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The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01

Mr.. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GEN
TLEMEN.-As the appointed Dele
gate Of this Society to represent it at
the State Temperance Convention,
which assembled in the cily Of Har-
risburg on the 18th and l9th of Feb
ruary last, would respectfully report,
that | attended the convention, that it
was largely attended, being four
hundred and siXty-thrce delegates
in attendance. | think every coun-
ty in the State was represented.
Several OF the most eminent temper
ance men Of the State were in attcn-
dance-such as the Hon. John Cessna,
Of Bedford county; Dr.. S,cbbins, of
Chester county; Rev. Dr. Junkin, Of
Philadelphia; DR.. Johnson, President
OF Carlisle College: Rev. Thomas p.
Hunt, of Wilksbarrc; james Black,
Esq, of Lancaster, and DR.. Charles
Jcwctt, Of Massachusetts. Some very
able speeches were made. DR., Stcb-
bins, Of Chester county, read an able
essay ON the subject "what degree of
intoxication is attended with the great
est amount of evil to society" The
position taken by the gentleman was
that the moderate drinker was more
dangerous to society than the drunk
ard, and that he was the man that
should he provided for in legislation
on the subject Of temperance. The
paper of William J. Mullen, prison
agent of Philadelphia, was very inter
esting. SO also was the paper Of DR..
Highland Corsen, Of Montgomery
county, on the value of alchohol as a
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01
The Human BODY.

While the gastric juice has mild,
bland, sweetsh taste, it possesses the
power of digesting the hardest food
that can be swallowed. | has no III
fiuence whatever on the libres of the
living animal but in the moment of
death it begins to eat them away with
the power ofthe strongest acid. There
is dust on the sea and land-there is
dust always and everywhere. The at
mosphcre is full of it. 1t penetratcs
the noisome dungeon, and visits the
deepest and darkest caves of the earth.
No palace. door can shut it out; no
drawer is so secret as to escape its pres
ence. Every breath Of wind dashcs
it upon the open eye, which yet is not
blinded, because there is fountain of
the blandest fluid in nature inccssant-
ly emptying sclf under the the eyelid
which spreads itself over the cyeball,
at every winking, and washes every
atom of dust away. This liquid so
well adapted to the eye itself, has some
acidity, which under certain circum-
stances, becomes so desided as to be
to the skin, and would rot
away the eyelids were it not that along
the edges of them are little oil manu-
factories, which spread over the SER
face a coating as impervious to the
liquids necessary for keeping the eye
balls clean as the best varnish is i'm
pervious to water.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01
Don't so 20 Parties.

"Do you ever go to evening par,
ties ~ "No," said friend Tom; 81
used TO, but am cured" 'A"How so?"
said I, anxious to learn his experience.
"Why, you see" said Tom, feelingly,
"I went to one some years back and
fell in love with beautiful girl. |
courted like a trump, and thought l
had her sure when she eloped with a
tailor but | swore vengeance. L pa
&nnnnaae robbcr Of my happiness,
tronlze1 - sG clothes re
and ordered full sIiIS'o.gll1
gardless of expense "But your VEN
geance?" said |. 81 struck the tailor in
his most vital part--I never paid the
bill. But those internal clothes were
the cause Of my future misiortunes.
SLOW so?" "Wearing them, | cap
tivated my present wife, She told me
so, and | havn't seen q happy day
since. But | am bound TO be square
with that wretched tailor ON the long
run. I'll leave him legacy on con-
dition that he mmries my widow"
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01
A Horse story.

! A clergyman, who is in the habit of
preaching in different parts of the
country, was, not long since, at a coun-
try hotelwhcre heobserveda horse Jock
eytryiog to takcin a simplcgentleman,
by imposing upon him a broken-win-
ded horse for sound one. The par
son knew the bad character of the
jockey, and taking the gentleman
aside, told him to be cautious of the
person he was dealing with, Tho
gentleman declined the purchase, and
the jockey quite ncttlcd, observed,
"Parson, ! had much rather hear you
preach, than to see you privately
Interfere in bargains between man and
man in this way" "Well," replied
the parson, "if You had been where
you ought to have been last Sunday,
you might haze heard me preach"
"Whcrc was that ?' inquired the
jockey. "ln the State prison." re-
turned the clergyman.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01
Quiii-DrivinG OH Time.

A rapid penman can write thirty
thirty words in minute. To do this
he must draw his quill through the
space of a rod-sixteen feet and a half.
In forty minutes his pen travels fur
long and, in five hours and a third,
a mile. We make on an average,
sixteen curves or turns of the pen in
writing each word. Writing thirty
words in a minute, we must make four
hundred and eighty-eight to each sec
ond ; in an hour, twenty-eight thous-
and eight hundred in day of only
five hours, a hundred and forty-iour
thousand ; and in a year Of three hun
dred days, forty-three million two
hundred thousand. The man who
made million strokes with his pen
in month, was not at all remarkable.
Many men make four million. Here
we have in the aggregate mark, three
hundred miles long, to be traced on
paper by each writer, in a year. In
making each letter of the alphabet, we
we must make from three to seven
strokes of the pcn-on an average,
three and half to four.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01
DURING the war young Lieuter

DURING the war young Lieuten-
ant, with bran new shoulder strap,
took his seat with rather plainly
dressed lady in one of our railway
trains. The following conversation
took place between them-the shonl-
der strap leading off thus: "Madam.
have you any relative in the WARP"
eyes, sir, my husband is a soldier in
the army" "Ah, indeed? l am an
officer in the army, Madam, and my
influence may serve your husband if
1 should meethim. What is his name9''
~Ulysses s. Grant sir" The young
Lieutenant vamoosed at the next stop
ping place., too modest even to wait to
be thanked.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01
Terms of Advertising
10 II w o n H.,

ApvrRr1srsir,srs inserted at si so per square
for three insertions, and 80 cents per sluase
counted squarel. All transient advertisements
to be paid Tor in advance. r. ,ooo,
BUSINESS NOTICES set under tine heau VI iv"a V,'a
news will be charged invariably 10 cents hno
for each insertion. ,...t.
A liberal deduction made to persons advertis,,
ing by the quarter, hali-year or year. "a,
notices charged one-half more than regular al
vertisements,
JoB PRINTING Of every kind In PAIN ana run
cy cOlors: Hand-hills, Blanks, Cares fnmpniet
&c, OF every variety and style, printed nt ,ho
shortest notice. The REPuBLlCAN OFFICE nus
Just been re-tittod and every thing IN the Irlns
| ing line can he executed In the most artistic
mannerand at the lowest rates.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01

Mr.. MAYO, warden of the State
Prison in New Hampshire, lost an
arm in the war. A Democrat doing
business with him, few days since,
inquired petnlantly seeing him afix a
stamp to document elbow long
are we to be compelled to use these
things ?" The warden quietly repli-
ed "Perhaps as long as 1 carry
this empty sleeve, and for the same
CAUSE" ......
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01

HERE is queer obituary which
recently appeared in German pa
per:
"My husband is no moro. lie did
not wish to live longer, and if he had,
it would have made no difference, for
gout entered the stomach and was soon
followed by death. shall marry the
doctor who kindly attended my late
husband. | learned then to trust
him. Soft rest the ashes of the de-
parted one, whose wholesale liquor
business | shall continue at the old
stand.' ...
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01
mother bounty BiIi.

The House Military Committee on
the Goth, decided TO report the new
bounty bill giving to every soldier,
sailor or marine who served in the
late war eight dollars and one-third
per month during the time he was in
service, deducting from such time the
amount received from State, county,
municipal or other sources. A ccrti-
licatc will be given for the balance at
six per cent. interest, the principal
and interest to be paid in Govern
ment lands, TO be located in the name
of the holder or his heirs at any time
that he may choose to do so. 1t en-
bodies all the points in the Schenck
bill of last year, and will be pressed
in the House ut an early day.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01

A western journalist, whose wife
had just presented him with twins, and
who, for this reason, was compelled to
neglect his paper for one day, wrote
the day after, The following excuse:
ave were unable to issue our paper
yesterday in consequence of the arrival
of two extra males"
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01
Ss3O,OOO,OOO

These figures will give an approxi-
mate idea of the amount in which all
ofthe Five-twenty bonds Of the Gov
ernment are held.
They show that one half Of the loan
in amount was taken in sos, zoos and
50es and further, that, as 2,s77,S23,
pieces of those three denominations.
were issued against 81, ,107 pieces of
the large denominations, the capitalists
are in small minority. Any legis-
lation repudiating, in whole or in part
the obligation of the bonds of the Gov
ernment would fall most severely upon
widows, orphans, and people of small
capital, who invested their money in
perfect reliance upon the representa-
tions made to them by the Treasury
department, directly and through
its agents, at the time of their is
sue.
More than once during the war,
resolutions were offered in Congress
looking to the payment of the 5-20s
in currency, but in every case they
were promptly voted down.
| Yours, &c, JAY COOKE & Co.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01

THE following is the substance of
the resolution, passed by the Democrat
ic State Convention, in reference to
paying the national debt:
Resolred, That whereas the nation
al debt is a national debt, there
fore resolved that the national
debt should be paid in what it is paid
in.
The resolution is very clear to those
that understand it. What say you
Grccnbacks? -
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01

THERE is a whisky insurrsetion
raging in East Tennessee, TO which
we might justly add that there Is q
Tennesseean IN Washington raging
with whisky. .t
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01

a LIsPTYG boy of some six summers,
son Of Il gentleman in the Massachu-
sets Legislature, recently made a visit
to the Insane Asylum. On his return
the following colloquy ensued:
"Whcre have you been this after
noon, sonny?"
"Over to the Insane Hospital
"What were they doing there?"
NIaking speeches, just like the
Legislature"
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01
Terms of Publication.

The WAYsEsBURG REPUBLICAN, Office in
sayers building, east of the Court House. is pub
hshcd every Wednesday morning, at So per
annum, IN ADVANCE, or SO 30 If not paid with
IN the year. All subscription accounts MUST
ne settled annually. No paper will be sent
out OF the State unless paid for IN ADVANCE, and
all such subscriptions will Invariably be dlscon-
they are paid.
Communications on subjects of local or general
Interest are respectfully solicited. TO ensure
attention mvors OF this kind must invariably be
accompanied by the name of the author, not for
publication, but rs guaranty against imposition.
All letters pertaining to business of tho Office
must be addressed 10 the Editor
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01
lPUBLISIIbD BY REQUEST. I
REPORT.

Dclivc.ed before the Wayncsburg Tc:n.
pcrancc society. sunha, Night, March
.s, 1888, by Mr.. u. u. FlenniiSen,
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-07-02
DR. NICHOLS

Is practcing Physician in regular standing.
and will attend to all professional calls Re
member the place, under the American House,
Lake Street, st. Adams.
diff GREEN n NICHOLS
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TERMS:
DEAN Of hon. LcCiS NcccHdLn.

Again it becomes our sad duty to an
nouncc the death of a well-known and
universally esteemed citizen of Addison
County. Hon. Lewis Meacham of New
Haven, who had been n resident of that
town since 1916, died at Chicago on
Tuesday, the 10th inst. His health had
been failing for the past two years, and
he had expressed deep solicitude about
the matter frequently. Accom- panicd
by Mrs. Meacham, he went West, a few
weeks since, at the solicitation of friends,
who hoped that change of air and
scenery would prove invigorating. 1t
IS worthy of remark that Mr.. Meacham
expressed doubts of ever returning home
alive when he started on his Western
tour. He was taken with paralysis
about the 9th inst, and although every
thing that affection could suggest or
medical skill accomplish was done, he
gradually sank in death, fully conscious
of his condition and resigned to the
dispensations of Providence. The func-
raj was held at the Congregational
church, New Haven, last Sabbath, and
was attended by n very large concourse
of relatives and friends from this and
adjoining counties, who feel deeply the
loss which the home circle, society and
the church have been called upon to
made by Rev. Mr.. Hurlbut who was too
much overcome to do justice to himself
or the good man whose death he mourn
ed. His remains were deposited in a
quiet, beautiful sophisticated by him
self-bencath the signing pines of the
village cemetery. Thus has passed
from among us a man stamped by his
Creator as one of natures noblcmen !;
whose example of unostentatious liber-
ality cndcared him to all. His life and
example will ever linger like Il sweet
incense in the memory of those who
daily met him in the walks of life.
Mr.. Meacham was born in Rutland in
1907, and was Il member of the Congre-
gational Church in that town; he came
to New Haven in 1916. Just previous
to his death he was about to join by let
ter the church with which he has been
associated for more than twenty years.
He was a gentleman calculated to in
spirc warm personal friendships. Ever
held in high esteem by his fellow-citi-
zens, he was frequently called to fill po-
sitions of public responsibility. In 1864
and 1860 he was member of the State
Senate. He was the colleague in that
body of Hon. M. O. Porter Of Cornwall.
Since 1860 he has been a Directorin the
Nergennes Bank. He was man of
pure and unselfish purposes, and his
counsel was always listened to with re-
spect Last summer Mr.. NJ. made the
tour of England, France, Germany,
Switzerland and Italy; was present and
took deep interest in the Paris expo
sition. Mr.. NJ. was n brother of the late
Hon. Jas. Meacham, NJ. c. Vergcnnes
Vc3WOnter.
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-07-02
"A ROO Il "A M A II I O N (.

WHEREAS, the st. Adams Bank, corpora
w ton, duly incorporated by the Legislature
of the state of Vermont. located and doing bust
ness at st Adams, in the county of Franklin,
has made application to me, requesting me to
issue proclamation designating some day
for the termination of the existence of said cor
poration;
And whcrcas,it has been made to appear to me
that two-thirds of the legal votes of the stock
holders of said corporation were given in favor
of said application.
Now, therefore, /, Paul Dillingham;, Governor
Of the State of Vermont, in conformity with said
application, and the provisions of section egh-
ty-six and eighty-seven of chapter eighty-nino of
the, General Statutes of Vermont, do hereby is
sue my proclamation, and declare that on the
twenty fifth day of March, A. d. 1868, the said
corporation shall cease to exist as fully and
with the same effect as if said charter expired by
the limitation thereof.
In witness whereof | have hcreunto signed
my name and caused the seal of the State
l.. $. to be hcreunto affixed, in Executive Cham
bcrs at Waterbury, this 23rd day of Sc D
tember, a. ID. 1867, and of the independence of
the United States the Dist.
PAUL DILLINGHAM;.
Ry the Governor,
WM. u. DUIINGHAM.
Secy of Civil and Military Aafiairs.
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-07-02
NoKTHEHS RAILROAD.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT T-1S64-5.

On and after Monday, Nov. IA, 1864, Passenger
Trains will run us follows:
UPWARD TRAINS.
Day Express Train leaves Concord at 1896 a.
M, for White River Junction, connecting with
trains for Montpelier Burlington, Rouses Point,
Montreal, &c. and with Ogdensburgh and Grand
Trunk Railroads. for the West
Mail Train leaves Concord at *10.15 a. M, for
White River Junction. connecting with train for
Wells River st. Johnsbury, Barton, Newport,
Willoughby and Magog Lakes, Stanstead, Bath,
Littleton, and Lancaster. ALSO with trains for
Montpelier, Burlington St Adams, Rouses Point,
Montreal, Ogdensburgh, and the West.
Bristol Train leaves Concord at $50 p. M, for
Franklin and Bristol.
Evening Express Train leaves Concord at S.1
p. m, for White River Junction, connecting with
trains for Montpelier, Burlington st. Adams,
West.
*Or on arrival Of trains from Boston, Worcester,
Portsmouth, Portland. NC.
DOWNWARD TRAINS
Morning Express Train leaves White River
Junction for Concord at LIS n. M, or on arrival
Of train from Ogdensburgh and Montreal. On
Mondays at 6.25 instead of 1.15.
Bristol Train leaves Bristol for Concord at
a. M, and Franklin at 9.12 a. m.
Mail Train leaves White River Junction for
Concord at l2.1 p. M, or ON arrival of trains
over the Vermont Central, Passumpsic, and
White Mountains Railroads.
Day Express Train leaves White River june
ton at 4.5S p m, or on arrival of trains from
Montreal and OSdensburSh, Brattleboro', Keene
Bellows Falls, Windsor, &c, connecting at Con.
cord with train for Manchester, Nashua, Lowell
and Boston.
for Manchester, Lawrence, Portsmouth, Port
land, Nashua, Worcester, New York, Lowell, and
Boston. ONSLOW STEARNS, Agent.
Concord, N. H., Nov. 10, 1864. 1-tf.
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-07-02
VTERMoNT CENTRAL AND SULLIVAN
Y RAILROADS.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
Commencing May as, 1868.

TRAINS GOING SOUTH ANr EAST
Leave st. Adams at 6.29 a. M, 1900 noon, and
500 u. m.
Mail Train leaves Rouse's Point at 4.4O a. M,
receives passengers from Ogdensburgh II. r.,
and connects at White River Junction and Bel
lows Falls with trains for Boston, Worcester,
r.. arrives at New York at 10.45 p. m.
Day Express leaves Montreal at $50 a. M, St.
johns al 1000 a. m, Ogdeneburgh at $3.50 q. M,
Rouse's Point at 10:45 a. m, for Boston, &C., ar
irving i'll Boston, via. Lowell at 1890 D. m.
Night Express leaves Ogdensburgh at 100 p.
M, Montreal at $3.50 p. M, Rouse's Point at 6.35
p. m, st. Johns at 500 p. M, arriving at Boston
at $40 a. M, connecting at Bellows Falls with
Cheshire Road for Boston and Worcester and
with Vermont Valley Railroad for Springfield &C.,
and arriving in NewYork at 1890 p. m.
TRAINS GOING NORTH AND WEST.
Leave st. Adams for Montreal Mt 6:10 a. m.
and Gasp. m For Rouse's Point, Ogdensburgh
and the West al Cos and HOO a. M. and 715
p. IN.
Day Express leaves Boston via. Lowell 500
IN. for Burlington, st. Adams, Montreal. &c.
arriving at Montreal at 1000 p. m, Ogdensburgh
at $50 a. M
Mail Train leaves Boston VIA Lowell, at TOO
a. m, via Lawrence and Fitchburg at 7.30 a. M,
Springfield at 7:45 a. M, for Burlington, and
st. Adams.
The trains leaving Boston via. Fitchburg at
1880 a. m, and Springfield at 7:45 a. M, connect
at White River Junction with the Day Express
train.
Accommodation Train leaves Northfeld at
7;I5 a. M, for Burlington, Rutland, st. Adams,
Rouses Point, Ogendesburgh, &c.
Night Express leaves Bellows Falls at 1000 p,
IT., receiving passengers from Vermont Valley
Railroad, leaving New York at H. Is p. M. and
from Cheshire Railroad, leaving Boston at $50
p. M. connecting at White River Junction with
train leaving Boston at 500 p. M, for Bprling-
ton Rouses Point, Montreal and Ogdensburgh,
connecting with steamers andGrand Trunk
| Trains for theWest.
Sleeping cars are attached to both the night
| Express trains running between st. Adams and
Boston, and St. Adams and Springfield.
Through tickets for Chicago and the West foy
sale at the principal stationa.
Il, MERRILL, Sup,
st. Adams, May %, 1868.
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-07-02

pay..The American Organs manufac-
tured by S. ID. & IL. w. Smith, of Bos-
ton, Mass, are remarkably good and eff
fective instruments. Their quality of
tone is peculiar and most admirable,
they have great power when played
full, and possesses a swell apparatus of
more than ordinary excellence, by
means of which fine creScendO or dim
leaders, societies, or musical students,
who wish to procure something very
satisfactory in the way of reed Organs,
will certainly do well to eXamene these
superb Observation-Disclosures Jour-
nal.
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-07-02

Bel~ Have you seen Prangs Chrome p?
"Old Oaken Bucket,n "Falconer and
Bride" at H. Livingston & Sons.
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-07-02
tHreqHittcd Lore.

The editor of the Eureka Union relates
as follows how he once fell in love and
got the mitten:
1--WE were never, kind reader, "des-
perately in loveN but once and that was
with Il red-no, auburn haired girl with
a freckled complexion, and had but few
pretentions to beauty but then she had
such really beautiful eyes-deep, liquid
orbs, through which her soul in mo-
ments of tenderness looked out with a
passionate fervor, and joyous mirth
dashed and sparllled with the light of Il
thOusand-dew drops diamonds we
were going to say, but then we never
saw thousand diamonds.
"Her name was Laura-which when
breathed softly by very soft lover, is a
very sweet name-and her clear ringing
laugh fell all around you like a shower
ofsilver bells. Moreover, she wore n
dark wine colored dress, trimmed with
lilac colored velvet and black fringe
with neat little white collar of fine
lace, which is one of the prettiest of
dresses, and has the effect to make Il
very plain girl look absolutely charm
ing. She never perforated her ears to
hang thereby a pendulum of brass and
little white hand, which needed none,
was a plain gold ring, sacred to the
memory of maiden promise.
"Well, one evening-it was moon
light in the summer time-we sat alone
on the porch by the cottage door; hold
ing that little white hand in gentle
pressure; one arm had stolen around
her waist, and a silent song of joy like
the emusic of the night" was in our
soul. Our lips met in a sweet, delicious
kiss, and bending softly to her ear we
whispered tale of passionate devotion
we proposed, and-the little red headed
cuss refused us!p
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-07-02

On and after Dec. I'd, 1867, trains will run
as follows, viz:
MOVING SOUTH AND EAST.