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MISCELLANEOUS.

LYNDON HOUSE,
)OBERT S. PERRY, Proprietor, Water
L. town Wisconsin,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-08-19
SIXTH DISTRICT
(LATE JEFFERSON CITY,

A
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-03-18
Generous Husband.

Perhaps fifteen or seventeen years ago,
in very good state, saw woman with
II pleasant Quaker face, under simple
Quaker bonnet rather liked it-and
her Quaker husband sitting by her with
his broad brimmed hat on. They had
spent many years together, you could
see by their faces. He WAS just bidding
her good. bye as the train was starting,
and heard her ask him for q little money.
| did net at all wish to hear what they
said, but heard that he had bought her
a ticket, and saw that he hal taken her
satchel politely on his arm. She hated To
ask him tor money;a good many other
women have hated to ask for it, too.
She began TO say, IL wish had little"
she did not want to finish, thinking
that he would think of it and give it 10
her; but he did not So out it came all
at once: Maybe I'll want little money
while I'm gone" The good, honest
Quaker turned his face toward her with
surprise, and said ;-"What hast thou
done with the quarter | gave thee last
week ?"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-03-18
Il Quiet Hint to the Conscience.

A good story is related Of the late Rev.
j. l.. Cannon, ID. d., OF New Brunswick.
On one occasion-being accustomed to
leave his secular affairs very much to
take care of themselves, in his higher
engagements in spiritual things-he had
given an order TO horsejockey Tor the
purchase of horse. When the man
called few days after, he was shown to
the study and said, -
well. dominic, have got horse
that will suit You to fraction"
What is the price ?" said the doctor.
The jockey nameda fair sounding sum.
The doctor rose. and opening his desk,
and pulling out roll of bills, began to
count out the money.
What said the jockey, "are You not
going to look at the horse
"No." said the doctor, "you say he
will suit me willtake your word for it,"
This fearless reliance stimulated the
Jockeys conscience into unwonted activity
and starting up he said. keep your
money to-day, dominic; perhaps l can
get you q better horse" and withdrew,
to come again another day with an animal
that would bear subsequent reflection.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-03-18

"A rural exhibitor says he has enlarg.
ed his establishment, and now keeps
head OF oxen, a head of hen. and several
head of cabbage, while he is also trying
TO keep head of the times.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-03-18
pottrp,


open your mouth and shut your eyes"
Three little maldens were saying,
And see what Cod sends you - Iile they thought
Tie listened while they were playing,
80 little we guess that a light, light word
At times, may be more than praying.
II" said Kate, with the merry blue eyes,
Would have lots OF frolic and folly"
IL said Ciss, with the bonnie brown hair,
Would have life always smiling aud jolly"
And would have just what our Father may
seud"
Said lovable little pale Polly.
Life came for the two, with sweetness new,
Every morning in gloss and glistcr;
But our Father above, in sush of great love,
Caught up Little Polly and Kissed her;
And the church yard nestled another wee grave,
The angels another wee sister.
-Geruld Massey.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-03-18
Local Aaents for The Democrat.

Who are authorized to receipt Tor money.
j. LOvejoy, Albany. y n. Hubbard, Hiram.
Silysnus Poor, AndOver. w. Bicknell, Hartford
Il. Foster, Jr.. Bethel. John =. Hobbs, Lowell.
pr. lapham, Bryant Z. Henry W. Park. MeNicO-
Iii r. Rcan. BrOwuheld. Geo. N. Brown, Mason.
w Cummings. RucShcld. Henry Upton, Norway.
4 l. Holt, Caution Oriu Poster, Newry.
Bolster6 Wright. DiNd'd 4. :. WYmAn. Peru.
David S,.wal 4 Sumner. a.. Abbott, Jr.,E Rumf-d q
y shirley. Fryeburg. y g. Rich. lpiOn.
II IA IT. a rrenw a. IA. a. Chandler. ". sum r
K knapp Hanover. Jas. VI. shaw. Waterford.
n. Saunders, sweden.
Travelling Agent Rev :. W. PIEECE.
Subscribers can tell, by examining the colorci
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those i~hins 70 avail themselves OF the advanced
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the paper l. paid for, % that date. when money IL
sent care should o. takCu tocNanue the slip, ana II
the money j. no; credited within two weeks, Ne
should Dc SPPriscd Oft
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-03-18
stlctt storp.
PREDESTIN NATION.

By REV. JOHN TODD, u. ID.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05

There is in existence in the
United States to-day sixteen
hundred and twenty national
banks. In addition to these,
seventy-four have either closed
or are closing their accounts.
OF this number Massachusetts
has two hundred and six; New
York, three hundred and ff-
teen; Pennsylvania, three hun
dred and five, and Ohio, one
hundred and thirty,eight. No
other State has over one hun
dred, and none is without a
national bank. The whole
amount Of paid-in capital is
$432, 1884, the aggregate
Of bonds deposited to secure
circulation is $342, ,475,l0 and
the actual circulation is $780,
7S9,895 45.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05
.HoW to Make Coffee.

The American Builder says
First, solemnly determine in
your mind never to allow IN
ounce of ground coffee to enter
the door of the kitchen. Ifno
one about the premises under
stands the art of roasting coffee,
then buy it ready roasted, and
try and find a dealer who has
not soaked all the essence out
Of the coffee before putting it
into the oven. If the roasted
berry is twice as large as when
green, depend upon it, the seal
awag Great Humbug Tea and
Coffee Company have defraud-
ed you. Get an earthen pot
you cannot make good coffee
or tea in a tin pan-and put
the ground coffee in q clean
white flannel bag, and be sure
to put enough in, and drop the
bag into the pot. Pour on
boiling water, and let it steep,
but do not boil it. The coffee
will steep in twenty minutes.
Never break an egg into the
coffee, and never fill up with
water the second time. Pour
on, in the beginning, the amount
of water needed. An ordina-
ry teacupful of ground coffee
is sufficient for three persons.
Use Java, Mocha, OF Java and
Rio mixed. Follow this recipe
and you will never complain of
poor coffee.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05
HotO LOngP

Ben Butler is quoted as the
sole obstacle to thesSadmissior
Of Virginia. A correspondent
asks, why should Virginia sub
ject herself to further humilia.
tion, by becoming asupplicant
at the. feet of Butler2
Virginia has carried out all
the requirements of the recon
struction laws, in letter and in
spirit. This is admitted by
everybody. The President
himself has admittedEt and rec,
commended in his message that
the State be promptly admit
ted What more can Virginia
do, in honor and in justice to
herself? She submitted to all
that the reconstruction laws re,
quired of her, and if there are
other, and unwritten laws, SSof
which General EButler is the
sole Interpreter, the fact should
be known. Let this be a test
case. If the States. yet unre-
constructed are to be compell-
ed to humble themselves to this
man Butler, and to accede to
any terms he may dictate, let
then, be warned in time. If the
reconstruction laws are to be
AS elastic as the consciences of
CongreSsmen, let it be
so proclaimed.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05

The loyal State organ of the
bondholders and the shoddy.
ties does not like the term 'Ab.
clifton as applied to its party.
If the creatures who run that
machine ever looked at any
thing bnt a dictionary of slang,
they would probably be able
to discover that the term Alb.
olitionist is peculiarly adapted
to the party fol. which they or.
ganize.' In its widest sense il
means one who utterly destroys
abrogates, demolishes and an
nuls. If this definition does
suit the Abolition party, ther
that organized hypocrisy has
had no appropriate name, anc
can have none hereafter. i
has destroyed almost every
thing that was good in the
Government, and the little tina
is left cannot last long unde.
the charge of the Abolition
usurpers. The assumption o
the name of Republican is
fraud, for Republican it canno
be while maintaining State
and peoples in military subject
ion without warrant of law. A
to the title Of Union.Republi
can sometimes, impudently as
sumed, it is an aggravation o
the original fraud, for the pal
ty never was in favor of th
Union, and is not now, as
shown by the fact that thre
States are kept out of the Ur
ion, and another one has jus
been turned out. The Abol
ton Journal need not car
about an epithet SO well adap
ed to its party. 1t is an Alb
lition, a destructive party, an
nothing else.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05
n Hard Hit From o. Rddi-
cal.

@Donn Piatt, if he is def.
cientin history, is still a thorn
in thefSide of the Admins
tion, because Dom has a fac
ulty of 2 writing readable
letters which contain much
truth.
He thus hits the Admins
tration hard in his sketch oi
a ticalsMicawber in Wash.
ington, who is waiting for
something..toIt up. Dom,
writing to the Commercial,
says:
In a visit I''madey sterday
TO my friend Skillet, at the
we'll known hotel, the Brown
Jug,M encountered a tall, an
gular specimen from Illinois,
who knew the President
Nearly y all the boarders at the
Brown Jug are personally
known to the President. My
friend Skillet, was present
when the venerable Jesse,
father Of the Administration,
fell down and broke his neck,
or produced a compound frac-
ture ofhi os coclogis, or some
thing else, and Skillet took
turns in nursing the venera-
bic j. with the benevolent
Stoms, and the result was an
introduction to the President
and the Promise Of an Office.
Skillet has been here, now,
since the 4th Of March, 1868,
writing for that Office.
My friend from Illinois, was
gotten up in a swallow tail
coat, Of a past generation suf-
lering a severe eruption from
brass buttons, and he told me
that he often stopped at the
tavern where the "Gineral'
did while hauling cord wood,
and could boint out the idcn-
tical bench where "Lyses"
would rest himself after a lit
tie refreshment.
The bench is there to testi-
ty, so deny it not.
How near this brings the
President to the suffering peo-
pie of Illinois. How near, and
yet how far, When "Lyses"
was reposing upon the bench,
at the humble wayside inn, he
did not actually know wheth.
er he was a Republican or
a Democrat.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05
Me,, acho ectap VWonen.

God has ESQ made the S, x"v
that women, like children, cling
to men; lean Eupon thenR ia
though they were Superior i,
mind and body. They make
them the suns of systems, and
their children revolve around
them. Men are gods, if ithey
but knew it, and women are
burningincenSe atthese shrinea.
Women, therefore, who Ehave
good minds and pure hearts,
want men to lean upon. Thilrl;
OF their reverencing a drunk.
ard, a liar a fool, or q liber-
tine! IF a man would have u
woman to doihim homage, lle
must be manly in every sense;
a true gentleman, not afterithc
Cheaterfeld school, but polit.
because his, heart is full of
kindness to all; one treats her
with respect, even difference,
because she is a woman; who
never condescends to say silly
things to her. who brings her
mp to his level, if his mind is
above hers; who is never over
anxious to do right; who has
no time to be frivolous with
her. Always dignifed in speech
and act; who never spends too
much upon her, never yields to
temptation, even if she puts it
in bis way;Eambitious to make
his mark in the world, wheth.
er she encourages..him or; not,
who is never familiar with her
to the extent of being an adopt
ed brother or cousin, who is
not over careful about dress, al.
ways pleasant and considerate,
but always keeping his place
Of the man, the head, and nev-
er losing it. Such department,
with noble principles, good
mind, energy and industry, will
win any woman in the world
who is worth winning.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05

The admission of Virginia,
which was never out of the
Union, for the simple and log.
ical reason that a State can't
get out, vide Radical lexicog'
raphers, seems to be a puzzlin!g
question for the Reconstruc.
ton Committee to dispose of
They are not willing to let
Virginia in on q condition O.
negro equality, but are search
in for something still more de
grading to enact upon her.
Poor committee, and poor Vir
ginia.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05

Henry Ward Beecher's sala-
ry has been reduced from $29,.
900 to $4,000 a year, That
is cutting off 81, 900 at a single
clip. There is not a free.lover
a seducer, nor any other rascal
who would not be glad to
preach for even the last named
sum. But Beecher appears not
to draw as he used to, and
therefore his managers have
reduced his salary.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05

A straw will make an i'm
preston on the virgin snow;
let it remain but a short time,
and a horses hoof can scarcely
penetrate it. So it is with the
youthful mind. A tri1ing
word may make an impression
on it, but after a few years the
most powerful appeals may
cease to influence it. Think of
this, ye who have the training
of the infant mind, andi leave
such Impressions thereon as will
be safe for it to carry amid the
follies and temptations of the
world.
~ committee appointed to
investigate an alleged charge of
undue punishment inflicted by
a school-teacher, reported that
the punishment was not actua.
ted by malice, but was occa.
stoned by an undue apprecia-
ton of 1.-The thickness of the
boys pantaloons,'
Asswalnut tree measuring s
feet across, petrifed into soap
stone, has recently been discov.
cred in an Illinois coal mine, at
a depth of l75 feet below the
surface of the earth.
A planter at Key West,
Florida, has sold his crop of
pine apples, gathered from less
than an acre and a half of
ground, for nearly seven thou
sand dollars.
Somebody hints that the
Arabs are a people of dry hab.
its. How could it be otherwise,
living as they do an sandy des.
erts.
Some ministers are forever
hammering doctrines; making
ploughs with which they donot
, work after they are made.
Men and horses have about
i. two hundred and fifty bones
each, and about twice that nun.
Der Of muscles. ,,..
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05
Ne,c York Election Fraud,

A'C" LVIh NtCCCtUn ATuutS'
An election for municipal
officers has just taken place in
New York and the inevitable
clamor about frauds is repeated,
Last fall theuRadical leaders
became fairly frantic on the
subject.
Let the noisy fellows who
talk so gibly abouti'Democrat-
ic frauds in New Y ork bear in
mind this fact: The Boards of
Registry, the Inspectors and
the Clnvassers of New York,
are appointed by a board Of
Police Commissioners. This
Board is now, ana mas Oeen
for years, composed of two
Democrats and two Republi.
cans.
The common sense deduction
from this is, that if frauds are
committed in the New York
elections, the Republicans are
exactly as culpable as the Dem
ocrats.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05
DR.. Richardson has invented

DR.. Richardson has invented
a knife that cuts so fast that no.
body can feelit. After all, how
ever, there is nothing vastly
new in this surgical invention.
People in society cut each 9th
er every day, and if they are at
all fast, neither of them feels
it, -.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05


A singular trial in u church
took place in Sullivan county a
short time ago. A minister
had been absent for a few days
on a spiritual tour, and on re.
turning home late at night,
found the family all in bed and
sound asleep. He ate q bite
and went to bed, but to his
surprise found, on wakiug up
iii the morning, that a strange
woman was snoozing away at
his side. (We shall call the
household Jones,) Mrs. j., not
expecting Mr.. Jones, passed
the night at q neighbors, and
the house girl, not thinking
any harm, got into Mr. and
Mrs. Jones bed. The story
leaked out, and Mr.. Jones was
arlaigned before the church to
account for his sins. His only
plea was that he had no other
thought than that it was Mrs.
Jones who was in bed, but when
the girl was asked for an ex-
planation on her part, (she be
ing a member also, replied in
nocently, that she thought she
was Mrs. Jones. The trial was
postponed for further evidence
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05

An unexpected divorce case
was brought before a Wiscon-
sin court just as the crier was
proclaiming adjournment. The
judge set down his hat, clerk
his book, and in five
minutes the decree was record.
ed
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05
TLo Elo,.;Jo nonors ,,ro.,

The Florida papers urge the
planters to raise sugar and
abandon cotton. Sugar and
fruit, they say, are the natural
products of the State, and much
more profitable than cotton.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05
Hon. 4. G. Thurman.

This distinguished gentle.
man is bearing himself worth.
ly in the United States Senate.
He is vigiIant and grapples the
denominations of the Radicals
with massive strength. Last
week, pending the passage in
the Senate of the nefarious bill
that requires Georgia to ratify
the Fifthteenth Amendment
before she shall be regarded as
a member of the Union, he
held up in its intiquity and pro
tested against its cousumation,
Hon. John Sherman undertook
to controvert his statement
that the majority of the, voters
of Ohio had pronounced against
Negro Suffrage and had came
to grief for its temerity.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05
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Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05
HOaU u Clear Headed R0di-
cal Republican Looks Up
OD the Future of "Repu-



didtiOn."
Dom Piatt, Washington cor
respondent Of the Cincinnati
Commercial, commenting in q
recent letter upon Col. Nun.
gems late speech, he says:
"The monster reputation,
with hungry eyes and low
growls, disappeared from the
floor, only to come back again
bigger and uglier each time
for he is not dead, nor does he
sleep"
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-01-05
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1870.
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DR.. I.T.MoNAHAN, I. Proprietor.

T'Hls HOUSE, 1I iormorly tne isham House, has
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