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Sharp County record., 1890-03-20
The Cemetery Fence.
Call fer Club Meeting.

The Jackson Democratic Club Of
Sullivan township, is hereby called to
meet at BrickelPS spring on Satur-
day at 2 o'clock p. m., March Goth,
for the purpose of electing new Of,
icers and attending to such other
business as may be deemed of inter,
est to the club and conducive to the
success of the democratic party. We
solicit a full attendance of the club
and cordially invite all our fellow
citizens to meet and join with us,
without regard to tn cir former party
affiliations, who are opposed to the
government taxing the many for the
benefit of the few, or the laborlng
class OF our citizens for the benefit
of the manufacturing class. And
we respectfully invite those who are
opposed to our views upon political
issues to meet with US when conven.
lent, as we are making no war upon
the freedom of thought nor action
in political matters, but are only
IaborinS for what we deem to be for
the best interests Of the whole cOun-
try. w. G. MATHEW,
s D Johnston, President.
Secretary.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-02
CoNTRIBUTIoN-sOx CURloS.
Coins of Many Countries Discovered by a
Church Treasurer.

Coins of Many Countries Discovered by a
Church Treasurer.
When people read the paragraphs in
the funny papers about the buttons and
the punched and the counterfeit coins
which are dropped in the contribution
boxes, they usually give the men who
wrote the article credit for drawing
largely upon his Imagination. The
fact of the matter is, however, that the
truth is funnier than all the humorous
mems fictions. The treasurers of nearly
every church in the city send regularly
to the United States Sub-Treasury lot
Of punched coins on which they realize
not much more than half their face
value. The counterfeit coins are usually
destroyed.
The treasurer of one of the best
known Catholic churches in the city
showed the writer collection of
punched coins the other day the face
value of which amounted to about ten
dollars, and all Of which were put into
the contribution boxes in one month. A
queer-looking collection it was, too.
There were coins representing nearly
every civilized nation in the world.
Among the collection were German
pfennings, English sixpences, shillings
and half-crown pieces, and a six-pence
struck in honor of Queen Victoria
in the year of her jubilee; Canadian
pieces, French ffty-centime pieces of
the time when Napoleon ruled that
country and pieces of the same demon.
ination struck since the country became
a republic; Mexican coins, pieces from
Venezuela and coins from numerous
other countries.
The largest piece was United States
half dollar; there were several of these.
There were number of quarters,
dimes, half-dimes, fve-cent and three.
cent silver and nickel pieces and copper
one-cent pieces, all mutilated, either by
having hole punched in them, or o
piece cut out of the edge. Each hole
was carefully plugged with lead so that
the sharp-eyed collector would not OBJ
serve that the piece was mutilated un-
less he inspected it closely. There
were more dimes than pieces of all the
other denominations put together.
No doubt many OF these pieces have
an interesting history, for the reason
that many OF them contain monograms,
and during the time that bangle brace
lets were the rage they undoubtedly
adorned some fair wrist Some 0: ther.
were undoubtedly tokens of love. an2
how they found their way into tho con-
tribution box will probably remain
mystery. Perhaps some Of them were
spent in dire necessity and finally
reached the contribution box after pass
ing through several hands. May be
some of them were spent for caramels,
by proud beauty to show her disdain
for her former admirer. Possibly some
of them were lost.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-02
LAST SLAVE VOYAGE,
The Shipping, Slowing and Feeding
.. Cargo of Slaves.

The Shipping, Slowing and flooding of a
.t Cargo of Slaves.
During the embarkation I was en-
gagged separati those negroes who did
not appear robust, or who had received
some trifling injury in getting on deck,
and sending them to an improvised hos
pital made by bulk-heading space in
the rear of the forecastle. The others,
as they arrived, were slowed away by
the Spanish mate; so that when all were
aboard there was just room for each to
lie upon one side. AS no one knew
what proportion the men were, all were
herded together. The next morning
the separation took place; the women
and girls were all sent on deck. and
numbered about four hundred. Then a
close bulkhead was built across the ship
and other hunks constructed. The wo-
men were sent below, and enough men
sent up to enable the carpenter to have
room to construct additional hunks. A
more docile and easily managed lot of
creatures can not be imagined. No vio-
lence of any kind was necessary; it was
sometimes difficult to make them under
stand what was wanted; but as soon as
they comprehended immediate compli-
anoc followed.
The negroes were now sent on deck in
groups Of eight and squatted around a
large wooden platter, heaping full Of
cooked rice, beans and pork. cut into
small cubes. The platters were made
by cutting of the head of -four or other
barrels. leaving about four inches Of
the slaves. Each negro was given
wooden spoon, which all on board had
amused themselves in making during
our forty-day trip. Barrel slaves were
sawed into lengths Of eight inches, split
into other pieces one and half inches
wide, and then shaped into spoon with
our pocket-knives. 1t was surprising
what good spoons could be made in that
manner. A piece Of rope yarn tied to q
spoon and hung around the neck was
the way in which every individual re-
tained his property. There not being
room on deck for the entire cargo TO
feed at one time, platters were sent be-
tween decks, so that all ate at one hour,
three times daily. Casks Of water were
placed in convenient places, and an
abundant supply furnished day and
night-George Howe, N. D.. IN Scribner.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-02
VACATION.

IT'S planning for month ahead and purchasing
with care
Gay flannel shirts and blazer coats and scarfs
and things to wear;
Then with racket and bag and lots OF fine
cigars
You say goodbye" and Of you rush to catch
the boat or cars
IT'S stepping in a boarding house and feeling
rather strange
While with the older boarders furtive glances
you exchange;
But soon you get acquainted and maiden you
select
with whom to fiirt and fall in love--in case she
don't object
Itsplayng tennis with the girls and lots of silly
talk
And taking with your chosen one alovely moon.
light walk,
And rowing with her on the lake and hunting
flowers wild.
And dancing with her at the hops and being
more beguiled.
IT'S feeling like millionaire and spending
money free
Without thought of afterwards-for any thing
you see
It's getting rid ofpusiness cares and troubles OF
the town
And putting on your happy face healthy hue
of brown
It's being Just in Paradise that hasn't any end
With, Oh, the sweetest angel you devotedly at
tend
And falling head and ears in love-then sudden
ly you know
But one more day OF bliss is left ere back in
town you'll go.
It's spending the last evening in silent sorrow,
sweet,
Alone with her and promisngto to write and often
meet;
Too soon the awful moment comes when you
and she must part,
And woefully you board the cars-broken in
purse and heart.
It's feeling simply wretched when you strike
the dusty town
To bear again the burdens that you for awhile
laid down;
And for week you dream about the Paradise
you've lost
Till all at once, you realize the fortune it has
cost.
It's going without dinners and all other pleas.
ures, too,
And trying hard to borrow so you're able to pull
through H..
While paying for your summer fun that brought
you into debt,
And writing Her long letters-that she hasn't
answered yet.
H. c. Dodge, in Goodalls SUI.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-02

These questions were not addressed
to Bessie, but to the hitherto hidden
young man; as Mrs. Ford and Bessie
entered the dining-roor they had dis.
covered him.
Mrs. Ford sent me over here to soc II
her missing guest was here. As she
did not find her there when she got
home she has sent scouts out in search
OF her." was the reply.
well, you go back an tell Hammer
that her company's a-visitin' with me,
an when we git done supper we'll go
over to her house; an tell her, too, that
about. Well, why don't you step along?
You know Hanner'll be fdgctin' till she
gifts some word.''
Although he did not seem to think 1t
was well" to quote Mrs. Caroline's
favorite expletive, he had no excuse tor
dallying any longer. As soon as he
was gone, Bessie's hostess explained
that he was only one of the minister S
summer boarders.
"a likely young fellow, who is
fonder o. bugs and butterflies than any
grown man Fever seel" she added, with
laugh. ''He come to me one mornin'
with common striped butterfly, an
asked me If he might have the creetur.
/ was struck all of a heap, and fur a
minute thought sure he was luny;
but then he told me he was a etymo-
logis', an wrote for the papers about
bugs an things. i told him he could
hev all sich creeturs they wuz on my
land, an welcome; so yis'dy he showed
me newspaper that he'd piece in it
tellin' about that very butterfly! He
goes home tonight, an / shell miss
him lots"
Bessie did not express her opinion;
but when, On arriving at Hannah
Ford's, she heard that Harry yelling,
the young "etynologis', had suddenly
decided not to leave Ford's Mills just
yet, she thought that perhaps the sum-
mer might be pleasant, even if country
life was monotonous and quiet
1t happened that Bessie also was fond
OF "bugs an things" SO she and young
yelling had common interest to start
with; and it was not long before Harry
found that she had impaled his heart
among her specimens. OF course he
could not be so ungallant as to ask her
to return it, but he managed to capture
hers in its place, so both treasure-hunt-
ers were happy.
1t was not, however, until yelling
had had favorable interview with
Bessie's father that she or any of the
denizens of Ford's Mills learned that
entomology was pastime with him,
not profession, and that comfort
able income of some twenty thousand
dollars per annum allowed him to study
nature because he loved her. Then, too,
he owned to Bessie that he had con-
tracted an aversion to fashionable but
terflies," and that his haste to leave
Ford's Mills had been caused by hear
ing that she was to spend the summer
there. His change of plan was made
when, sitting unseen in Mrs. Caroline
Ford's dining-room, he overheard the
l have quoted, and the
first glance he gave at Bessie's winning
face made him anxious to add to his
fine collection of specimens just this
one unique specimen of fashionable
tterhy."-Frances e. Wadleigh, in
Magazine.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-02
THE MINISTER'S FAMILY.
A Glimpse of Life in the Years Precedin
the Revolution,

A Glimpse of Lite in the Years Preceding
the Revolution.
The veneration of the people of New
England for the clergy, and the dignity
of the ministers themselves, in the
years just prior to the American revolu-
tion, are succinctly set forth, in at least
one respect, by the venerable Josiah
Quincy of those days, as follows: BE
fore the time of service the congrega-
ton gradually assembled in early sea-
son, coming on foot or on horseback, the
ladies behind their lords or brothers or
one another, on pillions, so that before
the time of service the whole space
before the NEE ting-house was filled
with a waiting, respectful and expect
ing multitude. AT the moment of serv-
ice the pastor issued from his mansion,
with Bible and manuscript sermon un-
der his arm, with his wife leaning on
one arm, flanked by his negro man on his
side, as his wife was by her negro wom-
an, the little negroes being distributed,
according to their sex, by the side of
their respective parents. Then fol-
lowed every other member of the fami-
ly, according to age aid rank, max
ing often, with family visitants, some
what of formidable procession. AS
soon as it appeared, the congregation,
as if moved by one spirit, began to move
towards the door of the church, and be-
fore the procession reached it, all were
in their places. AS soon as the pastor
reached the church the whole congrega-
tion rose and stood until the pastor was
in the pulpit and his family seated
until which was done the whole assem-
bly, continued standing. At the close
of the service the congregation stood
until he and his family had left the
church before any one moved towards the
or."-Christian at Work.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-02
EXERCISE AND HEALTH.
The Young Woman of the Future Prom
ises to Fuifill the Poets Ideal.


ises to Fulfill the Poets Ideal.
Exercise, with both men and women,
is a question of intelligence consid-
Grafton of kind and quality, rather than
of degree. The subject has for women
peculiar embarrassments and limita-
tions, particularly in the close house,
bound life Of the city. In the country
there are the natural morning duties,
with open windows and flooding sun.
light; the walk to the depot or for the
mail, quiet and calming; the long
piazzas. In the city, nine women out OF
ten are victims of morning gowns and
slippers. A mans hat coat and gloves
hang in the hallway, always in readi-
ness. What would he say II boots,
trousers and coat were to be changed.
after an hour before he could get out
for breath of air? While many women
still follow the traditions of delicacy
and helplessness that have for so many
years enshrined and enfeebled their
sex, yet they have come, all the same, to
understand, through the efforts OF many
of their sisters who must perforce be
strong, that poor physique puts wom-
an at odds, and at the mercy Of others
when the stress OF life comes In the
new creed to which women are giving
allegiance 1T will come to be an article
in time that weakness, unless inherited,
is sin. The young woman OF the future
will fulfill the poets ideal: "She gave
him her hand; ii was not a helpless one."
Emma Moffett Tying, in Harper's Ba-
Zar.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-02
ALBERT OF SAxONY.
The Most Important and Influential ,
Germany's Minor sovereigns.

The Most Important and Influential of
Germany's Minor sovereigns.
There is to-day King of Saxony,
descended six removes from this August,
who is distinctly the most interesting
and valuable of these minor sovereigns.
He is sagacious, prudent, soldier-like
man, nominal ruler of over three millions
of people, actual Field Marshal in tn
German army which has Hohenzollern
for its head. Although he really did
some of the best fighting which the
Franco-German war called forth, no
body outside his own court and military
circles know much about it or cares par
ticularly about him. The vory fact of
his rank prevents his generalship Sc
curing popular recognition. If he had
been merely of noble birth, or even a
commoner, the chances are that he
would now be chief of the German gem
eral staff instead of Count Waldersee.
But being only King, his merits as
commander are comprehended alone by
experts.
There is just bare possibility that
this King Albert may be forced by cir
cumstances out of his present obscurity.
He is only sixty-two years old, and If
war should come within the next decade
and bring defeat to the German army in
the field, there would be strong effort
made by the other subsidiary German
sovereigns to bring him to the front as
generalissimo.
AS it is his advice upon military mat
ters is listened to in Berlin more than
is generally known, but in other re-
spects his position is melancholy one.
Even the kindliness with which the
Kaisers have personally treated him
since 1870 can not but wear to him the
annoying guise of patronage. He was
man of thirty-eight VIII en- his father,
King John. was driven out of Dresden
by Prussian troops, along with the
whole royal family, and when for weeks
1t seemed probable that the whole king
dom of Saxony would be annexed to
Prussia. Bismarck's failure to insist
upon this was bitterly criticised in
Berlin at the time, and Gustave Frey
tag actually wrote book deprecating
the further independent existence Of
Saxony. Freytag and the Prussians
generally confessed their mistake after
the young Saxon Crown Princes sp!en-
did achievement at Sedan, but that
could scarcely wipe from his memory
what had gone before, and even now,
after the lapse Of quarter of century,
King Alberts delicate, clear-cut, white
whiskered face still bears the impress Of
melancholy stamped on 1t by the hui
miliations of 1866. Eugene Field, in
Chicago News.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-02
REGARDING OLD AGE.
DIR. Holmes Welcomes 1t as a Season OF
Peace and Enjoyment.

Have been carved for many year
On the tomb.
The world was garden to me then;
it is churchyard now.
81 thought you were one of those who
looked upon old age cheerfully, and
welcomed it as season of peace and
contented enjoyment"
am one of those who SO regard it.
Those are not bitter or scalding tears
that fall from my eyes upon the ''mossy
marbles" The young who left my side
early in my life's journey are still with
me in the unchanged freshness and
beauty of youth. Those who have long
kept company with me live on after
their seeming departure, were 1t only
by the mere force of habit; their images
are all around me, as IL every surface
had been sensitive film that photo
graphed them; their voices echo about
me, as If they had been recorded on
those unforgetting cylinders which
bring back TO us the tones and accents
that have imprinted them, as the ex-
tinct animals left their tracks on the
hardened sands. The melancholy of
old age has divine tenderness in 1t,
which only the sad experiences of life
can lend human soul. But there is q
ment and easy acquiscence in the con-
ditions In which we find ourselves;
lower level, in which old age trudges
patiently when 1t is not using its wings.
say its wings, for no period of life Is
so Imaginative as that which looks to
younger people the most prosaic. The
atmosphere of memory is one in which
imagination flies more easily and feels
itself more at home than In the thinner
ether Of youthful anticipation. Oliver
Wendell Holmes, in Allan tic.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-02

Wife (who lives In house buflt of
Claus Spreckels' patent petrified sugar
blocks)-O. Henry, como here, quick
Husband What's the matter?
Wife-Baby has eaten o big hole clear
through the kitchen wall, and the rain
Is coming in!--Light
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-02
Cause ana EHect,

Proprietorl lastonished) = Whewl Three
hundred subscribers in one mail. j
wonder what In giving our paper such a
boom? rtf 'at4
Managing Editor (gleefully)--I killed
our funny mans jokes on death by cleo
tricity. ty.-Texas Slftings.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-02

Miss Slymme-"How do you like
my new gown, dear@' Miss Plompe-
swell, 1t isn't 80 bad But it has a
rather odd-looking figure in it, think"
About thirty minutes later. Miss
Slymme-'I wonder II that hateful
thing was referring to mo? These goods
arc perfectly PLAIN. "-Terre Haute Ex-
PROSE-.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-02
1t Was Conclusive.

Mrs Livewayt (of ohicago)-Yes.
young Mr.. Laker wanted to marry our
Susie, bnt put my foot right down ON
it.
Mrs. North River with glance at
Mrs. Livewayt's feet)--Well, that cov-
cred the grouud.-West Shore.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-02
A warrior Bold.

A lawyer gave dinner party, after
which the gentlemen retired to smoke
and chat All at once he got up, took
down sword which formed part OF q
trophy, and, brandishing it in the air,
exclaimed:
"Ah gentlemen, / shall never forget
the day when ] drew this blade for the
first time!"
pray, whore did you draw itp" said
IN inquiring guest.
"At rattle" was the lawyers rea
joiner.
Daily Republican., 1890-03-06
DIED.

JONES.-on March 4, 1890, Martha Jones.
Relatives and friends are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral from tho
residence of her sister, Mary y. Writ,
No. 3l3 4. Front street, oil Friday after
noon. Services Mt the house Mt 2o'clock
lnturment ut Mt. Salem cemetery.
QUESTION March 4, 1880, Lydia NJ,
widow Of tho late Nathan Guest aged
50 years.
Relatives and friends are respectfully
| invited to attend her funeral from the
residence of her son-in-lRw, Charles ii.
| Dickey, Stanton, Del, on Friday morn
| ing, without further notice. Services NJ
| the house at 10 O'Clock. lntcrment ut
| Red Clay Creek Cemetery. Chester
| county. Pa, papers please copy.
MARSDEN-On March I, Jane. widow OF
tho late WIN. Marsden. In her 10th
year.
Relatives and friends are invited to
attend her funeral from the residence ~
her son-in-law, John Tyre, at Riverview
OH Friday afternoon, at 2o'clock. Inter
ment At MI. Salem Cemetery.
NAXwELI.-On March 3, 1890. Arthur J
Maxwell, aged % years.
Relatives are invited to attend ser
vices at his late residence, No. 405 West
Third street. on Friday morning. the I'll
inst. ut II o'clock. interment private.
SwAYNE.-ln West Chester, Pa, OF
March 8. 1890, Thomas Swayne, former
ly of Chester Heights, in tho 9th yea
of his age.
Relatives and friends are respectfully
) invited to attend his funeral from hi
late residence, No, ~ Dean street, Yves
Chester, Pa, on Monday. the 10Th inst
without further notice. lntermcnt
Cumberland cemetery.
Daily Republican., 1890-03-06
CAUGHT In THE ACT.

A Daring Piece of Spunky Cheek.
A few weeks ago an article appeared in
this paper regarding certain psople OBJ
tanning goods under peculiar circun-
stancef, they pretending at the time thai
the articles were for their own individ-
oil uf Yesterday one Of those Gun
ming things in tho shape OF human
soul entered the place where the parties
reside Who made the ann ouDcement, and
the lame excuse introduced instantly set
the sslesman's thinking power into opera
ton. The clerk plainly pu. the luest on
to the stranger: Are these goods you de-
sire for your own use? The fellow feel-
In. that he was eaurht at his own game,
CON essed that public sentiment ian 80
high In the county regarding the saeri-
dec sale that he wanted the clothing fol
speculatipg purposes.
Well, to bo brief, lie didn't get them
as the goods are for actual consumer
and not peddiers. 1t will be we'll TO re.
member tina. this great sacrifice OF cloth.
ing will only last few days longer in
tie store room oil the 'Hall OF Econ.
omy." o Market street, this city, and
tue first come ire first 10 obtain q slice Of
thi, great unheard-o OF sacrifice.