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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-12-27
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FOR TWO NIGHTS ONLY
COMMENCING DECEMBER 2srH.
MIR. WILLIAM HORACE LINaARD,

MISS ALICE DUNNING LINaARD,
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with the same cast as played at DalYs Broad.
way Theatre.
THE PRESENT SENSATION IN PARIS.
WITH THE INCOMPATIBLE sasstB
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Reserved seats, Sl.00; on sale at @. F. John.
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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14
Fun at a Watering Place.

The kinds of fun in vogue at the sew
eral fashionable watering places of
this country are exceedingly various
From a recent letter of a Cape May
correspondent of the New York Her
aid, We take the suhjoined extract
showing up one of these kinds, of
amusement.
THE WRONG ENVELOPE.
A man was standing at hotel Office
at the the Cape the other day, laugh
ing and happy, with his child by his
side and another at the door, waiting
to be taken out in his carriage. The
mail had just come in, and the clerks
were distributing letter to the guests
as they assorted them. This mans
supply of letters was very great. He
was quite the envy of people who re-
ceived no letters at all. He broke the
seal of this and that, and said =
Nov, I will do what 1 seldom have
done. Here is letter from my wife's
chum and confidential friend. I'll
peep into their secrets"
Don't, Blivens!" said friend.
"Oh, she opens my mail at every
opportunity. It'll be a good joke
He opened the letter, and in a mo
ment turned CHASTITY white He stag
gered to a seat and read a little more
and then to the bar room and swal-
lowed some brandy.
''Sick mani" said somebody.
What was within The disclosure
that an intrigue had long been going
on under his roof tree, in'the city OF
his children, and carried on, at that,
with the conuivance of the false gAest
and confidante, herself admitted. there
in to be the leman of some one I'M
known. All this burst upon the man
in profound quiet, out of perfect peace
when he was proud and fond and we'd
ded to the sweetheart of his youth.
"Bliv's hurtr' said bystanders.
The next moment we heard a louG
report. Pistols? No! Only cham
pagne. Then, in due time, a drunken
man was carried to bed to contend
with a staggered and remorsetul wo
man, who called her soul to testify
that she had never been worse thar
imprudent. But what could she prove
Could she prove, out OF ChaG o er IOnC
. memory, the hateful suspicion-th'
| brooding wretchedness - the awfu
r doubt? Down, straight to perdition
: hand in hand. go drunkard and I
coquette, and poverty throws wild
the gate for them to batten on it
) barren moor Next to a viciou
!, man with diseased propensities ther
, is nothing which can make life so dur
e ably uncomfortable as a married CO
u quette, playing with men whose re
!, resources, power and baseness sh
5, cannot conceive of. Behind are til
d freight and the family treasures-th
q years of trust and duty which the be-
ter angel has added to the credit sid
e of human kind; out there is the street
i and, like chain gang condemned t
l. tread it, manacled together, a pair c
paupers and their posterity go dow
the dreary vista, poor, broken, unloV
ING and unloyed,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14
Sam. Houston.

The romance of Senator Houstou,a.
life is hardly known to the present
generation, yet it contained enough to
Furnish material for half score of
novels. His escape from his mother.
when, at the age of seventeen, he fell
madly in love with the Indian maiden
Tootooloo (Sun- fash J, and, following
her to her home, adopted the habits Of
the Cherokees, married her, and for
three years, under the name of
Oolooteka, hunted and fished and
fought as young Indian brave and
acknowledged chief; his unexpected
return to his family, grown during
his absence, though still wanting six
moAths of his legal majority, to that
heroic stature which then, dressed
in hunting shirt and mOccasins and
blanket and head gear, and even after
ward, however clothed, made him a
man of mark; his abandonment, six
teen years later in life, while Gov
ernor of Tennessee, when his early
pranks had been forgotten in his sue
ccs. es as q lawyer and triumphs as q
politician, of his young and accom-
plished bride the day after marriage !;
his resignation of office, and winding
up his business, and settlement of at
fairs, with the utmost deliberatToHv
against the most earnest entreaties of
friends and jeers of foes his securing
by deed all his not inconsiderable
property TO his mother his return, as
an Indian chief, to the wilderness, re-
claiming his native wife, and dwelling
three years longer with his tribe; and
his sudden departure, at last, for
Texas, for the purpose of becoming
a herdsman on the prairies-aH show
clearly enough the large element of
savagism there was in his character.
And yet he was superbly endowed
by nature; was a great soldier, law
yer, and statesman possessed an exec
utive ability unsurpassed; whether as
Governor or Senator, was the most
popular of men; and in polished So
ciety was its ornament and delight
T Appleton 5 Journal.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14
Bad Taste in the Arrangement of
Funerals.

l. It is bad taste for the undertaken
or any one else, after the religious SER
vices at the house are concluded, to
step forward and say, The fIien Is
who wish to do so, can now have the
opportunity of viewing the corpse"
1t should be taken for granted that
the assembled friends. mast of whom
have been waiting a weary half hour,
or more, have already ''viewed the
corpse"
2. 1t is bad taste for the family to
be called forward to bid adieu to the
remains, and make display of their
sorrow before the concentrated gaze
of the assembled crowd. 1t should
be SO arranged by the undertaken,
that the family might have the privi
lege of this last sad act of affection,
by themselves alone, before the SER
vices commence.
3. The remains" should never be
exposed to view in a church, except in
the case of some eminent public pre-
sonage whose body lies in State.
4. 1t is exceedingly bad taste for a
hearse to be surrounded with fl ulting
pulmes Refined minds are offended
by such vulger display.
5. 1t is bad taste for friends to take
a ride to the cemetery at the expense
of the afflicted family. Let all friends
go on foot or by street car to the
house or church where the services
are to be held, in order to testify
their respect, but when these services
are over let them return home. None
but near relatives should go to the
grave, and especially at the family S
expense. In our eastern cities it is
the custom, or fashion to notify
friends that the religious services will
be held at such time and place, but
that the burial will take place at the
convenience of the family This is
done, that while friends may have the
opportunity of expressing their re-
spect and sympathy, the family may
have the privilege of committing their
beloved one to the earth, without the
presence of others, atthe saddest and
most sacred hour.
6. At the grave, the earth should
not be cast upon the coffin until the
family have withdrawn. Or what is
better, as most persons wish to adOrn
the grave with flowers, the coffin OF
box should be covered with turf OIL
straw before the earth is thrown in
This would deaden that dreadful
sound so shocking to all nerves.
A little thoughtfullness in regard tC
such things as these, particularly by
our undertakers, would remove mucI
of the harshness now connected will
the last sad Offices to our friends
TSt. Louis Republican.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14
A Michigan Lurnberman.

DR.. David Wards great wealth rests
in his immense amount of cork pine
lands in Michigan and Wisconsin,
amounting to over 10000 acres,
every forty acres of which he has
been over himself, making careful
estimate of the number and dimen-
sions of the trees, and noting all the
characteristics of soil. His land was
nearly all selected from close ObSeT-
vation years before most people had
an idea of their ultimate value, and
the very best taken; location upon
streams and facilities for running the
timber to market were carefully con-
sidered, so that to-day he owns the
finest tracts of really available
and valuable cork pine in the United
States, and tie most of it. His pine
lands may be summarized as follows:
On the Saginaw, 10000 acres; on the
Manistee and Au Sauble, 80, 900 acres;
on the Chippewa, in Wisconsin, 30,-
0O0 Total, 10000 acres. In addi-
ton he owns 10000 acres of the very
best hard wood timbered lands for
farming in the central and northern
part of the State, besides all his valua-
BILE property in Oakland county, and
Ii, 100000 feet of logs afloat. Placing
the same valuation upon his pine
lands alone, as other persons are sell
ing detached tracts in the vicinity of
his, and it aggregates the sum of So
500, ,00e, and we msy here say that
amount of greenbacks stacked up
would not obtain the deeds of his
pine property alone. The difference
in pine land is very great, as between
cork and other qualities, and acre by
acre the cork nets three times as much
as any other variety Pontiac Ga
Zette,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14
Hard Times.

There is much grumbling about
hard times. The times are hard enough
no doubt, but after all, there is no
cause for discoura cement. Hard times
are not an unmitigated evil. They
teach anew the value of money, and
the need of thrift and Industry. They
make people careful about their ex
penditures, and SO beget a habit of
economy. When times are hard
more men live within their income
than when they are prosperous. A
flush time is time of danger to trade,
and often to morals. What extrav-
agance we run into when money is
plenty! It is not well that every
man should have all the money he can
spend few men know how to spend it
judiciously. During long periods OF
money making, society grows corrupt
unceasing prosperity might work the
moral ruin of the nation. So it is
we'll the times should be: little har6
occasionally. Hard times cannot last
always. They come periodically, bu
they are always succeeded by season
of activity. Trade cannot stand still
the world must move on, and th
wheels will soon start again. AnC
they will move all the brisker for hav
ing rested awhile This great ant
growing country has great want
which must be supplied and the de
mand for the necessaries of life viii
always give the Industrious a livin
and make money.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14
The History of the Mosquito.

Mosquitoes emigrated to this coun-
try in the year one. They are the
smallest fowl that navigate the air
Although not soaring so high as other
fowls, they make some fouler sores
than any other bird ever dreamed of.
They are not very devout, although
they are birds of prey. They are so
tame that they will come up and eat
of a feller's hand. AS songsters they
are a success, making some of the
sweetest sounds ever heard. We are
sometimes constrained to stay awake
all night and listen to their strains,
even if its ever so confounded strain
ing on us. If any one doesn't like
his music he can lump it, and failing
to do so, they will lump him, and if he
"gets on his ear" about it, such a pro-
ceeding is foolish; for they are very
accommodating and will get on his eaI
for him. l like their music better
than anything else about them. Many
night have laid on my downy bee
and listened to them as they sung
"Come Where My Love Lies Dream
ing" 1--WE Don't Go Home till Morn
ing." and such like, till 1 have been Sc
carried away (and wishing was car
ried still farther) that 1 have Joined il
the melody, singing "Shoo Fly" ant
cheering them by clapping my hand
together, in the hope of giving tn
little suckers an affectionate squeeze
Danhury News.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14
Health and Greatness.

It is true there have been men who,
despite frail and miserable health have
done immortal things. Great and he
roic were the achievements of Paul,
Gin bodily presenceooweak )" of Pascal,
a confirmed invalid at eighteen; of
the blind Milton; of johnson, bravely
carrying through life the weight of a
diseased and tortured body; of Mel
son, little and lame; of Charming, with
his frail, clayey tabernacle; of the
pale Lawrence, weighing from day to
day the morsels of bread which alone
his dyspeptic stomach could bear. 1t
is true that Julius Caesar was troubled
with epilepsy, and never planned a
great battle without going into fits .
that the great Suwarlow stood but five
feet one in his boots; that Pope was
a hunch back and an invalid and that
Aristotle was pigmy in body, though
a giant in intellect. But these are bril-
liant exceptions, which only prove the
rule The general fact still remains
that it is the man of tough and en-
during fibre, of elastic nerve, or com
prehensive digestion, who does the
| great work of life. 1t is Scott, with
bis manly form; it is Brougham, with
his superhuman powers of phy sical en-
durance. It is Franklin, at the age o1
seventy, camping out on his way to
arouse the Canadas, as our hardies
boys of twenty now camp out in th'
Adirondacks. It is Napoleon, sleep
ing four hours and in the saddle TWEEN
ty Rarely does the world beholt
such spectacle as presented in 1868
at Neerwinded, in the Netherlands
when, among the 10000 soldiers VIII
were marshalled under the banner o
Europe, the feeblest in body were til
hunch- backed dwarf who urged on til
fiery onset of France, and the asth
matte skeleton who covered the slo'
retreat Of England.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14

A horse at dozen rods-oh, my
eyesr'
"Just shut your mouth, or I'll
shoot you," thundered the excited
Drake
The bullet was hollow, I'll swear.
The man lies that says l can't shoot.
Last week cut off a goose's head
at fifty rods. Colonel, you can laugh,
but I'll bet now thirty dollars, can
bring old roam down at one shot"
The wager was readily accepted
The stakes were placed in Sam's hand.
Elated with the idea of winning back
his two tens, and making an ''X'' in
the bargain, Drake carefully selected
patch, and loaded his rifle. A minute
later, Drake was driving through the
grove, the most desperate of men,
His rife, innocent victim of ire, lay
with broken stock on the bottom of
the wagon. Sam. Braston was too
much frightened to laugh. Meanwhile,
the gratifed Colonel was rolling on
the ground convulsed with mirth, and
old roam was standing undisturbed un-
der the trees.
When Drake reached home, his two
sons discovered his ill-humor, and the
mutilated condition of his rifle stock,
and FASTENED to arouse his spirits with
a piece of news, which they we're sure
would make him dance with Joy.
Clear out, growled the angry old
man, 81 don't want to hear any news,
get away, or shall knock one of you
|, down"
''But, father, it is such trick ~
"Blast you and your tricks 20
''Played off on the Colonel 20
''On the Colonel ?'' cried the old
man, beginning to be interested. ''Gad
if you've played the Colonel q trick,
let's hear it's
"Well, father, Jed and I went out
this afternoon for deer"
Hang the deer come to the trick
| .'Couldn't find any deer, thought VIZ
must shoot something, so Jed banged
away at the Coloners old roen-shot
him dead
e "Shot old roanr' thundered the ole
man. by the wars, Jed, did yor
shoot the Colonel's boss r'
Il didn't do anything else"
: sold, sold!'' groaned the hunter
o "And then" pursued Jake, confiden
that the joke part Of the story pleased
/ his father, ''Jim and 1 propped th,
d horse up and tied his head back will
3 a cord, and left him standing unde
the trees, exactly as if he was alive
If Fancy the Colonel going to catch him
II ho no wasn't it a joke %
e Old brakes head fell upon hi
breast. He felt for his empty pocket
and looked at his broken rife. Then
e in rueful tone, he whispered to tn
I boys, Its joke! But if ever yo
l, tell of tor if you do, Sam Brastol
le I'll skin you alive! By the war
boys, I've been shooting at that dea
horse half an hour at ten dollars
at shotp"
At that moment Sam fell into til
}" gutter. Jed dragged him out insens
BILE. Sam. had laughed himself q
most to death.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14
rhe Longest Dax IN the year.

InO AOuSOSG LAY I1A OAC ACSSEs
Letter from the Yellowstone Expedition.l
Our second days march was abo ut
16 or Is miles. The heat was blister
ing in intensity. 1t was hard on our
horses and willing to the infantry
Several men dropped by the way, and
had to be taken into ambulances. No
serious cases of sunstrOke, however,
are reported. The march was slow
and the rests frequent. But on this
treeless plain there was no possibility
of shade. It was not until 3 O'Clock
in the afternoon that we camped by a
little creek where there was abundant
wood and shade. Never did water
seem so precious or shade a greater
boon. 1t was the longest day in the
year, and / shall not forget it. The
hours seemed to expand with the
heat, and the heat to grow with the
hours. Anaxogoras sinned only very
mildly when he called the sun q red
hot stone. He would never have been
put to death on this expedition for
such a gentle, though unscientiic OBJ
servation. When at last, after this
fierce baking heat, the sun gathered in
its rays at night and sank to rest in q
bed of 1eecy clouds, every one was
willing to say goodnight" The
sweetest portion of the day here is the
sunset and the twilight that succeeds.
1t is very small bar of darkness that
divides the days in this Northern lati-
tude. can read now until nine O'Clock
at night 1t is not until IL O'Clock or
later that the soft twilight shades into
darkness Then Mt 3 o'clock in the
morning the first rays of daylight il
lumine the East, and the bugle sounds
a call to new day.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14

A California lover has proved
his devotion by literal ride of one
hundred and twenty miles for bride.
Presenting himself to the clerk of the
county for license, he found that as
the bride was not of age written con-
sent from her parents would be nee
essary. In vain he urged that they
knew all about the match and lived 60
miles away. Finding the clerk inexor-
able he unhitched one of the horses
from the team with which he came to
town, borrowed saddle, aud started
off. He returned late the next night,
and said he would have been back
sooner if he had not got lost on the
mountains. He had ridden the whole
one hundred and twenty miles without
lest; but had obtained the parents
permit, and the next morning early the
wedding took place.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14

One of the saddest comings home
is when the husband and father comes
home to put on paper collar. The
last collar has resolved into pulpy rolls
and come up back of his cars or disap-
peared within the recesses of his hair.
The shirt band is moist and helpless,
and inclined to roll under, carrying
the shirt button with it. His neck is
wet and slippery, and all the windows
are down, and the door is drawn TO.
By the time he has found the back but
ton and got the collar hitched to it, it
seems as if the air was ;bout to stife
him, and as if he would suddenly
melt and spoil the carpet. He sends
up the windows with a snap, and
kicks the blinds open with his foot,
and brings that door back with a We
locity that almost scares it. Then he
goes to work to fasten one of tue
ends, and while he is at it the back
button hole suddenly melts and dis
solves. He tries another collar. Gets
the back and one end fastened, CON.
menUes work at the other end, and is
about intoxicated with his success,
when the first end collapses. He sits
down a few moments before trying
the third collar, and wishes he really
knew if there is future punishment,
and wonders where his wife IS. Then
he makes another trial with similar re-
suits; and finally dashes out of the
house, saying that if he had nothing
more to do than gadding to the neigh
bors he would make collars that his
wife could wear. Fortunately hi;
wife is next door learning nev
crotchet stitch, and does not hea
him.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14

= Sandusky has an eccentric old
fellow named Barney Cline. He re-
Gently sold brick block in Clyde for
$22, 1000 cash. balance in four
teen years, at per cent. annual inter
est, with the provisions that if he
should not be living at the time, the
debt remaining shall be cancelled.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14

= A man lately learned what it was
to have insult added injury, in being,
first scared out of his with by his horse
running away wits him, and then ar
rested and fined for driving at an ille-
gal rate of speed.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14

Col. Noah Orr, of Marysville,
Ohio, aged twenty seven, is seven feet
eleven inches high, measures seventy
inches around the chest, and brings
down the scales at $40 pounds. He
is said to be genial youth.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14

"A young lady in Springfield dis
missed her lover recently because ne
said she couldn't bear arms.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14

A Debating society in North
Carolina is engaged in discussing the
difference between hOrse-raddish ana
8 reddish horse.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14

Drinkers in this country can
hardly be called heathens, but still the
great idea with them is jug-or-not.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14
BUSINESS CARDS
School Examiners.

TVNHE Fayette County Board of School Examin-
4 ers meets in the Union School Building at
Washington on the first Saturday in every month,
at 10 O'Clock a. m. Members of the Board III.
H. Edwards, s. j. Blanpied, and 2. E. MOrehouse.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14
Farnl FOR Sale.

A FIRsT-CLAsS Stock and Grain Farm
IA Water enough for all the live stock in the
Township the dryest dag ever known. Best Of
Fruit in great abundance ane variety. 355 acres,
mostly grass. 35k miles east of w Washington.
9tf II. II, EDWARDS.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14

|. = New apples are one dollar ana
ten cents quart. Ten cents tor tue
apples and a dollar Tor doctor.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14
OFFIoIA1 DIRECTORY

NFFICIAI DIRECTORY.
Common Pleas Judges-WN H. sAFFORD' 8 r
Probate Judge-JoHN D. PRIDDY.
Prosecuting AttOrney-A. r. CREAAER'
Sherin-JoHN MILLIKAN.
Clerk Of COuFt-M AsON BLANCHARD.
AuditOr-ABEI MCCAEDLEsS.
Treasurer-ELI CRAIG
fecordcr-Z w. HEAGLER.
T,Oroner-E. B. UPDEGROvE
C,ommissOners-ABRAM BUSH, GEO. ). FULLER
TON e. L. FORD.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14
T TooKING-GLAssES.
R. MILLIKAN

Has just received from New York the largest and
most beautiful assortment of Looking glasses ev-
brought to Washington. Price ahd quality
cannot fail to suit 1btf