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The daily gazette., 1879-05-17
General News.


William O. Jones', ex-Judre of el,s
Criminal Court ofSt, L0uis, has sued ten
members OF the late Grand Jury tor. So
900 damages for alleged false and mali
cious comments upon his conduct upon
the Bench. S.li 5l. n,l,5 n ifif sse7
Charles NJ. Peck, boOkkeeper for Red
diDgtOn & Co., wholesale drueeisfs of
San Francisco, absconded on the Steamer
Australia, which sailed for SYDNEY an tI,l
18th inst. The amount Of his stealfi1rs
is not yet known. He has been sDoeillS-
ting in stocks. s-,a-t al, ssi- o-:irf.
The money and registered letters sto-
len from the post-officc in IndjausppoIis
ON Thursday, were found vestardav 1ns
der some rubbish In the basement of the
building. The letters were unouened.
There is no clue TO the thief.
The business portion Of Farmersyiile.
La, was burned yesterday. i he looo Il
estimated at $1OO, 900. % '.ife'flrt 3 ~-,s .
A destructive fire was ra9ipe in thu
pine forests near Fry burg, Me-, Yesterday.
threating the village. Large forest fr, =
have been burning in Conway ana Barts
lett townships, N H., for several tdsvss
The forest fires in Pike. county p. . sna
Sussex county, N. j., were exiinenishsS
yesterday, by heavy rains. =
Wallace Wickerson, convicted of thu h.
murder OF man named Baxter. com nit.
ted two years ago, was..executsd yester.
day, at Provo City, Utah. He. vasSnn&
hanged, but shot, three concealed nAnr1rs.
men hssora i,rIng IN a;a ss him, y was q minutes
John }. West was hanged 1t Boony,i,sI
MO-, yesterday, forthe murder OF ! trsn.r
IN October last. It took nearly tventr
minutes 70 hang him, owing to The breaf-
ing Of the rope, necessitatlng retvins.
About SOOO people Witnessed the eia.,s
ton, among them Vests father wbo v,ss..
from Illinois for the purpose, "''''
Robert Cheney, colored, was h.noe,a :.
Plaquemine, La, yesterday, for q HIor~
committed in June last, y sTeg ~ 10y
Brotherton, who murdered b;s ..,,,s,.
law IN 1877, was sentenced At, Anhn..
l1th Of July. '71 - A""kso On the
The Ways and Means Comm,tt.al :. -
expected, will fix the date of s.1S,,.., :. 70
ment OF the present session of Concra..
at Its meeting on Tuesday next. 0''
The House Committee
Affairs yesterday appointed q snp pe,gn .og,.
mittee to confer with Secreto -, g T..o.t, Ill,
in regard to the bill authorizinS ~ '.,rs an
pointment Of agents to ren-os.. w. .his nP
country ~ ene australian exhibition.
IL Is UNDERSTOOD that Mr.. Knott. Chair
man OF tne House Judiciary Committee,
.. Is preparing report on the subject Of
\ the president's veto of the bin to prevent
! nhn'arS 'h'eaierence at elections.
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,liLROADs.


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d Castle, SnI H, Intern edlate Statiohs'
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SUM- md Intermediate stations
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4; ai;isIn6Is n, and New York' l'o''
(p%,,. and washington, IL 81. z io
. s,,t., o.; information passenger, II, are ,hs
iumei w inc time tables PosSeJ Trv 4; '"'
n. Superintendent.
The daily gazette., 1879-05-17
SECOND EDITION
THE COUNTY COURTS.
THURSDAY AFTERNOONS PRO
CEEDINGS.

ANOTHER SMELLING CASE TO DE
TRIED-A LIVELY LARCENY TRIAL,
IN WHICH THE PRISONER CLEARS
HIMsELF-A VICTORY FOR COUNSEL
LOR SHARPLEY, ETC.
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,w.RE W EsTERN RAILRpAD IA, ID
LAW wa nnT of hours. On and after Feb
lns1Trr T,a,ns IN will run AZ fol ows:
NV, s,ri,,m,nrton, 7.l5 IA. m, 1880 r. m
bSp. m. ,o sMa m., 1852 noon.
nv nomsroy, . 90 II IN, % ? IN.
frl,no frlve o" Leave PomerOy 1910 a. III.
lDp. IN. Avondale. 70 IA noon,
burning, leaVe "'
slOp, m. nl..,t,.,op sN n. m, 2l5 y.
frvlnt, m u. CONNELL,
n1swP Superintendent.
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Dungan'S Speech.

Levi DUNCAN, in his speech at the
Court House, week ago last Saturday
night, said that from the year 1866, to
1878, times were good. Iron sold at
$40 to $50 per ton, and laborers re-
ceived from $3.50 to $500 per day, and
were paid in money, not in scrip OF
punch.
Let us look at this matter. By ref
erence to the figures we published last
week, from the Treasury Department.
it will be seen that the greenback cur
rency was worth only 70 cents to the
dollar in the year 1865; 66 cents in
1866; 1T in 1867; 7O1 in 1868; 1876
in 1859, and so on. In 1873 it was
worth only 96.4 to the dollar. Look
at the prices of the necessaries Of life
during those years, and then look at
them to-day You can to-day get q
barrel of flour for $500 III greenbacks
National Bank notes, silver or gold, OF
500 in furnace scrip. Bacon now sells
at from a to 8 cents, salt 81 80, car
bon oil 90, and so on with all the abso-
lutte necessaries of life in proportion.
By reference to the files of the
Standard, without searching for extra
ordinary times or occasions, we find
the following in the market reports
June 21, 1S66-the very best times
according to Mr.. DUNCAN, -four was
worth 1925; bacon 20 to 25 cents:
carbon oil $1.O0; potatoes S1.00 to
$500; molasses $140 to $1.60; salt
So, so, and so on.
We had no market reports of mus
lin, calico, and other dry goods, but we
think that they cost from six to ten
times as much then as they do now.
August 9, 1866, coffee is quoted at
33 to 35 cents, sugar Is to 20 cents
butter 20.
Jan. "a, 1867, butter was 80 cents
flour $500.
June 20, 1867, -four was $1,000 pei
barrel, salt $500, sugar 20, &c.
October 81, 1867, -four was $14.00
corn meal S10O, butter 25, &c.
Jan. 30, 1868, green apples were &C
to $1O0, butter 80, &c.
April 2, 1868, beans $500, butter
35, corn meal $120, &c.
We might extend this comparison
through all these years, and show by
actual figures that family can live
better on the wages of Is to 80 cent:
per day than could be done in ''tht
good times on wages from $3.50 tC
$500 per day.
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living.
The West Union New Era saws:

The w WeSt Union New Era says:
The Portsmouth Times makes an effort at stu
the Jackson Standard in Which Ewing's name
is substituted for Fosters and starts Demo
the Defender and other democratic papers, to
the effect that the old man has turned tail on
Foster Little business for the Times.
The Era is mistaken. There was
no typographical error in the Standard.
The matter published by the Times
was paragraph taken from sarcas-
tic article. The Times dare not pub
lish the entire article. We were a
little surprised that Mr.. Newman, the
responsible editor of the Times. should
resort to so low and dirty trick as to
garble an editorial, making it convey
exactly the reverse meaning which the
entire article conveys. 1t is said that
while Mr. Newman is a gentleman
and an honorable editor, he has a dirty
fellow in his office, named Cooper. who
does such dirty work. We were not
surprised at such men as John Combs
of the Ironton Era, and Bowen, Of the
Macarthur Enquirer, publishing the
same lie. They do not desire to have
any reputation for fairness, or even
common decency. They are too low
for that.
We were a little surprised at Jones
of the Waverly Watchman. Two
weeks ago he published in the Watch.
man that we had opposed Foster both
before and after his nomination, anC
had declared, even after the nomina
ton, that we would not support him
We wrote to the editor, asking him tc
say that he was mistaken-that VIZ
never at any time said that we woulc
not support Foster; but he does no
take back the lie. Is it part of th'
duty of a Democratic editor to be ;
liar and scoundrel?
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EanaficiSIn.

This is the year when fanaticism
fourishes. First we had Freeman, the
fanatic who undertook to play Abra-
ham, and murdered his child, by way
of sacrifice He is in jail, on charge
of murder.
Next we have a crowd Of fanatics
over in Indiana, who have got the
idea that they are sanctifed. They
hold that they must make an open
confession of all their faults. A very
prominent and respectable man, and a
man of pure life, made a public con-
fession of conduct so obscene that it
shocked all decent people. One of
the women became so outrageous that
she had to be removed from the church
by main force.
Now comes another case from Read
ing, Pennsylvania. A woman named
Sarah Root, % years of age, concluded
she would play Jesus Christ, and fast
forty days. 30 she IS spending most
of her time on her knees, reading the
Bible, and praying, and refusing to
eat. Doctors were sent for, and they
found her stomach infamed, and she
was becoming emaciated, all the fatty
portions of the body having been con-
sumed by the effort Of nature to pre-
serve life. She refused to eat, when
one of the physicians forced tube
through her nostril, and thus got g
little Cruel into her stomach. She
will probably die.
Now is it not important that peo.
pie of sense should avoid giving coun-
tenance to new-fangled doctrines, anC
fanatical, unreasonable foolery? Lei
common sense, even in religion
| Govern
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From Missouri.
WARRENsBURG, Aug. 5.

WARRENsBURG, Aug. 5, 1879.
To the Editor of the Standard:
Find enclosed 50, for which mail
me the Standard.
We have a corn crop west of the
Mississippi that will astonish the
world. [ never saw anything like it
in all my experience of the West.
How do your ''Bourbons" like Gen.
Tom Ewing? You ought to hear
Missouri ex-rebels swear. They say
that he issued his infamous" Order
No. II to outbid Jim Lane for the
Kansas Senatorship, and failing, he
returned to Ohio and joined the Bour-
bons. | should like to see him canvass
the Missouri border. 1t would be rich
His old arch-enemy Bingham, the
painter, who immortalized his famous
Order No. II is dead. While he lived
it is hard to say which was the most
terrible to Ewing, his pen or brush.
By the way would not the Bourbons
like to carry the picture at the head
of their professions during the can
vas? | should like to hear an average
Missouri rebels ''cuss" when he heard
the news. III. q. HALE.
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The Republicans of the Senatorial
district east Of us, have nominated for
State Senate, Hon. Linsey Kelly, of
Ironton, who was a member of the
last Senate. The district is entitled
to an additional Senator for the next
Legislature, and have nominated DR..
w. C. Cline, Of Wilkesville, Vinton
county. Like Mr.. Beman, of Gallia,
DR.. Cline is one the best business men
in this part of the State. As the dis
trict is largely Republican, the election
of Kelly and Cline is sure.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-08-14

Bloody shirt Bowen, of the Near
thur Enquirer, is still anxious about
the kind of yard stick used by Charles
Foster, In measuring calico for sol
diers' wives and widows. A friend re-
quests us to ask Bowen what kind of
yard stick the Democrats of Jack
son used in measuring his (Bowen's s.
calico, when he resided in jackson
A couple of petitions filed in the Court
of Common Pleas by Bowen, and
sworn to by him, tell that tale. Would
Bro. Bowen like to see those petitions
in print ? If not, he had better dry
up" We are pretty good upon old
records, as well as old recollections.
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accepted nomination from any party,
it would be from the Nationals. The
Republicans had brought us all to
actual starvation by their contraction
He learned that his old friend. before
him, in some comments about little
speech that he had made, had said
he was mistaken in saying that the
reports from the Treasury Depart
ment showed contraction. Suppose
he was mistaken as to the figures from
the Department, if it is the actual
fact that there has been contraction?
Now the Republicans have brought us
all to actual starvation, and if we 90
out to seek work, and find it not, and
on our return home to our disconso-
late family turn in and ask for crust
of bread, law has been passed de-
claring us tramps, and we will all be
sent to the penitentiary Some one
asked Mr.. DUNCAN when that law was
passed. Mr.. DUNCAN jumped up and
down, cracked his fists together, and
screamed, Last winter, and Jim.
Paine voted for it, and Irve DUNCAN
voted against it. | admit that a good
many starched up Democrats voted
for ii"
1t was not necessary for Mr. Dun
gan to say that he and his nephew
Irve are opposed to any law to protect
the people in the country from the
low, prowling criminals with which
demagogues have filled the country
lazy, lousy, drunken scoundrels who
fill the entire land, and ravish women
and children, and rob farm houses
where there are no officers or neigh
bors ON hand for protection. To pam
der to the low, criminal classes, in or
der to get their votes, is the main eff
fort of such demagogues.
MIR. DUNCAN closed by saying he
would hold the question under advise
uICIlG lOI IL NcCh VI SO Liz lllS nu Jlto'
as well have come out and told what
every one knew, that he wanted to see
if the Democratic Convention on Sat
urday next will ratify the work o1
this little self-constituted town ring
There is some doubt about it. The
office of Treasurer is worth something
and there are aspirants from the coun.
try. There are hungry Democrats
who do not relish Meacham and Da.
Wis, Republicans, on the ticket. They
remember the fate of Horace Greeley
who was put up to catch Republican
votes, but he did not catch them much
and they think all the Republicans
that will be caught ON the Democratic
hook with such bait as Bill Davis anC
Jim Meacham, will not pay for the
wear and tear of the Democratic con
science. If the ring programme
should be busted by the Democrat
from the country on Saturday, Mr.
DUNCAN can very consistently say
that after a weeks consideration h
declines.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-08-14

Young Louis Napoleon joined the
British army in Africa for the pur-
pose of acquiring military fame. He
acquired it. The British commander
sent out a scouting party, and allowed
young Bonaparte to play commander
The result was, he fooled around in
the enemy's country until the enemy
slipped up and rammed him full Of
lances. Now the English Lieutenant
Carey, who was with the party, has
been tried by court martial for allow
ing the savages to kill young Bona
parte. Of course this is right! If
Carey had just slipped ON ahead, and
killed every one of the hundreds of
Zulus who surrounded the little party,
the Prince might have been spared
to kick up a revolution and general
disturbance in France.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-08-14

The Springfield News hits the nail square on
the head, in the following article:
Running a newspaper is like light
ing fire in bad weather. Every one
thinks he can do it better than the
one who has his hand in. Through
some misapprehension of facts large
class of people have come to the idea
that it costs little or nothing to con-
duct newspaper, and that most every
one can do it as well, if not better
than the one that publishes the paper
1t has become a general fashion for
persons to call at any newspaper office
and ask for a copy of the paper, hav-
ing no idea that it costs the publisher
money and hard work to print and
buy the paper. There is no business
in which there is more or even as
much financial risk as in newspaper,
and few businesses in which there is
as much capital invested. More than
eight millions of dollars have been
lost in newspaper schemes in the last
year. A newspaper is an article for
sale and cannot be had for nothing.
There are few businesses which re
quire the common sense and good
! Judgment as to conduct a newspaper
profitably and to the interest Of the
public. Few persons think that eve
ry little item has to be read over and
over, to consider the good points and
the bad, and to see whether it will be
to your interest to publish it. Most
every one who can write at all thinks
he understands the whole profession
better than the one who has his hand
in. 1t is fact most every one who
can write at all, has some thoughts
which he Or she can put on paper, but
what of them? The readers Of the
paper will not be interested in them
and if the plan is kept up, the readers
will lose interest in the paper, and by
and by drop off, leaving the concern {
pitiful wreck. To conduct newspa.
per so that it will be read with more
interest each week, is what every one
who has an idea Of publishing a paper
must do An editor must be untireC
if he wishes to make his paper inter
esting He must never be content
with filling his columns each week
but must try to fill them with the
news in as condensed and acceptable &
manner as possible. To do all the
above things, do them well in each
and every week in the year, is what
few have an idea of doing, and Of
what few have an idea of having tC
be done, unless they know something
Of the business. It requires steady
and sensible person to conduct news.
paper that it may be financially profit.
able. 1t is not the writing alone, but
putting it up in a tasteful style that
every one will like to read it, and
make it financially profitable
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-08-14

The Democratic papers have been
declaring that the talk of better
times of improvement in the general
business of the country, was only an
electioneering story, and that times
have been, and still are, growing
worse. Witness also the harangues
of Ewing, DUNCAN, and Democratic
demagogues generally.
The Columbus Democrat finds that
the great revival of business, the
starting into blast iof the Iron fur
naces all over the land, &C., will ex-
pose this lying, and it says:
Since the Democracy gained control of the
law-making branches of the country, there is a
gradual improvement in the condition or our
induStries-the result of confidence on the part
of business men in the legislative wisdom OF
the Democracy.
That is it. Admit the patent fact
that business is improving, but do not
give John Sherman and resumption
the credit. Give the credit to the
Brigadier Congress, and the OConnor
Legislature.
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Basket Meeting.

There will be basket grove meet
ing at Charles Traphagan's Grove
near the Shiloh Church, (about 4 miles
northwest of Hamden), on Sunday
August oath, 1879, which will be con-
tinued for a number of days. AL
lovers of the Master cause are invited
and expected to be present and partici-
pate in the meeting. The morning
services of each day will commence at
10 o'clock A. NJ, at which time the
afternoon services will be announced.
Ministers and brethren come along,
and let us work together for the Lord
Those who cannot be present on Sun
day on account of home work, are ex-
pected to be there during the week.
JOHN SOUTHWARK, Pastor.
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For genuine Democracy, commend
us to the State of Kentucky. DR..
Blackburn, known as the yellow fever
fiend, was elected Governor Of that
State, and Kentucky paper claimed
that the publication of his great
crime, by the Cincinnati Gazette
added to his majority" To accuse a
man of most cowardly attempt at
wholesale slaughter - not only OF
men, but of women and children as
well, ''adds to his majority in Ken
Kentucky! Kentucky is a Democrat
ic State.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-08-14

We believe it has been settled to the
satisfaction of most people that there
is a Devil-a real, cloven-footed imp,
with long tail and sharp horns, and
that he does most circulate about a
region where they don't use any
smoke-consumers. We hope no one
now living may ever meet him, but if
any one should be so unfortunate, he
may confidently look to see inscribed
upon the Satanic battle-fag, in letters
Of living fire Luke P. Blackburn
and "O'Connor Legislature"
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Too Thin.

On Friday night the Democrats
We're ''polifoxing" around for a scheme
to catch a few Republican votes this
fall, and finally the thing was fixed
up in the office of DUNCAN & Aleshire.
On Saturday the next step was taken.
The National, greenback, labor
saving" &C., party, met at the Court
House. W. T. Washam was called to
the chair, and Charles Shafer ap-
pointed Secretary. Then Erwin ia
cobs took the thing in hand, and ran
it according to the schedule" Mr.
Jacobs had committee appointed on
order of business, and a committee on
resolutions. Then Mr.. Jacobs made
the extraordinary motion for the ap-
pointment of a committee to report
candidates for nomination. The COM
mittee on resolutions reported a string
of resolutions, to swindle the cussed
bondholders by paying them in prom
ises to pay, without interest; that d
man shall not work over eight hours q
day, and shall not work for trade, &c.
The committee on candidates re-
ported the names on the slate, as made
up by the little self-constituted ring
the night before, as follows Repre-
sentative, Levi DUNCAN Treasurer
Aaron Aten; Commissioner, James
Herbert; Recorder, William B. Davis
Infrmary Director, James Meacham:
Surveyor, James Stewart; Land APP
praiser, Lick township, William I.
| Washam.
A committee was appointed to wait
on Mr.. DUNCAN and notify him of his
nomination. Somehow the committee
had no difficulty in finding the nomi-
nee-he appeared to have been con-
veniently near. He made little
speech. He had not asked for any
nomination. He believed in his soul
that the Nationals were right. If he
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-08-14

1t is not question of whether
Thomas Ewing would make as good
Governor as Charles Foster-it is
whether you will say, by your vote for
Foster, that the war settled something,
that the brave men who fell on South
ern battle-felds, in camp, and on the
weary march, were heroes, and fell
battling for the right, or whether you
will say, by your vote for Ewing, that
the war was failure in everything
save a question of physical force that
you are willing the rebels shall gain
peaceably what they could not gain
by war, and that our revered dead lie
in unhonored graves, sleeping the
sleep of the Infamous. On which
side of the question will you be
found on election day ?
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-08-14

If the fool is known by his folly, what
is he who trifes with cold ? A cough
is natures warning of peril, prophetic of
disease consumption and death, yet how
many practically recognize this plain
truth till their health is impaired and
strength wasted. Have you cold ::
Eilert's Extract of Tar and Wild Cherry
is invaluable as a sale and reliable rem
edy for coughs, colds, Group. catarrh and
consumption and if you are wise you will
at once try it. Sold and warranted by
Druggists. For sale by G. w. Miller.
l5may3m
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-08-14

Commissioner Raum has reported
to Secretary Sherman that during the
past year $113,44S,S30 had been col
lected by the Internal Revenue Col
lectors throughout the United States,
every dollar of which had been ac-
counted for, and not single dollar
lost. What a contrast when we re-
member the days of Democratic rule
During the past three years the vast
sum of S343,O9S,178 had been collect
ed, and all accounted for, and all paid
over except 50, 1856, and that is collect
ible.
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Captain Eads, who constructed the
jetties in the mouth of the Mississippi
river, has plan for transporting ships
across the Isthmus of Darien by run
ming them onto big car, hoisting
them up, and running them along a
railway, and dumping them into the
water on the other side. lie this plan
should fail, the Capt. will probably
try the plan of constructing a big der
rick, and hosting them across at one
swing.