Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 11, Number 25, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 February 1866 — Page 1
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Pittaburgli Ft. Wayne & Chicago Hallway. On and after Nov. 19, 1865, Trains will leave Stations dailv, S.ibbaths excepted, as follows: Train leaving Chicago at 5:50 P, M.leavcs daily. TRAINS GOING WEST. ExraKSs Mail I Ex. Ex. Pittsburgh ,2,50 am Rochester.... 4,00 New Brighton Enon 4,45 Colun.biana. . 5,17 Salem. 5,40 Mliauce G'iO 7.00a m l,45py 2,45r m 8.30 8.43 9.35 3,05 3,15 4,08 4,47 5,15 6,15 7,03 7,30 8.10 8,45 9,45 4,25 4,35 5,22 6,00 6,30 7,25 8,13 8.33 9,17 6,52 10.17. 10.48 11.50 Canton j 7.05 Massilon 7,30 Orrville 8,02 Wooster 8,30 12.42rsi 1.02 1.45 2.22 3.23 4.25 .00 7.10 7.50 8.25 9 43 Loudonville.. 9,22 Mansfield.... 10,00 10,55 10,35 11.45 12,15am 12,55 . . . lQ ,5 Creatlinej gjjjjf Rucvrn3 1 1145 11.10 7.00am 7.33 8.23 8.57 10.20 11.02 11.39 I.45rM 2.36 3.33 4.40 1,25 ITpr Sandusky 12,24ri 12.55 2,13 2.53 2,07 2,40 4,02 4.36 5,05 G.45 7,28 8,20 9,20 r orrest Lima Dilphos Vn Wert. . . . Fort Way.ie. . Columbia. . . . Warsaw Pbmouth.... W.lparaiso.. . . Chicago 10.25 3,24 5,00 5,45 6,39 7,n 9,22 11 00 J 2.35 1.22 3 22 3,58 4.58 7.00 6.30 10,52 8.10 pm 1250pm 11,20 2.45 r. m. Express will take passengers of 1.15 Train west fiom Crestline. TRAINS GOING EAST.
Mail ExrnESS Ex. ExChicago 4.40 6,20am 5.50fm 10.20r.M Valparaiso... c.50 8,05 7.11 1243am Plymouth.... g.44 9 40 9,40 2,25 Warsaw...... 10.02 10,38 10,35 3.37 Columbia n.Ol 11.25 11.23 4,32 Fort Wayne.. 12.35 pm 12,30p m 1225am 5,55 Van Wert.... o.n 1,43 i,4G 7,21 Delphos ojj;j 214 ofl4 70 Lima 3.35 2.47 2,45 8,30 Forest 4.55 3,57 4,07 9,50 Upr Sandusky 5.25 4,25 4,40 10,23 Bucyrus 6.P9 5,03 5,26 11,12 Creotlinei Ar 6-40pm 5,30 6,00 11,45 Crestline Vp . Q 4Q Mansfield.... 8,10 6,33 7,15 1,18 Loudoville... 9.22 7,18 8,00 2.04 W0o?ter 10,25 8,11 5,50 2.55 Orrville 11,00 8,38 9.20 3,53 Massilon 11,45 9,14 5.56 3.59 Canton !2,05rM 9,32 10 17 4.90 Alliance 1,20 10,20 11,30 5,25 Salem 2.00 10,55 12,05rM 6,(!0 Coiumbiana.. 2,30 11.17 12,31 fi,20 Enon 3.20 11,52 1,12 C .15 New Brighton 4,10 12,25am 1,48 7.35 Rochester.... 4,30 12,40 2,00 7.50 Pittsburgh i 6,00 1,50 3.10 9,00
F. K, MYER3, Gen. Ticket Agent. C. P. & C. It. U. Time Tabic. SUMMER ARRANGEMENT. EASTWARD. LeaveLa Porte, dailv) - no if (Sundays Excepted,); A.M Arrive at Plymouth, 9.-00A M WKSTVTAItD. LeavePlvmouth 2:19 P. IMArrive at La Torte 4:19 P.M Trains run by La Porte time, which is kept at E. Vail? Jewelry store, and is 1 5 minutes slower tnani'.,tt.W.&U.K.K. time. II R. DRUL1NER, Supt JL. TV. .V. O. XJ. T5. EXPRESS TRAINS PASS WANATAII, GOlia NORTH, Ni$ht express, (Sundays excepted).. 4:50 AM Day .. 7:22 P M GOING SOITII, Niffhf Express, (Saturday? excepted).. 9.-4CP M Day ' (Sundays excepted).... 9:33 AM JEW ARRANGEMENT. The r.ndorsijned having associated with him in his professional business MR. D. E. VANVALKENBÜRGII, will continue the practice of Law in Its various branches. The New Firm will attend promptly to litigated cases, general collections, the purchase and sale of Real Estate, the collection of Claims against the Gorernment; such as pensions, bounty and arrear.njres of soldiers, &c Titles to Real FIstate examined and abstracts furnished when ... ieirea. August 3, 18G5. J. G- OSBORNE. LIQUORS. PURE LIQUORS for Medical and otlur purposes, can be had at my Store, one door North of the Branch Bank. J. F. VANVALKENBÜRGII. Plymouth, May 18, 'C5.tf J. S .SCOTT, G o ii c r n 1 Coll o otr, Continues to give Prompt Attention tothe Collection of Claims. XT Best of references given when required Terms moderate. v9n!5-tf. .TOIIIN NOLL, BUT O IOC 3 DEL! MeatM irkcton Michigan Street, opposite Wheeler's Bank. l?I.vmoiit1i, Imllnna. Nov, 5 v0n!4. EDWARDS HOUSE, MICHIGAN STREET. FLYMOVTH, INDIANA C& W.H.M'CONNBLL, Proprletois Omnibus to and from all trains,, .and also at ry pirt of the town, when orders are left to tiie House. v9nl6-lv 0 TO DH. DIGELOW I AND NOT SCFFER Uiat horriVu Iis to ty it plinu hno Into your ystcra, tirtenrini; ymit tc "l Ui1y, twl4n !- tnit ii Tfur futur hi Int and prpU 'ntifv. Hebaamad I'ltlVATE 3i-:jar-i-r lliwfor tb i.rrtxprn' hnin all rt'J hould w.wult. III Mwllrtü offle I o. IT ...i. mtrt Chlor, lllioot. wknr ihr Ixvtor may I eonsulKnl in tr.n ttnm R..;--,rat-. trvt.drrfmp for my " Journal f HralU.." puMiahrd monthly and ait to any ddra. May 25, 18C5 n38yl T R.J. M. CONFER, late Surgeon of tbe j 23th Indiana Infantry, offers his profes--onal services to the people of Marsball County. IT Office and residence west side of Michigan fcireet, three block i North of the Edwards House Plymouth Indiam . vDn32
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General Rousseau on thcFr cetlmeirs nurcati. General Rousseau who was elected as a Republican, from Kentucky in a late speech on the Freed men's Bureau, said : I ask the members of the House, in view of their oaths to support the Constitution, if they can possibly confer these powers on the mere agents of the FrccQmcn's Bureau ; lieutenants, if you please, and captains in the array, or citizens, not of the proper locality, but gatherers of crumbs falling from the tables of politicians all over the country ? I need not go into a argument to show how far this bill is unconstitutional. The whole bill, root and branch, is without' warrant and against the organic law. At one blow it sweeps away the constitution and laws of Kentucky, courts, juries, justices of the peace, sheriffs, and every body who denies to the negro the civil rights laid down in this bill j all these are liable to be arrested by the agents of this bureau, and lined and imprisoned, not exceeding a fine of 1,000 and impris-
onmeut tor one year. Uur ministers oi the gospel who refuse to solemnize marriage between whites and blacks, that they are sworn not to goleuurzc, maybe arrested and taken before the agcuts of this bureau. Our justices of the peace, who will not allow negroes to testify in their courts, may be treated in the same way. A judge of any court, while trying a cause, may be taken from tho bench and imprisoned for one year by the agents, the subalterns of the Freetlmen's Bureau, and fined $1,000. Now, sir, I ask gentlemen here if they can vote for a bill of this sort ? Can we not secure all the rights of the negroes without thus outraging the feelings of the people of the Southern States, and alo of the people ot the northern States in con. sequence of the condition of things which this bill would create 'I I think we are bad off if we can not. Sir, this class of legislation will prove injurious to the race .it professes to shield and protect. You raise a spirit of antagonism between the black race and the white race in our country, and the law-abiding will be powerless to control it. Ami if you get this feeling excited up to a certain point, and the whole of one race shall be thus arrayed against the other, you may send there all the armies you can raise, you may send soldiers into every county and every prc cinct in the States, but yon will never be able to prevent violence and bloodshed there. hen men become bent on mischief, as the operation of thi3 bill will be sure to make them, you can net raise force cuough to prevent it. I do not state this by way ot threat. I speak of it as a fact which we owe it to ourselves to consider. Now, I wish to state a fact that came within my own knowledge, for the information of this House. In my town, the city of Louisville, the commercial metropolis of the State, we had a nan placed at the head of the bureau there who had some queer notions, which men generally get who have a particular duty to perform, a duty involving prejudice, hate and bitterness. He considered every man in the country who did not believe as he iMd to be his enemy, the enemy of the Government, and the enemy of the ucsrro. "What was the result of his course ? lie would arrest any man, no matter whom, the most inoffensive and the most loyal, on the ex parte statement of a negro. And when the man was brought into his presence, he would turn to the negro . making the statement, 'r and say, "Brother," or "Sister," rs it might happen, "what has this man been doing to you?" And then he would take the testimony of the negroes against him, and Bitting as a court, he would punish him by fine and imprison ment, or by fine alone, ordering hin to le imprisoned "unless the fine was paid." xMow these are things 1 have lrom the most reliable authority. And I will mention another case. A man by the name of Blevins, in my town, came home one eveuing and found his wife engaged in some controversy and collision with a negro woman who hid been her servant; not one who had belonged to her as her slave. He took prt with his wife, as 1 think any gentleman ought to have done, whether his wife were right or wrong. The negro woman complained to this agent of the bureau, and a couple of negro soldiers were sent there to arrest him and his wife. And because one of his little gills had said something in the matter, an order was also sent for her arrni rest, l ne man came to me, supposing tnat 1 might be .able to assist him. I ask ed the post-commander how it was that such things were allowed. He said : "This Freedmen's Bureau, it is said is over us all; what can I do?" I replied: "If I commanded this post, I would know who it was who ordered the muitary to arrest the people without my knowledge, and I would stop it. While I was commandant, I would do my duty. If the authorities diu not l'ke it, they could sci.d me away." Karly the next morning T went to the commandant's headquarters, and . there I found Mr. Blevins and his wife and children, f king protection against the Freedmen's Bureau, acting on the complaint of tho ne gro woman. Now, sir, I told the ageut of that bureau then just what I thought and felt in reference to this matter. I said to him, "Tf you want to protect the freedmcn ot this community I am with you heart and soul; I will stand by you in all just measures ; but if you intend to arrest white people on the ex parte statements of ne grocs, and hold them to suit your convene ience for trial, and fine and imprison them, then I say that I oppose you ; and if you should so arrest and punish mo, I would kill you, when you set me at liberty ; and I think you would do the same to a man who would treat you in that way. if you arc the man I think you arc, and the man you ought to be to fill your position here." Men's brains ought to work very smoothly now, they lmo bo much oil t-a them.
Tliey wcut up like Rockets and Came down like S'icks.
Brick" Pomeroy pays the followiujr just compliment to the Generals who play ed such fantastic tricks in the war : "We hare before us a map, studded like plum pudding with puffed up raisins, with pictures of Generals who went up like rockets and came down like sticks, after an eratic career. They went up from the position they have lallen back to. They shot athwart the sky, sputtering their fire, tcrryfying the defenceless, exploding at their altitude, falling dark and with a hsjvy thud back into the obscurity and into the marshes so to speak, from whence they were by political petards hoisted up. "Look at the list of officers, Major, and Brig.tdier-geuerals, and see how their glory ha3 paled before the fires of events. How they strutted the hours away, issuing win dy proclamations, robbing the defenceless, , imprisoning tne unioriuuaie, stealing cotton, mules and silverware; mobbing and arresting those always their betters and ! swelling into mammoth proportions on pay they never earned ou battles they never fought an conquests they never won on benefits to the country never rendered. "They went up withoutmcrit or honesty; they came down without praise or glory. aud are looked upon as photographs of some horrid dream, fit only to stain with terror the ugly legends of a fanatical past. "Not all the officers are thus, but alas ! too many. They come and go on the streets, attracting no more attention than a nigger or army mule. They live too fast. They taper blazed too rapidly. Their timber was worked too green. They were but the tools of an erring, tyranical power, and the people, true to the instincts of liberty, have already forgotten them except with curses and -ignoring?. ''A few of these parlor robbing heroes still drag out a miserable existence, but the great list of upstart Generals arc no more. The war has sifted brave men to the top and shook the refusa of humanity, deemed unfit for use bv tho late adminis. tratioi:, to the bottom. The war has given us a few great names, some good ones many brave ones, but more failures. Some Generals who never could get south during tho war now go there to 'report' on the deeds of others. "Sonic are kept like cast-off mistresses in the pocket of the War Department others have sank back to their grocery, their whisky peddling at the polls their loafing about siores and saloons, their hunting aftf-r offices and struggling to ob, tain bread without work. The work of the hour is ended. The roods they stole . ar have been squandered ' The mementoes stolen from private houses from the home kept women and children of the south have been pawned for ribbons or bread, aud down into the lap af oblivion, poor, worth less, useless ami forgotten sink the platter brained tools of tyranny; the brass-mouth ed struts of darker days. How few of al the many are now remembered except with disgust." Charleston Rising f rom Its Aslics From the Charleston (S. C.) News. Spite of unfriendly legislation in con rrcss, sMte ot lire and shelunr, ami tne almost total itniecuniositv of the inhabi a ai tants. old Charleston is slowly shaking off her lethargy, and arising from the ashes of destruction. That the work of repair has begun in good earnest may be percei ved at a glance if any one will walk along Meeting street, in the vicinity of the Charleston hotel. Mr. Raber t Adger ha called in the service of of our experienced friend, Mr. David Lopez, and has com menced to "set his house in order." or rather his houses. There arc two large stores, each 180 feet deep, and three stories high, which have been much dam aged bj fire during the war, but which Mr. Lopez is now repairing up as good a new. One ot these buildings 13 at present occupied by Mr. J. h. & Co. :s a hard ware store; the other is being fitted up as a railroad supply establishment. Let the good work go on, and may all of our property-owning citizens follow the suit of Mr. Adgcr's trump card. AX AMENDMENT W ANTED. IherC IS a great deal said in Congress about negro a a wr m suffrage, negro equality negro rights, and all that, and amendments to the Constitution arc offered to meet the several points. We have no doubt all parties will agree that negroes ought to be on an equality with the whites in one respect, and that is that thev should have the privilege of working for a living like the whitcs.Thercforc an amendment to the Constitu tion is wanted which will male the niycrs world Here is a chance for Sumner, Wilson, Wade, Thad. Stevens, and all the rest. The sugar plantations in Louisiana, to say nothing of tho cotton plantations all over the soutn, are anxiously awaiting an amendment to the Constitution that will reach this subject. Ar. Y. Iftrafd. Gen. Grnnt'n Report Ills Theory oriVar. Gen. Grant's theory of war is simply thin: "I have 250,000 men to the 150,000 of the enemy. I shall not attempt any strategical movements. I tdiall not try myself in the open field or rase campafjite agaiust Lee; but I will fight the enemy whenever I can, in the conviction that 1 will make him lose as many men as 1 do, nnd that at last, when I have reduced my army to 150,000, he will only haVe 50,000, and that I must then win." He saw no position, practiced no grand maneuvre, but kept on pressing his enemy continuously on an outer circumference, and eventually moving round from right to left, till his line wheeled rcund and stood facing the point from which it had started. He saw that it was not Rieh mond but Lco'e army which was the heart and pouI of the Confederacy; and he ham mcrcd away uli the head of his hammer was nearly flattened and destroyed; but atl
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were nammenng away at tue uonieaeratcs on similar principles, and the terrible rule in arithmetic wa3 worked out. But who, seriously aud candidly speaking, will pronounce that such a system is entitled to the praise reserved for high efforts of military genius? Not General Grant, for he appeals to the great end in view as the justification of his practice. He can certainly say that whereas his predecessors filled every ditch with dead, and marched fors wards or backwards over slaughtered thousands of their men, he alone plucked victory from the holocaust, and that tho slain of Spottsylvania and Petersburg were the ramparts over which he strove to success. London Army und A'try Gazette. The President's r.ast Speech. From the Chicago Times. What constitutes unionism was very plainly set forth by President Johnson in his recent speech to the Virginia delegation. t is the antipodes of the doctrines maintained by the "'union" party. It is fidelity to the constitution and the union established by it. It is, moreover, "a power in the land," headed by the president of the United States, backed by the armies of the nation, indorsed and cherished b j a majority of two-thirds of the people of tho United States, and the president was not at all boastful when he gave warning to those opposing it that they ''must get out of its way." This is what he wauts them to do, because, a? he is a generous and charitable man, lie wishes to avoid neecs sity for hurting them. If, like the bull who disputed the passage of the railway train, they oppose themselves to the pro gress of the union car, gathering volume and momentum as it rolls forward, they will be hoisted only to fall with a weight which will leave but a mass of bones and rubbish of that which was but an instant before an imposing and intelligent force. 1 esterday congress mourned over the death of a president. J o-uay the nation re joices over the continuance in life of o.ie of sufficient capacity to understand and cour age to perform his duties, lie for whom lament is made may have bceu a good man, but he for whom rcioicings are had is a good president, which, considering the responsibilities devolved upon them as presidents, is of far more interest to the nation. It is natural to suppose that congress should mourn for the death of Mr Lincoln, as that it should sorrow over the prospect of long life vouchsafed to Mr Johnson in the possession of health and strength which cuablc him to swing round the circle of the union despite "the dupli catc of the same spirit" in the north which led to the rebellion in the south. That spirit he intends to cruh. lie says it has been crushed by the strong arm of physical power m one section. In the ether section "it must get out of the way." Suppose that it docs not cot out of the way ? Per. adventure we shall sec an application of the powers conferred by "military uecessi ty." A rump congress, animated by a spirit of rebellion, aud resisting the restoration of the union, cannot long be tolerated if "the government must stand unshaken and unmoved upon its basis." There was a time when such language as that addressed by Mr. Johnson to the Virginia delegation, from a president, would have signified an iutcution upon his part to employ the military power of the government to enforce the opinions announced regardless of a conflict between them and thosj held by the other departs merits of the government. There was a time and not many mouths have passed since theu when a president of the United States, under the pressure of congress, ens forced a despotism as lawless and as insulting to the people and the spirit of the government as would now be one which should disperse the present treasouable and revolutionary congress by an armed force and assume that "the president is the government." What assurance have we that the successor of him, who acted up on this assumption to pander to the passions of those who yesterday assembled to listen to an eulogy upon him, will not turn the weapons against themselves which they have placed in his hands, now that there is war between them ? Their only security is his respect for the constitution they are endeavoring to destroy, and for democratic principles they arc daily execrating. Touching the right ot the south to be represented in congress, the president said to the delegation : "In going into the recent rebellion or iniurrection against the government ot the United States you erred, and in returning and resuming vour relations with the ftderal govern ment I am free to say that all the responsible posit 10ns and places ought tobe confined distinctly ami clearly to men who are loyal. If there were only 5,000 men in af-tate, or a less number, but sufficient to take charge of the political machinerv of the state, those 5,000 men, or lesser number, are entitled to it, if sill the rest should be otherwise included. I look upon it as being a fundamental principle that the exercise of political power should be confined to loyal men, and I regard it as implied in the doctrines laid down in these resolutions. and in the eloquent address by which they have been accompanied." careful perusal of the above will show that while Mr. Johnson asserts the pros priety of the policy therein announced, he docs not deny the lawful right of the states freely to elect whom they please. 1 he limes has often and earnestly urged upon the south the justice and policy of returning union men to congress. Such action would have very much strengthened tho president, and would have taken from the rad icals in congress a pretence which they have effectively employed. The president further said : The representation of the States and of the people should have the qualifications prescribed in the. Constitution of the United States, and those qualifications most unpuesliona ily inquy; loyalty. He who comes is a representative, having the qualifications described bv the Constitution to lit him to take a seat in either of the deliberative bodies which constitute- the National Legislature, must ncccsvuily, icr.Milmg to the intent of
I the Constitution, be a loyal man, willing to
abide by and believe in the Union and the Constitution of the United States. He cannot be for the Union, he cannot acknowledge allegiance to all the laws, unless he is loyal. When the people send such men in good faith, they are entitled to representation through them. Now it is plain that he referred to those who are now loyal. The men whom he was addressing had been engaged in thj rebellion, yet he spoke of himself and them as "standing upon common ground and rallying around the constitution." His appointment of provisional governors and recognition of those elected by the people who had been promineut as confederate officers, civil and military, prove the correctness of our construction. The spoech has about it much more of point than pobsh. Indignation will for a little while choke radical utterances con, ccrning it, but the Brownlow style will enable them to express their appreciation of it in due season. Horrible Accident A Young Girl Roasted Alive. From the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Democrat. A shocking accident, resulting in the death of a young lady, occurred in Hopkins, Allegan county, Mich., on the 1st inst. Mi?3 Adeline Hill started for school on the morning of that day, and had not got more than forty rods from her house when a puff of smoke came up from under her clothes, immediately followed by a flame of fire. She ran to a snow drift close by. with the iritencion of rolling herfcelf in the suow and thus putting out the fire, but owing to the hardness of tho crust she was unable to do so, and she started completely enveloped in flames from her burning clothes, for home, screaming as she ran, lor help 1 1 Mrs. Bradley, a neighbor, hearing her screams, hastened to the assistance of the poor girl. When she reached the burning victim, the agony of the girl was so intense that she seized her friend around the neck, beseeching her for help. Here, Mrs. B. seeing not ouly the perilous condition of the girl, but of herself, broke from the embrace of the disheartened sufferer, and with great difficulty kept her at arm's length until she succeeded ir. tearing her garments from the suffering girl. The poor girl was burned to a crisp from her feet to her waist; her stockings and underclothing being burned completely 0 her person. The girl lived in terrible agony until the moruing of tho 3d inst. when she died. Palpable Hit. The Charlottsviilc (Y.) Chronicle thus ood-humorcdly spcal iks of the straits to which the southern States are driven the radical disuuionists : by "It sccme to us as hard to get in the Uuion as it is to get out. The south respectfully asks to move one way or the other. rc are like the fellow that was forced to. go to the show, and then not al lowed to go any further than where he had paid for his ticket. We have been dragged into the doorway of the fedsra tent, and arc not allowed to sec any 0 tho performance except to settle with the tax collectors. We can hear the animals growling inside, and the cracking of the ring-master's whip, but we can't sec the show, unless we pay for two, and take in a colored lady. And the worst of it is they keep a great eagle perched over the entrance, which if you attempt to go back swoops down upon you and picks a hole in your head. e justly thiuk this is un reasonable; they ought either to let us pass in, or refund our money aud tie up the eagle. Eat Your Drown 11 read First. It is a plain but faithful saying? "Eat your brown bread first ; " nor is there a better rule for a young man s outset in the world. Whilo you continue singlo you may live within as narrow limits as you please, and it is then you must begin to save, in order to provide far the more en larged expenses of your future family. Besides, a plain, frugal life is then sup ported most cheerfully; it is your own choice, and it is justified on the best and most honest principles in the world, and you have nobody's pride to struggle with, or appetites to master but your own. As you advance in life and success, it will be expected that you should givo yourself greater indulgence, aud you may be allow ed to do it both reasonable and safely.stern Star. Treatment of Cholera. Melons, peaches, and other especially laxative fruits, should be abstained from, as well as excessively cold or iced bevcra ges, during tbe heat of day. Symptoms of diarrhea should at once be atteuded to. As to those who abuse strong liquors, or carry dram-drinking to excess, their fate is certain. One cssayest on the cholera of 1832 has written : "The drunkard is con demned to death by cholera." In hhort, cleanliness, with temperance and sobriety in all things, arc the most efficacious pre
scrvativcs again it this terrible affection. As to curative means doctors differ. A grand point is, for the patient to have faith in his doctor. The premonitory diarrhea is almost always curable by remedies quite within tho doctor's reach; it should therefore never be neglected during the continuance of the epidemic. To place the patient immediately in a warm bed, says lr. Maurin, to keep up, by gentle, dry friction, the action of the skin, and to provoko a general perspiration, vrill be so much assistanc3 rendered to tho medical man during the incubation of tho disease; but non medical attendants should attempt no more. To do more, without calling in professional advice, would bo great imprudence. Iu fact the adoption of a decisive course of treatment requires a knowledge which cannot bo communicated in general terms; there must be a practical tact and perception which the acutest intellects can only acquire by long climical f xpericuce 1-
What a Sensible Mas Seeks. A sensible man does not seek consolation he ßeekß forgetfulness. Ax Important Economical Question. What will the omnibus and car drivers dv for overcoats when the government supply is worn out ?
A Grim Hope. A New York tenant, grumbling about the high prices for rent exacted by his landlord, triumphantly asserted, "Waitxill the cholera comes, then rents will come down ! " Life is like a field of blackberry and raspberry bushes. Mean people squat down and pick the fruit, no matter how they black their fingers; while genius, proud and unbending, strides, fiercely on, and gets nothing but scratches, and hole. tern in his garments. I I I A horse is being exhibited in Berlin which has attained tho patriarchial period of eighty. There arc pleuty of "two-forty" horse3 in this country. Wno Can Beat It ? J. S. Nittum, of this county, U now supporting eight sets of children one set by his present wife, three sets by former wives, three set belonging to former wives, one tet belonging to the husband of one of his former wives by a previous wife about eighteen children altogef her. If this can be beat iu this country, we would like to sec the man. Randolph Journal. . Pay alt your small debts promptly, is good advice. The dollar you pay in tho morning may psy a dozen debts before night. The prosperity of a large proportion of traders and dealers depeuds upon those small sums. The neglect of one man, careless of half a dozen small debts, will annoy aud embarrass twenty men, and possibly cause real suffering. Ratfikr Figurative. In the address of the Montana delegation to the president, it is stated that Montana "numbers 50,000 inhabitants," and it is immediately added that "places of habitation and of business arc dotted all over her fertile valleys, and her numerous thoroughfares are trembling with the crush of merchandise." The "thoroughfares" of a whole territory "trembling with the crush of merchandise" for only 50,000 people is rather figurative, to say the least. In 1S50, a Mr Garnet, living near Au burn, was scut to the State Prison for forgery. He sarved out his time, and when he came out, his wife deeming him guilty, refused to receive him. He went to Pennsylvania and married a Toung wife. A few weeks ago a man on his death bed confessed to the crime for which Garnet suffered; tho first wife repenting her conduct, hunted him up, confessed her cruelty, a reconciliation was effected, and the secoud wife voluutarily gave up her claim. The first wife now lives with her husband, and the second is liberally endowed: Allan j Journal. Plans and Management. General management in farming is what is of vital importance to every one who tills the soil, whether on a large or small scale. Success in farming, as in all other branches of business, does not depend on mere luck, ai niauy suppose, but upon a thorough knowledge of the Uusincs.-, uuitcd to judicious plans, by which all work shall bo performed in season. The farmer's business should not drive him, but he should drive his work, so that there need be no perplexity, needless hrstc r confusion.Farmers should keep correct accounts, by which I mean something more than merely keeping debt and credit with the trader and mechanic, highly important as this is. He should once a year take an inventory of his property, including his liabilitie and assets. This may be easily attended to during the stormy days and long eveuings of the winter reason, witout serious interference with his cu5tomarv labors. Mi? fortune. Attempts to drown tho sense of misfortune in strong drink are tho climax of human folly. Intoxication eventually aggravates and intensifies every evu wincn it is invoked to alleviate. It has been thus from the day when man first put an enemy in his mouth to steal his brains," and thus it will be to the end of time. No gane and sober man denies the fact. Kveu the habitual drunkard, in his brief intervals of reason, ühudderinglv admits it. Yet thousands of intellectual jings many of them richly endowed with mental cifts seek consolation from the bottle in the hour of misfortune, tho revelation, history, observation aud instinct alike teach them that of all the broken reeds upon which weakness ever leaned, the false excitement caused by liquor i the most treacherous. It is passing strange! one of those anomalies to which phylo. ophy furnishes 110 ?lue, and for which we can only account by supposing that a power independent of themselves, against whose influence mere reason is no huie protection, betrays men into ruin ! Family Government. Au ecccntrio clergyman, lately alluding in his pulpit to amily government, remarked that it is often said, "There is no such thing now-a-days as family government." "But it's false," said he, "all false ! There is just ai much family government now as thcro ever was just as much as in tho days of our athcrs and grandfathers. The only difference is that then the old folks did the governing ; now it is doue by the young ones 0 In a certain city a sign hangs out from a doll factory which reads thus : "All kinds of babies made here." A sailor walking along one day, noticing the wgn, ftepped , and asked tho Jviy attending if ehe wanted hi Vua a jour.