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Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-27


Grant may as well make up
his mind to face the fate pre-
pared for his predecessor. The
terms of Congress this winter
will be unconditional surrender,
which must be calling to q mill
tary chieftain, and he evidently
thinks he can resist, but in q
different way from Andrew
johnson, who planted himself
upon the ramparts of the Con-
stitution and fired paper bull
lets in the shape Of veto messa-
ges. Ulysses manages to keep
the War office in the hands Of
a particular friend and on good
terms with the army, which is
expected to move at his signal,
whenever his prerogatives are
endangered. But we predict
he viii remain content with pc
cuniary bribes and let Con-
gress have full swing during
the balance of his term.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-27
All Riglt! Look!
Save your money and take it
to J. X. Wills, where you can
get a huge pile Of Good for + a
small sum Of money! ,aa9sr

The only common ground
upon which the Republican
Journals hereabouts stand, is
in abusing the democracy, on
all questions relating either
to men or measures that ex-
hibit Kilkenny cat proclivi-
ties,
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-27

1.-The Radicals are displcased
with the election Of Hon. Lew.
IS D. Campbell to the Senate
from the Butler district. His
majority over Beckett is 500
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-27

1t has been shown in q re-
cent case which has been ap-
pealcd to the Supreme Court
Of Baltimore, that the Ma
tiopal Banks Of that city have
been lending as high as 80
per cent, Of theil capital for
speculative purposes,
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-27
jE0yfh0UdRe,

A shock of 1an earthquake
was felt at about r5 o'clock on
the morning Of October %, Mt
Portland and other cities in
Maine, and at Boston, Mass,
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-27


The Republicans probably
gain the day, as they did in
1857, on the gubernatorial con-
test, but they sing no TIE De
ums, The moral effect Of the
battle is with the democrats.
The possibilities, however, were
all within our reach; and, but
for the. apathy Of men who
somehow, manage to dodge the
physician and the grave,diggerI,
we should have had all that is
actual within our possession. 70.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-27
Ohio u9sd tie FUtee nth
amendment.

Ohio G1ad tie FUtee nth
a. amendment.
II may fall to the lot of
Ohio, says the St. Louis Re-
publican, to'deeide the fate of
the fifteenth Amendment, and
the complexion Of its newly
chosen Legislature is therefore
a subject Of no little interest
1t is said and denied chat the
Republicans have q majority in
both Houses, bat this majority
is so very small as to be preca-
rious, and, as the members from
Hamilton county were elected
by Democratic votes on the
Fusion ticket, it is far from GER
tain that they will vote for the
measure. Twenty Of the twen-
ty-eight States required have
ratified the Amendment. Two
others, Mississippi and Texas,
will ratify it, because Congress-
compels them to do So as /"
part of their reconstruction du-
ties. Iowa, Minnesota, Ne
braska, Vermont and Rhode
Island viii 10 doubt ratify it
the coming winter. This will
be twenty-seven, One other
State is needed, and that State
must be Ohio or Georgia-or
the Amendments gone. Geor-
gia will not ratify- unless Con
gress goes out Of its way to
force it-which, by the way,
Congress is perfectly capable
of doing.
Congress recognizes the rules
of decency and propriety north
of the Ohio river, if it does not
recognize them south of that
line, and, therefore, the Ohio
Legislature will be asked to
supply the missing vote, before
the Georgia Legislature is forc-
ed to supply it. The whole
question has passed beyond the
realm of popular discussion
if, indeed, it was ever fairly in
it, and the only matter of inter-
est now is, how will the twen-
ty-eigbth vote be obtained2-
We do not believe it can be
obtained in Ohio. The Cincin-
natl Commercial admits that
one Republican member, at
least from Hamilton county, is
opposed to it, This leaves but
one majority in each branch of
the Legislature, even if the
two Senators and four Repre-
sentatives elected on the Re-
publican ticket by Democratic
votes and against the attacks
and ISLANDERS OF the Gazette
and Commercial, all vote for it.
This, we are assured, will not
be the case. The fifty thousand
majority againstthe direct issue
on negro suffrage two years
since must, Of necessity, have
Tits effect on the minds of mem
bers who regard the will of the
people that elected them as en-
titled to respect.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-27
EEectio.t Of United 7 States
Senator In Tennessee. N

On Friday last, the entire
opposition to Ex-President
Andrew johnson, as ~. S.
States Senator in the Tennes.
SOC Legislature, nnited on Hen.
Irry Cooper democrat, land
elected him. beating johnson
4 votes. The final vote stood:
Cooper 55; Johnson 81.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-27

Dog fighting has been intro
duced in Boston, among the
latest Sunday amusements.-
The Puritans are progressing
we may next expect to hear
that they have inaugurated a
bear garden and a bull ring
They are already away ahead
Of the South Americans and
Mexicans, who chiefly amuse
themselves on that day with
bull,baiting and chicken-fght-
ing, in which they excel.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-27

Boston reports an SctlVe Oo"'
fshymarket.
Hair combs are manufactur.
ed of'old boots in Paris.
Liberty of the press is to be
established in Prussia.
Brigham Young is called the
richest man in America.
A Buffalonian has invented
a mosquito trap ra
Montana Is delighted with a
regular brick ); ii is gold, worth
$4,000. =.
Emigration is largely on the
increase to the West, from
New England.
The crops this season in
Tennessee7will be short, on ac-
count of the drOuth.
Chicago is giving ten cent
concerts in a Centenary Church
A Canadian bride in New
York wears a $1,000 diamond
Ex-Congressman Spaulding
is now writing a history of
grecnbacks.
Deep velvet collars are pre-
scribed dress coats.
Onions are, cheaper than po-
tatoes in Minnesota.
Old Dandy, Chief of the
Winnebagoes is dead.
A female clergyman married
a couple in Iowa-kissed the
bridegroom.
; Byron,Eall styles, SELLS very
briskly at the. New York trade
sales,
The London omnibuses car
ried over 10000, 900 passengers
last year.
There are 1000 professional
thieves in Chicago.
A so,called perpetual motion
is on exhibition at Lancaster, Pa
T. Potatoes arc selling in Iowa
for shilling a bushel.
Eight silk factories at Mans
field, Mass, are all doing a
thriving business. -
New Hampshire is to.have
S+ata Grand Todpe of St.
Crispin.
Bayard Taylor lectures at
Terre Haute November 6.
Gen. Lee is President Of a
Bible Society at Lexington, Va.
Many hogs are dying Of
cholera in Louisa county, Iowa.
A six-and,a-quarterfoot wo-
man is said to live at New AL
bany, Ind.
The University Of South Car
olina opened with twenty-five
students.
A Catholic Church at Lex
ington, Ky, has chime of
bells.
e Dark brown hair now rules
high the Paris market.
The furniture in New York
Grand Hotel cost 100000.
Mr.. Sumner is to receive
$400 fora lecture on caste.
The Rothschils have lately
been losing largely, by Rus
sian speculations. AeH.
Several fire companies have
been organized of the walters
and workmen Of Chicago hotels.
The servants Of q certain
laly in Greenwich, Conn, left
in u body, the other day, to es.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-27

The Pittsburg Post contains
an article defending Mr.. Pen
dleton against the attacks of
some of the Eastern Democrat
ic papers, ihdorsing his views,
and calling for a convention of
the Democracy of the Missis-
sippi Valley, to take action up
on the political situation.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-27

numher OF state electlonsl
occur early next Month- First,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer,
we have New York, which
chooses a State ticket with the
exception Of Governor and Lieu
tenant Governor, together with
the State Legislature. A State
Legislature is also to be chosen
in New Jersey. In Massachu'
setts q Gov'nor and Legislature
are to be elected. In Illinois
there is to be an election for
county officers, which will pos
,sess only local significance. In
Wisconsin, a State ticket and
Legislature are to be chosen.
None Of these elections are
of much Importance, except
that OfNew York. There the
State officers chosen constitute
the Canal Board. which has the
disbursement really of all the
financial revenues Of the State,
together with the State patron
age. The present Democratic
officers are renominated, being
elected two years ago by 10000
majority. Last year Governor
Hoffman was chosen by 10000
and Horatio Seymour beat Gen
eral Grant by 10000 majority.
We have, therefore, every rea-
son to believe that the Democ-
racy will carry the State. But
this by no means gives them
the Legislature, as a matter of
course. Last year they lost it,
although, as we have shown,
they had 10000 majority, The
reason Of this is that the demo
cratic strength is almost entire
lily confined to New York City.
Brooklyn { Kings county,, and
a few other neigh boring Had-
son River counties In them
the democratic majority is over
whelming. But that is all
thrown away in a choice for
Legislators. Besides, under
fraudulent census, which was
taken in 1855 by the Radical
State authorities, which reduc-
ed the city to 10000 inhabi-
tants, when it was $4,000 five
years before, it has not any
thing like its true political rep
resentation. 1t has but twenty
one out Of the one hundred and
twenty,eight members of the
House of Assembly, when, by
virtue of its population, it
ought to have twenty-nine
members. H.
In Brooklyn there is a SINH
lar swindle. 1t was by virtue
of this unjust representation
that we last year lost the Leg
islature, which body ratified
the fifteenth Amendment, in
violation ofthe expressed will
of the people. While we have
no doubt, as we haveEintimated,
about the State ticket, the
chances are against us in the
Legislature.
In New Jersey there is no
doubts Of a majority Of demo
Gratis being returned.
In Massachusetts,, with $4,000
Republican majority, there
would have been & great polit-
ical change on Governor. and
John @. Adams, the democrat
ic nominee, might have posi-
bly, been elected, if it had not
been for the dodge and evasion
of the liquor issue made by the
Republicans. But this will on
ly bridge them over another
year, and then we look for an
upheaval in the old Bay State.
[ HXr.nonn;n nnd Illinniu
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-27

The Mormons are raising the
Cashmere shawl goat o
An orchestra composed en-
tirely Of female performers is
making a concert tour through |
Germany. a.,. ol i
The New York Commercial
says gambling was never more
rampant in that city than at
present. .h.I.
TAere is said to be a great
scarcity in the supply Of print
ing paper in the New York
newspaper offices, 8 .r.. ne
The New Orleans CONNER
cial Bulletin condemns the idea
Of demanding gold payments
for cotton, 2 4l. J.1 nw
A son of Oliver Wendell
Holmes has become Senator
Summers private Secretary.
Does a man who plants HIM
self upon a principle, ever come
up before the people?
Jefferson Davis thinks, after
all, he will take up bis bed and
board again in Mississippi.
Brick PomerOy is determined.
not to be Brick-dust yet awhile
he is growing better
Millard Fillmore is expected
to visit Washington next week,
as guest Of the officers Of the
Fair.
If we could know all our
friends say behind our backs,
perhaps we'd turn our backs
upon them forever.
y
Olive Logan has had an oil
well at Kitanning, Pennsylva-
named after her. 1t runs pure
Olive OIL 1saaees i
A life of Ida Lewis has been
written by Col. Geo. D. Brews-
ter, and is to be published with
her appreciation. ri
Illinois is receiving, through
Castle Garben, at the rate of
about $4,000 inhabitants each
year.
Two young men both took
out license to marry the same
young lady at Maquoketa, Iowa.
A cat in Warwick, Massa-
chusetts has a litter Of two kit
tens and a red squirrel, which
she nurses with equal care. |
An ingenious suicide in Wis
consin bent down a sapling,
hitched himself to it, by a rope
to his neck and let her slip.
Doesticks has a place in the
office of one Of the Collectors
of Revenue in the City of New
York. . .r.af |
Jose Foreria, in Brazil, 135
years old, lives, it is said, on
scraped cheese, wine and sugar.
Ben Butler has gone to
wearing a blue dress military
coat, with buttons as large as a
dinner plate. .' "a.l
A bark for China is loading
in San Francisco with a cargo
of old scrap iron, dead Celes.
tials, broken glass, flour and
other produce fra .l5 l |
A Connecticut man COM
plains that he didn't know he
was divorced till his wife had
married another man, and he
don't consider that fair. oslo
A man named Fellows mar
ried four wives. Getting to-
gether, lately, their husband
found them hale fellows, well
met .aa .tF
General Mcclellan is in
Washington City, with his fam.
ily, and Sit is said will spend
m, ,st of the winter in that city.
The Viceroy of Egypt is go !
ing into tie sugar manufacture,
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-27

Asa Packer, (democrat,) is
defeated for Governor Of Penn
sylvania by Gcary by a majori.
ty of 1896. ,73UQH NAME
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-27

Amsst extraordinary quality Of
Jeans at Martins. fg1 lg9a BOIL
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-27
HAPPENINGS ELSEWHERE.

The cost of the Suez canal
thus far hasxbeen $01, 100000
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-03-25
Z, Ohio, Thursday, March 25, 1869.
OF schOoI-Roo1rrls

We Glanced to see the other day a
very charming little addendum to a
country school room, which is worthy
of note. The room was new, the
wall pleasantly toned, the low, skirt
ing wainscot of native woods, left of
its natural color and simply oiled;
but, best of all, before both of the
south windows which flanked the
position of the mistress were two
wide trays, ofrustic finish, in which
were grouped geranium or two, a
few starting j6nquils and hyaeinths,
variety of wOod-mosse5, and ivies
which clambered upon either side
the windows and skirted them with
fairy-like hangings of green.
Could a prettier lesson or a wOrthier
one--Which should teach at once re-
gard for and love Of ffOwers-be taught
by-any pictures in the school bOtan-
les?
The furnace heat of the day left a
gentle temperature for the night, and
all that was needed to guard against
frost was a screening bit of muslin
upon a Saturday night, or little re-
punishment of the furnace-fres.
Even this might be avoided by an a.
doption of the Wardian cases. So,
then, the thing is every way feasible.
And what unction might not an adroit
teacher give to the first lessons in bot
any, with scores of eyes beaming upon
the little leaflets which turn so eager
ly to the sunshine, or upon the bulb
lifting its green spears day after day,
and unfolding, by degrees, some Won
deFfUI pile of blossoms?
What now if we were TO add to
this, in country sehOOl-rOOms, some
assemblage, under glazed case, of all
the insects which haunt the Nigh
borhood-the beetles, the butterflies,
the mOths-all in their different stages
of transformation, and all these to COLI
tribute decorative features, while ia
miliarizing the little one with their
Then the minerals of the neighbor-
hood might have their case, and the
teacher challenge the pupils to bring
in new types of ftheirOwn finding, with
some little reward for the eager and
quick-sighted ones who should furnish
a positively new specimen.
Still another cabinet might have
its array of native woods, distinguish
able by form of twig, or color of bark,
or shape of leaves, all of which might
then be taught by the best and surest
kind of Object-lessOns.
Nor would this style of teaching end
properly within doors; the yard might
have its appointment of varied shrub
berries, with every species named and
billeted, so that a miniature abOretum
should grow up around the school
room, aud become a source of healthy
pride to both pupils and mistress.
Will some of those elderly gentle
men who believe only in the old meas
ure of ugliness and the "Rule of
Three" give US their objections to
the paIliatives of teaching we suggest?
Hearth and Home.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-03-25
NEormon Concnhinare.

"Carleton, j." of the Boston Journal in
in a sketch of visit to Salt Lake City,
saws that as soon as girls arrive at a
rnarriageabIe age they become concu-
bines. "The Mormon Church teaches
that concubinage is ordained of God.
To accept it is to glOrify Him; to re-
iect it is to reject eternal happiness.
"A man may have a score Of eOncu-
bines; he may be old, hateful, Tepul-
sive, but for a girl to reject his ad-
dresses is to reject the gospel. WO-
men regard polygamy as areligiOus
sacrifice. It is 10 them the will OF
God. Accepting it, they glOrify him
and secure their own salvation. ]
venture to say that there is not one
really happy woman in Utah, if unit
ed to a man with more than one wO.
man. Polygamy is against nature
You see nature's protest in the sad
and care-worn cOuntenaDce Of every
woman you meet"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-03-25
FashionabIe Weddlngs.

Of the vulgar display of our fash
ionable weddings, the Liberal Chris
tian says, with excellent sense:
"Two persons can hardly be mar
ried nowadays, without a blaze Of
fire works or beating of gongs, meta
Iphorically speaking, that would be
immensely popular among the Indians
but which are anything but pleasant
or pertinent in this moral, civilized
section. A marriage is a very serious
and solemn thing. and should be as
quiet and chaste as possible. But
candidates for wedlock at present
seem to consider it a golden opportu-
nifty for advertising their pecuniary
extravaganza and mania for millinery,
thereby offending delicacy and good
breeding to the last extent. No doubt
many refined people are so Influenced
by fashion that they adopt these tin
seled weddings unwillingly; but we
hope the time is coming when such
meretricious parades of rites that
should be sweetly sacred, will be left
to the vulgar, to whom they proberly
belong
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-03-25
Wise Savings.

We have gathered few wise say
ings from excellent authority. They
are worth reading, remembering and
preserving.
Don't buy patent rights to sell again,
Buy a farm wagon before a fue
carriage.
Don't become security for him who
waits for the sheriff.
Don't starve your land; if you do
you will grow lean.
Don't buy piano for your daugh-
ters while your sons need pl0W.
Don't leave to memory what should
be written; it makes lawsuits.
Don't let your horses be seen stand
ing much at the beer saloon: it don't
look right
Don't give the merchant a chance
to dun you. Prompt payment makes
independent men.
Keep good fences, especially line
fences; they promote good feelings
between neighbOrs.
If you have yoke Of oxen, don't
be ashamed of them and give your
note for a span of horses.
A decent, substantial clothing for
your children, makes them think bet
ter of themselves, and keeps the doc
tors away.
When the labOrs of the day are past
let good books and newspapers invite
the youngsters to the sitting-rOOm.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-03-25

How MONEY WAS SAVED BY Ia
KING A NEwsPAPER.-Ac correspOn-
dent writes to the Chicago Post as
follows:
"I live a mile or two from the -four
ishing city of Muscatine. went in
to town one morning last fall for the
purpose of selling my hogs. 1 had
talked with one dealer, and had about
concluded to take his offer, when I
thought 1 would first lo,k at the pa
pers. Buying a copy of the Evening
Post of the evening before, 1 read a
long dispatch from Des MCiles, with
a table o. counties, showing that the
hog crop of 1867 was $4,000 s. t
of crop of 1868. 1 at once concluded
not to sell then, and the other day
sold the same hogs for more than $500
in excess of what I should have con-
tracted them for had 1 not read that
number of the Post.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-03-25
[COrreapondsnes Of the News.
LETTER FROM IOWA.


Montgomery COunty-LOeatiOI
aud Advantages for New Set
Decentralization 60 Highland
ers, Ee. &c.
RED OAK JUNCTION, Iowa, Mar. '69.
EDITOR NEws-DEAR SIR:-I sc,
in your valuable paper communities
tions from different parts Of Iowa and
Missouri, telling your good people o.
the advantages Of the several localf
ties, and thinking that a few lines
from the 'SIOpe" might not be with.
out interest to your readers, I will Civ,
you some Of the peculiar advantages
of Montgomery county.
This county is the second from the
State line Of Missouri on the south
and also the second from the Missou-
.ri river on the west. It comprises
some Of the best farming land in the
West, or any other country. The
climate is agreeable, being colder in
winter than in "Old Highland" but
mud and rain are almost unkn owr
during the winter season. Corn
wheat, oats, potatoes and sorghum, arc
the staple products, and yield abun.
dautly. Cattle, horses, hogs and
sheep are also raised in large mum.
bcrs. In fact this is the "greatest
country in the wOrId'' for raising
stock, the prairies supplying a great
abundance of pasture in summer and
hay for winter.
The Burlington and Missouri River
Railroad runs through the county
from east to west, and win be com
pleted to the Missouri river next fall.
There will also be branch road, run
ming from the county seat to Nebras-
ka City, completed within two years.
The county is rapidly filling. Good
wild prairie can be bought for from
FIVE to fifteen dollars per acre; i'm
proved farms from twenty to fifty dol
lars per acre. Now is the time for those
intending to move West, to "pitch
their tents"
Red Oak Junction is the county
seat, and is growing quite rapidly,and
is already doing a large amount of
business. 1t supports five large dry
goods stOrer, two grocery stores, three
drag stores, six lawyers and three doc
tors, and other trades and professions
in proportion. There is splendid
opening here just now for a good
blacksmith; in fact workmen of all
kinds can get plenty of work and
good wages. There is an unlimited
supply of water power in the county
four streams, that supply abundance
Of water the year round.
Again I would say to the young
and middle aged men of Highland,
who have not the means to buy a
farm of their own there, to come
West, and do not stand on the order
of your coming, but come. You will
never regret it. But don't come with
the idea that you can get rich in a
short time without work, nor that
you are coming "out West where
the people are all ''green-horns " and
you can live by your wits. But come
with the expectation of working, and
some Of the hardships of a
pioneer life, and we will receive you
with open arms, and help you all we
can.
A very large proportion of the in
habitants of this county are from
"Old Highland" and We desire to see
more Of the same kind. Then come
along, where land is plenty and cheap.
ANON.