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Another Letter from Father Bingham.

MALLET CREEK, Nov 6, 1877.
My OLD FRIEND DAVIS MAcKLEY, ESQ -
] thank you very much for your good
letter of 29th ult 1t is full of the intel
ligence | sought for. 1t seems that near
ly one half OF those inquired for are de.
ceased. How brief is human lifel An
other decade, and where will we who are
now ranked among the aged, be found
Not here, but gone Shall we leave a
record to be admired by the good q?
Poor Bro Adams He has my sym
pathies for Beth his bereavement, and
loss of property. The latter is but a
bursted bubble. The former irreparable.
His heart was with us in our days of suf-
iering for righteousness sake. All men
are not as Martin Luther who would 90
to Worms though as many devils there
as tiles on the roofs" Stirring times
prevailed in Jackson before your resi-
dence there. Priestly dignitaries and
men of property and standing" did mol
stir up moJs and hurl missiles with the
baser sort-not they-but-who did All
Who did? Not Bro. Adams His sym
pathies were with the reform. His heart
was right. But the enemy was strong
Popular clamor had the majority. Few
had courage to breast the mighty power
arrayed against right and truth and hu
man freedom. Few indeed Good Bro
Adams lay still. Did not stir up wrath
on either side Thus amiable company
was secured, and peace and safety Many
good men would be vastly improved by a
little more stiffening in the spinal col
umn.
But why refer to the antislavery re
form? 1t has triumphed. Slavery is
dead Powder and ball destroyed it
God controlled these carnal instruments
to triumph, and then left the peace set
Element to human governors. Here com.
menced the bungling work OF policy
which has been growing worse and un-
wise from the date of Lees surrender
and the capture of jeff Davis Don't be
too hard on poor Hayes, he is only trying
to improve on the folly of his predeces-
sors. There is but a step said Napo-
leon on his retreat from Moscow. "be
tween the sublime and ridiculous and
it is left for President Hayes to take that
step.
But to our personal recollections."
Let US return to Oak Hill-and the Sun
day School in the woods. Do you remem-
ter Lewis Adkins? Certainly you do.
How punctual in his attendance How
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OBITUARY.

| John II. stephenson was born in the State Of
Virginia, September q, 1918, and died Nov. 5,
1877. This would give his age over 81 years.
On the 9th of April, 1870, he was married to
Sarah Shearer.
| When Mr. Stephenson was a child, his pa
rents, James and Margaret Stephenson, re-
moved to jackson county, where he resided
/ until his death.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephenson raised large and
respectable family, and their fine farm, where
| they resided so long and so happily, lies a
mile east of Jackson.
| Mr.. Stephenson was n large, fine looking.
| robust man, until some three or four years ago.
when he was attacked with dropsy. He pos
sessed large amount Of vitality, and unbound
ed courage and fortitude. Two years ago he
was thought to be at the point of death, but he
rallied, and often came to town, and all the
time had hopes of final recovery. When the
final hour came he manifested the same cour-
age, and said If his time had come he had no
murmurs to make, but was prepared to go, al
though IL was hard to leave so kind and loving
a family.
The best test Of man s real character is the
| opinion of those who know him best. Judging
the deceased by this rule, he was a good man.
His own family respected, esteemed and loved
him. His neighbors all spoke well Of him. His
| kind and genial nature beamed in his pleasant
|
Harrison Stephenson was an honest man. A
| little incident occurred i'm our own experience
wi n him a few years ago which goes TO illus
/ tIate his character as an honest man and a
good citizen. The writer OF this was acting as
| Assistant Assessor OF Internal Revenue for this
county, and he had great difficulty in getting
many persons to enlist their income properly.
Many tried to shirk the income tax. When
| we left a blank with Mr. ) tephenson to be hll-
| ed, he said he had kept no books, and like
most farmers, he had tried to do the best he
could, and that he was satisfied that he had
made some money, and that he ought to pay
some income tax, but what amount, he had no
means of knowing. OF one thing, he said, he
was certain; he did not desire to wrong the
Government out Of one cent, and we misht put
down ny amount which we thought he ought
TO pay, and he would sign the return, and pay
the tax without word OF dissent.
Mr.. Stephenson's sunerings In his las, few
years were severe, but he bore them all with
Christiun fortitude. good man fas gone
from among Us, and may all his fr riends aim to
emulate his example.
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THE EXCEEDING sINFULNEss OF
SIN.

What an awful cross it must be for a
truly good and pious man to be tied
down to wicked partners. For instance,
that eminently pious, and truly good
man, Deacon Richard Smith, of the Gin
cinnati Gazette, has his righteous soul
vexed from day to day by the perverse
character of his wicked partners And
we know of another case almost as sad.
The Springfield. (ohio,) Republic, is
edited by one Cliff Nichols, young man
who is only second in piety and goodness
to Deacon Richard Smith himself Bro.
Nichols is the main pillar and chief cor.
ner stone Of the Sabbath Schools Of Ohio,
and of the temperance cause, and the
and of the Church, and of the cause OF
Christ generally in these United States.
While Bro. Nichols was absent, en-
gagged in his holy work, his wicked,
unregenerate, uncircumcised and un-
clean partners, made a low, dirty,
cowardly, sneaking, unprovoked and
blackguard personal attack upon the ed
itor of the STANDARD, according to the
Jackson Herald and the Waverly Repub.
lican, and these papers never lie, } and
then they were too mean and cowardly
to send us a copy of the paper, and we
do not exchange with the Republic.
OF course Christian gentleman like
Bro. Nichols is incapable Of such COW.
ardly blac kguardism, and we'll might he,
in view Of his being tied down in part
nership with such dirty, cowardly pup.
pies, exclaim with the great Apostle OF
the Gentiles: "Oh wretched man that /
am Who shall deliver me from the
body of this DEATH p
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KNIGHTS
AMERICAN MECHANICAL DICTIONARY.
Published by
HURD HOUGHToN, 10 Astor Place, y. Y:
II. o. HoUGHToN COMPANY, Boston:
THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, Cambridge.
From the Scientific Ameriean.l

The completion Of Hhfghi's " american Ifechan-
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the latest Improvements therein noted. Engineer
ing C0rks, seie1ffc discoueries and toos of ererv
ergn hare been studied; and finally, all this i'm
nlerse collection, gathered from the Whole deld Of
applied science, has been subjected 10 careful re
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able for purposes Of reference and research. Add
to this the tabors Of artist and cHgrarer and there
Is hnie food for DidrUel that the irOrk has cost
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eiude 2.S00 pages n Is more an encyclopedia
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just estimate o( nse comprehensive nature 81 he
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MORE WICKEDNEss

Another truly good man has wicked
partners. L. B. Leeds, of the Brown
County News, is good man-that is, as
good as a Democrat ever gets to be- but
some of his young and wicked partners
have sneered at us because we are a
prophet, and last March foretold
the defeat of the Republican party in
October. These wicked young men
should remember the sad fate of the
chaps who made sport of one of the
prophets of old, saying to him: $50 up,
thou bald head" But the bears came
and devoured them.
As long ago as last March we could use
the beautiful lines referred to by Gov.
Chamberlain, in his Fourth Of July
speech:
"I see q hand you cannot see,
Which beckons me awav;
/ hear a voice you cannot hear,
Which tells me not 10 stay"
But this is not prophetic inspiration.
We do not claim it as SUCH but
"'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore.
And coming events cast their shadows before"
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We are told by the Hayes papers al.
most every day, that everything is peace
and brotherly love in the South, and
that the negroes were never so we'll pro
tected and cared for as they are now.
Some time ago we gave an account Of the
burning of a negro, whose screams were
heard two miles In this paper we give
an account of the burning of another
negro, and here is still another
account of a case where the victim mar.
rowly escaped the usual fate of all the
poor wretches who may be accused by
some snuff-dipping white she devil. In
mercy to the helpless victim, he was
hanged instead of being burned, by these
high toned friends of Hayes and Hamp-
ton:
Scale, Ala, Nov. "a p. M.-Owen
Wright, colored, who assaulted Mrs. Ell
lington, the wife of a respectable farmer
was hanged about a hundred yards from
the scene of his crime, at ten o'clock
this morning. 1t had been determined
to execute him on that spot, but as il
was between two pine trees and no limb
was convenient a scaffold was erected
near by. Nearly three hundred people
were present, many of them colored. The
negroes were clamorous for his death,
and most of them insisted on his being
burned. The prisoner shuddered.at the
threat, and begged and entreated for any
mode of death but that After he had
made confession a vote was taken, and
q majority decided for hanging A stake
had already been put in the ground. and
a quantity OF light wood cut. Mrs. FL.
lington declared that he should be
burned.
Now we suppose the lovely Mrs. Filing
ton will be very Jealous in collecting
money to send missionaries to the
heather in Africa and China, that their
souls NAV be saved.
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The work treats of 20, 900 subjects, and
is illustrated with 1900 carefully prepar-
ed engravings 1t would indeed be cor
rect to say that the illustrations are fully
$1,000 in number, inasmuch as a variety
of distinct forms Of a machine or tool
(sometimes as many as forty) are fire.
quently associated in a single cut, and
might, had the object been to spread
them out and make show, have been
enumerated as separate figures.
The book also contains seventy.five
full-page plates, and for general typo
graphical excellence. quality of paper and
binding, the work is unsurpassed. 1t
may be had, by subscription only, in
bound volumes, containing in all 2.S3l
pages, at from S24 to $50 per set, accord
ing to style of binding. Address the
publishers, HURD q HoUGHTON, l3 Astor
Place, New York, for further PARTICULARS,
or to w. S. FORSHEE & CO, General
Agents, l76 West 4th ST., Cincinnati, o.
Knights American Mechanical Dictionary;
a Description of Tools, instruments, Machines
Processes, and Engineering; History of Inven-
tions GeAeral Psychological Vocabulary and
Digest of Mechanical Appliances I'm Science
and the Arts. BY Edward II. knight, Civil and
Mechanical Engineer, etc. illustrated with
1900 engravings. New York Hurd & Hough-
ton. Cambridge: The Riverside Press.
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MA n RE D.
We find the following in the Hiawatha Kan
sas) Dispatch:

We find the following in the Hiawatha kan
sas) Dispatch:
"MARRIED.-On Tuesday, Nov. 9th, 1871, at
the residence of the brides father, Judge 7. b.
Dickson, by Rev. +. NJ. Farmer. Mr. Geo. II.
Adams and Miss Emma V. DickasOn, all Of
Hiawatha.
abundance of cake. in great variety receiv-
ed-Thanks. We wish the nappy couple a
long life of perfect happiness.
'Mr. Adams is an exemplary young man OF
our city, partner with Mr.. Wood in the hard
ware and store business.
"AIiss Emma was one among the highly res
pected and intelligent young ladies OF our city.
"The happy couple left on the eastern bound
train, a couple hours after they were married.
They will go to Jackson county, Ohio, the old
home of the bride, where they will stay week,
then go TO Steubenville, the former home OF
Mr.. Adams, where they Will remain a week,
and then return to Hiawatha."
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AT the elections last week Pennsyl-
vania went Democratic by 1000 to 10000,
a Republican loss of some 10000. Mas
sachusetts went Republican by reduced
majority, loss Of some 10000 Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota went Republican.
New York went Democratic, with a
greatly reduced majority.
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The Democratic Treasurer of Clermont
county has discovered that all the public
money, $4,000, is missing from his safe
1t was only week or two ago Il at the
Democratic Treasurer of Auglaize county
was sent to the Penitentiary for five
years, for stealing the public money.
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The Portsmouth Times tells how
whisky got a man into trouble. John
Colvin came to Portsmouth from Munn's
Run with a wagon load of slaves, got
drunk and stole lot Of groceries. Col
vim said he had no recollection about the
theft, and he did not need the stolen
goods He was sent to prison.
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pliances for comfort 10y which we are
surrounded. Yet nothing can be more
instructive or entertaining than to follow
the gradual development of mechanical
ideas, from crude forms Of early times to
the perfect fruition of to-day
The author has given in connection
with a description of each machine, tool
instrument, or mechanical appliance, a
more or less circumstantial account of
its history. A sort OF mechanical biogra-
ply in which the varying fortunes of
each article is narrated in chronological
sequence.
The work also contains another ex-
tremely valuable and entirely original
feature which the author has been pleased
to term
| PHYSIOLOGICAL VOCABULARY.
Rather formidable looking title, but
simple enough in its Specification.
There are many terms in use among
various trades and professions which are
not to be found in any lexicon, because
they are not Kings English" BY con.
slant use they have become semilegiti-
mate. and once in a while few of them
have established their claim to respecta-
bility and been admitted to the citizen
ship Of "Webster's Dictionary" But
thousands of others, less fortunate, have
no abiding place, and, though indispen'
sable, have not yet been recognized in
etymological society. Here, then, is a
rallying place for these words of doubt.
full fame" and under the title Of the
thing to which each term pertains, we
find them comfortably provided for.
Thus, under Anchor we find a list ol
26 nautical terms used by Jack Tar in
manipulating that useful implement
under Mold" may be found l27 Molder' S
Terms which are current amongst foun'
dry workmen. Miners, Masons, and En-
gineers have each their own vocabulary,
thoroughly defined in the proper places.
The value Of this Vocabulary must be
apparent. 1t is sort of supplement to
I"Webster's Dictionary" Various tech
nlcal operations are lncapaole OF oelne
explained without the use of these words
and the only wonder is, that special
Technical Dictionary has never been
published before.
The idea of classifying them. so that
all terms pertaining to any special trade
or profession may be found appended to
the article treating upon the same, is
truly admirable. By this means one
may thoroughly inform himself concern
ing any particular business, and venture
among the knowing ones with unruffled
composure.
Philologists may gather here abundant
material for investigation, and pause tc
marvel at this prolific source of word
making
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The Marietta Times says that three
men, named William Gearing, ]. H.,
Mcconnell and George Knox, were out
hunting, when the gun Of Mcconnell was
in some way discharged, the shot strik-
ing Gearing in the face, causing his death
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The private bank of E. Kinney & Co.,
of Cincinnati, failed last week. Liabili.
ties Slj0,000. Mr.. Kinney was formerly
a resident Of Portsmouth, and we believe
he is brother of the late Col. Peter Kin
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Congress was called to meet in extra
session to provide for the payment of the
army. The session has now continued
one whole month but the army bill is
not vet passed.
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sALE or REAL ESTATE.


= uEHIFF's SALE or REAL ESTATE
State of Ohio. Jackson county, -.
Court of Common Pleas
l. 7. Monahan ~ A. = Kyle
on vCndi.
Notice r. hereby given, that I viii onrF for
sale at punllc auctlnH. at the door uf the Court
House In Jackson, ON
Saturday. December lst. A. D. 1871.
AZ O'Clock PM of said day. the following de-
Hcribcd real estate. situate IN the county of
Jackson and state ofuhio. to-wlE
Tho stone coal underlying tu.tsuia uumhcF
~ and - In the town uf Iai ksuus
AiNo, fn.t.ot number ~. 10 the town of Jack
son. as designated on the town plat of said
town.
Appraised a. failnwas
Htouc coal underlying Lot number ~ at
So Mn
stone coal undcriyins Lot numheF ~ at
50 ~.
Lot number t2t az Sos %.
Terms Of sale. cash on day nf sale.
Taken na the property of A. - Kyle. on an
execution ia favor of T. r. Munnhan. tas
sued BY the Court of Common Pleas 81 the
sounty of jackson, sud 70 me dircciei ne sher.
in uf said county.
Given under my hand thls salh day of ocio.
" " ioHN A. EWING. sh'nLc.o.
Nov. !. is5s -5w
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Wonder Upon W 'onder.

flrrn atnuH-A strange. myHtef iuus aud most
extraordinary Book. entitled ssruE Huuk
OF WONDERS" Containing. with numrrs
oua ruriuua pictorial illustration =, the mystic
fiss uf the Heavens and Eauh, Natufai aud
-ufrf- Natural. udditiCss Mhims icai. strange
tufiuaitiras Witches and Mtfrhr Hafi. ufra ma
mrnt, Sc. In orilcr that sit may - this rufi.
Gus book, the uuhiisIrfa have rsa giNesi o. uiNu
u HwHy ~ al that desire - see a. Addrrss 10
postal card, .. OLEAroN a CO. ~ Washing.
ton street, Boston, Mas. novifft
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NEW ADVERTIsEMENTs.
Agent w anted

In this vicinity foF the Manhattan IAfe fnsur-
ance Company OF New Yotk CITY. Organized
IN $50. Assets over eionu0.lN0 securely tnWeaf-
surplus OF over 90 80 sl. according o. tho report
tnry, New York. uovtfit
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Gov. Williams, OF Indiana, has appoint
ed D. w. VOORHEES, as U. S. Senator in
place of Senator Morton.
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The new editor of the Portsmouth Tri-
bune appears to be inclined to run that
paper still in the interest of Bristow and
reform. He says:
president Hayes has been guilty of no
treason. He has carried out the very
policy toward the South he foreshadowed
in his letter of acceptance; and the Re-
publicans knew his opinions upon this
question even before they nominated
him. He has not been false, but true,
and his course in leaving the Southern
States to manage their own affairs is the
proper one. The improved condition in
these States, and marked decrease of po-
litical murders and disturbances prove
this"
The following which appeared in all
the city papers a week or two ago, is all
the comment we wish to make at present
as to the beauties of rebel management
in the rebel States:
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Notice of Appointment.

The undersigned has been duly appointed
administrator OF the estate OF Ann Richards
late Of Jackson county, ohio, deceased.
noyStlt JENKIN RICHARDS.
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Notice.
GREESFIELD. {

GREESFIELD. ONO. Nov. .. ls77.
Notice is hereby given, that the General Of
fees OF the Springfield, jackson and POmrroy
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IN Fine Cards, Damask. Repp, Etc, with
~ name on - cts. CLINTON BROS, Clin-
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"A NEGRO BURNED ALIVE.

COLUMBUS. GA, Nov. 2-Owen Wright,
colored. who brutally outraged a white
married lady q month ago. near Craw-
ford, Ala. was to-day taken from Jail by
a party of 100 citizens, who carried him
to the woods, and, it is said, burned him.
His agonizing cries as the flames licked
his blistering flesh were heard for over a
mile. A slow fire was kindled in order
to protract his agony"
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England, ireland, Scotland & Vale
Interest Paid on Time Deposits.

ISAAC BROwN, T.P. SUTHERLAND
President. Ticc-FTesfdcnt.
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countries, can obtain al our Office. drafts on
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BANKS.
Government Securities

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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-01-19
To.morrOw,s Election.

Tomorrow Saturday Sheriff Hays
will hold an election at the court
house to elect a Constable to fill the
vacancy in the 9th district, Occasioned
by j. A. Lawson failing to give bond.
This election is not in obedience to
the order of the county court. This
court at its last session elected MI.
Henry G. Spencer to fill the unexpired
term. However, the Sheriff sees proc
per TO hold an election, and Mr.. Spen-
Ger is a candidate. We are personal
ly acquainted with Mr.. H. c. Spencer
and know him to be a hard-working,
honest mechanic, and a man who will
make a good officer. The people Of
his end Of the district are entitled to
one constable, and we know of no
better man than Nj. Spencer. He
has given a good bond, and as some
body is trying to cheat him out of it,
we think it nothing but right that the
people should re elect him.