The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-04-07
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so it is matter of congratulation TO the
writer when he finds his paragraph on
the poor out of work has moved some
one in Yates county TO send him an ap-
plication for a servant girl to help on
farm, Offering her sood home for years,
if she can suit. The application was
handed over 10 lady visitor of St.
Johns Guild, who will take care that
the demand Is filed. Persons who make
such requests in future will remember
that it is necessary for them to send SAT
isfactory references from people of
standing as to their ability to pay and
treat a ervant well, before any one will
be willing to risk going TO them.
No one who has any feeling for the
poor can object to aid in the work of
helping them to homes and employment
where the benefit is as much on one side
as the other. In tie country, where
help is scarce. it is pitiful to see the
numbers ont of work here, yet it is diff
cult to find those willing to leave the
city. A sewing machine agent lately
sent to New York for an operator to go
to a Western city, offering salary
nearly twice what one could get here,
but not one woman could be induced to
take it, though it was offered to some
whose earnings were hardly enough to
pay their board, and whose chance at
best was very precarious. The poor
creatures will run the risk of starving
rather than go out of town, where they
would be welcome and comfortable.
The fact is, they will not leave the
city so long as they can exist in it. To
the poor bred here, and accustomed to
the city, there is nothing so terrible as
the country. They cling to the city with
all its wretchedness, ignorant that there
is anything better for them outside.
Half the unemployed girls in New York
are needed in the country, where they
could have good comfortable homes, but
they will not go.
FREIGHTS.
The merchants of New York are ma
king an effort to get back their lost trade.
They are sick of fighting Boston and
Baltimore barehanded, and are going to
protect themselves. They are organ
izing to do what should have been done
years ago, viz Build straight air line
freight road from the city to the promi
nent freight gathering points, with prop
er terminal facilities. They propose to
own the road, and have it operated in
the interest of the city and the people of
the West, and TO do away with all the
little swindles and extortions that have
driven the trade away from the city.
The matter is in the hands of men who
mean business, and who have the money
to do it. 1t is expected to have the sur
vey commenced early in the spring, and
the road commenced at once. 1t will
be straight road to st. Louis, with
branches to the principal points, and
will be exclusively for freight. The
trains will make an average of sixteen
miles an hour, and it will be double
tracked its entire length. The road will
save the farmers Of the West its cost
every five years, for when finished il will
not cost more to get a bushel OF wheat
to market than the wheat is worth.
BUSINESS
Is dull again. and the weather is aver
aging badly. Last week we were treated
to regular hurricane, which blew down
buildings, and tore up things generally.
But the mild weather that followed has
brought the country merchants, and
therefore it is hailed with delight.
HEALTH.
The city is fearfully unhealthy. The
spring suns are exposing masses oil NTH
that have accumulated during the win
ter. and the miasma that is in the air is
something frightful. Ague and Bilious
Fever are more prevalent than it is In
Indiana, and the variety is of the most
malignant. Bilious Fever means more |
here than it does in the country, and |
when it comes to Typhoid, look out.
There is q poison in the air that is terri |
ble, and children and weak adults are |
diving at a rate upheard of. Unless steps |
are taken at once to clean the city, the |
summer will bring a pestilenee. 1t is |
shame that it should be in such a condi- |
tion, when the amount OF money paid |
each year for the purpose of cleaning it
ought to keep it as sweet as flower-b bed.
RELIGIOUS.
The advent of Moody and Sankey, and
the enormous audiences tley have at
tracted, have had the effect to set Chris
tians to thinking of various things.
Among others the system of renting |
pews is being discussed with much feel
ing. The more earnest workers insist
that the churches shall be free, that the
seats shall be free, and that the system
of ''first come, first served" shall be
adopted. They insist that only in this
way can the masses be brought into the
churches and under gospel influences.
On the other hand the holders OF pews
hold that as there are always sittings Tor
all who come, there is no reason why
those who desire it should not have their
regular seats, and continue the regular
amily idea of the church. The matter
has got into the papers, and much is
being said pro and con. The preachers
are takil i, up, and the Christian world
is being divided into pew and no pew
parties. | shall not attempt to settle 1T,
but will give my notion in a speech made
by an advocate of the pew system.
ssTalk," said he, ''of the necessity of
bringing sinners in to hear preaching.
Who needs it more than 1Ce do! And
who needs inducements more than we
io?n As he was a pillar in the church
his statement was a most candid confess
sion. PIETRo.
Mt. BLANCHARD, o., April 4, 1876.
ED. JEFF: Nothing of Importance
has transpired since you last heard from
rs. except the elections, which have
caused more or less enthusiasm.
Tie election of School Board seemed
to be of the most importance in town,