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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-01-13
TESTIMONIALS.

TESTIMONIALS.
Certificate of DR.. John Dove, who is well
known throughout the United States.
Richmond, Va, Nov. Goth, 1868.
Dear Sir.-1he Tobacco Antdote,' pre-
pared by you according to the receipt you have
submitted to me, and the ingredients of which
have examined, is purely vegetable, entirely
harmless, and contains nothing in the least in.
furious. 1t is not dissgreeable to the taste, and
as home article | hope you will meet with
ready sale for it, and believe that, if the direc-
tons are followed, it will do all you claim for it.
JOHN DOVE, NJ. ID.
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MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
IM of New York.

MUTUAL LIFE ms TRANCE COMPANY
Vu Of New York.
ANNUAL INCOME, $4,000, 900.
CASH ASSETS YEAR ENDING FEBRUA-
RY l, 1868, OVER
s25, 900. ooo
NUMBER OF POLICIES INSURED DUR
ING THE YEAR, 1850.
NUMBER OF POLICIES IN FORCE FEB
RUARY l, 1868, 52,3S4.
THE
"MUTUAL LIFE"
is now by far the weathiest company in the
world. 1t is conducted on the only principle
which time and experience has proved to be ul-
timately safe and trustworthy. Its assets are
not invested in fancy stocks or personal securi-
ties but in bonds and mortgages on real estate,
being first lien on same, and thus placed beyond
the reach OF any contingency.
The company, being purely mutual, divides its
whole profits annually among the assured, and
this dividend can be used in payment of premi'
ums or to purchase additional insurance, ut the
option of the policy. holder.
ID. n. WALKER & CO., Agents,
1914 Min street, Richmond.
DR.. J. B. McCAw, Medical Examiner.
jy sly
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C. GENNET,
Has Removed Opposite che Post Office
Richmond, Virginia.
A full assortment of WATCHES, JEWELRY
SILVER GOODS, PLATED WARE, SPEC
TACLES, etc., always on hand
Old Silver purchased or exchanged.
ALSO,
A full assortment of Instruments, VULCANl-
ZERS, GOLD FOIL TEETH, and materials
for the DENTAL profession.
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TRESH GARDEN SEED.
We are offering the largest and best selected
Stock ever offered in the South, from the best
growers of this country and Europe, every va
riety warranted true to name.
CABBAGE OUR SPECIALITY,
None can surpass, and but few equal in quality.
Catalogues, giving short directions for cutiva.
ton, sent free to any address, on application.
PALMER u TURPIN,
No. 1926 Main street, Richmond, Va.
70 1,,
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ALsOP & FoURQUREAN,

CtARDOzo, ALsoP & FOURQUREAN,
No. 91S BROAD STREET, BETWEEN ORR AND 10TH
STREETS.
Keep constantly on hand good and well
selected stock of
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS,
BOUGHT FOR CASH,
And will be sold on the most reasonable terms.
Our buyer is constantly in the market where
cash will always command bargains.
S. NJ. Price, Jack Temple, John o. Chiles,
T. d. Quarles and E. P. Lyons, are with us and
would be pleased to see their friends and &C.
quaintences. c., A. &F.
ma 27-tf
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GHOICE NEW BOOKS,

JUST PUBLISHED BY
THE PRESBYTERIAN COMMITTEE OF
PUBLICATION.
10l1 Main Street, Richmond, Va.
CALLS TO THE SAVIOUR, embracing in one
volume: CONE TO JESUS, CALL to PRAYER,
QUEycH NOT TIE SPIRIT, and ONLY ONE WAY.
Cloth 45 cents Also the same, bound sepa
rately, in paper cents, and cloth % cents.
THE CORPORATE LIFE OF THE CHURCH.
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cents.
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QUESTIONS ON THE GOSPELS. Vol. l.
By Prof. B. NJ. Smith, of Virginia. Single
copy 80 cents, or So per dozen.
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Cloth, Sl.50.
Also, all of DR.. Plumer's other works.
A single copy of any of the Committees cloth
bound publications, sent by mail, post paid, on
receipt of retail price; or twenty-five cents
worth of those in paper covers to one address,
Full Supply Kept of Miscellaneous Books for
the Family and the Sunday School.
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HNHE WATT PLOUGH.-SPECIAL NO
TICE-To meet the views and needs OF
farmers, we have, from this date, determined to
reduce the price of all kinds of PLOUGH
CASTINGS. We have also reduced the price
of the A B, or 0ne.horse Plough, and now sell
it, with extra point and wrench, and cultivating
mould board Gall included,l for $3.50.
The One-horse A b Plough is turning
plough furrowing plough for planting corn, a
sub-soil plough, corn, cotton, tobacco, and
vegetable weeder and worker With two addi-
tional pieces, "a wedding mould board, cost so
cents, and steel scraper, cost 81 to Sl.5O,)
you have combined in this plough the best i'm.
plements ever yet made for all the above named
uses, and WARRANTED to do every kind of turn.
ing and cultivating in field and garden in a man
ner superior to all others ever yet made, and
that, too, without hoe labor, or to be RETURNED,
and the price paid at factory REFUNDED.
We have now on hand full supply of these
Ploughs, together with the largest sizes, both
LETT and right hand; and also general assert.
ment of Agricultural implements, Corn Plant
ers, Corn Shelters, Straw Cutters, Grain era.
dies, Wheat Fans Grass Blades, Hay Rakes,
Traces, Harness, &c.
WATT & KNIGHT,
sp 29-tf Richmond, Va.
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Mr.. John W. Rison, Sir:-I have used one
box Of your Justly celebrated Tobacco Anti:
have not taken a chew of Tobacco for more than
two weeks, and am entirely relieved of the de-
sire to do so, although l had used Tobacco for
more than ten years. hope you will meet with
great success with it, as believe it is good
thing. Yours truly, TT. NOBLE.
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l. b. KELLOGG, j. W. GIBSON
late of G. j. Sumner & Co. OF Richmond, Va
Kellogg & Gibson,
Importers, Wholesale and Retail dealers in
CHINA, GLASS, QUEENSWARE,
and HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
No. ll5 Main street, Richmond, Va.
WE have now in store the largest and most
complete assortment Of goods in our line to be
found in the city, and request all persons inter.
ested to call and examine our stock To coun.
try merchants we offer goods as low as they can
be purchased in the Northern cities.
Special attention given to the packing and
shipping of goods.
Stoneware manufactured in Richmond at Fac.
tory prices. KELLOGG & GIBSON,
ia lS-3m New Store, No. ll5 Main street.
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Died, in Pearisburg, Giles county, Va, on
the 10Th of December, after lingering illness,
JOIN ANDERSON, aged nearly 45 years
Mr.. Anderson was q man of sterling worth
and irreproachable character. Ever dignifed
and grave in his department, yet exceedingly
generous in all his impulses, his life was one of
strict uprightness and his death sad loss to the
community in which he lived. During his last
sickness which commenced in May, he was led
to the serious consideration of religion, and on
the 18th of July, connected himself with the
Presbyterian church. He adorned his proies-
sion with life of humility and patient resigna-
ton in all his illness, and in his dying hour gave
the most exalted evidence of the power of Gods
grace After his conversion he took the deep.
est interest in the prosperity of the Church, aud
was even then completing the house of worship
which was destroyed by fire few days after his
death. During his illness and especially in his
last hours, he seemed to dwell with delight on
the 2Sd Psalm, and when dying said that he felt
that Jesus was with him, and his rod and staff
were comforting him.
"How blest the righteous when he dies!"
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A GOOD THING.-A PICTORIAL MAG.
N AZlNE OF HUMAN SCIENCE, for 1869,
Containing Ethlology, Physiology, Phrenology,
lion TO Human Improvement-P Physically, intel.
lectually. and Spiritually. The Physiological
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TO clubs of ten, only 81. Single numbers. by
first post 30 cents. Address 5. Il. WELLS,
SS9 Broadway, New York.
at is frst.c ass family journal IN. York
Ere. Post Edited with marked ability
Christian Inquirer Every Instructive ~
Y. Christian Adcocate. always up to high
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Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-29

AS William w. Eaton of Windsor,
who lives about four miles from
this city on the road leading from
the Windsor road to the Blue Hills
road and known as "Wall Street" 4"
was crossing the field one day last
week, a few rods from his house, he
saw six large black snakes summing
themselves near.an opening in the
ground from which they had -reyi-
dently come forth. He Immediately
gave battle and dispatched them.
AS he was passing near the the same
place on Sunday last, he saw the
heads Of three more of the same
sort looking at him from the same
den; but they Immediately withdrew
on seeing their old enemy advance
on them. Mr. Eaton, determining
not to lose his game; returned to
his house, got a spade and bag, and
taking his brother, Thomas j., with
him, they dug and bagged alive fifty
black snakes, none of which meas
ured less than three feet in length,
aud the largest measured seven feet
Mr.. Eaten killed at different times
last summer about a hundred snakes
in the same vicinity.-Hartf fora
Times
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-29
The Bucyrus Journal says:

y
Last week lady living near the
Depot requested money of her hus-
band, she having recently recovered
from a serious illness and beng in
need Of funds. The husband went
out to try and procure it, but fail
ing to succeed he returned and up
on reporting his want of success
his loving wife went for him with
the scissors and stabbed him in the
arm.
Typhoid Pneumonia has been pre-
vailing to very serious extent in
the South West corner of Gran
berry, where, in one week, three
esteemed citizens have died of this
disease.
On Sunday Evening last the ser
want girl at Geo. Quinby's Esq be-
fore leaving her bed room put hot
fiat-i, on into her bed to warm it.
Mr. Quinby and lady left for
church leaving the children alone,
after awhile they began to smell
fire and notice smoke but, after
some search failed to find it.
Mr.. Quinby soon after arrived
home and was not long in tracing
the trouble to the girls room. Up
on opening the door, the admitted
air soon caused the bed to burst out
in fame speedily subdued with a
few buckets of water but not before
the bed and bedding were consum-
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-29
The Result of Applications.

Seek to acquire the power of con-
tinuous application, without which
you cannot expect success. If you
do this, you will be able to perceive
the distance which it creates between
you and those who have not such
habits. You will not count YOUR
self, nor will they count you, as one
Of them. Thus you will find your
self emerging into the higher re-
gions of intellectual and earnest
men-men who are capable of max
ing a place for themselves, instead
of standing idly gaping, desiring a
place without the power to COM
mand it. Keep on striving to ac-
complish more and more every day
and thus. enlarge constantly the
range of your intellectual ability.
Ifyou learn to do as much work in
one day as you used to do in two
or three days, you are as good as
two or three such men as you form
erly were, boiled down to one.-Dr.
W0ua7zd sr .-. 4.- ..
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-29
A SENSATION has been created in.

A SENSATION has been created in
New Albany, Ind, by DR.. P. b.
Hoyt, Of Norwalk, Ohio. He put
up at the Depaw House in that city
in February last, in company with a
very pretty woman, whom he rep
resented to be. his wife, and two
children, aged thirteen and fifteen.
He paid his bills promptly, and
shortly afterward rented and oc-
cupied house in that city. The
woman stated that she was a, native
of Belfast, Ireland and was to have
married the Doctor, but that she
afterward decided not to do SO.
She said she was tue, wife of a
British officer who is in China, that
she came with her child to Cincin-
natl, and went into the millinery
business, and that, being sick, she
sought the attendance of the ply
sician above named; that the Doc
tors bill was more than she could
pay, and the agl cement of marriage
was accordingly made by way OF
settlement. She states that ths
Doctor has gone to Charlottesville
Ind, and that he left a wife and
five children in Norwa!k, taking one
child with him. when he left tha,
place. Jasaoa 81 aft ylz =HY.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-29
Crossing q Bayou.
BY W. H. H. MURRAY.

Vi
81 was a hunting once,'' he said,
in good Westernee which I shall
not attempt to initiate, "on this
river (the Mississippi), and I came
late in the day to a bayou. My
way lay down the river, and round
that bayou was six or seven miles,
while across it was only two or
three hundred yards. I didn't
want the walk, and l didn't want to
be debated, so I determined to try
the bayou. There was no water in
it; it was all mud,-that kind of
Shiny. greasy quick mud that holds
on to man, and slowly sucks him
down in spite Of all his strength. /
knew the danger, but I thought /
could manage it. Hunting about /
found two planks washed up from
some old fat boat, may be years
before With these started out,
stepping from one to the other,
pulling first one and then the other
from behind me and putting it
ahead, till / got to about the mid
die of the bayou. Every step | had
taken was more and more difficult.
The farther 1 went the more my
planks were sucked down by the
devilish mud, till l could stand up
no longer, hut was obliged first to
sit, and then to lie down fiat on
my stomach, to divide my weight
more equally. Hauling myself on
to the foremost, would turn round
as on pivot, grasp the plank be
hind haul it alongside, and then
shove it ahead of me. Pretty soon
had to help my hands with my
teeth, for all the strength of both
was needed to raise the planks from
the quagmire that sucked them
down. At last one of them sunk
beyond my reach. Flat on my face
on a single plank, in the middle of
the bayou, the mud rising around
me ready to swollow me up-I con
sidered. I couldn't swim ashore,
for I wasn't in the water: I couldn't t
wade, for to stand up was to go
down like plummet; to move six
inches either way was sure death.
No human aid could ever reach
me; no human creature might pass
that way for months; no house, no
road was in miles of me- My only
chance fol, life was another plank.
That I must have or lie there till
starved to death, or roll over and
make an end of it in the nasty
mud. Then I remembered my
jack knife. Getting it out of my
pocket, I cut under me, lying flat
as I was, slowly and patiently upon
the plank that long seasoning had
made almost as hard as iron, till
1 cut it in two. Then pulling my
self forward on the farther half,
drew the hindmost ahead of me
again, and SO went on as before
[ got out at last: but, stranger,
was the ugliest looking white man
when I crawled ashore that ever
you did see!' He patted his long
rifle affections tely, and added j:
.'But / never parted with err'-
] 4H0,,t;c NO1.thIu for ADrI.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-29

SAD Acc1DENT-Last Thursday a
little son of Mr.. Willoby Fenste-
maker, of Blanchard township, aged
eight years, was killed by kick of a
horse. near Benton. The boy was
riding in a wagon, when some of the
harness becoming loose he got out to
fix it, and while doing so one of the
horses knocked him down and stamp
ed on his breast. causing death in a
few moments. He was bright intel
ligent boy, and he is mourned by the
entire community. The afflicted fam
lily have our heartfelt sympathy in
this sad bereavement Co.,
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-29
Good Girl.

There is girl in Linn County.
Iowa, only sixteen years old, Of
whom the following is narrated
For six weeks of the coolest wealth
er of last winter during the sickness
of her father and mother, she at
tended, carefully and well, forty
eight sheep, seven head of horses,
twelve head of cattle and two calves
besides milking three COWS, driving
the cattle quarter of mile to wa
ter, cleaning the horse-stable, doing
the house work, and taking care of
her sick parents. .-.E
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-29
-Fhe. Tcmperanee Question.

The Cleveland Herald thus COM
ments on the proceedings Of the
late temperance convention, held at
Crestline
''1he one great question now be-
fore the nation for settlement is that
of equal political rights. The new
party, that is to wipe out of exist
ence all other parties and to reform
and regenerate the nation, was asked
to put itself on the record upon this
question-and it lodged. A reso-
luton affirming the justice of ex-
tending the right of suffrage to all
men, of whatever race or color, was
reported--and shirked. One of the
Cleveland reformers, noticeable for
his invariable effort to lug in his
peculiar idiosyncrasies without the
slightest consideration for fitness OF
time and place, "did not think it ad
visable to lug in these questions at
this convention" But the same
man never saw any impropriety of
| Juggling on his hobby at conventions
of political parties endeavoring to-
settle those questions. Another,
temperance politician, who was in,
tent on passing laws regulating peo--
pies appetites and prescribing what
should not be drank, emphatically
announced his objection to any law
allowing colored man to vote. He
could see the damnable sin of brew
ing a keg of lager beer, but saw
nothing wrong in keeping in civil
and political interiority man whose
skin vas, perhaps, a shade darker
than his own. -.-. ....,r
The question of woman suffrage
was presented to the convention,
and one of the members suggested
that the temperance cause expected
strong aid from the women. Again
the 'Ohio Temperance Party"
] ddoged. The woman question must
not be '.lugged in" The women
were to be importuned for aid to
the temperance politicians, and in
return the temperance politicians
. are to give the women. the cold
shoulder. Courageous reformers!
Chivalrous champions of the weak
and oppressed!
The handful of restless spirits
from Cuyahoga county, reinforced
with a few from two or three other
counties, who officiated in the birth
of the new party, may rest assured
that their bantling will never cut
much of a figure in the world, if it
grows up with the cowardly consti-
tuition they gave it at birth. A party
which is based on one idea only, and
which sneakingly dedges the great
issues of the day, is entitled to
neither the confidence of its friends
nor the respect of it's foes. tr
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-29
! - From sPackard's Monthly"
THE SONG.OF THEtANVIL.

THE SONGsOE THEEANV1L.
BY N. @. SHEPHERD.
Within the village snnithy
Right merrily 1 ring,
And under the stroke of the hammer
A tuneful song sing.
Red glows the wide-mouthed furnace,
The heaving bellows roar
You can hear their huge lungs painting
Outside the open door. 500
The smith is starlwart and mighty
He lifts his sledge on high, aa-
Then let it fall on the iron,
And the sparks all round him fly.
With a ready voice answer,
: And cheer him with my song: -
sing to him while he labors-
sing to him..all day long.
His arm is brawny ard powerful,
Its strength full well / know;
He strikes with an earnest purpose,
And heavily falls his blow.
The children stand in the doorway,
For they love to see Kim swing
,
His sledge across his Shoulders,
While cheerily Esing.
My voice goes out to the village;
You can hear it far away.
ASH cheer the smith in his labor
Through.all the live-long day.
With every blow from his hammer
An answering note sound,
That over again is repeated
Wherever an echo S found.
Oh, ye who are sorely smitten
By the iron hand of fate,
Abide your time in patience,
Ye have not long to wait.
oh, young man, eager and hopeful.
Oh, young man, valiant and strong,
When the blows fall fast and thickest
Make answer with a songl
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-29
Education does not CONNER

Education does, not commence
with the alphabet. It begins with
a mothers look; with fathers nod
Of appreciation, or his sign of re-
proof. with a-sister's, gentle press
ure of the, hand, or brothers no.
BILE act of forbearance with a hand
full of flowers in green and daisy
meadows with a birds nest adj
mired but not touched: with pleas
ant walks in shady lanes; and with
thoughts directed, in sweet and.
kindly tones and words, to nature,
to beauty, to acts Of benevolence,
to deeds of virtue, and to the source
of all good-to God himself!
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-29


AN old man named Charles H.
Rody, living in Hancock county,
Indiana, was shot by his son on
Saturday week. The old man kept
a woman of bad character in the
house, with whom both were Grim
inally intimate The father finding
it out. ordered his son out of the
house, and refusing he attempted to
force him out. A scuffie ensued, in
which the young man picked up
a shot gun and fired one barrel at
his father, the contents taking ef-
feet in the groins and intestines,-
causing fatal wound. The young
man fled and had not Eeen7 heard
from at last accounts. Ef- --z-
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-29

WHEN the pledge was being cir
culated in temperance meeting, a
decidedly inebriated individual pre-
sented himself and offered his sig
nature. The Chairman remarked,
"This is very important step, my
friend, and I trust you realize the
responsibility you are assuming
"Oh, I can stand the (hic) 'sponsi-
bility," was the response; "Ive
done it lots oftimes before r., .,-.-
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-29
THE Sorinofield s(@Mass ! Renubk

THE Springfield -Mass. Rei,ubh-
can prints the following item 1.-The
Chicagoans who sent a girl seven
years old, from that city TO this,
unprotected, may be glad to know
that she. arrived yesterday, by
Conductor RusselPs train from
Albany, with only twenty cents and
the last coupon OF a through ticket
in her pocket"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-29
THE rt,lino nassion

THE ruling passion was recently
exhibited in a remarkable manner,
on the occasion of a funeral An
old lady had lost her husband, and
on the day of the funeral her neigh.
bors were somewhat tardy in ap-
pearing at the solemnities. "Nab.
by" said she, 'shand me my knit
ting; I might as well he taking a
few stitches while the gathering is
taking place." ef.3 q.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-29

New YORK has Prince of Bour-
bon among her. Chicago, may be
little behind hand in the way Of
Princes, but she has q good many
judges of Bourbon. et --.