davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-28

registrars certified to the correctness of the
list. There are very nearly the same num-
Der of votes given for the Republican can
didates for Representatives as for the Re
publican State ticket. But 100 more votes
are declared for the Democratic State
ticket than for the Democratic Representa-
tivesl Men who watched the polls all day
say there could not possibly be any such
discrepancy There could not have been
more than half a dozen. difference. All
persons familiar with elections know that
when electors once come to the polls they
almost without exception put vote in
every box.
The Fourth Ward is one in which Gov
ernor English himself resides His nephew,
named English, and the well-known Dem
ocratic citizen, Sam Bishop, have been
among the counters both years, and per
haps longer. The latter is reported as &C.
knowledging that he supposed there todS
mistake" When the matter began to be
publicly discussed, young English, the
nephew, urged a recount, and was hasten
ing to unseal the box, when he was warned
not to touch the ballots II is reported,
however, that the seals have actually been
broken. ''~ ts'
After the count had been finished on the
evening of the election, Democratic tick.
cts were found between the o. \ cover
and the table. One thee man.
ner in which the fr' ed is
this; The Dem Jposed
to count tb~ u unscratched)
tickets h- But after the bundles
had been nearly or quite made up, they
concluded to count by hundreds, but they
did not double up all the packages, SO that
in two instances packs of fifty were count
ed as hundreds, making clear gain of one
hundred. In the meantime the Republi-
can counters were kept busy counting Re-
publican clean tickets or scattering votes.
How many ballots are now sealed up in
that box? If there are but 1,197 for State
officers, then the return of 1897 is plainly
a mistake or fraud. If 1897 ballots for
State officers are found, while only 1,197
were cast for Representatives, and the
check list, carefully counted over and over
again, shows that deducting the nineteen
blunders, only 1,197 could have been law
fully put in, then it is a clear case of bal
lot-box stuffing, pure specimen of Tam
many tactics. Let them take which horn
of the dilemma they please, the detected
error or fraud shows that Marshall Jewell
was elected Governor by clear majority.
Hartford C0uTd1lt.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-28
Assessed Valuation of Property in 1850
and 1870.

THE accompanying table exhibits the
aggregate assessment, for purposes of tax
alton, of real and personal property in
each of the States named in the tables,
after adjustment by the several State
Boards of Equalization, as the same have
been returned to the census Office by the
Deputy or Assistant Marshsls charged
with the collection of these statistics.
Minor changes may still require to be
made, as the result of correspondence
now being had. The aggregate assess
ment of the State of Maine had not yet
been distributed between the real and per-
sonal property of the State. In Massachu-
sets, and possibly in some other States,
the amounts given are not inclusive of the
property of certain classes of corporations
which pay taxes directly into the State
treasury.
The following table shows the assessed
valuation of real and personal estate in
1850:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-28
POLITICAL.

The Illinois Legislature adjourned on
the nth to the 18th of November, when it
will meet in Chicago.
On the 10Th the Speaker of the United
States House of Representatives announc-
ed the appointment of the following COM
mittees: On Joint Select Committee on
Outrages in the Southern States-Messrs.
Poland, Maynard, Scofield, Cook, Coburn,
Stevenson, Buckley, Lansing, Cox, Beck,
Voorhees,, Van Trump, Waddell and Rob
inson. On Select Committee on Mis-
sissippi Lovees-Messrs. Morey, Ketchum
Mckee, Getz and Duke.
The President, on the Goth, issued a
proclamation declaring that an extraor
dinary occasion requires the Senate of the
United States TO convene for the transac
ton of business at the Capitol in the city
of Washington, on Wednesday, the 10th
day of May next, at 12 o'clock, NJ, of
which all who shall at that time be en-.
titled to act as members of that body are
hereby required to take notice"
Col. N. b. Chapman, Republican, was,
on the Goth, elected Delegate to Congress
from the District of Columbia.
The Ohio Legislature has passed bill
making penalty of $500 fine and impris-
onment for any person who shall solem-
nize a marriage without being legally au-
thorized TO do so.
AT the recent election in the District of
Columbia in several of the voting pre-
cincts number of women approached
the polls, with tickets in their hands,
claiming the right to vote. They were
treated courteously by the Commissioners,
but were informed that their names were
not on the registry list. They thereupon
presented atfidavits that they are legally
qualified voters, and that they had pre-
sented themselves for registration and
been refused. These aff1davits were pre-
sented as preliminary TO legal proceedings.
In some cases the women were accompa-
MED by lawyers. OF the % members of
the House of Delegates, the Republicans
elected 10 and the Democrats Z. General
Chipman's majority for Delegate to Con-
gress is 4,067.
The New York Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 2lst. ....
The Ohio Legislature has passed bill
exempting the dwellings of clergymen Of
all denominations from taxation.
A Hartford, Conn, dispatch of the 21st
says: "The canvassers who met to-day
to officially canvass the returns of the vote
for Governor and other State officers, will
report the following figures to the Legisla
ture: James E, English, Al, ,492; Marshal
Jewell, 47,45O; scattering, II. This gives
English majority of 20. The statements
of alleged errors in the counts Of som'
of the precincts will go to the Legislature
and if the mistakes be shown, as claimed
Jewell will be declared Governor by abou
80 majority over all other State officers.
Morris Tyler, Republican, has a majorit,
of 1872 for Lieutenant Governor, and d. P
Nichols, Republican, for Treasurer, 25'
| maiOIitV ..,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-28

handy. Pine-apples doesn't go beggin' this
season of the year"
"Let Mrs. Dalton have 1t, then; I'll
never buy another article of Mrs. Pep
per-"
Mrs. Wharton was now considerably an
noyed.
ITO think dollar should be such a
useful thing" she muttered to herself, TAX
ing up her portfolio.
A half-finished letter lay there-one to
her sister, who was the wife of a clergy
man out West, with a flock of little chill
dren around her. The last words she had
written were, 81 send you dollar to buy
doll for the baby, my little name sake"
How provokingp she exclaimed, VI
can't even finish my letter for lack of the
everlasting dollar"
She leaned back in the velvet cushions
of her chair, drowsily watching the blaze,
and, listening to the patter of the rain on
the window, fell fast asleep.
Where was sheg In the spectre boat of
Charon, gliding over the river Styx-and
as the bark touched the shores of the 9TH
er world, the ghastly toll -gatherer extened
his hand relentlessly: {" Your fare, if you
please, ma'am."
Mrs Wharton had her fare ready; she
handed it up, eager to pass through the
gates where she could see the musical
wave Of the palm trees, and sparkle of
glittering tides that flow beneath the
shadow.
"Short by dollar, ma'am. Short by
the single dollar you cheated the poor
seamstress out of. You cannot enter"
Mrs Wharton then drew out hundred
dollar bill. The grim Charon shook his
head.
"If you had ten thousand it would not
do; nothing will serve our purpose but
that one dollar"
Charon turned the boat briskly around !;
Mrs. Wharton was just opening her lips to
utter a wild cry of anguish, pleading, when
she awoke.
She shuddered somehow the dollar had
assumed preternaturally very large dimen-
sions.
"Charles Charlesr how welcome were
the footsteps of her husband upon the
stairs.
We'll, what is ?"
"Have you dollar?"
Half dozen of them if you want"
But only wanted one-iust dollar
He gave it to her, and she Immediately
rang the bell.
John, want you to put on your India
rubber cloak, and take his bill around to
Mrs Leggett, and tell her it is what owe
herp
John departed, and Mrs. Wharton
breathed more easily.
"Perhaps they will let me in the gates,
now," she said dreamily.
my dear, what do you mean?" de-
manded her astonished husband.
And Mrs. Wharton told.him the story of
her days adventures, and the dream that
closed them.
Helen" said her husband gravely, "let
this be lesson to you, never to neglect
the just dues of the poor A dollar is not
much to us-to them it may be the last
frail bulwark between them and starva-
ton"
But there was no danger of Mrs. Whar-
ton ever forgetting the lesson she had re-
ceived.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-28
FnREIaN.

A Paris dispatch of the 18th says dele.
gates from the Commune to Versailles had
returned with Thiers conditions, which
rendered the insurgents very violent.
Rochefort demanded that Vinroy, Gallipel,
Favre, Picard and Mcmahon should be
brought chained in couples to the Champs
Elysees, where the relatives of Nationals
killed should be allowed to do what they
please with them.
Insurgent successes are reported at Paris
on the 10th.
According to cable dispatches Of the
18th there was little change in the situa-
tion around Paris. The insurgents were
reported TO be holding their own, and
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claimed that the situation was everywhere
satisfactory to them. A special from Paris
to the London Times of the 18th says 1t
was reported that the Prussians would in.
tervene in the affairs of France in case the
Commune should be victorious over the
Versailles government.
A slight earthquake shock was felt in
Scotland on the morning of the 18th.
A dispatch from Versailles on the 10th
says the Government troops had captured
and were occupying Asnieres, and had
driven the enemy across the Seine. The
insurgents admit having been repulsed at
Neuilly, but claim victories at Issy and
Clamart. A dispatch from Asnieres, cia
Versailles on the 10th, says the insurrec-
ton was falling to pieces.
A Paris dispatch of the Goth indicates
that the government forces were continual
ly gaining ground. The fighting at Neuilly
on the 18th and 10th was very fierce and
bloody. Before retreating the Nationals
set fire to a number of houses in Neuilly,
and the inhabitants, hidden in the cellars,
being unable to extricate themselves, were
burned to death.
A Versailles dispatch of the Goth says
the Assembly had rejected a motion to
treat with the Paris insurgents.
A dispatch from Paris on the evening
of the Goth says: "There has been des'
perate house to house fighting all day at
Neuilly and Levallois. The forces of the
Assembly have been reinforced at Neuilly,
but the artillery of the Communists de-
Tended with great tenacity the barricade
opposite the position of the Versailles
troops. The cannonading was incessant
throughout the day. The Versaillists have
nosoccupied the village of Asnieres, but
are entrenched at the railway station, and
in the Colonies woods. The fire of the
Versailles batteries greatly tried the Ma
tionals, but though they have suffered
heavy loss, they are still undaunted."
A manifesto issued on the Goth by the
Commune at Paris pronounces a compro-
mise with the Versailles Government i'm
possible, and closes with an appeal to
France to disarm the troops then threaten
ing the capital.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-28
stubborn Facts. 80

TUE Chicago Tribune, the Chicago
Times, and other journals reputable and
disreputable, may continue to charge all
sorts of sins on the administration, and
still it will remain true that the increase of
receipts, even under reduced taxation, is
about $S5, 100000 over the receipts of a
similar period under Andrew johnson
that the decrease in expenditures is $780,
700, ,04921; the reduction of the public
debt, $204 ,754 418o9; the finances are inn
proving the country is prospering and,
as the elimination of all, the people un,
derstand their own interests, and know
that public affairs were never before SC
happily adjusted. in this republic-not
even in the halcyon days of James Blu
chanan.-O Chicago Post.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-28

To Break Horse of Pulling on the
Halter.-A writer in the Rural Meao Yorker
says: "Put on a strong halter; put the
halter rope or strap over the top of the
manger, and back through hole in or
under the frame of the manger and be-
tween the horses fore legs, through the
circingle and back TO the hind leg Buckle
a strap, with ring on 1t, around the an
tbe e horse ore i tied % in this % aay " e one % week T L
is sure to break the horse of the habit of
pulling. 1t is worth the price of the Rt-
raj for five years TO any one who has q
horse with this vice."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-28
Selected Miscellany.
KA.FOOzLRUM UM.

II ancient days there lived Turk,
norrld beast within the East
Who did the Prophets holy work,
As baba OF Jerusalem.
He had a daughter, sweet and smirk,
complexion fair, and dark blue hair;
With naught about her like a Turk,
Except the name, Ka-foozle-um.
OH Ka-foozle.umi Ka.foozle.umi Ka.fooz,e.pm,
OhI ka-foozle.umi the daughter of the Babai
A youth resided near to she;
Ills name was Sam, perfect lamb;
lie was OF ancient pedigree,
And came from old Methusalem.
he drove trade, and prospered well,
IN skins OF cats, and ancient hats;
And ringing at the Babas bell,
lie saw and loved Ka-fooze-um.
II Sam had been a Mussulman,
He might have sold the Baba old,
And with verse OF Alcoran
save managed TO bambo0zle him.
But, on dear, mo- he tried to scheme,
tassed one night late the area gate,
And stole up to the Turks harem,
10 carry off Kafoozle-um.
Thc, Baba was about to smoke;
a, Ills slaves rushed In with horrid din,
Marshallal dogs your house have broke;
Come down, my lord, and toozle emil"
The Baba wreathed his face In smiles,
Game down the stair, and witnessed there
The gentleman In three old tiles
A kissing of Ka-foozle.um.
The pious Baba said no more
Ihan twenty prayers, but went up stairs,
AND took bow;string from drawer,
And came back TO Ka-foozle-um.
The maiden and the youth he took,
Aud onoked them both, and little 10th,
Together pitched them In the brook
or kedron, near Jerusalem.
And STILL the ancient legend goes,
When day is gone from Lebanon,
And when the eastern moonlight throws
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-28

DURIEG the year ending February 29
Cincinnati paid for expenses of the Fire
Department, $290,000; lighting city,
$165,000;' improving streets, $4,000,
The amount Of property destroyed by fire
during the year was $88SO00. f.r
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-28

3 Indiana is said TO have the largest
school fund Of any State in the Union. II
amounts 70 over &7,0OO,OOO. s..Asa.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-28
Democratic Frauds in Connecticut.

AT last we have full and clear accounts
of one of the frauds which the Republi.
cans believe have, for several years, been
committed in New Haven. The Demo-
cratic counters figured, and the Demo
cratic Moderator returned, one hundred
more votes for English in the Fourth
Ward of New Haven than were actually
cast The facts can be established to the
perfect satisfaction of any honest men.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-28

A REsIDENa of Gold Fiat, Cal, had a
favonite hen Which got bone into the
windpipe, and was about-to die from the
effects He made am ihcision with a knife,
laying open the windpipe, and extracted
the bone. The Wound was then sewed
up, and at last accounts the hen was doing
well and the wound was healing rapidly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-28
Fraudulent excess ...-................-

One year ago the Republican canvass in
this ward gave the Democrats about 90
majority, and the Democrats themselves
claimed only about 60 But they made the
returns given English about 250. The
Republicans then believed that they We're
cheated, and they determined TO keep
closer watch next time. The check list
has been repeatedly and most carefully
counted. 1t justifies the statement above
given-1, ,404 voters registered, 100 not
voting, two illegal votes. Total for Cow
ernor, after subtracting the votes for AS.
SCISSOR, 1897. But by giving English 718
votes, instead of 6l9, they made the total
1897, which is 100 more than could pos
sibly have been given.
Both the Democratic and Republican
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-28

The following table shows the assessed
valuation of real and personal estate in
1870:
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-09-09

that same Bible that Mary gave to her lit
tie George, whose precepts and whose prin-
ciples led him, at the head of The Ameri-
can troops, to achieve that freedom which
we now enjoy. Do what you may, tell
you that the American-born citizens of this
country, at least the native-born Ameri-
cans, will at all hazards keep that Bible in
the hands of their little Georges, too.
Sir, we do not protest against this religi-
GUS link between our free Republic and the
Papal throne a throne unlike all Others,
built upon power, spiritual and temporal,
political and religious throne which
makes man slave, and transforms kings
into liends, priests into tormentors, q peo-
pie into drones, country into desert a
throne which extinguishes the fire on the
altar of domestic love in form peculiar, ia
tai, revolving snatching its votaries away
from the homage of nature to the cold con
vent, the repusivo abbey, the gloomy cell
of the anchorite, the horrid dungeon of the
inquisition, and the demoralzing cdict OF
, celibacy Stirringup sedtion, rebellion and
civil war as the only means of extending a
power which reason revolts from, and per-
suasion fails to ditluse which mankind
have resisted in every age, at the peri
and under the penalty of the cannon's
mouth, the edge Of the sword, the fire o
the faggot, the torments of the stake, and
the tortures of the rack
Sir, in the name of the American peo
! pie, protest against this innovation, which
would make us by-word among the ma
tions. 1t is almost an absolete, but still G
venerated and solemn custom, appropriate
to all great and imm inent conjunctures o
public import, to invoke the special protec
ton of Superior Being, and, in the samt
spirit that animated our sircs of 1T7G, eX
claim, God save the Republic ~
Parties rceled, politicians changed ant
covered before the fiery cloqucnce OF thi
daring rctormer, whose words, repeated to
day, have strange and almost prophets
significance. am proud to claim that
am not one of those who feared to take is
sue with his doctrines, and this the NOR
because now find myself arraycd agains
the dangerous dogmas cnunciated by cer
tain grave potentates, and too sadly illus
trated by their ignorant and misguided fol
lowers,
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-09-09

PRESIDENT JUDGE.-At the late County
Republican Convention, il was deemed in
cxpedient to make nominations for either
President or Associate Judges, believing it
to be q question for the people to deter
mine. Two gentlemen of the highest legal
ability, were selected as Coniorees to con-
fer with similar Confcrees from Montour
county without any instructions, allowing
them to use their judgment as to who is the
best qualified and available, for the posi-
ton. II is certainly not an enviable situa-
tian to be placed in to be a confcree. But
under present circumstances the gentlemen
will have an easy task. The candidate no.
minated by the bogus Democracy, is well
known to have received his nomination
through fraud by party that seeks to get
control of the Courts as well as all other
county offices, and by appearances has Civ
en- himself over to that element entirely.
Since his nomination, scarcely q day passes
but he is in consultation with Irish Catho-
lie Priests, laying plans to defeat any can
didato that may be presented TO the people
the voters outside of the coal regions, and
old residents of the county of both parties,
who do not choose to affiliate with that
class are treated with the utmost contempt.
Under these circumstances public opinion
is strongly pointing to our worthy towns
men, Wm. NJ. Rockefeller, Esq, as the
man to serve the people in that capacity.
Everywhere he is looked upon as the pro-
per person to dispense justice impartially,
and as a man who will sustain the rcputa-
ton of our Courts Of Justice, in spirit un-
! biasscd and untrammelled by sect or party
feeling. Mr.. Rockefeller is in the prime of
life, and is full of energy. Having COM
mcnccd life as a poor boy, depending en-
tirely upon his own cXcrtion, unaidel by
any assistance from influential friends, he
gained, by hard labor, and a naturally en-
dowed ability as a lawyer, foremost rank
in his profession. His large practice, in
both civil and criminal branches of the law,
is q sure guarantee that his qualifications
are far superior to his opponent, while his
social and amiable qualities are calculated
to make him popular among all classes.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-09-09
GERMANY ARoUsrp.-All Germany ia

GERMANY ARoUsED.-All Germany 10
now in a ferment. Her leading Roman
Catholic Divines like Dolliugcr, Strossmey-
er and others, are throwing of the fet-
ters of the Pope, and a new German Catho-
lie Church will be formed in harmony with
the enlightened spirit of the age.
The cardinal features of the German Ca
tholic Church will be no Pope, no sale of
indulgences, no auricular confession, no
Popish infhllibility, no forbidding marriage
to clorgymen-an open Bible, free educa-
ton, free religion, no 'cursing and burning
of heretics, nopublic burning of the Bible,
no unholy agreement with Kings and dcs-
pots to keep the people down and in slave
ry, no hatred of freedom, but harmony
with all other churches in advancing the
cause ofrcligious freedom, and tie liberty of
the world, no mobs and riots. and violence
to crush the freedom of religion and of con-
science.
This great revolution in the German
Church is pushed forward by the claims of
the Pope to the attributes Of the Infalliblc
God, and by the late outrages Of the Irish
Catholic rioters in New Y ork in the name
of the Roman Catholic Church. Already
the bonds of New York city are no longer
quoted, but shut out from all the German
markets. The German people have no
faith in the Bonds of a city that is under
the control of Irish Catholic rioters and
their friends, who are now plotting to cap
turc city after city, and county after county
in this free land, till they get control of the
National Government, aud then the Re-
public is lost, unless rescued by oceans of
blood
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-09-09

II viii Dc seen from this table that Che
State debt remained above forty millions --
some years increasing aud in others de-
crcasing slowly until 1916, when the
Democratic asccndancy began to be shaken.
The public works were sHid in lcj7 in
1S5S, the Republicans carried the House.
in 1859 they carried both House and .S"n-
ate, and in 1900 they elected the Governor
and a majority in both llouNcs.
During these ten years the ruling party
had the bcurit of the revenue from the
state tax on real and personal estate, and
the tax ON tonnage on the Pennsylvania
railroad. The revenue from these two
sources, during the dccauc referred to, was
MS follows: