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The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-04-30

RECENT statistics show that
the value Of the books sold in
the German empire amounts to
only about one halt of the tax
upon the consumption of braf :
dy.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-04-30

TIE country, Inhabited BY the
buffalo, Is 200 By 300 miles in ex-
tent and lies between the Arkan-
sas and South Platte rivers, in
both Kansas and Colorado.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-04-30

"KILLED by a visitation OF
Providence through the medi.
um OF a horse" was the Cofo.
ner's verdict in the case Of =
Georgia man who wss kicked
10 death.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-04-30

tn E Worcester Pressexhorts
members Of Congress to so be =
have as that the country shalt
not with one voice promo unce
them q let OF sdead beats"
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-04-30

The New York Tribune doet
not think that the municipal
elections in this State should be
discouraging to the temperance
people.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-04-30
ADVERTIsING rERhIs.
From the IrontOn Register.


From the Ironton Register.
LETTING out work to the low.
est bidder was one of the frsS
causes Of the labor revolt in
England. Low bids made low
wages. The pay for labor offers
greater margins on which to 6g-
ure proposals than the materials
and, we might say, the profits Of
the contractor. Besides,low wa
ges, another result of low bids IS
bad work. These two results
generally run together, but fre-
quently it is one or the other
The worthy way is to discard
bids and apply to an honest,
competent man to do tie work
:
and take price that reasonably
compensates oil sides. There is
more money lost in this country
in low bids than is made. The
loss censists in inferior work.
which will happen, though the
is watched like q
hawk, which is usually the case,
No man has Alright to have any
thing done, unless he is willing
to pay for an honest dong of it,
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-04-30

,i,M, MILD coffee bushes are plen-
'iiul don ard o,h.,
counties of Caliiorhis. osner
berries are known to the set.
tiers as "cat berries" bot are
in every respect similar to the
coffee of commerce. A Coloms
bian consul, who is intimately
acquainted with the cultivas
ton of coffee in South Amer.
lea, is confident that the shrub
is the genuine coffee plant,
and capable OF producing un-
der cultivation a superior qual'
ity of coffee.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-04-30

CoSSEoTIcUr gave several
thoussnd majority TO the organize
ed ignorance of the country.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-04-30

A PRISONER got out of tins
Green Bay calaboose by picH;
ing the lock with q tooth-plck~
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-04-30
won't do to praise her too
rnuch.'

1 y
much"
"0h, 1 wasn't thinking Of
what you were saying" said
she. "l'm surprised about my
key. I'm sure l hung It here.
A little brass door key, with a
nick in the handle, and a piece
of pink ribbon tied tn it. l
can't thlDk where it is gone"
Well, we both looked every
where. We unrolled packages
and peeped into boxes, and
Poked down cracks In the floor.
l. lily went worrying about get.
ting a locksmiih to fitanother
before she could get in, and
said that Rosa was always tired.
Rosa was her sistter. The
two we're orphans, and kept
house together in one little
room Of a respectable tene-
ment house.
"lve always had tea ready
before Rosa got in" said Lilly,
"but tonight she will have to
wait"
It's odd how we remember
little things sometimes. Per-
haps the girls pretty puzzled,
face and graceful motions, as
she ran about looking for the
key, impressed this one upon
my mind. AT all events we
did not find the notcbed key
lied with a pink ribbon, and
Lilly went home without it. |
told Margaret Ann about it
when | saw her next, and she
inquired very politely Of Lilly
as to the end of the affair,
when she next saw her.. The
key was never found, but Lilly
said she had two made, so that
such a thing could never hap
pen again. She could keep
one and Rosa the other.
"And, as | presume it wa s
lost here, you must have the
value of it from u.s." said Mar.
garet Ann. "It's not much but
lis just" And that / thought
very kind OF the widow Wood,
considering. - --
Well, time passed on, and
one day was about like the 9TH
er. People began to 90 to the
country, and trade was dull
And Sam told me that he and
Lilly were going to be married
soon-God willing.
l had just left Sam when
Margaret AIMS colored girl
stepped across the street and
told me her mistress wanted to
zee me.
Of course l went over; and
when l got into the back par
lor | found Margaret Ann
wrapped up IN a shawl, her
eyes red with crying.
"Anytbing happened9" says
Il
YES" said she. Pm afraid
so. Oh, I'm so sorryP
"Dear mt! DO mention the
fact" says |.
"WelI,' says she, II can hard
ly bear to do so; but-who has
a chance at the safe besides
you and mep
"Nobody but Lilly Rath
bone," says l.
You are sures' says she.
"why of course" says 1.
"Ah, well!" says she, "per.
haps there Is another way out
of it. May be you" had occa-
sion 10 use that money of mine.
| mean the one thousand dol
lar bank note that l put iE
there in a red pocket book
last week."
"No," said I. sOf course I'd
spoken Of it. 1t was your pri-
vate money"
sits gone, Richard" says
she. '"You saw me look in the
safe to dayP
"Yes,' said 1.
GWellD sava she ssit was
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-04-30
young lady as cashier, and why

notl and if Lilly Ra.hbone
could leave Grigg and Crater,
I'd give her the place. Sam
was in love with Lilly, ! knew
that, but Margaret Ann had
not seen her.
"Margaret Ann" said /, one
day, 1--WE will have a new cash
ier today. We need one, and
| have engaged one."
"Well" " said Margaret Ann
"perahps we do. l hope he's a
nice young man and good look
ing. Good looks attract Gus
tom"
Il am glad you coincide with
me-" says I, aud laughed to my.
sell, for | knew Margaret was
thinking OF somebody else to
flirt with. But | said nothing.
1t was fun to see her face
change when she saw Lillv be.
hind the counter next dav.
And she gave II to me ia the
private office, | can tell you
She hated females about a
store, and she didn't like Lilly's
looks. / could laugh at her,
however, there l had good
references with Lilly, and sign
ed a written contract with her
for six months. She was to be
cashier, YOU know as | told yon.
Margaret Ann couldn't help
herself, and suppose she knew
it, for she said nothing after
that, and Sam and Lilly were
as happy as young birds. / be-
lieve he proposed TO her be-
hind my counter; | knew he
did it SomeV here, and | knew
he was accepted.
"Lord bless you" says l to
myself, "aDd help you to build
your nest. I'm not crusty il |
am a bachelor"
A few days after l found
Margaret Ann in a towering
rage with her face flaming.
"Richard," says she, "a wo
man is always right about an
other woman. Men admire a
pretty face, SO Ihey are aIways
blinded by it. 1t was always
so with Mr. Wood. He thought
a Woman everything that was
splendid until I've proved that
she WASN'T by telling him things
Now I've found out about your
Lilly Raihbone. She's exactly
what thOught-exactly."
We'll, what is its" says l.
"No better than she should
be" says Margaret Ann. l saw
her kiss Sam Spencer behind
h. counter this blessed morn
ing"
Sand he didn't want her to,
| suppose, and halloed lor help97
says |.
"Yuu know what men are"
says she, "oi course he kissed
her back"
didn't he kiss her first9'
say s /.
"Well. she let him, anyhow"
says she.
"WeIl.". says |, ~ suppose
you used to kiss Ben after you
were engaged if not betore9'
What has that to do with
iip says she. Why they-at
ieast-did he propose her com.
ing here, Richards'
"No,' says |. "but they are
engaged. Margaret Ann"
"Don't believe 1t says she.
It's Gospel TRUTH" says I.
And then-well, | didn't
mind it, 1t didn't hurt me a BIZ
but that woman turned around
and slapped me in the face, she
was SO hopping mad.
"Such actions in a respecta.
BILE storel You depraved brutel"
says she, and marched out and
didn't come ba * for a week
Tor which | was truly thankful
When she did come she was
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I
OF the girl9" said I. "Why
don't you suspect. me. l am
! ever so much more of q doubt.
ful character than she is."
"You are my brother-in.law,T
said Margaret Ann. "Now.
listen to reason. Come to the
store with me and we'll search.
IT we don't find it, 1 shall
charge Lilly with the theft to.
morrow, and, if she doesn't
confess, get a search warrant
for her rooms. I'll be very
kind, but l can't loose a sum
like that"
She cried again. I did really
feel that she was in great
trouble. We went to the store
again and searched the safe,
but the money was all gone.-
Margaret Ann had the number
in her pocket book. 1t was
easy to indemnity, and besides
the poor ei,l was in a suspi.
cious position, ana 7 said If
she should prove guilty -y
faith in human nature was
gone.
"Mine, too" said Margaret
Ann. ~ had come to like her
so. And then poor SAM"
| went home to tea with my
sister in-law, but we had not
much appetite. She promised
not to come to the store until
the closing hour, and to be
very merciful, and to give the
girl every chance.
And so we parted. l arose
to say good night, and came
around the table to shake
hands with Margaret Ann,
when, being a clumsy old bach.
elor, not used to woman's fix
ings, my coat caught in a lit
tie wicker work seWing basket,
on long spider legs, and over
set It. Out tumbled cotton,
buttons and tape, and, | stoop-
ed to pick them up, when
among them | saw a key, a
brass door key, with nick in
II auda lung Piooo Of pink rib.
bon tied to the handle. 1t was
a very little thing, but it made
my blood run cold.
If that was the key Lilly had
lost, what was it doing there9
| didn't dare to look at my sis.
ter in law. And | walked the
floor all night; but by morn
ng my mind was made up.
At nine o'clock | met that
boy and girl at the store, and
told them | should be gone all
day. In ten minutes more l
stole LiD!y's key from under
the counter and went to The
house to her little room, on thu
third floor, and entered It like
a thief 1t was very poor and
very bare, but neat and clean;
and there was a closet in 1t,
with a lew dresses hanging up.
on pegs, and a bonnet box on a
shelf. Into this closet l went,
and there l sat down on an old
trunk and waited. | could
hear a queer old clock ticking
in the room. | heard it count
the hours-teD, eleven, twelve
and kept saying to myself:
"If you are a wicked suspi-
cious old fool, Richard Wood,
Lord forgive you
But / waited still, and just as
the long black hands pointed at
half past one, l heard such a
knock at my door as my sister.
in-law always gave at the office
door.
There was another knock-a
pause; and then l heard the
key turn in the lock and saw
the door open and my sister.in
law come in. She looked about
her, shut the door re-locked it,
and stole across the room. Then
God forgive the woman; |
| unnaoa q ho Uao rad r,.th .oo1
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rHEo ylNToN RECORD.
JOHN T.yRAPER,
I : Editor and Proprietor.

0FFI0E---N, W. Corner of Main and
Logan Sts., Opposite Court Houss.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-23
TOO MUCH sAMENESS.
Huntington Times.

Attention has been called to the fact
that Federal jurors from this section
of the country are always taken from
the Republican party, and what is
more, that a list of perhaps a dozen
names would furnish all the Jurors that
have been summoned from Carroll
county since the war. Are not Demo-
Gratis to be trusted as jurors in a Federal
court? If they are not, is the numbered
Republicans in this county who are
properly qualified to act in that capaci-
ty so small, that the choice must be
made from, as has been stated, only a
few names, sometimes the same per-
sons being chosen at two or more sue
cessive terms? There is, of course, not
much of either honor or profit to the
juror, but this repeating process has
been carried ON until it has become
known that it must be the result of de-
sign, and not of accident. 1t would
be of interest TO the people of this
county to have an explanation on this
subject.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-23

THE Baltimore Sun says that the
papers in the Grant parish case have
not yet been forwarded from New Or
leans to the Clerk of the Supreme
Court, but viii probably be received
soon after the meeting of the Court.
1t is expected that counsel will also
petition for the advance of this case On
the docket. IAN early decision saws
the san, would seem to be called for.
as, under the instructions Of Attorney
General Williams, the United States
Marshals are now doing in Ala
bama, Tennessee and Louisiana exactly
what Mr.. Justice Bradley has held that
they have no power to do 1t, of
course, would be presumptuous to en-
deavor to predict what the decision of
the Supreme Court Will be on thisIues-
ton; but this much may be said, that
Justice Bradley is not disposed to be
any more of a strict constructionist
of the Constitution than any of his as
sOciates on the bench. This fact would
be enough to make almost any other
man than the Attorney General hest.
tate before goingto the extreme lengths
to which he has ventured.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-23
DEALERS IN MUSIC.
LEGAL NOTICES.



OTATE OF TENNESSEE, OFFICE CLERK
- and Master ChanceTy Court, Nashville, Oe-
whereas. The Hvde's Ferry Turnpike Co. a
corporation chartered by the General Assembly
OF the State o. Tennessee, has this day hled its
petition in the Chancery Court at Nashville,
praying for amendments 10 IFS said charter, as
follows:
/. The next meeting OF stockholders for the
elton Of directors, shall be held az the Tollgate
Of the Company on HeatOn's Greek, Davidson
county, on the first Saturday Of November,
1875, and every two years thereafter the stock
holders shall meet at.the same place for the
election Of directors
2 That the stockholders in all elections shah
have the right TO cast their votes by proxy. The
person who casts vote OF votes by proxy
for any stOckhOlder or stockholders, shall pro-
duce an authrity in writing empowering him %
vote for said stakeholder or stockholders
s. All stock shall be transferred on a record
book 20 be Kept byt the company, and such trans
fers shall be signed on the record book BY the
party making the transfer, and his certificate Of
stock shall Re delivered mp % the Secretary Of
the Company and be cancelled.
I. The rOad-bed of the Hyde's Ferry Turn
pike Road shall be sixteen (i6) feet wide clear
of bitches, and twelve (l2) feet wide where there
are cuts or ILLS, where the rOad-bed has 70 be
cut through rock, or where, upon hillside, 1t
has 70 be cut into rock or nearly perpendicular
earth. The grade OF the road shall not be over
six 90 degrees. IL shall be covered with gravel
or broken stone ten (lo) feet wide and six 90
inches deep.
II l. therefore ordered that all persons who
desire 10 resist the granting OF said amendments
or PRAYER Of aid petition, enter their appear
auce herein IN or before the first Monday in
April. ISIS. and then and there show cause, if
any they have or can, why the prayer Of said
petition should not be granted and sal charter
arnended. and that "A COPY Of this order be pub
lished for thirty days IN the Nashville Union
and American.
A COpy-Attest:
NATHANIEL BAXTER, JR.,
Clerk and Master.
Samuel Watson, Jr., Solicitor for Petitioners.
OcIS Sol
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-23
JUDGE PORTER'S RECEPTION AT
PILASEI
Pulaski Citizen, Oct. p

In response TO a call, arrangements
were made last Tuesday evening to hon.
or Judge Jas. d. Porter with a fitting
welcome to Giles county, the cradle Of
Governors and the nursery of Demo-
cratic craftsmanship. The whole pop
ulation of the town turned ont in pro-
cession and proceeded to the depot Just
before the ten O'Clock train was due.
When the train pulled up at the depot,
the band struck up a spirited gallop,
and amid deafening roarOf music and
voices, he whom they came to honor,
Judge Jas. d. Porter, Jr., the gallant
standard bearer Of Tennessee Democ-
racy, emerged upon the platform, and
he was immediately surrounded and
borne through the depot to the platform
on the other side, where our eloquent
and eminet fellow-citizen, Judge Thos.
NJ. Jones, expressed In fitting remarks
the sense of the vast throng that had
assembled to welcome him, and ten
dered to him, IN the name of our peo-
pie, the Inequalities of our city, and
the warm congratulations of its citi-
zens. Judge Porter responded in
happy acknowledgment of the honor
conferred upon him In tits unexpected
manner, and with few brief remarks
excused himself until the morrow, when
he hoped to address them at length.
He was then conducted to Gov. Browns
carriage, which stood IN waiting, and
the procession formed, under the lead
ership of Capt. A. C. Irvine. The bus
John c. Brown headed the procession,
with an immense transparency, with
the inscriptions, mo Reputation, !"
and Civil Rights, Never" Next fol-
lowed the band-wagon, with a
large transparency, with appropri-
ate inscriptions and caricatures;
Hext came spring-wagOns with
turpentine torch-hghts and Transparent
cies; next, the carriage oontaiRing
Judge Porter and Judge Jones, sur
rounded by an escort of mounted men
bearing transparencies of every hue,
followed by a procession of men and
boys walking, with transparencies.
The procession moved up the principal
streets to the square, amid round after
round of cheers for Porter, and TO the
strains of martial music, and the neigh
ing of steeds, prancing in the brilliant
Pickering light of a hundred torches.
The procession paused in front of Mrs.
Charlie Carriers residence, which was
brilliantly Illuminated, with a trans
parent Porter" over the hall door, and
another and louder shout rent the air,
as the ladies waved handkerchiefs and
the band played one of its most stirring
selections. The route was then con-
tinued around the square and up
Beauty avenue to Maj. Frank Carter's
residence, where Judge Porter babe
them goodnight.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-23

MAYNARD persists IN stating that
during Brownlow's administration the
rate of taxation was twenty-five cents
on the hundred dollars. Geo. W.
Blackburn, who was Comptroller at the
time, says it was forty cents in 1868
and 1869. See page b of BIaekburn's
report, dated Oct. l, 1869.
Again, Maynard insists that the tax
of S2.15 in Louisiana is for municipal
purposes. yet, IN a pamphlet published
several months ago, NJ. T. Williamson,
author of the Assessment bill, proved,
couclusively, that it is levied by the
State, and that every cent not stolen
by Radical officials. through whose
hands the money passes, finds its way
into the State treasury.
1t is left to the non-partisan reader
to Judge how far Maynard can be re-
lied upon IN any statement be may
make from the stump. We have watch
ed the man for years, and know that
the truth is not in him.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-23
FOR POLICY'S SAKE.
Horace Maynard as a Confessed Mis-
itf .eegenatfOuist. ~

eeEenaftOuist.
Memphis Appeal, Oct. 81.
In the following extract, which we
COPY from a circular issued In East
Tennessee, in 1866, Mr.. Maynard APP
pears In his true colors as an original
abolitionist and miscegenationist, will
ing to sink his race in that of the ne
gro, for the sake of perpetuating him
self and his party in Office. 1t Is an
extract from a speech made by the
Radical candidate for Governor, at
Athens, on the 21st of August. 1866,
when he confessed:
am an aboltionist, and have al
WAYS been one. / was accused of be-
ing one when l first immigrated to the
State. The charge was just; / was full
and running over with abolitionism,
but denied it for policy's sake. l am
proud to-day that / have been classed
among Represented set, and deem 1t
the highest complimentto be denounced
as such. And 1 tell you, gentlemen,
that In short time all this complaint
about negro equality viii de done away
with. Some months since, and 1t was
said that the negro would not be suf-
fered to testify in your courts-that
his oath would not be granted him.
But how stand matters to-day? He is
not only permitted to testify in your
courts with IMMUNITY, but there is ev-
cry evidence that he will be on a social
equality with the white man In your
State. Yes, gentlemen, an short time
he t1iU marry and intermdrTy an your
families. 1t is little Objectionable to-
day, but you will soon get over this,
and the prosecuted negro will be well
come TO your parlors. This will be the
result Of the political and social
changes of the next few months.
We call particular attention to the
italieised lines in the above, wherein
this gentleman, who now says he is OPP
posed to the Civil Rights bill. predicts
joyfully the mixture of the races which
every right-minded man is anxious to
prevent. White men, no matter what
their politics, have only to think of the
inter-marriage of the races, and Of the
negro being made welcome to our par
lors, to know bow to vote for Governor,
and wnere to consign Mr.. Maynard.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-23

A CERTAIN hostess, whose table is noted
for lis uniformity of dishes, has a brisk
daughter who electrifes her mas bOarders
with the following parody sung to an ac-
compartment on a new fifty-dollar piano:
.sWhile beefSteak and venison costs lots OF
cash, be it ever so g:isly, there's nothing
like hash; the scrapinss and leayings of no
use elsewhere, wien mixed altogether
make excellent fare. Hash, hash, good
meat hash, Be it ever so grisly, there's
nothing like hash. A stranger from home,
hotels dazzle in vain; o, give me cheap
eating house food that's more plain: the
waiter who gayly re-echoes my call for a
nice plate of hash or a single fishball.
Hash, hash, etc.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-23
DEMOCRATIC NEGROES.

The recent elections in Georgia and
Arkansas revealed the fact that many
of the negroes are turning-not white,
but Democratic. The Atlanta papers
inform us that several hundred colored
voters in that city voted against the
Republican ticket, and the Little Rock
Gazette. In speaking of the election in
that city, says:
Many of the colored voters in Pu-
laski county showed that they were
freemen, capable Of thinking and act
ing for themselves, on Tuesday last.
Several hundred of them went to the
polls and voted for the constitution and
the straight Democratic Conservative
ticket All the influence of the party
managers was not sufficient to restrain
them.
And even in Alabama, there arehun-
dreds of Democratic negroes. One of
the parties arrested in Sumter county,
in that State, few days ago, on the
trumped-up charge of conspiracy, is a
negro named John Little, who is a
Democrat. 1t is charged, by the Mont
gomery Advertiser, that 1.-The sole and
only purpose which these upstart Off
Gals have in view, by his arrest, is to
terrify the 500 colored Democrats of
Sumter, and keep them from voting"