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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-07
Person al.

We are much obliged to our friends of
the press generally for their very favorable
notices of the JOURNAL, and especially to
the Editors of the Charlotte Democrat and
Tarboro' North Carolinian. We assure
them that feelings of m odesty alone pre-
vent the republication of their kindly COM
pliments in our columns.
We will be glad to meet both Mr.. YATES
and Mr.. EVANS at our Fair. We expect to
see many of the Editors of this State here
at that time. All will receive q warm well
come, and We believe they will be fully
repaid for their visit.
In connection with this matter we give
the following from the Charlotte Demo-
crdt:
Speaking of newspaper publishing Re minds Us
that there but two persons in the State now
fishers when We commenced the business on our
own account. Those two are Mr. Evans of the
Milton ChToniCle now of the Hisboro Recorder
and Mr.. Price of the Wilmington Journal We
have been in a Printing Office apprentice,
jOurneyman. and Editor and publisher, tharty-One
gears, th6Vln6 commenced at IL years old - and
curing the whole time failed to issue
paper once week at least, except for one or two
weeks st the cloee Of the late E; and we would
not have failed then had we not refused to take
the oath Of allegiance as promptly as required Of
Us by the Federal Provost Marshal. We suppose
Messrs. Evans and Price have been connected
with printing Office longer than we have,
they ere older men. As the oldest publishers in
the State, and native North Carolinians, pro-
pose to meet our friends Price and Evans at the
Cape Fear Agricultural Fair in Wilmington on
the 18th and 18th of November.
Our friends YATES and EVANS will receive
warm reception at the Fair.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-06-24
How the Chinese Came to Wear Pigtails.

1t is curious how the Chinese came to
wear pig-tails. Several hundred years
ago the inhabitants of China wore their
hair as we do, but there was war between
China and Tartary, and the Chinese got
the worst of it and were conquered. When
the first Tartar king of the present dynasty
came to the throne, he determined to hum
BILE the pride of the Chinese. He began in
1874, by ordering everybody to shave off
all the hair except tuft on the crown;
that being the way he wore his own hair
There were great many proud and high
spirited gentlemen in China who would not
obey the command and the result was that
they had their heads chopped of, 1t is
rather an uncomfortable thing for a man
to lose his head. The Chinese thought so,
and concluded to shave and braid their
hair into pigtail, although it was an act
of degradation. They felt it keenly, but
as the years rolled on, they forgot the hui.
initiation and began TIC like the fashion.
AS soon as the pig-tail became fashionable,
the young gentlemen of China tried to
get up the longest, neatest, and glossest
tails possible. They cultivated them just
as young gentlemen in the United States,
and almost everywhere else, cultivate their
whiskers and moustache, greasing, comb
ing, brushing ard lingering them all the
time.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-06-24

A CoIoRED MANS VIEw.--Henry John
son, q colored man, at Pine Bluff, Ark,
does not seem to think that the party
which set him Free because they could not
help it, and gave him ballot that he
might vote their ticket, are entitled to
as much gratitude from the colored people,
as they claim. In letter to Tabbs Goss'
paper, the Little Rock Freeman, he says;
at is true, that since the war our north
ern friends have done great deal for us
in the way of securing us the political priv
ileges we now enjoy. But ifthere had have
been no war, would wenot be slaves to day
The war was the cause of our liberation.
Who commenced the war; Our northern
friends tell us that the southern people
commenced it by firing upon the flag at
Sumpter. Then if the war was the cause
of our liberation from the bonds ofslavery,
and the southern people were the cause and
instigators of that war, are they not our
best friends 2"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-06-24
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Abingdon, Va, June II, 1870.

ORIGIN OF TALLow CANDLEs.--The tai
low candle is tie offspring of the tallow
torch used in the twelfth century. When
tallow candles were first introduced, their
cost was so great that only the wealthy
could afford the luxury, and it was not till
the fifteenth century that they were sutii-
GENTLY cheapened to come into general use
Think of q tallow candle-that dripping,
gluttering, greasy thing being considered
luxury. But the tallow candle, now
used only when convenient and economical
lighting cannot be obtained, is, as we know
it, no more to be compared to the candle of
the twelfth century, than the best illumina-
ting gas to lard oil. Its wick was of tow,
hard to light, and burning so rapidly as to
melt large portion of the tallow into riv-
ers of oil, so that the dip of four candles
would buy new one. What would the
quaint old jewellers Of that period have
thought, if, in the midst of one of their
drinking bouts, their tallow dips with tow
wicks could have been suddenly eclipsed
inthesplendor ofthe oxyhydrogen ofto-day2
Verify both the physical and mental dark
ness of that age have given way to bright
err and nobler period. Can it be that in
centuries to come the luXuries of the pres
ent will be regarded as contemptuously as
we now regard the obsolete appliances of
the middle ages2 u
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-06-24

boldly to the centre ofthe room. and bold;ng
the candle above his head with one hand
and lifting the other with his eyes toward the
ceiling, exclaimed, in measured and solemn
tones-"Ln the name Of God and hioh beoDen
aoho are you and aOsat do you cant ?" That
was enough for the ghosts, enough for me
and enough for my companion. In an in.
slant the light was extinguished, and the
din that followed was indescribably hor-
rible. Finding in the darkness that nv
friend had left me, looked towards the
window, and the last l saw of him that
night, was his .fag Of truce strean,inq ont
6ehtnd as he leaped through the window,
in which performance was but an instant
behind him. Next morning the tracks of
four bare feet were found in the mud be.
meath the window, and full garments for
TWO hanging upon chairs in the bedroom.
l can't youch for my friends subsequent
adventures, as he moved away and became
high in official station "away down South
IN Dixie" but it was my first and last at
tempt to hunt up and ventilate an appari-
ton.
Our adventure and failure becoming
public, no more hunting in couples was
done, and the ghosts were permitted to
reyel on in unmolested freedom till they
grew weary of their occupations A few
months subsequently it leaked out that
two or three citizens, for the purpose of
breaking up the immoral and vicious hab,
its, of the trequenters of the doggery and
Drothel in the ball room, had fixed up con-
trlvances between the weather BOARDING
and ceiling, which were operated by strings
and wires from the garnet, and with a
dumb. bell" chains and wooden ball at
the end OF rope, made the mysterious and
unearthly noises which were supposed.
even by some intelligent people, to be SUI
pernatural. They had sawed out hole
through the weather-b boarding in an upper
room of the front building, then in the oc.
cupancy of one of them, which gave them
entrance into the garnet above the ball
room which none suspected, all being sat
isfied that there was no way of getting into
thatpart of the house except through one of
the stoye-pipe holes, which, as l have alrea
dy said, were too small to admit even a
child. The whole thing was admirably
arranged and managed, and completely sue
cessful in breaking up the worst den of in
iquity whatever infested Abingdon.
| have sometimes been charged with be-
ing one Of the ghosts, but if that fact can
be reconciled with my haste in escaping
through the window in the questionable
condition | have intimated, | am content
to let it go uncontradicted.
Yours, respectfully,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-06-24
p q Z II Z u I

NOMANSLAND.
have been out to NomanslaHd
Which lies beyond the sea
From whence some day will come ship
To bring rare things to me
Aud whom did you meet in Nomaus llul,
met KingArthlr there,
The nut-brown maid and SchelereZa,le,
And Bcss with golden hair.
How did they treat You in Nomansland?
They scarcely opened their eyes;
But Robinson Crusoe stared awhile,
In avery faint surprise.
And what do they do in Nomansland?
they do not even play,
But lie and dream the whole night long,
And sit and dream all day.
Do they ever die in NOmanslani?
Alive they always stay.
And there they will remain until
Til" dawn Of Juglmeut Day.
A lovely place is NOmansland
The skies are always clear;
The hills are blue, the valleys green,
And spring-time all the year.
Ihey do not eat in Nomansland
They drink no water there
They feed on fancy all the time
No banquet half so rare.
U, carry me back to Nomansland
Which lies beyond the sea;
There, with the bards and knights Of old,
Forever let me be.-Oid Guard
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-06-24

lY" The Des Moines Bulletin announces
births under the head of Spring Chick
ems"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-06-24
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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-06-24

s-Y Barber said Il farmer to his tonsor,
"now con's cheap, YOU ought 10 shave for
half price" Cant, Mr.. Jones, said the
man of razors. 81 ought really to charge
more, for when corn's down, farmers make
such long faces that have twice the ground
to go over
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-06-24

No subscription taken Tor less than IL year.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-02-25
J. 17o The Yo,,,,g Men Of Wya

= To The Young Men Of Wydn-
dOt.-You will take notice that when
Il man sets up store he will take great
pains to have every thing iRgood Or
der. He will hang out his sign, have
it nice and clean. will not let the dust
settle on his goods, SO that they will
make good show. He will keep his
front windows clean and tend to his
business regularly. So it is with a
young man who is just starting out in.
the world for himself. Let him put
out his sign and have it so that it will
commend him to the public. He must
60 in good company, shun all wicked
ways. To keep hts name up he must
not be seen in a grog shop, for every
time that he is seen in sucli places,
there is stain on his sign, and by and
by. if he keeps it up, his sign viii be-
come so dim that no one can read it.
And pretty soon it will be torn down
and lie can never get it to shine as it
did before. In fact he will be doomed
to sorrow and disgrace.
Your friend,
II. HAkMAN.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-02-25
FINGERBOARDS WAN TED.

Mr. EDITOR: For the want of the
above named article l was thrown of
my right track the other day which
was by no means pleasant, as the road
was heavy and quitea skift of mud on
top of the ground.
1 started from down about Sycamore
last Wednesday about z. NJ, for Up
per Sandusky. I had not travelled
more than three, or four miles until |
began to think that I was on the
wrong road. Each four corners l met,
my anxious eyes watched for finger
boards, but "nary a finger board" did
find.EeI acknowledge. Mr.. Editor, the
situation was little embarrassing. FL
nally 1 meta man whoStold me that
was two miles off the right road, Or
rather two miles on the wrong road as
you please to have it. just think Mr.
Editor of stragler Bachelor on the
wrong road and night coming on. If
the Trustees of Wyandot have any
sympathy or respect for that substan-
tial class of community called Bach
clors (who by the way are the salt of
the carth) they will Immediately erect
guide boards. Be sure, Mr.. Trustees
to put on each board a mans hand with
one finger on it OF q small dart to point
the weary traveller the way; thus, so
many miles to Bellevernon, SO many
miles to Sycamore, SO many miles to
Taylor's Mills &c. l hope when cir
cumstances compel me to again travel
over Wyandot on foot, shall find re-
spectacle guide boards at every cross
roads to tell me when | am lost.
Yours respectfully,
NICHOLAS FALsTAFE.
Ashley O.. Feb 18th $50.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-02-25
DR.. ". e, Drisc0U. of Pedtor

DR.. ". r.. DriscoW, Of Fedford.
Ind, contributes some valuable hints
upon Preservation and Management of
Teeth, which we here produce.
NEGLECT OF CORRECTING IRREGULAR
ITY OF CnILDREN's TEETu.-From this
results a great portion of the facial ur-
illness that is so much disadvantage to
individuals of our race. Irregular
teeth decay much worse than oven
ones
NEGLECT OF CLEANLINEss.-Resu ::
bad breath; repnlsive appearance of
mouth and teeth accelerated decay of
teeth !; deranged stomach.
IGNORANCE AS TO Use OF Drugs ON
TIE TEETH.-Result: the finest teeth
sometimes ruined in Il few months,
when Il proper article would have been
of great benefit.
NEGLECT TO REMOVE TARTAR.-Re-
suit: painful inflammation of the gums
PeriOdentis, or inflammation OF mem
brane around roots of teeth; unsightly
tarkenfng and gradual loosening and
loss of the teeth.
| NEGLECT OF FILLING THE TEETH
Result: rapid decay sickening breath
Impaired digestion; toothache of the
Jumping" order; neuralgia; pain OF
extraction; loss of the teeth.
| ABSENCE OF THE TEETH.-Result
general ''caying-in" of the once human
face divine; apparent addition of ii f.
! teen or twenty years to the persons
age; dyspepsia; breaking down OF
physical and mental powers; persons
remarking "how she COR he) has bro
ken, of late;'' enjoyment of taste, d
thing OF the past; food not so strength
ening as when masticated; shortens and
makes miserable the evening of life.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-02-25
Report Of the TysnOchtee School
for the Week Ending Feb. Is,
1874

for the Week Ending Feb. L s,
1870.
No. pupils enrolled: Males, 19 ;
Females, "a; Total, 43; Average
daily attendance: Males, 10; Fe-
males, Is; Total, 81.
We are ''iust OUT Of large frac-
tions.-Compositor.
The weather being very disagree
able this week, and sickness pre-
vailing among some of the neigh
bors, it was impossible for all the
Scholars to attend, therefore our
grade is not as good as it would
nave been. But I can say that the
scholars one and all are still en-
deavoring to advance themselves as
rapidly as they possibly can. by dill
gent study and by keeping this
great and important fact on their
minds, that Education is too i'm
portant to the Human family to let
pass, not properly Investigated.
Outside OF the educational affairs
our city and vicinity are prosperina
finely. Within the lastmonth there
has been three happy couple made
happy in the bonds Of matrimony
for which we wish them prosperity
and happy life in the future.
A. l.. FLACK, Teacher.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-02-25
ERIE RAIL WAY.
iLuxuries of Modern Travel.


The Question which to-day fforcibly
presents itself to the prospective trav-
eler is not by what can l earlieso
reach my destination ?" (for running
parallel with each other. the compe-
ting lines make the same average time
between their Western and Eastern
termini). but by which route can l
travel with the, greatest degree OF
comfort and Of freedom from those an
noyances hitherto considered insepa-
rable from journey OF thousand
miles or more!'
The inquiry is easily answered. Sea-
ted in one of the spacious and luXuri-
ously finished Drawing room coaches
peculiar to the broad gauge Eric Rail
way, running without change from
Cincinnati. Cleveland, Dunkirk, Buff
falo and Rochester to New York, the
traveller finds lacking none of the
comforts and conveniences OF his own
home. Roomy seats, neat Washing
and Dressing rooms, parlors we'll ven
tilated and cool in summer, warmed by
steam in winter. and illumiired by gas
when night comes, attentive servants
and view of the grandest of American
scenery, all combine to transform the
formerly slow and tedious journey and
an enhancing panorama. the termina-
ton of which comes only too quickly
to the beholder. At the Company S
hotels along the line, the traveller
alights to refresh tive inner man-eat-
ing breakfast in Ohio, dinner in Penn
sylvania, supper in New York, yet
faring sumptnously and with the same
regularity as if at his own hotel or res
idence at home.
Sleeping coaches. well lit and venti-
lated, and with clean. roomy beds. and
all the. .conveniences of the bondoir arc
attached to each of the three daily EN-
press trains, guaranteeing the Traveller
delighted with the novelties of the day
light. a nights rest as untroubled as il
in his own bed at home.
Prompt arrivals are made at all con-
Meeting points, and passengers OH arri
wing in New York are delivered either
down town in the business center ofthe
city, or up town lin the Immediate Vi
cinity of the leading hotels and the
New York and New Haven Railroad
Tickets via this popular route can hs
purchased at all Principal Ticket Ofli-
ces throus hout the country.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-02-25
TO OWNERS OF HORSES

TNHoUSA OF HORSES DIE year
" fiom Collie. This need not be-
DR.. TOBIAS Venetian Horse Liniment will
positively cure every case, if given when
first taken. The cost is one dollar. Ev-
cry owner of horse shonld have bot
tie in his stable. ready TO-, use. 1t is war
ranted superior to anything else for the cure
OF Cuts; Wind Calls, Swelllngs, Sore
THROAT, Sprains, Bruises N Id Sores, de-
This Liniment is no newremedy' 1t has
been used and approved of for % years by
the first orse-rnen i'll the country. Given
to an over driven horse, it acts like magic
Orders are constantly received from the
racing stables of England for it. The eel
ebrated Hiram Woodruff, of trotting fame
ueed it for Years. ol. Philo P Bush of
the jerome Race Course, has givon Ger
tifcate which can be seen at the Depot,
stating that alter years of trial. it is the
best in the world. His address is Ford
ham, n Y. No one once using 1t will ev-
er be without it 1t is put up in Pidt Bot
ties. Sold by the Druggists and Saddlers
throug ghoat the United tates, Depot 10
Park llace, New York.
.Et{ 1dt1
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-02-25
Cristadoro's Excelsior Hair Dye
. : 9 q q q 9 . q q

TO THE WORKING CHASING are
now prepared to furnish all classes with
constant employment at home, the whole
of the time ior the spare nom nts. Brsi-
ness new, light and profitable. Persons Of
either sex easily earn from see to So per
evening ,and a proportio lal sum by devo-
ting their whole lime tp the business.
Boys aud girls earn neari, as much as
men. That all who see this notice NAV
send their address, land test the business,
we make this unparalleled offer: To such
are not well satisfied, Te will send s to
pay for the trouble of writing. Full par
ticulars, valuable sample, VIII ch will do
tc co amanee work on, and copy OF The
Peoples Literary Compaaion-one of the
largest and best family newSpaprs rs pub
.lshed--all sent free by mail. Reader, II
on wait permanent, profitable work, ad-
dress E. Z. ALLEN d CO., Argus A,
MAINE. 5 m}.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-02-25
Otterbein University.

This college is under tue auspieces
of the United Brethren Church and
located in esterville, Franklin Co.
o. A few weeks ago the main
building was destroyed by fire. Last
week the board of Trustees had a
meeting and decided to open the
way for competition to any place in
the State of Ohio. The locality
presenting the greatest inducements
to the board at it's meeting, III June
next, shall have the College.
This is q rare chance to secure a
first class college, presented to an
enterprising community.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-02-25
WHICH ?

Mr.. EDITOR: AT the first school
meeting week before last a resolution
was adopted that when new school
building is erected it is to be located
on the present site, and at the last
meetiug.a second resolution was adop-
ted to build h school house in the south
part Of town. Now. sir, as the grounds
upon which the building is to be done
are north of the Railroad, and as the
building must be way south of it,
would like to know whether it is pro-
posed to remove the Railroad north OF
the school grounds, or the present site
itself to the south part OF town!
Truly yours in the mud,
GOTLIEB SCHNICKFIELDT.,
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-02-25

ne understand that the city council
is agitating the question of macadami-
zing portion of our main streets the
coming summer: 1t is proposed to be-
gin in the square and extend one
square each way. We are heartily in
favor of the proposition and hope the
Council will pass an ordinance to that
eject and proceed with the greatly
needed Improvement as soon as practi-
cal.
Sincethc above was penned and in
type, the Town Council has taken ac-
ton on the above subject as will be
seen by notice of same in another col
umn