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The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-11-04
Marvellous Chicken Tale.


We learn that a singular and
very amusing accident hap.
pened to the chickens of a Mrs.
Hamilton, near Pottersvilie,
Upton County, Tennessee, q
lew days ago. Her husband
bought a bottle of brandy
cherries. After eating the
cherries the seeds we're thrown
out, which the chickens ate
greedily. In a short time Mrs.
Hamilton found that all her
chickens were dead. Che told
an old negro woman that she
might pick the chickens.
which she did readily. After
picking of the feathers she
carried the chickens out and
threw them away. Night
came on; Mrs. Hamilton was
sorely grieved at her loss
Sleep soon swept away her
troubles. B At early dawn she
was alarmed at hearing old
chanticleer Growing loudly,
and the hens cackling. Judge
her surprise when, on opening
the door and looking out, .she
saw every hen and rooster,
young and old, grave and gay.
marching round eyeing each
other with suspicion, many OF
them entirely naked, while
only a few had wing and tai!
feathers. The cherry seed
made them adead drnnkA.
..Nempais appeal. - ! -
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Putting up StOves-A Seasona.
.., bic Subject. .

Putting up StOves-A Seasona-
..' .. bic Subject.
We do not remember the
exact date of the invention Of
stoves; but it was several years
ago. Since then mankind
have been tormented, once a
year, by the difficulties that
beset the task of putting them
up, and getting the pipes
"fixed.' With all our Yankee
ingenuity, no American has
ever invented any method by
which the labor Of putting up
a stove can be lessened. The
job is now almost as severe
and vexatious as humanity
can possibly endure.
Men always put up their
stoves on a rainy day. Why
We know not; but we never
heard of an exception to the
rule. The first step to be ta'
ken is 10 put on very old and
ragged coat, under tho impres.
sion that when the operator
gets his mouth full of plaster
it will keep his shirt bosom
clean. Next he gets his hand
inside the place where the pipe
ought to go, and blacks bis
ingers; then he carefully
makes a black mark down one
side of his nose. Having goI
his face properly marked, the
victim--usually "Paterfamil.
s"-is ready to begin the
ceremony. ".2
The "head Of the family
grasps one side Of the bottom
of the stove, and his wife and
the hired girl takes hold o
the other side. In this way
the stove is started from the
wood.shed toward the parlor
Going through the door, the
chief operator carefully swings
his side of the stove around
and jams his thumb nail
against the door.post. Having
got the s'fsmily comfort" in
place, the next thing is to find
the legs. Two OF these are
left inside the stove since the
spring before. The other two
must be hunted after for TWEEN,
tylflve, minutes. They are
usually found under the coal.
! Then the ehead Of tho family
.emeH 'anll- o. ra,l'na
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IFrom the Oxford, Butler Co.. o.,
Citizen.

lFrom the Oxford, Butler Co., o.,
Citizen.
DIR. G. w. ROBACK,
having made himself
a name i'm the world,
by his great Scan
dinavian Remedies,
will again distin-
gushing himself by
the results of his eel.
ebrated "StOmach
Bitters," /" which he
is now introducing.
These Bitters are not
of the kind that now
flood the country,
made up of poisonous
liquors, spices, &C.,
but contain medical
properties, though
not unpleasant to the
taste. They are cal
culated to- purify
the blood, and to
strengthen and re-
store a weak cOnsti-
tuition to it's natural
state. We freely
recommend this new
article to our read
ers. For sale at
McGraw &Richey's.
October II, 1861. 10
N%Office and manufac-
tory, Nos. 56, So, go and 62
East Third Street,
.@ Cincinnati O.
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HARDWARE.

uMe now on hand large stock Of dry G..
IL gars. Several choice brands La Rose,
Clear Havana, |. x. L., No. A.Slug Brand, Ma.
Eeppa, &C., and the finest brands Of chewing
md moxng tobacco known throughout the
United states. Wholesale Prices reduced on
all kinds OF Tobacco and Cigars. mchl9yl.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-11-04
\ HTI For the Record
Trees and Shrubs of Ohio.
BY REV. @. II. WARREN.

WHITE BEEcH.- FdOus eyltdtca.]
This elegant, compact and lof.
ty tree, with pretty grayish bark
and beautifully divided spray,
is quite a common inhabitant
of the woods in all temperate
climates. 1t is abundant in
the United States, being found
eongregated in vast quantities,
where the soil is most favora.
BILE; hundreds and even thou.
sands of acres are sometimes
covered with this single kind
Of timber. Such extended
tracts are generally known as
Beech woods. The leaves are
oblcng ovate, accuminate, more
or less tentate; they are re-
markably thin in texture,
glazed and shining on the up
per surface, and are TO thickly
placed on the multiplied
branches that they create the
darkest and most dense shade
of any of the deciduous trees oil
our widely extended forest.
TIE nut is compressed, small,
oily and sweet, and has been,
and still is, greatly esteemed
as an article offood. In France
immense quantities of nuts Of
the beech are collected annu-
ally for oil man uiacturing.
They are reduced, when per-
fectly ripe to a fine paste,
when the oil is extracted by
gradual pressure. The amount
of oil produced, compared with
the crushed nuts is about six
teen per cent, and in quality
is sweet End palatable, equal
ing the best olive oil, and il
used by the people instead o
butter. The wood is hard aht
rather brittle, being Of grea
utility to cabinet makers ant
turner's. Carpenters plane,
and many other articles arr
made of it. Beech trees en-
duro pruning quite we'll, an,
may, it desired, be so trained
as to form lofty hedges, whicl
must be of great value as
shelter from the cold, rushing
winds of winter, since the fadet
leaves remain all the season
In the vast prairies of the West
they might be advantageous,
employed to screen orchards
and fields generally from those
piercing winds so prevalent
and to create fences, whicl
may be accomplished by twist
ing the smaller branches close
ly together and SO forming
strong solid fence. MuSf
might be said in favor OF thi.
charming tree as an ornamen
tai object. 1t is quite hand
some and even graceful when
young, and when large it forms
one of the heaviest and grand
est Of beautiful park trees. The
.sog9 E.gEl a3gf9fo .si'tW
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ADVERTIsING TERMS,

II. Iucftlt'Utk w AlNtFIlstThtr
holds up one side Of the stove
while his wife puts two Of the
legs il place, and next he holds
up the otherside while the 9th.
er two are tixNd, and one Of
the first two falls out. BY the
time the stove is on its
legs he gets reckless, and takes
off his old coat, regardless Of
his linen. .s
sPaterfamilias" then goes
for the pipe. and gets two Gin.
ders in his eye. 1t don't make
any difference how well the
pipe was put up last year, 1t
will always be found 0 little
too short or a little too long,
The "head OF the family" jams
his hat over his eyes, and taxi
ing a pipe under each arm
goes to the tin. shop to have il
fixed. When he gets back, he
steps upon one Of the best par
lor chairs to see if the pipe
fits, and his wife makes him
get down for fear he will
scratch the varnish off from
the chair with the nails IN his
boot heel. In getting down,
he will surely step on the cat,
and may thank his stars that it
is not the baby. Then he gets
an old chair and climbs up to
the chimney again, 10 find that
in cutting the pipe of, the end
has been left too big for the
hole in the chimney. So he
goes to the wood shed and
splits one side of the end OF
the pipe with an old ak, and
squeezes it in his hands to
make it smaller.
The chief operator at length
gets the pipe in shape and
finds that the stove does not
stand true. Then himself and
his wife and the hired girl
move the stove to the left, and
the legs fall out again. Next
it ia to be moved to the right.
More difficulty now with the
legs. Moved to the front q
little. Elbow not even with
! the hole in the chimney, and
tue "head Of the family" goes
again to the wood.shed after
some little blocks. While put!
ting the blocks under the legs,
the pipe comes out of the chin.
ney. That remedied, the elbow
keeps tipping over, to the
great alarm of tie wife," "Pat.
erfamilias' gets the dinner-ta.
BILE out, puts the old chair on
it, makes his wife take hold Of
the chair, and balances HIM
, self on il to drive some nails
5 into the ceiling; but in dong
this he drops the hammer OH
? his wife's head. AT last he
3 gets the nails driven, makes n
> wire swing to hold the pipe,
7 hammers a little here, pulls .
little there, takes q long breath,
+ and announces the ceremony
concluded.
r Job never put up any stoves.
1t would have ruined his repu
tation if he had. The above
), programme, with unimportanI
q variations, will be carried ouj
J. in many respectable families
r during the next six weeks,-
TLso, fN Vl Horo11
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Cnn Marry.


~ CAN I Marry. y I
This is a question my young
friends working for moderate
salary, have often asked me.
Having passed the nervous
point Of faproposing," they were
worrying over the supposed to
he necessary delay in calling
the ministers services into re,
QUESTION a fear lest their in.
come is insufficient for support.
ing a home. From a know-
ledge of the doubts entertained
BY many Of my young friends,
and that there are hundreds
similarly situated / write this
for their encouragement.
First, have you a good share of
pluck. Next, is your "gentle
Annie" also willing to make
the best of present circumstan.
cess "Yes." Then it 10 safe
for you to marry on even a
small salary. Many times you
will have to forego some little
luxury that you have come TO
look on as a necessity, but you
will lie surprised to find how
little you need if you boldly
set about living economically.
The best of advice is less to be
regarded, perhaps than a prac'
tical example; therefore, let ME
give you some figures that l
have at hand from friend who
got married on a salary Of
eight hIndred dollars.
Boarding he had already had
enough of, and besides, he
wanted to feel free to invite a
friend to take a meal with him.
self and wife occasionally and
spend the evening.
Rents were very high, but he
took four rooms on the second
floor of a cottage in an adjoin>
ing city, as it was cheaper than
in New York. He paid 5000 a
year, and used one for parlor,
one for kitchen, one for regular
bedroom and one for ''guest
chamber" r0H"oJ a' .Hrr
In the parlor was tete.a-tete
costing SIS; six rush.seat cot
tage chairs, $13; table S6; clock
$3.50; whatnot S3. lnthe bed.
room, two wash.stsnds, SIS and
So. four walnut chairs $S; two
bedsteads, $3.50 and So; crock
cry, 81. In the Kitchen, one
rocking chair, $3.50; four oak
chars, $7.25; table Sc; stove
and fixtures $40; carving set
/ 50 so; dinner and tea knives
1 $4.25; woodenware, $22; crock
cry, S25; the carpets cos
Sl0S.44; the curtains ant
shades, Ss; making total cos'
for furnishing completely, ir
comfort, too, S29o.94, He hat
saved up only $3.50; so you see
his capital was almost gone
but instead of taking a"weddins
trip" he used the money thai
| itlwould have cost in laying il
a small stock of groceries
! Markets being handy, he
bought in small quantities, tol
it is better for a young couple
to buy thus, even though you
pay a little more, than run the
frisk of food growing stale oil
spelling ON your hands. New
er get trusted, and you will
find the dealer will serve yor
well. He gave his wife six
dollars a week to supply the
table, and sho managed it adj
mirably. And here let me
whisper q thing for you to re-
membeT A wife that is in
clined to be a helplaate will al
ways do better for you if voc
The Southern eagle., 1869-07-10
FEDERAL. OFFICERS TURNED
SPIES AND INFORMERs.
1t isa not much>to be- wondered at

II isa not much >to- be wondered at
fac. that nearly all Of the men en-
ployed at high wages, by the Spanish
Consul at New York, to play the
parts of spies and informers upon the
Cuban cxpeditionists, are reported by
the New York journals to be odistin,
guished ox-oilicers of the Federal
army !" Their method is, to obtain.
or write for themselves, letters of in
PRODUCTION to the friends of the Gu,
bAn cause, representing themselves to
be desirous of joining any expedition
that may be going to Cuba; ard thus
gaining the confidence Of the Cuban
Junta and its expeditionary leaders,
they have. in some instances received
details, the base betrayal of which,
led to some of the recent arrests.
Such unblushing trcachery, such in
famous perfdy-all for little gain. -
was never heard of among the officers
of any service claiming to be honor
able before. But what is there
that Yankee officer, ef any
grade, or, at least majority of
them, will not do for personal gain or
And, as for these
New York spies and informers, are
they not following out the example
set them by their greatest military
chieftain,a a year or two ago, in the af-
fair with johnson aud Stanton? Be
sides, have they not the example Of
Mai. General Butler, and Brigadier
General Baker and several other
General officers, in all branches of the
service, to keep them in countenance ?
The Southern eagle., 1869-07-10
Southern Intolerance

Some respectable Northern Repub-
can Journals complain Of What ihes
call aSouIhern Intolerance " Those
Journals certaiRly do mot 5.sow Of
what sort Of materials the ultra Rad
ical wing Of their party is made mp,
here in the South. Would they have
US, who profess to be honest, decent
men, tolerate the worst thieves, rob
bers, scoundrels and assassins that
walk the earth unhung?. Look at
the leaders and representatives of that
section of their party in Alabama,
Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Louisiana, and we presume every
Southern State, and they will find
that three out of every four of them
are men of the most disreputable and
abandoned character; many of them
escaped convicts and ''jail-birds" of
every feather to be seen in conver,
sation or friendly intercourse with
whom, is to lose caste with all respects
able men.
And these are the men our spious
Northern brethren would have us
take by the hand, tolerate, /" and not
turn up our noses at, when we meet
them at the portals Of social inter>
course We beg to be excused: and
tosay to those who ask it, ''if we
thought you knew the true character
of those men, we should have no re-
spect for you !"
Look at the "Forty Thieves" who
compose both wings Of the white Rad
zeal Party in Memphis. Is it possi~
bic that the decent men of the Repub-
lican Party of the North have not
heard of those cormormt rogues who
having fallen out among themselves
have each giyen correct portrait Of
the other
It ia enough to make one despair
Of his country to see those infamous
rogues petted and appointed to Office
! by the President, and by Gov. Gen
] Ames in this State We can hardly
believe that Grant knows the char.
acter of some of his appointees. Al
for Ames,lt would seem that, in many
instances, he has specially preferred
the biggest rogues he could find
According TO the Memphis papers
be has gene to that city and ever
over into Arkansas, to get some o
the worst ''cases'possible to infiict, a
officers, on our adjacent County Of Ii
Fayette.
The Southern eagle., 1869-07-10
Gen. Forrest.

The Rome, Ga, Commercial, when
making note Of a flying visit of Gen.
N. B, Forrest to that place last week
says There is no man on the cons
tinent cur citizens would be more
pleased to entertain than Gen. For>
rest, = s. Long may he live to wear
the honors he won in the late war, and
especially by his capture of Streighst'
l400 bully boys with 250 worn out,
half starved, ragged rebels All the
boy babies in this section were named
Forrest in honor Of the man who
saved Rome from the Vandals on that
memorable OCCASION
The Commercial also says that Gen.
Forrest has project on foot to Sc
cure 1000 Cinnamon to work ON his
Selma, Marion and Memphis Road. I"
II - heliero1 that Railroads can be
bun win Chinese laDor,-at lruif the
usual expense.
The Southern eagle., 1869-07-10
WontHous Liberality.
Mr.. Geo. Peabody has just written
; letter to the Trustees Of the SoJ.he

Mr.. Geo. Peabody has just written
a letter to the Trustees Of the SoJ.h.
ern Educational Fund, donating an
addition of$1, 300, 900 in bonds 10
that Fund In that letter he saS'
he hopes the annual income Of he
fund may be found sufficient to i
and extend the work so well -
Ii is his des re when the work is clesss
and the final distribution made, that
the fourteen Southern States, incIsG
ing Maryland, Kentucky, Missour.
and Texas, shall share in that distri-
button according to their needs. Th-
present gift, added to the original
sum of one million, given by his FIRST leA,
ter of trust, which is still intact, make
an annual revenue Of trust of upwsr'a
Of one hundred and thirty thousai&I
dollars. Mr.. Peabody proposes ~
continue devoting the greater part Of
the fund to the same States which
have received the benefits for thePast
two years, with, perhaps, the ad3jtiop
ofTexas. M
Among the bonds, included IN ~
additional gift, are S19, 900 touisianE'
skies, SO, 200 New Orleans NY sixss,
S35, 900 Mobile city fives, $1,000
Alabama fves, $4,000 Louisiana
consolidated bank fves, all first.slassl
securities, with dividends certai.
be paid. In addition, he giNs
Florida six per cent. bonds, ,whicb bfsith
the over due coupons, aGdoun to
about 1884,, 900. These last like Be
Mississippi bonds, will REQUIRE mskJ'
years for payment.
The Southern eagle., 1869-07-10
aea- Ex- President johnson having


esa- x-President johnson having
lately gone to Washington City, and
while there indulgcd in great deal
of the roundest and most unqualified
personal denunciation of President
Grant, the Paducah Kentuchian pro-
poses that the two great men--s'the
President and the FIX proceed at
once to Niagara Falls and there on
foreign ground, fshtit out to the ut
terancel We second the motion
and we have no doubt whatever, if the
vote could be properly taken, that
said amotion would be. carried by a
majority OF millions Of the American
people. OF such stuff is certain
kind of popularity lit don't wear
we'll.
The Southern eagle., 1869-07-10
News from Beyond seas.
The Chinese Imnc,;,,;s,s h.v.

The Chinese Impcrialists have Just
gained a decisive battle over the Ma.
hommedan rebels of that Empire, who,
up to that time, had made consldera>
bic headway. The Mahommedan
loss was 10000. The Chinese have
just been Offering further insults and
indignities to Foreigners at Canton
thus courtmg another castigation at
the hands Of The "Western Barbar,
ians.n
In Japan, civil war has broken out
afresh, and heavy fighting was antici-
pated. We don't know how it was
before their ports were opened up to
foreign trade and intercourse, but,
ever since that event was consumma>
ted at the mouths of English aud
American cannon, the Japanese have
been spasmodically bat almost contin-
ually fighting among themselves.
In Western Europe, the great and
little powers are believed TO be still
moving fatefully on to the brink of
mighty war. The Italians seem not
to know what to do with "liberty
and independence now they have
got them, or the semblanee of them,
in the shape of a constitutional mon
archy. Ardently desiring Rome for
their capital city, and the.eonsequent
abolition of the temporal power of
the Pope, they are too impatient to
wait till the apple gets ripe of itself
and falls into their hauds, as it will,
if they will only "hold still"
Spain is still in the throes of
smothered unfinished revolution. A
majority having decided on consti-
tutlonal monarchy, they are, never
theless, unable, it would SCENT to find
a suitable man, of "royal strain to
begin with. France is quiet again,
but the Emperor is evidently prepa-
ring for the worst; reviewing his ar
my, and going about making "spread
eagle" speeches to the troops, at the
great camp at Chalons and else
where,-and, in all ways, doing all
he can to make himself and his heir
popular with the mep who bear up
the Empire ON the points of their
bayonets.
Germany, having saecumbcd to the
arts of Bismarck and sold out to
Prussia, is ruled by that power
with more than imperial sway
at least, more than German imperial
sway.
IN England the Irish Church Dis
establishment Bill hangs fire in the
House Of Lenss-la q motion having
just passed that body postponing its
further consideraf ton for year. Ac-
cording to the public journals, how
ever, the bill will pot wait that long,
but,like the "Ref9am Bill, in Macau-
ay's time, WY pass iteif, either
hsoetyR or oeer Mat House
The Southern eagle., 1869-07-10
The sabbath Day Question.

The atten ton of the general rcadr,
and especially of our professional
brethren, is respectfully directes TO
our second article on this great ques-
ton, on the preceding page, If the
gentlemen Of the press agree y rs,
on this subject, will they j
favor to say SO, and so help to
ball in motion2 Or if they dc
agree with us,will they not speak outY
We are curious to see what can he
said on the other side.
The Southern eagle., 1869-07-10

Our TRUE Policy Referring to
Mississippi politics, in . strainsof high
compliment to the people Of the State,
the New Orleans Picayuae gives ut
terance to great truth, which may
be pondered with profit by the Con-
servatives of every Southern State.
1t is substantially as follows 1.-THE
negro is a voter beyond remedy and
you must see to it that he is your
friend, or else, make up your minds to
be ruled BY carpet-baggery and seal
awagism, forever. Here in Missis-
sippi, majority Of The colored people
are with us we must make sure that
they continue with us. A word to
the wise, is sufficient
The Southern eagle., 1869-07-10
nea- The Democrats of Califor.i,

nea- The Democrats of California,
in their State Convention, the othd1
day, rather "travtlcd ou. of the rex
cord, it seems to us, to approve the
Senate's rejection of the "Alahams
claims" Treaty. 1t will not be long
in our opinion, before the Senate III
self will repent, in sack~cloth and
ashes, its rejection Of that Treaty,
Grant and his Cabinet" it seeneth I'd
a man up a tree" are already on the
stool Of repentance. At any rate
Summers blood and thunder tsster
of a speech, has been Indignantly and
unanimously disavowed.
The Southern eagle., 1869-07-10
ma uThe Moderate Republic

pA- aThe Moderate Republicsp
Party" in Mississippi, arc = set d
very clever fellows, indeed; but sene-
how, or other, all Of them, TO ! na1,
seem to want office, and are determiped
to have, it, at any aud every -
Gentlemen, couldn't you btin
minds down to fair pro rdts
with those who will have 70 DO
four iiftls Of the voting the
'seryatives--taking the last elect
as o criterion !?
The Southern eagle., 1869-07-10

nsa- Cincinnati has just voted TIN
MILLIONS toward building Railrosd
from that city to Chattanooga. NE
vote was 15,4O0 to 1900. 'fhs u
the wisest, most economical thiax
that city ever did. We have always
heard that vast majority Of ~
leading and most intelligent peoplS
were intelligent, patriotic, Cons
vatiyes, and in sympathy with
South; and now, we are pretty .sust
she has not been misrepxassnted.
The Southern eagle., 1869-07-10

HuRRAH Bring out the big gu,l
and fire off their biggest chwges &
Walker, the Conservative Repablic9'
was, on the 9th July, elected Gover,br
of Virginia! The Conservatives cairAd
the old State certain. Thousands up|n
thousands Of colored folks voted tlls
Conservative ticket, without the lcas
molestation from TIE Radicals.
may it and 50 itsaaH
sippi.
The Southern eagle., 1869-07-10

p6- The Indians, on the frontier
Of Texas, during the past month or
Two, have killed more people, and
stolen or destroyed more property,
thaa they ever did before in the same
hsgth Of time. So say the Texas
newspapers; which also charge, that
ID i the legitimate result Of the
'casy policy Of 'ha'f,cracked Gen.
sherman, who has removed the troops
from the borders, and scattered them
|Ossr the plains.