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The enquirer southerner., 1874-08-07
ALMOST sER1ous.-At the last meeting

ALMOST SEEIous,-At the last meeting
at Town Creek violent storm arose, and
as Mr.. Henry Crenshaw and friend from
Tarboro reached the grove, q dead limb
about feet long and six in diameter fell
from very tall tree near enough to them
to cause the latter to be shocked by the
conclusion.
The enquirer southerner., 1874-08-07

For the best stock of City made Ladies ,
Misses and Children's Shoes, you will find
at Mrs Feldenheimer's.
The enquirer southerner., 1874-08-07

Marc Erwin, the leading Radical
of the extreme West, is out in
three-column card published in the
Asheville Expositor, giving reasons
why he supports Gen. Vance for
Congress He endorses Vance as "a
faithful, diligent, impartial and just
representative of the whole people of
his District"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10
ALL.s WE'LL THAT ENDS WE'LL.


Truth sometimes meets fiction face
to taco. A loRg and well told story
in one of our most popular magazines
has for lis plot just this little incident,
which is epitonized by the st. Louis
Republican.
"fwo old farmers metin court year
after year, term after term they paid
their surplus earnings to lawyers, aud
their dispute was never settled. 1t
involved a strip of about ten feet OF
ground, which had been used as a lane
between their farms. 1t was now
Abandoned as a road, and each claim
ed it,. Surveys were contradictory,
and the courts could not decide which
was the rightlul owner. One day
lately one of the farmers missed his
daughter Emma, aud the same day the
other missed his son John. They
were gone, and the Inference was that
they had gone together, and neither
in sorrow nor in anger. In a few
days the 1ather OF the girl went to
town TO attend to the eternal court
business, and taking up newspaper
in his lawyers Office, he read his daugh-
ters marriage TO his enemy son. He
dropped the paper and thought. Tell
thing in regard to the suit that day, he
went home. thinking as he went,--
When be got home he acted. He went
to the house of his enemy, who was
i'll, and had not been out OF doors
since the disappearance of his son.
At first the farmers stood face to face
in profound silence. At length EN-
mas father said to the other, II have
come to settle the dispute. Let the
children have the field on either side
of the lane, and will build them
house." s'And I will furnish it, re-
turned the other, and the old men
shook hands. The farmers have dis
missed their lawyers, the childred re-
turned home, and the house is build
ing near the long disputed line fence.
All will faithfully fulfill the contract,
and three families will live in harmo-
ny where two did nothing but quar-
rel. John and Emma have told how
they got acquainted, and loved, and
feared, and ran away to be at peace"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10
now TO KEEP WARM.


One way to keep warm, is to drink
freely of hot drinks; to keep the pores
OF the skin closed to eat more than
can, be digested; /; to sit over a hot-air
furnace ITO lace tightIys wear tight
ga9ters, tight shoes, tight gloves, aud
bundle up with. .sheapsn of warm
clothing; wear muffiers around the
neck, and avoid breath of cool fresh
air; take wine or bitters before meals,
and pills to aid digestion after. eating
Do this daily, a few months or more,
and you will be as tender as tropical
house plant, ahd will take 'stlreadiul
colds" on the slightest exposure. Hot
drinks gust before going out are es-
peciallv favorable to induce chills
and this is about the way many are
now trying.to cheat nature and to
prolong miserable existence.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10
4 New horse Disease.

The Akron Beacon gives the fol-
lowing particulars of the frightful
disease which has broken out among
the horses of that city and vicinity,
which, that paper says, has been more
fatal in its results than that which
was experienced by the epizootie OF
two years ago. The Beacon says:
"About The first of September last
several cases were reported by DIR.
Collins, Veterinary Surgeon. Since
that time the scourge has prevailed
more or less, the recent cold snap ag-
gravating the complaint and necessi-
tatiDg the best care aud treatment.
The SYMPTOMS
vary in all of the cases. A staggering
gait and loss of appetite seems to be
the most prominent aud prevalent, ac-
companied with violent. cough and
fever. Post mortem examinations
have shown that the lungs were par
ticnlarly affected, these being black
and rotten. 4 great deal of infiama-
ton was noticed about the case of the
heart, and the condition of the liver
evidenced a great deal of bile III the
OiOOus HC was
also highly inAamed, in fact, shatter-
ed state of the system was mani
tested.
THE Loss OF APPETITE,
DR.. Collins contends, is the first dread
ed note of the disease, for as the ami
NAL refuses to take nourishment and
drink it is most impossible. in many
cases. to effect cure. The fatal cases
thus far have had run of eight days,
aud as the weather grows colder the
fatality increases. After careful e1-
animation the Doctor pronounced the
disease a violent type of putrid con-
gestive fever.
ABOUT sEvENTY-FIVE CASES
have been treated in this city and vi
cinity, and it is estimated that from.
twenty to twenty-five have been fatal
among them some very valuable ami
mails. We paid a visit this morning
to the barn where DR.. Collins has sew
eral cases under treatment, and the
appearance OF the poor brutes they
stood there blanketed and apparently
struggling with the disease, prompted
all the sympathy that could be given.
The eyes of these animals evidenced
high fever, the Doctor said, and it will
require the best of treatment to save
them.
The experience of the last few
weeks, in the way of management of.
the disease will be great advantage
in future cases. ana as sometimes own
ers of horses have slie ted the COM
plaint, thinking that it was only a tri-
fling cold or something of that nature,
it would be well enough, when the
first unfavorable symptoms occur, to
give the case that immediate and care
full attention which the occasion de-
mands.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10
PEARLS.

Use time as though you knew the
value.
Value good conscience more than
praise. AaaNA G' SNaN
Humility is the fairest and sweetest
flower that groweth in the mind. h
Criticism is not religion, and by no
process can it be substituted for it.
A single burst is worth whole sea-
son iRll of cries and melancholy. 81
To be great man it is necessary to
turn 10 account all opportunities.
You have not fulfilled every duty
unless you have fulfilled that OF being
pleasant.
Live as long as you may, the first
twenty years are the longest half of
your life.
Miss not the occasion, by the fore
lock take subtle power, the never halt
ing power. aalHtlaS 0i
Let friendship creep but geptly.to a
height. It it rush TO it, it viii soon
run itself out ot breath.
Pru dent men lock up theit' motives
letting famiiiars have aakey toitheir
hearts as to their gardens agadvf 81
The tallest trees are most in the
power of the winds, and the ambitious
men of the blasts of fortune. hAa rl0
Our thoughts are epoehs in our
lives. All else is but a Journal Of tho
winds, that blow whilo we are hero.
Fame is yapor; popularity an ac-
cideDt; riches take wings; the only
certainty is oblivion. a1t s9ea ea %
SANDER whose edge is sharper than
q sword, whose tongue out venems all
the worms of the Nile,
Providence has hidden q charm in
difficult undertakings, which is appre-
lated only by those who dare 10
grapple with them.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10
won1AS,s SPHERE.


o what. we pray. is wondrous woman's sphere
'Tis queer
That. ammo mundi the six-thousanth year
Should fall such question on human earl
We know somewhat of primal mother Eve.--
s. f And grieve
That Satan did the Fairest One deceive,
AID wicked web for all her children weave. r
How thus man sinned, and fell iron, hi gh estate,
F lis late
To -wrestle now. in endless. vain debate,
The tangled problem to elueitiate.
Lifted by her.-the gentle. pure, and wise
He'll rise:
Midst happier scenes, meath lovelier skies.
To better bliss than lost in Paradise. i.
Though thence for her there was no room
-lI tEr o Nor bloom.
In that green garden .o,er the world-wide gloom
snone Loves bright star. her pathway to ilIume
If still 'tis asked, What dear woman's spherei
'Fis clear:
To tell the tars. or smile away tear. -.
AMI stir mankind with holy hope and cheer;
To heal heart-wounds withLove's benignant
Jan To calm
Earth's discOrds to an Heavenly Psalm,
And prove the Angel in life's stem programme.
'ris not to span the ocean with a cable.
She's able;
Nor build a ship, or Pyramids so stable
But to reign queen DER her home-hearth and ia
blei
'Tis not. sweet sister. not to preach or vote,
Or float,
Lifelong, on laughing sea- in swan-drawd boat
Midst fov.rv isles of bird enchanted note.
Behold a MAN Thank God for some to show.
r..-. .-,-e We know.
That with celestial fires are all aglow,
On this grand globe eclipsed by mortal woe.
From more than mighty seraph-hand. afiame.
They came,
Nodded by Motherhood. .--loftiest name =
IT, glorious. god-like. and immortal framel
J.N.K
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10

You've man, you may feel supe-
riority to the whole human race, as
you, stand at the altar with your fair
young bride. You would not change
places with the President. Yet few
short years, q few whiskings OF broom
handles, All untimely stoppage or two
Of waited Hat-irons, and your weary
body will rest under the swaying will
low, while some young gallant will
bring your late afflicted partner out TO
the cemetery on calm sabbath evenings
aud whisper love in her ear, as togeih-
er they strew peanut shells over your
grave. "Oh, why should the spirit OF
mortal be proud ?"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10
A NATURAL ARFEsIAN WELL IN AN
OPEN PRAIRIE,

OPEN P1SAl R1E,
Three miles southwest of New Can
ton, in this county, one of the most
wonderful sights ever witnessed can
be seen. On the land of Shaw and
Rupert, known as the northwest quar-
ter of section 20, of township 6, south,
5 west. is found what has been known
for years rs the Salt Spring. This
spring rises out of level prairie, and
a few weeks sinco the locality gave no
indications that you were approach
ing one of the greatest wonders of
this country. The spot has long been
the resort of wild game and domestic
animals, who came to drink lis saline
waters, which never go dry or freeze.
winter and summer. A few weeks
ago the proprietors, who had long
conceived that there WAS some unde-
VeIoped secret connected with the
spring, sunk All iron pipe, some forty
feet from the mouth of it, and imme-
diately it began to throw out from the
upper edge of the pipe to the height
of twenty-three feet. 1t has remained
for few days, attracting large num-
bers of visitors, who came TO see and
wonder. Some days after six more
pipes, of the diameter of an inch and
a half, were driven into the spring
the longest pipe about forty-five feet
and such q cascade of water was
never seen before on level prairie.
Some of the pipes have covers perfo-
rated with small holes, and the jets OF
water thrown from these, form in the
sunshine, beautiful rainbows, For
ten feet or more in every direction,
and fifteen or twenty feet high, the
white spray arises, glitters and show
ers around. forming pool thirty feet
in diameter, clear, limpld and cool.
In clear day the column of water
can be seen for miles, and on cloudy
drizzling day over two miles.--PittS
field, (I3.lOld Flag.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10

If the heat which human being
gives off in twenty-fonr hours, could,
consistently with life, be retained in
the body, its temperature would, at
the end of that time, have reached l85
degrees Fahrenheit, temperature
above the coagulation of albumen, aud
high enough to cook the tissues.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10

AN aged baekwoedsman was re-
proved by the clergyman for allowing
his sons to go hunting on the Sabbath.
you ought TO bring up your children
in the fear of the Lord, said the min :
lister. Fear of the Lord p said the old
man. IS jiss what have done. Don't
one o. them boys dare g'wout doors
Sunday 'thout double-barrel gum
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10

s'Now, John, drive slow and keerful,
aud don't run over any insurance
agency" was Win county Changers
advice to his son the other day, in
starting him to town with a load of
wheat. -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10

THE most amusing man in the world
is a Frenchman in passion. "By gar,
you call my wife woman three sever
al times once more, and will call de
vatchhouse and blow your brains like
candle, by damr' fs.ss- --
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10

happy expedient of getting rid of the
rheumatism. He crowded it down TO
his two fingers and then had them
amputated. 'iIa.a , sHsflj
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10

A GENTLEMAN said to his gardener
'.George, the time will come when
man will be able to carry the manure
for an acre of land in one o his waist
coat pockets" To which the garden
er replied: 81 believe it sir; but he
will be able to carry all the crop in
the other pocket"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10

CHEsTNUTs should always be cooked
before eating, as they are more healthy
besides cooking imparts an improved
flavor to the worm, and stops its
wriggling.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10

An exchange calls the Beecher-Til-
ton business "the great social hydra.Y
This must be because it has furnished
the newspapers with so many ''heads.iY Z
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10

A ST.. LoUTs clergyman, getting exs
cited in his sermon, burst out with the
exclamation cit is no use mincemeat-
ing matters" He had been eating
hash-ish. Hi iis's!
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10

A RECENT decisionof the New York
Court of Appeals subjects State banks
to the same forfeiture as individuals
for the violation of the Qsury laws,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10

INTELLECT without Judgment is
hat ails about one half the smart
people in this world,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10
RAvgMnA wATER cure.

q. w ST RoNGz M d.,
tLate OF Water Cure OF CIcgeland,1
2 r Q 2 r. Z II II O r.
Location observation-disclosures moderate Sehd tor
circular giving full details.
AprilG, 1911, 130-1y
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-10
Ala BARGAIN

A HOUSE, AND THREE TOWN LOTS,
IA 60xlSO feet each The house contains base
meht 8 large bedrooms. parlOr. sitting room.
dining-room, Kitchen. sEood-Shed. pantry. clos
ets,scuplozFds, arse-elassa ar well and els
tern The honse is in. good repair, ahd the
ROOMS are al large and pleasant. The lot
is newly fenced, has large quantity of fruit,
and excellent garden.
or 8. r. FREEMAN.
Ravenna, March IL, 1874. u
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-07-25
TILTON VS. BEECHER.

The recent developments IN the Beecher
Triton scandal has carried anguish a. the
homes uf hundreds Of thousands gratii-
cation 20 none but the ghouls- who, hyena-
like, obtain their subsistence BY unearth-
ing the putrid corpses which should forever
remain hidden from public gaze No mai,
no true man, will gloat over the downfall
IF Henry Ward Beecher, the whllom idol
Of the religious world. Any grunt Of sat
isfaction betokens a morally corrupt nature,
a disposition which would rather pull All
that would rather revel in the tortures Of
the damned that rejoice in the happiness
If tie redeemed
But while we feel thus TO those whose
instincts and feelings are essentially NAL
We have no crocodile tears to shed for any
Of the actors IN the scene. MIR. Beecher,
when he seduced (if he did seduce) the
wife of his friend, played the part of a
villain, cold blooded and remorseless, and
showed himself to be libertine and con
summate hypOcrite. Msr. Tilton cock and
bull story is altogether unworthy of ere
dence. The maudhn sympathy expressed
for her is the sheerest bosh No man can
deceive a married woman unless she is
willing to be deceived. The religious
prior dodge is too thin. She knew Henry
Ward Beecher, or any other Beecher, had
NO right to lay hand on her, as the wife Of
Hlton, and no pettifoging will make sensi-
bic men believe to the contrary. But the
dirtiest dog Of all is Tilton himself a man
who confessedly condoned an offense that
admitted of no condonement, forgave
and apparently forgot all who had no
compunctions as far as the world knew, in
doing SO; and who, four years after the
otfense alleged was committed, washes his
dirty linen before the public gaze to sus-
tain his veracity and vindicate his honor(i y
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-07-25

TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR.
CHIPPEWA Falls, July n, 1874.


CHIPPEWA Falls, July n, 1874.
To the Editor q the woskrss.AS's ASsccATE
That which most hurts our workIngInen
Il that when any injury, villainy - outrage
il perpetrated upon them these fellows are
silent and fear "a spcah out. They are
afraid Of their taskmast,rs, anil these very
taskmasters, knowing this T. b. the case,
act with perfect IMMUNITY Such case
has Just been related to me- by
AN nYE-wITNESs.
and which goes 70 prove THAI . man with
out money ~ consldered something less
than brute by the Union laundering
Company, 81 Chippewa Falls. Ia the est
nation Of this company the life ~ work
ingman is of no ,s.lne, AS the circumstances
attending the
DEATH or FRANCIS w. ABkAM
will go to show. Abram was put at ~ork
on I'D enger anger. with tao boys, be
tween the ages Of ten ana twelve years, to
haul away the lumber tine anger is
placed between every IT," gang Nails, and
one man must anger all the lumber that
comes from the two mills, and Ia order b.
DO Il he has to Hork half overtime and
even at this he has a fourth buss over him
to watch him, who is paid - per day,
while the pugerInan rs paid but thirty
cents per day, or store pay, # he wants It,
oftener. TN the 9Th 1T July. about ten
O'Clock, a. the fourth bass " as present,
and the boys NIT beIng able 1" carry the
lumber away from the anger rzpIdly As
was necessary, were fearful ~ the fourth
boss, and while the Angernan Vas rushing
along as usual, one piece ~ lumber went
back ON the saw, striking the augernan
and killing him instantly. One piece Of
lumber went through his body, broke his
hip bone and burnt the mann artery. The
boss dragged the body out upon the floor
and placed another in his place The third
boss dragged the dead body into the wash
house and LAID 1t in a corner until the next
morning. The news spread from one ~
another, until som- friends heard Of II the
next morning, who came and took the body
away and had II buried the next day. The
mills were not closed nor ~as any one al
lowed t. attend the funeral. But had Il
been one Of the b.'sses hu~ different II
would have been The mills would have
been closed and all the men would have
had to attend the funeral. But not s,
with Brother AbrSm. He was
ONLY WAGES LABoEEE,
aged twenty-five years and seven months
a French Canadian, aud hail lived at Thret
Rivers, Canada East
Brother workmen. W. must form
Union for order among ourselves # ",
desire to be men, and have sur children
aspire to the position # frremrn. Let "a
remember what a small mon did last fall
aud resolve t. hrniy unite and protrc
ourselves against all a.sgrs=ssInns-
4 PINE kNor
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-07-25
FROM ILLINOIS.
ANOTHER Wall FROM BRYANT.
RkNANT Inlu Il lRr

BRYANT, July II, 1874.
To the Editor q the v okkIKsnAN's ADVOCATE
In my last endesvored to portray to you
something Of the tyranny and oppression
we are obliged to undergo in this section
of the country. There are men here from
the old country-from England, Scotland
and Wales who have experienced
the ups and downs Of a coal-digger's life
there, and they say it was never worse
than it is here. And lest men from other
places should think Of coming here.
thought would send you few lines to let
you know how things are going On ia this
section, hoping they may meet the eye Of
all or any who contemplate coming this
way. There are about one hundred men
at Bryant, who are averaging about four
or five tons a week, at three and half
cents per bushel. There il about One-third
work for the men that are here 50 any
one can see for himself what we are max
ing.
A few words about the pay in Bryant :
As if it was not bad enough to be ON short
WOtA We Al 70 1AFO OA oAAOhN pays iOH VIC 0aC
now in our third month without receiving
any money from our boss, and We do not
know when we will receive any The pro-
prietor has never been here to tell as any
thing about it, 50 we have to trust to HIS
honesty. Still, we have better show for
our money than the men at Cuba have
The people Of this place believe in the old
saying, "A bird in the hand is worth two
in the bush, and 50 with their money.
They think one months pay in their own
hands is worth two in the bosses.
The company store here is a perfect
| system of fraud. Some of us are com
pletely at its mercy. When the managers
see the men are not working enough to pay
their bills, they will stop their credit, and
what can man do Then when the store
gets all Of the mems money if they com
plain they (the mansgers) say they don't
care for them. A fine way to do business.
There is another thing they do, which,
in my opinion, they are not justified in
doing, that is, they have due bills, and
they take upon themselves to sign the
mems names as they want them. This
call forging man name, and is certainly
punishable by law.
In the days Of southern slavery the mig
gers were allowed some pocket money, but
the miners Of this section get nothing, and
if they complain they are discharged.
1t is also rumored that the proprietor is
allowed ten per cent for collecting the
store bills from the men, all of which, as
= matter of course, is placed ON the price
Of goods sold to the miners. Not satisfied
with the regular store, they have started a
meat shop and charge more for their meats
than any other shop in the place. So YOU
in what deplorable condition the men Of
Bryant are placed. We are indeed sadly
in need Of cooperation. Yours,
A MINER