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The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-12-16
WHICH.
BY W. YOUNG.

Grand Lady Mildred had lovers a
score;
Up at the castle they throngcd her
door.
Beauty was hers, and mine of gold /;
But her smile and her heart were icy
cold.
Down at the village, poor little Kate
Had but one lover of low estate.
All that she had of wealth to impart
Was a pleasant smile and tender
heart.
Came Lady Mildred's suitors-and
went;
Years rolled away and her charms
were spent,
laughter grew she and colder still.
So that all her splendor was void and
chill.
In a humble hCme Kate passed her
r life,
a doting mother, a gentle wife;
Not without trials and cloudy days,
But peace was about her in all her
ways.
Grand Lady Mildred, wrinklcd and
old
Would still coquet-but can only
scold.
Kate lies buried under tEesod,
v aiting III quiet the mercy OF God.
Would you be dragging out life to the
last,
With Il hopeless future, a barren past
Or in the church-yard TRANQUILITY test,
Ceasing from toll your memory blcst
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father lighted his torch and
started i'll 10 explore as usual.
He had gone about twenty-five
leet, looking all the time 10
SEQ if there was anything
when suddenly the bear struck
the torch with his paw, and
put out the light. Father got
out of that as quick as posi-
BILE, and told Shidler what had
happened, and that the bear
was lying in a very difficult
place TO shoot, for it was
around the corner of a rock
which he could not pass, and
the hole was very small. But
father determined to 60 in
again, and told George to stand
at the mouth of the hole, and,
if the bear came out, TO shoot
it. He lighted his torch again,
and got as near the bear as he
could, and fired, but only
wounded him. The bear start
ed for The mouth of the hole,
right toward father, who had
just time to lie down flat on
his belly, when the bear rush
ed over HIM, tearing his clothes
pretty badly, and leaving
marks of claws on his back
that he carried to his grave
Shldler was ready at The mouth
of the hole, and when the beal
came out, gave him an ounce
Of lead that settled him. They
dressed the bear and it weighed
three hundred and ninety
pounds. My father killed as
many as seven deer in one
day, and that often, He also
killed elk and a few buffaloe|
alter we came here, but the
buflaloes left very soon.
think the last one seen in this
region was in Bedford town
ship, Meigs county, in 1915
where it was wounded. Wher
| was young man | have
stood in one spot, behind
large tree, in Lodi township
and killed three deer as fast az
| could load ald shoot. My
brother, Thomas Bobo, killed
twelve deer the year he wa
twelve years old.
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WHOLE NO. 1905

- |
paid Brown the $50 due him |
and he paid NE the $50 due me.
At The end of the year | re-
turned Brown his house in bet |
ter condition than when | re- |
ceived it by reason of the re-
pairs | had made; real estate
had advanced and he returned !
me 81 900, exactly the same in
value as he had received.
| then had Browns note for
$50 and he held mine for the
same amount. Brown refused
to pay the note he had made to
me, called me Shylock and
usurer. | then, Of course, re-
fused TO pay him the note he
held against me.
Brown brought suit against
me on The note he held. | ad-
mitted the making of the note
and that it was unpaid, but
asked that the amount Brown
owed me be set of against any
Judgment he might recover on
the note set forth in his bill.
He replied that he had bor-
rowed 81 900 Of me for the term
of one year, that he had paid
me $50 (the 1st note) for the
use or forbearance Of it, that
the consideration for The note
described i'll my answer was
UsURY. Then, upon the Court
being advised in the premises,
found that The petition was
true, that owed Brown $50, (I
knew that fact before but the
Court found that my answer
was not true, that Brown did
not owe me anything. OF
course the Court found the re-
ply Of Brown to be true, and
that my claim was for usury,
and that | was not entitled TO
recover on the note | held
against Brown, and the Court
rendered a Judgment against
me for the $50 with interest
on it from maturity Of the note,
and for costs of suit.
Then | made some figures
Brown had received S120 for
the use of his house-he had
paid S25 tax, leaving him S95
clear, and supposing my money
worth S120, what he admitted
it worth and had agreed to pay,
and he made $50 on my capi.
tai, leaving him clear $155. l
paid Brown just what his prop
erty was worth, and what | had
agreed to pay
/ had received for the use OF
my capital $50 and had pald
S25 tax. | had cleared $35
that is 3! per cent. on my cap.
tai, while Brown had made 81
per cent. on his and cheated me
out Of 6 per cent OF mine, equal
to 10! per cent on his one
thousand, and yet my Attorney
said that such was the la,O.
1t is requested in this prob
lem to find the Equal and ex.
act justice" as politicians
would sOy-the equality the
Court would term it, or as We
common people would call it
1.-The fairness and honesty
in the transaction.
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IT is said that the grape dis.
ease has almost entirely disap.
peared from the Island Of Ma
dierra, and that the natives
are again deyot!ng themselves
to the production of the wine
which once made MADEIRA so
famous in the annals of gas
tronomy. For many years
past the genuine article has
been attainable only in the
small quantities yielded by tho
cellars of wealthy men, as they
one after another departed this
life, and then it brought an
enormous price. sI..t
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IIolu hNhtl il''Viy VI h'hVnS N"uh'y'
Narrative Of Joseph BObO, of
Lodi.
My father, Henry Bobo, was
born and reared in Prince Will
liam county, Virginia, and my
mother whose maiden name
was Sarah Black, in Loudoun
county, in the same state
They came to Athens county
in 170S, and settled on Marga
ret's creek, two miles from
Athens. | was born here DC.
tober "a, 1902. In 1910 my
father removed TO what is now
Lodi township. l was eight
years old, and can remember
a little about the removal. Lo@
di was all wilderness then. |
think there was but one man
living in the (presenD town
ship when we moved in, and
that was Joseph Thompson
He lived on the farm now own
ed by Cyrus Blazer. After |
was thirteen years old | used
to go to mill at Coolville, about
fifteen miles distant, and there
was but one house on the road,
called the "brick house," about
eight miles west of Coolviile,
I.once went to mill more than
seventy miles, thus: from
Athens to the mouth of Hook
hooking (by water), forty
miles; then up the Ohio to Ma.
rietta, thirty miles; then up
the Muskingum to the horse
mill, two miles, making altos
gether about seventy.two
miles. Sometimes three or
four men would form a party,
60 down the Hockhocking, and
up the Ohio to Belpre, in a ca,
hoe. There they would get
their grain and go on to the
horse mill above Marietta,
where they had to give one.
fourth for grinding, then home
again with the canoe. When
they reached Athens (Which
was called "the point" when
was a little boy), each man
would shoulder his sack and
pack it home. My father and
a few others had hand mills,
with which they could grind
corn in the fall of the year
when the corn is soft. In this
way we got our bread.
So far as meat was concern
ed we had plenty by killing il
in the woods. Deer, bears
and turkeys were very plenty
and | have seen a good many
elk when | was a boy, and
some bulfaloes. My father was
considerable of a hunter, and
killed a great many deer and
bears. | remember an adven.
ture he had with a bear when
| was about fifteen years old
In the forepart of winter the
fat bears would go into a hol'
low tree or cave, and stay
there till spring. They were
always lat when they came out
in the spring. Frequently
they went into pretty rough
caves or holes in the rocks,
Father would go in, with a
pine torch in one hand and bis
gun in the other, and crawl as
close as he could, and then
shoot. The time | am speak.
ing of he and George Shidler
found q hole in the rocks they
had never been in before, so
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The London Court Journal
thinks the British reception of
John S. Clark (the actor
brother.in.law of Wilkes
Booth,) as Goodies" had
ought to do much to soften the
asperitles of the Alabama
question. The British receps
ton of JEFF. Davis was equally
cordial, and might be used as
an added asperity soltener.-
Detroit Tribune. I
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AT the risk of being thought
fanatical, we assert that the
"Coming State" must take all
the children who are abused
and kept in ignorance by bru.
tai, drunken, vicious parents,
and educate and train them up
to be useful and happy cili.
zens. 1t is a disgrace to the
nation that tens of thousands
Of children are growing up in
the filth and slime of our cities
and villages in the grossest ig-
norance and the most shame.
less moral degradation.-Ham.
monitor, (N ~ Truth.
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PUNCH announces: To CORES
spondents. Duly received 3S9
Jokes on @hlrs. Harriet Beech,
er'S,toe putting her foot in itp
Enough for the present. -S
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The first chapter of q Wes-
tern novel contains the follow
ing: aIs Gu7'
GAIL of a sudden the far girl
continued to sit on the sands
gazing upon the briny deep,
upon whose bosom the tall
ships wentmerrily by,freighted
-ah who can tell with how
much JOY and sorrow, and pine
lumber and emigrants, and
hopes and salt, fish," to noa
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ADYERTIsING TERMs.

neighborhood the more posi-
live is The Republican major
ity. r8
This is not chance. 1t is the
deepest reason. Every dis
trict and Ward in Maryland
gives a Democratic majority,
The same is probably true Of
Kentucky. They are the two
especially Democratic States.
OF course in the war their
hearts were with the rebellion.
Are they in any chief point OF
civilized and progressive polit-
ical communities superior 10
the great States of the North
wesR The Two parties are not
equally worthless. VIII any.
body pretend TO designate y
spot in whi2h the Republicans
have the same unqualified con.
troll thaL The Democrats have
in the city of New York, where
they are or can be justly ac-
cused of frauds so enormous as
those which are matters of uni.
versal notoriety upon the part
of the Democratic leaders In
this clty?-Ha,per'S- Weekly.
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ROBACIk7S
STOMACH B1TTERS

-. VI ~ ~ - = - n 's
[FrOm lie Oxford, Butler Co, o.
4 '''''' Cti.en.] go
DR. G., w. ROBACK
having made himscII
a name in the world
by his great Scan
din;aIvian Remedies
will again distin
gushing himself by
the results Of his Gel.
cbrated /" Stomach
Bitters, . which he
is now introducing.
These Ditters arc NOT
OF the kEllu that now
food the country.
made up ofpoisonous
liquors, 1l'o rs, spices, &c,
but contain medical
properties, though
not unpleasant to the
taste. Theyare cal
cuIated to purify.
the blood, and to
strengthen and re-
store d weak consti..
'utiOn to it's natural
state. We freely.
recommend thissnew
article to ourrrcadI'
eFs. o.4n Fer,-':: sale al
McGraw 4 RiicRllae5Es's. III J
octolsyIi7,' 1S4la ,fqosoL
5p@Es icc'and nannlac-
toiy,'Nos. .5i56, 5S, 60 ands62
East Third Street, ,o.aa', 'aa'
= e'.& Cincinnati, O.
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ALABAMA srsAroRs QuAnnEnne OVER


ALABAMA SENATOR'S QUARREnNe OVER
TIE SPoILs.-The two Alabama Senators
have had slight unpleasantness about
the loaves and fishes in their State.
Spencer was after the collectorohip of
Mobile for u particular friend, and War
ner had an eye to the identical position
for political retainer. The consequence
was dead lock. Grant know not what
to do, and Boutwell, and Delano were
bothered which of the two Senatorial
magnntes shobld be appeased. At length,
it is said. the difficulty was adjusted by
an agreement that Warner should get
the collectorship, while Spencer should
be accorded the postmastership of Mo-
bile. The first part of the agreement
was promptly put in force and Warmers 8
friend appointed; but when it came to
arranging the postmastership, hitch
occurred. Warner claimed that post
also. and Cresswell, it is said, yielded
to his demands. Thereupon Spencer
went to the White House to raise row
about the alleged breach of agreement.
He had talk with Grant, and, it is
said, hauled Ulysses over the Goals very
warmly. He next went to the Post Of
fee Department, and pitched into the
jolly Cresswell, tho result being that
Cresswell consented to give the post
mnstership to Spencer instead of War
ner. But just as this result was reached
Warner happened to drop in and inter
rupt the interview; ond hearing of what
had occurred, Warner demanded that
the appointment should be changed
Spencer interposed lively objections.
Questions and answers of an unpleasant
character were exchanged between the
Senators, and for a time there appeared
very cheering prospect of row. 1t
stopped short of blows, however. and
the Senators have since had chance
to cool off
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E1eCutlve Powers.
to cool oi

Mr.. EDITOR: The vetoeing and par
doning powers are dangerous and tempt
ing elements of great strength vested in
the Executive, under the Constitution of
South Carolina; it creates in him ONE
MAN, political lever OF gigantic proper
tons; and, with such length in the
hands of an INSCRIPTIONS partisan chief,
he may use it with extraordinary and
telling effect in prizing out any opposi-
ton to his own peculiar views and self
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, either pecuniarily or
politically. In q close legislative con-
test, in the passage of any railroad bill
or other imp ortant measure, the Execu-
tive may place his veto in tho market
subject to the highest bidder, lending
his signature to dollars and cents, and
not to principle; the same may apply to
close political struggle. With this
unrestrained pardoning power. he could
or may control the ballot-box with we'll
organized band Of ruffians, with instruc-
tions, II need be, to murder any oppos-
ing candidate or voters of an adverse
faction, rather than share defeat, with
an assurance in advance that they would
be pardoncd for any outrnges that his
party hirelings might be guilty Of With
this power, he may open the doors of n
prison, turn the keys of the Penitentiary,
and fix the destiny of the State through
the agency of felons.
As to the veto power, there is some Sc
curity against an undue abuse under the
two-thirds rule of the Legislature, but
the pardoning power is plenary and ire
vocahlc. 1t may be said that it is i'm
possible to frame a constitution, or to
enact snch laws as may subserve every
purpose, but when an evil or danger
ons political tutuor presents itself with
such glaring deformity upon the const-
tuition. some steps should b taken to
remove the fungus. Grants magical and
soothing ointment, "Let us have peace, ~
if properly applied, may remove the
carpet cancer which threatens death to
the body polite, "a evidenced by the
kites and such unclean birds lowering
around the post Office and Executive
Department in Columbia We, the
people of the South, are incompetent
and powcrless to correct this state of
things. Will the President not admmin
ter his sovereign remedy before the dis
ease reaches our vitals, and save the
State before her political death cnsucs?
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DECORATION DAY-WHY IT WAS FAIL
URE.-The Times has sensible and
truthful article showing why the decora-
ton of the soldiers graves, the other
day, was failure:
LAS military display, it challenged
no particular notice. As an attempt to
organize and consecrate q new national
ceremony--to dedicate q day to the
memory of the dead, in the name of the
cause for which they died-it command
ed little support. However creditable
the motives in which the movement
originated, it is apparent that the move
ment did not commend itself to the
Judgment or feelings of the country.
decoration Day, rs it has been innu-
gurated, is u day that can never become
national. It is an appeal to the patriots
OF one section, at the expense of the
pride and feelings of the other section
1t is a memorial of the triumph of
Northern loyalty over Southern rebellion
1t is method of reminding the North
that it is a connueror, and the South
that it is conquered. 1t is an attempt to
convert even the graves of tho dead into
testimony affecting the history of mil
lions who are living. AS managed by
reverend gentlemen here and at Wash
ington, and elsewhere, it is an occasion
for heaping epithets of infamy upon one
set of graves, while piling flowers upon
another set-for reviving the bitter me-
mories of conflict. scattering afresh the
seeds of hate, and under the pretense of
Slorifying Union heroes, invoking curses
upon the misguided, but scarcely less
heroic, Confederate dead. Such a cere-
mony might have had its uses in tho
midst of war; but it is Incompatible with
the restoration of peace-utterly incom-
patible with that renewal of cordial feel
ings between the people of the two sec
lions, which alone can impart lasting vi
tality aud strength to the Union. And
Decoration Day, rs we now have it, is
an ostentatious display of the trophies
of victorious war, which tends to beget
Al dictatorial and aggressive spirit on one
side, and feelings of humiliation and re-
venge on the other. To festival admit
ting of this construction, and marred by
these tendencies, the generosity and
good sense of the country will not be
easily reconciled."
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RECOVERED RELIo-Mr. John Tou-
mey, of Charleston, S. c., has received
from Mr.. Miles Moran, of Sumter, s.
c.. medal bearing the name OF Ser
geant Jonah II. Holmes, member of
the Palmetto Regiment, that served in
Mexico. This medal was purchased by
Mr.. Moran from soldier OF q Massa-
chusetts regiment, and he desires that
the rightful owner should get it, Mr..
Holmes or his relatives can procure it of
MIR. Tourney, at No. 36 East Bay, corner
of Adger's wharf, in the above named
city.
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The Norfolk papers record shocking
case of homicide. The daughter of Mr..
John Murray, q stone-mason, was se-
duced by young man named Alexander
Perry. Maddened at his wrong, Murray
made desperate attack on Perry, who
shot him dead with double barrel gun.
Perry delivered himself up to the au-
thorities, and was released on bail.
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The UNITED STATES CrRcU1r Court

IHE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT CoUET.-
Tie session of the United States Circuit
Court for this State closed on Saturday,
and Chief Justice Chase left this city
yesterday for Raleigh. In connection
with the fact that the session now ended
is the first in which n Chief Justice Of
the United 3, les has safe Oil the bench
in South Carolinn, it is worthy of note
that In only one instance has the deci-
sion Of the Hon. George S. Bryan,
United States District Judge, been over
ruled by the Circuit Court, and in this
one instance it was, we believe, a modi,
tication and not reversal of the decree
of the lower court. This speaks we'll for
the intellect and judicial knowledge of
his Honor Judge Bryan.
Charleston Ne,oS, SM.
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John Wingate. member of Truck
No. 2, was painfully wounded in the
chest and on his arm, on Monday even
ing. by being jammed against the fence
opposite the truck house. in Queen
street, Charleston, while the machine
was being run out.
"Gom, or the Negro Vindicated
Against the Aspersions of Ariel" is the
title of new pamphlet just issued in
Charleston. 1t may prove interesting to
many of our readers.
A patent bas been obtained for the
manufacture of water proof paper. It
will be no uncommon thing, by and by,
to carry quart of milk home in n paper
bag.
What is the difference between water
and whiskey? Men slip on the former
when it is frozen, and on the latter when
it isn't.
Misery loves company. So does mar
riageable young lady.
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New ADVERTISEMENTS Attention is
called to the following advertisements,
published the first time this morning:
Meeting Columbia Chapter No. 5.
w. d. Love-Spool Cotton.
Z. L. Jackson-Dry Goods.
j. II. Eisenmann-Summer Goods.
IL. NJ. WnllaGe-Internal Revenue.
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BEYOND A DoUBT-More diseases are
the result of arrangement of the Liver
than that from any other cause. When
that organ is diseased, every part OF the
system sympathizes with it, and general
prostration and decline is the result
Tho best, safest and speediest remedy
for Liver Complaint. and ali the diseases
that follow, is TUFTS VEGETABLE LIVER
Pulls; they are peculiarly adapted to the
climate of the South. They are sold by
Druggists everywhere. J56
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COURTESY TO STRANGERS is q marked
feature in the management of the AME-
RIcAN HOUSE. Boston. In the excellence
of ITS appointments it is equallcd by few
hotels in the country. 10
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THE MUNICIPAL SQUABBLE.-
head Of "Masterly Inactivity
City Council, the IHissionm|
Daddy Gains" paper, contai
lowing article. which, to say |
it, is very nicely put:
The bold and daring nttem [
zle the Mayor and the miuo
City Council by the action
parties, has resulted in good 4
through tho development of
ter Of the men with whom NJ
and his adherents had to
rapidity with which it was il
change the whole corps of
fcers in the city government
in their stead 6 class
and doubtless untrustworthd T.
indecent haste to possess tn
sury by certain irresponsible
defaulters in small matters, d
honest people in the party
placed themselves across I'll
door. BY refusing to make
do business, and thus prevd :
absence, what their voice and
not in Council, they have |
themselves gave us n little rd
tolls of political intrigue, an 5
deep and dangerous" we
will continue this stroke of d
Legislature meets, when W
another validating bill whit
late somebody out of Office
us so much trouble to legis|
have snapped the witch for
the change, and now nothi1
ing and swearing will bring
out of this maniac OF ours. :,
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The negroes of Savanna
that they will soon place I
affairs of that city in the
those of Charleston, S. G.
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Tp have good health, we must have
god blood-not the blood of Kings.
Enperors or Princes, but the blood that
rlts pure and strong through the sys-
tel, giving color to the maidens cheek
AM vigor to the arm, imparting bril-
llhcy to the eye and elasticity to the
fr,ne. The blood is to the man what
tn sap is to the tree; let the sap grow
dr. and the tree withers and dies. So
letthe blood get thin, watery and weak,
S'i the man sickens and dies. Heinitshs
y sENs DELIGHT, the medicine of all
oSers, is now the recognized agent for
jnparting health. vigor, strength and
t9nty for nll. No Sarsaparilla about it,
Jew remedy on new principles. We
ftr try it and be convinced. J3
IA Mix must be pure in Maracaibo, where
u ly have had no rain for three years.
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Mrs. Goetjen, who was 1
kerosene explosion, last
in Charleston, died MondaI
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MERCANTILE PRINTING. All kinds of
mercantile printing, such as circulars.
letter heads. cards, bill heads. state
ments, &C., for counting-rooms and
offices, promptly attented to at the Pho.
nir job Office. lat