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The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-05-11
Charter Oak Life Insurance Co.,
Hartford Connecticut

J c. WALKER, Pres't.
Sam'l II. White, Sec'y.
DOUGLAS q LYMAN, MANAGERS
OHIO STATE Il ANcII, CIN.
\ sscts March. 1879 $500: 0G
Income for 1869 4,0}4, 4S5
Dividends paid in 1869 GT,21C
Total dividends paid to date, 2,29G,67G
Total Losses paid to date, 2,2G7, 04G
Losses paid in 1869 54i,175
DIVIDENDS.
Dividends paid policy-holdcrs for
the last seven years averaging FOR
TY PER ENT. ANNUALLY.
INCREASE OF BUSINESS.
The Charter Oak shows Il dcckied
increase OF bus ness over 1868, while
nearly every company of its class and
standing, shows 4 decrease.
EXPENSES.
With fifteen OF the largest, oldest
and best companies in America the
ratio Of all expense, including death
l1s>e-, to .hcome was 33. OF, while the
OAKS ratio IL but 26,93, and for a
pe'iod of six years preceding, its ex-
pen es and morality ,atio was less
tiiIn ANY DINER company, g fact of
vital importance, and should he well
c"n-ide.--l by all seeking insurance
IFS MANAGEMENT.
The saine that has guided it in the
past, actuated by true principle and
- Tho. ougiI knowledge of the bust
ness, : !ibera! and strictly just. A.
ample evidence, witness the fact that
III It's tweIiv years of continuous
lro pcr.ty, there has been M blemish
Oh =, rocori and no litigation.
y WEo- 1iN INSTITUTION.
Il i, Inore e:nphatically Il Western
ln%sIiLdtiOn lhau any local company,
f:om the fact that large are
loaned in Cincinnati, Chicago, st.
Lou. and Milwaukee. In Cincin-
IIa'i alone it has loanel during the
pl>, Lwo wears upwards of ONE
MILLION OF DOLLARS, which
al alone gives it Il just claim upon
the people of the West that few if
aay other companies possess.
hONIN 6Ri tEA UhES .Ot 11lE
OAK.
Annual dividends, originated BY
company in 1868.
1t accommodates its patrons with u
loan of 40 per cent. of the premiums,
and as its dividends average on all
life plans 40 per cent. annually, the
loan is cancelled by them
Dividends on full amount Of pre-
MUM paid.
All policies non-forfeitmg.
AL profits to policy-holders.
No unreasonable restrictions upon
residence or travel.
Itdeals justly and equitably by all
its best friends being those that have
it longest.
Economy in its management a
marked feature.
Insure your life in the CHARTER
OAK, and remember the words of
Jennie Deans to the English Queen 4:
"Oh my Teddy, when the hour of
trouble comes, that comes to mind and
body, and the hour of death comes,
comes to high and low, it is ma
what we ha' done for oursel's but
what we ha' done for others, that we
think on most pleasantly"
B MYERS Ag't., Ashland;
E. V. KINDIG, Hayesville.
!. Z.DAvIs, Jeromeville.
lo443w
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NoTIcE.-Notice is hereby given
that The Trustees of Montgomery TIP.
will he. eaftcr hold their meetings on
the first Monday of each month at 1
o'clock P. NJ, at the Drug Store
of Nelson & Gates in the Bushnell
Book.
Persons having business with the
Board will present it at that time.
BY order of Trustees,
WIN. H. GATES,
(3w4O) Up Clerk.
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Good Health for May is on our
able. 1t is an excellent number
Vol. 1, with a carefully prepared in
dex is now hound in clcth extra. Sub
scribers can have their volumes bound
at publishers office in cloth, or rs
cents. Now is the time for fasents.
Published in Boston Mass.
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Those of our friends who conter

Those of our friends who contem-
plate making sale of the real estate or
or personal property during the COM
ing spring. r respectfully informed
that we are better prepared than ever
to execute Sale Bills in fine style, and
with the greatest dispatch, at reason
able rates. Those wishing bills print
ed, or advertisements inserted, are in
yited to favor us with a call.
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Why
Because

The Blood Purifier is the
emily article in 1.-The market
which celebrates
costly Drugs imported eS-
pressly from Sweden for its
manufacture, and the Pills
contain the active principle
of Podophyllum i(Mandrak"
Root,) and is q substitute
for Mercury.,bLr.
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SAVE YOUR EosEs.-TEe only thing
that will certainly destroy the Rose
slug and secure you a fine show of
bloom is Whale oil soap, to he had nj
DR.. Foltz' Drugstore.
Pine tar at Pr. Foltz Drugstore.
For fine Dr"gs 60 to DIR. Foltz; for
he is an excellent judge of goods in his
line and keeps the Lest i'll Ashland
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LOCAL ITEMs.-Wc are always glad
to receive contributions from friends
IN all parts of the county, to ourloca
department. In almost every town
ship something occurs weekly which is
of general local interest, and we earn
estly urge our friends to send us in all
the items that come to their obserya-
ton or their ears. No matter how
you write, only tell us the substance
and trust for the balance.
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Because

After eleven years expert
ence and trial the sales have
increased each and every
year., and thousands of let
tiers (unsolicitcd) of the re
markable cures they have
performed bear witness.
Read the letters in Local
Column of cures by thesIs
medicines.
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PROVISION SToRE.-Dewalt Guth
has got back to his old stand. He
has purchased the Povision Store Of
Steinmetz and Dessenberg, where he
will be happy to meethis old customers
and all others. He will sell as cheap
as any establishment in town and will
pay the highest cash price for butter
and eggs
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SPECTACLES
SPECTACI

We are the only Agents for the
celebrated diamond spectacles. Call
and try them.
We do not profess to sell Goods at Cost,
but have marked all our Stock down at
great discount from usual selling prices,
and We can confidently assure our custo-
mers that their Greenbacks Will pay for
just as many Goods at our Establishment
as at any place in the State of Ohio. As
usual, we guarantee the quality of our
Goods to be rs Represented on sale, and we
invite all to call and examine our Stock,
one Door West of tie First National Bank.
Qy42)
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CARRIAGE SHOE. cssrs. Traver
and Ogden have ON hand a large.suo-
ply of fine Buggies, Carriages, &c
Call at the manufactery on Sandusky
Street Ashlard,S and examine their
Garriagess GaaEfcy put nothing but the
best material in their work, and war
rant the same to give entire satisfac
ton.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
FOR A

The subscriber offers for sale, his
House and Lot, beautifully located
just south of the Railroad on the street
running north and south in the village
of Polk. The House and Barn are
new; and the lot cantains ha f an acre
of ground, well fenced. Terms very
reasonable; and possession given at
any time.
3w40 pd. JOHN SwARTs.
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V:Ews.-Now'is the best time in
the whole year to have views of your
residence taken.
johnson is making some magnificent
views and will be glad to call on you
and take some of your residences.
Try him by all means.
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IN BANKRUPTCY.
Northern District of Ohio IS.

Northern District of Ohio IS.
At Mansfield the 9TH day of April
-AOpalsT0. Yrhe undersigned here
BY gives notice of his appointment as
assignee of Henry krebbs of Ash
land, i'll the County of Ashland and
State of Ohio, within said. District,
who has been adjudged a Bankrupt
on Creditors Petition by the District
Court of said District.
II. NJ. WEAVER, Assignee
To the creditors of said Bankrupt.
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THE purest and sweetest Cod-Liver
Oil in the word is Hazard q CaswelPs
Patients who have once taken it pre-
fer it to all others. Physicians hav
decided it superior to any other oils
in market. Sold by all Druggists.
no14lY
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FORKS. SPOONS. KNIFES. &C.

all of which are made by the best es-
Enlistment in the country, and war
ranted to be treble-plated with full
weight of silver Oh the best Nickle
silver and white metal. Our prices
are very low for the quality Of our
Goods. We do not sell TREBLE
PLATED SPOONS for SI,25, but
do not propose to be nndersold by any
establishment in Ohio.
Call and see at
HENRY +. VANTILBURG,
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Chapped hands, face, rough skin,
pimples, ringworm. salt-rheum, and
other cutaneous affections, cured, and
the skin made soft and smooth, by
using the Juniper Tar Soap made by
CAswELL, HAZARD q Co., New
York Sold by all Druggists.
notify @ IL
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This greatest novelty of the age,sis
now on exhibition and for: sale mt the
BUSHNELL BLOCK, Ashland, O..
where the Ladies of Ashland are. IN
vIted to go ana see it perform under
the hand of Mrs. J. CAMPBELL.
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Auditor of States Certificate.
AUDITOR OF STATES OFFICE
DEPARTMENT of Insurance

Department of Insurance,
Columbus Ohio, March 5M, 1870.
1t is hereby certified, That the
CHARTER OAK LIFE INSUR-
ANCE COMPANY, located at
Hartford, in the State of Connecticut
has complied, in all respects, with the
laws of this State, relating to Life
Insurance Companies, for the current
year, and has filed in this Office a
sworn Statement, by the proper officer
thereof, showing its condition and bu-
siness, Oh the 31st of December, 1869,
to be as follows :
Amount of Joint Stock
or Guarantee Capital
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(cfuIc3

.oruO 'purTIsy (efmG)
'TTHNHSQa D Il
e5Tnf ssaIppu 10 'ol GIddr 'spurI
pImHI!A 10 ASH eA!ld!Losep g IoI
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SWEET PorATo PLANTs.-I will
have as usual sweet potato plants i'll
large or small quantities to suit pur-
rhascrs. Plants Now ready. Price
so cents per 100; 1926 per 500;
$3.50 per 1000.
2w r p. Fulkerson.
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REMOVED w. l.. Edwards, has
removed his Photograph gallery to the
room formerly occupied Icy J. H.
Kell, over Willis tin store, where he
will lie glad to see all his old custom.
re-, as well as, all others desirin G fls
class work.
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine,
for April, adorns our table. This
number sustains the great reputation
of that journal for literary merit, and
scholarly reviews. TITS published by
Leonard Scott 40 Fulton street New
York.
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NorICE.-All kinds of weaving
done to order and on short notice.
Carpets from 10 to IL cts. per yard.
ALI work warranted.
MARGARETT BUZZARD.
Polk Ohio.
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FLOWER PLANTs.-Rememlier that
X. p. Fu'AerSom has n splendid assert
ment Of tiuwer plants which he is SELL
ing very cheap. ~
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+. w. WALLACK.

Manufacturer and Dealer in BOOTS
and SHOES. Leather andShoe find
ings, furnished to the trade at the low
est cash rates. Store iii Citizens Bank
Building @9-"
Jan. %, '70-1y29
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Political, Civil, Military and Social
Affairs; Public Documents; Biogra-
ply; Statistics; Commerce; Finance /;
Science; Agriculture, and Mechanical
Industry. ---
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If you want pure drugs, medicines,
dyes. wines, or liquors, get them at
Nelson & Gates Drug Store, for they
always keep the best
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CHOICE OATS.

White Swcde Oats, weighing 4S lbs
per bushel-6O bushels from one, for
sale at DIR. j. N. OILERS Office, over
Gorham's Store. Ashland, o. 6m2J
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For best carbon oil or noR-explo-
sive rose burning fluid, go to Nelson
& Gates.
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This work was commenced in the
year 1861, and is published one vol
u1he annually, in the same style as
the "New American Cycloppdia."-
Each volume is intended to be a Cy-
clopaedia of the material and intel
lectual development of the year, and
embraces the political, civil, military
and social affairs of all countries; i'm
portant Public Documents Biogra,
ply Statistics Commerce, Finance;
Literature; tcience; Agriculture;
Mechanical Industry, etc. In a word
covers the same field as the "New
American ryclopedia," but each vol
une is confined to the results of its
year. Eight volumes have been pub
lished, viz , for 1861, 1862, 1868, 'G4
1865, 1866, 1867 and 1868.
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If you want good work. so to the
gallery of Edwards.
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called, are merely wishioashy STUFF.
sold as a bcrerdge. DR.. Ro6acP'i
BiHers are not a beverage IN arlr
sense of the word, but contain IT,
most erpensire drugs kno,cn t.
science for the radical cure c'I
Indigestion and Dyspepsia, al
for aH cases aohcre a tonic on |
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Why

Are DIR. c.. W. Roback's
Stomach Bitters, Blood Pl[
rifer and Blood Pills tho
three greatest remedies the
world has ever KNOWN
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SUM NLQM arc
required. They
restore the Uitai
forces in a re-
markd6le degree,
and giUe tone to
The system.
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The best Groups n a iways be pro
cured at Johnson's Gallery.
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A fine large stock of Walnut Gilt,
and Rosewood Frames just arrived at
JOhnson's Gallery.
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EARLY ROSE potatoes at S1,00 per
hushel, under the Citizens Bank, for
sale by Joshua How'and.
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Ifyou would obtain an accurate
likeness of your Child, go to Edwards.
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HORSE BILLs.-We are prepare
o print Horse-bills on short notice at
moderate rates. Those desiring such
will do we'll to give us a call, before go
ing elsewhere. Our cuts are as good
rs n be found in any Office in this
part of the State.
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AUT'ION
% -SnS x[Z ric,rec~C :, rsc71oX
4 VS. IS 22ll114A9lB5. q q 5!,2:g lA}

are more extensively co~unterfeited at
the present time than ever before
Their splendid time-keepirg qualities
have Induced many unprincipled
dealers to impose worthless limitations
of all styles. Therefore, those wish
ing-to. purchase the genuine Watch
should bny only from n reliable local
Agent. We have now n full line of
all the different styles in Gold and
Silver Watches, which for finish and
price are more desirable than anything
before offered in the market.
Also an endless variety of
LADIES GOLD WATCHES,
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DISSOLUTIONNOT1CE.

The undersigned have mutually
dissolved the partnership heretofore
existing between them in the Provis-
ion and Grocery business. Books
left with Mercer.
G. F. LUNDY.
l.. Nj. MERCER.
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WIN. s. l. M. D..

Physician and Surgeon-Ohice and Resi-
dence on Corner of Church and Second dSts.,
Ashland, q. (v24n1s) =.
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IF you want a splendid picture, go
to Edwards.
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james Vicks' Flower and Garden
Seeds for sale at Foltz's Drug Store.
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Tie Southern States.

DO YOU WANT a RELIABLE
JOURNAL from the South? The
oldest, best known and ablest is the
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Gates.

For the best cigars, go to Nelson
& Gates.
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RENovED.-TLe office of the States
and Un:on las been removed about
one square west of its old location, on
Man st-eet, soutI, side. opposite
Chu:cl, :, Get, where we viii be hap
by lc see on snb>,IibeT> aud business
men 1T any tme. We have gone to
consider at'e cxpehse to fiji up our e
%n:fice, a"d shall lie g'n.l to enroll
abou, 600 mo Laying subscribers for
our paper. IF evcry TWO subscribers
now on Il loll, will geta new : SUBJ
sciiber, we VIII have The number desn-.
ed. We a.e making every excrfion to
give you a good PAPER. safe for family.
and pareut. Will you help us in our
enterprise?
ZELL's Popular Encyclopedias, and
Universal Dictionary of History, Bio
graphy, Geography, Science, Arts,
and Language, has been published to
page 1l96, making 152 numbers,
which completes tue first volume.
The work is unsurpassed for excellent
Typography, illustration, and the dis
cAssion of almost every topic. 1t is
published by T. Ellwood Eel, PhiIa-
dclphia Pa.
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10 1870.

N. B. G, F. Lundy will open a
store for fresh fish, vegetables, fruit,
feed, &C., at the store room formerly
occupied by Pancoast rs a Drug
Store. Give him a call.
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Because
Because

They know the ingredients.
of which they are made.
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STOMACH

country and Introduced the &eo.
dindrian Blood Purifier; SIN,
[whicA time thousands have 6c~>t
cured by its use, Of Scrofula an.
other blood Diseases. 1T contains j
besides Tie Iodidelo Of POtassa a',rt
Syrup Of StiHingia, drugs import.
ed from S,etalen for It's erprcx4s
manufacture, uaknos5ss and mof
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GENTS GOLD WATCHES.

GENTS GOLD WATCHES,
of all styles and prices. A large stock
of SETH THOMAS CLOCKS and
others of good make. A fine assert
ment of Table Cutlery at greatly re-
duced prices. Silver and Silver Pla-
ted of the best quality and style.
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,JyNW -" yuev 9riTS
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mey are made
both with and
without sugar
coating, thus
adapting them to
The use Of every
body; Because
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ria6y establishes them as fauorites
10Th all aoho use them.
The reasons aOhy DR.. RobacE's
Blood Pills should BE- ikept IN ev-
cry family are: Because they can
be employed IN all cases whcre al
"family physic is required, and
are perfectly safe IN their admin
istration at all times; BecauseI
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AuttllOT VI OlitlC.
BY Jas.WILLIAMS, Chief Clerk.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-09
"A Call.
MEMPHIS. AusustS. 1870


To the Editor Of the Ledger:
Having achieved a splendid victory
in our recent election, let us not on that
account relax our vigilance, but keep
our camp-fres burning, remembering
that the fight is not yet over; nor can
we claim complete victory until we Sc
cure the election of a Democratic Gov
ernor and Legislature, and fill the places
of all such crop-eared knaves as W. j.
Smith with good and true men, who wiii
fifty represent us in the halls oil Con-
gress, .NX, ,., e.
ecutiye Committee to nominate a Guber-
material standard-bearert / presume
that conventions will shortly be called
to nominate candidates both for Congress
and the Legislature. In selecting can
didates for the Legislature, presume
the custom of choosing one from the
city and one from the country will be
adhered to. In looking over the county
/ know of no one who whould be more
acceptable to the people of the country
than Colonel J.. NJ. Crews, gentleman
without fear and without reproach-one
whose ability and energy is such that no
interest of his constituents would be
neglected or suffer at his hands. Both
his civil and military life is without a
blemish. hope it will not be too great
a sacrifice of his private interest to serve
MS in the next Legislature. Let us hear
from the gallant Colonel.
SHELBY County.