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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-25
A City That Was To Be.

love to overhaul old letters and
love to read the records of the fathers
which are written in cherished folios,
and have not been given to the world
through printers ink. Not long since
I had access to the diaries and letters OF
one of these fathers, and from them
terested me, though not important.
The father In question had been one OF
the anticipants. He had invested in the
enterprise, and from letters announcing
to him the final result, I gather my in.
formation. Thus it was
Somewhere about the year 1885, q
company of New York gentlemen, most
~ merchants, surveyed the fat land on
the west side of the Potomac, and laid
down the plans for new city. 1t was
very nearly opposite the city of Wash.
iDgtcn, and they meant that it should
be the great commercial city of the
country. On paper it was called Jack
son City, in honor of the old War-horse
then occupying the Presidential chair.
The projectors evidently foresaw that
the energies of the great Yankee nation
must spread but they did not foresee
the opening up of the Western empire.
The main channel of the river passed
nearer to their shore than to the other,
and upon that circumstance they placed
much reliance. 1--WE will have the
produce of the world poured into oul
granaries," wrote an enthusiastic pro.
jector, "and the wealth of nations shall
be ours" They did not seriously con-
/ ci6 hot A
side of the river seven miles lower down
and that Georgetown lay between them
and the interior. They considered only
the bright dream imaged on then
paper.
Jackson City was founded and chris
tened with much pomp and ceremony
The cornerstone of what was to be the
first public edifce was laid by Presi
dent Jackson, and brilliant Grafton
was delivered by g. w. P. GUSTS, in
the presence of a large assemblage o.
people.
The last paper in the fathers budge
touching upon this matter was letter
bearing date June, 1S45, written abou
twelve years after the laying of thi!
cornerstone. The correspondent writes
that not single house has been erected
In Jackson City since its foundation
not street laid out; not a lot improved
On the other hand, the corner stone o.
the city had been sacrilegiously. up
turned and plundered of its deposited
treasures, and the stone itself had beer
carried off into Fairfax county, where
when last heard from, AN old negr,
was pounding hominy in its treasure
cavity. And that was the end of tn,
dream. The coming city is to b,
nearer to the setting of the sun.-Ne,
York Ledger.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-25

ScIoNRY OF A SCIENTIST. Brown
Sequard, the justly celebrated authority
in medical and physiological science, is
half Yankee and half French, as his
hyphenated name indicates. His father
was Capt. Edward Brown, shipmaster
of Philadelphia, and his mother a
Frenchwoman, His birth, however,
occurred in Mauritius, in 1917, and his
chief fame has been attained in France.
where the prize of the Academy of
Sciences has been his no less than five
times.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-25
HulllOr.

THE latest thing in hats-Heads.
A MAN is thinnest when he's a shay
ing.
THE easiest thing to draw is COM
parison.
THE hydrophobia days are come, the
maddest of the year.
If man is worm, is Government
official a red-tapeworm.
HE vllest sinner may return-every-
thing save an umbrella.
Mr.. STOCKING has been and married
Anna Frost. Hose-Anna %
MILLIONS for moieties, remarks Con-
gress, and not or e centennial.
DoCToRs neve allow ducks on their
premises, they make such personal re-
marks.
"Tom, what in the world put matri-
mony in head ?" "Well, the fact is, I
was getting short of shirts"
An Irish editor says he can see no
earthly reason why women should not
be allowed to become medical men.
A MAN who fell into a vat of boiling
lard and got out alive, says that it was
not an unpleasant sensation after the
first moment, but he thought what
mighty queer-shaped doughnut he
would make.
GooD Collins Graves, the milkman, rode,
Before the dams disaster,
And as the torrent onward flowed,
His steed he spurred the faster;
All, surely, these be honest times,
Since checking human slaughter,
man of milk neglects his dimes
To caution men 'gainst water.
THE Dubuque Times is responsible
for this: "Phebe Couzins doesn't
dress like her brothers of the bar"
says the Chicago Tribune of Thursday,
by way of commencing an item. That's
undoubtedly true; she dresses by put
ting her clothes over her head, while
they don't-and what's more, they
can't. But what business is it to the
Tribune, anyhow"
THE Benefit of the Doubt.-Ethel-
And, oh, mamma, do you know as we
were coming along we saw horrid,
horrid woman with red striped shawl
drink something out of a bottle and
then hand it to some men. I'm sure
she was tipsy." Beatrice (who always
looks on the best side of things)-
Perhaps it was only castor oil after
A RED-HIDED cow, with long rope
attached to her horns, and red headed,
red-shirted boy at the end of
the rope, dashed up Main street last
Monday forenoon. If it was not for
dog that darted into the road
and tugged at the boy by the seat of his
pantaloons, that COW might have landed
up at Brewster's with nothing but a
jacket sleeve and finger nail dangling
at the end of that rope.-Danbmy
NesUs.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-25
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farmers, Girls.

Farmers Girls.
Up in the early morning,
Just at the peep of day,
Straining the milk in the dairy,
Turning the cows away
Sweeping the floor in the kitchen,
Making the beds upstairs.
Washing the breakfast dishes,
busting the parlor chairs.
Brushing the crumbs from the pantry,
Hunting for eggs at the barn,
Roasting the meat for dinner,
Spinning the stocking yarn.
Spreading the snow-white linen
Down on the bushes below,
Ransacking every meadow
Where the red strawberries grow.
Starching their cottons for Sunday,
Churning the snowy cream,
Rinsing the pals and strainer,
Down in the running stream,
Feeding the geese and poultry,
Making the buildings and pies,
Jogging the little ones cradle,
Driving away the flies.
Grace in every motion,
Music in every tone,
Beauty of form and feature.
Thousands might cove. 20 own.
Cheeks that rival the roses,
Teeth the whItest of pearls:
One of the country maidens is worth
A score Of your giddy girls.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-25
To CORRESPONDENTS.

All communications for this paper should be &C
companied by the name of the author; not neces :.
sarily for publication, but evidence Of good
iaith on the part OF the writer. Write only one
sue OF the paper Be particularly careful in Civ.
ing names and dates, to have the letters and figures
plain and distinct.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-12-24
Chance to make Money!
+" YoUATT's CONDITION POWDER

manufactured by WILLIAm hoLli'5I"r ,r,r
Stroudsburg. II you have never OsIa :. = ror,
a Package and if it does not oen5I ,,i,r.
stock to the amount of one hundred ~ ~. ,s,
IN your estimation, call at the store '1'
your money refunded. .,,5 ~.
HORSES.-lt will give them ,,, ne
petite, keep their skin loose ana I Es.1,' u 90
coat soft and shining, keeping mem .- u there,
condition with one half the feed, pens
by saving of one-half the money, ,-,,,s r,ili
C0WS.-It makes them give nls,, ;rs rors
with one half the feed, and II lhay pGirrrTTFR,
milk of course you make more ~
and the more butter the more n'oHg5 3. Cate
have so much confidence III w.. ,rs know.
Powder that ! make the above "a. !, l}sinsi
ing well that it will do all 'h"' .
for it. ,-sgEAD
0-Ask to see The Greas @O'-
tidoie.
March 4, l6e9.--tf
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Carriage, Wagon,

and, in fact, everything in his line of bu
siness, at the shortest possible notice, and
on the most reasonable terms.
Carriages repaired, trimmed and paint
ed IN the best style of the art.
Having first, class material always on
hand, and none but frst-elass workmen
engaged, the pubhcare assured that none
but hrst-class work will be turned out at
his shop. ,lf
In connection with his Carriage Shop
he has also Blacksmith Sbop whore
superior workmen will always be found
ready to attend to the orders ofcustomers
The public are invited to call aud ex
anime his stock before purchasing else
where, e VALENTINE KAUTZ.
September 49, lS67.-tf ..-@ Wis
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HOLLINSHEAD'SITCH& &SALTRHEUM OINTMENT

No Family should be without this valuable
medicine, for on the FIRST appearance of the
disorder on the wrists, between the fingers, &C.,
a slight application of the Ointment will cure
it, and prevent its being taken by Others. - {
-Warranted to give satisfaction or money
refunded. 49, ~ $3.50 49,
Prepared and sold, wholesale and reatil, bv
gT'1 7 w. HoLLINSfIEAD, Druggist.
Oct 13,'67-tf
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of various kinds, and having on exPeriancc
of over Thirty years, in designing, and
building machinery for special purposes,
feel warranted in guaranteeing the best OF
work. Have on hand, anG building,
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0- Ask to see The Gfea
hdoie.
March 4, l6e9.-tf.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-06-20
OREGON.

Oregon had a state election last week, 0he
fight being triangular one between the
democrats, republicans and independents
the latter q sort Of guerilla organization max
ing war on the other two. The democrats
elected their man Grover Governor 10y about
1000 majority, and carried 0 senators to the
republicans II and the independents 2; and
elected % members of the house TO the repub-
llcans 10 and independents II, The demo-
Gratis also elected Nj Geo. A. La Dow to
congress, though the fight was supposed to
lie between the republican and independent
candidate, both of whom made a hot canvass
while La Dow did nothing. For month
before the election It was believed La Dow
stood three chances of being struck by light
ming to one to being sent to congress.
AThe Salem Statesman Republican organ,)
in its issue of June 7, says:
The election of La Dow will be surprise
to that gentleman, and may throw him into
another fit of wretched illness. 1t is stated,
as q fact, that he failed to canvass tor the
double reason that he was afraid of the ordeal
of the stump, and that he couldn't see how he
was to stand the expense. why" said he to
friend, II went to Pendleton and made q
speech thar, and it cost $10 IF | shud go
down thar TO the Willamette and go to speech
| ifyin', it nd probably cost me hundred an
| fifty dollars" La Dow will never see how
he is to pay the expense of going to Washing
ton, and doubtless wishes the democracy
hadn't went and gone and done it.
Yet the lie Seur (Minnlsota) Sentinel says:
George A La Dow recently elected to CON
gress in Oregon, was member OF the house
IN the Minnesota Legislature Of 1868 from
Waseca county. He was very jolly, social
man, of some ability, but too lazy to become
known.
1t is to be borne in mind that two years
ago the republicans carried Oregon by 200
majority, and sent Nipple Mitchell to the l.
is Senate
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-06-20
INDIANA REPUBLICANS.

While the republicans Of Illinois had a sor-
ry sweat on Wednesday to decide whether
they should stick 10 Grant CT 90 a-sailing
with Logan, Morton and Oglesby in the nfla.
ton balloon; and while Logan, though on the
ground and working with his coat off and
sleeves rolled up, saved his own neck by a
meager majority of less than Is votes in 600
their brethren in Indiana did then work UP
with no such groanings or coanpunctons
Their convention was attended by nearly 1906
delegates, and they adopted the robbcr plat
form of imitation with unanimity that mus
make Morton feel as comfortable as the chiei
of II band of pirates with rich argosy in
tow. The following is the indiana republi.
publican resolution:
1--WE aie in favor OF slch Legislation on the
question of finances AS shall make national
banking free, and shall furnish the country
with such an additional amount of currency
as may be necessary to meet the wants CT the
agricultural, industrial, and commercial IN.
teress of the country, 10 be distributed be.
tween the sections according 10 population
and such as is consistent with the credit and
honor of the nation, and will avoid the posi-
bility of permitting capitalists ana eombina
tons of capital from controlling the currency
OF the country"
| The meaning Of this resolution is free
banking" but the banks shall be So distrbui
Ell over the country that each state or county
shall have banking capital and circulation
according to population. As La Sale oaun
ty has already some four or five banks bank
| ing Is not free" to her until all other ,co,ln
ties in the country have as much barking
capital in proportion TO population as she
has. Then the banking capital and currency
awarded 10 La Sale and every other count,
must stay there; must not be sent to Chicags
or New York, Tor instance, To be drawn upou
in checks or exchange TO enable local mer
chant 10 pay for their goods. That would
destroy this equitable distribution according
, to population in day, and at once place il
in the power of the eastern capitalists to con
troll the currency of the country the very
possibility" of whiek congress must guard
against,
/ And so on. Is there any limit to the con
. iradictions and absurdties into which thi,
>, innalion madness runs?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-06-20
DIR. do LEWIS ON PROHIBITION,

DR.. bio Lewis if not the originator, was at
least chief promoter of the recent woman's
temperance movement, and whatever else
may be said of him, no one doubts his earn
cs,ness, sincerity and genuneness as a friend
of temperance When such a man, who has
given his best thoughts and energies to the
subject ventures to give advice, he ought to
be heard respectfully. Our local temperance
crusaders will probably be shocked to learn
that Dr. Lewis has no faith in the success OF
their effort to suppress the liquor traffic by
Withholding licenses and forcibly closing the
saloons He says, in letter to the Cincinna
ii Gazette, Thirty years ago, half dozen
drunkards IN Baltimore made the discovery
that curses were not the medicine to cure
drunkenness" THAT discovery opened and
filled the Washingtonan temperance move
mcnt," and in the next ten years what TEN.
perance sentiment now prevails was develop
ed. "a little more than twenty years ago We
began to legislate against the sale OF intoxi-
eating drinks Since that time the temper,
ance sentiment has re'rograded."
When the women of Ohio last Christmas
again abandoned legal weapons and inaugur,
ated their crusade of love and prayer, the
cause, while conducted solely in that Chris
tian spirit, again succeeded wonderfully. LAS
the elections approached this spring again the
mnia for law making * seized upon the
good temperance woman" sand their pow
er is lost"
DIR. Lewis says he has been in Maine, and
though there is not an open saloon in the
state, "in Bangor alone, a city of not over
II 600 inhabitants, there are three hundred
places where intoxicating drinks are sold;'
and that, as the result Of all the legislation
against tipping in Maine, "the traffic has
only been driven under cover, and there is
not a shadow of doubt that the consumption
of drinks in the state of Maine is enormous
We have not set out with the purpose OF
either endorsing or challenging DR.. Lewis
facts or conclusions or to give them any 10
cal application; only this thought protrude:
itself in this connection, if experience really
does demonstrate the folly of attempting tC
make men temperate on compulsion, woulC
| it not be the part of wisdom for temperance
people to recognize the fact, and direct theil
efforts against drunkenness to advocating TIT
use of drinks that are comparatively harmless
like malt liquors and light wines, which arr
so largely used in countries where drunken
ness is yet comparatively unknown?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-06-20

Treasurer Spinner is said to he famous
sweareT, but he has the happy faculty of
swearing in such way that pious metho-
dist lady was forced to cxclaim on hearing
him, Dear brother Spinner, how much your
swearing sounds like praying" Many cler-
gymen have the same happy faculty. Some
year ago, when Elder Knapp was conducting
revival at Ottawa, we remember hearing one
of our most noted local swearers remark that
he would give anything to be able to swear
like Elder Knapp. The naughty words came
out with heartiness and JUNCTION that no lay.
man can hope to initiate. II was in this way
that brother Proctor, Presbyterian pastor al
Oregon, ogle county, recently wilted Pres
byierian brother who had refused to join the
local temperance league. He went at him
with one ofhis inimitable obligatory prayers,
announcing that his brother was damned not
only from all eternity, but TO al! eternity
A presbytery is 10 be summoned 10 pass upon
the orthodoxy Of this somewhat sweeping
sentence.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-06-20

HE Ottawa Republican, IN ats comments on
'''e finance resolutions ofthe Independent con
ven'lon, written before the action of the re
puoilcan convention on the same subject was
KNOWN puts its foot in nicely 1t says, re
ierring to the ambiguous, twofaced or dodc
ing character of these resolutions, How car
a party which lays It's foundations in decep
ton, double dealing and lodging, expect ,c
prosper" &c. As the republican convention
was, II anything, even more twofaccd AN,
lodging in its declarations IN The samc sub
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-06-20

Fusion among the opposition and confusion
to Republicanism seem to be the order OF
the day. In Kansas last week The Amino
nopolists held convention, at which the
only business done was ct ratity the
action or a previous convention of dem
ocrats and independents, who proposed
call for union of fusion convention of all
The elements of opposition to republicanism
in the state. This call will now be issued
and the convention held. Senator York
seems to be the leader of the movement, ana
if proper ticket is agreed upon, 10 one
doubts but the fusion" will be strong enough
to bring confusion" to republicanlsm in that
state by IA vote of three to one.
In Minnesota similar fusion between the
democrats and "reformers" has taken place,
the Central Committees Of the two parties
having united in a call for one state conven-
tion
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-06-20

We are panied to zee announced in the las
Peru Herald the death on the 18th inst, OF
PATRICK NJ KnpUFF, Of that city Mr.. X
was one of the oldest eesidentsSof the couRiy
having lived at Perr over thirty years, and
was at his death 60 years of age. Some years
ago, before county organization was adopted
he had served most sbly and acceptably as one
of the board Of commissioners OF this coun
ty, and in his own town had not only Away
held the office of Justice of the Peace, bu
filed many other responsible official posi-
tons He was mar of good education, OF
sterling worth. and always held in high es
teen as good citizen.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-06-20

Princeton, H., was excited and
shocked last Saturday morning by a singular
suicide. A young man named Theodore
Rosens,raus, an exemplary young man, "a
years old, native of Alsace, and clerk in a
grocery store in Princeton, was found dead in
his room at the hotel where he boarded, hav.
ing shot himself some time in the night
through the head with pistol. He had been
deeply depressed for some time past on ac-
count of some incGra1le disease with which
he was afflicted.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-06-20

Ths Aurora Beao,a imagines it makes a
pont, en the FREE TRADRR,Ey reminding US
that while we objected TO the appointment of
BristCT as Secretary Of the Tseasury because
he Is an obscure" lawyer, we advocate the
eleciiouscf obscure" farmersto congress in
stead Of Loted lawyers. We made no men
ton Ct obscure" farmers, and the Beacon
interpolates the word on its own gratuitious
assumption that all farmers must necessarily
be obscure Every congressional district In
The state has more or less armersShat are no.
obscure meG by any means, though they
may make hess noise than the preachers or
lawyers. Bris,0w, it turns out, IS LAWYER
though our c5jsction to him would have been
no less on account of his "obscurlty,n had he
been farmer. Giant seems to have mas
sion FOR elevaiing Obscure" men ia HIGH
places, and while in one case in dozer fan,
possibly Brs,ow may be one d these h,ck,
0'Se cases he may make good Int, most q
his appointments Of obscure men here,ofor,
like Borie, Robinson, Cramer &c, have hse
miserable failures. H.-
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-06-20

MONTGOMERY QUEENS CIRcUs.-Thc an
nouncement is made that Montgomery
Queens circus and ,menagerie has broken
Up and suspended for the season; but the
statement in the Chicago papers that Queen
has busted up" on account Of the ''hard
times and scarcity of small change" is not a
fair way to put il: Queen foundhimself in
Minnesota in the midst of the rainy season,
and what with the daily drenchinss and i'm.
passable roads, decided simply tC send the
neuagerie part Of his show back to Chicago,
having made arrangements for thcir keeping
nj Lincoln Park during the summer, while
with his circus be started for California,
where the spring rains being over, lac will be
tree for six months to'8Ome, at least, from
those watery dreneRings with which'the sup.
ply.n Minnesota wss copious enough to dis.
gust him for year or two Instead, Of hav.
ing busted up" Queen has probably taken
the only practicable couEse to avoid such a
Calar ity. .
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-06-20
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly ilines' s3w W.

The Wisconsin Episcopal Diocesan Con
vention on Wednesday ended the squabbl'
over bishop in place of the lamented Bis
hop Armitage by electing the Rev. Edward
R. Welles, D. d., of Red Wing, Minnesota
The new bishop is said TO be q gentleman OF
fine scholarship and great zeal. lie has
been specially active in promoting the mis-
sionary work of the church in Minnesota,
and has accomplished great good. All who
know him speak IN terms of the highest praise
of his ability, industry, and high Christian
character 1t is to be hoped that under his
episcopal care the animositics that have been
engendered during the contest viii be otlit-
Grated, and the diocese become united and
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-06-20

Colfax has hitherto been called the ssmil.
er, because his face is said to be perpeiually
wFeathed in smiles. Though you may kick
him, or drench him with slops, still he
smiles. Bat now the Knox County Democrat
adds TO him the souJrtqaa of Five cent Col.
Tax" and says il was in this way: When
Colfax arrived at Galesburg recently, on hi,
way home from the west, he hurriedly jump
ed off the train and ran into the depot house
and asked for Chicago morning paper. Tn,
clerk politely handed him one from pll,
kept on sale. Colfax smiled blandly, peck
eied the paper, and said my name is Colfax.'
For so great man, the clerk says that wa
The smallest thing he had seen in ffteer
years hotel experience.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-06-20

While the recent Illinois republican coven.
ton, though largely composed of Office hol
ders, lacked the nerve TO endorse President
Grant, it manifested equal cowardice in the
matter of endorsing Logan and Oglesby.
Grant can snap his fingers at them, secure OF
his ultimate yindIcation on the initiation
question, but TO Logan, who came all the way
from Washington 10 attend TO his vindica-
lion in person, ,he cut is whitening u is