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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

in one of these banks on long call al
8 per cent, and your neighbors GO
to the bank and borrow it at is per
cent, to raise the wind for the next
crop. Or he goes to a commission
merchant and buys his supplies on
a credit, at cost of over 80 per
cent over cash prices, and mort>
cages his crop in advance to pay for
them and when that mortgage is
toreclosed, your crop gone, and no
supplies on hand, and the same pro-
cess to be gone ever again the next
year, you say, its want of more capi>
tai. O my brother, take no offence,
| pray you, at the wounds of
friend, when | say it is a want of
common sense and common charity
toward each other. Make your own
supplies, and you will not have to
borrow so much money. If you
have any to loan, let your neighbor
have it, unless you had rather see
the banker speculate on your money
than him. Nobody blames the
banker or the commission merchant.
If they can run machine on your
who should abuse them for
it ? Not |, for one. Learn to use
your capital wisely before you clans
or~for more. Pour your surplus
cash on your farms, or into mauu>
featuring, instead of banks, and you
will knock out a middle man every
lick.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10
HIS ADVICE.

A farmer just out of Vicksburg
was reading in an agricultural paper,
the other day, an article headed
"Be Kind to Your Cow" He went
out to milk with heart full of kind,
ness, and, rs he sat down, he whis-
pered; So, boss-stand round
good boy-hoist little, there, you
intelligent, kind>hearted cd bos8y."
About two minutes after that, his
wife heard him yelling and whooping,
and as she ran to the door, he called
out: Bring me the axe, Maria, and
the spade, and the shot gun, for I'll
be darned if the old heIion shall live
to kick me in the jaw again p
ViehSJlWg HcrdM.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

How a DEAD HOG KILLED A
MAN.-The Pensacola fila Gazette
says: "a negro man in adjoining
county of Baldwin killed large hog
in the woods. He opened the ami
NAL, removed the entrails and de
viSed method of carrying the pork
which was altogether novel. This
manner of transportation was effect
ed by tising the hind legs together,
passing his head between them, and,
the heavy carcass being in front,
easing the weight on his neck by
lifting the fore legs with his hands
1t is presumed that he got along re-
mark ably we'll until a rail fence got
in his way, and in order to climb
this he needed his hands. Accord
ingly he relieved them by lifting
the hog over the top rail and letting
it drop on the other side. 1t is pres
sumed that he proposed 10 follow the
hog, but he didn't. A few days
since a congregation of buzzards at
tracted attention to the locality,
where the negro man was found
hanging on one side of rail fence
and the hog on the other, the weight
of the animal evidently having press
ed his neck down on the rail until
he was cboked to death"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

A DRAG driven by an elegantly
attired lady, and with a trim and
neatly dressed colored boy perched
on the footman's seat behind, was
passing through the streets, when it
was espied by an old negro wcman.
"Bress de Lord" she exclaimed,
raising her hands she spoke
"Bress de Lord, / never 'spected to
see dat. Wonder what dat cuIIud
young gemmen pays dat young
white oman fur drivin' dat kerr
ridgeY | kuow'd i'd come, but
never 'spected to lib to see ii. Dis
nigga's ready TO 60 way now.-N.
Y. Tribune.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

HHURRY back from church, for l
want to hear what the preacher says
about Jesus" said Matthias Smith,
of Kittaning, Penn, TO his wife as
she left the house for church on Sun
day morning last. When she re-
turned home after church she found
her husband hanging by his neck to
a rope from one Of the beams in the
kitchen ceiling. lie was dead, and
this note laid Oh the kitchen table
"DEAR WIFE: You stayed too
long. | was so anxious to hear
about Jesus that could not wait. -
/ have gone to see Him.
MATTHIAS.
The deceased man was seventy
two years of age.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

CHEERFUL PEOpLE.-God bless
the cheerful PEI sors man, woman
or child, old or young, illiterate or
educated, handsome or homely.--
Over and above every other social
trait stands cheerfulness. What the
sun is to nature and what the stars
are tonight, are cheerful persons in
the house and by the wayside.-
They go unobtruSively, unconscious
ly about their silent mission, bright
ening up every scene with the hap
piness beaming from their faces
We love 10 sit near them--we love
the glance Of their eye, the tone of
their voice the little children find
them out, oh, SO quickly amidst the
densest crowd, and passing by the
knotted brow and compressed lip,
glide near, and lay a confiding little
hand on their knee, and lift clear
young eyes to their loving faces.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

VICE President Wilson, though a
man of rigidly economical habits,
entered public life more than a gen
Grafton ago "a poor man, and as such
he died General Ulysses S.
Grant was a poor man ten years ago
but he is now a millionaire. The
difference is that between holding
office as a sacred public trust and as
q perQuisite.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

How is it that some, thought to
be so old, still look so young, whilst
others to be so young, must still look
old 7 The cause lies very frequent
ly within themselves. M. Rant
cnce on being asked the reason said !:
81 never eat but one dish at dinner
and never get drunk. My walking
keeps my blood in circulation my
simple diet prevents indigestion ;
and never touching ardent spirits,
my liver never fears being eaten up
alive"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

"LovEsT thou me 2" asked Ma
rietta swain of his sweety. mot
much l DON'T" was her emphatic re-
ply. "Then death is my best
friend, and here's to his health ~
spoke up the signing lover as he
drank a mixture which he supposed
to be laudanum, but that emetic the
shrewd druggist fixed up, began to
act, and she dragged him off of her
carpet by the hair of his head to the
doorsteps, and he no longer believes
in woman's sympathetic nature.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10
Uhe selarIetta aonrnal.
Marietta, Ca, Friday, Dec. 10, 1875.

John Logan says he never SO help
him, had anything to do with d;stil-
cries and is $4,000, or so, poorer
to-day than when he entered the
Senate. Why, John! such good
player, toe
These Radicals are devilish poor
about now, but after SO many salary
grabs, Credit Mobilier swindIes, they
will hardly make a democratic Con-
gress believe them.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

VIM. B. AsroR'S three surviving
sons are John Jacob, William, and
Henry As.or, and his two daughters,
Mrs. John Carey and Mrs. Delano
He owned $500 houses and building
lots in New York, and his total
wealth was recently estimated at
one hundred and fifty millions of
dollars.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

A FROG catcher of Troy, New
York, caught in one month last year
LOGO pounds of dressed frogs, for
which he got thirty cents per pound
making $3.50 for his months work
Last week near the Hudson, he
caught upwards of five hundred
pounds, and sold them for SlG0, or
an average Of thirty>two cents a
pound.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

A lump of gold weighing 2,545
dwts. was brought into Atlanta from
Dahlonega on Monday. 1t was the
product of the Hand Gold Mining
Company.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

The maddest man in Wisconsin is
John Leigh, Oconto. He was can
didate for member of the Legislature
and being conscientious man voted
for his opponent, who was elected by
Just one Majority.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

A GOOD many newspapers are So
ing to the wall, in consequence of
the hard times. Last weeks News
paper Reporter, published by Row
ell & Co., announces the demise of
one hundred and twenty.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

MARK A. COOPER is the nomina-
ted candidate to fill ex-senator Wof-
ford's place.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

MANY well informed cotton men
estimate the present crop of that sta
pie at four and half millions of
bales, of 45O pounds each-the
largest since the war.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

The State of Tennessee has no
money in her treasury, has not paid
her July interests on bonds, and yet
with taxable property of $780,
600, 900, she cannot meet current
expenses of 100000 per annum.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

He who is passionate and hasty is
generally honest. 1t is your old
assembling hypocrite of whom you
should beware. There's no decep>
ton in bull dog. 1t is only the
cur that sneaks up end bites you
when your back is turned.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

Babcock, accused of participating
in the whiskey ring, demands inves
tigatiou.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

A human skeleton was found un>
der a pile of stones in Barlow coun-
ty the other day.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

BRINLEY, the NewnaR wife MUIR
derer, has been respited until the
3lst of March. 1876.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

The other day a would-be fash>
ionabIe lady called at neighbours,
at what she thought would be sup
per time. "Come in" said the neigh
Dor, "we are having tableaux."-
.T'm so glad" said the visitor, IL
thought l smelt 'em, and like 'em
better than anything for supper"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-12-10

The good little bootblack's cpl
taph-Gone to shine among the
angels.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-08-31
Important From West Va.

A NY person desiring to move to West Yir.
N ginia, on or near the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad or the Little Kanawha River, (now
with locks and dams,) can, by send
ing name and post-oftice address to the under
signed, receive by the earliest mail, pamphlet
descriptive of Parkersburg and the Little Ka-
nawha Valley and adjacent country, advanta-
ges, prospects and resources. -
-, -t.4I .-.-t5.5 CYRUS HALL,
Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia.
aprG, 75mk
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-08-31
Plain Talk from a Republican
Paper.
Hannibal Mol Courier, r

HANNIBAL lMo.} Courier, Rep]
In the pending canvass in Ohio the
real issue has come to be more money
or less money-the Democratic plat.
form declaring in faver of the former,
and the Republican in behalf of the
latteraisl. ,hssa t~ns,-e a 7s .sseg - s.
The supreme importance of this finan.
cial question is seen in the fact that it
has risen1to the surface and SO expan-
ded that it covers up and hides from
view, as of comparative insignificance,
all other issues. How it happened that
the Republican party of Ohio was fool
ish and impolitic enough Ito use mild
phrases) to place themselves in antae-
onism to the interests of nine-tenths Of
the business men of Ohio and the West,
weSdo not understand; but they have
done 1t, and we think have doomed the
party in that State to inevitable defeat
in the October election. If the people
Of Ohio are not sold slaves to- the
money power OF the East, they will rise
in their might and in their wrath brush
away party lines and party obligations
and teach the moneyed dictators that
the people do rule and know how to rule
in their own interests. Thousands of
Republicans, as good and true as the
best, will support the Democratic ticket
in Ohio, not because they indorse De-
mocracy in any general sense, but be-
cause it is right and the Republican par
ty is wrong upon the money question.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-08-31
Golden Grains OF Thought,


No one ever lost his honor except he
who had it not.
Truths, like roses, often blossom up
on thorny stem.
Benevolence aud feeling ennoble the
most triiing actions.
From the lowest step there is path
to the loftit s. height.
He that .looses his conscience has
nothing left worth keeping.
No man is securely loved except by
those who know his foibes
Women do not like to remember-
Men do not like to foresee.
The contented man is never poor;
the discontented, never rich.
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we
stoop than when we soar.
B,auty is worse than wine : it intoxi-
Gates both the holder and beholder.
Malice sucks up the great part Of her
ownsveno.n, and polsons herself.
Scandal, like afeplile crawling over a
bright glass, leaves trail and stain
Bsnot familiar with the idea of wrong
for sin, in fancy, mothers many an
ugly fact.
We. cannot stay On the Mount of
TRANSPORTATION, but we must go down
into the valley and work. Oar trans
fguralions are failures il we stay.
Perhaps the greatest good next to
doing good to your "neighbor," is to
benefit your enemy. Bat some people
heap Goals of fire on their enemy's head
to scorch him, thus making use of a
good precept to do evil.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-08-31

gThe st. Louis Times, alluding to
the recent death of the Confederate
General Pickett, relates the following
incident Of the famous rebel charge at
Gettysburg: Pickett put himself at the
head of his Virginians. He had an aid
de-camp, a boy almost, and the only
son Of mother who idolized him -
just before the column broke from a
parade rest into run,the General spoke
to his staff officer tenderly and asked
him II he, the aid-de-camp, were killed
IN the charge, who would be sorrowed
for him ? "My mother" The boy ans
wered, something like tear dimming
the CLINT of his steel blue eye, and bu
sled himself no further with the future.
Notso with Pickett. just as he noun
ted and moved out at the head of his
troops, he called the young officer to
him and sent him with an important
message to distant part of the field.
When the boy returned the division was
decimated. His commander had just
taken the trouble to save his life.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-08-31
Notice to Teachers.

NyHE Board of Examiners of Monroe county
IL will hold meetings for the examination Of
Teachers, as follows:
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-08-31
Virtue has many preachers, but fe
martyrs. ~ iid


Virtue has many preachers, but few
martyrs. ~ sue
All honest men will bear watching
It is the rascals who cannot stand it.
When a man has business that
doesn't pay, he usually begins to look
around for partner to share his losses
with him.
san acre and half of potatoes and
sixteen bushels of hugs" is the way a
farmer in Highland County put it down
On the assessors blank-Ross Co. (O.)
Register. &
An old Colorado miner writes that
a man needs for complete summer
outfit in that country is one lasso rope,
one rifle, with ammunition, and one sack
. of salt. Any energetic man can kill
and steal whatever else he needs.
Give boy market basket of groce-
ries to carry home and he will swing it
across his spine. bend half way to the
ground and eroan with agony, but give
him that weight of base ball bats and he
will skip along as merry as potato bug
in ten acre lot
1t is expecting rather too much for q
State which has produced two such wor-
thies as Ben Butler and Wendell Phillips
to 90 Democratietwic in succession, yet
the Democrats of Boston state there are
good grounds for the belief that Gov
CASTOR will he returned to the Executive
Chair Of Massachusetts tliis fall.
George Alfred Townsend writes from
Saratoga 10 the New York Graphic tc
say that he has a htter from premi
nent Republican journalist Of Ohio
(which indicates fear that Allen viii
he victorious" 81 hear,' says Mr.
Townsend, "from other persons the
same general prosnostication.'
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-08-31
Road Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that petition VIII
IN be presented to s'the Commissioners Of
Monroe county, Ohio, at their September res
sion, praying for an alteration of the Bealls-
vile and Woodsfeld road, beginning at or near
a gate on the hill between Sunfsh and Stand.
ing Stone run; thence a westerly course to near
Holmes house; thence northerly course, eros
sing the new bridge across Sunfish Creek, and
intersecting the old road at the most suitable
point.
Also, beginning at the lower end Of Benia.
min Coates bottom field, in the road leading uy
and down the creek; thence down the sreei,
along the hill side on the north side thereof.
and interseeting the old road opposite the pres
ent fording below tho bridge. .s.,,
| iuly20, 75w5. A PETITIONER.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-08-31

These examinations will commence at
o'clock a. IN. and close at p. m.
A fee of SO cents is required from each
spplican. as condition Of examination, and
must be paid fn advance.
By order of the Board.
aug24. .'75-td. A. J. PEARSON, Clerk.
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ROBERT S. STACKS ESTATE,

NOTICE is hereby given that the undersign-
IN ed has been appointed Administrator on
the estate Of Robert s. Slack, late Of Monroe
county. deceased. Fr,
1ulye7, ,7tw8. JAMES DAUEnERTr.
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/, Probate Notice.

A CC0UNTS and vouchers have been fled in
II the Probate Court of Monroe County,
Ohio, for settlement, by the following Exscu-
tors, Administrators and Guardians.
Second and final account of N Hensel guardian
of John Hensel's heirs.
Second partial account of H & West Admir- Of
John Way. s-rfts m. II
First partial account Of Adam Arnold Admir-
of John Miller.
Final account of John LETTERS Admir- of Hamp-
ton Il Taylor. tfti
Final account Of John Drummer Ex'r of John
Ulrich Roth. ,a.
First partial account of Elizabeth stalder
Guardian of Nicholas Stalder, Jr's, heirs.
Third partial account of Amos Guardian
of Levi Williams heirs.
Third partial account of J o Amos Guardian
of John A Carney's heirs.
Final account ofJames Allen Admir- of Rob-
B Allen.
First partial account Of Joseph Myers Admir-
OF James Bracey.
Any person interested may file writer
excel tions to said accounts,o or any item there
of, on or before the 3lst day of August next
when the same will be finally heard and con-
tinued from day TO day until disposed Of,
a'ao.i JAS. R. NORRIS,
aus3, ,'75w3. :ra aGa Probate Judge.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-08-31

Felt SOLEMN Detroiter was called
as witness in a case before one of the
justices yesterday, and when the oat
was administered be raised both hands
and said:
81 shall spoke holdings what amt
drewif ! never hope to die SO quick as
q minute.' a
He was SO earnest and solemn that
the lawyers let him alone.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-08-31
Notice to Bridge Builders.

CEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
- the Auditors office of Monroe county Ohio
in Woodsfeld, up to II o'clock M, September
g. 1915, for wrought iron bridge across Sun
fish Greek, at the Holmes farm. of one hundred
feet sdan and eighteen feet roadway. Plans
and specifications, also good and efficient bond
must accompany the bids. Commissioners re.
serve the right to reject one or all bids.
By order of Commissioners.
iuly27, ,75w3. NJ HOEFFLER, Auditor.
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Your own Example.

It was quaint and singularly wise
remark, in one of DR.. Peabody's adj
dresses to the students at Harvard Col
lege, that no ones example is so dan
gerous to US as our own. For when we
have done certain thing once it is SO
much easier to do it again. 1t is the
first step which counts, in evil as well
as IN good.
lis ahappy thing that this tendency
in us has good as well as a bad side
Get the habit of doing well, and youi
moral fortune is made.
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NICHOLAS P. LISK'S ESTATE.
NTOTICEi is hereby given that the under
IN signed has been appointed Executor on
the estate of Nicholas P. Lisk. late of Mon
roe county, deceased.
aug3, 75w3. -. JASPER LiSK.
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Senate Joint Resolution,

=V. 5lfll rFI.rt5l --tt- 7--s-- ysr,if4
Proposing an Amendment to the Constitss-
tion of the State of Ohio. ''s'ss
Resolred, By the General assembly g the
State Of Ohio, That an amendment to the Osn.
stitution of the State of Ohio be proposed In
the following words, to wit: Notwithstanding
the provisions of the second section Of this
Article, the General Assembly shall have
power to provide by law, for the assessment
of special tax on dogs without regsrd to
value, and to, provide for the confsoation and
killing of such animals upon failure or refu-
sal of the owner, keeper or harborer thereof
to pay sach special tax. If this amendmens
20 the Constitution Of the State Of Ohio shall
be adopted by a majority of the electors Of
the State of Ohio, voting at the next election
holden fOy the election OF Senators and Rep
resentatives. shall become section seven ef
the twelfth Article of the Constitution Of
the State of Ohio. At such election the vo-
ters desiring to vote in favor of said amend.
ment, shall have written or printed on their
ballots the words, "For amendment taxidg
Dogs;'' those desiring to vote against the
amendment the words, "Against amendment
taxing Dogs"
,}I GEO. L. CONVERSE,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
i lol i'33hia ALPHONSO HART,
8ts eAg President Of the Senate.
Adopted March 20, lS75--apr6, ,'75m8.
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VALUABL
STEAM ( WATER MILL FOR SALE.

T,HE undersigned offer their steam and wa
/ ter mill. four miles east of Woodsfeld
on Sunfsh Creek for sale. together with forty
acres of land. The mill has two of the p
BEST FREN B u RRS,
Is in thorough repair, and in good neigh
borhood; not another steam mill within ten
miles Of it. There is good accessible vein
of coal on the premises.
TERMS will be moderate. We would take
a small farm in part pay. -.
F. s. N. KOEuLER.
junel6,' '74tf. - RI .-.
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Legal Notice.

4
JOSEPH KUNTZ of the State of Pennsyl-
u vania will take notice that on the .22d
day of July, 1875, B. F. ObIinger. surviving
partner of the late firm of Reiner 4 Oblinger,
filed his petition in. civil action in the court
of common pleas of Monroe county, Ohio,
against Joseph Kuniz, demanding STA SO
and interest from October IL, 1869,on account
for goods sold and delivered; that on said
22d day of July, 1878, an order of attach
ment was issued in said action, which was ,on
the 2Sth of July, 1875, levied by the Sheriff
of said county on the interest of said Joseph
Kuntz, being the undivided tenth part, sub
ject to the lite estate of the widow of A..
Kuntz, deceased, of the following lands in
said county, to wit: The southeast quarter
Of the southeast quarter of section twenty
two; also the west part of the southwest
quarter of section sixteen, all in township
six and range six. containing in all eighty
acres, more or less, which said order has been
returned. Tie defendant is required to
answer aaid petition by the first Saturday in
October, 1875. HOLLIsTER & OKEY,
aug3,' '75w6. 81 Att'ys; for plaintiff.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-08-28
Aims HOUSE REPORT.

The County Commissioners levied for the
usc Of the Aims House for the year 1874, BY
the sum Of $1,000, which sum was
increased during the year, by sales 10 8,G12.-
II as follows: