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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-03-14
Two Odd Dreams.

An exchange tells a story of a gentle
man who. on going to bed, lost collar
button, which on coming detached rolled
to q distant corner of the room. He
searched for it about ten minutes, and
then gave it up for lost. In the night
he dreamed that he found it under the
washstand, and on waking up found it in
that spot. This isn't half so odd rs the
case of man who lost valuable horse,
and before going to bed ate n Welsh rare
bit. He dreamed hisho1se was III village
chrlrch4ifteen miles away, and was quietly
consuming the hair in the pew cushions.
having left the buggy on the pulpit steps:
When he awoke next morning he found
TINT in reality q neighbor's boy hadfound
the horse and vehicle and had put it up
in q livery stable nntil he could clnim o
reward
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-03-14
The Dreamland Sea.

What matter, though my pilgrim feet
May never press the strangers land,
Or wander lone where wild waves beat
With ceaseless moan on oceans strand:
For me expands lovelier deep.
Whose isles in visioned beauty sleep,
And never ocean waves could be
So bright as thine, fair dreamland sea.
Ny castle crowns the boldest steep,
By warning winds and waters SCARED.
That seaward leans, and DER the deep
Keeps evermore unceasing ward.
Full freighted, with their wings Of snow,
The white ships come, the white ships 60.
While in the shade of cliff and towers
dream away the gliding hours.
With names, foam flecked and tossing free.
The waves, wild coursers Of the sea.
Race swiftly to the level strand, ~
And struggling die upon the sand.
The shells that sparkle at my feet,
Strange tales Of wind and wave repeat,
The weird romance, the mystery
OF the dark caYerns Of the sea.
Ny fairy feet that long has lain
Close rnoored in some enchanted bay.
Borne by fair gales across the main,
sSSails;swiftlyo on its homeward way.
My ships, my stately ships l see!
Full many a royal argosy,
Like white winged birds they speedily come
And bring their gathered treasures home.
Pearls from the mermaid's watery cell.
Pure gold from sunny orient lands,
With many rosy chambered shell
And jewel-wroughtb el6n hands
Crosses and amulets Of price,
OF sandal wood and sacred palm,
Embossed with many fair device,
And odorous with tropic balm. -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-03-14
. Battle in fhe Clouds.

The Paris (Ky.) Citizen says: l sup
pose you have heard by this time OF the
battle in the heavens that occurred in
this county recently. Those that heard
it say it was much like the Morgan fight
here when it commenced, and lasted
about one minute and a half. 1t came
from the northwest. I have just talked
with q man who heard it coming whirl-
ing through the trees, looked up and saw
the smoke flying from it, and large
rock fell within fifty yards of him,
weighing from twelve to fifteen pounds.
The rock was of q black mineral color.
1t fell about four miles below the town
on Craigmyle's place. The noise was
heard ali over the county,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-03-14
Times Changes.

"Three hundred years ago." says the
Burlington HaWkeye, "forks were un-
know in England, and a man could
scoo, up all the green peas he could
carry ON the fat of his knife and shovel
them into his mouth without having his
wife stamp on his corns or nudge his
elbow and spill the pens all over where
his napkin ought to be and never is, and
say, In q hoarse, repruachfnl whisper; !;
why. bartholomew ="
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-03-14
The Man IN the Iron Mask.

The mysterious prisoner whose melan-
choly story has puzzled the wit of gen.
Grafton after generation, and formed the
nucleus of q mass of legends, was rather
the type of class than solitary exam
pie of regal and ministerial tyranny.
Richeieu himsef-the founder of the
absolute monarchy--had too much of the
soldier in his composition to care for
mystery. He hit high, and he hit hard,
but he was at least above board. He
Topped off the tall poppyheads in the
open. He did not bury bis victims alive;
he brought them to the block in broad
daylight. It was his crafty, not to say
cowardly successor, the " facchino, I"
Mazarin, who led the way to the
secret system, carried to perfection by the
great kings terrible secretary of state for
war, Louvois. That the kidnapping of
troublesome persons on foreign territory
was familiar outrage in the middle OF the
seventeenth century is proved by the fol-
lowing incident. Perhaps the most
troublesome person to the successive ad-
ministrations of Richelieu, Mazarin and
Louvois, was the grandson of Henri
Quatre and La Belle Gabrielle, Francois
de Vendome, Due de Beaufort. He was
a busy conspirator, and had to fly to Eng
land to escape the consequence Of his
completely in the affair of Cinq-Mars.
Later in life he organized cabal against
Anne of Austria, and was imprisoned in
the castle of Vincennes but, escaping
thence, became the idol of the Paris
mob, and acquired the surname of the
king of the marketplace. During his
Imprisonment q certain Sie1r de Beau
pays-his faithful adherent-thought to
secure the liberation of his master by
assassinating Cardinal Mazarin in the
Bois de VinceI.es. The attempt failed,
,and the assassin escaped to Rome, where
he was received with open arms Hereat,
NJ. de Brienre-then secretary of state
for foreign affai1s-requested his cousin,
NJ. De Gremonville, the French ambassa-
dor at the Papal court, to have the vii
lain privately aaized to shut him
up in packing case" and send him to
France Gas bale of goods" under the
"pretext of forwarding part of re-
Gently purchased library to France"
ne Oleur LIE bedupuyS WAS lOILlluae
enough to escape the affectionate atten-
tions of his countrymen but the letter
recommending his abduction is still ex-
tant in the archives of the department.
The DUO de Beaufort, after an adventur-
GUS life, in the course of which he kills
his brother-in-law, the DUO de Nemours,
in duel, died-or did not die-in sortie
during the expedition to Gambia. The
report was spread that he was killed;
but others limited that he was quietly
arrested, brought to France, and convey
ed rs a 'secret prisoner to Pignerol,
thence to Exiles, and the Isles Sainte
Marguerite, and, at last, to the Bastille,
where he died. 1t was, in fact, said that
he was the famous prisoner of NJ. Saint
Mars-in short, the iron mask himself
IN hypothesis strongly supported by the
extraordinary respect shown that prison
er, which would have been quite un-
necessary in the case of common folk like
Matthioli and other more favored claim
ants to this dread identity-AU the Year
Round.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-03-14
Just Like Himself.

"Why doesn't this fire keep up?"
asked a Chicago husband pettishly, as he
pranced around half dressed, and fur
lively poked the stove CRATE, late one bit
ter morning.
cts 80 much like you" piped ont
his wife, from her warm bed.
"Like mel" exclaimed he, stopping
in his work. How SO ?"
"Because," said SHE, roguishly, "it
will go out nights !"
He only munbled something tc him'
sel3, and yetuyned 10 hia work
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-03-14

A Philadelphia woman swore that her
husbands conduct was enough 10 "irri'
gate al angel"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29
PROBABLY THE OLDEST COUPLE IN
THE WORLD.


Doctor Wilkins, OF Fairmount, re-
Gently visited man and woman in
Montgomery county, Indiana, whose
ages are respectively one hundred and
thirteen and one hundred and eleven
yoars. and who have lived together in
the married state for eighty-fiye years.
The name of this ancient couple is
Fruits, and they are the parents of
Mrs. Thomas Williams ofCatlin town.
ship. The old man stands up az
straight as a ramrod, and does quite q
good deal of work every day. He has
always been a moderate liver, and
uses no tobacco, which is an argument
against tobacco users. But his wife
has been a steady smoker for sixty
years, which is an argument in favor
of tobacco. The old lady is afflicted
with a cancer, which made its appear
ancc upon her forehead forty years
ago, and which she is now doctoring
with coal oil. At one time in her life
she weighed two hundred and twenty
five pounds, but gradually shrunk
away until now she tips the beam at
one hundred aud twenty-five.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29
ANCIENT ENGINEERINa.

1t is remarkable fact that nothing
surpasses in modern engineering, the
pyramids of Ghizee, built some five
thousand years ago. 1t is universally
acknowledged by the highest profes-
sional authorities in this time that the
masonry could not be surpassed in
these days; and, moreover, the design
is perfect for the purpose for which
they were intended, above all to en-
dure. The building of pyramids con-
tinued for some ten centuries,and from
sixty to seventy stiIi remain; many
containing enormous blocks OF granite
fro m thirty to forty feet long, g,weighing
more than three hundred tons, and
display the most consummate ingenu.
ity in their construction. A more diff
ficult operation than the mere trans
port of weight-that of raising ODE.
lisks weighing more than four hum
dred tons-was performed with pre-
cision by the Egyptians, but their
method of lifting them remains un-
known. The use of large stones in
Notifications was known to the Peru
vians and in India, too, from their
repugnance to the use Of the arch,
builders have commonly used large
blocks. both in bridges and buildings.
But the Romans surpassed in mechan-
les the Egyptians who set up obelisks,
since they transported them from
Egypt. and afterwards erected them
at Rome, where more are now to be
found than remains -in-Egypt- -In-
mense stone were used in the temple
of B.albec; one lies ready quarried
teen feet square and weighs upward
of ], ,135 tons.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29
BRE ATHING.

Ii our breathing is imperfect, all the
functions of the body and mind are
impeded; in fact, the manner of
breathing at any particular time is al
most as good test aa the pulse itself
of the general state of the system,
physical and mental. One of the COM
monest faults in the use of the lungs
is the habit of breathing, as it were,
from their surface-not bringing suf-
ficiently into play the costaI and alb
dominal muscles. By watching the
domestic animals horse or COW, for
instance-we may learn a lesson in
breathing. We perceive that there is
little emotion near the fore extrem-
tiles but the breath is impelled from
TANKS. So should we have the main the
action from the waist. Any form of
dress or belt. therefore, which con-
strains the base of the lungs does
harm.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29
A NEW USE FOR CORN.

The farmers in this section are prom
ised new field for their industry. 1t
has been demonstrated, it is claimed,
that q fine article of sugar can be man
ufactured from corn. and at very
reasonable cost. The Chicago Tri-
bune has been shown Il sample manu-
factured near that city, and says :. it is
white, and very sweet. To complete
its manufacture into pure, ersnulated
sugar, alcohol must be used to remove
the foreign matter contained in the
crude product. a bushel of corn
yields 30 pounds of raw sugar, and
this when purified by alcohol, gives
27 pounds of sugar, marketable at 4
cents a pound. In other words, q
bushel of corn made into sugar would
bring 81 0S. Our internal-revenue
system prohibits this development of
the market for the farmers corn, be-
cause, unlike that of more enlighten-
ed nations, it taxes alcohol destined
for use in manufactures as heavily az
that which is to be exported.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29
MEDICAI
TO THE AFFLICTED.
DR.. JOHN GeUcHER

Still continues to treat every variety of
CHRONIC DISEASE.
at the corner of Sycamore and Cedar
Sts., Ravenna, Ohio, where he located
the Goth of October. 1868. Since that
time have successfully treated TWEEN
TY-SIx THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED
CASES among which have been many
miraculous cures OF Cancer, Gravel,
Tunors, Drorssy. Rheumatism. Fistu-
la in Ara, Prolapsus OF the Rectum,
Piles, Tape Worms Seat or Pin
Worms, Intestinal Worms, Hip Dis
ease, Goitre, Enlarged Glands, Scrofu-
la. and all Impurities of the Blood.
Scaid Head Invariably Cured;
and that most insidious of all diseases,
Catarrh, which is destroying its tens of
thousands annually. Also, the varied
Diseases of Females, arising from Uter-
inc Diseases. Displacement, Enlarge
ment, Inflammation, liberation, Tu-
mors, Polypus, and all their sympa-
thetic accompaninIents, ON the latest
scientific principles. without the use of
the knife or caustics, but by constitu-
tiOnal treatment and local absOrbents,
which We believe TO be the true meth
Cd of cure, if timely and properly ap-
piled.
CaIculous C0ncretions of the Kid
neys and Bladder. There are several
varieties of Gravel in our possession,
that we have removed through the
natural urinary passage, from different
individuals in this locality.
The Doctor is graduate in the Eye
and Ear Infirmary of New York City,
and has had a large and successful
practice in that department and is
also a graduate of several of the Lead
ing Schools of his Profession, the Di-
plOmas of which are hanging up in his
Office, for everybody to READ and IN
vESTIGATE.
Thanks to an intelligent community
for their extensive patronage.
TERMs-Cash. Positively no trust.
OFFICE HOURS--From 8 a. m, to 3 p. m.
J. GOUCHER, NJ. d.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29

NEEDEN'r HAVE MENTIONED IT,
He was a gentleman from the country,
and had ensconced his .girl and him.
self in the corner offs Highland car.
AS the vehicle sped up Shawmut ave-
nue. his arms begun to steal around
his companions waist. and his head
inclined lovingly towards her, uncon-
scious of observation by the few re-
manning passengers. just as the car
approached Sawyer street, the con-
ductor thrust his head inside the car
and yelled SAG YER in close proxim-
ity to Hayseed's head. The latter
hastily drawing himself 'into form,'
Indignantly remarked, You needn't
er howled it through the car, If you
did. We're engaged and the rest Of
the freight set their faces toward the
driver and grinned.-l Boston Com
mercial Bulletin.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29
OFFICE OF rRrsNDsurp.

It is the province of friendship to
! censure and reprove. Perhaps lie
willingness to see faults i'm those we
love, and the courage to speak of them
il the 'grandest test of friendship that
can exist. Flaftery is not the mark of
interest which we all ardently desire
our friends to have in US. 1t is true it
is pleasant, and there are few of us
who do not like to listen to it, but it
has been the one thing that has allnred
thousands TO destruction, and when it
had accomplished its ruinous work,
those who made use of it to win the
esteem of their victims, threw off their
Disguise and had never been aught
but enemies.
Severe reproval, and more especial
ly from dearly loved friend, is with
ering and biistering; it pierces the
tenderest depths of the soul; it Lace r
ates until great drops of blood and
floods of tears gush forth, and uni
verse of agony. and despair bank
themselves upon the poor, torn and
shattered heart. But there is a sweet
peace that follows this agitation-a
bright morning that swallows up the
gloom of this night, and they are the
after thought that it was loving friend
ship that prompted the castigation,
and that the guardian care which
prompted it may have been xthe bar
rier that stood between us aud ruin.
Friendship like this is the only friend
ship of a mother and sister-it was
the friendship of the Savior.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29
MARK OF A GENTLEMAN,


No man is gentleman, who, with.
out provocation, would treat with in
civility the humblest OF his species.
1t is avulgarity for which no accom-
p faiia1...se.st of tfro-s nvs.arese e--ss over
atone. Show nae the man who desires
to make every one around him happy
and whose great solicitude is never to
give cause OF Offense to any one, and
will show you gentleman by ma
ture and practice, though he may new
err have worn a suit of broadcloth, nor
ever have heard of q lexicon. 1 am
proud to say, for the honor of our
species, there are men in every throb
of whose hearts there is solicitude for
the welfare of mankind, and whose
every breath is perfumed with kind
ness.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29
THE DREAhILAND SEA.

What matter though my pilgrim feet
May never press the stranger'slan,l.
Or wander lone where wild waves beat
With ceaseless moan on oceans strandf
For me expands a lOvelier deep,
Whose isles in visioned beauty sleep,
And never ocean waves could he
So bright as thine, fair Dreamland sea,
My castle crowns the boldest steep.
BY warning winds and waters SCARED,
That seaward leans, and DER the deep
Keeps evermore unceasing ward
Full-freighted with their wings of snow,
Tne white ships come. the white ships so,
While in the shade of cliff and towers
dream away the gliding hours.
Wi names foam flecked and tossing free.
The waves. wild coursers of the sea,
Race fifty to the level strand.
And struggling die upon the sand.
The shells that sparkle at my feet.
Strange tales OF wind and wave repeat
The weird romance, the my stcry,
or thee dark caverns of the sea.
My fairy fleet that long has lain
Close mOored in some enchanted bay.
Borne by fair gales across the main
Sails swiftly on its homeward way
Ny ships. my stately ships, see,
Full many 4 royal argcsie
Like white-winged birds they speeding
come,
And bring their gathered treasures home.
Pearls from tkc mermaid's watery cell.
Pure gold from sunny orient lands,
With many Il rosy chambered shell,
And jewel wrought by eliin hands.
Crosses and amulets of price.
OF sandal wood and sacred palm.
Embossed with many Il fair device.
And odorous with tropic balm.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29

cept the crash of a limb of some tree
under its weight of snow, or the thud
of the fall of a large mas from the
picturesque arches formed by the in
lerweaving tops of huge pines. Even
the barking of a pack of hungry
wolves, the growing bear or the roar
ing Of lion, would be preferable to
the stiffness of death which prevails
in all that wild region. where the king
of terrors keeps his stronghold, and
all is as still and silent and torpid as
the bodies of the Indian children al
the bottom of the frozen Jake.
This article would be too long were
to describe the details of our jour
ney to the region of Rabbit or "O was-
soc" Indians. l shall reserve that
theme for another occasion. But to
sum up, I must say that we found the
statement of our Indian informants
confirmed in every particular. The
Rabbit Indians suffer severely from
famine. They inclOse the youth of the
tribe in alright enyelops, called
"mokocks., They are shaped some
thing like large egg. They fish up
these in the spring, and most of those
inclosed-all bnt few, say two per
cent.-are alive and well after the re-
suscitation.
There can be no doubt about the
facts here stated. People, however,
laugh at the statement, and in theory,
at least, ridicule the fact here stated
as absurd.
So much for the facts. Now, as to
the philosophy of it, we may ask what
is there absurd in it, except the rare
occurrence Of such incidents.
There are incidents, however, on
record, to prove it possible that ami
mails, even human beings, haye reviv-
ed after having been dead in appear
ance, and by the cessation of all ply
sical signs of animation, such as the
circulation, breathing, etc. The bear,
a vertebrated animal, and nearly rela
ted to man in his anatomy, lives dur
ing the longest winter, dormant, with
out food, air or sustenance his breath
ing even ceases. The hedgehog bea.
yer. and other quadrupeds are subjec,
to the same habits of Information and
torpor. Then there are snakes, fishes
and frogs, which without any doubt,
after being frozen solidly, return to
life and circulation of the blood in
warm weather. The celebrated Jesuit
traveller, Hue, states that in Siam he
knew an instance of man who used
to consent to remain buried in the
earth for six months for wager, and
come up alive and sound after the ex-
piration of his stipulated term.
Men don't like to try this thing now
on themselves for fear of a miscarriage
Of the experiment. Physicians state
that in cases of hanging ii a criminals
spinal column is not dislocated by the
Gall, aitar ileati, a a psrenfly y nccnrs from,
suspension of breathing, the victim
can be resuscitated. What then can
be said against the possibility of ludi
an children living in their mokocks"
for only six months in the level bot
tom of their calm lake in the wiIds of
the North?
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29

THE wonderful stories that were
told early last year as to how cheaply
a valuable quality of pig-iron could be
manufactured in the State of Ohio,
have been realized by the work of the
season. The metal is produced at a
cost of only $I2 or $13 a ton. They
have the iron, limestone, and coal
sometimes on the same land, aud al.
ways near together. Ordinarily the
same grade of metal has cost from $l1
to $23 to produce. Cheap iron is as
cured to the q nited States, 4 y ~
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29

IT makes the new preacher awfully
mad to be fumbling with the intrica-
cies of front gate fastening trying to
get in and make his first pastoral call,
to have the woman Of the house turn
the slats in the bay-window and sing
out, eve haven't got no old clothea
to give away, and there Aint : cold
yittle In the house !" -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29

"LAD1Es and gentlemen" said an
Irish manager to his audience of three,
sas there is nobody here. I'll dismiss
you all; the performance of this night
will not be performed, but will be re-
eathd Tomorrow evening""
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29
WE'LL DIGGING
md DRILLING.

Having recovered from my late misfortune
tender my services to the people of Ravenna
and vicinity as
WELL DIGGER AND DRILLER.
1 am also prepared to clean and repair Wells
and Cisterns. t,..t9
Having had over forty years experience in
the business, can guarantee satisfaction to all
who may employ me.
- Prices as low those of any other man
IL tss:saS sss county; b.o, ., XYs2HsEa rs. KAY
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29

WHEREVER you Had many men
you find many minds" exclaimed .
public speaker. g 'Taint so, by lingo"
exclaimed one of his auditors. eff
you'd only ask this whole crowd out
to drink, you'd fnd them all of one
mind" $50
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29
w. HI. MCCONNELL, NJ. D.,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.

Twenty wears experience All forms OF acute
and chronic diseases skiIlfuliy treated Hav-
ing for years made chronic disease Speciality.
Twill continue to give particular attention 10
that class of cases
once and residence No. - Sycamore street.
4sf-smo fsryenna, Ohio
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-03-29
MOP WRINGER.

THAyE secured the exclusive right to sell
l. Henry I. iiotchkiss' Nor WRINGER in the
several townships Of Portage County.
The ladies will find this great Iabor.s savin Z
implement.
Iwill sell this convenicn. and useful inven-
tion at retail. will sell township rights or my
entire interest therein. ut very low figures. It
is an implement which finds ready and rapid
sale; and an active. energetic man can make
good wages i'll selling it.
Tor terms, apply at the Office of f. p. HAT
FIELD. over Second National Bank on Sat-
urdays at Otto Sontun's. next door to Poe
House. JAMES MCMULLEN.
Rayenna. Nov. 13. 1876. 42g