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M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-01-22
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Be kind to thy father-for 10, on his brow
Many.race of sorrow are seen;
Dwell maye'st thou cherish and comfort him now
For loving and kind he hath been;
Be kind TO thy father-for now he is old,
Ills locks intermingled with gray;
His footsteps are feeble, once fearless and bold;
Thy father is passing away.
Be kind to thy mother-for when thou vert young
Who loved thee so fondly as shea tongue
She caught the first accents which fell from thy
And joinedin thine innocent glec.
Remember thy mother-for thee will she pray,
AS long as God givoth her breath;
With accents ofkndness then cheer her lone way,
Fen to the dark valley Of death.
Bo kind to thy brother-his heart win have death
If the smile of thy love be withdrawn
Tho flowers of feeling will fade at their birth,
If the dew of affection be gone,
Be kind to thy brother wherever thou art,
The love of brother shall bo
An ornament richer by far
Than pearls from the depths of the sea,
Be kind to thy sistor-not many may know
Tho depth of true sstorly love.
The wealth ofthe ocean lies fathoms below
The surface that sparklos above. [hours
Thy kindness shall bring to thee many sweet
And blessings thy pathway to crown;
Affection shall weave her garland of flowers,
More precious than wealth and rcnown.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-01-22

The following items are from the
London Punch:
SEVERITY OF THE SEAsoN.--A Gym
ical old bachelor overhearing a small
wag remark, the other evening,
that a lady in a waltz and a fashion
able petticoat was only to be likened
to a travelling circus, had the brutal
effrontery to add an observation that
the resemblance alluded to was not
alone in point Of magnitude, but was
carried out still further by the aggra-
waiting fact of there being in both ca
ses a fool in the center.
THERE'S NOTHING IN IT.-The elec-
tors of Southwark have been present
ing Sir Charles Napier with hat
1t seems to us a piece of the most su-
blime mockery, that we should really
laugh at it five were not so unfeeling,
to present a hat to a man who has
SO completely lost his head!
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-01-22
Stltttt0 gtotits.
Il III Il VISI NJ:
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"Truth Stranger than Fiction"

During the early part of the reign
OF George III, there lived in an obscure
village Of Ireland, a family in the mid
die walks Of life, named Cunning. They
were not richly endowed with this
worlds goods but possessed sufficient
for all the comforts, if not the luxuries
of life. Matthew Cunning was far
mer by profession, Gf so It may be
called,) and had he possessed that
spirit Of frugality, which seems al
most unknown to the Irish nation, he
might have been wealthy man; as it
was, he generally followed the princi-
pie of "letting tomorrow take care of
ITSELF" His wife lad been the will
age belle, and still retained traces of
that extraordinary beauty which had
excited the admiration Of all who be-
held her. Two girls were the sole
fruits of their union, who promised,
even in infancy, to equal ifnot surpass
their mother in personal charms; and
that mothers whole soul was bound
up in them. Being near of an age,
the children were constantly together;
and the sprightly Lizzie and the fairy
Louisa were spoiled by both young
and old in the village of E..
One summer afternoon, fatigued with
their sports, the infant sisters threw
themselves upon the grass beneath a
willow which enshadowed their pa
rents cottage, and with the fair round
cheeks of Louisa pillowed upon the
tresses of Lizzie, and their dimpled
limbs and snowy robes thrown into
strong relief by the rich wavy sward,
they presented a picture which Law
renee would have longed to transfer
to canvass. The mother, as she sat
with her spinning wheel in the deep
embrasure of the window watched them
as they slept, and unconsciOusly her
thoughts wandered into the future -
and, with a mothers fond anxiety,
speculated upon their future career.
AS she unused, she too fell into a
gentle slumber, and the visions of her
musings assumed, as it were a tangi-
bic shape, "a local habitation and a
name," and like a phantasmagoria
passed before her. She fancied her.
selfin London, that great city of which
Bhe had heard so much, and she SEEM
ed an invisible spectator of a scene that
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-01-22

A SLIGHT MIsAPPREHENsIoN.-The
Philadelphia Times tells a story of
deaf politician Of the days of Martin
Van Buren--which has probably had
its counterpart since:
sit was a few days after the elect
ion and news was pouring in of Van
Buren defeats ON all'sides. Mr.. Wor-
thington, the rather venerable editor
of the Columbus, Miss, Democrat,
was among those who was terribly
annoyed by " jobs comforters." He
was somewhat deaf and rather irrita-
BILE. In passing along the street an
acquaintance saluted him and enqui.
red kindly, "How is your family, Mr.,
Worthington9" Worthington, suppo-
sing that the inquiry related to the
political news Of the day, responded;
aAll gone to HI, Sir-all gone 10
h--l!"
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-01-22
NIOlnentOus Question for
Young ladies.

The courts have found it very diff,
cult to determine what an "offer" is
and, instead of defining that delicate
matter an engagement" by metes
and bounds, have allowed suits,
brought to recoverda damages for lovers
broken oaths, to depend upon the cir
cumstances Of each case. So that the
deserted swains, who had an idea that
they were "engaged to be married" /"
have often failed to convince a jury
of that fact, and false lovers, on the
other hand, have many times been
mulcted in damages for "breach Of
PROMISE" when they had never-in
so many words-"ofered themselves"
A "breech of promise" case has
lately been tried in England which
revealed a very strong point in favor
ofthe discarded lady, inasmuch as the
court decision establishes the fact that
even dismissal, written in pet, and
from a wish to bring the recusant low
er again to her feet, does not in
law amount to q release. 1t sane
tious, in full, the long established
Byronic advice,
Piquo him and soothe in turn, soon passion
crowns thy hopes.
Lovers must be on their guard, fol
they have olteR presumed upon their
power, by treatinga dismissal as in
earnest, or as the ebulition Of momon'
tary pettishness just as they felt inclin.
ed. Courts, however, now exercise
the right of constituting words accor'
ding to the real intention, and have
solemnly decided that what has beer
considered only poetry is indeed
fact.
If she do frown, 'ts not in hate of you,
But rather to beget moro love in you:
If she do chide, tits not to have you gone;
For-gety0 y0u g0ne-sho doth not mean-aWdy
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-01-22

been alive, she might indeed have
thought her fairy dream fully re-
allied.
No person who was not spectator
can conceive the rage for the fair sis
ters that was evinced by the fashiona-
BILE world. Walpole in his letters
speaks of it as the most extraordinary
thing that happened for CENTURIES
Selwyn, the famous wit, was a devoted
friend of the elder sister and eYinced
it for many a year. And now comes
the crowning scene in the sleeper's
dream
The duke Of Hamilton, one Of the
most courted and admired mobiles, and
at whose approach managing rnammas
famed themselves violently, so as to
appear unconcerned, and the uncon-
scious daughters looked down and
Smelt oftheir boquets, whose move
ments watched by many a glittering
eye and anxious heart; he, the young
and naughty Duke of Hamilton and
Brandon, was vanquished by the
charms of the young Elizabeth; and
before the end of the season, the ducal
coronet was in reality placed upon
those shining tresses. In the course of
a fortnight from her sisters marriage,
louisa married the Marquis Of Co.
ventry.
The rest of their career is known to
all the world! Who has not heard Of
the shoemaker who made upward Of
two guineas by exhibiting a slipper he
was making for Lady Coventry at a
penny a head9 And also read with
amazement, ola thousand persons who
sat up all night around the doors Of a
hotel to see the Duchess of Hamilton
enter her carriage at an early hour the
next morning3 Who would have
dreampt that the daughters of an hum
bic Irish farmer should thus become
an integral ofthat naughty aristocracy
of England? But so it was: and the
bright haired Lizzie, who reclined be-
meath the willow, hushed to sleep by
the music of her mothers spinning
wheel, lived to become the wife Of two
Dukes and the mother of fourl (For
after the death Of her first husband,
she married the Duke of Argyle)
There is scarcly an instance on re-
cord which more clearly proves that
"truth is sometimes stranger than
felton," than the history of the moth
erless daughters of Matthew Cunning.
Lddy's Wreath.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-01-22

PARAFFINA.--The editor of the St.
Louis Republican has had exhibited
to him a specimen of candle made
from parafina, a product Of Breckin-
ridge coal. Its appearance is that Of
white wax, is hard as the spermace-
ii candle. A gentleman Of Louisville
has been experimenting with parath-
ma, and believes that next to sperma-
ceti, it will make the best candles in
market. The Breckenridge coal yields
the substance in great abundance, and
promises in this respect, as in others, to
be the most remuneratlve coal mines
in the West. We believe this expert
ment in candle-making from this ma
terial is the first in the United States.
1t is curiosity and will excite sur
prise in the minds Of those who assO-
ciate with coal only ideas of blackness
and dirt.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-01-22
Total Sugar and Molasses ...... s9s, ,s0l COS

More than three-quarters ofoursup-
ply come from the Spanish West In
dian colonies of Cuba aud Porto Rico.
Upon this Cuban sugar there is an ex-
port duty ofseventeen and half cents
upon every hundred pounds, which
enhances the price so much to the con-
sumerS in this country. 1t is not in
the power ofthis Government, there
fore, by taking off our sugar import
duty, to control the price Of the arti-
Gle, for the Spanish authorities might
increase it at any time by adding to
their export duty. There is but one
way ofgetting our sugar cheap, and
that is by annexing Cuba to the Uni
ted States. Gin. Eng.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-01-22
THE DANGER OF WEARING Hoop

TIE DANGER OF WEARING Hoops.
One evening recently, on which the
wind blew furiously, young lady in
Peekskill, N. Y, was struck by gust
Of wind while passing along one Of
the streets which skirt the ravine that
divides that village, and her dress be-
ing, of course, according to the latest
fashion, the force of the tempest a.
gainst the dry goods was so great as
to blow her completely of her feet
and down an embankment. She struck
the ground with such severity as to in
jnre her very seriously. What rem
dered the accident much more alarm
ing was the fact that it occurred in
the night, when she was returning a.
lone from church, and it was some
two hours after the unfortunate occur
renee before her friends learned of the
the serio.comical cOntretempS.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-01-22

A RUSSIAN RAILRoAD.-Nicholas
the First, Of Russia, had quite an orig
inal way Of transacting business. He
sent one day for his engineers, and
gave them eight days to bring him the
route of railroad to connect st. Pc
tersburg with Moscow. AT the end
of the allotted time the plan was pre-
pared.
/" What" said he, looking at it,
"what is all this-----this serpentine
track You must have miSunder-
stood me-"
"Sire," said the spokesman, Eve
have drafted the shortest route which
would embrace on the line the lead
ing towns and villages"
"Give me a pencil and rule" he
said, and he struck a bee.line from
one city to the other. "Here-you
understand me 2"
But, sire, you leave the large
towns entirely out Of sight"
"That is their affair; let them
come within sight"
And so the road was built as straight
as an |.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-01-22
Gbe 9flt9rtbur 9enrotrat.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
PEARCE a. SPENCE.

ALEX. PEARCE. JOHN t. SPENCE.
OFFICE IN MALONE'S BUILDING,
FRONT STREET, M'ARTHUR, ONO.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-01-22
Hastings of Punch.

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DR.. Roback's Success.

We have always been inclined to receive
with doubt the accounts of wonderful cures in
desperate cases, with which the proprietors of
patent medicines are accustomed to garnish
their advertisements, but the effects produced
by the Scandinavian Remedies of this distin-
guished Swede are SO notorious and so amply
verified by direct personal testimony, as to put
doubt and suspicion out of the question. The
cures, as reported by the patients themselves,
comprehend nervous complaints, dyspepsia,
bilious disorders, fits, rheumatism, and almost
every species of disease affecting the stomach,
the skin, and the organs of respiration. I'm
der these circumstances we can have no objcc-
tion in giving such important facts publicity in
our columns. Hamlet says, "There is more
in Heaven and earth than is dreamed of in
your philosophy" and every day convinces us
that the science of medicine is not the exclu-
sivs property of "the faculty." DR.. Roback
has acquired fame and fortune by his success
full treatment of disease, and his Blood Purifier
and Blood Pills are in general demand. See
Advertisement.
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Legal Notice.

Thom.. Mitchell. sur In the Court Of Com
viving partner of the mon Pleas of konrss
firm of County, Ohio.
Mitchell L Morris,
against Petition to Complete
James R. Morris, ct al. Real Contract.
Y1HE defendants James R. Norris, William T.
l. Norris, Elizabeth briggs and Alfred D.
briggs, her husband, Nary K. Smith q miner)
and Jesse Yost, all of Monroe county, Ohio,
will take notice that on the Gath day of March,
1857, Thomas Mitchell, as the surviving part
ner of the firm trading under the name Of
Mitchell Il Morris, filed in the Court Of Com
mon Pleas of said county, his petition; the OBJ
ject and prayer Of which is to complete real
contract for the sale by said Mitchell 4 Norris
to said Jesse Yost, of the following described
lands in said county to wit: The south west
quarter of the south west quarter Of section
"A, township 3, of range 5, also the north east
quarter of the north west quarter of section
23, township 3, of range 5; also the north west
quarter of the north west quarter of section
23, township 3, of range 5; alse 26 acres in
the south east quarter of the south west quar-
ter of section a. township 8, of range 5; said
twenty-five acres being bounded and described
AS follows, to wit: Beginning at the south east
corner of the krst above described lot of land,
and running north twenty rods and two thirds
OF rod to stone thence straight line to a
stone planted on the line eleven and half
rods south from the north west corner of the
above named lot; thence south to the south
west corner Of said lot, thence with the section
line to the place of beginning, making With the
other tracts above described in all one hundred
and forty acres, more or less. Said petition
will be for hearing at the June term Of said
sour, 1857.
JAMES FITZ-RANDOypH
Ksrh -, 1887. Ats,y ~ psssavner.
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NOTICE.

CAMUEL SWITZER, of New Philadelphia, in
~ the county of Tuscarawas, and State of
Ohio, is hereby notified that Elizabeth Switzer,
on the 27th day of January, A. D. 1857, filed
her petition in the Office of the Clerk Of the
Court of Common Pleas, within and for the
county of Monroe, and State Of Ohio, charging
said Samuel Switzer with having fraudulently
contracted a marriage with her, and with hav-
ing committed adultery with a certain Mrs.
Peck, of said Tuscarawas county, Ohio, and
asking that she may be divorced from the said
Samuel Switzer, which petition will be for hear
ing At the next term of said Court, commencing
on the 9Th day of June, 1857.
The defendant will also take notice, that
depositions will be taken in said case, in the
town of New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County,
Ohio, before competent authority, at the ONCE
of the Mayor of said town, on Monday, the
4th day of May, A. D. 1857, between the
hours of o'clock A. M. and O'Clock P. H.,
and continue thereafter from day to day until
the same shall be concluded, at which time
and place he may attend and cross-examine
if he sees proper.
ARCHBoLD & RICHARDSON,
March rs, 1857. Att'ys for Petitioner.
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LIGHTNING! LIGHTNING!
Lyons Patent Copper Light
ming Conductor, Patented
July 18th. 1854.

CUPERIORITY is claimed for this Conductor
~ over all others in common use, and the
testimonials and evidences can be satisfacto-
rily shown why it is superior to all other light
ming rods now in use. The rod has taken the
premium at the New York, Massachusetts and
Iowa State Fairs, and every State and County
Fair where it has been exhibited.
The subscribers the exclusive Proprie-
tors of the rods for Monroe County, and their
Agents will canvass the County during the
ensuing summer for the purpose of selling
them, when the people will have an opportu-
nifty of seeing and judging for themselves.
All orders addressed post paid to Herring &
WALL, Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio,
will receive prompt attention.
Herring s. WALL,
April Is, 1857. Proprietors.
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AMENDMENT NO. 4.

Rsselsedby the General assembly of the STATE
of Ohio, Three-ffths of the members elected
to each House concurring therein, That it be
and hereby is proposed to the electors of the
State, on the second Tuesday of October next,
to approve or reject the following amendment
% substitute for the first and second sections
Of the thirteenth article of the Constitution.
Viz: Corporations of every description shall
be created and corporate powers granted only
by general laws which shall define the powers,
privileges and immunities, and prescribe the
duties and liabilities of each class or descxip-
tions of corporations, but the General Assem-
bly, may enact special laws for the relief of
corporations in peculiar cases, and may make
special provisions in regard to corporations in
sases whore from their peculiar location or in
tsrests such special provisions are required,
and may from time to time altor or repeal all
such laws, as are authorized by this section.
n. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House Of Representatives..
THOMAS ii. FORD,
President Of the Senate.
Dated April 3D., 1857.
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AMENDMENT NO. 8.

Resolved by the General Assembly Of the State
of Ohio, Three-ffths of the members elected to
each branch, concurring therein, that it be and
hereby is proposed to the electors of the State,
to vote on the second Tuesday of October next,
to approve or reject the following amendment
IS asubstitute for the second and third sections
of the twelfth article of the Constitution.
All property, personal and real, shall be SUBJ
ject to taxation by a uniform rule, at the true
value thereof in money, but such deductions
from credits may BE- allowed as the General
Assembly may deem expedient; Provided, that
burying grounds, public school houses, and
all other public property, and all institutions
of purely public charity, and all houses used
exclusively for public worship, shall be ex-
empt from taxation; and if the total value of
the personal property of any person shall not
exceed fifty dollars, the same may be exempt
from taxation. All property employed in
banking shall always bear burden of taxa
tion equal to that imposed on the property Of
individuals.
N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of The House Of Reprssentatires.
THOMAS II. FORD,
President qf the Senate.
Dated April Sd, 1857.
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Medical Advertisements
Important Caution to Druggists and
Merchants in General.

II aEksEAs, one WILLIAM L.'rn late Of
" the city Of New York, drug broker, has
ecensly bsrh engaged in the nsfarisus and
| unlawful business ef conrterfating the nsdi-
;nes known throughout the world ~ HeL-
"ow&rs oisTMsNT, and ordered to be printed
ipF him. under f,Ise preteilces and for fraud
uient purposas, 900 copies of the book
or PAM hlet CT directions around each box and
pot. s14
A:ad vyIlereas, the counterfeit book sr
pamphlet is well calculated to deceive, being
a Jae simils of the original, except so far as
regards the srater- mark in the paper, viz: .HsL-
LowAr, New YoRk AsD LoxDox," whish appears
on every leaf OF the genuine document. but
can only be seen by holding the paper between
the eve AMI the light.
And whereas, the aforesaid Wfllissa
sLeith. having been arrested, and fully charged,
on examination before Justice Connolly, with
procuring the printing and utterng Of the
above eounterfeits, escaped from the custody
Of the officers on the Goth day of December,
1856 and is now fugitive from jaasics, snA
is supposed TO be pursuing his dishonorabls
and feionious designs elsewhere. Il e
THE DRraGIsTs of the various cities, tovna
and villages Of the United States are therefore
hereby SHtiOned against dealing with
the aforesaid William Leith for any articles
purporting TO be HoLLowAY's PILLS and Hol-
LowAI's olsrAnSr, or purchasing any prepa-
rstions bearing that name from any quarter,
unless the leaves OF the pamphlets wrapped
around the boxes and pots containing the sams
shall bear the words +" HOLLOWAY, NEw foRn
AND LoNpoY," i'll the form OF a wAter-mark,
which uatsr-lnark can only be distinguished
by holding up the printed sheet singly to the
light. All others are COUETRRFRlT; ana
all persons vending them arc liable to heavy
and will be prosecuted to conviction
by the proprietor of the genuine preparations,
as the only means of guarding his own inter
ests AMI protecting the public against damage
to health and life from the use Of deisterious
articles, sold under the guaranty OF his NAME
and reputation.
The said Leith is & scotchman by birth, about
IS years of age, of good address, dsep-tonsA
voice, fsrid complexion, light hair and thia
gray eyes, standing about fsst u
nchss, and someWh hat inclined to corpulsnsy.
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section Of this article shall apply to District
Judges. The General Assembly may by law
authorize the Judges of the District Court, and
of the Courts of Common Pleas, to fix the times
Of holding their respective Courts until Dis
trist Judges shall have been elected and quail
iisd. District Courts shall be held by the
Judges of the Supreme Court and of the Courts
sf Common Pleas, as now authorized. Sec &.
The District Court shall have such jurisdiction
as may be provided by law, and the Judges
thereof shall have and exercise such power
and Jurisdiction at chambers, and may be re-
quired to sit as Judges of the Courts of Com
mon Pleas as shall be directed by law.
N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker Of the House Of Reprssentati,es.
THOMAS III. FORD,
Presidsnt Of the Senate.
Dated April Sd, 1857.