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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-30
A Grange Burial,

The first burial OF member of the
Patrons of Husbandrv with the hon.
ors of the Order that has come to
our notice, took place yesterday in
Kickspoo, when the remains Of
Henry Bolin we're consigned 10 their
last resting place with all the pomp
and funeral pageant of the Granger
burial service. Mr.. Bolin was
prominent member, and the attend
ance was very large. some 400 per-
sons being present. The programme
of the burial was about as follows:
On leaving the residence of the de-
ceased. the heaIse which contained
the deceased was Aanked on either
side by three pail bearers, who
walked with uncovered heads and
regalias drspsd in mourning. Fol-
lowing the hearse came the relatives
of the deceased, and next marched
the sisters of the Order, clad in full
regalia. The brothers came next,
and following them the vast con-
course of people, who had comefrom
far and near to witness the ceremo-
nies The remains were first taken
to the church, where a priest went
through service peculiar to the
Catholic Church, of which the de-
ceased was q member. When the
exercises here bad been concluded,
the procession took up its march for
the cemetery, where the Granger tu-
neral rites were performed. The
coffin was placed on supports direct.
ly over the open grave, and remain
ed there till the impressive and in
teresting service was concluded. G.
B. Coffin, Master of the Franklin
Grange. conducted the ceremonies.
When the brothers and sisters Of
the Grange of which the deceased
was a member had assembled about
the grave, the Master read q selee-
ton from the burial ritual, followed
by second selection by the Chaplain,
and then the members repeated slow
ly and solemnly the Lords prayer,
closing with beautiful and appro-
pirate hymn. The brothers of the
Order then stepped to the grave and
threw into the opening several bo-
quets of flowers and evergreens. A
short but powerful address was next
delivered by the Chaplain. While
the coffin was being lowered beau
tiful and soul inspiring hymn was
sung, and during the singing the sis
ters showered boquets of flowers
upon the descending coffin until it
reached the wooden box at the end
of the grave. The Master then
sprinkled portion OF dirt thrown
from the grave over the coffin, and
the service closed with the solemn
of the Chaplain.
Taken throughout, the ceremonies
were very beautiful and impressive.
This is the first burial of a Granger
In the county, and if we are cor.
rectly informed, in the State-that
Is. with the ceremonies of the Order.
Le0VenWOrth Times.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-30
Democratic Reform.

1t is easy in the heat OF political
campaign, for democrats to talk re
form, but when it comes to making a
practical application of these well
spun theories, the reform" part is
usually omitted. The re organiza-
tion of the Penitentiary is a case in
point The correspondent of the
Cincinnati Times tells the story, to-
wit:
To-day the Senate passed a bill
which provides that Gov. Allen shall
have The power to put out of Office
any person that he hss put in. The
"any person" meant in this bill is
Mr.. Lawrence, one of the newly-ap-
pointed Board of Directors for the
Penitentiary 1t has become obvi
ous to the understanding of the truly
faithful that Mr.. Lawrence is bad
egg, that he wont do. 1t is definite
ly decided that Mr. Lawrence is an
ass, and he is so written down in the
book of the Democracy. 1t is also
finally passed upon that Mr.. Law
renee ia scamp, az it were, and
fool. He is also q Democratic office
holder, and an appointee oil Gov AL
lens Mr.. lawrence celebrated his
advent into official life, and his ap
probation of the anImus of Demo
cratic reign, by Immediately appoint
ing as Deputy Warden of the Peni
tentiary his nephew, an incapable
boy. After this little display of
Mr.. Lawrence ought to
have rested satisfied But a certain
minister named Ferguson had an
ugly libel suit pending against Mr..
and Ferguson had the
better of Mr. Lawrence, and prom
ised to make it lively for said Mr..
Lawrence. But an idea struck Mr.
and the novelty of such
an experience induced him to pause
and consider if something could not
be done to quiet Mr.. Ferguson
The result of these cogiiations was
that Mr.. Ferguson was presently in
ducted into the office of Chaplain of
the Penitentiary, and the libel suit
aegsteriously faded aNaY, and its I
possible results ceased to haunt the I
slumbers of the loyal Lawrence.
But the way of the wicked man is
full of traps and pitfalls. DR. Scott
made an expose of things in connec-
ton with MIR. Lawrenee's efficiency
as penitentiary bird, and VIM. AL
len swore that he would have the
head of the luckless Lawrence; hence
the little bill; and, good bye Law
renee
The only.real fault with Mr.. Law
renee, in the eyes of his Democratic
friends, is that be acted a little too
hastily. 1t made the Democratic
principles little too prominent. If
he had only waited little it would
have been all right. But now he is
znave and fool.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-30

Smallpox is spreading in the Lit
| tie Sioux Valley in Iowa
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-30
Relenting.
BY LOUISA BUSHNELL.

The earth is in a melting mood,
This morning of the year;
! And clasped around by mists that brood
She smiles to find herself so wooed,
With, now and then, tear.
The topmost fastness of the hill
Has let the winter go;
The happy hearted little rill
No longer shivers past the mill
To meadows hushed with snow.
The birds let fall their newborn dreams
Upon me from above;
And many shadow wed with beams,
And many wind-kissed blossom seems
To say a.word for love.
What is there in this tender air
To thrill me like dart?
1t quickens places poor and bare,
And every covert sweet and fair,
Except one maiden's heart.
Oh, are such changeful CLEANS of light
Made only to beguile?
Then, am but foolish wight,
TO be so glad because, last night,
She blessed me with a smile.
But. oh, when ice and snow relent,
And every coolest thing;
Might not, perchance, one more repent,
And melting into warm consent,
Flood all my heart with Spring?
lIScribner's for May.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-30

cx The Springfield, Mass, Repub-
ican says: "One may be pardoned
for sneezing under any cIrcumstan-
ces. in view of the experience of a
woman from this city in Westfield,
recently. Being In company, and at
tempting to suppress a sneeze, she
felt queer sensation in the left side
of her face, which soon began SWELL
ing and drawing out of shape. A
physician was called, but by the time
he arrived her mouth and left side of
her face hsd become drawn up, dis
figuring her so that her most inti-
mate friends could scarcely reeog
nize her features, while she found it
impossible to close her left eye. The
physicians say 1t is a kind Of paral-
ysis, caused by the great effort she
made in suppressing the sneeze, and
give but faint hopes that her fea-
lures will ever resume their natural
She is now in this city
eekIng medical advice"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-30
The Liquor Question in the Con-
stitutiOnaI Convention.

StitutiOnaI convention.
The Convention commenced the dis
cussion of the Liquor question las
week. Mr.. McCoRMICK made tn
first speech against license. We quot
from the Cincinnati Gazette:
The delegate from Gu, ahoga, Mr.
Mueller, objects to this convention hav
ing anything to do with moral ques
tons; but that gentleman certainly
can not ignore the fact that we mus
deal with questions that have great in
fluence on the moral as well as The
civil welfare of the State, and fol-
which the State will hold us responsi
BILE He tells US, too, that those who
voted for no license when our present
Constitution was adopted are responsi.
BILE for the traffic and IFS results for the
last twenty years. This is only re-
peating the slander that virtue has al
ways had TO bear at the hands of vice
Because vice is of long standing is no
reason that it approximates to virtue,
and though it may have grown strong
and widely diffused, and on that &C
count may lay claim to responsibility.
it is none the less destructive in it's ma
ture, or deadly in its results; and, on
the other hand, truth is none the less
pure, enlivening, and exalting, because
its advt Gates are few, and its presenta-
ton unpopular Truth does combat
every foot of ground she gains in the
conflict with materialisp. in6delity,
and vice in her hundred forms; nor
does she stand appalled, WIEN these 80
combine TO dispute her advance, but
she still moves forward in her resistless
course
Vain are the devices of man, or
States, or nations TO stay her in her on
ward march, for the eye OF God is
upon her. And while men and ma
tions may combine to thwart her ends.
these are set aside, and live only in the
dreams of the past, or in the an
nails of history, as warning TO those
who come after, to avoid the vices
which produced their fall and wrecked
their natioasl grandeur.
The advocates of the general license
system rest its merits on the grounds
of expediency; but the very spirit
that induces men to sell intoxicating
liquefs in violation of law. now, would
induce them to violate the most strin-
gent license law we can frame The
gentleman from Cuyahoga (Mr
Townsend) and his colleague (Mr.
Mueller would lead us 10 believe that
should the advocates Of the system
presented by the report of the COM
mittee secure a well regulated, gen
eral license provision, there would be
less intoxicating liquor manufactured,
and consequently the traffic would be
greatly diminished.
The real force and direction of the
arguments of the advocates of the Ii
cense, as proposed by the report of the
committee, is to render the traffic more
respectable, TO give it what it has long
sought to obtain-uamely: the sane
ton and protection of law, and the re
suit will be the enlargement of its in
fuence, and increase of its iniquity
Those engaged in the traffic ask no
higher boon than to place their busi-
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-30
For the Gallipolis Journal.
IN TTSa SioDin~ tho PIadOQ

81 am a temperance man, but its
no use for me to sign the temper
ance pledge" gentleman said to
me not long since. 81 don't drink, >
he went on to say, sand it looks TO
me like sheer nonsense to pledge
myself not to do thing. which /
am not in the habit of doing, any
way"
Doubtless. among my JOURNAL
readers, there are others who reason
in like manner.
Rather poor reasoning my friends
Too many are wrapped In eloaks
of sel6shness, reclining on chairs of
ease, and virtually saying to their
poor, weak, fallen brothers, save
yourselves or perish.
We need to throw self in the
background, forget the important
parsonage" for the time, and lean
ing on the strong arm of Jehovah,
make use of every legitimate means
in our power, to reform the erring,
save those on the verge of ruin, and
remove, if possible, from the rising
generation the fearful curse of in
temperance.
My name, or yours reader, at
tached to a temperance pledge
might not make us a whit more TEN
perate than we already are, and
yet it might have a tendency to in
duce some poor Inebriate, or others
who are in danger from an occa-
sional dram to sign it, and in this
way be productive of great good.
In spite of the dismal apprehen-
sions of good meaning people, and
the loud croaking of opponents, l
still have great hopes of the ulti-
mate success of this Heaven born
enterprise,
Reader, permit me to inquire
what position you are taking
in this important contest. Are
you for or against? In symps-
thy with the movement or opposed
to it? Helping to roll and swell the
wave or trying to impede its pro-
gress? But l am losing sight of
my subject No use signing tie
PLEDGE Is there any use of that
poor, bloated drunkard signing it?
Any use of that noble, talented
young man. who got tipsy last week,
signing it? Any use of your boy,
who il just learning to drink, sign
ing it? At once you answer, yes
Then encourage them to do it by
setting the example Show them
your name on the paper, and then
with consistency and some show of
success, you can ask them to add
their names to the list.
This is no time for frivolous ex-
cuses: no time for good people to
luikble or prevaricate
If intempersnce is driven from
our land, and God grant that it may
be, we must multiply the ranks OF
self-denying workers.
Hundreds of saloons have already
been closed; thousands have signed
he total abstinence pledge, and
many who a few weeks ago were
far from God. and en-
gagged in all manner of wickedness,
ire now all alive to their best inter-
ssts, and arc zealously telling the
story of "Jesus and his love-" And
yet men say to Us, "Oh, you can't do
It's only a wOnaan's cru
'ade, and won't amount to anything.
Away with your evil prophesies. Go
cad Of Deborah.
Sisters in the work, let nothing
launt or discourage you.
'Give to the wind thy fears,
Hope and be undismayed;
iOd hears thy sighs and counts thy tears,
God shall lift up thy head"
JOYCE.
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Western Points,

Plymouth, Ind, has contracted for
new $4,000 school building.
A man at Ten Mile Lake is making
collection OF Minnesota birds.
Sheep in the vicinity of Metomen,
Wis, are dying with grubs in the
head.
The new Logansport (Ind J Semi
nary is to be III by lO3 feet and 60
feet high.
A student of the Wisconsin State
University was jailed last week for
stealing.
The number of pupils in the st.
Paul { Mimi. schools during March
was 2,523.
Bourbon, Cherokee, and Crawford
counties, Kas., are becoming noted
for their bees.
The Elgin, ILL.,, Milk Condensing
Company are to place 80, 600 In
their reservoir.
There is a couple in KendallsVille,
Ind, who have been married to each
other three times.
The projected railway from Beat
rice, Neb., to Sterling, Mo, is meet
ing with favor along its line.
New discoveries of gold are re-
ported in California, from San Diego
and Los Angeles counties.
Nearly $4,000 hss been subscribed
to erect q Catholic Church on the
north side of Swan Lake, MINI.
DIR. Stuart of Ystton, Iowa. report
ed to have been murdered, was seen
recently at Atchinson, Kas.
The United States Land Office at
Cawksr City, Kas., is to be, it is re-
ported, removed to Philllpsburg.
The Kansas Editorial Association
meets at Fort Scott on the 10th Of
May, and an excursion to Texas is
proposed.
The ghost that caused 30 much ex-
citement at Peru, Ind, turns out TO
consist of q red shirt hung on ha-
eel bush.
A man in Burton, New, while ex-
cayating for q mill, unearthed three
bars of bullion weighing 300 pounds.
Fully two-thirds of the honey
bees in Lucas county, Iowa, have
this winter perished from some un-
known disorder.
There are LOO quartz claims re-
corded in the Grass Valley District,
Cal, of which not more than fifteen
are being worked.
The Turner's of Red Wing, Mimi,
have raised a sufficient sum Of money
to insure the building of $4,000
opera-house.
A brace Of burglars recently spent
half the night at Piper City, ILL.,, in
blowing open an old, unused safe
that was unlocked and empty.
A man in Sprinklebury,' Fulton
county, Ind, offers any one who will
get him q wife So good COW worth
thirty dollars and twenty cords OF
wood"
Fair Play, Col, is IN q bad ccndi-
tion. and cries for car load Of mar
riageable girls to be sent there. TIE
Seminal saws thereis only one there
now. and she has been reduced to q
skeleton courting the army Of good
looking bachelors,
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CoRREsPONDENCE.
For the Gallipolis Journal.
To the Women of the Temper
ance League.


LADIEs:-It behooves you now to
give immediate attention to those men
who have recently signed the total ab
stinence pledge. Many of them are
making honest efforts to lead sober
lives. but they still have the old appe-
lite to contend against, and what is far
worse, the banetul influence of bad men,
who, to defeat your efforts for good.
are trying to seduce them again to in
temperance. To 'pester with prayer"
will probably do the men who still con-
time in the Liquor business no good,
as Satan has fortified them against
every good ihfiushce Good advice
will be found 10 Matthew, nth chap,
9th verse.
If you can save those who have
made good start, and continue to in-
duce others to leave off their intemper-
ate habits. you will do well. The eff
forts in this direction must of neces-
sity, be directed to those of hum
bic circumstances in life, inasmuch as
many of our wealthy families are op-
posing temperance and seeking to make
their opposition aristocratie. They
will succeed in warming into life, in
their own home circles, that which
"biteth like serpent and stingeth like
an adder" (See Proverbs Esd chap
99th. 32d verses They may know in
the coming years that now is the be-
ginning of the sorrows they shall feel,
but alas! it will then be too late. You
have struggled nobly ard we see the
good results, and shall see more. but
waste no labor in useless and barren
fields Some doors are. probably. for
ever shut against temperance influence,
but others stand open wide. and into
them, only, should you enter. Go not
to those who are being educated to
hate both you and your cause, but to
those who are equally worthy of being
saved from falling into the wreck of
drunkenness.
Yours,
FRIEND OF THE CAUSE.
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The Strange Guest.

The gifted Sargent S. Prentiss
once gave a sumptuous dinner to
some friends at hotel in Vicksburg.
Carly in the evening a stranger ell
cred the room in a mistake. Prem
IS courteously invited him to join
.ne party. Before long the strange
guest began boasting Of how much
be had drank during the day-a
cocktail here, smasher there, ju
llep in this place, sling in that, and
so on, apparently without end.
At length Prentiss said:
"Sir, do you believe in the doc
trine of metempsychosis2'
81 don't know" was the reply,
"and don't see that it has anything
| to do with what we are talking
shout"
"lt has, rejoined Prentiss, "much--
much every way. have firm faith
lin that doctrine. l believe that in
the next life every man will be trans
formed into the thing for which he
| has best qualified himself in this.
In that life, sir, you will become a
corner groggery."
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GALLIPOLIS OHIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 80, 1874.

courses of action for this convention on
the subject: the one to rise in its intel
hgeni. moral dignity and bear the
standard of law, truth, and virtue
high in advance. leading up to a
higher manhood and truer, nobler
patriotism; the other, to trail that
standard low in the dust. provoking
thereby the spirit of reform, as we'll as
the Indignation of a deeply injured
moral sentiment. am opposed to the
general license system. and shall labor
to secure the best possible restrictive
measures attainable as a constitutional
provision.
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erat, or he would not give such advice.
This reminds me of man | knew in
Gallia county. who voted the Republi
can ticket when sober, and the Demo-
cratic ticket when drunk.
Mr.. Editor, this is very informal
letter, but can't write nice, we'll com
posed letters. so you can fix this up to
suit yourself Just take the pith out
of it, if there is any in it. L. c.
Mr. ZEHRING is not engaged in the
liquor business; never has been. He
has family Grocery.-ED.
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The Latest Snake Story.

Charleston Is. c. News.J
Mr.. j. r. Brockington, of Black
Mingo, Williamsburg county, is re-
sponsible for the following snake
story: ga dog belonging to COL
ored man, while trying to catch q
large and ferocious hog, was cut or
bit by the hog on the left side, just
below the ribs, and out of the orifice
made by the hogs teeth crawled two
large snakes. One was alive and ap
parently in perfect health. The 9TH
er was severed or cut in two by the
hogs teeth, and, of course, was dead.
The color was bright, red striped,
with blue intermixed. They were
about three feet six inches long and
two inches 10 circumference. They
were snakes in every particular. The
dog is living and in Its ususl condi-
tion."
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For the Gallipolis Journal.
Howard COUNTY, KANSAS.
Anril 18th 1874

HOWARD COUNTY, AANSAS,
April l4th, 1874
EDITOR JoURNAL:-Thirteen years
ago to-day, President Lincoln issued
his Proclamation, calling for $4,000
men to suppress the Rebellion. All!
how time flies A few days thereafter,
recruiting commenced at Gallipolis.
was then lone of the boys" and for
several weeks, "rallied round the flag
in your city. About the 5th of May,
the ladies of Gallipolis presented nice
"Union Flag" to the citizens of the
town. Miss Rathburn, daughter OF
Judge Rathburn, made the presenta
ton speech, which was well timed.
Judge Nash responded in fine speech,
the best / ever heard him deliver
The good ladies of Gahipolis made and
presented to Company G, gray flannel
shirts, so the "boys" were at the meet
ing with gray shirts on.
A few days afterward, Company G..
assisted in raising the "Union Flag" on
the "Public Square, at which time,
Mr.. Cushing made a Union speech.
Among other things be said: 'Some
people say meet them 1.-THE rebels with
the olive branch of peace, and l say
meet them with the olive branch Of
peace, but aOhip them like h--H"
Then there was a "hurrah for Cush. :"
Itso happened that in the distribu-
ton of the shirts made BY the ladies,
that l got one much too large; what
to do, I knew not; but on looking
around among the boys, found that
Smith Holesworth had got one 80
small that he could scarcely get into
it, and thereupon an exchange was
made with Smith. Besides shirts, the
Gallipolis ladies gave US blankets, socks
and other articles. They are eyer full
of good works.
Some of the "boys'' got a little de
moralized, and Fred Zehring declared
they would "steal piece of chew Of
tobacco F" Now as Fred. is an old
friend. l want to say to him, that if he
is engaged in the ''traffic," he will
have to surrender TO the ladies of CALI
polls He may face Rebels and rebel
bullets, but he cant resist the prayers
and entreaties of the ladies; for what
ever they undertake, they will accom-
plish. Remember, Fred, how very
kind they were to us in '6I. May sue
cess crown the efforts of the ladies ID
the Temperance movement. The man
who would resist them in the glorious
work of reform, should lay awake all
night and hate himself.
Your Arkansas correspondent rec.
ommends "old Bourbon and to take
Ii. "straight." He must be a demo-
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GLBNGARY HOME.

LIGHT WITHOUT MATCHES To OBJ
tain light instantly without the use of
matches and without danger of set
ting things on fire, take an oblong
phial of the whitest and clearest glass;
put it into a piece Of phosphorus
about the size of pea, upon which
pour some olive oil, heated to the
boiling point, fllIng the phial about
one third full, and then seal the phial
Theoretically. To use it remove the
cork and allow the air to enter the
phial and then recork it. The whole
empty space in the bottle will then
become luminous, and the light OBJ
tanned will be equal to that Of a lamp.
AS soon as the light grows weaker,
its power can be increased by open
ing the phial and allowing a fresh
supply of air to enter. In winter it
is sometimes necessasy to heat the
phial between the hands to increase
the fluidity of the oil. Thus pre-
pared, the phisl may be used for
six months. This contrivance is
now used by the watchmen Of Paris
in all magazines where explosive
or iniammable materials are stored.
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~He was a quaint old fisher
man. One day, along toward dusk.
he was fishing in a trout stream,
and, as he flung bis fly over the
water, it was suddenly snapped by
a large bat. The strange-looking
thing dangled and tapped its wings
at the end of the line. The fisher
mans companion called out: "Say,
Sam, got anything2' ''Ye as, look
linz at the bat on the hook. "W hat
lis it?" II dunno, unless it's q
|cherubina!'