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The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-29
The National Debt.

Since the Ohio Democratic State Con-
vention made such severe arraignment
of the ruling party for its extravaganza
and corruption, there has been q revival
of Atkinson's nonsense as to the amount
paid on the national debt since the close
of the war. Now we are told that $780,
100000 Of Indebtedness have been paid off
within five years, and about SAC, 600, 900 of
debt wiped out within the past year,
nearly all of it during Grants first quar-.
ter"
There are two reasons why this COM
pound of falsehood and fustian will not
help to make political capital for those
who employ it. The reports of the
Treasury Department show it to be Just
what we have called it. There is not a
Republican newspaper in the country
that has not, within the last two weeks,
boosted of Secretary Boutwell's reduction
of The debt, and compared his administra-
ton with that of McCulloch, TO the dam
age of the latter. If, under McCulloch,
the debt was reduced $500, 600 900, the
gasconading about Boutwelps retrench-
ment and financial skill must cease.
If the Republican newspapers expect to
carry the fall campaigns by misrepresenta-
ton, they should remember that, to be
effective, there must be an appearance of
consistency about it.-Chicd90 Times.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-29

hard-working laborers are very apt, to be
| covered with assures or abrasiOns.
1t has been already intimated that it is
more than probable that this virulent poi
son acts upon the blood. In this respect
it is probably analogous to the serpent
poisons, as well as the results of poison
ing by spiders, scorpions and the bee.
Under its influence the blood becomes
| disorganized, a septic condition obtains,
and Inflammation of low grade, simulat-
ing erysipelas, results.
| DIR. Hale also AVE several cases of
poisoning by this insect, of which one is
as follows:
"a man picked the bugs from the vines
and killed them by crushing them between
the fingers. He did not wash his hands
after ward. He was attacked in few
hours with violent fever, bloated face,
delirium, eyes protrpding, pulse 1913.
These symptoms lasted from 9 a. m. to IL
p. m, when the whole body began to
| swell the hands and feet became cold !;
the pulse became weak; an irresistible
stupor came on, with loud rumbling in
the abdomen. At a. m. he awoke and
vomited brown dirty matter for quar-
ter of an hour, after which he fell back
and expired. A post norton examina-
ton revealed dark congested spleen, the
brain congested, and an uncOagulated
state of the blood"
The mode of treatment which the doc
tor suggests, is the following:
eff the patient is seen as soon as it is
known that the poison has been absorbed
by any crack or abrasion. the part should
be thoroughly washed with strong soap
and water (using the common washing
soap,) and afterward a solution of bro
mine should be applied to the poisoned
portion. If the violent symptoms of GER
ebral excitement set in, the bromide of
potassium should be given in the usual
medicinal doses for time, when if the
condition do not improve, give lachesis,
belladonna, apis, acOnite, or stramonium,
as the case seems to demand. Several
physicians have found bsptsiea and ZACH
esis, In alienation, to act beneficially in
severe cases.
GAS local application to the enormous
local swelling which occurs, there is prob
ably nothing better than the extract of
hamamelis ; weak solution of the spirits
OF ammonia, or lotion of aconite, arnica,
or veratrum viride
off sudden and alarming prostration
sets in, resort should he had to ammonia
alcohol in some form, Or a preparation of
arsenic, given internally.
1t the acute symptoms subside, and a
typhoid or septic condition obtains, the
indications are to treat it in the same man
ner as we would a case of typhoid from
any other cause.
"In those cases where the fumes have
been inhaled, it is probable that the vspor
of bromine, of proper strength, inhaled
soon after, would act as an efficient anti
dOteo
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-29

holders of five twenty bonds Of twice the
amount due them, the taxation of the poor
man and the labOring man of the country,
and the exemption from taxation of bond
holders and manufacturers.
The Democratic party also washes its
hands of the result of wholesale negro en-
reimbursement. 1t has been forced on the
Southern States in such manner as to
give the negroes control of the State gov
ernments, while in Northern States,
where the Republican party had the
majority, the doctrine of negro suffrage
has been repudiated. This policy
was endorsed by the Republican National
Convention which nominated Grant for
the Presidency. The Democracy will
favor impartial suffrage, but there is a
wide difference between that and the en-
Reimbursement of halfbarbarous negroes,
provided proper requirements for quail
ticatiOn be made.
The people are rapidly learning what
reputation of the results of the war
means, although they obtain no informa-
ton on this point from the Republican
newspapers. The Ohio Democracy,
through their State Convention, have
made war against the list of results above
enumerated, and there are cheering in
dications that their ranks will be largely
increased by recruits from the Republican
party. If the journalists and politicians
of that party hope to stay assertions by
repeating the nonsense above quoted,
they indulge foolish dream 1t is a
party cry which has done good service,
but its power to attract and retain voters
is gone.-Chicylq0 Times.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-29

barn-yard manure, leafmould, or any other
substance that will resist heat, and at the
same time afford fertilizing ingredients to
the soil.
In garden in the city of De-
troit may be seen dwarf pear trees grow
ing in deep soil, which has been formed
by filling up hollow place with rich
muck, street-sweepings, and barn-yard
manure, to the height of nearly three feet
above the original surface; these trees
have continued to grow rapidly from the
time they were planted. They make a
fine growth of healthy wood every year,
and bear large crop of fruit, while trees
planted at the same time, in less favorable
soil, have made very little growth and
and have borne scarcely any fruit.
In another garden in the same city may
be seen Louise Bonnie de Jersey dwarf
pear tree, which, although several years
old, made very little growth until an as.
paragus bed was made adjoining to it,
into which the roots extended it then
grew vigorously, and bears fruit annually.
These facts, among others, prove the ne
cessity of deep, rich soil, and careful cul-
ture for the dwarf pear.-W Western Rural.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-29
Pluck and PIOd.

In recent extemp oraneous address
delivered by Mayor Hall before class of
business college graduates, the following
passage occurs:
There is no better word in the English
language than 'plod' If you would real
ly and truly succeed in life, young men,
you must plOd. oh says somebody,
John Browns snap of the finger for
him he is only plodder only a
pt0dder! There never was man, though
he was the most brilliant genius in the
world, who did not owe whatever of real
success he may have achieved to being a
plodder as well. 1t is all very well to CO.
ruscate and light the path of life, but it
must be PLUCK and PLoD that carries q
man successfully over"
Worse things than that have been said
in the pulpit; and we do not doubt that
this little lay sermon will be productive of
as much good as many more elaborate
disquisitiOn flanked on either side with
ritual pOmp and ceremony. The world
has recently gone into raptures over the
completion of the Pacific Railroad, which
is APPLY termed the greatest achievement
of the century. How much would genius
alone have done towards planting q high
"oJ oNAOoo ehiS vi
what use would have been Congressional
appropriations, the right of way, prelimi-
nary surveys and spread eagleism, without
the "pluck and plod" of the sturdy work
men, who,sinch by inch and foot by foot.
levelled the mountains and filled up the
valleys for the path of empire p" All
honor to the men who conceived this
great enterprise, and equal honor to the
Wi no nd OF, rIx 70 I l.
its achievement possible.
Fortune and fame which come without
the requisite toll are rarely blessings in
themselves, and rarely come to stay. The
law OF compensation is benefcent in its
action, and much more universal in it's
application than we are apt to believe
Courage, sobriety, trust in God, and a
steady perseverance in right doing carry
with them continual blessings, and lead
to the only legitimate success.-PackarGs
MOntlIu
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-29

MANY fruit growers complain that their
dwarf pear trees fail after few years, or
at best produce only small quantity of
inferior fruit The probability is that if
the causes of failure was investigated it
would be found that in nine cases out of
ten the decline of the trees is occasioned
by want of proper cultivation. 1t should be
borne in mind, that the pear and ounce
are quite distinct il their habits, and re-
quire different soils and different treat
ment The wild pear tree grows in dry
soil and sends its roots down to the hard
est banks of clay, forming large tree of
very hard wood, living for centuries The
ounce, Cydonta 0,agdrfs, was introduced
into Europe from the Island of Crete,
whose ancient name it bears, and in its
native habitat it is still found growing
In rich, moist soil on the banks of rivers,
and In the openings of the forest among
Inc debris OF decaying semitropical vege,
tation. In order to dwarf the pear it is
grated on the ounce, but the habits of
the stock are seldom taken into sccount.
whenever they are there is no complaint
OF the failure of the trees. The soil for
dwarf pears or the ounce should be very
deep and exceedingly rich; a thin, dry,
hard soil, is totally unfit for them The
roots should be protected from drought,
by mulch of rotten straw, decomposed
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-29
The Potato Bug and its Poison.

ATa recent meeting of the Cook County
| GILL; homeopathic society, DR.. K. NJ Hale
read an interesting essay ON the potato
bug, giving q description of the insect. its
habits, poison, and the antidotes. The
doctor states that there are ten different
species of potato bugs, of which the Col
orado bug is most numerous and to be
dreaded.
In regard to the poison of this bug, and
its effects, Ir. Hale says:
Persons have been poisoned by this bug
In various ways, namely:
l. By inhaling the fumes from the in
sects when placed in hot water:
2. BY inhaling the fumes from them
when the bugs have been placed in pans
and subjected to the action of dry heat.
3. From bruising them between the
fingers or in the palms of the hands.
The Colorado bug is peculiarly tena-
ciOus of life. They will live after being
subjected to an amount of heat that would
kill most insects. 1t is this tenacity oflife
that makes the bug q greater annoyance
TO the agriculturist, and has obliged him
to resort TO various severe expedients to
destroy them after he has collected them
from the plants. From time to time the
newspapers have contained cases of poi
soning by this insect, but many of the
instances were doubtless exaggerations.
One popularity, however, was noticed,
that in all the cases the i'll results occurred
from killing the bugs by one of the
methods just mentioned
Another peculiarly is, that the various
reports do not mention any such results
as local cesication from an application of
this species.
In the Canthoris and Lyon, and other
blistering insects, the poison, doubtless,
resides In the external portions of the in
sect, as their mere application without
bruising will cause vesica:ion. But the
poison of the Doryph0ra appears to
reside in the fluids of its body, which
fluid, when volatllized by heat of as great
or greater degree, Is absorbed by the
system, and results in a general blood
poisoning. No experiments have vet
been made to ascertain whether general
poisoning would result from inserting the
liquid portions of the insect into the blood.
Perhaps the cases of poisoning from
oruising the bug in the hands may have
resulted from incubation, for the hands of
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-29
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The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-29

THE resolutions ofthe Ohio Democracy,
passed at their late State Convention are,
substantially, the same as those passed by
the Democratic State Conventions of
Pennsylvania and California The De
mocracy of the country are a unit on ma
tiOnal issues. To say that the Ohio reso-
lutiOns are "a reputation of the war and
its results, financial and political" is to
say that Democratic victory anywhere
in the country is such reputation.
If the men who talk such nonsense will
say exactly what they mean BIZ it, they
will give the people an opportunity to un-
derstand its true character This they
will not do. They prefer to employ this
general and well-wOrn expression, hoping
that 1T will convey the idea that the Demo
cratic party regrets the suppression of the
rebellion, ard maintains the right of a
State, or any number of States, to with
draw from the Union. Secession was the
issue in the war 1t was doctrine which
had been taught by as many and promi-
nent Republicans as Confederate leaders.
The Union sentiment in the United
States at the beginning of the war was the
result OF Democratic teachings. The Dem
ocratic was the Union party. 1t was the
pressure OF Democratic sentiment which
maintenance of the Union by force. He
agreed to withdraw the garrison from
Fort Sumter He told Mr. Mallory that
if the majority of The Northern people
were in faver of dissolution of the
Union, the war Cd the part of the govern
ment was mot only an error, but a
crime" and in this he was sustained by
the repeated and explicit declarations of
the most prominent Republican newspa-
pers, beginning with the New York
Tribune, and of the most prominent Re-
publican Congressman, beginning with
ex-Vice- President Wade, concerning the
right OF the South to secede.
As regards secession, then, the state
ment that the Democratic party "repudi
ates the war and its results,h il
simply bald falsehood, and the
men making it know it to be So
Certain results have followed the war.
of which the Democratic party washed it's
hands. Among these are the prevalent
official debaucbment, and usurpation of
power by Congress, disregard ofthe rights
of the States, legislation in favor of mo-
nOpOlies, the tariff swindle, the reconstruc-
ton infamy, the election of an incompe-
tent to the Presidency, the payment to
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-29
A Strong Case.

A FAT old gentleman, who had been
bit in the calf of his leg by dog, came
to Jonah in towering passion, declaring
1t was Jonah's dog who had bitten him
Expecting an action for damages, the wag
drew up the following articles as the
ground for his defense:
1. BY testimony in favor of the general
good conduct of my dog, can prove that
nothing could make him 30 fOrgetful of
his dignity as to bite q "calf."
2. He 10 blind, and cannot see to bite.
q. Even If he could see to bite, it would
be utterly impossible for him to 20 cut OF
the way to do 30, on account of his severe
lameness.
4. Granting his eyes and legs to be
good, he has no teeth
8. My dog died six weeks since.
D. never had dog.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-29
Summer PerIls-HOw to Escape them.

1t will not do to trfe with the health in hot
weather. Nigor oozes through the skin at every
pore, and 1t is by physical vigor only that un-
healthy influences can be bafied and repealed.
The vital elements are evaporated in perspiration.
Intense heat converts a man into a self-acting
pump, and the moisture that is pumped out OF
him is derived from the well-springs of life within
him. There is great need, therefore, that these
sources Of physical strength should be in a condi-
ton to bear, without danger or Inconvenience,
the extraordinary drain. If they are not in such
q condition, the individual becomes languid and
low spirited.
The main thing is to keep the digestive appara-
tus in good working trim for If the stomach, the
the liver, the bowels, the brain, and the nervous
system, being duly nurtured, will be likely to do
tnelrs. In view of these facts Ii is manifest that
a powerfu. and wholesome vegetable tonic like
HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS is especial
ly required at this embedding season. 1t is the
most admirable of all correctives and invigorants
ana Tor this reason ii does not over-simulate the
system The proportions OF aperient, tonic and
stlmulatlng components are so judiciousy grad
uated, that the processes of invigoration and pur
ncatlon go on simultaneously, and undue ex-
ctement ls created in the circulation or the brain
All unmedlcated stimulants, however pure excite
the pulse and the nervous system. Their exhila
ratnS erect Is temporary, and when it passes off
the pnyslcal and mental depression they were en-
ployed TO remove returns in an aggravated form
BlTTERS are taken a stomachic and nervine
The medical herbs, roots and gums with which
they are impregnated, neutralize the exciting
principle of the spirit which forms their basis
and which Is in itself the most wholesome of Ali
the varieties of alcohol.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-29
Curious Facts in Natural History.

THE rattlesnake finds superior foe in
deer and the black snake Whenever a
buck discovers rattlesnake in situation
which invites attack, he loses no time in
preparing for battle. He makes up to
within ten or twelve feet of the snake
then leaps forward, and aims to sever the
body of the snake with his sharp, byfurca-
ted hoofs. The first onset is most COM
monty successful; but if otherwise, the
buck repeats the trial until he cuts the
snake in twain. The rapidity and fatality
OF his skillful maneuver leave but a slight
chance for its victim either to escape or
to inject its poison into his more alert
antagonist. The black snake is also more
than an equal competitor against the
rattlesnake
Such is its celebrity of motion, not
only in running, but in entwining
itself round its victim, that the
rattlesnake has no way of escaping
from its fatal embrace. When the black
and rattlesnakes are about to meet for
battle, the former darts forward at the
height of his speed, and strikes at the neck
OF the latter with unerring certainty, leav-
ing foot or two of the upper part of his
own body at liberty. In an instant he
encircles him within five or six folds; he
then stops and looks the strangled and
gasping foe in the face, to ascertain the
effect produced upon his corseted body.
If he shows signs of life, the coils are
multiplied and the screws tightened-
the operator all the while narrowly watch
ing the countepance of the helpless vic
tim. Thus the two remain thirty or forty
minutes-the executioner then slackens
one coil, noticing at the same time whether
any signs of life appear; if so, the coil is
resumed, and retained until the incar-
cerated wretch is completely dead. The
moccasin snake is destroyed in the same
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-29

GB If you have discharge from the
nose, offensive or otherwise, partial loss of
the sense of smell, taste or hearing, eyes
watering or weak, feel dull and stupid or
debilitated, pain or pressure in the head,
take cold easily, you may rest assured that
you have the Cdtarrh. Thousands annu.
ally, without manifesting half of the above
symptoms, terminate in consumption and
end in the grave No disease is so com.
mon, more deceptive or less understood
by physicians. r. V. Pierce, NJ d., of
Buffalo, N. Y, is the proprietor of Dr.
Sages Catarrh Remedy perfect specific
for Catarrh, "cold in the head" or ca
tarrhal headache, which he sends.to any
address, post paid, for sixty cents, or four
packages for $500. Sold by most drug
gists everywhere
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-29
Patent Solicitors and ATTORNEYS.

We notice with much satisfaction that Ex-Governor
Farwell, of Wisconsin, who for seven years has been
Principal Examiner Of Inventions in the U S. Patent
Once, and Major f. A Ellsworth, very successful
Patent Lawyer in the management of contested and
rejected cases. have established an extensive agency
162 LAKE ST., CHICAGO, ILL, for procuring Ameri-
can and Foreign Patents, and the transaction Of Gen
eral Patent Office Business. The name of the firm il
Farwell, Ellsworth & Co. They have a Branch House
at Washington, ID. c., whereby their facilities for
Quoting business witt promptness and dispatch are
greatly increased will totheir interest
to give them a call
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-29
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