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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20
An Old SiciIian Town.

IT is very old place, with narrow
streets going up and down by means of
wide, stone paved stairs, which prevent
any carriages. The walls of the houses,
which are never more than two stories
high, seemed crumbling to dust, and
reminded us more of Pompeii as it looks
now than any other old town; the inte-
riors were mere dark holes, crowded by
q rural population. There is but one
object of antiquity, church, of which
belonged to a temple of Vesta. There
is an old tradition about this temple and
the progenitors of the people of this
town which is worth relating:
During the many centuries of decay
of the Roman Empire, the strict relig-
ious laws and customs were so far re-
laxed that whenever any one of the
vestal virgins was discovered faithless to
her VOWS, instead of being buried alive,
according to the old law, she was rele-
gated to this temple of Vesta on Mt.
Eryx, where, at length, she and others
like her intermarried with the priests
and people of the place, who were of
Trojan origin. From their union de-
scended the present population. This,
of course, is q mere tradition, yet it is
supported by very curious physiologi-
cal fact. The natives of this mountain
town have more of the old Roman type
of face and person than any of the other
two millions of people that inhabit Sic
lily. The women are famous for their
beauty, their fair compilations, long
necks, large black eyes, and superb
busts. There are also many blondes
with blue eyes among them-a type
never seen in the true Sicilian race.
We had heard this story, and were
anxious to observe the female part OF
the population; but as we walked, OF
rather climbed, up and down the steps
of the streets, we saw none but men and
very old women sitting in front of theii
dismal house doors.
There were shops where they sold
oil, contained in just such huge clay
jars as one sees at Pompeii; public
cooks frying their meats at the thrcsh,
old of their front doors; lamps, both oi
clay and bronze, of PompeIan shape
bread on the bakers COUNTERS of the
precise pattern as that found carbonizeC
at Pompeii; and many other thing re
minded us of that old Roman town-At
ldntic MOHthIy.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20
LATER NEWS

A CYCLONE at Goliad, Texas, on the
10th, demolished twenty-five houses. Five
persons were injured.
MAJOR GENERAL BRYAN GRIMES, of
the Confederate army, while driving near his
home in Pitt County, N. C., on the 10th, was
shot by an unknown person.
Miss LILLE Matter, aged eighteen,
was walking with a gentleman near Mount
Joy, Pa, on the 10Th, when a spark from his
cigar set fire to her dress aud she was fatally
burned
THE United States Grand Jury has
returned twenty-seyen indictments against
r. o. Adams, ex-postmaster Of Deadwood, for
the embezzlement Of S1l,93S in Government
funds.
FLOODS swept down the Glen of
Glendore, County Donegal, Ireland, on the
10th, flooding a church and drowning several
persons who were carried away by the rush OF
waters.
IT is officially stated that the cattle on
fifteen farms in Lancashire, England, are af.
llicted with pleuro pneumonia.
OWING to the crop movement the de-
mand, for standard silver dollars increases.
THERE was frost in the interior river
counties of New York on the night of the
18th. Tender vegetables were killed and corn
and buckwheat were somewhat injured
THE freight shed with contents and
sixteen loaded cars of the Grand Trunk Rail
road burned at Richmond, Quebec, on the
10th.
In faction fight at Portadown.
County Armagh, Ireland, on the 10th, between
Ribbonmen and Orangemen many persons
were badly wounded and the Ribbonmen
routed.
THE Triennial Conclave of Knights
Templar of the United States began at Chi
cago on the 10th. The managers of railroads
estimate that up to MIDNIGHT of the 10Th they
had brought in over 200, 900 people to witness
the grand parade on the following day.
ROBERT WnKs, a wholesale jeweler
of Toronto, Canada, his daughter Florence
aged fifteen and son BERTHE, aged eleven, were
drowned at Sturgeon Point on the 10Th.
Florence aud BERTHE we're bathing and the boy
getting out beyond his depth the father who
was In the boat jumped out to save him, The
daughter also went TO the rescue and all were
drowned.
JOHN KELLEHER, residing at Oakland,
Cal, with his wife and neighbor indulged in
drunken carousal on the night OF the 18th,
In the course Of which they set the house on
fire. Two Of their children, Eugene aud
Annie, aged two and five years respectively,
were burned 10 death, and James, aged four,
burned fatally. Mrs. Kelleher will probably
die.
HENRY CARDwELL living at Bunker
Hill, ILL.,. shot and killed his wife on the 10th,
and then cut his own throat from ear to ear.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20
"A Full Vote, Free Ballot and a
Fair COunt.o

One of the best sentences in Gem
eral Hancock's letter of acceptance,
which left upon the mind the same i'm
preston of neatness and vacancy as a
school-boys copy-book, was that in
which the candidate of the Democracy
demanded ga full vote, free ballot
and fair count" It was an excellent
sentiment, to which every Republican
would heartily subscribe. But General
Hancock's letter professed to be
statement of Democratic principles.
With the platform to which it was q
response it was an appeal to the coun-
try to trust the eighty thousand offices
of the Government in the hands of the
Democratic party. The question for
voters, therefore, is, not whether the
declaration is sound one, but
cratic party, it is an honest one, or is
fraud and cheat. The answer is easy.
1t is in the South that the Demo-
cratic party does its perfect work.
| There are no steadily Democratic
/ States North of Delaware. In the
| South the party has gained complete
has had a noble opportunity to put into
! pldCblOO bSucAai AlduCOOh . lhObbO VI
| ga full vote, free ballot and fair
count" Has it done so? What are
the factsP Let us look for moment
at this dark page in American history.
Even Democrats will admit that by
the year 1872 the Democratic party was
we'll organized in every Southern State.
In Alabama, for example, in that year
the Democratic vote was only 10. 900
L. al 9 al. II .f ~
two years ago. Yet, this is the way in
pered under the rule of the party of
10 20 fron ballot ond fo;r count ), tho
figures being the votes cast in the years
! nannaI.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20
Uncle Esek's Wisdom.

THE conservatism of most people is
nothing more than their radicalism
gone to seed.
No man is envious of what he can
equal, or even initiate.
The man who is ready to take the
chances will very probably take his last
one in the almshouse.
MEN have been known TO correct
their vanity, subdue their pride and
even overcome their superstitions, but,
once impregnated with it, it is impossi-
BILE for man to get rid of his vulgarity.
THE man who lives for others must
expect most of his pay in self-satisfac-
ton.
MosT successes spring up, PhmniX-
like, from the ashes of some failure.
THE most cunning of all egotists is the
man who never speaks well of himself.
GOOD breeding is letter of credit all
over the world.
A MAN of true genius is generally as
simple as a child, and as unconscious of
his power as an elephant.
THE man who can distinguish be-
tween good advice and poor does not
need either.
EVERY man makes his own reputa-
ton; the world only puts on the stamp.
SILENCE is hard opinion to beat
NEXT to silence comes brevity-the
wise mans strength and the FOOLS
refuge.
It's q poor rule that won't work both
ways. A Milwaukee girl married bar
Der and he turned out to be rich baron
in disguise.-BoSton Post.
BIGoTRY knows of but one way to
reach Heaven, while faith knows of a
hundred.
MAN is a two-legged eccentric animal
that deals in politics, religion and gen
eral merchandise.
IT is well to give heed to your doubts,
for they are very often the dawnings OF
truth.
LITERARY men, as q class, are unsat.
isfactory companions; if you flatter theil
vanity enough to make them agreeable
you disgust yourself.
He who does a good deed make:
Heaven his debtor.
A THOROUGHLY good man is invaria.
bly, a brave one.
IT is much more difficult for man tc
make circumstance than it is for q cir
cumstance to make man.
IT requires wisdom to be able, and i
requires honesty to be willing, to cal
things by their right names.
MAN is the only creature that laughs
angels do not, animals can not, anC
devils viii not.-Scrijner'S Bric- q .Brac
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20
WEST AND SOUTH.

CHARLES II. TADY, President of the
Colored Relief Board of St. Louis, has advices
that 10000 negroes will emigrate from Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana to points in the north
within the next two months.
THE Tennessee Repudiators held a
convention at Nashville on the 10Th and
adopted q platform which contains all the
essential principles Of reputation. They call
themselves "the Democratic party" and claim
that they were denied elsewhere the right TO
reflect the will of the party and the people by
men who presumed to be managers and mas
ters of the party. They approved the National
Democratic platform and its principles except
the one advocating the preservation Of State
and National credit and favored the payment
OF the State debt proper, which is something
over two million dollars. s. +. Wilson was
nominated for Governor. The Debt-paylng
Democrats nominated John V. Wright.
THE revised census of st. Louis
shows the population to be 1888, 577. 't
JUDGE u. p. TAYLOR, of Warren, was
nominated for Congress in the Nineteenth
Ohio (Garfeld's) District, on the 18th.
A RICH mining strike has been made
in the village of Los Placitas, N. NJ The vii
lage is built of adobe huts and eorals, and
the foundations of the houses are Of rock
Prospector Jesse Martin detected mineral in
this rock and pounded up and hammered
some Of 1t getting rich results in gold He
located the streets of the town whence the
gold rock was taken and had assays ade
with the result of $4,000 gold to the ton.
The lowest grade of rock assayed S443. The
whole village is built on the ledge
A PORTLAND, Oregon, dispatch says
there is considerable restlessness among the
Indians in the whole upper country though
the season is so far advanced no active hostili-
ties are anticipated this year.
The Michigan Greenback State Con.
vention, held at Lansing on the 18th, nomi-
mated the following ticket; For Governor
David Woodman; Lieutenant Governor, Sui
ivan Armstrong; Secretary of State, Ran
dol ph Strickland; State Treasurer, John M
Martin; Auditor j. B. Howerlow; Commis
missioner of the Land Office, John A. Elder
The Texas Democratic State Conven
tlon, on the 11th, nominated Governor o. NJ
Roberts for Governor and L. j. Storey foi
Lieutenant Governor.
TIE First anNSecond Congressional
District Conventions at Cincinnati, on th,
l2th, nominated Hon. Samuel Hunt and len
sral II. T. Banning. In the Sixth Ohio Dis
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20
The Charming Toilets of Saratoga
Bellies.

OF the Saratoga toilets correspond
ent of the Chicago Times says: One
could easily imagine himself living at
one of the Trianons in the days of the
famous Watteau himself, so beautifully
made and so picturesque in their com
biuations are the toilets of the ladies
who have come here, but the fabrics of
their robings are not of the antique by
any manner of means. One franc
meter instead of the hundred is about
the cost of the majority of the pretty
vanities seen upon the young and the
youngish women of Saratoga. The
pomps are left exclusively to the dowag-
ers, to whom in truth they really belong.
Indeed many sets of young ladies must
have made studies Of the famoushistoric
pictures at Versailles or they could new
er have so grouped themselves in the
factors of their pretty kirtles and petit
coats, hats and hosiery, fan and slippers
An immense, unwired soft straw hat,
bent and pinched, or dropping into
quaint outline, is tied about with a
Swiss muslin sash that Is tipped at each
end with flounce of lace. A bunch of
flowers, a gorgeous bird, garland of
Marguerites, Violets, clover or poppies,
Eliminates the head of this lassie Of to-
day, and she has score or more of
these head dresses to give variety to the
gardens and to mark the days of the
week, and perhaps of the month also.
Fans, the now Japanese floriated ones
in gold and bronze, and in silver and
bronze, with fine lacquered sticks, and
Japanese parasols, make the gardens,
yerandas and the streets TO glow like n
tropical paradise. Some of the ladies
have betaken themselves TO Alpine
stocks with gay parasols upon them.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20

What became of the Republican party
in Alabama in 1882 1t is said that
they ran no ticket because defeat was
inevitablep Are parties in the habit of
doing thisP Do Democrats give up
voting in Vermont, or Republicans in
Missouri? 1t was because the Republi-
cans of Alabama had been taught by
midnight murders and whippings, by
social ostracism, and by the tyranny of
employers, that the less they had to do
with politics the better. This is the
kind of "free ballot and. fair count
the Alabama Republicans have enjoy
ed. 1t remains to be seen how much
better they have Jared in the election
just held, under the new system which
prefers cheating to bulldozing as being
easier.
Take the case of Mississippi, where
bulldozing was invented, and'was made
known to the world as " the Mississippi
plan" These are the votes of the
State from 1873 to the last election of a
State ticket:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

ACCORDING to reports from Buchar-
est 5000 Russians are concentrating near
Bender to be ready in the event of action by
Bulgaria.
A BERLIN dispatch, ON the 14th, re-
ported fresh floods in several districts in Up
per Silesia, causing enormous damage.
ADELAIDE NELSON, the actress, died
at Paris on the 18th.
A BERLIN dispatch says the crop pros
poets in Upper silesia and East Prussia are
very gloomy.
The dome of the great cathedral at
Cologne, Germany, was completed on the
14th
THE Kieff, Russia, military district
court has tried twenty-one individuals charged
with forming a society for forcibly overthrow
ing the existing order Of the State, Two were
sentenced to death, three to twenty years
penal servitude and sixteen to hard labor for
terms varying from ten to fifteen years.
SERIOUS rioting took place at the
Home Rule demonstration at Glasgow, Scot
land, on the 14th owing to the Home Rulers
passing an Orange lodge. Seventy police,
who endeavored to restore order, were over
powered. Two Of the policemen were injured
so badly that they are not expected to reeov-
er. Twenty-Five persons were arrested.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20

Bag 1t is stated that orders have
gone forth from the Democratic Ma
tional Committee to their brethren in
the South that there must be no more
killings until after election. This will
be putting a severe strain upon them,
but in the interests of the party they
may be able to practice the necessary
self-denial, consoling themselves, mean
while, with anticipations of the fun they
viii have when the late fall "nigger-
shooting" season sets in. Indianapolis
JournaL
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20

trict Convention, held at Toledo, Hon. Frank
Hurd was nominated
The complete census returns of Ar
kansas, less nine small DISTRICTS four OF which
are estimated, show the population Of that
State TO be Sl6,147
A LETTER to the Des Mojnes State
Register from a responsible citizen Of that
State gives information on the authority of
an eye witness, also responsible man, that
the notorious Bender family, four in num-
Der, were captured soon after tire discovery
of the murder Of Colonel Yorll's brother.
They were stood up in row facing nine rifle
men, were told their fate and then shot. The
bodies were buried at the corner of the four
counties Of Labette, Wilson, Neosha and
Montgomery
BY the explosion and sinking of the
steamer Bonnie Lee on the Mississippi River
on the 9th six roustabouts and one cabin boy
were drowned. rs-.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL WILLARD
AYERS was shot and instantly killed on the
11th in Cherokee town I'm the Chickasaw
Nation by negro whom he attempted to ar
rest.
A GENERAL escape of United States
prisoners at Laredo, Texas, occurred on the
18th. Two succeeded in crossing the Rio
Grande to Mexico, two were drowned and
the remainder were prevented from crossing
by United States troops. 1t is alleged that
the prisoners wso reached Mexican soil were
offered protection there. In consequence the
Department of State has instructed the Uni
ted States Consul at New Laredo to make a
thorough investigation.
Ar har af nf.l-a
on the 18th, one negro was killed and two
wounded.
The Arkansas Republican State Com
mittee has decided not to put a State ticket
in the field
The Democratic boilers in Georgia
opposed to the reelection Of Governor Col
quitt nominated Ex-senator Norwood for
Governor.
CAPTAIN PAYNE, the leader of the
raid into the Indian Territory, has been
turned over to the civil authorities.
A MAIL contractor on the route be-
tween Fort Davis, Texas, and Ell Paso, New
Mexico, has asked for military protection
against the Indians
GEORGE RACKERs, an old man, was
killed at Dayton, KY, by his son, Herman
Hackers, on the 18th. He had been drinking
and having been refused money by his wife
undertook to strike her with poker, when
the son struck him with a spade, crushing his
skull. He died in few hours.
AT Red Hill. Col, small station on
the South Park Road, an explosion occurred
on the night.of the 18th, destroying the depot
| freight house, eating house. saloon and for.
warding house. Charles Hilton, an employe
was killed aud Frank E. Collyer, T. j. Con.
way and Charles Glenn were severely injured
1t is said that twelve cases Of gunpowder we're
in the freight house, but Agent Collyer, wher
lie recovered consciousness, said there was nc
powder about the place. The affair isInvolved
in mystery.
r. S. SMILEY, of Spring Lake, Scott
County, Mimi, drove in the lake to water his
horses with his wife and three boys, sixteen
ten and one years old, in a wagon with him
on the 14th. The horses became unmanage
able and overturned the wagon. The three
boys were drowned and the wife barely saved
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20

SIX pair of carrier-pigeons belong
ing to persons in Brooklyn were liberat-
ed at Long Branch, the other morning
at $3.50, aud four birds arrived in
Brooklyn at 1920, making the dis.
tnnee, over forty miles, in fifty minutes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20

Ba- We would do justice to the
Union General. A friend has asked us
to recite his civil claims for the Presi-
dency. Here they are:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20

This covers his entire life-work. 1t
is record of which no man fit for the
Office of President can be proud
Rochester Democrat.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20

THE only actual relic of the frame of
pleistoeene man is tooth found in a
cave in Wales. The rest of the nus n has
not been discovered. But the too re-
mains as relic of prehistoric tines,
when men lived in caves.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20

The same is true in lesser degree in
louisiana There was no general cleo
ton between 1876 and last year, and for
the former year we take the official fig
ures:
Dem. Rep.
lolO-' tuuo - io1
.OjiJtf ~o,Oll
Every one of these States --and at
least one other, North Carolina would
be Republican upon full vote, a free
ballot and fair count. General Han
cock knows it. Every Democrat knows
it. But simply to serve the purposes
of the illustration, let us say that these
five States are fairly Republican. They
give, all told, 80 Electoral votes, which
will honestly belong to James A. Gar
field. The South could then give Gen
eral Hancock only 80 Electoral votes at
best, and he could never by any possi-
bility be President of the United States.
BY all means, let us have "a full vote,
free ballot and fair count. IN y
Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20

Ba~ Mr.. Weaver, National candidate
for President, declares that the condi-
tion of affairs South is far worse than
Republicans have represented IL,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20


lSlS..... llJ,0OU slj
1t should be noticed that in spite of
the notorious and universal use of the
tissue ballot in 1878, the Democratic
vote shows an increase of only $4,000
votes The Republican vote shows a
decrease of 81 200 votes. Supposng
for the sake of argument that the DEM
ocratc votes were honest, it would still
be true that 63, 600 votes were withheld
from the ballot-boxes. Why this change
in two yearsP Was it sudden indiffer-
ence on the part of the blacks, whose
greatest pride is that they are citizens
and voters, or was it chilling fearP
Let the murderers and ballot-box stuff
fers who are the brightest ornaments of
the South Carolina chivalry make an
swer. and then let General Hancock
ponder awhile upon the beauties of
their style of "a free ballot and fair
count"
Almost every Southern State makes
the same showing. Here is the record
of Arkansas:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20

This is what the Republican party Of
Mississippi has come to through fear of
Ku-Klux assassins, through the opera
ton of the tissue-ballot, through the
frauds of Democratic canvassers. And
General Hancock has the assurance to
prate to us about "a full vote, free bal
lot and fair countn'
Take the case of South Carolina,
where the parties were so evenly di-
vided four years ago that it took four
months to decide the Electoral vote of
the State. This is what the rihe-clubs
and tissue-ballots, the assassins and
swindlers of the party, led by Wade
Hampton and Hamburg Butler, have
done for the Republican party in South
Carolina in two years:
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1880-01-08

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gliidIiden tonnte bis iebt nid)t ermittelt ner-
zen, bod 1T man aQgtrrein Ser 2uiiht, oaB
btricibe cinen Selbitnoroz&eriub beaing.
- Tol9enoen @inpo6nern pon 8aibinqton
murbcn ncrlernin0s 8atente ertbtilt: S. =. :.
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tell nid]t ipeniaer, al8 bier nlue Grfrdufllu95-
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un6 Die beiotn anoereu oil Sieur5 9ll,p, uoros
lptitlih. 9e 2eid)e Der tleinen 2tnnie gSbar-
ton, ptIfe 9eiteru Morgen in i5rer 8o6uung,
gir. 637, YzSnoBc, iiD0ltlid), an Den 8lat-
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9titriftsonuntte ernaunt. Son 9tugier bate
nan ais @aubioaten fiir Die StaDtpoimeiIter
Stclle biabcr gar gtlht8 pernOmntn. 0tan
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mars @inTluB oeutlld1 III leben lit.
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