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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24
TEnTPER ANcE coLUMN.
socrates ON temperance.

And now, if temperance be virtue
conducting to the honor and happiness of
man, let us see in what manner Socrates
endeavored to stir up his followers to the
practice of it.
ssAIy fellow citizensl'' would he say |
sswhen war is declared, and it becomes
necessary for you to make choice Of a gen
eraI. choose We the man enslaved to wine
or women; luxurious in his diets lnIeH-
perate in his sleep; incapable OF IaDor'
Impatient of fatigue? Can ye from sucn
a one expect safety to yourselves, or con-
quest over your enemies? Or, When |
death draweth nigh, and no thought re-
maineth but for the welfare Of your chill |
dren, do ye then inquire for the debauchee
wherewfth to fntrust them? Is it he who
must direct in the virtuOus education of
your sons, and guard the chastity of your
virgin daughters, or secure to them the
Inheritance from the hand of the Oppres-
sor? Do ye intrust your flocks or your
herds to the conduct of him who is over
charged with drunkenness? or expect
from such one despatch to your affairs?
Would even the slave be received, though
sent as a gift, who came to us branded
with so loathsome vice? If, therefore,
intemperance seems to us so odious when
seen only in a slave, how should we dread
the being ourselves degraded by it? The
rapaciOus and covetous have the pleasure
of growing rich, and add to their own
substance what they take from others !;
but the dissolute man Injuries his neighbor
without profit to himself; nay, he Injuries
every one, and himself most of all, if the
ruin of his family, his health, his body,
and his mind, may be termed injurious.
Neither can such a one add to the pleas
ures that arise from social conversation
for what pleasure can he give whose only
delight is in eating and drinking, and,
destitute of shame, prefers the company
of the common prostitute to that of his
best friend? Hence, therefore, we may
see how necessary it is to make temper
ance our chief study; since without this
as its basis, what other virtue can we at
tain? How can we learn what is profita-
BILE, or practice what is praisewOrthy.
Neither can we cOnceivea state more pitt
BILE, whether in respect to body or mind,
than the voluptuary, given up to all the
drudgery of intemperance. And certain
ly, we should wish no worthy man may
be encumbered with a slave of this dis
position; or, however, we are sure al
slaves who abandon themselves to sucl
irregularities ought to entreat the god
that they may fall into the hands of mile
and gentle masters, their only chance t.
save them from utter ruin.''
Thus would Socrates talk concernin!
temperance; and if the whole tenor of hi
discourse showed his regard for this virtue
the whole tenor of his life served NOR
abundantly to confirm it.-Xenophons Ne
moirs.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24
ohio Items.

Urbana elected colored man to Coun-
ell.
Tihin has guards over its cemetery,
fearing body snatching.
GAINESVILLE has organized coffin man
ufacturing company.
Building is being prosecuted quite ex-
tensively in Lancaster this spring.
Tom Ewing says he is not working for
the candidacy of Ohio's Governor.
An egg merchan oft Kenton shipped
niety barrels of eggs East last week.
Newark, Circleville, Logan, and Zanes-
vile have the pedestrian fever very bad.
The undertakers of Rutland, Meigs
county, are unable to supply the demand
for coffins.
Wells, crooked County Clerk of New
ark has resigned, and a successor ap-
pointed.
The strike among the employees of the
coal mines in the neighborhood of Pom
eroy continues.
Licking county has taken prompt steps
to repair the damages to the court house
by the late fire.
Extensive preparations are being made
in Cincinnati for the imposing observ-
anee of Decoration day.
A little child of Nicholas Everett, near
Winona, Hooking county, was recently
scalded to death.
It is said that General w. H. Gibson,
the temperance orator, is about to become
Methodist minister.
James Likes, laborer, who came to
Janesville last year, has fallen heir to
$40, 900 in England.
Hon. Columbus Delano has returned
from his Colorado health trip, much inn
proved in his physical condition.
Three boys were drowned in the Ohio
river, at Wellsville, Friday of last week,
by the upsetting of their boat from a
steamers waves.
Two barns, belonging to Samuel Drye,
Washington county, burned last Mon
day, with 1000 bushels of wheat, 1000
bushels of corn and 200 tons of hay.
The Orphans and Childrens' Home of
Hooking county, has begun operations.
| The Infirmary Directors transferred fif-
| teen children from the Infirmary to the
care of the authorities of the new Home.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that the
proprietors of machine shops and foun-
dries in that city are refusing orders and
prices are advancing. The revival has
come, and now hard times are on the de-
cline.
Fifty barrels of benzine fell from a
platform in Marietta and burst, the liq-
uid flowing into little stream to the
lower part of town. Some boys set fire
to it, and an extensive conflagration was
almost the result.
John Brown, son of Ossawattomie
Brown of Put-in-Bay, proposes to devote
his energies and labors to aid the colored
people of the South in emigrating to the
West. He thinks now has come the sec.
ond great opportunity for aiding the col
ored race of his country.
A new coal field is being developed in
Jackson county. The coal is known as the
Hill or Wellston coal, is from three to four
and one-half feet in thickness, a homo
geneous bed remarkably pure in charac-
ter, and adapted for furnace use in a raw
state.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24
s'Our Landlord"
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
While it is to be supposed that the man
with a house to rent is anxious to secure
all the rent he can get, there are some off
sets which never leak out, and people
have come to regard the majority of land
lords as Shylocks. Mr.. Blank, of the
northern part of the city, had a house to
rent. That's, after he had laid out $400 in
repairs he called it house, but the very
first woman who came for the key handed
it back with the remark:
'sI am not obliged to live in either a
stable or pig-pen -
The second woman started to look
through the house, but she got no further
than the hall. She said she had never
lived in house with hall less than sew
en- feet wide, and she was not going to
begin this late. The third customer was
man, and he wanted two partitions
knocked out and three doors to swing the
other way. The fourth was boy sent by
his mother to see if certain bedroom
carpet in the house they then occupied
would fit a certain bedroom in this house.
It wouldn't, and as the owner refused to
squeeze the walls together the boy broke
off all further diplomatic relations.
The next inquirer was woman whose
son was about to be married, and as she
was to live with the new family she want
ed to be sure about the convenience of the
house. She didn't want much done to
this house. All she wanted was the rent
cut down one-half, the roof raised another
story, the yard increased to a hundred
feet front, and a few trifies in the way of
bay windows, freseoing, etc.
The last call was yesterday. The owner
went over in company with young man
who earns 81 per week, and is to be mar
ried soon. The house just suited him. He
wouldn't have a single thing changed.
He had been looking for just such house
for two years, and he wondered why all
houses were not built just like it. When
the owner mentioned rent in advance the
young man grew sad and replied:
''Sir, if my word is not good enough for
months rent, we must part-farewell! !''
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24
what It Costs to Drink .

Few men think seriously of what a
fearfully expensive thing strong drink is.
When one sits down and counts the cost
of it he is shocked at the sum total. The
drunkard puts in his money, and loses it;
his time, and loses it; his character, and
loses it, his health, and loses it; his self
respect, and loses it; his domestic peace,
and loses it; his wife's happiness, and
loses it; his children's bread, and loses it !;
his hope of heaven, and loses it; his soul,
and loses it. There is nothing else which
swallows down so much time and money,
and health, as intemperance. 1t is the
great destroyer which consumes mans
best resources. Every drinking saloon is
carried on by company. Only one of
the partners puts his name upon the sign,
but there are always two engaged in the
business. One is the devil; the other is
the man who passes the glass over the
counter to his customers. The latter gets
all the money, and the former all the
souls. TO carry on this internal business
it costs the United States untold millions
of dollars, while annually it destroys in
Our land sixty thousand souls and bodies.
And for what purpose is this fearful ex-
penditure carried on? Simply to support
rumsellers, and to produce pauperism
crime, and insanity. We call ourselves
Christian people and yet we legalize and
protect this social Destroyer 1t some
times seems as if God intended to lie
drunkenness prevail, and sweep away th'
husbands and sons-aye, and in some in
stances, the wives and daughters-o
thousands of our best families, till ou
people, amazed and indignant, shall aris
en- madsse and demand the utter extinction
Of this municipal crime.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24
Individual work.

l cannot help thinking that if there was
little more individual work, a little
more moral courage in the world to save
men, the world would not be so much of
wreck as it is to-day. If Won saw that
friend, brother, was taking wrong
course, what would you do? Womb vo'7
merely say: "Dear, dear, dear! how
painful it is that so many men are goino
wrong. just as sure as he continues that
course he is lost man; but he will go
dear, dear, dear! ~ and when you hear
the despairing cry come up from the
depths, add, ''I told you sop' Now,
what should you do? Should you not
lay your hand on him and say: "My
friend, you are going wrongl What if
he swears at you? Never mind: but save
him if you can. Many man hasn't got
80 far from your sympathy but that one
word kindly said in his ear, 'sMv friend.
you are going wrong,' will check him,
The difficulty is that we let men 90 so
far from my sympathy that we cannot
reach them. Now, it is this individual
work that L believe is to reform the world,
and bring it back to God.
If one could gather, from day to day,
the stories Of the inner life of individuals,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24
FAYETTF CO1

as it reveals itself in the voluntary open
ing to the gaze of the pitying Savior ana
to the gaze of some one Of his follo"eIs sIs
who lives near enough to him to be aole
to share his feeling for their infirmities'
it would make volume OF such p.'I.1 p-'.-ot-1
realities as no romance unIoiis' ~ 80
show how dep-seated is the huhger' no"
intense the longing, at the bottom OF hu-
man hearts. for freedom from the slavery
of evil habits of sin, and for the conscious
ness of pardon and love, and tender near
ness to Christ.-.Jobn B. Cough.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24
The Play ana church.

The friends of Archbishop Purcell,
having been thwarted in their first move
ment to raise money to pay his debts by
great gambling lottery scheme, have now
resolved upon a series of theatrical per-
formances. The announcement is in these
words:
SIN Aid of Archbishop Purcell.-Ar-
rangement for series of performances in
aid of a fund for the relief of the venera-
bic prelate and his suffering creditors have
been completed. The committee have
taken the Globe Theatre, and will pro-
duce on Easter Monday evening the Irish
American melodrama ETrOdden Down /;
or, Under Two Flags The attractions of
the play, and the object of the perform
ance, should secure to the enterprise the
success which it deserves"
The selection of the first play is appro-
pirate; F'Trodden Down. represents the
prostration of the poor people whom the
Archbishop has reduced to beggary by
ts king from them their hard-earned mon
ey and having nothing to give them in
return but his ghostly benediction; and
'FUnder two Flags" represents the service
of God and of Mammon, the Two Masters
whom no man can serve. The Archbishop
has tried to run bank and church, anG
has ruined the former and disgraced the
latter. The play will show the folly o.
trying to live "Under Two Flags.''
There is a more appropriate play we
have often seen advertised, and we com
mend it to the Archbishop's theatrica
managers. It is entitled ga New Way
to Pay Old Debts.'' That would draw
and perhaps help the church out of it
present sea of trouble.-N. Y. Observer.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24
Wonld Never use Them.

If persons were aware of the Injurious
character of most baking powders, they
would never use them. Ignorant per-
sons know nothing about the chemical
combinations necessary. The only good
baking powder, prepared by physician
with special regard to its healthfulness,
is DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24

A novel proposition is before the Leg
islature of Illinois for a constitutional
amendment providing that session of the
General Assembly for the purpose of law
making shall be held only once in six
years, but that the biennial sessions shall
be continued for the purpose of making
the regular appropriations and tax levies.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24

The new pension bill should have pro-
vided that man shot in the back should
not receive his back pension money.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24

A great deal of oats sowing has already
been done throughout the State and
breaking new ground has been done and
is now going on rapidly.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24

Charles swanson, a wealthy farmer and
stock dealer of MahOning county, has
suddenly left without saying good by to
his friends and creditors.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24

The Canadians did not yell for ''protec-
ton" until they learned that new Gov
ernor-general Lorne wrote spring poetry.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24

Sitting Bulbs medicine man is about to
issue little pamphlet on the ''Treatment
of the scalp.''
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24
NEW RICH BL001i.

PARSONS PURGATIvE PILLS make New Rich
Blood, and will comparatively change the blood
in the entire system in three months. Any person
who will take pill each night from to Il weeks
may be restored to sound health, if such thing
be possible. Sent by mail for letter stamps.
24w4 /. 5. JOHNSON s CO., Bangor, Me.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24
SYMPTOMS oE WORMS.

THE countenance is pale and leaden-
L colored, with occasional f1ushes, or
a circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pu-
pills dilate; an azure semiCirCle runs
along the lower eye-lid; the nose is ir-
ritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds;
a swelling of the upper lip; occasional
headache, with humming or throbbing
of the ears; an unusual secretion of
saliva; Shiny or furred tongue; breath
very foul, particularly in the morning;
appetite variable, sometimes voraclous,
with a knawing sensation of the stom7
ach, at others, entirely gone; fleetlng
pains in the stomach; occasional
nausea and vomiting; violent pains
throughout the abdomen; bowels If
regular, at times costive; stools Shiny;
not unfrequently tinged with blood;
belly swollen and hard; urine turbid;
respiration occasionally difficult, and
accompanied by hiccough; cough
sometimes dry and convulsive; uneasy
and disturbed sleep, with grinding of
the teeth; temper variable, but gener-
ally irritable, &c
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DR.. C. McLANE'S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form; it is an innocent prepara-
ton, not capable Of doing tile slightest
injury to the most tender Infant.
The genuine DR.. MCLANE'S YER
MIFUGE bears the signatures of c. Nc
LANE and FLEMING Bros. on the
| WraDDer. -:O:-
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24
NOTICE.

HAVING CLOSED OUR BUSINESS IN THIS
II place, by selling our stock of furniture TO
II. j. Byrer, OF Shelby, Ohio, it becomes necessary
that we should close our books, and we hereDy no
tify all persons knowing themselves indebted to us
to call and settle At once. -, . ,,-
Washington, April 8 1879. 2lwA
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24

TOR DEBILITY, LOSS OF MEMORY,
l. Indisposition to Exertion or Business,
Shortness of Breath, Troubled with
Thoughts of Disease, Dimness of vision,
Pain in the Back, Chest, and Head, Rush
of Blood to the Head, Pale Countenance,
and Dry Skin.
If these symptoms are allowed to go on,
very frequently Epeileptic Fits and Con-
sumption follow. When the constitution
becomes affected it requires the aid of an
invigorating medicine to strengthen and
tone up the system-which
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24

Delivered to any address free from obser-
vation.
Patients may consult by letter, re-
ceiving the same attention as by calling,
by answering the following questions:
l. Give your name and post-offlce ad-
dress, county and State, aud your nearest
express office?
3. Your age and sex?
3. Occupation?
4. Married or single?
.. Height, weight, now and in health?
6. How long have you been sickP
z. Your complexion, color of hair and
eyes?
8. Have you STOPPING or erect gait?
y. Relate without reservation all YOU
know about your case. Enclose one dol
lar as consultation fee. Your letter will
then receive our attention, and we will
give you the nature of your disease and
our candid opinion. concerning cure.
Competent Physicians attend to cor
respondents. All letters should be ad-
dressed to Dispensatory, 1917 Filbert ST.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
II. T. HELMBOLD,
Druggist and Chemist,
Philadelphia, Pa.
SOLD EVERYWHERE.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-24
al KiRds Of Millinery Work Done on Short
Notice.

Than king our friends, and the public generally,
for past favors, we feel confident we can make
prices to your advantage. if you call again;
92tf c. \ L. IEMAN.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1879-12-27
narlostown. Jeferson %, W. va.
OFFIcE ~ JEFFERSON BUsLDlNG.'
Saturday, December 81, 1879.
Z Just Tribute.
C.mmuaicaiel to the liorg1n Mercury.

Communicated 20 tie Morgan Mercury.
Mn EDIron:-I have seen quite number
of distinguished gentlemen spoken ofin some Of
the leading papers as likely 10 be candidates
in our next Guberuatoral contest have
also observed several persons in this eud Of the
State mentioned as aspirants for The place ia
Congress, now occupied by Hon i. Martin.
We ought, perhaps, to congratulate our
selves on having an ample supply OF material
out cf which IL lil or public offices; for
where there can be 40 choice there Is oiieu 40
merit. II is at inst such time as the present
when candidates are multiplying on every
hand. that we naturally cast an eye towards
enc Of Berkeley's rising statesmen, The lustre
of whose talents is beginning TO burst through
the cloak of silence with which his mo iesty
has vaiuly enGeAvured o. obscure them Need
il be said that now refer 10 Hon. f. Boyd
Faulkner. member Of State Senate from this
district. lhrou sbout whose territory he snsialns
an eDviable reputation both at the bar aud On
the stump Il IS true, ho beongs to oGr
younger class Of politicians; but this is NJ
very formidable objection. Wisdom docs not
necessarily accompany age, nor "a youth al
ways without it, Oae Of Senator Faulkner 5
highest recommendations IS that he seems pre-
eminenty fitted fOt the times. \ man Of great
moral courage, he can neither be seluced by
the emile Of friendship nor terrified by the
frown Of opposition. 4 lawyer thoroughly
posted In his profession well read in ancient
and modern literature; convoreat+ With the
important national questions Of tho day aud
complete master Of the principle of sound po-
ltical economy, he has at his command much
Of Whatever is necessary TO delight the fancy,
feast the Imagination and inform the iudg-
rnent. As an orator be has few equals. His
energy, too, Is Of such a character us to add
much TO the usefulness Of his native endow-
men,s. In short, he is a man, who 10 linc
practical mind, well-storel with acquisitions,
unites the perseverance, Of an uutiring worker.
Let it be remembered however. that the OBJ
iect Of this letter is not to nominate candidates,
bu, simply to give expression to the fact that
Senator FAulkner's qualifications for official
position are no, wholly ignored.
Dec. 10, 1879. TYRo.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1879-12-27
shopherdstown S Summary.

From the Registr:
Pork is still 81, and So per hundred.
The NJ. L. Church ia this place Is
shortly to undergo repairs.
4 freight train ran into the pickup
At Kerueysylle Oh Tuesday. aud demolished
four or five cars. No oLe was hurt.
Rev. Luther Lee Smith, a graduate Of
this Office aud brotber-in-law Of the editor, re-
ceived unanimous call at congregational
meeting held by Mt Tabor Lutheran Church
10 Augusta county, Va, as their Pastor.
As Mr.. L. r. Licl,lider, in company
with his wife, was driving down Main street
ou Tuesday evening last, one side Of the shafts
became detached from tie wagon aud fell
against the heels Of the horse, starting him 10
run down the street, aud when opposite tic
Episcopal Cnurcl, a sudden lungo Of tie wa
gon To- ono side. threw Mr.. aud Mrs. Licklidcr
out ON the ground with srCh iysco as 10 cause
Mrs J. to sustain severe confusion Of the
right side Of the head, az we'll as concussion Of
Tue brain also slightly fraciuring the collar
bone and otherwise receiving considerable
brusins aboIt the body She was taken mp
IN an iuseusible condition, and carried into the
tic house Of j. W. Grant near by. where every
assistance was afforded aud examination made
by DR.. c. T. Bnilcr, who. after she was re-
stored to consciousness, bal her removed to
her home. where under lis watcLfu attention,
we arc pleased 70 state she is fast recovering.
Mr. Iicklider was badly bruised but is able to
be about. Charles Puitz was IN the wagon
With Mr. LicklileF, aud aas thrown out, bat
escaped iujnry.