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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-01-03
As A Source of Longevity.

At the Teachers Institute, held
here last week, one Of the subjects of
discussion was the use of tobacco.
One Of the speakers brilliant young
man, too,-used as an argument in
favor Of the tobacco habit, the state
ment that statistics show that men
live longer now than they did before
tobacco came into use.'' We do not
know whether the speaker wished to
create the impression that all the men
who reach a very old age are tobacco
users or not. But close investiga-
tion will doubtless prove that in very
few, if any, cases, has the longevity
of life been due to tobacco. We
might argse in the same vein as to
other habits Tobacco-using is re-
garded by very large portion Of the
American people as vice but not a
crime. Let US replace the vice with
crime, for the sake Of the argument.
w Z Au6W d uldH w IlO was a IlloC1 csU1O
drunkard, yet he lived to very old
age. Was his longevity attributable
to whisky? We knew man who
had stolen horse; and when we last
saw him he was in vigorous state Of
health. Was it horse-stealing that
made him rugged? We knew man
who had committed a murder; yet he
lived to an extreme old age. Was it
murder which heightened out his
years? We knew an old man who was
loafer, vagabond. Was it vagrancy
which caused his longevity?
No, no! The argument is wrong
one to use in Teachers Institute.
A very bad one to use in discussion
Of educational topics. 4 great many
very good men use tobacco. But this
does not argue that it is not very
filthy and useless habit. Tobacco is
to the doggery what the Sunday
School is to the Church. While
thousands of men use tobacco who
never drink intoxicating liquors, so
thousands of people attend Sunday
School who never-or scarcely ever
60 to Church. We doubt if any Of
our readers ever saw place where
liquor was sold, which did not also
have cigars for sale. No, friends,
smoke if you will, but do not attempt
to teach the young people that man
Will live longer because he stinks.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-01-03

A young man in Cincinnati, one
day last week, asked a police Lieuten-
ant to send him to the work-house
for thirty days. When questioned as
to the cause of such an unusual re-
quest he replied that he had been out
of work for three months, and had
been drunk, constantly for four days.
He knew that he was powerless to re-
sist the temptation to drink unless he
should be shut up in some place
where there would be no temptation,
until he became Strengthened out.
The police officer was induced to send
him in as a yagrant.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-01-03

A short time ago the Ironton pa
pers gave an account of couple of
Alf. Burnett's detective" arresting
a respectable colored man in that
city for a crime alleged to have been
committed elsewhere. The colored
man and his friends easily convinced
them Of his innocence. Now the
last number of the Gallipolis Journal
gives an account of the arrest, in that
place, of George Williams, colored
man from Virginia, by couple OF
Burnett's "detectives." He was put
in Jail, Burnett sent for, and when he
arrived he decided that Williams was
not the right man, but that he was
possibly wanted in Cincinnati for
something. The colored man was
held in Jail until the Auditor dis
charged him. The colored man i'm
mediately brought suit against the
amateur detectives" for damages.
This Burnett is the detective" who
undertook to lay the Ashland horror
upon a colored man in one of the up
river towns. He seems to be a. little
cranky upon the subject Of hunting
colored men. He will get hold of the
right "darkey" after while, if he
has not already done so.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-01-03

Near Muncie, Indiana, wild beast
Of some unknown species has been
roaming the forests and making night
hideous with unearthly howlings. A
party of men went to hunt the mon
ster but one howl put the whole crowd
of men and dogs to flight. After
recent snow, men tried to discover by
its tracks what the animal was like,
but they could not tell, by the tracks
"whether it was wolf or bear.
These Hoosiers are in as bad dilem-
ma as were the two Irishmen, who,
soon after their arrival in America
discovered a terrapin. "What is it.,
Pat?" said Jim, as he closely scruti-
nized its spotted shell. Faith, Jim,
said Pat, with a wise look, I'm not
quite Esure-but its ayther a rattle
snake or wild turkey"
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The Other Ok G0red.

A most nOfrlDle GllnS HAS o~Cu "a
at Yazoo City, Mississippi. Several
murderous "niggers" deliberately,
premeditatively, and in cold blood,
shot down and killed several Yazook
Democrats. This is not right, as the
Yazooks see the right. 1t is in the
nature of things down there for the
white gentlemen(?) to go cunning
for ''niggers" and they have not al
ways refused good shot at a white
Republican. At the recent election
in Copiah County, in that State,
Prent Mathews was deliberately Shot
down for voting the Republican tick
ct. He was fired upon Immediately
after depositing his ballot, by a
Democrat who professed to be his
friend.
But now there has been something
done on the other side. A dispatch
from Yazoo to the Commercial
Gazette, slops over with horror at the
idea of "three white men, in the
prime and vigor of their manhood" ="
being murdered by ''niggers''. 1t is
also stated that the fathers of the
slain men were gallant Confederates"
and that the "sons inherited the
bravery of their fathers" The affair
originated in a doggery, where the
murdered white gentlemen" were
drinking with the despised negroes.
The whites interfered in quarrel be-
tween the colored men, and one of
the latter dared-yes, actually dared
to use defensive language" toward
one Of the "white gentlemen" They
separated, and some time afterward,
while the offending colored man was
in butcher shop, these white men
went, armed, to the shop. The South
ern dispatch does not say what the
armed men were going to do IN the
shop. but there is every reason to be-
lieve that they went there and attack
ed the colored man while he was at
tending to his own business. The
dispatch says suddenly pistol was
fired" There is no statement as to
who fired the pistol, but it was doubt
less one Of the white Yazooks who
fired the pistol. Several colored men
rallied and made it so hot for the
white bulIies that three Of them were
killed, and others wounded. Says the
dispatch:
1.-THE result shows that the diaboli-
cal scheme, concocted in wanton
deviltry, and executed with unerring G
precision, was planned by the ne
groes.
Mark that! 1.-THE result shows
"wanton deviltry" on the part Of the
"niggers." Yet the white men went
to the butcher shop to be shot by the
colored man. We are assured that
''the whites are on the alert, and pre-
pared for any emergency" Also
that "the affair has no political
significance" Of course Gotl Still
every affray which the Mississippi
Democrats can bring about with the
colored men is that much toward
teaching the colored man his place
through the medium of murder, and
is part of the plan Of shooting g
Democrat into the Presidency. That
the colored men sometimes turn the
scale, and give the white murderefs &
dose of their own medicine is not {
public calamity.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-01-03

These Gubernatorial respites are so
much aid and comfort given to Judge
Lynch.-Woverly Republican.
Well, that depends upon the cir
cumstances surrounding the case. Ii
it be necessary to grant respite to
condemned men in order to convict a
brutal murderer, the hideousness OF
whose crime renders the crime OF
Guiteau pale by comparison, there
need be no fears Of a mob spirit in
such cases, nor Of very general feel
ing Of Indignation. Again, If the
clearing of brutal murderer-who
laughs at his convicted associates, and
defes public sentiment depends up
on having those associates put out of
the way before he is brought to trial,
the public will not waste great deal
Of energy in denouncing the Governor
for granting a respite. When the
testimony of condemned man
becomes necessary to convict the
brute who laid the devilish plot
which had murder for part of its
workings, there is but one proper
thing to be done-to keep the con-
demned man alive until his guilty
associate is convicted, and certain Of
the gallows. As to the recent case in
this County, we believe we have heard
the opinions Of more than five hun
dred of the very best men IN the
County, because we have made it our
business to note the effect upon the
minds of our citizens. Out Of all this
great number, just one expressed the
opinion that the execution ought to
have taken place on the 21st. And
when we Informed him that the testi-
mony of Jones was considered necess-
ary to the conviction Of Stevens, he
Immediately stated that he was very
glad the respite had been granted.
The people Of Jackson County are
greater than any murderer. They
want nothing but justice, and justice
then UiW hare.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-01-03

Last Sunday week Mrs. Howe, Of
Porter, Gallia County, was taking up
ashes, when her clothes took fire, and
she was so badly burned that she died
at Z o'clock the same evening. She
was 65 years of age, and the wife of
Rev. Fl. R. Howe, a Presbyterian
Minister. Mr.. Howe occasionally
preached at Oak Hill, nearly fifty
years ago.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-01-03
Ipswich, Oak,
Dec. %. 1888.
To the Editors of the Standard:

To the Editors of the Standard:
Please find enclosed one dollar, for
which you may send me the Standard
for one year. The weather is very
cold. ThermometerIhas been down as
low as 3S degrees below zero-snow
about - to Is inches deep. We have
a booming town, 60 days old, and
about or 500 inhabitants. We are
at the terminus Of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul r. R.
This road is heading for the Black
Hills, are about 65 miles from Mo.
River, at present, near the 46 paral-
lei of n latitude.
Yours truly,
]. A. ROACH.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-01-03
John Meyers, a Cincinnati loafer

John Meyers, Cincinnati loafer,
drank whisky on Christmas day until
he died. When the doggery-keeper
in whose den he had been sitting in a
drunken stupor for some time, saw
that something serious was the matter,
he hastily telephoned for the patrol
wagon and had Meyers removed to
the police-station where he died. His
death in the doggery where he got
his poison, would have ''gifen my
blace of peesness pad name" you
know.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-01-03
HOODS
SARSAPARlLLA

Has decided" claims upon the public. This
is positively proven by the immense good it.
has done to those who have been cured Of
diseases from which they have suffered in.
tenSely for years, as verified by the publish
ed testimonials, every one of which is a pos
tive fact.
CHELSEA, VT, Feb. "a, 1879.
;MEssRs. c. ]. HOOD s. Co, Lowell, Mass.s
The 9Th day OF last June was taken sick
with swelling on my right foot, and with an
awful pain. The swelling went all over me.
My face was swelled so that could with diff.
hculty see out OF my eyes, and broke out
over the whole surface of my body; my right
foot up to my knee was one raw, itching
mass, and my ankle and foot so lame and
sore could not step on it, and it would run
so as to wet bandage through in an hour.
In this condition Mr.. w. F. Hood (of the firm
S OF A; Il; Hood R 8 Son, druggists, of this town..
LA, and told me to take it. did so, and by
the time l had taken onebottle found that
it was doing me good. l have since taken
five bottles more. After had taken three
bottles my soreness began to leave me, and
have been growing better every day, SO
mat today can walk without going lame.
1 nave no soreness in my ankle and it has
healed all up, and does not run at all. I owe
my recovery to your Sarsaparilla. writ1
this to let you know that / think 1t deserves
the confidence of the public, especially those
who are troubled with humors.
Yours most truly.
JOSIAH PITKIN.
never would get over my lameness without
navlng running sore on my ankle; but
thank God have. ; J.P.
Mother Sarsaparilla has such sharpening
effect upon the appetite. No other prepa.
ration tones and strengthens the digestive
organs like HOODS SARsAPARILLA.
Price one dollar, or six bottles for five dol
lars; Prepared only by c. l. HOOD g. co,
Apothecaries, Lowell. Mass.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-01-03

Andno notfes shreby given the sewers Tracts o r
much thereof
bepdbe tie,a be from
B. B. EVANS, County Auditor.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-01-03
LOST :

a white-faeed steer; line back red around eyes
red Sides white belly and white on bush of TAIL
Past year old, weight about 500 lbs. suitable
reward viii be given 10 any one giving Information
that will lead his recovery. Strayed about the
middle of September, 1888. w. A. MCCLURE, JR.,S
jackson, Ohio,
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-01-03

DELINQUENT LAND SALE.
18 g.

Of Lots Delinquent by the Treasurer of
with the penalty charged thereon
bly, contained and described in the following list
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Notice.

The undersigned has been appointed by the Pro-
pate Court of Jackson County, Ohio, Administrator
Coal Township, in said County.
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Notice.
STATE OF OHIO, }
PROBATE COURT.

JACKSON COUNTY. SS.)
Notice is hereby given that the resignation and
final account of j. H. Roseboom, Assignee of he drug
of Ambrose Scott, has been filed in this Court
or settlement and the is set for hearing Friday,
january IS. 1884. at 10 O'Clock A. NJ.
In witness whereof, have hereuntO set my hand
the seal of said Court at jackson, o., this 24th
day of Dec, A. ID. 1885, - - ,,
3jan3w ID. =. MILLER, judge
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-09-20
Angling THE COLOR ny7
FLO WERS.
Popular Science Monthly.l

Our knowledge Of the chemistry of
vegetable pigments is not yet sufficiently
advanced, for which reason the effect of
artificial influence upon the color.tone of
flowers has not yet received its meritcd
attention, According to my view, tannin
is an important factor in the generation
Of vegetable colors; it is found in almost
every plant, the petals not excepted, and
by the action OF the most varying rea.
gents--alkalies, earths, metallic salts,
etc.-it assumes the most manifold bues
from pale rose to deep black. A darker
color Is produced in flowers rich in tan.
min, when manured with iron salts. dye
black and produce ink. A practical use
is made of this fact in the raising of nor,
tenslas and dablias. The former, which,
in ordinary soil, blossomed pale.red, be-
came sky.bluo when transplanted into
soil heavily manured with iron ochre, or
when occasionally watered with dilute
alum solution. English gardeners sue.
eeeded in growing black dahlas by sim.
liar manipulations. 1t is well known to
every tiorist that a change of location,
that is change of light, temperature and
soil (replanting), occasionally produces
new colors, whence it may be deduced
that an interrupted nutrition of the
flower may, under circumstances, effect
change OF color. We see no valid reason
why the well.authenticated fact of the
change OF color produced by manuring
with iron oxide, thereby changing the
nutrition Of the plant, should not be
practically employed by the hothouse
gardener. Another very singular and
successful experiment in producing a
change Of color in d bird has recently
been made. A breeder of canary birds
conceived the idea of feeding a young
bird with mixture OF stepped bread and
finely pulverized red Cayenne pepper.
Without injuring the bird, the pigment
OF the spice passed into the bird and
dyed its plumage deep red. The cele-
brated ornithologst, Russ, believes that
the color of the plumage of birds might
be altered according to desire by using
appropriate reagents.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-09-20
Saturday, the 9th day of October.
NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HERTBY GIVEN THAT APPLY.
~ CAT ION for PATENTS for Town lets, be.
cir ming at post marked No. !, sE corner
Of the Town OF Bristol: Thence q mineral
monument No. bears 8 72h dt erets T %, $40
feet; mineral monument No.2 tta1 dirg at
the northeast corner Ct sixth ard Main streets.
In the Town of Bristol, bears N 50h degrees W
l,C6O feet
First course, 7Ok degrees " 2,flo feet 10
post marked No. 2, coILtr Town Of Bristol:
thence, % course. N 1917 deere, W 2,6d0 feet
to post marked Nos, NV corner Town Of Br,s.
tol; thence, Sd course, Ton dc grees l. .ele
feet to pot marks ID No. 4, NE corner Town OF
Bristol; and thence, 4th course y l9k 6erres
2,640 feet to post No. the place Of be- ginning.
containing one hundred. and sixty acres, ond Be,
ing the Townsite Of Bristol, Lincoln County
State Of Nevada, must be made to the urder.
signed on or before the llth day Of February,
A. D. 1884 or be forever barred. See Conf lied
Laws Of the State Of Nevada, D. llS, vol ..
section 1850, act approved Februsry 2Oth, 1860.
Application must be fled with A. J. Nlair
Bristol. Nevada.
b ENRY R1vES,
aul1'et TRUSTEE Of I ,wnsite Of Dris
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-09-20

The experiments made with the de-.
capitated head Of Campi by French
scientist showed, DR.. Petitgand says, l.
That the head on being separated from
the body remains in possession of all its
faculties if the hemorrhage does not pass
certain limits, and if the proportion Of
oxygen in the blood is sufficient for keep.
ing up the nervous functions for a
few short moments, which can never ex.
ceed half q minute. 2-That repeated
convulsive maxilliary movement after the
separation of the head from the body,
generally called "biting the DUST" are
nothing but reflex action common in
cases of acute asphyxia. Those OF us
who may expect to be beheaded may
therefore be comforted in the reflection
that our heads in no case live more than
thirty seconds after they have been sew.
cred from our bodies.
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NOTICE..

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ books OF Registration for the general
Il ction, to BE- held November 4, 1884, FIR tins
election OF State, Oounty a9d Township Off RS
sre now open, and will remain open daily, on
all legal days. from 10 o'clock A N to 6 O'Clock
nntil Oct Iber 10, 1884, and fcom october
TO- 1884. to October 81, 1884, front to Q O'Clock
P. NJ, in addition to the hours heretofore men.
toned at which time the 1oks for r g straton
will close at 6 O'Clock p. NJ. The law requires
natura IL ID citizens 10 exhibit their certificates
of naturalization at thJ time they present them
selves for registration.
LOUIS STERN,
Registry Agent, Hiko Precinct, Lincoln county,
hnYAla
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-09-20
THE TERROR OF DURANGO.

Bernal, after the death of Ramirez, de.
voted himself to stage robbing, diversi-
he'd with an occasional descent upon
some of the small towns. As he robbed
only the rich rancheros or the mining
companies and spent his money with a
liberal hand among the poor laborers, he
was for time quite popular. The Fed
eral soldiers and the Juez de Cordada
both found it impossible to catch him, or
even when they did come upon him his
luck always seemed to save him. At one
time company of soldiers rode into a
ranch where he was standing by his
horse, taking drink of milk They rec
ognlzed him at once and charged. He
sprang to his horse, jumped the corral
fence, and made for the brush. the cav.
airy at his heels. The lieutenant in com.
mand, who was better mounted than the
re t, gained on him, but by this time
both Their pistols were empty, for con-
stant tusillade had been kept up. As
they came nearly abreast, Bernal threw
his empty pistol at the officer and
knocked him from the saddle. He had
now reached the edge of the chaparral.
where he dismounted and continued his
tight on foot. The soldiers also entered
on foot in pursuit, feeling certain of his
capture, as he was now dsarmed. In
the meantime his captured horse had
been led back to the ranch and tied to
the corral fence Bernal, instead of
plunging into the depths of the chaparral,
had merely hid himself at the edge, while
the soldiers had gone completely past
him; so, seeing the coast clear, he walked
back, picked up his pistol, mounted his
horse and rode off.
Bernal finally became so bold in his
operations that the State government was
forced to station force OF two hundred
gendarmes in small squadrons along the
Canlno real, with orders to pursue him
day and night. Bernal then organized
barefoot brigade, a party of ten or twelve
men, who travelled on foot to avoid as
much as possible the risk Of being follow.
ed by their trail, and also to be able to
go through the country regardless Of
roads. At the head of this band he en-
tered Guadalupe de las Reyes, town OF
several thousand inhabitants, at midday,
and robbed the stores before resistance
could be made. At one time the gend.
armes-mounted state troops-surprised
his camp and killed his brother, leaving
the body hanging from tree. At night
Bernalreturned, cut down the corpse and
buried it.
To follow this man in all his exploits
would fill volume. He is still at large,
the terror of Sinaloa and Durango. His
success seems to be due to great luck,
pluck and astuteness, and the fact that
the poor Mexicans will always aid any
one who rises his hand against the Gov.
ernment or the rich. They regard him
as brave man and not a criminal, envy
his pluck and fame, and sympathize with
him when at last brought to justice.
Bernal, in the next revolution that breaks
out, if he il not killed before, is sure to
become a person OF consequence. His
fame and knowledge Of guerrilla fighting
would be an aid to any party, and his be.
ginnings were not very different from
those of many Mexican generals. --[Corr
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-09-20

THE BLACK DEATH. The black death
OF the fourteenth century, believed by
some to have been Asiatic cholera, al.
though the symptoms, as described by
the historians of the day, differ widely,
actually desolated the world. 1t is com.
puted that $4,000, 900 perisfed in China,
and elsewhere in the East about 25, 000,.
600 more. Germany lost nearly 800
600; Italy half its entire population; Lon.
don alone in excess of 100000. In Eu.
rope fully 10000, 600 must have died, and
in all quarters of the globe, not far from
70, 900, 900.
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Tuesday, the 18th day of May,

A. D. 1884. between the hours of 8 O'Clock in
the morning and O'Clock in the aftern on
namely, ut IL O'Clock ". Of said day, I will sell
all the right, title and interest of said American
Flag Mill and Mining Company in aud to the
above described property, and the smlllest
amount or par 'el Of i'd property to satisfy tho
said above sum Of $'9l9, tax delinquency
costs and accrutng costs, at the front door of
the County Court Hbuse at Phoebe. County OF
Lincoln, State Of Nevi Ia, at public auction, for
CASH in hand. to the bidder, for the least
amou A OF the above property, to satisfy said
execution and all costs.
O.P. SHERWOOD, Sheriff
By 8. D. SMITH. Deputy Sherih. al2td