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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13
From the wOOdsneld Spirit
Advantage of Railroads.

Mr. Frazier, of BarnesviIle, stUncle
Richard, as he is faniliarly called re-
lated to US this little incident connect
ed with the building of the Central
Ohio Railroad, and which contains a
valuable hint to our people Just now.
He went to the house of a Friend,
whom we will call Benjamin, to pro-
cure subscription of stock, and found
him threshing. Benjamin owned 80
acres of land which he had bought at
$50 per acre, and on which he still
owed 81 900. Uncle Richard fed the
threshing machine while BENJAMIN
went to fhe house to get pen and ink
with which to put down his subscrip-
tion- He returned with the book. and
the amount proved to be $500. A few
years after the eompletion-ofther road
and at time when the stock was very
low, and paying no dividends, Uncle
Richard was present where three or
four friends were complaining that
their stock did not pay Benjamin
listened. but said nothing until one of
them asked: "Well Benjamin, what
does thee think of this ?Thee has some
stock in the road 81 have got nv
money all back, ;" said BENJAMIN.
what! Has thee and Richard been
conniving to get thy money back, leay-
ing us to lose ours ?''
Il have connived with no one, ~ re
piled Benjamin, tsbut 1 have kept ac-
count of increased prices andssaving
in transportation, and find that I have
got all my money back in cash. The
road has given me more than I have
given it, and it owes me nothing. I
would not sell my stock to-day, dollar
for dollar, but if it will be any use to
the road I will give it up for nothing.
Besides getting my money back, let
me say to thee, that I have been offer
ed one hundred dollars per acre, in
gold, for my land, and I refused it..
The land produces no more wheat, or
corn, or potatoes to the acre now than
when I bought it, but something has
more than doubled its value in a few
years. Need say what has done this {?
/ cannot find it in my heart to con
denim the railroad" s'And from that
day." said Uncle Richard, 81 never
heard another word of complaint from
them about the failure of dividends.
They began to see that the road had
not only given back the amount Of
their subscriptions, but twice as much
more; and because it was not put in
the same pocket from which they had
| paid, they had been refusing to, give
the road credit for it," .-s. --s --
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13
Published by Request
CONSfSTENCY.

0. consistency, what jewell
Q. poor Negro, what fool!
Bab0on, monkey, ass or ape,
Without Intellect or manly shape,
From your ignorance you viii not rerrain'
And in your stupOr forever remain,
With but one heroic tale to tell:
That is, you fought eur battles we'll.
POOR NIGAR.
He fought our battles true,
And saved our country, too,
And from the bloody field saved and you G-
Notwithstanding his darkish hue
Whilst you, at home afraid to stay
Sought eengeniaI refuge in Canada
Whilst he stood and heard the cannon roaF.
You was found upon the other shore
lie stood the ba tiles true and brave,
Both for you and to save.
He bravely faced the balls and heard them whiz,
And now the right to vote is surely his.
o, If he would vote as command,
& FI "a 1dkS ScI MN ~ sg en5 Biu
They alike have all passed through Lincoln 5
They are black. as all may plainly seei mill
I would draw him out upon election day;
But his child from school should forever stay.
For mine with his shall not compete.
Lest his intellect be found Incomplete:
., Jerusalem, how do you think would feel
The Nigar is now SO sharp and witty. lheel?
He says, four times seven is thirty;
There, you see he only missed it two
Educate him. and what will become of and youg
would have him not know his a Z,
For then he would vote as decree.
o. if just had for what my heart doth pant
Then would not care for General Grant:
I'd have the schools TO my hearts content,
And nary Niggar shenld ever went;
Ny child would not disgrace
BY sitting himin school beside a darkish face;
And raise both bIOckhead and fool.
Why. the Niggar's skin is black as tar
His head IS too thick his foot too fat, his heel to
long.
Butthey do, on most occasions, offensive smell,
And in the jury box stink like hell;
But. o, amazing changer no tongue can tell
Upon election day h01 sweet they smell.
PETER CAPsHEAF
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13

We do not deem it worth the room
to publish the full text of the law reg
ulating the salaries of county officials.
So far as we have considered it, there
is no improvement over the present
law. In this county there is no reduc-
ton. Some offices are increased. We
believe in the principle fees for Clerk,
Probate Judge and Sheriff any how.
Under the new law, their salaries are
guaranteed, and we all know how loose
ly the formal oath will be taken of col
lecting and paying into the county
treasury all fees. The county will pay
the officials, and may itself whistle tor
its money. We said last summer, when
the proposed new Constitution was
under discussion, on this point, that
we favored making those who go to
law pay the bills. Now all property is
taxed for litigation, settling estates,
recording deeds, and so on. We know
tits said that the fees are to be rigidly
collected, and oath must be made to
the fact that they have been, but We
also think we know they will not, bu
will be carried along from term to
and finally lost to the county. 1t il
called law for reducing the fees o
county officers. 1t should be, so fa
as the people are concerned, called .
law for incre asing the fees of county
officers Marietta Register
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13
News Items.


The winning horses in the Jockey
Clubraces at Gaveston yesterda Y we're
Goriander and Ella Harper.
The wheat crop of Oregon has not
been failure ever since first settled.
by the whites, thirty years ago.
Governor Hartrant, ofPennsyIvania
has signed the bill repeating the local
option law, and the license act has gone
into effect
Homer, Knox county, was the birth
place and for years the home of these
dear cratures, Tennie c. Clafiin and Vic
Woodruff.
The MoConnelsviIle Democrat says
Caldwell has new drug store which
consists of a box of pills and six bar
rels of whisky
It is said that chicken cholera is
raging fearfully in some localities in
Morgan county. One man. S. II. Da-
Wis, lost over $50 chickens.
The Catholic clergy OF Cleveland
will avail themselves of the provisions
of the Geghan law to celebrate mass in
the Work House Of that city.
The earnings of the Union Pacific
railway for April were 81, ,062, $50,
against $742,84 during the same
month last year, an increase of $780,
los.
An Omaha dispatch of Thursday,
says: Seven hundred returned Cali
fornia emigrants have arrived here in
the last two days, and hundreds are en-
route East
An old citizen of Vermont observes
that when post Office clerks get too
high-nosed to lick stamp on a letter,
it is time that the country had change
Of administrator.
The Michigan Legislature has pass
ed bill authorizing the establishment
at Ann Arbor of a HomeophathieMed
tcal College. as q branch or department
of the State University,
C1RcLEv1LLE, O., May 2.-Frederick
Nader, of this city, suicided on Wed
through the head, about two miles
north of this city. The-body was found
yesterday: Cause, insanity.
The Kansas Farmer says that the
400 oranges of Kansas have paid into
the National Grange treasury $21, 900
for dispensations beside their dues. It
further says that the State has received
from the National Grange $4,000
The funeral of William S. T. Nor
ton, only brother of Senator Morton,
took place at CenterFille, Indiana,
Sunday, and was largely attended, both
by citizens and by persons from all
parts Of the State, especially Eastern
Indiana Mr. Morton had resided in
Centerville for half century, and was
a prominent railroad man.
Miss Ida Lillian Greeley, daughter
of the late Horace Greely, will be
married to Colonel Nicholas Smith, of
Kansas, to-day The bridal party will
sail for England on the Abyssinia i'm
mediately after the ceremony. Smith
| graduated with high honors from Ru=
| fus Choate's class at Cambrid ge, and
is promising young lawyer.-EM May 1.
!
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13
Women to the Front.

At the Elkhart Conference yester-
day Bishop Bowman decided that the
discipline and usage of the Church
forbade the re-licensing Of female
teachers, in as much as it didenot al
low of their ordination. He requested
however, that an appeal be taken from
his decision, that the matter might be
brought before the General Confer
ence.
All who desire to see due Justice
done to the noble women of America,
will earnestly hope that the next Gen
eral Conference will remove all such
barriers. Wherever women have been
placed in positions of honor or trust.
they have developed an administrative
and executive ability, which, so far as
it alone is concerned, should give
them equal rights and privileges with
the men. In every sphere in which
they have been tried they have never
been found wanting.
In a day when we hear of such
preachers as the Rev Mrs. Blackwell,
and Rev. Phoebe Hunniford and Mrs.
Anna Wittenmeyer, the first lady who
ever addressed a Conference of such
attorneys as Miss Couzins of such
artists as Miss Hosmer; of such ply
sicians as Miss Lozier; of such speak
ers as Anna Dickinson and Mrs. Stan
ton-in such day we may well open
our eyes to the progress of those
whom the law of custom has made
the servants Of very bad m asters in
deed.
He is an antedeluvian who, with sc
many of the signs of the times in
view, does not see that the cause oil
woman is inevitable and indemitable
I-[South Bend Ind. Tribune.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13

Mr.. II, K. List, of Wheeling. recent
ly sold 25O,000 pounds of wool at a
single sale. 1t is claimed that this is
the largest single wool transaction thai
has ever taken place in the regions
round about Wheeling. The price was
not stated, further than the mention oi
the fact that he sold at q decline from
former offers.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13

- Cleveland boasts of two of the
champion stingy men Of America
One gave a car conductor nineteen
cents for returning him $50 worth of
revenue stamps; and the other, when
boy restored him his pocket.book
with $500 in it, invited the youngster
around to fruit stand, bought a
dimes worth of peaches, gave the
youth one, and put the rest in his own
pocket
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13

A jolly doctor called on lady on
his way home from dinner party, SO
full that he could not count her pulse
beats. Conscious of the cause. Of his
diff1culty,he, in a moment of irritation,
blurted out, 'Drunk, by Jove" and
rushed out of the house. The next
day the lady sent for him, and said
that she lamented that he had discov-
cred her condition, and begged that
he would keep tia secret.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13

The design for the twenty.cent sill
yer piece authorized by the last Con-
gres has been decided upon. The OBJ
verse contains sitting figure OF Lib,
erty, with the word 'Liberty' inscribed
on the shield, the whole surrounded
by thirteen stars, and beneath the iig-
ure the date 1875. On the reverse the
figure Of am eagle surrounded by the
inscription, "United States of Amer
ica." and beneath the eagle the words
1ttwentv cents" The edge or periphery
of the coin will be perfectly smooth,
in order to distinguish it from the
twenty. five cent coin, which bears a
reeded or futed edge. The new coin
is mainly intended for circulation in
the Pacific Coast States,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13

Happy thought.-That of the fash
ionable school teacher who, when ask
ed by pupil, "Who is the present
King of Switzerland ?' said, "This IS
not the hour, you know, when talking
is permitted. Ask me at the next ses-
sion and 1 will tell you"-and then
rushed for the book case.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13

Under the new law passed by the
Legislature, teachers will not be al.
lowed pay for the time schools are
closed to attend Teachers Institutes.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13

The latest Eastern slang with which
20 come down on long -tongued bore
is: ''Write the rest down on piece
of paper and wen read it Sunday
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13

An English admiral, who rose to
his high station by his own steady ex-
ertions, used to be fond of relating
that, Oh first leaving q humble lodging
to join his ship as midshipman, his
landlady presented him with a Bible
and guinea, saying, ''God bless you
and prosper you, my lad; and, as long
as You live, never suffer yourself to be
laughed out of your money or your
prayers"
The young sailer carefully followed
this advice through life, and had rea
son to rejoice that he did so I; while
thousands have regretted, when toe
late, that they have pursued a different
course.
Never let your honest covictions be
! laughed down. Be true to yourself
and in the end you win not only be re
spected by the world, bat have the ap
proval of your own conscience. Sc,
to it, that whatever you lose, whethe
money or place, or reputation, you d.
not lose courage, honesty, simplicity
or trnthfulness.- Reform Churcl
Monthly.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13

Nh F7of the 100 Choice 9s;s. s. ssaeleeetiOns,' lee
'Series'' now contains One thousand of the Ia
test and best things for declamations, humorous
recitations, family readings, etc. Capital for
Oranges, Temperance Societies, and LyceuIns
Also Excelsior Dialogues and Model Dia-
lOgues.' Circulars free Get of your booksell-
er. or send price to p. GARRETT & CO., 70S
Chestnut St. Phila., Pa. We make the celebra-
ted Penn Letter Book for copying letters with
out press or water Ag ents wanted. 23w4
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13
TotaI

He gets into society" Society de-
mands dress suit, which costs 1925
and society demands that, when he at
tends party or dinner, he put on
white neekties, and light gid gloves,
$3.50 pair. And society, inexerable
mistress that she is, demands that he
shall take Aramanta to the opera once
in while, which means Gloves neck
ties, bouquets and carriage, which,
with seats at 81 each, means $50 for
the nights amusement. And SO, Au-
gustus discovers at the end of the
year that his 1000 are all gone, that
he has overdrawn $500 to 81, 900, and
he commences peculation, or specuIa-
tion-the same thing so far as results
go-and Augustus drinks to drown
his trouble, and finally he lands in the
Tombs, and comes out a poor misera-
BILE wretch. This is what happens to
great many Augustuses. Society is
what does it for theI1. .;sr@5 s
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13
why the Boys Don't Get On

A great many young. men who come
to New York, and get tolerably good
salaries, find themselves at the end of
the year in debt, and they wonder why
it is. The young gentleman is book
keeper on a salary of 81, 900. He pays
S12 per week for board, which leaves
him about 81, 400, and he calculates to
lay up something of that But he
don't and this is the way
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-13
Geo. 4 MeCaldlGss, SeOrgal & Bro,

A Great Offer RA$s EaEE$; y s. sSs,
organs of first class makers. including Waters /
at extremely low prices for cash. during this
month, or part cash and balance in small month
ly payments. Waters New Scale Pianos
are the best made the touch elastic, and fine
ringing tone, powerful pure and even Wat
erS Concerto Organs cannot be excelled In
tone or beauty: they defy competition. The con-
certo stop is a fine Imitation of the human voice
Agents wanted. A liberal discount to Teachers
Minis tiers, Churches, Schools, Lodges, etc. Spec.
ial inducements to the trade. Illustrated Cata-
lOgues mailed. 23w4
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We now enter the field fol
the fall and coming WinieI
aud are furnishing the bes,
paving aud most easily worked
agency in the world. Oul
agents have always been the
most successful, and We have
lately added new and exceed
ingy taking induce ments, re
quiring only intelligence ant
application for any ne,youns
or old, of ether sex, TO maxi
really first-class paying bus
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-25
AVOID ouAcKs AND IMPosTERs
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No CHARGE FOR ADVICE AND CONsULTATIUN,
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send for the GUIDE TO HEALTH. Price 10 cents.
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-25
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-25
EMPLOYMENT,

PRRns nVRHTuT Men, women and
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chrumss in eleven working days. We hay" the
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