Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-11-08
TnE CLEVELAND wEEKLIEs.


AT this season of the year there is
small army of agents in Northern Ohio
studiously working up the circulation
and the interests generally Of the Clcve-
land weekly papers The rivalry be-
tween the two leading ones of the num-
Der has run both down to mere nominal
prices, and it is expected they will be Ia
ken largely for this reason, as well as
for the real value of the papers. How
il is in the Northern Counties generally
we cannot say; but in Ashtabula County
most of the people who take papers at
all, take one of their own County papers
together with the Herald or Ledder.
Still there are a great many who from
choice or inability do not take but one
paper. This class, as q general rule,
choose their home paper, and will take it,
unless deceived by the representation
that the Cleveland Weeklies give the
Loc0L news of Ashtabula County, also.
The press of Ashtabula County protests
against this claim of these pretentious
city chaps in the matter of local and
County news. In the first place this
kin { news is of the most beggarly
des cription when they do send it out,
and in the second place it never comes
to the readers of the County till after it
has appeared in the County papers, from
,chich it is tohen. IL is all a piece of re-
hash, clipped from the County papers
and sent by correspondents to the dailies,
and then ,cd1U,ed ocer in the weeklies
and returned labelled "Ashtabula" Coun-
ty. We do not object to these efforts
at enterprise on the part of our city
brethren passing for what they are
worth, but we do object to this attempt
ed monopoly on their part being backed
by false representations. these Cleve-
land papers are almost valueless as me-
diims of local and County news to our
citizens, and it is but justice that the
fact be known. These city papers are
great, wealthy concerns and must have
a wide range in their proper field of jour
nalism. But what do they care about
our town and County. What interest
can they feel in our social and industrial
progress. "Live and let live' is gold
en- rule, of which monopolics know but
little. Geneca Times.
A Second Daniel Boone.
Near the confluence of Sang Run and
the Big Youghiougheny lived until re-
Gently Meshach Browning, celebrated
Mary land hunter,who "escheated" about
one thousand acres of land in the latter
part of his days, built grist mill, and
left name revered by large posterity.
lie was the son of subatern English
soldier who escaped from Braddock's
battle and was born in Fredrick county,
Maryland, i'll l77l. He never saw his
f,.l 4 81
His chidless aunt took him to Western
Maryland, and he kept his first remem-
brances as an inmate of old Teen
Friends cabin, in Buffalo Marsh. He
was the legitimate successor of the first
ioneer of the country; and lived down
to the period of our civil war.
Meshach Browning never had more
than six months schooling. After St.
Clair's defeat his uncle fell back with
some forty settlers to Blooming Rose,
where the future hunter met his wood
n land wife. lie married her against the
opposition of her father, who turned
; them both out of doors. After this he
.unted constantly, seldom wearing his
hat on the hunt, and often killing bears,
buck deers, and even panthers, in close
c grapple, with his hunting knife. He
began to hunt in 1895; and killed his
. last game i'll 1880. In that period he
e killed from eighteen hundred to two
d thousand deer, between three hundred
and four hundred bears, fifty panthers
and catamounts, and scores of wolves
and wildcats. He also begot n posterity,
at the time of his death, of six sons,
forty-four grandsons, and seventeen
great grandsons, and five daughters,
thirty-,wo grand-daughters-in all one
hundred and twenty-five.
AT the time of the second war with
England, this simple old mountaineer
was begl lied by rival partizans to aban.
don the army, subject of great re-
morse to him all his days. He also
fought a terrible battle with the labor.
), ers on the National road, at Selbysport
in the same war, when he undertook tC
Q muster them as military captain. About
1914 he began to carry peltries and ven.
\, ison to Georgetown and Baltimore, and
. y in 1924 he put up his mill. In 1926 he
!; visited Annapolis, aud, although a Ma.
,ss rylander all his days, tasted there the
- first crabs and oysters he had ever seen,
Il which he heartily disliked. On this oc.
q casion, he went aboard a steamboat and,
le being caught after the gang plank was
4. cut loose, jumped twenty-five feet
Browning lived with his first wife
forty years, and with the second eight.
teen years. He was much enfeebled in
late years with rheumatism, but still
!. bore traces of great frame, and re-
tanned all his kindly nature. Francis p.
Blair, Sr, thought his life as hunter
fully IS notable as Daniel Boone's.
A Arather sharp correspond nce has re.
r Gently passed between the Emperor OF
. Germany and the Pope on the eclesasti
cal Policy of the Empire The Pope in
his letter made the serious mistake of as.
sumlng that the Emperor did not counte,