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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-11-12
RANDOM THOUGHTS.
BY THE EDITOR.

The glorious Indian Summer gave me
yearning for day of rest in the coun-
try, and last Saturday took the morn
ing train for Portland The day was
glorious. till-mild-smoky.
Getting off the cars at Portland l start
ed west and soon met my good old friend
I, L. Hughes Esq, of Jefferson Furnace.
He was also walking briskly, with cane
in hand. He said he always liked to see
men walk. He said men would often get
off the cars at Portland and hire a horse
and buggy to go 10 Jefferson Furnace, a
distance of only a mile and a half
I.stopped at the old house where my
uncle, Solomon Mackley, so long resided
The house is now used to store away
farming utensils. I went through the
house The great stone chimney in the
centre, built by Amos Leniger nearly
half a century ago, is still standing.
went up the winding stairway, by the
side of the chimney. There was the lit
tie window, near which party of young
folks sat one night in the spring of the
year 1886. My cousin Andrew Mackley,
had been married to Ann Seel, and at
the Unfair at my uncle's house, some one
paired off the young folks upstairs, after
supper. l was seated near the window
with beautiful and accomplished young
woman named Barbara SHELTON l was
bashful boy of little over seventeen, and
my conversation was not very interesting.
l n fact, did not know what to say, and
so held my peace. Not soul of all that
crowd, except myself, now lives in this
part of the country and 1 think most of
them are dead.
The well in front of the old house is
filled up, and its locality cannot be iden-
tilted. The spring on the other side of
the house is dried up, and not a drop of
water to be seen. Most of the old apple
trees are standing, but not vestige of
the horse-mill on the hill can be seen,
even the great square pit where the wheel
turned being completely filed up.
| turned to the right before l got to
Jefferson Furnace, and went into place
formerly known as the Upper Pond"
The geology of the Black Fork of
Symmes Creek was always a very inter
esting study to me. Originally the
Creek was so crooked that in many
places it would run nearly mile, and
then be only short distance from the
same place. Long, rocky points of the
hills would extend far across the bottoms,
first on one side, then on the other. At
a remote day the beavers would construct
dams from the ends of these points to
the opposite hill, until the water would
be raised so as to cover twenty to thirty
acres, and would break over the point,
and pouring down upon the other side
would cut out the ground, causing deep
holes, sometimes making ponds an acre
or more in extent After ages of time,
these points would be so cut down as to
change and straighten the Creek, leaving
the original, crooked channel, dead,
stagnant pool.
This Upper Pond" was, some forty
years ago wet, marshy bottom of some
thirty acres. with thick growth of maple
trees, alders, grape vines, blackberry
briars, &c. 1t was great resort in the
summer and fall, where young folks
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at is a little remarkable. that Il

at is little remarkable, that the can
didate of the Democratic party who vas
best calculated to adorn his office-Prof
Smart, of this city-has the smallest ma
jority; while the largest majority is Sc
cured to the man who is doubtless least
qualified to fill the Office to which he as
pired. Even the successful contestant
sor Supreme Judge, with all his notorious
habits, is awarded larger majority than
their worthy candidate For School Com
missioner. The indications betray an
inevitable proclivity of the Democratic
party ito the bad. - CSrcleuiHe Union
The wonder in the first place is, that
Prof. Smart ever received the nomlna-
ton. Two years. ago the Convention
swindled him out of nomination. He is
man every way qualified for the posi-
ton, not much of Democrat any way,
and has no business with that party
Prof Smart received a very large vote
among the Republicans, and if that
could be counted out his vote would be
several thousands less than that cast for
| the notorious drunken Judge Gilmore.
Smart is too decent man to run well
with the Democracy
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We publish in another place an article
from the Hooking Sentinel, showing the
plan of the Northern Democrats Here
is an article from the Atlanta (Georgia)
Neaos, giving the same plan to be adopt
ed by the Southern organized ignorance
and vice"
Against the fate that confronts US
what have the Southern people? 1t is
that prudence which such papers as the
Louisville G. urier-JOurzlGt advocates, but
which men less gifted than the editors of
that paper call dastardly submission ?
mol Our only hope is in a stern, reso-
lutte resistance resistance TO the death,
if necessary, with arms in our hands
Let there he White Leages' formed in ev-
cry town, village and hamlet of the
South, and let US organize for the great
struggle which seems to be inevitable If
| the October elections which are to be
held at the North are favorable to the
Radicals, the time will have arrived for
us to prepare for the very worst. The
Radicalism of the Republican party must
be met by the radicalism of white men
We have no war to make against the
United States Government, but against
the Republican party our hate must be
and merciless. Fast feeting away is the
day for wordy protests and idle appeals
to the magnanimity of the Republican
party.
By brute force they are endeavoring to
force US into acquiescence to their hid
eous programme. We have submitted
long enough to indignities, and it is time
to meet brute force with brute force.
Every Southern State should swarm with
White Leagues, and we should stand
ready to act the moment Grant signs the
civil rights bill 1t will not do to wait
until Radicalism has fettered US to the
car of social equality before we make an
effort to resist it. The signing of the
bill will be declaration of war against
the Southern whites. 1t is our duty to
ourselves, it is our duty to our children,
it is our duty to the white race whose
prowess subdued the wilderness of this
continent, whose civilization filed it
with cities, aud towns and villages
whose mind gave it power and grandeur,
and whose labor impaired to it prosperi-
~, and whose love made peace and hap
pIness dwell within its homes, to take up
the gage of battle the moment it is
thrown. down.
If The white Democrats of the North
are men they will not stand idly by and
see us borne down by Northern Radicals
and half barbarous negroes. But no
matter what they may do, it is time for
us TO organize. We have been temporiz-
ing long enough. Let Northern Radicals
understand that military supervision of
Southern elections and the civil rights
bill mean war, that war means bloodshed
and that we are terribly in earnest, and
even they, fanatical as they are, may re-
trace their steps before it is too late"
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PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONs.
BY THE EDITOR,

When there comes a season little diff
ferent from ordinary seasons, even old
men are inclined to say that they never
before saw such a season. l have had
old men to tell me that they never be-
fore saw fall so smoky as the present.
If they will remember the falls of 1884
and 1888 they will see their error. In
my daily paper I spoke of the dry sum-
mer and fall of 1884. Then large por-
ton of Jackson county was woods, and
after the leaves had fallen they were so
dry that fires swept all over the country.
There ware many days-perhaps weeks
that the weather was clear and still,
and the air was so full of smoke that one
could look at The sun at noonday with
the naked eye. Long before the sun
would set it would be entirely hid. 1t
would be late in the forenoon before the
sun could be seen. first appearing as a
great lump of blood.
The fall of 1884 was remarkable for a
large crop of mast or nuts. I gathered
many bushels of hickory nuts on the
Furnace is now located. Wild pigeons
were so abuDdpnt eating acorns, that
they could be numbered by millions,
Morning and evening thev wodld pass
to and from their roost, passing like
clouds, and taking several hours to pass
over given point. They would, late in
the fall, after most of the acorns had
fallen, settle on the ground 20 feed.
When they became frightened they would
arise at once, causing roaring which
sounded almost exactly like thunder.
The fall of 1888 was as smoky as the
fall of 1888 1 remember plowing for
David P Davis, to sow wheat, on his new
| farm on what was known as Reece' S
Ridge, in jefferson township. The
smoke was so dense that the eyes would
smart like they do when salt gets into
them. 1t would be as dark, long before
sundown, as though there were thick
clouds.
In speaking of dry seasons, it might be
we'll to remember what took place in
following yeas, and fs NETS could then
prepare accordingly. The yeas 1883
and 1884 were exceedingly dry. in 1854
my ia; her had large crop of oats, and
they were only tom six TO ten inches
high, end had 10 be moved and raked
like hey, being too short 10 bind. The
grain in them was short and heavy. The
next year, 1885, wss as remarkable for
great rains in the spmmer. We had that
year crop of oats, which grew six feet
high. Long before harvest the rains and
wind laid the oats as fat as if a great log
had been rolled over them, and we had
to reap them with the old reaping hook,
OF sickle. 1t was heavy, tiresome, labo-
rious work.
Many of my readers will remember the
extremely dry weather in the year 1854
and the great rains of 1855. Those who
think that the sea sons are getting more
dry every year, and that it is caused by
the destruction of timber, are mistaken
in the main fact of the case Much less
rain fell in jackson county during the
five years from 1880 to 1885, than fell dur
ing the five years from 1869 to 1874,
although little rain has fallen during the
past five years.
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The last number of the Waverly Watch
nacn says

neca says:
During the past year, Mr.. Emmitts
distinery at this place has COZ ,n ID
about one hundred and fifty thous 1d
bushels of corn, and nearly eighty thou
sand bushels of coal Running at its
present rate it will use up over two hun
dred thousand bushels of corn during
the coming year.
Two hundred thousand bushels of corn
would make wholesome bread for sixteen
thousand healthy persons one year.
But instead of being turned into hu-
man food, its present use may be seen in
the following, taken from the same col
umn of the Waterman:
miserable looking tramp, half crazy,
bare footed, hatless and ragged was wan
dering through our streets tie greater
part Of last week. frightening children
and tim'd women out of their wits
Last week there was no less than a
dozen porte bic vagabonds making de-
mands on our citizens for assistance in
the shape of old clothes and cold victuals
Many of them were stout, hearty look
ing men, who no doubt follow this bust
ness the year round rather than work
Our citizens should give these vagabonds
no countenance whatever. There is
scarcely an exchange that comes to our
Office but has accounts of robberies, in
cendiarism, &C., committed by these
tramps.
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for Governor, and a majority of the same
party to the Legislature Then they
turned out DR.. Griswold, and put in this
man Jenner. He is a genuine rep
resentative of the organized ignorance
and vice of the Democratic party. He
truly represents the party of which he is
leader, by his hatred of the nation, its
defenders their widows and orphans.
The conduct of this representative Dem
ocratic brute became SO notorious that
an investigation could not be avoided.
The evidence elected during ng the investi-
CATION is of such a character that most
of it is unfit for publication. But what
do Union soldiers think of the conduct
of this Democrat towards the daughters
of their dead comrades? Girls from
fourteen to sixteen years of age were
subject to the insults of this lecherous
Democratic Office holder, put over them
by the party whose treason had made
them helpless orphans 1t was a serious
charge to make against Sheriff that he
had whipped an insane woman, and no
Republican would for a moment offer any
excuse for such conduct, if true. But
here was leading Democrat, put over
pauper orphans of Union soldiers, by a
Democratic State Administration, who
amused himself by such playful acts as
putting his hands under the clothes of
girls sixteen years of age, up to their
waists, and the party papers, and party
leaders, have no word of indignation.
Of course not. Nothing better could
be expected of the representatives of the
organized vice of the country.
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The unnatural mother first denied, but
finally confessed, and took the babe with
her, but it died next day.
Oak Hill is now incorporated for spe-
cial purposes, They have Marshal, but
they are not entitled to a Mayor. They
intend to make application for full cor
porate powers. They claim that they
have a population of 1000, including one
square mile, taking in Oak Hill and
Portland 1t is called Oak Hill, but it
will take some years to wear out the
name of Portland Before the railroad
was built, Webster was known as Bloom
field, and Hamden as Charleston, but the
old names are now nearly forgotten.
Names change Before Oak Hill was
laid out by Julius A. Bingham, in 1882,
it was known as the "Buzzard Roost, on
account of its notorious character fo1
drunkenness, horse racing and fighting
Oak Hill was appropriate for the original
| town, which was located on high hiH
covered with large white oak trees. Port
land never had many oaks, and wa:
originally called the Hickory Flats"
Just before l left Portland q ask par
don, 1 mean Oak Hill Hon. T. j. Harri
son, Secretary of the Oak Hill Building
and Loan Association came into the Office
of R. H. Jones with the books of the
Association, for their weekly meeting.
was anxious 10 learn all about the Asso
citation and its operations so far, but haC
not time, and must get that hereafter.
While waiting at the depot 1 saw
large, healthy looking Welsh woman, o
perhaps fifty years. l was told that sh
was going 10 Portsmouth to meet he
husband, whom she had recently mar
ried He is a Welsch prea cher. wealthy
and only eighty-ive years of age.
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We have never doubted for one mo-
ment that the Democratic party would
enslave the negroes if they ever could
get control of the Government. Some
Republicans are green enough to think
that there is honesty in the professions
of politicians of the party when they de-
clare that the party has acquiesced in the
amendments to the constitution. The
recent successes of the party have en-
boldened them already, and some of the
more bold and honest are already speak
ing out The Hooking Sentinel is the
ablest Democratic paper in this congress
sional district, and is edited by Hon,
Lewis Green, late member of the Ohio
Legislature. In a recent editorial he
says:
A correspondent in Nelsonville, re-
marking in an article of ours, some time
ago, the inquiry as to what the Democ-
racy intend to do with the niggers when
they get the power to do anything, asks
us to define our position in relation 70
that question. The inquiry furnishes
the excuse, if anybody thinks we need
any, for giving our opinion.
By law as it exists, wheGher rightly and
wisely or not is all one just now, the mig
ger is citizen, clothed with all the
rights of a citizen, and more than the
white citizens share of privileges. He
is a voter, is eligible to oftice-any office
from constable to President-serves on
juries where white men are parties, and
governs millions of whites, who can gov
ern no niggers, nor even themselves, the
right of selfgoyernment having been
taken from them. He sits in our coun-
cils he governs our white countrymen
who are voiceless in the matter; nullihes
our own best efforts at seltgovernment
when we are in numerical minority; he
makes our votes to count for nothing ex-
actly, and withstands and overbears half
the white population of the State with a
word. A pair of niger BARRIERS, or boot
blacks, from the State of Louisiana, in
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had these remarks on the tobacco habit: |
why is it that everywhere such swear
ing multitudes of the young men and
boys are slaves to the loathsome habit of
using tobacco, poisoning their bodies, pol
luting their souls, and rapidly running
the human race? Were the young wo-
men and girls as much demoralized, de-
based, and depraved in body, soll and
spirit. not ten nor five generations more
would or could be added to the family of
man. And what a spectacle most of
those who are enslaved to this vice pre-
sent; on the st 'et, in the home, the
shop, the sto e-e en- in the church and
the Good TIE nplar and Sons of Temper
ance halls, m king the disgusting spit
| too-I ecessarY omnipresence where !er
man appears, or in WI ale er employed!
| What if the girls and young women kept
such mouths and teeth and breath, with
no boards to curtain them out of sight
fand out of mind? What if almost all the
girls chewed e, erywhe e; smoked every
where; spit everywhere; wha,eser doing,
or wherever gong? And yet, why not
| the girls and women, as well as men2
They work as hard men; and, espe-
cially in agricultural districts, great
many more hours than men-more in
the morning, more at night Ne ny fam
lilies would be ruined financially, did it
cost all the won Ell IN them as much Tor
tobacco as it does the men. Two men
know, and President Grant is not one of
them, whose annual tobacco bill would
feed and clothe my mily; and l do not
believe our neighbors ever thought we
should perish by hunger or cold One of
these men is ten years younger THAI /,
the other thirty years younger; and yet
l can easily outdo them in walking or
work. The younger told me his tobacco
cost him three hundred dollars year
? id / know the other with his two sons,
No ist e-.pend more than double that
amount; and at only ffty-five has the
look, the step, the speech, the whole ex-
-,in end int. nal appears nee of one
thr2e-sco-e e and ten. And one of the
oldest and most eminent lady physicians
in America told me that husbands little
knew how they were poisoning their
wives, too, by the habit; and in ways OF
) which they little dream, besides trans
mitting its deadly effects 70 their poster
} ity TO the third and fourth generation.
A predestination more dreadful than that
OF John Calvin or John Calvin's God
Not only does no mortal ever need to-
bacco, but it vitiates the taste and diges-
} ton of all who use it; weakens the whole
: moral nature, and the power to resist
: temptation; induces listlessness of mind
5 and body both, and renders the liability
} to drunkenness a thousand times greater
! than it would be without it.
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THE ELECTIONS.

The elections last week resulted in an
overwhelming Democratic victory Even
Massachusetts, elected a Democratic Gov
ernor, and defeated Gen. Butler for Con-
gress The Democrats will have ma
jority in the next House of Representa-
tives of from fifty to seventy. We ex-
claim in the classic language of our
friend at Monroe Furnace: my Lordel
Is the worlde comm to a ende ?"
We are much in the same fix as was
Abner Dean, as described by Bret Harte:
"Then Abner Dean, of Angell's, laised point
of order, when
A piece of old red sandstone struck him in the
abdomen.
He smiled a sort of sickly smile, and curled up
ON the floor,
And the subsequent proceedings interested him
mOre,o
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A short time ago the President of the
City Council of Iron5on got on big
drunk, and was arrested and fined for
intoxication, and also for fast driving.
He was sent to Jail until he got sober.
His name is T. A. Potter
We do not do things that way in Jack
son. On the night of the election one of
the Village Council was so drunk that he
could not stand still, and made the
streets hideous cursing "niggers," He
was not arrested.
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THANKSGIVING.

President Grant has issued a proclama-
tion appointing day of national thanks
giving. We do not know what in the
world President Grant or the American
people can conjure up for which they
can give thanks. If the President will
issue proclamation for a day of humili-
alton, fasting and prayer, we will cover
ourselves with sackcloth and ashes and
join in. But no thanksgiving for us,
since the elections.
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A lawyer named Bradbury insulted
witness in court at Pomeroy The wit
ness resented the insult, when Bradbury
threw an inkstand and tumbler at wit
ness, and then rushed upon him Our
opinion is that this man Bradbury is a
bully and a coward, and we trust he
may yet meet the right witness, one who
will meet him half way. Bradbury was
fined by Judge Plants fifty dollars. He
ought to have been sent 10 Jail.
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William Cullen Bryant, the great
American poet, was eighty years old on
the Sd day of this month He wrote
'Thanatopsis, found in McGufey' Sixth
Reader, when he was only nineteen, or
sixty-one years ago. Mr.. Bryant has
been an editor nearly fifty years, and is
still chief editor of the N. Y Eveaing
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We propose never again 10 club with
any paper or magazine. Last winter we
had an arrangement to club with Wood s
Household Magazine, and several parties
paid US, and sent for it, but now some of
them inform US that they only received
few numbers, and have not seen it
since last spring. We will sent the STAN
DARD eight months to all those who have
paid Us dollar for the Magazine But
this is the last time we will be caught in
this ruau
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The goodly city of Cincinnati last week
enjoyed the personal liberty of having
one of her Democratic Police Commits
sioners arrested for drunkenness. The
arresting officer was also a Democrat, and
he had recently been arrested for being
drunk and shooting recklessly, by which
a little girl was mortally wounded.
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The Middleport Nesos says there ale
children in that place who cannot attend
school because they have no shoes, and
1t calls upon the charitable to look into
the matter. We would suggest that
while investigating this matter, it be as
certained how much the fathers of these
barefooted children spend every year for
tobacco, how much for whisky, how
much for beer, and how many days they
lose in the SALOONS" and gambling hells.
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D. Eoscnee,s Ce,m.n s,,.,,

Coz. n no more! How much jov "a. ) "a
evesy ho1se 3o.G o i,now that tdey >@n al lea, !.
plotS. e a remcfs 20 - c sc OF cocghs, sew; e
cold Sc, ole1 On )e breast, consump.io N, or
any disease OF he h 'oat and lungs thai is eel
tain to cpie. III a at isf9c ion 10 h DOW that a
peI-on is safe fiom me dangers of those dis
eaSeS-all you need 10 do, is 20 go to you drug
9ist in Jackson G. IL, Oa.eg and get bottle of
Boschee's German Syrup. Two or l.lree doses
will relieve you at once. If you doubt what
we say in print, get sample bottle for 10 cents
and v it, or a tesalar siae ioi Is cents.
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Archibald Mayo, Prosecuting Attor-
ney of Ross County, resigned last week
Mr.. Mayo was candidate for reelection,
but he was defeated by Mr.. Evans, Re-
publican. The Judge appointed Mr.. Ev-
ans to fill out. Mr.. Mayo's unexpired