The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-12-02

as our population, and for this exhibit let us be |
devoutly thankful.
The late Hon. E. D. Mansfield, in one of his
later publications, gave the following facts and
figures for the last three Decades compiled
from the United States Census Reports, 1850.
$780, and 1870:
growth of population in the United states:
ls5O-6o churches 81 per cent; population So per
IS6o-7o, churches SO per cent? population % 2
per cent"
During the same periods the comparative
growths of the church, and general population
in Ohio, was follows:
Il quote from Mr. ManSfeld)
''1s5n-60, churches 80 per cent; population 10
per cent.
1860. 20, churches % per cent; population
13 92-l00 per cent"
Let our modern Goliah's boast, and buckle
on their armor. Let them send their loud chal-
lenge into the Christian IS camp. Then go thou
and ''Count the towers of Zion, consider her
Palaces, mark ye we'll her bullwarks.' They
stand! Thank God, Her King is in her." mo
weapon that is formed against her shall pros
per-" But turning to the Temples ofInfidelity.
we see over the Portals, written by Divine
hand, "Icbabod"-the glory is departed.
On their interior walls have come the Legend
of Belshazzar: "Mene, Meme, Tekel, Upharsn!"
Numbered, numbered weighed and Divided"
II. But we hear the patter OF the little feet,
and the merry laugh of the School-boy and
School girl, as they hasten home from the days
toll and the days confinement, and the days
intellectual victories, full of that rollcking
fun which is characteristic of our American
youth over the youth of any other people un-
der the Heavens. God bless them, and give
them smiles and sunshine all the way through!
And God help us to develop and to direct in
the right way that Godlike power, latent in
them. American children were not always so
favored as you are to-day. There some
here to-day who can remember the log school
house primeva1. 1t had its rough battened door,
slight opening left between two logs, foot
wide and three feet long, filled with piece of
creased paper, the substitute for your
stained glass windows. At one end of the
house, and six feet from the floor, log ran
across. and on this the chimney was started
broad and deep, through which it is safe to say,
a part of the smoke escaped from the premises.
They sat npon benches made of slabs or punch
cons, wore homespun, had but few books, but
had the same mischlevous games as prevail at
the present day.
And here the primeval school-master f1ogged
the alphabet into the sylvan urchin, followed
by the "three Rs" and the boy went forth,
and became a statesman The halls of Con-
gress bent to hear his eloquence, and the parri-
otic assembly clung to his burning words!
Now we have all the modern aids TO scien-
tific and classic education. School-houses dot
our hf2lsides, up which the little feet go to
learn the rudiments of science. grand army!
The hope of the Republic, and its coming glo-
ry, an army 100000 strong! They are we'll
armed with the best instruction books, and
equipped with all that is necessary to their
work. except that grand old Book of Books,
and the day is coming when it will be restored
to its rightful place in the curriculum.
They are led by well selected corps of 2Oo,-
600 Teachers, who are masters in their art.
They are encamped in l25,OOO school-houses.
and are sustained at cost of $4,000 900, or an
average of $40 each, per annum.
OF the 600 600 illiterate persons in the United
States, 4,sOO,0C0 in the Southern States,
leaving in the North but ,300 0O0 illiterate and
of these 665, 5,000 or just onehalf are Foreigners
and are mostly from Great Britain and Ireland.
In Ohio last year, the number of youth en-
titled to school privileges was 1,04352O. But OF
this number the actual en- rollment on School
Registers only 1861. About one-third
were not enrolled. 1t is a manifest christian
duty to work up our school system, so that the
schools may be better appreciated, better at
| tended and better taught. By this 1 mean the
standard criterion of morality must be high
er. Nothing short of perfection should be set
before the child in his copy-book; nothing
short of the perfect standard should be set as
his criterion in morals.
May God bless our children and add to their
| opportunities, and may they make the most OF
their advantages Mean time, 1 enter my pro-
test against the unmanly custom of grown UP
| persons, who ignore children. They have
| rights, as sacred yours, and since they are
weak, it is manly for us to help them. A kind
word, pleasa Mt smile, goes TO the bottom of a
child's heart. And it pays in more ways than
one, to have the good will of all the children
Beneath some of these little ragged jackets
there are hearts which will some day be filled
with oratorical fire, and command the atten-
ton of listless audience. Like Michael An
geo's rude block of marble, there is ange
in him, and happy is that man who sets thai
| angel flee!
| III. The people of Jackson county moi
an Agricultural people, yet we are deeply in
terested in the success of the farmer for abund-
ant crops mean cheap food, and when food !.
cheap all expenses are reduced in direct pro
portion.
The total exports from the United State.
ls79s0 were sSA 600 900, of which $50 100000, o.
s2}a per cent were Agricultural products.
A careful estimate of the wheat crop of the
United States places it at 4S5 OO,OC1 bushels
Estimates of domestic consumption show tina
for our own seed and food, 295,O00,00O bushels
are required. This viii leave an exportabl,
balance of 100, ,00O,O bushels.
France will need 10000 600 bushels; England
l20,0oO,000 bushels-total 2lO,000,CoO bushels.
Austria can supply 100000, and Russia 80,
100000 bushels-total AZ, 600 900 bushels, and 9th
er parts OF the world balance accounts. Henc.
the shortage in England and France will b,
supplied from the United States, Austria ano
Russia, the total surplusage of which thre,
countries aggregate 100000 bushels, or %.
O0O.Oo0 bushels more than will be called for.
This means low prices for your flour, and
consequent reduction in your living expenses
For this let us be grateful.
"We shall have nearly, quite, 100000, ,00
bushels of wheat to sell, and the probability il
that much of 1t viii remain unsold, unless W,
are ready to send it to market at price below
The average OF recent years."-lN. Y. Tribune.
Cotton is once more becoming great sourc,
of National wealth. The acreage of the presen
year, QSsO is 40 per cent. greater than last year
Ii costs, 10 raise, gin, and bale and deliver a
the railroad, about sll per acre. An average o
l9I pounds per is the yield, and this
makes the cotton cost 81 cents per pound de
ivered at the railroad. An average of IL L.
cents per pound is paid for it at the railroad
thus leaving net profit of f51a cents per pound
Bales $50 pounds each, and the clear profit
on each bale is $2l75. The estimate CROP fol
this year, is 5Oo0.0O0 bales, which gives a net
profit TO the growers of $l24, 100000!
| The Wool crop for the present year will be
about S5,00O,000 pounds, which at the price OF
30cenIs will yield value of s70,--J0,O00 The
Corn crop is valued at $525.OOO,O 900. Beef $780,
000- Rye, Oats and Barley sI9O, 100000 Hay
O0,0G, and Pork $3.50 100000. grand total
| of the various agricultural values for the pres
ent year is by careful compilation stated at
S2,224,0CoC0O. There are six million persons en-
gagged in agricultural pursuits. This will give
each man an average of $3.50.
". The Iron interest oil this County is one
in which We are all deeply interested. This
commodity is subject 10 such varied, and such
violent fluctuations that it is utterly mpossi-
ble for me to get anything like reliable data
| fl ON which 10 speak. 1t is business which l
| know nothing about, and having made some
| en- deavor TO get hold of statistics concerning