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Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-06-01
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NOTICE.

A RARE chance for bargain. The
"A subscribers, intending to make a
change in their business, will sell their
stock of Dry Goods very cheap for CASH.
Call and try.
BOYNTON g. GANNETT.
Jan, 81, 1898.
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CoFF INJURY & sTETsON,

ATTORNEYS AND coUNsELLoRs AT LAW,
HAVE formed a professional connec-
IL Il tion for Wood county.--Their office
is in A. L. Fowler's new building, Louisia-
ma Avenue, Perrysburg, where calls will
at all tunes be promptly attended to.
A. CoPFrNRuRY,
j. STETsoN March 9. 48
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ID EADY made clothing for sale low
h for cash at the Marengo cash store.
A. VAN VOORST.
July6, 1888 l4tf
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AGENTS.

0. d. DUDLEY, Watermlle.
A. P. REED, Damascus.
HAzAHL STRONG, ESQ. Napoleon.
II. GLEASON ESQ. Florida.
B. B. ABELL, Independence,
H. SESSIONS ESQ. Defiance.
B. Huron, Brunersbnrg.
D. STRAYER ESQ. Monciora.
A. f. HULL, Lockporf.
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GARDEN SEEDS,

GARDEN SEEDS.
A GENERAL assortment of Garden
IA Seeds for 1899, for sale by the subscri-
Der, wholesale or retail. Boyes can be had
by venders to sell on commission. These
seeds were grown the present year, and
have been put up with great care; their Vi
tality, and the correctness of their names
are guaranteed, Also, few hundred Fruit
Trees, Rhubarb, or pie plant roots, AS
parngus roots, Sage roots &c. for sale at
the Waterville Garden.
l.. EASTWOOD.
Waterville, Dec. 90, 1888. s9m6
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IT AIDES HATS, PARASOLS &c.
IL Just received fine assortment of ele.
giant Tuscan Hats, from, SO to S13,-Par.
asols, French Muslin, Prints, Laces, to-
gether with many other beautiful articles
for the ladies. Commercial Buildings.
e. FAIRMAN.
Aug. 4, 1888. 1s
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! Court of Common
Pleas, March Term,
J 1889.
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SPOONS--German silver Tea and Ia
- Bile Spoons, a beautiful article, cheaper
and equally handsome with silver, for sale
by W. WISWELL,
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viz: Water Lot Number eleven, in Hunt &
Beaugrond's addition to Maumee City, and
that, at the next Term ofsaid Court, appli-
cation will be made by the demandants for
an order that partition may be made of said
premises. SAMUEL NJ. YOUNG.
Sol. for Demandants.
Dated April 9Th A. D. 1899. 1--we
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J Court ofCommon
, Pleas March Term,
|, A. d. 1889.

IN PARTITION.
THE Respondents
will take notice
that a Petition was
filed against them,
at the March Term
Of said Court by the
Demandants, and is
now pending, where
in is demanded a
partition of the fol-
lowing real estate,
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STATE OF ONO,
Lucas County, IS.
WAsH'N T. BEEBEE,
and Elizur Fairnan, ,
Executors Of Levi
Beebee, deceased,
Wash'n T. Beebee,
Isaac h. Bronson, s.
William Fairman,
VS..
John T.. Hunt,
Alexander Seymour,
Samuel Stocking,
Milton st. John, s.
Sinclair Tousey,
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TEA KETTLES-Sheet iron Tea Kit
Il ties, new article, for sale by
w. WISWEII,.
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pHHU UCL NJ IVUNU,
Sol. for Demandants.
Maumee, April 9th, 1888. 1-6w
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Sol. Tor Uemand0nIs.
Maumee, April 9th, 1899. l-6w
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MAUMEE CITY EXPRESS.
SATURDAY, JUNE Is. 1889.
We understand, that the "body corpu.

We understand, that the "body corpu-
lent" of the Vermllion threatens, that il
anything more is said about him in the
Maumee Express, he will come up and whil
the whole town. He will have to take
some conveyance faster than his boat, or we
shall all die of old age before he can ge,
here. Ifhe will send us up word, we will
charter span Of mud turtles and come down
and tow him up. Perhaps he willtake foot
passage on the railroad, as he did when he
went to upper Toledo, to give us beating.
We saw his ponderosity on the march, look
ng, for all the world, like robustuous mo-
lasses hogshead on a very low warehouse
barrow, "iardlng the lean earth as he walk
ed along,' and snorting like locomotive
going up hill. The captain had better stick
to his legitimate business of bullying his
deck hands, and dcircumventing the easy vir-
tue of Irish steerage passengers, and let the
newspapers alone; and if we could say a
word to the owners of the boat, we would
suggest, that The best use they can make OF
the fat creature would be to cut him up and
use HIM for fuel, as they do bacon on the
Mississippi.
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SHOULDER Folk The citizen soldiers
of this place, effected their organization, on
aturday last, by the choice, after n spiri
ted contest of the following gentlemen, for
officers, viz. Louis Guyatt Esq. for Captain;
Antoine Peltier, for Lieutenant; and Alex
ander Lapcarl for Ensign.
The wisdom of the selection made cannot,
for moment be called in question by those
who are acquainted with the high, chival-
rous character and polished gentlemanly
bearing beautifully blending the suao'ter
in modo with the .fortier in re) that are so
conspicuous in the characters of the new of
fcers. And we cannot but hope that unde r
their administration military affairs will
again assume their Legitimate position, in
this eminently warlike country.
We understand, that a subscription has
been set on foot, at the upper end of the
town, to buy the captain new sword and
cooked hat and to new-seat the best blue
over alls of the lieutenant.
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ROAD MEETING.

AT a large and respectable meeting of the
citizens Of Fort Wayne, held pursuant to
public notice, at the Washington Hall, on
the 18th day of May. 1889, to discuss the
ways and for the Improvement of the
Maumee Road, from Fort Wayne to Def
ance; George w. Wood was called TO the
Chair, and F. P. Randall appointed Secre-
tnry.
The object Of tho meeting having been
stated at length, and the necessity of the
contemplated impro, fully enforced by
appropriate remarks from T. J. Lewis, Esq.
and Judge Hanna; subscription to con-
siderable amount, which had been volunta-
rly entered into by the citizens of Fort
Wayne and on the line Of the Road, for the
purpose of improving said road, having
been laid before the meeting, the following
preamble and resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
WHEREAS, from the uncertain navigation
Of tne River, and the excessive badness Of
the roads in the direction Of Lake Erie,
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The Attorney General, Mr.. Grundy, is
out in the official organ with nine columns
of documentary evidence, to prove that Mr..
Van Buren was supporter of the war of
I8l2. Mr.. Blair receives some $2O0,00O
per annum for sustaining Mr.. Van Buren,
right or wrong; Mr.. Grundy some five or
six thousand, with perquislties. Mr.. Cros-
well, who receives $4,000 a year for the
same service, will probably copy this docu-
mentary evidence into the columns Of the
Argus. All these gentlemen would be
quite as ready to prove that Mr.. Van Bu-
rem was moi a supporter ofthe war Of 1912,
ifthey were paid the same amount of mo-
ney on the other side. What dependence
can the people place on these paid advocates
of the President!-N. Y. Cour. q. Eng.
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THE Fort WAYNE SENTINEL pa
per comes TO us after suspension of several
weeks, enlarged and improved. The charac
tel oftheSentinel cannot be better evidenced
than by its success. This is the third en-
largenent within the year, and the editor
Informs us, that stock of paper which was
supposed ample for the year, has, by the in
crease of his subscription list, been expen-
ded, long before the conclusion of the twelve
month.
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GooD NEws--IMPoRTANr ARRIvAL.-The
schr. Hubbard arrived last evening, having
on board the machinery for one of the loco
motive pile-drivers, saw mills, &c. with
which the Ohio railroad is to be built. 1t
hod been expected, for some little apprehen-
sion was felt for its safety. AS every thin g
is rendy on the road now, for it to go into
immediate operation, andas all matters con-
nected with the Company have been hither-
to conducted strictly on the go-ahead prin-
ciple, we shall expect in few days to see
this huge automaton road maker in a full
gallop for the middle ofthc Swamp, where it
will meetits duplicate, from Lower Sandus-
ky. We will not disguise That the arrival of
these machines reJoiceth our citizens ex-
ceedIngly.--.uanhaHan .Adu.
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LAWFUL REvENGE.--Manyy years since &
gentleman in Newington, parish o.
Weathersfeld, Connecticut, who was We,
ry religious and conscientious man, married
one of the most i'll .natured and troublesome
women who could be found i'll the vicinity.
This occasloned universal surprise
wherever he was known, & one ofhis neigh.
bors ventured to ask him the reasons which
had governed his choice.- He replied, that
having had 5ut little trouble in the world,
he was fearful of becoming too much at
tached to things of time and sense, and he
thought that by experiencing some atfllc-
tons he should become more weaned from
the world, and that he married such wo-
man as he thought would accomplish this
object.
The best part Of the story is, that the
wife, hearing the reason why he married
her, was much offended, and out of reuenge
became one Of the most pleasant and duti-
full wives IN the town. declaring that she
was not going to be made a pack-horse to
carry her husband to heaven.
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The TALLEsT COMPLIMENT ouT.--We
should be deemed recreant TO the spirit of
our profession, five should shut our ears to
so loud compliment as the following, from
the Fort Wayne Sentinel. Friend Wood
has done up the business in good set terms,
ana we must not find fault, though he sets a
little higher estimate upon us than we do
oulself. Ant that modest?
The "Maumee City Express" has been
enlarged and now ranks among the largest
as well as the abest papers in the Vest
Friend Reed realizes our idea of "racv,
spicy, witty editor.' Prentiss must look
well to his resources, or he will find formi-
dable rival in him of Maumee--that is, pro-
vided The "aguery" does not carry off the
latter before his time comes.
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"Come to the great and glorious west,
you halfstarved yankees" says the Cincin-
matt Sun. Now, Mr.. Sun, don't you know
better nor to pagiarize in that sort of a
way? You are stealing the productions of
once celebrated editor on the Maumee, now
alas! in the Kick-kalamazoo country:
"Come to the west, ye eastern nubods,
And leave your ice bound lands:
The west is full of warmth and joy,
Come lIither, thaw your hands,"
Don't you give up?
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MARRIED.

On Wednesday evening last, by the Rev.
Mr.. Burns. Mr.. john w. Horn of this
place, to Miss EMILY HAWKINS of Jeffer-
son county, N. Y.
A bite and sup of the brightest and best,
and enough to give all our friends a taste,
accompanied the above. The toasts and
wishes that accompanied their disposal
were neither few nor far between.
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An ingenious friend of ours has lately in
vented machine for determining the mean
velocity of the fever and ague. 1t is called
the "agueometer." By he has discovered,
that in the Dutchman, the force eSerted is
as puf'of tobacco smoke to the moral eff
feet of Kants metaphysics; in French,
man, it is as the promptings of conscience
to the kick of dancing master, and in a
Yankee it is as the warning to militia
training to the force exerted by the weight
Of wooden clock.
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MARCH OF SLANG.-Cant phrases, called
by the French, mots de societe, are getting
to be as common in Paris as they are II
New York, SO says recent writer. They
appear to be original with the English and
Americans, the gay Parlsians having trans.
lated them. Among the slang terms
are, "Does your anxious mother know
you're OUT It's all very well, Mr.. Fer.
guson, but you don't sleep here" g All
round my hat,"" No you don't" 81 had ar
aunt" sc. SIc.--.N. o. Picayune.
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ture, and immortal in its duration; and also
to see the pathway to it, through tine gIoo-
my grave, hndled into blaze of light by
the footsteps of Him who became the first
fruits of them that slept.--[ Communicated
by a Friend.
AT Perrysburg, on Thursday last, June
IL, Mrs. ANN ]. wife of Sidney C. Sloane
of that place, aged twenty-one years.
The death of Mrs. Sloane is one of those
mysterious dispensalions of Providence,
which, while we are bound to believe them
the dolngs of the christening hand of a mer-
ciful Father, are far beyond the comprehep-
sion of mortal man. Young, accomplished
and beloved by all who knew her. she but n
few days ago bid far to live long to orna-
ment the society in which she moved, and
to confer happiness upon circle of hearts
that were fondly attached to her. She is
gone-in the beautiful words of the Psalm
ist, "she is as Sleep" she has rested; and
the aching Of hearts made void, and the ten
der memory of those that weep remains.
Shelett legacy to her husband of two in
fants, one only few weeks old, who are
thus deprived of her whose tender and pa
tlent care, nothing on earth can supply.
God temper the wind to these shorn lambs,
and apply balm to the broken heart of the
husband.
In Toledo, on Saturday, the list inst,
Mrs. ELIZABETH r. Fl. LAwToN, in the 98th
year of her age, wife of Robert N. Law
ton, formerly of Tivelton, R. /.
In the death Of Mrs. Lawton, a husband
has been bereaved of kind and lovely
companion, and family of kind and af-
fectIonate mother, and community of one of
its brightest ornaments.
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OLD STARK.--The prospect Of trcmen-
dous wheat crops in Stark county was never
more promising, as we are informed by an
observing gentleman who has returned from
recent visit to Canton. The Dutch farm
ers have turned nearly their whole attention
to Wheat growing, such has been the prof.
tableness OF the crop for years past, and the
quantity of Wheat on the ground is very
great. A single farmer near Massilon ex-
poets to harvest some 10000 bushels this
season.-Clev. Gaz.
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The steamboat Erie, of Erie, came in col,
lsion with the Goderich, British stcumboat
In Detroit river. few nights since, and sunk
her. The Goderich had no lights out
though it was very dark, and the captain
and crew were so ignorant of navigation as
not to know which side of the channel to
take in passing.
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MURDRR.--W e understand that the body
of man named John Parker was found yes.
terday, in the river, near dock, in Cleve.
land. Some few days before, the cap Of
Parker was found near the dock, with a let
ter, pnrporting to come from his murderers,
stating3 that he had been murdered and
thrown in,o the river. Search being made
the body was discovered.
Parker was one of the patriots, who was
in the.Windsor affair." and it. supposed that
the murderers are Canadians.--S Summit Bea-
on.
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MANurAorUnEs IN NoRTH CARoLIsA.--
The Wilmington, N. G. Chronicle says:--
{" T,oo more Hems.-A large quantity OF
printing paper, the manufacture of this
state, was landed here from the steam boat
Henrietta, from Fayetteville, few days
ago, destined for Texas.
"About $50 bales of cotton yarn. and
goods; have been shipped from this port to
the north, within the past ten days--from
North Carolina factories"
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We limited, last week, our intention to
show up one of the great captains of the
age, for the amusement of whom it might
concern, but, as it would be unnteresting
to many, have concluded to alter our mode
of treatment to the exhibition of counter
irtants in homeopathic doses, often repea-
ted.
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The business of dog killing has commen.
ced in some of the eastern and southern c-
ties, and, of course, sassengers are falling
rapidly. In New Orleans they practice a
refinement in canine destruction. They feed
the dogs with medicated passengers, which
causes them to turn into the real Bologna
article Immediately after dissolution.
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"With just enough of learning to mis-
quote. ."-Eaglish Bards.
The Blade has quoted and murdered a
.senseless doggerel, which the editor attri-
butes to Shakespeare. We felt guilty
when we informed him there was such an
author. What fool an affectatlon of cru
dition does make of a man.
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The SPorLs. Daniel Webster never ut.
tered more sarcastic truth than when he
said, in speech at Worcester some time
ago. "that there is no civilized country or
earth, In which, on change of rulers, there
Is such an inqusition for spoil, as we have
witnessed in this Republic. Whenever did
any English Ministry, Wing or Tory, &C
down to low-water mark to make an oustino
of MISREPRESENTATION did he disturb the
little offices, the mail contracts, and
every thing else in the remotest degree con-
nected with the Government?"--For
Wayne Sen.
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How TO CURE SMoKRRs.--In Hoopin,
China, the singular punishment of cutting a
portion of the upper lip, to prevent opium
smoking, has been resorted to. This refers
to the men only, as the executor ofthe law
found SO much difficulty in making the wo-
men hold still long enough for the operation,
that he concluded their mouths never would
be quiet enough to let them smoke immode-
rately-so be let them go clear. IN o.
Times.
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ORIGIN OF THE WORD TEXAs.--It has
exceedingly puzzled many persons to deter
mine the real meaning of the word Trras.
1t originated in couplet used by the enri-
er emgrunts, to that Gland of promises"
When every other land rejects us,
This is the soil that freely takes as.
The word Texas is corruption of the
phrase used in the last lne.--Cin. Rep.
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SUNDAY IN New ORLEANs.-The New
Orleans Times notices!that on Sunday, May
26th, there would be general turn out Of
the military of the city, The weather was
oppressively hot, and the Times adds, 8 it is
whispered that General Perspiration, will
be on the field the entire day. A man was
killed by a sun stroke in the street on the cath.
Herald g. Gaz.
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FURTHER EFFECTS OF STEAM.-It is re-
marked that the connection between New
York and Liverpool has become SO close, by
means of the steam ships, that the Liver
pool landlords have their advertisements
framed and hung up in the public places in
the former city. One of the New York pa
pers advertises coach for sale in Liver
pool.
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THE GRowISG WEsT.-In 1900, there
were in the limits of Illinois abont 5000 souls.
By the census of 1920, there were $4,000.
The next census, in 1880, exhibited 157,455.
And Gre years after that according to the
State Census, the population was 259, 1874.
Such are the marches to "empire," of the
great West!-Cm. Rep.
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A BLOW up.-The Pearl River Bank
Madisonvie, in Mississippi has bursted,
leaving the public in the ,urch, to the a.
mount of half million of dolars.--Not
long since the Madison County bank, loca-
ted at the same place, broke, and its notes
are worth next to nothing.
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MULBERRY FRvER.-The Mammoth En-
guirer mentions that $500 worth Of Multi
cauls plants were stolen from a field in that
vicinity, few nights since. The epidem-
ic is growing malignant, as we'll as spread
ing.
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SINGULAR DEvBLopEMENrs.- Gin
cinnatl Wing complains of the neglect Of
agriculture in Ohio, and says Indian corn is
now actually brought circultously by river
navigation for 1000 miles from the upper re-
gions of Illinois, and from Iowa territory,
(scarcely yet settled) and sold in the queen
city with good profit.
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CAPRIcE.-We know an entire family in
this city who set up for genteel,' that cut
the acquaintance ofa young gentleman be-
cause he spoke favorably of them. Was
this nonsense Or affectation? We think, a
good deal of both. How hard it is for some
people to be distingue without being fools.
~ o. Tunes.
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CoAL.-We were shown the other day,
by citizen of this county, specimen Of
btuminous coal, which he had dug up in ex-
cavating mill pit on the Aboit. ItapPears
TO be of a good quality, igntes readily and
burns freely. Sufficient excavation has not
yet been made to determine whether it ex-
lists in such quantities as to render it profit
able, but it is confidently hoped that it does;
although we believe the opinion ofthe State
Geologist is, that coal will not be found
north of the Wabash.--Fort Wayne Sen.
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The steamer United States arrived at ST.
Louis on the Gath from New Orleans.
Among the passengers were Major Herran
and lady, Gen. Wool, Major Neol, and
Lieuts. Macomb, Todd, and Scarrott, all Of
ficers of the Army.
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WHOLESALE SToRE.-Messrs Clark and
Fargo, of this place have just received an
extensive stock Of groceries and staple dry
goods, which they offer at wholesale at prices
as low as the same articles can be purchas-
ed at this end of the lake.
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1t is said that our cousin Amos has
amassed an immense wealth since his resi-
dence at Washington. His salary is no.
thing to speak of, but then Amos was al
ways considered an excellent mathematician
ga first rate hand at cy1herin."--.N., O.
Picauune.
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G@Our readers are informed, that the
document published in our paper as an ordl.
nance of the Common Council, providing
that the owners Of estray rigs, if they could
not be found, should be sold at public auc-
ton, is all a mistake.