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The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07
Original Poetry
This Great World of Wonders.


This greatworld Is filled with wonders,
Aswell as thronged with many blundcrs,
And men most wise, can rarely know
Which way the wondr0us events 20.
The very mir of wonders talk
The mammoths' cross the continents walk,
While frightened men, will stand amazed,
While thousands 80 almost acrazed-
In this great world of wonders.
The preachers loud, OF wonders talk,
And doctors ut the wonders gawk;
While silly stupids, laugh to sc0rn
Each wonder, ere the same is born
with wondrous ken, the scholar sees,
Wonders in wind, wonders in trees,
And crumpled papers, hold the tale,
And Keep these wonders fixed Tor sale
For this great world of wonders.
Sensation priests grow wondrous wise,
And thunder out their wondrous lies,
And then expect, good fruit to grow,
While they go forth their chan to sow;
And loudly howl, like an angry elf;
Because you dare think for your self,
And thus refuse the dose to take
And theirpoor reputation stake
Before the world of wonders.
The mighty blunders, make the wonders,
AS frequent as the wonders blunder,
For Darwin's call their wonders great,
With men and monkeys made to mate,
Or Lizards, frogs and reptiles too,
Clad as our sires, in garments new,
To which green men are called to bow,
And never stop to ask the how
AS goes the world of wonders
joaquin Miller, poems write,
And sister Miller shows her spite
by writing prose to tell the world,
How Joaquin from Sieries hurled;,
Had made up poems, by wondrous chance,
While to his belt, q buckled lance,
Foretold his hate and crazyzeal,
Against his wife, who sought his veal
Around this world of wonders.
The cruel critic takes his pen,
And like u busy setting hen,
Takes up man and sets him down,
Just like some gassy, country clown,
And when he's done, feels wondrous smart,
Because hc has az empty heart,
And with itowns an empty head,
With feelings blunt as heavy led
Then calls himself a wonder
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

Since it is more important
how we live than how we die,
and since death is merely the
arrival at the end Of a journey
the beginning, history, and
progress Of the journey, deter
mining what the arrival is to
be---we shall do well to dismiss
our borrowed troubles with re-
gard to the manner OF our de.
parture out of the world, and
be solicitous only with regarC
to the right discharge Of pres
ent duty.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

There is no despair so abso-
Lutte as that which comes with
the first moments of our first
great sorrow, when we have
not yet known what it is to
have suffered and be healed, to
have despaired and to have re-
covered hope.-Adm Bede.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07
CrOss-Cut Papers.
Mind Your Own Business.

If you would be rich, mind
your own business.
2 If you would be wise, mind
your own business.
3 If you would be loved, mind
your own business.
4 If you would gain friends,
mind your own business.
B If you would gain position,
mind your own business.
6 If you would hold an office,
mind your own business.
7 If you would have health,
mind your own business.
8 If you would raise a respecta-
BILE family, mind your own business.
0 If you would be happy, mind
your own business.
10 Ifyou would be a christian,
mind your own business,
II If you would avoid the cuts
of Cross-Cut, mind yonr own bust
ness.
IL If you would generally sue
coed, observe the above rule.
SUMMED UP.
The man who attended to his
oacn business, was wise, rich, loved,
had friends, position, lucrative Of
flee, good health, respectable fam
lily, a happy heart, an easy con-
science, christian life; and when
he died, every body in the town
mourned, and hung Grape on their
door knobs, and said: Z" the golden
bowl is broken, and the beautiful
rod" Cross Cur.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07
Indiana Temperance Law.

The following are the princi-
pal provisions Of the Indiana
temperance law:
The law forbids the sale of
intoxicating liquors to be drank
in the place of sale, unless a Ii
cense has been granted. Per,
sons who wish to obtain a IL
cense must send a petition to
the County Commissioners
which has been signed by q ma
jority ofthe voters Of the ward
Or township, on a basis Of the
number Of votes given to the
preceding Congressional cleo
ton. Besides, the possessor OF
the license must find security
in the sum of three thousand
dollars, with two real estate
owners. For the sale or giving
of Intoxicating liquors to a mi
nor, who becomes partly or en-
tirely drunk from it, the law
provides that the seller can be
forced to pay suitable amends to
any person interested in the
drunkard; said amends can be
sued for any court of competent
jurisdiction.
1t is declared illegal for a
person to get drunk. The pun
ishment is a fine or imprison-
ment. The sale of liquor on
the Sabbath and festival days,
as well as on all election days,
is forbidden also on week days,
between the hours of 9 in the
evening and 6 in the morning
(police hours) with a fine of
from SIS to $25 for every glass
sold. The law further deter
mines that any husband, wife,
child, parent, guardian, or any
one else who is injured in per-
son, or in his property, by a
drunkard, or in consequence of
drunkenness, shall have the
right to enter suit against the
person persons who by selling
the liquor, have caused this
drunkenness and that any one
owning a house and rents it for
the sale of liquors, or has rented
1t for other objects, and knows
that liqour is sold in it, he is
subjected to the condition, as
well as the seller of the liquor.
A married woman has the same
right to enter complaint as un-
married ones, The illegal sale
of liquor has the effect that the
lease and every claim of the les
see fall upon the property rented.
The law further provides that
no liquor shall be given 10 an
intoxicated person or any one
who is in the habit of getting
drunk. The punishment for
trespassing In this section is
from $5 to $50. Besides fines
from $5 to $50, and imprison-
ment in the county Jail from ten
to thirty days, are provided for
every transgression of the
law.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07
Secrets of Health.

Keep warm.
Eat regularly and slowly.
Take early and light sup
pers,
Maintain regular bodily hab-
it's.
Keep a clean skin.
Get plenty of sleep at night.
Do some good daily.
Choose cheerful companions.
Don't sigh for what you
don't need.
Avoid idlers, men or women.
Speak only the truth when
you talk.
Rise early from bed.
Govern your passions.
Avoid whisky and tobacco.
Be temperate in all things.
Keep out Of debt.
Subscribe for THE ENQUIRER
and induce your nieghbor to do
likewise.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

INCREASING the pay of Con-
gressmen was a thing not
thought Of until the advent to
power of the Republican Credit
Mobilier party. Previous to
the war the payment of the
members was eight dollars a
day for the actual session, but
as the Republican party came
in it was fixed at three thous-
and a year. Again in 1866 it
was increased to five thousand
dollars, and now in 1873 to
seven thousand five hundred
dollars. 1t is a noticeable and
peculiar thing that each one of
these increases were voted in
years when there was no Con-
gressional election. This of it.
self is sufficient to stamp the
whole thing as a dishonest
transaction, for the members
dare not face the people ON a
question of that kind raised
just previous to election. How
many ofthese swindlers would
have been back in Congress
now if this vote had been taken
last year instead of this? and
yet we think it will be possible
for the people to remember over
till next year and then weed
out the thieves.
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What Total Abstinence will Do.
BY REV. CHRISTIAN EvERs, OF NOR
FOLK, VA.

For long time l have been de-
termined to give the history of q
man in Portsmouth, who abstained
from liquor two years ago. / am
well acquainted with the circum-
stances, as for several months /
have boarded in his family and can
give a detailed history of him, hop
ing it may, under Gods blessing, be
the means of turning many men
away from the rule of his satanic
majesty, King Alcohol.
John c. Herbener, a ship carpen-
ter in the Gosport Navy Yard,
would occasionally have what the
world calls an old time frolic, in
drinking till the last cent went to
the rumseller and then would work
and save first, a few hundred dol
lars again, to go on the next grand
frolic. He owned little oyster
sloop, which in a drinking spree, he
sold for the pitiful sum of twenty
dollars to get rum. About two
years ago he was stopped in his
wild career through the entreaty of
his family and friends, and aban-
doned the use of ardent spirits en-
tirely, and was soon enabled to buy
a vacant lot in Newtown, for four
hundred dollars, cash. On this he
built large shed and commenced
laying the keel of a schooner of
thirty tons. At this stage many
people thought him to be a derang-
ed man, and that he never would be
able to finish the work he had be-
gun. But as man of pluck and
perseverance he commenced to use
all spare moments he could COM
mand, to work on his schooner, with
out the air and assistance of any
one, and has now, after two years
labor, nearly completed the work.
In the morning he is at work till
the bell calls him in the yard, and
at nights often works till nine or
ten o'clock. Every piece Of timber,
spikes, nails, copper, paint, ETC., he
has bought for cash, saved in the
two years, to the amount Of fourteen
hundred dollars, and after the boat
is completed, its value will be at
least thirty-fve hundred dollars.
Nor is this all. He is now very
jealous Christian. After the labors
of the day he does not forget his
Creator. He can be seen then with
his little "Johnny," a boy of eleven
years, each one having Bible, the
father giving instruction as q true
old patriarch to his son. His seat
in the Sunday School and church
is never empty during service, and
the name of John G. Herbener is
honored by every one who knows
him. Let none of your readers fail
when they visit our city, to go to
fourth street in Newtown, and view
the schooner. forty EIGHT feet long,
seventeen feet wide, which has been
built from pennies saved by one
man, by not drinking rum, in only
two years. ] Idonot know what Mr..
II. will name his new boat, but
shall suggest "Little Things" as it
is built from little mites saved by
not drinking, and every little
moment of time well used to do the
work. We long to see the day
when the boat will be launched, and
wish her prosperous and happy
voyage on the briny deep, and the
master long life and happiness,
praying that many will follow his
example, let rum alone, and become
an ornament to the church and So
ciety.
:. q A. -
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

The blossom can not tell
what becomes of it's odor, and
no man can tell what becomes
of his influence and example
that roll away from him, and
go beyond his ken on their mis-
sion.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

No doctrine is good for any
thing that does not leave be.
hind It an ethereal furow,
ready for the planting of seeds
which shall spring up and bear
abundant harvest,
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

Ifyou hate your enemies you
will contract such a vicious
habit of mind as by degrees
will break out upon those who
are your friends, or those who
are indifferent to you.-Platark.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

PNKLED PEppERs.-Use the
peppers green. Cut the stem
end off and remove the seed
carefully; soak in salt and water
twenty-four hours. Take them
out and rinse them. Take
good cabbage, cut very fine, and
stuff them; sew the stem end
ON and put them into vinegar.
In two weeks they will be ready
for use.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

Mignonette is is one of the
finest flowers cultivated in the
garden or elsewhere, it seems
to be one of greatest favorite
with the bees, and yields a
great amount of both pollen and
honey. Sow it early and it
will bloom from May until frost
kills it in the fall. We would
the sowing of more
of it throughout the country.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

Russia still reckons time by
the old Julian calendar. They
call year in Russia 365 Ia
days, which is an error of elev-
EN- minutes. This error has
now amounted to twelve days,
so the Russians are twelve
days behind the rest of the
world in their reckoning.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

SAYS the Whitehall (Ill) Reg
ister "The farmers are looking
rather blue. The prospect Of
the present wheat crop looks
unfayorable at this time in the
Bluftdale part Of the county Of
Greene, The farmers think
their best hold is hogs and corn
for this season"
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

A Wilson county, Kansas,
farmer intends planting ten
acres to caster oil beans, this
season. He says one of the
greatest incentives to immigra-
tlon to q new state is cheap
physic and whisky,
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

Our experience and the his
tory of the past eighteen CEN
turies incline us to the belief
that no matter how well you
treat shotgun, nor how we'll
you bring it up, it will bang
the stuAing out of you the very
first time it gets a chance.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

M. A. Boillot describes a new
method for preparing ozone, by
bringing oxygen in the vicinity
Of electricity passing through
broken or pulverized gas-carbon
contained in o tube.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07
France and Algeria.

France Is determined to rule
Algeria with an iron hand. The
insurrection among some of the
Arab tribes having been parti-
ally quelled, four of the chiefs
have been executed Constanti-
ma. 1t is very doubtful ifAlger-
ia will ever be worth to France
the blood and money it has
cost her. As a training school
for the army, it certainly prov
ed itself in the late war with
Prussia an utter failure,
France holds the land, how
ever, as much through pride as
for any benefit the nation de-
riveS from it, and she massa-
cres the native Arabs who own
the country by the same divine
right that we Americans ex-
terminate the Indian.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07
Our Temperance Column. /.
The Drunkard's Daughter.
BY w.G. BUNoAY.

BYw. q. BUNGAY.
Out in the street with naked feet,
saw the drunkard's little daughter;
Her tattered shawl was thin and small;
She little knew, for no one taught her.
Her skin was fair, her auburn hair
Was blown about her pretty forehead.
Her sad, white face bore sorrows trace,
And want and woe that were not bor-
rowed, r
Heart-broken child, she seldom smiled
Hope promised her no bright tomorrow
Drifts light flashed ON her night,
Then up came darker clouds OF sorrow
She softly said: "We have no bread,
NowoOd to keep the fire q burning
The child was i'll; the winds so chilli
Her thin cold blood TO ice was, turning.
But men well fed and warmly clad,
And ladies robed in richest fashion,
Passed on the side where no one cried
To them for pity or compassion.
Fled that long night, and then the light
OF rosy day in beauty shining;
Set dome and spire and roof ON fire,
And sh0ne on one beyond repining.
Asleep-alohe-as cold as stone,
Where no dear parent ever sought her
IN winding sheet of snow and sleet,
Was found the drunkard's lifeles
daughter.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

The rumor aaoat that the
Rev. Mr.. Hammond said that
if he did not have the rheuma-
tism SO in his left arm he would
try and stir up a revival in
Oshkosh, Wis, is contradicted
by that gentleman's friends.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

Legal Adyertisements-$1 90 per square for
first Insertion; and 80 cents per square for
each additional insertion.
Business Cards, not exceeding lines, IS
per year.
All bills due on first insertion of advertise
ments.
Bills with regular advertisers to be paid
quarterly.
Business NOtices-10 cents line. Marriage
Notices-accordin to the liberality of the
parties.
Yearly advertisers entitled to quarterly
changes.
Advertisements not otherwise ordered, will
be continued until ordered discontinued and
charged accordingly.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

The glowing spark of life is
too often permitted to be almost
extingushed in the ashes of this
world.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07
News items.

murderers next month.
FIVE Southern States are to
hang murderers next month,
FRANK P. Blair is at Clifton
Springs, N. Y, for his health.
WILLIAM Cullen Bryant has
had his shot at a Florida alli-
gator. ba
Mr.. Delane, editor of the
London Times, is about to visit
this country.
RICHMOND had snow and
strawberries together one day
last week. fog
SAN Francisco won't allow
the Heather Chinee to act as
fireman. 4
LAKE Champlain threatens to
submerge all the real plains in
its vicinity.
New York spends three mill
ion dollars on funerals annually
and thinks it cheap enough,
The juicy pollwog has become
an article of diet in the New
York fashionable restaurants.
BROOKLYN has imprisoned a
man for two years merely be-
cause he beat his boy to death.
KENTUCKY farmers will quit
raising hemp if there isn't a
better demand for it before
long.
WESTERN pork packers esti-
mate the hog value of a Con-
gresham at 1000 fat ones an
nually. 6ad
The Maryland oyster beds
have been scrapeG so clean
that a tight market is looked for
next year.
The Franklin fund, left to be
lent to Boston mechanics, now
amounts to one hundred and
seventy-five thousand dollars.
ROBERTSON county. Texas,
claims that it's native coal is
AZ per cent more calorifc than
that of Pennsylvania.
ANCIENT Jerusalem is about
to innovate on the accommoda-
tiOns Of it's fathers in Israel,
and ride in street-car.
A Kentuckian who said that
he never heard of Daniel
Boone was promptly shot in
the leg by an enthusiastic
young man.
The new Gardner gun, which
combines both magazine and
breach loader, fires twenty
seven shots in sixty-three sec
onds.
A PENNSYLVANIA Legislature
has refused to change libel law
and news paper men will have
to be careful who they call a
thief and heathen.
PURsEL, the New York baker,
has made enough money to
build a threatre, and intends to
put it up on Broadway.
BARNUM's wild Indians are
getting ready for the Vienna
trip. They have almost sue
ceeded in concealing their
brogue.
The doctors have now come to
the conclusion that chloroform
killed Napoleon, and that if
they had left him alone he
would have lived on. M
OWING to the loss of the At
lantic, Miss Faithfull's return
to England is delayed until the
10th ofMay, when she will sail
in the White Star steamer
Oceanic.
The late Walter Montgomery
left property to the amount Of
$2,070, OF this $400 worth
in England. He bequeathed
his watch-guard to the Duke
of Edinburgh. sailgss
When the thief can not break
in at the door himself, he finds
a child, and puts him through
fha Is4tIa x,,s,, Jo.., .,.J H.. lAI "
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07
TsHAM HOUSE.
JACKSON, OEITO-

This house, formerly the Isham House, has
been thoroughly renovated and beautifully
furnished. Having superior facilities, every
thing will be done TO mako guests comfortable.
Table always supplied with tho best the mar
ket affords. Nicely furnished r0QmS 9nd
eleanest beds. Good Stables. Every efart
made for the comfort of patrons. All charges
nndeiate
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

THE BABLING PREACHER.
The sharp teeth of old Cross Cut
must have passed through tough
timber,and one fthe toughest sticks
| have found is that of a preacher
who has no more respect for his
calling them to sit around stores
and shops, and tell long and vulgar
stories, for the diversion of o pack
of rude boys and men who enjoy
such talk. You are astonished that
preacher should be guilty of such
indiscretion--did you say? So is
Cross-Cut, but know man claim
ing to be preacher, wha is guilty
Of just such eXceptionable demean-
or. He has at times made us
ashamed and we felt like taking
hold of him and cutting him
into, as we would q rot
ten log. What a pity, that re-
ligious people will allow such verita-
bic clowns, TO ramble over the coun,
try to the detriment ofa good cause.
Cross-Cut has decided on naming
out this "babbling preacher" so
loud that all trees in Woodland shall
bear and know who he is, unless he
change his course of conduct.
WOODLAND, o. CRoss-CUT.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

Constancy and firmness form
the characteristics Of serene and
composed minds.
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MARBLE.

ID R, HIGGINS & BRO,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Marble Monu ments, Tomb Stones,
MANTLEs, FURNITURE. &C.,
LOGAN, OHIO
Good Assortment of Marble constantly on
hand. All kinds OF CEMETERY WORK done
TO order in the finest style.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07
| MERICAN HOTEL,

Corner High and State Sts., nearly opposite
State House,
COIU MBUS, OHIO
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-07

This Hotel Is furnished throughout with all
the modern improvements, Guests can rely
on the best treatment and very low bills.
Street Cars pass this Hotel TO and from all
Railroad Dep0ts.
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HOTELS.
M ERCHANTs' HOTEL.
PORTSMOUTH, OHIO.

j. w. WARMER Proprietor.
This Hotel Is in the most convenient part of
tho eity-on Front ST., between Market and
Jefferson,
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Advertising Rates.

The space occupied by 10 lines of this Non
pareiD type shall constitute q square.
Rule and Figure W0rk-5O cents additional
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hlscts house has been entirely Rented, Re.
Thlsodr and Remodelcd and 10 in all re-
onptla Hlhl .|NtftFt
FIRsT-CLAss HOTEL.
ALLTHELuxuRIEs or THE SE AsoN. Table
surpassed by none In tho West. Ample md
pleasant Accommodations for travellers. Glyo
us \ oAh. t 0AKBS " CO., Proprletors.
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F.J. oAKES \ j. T. FISHER, Proprictors.
JN0. MCINTYRE u j. II. CONNOLLY, Clerks.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-04-11
The English Bank F0rgeries.

London papers of the 18th contain
the evidence given in the case of Edwin
Moves, arrested on suspicion of being
concerned in the late forgeries on the
Bank of England The woman who was
arrested charged with being in unlaw-
full possession of part of the proceeds
of the fraud testified. She stated that
last August she made the acquaintance
of one George Bidwell, an American,
and went to Holland and France with
him. She knew his brother, Austin
Bidwell, and a Mr.. Howe and Mr..
George Mcdonnell. This Mcdonnell
she identified by photograph as a
person known as a friend of Noyes, but
she further stated that the prisoner
Noyes is the person whom she thus
met. On the Both of March, George
Bidwell informed her that something
had gone amiss with one ofhis friends +:
he shaved off his moustache and com.
missioned her to meet him, with some
money, at Euston Square Station, and
to go with him to Hollyhead she
obeyed his directions and went to the
station, but he was gone, and the police
took her into custody. This shows
that four persons are implicated, be-
sides Noyes-the two Bidwells, Nc
Donnell and Horton, or Warren. Evil
dence was also brought which seems
10 prove that these two are really diff
erent names of the same man.