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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05
ssI'D RATHER YOU'D NOT"
Mrss Dr. Mary Walker and a Suspi-
ciOus Old Lady.

Mrs. Or. Walker having occasion to
pass up the Missouri river, was inter
viewed at New Madrid by the editors
of the Record, and in the course of the
conversation Mary related the follow
ing amusing incident of her war eX-
perience in Georgia:
frequently rode outside our lines
and visited the farm houses, where l
found much destitution among the
women. The men were generally alb
sent in the Confederate army, or had
fed at our approach. l administered
to great many sick among those des
titute Georgians. On one occasion l
called at the home of an old lady who
was sick, and who had quite a pretty
young daughter living with her. l
prescribed for the old lady and
furnished her with medicine and some
delicacies, and gave her great and
speedy relief At her request l re
mained all night, and there being no
vacant bed in the house, slept with the
daughter.
Soon after I was called upon to
visit very sick young man in the
same neighborhood. BY proper med
ical treatment and attention, he was
soon convalescent, and I suddenly be
came very famous III that neighbor-
hood. Not long after was overta-
ken by night outside the lines. and
called upon the old lady for another
nights entertainment. To my sur
prise, she seemed reluctant and hest
tating, and then said:
"Lock here, I'm afeard of you; Tn
afeard to let you sleep with my daugh
ter again, for I'm afeard you amt 6
woman; don't believe any woman
could know as much about doctorins
as you do
I tried to disabuse her mind of sucl
an impression, but she only shook hel
head and said :'I'm afeard-Pd rather
not" At length l unfastened my hai
and shaking it out on my shoulder
said:
Look there, did you ever see a maj
have such hair as that? Is not that ;
woman's hair ?"
ooh, l don't know" said the ole
women, ''folks have got 4 curious way
of fastening hair on their heads il
these days, and maybe it is jist fasten
ed there. Id rather not let you sleel
with my daughter any more. Yor
know too much for a woman"
) l tried other means with better sue
cess, and greatly relieved, the old lad
put me in her daughters bed.-Pttts
burg Leader.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05
City Life.

A carefully prepared article on New
life, in the Courier des Etas Unis, con-
tains the following statements:
There are not less than ten thousand
families in Nsw York whose annual
an average of $4,000; that there are
one thousand who spend from S25, 900
to $4,000; that from sixty to seventy
families go to the extreme of from
$4,000 to $6O,00O The main motive
prompting this extravaganza is the
overweening ambition for notority, as
is seen in the fact that so many I've in
hotels in the winter at New York, and
in summer at popular resorts, amid
every form discomfort, at an expense
greater than is required to keep up
the most princely paratial establish
ments of European noblemen- Of all
the thousands thus living, the writer
estimates that not more than one-third
have any permanent, reliable business
on which to depend; the remainder
consisting of spectators and adTen-
lures, who may in a week be left with
out resources.
AS a specimen of the contrast which
CHuo OdllhS UP d CICD VI 1uAuIJ IdIuGE
than of fortune, the editor gives this
example: People truly rich-and
there are some very rich-are not those
who live the most eXtravagantly. To
be and to appear to be are two things;
and as it is necessary to appear at any
price to be what one is not, it is only
those whose fortune is established, as
the Astors and the Stewarts, who can
afford themselves the luxury of sim
pie style of living. When man owns
sixty millions of dollars he has no
need Of wearing his shirt bosom bril-
liants worth ten thousand dollars, and
to have himself dragged about by six
horses. He has a right to have only
plain white shirt-bosOms, and to take
his walk on foot after dinner without
fear of passing for a stingy man, or of
sponging on his boOtmaker. When
Prince Arthur was at New York he
went every evening on foot, cane in
hand, from the Brevoort House to
Central Park, and no one would take
him for a splurgc. If an agent on
| Change had done this lie would lose
the confidence of his customers, and,
what is worse, the esteem of his wife
and the respect of his servants
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05

= The Enquirer is still in ccstacies
about the financial features of the
splendid speech" of Gen. Ewing in
this city on Monday night, and wishes.
it could be put in the hands OF every
workingman in the country . Curl-
Gus, isn't it? After leading Demo-
cratic journals all over the country
have denounced Ewing's astounding
blunders on the financial question;
when not a single business man of
this city, whether Democrat or Repub-
lican, who has any practical knowl-
edge of the subject, can be found to
indOrse his scheme; and while intclli-
gent and influential working men like
Frank W. Murray Democrats all
their lives hitherto-are leaving the
party in disgust, for the avOwed rea-
son that such heresies are preached
by the party leaders and attempted to
lie forced down the throats of the
masses-the Enquirer would keep at
it, and put these rGinous absurdities
''in the hands of every workingman in
the country" Truly, the Enquirer
must have an exalted idea of woaking
Times and Chronicle.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05
What was the Consideration?

Mr. Robert B. Roosevelt was last
fall the Tammany candidate for Rep
resentative in Congress from the
Fourth Congressional District of this
city. His opponent was Gen Martin
L. McMahon. According to the Off
cial returns, Mr.. Roosevelt was elect
ed and Gen. McMahon defeated; but
Mr.. Roosevelt has himself publicly
described the frauds by which this re
suit was attained In his speech at the
Cooper Union on the 4th Of this month,
he explained at length and with precis-
ion how hired gangs of repeaters flood
ed the ballot boxes with illegal ballots
how partisan inspectors, by sleight Of
hand, substituted other ballots for
those which honest voters intended to
deposit; and how, when all these de
vices failed, corrupt canvassers count
ed out the really successful candidate
and counted in the man favored by
their employers. He spoke as if from
personal knowledge, and it is notori
Gus that it was through just such prac-
tices as these, executed by the orders
of Peter B. Sweeny, and William NJ
Tweed, who were then his friends and
patrons, that he got the seat in Con
gress, which~he still retains, at the
same time that he is forward in de-
nouncing as rogues and Williams the
very men to whom he owes it.
An interesting circumstance about
this matter is, that up to the time of
receiving his nomination for Congress
from Tammany Hall Mr.. Roosevelt
had been bitter opponent, of that or
ganization. In conjunction with the
late Col. Halpine, he had been active
in creating the Democratic Union
Il body which he boasted ut q meeting
held in Apollo Hall on Monday eve
ming last, had the disposal of 10000
votes, and in consideration Of his in
auence with which he demanded 8
fourth part Of the control of the con
solidated opposition to Tammany
Hall now forming from among the in
dependent Democrats of the city. The
question is: What was the considera
ton for Mr.. Roosevelts adoption by
his former opponents, and the eXer
ton of all their corrupt arts to shove
him into Congress over the head O
the true choice of the people? Wa
it the betrayal of his former allies, Oh
was it the performance of some un
pleasant job which has not yet com
to light.
The answer to this question is i'm.
portant, from the fact that Mr. Roose
welt demands, as we have said, large
share in the control of the presen
movement against Tammany, and th
people want to know how far he cal
be trusted. A man who, in less thai
a year, leaves the Democratic Uniol
and goes over to Tammany Hall, ant
then turns against Tammany Hall ant
tries to be leader in an attack upor
it, and who all the while holds on to
steat i'll Congress which he could no
have got Without the frauds of Tam
many, must make a very full ant
frank confession of his motives befor
he can clear himself of suspicion
". 7. Sun.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05

= The latest returns from Califor-
MIA indicate that the Republican
triumph was more complete tLan at
first reported. They not only elected
their State ticket, hut probably elected
q majority in both houses of the Legis-
lature, which will insure Republican
successor to Senator Cole, and all the
members of Congress-two of them
gains. The members elect are: First
district, A. o. Houghton; second dis
trict, Aaron A. Sargent, who was a
member of the Forty first Congress !;
third district, John NJ. Coghlan. The
Republican majority in the State is
more than five thousand At the judi
cial election in 1869 the Democrats car
ried the State by an average majority
of about seven thousand.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05

= Scientific men will have some
thing to speculate on in the fact that
shoals of dead fish are floating along
the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, from
Sabine Pass to Galveston. Great
numbers of this aqueous tribe can also
be seen, if reports are credible, strand
ed dead and dying along the Florida
coast about Tampa. The mortality
among the fish is very great and no
cause of this singular phenomenon
has as yet been discovered s.
Journal
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05
The Tennessee Press Associatia

= The Tennessee Press Association
recently visited Louisville, and its
members were permitted to pay their
own hotel bills. In revenge one of
them writes thus of tue town: Louis
willie is an old. dilapidated town, cele-
hratcd for its riots when it had a pop
ulation to justify, long ditch to keep
the water in the Ohio from stagnatiP 4
fin front of the villege, an artesian
we'll, skating rink. and very much
ly press ed hospitality. Her people
principally drink low wines that never
paid the tax. and feed on dried apples,
black berries, catfish and Cincinnati
craclllings, and are happy"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05

= The Republicans of New York
State are going to give the Democra
cy a severe tussel for the ascendency
in the next Legislature. In the diff
ferent Assembly and Senatorial Dis
tricts they are nominating without eX
ception the most tried, sturdy, honest
ana influential men to be found in the
party And in this good work many
Democrats, who are more attached to
honesty and fidelity in public admin:
istration than to the Tammany Ring,
are earnestly operating. o. s.
Journal
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
CAMPAIGN SONG.
LET it be noised abroad"

LET it be noised abroad"
-[Shakespeare.
You've heard for its been NoYs'D about
The country FAR and near,
Our State elections coming on
The day will soon be here:
And cur convention lately met
To choose candidate,
To run the race for Governor
OF this great NOyes-y State.
CHORUS.
So hurra bows. for General Moves
Our gallant candidate;
With him we're bound to ''Tnake a noise,''
And sweep the Ruckeye State!
From every county in the State,
BY dozens, threeS and twoS
They came, each one prepared to urge
His own peculiar views.
Twice, in sober, quiet way,
(Iike men. and not like boys,
They balloted, and then-"HoOray!
All joined IN General Noyes!
cHoRCs: So hurrai boys etc.
A soldier and a statesman too,
brave and gallant man;
sound Republican, and true
Deny it if you can!
True. in the East he had his birth
What then? He lives out West"
y man is BORN where fate DEGREES,
But lives where he likes BEST,
CHORUS: Then hurra boys, etc.
Some call him Carpet t-baggcr''-Pshaw!
THEM Folly'S palm we yield;
lie lived here long before the war,
And HERE he took the field.
The gallant Thirty NINTH he Joined,
And into action led
Eastern Western born, what odds?
Twas in the South he bledl
CHORUS: So hurra boys, etc.
He, when the foe refused to yield,
EXemtiOn scOrned to beg,
But faced the rebels on the field
Twas there he lost his leg!
McCOok'S a General too and has
TwOlegs on which to run;
But in the coming race you'll see
NoyeS beat him, upon ONE!
CHORUS: Then hurra! boys, etc.
The Democrats. like sinking rats,
With doubts and fears shaken,
And sOme-poor Souls-driven from their hole:
Have New Departure taken!
l pity them with all my heart,
Their aim, hover they strive at.
Or. in what manner they ''DEPART!''
They never will ARRIVE att
CHORUS:
So hurra! boys for General Noyes,
Our gallant candidate,
With him we're bound to make noise,
And sweep the Buckeye State.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05

- Inc onclal statement OF the aS-
gregate vote polled in Montana Terri
tory shows 10,135. Of these William
H. Clagett, Republican, for Delegate
to Congress, received 1924, and E.
w. Toole, Democrat, 1-Republi
can majority, 413. Heretofore the
Democrats always carried Montana.
Through some informalities, 112 votes
for Clagett were thrown out, which
would have increased his majority to
$3.50. S. Journal.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05

The people along the seacost Of
Virginia and North Carolina have been
frighted by prophesy, and are fleeing
TO the interior, with their household
goods, to escape tidle wave which is
supposed to be due all along that coast
on the 9th of October. There is no
ridiculing these people out of theiI
fears, for we know that the great earth
quake and tidal wave in ST. Thomas
in 1867, was foretold year before by
German philosopher Agassiz has
been called upon to allay their fears by
scientific reasoning; but they have no
been codvinced so far, and the exodus
continues.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05

= Out of total vote of14,964 cast
by the city of San Francisco at the late
election, the Republican majority was
2,974-a Republican gain of upwards
of four Thousand. Very much of this
gratifying triumph is attributed to the
German voters, who came out from
the Democracy in force. Tie German
people of Ohio would be eminently
wise to follow the example of their
friends in California. %, s. dourHoS
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05
It appears that in the a

It appears that in the accounts at
the comptrolIer's office the city is rep.
resented as having paid betwhen Janu
ary, 1868, and July, 1870, S463, 900 to
Mr. G. L. Schuyler for lumber, while
Mr.. Schuyler, who is perfectly hon
erable man, and whose word no one
will doubt, states that during the whole
period he received only $48,500, for
which he gave full value in timber and
lumber. His pay for this he did not
receive directly from the city authori.
ties, but through third person to
whom he assigned his claim on the
Recommendation of James Watson
County Auditor, now deceased. This
third person, whose name Mr.. Schuy
Ter does not give, altered the claim by
adding 4l5,00O to it, after which hi
obtained the money, paying Mr.
Schuyler his share and dividing tht
amount of the robbery with SOM
member or members of the Ring
Other instances of the same sort q
fraud are plenty.-N. Y. Sun.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05

The Union School Building at Cam,
bridge, Ohio, was destroyed by fire,
All escaped safely, Loss about $la,-
900.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05

The Postmaster General expects the
deficit in his department this year will
be less than one million dollars. Last
year it was three millions,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05

Civil suits will be commenced against
the Eammany ring o-day, to recover
the money stolen.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Common Pleas Judges-A. s. DIcKEY, WIN. H.
STAFFORD.
Probate Judge-JOHN B. PRIDDT.
Prosecuting AttOrney-MADIsoN PAvEY.
Saskatchewan GARIS.
Clerk Of COurt-M AsON BLANCHARD.
Auditor-ABKL MCCASDLEss
Treasurer W. SAYRE.
Reeorder-Z w HEAGLEE.
CorOner-JoHN MILLIKAE.
CommissiOuers-ENOs B. REEDER WA. CLABk
GEORGE S. FULLERTON.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05
CHORUS F.:

So hurra boys, for General Noyes,
Our gallant candidate.
With him we're bound to make a noise,
And sweep the Buckeye State.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1871-04-07
JOINT RESOLUTION making an
Appropriation Of Forty-Seoes :7hou-
sand Doilars, for the Completion Of
the STATE Lunatic Asylum, "''d hr

BE it Resolved by the @An'
House Ct Representatives oft
Of South Carolina, now met
ting in General Assembly, an.
authority Of the same:
SEC. l. That the sum of fortY.t
$40, ,OOO) dollars be, and the
hereby appropriated, ESQ !:
necessary, to complete the ,u'
wing Of the State Lunatic :
PROVIDED, that q contract shali
tered into between the Boare
gents and the contractor, sr
definitely the work to be done
manner Of doing the same,
said contract to 20 approved
ing to law before any portioS
appropriation is paid. 4
SEC. 2. That the sum Of
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1871-04-07
AN ACT to Charter the Toa0a Of Ham,

AN ACT to Charter the Toa0e Of Ham,
burg.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Sem
ale and House of Representatives of the
State Of South Carolina, now met and
sitting in General Assembly, and by the
authority OF the same, That from and
after the passage of this Act, all citizens
of this State having resided sixty days
in the town of Hamburg shall be DEEM
cd, and are hereby declared to be, u
body polite and corporate; and the said
town shall he called and known by the
name of Hamburg, and its corporate
limits shall bc held and deemed to eX-
tend from the Savannah Bridge, leading
to Augusta, Georgia, one mile west, one
half II mile east, and one mile north.
SEC. ?. That the. said town shall be
governed by an Intendant and seven
Wurdens, who sl:all be citizens of the
United States, and who shall have
been residents Of the said town
for sixty days immediately preced-
ing their election, who shall be
in every year, ten days public notice
hereof being previously given; and that all
male inhabitants Of the age of twenty
one wears, citizens of this State, and who
shall have resided in tho said town
for sixty days Immediately preceding the
election, shall be entitled to vote for
said Intendant Wardens. e."
SEC. 8. That the election for Intendhnt
and Wardens Of the said town shall be
held at the Town Hall, in the said
town from eight o clock. in the MORN
ing until four O'Clock in the afternoon !;
and when the polls shall be closed, the
Managers shall forthwith count the
votes and proclaim the election, and give
notice, in writing, to the persons elect
ed; the Intcndant and Wardens shall
appoint three Managers to hold the en-
suing and every subsequent election,
except the first, which shall be ordered
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1871-04-07

by the State.
SEC. 2. That the State assume the
liabilities OF each and every one Of
the Counties that is now in arrears
for the support Of its bcncfciarics.
SEQ. 3. All Acts or parts Of Acts
inconsistent with this Act are hereby
repealed. 49,. .
Approved the 9th day of March,
A. d. 1871.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1871-04-07

AN ACT to En,pOsrcr the State to Main
tain the Bcncfciuries an tho Lundtic
-Asvlum, IasteuU Of the Several Conn
ties.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House Of Representatives
Of the State Of South Carolina, now
met and sitting it General Assembly,
and by the authority of the same :
That.from and after the passage of
this Act, all benchciares now in, the
State Lunatic Asplum, be supported
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-08-19
Explanation.

The letter printed on the first page of THE
STAE Of yesterday, complaining in regard TO a
place Of summer resort called Limestone, was
published contrary To our intentions. Desiring
to do no injustice to anybody by publications in
The STAE, We took the precaution, on receipt
Cd the letter about two weeks ago, 20 make in
q uiries in regard to the place in dIsinterested
uarters, and became satisfied that the criti-
CT SINS Of our correspondent, if they had any
foundation in fact, were in the main unjust and
unreasonable, and that, as in most cases of the
kind, there were two sides 20 the question The
letter was therefore placed with the mass Of re-
jected manuscripts 70 be found in every we'll
regulated newspaper Office; but through some
inadvcrteDce or oversight it found its way TO the
copy box, and theree into the paper. This ex-
planatOry statement seems to be due, not less
10 ourselves than TO the proprietor of Lime
stone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-08-19
Onward

The Board of Public Works, though impeded
at every step by the fossil obstructionists, have
at length got in position where they can COM
mence the good work Of improvement and en-
bellishment they have contemplated. They
have the cordial and intelligent cooperation of
the distinguished enginee composing the
Advisory Board, and will at once enter upon the
PORTION Of the work allotted for this season
IL viii he seen thar II proposes very Important
and much-needod improvements in connection
with the general plan proposed for the District,
and which can be continued next year in har-
mony with what Is executed this season. When
the board once get their plans in progress of de-
yelOpment, they will, We are satisfied, need no
praise OF defence. They viii speak for them
selves, both in the character of the improve
ments and the quality of the work done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-08-19

A HINT FOR SUFFRAGE REFoRNERs. -
Go unit Dc Don bet has introduced into the French
Assembly a remarkable proposition, which al
though it was received with derisive laughter By
his colleagues may yet immOrtaiize the Count
and work revolution on both sides OF the At
lsntic. His plan Is briefly this: Universal suf-
frage shall heEcefOTth- instead of reckoning
simply by tho vote OF individuals be counted by
the accumulated votes OF families, each repre-
scented by their natural a1thOr-that is to say, by
the father. BY this means, every father of a
family viii receive from the law the conservation
whcrewith Provid-nre has endowed him-that
is to say. the responsibility for his wife and chill
dren-up 20 the age esssnanhOod for his sons, and
until their marriage for his daughters. The
father Of family vii thus be able to deposit in
the ballot box many ballots as he has children,
with two in addition, Tor himself and his wife
In Introducing the proposal, its author claimed
that the object was an exceedingly moral one,
for Its tendency would be TO multiply marriages,
and to increase the authority OF the head of the
family. Another clause provides that the widow
shall exercise the same rights on behalf Of her
Children.