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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-03-26

HO. HALL has changed his bust.
ness from Groceries to Boots and
Shoes. See his card and give him &
call.
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s-VANDKN il HUTCHINSON have just
received Il large lot of Hall & Speer
Flows and Points, of all sizes, for
Spring trade.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-03-26

WSew Goods In great variety at
MLucx & BRANDYsERRY's. Go and see
them.
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Additional Locnl.

HAr. J. j. BLAZER shipped four
rour-year cid mules on Monday to
-Ironton. Here's your mule!
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TO. STOCK OWNERS.

r1HE undersigned residing in Green
township, hereby give notice that
they will in all cases enforce the law
against all stock found running at large
in violation of law, and the owners Of
such stock will save themselves tronble
by giving due attention to this notice.
HENRY ECKER, WARNER BLAZER;
ID. II. GRAHAM, +. }. RUSSELL,
PHILLIP BLAZER, WM. kLICKER,
.ACGCST ESGLE.
March &c, lS.4.--3w%
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-03-26

THE SPRING TERN of this Insti-
i tuition will commence on
Monday, March Both,
and continue thirteen weeks,
Board i'm families can be had from 81
10 - ) per week, and facilities for self
board, in clubs, or otherwise, for 81 80
to Sa 30 per week,
E. w. CHASE, Principal.
March 20, 1s74.-2w$
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-03-26

The temperance crusade is spread.
ing through Michigan.
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Attendance

There were IL cases OF tardiness. Nos.
!, : and 8, are the banner rooms in
punctuality.
j. s. WILSON.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-03-26

U-You can get any kind OF a Hat you
want at MAtcK & BRASDYBgRRY's.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-03-26
Union Scliof

The California Senate has passed
compulsory education bill:
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-03-26
Examination.

There was n large class of applicants
before the Board of Examiners, on Sat
urday, siXty-four in number. Twenty
eight certificates were granted, rs fol-
lows:
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-03-26

The census of Japan shows the
population to be aSi 30.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-03-26

eBNow il the time to get just what
you want for a suit of Clothes at MACcK
& BRANDYBERRY's.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-03-26
For Rent.

a BRICK DWELLING HOUSE,
"A containing six rooms and cellar,
with gas. The house ia new, situated
on Front street. For particulars, see
Z. $. MENAGER.
March Is, lS7I.-tf ~
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Academy:

THE SPRING TERN ofeleyen weeks,
i begins
March oath, 1874.
Z. H.. DILLON, Principal
March 10, lS7I.-3w
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-03-26

Bald Mountain, North Carolina, is
an inclpIent volcano.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-03-26

eE- Summary of Report Of Union
Schools for the week ending Friday,
March 20, 1874:
Enrollmant e07
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Notes.

JNO. j. THOMAS, TIP. Clerk.
March 2, 1874.
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CaIIia Academy.

Assignee of George W. Eaehus.
March 26, lS74.-Iw
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-07-11
DISSOLUTION.

The Partnership heretofore existing between the
undersigned in the Timing Stove and Hardware bust
ness, in North East, Cecil county Md, is by mutual
consent of parties dissolved; and all persons indebted
to said firm requested to make immediate payment
to |. N. BENJAMIN I. N. BENJAMIN.
JOSEPH PERKINS.
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boys rushed to the church, and found the
carpenter.
They asked him to bring ladder, axe
and pick-axe. AS he felt it might be a
case of fire, he brought also his fire-buck-
cts.
When the matter was explained to him,
he went into the dining looked into
the dumb waiter UNFINISHED cord, and
arranged the weight, and pulled up the
dinner.
There was family shout.
"The trouble was in the weight" said
the carpenter.
"That is why it is called dumb waiter, "
Solomon John explained to the little boys.
The dinner was put upon the table.
Mrs. Peterkin frugally suggested that
they might now keep it for next day, as
to-day was almost gone, and they had had
tea.
But nobody listened. All sat down to
the roast turkey; and Amanda warmed
over the vegetables.
" Patient walters are no LOSERS" said
Agamemnon.
Lucretia p. Haie, in 81. Nicholas for july
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WHICH | LOVE BEST.

l love the Summers luxury,
Its long, glad days of life and light;
The shade of the deep woods greenery,
The passionate warmth of sunshine
bright
And love to see pale Winter throw
Der earth her garb of purity;
Her clustering surpice of driven snow,
Her ice crown, pure as the crystal sea:
Each love | more than can be expressed
How can tell which | love best?
Out in the midst of my garden grows,
With crimson petal and fragrant smell,
A deep and beautiful demask rose;
And o, love that rose full well
But there nestles beneath my garden-wall
A lily, in secret loveliness;
Its fragrance as great as its flower is small,
And love my lily none the less.
love them both, in their beauty dressed;
But could not tell you which l love best.
There are two maidens-one whose mirth,
Like the deep toned tints of my damask
rose,
Ger all the loneliness of earth
Her spell of joy and gladness throws;
The other, like the lily white,
Scatters her happiness all around,
And blesses with her clear pure light
My poor heart tredden down to the
ground:
To each is my motto, "Treu und fest"
Why must specify which | love best?
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SYSTEMATIC THINKING.

People who think unsystematically are
slovenly minded people. The facts and
ideas slowed away in their upper chambers
are all topsy-turvy. No sooner do they
turn ever something in the hope of finding
another something than they cover up still
another something, which, in its turn, will
soon be wanted and rummaged after. Their
heads are not we'll arranged libraries, but
garrets filled with rubbish. If they COM
mence to think upon any subject, they
shift it about, taking only glimpse of it
here and there. They do not, like the sys.
tematic thinker, take subject to pieces as
a matchmaker does a watch, and lay the
parts all in order under glass covers, but
pitch them into all sorts of places and
corners, and generally, getting bewildered
in trying to replace them, become hope
lessly muddled and give it up.
A great deal is said now "a days about the
we'll to remember that all the thinking
which bears fruit is systematic thinking.
Many young man imagines himself to be
thinking when he is merely day dreaming.
Thinking implies an active state of the
mind, calling up images, holding them fast,
and arranging them in order; not passive
condition in which troops of ideas, or
shadows of ideas, fit across the mental
vision like figures in a kaleidoscope.
Thinking, worthy of the name, is work
systematic, calm and connected; and the
man who has not got his mind so disciplin-
ed that he can thus command it is not yet
thinker
That systematic thinkers are so few is
attributable in great degree to early bad
training. Not one teacher in fifty in our
primary schools deems it of importance
to teach children how to study, and less
proportion are competent to do this if they
would. The most of them think their
duties are comprised in keeping an orderly
school, hearing recitations, assisting pupils
to do hard sums, and allotting tasks. Espe-
cially in the latter do they excel. Memoir
izing is with most of them a name for
mummery-a thing to be done by holding
the head on one hand, swinging first one
foot and then the other, and forcing the
lips to repeat a formula until they will run
of themselves long enough to get through
recitation by very force of momentum.
And this laborious, meaningless task, they
think, is study. In other words, study is
to them the teaching of the lips to move
from force of habit, while the mind may
be wandering anywhere and everywhere.
Thus vacant, wandering habit of mind
is secured with the spelling lesson, and
ground in with the rules of grammar; and
unless, by rare good chance, the unfortu-
nate overtasked and mentally disguised
young intellect meets in its onward pro-
gress some one who can show it the mis-
take, or has native genius to discover it
without help, it grows into habitual sloven-
ly mindedness.
After all, teachers are no more to blame
than parents who demand that progress
shall be measured by pages of book
rather than by power to think.
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THE ARKANSAS VALLEY AHEAD.

From Daily Commonwealth, June 10.
The land department of the A. T. & S.
F. railroad has forwarded to the agricul-
tural editor of the Commonwealth, Chats
u.s. some samples of the prolific produc-
tiveness of the Arkansas river valley.
The first is a sample of cotton, product
of 1874, raised in Sedgwick county, near
Sedgwick City, on the line of the A. T. &
5. F. road. 1t is quito large pod and
very fine in quality. If any State can beat
Kansas in raising cotton, she will have to
get up awful early in the morning and 60
to work without any breakfast.
The second is sample of Egyptian
wheat, product of 1874, from Raymond,
Rice county, Kansas.
The next is specimen of Fall wheat,
we'll filled and ripened, also from Rice
county, and the product of this season.
All these specimens give evidence of the
unsurpassed fertility of Kansas soil, espe-
cially that portion of it "lying and being
situated :" along the line of the above road
Judging from the samples furnished us, it
is no wonder that the tide of immigration
is still settling strong to the Arkansas val
ley. The A. T. & S. F. trains each day
are full of people looking for homes, and
nowhere in the boundless west are greater
Inducements offered than in Kansas
Every train which arrives from the east
pours out its load of settlers for our new
State, and wagon after wagon files through
our streets throughout the week, bound for
the southwest, their white-capped schooners
being highly suggestive of "the milky
way" These railroad and wagon trains
are filled with men, women and children
of all countries and all conditions in life.
The pipe-smoking and sturdy German, the
hardy Mennonite, the energetic Dane, the
busy Scandinavian. the telling Swede, the
enthusiastic Englishman, the enterprising
American, and even the Acknowledged China
man, all wend their way to this fertile val
ley, and under their skillful hands homes
homes are built, lands improved, and the
State day by day increased in wealth and
numbers. 1t is hard to estimate the thous-
ands that are pouring in upon US, but a few
years will tell the tale, and with the same
rate of immigration as now, Kansas will
then outnumber many of the older States,
and in wealth, production and Importance,
will be second to none in the union.
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The aforesaid business will he continued in all its
branches, by |. N BENJAMIN.
June 20, lS74-4w
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peak seemed to me the more likely, but he
declared it almost inaccessible. Taking a
stand on the rock he indicated, the COM
mand of Rahab and some of it's adjoining
Wadies was perfect. 1t must be remem-
bered that whilst there is ample standing
room in the one half of plain Rahab near
est the mount for ., 600, 900, where all could
have seen the top of the mount, the crowd,
the fire, and heard the trumpet's blast,
there is also ample room in the remainder
of the plain and the adjoining Wadies ed
Dair, es Sheik, and Sell Teja for all the
camps and animals. The plain running
square up to the foot of the mount shows
this to be the mountain that might be
touched, and rendering bounds necessary
to keep off the people and animals from a
too near approach to the majesty of Jeho-
yah. Descending from the top to the in.
termedlate willow, We turned sharply to
the left and passed down little Wady on
the south side of Snfsafeh. We had moth
ing all day more difficult than this slipping
and sliding descent. To keep ones feet all
the time was quite out Of the question.
On the way down we passed a grotto from
which issued a spring of clear ice-cold
water. This is the cave Of St. Calstratus,
noted monk of early Christian times.
From this position, as Moses and Joshua
were coming down the mount, they heard
the noise in the camp. "And when Joshua
heard the noise Of the people as they shout
ed, he said unto Moses, There is noise of
war in the camp. And he said it is not
the voice of them that shout for mastery,
neither is it the voice of them that cry for
being overcome; but the noise of them that
sing do hear" 1t proved that the cause
of the noise was the worship of the golden
calf. At the foot of the pass, a little
beyond, is the hill called Harun, or Hill of
Aaron. Our company not only had proof
that afternoon of the distinctness of the
transmission of sounds, but on another
occasion l was heard at great distance
speaking words that were plainly under
stood by two of my companions; and that,
too, when we looked like pigmies to one
another.
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TOOMBS AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

Washington Letter to Cincinnati Commercial.
The visit of Mr.. Toombs to the President
has naturally attracted much attention,
and in conversation with some friends last
evening, we were told how.it happened
Mr.. Toombs was OH visit to his intimate
friend, Augustus Perry, Esq, merchant
of considerable prominence. The morning
after the arrival of his guest, Mr.. Perry
drove with him to see their mutual friend,
William Corcoran, Esq. In passing the
White House. Perry loosely remarked:
"Toombs, you had better 60 in and see
Grant"
"Oh, no, am not citizen Of this coun-
try" retorted the fiery Southern General
Nothing more was said, and they drove
around the beautiful Lafayette Square,
alive with the chattering of children and
chirping of birds, and filled with the fra
GRANGE from the hearts of hundred bios
SONS, past it all to the quaint, irregular
pile of bricks forming the picturesque
home of Corcoran, the banker. There
they were cordially received, and spent
several hours in pleasant chat with the
venerable host, who can be the most agree.
able and then again the curtest man in
Washington. On leaving, the driver, who
wished to avoid the cobble stones covering
the roadway of H, from Eighteenth street
to Vermont avenue, turned his horses and
again drove down the avenue. AS they
were nearing the Presidents, Toombs said
"Perry, if were to go to foreign
country, I'd surely, if practicable, pay my
respects to the potentate of that country
"Why not, then, 60 see your PRESIDENT
The order was given, and the horses were
soon refined in front of the Executive Man.
sion. Alighting, they went in-up the
long flight of steps and into the room where
so much weary, heart-wearing, soul-killing,
patient waiting is done-where they found
the usual crowd, some on idle business,
| some on matters pertaining to life and
death. There was a sad faced woman come
| here for the pardon of her son, convicted
of forgery and sent to the Albany peniten'
tiary-with her is the grandfather of the
erripg man, who strives in every way known
to his rough nature to soothe the distressed
mother. The cards of Mr.. Perry and Gen
eral Toombs are taken in, but the feal
expressed that his Excellency could see ne
one till after one o'clock. Scarcely mo
ment had elapsed when the messenger
returned and called:
"The President will see General Toomb'
and Mr.. Perry"
On entering tie room, General Grant ros'
to receive them, and General Toombs said
eral Grant, but being in town, have callet
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Pacific Ocean Deep Sea SOundings.

At recent meeting of the California
Academy of Sciences, Professor Davidson
announced some of the results of the
soundings made by Captain George 7.
Belknap, of the United States steamer 7'us-
carora, during last year, with reference to
the projected laying of telegraphic cable
from this coast to Japan. This work had
accomplished a remarkable development of
the depths of the Pacific Ocean, which had
no parallel in the plateaus Of the Atlantic.
The Tuscarora first started in her line of
soundings from the entrance to the Straits
of Fuca, across that portion of the North
Pacific designated as the Gulf of Alaska,
toward the Asiatic coast. After leaving
the entrance to the straits, the bottom
slopes gradually to depth of 100 fathoms,
and then a sudden descent occurs, which
reaches depth of 400 fathoms, at dis
lance of $50 miles from the coast. The
temperature of the water at the greatest
depth on this line of survey was "a degrees.
Commander Belknap then returned, pros
ecuting off and on soundings all along the
coast to the entrance of San Francisco Bay.
This work determined the fact that the
sudden descent at the bottom of the Pacific
to a great depth is continuous down the
entire coast, varying from twenty to seventy
miles out. In the latitude of San Fran
cisco Bay, the great bench is reached
short distance off the Farallenes, where the
bottom suddenly descends to depth of two
miles. OFF Cape Foulwsather the bottom
descends precipitately from 400 fathoms to
a depth of 1,500 fathoms, and then the
plateau continues westward for hundreds of
miles, and comparatively as level as bill
lard table. Off. Cape Mendocino, where
shoals have been enormously supposed to
exist, from the seward jutting of the
mountains, a depth of 1900 fathoms is
reached eighty miles from the shore
Thirty miles off the Golden Gate, the bot
tom is reached at 100 fathoms; at 55 miles,
it has descended to 1, 200 fathoms; and 100
miles out, the enormous depth of 2,54S
fathoms has been measured without reach
ing bottom.
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LONGEVITY OF BIRDs.-Among the feath-
cred creation the eagle and raven, the swan
and parrot, are each centcnarians. An
eagle kept in Vienna died after a confine-
ment of one hundred and fourteen years,
and on an ancient oak in Shelborne, still
known as the craven tree the same pair
of ravens are believed to have fixed their
residence for series of more than ninety
years. Swans upon the river Thames,
about whose age there can be no mistake,
since they are annually nicked by the
Winners Company, under whose keeping
they have been for five centuries, have
been known to survive one hundred and
fifty years and more. The melody of the
dying swan is entirely mythical. Upon
approach of death the bird quits the water,
sits down upon the bank, lays its head
upon the ground, expands its wings tritle
and expires uttering no sound.
The extreme longevity Of the parrot is
equally authentic. In the Geological Gar
dens of London there is a macaw that was
admitted to the Tower in the year 1764.
At Versailles, during the reign Of Charles
X, there was always hanging cage in the
Glide beuf which contained a parrot pur-
chased by the Regent Orleans for the
Duchess de Berri. There is not collec-
ton of birds in any of the royal aviaries
of Europe that has not its ancient parrot.
The writer purchased gray African par
rot in 1856, whose residence in Wales was
authenticated for seventy-seven years.
The bird, more wonderful for variety of
speech than for her age, learning every
thing and forgetting nothing, accomplish
ed alike in the Welsh tongue and the En-
glish, born in Africa, and dying in Amer
lea, might have been alive now but for
heedlessness. In 1867 she. had certainly
approached if she had not reached her one
hundredth year. Upon severely cold
night in December of that year she was
sent from New York to Washington, and
persisted by the way. She was in perfect
health, and had never known day of sick
ness, showed no decreptude, enjoyed life
to the utmost, demanded no allowances or
concessions on the score Of advanced years
and might, but for an exposure to the
rigor of an unaccustomcd climate, have
| been alive to-day.
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THE FARMERS MUTUAL OF YORK, Pa,
is acknowledged to be one of the safest
Mutual Fire Insurance Companies in oper-
alton. Its Agents do large business in
this county. Risks on farm property taken
at low rates. F. E. EWING,
Agent at Elkton.
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Ggl 1t is remarked that wood will last
much longer if left for the women to saw
and split.
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to pay my respects to you as the ruler of
this nation"
"Oh, never mind about that, General
Toombs," answered Grant, est down. l
am glad to see you at last, for hunted
very unsuccessfully after you during the
war -
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-02-14
VIRGINIA REPUBLICANs DISIS.
TEGRAFING.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
There are decided indications of dis
integration among the Virginia Repub-
licans. Mr.. John Amber Smith, the
Republican Representative IN Congress
from the Richmond district, is not will
ling to yield to the demands of the ne
groes for social equality, civil rights,
etc, and he will decline to be a candi-
date fOrre-electiOn. Some Conservative
Will be chosen In his stead.
In the district nov represented by
Mr.. Platt, a Yankee carpet -bagger, he
is to be opposed by a bright mulatto
called Prof. Langston, who has carpet
bagged three from this district in the
last few months in order to be candi-
date for Congressional honors. and the
prospects are that the loyal Platt viii
fall by feather from his own shaft.
Still another Virginia carpet -bagger
is to have ike fall. The son-in-law
Of Downing, the highly popular caterer
of the restaurant under the hall Of the
House of Representatives Is already
fixed up at Burkville Junction. Prince
Edward county, IN Stowell's District,
ostenSibly engaged IN the humble busi-
ness of running a sassafras mill, but
actually nourishing the wicked purpose
of supplanting the present carpet-bag
Representative. This adaptation by
the negroes Of carpet-bagging to their
ambition is viewed with much disgust
by their white allies, and the prospect
of race division hereafter is consider
ably enhanced.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-02-14
CROPS.
Amount Of last Seasons Wheat and
Oats Now an Hand

JACKSONVILLE, Ill, Feb. 13.-The
National Crop Reporter will publish to-
morrow an estimate in relation to per cent
age of the crops of wheat and oats of 1873
remaining in the hands of the producers to
Feb. l, in the States of Illinois, Iowa, Kan
sas, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The fol-
lowing is an abstract of the estimate pre-
sented in the States named, which produced
last year over 13S. 100000 bushels of wheat.
There was remaining on hand about 4Oaa
per cent, or very nearly 100000 bushels.
This indicates a consumption to date, which
includes shipments of about SO,50O,60O
bushels. Illinois is shown as the heaviest
consumer, being G4d per cent, and WiScon-
sin the lightest, or 53 per cent.
OF oats the states named produced last
year one hund,ed and forty million bushels,
of which amount fOrty-three and one-half
PER cent. or siXt-one million bushels, re-.
manned tn the hands of farmers Feb. l, the
amount of consumption in Illinois reaching
60 per cent. and the lowest in Kansas where
it IS a per cent. The total consumption
in all the States is eighty-three million,
which is estimated.
The averages to growing wheat are ipr
Creasing somewhat, although the prospects
are Yet in favor of a much larger yield than
last year.