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The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20
About DOgs---The Different Va.
FietieS.

Few persons are aware of the
value and variety of dogs, varying
as they do in weight from 18O
pounds to less than one pound, and
in value from about s50Oto less than
nothing. A description of the diff
ferent varieties may not be unin-
teresting.
TheSiberian blood hound weighs
about 16O pounds, and measures
40 inches in girth, and is worth
neatly $500.
The st. Bernard dog, which is OF
a buff or light lead color, is very
large and valuable.
The New Foundlard dog, when
pure, is entirely black, and its pups
are worth $40 to $40.
The Shepherd dog, or the Scotch
cody, is wonderful for its patience,
fidelity and bravery. 1t is worth
from $50 to 500.
The English mastiff,a "a good watch
dog, is worth from SIS to S25.
Of terriers, the black and tan is
most admired. 1t varies in weight
from one 10 twenty five pounds,
and increases in value rs it decreas-
es in weight. A member OF the
bar in this city has one which
weighs less than one pound, and it
is the smallest one we have ever
seen. 1t could not be bought for
$3.50. Terriers arc often crossed
with. the Italian greyhound, pro-
ducing a very delicate, but ex-
'tremely useless dog. The Scotch
terrier is the hardest Of dogs, very
courageous, and is worth from SO
to $50.
The Scotch dccrhound is the rar-
est and most valuable OF hunting
dogs. They are rare, and owned
principally by tho nobility of Eng
land. They are worth 500 each.
The beagle is the smallest Of the
hound kind, of superior scent and
endurance, and in short the best
sort of a rabbit hunter.
English greyhounds, the fleet
est of dogs, are worth from S25 to
800 each.
The Italian greyhound is merely
a parlor dog. The pure breed is
rare and valuable, n fine one being
worth $3.50.
There is agreat variety Of point
ers, settlers, and spanicls. The
Prince Charles variety is the most
valuable ofspauiels, He is suppos-
ed to have originated in Japan,
whore a similar breed exists. He
has a large, full eye, black and tan
color, and never weighs over ten
pounds. They have been sold at
auction in England, at $4,000 each,
The coach dog is from Denmark,
and is not Of much value.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20
Democratic JOY.

The La Crosse Democrat, a re-
cognizcd organ of the Democratic
party, thus rejoices over the re-
lease Of jeff. Davis:
Glory to God in the Highest
In spite of Rump tyranny, aboli-
ton malice, Johnson timidity and
the hatred OF the fanatical and big
oted, Jefferson Davis, once more
breathes the air of freedom Chat is
to say, as free as it can be in a rump
despotism,) and walks among his
fellows, the noblest Roman of them
all. Long life and happy years to
the bravcst man of our country and
age"
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20
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The Fish of the Amazon.

In his lecture in New York, on
February 18th, Professor Agassiz
stated that he found that the ANA
zon had not one fish in common
with any other fresh water basins;
that different parts of the Amazon
have fishes peculiar to themselves;
and, as an instance of the tceming
variety that exist in the Amazon
basin, he gives the result of his ex
animation of a small contiguous
lake, or.pool, ofonly q few hundred
square yards, which contained 200
different kinds of fishes, which is
three times as many as the Missis-
sippi river can boast. In the ANA
zon itself he found two thousand
different kinds, and when he began
his investigation of the river, only
one hundred and fifty were known
to exist, and he said that in proper
tion as he found the large number
the difference between them seemed
to grow. He proceeded TO a gene
raj classification OF the fishes of the
Amazon, and instanced one that
might appropriately be called a
very peculiar fish, inasmuch as it
had the power of walking or creep
ing on dry land, one having been
found FIVE miles from the water,
and the Professor himself kept one
of them out of water half day,
and on putting it back to its natu-
raj clement it showed as much OF
life as if it had never been removed.
Moreover, it is an agile fish, worm
ing its way up the inclined plane
of the trunk of some old tree that
had fallen, and twisting about
among the branches until finally a
single shot has brought down q
bird and a fish together. Professor
Agassiz declared that the Amazon,
for q river of turbid water and oi
so high temperature, the average
being eighty degrees, nourishcs an
extraordinary number of delicious
fishes for table use.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20

A CLUB Of New York working
men have instituted a novel plan
for acquiring houses for the mem
bers. Each member pays fifty
cents initiation fee, and as soon as
the standard Of membership is
Tvached, all the FIVE hundred mem
bers commences paying one dollar
a week, and as soon as two thou
sand dollars have been lodged in
the bank, lots will be cast by all
the members for that amount, and
the fortunate drawer will receive
an order from the Trustees upon
the Treasurer, who will in turn
hand him a check for thsamount,
with which he can at ones proceed
10 build or purchase a house,
and begin to pay the interest
thereon quarterly, besides continu-
ing to pay his fee of one dollar a
week, until every member Of tho
Society shall have been furnished
with his house, at which point the
Society. having finished the work
it set out to accomplish, will cease
to exist. Those engaged in this
Society will see Of course the ne
cessity Of making such provisions
az will prevent those unfortunate
enough to draw the two thousand
dollars within the first few months
from ceasing their payment Of one
dollar a week to the Society's treas
ury An investigation of the plan
shows that one member receives
two thousand dollars each month.
An excellent society for an excel
lent purpose.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20
Josh Billings Oh Linch-Pins.

I want to bet three dollars no
man ever matched himself again a
devil but what he got beat.
Aim hi, if you strike low. The
man who undertakes tew Jump
three hundred and seventy-fve
feet ahed will certainly make a
good try.
never nu a man who was alwus
anxious tcw repent of bis sins be.
fore he had committed them who
didn't want the sbarpest kind Of
watching.
] never bet eny stamps on the
man who is always telling what be
wogld have did if he had been
tharc. have notised that this kind
neKer get thare.
Faith don't appear to me to be
ennything more than tip-top good
sense; and the faith there is in this
world now won't keep man from
falling to the bottom of a we'll if be
lets go Of the curb to spite on his
hands.
When l get TO not having good
luck, it doz seem to me that | kan
have more Of it than emmy man.
suppose it seems jist SO to you, my
friend, don't ii?
l kant think of emmy talent now
that is SO apt to descend from father
to son untarnished as the gift oy
exaggcration.
A man may have perfeck right
to bc born single, but l doubt
whether he has right to continue
on so.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20
Packing Butter in Summer.

A Vermont butter maker writes
to the N. Y. Farmers Club, concern
ing packing butter TO keep:
Pack it in well soaked tubs or
firkins; put a little damp salt in
the bottom, and place it in cool,
dry cellar on a bench of wood IS
inches from the cellar bottom, and
the same from the wall. Stone or
oarthenwarc docs not keep butter
well, as the moisture from the
surrounding atmosphere in warm
weather, condenses on such vessels
and soon affects the butter. Put
no salt on or between the layers.
Fill to within half an inch of the
top, and place q clean wet cloth
over the butter, and pack the edges
down with q knife, and then
spread thin wet salt over the cloth
Having made and dealt in butter
for some time, the above mode Of
packing and keeping butter will
be useful to many, aud cause
smile of delight 10 the buyer.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20
The Country as II Is.

Professor Mansfield. (E. d. NJ }
says in the Cincinnati Gazette un-
der date Of June /:
"In ten years we have not seen
the prospects Of the country Scfdir as
they are This day. What is the mat
Yer? The general health Of the
country is good; there is nothing
to disturb its peace; the bitter mem.
ories OF the war are wearing away;
the commercial distress is because
credit is diminished and past crops
were deficient. not because the
cofntry has any less resources.
The agricultural prospects on the
lst Of June were never better;
the ground is iulI Of seed; grain
and fruit bursting forth with extra.
ordinary vigor; foreign importa.
tions are diminished, but mining
and manufactures increased. The
freedmen Of the South are working
honestly and fairly---eyen the white
men of the South are beginning to
get little common sense, and there
is a reasonable bope that in the
course Of the next generation they
will return to their duty.
J" As TO the Government and the
Constitution, did ever mortal man
hear Of anything SO supremely ri
diculous as the idea that the Gov
ernment is an oppression, or the
Constitution destroyed? The Con-
servative Democratic party ought
not to initiate the old Tories and
Federalists too closely. 1t shows a
want of genius. When the Gov
ernmcnt was established, the To.
ries thought the country was de-
stroyed; and now, because rebeIl-
ion is sub1ucd. the Democrats talk
of a Constitution destroyed. Why
the country never stood SO nobly
great; never was so victorious over
all enemies never so prosperous as
it is to-day.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20
A Novel Love Story in Marion
County.

A young couple, the girl tbt
daughter Of one Of our wealthy cit
izens, the young man "poor bui
honest" met and "felI in love
The parents doated upon theil
pretty and accomplished daughter
and discountenanced the visits ol
the young man. Meetings by
stealth were planned, and finally
an elopement was agreed upon. =
All this was kept a profound secret
as was supposed, from the parents.
The night and the hour came
Quietly, noiselessly, the young
Miss descended a ladder improvis
ed for the occasion, and the twain
were making their exit from the
gate, when they were Suddenly
surrounded by two men, one the
father OF the lady, the other a
stranger, and captured. They
were taken, half willingly halt
reluctantly, into the house and the
parlor. The stranger threw of
his mask and discovered TO the
compile minister; the father pro.
duced a marriage license, simultan.
eousIy the mother and brothers
and sisters made their appearance,
aTd the couple were Immediately
married, with the blessing Of all
present.
The parents were apprised Of
their whole proceedings. and sec
ing the mutual love of the two,
resolved to let love take its course,
while their GOOD sense made a happy
denouement Of what might otherwise
have been a serious and unfortun-
ate affair for life. God will bless
these noble.hearted parents. The
son-inlaw was doing well as could
be expected at last accounts
under the circumstances and peace
and happiness smiled on the whole
family.-Mari0n Mirror.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20
One of the democratic Prin.
cipleS."

The Louisville Courier declares
that the United States Government
is indebted 10 Maryland for $685.
100000 worth of negroes, "which
sum is as honestly q debt as any
Government ever owed" The
Courier innoccntly adds:
ave know that the amount thus
duo citizens of Maryland, added to
the sums due for a similar cause to
the people of the other ex-sIave.
holding States, will foot up a con.
siderable sum total; but then it will
not do 10 refuse to pay it, for that
would amount 10 clear case of re,
pudiation."
Notice the phrase "the other ex.
slaveholding States" OF course il
is the great Democratic principle in
Kentucky that she must be paid
for her negroes, and so shall the
x-slaveholding States" AS for
the regulations in the case, all
debts made to carry on the war
against the United States Govern
ment, and all claims based upon
property in men, are already re-
pudiated. Tho OK shareholders may
regard it fortunate circumstance
that they are not required to pay
negroes for their services before
slavery was abolished. Let US
hear somo moro Of the great Dem
ocratic principle of taxing the pco
pie to pay Southern rebels for their
slaves. What would the Enquirer
say TO an issue of greenbacks, GOV.
ering not only our national debt
but the Confederate war debt, and
tho claims of the South for slaves
emancipated p Gin. Commercial.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20

To BEAUTIFY THE TEETH Dis
solves two ounces of borax in three
pounds of boiling water, and before
it is cold add one teaspoonful of the
spirits of camphor, and bottle for
use. A table spoonful of this mix.
turo, mixed with an equal quaint
ty of tepid water, and applied dai-
lyswith a soft brush, preserves and
beauties the teeth, extirpates all
tartarous adhesion, arrests decay
induces a healthy action OF the
gums, and makes the teeth pearly
white. .--Er.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20
Attempt to Assassfnate the
Gar of Russia.

We find in the Cincinnati Com.
mcrcial the following account oI
recent attempt to assassinate The
Emperor Of Russia, during his re.
cent visit TO Paris:
The name Of the man who fred
at the Emperor Of Russia, in Paris
the other day, is Bergouski. He
is native Of Yolhynia, and me.
chanic. He went to Paris, from
Belgium, q few weeks ago, for the
purpose Of killing the Gar. The
ball struck the head of the horse
ridden by one of tho Imperial
groomS, passed between Napoleon
and one Of the sons OF the Gear,
and wounded a lady standing op,
posite. The man attempted to fire
a second shot, but the discharge
burst the pistol barrel. AT the ex-
animation he stated that he.was an
instrument-makcr. He was asked,
"How could you fire at a sovereign,
the guest Of France who nourished
your" Ho replied with tears
True, | committed a great crime
toward France" "But you ran
the risk of killing Napoleon?" TO
this the prisoner answered: "No;
d<olish bullet could not go astray,
1t must go straight when aimed at
the Gar; l wished to relieve the
world of the Car, and the Car of
the remorse which must weigh up
on him." The prisoner showed no
sorrow for tho crime he had at
tempted 10 commit, and only cx-
pressed regret at It's failure. Ma.
poleon has conferred the Cross of
the Legion of Honor on the groom.
The horse of the latter died. The
Americans, in Paris, presented an
address of congratuIation to the
Gar on Saturday, and like ad-
dresses to Napoleon are in prepara-
ton throughout France. A Thanks
giving service, attended by Napol-
con, the Gear and his family, was
held in the Russian Church on
Saturday.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20
Meeting of II. v. horticultural
Society.
HoRTIcULTuRAL ROOMS. !

HORTICULTURAL ROOMS, |
| LANCASTER, o., May rs, 81.
Society met and was called to
order by tho President, Hon. P. B.
Ewing.
Mr.. 7. M. Young, on leave, sub
Nmitted some suggestions as to meet
ing at an earlier hour in the day
and also as to meeting but once
in each month.
On motion Of Mr.. Stalter, Re-
solved, that the question off change
to an earlier hour of meeting be
laid over for action at our next
meeting.
On motion, it was ordered that
an order be drawn to pay for War
der's Pomology, obtained for the
Society by G. l.. Wiscman.
Mr.. Wiseman called attention to
a proposed visit to Lancaster by a
committee of the Cincinnati Her
ticultural Society, and on motion it
was resolved thatrthe Correspond
ing Secretary be instructed to cor.
tresnond with said committee in re-
lation to said visit.
The premium list was taken up,
discussed and amended, and the
rules accompanying the same were
adopted by vote Of the Society
The premium list was laid over, for
further consideration.
The Corresponding Secretary
presented a bill for subscription to
the Horticulturist, which was or
dered to be paid by order on the
Treasurer.
"The varieties and cultivation Of
the strawberry" was adopted as
the subject for discussion at next
meeting.
On motion, the Society adjourn
cd to the second Saturday in June.
P. B. EWING, PreSt.
S. A. GRIswoLD, Sec'y.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20

Tho following singular statement
was made at late meeting of the
American Institute Farmers Club
at New York:
"To prevent steers from jumping
fences clip off tho eye.lashcs of the
under lids with a pair of scissors
and the ability or disposition tc
jump is as effectually destroyed as
Simpsons power was by the loss Of
his locks. The animal will not at.
tempt to jump q fence until the eye
lashes are grown out again. Ofthif
we are informed by Sam'l Thorne
the great breeder of Duchess coun.
ty, who assured us that he had
tested it upon a pair of breachy
oxen. As it was Of great value t
him he hopes it will be tried by
others.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20

Had the Republican party never
been entrusted with power, we
should have no tremendous public
debt; no taxation that operates as a
paralysis upon the prosperity OF the
country. Ohio Statesman.
This simply means that had moro
than one half OF the nation SUBJ
mitted forever to be ruled by the
most villainous minority that cura-
ed tho earth, accepted without ques-
tion its monstrous ideas, and meek
" been reduced to slavery, then
the Democratic party would not
have made war upon the Govern
nept, and forced upon the people
the :" tremendous public debt.-.-
Marietta Register.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20
Street Etiquette.

A great many people still keep
up the practice of trying to pass
each other on both sides when they
meet on tho sidewalk. We have
witnessed great many such eff
forts and it is scarcely necessary to
say that they almost universally
fail. At the street crossings such
attempts are the most numerous,
and the result is generally that
both parties got into the mud
We recollect but one instance, whore
lady took the right.hand walk
and kept it till she made the land
ing. Where two ladies are in
company they scarcely ever tail to
occupy both the right and loft
hand walks, and all that is left to
the gcntleman or lady from the
opposite direction is to take the
mud, or back out. The observance
of two simple rules would obviate
all of this difficulty, at least with
persons who know their right hand
from their left: first always keep to
the right on a sidewalk. If a man
and woman are together, she should
always be on his right arm, wheth
or that be on the inside or the out.
side of the walk. She will ther
always bo protected from being
jostled by passers. And second
when you approach a crossing al
ways take the right hand walk
Ifthere are two or more together
drop, one behind the other, and
thus all cross on the right-hant
walk, in single file. We dom
charge any thing for this advice.
Portsmouth Tribune.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20
JEFF Davis in Glover and the
South Starving.

While the North is paying the
enormous public debt that has ac-
cumulated in tho effort TO prove
that there is no such thing as trca.
son, while from all parts of the
South misery has stretched itsgaunt
hands toward us to beg for support,
while we have freely opened our
treasure to prevent their starving,
we see but little inclination on the
part of the leading Southern peo-
pie to make an equal effort. On
the contrary, fifty thousand dollars
has been presented to jeff. Davis,
which he is about to invest in a
summer residence near Montreal,
where he coolly watches the follics
Of the Northern people and ponder
over the fact that in the great re.
public there is no such crime as
treason. IN Y. Herald.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20

Expanding Of the Mineral Rail.
rOad---Ncw and Vastly Consul
ming field for Coal.
The mining and smelling of cop
per have been in operation, in thC
Lake Superior region, about six
teen years-the last few years quite
largely-to such an extent, indeed
during tho whole period, as to have
consumed nearly all the timber
which was available for fuel.
The resort TO coal is inevitable
and must be almost Immediate
This.event has been foreseen by the
courageous and adventurous parties
in interest, and is recognized and
admitted in the large expenditures
which they have made in construct.
ing docks and wharfage to accom-
modate the distant fuel, which thcir
mcnacing necessities invoke and
demand.
In further submission and adjust.
ment to this new order of things
they are about to begin the build
ing of q railroad only thirteen miles
shorter than our Mineral Road,
through a narrow, convulsion-made
valley, along which the large estab-
lishments are located.
Each of those numerous estab-
lishments consume between twelve
and fourteen thousand cords Of
wood per annum-the equivalent OF
which, in coal, for each, will be
about ono hundred and fifty thou
sand bushels, aggregating an an
nual demand for many millions Of
bushels.
Our coal will be available by our
rail connections with the Lake both
at Cleveland and Toledo. Leading
gentlemen of the latter city, vivid
with convictions of the great impor-
tance of this new combination and
interchange oiraw material, of man
ufacturas, commerce and wealth,
will be content with nothing less
than line of railroad connecting
Toledo with Columbus, and, through
our Mineral Road, with the coal
mines of our long neglected val
ley.
Two remote mineral regions will
soon thus fraternizc, which, in the
great audit of primary values, will
not be excelled on the globe.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20

The Paris Exposition is turning
out in every respect better than
first appearances promised, The
attendance lately is very great, and
the verdict quite generally is that
the affair is neither q swindlo nor
a failure. The great attendance is
on Sunday, which, in Paris, is tho
great holiday. But on that day,
the American and English depart
ments are closed, Circumstances
that occasions much disappoint-
ment to Continental visitors whose
style of civilization is not OF that
sort.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20
Suffrage.

The Sandusky Register has the
following sensible artice on the suf
frage question;
Ohio would give ono hundred
thousand majority Tor manhood
suffrage if every voter would ask
himself what his objections are
and then to analyze those objcc.
tions. Every man who deals hon.
cstly with himself is impelled to
admit that in opposing manhood
suffrage he obeys not reason or JUS
tice, but a prejudice against color
which has its origin in slavery, and
which we shall be ashamed of in
ten years from now. Do and say
what we will, we can make no ar.
gument against enfranchising col
ored men which will not, if carried
out, change our country to an oil
garchy. We arc informed that the
colored race is inferior to the white,
and therefore should not share in
the Government. Did any Demo.
crat or doubtful Republican ever
stop to examine the above propo-
sition? Is it "a part OF the policy
and duty of the American people
to disfranchise "inferior races?" II
so what degree Of ofinferiority is nee
cssary TO demand disfranchise-
ment? If we may disfranchisc a
race because OF its inferior mental
power and personal beauty, why
may We not disfranchise classes for
the same reasons! Minorities are
inferior to majorities-why may
we not disirancbise all minorities
Again, some colored mon are men
tally and physically superior to
some white men; why not apply tho
great Democratic principle here by
enfranchising the suTorior and dis
abling the inferior2
The very fact that any race in
our midstis weaker than the dom.
inant one, is the strongest possible
reason for protecting the weaker
racc by the frecman's weapon, the
ballot. We do not take the control
of government, nor the shaping of
our national destiny out of the
hands Of the Saxon race by confer
ring equalrights upon colored men,
who are, and ever must be a small
fraction of our whole people.