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Good and Cheap Articles.

The Ladies shall be promptly waited upon,
and can have any article in our line manu- ac-
tured or repaired to order and on short notice.
1--WE shall adopt as an invariable rule
No disappointments when work is promised.
Shop two doors north OF the brick store at
the sign OF "Tin Shop" across the side walk.
Rags and most articles of country Pro-
duce taken in exchange. Call and ses US.
May 3, 1855. IF.
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"1ANT TO buy groceries, drugs and med.
w icines, paints and oils, 80 10 ". b
PerShlng's store, where he is just receiving q
fresh supply OF everything in n line o: trade,
and Will sell them at the loves. cash prices
and give the highest market price for all kinds
OF grain, pork, butter, eggs. seneca snake
root, genseng, lady slipper, yellow root, blood
root, beeswax and money.
May 10, 1855. SGT
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PATENT MEDICINES
S@GSaDQD~

$SaD0De
INHE undersigned offers for sale on terms of
easy payment, the North half of Lot No.
ten. [ 10 in Plymouth, with dwelling house and
improvements, A bargain offered. Apply to
the owner ANSON SulNABARGER.
Plymouth Jan. /, 1855, 42m3
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r. NJ. BROWN
MANUFACTURERS OF
in, Sheet Iron and Copperware,

Ny0ULD most respectfully inform the
w citizens of Marshall county, that they
arc now under full Roadway, and are prepared
10 furnish any article in their line, a shade
lower than customers have heretofore been
in the habit OF paying, and perhaps little
lower than any other ESTABLISHING Mt in this part
of Northern Indiana.
We are practical workmen ourselves, and
manu- acture our own wares o. the veiy best o.
stock. and as we intend making il permanent
buslness--perhapS for lie, our customers may
rest assured that we will sell them none but
Plymouth weekly banner. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1856, 1855-09-20

CrOckcry, &c,
Which will be sold at Laporte prices and no
mistake. Nothing will be added for transport
tation from Laporte TO this place.
We are comparative strangers TO the citizens
of Marshall county, but we hope they will IA
vor US with opportunity to show them that our
prices Will not be any higher, at all events,
than the present Plymouth prices. They may
be little lower. However, come and try us,
as in trying, you will certainly be finding out.
We are expecting in few days, direct from.
New York, lot of Ladies' fl mcy Dress
Goods of the very latest styles, to which
we shall invite the especial attention of the
Lad es. We shall have and intend keeping
constantly on hand as
Good N1s assortment
As auy other store in town. Gail and exam
inc our goods and get the prices before pur-
chasing elsewhere. that you may be sure you
are getting your goods at fair prices.
All kinds OF Produce taken in exchange
for goods. MILO. & Co.
March %, 1855. - sif,
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ROOasaS Fog RPasE.

NWO or three comfortable and convenient
Il up stairs rooms over my store, for rent
They are suitable for Offices or shops. Enquire
d G. PALMER.
March %, 1855. Itf
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The Russian. have taken serastopol,
Plymouth weekly banner. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1856, 1855-09-20
DR.. LEaION,

Thankfulfor pastpatrorsge and confidence,
still continues his practice, and can al all
times be found at the store, or his residence,
when not absent on business.
Get, S, 1888. altf
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Cheapest
CL,oEHING

Ever brought tn this market, he Inyiies his
customers and the public generally 10 ce b "a
call at the oil stand Ia tie north room g.
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Fancy Goods.
39atrut MeOicimta,

Baskets, Cheese Screens, ano al, thar SORT of
thing ''Sure as you're yorn,' we Will sell
as cheap as any man can and live, and if
you Il drop In and tell us what you want i'm
ouriInt, you can have il at low figures, and
an article that willd.yoa good.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19
WINTER EVENINGS

How do you spend your winter eve-
ningSi
"Tell me how you spend your winter
evenings" said gentlemen addressing
a congregation of young men, ''and l
will tell you what position you will oc-
cupy in the world ten years hence. -
This portion of the day is yours for self.
improvement, Tor recreation, or for pleas
uTe and It's use or abuse will effect in
caleulably your future character. Do
you spend ii at the drinking saloon, the
card liable, or as an idle lounger at low
places of amuSements? Do you waste
your health, exhaust your energies. and
debase your minds by vulgar pleasures ?
Do you pass your winter evenings aim
lessly, lis.iessly, doing nothing, or doing
something, just as it happens Or have
you set them apart for some definite and
worthy pursuits ? Have you resolved to
devote some 10 a course of lectures; some
to the enjoyment of virtueOus society ;
some to the house OF prayer Have
you resolved to pass your evenings in
tha' which shall tend to make you strong
cr and better for each tomorrow.
81 never had any time to study but
the winter evenings said lad who
passed an examination for college with
marked ability;
"Oh, my God. 1 was ruined in the
winter evenings" exclaimed a young
clelk. who came home to be laid in a
drunkaId's grave.
Eoys. take care how you spend your
Winter Evenings Chld's Pqper.
Love knows no poetry; nor can II be
lasting except when founded on esteem.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19
FEMALE HEALTHA AND EDUCATION.

The following paragraphs are extract
ed from Miss Beecher's new work:
The work that Providence has ap-
pointed for woman in the various details
of domestic life. is Just that whicht If
properly apPortioned, is fitted to her pub
lie organization. If all the female mem
bers of a family divided all the labors OF
the cook, the nurse, the laundresS, and
the seamstreSs, so that each should have
four or five hours day of alternating
light and heavy work. it would exercise
every muscle in the body. and at the
same time interest and exercise the mind.
Then the remaining time could be safely
given to intellectual. social and benevo-
lent pursuits and enjOyments.
But no such division is made. One
portion of the women have all the exer-
else Of the nerUes Of motion and another
have all the brain a0Ork, while they thus
grow up d ficient and deformed. either
intellectually or physically, or bo;h.-
And so American women every year be-
come more and more nervous, sickly and
miserable, while they are bringing into
existence feeble, delicate and deformed
offspring.
We are convinced that this statement,
terrific as it is, is no exaggeration, and
may be confirmed by thousands of cases
very near US, and not among those who
are called ignorant. or thoughtIess, or
unkind. 1t seems to me that the educa-
ton oil our daughters is more badly man
aged than anything in American society,
and in some respects the position that is
regarded as the most favored is exactly
the opposite. If any enemy of the human
race, who wished 10 destroy the hope of
the nation could devise any more effec-
tual method of breaking down the health
of girls than the method pursued by our
current fashions, he must be gifted with
superior human integrity.
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GBoite aflisttIIanpg.
From the Litchtield (Conn-) Enquire
THE CAPTIVES.
A NARRATIVE OF REAL LIFE.


Almost incredible is the recital of the
hardships and sufferings from savage
cruelty, to which the ear y emigrants to
our Western settlements were exposed.
With very few of the comforts Of life,
and none of its luxuries, they penetrated
deep into the dark and unbroken forest,
erected their rude habitation, and placed
within its unembellished walls their
wives and little ones. All they possessed
on earth thus insecurely reposed in the
bosom of solitude and danger. The
sound of the hoarse winds as they rushed
heavily through the branches of the tall
trees around their dwelling, was often
mingled with the tread and growl of the
wild BEAST and the willy ap roach of the
more ferocious and deadly savage. And
often too was the mid day stiffness of the
forest broken by the expiring shrieks of
these lonely emigrants, as they were
struck down on their own thresholds by
the hands of barbarians, whose work of
death no weakness or supplication could
in the least avert. Difficult il is to real
ize that amidst these peaceful hills and
wales, where cities and clustering villa.
ges and a thousand hamblets so joyfully
repose, scarce century ago such horrid
scenes existed. And while thus securely
dwelling, we listen to the recital of such
deeds of darkness, we can scarce believe
them other than the wild legends of ro-
nance. But instances there :are of
those with whom we have associated,
and from whose lips We have heard such
recitals, who saw and participated in
those scenes of suffering.
Soon after the French and Indian
war;" Mr. Nathaniel Carter removed
from Killingworth 10 Cornwall in this
county, where he purchased and settled
upon the farm now owned and improved
by Caleb Jones, Esq, where he resided
for some years. But, as the tide of en-
igration was al that time settling from
New England towards the pleasant and
fertile valleys of the Delaware and Sus-
quehanna, iu Pennsylvania, early in
1868, Mr.. Carter, with some of his har-
dy neighbors, began 10 make prepara-
tons for removing thither. The ac-
counts which they had received of that
country, had filed them OF glowing an
ticipations, though they were by no
means unmindful of the fact that the life
OF pioneer was one of hardships and
peril. Mr.. C-'s family al this time con-
sited of a wife and six children-Jemi-
ma, the eldest daughter. having short
time before been married 10 Mr.. JOHN
Bates, of Warren. The oher children
were Nathan. Sarah, aged eleven years,
Elizabeth eight, Nathaniel six, and an
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19

1885. Among her children were the
Mr.. Lyman Oviatt, of Goshen; Heman
Oviatt, Esq, awealthy and enterprising
citizen ofHudson, Ohio, and distinguished,
as liberal patrons of the College at that
place an! Mr. Nathaniel 0viatt, of
Richfeld, Ohio. The children OF Mr..
Carriers eldest daughter, Jemima, were
the late Mr.. John Bates, of Kent the
late Isaac Bates, of Warren Dea. Ma
thaniel Carter Bates, recently of this
town.
Nathaniel grew up among the Indians,
imbibed their habits. and married one of
their daughters. 1t is a remarkable cir
cumstalce that among the articles which
the Indians carried away with their cap
tives was a Bible-which they after
wads gave to their young favorite. He
had previously learned to read; and by
means of this book, which he kept till
manhood, he ever retained that knowl,
edge. He died in the Cherokee nation,
at the age of about seventy.
Some years since, while the Foreign
Mission School was in operation at Corn
vail, Mr.. Isaac Bates, we'll known as a
warm friend of the School, received a
letter from a missionary among the In
dians, stated that he had sent on to be
educated a young halt breed Indian, of
fine talents and exemplary piety. named
Carter expressing wish that he would
become acquainted with him. An early
acquaintance with the young man. was
accordingly sought by Mr.. Bates, and
greatly to his surprise and gra'ification,
he discovered in him son Of The long
lost captive! The youth remained at
the sceool for a considerable time, fire.
quently visiting his relatives in this vi
cinity: and at length, after completing
studies, he returned to his native coun-
try with view of preaching the gospel.
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WHOLE NO. 2O4S

shall appear as a swift witness against
you in the day of Judgment"
"I presume So" says one. ''for the
biggest rogue always turns state's evi-
dence."
Mathew, when he got to the meeting.
related the incident.
"And what did you say in reply, Mr..
Wilkes?" asked one of the ministers pre-
sent
"What could II" was the character
istic reply.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19

IT is stated in the Friends Latslzigsa-
Ger, that from statistics recently publish
ed in England, while the average dura-
ton of human life is estimated at 80
years-that among the Friends is an
average of 81 years. Eighteen years
thus added to the average of human life
is fact too remarkable not to challenge
medical attention, and lead US te a close
investigation of the laws of life.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19
aDOttrg.
From the Rochester Democrat
RE GENTLE TO THY HUSBAND.
BY MRS R. ?. ESos-

BY MRS R. ?. ESos-
Be gentle to thy husband,
Remember, all day long,
Amid the lin and tumult.
He bustles with the throng.
No wonder that the noble brow
Grows cIouded with the care
That presses on his heart and hands
While he is struggling there.
And when the night has gathered home
The loved one to his rest;
Be gentle-if no smile appear.
There's sorrow in his breast.
Wis true, you miss the welcome voice,
Whose tones aIe always kind,
And long to raise the cloud that casts
A shadow on his mind.
Yet, never fear, that through it all
Thy presence is not blest.
For like the sunshine, through the storm,
It brings sweet thoughts Of rest.
And many times, when labor-tossed,
Thy gentle tones have come,
and made glad music in his heart,
"Thanks be for thee-and home"
Be sure, although he speaks it not,
Thou art the star. whose ray
Makes life, and gildeth all
In Hfe's dark, rugged way.
And so be ever gentle,
Kind words and deeds from thee
Do more towards making labor light,
Than ever thou could'st see.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19

We are so made, that each of US re-.
CARDS himself as the mirror of the COM
munity; what passes in our minds infal-
libly seems to US history of the uni
verse. Every man is like the drunkard
who reports an earthquake, because he
feels himself staggering.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19

Again thou comest. wild December.
Bearing in thy arms bier;
Coldly bidding US remember,
Soon will die the poor old year;
Then the streams will cease their singing
And the fields he robed in white;
And the sleigh bells, merry ringing,
Sound upon the frosty night.
Starlike eyes are brighter growing,
And in Sweden's distant land,
Where the red Yule fires are glowing.
Dance with glee a mirthful band.
Decked is now each church with holly.
and along that northeI n shore,
In the midnight, melancholy
Sounis the wintry oceans roar.
Thou art cherries, cold December,
Yet thou bringest Joy to me;
For thy sire well remember,
Found me on the lone, wide sea;
Distant far from one who loved ne,
One whose faith all change defed;
Blessings on the saints above me,
Now she's seated by my side.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19

DANCING is hilarious sport-stilting
the spirits nightly. and sending the
blood tingling through ones veins as if
each drop was on an individual ''bust;;"
and ii is an accomplishment with which
all persons may become well acquainted; /;
but the toe, though unquestiOnably one,
is not the ''chief end of man."
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19

Two things 10 be kept--your word and
your temper. The former when dealing
with printer. and the latter when dis
putting with woman. This may be diff
ticult, SHt it can De done by getting q
couple of chapters OF JOB by heart.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19

All reasoning must take something for
granted. bat disputants often take differ
ent things for granted, and don't try or
don't know how to explain their premi-
ses; so that men are continually arguing
without convincing.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19

bers of the old due bills were found
among the old mans few papers, after
his death, written with his own plain
honest hand--not after any business
form-and always spelt so as to be un-
derstood, and many of them yellow with
age. He was not what you call ten.
der hearted man, but he was considerate
of the poor and thought it beneath man
that any should suffer when there was
enough, many of them, 10 bring the year
about, especially in cold seasons and
he said they must be seen to- And
he did see to them, the glorious old
man.
1t wasn't for the name of it--for he
did not mean 10 know anything about
the name of doing things. And it wasn't
for salvation-'giving to the poor be-
cause it was tending to the Lord He
wasn't a religious man-that is, he new
er made profession. Religious people
about him did not like it that he didn't,
though their chief uneasines was that he
always did so well that it made them ap
peer to disadvantage. He always was
right in all he did and said. l don't be-
lieve he did or said single wrong thing,
or thing that was out of the way, or
that was unhandsome, all the time he
lived in Campton. All that time for
fifteen years, no man said loud word
against him. And it grew to be prov
erb; that mans word was as good as
Colonel Holmes"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19

A potatoe merchant, at Baltimore,
who had lately married, after a breach
of promise to another lady, was follow
ed to market on Saturday by the injured
fair one and severely cowhided. The
lady cut him severely about the face,
and greatly dis6gured his physiognomy.
The occurrence caused a great deal of
talk in the market. and in order to get q
sight at a man who was whipped by
woman, many persons called upon him
for their potatoes, and in short time he
had disposed Of his stock, and returned
to his newly welded wife, by whom he
was doubtless consoled.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19

GOD's people are like stars, that shine
brightest in the night; they are like gold,
that is brighter for the furnace; like in
cense, that becomes fragrant from burn
ing; like the camomile plant, that grows
the fastest when tTampled upon.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19

WHAT meaning and unique express
sion was that of a young Irish girl,
who was rendering testimony against
an individual in court of law a short
time since. "Arrah, SIR" said she,
''I'm shure he never made his mother
smile p There is biography of un-
kindness in that simple sentence.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19

IF girl thinks more of her heels than
of her head, depend upon it she will new
er amount to much. Brains which set
tie in the shoes, never get above them.
Young gentlemen will please put this
down.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19

If you are determined to commit sui
eide in consequences of poverty, do it
early in the morning, instead Of late at
night, and you will save the expense Of
three meals.
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DO IT YOURSELF, BOYS.

Do not ask the teacher, or some class
mate to solve that hard problem. Do it
yourself. You might as will let them
eat your dinner, as edo your sums" for
you. 1t is studying. as in eating; he
that does it gets the benefit, and not he
that sees it done. In almost any school,
l would give more for what the teacher
learns, than for what the best scholar
learns, because the teacher is compelled
to solve all the hard problems, and an
swer the questions of the lazy hcys. Do
not ask him to parse the difficult words
or assist YOU in the performance Of any
of your studies. Doit yourself. Never
mind, though they look as dark as Egypt.
Don't ask even a hint from any body
Try again. Every trial increases your
ability, and you will finally succeed by
dint of the very wisdom and strength
gained in the effort, even though at first
the problem was beyond your skill. 1t
is the study and not the answer, that
really rewards, your pains.
Look at that boy who has just sue
ceeded, after six hours of hard study,
perhaps; how his large eye is lit up with
proud joy, as he marches to his class-
He treads like conqueror. And well
he may. Last night his lamp burned
late, and this morning he walked at
dawn. Once or twice he nearly gave
up. He tried his last thought but
new thought strikes him as he ponders
the last process. He tries once more
and succeeds; and now mark the air of
conscious strength with which he pro-
nounces his demonstration. His poor,
weak sahoolmate who gave up that same
problem on his first faint trial, now looks
up to him with something of wonder, as
Il superior being. And he is his supe-
rior. That problem lies there, great
gulf between those boys who stood side
by side. They will never stand togeth
er equal again. The boy that did it
for himself has taken a stride upwaads,
and what is better still, has gained
strength to take other and greater one.
The boy who waited to see others do i, ,
has lost both strength and courage, and
is already looking for some excuse to give
up school and study forever COnnecti-
cat School Journal.
4 CUP OF CoFFEE.- Henry Ward
Beecher has realizing sense" of what
good coffee is. He writes thus:
Breakfast is ready. a most useful
and salutary custom is that of breakfast.
One may work with the hands without
breakfast, but not with the head. The
machine must be wound up. The blue
must be taken out of your spirits and the
gray out of your eyes-a cup of coffee,
home Drowned, home ground, home
made, that comes to you dark as hazel
eye, but changes to golden bronze as
you temper it with cream. from its birth,
thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly yellow.
neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java;
such cup of coffee is match for twen-
ty blue devils, and will exercise them
all. Involuntarly one dra VS. in his breath
by the nostrils; the fragrant SAVIOR fills
his senses with pleasure-lor no coffee
can be good in the mouth that does not
send sweet Offering of olor 10 the nos
trils."
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19

If seventy-two words are required in
common law to make a sheet, how is it
that one word will sometimes make a wet
/ blanket
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19
THE HEATHEN.

A Sunday school teacher was in the
practice of taking up collection in his
Juvenile class for missionary objects eve-
ry Sunday, and his box received scores
of pennies, which otherwise would have
found their way to the drawers OF the
confectioner and toy man.
He was not little surprised. however,
on Sunday, to find bank bill crushed
in among the weight of copper. He was
not long in finding it to be Ibrokep
bank, and on asking the class who put
it there, the doner was pointed out BY
his schoolmates, who had seen him de-
posit it, and thought it very beneVo-
lent gift.
Didn't you know this bill was good
for nothing ?" asked the teacher.
Eyes" answered the boy.
"Then what did you put it in the box
for ?''
81 didn't s'pose the little heathens
would know the difference, so thought
1t would do just as well for them"
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DECE n BE r .

By Z. CURTIS HINE, U. S. n.