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The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-12

THE Regulators is what they call them
selves now, in Louisiana And they
shoot prominent public men from be-
hind fences. State Senators, Parish
Judges, and members of the House of
Representatives have been forced to flee
to the woods for safety. The season for
influencing votes is approaching and the
Democratic arguments, such as the reg
uiators used to assas>inate Senator
Twitchell, are to be used to influence the
colored vote.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-12

TREASURY CHICKS are now paid in
silver, if the persons presenting them SO
desire. This will have a tendency to re-
lieve the small change famine.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-12
Notice I'm Partition.

nANIEL SWALLY, OF the county OF Han
H. cock Mary Swal;y of the county OF Wyan-
dot Ii lie N. Swally Of the county of Tusca-
rawss, all Of the state of Ohio amt Henry
UIsh their Guardian, and Samuel B Thomas
OF the County of Hancock and State OF ohio
will take notice that on the second day OF May,
A. D.. ls76 the undersigned filed q petition in
the Court OF Common Pleas.of Haneoes eoun-
ty, Ohio. where the same is now pending. de-
manding partition of the 70 lowing premises
situated In said county Of Hancock, and State
Of Ohio, to-wit: Ths South half % OF the
North West quarter %, and the North East
quarter(1 Dof the souIh West quarter ~ all 10
section number twenty-five k25l In township
number one Qp, North. Range number twelve
Q2), East. .-- -u =,
The undersigned demands that partition %
made OF said premises as folloss: To the; a.
dentsned one-fouIth 90 part, u Samuel 8.
Thomas one fourth 90 Pari: TO Daniel Swally
one sixth % part: TO Mary Svally on sixth
Dsl paitI TO Lillee NJ, Swally one sixth 90
part.
At the next term OF said Court, ferty days
from this date, ,au application will be made by
tine undersigned for an order that partition
may be made or ssii premises.
Me- s.S.sT. Z VIZ A. wHITrr.f f4cqpTF1HiS95SSAs T1iS5Ss.s
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-12

A WORD TO the wise. If you are suffering
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-12

ONLY yesterday, had such bad Cough
that / could not do thing; few doses of
DIR. Marshalps Lung Syrup cured me COM
pletely; were the remarks of lady
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-12
Mtta Society

The Temperance Mite Society will be held
in Cages Hall on next Monday evening,
May 18th. There will be full programme
Of literary exercises, and refreshments Will
be served as usual.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-12

THE Nuscatine Journal says its first
choice for President has been Morton
that it likes Blaine right well, but under
all circumstances, prefers Hayes, and
expresses the opinion THAT under his
leadership the Republican party will be
sure of victory next November"
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-12
List Of Letter

List OF Letter
Remaining unclaimed in the Postoffice
at McComb, May 1, 1876:
Crawsord Oliver / WaranW N
Cooper N l Hurning Henry
Goldman Frederick Poe Mrs Andrew
Kinney w Rice Fernando
Persons calling for these letters will
please say advertised.
z. BARNEY, p. NJ.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-12
Republican State Ticket.

Fer Secretary Of State,
MILTON BARNES, of Muskingum Co.
For Judge IF Supreme Court,
w. w. BOYNTON, of LOrain County.
For Member of Board Of Public Works,
JAMES c. EVANS, of Delaware County.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-12

THE New York Tribune has no can
didate for President. 1t has no party,
and is awfully and grandly alone in its
solitude. 1t does not even have the con-
ISOLATION of the man on the fence that he
was waiting for it to dry a little on either
side, SO he could get down.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-12

iresknt-PARLEE CAFI4N, re sessAi-tQRENZo FIRMS
Treas Cashier-M SOURS Asa CasticrL c. CARLISl
sScreLpy-J A. BOPE.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-12-08
Streams of Wealth.
ming.

The Portland (Oregon) Bee has gone into
the Arabian nights business as follows:
"Rumors are rife on the streets concerning
most remarkable discovery of silver in Was
co county. The stories. floating about tell Of
nothing less than acres of boiling springs
which, instead of water, flow streams of
chloride of silver. Ship loads of precious
metal are represented to be in sight, in the
shape of soapy, gray substance, somewhat
resembling quicksilver. The molten masses,
bubble and boil with escaping gases. The
substance is so heavy that q stone will not
sink in it, but stick or crowbar may be
forced down into the pools of wealth several
feet, when the immense gravity of the mass
will throw it back into.the air like au arrow
shot from an Indians bow. AT least lG0
acres are covered with these springs, ranging
from few feet to hundred yards across
Each or is surrounded with rim Of crys
talized silver. The depth has not vet been
! imagined, but the vast wealth in sight il
enough to make every nIan in Drcglh b3-
nauza king All you have t. do is to back
up cart to the edge Of your spring aud fill
it with money. Spme people Tay think
We are drawing on our imagination for tht Sc
statements, but such is not the case. We
merely tell what we hear, : me of the 5 !.
ver amalgnm, said to be from the labuiou,
spring, has positively been aSsaycd by gvu-
tlemRn in thi, city, aud prnaOunced To- h"
precipitated chloride Of silver, worlh 5000
per ton, If this should be true the Com
stock lode would not be worth wurkiag,
Nevada would be de,erted and the silver
springs Of Oregon become the wonder Of The
world The original dsooyrrers are said "
be in the city purchasing supplies, and to
have departed by the D4Ile' boat this morn.
ing, while Il rival party has been fitted out
by 9th rs, who claim to know The where
abouts of the "Rnd," who g by pony express,
by the way Of Albany aud the Mimic pas. to
get in ahead Of the cthers,'
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-12-08
81 received my snuff. box, certainly"

81 received my snuf-box, certainly"
"And you exchanged 1t at the treasury, ]
suppose ?"
mo, your highness, have not exchang-
ed it. shall keep it always, all my life, as
a souvenir of the Sultan"
1.-THE deucew exclaimed Omer Pasha :
"Then you are very rich ?"
81 am not rich," l replied, "but eight or
nine hundred francs will not make me veal
thier. And took from my pocket the snuff
box they had offered me, and which by sue
cessive diminution after leaving the Sultan
to reach the official who gave it to me, and
having left much of its gold and enamel and
Other values in the hands of ministers, viz.
iers and managers of the mint, had, so to
say, melted between these fingers, which un.
derstood so well the art of reducing forty
thousand snuff-box to one worth three hun
dred crowns. "This is the identical snuff.
box" When Omer Pssha saw it he smiled
but rather sadly, and said, "When forty
thousand franc snuff boxes won't be worth
even eight hundred, Turkey will be saved
and become great nation"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-12-08
WidoWs.

Winter-kept apples, seasoned wine, a
clouded meerschaum, vase around which
the scent of the roses still hangs, all these
have a rare, ripe evanescent flavor that sug-
gest, but cannot express the charm of the
widow. A young widow is, perhaps the
most interesting object in nature-or in art.
She represents experience without its wrin-
kles or its gray hairs. She has matronly
beauty and maidenly freedom combined.
She is grief with a laughing eye-sorrow in
house of festivity-a silver moon in a sa-
BILE cloud. She is too sweet for anything !!
Like all good things she can only be crea-
ted at a great sacrifice Mrs. Browning says
that man must be pretty thoroughly spoil
ed before he Can leave widow. This black
swan-this mournful Phnnix--rises only out
of the funeral urn that holds the ashes of
husbands heart.
Let us wipe away the briny tear and pro-
ceed Perdite Perides. Poets, statesmen, he
roes, and philosophers have each felt the in
defnabe influence of widowhood. Its quail
ity is not straiued 1t falls alike upon the
just ana UNJUST. SuWaru ldnLaBenet mar
red the widow Elizabeth Gray, though he
knew she brought civil war for her dowry,
Ned Walker, Joe Addison, Sam Johnson,
George Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte,
John Wesley, Tony Weller, Ben Dsraeli
and all the boys married widows. Henry
VIII was so fond of them that he took two,
and King David was SO pleased with Abigail
the widow of Nabal, whom he took to wife,
that he turned Bathsheba into widow on
purpose to marry her. When Judith ceased
hor cogitations over the virtues of the late
lamented Manassas of Bethulia, puts off her
| mourning and adorns herself in brave attire
to set out for the camp of Holofornes, we
feel instinctively that she will come back
with his heart, his crown or head whichever
she goes for. When the old widow Naomi
counsels the young widow Ruth how to lay
snares in the harvest fields of her kinsman
and spring her net on the threshing floor
we know at once that the wealthy bachelor
Boaz might as well order the wedding gar.
ments. Allan Ramsay wrote a song telling
how to WOO widow. He might as well have
left directions how to get struck with light
ming.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-12-08
A Thrilling Scene.

Says q writer: 1t was at military review
held in Vienna, on the occasion Of the ffti-
eth anniversary of the establishment OF the
military Order of Maria Theresa.
Not far from 10000 cavalry were IN
line. A little child---a girl--of not aers
than four years, standing in the front rev
of spectators, either from fright or some 9th
er cause, rushed out into the open field Jose
as a squadron of hussars came sweeping
around from the main body. They had mad
the detour for the purpose Of saluting tho
empress, whose carriage was drawn uP In
that part of the parade ground. Down came
the flying squadron, charging at mad gall
lop-down down directly upon the childs
The mother was psralyzed, as were others
for there could be no rescue from the line OF
spectators. The empress uttered cry of.
horror, for the childs destruction seemed In
evitable-and such terrible destruction-ths
tramping to death by thousand iron hoohi
| Directly under the feet Of tho horses vs
the little one-another instant must seal its
doom-when stalwart hussar, who was in
the front line, without Stacking his speed er
leosenng his hold, threw himself over BY
the side of his horses neck, seized and lifted
the child, and placed it in safety upon his
saddle bow; and this he did without chang
ing his pace, or breaking the correct alllsn-
ment of the squadron. *
Ten thousand voices hailed with rapturow
applause the gallant deed, and other theu-
sands applauded when they knew. Tvs
women there were who could only sob forth
their gratitude in broken accents-the moth
er and the empress.
And proud and happy moment must IL
have been for the hussar when his emperor
taking from his own breast the richly snam-
eled cross of the Order of Maria Theresa
hung it upon the breast of bis brave sad
gallant trooper.
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BLOOMSBURG PA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1876.

him it was mistake, and that he must come
directly, for had ordered capital dinner
at the club.
/ got that message very cleverly within
| twenty words, got out shilling, and was
just going to hand both to the pleasant-look-
ing young telegraph clerkess, when horri-
BILE thought ran through me like chill, and
l stood as If transfxed. Jack Shorter had
got Purnow's note, and he would come to
the club 10 dinner Worse still, to me, as
we sat together with coffee and cigars, he
would borrow another ten pound note of
me, or perhaps be kind enough to take it in
two fives.
What was I to do? | dare not bring
those two men together. did not want
Jack. Oh it was dreadful. But the dinner
was ordered, and might just as well be eat
en-; so | went away-making the pleasant
looking telegraph clerkess look upon me as
very strange in my ways-and wrote an ex-
| planatory letter to Purnow, appointing an
other day for the dinner; but he declined to
come, and l feel sure he believed my note
was try-on for money.
| But Jack Shorter came and ate my din
ner and as I said, so he did-he borrowed
two ives over our coffee, which sum he will
never pay.
It's an awful position for man to be in,
and | suffer from it at every turn. / have
found my gun unaccountably rusty; my
fishing lines horribly tangled, and my top
joints broken. have found my choice c-
gars mouldy, my soda water without fizz
left in the bottle, my tea disappear and the
number of umbrellas that have deliberately
gone away / dare not enumerate, for my
sake-not yours.
Enough. | am the Haunted Man, and
my sprite will not leave me. He puts fuel
in my pockets, rubs my hat nap the wrong
way, hlunts the edges of my razors, breaks
the teeth out of my comb, and in one way
and another reduces ME into the state of a
hypochondriacal dyspeptic. As before said
| tell you in whisper, lest evil should come
upon me seven-fold for mine is a malig-
nant sprite, and to you, good reader, l wish
a happier fate.
Ha ha BY Jove, what fun I've just
turned this out of my desk, where it has lain
for six months meant to send it to a
magazine, and here it goes at last, if any
one will have it. But, say, the spirits ex.
orcised; gone, vanished, d,-everything's in its
place, and there's place for everything
Apple-pie order and sunshine unity, peace
and concord. Z pluridus unum-Honi soi
qui NAL y pense-Decus ct tutamen! Excuse
my high spirits it's all due to st. Lydia,
who took pity upon my forlorn lot and mar.
ried me, driving all sprites away.
l say, though, only think Jack Shorter
has come in for plum, and no sooner die
he hear that l was going to be married than
he clapped check for a cool hundred intc
my hand, saying that he didn't know how
we stood, but we'd cry quits, and that woulG
pay the trip.
This comes unknown to st. Lydi One
a Week.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-12-08

WHAT Is A JIGGoo.--A man set up a
blacksmt shop and waited for customers.
Presently there came farmer to have a
horse shod, and the sell-taught blacksmith
took a bar Of iron and began to pound out
horseshoe. He worked till his customer 3
patience aud his own coke were alike ex-
hsusted, and failed to produce anything re-
motely resembling horseshoe, "Hold on
here" he cried to the disgus:ed customer,
'dou't go away yet let me make you nice
hedge hook" And he pounded away until
he all but flattened out the anvil, and made
nothing that resembled hedge hook any
more than the FIRST attempt looked like a
horseshoe. "Now, don't go off mad" the
persevering mechanic called to his weary
patron, 'just hold your horses half min
ute I've got just enough iron left to make
jiggoo." He heated the iron, pounded it a
little on this side and that, turned it one
way and bent it the other, aud handed it to
the wondering farmer with a triumphant
''Therep "Well' asked the patron, whats
thisY" "It's jiggoo," "And what in the
thunder is jiggoo, and what is il forp
'I'm blowed If / know" said the smith
"but that's the prettiest one you ever saw
beat cut on an anvil. sAd | know it, Take
1t along"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-12-08
POetical.
IN FUTURO.

1t seems 20 me the bud OF expectation
Has not yet swollen to the perfe.t flower
That with Its wondrous fragrant exhalation
The world Of faith will dover.
The lamps we light are but the stars Of promise
The faintes .reflex OF distant sun
That wakes an eager s"lutati)n from VI
TIL nobler heights are won.
The past was but the preface to the story
In which the romance OF our lives is wrought
The deeds that win imperlshable glory
Live scarcely In our thought.
whateer we 60 falls short OF our intending;
The tructure lacks the beauty we design;
And tortured angels, to their home ascending
Depart, and leave no sign.
By oil the doubts and trials that so vex us,
BY all the falls and failures that annoy,
BY all the strange illusions that perplex US
And yield no fruit OF Joy,
We know that unto mortals is not given
The strength or knowledge that is yet in store
For us, ere yet we walk the streets OF heaven
And dream Of heaven no more.
The heart OF earth has secrets yet withhoden,
That wait the dawniny Of some future day,
When angel hands from sepulchre 30 golden
Shall roll the stone away.
Man has not touched the zenith OF his creation
The godlike thought that filled Jehovah's mind
Has had in him but feeble revelation,
Uncertain, underlined
The days wherein Time reaches its fruition.
with moments weighted with no vain regret,
Those days of which the soul has sweet provision
Draw nigh, bnt are not yet.
JOSEPHINE POLLARD, in Hdrper's Mdgaztn
Or December.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-12-08

FIEsT.CLAS SUNDAY School EDUoA-
TIoN. The san Francisco editors have all
the haotsses Of first class sunday schsei
odueatiou. The announcement OF a projee,
ted railroad la Jersualem brings to light y
vein of natural Firyt in the Nsrs Letter,
"fhrough by daylight to Bethshebs" Is
exclaims. Fast eApress Tor Sloan Pas,
sengers desiring 10 stop over at Galiilee will
please to get checks from the conductors,
Coffee and doughnuts at Bethlehem ssa
prize packages at Damascus. The fsithfsl
and picturesque camel will hereafter oaly
ulssSaratoga trunks from the depot, Moody
aud Sankey will have revival at Gonor-
rsh. Beecher will lecture at Tarsus, three
monte.card men will be forcby elected at
Zion, or stand in with the conductor st
Ei-harbur, aud Tilton will get into the
wrong berth between Gilead and Dan.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-12-08

The ways ofthe buffalo as described w
travellers in the far West are as straage ~
those Of the Heathen Chines. If q hsid of
these animals gets or the north side ofS
track, it will stand stupidity gazing, though
the locomotive passes within a huadrsai
yards of it, But if two miles fr ON the track
on the south side, the whole herd ia thrown
into the widest commotion. Regardless OF
consequences it will make for the track,
and if the train is in its way, each indiyidu'
al buffalo will go at it with the desperation
OF despair, plHnging against or betwees tue
locomotive and the ear. There was ns-
table instance of this ia the severe winter
OF 1871 -, when tae ponds and smsll river,
were frozen splid, and the buffalo Was for
d TO the larger rivers for water, The con-
duc;ors Of the Atchi,on, Topeka and Saptss
Fe eRiilrnad, after having tiains dite' el twa,.
in Ole we.k, learned 10 have very decid d
res pect for tie idioay ncrisies c the buffalo,
AMI when taere was possibility OF striking
u herl un the rampage for the north side OF
the track, stopped the train until it , asa.
ell. a.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-12-08
The Man who had been to the Centennial.


A bashful appearing man stepped into the
Enquirer editorial room the other evening,
and, edging up to the table Of the managing
editor, hat in hand, said in a hesitstiHg
way:
"You like little items for your paper, I
SUPPOSE ~
Certainly replied Mr.. Cockerill,y a.
newspaper, like life, is made up of little
items. What have you to offer?'
"Well," said the bashful man, playing
with his hat band, "my name is Smith,
John Smith-and I've just got home"
'Glad to see you back again, Mr.. Smith,.
said Cockeril. "Been gone long3" r
ri have been," said Mr.. Smith with
tremor of pride in his voice, Ito the centen--
nial, and if you want to make q little mo-
tice--" "a
"Whatw cried Cockerill, springing to his
feet, you've been to the Centennial ? And
you've got back? Give us your hand PA
delighted to see you. Spear, let ms intrs-
duce you to Mr. John Smith. John has beeA
to the Centennial" Ft
Spear shook hands very warmly with Mr..
Smith, and then ran to the aperture CON.
municating with the reporters room aaA
shouted: "OShaughnessy, come In here.
quick, here's man that's been TO the Csn-
tennial." Tten O'Shaughnessy bounced In
followed by his assistants, all of whom en4
braced the bewildered Smith warmly, aa&
expressed the qualification it afforded then
to meet man who had been to tho greAt
national exhibition. Word got down stsirs
somehow and Joe Mcdowell, Bill Small and
Uncle Joe Shadengs came ap stairs at q
tearing rate to gaze upon the individual whs
had been at the exhibition. - ~
1t was too much for the modest man to
bear, and, murmuring something about ma
king an item of his return If fhey wanted 10.
he hurried out just In time to meet on the
stairs the foreman and thtrty-two eomposi.
tors, all eager to get a glimpse Of the mas
who had been to the Centennial. - .4 asl
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-12-08

WHAT He Yesterdsy fore.
noon while Republicans were claiming that
the Presidential question was still in doubt.
man in saloon ON Main street called
out:
'I'll bet that Tildeu is elected -
"Ill bet you are a liar !" replied voice.
The two clinched rolled on tho door sAl
tussled around, and the Tilienite fAAlly
had the other at disadvantage"
snow will you admit that Tilden is elect
edH" he asked, letting up on the other y
little. ....... at
"No, Iwon'tp gasped the underuost.
"but I'll admit great Democratic gains all
over the country !"
That was good enough. aud he was lined
up and taken cut
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-12-08
THE COLUMBIAN.
oLuNBIA DEMOCRAT STAR OF THE NORTH AND ooLuN
BtAS CoNsoLIDArEDA
JOB PRINJTING-
Columbia County OfficiaI Directory

President Judge-Wiliam Elwell.
Associate Judges-lram Derr, NJ. q. Hughes.
ProthOnOtary, Sc.-B. Frank Zarr.
Court Stenographer-S. N. Walker.
register Recorder-WllllamsOn II. Jacoby.
district AttOrney-JOhn NJ. Clark.
sheriff
Surve or--Isaac Dewitt.
Trcasurer-Dr ii. W. MCReynolds.
Commssoners-John Herner, s. W. McIIenry
Joseph Sands.
Commissioners Clerk-Wllliam Krickbaum.
AudtOrs-M. V. b. Kline, j. b. Casey, L. Is. Brown
COrOner-Charles g. Murphy.
Jury Commssoners-Jaco II. Fritz william II.
UT.
County Superlntendent-Wil II. snyder.
Bloom Poor Distrct-Drectors-O p. Ent, Scott
Wm Kramer, bloomsbury and Thomas Creyellng
loot q. Z. Ent, Secretary.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-12-08

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30 particular to obtain the genuine, as prepared
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See that the name Il spelled correctly, SNAENE,
MS there are preparations OF somewhat similar name
IN the market