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There is no denying that there is a
class of individuals who seem to think
that there is nothing in life SO desirable
as being intimately acquainted with
prominent public characters. We have
SO many such, but Maj. Luckey, as de-
scribed in the following, is most deci-
dedly just "a huckleberry above the per-
simmons of many of them:
Few men have aver gone to Congress
with more fun and popularity than Hon.
Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky. In the
way of anecdote he is u~nequaled, while
his mode oftelling stories imparts a tone
to them that no one can appreciate who
has not heard them. Among the Char
a%cters, that Mr.. Coombs knows like a
book, is old Major Jockey, whose tastes
for Dragging amounts at times to the
sublime. Whenever the Major has a
stranger in the neighborhood, he opens
wide and spreads himself, and with a sue
cess that leaves us nothing to desire.
The following scene took place be-
tween the Major and Colonel Peters, a
late arrival from Illinois:
Major, I understood from Gen.
Coombs that shortly after the revolu.
ton you visited England. How did you
like the jaunt p
Capitally ! I hadn't been in Lonon
five hours before Rex sent for me to
play whist, and a devil of a time we had
of i
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PRUNING TREES IN FEBRUARY

The pruning of small twigs and shoots
can be lone at almost any season of the
year without material injury to the tree;
but when it is necessary TO take off large
limbs it can be attended to with advant-
age in February or the early part of
March, in which months the tree is not
SO full of sap as later in the season,
when the tree is in vigorous growth.
Large limbs should be taken off with
a 6ue smooth saw, after which the cor
ners of the wound (where the bark meets
the woody may be trimmed smooth with
a pruning knife. When the wound is
left ragged and torn SO that rain will
settle in, it will often rot and iDjure the
tree materially. Some experienced hor.
ticulturists recommend that the place
left by cutting off a limb should be
touched over with some cheap paint to
prevent the destructive effects of air and
moisture. Tar, pitch and wet clay are
often applied for the same purpose.
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Let ms Reason Together.

PiIIs-.Why are we Sick
1T has been the lot of the human race to be weigh
l. ed down. by disease and suffer ng HoLLo:
WAYS PILLS are specially adapted to the reiisf
and the INFIRM, ofail Chimes, ages, sexes, and
constitutions. Professor Holloway personally
superinten ds the manufacture of his medicinesfn
the United States and Offers them to a rice aud en-
lightened people, as the best remedy the worldeVs
er saw for the removal o.
THESE PILLS PURIFY THE BLOOD.
These famous Pills are expressly comhiped Ia
operate on the stomach, the liver. the kidneys.
the lungs. the skin and the bowels. eorreeiine
any arrangement in their functions. purifying the
blood, the very fountain of life, andthus curfne
DYSPEPSIA AND LIVER COMPLAINTS.
Nearly half the human race have taken these
Pills 1t has been proved in all parts of the world
that nothing has been found equal 20 them n cases
of disorders of the liver, dy spepsiR, and stomach
complaints generally. They soon give a healthy
tone to these organs. however much deranged, and
Generai Debility. III HEALTH
Many of the most despOtiC Goyerpme nts have
opened their Custom Houses to the introducnoa
of these Pills, thai they may become the medss,ae
%. ts ma IS IS. s Leaned pea. Colleges ssss s sa%ss if fof psrs
sons of delicate health, or where the system r.
been impaired as its tePsies-
- e ALE COMPLAINTS.
No Female, young or old should y r.s,,I.te.1 ~
monthly courses at all periods, aellng IN msn1
cases like a Charm. r. is also the pes e1o ~
medicine thar can be given to Children ofau ages
and for any omplainti consequently no fAnai1
s nnunaa us piiis ere the Best remedy t.spn IN are
norId fo. the (otoping Diseasss:
A stbma Bowel Complaints. Coughs. Cotas, Shest
Diseases, Gostiveness. Dyspepsia, Diarhee, gIoP-
sy. Debility, Fever aud Agpe. Female ComPia.ns-,
Headaches, Indigestion. lnhpepze i~nAtmeuCf.
VenereaI Injections, Worms. Of al, kines' S.oge
ness, Liver { COMPLAINTS, Lowness OF Spirits. r1,s;s
III Sold at the Manufactures Of PIotess2, noa
London, by all respectable Druggists and neeiyts
OF Medicine Throughout the United sta.es- ena-.S
civilized world. an boxes at25 cents, osteeht-sen
TTThere is considerable saving By taking ~
larger sizes. -
N. B.-Directions for the guidance al psfaer3
in every disorder are adixedto eseh bog.
April 30, 1853
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stone was that coin How it turned
everything first into gold and then into
happiness o, what bright rays shone
forth from that trifing coin of gold:
That night returned this angel boy to
the bleak house, then filed with happi-
ness and lighted with joy +; but he was
not alone-his mother was with him
Blessed boy! How his little heat
warmed and glowed to see the child un-
cover the basket he had brought with
him, and take one by one, the gifts
which were slowed there and how over
joyed was he to see his mother offer the
sick woman work and a new home, and
see the sick woman grow suddenly strong
and almost well under the influence of
kind Office.
Years have rolled away into the ST.
lent past. That little girl-Elsie Gray
is a lady. Not a lady only in name,
but one in every deed, in heart, and
conduct. She dwells in a suburban cot
tage, and her husband is entirely devo-
ted to her. The husband is no other
than the generous boy who on the New
Years festival accosted her so tcuderly
in the street and went home with her.
Her poor mother sleeps quietly in the
church-yard yet she lived to know that
God had provided for her child. She
died resigned and happy.
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Column.
PoTATOE SETS.

A great diversity of opinion exists in
regard to the planting of sets for 1pota-
toe growing. Some advocate the plant
ing of good size. Others assert that
small potatoes are equally good, while
another class advocate cutting the pota-
toe into several sets. We do not be-
lieve it advisable to plant the smaller
potatoes; in vegetable, as in animal life
there is a strong tendency for "like to
beget like" But, in respect to plant
ing whole large potatoes, we regard it as
a reprehens BILE waste of seed.
In experiments reported we have oc.
~casionally seen it stated that where
whole potatoes were planted the yield
was best. But in a majority of instan-
ces, no difference was perveptible.-
Where soil is poor and deicientin those
ingredients ~promotive of the growth OF
the potato, large potatoes planted whole,
would doubtless, by acting as q manure,
for the e tubers, produce a greater
yield. But we submit it to the readers
attention, whether this would not be q
dear manure when potatoes are $3.50 q
bushel.
We commend a supply of potato sets
for spring planting, to be obtained a:
follows: During the winter season, al
potatoes are prepared for daily use, Gu
off the crown end of all fair, and gooc
sized potatoes, taking away about ont
fifth of the potatoe. Carefully preserve
these crown ends till the time of plant
ing and an accumulation of sets will b.
provided that shall furnish seed fo,
planting, with but little cost. Such saw
ing at the present time, when the pric'
of potatoes rules so high, on account o
the great scarcity,--the effect of las
years drouth, is an item worthy of som
attention. A saving of ten, twenty o
thirty dollars can this season be mad
by many a farmer, if be will take hee'
to the advice here given.-Ohio Vale:
Farmer.
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|. e. The hammer in which a shrewd
attorney entraps a lying witness is well
illustrated in the following sketch of the
trial of a forged will case before Lord
Denman, in which Samuel Warren, Esq,
author of the Diary of a Physician,
Ten Thousand a Year. Sc, was the
associate prosecuting attorney. Care
lessly placing his thumb over the seal,
Mr.. Warren held up the will, and de-
manded of the witness if he had seen
the testator sign that instrument, to
which he promptly answered he had.
'And did you sign it at his uest asreq
subscribing ~Nitness?'
Il did,
was it sealed with red or black wax
with red wax
Did you see him seal it with red wax?'
i did?'
Where was the testator when he
signed and sealed this will?'
Ia his bed
PRAY, how long a piece of wax did
he use?'
About three OF four inches long,
WHO gave the testator this piece OF
wax?"
Il did,
Where did you get it?'
From the drawer of his desk
How did he light that piece of wax?'
with a candle
Where did tlat piece of candle come
from?'
Il got it out of a cupboard in his
room.'
How long was that piece of candle?'
perhaps four or FIVE inches long,
Who lit that piece of candle?'
Il lit it,
with whatY
with a match
Where did you get that match?'
'On the mantle-shelf in the room.'
Here Warren paused, and fixing his
large deep blue eyes upon the prisoner,
he held the will up above lis head, his
thumb still resting upon the seal, and
said in a solemn, measured zone
Now, sir, upon your solemn oath,
you saw the testator sign that will-he
signed it in his bed-at his request you
signed it, as a subscribing witness-you
saw him seal lit was with rad way he
sealed it--a piece of wax, two, three or
four inches long-he lit that wax with a
piece of candle which you procured for
him from a cupbcard-you lit that can
die by a match which you found on the
mantle-shclf?'
Il did,
'Once more, sir-upon your solemn
oath, yon didP
Il did =
MY Lord-Ir's A WAFER lP
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TARING CARE OF FARM NIPPLE
MENTS.

Every farmer should have a house for
keeping his implements. 1t should be
tight and dry, and adapted for repairing,
altering, cleaning and sharpening them.
Every implement when not required for
use, should have its proper place. and
before it is laid past for winter, all the
bright metal belonging to it should be
carefully dried and well creased to pre-
vent r%usting. Rust is a viper which
poisons the farmers purse; many far
mers allow their plows, harrows and
cultivators to rust and rot in the cor
ners of open, damp sheds, during six
months Of the year, and thegyseem sur
prised that their implements do not last
longer. All farm implements, after hav-
ing been used during the spring, sum-
mer, and fall, should have their wood
work painted, also their coarse metal
work; and every bolt and nut should be
oiled. The loss of an ounce of iron by
rust, is equal to the loss of an ounce of
gold. Carefulness in all things is econo-
my, and a little extra trouble saves ex-
ira expense.
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Geaal Notices.
sHERIFF,s SALE.

A. A. Frederick & wife, In Partition in Ash
VS..
Edward Oil and others. land Com. Pleas.
PURSUANT tothe command of an alias or
L der of Sale, duly issued from the Court of
Common Pleas, of the said County of Ashland
and State of Ohio, in the above case, directed tn
me, l will expose TO Public Sale, on the prem
ises in said Ashland County, on
Saturday, the l4th day Of February,
A. D., 1857, between the hours of ten o'clock,
A. NJ. and four o'clock, P. NJ. of said day, the
following described Real Estate. situate in said
County of Ashland and State of Ohio, to-wit
The h est quarter of section number four
teen (14.) Township number twenty-four ga
of Range number, seventeen (l7,) containing
one hundred and sixty acres more or less
Terms of Sale:-one-third Cash IN hand, on
the day of Sale, one third in one year
and the residue in two years from the day
of sale, with interest from day of sale. De
ferred payments to be secured by mortgage on
the premises. Appraised at five thousand SIX
hundred dollars-subject {" dover
JOHN j. HOFFMAN. Sheriff.
Jan. IA, 1856. S2tspfS4. 1919
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BARBER SHOP.
TRIAL BY JURY!

MO EAST OR WEST can %conine our pow
~ ers, the verdict of the world is ours
When the decision went forth, all the BARRIERS
medal was granted to GEORGE DORSEY, for his
superiority over all others. He has taken the
old Barber Shop under the Sampsel House,
which he has furnished with new and skilful
hands,. who cannot fail to give satisfaction to
all the community and the rest of mankind.
U,PERFUMERY of the best and pnrest
qualities constantly on hand, and for sale on
favorable terms. l %
Ashland. Feb. 4, 1857.
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rex what Rex 2,

Rex what Rex r
Why, Rex the King-George the
Third-The game came off at Windsor
Castle; Rex and I playing against Bill
ly Pitt and Ned Burke, and resulted
rather comically.'
How so p
AS. we were playing the last game.
Rex said, in rather a familiar /:
: Major, 1 suppose you are acquainted
with Charles Washington, are you not p
mo, SIR e,' said I, 1 I'M not-but
I'll tell you who I m acquainted with
George Washington, the father of his
Country"
Father be id, says he; he
was a cursed rebel, and had I served
him right, 1 would have hung him long
ago.
tThis of course, riled me to that de-
gree that 1 just drew back and gave him
a blow between the eyes that felled him
like a bullock. The next moment Burke
and Pitt mounted, and in less than ten
minutes my shirt and breeehes were so
torn and battered that I looked like
Lazarus. This gave me rather a dis
taste for English society, SO the next
morning I set sail for America. Six
weeks after 1 landed at Washington
The first person I met after entering
the city was o.
'Q?-what or
why, that DID, old Foderalist,
Quincy Adams. He wanted me to play
nine-pins with him. I did SO. Won
5000 at two shillings a game, and then
ha d a row.
About whotT
He wanted to pay me off in Cont
mental money, worth a shilling a peck.
1 got angry aud knocked him into a
spittoon. While I still had him down
Jim came in and dragged me off to the
White House
What Jim?'
why, Jim Madison. I went and
played euchre for two hours. when Ton
came in, and insisted that I should g
home with him.
What Tom?
'Why, Tom Jefferson. Jim, however.
would not listen to it, and the conse
quence was that they wanted to fight
In the midst of it they fell over thu
banisters and dropped about fifty feet
When I left they were giving each 9th
or hi in the coal cellar. How it ter
minated 1 never could learn, as jus
then Martha ran in and said 1 must &C
company her to Mount Vernon to Sc,
George
What Martha :"
Martha Washington, wife to Georg'
Washington, the old boy that gave Jes
sy to the bloody Hessians.'
About here, Coombs said the stran
ger begins to discover that he was swal
lowing things. The next stage tina
came along he took passage for an ada
cent town. The Maj. we believe is still
living, and still believes that the Who'll
Looping he gave George Rex is 9Th
d--dest best thing on record
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LONGEVITY IN INTELLECTUAL PUR-
sUIr.-In all ages of the world philos.
ophers, divines, naturalists, statesmen,
and other men, whose studies and avo-
cations, were especially calculated to
de :elop and maintain the supremacy of
the moral'and Intellectual powers, have
been preverbially long-lived. In this
connection we may name, among the an
clients, Homer Hippocrates, Pythagoras,
Plutarch, Plato, Thales, Xenophon,
Carneades, Sophocles, Zcno, Galen,
Democritus; and among the moderns,
Locke, Newton, Calico, Boyle, Lieb-
nitz, Button, Oilers, Blumeubach, Hail.
nemann, Sweenborg, SIR Edward Coke,
and FonteneHe. AL of the persons thus
named were distinguished by active and
laborous habits, and some of them were
intense if not Incorporate workers. The
experience of a host of men renowned
for great attachments in morals, theolo,
gy, and various departments of science,
proves that an immense amount of men
tai labor can be accomplished by an in
dividual of good natural capacity, when
the propensities are tremendously bal.
anced, and an even, cheerful, hopeful
spirit constantly cherished and main.
tained.-RecOrds Of Longecity.
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SHERIFF'S SALE.
Aaron Yarneil, In Ashland County
SHERIFF'S SALE.

Thomas W. Green,
VS.. In Ashland Com. Pleas.
Homer S. Mead.
10y virtue of an Order of Sale issued from
ID the Court of Common Peas, of Ashland
County. Ohio, to me directed, 1 will expose to
Public Sale, at the door of the Court House, in
said Ashland County, on
Saturday, 2lst day Of February,
A. D., 1857, between the hours of 10 o'clock,
A. NJ. and 4 CLOCK, P. NJ of said day, the fol-
lowing described Real Estate, to-wit being
village Lot number ninety four in the town at
of the town of Sullivan, in said County of
Ashland, with appurtenances thereunto belong
ing. Appraised at two hundred and twenty
five dollars. Terms of Sale-Cash.
JOHN j. HOFFMAN, Sheriff,
BY j. G.. BRowN, Deputy.
Jan. 81. 1857. 33ts-pfS2,15
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SINcERITY.-Sincerity is the most
compcndious wisdom, and an excellent
instrument for the speedy dispatch of
business. It creates confidence in those
we have to deal with, saves the labor of
many inquiries, and brings things to an
issue in few words; it is like travelling
in a plain beaten road, which commonly
brings a man sooner to his journeys end,
than by ways 10 which men often lose
themselves. In o word, whatsoever
convenience may be thought to be in
falsehood and assimilation, it is soon
over; but the inconvenience Of it is jeal-
ousy and suspicion, so that a man is not
believed when he speaks truth, nor
trusted perhaps, when he means honestly.
When a man has orc forfeited the rep
u~tation of his integrity, he has set fast,
and nothing will then serve his turn, mel
Their truth nor falsehood. And I have of
ten thought that God hath, in his great
wisdom hid from men of false and dishon-
est minds the wonderful advantages of
truth and Integrity, to the prosperity
ever of worldly affairs. These men are
so blinded by their c~ovetousness and am
bition, that they cannot look beyond a
present advantage, nor forbear to seize
upon it, though by ways never so indi-
rect; they cannot see SO far as to the
remote consequences of a steady iDteg-
rity, and the vast benefit and advanta-
ges which it will bring a man to at last.
Were but this sort of men wise and
clear-sighted enough to discern this, they
would be honest out of very knavcry,
not out of any love to honesty and vir-
tue, but With a crafty design to promote
and advance more efeetually their own
interests; and therefore the justice OF
Divine Providence hath hid this truest
point of wisdom from the eyes, that bad
men might not be on equal terms with
the just and upright, and serve their
own wicked designs by honest and law
full means.-IaXotSon.
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ROAD NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that there will be
N a petition presented tothe Commissioner
of Ashland County. at their March session.
1851, asking for the establishment of q County
road running as follows, viz beginning ut
the south. west corner ofthe northwest quarter
of sec;.o 6, township 90, range Is, and run,
ming n north of west direction through the farm
of John Freiz, to his west line in said town
ship thence north on his west line until it in
t%ersects a County road running west from Mo-
meanwhile to Petersburg. and TO vaeate so much
of said old road As may b. supplied by the es-
tablishment of said new road.
MANY PETITIONERS.
Feb . 1857. 4w35.
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Notice.

WE have disposed of our entire interest in
w our clothing establishment in Ashland
to q. Greenwald. The Books will be left in
his hands for settlement until the LIST of March
next, after which they will be placed in the
hands of the proper officers for collection.
Those knowing themselves indebted to us are
therefore requested to call and make immediate
settlement. s. APPLE q co.
Ashland, Jan. 81, 1857. 23R
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1.-THE highest salary of abe Gov
ernor of any State in the Union is paid
in California $4,000; and the lowest
in in Vermont, $3.50. Louisiana pays
$4,000; and Virginia $4,000.
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DIR. PHILLIPS,
Physician and Uterine P~athologist.

HAVING located in Mansfield, would respect
I1fully inform the Females of Ashland and vicin-
ity, that he will hereafter visit Ashland once a
with them in the treatment of tho &c diseases incl
dent to the female system. We practice the French
Instrumental, diagnosis and treatment oil uterine
disease and feel confident from the unrivalled sue
cess with which our labOrs have been crowned.i in
many fthe Eastern, as well. asthe Western cities,
that We will be able to relieve many that are suf-
fe,ing from those functional arrangements, and dts-
placements of the uterus; ksneOrrhea, amtHorrAed,
dysmeRh0rrhea, men0rrhdgia, prOlGPsHs.s anteuer'
sion, retrOUersioR, reirofecti0R, acute metrft $, ehr0-
mic metritis, internal meritis. or any ase
incident to the female system. The folio wing per
sons can be referred to, Albany, N. Y. Rev. J
Smith. Mrs. L. Smith, Hon. Judge Hnsting, Mrs
MS Hasting.
Syracuse N. Y. Mr.. B. Sprague, proprietor of the
Brentual Hotel, Mrs. "A. Sprague, Mr.. and Mrs. Fan
cling.
Rochester. N. Y, Rev, H. NJ. Robertson. Mrs.C
Robertson. Mr.. and Mrs. McClain, J.. z. Semore
and Mrs. 5. A, Semore.
Ashland, Ohio. Mr.. and Mrs Hall.
April 81. Is46. l6tf.
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FARM FOR SALE.

- THE undersigned offers for sale
::::l his Farm of one hundred acres
iiiiE4 of well improved land. lying one
~~ mile Northwest of M~ohecanville
Ashland County, Ohio. A good frame House
and Barn, two fine orchards two good springs
of water, the farm is in good repair, and offers
superior inducements for those wishing to Pur-
chase real estate. For further particulars, in
quire of johnson Oldroyd, Mohecanville, or on
the premises of JAMES SPEAR.
Jan. ID, 1857. 2m52s
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SHERIFF'S SALE.
John P. Gates, In Ashland County

John F. Gates, In Ashland County
James Andrews. Common Pleas.
PURSUANT to the command of a Fieri
Il Facias, duly issued from the Court of
Common Pleas of Ashland County, and State
CT Ohio, to me directed, l will expose to pub
lie sale, at the door of the Court House, in Ash
land County, on
Friday, the 9th dag Of March,
A. D, 1857, between the hours OF ten o'clock
A. NJ, and four O'Clock P. NJ, of said day, the
following described Real Estate, situate in said
Ashland County, to wit: the southeast quar-
ter ct section thrty-fve (35,) of range seven
teen (l7,) and township twenty four (24,) con-
tanning one hundred and fifty-nine and ono
halfacres. Taken as the property of An
drews, to satisfy an execution in favor of John
p. Gates. Appraised at $4466. Terms of
sale-cash.
JOHN j. HOFFMAN, Sheriff.
Feb. 4, 1857. 5w35pfs5, 90.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
Aaron Yarnell' In Ashland County
]. c. Menor & wife. Common Pleas.
DURSUANT to the command of a Fieri
i FaciaS, duly issued from the Court OF
Common Pleas, of Ashland County and State
of Ohio, to me directed, 1 will expose to Public
Sale, at the door of the Court House, in said
County, on
Monday, 25rd day Of February,
A. D.. 1887, between the hours of 10 o'clock
A. NJ and 4 o'clock. P. NJ. Of said day, the
following described Real Estate, situate in said
Ashland County. viz: Lots number one hun
dred and two 1902 and one hundred and three
(l03,) in the town of Loudonville. in said Ash
land County, taken as the property of j. G
Menor and wife, on an Execution In favor o.
Aaron Yarnell. Valued at one hundred anC
sixty-seven dollars. Terms of Sale-Cash.
JOHN ]. HOFFMAN, Sheriff.
Jan. 81, 1857. 33ts-pfS3,00