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rHE SPIRIT or DEMOCRACY
Fae~day. October z, 1870,
How Gen. Rice's Arrears Pension
}Hii'J Bill Is Blessing.

'TT6cJ Bill is Blessing.
Especial 10 the Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.
q WAsHISaroN, September 3, 1870
The Commissioner OF Pensions has com-
pleted the general statement Of the con-
dition of business in his office, which
shows some interesting particulars, con-
nected with the payment of pensions
and the settlement Of arrearages under
the recent act of Congress. The total
number nf claims for arrears Of pensions
tiled, allowed and rejected amount to
$1,000. Of these 27,900 have been SET
tied and pension certificates issued, ma
king on aggregate. sum OF Si4 800, 600,
an average Of $6lS per claimant. The
highest amount paid was "a, 4,CO0,to Gen.
Schenck, AID number Of other officers
whose pensions were not claimed until
within wear TT two, but whose disahili-
~ dated back to early in 1852. The t.
tai amount of claims acted upor, paid
and unpaid. amount to 10000. leaving
$1,000 claims s,ill unadjusted. Of these,
IL 10 believed that the larger portion will
he rejected. Commissioner Bentley con-
graduates himself that this great expen-
ii,ure ION account Of invalid soldiers or
their families has heen made withou, any
serious disturbance Of the Treasury. II
may he stalled that the accuracy of the
Commissioner Judgment as to the
amount necessary to meet all these claims
when the bill was under consideration,
which was $25 900, 900, has been fully
sastained. The Commissioner has just
returned from an extensive tour through
the western States, and says that the
money which has been paid out on pen
sion clSims has in almost every case been
applied to the purchase OF homes or little
properties; that mnayioide,os and moth.
c,e of pensioners who haze received from
ei. .c00 to Sl.500 Aarc made this use Of
. the Increased 6eseft deriUed by them
from the G0serrment, and are nosc iicing
IN comparative Independence, doing what
little work they can to aid 10 their ex-
penses. The Commissioners says that
1.-The agents all over that section speak
with great satisfaction of the success
which has attended the whole payment,
and be himself is much gratifed at the
extraordinary accuracy which has atten-
ded the disbursement, Of this vast sum.
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.

Estate Of Rudolph Sie6er, Deceased
TRE undersigned has been appointed and
/ qual,H ed as administrator with the win
annexed. of the Estate Of Rudolph Sieber
late of Monroe County, deceased.
Dated this 18th dsy of September. A. D.
1879. sEil ca aDANlEL FANKaAUSER.
g Septl6'.79w3. saea sa'14
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SHERIFF'S SALE.
Henry H. Green
James A. Green ct al.

QY virtue Of certain order of sale in par
u tition issued from the court Of common
pleas, within and for the county of Monroe
and State Of Ohio, in a case pending in said
court between the above named parties. and
to me directed, I will offer for sale at public
auction a. the east door of the court house
in Woodsfeld, on - y
Saturday. the 11th day Of October, 1879.
between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and
o'clock p. m, of said day, the following de.
scribed real estate situate in Monroe county.
Ohio, to wit:
The northeast quarter of the northeast
quarter of section seventeen, township three
of range four, except one and half acres
in the northwest corner of said quarter quar-.
ter, as described in deed made to James Can.
non by Nathan Mobley Sr.
Also the southeast quarter of the southeast
quarter of section eighteen, township three
of range four, containing thirty nine acres
and thirty nine one hundredths Of an acre.
Also, the northwest quaftsr of the south
west quarter of section twelve, township three
of range four, containing thirty nine acres
and tLirty eigh. one hundredths of an acre.
Also, the south half Of the northeast quar-. {.
ter of the southeast quarter Of section eight.
ssn, township three Of range four. containi, &
nineteen acres and sixty four one hundrsdths
of an acre. -. ...
Said property SO ordered to be sold is ap-
praised as follows: F.s.s Hs
lst tract at $3.50.
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NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given, thatI will not be
IN responsible for any debts contracted by
my wife, Elizabeth Merckle, or by any of nv
children. MATTHIAS MERCKLE, F.,
gepA '79v3 Jackson Township.
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.

Estate of Daniel Deoorc. Deceased.
THE undersigned have been appointed and
j qualified as Executors Of the will Of Daniel
Devore, late Of Monroe County deceased. a.
Date this 18th day Of September A. D.
1879. "a s .,is 8s
ELISABETH A. DBvORE, q
SAMUEL H. DRVORR.
SnotI ,,Qv7
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B. & S. W. RAILWAY co.
TO s STOCKHOLDERS.

THE annual meeting of the Stockholders of
il the Bellaire and Southwestern Railway
Company will be held at the Office of the
ComDany in Bellaire Ohio, on Wednesday,
the 8th day of October next. flii tlii
A. w. ANDERSON, Secretary.
Bellaire Ohio. Sept. II, 1879. t4' i'4'lFn
sep23, ,'79w3. i..et...t.a,-l .ntll n i-
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and may sell Tor two thirds Of said apprai se-
ment. Terms of fale. one third in one ear;
one third in two years and one third in three
years from day of sale. with interest, and to
be secured by mortgage, on the premises
sold. y 9
sept9,' ,'79w5, Sheriff NJ. C. q.
HUNTER & MALLORY, Att'ys,
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.
Estate Of JOSIAH Wason, Deceased.

Rts --.E fs3F.8
THE undersigned have been appointed and
l qualified as Administrators of the estate
Of JOSIAH Wilson, late Of Monroe County, decd
Dated this 9th day Of Ssptember,A. D. 1879.
GEORGE s. ALGEO.
ssptle,T9w3. JASPER LISK.
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JOINT RESOLUTION II on E

Submitting PropOsiti0nst "a Amendi
section TWO Of AriicIeiTw0,s secd
ton one Ot Article Three. and !,
section Four OF Article Ten OF
the Constitution OF the state or
OHIO 4rfsr-aF I ~ q esre; fitgay5
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Notice to Teachers.

THE Board Of Examiners Of Monroe Coun-
i ~ will hold meetings 70. the examina.
tion Of Teachers as follows:
sardis, Saturday, September s, 1879.
Beallsvtile. "a,
WOodsfeid. "a" October 25.
November Is,
20.
These examinations will CONN enoe at 3
O'Clock d. m. and close at 4 m. b.
3 A fee Of so cents is required from each
applicant, as condition of examination, and
must be paid in advance.
By order Of the Board. i'' '
augl9.'7s. s. A. ATKINSON Clerk.
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RESOLUTIONS.
Aifj fa Hi'ar noia : 3at
Senate Joint Resolution,

Proposing an Amendment to Sec
3 ttGBs Three and Five. a riiele
-Four. of the Constitution, Reor-
gantZing the Jud ciaIy OF the
State.
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ARTICLE H.

SECTION O. Senators and Representatives
shall be elected biennially by the electors in
the respective counties or districts, at a time
prescribed by law; their terms of Office shall
commence on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday of January thereafter, and continue
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ARTICLE III.

Sec. l. The Executive Depa -tment shall oon- !,
sist of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, SEQ
retary of State, Auditor, Treasurer and Attor
ney General, who shall be chosen BY the cleo
tors Of the State, at the place of voting for
members of the General Assembly, and at .
time prescribed by law. 8, IL. ..,aifl, s4is la a
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Sec. 4. Township officers shall be elected on ,
the first Monday Of April BY the qualified
electors Of their respective townships, in such
manner and for such terms not exceeding three
years, as may be provided by law, 81 GvsS
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Administrators Sale Of Real Estate

SpRIGGs & DRraes. Att'ys.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21
How shall / Write !

Write as you would speak; as you
would speak, we mean, when you
would make a favorable impression
upon your auditors. In writing a
letter, use the same words you would
use if Familiarity talking, face to face,
with your friend. 1t is harder to
write pleasing letter to an acquaint-
ance than a stranger. The stranger
knows not the exact complexion of
style, while your friend knows you
through and through, and is pleased
or disguised just in proportion as
your style is natural and familiar, or
borrowed and strange. In all your
correspondence, never try to go up
s. airs nor down stairs, but keep on
the level of your everyday, social
life. If you are writing for publica-
ton, use the language that your
readers are supposed to understand.
Do not strive to make the editor or
the public think you are lingulst,
by introducing foreign words and
phrases, when the language your
mother taught you will do just as
we'll and thousand times better.
AS a general rule, speakers and
writer's who slive to make them
seves appear learned by strained
and unnatural use of language, gen.
orally fail altogether, and only i'm
press sheir hearers or readers
that they are smatterers and moth
ing more. AS William Cullen Dry-
ant said to a young writer, call a
spade q spade, and not an agricul-
tulal implement. When Thackeray
lectured, he pleased his immense
audiences, because, as they said he
was so exceedingly Thackerayish."
This was his great secret. He made
himself nobody bat himself. So if
you are Brown, Jones or Smith, let
Brown, Jones or Smith dictate your
writing or make your speeches. The
bints we have thrown out should be
s'aius OF gold TO young aspirants, as
they have been to all the great and
coed men and women who have ever
blessed The world.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21
Our Cattle Market.

That Europe is destined TO be the
great cattle market of the United
States, is evident from some very
late developments, and just so long
as we produce surplus, this is as
good news TO the farmers of the
Pacific coast as to Eastern operators.
The Atlantic States are, year by year,
becoming more and more dependent
upon the Pacific slope for many
things which the continental rail-
road can transport there in a short
term of days. If live cattle are, in
the years to come, largely shipped
from New York and Boston to Eng
land, our cattle, must be shipped
east on foot, or in the form of beef,
to make up the deficit and preserve
due compensation between these
two great geographical extremes of
our widely extended country. BY
late regulations, no cattle can be
landed in England from any port of
Russia, Austro Hungary, Turkey,
Greece, Italy or Roumania. From
Germany, Holland. Belgium and
France, live cattle can only be land
ed at six English ports, and under
strict inspection. These cattle, too,
must be slaughtered within ten days
after their arrival. On the contrary,
cattle shipped from Denmark, Swed-
en-, Norway, Spain, Portugal and the
United States are subject to no COM
pulsory slaughter or quarantine.
With these facts in view, there is ev-
cry reason to suppose that the Amer
lean cattle trade of The future is TO be
an important element in our ex-
ports.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21

AN Eastern friend sends US She
following arithmetical question, and
we submit it TO our gifted teachers
and. apt scholars for solution. It
may tend TO spur the ambition of orr
young friends to tell them that it was
proposed and given to the scholars
of one Of the high schools in New
York city, and the Times has already
devoted good deal of space to the
discussion Of the various answers
received. A man had the Office of
town seller of stationery for one
year, at the end of which time he
gave the following statement of his
accounts: Amount of cash received
on assuming the Office, $50 II;
value of stationery received at the
same time, $57 81; cash received for
sales during the year, $l02 81;
amount paid for stationery bought
during the year, $50 81; amount of
salary Of agent, s25; value of sta
tionery on hand at the end of the
year, $31 81. Does the agent owe
the town, or does the town owe the
agent, and how much?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21

Ar the Academy of Sciences, last
Monday night Mr.. Utter gave an ex-
haustive lecture upon the subject OF
electricity, illustrated by many we'll
timed experiments. The speaker
departed somewhat from the rules
of the Academy, by allowing the
audience the privilege of asking
questions any time during the lee
ture, feeling it to be no interruption
for the evenings programme to be
interpreted with such queries and
remarks as the subject, from time to
time, called from his listeners. A
magneto-electrical machine occu-
pied conspicuous place on the ia
hle and did its share in most shock
ing manner 10 add to the interests
of the occasion. A large portion Of
the apparatus used during the even
was the handiwork of the lecturer,
and did excellent service in elucidat-
ing the principles of the science.
The next lecture will be duly nm.
nounced.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21

UPoN the heels of the action taken
by President Hayes in regard to the
Chinese restriction bill, comes the
announcement that no less than four
ships are now under charter at Hong
Kong Tor Portland. Now it is not
very probable that these vessels will
leave port without large number of
Celestials on board. 1t makes little
difference where load of coolies
arc landed only so they reach this
coast. AS the matter now stands,
we may look for larger Importance
OF the race than ever from China,
since the result of the bill is as we'll
known in Eastern Asiatic ports as
here, and Chinese contractors will
feel themselves encouraged to re.
newed activity.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21

Qua people may depend upon one
new brick structure this year, if no
more. Mr.. Rice Tilley informs us
that he shall commence operations
towards erecting brick building on
the site of his livery stable very
shortly. Let property owners pom
der this subject in all its bearings
and 60 and do likewise. An owner
of an eligibly situated building-lot
authorizes us to say that be likewise
will put up brick building soon as
a suitable tenant applies for lease.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21

One of the latest sensations, if it
be no more than a sensation, is the
reported discovery of gold ON the
farm of Mr.. G.. J. Tooley. about two
miles from Vancouver. This sensa-
ton is on Washington Territory soil,
and Portland papers have no share
in it, although they are trying to
make . good deal out of it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21
COnSOlatOry.

Unlike good many OF our mer-
chants, we have no idea that a
brisk and well-timed COMPETE
ton in any one department of
trade, necessarily implies or causes
a depression in business. If any
of our merchants themselves are
feeling uneasy on account of the
outlook that stares them in the face,
our best advice is to sing The song,
"Be gone Dull Care" There is a
curious magic about q rightly man
aged division of business that works
positive wonders. Nothing tends
more signally to awaken and excite
the minds of the people up to the
fury of the purchasing point, than
the conviction that the country is
full of goods that must be sold at
any sacrifice. The experience of all
kinds of business and business men,
teaches the somewhat paradoxical
fact that multiplicity of stores
tends, in one way or another, TO
bring in multiplicity of purchasers.
For years, our Sound merchants
have bitterly complained of the inn
portation of goods, by tho consul
mers themselves, from Portland and
San Francisco.
Two things have conspiled to in
troduce and maintain this practice,
viz: fewness Of stores and high
prices, an explanation which our
merchants themselves are beginning
to acknowledge. Let any considela-
BILE town, easily accessible, be sup
piled with commodious stores, filled
with we'll selected assortments of
staple goods, sold at reasonable
prices by accommodating dealers,
and we, undertake to affirm that
such a town will not want for bust
ness-seeking visitors from the
country. In q former article, we
attempted to represent the relation
that competition bears to opposition;
that while competition is the life of
trade, opposition. as its name i'm
plies, is suicidal element in any
department of trade.
Finally, let our merchants take
heart, rather than allow themselves
to settle down into despair at what
they wrongly esteem an unwelcome
omen. 1t is a fact, abundantly il
Illustrated the world over, that those
dealers who inform the people OF
what they have to sell and at what
prices their wares can be had,
through the columns of widely cir
culated daily and weekly newspa-
pers, rarely, ifever become depress-
ed at the ups and downs of fortune.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21


A WARNING we'll worth needing
comes to all those who are troubled
with corns and bunions. A young
man named Max Wolf, employed at
the Walla-walla Hotel in Portland,
some time ago, employed q travel
ling chiropodist TO remove a bunion
from one of his toes. The toe be-
came inAamed and swelled to such o
degree that it had TO be removed.
Since then, the whole foot has been
ailing, and modification setting in, it
WAS deemed necessary to amputate
the limb. The operation was per-
formed at st. Vincent's Hospital
last week. The young man is re-
ported TO be still in very weak and
precsrious condition and may yet
lose his life in consequence Of allow
ing Q quaek and o stranger to tamper
with an ailment which o resident
physician could have properly and
easily removed. One reliable showing
up Of the doings of quackery should
be as good as thousand, and it is
the privilege of everybody to be sea-
sonably warned.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21

THE discovery of the fact that mar
risges cannot be legally solsmnized in
Victoria, seems to be having Q good
effect upon hitherto undecided swsins
and hesitating sweethesrts. A brisk
business in the marrying line has
sprung up in Port Townsend, and
most of the interested parties are
from British Columbia.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21

MoHs new buildings, new fences,
new sidewalks, and other new things
too numerous TO mention, are giving
ample employment to every avail
able carpenter.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21


News comes over the Atlantic cable
of terrible food on the 18th inst,
in Hungary, by which Szegedin, a
town of eighty thousand inhabitants
has been completely overwhelmed
by the roaring waters. Destruction
of property and loss of life is re-
ported from many smaller towns,
and villages which lay along the
course of the rushing food. In the
language of the dispatches which
are flying over European telegraph
lines, "Whole towns in the neigh
borhood are crumbling down ?"
Szegedin was one of the free royal
towns of Hungary, and capital of
the county Of Csongrad. 1t is, or
was, situated on the right bank of
the river Thesis, at the junction of
the Maros, and built up from the
midst Of marsh; hence, the ease
with which the waters have over
whelmed its walls, bridges and pub
lie buildings. 1t was thought that
by strongly barricading the waters
the city might be saved, but the
waters broke through into the town
at about three o'clock in the morn
ing, and by six o'clock the whele
town was entirely submerged.
Shrieks OF the victims and the crush
of falling houses filed the air.
Whole rows OF buildings have
fallen broadside into the river, and
in many cases carrying their in
mates with them. We shall proba-
bly, have full returns of this terrible
affair in day or two.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21

We have heard Of carrying Goals
to Newcastle, but never knew. till
the other day, of an authenticated
case where q farmer came to town,
bought bale of hay and carried it
home in his wagon.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21

The observance Of st. Patrick's
Day in Portland. is described by the
papers of that city ss being q COM
plete success and the ceremonies
were imposingly beautiful.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21
N'aslliaotun tanaara
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON TER.
FRIDAY. MARCH 81, 1879.
Public Land Sales.

While other nations are convulsed
with internal and foreign difficulties,
it is consoling 10 observe the health
full onward progress OF our own
country. Next to our annual i'm
ports, The sale of public lands is a
sound indication of what should be
exhibited by our national balance
sheet. During the fiscal year of
1878, there have been sold of the
public lands, S,GSG, IT'S acres, il adj
dillon to the 721 ,G23,74S acres pre-
viously surveyed. The total amount
OF public domain yet unsufveyed, is
a little over one thousand million
acres. These figures are from late
report of the Commissioner of the
General Land Office, and can be re-
lied on as a fair showing OF Our
landed wealth.
Now there is no other occupation
so sure and reliable as that OF agri-
culture, and as the surplus popula-
tion Cf American towns and cities,
s turning its attention to the secur-
ing of permanent homes, these
public lands offer inducements to
young aud old which ought not TO be
ignored and overlooked. No able
bodied young man should rest salts
fed till he is located on a piece of
land of his own; and if he has a
family to provide for. this is all the
more imperative upon him. 1t can
not be denied that a reasonable
competence is within the reach OF
all who are willing 10 endure a few
years of well-directed labor and
economical habits. No government
in the world offers better induce
ments to its sons and daughters
than our own. Let every young
man not otherwise settled, lose no
ime in securing q home.