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Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25
TIE PRIZE RING,
Desperate Fight between Allen ana
GRllug ugher-The Former declared the
Victor after the j. leventh Round,

Desperate Fight between Allen and
Gnllug Former declared the
Victor after the Eleventh HOund.
ST. LOUIS, Aug l7--Tom Kelley and
Ned OBaldwin were seconds for Gallagher,
and Jim COyne and Bud Riley for Allen
Larry Vessel was referee. The ring was
formed ina grove, but the sun poured
down tercely. Jim Kearney was ring
master, and 200 ring g.keepors were appoint
ed to preserve order. The fight began at
$40, and, after considerable sparring, Al
len received heavy blow ON the mug,
which knocked him down and made him
bleed freely. In the second round Allen
went down from stinger under the lug.
In the third round both received and gave
heavy blows, terminating in clinch in
which Allen went down. At this point
several clubs were thrown at Allen, one of
which struck him on the cheek causing
blood to flow, In the fourth round more
terrific blows were dealt on both sides, ter
minating in Aliens favor. The fifth round
was favorable 10 Allen although he was
knocked over the ropes, In the sixth
round Gallagher was little slow in coming
up, and received two heavy blows one on
the nose Ond'one ON the bread-baslSet, and,
although Allenwas down ut the close, Gal
laghor got the worst of the round. The
seventh, eighth and ninth rounds were
favorable to Allen aud at the termination
Of the latter the sponge was thrown up and
Allen declared the victor. The fight was
short but il Is. said TO have been very des-
perate, and both were badly punished
LATER, nccount telegTaped from
the battle field this afternoon does not
agree with the descriptions brought by the
reporters who returned on the Louisville
this evening. Instead OF nine rounds, as
previously reported, there were eleven
rounds fought, more than one-half Qt
which were decidedly in favor of Allen. AT
the end of tho eleventh round, Tom Kelly,
one Of Gallaghers seconds, threw up the
sponge Allen and his seconds thon left
the ring Subsequently the referee said he
did not know who threw upthe sponge,
and declared the battlo draw. II is stated
that Tom Kelly acknowledged on the
ground that Gallagher was whipped, and
that he threw up the sponge; but after get.
ting on board the boat he. denied having
done 30 Thoresut is considered agreatei
outrage to Allen than the decision in the
McOoole light - .f LsaB154 ryL4D
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25
Children Attacked by Snakes.

The Milford Mass journal mentions o
singular circumstance that occurred in
that town q few days ago. Mr.. Geo. ID.
Prentice went out into field to NOV, talk
ing with him one of his children, q boy of
years. The little fellow was left sitting
on the ground playing, while the father
commenced work. Soon after Mr.. Prem
tice heard him scream as if in agony. He
ran up TO HIM and questioned him, but
could get no satisfactory replies--the child
continuing TO scream and move his. body in
u cringing manner. Fearing that the child
had been stung, Mr.. Prentice commenced
examining him, the screams continuing,
but finding nothing after O partial search
he took him IN his arms and carried him
TO tho house, where more thorough
search was commenced. Upon removing
the clothing from the upper part of the
child's body snake dropped therefrom to
the floor. II was a long and very slim
blaclt snake, Of the 'racer" species, and il
il supposed, that II had tightly coiled itseli
around tho body Of the child, thereby caus.
ing him pain-n habit which is generally
ascribed 10 to the racer snakes II was for
tunate that the child was not, alone, as Al id
pat evont, } it would probably soon have
been Btrangled by the snake, ...,.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25
VoetrD.
LIFE-LEAvEs.
By GAYLORD J, CLARK, A. M.


The day with It's sandals dipped In dew,
HAS passed through the evenings golden gates
And a single star In the cloudess blue 81.
For the rising moon in silence waitsi
While the winds that sigh 10 tho languid hours
Breathe lullaby Ger the folded howers'
The lilies nod to the sound of the stream
That winds along with lulling ioWs
And either awake, or half dream,
1870 pass through the realms of the Long Ago
While faces peer with many a smile
From the bowers of memory 'smagcal Isle
\ There are Joys and sunshine, sorrows and tears,
That checker the path Of lfe's Aprll houtsi
t,.-.,.- -And, a longing wild for the coming years
THAT hope ever wreAthes with the fairest nOWeIsi
There are irisndshps guileless loves as DLlsht
And pure as the stars In the halls oi h'Bh'
There are ashen memories, bitter pain
And buried hopes, and broken vow,
z And an aching heart by the restless MAN,
-'l And the sea-brecze tanning n pallld br0wi
And a wanderer on the shCll'linod shore,
aHl7T Listening for voices that speak no more
'frr There are passions strong and ambitions Wild
h Aud the fierce desire to stand III the van m
OF ,he batleof life, and the heart OF the chld
Ia crushed in the breast of the struggling mani
But short the regrets and few are the tears
That fall at the tomb OF tho vanished years
There is quiet and peace and domestic love,
And Joys arising from faith and truth,
And trust unqueslioning, far above
Tue passionate dreamings of ardent youth
And lhe kisses of children on lips and cheek,
And the parents bliss, whichno words can speak,
There are loved one lost there are little graves
In the lonely dell, meath protcctnguees
Where the streamlet Winds and the violet waves
And grasses sway to the signing breeze,
And we mourn for the pressure OF lender lips,
And The light of eyesdarkened in death s eclipse
And thus as the glow of the daylight dies,
And the nights first look to the earth is cast,
paze meath these beautiful summer skies
Al the pictures That hang IN the mans oi tho past
Oil sorrow and joy chant mirgcdlay,
. When TO memory s wildwood we wandered away
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25

TEMPERANCE AND PAUPERs. About thirty
years ago, few citizens of New Braintree,
in Massachusetts, met together and re-
solved TINT tho best interests of the town
required tavern in which spurious liz
u0rs should not be sold, as the fact was
patent to all that too many of tho young
men in the place would congregate ut the
"villnge inn, and were forming habits Of
social drinking, After talking over III Q
importance of the. matter, and satisfy wing
thenis selves that the enterprise they pro.
posed would not prove q paying one, they
subscribed some $1,000 builta hotel, fur
nished II, and engaged q landlord TO run it
free OF rent Soon after this reform, the
people ofthe town came 10 the conclusion
that II was Improbable busineBs TO farm
out the poor OF the town, rs had long boen
tho practice, TO the lowest bidder; and At n
town meeting they voted to buy poor
house farm, and put tho poor at work. =,
This was carried into effect. Twenty-Five
years have passed away, and going To that
quiet, thrifty town not long ago, tho stago-
driver said to us, on passing the ''poor-
house farm" "There isA funny plnco,'
"Why 80 ~ wo asked. because, IL is The
poorhol.se farm, and not a pauper in IT, -
And 4 suppose the reason Ia, some thirty
years ago temperance tavern was started
here no liquors have been sold, and there
IN no drinking nor drunkenness, and notn
pauper In the town."--M Y. EUening Post,
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25

THE WopLp has q telegram from Wash
ington stating that the war steamer Talla-
poosn, which lately conveyed Pres. Grant
TO Long Branch free Of expense except to
the country, will leave that city again in
about ten days, with Secretary Robeson,
Admiral Porter, and Other officials, on n
tour of inspection to the Navy Yards.
Would it not be well for Congress when
it meets to inquire into the utility of keep.
ing war steamer at a cost of thousand
dollars day to carry these officials about
on summer pleasure jaunts2 To the tax
payers it all wears the appearance of a sort
of swindle. I.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25
English ElunkeyIglll,
London Correspondence of the Boston Post,

London Correspondence of the Boston Post.
AS to the fiuukeyism that crops up in
such forms, we have quite exceeded the
state Of things which provoked Thack cry
into whiting his famous Book Of Snobs. -
At tho laying of the foundation stono of q
ncw orphan asylum, nj Watlord last week,
by Wales, accompanied by his wife, the
lady spectators positively made n descent
upon the table where the pair had been
lunching, and carried Off fruit and flowers,
and fragments Of eatables ~ sOmenirs'
"rhe manager of the feast Mr.. Jennings,
Of tho Albion), somewhat startled Mt the
raid Mt first demonstrated, but ut
length did his best 10 foster the gush
of loyalty, TO one he gave n flower,
10 another cherry to another a
strawberry, from dishes touched by royal
hands () and the fair recipients departed,
tYeasl1ring up their mementoes with ieal.
GUS care. One young lady, undetereed by
the ridiCule of certain gentlemen, wh4-H sur
veyed the scene with astonishment, begged
for bit Of bread, o Biscait, crumb-nny-
thing, 80 long as royal hands had touched
IT." And ! remember TINT plank OF two,
walked over by Wales, at the Agricultural
Hall, Ellington, on the occasion OF q horse
show was actually whitfield up into tooth.
picks, and carried of in that shape, by his
future subjects;while in Canada, the wGrnon
bottled the water in which he had washed
his royul hands, as keepsakes. How con
kings and the like avoid thinking them.
selves more than mortal, seeing the idiotiC
toadyism they are subjected 70.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25

A CoRREspeNDENT of the Now York Sun
has had an interview with John Quincy
Adams. The latter will again accept the
Democratic nomination for Governor of
Massachusetts,. if nominated, though he
does not desire it, He approves Secretary
Fish's foreign policy, does not favor terri
toliNl expansion; thinks the Democrats will
soon control the entire Southern States;
that the fifteenth amendment is invalid,
that signs of dissolution are apparent in
the republican ranks; that the Democrats
should accept negro suffrage and other in
evitable results Of the war, and nominate
John Y, Hoffman for President.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25

An English correspondent describes
Don Carlos M q poor creature. He was
brought up principally with his mothers
iaIniya Modena, before they were kicked
out Of Italy, and his absolutism Is Of the
Southern, courtly, and clerical type; that
is TO say, IL 10 not n vigorous and specula-
tive nbsolutiam like that Of the Emperor
Of the French, but an abgclutimn OF Lords.
in-waiting and cbaplains--goldstiels and
wax-candlo8-- which Gisgusts The brains
and revolts the stonaohS Of mon of healthy
intellects and knowledge,
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25

r---Opponheim, the Egyptian banker, who
made. recently 0 sensation in Paris by his
magnificent entertainment given in honor
Of Ismail Pasha, began his career 10 the
East as peddler during the Crimean war,
when he ingratiated himself with &C IN
Egyptian Pasha, who on his death left him
q vast property, the possession Of which,
however, has been more than once con
tested by, the legitimate heirs Of 0ppen-
helms benefactor
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25

is---An ordor has, been introduced in the
Common Council, at Washington, ID. O.,
"to prohibit the missing Of mosquitoes" In
that city, and imposing penalty of from
81 TO So on every person who shall allow
any bucket, tub OF other receptacle con-
tanning water, in their yards, without hay-
ing the same securely covered, 10 prevent
mosquitoes from propagating.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25

WHAT II CosTs The people of the Uni.
ted States are plundered oft,oeny millions
Of dollars a gear by tbe tariff on coal and OF
hoenly hree mAqns Of dollars gear by the
tariff on iron, 'i
e F5Hy three millions o'doRarS gear thus
goes straight from the pockets of hard
working people into the pockets of only
these two classes Of monopollgts and the
Congressmen who conspire to pass The laws
which authorize theplundering.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25

THE RADICAL politicians of New York
City are engaged ina fierce quarrel. The
Times, dispairingly calls upon the mag
mates OF the party to settle the "canons Of
the Republican Church" " and remarks
An election is coming off this fall, and
they cannot afford TO have the ballot box
fouled ash was last year, through the
treachery of officers belonging to their own
party. ....
II is well known in New York that the
alleged frauds in New York last fall were
instigated and carried oh by Republicans,
but tho Times makes the first public con,
fession, that we have seen Of this fact
let us have piece" .s......
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25

THE EDITOR of the Knoxville Wing for
mclly Pres Johnson's bitter enemy pro-
fesses to be won over by a recent speech
Of that gentleman Mt Marysvillc lie writes
Ns follows,
Mr.. Johnson spoke about three hours
and hNli, and made some fthe strongest
arguments VIC have ever heard. We will
not be vain enough to attempt praise, for
it is needless. and we remember one time
when the speaker was the last man we
would have mentioned except in terms of
denunciNtion But '1acts are stubborn
things" and his most inveterate enemies,
if they gave him patient hearing, went
away with food for thought for many q day.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25

CHARLES HplY1NG, prominent and in
luentiaI Germanin Henry county, O., pub
lishes card in the Northwest announcing
his abandonment Of the proscriptive rpdi-
cal party ~.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25
From the Quebec Mercury, Aug. o.

wreck of ship from Quebec for Abb.
erdeen-EighI of Her Crew LOst-Sut
TerIngs Ofdhe Survivors,
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25

"A huge mastodon tooth was recently
found NJ Ottumwa,
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25

The KENTUCKY ELECTIONS. The vote Of
SO countiesas officially announced by the
Secretary of State and the vote of13 count,
les as reported by county officers are given.
The table fooIs up MS follows:
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25

On WELL On Tuesday last we paidn
visit to The place where oil vas said to
have been discovered onMrs Hooe's land
Mt The old, Ridgeway or, Hiekox Mill We
spent several Nifours in the neighborhood
baled out the well, which Is three or four
feet deep, waited for the water to raise
and saw oil raise to the surface II ap-
pears Mt first in bubbles, as if gas or air
was escaping, and burst as they come TO
the topof the water. On it's first appear
ance at the top u looks very beautiful, and
shows al The colors Of the rainbow. Gal
Iona Of oil has been skihmed from the wa
ter, and more appears every day. The
country around Is said by those who know,
10 be very much like the Pennsylvania oil
region, and the indications thus far arc fa-
vorable for finding deposit Of oil, but in
what quantity cannot be ascertained until
il is thoroughly proved. .-Dodgecige C,ron-
icle,
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25

'=.six thousand masons are On strike in
Berlin.
The union Democrat., 1869-06-12
acknowledgements.

Progress has its penalties. As the world advances in
civilization it becomes luxurious and tha upering
of the body To be inseparahe accompaniment Of
the mind This ought not to be- but it is. and argu
ment alter the fact, though wholesome advice and
judicous. precautionary and remedial treatment may
mitigate the evil S,vages told not trnuhlei
with dyspepsia: hut this dctam open donbt Priva
tion and hardship well high living and dissipation.
engerder the disease and il wod therefore that the
of the wilderness the dwell cities be
less ec to it, One thing. however, is certain in
country under heaven is i prevalent in the United
States Here the disease has become dmesticated it is
To be found in almost every household; consequently
Household Remedy for Dyspepsia of inesmable value
Ia the American people
Physicians, general rule, admit that disease
gives them 80 much trouble dyspepsia hut they atri
butte the difficulty of curing it Ia the unwngness of the
patients To abandon the habits which occasion it-such
excessive application to business hasuess in eating,
1t dol that the treatment of complaint
may fail TO il. if the patient refuses exercise
common But il is also true that what call
ed the official remedies Tor dyspepsia do not under
circumstances produce relief. On the other
hand, is fact established by thousands of credible
witnesses whose testimony simplya statement of their
own experiences, that
The union Democrat., 1869-06-12

THE GREAT MODERN SPEclFIC.-"Noth
new under the SUM-" said Solomon His
tory repeats itself" says a modern essayist
Every day some sententious fellow or another
insists that the Present is indebted for every
so-called ''new idea" to the Past. Some
folks go so far as to believe that there is an
ai.usion to the iron horse of the railroad in
the Old testament. But where. among the
mists of antiquity is the prototype of the
PLANTATION b.TTERs to be discovered, that
stimulant without Ii sting, that tonic without
ono injurious or even queGti 'nahle element to
interfere with its perfect work o. physical re-
generation? In a general way the sages of
long ago recommended vegetable remedies for
the "heaing of the nations" but it was rot
until the Incompatible Vegetable Elixir was
introduced that the desired object was at
tained. 1t is the best combination of tonic
and Alternative Botanic materials that the
world has ever seen
The union Democrat., 1869-06-12
Fever and A que Intermittcnts G Generally.

Feverand Ague, unfortunately. is too widely known
by experience to render engthsned description of its
symptoms necessary In order ape fever and ague
IN any region tits only necessary to ory the system
against atmospheric poison by the regular OSTEf
TEhS STOMACH BlTTERS BY this means all danger
avoided SUme rules have exceptions; this has none.
So surely as the bters are taken prev euve
ly Will e Individual who adopts this precauton be
rmped ro TIE pains and penalties Of one of the most
ha assng complaints to which the dweers in unhealthy
districts are subjected As remedy the preparation
equal Without entailinS any of the unpleasant and
dangerous consequences which accompany and follow the
use OF qunne it breaks up the paroxysms and rapidly
restores the strength of the convaescent If the prepara
tion has other merit than its wonderful efficacy aprs
venve Of and cure for nermltten fever it would be
tcle OF the first necessity in all settlements and low
marshy districts. Add to this its value stomachc
and anti bilious agent and who will gainsay
Its claims to the very rstpaces among Family medcnes
The union Democrat., 1869-06-12
DHY sic AL-s4SeR-fs-rnnrs1S-
SAFEGUARD TO HEALTH.

1t repeis and fights of the morbid elements which
superndnce disease. The grand question, therefore,
how shall tits reeeliant power be increased where it
scarcely exists At allt There time when this ones
ton could not be satisfactorily answered. But the prob
em is now solved Ii has been proved l experience
gilmore than years that HoSTETTERS SToM
BITfERS tn, roughly reinforce both the constitution
and the secretive AID nervous systems.
body comparatively nvunersbie the unwholesome in
nuences which prostrtte many thousands beds
sickness in various parts Of the world at all
the year.
As an nvigorating regulating and restorative prerara
ton, suited TO all climates and all con IN gencies it
stands alone among modern medicines. IL the only
tonic Of which the stimulating principle perfectly pure
Its basis is the essential principle sound rye admitted
by analytical chemists and medical practitioners to be the
genial and harmless of crudiies which belong
from the before being used in
composition of the bitters. The alternative corrective
and restorative properties ofthe preparation derived
exclusively from roots and plants, the of which
acknowledged 10y phsrmaceutsts and physicians and
which prescribed separately by the profession
Never however, these invaluable agents combined
for preventive and remedial purposes until the hygeian
compound, H0SrE1TERS STOMACH BlTTERS. was
given the world. Tue stomachc and sutibous oper-
alton If the great restorative has long since rendered it
standard medicine complaints of the Western hemis-
p but less deseryedly celebrsr ed pr-yen-
tive ofepemics and Of the various disorders generated
by malaria and impure water.
The union Democrat., 1869-06-12
TElEGRAPHIC NEWS.

CHICAGO, June 7.-Washington specials
say that j. Russell Jones has not been ap-
pointed Minister to Belgium a. stated. in con-
sequence of the failure of Congress to pass
the necessary appropriations.
Work on the different defensive works
throughout the country are nearly suspended.
The Administration is determined to make
no more foreign appointments at present.
This leaves Minister Sanford in Belgium and
Minister Marsh in italy.
The T'ibune's special says a negro has been
appointed joiner in the navy yard, which has
greatly excited the Joiners' Union.
No official information has been received OF
the recognition of the Cuban insurgents by
Peru, and the State Department does not con-
slider il of much importance if true. lt is
stated on unquestionable authority that Spain
is having about thirty light draft gunboa's
built IN this country, for guarding the coast
Of Cuba
General Jeff c. Davis will soon be relieved of
the command of Alaska. One of the Galitor-
MIA papers some weeks ago printed articles
which were widely copied IN the East. IN
which it charged and showed by specihca
tions, that good deal of lawlessness exists
among the soldiers there /; thar outrages of an
indecent character had been perpetrated on
number OF women /; tnat some uIucerS were
greatly addicted to drunkenness, and Others
openly living with abandoned women as mis-
tresses. Official reports show also that In
Gians and natives had been abused and NAL
treated in many ways, and, in a word, that
there is a dpplorable lack of discipline among
portion of the tr ops. The President has
made inquiry into the matter and finds that
the newspapers have by no means told the
worst. An officer of more efficiency than
General Davis has proved will be sent to take
his place.
New York. June 6.-At mcnthly meet
ing of the Xavier Alumni Sodality yesterday.
Archbishop MeClo~kv delivered an interest
ing address. He warned young men against
secret societies, especially Free Masonry.
lie said he was a>tnniShed at hearing learned
gentlemen Of another faith express the belief
that the Catholic Church could not be serious
in her prohibition of Free Masonry as Arcd-
bishop Hughes, several eminent priests, and
even Pope Plus lX were Free Masons
A telegraph from Santa Fe reports the Uni
ted States Depository robbed of three thou
sand dollars on Saturday. j l.. Collins, the
| Deposition. was found dead in his room. shot
through the heart No clue to the robbers.
| A letter from Dublin says that O'Doaovan
Rossa. the Irish patriot, has suffered greatly
in imprisonment He was kept for five weeks
with his hands manacled behind his back
night and day. RosSa and FIVE companions
were in the Cheatham Jail at last accounts.
The union Democrat., 1869-06-12
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.

will cure the malady that an occasional use of the
PREPARATION after, the has been eec a per-
petua safeguard against the the symptoms
On this account, many intelligent members of the faculty
have abandoned all the stereotyped prescriptions of the
pharmacopeia and invarisby, and with grea. sue
cess, administer this popular tonic.