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preaching the clerk, in a suppressed
voice, I say he exclaimed, me and my
wife have just got married, and Pm
looking for accommodations Looking
for a berth p hastily inquird the clerk
passing tickets out to another passen-
ger. Birth? Thunder and lightning,
nOv gasped the young man, we amt
but just married We want a place to
stay all night, you know, and-a bed
WHEN Horace Greeley took his ia
nous trip to Lawrence City, Kansas, he
stopped for the night at the best hotel
in the place. He was received with q
great deal Of admiration, which he took
very philOsOphically and in due course
of time was requested to honor the reg
lister with his name. In the act Of
adOrning the page with q specimen of
his chirOgraphy, q bedbug with a re-
markable knowing look about itran past
his hand. The venerable philosopher
observed it calmly for a moment, and
then turning to the astOnished landlord
exclaimed: well by Cd! I've been
bitten by st. Joe feas, bled by Kansas
City spiders, dined off by Washington
mosquitoes, and interviewed by New
York gray backs, but I'll be id if I ever
was in place before where the bed
bugs looked over the hotel register to
find out where my room was
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oTTY
Church Directory.


lsT PREssTEEBIAS CEURCE.-Hest Court Street.,
Rev. J. A. P. Mc9aW, Pastor. Services every sab-
bath. Hourg: IL A. H., IHl P. II.
Sabbath School st 2, F.E. -# ~
.Ieotnre and Social Prayer Meeting on Wednesday
evening, st O'Clock.
Ev. LUrHERAE CHURoH.-South-east corner CouIt
ana Walnut Streets. Rev. A. j. lmhof, Pastor
qeryiceg every other Sabbsth. Hours: II, A. H., = P.
sabbath School every Sabbath 2:I5F.X.
Igr MErH E. CHURCH-south-West corner Church
and North Main Streets. Rev. - Stephenson, Pas-
tor Services every Sabbath. Hours IL A. n y P. 4.
sabbath School ct ~ ?. X
General Class Meeting, Monday evening" a. =
Regular Prayer Meeting, wednesday evening at Z,
o'clock.
% METH CHURoH.-East Water Street. Rev. -
Furgerson, Pastor. Services every Sabbath. Hours;
u, A. X, ", P. n
Sabbath School at 2. P. Y.
General Class Meeting, Sundays at A. n Young
Church binding, opposlte Market House.
Prayer Meeting, Wednesday evening, ct Church.
BAPTIST CHURcH.-East Court Street. Rev. B. T.
Taylor, Pastor. Services every Sabbath. Hours II,
A. n, z p. n.
Sabbath School ats In
Prayer Meeting, " Wednesday evening, O'Clock.
EPISCOPAL CHURoH.-Corner SciOtO and Kenton,
5treeta Rev W. NJ Probssco, Rector. Services every
Sabbath. Hours; II, a. m, X, p. m.
NEW JEEUsALEM CHURoR-SwEpEEBoae1a
Northwest cOrnerSouth Main and REYNOLDS streets.
Rev. Frank seWaAs Pastor. Services every Sabbath.
Hour: II, 8. m.
Sabbath School at 8 p. N.
CATHoLIC CHURCE.-John Street. Rev I A Kesr.
nsy, Priest. Services every Sabbath. Hour: II a nn
ASSOCIATE REFORMED CHURCH.-West Market St
Rev. Il. q. Thompson, Pastor. Services every SAB.
bath, Hours; Il a. N.
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BROKER-HEARFEB.

BY EMMA ALICE BROWNE
Your luFid beauty, ny dusk-eysd boy,
With passionate memory Of the past,
Hath filed my soul with the stormy joy
That leaps N the fetterless blast
The rapture that swells In the rushing gale,
When her Wild, gray wings, to the night unfurled
Swept where the Rsunt pines Wrestle and wall
On the measursless heights Of the world.
And the moulderi1g strings Of that broken-iyre
That once vas ny heart, in the days gone By,
Tremble and fhriil % your glance Of IRE,
With hollow, murnuring sigh.
Stirred BY the magic Of tender Tords,
Il wakes 70 the pang ofTemembsEsd psir.
With gusty Hsiling Of al It's chords,
That never Eilsleep agsint
Al, tempt ne not with the psEilous bliss
ofthe long lost Alden Of love, that CLEANS
Athwart the waste Of q black abyss,
That covers ny shipwrecked dreams
Temptme not dearest, TO taste again
ofthe nectarous fever draught, distilled
In the rosy chalice whose dregs are pain.
When the Circesn wine is spilled
Tor the lone heart, shattered and over-bloHn
Blythe homeless winds Of the Wintry night
Leaps to the breath Of your lightegt tone,
In 6 passion Of strsnge delight
Andny youth is over, ny Life e gray
With the dust and ashes ofbOpes long dead,
While the glory and bloom Of 6 dsWning Nay
On your shadoWless path are shed.
and the pallid fame OF ny love WsuId seem
Lost in your fervor-a wandering light,
Like the baleful and ghsstly starg that CLEAN
In the zone Of tropic night;
AS, far in the twiIight's purple deeps,
Some wan cloud, Wrapt in the sunsets gloH,
Breaks her wild heart on the crsggsd sleeps.
And crimsonS the world belowi
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THE difficulty of getting farm laborsrs
capable Of putting a good, durable, and
waterproof thatCh on q rick or building,
will, in all probability, disappear, if the
following method be adopted: Construct
sewing machine, with two motions,
and two needles sufficiently large to car
ry strong tarred yarn; and the needles
must be long enough to go through the
required thickness of thatch. The straw
is fed to themachine on an endless belt,
and the needles, working alternately
stitch the straw into heavy mating
This is rolled up, and applied to the roof,
or the rick, until it is covered. The
sheets of mating should overlap each
other as shingles do, and may be fast
ened to riCks or stacks with wooden pegs,
in the usual way. Fifteen hundred
square feet can be made in an hour, and
can be applied without the aid of any
skilled labor. If properly made and care
fully taken off the ricks, it can be used
for two or more seasons. This method
is simple, and, after the first cost for the
machine, is cheap. It is particularly ad-
vantageOus in use where straw is scarce,
as it wastes nothing. And the pOrtabiIi-
ty of the thatch in rolls is another re-
commentator, as thatching frequently
is wanted for haystacks at a distance
from the hOmestead.-Sci .Aueri-
can.
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FLASHES OF FUN.

In writing the biographi ov horns I
am astOnished tew find so many of
them; and so entirely different in thare
pedigree and pretensiOns.
DINNER HORN.-This is the oldest and
most sakred horn thare il. 1t il set tew
music, and plays Home, Sweet Home,
about noon. It has been listened teW
with more rapturous delight than ever
Graffula's band haZ. Yu kan hear it
further than yu kan one of Mr.. Rod
mans guns. 1t will arrest man and
bring him in quicker than sheriff's
warrant. 1t kan OuttOOt any other noise;
it kauZes the deaf tew hear, and the dunn
tew shout for joy. Glorious old instru-
ment Long may yure lungs last!
WHIsKEY HoRN.-This horn varies
in length, but from three to six inches is
the favOrite size.
1t is different from other horns, being
ov q fluid natur.
1t il really more pugnashus than the
rams horn; six inches Ov it will knox
man perfectly calm.
When it knOks man down it holds
him thare.
1t is the principal or the second to
most all the iniquity that is travelling
around.
It makes brutes Ov men, demons ov
wimmin, and vagrants ov children.
It has drawn more tears, broken more
hearts and blighted more hopes than all
the other agencys Ov the devil put to-
gether.
There is a CRATE menny other kinds ov
horns, but l haint got the time to tell
you about them now. There is the
Powder Horn the Horn ov the Bull
head and there is also Horn ToOke,'
q celebrated writer ov his day; but good
for the present.-Josh Billings.
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WE take the following from the col

WE take the following from the col
umns of the New York Ledger;
Inquirer says: Believing that many
others feel equally interested in them, I
have taken the liberty of sending you
the following questions, which of course
you will dispose of rs you see fit. Has
the giving of free passes, now so preva-
lent with railroad companies, to clergy
men, judges, lawyers, publishers and
Legislators, demOraliZing influence ?''-
We think the effect bad, on the whole.
The true theory is, Pay public men ade-
quate salaries, and let them pay their
way like other men.
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For several weeks past We have heard
rumors aflOat about the ghOstly visits of
a spectre in human shape, whose terri
BILE proportions and awful looks have ap-
palled the hearts and curdled the blood
of the persons who have met this ghost
ly parsonage perambulating in his IA
VOrite' 'haunts, about q mile east of town,
near the site of the old saw mill adioin-
ing the Brock farm.
For the benefit of the believers in su-
pernatural appearance, we will give
what we have cleaned in an interview
with that oracle, the oldest inhabitant.'
in relation to traditions of the place.
About forty years ago there lived near
the spot an old man by the name of
Jacob StritchoOf, a peculiar sort of char
acter, who sought the solitude of the
woods, and assiduOusly summed the So
ciety of his fellow men. He managed
to pick up q precariOus subsistence, and
spent his time in wandering among the
adjacent hills, and especially in this To-
cality, with his wand, in search Of hid
den treasures, which he claimed were
buried there, as the fact had been made
known to him by the appearance Of a
ghost, who answers the description OF
the one about which we are writing
Ole. .StritchOOf seemed to have made sew
eral other persons, as credulOus as him
self, believe the story Of hidden wealth,
and they became so infatuated in the
belief that they dug immense holes in
various places in their fruitless efforts
to find it. These holes are still to be
seen, and one, of remarkable size is call
ed 'StritchOof's Hole and although slow
ly filling up by the action of the ele-
ments, will long remain monument to
their ignorance and superstition. Since
the time of StritchOOf up to the present
day other persons have claimed, at va
riOus periods during the intervening
years, to have met this wonderful ghost,
who is represented to be in the shape of
a giant, about eight feet in height, and
built in proportion. He is invariably ac-
cOmpanied by dog as large as a year
ling calf, and is as black as night, and
carries with him a gun with q calibre as
big as stOvepipe. The wonderful part
Of the story is that this one, unlike 9TH
er ghosts, does not cOnfine itself to night
ly visits, but may be seen during the
brOadestl daylight wandering up and
down among the hills and wales. Par
ties, some of whom are men of un-
questionable truth and veracity, assert
that this spectre has been seen often
within the past month, and by his ac-
tiOns seemed to indicate that he wished
them to dig at particular spots. Sever
al persons who are impressed with the
idea that there is something in it, have
been accommodating with pick and shovel
but as yet their labors have been unre-
Warded.-H -H5tliS6OrOHgh Gazette.
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nHrWAI Rln MAsnNRY

Raper Commsndery, No. l9, meet on the lst ano
90 Tuesday evenings Of each month.
JUSTUS 8, WILSON, z. c.
SP. TALBOT, Rec. So .rN.'
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WHILE the boat was lying at Cincin-
natl, just ready to start for Louisville,
young man came on board, leading a
blushing dansel by the hand, and APP
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81 n . n

Urbana Lodge, No. IS, meets Friday evenings
Champaign EncampmenJ, No. @, meets End
and 4th Monday evenings.
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Hfbana Union Directory.
SYMBOLIC MASONRY,

Regular Communications Of Harmony Lodge, no
G, F. = A. II. meet Thursday evening, on or bsior'
each Full Moon.
EERgEY ROREETS. SeciY.
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Ainneola Tribe, No 81, meet every Tuesday evening
in third Story Of Weaver's bulding-Northeast cor
Of fPublic Square.
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THE writer of the following beautiful
verses was pronounced by George D.
Prentice to be the most gifted poetess in
America
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nAPITuLA0 MAsnNRY-

Urbaua Chapter, No. "a, Of Royal Arch Mssons
meet Monday evening, on or before each Fun Noon
8. CHANCE, n. z. 3. P.
KERSEY ROBERTS, seciy.
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CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

WILLIAM and Mary Hewitt had once,
as they relate, vision of an army Off
er receiving a death-Wound in action
They inserted in the London Times o
notice of their vision. At the same time
the wife of an officer in the Enniskillen
Dragons had, in London, the same Wis
sion. She saw her husband meet his
death as he led his company in battle.
She compared notes with the HOWitts,
and both visions were found to agree
The next ship from India brought the
first news of the SepOy mutiny; the next
bulletin from army headquarters an
nounced the death of the young Iieuten-
ant. All the circumstances tailed eX-
actly and minutely with the visions, it
is said, and give the tale as I found it.
The Xenia Torchlight has the follow
ing news from Yellow Springs:
1t is said that party of students in
tend visiting the haunted house, which
is situated South of this village on the
Xenia road, and staying there through
the night to watch for the ghost that dis
turbs the quietude of that locality. As
the story runs, this house, which, by the
way, is two story frame of antiquated
style and architecture, and now very
much dilapidated, many years ago was
used asa tavern where the weary travel
er, through the then almost unbrOken
wilderness, could tarry and refresh him
self. One night a Wayfarer, who had
the appearance of great wealth, was
seen to stop for the night at this house
and never to emerge from it, and rumOr
says foul murder was committed for
gold, and as the spirit of ManIius rose
from the waves of the Tiber to greet the
headless shade shade of Pompey as it
stalked from the Egyptian shore, so does
the ghost of this murdered man stalk
forth at midnight's hour to greet the
unWelcOme intruder on his domains
The clanking of chains and whizzing of
missiles through the air can be distinct
ly. heard in the old house when the ghost
is about and these noises cannot be ac-
counted for, unless a superstitious view is
taken. 1t is hoped that this band of
students will ferret out the long sought
mystery,
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omeiaI Directory.
COUNTY
70 OWN0HTl

rrnsts.. RI Chsetaanl,
-.-..,rrsr TH Berry.
1iS-T D " Todd.
~ Rhoads,
OOn''5S:Si 56.os zoaabro, win wharton s HRoash.
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YOUNG AMERICA FIRE CO., MOI.

UUINN ElIlIIlINININ : IL = ~ y y = :
Meet hrst Wednesday evening in each month q
their Han over Lem. WesverB Hardware store.
L. 9. HOVEY, Pres't.
JAMES MURPHY, ,Bec'y.
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MOLUNKEE FIRE CO., NO, 2.
Meet second Tuesday evening IN each month, ct
their Hal in rear Of Court House.
B.F. GANSON, Pres't.
uoRArE q HApPERgETT. Eeclv.
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ERIE RAlLWAY.
Corrected December 5th, 1870.
enrl-a Wuar

LIS a. NJ. LIGHTNING EXPRESS, daily, con-
Meeting ct New York, for Boston and all New
ENGLAND cities.
l9.S5 A. N. CINCINNATI EXPRESS, Sundays
excepted.
Sos A. II. ACCOMMODATION, Sundays eLcep-
ted.
12.5o P. NJ. WAY FREIGHT, Sundays excepted.
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RATES OF ADVERTISING
Advertisements will be inserted at the

Local Notices, per line
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1871-02-10
LegaI NOfice.

MARTHA Davis widow OF william
1Fl Davis deceased, William N. Davis, An
ma Davis, Amelia Davis, Charles Davis and
his guardian David Bevan, Mary Alice
Davis and Emma j. Davis and their guar
dian Martha Davis residents of Delaware
county, Ohio, and Sarah Williams and her
husband David Williams who reside near
Iowa City, johnson County, Iowa, will take
notice that a petition was fled against
in the Court of Common Pleas, within and
for the county Of Delaware, and State of
Ohio by Mary Elizabeth Davis and William
oliver Davis by their Guardian William
Dunlap and is now pending wherein said
mary Ei1zaoeth Davis and said William OIL
1Ver Davis Dy their said guardian William
Dunlap demand partition of the following
real estate, to-wit: In Radnor township, in
range twenty, section four, onetract bound
ed on the 8 nth by land owned by Judah
Davis and by Mrs. Evans; on the north by
land owned by the heirs Of w. Ev ans de-
ceased and by lands Of r. Norris and on the
east Dv lands of X. Norris, of Thomas Jones
and Of Judah Davis and being in lot num-
DFE keen S4cepC Ten acres OF Ine same IS
N the m1ddIe part OF lot number twenty
four and one other tract of thirty-six acres
in southeast part of lot fifteen, bounded on
the souJh oy the township line betW cen
Radnor and SciotO tOwnShi ps on the east
by lands formerly owned by Lewis Evans;
on the north by County road known as the
m1Ilv1lle road and commonly so CALI d;
and on the east by lands owned by Reece
Williams suppose to be I60 acres of land,
owned by William Davis and of which he
died seized and that at the next term of said
Court on the Seventh day of the term to-
VII, the zOth day OF March, A. D., 1871, or as
soon thereafter as the same can be heard
the said Mary Elizabeth Davis and William
Olive Davis by their guardian William
Dunlap viii apply for an order that partf-
ton may ne made of said premises. Dated
this 9th day of February, a. D. 1871.
MARY ELIZABETH DAVIS and
WILLIAM OLIVER DAVIS by
WILLIAM DUNLAP their Guardian.
JONES & HIPPLE.
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THE SHORT LINE.
The Springfield Republic saws:

The Springfield Republic says.
By the action of the stockholders of
the Cincianati. Sanduslsy and Cleveland
Railway Company, the track from
Springfield to DAYTON has been perpetu-
ally leased to the Short-Line Company.
and viii be trunk line to be occupied
IN common by the trains of the c. c. c.
& l.. Col, Springfield & Gin. and Gin.
Saudusky & Cleveland roads. This
lease has been accepted by the Lake
Shore and c. c. c. & /. companies.
A new road will at once be built from
Dayton to Cincinnati, either by Middle
town or Lebanon, and we understand
that II IS the intention to have the rails
down and the trains On the track within
O1te HEfazayea and kzUeefy days from the
time Of commencing the work The
strongest railway corporations in the
country have this matter in hand and It
will be prosecuted promptly and vigor-
ously.
What Springfield people at first de-
sired was that new road should be
built direct from Springfield to Cincin-
natl, and so, 900 was subscribed for that
purpose, but with this arrangement we
shall have two good lines-the Short
Line and the Pan HandIe-competing
for our passengers and freight, and shall
have a direct, through, trunk, passenger
line, by which we can take cars either
for Cincinnati or New York and go
through without change! Ind ne sHaH
retain 01fr so. 900!
Upon the completion of the Short
Line and the Columbus road we shall
have twenty-four to thirty trains run
ming through the city daily.
The Republic subsequently under
stands that the Cincinnati & Springfield
Short Line managers are negotiating
with the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton Railway Company. for the joint use
of their road, the last-named Company
TO proceed at once to double track their
route,
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Guardians ron DRUnKARDs
The General Assembly Of Ohio ha
enacted as follows:

The General Assembly Of Ohio has
enacted as follows:
That the court of common pleas, or
any judge thereof. in vacation, upon sat
isfactoTy proof that any person resident
Of the county wherein the application
may be made IS incapable of taking
care Of and preserving his or her prop
erty, by reason of intemperance or
habitual drunkenness. shall forthwith
appoint a guardian of such person,
which guardian shah, by virtue Of such
appointment, be guardian also of the
minor child or children of his ward, in
case no other be appointed; and all laws
relating to guardians for minors and
their wards, and all laws pointing out
the qualifications, duties, rights and LA
bilities of such guardians, and their
sureties, in force for the time being,
shall be applicable to the guardians con
templated by this act; Provided, how
ever, that In case there shall be no Judge
of the court of common pleas IN the
county where such intemperate person or
habitual drunkard may reside, the pro-
bate judge of the county may make such
appointment.
SEC. ?. At least FIVE, but not more
than ten. days prior to the time when
the application for the appointment OF
the guardian authorized by the foregoing
section shall be made, notice in writing
setting forth the time and place of the
hearing of the application, shall be
served upon the person for whose prop
erty such appointment may be sought
and from the time of the service of such
notice until the hearing. or the day there
of. as to all persons having notice of
such proceeding, no sale, gift, convey
ance, or incumbrance, of the property
Of such incorporate person or habitual
drunkard, shall be valid.
SEC. 8. The court of common pleas
may, at any regular or adjourned term
thereof, for the county where the person
for whose property such guardian shall
have been appointed, upon reasonable
notice to such guardian, and satisfactory
proof that the necessity for such guar
dian no longer exists, order that the re
lation of guardian and ward terminate,
and the ward be restored to the full con
troll of his property. as before the ap
pointment authorized by the first section
of this act.
SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and
be in (force) from and after its passage.
A ]. CUNNINGHA4,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
J. c. LEE,
President of the Senate.
Passed January 5th, 1871.
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slneriR's Sale

First National Bank of IN P4Esuanoe P4Fs
a. J. Leonard, ct al mands Of an Or
der of Sale issued from the Court OF Com
mon Pleas of Delaware county, Ohio, and
to me directed, 1 shall offer for sale, at pub
lie vendue, from the door of the Court
House, in the town of Delaware, on
Saturday, March II, 1871.
at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, the following described
real estate, to-wit:
situated in the TOwnshi p of Brown, Coun-
ty of Delaware, and state of Ohio, and
known as the lot OF land being the west
half of the following described premises
and tract of land: Situated in Range IS,
Township 5, Section g. United States Mill
tary Land; commencing on the north line
of Section No. 8, 200 poles west of the north
east corner of said Section; thence South
on the west line of ID. CampbelPs $50 acres
to the southeast corner of said Cam pbells
land 200 poles; thence West on the line
parallel with the north line of said section
202 poles thence NOrtherly on line par
aIleI with the east line of said section 200
poles to the said north line OF said section
thence EaSterly on said north line 202 poles
to the place of beginning; containing 25212
acres, according to the survey made by
James Eaton on the 9th of July, 1929. The
land ordered to be sold being 1861 acres, be
the same more or less.
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Road Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that a petit
N ton will be presented to the Board of
Comm tssfoners of Delaware County, Ohio,
at their March session, A. ID. 1871. praying
for the vacation of ten feet on each side of
a county road, on the following line, to-wit:
Beginning at the center of the county road
at the north line of land owned by William
8. Clym-F in Orange Township, Delaware
County Ohio and running thence west to
the mud pike leading from Delaware to-
Columbus, Ohio. The object of said petit
tion rs to reduce the width of said road,
from 60 to 40 feet. FRANK KGNYOE
and other petitioners
Dated this Sd day of February, a. ID. ls7l.
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