M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-08-23
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The Oregon Statesman nominates
General Joseph Lane as the Democratic
candidate for President in 1886.
The Attorney General OF the
State of New York has pronounced the
liquor law TO be unconstitutional.
The man who passed through
life without enemies could not have had
character worth depreciatiug.
-Laya good store of patience, but
be sure eno put it where you can find
it.
of twelve American surgeons
who have within few weeks gone ou;
TO join the belligerent armies of Europe,
nine attached themselves to the service
of the Car, and three have joined the
Allies.
Tile whole Of Upper Canada is
settling a fast as ans Western State
The population in 1850 was little over
one million. The cences of 1860 will
Oyergo three millions.
"A National Convention of color
ed men is called to assemble in Phila-
delphia on the 10Th OF October next to
further aud education, progress and ele-
Va.ion Of their race.
The attempt to sell the Pennsyl.
vania Public Works was failure, The
minimum price was seven and half
miillons,a ,at which there was no purcha.
ser, The sale was Indefinitely postpon.
ed.
1t is SGid that the wheat crop o.
Illinois will this season amount to II
least 100000 bushels. The larges
product Of Illinois hitherto has not been
more than 100000 bushels.
-Twenty-two thousand soldiers OF
the Austrian army in GalIlca have died
Of choleIa,a and the disease is still raging
10 a fearful extent.
james keenan,, in an interesting
letter about Japan, says that "s0 Gle" the
principal drink of the country is suppos-
ed TO consist OF souI whisky, tobacco
juice and aquafOrlis. Pleasant bever.
age.
--LATEST FAsmoNs.-Not much alter.
ations in fashions during the present
month. The waists Of ladies' dresses are
becoming shorter by degrees, while the
kirts.are'expOnding as palpably. 1t has
been. satisfactorily ascertaieG that forty
yards Of silk will make fashionable
skirt.
Choose ever the plairest road; it
always answers best. For the same rea,
son, choose ever to do and try what is
the most just aud the most direct
This conduct will save thousand
bushes and thousand struggles, aud
will deliver you from the secret torment
which are never failing attandants of
dissimulation.
The more man struggles with
adversely the stronger he becomes. II
deyelopes the onward resorseS" anna
zingly; therefore we advise all TO ge ac.
quainted with the adversely family
Reduce man 10 one slice of bread per
day, and thin, ragged shirt, ana he soon
becomes hero in his way.
Gov. Seymore of Connecticut, our
Minister to Russia, says that he saw no
troops in neither France or Englond
equal to the army Of TWO hundred thous-
and Russians at st. Petersburg, and vi
cinity. The Russians are superior in
size and discipline, through not equal 20
the Allies in spirit.
"A King Of Spain is said 10 have
roasted 10 death while attendants were
debating whose duty it was TO draw Kim
back from the fire. The Westminster
Review takes this for picture Of the
British Ministers sacrificing baave ar
my while parliament sits still, groaning
over gouty Generals.
Coon ADvIcE.-The venerable Peter
PickIeby said to his son Jake "Read
your Bible, study the Laws of Moses,
and don't repeal any CT them. Mind
the Ten Commandments, tn, and the
Eleventh likewise, and don't sell the
birthright OF Yankee nation for a mess
of potash; and the day may kun when
you'll be minister al the penitentiary or
q Sc cTetary of newpa lion" "