South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-01

THE District Court commence!
next Monday.
Mr.. JOSEPH RICHARDSON and MIS-
MARY JOHNSON, both of this place
were married on last Sunday even
ing.
WE 60 to press earlier than usua
this week IN order to attend the
Prohibition Senatorial Convention
to be held In Marietta to-day, Fri.
day.
CYRUS NJ. ROBERTS has purchased the
residence of Moses Mcdaniel for TWEEN.
tY-eight hundred dollars. Mr.. Nc.
Daniel will move to Oscaloosa, Iowa,
this Winter.
NoTIoE.-Our subscribers, who
get their papers by the Carrier,
will oblIdge by letting US know il
they do not receive the Independent
regularly.
We are in receipt of the "History Of
the War between Germany and
France" by James D. McCabe, Jr.
The National Publishing Company, of
lis Elm Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. want
an agent in this County to sell the
work.
DON'T fail to attend the ProhIbir
ton Meeting at Chesterfield on
Saturday evening. Gideon T.
Stewart, Prohibition candidate for
Governor, will be the speaker.
THE recent rains have raised the
river sufficient to allow navigation
between here and Marietta to be
resumed. The Steamer "Best"
passed down the river OF Tuesday,
her regular day.
Z. W. CoTToN, and wife, left here
yesterday morning for Chicago.
where they will remain a week,
and from there they go to Bloom
Ington, McLain County, ILL.,, where
they will soiourn for a couple of
weeks.
QUESTION FOR THE DEMOCRAT
If G. L.. Hall should be elected Rep
resentative, would he be In favor OF
repeating any portion of the State
Liquor laws 1? The Democrat will
by giving this question a
PLAIN and unequivocal answer.
CHANGE IN TERMS OF PAPER
By noticing the standing notice of
terms of this paper, it will be seen
that we will hereafter charge two
dollars a year for the paper to sim
gle subscribers-one dollar and a
half a year to clubs of FIVE or up
wards.
SLAVERY is probably doomed in Bra
zil The emancipation bill is a promi
nent topic of discussion. 1t has Already |
passed to its second read ng in the
House of Deputies. The planters of
The two great slave departments, Rio
lie Janeiro and Minos Geraes. are eff
in opposition. There is a
strong feeling against Slavery, and
lally from various parts ofthe Empire,
here come expressions of anti-slavery
In a population Of about
millions, there are only 40, 900
The slave, in addition
Saturday, has thiruy-tive hoIidaysa
rear, and he may purchase his freedom
The slave trade was abolish
d in 1854.
WE were out to John B. Farra's
arm on last Wednesday, and while
here took a look through the new
Iouse he has erected this Summer.
n point of mechanical skill display
d, we doubt if there ever was a
Iouse built in Morgan County
Vhereon more is apparent. The
which is just finished, the
york of Hiram McGrath. the build.
r of the house, Is deserving of spe.
mention, had we space; and
he piaster1ng, the work of j. A. :
iatson, cannot be better done. Per-
ons contemplating building will
o well to go cut to F&rra's and ex.
mine his house, and there see for
themselves the kind of work Nc
-rath, as q house carpenter, and /,
as a plasterer, are doing. !
Ms. STANTON, in a letter from Cali 6
rnis, says she finds that many of the 4
st minds in The Democratic party, in
the fourteenth and fifteenth a.
sndmeuts, do so with the most liberal and !
gical Interpretation ss set forth in But !
p Hiaorit5 report In the "Woodhull mes .
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