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CAPTEEN DEBA TING CLUE.
BY JASPER.

| 1t was usual during the winter to
have a debating club at Pleasant Ridge.
This not only afforded means of inn
provement for Young America, but
plenty of fun also. 1t had been the
custom to have the older persons in
/, the neighborhood to take part, indeed
they managed it. This didn't suit us
rising generation, we couldn't speak
well to an audience made up of the
wise heads of the district. So, after
active deliberation we concluded to
organize "debate" of our own, and
run it to suit ourselves. A night was
appointed to meet at the school house
for the purpose of electing officers, Sc
lecting question for debate, and ar
ranging performances for the other
members. t.
Ike Mite called the meeting to order,
and proceeded to state its effect in the
following carefully prepared speech.
"Mr. President: The object of this
meeting is to get up debate to inn
prove our minds in speaking, so that
we will be able to make speeches in big
crowds. There is nothing that will so
improve our minds and intellects in
speaking as debate, and it is necessary
if we ever expect to be preachers and
congressman, we must learn to make
speeches, and there is nothing that will
improve the mind in speaking like a
debate.
81 move and second that Ike Mite be
cheerman Of the debate a. says Dick
Morris. E.g -yIls 9li.5.
"That hain't right, you can't move
Brier.
.I can if I want to-" "No yer can't
neither, can he, Ike?"
"No he can't. Things must be done
according to Preliminary rules
"Well then, l move that Ike be
cheerman.o
ST second the motion" cit is moved
and seconded that Pm elected Presi-
dent. Is there any remarks on the
question ?" =.
"Yes sir, I've remark or two to saw.
Pm in favor of keeping the old folks
out, SO that we won't be skeered half to
death when we go to make a speech"
"Them remarks are off of the cues
tion," says Ike, "Any further remarks
upon this question:"
Eyes sir, Pm not much of q feller to
debate on anything, but 1 think we
had orter all try to do the best we kin,
and try and improve our minds I'M
speakin' all we kin, for jist as the twig
is bent jist that-a-way the tree viii
grow" -
"That's off of the question again. %
says Ike, and he proceeded to "put the
question: without further debate. It
was carried with perfect storm, and
Ike assumed the chair with the pride
of Caesar taking a throne.
After some debate Vice-Presideht
and a Secretary were elected.
II move that Wes. Dayton be treas
urer," says Tom Luke. -
81 second 'at 'ar motiOn.n "Anvl
remarks ?" says Ike.
II arise up before you, Mr.. President
to say few remarks" says Yves. Pm
not fit for to handle the money, for /
never seed the like o. this afore, am
don't know nothin' aboutit, an for this
reason l think you had orter let me off. |
With these few remarks ! submit the
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The following letter to the Cincinnati
Gazette will give some idea of the des
perate or riotous disposition of the in.
habitants of Paris previous to the sur.
render:
A balloon letter from Paris during
the bombardment, written in a wine
cellar in the Latin quarter, says: "We
are crowding together in thick dark.
ness, for the lantern light which falls
upon this paper scarcely carries its fee.
bic rays so far as the edges of the table
on which it shines. We have impro.
vised a weak bombproof by piling sacks
already filed with earth some weeks
ago upon pavement above arches of the
cellar. A grocer was, as near as can be
ascertained, the very first civilian kill,
ed by the bombardment. He was in
front Of his store, preparing to close it.
when a huge shell plunged down and
blew off half his head. He was at once
dressed out for burial, and it was an.
nounced by the word of mouth every.
where that he would be at home to re
ceive visitors at any hour between the
day Ofhis death and that of his burial
He was displ aged for the especial ben.
eft of any of us who after hundred
days Of starvation might still lack gall
enough to make oppressionbitter. He
was useful to that end. Bnt am afraid
OF disgusting you utterly. Icould tell
you scenes of real devilment that took
place in that chamber in the Rue Gre.
nellie when his body was displayed, OF
hungry wretches drunk with fury and
with wine, ,whirling in dances of despair
more awful than could be any reaiiza,
ton OF the pictured dance of death.-
We are all going mad. They are bonn.
harding the Boulevard st. Michael,
as you know, The boulevardis nearly
as crowded now as it has been any day
since thesiege. Men with their eyes fix
ed on the ground and muttering-sheei
monomaniacs are walking to and fro,
like Gagged tigers, from the bridge to the
Luxembourg Garden, only pausing ev-
cry now and then to shake their fist
at the stars. Ever anon splinter strikes
q madman, and his corps lies there fol
the living to stumble over till it comes
to their turn, Madness has brought
these wretches out of their cellars, and
1t Will keep most of them there in the
open air until they die. Death sinks
some of them or dallies with them by
sending them some frightful and tor
menting wound. One fellow was with.
in four feet of shell when it burst; no
single scrap of iron had touch him. but
the fame had burned his eyes out. and
he stood sightless and fiayed. There
arose when this was seen a great cry OF
widest despair from the crowd whom
horror had CONCEALED into men. Some
would have it that we were betrayed,
and they were for short shrift for Du-
crot and Schmidt. Trochu himself was
to be torn to pieces. Twenty stood
forth in a twinkling, ready for work,
and went about begging of bystanders a
pocket knife, or anything with which
life could be taken. They were soon
weaponed, and were tearing off to do it
when their attention was diverted by
another explosion"
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Home Interests.

The production of bituminous coal II
this country in 1870 is estimated at 49,.
000, 600 tuns. Pittsburgh shipped 2,O06
0O0 down the Ohio River, Cleveland
took for It's own consumption and fol
transpOrtion on the lakes 1,0O0, 900 tuns
while 10000 more was sent to the
West by the "Pan Handle" and the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railroads. Can any one tell why Penn.
sylvania should furnish Ohio and the
Great Northwest with coal? It would
be immensely to our discredit If we
permitted this state Of affairs to con.
tinue. The man who should haul wood
full twenty miles when he had an mex.
haustible supply on his own farm, and
within half a mile of his own door,
would be deemed insane. So the pee-
pie of Ohio, with the finest coal fields In
the world, viii pursue this most fool
ish and rlinous policy if they permit
their coal fields to remain undevelOpad
while Pennsylvania annually takes
from the west from ten to twenty mil
lions of dollars for coal.
The same is true to some extent, of
iron. The West is increasing her rail
roads with great rapidity, and purcha-
sing large quantities of this metal.
That she should leave her iron mines
undeyeloped and rely upon Pennsylva-
mia, or, worse yet, upon Europe, for the
rails which are made to span all her
valleys is utterly incomprehensible
This may have been a matter of neces-
sity in the past, but ifso, that necessity
no longer remains.
We have been contributing of our
means to thegrowth and prosperity of
other Communities and states, that
which rightfdIly belonged to the peo-
pie of Ohio. We council no selfish pol
Icy but he that provideth not for his
own household is worse than an infidel.
We ought, at least, to manifest as much
interest in our own welfare, and that
of our immediate neighbOrs, as for
those separated from us by intervening
mountains and three thousand miles Of
water. tlz ~
When Ohio was the Great West, and
her agricultural labors WeRe,eultivatlng
a virgin soil, unsurpassed in fertility,
this state of affairs was excusdble and
endurable; but now that the West has
gone off ON tour to the Pacific, and
rich pfairies, boundless In extent and
richer than Eden are pouring their trea-
sures into the granaries of the world,
the same process is impoverishing us,
and Ohio Is destined tn lose her proud
position, unless her people have the sa-
gacity to move promptly and with de-
cided energy, in the developement of
her immense mines.-[ Nesoark Anaes'i-
can.
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The GAINESVILLE Courier says:
Mansfield, Ohio, has the credit OF
inventing and using the following tor-
der" for the purpose avoiding the State
Liquor Law in regard to habitual
drunkards, which gives the wife in
such cases no right of action for DAM
ages against the vender of liquors to
her husband. The "order is printed
on card about the size of a common
business card, and reads as follows:
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SENSIBLE EDITREss. True to her in
stinciive principles of right, the wife of
a Wisconsin Democratic editor, being
left in charge of the paper in her hus-
bands absence at the Legislature, took
down the Democratic ticket and wrote
an energetic Republican editorial. Next
time that editor goes to the capitol he
takes his wife along. f
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a CARD.

A Clergyman, while residing in South A u,eri.
ca as missionary, discovereda safe and simpls
rSinsdy ior the Cure of Nervous Wea}rness
Early Decay, Diseases OF lhe Urinsrv sed
seminal Organs, and the whole train Of siis-
oruerS Drought on by banefcl and vicious hab-
ltS; Great II mbers have been cured by tpis
noble remedy. Prompted by desire TO 6enefif.
I,s Ine aInieted and unfortpnste, i win send the
recipe it. ior preparing and using this medicine.
IN seaieu envelope, TO any one who nf etfs it'
rree oI charge. ADDRESS JOSEPH T. INMAN
station u, Bible House. New York City.
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COMMUNTcAT7OMS.

OO<AM MCyxO<d xlOLkjS.
For the Chrouiele.l
Romance In High Life--How 1T
Ends-Mystory Solved.
The quiet circles Of the village Of,
this County, has been disturbed during
the last few days by the most extrava-
CANT gossip. 1t IS confined to no one
class, but the subject of general COM
ment among all classes old and young.
The story is as follows:
Some years since young man,
Wnom ~for convenience we shall call
smith, became a resident of the village.
We think he hailed from the East,
(how far we cannot say) at least, the
oashlng appearance, genteel carriage,
exceeding politeness of the man indi-
Gated something of the kind. Dressed
In the height of fashion, sporting a gay
rig, he was just the cut to win and
carry off the laureis from the slow
coaches that trundled around him,
During his stay he devoted himself to
the study of law, and in due course OF
time attached the ESQ. to his cognomen.
Like moftals in general, Smith was not
insensible to the fascination ofthe love-
lier sex, and as he was man of wealth,
thought it behooved him to select a
partner of his joys and sorrows.--
Among the maidens of the village
there was a Miss Lucinda Amelia
somebody, we can't recollect names,
whe was smitten by the learning and
ways Of Smith, and finally concluded
to share Smiths lot-if he had any-for
life. The summer months wore on
and Nature, busy maid, dressed the
lofty oak in leafy green, as the poets
say, and developed the embryo plant
within the narrow limit of the mother
shell, that ere the summer ended. if
might come forth. The golden harvests
had..been gathered in, when dame Ru-
NOR knocked at our door one day to
whisper that great wedding would
take place ere long, and that cur gallant
Smith was to spirit away the fair Lu-
cinda. We said. "Tis well and not
too soon, since nature viii want perfec-
ton until them" The evening came
and with it the elite of the town by doz-
ems to honor the ceremony and nuptiaI
feast. A more sumptuous entertain
ment was meier pastaken of by the old
est, and all went merry as a marriage
bell. An eastern tour, Saratoga, was talk
ed and the happy couple, as all mar
ried folks are supposed to be, departed.
A month passed by and no return
Where were they? Not at Saratoga.
AT length it was bruited abroad that
they We're spending honeymoon in
some rustic cottage in a southern
cline. Why this novelty in life? Is
love like fruit, much improved in
flavor by tropic sun? No doubt.
Smith was always practical fellow,
and remembering this our surprise
died away, and in our busy cares we
had ceased to wonder. Once letter
came denying under oath that Smith
had been at the smithing business, but
this passed by. Three months or more
elspsed and the genial face of Smith,
again appeared on our streets. His,
bonny bride was with him and he,
seemed much improved by his rustic
life. All went well till within q few
days.ago, another iettercame announc-
ing the failure Of Smiths aristocratic
ideas Of 9 nursery, and that through
neglect Of an anthithfil guardian the
tender consignment. of the Southern
tourists had not fiourished well-the
child was dead.
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The following speech is attributed to
a member of the Legislature of Penn
sylvania: "Iknowwimun, Mr.. Sneak
er; / say it in no disrespect; I know um.
/ have had heep to do with um.2
They're a useful class, and-and vet
with the best ofem you may have
trouble"
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49, 1HE 6Qz6US Is exuiting over the Iact
that Wood county (Republican) is dis
counting. It's orders. It might be well
=: that our Democratic neighbor would
:. mot expose the precarious condition of
the treasury of his own County by in
s--vftlng investigations. We trust our
readers win not regard this as mere
political article, since we intend confin-
ing ourselves to facts alone.
~ e, Two yeas ago the amount over
; drawn fer County purposes was about
=, geo; last year It amounted to more
than 81, GOO. At this rate how much
win said Md be deficient in ave years
under Democratic contaol? Amount
,s borrowed IS Building fund last year
over 81 900, and only about $26, 600
paid on sthe contract for Infir1nary
6 ainoanting to about $57, 600. There Is
snotsfhe least doubt, as we learn from an
architect employed upon that building
= that the whole improvements designed
by the Board Of Commissioners will
:. ageregate not less than Sc, 600 and per-
shaps 1000 more. This building fund
must be paid inside of year either
n with money or bonds subject to dis
count unless the County borrows money
ut regular interest rates. Aside from
the amount already borrowed we have
paid less than 3, 900 of the seventy or
seighty thousand which thenew Infirm-
ary building win cost when completed.
Let "a looix nj oar fxrvns,; Z %. Vyorn<<.xs
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I hereby authorize you to give my
husband whatever he wants to DRINK,
SO long as he can stand up and PAY FOR
TT -sa-rs. ss. ts,
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A bill was introduced in the Ohio
House, on Monday, empowering JUS
tices and Mayors to compel intoxicated
persons to tell Of whom they purchased
their liquor, and makes it their duty to
commence suit against the sellers;
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