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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-21
HOuseMOrk for Girls.

IT is the law of God that no human
being can have sound, vigorous body,
accomplish much physically, and enjoy
long life, without good muscles. Though
there is variety of ways by which ex-
ercise may be obtained, yet domestic labor
is best adapted to develop and strengthen
the whole system. Within few years
much interest has been awakened upon
the subject of physical exercise, particu-
larly as connected with schools and semi.
naries of learning. Besides the outdoor
exercises and games, calisthenics and
gymnastics have been introduced inside
the schoolroom, and are becoming a part
of the regular exercises in many institu.
tions. This is an improvement in the
right direction, and is good as far as it
goes, but is entirely inadequate to meet
fully the demands Of nature.
No kind of exercise for girls Is 80 well
calculated as household work to develop
all the muscles of the body-to do it in
early life, and gradually, under circum-
stances favorable to health generally. The
girl and young woman must thus be train
ed year after year, otherwise she will
never obtain that hardihood of constitu-
tion, that strength of muscle, that power
OF endurance, or, in other words, that
balance of temperament 30 essential to
good health and happiness in all the social
and domestic relations of life.-Dr. Al.
lyme.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-21
The ClOYen Foot.

THE Democracy of Kentucky still
dreams of the restoration of the
good old days of slavery. They
watch and pray for the time the Dem
ocratic party shall come into power
again; when the index on the dial of pro.
gress shall be turned back to the DAYS
when the chivalry ruled supreme, and
every man walloped his own "nigger," if
he owned one. These old Bourbons re-
fuse Indignantly to accept the work of re-
construction and the Fifteenth Amend
ment as q final settlement of the section
al question that once divided the North
and South. The Paducah Herald, an or.
gan of the ex-chiVslry, says:
"The Democratic party always has been a
white mans party Itis so yet. 1t will not Iecog-
MIA the negro as permanent element in this
country; ana whenever 1t gets the power IL will
rights"
Tne other Democratic paper of Padu.
cab, the Rentuokian, in its issue of the
21st ult., quotes this extract spproVingly,
and proceeds to comment thereon as fol.
lows
"Exacty so. Yet it seems the Herald has but
recently discovered the fact that the National
democratic party is white mans party We
agree that U DW Teped! ne fifteenth Anlandnent
whsn gets into posOer, and therefore think 1t
very useless to discuss the subject until 1t does
get into power, particularly since we have such
unmlsakable evidence of the fact that all this un-
necessary aud premature agitation OF the question
10 daily iIJuring US in the North. The fortress of
hadlcalsm is 10 be carried by storm-why stop In
'front.' OF the works and wrangle and jaw about
what we are going to do when we take iti IL is
enough 10 assure the people that we will protect
the Reserved powers OF the States; that We will
ad dmlnlster the government upon honest princi-
pies; and that we will restore the ancient land
marks OF liberty Upon this platform all opponents
OF hadicalitm can stand. But upon the subject of
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-21
Manuring Land

IN recent number of the Agricultural
Gazette this subject Is discussed from q
scientific standpoint. The article con-
tains much valuable data which will be
found useful, and we herewith reproduce
the material portion of it:
Prof Playfair says that from every
wheat growing farm of 800 acres, on the
iour'course system, there is removed
every year, in the form of grain and
straw, more than $4,000 pounds of aka.
lies, about 5000 pounds of salts of lime
and magnesia, $4,000 pounds of silica,
and nearly $1,000 pounds of phospates,
the latter being found nearly altogether in
the grain, and therefore almost all re.
moved from the premises. Phosphate of
lime, magnesia and soda and potash, and
some other phospates are necessary for
the formation of great many seeds, and
are found in considerable quantity, es.
peclally In those of the cereals; indeed, it
has been often remarked, that the cereals,
IKE domestic animals, naturally follow
man In his migrations The seeds OF all
kinds OF grasses, beans, peas and lentils,
also contain large proportion of the
| phosphates.
In applying bones TO land for the pur.
pose OF restoring the phosphates, the
farmer must not expect to see any great
improvement upon the next succeeding
crop; If he wish them TO have an imme.
diate effect, he mast mix with sulphuric
acid and water but this diminishes the
permanency of their action, and in some
measure entails loss, as the increased
solubility of the manure renders it liable
to be washed away, beyond the sphere OF
the plant, by rains. The medium state
between too great insolubility, and too
great solubility of bones, is afler bruising
them. This gets rid of the gelatine or
glue with which they are combined, and
which diminishes their solubility if the
soil be rich in vegetable matter.
According to DIR. Playlair, every farmer
should keep an account of stock, with q
debtor and creditor side, for each field
then in his crops he could tell how many
pounds of potash, of phosphates, and of
magnesia, he had robbed the soil of by
the growth of the plants, and let MIN give
credit to the field in manure for those
amounts of which he had robbed it. II
he robs 1t only of potash, as in the case of
turnips, why should he be at the expense
of giving it silica and various other ingre-
dientsP Let him give back the potash !;
there is no use in giving host of other
things to the soil I; let him give such ma.
nure as is necessary and useful to the
plant, and not put in several other things
which the plant does not require.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-21
Enterprise In Farming.


WE are inclined TO think, ssys Doctor
True, that more farmers fail in being
what they wish TO be, OF In having what
they want to have, through want of en-
terprise, than the want Of any other
requisite. In industry and frugality there
is probably no class that equals them. The
money gained by honest toll in the field is
seldom wasted in the wine cup or gam.
bling table. They work hard and long, and
scrupulously save their earnings; still,
comparatively few become wealthy, and
with those few the wealth acquired is or.
dinarily the work of lifetime.
This comes, we think, chiefly from Q
lack of enterprise-from being over. eau
tious about entering into any branch oi
farming operations that has not beer
thoroughly tried, tested and declared safe
The old adage, nothing ventured, moth
ing had" is cxempliaed in the lives of 9t
out of every hundred farmers. =.
A certain degree of caution Is a gooC
thing; but it is quiteAs bad to have too
much off as too little. For every farme
who loses by showing some enterprise II
raising new crops, sowing new varietie
OF seed, or in branching out into SOM
new line of farming, there are hundre'
who keep themselves poor by always run
ming into the same old ruts 1t is not Il
be expected that all new things will pa.
in farming, any more than in other kind
of business; but some of them will pay
and these will compensate for what ha
been lost In experimenting with others.
II AS rule, man thinks better of hin
self, and his neighbors thing better of him
If he have the courage and enterprise
strike boldly out inUo some new undel
taking that promises well, even If he fai
in it, than they do if he sits contentedl
down, and docs the thing which his fathe
saw his grandfather do.-Fdrm and o
| nhdTd .i-
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continue its agitation at this time, half our
strength Will leave MS and join the enemy We
agree with the Hsrdld that the amendment toiH Be
repealed, and consequently can zee no earthly rea-
son why we should discuss It now, when we know
that discussion will produce dissension in our own
ranks and strengthen the enemy"
These pro slavery organs agree perfect.
ly on the main point, that the Democratic
party is party of eternal hate TO the free
negro, and will strip him of his political
rights and reduce him to servitude at the
earliest opportunity. 1--WE agree" says
party will repeal the Fifteenth Amend
ment when 1t gets into power,
but think it bad policy to discuss
this ubiect until it does get into power.
as II hurts our Democratic friends in the
North" The great underlying purpose
of the Democratic party is to be kept in
the background until the Northern wing
can steal victory on false pretences, and
false issues, and then the cloven hoof will
be shown, and as, the Paducah Herald
bluntly declares, Whenever 1t gets the
power, 1t will repeal any amendment Civ.
ing the negro political rights" When Q
man Is divested Of all political rights, he
is merely sIdve. The difference between
a free man and slave Is, that the former
possesses political rights, and the
latter has none, but Is chatte
under the dominion of those who
have stolen his rights away from
him. But the "fortress of Radicalism ;
In the North must first be carried, by
whatever means, and then the pro- slavery
programme will be enacted Hence WI
have in Northern Democratic PLATFORM
glittering generalities, denunciations O
the Administration, mendaclous charges
vague resolves about State rights anC
Capitalization, but not word, pro or con
on the main idea and chief purpose of tn,
Democracy If they get into powerful,
repeal of every law and the notification
of every constitutional amendment giyinI
the black man political or civil rights.
1t Is only necessary for the Republican
press and stumpers to bring to the fore
ground the purposes which their oppo
nents keep in the background. No Re
publican will ever knowingly and volun
tarily support the reactionary programme
of the Democracy. No Republican will
vote to restore that party to power unles
he is deceived and deluded by the hypo
critical professions of its leaders. He ha
nothing to gain and everything to los
that he esteems of political value by tn
restoration of the Bourbons TO power
-Chtcdg0 Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-21

yards from the point of collision, and had
been seen in its accustomed place as late
as eleven o'clock that night, and must
have been showed, shortly before our
arrival, down the switch with such force
as to carry the forward truck over upon
the main track, the rear truck still remain
ing upon the switch; that when struck
by, the locomotive IL was showed down
the switch and down the main track until
it stood at right angle with our train,
when II was cleared by the locomotive,
the end of II grazing the side of the pas.
senger car at the fatal instant when Prof.
Fletcher put his head out of the window,
The scene of disaster was near the depot,
In the town of Sullivan and report had
1t that a man, notorious for his disloyal
sentiments, at a late hour of the night, at
low drinking house in tho town, had
said TO several boon companions:
Now, boys, let's take drink, and then
go to the depot and knock hi out of this
id abolition Governor that's coming
down the road tonight"
Another man was arrested and tried for
the otfense, but the trial amounted to moth
ing, and he was acquitted.
| / sent for the telepraphic operator. but
he could not get dispatch through to
indianapolis until eight o'clock in the
morning, l studied in what words /
should break the dreadful news to his
father. The first dispatch tore up, then
the second, then the third, and finally
communicated with my private secretary
with the instruction to convey the awful
intelligence to the father and family al
best he could
In the afternoon sent the corpse by
special train to Greencastle, and pro
curing another locomotive, started on my
way to the army. For many days the
horrible scene was ever present in my
mind, and was filed with apprehension
OF disaster which l had never before ex
perienced; ard it was not until my return
home, some five weeks atterwsrd, that the
spell was broken, and was able to pu
away for a time the terrible impressions
OF that night-NeD York Ledger.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-21
About the Blood.


If we take glass of water it begins to
enter the blood within one minute after it
is swallowed, and soon it is all there. If
we take cup of tea all the soluble parts
of it are in the blood in very short time,
usually. If we take glass of whisky or
dirty beer it is on the same route of travel
with the tea, and very impure blood it
makes at times. To be sure, all hands
go TO work to get rid of it the little ca.
pillaries of the skin go to emptying the
liquids out through the skin as fast as
they can, and if the weather is warm,
they get along pretty rapidly at their
work. The lungs throw it out in our
breath, in the shape of vsper, and the
kidneys work away as lively as they can.
Then our food, when it is properly pre-
pared by digestion, goes so far as IL is
soluble into the same current of the
blood. If we eat suitable, nutritious
food, the products of it are all wanted to
supply the waste to the tissues and the
material is carried along to the points
where it is wanted, and is then used.
Further, when the smallest part of mus.
Gle, or a nerve, or of any part of the
body is worn out, it must be removed,
and 1t is taken in very small pieces and
hoated of in this same stream of the
blood to be still further changed, and if
of use, it is used; otherwise it finds its
way out Of the body.
30 we can see how the blood is continu-
ally changing, growing pure an impure.
Not impure because some villainous
stream OF dark poison maintains its stay
there, floating around to do what mischief
it may, but impure because we have in.
troduced the impurities to it through our
stomachs or lungs; impure, perhaps, be-
cause we have filed it with the contents
of some villainous bottle of somebody's
dye stuff, which he claims will purify the
blood.
If we would have pure blood then, let
us breathe pure air, eat pure food, and
drink pure water.-HOuseh0ld.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-21
Some Republican Outrages.

We wish Democratic journals, instead
of all the while dealing in gloomy gener.
alities in respect to the outrages the Re-
publican party has committed, would set
forth the facts SO that everybody might
understand them. According to the
gloomy generalities referred to, there
never was such wicked party as the Re-
publican but inasmuch as this wicked
ness is all of general, ill-defned nature
we propose to go into the details of the
subject, and specify some of the outrages
which make the Republican party worthy
the deep condemnation of the public. No
one who would not dispute against the
sun will deny that for the following
vicious, wicked, and wrongful measures
and deeds, the Republican party is respon-
sible before the bar of the people:
1. The homestead law.
2. The emancipation of four million
slaves.
8. The suppression of wicked rebel
lion, in which was included not only vast
military operations, but the maturing and
successful operation of financial system
which preserved the national credit
from ruin, and greatly aided public pros.
perity.
a. The construction of railway to the
Pacific ocean.
5. The reconstruction of the Southern
states on the principles of justice and
freedom.
g. The reform of the system of con-
Quoting the public offices, whereby i'm.
mense sums of money are annually saved
to the people.
rings" whose plunderings of the public
tun6Q aof NJ
8. The inauguration of an Indian policy
at once just, humane, and successful
| policy which seems destined to solve, in
the interests Of civilization, a problem
that has perplexed and eluded our states
msnship, from the foundation of the gov
ernment.
8 The reform of the revenue system,
whereby taxation is largely reduced, and
the way paved to further reductions, to
the invaluable benefit of the trade and
commerce OF the country.
10 The salvation of the people from
wild. cats" and their accompanying peri
odical financial crashes.
IL. The maintenance of the national
credit and financial honor.
12. The establishment of complete DO.
itical and civil equality by constitutional
provision, whereby freedom and Justice
are secured forever.
Such are some of the more notable
measures and deeds of the Republican
party. If they be fully reflected upon,
and their practical results considered, it
will be seen that they have done more for
our people, and are more benefcent in
their effects, than any measures and deeds
of any political party that ever existed in
any country. These are the "outrages" F"
of the Republican party. They are Just
such outrages as the people like, and will
have.-Chlcdgo Post.
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months preceding September let, as it was
for the first twelve months of the Admin
istration, the reduction for the first year
being nearly $87 1000, 900, and for the six
months of the second year being over
$62,0O0,000.
These figures may lack something in
eloquence, but they bristle with points
which convict. While the Republican
party is thus reducing the debt, the ex-
penditures and the taxes, 1t is restoring
the South to a greater prosperity than IT
ever knew bofore, giving 1t free schools
and Transforming millions of illiterate
emancipated slaves into intelligent citi-
zens. 1t has besides given TO the country
in general an unprecedented prosperity,
has fostered and aided great public Inn
provements and has increased the avail
able area of the United States by thou.
sands Of square miles. In short, the Re.
publican party has been a success, moi
only in fighting great cause through tc
wonderful triumph, but in reconstruct
ing the broken elements left by great
war and in ruling the country under
greatly changed and difficult conditions
1t is not strange, therefore, that Main,
and Vermont should show. increased de
votion to the party, and that Wyoming
should reverse the vote of last year anC
wheel into line with Republican Dele
gate to Congress. Toledo Blade.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-21
A Democratic "Plank.v

THE people of this State and of the
country will not fail TO observe the posi-
ton of the New York Democrats upon
one of the most vital questions of the
hour. They are perpetually begging for
public forgetfulness of their conduct dur.
ing and before the war. They constantly
pray charitable country not to recall
the fact that for a generation before 1850
the sole aim of the Democratic party was
to confirm and extend slavery, and that
during the war it did what it could, short
of actual armed assistance, to secure the
overthrow of the government A slave
driving party before the war, and Cop
perhead party during the war, it natural
ly hates to remember, and begs every body
to forget. Its Congressional Committee
entreated the Southern voters to let dead
issues alone. But when directly sum.
moned in the House to declare whether
the amendments were final, the members
of the committee all voted no. So Sena.
tor Thurman, of Ohio, in late speech,
denounces the whole system of recon
struction. The orators and the party all
decline to declare that they acquiesce in
the settlement, and Tammany Hall also
refuses.
At its late convention in New York the
party had an excellent opportunity to ex.
press its acquiescence. But the resolu'
ton in which this topic is treated is more
absurd than even such resolutions gene
rally are. Here it is:
ResolUed, That, as many OF the issues which
have divided good citizens in the past age are now
settled, We invite all conservative citizens ire
spective OF former political differences, to unite
with us In securing the sscendency In the govern
ment OF the principle upon which 1t was established
as such, while, sustained by the majority of the
American people, 1t secured pe1ce and prosperity
Tor ALL"
That is resolution which, meaning ex
actly nothing at all, except longing fol
the good old palmy days of slave. driving
might be cordially approved by Wade
Hampton and Robert Toombs.
This is the attitude of the New York
Democracy upon the settlement of the
war. 1t proposes to tear open every ques
ton If it has the opportunity. 1t scorn.
fully rejects the counselors in its own
ranks who feebly whisper that it is by
claiming itself to a corpse that the party
has suffered hitherto. 1t is pro.
digious blunder which, as being sincerely
opposed to the party, we gladly perceive
1t is reckoning to which the Democrat
ic managers may be very sure that theil
party.wilr be held. They proclaim now
the same disorganizing policy which they
advocated in 1850, 1854 and 1868, ant
which, happily for the country and fol
civilization, totally overthrow them
HdTper's Weekly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-21

MooRE's RURAL NEWCOMER for October
1st-the first issue of the last quarter of its
21st year--is excellent in both illustrations
and reading matter. 1t comprises thirty-fi
separate departments and over twenty fine
engravings. Among the latter are life-like
portraits, by the best artists, of nine cele-
brated Trotting Horses, Gncluding Dexter,
Lady Thorn, Mountain Boy, Ethan Allen,
Geo. Palmer, &c.,D also portrait of Gen.
Trochu, Governor of Paris, and a neat, hu-
morous illustration of -Four Scenes in the
life of an Emperor" A new and important
feature is introduced in this number-viz. a
department entitled "The Pacific Coast"
edited by the Hon. T. HART HYATT, of Cal.
ifornia. The RURAL also announces the &C.
cession of Mr.. A. s. FULLER "a popular and
able author, and late one of the editors oi
Hearth and Home,) to its already superior
Editorial Staff. The offer of the RURAL for
the thirteen weeks of this quarter (Oct. to
JAM FREE to all who remit So for next year,
is, we learn, bringing additions to its large
subscription from all parts of the country
The extraordinary success of this leading Ru.
raj, Literary and Family Weekly is richly
merited, and it affords us pleasure to chroni
Gle its great prosperity. Those of our read
ers wishing the RURAL for 1871, or a speci.
men, should address d. d. T. MOORE, Al Park
Row, New York.
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:. Fast Living and It's consequences, wbe

~ WsI HnINIUW UHU IIH OOHBtVWeHCeHe When
last life has undermined the strength, destroy ed
the appetite impaired the digestion, and stolen the
hue OF health from the cheek-when the and trembes
the spirits droop and the whole physical and mental
organization langushes is Il possible to repair the
evil and restore the dapldated system TO full health
and vigor? We answer that II is. Hundreds of eases
have been cited thousan DIS might be cited in which
this regeneration has been accomplished by the regular
and persistent use of PLANTATION BrrTERs. Absti
mischief is OF course of the of restoration
But tits not sufficient alone. The consequences re
main after the cause has been abandoned. A whole.
some and genial tonic olutcy necessary TO
the corporea and mental energies nom their
tation Bitters to perform. But no other stimulant
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-21

GoDEY's LADY's BooK.-The illustra
tions for November consist of a steel plate-"Oul
Contrtbutors;" a six.fgure coiored fashion
plate; large extension sheet, containing thirty
three designs of dresses, and other articles O
the wardrobe; riding habit; hats, bonnets, ETC..
various designs for the workable, etc. The
fancy alphabet for marking is fine illustration
IL would be almost impossible for us to enumer.
ate all the beauties of this humber, both lit
erary and pictorial. l.. A. Cooley, Philadel
phia. $500 per year, with liberal inducements tc
clubs