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Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Taken by Surprise.

During the progress of q trial in
Judge Mays court, in San Jose, one of
the female witnesses was asked this
question by one of the attorneys: Ibid
the defendant call his wife my deer
when he met her? ?" This took the wit
ness by surprise, but she answered him
in a manner that showed she was honest
and sincere in her belief. "Did he call
her my dear?' OF course not. How
could he when she is his wife p The
lawyer was compelled to give it up.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
ALL the cattle in Europe amount to

ALL the cattle in Europe amount to
ninety two million seven hundred thou
sand head. Of these Germany owns
thirteen million; Austria and France
each twelve million Great Britain ten
million Turkey nine million; Spain
and Portugal four million five hundred
thousand Denmark four million Italy
three million five hundred thousand;
Sweden and Norway two million five
hundred thousand Holland and Belgi-
um two million Greece one million
and Switzerland one million-this little
republic having greater number in
proportion to its extent and population
than any Of the others.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Seventy Days without Water.

A steer owned by J. T. Cowles, of
Cannon City, Mimi, came up missing
last fall, in threshing time, and he was
supposed to be gone forever. Judge of
Mr.. C.'s astonishment, then, when, one
day las. week, on digging iuto a straw
stack, he found the animal alive and
lively. The creature had existed for
seventy days without light or water, and
when released was fat and frisky.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Tea Chests,

The varnish applied by the Chinese
to tea-chests is made of freshly drawn
blood, little alum, and four parts of
powdered-slaked lime. One, two, or
three coats of this mixture, applied
while viscid, make the packages imper-
vious to moisture, rendering tin-foil un-
necessary.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Newspapers.

Their value is by no means appreci-
ated, but the rapidity with which peo-
pie are waking up to their necessity and
usefulness is one of the significant signs
of the times. Few families are now
content with one newspaper. The thirst
for knowledge is not easily satisfied,
and books, though useful, yea, abso-
lutely necessary, in their place, fail to
meet the demands of youth or age Our
country newspaper is eagerly sought
and it's contents are eagerly devoured !;
then comes the demand for the city
news, national and foreign news. Next
to the political come the literary and
scientific journals. Lastly, and above
all, come the moral and religious jour
mails. All these are demanded to satisfy
the cravings of the active mind.
Newspapers are also valuable to ma
terial prosperity. They advertise the
village, country or locality. They spread
before the reader map on which may
be traced character, design and pro-
gress. If stranger calls at hotel he
first inquiries for the village newspaper
if friend comes from distance the
very next thing after family greetings,
he inquiries for your village or county
paper, and you feel discounted if you
| are unable to find late copy, and con.
founded if you are compelled to say that
| you do not take it.
Newspapers are just as necessary te
fit man for his true position in life al
| food or raiment Show us a ragged
barefooted boy rather than an ignorant
one. His head will cover his feet il
after life if he is well supplied will
newspapers He will make his mark il
the world if you crafty that desire TO
knowledge. Other things being equal
it is rule that never fails. Give you
children newspapers.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
A Common Danger.

A Great Darlington (Mass) merchant
found a box of parlor matches on the
store floor, the other morning, which
had been knocked off the shelf by rat
or mouse over night. On opening the
box the discovery was made that by the
conclusion every match in the box had
been lighted, and the wood of which
they were made was charred and turned
brown. Fortunately the box was SO
tight as to smother the fire, and no
harm resulted. 1t was narrow escape,
and if fire had taken place, it's cause
would have been q perpetual mystery.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
THE RAGE OF STRONG DRINK.
By REV. t. HEMPsrxAD.


Mine is the worlds too common tale
A rosy and 8 happy band,
home within q moesy vale,
A mothers loving word and hand;
She watched with fear and generous pride
My feet youths dewy slope ascend,
She saw, at everv larger stride,
Ny steps to power and glory tend.
Beyond thess walls in which pine
Gods wild flowers sweeten all the air,
The white clouds rest. the waters shine,
Blue are the skies, the fields are fair;
But here yes, I, the living dead,
Have yet my past-grim bars and walls.
And him, whose nightly measured tread
Like clay upon q coffin, fallp.
q. worlds should 90 if worlds were mine,
Could they those moments bring again,
When I, in that calm smile OF thine,
My mother walked free from stain
AS the sweet heaven that seemed above
Our quiet home to stoop so near,
Pure as the stream that through our grove
Sang to its violets half the year
High scared my hopes /; 1 sailed forth,
Upon life's fair, deceitful stream.
left the Kingdoms Of the earth
Below me in my splendid dream;
NV blood leaped when the plaudfts ran
Along the wondering multitude
o, would climb wherever man
On Fame's bright mountain crowns had stool
1 felt the light of woman's eye
Upon me at the banquet shine,
They spoke of names that cannot die,
They called my name around their wine.
Mine was the will no frnwns can bend,
The tongue to hold the crowd in thrall.
saw the fadeless wreath descend
One beastly charm has shrouded all
What lurking fiend, what poison streams
Slew, spoiled me of my goal, my crown7
All, this know IN all my dreams
OF triumph, splendor, wealth, renown,
In all the shapes that round ne shone,
The rosy hues that clothed the scene,
seldom saw or thought Of One,
The meek-eyed. tender Nazerene.
Woe, woe, for lust, and vice and sin
Their devoteee are starving slaves
All up and down earth's bosom green,
They dig the deepest coldest graves:
Seei one by one come out the stars,
Faint falls the city's dying roar,
The night-wind at my prison bars
Sings Felon, felon, hope no more ~
-EUd1lgetisf.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04

MAToHLEss maid" is the way a
presumptuous young man addressed a
lady of very uncertain age.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Effects of Solitude.

To be left alone in the wide world,
with scarcly a friend-tLis makes the
sadness which, striking it's pang into
minds of the young and the affectionate,
teaches them too soon to watch and in
terpret the spirit signs of their own
hearts. The solitude of the aged
when, one by one, their friends fall off,
as fall the sere leaves from the trees in
autumn-what is it to the overpowering
sense of desolation which fills almost to
breaking the sensitive heart of youth,
when the nearest and dearest ties are
severed? Rendered callous by time
and suffering, the old feel less, though
they complain more; the young, "bear-
ing grief too deep for tears" shrine
in their bosoms sad memories and mel
ancholy anticipations, which often give
dark hues to their feelings in after life.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
The Strange Guest.


The gifted Sargent s. Prentiss once
gave a sumptuous dinner to some
friends at hotel in Vicksburg. Early
in the evening stranger entered the
room in mistake. Prentiss courte-
ousIy invited him to join the party.
Before long the strange guest began
boasting of how much he had drank
during the day-a cocktail here, a
smasher there, julep in this place, a
sling in that, and SO on, apparent with
out end.
At length Prentiss said:
''Sir, do you believe in the doctrine of
metempsychosis p
don't know" was the reply, :" and
I don't see that it has anything to do
with what we are talking about"
1t has," rejoined Prentiss, much
much every way. I have firm faith
in that doctrine. believe that in the
next life every man will be transformed
into the thing for which he has best
qualified himself in this. In that life,
sir, you will become corner grog-
Q0rV" "
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04

THE place for pic-nic-The Sand
wich Islands.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
To Test Water.


An English technical periodical points
out an easy way of testing whether
water is good and fit for general use.
It says: "Good water should be free
frors color, unpleasant odor and taste,
and should quickly afford lather with
small portion Of soap. If half pint
of the water be placed in a perfectly
clean. colorless, glass-stoppered bottle,
a few grains of the best white-lumped
sugar added, and the bottle freely ex-
posed to the daylight in the window of
warm room, the liquid should not be-
come turbid, even after exposure for q
week or ten days. If the water becomes
turbid it is open to the grave suspicion
of sewage contamination, but if it re-
main clear it is almost certainly safe.
We owe to 'Heisch this simple, valuable,
but hitherto strangely neglected test. :"
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Very Old Men-ThurlOw Weed Tells
Something About Centenarians.

To the Editor of the New York Tribune:
SIR: A Pennsylvania gentleman called
yesterday to say that Simon G. Troop,
the Legislative Rip Van Wrinkle referred
to in Fridays Tribune, was appointed
one of the Judges of Monroe county,
Pa, by Gov. Geary, after he had passed
his 80th birthday, and he was now dis
charging tie duties with marked ability.
He added that the climate of that por-
ton of Pennsylvania contributed to the
longevity of its citizens. George Labar,
resident of Monroe county, is 112
years old. Mr.. George Trivle, of Dale
vile, is the Oldest landlord in the State
of Pennsylvania, having kept tavern
ever since licenses were granted by the
Governor of the State, and is now, at
the age of 100 years, proprietor of the
hotel at Dalevi1le. The ages of these
two veterans, as Mr.. Gilmore assures us,
are both we'll authenticated.
And yet there is an opinionated En-
glishman, whose name do not remem-
ber, making all sorts of efforts to dis
credit Capt. Lahrbush, who completes
his 108th year to-day. Fortunately the
existence of unquestionable evidence of
the fact that Capt Lahrbush was an
officer in the British army before the
commencement of the present century,
destroys the base upon which the Cap
tain's assailant endeavors to erect a su-
perstructure. Corroborative evidence
of the accuracy of Capt. L. 8 memory,
the truthfulness of his statements, and
the integrity of his character, is found
in his daily conversation. Those who
know him best and see him most ire
quently entertain no doubts concerning
his age. The accuracy of his memory
in relation to events which occurred ten
years before and fifteen years after the
beginning of the present century, is
perhaps the most remarkable trait in
the character of this very remarkable
man. Capt. Lahrbush recently received
message, by a New York lady who
had been residing some time in Paris,
from the Count de Waldeck, who re-
members him while both were at Madras,
in 1898. The Count, although two years
older than Capt. Lahrbush, enjoys good
physical and mental health.
Capt. Lahrbush enters upon his 1O9th
year in good health and spirits. He is
member of the Rev. John Cotton
Smiths church, where he is regular
attendant. He dined with us to-day, as
is his frequent habit on Sunday; and if
those who cavil about his age could
have listened to his conversation for an
hour Or two, would have had their doubts
removed. T.. w.
NEW YORK, March 8, 1874.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04

guished from charity, and increased by
degrees, and grew on what it fed. The
rulers gave way step by step. The con-
cessions of one Emperor furnished pre-
cedents for the next not to be gainsaid
or resisted, except at his peril.
After time, the support of the Ro-
man Communists became an intolerable
burden, too heavy to be borne by the
people of the provinces and, one after
the other, they revolted and threw off the
grievous yoke, or refused to resist the
invasion of the Goths and Huns-be-
heving that changs of masters would
be for the best, and that no change
could be for the worse. Thus the pos
sessions of Rome were torn from her by
rebellion and invasion. The Commun-
lists had become too lazy and enervated,
even to fight for the retention of the
provinces on which they subsisted, but
caused heavier burdens to be imposed
on those still remaining under the con-
troll of the Government. This thing
went on from bad to worse, until the
Roman Empire expired amidst it's ruins.
The invading Cloths at last besieged and
captured the city itself, sacked it,
burned it, and left the Communists the
alternative to work for their bread in
the future or Starve. Most OF the
wre ches, after having eaten out the
vitals of the Empire, preferred the lat
ter, and persisted from the face of the
earth. The population rapidly ran
down from million and a half to half
million, and then to a quarter of
million, and finally to half the latter
number from which trifing handful it
never recovered during the fifteen CEN
turies it has been under the control of
the Church. But, during the three
years that Rome has been the Capital of
Reunited Italy, more new houses have
been erected than during the preceding
300 years, and greater accession to the
population has been made than since
the days of the Crusades.
The only work performed in Rome for
two or three centuries before its final
fall was by slaves. The Communists
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04

The Ancient City-Its Mighty Men and
Mighty Beeds-COmm unlsm the Cancer
that Destroyed the Grand Empire-The
Paradise OF Dead-Beats-Free Luneh-
ing Reduced to a Science-Wondcrs OF
the Seven.HlIled CITY.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-06-19
ADJUSTMENTS.
rup National

The National theatre was we'll filled last night
to witness Little May in "Chat," new piece
written for her by Mr.. Francis Q. Long. Miss
Gallagher is given q number OF characters In the
piece, which exhibited her versatile talent to ad
vantage. Her Dutch girl, with dances and songs,
and her old woman were complete and perfec'
stage pictures As the little lady her natural re-
sources Of wit and cunning were well illustrated,
and In her song, 81 Will be True to Thee" she
won genuine double encore. The piece Is
mounted with good taste aud Iberality. "Chat''
will be continued tonight and tomorrow night,
with a matinee ar
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-06-19
WASHINGTON BUSINESS COL
LEGE.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES LAST
NIGHT

COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES LAST
NIGHT.
The annual commencement exercises Of the
Spencerian Washington Business College were
held last night at Lincoln Hall in the presence
Of o large audience. The stage was occupied by
distinguished citizens, together with the Board
Of School Trustees of the District OF Columbia.
The front seats of the auditorium were reserved
for the graduates. The ladies were attired in
white and the gentlemen in eonventionais. The
display Of flowers was beautiful, and nearly every
lady in the audience held bouquet, which she
gave TO her fayorite graduate.
Music-grs march, Webers orchestra; prayer:
music-"Heart Bowed Down. salutatory-Wn-
liam p. Smith; musc-waltZr Doctrine; valedic-
tory, (gentlemens)-C. w. Jones; music-selec-
tions, Mariana; valedictory, Qadies)-Ida J.
Heiberger; song-"Last Rose Of Summer" Alice
NJ. Hosmer; music-Galop Belle.
Ten gold medals from the college for excellence
in scholarship, department, English composition,
penmanship and original sets in. bookkeeping
also two gold medals from the gentlemen's debat-
ing society Of the Washington Business College
for excellence in oratory and improvement in de-
bate; also one gold medal from the Young La
dies Literary Society Of the washington Busi
ing, were awarded by VIM. Stickney, 4. W. Fen
wick, Mrs S. ]. Spencer, Simon Wolf, Superin.
dent J. q. Wilson and Z. B. Hay, with brief
remarks, to the following graduates: Lizzie K.
Sargent, J. T. Fallon, Ida J. Heiberger, Robert
A Dillett Alice NJ. Hosmer, q. W. Jones, q. A.
Gooksey' Matilda LnGuist and q. W. LaFetra.
On the conclusion Of this portion of the exer-
cises the band performed q galopi after which
President Spencer conferred diplomas on the fol.
lowing graduates: Media Davis and Ida J. Hei.
berger, ID. O.; Alice NJ. Hosmer, Illinois; Emma
MCGOWAN, Pennsylvania; Lizzie r. Sargent, Cal.
ifornia; John W. Beha and Walter Cooksey, ID.
C.; Robert Dellett, Pennsylvania; John I. Fal.
lon, D. G.; John W: Cunning, massachusetts,; W.
K Korff d. e.; Todd Mason, South Carolina; A.
Miller. b. O.; John Schwartz, Ohio; Webster
SchofieId and Harry T. Slack, Virginia; VIM. p,
smith, O. Albert Small, James H. Watt and F.
Music Polka, $50 Ahead" was next per-
formed,
MICS Emma MCGOWAN and W.P. Smith re-
cefyed certificates for excellent application.
The exercises were exceedingly Interesting, and
Mr. and Mrs. Spencer were highly complimented
upon the success gained by the institution.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-06-19
LOCAL MISCELLANY

For the Middle Ststes clear and Farmer heather
Nth north or teesf t1irds and rising barometer.
The following was the range of the thermometer
$50; Il m, $50; Up. m, $50; 4 p. m, SO; 9 p. NJ
$50; p. m. $40.
Three hundred and nifty bushels of wheat and
200 bushels of corn were received in Georgetown
yesterday.
Newspaper advertising promotes trade, for even
in the duliest times advertisers by far the
largest share Of what Is being done.
A horse, attached to buggy, while standing In
town, yesterday afternoon, started of and upset
the buggy, doing 1t great injury.
A farewell entertainment was given to the pas
evening, he having accepted call as n missionary
to Africa. A handsome leather pocket book, con.
tanning 900, was presented to him
Mr.. Eugene Carusi has, for Messrs. Hall &
account for se, 46e.ll, running from March 4,
1871 to May % last on which there are credits Of
sl,62s.1l, leaving a balance OF q, o3s.
Mr.. John Marbury, ST., has resigned the posi-.
Insurance Company, and DR.. William Marbury
has been elected to NIL the vacancy as director and
DR.. Joshua Riley was elected president
Coroner Patterson held an inquest over the re.
mains of Anna Lee, the mulatto woman whose
body was found floating in Rock creek Wednes-
day, and the evidence was conclusive that the act
was Intentional, and caused by jealousy.
The Potomac boat club have received the new
four-oared she'll, in which they will take part in
the grand regatta, to be held at Saratoga lake
this summer. The members are making active
mac, Thursday afternoon next
Yesterday Professor Roys held his annual ex-
animation, at the academy, Four-and-a-half street
SGTaweS MEDALS we're presented as follows
3. Eunt, silver medal, general excellence; fhos.
Durant, silver medal, general excellence; Henry
general Improvement; Edwin Miller silver medal,
conduct and improvement.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-06-19
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
HOLDERS OF THE CHESAPE4KE
AND OHIO CANAL.

The annual meeting of the stockholders Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company was held
at Annapolis, Nd, Wednesday.
The president "a. P. Germany submitted the
forty-sixth annual report of the directors, which
shows that during the fiscal year ending Decem.
A20.655so in excess of the previous year. The net
revenue for the year was $40 GO 81, to which add
the balance In the treasury on December 81, ST..
l25.42 and we find total balance Of e303, 054 "a
applicable to the payment Of overdue interest on
preferred construction bonds, principal and inter
est Of repair bonds and current expenses. In re-
gard to the condition Of the canal the report says
During the past year the canal has sustained
greater damage than It has in any year since 1852
while it is true that the improvements made IN
banks have become more solid and less liable to
damage from high water on the river. The re-
suit Of MADE ,bo INA. Ins SprtPSs
work. and the navigation Of the canal is more re-
liable than before, while the average carrying
capacity Of boats has sau Two SSeb sSS
construction OF steam dredge, at $4,000 has en-
abled us to thoroughly dredge the greater por.
crowded with boats, and where interruptions were
heretofore frequent.
The following resolution was adopted: That
in view OF the Recommendation OF the president
and directors in their annual report for 1874 re-
speeding increased wharf facilities ut Georgetown
and Washington, as also the suggestion looking
to the extension OF the canal to the Ohio river and
the cIty Of Baltimore that committee Of three
be appointed to examine the same and report tc
On adjourned meeting OF the stock holders to be
held In this city on Tuesday September p next.
Messrs. Berret, Woolford and Compton were ap
An election was held for ofacers, which resulted
as. follows: O. p. German as president. James u
Berret, Daniel Biser, Michael Bannon, A: X
Stake Gilmore Meredith, o. NJ. Watkins, direc
, tors, were then reelected for tho ensuing year
unanimously, except that Col. Berret voted fol
II. N. Sweeney, of Georgetown, In place OF him
self after which the meeting adjourned until
the I'D Of September.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-06-19
THE WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSO
eta TTON

To the Editor Of the National Republican:
The late action Of the Women's Christian Asso-
citation Of this city, in declining to receive money
raised by means of dramatical entertainments, is,
with all Difference to the motives Of those ladies
who sustain it, to others who take widely differ
ent view, offensive
L Because there are Christian people in the as
ISOLATION who DO not condemn dramatic entertain
ments, as such, but only those that vicious in
their character, or otherwise unworthy. On the
contrary, they deem them positively useful to
themselves and families as source Of culture and
qualification.
2 The measure Is discourtesy TO the ladies
who have had these entertainments in charge the
last winter, and who have disbursed their pvalls
to the different charitable associations ofth city,
doubtless in good conscience and according to
their best discretion. Is 1t our function to SIT in
judgment on such conscience and discretion?
5. The peculiar tenets or discipline Of any sect
represented in our association are too narrow in
their scope to bind public charity like ours, which
must depend for its support uponsl classes of
people, all Of whom IT should in turn embrace in
its generous sympathy; winning TO us and not
weaving from us even disreputable people who
have done charitable act, by a cordial response,
though we may not approve personally their
methods, recognizing the fact that bad people may
have some good purposes; and questioning the
motive has never . tendency to improve the
morals. Besides, If we are not to receive money
from sinners, from whence shall We get lit
A DIssRNTKR.