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The St. Louis Republican mentions
some Of the troubles that will follow the
new money: When man walks much
the inside of his legs will be chafed raw.
When less than dollar is to 60 by mail
it will have to be converted first into pos
tage stamps. When you run for car
\ money will dy out of your pockets at ev,
cry jump. When you tell your wife you
have no money she will say you lie, for
she heard 1t jingle. 1t will be difficult to
pay man quarter by mistake for q
half sfa f-s Bra
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When you are in a hurry, the store
keeper will have to weigh the coin in his
hand and sound it twenty. FIVE times on
the counter before he can determine
whethsr it is good. The baby win swal
low dime day. A boy with a quarter
will lose it in a crack in two minutes,
from which no amount of coaxing with
FORKS and chips oan recover it. Sleepy
men will put buttons and lozenges into
contribution boxes as of yore"
The Van Buren press., 1876-06-06

Dummitt's great grove. between Mo
squito lagoon on Indian river. Florida,
produced nearly 100000 oranges last
year. More than half of them rotted on
the ground, aud were used in fattening
hogs. This grove was formerly owned
by Gen Hardee.
The Van Buren press., 1876-06-06

The centennial year has brought old
people, especially women, into great pop
ularity. there Is not town iD New Eng
land that cannot show an ancient dame
who da. ced with Washington: remem.
bers reading the Declaration OF Indepene
dence the week after it was issued; has
cut and made her own dresses for ninety
years, and now jumps rope as daily rec.
reation, and reads diamond print witbou,
the aid of glasses.
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There is gentle but irresistible cocr-
cion In reading, well directed, over the
whole tenor of mans character and
conduct. which is not the less effcctunl
because it works inseasihlv, and because
it is really the last thing he dreams Of
Sir. John Herschell.
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Tar DAMAGES "A colored citizen o
Ohio street maintains family dog abou
six inches high and eight inches long
The said dog never tried to eat any one
up until tilyestcrday. when he attacked {
pedestrian and nippel his leg. The pc
destrian at once called the owner Of thS
dog out doors and demanded damages
Whar's de proofs ofde bite inquired
the colored man.
Right there, replied the victim, cxhih-
iting black and blue spot. #Ek
And what's dc damages ?
Five hundred dollars.
Shoe! You can have the dog for a
dollar! 4xs.Ez - - esaz y. F.r
Makes no difference, continued the
man. don't sag that he has inflicted
five hundred dollars worth of physical
sdamage. l estimate that at only two
shillings, but can't lie awake nights
and think of hydrophobia for no small
sum.
l Ican't never pay dat sum
Then I'll sue you! h 4
Very we'll. I'll adjourn de suit till de
bite gets we'll, and den whar will yer
proofs be?
The man reflected a moment and said
l see. We must come down to phys
ical damages,
The colored man knocked the dog in
the head with the spade, and as the ami
NAL kicked its last he remarked a#t
fyou has been bitten by dog don't
know muffin about it. used to own
little dog bat he's dead now II dar's
any more talk bout. damages around
heah I'll climb over de fence and hurt
some white man.
There wasn't any moro talk Dstro2
Free p,ese
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People should be guarded against temp
tation to unlawful pleasures by furnish
cry community there must be pleasures
recreations and means of agreeable ex
citement; and if innocent are not furnish
ell, resort will be had to criminal Man
was made to enjoy as well as labor, and
the state Of human society should hs
adapted to this principle of human ma.
ture. Fa@8 sR 4ess ia@ 4mst g~ ~
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EHWe believe now that success is i'm
possible without New York, and we are
& ling to get New York by nominating
Iilden. We don't like him as well as a
Western man, but that is not the thing.
We fear Western man cannot carry
New York orany other Eastern State, so
we drop the West anu 60 for Tilden.- -
See Cincinnati Comnses eiel
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4rATH OFFICERS.

A. II, GARLAND, Governor.
B. Is. BEAVERS, Secretary of State.
WIN. h. MILLER. Auditor.
I. j. CIURCnlIL. Treasurer.
s, Z. lluGHEs, Attorney General
!. y SMIrHEE. Com. of Public Lands.
j. II. EAKIN, Chancellor.
a. X. WITT, Clerk Pulaski Chancery Court
+. II. ENGLISH. Chief Justice.
w. III. HARRISON. DAVID WALKER, Associate
Justices of the Supreme Court.
Fifth Judicial District
untics Of Pope johnson. Franklin, Craw-
ford. Sebastian, Sarber, Yell.
W. w. MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge.
p. BYERs, Prosecuting Attorney.
Crawford County Cfdeers.
y. II. CREEKMoRE, County Judge.
ED. A. SCoTr. County Clerk.t
w, j. ALEXANDER, Assistant County Clerk
y. i. WINFREY, sheriff.
I. w. DAVIS. Deputy Sheriff.
CHARLES RiBIING and W. TAYLOR, Notary
Publics.
JOHN j. BuRRow and NJ osEs LEMLEY. Justices
of Van Buren, Township.
J. G, GRADY, Van Buren Township Constable
Van Buren, City officers.
F.M, NEAL, Mayor.
JAMES l.. " niiFiELp. Recorder.
j. ). ii. HoUcK, Marshal.
PBulp SMITH, Cemetery Sexton.
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GE The entire afternoon and evening
session of the Presbyterian General As
senbly in session in New York city on
tie Oath, was taken up in discussing the
question OF home missions. Dr. Mus
grove was opposed to any further invita-
tlons to southern Presbyterians to come
in, and wanted it announced that the
doors were shut.
The Van Buren press., 1876-06-06

Congress has just passed bill ap-
propriating $4,000 for the relief OF Mrs.
Eliza Potter. who, at Charleston, during
the war, expended over $40, 900 in caring
Tor our sick and wounded soldiers in
southern hospitals Mrs. Potter was
wealthy at the time, hHaher property was
destroyed by the two armies. and at the
'atiose OF the war she found herself en-
nrels Impoverished, and was obliged to
appeal to the government for assistance
g4#s -r----s-e>e>-O-
Eight hundred girls attend Baptist col
leges in Georgia.
Women will hereafter be almitted as
students BY the university at Delaware, 0.
TO preserve flowers in water, mix a
little carbonate of soda In the water and
= viii preserve the flowers a fortnight
saltpetre is also good.
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NIGHTEEN hBudred and seyenty-siX is the Gem
II tcunial year It is also the yenr in which an
Opposition House Of Representatives, the first since
the war win lie in power at Washington; and the
yeor Of the twenty-third election of n President of
the United States. All these events are sure to be
OF great interest and Importance especially the two
latter and all Of them, and everything connected
expouuded in lHr Sen.
mp the line of inquiry opened years ago by IBE sun
VIII sternly and diligently investigate the corrup-
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will, 1t is to be hoped lay the foundation for new
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Tue StN will contain complete, and accurate ac-
counts, furnishing its readers witt early and trust
worthy information upon these absorbing topics.
Tho twenty third Presidential election, with the
preparations for il, will be memorable as deciding
upon Grants aspirations for third term Of power
and plunder. and still more ms deciding who shall
be the candidate Of the party OF Reform, well as
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1t Is our aim to make ThE WFEYLY sun the bcst
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ne to give in its columns large amount of mIscea-
neous reading such stories, tales. poems scien-
tifc Intelligence and agricultural inform alton for
which we are not able to make room in our daily
edition. The ageicutara departmant, especially,
is one of its prominent features The fashions are
regularly reported in its columns, and are the
markets oi ererykipd. .-...
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The Albany Argus is responsible for
the followings The imitation movement
las been Cooper ed and hung up in a
Booth. That ends it."
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Let all the errors you see in others
management suggest correction IN your
own.
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-09

Governmental system, and compel what
ever change or reform may be absolute.
ly necessary"
So long as the right-minded and right
hearted citizens of this country shall ad-
here to the Republican party, taking pos
session of its organization and making it
the agency of the popular will and the In
strumentality of wise, good and right gov
ernment, so long will the patriot have
cause for hope and confidence. But
should they forsake that party and be de-
luded into the perilous mistake of intrust-
ing the Government to the hands of the
rebel-cOntrolled, honor -despising, spoils-
hungry Democracy, then would the coun-
try, the interests of the people, the honor
and integrity of the Nation be indeed in
jeopardy. The people cannot afford to
do this-not just yet, if ever at all. The
Republican party is their party now, as il
was during the Nations years of severe
trial, and through and by that party they
can accomplish whatever they please, II
they will but take control of 1t and make
it the agency of their will. This is what
they have done, and are preparing to dc
gain.-OhicdgO Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-09
A Story for the Marines.

The "Confedrit Cross Roads" Democ-
racy of Kentucky, at their State Conven-
tiOn the other day, among some other
equally ridiculous enunciations, resolved
That the present deplorable condition or morals
and the business interests of the country Is the
result Of corrupt and partisan administration, and
that reform is absolutely necessary for the relief
Of the people and preservation OF the Government,
and THE can only be done by change of admin
istratiOn.
These Immaculate partisans would have
us believe that the "reform that is abso.
lutely necessary is such ga change OF
Administration" as would give the reins
of the Government into the hands of such
devoted patriots as Ben Hill, such remark.
able paragons of honesty as Pendleton,
such wonderful samples of reform and
practical craftsmanship as now till the
majority side of the present House of Rep
resentatives, and such modest, deserving
and efficient appointaes in all the subordi-
nate offices of the Government us are FitZ-
hugh and the rest of the successors of
crippled Union soldiers who were hustled
out in order to give place to eX-rebels as
officers and clerks of the House as soon
as the Confederates took possession Of it.
Such "change of Administration
would contribute immensely TO the ere
lief OF the people and the preservation OF
the Government" And what sudden
and marvellous improvement there would
be in "the condition of the morals and
business interests of the country" as the
effect of such a "changew just think
of it,
Doubtless the platform of the Demo
cratic National Convention which will
assemble at st. Louis next month will
contain resolution similar in its pur'
port to this of the Cross Roads Bourbons,
and the absurd accusation and hypOcriti'
cal pretension il contains will be hOwled
all over the country during the coming
| Presidential campaign as the chief battle.
cry of the partisan Democracy, Thought
ful people will not be deceived thereby
for they know that the future hope of the
country lies in the maintenance of the
Republican party, which has in the pas
proved the countrY's salvation. The peo.
pie themselves will, through that party
of patriotism and intelligence, right what
! ever wrongs may have cTept into oul
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-09
The Abuse Of Narcotics.

THE vast abuse of narcotics in modern
society is becoming a serious evil. There
is no denying the fact that in countries
where no administrative control of chem
list shops exist, in Engand and America,
the public ina % ea-i access TO such
drugs. The report of The Medical Officer
to the Privy Council on the use of lauda-
mum in the industrial districts of England
for the purpose Of keeping infants quiet
startled its readers some years ago. 1t is
not long since political weekly contem-
porary boldly conteaded that chloral was
to be found in the workboxes and baskets
of nearly every lady in the West End,
"to calm her nerves" Chloral punch
had become an institution in the
drinking saloons of New York scarcely q
year after its introduction into medical
practice. Now we hear from sober, or
derly and paternally-ruled Germany that
there is such a thing as morphia disease
spreading among its population. The
symptoms seem to be very much like
those of opium eating. Experience seems
TO make it advisable TO deprive people
suffering from this disease at once and en-
tirely of the drug. Their williulness and
| liability to relapses are, however, so great
that only about twenty-five per centum
have been seen TO recover in large series
of cases. The moral treatment, by urg.
| ing them early to some kind of steady
work, is particularly TO be insisted upon.
London Lancet.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-09
CENTENNIAL LETTER.

The knights TemPlar-Attendanc at
the Exposition With a Few Refiee-
tiOns ThereOn-UncIe Sam on the
Lookout for his DuIIes-UniqueS Speci-
mems OF German POttery-The KruPP
Gun and the Spanish Department-
SIam-bang Gilmore and Classical
PHILADELPHIA, June !, 1875.
The Knights TemPlar took possession Of
Philadelphia to-day. How many there were
Of them has not transpired ur to the present
writing, but some idea of their number can
be gained from the fact that it took tine pro-
cession one hour and twenty minutes 10 pass
a given point. The weather was propitiOus,
the streets were clean, and the police took
care TO keep all teams from their line of
march, so that the lockers on saw
them under the most favorable cir
cumstances. IT is no eXaggeration 10
the that the Broadbrims felicitated
saymselves more on their appearance than
upon the great elephant they have on hand
the Exposition. The display exceeded the
aniicipations of the most aanguine. Notice
able In the line was the Detroit CommandeTy,
which attracted universal admiration by
their knightly bearing and the excellence OF
their evolutions After the parade the in
tallation OF the grand officers OF the Grand
Commandery OF Pennsylvania took place in
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-09

gan, TO the Investigating Committee on
the I'd, by advice of two of his counsel
Messrs. Jeremiah s. Black and Matt H.
Carpenter ,o state that they found moth
ing in the letters bearing at all upon the
case pending before the committee, and
that they advised Mr.. Blaine to assert his
rights and refuse to yield up the letters
LONDON dispatches of the Sd state that
England had sent Admiral Drummond to
the East, with orders to prevent the fore
ing of the Dardanelles The unfinished
ironclads were being completed in great
haste. Regiments were under orders, and
to be ready to start at a moments notice.
The Berlin telegraphic agency in London
asserted that England had concluded an
alliance with Turkey and guaranteed the
latter'o integrity.
A CoNsTAETINoPLE dispatch of the 4th
says it was officially announced that the
ex-Sultan, Abdul Aziz, had committed
suicide that morning, by opening the
veins of his arm with pair Of scissors.
THE regular Florida Republican State
Convention, held on the I'd, nominated
NJ. L. Stearns for Governor and D. Mont
gomery for Lieutenant Governor. OF the
eight delegates chosen to the National
Convention seven are for Blaine and one
for Conkling. A bolt was made from
the regular Convention, the boilers nom
mating Senator Conover for Governor
and Mr.. Lee for Lieutenant Governor,
but choosing no delegates TO the National
Convention.
AN official telegram from Constantine
pie ON the 5th, states that Abdul Aziz
committed suicide on account of the seiz'
ure of his private funds. The Porte has
officially notified the foreign ambassadors
of Murad's accession and demanded re-
cognition.
A MAJORITY of the five Circuit judges
for Cook County, ILL.,, t. whom the ques-
ton of the legality of the election of Mr..
Hoyne as Mayor was submitted on the
application by Mr.. Colvin for a writ of
quo tcdrrant0, have decided adversely to
MIR. Hoyne, Judges McAllister, Rogers
and Williams concurring, and Judges
Farwell and Booth dissenting. The de-
cision is to the effect that there has been
a vacancy in the Mayoralty ever since
the expiration of the term for which
Mr.. Colvin was elected, and that the fail
ure of the Common Council to provide
for the filling of such vacancy at the re-
cent election, by issuing call for the
same (the regular time for electing a
Mayor being biennially, beginning with
the year 1879, nullified the vote of the
people for Mr.. Hoyne at the late election.
1t is also decided that the Common Coun-
ell can still call a special election for
Mayor to fill the vacancy.
Mr.. MOODY preached his first sermon
in his new tabernacle in Chicago to large
con rrepation, on Sunday, the 4th inst,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-09
A Bank Teller ExOnerated After a
Year Of Suspicion.

Mr.. HERBERT H. w. EDMANDs was
paying teller of the Second National
Bank in 1874, and the utmost confidence
was placed in his business capacity and
integrity by the officers OF the bank, until
the 18th day of August, when an error of
$10,0 was found in his accounts.
According to his figures, the bank
should have that amount of money in its
possession in addition to the sum which
he turned in, and, Mr.. Edmands not being
able to explain the discrepancy, ii was
thought that he had appropriated it to
his own use. The officers, therefore, dis
charged him, but made no public an.
nouncement of the fact, beyond the ap-
pointment of Mr.. Henry o. Fuller as his
successor. The bondsmen of Mr.. Ed
mands were written to by the cashier, who
deemed il his duty to inform them of the
state of affairs but no steps were taken
by the bank to recover the money sup
posed TO have been stolen. Mr.. Edmands
went out into the world suspected fell
on. Although he knew that he was guilt
less of any crime, yet in banking circles
where the story was known a stigma
rested upon his fair fame, and he had to
meet his friends and acquaintance with
a consciousness that he was suspected of
heing thief and as unfit to be placed in
any position of trust or responsibility.
This morning, however, the clouds were
cleared away, and Mr.. Edmands stands
before the world true and honest man,
vindicated from all accusations of wrong
doing. The present paying-teller, Mr..
Fuller, had occasion to open the door of
large safe an hour or two ago, when he
discovered package in q creVice behind
jamb in the door. Examining it, he
found that it contained 10,000, exactly
the amount of the deficit, and certainly
the missing package, through the loss OF
which Mr.. Edmands has suffered so much.
The glad tidings were quickly spread
about the bank ana in the streets, and
Mr.. Edmands was sent fer at once to re-
ceive the congratulations OF his former
employers and associates. His feelings
can be better imagined than described
Boston ITupeker.