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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-10

Gov. ALLEN. since his accession to
Office has pardoned twenty-four peni-
Tertiary convicts.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-10

MICHIGAN, at the recent election,
pclled 10000 votes for woman suf-
frage.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-10
GallipOlis Prices Current.
Corrected aoeekly by d. s. FORD.

For the tceek ending Dec. 8, 1874.
BUYING PRICES FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE
Dealers are paying the following pri-
ces for the various articles named:
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-10

The National debt was decreased
$123,4 dnring November.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-10

AT Morganfeld, Union county,
Kentucky, Tuesday night, two ne
groes were taken from Jail by mask
ed band and hanged.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-10
PUBLIC SALE.

THE subscriber will offer at public
i sale on his premises, situated in
Clay township, Gallia county, Ohio, on
the
9th day of January, 1875,
two horses, one twO-horse covered ex-
press wagon, two cows, three twO-year-
old stears, eight calves, one Buckeye
Reaper and Mower combined, and other
farming implements and household fur
niture too tedious to mention.
TERMs-6 mouths credit on sums over
five dollars, by the purchaser giving
note with approved security, and sums
under five dollars cash on duy of sale.
Sale to commence at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
GRASSON DAVIS.
Dec. 10, 1874.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-10
Wanted'

rAT HOGS at all seasons Of tho year !
also, Turkeys and Chickens;
Feb. Il, 1874.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-10
RETAIL PRICES,

Groceries and other articles retail from
store at the following prices:
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11
Bearing Its Own Dardens.

Hon. Eizur Wright, Of Boston, has an
able article in the Springfield Republican
in favor of such legislation as shall place
the tremendous burdens which flow directly
from tho production, sale and consumption
of intoxicating liquors upon the shoulders
alone of those identified with that interest.
One Of the meanest things connected with the
liquor interest is, that the vast amount of
taxation which it produces, By reason of the
crime and pauperism which it legitimately
creates, is spread equally over the whole
community; whereas those who do not in
any way participate in it ought to be wholly
exempted from the expense Of repairing the
mischief The distilers, importers, dealers
aud drinkers should foot the whole OF the
bills. No matter what the proportion Of
non-participants may be--whethcr it be
nine.tenths or one.tenth of the taxpayers,
they ought to be wholly exempted from
every thing like rum tax. When it comes
to protecting society against rum criminals
of every sort, and feeding and clothing rum
paupers, the rum interest ought to be
ashamed to impose a single cent of tax upon
those who hold the whole business in utter
abomination And the day is fast coming
when this outrageous injustice will not be
, submitted to.
Mr.. Wright closes his article as follows
But can we tax liquor producers and import
ers specially? Perhaps not But we car
double the whole tax, and then by law erenp
r from one haT Of Il every man who will declar,
under the pains and penalties of perjury
that he derives no profit directly or indirectly
from the production, importation or sale o
liquor. II the excess of tax from the unex
empted is not enough to indemnify the state fol
the mischief of the trade, next year we car
treble the rate and exempt from two-thrds e.
5 before. In this way the state can gradually
/ get the burden on to the shoulders where it be
longs and off from the shoulders where it don I
q In the mean time the capital thus taxed will
take good care that the nbiberS shall get sutf
GENTLY taxed on the price Of their liquor to d,
r them all the good that any taxation can
, Wouldn't it be well for the prohibitionsts t
" give the liquor trade the benefit of this sort 0
d taxation till it sees how it likes bearing tn
a whole Of the burdens that inevitably flow blcl
- upon capital from free rum?
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11
Willard FlllmOro.

The telegraph announces the DEATH on
Sunday evening, Of Willard Fillmore, the
last surviving Ez.President Of the United
States with one exception. His death &C.
CURED at his home 10 Buffalo, New York,
and was not unexpected His age was
seventy.four years.
The early life Of Mr.. Fillmore was passed
in extreme poverty. In the year 1921 be
removed to Buffalo, making the journey on
foot Here he was permitted to read in
aw-office for such service as he could render
sweeping the rooms keeping the fires etc.
His scanty pocket money he secured by
teaching school, which, most Of the time,
was two miles from the Office. lie was ad.
nittcd to practice in 1923, purchased few
law books on credit, and began practice in
Aurora, Erie county, where his father re.
sided lie soon acquired local reputa-
ton, and, by the most laborious study, mas.
tered bis profession.
Mr. Fillmore entered political life as an
Ant.M1son--an organization which was
supreme in Western New York from 1927
to 1881 In 1928, and for three successive
terms, he was elected to the Assembly by
that party, where he was distinguished for
his prudence and intelligence He was also
elected to Congress as an Anti-Mason, and
subsequently as a Wing, and in 1913 was
elected Vice President Of the United States,
and on the death Of President Taylor, in
1850, became President.
His career as President can no more be
called n success, than oan that Of any Vice
President who has succeeded to the Presi-
dcncy. Immediately after his accession to
this position be placed himself in aniagon-
ism to the party which had honored him.
lle called around him a new Cabinet, with
Daniel Webster as Secretary Of State, and
very soon revealed his purpose to organize
party for his own Advancement This
was the unfortunate event Of his life
Like Tyler, he failed in his attempt, and
his betrayal of his party and its principles
cstranged from him all the influential
friends of his early aud later political life.
He continued in the office until the close of
his term in 1853 since which time he has
lived in retirement in Bufalo-except
when, in 1856, he was run as the Prcsi-
dental candidate OF the American party, re-
ceiving only the electoral vote Of Maryland.
During his entire career, Mr.. Fillmore
bore an unsullied private character lie
had few Of the elements of the modern politi-
cian and he owed bis promotion rather to
the friendship Of others than to any per
soual efforts of his own. lie had none Of
the magnetic power Of such men as Clay
and Seward, and very few were ever drawn tc
him or held by him from personal sympathy
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11

The Tribune shows that General But
Ter and Frederick A. Sawyer, of Boston,
procured the passage of law authorizing
the appointment of a special agent to assist
in the collection of the revenue; Assistant
Secretary Richardson signed a contract al.
lowing John D. Sanborn fifty per cent. Of
collections so made Secretary Boutwell,
wrote useful letter instructing assessors
and collectors 10 assist Sanborn, whose bu.
siness was ostensibly to assist them, and a
few weeks later was elected Senator from
Massachusetts,; William A. Simmons, SUI
pervisor of internal revenue, made a par,
of the collections on which Sauborn drew
his fifty per cent. dividend from the Treas
ury the whole machinery of the depart
ment was turned over to Sanborn, and hii
profits in a little over year, on collections
hitherto reported, amount to $4,000
When Boutwell,, with Buffers help, became
Senator, Richardson was promoted to b.
Secretary, Sawyer became Assistant Secre
tary, and now Simmons has become collector
Of the port of Boston. And yet the Mas
sachusetts Republicans have no sympath,
for these "poor boys" who have been th
architects of their own fortunes.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11

FIRKs.-The saw mill owned by Charles II.
Green, Of Canaan. was destroyed by fire on
Sunday morning, February %. Insured for
So 900, which fully covers all loss.
Samuel Cinnamon's house at North HYDE
park, was burned Tuesday morning Of last
week Loss about $4,000. Insurance, 5000.
On Friday night, the eth ult., Horace
Banister's dwelling house in Jay, was burned
with all its contents save one bed Insured in
the Vermont Mutual for 5000.
"A fire was discovered in l.. Amadon's
barn, at Bellows Falls, on Monday evening Of
last week. The alarm was quickly given, the
fremen were on hand, and it was soon extin-
guished. The damage is some 5000 or $500.
The origin Of the fire is not known, but the
generally received opinion is, that It was the
work of an incendiary.
About seven O'Clock Tuesday evening of
last week, the house of Patrick Kelley, be-
tween North Fairfax and Buck Hollow, caught
fire from his stove pipe, which ran through the
roof, and was destroyed. Most Of the contents
were saved, except about fifteen bushels Of
corn, twenty-five bushels of oats and seventy
five bushels Of potatoes. The house had been
insured but the policy had expired MIR. KEEL
ley is seventy-fye or eighty years old, a cripple,
and poor, SO that the loss falls heavily upon him,
though it probably did not exceed $1,000.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11
The Transit of Venus.

The passage of the planet Venus across
the suns disc, which will occur on the 9Th
of December, 1874, is an event exciting
great expectancy among astronomers. Our
government has appropriated $4,000 for
the purpose of taking observations at eight
different points, three in the Northern and
Eve in the Southern hemisphere. Great
Britain has provided for expeditions to six
stations, and France and Russia will also
make observations at different points. There
is nothing very surprising in the phenomena
Of this transit--merely round, black dot,
about three-eighths of an inch in diameter,
seen moving across the disc Of the sun near
its northern edge--but it has great import
ance as means Of determining the distance
Of the Earth from the Sum- which is the
fundamental unit of measure for all celestial
spaces. This distance is deduced from the
differences between the paths across the
sun which Venus will be seen to take when
viewed from different points on the Earth.
These transits of Venus occur in pairs,
eight years apart, recurring again after in-
tervals Of one hundred and five aud one
hundred and twenty-five years. The next
transit after that of 1874 will occur in
1882, after which the favorable conjunction
will not occur again until the year 2004
So the astronomers are not to be blamed for
making the most Of present opportunities
From the observations made of the transits
of Venus in l76l and 1859 the distance oil
the Earth from the Sun was reckoned to be
ninety-fve millions OF miles, but observa.
tions since made, based on the movement:
of Mars and Of the Moon, 60 to show that
this estimate is somewhat too large, and
that the Earth is not probably more thar
ninety-two millions Of miles from the sun
By observations of the coming transit it il
hoped to fix the distance definitely within
at most, the trihe Of a half million Of miles
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11

The Temperance Crusade" as it is
popularity called, continues to spread, and
is meeting with varying success. 1t calls
out much criticism from temperance and re-
ligious people many Of whom can't easily
get over their prejudice against praying al
men instead of for them. That it is hav-
ing a good effect, temporarily at least, in
many places cannot be questioned; and
some Of the reported conversions" are
really quite remarkable, 1t has not YET
made much progress in the large cities
though the initiatory steps Of the movement
have been taken in New York and Chi
cago both rich fields for laborers in til,
temperance cause. A preliminary public
meeting has also been held in Worcerter
which excited good degree of enthusiasm
1t is expected that the campaign in the lat
ter place will begin in earncs. next week.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11

The diamond fever 10 South Africa is
rapidly giving way towhat is almost as bad
the gold fever The value of the gold
field lately discovered is still matter Of
great uncertainty, the district having been
little more than scratched" as yet
About eight hundred diggers are now al
work and the gold thus far found is OF Tine
quality, and sells for from eighteen ia
twenty dollars per ounce at the diggings
But it requires stout heart and GOOD
constitution to get to the diggipgs, and with
either Of these one should be able to with
stand all attacks Of gold fever, and escape
the physical difficulties now to be found or
all the roads leading to the new III Dorado
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11
Forty.Thlrd Congress.

TUESDAY, March 3.
In the Senate the financial question, which
was to have been taken up, was laid over, and
sumed no action was taken.
In the House bill was passed to prevent the
determination of fur bearing animals n Alaska.
The bill to regulate commerce among the
States was then taken up. Mr. McCrary spoke
in favor of the bill, and maintained that Con
gress had the necessary power to regulate inter
State commerce. Mr.. Arthur followed in a
speech opposing the bill.
"WEDNESDAY, March 4.
In the Senate, after a sharp debate on the
point Of precedence between the centennial and
Louisiana bills, the latter was taken up, and
debated by Mr.. Carpenter, who maintains the
right of the federal government to interfere
and put down the Kellogg government No
vote was taken. The liquor bill was further
considered
In the House, memorial was presented from
New York bankers against the imitation of the
currency. The interstate commerce bill was
further considered, Mr.. Arthur, Of Kentucky
finishing his speech against it. An evening
session, devoted to the revision Of the statutes,
was held.
THURSDAY, March g.
In the Senate the consideration of the cen
tennial bill was resumed, and the debate con-
tinued until adjournment.
In the House the vote on the ranking Dfll
was reconsidered. After several motions had
been acted upon the bill was rejected, one hun
dred and eleven to one hundred and twenty
The legislative appropriation bill was Their
taken up and Mr.. Garfield addressed the
House in its support.
FRIDAY, March G.
In the Senate Mr.. Thurman introduced bill
appropriating $4,000 to pay the expenses o.
the District Investigating Committee 1t wa,
referred to the Appropriations Committee
Mr.. Ramsey called up his resolution in regarC
to cheap transportation, and addressed thu
Senate thereon. At the expiration of tn,
morning hour, the centennial bill was taker
up and discussed the bill was amended ant
referred to the Committee on Appropriations
The liquor commission bill was then taken vi
NJ" paSocu1 tNohtJ OLA W tNtuty-One. In
consideration of the currency equalization bill
was resumed, and then the Senate went into ex
ecutivc session and soon after adjourned til
Monday.
In the House a number of private bills wer
passed, and the House adjourned till evening
The evening session was devoted to debate OF
the transportation question.
SATURDAY, March :.
In the House Mr.. Wood addressed that body
severely criticlsing the administration Messrs
Beck, Kelley, and Burchard, all members q
Ways and Means Committee, also spoke on tn
financial questions, and criticised the recen
, speeches OF Messrs Dawes and Garfield. Jack
J son ), Schultz made an argument before til
Ways and Means Committee favoring the 7,
peal or modification of the moiety law.
MONDAY, March 0.
The House and Senate both adjourned Il
honor Of the memory of Ex.president Fillmore
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11

-Euglani not having yet brought us
down on our marrow bones to her in the lee.
ture field, is now preparing to send US an.
other lecturer, who is announced to be the
very greatest platform orator they have
This very great gun has been thus far held
in reserve, and is now to be brought into
action. Pretty soon it will be our turn to
send.a dozen or SO of our average lecturers to
England, just to let them see what can be
done with their old language.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11

Before the adjournment Of Congress,
it is to be hoped the uninitiated may see the
end of the moiety business, and just ex.
position of the parts played by John d,
Sanboru and his coufederates. The Sanboru
contract, 1t is stated, covered thirty hun
bred cases, with total of $4,000, 900
OF this amount s427,000 have been col
lected, of which Sanborn aud his confoder
ates received s2l3,500. 1t was an adroi
scheme, beyond doubt, for enriching few
poor boys" at the expense Of the people
Of the United States.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11

The connection between the religion:
revivals and the temperance revivals is OBJ
vious, aud is too instructive to be disre
garded. But this also is noticeable, thai
in great number of places the spriritua
reviving not only dispOses the people to pray
for and plead with liquor dealers and liquol
drinkers, but it gives uuwonted force to tn,
conviction that the existing laws ought t.
be obeyed, and can be enforced. The sens,
of what constitutes good citizenship, in th
matter of legal dealing with liquor selling
will bear good deal of toniug up.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11

South Carolina is in bad way 6nan-
cially. 1t has debt of sl5,0OO,OOO
which is about fifteen per cent. of the as.
sessed valuation Of the state. This is q
worse exhibition than any other state in the
Union can make, but it can be equaled by
hundreds of towns. About $4,000, 0OC
of the debt was created between 1866 and
1870, and it was incurred ia very simple
Misunderstanding the current expenses ts
exceed the income.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11

New Orleans has declared her indie
pendence of Jack Frost, and manufactures
ice on her own hook She has a manufac-
tory which turns out sixty tons per day of
pure crystal ice made out of the muddy
waters of the Mississippi. The water is
first boiled and filtered and distilled before
it goes into the ice machine The heat is
expelled from it until it is frozen by some
chemical process in which ammonia is used,
which, however, does not come in contact
with the water. The ice comes out of the
machine in blocks weighing precisely one
hundred pounds, aud perfectly oblong in
shape. The chief expense of running the
machine is the cost Of the coal and the wear
and tear Of the machinery, and when the
pipes are once charged with ammonia no
further supply is needed. The blocks come
out in tin cases, like loaves of bread, real
zing Pats idea of baking in cold oven,
The ice is sold at the mandatory at Sl5
per ton, which is cheaper than it can be
imported from the North, and the company
expect soon to have the whole New Orleans
market to themselves.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11

"A Frenehman has devised an arrange.
meut by which smoke and cinders can be
kept out Of the windows of cars, thereby
doing away with one Of the most disagree
able incidents Of railway travel. 1t con.
sists in the attachment of pipe to loco.
motive smoke stack, which carries the
smoke to the end Of train Of cars II
the invention be fonnd practicable, each cal
will be supplied with length of pipe, and
when train is made up the pipes will b.
attached to each other. Rubber bumpers
between each length will prevent the sun
dering Of the connection when the train I
going at high speed and the cars are sway
ing. The invention Is being tried on I
New York road.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11

The position of the Spaniards in Cuba
is rapidly getting worse. The recent draft
by the Spanish authorities has renewed the
revolutionary enthusiasm OF the people, and
they are fockiug to the ranks of the iusur.
gents by hundreds. Over three hundred
Cuban volunteers who had been pressed into
the Spanish ranks recently deserted to the
Cuban army, taking with them their Rem.
ington rifles, accouterments and ammuni.
tion, their families fleeing to the mountains
The spaniards are quite demoralized, and
End excuses for not leaving the fortified
towns to attack the Cubans in sight of theil
Notifications.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11
The Postal Service.

The Postmaster General, in response to
a resolution of inquiry, transmitted to
the Senate the following information con-
corning the Railway Postal Service: The
annual cost of the service between Wash
ington and New York is sl47 900, exclu-
sive Of the salaries of clerks and route
agents, which amount to S10l,206. The
compensation demanded by the railway com.
panies, namely, thirteen mills per lineal
foot Of car per mile run, would amount to
$685., SOC, or sl6l, 656 more than they are
now paid under the present system. The
increase demanded by the railroad compa.
mics for their service is sl4l 900 per an.
mum for the present service. The Post.
master.General states that there could be
no increase in the frequency of the service
between New York and Boston, or between
New York and Buffalo and Niagara Falls
all available trains being now made use of
The post offices at all the more important
manufacturing and commercial centres ex
change by direct pouches with each Other
and with the adjacent post Offices at fire.
quent intervals, not depending on the rail
way post office cars. He says it is obyi
ously impracticable to extend this system
of exchange by direct pouches to all pos
Offices in the United States, regardless o
the size. lie proceeds to illustrate the ad
vantages of the railway postal car system
and shows that the cost of pouches an,
locks, etc, the increased cost of transport
ing the mails owing to the extra weight o
the pouches, and the salaries Of the extr,
employees that would be involved in tn
direct pouch exchange system suggested
would moro than equal the total annua
cost Of the present postal car system, an'
without IN any way increasing the existing
mail facilities
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11

--Treachery has delivered the Cuban
leader Cespedes to the vengeance of his en-
emies. A wretched negro prisoner, in order
to save his own life, led the Spanish troops
to the place of concealment of the ex.
President. Unable to escape, Cespedes
faced his pursuers and fell, pistol 10 hand,
riddled with bullets. Such death became
his life, and it can but increase the sym.
patty felt with the Cuban cause. Except
the satisfaction of their vengeance, the
death of Cespedes will bring no advantage
to the Spaniards The instruction does
not rest on the courage or patriotism of any
leader, but draws its strength from the in.
tense hatred of the Cuban people to Span.
ish rule AS iu the case of Agramonte
the death of Cespedes may arouse the Gu.
bans to new efforts for vengeance and bring
new recruits to the insurgent standard.