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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-11
A BOSS BULL FIGHTER.
How an Indiana Regiment Got Fresh
Bcef During tho War.

How an Indiana Regiment Got Fresh
Beef During tho War.
Some of the members of the late
Tooth Indiana volunteers are wont to
refer to Capt. G. w. Brouse, of that
regiment, as "boss of the bull fight
ers." To this he retorts that the regi-
ment had large number of toreadors.
1t appears that in one of the Georgia
campaigns the captain was sent out
with a command to forage. After
long search that had been fruitless
he entered a house and found two
women and several children within.
They said the men folks were hid in
the woods. This, the federals knew,
probably meant that they were in the
confederate service. The women had
nothing in the house that would make
a meat for hungry "Yank" AS the
union men were leaving the premises
they saw on hill far away several
cattle.
"Whose cattle are those?" the cap
tain demanded.
"They are mine," one of the women
replied. II hope you will not take
them. From their milk we have sub
sisted for months. The children have
nothing else, and without the milk
they would have starved. But there is
an animal among them, not milch
COW, that cannot object to your taking
if you give me quarter of the beef.
You will find him hard to approach
and dangerous ut close range"
The federal captain directed his men
to strengthen the stake and rider fence
around the barn lot. When this was
done, the company deployed and drove
the bull into the inclosure. The captain
mounted the fence at the highest and
strongest section and sent skirmishers
into the inclosure. 1t was in the enc
my's country, and orders were positive
forbidding the discharge of firearms
unless attacked by the confederates.
With fixed bayonets the troop advanced
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-11
MONEY IN LEGISLATION.
The Costliness of the international scram-
Bile for Gold.

Our present monetary system in
legislation and in practice is condi-
tion of unstable equilibrium. The
party standing for free silver coinage
is stronger than ever before. AT the
same time the opposition to free silver
is also stronger. Many men, like SEQ
retary Carlisle himself, have been con-
verted to the party of gold monometal-
lism by the difficulty of maintaining
gold basis during the recent crisis.
Several attempts have been made to
secure, by agreement between the
United States and the chief European
states, the adoption of bimetallic
money at n common international
ratio, but all such attempts have
failed.
The national banks are urgent for
the retirement of the greenbacks and
such reorganization of the bank note
circulation as will give the country
n safe paper circulation and secure the
entire profit of it to the banks. A party
also exists in favor of repeating the tax
on state bank notes SO as to introduce
new competitors where consolidation
is the first principle of efficiency.
1t is impossible to predict the out
come of this tangle. There is no rea-
son to doubt that the country as
whole will insist on maintaining
sound currency. The American peo-
pie as a whole have always believed in
paying their debts to the full require
ment of the bond even if they have to
be unjust to themselves as debtors to
do it.
Unless England will consent to in
ternational bimetallism, there seems
no escape for the United States from
permanent single standard of gold.
1t is a costly sport to maintain this i'm
ternational scramble for gold. The
great banking systems of Europe are
ceaselessly, steadily piling up gold re-
serves to higher and higher point.
They cling nervously to their stores
and seek every means to increase them.
If this condition continues we must
consolidate our national banks into
more compact and more centralized
system. bring this system into closer
relations with the government, and
| actively enter the lists with Europe in
the struggle for gold. If England
would but say "bimetallism" there
might be financial peace in Europe and
| America. But England adopted gold
monometallism in 1916. and England
seldom unlearns anything within 100
years.-Prof. Sidney Sherwood, Phi. d,
in Chautauquan.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-11
A KNIFE BLADE IN HIS BODY.
Two Inches of Steel In a Soldiers shouI-
der Thirty Years.

Two Inches of Steel in Soldiers Shoul-
der Thirty Years.
A knife blade two inches in length
was removed the other day by Supt.
Sutter, of the city hospital, from the
shoulder of Mike Ryan, one of the pa
tients at that institution. The blade
had been in Ryan's body for more than
30 years, and although it had prevented
Ryan from the use of his left arm, it
had never given him very much pain.
DR.. Sutter considers it remarkable that
blood poisoning did not set in.
Ryan tells the following story of his
injury: In the summer of 1862 he was
in Washington, ID. c., with large body
of union recruits that had just come
from the north. Some of them began
drinking and soon a quarrel arose be-
tween two of the soldiers. One of the
men drew a dirk in his anger and acci-
dentally stabbed Ryan in the left shoul-
der. The dirk snapped short, leaving
about two inches of the blade in Ryan's
body. Ryan says that several physi-
clans probed for it unsuccessfully. He
continued his career in the army, and
has since it's conclusion led a Wander
ing sort of life. He lived number of
years at the soldiers home at heaven
worth, Kan, but last May left that
institution. Since then he has been
travelling around with Pawnee Bills
Wild West show. On Wednesday aft
ernoon he became sick and was Haken
to the hos ital.
Although I.yan is 65 years old, he is
rapidly recovering from the operation
of removing the blade. - ST. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-11
INVITATIONS OF BUTTER.
Nearly Hundred Patents Issued
for Their Manufacture.
Bogus Butter Makers VIII oppose Ma
tiopal Legislation Calculated to
Interfere with Their Busi-
ness interests.
Special Washington Letter.

1t is not generally known, but it is n
fact, that all of the cows of America
could not produce enough butter to
supply the amount which is consumed
in the states east of the Mississippi
river. The government has issued
nearly hundred patents for various
methods of making artificial butter.
The first imitation of butter was pat
ented in 1873; and the subject was
gravely discussed from scientific and
hygienic standpoint. The commission
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-11

The brick tea of Thibet is made
from tea sweepings, broken leaves and
refuse, mixed with bullocks' blood,
pressed into rectangular blocks and
Bewed up in skins. 1t is never exported
from Thibet except ss q curiosity.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-11
ON GUARD DUTY.

Dutchy Didn't Want to Wait for the
"SheneraL"
Brown, q relative of the Saunterer,
who was a volunteer during the civil
war. joining one of Boston's crack three
yer regiments, tells an interesting
story of guard duty. During a cam
paign il South Carolina, when an at
TACK seemed imminent. the out-posts
were changed and the pickets doubled.
He was detailed to one post with Ger
man named Jacob Paff. AS it seemed
unnecessary that both should keep
guard the entire night Jacob turned
in" upon his rubber blanket and slept
the sleep of the just. When half the
night had passed he was awakened by
his companion and the arrangement re-
versed.
Hardly had the narrator of this story
fallen asleep when he was reused by a
gentle shaking of his heel and an awe
stricken whisper from his companion:
"Prown! Prown!"
"What is it, Jacob?"
81 watch oud here Won long dime. Unit
while watch l hear Won pig noise. unit
watch and watch unit der noise come
nearer unit nearer, unit py unit Ply. vat
you tink?"
"Why, don't know. Jacob"
"Vell, troo de pushes see coming
along Won great pig. Unit vait min
ute unit den comes anodder great pig.
Mine Gott, Prown, now you watch! 1
know de sheneral will come next, unit
he's a tamn Sog!"-Boston Budget.
The legislature of Georgia has
passed bill which makes the earnings
of a married woman her personal prop
erty, and not liable for the debts. or in
any way belonging to her husband.
The courts of the state had several times
decided that her earnings were not the
property of married woman, and
there were some members of the legis-
lature who evidently wanted to keep a
grip on anything their wives might
earn, and so voted and spoke against
the bill. TWAS finally passed by large
J majorit'
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-11

80. The silver men are apparently
unable to see that the real underlying
cause of the financial agitation deveI
oped by Cleveland's warlike messag,
was fear that the country would be
forced to resort to free coinage of sit
YER. But their inability is apparent
only.-Chicago Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-11

Doctor-Ilave you taken your pills
regularly?
Patient-Every two hours as di-
rected.
Doctor-Did you eat nothing except
what told you?
Patient-Nothing.
Doctor enthusiastically snaking his
patients hand)-My dear sir, you are n
model patient. You deserve to be sick,
you do.-Texas Siftings.
The population of the earth doubles
itself In 26h years
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-11
WAR "REMINISCENCES.
"DRuMMER BOY OF SHILOH"

Prof. j. II. Munroc, who Formerly Bore
That Title.
Prof. j. II. Monroe, a member of the
faculty of the Illinois Conservatory of
Music ut Jacksonville, is the original
drummer boy of Shiloh" Ills his
tory is an interesting one, and nothing
pleases him more than to pass quiet
hour relating some of his army expert
ences and his many hair-breadth es-
capes.
"I enlisted in the Sixth Iowa infantry
volunteers, company L, as drummer
boy" said +be professor, recently,
Smyrna times., 1896-08-05

The man who has a 8O-day note to
to meet is not the one who tries to kill
time, Tie time will expire quickly
enough without his killing it.
Smyrna times., 1896-08-05
The Shameful Spectacle in Cuba.

Gen. Martinez Campos said, the
other day, that it would take 400, 900
men to conquer the Cubans. With the
reinforcememts which Spain intends
to send to Cuba next fall she will have
poured over 100000 soldiers into the
island in a year and a half.
Four hundred thousand men to con-
quer Cuba! Why, there are only /, ,7OO,-
900 men, women and children on the ISL
and and one-third of them are negroes,
aspoor and ignorant as Spanish rule can
make them. The greatest width of the
island is only one hundred miles, and
so numerous and deep are the shore
line intentions that not a soul can pos
sibly get more than thirty-seven miles
from the coasts now begirt with Span
iss war ships.
What would the Spanish conquerors
of Cuba think of their degenerate sons?
They did not find the interior inaccess-
ible. No mountain fastness, no forest
or jungle was an impossible barrier in
their way. They hunted the poor ma
tives to the last mountain top; and of
all the thousands they found in Cuba
there was not soul left when the con-
querors got through with them.
Where is the western land that has
so many open doors as Cuba? What
coast of the Americas of the same
length has half so many frst-rate har-
bors? The bays of Havana, Mariel,
Honda, Cienfuegos, Santiago, Gaunta-
nano, Nipe, and Naranio can shelter
whole fleets of the deepest draught,
while dozens of smaller inlets are open
to vessels of lesser tonnage. Where
there are roads a man on horseback
can cross the island in from one to
three days. Where there are railroads
the journey can be made in as many
hours.
No other modern nation could rival
Spain's astonishing exhibition of impo
teney. She cannot give Cuba a decent
civilized Government; and she cannot
suppress revolt where her long-sufering
colonies decide to govern themselves
1t is the most shameful spectacle this
century has ever seen since the
suppression of the export African
slave trade,
Smyrna times., 1896-08-05
THE ERA OF EPIGRAM.
For the Times.

For the Times.
Opportunities of unusal intensity are
its seems required to give terseness of
expression, an instant, if not per-
manent world wide recognition.
In the light of history an apt saying
goes down through the ages a spark
ling gem of cumulative force, enrich
ing the life work of him who uttered
them.
Nelson's England expects every
man to do his duty" has outlived, or
rather perpetuated Trafalgar.
The mysterious Campaign of thefrst
Napoleon in Egypt, under the shadow
of the Pyramids, and with the inscrut-
able Sphinx looking out over the lone
iness of the Libbyan desert inspired
the victor of Jena, Wagram, and
Austerlitz with "Soldier forty cen
turies are looking down upon you
On the plains of Waterloo, when the
tide of battle surged and heat about
the old farm house and out beyond
HOugOmont to where the sunken ditch
across the battle field reached up its
muddy fingers and swallowed whole
battaliOns of the French army, the
star of Napoleon fickered and went
down, but not until the agong of the
moment wrested from Wellington "Oh
for night OF Blucher."
Henry Clay's "Sooner be right than
President" is hardly equalled by Jack
sons message to Calhoun during Multi
ficatiOn, to ''Hang him higher than Ha-
man. -
Nowhere under Heaven and among
men is the javelin thrust of Epigram
more effective than i'll Politics.
1t is the reason of unreasOn that
sways bodies of men that the sober
second thought of the vest-pocket bal
lot hardly redeems on election day
LincOln's 'FOOl the people some of the
time, but not all the people all
the time, outlined in mastery brevity
the bane of American politics-pre-
hensile argument"
1t has been ascertained that nominee
Bryan's epigram of "No Crown of
Thorns no Cross of gold" had been
delivered by him no less than seven
times before it thrilled and swayed the
Chicago Convention. The moment the
Magnetism of the uncontrolled spweep
of thousands of personalities that
as a unit became concentrated and
bowed the knee to phrase that can
not stand synthetic or analytic reason
ing in political economy.
L. Irving Handy the brilliant young
Orator of Delaware can easily discount
the best of Bryan's speeches and do
better in epigram, so can Levi G. Bird,
but as before remarked, the oppor-
tunity Of intensity must present it.
self before the telling epigrammatic
speech leaves the rough state and be-
comes so irresistible that men give
homage to it with reason, or without it.
JAMES B. SCOTT.
Wilmington July SO.
Smyrna times., 1896-08-05
EFFECTS OF CHEAP COINAGE.
Who Suffer the Most From the Debasement
Of the Currency.
Wilmington July SO.

From 4dcduIGys History Of England.
The misgovernmento of Charles and
James, gross as it has been, had not
prevented the common business of life
from going steadily and prosperously
on. While the honor and indepen-
dance of the State were sold to for
eign power, while chartered rights
were invaded, while fundamental rights
were violated, hundreds of thousands
of quiet, honorable and industrious
families labOred and traded, ate their
meals and lay down to rest in comfort
and security. Whether Wings or Tor
les, Protestants or Jesuits, were upper
most, the graZier drove his beasts to
market; the grocier weighed out his
currants; the draper measured out his
brOadcloth; the hum of buyera and sell
lers was as loud as ever in the town;
the harvest home was celebrated as Joy
Ously as ever in the hamlets; the cream
overhOwed the pals of Cheshire; the
apple juice foamed in the presses of
Herefordshire; the piles of crockery
glOwed in the furnaces of Trent, and
the barrows of coal rolled fast along
the timbered railways of the Tyne.
But when the great instrument of
exchange became thoroughly deranged
all trade, all industry, were smitten as
with palsy. The evil was felt daily
and hourly in almost every class, in
the dairy and on the threshing floor,
by the anvil and by the loom, on the
billOws of the ocean and in the depths
of the mine. Nothing could be pur-
chased without dispute. Over every
counter there was wrangling from
morning to night. The workman and
his employer had quarrel as regularly
as Saturday came round, On a
fair day or market day the clamors,
the reproaches, the taunts, the curses,
were incessant; and it was well if no
booth was overturned and no head
broken.
No merchant could contract to de-
liver goods without making some stip-
ulation in regard to the quality of the
coin in whicn he was to be paid. Even
business men were often bewildered
by the confusion into which all pecun-
iary transactions were thrown. The
simple and the careless were pillaged
without merely by extortioners, whose
demands grew even more rapidly than
the money shrank. The price of the
necessities of life, of shoes, of ale, of
oatmeal, rose fast The laborer found
that the bit of metal which, when he
received it, was ealleda shilling, would
hardly, when he wanted to purchase
pot Of beer, or a loaf of rye bread, go
as far as a sixpence. Where artisans
of more than unusual intelligence were
collected in great numbers, as in the
dock-yards at Chatham, they were able
to make their complaints heard and to
obtain some redress. But the ignorant
and helpless peasant was cruelty
ground between one class which could
give money only by tale, and another
which would take it only by weight.
Smyrna times., 1896-08-05

About half sold are those
beautiful ''Laplettes" 25c.
goods in style and effect-Sat-
urday commencing at 8
O'Clock, we shall sell the bal
ance for &C., per yard. They
are undoubtedly the most sty-
lish cotton fabrics this season
for waists end dresses.
Saturday we will sell our
I21c. Percales for SC. per yard
this price being only for
that day.
All our I2ac., I5c. and 25c.
Organdies, Lawns and Batiste
are reduced to SC. per yard.
All of our 25c. Dimities
reduced to I22c. per yard.
Parasols suffer the hot
weather reductions
$2.00 ones for 81. .25
$3.50 ones for $1.OO
SO. so ones for $500
81. ones for $1.O0
S1.00 ones for 75c
$500 ones for $2.5
in all colors of Linens, Silks
and Pongee with natural and
Dresden sticks.
Cotton and Wool Wash
Flannels 25c. grades are I5c.
Cotton Outing Flannel,
I2lc. grade Tor Sc.
About 500 more of blankets
for 25c. each. Only neces-
sary to darn a hole or overlook
a small oil mark or dropped
sticth to insure a perfect
blanket.
A new lot of Cotton Covert
Cloth in brown, blue and gray
mixtures for bike and outing
suits, I2ac. per yard.
Smyrna times., 1896-08-05
CAPITAL. s5OO.OOO.OO.
Surplus and PPotlts, sl32,9e7.oo.
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Company.
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Smyrna times., 1896-08-05

closed ecery eUeni'ag at 6 o'clock
a0atu September.
Smyrna times., 1896-08-05
ScrOfuIa

Infests the blood of humanity. 1t
appears in varied forms, but is forced
to yield to Hoods Sarsaparilla, which
purifies and vitalizes the blood and
cures all such diseases. Read this:
ain September, 1894, made misstep and
injured my ankle. Very soon afterwards,
Smyrna times., 1896-08-05

A stomach of undigested food Is about as
unhealthy mass as one can well imagine.
What can be done with it?
There Il stays. 1t won't digest. 1t
churns up, ferments and decays; becomes
poisonous Gas all putrid matter does) and
causes great pain and deep-seated disorders,
In order to change all this, take Shaker
Digestive Cordial.
1t stops fermentation and decay at once,
SO that no more poiE0ns are created.
1t clears the st6mach of pOisOns already
thare. III helps it to turn the food that re-
mains, into health nourishment. 1t
Strengthens the stomach for the next meal.
Here is the whole philosophy and cure of
indigestion in a few words. And what's
more, it'a all true, Try it.
Shaker Digestive Cordial is for sale by
druggists, price 10 cents to 500 a bottle.
Smyrna times., 1896-08-05

Some years ago when suffering with
an uncommonly severe attack of di-
arrhoea, Mr.. W. B, Gginnin, Of Atco,
Pa;, recelyed through tae mail sample
bottle of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrh@a Remedy. He says: ''I
fonnd it to be one of the most effective
remedies l ever used. 1t gave me al
most immediate relief 1t has no
superior and / think no equal. No
bad effects follow the use of this remedy.
1t is pleasant to take when reduced
with water and sweetened. Children
like it. 1t is the most perfect remedy
ever produced for bowel complaints. -
For sale at 25 and so cents per bottle
by Clifton & Raymond
Smyrna times., 1896-08-05

If you have ever seen a little child in the
agony Of summer complaint, you can
realize the danger of the trouble and ap-
preciate the value Of instantaneous relief al
ways affoEded by IleWitt's Collie 4 Cholera
Cure. For dysentery and diafrhoea II 81 a
reliable remedy We could rot afford to
recommend this as eur,s unless Il were a
cure. Clifton & Raymond
Smyrna times., 1896-08-05

Theories of cure may be discussed at
length by physicians, but the sufferers want
quick relief; and One Minute Cough Cure
Viii give it TO them. A safe cure for
children. 1t is ssthe only harmless remedy
4 Rayn ond.
Smyrna times., 1896-08-05

She; 'sWisdom comes in chunks,
you know"
He; ''That accounts for all these
bumps ON my head, / suppose. "
Smyrna times., 1896-08-05

The grain harvests of Southern Rus
sia having failed, popular uprising
for free silver may be looked for in
that section.
Smyrna times., 1896-08-05

The greenback craze of '7S was the
father of the silver craze of '96. 1t is
the same fiat money family.