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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-25
The Paris exposition

French Journalists and others are still
making their calculations about the cost
of the Paris exhibition and the probable
deficiency at its close. for it is generally
conceded that it will not nearly pay ex-
penses. It is now estimated that the whole
outlay will be 45 300, 600 francs, or IS, ,OOO.-
600. The receipts from all sources, it is
calculated, will reach "a ,5O0, 900 francs
or Sc, ,OO0, 600; so that the deficit will
amount to over two millions of dollars.
The French people seem quite satisfied
with this prospect, and there is no grum-
bling at the idea that the government will
have to pay this sum of $4,000, 900 from
the treasury. 1t is rightly believed that
the nation will derive benefits from the
exhibition that are cheap at that price or
even at a much larger one. How differ
ent is this from the feeling that prevailed
in this country in regard to the Centen-
nial exhibition. Here a single city and
State had to furnish the funds for what
was really national festival, and the pal
/ try sum that was, after much labor, OBJ
tanned from Congress, had to be returned
to the Treasury after the exhibition was
over. In generosity to great national en-
terprises, the French Republic excels the
Americans.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-25

At the late anniversary of the National
Temperance Society in New York, Gen.
Neal Dow, the father of the famous pro-
hibitory Maine liquor law said:
'sI understand that here in New York
it has been said that the Maine law has
been a failure and that it has not been
sustained by the people of Maine. 1t was
enacted in 1881 originally, and now, with
all its additions, it stands more firmly than
before in the public opinion of the States
and it is distinctly understood that no
man can be elected to public office there
unless he is in favor of prohibition. WhsG
has been the result9 Our share of the ma
tional drink-bill would be about thirteen
millions of dollars. Ex-Gov. Dingley
has said that the quantity of liquor sold
In Maine now could not be more than one
million of dollars, and he also stated at the
same time that good many persons hao
declared that the quantity of liquor sOlu
In Maine, allowing largely for the amount
smuggled into it in yiolation of law, could
NOT be more than five hundred thousand
dollars. We have less than One-tenth Of
the quantity of liquor sold in Maine now
/ than was sold before the law was passed.
There were distilleries in Maine, before
the Maine law was passed but there is not
one now.o
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-25
Leading a Calf.
Easton Free Press

Easton Free Press.
He was a small but muscular boy, and
the calf was probably two months old,
with a development of funadulterated GUS
sedness that would do credit to Georgia
Kuklux Klan Captain. There was a rope
between them, and, as they went down
South Third street, bets were about even
as to whether the boy was leading the
calf or the calf leading the boy. The calf
made dash for~the Central Express Of
flee. The boy pulled him back and he
made dash for the boy, who ran around
a wagon and fell over watermelon pile,
the proprietor whereof swore copiously.
''COme back here, you Internal clod-
buster, and pay for this melon.''
''Say, Minister! whoa-give me my
thunderation on you-hat, won't yer?''
And the calf kicked up his heels and
b-a-a-d, and tried to run into a store, but
the boy sat back on the line with all his
strength and suddenly sat down in the
mud as the calf altered his mind and
turned around to look at him. They went
quietly ten steps, till dog barked, when
it took four circles around the boy in as
IHdIly SSCOIlSS3 Gy HIS up bA GAlS
| line, bringing him down in the mud again
and dragging him around until he looked
like an old hat that had been run over by
the ice cart for two seasons.
A philanthropic fat man by the name Of
Wilson, lawyer, went to the boys as
sistance, but the calf kicked him on the
sh in and butted him in the condenser, 81
that he sat down on the. curbstone and
tried to die easy. Then the boy and cali
untangled themselves and started down
the street like mail train behind time
until the calf, soaring at something
stopped suddenly, and the boy fell over i
and lost the rope. The calf at once tool
to his heels, every boy in the street run
ming after and grabbing at the rope, unit
it got tangled in the bridge, when hi
conductor caught him~by the ear and tail
and lively fight took plaeea acros
the bridge and out of sight, while every
body along the street proceeded to tel
how easy it is to lead calfif you only g
their way about it. ..s +.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-25
value OF Government signal service.

James H Flint, St Nicholas for July.
The system of danger signals, adopted
by the United States Government, has
proved of great benefit to shipping. All
along the coasts are stations, at which
plainly visible signals are displayed, to
warn ship-caprains of approaching storms
The reports af observers at the stations
are quired to give all instances in which
vessels have remained in port on account
of official warnings given. In these cases
danger was avoided, and statistics show
that disasters to shipping have been con-
siderably fewer since the introduction of
cautionary signals.
The agricultural interests of the coun-
try also have been greatly benefited by
the daily bulletins sent to every farming
district in the land by the Weather De-
partment. These bulletins are made from
telegraphic reports received at appointed
centers of distribution, where they are at
once printed, placed in envelopes, and ad-
dressed to designated post-offlces in the
district to be supplied. Each postmaster
receiving bulletin has the order of the
Postmaster-General to display it instantly
in frame furnished for the purpose.
The bulletins reach the different offices,
and are displayed in the frames, on the
average, at eleven o'clock in the morning
making about ten hours from the time the
report first left the chief signal officer
until it appeared placarded at every CEN
ter of the farming populations, and be-
came accessible to all classes even in the
most distant parts of the country.
The information given on these bulle-
tins has been found especially valuable to
those farmers who take an interest in the
study of meteorology, or $the science of
weather, and the facts announced are so
plain, that any intelligent person may
profit by them. For instance, each bull
letin now announces, for its particular
districts, what winds in each month have
been found most likely, and what least
likely, to be followed by rain. Attention
given to this one simple piece of informa-
ton will result in increasing the gains
and reducing the losses of harvesting.
Warnings of expected rises or falls il
the great rivers are made with equal reg
ularity, telegraphed, bulletined in frames
and also published by the newspapers, al
the different river cities. These daily re
ports give the depth of water at differen
points in the rivers courses, and thu
make it easy for river shipping to bt
moored safely in anticipation of low wa
ter, when ignorance might lead to the
grounding of the boats on sand-bars ol
mud-banks. The notices of the probabl,
heights which freshets may reach, arr
followed by preparations upon the ''lev
ees'' and river-banks, to guard agains
overfiows. -- .....
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-25
Hard Times the Best for Young Men
just Starting.

Young men coming upon the stage of
active life during the present hard times
are much more likely to be permanently
successful than those who made their ad-
vent in business during the period Of
imitation, of high prices, and of fabulous
nominal profits. The great reason of this
is that young men who begin now, from
necessity, form their business manage
ment and personal habits on principles of
rigid economy. These in the long run
tell so powerfully as to make, in many
cases, the difference between failure and
success.
Men who began when everything was
at the top, find it very embarrassing to
come down and adapt themselves and
their business to the times that try mems
purses, as war is said to try their souls,
whereas those who commence when econ
omy is the order of the day, experience
no difficulty whatever in starting upon
an economical basis, and, once started, it
will be easy to adhere to it.
So that, for young men just embarking
for themselves, we may almost assert the
/ paradox that bad times are the best.-N.
7. Ledger.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-25
The Lime Kiln Club.

Detroit Free Press.
'EGem len, de Fo't OBJ July am numbered
wild de ded, ;" said Brother Gardner, of the
Lime Kiln Club, as horse fly sailed
across the room and made dive for the
elder Toot's pate. ''I was dar, 1 'spec you
was all dar. I took in de purceshun-I
gazed at de oratOr-I beheld de sky-rock-
cts and de varus odder embIazonments dat
decorated de sable aiges OBJ de glorus ev-
enin'. Den 1 toted de ole woman up home
an got de chalk an made some figgers on
de boot-iack. Says 1 to de ole lady, Oars
ten million dollars bin shot off in de air
an swallowed down de throat to-day, an
what fur?' An de ole lady tossed her
bonnet on de bed an said:
'We hez got to save de country, ole
man.
81 made some more figgers, an Iaxed
her, cole woman, dars bin 'nuff money
squandered in dis town to-day to build a
new skule-house. How am dat?' She
sot down mighty-hard on yaller cheer
an called out:
"' What am a skule-house compared
wild whoopin' ole time?'
81 tiggered agin, an de result made my
ha'r STAN up. Says I to de ole woman,
We've thrown away 'nuff money to-day
to feed every poor family in town all
winter am buy 'em dog in de spring
Any 'spreshuns under dis head?' She
had. She picked up de dust pan to fan
herself wild, an replied:
EELa, now! but didn't General Della
ware cross the Washington ribber? Wat
ails ye, ole man?'
81 flung de boot-jack under de bed an
said, FOle woman, huff money hez bin
laid out for fireworks tonight to pay de
biggest church debt in Detroit. Please
sigh ober dat She settled back in heeI
o. heels an feet an chin an blackness,
an growled at me:
&c Mister Gardner, if dis kentry hedn't
nebber bin diskivered wat would you an
me an sody water an ice-crerm an beau.
tifuI lemonade be to-day? Go long, ole
man; git dem hoOfs inter bed!'
81 got dar; but lie gwine to fink di!
| matter ober''
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-25
He Wanted to be a Juryman.

Presently the stiffness of the Court was
interrupted by the entrance of man who
came in with shuf1ing, uneasy step,
with his hat in his hand. He halted and
leaned against the railing. Nobody took
the least notice of him, however. At last
he took courage and spoke:
''Is the Judge in ?''
The Clerk Immediately awoke His Hon
or. ''Well what do you want?''
''I'm lookin' for a job. yer Honor. I've
bin lookin' for work over a month";
'FThere is nothing for you here, sir.''
81 thought yer occashunly give jurmen
a job. don't read newspapers any, and
bein' stranger in town, hain't got no
prejudice agin' anybody. pard of mine
wrote down to Reno last week, and said
thatthe jury business up here was brisk,
and it would pay to come up. AS I'm a
stranger to ye, and a little hard up, I'll
stand in and serve for a case or two for
halfprice till you see what 1 kin do.''
''What is your principal qualification
sir?'
s'My strong pint is in making jury
dSI0c. NO JuTI6S ever ndnS II L am on
'em. jist lay low till the first ballot,
then jine the majority and argue the rest
into it. kin discount any lawyer in
talkin'. l kin show 'em up pints they
never tumbled to before. Sometimes !
have to use force, but that's seldom. Once
down at Truckee, in murder case, there
was couple of fellows standin' out agin
hangin', and after arguein' with 'em as
smooth and gentlemanly as 1 could fol
over quarter of an hour, I went for 'em
with chairs, and by the time I'd busted g
half-dozen pieces of furniture on 'em they
were glad to come in with a verdict OF
murder in the first degree, and the fellel
was hung not long afterward. In justices
Courts you can bet on the jury, and il
you'll jist give me wink as to how you
want the case to go, I'II guarantee to fetch
in the verdict you want, or not take q
cent?
The Judge told him to call around in q
day or two and he would try and find {
vacancy for him, but in order to do so
regular juryman would have to be dis
charged.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-25

Jefferson Davis, on the 10th. IN tba oc-
cation of the presentation of a gold badoe
and certificate of membership of the
Association Of the Army of the Tennes-
see, spoke at some length. He said: 'sThe
question of the State right of secession in
1851 was at least debatable; but the course
pursued by the Federal Government after
the war had ceased, vindicated the judg-
ment of those who held separation to be
necessary for the safety and freedom of
the Southern States. The unsuccessful
attempt to separate left those in power to
work their will, as it had been manifest
ed when they first got control of the Gov
ernment. The events are to recent to
require recapitu1ation, and the ruin they
have developed requires no other monu-
ment than the material and moral wreck
which the country presents" The speak
er reasserted his mistaken belief in the
right of secession, and the duty of the
citizen to battle for the cause of his State
after secession. He reviewed the cam
paign from Fort Henry to Shiloh; and
speaking of Albert Sidney johnson, he
said: sWas itthat his grand presence in
spired you with unmeasured confidence,
and the hope of happier days, when op-
portunity should offer, or was it that your
judgment told you that you followed, as
1 verify believe you did, the greatest sol
dier, the ablest man, civil or military,
Confederate or Federal ?'' Mr.. Davis then
reviewed the operations about Vicksburg
and Port Hudson, and spoke in glowing
terms of their defenders. He said: sLet
no one suppose that in thus yindicating
our course in paying true tribute to your
gallant deeds, am seeking to disturb
such peace as we have, or to avoid the
logic of events. You have done your duty
in the past, and would ask no more than
| that you should fulfill equally well the
duties Of the present and the future. The
brayest are, as a rule, the gentlest, and
they are also the truest to every Obliga-
tion. assumed. You struck for independ-
ence and were unsuccessful. You agreed
| to return to the Union and abide by the
Constitution and laws made in conformi
ity with it. Thus far, and no farther, do
1 understand your promise to extend"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-25

In the City of Washington, at the in
tersection of Pennsylvania avenue, First
street, and the northwest entrance to the
Capitol grounds, stands the chaste and
beautiful naval monument, surmounted
by the twin statues of Columbia, weeping
for her sons, and History, recording their
deeds; erected by the officers and sailors
of the navy to the memory of the officers
and sailors of the United States navy who
fell in the war for the maintenance of the
Union from 1851 to 1866. Mr.. Beck and
Mr.. Voorhees, are deadly opposed to this
monument, as, of course, are all the ex-
COnfederates. Mr.. Beck, on account OF
this monument, moved to strike out of the
sundry civil appropriation bill the appro-
priation for continuing the improvement
! of the southwest portion of the Capitol
grounds, which motion came within one
of being carried; the vote standing %
Democrats for striking out to % Republi-
cans against. This monument, this COM
memorating in marble the heroic deeds
and patriotic deaths of the defenders OF
the Union, stirs up bad blood, they say,
and continues sectional animosity and
bitterness. The building of monuments
all over the Southern States, however, to
commemorate the acknowledged valOr of
some of those who fell in lost cause and
the cause of wrong, is all right and prop
er. That stirs no bad blood, incites nc
animosity, and perpetuates no sectional
hate. Such, for the sake of the solid South
is the reasoning of the Democratic party
i -Neeo Republic.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-25

From the Nsw Rspublie.

From the New Republic.
In this country there is no such thing
as class or classes, nor can there be. The
wages and salary men of yesterday are
the employers to-day, or, as it is common
ly expressed, the laborer of yesterday is
the capitalist of to-day. Labor is COM
modify to sell; capital furnishes the
means for its purchase; but the carefully
husbanded proceeds of sales of labor soon
become capital and the seller becomes
purchaser; the lOborer, in turn becomes
the capitalist. The capitalist of to-day
who, for fear of loss, will not invest in
properties and commodities at falling
prices, where laborers before they were
capitalists, and many of the laborers OF
to-day, many indeed who are now seek
ing employment, without finding it, will,
in the revival of industry, soon become
capitalists and employers. All antagon-
ism, therefore, between the employed and
the employer, between labor and capital,
is unnatural; all organizations based up
on the assumption of the hostility of cap
ital to labor are hurtful.
In times of business prosperity, when
all the people have remunerative Occupa'
tions and employment, there is general
contentment, and in times of business de
preston and industrial paralysis, wher
wage and salary men are without employ
ment, there is discomfort, and dema
| gogues are even ready to point out tht
4 wrongs of the Iaborer. Thus when Mr.
VOORHEES, attempted to array labor agains
capital in his speech on the silver bill, al
he was accused of doing by his Demo
cratic brother, Senator Eaton, he only
played the role of the demagOuge.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-25
what Democracy Has Done for the
LabOring Man. ..a

1st. Before the rebellion they held four
ing the whole mass of laborers in the
country.
3D. They refused to pass the homestead
law. -...
Sd. They went to war to perpetuate
slavery.
4th. They held that slavery was the nor
NAL condition of the Iaborer.
9th. They enacted that all dues to the
Government should be paid in coin, that
Government employees might be paid in a
superior currency, leaving only depre-
ciated State currency for the laborer.
9th. They opposed the creation of a
Government currency for all the people.
9TH. Since their accession to power, I'M
der the false plea of economy, they have
refused appropriations of the peoples
money for needed improvement, thus de-
pressing labor in time Of general dis
tress, while they squandered millions in
profitless investigation and payment OF
rebel claims.
sth. They have attempted the reduction
of the tariff, that American labor might
be reduced to competition with the half.
paid labor of foreign countries.
9th. They have refused encouragement
to commerce, through which our surplus
productions might find a profitable for
eign market.
10th. They have embarrassed and re
+ tarded the public business by unwise re
ductions of the clerical force in the De
} partments. ..s ......-r..-r-- +
1 l1th. They have attempted the reduc
: ton of the army below the actual neces
I sity of the country for the protection Q
+ the frontier settlements, and with tn
f view of throwing upon an Overburdene
r market an additional supply of unemploy
ed laborers.-Neao Repabltc.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-25
VEGETINE
I Owe My Health to Your Valuable
VEGETlNE.

H. r. STEVENS, ESQ:
Dear Sir,-Having suffered from a breaking out
of CankerOUs Sores for more than five years. caused
bv accident of a fractured bone, which fracture
ran into arun1ing sore, and having used every
thingI could think of aud nothing helped me Un (
til had taken six bottles Of your vauahIe Ineei
cine Mfich Mr. Miller, the apotheearyy recon-
mended very highly. The sixth bottle cured me,
and all can say is, that I owe my health to your
valuable Vegetine. Yours truly.
ALBERT Won RoEDER
sit is unnecessary for to enumerate the diseases
for which the Vegetine should be used. know of
no disease which will not admit of it's use with
good results. Almost innumerable complaints are
caused by poisonous secretions in the blood which
can be entirely expelled from the system by the
use of the Vegetine. When the blood is perfectly
cleansed, the disease rapidly yields; all pains
cease; healthy action is promptly restored and the
patient is cured"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-25

The HaoOkeye says: ''Woman, heaven
bless her, is the light of our homes, but
when she tries to make mans vest the
angels weep" And they ought to-when
she has to turn them out for nickel
apiece by the dozen, and be dOcked If ev-
cry button isn't on tighter than repeat
er on election night. If the angels ever
get moist around the eyes, dear boy, 1t Il
when they find out what big lot OF tOl
their sisters on earth are obliged to per
\ form for miserable pIttance.-BreaEfas
Y Table.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-25
School Examiners.

TTHE Board Of School Examiners of Fayette
Il County meets in Washington on the arst Sat-
urday of each month. Only third and fourth
class certificates will be awarded at these regu-
lar examinations.
Applicants for hrst and second class certih-
Gates must give notice to the clerk of the Board
at least FIVE days before the last Saturday of the
@mohths mo- OF January, April, May. June, Septem-
per, and October, when special examinations RIO
Vhese advanced grades, will be given.
,s.t $$.$S FFRR$$AFR5 FxR2$$EARaF8o5h. x2$Aa Examiners.