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Ai0ner Cannot Buy
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MANUFAcrURKp BY

1ECGEl~ MANUFACTURED BY
J. E. SPENCER & CO., N. Y,
Which are now offered to the public,
are pronounced by .all the celebrated
Opticians of the W.crld, to be the
Mosf PERFECT,
Natural, Artificial, help to the human
eye ever known.
They are ground under. thelr own sup
crvision, from minute Crystal, Pebbles.
melted together, and derive their
name, "Dfamond," on account of their
hardness and b~rilliancy.
The Scientific Princi le
On which they are constructed brings
the core or centre of the lens directly
in front of the eye, producing a clear
and distinct vision, as in the natural,
healthy sight, and preventing all un-
pleasant sensations. such as glimmer-
ing and wavering of sight, dizziness,
&c, peculiar I'd all others in use
They are Mounted in the Finest Manner,
-"-
In frames of the best quality, of all
materials used for that purpose.
THEIR FINISH AND DURABILITY CAN
NOT BE sURPAssEE.
CAUTION.-None genuine unless
bearing their trade mark-stamped
on every. frame:
HENRY F., VANTILBURG,
Jeweier AND, .,pptician, is Sole
Froh whom they can only be OBJ
tanned These goods are not supplied
to Peddlers, at any price.
10 procure a fine Photograph, so
to w. l.. Edwards.
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ratsPRoyisIoN SroRE.-Dewalt Guth
mas got back to bis old stand. He
has Purchased the Povision Store Of
Steinmetz and Dessenberg, where he
viii be happy to meeth bis old customers
apd Ill sothers. He will sell as cheap
IS any establishment ia town and will
pay the highest cash price for butter
and Eggs
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ASNoUNCEMENTS
For Auditor.

Mr.. EDITOR Please my name
as a candidate for the Office of County Au-
ditor, subject to the decision of the Demo
CRITIC electors at theiEu primary meetings
to be held aug. q, 1870.
VIM. II. GATES.
Announce my name ~ . candidate for
nomination for the Office of County Audi
tor, subject to the decision of the Democra-
cy ut their Primary Meetings.
ELIZA T. STRINGER.
Ma. EpfToR: Please announce the name
of EMANUEL FINGER of Orange Tp.,
as n candidate for County Auditor, and
oblige.
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SFE9BEH1hA6A,E

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 cur Stock. down at
great discount from usual selling prices,
and We can confidently assure o~uri.eusto-
smers 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 bs as represented on sale, and we
invite all to call and examine our Stock,
sone Door West of the First National Bank.
'Gy42)
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MILTON TowNsHIP-The Dcmocra-
cy of Milton, at the east part of the
township, will meet at Thomas Bra
dens, in Frogtown, and those Of the
west, at the Burns School House to
vote on the day of the Primary Meet
ings at 2 o'clock p. NJ.
j. McCREA, Com.
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For Sheriff

Please announce that am n candidate
for reelection to tho office of Sheriff, Of
Ashland County, subject to the decision of
the Democracy at their Primary Elections
to be held on the 9th day of August
~ '"' W. n PORTER
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The ENAUBE PIANO "A contro
Jersey between. two or three Of our
sjtizenss has arisen about the manage
ssnsat of the property of the Normal
Academy Of Music. We do not in
tendte endorse. either side of the ques-
.tidu. The paper is open for a candid
.rrepIy from Mr.. Gorham.
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Because

The Blood Puriier is the
only article in the market
whichcontainst the celebrated
costly Drugs imported ex,
pressly from Sweden for ito
manufacture, and the Pills
contain the active principle.
of Podophyllum (MaHdrake
Root,) and is 4 substitute
for Mercury.
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.M

the NE
Nutty, House on the 18th Of lust
by J. L. Jones, j. 2. EHfard Drake
. Miss Josep4rae Pgsonss beth OF
Sullivan Township
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EXECUTIONS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the un-
dersigned has been duly appointed
and qualified as Exector Of the estate
of George Houser, late of Mohecan
Tp., Ashland County OHIO, decd.
JOHN HOUSER, Executor.
no4-4w
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JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.-There
will be an election for Justice of The
Peace in Perry Tp., on Saturday
August 81, 1870. Let there be a full
turn out,
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WILLIAM BRICE & Co.,
By Bonewitz Is Carr, their Attys
June 30th, A. d. 1870.-n1w6.

Gapped hands, face. rough skin:
.pimples, ringworm, salt-rheum, and
other cutaneous affections, cured, and
the skin made soft and smooth, by
using the Juniper 1ar: Soep made by
CAswELL, HAZARD IL Co., New
York Sold by all Druggists.
no14ly =
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MAaAzINBS

Arthn1s Home Magazine for Sep
tember opens with an excellent story
contributed by Mary Hartwell, emit
tied "a Daughter of IshmaePs.",
s'The song ~ the Saw" by Grace
Leavenworth, is a pleasing and quaint
sketch of a day in q mill. There Is
Farther from.the Misses Fitznoodle,'
By the author of Watching ard
Waiting" and other paper on "Wo
mans Work and Waman's Wages"
We also find the Prize Temperance
Story of Woods Household. Maya
zine copied into the Home. The va
rious departments possess their usual
interest, and altogether the numbe
is u superior one. r
The Children's Hour for September
is beautifully illustrated, and numbers
among its contributors the names of
Kate Sutherland, Ada NJ. Kennicott,
Clio Stadley, and others equally well
qualified to please children. Beech
Nut Farm" by Virginia F. Town
send, is continued. This little maya
zine is really the prettiest publication
for children that we know of.
.Demorest's Young America, the
juvenile Prince of Magazines, is on
our table, and we find, as ever, that
the children are OF the qui rive of ex-
pcctatfon for the good things they are
always sure to find in it. The Chro-
mo Of tie Baltimore Oriole makes the
present number especially attractive,
and "Fiddling Freddy" still excites
the attention of the juveniles. Yer
ly,. $3.50, a beautiful premium, worth
the cost of Young America. Address
". Jennings Demorest, S38 Broad
way, New York.
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e. w. WALLACK,

Manufactures and Dealer in BOOTS
and SHOES. Leather and Shoe find
ings, furnished to the trade at the low
est cash rates. Store in Citizens Bank
Building.
Jan. 36, '7O-1y29
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MANY FRIENDS.
Fer Ipnrmary Diectsr.

Announce the name of JOS. SrRICK-
LAND of Vermillion, as q candidate for
Infirmary Director subject to the decision
of the Democracy at their Primary Meet.
ings.
Announce The name of JAMES Nc
MAUI, as a candidate for nomination for
lnfrmary Director subject TO the decision OF
the Democracy at their Primary Meetings.
MANY DEMOCRATS.
Announce the name of WILLIAM
NOGGLE of Mohican township for nomi-
nation for !n6rmary Director, subject to the
wishes of the Dem-mocracy.
Please %nounc the name of GEORGE
MYERS, of Perry Tp., as a candidate for
then nomination for the Office of Infrmary
Director, subject to the decision of the
Democracy at their Primary meetings to
be held August q, 1870, and obbge
MANY FRIENDS.
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THE

: FNtF"FI' - Tue TT
NEW AMERICAN CYGLoPEOiA'
A Popular Dictionary aaaa of General H., wi
e &c. yAes -
EDITED BY GEORGE RIPLEY AND
CHARLES A. DANA.
Aided BY a Numerous Select Corps of Wri-
tiers, in all Branches of Science, Art, and
Literature.
In 16 large rolumes, 5vo, Averaging 800
double eolsmr pages IN each sotume,
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Surveyor.

ANNOUNCES that I will be:a candidate for
denomination to the Office of County Sur
veyor; subject TO the decision of the De-
mocracy ut their Primary meetings.
HENRY PIER.
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For Commissioned

Announce the name of NJ. c. DAVIS OF
Vermillion Tp., as a candidate for nominal
ton for County Commissioner, subject TO
the decision of the Democracy at their
Primary Meetings.
MANY FRIENDS.
A1nDunce the NJ me of JOSEPH .BRU-
BAKER of Mohecan TIP, as a candidate
for County Commissioner, subject to the de-
cision ofthe Dsmocratic Primary Meetings.
MOHECAN.
Announce the name of ISRAEL MAR
KLE, of Orange township. as Candidate for
nomination for County Commissioner, sub
jcct to the decision OF the Democracy ut
their Primary Meetings.
MANY FRIENDS.
Announce the name of WILLIAM
CRAIG of Yermillion as q candidate Tor
Commissioner subject to the decision Of the
Democracy. MANY FRIENDS.
Announce the name Of JOHN P
SMALLEY, of Perry. township, rs a can
didate for Commissioner. subject to the de-
-cision of the Democratic Primary Elec-
tons.
Please announce the iame of HENRY
WICKS, as a candidate for reelection
to the office of county Commissioner subject
to the decision of the Democratic Primary
meetiegs held August "a. and oblige
MANY FRIENDS.
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@W NEw RAIL-noAD.-Thc rail
road Is now a tixpd fact, if Ashland
and other points raise the required
amount of stock Blessrs Isaac Stull
and Willard Siocum, have been select
cd a Incorporators, and the neces.a-
~ papers viii be forwarded to Column
bu@ In thirty days The books will be
open46 or subscriptions. Let our peo-
pie be vide awake. This is a big
thing for Ashland. Let us have it.
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Why

Are Dr. G. w. Robaek's
Stomach Bitters, Blood Pa.
rifier and Blood Pills the,
three greatest remedies the
world has ever knowu9
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To PuBLisHERs.-A printer of II
perience, and Off tteunperate habits
wishes a sihsatioa'in q country Office.
.Address this Office.
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.Nor1cE.-The township and sehoo'
Fund will be ready for the township
) Treasures the 18th DAY of Aug1st-
~ EAArUEL FINGER,
Auditor.
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Prosecuting. Attorney.

VIM. O. PORTER.
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Mosisa 8 REArrsa. !.

Mosiso d REAPfsG. Machine
Oif. We can furnish you good Oils
for so cents to $500 per gallon in
large OF. small quantities Call and
examine for yourselves Al the Drug
;Steresof DIR. Foltz.
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s. ii. FREEMAN. ha!

m~ S. B. FREEMAN, has
MA~ just ordered a number
of fine ROWLING PIECES, RIFLES.
&c , which he will sell cheap, for cash.
All sorts of repairing done by him at
the Engine room. Call on him and
enc ,urage his enterprise.
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Do you want ,strirtiy pure Drugs?
Gall on our friend, Or. w. K. Foltz,
cae door East of Miller House.
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Road Receipts, always to be had
cheap at this Office.
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eRAHD JURORS,


John Earhart.
Jacob Lybergcr; Mohecan Township
VIM. Montgomery
NC Perciyal, Clearcreek
ID, Rust Hanover.
A:SsHRel Moore, RsEry "
Jo6ssInIis, Ruggles
lad John Copley, jackson 80.
- CHRISTIAN Miller. Montgomery
Solomon Doty, MifHin
Solomon Hazel, Perry
Andrew Mumper, Green
VIM. CLANCY, Montgomery
rGeol W. limerick Lake
oDgG Spencer, Sullivan "
80 PETiTl JURORS.
Philip Ewing,
-A1XS Jacob Gam,
John Shambaugh,
Henry Writ:
y j. a. StickleE,. weF
III. B. Simmons,
9-7as Jaeob Alferholt,
John Bryte,
Joseph Strickland,
George Miller,
John Ably. M
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THE

AMERICAN ANNUAL CYCLOPEDI1
AND
Register of Important Events for year
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Political, Civil, Military and Social
Affairs; Public Documents; Biograi
ply Statistics; Commerce; Finance +;
Science; Agriculture, and Mechanical
Industry.
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At an adjourned meeting. Of the
Soldiers of the 22d AID t02d and the
120 Regiments held on Monday eye
ming Aug. 22d 1870, the following
named Ladies appointed to serve
the table atthe dinner to be given to
the Soldiers and their wives on the 31st
of August 1870 at Ashland Ohio:
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Fsr Fine Buggies, Carriages, and
dthsF vehicles, g to sarnpsel q CO
on Orange street
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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 (unsolicited) of the re-
markable cures tReS have
performed bear Witness
Read the letters in LOCAL
Column of cures by these
medicines.
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Losr.-A Memorandum with red
morocco backs. Any person returning
til. same. to this Office or to w. o.
Porter. win be literally rewarded. :
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For good fresh Groceries and Pro.
visions go to Stofet g Ksssy, head
of Main steer. - '
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Why

Are DR.. RoBaek Blood
Purifier and Blood Pills
the best remedies taken tos
gether for the cure Of all
diseases of the blood
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Because
Why.


They knowithe ingredients
of which they are made. !.
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WATCHES!
WATCHES!
CAUTION

Agzals'|WII AEil2AIg|gg!ssA5ZgAI!AgI
are o extensively counterfeited at
the present time than ever before
Their splendid time-keeping 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 a reliable local
Agent. We have now a fill 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,
GENTS GOLD WATCHES,
of all styles and prices. A large st ,ck
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 ware of the best quality and style.
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PRICE OF THE WORK PER VOL.

In Extra Cloth, $500
In Library Leather, 600
In Halt Turkey Morocco, $50
In Half Russia, extra guilt, so
In Full Morocco, ant, guilt edg-
es 9,UU
In Full Russia, 900
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xNEw CLotHrSG.-Mr. Louis Leon
wiaf Formerly carried on a Clothing
p and Furnishing establishment in Me
: dina Ohio, has rented the stnre-room
now occupied by the Post Office, and
wilfopen about the first of September
9anew and complete stock of clothing;
with merchant tailoring. He will al
70 hare a first class Cutter from New
YORK, and advises every body to wait
for the new goods, If
LIFE d UrAH.-Mr. D. switner e
Agent for Life in Utah-or the
.Mysteries of Mormanism'-a work
that is now Attracting a good de,l of
attention. The Mormon Church is
annually growing in numbers, aud mem
.acss. the great west in its power. The
Question twill it be the predomi-
nant Church in the west, or will its
hypocricies, when properly exposed,
lead 70 h overthrow?
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|-Daut fD..l quo
,ssodnad .lDnmss
%, tq ps.m,@
--nunm nj 6uD
'6Q. psssDdsnsun
s.tD sznd poY4
sfaDqod.'lG
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-3nE eAafaeN.--We win furnish
Tie Stssss & 6aion until the second
Tuesday in October next, for 80 cents!!
Let us have three hundred more sub
scribers.
1. It is the official psper Of the
county.
.. 1t gives more reading matter
thse any county paper in northern
6sio.
8 It has much the largest circula-
ton of any paper in The county.
"a It is the duty Of every Democrat
70 sustain his county organ.
IS. The Democracy Of the paper has
never wavered.
rs The times demand q removal Of
the grinding exactions placed upon the
people, and the States & Uaion will
fssdessly urge such . change.
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'sAsYaa-G.ssae ssuio,peW
)auasad us sss1Ds0 rseO
sassG6na0 HQ ems aoE

J. '1oq
l1d.. s7uso sas
7fiusm' 10 aotld
lmoi f1smslirs
isp 20 slofs 6n1p.
Hun ~ pssDYo
@Do 6sYlI
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Because.

They are the best combine
ton ever. made. 81
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1t is earnestly requested that the
above named Ladies be present at 10
o'clock, A. NJ. in order to make all
necessary preparations for the dinner
which will be served Mt Io'clock p. M.
in the grove of Yearick and Jacobs.
&c. Bushnell, Chm.
B. Myers, Sec'y
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60 OF & E. f. :; 81: : ::': IS:
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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-04-05

BEEcHER's SHoT Az A SQUIRREL. Hen
ry Ward Beecher in a paper on the
"Chipmonks" to the Christian Union,
tells this story Of himself
"Ihe FIRST time that ever fred gun
it was at "chippy, and / fred and
did not bit him Ny father it was that
let me trot behind him, seven or eight
year old, while he hunted through the
fields. How my nerves screwed up
when be took aim, and what crash in
my oyer-sensitiye ear, was the report
It was a painful aud always an irresis-
table facination. And SO one day, re-
turning home, ont ran a bold chipmonk
and corused along the wall with trailing
tail then mounting q stone, tail cooked
up he said, Hit NE, bit me, bit me, he,
he!" Here, Henry, do you want 70
shoot +? "Yes, sir --no--yes, / do Get
behind me let the gun rest on my
shoulder--now take aim-come, pull
the trigger or he'll be off
! shut one eye in manner that car
ried the other with IT, / opened both
The tears came. The squirrel seemed
six or seven squirrels whlrling round ii
the air took aim but il would not
stay aimed. Somehow / saw the sky
the stone wall, great mullen stalk, tic
squirrel, and twenty other things, all ii
jig. Bang went the gun. "Chipgsr.
rec went the squirrel as he diyed down
laughing, into hole.
Well I've seen many minister ID
the same thing with sermon. and fee
as satisfied as did. To be sure had
not bit anything. bat ! had made i
splendid noise
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with anc olarct cloth, aud costing S2,-
900. also lndys pony wagon worth
81 500. ! buggy 5000; road wagon,
SINGLE. 5000. a large sleigh $1,000
sud lght cutter, worth Sl21 4
closet, with two cut-glass windows
stands II tbo back 4 door az the side
opens on a passage way carpcted With
Brussels, similar 80 the stairs. This
leads 10 an office, which is rarely used,
aud which one 81 fong occupied by the
owner ID The upper part Of the city
alone The carpet is the same as that
Of the stairs and passage
The furniture consists ola lounge OF
green red, walnut desk aud table, SIX
walnut arm chairs, with cane bottoms,
rich stove, a $500 walnut book case,
without books. a $500 walnut ward
robe, aud black walnut inner blinds,
shading large plate glass windows, The
ceiling IS oraamented with Pompelan
froscoes 4 bronze chandelier IS sus-
pended from the ceiling A black wal
nut and ground glass door leads 70 a
closet, carpetod like the office lta en-
tire appurtenances are Of walnut, and =
wash-basin Of the finest white marble
stands Ia the corner.
On the third story is an unfinished
apartment intended for billiard room,
A pump on one side is used for fore
ing watert the floor when tue Croton
reservoirs are low The story also con-
tains two large rooms for the grooms
and coachmon. They have oak imita-
ton cottage furniture The carpets
are Of crimson Brussels with dark flow
ers, and the entire arrangement OF the
apartments eqnrls that Of the bachelor
rooms in frst-class hotel
II the stable Of this politician IS
costly, hte magnificence of his abode
becomes difficult to imagine. IL is at
Al West Thirty street, near the
Fifth avenue. He possesses a similar
number of carriages and horses at bis
country seat.-N y Post
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WEsELEYs WIFE John Wesley mar
ried a widow, who through her jealousy
led him a lifo of wretchedness and mis-
cry. AT last his spirit was up and hs
wrote her: "Know me and know your
sell. Suspect me no more; provoke
me no more; do not not any longer
contend for mastery, for power, money,
or praise; be content TO be private,
insignificant person, known and loved
by God and me II is not likely that
woman would be pleased at being
recommended to be an insignificant per-
SON After twenty years Of disquietude
she ono day leithim. He bore II philo-
sophically. He went beyond t. -he
took his diary, and put the most pithy
entry into it ever met with In diary.
Nom cam re'iqu; nan dimtsi non rcps.
cab0, which may be translated thus 4
did not leave her, / did not send her
away; | shan't send for her back. And
so ended the marriage life Of John
Wesley.
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HeHfNNer rRrsess FsEErB ceEe
.NYNNR

The following bi, oi information viii
Be 81 interest tho world over
Ata distance o. less than three days
voyage from Valparaiso, in Chill aud
nearly in the same latitude with this
important port On the western coas, q
South America. is the Island Of Juan
Teruandsz whore once upon q time Al
exander Sclkirk during banishmont
q four years gathered the material for
Defoe's Robinson Crusoe This island
little thought Of by lho inhabitants OF
the Chillian eoastlaud, has lately be.
come oi somo interest by the fact that
in December, 1869, il was ooeded 10
society Of Germans under the guidenoo
Of Robert Wohrham, an engineer trom
Saxony, Germany, for the purpose Of
colonization. The leader Of this expe-
dition, Robert Wehrham, left Germany
eleven years since, passed several years
in England, served as major through
the war Of the republic against seoes-
sion, and was subsequently engaged
as engineer with the Ceropaseo Rail.
road, in South America
lie and his society, about 60 or 40 in
diyiduals, have taken possession Of the
Island which is described as being a
most fertile and lovely spot, They
found there countless numbers OF wild
horses, and 60 donkeys, the latter ami
NAL proving to be exceedingly shy
They brought with them cows aud 9th
er cattle, swine, numerous fowls, and
various kinds OF agricultural impol-
ments, with boat and fishing appqra-
tus, to engage in different pursuits and
occupations, The grotto, made famous
as Robiason's 3 abode, situated in spa
cious valley, covered with large fields
or with turnips "A desirable food for
swine--has been assigned to the hope
young Chillian gentleman to whom the
care of the poercino part Of the society's
stock has been entrusted, and he and
his proteges are doing very well in their
new quarters Juan Fernandez is ono
Of the stations whore whaling vessels
take in water and wood.