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Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-04-27

JONATHAN OUTDoNE "A short time ago
ga fine old English gentleman" in the good
town of Burnly, though perhaps not one oil
the "olden times" always anxious to have
the earliest news, went, In the course Of
his daily rounds, to Mr.. Boniface, who is
distinguished for his wit and intelligence,
md inquired of him the news of the morning.
Mr.. Boniface hesitated, and stammered out,
"None:' but shortly, as if recoIlectng him
self, told him that the latest authentic news
was, that superb and elegantly fitted up
steam vessel was about to cross the Atlantic,
from Liverpool, which had on board two
acres ofGrass land, as many cows and sheep,
and poultry, &c., as would fill them with
milk and butchers meat during the voyage
out and home, and that the spirited propri-
etors intended to bore for coal, which they
hoped to find, and thus be prepared for any
length ofvoyage, without the fear of being
out of fuel. The old gentleman, astonish-
ed scratched his head, and walked away,
mutterng as he went, "These are strange
times: what will we see next!"-Engtish
paper.
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MAUMEE CITY EXPRESS.
SATURDAY, APRIL 27. 1899.

The Steamboat Chesapeake was the first
boat into Buffalo, this season. She entered
the port on the evening of the 18th, and
caught the good people of the city of all the
Butfaoes mapping as toundly as Rip Van
Wlnkle on the summit of the Kattskills,
with the thunderlngs of the American Rev
olution humming lullaby in his'ear. They,
good people, were dreaming of ice, forty
feet thick, and the opening of navigation Mt
some remote period, when, Lo! the Chesa.
peake dashed round the point, and strobe up
the harbor, all her gay streunlers futterng
in the wind, and that black working beam
nodding friendly recognition to the lazy
crafts that danced up and down in her wake
with the first signs Of life they have exhi-
bted for months. Talk of the first bird,
the first flower Of the season, the first let
ter from a loved one, the first fee to law
yer--talk Of all the frstings that warm the
heart, and give flip TO the Imagination,
there is nothing so exhiarating, so life mo-
wing, SO startlingly bright as the first steam,
boat.
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pARAGRApHIANA.

A writer il the Toledo Blade claims for
Toledo the termination of the Ohio Rail
road. 1.-The would claim for that place, sthe
bourn from which no traveller eer returns,
lie would hit it.
The Hon John Upton ofIndiana died at
his residence at Logansport, on Friday, the
5th inst, aged IS years. The disease was
ofthe lungs. In Gen. Upton Indiana has
lost one OF her best men.
The Fort Wayne Sentinel is to be enlar-
ged. Il can scarcely be bettered. Price,
three dollars per year: we like that. News
papers have been as cheap as she dog pup
pies too long.
THINGS IN FoRr WAYEE.-The canal is
open, and business is brisk. Large guam
titles of lumber have arrived by the canal,
and people again talk of building. Folks
are getting married too, thing nightly to
their credit, and attended with no small sat-
the parties concerned.
The Michigan Legislature adjourned on
Thursday, the 18th, amid shower of ink
stands and candle sticks which the emembers
launched at each other. They then oil
marched otto the tayerns and liqrorsd.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-04-27

The Legislature of Virginia has passed
law apparently to prohibit the circulation
of Bank notes under Sl0-but proviso
strangely allows one Bank to circulate the
smol notes issued by another, thus merely
preventing each institution from circulating
its own bills. If this was an oversight,
we have nothing to say, excepting that it
was fortunate one for the interest of the
State; bnt if, as may be suspected from the
proceedings, the majority wished to appear
to chinein with the doctrine of the party,
but fears to assume the responsibility ofthe
consequences of,a violent interference with
the settled business habits of the citizens,
has thus contrived tp avoid the olium, the
act is one which cannot command respect.
Worth american.
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AUGUSTA. Anril 2. 1aao

IMPORTANT FROM MAINE. Gen. Batch
elder is now here attending Court. He has
suddenly changed the plume and sword for
the goose quill and green bag-the glores
of the battle for the laurel of the forum.
Enlistments are made in this region for
the civil posse to accompany the Land
Agent in his expedition against the tress-
passers.
It is reported that the special messenger
has this morning passed through this town
towards Saco to the Governor, and that he
carries information of tie return of the
trespassers in considerable numbers for the
purpose of rescuing their timber by force.
Boston Times.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-04-27

DREADFUL STATE OF THE TIMBs IN
MIssIssIPPI.-The rumors we have had OF
the extreme pressure and distressing pecu-
mary ernbarrassments among the planters
of the rich State, are, we regret to say,
fully confirmed. "A number of the Banks
have suspended specie payments, and we
observe in the Benton Banner of March 10Th
no less than Is or l6 columns of the paper
exclusively occupied with Sherif's sales! !!
Such Is the alarm created, that meetings
have been held there and at Yazoo City,
late Manchester, to devise means to avoid
the sacrifice of property under these eXecu-
tlons. A state more staple and opuent in
pecnnlary resources, derivable from her
great staple Cotton does not exist IN the
Union; yet, from some defective arrange
ment in the banking system, or from the ma
lign experiments of Van Buren, Benton,
Kendall & Co. upon the currency of the
country, the machinery of the circulation
has apparently received blow from which
it cannot recover; 1t is to be hoped that
the revival of the hard currency commerce
with Mexico, and the augmented importa-
tion of specie from thence, together with
the renewed confidence and activity in bu-
siness among the mercantile classes in the
North, from the peaceful aspect of our rela-
tions with great Britain, will restore trade
to its accustomed prosperous channels, and
prevent the extension of the calamitous
events in the South and West which at
present threaten convulsion more tormi-
dable than that of lS37.-.N. Y Star.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-04-27

A New YORK DANDY.--One youth of
this kind know,-a dolt of the very first
water ,--who said to an acquaintance re-
Gently, in my presence: "Do you know
tie Miss, ofNoe Yawk? What dev-
Iish susceptible creatures they ar to be su-
ah called on them few months ago,
and sang to them 'Zurich's Waters and
Me Sister De-ah, land don't you think
they both fell IN love with me! Egad, they
did so,--but couldn't relieve, and SO cut
them. Ivow | won't be cruel to any one if
| can help it: | won't positively: would
you"
This wns at an ordinary. al say, stran-
GER" said n rough looking book -pedlar from
Illinois, who sat near this scented braggart,
" you are not man are youl-a full bound
mani You don: sartngly answer to mas
cuine title, doyou! | should take you for a
pocket edition Of a sheep. Them's my SEN
timents and you have 'em gratis. You
hav'nt brains enough to iascinate a KITTEN
yetyou raa'y fancy your something uncom-
mon! You are too fiat to keep your eyes
open, fully y,--and I'll bet wolf trap, that
the sight of a full blown puppy would set
you to sleep any time. Oh, psha! Land
lord give this thing a weak lemonade, seen
ted with rose water, and tote me pint of
brandy, hot with red pepper in it, and
common segar. I'll 60 bail for the BILL"
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-04-27

New TEST OF ARsENrc.-The celebrated
Orfila has lately read paper to the Acade-
my of Sciences proving that arsenic causes
death not from an inflammation it excites on
the surface Of the stomach or elsewhere
to which it is effected, but by its absorption
into the blood. He found a grain and
a half thus absorbed on the abradee-
skin of dog sufficiently to cause death.
To detect the minutest portion of absorbed
arsenic, he subjects the flesh to boiling
process, and then passes through the water
stream of sulphurretted hydrogen. On
the emersion of this gas it is infamed, and
the residum deposited on the surface of a
porcelain plate.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-04-27

BALTIMORE AND Ono RAMRoAD.--The
last Wheeling Times holds out the prospect
Of an Immediate commencement of this i'm
portant work at its western termination.
1t says:
'We are now enabled to say with conf
dence that the Railroad that is to connect
Baltimore with the west, will be commenced
at this place during the Legislature of Mar
yland converting the subscription on the
part of the state from per cent. to 5 per
cent. stock and removing all restrictions
from it. will enable the company 10 avail it.
self of the money as soon as it can be OBJ
tained abroad. This new law also provides
that the money obtained under it shall be
expended west of Cumberland. The a.
mendment by the Virginia Legislature, of
the law subscribing one million on one,
part of the state to a stock of this road,
provides that the amount shall be payable
on the completion of the road from Whee-
ling to Brownvile. 1t therefore becomes
for the interest ofthe company to construct
the road at this end as soon possible
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ILLINOIS AND MICHIGAN CANAL.-We
regret to state that there is now M availa-
Bile money belonging to the Canal fund, to
pay the estimates, &c. no payments being
made the contractors on the first of this
month. The Governor has appointed Judge
Young and Gov. Reynolds agents to nego.
tate the sale of the State Canal funds to
the amount of four millions, and they 20 to
New York, &C., for that purpose.
The commissioners are now endeavoring
te effect loan Of two or three hundred
thousand dollars at the Shawneetown Bank
or st. Louis, for present purposes. The
Sangamo Journal feels morally certain
that the work on the canal will DO suspend
ed within the next three months. We
hope, as we believe, that the Journal will be
mistaken. This work should not, must not
be suspended; and we have assurances that
If suspended or curlaied at all in the extent
ofits operations, it will only be temporarily
so. The faith, credit and interest Of the
north, urge its uninterrupted and vigorous
completion. .--.american
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WHAT nExr.--"O that I had ,vinp,"

WHAT NBxT.--"O that 1 had ,oings"
&c.--A letter from Leghorn to the editor
of lie Semaphore" Partisan print, has
the following:
"We are here in all astonishment, since
the arrival from Columbia of the American
vessel Bustard. 1t has brought Senor Mar
TN Ootaya, his son Pamela, and racer oil
new description which Senor Martin 90
taya has succeeded in tanning with won.
derful dexterity. This racer is Condor OF
the CordIleras, of enormous size, the extent
between the two extremites Of his extend
ed wings is 80 feet. He has been render
ed so genteel and tractable that Martin o.
taya's son uses hlm as horse, gets upon
his back, and to the astonshment of all, flies
with him to immense height. Young Pa
meo manages him as easily as horse, by
the means OF little stick with a steel point.
His ascension took place yesterday at noon.
He rose from the Place d'Armes, and at
certain elevation young Pamela stood up,
saluted the Leghorn people, by waving his
handkerchief. He next got astride his steed,
and disappeared in trlce. The bird and
the boy reached Florence in twelve min
utes, and were back in the evening. The
child was the bearer of certificates from the
Florence authorities. ."--.M o. Times.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-04-27

STEAM.-lf the wild tribes of Lake Hu.
ron were to be told that the white mans re.
cipe for conquering the waves of the great
lake before them was to take up very
small portion of it and boil it, sixty years
ago DR.. johnson had been told(a exhaust.
ed by a dard days literary labor, he sat RUM.
mating at his fire side waiting for his favor.
ite beverage) that the tiny volumes of white
smoke he was listlessly gazing at, as 1t is
sued from the spout of his black iron tea
kettle, was power competent to rebuke the
waves, and to set even the hurricane at de-
fance-the red children Of nature would have
listened to the Intelligence with no greater
astonishment than our venerable lexicog
rapher would have received it.--London
Quarterly.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-04-27

NAvAL.-The keel Of sloop- war to
rate sixteen guns, is now being laid at the
Navy Yard in this city; and we understand
that steamship is about to be erected in
the large ship house, of which the Penn
syivania" was noble tenant. A naval
tender is likewise to be therein erected,
though whether to be rugged sloop or brig
wise is not yet determined. Commodore
Stewart will act as overseer of the whole.
We congratulate our industrious mechan-
les at the prospect ofonce more hearing
the hammer of the workman within The walls
of this national depot of our city.-Phila-
deiphia Times.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-04-27

GRApR vINRs.--Buy you vine of the
Isabella or Catawba grape, study its mode
ofculture untilit becomes interesting, and
take balfthe pains with it that thousands
DO with a sickIy exotic rose or a
fruitless orange tree, and in three years you
may sltunder the shelter of your own vine,
eat of its refreshing fruit, and find yourself
forming attachments to your country, even
as the tender vine-rools cling to the earth
that nourshes them. Now is the time.
The shoots may be had of l.. Eastwood
-Watervile glrden.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-04-27

Hudson is said to have suffered more
from fires during the year, than any other
own in New York.
Mr.. Forrer has been appointed superin
tendent of the Dayton and Lebacon, Dayton
and Springfield and Great Miami turnpikes.
The Locos are making political capi tai
out of the pardon granted by Gov. Seward
t o Patrick Conway convicted Of murder,
and pardoned oil the ground ofinsani'y.
The esprit of the Times heads an arti-
Gle; "M. Bddle--Fudge and Humbug.'
No doub. he means Mr.. Biddle-Mr. Van
Buren, and Mr.. Benton.
A daily paper has been started at Niaga-
ra Falls; it is published twice a week.
From glimpse at some of its articles we
should say it was of the Bennet's Herald
school, straued through the Bntfalonan and
degenerated through half dozen genera
tlons Of loafers.
Somebody in New York advertises for
good shirt hands," They could easily be
spared from this country and would be will
ling to turn their hands to most any thing.
The Bufhlo Republican is copying origi-
nal jokes from Joe Miller. Ah, friend
G,tes, nre you Dwindle-ing into the sere
and yellow leaf.
The editor ofthe Buff 10 Republican says:
" 1t does not sound well to be talking on
the same page of Paradise and the sub. urea
T., ,,nrit,, tbo,, r;frIi ,ll friopl
for they who advocate the one will hardly
lay up treasures in the other.
The truth is not to be spoken at all times.
Monroe Tins.
Nor IN the Times
The Toledo Blade and Manhattan Adyer
tiser are getting up bit ofa blow about the
respective merits of the two places. This
is all very well, though the argument could
be carried on more ,feeliDgly by pleni-
potentiares from the two great kingdoms Of
the frogs and the mud turtles.
The Troy Mail speaks of an old lady who
Sept so sound, tht when she awoke in the
morning, she dpnt know who she was.--
We know Of chap who slept so hard, af
ter dinner, that when he awoke he didn't
know whether it was to-day or tomorrow.
A uoNe prosrqui has been entered in the
case of the United States vs. R. B. Randolph
who was charged with an assault upon Gen.
Jackson by overdrawing upon his nose.
A couple have lately been married in Eng
land the bridegroom six feet two, the bride,
two feet six. Now if they nre one, what's
the difference between them?
A new Sloop of war, to be called the De-
catur, has been launched at Brooklyn navy
yard.
The last race we have seen, was chap
leaning against post and trying to stand
still faster than vessel moved that was
coming up the river.
THE RIvER.-Ten feet water in the
channel, and rising every day. The lake
is trying to get up, for it shook itself terribly
last Tuesday.
The great Edinburgh Phrenrlogist is
Combe-ng the heads of the people of New
York, second time.
The editors about the country have beer
making April fools oftheir readers. Nigh
ty little business! If any person wishes to
learn the origin of the custom, let him look
at Esther 10th chapter, 9TH verse.
The Lafayette Free Press states, that
the prospect for the wheat crop in that eec-
ion is very good. 1t is coming up finely,
md contrary to the previous antlcipatlons,
well.
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ENGLISH NorroNs OF THE UNITED SrAsEs.

Our readers may form some opinion in re-
gard to the ERRONEOUS notions entertained IN
England relative to this country, by the fol-
lowing, for the truth of which we vouch.
A cockney sportsman who had read with de.
light Mr.. Hoffman's new work on the wild
sport of America, took passage in London
packet, and arrived here during the week.
in search of game. He brought letters to
a highly respectable merchant, with whom
we are well acquainted, and desired, after
delivering them, to be directed to the best
hunting grounds without delay, as he could
only remain here few days, purpcsing to
return in the Great Western. lie said that
he came to New York principally to shoot
bears. Oar mercantile friend, satisfying him
self that his new acquaintance was perfectly
serious, informed him that the sport had
been greatly cut up here, and recommended
him to proceed to Philadelphia. He de-
parts for that city this day; and we call upon
our friends there to extend to the distin-
guished stranger their usual hospitality
~ Y. Lii. Gaz.
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Mr.. Reynolds, who should have gone with
the Exploring Expedition, is delivering lee
lures in New York on the wages Of laJor,
showing the perncious effect of the hard
money system upon the condition ofthe in
dustrous classes in all countries where 1t
prevails, and the opposite operation of the
credit system in eIevatng the moral charac-
ter, and securing the comfort and independ-
ence the laboring man.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-04-27

The editor Of the Boston Medical and
Surgical Journal tnkes ground in favor of
chewing and smoking tobacco, by clergy
men, as preventive oftfe mni trsa,l, or
malady of the throat. He says: "tle cle"-
gy of olden times smoked and chewed very
universally. Tne leading lawyers are very
great smokers-and yet, who ever heard Of
alawyer who had lost his voce?'
If tobacco is SO sovereign in diseases ofthe
throat, let every rogue who fears the halter
go to chewing and smoking as fast as he
can.
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1889.

THE steamboat GEN. VANCE, S.
l. SPHINX, Master. This splendid lit
tie boat has now taken her place for the
season, and will run regularly between the
above named places, IN the following order,
to wit:-Leave Perrysburg every morning,
at 7 1-2 o'cloc,, touching at Manmee City,
Oregon and Toledo, in time for the cars go
ing to Adrian, and arrive at Manhattan at
o'clock, touching as above, and arrive at
Perrysburg at II o'clock. Leave Perrys-
burg at half past one o'clock, and Toledo at
4 o'clock, or after the arrival of the cars
from Adrian; running and touching as
above.
For freight or passage, apply to the cap
tain on board, or to
J. Iollisister & Co., Perrysburg.
Smith, Howe g. Co., yMaumee city.
fai%s1 fafRsp'f5 Bush : g. s Co., Upper Toledo.
PseE PseRnsn @ T''9s, 7 g., 1o'Der Toledo.
Cornwell & Fox, Manhattan.
P. S.--Sailing parties can at all times
depend upon the services Of the Gen. Vance,
by giving few hours notice to the Capt, or
to the above agents.
N. B.-Capt. Sphinx will attend prompt
ly to all calls from Capts. of vessels who
may wish to be towed either up or down
the river.
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PATRIOTISM ON THE wANE.--The Free
mans Advocate, printed at Lockport, and
devoted to the cause of the self-styled patri.
OTIS, has been discontinued; and we learn
that the agitator, Mackenzie, in one week
alone docked off more than 700 names from
his subscription books, and that his incend-
larry and loco-foco journal IS henceforth to
be reduced one-half in size. e.--Oswego
Whig,
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DY virtue of a writ ofexecution yendi.
ID erpo. from the clerk of the court of
common pleas of Wood county, state of
Ohio, to me directed and delivered, l have
taken and shall expose to public sale at the
door of the court house in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, on Friday, the 51st day of
May, between the hours of 10 A. M. and
4P, M. of said day, the following descri-
bed property lying in Lucos county afore-
said to wit: The west half of the north
west quarter of section two in township
seven, north of range seven east. Taken
as the property of Moses P. Morgan, to
satisfy judgment obtained by Thomas
McKibbin and William Zeigler against
Moses P. Morgan and Manly Cobotyn.
G. G.. SHAW, Sheriff.
BY F. E. KIRKLAND, Deputy.
April 26. Ats.
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In Russia they do not put sugal into their
cups in the ordinary way, but they either
hold n lump between their teeth, and sip the
tea through it, or else they hold it in their
left hand, and n'bble offn little bit now and
then as they drink their tea.
In good old times in New England they
used to suspend a goodly lump OF the sac-
charine, by a string, over the centre of the
table, GLOWING each one who sat by to swing
i. up to his lips, and bite off suficiency to
render the Bohea paatable.
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VERY TRUTH-LIKE, IF NOT TRUE.-A
Washington correspondent of the Boston
Atlas, tells this good story:
A photographer at Washington, prepared
very striking likeness of Kendall, Cop
les were taken to the Departments for sale.
One was offered TO Mr.. Forsyth, and he was
asked Sir, do you rant to purchase his?'
Let me see, (sald the Secretary of State J
then taking 1t into his hand, and pausing
for momont, he replied,
"Oh no! zoe purchased the originul!"
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lNaumee City e. Fort Wayne Line
of Stages.
THRoUH IN TWO DAYS,

VNHE subscriber would inform the public
IL that they have set in operation, line
of stages between Maumee City and Fort
Wayne, to continue during the season. A
stage will leave Maumee City on every 9TH
er day, and Fort Wayne on the alternate
days, commencing on Monday, May 9th,
at Maumee City, and at Fort Wayne on the
7th, and meeting at Defiance.
Seats in the above line may be taken at
the Jefferson and Central House in Mau-
NEE Guy.
D. c. HOOKER, I p,.o,,,.;.,.
R. COVER, ff0pr'ef0rS'
Mnumee City, April 27. 4tf.
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NOTICE.

T1HE partnership heretofore existing
between the subscribers under the
name and firm of "Hackley s. Wolcott"
has been dissolved by mutual consent. All
persons indebted to said firm will call on
James Wolcott, with whom all demands of
the company are left for settlement and col
lection; and all those indebted to A. j.
Hackley individually, areIhereby notified that
their demands have been assigned to james
Wolcott, who is duly authorised to settle,
receive and discharge the same.
JAMES WOLCOTT.
A. ]. HACKLEY.
April 25, 1889. 4A,