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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-05-08
EARLY MARRIAGES

We have quoted largely from the early
marriages in Gallia county, where we
have had personal acquaintance with
the parties. In the last number Of the
Journal are several, where the parties
have been well known in this county.
These marriages took place in the year
1929.
William Howell and Amanda Holcomb,
Feb. Is, Samuel R. Holcomb, j. P.
They resided many years in Madison
township, near Madison Furnace. Mr..
Howell yet resides in Scioto township,
near the Pike county line. His wife
died year or two ago, and notice of
her death was published in the STANDARD.
Mr.. Howell is now taking the STANDARD,
the first number was issued, in March,
l847.
William McNeal and Anna Chering-
ton, March Is, E. T. Webster, :.
He was the oldest son of old DR.. Nc
Neel He resided near the mouth OF
Hewitt's Fork, in Jefferson township.
His oldest son, Worthington, attended
our school in that district in the winter
of 184O-4l. Mrs. McNeel had died
some years before that time, and Mr..
McNeel was again married. He vent
west about enty years ago.
J Robert Minis and Anna Rice, April g
Eagle officiating.
Mr.. Minis yet resides at Winchester
| in this county. He is universally known
as Judge Minis, having been for time
one of the Associate Judges of the coun
ty, under the old constitution. We dc
not know whether his wife is yet living
Jesse Corn and Jane Manering, May
| IL, Joseph Gillespie, j. P.
This was Mr.. Corn's second marriage
He was at that time living within quar-
ter of mile of where we lived. We have
heretofore spoken of him at length. He
was Baptist preacher, and had many
eccentricities, but he was good neigh,
Dor. We believe he is yet living on the
Greasy Ridge, in Lawrence county, or in
that vicinity, but we think his wife is
dead
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The Dayton Journal thus hits g

The Dayton Journal thus hits certain
class of patent swindlers
The printers on weekly newspapers of
North Alabama, have struck against
newspapers with patent outsides. They
claim that it reduces their work. For
the same reason it seems to us they ought
to strike against all sorts of machinery
To the uninformed it is well to define
that patent outsides, are papers printed
on one side by one printer and sent to
weak publishers in various parts of the
country for price considerably below
the cost of ordinary printing. All these
patent outsides' for different papers are
identical in matter excepting the name
which the wholesale printer inserts in
the form for each particular paper he
supplies These ''patent outsides'' are
dreary enough-censisting of patent med
icine advertisements, and a few stale
jokes. The wholesale man makes his
profit by having monopoly of the out
side advertisements.
1t might be interesting to those per-
sons whose lands have been sold for de-
linquent taxes, to know that no delin-
quent list published in papers not printed
in the county where published, is of the
least validity, as the law expressly re-
quires the Auditor to publish the delin-
quent list in some paper printed (not pub
Hahed, as is the case in other advertise
ments) in the county where the delin-
quent lands lie.
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A terrible event occurred about two and q
half miles west of HarveySburg, last Saturday
evening. II seems that Richard Williamson,
son of DR.. f. NJ. and Marian Williamson, had
for some time been laboring under mental de-
preston of spirits. On this fatal Saturday he
had been engaged during the afternoon at an
old frame house, which stood some eighty rods
from the residence, in splitting Rfndling wood,
for what purpose was not at that time OWNED.
Fearing he might be preparing mischief, they
went Wen tor him I'M. and told him supper was ready.
lie started with the messenger, but made an eX-
cuse and went back. Shortly after fire was
seen at the old house, and on fastening there
and looking in at the door, young Williamson
was discovered in the fire place, dead, and hot
hre burning around him, the building rs well
being on fire. After desperate eXertion his body
was rescued, but In terribly burned condition.
The unfortunate young man had deliberately
prepared his funeral pile in the Fireplace and
on the hearth, and after stripping off his clothes
ana placing them outside the door, had fired
the kindling and thrown himself into the
flames. He was in his 2Sth year, and leaves a
wife and infant TO mourn his sad DEATH Wiz
IaiIDtOn ReyHblicQll,
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Shall the Doctrine be Universally
Applied?


The Boston Globe universally condemns the
nounceS 'the foolish and fatal peace policy so
strenuously upheld by Eastern philanthropiSts
toward the savage banditti of the plains.'-E:C-
change.
If the Government were to adopt the opinion
OF the Cto6e, and give it universal application
what would become of the Southern Modocs
II 1T is just to abandon what is called the peace
policy of the Administration, and exterminate
the whole Indian race because the Modocs have
and DR.. Thomas, what penalty shall be infiict-
ed upon Southern MOdocs-the whole rebel
pOpulatiOn-fOr their recent treacheTouS and
brutal assassination of more than one hundred
unarmed negroes who have murdered more
than ten thousand innocent, defenSeleSs 10y
al citizens in various Southern States who
have committed untold outrageS upon men,
women, and children all over the South; who
have burned a thousand school-bouSes, and
with a ferocity and inf1icting upon them a re-
hnenent of cruelty never attained by the Mo-
dOcS2 VIII the Boston Globe and other papers
who have howled themselves hoarse deInand-
ing not only that the Modocs, but even peace
fal and friendly tribes of Indians, shall be eX-
terminated, what fate the wretches deserve who
have brutally murdered one hundred loyal cit
iZens to every one murdered by frontier saw
ages? We hope to see the Modoes punished,
hope of civilzing them. But if all Indians are
to be put to the sword to avenge tile murder of
Gen. Candy and DR.. Thomas, strict justice, or
similar justice, will require that all rebels shall
be put to the sword for the murder of ten thou
sand and more of innocent loyal colOred and
white citizens, and their other innumerable
crim6S.-NeIO National Era.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-05-08

Samuel Baker was elected Justice of the
Peace for Lick township, jackson county, Ohio,
on the 7th. He is more than eighty years old,
but pretty effective yet. During the War of 1872
Bridgewater. Afterwards, he held a clerxShip
at Washington, under General JaclISOn'S adj
ministration, and then he went out as Consul
to Valparaiso, South America. Within the past
ten years, he has been Auditor OF Jackson coun-
ty. Few men of any age can write prettier
hand than he does, even now. W1thal, he Is q
good officer and an honest one.
We cut the above from the Marietta
Register some weeks ago. Mr.. Bakers
memory, like that of most old men, is
very accurate as to matters which trans
pired in his youth. We were much
amused to hear him tell about q matter
which took place when he was young
man, teaching school among the Penn
sylvania Dutch. At that day the pupils
all studied aloud, that is, they would
read, spell, &c, in an ordinary tone of
voice Baker had whipped big-headed,
awkward Dutch boy for some transgres-
sion, and afterwards he observed that the
boy was reading with unusual energy
and earnestness of voice, which attracted
his attention. Listening, he found that
the boy, although looking intently upon
his book, was repeating over and over,
the following words; "Cot tam Sam Pa
ker Cot tam Sam Palzerll Cot tam
Sam Pakerli!"
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LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

We suppose that there will be no oppo-
sition to the nomination of Gov. Noyes
for second term as Governor of Ohio.
But for 1t Governor there will perhaps
be several candidates The principal
duty of this officer is TO preside over the
State Senate. This requires a thorough
knowledge Of parliamentary law, and
impartiality and fairness. Perhaps there
is no man in the State who possesses
these qualities in more eminent degree
than Hon. \. II Van Worries, now
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Recently the members of the House,
without distinction of party, presented
him fine gold watch, as mark of their
appreciation for his fairness as presiding
officer Mr.. Van Vorhes is pronounced,
| decided Republican, and while he does
not attempt to conceal this we think no
! Democrat in the House has ever had a
suspicion that any Of his rulings as pre-
siding officer have in, the least been in
| fuenced by partisan bias. Let him be
nominated and elected as the next Lit.
| Governor of Ohio.
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no HUI P4OPVs4VIOIlo
ST. LOUIS, April %, 1873.
PalbLtsher of Stnnl1tnrl Znck.snal d

The bill to repeal the usury laws, and
permit free tradein money, the same as
in everything else, was defeated in the
Ohio House of Representatives last week,
We regret te-see that Mr.. Kahn voted
with the old fogies Now let the Legis-
lature go to work and fix the price of
-four, meat, whisky tobacco, and especial
ly the price of labor. Let the price of
digging coal be fixed by law, and these
ugly strikes will cease. Let Mr. Kahn
urge the passage of a bill providing that
no laborer shall receive less than two
dollars per day, and whisky shall not be
sold for more than five cents per drink.
There would be more sense in this than
fixing the rate of interest on money.
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five cannot teach the two races to live peace
fully side by side, the disasters of the South
have but just begun; and we certainly shall not
teach that lesson by eleYatfng the one merely
in order that we may plunder and oppress the
other.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Tribune, in the above, is correct One
race ought not to be elevated in order to oppress
and plunder the other; equal and exact Justice
to all races will hasten the end of the dificul-
ties in the South. The fact is, that the party
whose organ is the New York Tribune is labor
ing for the elevation of the race that persistent
~ denies the right of the black race to equality
before the law; the race that burns school
houses, that drives instructors of colored youth
from the country, that rObs and OutrageS hn-
manity on account of race, color, and previous
condition OF servitude; that considers it crime
that the nation has recognized the black man
as citizen and voter. The only race that OPP
presses and plumbers in the South is the race of
eX-slaveholders and rebels The black race is a
peaceable race, as certainly evidenced by their
conduct during the rebellion, when the majori-
ty of the white men were in the rebel army,
and murder and rapine could have been perpe-
trated with comparative impunity revenge
for wrongs inflicted upon them when defence
less. They proved to be noble, and we eXult
because of it. Contrast their conduct with the
worse than barbariSrn of the white race at Col
fax, Louislana.-Net0 National Era.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-05-08

Prof E. W. Smith, the Commercial
College man, has gone, or, at least, he
has not made his appearance on our
streets for some time; and we should
judge from couple of notices of attach
ment, his departure will not be tempo
rary. Is it always thus2-Ironton Register
Smith is a smooth-tongued, insinuating
scoundrel He has owed us fifteen dol
lars for advertising, ever since he was in
Portsmouth, some five or six years ago
He would always, when we saw him,
make the most vehement promises to pay
When he commenced advertising in
Ironton we cautioned the people there
that he would swindle them. We do not
believe it possible for Smith to be any
thing but a scoundrel if he should try
ever so hard to be honest.
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AFFRAY AT SCIoTovILLE.-JuniusA Andre, who
keeps q little saloon at Sciotoville, got into Il
little alteration with Charles McGhee last Sat
urday week, the 18TH of this month, and struck
McGhee in the abdomen with pick, causing
his bowels to ooze out the ugly wound, Mo-
Ghee Is not expected to survive the murderous
blow. Andre has left the country. Andre is n
man of family, Both We're lahorers in the brick
yard at SciotoVille.--IiRle
The above is a fair sample of of the reliability
of that paper in the way of local intelligence.
There Is not single correct statement in II all.
Junius Andre was struck in the side with a clay
pick i'm the hands of McGhee, from which he
has since died. McGhee has left the country,
and not Andre. They were not both laborerS
keeper In the village Portsmouth Rep06lfcQH.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-05-08

The bungling manner in. which the
mail service is conducted, is causing
complaint in every quarter. T. S: Camp
bell, formerly of Centreville, has the con-
tract to carry the mail between scioto-
vile and Ironton. He has so far failed
to comply with his contract that Post
master Steece, of Ironton, complained to
the Department at Washington, and re-
ceived orders to employ some one to get
the mails through, at CampbelPs expense.
Now Campbell is getting through on
time.
A recent number of the Cincinnati
Gazette said:
The mails need looking after again. A
letter of March 20, from Glendale, o.,
reached this Office yesterday together
with one of April 25, inquiring about it.
Thirty-nine days is long time for that
distance 1t took letter ten days to go
to Hartwell As for newspapers, the list
of particular cases is too long to give, but
it is sufficient to say that we have had re-
Gently to rely entirely on Adams Express
for the New York evening papers in or
der to get them with any sort of prompt
ness.
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We received by mail on Monday copy
of the Manchester Gazette, under the
frank of j. T. Wilson, NJ c. The Gazette
contains an open letter addressed to US
by Mr.. Wilson. 1t is chaste and beau
tiful production. and he says he would
like to see it in the STANDARD, but he
predicts that we will not publish it. He
is mistaken. By the Grace of God we
will publish it next week. and letrtne
people SEE whst-a great and irreparable
loss they suffered when this truly great
and good man retired to the shades of
Tranquility
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ABSENTEEIsM

In speaking of the evils of absenteeism in the
Ohio legislature, the Akron Daily Beacon asks
"Will even the Constitutional Convention be
able to devise remedy for the costly evil of H.
senteeism ?T Our reply is that the Convention
can devise a plan, or we can for 1t, that will
cure the evil. Make the salary thousand dol
lars a session, and deduct ten dollars per day
for every days absence, whatever the cause
may be. This will not prevent all absenteeism
but il will be remedy fora troublesome kind
that Legislatures are usually afflicted with.
This will keep the per cent of absenteeism less
than five, whereas, II is as high under the pres
ent system, as from twenty to thirty-three per
cent.
The editor of the Republican is Clerk
in the Senate, and no doubt understands
the matter but our plan, we think, is
preferable There is entirely too much
legislation. Let the new Constitution
provide that there be annual sessions of
thirty days each, and the members to re-
ceive ten dollars per day. Let the sessions
continue as long as the members choose,
but no payment to be received after thir-
ty days, and for every days absence, a
forfeiture of twenty-five dollars.
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We find the following in the Hillsbor-
ough Neaos. We do not think. it is orig
nal, as Boardman surely would not ex
hibit such signs of total dapravity:
An exchange says, that out of forty
girls at boarding school, none of them
could tell how long George Washington
was President, but they knew to cent
the cost of any kind of hustle in the mar
ket.
We don't think the girls are so much
to blame for that. 1t only proves that
they are more interested in the stern
realities of the present than the musty
records of the past. Also that they are
forgetting the things which are behind"
which is according to Scripture
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We omitted to mention last week the
receipt from Mr.. Bundy, one of the Trus-
tees of the Athens Lunatic Asylum, of
the annual report of the Trustees to the
Governor. 1t contains some fine litho-
graph views of the Asylum and surround
ing grounds, besides many valuable sta
tistics of the cost of different portions of
the building. The total amount of APP
propriations is $621 900. The building,
when completed. Will accommodate 572
persons. When it is considered that this
is only one of three or four asylums for
the insane and that most of the county
jails in the State have insane inmates,
the work of whisky and tobacco is begin
ming to appear in fearful shape.
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The record of proceedings in the Ohio
Legislature opens each day with calling
the roll So many members are report
ed absent on leave. and so many without
leave. Business is attempted, but a call
of the House is ordered, and it is found
that there is not a quorum present. The
Sergeant-at-Arms is dispatched for absen-
tees. and enough are snaked in to pro-
ceed with business. We would like to
have the Sergeant-at-Arms report the
places where he finds the absentees.
The Wilmington Republican has this
upon this subject:
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SHOW YOUR HAND!

The Ohio State Journal is peculiarly aggres
sive, and is constantly rushing hither and
ing into the eyes of cotemporary newspapers
after NOTES, while a beam of extraordinary di.
does not exactly say "I'l preach and you prac.
tfce,' but 1t does say You practice and I'll
somebody, and its editorial columns have been
gorged of late with sarcastic and ill-humored re-
Cincinnati Gazette-a gentleman, by the way,
possessed of about as much talent and execu-
nal, whose reputation is world wide-in the few
adjacent counties.
editorial, from which we clip the following:
at is very hard to find copies of the Cincin-
natl Weekly Gdzete-they are scarce hen
teeth. We have never seen but one. Yet there
can be no reasonable doubt that there is such a
paper. Private Da1zeu probably gets a copy
deadhead, and there are some sent to advertis-
ing agents. Which reminds that the Gazette
ought now to cease adveTtising g lotteries. There
is such public sentiment now as will sustain
DEACON Smith in any severe measures he may
to observe the law in this respect
Now, this quotation resounds with genius,
''gIowing thoughts" +" "burning words" &c, &c,
but in the very next issue of the Journal what
Tertiseme of the ssfhird Grand Gin Coneert
of Louisville, Kentucky, at which 10000 gifts,
MED b. iof among the ticH oiders
Now, all we ask the Journal to do, is to with
"ShOl0 its hand" We are down, firm and fiat
footed on lotteries and lottery advertisements.
that pander to the rotten scheme by adVertiss
ing the same We are down, now and forever,
on the man or men who tTanSgress law for
moneys sake, but who cry down the same fault
in others ''for righteousness sake (?)" That the
Journal is doing this, no one can deny; and
until that able sheet clears up matters we shall
leave NO stone unturned, until the worm is
found with which the Journal fishes for Iucre.
We will say further, that on the first
page of the Journal of May I'd, is an adj
vertisement of the Omaha Lottery, ="
marked for II insertions in the Daily,
and in the Weekly. This is direct
violation of the Statutes of Ohio.
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The Bueyrus Journal suggests that an
editorial convention be held at Columbus,
to take into consideration the new law,
which requires postage to be paid on ex-
changes, and on papers in the county
where published. The. Journal wants the
convention to be one for business, and
not for pleasure. w. T. Baseom, of Mt.
Vernon, who appears to be President of
some local organization, suggests con-
yention on the 22d inst. at Columbus
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For Grant, 1873.
Total for Lincoln, ,S22 5Oo io'Si '0f Gran 10

If this statement is anywhere near ac-
cur&te, here is a case of extravaganza
which. small as the amount may seem, is
plainly inexcusable. We do not believe
that President Grant personally asked
for these largely increased ~eirpropria-
tions. Congress is responsible for MAX
ing them, at all events. Mr.. Garfield, as
Chairman of the House Committe on APP
preparations, ought to know why he re-
ported such an increase for White House
expenses, at time when the gold value
of greenbacks is vastly greater than in
1864. President Lincoln got along quite
decently with what was allowed him
There is no good reason known to us
why President Grant should require
more than he. The probability is that a
large amount of the excess disappeared
as stealings, somewhere, before ever it or
its value reached the Presidents mansion
The accusations implied in the above
statement ought to be fairly met, and the
responsibility for whatever is wrong in
the case should be placed where it be-
longs.
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Lieutenant Erasmus A. Dennison, of
the United States steamship Saranac,
committed suicide recently at San Fran
cisco, California, by shooting himself
through the head. He was a son of Ex-
Gov. Dennison, and was q years of age.
He was a man of fine personal appear
ance He had married widow with
whom he lived unhappily, and he took to
hard drink, and during the past six
months was frequently drunk. The day
before, and on the morning of his death,
he was quite drunk His wife had COM
menced proceedings against him for a