The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-10-17
ATwATER.

and has brought forth a mouse" 1t
is said the Rev. Shipman has labored
two whole weeks upon the getting up
of placard which commences with
tn striking head line NTableau vi
vaut," while Frenchisms and abbre-
viations meet your eye all down the
bill. 1t is wonderful performance
| for Atwater and evidences a growth
in vivacity, sprightliness and progress
one never could have looked fO:
among the solemn presbyterian herd
presided over by Shipman. We shall
begin to think the man is not half the
chip in porridge people take him TO
be. Why, who could have believed
that all the learning could have come
out of one small head and been con-
densed into one hand-biil? Such a
wonderful conglomeration of jargon
from the frog-eaters language only
requires a little dog-latin, smatter-
ing of Greek, and small moiety of
Hebrew to prove its scholastic, class
ical and theological origin, the divin-
ity of the thing would have been as
evident then as the superlative refine
ment is now. in word it is the
most codfishy invitation ever given TO
Atwater people to attend a jollifica-
ton at the Presbyterian church to
eat sweet-cakes, declaim pieces, dis
] and ntrartQr for tho
benefit of the church. Tt is certainly
something new beneath the sun; and
| not before it was needed. When n
man of straw occupies the pulpit, the
atricals are always next in order. We
hope the party will be success for
! the call-bill is a sumner and cannot
fail to impress. We have only to sug-
gest that Deacons Culver and Talcott
stand at the cross roads where the
| Bills are stuck, so as to translate the
pedantic balderdash for those who try
to read. Hiram Brush and Ed. Bald
win run the machine and will act as
photographer for all hard words. Go
it tadpoles!
Election day was an exciting time.
The Grant corruptionist worked hard,
they dug up and developed all the
darkies of the neighborhood into vo
ters. One young fellow who came
here three months ago, and by his
own account was then nineteen years
of age, had ripened into twenty-one
quite suddenly. Another. until now,
had always asserted he was citizen
of Canada and could not vote, swore
he was born and raised in Pennsylva-
mia and had been six years in Ohio,
SC. A third came along with a Grant
ticket in his hand, just ten days out
from Pennsylvania, but was not al
lowed to vote which made him show
the whites of his eyes. Joe Conrad,
the dark-lantern high priest and Grant
representative for this county. put in
his appearance at the polls very early
having made the wonderful discovery
] that the Liberal Democratic ticket had
a dreadfully treacherous headline
which might be SO doubled over or
cut off as to make believe it was cor
ruptionist ticket. l told Joe he was
a wonderful man and had discovered
mares nest. Hiram Brush who is
paymaster to the Coal Bank came in
frequently with squads of miners and
polled them for .taddition, division
and silence" We did pretty well for
| God and humanity considering it was
Atwater, which may be compared to
Burns toothache-"the he'll of all dis
cases." In November we expectlto
poll ten or fifteen additional votes for
Greeley and Brown.
The Methodists have got their new
preacher. Services in Edinburgh in
the forenoons and at AtWater Station
in the evenings. The sermon last
Sunday evening consisted in an effort
to show that heaven was not only a
state bu. place. AS an intellectual
effort it was quite respectable and as
a spiritual view of the Christian
scheme it was exceedingly interesting
and should be put down, notwith-
standing the many misapplications of
scripture, as a good, solid, old fashion
ed Methodist discourse; a thing we
seldom hear now a days. The broth
er has our thands and best wishes for
his success but we have no idea that
the gutta percha consciences of pro-
fessors, or the case hardened, gospel
hrdened sinners of Atwater can ever
be reached or benefited with any
thing short of small earthquake.
! lt.ol w. III.