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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-11-22
AMOment OrHOrrOr.

For twenty years old Jake Willard
has cultivated the soil of Baldwin
county, and drawn therefrom sup
port for self and wife He is child
less. Not long since, Jake left the
house in search ola cow. His search
was through an old worn out patch
of clay land, of about six acres i'm ex-
tent, in the centre of whichwas well
twenty five or thirty feet deep, that
at some time, probably, had furnish
the inmates ola dilapidated house
near by with water. In passing b.
the spot, an i'll wind drifted Jake's
title from his head, and maliciously
waited it to the edge of the well, and
IN il tumbled,
Now, the old gentleman had always
practiced the virtue of economy, and
he Immediately set about recovering
the lost hat He ran to the well, and
finding it was dry at the bottom, he
mcoiled the rope which he had bro
Cor capturing the truant COW, and af-
ter several attempts to catch the hat
with a moose, he concluded to save
time by getting down into the well
himself. To accomplish this, he
made fast the end of the rope to 4
stump hard by, and was soon on the
way down the well. 1t was fact, of
which Jake was no less oblivious than
the reader hereof, that Ned Wells
was. i'm the dilapidated old building
aforesaid, and that an old blind horse,
with a bell on his neck, who had been
turned out to die, was lastly grazing
within a short distance of the WE'LL
The devil himself, or some other
wicked spirit, put it into Ned's era
MUM to have some fun; so he quiet
" slipped up to the horse, and, I'M
buckling the strap, approached with
the slow and steady ''ting- ling" to
the edge of the well.
"Dang the old blind horse. said
the man at the bottom of the we'll
"He's coming this way sure, and
amt got any more sense than to fall
right in here. Whoa, Billr'
But the continued approach Of the
sting ling" said just as plainly as
words, Bill wouldn't whoa. Besides
Jake was at the bottom, resting be.
fore trying tc shin it up the rope
s.Great jerusalem said he, "the
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-11-22
Republican.
The Marriage of John smith.
Not sigh was heard; not a funeral not

Not sigh was heard; not funeral note,
As the man to his bridal was hurried;
Not woman discharged her farewell
Il t1lG gruan, ? ff iItb iff
On the spot where the fellow was mar
Z y ae& AA 81
We Hsarried them just about eight at night,
Our faces paler turning,
BY the struggling moonbeams misty light
And the gas lamp dimly burning.
Few and short were the prayers we said,
And we spoke not word of sorrow,
But silently gazed on the face of the dead,
And we bitterly thought on the morrow.
Lightly we'll talk of the fellow that's gone,
"a. AMI oft for the past upbraid him;
But little he II reck if we let him live on,
In the house where his wife conveyed
49,. him.
But our heavy task at length was done.
When the clock struck the hour for re-
nsof firing.
And we heard 4 spiteful squib and pan,
The girls were suilenly firing
Slowly and sadly we turned to 60
We had struggled and we were human;
We shed not tear. we spoke not orr woe,
But left him alone with his woman.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-11-22
How Major Jones Popped the
Question.

Too bashful to .'pop the quest on
the usual way, Major Jones persua-
del his sweetheart to put up stock
ing, which will hold a couple of bush
els. on the night when Santa Claus
paws his visits, receiving her promise
to keep for life what he gave her
Into this the gallant and lovelon
Major contrives to introduce him
self at the ''witching hour of night.
But we will let the major speak for
himself
| remained up till midnight, and
when they mad all gone to bed | softly
: went in to the back gate and went up
to the porch and thar shure enuff,
was a great big meal bag hanging to
the lice. 1t was mOnstrous unhantly
to get to it. but determined not TO
back out
So set some chairs on the top of a
bench and got hold of a rope and let
myself down into the bag; but just
as was getting in, the bag swung
against the chair and down they went
with a terrible racket. But nobody
didn't wake up but Miss Stalliness'
CRATE big dog. and here he cum rip
pen and tearin' through the yard like
rath and round and round he went,
trying TO find what WAS the matter
/ sot down in the bag and didn't
breathe louder than kitten, for fear
he'd find me ont. The wind began
to blow 'bominable cold. and the old
bag kept turning around, swinging
so as to make ne sea-sick rs the mis-
chief. 1 was afraid to move for fear
the rope would break and let me fall,
and thar / sOt with my teeth rattlin
like had the ager. 1t seemed it wo'd
never come daylight, and do believe
if | didn't love Miss Mary SO power
full would have froZe to death, for
my heart was the only spot that felt
warm, and it didn't beat more an
two ticks minit,- only when / tho't
she would be surprised in the morn
in, and then it went on canter.-
Bimeby the cussed old dog came on
the porch and began to smell about
the bag, and then he barked rs tho
he'd freed somethin.' "Bow, WOW,
wow SEE he. ...BegOne, you abom-
Unable fool seq /, and felt all over
in one spot, for i spected he'd nip
me, and what made it worse, didn't
know where he'd take holt. Bow,
WOW. Then / tried cOaxing.
''Come here, good Teller, seq /.
and / whistled a little TO him, but it
was no use. Thar he stood and kept
ND his eternal whinin' and barkin' all
the night. / couldn't tell when day
light was breaking, only by the chick
ems CROWN and was monstrous glad
10 hear 'em, for if I'd had to stay
one hour more. don't believe Id
ever got out of that bag alive
They got him in the morning. Gov
cred with meal and almost froZen.-
But Miss Mary did not refuse his
present. And he says, Il Sell YOU
what, it was worth hanging III a bag
from one Christmas to another to
feel as happy as | have been ever
ever since"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-11-22
Josh Billings on .sBiIlyards.''

Everybody seems to be getting
crazy over new game which has
been discovered, called billyards.
1t is played OH the top ov table
which IL little longer than it il
square, and the game seems to kon
sist of lsumchin sum round red bawls
agin sum round white bawls until tbs
drop into sum little pudding bags
which are hung into the outside of the
table.
1t takes men to pla the game
but four or five can look on.
They take oph their cOtes and
stand cluss up tew the table, with 6
short piece ov fish pole in their hands
witch has q chok mark on the end Oy
it.
Then one begins by giving one Oy
the bawls apunch in the belly, which
sends it agin the next ones belly, and
so on till the other feller's turn fol
punchin comes on. But you ought
to see the game; tkant be delinerated
by words
One Teller generally beats the 9th
erfeller, and then he pays the land
lord ov the konsarn % cents for the
privilege ov gitten beat, and buys
some gin with lemonade in it, and all
hands drink
Then two more take hold ov the
fish pole, and tina punch for spell,
and so it goes till two clock in the
morning, then each goes hum having
enjoyed fine exercise, little drunk
perhaps, but the muscles in theil
breast ar so expanded that they kant
ketch the consumption nor the small
pOx. That is billyards.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-11-22
The following ludicrous occl

The following ludicrous occur
renee took place recently at the Good
Templars Lodge in GreenviIle:--Not
having fitted up a hall. the lodge
meets in the hall of the Pratt Ex-
change" adjoining which there are
several sleeping apartments.
At a meeting of this lodge, one of
the young lady officers had no table.
n polite young gentleman stepped to
one of the rooms and soon returned
with wash stand, from which he had
&moved the bowl and pitcher. Ac-
cepting the thanks of the lady, he
gracefully bowed and resumed his
seat between couple of blooming
damsels, when, to his horror, he
discovered upon the lower shelf of
the wash stand a domestic conven-
fence in the crockery line, which he
had neglected to remove. Blushing,
he shot from the hall without even
''adois." The lady survives.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-11-22

head. nerves. kidneys. bladder. womb and blood
affect ions of the urinary organs. gravel. scrofa.
rhcumatism, ca:arrh, asthma, bronchitis, dyspcp-
sia. &c.
Our pra ticr, not cf experiments, but Of
twenty years standing. founded the laws Of Ma
ture, with ycaIs of Irricncr and evidence
tain IL. DO not tear down, make sick 10 make
we'll. no harsh treatment, no trfing. no Gathering
We know lac cause aud the medy needed, guess
work. hut know ledge gained Icy years If experience
in the trcatmcn of these diseases exclusively,
encouragement without prospect. Candid In our
opinions, reasonable in our charges. claim not Ia
know everything. or cure every body Int 10 clai m
reason ami common We invite the sick. no
maitar what their aiment to call. investigate Ice
f're they ahlrdon hope. make in'crrvgations and
decide for themselves. wiieo-t not hing ronsula
ii"n j. free. 1bisis The seventh year that have
visited LaPortc. aud shall make NV Willis for
years regularly the same days ofthc week every
eight weeks.
can lac consulted NJ LaFortc. My,rs House du-
ring "Wednesday and Thursday, the 9Th aud 9Th Of
December, 1866. until o'rock T. III.
Residence and laboratory, Waukcgan. Illinois.
Those aiie to- visit write. lapriiG 23y1
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-11-22
BLANKS.

Blank Warranty and Quit Claim Deeds, Morfca
ges, Subpeneas, Executions, Summons, Constable's
Sales. Notes etc., e,c., kept constantly on hand at
the REPUBLICAN News, Book, and Job Printing es-
tablishmert..
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-11-22
The Universal Clothes Wringsr.

This wringer, Will. z wheels which, prevent thu,
rubber from twisting or breaking the shafts %
m any wash tub. will wiring clothes almost dry With
cut wearing or tearing them. and will mol hr,ak
buttons, hooks and ewes. etc. Its India ruI,I.r
muscles never get tired. Clothes wrung with thi-
Wringer-sO much of the water j. pressed out will
dry in quarter ofthe time that they would if wrung
10y hand The hand wrinxing Of clothes, like han.l
rubbing. tears and wears them ont too fast Th..
wash' r-woman destroys more clothes in a DAY than
the wearer in "a week
The Universal wringer took the first
premium at the Worlds Fair. in London az the last
two Great Fairs Of the American Institute aud at
the most important State and County Fairs There
have been nearly quarter of "a million of tbos,.
wringsrs already sold
re- Canvassers are Wanted IN an M,
pttces rhe'e appointments hare not oir,dy Je,i made
t.'c"'re sale g"'ro"terd LicT! terms riH BE- 2ircH
10 responsible Isarfiss- Srsd for cir-HIars
X. c. BROW Ming, GeperaI igeBf.
y C1sdlaad Street. Ncw Iork.
may 81, lSGG-Gm
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-11-22
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How TO Tell the Age Of aides

There are some men who wait up
on ladies who yweuld 1be better salts
fled if they knew their sweetheart S
age. They feel a delicacy in put
ting the question right to them, and
no doubt if they did they would be
Just as wise before they asked as af
ter Hand the following lines to
them, requesting that they inform
You in how many columns their age
appears; then add the number togeth-
CIR at the top of each column in which
their are is. and YOU have ii:
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-11-22

A half lot ON Michigan street, be-
tween Adams and Jefferson, will be
sold on reasonable terms. Apply at
THIS OFFICE.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-10
THE RADICAL PLAN OF RECON
STRUCTLON.

One of the leading features of this meas
ure is that it disqualifes persons who were
voluntarily engaged in the rebellion from
voting for members Of Congress or Presi-
dental electors till July 4th, 1870. This is
intended to enable the Republicans to re-
tain their power in Congress, and to secure
the next Presidency. Strong hopes are ex-
pressed by conservatives that it will not OBJ
tain two-thirds vote over the veto of the
President. Forney, however, expresses
equal confidence that it will be carried over
the veto. lie says:
If Colorado is admitted, the number of
States will be thirty-seven, of which the
three-fOurths requisite to the completion of
the amendment will be twenty-eight. Judg-
ing by the extraordinary unanimity of the
Committee on Reconstruction in agreeing to
make their report, and the almost certairHy
that their plan will receive more than
twO-thirds in each house, and that such pre-
cedents will be followed by corresponding
and responsive popular favor. it is safe to
predict that the following States will ratify
the new amendment or the fourteenth arti-
Gle of the National Constitution: Illinois,
Rhode Island, Michigan, New York, Mary
land, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, Maize, Ohio Kansas, Minnesota,
Colorado, Indiana, Nevada, Wisconsin, Mis-
souri,, Vermont Connecticut, New Hamp-
shire, Ore on and California. These TWEEN
ty-two States leave six votes to be obtained
from the remaining fifteen. Among these
latter are New Jersey, Tennessee, Delaware
and Kentucky. Imagine the dilemma of
Andrew johnson and the Copperheads who
have been sustaining him and clamoring
for the instant representation of the South
em States if they attempt to resist such an
array, and to throw themselves before this
complete and satisfactory restoration of the
I-ninn
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-10
STEAMBOATS,.
PASSENGER STEAMER
Nashville and Decatur Railroad.
Change Of Time.

On and after April LIST, and until further notice.
Passenger trains viii run rs follows:
Columbia Accommodation train leaves Column
bia at7:2O A. NJ. Arrives at Nashville 1OOO. Re
turning leaves Nashville at 8 T. NJ Arrives at
Columbia. $40. Pm
Huntsville Mail leaves Nashville at ESQ. An
Arrives at Decatur at 6. Pm. Leaves Decatur at
$50, A. n. Arrives at Nashville at 200. P. " Con-
Meeting both ways at Decatur with mail train on
VI. & err, for Mooresville, Madison, Hunts
vile, WOodville LarkiRSyille. ScottsbOro and all
points East.
Passengers by this train arrive in Nashville in
time to connect with Night Express trains on all
roads from Nashville.
Night Express leaves Nashville at $50. P. NJ
Arrives at Decatur at 4:3O, 4. N. Leaves Decatur
at 500, P N. Arrives at Nashville at $40. Con-
Meeting both ways at Decatur with mail trains
on NJ. & err, for Huntsville. COrinth, Grand
junction, Memphis, Mobile. New Orleans. and all
intermediate points. Connects at Nashville with
l.. & MR., for all points North and East
o5 Miles shorter than any other route from
Nashville to Mobile, DemopoIis, Selma, and all
intermediate points.
"a Miles shorter to COrinth, Grand Junction.
Memphis, Jackson, Vicksburg. and New Orleans.
33 Miles shorter to Huntsville.
Elegant Sleeping Coach will run Monday
Wednesday and Friday nights from Nashville to
Decatur. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights
from Decatur to Nashville :.
Through Tickets can be procured at W W.
Crais's Omnibus Office. No. 25Cherry street. and
Mt Broad Street Depot. Nashville.
i. Il. VAN DYNE.
apl General Superintendent.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-10
THE LEGIsLATURE AND THE CITY
GOVERNMENT.

We publish elsewhere the proceedings Of
the City Council memorializing the Legis-
lature against the passage Of the bill now
pencing before that body to usurp the con-
troll of the city government, arbitrarily
placing ii in the hands Of a commission to
disappointed by the Governor. How many
men there are in that remarkable body who
will listen to so reasonable and respectful an
appeal as this, we are not advised, but we
have but little hope that there are enough
to check even 50 great an outrage. The
present Legislature is an exception to all gen
eral rules, and we must therefore reason
by contraries in anticipating its ac-
ton. Legislative bodies in republican
governments emanate from the people. Ours
Is selfcreative and aims to be selfprocrea-
tive. Legislatures generally are supposed
TO consult and reflect the will Of the people.
Ours legislates for the avowed purpose
Of defeating that will. Legislators gener-
ally, from motives, whether honest or dis
honest, seek to conciliate and favor those
whom they pretend TO represent. Our Leg
lature treats them as enemies and seeks by
every means to Overpower and degrade
them. From such body, therefore, we can
scarcely hope for attention to a respectful
appeal, much less that they will permit it to
come between them and their revolutionary
purposes.
The enormity of the offence which this
bill proposes can only be fully realized by
recurring to the fact that it is without even
tbe shadoU Of a pretenL No portion of the
citizens Of Nashville have asked for il, and
nothing has occurred in the administration
Of affairs to suggest it. We have been sin
gularly free from those disturbances which
the disordered condition of the country have
naturally produced elsewhere. We have
had no mobs and no riots-no conflict be-
tween the civil and the military-no unfor-
tunate political divisions. The Freedmen'4
Bureau and the Commandant of the Post
have worked in harmony with the Mayor,
and have freely testified to the justice i'm
Partially and wisdom of his administration.
1t is fact universally recognised, that we
have the most efficient police system that
has ever been inaugurated in our history as
a city.
For what purpose, therefore, could such a
measure have been introduced except to
subserve the lowest and meanest Of partisan
ends, looking to the strengthening of their
ill-gotten power at the expense Of the rights
and interests Of the people?
Instead Of being a measure to preserve
order, its effect will be to ferment strife.
Instead Of rendering more secure life, lib
erty, and property, it is but an arbitrary
attempt to increase their power and patron
age at the expense of each of these. 1t not
only jeopardizes the peace but the value of
property and business interests of every men,
Der of the community. All are alike inter
ested in its defeat, but we fear that neither
argument nor appeal will weigh feather
with such a body of unblushing and defiant
revolutionists.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-10

GENERAL JOHNSTON AND THE NATIONAL
EXPREss-The Charleston Ners learns from
good authority that "the friends Of the
company may be assured that this distin-
guished officer continues to feel that profound
interest in the company which induced his
original acceptance of the Presidency
Should he at any future time accept any
post more congenial to his tastes andacquire-
ments, it may be regarded as an evidence
that the organization is in such successful
operation that his name and abilities are no
longer necessary to its support The reports
connecting his name with the presidency of
several railroads are premature, so far as his
present intentions are concerned"
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-10

EXCITEMENT AT STEvENsoN.-A gentle
man who came in on the Nashville train last
evening informed us that there was some ex-
element at Stevenson Monday night, in
consequence Of a turbulent disposition man.
ifested by portion of the negroes at that
point. He stated that several Of them were
sloShing round with their pistols in hand,
and talking in way TO provoke a muss.-
CHATTANOOGA liner. Union.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-10
Observation-Disclosures OF PASfCs.

From all accounts, observes the Chicago
Times, there are good many families about
to leave Chicago during the present sum-
mer We suppose the object of leaving is
to escape cholera.
Such a movement is not only cOwardly,
but injudicious. From all the light which
science has been able to throw upon cholera,
it ia not half so dreadful as has been i'm
agined. 1t is something which it is infinitely
more safe to face than to run away from.
People who are preparing to rush frantically
out of town are simply laying foundations
for panic They are doing themselves no
good, and those who remain 4 good deal of
injury. There are many people who can
not leave town; and if they see a stampede
among those who can go, the danger becomes
mrgnifed to those forced to remain.
As one sees cholera, so is it likely to be.
If he very much fears that it will attack HIM
it is more than probable that it will. If he
has 4 presentiment that he will die Of chol-
era, the chances are strongly in favor of a
fullilIment of,his presentiment. 1t is, there
fore, true that panic among those who can
leave town will excite unduly the fears and
increase greatly the danger Of those who are
forced TO remain.
Next to temperate living and cleanliness,
in warding off cholera, is cheerfulness. In
fact, it is second to no other thing in its eff
ectiveness. As measure of quarantine,
as deodorizor and disinfectant, it has no
equal. If we are not scourged heavily by
cholera the coming season, it will be owing
quite as much to favorable mental as physi-
cal conditions The man who polishes up
his back yarc and omits to cleanse the va
pors from his soul, is only half prepared.
To purge the mind of fear is as essential as
the drainage of cellars. 1t will be in vain
that we purify the cutters and alleys, if we
fail to purify and make light, clean and
cheerful the mental man.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-10

CONVENTION OF THE PROTESTANT EPIs-
coPAL DIOCESE OF ALABAMA.-The annual
Convention of this body of Christians has
Just closed its sittings at Montgomery, Bishop
Wilmer presiding.
The Committee to whom were referred
that portion of the Bishops address relating
to the colored population, report:
That in respect to our colored population
we have no new or special plan to propose.
They are Gods poor now, as much, or even
more than when they were in bondage. The
Bible and the Church marked out the line
of duty for the white race toward them then,
and they do the same now. 1t is for minis
tiers, and people, clergy and la:ty, each in
his place, and at all times, and under all cir
cumstances, to follow up Christian duty upon
Christian principles. We have ever regard
ed the black man as a brother in Christ; a
weak brother; an ignorant brother, a brother
inferior by the order Of Gods providence in
some things which appertain to this world,
but as very precious in the sight of God, who
is "no respecter of persons" Our duty to-
wards him has not been changed. But the
black man is no longer bOndman, or slave.
He is afreeman, and is among us everywhere
accepted as such, in good faith; and no dis
position is discernibe in the Church to allow
her action towards him to be influenced by
either pride or prejudice. We may doubt
his capacity to bear the stimulus of his new
condition, but as far as in us lies, we wish
him to have the benefit of all the aid we can
render him to that end, especially in pro-
noting his intellectual and moral culture.
If real Christian charity, the love of God
and man, shall prevail, and move the gen.
eral heart towards the black man, no new
schemes are necessary and without this, all
schemes must fail. With this principle in
active force; the Bible and the Church az
they stand; guiding principles of the one,
and the ordinary forms and appointment Of
the other; only shaped and regulated by
sound discretion to meet the recurring ext
gencies of the case, will dispense. as we con-
ceive with all necessity for new plans, hav-
ing special reference to the black man. To
cultivate in our hearts real charity; to in
culcate it on all around, as a high and holy
duty, which shall be doubly blessed, blessing
in him who gives, and him who takes" and
to work with the Bible, and the Church, is
the only plan we have to propose.
The Laity of this Committee, speaking for
themselves, and those they represent, desire
to confide all details to our Spiritual Pastors
and Governors, the Bishops and Clergy 20
the Church.