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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25
The FnIr prinfinr.

An individual signing himself "a
Member OF the Board" came out in IN
article, IN lasts weeks Herald, in which
he manifests u desire to carry political
feeling into our Morgan County Ag-
ricultural Society. This has been at
tempted before in this County by men
ofthe same political tehets that this
Member 81 the Board" holds to. In
fact, Radicalism cannot help carrying
its politics into itsreligion, It's business,
its social and domestic matters; and
in short, into every thing which it
touches OF has aught to do with. The
statement ofthis individual us TO our
list Of subscription is one which no
honorable man would make
under the circumstances. II is true
that at the timo we were first spoken
to regarding the printing, that our
subscription list only numbered about
800; but the cause of its being so limi-
ted in number was fully explained to
this "Member Of the Board, "and he was
also informed at a later period Of Our
increase IN subscription Of about 100.
Attic time we were first applied 10,
we had been cutting off all whose time
had expired and who had not renewed.
The regular and average subscription
list during the past year has been six
hundred. Some two hundred Of these
had failed TO renew. and were at that
time of our list. But they are and
have boen renewing as fast as they
come TO town. At present wo issue
500 papers, an increase in three week
Of near Two hundred. We have the
satisfaction, also OF stating that we are
getting u goodly number of new sub
scribers-perSons rho hare never before
patronized this paper. The Fair adver-
! tisement runs through the best season
! of the ear when our subscription is
the largest. We admit that, in all
probability, the Committee on Printing
would have allowed us rates Of PRINT
ing, computed by comparing our poor
est season with the HerdldS best ca
son. and the rates. thus gotten, to My
us for The best ecason. Would not this
have been very fair and honorable?
But the committee did not offer us this
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25

THE AGE OF HUMBUG:-No age can
More truly be called the age Of hum.
bug than the present. Who're one
man prospors in " truly meretoriOus
and useful business, We hear and
know of numbers who amass for.
tunes through the chronic disposition
Of the people to be humbugged. The
citizens OF Morgan County are no OK
cepGons to the rule, and We should
think had suffered sufficiently in their
pockets to at least stop and consider
ere they take another "leap in the
dark" or, at least, in the face of we'll
known ~absurdities. AZ present, there
ia stopping at the Central House an
individual calling himself DR.. Burner.
He makes great professions of profci-
oDcy in his business, and claims a
knowledge Of Medicine which we are
accustomed TO think is only possessed
by those who have spent near three
scoro and ten years in the most arduous
study, coupled with an equal exper
lance in the largest hospitals ia tho
country. DR.. Burner, who cannot be.
from his appearance, more than % OF
80 years of age, may possess all this
information of this enlightened age,
but we recommend our citizens to con-
slider the probabilities for and against
such an inference. We learn III ST
Luke that Christ, at the early age Of
twelve years, was found conversing
with the doctors upon profound sub
jects, and that he astonished every one
with the wisdom he displayed. But
Il follow citizons should consider that
that was an age Of miracles and that
this ls an age Of humbugs.
p. S. After the above was put in
the hard of the composltor we learned
that DIR Burner had left this commu
nifty. Some circulars exposing him
IN hia humbuggery, which were ISSUED
from the Herald Office, is the supposed
cause Of bis limited sojourn. He de-
parted yssterdAy.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25

Stoves, TiNwASE, CUTLERY AND FARM
ING UTENsILs.-H. Johnson, TWO doors
above McCarty's Store, invites the ut
tention Of everyone to his very supo
rior assortment Of Goods. He sells Ia
suit the close times we are all now *.
%poriencing. Anyone can he suited in
anything in winch Mr.. Johnson deals.
A customer he once gets, he always
realms.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25
Commercial.
MUoNNELsvILLE MARKET.

M'C0NEELSVlLLE MARKET.
M'CoEELsvfLLB. Jolly 10 1851.
FLoUg--tl2 no Ext a per barrel,
WHEAT-t2 90 per bushel.
OATs-35 cents per bushel.
CoRW-50 cents per bushei.
FLAX SEED-12 90 per buAhel,
BARLEY-Spring, soc; Fall, 75e per hush.
$40 90 TO " COPPER ton.
DRIED APPJEs-S 81 so per bushel.
BUTTER. IS cents per pound.
EG0s-l0 cents per dozen.
C~HICKEHs-Live Is cents.
CoFFEE-3O to 80 cents
COUNTRY SOFAS cents per pound.
SUGAR-l5 TO Is cents per pound.
SoRGUM-4C cents per gallon per barrel.
LARD-L0 cents pound in Jars and keg.
CAHDLEs- (Tallow)-lS cents per ID by boz.
rs cents at retail.
" (Star)-30 eents per ID. by box.
" 35 cents at retail.
SoAP-l0 TO Is cents per bar.
CnEEsE-20 cents per pound.
SALT-s2 so per harrel-retail.
STosE.CoAL-l2 cents per bushel.
HAMs-l5 cents at retail.
SIDRs-l0 cents per pound.
SHoULDERs-0 cents.
TALLow-S to 10 cents.
WHIsKY-f2 90 per gallon.
BBASs-tl 90 per bushel.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25

DR.. Norris, Of Log Cabin, deserves
and hereby gets our thanks. for his
efforts in behalf of increasing our sub
scription lat. lie sent Us last week
a list Of ffty-one new subscribers
which he informs us he obtained in
a few days. If the Democracy had but
n such man as DIR. Norris in each
township in this County 1t would be
but a short time ere we would he abb,
10 increase the size and improve the
matter of our paper. Democrats will
find it to their mtercstto follow the
Doctors O. ample We have stated to
many -four friends the number OF
Subscribers it will be necessary for us
to have before II will permit of us
charging. If they will but assist us.
the number required can be raised in
fow weeks. Let those who feel an
inttrOst Net themselves 10 work.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25
BRIDGE NOTICE.

Subscribers to the Capital Stock Of the
Morgan County Bridge Company are hereby
notified that, in CONSEQUENCES of The resumntioI
of the work, they will be expected TO com
plete the payment of their stock. An install
ment of ten per cent, is called for, payable on
the LIST day of August next, and q like amount
each thirty days thereafter until full payment
IN each case is made. Andit is to be under.
stood that all stock must be fully paid up by
the LIST day Of October next, when the contract.
ors have agreed to complete the structure.
By order of the Board Of Directors
w. p, SPRAGUE Prest.
June 25th, Is67-Sm.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25
Advertisements
HOW TO PRESERVE
NOTICE.

JONES Watkins VS.. Sarah p. Watkins.
Sarah 3. Watkins, whose place Of residence
is unknown, is hereby notified that James Wat
kins did, on the 9Th day Of July, 1887, file his
petition in the Office of the Clerk Of the Court
Of Common Pleas, within and for the County
Of Morgan, and State Of Ohio, charging the said
Sarah b. Watkins with willrul absence for the
period of three years, and asking that he may
be divorced from the said Sarah B. Watkins,
which petition will stand for hearing at the
November term, 1857, Of said court.
JAMES WATKINS.
BY srANBERr 4 PYLE, his Atty's'
July ll-6w.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25

sS- On yesterday, John Swltzer,
one of the plow-point swindlers, was
brought here by Marshall Wolf of
GAINESVILLE. He was arrested in Bel.
laire. His preliminary trial before
Justice Jones will come off to-day.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25
arc OF YOUTH.

A gentleman who suffered for years from
Nervous Debility, Premature Decay, and all
the effects of youthful indiscretion, will for the
sake ,ofuffering humanity, seud free TO all who
need it, the recipe and directions for making
Sufferers wishing to profit by the advertisers
experience, can do so by addressing, In perfect
confidence, JOHN b. OGDEN,
May ely, "
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.

SUBSCRIBE ron IT-The ARENA
contains 40 columns Of SPICY reading
every week. Lovers of "choice liter
ature" should read IL. Sent 3 months
for 30 ccnts. Address "lHE ARENA"
Albany, N. Y. no5l DIV
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25
II,nnps. nCTIIne.

On and after this date, the Steamer
Mink will leave McConnelsville ut
O'clock. A. 81. Returning will leave
GAINESVILLE at 21. P. NJ.
July is, 967.-3w.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25
@. IN. Shennrl. Esn.:

l 2 3 4 5 6 Z s
Hickory Ii l 10 10 o U 90 ~ 10 40
Union l22 022 l 3 4 II
Home Runs Hickory; hurry /; Sipler3;
Adair l: Emmcrson l:Pyle5i Cheadle 2;
Total, 10.
Union Langly 2; 2,
Fly Catches-Hickory Williamson 3
Dye, l. Mcconnell, l: Sigler, 3: Emmer-
son, /, Total, 8. Union: Leslie 3;
Smith, 2: Hall, q Sylvester, l: Camp
bell, A: Oondoff, 3: Styers: !. Total, l8.
Foul Bound Catches Hickory;
Williamson, 3; Total g..
Union; Leslie, 8; Crimes, l, Total, 6.
Muifod Balls Hickory; Williamson, l;
hurry l; SigIer 2; Cheadle Il Total 4.
Union, Leslie 1; Smith l; Hall 4;
Sylvester 4; Campbell 3; Grimes 2;
Orndtf 3; Stycrsj 4; Langley /. To-
tai 90.
Outs on Basos,-Hickory; Dye /;
Cheadle |; Total 2. Union Leslie 2;
Smith /; Hall 4; Sylvester l; Campbell
l; Grimes |, Styers 2; Langley /, To.
tai ID.
Left on Bases Hickory; Williamson
Ii Dyo i siglOr !; Adair-l; Emmerson
v IT "
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25

BD~ The Court OF Common Pleas
convened on Tuesday morning-Judge
Granger presiding. General Ball,
Hon. L. P. Marsh, and several other
lawyers Of zancsvillesar in attend
snce.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25

BG- Notice the new card of H. B..
Vincent & Bro. found in another col
umn.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25

The following account of the Base
Ball match, played at GAINESVILLE on
the 10Th instant, was furnished us by
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25

Mate h-Game OF Base BAH be-
twCcn the Unions, OF Zanes-
Vile, and the EEIckOries, OF
McGOancls Vllie.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-07-25

THE WHOLESALE
AND
R II II A L
EMPORIUM
IB IL h w STER
81
IL . B II R II s..
90
We have now on hand
L A R G E
v A IL 4 IL ID
ASSORTMENT
D R s G. 90 d.,
consisting of
PLAIN AND FANCY SILKS,
from 60 cents to $3.50 per yard.
SILK PoPLINs,
REP PoPLINs,
PLAID PoPLINs,
oLTAMAN PoPLINs,
PLAIN L PLAID LENos,
PLAIN FIGURED WOOL DELAINEs
oRGANDY& PLAIN LAWNS,
DOMESTIC AND FRENCH GINGHAM
TRAVELLING GOODS,
ALPACAS Of light and dark eolsrs.
ORIENTAL LUsTREs.
CHALLI DELAINEs,
LADIES' CLOTH, +.
besides a large assortment Or
Thibet Shawls,
T. Gloves and Mitts,
Collars,
Velvet Ribbons,
Wells,
Handkerchief,
Head Nets,
Belt & Bonnet Ribbons,
Baskets,
QuSenSwAro
Boots,
Shoes,
Groceries,
&c, To-, &S.
WE STUDY TO PLEASE,
Mil pcf bs Hposrsc!o
ReadY-paV.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04
Port Byron, Ill. Its Business
Prospects.

EDITOR OF THE Rock ISLAND ARGUS
.Sir-In the Davenport Democrat of last
week, noticed an article with the above
heading, and knowing it to be very one-sided
and contracted, embracing only those who
were within the limited vision of the inform
ant of the Democrat, / wish you would cor
rect his statistics, and show the town in its
true proportions. He saws Port Byron has
now in successful operation three dry goods
stores, whereas there are sere,a, two of them,
Simonson & Co. and D. S. Metzgar Son.
paving a wholesale dealers license and doing
a business of over $4,000 year each. The
seven dry goods stores are kept by Dodge Il
Harris. Simonson & Maxwell, ID. G. Com
stock, E. Fl. Hollister, d. s. Metzgar & Son,
Devore & Sheppard, and VIM. Parker
From this you see wide difference fromthe
Democrats statement, and this is his first
item.
One banking house, doing general bank
ing business, with a capital of 5 5000 Hav-
ing access to the q. s. assessors books, /
find that the bank returns no capital, but an
average of $l8 200 per month on deposits
Two hotels, both been built several years,
but the De Soto House, now National, was
purchased last year BY our enterprizing citi-
zen, Roger Bell, ESQ.,, who is fully equal to
any of the few live business men belonging
to the clique who are reported in the Demo
erdt. He has repaired and painted the house
and it is now under the management of w
Kingsley-a first class hotel for Travellers
The other, the Port Byron House, has long
been favorably known to the travelling com
munity. Two grocery stores, Henry c.
Trent, returned soldier, who keeps what is
styled by the clique, the Mechanics Head
Quarters" The other grocery store is kept
by Alfred Spaid. Two drug stores; 2 law
yers doctors 2 dentists; livery stables:
l cooper shop; 8 blacksmith shops; shoe
stores wagon shops; | saddler, tail.
| ors; l tailoress millinery store, which
the ladies say is wen filed and presided over
by soldiers widow; carpenters; 3 mas
ter plasterers 6.stone masons; | painter
! butcher shop, and tin and stove store
that has been established seventeen wears
next door to the informants, and appears to
be doing a living business a lumber yard
kept by Dorrance i Gates, where can be
found all the different kinds and quality usu
aly wanted either BY the mechanic or farmer
The past season Gates d Fogg burnt several
kilns of brick, furnishing all that was neces
sary for the town and adjoining country
But the largest mandatory within the
town is that carried on by r. B. Chase &
Son, for burning lime, they having three pa.
tent klIns, which can average so barrels Of
lime each kiln a day, ofe.the best quality
Port Byron white lime, being superior to any
| burnt in the state. Their lime is favorably
known from Burlington to st. Paul. They
| have. q cooper shop connected with their
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

Hon. Justin S. Morrill,, member Of con.
gress from Vermont, and who viii be a SEN
ator after the Sd of next month, has recently
made speech in the house, on the subject
of the reduction of the currency and a return
TO specie payments, which is as full of strik-
ing points as any that has been made since
the session began. He shows to congress
and~the country that this is matter Of tar
greater urgency than the schemes about
which the members are consuming precious
time One fact brought into prominence by
him deserves repetition the amount OF pa
per currency in use in 1862 was only S184,-
000, 900, whereas it is now nearly one thous-
and millions, or fee times as much! And
his query is a searching one, whether the
business of the country is so much greater
now than it was then, as to demand such o
vast expansion of paper money to carry it.
No one who knows anything about it will
answer afirmatively. Then why permit
such useless body of currency to remain
afoat, only to make prices ruinously uncer-
CdlH anu ~ FtiHdIu do Il SOEt VI IeScINt iOTCt
ready for the uses of speculation In the
opinion of Mr.. Morrill, we shall never have a
more suspicious time than now to initiate
the work of contraction. 1t is not necessary
to add that Secretary McCulloch finds a Wig
orous supporter of his policy in Mr.. Morrill,,
who holds that it is essential to the stability
of our government that the excess of paper
issue be retired as rapidly as due degree OF
prudence will permit. The people, too, de-
mand speedy return to low prices, which
they can never hope to have SO long as pa
per money is so cheap and the basis of al
business transactions is so huctuating and
uncertain. EEE
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

A good story is told of Hon. Roscoe Conk.
ling, of New York, who has Just been elected
:. United States senator. Muscle is his mania,
and his leisure hours are passed with The the
weight, or the boxing glovessin the use on
which he is quite an adept. Being man
several inches over six feet in height he is
an ugly customer TO tackle. While Dan
kerrigan was member from Brookly Conk-
ling was also member from the Utica dis
trict New York, and he saw fit to be quite
polite to kerrigan, but in n way that offend
ed him, as Conkling always led conversation
through him TO sporting topics, and, though
probably not intending to do so, conveyed
the impression to the Brooklyn member that
| the Utica representative thought he KERR
GAM knew nothing of others matters. One
day Conkling told kerrigan he should like to
put on the gloves with him. Dan said he
was not much of boxer, and besides was
too small man to contend with Roscoe. but
that friend of his was a fair sparrer, and he
would bring him to Conkling's room that ev
| enng, if agreeable. The appointment was
| made and Dan appeared, punctually, accom-
| panied By friend nearly as large as Conk-
| ling. The gloves were speedily donned, and
| the .sparring commenced. Kerrigan occupy
| ing himself, the while, in arranging in line
on the table the inkstand, paste bottle, glass
| es and other articles of congressman's la
| BILE furniture. As the boxers SPARED about
the room, Conkling ''got in" several blows
| light ones, but was not struck until he
reached a position in line with the string of
| ''skulch, arranged by kerrigan, when the
stranger led ont straight, hard blow on the
| congressman's mob, which sprswled him fiat
in the midst of Dams preparations. Conk-
| ling rose rather discouraged, like the COW
when the locomotive knocked her down the
| embankment, and his opponent handsomely
aPologized, and expressed his surprise at
succeeding in hitting boxer so superior to
himself Roscoe kept his temper, and sec
ond time they went at it, but again when
| Conkling reached the proper position, he was
''laid on the table," like democratic bill in
the house of representatives. A third time
the operation was repeated, when the con-
gresham, disgnsted, laid aside the gloves,
and learned afterwards that Kerrigan's friend
was Ned Price, the celebrated boxer
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

The people cannot have forgotten that, at
the last session of congress, the house OF rep
resentatives passed an outrageously high pro-
tective tariff, the effect of which would be to
nearly or quite prohibit importations and
cause the great mass of the people of this
country to pay still higher taxes to the capt.
tai and manufacturing interests of the coun-
try.
This bin having passed the house, was
hung up to dry, in the senate, till the cleo
tions were over, so that the members who
lived in districts where the protection tallacy
is popularscould go before their constituents
and say they had done all in their power to
get it passed while those who lived in agri-
cultural regions could say thy knew it
wouldn't pass the senate, and they voted for
it just to please their friends in New England.
The people know very well that, all through
the last campaign, We could not get radical
stump speaker'or newspaper in the westto dis
cuss the tariff question, although it was one of
the most important questions before the peo-
pie, and one which must be acted ON this
winter, but they would not discuss it. They
had played a NICE dodge on the question by
laying 1t over, i'll the senate. They knew the
iniquitions bin could not be defended, and if
they discussed it they would lose votes; SO
they kept num- tss
Now, the question is being acted, and a
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04


We hope democratic newspapers win drop
the subject of a national convention, and let
well enough alone. A convention could do
nothing but harm if it met. The experience
of the sage politicians of both parties in other
days was, that conventions and platforms
and nominations should be reserved to the
last possible moment before an election, in
order that the sense and feeling of the peo-
pie should be had in the premises. 1t viii
be s. fatal day for any party, or the best
cause, or for Union and restoration, when
the few and not the people shall indicate
public policy full eighteen months before q
grand campaign, to decide, perhaps, the fate
of constitutional liberty and republican gov
eminent for generations. Let the people
stand by the President and the Supreme
Court, and leave conventions alone, for the
present.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

The Stats Zietuag don't approve of the
pardoning of Mollie Trussel, and expresses
itself this morning after this fashion
at is scandal, and censurable abuse of the
pardoning power. 1t shows that in this land of
hypocricy the crime that walks in silk and velvet
and jewels is privileged. Aristocrarie priestess.
of Venus do what they choose they find
those who twist at pleasure the waxen nose of
justice, and, at last, governor. who holds over
them the shield. of pardon. Only those prosti-
tutes who in misery punished. Mollie
Trussel resume her trade, and we doubt not
that she will have fine business"
The trial of Mollie Trussel, her sentence
for one year, and her pardon by the execu-
tive, form a series of acts not less disgrace
full than those for which the miserable wo-
man was tried and convicted.-CkicagoP Posi-,
ID k #
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04
From the Carthage Republican.
Rock Island Argus.

This ably-conducted democratic paper
comes to us in a new dress of beautiful type
making it one of the handsomest papers
in the state. We congratulate our old friend,
Col. Danforth, upon that appreciation of his
labors and consequent success In the mechan-
zeal improvement of The ARGUS. IF the
democracy of Rock Island and adjoining
counties have one particle of gratitude for
long and faithful service in their cause, they
viii at once quadruple their support of The
ARGUS.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04
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