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hon. JOHN T. WILSON.

We have been reluctantly forced to
the conclusion that the late member of
Congress from this district has received
and appropriated his share of the peo-
pies money, which was stolen from the
public treasury. We sincerely regret
this, as we thought we had found one
honest man. Mr. Wilson served six
years in Congress, for which he received
thirty thousand dollars, besides mileage
and other extras. 1t is said that he was
wealthy before he went to Congress. He
is over sixty years of age, and has no
family to whom he can leave his proper
ty. His record for honesty and integri-
ty, both in public and private was so
marked. that even his political opponents
dare not deny that the title of Honest
old John T. Wilson" was his due Soon
after he went to Washington he said to a
friend: Brother -, had no idea of
the corrupting influences brought to
bear upon members of Congress in this
wicked city; but, came here an honest
man, and, By the grace Of God, 1 intend to
leave here an honest man" But it is
the old, old case of Hazeal If, at that
time, his friend had told him that he
would have accepted FIVE thousand dol
lars of the public money, which he was
sent there to guard-fve thousand dol
lars of money literally stolen, he would
have said: What Is thy servant a
day. that he should do this thingP
Talk about forming new party, OF
honest men. If you cannot find honesty
in such man as John T. Wilson, where
oh where can you expect to find it,
1t is not the amount Of money taken
1t is the breach of trust that renders the
thing a crime. If John t. Wilson had
been in crowd, and proposition had
been made to rob neighbors smoke
house, of course he would have opposed
it. But after the bacon had been stolen
how would he have felt to be caught
with one of the stolen hams under his
lcoat tail2
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HOW TO DO 1T.

Those who think that intemperanee
can be checked by provision in the con-
stitutionrof the State, are grievously mis-
taken There is one way, and only one,
in which the raTage of intemperance can
ever be checked, and that is, to permit
women to vote, hold office, and serve on
juries. They would make short work of
whisky sellers and keepers of gambling
hells. Women would generally vote the
same way that their husbands vote; just
like young men vote as their fathers do.
Some women would vote differently from
their husbands, while the unmarried
would vote as they please. Woman is so
much more pure than man. We heard
Col Keith once remark that when man
went to sleep, or died, he would groan,
and toss, and struggle, and choke, while
a woman would turn her face to the wall
and go to sleep. or die calmly. He said
that a man might wash-his hands with
would wash them in pure water hewater
would be soiled, while the water where
woman washed her hands was always
pure. These were no doubt highly col
ored figures of speech, but it tends to
show the contrast as to purity of body.
The contrast as to moral purity is in
fnitely greater.
If temperance men really desire reform,
let them bring all their energies to bear
upon the approaching convention in ia
yor of the woman movement.
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RANDOM THOUGHTS.
By THE EDITOR.


On last Sunday morning thought a
walk in the open air would be better for
my health, both bodily and spiritual,
than attendance at one of our poorly
ventilated churches. And l also desired
to see how business was carried on at the
furnaces on Sunday
] first stopped at the shaft on Ports
mouth Street, between my residence and
Orange Furnace. This shaft is some
ESQ yards south from Orange, and is 90
feet deep 1t is used only for the pur-
pose of pumping the water from the coal
mine. A small engine runs day and
night, and also on Sunday. The water
comes pouring from inch cast iron
pipe at the top of the shaft, and is car
ried out of the building in trough.
tasted this water, and it is quite salt.
Next / visited Orange Four new boil
ers have been put up, and there was fire
under them, as the Furnace was being
got ready to go into blast. No more men
were at work here than were absolutely
necessary, and it was very quiet about
the place,
Leaving Orange, / went to Tropic.
This company have bought lot in the
corner where the road forks, Immediately
across the Chillicothe bridge, one road
leading to Berlin, and the other to Chill
4 lieothe. On this corner lot the founda-
ton of the store house is laid. This is
a fine locality, and if this company will
sell goods at customary prices, they will
catch much trade from the country, and
secure all the produce they may need.
The Tropic shaft is in the lowest
ground of any of the coal shafts yet sunk
at this place, and it is only 26 feet to the
coal This shaft is only short distance
north east from Hoops Mill, where Mr.
Linn first discovered the celebrated shaft
coal The vein in Tropic shaft is AZ
inches in thickness, and is excellent coal
The building over the shaft isup, and the
hoisting engine is being put in. 1t is
new, and was made in Chillicothe. A
IraiIroad switch is staked off to the pres
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constituted-this was not the February
| term of the Oyer and Terminer, and the
court was not a lawful court.
Mr. Justice Brady oYerruled the mo-
tion, and sentenced the prisoner as fol-
| lows:
Nixon, you have had fair and impair
tial trial, you have been defended by
skillful and able counsel, and you have
been pronounced guilty of an atrocious
crime, murder in the first degree. The
murdered man is the victim of the dan
gerous and reprehensible practice of pis-
tol-carrying, and your unfortunate fate Is
not only lesson, but a solemn protest
against carrying concealed and murder
Gus weapons, and a warning of the terri
BILE consequences which may follow from
their use, namely, an ignominious death.
| 81 am not inclined to say aught to you
which may seem unkindly or ungenerous,
but the exigencies of the time demand
that by your conviction the lawlessly dis
posed should be advised that there is a
day Of retribution for evil doors which
will come right speedily. The deceased
man was hurried into eternity without a
moments preparation, away from friends,
from his home, from his family and from
his kindred. The law treats, however,
the murderer more compassionately, CIV
ing him time to prepare for his departure
| from this world
II beseech you to employ it we'll. Yield
not to the delusion that you have any
| thing to expect from the courts. Your
case reveals no hope of that kind. You
should abandon at once all reliance upon
further chance for life, and devote
yourself to meet that destiny which, by
the verdict of the jury, has become ire
vocable.
'The sentence which it is my painful
duty to pronounce is that you be taken
hence to the City Prison, in the city of
New York, from whence you came, and
that on the sixteenth day of May next
| you be hanged by the neck until you are
dead. May God have mercy on your
SOUL !"
Judge Brady himself was much affect
ed during the delivery of the sentence,
his voice at times scarcely keeping its
evenness.
Mr. Sparks, the clerk, then read the
formal death warrant. and the prisoner,
still stunned, was removed from the
room.
The Court then adjourned, and the
audience rapidly dispersed.
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We spoke last week of the sentence of
another New York murderer. The fol
lowing, from the Evening Post, gives an
account of the sentence:
Nixon was brought in at half past IL
O. clock
He looked stupid and dazed, and was
almost tottering under the hands of the
officers
Judge Brady was a few minutes late
but as soon as the court opened. Mr.
Phelps rose and said, that e.fever a trial
before jury whose Intelligence and i'm
partialitty must be conceded by all
Michael Nixon had been convicted Of
murder in the first degree, and it only
remained for him to move for sentence
The prisoner was called on to saw why
sentence should not be pronounced upon
him.
Mr.. How, for the prisoner, in arrest Of
judgment, presented three points First
that the court was not summoned by law.
full precept; second, that the earlier pan.
els of jurors were not placed in the box
third, that the court was not lawfully
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hast Thou forsaken me9' He then
cries, and then He is gone. When this
Man went out into the land of dark
ness to wrench its secret from it, we are
told that the earth shook and the sun
was darkened; crying with the Roman
God" The wisest as the weakest man
must wait the issue of this day to know
of the hereafter No other voice will
answer them if that of the Nazarene fails.
Not all our science nor laws gathered
since the creation have given a single
fact of that darkness where matter is a
nullity and mind to US is dumb. We
call to our dead, but they give us no
answer. How is it with them we ask
of Him rs it life or death, which that
hereafter holds for them-for us p No
wonder that the ancient church tasted
through this day, and sat clad in deepest
mourning while it awaited His answer.
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OUR NEW PRESS.

We have now got our new press in
good working order, and this paper may
be regarded as a specimen of the kind OF
work it win do. One of the greatest
recommendations of the Fairhaven Press
is the small amount of power required to
operate it. We turned our press for an
hour on last Saturday evening, and found
that it did not require as much power as
the old tanning mill. with which farmers
cleaned their wheat thirty years ago. 1t
does not make as much noise as an ordi-
nary sewing machine.
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NURSERY
~ ALLIPOLIS NURSERY,
Established in 1854.

We offer for the Spring Trade to Nurserymen,
Tree Dealers, and Planters, at Wholesale and Re-
tail, largest and best selection of Nursery Stock
ever offered in Southern Ohio, consisting OF
Fruit Trees, Evergreens, Ducideous Trees, Orna-
mental Shrubs, Grape Vines, Usage Orange
Plants, Small Fruits, Asparagus Roots, Rhu-
barb or Wine Plant, Strawberries Roses, Dah-
lias, &c. Also during May and June, we will
furnish the Red and Yellow NanSemond and
Brazilian Sweet Potato Plants, leading varie-
ties of Tomato and Cabbage Plants, in large OF
small quantities at Low Rates
Also we offer Berkshire Pigs, from Imported
Stock, which is given up by our leading Stock
Men in Europe and America, that they are the
finest Hog on this continent. Also the leading
varieties of Fowls, of late Importation.
Call and examine Stock. We charge
nothing to look at it. Or your orders left with
J. NJ. Kerr & Co., will meet with prompt atten-
ton, and be filled satisfactory. Send for our
Catalogue of prices. Address your orders,
G.. N. PALMER & SONS,
Feb. q, 1S732m Gallipolis Ohio.
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On last Thursday, the daily N. Y. 1Eib-
aoae, Cincinnati Chronicle and Columbus
journal due us, were taken past here,
and came back from Portsmouth on Fri
day. On Monday the Athens journal of
last Thursday came up from Portsmouth.
After the first of July We will pay postage
on all our exchanges, and then we are
going to have them delivered as they
should be, or there viii be trouble. We
give the ineompetents fair warning, that
they mast attend to their business, or we
will have them attended to in way that
may not be altogether pleasant and prof
table to them.
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The JACKSON STANDARD Office has got
new power press, called the HImproved
FairhaYen- 1t weighs four thousand
pounds and cost one thousand dollars,
besides boxing and freights Bro. Mack
ley is happy. and we rejoice with him in
his prosperity. We hope the day is not
far distant, when we will ask him to re-
joiee with us, over similar innovation
in the Nea0s Office Niddleport Nesos
And you viii find no one more willing
to rejoice in the prosperity of our cotem-
poraries than you will find u.s.
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Yesterday we received the JACKSON
STArDARD dated April 10, 1873, and, very
naturally, expected to find something
certain about the election of delegate in
that county. We could not find any
thing Observation-Disclosures Journal
Our readers know that we gave the
official vote for delegate last week, by
townships We do not undertake to
furnish either eyes or brains to our ex-
changes, but we send the. Journal another
paper. with the returns marked.
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FRESH AIR IN CHURCH.


We don't go to Church often enough
to justify us in making complaints, but
on behalf of the faithful who do attend,
we wish to free our mind about fresh
air.
Last Sunday morning was balmy and
lovely. Our citizens got ready for Church
and awaiting the ringing of the bells sat
on porches and galleries enjoying and
enhaling the pure Hfe-giving air 1t was
pleasant sight. Presently the Church
bells rang out and our streets were filled
with a multitude. Arriving at the
church door they quietly moved to their
fseats Now there was enough fresh air
in the building to last that crowd about
I 90 seconds. After the expiration of this
minute and half the fresh air would be
entirely consumed. just outside there
was universe of it, pure, sweet and in
spring, and yet there was no chance for
it to enter except where two windows
were lowered few inches.
This crowd that had just left the fresh
open air found themselves suddenly
breathing the breath Of their neighbors; !;
the blood that came to the lungs for
fresh air received the noxious exhala-
tions thrown off by very sensible. as well
as insensible perspiration, and the crowd
soon began to die for want of air. And
just through that glass there was oceans
of it
If the sections looked at this crowd at
ALL they thought they were going to
sleep. Alas, dear sections, these people
were dying; dying with poisoned air, and
their death was as certain, though not
quite as sudden, as though they breath
ed the fumes of arsenic.
In the midst of all this stood the
preacher surrounded with the foul ex-
halations, his auditors dying and him
self laboring without spirit. He attemp-
ted to preach about the Comforter, but
evidently his sermon TO this suffering
congregation should have consisted in
the simple announcement that just out
side the Bounteous Giver had furnished
an exhaustless supply of that pure air
for which they were suffering. And he
might have led the way with certainty
of being followed.
When we get rich enough to build a
church-which won't be for q week or
two yet--we will have roof to keep off
the sun and rain. floor to protect from
the damp earth; but will have no walls
until generation of sections shall have
grown up who are willing to open win
dows and doors and let the glory in.
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John G. Stevenson Esq. called on us
on Monday last. He was on his way
home from Clifton, West Virginia. where
he has been for the past seven months,
in charge of the public schools of that
place. His brother, David S. Stevenson.
is sselling goods at that place, and is doing
q large business.
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INDIAN TREAcHERY.

For some months past there has been
trouble with the Modoc Indians, in the
north part of California. A treacherous
savage, known as Captain Jack, has been
the leader of the saVsges. A peace com
mission tried to arrange matters, and on
last Friday Gen. Candy, Mr.. Meacham
and DR.. Thomas, while having, as they
supposed, friendly talk with the Indi-
ans, were assassinated and murdered,
Captain Jack shooting Gen.. Candy
through the head. Two others of the
peace commissioners escaped. This cow
ardls treachery has aroused the indigna-
ton of the whole country, and the exter-
mination of this particular tribe of sava-
ges will be demanded. Gen. Candy was
one of the oldest and truest officers OF
the army. The murder occurred at what
is called the Lava Beds, South Side Tule
Lake California
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The jackson STANDARD is now printed
on a power press, of Fairhayen make. The
SrAKDARD is a progressive journal, and
its editor ought to be happy. To possess
one of the best county printing offices in
the State is something to rejoice at West
Union Defender.
We hope we duly appreciate our many
blessings, and we would also rejoice at the
prosperity of all our neighbors And
now word privately to our young friend
Eylar, of the Defender. Give up your
Democracy and the Chicago patent out
side of your paper, and you, too, will be
happy
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The Register Office printed about II. 900
tickets for the election, last Monday
Ironton Register. s -
The STANDARD Office printed for the
election on the first Monday in April
2I $50 tickets.
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The coal miners at Youngstown, Ohio,
are again on strike Last week they
burned a building where the miners
brought from distance intended to
board. Loss $1, ,OO0
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DIR. Caldwell, of Beaver, was elected
delegate to the Constitutional Conyen-
tion for Pike county, by S47 majority
He is Democrat. He is nephew of
Mai. R. w. Caldwell, and is young man
of considerable ability.
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= NJ. H. Needham, President of the City
Council. of Marietta, has sued the Regis
ter for slander, claiming Eve thousand
dollars damages. He will probably need
ham, and many other necessaries of life
pretty badly. before he gets that money.
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Five children were poisoned near Co
lumbus by eating the roots of plant
known as Hounds Tongue Two of
them died before a physician could be
procured. The others were saved.
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g Wilson Storer, who resided three miles
from West Union. hung himself in his
barn. He was thirty-fve years of age,
and leaves a widow and four children
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LANDS ron SALE.

have three farms for sale, one containing ~
acres one containing $50 acres, and one contain
ing ne aores The lands are near the town OF
Jackson, and have commanding view OF toSn,
and win be sold on long payments II pureI"-
For further particulars, inquire at the STAN
Is N1Y, SSD g. 751a THOMAS NJ, JONES.
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The Republicans will have clear
working majority in the Constitutional
Convention. But we still fail to see
what party question can Iegitimately
come before the convention.
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NOTIo C. -

MOTTO E.
IN
There wll1 be 9 PetltiC,n presented to me Com.
nnlssloneIs OF jackson county, AT theF next
session, pra wing the Q stablishment of q coun-
s ~ ioa9l con lnlencng where the road ,teaaiing
from tIcnm 0nd0le C Hamden crosses ttle line
..1eIWeen WsAIlngton and Jackson t0Wnshlps,
t~nenee ~ norlh ON said line across lnndssoelonglns
ander j.. WeststoG @ Gorge w Brooks lane, thence
thesbest route TO q ,e road leading from Rays
VILE to Byers Staf ion north of Doles' mill, and
This 9th cay az April, A. D. 1873.
GEO. w. BROOKS
- LEANDfcR L. WEST,
April ~, 1sAdA 5w Petitioners.
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nj OTICE.-John Conner, one of the heirs at
IN law of William Conner, deceased, who re-
sides in the State of Missouri, win take notice
that Priscilla Conner, executrix of the last will
and testament of William Conner, deceased, on
the 26th day of March, A. d. 1873, filed her petit
ton in the Probate Court within and for the
county of jackson and State of Ohio, alleging
that the personal estate of said decedent is in
sufhcient TO pay his debts and the charges of
administering his estate; that he died seized in
fee simple of the following described real estate
situate in the county of Jackson and State of
Ohio, to-wit:. The northwest quarter of the
northwest quarter, of section l5 of township s.
in range Is, containing 40 acres more or less !;
and that the petitioner, Priscilla Conner, as
widow of said decedent, is entitled to dover in
said premises. The prayer of said petition is
for the assignment of dover to said Priscilla
Conner, and for order authorizing the sale of
said premises subject to said dover estate, for
the payment of the debts and charges aforesaid
Said petition will be for hearing on the 18th dsy
of May, A. D. 1873, at one O'Clock p. NJ, or as
soon thereafter as leave can be obtained.
PRISCILLA CONFER
Executrix of William Conner, deceased
By R. H JONES, her Attorney.
April3-4w
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procured our new press. He came here
to put it up for US, and he thus speaks
of his visit to our town:
OUR VISIT TO JACKSON.
We took run down to jackson G. I'll.
week before last. jackson is a live,
hourishing town, right in the heart OF
the coal and iron region of Southern
Ohio. The town is principally surround
ed by iron furnaces, which employ a
great number of workmen, therefore it
makes trade pretty lively in that town.
The business houses are large and sub
stantial. Quite a number of new blocks
will be erected the coming season, and
three or four new iron furnaces will also
be put up during the Spring and Summer
A splendid new Court House has been
finished and stands at one end of beau
tiful square, surrounded by magnificent
iron fence. This square will be orna-
mented by shade trees, and will make a
beautiful park and nice cool retreat for
the citizens in hot weather-When the
trees grow up.
We found Brother Maclkley, of the
STANDARD, enseonced in his magnificent
sanctum, in the "-Star Furnace Block" !"
With his new lightrunning Fairhaven,
which we elevated . for him in the
third story, he has now one of the finest
and best appointed offices in the State OF
Ohio. Everything looks neat about the
offiee-a place for everything and every
thino IN its place He has all the job work
he can do gets up neat looking paper,
which, like its editor, is popular among
the people of jackson county.
We met Professor Yarnel while there,
the Principal of the jackson Union
Schools. Prof Y was formerly Princi-
pal of the Greenfield Union Schools.
We also met Miss Kate Dwyer, one of
the assistant teachers of the jackson
schools, and formerly resident of
Greenfield, in this county. Also Mrs.
Mary A Dwyer, of Greenfield, who was
visiting her daughter during the vacation
of her school at the latter place.
We predict for jackson a large growth,
both in size, population and wealth.
Their citizens are nearly all in the same
condition as those in a certain town
"Out West" who dig holes in their eel
lars and get their winter s supply of coal
| The whole town of jackson sits over I'M
mense deposits of coal
The people of jackson are very anxious
4 in regard to our new railroad, but not
being fully posted we could not enlighter
them much as to the prospects of the y
Il O., as we would been glad to have done
had we been possessed of anything en-
eouraging. We are of opinion, however
that there is reason for them to be en-
couraged.
Coal retails..at jackson at 10 cents pc
bushel, in Hillsborough at 2l cts. Our
citizens fully appreciate the necessity o
! the new road, in this item, If In no other
We left Jackson fully impressed in th'
! belief that her future is among the bright
est of any town in Southern Ohio. Lon:
may she wave
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Harvey Wells. Republican. had a ma
jority of 473 over Claypool, Democrat, in
'vinton county, for delegate to the Con-
stitutional Convention.