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County Correspondence.
Written for The Spirit of Democracy
From Ohio Township.
HANNIBAL, MONROE Co Ono
Nav 10, 1875.

May 10, 1875
ED SPIRIT: The last cold spell has
Killed all the fruit on the hills; along the
river the trees are in blossom, and they
can expect fully hsll crop of apples.
The wheat looks pretty well on the
river bottom, but on the hills there will
NOT be more than one.fouth of cror;
some fields look as if they had been
ploughed
Oats arc }nst coming up. The most of
the corn is planted; pasture is very short
and most of the daiiymen feed their cows
IN the stables yet
Cheese making has commenced, hu,
with very little milk on account of Nc
pasture, hut we are in hopes that this last
rain will nuke the grass grow.
they have commenced builling the
new schooihouse at Barcsville, which
when completed, viii. be a very fine bald
ing II is to cost $1,000. -.f.i.-.
Henry Neaman met with serious -acci
ideut on Thursday, the % h of April. II6
was making shingles. When that heav,
storm came hewas just rising to his fee,
when sma'l limb bit the (irawing-knirt
and knocked it on bis leg, just above ia,
knee cap, cuttiRgto the bone, and thei
glancing on the bone and cutting upward
about two inches, making great wound
which had to he sewed up. He is getting
some hetter now. Yours. s II
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a circular from the Democrs

9EE By circular from the Democratic
State Central Committee we are advised
that at the Convention of the party to be
held at Celambus, ON the 18th of June,
: there will be nominated candidates for
the following State offices !, Governor,
Lieutehant Governor, ATTORNEY, General,
Supreme Judge, Auditor, Treasurer and
Member of the Board Of Public Works
.MoproeGounty will be entitled to sx
votes. andit Is strongly urged by the
Committee. upon every county. to send a
full deleg ition of its ablest men, who are
representative in their character.
The Convention Which meets here to
declare tbercsult of our primary cleo
tion, willtionbtlcss appoint the delegates
for this county, and we hope they will
fully consider the inn ortanee Of selecting
the best men, and men who will attend to
theduties en- rustcd to them
We, inthis county, have frequently
conferred Che honors upona set Of men
who have left the burden to be borne by
others A little departure from this cns-
tom wonld probably meet with general
approya'.
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Written for The Spirit of Democracy
LETTER FROM KANSAS.
PRlEcEroN, KAN. Nav 10. 1877;

fs PRINCETON, kAN., May EO, 1879.
EDIroR OF The SriRrr-D Dear SIR.
Fini inc!osed 75scents to renew my SUBJ
scription six months. $50 ~ Il
We are having deliglhful spring
weather | don't remember of a more
favorable spring for work than the
present. Farmers have been busily en-
gagged for more than two months and
the result is, there is large crop of
oats, fax and millet sown and still q
greater namber of acres planted in corn.
lsbelieye am safe in saying there are
five to seven thousand acres sown in
fax in this tFranklin) county. Oats
looks we'll. The majority of the farm
ers are done planting corn and that first
planted about ready for cultivation -
The prospect for wheat in this vicinity
not very favorable, but the prevailing
impression is that we will have plenty
of fruit. ~
The people unanimously agree that
the prospect is decidedly favorable for
a boantiful crop in Kansas this year.
In several counties the prospect is IA.
vorable for a good crop of wheat.
have lived here during two grasshopper
raids and have known hundreds of acres
of grain destroyed by chine bugs, bui
that only takes place once in three OF
four years. The grasshoppers, en- masse
have only been known to visit this
section Of the country twice. There
have also been some drouths during my
stay here, but they have been no greater
and not go damaging as some l have
known in Ohio. There has only been
one severe failure in crops during the
nine years Ihave lived here, aud that
was caused principally by chino bugs
last year. 1t is generally believed they
were all destroyed Tor nearly SOY by
the severe freezing last winter. Amidst
the plaques, the people of the Eastern
States are coming amongst us, though
not so rapidly as they did four or five
years ago, but still they come. Tht
tide of emigration is on the increase.
Very Respectfully,
j T. BARNErrS
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MISCELLANEOUS.

The taxable wealth of Texas has in
creased thirty-three per cent in four
years. - 'Vl
The Topeka Commonwealth says
there was never better prospect fer
an abundant harvest in Kansas than the
present. r
A talented young Kentuckian is wri-
ting book about the ten lost tribes of
Israel. He could take ten thorough
bred Kentucky jackasses and get up an
interesting history that would include a
large portion of his own pedigree
Indianapolis Herald. M
General Loring, one of the ex Con-
federate Generals who has accepted SER
vice under the Khedive of Egypt is high
up in official favor. He gets $500 per
month; lives in grand style, and accor-
ding to the custom of the country, has
a very respectable harem He had 10
abjure bis religion and adopt that of
Mahomedanism, before being allowed
to hold high and responsible positions
under the Egyptian ruler. '..'
At the Democratic conference at CO.
lumbus on the 9th inst, Senator Thur
man expressed his belief that the Re-
publcans will reorganize the old Know
Nothing Lodges that played such a con-
spicuous par. in our political history
twenty years ago. That was the idea
in Washington before Congress closed
it's session. The course of the Repub
lican papers, their violent assaults upon
all foreign-born and Catholic citizens
gives corroboratory evidence to thai
effect. - 0 g -. f.,,5vt.F.'5
The tide of emigration to Californis
is setting in with rush. In the month
of March no less than $500 persons
bound for that State passed Cheyenne
This is owing to- the almost unequalei
agricultural facilities the State possess
es. The emigrants now go there no
to dig gold but to raise wheat and cul
tivate the earth. That is what condu
ces to the permanent prosperity of
State-the digging Of gold does not.
NJ de Ia Bastle having made glass
elastic and malleable by plungipg i
wher heated into an oil bath, two Sile
sian experimenters have turned thei
ingenuity to the opposite extreme, ane
have recently discovered a method 0
making glass so hard and upyieldin!
that it can neither be bent nor broken
and may be plunged, red hot, into COLI
water without injury. Indestructibl
lamp-chimneys and window -panes tina
defy snow,balls are among the least 0
the advantages expected from this in
Iyenlion. aa5 eaI gaf .,s9 gr...z.
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Guernsey County News.

Jefersonian, 18th inst Wills creek
and its tributaries will be- supplied with
fish by the Fish Commission as soon as
it gets into working condition.
Melissa Needham, aged about 30
wears, daughter Of James Needham, of
West Cambridge, died last Saturday, of
consumption. Her funeral took place
on Sunday from The Methodist Church
On Friday last while William Trainer
was driving spring wagon down the
hill near David Nfcholson's, the horses
became frightened and turned suddenly
upsetting the wagon and tearing it to
pieces, and irjuring Mrs. Trainer Sc
rsously. Mr.. Trainer escaped with
few slight bruises.
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Baltimore Live stock Market.

May IL.
/ CATTLE-Market during the early
part of the week was firm and fairly ac
tive, and prices 4c higher, but toward the
close tue advance was lost,and there was
further decline of &c, closing dull; We
ry best Sc 124a7 so; first quality S5a6
l24; medium or good fair quality 81 25
as !; for ordinary thin steers, oxen and
cows, S3a4 25: most Of the sales at S5a
6 %. Receipts 1.075 head; sales 1853
head.
HOGS-Dull and receipts light; quail
ity trihe better than last week and pri-
ces shade higher: fair to choice SlOa
IL SO Receipts 10,7OO head,
SHEEP Dull and lower, and tenden-
cy still downward wool sheep not want
ed sheared SO 50a5 SO; few extra at
5 rs, Lambs dull at 81 50a4 Receipts
3,433 head.,,e a., ,s., ,,.., +.,,.yT
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If the frost has destroyed the grass
hopper pest we, may welcome it as a
wise dispensation of nature, although
it was accompanied with the total de-
structioa of the fruit and early vegeta-
bles in large belt of latitude. We
had better go without fruit and early
vegetables than have all our cereals and
sustenants Of life swept away as they
were by the grasshoppers in Nebraska
and Iowa in 1874. gag
He lives in Spencer County, Indiana
He is highly colored, and his name is
Samuels., The chilly blasts Of one
hundred and four winters have frosted
the old mans wool and impaired his
memory, yet with all this he recollects
that he blackcd W.ashing,on's boots.
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Eg The lawlessness Of the Pennsyl-
vania coslsminers continues without
abatement Men who dare attempt to
work in order to prevent their families
from starving, are mcrcilessly beaten, and
driven off by the strikers. who thus keep
thousands of laborers out of employ
ment. $50
The experience OF the last few years
warrants us in saying, that if these things
had oocunedin Southern State, the tes-
timony Of score of the best citizens,
and the official report of Republican
Congressional Committee would not
have prevented the administration papers
from proclaiming that the Democratic
party was solely responsible for them =
Tue country would have been made to
ring with demonstrations until after the
Presidential election, and thousands OF
people would have been deluded by base
less charges. just as thousands are and
have been deluded by falsely charging
upon the Democratic party every private
quarrel or fracas which has occurred in
the South.
Why is there no SHERIDAN to extirpate
- Az = HH
these "banditti ?"
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A French scientist proposes q plan
whereby ocean steamers may avoid the
danger of collision with icebergs in
foggy weather by carrying submerged
electric thermometer. which shalt Ting
q bell when the lower Temperature of
the wster indicates the proximity of
lsrge bodies Of ice.
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H.On last Wednesday the editor
hereof took fifty-two 6sh in out OF the
wet. They all belonged 10 the bass FAM
lily. Films mill dam was the scene Of
this exploit.
Right here is a good place to say that a
small sqnad Of fishers feel grateful to
Mrs. and Mr.. FRAME FLINT for their hos
pitality and attentions. rs Ia lied le
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wThestone for the Chicago custom
house are conveyed from Gneinnati.--
The stonefor the Cincinnati pestoilice
are conveyed from New England. 5
Economyis not the "best bold" "of this
administration.
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The pennsylvania wheat Crop.

, PHILADELPHIA, May 1.-The Press
this morning says: In review Of the re-
ports from all sections of the State, says
that owing to the severe frosts and late
spring, much of the expected wheat crop
has been killed. A careful survey leads
to the belief that not over half crop
will be gathered m
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a
Eg Some doubts expressed as to the
ability Of the Democratic Convention to
harmonize upon the financial plank of It's
platform.
twill probably not make the differ
ence OF adozeu votes if there is no fnan-
cial resolution Of any kind in the plat
form but it may make all the difference
between winning and losing the contest
il a frst-rate ticke. is not selected.
We have no apprehensions that a bal
ticket will be nominated, but there never
was time when It was of 80 much i'm
portance that the ticket should be not
only unobjectionable, but that every man
oni should possess positive merit and
strength.
The result of the Presidential election
depends largely upon the resul. in OHIO
this Fall. This is no time to compliment
sections, or to pay professional politi.
clans for party services. Z
One indispensable qualification in
every candidate must be invincible integ
rity, with arecord to verify it. 557e sl
The party which failsto recognize the
fact that honesty lisa winning card, will
lose the game. as5s
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EAll aboard for Bellaire! When
the canvassers CALI on you, put down
yourname for an amount which will
show that you want a railroad, and mean
TO haye-it.. a9t eYH 9efs9
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EF When a man offers to sell Western
land, the first question he is asked is,
How far is 1t from railroad3 The price
yariesfrom FIVE to thirty dollars per acre,
almost exactly in proportion to the dis
tance. There is . hint in this for those
wise enough to see it.
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kE Parties here will stock Sunfish
Creek with the new variety offsh, now
becoming so abundantin Muskingum, if
the seiners will give them time to multi.
ply. g a2i
1t willnot pay toincnr the labor and
expense Of stocking the stream if the
fish put in are to be dragged out with a
netthe next week.. or even the next year
What say hebeople along Sunish p
Will you protect them for a few years ?
The result would astonish you.
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81 RD During the last seven years the
tariff on carpets has costthe people of
the United States sT0e, ,745 ,226 alof this
sEhe,government received SIS, t45,- :
,226, and the manufacturers have received
ssas6ee,O00. iA
Thisis certainly an expensive method
of procuring revenue-one- fifth to the
rsblic treasury and four fifths to.themo-
nopolists. aoi9 aas
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ETWith railroad here, farmers IN
thesicinity. eau purchase half their gro,
ceries with the proceedsrof products for
which there is now no market, Il
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Ed. SPIRIT: AnnouLce STEPHEN A.,
ATKINSON, of Adams township,ss a candidate
for County Auditor, subject to the decision
Of the Democratic County Convention. ar 4
-Aess a6a ilw MANY DEMocRA-s.l
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Convention, Saturday, June 5, 1875
REPRESENTATIVE.

\ ED. SPIRIT: Announce JAMES WAT
son as candidate for re-nomination 10 the
office OF, Represent atiye; subject 10 the dsois.
ion of the Democratic County Convention.
s4i & sIuod LIS 81 u MANY DEMOCRATS. =
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ETA cheering sign that the Demo !
Gratis win carry Ohio this Fall by large
msjority is, that the Cincinnati CONNER
eialis wandering toward the Republican
party. An infallible instinct seems to
guide that paper always to- the losing
side. 49,.
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Baltimore.

MAY 14.-Flour4 50a7. Wheat l II
al So; Corn SHE; Oats 70a77cis Rye1
l5al Is. .salnt- -
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ED. SPIRIT: Announce WILL1AH H.
Boo1H, of Washington township. as a-candi,
date for County Auditor; subject to the dscis.
ion Of the Democratic County Convention.
MANY DEMOCRATS.
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fyLet as have that railroad

EgThe ST. Clairsviltea Gazette says
that q .narrow-gauge railroad through
that place is slready assured 3 is 1ati,
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TREASURER.

ED. SPIRIT: Announce w. p MORRIS
as candidate for denomination to the Of
flee of County Treasurer; subject to the de-
cision oflthsD Democratic County Conv ention.
!. -. szsa.ss MANY DEMOCRATS 4
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I ED. SPIRIT: Announce WILLIAM WE'D.
DIE, OF Benton township, as candidate fol
County Auditor, subject to the decision oi
the Democratic County Convention s.'ao
MANY DEMOCRATS.
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Cincinnati

Maya14.-Flour G. 00a6 Is; Wheat !
35a1 SO Corn 7SaS0c; Oats 6Sa70c; Bar.
lev A. 5Oal 80; Rye L 22al 25p9
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The recent tornado in East Tennessee
carried away the roof Of Senator An
drew Johnson's residence, in Greenylle
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Philadelphia

Nav 14-Flour8 oOas co. Wheat l
40al 81 Corn S6aSSc. Oats 72a75c; I;
Rye 10. ~ zo. as hr .
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SHERIFF..

ED. SPIRIT: Announce THOMAS o.
LITTLE as a candidate tor denomination to
the office of Sheriff; subject to I he decision of
the Democratic County Convention.
TaG MANY DEMOCRATS.
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Ed. SPIRIT: Announce DANIEL NEu-
HART, ST., of Center township, as candidate
for County Audit or; subject to the decision of
the Democratic County Convention.
MANY sDsMocRArs. y
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WooastieId stock Market

! May l7.-Cattle 3ta5c per pound.
Sheep 3@4c per pound. Hogs &c per
pound. s a- -5s III 'f'o'
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Chicago.

May 14.-Flour 5 5Oa7 so; Wheat l
O2alal 05; Corn 72a77c; Oats 64a
65c; Rye 06; Barley 34a1 36,
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PROBATE JUDGE,

Ed. SPIRIT: Announce JAMES r. Nor
RTs as candidate for repomination to the
Office of Probate Judge; subject to the decis-,
ion Of the Dem ocratic County Convention
y E q MANY DEMocRATssl
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Ed. SPIRIT: Please announce JOHN B.
DRIeas, of Center township, as "a candidate
for Prosecuting Attorney subject TO the de.
cisen of the Democratic Nominating Conven.
ton. MANY DEMOCRATS.
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Ed. SpIRIT;I Announce. RICHARD K.
WALTON. Of Salem township. as oandidat te
for County Auditor; subject to the decision
OF the Democratic County Convention.
(4Ft5T MANY DEnocRArs.
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AUDITOR.

Ed. SPIRIT: Announce PHILIP ScHy-
MAcHsR, JR., of Center township, as a scandi-
date for County Auditor; subject to the decis-
ion of the Democratic County Convention
..z+ st ots.-sgs MANY DEMOCRATS. Z
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& To- Contractors.
DAVID MANN'S ESTATE.

NOTICE is hereby given that>tfe subscri-
IN bers have been qualified as Executors on
the estate Of David Mann, late OF Monroe
county, deceased. Eos BARNETT MANN.
ma11,T5w3. WILLIAM q. MANN.
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New York.

May IA Flour S5@S so. Wheat
la5l As; Corn S7@9lc Oats 77@
79c. Rye 02al 09. Barley As. q
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PROSECUTING ATTORNEY,

ED. SPIRIT: Announce A. j. PEARSON
as candidate for denomination to the Office
of Prosecuting Attorney; subject to the de.
cision of the Democratic County Convention.
MANY DEMOCRATS.
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EFWe ate last week, for the first time,
Of the .scochin china" fish, as it is called
on Muskinsum. tits fully equal, and
many say superior, to the bass. In size
these fish average two or three to the
pound. They are as broad as the sunfsh,
but lighter, and much more delicate in
fiber and flavor. The flesh is very white
and firm. They feed chiefly on minnows,
though they are not SO voracious as the
bass, nor are they SO ganey at the-end of
aline. isiio0Y a. 4d 80g aH}
This fish is believed to be the same
known in some localities as the "Grass
Bass" By this name Professor K1Rr-
LAND describes itin the American Sports.
man Of Feb. %, 1874. He says:
sFrom long and intimate acquaint-
ance with its merits, hesitate not to pro-
nounce it the .fsh for the miAioa- tits q
native Of our western rivers and lakes,
where it usually resorts TO deep and slug
gish waters; yet, in several instances,
where ii has found its way into cold and
rapid streams, and even small sized
brooks, 10y means of the constructing of
cana,s or by the hand of man, it has adapt
editself to the change, and in two or
three years time stocked to overfowing
the new locations. AS pan-fish for the
table it is surpassed by few other fresh
water species. For endurance and ra
pidity of increase, it is unequaled, Its
weight will vary with age, the quality of
the water, and the feeding ground, and
average from half a pound TO two or more
pounds. = The grass bass is
perfectly adapted to stocking ponds, l,
will thrive without care in very small
ponds Of sufficient depth. Another i'm
portant fact may be added iii will in nc
wise interfere with the cultivation of any
number of species, large or small, in the
same waters. It will live harmoniously
with all others, and while its structure and
disposition restrain 1t from attacking an y
other but very small fry, its formidable
armature of spinous rays in the dorsal
and abdominal fins will guard it against
attacks Of even the varacious3, pike. 40
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COMMISSIONER,

Ed. SPIRIT: Announce GEORGE HAR-
vEY HUFFMAN, of Green township, as can.
didate for County Commissioner; subject TO
the decision of the Democratic, County Con.
venticn. MANY DEMocRArs,
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WoedsfieId, May IS. 1875.

EAddress all letters:
'ss"THE Spirit OF DEMocRAcY,"
'Woodsheld, 4 /" p
a. ~ Monroe County,
'9fSa ' Ohio.
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ES Our neighbors of the Athens Hes
seager and McConnelsvlle Herald scold
at us for not joining them in berating the
Ohio Legislature.
We have not hesitated to state very
plainly our disapprovai of several acts
Of the Legislature, Withholding no cen.
sure when we believed it to be deserved
We will repeat these criticisms Just as of
ten as there seems to be an occasion for
it, Butt our Republican neighbors, or
any body else, inferred from this that we
could be either hadgered or cajoled into
wild and urjusltiahle TRADE against
that body, they were much mistaken -
We were prompt to rebuke what we be
lieved to be the misduings of the Legis-
lature, We will be just as prompt to de-
fend it when it is untlstly assailet. We
believe, and think that the editors men.
toned believe, that the hue and cry they
are so frantically striving to raise about
the "gross corruptions" aud "infamens
iniquities" of the Legislature as body,
is the emptiest partisan ciamor Tets a
feather which car only be preven,edfr from
falling to the ground by constantly blow.
ing it. @ f
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A N NOU NCEME ENTS,

Say Announcing the names of canai
dates sseach. Tickets 81 per thousand,
IN adUdnce. .qe3