Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-05-11


ersburg, where he will practice his
profession. A. G. Emerson, a clerk
i'll the McCarty store, and Alex Nc
Connell, of the Brewster store, have
gone to GAINESVILLE, to open dry
goods store. A. j. Gray has return
ed from the west and is SO pleased
with it that he is arranging to move
there. IN. B.: He did not stay
out there long).
Fifteen indictments were returned
by the grand jury. Eleven of them
for violation of the liquor laws;
two for gambling; one for assault
and battery, and one for keeping q
| nuisance. The trial of Boal Ebert
of York township, charged with
burning hay belonging to Jacob
Rose, ended in a conviction.
The market report shows de-
cline in prices since the close of the
war. Flour is now SO; wheat, ST.
so: corn, 60c, and oats 45c. Pc.
tatoes are 70c; butter soc, and eggs
15c. Sugar is down to zoe per
pound, and salt to $3.50 per barrel.
Other items quoted that we do not
see in the reports of today, include
dried apples and peaches, feathers
dried beef candles, and lard oil.
Carbon oil was soc a gallon. COT.
| fee 35c. and tea 81 to So per pound.
We would think that at that day ev-
eryone could catch fish, but we find
them quoted at 10c per pound.
F. A. Davis was mayor and ]. NJ
Williamson recorder of the town
council. An ordinance had been
passed and was published in this is
sue assessing a punishment of 60
days in Jail for common prostitutes,
and 1t was stated that it was the
duty of the marshal to arrest any
upon view"
The foundry of Cochran. Bozman
and company was now in full blast.
HoWe's sewing machine may be seen
at John Stitts' boot and shoe empor-
ium. Frank Jeffers has taken over
the Post House and will accommo-
date guests and stable their beasts.
Parties leaving for the west may Sc
cure carbines and revolvers, either
for powder and ball or cartridges,
at H. B. Vincent and Brother.
The inaugural address of Presi-
dent Grant was printed in full as
well as the valedictory address of
1IGSluCuC JOuuSOu.
The Steamer Julia had resumed
regular trips.
Among the advertisements of
patent medicines we find one that
surely was true Panacea, it was
Similia Similibus Curantur, and it
gives a list of thirty-four (34) all
ments that it is guaranteed to cure;
surely here was something that
should never have been lost to man
kind, though today we do not seem
able to find it listed in the Materia
Medica.
General Sherman assumes COM
mand of the armies of the United
states and issues his order number
one
In the majority of the papers of
that day we find articles that would
be called "thrillers' They usually
related the extraordinary exper-
fences of persons, always in some
foreign country, with ghosts that
haunted old castles. But in this is
sue we have one close to home. In
an article reprinted from the Pitts
burgh Chronicle is related the pre-
mature burial of a beautiful young
lady Of eighteen. The desire of her
father to have the body taken up
and inferred in the family burying
grounds disclosed the terrible fact
that she had been buried alive, and
a very vivid description is given OF
the condition of the body, the cloth
ing and the trimming of the casket
as found when it was taken up for
re-burial
Joining the Masons
Although it had been several
years since the anti-Masonic excite
ment, we find an article, by a
BLACK Balled Candidate" who re-
lated the Secrets Of Freemasonry
as discovered by him on his initia-
tion; though he does not explain
how he could have been initiated
after having been black -balled
AT the time of the anti-Masonic
excitement there were published
many Exposures" of Freemasonry
all of which were published with the
object of making money from what
the author claimed to be the expos
ure of the Secrets" of the order.
But by 1869 all of this had died
Gown, though now and then some
paper would fill up space with some
Of the stuff, if it had nothing else
to put in.
l have collected as many as I
could find of these printed Expos
ures," some of which are very clev-
er, and some are very crude, and as
an example of about the average of
them | will give short condensa-
tion of the article to be found in
this paper.
1t is entitled Joining the Free
Masons," by a black -balled candi-
date:
THAT Masonry is Of very an
cient date is proved by the fact that
during the wet season Noah used to
hold a lodge meeting in a corner Of
the ark. He was obliged to give it
UP, however, owing to the curiosity
or Mrs. Noah, who, Notwithstanding
the fact that her husband placed a
couple of lions and a crocodile at
the door, as outside guards, came
pretty near finding out the secrets
and starting a female lodge on her
own hook.
| must tell you Of the perils and
trials / had to undergo to become
Mason:
On the evening in question / pre-
sented myself at the door of the
ledge where was a sign of skull
and cross-bones. / was conducted
into an anteroom where five or six
other chaps, in sashes and embroid-
cred napkins, were waiting to re-
ceiye me. On my entrance they all
got up, and a big fat fellow, who
seemed TO be the proprietor, and sat