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The local indebtedness of this State.is
rapidly increasing Z and we feel safein as.
ssrting shat tits Increasing beyond the
ability Of the people to pay, without en-
tarrassing shem financially. d
The total county Indebtedness in ,his
State amounts to S4,348, ,S9e
And the amount on haud for '''s 9
payment is only 592,55e
Net am'tof debt sep. /, 1871, ss.75s,lss
This county has no Indebtedness; Bel
mont has ssT .O44; Noble has ss7,
Guernsey sis,oe2i W ashingion $780,
600. a 81 Ilpa ! !
Already the ,ax rate is excet diagiy
birdensomc TO fully three-fcurths OF the
ter PAYERS, the State over, the authori'
ties sbcuti devise waysto reduce taxa
tios and prevent Indebtedness, rather
than enact measures toincrease our taxes
and creste other debts, The necessity foI
vhich Is not observable By those diiec y
interested 1d'sti
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Anew Cattle Disease.

CHILLIcoTHE, ONO, January ga
mysterious disease has broken ont
among the cattle in Franklin township,
in this county. One man has lost elev.
en- head so far, sll of which were found
dead, save two. The disease takes the
form of spasmodic contraction of the
muscles. No remedy has been sugges-
ted yet that offers any relief The
stock men think the disease may be an
outbreak of cattle epidemic which
may prove as widespread as the epi-
zootic So = s..s-. - p - = ~
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Letter from Beaii.ville.

Being reader of your psper ! have
NOT failed to see your request that~sorne
one from each neighborhood would fur
nish items for publication After watt
ing in vain for some person more com.
petent than myself, to comply with this
request, viii try to let you and your
readers know something of the doings
of the good people Of Beallsville and
vicinity.
Christmas with as was, as usual, very
quiet, nothing transpiring worthy of
note until Saturday, the 18th ult. Quite
a pleasant entertainment was given at
the M. E. Church, for the benefit of the
Sabbath ochool.in which large number
Of people participated, and were vel
coined to boantiful reception of good
.hings prepared for the occasion. Ad-
dresses were delivered in the most ap-
proved style by the ministers Of the diff
ferent Churches in this place.
On New Years day congregation Of
men, women and children, Wandering
foar hundred and upward, assembled in
the Presby terian Church, and after lis
tening to several very appropriate ad-
dresses, we were made the recipients Of
an unusual amount Of refreshments,p pre-
pared by the people and distributed by
committee of young folks, selected for
the purpose Everything passed off
nicely, and all felt that it was "good to
be there"
Quite an interesting meeting is in pro-
gress at the M. + Church, conducted by
the Pastor, Rev. Mr.. Gamble. On Fri
day evening, Rev s. Burt delivered an
excellent discourse, to the edifcatlon OF
all present, from the, text. HE was sad
at that saving and went away grieved."
|-St Mark C. rriii.
An unusual amount of sickness pre-
walls among the children occasioned.
doubtless, by the sudden changes Of the
weather.
DR.. A. Mccullough, promising
young man of this place, who went tc
Cincinnati for the purpose of attending
Medical Lectures. is sick with fever, and
the physician entertains but little hope
of his recovery.
There are three cases OF smallpox on
Pains Run, Switzerland Township.
The most acceptable thing we have re-
ceived here lately was the rain Saturday
|ahd Sabbath. Water was scarce and
very inconvenient.
Jan. Z, 1873.
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TIE ApAiR Law LIN recent case
under this law, Judge Foote, of Caya
hoga county, in charging jury said /;
sThe intoxicsting liquors sold must be
other than ale, beer, cider, or wine made
of; the pure Juice, of the, grape grown
ini Ohio He took the ground that
these beverages are excepted from the
provisions OF the law forbidding The
sale Of intoxicating liquors to be drank
where sold, and that therefore their sale
is not unlawful, and parties sueing fer
damages cannot recover unless the sale
10 xnldmfal, and Is so proceed
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Besides the immense quantity sold for
expectation, over 1,400, 100000 cigars
are annually smoked on the island of
Cuba alone.
The newspapers of Central America
are devising plan for consolidating the
five States of Central America into one
republc,as the thirteen colonies of North
America were made into the United
States. Our constitution is to be their
model.
''Is Pat Flinnigan on hoard this ship ?"
roared Nelson during lull in the firing
at the battle of the Nile. I'm here, my
Lord" said Erin's son, Showing himself
on deck "Then,' said the gallant Mel.
son, looking satisfied, "let the battle pro-
ceed That storyis Pats,
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Mnrder In the FIRST Degree.

80
Epwasp s. aSroKEs, who murdered
JAxEs FISK. Jr., in New York Gity,Jan
nary s, 1872 has been found guilty of
murder in the FIRST degree and sentenced
10 be hung on Friday, the 18th day Of
February. sas
The irst trial Of this case resulted in
the jury disagreeing. The present trial
was conducted by the defence, compos-
ed Of able lawyers upon the ground Of
..Justi6able Homicide. which excluded
the medical testimony upon which the
jury could not agree at the first trial.
Judging from the tone of leading
New York journals, il does not appear
that the verdict meets the approval Of
the public. The. Tribune of the 9th,
SAYS. editorially:
aThere fingers in the public mind
some doubt as to whether the young
man now convicted of murder was.real-
w the aggressor; and the sympathy his
unexpected conviction for murder in
the first degree has aroused. iss highten-
ed by the popular aversion to a penalty.
which precludes the possibility Of miti.
eating the verdict because OF such 9
doubt. no less than by. reeollsctiens pf
the career which the prisoners act
brought to SO sudden close. We do
not believe in hanging as the proper
punishment for murder. While theiaw
prescribes it, we believe the law should
be enforced: but does not the public
doubt about this very case give voice TO
the popular argument against the con.
tinuance OF the law ?" sa,,
The gorld Of the 9th inst says:
the facts that the theory of the
prosecution and the theory Of the de
Tense were supplemented by Judge
Boardnan by still another theory, and
that the Assistant District Attorney
thoughtsit proper 4ta explain that the
prosecution had been conducted .witt-
out any fee from any member Of Mr.,
Fisk's family, hurt the weight Of the
verdict. somewhat with the public, which
| is after s.l,the jury OF last resort At
the same lime it is well to keep in MUD
the tenor and details of the testimony
produced by the defense---tbe alleged
finding OF . pistol carried by Fisk, BY a
woman who was not brought forward at
the tlial and the alleged handing OF the
pistol by this woman TO man who wcs
not brought forward at the trial s
I'VE allude to these several passages
In order to secure the readers attention
to an issue which is perhaps one of the
most unsatisfactory in the history OF
criminal jirisprudence-since, while all
citizens are agreed that murderer
should according 10 law be hung, so sin.
gular doubt as to who was the aggles-
sor in this ease will still linger in the
iimblic mind after the Ferdict"
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LONDON, January 3.-The Times this
morning contains an editorial on the
probable policy of the United States
with regard to the Sandwich Islands,
Tbs Times says England is unconeern-
ed politically with these islands, which
are destined sooner or later to become
American, The action of the United
States Government in sending out ma
val vessel to protect the interests of the
Americans is looked upon as the first
step toward their ultimate annexation.
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A Titusyille oil prince has papered his
house with l0-40 boads, which are relieved
by handsome border of ten-dollar
sreenhacks.
The women Of Coiumbus, GA, have
discarded silks and satins and are wear.
ing the plaids and checks manufactured
in that city. e
The Bessamer ship saloon is attracting
the attention of eminent European en-
gineers. This is saloon which prevents
sea-sickness. R5 sgs s .
The bone trade of Western Kansas is
growing. Many carloads are gathered
on the plains, and find a ready market in
the East.
{ The original Rothschild was a pack
pe6dler, who travelled on foot and retail
ed chewing gum and hair-pins to the peo-
pie of his time.
A citizen of Virginia has invented an
apparatus for melting the sncw on n-raii-
road tracks in front Of the engine. as fast
as it advances.
During the past year there we're over
forty failures OF business houses in AL
bany, N. Y, with liabilities of over ha If
a million dollars.
Some workmen ina jersey City dock
found mans head the other day, and are
now trying to find the man that lost it.
No one has claimed it so far.
Salt Lake with her 10000 inhabitants,
is now face to face with winter of hard
ship, owing to lack Of fuel. The sup
plyo coal is Inadequate to the demand.
/, Mrs. Faircloth, of Mitchell County,
Ga, is 1T years old, and can still skin
cat, split kindling wood, and knit stock
ings with Mansard heels, with one eye
open.
Prince Leopold, Of England. disdains
to advertise his nobility with the gold
,assel to his cap which young nohlemen
have been accustomed to wear at Oxford.
The expectant Earl Of Roscommon,a an
inheritor of vast Irish estates, is poor
but honest young man named Dillon, who
nurses his hopes and his genealogy at
Memphis, Tenn.
The Delaware Indians live in frame
houses, wear cut away coats and stand up
collars, fail in business and, compromise
at fifty cents or. the dollar and are get
ting quite civilized
The students OF the Michigan Univer--
sity concluded not to pay Henry Ward
Beecher 81 900 for one lecture, seeing
that SUM would purchase 10000 glasses
OF beer, and other brain-making mate
rial.
The problem of municipal reform is
thus sententiously solved by the Gncin-
natl Commercial "The way to reform
the City Government is to cut down ex-
penses. The way TO cut down expenses
is to stop stealing. The way to stop
stealing Is to stop the abeminable nuisan
ces that are .faeetionsly termed improve
ments.
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erIn McGonneIsvills. Morgan Coun-
", strange faces are not often seem
FRANK DAVIS, Of the Democrat says: !:
"Peoplc get 30 well used to each other
that yoe ean shut your eyes aud tell =
psrson square OF bv his wzlk.
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A bill passed the Lower House OF thu
Ohio Legislature, last week, fixing .fs
tine for the election OF Members Of tbs
constitutional Convention on Monday
The tn day oi April, the day Of ths
Spring slection.
Monday. the 9Th day Of May, is the
xay sxsd upon for the meeting Of ths
Conssnt;os. Il appears tolerably GER
tain that the Senate will acs favorabiy
upo6 the bin.
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-. - q. -
egMr. SoL. EwERs, Of Hopewell
township, Muskingum County, has bee
hive q years old, during which time the
bees have swarmed but once. He has
taken 2, 900 pounds of honey from the
hive.
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cloomy views or Negro Honesty.

The Hon. Robert Brown Elliott, coll
ored Member of Congress from South
Carolina, who was candidate for the
United States Senate in the late contest,
takes somber view of the situation -
He thinks that money was used very
freely 10 secure Patterson's election
and adds:
ing this out of personal feeling l was
candidate before the Legislature and
was defeated. Il can bear defeat, but
the humiliation the thiag has brought
upon our colored race-that's what burts
me Our race is now ON trial before the
world as to its fitness to govern. What
will be said after such wholesale buy
ing up as this? The colored men, as
you know, are in large majority in the
Legislature, and then for them to delib-
erately sell out by wholesale, is blow
shat we can't get over for years. II IS
a blow at our integrity, our honesty
our manhood. The report has gone to
the world that the colored legislators,
making laws for South Carolina, have
been brbed by wholesale, and the report
is unfortunately true. What viii thee
world think of it
The charges against the Legislature
which elected Patterson to the Senate
are attracting SO much attention that
it does not seem possible that the Uni
ted States Senate can afford to pass
them over in silence. The indianapo.
lis journal, sterling organ of the Adj
ministration, feels constrained to say :,
The charge that John ]. Patterson
poaght his election to the United States
senate from South Carolina Is suppor-
ted by specifications OF corruption go
strong and numerous that the Senate
ewes y 70 itself 70 order an inyestlgass
uon II one-haif that is charged ABOUT
the manner OF his election y true, ne ls
utterly undesefying OF q seat n that
| body, and honest men OF all parties
have right to expect that the SehAta'
Will examine into the matter. The Sem
ate OF the United States is IN Its organ
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Majority IN fsvor Of the tax. 47l
Twc-tbirds Of the votes cast were ns-
eesssry % authorize the ievy; the vote
q lsvor uss .571 short Of two-thirds
The city Of Cineinnati, on the 7Sth
slt., voted to levy tan Of sl,a5o.OoO,
IN "a of the Ohio Valley Railroad =
Yea, a.ssl nays 2,a47.
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=.
A French chemist has discovered
brilliant method Of making diamonds BY
extracting the color from other precious
stones.
The inmates of " estern Hotel were
terribly frightened, recently, by crazy
woman, who stepped into one ofthe halls
and yelled: prepare We. prepare ye:
the Lord is eoming.i's Instead of com
ing forth to meet the heralded visitor,
like faithful christians, many Of the guests
piled all available furniture against their
doors, and showed other signs of trepi--
dation. The woman was finally quieted,
and with her cries died out doubtless the
sudden resolutions of reformation which
had suggested themselves to many unea-
sy consciences, Judging from their &C.
tions, they must have regarded the Al
mighty as a sort Of police officer.
"Old Pewter Buttons" isn't the incest
sort of name, and we cannot blame
most docile, hen-peckeds husband of
Rutherford, N. c., for rising in rebellion
against such an appellation. He had
borne without murmuring frequent stro-
kings with the broomstick had rather en-
joyed dodging the fat-irons tossed play
fully at his head had even suffered him.
self to be driven out of his own house
without so much. as dreaming OF com
plant, But when he was called Old Pew
ter Buttons" the latent manhood within
him was tremendously stirred, and he
forthwith sought the Mayor and laid be
fore him the astounding charge. His
Honor, with an alacrity painfully sugges-
tive of a similar 'afiiiction in his own
home, summoned the woman before him.
inflicted heavy fne, aid placed her
under bonds to kecpthe peace,
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Born Drunk,

Among the names registered at the
Tombs, the other night, was that of
youth about sifteen years of age, who
had been arrested for drunkenness. But
Ne was not drunk, nor had he been
dfinking He was, moreover, in good,
sound health, but gave all the external
indications of. being intoxicated when
arrested by police-officer. Upon pro-
testing to the keeper of the Tombs that
he was not intoxicated, it was revealed
that the unfortunate youth had been
born a natural drunkard, or rather that
he had always acted like such a thing
He said that, although in good health,
he had never been able to walk without
staggering. His speech was not unlike
that of persons in decided state Of in
toxication; and when excited, he would
mutter and reel The unfortunate youth
was detained until the next day, and was
not sent to the courts TO be gazed at
through judicial spectacles. A suhse
quent investigation of the case proved
that he had been telling the truth about
himself, but his condition revealed a
demonstration of the natural law that
the child is a. fair copy Of his parents.
It appears that, prior to marriage, the
father had been secret but confirmed
,inebriate, and when the facts became
known to the woman thus suddenly and
Unexpectedly, she wept in a most terri
BILE manner. Almost broken-hearted,
she contemplated the future misery in
store for her Months passed away,
when it was discovered that the child
at tthree years of age acted strangely land
at the end of six months, the unhappy
woman fully realized all her forebo-
dines. The effect produced uron the
mother was not without its influence
upon the father, however Realizing,
in the midst of tears Of bitter anguish,
the sin that had heen visited upon the
child, the man reformed. He has now
several bright children, and most ex-
emplary ones, too,they are. But the boy
that was brought into the Tombs was not
drunk, but had entailed upon him life
of misery as it was blasted destiny
Ny. Tribune
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EvTAe number Of Cadets in the Ma
val Academy is TO be increased 40. snd
the courseof study 70 continue six ssass
instead Of four So =
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The stokes Case.

The proceedings il the case Of Ed
WARES. S7okEs the murderer of JAMES
FISK, Jr, wese brought TO a close in
New York City the night of the 4th
inst The closing scenes are thus de-
scribed hy the ". Y. Tribune:
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A~Tbe snendthrift's sono /.

&EThe spendthrift's song:
The money comes, and the money goes,
Just the way the wild, wind blows;
But how it comes, from whom, from where,
Little know, and less care,
So long as it comes as well as goes,
Just the way the wild wind blows
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New Views Of the Medoe WAR

1t almost always happens that thiev<
ing Indian agent is found at the bottom
Of an Indian war. There have been
one or two versions of the Modoc In =
dian difficulties, and now The Alta Calf
fornia furnished another. 1t saws:
Some years ago these same red men
gave serious trouble, and Gen. Crook,
then in command there, went after them
in earnest. In d short time they begged
for peace, and he granted it, on condi-
tion that they should be allowed To
roam over the country and support
themselves, and the chiefs should be
held responsible for the surrehder Of
any of their subjects who should MUIR
der white men, or steel the propexf 4 81
the whites. They kept the peace loyal
ly, because they had learned that they
could not make anything by fighting
against Crook. After time, an Indian
agent attempted to drive them into 8 Z
where they could go to
Sunday-school, and could be used to :
justify the payment of various salaries
and the handling OF goods, on which,
profit could be made in various ways.-
A war was Threatened, but Crookinter-
fered ,and protected the red mehS against
the agent. Now Crook has been sbsent
for some time, and, according to report,
these came Indians had Been driven up
on reservation. where they were stary-
ed and robbed. We do not admit that,
because the Indians have been robbed
by the agents, the white settlers in the
vicinity should be left unprotected, and
the crimes committed by the red men
should be left unpunished Tha. is the
policy of the Indian Commissioners;
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ssrssss az i-seffs .esrecn ~ fs@fsf +r=
kvFof hrst-clsss murders, sSpring-
Isld, ohio, holds the belt. q sa.s
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COURT ROOM EPISODES.


Stokes then broke silence for the first
time, as he turned on Mr.. Beach, and
said deliberately but with intense feel
ing: "Well. Mr.. Beach, / must say you
have done your work well, hope you
have been we'll paid fer it." Then
Stokes sat down. Mr.. Beach did not
reply; but his face was turned away
from the prisoner.
Mr Fellows, the Acting District-At-
torney, rose, and, addressing the Judge,
asked that sentence be passed upon the
prisoner at the bar
As Mr.. Fellows sat down, Lyman
Tremain, who had been sitting by ta-
hle with his head bowed in his haud,
said: "Ycur Honor, / hope you will
not think it necessary to pass sentence
at this late hour of the night. Would
it not be better to wait till Monday
morning y
Judge Boardman---I see no absolute
necessity for passing sentence tonight,
and | see 40 impropriety in acting on
the counsefs suggestion. will there
fore defer sentence until Monday morn.
ing. ga
District-Attorney Fellows then ad-
dressed the Court in an explanatory
manner, and stated that Messrs Beach
and Fullerton had not been employed by
Mr.. Fisls's family, and that they had
been employed by the county to assist
in the prosecution.
Stnkns (ri>ina, sllddenlu and inter,nnt-
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them, and when the dog grabs the man
by the leg, the thief gets into his pock-
ct.
There is great demand for wood
choppers in the northern counties o:
California, at from $50 to S75 per
month.
Niagara hack drivers will double
their prices next year, to make up for
the epizoot and dull times of the pres
ent.
An intelligent gragestone cutter in
Detroit keeps ready-made grave stones
with the name - Smith, cut there.
on.
According to the statistics of the last
complete census of the United States,
men outnumbered women by 42S, $50.
Toledo, Ohio. has start ed two new
cemeteries, and several undertakers are
trying to secure places to commence
business.
Let no man complain Of female ex.
travagance nowadays. Queen Eliza.
beth had three thousand dresses and
eighty wigs.
Indiana papers have observed that
the whisky in that State has improved
twenty per cent. in taste since the
drouth set in. m s.s
The Mormons are petitioning heaven
to prevent the spread of the small pox in
their lovely valley unless it can be con-
fined to the Gentiles.
At New York church weddings in the
evening, calcium lights are thrown upon
the bridal party, as they start for their
carriages after the ceremony.
Coldwater, Mich, has cheap system
of waterworks, which consists of big
well, a powerful windmill, aud number
of reservoirs. 1t works we'll.
A beautiful! belle of Minneapolis,
MINI, was run away with by short
horned heifer, which she was driving
along the avenue, attached 70 cutte.a