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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06
The Way the Republican Party Ruined
the Country.

The Democratic orators and editors
are trying to make out that the Repub-
licans have ruined the country. Yes (;
and this is the way it was done
In 1860, after twenty years of Demo-
cratic rule, q Government six per cent.
bond sold for eighty-nine cents.
In 1880, after twenty years of Repub-
lican rule, Government four per cent.
bond sells for $l.0S.
In 1860, after twenty years of Demo-
cratic rule, loan of $4,000, 600 ex-
hausted the market for six months,
At the end of twenty years of Repub-
lican rule a loan of $3.50, 900, 600 was
taken in single day.
In twenty years of Republican rule
we find
An increase of population of fifty per
cent.
An increase of general agricultural
exports of 600 per cent.
An increase in exports of bread and
breadstutfs of 900 per cent.
An increase of exports of manufac-
tured articles of 225 per cent.
An increase of internal commerce of
700 per cent.
An increase of railway mileage of
1877 per cent.
In 1860, after twenty years of Demo-
cratic rule, Congress authorized a loan
of $25, 900, ,000 to pay current expenses.
In 1880, after twenty years OF Repub-
lican rule, the Secretary of the Treas
ury pays $85, 900, 600 of debt contracted
for war brought on by asolid Democrat
ic South, which now wants power again
so as to stop the waving of that bloody
shirt, the wearing of which is Han
cocks chief glory and his whole availa-
BILE stock as a candidate for the Presi-
dency.
In 1860, after twenty years of Demo
cratic rule, the balance of trade against
the country was over $40, 900, 900.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06
Errors OF Letter.Mriters.

THE Dead Letter Office at Washing.
ton exists mainly because men and
women are ignorant and careless.
About ninety clerks are employed to
correct the errors and supply the omis-
sions of letter-writers. Thousands of
letters are thrown, daily, into the office
some without stamps, and others
with no address. A correspondent of
the Boston Transcript suggests that
once month, fifteen minutes should
be given to instructing the eight mill
ions of scholars in the public schools
in the A B G of correspondence. Upon
the blackboard few simple rules should
be written, such as:
l. Date your letter, i. e., write place
and State, day of month and year.
2. Name and address to whom letter
is to be written.
8. Use Government-size envelope.
4. Address envelope plainly before
letter is placed in envelope, giving town
or city, State, county and number of
street, if known.
5. Especially if any valuable is in
closed, indicate on envelope where let
ter should be returned if not delivered,
6. Seal and stamp envelope.
z. When a parcel is to be mailed,
other than letter, ask at post-Office the
amount of postage required.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06

try and placed It upon the true principle of
National sovereignty, as found In the Consti-
tuition, and as | have trie1 to demonstrate.
Let us keep il bound together on this theory,
that 1t may be perpetiated a3 the grandest
Republic ever formed by man. Democratic
rule and State sovereignty theories TO 1860
brought ruin upon the country, most terrible
and damaging to every interest. The opposi-
tion, however, claim that we, the Republicans,
have ruined the country now, but where is the
prOOf2 How and in what way have we ruined
and brought distress to the country The Re
publican party has restored upon a solid basis
the payment of all our National obligations
and has given us a currency in all parts of the
country absolutely good aud legal. II has lift
ed the credit of the Nation from the point
where our six per cent. bonds sold at eighty
six cents to where our four per cent bonds
sold at premium.
After twenty years Of Democratic rule a loan
of Sls,00O,00O exhausted the market for six
months.
After Republican rule for twenty years u
loan of Sl500OO,000 was taken in a single day.
In twenty years we find an Increase or
population of 80 per cent.
An increase of several agricultural exports
of $40 per cent
An increase in exports Of bread and bread
stuifs OF $50 per cent.
An increase of internal commerce Of 700
per cent
An Increase in railway mileage from BLOOD
to over $1,000 miles
Our foreign trade has increased from SIO,-
0g0.001 to 81, $50 011,0W.
Our exports, which were S20OO0,0l0 less than
our imports in 1870, were S264, 90 200 more than
our imports in 1869.
The Republican party since the war closed,
besides paying the expenses of the Govern
ment including S]0,00l,001 OF pensions, have
paid Ssss OOO,OJO of the public debt and reduced
the annual interest from Sl0l,OOO,NO TO So9,'
0U0000.
No Government is in better condition or has
better credit. The people are prosperous
everywhere; labor is rewarded, our manu-
features increasing, our commerce growing
This people ought to be happy people
and satisfied with the present con
dition of things. The Democracy KEEP
your pathway strewn with thOrns and
thistles. The Republicans have plucked the
thorns and thistes and planted flowers
there. Be careful not to pluck out the flowers
and replace the thistles and thorns. [Great
aDDlau5n1
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06
What Have Democrats DOnel

The nineteen years since the begin
ming of the war have been fruitful of
imperishable achievements by the Re-
publican party. And these years have
rendered great opportunities to the
Democracy. How has it used those op-
portunities? What have the Democrats
done for the countryP
What did they do as a party to sup
press the rebellion?
What did they do to preserve the
Union?
What did they do to emancipate the
slaveP
What did they do 20 protect the lib
critics and lives of loyal men in the
SouthP
What did they do to prevent the
South from re-enS aving the blacksP
What did they do to bring the South
into harmony W tn the Constitution and
the UnionP
What did th 9y do to secure the pass
age of the aDd-slavery amendment to
the Constitui ION?
What did they do for civil rights?
What dji they do to suppress the
" ku-kluxPn
What did they do to suppress the
"white liners of the Southp
What did they do to prevent the
scourging, outraging and murder of
black and white loyal men in the
Southp
What have they done for pure and
free ballotP
What have they done for free speech9
What have they done for free press
What have they done to enforce the
laws in the SouthP
What have they done to enforce the
collection of the public revenue in the
SouthP
What have they done to preserve the
fruits of war?
What have they done to preserve the
credit of the Government
What have they done TO prevent in
flationp
What have they done to promote re-
sumptionP
What have they done for an honest
currencyp
What have they done for an honest
dollarP
What have they done for the protec-
ton of American Industry
In all these years, with all their gold
en- opportunities, what has the Demo
cratic party done to inspire the conf
dence of the American peopleP
Let every voter ask himself these
questions. The record of the party
gives back for answer only utter and
shameful barrenness. They have done
nothing. On the contrary they have
done much TO hinder. obstruct, prevent
and nullify. These things voters will
remember, and that remembrance must
again cover the Democracy with disas-
! ter, - Detroit Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06
FOREIGN INTEILECENCR.

THE English House of Lords, on the
Both ult. passed the bill for the relief of Irish
distress.
The own of Yale, British Columbia,
the headquarters of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
soad, Is reported to have been burned on the
night of the 9th ult. The origin of the fire
is supposed to have been the work of an in
cendiary, as several attempts had previously
been made to fire the town.
ENGLAND and Austria have informed
the Porte that :hey will guarantee the secur-
ity of all Mussulman property in the districts
ceded to Greece.
A SHANGHAI dispatch says Serce in
trigues are prevailing at Pekin and civil war
is probable.
THE United States revenue cutter
Thomas Corwin returned to Onalaska from
the Arctic on the sth Of July, made some re-
pairs and sailed again on the 11th. She had
been within one hundred and forty miles OF
Wrangel Land, and several vessels of the
whaling feet had been seen, but the captain
was unable to communicate with any of them,
owing TO the large quantities of ice.
A CoNsTANrNoPLE dispatch states
that DR.. Parsons, an English missionary, and
his two servants have been murdered at Ismid.
FOUR battalions of Montenegrins at
tackled the Albanians on the 2Sth ult. and
we're repulsed.
A SMLA dispatch, on the 1st, stated
that reports from Quetta indicated that
Ayoob Khan did not follow up his victory by
pursuing the British. 1t is stated that Gen.
eral Burrows succeeded in bringing a large
body Of his troops into Candahar.
THE Bank of the Province at Porte
Allegro, Brazil, was robbed recently of s125,
600.
BULGARIA and Servia are negotiating
an offensive and defen sive alliance.
AT Danville, Va, ON the 31st ult., j
E. OalSes, aged nineteen, fatally stabbed R
J. Ranney, aged fifteen.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06

On May 81, 1880, after twenty years
of Republican rule, the balance of trade
was over S162, 100000 in favor of this
country.
In 1860, after twenty years of Demo-
cratic rule and teaching, there was very
serious question whether we had any
Nation, and the old public functionary
in the White House, whose chief adj
wiser was Jere Black, the man who now
furnishes the state 5manship for General
Hancock, announced that there was
"no power in the Government to coerce
State" leaving the inference that
JEFF Davis and Alec Stephens could send
the country to the demnition bow-wows
for all he could do to prevent it, After
twenty years of Republican rule there
is no doubt that we have country, and
Alec Stephens and Jere Black would
give all they are worth to have the peo-
pie forget that they ever questioned it.
The kind of ruin which five successive
Republican Administrations have inflict-
ed upon the country is just little strik-
ing in view of the figures, and the peo-
pie like it and call for more of the same
sort. and are bound to have it, too
Washington Cd. CO. Republican.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06
WET AND aOUTn.

A HAIL storm passed over the vicinity
Of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, on the 2Sth
ult, covering the ground to the depth of
several inches. Thousands Of fowls and sheep
were killed. The shingles were torn from
several roofs and over a hundred farms
cleaned entirely OF hay and grain. Yards
were stripped and forests left as bare as in
winter.
The Ohio Greenback State Conven-
tion met at Columbus on the 2Sth ult. The
National platform adopted at Chicago was ac-
cepted as the State platform with two or
three minor resolutions. The following ticket
was nominated: For Secretary of State,
Charles L. Lloyd; Supreme Judge, d. w. G.
Louden; Clerk Of the Supreme Court, Charles
Bowsal; Member OF the Board of Public
Works, Amos Roberts; School Commissioner,
II. B. smar Presidential Electors at Large,
Harry Kellogg and L. T. Foster.
The census returns from every dis
trict in Oregon show population of 175, ,535,
an increase Of eighty-three per cent. since
1870
A SPECIAL to the Galveston, Texas,
Nesos from Denison states that a party Of
Creeks attacked two Cherokees, near Gibson
Station, Indian Territory, on the 27th ult.,
killing one and wounding the other. Two
Creeks were hanged by the Cherokees on the
Goth. hence the retaliation.
The population Of Minnesota is $780,
072, according to the census.
THE Greenbackers of Kansas held
their State Convention on the 2sth ult II. p
Vrooman was nominated for Governor.
COLONEL j. b. JACKSON was nomi-
pated for Governor by the West Virginia
Democratic State Convention ON the 2sth ult
Two PERSONS, man and woman,
were captured near Fremont, Neb., on the
29th ult, supposed to be the old man Bender
and Kate, the notorious murderers of Kansas
Both made partial confession.
OK the night of the 2Sth ult. a party
OF fifteen disguised men, twenty miles from
Atlanta, Ga, went TO the home of Joe Thomp-
son (colored), dragged him out, beat him and
his wife fearGully, fatally shot his son aud
klle his daughter. Four arrest were made,
Thompson recognized a. the leader Of the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06
LATER NEWS.

THERE were fifty-one deaths from
yellow fever and thirteen from smallpox in
Havana, Cuba, during the week ending
July 81.
In the election in Alabama on the I'd,
returns received up TO the morning of the Sd
indicated the election of the Democratic
ticket by $4,000 majority The Republicans
had no State ticket in the field and were in
structed 10 vote the Greenback ticket, but
they failed to do so in many localities.
The election in Kentucky on the I'd
passed off very quietly. Nominations were
made by the Republicans in very few coun-
ties and the vote poled was light Circuit
Judges and Commonwealth Attorneys wee
elected in each OF the eighteen Judicial Dis
tricts and Democrats were elected in at least
fifteen.
AN engagement took place recently
between some Federal troops and Victorio
Indians between Eagle Springs and Quitman,
n. NJ. The Indians were repulsed with seven
killed and many wounded The u, S. troops
lost one man killed and Lieutenant Colladay
wounded.
Mrs. JOHN q. SAKE, wife of the dis
tinguished poet, died at her home in Brook
lyn on the night of the 3lst ult. She was sixty
years old
The debt statement shows the de-
crease in the public debt during July to be
s., $40, ,053; cash in treasury $19S $50 4O5: gold
certificates 81, ,ss4, 500; silvercertifcates, Sl2,
6S9, 800 certificates of deposits outstanding,
Sl6,535, COO; legal tenders outstanding $780,
Sl,Ol6; fractional currency outstanding,
81, 205, 40; refunding certificates outstanding,
81, ,l67, $50; debt less sash in treasury, 81 926-
506,4l.
THERE is being distributed in Turk
ish military circles printed accounts of the
Afghan disaster, charging the British troops
with cowardice and their leaders with utter
ineapacity.
In the election to the French Coun-
ellis General on the 1st, 427 Republicans aud
ifty-eight Conservatives were returned. Re-
publican gain, ninety five.
SIR BARTLE FRERE has been recalled
from the Goyenorship Of the Cape of Good
pc.
The City of Chester which arrived at
New York City from Liverpool on the 2i
brought $525, GOO OF foreign gold.
The directors of the First National
Bank Of Brattleboro Vt, offer reward of
one thousand dollars for the arrest of the
fugitive Pres dent s. NJ, Waite.
AT Freeport, ILL.,, on the night of the
lst, a cornice loosened by high wind, fell to
the sidewalk, killing Miss Bertha Dietrich
and dangerously iniuring Miss Menzen-
kamp.
The Government intends to promptly
prosecute all delinquent receivers Of public
moneys at land offices,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06
4 KOLCE FROM YAZOO.


A CoMPATRIoT.
Ohi Yeu do, heyl Come way from tho Nawth,
Land ov that miz' able pize'nin frawth
Called freedom, hatched in yer tarnal skules
An the brains ov greasy mechanic" fules,
An yer what2 a editor make readin'i
Mulattahs an niggahs-the poa' trash
With idees that bloom into sich swash
Ez wantin tn crawl out ov the ruts and mud,
Whar we stomped EN- down with tremenJus
thud.
We wants no sioh varmin nests roun heer,
An, onless you've hank rim fer crapt ear,
Or a dose NV long hiCk'ry, well 0pplide,
You'll hitch on to your grip sack an slide.
What's thet? A Dimickrat, an edit the
OH Thet's III "The Kangaroo Hancock
Give us yer handl why didn't ye spit it right
outY
It's dangersome here to leave fellers in doubt,
When you carry sich size ov billed Shirt
Onless yeu gifts on little more dirt.
An yeu ur a Dimickrat; an yeu hollerd Ter
An did all yeu colud fer the Confedracy;
An yeu wuZ agin Coercion: an agtn the dran
An yeu encouraged desarting' ov the hirelin'
An you fit agin armin the niggahs, you say,
Cause it mout be hurtin' to we uns in grey;
An when the wah busted, an we wuz un-
Yeu wanted ter put we jst whar we begun;
An yeu wuz furnist all the sinful roo'na-
shun
Thet spilled nlggahs with rights an slSule edi-
cashun;
An when we had little frollics with rifle an
switch,
Yeu swore up an down thar wuzn't no siohl
An yeu did thet! ST! Sll Drat yer hide
come heer
Heah's a Nawthen Confedritl Give him
Cheerl
Ize powerful glad is, glad clar through
To take holt Ov yer hand heer i'm Yazoo.
Oh Inquirinl Is Massissp solid for Hancocks
That it be! Yeu kin betl Solid ez n rock.
What, niQgahs Will they vote fer we? Not
manyl
Agin we? What Niggahsl No sab; not any!
Persuade eml Sartinl Thet's list the layl
We Dimckrats persuades 'em they ort to
obey,
Sil Git down the persuader, Yaas! Thet air
sartin gunl
But, stranger, thets fawty stump speeches
billed into one.
When agreements from thet bOres few holes,
The rest of the "rads " keeps way from the
polls.
Thet's how it IL we air solid for Hancock,
| Yeu bet on it, stranger Solid ez q rock.
--DstrOu Post and Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06

gangJohn Gray, whom he recently prosecuted
and had convicted for assault and battery.
The Ute Indians decline to sign the
treaty in It's present form. They object to
being removed to the junction of the Gunni-
son and Grand Rivers on account of the poor
soil in that locality.
j. 9. CORLEw, q rapist, was shot
dead by an armed mob at Moberly, Mo-, on
the Doth ult.
A FREMONT, NEB., dispatch, on the
Both ult, stated that man named Hoohan,
who formerly resided in Beuder's nelghbor-
hood in Kansas and who knew the old man
personally, on being admitted to the prison
er's presen ce identified the man as old man
Bender. He was not positive as TO the wom-
an. The whereabouts of Kate and John Ben
der, Jr., had been disclosed and officers were
en- route to capture them.
FoRTY-EIGHT chiefs and head men of
the Utcs signed the treaty on the 9th ult.
The success of the commission is assured be-
yond a doubt.
ARIZONA has a population of Al $50,
including 900 Chinese and 4, 545 Indians, but
excluding the reservation and Pueblo Indians.
SOME Mexican troops fought Vic
torio's band of Apaches on the 21st and 26th
ult., losing nine men. The Indians escaped.
Their loss was not known.
THE National Executive Committee
Of the Socialistc Labor party has received a
letter from General James B. Weaver, the
Greenback candidate for President declaring
his approval OF the Socialistic land resolution
adopted by the recent National Convention Of
the Greenback Labor party at Chicago
On the morning of the 1st a fire
broke out in the stables belonging to the
White Sulphur Springs (W. Va.) Company
and forty-four horses were burned to death.
The joint track of the Denver & South
Park and Denver IL Rio Grande Railroad was
completed into Leadvile on the 3lst ult. and
both companies began running regular
through trains on the 1st.
| BEN JOHNSON, son of eX-Lieutenant
| Governor johnson, Of Kentucky, fatally shot
Turner Wilson at political meeting in Bull
| town, KY, on the 30th ult
MISS BELLE CLARK, of California, and
Miss Emma Jewett, of Litchfeld, Mimi, are
to ride a twenty-mile equestrian race at Min
neapolis September T. Miss Minnie Penneo
of Greeley, Col. has challenged the winner tC
ride a race on the same track for 81, 600 a sid'
on the 10th or llth Of September. The chal
lenge has been accepted.
S. W. HOFFMAN, ex-Auditor of Gin
cinnati, was arrested on the 31st ult. on al
affidavit charging him with misappropriating
two $1,000 Cincinnati bonds while City Au
ditor.
The population of Kansas is 1909,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06

Berthe Cleveland Leader has made
a diligent search of Winfield S. Han
cocks civil record, and finds these to be
the facts:
On the subject of the currency, he is a mag
nificent-lOoking fellow.
on the subject of the tariff, he is a splendid
soldier.
On the subject of free trade, he wears brill
liant uniform.
ON the subject of river and harbor inn
provements, he makes grand appearance on
horseback
On state rights he appears well in his epaulets
and brass buttons.
On civil-service reform he has fine militia
ry bearing.
On the sO-called reform in the administration
of the Government. he is u modern Murat.
On the subject of our foreign relations, he
wears a splendid mustnche.
On the school question, he is handsome
ON ali other questions of public policy, he has
a martial bearing.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06
Paper from Bagasse.

The conversion of bagasse into paper
stock at home is attracting considerable
attention in Louisiana. Several parties
in the North and West have tested the
fiber produced from it by new
process, and speak of it as extremely
promising. The chief difficulty at pres
ent appears to be in the bleaching
process; but that. it is thought, can
easily be overcome and the fiber made
perfectly white. By converting the
bagasse into fiber on the plantations
three-fourths of the transportation
charges will be saved. Louisiana pro-
duces 200, COO hogsheads of sugar a year;
and the cane for each hogshead will
yield one ton of paper fiber. Scientific
A1aericd3l
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06

Dsg- The Democratic orators give up
the United States Senatorship from New
York in advance of the contest, and adj
wise the party not to place any hopes
upon retaining it. As they would have
TO choose seventy-four out of the one
hundred and twenty eight Assembly,
men TO be elected this fall, the prospect
of electing a Democrat in place of Sem
ator Herman does not look very latter
ing.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06

Bdy- One of the questions to be set
tied in this campaign is whether one
vote in Mississippi or South Carolina
outweighs three votes ia New York.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06

Mr.. NJ. A. VEDDER finds that water
is not freed from organic impurities in
freezing, and that the germs of ami
malcule are present in very much of
the ice taken from stagnant water.
This being the case, considerable risk
must attend the use of such ice in drink
ing water
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06

AN inhabitant of the environs of st.
Mesmin, in France, has found a gold
ring of the fifth century of which the
seal is formed by rare gold piece of
the Princess Placidia, sister Of the EN-
peror Homo rius.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06

AN exchange speaks of aman who sis
but one step removed from an ass"
He'd better make it three or four.
The animal has long reach backward.