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The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07
LETTER FRoEd ARCADIA.
ARCADIA. O.. Aug. 4. 1S7

ARCADIA, o., Aug. /, 1871.
EDS. JEFF venture to ask for Il
little space in your columns for a few
items which have picked up here and
there.
The farmers have almost completed
harvesting a most abundant crop, and
the threshing season has now COM
menced. Wheat is yielding excellently; :;
the only complaint, so far as | have
heard, being that it is only one dollar
per bushel; yet most farmers are selling.
The oat and flax crops have not been
threshed, but a good yield is expected; !;
so, also, of corn and potatoes.
The topic of license or no license
seems to be the most exciting one at
this time, and we are glad to note that
the people of the county are taking de-
cided stand against the legalizing of
dram drinking.
The Temperance League of Portage
township had quite an interesting pic
mic, near the Central Church, on the
31st uIt. An address was delivered in
the forenoon by Rev. 4. C. Barnes, for
merly of the McComb Circuit Mr.. b.
is a giant on the temperance cause, and
his remarks were highly instructive and
interesting. Findlay and McComb were
both well represented. A sumptuous
dinner was served, to which all did full
justice.
Rev. p. Biggs preached temperance
sermon here last Sabbath evening, which
did much TO encourage the workers in the
cause.
Mr. Boiler, one of the early settlers of
this vicinity, died last Saturday, aged
siXty-three years.
The Odd-FelIOws dedicated their hall,
at this place, on the 30th ult DeIega-
tiOns of the fraternity were present from
Findlay, FOstOria and McComb, and the
occasion was a very enjoyable one
More anon. Yours etc., ARPEGIo.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07
REElHER L. TLLTNT

We are heartily sorry that the eEt Of
this great scandal has not Yet been
reached. The evidence has not been
important during the past few days.
The whole matter. il seeIu-. hiuge- on
the evidence Of FRANK MOULTON. and
he says that he i ready To testify when
ever be shall bc requested by both Mr.
BEECHER ana Mr. TILTON. He Aa- had
Mr.. TILToN's leave for some time, and
it was reported slat Mr.. BEECHER had
written him "a letter asking him 10 tell
all he knew ia the matter, but MOJLFoN
sav- that tins j. i mistake: that he never
has received d request from Mr. y. ak
ing him 10 tell hat he knows III o."
preini, g, but that he j. ready 10 testify
if requested in writing by both BEECHER
and TELTGE.
Meantime. TTLToN has withdrawn
from all communication with the Com
mittee. on the ground, a. be aIle-c-. a
follows:
First. You are a committee Of Mr.
Beecher's friends, appointed by himself
and expected TO act in his behalf, assist
ed by attorneys employed exclusively
| for his yindication: holding secret ses-
sions inaccessible to the public: having
10 power To compel witnesses; giving no
| opportunity for the opposite side to cross
examine such as voluntarily appear;
| publishing or SuppresSing their testimo-
nv. a. YOU see fit: and, 50 far a my own
l.
save such a. were irrelevant 10 the case.
and emitting TO publish, i'll your imper-
feet and unjust report Of my testimony.
all that was most pertinent to my own
side of the controversy.
Second. The daily papers of Brook
Ign and New York have been artfully
fed, day by day, with crumbs of ficti-
tioUs evidence against my own character.
as if not Mr.. Beecher but | alone were
the man on trial; and though | have
little right, perhaps. to hold your COM
mittee responsible for this daily misrep-
resentation which may come through
the malice of others, Yet the result is
the same to me as if you had deliberate
ly designed it, and that result is this,
namely: Iexpect no justice, either from
your tribunal, since you cannot compel
witnesses to testify, nor from your re-
pOrters since they do not give impartial
reports.
Third. | cannot resist the conviction,
though / mean no oiTense in eXpl eSsing
it, that your committee has come at last
to be as little satisfactory to the public
as to myself, and that your verdict, il
you render one, could not possibly be
based on the full facts. since you have
no power to compel witnesses nor to
verify their testimony by oath nor to
to sift it by crosS-eXaminatiUn.
For these reasons which ought to have
moved he earlier, have ut last instruct
ed my counsel TO proceed at once at his
discretion, to carry my case from your
jurisdiction TO n court of law; and in
view of this instruction from me he has
in turn instructed me TO hold no further
communication with your committee,
except this present letter of courtesy, in
which have the honor To bid you fare
well. In doing which allow me to add
that the respect which | am unable to
entertain for your committee as "A tribu-
nal, cannot help expressing for you,
each and all, as individuals.
Truly yours,
THEODORE TMTON.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07
LOOK AT THIS PICTURE.

We clip the following from the Cleve-
land Leader of recent date. Such men
as Mr.. Powell are being elevated TO of
fees of trust and honor all over the
country, by both parties-nay, more
they are elected by the votes of men
who pretend to be good temperance
men. We know of other constituencies
who are no more desirably represented
than the denizens of the Cleveland Fifth
ward:
Mr.. Tom. Purcell, councilman from
the Fifth ward, got on another bender
yesterday, and, true TO his usual instinct,
made for the nearest policeman and be-
gan Safeguarding him. With great
propriety Sergeant Jones arrested the
brlwiing trustee aud locked him up
Some one afterwards came and gave bail
for his appearance, and the great beacon
light of municipal legislation was dis
charged. He was not in a condition to
appear in Council last night, and as a
consequence the repeal of the Sunday
liquor law had to be postponed. The
repealers need every vote for a ma
jority, and, Purcell being absent, their
game was blocked What a majestic
piece of legislation it must be that hangs
upon the vote of a man like Tom. Pur-
cell. The question is, how long are the
people of the Fifth ward TO be repre-
sented by man who has to be locked
up for drunkenness twice within three
days! How long is the Council going TO
permit such man TO have control of
the gas committee? Is there any limit
of insolent degradation to which coun-
Gilman may not descend without fear of
rebuke from his constituents or aSsoci-
ates iii office!
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07
4 FEARrUL ARRAIGYuENT.

California paper, in a recent issue,
cisco for the acts of the drunken mob
which assaulted and insuIted ladies on
the streets, after the following style:
You cannot deny ii, ,gentIemaniy 1rho5e-
sale liquor sellers. We know that your
poor embruted slave who held his cigar
to Sallie Harris cheek is rufTian of YOUR
manufacture, and acted out YOUR orders
YOUR money paid him for, and YOUR
whisky fitted him for. the cowardly. das-
tardly outrage which YOUR craven chick
en-hearts forbade you to commit in per
son, but which YOUR Internal villany
hired a band of well drilled savages,
drunk of your poison to do for You. If
the poor, degraded dehumaned brute
specimens of YOUR handiwork-YOU
hirelingS in YOUR service. deserved a
months or a years imprisonment for
their brutal defiance of the united man
hood and citizens of America. YOU de-
serve an eternity of infaIuy for insult
ing, prosecuting and brutally aSSaulting
i'll the person of one of their number
every one of the respectable women in
the Republic-YOU assaulted in the per
son of the noble and heroic Sallie Hart.
every virtuous, reputable wife, mother,
sister, and daughter of the land, from
Maine to California. 1t was YOU that
spit upon them-it was YOU, wholesale
liquor sellers, distillers, brewers. and pois-
Oners who cursed theln-it was YOU who
burned your filthy cigars into their
cheeks-it was you who hissed. your
filthy, vile epithets into their unaccus-
toned ears-YOU trampled. jostled,
pushed, and brutally assaulted the Ia
dies at San Jose and Alameda. and what
YOU did to them, YOU did to the whole
womanhood and virtue of America.
YOU called ''HARLOTS" every wife, moth
er, sister, and daughter of the land who
hits her voice against the brothlerv and
deOauchery and rapine with which YOU
are endeavorlng to uprOOt and supplant
the virtue and manhood and woman
hood of the country. YoU-engaged in
the business manufacturing murdererS
thieves, paupers, gamblers. beggiirs. and
harlots-YOU who have filled the Deni-
tentlary and lunatic asylums. and all the
janis OF the coast with the victims of yOur
internal trade, and who have Hooded
tins fair State with hordes of thieves
rutflans, and harlOts-YoU have dared
TO outrage and spit upon virtuous wo-
men-but you forgot that in the act YOU
defied the manhood of the country. and
called every good citizen coward.
We hope and trust every good and
true woman remembers on this 4th of
July, 1874, and henceforth and forever
that she is SPIT UPON, CURSED. ASSAULT
ED, TRAMPLED on, and called '.HAR
LoT' by the associated capital OF refined
scoundrelisln, which represents the
wholesale misunderstanding business of |
California, as we'll as by the saloon inter
est and every poor besotted slave who
votes for licensed murder. robbery. and
the ruin of the State.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07
DRY UP THE FOUNTALNS

Rev. G. b. BoYNTON, of the Vine street
preached a sermon last Sunday against
the expediency of the present movement
against intemperance, and in which he
attempted to justify, in a moral point of
view, the isensing of the liquor traffic
Having satisfied his conscience that the
license question is merely a question of
expediency, he proceeds to lecture the
great mass of temperance workers after
the following style:
SO long as our temperance movement
is directed mainly against the sellers of
liquor it is so far wrongly directed, and
will inevitably fail. 1t is an attempt to
dry up river by dipping it out at its
mouth while all the fountains in the
hills are full and rushing down with a
fresh supply, While there are men ea-
ger to drink, there will be Others equally
anxious to sell. The drinkers are the
fountains; cut these off and the river
will soon be dry.
We have heard credulOus people talk
of water running up hill, but we have
never before heard of a river flowing
back toward its source. Mr.. BoYNToN's
attempt to present the still as the result
instead of the source of intemperance,
is on par with the remainder of his
sermon. We are ready to admit that
while there are men eager to drink there
will be others equally anxious to sell.
So, also, while there are men eager to
gamble there will be others ready to
deal faro and three card monte. Shall
we, therefore, license gambling houses
One of the worst features of the liquor
traffic is the facilities which it furnishes
young men, who are just Sowing their
wild oats" to fasten upon themselves ap-
petites to which they become slaves
This is the immediate effect of the re-
spectacle drinking saloons, and to at
tempt the reclamation of these, while
the agency which produces them is al
lowed TO proceed with its diabolical work
aye, while we even license it to con
tinue-may be truly likened to IAN at
tempt to dry up a river by dipping it out
at its mouth, while all the fountains in
the hills are full and rushing down with
fresh supply" We advise the Reverend
gentleman to re-examine his moral geog-
raphy and remember, in his conclu-
Sions, that no liquid ever naturally runs
up hill
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07
THE INDIANS.

Company /, Third Cavalry, Lieuten
ant King commanding, has been order
ed from Fort Mcpherson to join Gener
alPope's command in Kansas. The OBJ
ject is to protect the Kansas Pacific
Railroad, which is now made unsafe by
rowing bands of hostile Southern In
dams.
Capt. Vessels command has come in
to Fort Steele, after pursuing the In
dams that attacked the Seminole miner
about 90 miles down the Sweetwater
without catching them.
Rawlings, Wyoming, reports that a
party of Is Indians attacked Hatch :
hay party of four men yesterday after
noon at Pine Grove Meadows, and Killed
one man, Swede named Johnson, and
run off three head of loose stock, one
mule and three horses. Johnson body
was brought i'll last evening.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07

THE Indians ON our frontiers have
been somewhat awed by the measures
taken. of late, by the War Department,
but they are still too unruly TO permit
one of their number TO remain in Jail on
a charge of murder. At all events, this Is
the case with the Indians around Fort
Gibson. 4 dispatch Wednesday morning
announces that they broke open the Jail
at that place, released murderer from
imnrisonment. discharged their muskets
in front of the guards and Threatened TO
burn the town if any of their tribe are
aeain arrested. All the ancient valor
of the nroud red man was aroused on
that occasion.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION

COLUMBUS, O.. July 29th, 1874.
IL tie R,qJTsga T9.ers ef Otio:
Your annual State Convention will be
held ~ Columbus, on Wednesday. the
81 day Of September, 1874, for the nom
iEar;on Of candidates for the following
officers. VIZ:
Secretary of State.
Judge Of the Supreme Court.
Commissioner Of Common Schools.
Clerk Of the Supreme Court
Member of the Board Of Public Works.
And the transaction Of such other busi-
ness a. may be necessary.
Tie undersigned Committee RECON-
mend that the meetings in the several
counties for the selection of delegates be
held not later than Saturday, August
22d. 1874
Tie basis of representation i'll the
Convention will be one delegate for
every four hundred votes east for Gen
eral f. T. Noyes for Governor in 1873,
and one additional delegate for any frac-
ton of two hundred votes and upwards
| in each county.
Under this apportionment Hancock
county is entitled TO five delegates.
The Committee respectfully suggest
! the Importance of full delegation from
each county in the Convention.
Tie Importance of hOrOugh local or
| g;,nization can not be too strongly urged
nor can this great auxiliary to final sue,
cess be too early attended to. In this
connection, the Committee would earn
estly recommend that, where county
Committees have not already been Sc,
lected, that at the county Conventions
to select delegates to the State Conven,
ton, the County Central and Executive
Committees be appointed. The names
| of the officers and Members of these
| Committees, with the Post Office ad
dress of each, should be forwarded to
the State Executive Committee at once.
Very respectfully,
CHAs. C. WALCUTT.
Chm State Executive Com.
RODNEY FOOs, Sec'y.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07

The Indiana Democrats, in their plat
form, ask for ''the enactment of such a
license law as shall protect society, and
produce large increase of the school
fund-7 Neither the moral, intellectual
and material prosperity of the people of
Indiana will be enhanced in the least
by any revenue they will derive from
the liquor traffic The dram sellers can
not pay enough to the State to compea-
safe 1t for the harvest of crime and pau
perism it produces
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07

THE Chicago Tribune smiles sweetly
upon the platform of the Illinois Demo
cratic Central Committee and is evident
ly preparing to rest its wandering feet up
on it. if the Convention accepts the work
as its own The Hard Money and Free
Trade planks won its heart. But II the
Illinois Democrats in convention should
refuse to walk in the path chalked out,
and follow the footsteps of their Indiana
brethren on the matter of currency, the
Tribune will have TO go forth once more
a lost and wandering ghost in a political
hOwling wilderness.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07

GLEssNER has only consorted with
one minister of the Gospel since the
late onpleasantness," and that one is
paying the penalty of his friendship by
being one of the figurers III a scandal in
Brookville, Pa, in comparison with
which the Beecher-Tilton ''nest-hiding'
is respectable. We do not wish to be
understood as saying that Glessner is re-
sponsible for the scandal in any way,
but merely wish to show what becomes
of Glessner's style of political preach
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07

THE dignity of labor is well exeInpli-
fed ar the White Mountain. \ Dart
mouth College student who is TO enter
tbe divinity school at Cambridge next
autumn. is now ''head waiter" at one
hotel. and others from the same college
are porters and servants in the Ammon-
usuc Valley. School teachers who do
not think it unladylike to work, behind
the tables of the Twin Mountain House.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07
Was the Corn Corner Profitable.

From the n. Y. Bulletin, Sd.
1t would seem that the Chicago opera
tors have put themselves TO great deal
oftrouble for very small results. Ac-
cordlng to accounts, they may have got
rid of j. .OOO. 900 to l, 500, 900 bushels AT
an advance of 10 10 Is cents; but they
appear TO have on hand five or six mil
lion bushels here and in Europe, with
the prospect of large new crop coming
into market. 1t remains to be seen
whether the losses upon this enormous
holding will be set off by the profits on
what they have sold to the shorts"
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07

THE Lucas county Convention was
held last Tuesday to appoint delegates
to the Congressional Convention. The
Committee appointed to select Congress
sional delegates disagreed, a majority
bringing in list of delegates about one
half of whom were in favor of the NOM
ination of Gen. Sherwood, and the other
half opposed to him. The minority re-
ported a list of delegates, all of whom
were known to oppose Sherwood's NOM
ination. The minority report was adopt-
ed by a vote of sixty-seven to sixty-four.
This gives the entire delegation to Sher
woods opponent. The Sherwood men
are loud in their denunciation of this
trickery; as they claim that, by custom,
each ward was entitled to select its own
delegates. Sherwood's friends still claim
that they can nominate him in spite OF
this defeat, but the chances do not look
fiattering,
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07
TRAINS GOING EAST.

e.. .la.ns iuu daily. -,dit'ssI -, xc-r',T!
'fr~r cJuf.rcr t,s.t us;t.ie az F.,Ili, NJ with
rItIu~ on l.. = & >. ~ - aud .tO.u al
yO.--t r---.- .-.4,. We Z.
At BurgOOn with trains on T. ERy
AT FOsJOria with trains on Baltimore Pitts
buTgh & Chicago Ry.
At Lima with trains on d. NJ. q CHI. & ID
r. X To and from all points South. Also with
trains on p, IT. Wa e. Ry TO and from all
points East and West.
w. H. ANDRWs, Gen. Ticket Agent.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07
WHIT IT MEANS.

License means that the State will. fo
a consideration, grant to the dramselle
the privilege of filling our jaiIs will
criminals, our pOor-houses with pau
pers, and our insane assylums with the
crazed victims of strong drink.
1t mean. the selling by the State, for
a nominal sum, of the privilege to de,
bauch our young men, and drag them
down to drunkards' graves.
1t means the hartering of the happi-
ness of wives for revenue, and the bread
of children for the peace which will
come of a compromise with an evil which
We thereby virtually confess We have
pot the moral courage to face.
Do the people of Ohio wish to place
themselves thus upon the record?
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07

THE address of State Committee OF
Liquor Dealers lays down the following
as their ticket:
First Vote-For the New Constitution
Second Vote-For Minority Represen-
tation. Fourth Vote-For License.
Now let us hear no more of the liquor
dealers opposing license.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07

1T Is stated that Cannon, the Mormon
delegate, will be returned to the Forty
fourth Congress, and the question which
the last Congress labOred so hard not to
settle will rise up in the next to vex
them. The last Congress allowed Can
non to retain his seat in the hope that
the next delegate from Utah would be
one that can be admitted. The result
shows that they would have done wisely
had they settled the question by expell-
ing the polygamous delegate from Utah.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07
TRAINS GOING EAST.
TO PURIFY THE BLOOD,
I.I.,unNE EfheG.ENERALM LMEAIrH

Take one ni HOOFLASD'S PODOPHYLLIS
PILLS every day fora few days, and then fol-
low with Ii % IFLANDS GERMAN BITTFRS.
The ii " u expel all the foul humoTs that
vItla:e the E.pod, product 9 Fever. sick Head
ache, Eackarn-- Nausea. L0athlng of Food,
offensive BIratu, uusightiY ETuptiOns on the
skin ald all those effects arising from un-
healthy impure secr-ttOns- The HOOP
LASDS GERMAN BIrTERS will give tone 10
the stomach. and restore the digestive organs
10 perfecs health. induce the secretion of
healthy fluids for the proper digestion and A.
u .iftiuE OF food tor tine making Of Pure Blood
and nOurishrnment OF the DOdy TO vigorous
i.e-lth. Ihis Is better than all the Sarsaparil-
!as Tor purifying the Blood, for the CO tpOnent
pats have specific action on the diseaseo
gaBs implicated in this condition.
JOHNSTON, HOLLOWAY & Co. ,ProprietOrs,
Philadelphia. sold by all Druggist.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07

THE JEFF. says that Sheriff Henry
did not call for assistance at the time of
the mob. 1t should be careful with its
statements. 1t cost one interested Re
publican so for expressing that opinion.
Courier
We say again that Sheriff HENRY did
not call for assistance at the door of the
Jail, and the Counter dare not say that
he did. 1t can allow irresponsible cor
respondents to make such statements,
but the editors are afraid to come out
squarely and make any such assertions
And we say further that he did not call
for help at any time, and can give as
proof number of the best men in Find
Law.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07

The Republicans of the several townships
arc recommended to meet at their rcspcc-
tive places of holding elections on Mon
day, September I4th, to select dele
gates TO said Convention.
BY order Of Committee.
j. NJ. HUBER, See. o. J. DEWOLFE, Chm.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07

for the purpose of nominating candidates
foI the following county offices, to-wit:
One candjdate f1r Sheriff,
one candidate tor Treasurer.
One oandtdQte .t1r CoutmixsjoHer,
one candiddtc t1r Recorder,
One candidate .Jor Lntirmayy Dircet"r,
and to transact such other business as may
come before it.
The basis of representation in such CON
vention shall be one delegate for every ten
votes east for Gov. Noyes, in 1873, and an
additional delegate for every fraction Of
~ o,rar