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DEATH BY srARYArIoN.

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| The hurricane which passed over
the Miami Valley, on the fourth of
July, tore down mum Der of old trees,
and among them large oak. The
owneriof the property, a Mr.. Rogers,
on examining the extent of the dam
age done by the storm, discovered in
the hollow of the fallen oak human
skeleton with some brass buttons and
shreds of clothing, and among other
things pocket-bOok with a number
of papers. A communication to the
Miami County Democrat, signed j. f.
Clark, relates: "The mans name as
gathered from the papers was Roger
Vanderberg, native of Lancaster,
Pa, and Captain in the Revolutionary
army. He was an Aid to Washing
ton during the retreat across the Jer-
seys; and served a time inAfnold's
headquaPtersa at West Point. InI179l
he marched with st. Clair against the
Northwestern Indians, and in the fa-
nous outbreak of that general on. the
Wabash. Nov. 3, of theyear just writ
ten, he was wounded and lcaptured.-a
But while being conveyed to the In
dian town at Upper Piqua he effected
his escape, but found himself hard
pressed by his savage foes. He saw
the hollow oak, and despite the mau-
gled arm, and with the aid of q beech
that grew beside the giant then, he
gained the haven and dropped there,
in. Then came fearful discovery
He had miscalculated the depth of the
hollow, and there was no escape. o,
the story told by the diary of the oaks
despairing prisonerl How, rather
than surrender to the tortures of the
stake, he chose death by starvation
how he wrote his diary in the uncer-
tain light and the SHOWS, Here is one
entry in the diary: ,......,.,..,,-.,.
Nov. 10-FfYe days without food!
When sleep dream of luscious and
RoeOGnq streams The. stars EduQl at
my misery. 1t is showing now I
freeze while starye. God pity me z
"The italicised words were sup
piled by Mr.. Rogers, ss the trembling
hand ofttimes refused to indite Plain-a
ly. The entries covered q space Of
eleven days, and in disjointed SEN
tences is told the story of ST. Clair's
defeat. Mr.. Rogers has written to
Lancaster to ascertain if any descend
ants of the ill-fated Captain live if
so, they shall have his bones.n sa,,r
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no,r a alr1 Hslps to olean Houss.

She is perfectly willing to help
She tells her mother she would just
as lief stay home a week as not, and
informs her teacher, with semi
triumphant air, that she has to stay
home next week to help clean hopse,
The carpets are to be taken up first,
and that girl, delicately reared though
she be, braVely sits down in the mid
die of the floor and reads q paper
while her mother and hired girl take
out the tacks and make frantic efforts
to use the same form of common pray
er that the head of the house uses
when his boots don't come on easily
in the morning.
The carpet is rolled up and taken
out into the back yard and hung on
the clothes line to be busted. Now
the girl comes cut strong and shows
the latent energy that 10 in her. She
seizes an old broom and starts toward
the swinging carpet with an air of
determination. On her way she spies
her friend Kate passing and goes of
to the side fence TO talk about an hour
and a half abOut-well, about what
ever girls do talk uHder the same Cir
cumstances. Then she goes into the
house and eats her dinner and COM
plains of being tired. f.t.5...
In the afternoon she begins dusting
and arranging the books in the book
case. She finds, pretty soon, one of
OVida's novels, and sits down on the
floor to read, while the ink, from q
bottle she knocks over when she
throws her duster on the table, runs
all over the parlor curtains stuffed
under the chair near by. Her mother
find her there, and sends her into the
parlor to gather up her music ready
for to-morrow's campaign. She gets
along we'll. enough With her finger ex.
ercises and marches, but presently
she comes across "Don't be angry
with me, Darling" that Robert gave
her last week, and begins to hum it.
She opens the piano to find the key
note, to be certain she can take the
high note nicely, and begins to sing.
1t don't sound well without the ac-
compartment that Robert thought
was SO sweet, SO she sits down and
begins to play. While she is prac-
tising Robert comes along. He hears
her. He stops. He enters. She stops.
He wants to hear that sweet song.
Came in only for that. She is too
hoarse. She couldn't think Of sing
ing with her hair tied up in towel,
but she does. At -
Robert sighs as the song ends, and
she proposes a game of croquet. They
go out and play croquet till tea-time.
-Ierre HdWte free Press.
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long deferred, but well merited sue
cess. Gentlemen, / have given You
tonight some of the reasons why
am in the Democratic party. There
are others. A party that has existed
for many years Will have certain prin-
ciples that have grown with its
growtl-that have become bred, as it
were, into its very organization, and
for the carrying out of which 1t can
safely be trusted. Among those pFin- :
ciples, which have become ingrained
i'll the Democratic party, are hostility
to monopolies, and to what is known
as protective tariff, a return TO spe-
Gle payments, and to a stricter con-
struction OF the Constitution.
faFos a tariff for revenue only.
would favor the opening of our ports
to the free and unrestrained trade of
the world, but for the reason that we
have not yet devised any means where
by we can reach all the wealth of the
country with a direct tax. What
by the exemption of bonds from taxa
tion, by perjury in the matter of list
ing personal property and credits, so
much of the wealth of the country es-
capes a direct tax that. until some
means are devised to catch iC all and
make it pay tribute it seems that an
indirect tax is necessity. But let us
not fasten such tax upon the false
system of projections, whereby mill
ions of dollars are taken from the 2
pockets of the people to put thousands
only into the treasury, while the resi- =
due finds its way from the pockets of s
the poor into the Golfers of the richn7o
Now the Republican party, having
absorbed most of the Wing element,
has had protection fairly bred into 1t.
1t has fastened upon us our presento
tariff, with all its injnstice and irregu-
larities. Can it be trusted TO shake
that tariff off and inaugurate revenue
reform? ~ ft5s z;.tI f8 fst9.I.
Under Republican rule monopolies
of every kind have grown with an un-
exampled growth. Can the Republic
can party be trusted to even decently9.
and fairly regulate them, much less to
cut off their hydra heads Can it be
trusted to regulate our national banks, =
to curtail their privileges, and deal
fairly between them and the people2f
Can it be trusted SO well as the DEM
ocratic party to return speedily to
specie payments? 1t is true that the
Democratic party here advocated ex-
pansion Immediately after the close. of !
the late civil war as a temporary ex-.
pedient, and it was, under the cir
even then half right, but
now that party has returned to its first
love, and can be trusted to give u.s.
hard money-and paper dollars, if we !,
must have them, equal to hard money.
Can the Republican party be trusted
to give US a stricter construction of @
our federal constitution than we have s
had for the last ten years2 That party
has grown so in the habit of exercis-
ing war powers that even in these
piping times of peace, it cannot lay
aside the habit. Look at trecenstructed
LouisiaDa-see Governor upon her
by federal bayonets!
Democrats, think you have heard
enough from me to to know why tits
that l am with you. Let us enter in
to this contest with spirit worthy of
our candidates and of our cause. -
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KISSING The SERVANT GIRL
15a tf- OR, aHEt4s -
Mrs. Tom wilkins Story.

l confess was very angry. Well,
may as well begin at the beginning and
tell you the whole story. When ]
married Tom Wilkins all my friends
said [ had made fool of myself
really thrown myself away with
nv advantages, too, 1 should have
done 30 much better, and much more
to the same purpose. Well, to be
sure, Tom is a big, stupid fellow,
neither rich nor handsome, bat loved
him, and what other excuse does a
woman need for an act of folly? But
Tom had one fault that troubled me
greatly,-he was a most inVeterate
kisser. Before we were married he
used to kiss all the girls that visited
his sister, and afterwards he kissed all
my old school friends who came to
the house, and even kissed mother,
and you must concede that a man is a
great kisser who would kiss his
mother-in-law. Well, all this bore
in silence, if not with patience, till
one morning, coming out of my room,
what should l see but Tom at the
head of the stairs actually kissing
Sarah Ann, the hired girl. That was
little more than human nature, or al
least, woman nature could bear.
sat down till 1 had recovered myself
little, and allowed Tom time to
reach the dining groom. When at last
l went down, he advanced with his
usual smile to kiss me, but l drew
back angrily.
"What, Jessie, what's the matter p
he said, looking surprised, ''am moi
to have kiss this morning 2"
GAS you have already had the pleas
ure of kissing Sarah Ann think that
will do for one morning. should
not fancy the flavor of your kiss aftcl
that" -
Tom actually blushed. 90, you saw
that, did you, Jessie2 Well, where's
the great harm in that It's my motto
to imbibe sweetness wherever L find
it."
"Well, fancy you did not imbibe
great deal from that source, and the
harm is that it lowers your dignity al
head of the family, besides giving the
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The Bangor Commercial says: "We
give it up. The salary grabbers arasl
all right. Not one of them has yet
been struck by lightning; not one of
them has been killed by a tornado or
steamboat explosion not one of them
has fallen into the river or been drown
ed not one of them has had the chol-
era or smallpox not one of them
has been bitten by rattlesnake, and
not one of them has starved to death.
Heaven, indeed, seems to smile on
their deeds, 5..;,s.....'
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A NEGRO witness on horse trial in
q New Jersey court was asked to exc
plain the difference between a box and
a common stall. Strengthening him.
self up, he pointed to the square I'M
closure in which the Judge was seat
ed, aud sand: " Dat what i calls box
stall whar dat ole hoss am sittin'." 1t
took the Sheriff some time to restore
order in the court.
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The following statistics were sup
piled to the Shah The area of Lon
don is 500 square miles; tho total
population is 4,025, ,659; the total
length of streets and roads patrolleda p
by the metropolitan police is 1912
miles, and the addition or increase in
the length of streets during the past
ten years is 3,623 miles; the strength
of the police is 1912. etaia erAa
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The Equitable Life.

Life Assurance is now one of the greatest
interests of this country, ranking with Rail
Road and Banking interests. The Life poli-
cieS now in force represent over Two Billion
Dollars. Twenty-Five Millions are paid out
annually Chiefly to widows and orphans) on
expired policies
THE ANNUAL NEW BUSINESS of
the Equitable, is millions larger than any
other Companyin this country or Europe.
4 small amount annually cannot be so
priftably and safely invested in any other
shape, as in LIFE POLICY, either by the
rich man or ihe poor man
Il. G. PHILLIPS District Agent.
Ravenna, Ohio
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ADuTcHMAN getting excited over
an account of married woman, gave
his opinion thus: off my wife runs
way nit anoder mans wife, shake
him out fon his preeches, if she be
mine fader, mine Coil"
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GRACE GREEN wooD relates as an in-
stance of the extravaganza of New
England humor that when young
farmers wife made a first boys pants
precisely as ample before as behind,
the father exclaimed, "Goodnessl he
won't know whether he's going 70
school or coming home" F IS
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-08-28
J. GoUCHER,
HOMCEOPATHY, ,
YTlOA WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM
4 ACUTE OR CHRONIC DISEASES.
j. GOUCHER, M. d.

offers his professional services.
The Doctor studied the Old school systen, with
Prof Valentine Mott. N. D., of New York city.
and graduated in the Medical University OF
New York. No 659 Broadway, and also graau-
ated IN the Eye and Ear Infirmary of thst city
He has also been Hospital Student of Prof 4
r. Smith, OF Bait tiTn9re
The Doctor practiced the Old school system
for twenty years He then studied Homeopathy
and graduated in that school, which he practices
exclusively The Doctor has had considerable
Hospital experience, and thirty-five years
practice in the profession OF Medicine.
n He is located al Rayenna Portage county O.
on the Cleayeland & Pittsburgh K. r.. eighteen
miles north of Alliance it is at this point where
the Great Western crosses the Cleveland road.
The D0ctor has his Oficc at his residence, cor
ner OF Sycamore and Cedar streets
OFFICE HoURs-From a. M. to D. m.
J. GOUCHER, NJ. d.
Ravenna. Jan. 2. 1871. I7s-y
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Business Cards
WEDnELL HOUSE,
FRANCIS L. CLARK,

Cleveland ohio. 3 - per day Z. a. GIL
EEErE, Proprietor
Dec 3, 1s6ss 1y-
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NICHOLS.

.....,,a,, ,+ T.a,v and notary Public. Office
IN Phenix Block, over Brainerd q Sons Drug y
Store 99a tf.
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1NsrRANCE AGENCY.

roe7,. Life and Fire Insurance
LIT Once on 2d floor, over the Secona
Nsti9naI Bank RaVenna, Ohio "a
Sept %. 1852 56-ly
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nr.ef,nfrs,I and Architectural Draughts-
n,an. Patent Oniee Drawing a Specially
No - finn Ayenue. Pittsburgh, Pa
June 6. 1Ssz-
Smyrna times., 1873-03-26

A Coop ACr.-The act for the suppression
of obscene literature, which was passed by the
42d Congress, if carried into execution, will
prove Of inestimable benefit to the morality Of
the community at large but laws lik" pie
crust are so frequently made but to be broken,
that we can hardly hope for as good results as
might be expected. The act, to be sure,
covers ample ground, the penalties for its
violation are distinctly stated and it but remains
to be seen whether there will be sufficient force
in our prosecutors to carry it out. If they do,
two lucrative advertising columns of a certain
morning journal will have to be discontinued :;
for, certainly, the Personals" " and Medical
advertisements come NEST distinctly under sec
tion l4S OF the act, which says that there shall
not pass through the mail nor be delivered
"any advertisement or notice of any kind Civ
ing information, directly or indirectly, where,
or how, or of'whom, or by means either of the
things above mentioned may be obtained oil
made is to say, obscene, lewd OF
lascivious book, pamphlet, picture, paper
print or other publication of an indecent char
Scter, or any article or thing designed o
intended for the prevention OF conception o
procuring of abortion, nor any article or thin
intended or adapted for any indecent or im
moral use or nature. This clearly aud dis
tinctly closes the Personal" and Medical
columns, and if it will but have as good a
effect in the other cases it is intended to reach
We may heartily thank Congress for the act
Ne,o York Express.
Smyrna times., 1873-03-26
TEE LEGISLATURE.
WEDNESDAY, 10TH.

In the Senate, the billincorporating the New
Jersey and Delaware Central Il. II. Co. Port
Penn to Townsend) was passed by a unanimous
vote
The House exemption bill (Wilds' $500 billy
had first reading
Bills passed An act to prevent persons
from tresspassng on cars especially to prevent
boys from jumping on moving trains); an act
proyidiug for two panels of petit jurors for
New Castle county; an act to provide for con-
Quoting executions privately; an act preventing
Justices of the Peace and Notaries Public from
locating their offices outside of the hundred for
which they are appointed; an act in relation to
the time of depositing the State monies.
In the House, Mr.. Silver reported that the
Rev. Mr., Huntington had consented to preach
before the Legislature on the evening of the
9TH inst. A bill was introduced by Mr. Hick-
man. amending the several laws relating to the
free schools of this State the bill appropria-
ting $500, 900 to the Georgetown and Frank
ford Railroad was put upon its final passage,
and prevailed, six members voting in the mega
tive, also the bill authorizing the Levy Court to
appoint an overseer of the Dover Jail.
THURSDAY, 2OrB.
In the Senate the following bills were read
a third time and passed: An act to incorporate
the Building and Loan Association of Milford;
an act to incorporate tie Mutual Building and
Loan Association OF the town of Leipsic.
The bill to incorporate the town OF Odessa,
considered and recommitted on account of a
clause admitting taxable women, over 90 years
of age, the right to vote, came up again on
Thurs lay The bill was passed with an amend
ment striking out the Objectionable clause. A
lively discussion ensue6 when up for consider.
sti0n.
In the House. the following bills we're read
once Senate bill prohibiting more than sc
persons from being present at the execution oi
a death sentence; Senate bill allowing the City
Council OF Wilmington to borrow $25, 900 fOl
the purpose of erecting city hospital in Will
mington; creating a new hundred in Sussex
county, to be known as Gumboro hundred
A large number of unimportant bills wer,
passed.
FRIDAY, 21sT.
In the Senate, the bill providing for the pur
chase of the county's interest in the capito
building, and for the repairing of the same
was read third time and passed. The bill
allows $4,000 for the purchase of the groun
and building, and $4,000 for the repair of th
same. On the part Of the Senate, l.. Z. Rid
die, Of New Castle county, VIM. NJ. Shak;
peare, of Kent, and G. G. Stockley, of Sussex
are appointed commissioners to superinten
the improvements to be made.
The everlasting Bailey divorce case was cor
sidered and indefinitely postponed, which emo
it SO far as this Legislature is concerned.
The report of the Fish Commissioner
recommending that the license law relating t
fishing in the Delaware be suspended unit
January next, was read, and the Senate jOir
resolution carrying into effect the same, wa
read and concurred in.
Smyrna times., 1873-03-26

TRAPEZE ACCIDENT IN PHILADELPHIA
The Philadelphia Rcss gives an account of the
trapeze accident which occurred at the Grand
Central Theatre in that city last "Wednesday
night, to the boy gymuast Leo. A portion OF
the performance consists Of the two adult per-
formers hanging head downward from the
uspeze, while the boy Leo stands upon trap
worked by pneumatic pressure, which shoots
him up about thirty feet, where he is caught
BY the other performers The feat is very
dangerous one, aud last Wednesday evening its
execution came very near resulting fatally. 1t
is the duty Of one Of the attaches to give the
signal to the engineer beneath the stage and
explode quantity Of powder for scenic effect.
BY some mishap, on that evening, aud before
the boy was fairly in the trap, the signal was
given, aud unprepared for the propelling
power, the lad was sent about four feet into
the air. A part of the scene is an imitation O
amOrtar from which he is supposed to be fired
and as he was pushed up by the machinery be
fell back to the stage, striking his right leg OF
the edge of the mortar, breaking it above th'
knee.
Smyrna times., 1873-03-26

Our readers will remember how Mary Harris,
some four or FIVE years since, in Washington,
shot Treasury clerk because he would not
marry her, and how the murderer was acquit-
ted on the ground of insanity. This energetic
lnnatic has since been employed as a clerk in
the Patent Office, having, bec1me suddenly
sane enough for that avocatiou.. Still Miss
Mary is liable to little lspses into lunacy.
About week ago, she got together the neces,,
sary apparatus OF pistol, powder and ball, and
started to kill another man; but she was IN
time prevented from committing another homi-
eide, and is now in the Government Insane
Asylum, to the great relief, we should suppose,
OF oil the single manageable men in Wash
ington We shall not at this distance of time,
and with our inaecurate knowledge Of the facts,
pretend to quarrel with the verdict which sci
,his. murderer at large to kill more men
but here we have a striking example OF the
aosurdity Of acquitting murderers on che
ground Of insanity and of then letting them
loose to do the same thing over again wnen
ever moved thereto By passion or by deiuslon'
IN. Y. Tribune. ....e
Smyrna times., 1873-03-26

The Silver Stamp or Star Linen Marker is
superior to anything else for Marking Linen,
&C.. for several reasons: lst. with one of them
YOU can do the marking for the whole family; I'd.
you Car print all yourown Visiting Cards mark
your books, in fact, mark anything with any
name you may desire. j. Z. Worden,
Diamond State Stencil Depot, Smyrna, Del.
Smyrna times., 1873-03-26

In the United States Senate, last week. Mr..
Morton offered resolution, which was adopt
ed, directing the Committee on Privileges and
Elections to report, at the next session of Con-
gress, the best and most practical mode of
with plan for tribunal to decide contested
Presidential elections; the Committee being
authorized to sit during the recess.
Smyrna times., 1873-03-26

EXECUTION OF FOsTER.-William Foster,
the New York car-hook murderer, whose case
has been so much discussed in the newspapers
lately, was hung in New York city on Friday
at seventeen minutes past 9 o clock A. Nj. 1t
will be recollected that he murdered Mr. Avery
d. Putnam in street Car in New York city,
in the noon time of day, in April, 1871. Great
exertions we're made to save the life of Foster,
but without avail His death was Just.
Smyrna times., 1873-03-26

The Postmaster General has been notified
oy the Presidents of the leading railroads
cesentering in New York that on the lst OF April
isaey will withdraw the postal cars from their
m anes unless increased compensation De gwen
Inc Postmaster General. after an examination
q the law, concludes that be has no right 70
Increase y the compensation, and has SO notined
.ae companies. He hopes they will continue
equitable compensation. ftremains TO be seen
whether the companies viii uotdo as they have
Smyrna times., 1873-03-26

According to the new directory of San Fran
cisco, the population of that city is 1888. 1928,
being an increase of about 10000 during the
year. The total includes IL, 900 Chinese and
1850 colored people.
Smyrna times., 1873-03-26
The singer sewing Machine

If there is any doubt relating the popularity Of
the Singer Sewing Machine, it must be removed by
the prodgou sale Of last year. II stands pre- eminent
in the list the number sold. according to the official
showing. that number reaching 2l9 758 THIS is a
strong recommen endaIiOn for the Singer. and should
at less induce those contemplating the purchase Of
machine 10 inspect the Singer. J. Wesley Denney,
Druggist. Smyrna. Del is the COmpany's Agent He
will be pleased to imparI any information and furnish
the machine at the shortest nOIIce