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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-05

The New York collection is chiefly in
teresting as showing how the coins-from
the first, struck Simon Maccabeus, from
140 to 81 B. g., to those coined after the
revolts which gave Rome power IN the
Holy Land improved in artistic qualities.
The silver shekels and the divisions of that
coin struck by the Maccabees were rude
and bore no figures or images, 1t being for
hidden by the Jewish religion to have I'M
ages or ''Idols, " on the coins This shekel
was the first coined money of the Jews,
though it existed as value and was men
toned IN the Bible before this time. 1t was
upon the coin of Herod Agrippa, the rule
OF whose family succeeded from B. G. 81
to A. ID. 100, that the umbrella first APP
peared. OF the coins of the Roman Pro
curators, those of Pontius Plate are chief
They bore the head of the Emperor YES
pasian, and were commemorative of the
captivity of Judea. Then followed in Or
der the coins of the second revolt in 81 A.
ID. With these Jewish coins or silver and
bronze Mr.. Feuardent has arranged sew
eral gold and silver pieces of the foreign
neighbors of the Jews circulated as money
among the Jews themselves after their re-
turn from Babylon. They bear most arts
tic designs, being portraits of the EN-
perors and figures of warriors on horse
back, and show the greatest possible i'm
provements in artistic work over the early
Jewish coin.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-05
Talking Twenty-six Hours.

The longest speech on record is believed
TO have been made by member of the
| Legislature of British Columbia, named De
Cosmos. II was in the interests of settlers,
who were to be defrauded of their lands.
De Cosmos was in the hopeless minority.
The Job had been held back till the eve of the
close of the session. Unless legislation
was taken before noon of a certain day the
act of cOnfscatien would fall. The day
before the expiration of the limitation De
Cosmos got the floor about 10 O'Clock A. NJ.
and began a speech against the bill. Its
friends cared little, for they supposed that
by or p. NJ he would be through, and
the bill could be put on its passage. One
o'clock came and went, and De Cosmos
was still speaking, Two o'clock-he was
saying, SIN the second place" Three
o'clock-he produced fearful bundle OF
evidence and insisted on reading it, The
majority began to have suspicion of the
truth-he was going to speak until noon
and kill the bill. For while they made
merry over it, but as il came on dusk they
began TO get alarmed. They tried inter
ruptions, but soon abandoned them because
each one afforded him cnance to digress
duu Sulu tlASu W ullll
down, but that gave him a breathing
space, and finally settled down TO watch
the combat between the strength of will
and the weakness of body. They gave
hun no mercy. No adjournment for din
ner: no chance to do more than wet his
lips with water; no wandering from the
subject; no sitting down. Twilight dark
ened, the gas was Lit, members slipped ont
to supper in relays and returned to sleep in
squads, but De Cosmos went on The
speaker to whom he was addressing him
self was alternately doing, snoring, and
trying TO look awake. Day dawned, and
a majority of the members slipped out TO
breakfast, and the speaker still held on. 1t
can't be said it was very logical, eloquent
or sustained speech. There were digres-
sions in it; repetitions also. But the
speaker kept on, and at last noon came TO
baftied majority, livid with rage and inn
potence; and a single man who was
triumphant, though his voice had sunk TO,
a whisper, his eyes were sunken, bleared
and blood-shot, his legs tottered under
him, and his baked lips were cracked and
smeared with blood. De Cosmos had
spoken twenty-six hours, and saved the
settlers their lands.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-05
A salt Old Joke.

Sailors are proverblally jovial but they
are generally a contented, unambitious
class and do not seek to go out of the mar
row and beaten track of the past for their
amusement Moreover they are loyal to
traditions of the sea and would prefer a
joke three hundred years old, provided it
had done regular duty during all that time,
to the choicest selection in the finest orig
inal stock that could be set before them.
This is not as strange as IL might be, for
the sailors life is not a very varied one,
and he misses the myriad suggestions that
excite and stimulate the fancy of the lands
man. The sailor Is practical joker, but
his lange is about as limited as that of the
last survivor of the crew of the Nancy Bell,
who would ''sit and croak, and single
joke he had, which was to say" &c. The
sailor lows his single joke and he practices
1t at odd intervals whenever he finds time
Langing heavily upon his hands. 1t may
be called the bottle joke, and the jolly tars
are not as simple as they may seem in re-
peating what we might suppose would be
too familiar by this time to deceive any
one But the reverse is the fact. Land
lubbers are easily impressed by the mys-
teries of old ocean, and whenever a fresh
tale Of woe in it's water proof case of de-
pleted grog bottle is cast overheard, the
chances are that it will in time find its way
into wandering circles ready to believe
anythings that comes back by his round
about route from those who 60 down to
the sea in ships. AS long as this ancient
sell does it's work, why should the sailor
fret his brains to devise anything new for
the mystifcation of credulous and snper-
stitOus andsmen!
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-05
Walking-Sticks.

Walking sticks for ladies, so we are told
by an oracle of fashion, are coming into
favor again. Thus does the whirligig OF
time bring round his revenge for discard
ed custom. The Empress Eugene made
the carrying of canes fashionable for her
sex during the gay days of the second En-
pire. But back in another century we find
the women appreciatve of tie walking
stick. Ladies advanced in life walked
with staff between five and six feet in
height, taper and slender in substance.
turned over at the upper end in the manner
of shepherds crook, and ''twlsted
throughout the whole extent" Some
times these wands were formed of palegreen
glass, but oftener of wood, ivory, or
whalebone. A writer of 1862, speaking of
the most fashionable sticks Of this period,
says: do not some of us strut about
with walkings-sticks as long as hickory
poles, or else with yard of vanished
cane scraped taper, and bound at one end
with a waxed thread. and the other tipped
with neat ivory head as big as a silver
penny?" 1t is, indeed, as an appendage
of personal utility that we regard the walk
ing-sticks of modern times, though IN all
ages man has made the sons of the forest
contribute to his support under WEAKNESS
and old age.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-05

In the interior towns and villages of Ger
many, it has been the custom for many
years for the farmer to purchase the iron
for his tires and horseshoes, and in some in
stances, when having new wagon built,
to purchase all the iron entering into the
same, the lengths of every piece being fur
nished him by the smith. One part of the
contract is that the smith shall return
to the farmer all ends and cuttings from
the iron, and it frequently occnrs that the
farmer remains at the shop until the iron is
all cut up, in order that the smith shall not
indulge IN too much cabbage. Each smith
shop has what is termed ''the hell, j" and in
cutting off a set of tires if the farmer be
not present, the largest half of the end cut
off finds its way to ''the hell, " the duty of
putting it there devolvlng upon the young
est apprentice From this always plentiful
store the smith furnishes his materials for
the manufacture of bolts, horseshoeS, ETC.,
for transient customers. The horse shoe
ing part is also feature; the farmer will
bring with him the end of some piece of
iron or tire, with which to make the shoes,
or perhaps a dozen or more old horseshoes
to be converted into new ones. The farmer
must blow the bellows until the work is
forged or the shoes all made, and must
then hold up the horses foot while the
shoes are being driven on or taken off. and
invariably carries the old shoes home with
him, unless he prefers to give the old shoes
in payment for the apprentices service in
holding up the feet.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-05
Poetic LIceuse wanted.

He was a tall, square man, with sharp
sunburned nose, AMI an unshaven face. Ht
wore chip hat, we'll sweated through IL
front, with rim turned down all around,
and dark, narrow bit Of braid for band
His butternut pants were neatly tucked
into his cowhide boots, and the thumbs OF
his bronZed hands were thrust into the
arm holes of his vest. He entered the
Mayors Office with the air of a man of busi-
ness, and marching up to his Honor, said,
inqmringly:
''Be you the Mayor"
Eyes, have that honor"
"Well, | want license for my daugh.
er, Maria Jane"
"Ah, | see; your daughter is about to get
married and you wish to procure a mar
rag licensee. We do not issue those pap
ers here. You must go over on the north
side to the county building"
''No, squire, you are mistaken-as
much mistaken as if you had burnt your
last shirt or had ACCIDENTALLY got into the
wrong pew in meeting; but Maria Jane doesn't
want license TO get married, not by no
means-not by more than considerable.
She is darned smart girl, if she is my
daughter, and if | do say it, as hadn't
ought to. She has been keepin' school and
boarding round up in the persimmon dees-
trict and writing verses for the Summer
field Weekly Bagie. She thinks now of
givin' up teachin' and devotin' her hull
time to literary persoots, and, Squire, as
I'm law-abidin' man and loyal to the
core-three of my boys went clean through
TO the sea with Sherman-'squire, and
want to do the business for the girl on the
square, and so called to take out a poetic
license for Maria Jane. You see, Will
Morrison, who has been TO college, told
Maria that anybody must have license
before he writ much poetry"
Here the Mayors face turned very red,
as if suffering from some intense internal
emotion, and it was observed that his eyes
were suffused with tears. His secretary
suddenly approached the window and
gazed abstractedly out upon the trees in the
tubs, whose emerald branches Were grace
fully swaying in the summer breeze in
front of the saloons across the way. The
former fixed his curious eyes upon the
Mayor for a moment. who finally sufficient
ly recovered himself to say:
MY dear sir, your daughter needs no
license to write poetry. She can write as
much as ever sne pleases, and it Will be all
right =
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-05
Fishing for Monkeys.

Walking careless Through their haunts
l strewed some gram upon a place, on
which l dug with my knife few round
holes about four inches deep. Coming
back to the spot IN half an hour | dropped
a grain into each hole and left a moose
round one of them, concealed with earth.
The other end of the line was in bush.
| was there in short time, and monkeys
were busy picking the grain. An old
fellow would look into hole and chatter;
others came and looked and all chartered.
BY and-by plueky little fellow popped in
his paw, and out again. Next time he got
the corn, then others dipped in till they
finished that hole In due course they got
to the moose, with some chatter and the
same results till the line was pulled. A
sudden scream, a general hustle while the
captive was hauled home and envelOped IN
a horse-rug. BY this time the troop ran
up in the trees, screaming and shaking the
boughs most Gerociously, following me as
| went away, with the lost one kicking till
he was tired. | believe this moose plan is
frequently practiced. l once caught a
monkey on the Trimluck Hill Fort that
fell down the face of the scarps, knocking
his head against projections till he was
brought up with a thud on slab. He
was nearly senseless when picked HIM up.
No bones were broken. In few minutes
| let him go to his relations, who had never
ceased, letting HIM know where they were.
He crawled quietly up the scarp rock, and
seemed to be received with anger. Posi-
bly, they only wished to know what had
been said to him by the fellow without a
tail.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-05

the battery, and jets of fire Jump down and
fought and despaired.
The shattered old brigade has a chance
to breathe for the first time in three hours
as we form line OF battle behind the guns
and lie down. What grim, cool fellows
those cannoneers are! Every man is a
perfect machine. Bullets plash dust into
their faces, but they do not vince. Bullets
sing over and around them, but they do
not dodge. There goes one TO the earth,
shot through the head as he sponged his
gun. The machinery loses Just one beat
misses just one cog in the wheel-and then
works away again as before.
Every gun is using short-fuse shell. The
ground shakes and trembles-the roar shuts
out all sounds from battle-line three miles
long, and the shells go shrieking through the
swamp TO cut trees short off-to NOW great
gaps in the bushes-to hunt out snd shatter
and mangle men until their corpses can not
be recognized as human. You would think
Il tornado was howling through the forest,
followed by pillows of fire, and vet men
live Though it-aye! press forward to cap
ture the battery We can hear their shouts
as they form for the rush.
Now the shells are changed for grape and
canister, and the guns are served so fast
that all reports blend into one mighty roar
The shrek of a shell is the wickedest sound
in war, but nothing makes the flesh crawl
like the demoniac singing, purring, whis-
ling grape shot and the serpent-like hiss of
canister. Mems legs and arms are not shot
through, but torn off. Heads are torn
from bodies, and bodies cut in two. A
round shot or shell takes two men out of
the ranks as it crashes through. Grape
and canister NOW swath and pile the dead
on top of each other.
Through the smoke we see a swarm of
men. 1t is not a battle line, but a mob of
men desperate enough to bathe their bayo-
nets in the flame of the guns. The guns
leap from the ground, almost as they are
depressed on the foe, and shrieks and
screams and shouts blend into one awful
and steady cry. Twenty men out on the
battery are down, and the firing is inter
rupted. The foe accepts IT us a sign of
wavering and come rushing on. They are
not ten feet away when the guns give them
a last shot. That discharge picks living
men of their feet and throws them into the
swamps, blackened, bloody mass
Up now, as the enemy are among the
guns! There is a silence of ten seconds,
and then the flash and roar of more than
three thousand muskets, and a rush for
ward with bayonets. For whatG Neither
on the right, nor left, nor in front of us is
a living foe! There are corpses arouna us
which have been struck by three, four and
even six bullets, and no where on this acre
of ground is wounded man! The wheels
of the guns can not move until the block
ade of dead is removed. Men cannot pass
from caisson to gun without climbing over
winrows of dead. Every gun and wheel
is smeared with blood-every foot of grass
has It's horrible stain.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-05
Supporting the Guns.

Did you ever see a battery take posi-
tion3
1t hasn't the thrill of cavalry charge,
nor the grimness Uf line of bayonets
moving slowly and determinedly on, but
there is peculiar excitement about it that
makes old veterans rise in their saddles and
cheer.
We have been fighting at the edge of the
woods. Every cartrldge-box has been
emptied once and more, and fourth Of the
brigade has melted away in dead and
wounded and missing. Not a cheer is
heard in the whole brigade. Weknow that
we are being driven foot by foot, and that
when we break back once more the line
will go to pieces and the enemy will pour
through the gap.
Here comes help!
Down the crowded highway gallops a
battery, withdrawn from some other posi-
ton to save ours. The field fence is scat
tered while you could count thirty, and the
guns rush for the hill behind us. Six horses
to piece-three riders to each gun. Over
dry bitches where farmer would not drive
wagon, through clumps CT bushes, over
logs foot thick, every horse on the gallop,
every rider lashing his team and yelling
the sight behind us make us forget the foe
in front. The guns jump two feet high as
the heavy wheels strike rock or log, bur
not horse slackens his pace, not can
noneer loses his seat. Six guns, six Gals
sons, sixty horses, eighty men race for the
brow of the hill as if he who reached it first
would be knighted.
A moment ago the battery was con-
fused mob. We look again. and the six
guns are in position, the detached horses
hurrying away, the ammunition chests
open, and along our line runs the command,
''Give them one more volIey and fall back
to support the guns!" We have scarcely
obeyed when boom! boom! boom! opens
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-05
THE ONE CERTAINTY,

Lightly hold my life with little dread,
And little hope for what may spring tn, re-
from.
But live like one that builds his Summers
home
For coolness on q dried-up river bed.
And takes no thought for frescoed blue or
red,
To paint the walls AMI pans no golden
DOME
Knowing the food, when Autumn rains are
come,
Shall roll it's raving waters overhead.
Al wherefore should plant my ground and
SOW
Since, though l know not Of the day or
hour
The Conquerer comes at last the alien foe
Shall come to my defenceless place in power,
With force, with arms. with ruinous over
throw,
Taking the goods gathered for his dover.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-05

An EDgilsn nrm sOld 5000 fire.
proof safes in Turkey before it was as
certained that the filling was only saw
dust.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-14
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or a gashed fOoti whether from disgusting
PIMPLES on a LADY'S FACE
or a strained joint on a Horses Leg.
The agony produced by a Burn or soald;
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ings from Strains the tOrtures OF Rheu-
matismi Crippled for life, by some
neglected accidents a valuable horse or
Doctors Bill may all bo saved from
One Bottle Of CentauP Linimsnt.
No Housokeeper, Farmer, Planter, Teamster
or Liveryman, can afford to bo without
these wonderful Liniments. They can
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25 OTIS,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-14
Ashtabula, May 10th, 1880.

Senator Matt Carpenter OF Wiscon-
sin, has been interviewed by a Times re-
porter, as to Grants prospects Of nomi-
nation. Mr., Carpenters reputation for
shrewdness and we'll posted intelligence
in the politics of the country, gives an i'm
portance to his views worthy of great con-
fidence. We make an abstraeti
In answer to question-what do
you think your State Convention will dot
there is division Of sentiment in our
State, and l think the delegates will be
sent to Chicago uninstructed. I think
Gen. Grant will have moro than half the
delegation. think Grant will carry some
Of the southern States. l think he would
carry Arkansas; he would have an even
chance to carry Texas, and with anything
like a fair election he would carry Tennes-
see, North and South Carolina and Flori-
da. What is your basis for such belief2
A. The sensible men OF the South are
sick and tired of the cry Of Solid South.
They desire a revival Of business and COM
mercial prosperity. Since the abolition Of
slavery, there is no sense or wisdom IN ge-
ographical politics. The interests of the
South and West are specially identified,
and reorganization Of politics upon gen.
eral principles of political economy and
Governmental administration, would drown
the cry Of Solid South, which in North
ern ears means every kind of evil. The
business men Of the South have so much
confidence In Gen. Grant that they would
be glad of an opportunity to rally around
him and get rid Of a senseess and injurious
antagonism. Many Southern Democrats
have told me within The last three months
that II Grant was nominated, tho North
would be surprised at the strength no
would develop In every Southern State.
Git has been said that is only South
ern strategem to help on Grants nomina-
tion, and that the Bourbons are anxious to
have him nominated, believing him the
weakest Of the leading Republican candi-
dates.
Al believe this to be an utter mis-
take The leading Democratic politicians
know perfectly we'll that the surest way to
prevent Grants nomination Is to scare Re-
publieaus by this bugbear. But look at
the facts. The Republican Convention at
Utica, which instructed It's delegation to
vote as a unit for Grant, was surrounded
by Democrats, and the galleries were pack
ed with them cheering for Blaine. With
them the Partially for Blaine rested upon
the undoubted fact that Blaine could not
carry New York, while Grant could. One.
half Of the enthusiasm that has beeu man
ufac.ured for Blaine has sprung from Dem
ocrats, who knew Blainewould be defeated,
because he would be beaten IN New York,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-14

Mr.. Gully, the Kemper county promi-
nent citizen who attained distinction by
the assassination Of Miss COrnelia Chisolm
because her fathers political views differed
from his own, has been made enumerator
per county to diminish the Republican
population, and IL was no more than fair
that his merits should be recognized. IL
will be seen, in this connection, that the
Office Of census enumerator is peculiarly
appropriate. Herald.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-14

Another-the third daughter of Gen.
Sherman has just married gentleman Of
Philadelphia. His name is 'fhackara, and
belongs to the navy Miss Sherman is a
strict catholic, and 1t. Thackara is a
protestant.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-14

sHERIFF SALE.
mid oil i.ands and ,rensmsnt..

sherInas special Master Commissioner
-'aie Of Landa and 'renements.
Ashtabuid Common Pleas, May Term 1880.
JUsr1NA G. FENToN,
AGAINST lOrder ofgnle
SIMON BAHrLhTr, ct ai.
VlN virtue OFFS order of sale duly issued
- from said Court In the above case to me
directed, viii offer Cor sale by way Of pub.
10 auction at the door the Court House In
the village Of Jefferson, Ashtabula County.
Ohio. on Monday the i4th day OF June A. ID,
le5O, between the hours Of A NJ and II NJ.
OF said day the following described lands and
tenements. to.wlt:
situate in the township OF Morgan, village
Oi ROCK Creek, County OF Ashtabula and
state OF fQhio. and known as part Of lot No
one hundred and sixteen. { t10 and bounded
and described as follows to wit: Commec-
Ing at stake In the North East corner OF
land owned by Lewis Bailey on Liberty ST
thence southerly 10 rods. and % links to n lot
occupied by u ". Crowell, thence Easterly
along said Crowell and Pama FOoUs line
7, rods. and links, thence.northerlV 10 rods
and 10 links to the South line OF Liberty 81
thence westerly rods. and links 10 the
place Of beginning and supposed 10 contain
one half acre Of and.
Terms, cash. Appraised at g.
S0--94 A W. STIIFs SheriT
As Special Master Commissioner
AM1DON GERoME. PrthsA ttorneys
Sheriffs ONCE. Jefferson, May 10. 1880.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-14

Miss sallie Stokes, an Arkansas belle OF
eighteen, residing in Howard county, had
a difficulty with Mrs. Stevens on account
of some neighboring gossip. Mrs. Stevens
daughter Linda took up the quarrel, when
Sallie plunged butcher.knifo into Linda's
heart, killing her instantly. The murder
ess was arrested But life is not Of much
account in our semi-barbarous States, and
they haye heir own way Of settling these
things.