The Van Wert times. (Van Wert, Ohio), 1885-03-27

              B' $m W"t il's- W. H. CLYMER & SON, Proprietors. The Times is devoted to the advancement of Democratic principles, and to general and local news. OFFICE: First floor, No. 1, South Washington Street Terms of Subscription. One year, in advance $2 00 Six months 1 oo JOB PRINTING Of every description executed in the best style, promptly and on reasonable terms. t .i .- One square, first insertion.... l 00 Each subsequent insertion.... 68 Nine lines of Nopareil type constitute a square. Executor and Administrator's Notices, IN ADVANCE $200 VOL 19, VAN WEET,OHIO, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1885. NO. 30. Reading notices (in Minion type) ten cents per line, each insertion. : V n r. 3 n HEAL ESTATE -250- Fertile Ohio Farms, -FOB SALE BY- J. B. PARKER. No. 347. QQ4 Acre farm In Tuily tp.. Van Wert county, JO o. This tract has lgifa acres under cultivation and the balance Is fair timber such as elm, oak and cotton-wood. It is nearly all under fence and has 15 acres well set in grass. It has a frame house with 4 rooms and kitchen, a frame barn, 20 z 30. with haymow and stable room for 4 horses, a good frame granery, good well of water close to the house, a beaiing orchard, small fruits, etc. It fronts south on on the Ridge road, I9J4 of a mile from school, has a church across t he road, is 2 miles from Convoy and 81 miles from the county seat. Price SI ,600, with one-half cash and balance in 1 and 2 years, or $1,500 all cash. , . No. 377. "D ESIDENCE PROPERTY. This Drooertv Is AV well lacated. and contains 2 lots which front east on Fulton street, south on Caroline street, and has a street on the west. The house Is a Va story frame of 7 rooms, pantry and clothes room; it also has a wood-house, a fine well of Witter, 2 cisterns, a frame bam and a variety of fruit The lot Is nicely shaded by a number of tine maple trees. This property will rent readily at $10 per month Price only $1300. One-half cash, balance In 1 and 2 years with 6 per cent Interest. No. 375. OA ACRES, partly Improved, situated In Union township, 413 ml. from Cavett and 8 mi. from Van Wert. This tract has S acres fenced. 3 acres cleared and underdralned and 10 acres of a chopping; good roads on the east and south, and large open ditches along both roads. It has a plank house 16 x 26, also a log house, 18 x 26, with frame kitchen, good water- at both houses. There Is a small orchard and a garden, paled in. containing small fruits. The orchard and door- yard are inclosed by good board fences. It is in a good neighborhood and nnJyife mi. from school and church. Price $800, with $500 cash and balance in 1, 2 and 3 years. " : ' : no. 325. ' - "v-. . . ,0 nu uuwjk .vuia;. uao au OUC9 111 a fine state of cultivation and 30 acres of oak. ash and elm Umber. There is a two story frame house with eight rooms and summer kitchen; a log staDie. frame corn-crib and other buildings; also two wells M good water, a variety of small fruit and a fine bearing orchard of one hundred apple, and a number of peach, plumb and cherry trees. This farm If taken soon can be had for a per acre; terms, one-third cash and balance in 1 and 2 years. No. 211. ACRES In Tally tp.. Van Wert co., Ohio. lUUThts farm Is situated 2i miles from Convoy, on the P., F-W. 4 C. Ry., Is 9 miles from Van Wert, the county seat, has a good road along the east line, a .road running east and west through the center and Is touched at the northeast corner by the much praised Ridge Road which runs south-east to Van Wert and northwest to Ft. Wayne. This farm has an abundance of good well water, is all fenced. Is nearly all in a fine state of cultivation and is high rolling land affording good natural drainage. It is wen calculated to divide and would make two fine 80 acre farms If desired. It has 45 acres of meadow which yields yearly about two tons per acre of good timothy hay which commands the highest market price; 80 acres in blue grass which affords the best of pasture for stock, and 35 acres of Umber land which can be used as woods pasture. This farm for raising grain, hay and stock is unsurpassed, and needs out to be seen to convince a would-be purchaser of the fact. It will be to the Interest of anv one deslrinir a farm of thin kind to correspond or come and investigate immediately, aa the owner, who is a non-resident, is now offering It at $37.60 per acre, which is only miwiunnuB its actual vaiue, tnereiora, will not remain long on the market. Call on or address J. B. PARKED, VAN WERT, 0. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. PMYSICIAK8. W. H. CD BIHTOPH EH, M . U. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office, Union A. Block, McKlm's corner, wan Wert Ohio. rtesldence Dr. Krout's former residence, No. 47 South Washington Street. Janl84 W, N. LOJfflSWOBTH, If . 0. fJHYdlUlAN AND SURGEON, has resumed JL the practice of medicine. All calls promptly atienueu 10. umue wun uicnie a Alien over a.. V. Olney's clothing store ; residence opposite ATTORNEYS. HATHAWAY EEIHPEB, A TTORNET-AT-LAW, vAN WERT, OHIO. u.m. umce over uen A. Jacobs Sc Sons' store. Oct. 2.1S84. I . f. ALEXANDER, A TTOBNEY-AT-LAW, VAN WEBT, OHIO. umce over van w enuouciy uann. ( April 6,1878. HAI.TZGABEB4bai.EAH. ATTOBNEYS-AT-LAW, VAN WEBT, OHIO Practice 1 n the Courts of Van Wert count? collections promptly made ana remitted, fart!- tion, probate and litigated business solicited, conveyaacedone at reasonable rates. Oface in UcCurdydc Son's Block over their hardware tore. Septl9,1879. H. G. Richie. g . W. Allek. RICHIE A ALLEN, A TTOBNEYS-AT-LAW, VAN WEBT, OHIO. umce over n. v.umeysstore. May 11, 1877. W. J, BEERS. TTOBNEY-AT-LAW, VAN WEBT. OHIO, will promptly attend to allbusinessentrust-edtohlscare, In Van Wert and other counties. Office above Clark & Son's shoe store ,ln Arcade JOHN DARNELL. A TTOBNEY-AT-LAW, VAN WEBT, OHIO r. umce with col. I. jn. Alexander. Partic ular attention given to making collections . TONSORAL ART ROOM OF HENRY IIEYlTlAHn. rpHE ONLY FIBST-CLAS3 BABBEB SHOP IN J. the clly, where you can get a first-class Shave r Clear. I always employ the best workmen. Give me a call and I will satisfy you. many nana lor past iavors. H. HEYMANN, Opposite Cou House and next to Penn & Co's. D. Collins. Wm. Pkrkt. COLLINS PERRY. T7USHI0NABLEBABBEBSANDHAIB DRESS-I JL1 era. f lrstuoor south oi Miller 4 Murphy s restaurant. NO. 20 EAST MAIN ST., Jewelry and Music Store, A. P. McCOfAHAY, Practical Watch-maker and Jeweler, Proprietor. FREDENLSUllG & CO. DEALERS IN nix. van and medicines, pat ent AND NOK SECRET 9IEMCIXES, Notions, School Books, Etc., Etc Convoy, Ohio. ISew Dental Office. H. S. AINSWORTH, DENTIST. "VFFICE over the First National Bank, No. 4 i East Main street, directly opposite poet oi- nee, vao njuii, uniir. June 6-tf. CAVETT. The snow is going. Did you see the eclipse? Cavett wants a skating rink. Mr. George Hoaglin closed his school Friday. Mr. John Kannel's infant daughter is quite sick. The Smith Bros, are doing a rousing business. Mr. Worth Glover.is at home visiting his parents. The saw mill of Taylor & Son is running in full blast. Mr. Sam "Wolf, of Cincinnati, was on our streets last week. Henry Blachly, of Van Wert spent Sunday with his parents. Mr. Henry Miller is visiting his sister, Mrs. John Kannel. The work on Mr. John Wilmore's residence will begin soon. Mr. Will Snyder has purchased a $125 organ for his daughter. Mr. Scott Norviel, of Valporaiso, Ind., is the guest of Dr. Blachly and family. Miss Mertie Smith, who visited at Enterprise last week, reports having a good time. Mr. Hack Burrow has "bought the Williamson property and will move to town shortly. Mr. and Mrs.McCann, of Van Wert, make frequent visits to this place. Mr. McCann will go west soon. Mr. G. W. Smith, our popular dry goods merchant is about to dispose his property and go to the far west. Grandpa Williamson, aged 72 years started for Los Angeles, Cal., Wednes day. We wish him a safe journey. We are having a splendid literary at the Hoaglin school house, come one and all. Doolittle. ENTERPRISE ITEMS. We have a jeweler now in Enterprise All those who do not believe in'the ground hog day stand up. Mrs. G. W. Smith and daughter vis ited Mrs. W. A. Cremean last week. Miss Nannie Fauger, of Celina, is visiting Mrs. Ira Lehmer, of our town. F, P. Morris is getting material on the ground preparatory to building a dwelling on Cremean street. Tommy Gregory, our blacksmith, has sold out to John Reed, of Ada, O., who will move here in a short time. Mr. G. Baltzell, Miss Rosa Yahnano Miss Annie Harruff were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Uremean last Sunday. Has any one heard lately of the Sci ota Valley railroad being built through iiiUternrise this summer? Don't ev erybody answer at once. A young man named Clarke was badly hurt last Friday, while helping fell a tree on Jos. Custer's place, about a mile south of town. The doctors have but little hopes of his recovery. There has been some talk of Davis Kesler building a brick house in our town. He went to Price Brothers and Ericed their brick. Great Scott! A rick hoiiae in Enterprise! Just think of it. Wonder is he will build it on blocks? School closed at the Center last Fri day, and we had a good social time to gether. Parents came ; with their children, and brought baskets- well hlled with pies, cakes and chicken. Visitors and everybody had all they could eat, and still there was more. At night we had a splendid entertainment, consisting of dialogues, declamations, sermons, speeches and songs, interspersed occasionally with instru mental music. Altogether it was a frand success, thanks to our teacher, 1. N. Bunnion. Rex. RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT AND SYMPATHY. Whereas: Oue of our most respected fellow teachers has been suddenly stricken down and called away from her work on earth, we, the teachers of the Van Wert Union Schools unite in the following reso lutions: That we deeply mourn the loss from our number of Miss Maude P. Rose as an earnest, devoted teacher, and that the profession has lost one of its truest exponents from its ranks. That we, with the sorrowing family, will ever value and treasure the memory of her superior qualities of her head and heart, and hold dear the life and work of the deported.mat we nereby extend to the bereaved mother and sister our heartfelt sympathy. That a copy of these resolutions be fur nished the bereaved family and that they be published in the papers published in van wen. maboabhtallex, Julia Putnam, D. R. Boyd, Committee. Salea. Darwin Edson will otter for sale. 5 miles south-west of Van Wert, Tuesday, March 31, 1883, 2 work horses, 3 cows and other stock, corn, oats, hay, wagon, etc. DAvm mooke, Auctioneer. There is a fraud concern in Cincin nati that advertises a "Golden Specific" sure cure for drunkenness, iou may be sure there are men who are fooled into drinking both. nnnvrjs -THE DESTTOIIIC. r This medicine, combining Iron with pure vegetable tonics, quickly and completely Cure. Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Weakness, I in pare Blood, Malar! a,Chllln and Fevers, and Neuralgia, It is an un tailing remedy for Diseases of the Iildoeys and Liver. It is Invaluable for Diseases peculiar to Women, and all who lead sedentary lives. It does not injure the teeth, cause headache, or produce constipation other Iron medicines do. It enriches and purines the blood, stimulates the appetite, aids the assimilation of food, relieves Heartburn and Belching, and strengthens the muscles and nerves. For Intermittent Fevers, Lassitude, lack of Energy, &c., it has no equal. 49- The genuine has above trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no other. BH1, oljbj BK0WH CBIMICAb CO, BALTIMORE, M. ri 1311 llffllli iUH lii m u A PICTORIAL INTRODUCTION To the Face of Persona Whose Naes Are Familiar. GEORGE H. PENDLETON. The important diplomatic station of Min ister to Germany has been granted to "gentleman11 George H. Pendleton, and at the age of 60, after 35 years of his life spent in pontics, tnougn not always successful, few men are better entitled than Mr. Pendleton to a reward from his party. It is claimed by his friends that his speech in the Senate on civil service reform is what compelled his opponents to adopt that measure, which proved afterwards to be one of the severest blows to them. Mr. Pendleton began publit life in 1854 as a member of the state senate of Ohio. He represented Ohio in the national congress from 1857 to 1864, when he was the Democratic candidate for vice-president on the ticket headed by George B. McCIellan; was a candidate for governor of hio in 69, and in 1879 took his seat in the United States senate. In private life Mr. Pendleton is held, in the highest esteem, ills wire is a lady of rare accomplishments. She was the daughter of Francis Scott Key, the author of "The Star Spangled Banner," and a niece of the great chief justice of the United States supreme court, Roger P. Taney. Their home is at Cincinnati, where Mr. Pendleton was born and has since resided. Simply a Sum In Addition. Milwaukee Sentinel.1 An anglers1 journal is publishing a series of letters to prove that a brook trout weighing 24 pounds was caught in Maine in 1849. There is nothing very remarkable about it As a trout generally increases in weight at the rate of one pound an hour after being taken from the water by an angler, the Maine fish of 1849 should now weigh about 300,000 pounds. , ' Minister to France. ' ROBERT M'lrANE. Robert McLane, who has been appointed by the president minister to France, is by education a statesman and admirably fitted for a diplomatic- station. 'His family, the McLanes of Maryland, are among the first families in an honorary way in the united States. Allen McLane was a distinguished revolutionary officer. His son Louis represented Maryland in congress for ten years prior to 1827, when he was chosen senator. He was minister to England under Gen. Jackson, and- afterward secretary of state till June, 188. Robert, the present leading representative of the iamily possesses in a marked degree the talents of his ancestors; he has taken an active part in the politics of his state, filling acceptably every position to which he has been chosen. . Commissioner of Internal Revenue. JOSEPH S. MILLER. Mr. J. S. Miller, the newly appointed com missioner of internal revenue, is a very pop ular man among those who know him best. The people of his state, of all parties, speak well of him. He was born in Cabell county, W. Va., about 37 years ago. He is descended from an old family of the Virginia valley, and his ancestors figured conspicuously m the revolution. Mr. Miller was educated at Beach Grove academy, Ashland, Ky. He is a lawyer by profession, but has always taken an active in terest in politics, and when but 21 years of age was elected clerk of the circuit court of Cabell county. In 1873 he was elected sacretary of the state senate, and in 187b he was elected state auditor. In 1880 he was re-elected, and his last term expired on the day President Cleveland was in augurated. He wis prominently mentioned for governor last fall, but did not go before the convention. More Than a Cyclone Can Stand. Norristown Herald. The Italians believe that maternity robs woman of her voice. The Italians should come to this country and listen to a rural mother call home her children, who are play ing m a wood a mile distant. When a cyclone hears her voice shooting along, it knows it must either jump over it or get wrecked. Chicago Ledger: If there is anything more to be desired than gold, yea, than nne gold, it is a child's shoe that can't be run down at the heel. So Vt to Bet Against a Congressman's Wind. Newman Independent. Half a dozen men in a saloon in Nipand- tuck, the other night, were trying to blow out a candle ten feet distant, but all failed, presently a genteelly dressed gentleman en tered the room and offered to bet $50 that he could extinguish the candle 12 feet distant. The bet was promptly taken, the genteelly dressed man blew out the candle at the first effort, pocketed the money, took a drink, and then left the barroom loafers looking at each other in blank astonishment. "Who in the dickens is that 'ere feller, any- how?" queried the "bum" who had lost the bet. "Don't you know him?' asked the barkeep er. "Why, that feller is an Indiana congressman, and goes around to the county fairs and wins money by blowing the bottoms out of lung testers! It's no use to bet against his wind, boys!" Postmaster at New York. HENRY O. FSABSON. The question as to whether Mr. Pearson, the postmaster at New York, should be retained in his position, which has been the subject of so much press discussion, renders his portrait of interest. Mr. Pearson was a New York boy, educated in its public schools. He is now in his 43d year, ha vine: spent 25 years of his life in the post office. He began in 1860 as a stamper, and rose through seven intervening positions to that of postmaster, in 1877, prior to which he had for eight years been assistant postmaster. His opportunities for knowing it thoroughly have been excep tional, and he has been constantly on the alert to improve the service. The importance of his position may be judged from the fact that his office employed reerularlv during 1884 1,730 persons, whose aggregate pay for the year was $1,511,025, the total receipts of the office during the same tune being f 4,280, 738.49. Life Insurance as a Health, Restorer. Bill Nye in Boston Globe. Life insurance is a great thing. I would not be without it. My health is greatly im proved since I got my new policy. Formerly I used to have a seal-brown taste in my mouth when I arose in the morning, but that has ppeared entirely. I am more hopeful and happy, and my hair is getting thicker on top. I would not try to keep house without life insurance. Last September I was caught in one of the most destructive cyclones that ever visited a republican form of government. A great deal of property was destroyed and many lives were lost, but I was spared. People who had no insurance were mowed down on every hand, but aside from a broken leg I was entirely unharmed. I look upon life insurance as a great com fort, not only to the beneficiary, but to the insured, who very rarely lives to realize anything pecuniarily from his venture. Twice 1 have almost raised my wife to affluence and cast a gloom over the community in which 1 lived, but something happened to the physician for a few days so that he could not attend tc me, and I recovered. For nearly two years 1 was under the doctor's care. He had hit finger on my pulse or in my pocket all the time. He was a young western physician. who attended me on Tuesdays and Fridays. The rest of the week he devoted his medical skill to horses that were mentally and physically broken down. He said he attended me largely for my society. I felt flattered tc know that he enjoyed my society after having been thrown among horses all the week that had had much greater advantages than I. My wife at first objected seriously to an in surance on my life, and said she would never, never touc3i a dollar of the money if I were to die, but after I had been sick nearly twe years, and my disposition had suffered a good deal, she said that I need not delay the obsequies on that account But the life insurance slipped through my fingers somehow, and I recovered. In thes e days of dynamite, and roller rinks, and the gory meat-ax of a new administra tion, wo ought to make some provision foi the futire. President of Guatemala. JTJSTO RUFINO BARRIOS. The troubles in the neighboring states oi Central America, in which our government has been called on to interfere and has taken some action, brings into prominence Gen. Barrios, who haft been fomenting revolution in these countries since 1867. For the past 50 years the five petty states lying between the Gulf of Tehuantepec and the Isthmus ol Panama have been kept in a chronic state oi insurrection by revolutionary leaders in the vain hope of establishing there a republic such as ours. The mixed population of ne gro, Indian and Mexican blood seem to be ill fitted for self government, the numerous insurrections resulting only in keeping other wise fertile lands impoverished. The present president of Guatemala, Gen. Barrios, who is endeavoring to bring about a union of the states of Guatemala, San Salvador and Honduras, has had a remarkable career. Born m Guatemala 50 years ago, lie received a collegiate education, graduating at the age of Zl, and has since devoted his life to revolution, which, in 1867, broke out in open warfare against the government, ending in the latter's overthrow in 1871. Immedi ately after organizing the new government under a president a fresh revolution broks out, which Gen. Barrios quickly suppressed. Since 1S73 he has been the president of tbi republic of ft?mala. A Historical Had Boy. Bill Nye. Many years ago there lived in New Haver a very bad boy. He was born 145 years ago. and as he is now dead I feel at liberty tc write his biography. Sometimes it is perfectly tiresome waiting for a man to die, so that you will feel perfectly safe in saying what you think of him; but if he happens to be a large, robust man it certainly pays to do it. This boy was known far and wide as the meanest and notoriously, hopelessly bad boy in Connecticut. . No other boy had any claims whatever when he was around, and for years he carried the belt. He knew all the little fine tricks of meanness and cruelty at the age of 12 years that it generally takes a lifetime to acquire. Where others studied all day hard to devise new kinds of wickedness, and lay on their stomach nights by the light of a pine knot and patiently worked out the more difficult problems of meanness and lawlessness, this lad seemed to breathe it all in the very air. His wonderful genius as a successful bad boy was remarked by those who did not know him at all. He was a prodigy of wickedness, a miracle ofmeanness. " - The bad boy and the dogs. . "Whenever any of the dogs saw this humor-ous boy they would conceal their tails as "far as possible and go to Canada till the bad boy had grown up or died. He loved to get little boys into his hands and then duck them or scare them out of their senses. He succeeded in crippling several little schoolmates, and blew out the teacher's eye with a cannon firecracker one day. He loved to see his little friends fall into his traps, and very few of his most intimate friends succeeded in dying a natural death. I could go on for page after page, telling of the funny pranks of this bad boy, if I chose to, and it would make you laugh tall the tears rolled down your cheeks to read how he filled the asylum and the hospital nH the cemetery with his friends. He was a great lover of fun, and in one evening scared three little girls with a skull covered with phosphorous and worked by machinery so that they had fits all their lives. . He knew of more ways to produce a laugh and scare a child into fits than any boy of his age in Connecticut, and you must remember that this happened over 100 years ago, when boys didn't have the advantages they have how. Everybody said that the boy would car-' tainly come to some bad end. He could not escape, they thought. No boy could be so lawless and disagreeable and still amount to anything. There were thousands of straight-laced Puritanical croakers who said that the boy would sink to nothing whatever or land in the penitentiary. He said, however, that he was just sowing his wild oats, and when he got his crop in he proposed to reform and make his mark. Year after year he lived on, just as full of the "old scratch" as ever. Now and then he would burn a barn, just to see the cows scatter and watch the farmer hustle out in his shirt with a pail of water. Now and then he would bum a barn. ' Hut observe how the prophesies of his neighbors failed. It ought to encourage svery bad boy in the United States to-day, whose relatives and friends speak harshly of him. This lad at last grew to be a man, and was known all over the civilized world. Hn name is familiar to every one, and in the his tory of our great land you will find a long account ol nun, ana sou. ne naa the reputa tion of pulling frogs to pieces while their were alive, and of leaving mud turtles on the track for the passenger train so that he could hear them pop, and of putting kittens on the kitchen stove to watch them while they oancea. Bad boy, do not be discouraged. Hope on. for there may be a future for you. Do -not lose nope wnen your parents talk back at you. You have just as good a chance to be known all over the world as the boy of whom have told you. He was poor, too. He had to sow his wild oats first, as you sav. but he jteadily worked his way on, until at the tame st his death he was known wherever the Eng lish language is spoiten as .Benedict Arnold . and everybody wanted to see him very much indeed, liven the sheriff, who wouldn't rec ognize him at all when he was a boy, walked Cor miles and miles to find him and converse-with him, and when he got there Mr. Arnold wasn't at home. He had thought of something in England that he wanted to go and get. A Kesort for Dyspeptics. ' Cleveland Voice. Applicant (to the landlady) "I am willing; to pay a good price, madam, but I am very particular about my rood., l am under the doctor's care constantly, and suffer dreadfully with dyspepsia." Landlady ''Oh, Tm sureyou will be pleased with my table if that is the case, sir. My boarders all have dyspepsia." The Chemist of the Brooklyn Board, of Health versus the Royal Baking Powder. From a chemical examination I have made of cans of Cleveland's Superior-Baking Powder and Royal Baking Powder purchased by myself in open market, I arrive at the following results : Cleveland's Baking Powder is made of very pure materials, and is entirely free from Alum, Ammonia, Terra Alba, or any adulteration whatever, and I recommend it as a healthful, effective and perfectly reliable baking powder. The Royal Baking Powder contains Am monia, and as tats drug is not wholly I expelled from the dough in the baking pro- cess, and as most medical authorities agree as to the injurious effects resulting from the continued nse of Ammonia, its use in food should be strongly condemned. Cleveland's Baking Powder evolves more- carbonic acid gas than the Royal Baking Powder, and it is, in consequence, more economical to housekeepers. Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 4, 1884. ELIAS H. BARTLEY, B. S., M. D., Chemist to the Department of Health, City of Brooklyn; Lecturer on Physiological and Practical Chemistry in the Long Island.. Medical College. Cheap Rail Road Tickets. It is a mistake to think that you can n ot do as well at home as yon can abroad. 1 can furnish you with tickets to all poii its in the West and Northwest just as cheap as you can buy anywhere, and can chfick your baggage- right through from Van Wert to your destination. I represent the Fort Wayne Route, which is one of the best in America, and I can nut von thro nch with fewer changes of cars, with less transfers and for the same money that you can go for via any other route. This is business. Come and see me, or write before completing your arrangements. John Van Liew. Agent P., F. W. & C. Ry, 3.13.3. Van Wert, Ohio. .'to JUST ONE WEEK From To-Morrow, The $500 in Gold Will Be Given. This is the Last Time We Will Ciive Ton a Chance To Get a Splendid Present For Nothing. Avail Yourself of This Bare Op- portunity, by Paying for Tour Paper or Subscribing for The Times. Now Ton Wont Have to Walt IiOnp; to See Whether Ton Get The Two Band red Dollars In Gold. The time set for the Times Gold Gift Distribution is now drawing close at hand only eight days away, in fact and as we will be very busy in the latter part of the week, making out numbers as fast as called for and making necessary arrangements for the drawing, we will ask those who have not gotten their chances yet, to call in the forepart of next week if they can. We will however, continue to give numbers until three o'clock, Saturday afternoon, April 4th. Many of our readers whose subscriptions will not expire soon, are paying for their papers in advance two or three years, in order to take advantage of our last gift offer, and in so doing thev only lose the interest on the money they pay before due. A chance to get Two Hundred Dollars in Gold or some smaller gift in gold for nothing doesn't come more than once in a life time. To those who are not taking The Times, this is the best opportunity ever given in Van Wert county to subscribe for a good paper for one year and have a chance "thrown in," for presents worth $5 to $200. We have given our delinquent subscribers the most liberal inducements to pay up, in the last three years, and after this drawing, we are going to take severe means to collect long standing accounts, as they must everyone be settled, before or immediately after the drawing. As everybody understands, the gifts will go by pure luck and one number is just as likely to draw the $200 in Gold (or something else) as any other number. If you did not draw a gift at the first or second distribution, that is no sign that you wont this time, The horse and buggy, piano, $50 in gold and nearly all the large presents we xve given, were drawn by persons who did n't expect anything. So, if ii i ii - n you nave naa no iuck at tne otner drawings and think you wont this time, we say, dortt be too sure. April 4th may prove to be the luck iest day of your life. Anyhow, the chances do not cost you a cent, so you can afford to give Fortune chance to smile . upon you. We promise that the presents will be f airlv drawn and that one of the readers of this paper, perhaps you, will draw the splendid gift of $200 in Gold one week from to-morrow. rire Alarm Wedneadny. A big alarm was caused by a little fire in the roof of Lraper s "cuuud" shoe shop on Court street. Ine Bul letin says Mr. D. accounts for the fire by "the wind twisting in concave form, thereby precipitating a spark to the roof and causing an incipient conflagration." Loss $25,000. Noin- surance; Mrs. Geo. Beers is at Decatur. Mr. H. M. Crow, of Urbana, is in town. Mr. D. A. Hackedorn, of Ontario, O., is here. W. G. otreit delivers nis groceries in a fine new delivery wagon. Streit, the grocer, will give away a skating outfit. Head nis "ad." Mr. W. W. Morse and family, of Convoy, attended the Montgomery Harnly wedding last night. The Uehna post office sale was blown open Tuesday night and $600 in money and stamps taken. Mr. Levi Jacobs, of the firm c Gen. A. Jacobs & Son& is traveling for Kaplan & Lowenthal, clothiers, Cincinnati. Messrs. Greenwald & Fronefield will have on sale to-morrow, beef from the largest steer ever sold in Van Wert market, weighing 2,280 lbs. alive. The Times office will be open this week and next from 7 to 8, for the accommodation of subscribers who cannot conveniently call during the day. Illy Mills Cloned. The City Mills will be closed to-morrow (Saturday) and until further notice, while the rollers are being put in. W. A. Ci.ahk. CON TOT ITEMS. Deanocrats should remember that eternal vigilance is the price of success and should turn out en masse, ana make their nominations for township officers, and see to it that none but good business men are nominated, and then see that they are elected. Remember that the convention for the nomination of officers occurs on Tuesday, the last day of this month, at 2 o'clock p. m., at Convoy. Mrs. Aneevine is very much im proved in health. Joe Sims is still sick. Two freight cars jumped the track early Wednesday morning about a mile west of Convoy. The road was cleaned before 7 o'clock a. m. and trains on the move. The Mayor has issued his proclama tion for an election to be held April 7th, 1885. March winds have prevailed for the last 3 weeks. A. B. Penny has moved into his brother Elisha's home. D. Klinger has moved into the north house. A. B. Penny has rented the Stamm store for the storage of agricultural implements. New plows are arriving for the com ing campaign. Several care are being loaded with baled hay this week. Rev. Atkins closed his meetings at the Lutheran Church last Sunday night. Convoy sinners are incorrigible. W. A. Lehmann strayed away to Middlepoint last Sunday. . Mrs. Rosamond Miller is iu Van Wert spending the week. Abe Denis purchased a horse at the sale of J. Stamm, and last Friday as he was driving him near the residence, of Fred Reed he suddenly became paralyzed and was unable to get home, so Abram has the pleasure of sitting up all sight with him out doors, also most of Saturday night. But success crowned his efforts, as the horse is rapidly improving. - Dr. J. DeHays and lady visited the Dr.'s parents in Mercer county this week. Marvin. PLEASANT TOWNSHIP ITEMS. Mr. Shook's dwelling is nearing completion. ; Rev. Wittig and family are in Pauld-. ing county visiting. A Miss Miller, ofJVan Wert, was out here visiting recently. - Byron Balyeat returned to his home in .Nebraska, last Monday. The Bulletin correspondent is on the sick list. Too much possum. The Democrats have taken their C. and H. pole down at the Gribler crossing.A large quilting party last Wednesday at the residence of Wm. A. Longs- wortn. Mrs. Adam Steinbower has returned home after an extended visit in Mer cer county. Mr. Thomas Nance, of Van Wert, rounded the circuit with Rev. Mounts on last Sabbath. All Pleasant Democrats will meet at the tax-payers' room at 2 p. m., Saturday, without fail. Abe Sours doesn'tlook a bit sour.but is all smiles and says it's a boy, and weighs several pounds. Frank Stukey has so far recovered from an attack of intermittent fever as to be able to go about. It is rumored that Pedro, of . the Re publican, will start a skating rink in Jonn UriDiers nay mow, soon. Mr. Thomas Tumbleson started to Noble county, Ind., where he will spend the summer probably calico out there. The reorganization of the M. E. Sab bath school will take place on the night of April 7th, at the M. E. Church. George Foley has rented and moved onto the John Robinson farm, and Alonzo Morton has moved onto his father's farm. Marvin : We would like to accomo date you with "one" on the immoral ity of politicians, but we must confess ignorance as to themanoeuvers of such animals. Mr. Ed. Wells is building a summer kitchen. He is the fellow that had hia door-yard fence stolen last sum mer. The thief has not returneu it yet either. ; Bohemian oats men have been in Pleasant, but tackled the wrong men to make sales, as these men take The Van Wert times and have been in formed by it of these swindles hereto fore, but nevertheless any man that is hasty enough to invest in any such business ought to pay ior one or two lessons. Eloped from Richey on last Satur- day on the 1 o'clock train, while the girl's parents were in Van Wert, one Wm. Hoy, formerly of Hocking Co., but for the last three years a resident of Van Wert, and a rustic looking damsel of about sixteen summers, by the name of Rosa Sheeks, daughter of Mr. Chas. Sheeks, of Kichey. supposed to have gone to his former home. The family are very much excited over the anair. loy is about 'A) years old. As was anticipated before, the school in district No. 8 closed on the 20th amid imposing pageantry. About 9 o'clock Mrs. Wm. H. Troup arrived on the scene in charge of the teacher. By that time the school room was pretty well filled up with small scholars wearing happy faces. The bell was rung and every one of these little ones were quickly at their seats. Then recitations were proceeded with, and in every instance signs of the rapid pro-press made was evident. About Ho' clock the big girls and boys began to pour in with baskets plumb iuii,wmch made the little ioiks, wno were study ing so hard, smile all over their lesson. Soon 12 o'clock came, then t he mamas and papas came in wagons and on horse-back, and unloaded and fetched themselves in the house. In a short time the teacher thought aWchange in the exercises would be better for the constitution. Well it was unanimous ly agreed, whereupon the boys retired from the house to make room for the ladies (God bless their big innocent souls) to prepare dinner. In a few minutes the bell rang, and on going in the tables were found laden bountifully with eatables. We partook as heartily as though we had a Granger stomach. After dinner the programme consisted in recitations in algebra, history, geometry, and physical geography, in which they did some good work and unquestionably made rapid progress during the term. After a few speeches Mr. Wm. H. Troup closed his successful term of school. Pedro. Waiting fr Sml f !. The guarded language of the build-. tins sent out by General Grant's physicians leaves no room for. doubt that the mortal malady that is wasting away the General's life is nearing the point where dissolution may be ex pected. Racked in body, troubled in mind, unaoie to sleep or eat, and overshadowed with the haunting thoct ' that his sun is setting amid thecloutLs, ; the patient's stock of vitality runs lower and lower every day. The announcement of his death may come at ' any time. . It is said that General Grant's ina bility to sleep results not so much from his physical ailment as from the unrest ot his mind caused by brooding over his connection with the Ward failure. Knowing that he must die, he cannot get the idea out of his mind that he U dying in disgrace and in debt. "lie had hoped," writes a correspondent, "that fortune might smile upon hid, and that in some manner he miat earn the money to return to those who lost it But he was attacked wih a mortal disease and soon became too sick to stir out of his house. So, si ' lently and grimly, without a .word- of-complaint, he keeps to his easy chair ' and thinks. He mourns because he cannot make restitution and because he is helpless. It preys upon him so that he cannot sleep." ' The New York newspapers have set what they call the "death watch" an the dying General, knowing that he ? may die at any moment, and that they may instantly have the ner?, each paper has set a reporter to keen constant vigil in the neighborhood of " the Grant residence, so as to be on the spot when the last hour comes. The reporters have hired a room just acrocs the street, where they beguile the tine as best they may while they wait for ' General Grant to die. There is something infinitely pathetic in this. The grim old soldier,' who never feared death in the flerceet storm of battle, the man who a little while ago filled so vast a space in the-admiration of the world, ' silently - vat-fering, broken in body and overclouded with disappointment and gloouy ' thoughts, waiting the moment, now so near, when the hand of death shall . touch his heart. . And over across the street the death watch set, waiting for Grant to die ! - The bitter irony of fate, the cruel mockery of baffled human hopes and disappointed human ambitions, could not conspire to produce a saauer scene than this. Cleveland Plain Dealer.- HIDDLEPOIBT ITKMB. Spring is here at last. Get ready to clean your yards. . Only nine days until the distribution. How .can we wait any longer ? Mrs. A. Gamble is seriously ill. Dr. Christopher, of Van Wert, Is the attending physician. Miss Grace Miller, of Lima, is the guest of her cousin, Miss May Gris-wold.The meetings at the M. E. Church , closed Tuesday evening. Mr. I. Lyle, who has been visiting in the east, has returned home. The rink is booming. Our schoolgirls think skating is much nicer than going to school. C M. Deniston Sundayed with Del-phoB friends. Mr. Denison, of course,' visits Delphos frequently." '. Al Manship is the fairy on wheels." Mr. J. H. Bell has just completed frescoing the Disciple church. - Mr. B. receives much praise for his excellent work. , Miss Ella Kershaw was in Delphos Tuesday on business. . . .... . , : Miss Katie Evans, who has been visiting her sister, has returned home. Prof. Hufford, of Ada, O., attended the Normal meeting on last Friday night. , ' Rev. Smith, of Bluffton, O., preached an excellent discourse at the M. E. Church Tuesday evening. Mr. Tom Perry, who has been ill for some time, died Tuesday evening at 11 o'clock. His funeral will be preached Friday at ten o'clock, Rev. Dunlap officiating. "Only a Pansy." "Your father is worth at least half a ' million," said he to his iealous sweetheart. "That is true," she murmured. 'And yet you doubt my love," he re plied in an injured tone. From the Bloody OrocsL , " " TOLLESBORO, Ky.' , Dr. S. B. Hartman & Co., Columbus, Ohio. 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