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The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-01-26

The increased demand for our Carriages,
nuggiss and vagopg required increased fIIos-
ltiss FOR manufacturing. To meet Tots demand
We nave Increased our facilities by erecting
Two story brick building on Main Cross street,
near L. E. q L. Ry. Depot. with the variety
ana large Quantities of our rarrisges, Buggfes
and wagons on hand, we are better enabled
tosive our customers large and more perfect
sIock 10 select from. cur long experience,
ample resources, using nothing but nrxt class
stock emp Dying frs. class work men and our
respective brar ches being under our personal
direction, enables rs to give our Gus ,omers
sails action and more perfec: standard of
workmanship.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-01-26

CESHItSGrI COLUMBUs.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

>unny eyes nav io.e their brighiue-s.
>nbie Fees forget thsir iixhfus-s,
feAfiv ieeth may know decay
Rsxem tresses tsrn b. gray
cheeks b. psis and eyss b. dim
fslat ne roics sna veal ihe hnh.
vat tAsuxh strenrth sna youth tsraf'.
fst~ie.. Il the ios.nx heara
he ths lltUs uaouuta.n howeFs
respisg fsgth Ia wintfy aouf.
when the Summers btsath j. ed.
Ana ne rsudief ss-vreis dead
A. When cats ard charms are gore.
Brixhssg sfiu doih blossom Oh
fl.snlts tim destroying daft.
ne rru,lr. klatiy fadsisss hetrt
Yelu ~orl8,s ~i.dam %.
We who 80 TIE kuss b. roia
b 80 this esrth a. losely sesai.
Asa dlt LIES young dfesm-
Eur thi. sofd has crusted Ger.
Fselisgs god snd pur, b.iore-
Fre yea seid 81 mammon's mari.
fhf best vrsruings ~ ne heart
arsut NJ. heaven. my earnest pFsyt-.
NhelAef uif ~ ease or care
a. ths oue b. me- assigned
raat esch passing yea nay tnd
ieFiag thoughfs and eeuils wotds
rsinet vlihln nay bosom chords.
Aaf thst az mas bat lmpart
n nef fFcshness so ms heart
Miss FLIgA A. WEkrrrss.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

ARE there any woods about herel''
asked the seeker for summer board Of the
proprietor of "a country house delight
fully situated, ten minutes walk from the
depot, large barn; horses and carriages
can be had on reasonable terms; plenty
of milk, eggs, &C." "Waal, yes; there's
Jim Wood, he's postmaster, an keeps
the West Indy goods store. 'Siah Woods
the blacksmith, an Thomas Benton
Wood, he farms it up tn the corners. BE
you related TO the Woodsl'-Boston Com
mereial Bulletin.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04
Ancient Morals.

In the ancient Gentoo laws of India,
which show admirable notions OF hon
esty as between the subjects of the laws,
we find prescriptions for dividing the
booty of robbers who had plundered any
contiguous but alien people. "lf any
thieves" says the ordinance, "by the COM
maud of the magistrate, and with his as
sistance, have committed depredations
upon and brought booty from another
procince, the magistrate shall receive
share of one-siXth of the whole, etc.
In ancient Greece, even at the golden
prime of that splendid narrow culture
which exhibited itselfso incomparably In
art, in literature, and in civic virtue, the
moral rules which concern liberty and
life, and the simpler of the moral rules
which concern rights of property, were
defined very perfectly as between the
fellow citizens of each state and between
the kindred states but very lmperfectly
beyond that strict limit of familiar asso-
citation. The stranger, the alien, the en-
shaved captive, the barbarian of the non
Hellenic world, were not human fellows
to the Greek; at the most they were only
human creatures of some different va
riety, having that similitude and ap-
preaching somewhat to that relation, but
quite excluded from his cognition of fell
lowship by all the habits Of his feeling
and his thought. According to his per-
ception, they were clearly proper sub
iects of predatory warfare and piracy; he
could kill them, plumber them, enslave
them. with no more conjunction OF con-
science than the modern hunter feels in
capturing or killing the game animals of
the forest. And yet the same conscience
was setting in the Greek that acts in men
to-day: but only with more narrowness
of range in the perceptions upon which 1t
acted.
We shall have to pass far beyond the
Greek in history to find much OF moral
change in these respects. The English
man OF the Elizabethan age was toler-
ably cultured man, as well morally as
otherwise So far as his fellow-English-
men were concerned, he had notions OF
right conduct that were quite accurately
formed. But he found it hard to
carry many of these notions beyond the
shore bounds of his little island. The
sea in that time-not only the Spanish
Main, but the English Channel and the
very Thames itself-wss swarming with
English pirates and buccaneers, who
were the contemporaries of Shakespeare
and Bacon, and Spenser and Coke; who
boosted the best names of the English
gentry in their ranks; who received more
than half countenance from the public
sentiment and public policy of the Eng
Iish ns-ion. and who pillaoed Spanish, |
French. and Flemish traders with serene
impartislity, killing captains and crews
without remorse when it suited their con-
yeaience TO kill. - Popular Science
Monthly.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

To YOUNG MEN.-Henry Clay once
said: 81 owe my success in life TO one
fact, namely At the age Of twenty seven
| commenced and continued for years the
practice of reading and speaking upon
the contents of some historical or scien-
tific book These off-hand efforts were
made sometimes in a corn field, at others
in forest, and not unfrequently 10 some
distant barn, with the horse and OK for
my auditors. 1t is to this early practice
10 the great art Of arts that am indebted
fer the primary and leading impulse that
stimulated me forward and shaped and
nodded my entire subsequent destiny.
Improve, then, young gentlemen, the su-
perior advantages you here enjoy. Let
no day pass without exercising your
power of speech. There is no pay like
oratory. Cesar controlled men by excit-
ing their fears, Cicero by captivating
their affections and swaying their pas
sions. The influence Of the one perishcs
with the author; that of the other con-
tinues to this day."
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

THE postmaster at Corpus Christi,
Texas, is disposed to put on little too
much OF what you might call style, and
will have to be looked after by the de-
partment at Washington. He actually
refuses TO pass snakes through his Office
as mail matterw This Is simply outra-
gesus. If we wish 10 send dear friend
present Of some snakes, must we be
forced to hire private conveyance for
them merely 10 crafty the within Of an
incongruvial postmaster Such whims
must be frowned down, or the general
diffusion of snakes will become impos-
| sible
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

#aa Nss1 relnf graduates this year
$50 - seseofy -seveu, the largest
- m4.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

STAND by your friends, let come what
may, is a good motto. If you don
stand by them you needn't expect them
to stand by you. So whether they be
friends of high or low degree, in afflu-
ence or poverty, stick to them and don't
stop to inquire whether it will pay or
whether it will be popular. Whenever
you prove traitor and desert those who
have stood up for you and helped your
battles, you will find yourself without
any one to congratulate you upon your
achievements, or comfort you in an evil
hour when misfortunes come thick and
fast.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

The Burlington Press says queer
genius lives at East Burke--a man who
probably has not spoken to another man
directly for the past twenty-five years.
He will talk with a woman or minor,
but never with man; even his own sons, as
they arrive at twenty-one years of age,
are talked to no longer. When he can
do no better he will talk to the stove, or
horse, or whatever else happens to be
near, and say. "Old horse, you tell Mr..
Smith want to buy his farm" Mr..
Smith can speak for himself, but will
only get an answer as he hears ii ad-
dressed to the "old horse This eccen-
trio individual will allow no man to sit
at his right hand; he will sooner stand
up or leave, and has often stood ur
through church services when he could
find no seat without a man at his right
hand. He speaks in meetings, and i.
quite an earnest and interesting
speaker.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

4 MATRIMONIAL FAIR.-In the south
ern part Of Ireland curious custom pre-
rails, which is called ''Shrafting," named
from SArove Tuesday, on which day a
regular matrimonial 'Tattersall'' is held,
where all the Likely boys and girls" in
the parish are on view, and all the
matches" in the year are made. For
days before there is quite stir in the
neighborhood. and t~itter runs through
the entire female population. There is a
universal stitching and buying OF rib.
bons; every girl you meet in the road
holds out her hand for siXpence and you
can't speak to domestic servant without
her hanging out signals of distress. On
the day of the "Shrafting," the girls
stand in row on the village green.
There is every expression on their faces
anxiety, curiosity, timidity, dull stupid
ity, sharp, shrewdish interest; and here
and there you come on such pretty
country beauty, with that indescribable
half arch, half SLY look in the eyes which
Maclise has caught in perfection. AT a
Of shamefaced looking men-"the boys"
as they are called-all in their Sunday
suits, aud evidently i'll at ease, cycling with
distrust the superior attractions Of the
coastguards, who are, like the red coats,
favorites among the ladies. But that IN
reality, matters little, as the real conduct
of the affair is in the hands of "the pow
er that be"-the fathers and mothers,
who hagsle and quarrel over their re-
spective children, sometimes breaking
up the negotiation abruptly, and carry
ing off either son or daughter, as the case
may be, as they would an unstable beast
from fair Of course little bits of ro-
nance crop up here as elsewhere; cases
of money versus love, and young hearts
sold to the highest bidder, just as they
are in a fashionable drawing room.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

'OuRs at homs-the baby.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-31
Splritualism Among Savages.

Among savage animists il is to be
observed that there always arises a
class of professional coninrors, who
live in special intercourse with the
spirits, and perform wonders by
their aid One of the old Moravan
missionaries, a century sgo, gives sn
account of the way in which the
Greenland sorcereis used 10 60 on
their spirit journey TO tho other
world. When the angekok has
drummed and writhed about for a
while, he is bound by one of his
pupils, his head between his iegs,s and
his hands behind his back. The
lamps are put oNt and the windows
darkened, for no one must see him
hold intercourse with his spirit; no
one must move or even scratch his
head, that the spirit may not be in
terfered with or rather, as the old
missionary says, that no one may
catch the sorcerer at bis trickery,
and there is no going up-.to heaven
in broad day light AT last, after
strange noises have been heard and
visit received from or paid to the
spifit,tb magician appears unbound,
but pale and excited, and gives an
account of his adventures. The
Onbway coniurors also do this un-
tying trick and across in Siberia
the shamans practice the same coarse
juggle. The sbaman sits down aud
is bound hand and foot, the shutters
are shut, and he irvokes the spirits
all at once there arises a ghostly
horror in the dark-voices are heard
in different parts, and rattlirg and
drumming on tho dry skin the sha.
man sits on bears growl, snakes
hiss, squirrels leap about the room.
At last it Is over, and teboli !, in
walks the shaman free and unbound
form outside No one doubts, says
Castren, that il was the spirits who
we're drumming, grow Wing, and hising
in the yard, and who released the
shaman from his bonds. The I'M
binding trick ia not unknown in
English folklore, and it is needless
to point out the similarity in the ex-
hibi,icn Of he Davenport Brothers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-31
TERMS, $500 PER YEAR.
WHOLE NO. 1779.

the water. Afraid of causing panic
he did not say anything to his mon,
but urged them on in the hope that
the work might be completed that
morning. The water continued to
rise, however, first submerging their
feet, and then creeping up towards
their knees with terrible stealth and
certainty. The situation was that
of shipwrecked crew cast upon
rock which is being slowly covered
by an incoming tide. The engineer
now realized the fact that his order
bad been misu Understood, and that
the water had been turned on at the
wrong time and would soon be with
In q few inches of the roof ef
the aqueduct. BY this time
es>e men were in highly nervous
condition, and Mr.. Church had to
use his authority in preventing the m
from making confused retreat for
the nearest place of exit, which was
some distance away. Mean while
the water had made its way above
their knees, and was rushing through
the aqueduct with the velocity OF
two miles and quarter per hour.
1t was no easy work walking against
such current as this, and the pro-
gress made toward the man hole
was unavoidably slow. The torches
were successfully put out by the
splash until only one remained, and
that threw dim, yellow, uncertain
flicker on the dark surroundings.
There was one danger which Mr.
Church toresaw and was perticular
to avert. If tho men were not kept
under control, each would make a
disorderly Struggle TO reach the lad
der at the man-holp, and a delay
would result that might prove fatal.
AS the water increased in depth the
greater, of course, became their ter-
ror, and when the gray light Of the
opening came into view their bodies
were submerged to their waists, while
the current almost Lifted them off
their feet. BY reasoning with them
and encouraging them, however MIR.
Church allayed their fears and they
gained the ladder, and assembled it
one by one 10 safety I'm. IL. Ride
ing, IN Scri6her for June.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-31

God, I'll disappoint those food
thirsty villains; and if you can only
stop the warrant for three days
more, I'll begone forever from Ire
land, and Alice will go along with
me-
Il believe you,' returned Isl be.
lieve you are telling me the truth;
do not think you would have ven.
tured to meet me here if you had
not intended to be true. | under.
stand you have little or no monsy
will give Alice what is necessary.
Goodbye; it is dan gerous our talk
ing here, as the police are on the pa
troll, and | could not save you ifthey
came upon you. | will endeavor to
hold back the warrant for three
days more; so make the best of your
time, and, above al, be kind and
good to the girl Alice, for she loves
you dearly
Il would give my hearts blood
for her, said Ned, in an altered tone.
She has saved my body and soul.
/ suppose your honor would not
shake the hand Of a man like me,
but if you would I'd be thankful
Freely | replied; and | held out
my hand to him at once. lie shook
it warmly.
God bless you, sir | dare not
and cannot saw more
Il wish you good life and hap
Ply one with Alice, replied {.
He turned rapidly away, disap~
peared behind the ruined windmill,
and was gone.
returned to the town, and call
ing at the police barrack | express
ed wish TO one of the policeman in
authority that the warrant shopli
not be executed against Ned Guam
ingham for three or four days more.
The policeman touched his hat in
acquiescence, but said
Il fear, sir, he is bad boy.
Il know it, replied |; 'but | have
reasons for what do
The policeman bowed.
The scene | have described hap
pened on Thursday. On the follow.
ing Saturday, Alice came into my
office, again. A look of Intelligence
from her was enough to make me
take her again into my private sit
ting>room.
We'll, Alice, is all ready?'
He Is outside, sir. she replied;
'he said he would never leave Ire
land without one word more of bless
ing to you for your goodness. lie
has new suit of clothes and all;
but he was afraid to put it on, for
fear the boys would find out what
be is at. Bnt our passage is taken,
for he borrowed few pounds from
neighbor, who will pay himself
out of the crops Ned leaves behind
him; SO we are off on Sunday to
Dundalk, we will get married on
Monday, and call on Tuesday night.
God bless you, sir, you have saved
his soul and body
| put ten pound note into Alice S
hand, and went out to a back lane
near the office, whittier she had pre-.
ceded me. There was Mel. he
did not come near me; but taking
off his hat, he bowed almost to the
ground, his countenance beaming
with Joy, as he saw Alice coming to-
ward him.
They gave one parting grateful
look, walked rapidly down the lane
together, and | saw them no mora.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-31
Gen. r. B. Hayes.

The following extract is from a
speech delivered by him at Cincin-
natl Sept Z, 1866
"Let us examine briefly the rebel
plan of dealing with the people of the
rebellious States. 1t has the support,
in all its parts. of the men who, dur
ing the war, were peace men OF the
North and rebels at the South. 1t has
the advantage of being consistent
with itself and with the previous his
tory of its authors and friends, Ac-
cording to it, the rebels are hereafter
to be treated in the same manner as
if they had remained loyal. The re-
bellious States are to be represented
in Congress by the rebels they had
chosen. All appointments in the
army, in the navy, and in the
civil service, are to be made from
men who were rebels, on the
same terms as from men who were
loyal. States are 20 be subjected TO no
other interference or control from the
military or other departments Of the
general government than exists in
those States which remained loyal.
Loyal white men and loyal colored
men are to be protected in those
States by State laws, executed by
State authorities, as if they were IN
loyal States. The Union party OBJ
iects to this plan because it is wrong
in principle, wrong i'll its details, and
fatally wrong as precedent and ex-
ample for the future. 1t treats trea-
son as no crime. 1t restores to politi.
cal honor and power in the govern
ment of the nation men who have
spent the best part of their lives in
plotting the overthrow of that gov
eminent, and who for more than four
years levied public war against the
United States 1t allows Union
men in the South, who have risked
all and many of whom have lost all
but life in unfolding the Union cause,
to be excluded from every office,
State and National, and in many in
stances to be be nished from the
States they so faithfully labored to
save. 1t abandonds the 100000 of
loysl colored people, who lost the
protection which owners give their
property, TO such treatment as the
rufian class of the South, educated in
the barbarism Of slavery and the at
rocities OF the rebellion, may choose
to give them. 1t leaves the obliga-
lions of the nation to her creditors,
and to the manned soldiers and to
the widows and orphans of the war,
to be fulfilled by men who hate the
cause in which those obligations
were incurred The rebels say,
'Peace, harmony and restored Union
you can have by giving up your de-
mands and yielding to the require
ments of the South. The Seward
Johnson party advises the people,
for the sake of peace and Union. to
submit TO this demand. We are
prepared to make great sacrifices in
the future, as 10 the past, for the
sake Of Union, but submission to
what Is wrong can never be the
foundation of real peace or a last
ing Union"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-31
An Old Newspaper.

There has lately been discovered,
in the library Of the University of
Heidelberg, a copy of a newspaper
which proves to be the Oldest Ger
man periodical of which there is any
certain knowledge. 1t is a qusr'o
volume, bearing the date 1909, and
is supposed 10 have been printed by
Johann CaroIus, OF Strasburg. The
paper was issued weekly-each
paper consisting of Two sheets. 1t
was mainly occupied with letters
from correspondents in adjoining
states, which were contributed regu-
larly. 1t is interesting to note that
letters from Vienna we're about
eight days on the route, from Venice
fourteen to seventeen days, and
from Rome twenty-one days.
When the matter contained in the
letters, togc her with the news re-
tailed at second hand, failed to fill
the sheet, the remaining space was
left blank.
InteliigeLcs of every sort found
place in the journal Among the
most interesting occurrences noted
was the manufacture Of tho telescope
bv Calico The correspondent
writes from Paris, Sept. 4 10 the
effect that the government OF
Venice made a considerable present
to Signor Calico, of Florence, Pro-
fessor Of mathematics at Padua, and
increased his annul stipend by loo
crowns because with dilligent study
be found out rule and measure by
which it is possible to see places
thirty miles distant as il they were
near, and, on the other hand, near
objects 10 appear much larger than
they are before our eyes" We
quote from an account in the London
Acadamy.
The news received from Prague
affords a disturbed picture of plum
der and murder in the streets of the
city. 1t appears that at this period
men and women wero daily seized
by bandits, ROBBED, strangled, and
thrown into the Moldau. Seven
bodies were taken from tho water
in one day; and at another time
seven Indicators were apprehen-
ded, "who confessed that on tho 18th
of this month, they threw thirteen
persons into tho water, aud their
band numbered eighty, who were
for the most part natives of Prague"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-31

IF there is anything which the
average Democrat Of this country
knows more securely than he knows
ANYTHING else, it is that Thomas JET
ferson was the author of the Kentucky
resolutions of '9S The evidences to
that effect were certainly rather con-
vincing, including, as they do, a dis.
tinct statement of the fact that by Mr..
jefferson over his own signature.
John Adams was President at the
time, and Jefferson and Madison were
in dilligent correspondence concerning
means to break down his admlnlstr2-
ton. The alien and sedition laws
were passed, and it was determined
TO resist them on the ground that
they were in violation Of the rights OF
the States Jefferson and Madison
each wrote series of resolutions, at
firming, in substance, that the States
are the ultimate judges, each for itself.
Of the validity of acts of the federal
Government The latter introduced
his resolutions in the Virginia Legis~
Iature, and they were adopted. JET
ferson sent his to Kentucky aud they
were adopted by that State. Such is
the history of the resolutions as 1t has
been received for nearly three quarters
of century. But now come the
Kentucky Breckinridges and claim
the authorship for their ancestor, John
Breckenridge. He was a lawyer,
farmer and a man of large wealth.
According to the story that is now
for the first time told, he wrote the
resolutions, took them to Monticello,
where Jefferson partly recast them,
and, returning, introduced them in
the Kentucky Legislature, and pro.
cured their adoption. One part OF
the story is certainly true ; John
Breckenridge did introduce the reso-
lutions in the Kentucky Legislature.
It is conceivable that the time will
come when the descendants of Jeffer-
son, if he has any, will be anxious to
prove that Bleckinridge wrote them,
too. MI. Sentinel.