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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-08-12
Gov. Aliens Dollar.

Governor Allen insists upon the
statement, as if it were fact, that there
is no difference between the gold dol
lar and the doller of his adoption-in
his old age. We will not quarrel with
him for taking rag babies to his heart
at this time Of life-though it is a pity
too, to see man who has embraced
legitimate children of his own now
folding in his bosom the bastard
changeling which corrupt allies of the
Republican party left at his doorstep.
But he cannot claim that has dollar is
the dollar-the dollar whose symbol
is $-the commercial abreyiation of
pesos .fuerte8, hard dollars. In the
first place, the hard dollar is worth
one hundred cents in Ohio, in Cali
| fornia, in New York, in London, in
China, in the heart of Africa. Gov
ernor Aliens adopted dollar is worth
8S cents in Ohio and New York, and
! is not taken at all in London, China,
Africa or California. Yet Governor
Glass; wants to force the laboring
men and the producing classes in Ohio
to perpetuate a system under which
they must take 88 cents instead of 100
cents, because in his theory the Gov
ernment stamp makes the dollar, ire
spective of the material stamped
But if the Government stamp makes
the dollsr, and there is nothing in the
material, let some one take a crucible
and challenge Governor Allen to beat
his paper dollar against 'gold dollar
until the Government stamp is melted
off each, and then see whether the
residum Of the paper dollar viii fetch
as much as that of the gold dollar
Will Governor Aliens adopted Repub-
lican rag money stand the test OF the
acid by which spurious COIN is detect
ed2 Behind the legal tender of the
stamped paper lies, nothing. Because
gold has it's value and must be earned,
there cannot be over issue; because
paper has no value and need not be
earned, there must aEagays be over is
sue,-TN. Y. World.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-08-12
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Effect of Alcoholism.

The Journal des Commissioners
Medicales publishes an article, by DR..
Cornil, on certain experiments made
by yDF~-Magnanstoeinvestigate the eff
fects of alcoholism on the economy.
The first series comprises the admins
trait on of brandy to dogs. The ami
nal at first evinces some excitement,
which gradually increases, and ends
in stupefaction and a comatose sleep,
accompanied by fall in the tempera-
ture of the body, insensibility, and
paralysis of the hind legs. This state
is transitory; but if the experiment be
Indefinitely repeated, peculiar nerv-
Gus sensitiveness may be remarked at
the end of a fortnight. The subject
pricks up its ears, watches, and then
starts at the slightest noise, shows
fear, and experiences illusions and
hallucinations which assume the form
of regular delirium within the space
of month, with fits of trembling. II
the brandy be suppressed, death en-
sues, accompanied by Indifference and
stupefaction. There is great differ
ence between the action of mere bran.
dy and the liquor known as absinthe
which is an alcoholic tincture of Arte
misia absinthium, or wormwood; an6
DIR. Magnan's experiments go far tc
retute the opinion of those who con
slider this favorite beverage to be inert
except in SO far as it is alcholic. Civ
en- in weak dose to a dog, a shiver
ing is observed to take place, will
muscular twitches and jerks in tn
neck, and rapid but limited motion
of the head, shoulders and back. Ad
ministered in heavy doses, convulsiv'
fits are the consequence, but differing
materially from paraplegia or deliriuu
tremens HalIucinations moreover ap
pear at the very first experiments
instead of nearly in the last stage, a
it is in the case of mere brandy. Il
man, DR., Magnan divides intoxicatiOl
by alcohol into three stages: mania
delirium tremens and stupor.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-08-12

1t would be a misfortune for this
country if the conflict between labor
and capital should ever assume such
proportions as to form the dividing
line between political parties. It
do no class good, and might bring
great injury upon the country. We
have said before that such a conflict
is unnatural, and therefore unnecessa-
ry. None but the vilest demagogues
would sesk to stir up such an issue
In this country where the majority
rules, labor can always protect itself
in q peaceably way, and capital is al
ways able to take care of itself in times
of peace. We have no respect for a
man who seeks to degrade labor to the
level of abject servility, nor have we
any patience with the demagogue who
seeks to ineulcate into the minds of
the laboring people, ideas of agraian-
ism. ALI the trouble between the two
classes is kept up by men who have
no sympathy fer either. 1t proceeds
from lazy. improvident fellows, drone
bees in the great hive of industry, or
restless nondescrips on the one hand,
or dishonest tyrants on the other,
neither of them being true representa-,
tives of the class to which they claim
to belong. We confidentially believe
that all differences of the kind alluded
to may and should be settled on the
basis of reason and humanity, and
that they will be so if hollow hearted
demagogues will only keep their
mouths shut Knoxville Glenn.
Whig and Chronicle.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-08-12

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, writing from Aurora, In
diana is evidently, disgusted with tn e
management Of weather, and gives
deplorable account of the condition of
things in the southeastern portion of
Hoosierdom as follows:
"a great many years ago when No
ali was alive upon the earth, we had
no more control of the water than the
rest of us. Neither has 'Old Prob. ="
They are both frauds of the first water
as it were, and should be looked after.
What do we strive and toll and pay
taxes for, anyhow? Certainly it is not
that such incompetents as these shoald
be retained in power. May the good
| Lord forbid Letus rise up as one man
and pass resolutions condemning sue h
| looseness in high places.
Out here in the country is where the
| sad results of such management are
seen. Corn is swallowed up in the
| floods; barley is driven into the earth
| by the rains, while the fish have eaten
SHO SA@SS GLop 70 Iue SIOuud. w lGn
no grain, where will the beer and whis-
ky come from for the next years me-
dicinal uses, I'd like to inquire They
will come from nowhere. We won't
have any, it's plain to be seen. That
will be a nice state of affairs, truly
Gaunt Disease will stretch his shad-
owy arm over the face of the earth
and gather US in, And all because ot
the rains"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-08-12
A Short COUrtship.

The Alameda County (Cal. indie
pendent of June 10, is responsible for
the annexed.
The following scene actually occur
red in our vicinity this week. The
parties thereto are well known and
respectable the lady is fifty-fve years
of age, and the gentlemen five years
her senior. They had frequently
heard of each other through mutual
friends, but had never met until few
days ago, when the following eOnver-
sation took place:
Gent-Madam, what is your name !:
Lady-My name is --.
Gent-My name is --. 1 live
in Livermore where own a ranch
Ahem how would you like me for
husband?
Lady-Well. really, now, I don't
know. I've heard your name. Mr.
-, but how would you like me Tor
a wife?
Gent-Madam, the sight of you
more than does justice to what L
have heard. Will you be my wife +?
The lady assented. The gentleman
went Immediately to Oakland to get a
license, and twenty-four hours after
their first meeting the couple were man
and wife, and by this time are on his
ranch at Livermore.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-08-12
Grange Talk.

There is some sense in this kind of
Grange talk, taken from the Missouri
Farmer:
"Our Granger friends will soon be
through with their most pressing
work, and then We want to hear of
them inaugurating plans to carry out
the cooperative features of the order
We feel that specific directions will
not be in place from the fact that the
ability Of the subordinate oranges is
as different as the ability of an equal
number of individuals, furthermore
what in one locality might be neces-
sity, in another would not be desired.
Generally speaking we would say,
combine your efforts in every way that
to you would appear to best subserve
your own interests. If the improve
ment of your stock-such as cattle,
sheep, hogs, or. horses-claim your
attention combine and buy the best
and with proper management the ex-
pense will only be nominal, while the
advantages will be very great In this
way you can give your neighborhoods,
counties and even States, a prominence
they never possessed before We are
thoroughly satisfied that every descrip-
ton, and we furthermore believe that
they cannot afford to continue in the
'old ruts"-every fellow for himself.
There are but few stock raising Iocali
ties in this or adjoining States here
the farmers could not buy as often as
would be necessary a Short-horned
bull, or stallion of improved blood,
or few extra rams, and so on through
the entire list of domestic animals.
We have seen this system tried and
it gave perfect satisfaction; and really
it did not cost anything in the end,
the animals sold for as much as they
cost. Should neighborhood. wish
to engage in cheese making, the same
general principles will apply here as
| certain how many cows you can sue
cessfully use, can the neighborho cd
supply them? what are your shipping
capacities ? in short, count up the
COST" and fyou find the cheese and
butter can be made here as well as in
New York and Ohio, and will pay as
well, our word tor it, you are abnnd-
antly able to commence operations.
These same principles will apply to
any other department of business and
we hope yet hear that authorities high
up in the Order will develop system
ofco operation. not of buying in Penn
sylvanja and selling in New York, but
one that win develop the dormant en-
ergies of this sleeping lion-the State
of Missouri. We advocate but one
system of economy, and that is, We
must develop our own resources. This
is our plan for bringing producer and
consumer nearer together, and for in
creasing the value of real estate, anG
for elevating the God-giyen occupa-
ton of farming TO where it properly
belongs"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-08-12
HUMOROUS.

The Cleveland Plaindealer believes
William Allen would make the best
PRESIDENT yet. The PlaindeaIer is not
alone in that motion William Allen
thinks SO, too.
An exemplary young lady up town
is very particular about closing the
window curtains to her room before
retiring for the night, in order to pre-
ventthe ''man in the moon" from look
ing in.
An old farmer in Ohio, who was
anxious to have his minister dismiss
ed, was asked the reason. 81 have
heard say" was the reply, 'sthat a
change of pastors makes fat calves,
and I'm in for q change"
ssWe need the means for organizing
the Democratic party in this State,'
said a leading politician. A Western
man responded promptly by telegraph:
'sWill ship to-day one barrel whiskey
and one orator; invoice by mail.
Diamond cut Diamond.-"My dear
est Polly, I am surprised at your taste
in wearing another woman's hair on
your head 'sMy dearest Joe I am
equally astonished at your persisting
in wearing another sleeps wool on
your back!
A man was Indignantly exclaiming
that his knife had been stolen, when
at last one of his neighbors, whose
garden had been robbed short time
previous said to him: 81 found your
knife among my cabbages; how came
it there 90 The man was struck dumb.
Hiemeyer, the old man German pa
thologist, says that "Echinococci of
the liver holds the same relation to
taenia echinoccus that leystieercuselu-
losa does to taemosolium. We don't
like to see a man make an off-hand
statement like that We want him to
prove it.
Thackeray tells US Of a woman beg
ging aims from him.. who, when she
saw him put his hand in his pocket,
cried out, ''May the blessings of God
follow you all your life!" But when
he only pulled out his snuff box, she
Immediately added. "And never over
take ye!"
! IA 2Gut4SuIdu SaLO 80 dn OIA 4dAS
who had brought up family of chill
dren near river: 81 should think you
would have lived in constant fear that
some of them would have got drown
ed," "Oh, no." responded the old
lady, ''We've only lost three or four
in that way
Never nod to an acquaintance at an
auction. We did so once, and when
the sale closed, we found four broken
chairs, six cracked flower pots and a
knock kneed bed-stead knocked down
to us. What we intended as mods to
a friend, had been taken by the auc-
tioneer as bids for the kitchen furni-
ture.
"Well, Mr.. Miller" said a Yankee,
proudly, to a travelling Scot, as they
stood by the Falls of Niagara, "Is ii
not wonderful? In your country you
never saw anything like that "Like
that" said the Scot; "there's fal
mair wonderful concern no tWa mile:
fra whar I was born Indeed !'' ex
claimed Jonathan, with an air of su
percilious skepticism, s'and pray wha
kind of concern may it be p "Weel
man. replied Sawney, cts a peacock
with a wooden leg.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-08-12
Fleeing From Temptation.

A member of the colored church
was the other evening conversing
earnestly with an acquaintance, and
seeking to have him changed into bet
ter paths but the friend said that he
was too often tempted to permit him
to become a Christian. 'Whar's yer
backbone, dat ye can't rose up and
stand temptation!' exclaimed the
good man. 81 was dat way myself
once. Right in dis yere town l had
a chance to steal par o. boots
mighty nice ones, too. Nobody was
dar, to see me and reached out my
hand and de dCbbil said take 'em. Den
a good sperit whispered fur me to let
dem boots alone" can you didn't take
'em?" ''No, sah-not much. took q
par o. cheap shoes off de shelf an left
dem boots alone r'-[ Yicksburg Her
aid. .r
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-08-12
From New York to Chicago in
Twenty-six Hours.

The New York Tribune announces
that the Postmaster General has de-
cided upon the mail route along the
shores of the lakes for fast mail to
the West. 1t is expected that it will
begin to run by the 1st of October. 1t
will make the distance from New York
to Chicago in not more than twenty
six hours, and it is hoped to reduce
the time to twenty four, a gain of
twelve hours over the present mail
and express. train. The amount of
mail matter to be carried by this train
will be enormous. There will be four
large postal cars of improved construc-
ton capable of carrying 35 tons of
matter, and it is thought by the De-
partmept that the amount to be car
ried will reach 45 tons before the ex-
piration of six months. The greater
part of the work of distribution will
be done on the cars. Newspapers
will be taken in by the bundle and fold,
ed and distributed en- route. Relays
of clerks will be stationed at Syracuse
Buffalo and Toledo. This enterprise
will not cost one cent additional ex
pense, the railroads having met th'
Government in the most generous
spirit.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-08-12
American Wool and Wooden
Goods--Some Valuable Statistics.

The extent to which the wooden
manufacturers of the United States
are supplied by the domestic wool
products of the country was illustrated
in speech recently delivered at the
dinner of the American Silk Associa-
ton in New York, by Mr.. John L.
Hayes, Secretary of the National As
sociation of Wool Manufacturers, who
said: ''In the decade closing in 1870
we increased the manufacture of wool
ems proper from $61, 900, 900 to $780,
900, 900, and nine tenths of these wool
ems are made of domestic wool" 1t
appears from this that of the wool
used only one tenth is imported from
foreign countries. We have given it
credit for as much as one fourth; but
it seems that we are sadly in error.
Mr.. John L. Hayes estimates the con-
sumption of wool at 22o, 900, 900 pound
annually, of which only $4,000, 900
would be foreign, leaving the domes-
tic supply I98,OOo,O00 pounds. I'm
Gle Sam therefore seems TO have gone
wool gathering to some purpose. Mr..
Hayes stated that the importations of
woolen goods are regularly declining
and that one chief trouble of the man
ufacturer is overproduction from do
mestic competition, of which the con
sumer gets the benefit.
The production of woolen goods
being thus very decidedly in excess of
the domestic consumption, and with
no immediate prospect of the home
market rising in capacity to level
adequate for the consumption of the
whole, it is evident that the export
trade affords the true means of relief.
But as yet no available foreign marke is
have been discovered to an extent
equal to the surplus.
In 1874 the exports of woolen goods
were but $135, ,967, and of wearing ap-
pareE $463, 300, the latter item being
less than in 1860. Mr. Hayes stated
that he purchased at a readymade
clothing store last7fall complete suit
of thick clothes for only twenty dol
lars, which was better than a similar
suit for which one of his sons paid 6
tailor fifty dollars. If wooden clothing
can be made and sold as cheaply, our
merchants ought to be able to build uE
large export trade to foreign points
Under the influence of a protective
tariff the production of wool, and also
woolen goods and clothing, has risen
to great proportions; and as competi
ton at home has been reduced, while
in the meantime the domestic interest!
have attained to a power and strength
sufficient to command the home fielC
and begin an export trade, which
without protection, they never coulC
have done Philadelphia NortI
American,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-08-12
Expansion and Contraction.

A great deal is being said in politi.
cal circles and through the newspa-
pers about Expansion" and 'Fcon-
traction" A good deal is said that
is not understood by the general pub
lie, nor BY those who are talking or
writing Now there is. one sort of
Expansion, which We favor without
limit, and when We talk about it, every
one will understand it. It is this ex-
pansien that made the Eastern States
wealthy, and by which they now have
all the money they need. They have
expanded their means Of production,
so that they produce two dollars where
they cons ume one. Under this pro-
cess it is not strange that they have
plenty of money, and if we in the
South we're to do the same thing we
would be in the same condition. They
have exAanded the capacity of the soil,
so that Emers make large profit ON
their Investments. They have expand.
ed their manufactures, so that they
not only supply themselves. but they
sell us eur cotton goods, our hardware,
our watches and clocks, our boots and
shoes, our needles and pins, our hats
and caps, and a thousand other things
too numerous to mention, including,
as we sometimes say, "wooden nut
megs.''=
We-in the South, on the contrary,
are 'contEactionists. We produce
one dollar and spend two, thereby
contracting our purses at rapid rate.
We send our walnut lumber to Bos-
ton and buy it back in the way of fur
niture, with heavy per cent. added,
for laboE freights, and profit. We
pay freight on our hides to the East
ern markets, where they are manufac
tured into boots and shoes, and we
bring them back, paying freight on
THE man featured articles. We send
oar raw cotton to the East, where we
pay big price for having it manufac.
tured into prints, &c, and then we pay
the freight on it back to the South
We contract the productive capacity
sef our farms by running them year af-
ter year without change of crops,
taking from the soil all the time with
out addihg anything to it, so that it
becomes poorer instead of growing
more pEaductive. This is q correct
statement of the question of 'scontrac-
tion'' aud ''expansion," and in that
view wetdo not hesitate to proclaim
ourselves in favor of unlimited expan
sion.
Let US expand our means of pro.
duction = expand our incomes, anG
contract bur expenditures, so that the
former sslRl1 all the time exceed thG
latter, and soon we will have no rea
son to complain about hard times. I
every man in the south will resolv,
that for the next five years he will pro
duce mare than he consumes, and viii
carry out his resolution, the currency
questionwi1l be settled, and we vii
all wonder that there has been an
controversy about it. Knoxville
| (Tenn. liWhig and Chronicle.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-08-12

The advent of Boston baby was
thus heralded by postal card, recently
to gentleman of this city:
Nicodemus arrived this morning at
three o'clock (July 6th), penniless,
and without a shirt to his back. Al
though a shiftIess thing, he is looking
finely and is in excellentsp though
somewhat disappointed at not being
on hand at the celebration of the
Fourth. Meant to have been here sure,
but got detained-ceuldn't possibly
help it, He seems to be in good con-
dition bodily, but as he had not been
weighed when left home, am una
BILE TO give you the exact figures
something less than ton, however.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-08-12

A Long Branch baker has received
news of ten-thOusand dollar legacy.
He'll probably knead it.-[Traveler.
He won't need bread for some time,
as this will give him quite rise in
the world.-ECommereial Bulletin.
Yea st. He needn't dough any more
work for year--[Lowell Courier.
Isn't the batch getting little mix.
ed? The cake-ography in the above
and the tumble of terms, suggests a
pie-lot ignorant of currants which are
always raisin' difficulties in navigation
Perhaps some one has been attempting
to cracker joke on the baker, SO as to
get him stirred up. If the legacy sto :
ry pans out well, quite likely he will
take loaf as often as he feels like it.
But if he was regularly bred to his
business, he will not enjoy the ginger
bred work of society, and will not give
up the means oven honest living even
for legaey.-EN Newark IN ]. } Ad.
Vertiser.