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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-06-26

THERE are many persons who find
it difficult to understand why it is that
Government will furnish postal cards
for cent each upon which one may
write any message and send through
the mail, while if the person furnish
his own cards of the same size, and
write upon it, it is subject to three
cents postage. 1t can only be ex-
planned upon the hypothesis that some
faEorite wants fat job in furnishing
ing postal cards.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-06-26

Mr.. Hunt, of Hamilton county has
has introduced in the Constitutional
Convention a provision to be inserted
in the Constitution forbidding any
Legislature of the State to act upon
the ratification to the Constitution OF
the United States, unless it was elected
after the submission of the amend
ment- Those who oppose such an
amendment viii thereby say that they
desire that the Legislature may ratify
or reject any proposed amendment
against the viii of tina people.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-06-26

For the year 1872, the imports of
foreign goods exceeded the exports
of domestic produce to the extent of
$94 600, 900, all the estimates being in
specie. During the same year the
excess of exports in bullion over inn
ports was 81, 100000, leaving US in
debt on trade account about $23, ,900,-
COO.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-06-26
a Mining TOwn Burnt-EIiight Lives Lost

A Mining Town Burnt-Eight Lives Lost.
DETROIT, June 2O.-- Special dis
patches state that Michigamme City,
Marquette county, Lake superior, was
yesterday destroyed by fire, caught
from the burning woods. The place
was mining town in the iron region,
and contained some eight hundred in.
habitants. Among other buildings
burned was the mill of Jacob Hough-
ton, just equipped at the expense of
$4,000. AT the Spur Mine two
barns and a number qof log houses
were bnrned. The heat has so warped
the rails on the Marquette, Houghton
81 Ontonagon Railroad as to render
the passage of cars impossible. In
certain places the poles have been
burned and the wires are down along
the track. Superintendent Merritt, as
soon as he heard of the catastrophe,
sent special train to aid in the relif
of the snfIerersa Over two hundred
buildings were burned and eight lives
lost.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-06-26

WHILE the Western farmer pays a
duty of more than one hundred per
cent. on the salt which he uses in his
pork, beef and butter, the New Eng
land fisherman who puts it INTO his
fish is allowed ft free of duty. This
discrimination against the West has
been made for years, and yet Western
congressman have submitted to it
without remonstrance. What do the
Western people think of it?
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-06-26

The postal cards cost the govern
ment 81. SO per thousand. The orders
have reached over 25,000,000, for
which the government pays $34, 600,
and the people $250,000. The orders
from postmasters average 1,050O00
daily, while the capacity of the oon-
tractors mandatory is only 100000
a day.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-06-26

Mrs. HARBIEr BEEcHER STowE,
writing from Florida, says:
ssWith suitable instructions, alliga-
tors may get be seen in the Legisla-
ture. They certainly would not be
more grasping and voracious than
many in the situation; and there is a
fine openness about their manner Of
doing things that is prepossessing."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-06-26

THE Beaver Falls experiment of
employing Chinese in the cutlery
works there has proved failure.-
They have struck, and on Thursday
last, ninety-nine of them left for San
Francisco.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-06-26
TO STOCK GROWERS!
THE CELEBRATED HORSE
A r Oh D u K E (!

Will make the ensuing season, COM
the stable of.the subscriber, one-half mile north
of Mantua Station, Portage county, Ohio
ARCH DUKE is beautiful dark mahogany
bay, 1914 hands high, years old the 18th day
of June. and weighs 1900 lbs. He was sired by
the well-known Morgan Horse. Searcher.-
Searcher was got by the celebrated horse Bar
ney Henry, oWnOd by Mr.. Barney, of Whitehall
Vermont; he by Signal, and he by imported
Margrave. The dam of Searcher WAS Morgan
Shoerham, Vermont. She could trot mile in
less than three minutes, weighed 1.100 pounds,
and was in every respect perfect
Searcher is of dark bay color. a heavy flow
ing black name and tail and legs black nearly
! 10 mis- body; Is 16 Ia hands high, and weighed
1200 pounds when four years old He took the
4 First Prem ium at all Of the Vermont Fairs. He
ence of thousands, and on heavy sand track
enc mile, in harness, in two minutes and
fifty seconds. This feat he performed, although
he had never been trained, nor his best speed
tested. Arch Dukes dam was Henry Clay
her dam Arch Duke, sired by General Git rd
As for speed and style, Arch Duke is inferior to
no horse in the State, and is q square trotter.
are requested to call and examine this magnih-
cent Horse.
THRMS- Single Service, Sc. pay down; Sea-
son SO to be paid at the end of the season; In
surance, $15, to be paid as soon as the mare is
known to be with f0al. a a.z y
Any person parting with mare before she ls
known to be with foal, will forfeit the insurance
Persons bringing mares from q distance can
have them pastured at their own risk
Arch Duke will make Fall season at the
same place, commencing August and ending
November l. 1S73. .=z---=-@s-=-z----- q BLAIR
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-06-26

THE Constitutional Convention is
dragging its slow length along, and
there is no prospect of an early COM
pIetion of their work. There seems
to be disposition to give the old
constitution ; general oyerhauling.-
That was hardly what the people ex.
pected or desired. With the present
constitution, in the main, the people
were content, and only desired few
amendments, which should have been
effected in afew weeks, and submitted
70 the people for their endorsement
or rejection. The Convention has
now been in session over month and
half, with very little prospect of an
adjournment very soon.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-06-26

J. HIPPLE MITCHELL, the Radical
United States Senator from Oregon,
is avery proper representative of the
can the piety, all the deceney and all
the morality party" He has two
names-Hipple alias Mitchell-one of
which was so offensive that he left it
behind and he has two wives, one of
whom he left in. Pennsylvania, when
he removed to Oregon. This saint,
too,is terribly down on that /" twin
relic of barbarism"-polygamy. He
has been asked to resign, but like our
own sainted Garfield, he has got a
good thing, and there is nouse in ask
ing him to let il go.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-06-26

How are you, "old- fashioned p nom
partisan celebration?
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-06-26

81 5Totgi in gold SsOT, us, ,Oss
Total importation of merchandise in - t-3. r
four years, paid in gold. ,,.,-. 81 800 205, 132
Total duty thereon in gold ......- S0f,179,06S
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-04

1t is a sad thing to pass through life only half
alive. Yet there are thousands whose habtual
condition is one OF lauguor and debility. They
complain of no specific disease they suffer 10
positive pain, but they have reli sh for anything
which affords mental or sensuous pleasure to their
more robust and energetic fellow-beings.
In nine cases out of ten this state Of lassitude
and torpor arises from morbid stomach. Indi-
geBtion destroys the energy of both mind and
body. When the waste of nature is not supplied
by due and regular assimilation of the food,
every organ is starved, every function inter-
ruptcd.
Now, what does common sense suggest under
these circumstance of depression! The system
needs rousing and strcngt heniug; not merely for
an hour or two, to sink afterwards into more
pitablc condition than Gas it assurenly would
do if ordinary alcoholic stimulant were re-
sorted tor, but radically and permanently.
How is this desirable object to be accomplished Z
The answer to this question, founded on the I'M
varying experience of Il quarter of a century, is
easily given. lufuse new Visor into the digestive
organs by course OF HOstetter's Stomach Bitters.
Do not waste time in admins tering temporary
remedies, but wake the system up by recuperat-
ing the tountain-hcad of physical strength and
energy, the great organ upon which all the other
organs depend for their nurture and support.
BY the time that n dozen doses of the great veac-
table tonic and invigoraut have been taken, the
feeble frame of the dyspcptic will begin to feel its
with appetite the capacity to digest what it
Graves. Pcrsevcre until the cure is complete
until hcalthful blood, fit to be the material OF
flesh and muscle, bone and nerve and brain, flows
watery pabulum with which they have heretofore
been i'm perfectly nOurished
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-04
A CHECKER-BCARD CRANIUH.

Here is something remarkable. A
woman in New Haven was recently be-
reft of her scalp by the idiosyncracies
of a shaft and belt. The doctors saw
that to remedy the evil they would have
to recourse to transplanting, and SO
they actually succeeded in getting
sufficient number of pieces from other
peoples heads to give this unfortunate
woman new scalp. We hope those
New Haven doctors used more discre.
ton than did he who attended a man
named Finley, who aet with similar
accident in Oriskany, N. Y, some thir-
teen years ago. Bits of scalp from
seventeen different persons were secured
by this doctor and adroitly stitched to
the head Of Mr., Finlny. When it was
done, people came miles to see Finlay's
head, and Finlay himself, with his
| checker-board Uranium. wns the happi-
est man in Orisksny. But when the
capillary glands got in working order.
and the hair commenced to grow, the
top of that mans head presented the
most extraordinary spectacle on record.
Tbs doctor, who was about half the
time in liquor, had consulted expedi-
ency rather than Judgment, and secured
that new scalp without any reference
to future developments. We never saw
anything like it. Here was tuft of
yellow hair, and next to it bit of
black, and then flame of red, and
little like silk, and more like tow, with
brown hair and gray hair, and sandy
hair, and cream colored hair, scattered
over his entire skull. And what mad
man that Finlay was, and nobody could
blame him. He would stand up against
the barn for an hour at time and sob
and swear. 1t was very fortunate that
the doctor was dead. He went off two
weeks before with blue ague, which is a
mild sort OF disease. Finlay kept his
hair cut short, but that didn't make
any difference Then he tried dyes, but
they only made matters worse. Then
he got wig, and this covered up the de-
formity but sometimes at church he
would get asleep, and the wig would
fall off, and make the children cry.
Once at the county fair he fell asleep
and the wig dropped off, and the COM
mittee on domestic goods, when they
came around, stood in front of Finlay's
head for some five minutes in wrapped
delight They then Immediately decided
that it was the most ingenious piece of
patch work in the list, and never discov-
cred the mistake until they attempted
to pin the premium card to it. At that
Finlay awoke, and knocked down the
chairman of the committee and chased
the others out of the building. We
hope those New Haven doctors have
been more particular, as it is not a sub
iect to trife with.-Danbauy Nc,Us.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-04
LONDON EEELERS.

The London police force now number
9,761 men, of whom 26 are superintend-
ents, 262 insp cctors, 9S4 sergeants, and
S,4S9 constables. The population over
whom these have authority exceeds
5000, 900. The length of streets pa
troled night and day is 6,612 miles. The
number of arrests in 1872 was 49, 03.
Arrests for drunkenness are rather in
creasing, but crimes are diminishing.
The number of thieves and suspected
persons in 1869 was 1896, and in 1872
it was 3,115. The number of houses of
bad character has also lessened from
|, 74O to Jas in the same period.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-04
SAD DEATH or TWO SLSTERS.

The bodies of Mrs. Everett and Mrs.
Constable (sisters), of London, who
mysteriously disappeared in June last
when they went to visit the horse show
at the Alexandra Park-wcre found on
Aug. 81 in the ruins of the Alexandra
Palace. No clue has been discovered as
to how the deceased found their way
into the building. The general belief
is that they wandered unnoticed into
the ruins and were buried under some
portion of the masonry which suddenly
gave way. The bodies were much de-
composed. Their watches and chains
were found ON them.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-04
The Nature of Guano.

1t is a generally received opinion that
the deposits of guano are exclusively the
excrements of birds. DIR. Habel has in
vestigated this matter microscopically
and chemically, and has found that after
treating the substance with an acid, the
insoluble residue is composed of fossil
sponges and other marine animals and
plants precisely similar in constitution
TO such as still exist in those seus. The
TACT, toe, that the anchors of ships in the
neighborhood Of the guano islands
often bring up guano from the bottom
OF the ocean, is quite in opposition to
the prevalent belief. Dr. Habel there
fore considers that the deposits of guano
must be the result of the accumulation
OF fossil plants and animals whose or
ganic matter has been transformed into
heterogeneous substance, the mineral Dor
ton remaining intact.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-04
PERSONAL PARdGRA PMS.

Mr.. JOSEPH ARCH, the great English
agricultural labor agitator, has arrived
in this country.
The cook at Lafayette hotel is anx-
ious to wager that he can kill, dress and
cook chicken in six minutes.
The London Cosmopolitan would be
pleased to see Confederate Judah 7.
Benjamin Lord Chief Justice of En-
gland.
Mrs. II. B. STOWE, at her home in
Florida, has kept open a school of fifty
pupils during the summer at her own
expense.
NILssoN's real name was Tornernjeim,
but she couldn't risk the ruination OF
her voice every time she had to tell who
she was.
Mr.. MITCHELL, California agricul-
turist, has gathered this year 100000
bushels of wheat from little patch of
40, 600 acres.
If Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins,
should get intoxicated, what picture 1t
would make. We should probably see
Chang high and Eng raving.
GEN. MYEE ("Old Probabilities")
is in luck. His wife, who is the only
heir, by the death of her mother, has
recently inherited round 81 ,000,O 600.
Mrs. SARAH J. HALE, the editor of
Godey's Lays Book, is 50 years old,
still vigorous in body and III mind. Her
maiden name was Sarah Josepha Buell.
She has been a widow ever since 1922.
IT is said that when the proof of the
new so cent stamp was shown to
Treasurer Spinner he detected the strik-
ing resemblance of the vignette to Beau
Hickman, and to prevent mistakes had
engraved under the likeness: "Saml.
Dexter Sect. Treasy. 1901.
The Queen of Belgium and the
Princess Louise were recently caught in
a shower while out riding, and ON APP
plying at country inn for shelter were
refused admittance, the landlady being
suspicious of their character, and say
ing that "she didn't want any such per-
sons.
AS ENORMOUS snakes and Aaron Brrr's
descendants are becoming scarce, coun-
try newspapers are searching their own
offices for wonderful beings. The latest
discovered is McDermott, aged 70, OF
the Reporter, Washington, Pa, who
set up jeff. Davis speech with only one
error in proof.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-04
Arm AND HOME.
Homemade Horse Power.

The cheapest and best way to make
horsepower for dairy and other light
use is to put light drum on center
post, high enough to have the belt clear
the horses head. Attach q sweep ten or
twelve feet long to the center post, so
that the track in which the horse walks
will be from twenty to twenty-four feet
in diameter if possible. Let the track
be soft ground. The whole arrangement
may be made of white pine, except the
sweep, which should be hard wood. Let
the drum be about ten feet in diameter
and six inches face. Use a two-inch
rubber belt. Make small pulley from
four inches to foot in diameter, accord
ing as you want fast or slow motion. If
you want the motion still faster, gear up
with second belt and set of pulleys.
The direction of the motion may be
changed by quarter twist in the second
belt, or by passing the first belt over
idler pulleys. This arrangement will
be almost noiseless, while the clatter
and jar of circular platform would
be enough to drive sensitive on
nervous person almost crazy. Besides,
it is much easier and safer to teach q
horse to follow circular path than to
keep his balance or a revolving plat
form.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-04


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follows
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of the best IL e
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-04
A HAIRY EDITOR.

A. Banning Norton, of Dallas, Texas,
who formed one of the party of Texas
editors who recently made an excursion
to st. Louis and Chicago, has not had
his hair or beard cut for twenty-nine
years. In 1874, when Henry Clay ran
for President, Norton made VOW that
he would neither shave or have his hair
cut until the idolized Kentucky states
man was Chief Magistrate of the nation.
He has faithfully kept his vow to this
1o1y
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-04
PRECOCIOUS PRIGS.

One OF the most ingenious and daring
thefts on record was perpetrated Il short
time since at the village of Briefly Hill,
England A lad entered the store of Il
grocer of the place and bought roll of
bread, which he asked the man to stuff
down the back of his jacket, as his COM
panion outside would take it away from
him if he saw it. The grocer complied
with the apparently innocent request,
and having had his loaf placed in its
original hiding place the boy left.
Hardly had he quilted the store when
another lad rushing in, exclaimed ''Do
you know what that chap has done he
has prigged your watch !" The grocer
looked in horror, and saw his watch
chain dangling and his watch gone.
"There he goes P" said his informant,
pointing to a figure seen going down the
street; and the storekeeper Immediately
rushed out in pursuit, leaving the store
unguarded. When he reached the cor
her the supposed thief had vanished,
and returning to his store he found that
during his absence the informer had
emptied the till and gone off with the
money. The two thieves have 50 far
escaped capture.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-04
THE SICKNESS AND DEA TIL OF CAPT.

A New York Herald correspondent
interviewed DR.. Bissell, the surgeon of
the Hall Arctic exploring expedition,
on the arrival of the Budaington party
ut Dundee, Scotland. In relation to
the sickness and death of the chief of
the expedition, DR.. Bissell said
"Since arriving here we find by Amer
lean papers that several very silly and
absurd rumors of a mischievous ten
dency have been abroad. 1t is quite
possible that the Government at Wash
ington prefers that we reserve what we
have to say for graver discussion, but l
must emphatically contradict the state
ment that Capt. Hall died other than
natural death. He died of apoplexy.
He appeared to be in perfect health
when entering upon the voyage. l no.
ticed nothing unusual in his health up
to the period of his illness. The rumor
that he was poisoned is too absurd to be
seriously entertained. The rumor may
have been founded on the hallucination
of the raving patient"
The Herald correspondent adds ::
Schumann, the engineer, says that Hall
was in continual apprehension of being
shot, but was not aware that any one
member of the crew more than another
excited his suspicious. Another phase
of his mania was determination not to
eat or drink anything unless it was first
tasted by some person. The tasting
was mainly done by Hannah, the Els
q,limaux woman. When he rallied, and
for while recovered his wonted intel
lect, he would say to Capt. Buddington,
eff l die, you must still go on the
North Pole" He would say, My
last wish is that you strive to get to the
North Pole. Don't let my death be a
hindrance to the accomplishment of
this great undertaking.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-04
PENNSIL TANTA ENTERPRISE.

The project of laying down pipe be-
tween the petroleum region in Western
Pennsylvania and some seaport city,
whereby crude oil may be sent to an
ocean market cheaper than by railroad,
has been revived. Just now Pennsyl-
vania seems to be ahead of the world in
the matter of starting enterprises, of
which piping oil to New York or Phila-
delphia is one. The Trans Atlantic bal
loon voyage originated there, as did the
scheme to render the Ohio river naviga-
bic by pumping a supply of water from
Lake Erie. Some time since Pennsyl-
vania man suggested that salt could be
made much cheaper by bringing brine
from Syracuse to the coal beds than by
carrying the coal to the brine wells i'll
cars; but New York was reluctant to
part with her salt works and the rev.
enues derived from them. Now an
other Pennsylvania proposes to supply
al! the cities in the Middle and Western
States with gas derived from gas wells,
by means of pipes leading from Erie
and other places where gas issues from
the ground in large quantities.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-04
fJs-CharcOai for Poultry,

benefit which fowls derive from
= ahg. charcoal is, l believe, acknowl-
edged. The method of putting it before
them is, however, not well understood.
Pounded charcoal is not in the shape in
which fowls usually find their food, and
consequently is not very enticing to
them.
l have found that corn burned on the
cob, and the refuse-which consists al
most entire ly of the grains reduced to
charcoal, and still retaining their per-
feet shape-placed before them, is greed
lily eaten by them, with marked i'm
provement i'll their health, as is shown
by the brighter color of their combs,
and their sooner producing a greater
average Of eggs to the flock than before.
Poultry World.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-04

A correspondent gives his method of
converting mower into feed-cutter
follows : Place the machine standing
upright on the back end, and brace it
firmly. Then brace up the bar so that
it will be steady, and fit board on the
top of the fingers of the guardian, so
that the hay cannot get over the bar.
Then make Il table to feed on. Throw the
machine into the gear, put the hay on
the table and turn the wheel. The hay
is fed against the under side of the bar.
With horse power and belt to the
wheel, this makes a first-rate power
feed-cutter, doing the work fast and
well.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-04
MAN AND WIFE.

Among the subjects to be discussed at
the coming Congress of American
Women" is the propriety of can equal
division of salaries between husband
and Wife" A contemporary suggests
that this generous proposition must, of
course, refer exclusively to salary
earned by the wife, inasmuch as the
husbands income is already by law, liza
BILE for his wifc's debts as well as for
her daily maintenance, being thus vir-
tually altogether at her disposal, whilst
her own money is legally sacred from
his touch, OF from that of her credi-
torS