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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-01-07
HOW FOOD Is ADULTERATED.

If we only knew all the nastiness
we. consume as beverages and food
we would almost be tempted to resort
to the primeval dict of roots, game,
fish and nuts, and to drink the pure
water of the brook and bad as the
stuff is we cat and drink, we only re-
c9ive inweight and quantity about four
fifths of what we pay for. An inves-
igation in this direction, now going
on in New York, has created consid-
erable excitement. 1t seems that coffee
is adulterteratcd with chicory, roasted
beans, acorns, mangelwurzel, roasted
wheat, rye and potato fours, roasted
peas, parsnips, sweet potatoes, saw
dust, oak bark tan, and brick dust,
and to color it burnt sugar, madder
root, roasted horse liver and burned
blood have been used, Tea is adul-
,terated with exhausted tea leaves, leaves
of the beech, elm, horse chestnut, plane,
fancy oak, willow, poplar, hawthorne,
and sloe, starch, rice husks, excrcment
of silk worms and sand. Among the
delightful mixtures for Coloring tea
are chr ONE yellow, sulphate of lime,
carbonate and arsenite of copper and
verdigris. Even -four is adulterated
with sulphate of lime, bone earth, corn
meal, and damaged flour. Spices are
incrsased in bulk if not in qnality by
potato, pea and sage fours, ground
eil-eake, arrow root, mustard husks
and common clay. Sugar is adultera-
ted by wheat flour, tapioea, starch sand
and plaster of Paris. Mutton saet,
alum, potash and potato -four add their
attractions to lard. The articles that
adulterate confectionery are legion.
Vinegar, pickles, mustard, honey and
sauces are all adulterated. A bill has
been prepared in Illinois, which will
be presented to the coming legisla ture
to prevent the adulteratioh of food,
drink and medicines. The law is care
fully drawn and comprehensive. The
penalties comprise fine and imprison-
ment. aa
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-01-07

|ssuress ssitdescehded for a short distance,
in . broad stream, to a point where a
bifhrcatio1r took nplace, and then the
Isburning mineral went down to the
base nofi the mountain in two streams
of perhaps twenty feetieach in width,
lacking in the darkness liketwo broad
ribbonsHof FIRE stretching down into
the plain.siisiy ,5aEnu.o9 Isg01 9aj :.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-01-07

A chemical analysis of the brandy
and whiskey sold at the leading ho-
tells in New York city, shows that
they are composed of two thirds wa
ter, the other third being tannin, fish
oil and suHAr.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-01-07

The pupil may try the intermediate
numbers to produce threes, fours,
skies, seyens and eights. There will
be found nine of each, and the figures
in each product, added together, will
be of equal value to each respective
multiplier.. ..r,..-,. ,a,f,oef.
If the number,9 be multiplied in s
places in each line by 2, and all the
other digits, up to nine inclusive, the
whele line of results will be arranged
alike, from right to left, and from left
to right, that is from to a, reading
in either direction:
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-01-07


ar The GERMANs.--The Germans in
the United States, according to the
census of 1860, number ], ,S01, ,136, divi-
ded among the principal States as fol-
lows: New York, 256,252; Ohio.
l6S,2l0; Pennsylvania, lbs, ,244; Il
linois, 13S,S04; Wisconsin, 123,S78
Missouri, SS, ,1S7; Indiana, 66,705. The
Germans in the principal cities are dis
tribnted as follows: New York, 119,
977; St. Louis, 5O,510; Cincinnati, 43,
93l; Philadelphia, 1860; Baltimore,
32,90s ), Chicago, 22,227; New. Orleans,
1929; Boston, 32,202. The Germans
in the United States have probably in
creased one-third since 1860; and will
therefore now number in this country
100000 souls. ,s,.f..seW sFr
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-01-07

vi hen TIE lessons and taskg are all ended,
And the school for the day is dismissed.
And the little ones gather round me,
To bid me good night and be kissed.
q .O!tte little white arms that eneirele
iai. Ny neck In tender embrace;
- OF the smiles that are halos of heaven.
Shedding sunshine Of love on my face.
And when they are gone, sit dreaming
OF my childhood too lovely to last:
OF love that my heart viii remember,
While It wakes to the pulse Of the past.
Ere the world and its wickedness made me
4 partner Of sorrow and sin;
when the glory OF God was about me,
And the glory Of gladness within.
= OF my heart grows weak rs a woman's,
oi, And the fountains of feeling viii flow,
When think Of the paths steep and stony,
Where the feet Of the dear ones must go;
OF the mountains of sin hanging DER them,
On the tempest of Fate blowing wild;
Re OF there's nothing ON earth half so holy
As the innocent heart of ehildI
They are idols of hearts and of households;
They are angels of God in disguise;
His sunlight stiIl sleeps in their tresses;
HIS glory still CLEANS in their eyes.
OF those truAnts from home and from heaven,
They have made me more manly and midi
=, And know nowhow Jesus could liken m
The Kingdom Of God to child.
I ask not 4 life for the dear ones,
Ali radiant, as others have dome;
But that may have just enough shadow
- 10 temper the glare of the sun;
70 Iwend pray God to guard them from evil.
BJs But my prayer would bound back to myself;
AHA sersph may pray for sinner,
But a sinner must pray for himself ana
p
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-01-07
iIT11l111I--9

And here again is the faithful num-
ber, for the product presents nine
ones. ja 3Gs ri 2W o. -ti}1E0i stst5'ii p
If the product of Is would please
him, let him multiply the line with
two 9s or IS, and so on with 81, 36,
&C., until by multiplying by nine 9s,
or 81, he viii have a product of 9s,
and nine of them. IS, 4s.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-01-07
l1l1l1lI1O-9

There is something striking to the
eye in suchia product, ,forthe wonder
full number reeurs again in nine Is !;
and itmay serve to induce thinking.
Or, let the one line be subtracted from
tfhe other in this MaY:E Dos 80 iI-l- 9
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-01-07
ais q 36 As rI54 a63 Y

4 I. lUI0 Il 100 ID L0f 20 u OIU
And the first figure in each couple
from othert tend is in simple rotation
from one to eight. ~ svaa Ilia:o+@ .
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-01-07
Rates of Advertising
TILE oHzIDnEs,

rpe (semparell, .aslI eens.l.a.s square.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-01-07

taI NIX first is what lies at the ldoori
my second is q kind Of corn 81 my third
is what nobody can do without, and
my whole is one of the United States.
| Mat-ri-mony.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09

burning houses and outraging women'-
All attempts to kill or capture this man
have proved abortive. He has been
hunted by companies of determined men
and tracked by detectives, but has al
ways eluded pursuit and successfully re-
sisted attack. A few days ago an at
tempt was made TO capture him by the
Sheriff of Washington county, Mo-, and
a squad of fifteen or sixteen men, which
resulted in the wounding of the Sheriff,
the killing of one of his men and the es-
cape of the outlaw, Since then renew
ed efforts have been made to arrest the
desperate, and in order to effect the OBJ
iect the Governor has offered the reward
mentioned above.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09

journey completed her child would be
again restored to health, she pushed has
tily forward to reach Minnesota, bearing
the little invalid all the while in her
arms. On Thursday night, soon after
leaving McGregor, the little sufferer,
still lying in the mothers arms, died.
1t was some little time before the moth
err discovered that the child was dead,
and when she did her grief is described
as almost amounting to frenzy. All
night long she chung to the corpse of her
little one, and swinging her body to and
fro, sobbed and moaned Arriving at
st. Paul she alighted from the cars, still
weeping, and bearing the dead body of
her infant in her arms, Here the rail-
road officials learning of the case, pro-
cured a coffin and the child was buried
in the West St. Paul Cemetery. The
mothers grief at parting with her little
one was touching in the extreme. The
next morning she continued her journey
to Join her husband and inform him of
their sad loss.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09
:, !. estimated that seyen.tenths o. an

It is estimated that seven-tenths OF all
adult ailments proceed from diseased
and torpid liver, The hillary secretions
of the liver overlooking into the stom-
.ach, poison the entire system, and exhip-
il. the above symptoms. After long re-
81 .arch, we are able to present the most
re markable cure for these horrid night
m are Of diseases the world has eyer pro-
du ced. Within one year over six hum
DIRE d and forty thousand persons have
taken Plantation Bitters, and not an in-
stance of complaint has come to our
knowledge. 1t is the NOSE efiectual ton
lie and agreeable stimulant, suited to all
oonditi on. Of life, Heaire of your drug.
gisi in egara to it.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09

"A local paper in Iowa lately pub
lished. the fact that the ball on the cupo-
la of the county courthouse contained
quart of whiskey, and seven local loaf.
-ers have broken their legs in attempting
ito get at it.
1t is estimated that the number of
persons who visited Elorida on business.
as settlers, and as inv.lids or pleasure
seekers, last winter, will reach three hun
dred thousand.
During the recent disturbances in
Paris, thousands of percussion cartridges
were thrown in the streets by the crowd
in the hope that the stamping. of the
horses would cause them to explode.
1t is not an uncommon complaint
against a newspaper that it hasn't life
enough. But a brother editor reports
this odd objection. made to hiss paper by
q gossip-loving old lady: al like your
paper very much have only one OBJ
lection to it-ithasnt deaths enough"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09

The statement from the Treasury of
the public debt at the close of the month
of June, shows that it was still further
reduced in that menth sixteen millions
four hundred.and ten thousand one hun
bred and thirty-two dollars and fifty-four
cents or, an average of over half mil
lion dollars per day Of course this ratio
cannot be kept up, June having been an
extra good month or-receipts from mis-
cellaneous sources of which only come
once year, bat the steady paying off of
the public debt will give the people in
creased confidence in the present admin
istratien. In the four months of its ex-
istence, the public debt has been reduced
over thirtv-six millions.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09

RETRENoHMENT AT WASHINGTON
Secretary Boutwell, has dismissed from
hisidepartment, since this administration
came in, over 600 clerks. The new fis-
cal year will commence with s20,000,-
600 reduction of the army expenditure,
on account of the diminution of the
force by 10000 men. In addition to this,
100000 will be saved by the reduc-
ton of the civilian camp-followers from
10000 to 1000. Fifth Auditor Barron
has been revising the allowances of the
assessors, and, though few have been
increased, the result will be net saving
: to the government of over $4,000
Double salaries, in cases where one man
performs the of deputy and clerk,
or of any other two offices, have been
abolished.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09

The PROFITS OF THE JUBILEE.
books of the board of directors of the
Boston peace jubilee show that the total
receipts for the FIVE days of the jub lice
amounted to $4,000. As the sum to-
tai of the expenses was S312,5OO, the
profits amoudted to S110,7C0. 1t was
agreed by the board of management at
the outset of the enterprise that if it
should prove a success, Mr.. Gilmore
should receive $4,000, and the balan ce
of the profits should be distributed among
the disabled soldiers, and widows and
children of deceased soldiers of the towns
and villages of New England, in the pro-
portion of their subscription to the jubi-
lee 1t was found that if Mr.. Gilmore's
$4,000 were to be paid out of the $780,
600 profit of the jubilee week, the money
left to be divided UP among the subscrib-
ing towns would give only trifing sum
to each. The supplementary perform
ance was therefore arranged as means
of paying Mr.. Gilmore, without dimin-
ishing the fund for the widows and or
phans. That Mr.. Gilmore's services are
estimated at their true value by the di
rectors, is shown by their presentation to
him of house and lot valued at $685.
900 in Boston. This was free gift over
and above the stipulated $4,000. No
one else has been allowed to make money
by the jubilee, the subscribers having re-
ceived the amounts of their subscription
andnothing more. Theinvestment prov
ed poor speculation as far as trade to
Boston was concerned no business of
consequence, either in wholesale or retail
trade, was done during the whole week.
The dry goods merchants and leading
grocers, who subscribed freely to the ju-
bilee, confess to total miscalculation of
of its effects on trade. The building
will probably be allowed to stand about
four months and will be rented for fairs,
great meetings, ETC., the proceeds of such
rental to be given to the charitable insti-
buttons Of the city. By the terms of the
contract the material of the building
when taken down, reverts to the builders,
who were paid $4,000 for putting it up.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09

As the Council of Censors are to hold
their second session the last of this month,
their work is again the subject of discus
sion and comment in the State. Outside
of Montpelier we have observed but two
papers which take ground against the
abolition of the, council. We are conf
dent the people are opposed to its contin-
uance, but if the present council will but
give the people chance to vote on it,
that will settle the question for the pres
ent at ,least. Now, then, will the council
trust it with the people If the people
vote to retain it, SO be it, but give them
chance. The dangers from constant
tinkering of the constitution, can be quite
as well protected without the council as
with it. The plan which we believe some
one of the present council has proposed,
Of altering the constitution by allowing
1.-TWO successive legislatures to propose
amendments, and then submit them to
the people is certainly a period long
enough to secure thes sober second thought
. and to prevent hasty work. This plan
has been adopted by other States and
works well. We trust therefore, that the
present council of censors will do what
we think majority of the people of the
State desire, change the present mode of
amending the constitution, by abolishing
the council, or at least give the people
chance to do it, if they wish.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09

Ku KLux OUTRAGE IN KENTUCKY.
"A party of men, calling themselves
Ku Klux, recently paid visit at night
to the house of man named James
Green, in Lincoln county, Kentucky,
whom they intended to hang because he
had refused to join them. Failing to
find theirintended victim, they laid hands
on Mrs. Green, whom they dragged out
of the house and pretty severely beat
They then set fire to the house and burn.
ed it to the ground. The woman recog-
nized several of the party, who she states
are terror to the State, as they 90
about shooting, whipping and burning
as suits their fancy. Green was in one of
the Kentucky Union regiments during
the war, and the marauding party is
made up Of men who served in the Con-
-federate army. Their object appears to
be plumber and the qualification of petty
malice.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09
Ten Months Work.

To obtain from Congress a charter en-
abling an association of fnanciers to
transact business in every State of the
Union; to organize company under
such a charter; to open main office
ard install staff of officers therein; to
select leading fnanciers and business
men as general agents for transacting
the business of the Company in the sew
eral sections of the country; to have
these general agents so carefully examine
their respective districts as to select the
most efficient and respected men as coun-
ty agents; to have these county agents,
in turn, make judicious selection of To-
cal agents in cities, towns and villages
to prepare the multiplicity of blanks,
forms, orders, instructions, pamphlets
and other documents with which to sup
ply all these agencies; to inform the
public, through the medium of the news
paper press, of the existence of such an
organization, the financial basis upon
which it rests, and the groundwork of
its claims to public approval and sup
port these things would seem to be
sufficient to occupy the first twelve
months of such an organization, leaving
to subsequent years the accomplishment
of actual results. But we find a notable
exception to such course in the case of
the National Life Insurance Company of
America, chartered by Congress in July,
1868, and consequently not yet one year
old. 1t has had all of the above men
toned work to do, and it is but rational
that, in doing this, it should have met
with the opposition of old established in
surance companies. But the new Com
pany has done far more. Indeed, its
successful record, for the first ten months
OF its operation, has been most remarka-
BILE, and utterly unprecedented. 1t has
already issued no less than 1896 poll
cles, representing insurance to the amount |
of over fifteen millions, an amount OK.
ceeding by nearly 100000 that insur-
ed by any Company prior to 1868, in
any full year of its existence, and near.
ly double that ever insured by any other
company in the world, during its entire
first year. After such an authenticated
statement, there can be no doubt what
the investing public thinks of the Ma
tional Life.
Some OF the especial advantages offer
ed by this Company are set forth in the
Advertisement of the local agents, in an
other column, and its operations will be
explained, in further detail, at the office
Of this agency. We believe the Nation.
u Life to be well secured-the paid-un
capital of one million dollars is a good
'ase to start from-and that it will be
honestly as well as successfully carried
IN.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09

A NoToRIoUs DEsPERADo.-TheG Gov.
ernor of Missouri has offered reward of
$4,000 for the head of Sam Hildebrand
who has made his name a terror to the
people of Missouri and Arkansas. 1t is
stated that he has killed at least eighty
persons in the border counties of Mis-
somi and in Arkansas. He was one of
the most daring and reckless BUSH
whaclSers during the war, and he wreak-
ed terrible vengeance upon those who
had been his enemies. shooting men
down in their fields and by the wayside.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09

Atwood's Jaundice Bitters or a journey
to the springs"
There is splendid growth of wheat,
but it is feared that the continued wet
weather will have the effect to superln-
duce an overgrowth of straw, and which
will be lodged down and the crop de-
stroyed. Farmers are looking a little
chop fallen, but still we hope for fair
weather and good harvest.
wanted to say word or two about
the educational matters of our State,
which in point of progress made, COM
pares well with the most advanced, but
/ am fearful your space will not admit
it at this time.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09
CHESTER.

A SAD RTDE.--Among party of
Swedish Immigrants who arrived at St.
Paul, Minnesota, on the 25th ult !. was a
woman who started with her only child
a fine boy of three years, to join her
husband, who had preceded her wear
or two. While crossing the ocean the
child sickened, and the mother not hay.
ing proper food and restoratives for If
there was no amendment when she land.
ed at New York. Hoping that with the
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09
3d. 8a@r. gi"ss,
BELLOWS FALLS, JULY 8, 1869.
If there is ANYTHING which the Repub

If there is anything which the Repub'
lican party can contemplate with pride
and satisfaction, it is the steady reduc-
ton of the public debt. One year ago
some democratic magnates put forth an
electioneering document stating that at
the end of the present fiscal year July l,
1869, there would be deficiency in the
Treasury of over Zone hundred and fifty
millions" instead of which Secretary
Boutwell, reports on hand and now in the
Treasury over one hundred millions
available for instant use, besides having
last month paid off over sixteen millions
of the public debit Well done good and
faithful servant, justly say the people.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09
Virginia Election.

The few returns from the election held
in Virginia last Tuesday indicate the
election of the coalition ticket, support
ed by the rebels, democrats, and "eon-
scrvative republicans" as was generally
expected, though but few returns are
given.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09

The attention of our readers is direct
ed to the advertisement of Goes Dyspep-
STA Cure, in another part of this paper.
This truly Valuable Medicine is recon-
mended by all who use it. Read the
certificates. AZ
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09

"A young lady in Worcester, was re-
Gently thrown into commissions by eating
A." camphor gum,"-a warning to peonle
not to eat drugs of which they do not
know the effects.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09

MAGNOLIA WATER.-Superior to the
best imported German Cologne, and sold
at half the price. AZ
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09

DOR BLACK WORMS, AND PIX
4 ON THE FACE, use PERRY's C0gsp9
PIMPLg REMEDY, prepared only. BY H. 4 /
40 Bond St., New York Sold eyeryWie's
trade supplied y Wholesale Druggists
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09

OUR REASONS AND WE TRUST DUB
" tifcation for calling the pablie atiSti
MOTHER BAILEYS QUTETISG esd
are furnished by the frequency and iataliF
diseases of infancy and childhood. So alazi
serious are the diseases. that one child in Il
before the fifth year. These facts afford ID
argument for enforcing on mothers the ma
of using remedy. (which contains no Nag
Poisonous Drug and never fails (when tHl
to effect cure. 1t greatly assists the elk I
the months of teething. allays all pain, I'd
famation, corrects acidity Of the Stomach Al
fails to regulate the bowels makes sick N
children strong and healthy. produces ns;Ei
for the child, thereby affording rest to .A'
For summer complaints. Dysentery and Ds1
1t has no equal. For Wind, Collie eonrs3
Gripping, &C.. it never fails to give immelzR
MOTHER BAILEY'S QUIETING sYBFl
children, is an original medicine, well eialI
therefore use no other and you are safe. y
by all Druggists and Dealers in Medicine,
A. RICHARDS, New Londor
Agent for the United States AS
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-09
L'ELITE PANIER SKIRT.

E0R the present mode Of dress, the L'Elite pan;er
Skirt is unequalled. Fitted with Sci Of snr;nes
securely attached to a rigid waistband the who1s
combined and calculated to support the heayiest
dress with case and comfort to the wearer IL 4
ranted TO give and maintain the style and effect re-
CURED by fashion" and so becoming and des;,ahi.
to every well dressed lady, n a''e
Miss r. c. DINsM0RE Co., sole agents.