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The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-02-05
eHlisreHanepns.
~ EARNEST.

Tire saloon door opened. and in walked
! two ih!irs. Customers" the saloon
/ Keeper iity have thought and lie Went
/ On wipiu- tile counter, which was wet
with the foam dripping from the tank
ard he had Just filled. "A little beer
these women want for dinner. proba-
| bly,"
''Will you please sign this pledge! :! said
timij, hesitating voice. The man was
surprised-wanting him to sign the tenn
peranee pledge. Then it was true, all
that had been said in the papers. The
Temperance movement of the women
had come to town, and the front Of
the wave was rolling into his saloon :
This would not do. NO" was his an
swer to the invitation to sign. This is
the way | make my living" and he
growled it out like bear.
y little discussion followed between
him and the nineteenth century Cru
saders.
Wont some OF the other gentlemen
sign" said the kindly-spoken lady.
Who OF the customers would respond
At last a man got up from the bench
where he was sitting, came forward,
planted the pledge on the counter, and
began TO write his name Said he. Il
made up my mind that if the ladies cared
enough about this business to come into
place like this and ask he, | would
sign" Another man also wrote his
name
The ladies' mission was soon over. and
closing the saloon door, they left the
men to a series of practical reflections"
on the subject of woman's earnestnesS.
Earnestness tells. 1t always com
mands premium Many q good cause
to-day is languIshing, simply for the
want of an earnest push from some
champion hand.
The men and women who have ac-
complished anything have'been intense
ly in earnest. They made those feel for
whom they labored that they really
wanted to do something, really wanted
to make them better.
Said Whitefield: 81 want more bodies.
more tongues, more souls for the Lord
Jesus" We don't wonder that he got
them. The masses swayed by his elo-
quence, felt that he earnestly desired to
save them.
There are many poor fellows away
down in the abyss of intemperance won
dering if anybody really cares to lift him
up, and woman is giving that proof.
The present Temperance Movement
is wonderful for its spirit of deep, thor
Ough conservation. 1t is calling out an
element largely abounding in womans
nature, an element of self-denial and
devotion, and when aroused it moves
with tremendous force. In every direc-
ton, women with shrinking natures, are
yet coming forward bold as the martyrs
Of old stepping up TO the stake
This argument of conservation and
earnestness is touching many a prOdi-
gals heart.
They're dead in earnest to save
somebody, he says, and somebody will
be saved
Let the embers in every place be
brought together, the praying women
meeting and kindling on the altar the
OLD fires Of conservation. Let every
pastor lend his influence, helping the
movement to start. No one can give
the lengtl and breadth of the good re-
sulting. We want an earnest Fall cam
paign.-AmeTic0n Messenger.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-02-05

IL one of the Cincinnati newspaper
offices there is an editor to whom is as
signed the duty of writing editorials on
questions under consideration by the
Ohio Legislature. The young man
branched in rankly at the beginning Of
the session, worked off two or three head
ed articles, then dwindled To a daily par
agraph, and finally stopped altogether.
His chief met him an evening or two
since in n billiard room playing pin pool.
He had been there from noon until mid
night every day for month. Being ask
ed what he meant by neglecting his
work, the young man offered to bet his
chief a suit of clothes that the Legisla-
ture had not done a thing during the
month OF. January that was of sufficient
Importance to deserve even a paragraph.
But the wary senior had read the Column
bus reports and refused to take the bet
Did an Ohio Legislature ever give so
little return for its wages as the present
one: If 50, whenl-CieceidRd LeGdeT.
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No. 49,.
AN OLD SWIHDLE.

Every few months we are compeIIed
10 say 10 all our readers who desire to
see themselves immortal in a bound
book, to beware of everybody who Of
iers TO crafty that longing, and espe-
cialy OF one F. H. Greer. alias ssTbe
London and New York Publishing Com
Pany, dttGS The Genealogical Soeie-
", atlas The History of the-th Con
gress, alias Men of Progress, . ct eeter0
\ dozen times we have slain this partie
uiar impoStor and nailed him up as n
warning; but invariably, a little while
after, we begin to get notes from poets.
grocers, and divines, saying he has got
their money and not given them a pass
port to Nalhalla, or We see that he has
sued some leading statesman for 800. 600
worth of glory which the said statesman
has contracted to take at Greer's own
prices. He seems to have been recently
getting men, greedy of seeing their
names in print, to sign, without reading.
a contract containing this incredible
clause:
''The publisher is ordered to insert A BIZ
Ographical sketch Of my life in said work;
for which / agree to pay the publisher or
order One-third of a cent each word each and
every issue Tor each cOpyland eight cents for
each engraving OF my portrait that is insert
ed in said work. And | also agree to paw
TO said publisher, on demand, two t2) cents
for every minutes time that elapses between
the date of this memorandum and the de-
livery of my sketch and photograph, and
for every minutes time elapsing between
the receipt and return of proof-sheets of NV
sketch, and for every minutes time that
passes between the asking for and the pay
ment OF said amount according to above
terms.
The victim sighs and then gives him
sell up to dreams of seeing his biography
and portrait elbowing those of st. Pat
rick and Bismarck and Grant on {riendIy
and sociable terms, in gilt-edged splen-
dor The next thing he hears of, Greer
presents bill for ten or twenty thous-
and dollars. and sometimes the same
weakness which induces him to sign in
duces him to compromise to save him
self from ridicule, and Greer pays his
board for year out of the ashes of the
poor fellows ambition. The same trick
is practiced in other places, for civiliza-
tion breeds the same kind of knaves and
fools everywhere. We have Just been
shown a letter from the Secretary of
the Direction of the Bureau of General
History, No. q TeTrassiere, at Geneva.
who appears to be making the most
brilliant promises of biographical fame
to Americans whose names he sees in
the papers. We are asked how to dis
criminate between the honest men and
the rogues. There is no discrimination;
every man, or company, who wants to
publish your life and portrait, and wants
you to subscribe for them, is rogue,
and you Off you cOnsent), after he has
brayed you in a mortar, will be Just
what you were before. We make this
statement on the highest authority
". Y. Tribune.
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NOTICE.
STATE OF OHIO.
HANCOCK COUNTN-

STATE OF OHIO. -
Hilliard ID. BOulware, Plaintiff, Is Peter Il,
Seitz, Samuel Seitz. Joseph johnson. .Cha les
EarquaTson, and l. II. Newcomer. Defend
ants. Court Common Pleas, Hancock coun-
ty, Ohio.
FI'HE ABOVE NAMED Defendants A IEs
Il hereby notified that, On the 25d day OF No
yember, 1874, The plaintiff, Hilliard u. B8ui-
ware, filed his petition against them IN the
Court of Common Pleas, Hancock county, o..
praying for an injunction restraining the said
Peter +. SeiiZi rom negotiating the Plaintiffs,
note for Two Hundred Dollars, il the peIi-
tion described, ami, also. restraining the said
Samuel Seitz from collecting the same, and
estraining the said Joseph johnson rom
paying any money to the said Samuel Seiiz or
any other person on notes in the petition de-
Scribed, and also restraining /. H. >ewcJmer
and Charles FaTQuharSon from collecting eel
tain Two Hundred and Twenty-sevcD dOiiars
secured by mortgage on premises in the petit
tion described, and that on the 2sd daY 30
uember, 1874. aforesaid, the Probate CoarJ o.;
Hancock county granted the order OF iuiunc
tion as prayed for in said petition.
And the defendants will further take notice
that al the January term of the Court OF Com
mon Pleas of the county and State aforesaid
or as soon thereafter as the law will permit
the plaintiff will move said Court 10 max "a Id
Injunction perpetual.
Dated December 18th, 1874.
WALKER K DUNN
JAM l, ls75-6w. Attorneys foI Plaintiff.
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pprtra'.
AROUND THE WORLD.

Draw up your chairs; the paneS are white
With wintry growth, the ferns of frost;
Without, the elm-lTee mOlns tonight;
Its long, bare arms ar wrung and tossed
The gates on frozen hinges cTeak,
The ruic wind rattles doors and sash,
And where it smites the whitening check,
II sings and tingles like a lash
pom the path the hardy snow
Laugh chuckling at the heavy heel;
And where the Laden wagons 90,
II drOnes and sings beneath the wheel.
The white smoke, lifting fold on fold,
Wri;hcs, snake-like, beaten in the air;
The man in the moon looks pincled and
cold;
The heavenly lanterns wink and flare
But bring choice apples from the bins,
And crack the nuts, while in the heat
The corn its mimic fight begins
The skirmish, battle and retreat.
Aud pass the wine of sprightly speech,
The brisk champagne of wit and jest;
Give laughter easy room, and each,
In turn, make mirth for all the rest.
So let the crazy nOTther roar;
Snug by his hearth, we will mind;
To might he written DER the door,
"WhO enters here leaves care behind.
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TEz2s: 50 CO Pc. Aaan=. & l57sses.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-02-05

How A LITTLE Boy DIED.-The Yir-
ginia City New Enterprise Of January
18th, has this little paragraph:
Little Eddie Nye. who was run over
by fiat-car last Friday evening and so
badly injured that he died the next
morning, was a rarely bright child, and
one of the best children in the city
Just before he died he sang The Beau
tiful River" with a voice as sweet as
though he had caught the tones from the
softer shore on the brink of which his
spirit was then trembling. After the
song, he repeated little prayer, which
his mother had taught him. The child
all his life had lisp, and this last pray
er fell from his tongue without halt or
quaver, but rather, steady and clear,
and yet with a far-of tone, as though
anOther's voice of infinite sweetness had
seized upon his lips in the supreme mo-
meDt, to leave an echo in his anguished
mothers ears, which should last as long
as life. Shortly after the little prayer
the sunny eyes closed, and little Eddie
was gone. On Sunday his funeral at
traeted the whole city, and there was
not a dry eye around the child's bier.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-02-05
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN.

THE CULTIvAToR & COUNTRY GENTIEM y,
for the past forty years, has ranked, both iu
this country and abroad, as the STANDARD
JOURNAL Of AMERICAN AGRICULTURE The
editors and Froprie;ors, In addition To their
own persolal labOrs, are regularly assisted by
very large mum Der of Special Corre~ Pa nd
eHis and Regular Contributors, among whom
are included many Leading Agricullurists, IN
all parts of the Country, East and West-and
By over Five Hundred Occasional and
Voluntary Writers. directly in the ranks OF
he Best Farmers and HOrticulturists in nearly
svery State in the Union. With the cO-opera-
ton OF so large corps Of practical men, this
Journal is intended to possess exceptional
value as the chosen Medium Of IuIe room
munieatiOn among all classes interested in
The Products and Fertility of the land-those
who Cultivate and those who Consume-the
Buyer and shipper, as well as the first owner
OF the crop-Breeders o. Improved Animals
and their Customers-ManufsctureI OF I'm
and employ it-EurEeryTpen and Fruit Rai>-
ers-and, especially, to supply fuller and better
data as TO tie progress, prospects and returns
OF each successive Season, throwing light
upon one OF the most important OF ell ques
uOns-WheH 10 Buy and IChen 10 Sell
TERMS.-The COUNTRY GENTLEMAN is pub
lished weekly, on the following terms. when
paid strictly in advance: ONE Copy one year,
S2-5Oi FOUR COPIES, SO. and dn additional
coPyyor The year free 10 the sender Of he Club !;
TEN COPIES, sac. and an d0diiitORdI copy FOR The
yeGT free 10 the sender CJ the Club.
Eo7SPECIMEN COPIES RE. Address
aFSubscuptions reteived and forwarded at
this office.
LUTHER TUCKER d. son, Publishers,
ALBANY N. u.
Sept. Is, 1874.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-02-05

A CHICAGO Savings bank, some time
ago, offered reward of one thousand
dollars for the best plan of two fire-proof
buildings, one a cottage OF five rooms,
the other store with "a dwelling above.
Thirty plans have been presented, most
of them from Chicago architects, some
from Eastern cities and one from Eng
land. With few exceptions the plans
call for hollow brick walls and brick
partitions. with an absence of lath and
ordinary plaster Burnt clay, corruga-
ted iron, terra-cotta, plaster Of Paris,
concrete and a composition Of sand,
lime, and sawdust, are the principal anti
fire materials used. ed.-CleceldHh Leader
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-02-05

A LAMP has been introduced in Eng
land which promises TO be valuable for
ship wreck signals, life-buoys, rocket
lines, apparatus, etc. 1t is self-ignitiDg
when thrown into the water and cannot
be extinguished either by wind or storm,
and its brillianey is such that photo
graphs can be taken by its light, which
reaches TO great distance. The expense
Is said 70 be small, and in case of ship
wreck few Of these lamps thrown on
the waves and lighting up the whole vi
einity of the ship would facilitate the
rescue Of passengers and crew.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-02-05
Thirty Years Experience of an
EefSf &HTSQ.

Mr.. Wir,AEo,,-> Soothing SyT yTuP II the
prpSeFiptisn Gf one Of the best femaIe
PHysIcIans and NuTscs in the United Sial-s'
and has been used Tor thirty years with never
l4flin. safety and success 10y millions OF iDoth-
srs aud children fIOm the fee bic infant o. one
y. ak old to the adult IL cOTTects aclully oI
fj.esIotnach relieves wind collie, regulates the
f,o,rtls and gives resi-. health and comfort 10
mother and child, We believe IL 10 be the
Best and Surest Remedy in the World IN AZ
eases of DYSENTERY and DIARhHuEA IN
CHILDREN whether it arises rom Ieethlng
or from any other cause. Full directions lof
using viii accompany each bottle. Nohe
Genuine unless the fac-simile of CURTIS a
PERKINS is on the outside wrapper. sold
by all Medicine Dealers. July ZD-iN
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DID NOT TAKE TIE PRIZE.

Our county fair is Just over; but John
sons COtswold ram did not take the
prize that was offered for the best ami
NAL of that kind. Judge Pitman was
chairman of the committee on rams, and
he manifested the deepest interest iu
JOhnsOn's ram; indicating clearly that
if any sheep ought to take prize that
one ought to. JOhnsOn's ram was by
itself in pen with high board fence
and before adiudicating the prizes the
judge thought he had better go in and
make a close examination of the animal
for the purpose of ascertaining the fine
ness of its wool, etc. As soon as the
judge reached the interior, he walked
toward the ram, whereupon the ram be-
gan to lower its head and to shake it
ominOusly. Just as the Judge was about
to feel the fleece, the ram leaped forward
and planted its head in the Judges stom-
ach, rolling him over on the ground.
Before the judge had time to realize
what had happened, the ram came at
him again and began n series of promis-
cuous butts, each given with the precis-
ion and force of pile-driver 1t butted
the judge on the back, on the ribs, on
his arms, on his shoulder-blades, on the
bald place on his head, on his breast,
on his shins; it butted his nose, it but
ted his watch into mass of loose cog
wheels, it butted his speetacles off, it
butted his high hat into blaek-silk chaos,
it butted hilH over into the corner and
up against the fence, then it butted
four boards out of the fence, butted
down another of the committee, butted
three small boys into fits, butted the
money-taker at the gate, and then fed
out into the country, butting harmlessly
at the fresh air The judge did not dis
tribute the prizes that day. When they
collected him from various parts of the
pen, they wiped the mud from his trow-
sers and the blood from his nose, and
sent him home with a perennial stom-
ach ache and n determination to start
after the wandering mutton the first
thing in the morning with shot gun
Aar AdeleT, IN DanJuTy Relcs.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-02-05

JUDGE JOHN BARR, who died at Cleve-
land on the 2ith inst, in his 71st year,
was one of the pioneers of Western Ohio,
having been born in what was then
TrumbuIl but is now Mahoning county
in 1904. He settled in Cleveland in 1923,
and at once entered into active public
life, connected with the city and county
first as Deputy Sheriff, then as Sheriff.
Later in life he was Judge of the Police
Court and Clerk of the Court Of Com
mon Pleas. He took the census of the
city in 1880, when the population was
1.O71.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-02-05

FRANCIS DEAK, the Hungarian STATES
man, who has been reported as hope
lessly i'll, was born in 1903. and early in
life became a liberal politician. In 1919
he tried to effect reconciliation be
tween Hungary and Austria The at
tempt failed, and Mr. Deak, after short
imprisonment, retired to his estates.
He did not reappear in public life till
1860, when he was returned TO the Hun
garian Diet for Pesth. He was largely
instrumental in bring about the change
in the Austrian Government by which,
in the latter part of the last decade, a
separate Ministry was granted for Hun
gary.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-02-05

..GRASDNA, do you know why can
see up in the sky so farf' asked Charlie,
a little four-year-old, of the venerable
lady who sat on the garden-seat knitting.
mo, my dear, why is it p said grandma,
raising her eyes, eager to catch and re-
member the wise saying Of the precious
little pet. Because there is nothing in
the way, replied the young philosopher,
resumingjhis astronomical research, and
grandma her knitting. Z
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-02-05

\ CONVICT in the State Prison at
Charlestown, Mass, has wrought out,
with n pocket knife, pair of exquisitely
beautiful and highly-pOlislied ivory
hands. They are little over an inch
long, and the fingers, nails, joints, and
all, are perfectly formed and in perfect
proportions. Between the thumb and
forefnger of each hand is held in the
most dainty and graceful manner tiny
red rose. The cuffs are fastened with
sleeve-buttons, and above the cuffs, in
each, is a small piece Of black ivory,
representing the dress on the arms. In
these there are golden rings or staples,
so that they may be worn as charms on
q watch or as ornaments for the ears.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-02-05

KISG KALAKAUA has proven a very
ungallant fellow. American ladies, he
says, are handsome, bold and forward, -
and complains that IN New York he ac-
tually received proposals of marriage
from several of them. We sincerely
hope that the island King will not form
his opinion of American ladies from
those OF New York who breathe the air
of Brooklyn.
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East S1ndnsSg s.. TZdd oo,yroai p u.
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STATISTICS show, that, although the
German navy consists, at present, of on
ly twenty-three vessels, with sixteen
gunboats and six torpedo boats, the
mercantile marine ranks next TO those
of England, America and France. II
consists of 219 steamers, of 165, 17S toI.s,
and 263 sailing ships, Of !, ,l43, $40 tons.
The former have increased since 1867
by nearly fifty, and the latter by more
than twenty per cent.
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NEW LAW FIRM. i.

y.,uE UNDERSIGNED HAVE ASSOCIATED
themselves as a law firm, under the name
= WsiEer& Dunn. We will occupy the Office
HERETOFORE used by z. I. Dunn, over the Han
cock savings Bank. Main Street. Findlay, o.
W. ygII a. tend to all business entrusted to our
barve in the state and Federal Courts. We
IN also give especial attention 10 the exami-
eafion OF land titles, and to the purchase and
~ OF real estate in Hancock county and
Ns,rbere WALKER & DUNN.
eiD0 iSept. IL '7a-tf.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-02-05

THE beauty Of keeping a goat is, that
he isn't particular what yOn feed him on.
A Buffalo Billy got into the house the
other day, during the fanily's absence,
and managed to make a respectable
meal on a Panama hat, three linen
bosom shirts, a box Of Havana cigars,
and part Of a new bonnet.
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dissolution Notice.

'INHE LAW PARTNERSHIP OF H. & f.
/ Brown was this day dissolved. The law Of
fice Of The undeIsignedS<gill hereafter be In
Byatt's building. over s. & ]. NJ. Hnber's Drug
Store, nearly opposite "Old White Corner,
where he will attend to any business entrust-
ed 10 his care, upon terms fair and satisfacto-
~. EZRA BROWN.
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The city of Covington, KY, recently
paid about S13, 900 for removing bodies
from an old graveyard lot, and grading
it, but after the money was expended il
was asceTtsined that the lot was decided
to the city for a graveyard, and could
be used for no other purpose by the city.
So the city had TO leave two or three
dead bodies buried in the lot to keep the
heirs Of the grantor from pOuneing on it.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-02-05

OVER 500, 900 have been expended, it
it is said, in the hunt for Charlie Ross.
OF circulars containing his description
and photograph, 700, 900 have been is
sued, at a cost of 5000; over 500 boys
have been reported who proved to be
not the child; and as many as 35 detee-
tiyes have been employed in the search
at one time
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-02-05

JAMES A. BOPEs
A TToRNEY AT LAW
Once over W. l.. Davis q Co.'S Store, Main
street, Findlsy, Ohio. lapr- IA, III