Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-11-18
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PoRTER's SPIRIT OF THE TIMEs.-We
have received several copies of this beau
tifully- printed weekly, but have said moth
ing about it as yet, for fear of being beset
by innumemble borrowers. We do not
care about reading it ourself but then we
know a great many persons who would be
hugely tickled with it, if they could only
get it for nothing. Some might even go
SO far as to pay for it, whereas they could
not be induced to pay for any other paper
AS we understand it, the Esprit" is de-
voted to horse-racing, gambling, dog-fght-
ing, carousing, hunting, fishing, dancing,
fun, frolic, fancy, and all sorts of d. viltry
It's just the paper to suit this community
OR would be, if our "rounders" could
read. 1t is published every Saturday, at
No. 346 and 348 Broadway, New York,
by William T. Porter, for SO a year.
Well bet dozen cigars, the "tall son
of a gun" will have list in Pomeroy with
in month.
"Right opposite to him." 248 Broad
way, is "Old Knick," himself-not the
venerable pyrotechnist, who has so many
faithful followers in this region, but a rich,
juicy periodical, ycleped the "Knicker-
booker Magazine, named in honor Of
our ancient friend Deidrich Knickelbocker,
whose valuable History of New York"
in early times caused us the loss of six
teen jacket-buttons-edited by broth
er of the brilliant and much -amented poet
and humorist-Willis Gaylord Clarke
sweet be his slumbers.
Is it good? Good! Why, you mullet-
head, how could it be otherwise? For the
cure of Liver Complaint Jaundice, Melan-
cholia, and all that class of direful ailments,
one dose of "old Knick" is equal to ten
boxes of "IIolloway's Pills" (notwith-
, standing the many "wonderful cures" we
are paid to publish for the Professor. j.
And then, again, it is not half so "hard
to take" neither is it so "costive" as old
T. used to say of his son Bob's trav-
l cling )-$3 worth will last you "hull
year, even if potatoes are four bits bush
} el. If you wish to try on, write to Sam
| Hueston-not old fuz-guz, down in Texas
5 but 24s Broadway, New York. And
l be sure you put the money in the letter; fol
: he won't do as we do--trust you for foul
, years, and then let you run off without
paying.
Next comes old Dly-as- dust, with a pic
ture on the cover of some old owl covered
with Scotch this!les. 1t is labeled, Black
woods Edinburg Magazine. Somehow
; we rather like the old fellow after all; bu
it won't sell IN this community people
can't understand it. One or two article!
in the present number augur rather too
well: the Others are excellent. If any o
our readers should want to try it, all they
q have to do, is 10 write to Leonard Scott q
=, Co., 10 Fulton-st., N. Y, enclosing SO.
|, "Ah! here we have something nice, ant
e no mistake" (as the auctioncers say, whel
c their customers evince disposition t'
+ leave.) 1t ought to be nice; tits intended
d for the ladies; certainly nothing can be to-
:. nice for them. 1t is "Petcrson's Ladies
,r National Magazine" edited by Mrs. AMI
n S. Stephens, and Charles ]. Peterson.
> This magazine always was, in our opn
II ion, the best Of its class, though not s.
,r popular as some others. 1t is also tn
to cheapest, being only SO year, while th
le others are So To clubs, it is still cheap
n er, three copies for S., five for ST so, ant
: :. eight for $40, with splendid premium t
> the person getting up the club. Grea
At Improvements are promised for 1857. Th
'y reading matter will be increased to 900 pa
III ges year. Mrs. Southworth, whose pc
. is constantly "runnen emptyin's" is en-
b. gagged for the next year. She wastes NOR
e. ink and paper than any woman in Amer
D. ca. But, then, there will be plenty {
~ other matter in the National, worth read
h. ing. If you want it, address Charles J
ur Peterson, No. 102 Chestnut-st, Phila.
ID And here is something serious-somt
It, thing for Christians. Sorry we have S
III few of that class here. We have no lac
=, of meeting -houses, or church-goers, {
ed professors, or sectarian controversalists-
Id plenty of such, and to spare. But whel
',h shall we look for pure, genuine, Bib
~ Christians-men and women who exhib
ho in their walk and conversation, by the