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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
A Sailors Description of a Ride
ON Horseback.

Therefore, arising betimes, l hired
a very fine horse, and, manning him
bravely. laid his head east by south, as
near as might be, according to our
pinnacle. But though the wind was
abaft the beam, and tide all in his
favor, and brave commander upon
his poop, what did he do but bouse
his team, and run out his spanker
driver, and put with a taffrail, as if
was wearing him in a laundering
heavy sea. L resolved to get the upper
hand of his uncalled for mutiny and
the more so because all our crew were
gazing, and at the fair I had laid down
the law very strictly concerning hor-
ses. l slipped my feet out of the
chains, for fear of my sudden capsize,
and then l raped him ove= the cat
beads, where his anchor ought to
hang. He, however, instead of doing
at all what I expected, up with his
bolt spirit and down his quarter, as if
struck by a whale under his forefoot.
This was so far from true seamanship,
and proved him to be so unbuilt for
sailing, that / was content to disem-
bark over his stern, and with slight
conclusions. ''Never say die" has al
ways been my motto, and always will
be: mailing my colors to the mast, I EN-
barked upon horse of less than half
the tonnage of that one who would
not answer helm. And this craft, being
broken backed, with a strange sound
at her portfolios, could not, under
press of sail, bowl along more than
four knots an hour. And we adjusted
matters between Us. so that when she
was tired, also was sore, and there
fore disembarked and towed her, un
til we were both fit for sea again
Therefore it must have been good
meridian when met Parson Chawne
near his hOuse.-R. D. Bldckmore.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
Might be Worse.

After the perusal of about a half
hushel political exchanges yesterday,
we were just settling down to the be-
lief that the country was corrupt be-
yond redemption; that the greater
the man the greater the scoundrel;
that wealth was used but as a club
to break the heads and hearts of the
poor; but rascalfy commanded q pre-
MUM, and virtue was left out in the
cold; that for the good of the men of
the mountain some of the San Fran
cisco railroad editors should be sent to
Stockton, and in fact that a comet
should come; because the Purer days
of our fathers were past, with their
sanity examples and hallowed memo
ries. just then, laughing and chat
ting with dancing curls and dainty
dresses, some young ladies passed on
the opposite side of the street, and,
the apparition turned the current of
our thoughts, if indeed this world in
its old age was so bad after all I?
Then in fancy the wheels of time
turned backward for two hundred
years or less, and we tried, with the
contemporary who happened on q
time to be in a similar fix with our
selves), to imagine q New England
village as it must have been With its
solemn church, its uninviting school
room, with seats so high no little foot
could reach the floor, with discipline
SO severe that the coming of the bless
ed Sabbath was a terror; that the
morning and evening prayer, those
daily approaches to the loving Infin-
ite Creator, were woven round with
dread, and the weekly Sabbath-day re-
hearsals of that fearful thing called
death, and of that fearful place beyond,
were unrepentant old men and young
men, old women and young women,
and little children, were roasted for
ever, and even in a climate where a
horned toad would die of sunstroke
in an atmosphere worse than that sur
rounding q Barbary Coast primary;
until the very natures of the people
were changed, and they become SOM
bre and stern.
just then our bevy of young ladies
returned, and, forgetting ourselves,
we were on the point of screaming to
them to run home and divest them
selves of curls, ribbons, panniers,
jaunty hats and high-heeled shoes, and
put on calico dress, straight in front,
straight in the back, with a great
double banked bonnet to cover their
heads, or they would be burnt for
witches, when the illusion passed
away, and we felt thankful things were
not after all as bad as they used to be.
and might be little worse than they
are.-T Grass Valley Union.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
Republicans, ''Push Things!''

When Phil. Sheridan telegraphed to
President Lincoln (or, Gen. Grant, we
are not sure which), that ''the rebels
would probably yield if things were
pushed. +" the prompt reply was, ''push
things !'' This is exactly what the
Republicans should do from now till
the close of the polls on the fifth oi
were terribly demoralized by the Oc-
tober Election, but their leaders the
Brinkerfools, the j. G.. Thompsons,
the McClures, the Schells, etc, are
making a secret and desperate effort
to rally their shattered forces, which
can only be successful through hope
inspired by the Republican inactivity
Let them see no such sign, friends !;
but ''push things" with unceasing en-.
ergy till the last Grant and Wilson bal
lot is in its proper box.-[Lancastel
Gazette.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
The ..B1oody Chasm.o y

The Georgia Review clasps hands
with its Northern Greeley Reconcilia.
tors over the Bloody Chasm, in this
way: "When we do so debase our
manhood-when we do outrage all
the noblest feelings of humanity-as
to stand over the graves of the Con-
federate dead, and, in the language of
the ninth resolutions of the Cincin-
natl Baltimore platform, exclaim, "we
remember with gratitude the heroism
and sacrifices of the North" may our
tongue cleave to the roof of our mouth,
and may Gods thunderbolt lay US
lifeless over the sacred mound we thus
dishonor."
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31

= Dispatches from St. Louis to
the Chicago papers represent that the
smallpox is prevailing in that city to
an alarming extent. An article in the
Democrat shows a steady increase
from "a in the first week in Septem
Der to 2O1 for the third week in Oct
ober. In seven weeks the total mum.
ber of cases was 1877, the average o
deaths being 80 per cent. It is re-
ported bv the Chicago Tribune cor
respondent that the rumor prevails
that the public schools are to be
closed, and also that the local papers
have agreed to make no further men
ton of the disease. Mayor Brown
said the City Council had made no ap-
preparation for the Health Board, but
he was raising money on his own re-
sponsibility.-[Cin. Gazette.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
Geiger on the Elections.

Joe Geiger was called out by the
crowd waiting for returns at Colum-
bus, on the evening of election day,
and delivered himself as follows:
EERIENDs AND FELLOW CITIZENS. -
This is rather solemn business to have
you hurrahing over the death bed OF
an old woman. Now, its q sorry
thing to men of any generosity to
look at me as the remnant of the
Democratic party Great Cheering. =
Before the next election comes around
you will find the great men of the
party, like Thurman, and Ranney, and
McCook, gathering around me and
asking me to give them certificates OF
their Democracy. These elections in
Ohio and Pennsylvania will use up
Greeley, and he will have the good
sense to withdraw, then we will reor
ganize the Democratic party and put
up OConor and Adams, and run them
in over the heads OF you Republic
cans" Laughter and great cheering.
The General then retired behind 8
heavy curtain of tobacco smoke.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
Look Out

If "fOrwarned'' were always "fore-
armed" we might rely upon having a
fair vote in this city on the-5th of No
vember. There IS no doubt s0hGteUer
that a bag. scheme Of fraud has been
concocted by the Democratic Ring
managers. 1t is to be arepetition of
the game on the 8th inst on larger
scale. Preparations was begun for
this villainy by our Tammany as far
back as the time when the statute pro-
hibiting policemen from taking part
in politics was enacted. The design
was to cripple the power of the Mayor
for protecting the purity of the ballot
box. The Republicans in each ward
must take the matter in hand, and be
thoroughly organized and prepared
for the work that will be required of
them on the day of the Presidential
election. They must have a vigilant
and efficient body of men at.each poll
from the opening to the close. This
can easily be done. 1t must be done,
and done in every ward, to make sure
of an honest election.
On at least two of the outgoing
through trains from this city on the
night of the October election we hap
pen to know that there were gangs of
roughs and confidence men bound
eastward. They were in excellent
spirits, appearing to be we'll satisfied
with themselves after just concluding
successful engagement. That they
were imported repeaters and instruct RS
in all the Tammanv viIlainies, who
had just aided the Len. Harris "Re
formers" in carrying Cincinnati, we
have no doubt. They probably found
such apt scholars here that their fur
ther services will not be needed in
executing the programme for Novem-
bem.- Gin. Chronicle.
What is done in Cincinnati may be
done here. Look out.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
Penalties of Illegal Voting.

On pages 544 and 545 of Volume 1,
Swan and Critchfed's Statutes, are
found the following severe penalties
for illegal voting:
For voting in a county where the
voter does not reside, penitentiary
from one to three years at hard labor.
For resident of another State who
votes in this State, penitentiary from
one to five years at hard labor.
For.voting more than once, peni-
tentiary from one to five years.
For any one not resident of Ohio
for one year, or not twenty-one years
of age, or not a citizen of the United
States, or convicted of some infamous
crime and not pardoned, voting, i'm
prisonment from one to six months.
ANY person bribing an elector in
his voting, or attempting to influence
by bribery, imprisonment from one to
six months.
For decelving an elector who can
not read, pemitentiary from one to
three years.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
Manners of the Roads.

Passengers crossing the Isthmus of
Panama by railroad, say that when
they receive their trunks on board the
steamer in Panama Bay, the movable
straps which were on them when the
baggage was weighed on the steamer.
this side, are always missingl Who
has trunk straps to sell in the trop-
ics2
On the Pennsylvania Central Rail-
road, the Porters in the sleeping cars
are imp Fortunate beggars for fees from
passengers. The system which allows
it, is bad one.
On the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany Ogden to Omaha), the porters
in the sleeping cars receive twenty
dollars a month, as wages, and they
are allowed to pluck the passengers OF
small change as successfully as they
can.
1t is a natural desire to make the
most of our advantages. The porters
in the sleeping cars, bet ween New York
and Boston, are paid ten dollars
month by the railroad company
Every porter collects fees from pas
sengers, which amount to fifty, sixty,
or seventy dollars month!
The new route from New York to
Boston, via Long Island Railway to
Greenport, and steamboat to New Lon
don, and railway thence, carriss pas
sengers through for five dollars; while
other routs charge six dollars-which
is too much.
The porters in the sleeping cass on
the Central Pacific Railroad (San Fran
cisco to Ogden, are paid, by the CON-
pany, fifty dollars 3 month in gold,
and are not allowed to take any fees
from passengers. That is the right
way to do it.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31

A suit which occupied thirteen
days time to hear and decide has just
been concluded in the Probate Court.
In this case Messrs. N. and L. Dunlap
seek to compel Hiram Mace and 9th
ers to assist in building levee on the
land of said Dunlaps, on Paint Creek,
in Union township. Tke action was
brought under the statute to repair
and extend levees, which provides that
all property holders benefited by a
levee must assist in building the same.
After determining as to how the levee
shall be constructed, the jury assessed
the cost of building it thus:
NJ. and L. Dunlap, 49 per cent: the
Ross County Infrmary, 25 per cent.
Hiram Mace, II per cent; and Isace
Mace, 10 per cent.
The defendants Immediately filed a
petition to have the order of the jury
set aside, claiming that the statute un-
der which the suit was brought is un-
constitutional AS the costs have
grown to 81 900. and several thousans
are involved, the result is looked for
ward to, with considerable interest
IChillicothe Register.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
.'Drifting Back towards Reason. s.

The salutary effect of the recent
glorious Grant triumphs in Ohio,
Pennsylvania and Indiana on former
traitors in arms present traitors at
heart is shown in the following ex-
tract from letter from a loyal man
in Georgia to one of our business
men. Dispatching business he adds
on the present all absorbing theme of
national politics:
1t is astonishing how fully the reb-
els counted On Greeley's election un-
til last week, and in their wildness
they really thought the good old days
has indeed returned. With a little
encouragement they would soon max e
it quite too warm for any loyal men
here, but now, thank God, Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Indiana have dashed
their hopes and there is q drifting
back toward reason.
just so. The triumph of the Right
over the Wrong always sets men drift
ing back towards reason. Had the
election spoken of occurred before the
recent tragedy in Georgia called an
election, would the majority wrung
from the muzzles of Traitors pistols
instead of counted from ballot boxes
have reached the figures scared Dem
ocratic rocsters are cackling over p
Most assuredly not, as the vote for
Grant in Georgia will conclus lively
show GAINESVILLE Courier.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
That General Grant has c,

- That General Grant has com
mitted mistakes his most sincere
friends admit. But if his errors had
been fOurfold more numerous he
would, in my opinion, be much bet
ter Chief Magistrate than Mr.. Gree,
ley.-,John A. Dia'
The man who organized the nations
victories, and carried your banners in
triumph from the trenches of Vicks-
burg to the height of Richmond, can
not be put down by the howl of men
who are indebted to him and the arm
les he led for country saved from
dismemberment, and a government,
saved from annihilation.-Hon. John
Il. BiRgdng.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31

u The Lincoln (Neb) Statesman,
the central organ of Greeleyism in
that State, thus philosophically ac-
cepts the Situation: "We have met
the enemy and we are his'n. Nebras-
ka and Pennsylvania has gone back on
US, but there is this consolation-We
have got Injyany. Our "rusteF is
sick. Too much "crow" is not the
cause-in fact, he hasn't crowed for
10! these many months. The last
"caws" he had anything to do with
proved too much for him"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
What Horace Greeley knows
About Soldiers.
ABOUT UNION SOLDIERS.

'sThe city of Pittsburg has just wit
messed rehearsal of the pomp and
pageantry, the blazonry and circum-
stance of civil war. A very large
number of men were collected at vast
expense, with the single purpose of re-
kindling the bitterness and hatred, the
animosity and antipathies, the fears
and Civilizations of civil war for the ad-
vancement of political party. 1 take
you to witness that the greater portion
of the journals of Pittsburg, as well as
the orators on this occasion, have
been trying their best to make us, the
people. hate each other for the sake of
partizan advantages. A stranger
would imagine, who was reading the
journals of Pittsburg for the last few
days that we were still at war, and
that their purpose was to revive and
exasperate the hatred and animosity
of civil war. In order to intensity and
invigorate their side of the conflict,
they talk about rebels and traitors
Fellow citizens are we never to be
done with this ?''- Greeley, at Pitts
| buTO in 1872
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31

- A Detroit man found a sick In-
dian at the corner of Hastings and
Atwater streets, that city, and, taking
compassion on him and took him to
his home. just four weeks after that
he telegraphed to his brother in Chi
cago that: wife is running away
with a cussed Indian Be at the
depot with officer to catch her. Kill
the Indian and lock up Virginia till 1
come"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
The St. Louis Globe has a b

The st. Louis Globe has a hun
dred thousand dollar libel suit on
hand, for publishing a dispatch from
Boston, furnished by the American
Press Association, stating that one
Goodale is suspected of being con-
nected with the assassination Of Lane
last Sunday evening week.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
ssrHE HOME sTRETCH.',

Friends in spite of fraud we are on the hoEno
stretch, with every pros pect Of success s-"-LSeW
York Tribune, Oct 9Th.
''On the home stretch P' near ChappRqua,
See the hapleSS hero come,
UnannOuneed by lordly trumpet
Or the spirit-stirring drum
Home to growl among the sqGashes,
MutteF DER his mammoth beet,
''What know of Pennsylvania
With her key stone arch completeI'
HOn the home stretch - from Ohio
By the Buckeyes Rayly sent,
Hat and coat tail wildly flying,
Runs our wOuld-be President.
Home-to ponder mid its marshes;
H0me-his Wearied limbs to rest;
Home-tO Scribble for the Tribune
what l know about the West"
Home-to pole his beet and squash vines
While the cruel votes are pOll'd,
That insure this yanquizhed hero
Rest within Chappaqua'S fold;
Here until his grave be 1eady,
Greeley shall in tears remember,
While this epitaph he craveth-
What knew Of dull November"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31

"A beard has been ordered by the
Secretary Of the Treasury TO convene
in Washington city on the 9th of No
vember for the examination of officers
of the revenue marine service for pro-
motion.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31

= A number of radical Demo
Gratis" met in New York Wednesday
evening, and after speeches, &C., adobt-
ed a resolution to abolish the Office of
President of the Uuited States.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31

- If you are in favor of applying
the revenues to the reduction of the
public debt, vote for Garnt and Viii
son.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
"A patent-riybt man with an eI

"A patent-right man with an eye
to business on the plains one of these
days, cutting up dogs, presented one
of the Indian chiefs at Washington
recently with one of his patent sau-
sage-cutters. The savage was tonched
ct this delicate act of kindness, and
while fooling around with the SOU
Venir set it to going, and in minute
more lot of hash composed of the
red mans fingers strewed the floor.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
ABOUT REBEL SOLDIERS.

I hope the time will come when the
soldiers that fought with Lee and
johnson will occupy as proud posi-
ton in the hearts of the American
people as the soldiers that fought un-
der Grant and Sherman Greeley at
Vicks6Mrq IN 1871.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31

- Inform the people that the pres
ent Administration has reduced taxa
ton $500, 100000.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31

= The Republicans gained two Al
dermen in the Wednesdays municipal
elections in Baltimore.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31

There is a widow in England who
enioys an income of S25O,OO6 a year.
She has no other incumbrance,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31

The Jig UP-Departure from Chap
Paqaa.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
Another Trip Proposed and Opposed.

Abuse of the soldiers at Pnttsburx Cos
Horace the Soldier yOteo
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Common Plsaa Judges-A. 5. DIcKET, WIN. II.
Probate Judge-JoHN b. PRIBDY.
Prosecuting AttOrney-A- b. CREAMER.
Bherif-CONRAD g AXIS.
Clerk Of CDurt-M AsOF BLANCHARD
AuditOr-ABEL McCAEDLEss.
TreasureF-J. w. SAYRE.
RocOFder-Z. w. HEALER.
COroneF-JoHN MILLIKAH.
fG,ommfssiOnera-JAcOB BUSH, A. T.. JOHNSON,
GEoEoE 8. FULLERTON.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31

IFrom the Toledo Blade.l
CHAPPAQUA,
(Which is in the State of Moo York)T
Oct. 11th, 1872,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31

The Joniasssion Over the October Elections.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31
THE NASBY LETTERS.

MR.. NAsBY AT CHAPPAQUA.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31

auECO per 4ear4nAdvahcs.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-31

Divorce Notices. IS In advance; Administrators
and ExscutOrs' Notices, e.; Local Notices, 10 cts
per line.