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The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-07-22
It's q two story building with

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an attic and cupola. The cell
ings are high in the first story
with two small parlors, and
large one that was finished OF
the English style of that day
presenting the appearance o.
one Of our old fashioned coun,
terpanes worked with thread
From the hall and parlors we
passed up stairs to the north
room, which is large, with a
fireplace and two small side,
rooms, commands a fine view
of the Potomac, and was the
bedroom ashington, where
he had spent the happiest mo,
ments Of his life after attaining
manhood, and where he died.
We are not spiritualists, but
it did not require any great
strain on our Imagination to
feel the presence of Washing,
ton in the room from which his
great spirittook its flight to the
eternal world, seventy years
ago. ...s.eaTrts.tE .u.y
Then we went up to the Gus
pola and looked out on the
grand and beautiful scenery
presented to view at every
point of the compass. The
garden with its borders OF box,
and the greenhouse with the
same kind of flowers in the pots
that we're there a hundred
years ago, and the trees that
shaded the walks and lawns
were those of the native forests,
except the tall pear trees, and
a most magnificent specimen
for this latitude of the Magno>
liza Grandifolia, just in full
bloom and redolent with sweet
flavor. The mulberry and wild
cherry loaded with ripe fruit
far more ample in size than the
Western States produce, were
there, and the ash and elm
spread their umbragous boughs
in greater length and beauty
than we had before ever seen.
Then we wandered through the
orchard and gathered the most
delicious blackberries from the
low bushes growing there spon-
taneously. The beauty and
impressions of the quiet visit,
this great natal day of Ameri-
can Independence to the tomb
and old home of Washington
without ceremony or display
struck US more forcibly than
the most brilliant display of
sounding trumpets and cere-
monial words of prayer and
Grafton. Let a pilgrimage of
the true patriots of our land
be quitely made to the tomb
of Washington every 4th of
July, and the Republic, the
liberty of the people, the
Union are all safe and will be
preserved. S.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-07-22

A CURIOUS discovery has just
been made at Pompeii. In a
house in course of excavation,
an oven was found closed with
an iron door, on opening which,
a batch of eighty-one loaves,
put in nearly eighteen hundred
years ago, and now somewhat
over done, was discovered; and
even the large iron shovel with
which they had been neatly
laid in rows. The loaves were
but slightly overbaked by the
lava heat, having been protect
ed by quantity of ashes COW
ering the door. There is no
DaKefS marx upon the loaVes;
they are circular, about nine
inches in diameter, rather fiat
and indented (evidently with
the bakers elbow in the cen
tire aud are slightly raised at
the sides, and divided, by eight
lines radiating from the centre,
into eight segments. They are
now Of a deep brown color,
and hard but very light. In
the same shop, were found 561
bronze and 50 silver coins. A
mill with great quantity of
corn, in excellent preservation,
has also been discovered. o7
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ADVERTISING TERMS

One square, ......y....,.... 81 90
Each additional insertion, Il ! 80
Cards, per year, r,..s........ 10 .OG
Local notices, per line, e,s.,tesfrrf1E
Yearly advertisements 500 per
column, and at pfoportionate rates for
essspace. Payable in advance.
t8- The Record being the official
paper Of the town and county, and
saylng the largest circulation Of any
paper In the county, offers superior
:" Incomnnts 10 advertisers. :
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-07-22
Not on that platform N

| WV Oah eh"o ANthVAH'oifil
When the Democratic p lrty
nominated General Mcclellan
for the Presidency, at Chicago
in 1865, on a. platform which
was equivalent to a surrender
to the enemy, they counted on
his personal popularity to carry
their bal platform. But they
blundered. Mcclellan had nu.
merous friends to support him,
but "not on that platform" they
cried out in amazement "not
on that platform"
The Democrats of Ohio have
just initiated their Chicago pre-
decessors. They have made
thoroughly bad platform, and
put on it General Rosecrans,
with whom they hope to per-.
suade the people of Ohio to
swallow their platform. ''''
The chief features in this
document are a plain and ma.
ked assertion that the debt.
ought not to be paid in gold;
and a demand that the bonds
shall be taxed-two measures
which if they could be carried
would break every savings
bank in the country, and rob
millions Of the industrious poor
of their earnings. In this State
alone, the savings banks
hold nearly fifty millions Of
United States bonds. Dishon.
or these asthe Ohio Democrats
propose, and sorrow, loss and
destitution would come to
thousands of widows, orphans
and industrious working men
and women. ''' us i''
The Democrats had the au,
dacity to commend in their
platform, the acts of the last
Legislature, notorious as the
most wasteful and shamelessly
corrupt Ohio has ever had.
On such a platform, a mix
ture of covert dishonesty and
open corruption, they have
placed General Rosecrans, a
soldier, like the Republican
candidate, General Hayes; but
unfortunately a soldier with a
grievance; and with some
strong dishkes to satisfy, and
affronts to avenge. These feel
ings have, we suppose, led him
to consent to stand on a plat
form which ought TO be hateful
to him, and ItS act with men
like Vallandigham, whom, dua
ring the war he denounced bit.
terly. ''"."' 12i9a OILS
The Democratic mana gers
counted shrewdly on the afec.f
tien Of many old soldiers for
Rosecrans; ano ON thefaet thae
he is a jealous Roman Catholic
and will carry, probably, the
vote of his co.religionists But
they will, we believe, be disap-
pointed. Gen. Hayes, his op-
ponent, is an excellent, wise
and honorable man; and the
u. q. 4 D..
Republican platform, combining
itself to State politics, is a good
and popular enunciation Of pol!
icysANeao York Evening Post
'7.I ..e..-----. gftIqg.
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CONCERNING the anti.tariff
revolution in the Ohio Demo
cratic platform, which wildly
sets forth the impositions on
salt, sugar, tea and coffee as
especially oppressive to the
West, the New York Tribune
says.
New England consumes a
great deal more of these than
Ohio does, yet produces none
Of. them, while salt is largely
manufactured in the close
neighborhood Of Ohio. Ohio
makes pig iron largely; New
England makes little of it, but
buys a great deal. So she buys
coal enormously, paying S1.75
gold per tun into the Fed.
eral Treasury on a large pro-
portion of it, while Ohio has
her coal from mines on her
great river, which pay nothing
to the Government and whose
prices are scarcely affected by
the tariff. Ohio grows wool,
which is largely protected, and
for which our growers receive
higher prices, than any others
on earth; New England pro.
duces very little wool and buys
immense quantities mainly
from the West. The assump.
tion that New England is spe.
cially favored BY the present
tariff is based on falsehood
and upheld by malevolence. on
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-07-22

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Rich as Cornelius Wander.
bilt is said to be, it is sapposa-
BILE that he would give his son
a piece Of land if be. waited it
but he wouldn't; and that
son, William, last week pur-
chased all his fathers extern
sive and valuable real estate
on Staten Island, the old gen.
tleman extorting from the pur.
chaser the scarcely believable
sum Of one dollar forthe same,
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ELEGANT C0L0RED PLATE, p
A BOUQUET OF FLOWERS.

tits the most beautiful, as we'll as the most
instructive Floral Guide published, giving
plain and thorough directions for the si..,s
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-06-11

Why is it that the intell;-
gence, virtue and property in
terest of the State are so deter
minedly against Wells cleo
ton? 1t is not because he is
Republican, nor is it because
he is a Northern man. Colonel
Walker is both, and he will
carry all of the classes alluded
to. If Wells were a native
and a Conservative, and had
exhibited the same plundering
propensitles, had the same pro-
fessional record, and the same
lust for money and office, he
would have neve- been thought
OF as a candidate for Governor.
1t has been our custom in Vir-
ginia to pick out our best men
for that high ofice-men of
spotless character and confessed
craftsmanship, around whom
we could all rally with pride
and affection.
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-06-11
THE DAY BOOK.
FRIDAY MORNING, June IL 1889.
A Remarkable Development,

The registration of voters in
this city, in the early part of
last year, showed that there
were $3.50 adult male negroes,
every one of whom was subject
to assessment for poll tax
This year, when the assessor
went round, he was able to
find only 1851, a loss Of one
half, plus 81. The assessor
is not only under the obliga-
ton of an oath to enroll every
one subject to tax, which in
cludes every one who has a
right to vote, but, if we are not
mistaken, the amount Of his
pay depends upon the number
enrolled. We may, therefore,
assume that he has discharged
his duty in the matter. How,
then, are we to account for the
so sudden disappearance Of
one-half the negro voters of the
city? Was there fraudulent
registration in the first place,
or have the voters actually
diminished by removal and
death? Somewhat, we sus-
pect, of both. We never doubt
ed tkat there were vastly more
names on the registration lists
than there were legal voters
Nor do we doubt that the ne
gro population of the city is
materially less now than it was
twelve or eighteen months ago.
In any case, it is apparent
that the Conservatives can now
carry the city, with Henrico
attached, if they do anything
like their duty. This will Sc
cure eight Delegates and three
Senators that the sweet scented
Underwood, calculated on
securing to his party by the
gerrymander. And this will
probably give us the Legisla'
ture.-Whig.
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Josh Billings Has a House for
Sale.

1 kan sell for eighteen hun
dred and thirty-nine dollars, a
pallas, a sweet and pensive re-
tirement, located on the vir-
gin banks Of the Hudson, con-
tanning eighty-fve acres: The
land is luxuriously divided by
the hand Of nature and art,
into pasture and tillage, into
plain and declivity, into stern
abruptness and the dalliance ov
moss turfed medder; streams
of sparkling gladness 0hick
with trout dance through this
wilderness Of buty, tew the low
musick ov the cricket and grass
hopper. The evergreen signs
as the aspen trimbles like the
love smitten heart of a damsel.
Fruits oy the tropicks, in gol-
den bnty, melt on the boughs,
and the bees go heavy and
sweet from the fields to garner
ing luves. The stables are
worthy ov Nimrod or the studs
of Akillis, and it's henery was
built expressly for the birds ov
paradise; while somber in the
distance, like the cave of a her.
nit, glimpses are caught ov
the dog house. Here poets
hav cum and warbled their
laze; here sculptors hav
cut, here painters hav
robed the scene ov dreamy
landscapes, and here the phi
losopher discovered the stun
which made him the alkamist
of nature. As the young moon
hangs as a curting Of silver
from the blue breast of the ski,
an angel may been each night
dansing with golden tipt toes
on the green.
N. B. This angel goes with
the place.
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-06-11

. A lot of MINISTRIES of a Wes-
tern city started out on a
tower recently. They went
to a town not far away and adj
yertised to give a performance
for the benefit Of the poor;
tackets reduced to twenty five
cents The hall was cram
med full. The next morning a
committee for the poor called
upon the treasurer of the con-
Germ for the q amount said benefit
had Melted. The treasurer ex-
pressed establishment at the de-
Il thought said the
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-06-11

A hack driver in Buffalo, who
purposely drove slowly, and
thus prevented the two gentle
men in his vehicle from reach
ing the train, hoping thus to
make more money out of them,
has been arrested and tried and
was obliged to pay the hotel
bills of his victims and the costs
Of court.
When a young man in some
countries goes a counting, the
first question the woman asks
of him is, Are you able to keep
a wife when you have got her?'
What a world of misery it
would prevent if the young wo-
men in all countries would stick
to the wisdom of that question.
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Rail Roads.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
szssa ~ 9 ~ - -

OFFloB s. d R. Il. ROAD CoMpANY,1
Portsmouth, Va, May 4, 1869. /
I'm AND AFTER THURSDAY, MAY
" 9th, trains will leave Portsmou lii
daily Sundays excepted) as follows:
Freight Train at..... 40 A. NJ.
franklin Accommodation Train,
Tuesdays, Thursday and Satur-
days aU....... ........,..........33 80 Pm
ARRIVE AT PORTSMOUTH.
Mail Ira at.... 6.I5 p. M,
Freight Train at.... ........ 3 80 A. NJ.
franklin Acc ommodation Train
Tue days, Thursdays and Sat-
urQay'S aI... ............. -. Ill. ~ AM
Mail Train connects at Weldon with the
Trains OF the Wilmington ao1 Weldon,
d Raleigh and CASTOR Rail Roads; and
on Mondays, Wednesdays aud Fridays
at Franklin with Steamer -or Eden ton
and Plymouth.
Mail Train bound North will stop for
passengers only ct Seaboa.u, BoyKins,
Franklin and Suffolk.
Freight Train will take passengers TOR
Suffolk, Buckbo1n, Franklin, NeWsom's,
BOykin's, Seapos "a aud Weldon.
Freignt received daily except sundays
from A. II, to P, M,
E. g. CHIC,
mY5 superintendent Transportation.
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A West Springfield lady W.

A West Springfield lady WAC
is in the habit of pushing her
glasses up on her head when
through with them, and having
several pairs, was unable to
find any of them the other day.
On asking her daughters assis-
lance in finding them, three
pairs were found high and dry
on the top of her head.
4 The Pennington Chronicle
says that during the closing
prayer at a Sabbath School in
that village, last Sunday, a
rooster, having made his way
unperceived half way up the
main aisle, gave a lusty crow,
creating a scene amusing and
ludicrous.
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-06-11
lRlfallible Signs.

To meet a funeral procession
is a sign of death.
To lose a pocketboo1 con-
tanning greenbacks, is I'M
lucky.
When a cat prepares to wash
her face, it is a sign that one
in the house will shortly re-
ceive licking.
Ifa one-eyed bulldog flies
at a stockraiser's legs, it de-
notes that a misfortune will
happen to his calves.
Ifyou are in in a house and
hear a baby cry it is a sign OF
marriage-or, if it isn't it
ought to be.
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" IN II Il IL RICH.
W MOND AND PETERS BUKG RAIL-
ROAD On and after FRIDAY, the 9Th
instant, the trains over this road WI oe
run as follows:
Leave Richmond at A. M. and 2.35 P. M,
Leave PeIersourg at 1885 a. N. and $50
F. NJ.
Accommodation Train, = it'll passenger
Car attached, will leave Richmond daily
sundays eXcepted) at 40 p. NJ.
NJ. Train Will not leave Rich
SUNDAYS, and the $50 p. NJ.
not leave Petersburg on SUN.
Passengers for Norfolk will take the 235
P. NJ. Train. running through daily.
Fare to Norfolk 81. Baggage checked
through.
Passengers for Clover Hill will take the
A. NJ. Train ON WEDNESDAYS and
FRIDAYS, conn Meeting at Chester with
Coal tra ~, returning 10 Richmond same
days at l.l0 p. NJ.
u. H. GILL,
OCH Engineer and Superintendent.
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chairman of the committee.
you advertised the concert for
the benefit of the poor?' Re-
piled the treasurer, Didn't we
put the tickets down to twenty
live cents, so that the poor
could all Gomez The commit
tee vanished.
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DOMESTIC RECEIPTS.

OHe ponu vi Wu1Ue ouS"h, ono
teacupful of butter, half a
cupful of sweet milk, the whites
of ten eggs, half a small teas
poontul Of soda, one teaspoon
full of cream of tarter, three
cups of -four; flavor with vanilla
or almond. Bake in jelly-cake
pans with icing between.
Icing for cake-One pound
of fine white sugar, the whites
Of three eggs. The flavor of a
grated cocanut is very nice in
it.
Raised Warfles.-One quart
of sweet milk a little warmed,
four eggs, a piece of butter the
size Of an egg, a teaspoonful
of salt, a teacupful o. yeast,
-four enough to make a stiff bat
ter; let IL raise three hours;
heat the iron hot before bak-
ing. F..as1nel cakes are baked
the same way, but made thin
ner with milk, and baked in
small cakes on a griddle.-
Sometimes they are made with
sour milk and soda in place of
raising, but are neither as good
or healthy.
Fried potatoes. How few
cooks know how to fry pota-
toes There is nothing so
easy to get, and yet, so palata-
BILE for breakfast, with a thick
tender beefsteak or a mutton
chop fixing from the gridiron.
To fry raw potatoes properly,
they should be pared, cut
lengthwise into slices, an
eighth of an inch in thickness,
dropped into a pan over the
fire containing hot beet drip
pings, turned frequently, NICE
ly Drowned all over, but never
burned. The addition of a
little salt and pepper while in
the pan, and a little -four
dredged over them, is an i'm
provement.
Lady fingers. -Four eggs,
four ounces ofsugar, two ounces
Of -four. Beat the yolks and
sugar together, and then add
the whites and the flour. -
Flavor with orange-fower
rose-water, or lemon. Drop
on paper with a paper or tin
funnel; then lay the paper on
pans and bake. Sprinkle the
cakes with sugar before bak-
ing.
A correspondent Of the Lew
iston (Me.) Journal says that
a man died recently in thai
town of almost giant proper.
tons. He was six feet foul
inches high, and weighed three
hundred pounds, His name
was John Keene. He was
buried beside the remains Of
his father, whose name was
John. who died at the same
age $50 years., and he also
leaves a son John who is six
feet six inches in height. The
boards Of which his coffin wa
made were sawed by himself
from 5he same log which fur
nished the boards for his
fathers coffin twenty-seven
years ago. There are few logs
of sufficient size to furnish
whole boards for such a coffin.
my son. said the veteran
at the foot o. the stairs, 'arise
and see the newly risen lumina-
ry of day, aid hear the sweet
birds sing their matin song of
praise to their Creator; come
while the DIV is on the grass
and tender lambs are bleating
on the hillside-come? | say,
Or I'll up there with this
switch, and give you the Gus
sedest licking that you ever
bod
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PROMPTNESS.


The Piedmont has paid in losses to The
otherwise helpless widows and orphan,
of the South, about $25,0GO; in every case
waving the time allowed by policy fol
payment, and paying at once-of which
Agents can furnish particulars and proof
AS this Is question affecting the ia
IeIesC OF all VINO insure, We append the
following extract:
TO THE PUBLIC.-I am pleased to
bear testimony to the piedmont Life In
oulance Company of Virginia." and to
urge It's merits for solvency and prompt.
LESS on southern public.
l Presented this morning proofs of loss
for $4,000 insured under policy No. 754,
Jointly on myselfand wife, my wife hay-
-ng recently died, and the amount was
4stantly paid, the Company waving the
ninety days allowed under its policy.
Such promptness entities the Com pany
to southern support.
why should we continue TO impoverish
our people and seclIon by SendIug mo-
ney Norm for Lie insurance whenso re-
liable and prosperous Company as "The
1eumonl" is IN our section?
HENRY T. JARRATT,
OF Greenville Co., Va.
In addition sucn extracts could be
given from many leading men and Jour-
nails all over the South.
NO EXCUSE WILL AVAIL YOU.
1t won't do to say you are not able :,
take IS too small to do any good. Womb
a man do right to reuse bread 10 b =
.amily to-day because he can't get it for
rem tomorrow too? Must the family
suafve to-day becau>e future supplies
cappotn now be secured? Then. is IL more
lust or wise to refuse to secure 300 in q
Life Policy to-day because you cannot
now get $1,000 or $4,000 policy? No, 1t is
yoar duty TO take what you can now, and
Increase the policy when able. T
IL won't do to say you need all your
money to keep your family in necessa-
rlS5, because nothing is SO necessary
Whlle you are Ii, ing 10 support tpem, as
TO secure Them support alter you die |:
do that.
1t won't d. to put it off for the future.
because only The present is yours, the Yu.
ture belongs 10 death and GCd. II 1as
been truly said representation is the
thief of time" but when by our oyy n acts
we lorce 1T to be the "thiel' also Of orr
family's comfol t, bow sad must be the re-
morse your death-bed brings! Death
won't delay for you. Death won't heed
your pleas; then act at once, for you NAV
be his next victim.
Call on our agent, get our pamphlet aud
read 1t, and you viii see 1t. cost out little
toln1resiyour l1te,l - ap2Qs1m
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FOR RICHMOND AND ALL REGuLAR
LANDINGS ON JAMES RIVER.

FOR RICHMOND AND ALL REGULAR
LANDINGS ON JAMES RIVER.
THE Fast and Elegant U. s. Mail
Il Steamer
E L q A H A NOOK,
Capt. q. Z. CLIFFORD,
L4aVes G.. m1oelFs Wharf, rf~sa
10 tue above ramed places s$$1ssksxzz5XSs
gu UFSl AVS, THU 'SDAY'S and
50 NURDAy ., at G. elk A, M. re-
tn u D Q MONDAY Is. v EDNESDAY's
? 40 It.IDAYY'S, tOucL11 at Portsmouth
i way.
4 al, cave City Point for Petersburg
on ahri'ai O. staaD e.
F..-enge- sa'- i've n Richmond in time
10 eOnpect W-tn evening tIaips on Fed.
er1ck >oaJg u Polomac Railroad. .,.r
Washington, Ba n ore and all poi as
NoILn, ana reAt moving with trains on
Ches peake ana Ohio ana Richmond ar d.
DsnV1lle Re aGs, for all points South
anu West.
a e 10 Richmond. so
FRI ght received at r.: sopable rates on
MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS and FRI
DAYS, from l to 2. M, for City Point,
n cnmond enc beyoDG, and all Regular
J. sndlngs GU James river,
Frelghts for Way Landings must be
pre- paid.
For further particulars apply to
A. /. HUME, Agent,
app once Cam pbell'S Wharf
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NAERCHANTS d MECHANICS
W SAVINGS BANK.
OFFICE No. 3S, RANk STREEY
PTeesGsHt.
WIN. 4, HARRISON.

WG. 4. HARRISON.
Dsreotors.
Jos. X. SpRArL1y, d. D. SIsMoxs,
l.. SALISBURY, G. w. GRANDY
E. DELAHY JAS. Y Leigh.
VIM. II. WALES, Cashier.
This Bank is is open for The resumption
Ofbusiness. Deposits received upon the
usual terms, interest being allowed at The
rate of SIX per cent. on all amounts re
naming on deposit for 90days or upwards
Four per cent. for a less period inte"es
commencing 10 Gays after deposit, an
ceasing 10 days prior to the Withdrawal.
The institution keeping accounts OF it,
New DepOsltors entirely separate IRON
those of The Old Depositors, SO as to an
swer the demand OF the New Deposition.
All indebted to our Institution viii
please call, pay, curtatl, or renew their
paper.
The Board of Directors will meet ever,
Wednesday and Saturday morning at
o'clock.
al3-ly