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The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06

HunrLIrY ONE SIGN OF GREArEEss.-l
believe the 6rst test OF a truly great man
is his humility. do not mean by hu
milily. doubt ofhis own power. or hesita-
tion in speaking his own opinion, but a
right understanding of the RELATIONS be-
tween what he can say and do. and the
rest Of the worlds sayings and doings.-
All great men not only know their own
business. but know usually that they know
it and are not only right in their main
opinions, but they usually know that they
are right in them only they do not think
much Of themselves on that account
They have a curions under-seuse OF po W.
erIessness. feeling that,the greatness is not
in them. but through them that they
could not do or be anything else than God
made them and they see something d-
vine and God made in every other man
they meet. and are endlessIy, foolishiy,
incredibly mrrcifu!. The slightest mani
festalion OF jealousy or self.compIacency
is enough to mark second-rate chsrac.
ter in intslleet.-Ruski1.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06
L o NC AGO.

Oh, wonderful stream is the river Time,
AS l. flows through the realm Of lenrs,
With iaultless rhythm, and musical rhyme,
And broader sweep. aud surge sublime,
And blends with the ocean OF years.
Fer the winters are drifting like flakes Of snew,
And the summers like buds between,
And the year as the sheal-so they come and 60,
On the rivers breast With its ebb and flow,
As /: gidey mid the shadow and sheen.
There's a magical isle up the river Time,
Where the soitest vi airs are playing
There's cloudess sky aud a tropical cline,
And a song as sweet as n vesper chime,
Aud the ferns with the roses are staying.
And the name Of this isle is the Long Ago,
And we bury our treasures there
There are brows of beauty and bosoms Of snow =
There ure heaps OF dust, but we loved them SO,
There are trinkets and tresses OF huir,-
There are fragments of songs that nobody sings,
And part Of all infants prayer,
There's lutte unswept, and harp without strings
There are broken VOWS and pieces OF rings,
Aud the garments sRE used to wear.
There are hands that are waved when the fairy
BY the mirage is lifted in air lshore
And we sometimes hear, through the turbuIcn
roar,
Sweet voices we heard in the days gone before,
When the wind down Ihe river was iair.
Oh remembered for aye be the blessed isle,
All the day OF our lille until night.
When the evening comes, with its beautiful smile
And our eyes ute closing to slumber awhile,
May the greenwood of soul be in sight
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06
True Courage,

The ancient family OF Wolcott, in Con-
necicut. was remarkable for clear head
ednrss inhrxible integrity, pungent wit
and Christian principle The following
facts relate to the Hon Roger Wolcott, who
was afterwards Governor. They were
taken from the .New Monthiy Magazine.
Expressing my surprise one day TO
WoIcoit that his salirical disposition had
not got him into more scrapes, he told me
that he never WAS in but one that serious.
ly alarmed him. 1t was with the late
Gen. Mccormick. We had passed the
previous forenoon together" said Wocolt,
:" when something said more severe than
| ought TO the General. reused his anger.
He retorted. was more sarcastic than
before. He went away and sen, me a
challenge for the next morning. Six
O'Clock was the hour fixed upon the
green at Truro, which NJ that lime was
sufficiently retired. There were no SEC.
onds. The window OF my room, how
ever. commanded the green. | had
scarcely got out of bed 10 ,..ress for the
Appointment when pulling aside the cur.
tains | saw tine General walking up and
down on the side next the rlver, half an
hour before the time. The sun was Just
rising cloudIly, the morning bitterly cold /;
which. with the sight OF the Generals ps.
tol and his attendance on the ground be-
fore the hour appointed. Were by no means
calculated TO strengthen my nerves. |
dressed, and while doing so. made up my
mind that it was great folly for two old
friends 10 pop away at each Others lives.
My resolution WAS speedily taken. l rang
for my servan. girl:
Molly, light the fire instantly T.; max E
some good toast /; let the breakfast be got
in minute, FOR two
Yes, ,ir'
M Y watch was in a minute Of the time
Pistol in hand, went out the back way
from my house, which opened on the
green. | crossed like lion and went up
td Mccormick. He looked firm, but did
not speak. did.
Good morning Eye, General
The General bowed
This is too cold a morning for fghi.
ing
1Helc IN Uut Oue alternative, hhlQ lne
General distinctly.
1T is what you soldiers call an apology
My dear fellow. | would rather make
twenty when was so much in the wrong
as WAS yesterday; but 1 will make II
only on one condition.
Il csnho: talx o. conditions, SIR said
The General.
why. then | will consider the condi
ton assented to. 1t is.that you will come
in and take good breakfast with me. now
ready on the table. l am exceedingly
sorry l hurt your feelings yesterday. ior
| meant not TO do it,
We shook hands like old friends, and
soon forgot our differences over Tea and
toast but did not like the pistols and
that cold morning. twihslanding. l
believe many duels might end harmlessly,
could the combatants command the field
ss Idid, and on such bitter cold morn
ing, too
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06

SISTERS AND MorHERs.-These are ties
which like the invisible strings Of con.
science, bind man 10 the world of kindly
affections, and are tho last things forgot.
ten when one leaves life. The married
situation may be one oi pure unnIerrupt
ed felicity there may be no cloud in it,
whole happy horizon it NAV BE- evel
sunny. and flowers spring in i! al every
season ot the age but even these happy
ones. who are in this cline OF bliss, re.
member long and late the claims Of sis
ter or mother TO their best Affections
In the life Of the solitary and single. those
who are sald to he doomed 10 AN snnui o
LONELINESS. the claims OF sister and moth.
er should hold strongly, not only upon
their feelings. but duties. Those kind.
ne.ses which men beStow upon their of,
spring and their wives. who possess each,
and in whom their best views are concen.
trateG. In the bachelor are given TO the
(alm lmosl) sacred names which constitute
this heading. IN loving sister, there i.
not that ear!hliness oil passion which de,
grades the heart-in the devotion due tC
mother. there is none of the selhshnes.
Of men.-The feelings inspired by both
sister and mother are all derived from
sources pure as the Divinity that inspiree
them.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06
There is No Such Word az Fail.

Que of the finest passagos in Rchelisu.
is the following:
RicheIieu-Young man. be 5lithsi for,
note mo. from the hour grasp THAT packet,
think that your guardian star looks down
upon you.
Frsncisco-If fail
hichelsu-Fgll fail in the bright lrxi.
con o. youth. which fate reserves for must
gIorinus manhood. there 10 no such word 40
tail
Why should . young man fail II he be
honest. if he honorable, il he bo ardent, il
bo bs energetic. il no DO gifted with mental
power, if he 30 right in soul and strength.
he should never fail; and, If any alluriug
temptation whisper in bis ear words that
make him turn asdu. lot him revert TO that
bright lexicon, and never tail
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06

CHOICE VARIETY.

Poverty Of mind is the greatest of all
poverty and tho most to bo depIored.
SOME hearts, like primruses. open most
beautifully in tho shadow OF life.
llE that has much and wants more is poor;
he who has little. and wants M more Is rich
As wo must render AN account of every
idlo word, 40 we must likewise OF our idlo
silence.
SOME minds arc like almond trees they
have no foliage. aud their thoughts. like the
white blossoms, spring from tho bare and
leafless branches.
As the shadow follows tho body in the
splendor of tho fairest sunlight. 80 will the
wrong d"no to another pursue the soul in
tho hours Of prosperity.
IT is thu part Of wisdom To do great things
without disturbance. When Solomon, the
wiscst of men, built his wondrous temple,
no sound ot ssw or hammer was heard
therein.
WHEN any one complains, as Diogencs
did, that he has TO hum tho streets with
candles at MONDAY to find an honest man,
wo aro very apt to thing that his nearest
nUighbor would have quite as much difficulty
as himsolfin making The discovery.
lNFINIrE toll would not enable you to
sweep u mist; but by ascending little. you
may often look over il altogether. So it is
with our moral improvement We wrastle
| fiercely with vicious habit that would have
no hold on us i! we ascendud into higher
moral atmosphere.
LET him who gropos painfully in darkness
or uncertain light, aud prays vehemently
,ha. the dawn .nny ripan im;o a.y. lay tn,
prrcopt well 10 heart -" DO the duty phich
lie. nrdrest hcs which thou kuowest TO be-
duty, Thy second duty will already have
become clearer
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06
PUrrrSe FoRMs FOR TAINos.-The

PUTTING FoRMs FOR ThNGs.-The man
who anxipusly avoids the shadow OF a
a granite post.but dashes against the post
itself.iS not a whit morewitless than he who
fears the appearance OF doing wrong but,
is not afraid to do the wrong he thinks
win not appear When Lord Chesterfield
counseled hollow.hearled poli;eness ad
visrd the forms of courtesy and gracious,
ness instead q the things th.mselves-he
must have seemed TO any superior order
Of moral beings as silly as the ape. who
puts a wig upon his head and expects to
be reyerenced as judge.--HorQcs Mann.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06

The GoRILLA-A NATURAL CURIOSITY.
In Africa there is tribe Of huge mon. /.
keys known by the name Of Gurillas -
Their existence has been known to white
men ior some years, but none have ever
been taken alive. They generally live in
lonely, retired seclusions of the forests.
and the males are capable OF coping in
fight with the lion. The skull OF one is
in the Boston Museum. being sent thither
from Africa, by the Rev. Mr. Wilson, a
missionary. Last year, the body Of one
was sent from Sierra Leone TO Professor
Owen and was packed in cask Of rum.
When opened. the bod WAS found to be
partially decomposed. but it was taken
out 10 the fields and has been restored and
htIet for It's place among The other African
qurdrumAna specimens in the MUSEUM
The males OF the gorillas have horrible
appearance they attain to a stature OF
live feet, with wriots tour times the size Of
a mans; hands double the size, and they
are three lee; broad across the shoulders.
Their strength is prodigious one can
easily wrench The head off man with his
hands MS easily as person can husk an
ear corn. Its teeth and Jaws are as pow
eriul Ms those OF a tiger, as one has been
known to bits through a gun-barrel, as ii
it were stalk Of cane. They feed on
vegetables. principally nuts and sugar
cane, and are covered with coat OF black
hair. The negroes live in considerable
terror Of them. and well they may. rs
they are perfectly fearless and very fierce
The specimen which has just been added
TO the British Museum is the m ost inter.
rsling natural curiosity which has been
secured for large number of years.
Scientific american.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06

AN EXAMPLE FOR BoYs.-We have
carrier connected with this office, who il
between the age of thirteen ard fourteen
who occupies seat in the highest class il
our Public Schools. has the geography o
the country a, his fingers ends, and who
can cipher round bevy Of fschoolmasters,
and in two and half years more. which
will make him sixteen. he will probsbly
read Cicero and Homer to boot. But in
addition 10 requirements at school, he has
three hundred dollars in the Savings Bank.
drawing five per cent. interest and is daily
adding thereto, all gathered together BY
selling newspapers between school hours.
Trenton True american.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06

To keep spring in your heart learn to
sing. There isagreat deal Of merit iu
melody--more in THAN most people are
aware Of. A cobler who smoolhes his
wax ends with Bonnie Doom or Roslin
Castle. will do as much in day as cord
wainer, given to "cussing" and ill-nsture
will perform in a week, Songs are like
sunshine. they run TO cheerfulness. and so
fill your bosom with buoyancy Tor the
time being. that yol feel like yard of
June or An acre !ot filled with violets and
bobolinks. Try il on snd see.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06
GENTLE WORDS.

A young rose in summer time
l. beautiful to me,
And glorious are the many stars
That glimmer on the sea-
But gentle words and loving hearu,
And hands to clasp my own.
Are better than the finest flower,
Or stars that ever shons,
The sub may warm the grass to life,
The dew the dropping flower,
And eyes grow bright, and watch the light
OF Autumn's opening hour.
But words that breathe Of tenderness,
And smiles we know are true,
Are warmer than the summer time,
And lighter than the dew.
1t is not much the world can give,
With all its subtitle art,
And gold and gems are not the things
To satisfy the heart;
But, oh, ii those who cluster round
The altar aud the hearth,
Have gentle words and loving smiles,
How beautiful is earth!
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06

A ArLAsa OF lightning on tho earth
would be visible on the moon in second
and e quarter: on the sun in eight mInu.
ties on Jupiter. when iarthsst from us.
in fhy.two minutes on Uranus in two
hours !; on Nrptune In four and quarter
on the altar Vegan. OF the frat magnitude.
in fory.five years. and such stars are yiSi'
bic through lbs telescope.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06

LABOR and prudence relieve US from
three great evls--yice, wan: and
Incidence.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06
BURNETT HOUSE,
Cor. OF OmiariO Il Prospect SITS.
CLEVELAND, Q.

THE Undersigned have fitted up the above
l. named House, at much expense. with Scventy y
Five Comfortable and Pleasant Rooms. The Fur
nisnings all NEW, which, with their TABLE. they
design shall uOt be surpassed in this or any other
city, at their CHARGE OF ONE DOLLAR PER Day.
Vr The patronage Of discriminating public
whether in pursuit OF BUSINESS or PLEAsURE-is re.
spectlully solicited Willing to abide their deci.
sion as To the re suit of their etfIris,
BURNETT & TINKER, Proprietors.
Oct Is l7jS 46S
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06
JAMES De LACEY
Departed this life May sth. lS-,
Aged II wears and 3 months.

RcsI, rcst my son. ill thy Father in
Heaven eGlirLh thee"
Upon his graVo, too, was planted by hiI
affectionate sister, and cultivated with her
tenderest care every variety of fowor and
vine, so trained and reared as 10 oncircle
the simple monument. and so intertw ed
and arranged that its varied blossoms upon
the reverse OF the slab. formed in legible,
but neat and tasteful beauty. tho words
"A SISTERS Love"
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06

FIcrIoS can only please BY its rssom.
blance 70 truth.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06
dbe Jeffcrsonian Democrat
10 PuBLisuED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. AT
caAaDoy, Geauga County, Ohio.
TEL K NJ 81

oHp directly oUsr tie Drug Store Of Cork 4 Ham
iitVH, Vsst side n The Pabitc S0uars.
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one yeIr, '''' - - ;. - -. - w
- lyertisenents should be markodthe mum.
Der Of times they are designed to he nserted those
not 80 muSel, will he continued until ordered out,
ana charged according to the above terms
Tue privileges OF yclrly advertisers VIII be con-
kle u their re tnlr business.
Attorneys will I've holden for price OF inserting
eiye-ti1e nents brought by them.
~ Nll CO nuric ltions must he nddrossed 10 the
p,o,-i .tor, (p,stage p1id,) 10 receive attention
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06
Patent Office Agency.

VTNIE Subscribers transact tor lnventorsand
L others any business relating to CaveutPuI
ents, OF lhePulent Laws.
No.4, p. y. JulldiAgs Cleveland, %.
VII BUERIpGE. JEEu BRAINABD.
March l6. 1883.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06

para IN HavHhSs' vans" The vm,,...,........2SO
sy All uily Of merchuntable produce taken in
R.vn,nt, at the market price.
80 paper discon.mtsd until all arrearagos
are pail, except at tho op.ioh of the Publisher.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06
BUSINESS DIRECTORY,

DR. L. MCBRIDE,
Eclectic Physician,
cHARpoH, OHIO,
WI. ..Isc,s from Natures B,tanical resources
,hs Saie.t, Mdest, Surest and Best Remedies mat
viii ef ,ct S)aady Recovery go .r
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RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Ls,tL A1vsRrissNENrs will he inserted rs fol.
loSG-,J c;S. 4 sltl-c, ht5 in'etliJn; each sub.
SaIsit in 4ertion, - cts square.
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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29
MILLERSBURG COUNTY, THURSDAY, SCI

ed to health, and was lately married to a
young man who had been three years alb
sent, and returned true to bis troth. But
for the five dollars which had been so in
strumental in her recovery, he might have
returned to be told that she, whose memory
had been so long the polar star of his
heart had perished.
So much good did the five dollar piece
do which Peter Chancery, ESQ.,, SO reluc-
tantly paid to Mr.. Lasts apprentice boy,
though little credit is due TO this legal gen
tleman for the results that followed. 1t is
thus Providence often makes bad men in
struments of good to others. Let this lit
tie story lead those who think ''small
bill' can stand because it is small bill,
remember how much good five dollar
bill has done in one single day, and that
in paying one bill they may be paying a
series of twenty bills, and disposing good
to hundreds around them.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29

A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT LEBANON
We learned last night the particulars of a
terrible domestic tragedy which occurred
near Lebanon, Warren county, on Satur-
day last, in which wife deserted by her
drunken husband, poisoned her own child
and then destroyed herself. The story of
our informant is as follows:
Richard Davis, a gardener, living near
Lebanon, having become dissipated, neg
lected his family, and finally, on Friday
last, deserted them, leaving them penniless
to beg of a selfish world or starve. The
wife in despair sought death rather than
degradation. She administered laudanum
to her child, little boy of three years of
age, and then took the remainder herself.
On Sunday morning the neighbors found
the mother with the child in her arms,
both stone dead. They were Mortified, and
as the news spread the Indignation towards
the brutal husband and unnatural father
grew intense.-Cin. Gazette.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29

A TR1UNE MAN.-The "Autocrat's"
idea of a triple being, in every individual,
is being practically carried out by an in
cenious Irishman, at Rochester. N. Y,
(where the "rappers" came from).
He has an idea that he has two men in
his head and body, who arc constantly
working at cross purposes with him. He
says they entered his head one night when
he slept in a hay stack, stealing into the
oriice of the ear in the form of hay seed.
They indulge in levity and do a great
many things he does not approve Of, among
other things obliging him to do the work
of three men, while they eat all the food
given them, including his share. He ex-
presses desire to engage in some avoea-
tion that will afford him livelihood, but
declares that it is Of no use for him to try
TO support this triune existence. He is
confident of his own sanity, and thinks it
strange that any one should doubt or ques-
ton the correctness of his statement.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29
The Frozen Well of Vermont.

A correspondent at Rutland, Vt.,gives the
following account of a visit to the frozen
well at Brandon:
"a visit to the frozen well at Brandon,
seventeen miles distant, and the tertiary
deposit of brown coal in which fossil fruit
is found, will reward one for the trouble
Iron ore Of excellent quality, a remarkable
white and pure pipe clay, and bed of
maganese, make, together with the brown
coal, a combination of deposits curious and
valuable. The frozen well is dug on the
easterly side, near the foot of high, gravel
ly knoll, probably glacial moraine,
through which the road has been cut, show
ing beds of clay three or four feet in thick
ness intersperscd among the gravel. The
well was dug in November last, through
twenty-five feet of gravel and fifteen feet
of frozen earth, when water was found
The well was then stoned up, and has been
frozen ever since. Last winter it was ne
cessary to descend and cut with hatchet a
passage for the bucket to the water beneath
the ice.
"By the aid ola mirror, the sunlight can
be thrown into the well, and about three
feet from the bottom, rim of ice, at least
six or eight inches thick, can be seen pro-
jecting from the sides, leaving barely room
for the bucket to pass through. The stones
for six or eight feet are encrusted with frost
and ice. Occasionally current of air can
can be felt, cold as snow bank, which may
come from below, or may be the outer air
suddenly cooled. The water is excellent
remarkably pure, and of course icy cold.
This well is 'puzzler" to the savans, some
of whom, at Burlington, have appropriated
$500 to investigate the phenomenon, and
propose to sink one or more wells in the
vicinity, TO see if the same result follows.
Whether this ice is formed by chemical
combinations in the earth, whether it is
caused by currents of air passing over wa
ter producing rapid evaporation and conse-
quent refrigeration, or whether an iceberg
stranded there long years ago, and was
covered subsequently by accumulations Of
clay and gravel, being thus preserved from
melting away-who knows?'