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Note Table," which shows how few cents on the dollar the different issues of State banks are worth. I notice that very few of them are at par. Ohio banks seem to be worth within about five per cent. of their face value, and every bank except one out of the fifteen Maine banks quoted is marked broken.

The advertisements give many hints as to the history of the times.

One shows the editor to be hard up, and says that every subscriber on his list owes him at least a dollar and a half.

Another offers "$100 reward for the detection of the person who fabricated a marriage notice, and clandestinely contrived to procure its insertion in this paper last Saturday." Think what an excitement that notice must have caused in this little village of Cleveland of 1000 inhabitants. I can hear the tongues of the gossips wag as I read between the lines.

Another advertisement is for a shooting match. It was dated Cleveland, May 1st, 1829, and states that a $45 Double Barrelled European Fowling piece will be shot for as soon as a sufficient number have subscribed. Shots one dollar each. Off hand fifteen rods; from a rest twenty rods. The gun may be seen and names entered at Andrews' gun factory, Bank street.

Below this Orson M. Oviatt advertises that he has received a new stock of dry goods, groceries, hardware, and Spanish sole leather, which he will sell at the lowest prices for cash or pork.

And in another column is a petition for divorce of James Pettibone from Wealthy Pettibone his wife.

The school advertisements are interesting. T. H. Gallaudet, of Hartford, Conn., advertises his deaf and dumb school there. Since then his son has risen to the top of his profession, and now he ranks in the world as one of the greatest deaf and dumb teachers in it.

The Rev. Mr. Freeman, of the village of Chagrin, announces that he proposes to open a school for young ladies where instruction will be given in reading, spelling, writing, history, arithmethic, geography, and plain needle work, at three dollars per term of twelve weeks.

The St. Clair Female Seminary at Pittsburgh teaches about the same studies at a cost of $100 for board and tuition, and an apothecary's bill at the charge of the parents. It states also that the dress of all the young ladies will be uniform, consisting of two black bombazette frocks and one white one, two black capes and two white ones, two black bombazette aprons, handkerchiefs, towels, combs, brushes, waste-bowls, etc., all at charge of parents.

A medical college advertisement of an institution at Cincinnati states that good board can be had in that city from $1.75 to $2.75 per week.

In another advertisement Cleveland is described as at the junction of the Ohio Canal with Lake Erie as the most populous, wealthy and thriving village on the Western Reserve, with the exception of Buffalo. on the Lake Shore. It has direct communication daily with the East, and three times a week with Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Columbus, Detroit, etc., by mail stages, daily south by the canal, and almost hourly with Detroit and Buffalo by steamboats and schooners.

Another advertisement states that The Remember Me, a religious and literary miscellany, is for sale at the news office. And another looking very strange for abolition Cleveland offers a reward of $20 for the return of a runaway slave. This I copy in part. It reads: “$20 reward—ran away on Saturday evening, the 9th, inst., a negro man named Frank, aged about thirty-five years, he is five feet eight inches in height or thereabout. Said slave is very black with white teeth, very talkative with those with whom he is acquainted and reserved to strangers. Is fond of making use of high sounding words. Will steadily deny being a runaway, but can be easily found out by being cross-questioned. A reward of $20 will be given if taken out of the State, or of $10 if taken within the State and returned to me. SAMUEL TROTTLER, Lexington, Ky."

[Signed]

If this paper be an index, Cleveland in 1829 was satisfied with very little news. There is vindictive spirit shown in the editorials, and there is no halting between the two parties. All that the Jackson men do is right; all that Clay and the other party propose

radically wrong. One item states that Andrew Jackson has received a box made of twenty different kinds of wood from some man, and it gives Jackson's letter of thanks, which must have covered several pages of foolscap. The Presidents had more time then than now. It also gives the vote of one of the campaigns for nomination as Senator, in which Leonard Case and Reuben Wood figured, and it states a fact which I had not known in regard to Lafayette's death, viz., that he was buried in a hogshead of earth which his agent procured from Bunker Hill, and forwarded to France. It also contains notices of the "great union canal lottery of Pittsburgh," and gives its drawings, in which it seems that thereare twice as many thousand blanks as there are thousand prizes. June 27th, 1884.

FIRST WHITE CHILD BORN IN OHIO, 1781.

(Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.)

On hundred years ago, that portion of the West which is now Ohio was partly primeval forest and partly a prairie region, inhabited by wild beasts and Indians. The possession of the land was. disputed for many years by the French and English, and afterward by conflicting state claims. A large portion of the district known as the "Western Reserve" belonged to the State of Connecticut, till sold by her in 1800. In 1778, a New England company, sent out by General Putnam, made the first Ohio settlement at Marietta, so called for the French Queen Marie Antoinette, and three years later, April 16th 1781, the first white child was born in the district.. Cincinnati was also settled in 1778. Not until 1794 did General Wayne's victory secure to the colonists peace and safety from the Indians. In 1802 Ohio became a State, and in 1816 Columbus was made its capital.

GOLDEN WEDDING.

Mr. and Mrs. Darius Adams, of Collamer, Celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversary of their Marriage.

Silver weddings are not infrequent, but the celebration of the fiftieth aniversary of the date when for better or worse two lives were united for life's journey, is more rare, as few husbands and wives are spared until they have passed together the three score years and ten alloted to man.

November 24th 1883, however, was the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Darius Adams, of Collamer, and a large number of relatives gathered to celebrate with them their golden Wedding. On the 24th of November, 1833, Mr. Darius Adams, then a young man of twenty-three, was united in matrimonial bonds to Miss Mary Doan, daughter of Timothy Doan, who was one year his junior. They were married in that portion of Euclid township which has since become East Cleveland township, and have passed their lives in that locality, Mr. Adams having by his business as a contractor and builder acquired wealth that renders them independent in their later years. Among the guests at the golden wedding, many of whom came from distant States, were Mr. Edwin Adams and his wife, Mrs. Laura Adams, the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Darius Adams, Mr. Charles Adams of St. Louis, the eldest son, accommpanied by his wife, Mrs. Sarah Adams, Mr. Charles Taylor and Mrs. Mary Taylor, the second daughter, Mr. C. C. Shanklin and Mrs. Stella Shanklin, the youngest daughter, and Mr. Clark D. Adams, the youngest son, and several brothers and sisters of Mrs Adams, among them Mr. Seth Doan, of Kenosha, Wis., Mr. Norton Doan, Mr. George Doan, and Mrs. Samantha Slade. Beside these were Mr. John Doan, Mrs. Adams' uncle, who, as well as several other of the guests, was present at the wedding in 1833. The relatives gathered at the family residence at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and enjoyed a family reunion, the more pleasant as many of the relatives, by business or other relations, had been prevented from meeting one another for years. When supper was served the

dishes that were used fifty years ago were among those on the table, the knives and forks, with handles of horn, especially attracting much attention from the younger guests. The bride and groom sat in the same cane-seat chairs that they occupied at their wedding in 1833, these as well as the dishes having been preserved by Mrs. Slade. After spending the evening in an enjoyable manner, recalling incidents and anecdotes of the past, the guests whose homes were in the vicinity departed, leaving with Mr. and Mrs. Adams their most earnest wishes that they might live in peace and happi-ness until, on the seventy-fifth aniversary, their diamond wedding could be celebrated.

OUR PRESIDENTS.

The American Presidential line

Began in Seventeen Eighty-nine.

The roll was led by Washington,

Who served two terms, then Adams one;
Jefferson, Madison and Monroe

Enjoyed two terms each, although
John Quincy Adams had but one.
"Old Hickory" twice the honor won;
Van Buren was the next enrolled,
One term the office he controlled.
Harrison died and left years four
For Tyler; Polk the burden bore;
Zach Taylor died in years scarce two,
And Filmore filled the balance due.
The next for a full term was Pierce.
Buchanan has equal claims to verse.
Abe Lincoln, first republican,

Was shot as his second term began,
And Johnson ruled until came Grant,
Who had two terms, Hayes one and scant
Four months had Garfield, who was killed.
And Arthur the vacant office filled.

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