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Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-19
Great Yield of Corn.

We learn that there were several COM
petitors for the best ten and five acres of
corn, at the late Indiana State Fair
The first premium was awarded to a
citizen of Dearborn county, who presen-
ted the necessary afidavits from respon-
sible men, that his field of ten acres pro
duced on an average, one hundred and
seventy four bushels to the acre. On
the best five acres, the first premium
was awarded on one hundred and eighty
six bushels to the acre, and the same
person had incontestible evidence that
en- one of these acres there grew two
hundred and fourteen bushels. This
exceeds anything ever produced in this
or any other country, and certainly we
should not complain of the products of
the earth the present year.-Dayto" En-
pre-
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-19
n@Wben Elder Knapp was in Bostoi

H1 When Elder Knapp was in Boston,
a Baptist clergyman limited to him the
propriety of a change of manner by say
ing, II think you would do more goo'',
brother, if you would leave out more OF
the Jacob Knapp, and put in more of,
Christ" "Why," answered the veteran
evangelist instantly, eff l should leave
the Knapp out Of my sermons, they
would be as thread bare as yours
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-19
THE CATTLE DISEASE IN MAssA-
CHUSETTS.

We referred sometime since to con-
taglors disease prevailing among cattle
in the townships of Brookfeld, Brain
tree, and adjacent towns in Massachu-
setts, which disease was supposed to
have been imported with some cattle
brought from Holland. This disease has
spread until many valuable herds have
been destroyed and until an unprece-
dented excitement has been created
The Legislature took the matter up, ap-
pointed commissioners to take such meas
ures as were deemed efficient to extirpate
the disease, and appropriated $4,000.
The Springfield Republican of the 9Th
says:
AZ present the disease is confined to
a territory about II miles SQUARE, ter
ritory abounding in cattle, and from
which at this time last year, from one
to two car loads of butter and cheese per
week were forwarded to Boston. Now
all trade is suspended, the cattle are for
hidden under penalties to be sold, and
the herds are ordered by the commits
sioners to be closely kept on their prem
ises. Some 60 head were ordered de-
stroyed on Wednesday, in North Brook
field and New Baintree, embracing three
entire herds. Of these Charles Hun
tington looses II, Alanson Needham 20,
and Alden Moody 21 Mr.. Moody is a
young man of noble pluck, and his stock
like himself superior. He is said to
have knocked his favorite Durham oxen
ON the head with his own hands, rather
than see any one else murder them,
while the tears rolled down his manly
cheeks.
The commissioners and doctors are
almost disheartened, for more than 100
new cases We're presented yesterday for
their inspection, with the animals al
ready killed, and those they find that
must be killed to carry out their policy;
the appropriations of the legislature
($10000) is more than exhausted
Those killed on Wednesday were APP
praised at $4,000, and their owners will
be paid from the appropriation. Mr.
Lathrop went to Boston in the noon
train to advise with the Governor on the
subject, and to induce him to visit the in
fected regions to-day. If the disease
should go no further, the loss to the
farmers of that region would be very
great and if it spreads it may be neces-
sary to call the Legislature together, or
petition the aid of Congress. The dis
ease is we'll known in Europe as infec-
tious, from whence we received it.
The Boston Journal says:
Under the existing difficulties it is
thought to be injudicious and unadvi-
sable to hold State Fair this year, and
from the same cause the annual county
cattle shows will not probably be held
A member Of the Commission was heard
to say that f5>amonnt of money would
tempt him to send his herd to the State
Fair. The assembling of cattle from all
parts of the State would prove very in
furious to the best interests of not only
agriculturists, but to consumers of beet
and milk, in places remote from the in
fected localities.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-19

In letter Of the 18th, from Beaufort,
South Carolina, we find the following:
A monster turtle was caught on Broad
Piver by Mr.. S. E., on the 18th ult:=-
1t weighed three h>-sadrad and serenity
five pounds, and measured six feet eleven
inches in length, three feet six inches
across the back, and sported head as
big as a ssbushel basket"
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-19
Turnins as Manure.

1t has been found by experiment that
a crop of turnips plowed under, will pror
duce better crop of grain, than wheh
harvested, fed out to sheep, and the land
manured from the excrements An old.
friend of ours, for years kept his orchard
in the highest state Of CIVILIZATIONS. by
growing crops of turnips and annually
plowing them under.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-19
s@ The taxes in New York, this ye;

sgThe taxes in New York, this year,
will be enormous-ab s11, 900, 900, or
nearly two cents on the dollar, at "a high
valuation of property in the upper part
of the city The police cost upward of
S1,4OO, 900; the aims house department,
S65O,O0O; fire department, 100000;
election expenses, S125, 600.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-19
Charcoal.

Charcoal (earbon) possesses nutritire
properties, Pulverized charcoal should
always be kept where fowls that are fat
ting, can have access to it. On the same
quality and quantity of food, turkey,
with charcoal, will weigh pound and /
half, when fully fatted, more than one
fatted at the same time, without char
coal,
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-19
SOan SudS.

Recollect that soap suds has ingredi-
ent that make it most capital manure for
currant bushes, gooseberry bushes: grape
vines, pear trees &c. Instead of being
thrown away, as it most generally is on
washing days, it should be allowed to
cool, and then, in connection with the
chamber lye of the house, be poured
around the roots of the pie-plants, grape
vines, &c. A trial of it one season will
satisfy any one of the good results to be
ooiDad
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-19
-. Tbn Rnstnn naners advartise

na. The Boston papers advertise Ia:
dies ''parlor skates for sale: They ara
made to all appearances, like ordinary
skates, but have in the runners little
brass wheels neatly covered with leather,
SO that the wearer can skate over an or
dinary floor with ease and safety. 1t is
said that ballroom skating is to be the
rage at the watering places this summer.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-19

BgCol. Fremont was in town last
week, but at the urgent solicitations Of
his best friends the papers kept still
about it, saving him heavy run of po-
litical strikers. The item is going the
rounds which I believe is true to the
letter, that he will not allow any man
in his mines or mills to carry weapons,
and hence the marvellous peace and
quiet that, after such terrible threats OF
explosion, has settled down on Bear
Valley,-[tSon francisco Correspondent
". Y. Times.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-19
na-Two men have opened a hot

B9 Two men have opened a hotel
upon the American plan in Hakodadi,
Japan. It is pleasant to think that the
eccentric heather that people that sec
ton of the globe will have an opportu
nifty of regaling themselves with mutual
Cocktails and postprandial Hbraiidiea
and water" prepared on scientific prin-
ciples
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-19

DEh- Man IS Ike sIOW-palI LVdFe
him lying in idlenesss against the sunny
face of prosperity, and all that's good in
him melts like butter; but kick him
around and he gathers strength with
revolution, until he grows into an avas
lanch. To succeed you must keep mey'
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-01-03

ty, 60 to some Eastern manufacturing town
get so per cent of the estimated value in
cash, pay 10 per cent on the loan. and 25
per cent TO the broker who negotiates the
same If We had good banks with ample
capital all fair business men could get mon.
ey at per cent, without any extra share
for commission. and without the yexatious
trouble of bonds and mortgages.
The people of this State are giving the
theory of No Banks, No Manutactur-
ing and No Capital, fair and thorough
trial. and it is to be hoped they Will become
fully satisfied with the practical working Of
their theory before change is made, for it
seems that nothing short Of poverty. neces-
sity. misery and idleness all combined, are
sufficient to open their eyes to the unmiti,
gated falsehoods that free trade theorists
and anti-bank politicians have from time to
time imposed upon them.
The remedy for the present condition of
things, is to change our State Constitution
and laws, so as to make it an object for
capitalists to come among US. start manu-.
featuring establishments and establish banks
and at the same time use all our political
power to induce Congress to increase the
duty on foreign commodities. so as to give
Americans their own country for market.
Reduce the specific taxes on our manufac-
turing establishments and banks to one
fourth their present amount, charge your
coal companies no tax at all until our coal
beds are fully developed. Try this policy
as long as you have the opposite. and if
Michigan does not prove herself to be one
of the richest and most prosperous of the
States you may reasonably conclude that
the experience of the rest of the world is
inapplicable to our condition.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-01-03
VOL. 5, NO. 37.-WHOLE NO. 245.

ously concerned. it is to be attributed, moi
merely the existing Slavery agitation in
general, but especially the attack upon
Harpers Ferry. The reading Of Mr.. Fill.
more's letter may open Mr.. Bocock's eyes
to bis real position. But whether 50 or not,
other people have seen all along that he
was about tho last man in the House to at.
tract conservative votes for the Speak.
ership.
And the result has shown. that after a
candidacy Of thirteen days. Mr. Bocock got
no conservative" votes. All the multi.
flying madcaps. threatening to dissolve the
Union upon this or that contingency, and
scarcely anybody else. have voted for him.
If he will look over the rolls. he will find
among his supporters only such eminent
" conservatives rs keitt. Barksdale.
Crawford. Bonhsm. Mcqueen. Lamar and
men of that stamp. who never let day pass
without threatening to do acts for which the
punishment as prescribed by the laws Of
the country. is to be hanged by the neck
until they are dead. This has been the ar.
ray Of" sound" conservative" and " con-
st,tntionaI" persons. who have made up
the followers of Bocock.
We" says this arrogant Virginian, who
d" hare sonnder and more constitutional
rie,es than anybody else.
"opad som- power the yiftie sic Us,
To see ourselves As ithers US"
Rep.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-01-03

disorder outside Mr. Duke, in his speech,
proposed to administer a coat of tar and
feathers to the Mayor. The officers, think.
in that there had been enough of that sort
Of talk. made a rush among the crowd.
The latter scattered, and the young orator
jumped from the awning-post He was
captured and taken into the carr house.
This arrest scattered the last remnant of
the mob
Mr.. Duke appeared to be heartily ashamed
of his conduct, and he apologized to the
Mayor He was held to bail to keep the
peace and to behave better for the future.
A. detachment Of policemen remained on
duty at the Hall until daylight this NOR
ming.
This morning. after the reception of the
regular daily reports of the lieutenants, the
Mayor addressed them He said that he
desired to thank them, and through them
the men under their command, for the man.
ner in which they had conducted themselves
last night He believed that the prompt
ness with which the men of the divisions
had responded to his call upon them, and
the firm and decided manner in which they
had performed their duty. had preserved
the city from disgrace of a scene Of outrage
and riot He had always entertained the
belief that the regular municipal police of
the city we're competent to quell any ordi-
nary riot, and the experience Of last night
had confirmed him in that opinion. He
thanked the officers and men for their
faithfulness with which they had performed
their duty.
The Mayor further said that he had been
called upon by Judge Kelly. who. upon be.
half of Mr.. Curtis and the other persons
who believed their saftey had been endang.
cred, returned sincere thanks for the pow.
erful and efficient protection afforded them
by the police force.
The Mayor remarked that he had no
sympathy with Mr.. Curtis in many of the
sentiments he entertained but bis duty to
secure to every one the exercise Of the un-
disturbed freedom of speech was q very
plain one, aud he was determined that %
far as his exertiOns and the exertOns of the
force under bis control could accomplish it,
that the constitutional rights Of all should
be respected and preserved from violence
He concluded by again thanking the officers
for the faithfuluess with which they had
discharged their duty.
THE vITRIoL THROWING LAST NIGHT
The serious results of the vitriol throw
ing last night we're not fully known to US
at the time our report upon another page
was prepared 1t seems that Miss Fussle,
a daughter of Prof Fussle of the Female
Medical College of this city. was badly
burned about the face by the acid, and seve-
raj other ladies had their clothes ruined
Messrs Cyrus Chambers Allen Moore, and
others were hurt more or less by vitriol
One man, whose name We did not learn,
was struck in the eye by fragment of the
bottle, and it was though ght the sight of the
organ was destroyed
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-01-03
4 HARD CIIOlCB.

1t is tolerably evident that the appeal TO
be made by the Democratic party to tho
country. during the pending Presidential
is to be made up exclusively of
the threat that the South will dissolve the
Union, if the election is carried by the Re.
publcans. All the speeches made by the
Democratic orators in Congress come to this
point. and it is palpable that this Congress
sional oratory is to give the cue to the press
and to the stump 1t is an old tune, here
tofore executed in detached parts and by
single performers. or BY performers in
squads. but now struck up by the whole
band. with kettledrums and cymbals. It's
at this moment in full blast, and we must
make up our minds not to hear the last of
it until the appointed day in november. .
dreary eleven months hence, when the peo.
pie of the United States will be frightened
into choosiog a Chief Magistrate to be de.
signated by the Charleston Convention. or
will choose one to suit themselves. in which
last event, a. We are assured, Mr. Buchan.
an will be the last. as be is the worst, of the
American Presidents.
Considering that the continuance Of the
present dynasty in power would be gene
rally regarded as very great calamity. it
is well Judged that the people could only be
reconciled to it as the alternative of patton.
al destruction. No misfortune of ordinary
proportions would have terrors enough TO
drive the country into a prolongation Of this
D.
chanau. The public would bear . great
deal rather than bear that, but may shrink
from risking the overthrow of the Cover
mens, even 70 get rid Of grievous to,mentors.
Undoubtedly. it is this process Of reasoning
which has given rise to the systematic threat
of disunion which asssils our ears on every
side. This may frigh,en the people into
keeping the Democrats in power. Nothing
short Of it Washington Rep.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-01-03
From the Detroit Al tiser.
INTERESTING TO THE PEOPLE OF
MICHIGAN.
THE RECORD.

Please examine the following table with
care. and when you are sufficiently mortified
with the Insignificant figures set opposite
our State. read tho comments.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-01-03
]. BOWDlSH HULL,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.

Office over q. 8. Hunt 4 Co.'s Store,
Residerce, the second house north of Presbyte-
rian Church. Lansing, July IL, 1859. 22O
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MICHIGAN SoCTH.RS RAILRoAp.-The earu.
ings Of the Michigan Southern Railroad for the
third week in December, 1855 and so, we're -
follows:
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-01-03

Sunday School Books.
THOSE wishing Sunday School books or peri
l. odicals can be supplied on short notice, by
applying to the subscriber, or his secretary
corner Of Capitol Avenue and Lapeer street.
A. UPSON,
s. s. Mssionary.
Lansing City, Fer. Is, 1859
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-27
The Potency of n Drop of Ink.

Think ofa Queens first signature ofa death
warrant, where tears tried to blanch the fatal
blackness of the booming ink Of a traitors
adhesion to deed of rebellion, written in
gall; of forgers trembling imitation of an
others writing, where each letter took the
shape Of the gallows; of lovers passionate
proposal written in fire; Of a proud girls
refusal written in ice; of a mothers dying
expostulation with her wayward son written
in her hearts blood; of an indignant fathers
disinheritiug curse on his first-born, black
with the lost color of the gray hairs which
shall go down in sorrow to the grave-think
of these, and Of all the other impassioned
writings to which every hour gives birth,
and what strangely potent, Protean thing,
a drop Of ink grows to bel All over the
world it is distilling at the behest of men.
Here despairing prisoner is writing with a
rusty nail his dying confession Of faith on
his damp dungeon wall. There an anxious
lover is deceiving all but his bride, with an
ink which she only knows how TO render
visible. Beleaguered soldiers in Indian forts
are confding to the perilous secresy of rice
water or innocent milk their own lives and
the fortunes of their country. Shipwrecked
sailors, about to be engulfed in mid-ocean
are consigning to q floating bottle the faint
pencil memorandum of the spot where they
will soon go swiftly down in the very jaws Of
death. Everywhere happy pairs, dear hus'
bands and wives, alfectionate brothers anC
sisters, and all the busy world, are writing
to each other on endless topics, with what
ever paper comes to hand, whatever ink
The varied stream thus forever flowing is thu
intellectual and emotional blood of tn,
world, and no one need visit Egypt, or sum
mon an Egyptian magician, to show him al
the acts, all the joys and woes Of men re
6ected from the mirror Of drop Of ink
MaemilLdn's Magazine.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-27
rhe End Of the Empires, Josephine's Golden


The report of the proceedings of this event.
full morning, which was publicly promul-
gated was very far from correct one. In
stead of delivering the calm, unembarrassed
address which an audacious diplomacy attrlb-
uted to the Empress, and which was in point
of flct, the composition of Regnault de Saint
Jean d'Angely, the spirit-bowed Josephine
could not utter a syllable. .t.
In vain she spread her hand before her
face-she could conceal neither her sobs,
nor the shiverinR which at intervals shook
her whole frame; Cambacercs was compelled
to guide her hand rs she affixed her signature
to the fatal document The poor Queen OF
Holland, who was little less overcome than
her mother, looked almost in vain around for
consolation and support for, with the excep-
ton of the Queens Of Spain and Westphalla,
no one appeared to feel the slightest sympathy
in her sorrow; while on the contrary, she
detected in several of Napoleon's relatives
the unconcealed evidence of u satisfaction as
ill-timed us il was ungenerous. The Kings OF
Holland and Naples behaved admirably; but
Caroline and Pauline scarcely cndcavored to
control their triumphant exultation, ana eX-
changed glances which were neither unob-
served nor misinterpreted by those who
intercepted them.
Madame Bonaparte in the meanwhile sat
cold and silent. She had never loved her
daughter-in-law, and was too proud to telgn
what she did not feel. Napoleon gave no
other signs of emotion than the pertinacity
with which he averted his eyes from the face
of his almost convulsed victim. His voice
was clear and steady, and his attitude firm;
He was already looking beyond the troubled
present into the brilliant future which was to
behold him-the Corsican refugee and the
military adventurer-the husband of a
daughter OF the Cesarsl AT length all the
necessary ceremonies had been observed-the
irrevocable step had been taken, and as he
arose from his seat the children Of Josephine
hurried their mother from the room while
she struggled to suppress the evidence of her
anguish In order not to betray it to the
throng of officials who crowded the State
apartments. At midday on the morrow,
after the night of tempest we have already
described, and while Napoleon and his Gem
erals were reviewing the troops in the square
of the Carrousel, she was seen, accompanied
by her daughter to enter her carriage never
more to enter the Tuileries. "a Ia Haiindi-
sonF' shouted the mounted equery-and thus
finished for Josephine flasher de la Pagerie,
the empty dream of greatness by which she
had been so long beguiled
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-27
Kiss my Wife or Fight Mean Osculntory
Alternative.

There are n few married men who are not
averse to seeing their wives kissed, but an
exchange relates the particulars of case in
which a newly-wedded Benedict felt himself
insuted because his wife wasn't kissed. The
bridegroom in question was astalwart young
rustic, who was known as a formidable
operator in "free-fght." His bride was q
blooming and beautiful country girl, only
sixteen years of age, and the twain were at a
party where number of young folks OF both
sexes were enjoying themselves in the good
old-!ashioned pawn playing style. Every girl
in the room was called out and kissed, except
B., the beautiful young bride aforesaid, and
although there was not yOungster present
who was not dying to taste her lips, they
were restrained by the presence of her
herculean husband, who stood regarding the
party with look of sullen dissatisfaction.
They mistook the cause of his anger, how
ever, for suddenly he expressed himself
Rolling up his sleeves he stopped into the
middle of the room, and in tone of voice
that secured marked attention, said: Gentle
men, have been noticing how things have
been working here for some time, and amt
half satisfied. | don't want to raise fuss,
but =" "Whats the matter, John?" in
quired halfa dozen voices. "What do you
mean2 Have we done anything to hurt your
feelings2' "Yes, you have; all Of you have
hurt my feelings, and I've just got this to say
about it, Here's every girl in the room has
been kissed nigh dozen times apiece, and
there's my wife, who / consider as likely as
any of EN-, has not had single one tonight;
and Just tell you now, if she don't get as
many kisses the balance of the night as any
gal in the room, the man that sights her has
got me to fight-thats all. Now go ahead
with your plays!' If Mrs. B was
slighted during the balance of the evening
we did not know it. As for ourselves, we
know that John had no fault to find with us
individually, for any neglect on our part.