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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-01-29
WILLIAM HUMPHREY
WANTS TO SELL,

Il N order to change his business and win sell
for what 1t will fetch the fowiHg propeuy-l7 acres
Of land IN the Tappan Blakslee farm 20 acres north
AZ the station about so south OF depot including
the e. b. Seoyille property where live with
two new with poles or shafts open bnggies ex-
press wagon one horse wagons double, and one
single sleigh double and single harnesses sad
die mowers, together with all Of my farming tools
BOO worth Of Boots aud Shoes $3.50 worth Of Stone
Shades Hardware, Dry Goods and Groceries " har-
res Of tider Vinegar 70 acres af wool land in PIy-
ware house, dwelling honse, water ots aud vacant ois
a. the Harbor also the Murray property on Prospect
street Also. one acre on Lake Street, well sat with
nlit fwould like to leave BY me first OF March
rent IT, WM HIjIPuRsy
AshiabHln Re-. 1859. asslpia,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-01-29
Dry Goods Panic !
PRICES REDUCED TO CLOSE OUT
WINTER GOODS!

Preparatory to taking account Of Stock !
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-01-29

J USTICE'S OFFICE.-L o. Fisher,
Eso will be fonnd at his once in smiths brick
bock nj the store OF Messrs Bxby Crosby, where he
Is prepared to attend promptly 70 fny 1teis business
ANCE COMPANY, the FRANKLIN FIRE INSUR-
ANCE COMPANY, and the OLD HARTFORD FIRE
INSIjRANCR COMPANY, and Will be pleased to share
he insurance business OF the vicinity
AshtAbua, January 8, 1870, l04
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-01-29
Pen and Paste Brecitics.

tEFrce Masons Of Germany protest against
the tendency of Ecumenical Council
lE-The Peabody Funeral Fleet arrived in
Portland harbor on the evening of the 25th, a
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-27
Foreign Gossip.

The ex-King of Hanover is insane,
and receives no visitors.
Napoleon the Third has pardoned IT.
baldi, who once attempted to kill him.
"A London advertiser has fine airy
rooms with board, for gentlemen measur-
ing 80 feet by ~,
Seven gentlemen were killed and 8
hundred and two were severely wounded
In duels last year in Paris.
In Waldeck, Germany, man who
takes license to get drunk can't obtain o
license to get married.
There are 1875 brewerjes in Paris, and
there is now by far more beer consumed
in that city than claret.
ON recent night, the door knockers
of over 200 houses in London were stolen
by band Of boys on clark"
The English House of Commons num-
bers 65S members The French Legisla.
tive body numbers 292 members.
The tax on dogs in Great Britain is
five shillings per head, and the returns
show that there are ,22l on the lists.
"A Partisan has offered 100000 francs
wear to be allowed TO cage the murderer
Traupmann and make travelling show OF
him.
The population Of Germany is now
IS, 1902 900, of which the North Confed-
Grafton numbers 90, 494 AIS, and the South
ern States, s,807,52S.
According to the Army and Nary On
zette, officers Of the English navy are to be
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-27
Incidents and Accidents.

Three cases of death from over-skat-
ing have already occurred this season in
New York.
The works Of the National Rubber
Company, of Bristol, r. l., were burned
few days, ago. Loss, $275,OOO. In
sured.
"A resident of Chichester, n H.,
walked half mile on stills with rooster
in his arms, the other day, on bet,
in Cincinnati, few days ago, con.
ductor got mad because fellow would
hot pay over when asked, and he got hold
of him to find that he had died in his seat.
"A little girl who picked up package
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-27
Curiosity Rewarded.

A well-known citizen of Hartford,
Conn, a few days ago, had taken his seat
in the afternoon train for Providence,
when a small, weazen- faced, elderly man,
having the appearance of well-to-do
farmer, came into the car looking for
seat. The gentleman good naturedly made
room for him by his side, and the old man
looked him over from head to foot.
"Going to Providcncey" he said at
length.
"No, sir" the stranger answered, po-
litely; al stop at Andover."
II want to know l belong out that
way myself. Expect to stay long"
"Only over night, sir"
A short pause.
"Did you cal'late to put up at the tav-
erng"
"No, sir; expect to stop with Mr..
Skinner"
"What, Job Skinner? Deacon job
lives in little brown house on the old
pike? Or mebbe it's his brothers, Was
1t Tim Skinncr's-Square Tim's-where
you was going?
eyes" said the gentleman, smiling ;".t
was Squire Tins"
"Dew tell if you are goin' there to stop
over night! Any connection of his'n ?"
"No, sir"
"Well, now, that's Gurus. "The old
man amt got into anytrouble nor nothin',
has hes" lowering his voice; "air't goin'
to serve writ onto him, he yer"
ooh no, nothing of the kind"
"Glad ont. No harm in askin', s'pose.
reckon Miss SINNERS some connection
of yourn!"
mo-" said the gentleman. Then, sec
ing the amused expression on the faces Of
two or three acquaintance in the neigh
boring seats he added, In confidential
tone:
~ am going to sec Squire skinner's
daughter"
claw sakesr said the old man, his
face quivering with curiosity. "That's it,
isit | want to know! Coin to see Mi
randy Skinner, be yes Well, Mirandy is
a nice gal--kinder hombly, and long
favored, but smart to work, they say, and
| guess you're about the right age for her,
too. KEEP company together longy"
O. never saw her in my life, sir"
"lIow you talk Somebody's gin her a
recommend spose, and your gon' clear
out there to take squirt at her Wa'al |
must say there's az likely gals in Andover
as Mirandy Skinner. I've got family Of
growed up daughters myself Never was
married aiorc, was yey Don't see no weed
on your hat,
81 have been married about fifteen
years, sir, have wife and five children"
And then, as the long restrained mrth Of
the listeners 20 this dialogue burst forth
at the old mans open.mouthed astonish-
ment, he fastened to explain " | am a
doctor, my friend and Squire Skinner
called at my office this morning TO request
my professional services for his sick
daughter
"Wa'al now!' And the old bore wad-
died off into the next car.-Harpeps Mag
dzine.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-27

down by his side, and, pointing to the
tumbler of hot whisky, said THAT looks
good; guess I'll take some of IT. To
say that he was surprised, but fecbly OK.
presses his utter ap"gement as he looked
at her. Then he attempted to drink his
whisky, but she dashed glass and all out
OF his hand to the floor. The pair then
started to leave the saloon. AS the lady
went out, she pulled aside her veil, dis
closing rather good-looking features, and
remarked "This is nice place. Iwon,
der why ladies can't come here as well as
gentlemen
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-27
Personal and Literary.

NJ. Olivier is A years old.
-Lesseps, the Suez canal man, is con-
Sumptive.
-kossuth is living in Turin, in poor cir
eumstances
=: I. Barnum has sailed for Cuba with
some English friends.
The New Jersey State Library has
li'een thousand volumes.
Somebody in New York is writing q
pay to be called Divorce"
The Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford is writ
ing a life of George Peabody.
-" Lord Ainsley is tending bar in an
OBSCURE saloon near Boston.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-27
Tom Thumb, Mrs. Thumb, Mutt, and

Tom Thumb, Mrs. Thumb, Nitt,' and
Minnie Warren, are in Japan '''i h"o'
DIR. Elizabeth Blackwell has conn
menced the practice of medicine IN Lon
don. iotl
There are seven sisters living in
Holmesburg, Pa, whose average age is u
years. f
The York Tslsgram says that Mark
Twain is to be married in February.
"A monument to the late ex-Secretary
Stanton is to be erected at steubenville,
Ohio. '"i2'o' ~
A daughter of Professor Agassiz is in
the Insane Asylum at Somervill, Mass.-a
monomaniac
One hundred and twenty-five persons
over seventy years old died in Providence
last year.
Ezra Cornell, the founder of Cornell
University, was born january II, 1907,
and is therefore, SO years old.
The story of Mr.. Peabody's bequest
of $4,000 to Mrs. Wood was an advertls-
ing fiction of that enterprising lady.
Hon. Geo. II. Pendleton will deliver
the annual Grafton before the literary So
cieties of the University OF Virginia, in
July. uua.
Judge Richardson, late Assistant
United States Treasurer, has been elected
President of the Hartford & Erie Railroad.
Mrs Rose Burton, clerk in Cleve-
land jewelry store, has been awarded a
$4,000 verdict against her employer, Mr..
Wade, for SANDER.
Hon. Galusha A. Grow, former Speak
er of the National House of Representa-
tives, has settled in Philadelphia, and en-
gagged in mercantile business
Among the sculptors now in Rome
are seven American women, Miss Whit
ney, Miss Hosmer, Miss Freeman, Miss
Stebbins, Miss Edmonia Lewis, Miss Vim,
ME Ream, and Miss Foley.
Daniel w. Mcfarland, who is under
indictment for the murder of Albert D.
Richardson, is to be tried in the Court of
Oyer and Terminer, in New York, in
March. The defense will set up the plea
of temporary insanity.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-01-29

CHARLES F0LLANSBEE. Treasurer
MARTIN THATCHER, Secretary.
STATEMENT, SEPTEMBER IS, 1869.
subscribed Capital Stock, e246, 900 90.
Paid up CAPITAL, elias, s97.s3.
ASSETS:
U. 8. Five Twentiss, market value, SIS, 2eo 90
q. Ten-Forties. market value, IL 900 Oc
Cash 10 Chas Voisnsbee Son bank, 4s947 Sc
Cash In Fourth National Bank. l7I524I
Cash on hand 1,09s. u
Secured notes. g. 700. 90
Union Pacific Railroad FIRST Mortgage Bonds 5000 OF
Mortgage owned BY the company 1891 so
Premiums due. city collection, 5000
Premiums due from agents, mnce received, 93s 90
Bills receivable, l.47l.0a
Accnmul ted Interest, ASS 70
Call loans. secured, sou on
Uni aid cash assessments, 9.9O2 OF
Due from Stockholders on Subscription, 50, 5OO0
Uf1ce supple, 100 90
once furniture, fixtures and property, qssI5 So
Revanue stamps 22-&
Socks owned By the company. s.5o1sO
s2ss sal IS
LIABILITIES.
Lossess adjusted and unpaid None
un.dju-ted and contested, $4,000 %
Reinsurance iabiIt, 1879 81
STATE Ov ILLINOIS
IEsURAEoR DIP ARTMRVr OF AUDITORS OFUcR$
SPRTEePIELD, Sept. 81. 1859
l. Geo. N. BrnkerhoH do hereby certify that b. an.
thority OF the Hon IT, Lippincott. Audi Of Pubic
Accounts OF the State OF Iii -ois made persenal
naon Of the books papers, vouchers and securities Of
Stock and Mutual Insurance Company, OF Chi.aso
said 3any possess, the I5th day Sep
tember 1862 in their and right the following
assets, towit:
Here follows list OF Assets given above
Total assets $25OS4 IS. With liabilities inciudr
reserve tor reinsurance, amounting TO the Of as
279 so
Gwen under nv hand at springn Id, Illinois, TIL. the
2lst day Of September, 1859.
ESQ. N BRuKERHoTv.
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A New Moneta ry System,
By EDWARD KELLOGG.
CHAPTER IV.-SEcTIoN V.
(CONTINUED.)


But to return. The application Of the
merchant and the mechanic, at bank for
discounts are refused. The paper they bad
discounted when money was plenty is ma
turing and must be paid. Meanwhile, in
Wall street interest rises from one to two
per cent. month. Capitalists and brokers
find it very profitable to get the notes which
they buy at two per cent. per annum. The
bank considers this paper far preferable to
that of the mechanic and the merchant, be-
cause the capitalist or the broker, who
bought the paper, was careful to have it
secured by good indorsers before the pur-
chase, and offers, besides, to leave certain
portion of the proceeds on deposit, which
the bank can lend to others. The refused
applicants at bank have no alternative but
to pay the two per cent a month to the
broker or to the capitalist. Capitalists
generally buy notes through broker, and
the broker receives quarter per cent. on
the amount, for brokerage This too, must
be paid by the borrowers, in addition to the
two per cent. a month.
As money becomes moro and more scarce,
and the offerings increase, the paper Of large
capitalist, and of the richest merchants and
brokers, is often thrown out, and not dis
counted. 1.-THE more humble applicant, the
merchant or the mechanic, should again in
quire why his paper would not be discount
ed, the officers Of the bank would mention
the names of some of the most wealthy men,
whose paper they were obliged to throw out
for want Of means to discount it. In Wall
street money is loaned for from two to four
Der cent. month, and even at these rates,
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TIME CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PL@UHM sp
ERs. nNI1N nasts everv PIRsr and T aISl
Wednesday, o. each month, at the rrso a'clpck
Hail. 2S7 randolph street. at quarter 80 ek 5000
ESQ. Lyons, Secretary.
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Formation a Great Peoples Party,

;th view to running the Government, Nat onA State
and MnnIepa In the Interests Of and for the wheIe peo-
nile Every other question, old or new, will be dealt
18th according a. We see it from standpoint always
having in view the best interests Of all. We shall at
t.cr wrong wherever and 1t, whether In high low
places. While willing to do our part, and take
Il. the risks and responsibilities incident TO the publica
ION Of such an organ call upon every friend Of the
movement to aid us BY efforts to Increase crcula
Llor.
A. G. CAMERON
PROPRIETOR.
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the best paper can be obtained, with bonds
and mortgages, or bank and State stocks as
security for the prompt payment Of notes.
Directors In banks who are allowed by law
to borrow an amount equal to one-third Of
the bank capital, have an opportunity to
borrow money at the usual rates. and pur-
chase State bonds and other securities. at a
great discount from their par value. CAM
tallsts who lent out money when it was
abundant. at six or seven per cent. Der an
mum, call it in, and invest it in State stocks.
or in bonds and MORTGAGES, which can be
purchased at ten, fifteen, or twenty per cent
discount
The apparent scarcity of money soon
spreads in every direction throughout the
country. The banks in all the cities and
towns shorten their discounts, and prepare
for e approaching crisis. Their officers
look over their paper, and collect that Of
the men whom they think least able to
pay their notes. Not that the ability Of
these men to meet their engagements would
De doubtful if money were plenty, and at the
ordinary rates Of interest but it is not GER
tain they could maintain their payments dur
ing long pressure. The officers, there
fore, if possible, collect all paper Of this
description, and from time to time obtain
more security upon such as cannot be real
lied in money. They now lend money upon
such paper only as they consider very strong
and we'll secured. and which they think viii
be paid in full at maturity. The mechanics
and the merchants who have sold tbeiI
wares or goods to the country. are compelled
to pay not only one. two. three or four pei
cent a month upon the money they have tc
borrow, but the scarcity prevents the col
lection Of the debts due BY their country
customers; and if they have bad any of tbeil
notes discounted before the pressure, they
come back upon them to pay in addition tC
their other payments The payment o
these exOrbitant rates Of interest for the U.S.
Of money. is sufficient to account for all oul
commercial revulsions.
Gro BE CONTINUED.
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Wr1tten Tor th9 ADVOC
THE MINER.
A Miners Trials of a Day.
CONCLUDED.

CONCLUDED
This accident put him into humOr be-
yond swearing He churned out the hole,
made new cartridge, which be managed to
'con6ne without accident but, alas when
be set the match be had been impatient and
careless for when this was lighted, and
before our unlucky hero had got quite
within the manwsy, the lighted match
dropped among the loose powder. There
was then Aare-up; the place was illumi-
mated the squib caught fire and exploded
the charge, which went off with loud re-
port. Our hero felt himself hurled down
the steep manway. He remembered calling
aloud to God for mercy that call came
from the bottom of his heart. He meant
nothing to what he meant now by all his
swearing bis words in prayer were so much
in earnest. He just had time to utter
them as he was falling; then all turned to
darkness. He had ir a manner ceased to
live.
1t is the custom for two men, "butties,"
to work together in the same breast, but on
this particular day our hero's butte was not
at work, having received slight injury the
day previous. The time of day our hero
met with bis accident was about noon. No
one had any occasion to enter the breast
during the day, 50 no one knew Of the &C
cident having taken place.
It was after seven o'clock one December
evening in 1868, a woman hurried away
from her cottage to the nearest neighbor's.
Here they had just finished their evening
meal, and the worthy head Of the house
canny Scott-was industriously generating |
tobacco smoke from clean clay pipe. The
snow fell in large fakes at the door, cover
ing hill and dale with a virgin Wilderness,
but the cottage home of the Scot was proof
against the wintry air the coal fire bid de-
nance to the snow-Hakes. The woman en-
tered the Scotchman's dwelling without
ceremony; but this did not cause the mas.
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PUDOlERS.
TRADES DIRECTORY

NHE BOOT AND SHOEMAKEKS i rp n
Il TECTIvE UNION meets the lst ane .,ort r
turdAys Of every month at halfp seven ,von b.
change building. 5cnI
TOURNEYMEN STONECUTTEHS 81 oSG
~ CITATION OF CHICAGO, meets on the r.vior @
WEDNESDAY, Of each month, At corner %plls-ssSSut
Cana streets. THos, MARsBALLb
ALMx RaRMMRR Cor Sec, ~ ChArles-st.
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Old Rumtel,lt was well-tO-do farmer
of Stewart County, Tennessee. He
was regular in his attendance at court
at Dover, but seldom turned his face
homeward until he had swallowed more
whisky then his skin could well hold, or
his legs conveniently carry. On one
occasion he got on his level early, and
about the middle of hot July evening
he started for home. He had not gone
far, when he was seized with an uncon-
trollable desire to take nap. He dis
mounted from his horse, turned him
loose to Craze, and rolled himself into
fence corner. He was sleeping very
sweetly, when he was espied by buzz
card which was sailing about in the
vicinity, hunting for something to eat.
Smaller and smaller grew the circles Of
the buzzard as he approached his victim,
cautiously taking observation. AT last,
but still in some doubt, the bird lit on
the ground near its expected feast.
About this time Rumfeldt became
aware that something was going on,
and he partially opened one eye, and
sa the buzzard, but was still too drunk
to take any active steps to drive it
away. He, however, kept close watch.
The buzzard strutted around and
around him, all the time inspecting
Rumfeldt closely and cautiously to as
certain positively that be was dead l.; he
finally became satisfied that the corpus
before him was indeed carcass, and
consequently his meat" whereupon
he advanced deliberately to Rumfeldt's
head, and gave him severe peck in
the face. This aroused Rumfeldt, and,
striking out lazily with his hand topre-
vent repetition Of the attack, he ex-
claimed, "LoOE 'er here-yOu're a Le-e-te
too damned smart amt dead yet."
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THE OLDEST AND BEST.

The very greatest wantin the reform Of 70
day. is able, fearless OutspOken paper. unrAmmele.
independent truly DEVOTED the Of reform.
Such q paper is the woRKNGHAx's ArvocArE Many
efforts have been made. within years past, TO start
such paper. Every Of these efforts, up within
short time have failed II not necessary to speak OF
the of such failures It is enough that,
this time there is but paper Of all those started
that has any claims . National organ. The WoRKse-
MAEs ADVOCATE has been published for ave years,
having all the obstacles that led The fail
Of the mary other efforts made BY various parties In
many parts Of the country The ADvocATs is nov up
On arm basis perfectly secure from the possibility Of
failure people subscribe for It and feel
reg will lose their money they hAvesO many
times the past The ADVOCATE not 1nly the OLDEST,
the LAEessT, and the paper in the county dsvOt
the nterests Of Lab,r Reform; il Ia on,
upon nrm financial basis, but It is published BY men,
whose record friends Of the Labor Reform
is furnish guarantee that the paper will
the champion OF the reform movement under any
and all circumstances
The Advocate viii ever be o. q sentinel upon the
While fighting every species of wrong 1t shall be our aim
70 seek ! ue CAUSES IRON which nsw many disOr
ders Of society and make visOr Gus war upon them,
great am viii be strike the OF tree. We
iii "A xo... an an,r. ch.nee IN the monetarv svstem
the country, upon the principles and through the
embraced In the Platform of the National Labor
Union We sna1 4nvucste adoption, BY the National
Government. new and policy, taking the ground
not another acre Of the public domain should be
disposed any company, corporation person upon
any whatever except in small parcels TO actual
settlers We shall favor taxing all uncutvated lands
and CON- elng all companies corpora Ions and persons
holding lands BY government grant, to put the same In
the government prices 0iao aere) within
given time and in of failure to do the land to
revert back the government We shall advocate the
abolition Of the present National Bank systematic call
ing in Of the whole National Bank circulsonand issu-
ing In ITS ps &c treasury certificates convertible into
bonds bearing low rate interest, and Uee V1sa, at
the will Of the holder We shall advocate Labor De-
partment Washington, such a. Is contemplated In the
resolutions adopted In the last session Of the National
Labor Union. We shall advocate Cooperation In any
and every form in which 1t be applied to prOudc-
ton and distribution We shall advocate the shorten
ing or the hours department Of indus
49,, We .halI advocate q stringent apprentice law in
every State entire revolution in the system Of
Prison Labor IN every State.
We shall advocate equal rights and privileges to the
m. kinevomen Of our country. Our motto shall be,
equal and exact Justice to N" people We shall sdvo
cate the
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The Song Of the 4DL
Whan Sumner airs are fresh and sweet,
And eInVsT blOesoms neWs
And biFda inlco, and young lambs bleat,
And skies are clear and blue;
HOW monily he MIL goes round
HoW merrily % the mill,
As the hopper clASks with q CHEEKY sound.
And echoes DER the HILL
when are 4hs ShlverinG BY the Gre,
And WintTy vol are whiLes
And youth doth chill his warm desire,
Aud frosty north. Winds bite;
etill mePrily the mill goea round,
And merrily goes the mill,
AZ the hopper clAeks with CHEEKY SOund,
VIXEN all the world h sill.
We bnOV no strife that plaques the great;
No care that kills the snail;
We live Abt We the reach Of fAte,
And therefore fear no fall
So DeThly the mill goes round,
90 meFrily goes mill,
AZ the hopper elAoks with CHEEKY sound,
And sings Across the nil.
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CROCK AND MUTUAL
INSURANCE COMPANY
Office, Isl Washington Street,
Merchants Insurance Companys Building, Chicago.

CHAUNCEY T. BOWEN President
r. r. LAYTON, Vice President
CHARLES F0LLANSBEE. Treasurer
MARTIN THATCHER, Secretary