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The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31
GEN. MOVES
M c A r 7 II u r
TUESDAY, SEPT. 5.
AT
What a Railroad Does

NS - NSoiAA OA0 OOCSs
Under this heading the Wash.
ington (Pa.) Reporter says that
a farm of 146 acres, near Nc
Donald's Station, on the Pan
handle Railroad, was lately
sold to a Pittsburg gentleman
for $4,000. The same farm
before the completion of the
railroad, could have been
bought at sixty dollars per
acre; whereas it now brings
nearly two hundred. This ar
gument will apply to this coun.
ty just as we'll as to Pennsyl.
vania, and to convince the far
mers that railroads will pay
Every dollar subscribed to q
railroad adds to the value Of
your land, besides it brings the
market to your door.-Xari.
eta Times.
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Sale Of Liquor I'm the U. 8.

Sale Of Liquor I'm the U. 8.
at the request of the Massa.
chusetts Temperance Alliance,
Mr.. Yonng, Of the statistical
bureau, furnishes the following
estimate of the sale of liquors
in the United States during the
fiscal year ending June 80,
1870:
Whisky, 6O,OOO,OOO gallons
at Sc retail, S36O,OOO,OOO.
Imported spirits, 100000
gallons at $40 retail, $25,OOO,-
900.
Imported gin, 100000 gal
Ions at 500 retail, $53, 100000,
Ale, beer and porter, $500,
900 barrels at $40 retail, $780,.
100000.
Native irandies, wines and
cordials, quantity unknown
Estimated value, $3I,500,000.
Total, $6OO,OOO,OOO.
AS a proof of the correctness
of the above, it may be stated
that during the last fiscal year
the receipts from retail liquor
dealers who paid $25 each fol
licenses amounted to $3.50.
900, indicating that there were
10000 retailers of liquors in
the United States. By includ,
ing those who escaped paying
license fees, estimated at 1000
the number is increased.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31

that, ifit is to be taken as a
specimen of MIR. Garvey's work,
manship, | would not hire him
to plaster a hen house tor me.
When l had done with the
plastering l began to look at
the furniture of the rooms.
Here | naturally thought l
should see something fine.
Many insurance Offices and
banks are now' a.days furnished
with great magnificence, and 1
have lead that even Mr..
Tweed's stable is a marvel of
fine wood and costly furniture.
Well, | assure you the new
Court House is very plainly
furnished. The wood, work is
Of black walnut, true, but it is
all common in style, a little
shabby. If it had been of oak
or some high>colored wood,
the rooms would have been less
gloomy. 1t is not easy for one
to guess at the actual value of
this furniture, but it consists
largely of common black wal
nut chairs, and seventy,five
thousand dollars would be an
extravagant estimate of the
real value of all the furniture
in the new Court House.
But you say that 81, 1,476,9OS
were paid to one firm by Mayor
Hall and Controller Connolly.
| should say they had paid at
least 81 100000 too much.
To look through this new
Court House, a stranger to
your recent revelations would
think that the county authori-
ties were the most economical
or, indeed, the most miserly of
men. Everything in the build,
ing is common, and is cheap.
1t has been "scrimped" to use
the builders phrase, in every
detail.
The City Hall Park and its
buildings are by no means exs
hausted in this little account
OF the new Court House. ]
must defer to another day some
account of the old City Hall,
and of some of it's surroundings.
But l advise every citizen
whose taxes have been raised
to meet the furniture, curtain
and plastering bills of the new
Court House, to 60 and look al
it with his own eyes.
Yours truly,
CHARLES NoRDHoFF.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31

A TOURIST visited a farmer in
Woodford county, Kentucky,
lately, and inquired, "Well,
how are the crops in your
neighborhood~ He shook his
head rather gloomlly, and then
said: "I'm afeered we are ruin-
ed. The corn has overshot it.
self, and has three or four ears
TO the stalk. They are a foot
long, and stand out straight
enough for a coon to sit on
The crop is going to be so big
that you can't get twenty cents
bushel, and l expect to burn
it next winter iu place of cans
mel coal;" and he couldn't have
looked worse if he had lost
a horse race.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31
HENRY T. HELMBOLD'S I'M.
PROVED ROSE WASH.

can not be surpassed as face wash, and will be
found the only specific remedy 10 every spe-
.cies CT cuta neous affection. 1t speedily erad>
Gates PIN plies, spots, scorbutic dryness, ,indu-
rations ofthe cutsneous membrane, ETC., DIS
pels redness AMI incipient inflammation, hives,
rash, moth patches, dryness of the scalp or
skin, frost bites, and all purposes for which
salves or ointments are used; restores the
skin to a state Of purity and softness, and in
sures continued healthy action to the tissue
of its vessels, on which de pends the agreeable
clearness and vivacity ofcomplexion so much
sought and admired. But however valuable
as a remedy for existing defects of the skin,
Il. T. Helmhold's Rose Wash has long sus-
tsined It's principle claim to unbounded pat
ronage by possessing qualities which render
lt toilet appendage Of the most superlatlve
and congenial character, combining in an ele-
giant formula those prominent features, safety
and efficacy-the Invariable accompaniment
pfits uss-as preservative and refresher OF
the complexion. II is an excellent lotion for
diseases of syphiltic nature, and as an lnjec-
tion Tor diseases Of the urinary organs, arising
from habits of dissipation, used in connection
With the Extracts Buchu, Sarsaparilla, and
Gatawba Grape Pills, in such diseases as re>
commended, can not be surpassed.
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What Tells.

When Grant went into pow
eE the interest ON the debt
paid out each month amounted
to $10,532,462.5O. Now it
comes to $9,527,9l2.67. Can
anything more surely prove
the economy and wise manage.
ment of the finances than thisa
Interest is a pretty certain dis~
bursement, but the Republican
party through President Grant,
has reduced it over one million
dollars a month. Think OF il,
voter.
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WHOLE NO. IT. 16
Too Poor to Take n Paner.

Too Poor to Take q Paper.
Brother Moore, of the Rural
New Yorker, was sitting in his
Office one afternoon, when a
farmer friend came in and said:
"Friend Moore, | like your
paper, but times are so hard |
can't pay for it,"
"ls that so, friend Jones? Pm
very sorry to hear you are SO
poor; and if you are really
hard run, 1 will give you my
paper"
ooh, mol l can't take it as a
gift"
"Well, then, let's see how we
can fix it You raise chickens,
l believe.
"Yes, a few; but they don't
bring anything hardly"
"Don't they? Neither does
my paper cost anything hardly.
Now l have a proposition to
make to you; l will continue
your paper, and when you 60
home you may select from your
flock one hen and call her mine.
Take care of her and bring me
the proceeds, whether in eggs
or chickens, and we will call it
square,"
Gall right, Brother Moore"
and the old man chuckled at
what he thought a capital bar
gain. He kept the contract
strictly, and at the end OF
the year found that he had
paid about four prices for his
paper. He often tells the joke
on HIMSELF says he never had
the face to say he was to poor
to take the paper since that
day.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31

BOSTON Is the most inhospit-
able city in the country, if
travellers are to he believed. II
tyranny and oppression had
any virtues, it would be The
best place in the country. II
a man don't pay his taxes there
they chuck him in Jail. If he
is caught selling liquor he is
treated likewise. Mr.. Dunbar
kept a liquor store, and was as
sessed $4,000 for tax. This is
like tying a mans legs and tell
ing him to dance. lie has Of
ierred his liquor but they won't
accept that; it must be money
or a cell. Liquor, it seems is a
good property to tax, and then
throw overheard.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31

Col. GEO. w. McCooK arrived
in Ironton late on Friday night
and left Monday morning on.
the Mountain Belle. He was
extremely nervous and seemed
to be completely used up. He
made two very weak addresses
on Saturday to an audience Of
about $50 persons. He gets
ten-forty, fve-twenty, iron,
sugar, tea, bushels, pounds,
tons, so inexplicably confused
as to render his meaning at
times unintelligible.- Aontou
Journal.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31

The New York Tribune, whose
editor IS a veteran platform
worker, expresses the opinion
that all such contrivances care
at best perfunctory affairs" and
Of but little account any way.
It's idea is that Eve have passed
out OF the high and mighty
declarations, like those of the
Virginia and Kentucky resolu-
ton of '9S and the enunciation
Of Republican political princi4
pies in 1856 and 1S6O," and
that the platform which asserts
itself is that public opinion
which shapes legislation, inde-
pendently Of partisan desire,
and finds new expression as
circumstances vary and men
change.
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To Avoid Being Cheated.


1t is said that three million
dollars annually are taken from
the pockets of country people
by the various swindling es
Establishments in NewYork City,
who spread their allurlng ad,
vertisements all over the coun.
try, and get small sums by mail.
TheAmerican Agriculturist has
with Commendable enterprise,
ferreted out and exposed many
of these swindling tricks; but
a shorter and simpler way is
this--NeOer trust yo,Ir money,
not ecen Gp0StGge stamp, to any
person sOhose reputation yow
knoao nothing about. The big
ger the promises, the more
likely you will be caught.
Avoid all advertisers who offer
you remedies for nothing--there
will be some gouging behind
men do not pay for costly ad.
Yertisements for the sake OF
gratultous labor. Avoid all gift
establishments--they will get
twice to ten times as much out
of you, as they give you. Avoid
all persons who sell watches,
or 'jewelry or dresses, or any
thing else greatly below the
market price--they will surely
cheat you in the same way.
Honest men find a better way
to bestow charity.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31
A WESTERN New York drug

A WESTERN New York drug
gist has been sued by the ag.
grieved husband for selling
laudanum to a woman ad.
dicled to the excessive use Of
the narcotic. The case has not
yet been decided, but the su.
preme court of New York has
decided that the suit can be
maintained. The principle is
the same as that of the provi
sion Of our Ohio law in regard
to the sale of liquor TO inebri
ates.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31
LADIES'.
{ }

H.T. HELMBoLD'S EXTRACT BUCHU
CURES DISEASES ARISING FROM lMPRU.
DENCEs, HABITS OF DISSIPATION, ETC,
in all their stages, at little expense, little or
no change ia diet, no Inconvenience, and no
exposure. Il causes a frequent desire and
gives strelgth 10 urinate, thereby removing
Distractions, preventing and curing structures
ofthe urethra. Allaying PAIN and inflammation,
80 frequent IN This class OF diseases, and ex.
pellingall poisonous matter.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31
M
HENRY HELlIBOLD'S
CONCENTRATED
FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU
Nj
THE GREAT DIUnETIC

has cared every case Of diabetes in which il
has been given. Irritation of the neck Of the
bladder aud inhama.i hon of the k dneyS, ulcer.
AtlOR Of the kidneys and bladder, retention OF
the bladder, calculus, gravel, bi1ck>dust dc,
post and mucous Or milky discharges, AMI
DOR enfeebled and delicate constitutions Of both
sexes, attended with the follow ing symptoms:
indisposition to exertion, loss ofpower, loss OF
memory, difficulty OF breathing, weak neryer,
trembling, horror of disease, waheiulness, dim.
ness Of vision, pam in the back, hot hands,
flushing Of the body, dryness of the skin, erup
tion on the face, palld countenanc Universal
lassitude of the muscular system, etc.
Used by persons from the ages Of eighteen
to twenty live, aud froIn thirty five 10 6lty-fye
hnement or labor painsi Oed-vetting in chill
dren.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31

JOHNNY was tolling his ma
how he was going to dress and
show off when he was a man.
His ma asked, "Johnny, what .
do you expect to do for a livinI :
when you get to be a mans'--,
aWell, Ill get married and live
with my wife's pa"
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31

STOUT people contemplating
suicide are warned not to try
drowning. An old fellow who
weighed eighteen stone at
tempted it in that way in
Cleveland lately, and just roll
ed on the surface like an in
nated life preserver. He had
to hitch on to another stone
before he could get himself
down.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31

UTANTED-Agent and peddlers to sell q
w thoroughly good domestic article wanted
in every family. No competition. Exclusive
territory given. Business very pleasant
Agents have sold 8 dozen, nee ing $50 profit
per day. One sol $50 IN O small town, anoth.
or 1000 IN five towns, another 81 in calling on
80 families. Outfit 50. No danger Of inposi-
ton. Best of references gwen. Send for cir.
GUAR to I02 Washington street, Boston, Mass,
.'uariieow LITTLEFIELD q DAME.
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Full and explicit directions accompany the
medicines.
Evidence ofthe most responsible and rela-
bic character furnished on application, with
hundreds of thousands of living witnesses,
and upward Of 10000 unsolicited certificates
aud udrecomendatory letters, many OF which are
from the highest sources, including eminent
physicians. clergymeu, statesmen, etc. The
proprietor has never resorted to their pubca-
tion In the newspapers, he does not do this
from the fact that his articles rank as standard
preparations and do not need to be propped
up by certificates.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31
To the Editor Of the New York Times.
A Visit to the New Court
House.

AAOu0Oe
Having some idle time on
my hands, l took the liberty,
this morning, to visit the new
Court House, which you haYe
lately made famous.
New Workers are such busy
people, that l suppose not a
great many, except politicians
and the lawyers who practice
in the City Courts, have seen
the inside of this costly piece
of their property; and l can
tell them that a shabbier place
they could not we'll find, unless
they should visit the old City
Hall, which seems to me dir
tier, and more dilapidated than
even the new Court House.
The new Court House has,
according to my own counting,
1876 good sized windows and
twelve small ones. According
to the accounts you have print.
ed, Mayor Hall and Controller
Connolly have paid for cur
tains, shades and cornices for
these 136 windows, $10S,021 10.
The twelve small windows
have Leither curtain, shade,
nor cornice. They may, there.
fore, be left out of the account;
and it thus appears that the
citizens, tax payers, of New
York have paid nearly $500 for
each window of the new Court
House to furnish it with cur
tains, shades and cornices.
This, to use Mayor Halls
pretty phrase, is a large sum,
and possibly extravagant. But
the bigness Of the sum did not
surprise me nearly SO much as
this fact, that, so far as l could
ascertain-and my examina-
tion included almost every
room in the building-there is
not a single curtain on any oi
the 1876 windows.
The windows of the new
Court House have shades,
common linen shades, working
on rollers; shades which, with
all their fixture complete, could
hardly have cost more than $6
each; but suppose they cost
$40 each, that would make
1880; whereas the accounts
you have published pretend
that they cost over $10S,00O.
When l had studied the cur
tainless windows sufficiently,
turned, naturally, to the walls
In MIR. Andrew j. Garvey'S lit
tie account, which you printed
on Monday, there are dozens
of entries of "repairs." About
these l can tell you nothing,
except that he seems to have
done his repairing in such q
manner as to nee estate more;
for the walls are in a disgrace
full condition. They are not only
dirty, but in the lower halls
and elsewhere pieces of the
plastering have peeled off, leav'
ing ugly blotches, which give
the famons new Court House
the appearance of a dilapidated
and neglected ruin.
But from Mr.. Garvey's &C.
count, as you printed it, 1tooE
down eight items, which were
distinctly for "plastering," sup
posed to have been done in the
new Court House. The eight
items, which were, you say, ad
mitted and paid to Mr.. Garvey
by Mayor Hall and ControlleI
Connolly. amount to the sun
of $26s,66O.25. Now you car
imagine, perhaps, there is re-
ally, considering the style o
the building, very little plas
tering in the new Court House
The interior consists largely o
iron. l think l could find yol
good many plasterers in town
who would gladly do all thu
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31
Henry T.. HeImbOld'S Genu-
Inc Preparations.

Denvered to any address secure from obser-
yation.
EsTABLlsHED UPWARD OF TWENTY
YEARS. Sold by Druggists everywhere. Ad-
dress letters for information in con nadence TO
HENRYT. HELMBoLD, Druggist and Chem
81. ..- -...
Only Depots: H. 7. HELMBOLD's Drug
and Chemical Warehouse, No. 594 Broadway.
New York, or to H. r. HELMBOLD'S Medi-
cal Depot, lo4 South Tenth Street, Philadel-
BEWARE OF CoUNTERF EITs. Ask for
HIENgY T. HELMBoLp'ei TAKE NO
OTHER. -- --- smas
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Look Here.

A LII persons owing me on sherrin's fees
Asnd dues, and also notes and book &C.
ther delay in order that they may save d en-
selves further Houblei J,J sH0CkEY.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31

A NEWSPAPER correspondent
travelling in North Carolina
was amazed at lady who Dor.
rowed a "'n. ''.aw Of terbaOkes
f, from him.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31

The Quoquinnappsakess
nagog House is the name under
which a New Hampshire tavern
struggles.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31

Being prepared expressly for the above com.
plsiLts, its blood purifying properties are
greater than sny other preparation OF SaI7a>
parlla. II gives the complications clear and
healthy color and restores the patient 10 n
state OF health and purity. For purifying the
blood, removing all chronic constitutional dis>
cases arising from al impure state Of the
blood, and the only reliable aud eiiectual
known remedy for the cure Vi pains and swell.
ing of the bones, ulceTMlons OF the throat and
legs, blote hes, plmples on the face, eryslpeas
and all scaly erurtlons OF tho skin, and beau
GHlng the compleYlen
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-08-31
HENRY T. HELMBoLD'S
HIGHLY CONCENTRATED COMPOUND
FLUID EXTRACT SARSAPARlLLA.

VIII radically extermrate from the system
scrolula, syphIlas. fever sores, ulcers, sore
eyes, sore legs, sore moLth, sore head, brOn
ehitis, skin diseases, salt rheum, c0nkers,
runnings from the ear, white ,well;ngs, tu.
mors, cancerous affections, nodes, Tickets,
glandular swellIDgs, night sweats, rash, tetter,
humors OF all kinds. chrome rheumatism,
dyspepsia and all diseases that have been es.
tabllshed id the systom for years.
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HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS.
Lands for Sale at Low Prices!

TRACT NO. I.
I0ACRES IN Elk township, miles from Nc.
fJArthur, part cleared with house and good
mprovements-balance well timbered uin sell
re-y loo.
TRACT NO 2.
00ACREs In Madison township, Q miles
lUUfrom Zaleski, IS acres cleared, with
good house, balance well timbered.
TRACT NOS.
fONACRES in Harrison township, { miles
lZtbfrom the railroad at Raysviiie. Timber
land.
Each of the above tracts will be sold at very
low figures, on veiy fair terms.
Call at my office. H. @. JONES,
Attorney at Law, Nc Arthur, o.
marco 1870
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lrom him.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-04-27

tive and Congeniai character. combining ia
an elegant formula those prominent requis-
ties, Safety AID EaicacyLthe invarable ac-
compa aDi,nent5 of lis ,se-ns q Preservative
and Re'resher of the Complexion. II is an
excellent Lo'iot for diseases of Syphil,,ic
Nature. and as an injection for diseases of
The Urinary Organs. arising from habits of
dissl patton, used in connection with the Er.
tracts Bnchu. Sars0pariita, aud CotaEbG
Grape Pills, in such diseases a recomme nd !.
ed, cannot be surpassed.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-04-27

Being Prepared Expressly for the above
Complaints. its Blooj-Purifying Properties
are Greater than any other Preparation of
SarSaparIlla. 1t gives the complexion a
clear and healthy color and restores the
patient 10 state of health and purity. For
Purifying the blood, removing all chronic
Constitutional Diseaes arising from an i'm
pure stale of the blood. And the only
reliable and Effectual known remedy for
the cure of Pains and Swelling OF The Bones,
Ulcerations of the Throat and Legs, Blotch-
es, Pimples on the face, Erysipelas and all
Scaly Ernptions of the skin, and beautify-
ing the complexion.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-04-27

Helmbold's Extract Buchu is diure,ic
and blood-puri!ti ing, and cures all disea ses
arising from habits of dissipation, and
excesses and Imprudences in lie, impurities
of the blood, etc., supersedhg g copaiba in
affections for which is used. md Syphllitic
affeclnns-in these diseases used in con.
nection with Helmbold's rose wash.
LADIES.
In manv affections peculiar to ladies, the
Extract Buchu Is unequailed by any other
remedy-as in chlprosIs or retention, irregu-
larity, Pain illness or Suppression of GUS on
ary evacuations, liberated or schirrus state
of the uterus, Leucnrrhoea or whites, sterll-
Ity, and for all complaints ncident to the
sex, whether arising IRON Indscretion or
habits of dissipation. 1t is prescribed exlen
s've'y by The most eminent physicians nd
Midwives for enteebled and Delicate consti
tutons, of both sexes and all ages.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-04-27

These Pills are most delightfully."- pleasan
purg.tive, superseding casior oil, salts
magnesia, etc. There is nnthing more ac-
ceptable TO the stomach. They give lone
and cause neither nausea nor gripping pains.
They are composed OF the finest ingredients
After u few days use OF them, such an IN.
vigoration Of the entire system takes pu c.
as to appear miraculous 10 the weak and
enervated, whether arising from imprudence
nr disease. Ii. r. HelmbolJ's Compound
Fluid Extract Citawba Grape Pills are not
sugar-coaled, from the fact tha, sugar-coqtsd
Pills do not dissolve, but pass through The
stomach without dissolvlng. consequently do
no, produce the desired effect. The Cata wba
Grape Pills. being pleasant in taste and odor,
do rot necessitaie their being sugar-co ted.
and are prep'red according to rule of Phar-
macy and Chemistry, and are not Patent
Medicines.