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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-14

sacked the great city 10 find him in some
den of misery; for more than a year she
kept him under her own eye every mo-
ment, while the poor wretch fought the
devil Of drink, nursing him tonderly as
though he were still a baby, with agony
of soul to which the pains of his birth
were nothing. The boy conquered at
last. He is now the lea1ing physician in
his native place, man of great force and
stability Of character, and he Is fond of
telling his bows how that all he Is he
owes to his mother. There was the oldest
girl too, who had spinal complaint, and
for years lay hopeless cripple in the lit
tie chamber over the shop. Everybody in
the village remembers how dainty
and cheerful a place the little cham
Der was, and how, no matter what
drudgery or anxiety waited for
the poor mother outside, she never entered
its door but with smiling face. Every
body knows the hard work, and saving
and stinting she practiccd for years TO
educate the other ohildren-to give a son
start in Kentucky, and buy daugh-
ter house and outfit when she was left
a widow. They are all married or hap
PLY settled now. The poor cripple, afler
her years of Iain, is at rest in the green
hillside. The mother lives alone, with
such grandchildren as can I've spared to
her now and then. Her youngest girl
went as teacher to Ohio, then entered a
college where both sexes were admit.
ted; now she is in this city earning her
living by drawing, writing for one or two
weekly papers, etc. 1t is she who is
working for the woman's department OF
the Centennial. She is a brilliant talker
she glances over the current subjects OF
the day In light touch -and-go way
which bewilders her mother with the pro
fundity and extent of her knowledge. "II
she had had Betty chancel" shethinks sht
too might have played great and worthy
part in life. fa4
There are many women of her age
and class who have this morbid dis
content, just now. But the Judge who
shall weigh her work and her daugh
ters's, and that of each and all of us
has other scales than ours.-N. Y. Tri6
1LUp
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-14
PAIRING the Horses HOOr.

Many horses have the shape of their
feet completely spoiled by wearing their
shoes beyond the proper period for remOv-
ing them. This they arc allowed to do,
either from neglect, or from an idea of
economy; but it is an ill-timed attempt at
saving. Unless there is some very special
reason for IT, the shoes should never be
permitted to remain on longer than three
or four weeks, according as the hoof may
be active in its growth, or otherwise.
There is one great objection TO what is
called re.se;ting the shOCs-they generally
become too short, by providing for new
calkings, SO that the lhorsc's heels are eX-
posed TO undue conclusion, which is a
frequent source of corns and quarter
cracks.
The old shoes should be removed from
the feet with great care, after all the
elenches have been cut. If they are
dragged off in a careless and awkward
manner, without cutting. the clenches, the
sole may be bruised and injured, or the
edges of the wall may be cleft and broken
We call attention to this little matter, be.
cause this part of the operation is seldom
done with the neatness and care which it
requires.
There are very few things so little va
ried in nature as the form of the ground
surface of the horses foot, for whether
the hoof is high-heeled and upright, or
low-heeled and Hat, large or small, broad
or narrow, the identical form of the
ground surface is maintained in each, so
long as nature is left alone. The advant-
age of this form is so obvious, that it is a
matter of wonder II should ever be inter
tered with. The enlarged outer quarter
extends the base, and increases the hold
Of the foot upon the ground; while the
straighter inner quarter lessons the risk of
striking the foot against the opposite leg
II should surely be our object to retain
these valuable qualities as longas we can,
and not lightly sacrifice either of them to
false notion of what may be considered
a prettier form. Whenever we see nature
steadily perseyering in one plan, depend
upon it, IL is not within the range of mans
ingenuity TO amend it. Instead, there
fore, of attempting to pare the form OF the
hOof to the ideal circular one given TO the
shoe, the shoe ought to be made to fit the
forll of the natural foot. The quantity OF
horn to be pared away from the foot,
should always depend on the form of the
upper part OF the foot, which varies con-
siderably in different horses In upright
feet aHd high heels hsrn grows abundant
ly, especially toward the toe, and such
feet are benefited by having the toe short
ened, the heels lowered, and the soles well
pared out; while with Hat feet and low
heels, the horn grows 'sparingly, and such
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-14
The TMO.DoIlAr Dog.

GEN. GARFIELD, in his article on "The
Currency Conflict" published in the
February number of the Atlantic Monthly,
tells the story of "lad who sold his
two.dollar dog for fifty dollars, and took
his pay in pups at ten dollars each, and
never doubted that he had made profit
of forty-eight dollars until he found how
small q sum the whole litter would sell
for in the market" He called the pups
ten.dollar pups, and by getting five of
them for two-dollar dog he figured out u
profit of forty eight dollars as the result
of the trade.
The object of Gen. Garfield was to IL
lustrate the magic charm of the three sixty
five interconvertibilityn by which paper
dollars and three -sixty-tive bonds, being
eXchangcable for each other, according to
the Butler Kelley tnanclers, are to main
tain permanent equipose of value. " The
alternate ebb and flow of bond into paper
dollar and paper dollar into bond will
preserve an equilibrium" Sec how ad-
mirably the thing works. The paper
dollar, being, at the option of the holder,
convertible into the three -sixty-tive bond,
will, of course, circulate at the value of
the latter; and so the bond, being at all
times convertible into the paper dollar,
will have the same value in the market
Each will be at the level of the other.
1t was precisely so with the lads two
dollar dog and ten-dollar pups.
So three-sixty five bond, computed in
paper dollars, for which it is exchange.
able, is worth its face in such dollars, and
the dollars are worth their face value in
the bond. What would either be worth in
gold? The paper dollar certainly would
not rise above the gold value of the bond.
Does any one suppose that bond paying
interest at the rate OF three-sixty-five per
cent. would be at par with goldS Taking
our five per cent bonds as a standard OF
measurement, and supposing the three
| sixty-five bonds to have the same time to
run ami to be payable, principal and in
terest, in gold, the latter would be worth
about seventy-five cents on the dollar in
| gold, and this would be the value of the
paper dollar. That is to say, both would
be deprecated twenty per cent, as
compared with the gold dollar. The
bond and the paper dollar, as COM
pared with each other, would be at the
same level; but neither would be at
the level of the gold dollar, which would
commercially be regarded as the true
standard of value. Their equilibrium
would be simply that of the lads dog and
he pups for which thedog was exchanged.
IN. Y. Independent
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II seems that the memory OF this woman,
like that OF her renowned husband, is likely
TO be kept alive TO the end Of time Shci
said TO have possessed very irritable tenn.
per, aud her name has become a synonym of
tyixcn," or "scold." IL is more than pos
siblc, however, that the Judgment passed
upon her by mankind has been too severe.
A more charitable disposition would un-
douhtedly have discovered in her, manygood
qualities, and have attributed her fpilings
more to physical iniirmities than to moral
obliquity. The party most Intimately nc
quointed with her, and therefore best able
to form correct opinion, gives her credit
for many domestic virtues. IL Is now well
known that many OF the diseases to which
women arc subject, have a direct tendency
TO render them irritable, pccvish, cross, mo,
| rose, unreasonable, 50 that they chafe and
| fret over all those little Ills and annoyances
that person in health would bear with com
pOsure. II is fair to infer that most of the
tantrums of Xantippe were due to these
| causes Hlohe; and could Socrates, as he re-
turned from the scuatc, the Gymnasium, OF
| the Athcneum, have stopped at Pcstlc u
Mortar's Drug Store and carried home
bottle of DR.. Plercc's Favorite Prescription
now and then, no doubt he might have
ev0ded many u "curtain lecture,N allayCd
many domestic broil," made il mucl
| plcasanter for the children, aud more enjoy
| able for himself, and rescued his wifc's nam,
from the unenviable worldwide, and eter
nal notoricty it has attained. Thousands o.
women bless the day on which DIR. Pierce
Favoritc Prescription was first made knowI
to them. A single bottle often gives delicate
and suffering women more relief than month";
| OF treatment from their family physician
In all those arrangements causing backachc
dragging down sensations, nervous and gen
er0l debility, it is sovereign remedy. M
soothing and healing properties render 1t o
the utmost value to ladies suffering from in
tcrnal fever, congestion, Inflammation, o
liberation, and its strengthening effects tcnt
to correct displacemcnts Of internal parts
the result of weakness of natural supports
1t is sold by all druggists.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-14
Bean Culture.

Farmers who have the right kind of
soil will find that the medium-siZed white
field bean is one of the most profitable
crops they can grow. If sent t, market
in prime order, they are always ready sale
and command good prices. They require
high, dry, moderately rich land. A rather
hard clay or gravelly loan is best, but
sandy soil will answer. They will not
succeed well on low, black, mucky land
as they grow continually and never ripen
| plant wo feet apart each way, in hills.
Use plentyo of seed, as they are liable to
be eaten off by the cut-worm. After the
trouble from worms is over, thin out to
four plants in the hill Plant about the
middle of May. Cultivate thoroughly
with horse and hoe, during the summer.
Pull them in September, as soon as ripe (;
stack around stake well set in the
ground, with the roots outside, and put a
little straw or hay on top to protect them
from rain. AS soon as dry, haul to the
barn and thresh Immediately. Good beans,
when threshed, look white, clean and dry.
There is variety of bush beans, some
of which we should plant to supply the
family with string beans. They will
grow for this purpose, in any soil Plant
in drills about two feet apart; they need
but little care.
The varieties of pole beans are too nu-
merous to mention, but decidedly the best
is the Lima. 1t is delicious vegetable,
green or dry, during the whole year. A
warm, rich, sandy loan suits is best. 1t
is rank grower. Plant in hills about
four feet apart each way, and plant firmly
in each hill good stake ten or twelve
feet long. Put into each hill, also, a
shovel full Of old rotten manure, and mix
it well with the soil before planting.
Plant about the Goth of May. Put in
plenty of seed. Leave the hills little
higher than the ground.-D. O. Richmond,
IN Ohio Enl1ller
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-14
FACTS AND FIGURES.

EVERY pupil in the Boston Latin School
costs the city $240 year.
GREAT BRITAIN imported $4,000 900
worth of potatoes last year. r..
THE average American is five feet nine
inches in height and his wife five feet
two.
AN official return states the gross mum.
Der of slaves in the Brazilian Empire
at I, ,409, ,448. .f
THE average cost of good gravel or
Macadamized roads is 81 800 per mile, and
for mud pixies, $40. T
THERE are 10000 fruit trees in San
Diego County, Cal, including A 900 or
ange and 81 900 olive trees.
NNETEEN persons have lost their lives
by nitro glycerine since its introduction
into the Pennsylvania oil regions,
THE London Underground Railroad
carried 26,500, 1000 passengers last year,
and earned dividend of four per cent.
THERE are estimated to be 81 ,320 flour
mills In the Russian Empire, which are
driven by wind, water, treadlc or steam.
THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY. SEVEN
American hotels were burned in 1875
and not hotel clerk was so much as
scorched. I..I|
THERE arc now growing in the streets
of which have been planted within the
last three years.
A SINGLE entry Of sugar at the Boston
Custom House lately weighed over B ,000,-
600 pounds, and the duty on 1t, paid in
gold, was $j7 900.
THE resources of the savings banks OF
the State of New York amount to $353,.
763,532.45; liabilities, $320,001 ,40S so
surplus, S33, ,600, ,20962, .....
In Paris, in 1876, there were born 20, :.
2t1 boys, and 26, 6,643 girls 1880 persons
died; surplus of births, 9,S74; 10, 127
marriages were contracted.
THE shipments of timber from Will
Transport, Pa, over the Philadelphia &
Reading and Philadelphia e. Erie Rail
roads have reached 1 1,000,000 feet daily oI
| late. ..
The State appropriation for public
schools in South Carolina for the coming
year is $250,000 1t is apportioned to the
counties on the basis of the school attend
ancc. The total attendance during the
past year was 110,416.
THE death of the celebrated hors,
Hambletouiau will be regretted almost a.
if tho brute had been human being ThC
sire of some of the best horses in tn,
land, his name has been familiar to al
lovers of animals for quarter of
century. Other horses have trotted faste
than he did, but it is doubtful whethe
this would be true if he had been given I,
the turf rs other animals have been
While yet a mere colt he trotted mile il
2.4019; but he was never trained to hi
best speed. His owners have preferred {,
make him useful in improving the brcc,
of horses in this country, and his descend
ants constitute to-day the very best stocI
we have. He has died at the age @
twenty seven years, and his skin is to b
stuffed for honorable exhibition in Centra
Park.-N. Y. Commercial Adpertt.er.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-14
The Big and Little of 1t.

EXTREMES in human nature met this
morning at the Union Pacific depot, and
the meeting was a curious sight, wit
messed by hundreds Of spectators.
Maj. Houghton, who is twenty seven
years old, is thirty-o one inches high, and
weighs forty-One pounds, an account of
whom appeared in the Bee the other day,
has been waiting here for week to meet
two other natural curiosities, and go with
them to San Francisco, to join a circus
company. The other parties were Han.
nah Battersby and Mrs. Sarah E. Bolton,
who arrived from the Eastthis morning.
Miss Battersby is the fattest, largest and
heaviest woman in the world. She weighs
765 pounds, and is twenty four years old
She has been in the show business ever
since she was ten years old, and for many
years was with Barnum. She is known
as the Eastern Giantess." She wanted
to take a brief ride around town with
Maj. HOughton, but as no hackman could
conveniently get her into carriage, and
as she would not insure him against
breakage, she had to forego that pleasure
While she waddled around on the depot
platform, the ground seemed to fairly
tremble beneath her tread, and when she
took her place in the Car, she filled up an
entire seat, not leaving room enough for q
hair pin even, and she had considerable
difficulty in squeezing in through cal
door.
Mrs. Sarah E. Bolton was the opposite
of the giantess. She is only thirty.ont
inches tall, weighs thirty eight pounds
and is the smallest woman in the world
Her age is twentv-eight, and her circu.
name is "The Fairy Queen" If she
were not married she would make an ex
cellent match for Mai Houghton, the
smallest man in the world.
The trio were the observed of all OBJ
servers at the depot till the train left fol
the West.-OmahG Bee
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-14
Consistency.

The Democratic majority in the House
of Representatives received, in the early
days of the present session, severe re-
buke from an aroused public opinion.
They bent before the indignation, and
pleaded misrepresentation in regard to the
alleged dismissal of worthy Union sol
diers as officials Of the House, and the re-
placing of them by eX-Confcderates. 1t
was claimed on the floor that the Demo
cratic officers had employed more ex-
Union soldiers than did the Republicans
formerly. Everyone who knew the status
of affairs at the Capitol felt that this was
an evasion. SO il has turned out to be.
Nearly all of the ex-soldiers retained on
the rolls for buncombe by the Confederate
Doorkceper, have since been discharged.
What few remain are in subordinate
places. The same thing Is true in other
departments of the House. Democratic
chairmen of committees, nearly all of
whom were very green and raw, retained
in some instances the former clerks. But
this appears to have been only make
shift. When the clerk had Instructed his
ignorant superior he, too, was turned
adrift. An instance of this kinu oc.
CURED in the Committee on Pen.
sions. MIR. jerks, the 'reforming'
was bO iBuOIdut vi lndtlCIo
over the nature Of which he now
writes and speaks SO glibly, that he asked
the Republican members to recommend
proper person for clerk Mr.. Wilson, an
eX-soldier, who formerly filled the posi-
tion, was named and appointed. He
worked very hard and faithfully for a
number of weeks. Mr.. jerks then dis.
missed him without cause, and appointed
political follower of his own. The com
mittee were greatly annoyed, and Demo
crat thereon proposed a resolution very
complimentary to Mr.. Wilson, however il
might be regarded as affecting MIR. jerks,
and it passed unanimously. The Chair
man of the Committee on Invalid Pen
sions is a consistent man. He presents
an elaborate attack on the Pension Bureau,
and proposes to remove it to the War De-
partment. One of his principal reasons
therefor is the alleged frequent political
removals in the Department of the In
terror, and the comparative freedom there
from the War Department would and
does enjoy. Yet thisssame reformer plays
confidence game--learns his business
or tries, from Republican subordinate
and then dismisses him for Democrat
whom he has to teach .-RepuJLic MGgd
zine. sa st@&
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-14

They tell nightly on the heart, be as
sured, little as they are.
A gentleman stops at friends house
and finds II in confusion =" lie don't see
anything to apologize for; never thinks
of such matter; everything Is all right" ="
cold supper, cold room, crying children,
perfectly comfortable"
He goes home; his wife has taken care
Of the sick ones, and worked her lifo al.
most out. Don't see why things can I
be kept in order; there never were such
crcss children" No apologies except
away from home.
Why not be polite at home? Why not
use freely the golden coin Of courtesyS
How sweet they sound, those little words,
thank you" or "you are very kind. "
Doubly, yes, trebly sweet from the lips we
love, when heart-smiles make the eye
sparkle with the clear light of affection.
BE polite to your children. Do you ex-
poet them TO be mindful of your welfare,
TO grow glad at your approach, TO bound
away TO do your pleasure before your re-
quest is half spokenY. Then with all your
dignity and authority minglc politcness.
Give Il niche in your household temple.
Only then will you have the true secret of
sending out into the world really finished
gentlemen and ladies' --Otrtsttdn Union.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-14
Not Very Flatterlng.

Both the Republican and Democratic
Conventions of Connecticut passed en-
phatic and uncquivocal hard d-money resO-
lutions. This enraged the Greenback in
flationists, who called convention and
nominated ticket of their own, which
was to swamp both the old parties and
sweep the field The advocates of the
currency watering folly stumped the State,
and nightly held forth in behalf
of cheap money, big money, non
exportable money, scrip which was to be
received for duties, shinplasters that were
70 be made "equal to the wants of trade"
and the needs of the poor man, paper dol
lars which were 10 have no redeemable
nonsense about them, but were to
be interconvertible into 1855 per cent.
bonds, and the bonds we're not to have
the smell of gold on their garments.
Everybody was to be made rich and happy
by those patent methods of making nOth-
ing worth more than something. Finally
the canvass closed, the election was held,
and the votes counted. Here is the re-
suit;
resumption ......,............... 80, 51,0T
For the Republican hard money ticket and
resumption ..:....., ..'''....' '.'.....'. -4530i
For the Prohibition ticket. .......... -. -. 1871
For the Grcenback soft ticket and no resump-
The prospect of the currency dilution-
lists who dub themselves Independents
sweeping the country for President is not
very ilattering .-ChtcdgO Tribune.
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POLITICAL ITEMS.


tY-SenatoI Morrill,, Of Vermont, struck
a keynote when he said eff the Repub-
licans get on the scent of official fraud,
they follow il out; but If the Democrats
find the trail leads into their camp, they
abandon it,"
sB~We have repeatedly pointed outthat
the whole Democratic z reirenchment and
reform" movement is political dodge
and cheat, intended for electioneering
purposes during the coming campaign.
We now put on record the prediction that
il will be followed, next session, by the
most lavish and outrageous expenses in
behalf of Confederate schemes of jobbery
and robbery.
EB- The Democratic party of the North
is, today. responsible for the outrages
perpetra,ed upon the black men of the
South, and they have been responsible
from first to last Their appeals to me
are vain When they do Justice then
there will be'harmony; but until they do
justice there can be no peace. "Let us
have peace y said the President Why
did we mol have peaceS Because The pc.
litical associates of the Senator from Del
aware dominated over the Southern coun-
try, defled the laws, oppressed, perse
cuted and murdered citizens; and now
they appeal for pcace-From Senator
BouttoeIt's Speech fn Reply 20 Senator Bay
13H -. r II
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DIR. schsnck,s standard RemodIes.

THE standard remedies for aD diseases OF the
lungs are SoHEScE's PULMOHIo SYRUP scHENcK's
SEA WEED Tome and SCHENoK's MANDRAKE
PILLS, and IL taken before the lungs are destroyed,
aspeedy cure is effected
TO these three medicines DR.. J. IL. Schenck, sf
Philadelphia, owes his unrivaled E9ccsss In tho
treatment of pulmonary diseases. .ir
This Pulmonic Syrup ripens the morbid matter
In the lungs; nature throws II off by an easy ex-
pectoration for when the lhlegm or mater is ripe
slight cough win throw Il OF, the patient has rest
and the lungs begin 10 heal. fi.r.
To enable the Pulmonic Syrup TO do this,
Schenck's Mandrake Pills and Schenck's Sea
Weed Tonic mast be freely used TO cleanse the
stomach and liver. Schenck's Mandrake Pills act
on the liver, removing all obstructons. relax the
gall'bladder the bile starts freely and ble liver is
soon relieved
Schencl Sea Weed Tonic is geutle stimulant
and Alternative; the alkali, 0f which Il is composed
mixes with the food and prevents souring. II as
ssts tie digestion by toning mp the stomach 10 a
healthy condition, so that the food and the Pull
monic Syrup will make good blood then tbs lunga
heal and the patient win surely get well IN care Is
taken 10 prevent fresh cold.
All who wish TO consult DIR. Scheuck, either per-
sOnally or by letter, do at his principal Of
nce, corner OF sixth and ARCH sTs., Philadelphia,
every Monday.
schenok's medicines are sold BY all druggists
throughout the county. - --.. .....-'.