilized world half a million
of physicians who are busily, but vainly,
employed in trying to drug and dose
away the penalties. In the light of true
science this is simply ridiculous, while
in effect it is terribly disastrous ; for every
dose tf medicine, being itself a violation
of vital law, has its own penalty to be
suffered. Hence the maxims of the drug
schools, that " every dose, being a poison,
diminishes the vitality of the patent,"
and " we cure one disease by producing
another." If nature had provided
calomel, antimony, jalap, strychnine,
alcohol, ipecac, cod-liver oil, and two
thfinsand other drutrs. or even air, water,
exercise, etc., as remedies to obviate the
causes of our intemperance, gluttony
and other disease-producing habits, she
should, to be consistent, have also pro
vided remedies for broken bones,
dislocated joints, spinal curvatures,
warts, cancers, burns, scalds, and all the
ills that flesh is heir to." But no one
pretends that surgical remedies are pro
vided bv nature, or are to be found
anywhere except in human ingenuity.
AnH ncr?iin to carrv the principle to
its ultimatum if nature has provided
remedies for our natural and bodily
rlispM. whv not also against the effects
storms, tempests, earthquakes, vol
canoes, fires, floods, etc., which some
times destroy human peingspy scores, or
hundreds, or thousands? Vhy not
against wars, famine and pestilence,
which, combined, are almost as great a
curse to the world as is the drug medical
system ?
Nature has provided all things for use,
nothing for abuse. If we do and can use
everything and misuse nothing, our life
will be perfectly heathy and happy.
But if we cannot or do not use and do
misuse the materials of the universe, we
shall inevitably he sick and miserable
to theextent ol that misuse. And
this is the lesson that is to redeem the
world from diseases, drugs and premature
death, if it ever is redeemed. It is the
doctrine of the world's physical salvation.