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Year: 1871




The nation and the human race nevel
needed the Republican party more thar
! they do now We have only just come
| to understand that the war between
slavery and barbarism, on the one hand
and liberty and civilization, on the other


is not yet fought out. Beaten in the


open field, the Rebellion yet lives in the
| lawlessness of Southern scoundrelism
| Beaten by ballots and beaten by bullets
| It shows, like other Venomous creatures,
wonderful tenacity of life Liberty is
not yet established at the South. Free


dom of speech, freedom of the press,


freedom Of political action are yet hard


ly known there. If the Democratic par


ty were to come into power tomorrow,
the whole work of reconstruction would


be undone the franchise would be ta-


ken from the negroes, and under some


form or other slavery or its equivalent


would be restored.


Let us remember one thing. The lost
cause is not an abandoned cause. When


the Rebellion fights us again, it will be


with the arms, the forts, the ships, and
the prestige of the Government itself
When we vote at the next presidential
election, we vote face to face and ballot
to ballot, with the Rebellion. The battle


of next year will be more decisive than
the taking of New Orleans and Vicks-


burg and Richmond together If under
Republican administration the whole
South is full of lawlessness, what would
be the state of things with Fernando
Wood and Sunset Cox in the Cabinet /?
If mayors Of cities are shot, banished.
and abducted while Grant is President,
what will be done when Hoffman
reigns If they do these things in a
green tree, what will they not do in the
dry


The lesson of the hour is plain. Every
patriotic consideration demands that
Republicans should stand by the party
of liberty and human rights. No dis
satisfaction with the President, or with
any other leader, can justify lukewarm-
ness in the cause. And we warn the Ad-
ministration that it cannot afford to di-
vide the party by pushing any object,
however desirable. Let SantO Domingo
stand on its merits. It should never
have been an Administration scheme.
And appointments to Office should
hereafter be made with some regard to
fitness. The Republican party IS of
too much value to be made a pack-horse. |
1t cannot afford to carry into presiden- !
hal campaign a race of doubtful Office |
holders. There is, perhaps, no great
harm done to the country by
the appointment of relatives and favor
ties, if they are competent and honest; !
but it is a policy most destructive to the !
Of party and damaging to
.he good name of an administration.


One bounden duty Of the better class
Of Republicans in crisis is TO run the
party machinery. It must not be left to |
and self-seekers. There !
s yet a year and a half till the next |
presidential election; and the present |
crisis viii be most wholesome if 1t |
lwalens us to the necessity for vigilance, |
harmony, and energetic work.--M Z.
Year: 1871

This session has been rather a curious
one. People continually ask. ''What is
the Legislature doing p Sure enough.
Well the truth is, IT'S hard TO answer
such a question and give the desired m-
formation in a word. The Legislature,
up to this time, has spent as many hours
in legislation and has introduced as
many bills as its predecessors but
up to this time but very few bills have
become laws. There are now on the
books of the House and Senate some
Of bills that have been intro
duced this session. and are now banging
by the ears in this or the other conci-
non. - Columbus Litter
Year: 1871




If we should be reminded that we
ourselves have sometimes severely critic
cised Republican action, we reply that
in no other way could Republican fdel-
ity be shown. II is because of our pro-
found conviction Of the necessity Of con-
tinued Republican dominance 10 the
peace and prosperity Of the country
that we have criticised conduct which
seemed TO us, likely 10 shake confidence
in the party and its prosperity. Plainly,
if every paper in the country friendly 20
Republican ascendancy should praise
indisciminately every measure Of Con-
gress, or every suggestion Of the Ad-
ministration, or should be silent where
it should commend, the result would
infallibly be what we saw IN the Demo
cratic party a dozen years ago. lt is
the vigorous Republican protest against
Republican errors which proves the par
ty is a living force and not a machine.
No criticism is to be deprecated, how
ever severe. when il is that OF q friend;
and friendly remonsuancel however
earnest is very easily distinguished from
hostility y.-HagbeT'S Weck5y.
Year: 1871

The New York Post closes an editor
ial on the future of the Republican par
ty as follows;


In short. so far. everything promises
well for a Republican success next year,
and 70 us the most hopeful sign is The
candor and freedom with which the Re-
publican journals are now discussing
public affairs and the conduct of their
leading men.
Year: 1871

A hotel in a small southern town adj
.vertises: "Ally Gator supe for Breakfast
dinner and Supper.


Woman is like ivy--the more you are
ruined the closer she eings to you. "A
vile old bachelor adds: "Ivy is like wo-
man--the closer it clings to you the
more you are ruined. Poor rule that
don't work both ways,
Year: 1871

Hon. VIM. Ritezell, member Of the
Legislature from Tumbuu county,
writes 10 his paper, the Western Reserve
Chronicle A number Of our consutu-
ents seem fearful that the present liquor
law will be modified in the interest OF
traficers. We can very confidently aa-
sure every one that there is not any
probability Of the law being meaalea
with by this Legislature
Year: 1871

The course of moderation and the
general desire to amicably preserve
the unity Of the Church which were
manifested'i in the Episcopal General
Convention arc admirably supple
mented Ivy the tone of the pastoral
letter of tho House of Bishops, an
able and interesting document which
from lack of space, We arc unable to
publish. While adhering to the
ohurch's established faith and ordi.
nauces, it speaks words of warning
against any deviation from the stand
ards. in wha tever direction. Teach
ing tho doctrine Of transubstant tiation
in the administration of tho commu-
nion, the custom Of private confession
and the worship of the saints are tho
evils of excessive Ritualism which arc
disapproved Of, and departure from
the Liturgy, irroverence and lawless-
ness, in tho other extreme, are equally
placed under the ban of episcopal re-
proof. The conservative spirit of tho
pastoral will doubtless have groat
effect in tho church at large.
Year: 1871

Take a desert spoonful of common
soda, such as is used in making bread
and dissolve it thoroughly in a quart
Of cold water: With this thoroughly


shampoon tho 'he.d for about Eve
minutes, scratching tie skin Of the
head and neck well with the finger
nails. Then rinse the head with cloan
cold water. A gentleman says that
he has used this remedy in perhaps q
thousand cases, and it never once fail
cd to give relief in five or ton minutes.
This remedy is fo' nervous headache
and is not for tho,e Affections of tho
head arising from derangod stomachs. J..
Year: 1871

The latest wrinkle at fashionable
weddings in New York is for black
page, in livery, to walk into church
before the bride aud groom, carrying
q small white satin cushion, on which
is embroidered monogram in gilt
letters, which he places in front of
tho altar for tho couple to kneel on,
and carries it cut again at the close of
the ceremony.
Year: 1871

Some years ago a young man from tho
East, who had q very exalted opinion of
himself and tho STATE of Massachusetts,
as is very customary with young bloods
from the land OF Pilgrims, came to Obsr.
lin on visit. Now. this young blood
had great contempt for Western col
leges; indeed in his estimation they we're
nothing but one remove from the common
schools "Aw. you know, Obsrlin
College could not be compared with
our Harvard" Well, this young man
called upon President Finney, and being
dssirous to air his superior requirements,
he told the president that be had gradu.
ated from too colleges, and the probabi.
tiles we're it there had been any more eel.
ebrated ones in Massao husetts no would
certainly have rode out of them on
"sheep skin saddle" President Finney
had happy faculty Of taking the conceit
out of such braggadocios, so be said to
the youth from Massachusetts "My
father had calf that was raised on the
milk Of two cows, and it was an enormous
calf; and if bod had only one more COW
to spare be could have raised tho biggest
calf in the State" The gra 'uato from
two oNlleges thought he saw point, and
very unceremoniously bade the president
good morning. -Lorain 70. News.
Year: 1871

a WONDERFUL FLY An Intellectual
fly inhabi,ing bar room in Omaha is
credited with such wonderful abilities
that nothing 10 thought Of mans going
to see his performance. The account
given by the barkeeper is, that his atten


ton was first attracted to the prodigy
from the fact that all the other Aics dew
away when this ay saw 6t to regale him
self at the cheese dish, which is to be
found at one end Of every we'll regulated
bar. Waiting humhly until this superior
being had dined, the other flies would
dine toraciously on the dish from which
they had before reverently abstainsd.
Having caught his phenomen the bar.
keeper trained him an hour each day.
Once he fugitived, but next day returned


Having been interviewed by a reporter,
this is what the fly did: Being ordered
to brush HE head, he rubbed it vigorously
with his fore legs, and then waited the
next command Shoulder arms, cried
the barkeeper, and Mr.. Fly promptly
raised his left foreleg straight up in the
air. Then he walked lame on his left
foreleg, then on all legs, then stepped up
on coffee grain and stood there on his
bind legs, and SO on and SO on. eai
Year: 1871

An Iowa lady concludes very sensible
anti suffrage letter thus: II do not be.
!'sve that all men are so terribly false
and untrue to their marriage VOWS as
some would make it appear. But admit
for moment that it is so, and why must
women have the same rights? Let Gus
tom accord to women all that is now
charged to men, and where would be tho
restoring influences Of public opinion
that hold iu check many of the women
Of the periods' You may look at this
matter in whatever light you will. but
simmer it down. and it is but a quarrel
with with the Almighty that we are not
all men,"
Year: 1871

CLOSING CRACKS IN STOvES.-It may
be convenient to know a ready method OF
closing up cracks, which are not uncom-
mon in cast-iron stoves; and we are as
sured that the following receipt is relia-
BILE one:


Good wood ashes are to be sifted through
a fine sieve, to which is added the same
quantity of clay. finely pulverized, togeth-
er with little salt. The mixture is to be
moistened with water enough to make a
paste, and the crack of the stove filled with
it. This cement does not peel off or break
away, and assumes an extreme degree OF
hardness after being heated. The stove
must be cool when the application is made.
The same substance may be used in set
ting in the plates of stove, or in fitting
stove pipes, serving to render all the joints
perfectly tight.
Year: 1871

Some of our merchants say that it is no use
for them to advertise, that they have been in one
place of business all their lives and everybody
knows them., They seem to forget to take into
consideration that our country is increasing in
population nearly forty per cent. every ten
years, and no matter how old the place may be-
there are constant changes taking place-somt
move to other parts and strangers fill theil
places.


In this age of the world, unless the name of q
business firm is kept constantly before the pub
lie, some new firms may start up, and, by judi
cious advertising, in very short time take the
places of the older ones, and the latter rust out
as it we're, and be forgotten. Keep your busi-
ness before the public. Noman ever lost money
by iudicious advertising
Year: 1871

To Stop BLEEDING.-It is said that
bleeding from q wound on man or beast
may be stopped by mixture of wheat
flour and common salt, in equal parts,
bound on with cloth. If the bleeding be
profuse, use large quantity, say from one
to three pints. Itmay be left on for hours,
or even days if necessary. The person who
saved the life of horse which was bleed
ing from a'wounded artery; the bleeding
ceased i'll five minutes after the applica-
ton.
Year: 1871

MEAT CRoQUETTEs.-Mi cold chick
ems very fine moisten with rich gravy !;
season with pepper and salt. Shape them
by pressing tightly into a jelly glass or
long, pear-shaped wine glass, bush over
with beaten egg after they are shaped, and
roll in bread crumbs and fry in lard.
Drain, and send to table hot. Or, beat to-
gether one pint of cream and one pint of
minced chicken, three tablespoons even
full of butter, salt and pepper. Fry in
lard
Year: 1871

Every gray goose, or soon or late,


Finds some poor gander for mate"


In ornate, Boston phraseology, she thus rem
ders that sentiment: "a molecule of oxygen
roaming lonely through space seeking other
faces, but finding none all of sudden, in some
hidden nook, descries moleeule Of hydrogen,
when lo there is rush and an embrace, and
there is neither any more oxygen nor hydrogen.
but a diamond drop of dew reposing on the
white bosom of the lily" See what it is to have
a Boston education
Year: 1871

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel, Diabetes, Drop
sy, 1ncontinence of Urine, Brights disease Albumin
ra and in where there Brick dust deposits
the water is thick cloudy mixed with substances like
the white of egg threads like white silk. there
Is morbid. dark, bilious appearance, and white Bone
dust deposits and where there is prcking. burning
sensation and pain in the small of the back and along
the lons In all these conditions, Railways Sarpari


liam Resolvent, aided by the application of Railways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back, and
the bowels regulated with one or two of Radway s
Regulating Pills per day, will soon make complete
cure. In few days the patient will be enabled to hold
and discharge water naturally without PAIN and tho
Urine will be restored to its natural clear and amber
or sherry color
Year: 1871

On its face this purpOrts to be a
common contract note, only condi-
tionally payable, and which no third
party would ever purchase. But
when the swindler gets the note
safe into his own hands, he cuts 1t IN
t,0o through the perpendicular va.
cant space which may be seen be-.
fore the word ''BEARER," in the
first line, thereby changing the left
hand end into an ordinary note of
hand for two hundred and seventy
FIVE dollars This he sells for what
he can get for it, and decamps, Ieav-
ing Mr.. Smith and the holder of the
note to arrange matters as best they
can.


Another form of swindle which
has been practised in this county, is
this: A farmer is induced to take an
agency for some patent article
"plastic roofing" for instance-and
signs his name to a receipt. This
receipt is worded something like
the above note, and is disposed Of
in the same way.


Another feature of these sRindles
that is worthy of notice, is, that the
party to whom the note or receipt
is given, is generally a resident of
some other State, and being a nom
resident, sues Gin case of nOn-pay-
ment) in the U. s. District Court.
This makes it necessary for the
farmer to go to Cleveland from this
county to make his defense, thus in
creasing his expenses and Iessening
the probabilities of his standing
suit.


One of our law firms has lately
been employed for the defense in
six cases of this kind at Cleveland,
for farmers in our county, who had
been imposed upon by these swim
dlers. In every case, the parties
were willing to swear that they had

not given the nOtes-some saying
they had never given a nOte-bui
on seeing their signatures had to &C
knowledge they were genuine. The
puzzle then was to find how the sig
nature was obtained: : and the solu'
ton OF the puzzle was found in the
form of the note above given.


Be careful how you put your
name to any paper.
Year: 1871

Look Out for Patent Agents


Some two or three months since
(says the Ripley Bee We made
mention of the case Of Adam Ross
man, of this neighborhood, who was
sWindled by the agent of a Patent
Cement Roofing Company, and in
veigled into giving his note, but
said he had signed some kind Of re
eeipt or contract 70 cement. The
following will explain the system Of
operation as carried on by different
swindling concerns all over the
whole State. We warn every one
again to be on their guard. The
BellefOntaine Republican says


"In our last issue we warned our
readers against the swindling patent
agents who are swarming over the
country taking in the unsuspeeting.
We thought then that a general
warning would be all.suficient, but
a few facts that have come to our
knowledge since induce Us to give
the following form of note that is
frequently used in these swindling
operations. We will suppose A.
Stone to be agent for a seeding ma
chine, and John Smith to be an
honest farmer, whom A. Stone in
duces to act as his agent. Good
terms are offered, the farmer being
rendered all the profit on the seed
ing machines, except that after he
has sold 1915 worth Of seeders he is
to remit $40 to the principal agent.
Then a note, similar 10 the follow
ing, is produced and signed by the
unsuspecting farmer:
Year: 1871

On the eve of Connecticut election, a
prominent citizen of that State approach
ed Senator Sumner and wished him to
send a few words of cheer to the Repub-
licans; but the sulky Senator stub
bornly refused. Nothing could have
been better. The Republicans gallantly
carried their State without his senate
rial encouragement, which would have
cost nothing ifgiyen, but which, with
held, tends to confirm the wisdom of
the Senate in its recent rejection of him
as an overbearing, impolitic and inn
practicable man.-[Bucyrus Journal.
Year: 1871

It is a great mistake to suppose that
the more one eats the stronger he be-
comes. Commands are not giants. We
gain in strength in proportion as the
food eaten is digested, assimilated, and
into new and perfect material.
Year: 1871

There is no fortune so good but that it
may be reversed, and so bad but that it
may be bettered. The sun that rises in
clouds may set in splendOr, and that
which rises in splendor may set in
rlOoD1
Year: 1871




An evident error has been discov-
cred in the return of the votes from
the Fourth Ward of New Haven,
by which one hundred more votes
were returned for Gov. English than
should have been. This number
was returned more than was check
ed on the poll list, and the Demo
cratic State ticket was declared to
have received a like number of
votes more than its Representative
ticket, while the Republican State
and Representative tickets were
about equal The matter will prob
ably be fully Investigated by the
Legislature, and if the return is q
mistake or a fraudulent count, Jew
ell will be Governor.
Year: 1871

That Editors are delighted to get
to ''fn up" the paper.


That they have plenty of time to
correct bad manuscript.


That they should "puf7' every
body, for nothing.


That they must have no opinion
of their own.


That they should know every
thing whether informed of it or not.


That they have plenty of money


That they should "notice" every
scalawag show that travels.


That they should have news,
whether there is any or not.


That they should print every
mans name who attends a dog fight
or a horse race.


That they have time to talk an
hour with every one of the hun
dreds who come into the Office every
daV.
Year: 1871

In the course of his remarks yesterday, with
reference to the work of the Publishing House
at Richmond, DR.. Baird related to the Synod
an interesting incident of youth who lives on
although he had gone to school only twenty
seven days in his life had composed some the
most excellent hymns which are to becontained
in the new Sunday School book that they pro-
pose publishing. He has written a book OF
hymns, all in imitation print, and has never
Hymn Book, Dairy mans Daughter, and the
Bible, and lives in a miserable cabin with only
a dirt floor, away in the wilds of the mountains,
where an intelligent being scarcely ever finds
his way.


The Doctor read portion of one of his poems
before the Synod, which is wonderful produc-
ton with reference both to its theological and
its poetical merits f.
Year: 1871

dience of the laws, you can depend upon
that, and If it is necessary to place half a
dozen States under martial law he will do
it. And the North will support him in
such measures. They are determined that
none of the fruits of the war shall be lost,
and as to what are legitimate war fruits, it
is not for us to quibble. Mr.. Stephens is
doing the South great injury by his course
in this matter. He, like Mr.. looms, is a
man of great ability, but impracticable.
No man can tell better than he how things
ought to be, but when they are once all out
of joint he is not the man to put them
back. Until our people accept in good
faith all the results of the war, suppress
the kuklux and give every man his rights
before the law, just so long will the Re-
publican party sweep the North at every
election. If the Southern Democrats were
heartily in favor ofgiving Grant a second
term they could not take a more sure
course to bring it about than the course
they are pursuing. -,
Year: 1871

Urinary and Womb Diseases. Gravel, Diabetes. Drop
sy Ineontinence of Urine, Brghts disease, Albumnu
ra and in cases where there Brick dust deposits or
the water is thick cloudy mixed with substances like
the white Of an egg threads like white SILK there
is morbid dark, bilious appearance, and white Bone
dust deposits and where there is prieking burning
sensation and pain in the small of the back and along
the lOins. In all these conditions, Railways Sarparl
liam Resolvent aided by tbs application of Railways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back and
the bowels regulated with or two of Railways
Regulating Pills per day will, make complete
cure. In few days the patient will be enabled to hold
Urine will be restored to its natural clear and amber
or sherry color.
Year: 1871

NI,s The Ts6leau5 at the Church of the Epiphany,
full house, as they we'll deserved to he The
churches were all well represented, and all mass.
ed OF with great credit to the ladies and GENTLE
men in charge. The proceeds are to be applied


I9r the purchase of an organ for the use Of the
Year: 1871

"For General Grant personally 1 have
great respect, and can never forget his
Lee and his impartial report upon Geor-
gia affairs when sent here by President
johnson. But he is a military man, and
his theory of government is implicit obe-
Year: 1871

There is not remedial agent in this world that will
Fever and Ague and all other MalariOus Bilious
Scarlet, Typhoid Yellow and other Fevers aided by
Railways PilIs) so quick Railways Ready Relief.
Year: 1871

The Detailed MeteOrOlogicaI Report for


To-day.
The following Is the meteorological report OF the
Signal Bureau OF the War Department for this
morning all the observations being taken at 743
A. NJ, Philadelphia time. The barometrical reports
are corrected Tor temperature and elevation. The
velocity OF the wind is given in miles per hour,
and the force is an approximate reduction to the
Beaufort scale:-