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The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19
Underground River in North
ern Ohio.

The Fremont Journal gives an
account of an underground river
in that section, as follows; 1t is
not generally known that there cx-
lists, about a mile west of this city,
a remarkable underground stream,
with swift current, and no outlet
above the surface of the ground
this side of Lake Erie. II was dis
covered several years ago on q farm
north of the Four Mile House, now
owned by widow Shelter, by a man
who was returning from o days
chopping in the woods. Iu walk
ing over a slightly sunken place,
he noticed a hollow sound, and.
turning, struck the ground with
his axe. The axe broke through
and disappeared, and has never
been heard from since. Further
Investigations showed rock about
six feet below the surface, with a
crevice foot or more wide, in
which water could be seen several
feet below. By tracing its course
farther down and breaking through
tho crust, the same phenomenon
fappeared again, and by dropping Q
piece Of wood or other floating sub
stance in the upper aperture, il
was soon seen to pass the lower
one, showing strong current. A
lead and line, let down to The
depth of seventy feet found no bot
tom. The supply of water is only
slightly affected by drouth, and {
pump set up in one of the placer
mentioned has furnished the pur
est water 70 the whole neigbbor
hood during the late, dry season
It is certainly quitela remarkabl'
tbIT6til.s = e rftf ~, ~ lss ) sa -
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

Gen. HoRAcE l.. CAPRos of Illi-
Dois, newly confirmed Commission
er OF Agriculture, is not only "A
practical Agrieulturist, according
to the National fntelligeneor, but q
well known writer on all Agricul-
tural subjects. He conducted a
farm in Maryland for several years
which was regarded as q model,
and which elected praise from all
quarters For many years he has
been constant contributor TO tho
prominent agricultural Journals
of the country. During the war he
served with distinction, as Colonel
of an Illinois cavalry regiment,
and among those who urged his
confirmation was Gen. Burbridge,
of Kentucky, under whom he scrv-
ef.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19
MRS. WILKINS CLUB.
BY JOHN QUILL.

"Bat, Mr.. Wilkins, you don'tun-
derstand what"
"Now don't talk 20 me any more
on that subject, lm sick OF hearing
you cackle | tell you ! don't ap-
prove of that club, and | dout
want you to belong to it. Do you
hear me? ] say you shan't belong
to it. / won't have you going
down there and exposing family
secrets, and letting all the women
around town know what a ridicu-
lous old chuckle. head I've gottor a
wife"
"Mr. Wilkins, I'll :"
And undertaking to preach wo-
men s rights to a lot of pigeon toed,
fluffy old girls, each Of whom has
been trying all her life tc getah ha-
beas corpus on some single man or
other, but never found any
who had such bloody bad .tasle as
to have her. | say won't have
it; it's perfectly ridiculous for
woman like you, who has about as
much idea about writing an essay,
a. a spoiled oyster has Of thorough
bass, to undertake to road a paper
on "Woman's Mission" In my o.
pinion, women had better be mis-
sonaries at home and try to con-
vert victuals into dinners, than be
going around reading documents
like that you've been writing, a
bout three miles long"
"Wilkins, that's no such thing"
"Three miles long on-a subject
you do not know anything at all
about. I'd like to know what sense
there is in covering three or four
million sheets of paper with your
ideas, even If you had any? l
suppose you'll be wanting me next
to hire dray to haul your manu-
script around to the club room, but
l give you fair warming, l amt go
ing to do it, not if l know myself,
and | Ithink do"
"You know don't want"
"You don't expect those old wo-
men to sit it out while you
read the whole Of that, do you?
Why you must be crazy. You
seem to forget that human beings
don't often live more than three
score and ten years, and it'll take
you that long to get half through,
and they a.sleeping all the time.
You'd better take around a demi-
john Of Hoffman's anodyne, and be
done with it,"
"Wilkins you. talk like a."
aid just like to know what you
want to vote for, any how. In my
opinion you'd better devote your
attention to your family. A pretty
lookiagsp spectacle you'll make go-
ing t6 tKespoIls and getting into
plug muses., and having your eyes
blacked and your nose blooded,
and your ridiculous bonnet smasn,
ed over your eyes, and making
stump speeches; not but what
you'd dowclh hon the speech. You've
an extra gift that way.@ %
"Yoa must be crazy"
"And wandering arourd the
streets in professions, carrying a
torch.Iight, aand 1lcoming home
greasy about four O'clock in the
morning, smelling of coal oil. BY
George assays won't have IT, v y
you hsye no respect for yourself
you sbaii have for your children
and nae. You shall, by George"
"YOn know don't intendlto--D
~ expect nothing else next, but
youll be wanting to be boss OF this
shanty, and be putting on airs . try
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

/, The Mt Vernon Banner says a
young lady named Grant lost an
eye in very painful mannera few
days ago in that place. She was
sitting by the window of q, schools
room, looking at game of base ball,
when the ball, by an unlucky stroke
was sent through the glass, driving
q splinter OF it into her eye. The
teacher drewthe glass out, but the
eye was Bightless.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

The Cheyenne Argus says that
during the winter season, owing
to the immense amount of snow
which falls in the Black Hills, the
cars of the Pacific Railroad will
not be able to cross the mountains.
consequently Cheyenne will always
be the Y sstern terminus of the
road during the winter.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

A Coon JOKE ON THE "NAYaUR. "
The Leavenworth Conservative
received the following note from
ono of the "unterrifed," which is
printed according to copy:
KIKApoo, nov. the "a, 1867.
Dere Zur: Will you pleze1nform me
weather niger suphrage Was car
iied at The late lection. II soch
is ignrant peepnl is tovoat | want
to leav this God fursaking State
and Go back TO Suthern illinois.
Yours Trooly.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

General Pope has ordered an
election in Alabama for the ratifi-
cation of the State constitution, on
the 4lh of February. Judge Smith,
the Radical candidate for Govern
or of Alabama, is in Washington,
and says the friends of the new
constitution feel certain of its sue
cess.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

The Mexican Congress assem-
bled on the Goth ult., and was quiet
ly proceeding with the work of
Legislation at the latest advices.
The Mexican papers are filled with
attacks On Senior Romero, for max :
ing ruinous contracts with the
United States.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

"a sentimental editor says: at
is comforting to know that one eye
watches fondly for our coming. and
lookes brighter when we como. -
A contempc-y is grieved to learn
his brother of the quill has a wife
with one eye"
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

B@~The Maine Farmer tells of a
young man and woman who got
married in Bethel last winter, and
the next day the happy couple
started on their honeymoon tour
into the woods, where be had con-
tracted to cut large quantity of
wood. He builta camp where she
spends her time in promoting the
comfortof her husband, and on
every Saturday night they make
their appearances in the village to
secure fresh supplies for their next
weeks work, and return on Mon.
day morning to their camp.home
as happy as king and queen.
What is the difference between a
baby anda coat2 One you was
and one you wear.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

Gen. Schofeld's official returns
show that five thousand five humid
red rebels are disfranchised in
Yirginia.-The same small pro-
portion will be found TO exist in the
other States.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

The list Of pardons sent to the
House by the President mum Der
5000 or 1000, embracing those
who took part in the rebellion,
worth over $4,000, and postmas-
ters, agents, contractors, &c.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

The GAINESVILLE Courier says that
business man of that place last
spring took a store room for o
term Of three years at 5000 year.
and recently let it to the owner at
$500 per year.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

The Athens Messenger says that
ont of thirty salt wells bored in that
county, more that twenty have been
unsuccessful. The principal works,
combined, make about $500 bar
rels per aunum,
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

i Thick with selmon trout q ilesn
hse to forty pounds weighs and
where the milky boiling mineral
waters irOm the geyssrs inlprnln.
gle with the pure clear water
iron The running streams, these
elegant fish can be "forked' up hy
the boat load.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

TAXATION OF GREENBAcKs.-Tbe
suit brought by Faran & Mclean
10 resist the County Treasurer's
collection OF u tax assessed upon
s3l, 500 Of greenbacks as so much
capital, was decided yesterday
against the tax. 1t was held that
the grcenbacks were but a form of
loan, and that, like all other loans
of the United States, they are
exempt from State taxation. What
made this snit interesting was
that the plaintiffs advocate the issue
Of greenbacks enough to takeup all
the bonds, and have assailed the
bonds because they are not taxed.
- Gin Gazette.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

The Pittsburg Commercial says
that vein of hot salt water was
struck at the depth of l.5O0 feet in
Allegheny City on Wednesday last.
The stream Of fwater was as thick
as a mans wrist.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

Gen. Grants economy cannot
fail to please the people. His first
order reducing the army ii 900
men, will save the public treasury
about ten millions OF dollars per
annum.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19
A Newbury IN. w lover left his

A Newbury IN. Y.) lover left his
horse and carriage some distance
from the house of his adored on q
recent dark night, and went to
spirit his afliaEoed away from her
cruel parent who had forbidden
the bans. When tho loving pair
cot back to the carriage they found
the old man holding the horse !
30 marriage has yettaken place.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

The New York Independent has
been enlarged 10 sixty-fonr COL
umns, making it the largest news
paper in America.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

In the late tornado in the West
Indies five millions of specie were
lost In the Steamer Rhone, which
went down ia the storm.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

1t is estimated by good author
ity that not less than two hundred
thousand persons haye settled in
Missouri within the past year.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

God bless the wives, they fill our
hives with little bees and honey,
They ease life's shocks, theymend
our socks, but don't they spend
the money?
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19
Arc enc Children at Homo 2



FROM TnE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
Each day when the glow OF sunset
Fades in the western sky,
And the wee ones, tired OF playing,
Go tripping lightly by,
l steal away from my husband,
Asleep in his easy chair,
And watch from the open doorway
Their taces fresll and fair.
Alone in the dear old homestead
That once was full OF life,
Ringing with glrllsh laughter,
fa Echolng boyish strife,
wotwo are waiting together;
; ". And oft as the shadowscome,
With tremulous voice he calls me,
"Iti is night are the children home"
eyes, lovein answer him gently,
"They're all home long sgo;"
And sing, in my quivering
= A song so soft and low
Till the old man drops to slumbsr,
With his head upon his hand,
anu tcli W tNc nuHlpoI
~ Home in the better land
Home, where never q sorrow
Shall dim their eyes with tearsl
Where the smile OF God is on them
Through all the summer years
knowl-yet my arms are empty,
That fondly folded seven,
.EN 80 49,. =.
Is almost starved for heaven.
Sometimes, in the dusk ofeyening, e.
only shut my eyes,
Aud the children are all about me,
A vision from the skies;
,s; The babes whose dimpled fngers
Lost the way to my breast,
And the beautiiui onss, the angels,
Passed to the world OF the blessed.
With never cloud upon:.hem,
l see their radiant brows:
b. My boys that gave to reedom,-
o. The red sword sealed their VOWS
In a tangled southern forest,
Twin brothers, bold and brave,
They fell; and the flag they died ior'
Thank God floats over tneir grave.
A breath, and the yisiouis lifted
Away on wings of light,
And again we two are together,
All alone in the night,
Thoy tell me his mind is falling,
But smile at idle fears;
He is only back with the children,
In the dear and peaceful years.
And still as the summer sunset
Fades away in the west,
And the wee ones tired ofplaying,
Go trooping home to rest,
My husband calls from his corner,
"Say, love! have the children come p"
And answer, with eyes uplifted,
"Yss, dear they are all at homel" p
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-03

The white Republicans of this State who
stood firm on Tuesday and Wednesday last
and voted their ticket, will do to count upon
hereafter. Our colored friends may rely i'm
plicitly on such men.-Standard.
If our colored friends and our white
friends of the eastern and middle portions
of the State will give little attention to the
Blue Mountains of the western portion of the
State they will discover that the whites who
will do to count upon" are as thick as black
berrys in August. They would always do to
count upon. They have big and loyal hearts,
and they have gained glorious success in
the face of every scheme that could be con-
certed or thought Of to divide and distract
their efforts What few freedmen we have
stood like wall of stone, and the white Re
publicans have, amidst the storms of epithets,
taunts, and .jeers which have been continu-
ally heaped upon their devoted heads, stood
as firm as the eternal rocks upon which beat
the avalanches OF snow and ice that pour
down from the sleeps and cliffs of their ma
tive mountain heights, over which the eagle
of liberty scars and looks down upon with
contempt, in the proud triumph of his gift
ed powers, bestowed by the same Almighty
hand that created the love of freedom and
liberty within the breasts of all mankind
AshevilEe Pioneer. t-.
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-03
The Alabama Convention. \

MONTGOMERY, NOV. ~.
The Convention passed an ordinance to
organize the volunteer militia of Alabama.
1t authorizes one company to every thous-
and voters-all the officers to be appointed
by the Governor, and to be known "loy-
atty"
A great many officers, with heavy emolu-
ments, are provided: one Major General,
three Brigadiers, an Adjutant, Quartermas
ter and Inspector General, Paymaster and
Surgeon General-tle whole to be under the
command of the Governor.
The Conservatives declared that this mea-
sure places the State under a military dy-
nasty similar to Brownlow's. The expenses
will necessarily increase taxation.
An ordinance was passed, declaring the
war debt of the State, and all liabilities
created, directly or indirectly, in aid OF the
war, null and void.
An ordinance reported by a Select Com
mittee, was discussed till the hour for adj
journment, providing for the extinguish-
ment, between the citizens of this State, of
all debts existing July Goth 1865 on pay
ment of installments, by note, of the origi-
nal amount OF the debt.
The session will continue through a part
of the next week.
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-03

CUTTING FEED.--True, horses and cattle
are provided by nature with cutting ma
chimes; but from this fact we must not jump
to the conclusion that cutting-boxes are un-
necessary or Improbable. Man, also, is
provided with teeth but must we argue
from this that knives and forks are useless
We would not be understood to say that
there is the same necessity in the one case
as in the other, but we do say that we never
knew farmer cut feed for his stock who
was not satisfied with the result. It pre-
vents waste by causing everything to be
eaten up clean. 1t allows the farmer to
flavor the coarsest fodder with little shorts,
or meal and salt, and in this way, at very
little cost and labor, make luxury of that
which, in its natural state, the animal could
hardly be coaxed or starved to eat just as
the skillful cook will make delicious dish
of cold meat, etc., left on the previous day,
and which, but for this skill, would be
wasted. Try it yourself, and then you will
be able to give your testimony for or against
the practice of cutting feed or rodder. If
you have not already got good cutter,
procure one.
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-03
Florida Election.

During the election just passed, not a sim
gle disturbance in the entire State is report
ed, and even the Conservative papers in 9TH
er sections bear witness to the orderly con-
duct of our newly enfranehised citizens.
Great credit is due to the officers both
civil and military, from the Colonel COM
handing the District and the Governor of
the State down to the commanders of posts,
Sheriffs of Counties and the municipal of
fcers of towns and cities, all of whom dis
charged their duties promptly and faithfully
and by their admirable arrangements did
much to secure good order.-Jacksonoihe
Ini0n
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-03

wuz held 1t wuz Glesided that shood aet-
vance to the doors NV the houses and demand
surrender. but declined. Kernal McPeter
volunteered. and we all awaited the result.
He knocked at the door Nv the first house.
"Wha' dye want ?" exclaimed voice.
al want yoo," scd the Kernel.
Wa foah?"
NV FRIEND" said the Kernel, impressive
", "ef recognize yoor lulcet tone yoor my
Niger. -Four years ago 700 wuz set free,
700 sposcd, by Linkin, but we've done away
with that. Come forth and give yoorself
up, 700 shell, eff 700 go peaceably, heV
your old quarters agin and be treated cz Nv
old"
go way, white man, and stop your tool
in. Dis niggas in bed"
Break down the doors !" yelled the Dee
in. land hey done with it," and rush
WV made.
The doors WIZ broke down, and In
mint the nigger and his wife, and two chill
drcn wuz out in the street, bound, and the
Kernel he'd the furnitoor packt, rely to take
to his own house. In the meantime assaults
he'd been made on two other houses with
rather different results. Deekin Pogram led
one on the house NV q former slave oy hlZZen.
and wuz disabled by a charge Nv shot In
his leg, and the in1Oorlated niger threw
open the winder and swore he'd empty
another barrel into the he'd Nv the first man
who come within range. The whole settle
ment wuz by this time alarmed, and htes
sprang up, and we Good hear the click Nv
the cocks NV muskets. and the pilin up NV
furnitoor afore the doors. 1t wuz decided
that the attempt to re-enslave EN- be gwen
over for that nine, and carry in the Deekln,
who wuz week from loss of blood, we made
our way to the Corners agin.
The result demonstrated to me the lmpos-
sibiity Nv the two races Twin together IN
harmony There is natral antagonlsm be-
tween EN- witch must result inevitably IN
war Nv races, onless the status NV the two
races is fixed by onaiterable law. 1t can't
be denied that, so long ez they are among
us, so long shell we be tempted to subdoo
EN-. and so long will SIGH soe-harrowin
scenes ez that Nv last mite result. Ez heer
the groans Nv that Frustrated saint, Deekin
Pogram (ths is written at his bedside In
the intervals Nv feedin him likker with a
spoon.) feel cz tho l must vindicate my
birth by goin out and KILN niger
Nothin but the uncertainty ez to who wood
be killed restraints me. Thank heaven, next
yeer, when Seymore or Pendleton is Presl-
dent, and the unconstitooshnel acts Nv
Rump Congress is done away with, all this
will be fiNt 1t is this that soothes the
Deekin and enables HIM to endoor his sui
terings.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, P. NJ,
(Which is Postmas teri
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-03

During the past week we have noticed
large increase in the number OF hogs being
driven Southwark for market. They are
generally of good size and in very fine con-
dition. 1t is strong evidence OF the prosperi-
ty of our neighbors of East Tennessee that
they can contribute 50 largely to the support
of the less fortunate South. When cotton,
however, is selling at nearly nothing a
pound, we don't see how our South Carolina
friends can magage to raise the equivalent
in greenbacks for these fine porkers. One of
the secrets of the easy independence of the
great West lies in the fact that it always
raises its own "hog and hominy," and our
Southern States, would, it seems to US, do
well to try and follow the example-Ashe-
ollie Pioneer.
We think all our people would do we'll to
raise more hog and hominy," and devote
less attention to tobacco and cotton.
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-03

ARTIFICIAL ICE.-The London Mechanics
Magazine describes new and very effective
ice-machine 1t is simply an air-pump fitted
to a bottle. The bottle is half filled with
water and the pump is set to work. Airs
first pumped out, and then the water rapidly
evorates To complete the vacuum and in
crease the evaporation, the aqueous vapor
pumped out is made to traverse hollow cyl
inder containing sulphuric acid, which of
course instantly absorbs the moisture. The
evaporation is so rapid that the remaining
wateris quickly converted into mass OF ice.
-Four minutes pumping suffices to produce
two pints of ice, with an apparatus which
only costs about fifty shillings sterling.