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Congressman Dawes, of Massachu-
sets, evidently does not believe in
forgetting the past. In his address at
Greenfield on Decoration Day he said:
GAS nations are more often shaken
down be internal commotion than by
external violence, so the perils of an
internecine war are always greater than
Bny other that can hang on the issues
of battle. Then, logically, follows the
highest duty of putting before all 9TH
er ersymbols of national prowess those
that tell of the deliverance of the ma
tion from rebellion more appalling in
every proportion and every trait and
consequence, than ever before impend-
ed over the head of people or Govern
ment. On Decoration Day we are pay
ing q debt to the dead. For this reason
it is that the decoration of the graves
of rebel soldiers would shock the pa
triotic mind of this country. They
were indeed brave-they dared; they
suffered and died like heroes-but it
was in a cause which did not command
the approval of mankind. They fought
against while these fought for, free in
sti:utions and universal liberty and
universal manhood. To decorate their
graves with those of Union soldiers
would, therefore, be to blot out the dis
tinction in the causes for which each
laid down his life-between loyalty
patriotism and treason, between the
arm uplifted to save and that raised to
destroy. 1t would blot out, too, all
distinctions in the actions of men, and
confound right with wrong, upturning
the very base of society itself" ''
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OLD SHoEs.-Everything tangible
seems to have two or more states of
existence. Now it is quite possible
that you think, if you look very sharp
ly at an old shoe when you throw it
away, you will know it again if it ever
comes back to yor. But that doesn't
at all follow. One of these days you
may button your dress with an old pair
of slippers, comb your hair with boot
or grasp cast-off galter while you eat
your dinner. You don't see how this
can be? Well, We'll tell you. Old
shoes are turned to account: They are
cut into very small pieces, and kept for
a couple Of days in chloride of sulphur.
The effect of this is to make the leather
hard and brittle. Next, the material
is withdrawn from the action of the
chloride Of sulphur, washed with wat
er and dried. When thoroughly dry,
it is glound 10 powder, and mixed with
some substance like glue or gum, that
causes it to adhere together. It is then
pressed into moulds and shaped into
buttons, combs, knife-handles, etc. So
you will see how it may come to pass
that you will comb your hair with a
boot, and fasten your clothes with q
slipper.
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Don't Do the Dec,,llete.

No woman ever dresses low, says ar
exchange, from high motive No La
dy goes to the opera Continues the
cosmOpolitan), to balls, or dinner par.
ties, with her bosom bare for the pur.
pose of pleasing her husband or her af
tianced lover! Neither does she denude
her breast for the qualification of her
own SEX What, then, can be the mo-
tive for this scandalous undressing in
public? Let US treat this delicate sub
ject philosophically, yet fearlessly. We
readily confess that there is nothing so
exquisitely beautiful on earth as the
form, the bust, of beautiful woman.
And for this very reason it should not
be exposed to the wantOn gaze of vul-
gar eyes. No woman who truly loves
her husband ever desires to exhibit
her charms, "sacrcd, sweet, and pre-
cious," to any eye but his. And yet
what do we see, or, rather, what do we
not see, in the shape of naked arms,
shoulders, backs, and bosoms, at every
evening gathering among what is call
ed ''the best society,"" One is continu-
ally reminded of the sarcasm of DIR.
Franklin, nearly one hundred years
ago, who, when present at one of these
gatherings OF undressed English wom.
en-, when asked if he had ever seen
anything like it before, blushIngly re-
piled, ''not since he was weaned." But
we need not now dwell on the fact Of
the existence OF this fashionable scam
dial. Let US strike at the root of the
immoral custom of "low-dressinD. p
The motive, as we have said, is not a
good one; therefore, it must be bad
one We huve heard men who consid-
cred themselves connOissetTs at these
exhibitions of female nudity, declare
that they 'like to see it, but would not
like to see their own wives half naked
in public" No man Who properly
prizes and appreciates his wife ever
did, or ever will, like to see his better
half exposing her naked bust in public.
1t is clear and conclusive, then, that
this lOw-hecked fashion never was de-
signed or followed for the delectation
of husbands. And even women will
always ''pick to pieces" the most au-
dacious addressed belle of the ball..
Why, then, do women indulge in this
immodest, immoral, and unhealthy
style of dress? One is almost afraid to
press the question to an honest, logical
solution. The true answer is deroga-
tory to woman. She bares her bust to
excite something more than envy in
woman and admiration in men. And
this she knows full well when she-looks
at her undraped form in the mirror in
the character Of q statue Utrarlte. On
the score Of health, the fashion cannot
be too severely denounced. How ma
ny fatal cases of consumption have
been caused by sudden exposure to the
chill midnight air, on coming out of
steaming bathrooms and opera-houses
with the most vital part of the body
entirely unprotected. On the tomb
stone of many a beautiful woman might
be truly inscribed, Death from lo1-
necked dresses.-June GALAXY.
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4 Visit to Observation-Disclosures
Tomb.

A correspondent Of the Chicago Fri
bunc writes:
at has now been two years since L
visited Monticello, and, having some
acquaintance who we're anxious to
make an excursion, we were driven to
i the top of the mountain, over roads
which in any other State of the Union
would be deemed impossible. Part of
the way was actually terraced over
rocks, which the wheels assembled some
times foot high vertically. Among
the pleasantries of the trip were plung-
ing into creek almost deep enough to
lift the carriage up and float it. Jeffer-
sons tomb was in the same disfgured
condition which / have fully described
in previous letters, and the old man
sion at the top of the hill was in even
worse repair, the roof rotten and fall
ing off, old hats stuck in the lyindows,
farm gear over the floor, and smell of
must, and mold, and rain, and deser-
ton over all that great abode, where
once busts, statuettes, paintings, vases,
urns, books, visitors, and household
animals made hospitality baronial, and
eminence in retirement still splendid.
The little stair-ways set in the walls,
and hardly bigger than a chimney; the
great old clock, stopped, over the por-
tai, with its weights of cannon-balIs
covered with rust; the secret passage
way, filled up with earth; and the sta
BILE dropping to pieces; the empty
brackets around the rooms, limiting of
former occupants; the bust of Jefferson
himself, in plaster, discolored and look
ing hideous; the frowsy mulatto SER
want going through the old rooms, re-
minding us that "a quarter was the
charge to see the place; the great wheel
ed chair in which the venerable Presi-
dent used to be pulled along, now Occu-
pied by cat with a litter; and the
hallway where he appeared on bal
cony and talked to the students, full of
peeled wainscoting and strips of mol
dered wall paper. What ruin! What
a tomb of reminiscence! If the stu
dents at the university had the spirit
of Northern boys, they would march
some Saturday, with picks and spades,
up the side cf Monticello, and do lit
tie wholesome gardening around JET
ferson's grave Half days organized
labor would take from that tomb part
of its desolation, and make it appear
that if reverence for Jefferson were
dead, self-respect among the living
might still have some yestige left.
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!, .lmant CO. Business lirtrturg.
COUNTY OFFICERS.


,t,,.. T,Jge-C' w. CARROLL once
,atrs in nublic buildings, frst door 70 oiggi oright
cbes-;r-WM {. COCHRAN. once III pune
s,frdings first floor. oazoa;n ,ub
'ut r,EoT I fs,,iTts-J. r. MITCHELL. 0ncelh pun
nc buildings. adjoining the & OSnrt n01ssirs in
Eurl;,or-J: B. LoNGLEI. LoS..os,,. at Ieft door.
pubic = 'PnRTERFIELD. Office on Main
-sef first door West OF the BanK nasca IN nnhlic
: ,.,.ysr-TAs 4. BARNES OIhce ~ PuOAi
lt.1,,re ,:ss s-et floor second door on LETT.
r-ite.IE,iqq Aeorney-W. ;. KEsHIoS' o-ii0e
isir doors east Of the S"zi1na innev LaMira B. E
,.',rgqn' rrnr,g, Corle, in; William Armstrong
! -.nS trong's Mills ,,-,as
1y.o.,er-F p KENNEDY. Wegee .,, -, ,t,.
''foi'er r,;o,arS meet at st. Clairsyille on lht
Of March June, septem1e am
a,,1her-and as Bosrd OF En- nJ yea.
f pro',ate Court meets on the nrsI 9,
vS of January Marcn May Spig sonTt and j,
s-r a-,d November as crIin, rnnIs1 for the trans
r.v,ve Omen ION business h"0i'
-, of other business
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This entirely satisfactory explana-
tion of the back pay business, in the
Missouri Republican, does away conn.,
pletely with the troublesome question
of responsibility and places the whole
subject in a most agreeable light: awe
presume there has been misunder.
standing about that back pay business,
The fact is, the whole thing was a
touching episode of natural disinterest'
edness. Congress passed the bill, not
because its members wanted the mon
ey, but because they wanted to testify
their regard for the Presidents services
by raising his salary. AndIthe Presi-
dent signed the bill, not because he
wanted the increase Of salary, but be-
cause he thought the members ought
to have back pay"
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rEov They Make a Cannon.

The Springfield Union says: s'The
preparations for making the new Hitch
cock gun at the water shops are going
on as RAPIDLY as could he expected
The big shaft, which is being sunk in
the Northeast corner Of the old drop
hammer-room, has reached thirty-sev-
en- feet in depth and will be completed
next week. For while the drilling
and blasting went along rapidly owing
to the softness of the rock and the alb
sence of the water, but when about
twenty feet below the surface the wa
ter began to pour in and little further
down the rock changed to hard, gray
ish red, conglomerate sandstone, ex-
ceedingly difficult to work. Two small
pumps were put in to remove water,
and although they are run seven hours
each night, they prove incapable of
carrying off the water as fast as neees-
sary and their place will be supplied,
this week, by a rotary pump, with a
capacity of $50 gallons per minute. As
the shaft has to be blasted fifteen feet
in diameter in the clear, the progress
is necessarily quite slow, and eight men
have been employed at the work for
nearly three months. The drilling is
all done by hand, the holes being about
two feet deep. The drilling is kept up
from bell time in the morning till
noon, when five blasts of one and one
half pounds of powder are let off, one
after the other, and another series of
blasts are fired at four in the afternoon.
Although the firing is in a hole forty
feet deep, there would be considerable
danger to passers by and the workmen
from flying stones, were it not guarded
against by heavy covering OF brush
which is placed over every drill-hole
before firing. This shaft, it will be re-
mcmbered from previous descriptions,
is to contain the big hydraulic press
which forms the anvil on which the
gun will be forged, l. e., the steel rings
of which it is composed will be welded
together by the blows from the ten ton
steam hammer overhead. AS each
eight inch ring is added to the gun,
eight inches of water will be let out OF
the press, and the gun will of course
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drop just that distance into the shaft.
Then, when the forging is completed,
and the $4,000 pound monster is ready
for trimming and boring, it will be
tipped over little to one side, to avoid
hitting the furnace and machinery at
the top of the shaft, and the water will
be let into the press bringing the gun
to the surface.
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1
The committee of the North Iowa
State Fair offer a premium Of SO for
the best minee pie, and large attend
ance of physicians is expected.
A Louisville man had to pay fifty
dollars for shipping hair from child's
head for his daughter to make hair
flowers with.
A coquette of Fond du Lac accepted
the matrimonial offers of six simulta-
neous swains, and then made them
fight for the preference, in order to
show the neighbOrs how much she was
fit for.
An Irishman quarreling with an En-
lishman told him if he didn't bold his
tongue he would break his impenetra-
bic head and let the brains out of his
empty skull.
"Was it your oldest daughter, mad
am, that was bitten by u monkey??"
''No, sir, it WAS my youngest. My
Oldest daughter had worse misfortune;
she married a monkey"
"Why," asked governsss of her
little charge, "dO we pray God to give
US our daily bread? Why don't we ask
for four days, or five days, OR week."
"We want it fresh" replied the inge-
nious child.
A Tennessee paper Of recent date
states that locomotive struck the wa
gon OF a farmer of that State. and him.
self, wife, and child were deposited on
the other side of the fence, somewhat
hurt in spirit, but not in body. The
woman's first act was TO knock John
down for running into the "locomO-
tive" and to shut up both eyes for in
sisting that he didn't.
The travelling sidewalk of the New
York genius is not so much of a novel;
ty as it might be. Jones says, in fact,
that he has seen the time when he
would have given much money for q
sidewalk that wasn't mOveable-when
the very lamp posts took to travelling
not only, but were unpleasantly DEM
onstrative, and wnen nineteen miles
an hour wasn't circumstance to the
way things flew around.
Solution of gum arabic, 1t is an
nounced by Hirschberg, may be kept
from mould for long time by adding
a few drops Of strong sulphuric acid
SuIphate oflime is precipitated and is
allowed to settle. We presume the
clear solution is then drawn off with q
sypbon. 1t is said the solution is free
from mould and quite adhesive after Il
years use, when treated in this way.
A rich Englishman has amused him.
eelf for many years in collecting the
ropes with which criminals have been
hung. His American rope department.
is not large, but is growing rapidly Of
late.
An Irishman was hunting on q gen.
tleman's estate, when the owner came
suddenly upon him. Said tho poacher:
"The top o. the morning to ye! What
brought your honor out so early, sure?"
"Indeed, Paddy, l strolled out to see If
could find a little appetite for my
breakfast" and questioned suspicious
ly, "Now, Paddy, what brought YOU
out so eraly?" ''Indeed, your honor,
just strolled out to find a breakfast
for my appetite"
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An old man from Maine has Just re-
moved alone to establish his home
among strangers in Minnesota. a lit
tie more than ten years ago he had a
wife and eight children. His four boys
went to the war, and all laid down
their lives in defense OF their country.
Their mother died broken hearted al
her loss, and his four daughters did not
long survive her.
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Notice.
Belmont County, Ohio. Court of
mmOn Pleas.
John .Flating,
VS..


THE above named defendant is hereby no.
/ titled that on the lst day of May, 1873, the
above named plaintiff filed a petition against
the said defendant in the Clerks once OF tne
Court of Common Pleas of Belmont County.
Ohio, asking for a judgment against said de,
fendant for Sl0i9.e5. with interest from April
lst, 1865 tor balance due on the settlement OF
said plaintiff and defendant. The defe ndant
is REQUIRED TO answer said petition by july 5th,
in said action. with Notice to William W, HOl-
loway, j. B. Smith, Gollelb Hiel, William
Burke and NJ. J. Turnan as GarnlShees.
J. r. MITCHELL, Clerk.
B. c. CRANsToN & RossJ. ALEXADER. Attys
for Plaintiff mayS6w
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,Iks0IIC DIRECTORY, 1878.

belmont Lodge No ls cearg a. II fsss fse fuIi sTi
sr- wednesday NiS f. d. BAILEY, W. NJ.
sreon.
e. z GciairsvilIe ChaPtsT5t No 0gbt y on or after
siaso1s meets e'ei' c. II. ARICk II. p.
cropcT- MITCHELL. Secy., CoIact apd
Heimont Council, No: q meets fte on the second
s,uper Exeellent Mass~9 w month.
fneS'"s NH n. r BUMGARENR, I. l. u. NJ
KSnH,,ondery KSnH, rd No. 26 of Knights IeInp-
4oi,e on the second Monday nlgnI OF CO.,
70 iaa-.s,,H ROSS ]. ALEXANDER aar,sz9iY hm
-. p RYAN, Rec. ---
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The wine crop of France, it is report
ed, will this year prove failure, in
consequence of the destructive frosts
in the latter part of April, which have
done great damage to the vineyards
From the .claret and champagne dis
tricts, news comes that the vines are
badly frozen, and the same state of af-
fairs exists in the brandy country.
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REL.MO.NT N.URS ERLES

ONE mile North of National Roaa near 'he
" County Iufirmary. -,,., .o,a.-
We heep constantly on hand choice seiec-
ton OF Fruit and Ornamental Trees, vines &c.
Parties wishing to purchase will do wen 10
call and examine before purchasing elsewhere.
orders promptly fill. o. AddresS, EasS q TS6 fseh-
land, Ohio. J. h''Nh''OA''
febg7l-ly
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Nasby's Paper.
THE TOLEDO BLADE.

a large quarto Sheet containing ffy-six COL
umns filled with news from all parts of the
World choice original and selected Tales,
Sketches, Poetry, Wit and Humor.
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ed. Notice the following:
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Essienees Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that the III lersign-
~ ed was by the Probate Court OF Belmont
County, Ohio, appointed Assignee OF The estate
and effects of William H. Holloway q Asa g..
Holloway OF Flushing, Belmont County, Ohio,
and creditors are required to present their
claims again st the SAID William H. Holloway
and Asa 6. Holloway, to me for allowance
within six months from this date, and all per-
sons indebted TO said William H. Holloway d
Asa G. Holloway, are required to make i'm
mediate payment.
JOHN c. HOGUE, Assignee,
of w. II. Holloway & Z sa G. Holloway.
naNS2W
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pr TfNG MffsfsS.

CARROLL, ARMSTRONG q CO.
nEAIFRS in Lumber. Lath, Shingles, &C,
ID and manufacturers of building material 1n
General We keep constantly on hand large
81 1cx of DRY Lumber and can supply builders
and carpenter on short notice with good wore
at low prices. -..,,r-,o>,c
ApiI-l4, lS70-u
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IOHN HAMMOND,

MANUFACTURES OF Tin and Copper ware
vi Snecial attention given to Roonng ana
LOB Work. Keeps constantly on hand I'm,
t,opper. Brass, Hcuse-furnishing HARDWARE
and Cooking Stoves. In Rhodes New Bu1lS Il5
ing, Bridgeport, o. JuIS1y"
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R s. & A. ?. LACEY,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Solicitors of
Patents and Claims.

Practice In thesupreme Court and Court OF
Claims and appear before all the Departments
Pron1nfness and satisfaction given in all bus1-
ness entrusted 10 tfen. Correspondence So
Iicited SO Seventh Street, opposite POST OInce
DeDartpent WASHINGTON, ID. Z. sepzou
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ATTENTION!

" HE undersigned would give notice that ne
| is prepared to furnish all kinds OF
CABINET WORK.
and do all manner of REPAIRING to furniture
chairs &C. on the shortest notice. ,
Particular attention given to the uNDEh-
TAXING BUSINESS. All kinds OF Cofhns
furnished at reasonable prices. Allwork guar
anteed. ,,sor,s
Warerooms opposite DIR John AIeTandedr,s. ,rd,
ST. lairsvilIe O.. Dec. 9, 1859.
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TIIRsT NATIONAL BANK OF ST. .CLAlRS-
i VILE CAPITAL SlU0,OO0 nj,
ss-Bank open from A. NJ. until p. N. DIS, ,,s,
cornt DAYS TUESDAYS at 10 az NJ. Money received
on d.nosit Collections made and proceeds re-
mitted promptly. Exchange bought sn1 ,5.ntl SOLO
I)iTect6rs-RossJ. Alexander. DaVld bro"h'
Josenh Woodman see, George Brown.
D. d. t. COWEN, President.
II r N-rIDAY Cashier.
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Dissolution of Co-Part-
nership.

THE Co-Partnership heretofore existing be-
tween J. w. Mcfarland q w. n. Coffland,
under the firm name of Mcfarland & Cofliand
is dissolved by w. n. Cofiand, retiring from
the firm and Josiah Merritt being adm tied
An persons knowing themselves indebted to
said firm will please make prompt settlement.
and any persons having claims against said
firm will please present them Immediately
J. w. MCFARLAND.
w. n. COPELAND.
The business will be confined by J. W. Nc
Farlsnd & Josiah Merritt under the firm name
of Mcfarland & Merritt, who have purchased
a large and attractive stock OF spring and SUM
mer Goods since the recent decline, and offer
to the public at reduced prices. They respect
fully solicit share of the patronage so Hber-
ally bestowed upon the old firm.
MCFA RLAND & MERRITT.
East Richland, May 18th, lS73-may2l2w
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wFsT-BoUND TRAINS
rAsr.nnTND TRAINs.
BELLALRE.

The Accomm odaiion stops at Stewrl' tar Where Rhl
time is omitted,
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MISCELLANEOUS.
HoGE, SHEETS & CO.,
r A N x Z r 8,

BELLAIRE, OHIO.
nEALIN EXCHANGE, and buy Coin, Coup
II ops, ard Government Bonds.
Deposits in money received. interest," paioon
Drawers OF foreign bills OF exchange
ma rsl-rt bLtElI e business. Iyeti
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8aItimore and Ohio Railroad
ocrSrRAL OHIO DIvIsIoN)

Passenger Trains on Central ona4 a}
Division leave Bellaire ana arrive "'
paIlaire as follows: