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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-24

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men references exchanged
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10
schenck,s mandrake Pm,

will be found to possess those qualities necessary
to the total eradication of all bilious attacks
prompt 10 start the secretions of the liver and
give healthy tone to the entire system. Indeed
II is no ordinary discovery in medical science tc
have invented remedy for these stubborn com.
plants which develop all the results produced by
a heretofore free use Of calomel, mineral Justly
dreaded by mankind, and acknowledged to be de-
structive in the extreme TO the human system
That the properties Of certain vegetables comprise
all the virtues Of caomel without its injurious ten
denoies is now an admitted fact, rendered indis.
putable by scientific researches; and those who
use the Mandrake Pills will be fully satisfied that
the best medicines are those provided by nature in
the common herbs and roots of the fields.
These pills open the bowels and correct all bill.
ious arrangements without salvation or any OF the
Injurious effects of calomel or other poisons
The secretion OF bile is promoted by these pills, a.
will be seen by the altered color Of the stools and
disappearing of the sallow complexion and cleans
ing Of the tongue.
pills v
Prepared only by j. H. schenck & Son, at their
principal office, corner Sixth and Arch streets.
Philadelphia. and for sale by all druggists and deal.
eTs. Price 25 cents Der ho~
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10
Dogs In Tennessee.

TENNESSEE has more dogs than men.
Returns Of the dog tax assessment from
nearly thirty counties, nearly one third OF
the State, show AZ ,854 men and 10, 7SO
dogs. A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial THUS comments upon this fact:
The returns from the thirty counties,
taken as a basis, indicate that there are
about 225, 900 dogs in the State listed for
taxation. The manner of listing them in
many counties is exceedingly defective, so
that tens of thousands will escape taxation
but, even supposing that 225, 900 is the cor.
rect number, what do you suppose is the
yearly cost of their suppOrty An average
dog will, at the very lowest calculation,
eat five cents worth of bread and meat
daily. Multiply by the number of days
in year and dogs in the State, and we
find that they cost largely over $4,OO0,OOO
annually, to say nothing of the sheep they
destroy and the emigration they hinder.
What they consume outright would fatten
more than $4,000, 900 worth of pork, which
would bring yearly into each county large.
ly over $40, 900, In every one of thirty
counties the returns from which are in
there are more dogs than men. In Cheat.
ham County there are 760 men and 1909
dogs, or nearly three dogs to one mani |
should like to know how many sheep
there are, and if there is not constant COM
plant in Cheatham that there is no
money in the country In Clay County
there are S07 men and 1,161 dogs, The
total valuation of property in that county,
real and personal, Is only $761 ,02O. In
shecp-raisihg sections of our land it is not
difficult TO find single men who are worth
more than all of Clay County In Coffee
County there are 1875 men and 2,211
dogs. In Fcntress County, 500 men to l..
13l dogs. In Giles County there is the
enormous number of $50 dogsl But that
is moderately thickly populated county,
there being 4,5S6 men in 1t, or not quite
two dogs to one man. In Hancock there
are 92l men and ,667 dogs Henry comes
nearer to being an even thing, that county
having 3,034 men and 5000 dogs. BY men
as here used is meant all voters under
fifty years of age, or polls They are
listed by the assessors along with the
dogs, except such as are over age and
therefore not subject to poll tax. There
fore it would be fair to add about 10 or
II per cent to the number of men here
given. But still the dogs would be large
ly ahead And, for that matter, there arc
no doubt more dogs not given in than
there are voters in the State who are
exempt from poll tax ON account of age
There are 1850 dogs in Giles County.
Last year there were 1,750 sheep in that
county killed by dogs. Last year, in
Coffee County, 405 sheep were Killed by
dogs; in Perry County, 800; in Hayward,
l,l4i Wayne, 800; Robertson, 1,115;
Sequatchie, $50; Decatur, 1885, Sumner,
500. So far as the dog tax returns are
made up we find that those counties hav-
ing most dogs have lost heaviest iu sheep.
From what few statistics we have fl ON
sheep slaughter in some of the counties it
Is safe to say that fully AS 600 are killed
yearly in this State by dogs"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10
Matrimonial Mistakes.

There seems to be a strange atmosphere
Of mistakes about the wedding. service.
Even the printers Join in this. An En-.
glish edition of the Prayer Book came out
some time ago with the following mis-
placement of single letter: "Wilt thou
love, honor and cherish" ETC., ETC., "and
forsaking all others, keep thee only unto
her as long as ye both shall Eike"-a
change from :" live" TO "like." well
suited to the changing habits of present
matrimonial life. Another very common
mistake among ignorant people who want
the Episcopal service is in the allitera-
tive sentence: '"Io have and to hold from
this day forward" l know a clergyman
who assures me he very frequently has it
rendered; To have and TO behold from
this day forward" The nervousness of
the parties TO be married very often ac-
counts for these mistakes. A pretty-well
frightened groom on one occasion, feel.
ing that he must be brave and speak up
well when the officiating clergyman asked
any question, boldly replied to the aues-
hon addressed TO the father of the bride,
Who giveth this woman TO be married TO
this man ~ MY sponsors in baptism I" An
other frightenedyouth, rememberingi in the
presence Of some beautiful bridesmaids
the answer TO one Of the questions in the
order of baptism, replied TO the question :
"Wilt thou have this woman to be
thy welded wifeT' "I renounce them
all, and, by Gods help, will endeavor
not to follow nor be led by them. ."-Apple
tons Journal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10
An Empty Honor

THE bankruptcy Of Baronet and ex.
Lord Mayor is not a usual occurrence,
though it would be of little account if it
did not point moral. Mr.. Sills John
Gibbons, respectable London tradesman.
who had been tor many years an Alder.
man, became in due course, two or three
years ago, Lord Mayor of London, and
strutted his brief year on the stage, being
made Baronet during his term. That
over, he sank back into his position as an
Alderman. A few weeks ago it was an
nOunced that, owing to ill-health, he had
resigned his aldermanic gown, and we
were all sympathizing with him. A little
later his name appeared in the fatal Gazette
among the names of bankrupts, and he is
now undergoing the process of whitcwasll
ing The moral alluded to is this: He
was doing a comfortable business, and if
he had been contented with that might
have retired in few years and lived con-
fortably the rest of his days But no--the
height of a London tradesman's ambition
is TO be Lord Mayor for one brief year.
and poor Gibbons could not resist his des.
tiny. The result was that the e10, 900 or
915, 900 it cost him (besides the salary)
during those short twelve months was
more than his business would Justify or
his capital could stand, and the result is
his downfall and the prospect Of spending
the rest of his days in poverty. 1t is the
old story of the silly moth.-London Cor.
Chicd10 Journal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10
The Paper Dollar

MIR. AnAuTT Brown, in a speech made
at Philadelphia during the recent election
canvass in Pennsylvania, gave the follow
ing description of a paper dollar:
1T has a value, it is true but not a
value depending on itself. 1t shines with
a cold, reflected light, like the moon.
Take away the sun, and the moon is dark /;
cut off all connection between your paper
and gold, and what becomes of it? You
cannot do with paper dollar as you can
with one Of gold. You cannot break it
into pieces and put it together again, and
vet have destroyed only that part of its
value which represents the labor OF
making. You cannot take up the frag-
ments of your paper dollar from the ruins
Of your burnt house and make them into
money again. You cannot take it into the
four corners of the globe and buy bread
with ii. 1t cannot be kept through
twenty generations and be at the end
relatively just as valuable. Can you melt
1t up with nineteen others aud get
twenty times as much as you could for
one? or then divide the lump into twenty
parts, and, including your labor, get a
dollars worth for each? Suppose your
Government comes into dishonest hands,
can it repudiate gold? Suppose it falls
to pieces, as many governments have
done, has your gold dollar become value
less? Your paper dollar IS worth eighty
cents to-day, instead of nothing, simply
because il is a solemn promise of your
Government to pay you gold dollar for
it. The difference represents the doubt
of the ability to pay"
Yet this is just the kind Of dollar with
which Gen. Butler, Wendell Phillips and
others of the rag money school propose TO
enrich the American people and bless all
the industries of the land France in
1896 was blessed with more than S,O0O,-
OO0,00 of such dollars, in the form of
Asslgndts, and it took wheelbarrow. load
of them to buy a dinner.-N. 7. Inds-
nSD1enf
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10
Gold Goes where It Is Desired.

TEE wildcat initiation organ, which he.
lleves only in irrcdeemable, fuctuating,
deprecated scrip for money, says;
The proposition that an increased supply
(of gold) would come to the nation merely
because more would be needed Is as absurd ne
would bethe declaration that the individual
has only to desire gold TO possess q suificicn-
cy of It. The idea that wherever the gold
is needed there will the gold speedily and
the ignorance and innocence Of the dark
ages.
Notwithstanding these dogmatic asser.
tons, il is fact that gold does flow where
NJ is desired, and that where It is needed
gold speedily finds its way. When Il is
not desired il never circulates, but STAYS
away. What people do not desire in the
way Of any particular kind Of property or
goods is not thrust upon them in defiance
of their wish. In order 10 possess gold
or any other valuable object, the first thing
necessary Is 10 desire TO have IL. When
the people desire TO have gold
in circulation as money they will speedily
find a way to obtain It, A country which
produces from its mines from eighty to
a hundred millions year Of gold and sill.
yer can surely keep some of ii If 1t de-
sircs to, and more especially when the
same country produces from three TO four
hundred millions Of surplus cotton, bread.
stuffs and petroleum for annual exporta-
ton, and has the power to fabricate and
export other hundreds Of millions worth
OF manufactures whenever the people
choose 20 adopt a fiscal system that re.
moves the barriers and distractions there.
TO. The banks of the United States can
import hundred millions Of gold when.
ever they see fit to export one.quarter of
the bonds in their possession. There ure
ways and means in abundance in this
country for obtaining all the coin needed
to support resumption whenever the peo-
pie desire the gold and conclude to re-
sumo, and he that denies il shows that he
is too stupid to comprehend what he is
talking abOut.-Chtcdgo Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10

Habits should enter largely into the
choice of teacher. If you wish your
boys to become inebriates employ teach
er who uses intoxicating liquors,
frequents saloons, etc. If you wish them
to eat tobacco procure q teacher
who will use it in their presence. The
idea with some is that if he only smokes
or chews little ii don't matter; better OBJ
tain one who is perfectly dirty habitu-
ate, then your boys may become disgusted
with its use. If you wish your school
room a hot.bed of disease procure a
teacher who Is ighorant of the laws con.
holling health, who will keep the air
vitiated with poisonous vapors and heated
to degree that removes tbs oxygen of
the air. Such a one will most generally
be those whose lungs are so compressed
with some fashionable appendage as to be
unable TO manufacture enough heat to sus-
tain the body and extremities during win
ter. If you wish your girls led into
fashions which dwarf the body get a
teacher who is corseted, hustled, with
light, high-heeled boots and delicate ap-
parel. If you want the mind dwarfed OBJ
tain teacher whose time is devoted to the
reading of novels, fictitious magazines and
other nonsense, instead of good, sound
literature.-C0r. Western Farm Journal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10

In examining some portions of the
flesh of a mallard duck, transmitted to
him by DR.. Cones, Prof. 1eidy found
abundance Of parasites in the ihterstices
of the muscles. These were oval white
bodies, one or two lines long and
about one-third of line thick, which,
beneath the microscope, were ascertained
to contain thyfiads of fusifortn corpuscles,
like minute Navicule, measuring about
one. .fifteen-thousandth of an inch in
length. Similar bodies were first discov-
cred in fishes by Prof. J. Miller and de-
scribed by him as parasites, under the
name of Psorosperms. They have since
been repeatedly observed in fishes and
usually regarded as vegetable parasites.
Prof. Leidy was not aware that any such
organisms had been previously detected
in birds. Though the mallard is not a
fish-eating bird, As a rule, the individual
may have become infected by swallowing
a fish affected with these organisms
New York Independent.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10
'' Throw Physic TO the Dogs; I'II None
of IU.J

We do not in the least feel like blaming
Macbeth for this expression of disgust; in,
deed, we are rather inclined to sympathize
with him. Even nowadays most Of the ca
thartics offered TO the public are great, re-
pulsiye- looking pills, the very appearance
OF which is sufficient TO turn ones stom.
ach'" Had Macbeth ever taken DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant PurgatiYe Pellets he would not
have uttered those words of contempt. IL
Is really encouraging, when one is i'll, TO find
that little, sugar-coated Pellet, no larger
than grain of mustard, will as promptly
produce the desired effect as dose Of great,
Hike other cathartlcs, are really natures
physlc. They do not debilitate, but tone
and inyigorate the system. No family
should be without DR.. Pierce Pleasant Pur.
gatiVe Pellets
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10
Sir John Lubbock on Ants.

SIR JOHN LUBBOCK has published some
further experiments on ants and bees
which make serious inrOads on the reuu.
tation of those exemplary animals. The
sum of his experiments seems TO be that
the intelligence of the creatures is very
much in proportion to the size of their
brain matter, taken relatively TO the size
Of their bodies. They are active and in
dustrious, but very much the slaves of
custom; they seem TO have the faculty of
taking up a line and sticking TO il, and
what they do they do well, but they.show
nothing like the wisdom or the original
power OF contrivance with which they are
pOpularly credited. This want OF origi-
nality SirJ Lubbock established by very
pretty experiment He suspended some
larvae on a slip of glass about third of
an inch above the surface of one of his ar
tifcial ants nests, and placed some black
ants on the glass with the Larvae. Within
half an inch of the glasses he placed some
ine mold, so that if the ants had possessed
much engineering skill they could in half
a minute have constructed a bridge be-
tween the glass and their nest. Not only
did they not do this, but the ants on the
glass did not even risk the leap TO the nest,
which they could almost touch with their
antenn@. They seized the Larvae and leaned
over the edge of the glass, and some OF
them got down on the backs of their fell
lows, but most of them travelled TO the
nest by a circuitous route of thirteen feet,
along which was presently established
quite string Of ants passing 10 and from
the nest to the Larvae. Go 10 the ant, thou
sluggard; but do not go to the ant, thou
engineer. London BrGminer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10

from these figures II Will be seen that
the Democrats had net majority last
year, in these sixteen States, of 107, ,207
votes, whereas the Republicans have a
net majority, this year, of 40, $50, showing
a net Republican gain of 156, $50. Allow
ing for a Democratic gain Of $4,000 in
California and Mississippi, which is a
very liberal estimate, we still have net
Republican gain of LOG, 500.
Nor do these figures express the full i'm
portance Of the Republican gains. OF
these twenty-one States, eleven had Dem.
ocratic Governors last year, and but ten
had Republican. Next year thirteen of
them will have Republican Governors and
only eight Democratic. We have lost a
Governor in but one State, California, and
have gained in four, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts,, Ohio and Wisconsin,
Twelve Of these States, casting 1863 elect.
oral votes, were Democratic in the elec.
tions of 1874, only nine Counting Cali.
fornia ana Mississippi, with sixty elector-
al votes, were Republican. In 1875 four
teen of them, casting 1877 electoral votes,
are Republican, and but seven, with
eighty-six electoral votes, are Democratic.
This is comfortable figure to start with
in the Presidential year. On the whole
the balance-sheet for 1875 shows decided.
ly we'll for the Republicans Detroit ITi6-
une.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10
How a Starving Family Were Re.
lieYed.

One winter. good many years ago,
man named McNiel lived with his fam.
lily on the eastern side of Mount Washing
ton, near the top. Although dependent
on his labor for support, he was naturally
indisposed 10 work very much, supplying
the deficiency with his wits. One night,
a few hours before daybreak, he went
down the mountain through an unusually
deep snow 10 the house of a substantial
farmer named Spur, and loudly knocked
at the door, at the same time shouting I, r
hr. Spur 10 get up. The door was soon
opened, and McNiel, apparently almost
breathless with haste, said: Mr.. Spur,
I've COME for help; my family are starry
ing. They haven't had anything TO eat
since yesterday, and morrow is the
third day" Mr.. Spurs benevolence
oyercame his reflection and he gave
McNiel quite a load Of pork, flour and
other provisions. 1t did not strike him
hat McNiel's story was consistent with
the hearty supper which his family had
eaten few hours previous, and that "to.
morrow" was twenty-fOur hours in the
future.t' fr T
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10

Moses B. Wheeler, convicted Of arson
in 1896, and sentenced to Imprisonment
for life in the Charlestowh (Mass.) Prison,
has just been pardoned There Is now
satisfactory evidence that he was not guilty
of the crime with which he was charged.
His sister, on whose testimony he was
>onyicted, confessed on her death bed
that she had perjured herself in order to
get him out of the way and obtain control
of his property
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10

Since October, 1s45, the American
Sunday School Union, by the personal la
bors of its missionaries, organized 1O,0S4
Sunday in the States and Terrific
ries west of Ohio and north of the Ohio
River, and in those west of the Mississip-
pi River, besides distributing religious
literature to the value of $208, ,381 10. In
this work they reached 1906 ,9J4 children
and youth.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10

THERE is nothing half so funny as q
practical joke, and this, as told by an
Eastern paper, is regular rib-tickler: !:
Frederick Walker and Peter KOhler, of
Gutenberg, N. j., stuffed an old suit of
clothes with straw, the other night, and
carried ii TO Bulls Ferry road and Her.
man avenue, where they placed Il against
a alamp-pOst. About midnight they began
AN Imaginary quarrel in loud tone, and
continued it until a number of people
were aroused from their beds. Then they
shot the imaginary man. The body fell
down and the young men ran away. The
neighbors, thinking murder had been
committed, chased the young men, and
Kohler was shot in the leg before the de-
ceplion was explained" Think what
solid enjoyment Mr.. Kohler will have
laughing at that for six weeks while he
nurses his leg, and what screaming farce
u would have e'been for his whole family
IT he had been shot in the head.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10
Cheap and Warm Mittens for Farmers,

DURING period Of more than thirty
years past we have been accustomed to
make cheap and durable mittens in the
following manner, to be worn when per-
forming all sorts Of out OF door work: A
good sheep-skin is purchased for about
$l.OO, which has been tanned with the
wool on. The wool, of course, is short
not more than half an inch in length. A
sheep-skin of medium size will make
from three to four pairs of mittens, as per
the size of the hands. A pattern was first
made out of stiff brown paper. The paper
thumb-piece must be neatly fitted to the
pattern. Then the leather will fit the
thumb-hole. One pattern will answer for
both mittens if the leather is turned over
after one mitten has been cut out. Some
times the mittehs are made with the wool
outward, and sometimes the wool is in
side, When mittens are to be used for
handling wood, stone, lumber and other
things which are liable to wet them the
leather is smeared with a coat of coal.
tar, which must be dried in before
the fire. A coat Of coal-tar will prevent
the leather from becomingwet like piece
OF wet cloth, and it will also make the
mittens wear like horn. Apply tar only
to the parts that are most exposed TO con
tact with the materials to be handled. In
lieu OF shecp-sEin we have sometimes en-
ployed tanned talf-skin. Mittens will
keep hands much warmer than gloves
Procure glOvef's needle, of triangular
shape, let the edges of the leather be
wetted before the mittens are sewed, en-
ploy strong thread, we'll waxed with bees.
wax, and the mittens will render excellent
service.-N y Herald.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10

HAVE you innammatory sore throat, stiff
joints, or lamencss from any cause what
ever? Have you rheumatic or other pains
in any part of the body? II SO, use John
sons Anodyte LiEiment, internally and ex-
tprnullv
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10

GENTIAN was our grandmothers' hobby for
a tonic, and no bitter would be considered
complete without II; hence 1t enters into
nearly all. But experience has proved that
II Is Injurious to the stomach II frequently
used, A far better tonic is found In Guarana
Bitters
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10

The presence of phosphorus, or some
one OF its compounds, has been observed
TO be one necessary condition for the de-
velopment ofputrefaction-the more phos-
phorus the more rapid the process of pu-
trefaction. The bad odOr is supposed
by those who have investigated the mat
ter to be owing to the escape of
phosphoretted hydrogen, and to the same
compound is attributed the luminosity of
stances. On passing the gases evolved
from putrefying matter through argentic
yer is formed, Notwithstanding the C com. m
plete deodorization of the gases by passage
through the silver solution.