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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12
Two LilIiputians Arrived.

Correspondence of the Inter-Ocean.l
KALAMAZOO, MICH January 20.
Last Friday evening the wife of
Mr. ]. b. McCrum living at 5S Par
son street, gave birth 10 a pair of
twins q hoy and girl. The sur
prise of the parents can he imagined
when, on surveying the party, the
nurse held ~ the tiny pair OF infants
in the palm of one of her hands.
They were soon after weighed, and
the aggregate avoirdupois Of the
twins was three pounds and four
ounces, one of the pair weighing one
pound and eight Onces, and the other
weighing one pound and twelve
onces They were less than eight
inches long and perfectly formed.
A bed was made for them which
consisted of minute basket filled
with cotton batting. snd clothing had
to he improvised for the strangers.
that which in expectancy had been
made up proving world too wide
for their limbs Some doubt was
expressed by the physician who at
tended the mother as to whether they
would live, but up to this morning
they are not only alive, but lively,
bright, and wide awake, and claim
place IN this big sphere as well as
their own immediate brothers and
sisters, of which there are several in
the family, grown up.
There have been since Monday q
great many visitors to see the little
children, and the exclamstions of
surprise and the CALCULATIONS of ad-
miration would fill large volume.
Ladies and gentlemen, old and
young, flock to the house where the
children lay Pink and blue ribbons
have been tied about the little arms
of the babes, so as to answer the
question of which is boy and which
is girl. The sensation is likely 10
last some time, though every pre-
caution is taken to preserve the lives
of the little ones. They nurse and
seem to enjoy themselves as well as
could be expected. They are per
fectly formed, and, We understand,
are full-time children. Wrapped in
their little beds they look like dolls
suddenly vivified; their cries are like
those of very young kittens. Mrs.
McCrum has not been in the enjoy
ment Of perfect health for several
months past, but has not, however,
been sick. The parents of the Lii
liputisns make no objections to peo-
ule coming to see them.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12
singular Effects of Ange,

DR.. j. X. Reiner, of Saltwater,
MINI died a few days ago from a
singular cause Some weeks since,
two lumbermen of the St. Croix
quarreled and fought. Before they
were separated, one of them bit the
other in the thumb. The hand NOR
tilted and had to be amputsted
While DIR. Reiner was performing the
operation, drop of poisonous mat
ter lodged in scratch on his own
hand. He became delirious almost
instantly, and died in few days
His fate was the result of that in
innate relation of body and mind
that bottles scientific search. II
corrobOrates the belief that the bite
of an angry man varies in deadliness
with the intensity of his passion
This has been found to be true in the
case or snakes. A cobra, when
,eased, will kill rabbit almost in,
stantly with a single sting. When
it is allowed to grow good natured
by playing with its victim, death
may be delayed for half an hour af-
ter the fatal bite is given. The first
bite of tiger is said to so paralyze
the body that subsequent wounds
are unfelt. The remem mberance OF
this fact will be consolatorv to such
of our readers as may hereafter Cd
to India.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12
Enr the GallinoliS Journal
still IN the Swamp.

Joyce Still IN the Swamp.
Being for the last three weeks in a
certain town in one of our Southern
States where Repuhlicanism seems to
he sadly in the minority. | failed to
get the JOURNAL, and was obliged to
wait patiently until the mail brought
me package from home, which con-
tanned copy of the 18th inst. 1t
came this evening, nearly two weeks
after date, but reveals to me the
fact that my Aunt is still in that
murky swamp; and as | am in an un
usual condescending mood at pres
ent, send back brief and unfatter-
ing response to her last feeble stroke
Aheml You precious old crOne!
You are as capricious as an April
day; first chattering and muttering
maliciously, then babbling foolishly.
next appealing piteously in a sort OF
desperate wall to some disinterested
party for help, and finally when your
pent-up ragei is exhausted-when you
look about and perceive no friendly
hand extended to assist you out you
calmly suhside, and offer me the oft
repeated dose of "sugar-plums, -
which in my opinion is like all the
rest of your confections-rather fiat
and sickening, like half ripe paw
paw.
I still maintain the same position
which | have all the while occupied,
and l am willing for any disinterested
or impartial party to review all have
said, and declare if 1 have made any
false statements concerning Joyce. "
But what's this you say? You can
not understand how the JOURNAL and
myself are one? Really l think you
are growing more stupid every day.
Your dump of obtuseness" must be
fully developed. Yet this is nothing
strange for you, considering your
powers of comprehension were never
at any time very brilliant. Humph!
there might be large book written
out of things you cannot understand,
and as this is question which does
not Immediately concern you, | shall
not take the trouble to explain. Final
ly your last proposition-that OF
'bury:ng the hatchet,' shaking hands,
&c, &c +, is purely Indian, and am
almost fully persuaded that you are
a true lineal descendant of the Modoc
tribe: else why did you carry that
old rusty hatchet concealed in the
folds of that dowdy old cloak of
yours! Bnry the hatchetifyou please,
but as to shaking hands and being
friends, am not quite certain that
YOU ever can be faYorite OF mine.
Our tastes and opinions are too wide
ly different. l have always consid-
cred you one of the most artful, tire
some, hypocritical, irritable relatives
that l have ever been annoyed with
therefore you may remain in the
swamp and wall and mutter and lash
poor old Rattlebones ever so fiercely
while he stands there with half closed
eyes, his teeth chattering and his
bones rattling together, unable to
turn a wheel. Methinks the "delicate
American" constitution of your en-
tire turnout will suffer somewhat 0y
exposure to our chill, damp Northern
atmospBere. MAGGIE MILES.
P. S.-DEAR JORGE: II you have
inst discovered that so much fooiisf
,, babbIing is improbable, why persls
! 80 Nj. NJ.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12
advocates in this vicinity, as doubtless
it has all over the country.

advocates in this vicinity, as doubtless
it has all over the country.
Much praise is due, and much ad
miration expressed for those noble WI
men, who in the strength of our Mas
ter. are laboring to stay the strong tide
of intemperance, which threatens tC
engulf US, and save not only theil
fathers, husbands. sons. brothers and
neighbors, but our loved ones from the
tiendish grasp of the cruel monster
King Alcohol.
And in saying, [ wish them God
speed, | but utter the sentiments oi
scores of grateful hearts. We are in
teresled in the movement, GnriOas for
its success. and would hail with Joy
the dav when the last drinking saiOon.
ROt only IN GuLipOl,s, bit in Calm
county, Was fast closed.
That ii will require earnest. untir
ing, persevering effort-that it will cost
many a struggle, many sacrifice, we
all well know, but we believe that those
who have begun the work will not
cease their efforts until the evil thing
mas been driven rrUm Uur mtJfsv. n n:
who that has seen the misery, wretch
edness and woe, it has caused, who that
has felt but one touch. of its bighting
influence, are not ready to spend their
time and their money, and WELD their
influence in this grand enterprise.
Men who have been long providing
bread for their little ones, and filling
their Golfers by the sale of the poison
GUS stuff will feel that they are sacri
6cing much in quitting their business.
And the rum drinker, how he loves the
cup. aud what self-denial
be must practice. Even the young
man who takes only dram occasion
allv, will miss the hsunts where he met
his jolly friends; but it is the only safe
course: Touch not, taste not, handle
not" But l am forgetting myself. ]
had thought to say but few words.
Success to the Women's Temperance
League. Joyce.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12
CORRESPONDENCE.
For the Gallipolis Journal.
To w, s. III.


You got hold of the wrong bone,
you undecerning Judge.
Whether quitting newspaper cor,
respondent was quitting the paper
itself. was the point to he decided,
and the only point of difference be.
tween US. ! had heard nothing said,
or even intimsted in reference to
Maggie's physiognomy and had new
er even thought of the measles mar
ring her beauty. You didn't under
stand what YOU were talking about,
did you? Ny niece is rather hand
some, think. and although in our
late discussion she has been a little
unguarded in her remarks, and said
some spiteful things. don't think
there was any contest about beauty,
equality of bumps, capacity, or any
thing of this sort
Our literary abilities are not of 3
very brilliant order, l freely admit.
but II Your article last week was a
sample of your pen productions.
neither OF US will he likely to envy
Won yoargiftin that direction. What
strikes me as strange is that you
should hold your peace until the ses
sion was already closed, and then be-
gin feeling so terribly sggrieved l
have too much faith in the good judg-
ment of the Editor to think he al
lowed us to crowd out any very i'm
portant documents. He gave us each
week a full account of progress of
the grand temperance movement,
and / think if you had wanted to
advertise professor Hitchcock S Au-
alysis of the Scriptures, Mr.. NASH
could have accommodated you.
You pm that on rather thin, nay
friend / guess, by the way, while
the professor is about it, we will have
three heads examined instead of ttOO,
although | admit it's hardly worth
while TO dive for matter which we see
floating on the surface.
But Pm treating you rather harsh
ly; you need rest, poor fellow, and
your nerves are unduly excited al
ready. Hoping for the best, howev-
er. and assuring you that we shall
still keep our corner in spite of your
criticism. would have you turn to
{ while you are resting the FIVE hun
dred and twenty second page of the
Analysis" above referred to and
read:
"Therefore thou art inexcusable,
o man, whosoever thou art that judg-
est, for wherein thou judgest another
thou condemnest thyself, for thou
that judgest doest the same things.
JOYCE.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12
Purity of Charmctcr.
Henry Ward Beecher draws t

Henry Ward Beecher draws the
following beautiful parallel:
"Over the beauty of the plum and
apricot there grows bloom and
beauty more exquisite than the frnit
itself; a soft. delicate flush that over
spreads its blushing cheek. Now il
YOU strike your hand over that and
it is once gone, it is gone forever. for
it never grows but once The flow
er that hangs in the morning i'm
pearled with dew-arrayed with Jew
els once shake it, so that the heads
roll off, and you may sprinkle water
over it as you plesse yet it can never
be made again what it was when the
dews fell lightly upon it from Heaven.
On frosty morning you may see the
panes of glass covered with land
scapes, lakes, trees, mountains, all
blended into a beautiful fantastic pic
ture. Now lay your hands upon the
glass, and by the scratch Of your
finger or the warmth of the palm, all
the delicate tracery will be oblite-
rated. So is there in youth a beau
ty and purity of character which
when once touched and defiled can
never be restored; fringe more del
ieate than frost work, and which when
torn and broken will never be re
embroidered. A man who has spot
ted and soiled his garments in his
youth, though he may seek TO restore
their color can never wholly do it,
even we're he to wash them with his
tears. When young man leaves his
fathers house with the blessing of
his mothers tears still wet on his
forehead, if he once loses that he can
never make whole again. Such is the
consequence Of crime. Its effect can
not be eradicated; it can only be for
Oivpn -
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12
For the Gallipolis Journal.
The SaIoon-Keeper's Refrain.

oh. do not care if our smartest men
Are now standing on ruins brink,
They may go TO the bottom as soon a
they can,
If they pay for the liqnor they drink
And do not care if the best of friends
CAS- they sit at their cards and theil
wine,)
Should get in a quarrel, and end in
fight
If they pay me the price of the wine
And | do Iiot care if the hairs turn grey
And the eyes with their weeping grow
dim,
When they gaze on the wreck Of a bright
young boy,
For got some money from him.
And | do not care if the drunkard''
boys
Do tremble and start with fear,
He may kick them all out in the dead OF
the night,
If he pays me for all his beer.
And do not care for his barefoot girl,
Nor his wife looking feeble and frail ;
He may beat her and choke her for all
But want him to pay for the ale.
do not care if they have no food
If their clothes are all ragged and
thin,
If their fire is ont and they have no coal,
So he pays for the rum and the gin
do not care for the drunkarl's home :;
For his tippling bills it was sold;
know it is winter, but turn them all out,
For | want my full share of the gold.
| care not that she, who was rolling in
wealth,
TO poverty's vale has now sank,
For the money is safely locked up in my
And her husband the whiskey has
drank.
And | do not care if Il drunken man,
In his frenzy neighbor should kill;
They may do what they please with the
drunken man
shall deal out the brandy still.
But when the last cent of his money is
gone
Who cares for the drunkard? Not I!
He may lie in the gutter and freeze to
dedth;
Or go TO the 0ooT-hoase and die.
A. d. G..
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12

ce-President Wilson's ply
sician has given him leave to work
two hours daily and he will spend
the time in working on his books.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12
ror+be Gsllinolis journal

For the Gallipolis Journal.
EDITOR JOURNAL;
Dear Sir. The new temperance move
ment in your city. called the "Women's
Temperance League" has many warm
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12

We had the pleasure of dining with
our grandfather. Philip Biddisou, last
Monday, it being his oath birthday.
There were present, two daughters,
aged about sixty; two sons-in law,
both over 10; a neighbor. 20, and Mr..
Robert Haddow. aged rs, a cheerful
and active Scotchman, father of James
and John Haddow, of Barlow. Mr..
Biddison has three children living who
we're not present, whose average age
is over 10.
He has lived in this county over 40
years; has lived simple life, yet one
full of instruction TO all. for it has been
one of contentment. and, at his present
advanced age. he is as cheerful as he
was at 60-Marieta Register.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12
NUMBER IA.
, The Burial of Moses.

By NebO's lonely mountain.
On this side JOrdaH'S wave,
In a vale in the land of Moab,
There lies lonely grave;
And no man knows that sepulchre,
And no man saw il e'er,
For the Angel of God upturned the sod,
And laid the dead man there.
That was the grandest funeral
That ever passed on earth.
And no man heard the trampling
Or saw the train go forth.
! NoiSelessly rs the daylight
! Comes back when the night is done.
And the crimson streak on oceans cheek
Grows into the great sun;
Noiselessly as the spring-time
Her crown of verdure waves,
And all the frees on all the hills
Open their thousand leaves:
So, without sound of music,
Or voice of them that wrpt,
Silently down from the mountains
crown
The great procession swept.
PerclIance the bald old eagle
On gray Beth-peor'S height,
'ouUuf MS IUTrrry U,yrfv,
Looked on the wOndrOuS sight.
Perchance the lion, stalking,
Still shuns the hallOwed spot,
For beast and bird have seen and heard
That which man knOweth not.
But when the warrior dieth,
His OmraGles in the war,
With arms reversed and muflled drum,
Follow his funeral car;
They show the banners takPn
They tell the battles won,
And after him lead his masterleSs Steed,
While peals the minute-gun.
Amid the noblest of the land
We lay the sage to rest,
And give the bard an honOred place,
With costly marble drest,
In the great minster-tranSept,
Where lights like glOries fall,
And the organ rings and the sweet choir
sings,
Along the emblazOned wall.
This was the truest warrior
That ever buckled sword;
This the most gifted poet
That ever breathed word;
And never Earth's philosopher
Traced with his golden pen,
On the deathless page truths half so sage
As he wrote down for men.
And had he not high honor?
The hillside for pail;
To lie in state while Angels wait,
With stars for tapers tall;
And the dark rOck-pines, like tossing
plumes,
Over his bier to wave;
And Gods own hand in that lonely land
To lay him in the grave
In that strange grave without name,
Whence his uncoifined clay
Shall break again, o wOndrOus thought
Before the Judgment-Day,
And stand with glory wrapt around
On the hills he never trOd,
And speak of the strife that won our life
With the Incarnate Son of Goa.
A lonely grave in MOab'S land,
u dark Beth -peor's hill
Speak to these curious hearts of ours,
And teach them to he still.
God hath His mysteries of grace
Ways that we cannot tell;
He hides them deep, like the hidden sleep
OF him he loved so we'll.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12
"WHAT A WOMAN DID FOR
ME-"

ITO tell the truth, said -J.ei.n-
Haviland, as he threw aside his
evening paper, and faced the group
in the parlor, 81 am fast growing
out of patience with the text-'a
woman at the bottom of it 1t
would be strange in this world
made up, so far as We are aware, of
nothing but the two sexes-if wo
man would not occasionally be found
at the bottom of anything good 1t
is the injustice of the thing that
makes me angry Now. there are
hundreds of us poor fellows who
owe all we are, all we have. and all
we can hope to become, in this world
or the next, to the unselfish love of
woman"
The gentleman's face was flushed,
and he spoke warmly and feelingly,
so much so that his wife, rocking
her baby to sleep in the farther cor
ner of the room, inquired:
But why should you care, John?
1t has always been so, and always
will be so. We don't think much
about it now, because we have been
taught to expect it,
"But you should carel and you
should fight for each other more
than you do There is one chapter
in my life's history that ! have al
ways kept locked in my heart, but
to, night | feel as if it were my duty
to open it for your inspection; and
| do it for the love Of one. woman
who made me what | AIN worthy to
be, the husband of a good woman -
"Why, John!" said Mrs Haviland,
softly approaching-bahy still held
tight to her bosom-''you absolutely
frighten me-"
Let's have the story" said the
rest Of the group, certain that some
thing good might be anticipated
and John commenced, at first a little
timid, but gaining confidence as he
proceeded
"When | first came to New York
at the age of twelve years, to seek
my fortune, l could call myself s
precocious chap, without danger o
being accused of an unusual degree
of self appreciation. l was quicl
to learn everything, the bad as wei
as the good My employer usec
profane language. | picked up the
oaths he dropped with a naturalnes
that surprised even myself. Th'
boys in the office all chewed tobac
co. This was little the hardes
job / ever attempted, but after tw'
weeks nausea and indescribabl
stomach retchings, / came off victo
rious, and could get away with IN.
paper day with the best of them
True, every word Of 1t" con
tinued the speaker.
"One afternoon | was sent with
note from my employer to hous
in the upper part of the city.
hadn't anything to read, but l ha
, plenty of tobacco, and with that
proposed to entertain myself durin
the two or three hours | must spen
IN the passage.
=, "For some distance | did nc
notice who were beside me, and by
and-by a lady said very softly an
pleasantly:
"'Would you please, little boy
be more careful. | am going tC
party this afternoon, and shoul
hate to have my dress spoiled
81 looked into her face. 1t W,
the sweetest face l ever saw. Pal
, earnest and loving to my boyis
heart, it was the countenance of q
angel"
"What in the world did you say
interrupted Mrs. Haviland, h'
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12

%A new religion has sprung up
in Persia, and is so contrary to the
old Moslem faith that it is creating
considerable excitement, especially
as the Grand Vizer, who has great
influence over the Shah, is IN favor
of it, and several of the servants
and nobIemen have adopted it. 1t
ia known as the "Zurdani " Its fol-
lowers do not believe in any prophet.
They only worship the Almighty.
There are no religious ceremonies
stipulated for the new religion. The
principal doctrines are praise o: the
Supreme Being, truth, and virtue
1t is regarded with great disfavor by
the followers of the Moslem faith.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12
~The CITY of Sacramento ship

~The city of Sacramento ship
ped S750,000 worth of fruit during
the season; one firm shipped 2O2S
tons Of fruit, 300 tons of vegetables,
45 tons of seeds, and 80 tons of dried
fruit. The business Of drying fruit
and canning, both for home con-
sumption and the Eastern markets
is carried on more extensively il
San Francisco. 1t is yet in its in
fancy, but is growing rapidly every
year,
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12

EThere Is a record of a star
suddenly appearing in 1872, and
swelling out with such magnitude
and brillIancy that it was seen in
the day time. Tycho Brahe, Dan
lsh astronomer, saw it and wrote
an account of it. 1t was seen for
a year and five months, and then
died out and has not been seen
since. Another, in 1904, disappeared.
In 1870 one became invisible, then
at intervals for two years was seen
and then was lost, as it seems for
ever. So late as 1866, a dim stal
was noticed by astronomers, grew
to great brightness, then grew dim
again, and in four months was lost
Several others, say ten or twelve
were known and are gone. What
became of stars thus lost is great
mystery.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12

nEA client called on Mr., Webster
to employ him to argue a cause of
importance. Mr.. Webster asked who
was engaged on the other side, and
the client answered, "a sleepy-look-
ing lawyer, named Wood" "Well, "
Mr.. Webster replied, 'rf George
Wood is employed against you and
is asleep. be very careful not to wake
him up
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as Coughs, Colds, Whooping Cough,
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