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Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-12-21
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Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-12-21
Semi Weekly Gazette.

This paper Is printed on Tuesday and Friday
ofeach week 1t is the same Size as the Daily
and Weekly, containing thirty-siX iull columns
prepared for the Daily and Weekly will be
printed in this edition. Persons who desire
paper Oltcncr than once awcci, butdOnUtnCcd
i daily, viii find this the cheapest and best pa
the
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-12-21
BURGLARS ABOUT! !
HEY MaI<CiD0wn The YTOCk-
ing valley!

y
ing valley!
road 2uyglar Found Eoa; No''soavilIt
1t seems that burglars are
making raids through all parts
of the country-small villages
and farm houses Icing visited
as we'll as tie cities. 1t is said
that burglars have q thorough
organization in Southern Ohio,
even in each town and town,
ship, and every man who is
known to have money is "spot.
ted" by these midnight gangs.
Justice ovcrtakes and puni.Aes
them severely sometimes
About two weeks ago a gang Of
them S,,,gde Il raid down the
i'''o Oh 'no IDl',' w. g..
ing Valley Railroad, as tar as
Nol8onyille, where they caN.,i2'
cd during the night, and prob.
oLIv oot into dj6icnItv omono
nn1,Sor,,os n,I;oL raS,I,od r.
1 '''''','.' vs. :II '''," '.'' -. 49,
i",I"'!' j. ''' "I'' nc seen W 'ne
following account OF The alaIr,
which we lnd III the Athens
Journal, Of December IL:
Du,;no1o,t T,idov r,ro,oor
rQlb ;ngf1 crr c;t;zons we ,,y rnrn
,ltarlnJ Nv tLn nows f,ot
,ro,roccn 'trayrIlim~L,o iit'' Gr,J
With InyoIn,;s - t'"i, Ia9 Ia93 i','c, Lno"
ro"mJ on c tla woDd, ",i>' \ ,,;Jrn %1>
,Lort two miles from town -,
thr soath side If tLn ,ivrr onJ |
tho nycif.n'r,.t was fnrtL2r inv, ~,
rreasrd when = search # tho No |
wooJs IN the aft'yN"on wv wv w
G. IJiLman Ls,;cn Il H,n|
Peace. nn1 n souad Of armed
men rcsnlfcd il tho discovery
Of fine IraJ I,oIv nf . %on
TLrouah tbc Kindness od
Mavor Wclrh and Tsonira
Hickman we were nc,nitttI f.
IoororI rngd nj tbc tost;o,ony w
in fine casr Wont If timn omi
sDace comncIs ~ to co"irnso ,,
the evidence and tho coIIow;no
statement includes ojl fIn GclS
On FrjIov mornin@ fon, nf.
our citizens Hamrd A, G. TarIev .
Wesley Ki~Lt WcL.ter V"nsJo3, ~
onI Wyc F;sL wo,,o " % Innt;no, G"n9 n5
,L. h;IIs sonII."o.f ar 'tI,,'2 t%,r2 VI
While nrocccd;n~ oInH% T. iLc|
wooded ridae tL&t conn com3risrs '"s
nart oftLe Timey farm KiaIF, ~,
Intention was atfrartoj NV w
small fro nror Win o,,b"J1,J
bark and brush indir57led 7| thot st
tbrnr mon Ind nossnJ t5a ,,ra ,,,,,'
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-12-21

PAYING taxes is fashionable about
the Court House,
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-12-21
The Weekly Republican,

A LARGE EIGHT PAGE PAPER Uorty-eght
Columns) its Teegraphic News rewritten. and
It's matter made up expressly for n mily Read.
ing, win the most complete markets, will he
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Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-12-21

QUAIL hunting is now popular
and profitable.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-12-21

LOCALS and Editorials Oh
first page.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-12-21

DIED

At the residence OF his father, IN Ewington,
HRllis county, OHIO, on the 13th.of December,
1870 aI w o'clock r. NJ, of Consumption, VII
LIAM v. TURNER in tho 3Oth yearof his age,
Near the same place, on the 1lth Of October,
1870 JONATHAN TURNER, agod II years. 2
months and days.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-12-21

DRDE55 MA. t. -LLTC5r.
Mrs. PUGlI is also prepared 10 maize Dresses
and Cloaks Ht Short notice, ami In the latest
iEyn Please give her call. 81
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-12-27
Wisconsin Press.

The members Of the Wisconsin
Editors and Publishers Association
will be glad to learn that the address
before their next annual convention,
TO be held in June, 1871, at Green
Bay, will be delivered by talented
veteran in editorial service, S. d..
Carpenter, Esq, formerly of the Mad
ison, Patriot, whose valuable exper-
fence as printer, publisher and edi-
tor, will enable him to impart much
Information to the younger members
of the Wisconsin press, with which
he was so long and creditably iden-
tilted.
In recognition of the fact that for
intellectual honors and literary
achievements, women and men are
equal competitors, the Association
will be favored with two Poems
one from II. B. Philleo Esq, we'll and
favorably known through his editor
ial connection with the Wood Coun-
" Reporter, and one from Miss
Churchill, whose contributions to the
Milwaukee Sentinel have established
her reputation as a lady possessing
mental endownments and accom-
plishments Of a high order.-Ld
Crosse Republican.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-12-27

element depends the stability and
perpetuity Of the government under
which he holds his landed possess
slons. Literature is as essential to
the farmers family as to the mer-
chants or lawyers, and, indeed, more
so, because they are more isolated
from the centers Of literary gossip
10 plow, SOW, reap and NOW, and
spin knit, make and mend, should
not monopolizo all the precious time
when God has given US. People will
get rich tass enough, and live q great
deal longer if they properly husband
their strength and cultivate both
mind and body together. 1t is pos
si0iy owing to a neglect Of this last
mentioned duty that q majority of
the insane are farmers by occupation.
In building a farmhouse, great
care should be taken to have the
rooms as convenient, light and airy
as possible. The kitchen should be
IN the most slightly and pleasant spot
OF the house, the warmest in winter
and coolest in summer for thore the
busy wife and prattling children
spend most Of their time. The hus-
band ut work in the field can take
much pleasure in seeking what is go
ing on around him, but his vile COOP
ed up in small kitchen, if in some
obscure corner OF the building, must
content herself with the usual rou-
tine Of family duties everyday, with
out anything TO break the dull mo-
notony of toll. Wives, when your
husband is building new house, just
give his lordship to understand that
you want convenient, bright and
sunny kitchen whether you have
anything else or not, aud, like Ma
poleon's old guard, never surrender.
II farm be purchased with build
lngs all complete, of course you must
ABIDE the consequences, for what
cannot be cured must be endured.
Let the parlor walls DO we'll adorned
with pleasing pictures they are ST.
lent educators. If you want your
children to be warriors ornament
your walls with battle scenes if lib
crimes, with lochorous looking pic
lures, if yirtuous aad good, such as
are ennobling. We confidently be-
licve that the farmers home may be
made to smile with such beauty and
loneliness that sons and daughters
will seldom wish to exchange the
country for a city life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-12-27
Notes about the Women.

Among the French volunteers
is u company commanded by post
mistress. She is Polish woman,
and fought in the Polish Revolution.
She acts at the same time as Chaplain
and Surgeon for her troops, and
carries q case Of instruments, q cross,
gun, and a revolver. Her husband
has meanwhile staid at home, and at
tends to the household affairs.
Capable women are gradually OF
tanning lucrative employment in
Washington as clerks in the depart
ments and as newspaper correspon-
dents. A few days since q young
lady was appointed stenographer on
duty in the office Of the Secretary of
the Interior, position which few
men could fill.
Women writer's have multiplied
in Russia during the last five years,
in q ratio e1uallcd by no other coun-
try, and there are now 800 in the
realm whom Prince Galitzin thinks
worthy Of a place in the second edi-
ton of his "List Of Russian Author
esses.'
A girl at Springfield, Ohio, who
danced with her corsets pulled up to
tie last hole, was the next day in
hearse that was pulled up to the last
hole that had been dug in the grave
yard.
In the United States just now
there are y young women studying
theology, with a view of becoming
preachers 10 are studying law, and
l6 are studying medicine.
Miss Thompson, ordained to the
ministry at the late Michigan Uni
versalst State Convention, 10 de-
scribed as the most graceful woman
orator in the country.
Gloves are now made IN England
with a pocket on the INSIDE OF the
nalm to suit the habit INDUCED in
bv the fair sex Of carrying money in
that position
Mrs. Annie l.. Campbell has been
appointed Deputy Collector of Inter-
nal Revenue in the Ninth Ohio Dis
trict, rice her husband, deceased.
They have female Butcher at
st. Adams, Vermont, who carries on
quite an extensive business in the
hog-killing line.
"A young woman named Emma
Taylor, of indianapolis, has died from
the excessive use Of vinegar.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-12-27

James } Fields, 10 the Whispering
Gallery, new department of the
atlantic Noathi4, gives the following
amusing account of Thackeray's Wis
il TO America
letter in the early autumn Of f852,
that he had determined to visit Amer
ica, and would sail for Boston by the
Canada on the Both Of October. All
the necessary arrangements for his
lecturing tour had been made with
out troubling him with any Of the
details. He arrived on a frosty No
vember morning, and went directly
to tho fremont House, whore rooms
had been engaged for him. Iremem-
Der his delight in getting off the sea,
and the enthusiasm with which he
hailed the announcement that din
ner would be ready shortly. A few
friends were ready to sit down with
him, and he seemed greatly TO enjoy
the novelty Of an American rcpast.
In London he had been very curious
in his inquiries about American oys.
ters, as marvellous stories, which he
did not believe, had been told him of
their great size. We had taken care
that the largest specimens to be pro
cured should startle his wonted Wis
ion when he came to the table, al
though | blush at the remembrance
now, we apologized in our wicked
waywardness to him for what we
called the extreme smallness of the
oysters, promising that we would do
better next time. Six bloated Fal-
staflian bivalves lay before him in the
shells. ! noticed that he gazod at
them anxiously, with fork appraised,
then he whispered to me, with look
0: anguish, "How shall | do it ?" |
described to him the simple process
by which the freeborn citizens of
America were accustomed to accom-
plish such q task. He seemed salts
fled that the thing was feasible, Sc
lected the smallest one IN the half
dozen, and then bowed his head as il
be were saying grace. All eyes were
upon him TO watch the effect Of O
new sensation in the person of q
great British author. Opening his
mouth very wide, he struggled for q
moment, and then all was over.
shall never forget the comic look Of
despair he cast upon the other five
over-occupicd shells. | broke the
perfect stiffness by asking how he
felt. profoundly, grateful" he gasp.
ed, "and as ii | had swallowed little
baby"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-12-27
Women on School Committees.

John Stuart Mill said in recent
speech in London:
1t is Of great importance that there
should be a proportion of working
men on the board, and it is of the ut
most Importance that there should be
proportion of women. The work
ing classes are those for whose chill
dren the schools are intended. They
are those for whose wants and ext
gencies we have to provide. No one
knows the circumstances and wants
Of the working classes so we'll as in
telligent working people, and the
participation of such persons will do
more than anything else to give the
working classes confidence in the
school board.
Besides, there is no class which,
taken as class, is 80 much in earnest
about popular education, so solicitious
about its quantity and quality, and
so free from any side purposes of
promoting the interests of any sect
or party by means of it. Working
men are Indispensable if the school
board is to be thoroughly efficient
aodaasa3l"r Mnmeu ,arn still more
girls to educate as well as boys, and
national education for girls, direct
ed solely by meu, would indeed be an
absurdity on the face of it. But
moreover, women, the principal do
mestic teachers, have more expert
ence, have acquired most practical
ability, in the teaching, at least of
children. Almost every mother OF q
family is q practiced teacher, and
even beyond the family for one man
not q teacher by profession who has
given much Of his attention to teach
ing, or to the superintendent of
teaching, there are many women who
have done so. We're we not to elect
any women we should go completely
counter to the spirit of the act. Par
Lament has shown what its opinion
is by expressly making women eli
gible to the school boards. 1t will
be most incomplete without them,
and it is much TO be regretted that
SO few women have yet offered them
selves AS candidates.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-12-27
CHEESE MAKING


w. q. Roberts, Of Racine, Wis
writes to the Journal Of that city a.
follows:
have learned d fow things during
my short experience this past Sc az
on, and which may be Of some value
TO other new beginners, as well as
those that may have something TO
do IN the future with mil and cheese
making, for il is evident that cheese
making is to be the chief branch of
Wisconsin agriculture hereafter.
There Is danger however that this
business, like many other new pay.
ing operations, will be overdone.-
At present we stand well, and that
IN great measure is owing to the
superiority Of our cheese over any
other cheese in the wide world, and
hence we reap the benefit Of the Eng
llsh market. LIN II recent agricultur-
al meeting in Lincolnshire, England
the chairman made this observation
with regard TO our cheese
"Fhe American cheese is now so
much improved through the instrue-
mentality Of the cheese factory
system, that their cheese has be-
come as much superior to our cheese
in England. as theirs used to be ia
fcrior to ours" and said he, off the
Americans were able to mako such
improvements, ask, is it not worth
our while to try the same expert
ment." And the result was, they
have sent to this country for factory
implements and cheese-makers.
The character Of our butter stands
low in England, and is bound to
keep SO, unless we organize similar
systems to that of our cheeseman's
ing. We all make some butter, but
very few understand making it. SO
it was with our checse-making some
years ago. 1t is true we have some
good butter in this country, such as
the Orange Co., and the WEIGH but
ter Of Oneida Co., 10 York State, and
they command q high price for it.
Bat the bulk Of the American butter
is poor and the prices are low.
One of the chief things | have
learned in cheese-making, Is the alb
soluto necessity Of taking care Of the
milk, first to keep it from the dirt,
or rather, to keep the dirt from the
milk. Next in order to keep it sweet.
You might as we'll undertake to
make q good-havored cup of tea from
the waters OF the Dead Sea in Pales-
tine, as to try to make a good-havor-
ed cheese from dirty sour milk. We
cannot cheat nature.
| would therefore recommend the
following points to be observed in
relation to milk, LIST. Take care of
your milk. ID. Take care Of your
milk. 81. Take care Of your milk.
thaGG2d Z; asaiF'69 ' Of + Jod aud your indebted
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-12-27
Fashions and the White House.

Since the Empress of the French
left Paris, many foolish women in this
country have been wondering who
would set the fashions for them, and
desperate attempt has been made
10 enthrone the Goddess in this city.
There are those in this country who
think we should have a sort of Re-
publican Court at Washington and
mat the Presidents wife and the
wives OF the Cabinet Ministers should
SCI the fashions for the women of
america. III our fashions did come
from the White House instead of the
leading dressmakers Of this city. who
are too often in league with the shop
keeper and manufacturer, we are sure
we should have more sensible cos
tunes for ladies than we now do
Mrs. President Grant and Mrs. Secre-
tary Fish were recently interviewed
on the subject. Mrs Grant said she
could not and would not set the fash
ions. She has no desire to shine in
tho fashionable world. She says her
husband tells her one tenth or more
OF our revenue goes abroad to be in
vested in French fnery. This is all
wrong, and if she could have heI way,
II would be prevented. Nota dollar,
she said, should go abroad for that
which can be made at home. She
never had dress made in Paris, and
instead Of a $4,000 wardrobe, her
bill was $41S. Mrs. Grant will bo
governed by no particular city III her
choice ola dress. She will select that
which suits her person and purse
Mrs. Fish says she has no desire to
set the fashions. She hopes dresses
may be short enough to clear the
pavement, because they are so much
moro comfortable and healthy
When the Hon. Miss Murray, one
of ViCtoria's household, was in this
country, she told Mrs. Fish the Queen
her ladies only fifteen min
Ites to dress at the same time she
remarked that Queen Victoria was
shocked at the time wasted in these
matters by American ladies. 1t is
also fact that the Queen of England
never allows any Of her wardrobe to
be purchased in foreign country
1t will be a happy day when Ameri
can women take the same view of the
Y. Globe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-12-27

sdy- Persons who prefer oysters
cooked 10 their own liquor may be
inter ested in knowing what the fluid
contains. The Journal of Microscopy
says: open an oyster, retain the
liquor in the lower or deep shell, and,
if viewed through microscope, it
will be found to contain muititudes of
small oysters, covered with shells
and swimming nimbly about-one
hundred and twenty of which ex-
tend but one inch. Besides these
young oysters, the liquor contains
variety of animalcule and myriads of
three distinct species. Of worms. At
times their light represents a blaish
star abo1t the center of the shell,
which will be beautifully luminous
in q dark ROOM"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-12-27
THE CLOSING YEAR.

The last page Of the Years recording book
IL wen nigh written; pause Time thou Scribe f,
While we turn DER its leaves and backward look
AL vain request Not all The human tribe
Gould, with blent suppliance or offerings, bride
That pen which for an instant neer forsook
Its busy work, slice the behest il took
Each hearts, each moments history 10 iuscrlbo.
But conscience whispers Of full many thought,
Or word, OF deed to Times great record brought,
Which tears ~ penitenoe would ftn erase
broad BOOK let thy last page, at least, be fraught
With tomo good action or resolve. whose trace
Shall meet the smiles Of Heavens approving face
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-12-27
DECEMBER.


Speak low; the old year falls,
And daily totters on his yielding throne.
few brief days shall pass ere sceptered haHd.
Aud crown, and all the signs Of royal power
Shall change to mark the new born ruling king.
December closes in the an9gal train,
And ends the cycle the ding year
solemn stiffness fills tie air and earth.
Like southern skies ere bursts the raging s,o III,
Or Lroodue silence. deep, which usher, ia
me earthquake shock, and numJs the pulse Of III
49, silent dies the aged year. ana leaves
a noble heritage Of coming days
10 MI the youthful monmchs chdiee up.
Farewell the old let fruItlcss bygones die,
Prepare with SMILES to welcome in the new,
AM crave pension on our future days