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The Republican journal., 1871-07-20

A furious storm passed over Syracuse.
N. Y, Sunday. The wind blew down a
largetree from one to two feet in diane
ter One new building was blown down.
the high school in Geddes and several
barns We're unrooied. Lightning struck
in every part Of the city. 1t set fire to
two private dwellings, six miles west of
Syracuse, and struck Eugene Hawes, IL
carpenter, killing him instantly and strip
ping the clothes entirely from his body
During the storm hailstones rs large 10
walnuts fell, doing damage to the crops
in the surrounding towns. There was
violent storm at Dayton. Ohio, also.
Trees are uprooted the German Lutheran
church demolished and four persons kill
ed and twenty wounded.
The Republican journal., 1871-07-20

In Missouri paper we read q romance
OF which q Mr.. Haynes and his son are
Jointly the heroes. AS the story runs,
they were in a field, when swarm of
bees alighted upon the boy, covering him
from head to foot; they hung upon his
ears, chm and nose in great lunches, and
ciung IN thick clusters to every part of
his body. Mr.. Haynes realizing the dan
gerous situation in which the child was
placed, commanded him to stand quite
still. This the boy did, until the bees had
all settled. Mr.. Haynes then took stick
gently lifted the boys hat from his head
andsplaced it upon neighboring bush,
when the entire swarm left their extraor-
dinary resting place and took to the hat
and bush. Strange to relate, the boy re-
ceived only one sting, and that was caused
by his seizing with his teeth bee that was
trying to make its way into his mouth.
The Republican journal., 1871-07-20

Mother" said James, "what is the
meaning of donation? You have been
preparing all this week for the donation
party, and L want to know what it means. u
''Why, jimmy" said Johnny, "don't you
know what donation means? I do!-do
means the cake, and nation means the peo-
pie; and they carry the cake to the minis
ter's, and the people go there and eat it, y
The Republican journal., 1871-07-20

II weeded my friends" said an eccen-
tric old man, "by hanging piece of
stair-carpet out of my first floor window,
with constable's announcement affixed.
1t had the desired effect. I soon saw
who were my friends. 1t was like firing
gun at pigeon-house. They torsooS
the building at the first report.'
The Republican journal., 1871-07-20

While a farmer in Clinton was absent
from the held at dinner the other day, q
mischlevons boy moved his scythe, and
the old fellow moved over half an acre
that he had previously clipped in the fore
noon. He tells this story to illustrate what
he means by "short CROP of hay, and
that the difference in a field that has been
moved and one in which the grass is
standing is not very great journal.
The Republican journal., 1871-07-20

A NEWSPAPER RENAISSANCE. One of
the brightest featS of the New York Her
aid was the publication of Iincoln's IA
NOUS war and emancipation message be
fore its contemporaries had even knowl-
edge of the tenor of its contents There
was 4 prodigious hue-and-cry in Wash
ington over such "cnterprlsc;n Lincoln
was very angry and unable to imagine
how the document was procured. But
Randall's letter about the Washington
treaty and his own imprisonment reveal
the mystery. it seems that the Chcva-
ier Wikoh-oncc Il famous newspaper
man and Fanny Ellslcr's fricnd-bribed
Mrs. Lincoln, and She let him read the
manuscript while shut up in the closet
near old Abe's room. Wikotl not only
read but copied the important war ana
proclamation parts, and got safely out of
the White House with his copy" in his
pocket. 1t was theadcd," "displayed,"
"doublc-leaded, and the usual "leadcr"
written upon it. When it appeared the
next day the Tribune and Times were
sadly discomtitted. An investigation
took place in Washington, Wikof was
imprisoned, and he and Mrs. Lincoln suf
fered untold agony of apprehension
Finally she confessed all to Abraham,
and he confessed to the investigating com
mittec. The matter was hushed up and
Wikoff set free. Just before that publ
cation Il remarkable resemblance be-
tween Mrs. Lincoln and the Empress Eu-
genie had been discovered by the editor
Of the Herald, but has not been alluded
to since.
The Republican journal., 1871-07-20

According to the articles OF war, it is
death to stop cannon-ball.
The Republican journal., 1871-07-20

A RAT STORY. A citizen of unques-'
tionable veracity has enlightened us upon
the sagacity Of rats. After giving us the
particulars OF the wonderful exploits of a
certain cat that had fished seven rats
through a rat hole in q tloorhe informs us
how an old rat watched over the interests
Of the rising generation. 1t seems that
the rats about certain house are peculiar
ly annoying and numerous. A trap was
set Tor them, but to no purpose, as they
would not catch. A thin cloth was then
placed over an ordinary steel trap, and Il
quantity of meal placed over the same.
The party then watched for the victim.
Soon ne appeared, q young rat, unsophis-
ticated, and not versed in the ways that
are dark among rat-catchers. The meal
he got snuff off, and 10! it was good. He
was just about placing his foot upon the
treacherous trap when an old rat was seen
to emerge from neighboring hole, take
look at the dangerous position of the
juvenile, and then with all possible speed
actually hastened up, and, taking hold of
the young ones tail with his teeth, dragged
the rash animal away. Both then disap-
peared in the hole and were seen no more.
We are informed that the above circum-
stance can be vouchcd for by several
parties who were witnesses to the whole
transaction Who can beat it ? Chicago
Post
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Spirit of the Press.

The New York Tribune says; Suffrage
is to the women of this or any other coun-
try a right given or withheld, which
trenches on their worldly comfort, proba-
bly,, but does not touch in one whit their
moral sense or the relations and obligations
between God and their souls"
The Chicago Tribune says "In one
sense Mr.. Vallandigham has committed
burglary, for he has broken into the Re-
publican wardrobe and stolen all the old
clothes he could lay bis hands on. The
question is, whether be and his party will
be Thoroughly disguised in their new gar
ments, or whether they will be recognized,
arrested and brought to justice for lar
ceny.'
The Trenton Gazette says: "We regard
this visit of Mr.. Greeley to the South as
full of promise for the future unity of the
two sections We believe that it will be
productive of great good. The remarks
Bile and unvarying spirit of friendliness
and respect manifested by the Southern
people for one Of our most radical pro-
gressonists must do much to raise our
Southern brethren 10 our esteem and good
will"
The Missouri Democrat says "One very
natural question is this: Even if the I'M
terrified Democracy should conclude to
gulp down all Bourbonism, and to profess
Republican principles 10 order to establish
Democratic supremacy, can that party be
trusted to give effect to Republican rather
than Democratic principles? Is there not
faint possibility that the quaint old dis
itch would again be realized
when the devil was sick, the devil monk
would be-
When the devil was well, the devil monk
was he ~"
The Montgomery, (Ala) Nail, says: =
"When the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments have been once subverted, the
structure of negro supremacy founded upon
them must necessarily fail with them. 10
this belief we are entirely willing that the
opposition to the fourteenth aud fifteenth
amendments shall be shaped to whatever
policy the wisdom of our leading minds
may determine to be the safest and surest
for effecting the great end we have first 10
view. If, for instance, that policy shall be
so shaped as to attack the odious amend
ments on the ground of their centralizing
tendency with regard to government pow
ers, we are content to fight the battle on
that issue, and bide the time which must at
length set all things even. But although
we leave our ultimate object in the back
ground fora season. it shall, nevertheless,
be kept duly alive"
The New York Citizen and Round Table
sympathy with Mrs. Woodruff and Miss
CIa1in without having an avalanche of
anathemas hurled at our heads by an infu-
rated press, who, according to their views
of the eternal fitness of things, argue that
because the defendants are women, they
must necessarily be all in the wrong in any
case, and because they are women they
must be tried, not according to the lights
ofiustice and equity, but according to the
standard of their personal virtue"
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STARKE'S DIXIE PIOW.

| DY INNITATI0NiOF MR.. T. O. WILLIAMS, OF
- the county of Nottowsy, number of gen
| tlemen assembled at his residence Saturday, Deoem
ativo value Of the DIXIE PLow, manufactured by
| Starke Co., and any other that might enter the
| Geld Of competition.
P. NJ. the following gentlemen acting as judges r.
W. Epes J. d. Williams, Robert Scott, Jas. g. Gil
liam, VIM. I. Christian, Richard Epes, DR.. Daring,
Sidney Graves, Walton sydnor, =. O. Williams O..
N. seay, and J. M. Hurt. Mr.. g. Graves and Walton
sydnor were the principal plowmen. Mr.. W. sydnor
working the Watt pillow and s Graves the Dixie
both Of whom handled them with mastery skill and
success.
The plows entered were the Dixie two horse right
and ft-hand pows, and the watt two-horse left
hand. Soon after the trial commenced tho beam Of
the Dixie right hand broke In two and was laid
aside the contest being narrowed to the Welt left
hand and Dixie lefthand. The soil first selected
stubble loan without soil /; but the plows
were new, and did not turn in consequence Of the
roughness of the castings, after short trial 1t was
decided to take them into another field where the
soil was wel-trodden tenacious clay, with timo-
thy sod covered with vegetation and with straw
The plows here performed their work admirably
cutting and turning clear without choking.
AS the Dixie was new conner, the contest
waxed warm most of the judges took hold Of it to
test personally its practical working While there
is no intention to do injustice to any as roither
party had agent or representative present and 10th
pows did well, yet the trial with the award of the
judges, Is deemed of sufficient importance to the in
terest of agriculture to justify its publication.
Inc award OF tne JUDGES was unanimously favor
of the Dixie on the following grounds
LIST. 1t cut a deeper furrow.
I'd. 1t cut wider furrow.
Sd. 1t more effectually inverted the sod.
4th. The draft seemed to be no greater.
9Th. The mechanical arrangement for altering cut
was deemed more simple and efficient
At the conclusion of the trial some of the judges
were SO pleased as to determine 10 order them for
their own use J. M. HURT, Secretary.
certify that the above sent to the Richmond
"Whg" for publication by myself; that am not
acquainted with Mr. Starke; that he had never seen
the paper aud knew nothing of Its contents and was
in wise party to the trial of the plows alluded
to .. VI. HURT.
January Z, 1871.
We, the iu ges In the 'Pow Trial" ON the farm of
Mr. f. G. Williams published in the Wing, hereby
certify that II directed TO be sent 10 that journal
award.
M HURT,
20 WILLIAMS,
W T CHRISTIAN, \
WILLIAMS,
JAS GILLIAN.
F January 9, 1871.
do not believe in pillow trials made by the manu-
factuiers themselves, but hops that every farmer
will at once make a full trial of the DIXIE with
every pillow he find, and buy that which does the
best work. have not been able to supply tina de-
mand, nor fill my orders for sometime, and must
leave ield-trials where they rightly belongto farm
ers themselves.
PHI sTARKE,
ap 13--w3m No 1440 Main street
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MARSHAL SALES.
1T S. MARSHAL's SALE.

1T S. MARSHALL SALE.
BY virtue of wrts oil venditoni xponas issued from
the clerks Office of the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Virginia, and to me di
rected. shall proceed to SELL at PUBLIC AUCTION,
for cash. on
WEDNESDAY, THE s1sT DAY OF MAY, 1871,
in front of the Custom-Bouse at Petersburg Va, at
II o'clock A. NJ, the following property to witt
Five (5) Barrels of APPLE BRANDY,
One a. Barrel of PEACH BRANDY
Two ~ Kegs of WHISKEY,
Two ~ Kegs of ALE,
One ~ Barrel of VINEGAR, aud
Twelve az Empty SPIRIT CASKS.
Also, one ~ MULE and one ~ CART.
Parties desiring to purchase are invited to attend
DAVID b. PARKER,
u. g. Marshal.
By JOHN W. FARRELL, Deputy.
Dated Norfolk, Va, May IL, 1871. my l3-1ot
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E l. G | N
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w A T C. Ill 4 s f!

ILLINOIS STATE NATURAL History SOCIETY,
BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, June 20, 1870.
T. NJ. AVERY,
Pres't of the National Watch Co.:
Dear Sir Last year, in the explorations of the
canons OF the Colorado River, had unusual oppor-
tunity 10 test the accuracy of of your Watches
/ was provided with four pocket chronometers for
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gether with the chronometers by observations with
the sexteut. of the five instruments its rate the
second best. With the Ordinary disturbance due to
transportation, lis rate the least variable WHILE
with the extraordinary disturbance incident to such
an expedition, it was the only instrument which
could rely, the chronometers at last becoming
less. an with great respect, yours cordially.
]. W. POWELL.
80 Call on your Jeweer and ask to see the Elgin
Watches.
business ofiss and salesroom National Watch
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A ssIdNEE's SALE OF TOWN PROPERTY.

7. ~
BY virtue of an order of the United States district
Court, for the district of Virginia. bearing date 10th
May, 1871, in the case of Penniman Il Bro. against
William PanniI, in bankruptcy. will, as the as
slgnee of said Pannill, sell at public auction, on
THURSDAY, THE 18TH JUNE, 1871,
at Chrisansburg, all the right title, claim and in
terest of said Pannill In and to q valuable DWELL.
ING and STORE-H0USE and LOT, in Christianburg.
This property is OF the most desirable stands
for a store or hotel in town, being situated the
of the public square and street leading to the
depot.
There 10 good kitchen, ice house and stable on
the lot, all enclosed by good plank fence.
TERMS OF aALE--One-third cash and the bal
credit OF six and twelve months the pur-
chaser giving bond with ample security for the de-
ferred payments also to pay taxes for the year 1871
The title will be retained until all the purchase
money is paid. Possession given on day of sale.
Christiansburg, Va, May 10, 1871.
NY 2l-2sw3w G. b. GARDNER, Assignee.
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COURT ORDERS


TT NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
~ EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, RICH
MOND, VA, APRIL Is, 1871.
ORDERED that JOHN AMBLER SMITH be substi-
tuted in the place of LtwIs II. HIGBY Assignee in
all cases in which said Highly has acted heretofore
up to this date, and that the resignation of said
Higby be accepted said Smith shall file
with the clerk of this court bond satisfactory to
the clerk, or Register Forbes, in the penalty of five
thousand dollars for the faithful performance of d
ties as such assignee in the aforesaid.
JOHN @. UNDERWOOD,
District Judge
A true copy-Teste,
T. J. UNDERWOOD
District Clerk.
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1896.
sSIGNEE's SALE
IA OF
TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE ACRES OF
LAND IN TIE COUNTY OF ESSEN, Va,
AT AUCTION

In accordance with decree of the District Court
of the United States, signed by the Hon. John c. Un-
derwood District judge pronounced on this ed May,
1871 shall sell in front of the door of the Custom
House, in the City OF Richmond, -r,
ON SATURDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF JULY, 1871
Two hundred and forty-fve acres of valuable Land
in the County of Essex within four miles of the Raj
pahannock River. The Laud is we'll wooded and wa
tered-the Deighborhood an exc licnt one, and the
Land productive.
TERMs-0ne third cash; balance in six and twelve
months, with negotiable notes, interest added title
retained until the whole of the purchase money is
paid
r. H. BROOKE,
Assignee of Paul Spindle.
my i6--2aw3w
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f22l
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED
| STATES, for the Eastern District of Virginia.
In the matter of James Mickie, bankrupt
lin bankruptcy.
To Whom it May Concern THE undersigned.
W Davidson, of Prince Edward county, Virginia,
hereby gives notice of his appointment assignee of
the estate of James Mlckle, of Darlington Heights,
Prince Edward county, in said district, who was on
on his own petition by the District Court of said dis
trict
Dated Farmylle, Va, May 10. 1871.
W NJ DAVIDSON,
my l9-F3w Assignee.
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CONTRACT FOR THE CARE OF SICK AND
" DISABLED SEAMEN.
Bids will be received by tho undersigned for a
contract to furnish MEDICAL ATTEN DANCE,
SUBSISTENCE, MEDICINES, and all other neces-
saries for the and comfort Of sick and disabled
seamen at this port, AT A RATE PER DIEM, for
ore year from JULY l, 1871, to JUNE 30, 1872.
The Government reserves the right to reject any
or all bids for " hat it deems sufficient cause.
j. M. HUMPHREYS,
Collector and Agent for Marine Hospital Fund.
RICHMOND, VA, May a. 1871
my 24-2aw2w
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my l0-w5t
IN the District Court OF the United states for the
Eastern District of Virginia
In the matter OF W AlIen bankrupt--n bank
ruptcy.
District of Virginia, IS
Notice il by gwen that the lest general meet.
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will be held at farmve, at the Office OF W. w.
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1857.
Dated at Fermyiile, TIE sih day OF April, 1871.
ap ln--M2w WA DAVIDSON, Assignee,
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CHARps' SPORTING RIFLEs.-We are now pre-
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GALE OF THE EFFECTS OF THE BANK OF
= Virginia.

In obedience to decree of the Circuit Court of
the United States for the District of Virginia. the
dersigned will, on the
18th DAY on JUNE NEXT,
beginning at 10 o'clock A. NJ, OF the Court-House
door of said Court in the Custom House building in
the city of Richmond, make sale, for cash. Of all the
EFFECTS OF the BANK OF VIRGINIA. consisting
of BONDS, BILLS, NOTES, JUDGEMENTS, DE-
CREES, and whatsoever else there be.
Creditors of the Bank, whose claims have been al
low ed are, under said dec co. entitled to set of at
par their claims against any purchases of said effects
they may make.
descriptive list of said effects may be at the
counting house of s. c. Tardy of the undersigned
Seventeenth and Dock streets, or at the Office Of
D. j. Saunders, on Eleventh street, between Main
and Bank, in Richmond, which the public are In
vted to call and examine This list will be printed
for circulation, and it will be advertised when ready.
DAVID J. SAUNDERS,
8. @. TARDY,
Receivers Bank of Virginia.
March 24th, 1871. NH 24-lawtds
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