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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09

Sudden wealth upsets men as frw
ouently asst makes them. Very fee
know how TO use money unless they
have earned it by painful appIcati on
to business. The man who drew the
big Crosby Opera House, in Chicago
some wears aeo, died poor man, for
no had not been used to handling such
snms of monev, aud lost it. The jour
nev man carpenter, in Peoria, III, Wno
three years ago, fell heir to S2o9,UOI
nv the death of an uncle, has his mon
ev vet for he was so conscious Of his
Inability to use it as other men do
and so afraid of losing it, that he sim
plv boards it, taking from the prlnci
pie enough each week to pay his eH
Denses. He thinks it will support hin
as long as he lives, as it donbtles
win. but more miserable man neve
liHad. Johnny Steele, the Petroleum
Prince, ran through his millions IN II
Otous living, inside OF three years
The number who have used suddenl
ocop;red wealth wisely, is very smal
III. Ksith, of Kingston, Mass. IS a
execution. He held a ticket in tn
third Gift Concert Of the Kentuck
Public Library, and that ticket drew tn
capital prize Of 100000. Mr.. Keitl
cool, self-poised man of busines
simply went to Louisville, took h
money at the hands ofGov- Bramlett
the manager, and went home wit
it, and, without any particular fuss, il
vested it in his business, and is rapiC
ly converting that 500, 900, into $500
600. Should he draw the grand pril
of $3.50, 900 in the fifth (and last)
these popular concerts, that takes plat
in Louisville, July 3lst, he would
precisely the man that he now is. Sue
men are never unduly elated or und
ly depressed. They are self-poise
and keep always on an even keel. E
cry man believes he could use monI
wisely, but few do it. We should ii
to be tried with a million or two.
Would that we held the ticket that
to draw that $25O,O00! We would t
to hold the money! Toledo Blad
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09

State Of Ohio, County Of Fayette, SIS:
l. NJ. Willard, Cashier of the above-named
bank do solemnly swear that the above state
ment is true to the best of my knowledge and
belief. NJ. WILLARD, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day
of July, 1874.
THOS. ID. McELWAIN, Notary Public
Cerrect-Attest:
MILLS GARDNER,
DAVID ROGERS, Directors.
AARON G. Johnson
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09

The New York Tribune says: Ed
win Booth has suffered a great deal
from 9yerwork, ill-fortune, and the
Misrepresentation gnd calumnies of
y SO who are naturally the foes of
His health has been
LuUSN "a,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
NOTICE.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
First National Bank

at Washington. in the State OF Ohio, at the close
of business, on the 26th day of june 1874:
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09

nj TUG merit. =.
injured, and he will now take :.
siderable time for rest from all pro-
.fessional labor"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-28
Whole Number 1860.


The other puzzle is how the ordi-
nary human is able to bear up
against the enormous weight of suf-
tering imposed upon him-not sim
ply the misery of which the papers
tell under startling headlines, or in
little paragraphs that travel the
rounds of the press, and startle you
now and then with their grim and
gruesome humor-not simply the
distress which is the subject of char
ity reports, and governmental statis-
tics-not simply the obvious exam
Piles of quiet endurance, the heroic
men and women whose lives are one
long self-sacrifce-not simply these,
but the absolute discomfort and
pain, physical, moral and aesthetic,
that is borne by almost every human
being in the world with such nobili-
ty of endurance that the croaker and
eomplainer is SO much the exception
that he is pointed to with scorn, and
Stunned by his fellows as an anomaly
and a nuisance. -.r
Scribner'S for March.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-28
NV FLIGHTS.

/ There are some people who aver
that they never have been frighten-
ed. As l am far from being
strong minded woman, cannot say
as much. Perhaps / am too easily
alarmed: l am, for instance, afraid
of COW. 1t may be very silly, but
| cannot help it. All the pleasures
of country walk through fine
landscape has often been spoilt for
me because of cattle in the field. If
/ pass through them without being
tossed or gored, the recollection
that have got to come back again
remains with me for the rest of the
day. As for bull, l would rather
never.see the country than run the
chance of meeting with such crea-
ture. A dog is thought to be a very
harmless animal-a domestic animal
and the ''friend of man." He is
not, however, the friend of woman
-or at least a nervous woman like
me, / should be afraid to write
down how often I have been pre-
vented from calling at friends
house by the presence of little
poodle terrier upon their doorstep.
| should as soon thought of disturb
ing an adder. The Romans a
people quite remarkable for their
courage) used, 1 am told, to paint
Gaze cd7aerl, ''Beware of the dog"
at their front doors; but such warn
ing would have been unnecessary in
my case. l am always fully ''be-
ware" of it. Every farm yard in
the country has dog, and that is
why l don't like farm yards,
My widowed sister-in-law (the old
fat one) and myself once lived in
such place whole summer, during
which time / lost more flesh than if |
had been all the time in Turkish
bath. From sunset to sunrise was
a perpetual fright, from fear of
bers; and when the days grew short
er, the place became unsuppOrtable,
and l fed from it. The usual
nightly programme was as follows
My sister-in-law, who occupied the
same apartment as my self, would fall
asleep as soon as her head touched
the pillow, and leave me, as it were,
alone, a prey to my terrors. She had
always reminded me of the irritating
ISbed-fellow descrsbed in ghost stories
who will not wake while the appari-
ration is peeping through the bed
curtains at you, and who, cannot be
persuaded that they actually occur
red. Next to ghosts themselves
dislike people of this cast, and would
almost as soon have no companion
at al If the window was up be
san tSysSSFs u myss y ESgR y
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-28

There are two things that puzzle
me. One is, the amount of mlsPiao-
ed virtue in the world; that is to
saw the immense quanty of down
ri9ht goodness scattered around
axong fhe commonest sort of people;
among people among whom there
are mo- social safeguards whatever,
and who would be quite up to the
moral standard of their neighbors If
thew gave loose rein to all manner
of passion. tell you, when man
who has been surrounded with pure
infuences-I do not mean with aus
terity and fanaticism, from which he
would be, likely to suffer reaction
when a man who has breathed nC
atmosphere but that of moderation
and decorum, looks back upon hi
own life, and trembles at his hun
dred hair-breadth Escapes from ute
ruin, of one kind or another, he can
not help wondering what keeps th'
unprotected classes from going alto
gether and utterly to the bad. l
was one. of the best saints out OF Tn
calender who declared himself com
petsnt to commit any crime unde
the sun of which he had ever heard
and what it is that keeps the aver
age sinner from going straAgn
aRpuigh the sriminsl lsh t y her
g VeE VS. ' Fff ~
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-28
"IHa,e prank::my Les. clas..,,
BY.LoUIsE s. UPHAM.


No, comrades, thank you, not any fer me;
| Ny last chain is liEen, henceforward I'm freel
I l will 90 TO my home and my children tonight
With no fumes of liquor their spirits to blight,
And with tears in my eyes will beg my poor wiie
| To forgive me the wreck have made Of her lifel
Il have refused you before ~ Let that pass
For I've drank my last glass, boys,
have drank my last glassi
just look at me now, boys, in rags and disgrace,
With my bleared, haggard eyes, my red, bloted
Mark my fsltering step and my week palsied hand.
Gains brand
See my crOwnless old hat, and .my:elbOws and
Alike warmed by the sun or chilled by the breeze;
Why, even the children will hoot as pass
But I've drank my last glass, boys,
1 have drank my last glass
You would hardly believe. boys, to look at me now
That mothers soft hand was once pressed on
my brow.
When she kissed me. and blessed me, her darling
Ere she lay down to rest by my dead fathers side
But with love in her eyes she looked up 70 the sky
Bidding me meet her there, ndIW hispered,
Goodbye"
And ri do it, God helping Your smile let pass,
For I've drank my last glass, boys,
have drank my last glass
Ali reeled home last night-it was not very
late,
For I'd spent my last sixpence, and landlords
won't wait
On fellow who's left every cent in their till,
And has pawned his last bed, their Golfers to ll;
oh the torments felt, and the pangs 1 endured;
And begged for one glass-just one would have
cured;
But they kicked me ont doors -IIet that too pass,
For I've drank my last glass, boys.
have drank my last glassl
at home my pet Susie, with her soft, golden hair,
saw through the window, JUST kneeling in prayer.
From her pale, bony hands her torn sleeves were
While her feet, cold and bare, shrank beneath her
seant gown: -l.-
And she prayed prayed for bread, just poor crust
For one crust-on her knees, my pet darling plead.
And HEARD, with no penny to buy one, alas
But I've drank my last glass, boys,
have drank my last glassl
For Susie, my darling, my wee six-yesr-old,
Though fairting with hunger and shivering with
cod,
There. on the bare floor, asked God to bless NE
And she said, Don't cry mamma He will for,
believe what ask forI'' Then sobered, crept
Away from the house; and that night when I
Next my heart lay thePledge lyon smilel Let
But I've drank my last glass, boys,
have drank my last glass
Ny darling child saved mel Her faith and her
Are akin to my dear sainted mother aboyel
will make her words true, or I'll die in the race
And sober III goto my last resting-place;
And she shall kheel there, and, weeping, thank
No dranlkard lies under that daisy-strewn sodl
Not drop more of poison my lips shall e'er pass
For I've drank my last glass, boys
~ have drank my last glassl -.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-28

Irishman who is full Of bad whisky.
1t is not long time since the cleo
tion of professor in British uni
versity was opposed solely on the
ground that he neither drinks wine
nor offered it to his friends: and
when, by a small majority, his cleo
tion was effected, the other profess
sOrs decided not to recognize him
sOciably. There are thus two men
whom these sticklers for wine de-
spise-viz. the man who gets
drunk on bad liquor, and the man
who drinks no liquor at all. Indeed
they regard the latter with = hatred
or contempt which they do not feel
for the poor drunkard. The abso-
lutte animosity with which many
men in society regard one who is
conselentiously opposed to wine
drinking, could only spring from
deluslon in regard to the real nature
of his own habits. The sensitive
ness of these people on this subject.
however, shows that they suspect
the delusiOn of which they are the
victims.
They claim to be on the side
of temperance. They depreciate
drunkenness, and really don't see
what is to be done about it. They
wish that men would be . little
more rational in their enjoyment
of the good things of the world, etc,
etc. but their eyes seem blinded to
the fact that they stand in the Way
of all reform. The horrible drunk
enness of the larger cities of Great
Britian, with which no hell that
America holds can compare for
moment, can never be reformed un-
til the drinking habits of the Eng
lish clergy and the English gentry
are reformed. With eleven-twelfths
of the British clergy wine drinkers,
and water drinkers tabooed in soci-
ETY., and social drinking the fashion
in all the high Life of the realm, the
workman will stand by his gin, bru-
tality will reign in his own chosen
centers undisturbed, and those cen
ters will increasingly become what,
to a frightful extent, they already
are-festering sores upon the body
social, and stenches in the nostrils of
the old world.
The habits, neither of Great
Britain nor America, will be i'm
proved until men of influence in ev-
cry walk of life are willing to dis
pense with their drinking customs.
Hundreds of thousands of English
speaking men go to . drunksrd's
grave every year. There is nothing
in sanitary considerations as they
relate to the moderate drinker, and
surely nothing in the pleasures of
the moderate drinker, to mitigate
this curse. 1t is all delusion. The
water-drinker is the healthy man,
and the happy man. Spirits, wine,
beer, alcoholic beverages of
all sorts are a burden and bane,
and there is no place where a good
man can stand unshadOwed by a ia
tai delusion, except upon the safe
ground of total abstinence. Until
that ground is taken, and held, by
good men everywhere, there can be
no temperance reform. The wine
drinkers of England and America
have the whiskv-drinkers In their
keeping. What do they propose to
do with them?
DR.. J @. Holland; Scribeer's for
March.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-28
AsHTABULA, OHIO SATURDAY. FEBRUARY %, 1874

Gus equipages, and scarcely yelled,
traversed the city and the bazaars.
AT night they called to passers-by
from the windows, introduced whom
they pleased into the palace, and
sometimes accompanied their favors
with presents which almost make
the fortunes of those who received
them. 1t was case of perpetual
pilliage. The Sultana Valide, the
mother of the sovereign, surpassed
all the Others in prodigality. Alb
dul Medjld would not pay attention
to any accusation brought against
his women, and he refused them
nothing. His feeble character was
partially manifested in regard to
Besme Hanum, who by a singular
favor was raised from. the position
of slave to the rankof wife. The
Sultan, moreover, eonfded to her
his eldest boy whose mother was
dead. Besme in the meantime de-
scended to the Vilest intrigues with
even low servants of the palace.
She cruelty ill-treated the child,
whop she considered an obstacle to
her ambition, since. if she should
have any boy of her own, he could
not reign while the other lived. Ac-
cordingly she did not hesitate to at
tempt the poor child's life. No one
dared to tell the Sultan of this out
rage, but in the East there exists an
indirect method of telling the truth
to great personages-the method of
Hamlet-the comedy of illusions.
A devoted adherent of the Sultan
had recourse to this method, and by
means of the shadow drama, so com
mon and popular in Turkey, reveal
ed to Abdul Medjid that he had an
adulterous wife, who was, moreover,
purposing the murder of his SON.
The Sultan understood the play, and
discovered all the cruelties which
had been practiced on the little
prince. AS a punishment he simply
dismismissed Besme, and, feeble
even in his vengeance, he let her
carry off all the treasures with which
he had formally loaded her. As
soon as she got out of the seraglio
she continued her infamous conduct
and finished by marrying Tefk-Pa-
cha, one of her lovers. This, how
ever, was an outrage which could
not be pardoned; to take the wife of
the representative of Mahomet was
nothing less sacrilege and treason.
At first, however, the Sultan feign-
ed indifference; he even offered Bes-
me one of his palaces for resi-
dence; then upon a futile pretext, he
exiled the pair to Broussa; then
in conformity with the strange, tor
torous, and mysterious policy of the
Orientals, he pretended to receive
Tefik again into favor and ordered
him to come to Constantinople.-|
There a dose of hemlock speedily put
an end to him. Nobody, however,
suspected the poisoning, and imperial
elemency still spared Resme. When
we read this strange story OF man
ners which in reality put the men un-
der the domination of degraded erea-
lures, whom they had expected to
make their play things, we can under
stand the paradox of Lady Mary
Wortley Montague, that ''the women
only are free in Turkey" But what
a liberty! A stolen liberty, so to
speak, obtained by endless articles
and ineessant lying (which, however,
are but reprisals for injurious con-
tempt. ..-.1 D..
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-28
..makIng Up win aer.,,

We old fellows have all been there,
and we can remember all about 1t.
We loved her-guess we did!-and
We knew that she loved In return.
But one day she gave Sam TOmp-
kins a smile, or she let Tom Wat
kins walk home with her under an
umbrella, or she did some other SIM
ple thing, and we got hufy. We
loved her all the time, but We sat
down and wrote her letter, dating
it at midnight, saying that we want
ed all those letters and that ring and
that photograph back We hoped
she wouldn't return 'em, but We felt
a malicious pleasure in Furnishing
her. The letter was sent, or handed
to her personally, and we met her
with a cold "goOd morning" as she
came to school, but bestowed our
best smile on Lavina Wedge, the
homeliest girl in the town.
Our heart ached when we looked
across the desks and saw her slyly
reading the letter and trying to keep
back the tears; but we went over to
the next girl behind to borrow a
geography, and to a second girl in
front to borrow a grammar, and We
were entirely unconscious of the
presence of the girl we loved. We
stood beside her in the class as
straight as a pole, never letting on
that we saw her, and the mutual
agreement that if one missed the
other should do the same, in order
to keep together, was broken. We
tried to feel maliciously glad when
we went to the head and left
her near the foot, but we couldn't do
it.
1t went on this way for three or
four days. Once in . while we
caught her looking at us with a sad,
sweet smile, as if she were some poor
orphan with ne friend in the worlds
and her note said that she couldn't
part with the letters and the keep
sakes. We held out bravely until 1t
began to hurt us the most, and then
we got ready to snake up" 1t
lcouldn't be done suddenly; that
would be acknowledging our wrong.
| We waited until noOntime; then, as
sbe ate her dinner in her seat, we be-
0an looking for a lost book. We
fbou0bt il was under the seat next
70 hers. and while we were looking
for it she spoke. We heard, but
pretended not to, and she spoke
again. Then we coldly replied, but
sat down near by and asked # "sh'
had those letters with her. so'
said no, and we moved nearer. She
said i wasn't her fault and we said
it Wasn't ours, s9d somehow our fin.
gers touched,
No one knew what . burden o.
anxiety was rolled away in i've min
: utes, and how much clearer the after
/ noon sun shone for it. She scenes
} dearer than ever before, and wheI
the brown eyes cleared the tear
: away, and the merry dimples cam,
back, we wondered how we coui'
|, have been such an unfeehng wrOtoh
and yet it was the same thing oVu
: In less than six weeks
3 All, mel Those lovers who hsv
( had smooth path and married With
4 out having quarrels and makeup
f and iealousieS win never know v ~
! lVe StiR .p.f
81
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-28
ASupreme Court Justice.

Colonel Forney writes that the
judges or justices of the Supreme
Court are rather jovial, with all their
gravity. They are asked every
where and go everywhere that is
proper. A sort of divinity hedges
Them round about. They are first at
every State occasion, or nearly first.
They are welcome figure heads at
weddings. They decorate receptions
and balls. A justice or chief
Justice at a party in Washington is
like a prince at a drawing-room in
London, or cardinal in Rome
They iutter in and out of the SEN
ate with sage and solemn air of
possession. l think it Is in evidence
that they often condescend to sher-
ry and champagne, and | fear that
Grier and Nelson exceptionally con-
descend to old rye and whisky
The whole nine affect the drama.
John Marshall undoubtedly shed
tears over Fanny Kemble, just as the
eminent Pennsylvania Chief Justice,
John Bannister Gibson, idolized old
Joseph Jefferson. Davis, of Illinois,
and 'Swayne,, of Ohio, Miller, of
Iowa, and Clifford, of Maine, do not
deny their weakness for good oP-
era or ballet, and Joseph Story,
! like Caleb Cushing, enjoyed a good
novel, and wrote some very fair Po-
etry when he was young man. ''.'
! So that there are many reasons
why a astatesman who has got through
with other offices should aspire to
round his career by seat on the
velvet cushions of the Supreme
Bench. 1t is for life. 1t is social
power. II is a cosy lookout on pol
Iitics. 1t is solid dignity. It is
not an exhaustive labor. The salary
lis good, and never touched except
to be raised. AS the law is the roy
al profession in this country, so g
place in the Supreme Court is the
only royal laurel that can be plac ed
on the American lawyers brow.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-28
Haren Life in Turkey.

Some extraordinary particulars
are given in Madame Kibrili Meh-
met Pacha's book, "Thirty Years
in the Harem," in regard to the
private life of the late About Medl-
lid, Sultan of Turkey. She says
that the Sultan's harem gave exam
pies of frightful dehaucheries. The
caprices and extrf.vagances of the
Sultanas ruined the country. In
the space of two years the entire
sersglio was 70 ar tiraes refurnished
the articles b. .ing of the most ex
pensive qu' Atty. Covered will
precious Stone, and followed b.
slaves aim .ost as magnifeently dress
~ as t9f Iir mistresses, these sbspe
NsSW6 &an $aut a3tdid 81 eunfetg
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-28
AGASSIs

Once in the leafy prime of spring,
When blossoms whitened every thorn,
wandered through the vale Of Orbe
Where Agassiz was born.
The birds in beyhood he had known,
Went fitting through the air of May,
And happy songs he loved to hear 2.
-.gT Made all the landscape gay.
l saw the streamlet from the hills
Run laughing through the valleys
oIs green,g ~ M
And as watched it run, 1 said
I ..,..i. a.r, This has dear eyes have seen p
For cliffs of ice his feet had climbed
/ That day outspoke of him to me;
The avalanches seemed 10 sound
The name of AgaSsis!
And, standing on the mountain crag
! Where loosened waters rush and foam
felt, that though on Cambridge side,
( He made that spot my home
And looking round me as l mused,
/ knew no pang of fear or care,
Or homeslck WEAKNESS, because
syf Once Agassiz stood therel
l walked beneath no alien skies,
/ No foreign heights I came to tread,
For everywhere l looked, saw
His grand, beloved head.
His smile was stamped on every tree,
/ The glacier shOne to gid his name,
And every image in the lake
J Reflected back his fame.
Great keeper of the magic keys lI...ef
/ That could unlock the guarded gates,
Where Science like Monarch stands,
And sacred knowledge waits.
Thine ashes rest on Charles banks,
Thy memory all the world contains,
For thou canst bind in human love
All hearts in golden love.
Thine was the heaven-born spell that sets
/ Our warm and deep affections free
Who knew thee best must love thee best,
And l9ngest mourn for thee
! see Tla- ia sg ScTi5ners for March.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-28
LUMBER YARDS.

WALTON & TALRRar, nanufActur RS
OF and dealers in al grades OF Saginaw Lum eer,
Lath. and Shingles; also. mouidings Of abide
scriptions. 12S
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-28

"Trains stop only on Signal. xTrains do not
Stop. zFelegraph Stations. Cleveland Time.
I The Way Freight trains stop at Jefferson in
going West. at S.45 P. NJ. and going Esst al 7:3O
A, N. These trains carry passengers.
I Passenger fare at the rate Of cents per mile:
to way stations counted in even half dimes
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-28
YOUNGSTOWN 4
-. tPITTSRURGHR RAILROAD.

AL trains daily. except Sunday.
3. B. MYERS, Gen. Pass. E Ticket Agent.
L. S. & M. M.S.-FRANKLIN DIVISION.
From and after Dec Il, 1873, Passenger Trains
will run follows: