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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-02-27

The custom Of exchanging Falen-
tines, which has become 50 general and so
popular during The present century, had lis
origin in the year 2T0, when ST. Valentine
was heheaded.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-02-27
Group, Whooping Cough, Influnza.

Group, Whooping Cough, Intiunza
SPRINGFIELD, Mss. Feb I, 1856
BROTHER AVER: will eheelfully certify your pECTo-
kAL Is the best remedy possess for the cure ofoo
ing Cough Group and the chest disease of children
We your fraternity in the South appreciate your SIX ILL.,
and commend your medicine to our people.
5 80 HIRAM CONKLIN, NJ D.
AMOS LEE, Esq, MONTEREY, IA, writes Sd JAM ,5s.
Il had tedious Influenza Which confined me in doors
SIX weeks; took many medicines without relief: finally
tried your PICTORIAL by the advice of our CLERGYMAN
The first dose relieved the soreness in my throat and
lungs less than half the bottle made me connafI IL
well Your medicines are the cheapest rs wei as the
best can buy, and we esteem you Doctor and vour
remedies as the poor mans friend" sT'
Asthma or Phtlisic, and Bronchitis.
WEST MANCHESTER, Pa Feb A 1856.
SIR: lourCHERRY PICTORIAL IS performing ,napvelloue
cure; IN TINS section. 1t has relieved several from q
farming symptoms Of consumption and is now eurng :
man who has iabored under Affection of the lune Far
the last forty years. HENRY r. PARKS Merchant.
a A. RAMSEY N. D., ALBION, MONROE Co.. Iowa
writes Sept o. is54 "Dnring my practice of nan, years
nave found nothing equal to your CHERRY PICTORIAL
for giving and relief to coasunptiye ratient s Or Gu
ring such curable.''
We might add volumes of evidence but the most con-
vncng proof OF the virtues of this remedy found in its
effects upontrial. sss3 Ito
Prepared by JAMES G. AVER, Practical and Analy
teal Chemist. Lowell, Mass-And sold by
D = Parker. Lancaster J. Barnett, Ellenboro' NJ.
s. Spencer SInr1tzer G. G. Skinner & Bro Fairplay:
4. i. eoode, pIaftevilles D. Stewart Beetorn: Chan
der q York, Hazel Green; Chandler u Green
kafauf Geiger, Cassyie; e. p. Kellogg, BoscobeI
IT, Newha, Gaiena; j. H. Reed Ss(;o., 20
sale; and Agents In every town ia the q. s.
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INSURANCE:
FRANKLIN FIRE q MARINE
/ N S U r A NJ C E. oMp.,.
FOND DU LAC, WISCONSIN IVY
Capital $5OO,OOO-Gash Paid In slepopa

ESPECIAL attention given to Insurance 80 a.
IL perty Dwellings and Out-buildings Tns ram Pro.
buildings contents favorable terms for such
lnsnres Stores, Warehouses, Buildings or years
Personal Property generally. Losses eguitob and
and promptly PAD IE CASH! 'A0's @a5sssss
This Company is Joint Stock Association o,..-..
under special charter granted by sand
consin, with authorized Capital Of s5O0aeo q Wis
hundred thousand dollars of which is paid spS o
iy invested in bonds and mortgages. The corr
thus securely organized upon firm basis t.e az ens
thy Of confidence and support, with the assnranss
ali losses shall be promptly and honorably adnstss@
this is purely Stock Company no mutual bnsaSl
be DONE nor premium notes taken. @sA
OFFICERS
N. NJ. DONALDSON, Pres'k w. T. GIBSON. Ssu..,
j. W. EDDY, Yiee PTes't. A. GIBSON, GsaT 'Ssors
H. II. HYDE, agent, Lancaster.
]. G.. URY, do. Patch Grnva
1ya1 a. ?. LONG, General Travelling A9,,.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-02-27
Ply YOUR DEBTS.

Il thos indebted to me- either by note or book ac-
IA count. ire hereby notified to pay me Immediately
in good me clantabe Wheat Cash. II paid soon
will give the proper authorities job of collection and
no i.sta 9. This hoce is positive.
DOUGLAS OLIVER
Unto, Mills, Feb. 4th, 1858. 35
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-02-27
UNION HOTEL.
H. EsAXTER. NJ. d..

tLATE OF SARATOGA, \. t.
yET0UID respectfully inform the puhl;c that b;s -
~ siaence y IN he mort part of the Town DC Ian
e. s. where his Professional Services III the Prsct ;ee 81
stelaine, Surgery sind ohsteiisa be hadJat oti;
As'0 Iys3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-02-27

Apple Seeds Wanted.
WE WILL AY high price for Apple Seeds, raised
wv in Wscoi sin.
Little boys an girls half apint from the
Apples they eat. COVER & GOLDSMITH
Lancaster, OCT 24th, 1867.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-02-27
LEGAL NOTICES.
United States MarshaTs Sale.

George Barnes, Jabez W. Lyman,
Harvey Spencer, Edward Alexander,
John G. Westervelt orfin s. Titus,
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1858-08-18

THE HEAVIEST BULLOCK EVER BUTCH
Erred Upon authority of the president
of the American institute, it was recently
stated that the heaviest bullock butchered
in this country was the OK Washington,
whose gross weight was 3,204 pounds,
and weight of beef 2,174 pounds. This
claim appears to be disputed, however, by
some writer's in the Tribune from Penn
sylvania one of whom claims that bull
lock was butchercd near Ian caster on the
22d of February last, whose live weight
was 1881, net 2,409, the other that of a
Berks county OK that was butchcred some
years ago in Philadelphia, whose live
weight was $3.50, net 2,3ss. A still
heavier bullock is announced in the Sara
toga County Press, which says: That j.
NJ. Cole, of Saratoga Springs slaughtered
an OK in lS47, whose live weight was
$500 pounds, dressed, 1851" If this be
true, Mr.. Cole has probably beaten the
world and should give the world proof. -
Let us know certainly the weight Of the
heaviest bullock.
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ROAD NOTICE.

VNHE undersigned citizens of Monroe County,
i Ohio, would respectfully petition the Com
missioners of said County, at their September
term, 1858, for view and survey of new
County Road, commencing at or near large
white oak tree on the land of Margaret Ham
ilton; thence through the lands of said Mar
garet Hamilton; thence through the lands OF
Jacob H. and Joseph Hamilton; thence up a
run to a tobacco house on the land of Jacob
Rose; thence up run through the lands OF
said Jacob Rose to the line, between said Rose
and Cleland Robertson; thence through the
lands of ". w. Wise and Henry Stinehof
thence through the lands Of alexander Ken
neday. to intersect the Malaga road at or near
a bri6qe. Also for the vacation of so much OF
the road leadn& from Ephraim Fuckers to the
I..iara road lies between said white OAK
tree and the line between Joseph Hamilton
and Christian Weber. MNHY PETITIONER.
] Aug. !, 49,: ~.
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"Cut q Dido"

The origin of this phrase is quite curl
GUS: 1t is told in history that Dido, a
queen of Tyre. about $40 years before
Christ fed from that place on the murder
of her husband, and with colony settled
on the north coast of Africa, where she
built Carthage. Being in want of land
she bargained with the natives for as much
as she could surround with bulls hide
Having made this agreement, she cut the
bulls hide into thin strings, and tying them
together, claimed as much land as she
could surround with the long line she had
thus made. The patives allowed the Gun
ming queen to have her own way; but when
any body played off sharp trick, they
said be had "cut Dido" and the phrase
has come down to our day.
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LEG4I NOTICE

TOHN KENT, Jr,, Ezra Barker and Lucy Ann
y Barker his wife will take notice, that on the
10Th day of July, 1858, Thomas Mitchell, as
the administrator of John Kent, deceased, filed
in the Probate Court of Monroe County, Ohio
his petition against them and others, asking
leave to sell the following real estate belonging
to said estate, situate in said county, to pay
debts, &c., to wit: The north west quarter OF
the north west quarter of section twentyseven
and the north east quarter of the north east
quarter of section thirty-three, all in township
=, and range 4. Said petition will be for hear
ing in said court on the 9th day of September
1858. HoLL1sTER, OKEY & HoLLsrER,
July Is, 1S58.-6w. Att'ys for Petitioner
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Discovery in the Manufacture of
Leather.

The Ohio Farmer mentions an import
ant discovery" in the manufacture of
leather, by which the progress of tanning
is performed in as many days as it formerly
required months. Leather it is known,
is formed by the union Of gelatin, of which
the skin is chiefly composed, and tanni'.
Substance found in the bark of the oak,
hemlock and birch, and in a few shrubs
like the sumac, &c. For tanning pur-
poses immense breadths of forest have
already been destroyed, and the supply
Of tannin steadily decreases, while the
demand for leather increases Mahy min
ersi aud vegetable substances have been
tried as substitutes, but without success,
and tanners are now obliged to import
hemlock from a great distance and at a
constantly increasing cost.
1t has recently been discovered, says
the Farmer, 'that we have growing spon-
taneously and in great abundance oil over
the country, in every state and territory
in the Union, and we believe all over Eu-
rope, too, hitherto worthless and very
troublesome plant, but which contains an
abundance of tannin" We are not in.
formed what it is, but the dscoverer q
Mr.. johnson is said to have ascertained
its properties after many years of careful
study and experiment. BY the new pro
cess he tans calf-skin in two and hal
days, which formerly required from six te
twelve months. The invention has beer
secured to the discoverer by letters patent
of the United States, and measures art
taking to secure the same in Europe.
N. I. Post.
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LEGAL NOTICE.

JAMES SMITH, of the State of Iowa, George
y Smith, of Washington County, Ohio, Nathan
Smith, of the State of Missouri, William Smith,
Of the State of California A. C. Moore and
Mary Moore his wife, of Hamilton County,
Ohio, and Simeon Smith, Martha Smith, James
Arnold and Mariah Jane Arnold his wife, and
Benjamin Smith, of Monroe County, Ohio, will
take notice that petition was filed against
them on the 10th day of July, A. D. 1853, in
the Court OF Common Pleas of Monroe County,
in the State of Ohio, by John C. Hess and
Sarah Jane Hess his wife, and is now pending
wherein the said John C. Hess and Sarah Jane
Hess his wife, demand partition of the followj
ing real estate situate in said County OF Mon
roe, to wit: O.
About six acres of land be the same more or
less situate in the north west corner of the
west half of the north west quarter of section
five, in township five, and range FIVE, being
part of the land formerly owned by Andrew
Armstrong now deceased, and all the land
which Samuel B. Smith, died seized, and
bounded on the north and west by the town
of Beallsville and Wisener's lots, on the east
by lands of Citizen Beall and Cyrus Gratigny,
and on the south by the lands of John Miller
and Henry Armstrong; and at the next term Of
said Court the said John C. Hess and Sarah
Jane his wife, will apply for an order that par
titon may be made of said premises. .-
HoLLIsTER, 0KEY & HoLLIsTER,
July 81, 1s5S-6w. Attys for Petitioner.
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STATE BANK NOTES. NJ, Ra,

STATE BANK NOTES. s.-James NJ. Ray.
Cashier Of the State Bank Of Indiana, gives
notice through the Indianapolis papers
that on the first Gay of January rext, the
charter powers of the State Bank of Indi-
ana cease, and no provision for the
redemption of the notes of the Bank which
may be left outstanding has been made
All persons are warned of such an expira-
tion of the charter of the Bank, and to
present all the outstand circulation to the
proper branches, without delay, for redcmp-
tion.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1858-08-18

Down ON TOBACCO. The last North
Indiana Conference of the Methodist
Church agreed to the following resolution:
RESOLVED, That no person be admitted
as member of this conference who is in
the habit of using tobacco in the common
way without all agreement to discontinue
the practice:
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1858-08-18

PRESENTATION OF BooTsl-The Detroit
Advertiser is responsible for the follow
ing:
& The editor of the Union is Sim. John
son-He used to live at Grand Rapids
Old Rix Robinson, of Ada, Kent county,
once presented him with pair of stoga
boots, but in the hurry Of the presentation
he forgot to take them off his feet They
were presented end-wise.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1858-08-18

W A gentleman, who went to Utah
few years ago as an officer Of the United
States Government, subsequently inform
ed US, that, as he was walking one day
with Brigham, they saw very bright
looking little fellow that attracted their
attention. What is your name, little
boy?' said Brigham. John Young, sir. u
"Who is your father?" brigham Young,
siru
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ELSIE.
Long ago | loved her!

Long ago loved her!
Well the angels know
How my soul grew rich aud strong,
How many years ago
How voice of music,
Tender, sweet and low
Through my heart went mnrmuring
Long. all! long ago!
She's asleep
While I weep
Ger the mossy stone;
Elsie gathers flowers in heaven,
Gathers them alone!
Long ago loved her
Oft gazed OH eyes
Dark and deep, and beautiful,
Watching from the skies
Watching, ah! how fondly
Ger my night of woe,
Since their light went out on earth,
Long, ah! long ago!
She's asleep,
While Kweep.
Ger the uossy stone;
Elsie gathers flowers in heaven
Gathers. them alonel.
Hong ago Iloved her..
Now above my bed.
Through the still aud midnight hours
Angel wings are spread
Music haunts me dreaming
Tones ! loved to hear,
While upon my slumberiug eyes
Falls an angels tearsl
She's asleep,
While ] weep,
Der the messy stone;
Elsie waits for me in heaven
Gathering flowers alone.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1858-08-18

HoEING CoLLooUY. Peter-I see a
toad said little darkey to his brother, one
day as they were digging over heap oi
manure,
Where am he JoeY
why, rite dar, don't ye see 'em? Strike
I'm wild de hoe.'
Joe hit the toad crack, which brough
Peter to the ground.
%, you fool, Joe! dat was my toe,
seed DAT all de time.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1858-08-18

FIDDLEsTIcKs.-Aw word strongly ex-
pressive of contempt. 1t crushes all reply.
When lady once says 'Fddlesticks,' he
is bold man who dares to utter another
word
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Alta CHlNENT. ...
Job Stackhouse, Administrator of William
Woodford,

Samuel Davis, Administrator of Jacob Davis
DEFORE John Beardmore Justice of the
ID Peace in and for Washington township
Monroe county, Ohio, an order of attachmen
was issued on the 29th day of June, 1858
against the defendant for the sum of forty-tw(
dollars and seventy-nine cents. Said cause il
set for trial on the 14th day Of August, 1858
at , o'clock, 2. NJ.
JOB STACKHOCSE, Admir-.
July 1t, lN5>.--pi.
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~' My learned friend, observed an
advocate, during recent trial. practices
his arguments before a s ass Better
practice them before glass than after o
r!ass,n was the reply.
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From Douglas Jerrold's Wit and
..s HumOr.
Humor.

Humor.
Trush.-In this world truth can wait,
she's used to it.
Lgtor1cation. intoxication is
the epitome of every crime.
Spies.--He who turns spy for pleasure,
would not stickle to be hangman for bu-
siness. @
a safe Government. government
is still the safest that makes treason laugh
able. .as@z
Il suspicious Man.-He'd search pin
cushion for treason, and sec daggers in a
nesdle.case.
Nature-Nature is pattern maid Of
all-work, and does best when least medled
with. .
4 Good Eifs.-How beautiful can time,
with goodness, make an old man look.
The soft ser.-A woman lie like tar
only melt her, and she will take any form
you please. ~
:, A careless housemaid.-That girl would
break the Bank of England if she put her
hand upon it.
The clearest Of all laws-Self- lf-defcnce
is the clearest of all laws; and for this
reason-the lawyers didn't make it.
Bad hearts.-Some peoples hearts are
shrunk in them like dried nnts. You can
hear 'em rattle as they walk.
Lying. Don't give your mind to lying.
A lie may do very well for time, but,
like q bad shilling, it is found out at last.
PZasomc love--Plato was very good
master Of the ceremonies--just introduc-
ing people, and then politely making his
bow.
a nautical man Of Stone.--A fellow
that would sit still at his grog at the CRY
Of "a man overboard!"
A mean man.--He grudges canary
his sugar, and counts out grains of barley
70 his horse by tens.
Man's s,rengh.--A man never so beau
tifnlly shows his own strength, as when he
respects woman's softness.
Tstes.-Titles, to be the real thing,
should be like potatoes, and turn up with
y lot OF ianQ ABOUT EN-.
The heroine of a love story.-A mere
thing OF goose-quill and foolscap; only
born in q garret to be buried in trunk.
Moral priaciple.- This is what the
world calls principle; he has owed me
half crown for seven years, and wears
lavender water!
Conscience. &C Conscience, be it ever SO
little worm while We live, grows sudden
~ to serpent on our death-bed.
Shakxspearean Grog As for the bran
dy, nothing extenuate;' and the water,
sput nought In, in malice
True h,smor--A man of true humor
may put capital joke in an epitaph, and
get q broad grin from skeleton.
asGam6ling.--I never, by chance, hear
the rattling of dice that it doesn't sound
% ne like funeral bell of whole family.
Il qood acorld. are poor fools, and
make sad mistakes; but there is goodness
hived like wild honey, in strange hooks
and corners Of the world.
Hearts ts--Every man talks ofhis neigh
ber's heart, as though it was all his own
watch--a thing to be seen in all its works,
and abuse for irregnlar going.
73e decsaesss Of maerimony. feel
tie chains, but take especial care the world
shall not hear them clank, 'Tis prudence
shat often passxs for happiness.
Yomaa's hearts. a woman's heart, is
Ike singing bird in a cage, if neglected
staryes and dies; but. for mems hearts, SHY
they are free birds of prey vultures and
hawks--or thievish magpies at the best.
Deep Affection What nature hath
hing about our hearts passes surgery will
skin to cut away.
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IDUFFS
NJ E r G A TILE COLLEG E
PITTsBURG. Pa.
ESTABLISHED IN 1910,
I INCORPORATED by the Legislature of Penn.
L sylvana.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES:

AA'1 IN 1CfUs
INCORPORATED by the Legislature of Penn
L sylvania.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES:
His Excellency the Hon. JAMES BUCHANAN,
President of the United States.
Hon. JUDGE WILKINS, Hon. CHARLES NAyLoR,
Hon. JUDGE HAMPTON, Gen. J. K. MooRHEAD
Hon. JUDeE LowRIE.
P. DUFF, (author of Duff's Book -keeping,)
President, with superintendent and five assis-
tant teachers of Bookkeeping, and seven other
teachers and lecturers.
J. S DUNCAN. one of the best penmen in
the country, (author of the gems of business
and ornamental penmanship) Professor of
Penmanship.
Duf's system of Bookkeeping is sanctioned
by the American Institute and Chamber of
Commerce of New York, and many of the lead
ing business men of the east and west as the
most comprehensive and practical system of
accounts now in use, and after from ten to fif-
teen years practical application ofits principles
to business, over four hundred students have
attested its superiority, (circular 19.) All the
arrangements for teaching being perfected by
near 20 years experience of the principal, Stu
dents graduate in about half the time required
IN other colleges, saving S1J or $20in board.
Upwards of 1000 students have entered the
institution since founded. 10 obtain full par
ticulars OF the collegiatetrainng for business
and the character of the institution, send for
its pamphlet circular of 50:pages, with samples
of Mr.. Duncan's writing which are mailed free.
DrFF,s BooK-KEEpINc. Harper's new enlarged
edition $780, postage 20c. DuFFs STEAM
BOAT BooK-KEErISe, 81, 90, postage DC. Dun
CANS BUSINESS AND ORNAMENTAL PsNMANsHIP,
crown quarto, SIS 90, mailed post paid. This
splended work and Duff's Book keeping have
recently been awarded FIFTEEN FIRST PRE-
MUM SILVER MEDALS AND DIPLOMAS,
attesting the fact that their the bes, treaties
upon these subjects now in use.
An elegantly bound copy of Duncan's Pen
nlanship is presented to every student who
hereafter graduates in the institution.
DUNcAN's Cory Books, complete in six num-
bers, a quarto pages each, on fine DENY paper
with the authors directions for teaching the
most thorough system for school institution
published, 12lc pernumber, postage 17c., with
liberal discount to the trade, mailed on appli-
cation to the publishers, w. G. JOHNSON 6 Co..
Pittsburg.
Ga Call and see Mr.. Duncan perform with
the PEN
Jan. 90 1858.
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Attachment Notice.
An Ordinance.

COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF CL.aR-
ING TON, That each person owning a dwell
ing house in the limits of the corporation is
required to procure good and sufficient lad
der, of sufficient length, to get up on the root
of their house or houses, with good and sufh-
cient fire hooks, permanently fastened to one
end, and to keep generally at his house, and
upon failure, to procure or keep said ladder as
aforesaid, within twenty days from the pas.
sage of the Ordinance, the Street Commissioner
is authorized and empowered to furnish the
ladder aforesaid to all delinquents, and collect
the:price thereof from them.
BY o,der of the Council.
PETER WADE, Clerk.
June @ 1858.
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tY An editor of a western paper who

w Au tuIUUT OF "tsteIH PaPeI )" HO
was present at meeting, says:
Didn't hear Morton's speech. While
be was speaking, apoor, forsaken looking
wretch was trying to get me to give him
a dime to buy drink with. Told him l
was newspaper editor when his eyes
sank Immediately with shame, and he assu-
red me the first dime he got he would di-
vide with me-
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1858-08-18

f The latest dodge for sending mon
ey letters safely through the mail is TO
put it in a mourning envcloYc and mark,
Hin haste"