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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-01-10
Board OF Supervisors.
FIRST MEETING OF TIE BOARD UNDER THE REFORMED

His Honor the Rsc rider 10 the chair.
APPOINTMENT CLERK.
JAN. Git was moved and seconded thst Er David !.
Valentine be appointed Clerk OF his ard The motion
Was urAeimously adopted
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in 1852 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $40 7s9 03
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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10

SrRoSe AND SENsIBLE.-We clip the
following from the Tribune on the
Brooklyn riot:
We do not stop to inquire what were
the religious sentiments of the preacher
and his authority who were assailed by q
mob in Brooklyn on Sunday. Sufficient
to say they had right to do as they did
the one to declaim in the open air,
and the others to listen. To attack them
in any way was Illegal, low and brutal.
1t is worthy of all execration and rigid
punishment. The liberty of speech
must be preserved at all hazards. II
foreigners do not understand its value,
Americans must, and they must insist
on it, come what may. When they
lose the right TO speak fearlessly on re-
ligions and creeds, and representatives
of religions and ereeds, then liberty is
at an end. There is but one step fur
ther, that is the Inquisition. The stand
then must be taken, that preaching or
discussion in the open air, when it does
not block up the highway and thus in
fringe on the convenience of the public,
is an inalienable right of our citizens
and is not to be surrendered to any
menaces, or acts of violence.
The sooner this question is settled the
better; but settled it must be, and that
beyond eavil or doubt 1t is no argu-
ment to say that this or thai class of
citizens or aliens do not like the senti-
ments therein set forth; people seldom
like what was opposed to their own
views. In that case, the liberty Of
speech belonged to one party, pertains
equally to the other, and it is bad cause
which cannot be defended and set itself
right by the same means OF discussion
with which it is attacked.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10

A GREAT FEAr.-The San francisco
Herald gives the particulars Of q feat in
the walking line that has probably new
er had its match. A man named
Hughes, for a wager Of 81. 900, pro-
posed to walk eighty consecutive hours
without stopping. or doing anything
else. The feat was performed on a
plank fifteen feet long and three feel
wide. The Herald thus describes the
close of the scene: q"
AS ten o'clock approached, it was evi-
dent that the pedestrian found it almost
impossible to keep awake. All sorts Of
noises were made-clapping of hands
and knocking of canes on the walls, etc.,
for the purpose of rousing. him; and at
last it became necessary Do whip him
pretty smartly. During the last hall
hour, it was necessary to have two men
walking alongside of him, in order to
keep him on the plank. Hughes was
dressed in tights, with strong shoes,
and kept bullet in his mouth all the
time, in order that his mouth might be
kept moist with the saliva and the ne
cessity of drinking obviated. He ate
and drank very little during the whole
eighty hours. He was very much swol-
len Yesterday, and described the .sensa-
tons which he felt in his feet as if five
hundred pins and needles were sticking
in them. When the time expired, he
was taken of, placed in wine bath, and
covered up in blankets. He was then
allowed to sleep for ten minutes-kept
awake for the same length of time-al-
lowed to sleep for twenty minutes, and
so on, increasing the time. If this pre-
caution was not adopted, and if, after
the performance Of the feat, he had
been allowed to sleep for any length Of
time, it is more than probable that he
would never wake again. This was one
of the most extraordinary pedestrian
feats ever performed. Some time ago a
noted pedestrian set out to perform a
similar feat, but after the expiration of
sixty-eight hours he fell asleep, out of
which the discharge of park of artil-
lery would not be sufficient to rouse
him. Hughes made a good deal of
money by the operation. He looked
very much jaded and worn out. His
legs are greatly swollen, and his feet
present the appearance of huge Jumps
of raw beef. He walked at pretty
good pace all the time, making on aver
age three miles an hour. 1t is calcula-
ted that he walked at least 240 miles
from Thursday 2 P. NJ, to Sunday 10
P. M.,Swithout once stopping or sleep
ing. Itwas certainly one of the great
est examples of human endurance which
has ever transpired.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10

SINGULAR SToRN.-A gentleman who
arrived in this city from Chillicothe on
Friday evening, informs us that as the
stage was passing from Greenfield to
Hillsborough, in the neighborhoOd Of
Petersburgh, they were overtaken of
sudden with tornado of wind, rain and
hail which came with terrific violence
The hail stones were very large and strik-
ing the horses they became restive and
four of the passengers had to get out and.
hold them. In few minutes the storm
passed over and the coach proceeded
onward, but had gone but a short dis
tance before it was again overtsken with
the storm, the wind coming in an exact
opposite direction, and the rain and hail
falling in even greater abundance than
before. The corn was prostrsted and
cut into shreds, trees were blown down
and fences lifted up and thrown across
the road. The quantity of rain which
fell was truly astonishing, our informant
says that it seemed as if there was a
river overhead that had had the bottom
knocked out. The whole lasted about
twenty minutes. Again they started,
and on going quarter of mile they
entered upon the dry dusty road where
not a drop of rain had fallen. Men
were working in the fields making hay
who were wholly ignorant that any
storm had taken place so nigh to them.
Gin. Gazette.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10
Number 81.

A SHORT SroRY BIT DIcKENs.-Dick-
ems tells the following story of an
American sea-csptain:
"In his last voyage home, the captain
had on board q young lady of remarka-
bic personal attractions--a phrase ] use
as being one entirely new, and one you
never meet with in the newspapers.-
This young lady was beloved intensely
by fve young gentlemen passengers,
and in turn, she was in love with them
all very ardently. but without any par
ticular preference for either. Not
knowing how to make up her determine
ton in this dilemma, she consulted my
friend, the captain. The captain being
a man Of original turn of mind, says to
the young lady. "Jump overheard, and
marry the man who jumps after you."
The young lady, struck with the idea, and
being naturally fond of bathing, espe-
cislly in warm weather, as it then was,
took the advice of the captain, who had
boat ready manned, in case Of acci-
dent. Accordingly, next morning, the
FIVE lovers being on deck, and looking
very deyotedly at the young lady, she
plunged into the sea head foremost
-Four of the lovers Immediately plunged
in after her. When the young lady and
her four lovers were got out sgsin, she
says to the captain, "What sm l to do
now, they are so wet?" Says the cap
tain, "take the dry one, and the young
lady did, and married him.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10

CHoLERA-PREvENTIo AND CURE
The papers are full of recipes for chole-
ra, many Of which emanate from highly
respectable and trustworthy sources
But we greatly fear that this physic for
the million distributed gratuitously in
the newspapers is likely to do as much
mischief as good. Common sense die
tates the best rules for the prevention of
cholera. Avoid green fruit, intoxica-
ting liquors, ice water, indigestable food.
Keep out of the sun in the middle of
the day. Do not over fatigue yourself.
Make no radical and sudden change in
your diet, with the exceptions above
mentioned. At the first appearance of
the disease consult doctor. Do not
dream Of spending half dollar at the
druggists, and pbysicing yourself; for
what will cure one patient will be harm
less with another, and kill third. Call
in a medical man at once, and surrender
yourself into his hands. Taken in time
by skillful physician. when the suffer-
er has decent constitution, and has not
precluded his recovery by reckless hab-
its or intemperance, cholera can now be
cured almost as easily and as surely as
any of the other diseases which affect
mankind. Carelessness and absurd ter
ror of the malady lead to fatal results
oftener than the cholera itself.
Gin. san.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10

R A lady writes to us as follows;
"For the benefit of those ladies who
may be putting up fruit for winter use,
by hermetical sealing in tin pans, it is
proper to state that if the berries have
been heated by being too long in the
boxes that they will not keep. If after
the fruit has been put up few days, the
can should swell out or burst, it proves
that tie fault lays with the berries, or
they have not been sealed up hot enough.
The expansion of the can shows that it
must have been air tight, or the gas
would not have been able to escape"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10

A REMARKABLE CAsE.-The Chicago
Journal relates the following, as eau
tioning people about being in hurry to
put their friends in the grave;
"One of our citizens was attacked
with cholera on Saturday, and about 2
O'Clock on that afternoon was supposed
to be dead. His shroud was prepared;
and was about to be placed upon him.
The storm came up-the windows of
the room where he laid were open-the
cold air, charged with electricity, came
rushing in, and the supposed dead man
revived, and came to life He is alive
this morning, and probably will re-
cover" -
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10

SINGULAR MATRIMONIAL MIsTAKE.-
There has been good deal of gossip
occasioned at Wortley and Holbeck dur
ing the past week. The bride and
bridegroom, accompanied by an individ-
ual who was to act as the father and
give away the bride, presented them
selves for marriage at WORTHY Church,
on Sunday morning last. The cere-
.mony was gone through with the great
est solemnity, and the parties entered
the vestry to sign the register; and
strange to say, the bride had been mar
ried TO the father instead of the bride
groom. The clergyman having no
knowledge of the parties was entirely
free from blame, and said to the bride
(pointing to the father, "You are that
mans wife," "Oh, sir, that cannot be,
he is already married, and has small
family" OF course all parties were
amazed at the blunder, the clergyman
did not know what to do under the cir
cumstances until he got the advice of
some higher authority, and they were
requested to call again. The parties
went to church again on Monday, ac-
companied by the brides own father,
and were married properly.
iF- Leeds Times.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10

RAIN WATER AND CHoLERA.-A cor.
respondent of the Sandusky Register
thus refutes the opinion that the use Of
rain water, for drinking purposes, is a
sure preventive of cholera:
If it be, will DR.. Hobbs, and others
who advocate this theory, please ex-
plain why the cholera SO prevailed in
tn, city of Venice, in Italy, in 1880 and
IN 849? Venice is built in, and entire
y surrounded by the sea. Her princi-
pie streets are salt water canals, and
She has no fresh water, save what is
caught from the heavens. She is vel
supplied with cisterns;. and, in some o.
the public ones, such as that of the
ducal place, the water passing into them
is filtered though sand. Yet this beau,
tiful city, the queen of the sea- the
bride OF the Adratic,' the most whole.
some and salubrious of all cities in Ita.
ly, where no other than eistern water is
consumed, was, in 1880 and in 1a49
scourged with the cholera. AT the yery
time when the seourge was raging in in
st. Louis and other western towns with
its greatest violence, it was also raging
With equal violence, in Venice. WheI
at its greatest height it reached abou
400 eases per day, and nearly 5ot
deaths.
The city was, at the same time, be
seiged by the Austrian army, and The
people suffered many prIyations which
no doubt, added violence to the disease
and increased the mortality; but the
facts show conclusiyely that the exclu
siye use of rain ssatsr is not, by any
means, sure preventive. sss4
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10
no DrsrRor VERM1S IL Housns.-

To DESTROY VERMIS IN HoUsEs.-As
the warm season approaches, when
these ephemerides swarm and multiply,
the following simple remedy is sug-
gested to prevent late querist from
being Aea'd alive: Up,with your car
pets, down with your curtains. In
pailful of water (cold) mix well 1 lb. of
chloride of lime (haying first diluted it
into thin paste in bowl of water, for
facility of mixture;) with a mop wet
and saturate well the floor, skirtings,
and other wood work that viii not suffer
injury; then shut the doors and windows
close. If there should be suspicion
Of other tenants in the bedstead, take
that down too. In three or four hours
all will have disappeared or perished;
but to assure perfect immunity from the
plague, it might be well to repeat the
iustration a second time, l. e., day or
TWO after. A house infested with bugs
was completely expurgated on the
'econd process as above, at the cost Of
,nly 3d., together with the loss Of
mop burntup by the Auid.-1zs Briz8.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10
A Do-NorHINe CoNGREss.--T

A Do-NorHIsG CoSGREss.--The
Courier and Enquirer thus happily hits
the character of the present Congress:
Congress makes It its business to do
nothing, and this business is already
thoroughly disposed Of What did it
do yesterday? Nothing. The day be-
fore? Nothing. The day before that9
Nothing. Last week? Nothing, ex-
cept making Nothing of the Know No
things. Week before last? Nothing.
Last month? Nothing, but buy land
of Mexico where nothing grows. Month
before last? Nothing, but turn the
Missouri Compromise into nothing
The month before that? Nothing what
ever.'i s a'a
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10

A SENSIBLE PRAYER.-The chaplain
of the Indiana Legislature, recently
opened the session with a general prayer
which closed with the following eloquent
and sensible invocation. Parts of this
invocation, it strikes US, are well suited
to other meridians besides that of In
diana: And, o Lord, have mercy npon
our Legislators. Be with them and
bless them, even if they know thee not.
Spare their lives, and teach them to
glorify thy name. Hasten them to
their homes, where they may direct
their attention to good works and gen
eral usefulness among their families and
neighbors. May the people resolve to
keep them there, and in future elect
men Of sound morals and temperate
habits, so that good may result hereaf-
ter from legislation. Save the good
people of this State from the disgrace
which must follow if the same crowd
should again come here to make laws.
Hear US, Lord, and grant our prayer
Amen"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10

REV. L. Is. DooLEY Judge Nye, OF
Marietta. published the following letter
in the Hetelligeneer of that place AS it
relates to a subject which is generally
understood in this vicinity we insert it:
To tie Editor of the Marietta htelH.
SIR:-Recent and present circumstan-
ces. which have transpired, in and about
this place, make it proper, in my judg-
ment, and due to truth and justice, that
the document, of which a copy is an
nexed, should be made public; to cor
rect or prevent errors, or perversions,
in respect to the much wronged and ma
ligned clergyman to whom the same
was addressed. l therefore request oi
you that it may be printed in your
paper:
To tie ReV. Tzos. B. DoOley.
SIR:-Having duly received and ex-
amined the testimony, and the other
documents connected with your late
trial before an Ecclesiastical court of
the Diocese of Ohio, and finding that
the verdict of the court pronounced you
not guilty of the charge on which you
were presented,-I notify you that the
presentment is discharged, and you are
restored to the full privileges and pre-
negatives of a Presbyter of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church in these United
States. C. P. MoILvAIN.
Bishop Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in Ohio.
Having been present myself, at the
trial above mentioned, as one of Mr.. DIS
friends and advisers; and having, then
and thereupon,-as well as before that
trial,-made myself thoroughly ae-
quainted with the case, and possessed
myself with all the (accessible) facts
and evidence in it, propose, hereafter,
to follow this statement with some OBJ
servations and citations,-of, as think
opposite principles and authorities
appropriate to the subject and occasion;
but l now limit myself to what follows:
The above document is an affirmance
and confirmation-by the highest eccle-
siastical authority, (of the Diocese, to
which the clergyman named therein,
and the court, are, according TO the
Polity and Canons of the P. Z. Church,
subordinate,-of a verdict, and judg-
ment of aequittal, by the court, or
Board" after the most thorough in
vestigation and scrutiny of all the evi-
dence bearing upon the case which was,
or could be, produced in support Of the
presentment,-aided and backed, as the
prosecution was, by the very active and
exceedingly earnest efforts of others,
who took special and unusual interest
in sustaining the charge, and do not
hesitate, at all, to add. that the verdict
was and is,-as L verify think and be-
lieYe,-having been, myself, actively
engaged, in the position before named,
in testing the truth, or otherwise, and
value, Of the evidence adduced, the
true and proper result of the inyestiga-
ton and the evidence thereupon; and
that have been, and am, unable to
perceive or comprehend, how any right
ly capable, candid, and impartial mind,
could arrive, or come to, any other or
different conclusion upon the case.
BLAINE not before thou hast EXAM
ined the truth; understand first, and
then rebuke."
''He that answereth matter before
he heareth it, it is folly and shame
unto him." and right hearing is a
necessary preliminary and condition to !,
right judging and right speaking ]
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10

about old times, when we were boys
together, and he often reverts with
gratitude to the day when the writer Of
these lines saved him from an early
death. The Angel is good fellow
naturally, and though rather eccentric,
means well. He is not the only man
who has made his way in the world BY
blowing his own trumpet.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10

From the Rochester American Of July 25.
The WHEAT CRoP.-Haryesting is
about at an end IN this vicinity. Proba-
bly, the yield in Monroe county will ex-
ceed million of bushels, though if the
season had been entirely favorable, it
would have been fifty per cent. more
But even this quantity is pretty well for
a county containing only 800, 900 acres
of improved land, and less than 4OO, 600
in all
Machinery now lends the farmer ma
terial aid in the busy season of wheat
cutting. But for its help, the scarcity
of laborers would have been most seri-
ously felt this year, and portion of the
crop could hardly have been saved.
Machinery too, contributes to tighten
the labor of threshing. A large crop is
prepared for the miller's use in few
days. 1t was not so Is years ago. But
those were ''slow" times in the history
of Western New York agriculture.
What will be the opening price for
the new crop? Buyers say S1,5O.-
Farmers, on the other hand, with the
memory of 1926 fresh in their minds,
will be likely to turn deaf ear to any
such sound as twelve shillings. We do
not therefore, look for great influx OF
new wheat upon our market, unless the
price should reach or nearly approach
two dollars.
We have before us table of prices at
Albany for period of sixty-one years;
from 1888 to 1854. During all that
time, wheat reached the mark of 50
FIVE times only, while it was seventeen
times at 81 or under.
We shall not undertake to advise
farmers when to sell, or how much
The expense and labor of raising wheat
are not small; and we are always glad
to see them get remunerative prices
In this community, where newspapers
circulate freely, most agriculturists feel
qualified to form their own judgments
on matters concerning their own interest,
and they naturally receive counsel from
outsiders with jealousy. But there is
one rule of universal application in
trade, viz: when you get good price
it is safest to sell. What is considered
ga good price," is, however, an open
question. So we leave it.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10

H Some villain out West perpetra-
ted the following on sWoman's Right:
When @Woman's Rights" are stirred BIT.
The first reform she pitches on
Is. how she may, with least delay
Just draw a pair Of breechesOl
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10

BIOGRAPHY OF THE angel GABRIEL.
The New York Sunday Courier gives
the following as true history of the
famous street preacher generally known
as the Angel Gabriel 59t +