The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1854-01-04
VOLUME XXV.-Number s.
CARRIERS ADDRESS,

CARRIERS ADDRESS.
Kind Friends and Patrons one and ALL
I've come to make my annual call;
With homely phrase. but heart sincere,
To wish you all a HAPPY YEAR
Last night Old Time, with ruthless shears
Clppd off the link that bound the years,
And droppd our old friend Fifty Three
Into the past eternity.
Know we, friends, what report it bore
To that irrevocable shore,
Where record is laid up on high
Unread till Time himself shall die,
Of deeds misdone and days misspent,
While through its rapid course it went?
Have we wen used it as it ran,
And squared accounts, like prudent man
!. Or has it, as in former years.
Left us in long and dark arrears2
But must not forget my task,
My business is to tell not ask;
I'll ope my budget and explain,
What from my labors you may gain.
speck of war is in the north,
The restless Bear is bristling forth.
Threatening with angry paw and thrust
To crush the Crescent in the dust
Forbear, rash brute, to dare thy fate.
For Moslem zeal and Paynim hate
May teach thee that thy boreal SHOWS
Alone can yield thee safe repose.
Or shouldst thou, backd by treacherous Hawk,
Forth from thy frozen fortress stalk,
And threaten southern fields with war,
A Lion watches thee afar;
And Tricolor and Fzeur de hs
Would furnish aught but sport for thee.
Polonian rebel in thy rear, - F
Shall find employ for sword and spear;
Hungarian patriot burst his thraI
And on thy flank vindictive fall,
And, from far distant continent,
The Eagles eye is on thee bent.
But truce to foreign themes and come
To look at matters home. -4f ..-.
Bless us, what's this so long and fiercei
Presidents sMessage-FRANkLIN PIERCE;
Yes, here's genuine document,
Go read it to your hearts content.
On Congress, too, eye weH cast,
After the holidays are past.
The Maine Law, which we didn't get
But mean to have before we quit,
And agitation wrong or right
Shall be the burden of our fight
At Folger's now wen just get down,
And take glance at our good town,
Our Hotels here about the street.
I'm bold to say it. can't be beat,
Landlords, ,landlades, walters all
Attentive to the slightest call
And on their tables bills of fare,
Ofnatiyes and exotics rare,
To furnish every railroad crew
With luxuries and-dyspepsia too
Our Merchants-honorable men:
The Alessrs. Yardsticks-upper ten
What worlds of goods and wares they keep,
And sell for cash-or produce-cheap;
Come one and all, they're sure to suit ye,
With patterns of surprising beauty.
Our Doctors, one, two three, four,-twenty,
And patent medicines than plenty,
For all diseases quantum suff.-
None of your potecaries' stuff
But roots and herbs and barks of trees,
And such like simple things as these.
Here's doctor Blue, and doctor Blister,
Doctor Crisis, doctor Clyster
Doctor Sponge and doctor Gas,
NJ. D. F. r. T. A. S. S.
: And Hydro Homeo-path
With cold, hot warm, and tepid baths.
And Uroscopes and Analyts,
To mend your waters worms and fts-
And doctor-Phoebus what name
Hy drargyrum! 'tis so-the same;
Oh deari my jaws ache, can't speak 'em,
Worse than that frightful rerbuna Grrcum
Spermagoraiolekitholasit
Fit only to be spoke on holidays"
But heresa class of sterling men;
Not brags, nor quacks nor upper ten,
But real gents, wei off to live;
Good bone and muscle-middle FIVE
With steaming brows and stalwart hands,
Getting their living off their lands.
III take you to their cattle shows,
To see their oxen, horses, plows,
Their Hens and Chickens, Sheep and shotes,
And Wheat and Corn, and Rye, and Oats,
And every thing that they think,
4 For man beast to eat or drink.
They'll tell you how to plant and sow;
And make your horses reap ard NOW.
All this you'll learn and more by far,
If you just patronize the Star.
And now to patrons of all ranks,
The post-boy tenders many thanks,
Hopes eighteen hundred ffty-four
Will bless your basket and your store;
That Heaven will give propitious soil,
And well reward the laborer's toll,
That virtue, happiness and peace.
In all your dwellings may increase,
And crown your lives with every joy;
Thus prays your grateful
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