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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-28
MODERATE DRINKING.

The Colonel was warming his coat
tails by the stove in prOminentMain
street saloon. His nose bore evidence
of successful culture, and glswed with
that rich ruby hue which only a stea1y
and prolonged worship at the shrine
of Bacchus can produce to perfection.
There was dry look about the corn
ers of his mouth, which was readily
noticed by the sympa.hizing bar-keep.
er, who good-natnrcdly asked the
Colonel if he would not like a little
stimulant. Certainly, certainly, sir,
replied the Colonel promptly, as he
briskly stepped up to the bar. Pour
ing out a tumbler level full of the fluid
he tossed it of, and as soon as he could
regain his breath he assumed q de-
predatory tone and thus addressed the
bar keeper: This, sir, is my sixty
fourth drink to-day. l must put on
the brakes, or the first thing l know
shall degenerate into excess. MOder-
alton, sir, moderation, the grand Sc
cret of health, has been the rule of my
life. If had but one more drink at
this moment Richard would be him.
self again. The subsequent remarks
of the bar-keeper indicated that, for
all he cared, Richard might remain i'm
personal till the day OF Judgment
Austin ReveiIle.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-28
THE CURE OF GOSSIP.


What is the cure for gossip? Simple
culture. There is a great deal Of gos-
sip that has no malignity in it. Good
natured people talk about their neigh
bors because, aud only because, they
have nothing else to talk about. AS
we write there comes to us Q picture
of family of young ladies. We have
seen them at home we have met them
in galleries of art we have caught
glimpses of them going from book
store or library with fresh volume in
their hands. When we meet them
they are full of what they have seen
and read. They are b-imming with
questions. One topic of conversation
is dropped only to give room to an
other in which they are interested.
We have left them, after a delightful
hour, stimulated and refreshed, and
during the whole hour not neigh
boris garment was soiled by SO much
as touch. They had something to
talk about. They knew something,
and wanted to know more. They
could listen as we'll as they could talk.
To speak freely OF a neighbor's doings
and belongings would have seemed an
impertinence TO them, and, Of course,
an impropriety. They had no tempta-
ton to gossip, because the doings of
their neighbors formed subject very
mnch less Interesting. than those
which grew out Of their knowledge
aud their culture. And this tells the
whole story. The confirmed gossip
is always either malicious or ignorant.
The one variety needs change of
heart, and the other change of pas
ture. Gossip is always personal
confession. either of malice or imbecil-
ity, and the young should not only
shun it, but by the most thorough cul-
ture relieve themselves from all tempt
alton to indulge in it. 1t is a low,
frivolous, and too often q dirty busi-
ness. There are country neighbor-
hoods in which it RACES like a pest.
Churches are split in pieces by it.
Neighbors are made enemies by it for
life. In many pei sons it degeneratcs
into a chronic disease which is prac-
tically incurable. Let the young cure
it while they may Hartford Eve
ming Post.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-28
OLD pOMPEII's .sDIvEs."

A wine ship was lately found at
Pompeil, roughly ornamented with
Limitations OF marbles and fresco.
Oyer the podium of the front room
runs a band of stucco, with four
groups of scenes painted on a white
ground. The first, on the left, repre-
sents young man kissing a woman
dressed in yellow garments, with
black shoes. She says, 'nolo, Gym
myrta' Il don't want to be kiss
ed 60 to your Myrtalis.' The second
scene represents. very likely, the same
woman talking to Myrtalis, who says,
non mia, est They both point their
fingers at a third female, bringing in
wine-jar and glass. She says. 'qui vol.
symat oceane, yeni, bibe,' All invitation
to partake of the drink. The third
scene represents two gamblers seated,
having the chessboard on their knees,
on which several latruncun are seen
disposed in rows of different colors,
yellow, black, white. The one on the
left is just throwing the dice, and says
Eevsi,'I won.' The other answers,
pointing to the dice, Mon tria, dyas
ests.' You have got two, not three.
Both fight in the fourth scene, One
says, Mon il a me. tria. ego. fva,' y
did not throw two, but three. l have
won.' The others answers, 'Orte fell
lator ego fvi,' You! have the
game AT this moment the shopkeep-
er comes in, and, pushing them out
side, says, Itis, foras, rixsatis,' go out
to quarrel
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-28
THE CAVE OF ST. MICHAEL AT GIB-
RALTAK.

Among the wonders of Gibraltar is
the somewhat famous and not little
mysterious Cave OF st. Michael. This
is approached by an hours rather pain
full clambering from the Alameda.
The cave is reached from q platform
about three hundred feet below the
summit. You pass within high, ir-
regular fissure in the face of the rock,
and enter by a small gate, vast cir
cular chamber but dimly lighted from
without. This cave you find hung
with immense stalactites, while col
umns of strange, wierd forms support
the lofty arches of the roof. These,
lit up by the torches, give a very gro
tesque and unearthly aspect to the
place. From this chamber chasms and
galleries lead here and there into the
bowels of the rock and one must
grope carefully along them, holding
the torches high to shed the light well
upon the path ahead. After passing
along the principal passage some four
hundred feet, you reach the brink of q
black, fearful gulf, the bottom of
which no man has ever seen. You
can only note the dark, Shiny, jagged
sides as they disappear into utter dark
ness and by throwing down q torch,
see by its brief glimmering, as it
plunges into the abyss, what an awful
chasm lies below. 1t is related that
many years ago some English officers
ventured to penetrate here before the
exact position Of the chasm was
known; that the foremost fell head
long into it, to be soon followed by a
second, who was cropping about in
search of his companion. This chasm
is the passage way by which according
to the legends of Gibraltar, the apes
that once thickiy swarmed about
the rocks we're wont to cross, under
the sea, to their more secure retreat,
the Apes Hill, on the opposite Bar
barry coast.-iarper' Magazine.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-28
CASTORLA.

Its a great mistake to suppose that Castoria
is not adapted to grown persons as well as Chill
dren. They only need 10 increase the quantity
But children have many complaints for
which Castoria is adapted-like Wind Collie:
Group. that it is especially recommended for
them.
Its effects more certain than Castor Oil.
I contains alcohol and is as pleasan to take
as honey. it never .,ripes. BY regulating the
stomach and bowels the CaStoria cools the
blood, eNpcl> worms and prevents feverishness.
quiets the nerves and produces health--;hen of
course. children Can sleep in quiet and mothers
can rest.
Castoria is recommended by all physicians
and nurses who have tried it, and it is having a
rapidly increasing sale. II is prepared with
great care alter the recipe of DR.. Samuel Pitcher
Of Mass at the Laboratory Of j. Il. Rose \ Co =,
46 Dey Street, New York,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-28
SPRING FEVER AND HOW SOT To
HAVE IT.

In the Christian Union, a writer
gives the symptoms and several rem
edies for very common complaint,
prevalent with almost every one to
greater or less extent at this season of
the year:
The hampered body, says the writer
which has heen coddled, petted, stuffed
with carbon-bearing fats, and calori-
fled In every possible way, begins to
protest. The machinery is clogged !;
headache, dyspepsia, and the thousand
nameless sensations of discomfort
which We charge to variable weather,
affiict and hamper poor humanity.
To-day the fog depresses our vital
force, tomorrow the brain is pierced
with binding sunshaft, and so each
days external is made responsible for
internal shortcomings. The Htera-
feur, In atri-billious humor, afilicts the
world with morbid philosophy. The
pastor sees weak humanity more than
ever sinful. and his Lenten homilies
are tinctured with . deeper dye for
the pangs of his own mortality. The
housewife, in over-hested rooms, with
a monotone of circumscribed care and
too little outdoor diversion, finds dirt
and despair in the kitchen, chaos in
the nursery, q forlorn hope in her
mending basket.
Among other remedies for people
who say, II always have q bilious at.
tack in the spring." the following
seems the most potent:
OR rising, sponge the body lightly
and quickly with cold water. briskly
toweling after. 1t is not not necessa-
ry that this be a long and laborious
operation the more rapidly the better
with sufficient friction to bring glow
to the skin. If you cannot secure
time to 60 over the whole bodily sur
face, make it point to daily sponge
the trunk and arms. Rousing and
stimulating the whole system. clearing
and opening the pores, 1t imparts an
indescribable freshness and exhilara-
tion, amply repaying the effort. Re-
habilitated, you are now ready for
your morning bitters, namely, the
clear juice of fresh lemon in a wine
glall of water, without any sugar.
This is bomb straight at the enemy,
for more potent solvent of the bile
is not known in medicine. Searching
out rheumatic tendency, attacking
those insiduous foes, which are storing
up anguish against our later days
calculi-it peryades the system like a
fine moral sense, rectIfying incipient
error. tits needful, perhaps, to begin
with two lemons daily, the second at
night just before retiring.
A primitive but most efficacious
prescription, which corrected the phys
ic,l reaction after a pork-eating win
ter for our ancestors, was q wine glass
full Of very hard cider, made efferves-
cent with a crumb of sal soda. More
potent and palatable is the concentrat-
ed force of the pure lemon acid.
We venture to claim for this self
treatment alone, faithfully applied,
more relief for the body and stimulus
to the mind than from a battery of
pills or quarts of herb decoclion.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-28
"PERFECTLY RESPONSIBLE"

One of the most trying creditors that
our business men have TO deal with is
the man who is perfectly responsible
None but the merchants and the build
ers, and the contractors know of the
large number making up the class we
are referring to-men who have got
some property together, and are en-
tirely able to paw their debts and for
that very reason ought to pay them !;
but who actually make their respon-
sibility a reason for not paying. 'Ain't
1 perfectly responsible 2 they ask. OF
course that's why you trust them, you
think them responsible and therefore
you expect them to pay when your
bill is presented. But they don't do
it and appear to be offended at your
feeling disappointed for are they not
perfectly responsible Certainly,
certainly but then what is the good
Of mans responsibility if he doesn't
pay? That's the puzzle. A man who
is not perfectly responsible'-who has
no real cstate,nO property-is the man
who is expected to pay on the nail,
while his more prosperous fellow citi-
zen is to be trusted an indefinate peri.
cd. This seems rather an upsetting
of the true state of things. 1t is not
much satisfaction to a young man who
has just started in business, and needs
to keep his capital well in hand, to be
told that his customer is perfectly re.
sponsible'-which too often means, if
it means anything, that he is a man
who can be sued, and after a tedious
delay, and much trouble, and the re-
coyery of judgment, can be forced
by the constable or the Sheriff to pay
what he ought t. haye paid in the first
place. The verbal promise to pay OF
the wealthiest man in town is not SO
valuable to the young merchant as the
poorest customers cash in hand. Ii
you are perfectly responsible good
sir. it should be your first duty to pay
your debts promptly.-[Terra Haute
Saturday Evening mail.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-28
IN q dahate on fhe leathor TOW

In debate on the leather tax, in
1895, in the Irish House of Commons,
the Chancellor of the Echequer, Sir
John Piunkett, observed, with great
emphasis, That in the prosecution of
the present war, every man ought to
give his last guinea to protect the re-
mainder.' Mr.. Vandeleur said, How
eyer that might be, the tax On leather
would be severely felt by the bare
footed peasantry of Ireland. TO which
Sir Boyle Roche replied, that This
could be easily remedled by making
the undeleathers of wood
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-28
O GEORGE, WHAT ApAAIsEL.

She was young and fair. and tear
glistened in her eye as she laid her
curly head on his shoulder and ex-
claimed: % George! 1 think if l
found yon did not love me 1 should
die.' MY darling,' he answered,pas
ing his hand gently round her dimpled
chin, Il will always love you. Do you
think would marry you if did not
feel sure of it. In few days at the
altar shall vow to love you all my
life, and l will keep my VOW A love-
ly kind of beatific happiness played
for moment like sunshine on her
lips, and then she whispered: %
George! like to hear lou talk that +:
you have been SO good to me. You
have given me diamond locket and
a gold watch and chain, and rings
that an angel might wear outside her
gloves and not be ashamed, and if l
thought that one day you'd be sorry
you'd given me all these nice things
and want them back again it would
break my heart
He held her gently against his man
ly breast, and answered with qua
vering voice: % my darling! there
is nothing on earth that could happen
that would make me repent giving
you a few tokens of my love, or make
me want them back again. She sprang
from his arms like joyous deer, she
shook back her sunny curls, and with
a whole poem in her hazel eyes, ex-
claimed: George! you have taken a
load from my heart. I've come to say
that can't marry you after all, be-
cause I've seen somebody 1 like bet.
ter, and thought you'd want your
presents back again. London Fun.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-28

The teacher should acquire positive
views OF his own. He should also en-.
courage every pupil to think for him.
self. Let him often say to them !:
Scholars think for yourselves. Weigh
well what you utter, Look at it on
all sides. But at last have an opinion
of your own. Move to your conciu-
sion oy certain steps. Have a reason
4 your views, but haye q view.' Let
the acber propose questions that de-
niand conclusions, or give statements
that require judgments and thus teach
his pupils TO think for themselves.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-28

In the year 1869 five men entered
the residence of a clergyman named
Schroeder, at Walvillig. in the Duchy
of Luxemburg, mnl dered the servant,
and left the clergyman himself for
dead. Tue latter, however, recovered
and declared that among the number
Of his assailants he recognized young
man named Gillen. Five men, includ-
ing Gillen, were put on trial. and all
denied the crime. Gilien even sue
ceeded i'll proving that at 9 p. m,
shortly before the commission Of the
crime, he was in his bed. However,
notwithstanding this and the efforts OF
a very distinguished counsel, the case
went SO strongly against him that he
was condemned to death, and even his
father admitted that the evif ice prov
ed him guilty. Tho sentence passed
on the five convicts was subsequently,
commuted to penal servitude for life,
and from the time he entered prison
Gillen refused all consolation, and, it
was noted, never spoke to any of his
w-prisoners. Whenever an op-
portunity offered ne vigorously assert
ed his innocence. And at length a
day arrived when this was to be &C
knowledged. A few weeks ago one
of the other five avowed on his death
bed the guilt of himself and three of
those condemned. 'As to Gillen,' he
said, 'he had nothing to dc with it I'VE
knew nothing whatever of him, before
or AFTER The Government has Or
dered Gillen to be discharged. He
refuses a pardon, and insists on his
sentence being reversed.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-28
CENrAUR
LIlyLMENIS

The lame can be heald and the wounded mad
whole. We now know just what the Centau
Liniments will do. They will not mend broken
bones or cure Cancer, but they will extract
soreness, allay pain, cure Rheumatism and q
larger range of flesh. bone and muscle ailments
than any article over before discovered,
Scientific skill cannot go beyond the effects of
these remarkable preparations. Chronic
Kheumatism of many years atanding. Neu-
ralgia, Wctk-Back, Fever Sores, Weeping
Sinews, SciatIca Caked Breasts, Distorted
Joints and sprained Limbs of the worst Kind
al It will lie destroy 9 the Il M pain and heal without a
scar all ordinary Burns and scalds. twill eN-
frost from Frozen Limbs. 1t is very efiicacious
for Ear ache, Tooth ache, Itch and Cutaneous
Mr.. Josiah westaka of Marysville. O., writes
that have been unable to stir from the house.
The first three bottle; of Centaur Liniment ena-
mending rapidly. think your Liniment SIM
ply a MARVEL
c. II. Kennett. Druggist. Rock Prairie. Mo.
writes:
best satisfaction OF anything in the market"
What the Centaur Liniment has done for 9TH
it will do for YOU 1t is handy it is reliable,
and 1t is cheap.
The Yellow Centaur Liniment
is worth its weight i'm gold1o owners of horses
and mules.
This Liniment has erred more Sprained,
Sweenied, king- -boned. and Called Horses in
than have all the Farriers in the country in an
age. Its effects are simply wonderful
We have thousands upon thousands of ccrtif-
Gates as strong as the following:
my horse was lame for year with fetock
wrench. All remedies failed to cure and con-
| sidcred him worthless until commenced 20 use
Centaur Liniment. which rapidly cured him. !
heartily recommend 1t.
REV. GEO. w. FERRIS,
"Manorville Schoharic Co.. \. H.''
"DEAR SIRs-I have used your Centaur Lini-
ments in ,ny family. and lind it to be of great
value. Please send me two dollars worth. one
for the mui..s and horses. RILEY SICKLES,
FALLS STArION. w WYoMING.CO.. PA.''
1t makes very little difference what the ease
is. whether it be Wrench, Sprain. Poll Evil
Rim gbOnc, scratches or lameness of any Kind
the effects the same. Liverymen. Stage pro-
prietOrs. Farmers, &C.. should never be without
the Yellow Centaur Liniment. 1t is sold every
where, and warranted in its effects.
LabratOry of J. B. Rose & Co.,
46 DEY ST.. NEW YORK.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-28
The Youngstown Murder Case

In Pamphlet Form for 8 cents. An accu-
rate account of the murder of Elizabeth Grom-
bacher. and OF the trial and execution of Cha's
NJ. Sterling. Address, LOCK BOX No. 14G3
YOUNdRTOwN, OHIO. 45S-tf
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-07
Miller Bro. 3 Opening Last Night.

To those OF our readers who are fond of the
good things Of this life, we would say rare
.reat awaits them at the cosy saloon, No. 149
Common street. Since this establishment
changed hands it has been completely over
hauled and reftted by our enterprising friends,
the Miller Bros, who are now the proprietors Of
this snug and comfortable saloon. Last evening
the formal opening OF the billiard saloon took
place. and the many friends Of the Millers
crowded their hospitabe rooms The tables
have all been reclohed, the balls we're all new,
and between the popping Of Roederer corks the
rattle Of billiard balls made music over the green
cloth. This saloon, at the corner OF Common
and st. CHARLES streets, has always been one oil
the favorite resorts of our citizens, and under
Messrs. Millers' management this popularity has
wonderfully increased.
The retired pool room has also been refitted
and relurnished, making the establishment one
of the most convenient and quiet In our city.
Beneath and connected with the billiard saloon
is the bar, where s all that the most dainty taste
could ask for. Doubtless to-day, there will be a
rush to try the tables and the balls.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-07
RR EyITlEs,

We we're pleased to meet in town yesterday
that staunch Democrat and old friend OF ours,
Capt. g. NJ. Morrison, Of Catdo parish Cspt.
Morrison IL tax collector of his parish and is
down on business.
The city seems TO be unusually crowded for this
season OF the year. ALI our principal thorough
fares are quite crowded with busy thre pgs. The
retail trade yesterday in all parts Of the city was
remarkably brisk, and all the indications are Of
busy, gay and profitable season.
We notice the return to the city of our friend
Mr.. Elmore Dufour, who has been enjoying the
season In the West and East.
Hon. e. John Ellis departed last evening for
the North. Our eloquent Congressman il we'll
pie to make q good fight for his State and section
in the halls of Congress.
Company A, Continental Guards, give . grand
entertainment at the Varieties Theatre, on We'd
nesday. the 10th inst The boys have done nobiy
for the State, and ought to be patronized.
Superintendent Rogers publishes in another
column request for certain teachers, whose
numbers are given. 10 call at bis Office on Mon
day next. This call Is made that some of the
papers may be arranged, that confusion may not
follow the decision of the teachers committee.
Alta meeting Of the "Unity Choral Circle, held
September a. 1877, the following gentlemen were
elected officers for the ensuing year: w. Samuel
Smith, president; J. Sswell Nichols vice presi-
dent; RUFUS J. aaight, treasurer; Louis +. Cha
lin, secretary.
On Thursday evening, the 18th inst, grand
sacred concert is to be given st the Carondalet
Methodist Church, under the dictatorship of Mr..
p H. Camplglio, the orgRnist Of Trinity Church
the concert will, without doubt, be q grand sue
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-07
Acade my Of Music.

The Park Theatre combination played theil
farewell performance last evening ut the Acad.
envy. They go bence to Galveston. We take
pleasure in recon mepding them to our neghbors
as an excellent working company, with sevsra
artists Of decided talent and who, we are salts.
fed. will please our. Texas friends with their
plays OF "Bsby" and Pink Dominos,' which
they have learned TO perform most creditaby.
Tonight inaugurates short minstrel and bur-
lesaue opera season at the Academy, the cele-
brated Kelly h Leon company being the attrac.
ton. Several OF the members Of the company
are already known to our public as good cDmedi-
ans, whether with black or white faces flor they
are not exclusively negro minstrels), whilst The
new comcrs enjoy excellent representations at the
North.
The first part Of the programme will comprise
new songs, serious and comic, by Cartwright, Sur
ridge, Lestor, Kelly, Delane, Rushby, Leslie and
Japanese Tommy. Then will follow Furney and
Cronin in their artistic double jig, an original
sketch by Cartright, Furney and Uronin again in
specialties, the whole to conclude with a parody
on "Girofe. GirCfa." entitled ''Six Brides and
Bridegroom" including grand ballet fraction.
During the entertainment Blankeuey's orches-
ira will perform the overture of "Rene glamour, "
with cornet obligato by Mr.. Frank Bowles.