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The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-01-19
a. Good Opening for Business
Az OSBORNE, ONO. ihu

INV y WILL SELL AB0UTTnB FIRST
OF FhBRu AIRY 1860, a splendid stock of Goods
consisting Of Dry Goods, Groceries Queensw ware
HardMare and general variety ,of Goods Usually
kept In q country store Tile man who b,lVs ne,
stock will have the refusal OF the room. ID Is n
good loeation, second n pOne tpn business in the
weu know and eptefpIls1h llttle town OF Osborne
rOads For further Ia formation ehl at the store OF
FULLER, BAnDQRF q co. =
Jan l1-2Wd @, Main street, DAYTON, q.
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most every round.

The White Hoiiss islto be refurnishetI be-
fore the close of the month. If somebody
did not stoal the furniture, where is the me-
cessity oflpftting itl - fNuW{ i1hi
The planters near Brandon, Mississippi,
have secured sufficient number of white
persons to cultivate their plantations. 'r o.
The. three ,murderers OF, IIeflerman, at
Nashville. Tennessee,S have Been ordered to
be executed on Friday, January 2G. E.. M
There Is to be A. grand Fenian Conven-
ton in Buffalo on thu lst of February. I
The treasury Aafe'at Greenfield, Indiana,
was lSbBed. yesterday, of $4,000. .af,
ss.FEsEga We ETF yEa
- Cotton Stealing. 1l
The following is from Mobile corre-
spondent. 1t shows how the Government
L. ln nfrnnlan hu ailicialS ....
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proches ARE used with always good success
-''I SINGERS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS d

Ifoches are usetl WIN always good success. "a.
'-''. SINGERS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS
viii hud Toc1es useful in clearing the voice when
taken before Singing Or Speaking, and relieving
the throat after an unusual cXerton of the vocal
organs. The TfoeheS are recommended and pre-
scribed by Physicians, and have had testimonials
from eminent men throughout the country, Being
an article Of iEVc merit, and having pyosed their
eficaeS bya iest Of many years, each year finds
them in new localities in various parts of the
world, aud thc;7fochts are universally pTonognccd
betterthan othcrartieles. jdI na.iu win
Obtain only ''BilOWNsu BRONCHIAL TRO.
OlIEs" and tlo not take any OF the WoifAlss Ind
tdtiOas that may be offered. 4ii iulmipgt ~
Sold every where inIthe United states, and For.
eign Countries, at 35 cents per box oce5 -smdw
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

Two brothers, numed William and bang
icl fiumbnil, rcsidiug at Morgan Station,
ten mDes beyond valparaiso, have liecn arr
rested forSrobbing the freight carsof tile
rittsburg, Fort Wayne aud Chicago Raii-
road. Daniel was bpkesman, and he
would leave the car doors unlocked at night
while the train halted at that station when
Willimh WOULD carry of the plumlcrs a
large quantity. OF thestolcn goods have been
recovered. The. brothers have been bound
over to court to answer the charges Y
Commander winslow, of the Kcarsagc,
has arrived in Washington to testify in the
trial OF Captain Scmmcs They expect to
prove by him that when the Alabama sunk.
Captain Scnies did not go down with her
but committed the high crime of swim
ming on 70 u neutral packet, For this
crime of not drowning, he has been AZ
raigned before that beautiful tribunal
military court-martial. The trial OF Cap
tain Semmes, rs this breach of faith upon
the part of the Government is called, is
soon to take place. q Ti Hn
Ashland, the homestead of Henry Clay
was sold on Friday last by Mrs. j. B. Clay
to John B. Bowman, Regent of Kentucky
for $4,000. 1t IS. designed to
transform it into the Agricultural College
of Kentucky. aN ts "HU0 .i.
The Secretary of the Treasury had in-
structed cotton agents to make no more
sales of captured cotton for the present the
Secretary believing that delay will be ad-
yantageous to the Government in bringing
higher prices than can be obtained now
The remarkable fact is stated that the
perpetrators of every robbery ofthe Adams
Express Company have been arrested and
punished None have ever escaped. laI
There is q rumor in New York that n
WELL known Government detective has sud
denly disappeared and left his subordinate
detectives deeply in debt. The sub-detect-
ives can't find him. n. h.iM.auli ,.
Roberts, the champion billiardist of Eng
land, has sailed for this country, and it is
probable an international match between
him and Dion. of Canada, will take place.
The London Lancet the leading medical
Journal in England, says that disections OF
diseased cattle by the distinguished Surgeon
DIR. Murchisan, havc convinced him that
the rinderpest or cattle plague is not as has
been supposed, closely allied to human
| typhoid fever, but that there exists a very
strong analogy, II not entire identity, be-
tween il and smallpox. If this be the case,
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pearance on this battle field, where were
confessedly decided the momentous Is
sues involved in our civil conflict, is hail
ed as sign of national deliverance and
regeneration by all who are superstitious
or who yield to that species OF exaltation
which the subject is SO well-calculated to
inspire.
This strange spring has been visited
by thousands of persons within the last
six months and the desire to see it, and
to partake of its water, has assumed the
form Of mania, which is rapidly spread
ing among The people.
1t is situated on the McClean farm, neal
where Gen. Reynolds fell. and where oc-
Cured some of the most memorable in
cidcnts of the great battle.
This mysterious water has been analyz-
ed by Prof. Mayer, of the college at this
place; but while chemical science fully
explains its medicinal virtues, 1t is Who'll
ly silent as to its sensible properties
which exclude it from the category Of
known waters Gettysburg Star.
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MISCELLANY.

A CAPITOL INCIDENT" What is that
room for?' asked quiet, plain, and
farmcrish looking man of advanced
years. ." That is the Supreme Court
Room" "Where is the old Represen-
tatives Hall? l have been there before,
and would like to see it again." contin-
ued the interrogation. I'm the other end
of the capitol, where you will find a
very meagre collection of bad statuary."
responded our friend Where can the
Rotunda be SEEM still inquired the
somewhat unsophisticated gentleman.
4" The Rotunda is the space under the
dome, which you will pass through in
going to the other part of the building"
C" Oh, that's it, is it? You see | havn't
been to Washington to 60 around much,
since 1884, and things have changed a
good deal since then. I've got a son,
though, that's pretty well known round
here" ''Ah" said our friend, "who is
he" "They call him General Grant y
And the unostentatious father of the
great General was as modest and ultXs-
suming in his search for the Rotunda, as
his distinguished son was in his seige of
Richmond. With quite an interesting
history Of the earlier career Of "Ulys-
ses," our informer parted with his inter
esting acquaintance.
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A STRANGE OMEN OF THE BATTLE FIELD
AT GETTYsBURG.-While the statesmen
and politicians at Washington and else
where are puzzling their brains over the
problem of reconstruction, and often in
dulging in gloomy apprehensions as to
the future, many Of the good people in
this part Of the country are deriving con-
ISOLATION from strange omen which has
appeared on the battlefield of Gettys-
burg.
1t is that Of a spring of healing wa
ters, of such marvellous properties, and
with such strange history, as is claimed
can only be accounted for on the hypoth-
esis of it's production by supernatural
agency, and for prOvidential purpose.
While it possesses all, and more than all,
the medicinal virtues Of the best mineral
fluids, its sensible properties are those of
pure spring water, from which it is in
no way distinguishable except in its effects
on the human system-an unprecedented
and hitherto deemed impossible combi-
nation.
Previous to the battle of Gettysburg it
it was known to many Of our citizens as
a sulphur spring, possessing all the often
sive properties of its tribe. since which
time it has undergone the marvellous
transformation which is now witnessed.
AS this water combines the virtues of
the two kinds used by us as R nourish.
ment, and as medicine, it is maintained
that it is pre- eminently entitled to the
designation Of a water Of life, and its ap-
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Gen. Whitfield, formerly delegate to
Congress from Kansas Territory, writes
to friend from Austin, Texas, where he
is attending the Constitutional Conven-
ton, as follows: "We got whipped, and
there's no use to talk. / am the most
loyal man you ever saw-ready to take a
tilt if necessary against Max or anybody
else. The feeling Of the South is to
place herself again in the Union-for-
getting, as far as possible, the terrible
past, and looking to the future for better
things. l hope the storm will blow over,
and peace and harmony will prevail with
all of us as brothers."
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Chapter l7th----City Ordinance.
To Establish a Board of Health.

DE 1T ORDAINED. by the Mayor and AL
- dermen of the city of Van Buren, that
for the preservation of the health of said city
there be. and there is, hereby, by the provis-
ions of this ordinance. established board of
health for the city Of Van Buren,.
SEC. lst.-Such board of health shall consist
of five members to be appointed by the May
or of said city; three of whom shall be MEM
bers of the City Council and the two others
to be appointed from among the citizens.
SEC. 2d.-Said board of health shall take
and may use all measures not in conflict with
existing ordinances ofthe city. to prevent the
spread of all infectious and contagious dsea-
ses and shall have power to do and act in all
cases that they may deem necessary in SAN
itary point of view, in having all causes of
sickness removed or abated; and it shall be
their especial duty to attend to all sanitary
matters, whatever, that may be of necessity
or of any supposed avail In promoting the
sanitary condition of the city Of Van Buren,.
and shall, also, have power to establish Hos
pitfalls to which all persons shall be removed
when in the opinion Of said board it shall be
deemed advisable; and generally to do all
that may be in their opinion required for the
preservation of the health of the city,
SEC. 3d.-The board Of health authorized in
the first section Of this ordinance may, in
Cnelr dlscretloIl. employ hyslcfai W allehu
upon any hospital authorized in the second
section of this ordinance, should they, at any
time deem it necessary to establish such hos
pital.
SEC. 4th.-Said board of health, or a COM
mttee of them, appointed for that purpose
out of their number, are authorized to draw
their orders on the City Treasurer for such
sum or sums as may be necessary to carry out
the provisions of this ordinance. This Ordi-
nance to be in force and effect from Its adOp-
tion.
Adopted, April 10th, 1866.
d. DICKSON. Mayor.
Attest: GEO. w. NEwLAND, Recorder.
april l8-44-3t.
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Ey The Gazette tells a good story
about Boston man who attended a tenn
perance meeting in Janesville, where he
thought he saw one of the gentlemen with
whom he had taken quiet drink only a
few hours before, filling one of the Off
ces He said Gin relating the incident af-
terward) he thought it was id queer
country out here if the cause Of temper
ance was represented by such men. But
it might be that he was mistaken, men
look so differently by gaslight sometimes
and perhaps the officer In question is an
other man entirely. "But,' said he.
I" after the meeting, to make the thing
sure again asked him to drink, and, by
thunder, he did drink.
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POET
Take the Papers.

BY y. p. WILLS.
Why dOn'tyo take the papers!
They're the life of my delight;
Except about election time.
And then read for spite.
Subscribe! you cannot lose a cent,
Why should be afraid?
For cash thus paid is money lent,
On interest four-fOld paid.
Go, then, and take the papers.
And pay to-day. nor pay delay;r
And my word for it, If yoti 10.
You'lllive until you're gray!
An old neighbor of mine. q.
While dying with cough.
Desired to hear the latest news
While he was going off.
Itook the paper and ! read
Of some new pills in force;
lie bought boX-and is he dead?
No-heartier than horse!
l saw two men, as much alike
As e'eryOu saw two stumps.
And no phrenologist could find
A difference In their bumps.
One takes the papers and his life
Is happier than kings;
His children all can read and write,
And talk of men and things.
The other took no paper. and,
While strOlling through the wood.
A tree fell down, and broke his crown,
And killed him very good.'
Had he been reading of the news
At home, like neighbor Jim,
I'll bet cent that accident
Would not have happened him!
Why don't you take the papers,
Nor from the printer sneak,
Because you borrow Of his boy
a paper every week.
For he who takes the papers,
And pays his bills wtien due.
Can live in peace with God and man,
And with the printer too.
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WHAT AN Iron BAR BECAME.--A bar
of iron worth IS, worked into horse
shoes is worth $40 80; made into nee
dies it is worth $3.50; made into knife
blades it is worth SS,2S6; made into bal
ance springs of watches it is worth $780,
600 What drilling the poor bar OF
iron must undergo to reach all that; but
hammered, and beaten, and pounded and
rolled and rubbed ard polished, how was
its value increasedl 1t might well have
complained under the hard knocks it got;
but were they not all necessary to draw
out its fine qualities and fit it for higher
Offices +? And so all the drilling and train
ing to which you are subject; all the tri'
ais and hardships, thumps and pains
which often seem so hard to you serve to
bring out your finer qualities, and to fit
you for more responsible posts and
greater usefulness in the world.
The Van Buren press., 1866-05-05

Posi- OFFICES EsTABLIsHED.-During
the month Of March the Postmaster Gen
eral caused the following Post Offices to
be re-opened; In Virginia, 104; in
North Carolina, SO; in West Virginia, 8 !;
in Georgia, 80; in Tennessee, 90; in
Mississippi, so; in Alabama, 8; in Ar
kansas, II; in Texas, 6 in South Caro-
lima, 4; in Louisiana, 8. Total 247. The
department has, also, in the same time
established 139 new offices, 36 were dis
continued, and the names of % changed.
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MORTALITY OF FEAR IN ErIDEM1cs. AS
it is pretty evident that the cholera has
effected a lodgment at New York, from
whence it will most likely extend over
the continent, it is well enough to bring
to the attention of our readers an allego-
ry which aptly illustrates the relative
mortality of epidemics and of fear. The
allegory runs in this wise: An Egyptian
merchant, when passing out the gates of
Grand Cairo, on mercantile venture in
to Arabia, met the plague going in. Az
ter the customary, salutations, and in an
swer to an inquiry, the plague informed
the merchant that he was going into
Cairo to kill three thousand people. Some
weeks elapsed, and the merchant return
ing met the plague on the road. "How
is this" said he, "you told me you were
going into Cairo to kill three thousand
people, and from all accounts, you have
slain at least thirty thousand l told
you the TRUTH" replied the plague, l
killed only three thousands sneaking
assassin named Fear, killed the other
twenty-seven thousand There is much
philosophy as we'll as true physiological
science in this, as every enlightened and
experienced physician will tell you.
The Van Buren press., 1866-05-05

"BoSDocRAcY."-The Montpelier, W.
Patriot says there were about three bill
ions of dollars worth of slaves in the
country, owned by less than half mil
lion people. This was called the slave
ocracy. The capitalists of the country
have made war upon, and demolished the
slaveocracy. 1t has cost three billions to
do it. The Southern slaves are turned
into government bonds which are held
by less than half million capitalists.
Slaveocracy is turned into Bondocracy.
And the question comes shall we accord
the Bondholder privilege the slavehold-
er never asked-an exemption from tax
ation9 This is abolishing slavcry-in;a
horn! 1t sets Sambo loose, but binds
the chains Of eternal seryitude upon the
white labOrer.
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Marriage notices $500. Obituary notices,
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Cards or communications of persona
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Announcing candidates, for Congress or
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All Job Work, to be paid for on delivery.
Address all letters and communications to
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Ey- A French chemist has invented for
summer use fuel Of this description =
Ground charcoal four parts; starch, one
part; made into paste balls which are
dried When kindled, they will burn
without flame or smoke q long time with
intense heat; and four-ou,ce cake will
boil one gallon OF water.
The Van Buren press., 1866-05-05

Ey Mrs. Partington says that the coal
porters may say what they please about
religious tracks, but she thinks, in her
opinion, that there's no tracks so sugges.
tive of solemn thoughts as the railroad
tracks. M
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EF"A lighted lamp writes M
Cheyne, ais very small thing. and yet
it giveth light to all who are in the
house, and so there is quiet influence
which, like the flame, fills many homo
with light and fragrance.
The Van Buren press., 1866-05-05

HORSES OF THE DESERT Arabian
horse is watered once in twenty -four
hours. He is often obliged to content
himself with dates instead Of barley
these are given to him before they are
perfectly ripe, when their stones are soft
and are eaten stones and ALL In the
spring he is turned out on the pastures,
but in the summer, if his master can af-
ford it, he gets little barley. On this
scanty fare, good horse in the desert is
expected, if necessary, to accomplish,
for five or six successive days, distances
of hundred and twenty-five to hun
dred and fifty miles, and after couple
of days rest and good feeding, he will
be quite well enough to complete the feat.
If he shakes himself at any resting.place
or paws the ground with his foot, it is
held that there is no occasion to pull up
in the journey, and if you would know,
at the end Of day of excessive fatigue
how far you can yet depend upon your
horse, get off his back and pull him
strongly by the tail; if he remains un-
moved, you may still rely upon him. " 1t
is no very rare occurrence to hear of a
Of horse doing one hundred and eighty
miles in twenty-four hours" The re-
quisites which the men Of the desert
look for in him are " that he should car
ry a full-grown man, his arms and a
change Of clothing, food for his rider
and himself, flag, even on windy day,
and if it be necessary, drag a dead body
behind him."
The Van Buren press., 1866-05-05

kE Bayard Taylor has introduced .
new water mellon, which keeps through
the winter. He obtained the seeds from
Volga, Russia, from a melon grown in
Paris, on the shores Of the Caspian Sea.
The Van Buren press., 1866-05-05
Teacher Wanted.

4 SSISTANT Teacher wanted to TAX
n. charge Of the Departments ofLanguage
es and Mathematics. Address Elder Isaac
Reed, Ozark, Ark. april Is.
The Van Buren press., 1866-05-05

CoURrEsY.-Courtesy is.a quality of
character that should be cultivated by all
eswecially by business men. 1t never
fails to win the respect of all observers
If one does not feel courteous, then he
should exercise enough selfcontrol to
appear so for the comfort of others, and
as matter of policy. Without it no
man will be likely to succeed in business.
By being polite and obliging, a clerk in a
Post Office may make friends Of the
whole community; while one who is pet
ish and ill-tempered will as surely make
enemies of all. The merchant who is
willing to show his goods, although he
may not make sales Of the same, will be
likely to sell to the same customer at an
other time. A snappish clerk will drive
away more customers and prevent the
realization Of more profits than the
amount Of salary paid for his services.
The Van Buren press., 1866-05-05
DIR. l.. C.. WHITE,

MAY, as usual, be found at his Office IN
lN the Drug Store. Having received the
appointment of United States Marshall and
being physically unable to endure the hard
ships of country practice, he is compelled to
cOnfine his professional duties within the city
limits, but will do all that may be possible for
his country friends.
Van Buren,, Feb. !, '66. II
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~ Just one line wanted.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-07-13
A New and Grand Epoch in Medicine I!

Dr. Maggicl IL the founder Of now Medical
system The quantitarians whose vast inter
nal doses onfeebe.the stomach and paralyze the
bowels, must give precedence TO the man who
restores health and appetite, with from one to
TWO OF his extraordinary Pills, and cures the
most virulent sores with box or so OF his won
dcriul and all healing Salve These two great
specifics OF the Doctor are fast supcrseding all
the sterotyped nostrums of the day. Extraor-
binary cures by Maggel's Pills and Salve have
opened the eyes Of the public to the inefficiency
OF the $50 callod) remedies of others, and upon
which people have so long bindly depended.
Maggiels Pills not of the class that are swal-
lowed by the dozen, and of which of every box
full taken creates an absolute necessity for an
other. One or two of Maggiel's Pills suftices TO
place the bowels in perfect order, tone the stom-
ach, create an appetite, and render the spirits
Zig ht and buoyantl There is no gripping, and no
reaction in the form of constipation. 1.-THE liver
is Affected its functions are restored; and il the
nervous system is feeble, it is invigorated This
last quality makes the medicines very desirable
for the wants of delicate females. Ulcerous and
crliptive diseases are literally extinguishcd by
the disinfcctant power Of Maggiels Salyc. In
fact, il is here announced that MaggicIs Bill
GUS, Dyspeptic and Diarrhca Pills cure
whore all others fail While for Burns. Scads,
Chlblains, Cats, and all abrasions of the skins,
Naggiefs snlve il infaible. Sold by ]. Mag
giel, 43 Fulton Street, New York, and all Drug
gists, at Is cts. per box. lilly
J.. l.. butcher Sons, Agents, st. Adams, VT.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-07-13
TO CONSERVATIVES.

The advertiser having been restored TO health
in few weeks by very simple remedy, after
having suffered several years with a severe lung
affection and that dread disease, Consumption
is anxious to make known to his fellow-sutfer-
ors the means FIGURE.
To all who desire il, he will send a copy Of
the prescription used Gree of charged with di-
rections for preparing and using the same, which
they viii find a sure cure for Consumption,
Asthma Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds, and oil
Throat and Lung Affections. The only object
of the advertiser in sending the Prescription is
which ho eonceives to be invaluable, and he
hopes every sufferer viii try his remedy, as 1t
win cost them nothing, and may prove bless
ing.
Parties wishing q prescription, free, by return
mail, will please address
Rev EDWARD A. WILSON,
Williamsburgh, Kings Co., New York.