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Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-21
Profit, of, Farming.

"
No small experience and sofne obsefVa-
ton conVinces me that, circumstances be-
ing equal, farming will furnish, as amplea
compensation for labor, tas ample a diVi-
.dend, upon capital invested, as the COM
mon trades which men engage IN, and
even the ordinary purspitsI Of mercantile
and commercial life. Qf. course, Iyexcept
all extraordinary cases Of good fortune,
and all matter of gambling -and-specula-
II The returns Of most crops strike one
sometimes with a~stonishment, and WOULD
if taken iaa attest, lead TO the most delp-
siVez "A grain of seed some
times returns one hundred foldt and, this
being sown q second year would, perhaps,
give ten Thousand fold and Sd ON in geo.
m~etrical ratio. Seventy bushels of pota-
OF, twenty for one; asbushel Of wheat
sown will yield thirty bushels, or thirty
for nne; a peck of corn planted will yield
sixty bushels, or two hundred and forty
for One; a pound of carrot, beet or ruta
baga seed will produce six to nine hup7
dred bushels, worth one hupdred dollars.
| -, The proceeds il these cases seem to be
enormous, yet they are consistently real
lied, and that too inmany cases at COM
paratIyely small expense. But no conf
dent conclusions Of the exact profits OF
farming are to be drawnnfrOm such re-
Suits as these; so many untold circum-
stances of abatement enter into the cost,
that if these were the only elements given
in the case, the solution of the problem
would give the mosteEEoneeus- and decep-
w are 56t ozTJok to- agricutture fot
any extraordinary or sudden gains, as for
example the drawing of a prize in a lot
terry, " shfeN1d Speculation instock.uE-
Tive Wiltake ten merchants with a fixed
amount Of capital, and ten farmers With
the same amount We will f4d that 4t the
end of twenty years the farmers. have the
greater Increase, and it is more ,eVenfydf
Tided-among them than among the, mer
CHI nts. Farming IS also far safer and
more certain tocsecureID comprehensive
mercantile pursuits. I venture to assert
that twenty mefchants fail inIbusinessi to
one farmer and this ought tocopen; th
eyes of young men with small capital
pgoingi into NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Tide
9fGPh. h7eJ yYliuanadt huR v-fef
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-21

CARL II. WALTON, who recently COM
mitted suicide in Woodlawn cemetery,
near Boston, left a note declaring that "as
the garden he laid ont hadf been devast!
ated by the chickens of his son, he had
become tired of life, and was going 10
meet his beloved wife" HL g
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-21

PHHkDEIPHH expectstoIbaYe 100000
dwelling houses in the year 1893.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-08

drag on until the French gain time TO or
ganize new levies, while their own supplies
become precarious, their present advantages
may ooze away, and the treaty which must be
made at last viii be less favorable to them
than the one which might now be negotiated.
If they meet with a single serious reverse the
war spirit in France may again become so
uncomfortable that no Minister of that
country will dare to advocate peace on any
terms.
In view of these possibilities, we have a
strong hope that the war will close as sud
denly as il commenced.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-08
THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

The efforts set on foot to bring about
peace between the new republic and the
Germans are beginning to wear a hopeful
aspect, end in the interests of civilization
and humanity we fervently hope that they
may be successful. Jules Favre in his cir
oular distinctly declares that ''the policy of
France is peace" and we must not expect
that at the very outset of a new government
he will accompany this frank admission with
full statements of all the concessions he is
wiling to make to attain the avowed object
of his desire. When he says that ''France
yields not one foot of soil, not one stone of
fortress" it is reasonable to suppose that he
bows to the necessity of talk
ing buncombe which exists in
France as well as in the United States. In
deed, the hint is thrown out that the new
ministry is willing to have all the forts in
Alsace and Lorraine destroyed, as we'll as to
pay the war expenses of Germany. If more
is demanded now, the invading armies may
in the end be forced to accept less. The ex-
traordinary successes of the Prussians have
inspired European monarchs with fear and
jealousy, and the emf orcement of cruel terms
upon the French people will not only drive
them to despair, but awaken the sympathy of
the masses OF other lands, and draw down
upon the Germans popular as well as
monarchial hostility. No nation is powerful
enough in this age to arrogantly defy public
opinion, and while King William is reported
to have rejected Intervention in the earlier
stages of the present combat, we can scarcely
think that he will turn deaf ear to reason
able propositions now
There is no new triumph in reserve for
the invading armies except the capture of
Paris, and if that great city is resolutely de-
Tended its capture viii involve its virtual
destruction. Such an act of vandalism would
wither all the laurels of the conquerors, while
it would dissipate their hopes of being reim-
bursed for their war expenditure; and we
can scarcely think they are unwise enough
to attempt it. That they win terrorize Paris
is highly probable; il may even be necessary
for them to do so, to secure a popular ap-
proval, in the capital, Of terms which they
may not unreasonably demand; but if terror
ism is carried too far il is likely to be as de-
struotive to the true interests of the invaders
as disastrous to the Parisians.
It is quite possible that Paris win resist a
siege triumphantiy. Preparations for the
impending danger have been made not only
for days, weeks, and months, but for many
years, and by hersic defense the best
efforts of the Prussians can be baffisd for q
long period II they suffer the campaign to
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-08
WYE La REPUBLIQUEy

ME-. WAsHBURNR, our Minister at Paris yes
terday, officially recognized the French repub-
lic under instructions received from the
President of the United States, aud rendered
the congratulations of our Government
This action will meet with the hearty ap-
proval of very large majority of the people
of the United States, who look upon the
downfall of Imperialism and the establish
ment of republic upon its ruins as hopeful
signs for the future of France. How ar
IDENTITY the French people and the men who
have so suddenly and SO unexpectedly been
entrusted with the responsibilities of the
new Government in this terrible crisis long for
the hearty sympathy and support of
the great republic of the Western World in
their efforts to rekindle the fires upon the
affairs of freedom in France, was shown by
the despatch to the President of the United
States, which was almost the first act of M.
Jules Favre on assuming the duties OF the
Foreign Office in the republican Cabinet. On
mere technical grounds the recognition of the
French republic was perfectly proper act on
the part of President Grant, as the empire
has passed away as completely as if it had
never existed, and there is but one authority
with which we can hold official intercourse,
that of the republic. Outside of techni-
oalities, however, the prompt action
of the President in this matter
but expresses the sentiments of the nation,
which is eager to extend its cordial sympa-
thies to the French people on their deliver
anoe from an odious despotism, and its sim
cere we'll wishes for their future prosperity
under free republican government. The
failure of former French republics makes
many persons dubious of the success of the
present experiment; but the great order
which has prevailed in Paris during the
mighty change that has been effected, and in
the midst of terrible events calculated to ex-
cite the worst passions, is a hopeful augury
for the future of Frances and if the warm
sympathies and hopes of the American people
will aid in sny way in establishing the new
French republic upon firm foundation, the
success of this new movement in the cause
of liberty is assured beyond doubt
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-08

by the First Napoleon, on the
other, will he practically worthless If they do
not assure permanent peace. II that end is
absolutely secured, the exact nature of the
stipulations is a matter Of comparative indif
ference; but il they involve mutual disarms-
ment and the destruction of threatening
fortresses, it will be better for both parties.
The waste of time, unnecessary expenditure
of money, and the personal privations in
volved in the maintenance of large standing
armies and the enforcement of a rigorous
consumption, constitute tax of the most
onerous and odious character. II Germany
has grown strong enough to cast off this fear
full burden, and if France, by discarding it her
self, gives her rival no excuse for its con-
tinuanoe, this single reform will in itself soon
do as much good as the war has done harm.
No martial conflict can be as glorious as the
war which conquers war itself, and it is vain
to create Aexanders or Hannibals if man
kind can have no assurance that they are the
last of that bloody race.
With peace assured not merely for the
moment, but forever, liberty will follow in
her train. The republic, born of war, can
not be long-lived if all the energies of the
nation are to be concentrated in O mad
struggle for revenge. But if the vain dream
of military supremacy can be dispelled,
glorious future, resplendent with true glory
and illumined by real freedom and happiness,
will compensate France for all her pre-
sent sufferings. Spain, too, will be
more than recompensed for the
loss of German king by the election of a
patriotic president. Italy will rejoice in en-
larged liberty, and Germany, by Gberslizing
her institutions and granting boon after boon
to the brave people who have made her
armies invincible, will derive more heartfelt
satisfaction than every conceivable victory on
foreign soil can give.
In looking back upon our own war, the
record of all its triumphs would be fearfully
unsatisfactory if we did not feel that great
government had been rescued from destruc-
ton and race emancipated. 1t would mat
ter little now whether this or that battle was
won or lost, if no tangible and permanent
civil results had been secured. We trust that
the European combatants may be equally for
tunate in securing compensations for the loss
of their brave sons. 1t is in their power to
evoke good out of the evil already wrought,
and they will incur fearful responsibility
if they neglect the present opportunity.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-08

NAPOLEON did at least one thing to derange
the pans of the Prussians-he surrendered
himself prematurely. What his motive was
is not clearly known, but fear of his own sol
d d;ers appears to have been strong incentive.
He could not have found a safer place of re-
fuge in the world than the German camp,
for at Paris he would have been in imminent
danger, and in Belgium some of the strag-
glers from the army he had plunged in inextri-
cable difficulties might have avenged the
massacre of their comrades. BY placing
himself in the custody of the invaders he
enabled France to organize new govern
ment, and thus to avert, in advance, the dam
gers of the revolution in Paris which would
probably have occurred when the German
armies approached the capital, if the Napo-
leonic dynasty had continued in power. He
thus strengthened his claim to rank among
the patriots who leave their country for their
oountry's good, and when the Rev. Mr..
Abbott finishes Napoleon's biography he can
add that the timely departure of his hero
for foreign soil did at least something to
atone for many tragic blunders.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-08
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1870.

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EVENING TEIEaRAPH goes TO press at u
O'Clock, aud the subsequent regular editions
at y, 81, and ~. Whenever there is i'm
portant news of the progress of the Euro
pean war, extra editions will be issued after
this hour, and before the regular time for the
early edition.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-08
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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-08

THE REPUBLICANS of New York failed to
nominate Horace Greeley as their candidate
for Governor yesterday, General Stuart L.
Woodford receiving on the last ballot 25S
votes, while 1853 were polled for Greeley,
and 20 for George w. Curtis. Editorial
stock seems to be looking up in our neigh
boring State, but it has not yet advanced
sufficiently to carry off the higher honors of
politics from the soldiers. While We regret
the defeat Of two of the most talented Jour-
nahsts of the country, we can scarcely doubt
the wisdom of the convention in keeping
such good Republican workers in newspaper
harness. AS times go there is an abundance
of material for manufacturing Governors, but
editors like Greeley and Curtis are too scarce
to be conveniently spared from the profession.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-08

A MEETING of the majority of the members
of the Corps Legislatif was held last night, at
the house of one of the deputies, in Paris, by
permission of the Provisional Government.
They promised that they would attempt no
opposition; but if the new republic is over
whelmed by disaster, these deputies will pro-
badly be prompt to reassert their authority,
and they will have better legal right to
WELD power than any other body of men in
France.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-08
JOHN WANAMAKER'S,
n.y. HEADQUARTERS PENNSYLVANIA RE-
PUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL COMMIT

TEE.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. T. 1870
In pursuance OF The call of MAHLON II DICK
INSON, Chairman of the Executive Committee of
State Central Committee, the Committee met at
T. M. this day at the Continental Hotel.
The Chairman read the following letter.
ALTOONA, Aug. 16 1870.
M. II. DICKINSON:
DEAR SIR;-The State Central Committee have
to-day passed the foil ewing resolution
Resolved, That the whole matter OF the dispute
between Captain Creely and the Hon. Charles
ONel, In regard to the Congressional nomination 10
the Second district, be referred for examination to
the Executive Committee, and that both parties I've
afforded an opportunity to be heard before said com
mttee.
You will please convene the Executive Commit
tee, OF which you are chairman, and take into
sideratton the above resolution.
Truly yours, JOHN COvOOE
Chairman OF State Central Committee.
On motion OF Charles IL. Pennypacker, the follow
ing resolution was adopted:-
Resolved, That the Executive Committee OF the
Republican State Central Committee have no wish
TO interfere with the nomination for Congress in the
Second district, as they believe that all questions
relative thereto should be settled by the City Eyecu
tive Committee.
ON motion, the Secretary was directed to furnish
a copy Of the foregoing resolution to Hon. Charles
ONell. Captain Greedy John Price Wetherill, Corne.
lius Walborn, and chairman OF Republican City
Executive Committee.
On motion. adjourned to meet at call OF Chairman
MAHLON H. DICK NSON, Chairman.
CHAs H. PESEYPACRER, Secretary. 9s4t
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-08

sf,s- NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. REPUBLICAN
OITY EXECUTIVE CoMMITTEE-
PHILADELPHIA, Sept 6, 1870
All persons claiming to have been elected mem
bers of the
TWENTY-SIXTH WARD REPUBLICAN
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
WI assemble at
llOo CHESTNUT STREET,
ON FRIDAY EVENING NEXT. SEPT. g.,
at O'Clock.
CHRISTIAN KNEASS,
President pro tenn.
SGsS %. Z. hSSS,l0V'"' MoSS, Secretaries. s7m
my. HEADQUARTERS UNION REPUBLICAN
- OITY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, No. 1loo
CHESNUT Street.
The Delegates elected to revise the rules OF the
Union Republican Party will assemble at the OLD
COUNTY COURT HOUSE on MONDAY next, Sep
tember IL, at 10 o'clock A. III.
By order Of the Union Republican City Executive
Committee.
JOHN L. HILL,
President
Attest
SPHS 10 = MMGSgLhoUsH'99 MoNn Secretaries. osn
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-08

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Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-04-20
WHOLE NUMBER ll9.

fact Will be of value to every business
city or country.
The signals used for storms when To-
Gated at river towns may also be used to
give warning of destrctive river floods.
By firing a cannon at the principal
towns on a river, a coming food may be
signalled throughout its entire length
several hours in advance, by which
many lives and large amounts of prop
erty will be saved. Even an hours
warning will often be of great value
when the river rises suddenly and runs
with destructive rapidity and force.
This plan has been approved of by the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
which owns large majority of the lines
throughout the union and in order to
test the system will supply kilograms of
approaching storms, whenever any con-
siderable number of cites and towns
shall make arrangements to fire signal
guns according to the plan proposed"
The plan has been approved of by many
of the most prominent newspapers.
The Scientific American recently had
the following: We believe the modern
idea of giving warning to distant lOcali-
ties of the approach of storms by means
Of the telegraph, is destined eventually
to prove of immense benefit to the world;
and the suggestion that announcements
be made to large agricultural districts
by artillery signals, prearranged tOindi-
cate the intensity, rapidity aud diTeC-
tiOn of approaching storms, seems to us
to be very practical and promising
/ This system would save crops from de-
structiOn, vessels from shipwreck, and
much sacrifice Of human life.N
Through a recent act of Congress to
I establish storm signals at forts and mill
tary stations, this plan Will be tested on
I rivers, lakes, bays, and on the coast for
the benefit Of commerce and incidental
/ lyOf agriculture. But as these military
statiOne are not numerous, and will be
! of incOnsiderable utility to agriculture,
except to test the system, it is therefore
recommended that agricultural societies
ana city and tOJU1 authorities take inn
mediate measures to establish the sig
nails at every cOnty-seat, and principal
town, having telegraph facilities. Many
cities and towns have a suitable cannon
which could be fired by a fire company,
for which they may receive additional
pay, their dnties being increased to
storms as well as to fires. Where a
town has not suitable cannon to be
used as storm gun, application should
be made to the State, as the National
| Government, whose arsenals are full of
these implements Of destruction, which
may now be used for the saving Of life
and property.
Every newspaper should publish this
circular that the plan may become gem
orally established in time for the coming
harvest. a. WATSON.
Washington, D. G., 1870.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-04-20
RANN01I Sff0TS.
NUMBER KIN.
BY LADY GAY.

IT speaks well for the intellect and
morality of the present age, to see the
gitsto with which the songs Captain
Jinks " and "Shoo Fly y" have been re-
ceived
When I say itspeaks well I mean,
. 10 use a vulgar phrase lin a horn"
am safe in applying this common by
words as vulgarism is now, the order Of
the day. listened to a belle, sing Cap
tain Jinks to a crowded room, full Of de-
lighted listeners, the 'so-called' elite Of
our city. She sang well. But alas
that the sacredness of music should be
so profaned. To me there is a sdHctity in
cultivated music; and grOan in spirit
when | hear it desecrated. | wonder the
American people can throw out to the
enlightened world the admission that
they can be amused, and entertained by
such worthless trash as "ShOo Fly and
Captain Jinks.'
However, it is in keeping with the pres
ent usages of the beau monde, where
lrolaea are measured by the amount of
diamonds they can display, and men by
the amount Of UhiSbey they can drink. O.
for the innocent, primitive days when
men and women occupied the place in
society, that moral north assigned them.
/ Then the greatest pleasure Of q husbands
life was to accompany his wife where
/ 40 Hnd
them. But now. A woman is derided
who appears in Society with her hus-
band, and q man who is seen in Il fash
( ionabIe crowd with his wife leaning up
on his arm is looked upon as fossil.
/ 1t shows, not only demoralization, but
depravity when men and women, who
lay claim to nationality, can be enter
tanned by such senseIess, Iowfung COM
positions as Captain Jinks' and 'Shoo
Fly
Where is HandeIs Messiah where, OH
where are the pure emanations Of Mo-
zart and Beethoven? Truly, echo an
swers: where :?
But it is the merest folly for me to
imagine or hope, that Random Shot
from my poor pen can strike down pub
lie sentiment. All I can do is to depIore
the fact, that it is possible for the shade
of hell to darllen and dim the celestial
/ light Of heaven for music IS beurea bOl77,
and it is mortifying, to say the least, to
see its radiant, harmonious beauty shad-
owed by the redoubtable Captain Jinks'
and the buzzing of 'ShOo Fly ! can
see the girl of the season, and the COM
ing young man, as they read the above,
assume a sneer, and throw down the
UBBANA UNION, with a gesture of dis
dain, wondering, that its editor, could
ever, in this era Of fast women, and
d,gmkea men, allow such an old fogy
document to find place in his columns,
and set him down in their progressive -
minds in the words of Dog berry IAN
ass -
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-04-20
MRS. Par,ingsOp on Cour,.hlp,

DoN'T put to much diHidence in "a
lovers word, my dear girl. He NAV tell
you that you have lips like strawbsrrie-
and cream, cheeks like a carnatlou. and
eyes like an asterisk. But such thing,
Ottener come from q tender head tb1D
rom a tender heart I like 10 e., 10 we'd
dlngs, though i like to hear u,g peo-
pie promise to love honor an EO,Irisb
each other but it is solemn ching
when the minister comes into the rhau-
Gerry with his surplus on, and vpss
through the ceremony Of making then,
man and wife. lt ought to be husband
and wife, for Il amt every husband that
turps out to be a man. declare I shall
never forget when Paul put the nuptial
ring on my finger and said-.Witb mn
good ! thee endow.' He Kept a drv
goods store then, and I t.lot IT ne was
goin to give to me the whole q ere was I'm
it.. | was young and simple, and aid
not know till afterward that il meant
only one dress a year.