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The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-11-06
Hurricane on the Rio Grande

The New Orleans Picayune gives the
following account Of q terrific storm on
the Rio GraDde:
"The hurricane was the most terrible
in the memory Of man in the frontier
A constant bombardment for year could
hardly have done as much damage as
happened from this one nights storm
Twenty.six persons were killed at Mata-
moras, and ten killed and one wounded
at Brownsville. At Brazos, so far as
known, twelve persons persisted. TIVE
schoOners were blown ashore. Only two
houses were left standing at ClarksVllc
and none at Bagdad. The loss of life in
the latter place was not known. Ninety
Of the Inhabitants escaped by going on
board vessel which rode out the storm
the rest have perished. The negro sol.
diers and their officers ut Brazos are said
to have acted infamously. They not on
ly refused all assistance to struggling aud
suffering families, but retired to shell.
tered part of the Island, and the soldiers
returned the next day to rob the wrecked
goods, under the remains of the ware
houses and dwellings, One of them was
shot and killed by citizen, who detect
ed him in robbing Their officers, it
is said, did nothing to check their brigan.
dism. From the long list Of damages at
Brownsville, we extract the following -
King & Kennody's warehouse, roof blown
off, the building badly damaged. The
county court house and Jail we're com
pletely destroyed, and the prisoners all a,
large. The entire square, surrounded by
Bowen, Fort Brown, Fourteenth, Leve.
aud Elizabeth streets, were destroyed, in.
cludng the Ranchero Office and Masonic
Hall. The Courier Office has its roof off
The residence Of W. J, Stark was com
pletely destroyed. The Custom House
walls are down. The Presbyterian
church was destroyed. The Post Office
building had its roof blown off The
hotel and elegant billiard saloon of Mr..
Miller were almost ruined. Tho iron
building of Wilkens, Hey & Co. was to.
tally destroyed. Between Tenth and
First streets, seven brick and frame
houses we're either totally destroyed or so
badly injured as to be uninhabtable. In
Matamoras fifteen hundred houses and
huts were blown dowR The greatest
distress and want prevails at all points,
and appeals have been made for relief
Out of seven steamers only two can be
repaired.
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W'TN ,LVLNI W ~ .I-lIUI yIl4 70
/, A CARD FROMlTHEa
AMERICAN WATCH dGoARANY.
'b"1 l'wkLTHxM, MASS. sa'a'

This Company beg leave to inform the
public that they commenced operat ons in
1850, and their iaotory nJw covers four
acres Of, ground, and has Gosf E6bye Ehan a
miIlion'dollars md employs over 100 opef-
-ye~rs ~,sa s1s4e -snu sen 16t 1sss fifsn Ste
half Of all the watches sold In tks Utited
States. 49,
The difference between their ma n afacturs
and the European, is briAy this. q rEaftp an
Watches are made slmo.t entirely hy hand,
and the result is Of necessity a lack df that
uniformity, whiohis indispensfbls sto cor
rect time keeping. Both the eve and hand
Of he most skillful hand must vary. But IA
is fact that, except watches OF the higher
grades, Europeans watches are the p oduct
OF thscheapest labor Of Switzerland, ard
the result is the sorthless Anciea, tepines
and so called Patent Levers+- whish soon
COST more in attempted repairs, than their
original price. Common wofkmen, boys
women, buy the rough sepersts parts Of
these watches from various ia etc ries, polish
and put them together, and take The m to tho
nearest watch merchant, who, stamps and
engraves them with any name Or brad that
may be ordered. -t. .fhSm en'
HoD american Patches az, Made.
The American Waltham Watch is made BY
no such process-and no su ch incompe tent
Workmen. All the Company's operations.
from the reception of the raw materials to
the completion CT the Watch, are carried on
under one roof, aud under one skillill and
competent direc. ion. But the great distin-
gushing feature Of their Watches, is the
facI That their several parts are all mate BY
he hnest, the most perfect and delicate ma
chinery ever brought TO the aid Of human in
dustry. Every one of the more than hum
doed parts of every watch is made by ma
chine-that insrllibly reprodp ces. every
succeeding part with the most uhtarying ao-
curaoy. 1t was only necessary tolmakefone
perfect watch Of any particular style aud
then adjust the hundred machines necessary
to reproduce every para of that watchg and
it follows that every succeeding watch must
be like it. ''' tHq
The Company respectfully submit their
watches on their merit only. They clainto
make
a Better article .tcrMe Money
by their improved mechanical processes
than con be made under the old. fashioned
hundicraftsystem. They manufacture watch
es of every grade, from good, low priced,
and substantial article, in solid silver hunt.
ing cases, 10 the finest chronometer, !. and
also ladies' watches in plain gold or tho
finest enameled and jeweled cases but the
indispensable requisite of all their watches
is that they shall be GOOD TIMEXEEPERS.
Ii should be remembered that excent their
single lowest grade PANIED "Home Watch
hompany, Boston," ALL WATCHES made
by them ''l}J
Are Fully Warranted .9i-
by special certificate, and this warrantee
is good at all times against the Company or
its agents.
ROBBINS & APPLETON, 11uF
lS2 Broadway, New York;
July "a, I'm 5,
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DrOyers VS.. FOps.

Dinner was spread in the cabin of that
peerless steamer, the New World, and q
splendid company were assembled about
the table, Among the passengers thus
prepared for gastromic duty was little
creature Of the genus, Fop, decked daint.
'ly as an early butterfly with kids of ire.
proachable whiteness, miraculous neck.
tic and spider like quizzing glass on his
nose. The delicate animal turned his
head affectedly aside with
"Waituh I"
"Sah 7"
"Bvin me pwopellah of female
woostah !"
"Yas sab p
"And, Waitab, tell the steward to wub
my plate with vegetable called onion,
which will give delicious havaw to my
dinner"
While the refined exquisite was giving
his order, a jolly western drover had lis
tened with open mouth and protrudioe
eyes. When the diminutive creature
paused, he brought his fist down upon the
table with force that made every dish
bounce, and then thundered out
"Here you gaul darned e-OEspades !"
"Yas sah," '.. ]
"Bring me laundering big plate Of
skunk's gizzards p ID - .'
Sab % -. .''a, ".-
"And an old ink pot; tuck horse
blanket under my chin, rub me down
with bats while I feed p
The poor dandy showed a rair Of
straight tails instanter, and the whole ia.
BILE Joined in tremendous roar"
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In order to keep up with the progress
of the age, Time has abandoned the
scytbe and the hour-gluss, and purchased
moving machine and a watch.l yd
Mark Twain thinks tho man ought to
die violent death who put it into peo.
Pies head to try to make cherished, be-
loved, sacred homes out Of such ghostly,
cold, unieeliug stuff as marble,-a mate
rial which God intended only for grave.
stones. -" '''''r '' j '''' = q
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NoT1cE.I

NOTICE thereby given 10 Buildsss md
IN others, that the undersigned win ciier
for sale tho building of9a School Hopss, lin
Sub District No. ID in Montgomery ID I ON
the Cd day Of November, 1867, al / oci6ck.
p. NJ, ofsaid day Thu si1e Of iplildIpEr 10
b. e feet i1 iy1dss q tss. long fns l isfl
IsTf AUSTIN MoaEanAEs} iquas, %
{ ,fhHnIp ,IAhEs kcsAyl SSssAAYIl. q Ri'sss's
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NOTICE..

John W. McELRAVY, James A..
y McElravy, Ella B. McElravy, Mary
d McElravy, and Caroline McElrayy,
widow Of Alexander McElravy, deceased,
will take notice that a petition was filed
against them on the 2Srd day of October,
A. d, 1867, in the Court of Common
Pleas within and for the County Of Ash.
land and State of Ohio, by Israel McEl.
ravy, Amelia Jinks, and Alfred Jinks,
her husband, demanding partition of the
following Real Estate, situate in the
County of Ashland, in the State Of Ohio,
being the West part of the South West
Quarter Of Section Seven ~, Township
twenty-one (2l) of Range Fifteen (l5j,
containing seventy-nine (79) acres Of
land.
Also, part of the North west quarter
of section eighteen (l8), Township TWEEN.
ty-one (2l) aud range fifteen (l5), com.
Inenclng on the section line thirty-eight
rods aud ten links east Of the north west
corner Of said quarter, thence east along
the section line to the south east corner
OF said McElravy's land, thence south to
the center Of the road thence south west
along the center Of the road to the forks
OF said road, to ihe corner of land con.
veyed by James and Elizabeth Pocock tC
Ohio s Newkirk on the Sd day of June
A. d, 1865; thence North east along tn,
McMahao road and the line OF said lane
conveyed to said Newkirk, to the plac
OF beginning, containing fourteen acre
and thirty eight rods of land, which tw,
tracts of land herein described was own
ed and occupied by Alexander Nc Elray,
at the tine Of his death, and that tn,
dover Of the said Caroline McElrayy
widow Of the said Alexander McElrayy
deceased, be assigned therein, and at tLc
October term of said Court A. D, 1867
the said Israel McElravy, Amelia Jinks
and Alfred Jinks, her husband, will an
ply for an order that partition NAV b,
made of said premises and said dover as
signed therein. E ...
ISRAEL McELRAVY,
AMELIA JINKS, .
-. ALFRED JINKS,
By j D Jones, their Atty.
Oct 23,c6wlS t
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NOTICE.

Moses Bonham and Sarah Bonham his
wife whose place of residence is unknown
will take notice that John Noggle, of the
County Of Ashland, in the State Of Ohio,
did on he 23d day of October, A. D ,
1867, file his petition in the Court of
Common Pleas, within and for the Coun-
ty of Ashland, in said State of Ohio,
against the said Moses Bonham aud Sa-
rab Bouham hire wire, j. II. Hargrave
aud Thomas HargraVe, defendants set
ting forth that the said Moses Bonham
and Sarah Bonham, his wife, gave a
Mortgage to Richard Hargrave decd, du.
ring his lie time, oD a lot number twen
ty-eight (28) in the Recorded Plot Of
the village Of JeromevilIe; 10 said county
OF Ashland, to secure the payment Of
One hundred and twenty. FIVE dollars with
interest, according to certain notes refer.
red to in said mortgage, and that the
said John Noggle is now the holder and
owner of said Notes and Mortgage, and
that no part Of the same has been paid
and he the said John Noggle in said pc.
tition prays that that judgment may be
rendered for the said sum of Sl25 and
interest from the Both day September,
A. D., 1859, and that the said premises
may be ssld to pay the same and the
said Moses Bonham and Sarah Bonham
are notified that they are required to ap-
pear and answer said petition, on or be-
fore the 3D. Saturday after the 9th day
of November next. a.I
JOHN NOGGLE,
by J D. Jones, his Atty.
Gm1Q
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-11-06
A Good Farm For Sale.

One hundred and eleven acres Of good land,
about II acres of good timber. inluding =
sugar camp Of acres that can't be beat, Q
nice Locust Grsve Of 9 acres, lying miles
west of Ashland between the two 0liyesburg
roads, joining good Steam Saw Mill. The
farm is well improved, with large Brick
house, large bank born. wagon shed, corn
crib, hog pens and oil other out buildings,
with never falling water at the house and
barn, and spring on the farm for stock 9
large orchard with good frui. of all kinds,
ind will sell or change for small place close
y lively Town, cheaper than any other farm
in Ashland county. Payments very .reasopa.
BILE. just 10 suit the purchaser, viii give PISS.
session at any time. .f. .'-aN Tsroi,
| c. K. FIKE.
Sept. IL. 8m12. .''N' % snol
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INFORMATION.

Information guaranteed 10 produce lux
uriant growth of hair upon bald head OF
beardless face. also recipe for the removal
of Pimples. Blotches, Eruption, etc., on the
skin. leaving the same clear. and beartifur,
can be obtained without charge by address
ing
TH0s.F. CHAPMAN, Chemist,
2,83 Br eadwao New York,
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-11-06
VIM. T. JOHNSTON.

Attorney at Law, Ashland. ofice-the one
lately occupied by Osborn & Curtis, on
Church street, near Man. Also authorized
by the Government to procure Pension Ger
tiicates and collect Bounty and back pay.
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Administrators Notice.

NOTICE is hsrSsy given that the unI
IN dersigned was, on the let day OfJut
", 1867, duly appointed Administrato'
Of the Estate Of John Moroland, decd. :
ALEXANDER O, KlLE.
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PARTITION N0HGE.llob
Susan Roger and George r, inn cd,
Roger, Plaintiff, p.,,;,;.,
vs..
Jono,ho, pn,.,d No. Id. ed isdi
Jonathan Buzzard, DeFt.

NS~. De-Ae'el DSA "
JONATHAN BUZzARD, LUCINDA
j Nell intermarried with Samuel Nell,
Rebecca Burkhart intermarried with Geo.
Burkhart, Mary A. Heifner intermarried
with Peter Heifner, all OF Ashland ,sopn.
ty, Ohio, and Catharine Harman utter
married with Samuel Harman, Of Futon
county, Ohio, will take notice that apssi-
tion was fled against them on the. 18th
day Of September, A. d. 1867, in, the
Court of Common Pleas within ard for
the County Of Ashland and State of OHIO
by Susan Roger and George tRoysr, gahd
is now pending, wherein the said Susan
Roger and George Royer, demand pArti-
tion Of the following Real Estate, sitlats
in said county Of Ashland, tolwit: Being
the Northwest quarter of section nine
teen (l9), township twenty-shres (2S),
Of Range fifteen (l5), excepting the lots
in the village of Polk of Of the N6rth-
East corner of said quarter heretofore
conveyed to Martin Wolf, ,WilliamaP.
Paxten, Susan Roger and others, ppdoat
the next term Of said Court the said Pc
titioners viii spply fof an order that par-.
tition may be made ofsaid prerises!hl
.iJg. sll m "a SUSAN R0YER,inom
..tin b.,sap GEORGE R0YER,i,b
By VIM B. MeCarty, Atty for Psti-
TONERS. '' l1S (6Wl81'H'
lrevtr fa 14T aLl nrt 5fe 1855 oil
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II. s. SEE,

Attorney at Law, Fire aud Life Insurance
Agent, and Notary Public. Particular atten.
Iiop paid to col lecting, Probate businsss, par
tilion cases and execution of deeds, morlga-
ges and Contracts. Office in Miller's Block,
second story, Main street, Ashland, Ohio d
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JOHN J. JACOBS,

Attorney at Law, Ashland, Ohio. All kinds
OF business belonging to the profession
promptly attended to. Office, opposite First
National Bank, up stairs. 80
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Mi1co1lanoou9,
RALSTON& VANTILBURG,

Jewellers and silversmiths, three doors west
of Miller House, Ashland cold and Silver
Pens and 10 choice variety Of Jewelry kept
constantly on hand. Highest price paid dor
cold gold and silver. Repairing done TO order
and on reasonable terms. i
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-11-06
JOHN D. JONES,

Attorney at Law, Ashland. Particular at
tention paid to Collecting, and business in
Probate iourt Office on Church street, be-
tween Main aud Sandusky. ."
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PEEYSICIANS.

?. H. Clark, NJ, D. 7. s.. Hunter, N D,
o- v.a CLARK & HUNTER, ~
Have associated themselves for the practice
OF Medicine and Surgery in the Village Of
Ashland Special attention given to the
treatment OF Chronic cases. Office on Church
street, near Main. ' Cd, "''' n
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r. Y. AIcCRAY.

Attorney at Law, West Salem, Wayne coun'
iy, Ohio, will attend promptly toall business
in his profession. r-.' aif % ..,......
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11oAvygmLR&e
r. NJ. CAMPBELL,

Attorney at law, Ashland, o., will attend
promptly to all legal business entrusted 10
his care. Bankrupt cascsin U. s. Court will
receive special attention.
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uONLAEa&o
MILLER HOUSE,

North side Main street, Ashland, Ohio, NJ
Miller, Proprietor. Good accommodations
and reasonable bills.
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GEORGE ". HILL, NJ. D.,

o Physician anil Surgeon, Ashland, Ohio
d nParticular attention will be paid to the treat
4 nent OF tho following special diseas est Dys.
d jpepsia disease. Of the Liver, the Kidneys,
Sorofula and Epithelai Cancers. '.ii rnG
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-11-06

,J J. P. cowAN, Md WIS. BATTLES, NJ D
, .'r,a DRs, C0wAN 4 BATTLES
q Having formed partnership. will give
prompt attention to all cases in the practice
Of Medicine and Surgary. d, 'ufr roi
Ashland. July3 lS67-2f .l.H.
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MoNULTY HOUSE,

MCN Uul hOOCDj
VIM. McNulty, Proprietor, South side Mair
street, Ashland, Ohio.
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Sept. IL. 8m12.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1867-02-22
Make Your Home Beautiful.

Make your home beautiful-bring to it flowers
Plant them around you . bud and to bloom /,
Let them give life to your loneliest hours;
Let them bring light to enliven your gloom ;
Make your own world-one that has never
sorrowed,
Ofmusic and sunshine and gold summer air I;
\ homo-Norld whose forehead care never has
furrowed
And whose check of bright beauty shall ever
be fair
Make home beautitul-weave around its portal
Wrcaths Of the jasmine, aud delicate sprays
OF red fruitcd woodbine, with joyful immortas,
That blesses and Gri. .htens wherever it strays !;
Gather the blossoms, too-onc little flower
Varied verocnas, or sweet mignonette
Still may bring bloom to your desolatc bower,
stu may be something TO love and to pet
Make your nome beautitul-gather the roses
That hoard up the sunshine with exquisite art
perchancc they may pour, as your dread dark
ness closes,
That soft summer sunshine down into your
heart.
II you can do SO, q, make it an Eden
OF beauty and gladness-rcmeInber It's wisc ;
Twill teach You to long for that home You are
needing,
The heaven Of beauty beyond the blue skies.
Mako your home beautiful-sure lis a duty
Call up your little ones teach them to walk
Hand-in-hand with the wandering angel Of
b-autyi
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1867-02-22
Business at the New York Post Office.

A writer in the New York Herald
gives the following account of the
immense amoirnU of business daily
performed at the Post Office Ill New
York:
There are fifty seven clerks en-
gagged il. the box department of the
Post Office asserting, boxing and
delivering the letters; thirty-one in
the day time, the balance at night,
their salaries averaging less than
$1,000 per dnnum- There arrive
during the night four large mails,
viz: The great Erie, South, North,
and East mails, together with vari-
ous smaller mails. In the early
morning there arrive the great West
ern, great Southern, great Eastern
and two large Northern mails. The
letters brought by these mails, to-.
gcther with the collection from $50
lamp post boxes, number every
morning over 100000 all of which
pass though the box department
and are ready for delivery before
. a. NJ. TO accomplish this work
the day clerks are at theothce pnnc-
tually al. five o.. N. to relieve the
night clerks, and WHEN it is remem-
bered that very frequently one, two.
an d sometimes three European
steamers arrive in the morning, it is
not surprising that there should Oc-
casionally be some delay in having
letters ready to deliver at the usual
honr. These and all other clerks in
the Post Office are paid by the Gov.
ernmentand not by the Postmaster.
The box rents and all other money
received inl the Post Office is depos
tied in the Sub-TrcaSury to the cred
it of the Post Office Department at
Washington, accounts being render
ed quarterly under oath. The Post
master does not receive one cent in
pcrquisitcs. Gather directly or indl'
rcctly, nor have the box rents been
received by any Postmaster since
Jonathan j. Coddington'S time. The
box rents were not raised, IN conse-
oucnce OF the price Of gold, but with
IA view 10 induce the public to receive
their letters by carrier, as the box.
systenp was getting beyond the pow
cr Of human memory.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1867-02-22

None but the brave deserve the
fair" That's SO: and none but the
JYare can live with some OF them.
a Richmond paper thinks that if
the present generation OF New Eng
land public men had been more
soundly logged when they were
school boys. they would probably
have been better men. Ii the pres
ent race of Southern leaders had
been logged at all in their boyhoOd,
instead OF amusing themselves by
tlogging young darkieS, we should
not have been under the painful ne
ceSSity of tloyging them in their old
age. and we fear the Job is moi vet
half done.-SPripQfeld Rep.
An American gentleman travel
ing in Ireland hired Il pure native as
servant, who he thought could
give him information about the coun-
try. Observing n beautiful resi-
dencc at some distance, the follow.
ing colloquy ensued:
'patric, who lives here F"
Its Mr.. Fitzgerald, that's dead
SIR
What did he die Off
lie Gicd Of a Thursday. sir
How long has he been dead, Pat
rick g
If he had lived till next Thursday
sir. he'd been dead year
The gentleman thinking Patrick''
wits were wool gathering, asked:
liayeyou taken anything TO drlnI,
to-day, Patrick ?
Il wull, sir
well, what shall it be--will yor
take raw liquor, or will YOU hav,
grog, or shall | make you toddy !
Ifyour honor please, | will tax,
the raw liquor first, thin | can %
drinkin' the grog while you ar,
making the toddy.'
The South has some novel socia
features which impress us of tn,
North as unique in the extreme
At n wedding in Raleigh, n. C.,
few evenings since, the invite,
guests. after the ceremony, were re
questcd to pay ten dollars each t,
the bride, who was in such indigcn
circumstance that she had not tn
means to complete her wardrobe
Each person present promptly II
;; sponded, and the sum raised amoun,
ed to, about five hundred dollars
The bride thanked her friends fc
: their generosity, kissed them all an
+. went home with her husband in tn
best of spirits.