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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-23
Curious Species OF Barter.

In the district of Benin Sooar lin West
ern Barbary), a mountainous country in
habited entirely by Berber tribes, there Is
one place where, during the fair, barter
of a very curious kind takes place. This
fair is only held once year, and is chief
ly resorted to for the purpose OF bachelors
finding wives, married men adding to
their matrimonial treasures, and maidens
or widows getting husbands In fact, the
whole affair resolves itself into the wo-
men selling themselves, but to escape the
ignominy of such procedure, the trafilc
is carried on as follows: '.,-.g .,-.,y
Each maiden desiring to enter into
wedlock dresses herself in her best and
most becoming attire, and taking with
her piece of cloth of her own weaving,
sits down unveiled in the market place.
The men, both young and old, who are
candidates for matrimony, parade about
the market examining the texture of the
cloth displayed by the ladies, and scruti-
nizing at the same time their looks and
behavior. Should the customer be
pleased with the maiden he in
quires the price of the cloth /; she
replies by naming what she would
expect as a dowry, and the
amount of this she raises or depresses,
according as the candidate for her heart
may please her, resorting to the demand
of an exorbitant sum should she be aYerse
to the purchaser. 80. .s,1 ..s
During this barter, the enamored swain
is able, in some degree, to judge her tenn
per and character. If they come to an
agreement, the parents of the girl are ap-
pesled to, and they have the right TO
assent or not, as they please. Should
they assent, the parties adjourn to a pub
lie notary, the contract is made, and the
purchased bride is carried to her new
home. In this traffic widows are at a low
price in general, and divorced ladies sell
their cloths very cheap.
The wife thus purchased can not be re-
sold, however much the purchaser may
repent his bargain. She is bis lawful
welded wife, and retains the purchase
money, which is her jointure or dowry.
1t is evident that this curious system OF
barter is resorted to by these Mahomedan
mountaineers as means of evading the
law of their prophet, which interdicts all
courtship before marriage, --Hdy'S Western
RHrbHTI II .". 'ai t
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-23
How to Find COntentment.

1t is hot, undeniably, awfully hot, and
has been for period that we are now be
ginning to reckon by weeks, Day after
day the sun burns in q cloudless sky, and
the mercury in the Thermometer creeps
silently up to 90 degrees, perhaps to SO
degrees. Even the leaves on the trees
seem to wilt, grass dies, the streams are
drying up, and now people begin to
realize what hot weather is. The nights
are only a little cooler than the days,
sleep ia unrefreshing, everybody is getting
tired and nervous and Cross, and murmurs
at the weather are heard on every hand,
oven from those W hO have every
comfort and luxury at their command,
every appliance for mitigating the dlscom-
fort for the heat
Would these grumbling souls like a
recipe to enable them to endure patiently
and pleasantly the heat, and think twice
of their blessings where they think once
of their own annoyaneeP Let them fol-
low the example Of one Of our good city
pastors, who told us yesterday that he had
been spending an afternoon visiting the
sick, and had concluded well people had
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-23
What Breaks Dewn Young Men.

IT is commonly received notion that
hard study is the unhealthy element of a
college life. But from tables of the NOR
tslity of Harvard University, collected by
Professor Pierce from the last triennial
catalogue, it is clearly demonstrated that
the excess of death for the first ten years
after graduation is found in that portion
of each class of inferior scholarship.
Every one who has seen the curriculum
knows that where Eschy lus and political
economy injure one, late hours and rum
punches use up dozen, and that their
two little fingers are heavier than the
loins of Euclid. Dissipation is sure de-
stroyer, and every young man who fol-
lows it is as the early flower exposed to un-
timely frost Those who have been in
weighed in the path of vice are named Le-
gion. A few hours sleep each night,
high living, and plenty of smashes I"
make war upon every function of the
body. The brain, the heart, the lungs,
the liver, the spine, the limbs, the bones,
the flesh, every part and faculty are over.
tasked and weakened by the terrific en-
ergy OF passion loosened from restraint,
until, like a dilspidated mansion, the
"earthly house of this tabernacle" falls
into ruinous decay. Fast young men,
right about !-jScientItis American.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-23

He took the boy in his arms, and hur-
ried away amid the cheers of the crowd.
'Ashe disappeared, the cheers turned TO
groans and cries of execration Chabus.
sails shop became a seething volcano of
dust lii dozen seconds terrible uproar
of breaking wood, cracking glass, shiver-
ing panes; volumnious sound of oaths,
cries, cheers of ripping and tearing; of
dislntegrating thumps, blows, and thrusts
and general uproar of destruction. Ten
minutes found Chabussal without an
apron, a cap, a skillet or saucepan.
They hustled him into the street, bare.
headed, and covered with CRIME, where he
found madame, who had saved nothing
but a ball of twme Together, they
looked at II significantly, but thought bet
ter of it, had it been charcoal, it might
have been different, and, though it seems
wicked TO hint it, perhaps much better |;
for to day Chabussal is journeymsn-
baker of bad repute, and madame laun-
dress of worse, and as the days go, their
situationo and proclivities intensity
visibly AppIeton's Journal. NJ
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-23
What Mary Gave.

WHEN the contribution box comes
round in church boys and girls throw IN
money which their parents have given
them for that purpose. The money is
not their gift, but that of their father and
mother. They have just as much 10
spend for their pleasure as they had be-
fore. And so once heard a kind hearted
girl complain that she had nothing of her
own that she could give Twill tell You
what she gave in one day, and you WI
see that she was mistaken.
She gave an hour of patient care to her
little baby sister who was cutting teeth.
She gave a string and a crooked pin and
great deal of good advice to the three
year old brother who wanted to play at
fishing. She gave Ellen, the maid, a
precious hour to go and visit her sick
baby at homes for Ellen was a. widow,
and left her child with its grandmother
while she worked TO get bread for both.
She could not have seen them very. often
if our generous Mary had not offered 70
attend the door and look after the kitchen
fire while che was away. But this Is not
all that Mary gave. She dressed heIself
soneatly, and looked 80 bright and kind,
thrill OF pleasure whenever she caught
sight of the young, pleasant face iatshe
wrote letter 10 her father who was eb-
sent on business, in which h'she 'gaVe Shih
all the news be wanted in such q lr4nk,
artless way, that he than ked bis daughter
| i'm his heart, She gave natient Mention
! 10 long, tiresone story by her gfPpd-
mother, though she had heard 1t many
times before. She laughed just at the
right time, and when it was ended made
the old lady happy by goodnight Kiss.
Thus she had given valuable presents 70
six people in one day, and yet she had
not a, cent in the world, She wss As
good as gold, and she gave something ot
herself 70, ali those who were 30 happy as
to meet her.-Erchangs.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-23
A "Sumv In Arithmetic.


CHARLIE was at school, and though
Just twelve years Old, he was. head of the
class in arithmetic HisahatEer had come
home from his work, his mother was out
that evening visiting aHneighborr whose
boy Was very i'll of inflammation of, the
lungs Charlie, sitting with his slate, on
q stool near his father, said;
!"Now, phase give me an hocounf,; apd
you will see how soon l will do 1t:
"Well, 1 will" his father replied.
care you ready9 A, rich lady once
found lying at her door, one summer
morning, a little baby wrapped in an old
shawl. She could not find who laid 1t
there but she resolved TO rear it, and
give it out to nurse, keeping an account
OF all it cost her. When the little baby
had grown up fine boy of twelve years
of age, she wrote out the account thus:
purss for keeping infant for three years. ,...,o,
al $10e year - a Z, y !. . ~
Food for twelve .years, at $500 year.. $50 %
Lodging for twelve years, at $25 year. 500 %
reaching books, etc, for six years. at $40 30 m
pocioT yoIi and medicines, when the boy was
i'll three times, $40, IS and $40 ...... -. 70 10
. AttA # ..f tt" q - fal'f 10 r---------
Total. tal..............,.....-..... l,O2O w
"Now, tell me the sum Of it."
Charlie, after little explanation, Get to,
and by multiplying found out the figures
marked opposite each article, and adding
found that the little baby, had cost the
lady $1,525.
claimed. t.,l-,. -
ayes, it is indeed, Chatlie,n said the
father. ado you think you could / ay as
much ?' -i 'h9 a 20 Gcunsiul s.d
ooh, mol 1 have just one half crown
grandpa gave me-" -af ..s INV so,.y
"Well, but my boy, do you know you
owe ell that, and much more, to a kind
ladyP a.HI sJuDI 2IItffTOs
Charlie stared. r.i,.,..-. ...,-rr,q
"Yesl Are you not Just twelve years
old; and what kind lady nirsed you,
clothed and taught you ] Thought Char
lie forgot who did all this for him, when
ne put on sulky face this morning and
went 80 slowly on mammals errand to the
baker l"s'i -l.r'., I,r ....r ,sesl..s,A L
The little face was bent downward and
covered with bushes.
"Let me see your account, OharlieS
there is something more to put DOWN
For twelve wears mamma has loved yOh
watched over you, prayed for you No
money can tell how much this love and
these prayers are worth When you
grow up you might pay the 81 ,525, but
how will you pay mamma for her loVe!n,
Charles eyes filled with tears. u will
not behave so again! lean never pay
mamma what l have cost her y ''-t "a
When his mother came home Charile
showed her the account. She kissed him
and said lovingly, "Oh it my Charlie
grows up to be good man, shall be
well paid for all. - Sunday; SeeooS SFdr.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-23
The Blacksmith.
BY THE "FAr CONTRIBUTOR"

Bh THE FAT
VULCAN appears to have been the first
black smith of whom there is any authen-
tic record. He forged bolts for Jupiter.
Jupiter caught him forging them one day
and had him arrested. Alter a fair and
impartial trial before the Court of Com
mon Pleas of Hamilton county TSS I, he
was convicted of forgery in the thirty
seventh degree (Fahrenheit), and Jupiter
kicked him out of heaven on his own
recogniEance, injuring his recognizance
very considerably, and producing lame
ness from which he hasn't wholly recoV-
cred to this day.
AS Vulcan was man of great strength.
SO blacksmiths are generally noted for
their muscular power, the natural result
of expanding their lungs by blowing the
bellows and strengthening their arms
and hands by swinging the sledge,
The blacksmith follows a useful and la
borious profession, and no lazy msn is
ever found in it. When lazy boy is
urged to learn the blacksmith's trade, he
replies: "Oh, &ow the bellows" and. if
required to do it his bellows are really
painful to hear. .,I ar -f4r- q
Blacksmithing suggested to the Italians
that proverb of so much meaning, "Strike
while the iron is hot" A great many
failures among men can be attributed to
hesitation and delay in seizing the right
moment for action, and then the opportu-
nifty passes--the iron is cold. The good
blacksmith is quick to strike when the
iron is hot, unless he is striking for high
er wages, when he don't care particularly
whether the iron is hot or cold ~
The blacksmith irons off wagons of va
rious descriptions. Our worthy sire, we
remember, once took wagon to a black.
smith to be ironed of, and ne ironed it
way off to Kansas, SO that we never saw
any thing more of the wagon or of the
blacksmith. Wagons amt of much ac-
count ironed off SO far We afterwsrd
read of a wicked blacksmith out there
somewhere who stopped a Methodist min
lister riding the circuit and tried
to whip him, but the minister Just
pitched in and gave him hallelujah,
and we used to hope it was that
blacksmith who ironed the old gentle
mans wagon some thirteen hundred miles
of, But then the preacher, after slashing
sin out Of him, whipped religion into him,
so, as we never received the wagon back
through tho post-othce, accompanied by a
letter of repentance, We concluded it was
another blacksmith. 5l. 'L.treI' 1ri
Horse.shoeing is one of the most i'm
portant branches of the blacksmith's
trade. The blacksmith not only makes
all the horses shoes but he puts them on
for him, and laces them up. The horse
is generally able to pull them off himself.
In countries where there are no black,
smiths the horses are compelled to go
barefoot, winter as well as summer.
Blacksmiths sometimes shoe oxen as
well as horses and mules. We once saw
q great brawny son of Vulcan "shoo'
some chickens that were in his garden,
aud many of them can "shoo fy,"-Oia-
oiaaati Times. . -.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-23
$500 IN ADVANCE.

no reason to find fault with the weather
Ho had sat by sick bedside in
an attic, where the confined air
was heated till that out of doors
seemed cool in comparison, and yet there
q human being was obligedto remain. He
had visited other sick-bcds that he did not
tell about--their occupants, perhaps,
burning with fever or fading away
with consumption, conscious that
this is their last summer on
earth, and the effect upon him was won
derful to see. he was the cheerfulest
man one could imagine-no Rrumbling
about the weather from him, and the So
cret of 1t was he had been going round
doing good. ga ar.' h. ,l'1l,-
What a simple rule it is for being hap.
py, either in winters cold or summers
heat, and yet how few OF us know it, or
if we have heard of it how seldom we
practice it. We beg some of those people
who live in fine houses in shady yards, in
houses 80 large that each occupant can
have room TO himself, where cool blinds
shut out the sun, and wire doors and win.
dow screens bar the ingress of annoying
insects ts-who have all the delicacies OF
the season on their tables and cooling
drinks always at hand, who when tired OF
home can take a run to the mountains or
trip to the seashore and come back
again invigorated and refreshed beg
those who can command all these luxu.
ries, and yet go growing around at the
weather, making themselves and all
around them miserable with their re-
pinings, to follow the example, Of the
pastor we have mentioned, and of many
other good pastors, and try the effect of a
visit to the sick and the poor, most likely
to be found in some crowded tenement
house, and may be in an unsavory part of
the city. If the world does not seem
pleasanter to them sfterward, and the
heat we have had or likely to have, per-
fectly endurable, it will be contrary to the
experience of everybody who over yet
sought contentment in doing good
Springfield Republican,.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-23

THE line of conduct chosen by young
man during the five years from fifteen to
twenty will, in almost every instance, de-
termine his character for life. AS he is
then care fal or careless, prudent or i'm
prudent, industrious or indolent, truthful
or dissinilatipg, intelligent or ignorant,
temperate or dissolute, so will he be in
after years, and it needs no prophet TO
cast his horoscope or calculate his chance
in life .Dt I....a
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-23

GREAT tracts of pine wood are every
year destroyed by fire in the south OF
France, M, Schrader, who has tried to
discover the origin Of these fires, has
come TO the conclusion that they are
caused by the suns heat setting fire TO
the vspor of tuTpentine which is con-
tanned IN the trunk, and which is exposed
TO direct contact with external heat by
the holes bored for the extraction of tur-
Dentine. |a u
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-23

Tux imprint of woman's face, affixed
there by lightning, is plainly visible ON
the glass of an attic window In Lawrence,
Mass, and a great sensation is created
thereby, ghosts being limited at.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-23
j POETRY.
NY LoKE

~ MY LOVE ~
MI loyeispaes but 10 her cheeks
Faint fufy nhshes come aud TO,
Thet Gather enghty when she speaks,
ndfoInetmes deepen to glow.
she seems most Ike ayoung white rose,
a Within whose heart blush lie set,
" as1tsly uafoldins as y gtoyEs-
But an, I haven found her Yeti
Her eyes are blue-such eweet blue eyesi
tier white lids veil them from Your sight,
Bat now aud then a smile will rise,
And ffil them suddenly with light;
And when che hears Of some dietrese,
And on the lashes tears are wet,
They LOOK with such pained tenderness
But ah, have not found her yeti
Across her brow In even braids
ls smoothly laid her glossy hair;
80. NY love has need of no false aids,
lSf9 ..Oatticks af dtoss, to make her fair.
Sh) docs not need from silkcn trains
gorgeous dignity TO get;
In her soft homGly dress she leigns-
Bat aht have not found her yety
She wins your hparta hundred ways
- Laying aight hand on yOurRrm, p 8 -
q ~ Nhneib nlal she dofs and eays
- ndtlge deerbntia1 charm.
Moving ABOUT with quiet grace;
Such little things you soon forget,
Although they steal yonr love apacc-- f
But ah, have not found her yeti
- - Herirsge IL my hearth wear;
w Elhy10Ve, my faitli. nre all her own:
keep my life prepared for her
When she shall come and take her THRONE
dream OF what the word will seem
SO much more bright when we have met
wonder, is it all a dreami-
- FStah' hsvo rot found her yeti
The workingman's advocate., 1870-11-05

The minutes Of the morning session were
read and approved. The President, upon
the recommendation Of Syracuse Union No.
s, appointed TbOs. Zaph, Sergeantat-
ArmS
The President then presented bis report
which was read by the secretary, and upon
the motion Of Rep. Shelter was referred to
a committee Of seven to investigate the re-
ports of officers Committee-Repe. ID.
Shelter, L. j. Cox, NJ. X. Goldsmith. A.
Mafht, j. L. Aubrey, A. Hart, A. Krinser.
The President said in his report that
thirteen months ago, r. the regular session
Of the international Union, ut Chicago. il
was concluded to meet bi-annually, but in
consequences Of the iHsfhciency Of our laws
and being buFdened with several larg.
strikes; the attempt to introduce CoOlie Ia
Dor BY capitalists ; the depressing effects o
existing revenue lars and other matters
caused an agitation in the maA.
Syracuse Union, No. 6, took the imtis
tive BY 3 passage Of . resolution askin
that the necessary steps be taken to call
special session Of lhe international Unicr
The vecueh was roisrsd 10 local union
thrO1-sa the medium Of our Official o,
gam, majority Of whom votsd in the siiru
alive, thaEsupon The executive board issue
the call for tha special sasion 10 meet
the city Of Syracuse, 0ct loth, 1870.
The workingman's advocate., 1870-11-05


International UuiOr assembled at Tur
. Hall, this day at 10 O'Clock, pursuant +
the following call " '
CoLUNBUs, O, August 29th, 1870.
70 Officers and Members Of Local UsiOn
uader he JwrisdIchon Of the CigaI
Makers International Union.
GENTLEMEN By the approval of
MI 1rity of Local Unions, under the juris-
diction of the Cigar Makers international
Union, it is hereby ordered that there be a
special session Of the Cigar Makers Inter
nationa. Union, to convene in the city Of
Syracuse, State Of New York, on Monday,
October 10th, A. d. 1870, to take into
consideration the past strikes, and 70 bring
about the final settlement Of the same to
complete arrangements for future strikes !;
to take more active measures towards assist
ing the interest Of cooperation ; to take in
to consideration the present internal revenue
laws; to protest against the importation Of
the coolie race and to transact such other
business as may be legally brought before
said body.
As the term Of Office Of those representa-
tives elected in July, A. d. 1869, expires
on the lst Monday in September, A. D.
1870, therefore all local unions are respect
fully requested to Immediately call meetings
and elect representatives to represent their
respective unions at this coming special
session. The basis Of representation shall
be in accordance with section !, Of article
2, Of the International Constitution.
The coming session will be very impor-
tsnt event to our organization, therefore we
make an urgent appeal to each Local Union
to send representative, that we may coun-
sci together, for the beneht..an welfare Of
our organization, and to endeaver to gain
the objects contemplated by this session.
By order of the executive board of the
Cigar Makers International Union of
America.
.. FRED. BLEND, President.
tt.--.-..t ELIAS Smith, Int. Sec.
p. S. The arrangements made for the
session, will be published from time to time
in the WoRKINGMEN's ADVOCATE.
Local Unions are respectfully requested
70 Immediately notify me of the election of
heir representatives and give, me their
names, Yours, Fraternally,
FRED. BLEND,
International President
The meeting was called TO order by Pres
uvLIs DIsnu, VIZ uv0L%ivu t1at uuis
special session. Of the International Union
was now open for the transaction Of bust
ness, and be hoped that good feeling and har-
mony might prevail throughout the session,
and stated that the first business in order
was the election of secretary pro tenn.
After three ballots ThOs. j Birch, Of
Union No. 3, was chosen as such secretary.
On motion Of Vice President Lsvine
committee Of FIVE were appointed on Gre
dentials, viz: Jno. w. Lavine, A. Hart,
Z. J. Cox, W. D. Cannon, and A. Kin
ger.
The convention, then on motion Of repre-
sentative Bonn, adjourned until two o'clock
p. m., in order to give the committee on
time to report.
FIRST DGT-AFrBRNoON SESSION.
The International Union reassembled at
2 o'clock p. NJ, President Blend in the
chair The committee on credentials re-
ported the following named gentlemen rs
entitled 70 seats in this convention Of the
International Union.
The workingman's advocate., 1870-11-05
REPORT OF THE PROCE EDINGs
SPECIAL SESSION
-oF THE-
CiGar Makers International Union,
CITY or Syracuse, New York,
Oct l0h, 1870.
FIRST DAr-MoRxISe SESSION.

FIhsI UA HV1100H3NO SI@"HN8''
The special session Of the Cigar Makers
International UniOr assembled at Turn
Hall, this day at 10 O'Clock, pursuant to
The workingman's advocate., 1870-11-05
8. J. Cox, Chairman.
Angel Hart c

Uu mOsOu 80 report Wss adopted.
The committee appointed on tis claims of
Reinech and Zesch for balance due for
printing in the sum of $109.25, reported
that the honor and dignity Of the union, Do
mands that the bill be- allowed. -
On motion the report was rssssrsd to the
executive board.
The workingman's advocate., 1870-11-05
THE
8 T a T z
SAVINGS INSTITUTION
so & 80 La Sale st
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DIRECTORS
. %. EGRNEIpEH,
JOHN c. EAINEH,
JOHN O. pORu.
L. q. Subway,
". ID. KIDpHR.
The workingman's advocate., 1870-11-05

On motion be report was considered,
each case separately.
LIST, Case Of Davenport Union demand
on International Union. Adopted.
I'd, Case Of Quincy Union RS. Des
Moines Union. Adopted.
The hour Of l2 O'Clock having arrived,
the Union adjourned.
FOURTH DAr-AFTERNooN sEssIoN.
The Convention re-assembled at 2 O'Clock
p. NJ, President Blend in the Chair.
Roll call Of officers All present.
Rel call Of members. All present.
The reading of the minutes dispensed
with.
The consideration Of. the report Of com.
mittse on rlaims and grievances being in
order.
| 81, Case Of Geo. W. Ksuning rs De
| troit Union.
Representative Hart offsssd the follow
| ing % substitvts for the report Of th'
lcommittes On nid case:
/ Resolved. That the case be dismissed.
Adopted.