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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27
Strength of the Rebel Army.

An interesting correspondence has
been published between Joseph John
son and S. Cooper, formerly Adjutan
general of the Confederate States, rel
ative to the forces in arms for the
Confederacy. From this correspon-
dence it appears that the Confederate e
States never had more than 100000
men in arms at one time, that from
1861 the whole number of COnfeder-
ates actively engaged was only 600,-
900, the number of deaths, 100000; of
prisoners, considered total losses on
account of the United States policy of
exchange 100000 losses by discharge
disability and desertion, Zoe, ,eee,l and
in arms at the close of the war less
than 100000 It is evident that Gen
eral Cooper greatly underestimate the
the loss by desertion. 1t is believed
on the best authority, that there were
in the Confederate States at the close
Of the war not less than 100000 deser-
ters and persons lurking to avoid con-
scription. Besides, many of the pris
oners were not totally lost, a large
number having returned to the Con-
federate ranks in the spring of 1865.
The fact cannot be gainsaid, however,
that if there had been less desertion
and conscripts had come readily for
ward, and the quartermaster's depart
ment more honestly administered
Lees army would not have been rag
ged and jointless skeleton that it was
during the last six months of the war
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27

- If there is more stealing done in
official stations and other high places
than there was in the early days of the
Republic, we do not think it is because
there is more inherent dishonesty in
the people now than there was then,
but because there is more to steal and
more to do the stealing. This kind OF
business has not probably increased in
an equal ratio with the increase O1
population and politicts. Morality,
civilization and Christianity have not
been on the retrograde, as some dis
contented persons would have you be-
lieve. Not bit of it.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27
An Enthusiastic Reception.

TWIN MOUNTAIN HOUSE, N. H. Aug.
22.-Rev. Heney Ward Beeeher ar
rived here on Thursday evening. The
scene of his first appearance on the
piazza after arriving was one seldom
witnessed in far off spot like this.
Everybody here, men, women and
children crowded around him, grasped
him by the hand, and showed him by
the enthusiasm they manifested ii.
their silent greeting of him, the sym
pathy they felt and the admiration
they cared not to dissemble.
It is expected that Mr.. Beecher will
preach here tomorrow.
Mr.. Beecher preached here to-day
to large congregation. Stages,
loaded with visitors, came from all the
hotels and towns in the vicinity. His
text was taken from second limo thy,
second chapter, part of the 18th
verse. Nevertheless the foundation
of God standeth sure, having this seal,
the Lord knoweth them that are His. -
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27
BEECHER-TTLTON SCANDAL

More Comments and SpecuIatiOns
Confession.
yarmouth" the New York cores
pondent of the Portland Press, who is
said to- be an intimate friend of Mr..
Beecher, in a review of the evidence
in the latter's case thus speaks of Mrs.
Tilton's confession:
The trouble has grown out of the
maudlin fancies of lovesick woman
crazed and bedeviled by a weak SEN
timentalism, which pervaded her whole
nature, hOpelessly destroyed her COM
mon sense, if she ever had any, and
impaired her sanity. She stands re-
vealed in striking light through the
extraordinary letters which her hus-
| band, with a strange heedlessness of
propriety, has scattered broadcast over
the land Taken in connection with
her subsequent narrative Of the suffer
ings she habitually endured from his
tyranny, caprice, conceit, depr eciation,
neglect and ill-treabment, one can not
avoid the conclusion that the poor
woman strOve all the while to make up
in vehemence of protestation what
she lacked of sincerity of heart 1t
was from this distempered source that
the original accusation sprang. She
told her husband one day, in an out
burst of confidence with Il view to
placate him-that she had loved Mr..
Beecher better than she had loved him
that she had not supposed that there
was anything wrong in this, but that
some inward monitor, or celestial Wis
itation, had, at length, opened her eyes
to the fact that it was on the whole a
sinful thing to do, and that according
ly she had made up her mind to return
to her allegiance. The precise terms
of this unparalleled confession are not
known. 1t was said to have been com
mitted to paper, but it is also stated
that the paper has been destroyed =
This happened in July, 1870. In the
, last days of the ensuing December
. Tilton for the first time communicated
to Beecher the information that sucf
a confession had been made at the res
idence, but not in the presence O
Moulton. 1t was at this initial poin
! of the case that Mr.. Beecher made thC
, mistake (of keeping silence) whicl
, has been productive of so much sub
? sequent unhappiness.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27
HERALD:
DISASTROUS FIRE.

Sutdebaker Brothers Wagon Fac
tory at South Bend, Indiana
DestrOyed--Loss $3OO,OOO--In-
Surance.
SOUTH BEND, IND, Aug. "a.
At A O'Clock this morning a fire
was discovered IN the paint rooms OF
the mammoth wagon mandatory OF
the Studebaker Brothers, resulting IN
a loss of $500, 900. These works were
erected Immediately after the burnln G
of their smaller shops on June II, "
when they lost about $4,000. The
flames spread rapidly, and owing to
the great size of the building, the ire
department was unable to get the lire
under immediate control, but finally
turned their attention to where the
building connected with the one erect
ed four years ago, and there stopped
it. In this latter building was the
main part of the machinery, which was
all removed and saved from damage by
water. The heat was so intense that
the Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern freight and passenger depots were
in danger. Trains were delayed IN
passing for some four hours. There
was no air stirring at the time, and
the flames shot straight up in the all
so that many buildings in the imme
diate vicinity we're saved. Floating
cinders fell over a mile away. The
works contained upwards of 1900 fin
ished wagons, and vast quantities OF
stock in process of manufacture ready
for shipping, and cars from the Cnica-
go, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
the Illinois Central Railroad, the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, Rocl
Island and Pacific Railroad, and thu
Indianapolis, Peru and Chicago Rail
road, were standing at the shipping
doors in process of loading, but wer'
got out of the way only just in time tt
save them from burning.
The loss, in detail, as near as cal
be approximately estimated, is: Build
ing. S12O,000; stock in process o
manufacture, $4,000; finished wag
ons, 100000; machinery, $4,000
iron fixtures, $4,000. Total, $500,
IOOO This is thought to be rather un
der the loss.
1ae Gneory Oh Iue IRE Is SpOnlaue
Gus combustion, though a few ave
that it was the work Of an incendiary
The Studebakers employed in thes
shops upwards of three hundred hand
who were thrown out of employmen
temporarily. Their carriage works ar
situated in another part of the city
and are all right. A call is being Gil
culated calling meeting for this ever
ing, to show the sympathetic feelin
of the community in the loss.
There was, perhaps, S125,000 il
surance on the property, insured i
various insurance companies, but. nc
to exceed S., 1000 in anyone company
mostly 50, 500.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27

- When we were some years
younger in the political newspaper
business than we are now. it used to
worry and perplax US to a very un-
pleasant degree to read in our Demo
cratic exchanges Misrepresentation
and gross ISLANDERS upon the leading
men and the principles of our politi-
cal party; but, as time wears away, We
become accustomed to this sort Of
Democratic amusement, and the only
effect they have upon US is to excite
our sympathy for them, and lament
the depravity of human nature
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27
CONTINENTAL
Life Insurance Co.
OF Hartford, Conn.
STATE OF OHIO,
INSURANCE DEP

STATE OF OHIO,
INSURANCE DEPARTMENT,
COLUMBUS, August I, 1874.
WHEREAS, The Continental Life Insurance
Company, located Hartford, in the State Of Con-
netcut. has filed in this Office statement,
by the proper officers thereof, showing its condi-
tion and business, and has complied i'll all respects
with the laws of this State, relating to Fire In
Surance Companies, organized by act of Con-
greSs or by or under the law OF any other State
in the U uited States.
Now THEREFORE,, In pursuance of law, /, Will
liam +. Church. Superintendent of Insurance OF
the State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that saiG
company IS authorized to transact its appropr1-
accordance with law, during the current year
The condition and business of said Company
at the date of such statement December 81, 1873
is shown as follows:
Amount of Joint Stock or Guarantee
Capital paid up, July %. 1874 $500 coo OF
Aggregate amount of admitted Assets
including the sum of 81, ,161, ,347.54 in
premium notes and loans held by the
Company on Policies in force. 2,G41, 1868 81
Unidentified Assets amounting to 1S4 ,036 95
Aggregate amount of Liabilities, in
serve. ''..'. :. .IO Ga6a7
year in cash ....... - sI4, $40 81
Amount of Premium Note of Income
for the preceding year -. 1851 So
Amount OF Expenditures for the pre-
ceding year in cash 522 AS Il
lures for the preceding year. a9a 8O3 4g
In witness whereof, 1 have hereunto subscrib-
cd my name, and caused the Seal OF
SEAL. my Office to be affixed, the day and
year above written.
W F. CHURCH Superintendent
L. E. ORR, General Agent, 571G South High St..
GEO ESTEP,
4OwS Special Agent for Central Ohio
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27
CHERIFF'S SALE.


The Madison National Bank of London, Ohio
vs.. J. W HaymRker, ct al.
BY virtue OF an Execution from the Coart
of Common Pleas of Fayette county, Ohio, to
me directed, and III pursuance of the command
thereof will expose and offer for sale at public
auction at the door of the Court House, in the
town of Washington, in said county of Fay
ettc, Saturday, the 18th day of Septem ber 1914
at O'Clock p. M. of said day, the following do
scribed real estate to-Wit:
Part of in-lot No IA in the village of Jefer-
sonville FaYette county, Ohio, and bounded
and described follows; Beginning At the
corner of in-lot No. Is, thence in Southerly
course with Main street go feet, thence running
at right angle with said street 60 feet back,
thence parallel with Main street 30 feet to the
line of lots No Is and IA thence 60 feet TO the be-
ginning; containing 1900 feet of land. being
part OF oUt-lot No Il. as will more fully appear
by the recorded plat of sand village of Jeffeuon-
Vile
Taken as the property of j. W. Haymaker, to
satisfy the above execution.
Appraised at Fifteen Hundred Dollars.
Terms cash.
Harrison, Marsh s Watson, Att,ys.
JOHN MILLIKAN, Sheriff
August IS, 1874. S91T5 Ss75
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27
RRREEA a MORPHINE HABIT speedily
NEH EA$A cured BY DIR. Becks only
q %HH EEEE EE9E known and sure Remedy.
~ aSa NO CHARGE
for treatment (until cured. Cali on or address
Or. J. G. BECK,
112 John Street, CINCINNATI. OHIO.
. EGAL NOTICE

T EGAL NOTICE.-John w. Fish
IL back. Albert Fishback, and Richard +.
Fishbaak, all of the county OF Fayette, IN the
State of Ohio. and Charles Fishbaek and Hugh
Fishback, both of Jay county IN the State OF In
diana, and Horace Fishhack and Matilda Gar
rett and Walter Garrett her husband, of Madison
county, IN the State of Iowa, will take notice,
that petition was filed against them, ON the
18th day of August, a. d. 1874. in the Court Of
Common Pleas, within aud for the county OF
Eayette, by Harmanas Ellis and Martina - Ell
lis his wife, and it now pending, wherein said
Harmanus Ellis and Martha ID. Ellis demand
partition of the following real estate, to-wit: A
certain tract of land formerly owned by Thorn
rs Fishback deceased, and situated in Perry
townshIp, in Fayette county, and State of Ohio,
and bounded HortherlY by lands of W Wilson's
estate. Easterly by lands of Albert FiShback,
Southerly by lands of Lydia Smith, aud Wester-
ly by lands of Jacob Smith, containing II acres
more or less, and being part of N. MasSie's sur
Vey No. 9G9O, and that at the next term OF salu
Court to be held within and for said So4nt! On
the 18th dhy Of November next the sald haTinan l W
us Ellis and Martha l., Ellis Will Apply lof an
order that partition may be made OF Sala prem
ises, or ii the same cannot be dohe Wltnoht man
itest Injury that such privileges may be had in
the premises aS are authorized by law
Dated 'this Stth day Of August 1873.
~ - HARMANUS ELLIS and
MARTHA ID. ELLIS.
Byu. L. HADLFY, their atty, 41w6
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27
How the Government Collected
One Cent From Mr.. Brown.


A tale ofred tape. Mr.. Smith, of
Boston, sent the other day letter to
Mr.. Brown at Long Branch, and be-
ing either careless or ignorant, per
mitted his missive to go unpaid by the
amount Of one cent. Thereupon the
authorities, as by law directed, for
warded this letter to the Dead Letter
Office at Washington. Thence an of
fetal note was dispatched to Mr..
Brown to say that a letter addressed
to him was lying at that office, and
would be sent to him upon his pay
ment of one cent. Mr.. Brown, slight
ly growing, filed up the printed blank
inclosed in the note, put in the stamp
demanded, and on the envelope he
placed the necessary three cent stamp.
Thus, to- end the tale abruptly, Mr..
Brown was obliged to pay four cents
for letter of no Importance, and the
Department gave the price of the Off
cial stamp and severel minutes of q
clerks valuable time to get to him.
Why the one cent could not have been
collected by the Postmaster's subordi-
nate in Long Branch is a question
which nobody outside the Circumula-
cution Office can answer. Mr.. Brown
thinks that while that four cents did
not form all his worldly wealth, it was
an outrage to make him pay three
cents for Mr., Smiths stupidity or want
Of knowledge. An illustrative instance
OF red -tapeism is that Chief Justice
Chase, living within block of the De
partment, and certainly well known tc
its officials. was once obliged to send
the sum of one cent to the stated re.
cipients before he could get q letter
clearly addressed to him and adver.
tised as being overweighed to thai
amount N. Y. Tribune.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27
ROAD NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that a petition will
IN be presented to the Commissioners of Fay
ette county. at their next regular session to be
held on the first Monday of September A. ID. 1874,
praying for the alteration of the County Road
leading from the JehersOnville and Jamestown
Pike at one-half mile from Jacksonville to
West Lancaster, in said county, as follows:
beginning at the Missouri Bridge on the land
now owned by John Coil; thence southwest to
the corner of Elijah Allen and Ethan Allen
thence west on the line of said Ethan Allen and
V. Green to the line or said Athan Allen and
Permelia Allen; thence on said line west, inter-
secting the what is known as the james Straley
Road, about SEQ yards from and south of Perme-
liza Aliens House, and on the line between said
Permelia Allen and said Ethan Allen Also
praying for the vacating of said old road from
said Missouri Bridge to the town of West Ian
caster Y. GREEN and
ELIJAH ALLEN, Sen,
3Szw4 Principal Petitioners
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27
Moulton's Statement.

We make the following extract from
the Cincinnati Gazette of Saturday
last, in reference to Moulton's state
ment in the Beecher- Tilton case:
Public already know MouIton as
treacherOus confident. Even if Beech
er were guilty of all that the unwhole-
some fancy of Tilton has charged, it
would not affect the proof of Moul-
toms perfidy. He was the active and
willy agent to weave the net work of
circumstances around Mr. Beecher; to
play upon his susceptible feelings by
pictures of TiIton's ruined fortunes,
broken domestic peace, despair and
desperation, to persuade Beecher that
he was the cause of one, by his advice
to Bowen, and of the ether by q
thoughtlessness which had permitted
Mrs. Tilton's romantic admiration: to
work upon Beecher's remorse, and
then to draw him into generous ex-
pressions of sorrow, some of which he
selected and arranged and wrote down,
and all Of which he saved to be used
for treachery.
The public is aware that by Moul-
toms own account, he learned nothing
from Beecher of his affair with Tllton,
save what Beecher communicated to
him in confidence, and on Moulton's s
virtual solicitation as a mutual friend
who would reconcile all if Beecher
would trust him; that he permitted
TiltOn to copy the letters thus entrust
ed to Moulton in confidence, and to
publish garbled extracts from them to
accuse Beecher OF an otfense ruinous
to his character; that one of the dag
gers he thus furnished to Tilton was
form of contrite apology which was
in Moulton's own writing and words,
but which Tilton published as Beec h
ers; therefore the public is aware
that Moulton has in this affair played
the part of a conspirator against
Beecher.
Unavoidably, the public will also
think that Moulton is now on his own
defense against this conviction, and
that he has for his counselor the most
notorious criminal lawyer in the Uni
ted States, with whom he has long
held this relation because of his con.
nection with custom house plnnder al
New York. This attorneys aptitude
for distorting expressions into confes-
sions of guilt, may be measured by his
performance in the monstrous black
mailing of Phelps, Dodge & Co., by
the informer Jayne, aided by Butler
--eOs-
Hon. John @. Smith deserves the
thanks of constituents for his cou rst
in disposing of the Naval and Military
cadetships. The Naval appointment
was recently settled by competitive
examination, and in another place VIZ
publish his notice that the same plar
will be adopted as to the West Point
cadetship, now at his disposal. O
course it may be an electioneering
move, but if it is We would like to SCI
more of such electiOneering- New
Richmond Independent
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27

= A work-house, chain-gang, or some
thing to keep the idle hands employed, of
those who banker periodically for the lux
ury of a lay in an over-crowded station
house, is loudly called for by the necessi-
ties of large and growing city like CO.
lvmbus, and the natural increase of the
vagrants, roughs and rascals who indulge
in petty criminality. Almost any kind of
an organized system of compulsory la
Dor which could be introduced, would tend
to reduction of prevalent petty crime
and disorderliness. There is no greater
punishment to professional and deveI-
oped loafer than labor. He will instinct
lively shun it more than any other penalty
outside of the renitentiary. A lookup
has o terrors for many without work
| house attached.
A friend of ours, who lives in one of the
small villages of our county, handed us
the above paragraph, which he clipped from
the Columbus Journal. He is of opinion,
from actual observation in the small viii
lagos, that Columbus and the large cities
are not the only places where the chain
| gang institution might be established with
profit to the moral interest of the country
These towns are becoming fearfully in
tested with class Of idlers, being educa.
ted for inmates of houses of correction and
the penitentiary. 1t is, indeed, time that
some measures were being taken for self
protection against these schools of vice
that attract the young and unwary, and
lead them into habits of vice, Incidence
and crime. In some Of the small towns,
as well as the larger ones, tippling shops
and haunts of vice are kept open Oh the
Sabbath day, and the laws of the State
violated with impunity. Is there no rem
dy for this alarming state of things?
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27
r EGAL-PROBATE NOTICE.-

- State of Ohio. Fayette County, IS. Probate
Court.
WHEREAS, Accounts and vouchers have been
died in the Probate Court aforesaid for settle
ment by the Executors OF sthe following
deceased persons to-Vit:
Catharine Blizzard John Parker, ChloFa Brien.
And by the Guardians of the following named
minors to-Wits
Jhsephus Jennie and Eima Z. Dixon, Cary Il.
johnson,
said accounts are now on file in said Pro-
Bate Court, and will be finally heard on the Ist
day of September next
J, b. PRIDDY, Probate Judge.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27
Who Did Tt?

Such a multitude of Cons titution
killers have turned up that only won
der is who voted for it, If we take
the sum of the various claims we shall
find that the following parties, among
others, killed the New Constitution
The Catholic Church
The Methodist Church.
Various other Churches, and some
special preachers greatly gifted with
the weapon with which Joshua batter
ed down Jericho.
The Grangers.
The crusading women.
The anti-liccnse men.
The dramsellers.
The Democratic party.
The opponents of railaoad aid.
The opponents of minority repre-
sentation.
The opponents of everything.
Lastly, the people, because it trust
ed them not.
1t is like the famous verdict of 6
colored jury on an African-that he
fell from the top of house and was
killed; that the fall being into che
river he was drowned that the wealth
er being cold he -froze to DEATH
Gin cinnati Gazette
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27
Goldsmith Maid TrOts Her Mile
2:14 3-4.

ROCHESTER, N. Y, August 12.-
Twenty thousand people witnessed
the races today.
The ''free for all'' race was called.
1t was announced thai Goldsmith
Maid would be driven to win the adj
ditional 81 900 offered by beating her
record of 2 :15! made at Buffalo. She
was sent in second heat, and trotted q
mile in 2:148. This extraordinary
performance was received with the
widest enthusiasm.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27

- The trouble with Bloss in the
event he is the Democratic nominee
for Congress, will bo that altaough
John @. Smith will receive something
like 1900 more votes than Bloss, yet
Bloss, by means of that wonderful
arithmetic of his, will cypher out such
magnificent Democratic gains" at
the October election, that Smith will
not feel thoroughly satisfied that he is
elected until after he has received q
certificate of election from the Cover
nor bearing the broad seal of the
State Hamilton Telegraph.