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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-11-03

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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-10
A GOOD CITIZEN.

He is good citizen who Obeys the
laws, adds something to the intelli-
gence, the morals, the mental interests
or the security of the State or the COM
munity of which he is a member. II
a teacher, a preacher, or a labOreT, a
designer, inventor, author, or an ar
tiSt, he entities himself to the graft
tude of all who are benefited by his
useful devices. He is not n good or
useful citizen who lives on the earn
ings of others without any personal
eXertiOn on his own part. That lazy
or indOlent man who says 1.-THE world
owes me n living,n is in error. On
the contrary, he owes the world his
hest efforts,-all his time, and all his
energies. IF he give these in full
measure, he will simply entitle him
self to life, liberty, and the pursuit o
happiness. Every drOne in the hu-
man hive who consumes without pro-
ducing is simply a rObber. On him
the law of EQUIVALENTS should be
visited. "He who will not work, nGi-
would not put feeble women and
young ehildred to hard service. These
should be favored by the strong and
the robust. And, indeed. such have
their part to fill! But we insist thai
every able-bOdied man shall do hi
share toward providing for his own
wants.
He is not a good citizen who cheats.
deceives, and thwartS the will of hon
est people. He is a shame and dis
grace who descends to a lower level
than the brute, and perrerts his body
and mind.
He is the best citizen who comes
nearest to filling all the requirements
of man. Ifa good husband, father,
neighbOr, and friend; if industrious,
temperate, and free from bad habits:
if intelligent, honest, and religious,
he will be respected and trusted by
men, and accepted by his Creator.
Good citizenship is not difficult. 1t
is easier and far more pleasant to be
this than to becOmea criminal, n vaga-
bond or q pauper. 1t is just rs easy rs
it is to live a virtuOus life-Or to hold
the appetite and the passions subject
to reason and common sense. But il
one is so weak that he can not deny
his craving for alcoholic stimulants,
for tobacco, or for opium, then he Is
poor slave. and must remain in his
chains. But to a manly man, God
loving and GOd-fearing man, such a
miserable plea as cant help it, " must
be most humiliating. A true man,
with all his faculties in healthy ac-
ton. and a subject of grace besides,
having the promise of divine assist
anee and of immortal life, will stand
erect, and in the majesty of noble
nature answer to the name of true
citizen, ''the noblest work of GOd."-
PhreR. Journal
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-10
A MIIionaire Made a Beggar.

4 correspondent of the Cincinnati
Times, in a recent letter from Omaha,
gives the following strange story /:
There are many strange reverses in
this western life. There is at present
stopping at this hotel a gentleman
named Fenners, originally from
Rochester, New York, who owns
extensive mill and mining property
i'm Mexico, where he has been for sew
eIRl years. His property there is so
extensive that when a freshet swept
away 81 900, 900 worth of il last spring,
he could afford to laugh at it. In
September last desiring to spend the
winter East, he made up a train of
several wagons, and with one AmeTi-
can and seventeen Mexican greasers
he started for Omaha through Kansas.
In about the center of Kansas. some
thirty miles west of Fort Dodge, his
train was attacked by a body of 600
Indians. Unable to depend upon the
gTeasers to fight, the two Americans,
who were mounted on swift horses,
rode through the line of Indians and
escaped. Fenners was shot through
the left breast, from the effects of
which he has not recovered. The In
dians then burned his train, which
was worth $50, 600, one-half of it being
in money in Fenners' trunk. They
killed nine of the greasers, and the
remainder escaped.
IN IIiis manner Fenners lost all ne
had along except fifteen dollars in his
vest pocket. He rode to Fort Dodge
and remained for some time in the
hospital, at length making his way
home penniless. He knows no one
in this region, and no one knew him.
He had sent to Santa Fe to his agent
for money, but is is long way there,
and communication is uncertain.
Luckily, the other day he met Gen.
eTal Vaughn, who knew him in Santa
Fe, and who, on hearing of his mis-
fortune, relieved his immediate wants.
He told the General that he had been
five days in Omaha without food, and
had either walked the streets at night
or slept in sheds no money to get
food or lodging, and unable to get
work such as his feeble condition
would allow him to do, and too proud
to beg. There was a man of great
wealth at home in far distant New
Mexico, reduced to beggary for the
time by Indian malignity. He is
man of intelligence and education,
first-rate civil engineer, has served in
the United States army, and is famil-
lar with every portion of the West
clear to the Pacific. Vaughn interes-
ted friends in his behalf, and he will
come out all right.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-10
Peruvian WOmen-FashiORS and
Habits.

A Lima correspondent of the New
York Times writes: The real PERU
vian families rich, stylish, and ele-
gantly dressed, with their servants to
follow them and carry all their shop
ping purchases, are as great patrons
of these little native messes as are
their humber ChOlO neigh5Ors. l
have seen them buy these spicy red
hot dishes, and eat them with their
jeweled fingers as enjoyable as their
less refined blacker sisters. One thing
| have noticed that strikes every for
eigner with disgust, and proves con-
clusively that the Peruvian, though
by position and birth 4 lady, has not
the innate refinement of American or
English women. \ Peruvian woman.
or young lady, even if her family be
among the most aristOcratic and veal
thy, habitually spits upon the floor,
or in the street the same as a man
from tile constant use of cigarettes
Then again, let her be eversO elegant
ly dressed, her dress of MORE, her
manta the finest of Thibet, and coy
cred with silk embroidery, and bor-
dcred with the richest real GuiDure
lace, her fingers fairly covered with
diamonds of great value and immense
size her diamond earrings and the
brooch that faStens her manta TO her
forehead, of the purest water-I have
repeatedly seen them reject the ele-
gantly-embTOidered lace handker-
chief, which hangs from their fingers,
and use an old dirty red or yellow silk
bandana, in the cOarsest manner Dos
sible, thrusting it back again, an un-
slightly roll or rag, into the pocket OF
the lovely mauve or amber silk dress.
All their habits, such as picking their
teeth and eating with their fingers.
are very dirty, and indicate a total
lack of inbred refinement, and also
an inherited, careless disregard Of the
little niceties of life, from their cid
Inca prOgenitOrs.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-10
WHOLE NO. 1882
Morning Dreams.

There are pretty sun-risings, as we
are told, and such like gauds, abroad
in the world, in summer time, espe-
cially, which a gentleman may see,
as they say, for getting up. We hold
the good hours of the dawn too sacred
tOwaste upon such Observances, which
have in them beside, something pa
gan and Persian. 1t is tiattering to
get the start of lazy world; to con-
duer death by proxy in his image;
but the seeds of sleep are in US ; there
fore, while the busy part of mankind
are fast huddling on their clothes, are
already up and about their occupation,
content to have swallowed their sleep
by wholesale, we choose to inger u
bed and digest our dreams. We love
to chew the cud of foreign vision
to collect the scattered rays of bright
phantasm, or act over again, with fir-
mer nerves, the nocturnal tragedies;
to drag into daylight a struggling and
half vanished nightmare; to handle
and examine the terrors of the airy
sOlace. We cherish dreams, we try to
spell in them the alphabet of the in
visible world; and think we know
already how it will be with US. Those
uncouth shapes, which, while We
cling to flesh and blood, affrighten US,
have become familiar; we feel attenua-
ted into their meagre essences, and
have given the band of halfway ap-
prOach to incorporated being. We
once thought life to be something, but
it has unaccountably fallen away be-
fore its time. Therefore we choose to
daily with vision. The sun has no
purposes of ours to light US tO-Why
should we get up.-ChdTtes LaDa6.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-10

EFFECT OF SORROw.-Life has long
years; many pleasures it has to give
in return for many which are taken
away; and while our ears can receive
the sound of revelry, and our eyes are
sensible of pleasant sights, and our
bodies are conscious of strength We
deem we live; but there is an hour in
the lives of all when the heart dies :;
an hour unheeded, but after which we
have no real life, whether it perish in
the agony of some cOnquering passion,
or die weaTily of sorrow; an hour
which they may strive to trace, who
say: 'Ay, | remember | thought and
felt differe IT them was mere boy
1 shall never feel the same again ~ an
hour when the cord is snapped and
the chain broken, on which depended
the harmony of existence. Shout,
little children! shout and clap YOUR
hands with sudden jOyI send out the
sound of ringing laughter over the
face of the green blossomed earth !
From you the angel hath not vet de
Parted; in your hearts linger still the
emenations from the Creator-perfect
joy.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-10
France and the Tnited States.

The annual expenses of Great Brit
ain, with its debt funded at three per
cent. are $3.50, ,OO0, 600; those OF France
are, at the very least, 800, ,OOO, 900.
Each power is spending at this mo-
ment about twice as much as We
spend, while the principal of the
French debt is quite as large as ours
and that of the English 60 per cent.
larger. Yet the English three per
cents are at "a, the French three per
cents. at j9I, while our six per cents
are hardly 75. Compare for example
the respective positions of those two
great countries, the French empire
and the American Union. France
has a somewhat less numerous pOpu-
latiOn than that of this UniOn-say
thirty-eight millions. The latest and
most trustworthy statisticians COM
pute the yearly product of the empire
at twenty millions of francs-say
S40O, 900, 900. or exactly what was the
estimate of our production a few
wears ago. The sum total of her debt
is Just equal to ours. Her yearly
budget is more than double our own.
How are these four hundred annual
millions of dollars spent? Thanks to
the superior credit enjoyed by the
empire over that of the Union, the
interest on her debt is but SOS, 600, 900,
gold. This leaving her $3.50, GOO, 900.
And how does she spend these 1888, :
900, 900? The army and navy take
each year in time OF peace-the iron
clad peace, which is all Europe ever
knows-abOut $40, 0,000,0 900. The esti-
mates for the current wear of the
United States Government for the
army and navy together are S57, ,G0O,-
600 in currency; equal to SAC, ,OOO,OO
in gold, or 500, 600, 600 less than those
of France. LOtLrOp Motley.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-10
MiSerieS Of a Washington Clerkship.
From the Detroit Free Press.l

Washington is a great big pauper
house for young clerks, anxious to
grow gray in the positions they hold,
because they have become untitled
for anything else. They have lost
their individuality at home where
they might have had ambition, and
they are simple menials here. At
first they meet the member of Con-
gress from their district with ''gOod
morning." feeling that they are of
some Importance, as they had helped
to elect him to Congress, but this
soon wears of, as the member soon
learns that they have no longer in
fluence at hOme-that they are in
banishment-and they gradually learn
that they are only expected to touch
their hat 10 the member, for he is all
powerful TO keep them in the places
they hold. Their ambition and pride
soon lower them, for once clerk
never above a clerk here. In little
while a new member appears from
the district, and the clerk is not even
recognized. If he retains his place,
for which there are always new
score of applicants, sympathy keeps
him, or he is accidentally overlooked.
If he lOOses it, and has saved enough,
and gets back to his old home, he
finds he sis played''-he has not pro-
gressed with the age-his old associ-
ates are in prosperous business and he
is a pauper, with no show for
employment. There are scores here
who have lost their places and are
ready to do any kind of work for a
living, having toiled, some of them,
for months and years to get out of
debt and save money enough to get
home-fOr they will continue to call
the place they originally came from
home; yet they would be strangers if
they could get there.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-10
4 Lost IriShman Among the Sandwich
Islanders.

4 gentleman residing in Hawaii
tells n very amusing story of an ad-
venture which he met with. We can
not hope to reproduce it in print with
the same effect as when related by the
gentleman, who IS noted for his
talent in storytelling. One day
while riding through the woods on
the hither side of the Wailuku, in
Hilo, suddenly q ''live Irishman"
bounded out from the bush into the
road, startling both our friend and his
horse. He had n short stick on his
shoulder to which was suspended a
bundle. Touching his hat to the
gentleman, he inquired, in a rich
brngue, "Arrah, SUR, can We tell me
the road to Leemeriah? ?" "To
where ?' ''TO Leemeriah, surr, sure"
Don't know such a place" "Ah,
sure, an it's the place over here some
where, where the shape faTrum is OF
Mr.. s" "Oh, you mean Lehu, at
Waimea.n "Nis, that's it, bedad !;
Leemeriah." Well, you are a long
way from there, but you are on the
right road. Where did you come
from ?" Its from Hanaluiy l came
in the sthamer, and they tOuld me I'd
better get Off a piece down beyant
here" "Kawaihae, l suppose
'Thrue for you, but sOrra a one o. me
knows. But ye see surr, / don't like
to go far a-fut, and so l stuck abord
the sthamer until | went ashore
yesterday at the Town jist over the
river. Last night l slept at a hut
wild a parcel of nagers, and they gave
me some puddin for me supper-the
kind We ate with yer fingers. In the
mOrnin' divil clint had to pay 'em.
so started bright and early. 1t was
soon ! heard the nageTs a hOwlin'
and a shOutin' after me, and ME heart
cum into me mouth, an thought Of
poor Captain Cook an so l hid my
self in the bush. But can ye direct
me the way to Leemeriah, surr, an
I'll be obliged to ye?" Our friend
repeated that if he would follow the
road before him, he would eventually
bring up in Waimea, at the ''shape
farrum," and told him he need be
under no apprehension of ill-treat-
ment from the "nagers,n - as he rather
ignOrantly termed the Hawaiians.
The idea of n man going to Hilo,
instead of landing at Kawaihae, be-
cause he ''didn't like to go far a-fut"
to get to Waimea, is richly Irish.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-10

4 PRINTER ANECDOTE.-TheN New
York HdH tells a story of n man who
presented himself at the door of the
composing room of the Nail office, in
n state of great excitement and asked:
ais Joseph d. jackson here?" The
party named was engaged in setting
up editorial. The excited party con-
tinucd. Your house is burned up
and everything in it." With a cool
devotion to his duty which will bear
comparison with the most brilliant
historical examples, Mr.. Jackson con-
tinued to pick up type. Il tell you
YOUR house is burned up and every
thing in it." exclaimed the now as
tonished as we'll as excited stranger.
"WelI-all right''--answered Mr..
johnson. ''I can't leave nOw-Ill
come round when the paper goes to
press"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-10
CHERRIES SALE


- The State OF Ohio Trumbull County, IS.
fialsa Clark, VS. Thomas BigginS and Jo-
seph Paden. In Trumbull Common Pleas.
by virtue of an order of sale issued out of
the Court of Common Pleas, of Trumbull
County. Ohio, in the above named case, to
me directed and delivered, 1 shall expose TO
public sale at the south door of the Court
House, in the city of Warren, in said County,
on Saturday. the 9th day Of February. A. d..
1853. between the hours of two and four "a
O'Clock, p. m, Of said day, the following deS-
crlbed real estate, tO-wit: Situate in the
Township Of Vernon, and being in lot six
and bounded north by lands now owned by
Andrew MOrfOrd. commencing at the south
east corner Of said MOrfOrd's land, thence
south 20 far that by running thence west to
q certain rail fence, and thence north along
said fence to MOrfOrd'S south line will con-
tain five acres of land in said part coming
up1o the Kinsman and Orangeville road;
thence south along said rail fence to the east
and west highway from the state line to the
center of Vernon: thence west along sa d
road to the center of Pymatuning creek;
thence north along said creek to said Muir
Ioi s south line, thence east along said line
70 the place OF beginning; to contain all the
land inclosed in said boundaries, be the same
more or less. Appraised at So. Terms
Cash. NJ TATRn sheriff
Sherih-s Office. Warren. o.. Jan. =, lS69-5t
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-10
CHERIFF'S SALE.
4 RI. sBn.E, ~,

- Il
Drhe State Of Ohio, Trumbull County, IS.
Adam Bower In Trumbull Common
James j. Bruce ct. el. CIUH Action.
By virtue Of an order OF sale issued out OF
the Court of Common Pleas Of Trumbull Co.
Ohio, 10 me directed and delivered, shall
expose to public sale at the south door OF the
Court House, in the city of Warren, in said
County, on
Saturday. the 18th day Of February. A. D., 1s69.
between the hours Of two C2l and four "a
O'Clock, p. m, OF said day, the following des-
cribed real estate, situate in the County OF
Truinbull and State of Ohio, to-wit:
In the Townships of AlesOpotamlia and
Pennington, and known as parts of lots No.
36 and -, and is bounded as follows: Com
inencing at the northwest corner OF land
decided TO Harrison hathaway; thence east
on lot line 10 the southeast corner OF said
lot: thence north on line about seventy go
rods 10 a post; thence west parallel with the
south line 26 and ZT-lO0 chains; thence south
to the place of beginning, containing within
these bounds, about forty-six (i6) acres OF
land.
Tue second described tract bounded as fol-
lows: Commencing at the southwest cor
ner OF said lot No. II; thence east on lot line
10 southeast corner of said lot; thence north
on lot line about seventy (70) rods TO post;
thence west parallel with the south line TO
the east line OF lot thirty-Six t36l; thence
south ON lot line to the place OF beginning,
containing one hundred and one lIgl) acres
of land.
Inc lnlIu utrtflDtu lTdCl u DpuuNtu bS
follows Situate in the Township of Far
mingtOn, in the County and State aforesaid,
and known as part Of lots No; 81 and 81, in
said township, being nine (9) acres of land
taken by parallel lines from off the north
side OF said lots: being east of the n rth and
south highway passing through said town.
ship, bounded and described as follows, to-
wit: Commencing in the north line of said
township, where said highway crosses the
same; thence east along the north line of
said lots ll3 l4-lUo rods; thence south Il So
100 rods: thence west along the north line OF
said lands of Anson BOwyer. Ito S9-lOO rods
TO said highway; thence enorth-westerly along
said highway, 10 the place of beginning, con-
tanning nine 80 acres of land, be the same
more or less, but subject TO all legal high
ways.
Appraised at S-. Terms Cash.
Fuller d Moses, Pitts Attorneys.
:. NJ. LAIRD, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Warren, o., Jan. Is, lS69-5t
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-10
The Age of Our Earth.

Among the astounding discoveries
of modern science, is that of the inn
mense periods that have passed in the
gradual formation of the earth. So
vast were the cycles of the time pre-
ceding even the appearance of man
oil the surface of our globe, that our
own period seems rs yesterday when
compared with the ep0chs that have
gone before it. Had we only the evil
dence of the deposits of rocks heaped
upon each other in regular strata by
the slow accumulation of materials,
they alone would convince US of the
long and slow maturing of Gods
works on earth; but when we add TO
these the successive populations of
whose life this world has been the
theatre, and whose remains are hid
den i'm the rocks into which the mud
or sand, or soil of whatever kind, on
which they lived, has hardened in the
course of time-Or the enormous chains
of mountains whose upheaval divided
these periods of quiet accumulation
by great eOnvulsions-Or the changes
of a different nature in the eOnfigura-
ton of our globe, as the sinking of
lands beneath the ocean, or the gradu
III Ilslus VI COnlAuGulS anu lSldiluo
above-Or the slow growth of the cor
al reefs, those wonderful sea-walks,
raised by the little ocean architects,
whose own bodies furnish both the
building stones and the cement that
binds them together, and who have
worked so busily during the lOug CEN
turtles, mountain chains, islands and
long lines of coast, consisting solely
of their remains, or the countless for
ests that have grown up, fiourished
and decayed, to fill the store houses
of coal that feed the fires of the hu-
man race; if you consider all the rec
ords of the past, the intellect fails to
grasp a chronology of which our ex-
perience furnishes no data, and time
that lies behind us seems as much an
eternity to our conception. as the fu-
lures that stretches indefinitely be-
fore us.-AJdssiz.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-10

An agent of the Union Pacific Rail-
road engaged in getting out ties, near
the Wyoming, in that territory, found
it necessary to build dams at certain
points, intending soon to hoist all the
gates. in order to create a flood that
would enable him to float the ties
down the Laramie river. When the
dam builders left their work the inst
night, the beavers commenced work
where the men had left of, and con-
tinued working on the dam during
the hight, accomplishing a vast
amount of work in a satisfactory
manner. Not only this, but in two
or three instances, where breaks have
have occurred, the beaver have repair
ed them in wOrkmanlike manner.
This story comes from highly respect
able authority.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-10

The New York Times, of Wednes-
day last says: 1--WE hear that horses
are now seized with a disease that
makes short work with them, and
puzzles the skill of the best veterinary
surgeons. Within few days sever
able valuable animals belonging to a
gentleman in this city have sucrumb-
ed to the disease, which is so rapid in
its effects that the suffering horse
never survives the first symptoms of
the malady more than twenty-four
hours. The trouble in its general
character is not unlike that which
played such havoc among the Texan
beeVes.n