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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-07-20
RATEs OF ADVERTISlNG.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Common Pleas Judges-A. S. DIcKEY, WIZ. H.
BAPFORD.
Probate Judge-JOHH D.. PRIDDY.
Prosecuting AttOrney-MADIs PAYEY. q
- rsshariG-GONRAD GAItIS, : E5 RI RI 81
- efaAerk AOf- e5Ourt-AiNsOe BLANCHARD.
AudieOr-ABEL McCANDLEss.
Treasurer W. SAYRE-
IlecOrder-Z w HEAGLER.
.aT COrOner--.IOHsN MLLLIKAH. Tle -H
CommissiOners-EsOsi iB. REEDER; WN- CLARK,
GEORGE s. FULLERTON.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-07-20
IFor the u,raId.I

Reply to the Argument of Ace
Gregg, in favOr-Of Compulsory
School Law in this State.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-07-20

an McLean's Building, Opposite the
Court House.
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TERMS: s2.oo per Year in Advance
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04
Scenes in Janln.

A street called the Tokedia is the Broad
way Of Yeddo. Ii is twenty miles long and
very much crowded. Bat there is a vast
difference Of the thoroughfares There are
no vehicles in use in Japan, and the pave
ments extend from one side of the street to
the other. No provision Is made for the
passage Of carriages, omnibuses OF wagons,
tor there are none in existence, and persons
on foot take possession Of the whole highway.
The entire metropolis Is built of wood, and
one building Is representation Of all A
japanese house at first glance resembles a
chlld's toy house an large scale. The floor,
Is raised about two feet above the earth, and
there is covered porch in front, resting up
on the bare ground. Alter entering the
porch you step up into the house. always
leaving your SHOES behind you. 1t is con
sldered very great breach OF proprIety to
enter dwelling without removing one 5
boots. II they were only sandals covered
with leather thong, which they can shuttle
on OF of IN an instant, this custom is of but
little moment ID the natives but foreigners
find it a very troublesome one. The porch
answers a. depository for shoes, and, in
passing the house, the number OF visitors
may be known by counting the number of
pairs of sandals on the porch.
When the walls Of house are up 1t con
sists Of but one large room, which is then
cut up by partitions. which are nothing
more than the sliding screens that close up
into each other in a fashion that admits oi
one apartment being divided into a dozen
distinct ones instantly. There are no chin
neys attached TO the houses, and they contain
no beds, chairs OF tables. The floors are
covered with d series Of clean bamboo mats
or cushions, each siA feet by three, and nice
ly bound with red OF blue tape. They are
stuffed with light wool or moss, and are as
soft and yielding to pressure as the heaviest
Brussels velvet. These mats fit in with each
other as regularly as the squares on i
a chessboard, and are busted as often as the
mohogany side board in the house of a Dutch
burgher.
No speck OF dirt is ever allowed 70 rest
upon the polished surface of the mating and
to step upon it with pair of boots would
be a greater insult than ID make a foOtstool
of a seyen-hundred-dollar piano The fam.
lily sit upon the mating all dav, with theiI
legs bent under them in 4 shape that would
give any foreigner incurable paralysis in
fifteen minutes, and they sleep upon 1t al
night. \ japanese pillow is a curiosity ii
its way. Ii Is nothing but rocker of q
cradle, broad enough 10 stand alone with q
semi-cIrcular depression on the upper side
The japanese lie at full length on the flool
place not their mead. but their neck. Ia th'
crescent shaped hollow on the upper side o
the pillow and rock themselves TO sleep in
few mInutes
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

QUEEN ANNE FARTHINGS.-A short no.
tice of the celebrated farthings of Queen
Anne serves to close a pleasant sketch OF
English coinage in late number OF Cham
6ers' Journal. The popular belief upon
this subject is fairly entitled to be enrolled
among Sir Thomas Brownies +" Vulgar Err
rors," The commonly received belief with
regard to these farthings is that three i'm
pressions were struck. and that then the
die few to pieces. Further, 1t is very
generally supposed that two only of the
three coins are to be found in our collec-
tions, and that the third, if it could be
discovered, would be of enormous value.
The fact of the matter is, that not only
are there numerous specimens at the Brit
ish Museum, but that others may be
bought of any dealer. Notwithstanding
this offers of this missing farthing have
constantly been received at the British
Museum, at modest prices varying from
three hundred to a thousand pounds.
One man communicated on the subject
with the Lords of the Treasury, and was
much disgusted that no notice was taken
of his application. 1t is said that even
ROYALTY itself has been addressed upon the
matter.
At the Dublin Quarter Sessions, in 1914
a man was actually put upon his trail
for the alleged unlawful detention of the
invaluable farthing The facts of the
case were as follows The plaintiff, John
Millar, was confectioner in Dublin.
George Hone, the defendant In the case
was plaintiffs journeyman, and lodged In
his house. On one occasion Hone came
into the parlor, where some halfpence
were lying on the table, and among them
the farthing claimed by the plaintiff. Hone
took it up from the table, and exclaimed
that it was a Queen Anne's farthing
Thereupon Nillar took it from him, and
locked it up. Some weeks afterwards
Hone borrowed the farthing, on the pre-
text that be wished to show it to a friend
who was a good Judge of coins; but he
subsequently refused to return 1t, unless
Millar entered into bond to pay him
seven hundred pounds-haf Of the sup
posdd valueof the coin. The defendant
was convicted and sentenced to be impris
oned for twelve calendar months. In pas
sing sentence upon him, the recorder con
cluded with the following words
" You are sentenced to be imprisoned
for twelve calendar months; and unless
you give up the farthing, not day o
that time will be remitted you" The
money of Queen Anne's reign is distin
guished for the beauty of its design anC
workmanship.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

LovE.-At first i surprises one that
love should be made the principal staple
of all the best kinds of fiction; and per-
haps it is to be regretted that it is only
one kind of love that is chiefly depicted
in works of fiction. But that love itself
is the most remarkable thing in human
life. there cannot be the slightest doubt.
For see what it will conquer 1t Is not
only that it prevails over selfshness but
it has the victory over weariness, tiresome-
ness, and familiarity. When you are
with the person loved, you have no sense
of being bored This humble and trivial
circumstances is the greatest, the only
sure and abiding test. of love. With the
persons you do not love, you are never
supremely at your ease. You have some
/ of the sensation of walking upon stills.
/ In conversation with them. however much
YOU admire them and are interested IN
/ them, the horrid idea will cross your mind
of " What shall [ say next" Converse
with them is not perfect association. But
with those you love. the satisfaction in
their presecne is not unlike that of the
heavenly bodies TO one another, which, IN
their silent revolutions, lose none of their
attractive power. The sun does not talk
to the world but it attracts it.-Arthur
HELMS
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

RAILROAD SIGNALs.-The varieties of
the toot Of the locomotive, and gyra-
tions of the arms of the conductors by
day, or lanterns By night, are about as in
telligent to most people as frst-class
Choctow. The following will give the
reader "a correct idea oF their signifca-
ton
One whistle" Down brakes"
Two whistles OFF brakes"
Three whistles" Back up.
Continuous whistles" Danger"
a rapid succession of short whistles is
the cattle alarm, at which the brakes will
always be put down. A sweeping partin Z
of hands on level of eyes, is a signal 20
&" 90 ahead"
A downward motion of the hand, with
extended arms, '' to stop"
\ beckoning motion of one hand. " to
back"
A lantern raised and lowered vertically
Is a signal for " starting; )" swung at right
angles or crossways the track, g to stop =
swung in 4 circle - to back the train"
\ red flag waved upon the track must
be regarded as a signal of danger. So of
other signals given with energy.
Hoisted at a station is a signal for 4
train Z" to stop"
Stuck up by the roadside. it is a signal
of danger on the train ahead.
Carried unfurled upon an engine, is a
warning that another engine or train is on
its way.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

GERMAN METHOD OF REFINING PARAF-
FIxE.-A German method of refining par
afine consists in pouring the crude mate
rial into an ordinary mixing apparatus
which is provided with steam Jacket,
to which the steam Is supplied TO keep the
contents warm. The cover of this mixing
apparatus is made 10 close securely, to
prevent any possible loss of alcohol; and
it is connected with a condenser so ar
rangedssas to condense the alcohol as it
evaporates, and return it to the mixing ap-
paratus, after the manner of an inverted
Liehig condenser. This apparatus is pro-
vided at the bottom with cock for run-
ming off fluid substances. The mixing is
best accomplished by means of stirrer in
the form of a screen or sieve. The alco-
holic lye should be freshly prepared before
each operation.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

me ZONE MASTERS y MUSICAL SERIES FOR
1oUNG PEOPLE. By Charles Barnard, author of
Mozart and MendelsshOn, "Handel and HAYDEN. p
etc. illustrated. Boston: Lee aud shepard
PIP. DAB.
rms volume gives sketch of Bach and Beetho-
Nen' and is the third volume Of the Musical Sc
rles." For those children muscally inclined and
lof any one who wants TO learn something of. these
great composers, these volumes Will be very vel
come. They are pleasantly written and are a valu-
able addition to the books for children which Lee
shepard have become celebrated for publishing
COLD ASD NAME; \ NOVEL. By Marie sophie
ScnWartz- Translated from the Swedish by
selma Berg and Marie A. Brown Boston Lee
shepard pr. 2l0.
M'Ilahc Nlisson commends Madame Schwartz rs
an author Of g immense merit" and her Judgment
ought 10 be good Of swedish authors. At any rate
the singers commendation will undoubtedly cause
this novel to be read very generally by the Ameri-
can public. The price o + the volume is 81 90 in
paper covers and SI.5O in cloth.
These books are an for sale by WILDER, who
keeps all the latest and best publications.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

GUEST Oh PRIsoNER.-There is said 10 have
been 4 curious incident of the French re-
occupation Of Orleans \ Bavarian captain,
quartered upon one of the inhabitants, had
had long and iatIguing day Of duty, and
upon gong 10 bed he ordered his soldier
servant not to awake him upon any pretence
whatever. The next morning early the sol
dier heard the drums OF the retiring regi-
ments, but, obedient to order, he remained
impassive, and allowed his master to sleep
on. Presently the French buglcs were
heard. and the owner of the house went into
the officers room and shook him.
" Captain, he said, yesterday You were
my guest, but this morning the French have
re-captured the town, and You are my Pris-
oner.'
" Eh, really ?'' asked the Bayarian, yawn-
Ing 50 that the bed creaked.
- Yes, really, captain 80
'' And there is no hope of resistance -
." None whatever
- Fritz, the officer said to his servant,
who stood by looking on impassively, '' give
our swords to Monsieur we are prisoners. .
So saying, the captain turned around in
his bed. to finish ms interrupted slumbers.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

The PIGEON EXPRESS. Ballooning.
though hazardous, is still occasionally re-
sorted 10 in communications between Paris
and Tours but the regular transmission
Of news between the two cities is effected
by carrier pigeons. This mode of receiving
letters may seem to young people very TO-
mantle and very pretty, but practically it
Is attended with great difficulty and ex-
pense.
The carrier can bear tidings to one point
only-its home and there 1t must have a
nest of young ones. If the flight be de-
layed more than two weeks, it will remain
about its new home, seeming to have for
gotten the old one
This bird does not carry messages with
out long and careful training 1t is taken
on journeys Of few miles, and then the
distance Is gradually increased. The let
ter, after being written on very thin paper,
is enclosed in an envelope, and tied about
the body and under the wings In a long
flight the bird Will be inclined to divide
the journey into stages, alighting several
times for water While drinking at the
shallow streams, it often vets the precious
missive, rendering 1t impossible to read
the writing. In order to prevent desire
to wade, the feet are bathed beforehand in
vinegar to keep them cool.
When all Is ready, and the carrier is let
loose, it scars upward in a spiral line till
it has reached a great height, when it darts
off in the right direction. at the rapid rate
of thirty miles anhour How it acquires
knowledge of the right way We cannot
tell. This is one of the mysteries of ami
NAL instinct. Some other birds have
equal powers of vision and fight, but
they cannot be trained to carry letters
Young Folks Ne1Cs.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

LORD DERwENTwATER' LIGHrs.-There
have been several wonderful and most un-
usual displays of aurora borealis in England
lately, seriously affecting, as they have done
here, the telegraphic communication. In
Northumberla the aurora boreahs is known
among the peasantry by the name of Lord
Derwentwater' Lights. In the attempt to
replace the Stuarts on the throne the Earl of
Dcrwentwater, head of the great Roman
Catholic north country family of Radcliffe,
took conspicuous part, and paid the pen
tv on the scatfOld. On the night of his
execution there was brilliant display of
the aurora horealis, and the simple peasantry
bv whom their lord. man Of high and
amiabIe character, was greatly beloved, as
sociated the phenomenon with the death of
the unfortunate young nobleman. There Is
also a legend which yet fingers amidst the
homesteads OF the property which once was
his that the water in the mOat of DIlstOne
Castle, the family seat, turned blood red on
that same fatal night. This notion is likely
to have arisen from the reflection Of the sky
in the water. The vast estates OF the Rad
eliffes were confscatcd to the endowment of
Greenwich Hospital, and are now worth
about Soc, 900 year. A maniac, calling
herself Countess of Derwentwater, has lately
been claiming them.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

The HAIR.-Styles are changing mo-
mentarily. Chignons and waterfalls may
now be regarded as quite obsolete. Chat
elaine braids. with curls for the young and
blooming bellies, and braids confined in nets
for those matronly and ripper beauties.
Front hair. crimped. or in short curls on
the forehead, with temples free, is the rule
Children and young misses may still wear
the hair crimped and flowing down the
back. Curls, of course, are never out Of
fashion on old or young, and the very ded
cided and becoming mode for the frosted
locks of elderly matrons is the pretty silly
flowing from beneath the rich lace cap.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

Friction matches were introduced INTO
Boston about the year 1886. In those
times there were thirteen matches on
card and eight cards in a bunch, While
now there are but twelve on card, the
number of cards composing bunch be-
ing the same. In 1842 one firm in Bos-
ton manufactured daily about one hundred
gross. which was then considered very
extensive business. Now this same firm
are turning out on an average one thou
sand gross, or IA, 400, 600 matches daily.
which requires a yearly consumption OF
ten thousand cords of saping pine wood
to make them. and the use of 600 to 500
barrels of birthstone, as we'll as from 40
to so tons of paper for putting them up
preparatory for the market. They are
also put up extensively in boxes for the
southern trade and export. Originally
the old lucifer match was used, which was
ignited by drawing it through sand paper
but they soon went out Of use with the
introduction of friction, and what was once
considered unsafe 10 have about the house
hold, has now become a necessity.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

trot up to the farmhouse door, receive
some half-dozen or more children, who in
great glee would pile in " among buffalo
Skins and blankets. Then these horses.
without driver or guidance of any kind,
would start off briskly.. for they were
smart, if not fast. go to the sohool-house,
turn up to the door, wait for these happy
children to tumble out. then make their
turn carefully and return home. At night
they were sent alone for their load again,
and would turn up TO the school-house
door and wait patiently for the children
This business was done By these horses for
twenty years, and their kind master kept
them until old age carried them off.-OIr
Dumb animals
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

The use of lichens and marine alg@ as a
substitute for grain in the preparation of
spirits appears TO be extending in Europe,
especially in countries like Sweden and
Norway, in which these plants abound.
and in which the cereals are raised with
difficulty. The general process consists IN
converting the cellulose Of the plant into
glucose by boiling with from to 10 per
cent. of the weight of the mass of hydro
chloric acid by the aid of steam. The
acid is then saturated with chalk, and the
saccharine matter brought to fermentation
Twenty pounds of the lichen,will,it Is assert
ed, yield five liters of spirit containing 90
per cent. of alcohol.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

4 recent sleep walking-scene at New
Haven was very singular one. The SOM
nambulist first jumped down Is feet upon
a tin roof, and, still asleep, deliberately
walked off on to another roof six feet low
er. Not satisfied with this achievement,
he walked through skylight and fell on
table ten feet below, and then in some
way crawled through the dismantled sky
light, cutting his feet badly in his struggles.
The noise awakened man in the house,
who found the somnambulist standing upon
the tin roof, with nothing on but his shirt,
and entirely unconscious as to how he
came there. He was wounded and nearly
frozen, and was taken back into the house
and properly cared for All in all, it was
the most astonishing feat of somnam bu-
lism on record.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

The LOGAN ELM The famous tree under
which the Indian chief Logan made his eel
ebrated speech, is on the farm Of Mr.. James
Boggs, in Pickaway township, Pickaway
county, Ohio. Ii stands on the bank of a
fine living stream called Congo, and is of
great size. It's girth is about twenty feet.
It's spreading branches cover an area of over
one hundred and twenty Eve feet in diameter.
The tree is of DO great height, and at dis
tance looks like gigantic apple tree. 1t
was a favOrite tree with the Indians when
the speech was made under its shade, at the
time of Lord Dunmore's expedition in IVA.
1t is still healthy and fourishing, and bids
fair TO stand thousand years
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

HORSES CARRY CHILDREN To SCHOOL,
Not many years ago, Robert Nisbett of
South Adams owned a pet span of horses
and a numerous family, who were also
pets, as was every thing under his protec-
tion The district school-house was a
mile of, over bleak road in very snowy
country. These horses, when colts, were
accustomed to carry and fetch the chill
dren, and after a while were intrusted with
the whole business. After being hitched
up to the old lumber-box sleigh, they
would of their own free will and accord.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

4 STRANGE UsE.-The city Of Worces-
ter. Mass, has made a rather singular
disposition of two of her cemeteries. She
has covered them two feet deep to put
school-houses and Fairgrounds on. Prob
ably, though it is not stated, the dead
were mostly all removed to some new
cemetery for it is hardly conceivable
that public opinion in any New England
town would allow graves and all TO be so
covered up and used. One quaint excuse
for the plan is that q only such as are
said to be of the kingdom of heaven are
to be suffered to play over the CONCEALED
graves that are to remain there"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04
kindle and Smile.

If the world seems cold 10 you,
Kindlc fires to warm it,
Let their comfort hide from view
Winters that def0rm IT,
Hearts as frozen as your own
To that radiance gather;
You will soon forget to moan
- Ali the cheerless weather.
If the worlds a vale Of tears
Smile till rainbows span itl
Breathe the love thaulife endears!
Clear from clouds to fan it,
or your gladness lend a CLEAN
Unto souls that shiver;
show them how dark sorrows stream
Blends with Hopes bright river.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04
TERMS FOR ADVERTISING

80 ne 1a Squareo Of Il lines or less OF Nenparcfz
- t; PG O - hsertlon 81 oO tor each subsequent in
seFtioH % cents Unless the humber of in ertions
are marked on the Advertisement vii be continu
chants and others adv er Ii sin ? IN ~ ! lns
Probate and Commissioner'sN Notices =. .OC each
ForinOticeso OF alterations Estrays the coma
tion and Dissolution OF NopSrtnerships, &c 81 5
each for three insertions. II sent nv MS3 n .
money mus staccompany theI etter.
Notices in news columns, 10 cents perti- each
Insertion, but charge made OF less than so cents
Notices of Deaths and Marriages inserted gratis
but e xtended Obituary Notices OF Poetry viii be
I charged by the rate of i've cents pei line.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

Lansingburgh, NY, is excited by wild
man. who roams the vicinity of that village
in the costume OF Adam, despite the near
approach of winter. Monday last he made
his appearance to some men engaged in
building fence. He was entirely nude and
had bundle under his arm, perhaps con-
tanning his other suit The police were
very properly notified of the impropec ap-
partition, and immediately repaired to the
locality, but strange to say, no trace of the
naked man could be discovered. A large
business has been done in &" wild men in
various parts Of the country Of late
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

remove them from the sphere in which they have
been aced by Providence.
conclude a l began. I protest against this
resolution another stage in the drama of blood.
protest against t in the of Justice outraged
by violence; in the name of Humanity insnlted
in the name of the weak trodden down; in the name
of Peace imperI' ed and in the of the African
( race whose first effort at Independence is rudely
assalied.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04

The sweetest songs are those
That few men ever hear
And no men ever sing;
The Clearest skies are those
That farthest OF appear
To birds OF strongest wing;
The dearest lovers are those
That no man can come near
with his best following.
Robert Kelley IFesti