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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-13
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
Phv0ic1an1.

DRs. POMERENE & WISE,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, MILLERs-
burg, Ohio. Ofice Hours Wednesdays,
from I to O'Clock P. n, and on Saturdays
from O'Clock A. n. to3 O'Clock Pm. s4tf
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05
Our Present Duty.

The way to make easy timesis as clear
as daylight.
Let every man or woman who owes
money pay it at once, if it is possible.
Be willing to make sacrifice in or
der to meet promptly all your engage
ments.
Stop grumbling at the faults or mis-
takes Of others, and attend faithfully
to your own affairs.
Deal fairly, leniently and cheerfully
with all persons who owe you or who
are in pecuniary trouble.
Ifyou are QUITO debt, thank the Lord;
and then 60 round among your friends.
and enemies, too, if you have them, and
render them all the assistance in your
power.
Don't hoard your money; but loan
it, or use it to relieve the needy, ON the
same principle that you would give
bread to the needy in day of famine.
Do what you can in every way to re-
lieve pecuniary distress, to check the
current of financial embarrassments
and restore public confidence, :.
If you are bank officer or director,
don't be cross minute. Smile, as a
Christian duty, from morningti till night.
Give an encouraging word, if possible,
to all, and by all meanes strain every
nerve to help all who need it. E
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05
Watching at the Wrong Hole.

Many men are very watehful against
temptation on sides where they are in
no manner tempted. Here is a man
who never says ten words in day; he
is silent and thoughtful and tells you
he keeps guard over his mouth; that
he is determined not to sin by talking.
But it is not by talking that he is apt
to sin: he is not in danger on that side; /;
and yet there is the watchman going
up and down in front of that door,
which does not open more than once
or twice anyhow. Here is an ugly
devil of suspicion, envy and jealousy
that has possession of him and causes
him to sin; but there is no guard over
that. 1t is where these passions reside
that the temptation comes; but he has
no watchman there. He makes up for
neglecting the points where the dan
ger is, by putting all his force at the
points where there is perfect secutri-
ty. Here is man who says I guard
myself against stinginess. Bless hie
dear soul! He never had such feel
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05
An EXPLANATION.

It is fact not generally known that
all sewing machine manufacturers paid
license to Elias Howe, Jr., the original
inventor, and one machine. of each kind
for which license was asked, always ac-
companied the application. sThus, Mr.,
Howe had before him a sample of eve-
ry form of sewing machine manufact-
ured. Constant study upon them en-
abled him to avoid the defects of each,
and improve upon the exeellencies of
all. This fact explains the wonderful
degree Of perfection to which Mr.. Howe
brought his latest pattern of machine,
without which advantages, such re-
suit could not have been achieved. Call
and see these celebrated Machines
JOS. T. BAYLIs, Port Tobacco. 49,
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05
How Monkeys are Caught.

From the chapter on smenageries in
Olive Logan's volume, "Before the
Footlights and Behind the Scenes We
make the following extracts: I.
Monkeys are such cunning creatures
one would suppose them much MOI
difficult to catch than any wild animal.
Pitfalls will take 4 lion, and the fe..s-
isntu Hf5daTEH fEffe<zEEDfr Wl11s H1TeE
"a few days starvation, dart into cage
containing food, and thus be secured.s
But how are the monkeys caught?-
The ape family resembles man. Their
vices are human. They love liquor.-
In Darfour and Sabaar the natives
make fermented beer, ,ofwhich the mon
keys are very fond. Aware of this the
natives go to the parts of the forest
frequented by the monkeys, and set on
the ground calabashes full of the en-
tieing liquor. AS soon as the monkey
sees and tastes it, he utters cries of ioy
that soon attract his comrades. Then
an orgie begins, and in short time
the beasts show all degrees of intoxica-
ton. Then the negroes appear. The
drinkers are too far gone to distrust
them for larger species of their own
genus. The negroes take them up,
and they Immediately begin to weep
and cover them with kisses. When a
negro takes one by the hand to lead
him off, the nearest monkey will cling
to the one who thus finds support,
and endeavors to get off also. Anoth-
er will grasp at him, and so on, until
the negro leads staggering line of ten
or dozen monkeys. When finally
brought to the village they are secure
ly Gagged, and gradually sober dowr,
but for two or three days a gradually
diminishing supply of liquor is given
them, SO as to reconcile them by de-
grees to their state of captivity.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05
The Curse Drink,

| DR.. Holland sends out these few for.
Icible words through Scgs6neIs Month.
Ily: @ y
j Theappetite for strong drink in man
has SPOILED the life of more women-2
ruined more hopes for them, scattered
more fortunes for them, brought to
them more sorrow, shame and hardship
than any other evil that lives. The
country numbers tens-nay, hundreds
of thousands of women who are Wild
ows to-day, and sit in hopeless weeds,
because their husbands have been slain
by strong drink. There an saousands
of homes scattered over the land In
which wives live lives of torture, going
through all the changes of suffering
that lie between the extremes of fear
and despair, because those whom they,
love, love wine better than they do the
women they have sworn to love. There,
are women by thousands who dread to.
hear at the door the step that once
thrilled them with pleasure, because
that step has learned to reel under the
influence of seductive poison. There
are women groaning with pain, while
we write these words, from bruises andt
bruta1ities inflicted by husbands made
mad by drink. There can be no ex-
aggeration in any statement in regard,
to this matter, because no human inn,
agnation can create anything worse
than the truth, and no pen is capable of
portraying the truth. The sorrowsand
horrors of a wife with a drunken hus-
band or a mother with drunken son,
are as near the realization of hell as
can be. reached in this world at least.f
The shame, the Indignation, the sors
row, and the sense. of disgrace for her
self and her children, the poverty, and,
not unfrequently the beggary-the fear
and the. fact of violence, the lingering,
lifelong struggle and despair Of count
less women with drunken husbands,
are enough to make all women curse
wine, and engage unitedly to oppose it
everywhere as the worst enemy Of their,
anY ia -
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05
gelecten Misrellauy.
Maryland Poets.
From the Westminster Ad

Maryland has furnished a fair pro-
portion of the many sweet songsters of
the sunny southland. We say south
land, for she is more southern than
anything else, and however she may be
classed, she is southern still, except in
her northern tier of counties, which
belong more to the north THAN to the
south, and although in Maryland geo.
graphically speaking are not of Mary
land.
We purpose to speak of only two of
her devotees of poesy and song, in this
brief allusion to the subject. Most
persons familiar with the current lit
erature of the times, are familiar, also,
with the name of Mrs. Welby. The
harp of ssAmelia," has touched many
a responsive chord in the bosoms of
those who still remember its sweet
tones with delight. st. Michaels, in
Talbot county, has the honor of being
her birthplace. Her earliest attempts
at poetry were humble and character
lied by great simplicity, but they at
tracted the notice of one who was HIM
self master of the Tyre, who saw, at
glance, that the young warbler posses
sed the true poetic fire. He CORES
ponded with her, made her acquaint-
ance, took her by the hand and led her
forth, radiant with genius, to take her
proud position among the children of
song. That friend and patron was
George d. Prentice, who holds no mean
rank among the poets of America
His own heart being attuned to num-
bers, he had a lively sympathy for 9TH
ers, who, like himself, possessed the
divine a67at@s; and that "fellow feel
ingv which inspired him, prompted
him to render similar service to an
other fair devotee of the MUSES., who,
liz AEs Ms 1Ba 9g# 4gsEHsils tes laRa
county. We allHde to Mrs. Beaver, nee
Emma Alice Browne, whose harp still
gives forth its mellifuent sounds from
her quiet retreat in the valley of the
Patapsco, though less frequently, it
may be, on account of maternal cares,
which, nevertheless, she occasionally
lays aside to enjoy her wonted dalliance
with the immortal Nine. We have had
in our portfolio for sometime, a poem
addressed to her by Prentice, which
we here insert, and with it close our
desultory reflections upon the Poets of
MARYLAND.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05

ing in all his life. His troubles have
always been looseness. He never could
keep anything. He isa man who is a
spendthrift, a scatterer, ne'er-do-well,
and he says: 81 am determined that
| will not be miser." There is not
the slightest danger of it, in his case.
But how is it with the man who is a
miser? He tells you that he has
watched these spendthrift's through
life, that he has never seen them do
any good, and that he early took warn
ing from them, and determined that,
whatever come, he would not be a
squanderer, by over benevolence Of
what God gave him-and he never has
been. He watches himself continual
ly for fear that he will give away some-
thing; and his watch is greatly bless
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05
TO A POETESS.
BY GEORGE D. PRENTICE.

In the soft twilight, gentle Alice,
drain to thee this golden chalice,
All glowing with the rich red wine
Pressed from the clusters of thevine,
That thou so oft has seen in dreams,
Springing by Eden's sacred streams,
And watered by diviner showers,
Than falls upon this earth of ours.
Queen of my soul, oh, lovely Alice,
Pm with thee in thy bright dream-paiace,
mark each rich and wondrous gem
In thy poetic diadem.
see thee in thy royal pride
Without a rival by thy side,
see Fame's living lustre now
Circling round thy beaming brow,
While earth's proud spirits widely throng
To list to thy bewitching song,
And, spell-bound by the power divine,
Bow low before thy glories shrine.
Star of my spirit, bright queen Alice,
Oh, keep me ever in thy palace;
Let me be with thee when each thought
Of fire from Heaven thy soul hath caught;
When o'er thy face sweet fancies fee,
Like soft cloud-shadows o'er the sea;
When beauty like a humming bird
The wild rose of thy heart hath stirred,
And all the MUSES. come to throw
Their garlands- on. thy brow of snow,
And hail thee, child of glorious mein,
Loves, Beauty's, Fame's, and Music's Queel
But, when thy other guests are gone,
Oh, for one blissful hour, lay down
The royal sceptre and the crown;
L d win the aOonadn to my side,
And not the Queen in queenly pride.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05
Buying a Horse and a Wife.

Mr.. G.. Gerard, of Philadelphia
formerly American consul at Cape
Town, Cape of Good Hope, commune
Gates to the press the following anus
ing "reminiscences of his African con-
sular experience:
"There is very singular custom a.
mong the farmers-how to get wife.
If you desire to get married, you should
first make inquiry whether the lady
you love has horse; if so, You must
ask her whether she has horse for
sale. If she says No. then you had
better quit the house at once. She
does not like you. But if, on the con-
trary, she says Yes it is a good sign,
but she will ask you very high price.
If the amount named is paid on the
spot, the engagement is concluded, as
fully as if the marriage was consum-
mated by the parties.
''On my arrival at the Cape, i did
not know of this custom. WANTED to
purchase a horse and I was informed
by an old Dutch resident that widow
- had one to sell. I followed the
address given, and soon arrived at the
door of the widow (who, by the way,
was not bad-looking). I asked her
whether she had horse to sell. She
looked at me very sharp; then asked
me whether | had some letters of in
PRODUCTION. said that / was an Ameri-
can consul, and would pay cash for her
horse. I'm that case, said she, 'letters
are not necessary / paid down the
sum demanded; then, after taking a
cup of coffee, she sent her horse by her
groom, and both accom- npanied me home.
thousand questions. Master, said he,
will my mistress go to live with you
in town, or will you come and live with
us? You will love my mistress, for
she was very kind to my old master
Qaughter). Where will the wedding
be ? Cooking at me and laughing. y
STruly,'I I thought, the poor fellow has
drunk too much or he is an imbecile.'
I felt sorry for him.
ssWhen I arrived home I found many
people at my door congratulating me,
not for the horse, but the acquaintance
of the widow. Truly said one, you
have been very successful She is
very rich,' said another. I really did
not know what it all meant, and be-
gan to be very uneasy, when to my
great surprise, a lady alighted on my
steps, and at once I recognized the
widow! She very coolly asked me
when I desired to have the ceremony
of the wedding performed. Then, in
deed, I fully perceived the scrape in
which was, and told her frankly that
it was horse WANTED and not wife.
what said she, do you mean to act
thus to a lady like me? If so, I shall
send back for my horse, and will repay
you the money. In a few hours her
groom was. at my door with the money.
1 gladly gave back the horse, thankful
to have thus escaped. A few weeks
after, however, the widow was married
more ambitious man had bought her
horse" -
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05

young lady in New Orleans was Who'll
ly a myth. But when, may I ask, did
you change your mind?"
81 have never changed it" she MUIR
INJURED. 81 have loved you all the time,
but l never knew it until last night. ("
And this day, when Mrs. Becky Eek
erson is asked where it was that she fell
in love with her husband, she answers
son log"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05

@So live that death may never
surprise thee nprepared. Happy the
man who constantly keeps the hour OF
his death in view, and every day pre-
pares himself for it. -
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05

@rIf the good and beautiful are
not always united, we can only say that
they ought to be SO, for they belong to
each other as the blossoms and the
fruit. i2# ~ sIe4T.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05

R1~A man in earnest finds means: :
or if he cannot find them, creates them.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05

R@ @Unele--"Now, how did the moth
er Of Moses hide him?"
Niece-"With a stick"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05

p9 A panic eonundrum--"H Hoy
many mills make dollar % .' 2. 81
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05

D~ Virginius was a Roman, and the
Virginiug was roamer.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05

DR.. Holland sends out these few for
chile words through Scri6neIs Moath-
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-12-05

From the chapter on amenageries in
Olive Logan's volume, "Before the
Footlights and Behind the Scenes, We
make the following extracts. FL Ass7E
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-08-25
BY TELEGRAPH
MONTANA.
The Yellowstone Expedition


MUssEL SHELL RIVER, August 10, via
FORT BENTON, August 23.-The abund.,
ant preparation made by the Yellowstone
expedition for the reception of the Indians
have been fully justified. On the 4th of
August demonstration was made by q
small party of Indians against General
Custer, who, with Bloody knife and a
squad Of cavalry, had been detailed by
General Stanly to 60 on several miles in
advance of the wagons and look up the
road. These Indians were easily driven off,
but they proved decoy Of large party in
a neighboring wood, waiting in ambush for
the cavalry. Finding that their ruse
had failed, the Indians, to the number Of
300, boldly rode out and advanced on the
grove oceupied by the cavalry. General
Custer had only one squadron of eighty
men under command Of Captain Mayler.
These men were dismounted and skir-
mish line formed. The Indians also dis
mounted and formed semi-crcular line
around the cavalry, who had the river at
their back. After fight of three hours
General Custer's ammunition gave out,
and he then charged the Indians who fed
precipitately, dropping many of their
equipments. One man and one horse
wounded formed the extent of Custer's
loss. The Indians had two killed and
several wounded, besides losing several
ponies. t ~
While the fight was going on several
Indians, who were searching for stragglers
from the train, came upon DIR. Housinger,
veterinary surgeon, and Mr.. Bolarin,
sutler, and John Ball, of the cavalry, and
killed and stripped them of their clothes
and valuables.
General Stanley directed General Custer
to take the cavalry, numbering four hum
dred and fifty men, follow the trail ! ,'and If
possible oyertake and punish the Indians.
General Custer left on the Sth, and on
the morning Of the 1lth he was attacked
by about eight hundred Indians, who came
down to the river and fired on his camp.
The firing was returned for two or three
hours, both parties using the trees as o
cover. A party of three hundred Indians
then crossed the river and endeayored to
gain ihe bluff in rear of the troops, but
they failed, and General Custer ordering
charge, the men pursued the savages for
eight miles. just at this time the train
came and fire was opened on the Indians
with artillery. A few shots dispersed
them and the fight ended.
The battle was quite fierce one. Gen
eral Custer and his adjutant had their
horses shot under them. Lieutenant Bro
den was badly shot in the thigh. General
Custers orderly was killed, and twenty
soldiers slightly wounded. Several horses
were killed and wounded. The Indians
loss is estimated by General Custer at
forty killed and wounded.
H,ba a1,f;n, 10 ,,,uy hon, aura ri honp1
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-08-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

b
Judge Thomas A. r.. Nelson died of
cholera in Knoxville, Tennessee, Sunday.
In ST. Louis the law regarding the social
evil has been pronounced unconstitutional.
Sir William Baker, with his party of
African explorers, arrived at Suez Sunday.
Benjamin Young, the great representa-
tive Of Uncle Tom, in the drama of "Un-
Gle TOMS Cabin" died in Philadelpha
yesterday. eYas
Hon. Philetus Sawyer, member Of con-
gress. from Wisconsin, is alive and hearty
in Oshkosh, in that state, not having suici
ded as reported.
BY collision in New York harbor
yesterday the steamer Clyde, from Calves
ton, and bark Ottawa were badly damaged.
Captain Kennedy of the steamer received
a concussion Of the brain.
In lower New York bay last night, Ann
Carroll and man who refused to give his
name were found clinging to the bottom Of
an overset boat. They stated that Mary
0'HarTa, Of West street, and a man whose
name the rescued man refused TO make
known were with them in the boat at the
time of the upset, and that both were
drowned.
The Philadelphia Evening Herald news
paper is competing with the New York
Graphic in the balloon line, the object being
todiscover steady wind current flowing in
an easterly direction, il such current ex-
lists. The balloon will start ON the 25th
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-08-25
VA. MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 25. 1873.

to the board of police commissioners, which
meets this afternoon at four o'clock.
LOTS OF CoIORED PEOPLE arrived in
the city to-day on an excursion from Pc
tersburg. t-l Nhl
THE PETERSBURG GRAYs will particle
pate in the grand excursion to West Point
on Monday next. @ e
INCLUDING RICHMOND, eighty cities
of the United States. now have the postal
delivery system. X8sE
THE REPUBLICANS of Jackson ward
meet this evening in the Thirdstree Meth
odist church at o'clock.
PEOPLE OF ERRATIC ,IABITs should
bear in mind that "lixed stars' are never
found in the "miky way"
A PORTRAIT of the late John Il.
Thompson has been finished by a
Virginia artist for the state library.
The PETERSBURG INDEX of to-day
says that McOann's band is one Of the
finest musical organizations in the state.
THE WEATHER HAVING COOLED oil
measurably, the Philharmonic association
has gone into training again.
PEOPLE ALONG TsIE LINE Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad are suf-
fering very much from chills and fevers.
A YOUNG MAN had to be elected from
the Leigh-street Baptist church yesterday
during service on account of his bad con-
duct. er
JAMES p. CowARDIN, ESQ.,, Of this
city, is preparing numerous lecture on
his travels in Japan, China, etc. 1t will be
Il Io4I o,,1 v,orth
THE KEMPER BALLOON started up
Friday night, and which fell in the canal
has been iishcd up. dried and returned to
its owner.
GOVERNOR WALKER is at the White
Sulphur and Kemper and Withers in
Warrenton, Va. General Joe Johnston
was in this city yesterday.
RANGE OF THE THERMOMETER at
G. +. Johnston's news and music store,
9lS Main street, to-day At a. IN. GA /;
9 q. m. 76 IL m. 83; 3p. m. 80
y GILBERT G. WALKER, ESQ.,, has been
invited by the executive committee of the
State agricultural society to deliver an
address at the next annual fair at Rich
mond.
BLACK WALNUT BUTTONS are being
made in New York from New river (Vir-
ginia) lumber brought to this city and ship
ped by the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
company.
"MEN ARE EASILY DELUDED," says
the ex-Empress Eugene "they are duped
on every hand the same arts succeed with
all of them, and the woman is a genius
who strikes out q new way to get the bet
ter of them.n
The VIRGINIA RIDING CLUB have
put forth clever monogram. The ~" is
bended bit; the sR' a twisted whip, and
thel'sC" the most natural horse shoe that
ever was worn by any descendant of the
immortal Spotiswode. ",Sic juca trans
cenderc mo,atcs ~
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captain Jack and Five OF his Com rad es
10 be Hanged--The President An
alllnYaS a GnndanAnas. u y

WASHINGTON. August 30. The pro-
ceedings Of the military commission in the
case of the Modoc prisoners, arraigned
Captain Jack, Sconchin, Black jim, Boston
Charley, Bancho alias One-eyed jim, Slo-
luck alias COX, the Modoc Indian capiiyes.
were tried as follows: Charge L. For
murder in violation of the laws of war
charge 2. Assault with intent to kill, in
violation OF the laws of war.
The prisoners were found guilty on all
the charges and specifications, and the
commission does therefore sentence them
to be hanged by the neck until they be
dead the execution to take place at such
time as the proper authority shall direct.
two-thirds Of the members Of Che commits
sion concurring therein.
The President approves these sentences.
and orders that the sentences be carried
into execution by the proper military
authority under the order Of the secretary
of war, on The Sd of October, 1873. Tie
war department. has issued a general order
enforcing the above sentences to be execu-
ted by the commanding general at Font
klamath.