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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

Co., of Niles, well known as exter.
ives manufacturers of iron. Their la
bilities are stated about one million
dollars, with assets largely in eX-
cess of that sum. The closing of
theil works thereby throwing hun
dreds of men out of employment, is
calamity not only to those imme-
diately concerned, but it severely
affects every business interest more
or less, in the valley. The people
of Niles, last week, held public
meetings to consider the financial
condition of the firm and to do what
they could to furnish relief. At a
meeting of the employees of Ward
& Co., $63,295 were subscribed by
them as loan, and at another meet
ing composed of citizens. other than
employees of the firm the additional
sum of S6O,O8O were subscribed
On Friday last there was meeting
held at Niles, of the principal cred
itors, representing about 100000,
on which occasion James Ward &
Co., proposed to bond their prop
erty to their creditors, their obliga-
tions to be payable one eighth year
ly, with six per cent. interest. This
proposition meeting the approval of
the creditors present, they appoint
ed Henry B. Perkins, of Warren, J.
R. Grist of Lowell, and George
Marguram, of Youngstown, trustees
for the creditors, and then adjourn
ed to meet on Friday goth inst, for
further consultation, and if possible
final action on the proposition. 1t
is the uniform desire of the cOmmu-
nifty that some plan may be devised
which will enable the firm to re-
sumo operations at the earliest pos
.sible dav.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

The Emperor of Austria is paving
a return visit to the Emperor of Rus
sia. The presence of Francis Joseph
at Vienna can hardly be said to fur
nish any guarantee of the good un-
derstanding of the two courts which
were not previously furnished by the
presence of Alexander at Vienna. If
there is any political meaning to be
attached to royal junketings, four out
of the five great powers of Europe
now form a kind of happy family.
The domestic ties which bind the i'm
perial house of Germany to that of
Russia. are not more intimate than
those which bind both to the royal
family of Great Britain. And now
that Germany and Russia have given
the right hand of fellowship to Aus
tria-a country which Great Britain
regards as a necessary bulwark
against Russian aggression-there is
no apparent obstacle to the establish
ment of a perfect entente cordiale,
and to a general disarmament in Eu-
rope, save the smouIdering desire of
France for revenge. And yet, while
Emperors are hobnobbing, military
expenditures continue on an unprece-
dented scale in quarters where the
designs of France are of the slightest
possible consequently Y. Times.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INVEST
eATIoN.-The preliminary data and rec
ords called for by the District Investigat-
ing Committee, will be sent in by the
Board of Public Works in the course of a
week or ten days, and from the figures
and facts contained therein will be based
their further inquiries. From the system
attic and thorough manner they have
gone into it, If there be anything wrong,
it is certain to be exposed, and if all has
been correct, the authorities will be able
to demonstrate 1t. There is task ahead,
however, of several months duration, as
there will have to be surveys of work
done and undone made all over the city,
and very extensive amount of details
GeRs iBta,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

FIRELEss LoCoMoTIvEs.-Fireless
locomotives continue to give great
satisfaction in New Orleans. They
run on a portion of the road three
miles in length, and make the round
trip of six miles in less time and at
less cost than horses or mules. One
dummy" is equal in power to about
nine mules, and a calculation of the
running expenses of the road makes
them, with these engines, one-fOurth
of the expenses for equal conveyance
by mules. The engine is driven by
steam stored in a felt-bound receiver,
and Gen. Beauregard, the President
of the Carrolton Railroad, says that
on his road the locomotives start with
125 pounds of steam pressure and re-
turn with from forty to fifty pounds.
In the trial of the engine in Philadel-
phia the car was taken from the Fifth
and Sixth Street Railroad depot to
Frankford and return.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

The Rome correspondent of the Senti-
mel last week furnishes the following in.
teresting report ofthe operations of Thorn
as Flaggs cheese factory. in Rome .own.
ship for the season of 1873:
The factory commenced receiving
milk on April 1st, and closed Nov.
18th. T. Flagg received IT cents
per pound for manufacturing the
cheese. L. G. Reeve and N. Smith
were elected salesmep, There were
eight differerent dividends struck for
the season. Total pounds Of milk
received for the season, was 1885,
AT: number of pounds of cheese
manufactured, lis, ,594; average mum.
Der of pounds of milk for one of
cheese, lo.0ss. Received for cheese
for the season, Sl2,e75.s2. Expen-
ses, weighing,Ifurnishing boxes and
boxing, delivering at stations and
other incidental expenses, S5lo.Oe:
G. @. Rogers, keeping book, $50. .7e.
Net per pound, taking out expenses,
os.s9; average price Of cheese when
sold, 1907, or q small fraction Ices,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

Caesar" said planter 10 his ne
gro, "climb up that tree and thin out
the branches. The negro showed
no disposition to comply. and upon
being pressed for reason, answered,
"Well, look heah, massa, if 1 go up
dar an fall down an broke my neck,
dat'll be tousand dollars out O you
pocket. Now, why don't massa hire
an Irishman to go up, and den if he
falls and kills heself dar won't be no
loss to nOhOdY.n
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

List of Patents issued from the O. State
Patent ONCE to Ohio Inventors, for the week end
ing Jan 9th, 1874, and each bearing that date
furnished this paper by Cox & Cox, Solicitors
oil Patents, Washington, ID. C.
Iron Fenced. c. Gultridge and A. Bo-
lander, Akron.
Fire Escape-C. A Loeff1er, Cincinnati
Bottle-W. H. Richardson, Cincinnati.
Throttle ValVe-B. F. Wilson, Salem.
Gear Button for Flour Packers-L.
Cleveling, Akron.
Eaves Trough Hanger-J. P. Abbott,
Cleveland.
Thill Coupling-S Bippus, Dayton.
Boring Machine-W. II. Doane and G.
w: Bugbee, Cincinnati.
Sewing Machine-W. H. Doane and G.
W. Passel, Cincinnati
Balanced Slide Valve for Steam En-
gines, o. Tromer, Sandusky.
Wrought Iron Bridge-W. R. Laird,
Canton.
Boot and Shoe-J. McMillln, Ripley.
Clothes Frame-J. O. Miller, Sunbury
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

The announcement which comes
by cable of the discovery of the true
Mount Sinai must be received with
caution. The question as to which of
the peaks of the Sinaitic peninsula
formed the "Mount of God" of the BIZ
BILE narrative has divided travellers and
geographers for many years. At
one time the south point of the ridge
known as Jebel Musa was supposed
to be the mount on which Moses re-
ceived the law; then the Jebel Serbal
was assumed to be the true Sinai, and
still later the Ras Sassafeh was sup
posed to fulfill the best conditions of
the Biblical narrative. The problem
has been to find a peak isolated
enough to admit of the space around
or in front of it required for the
great encampment of Israel, and to
render it possible that the summit
should be in view of the entire con-
gregation at the same time, and all
the points hitherto selected have been
open to objections on this score.
DR.. BEAKE may have succeeded
where so many others have failed,
but it will be well to await the data
on which he bases his belief before
accepting it as conclusive.
Tra77eo
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

The Episcopal convention at Mil
waukee, Wis, fails to end the strug-
gle for bishop. and has adjourned
sine die. The election will take place
at the next annual meeting of dio-
cese, in June.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

The safety ballot-box is the most
recent patent, and if it will faith
fully perform what is claimed forEit
it will become exceedingly popular
among political reformers. In
the United States Senate on Tuesday
Senator Carpenter introduced a bill
to further protect the polls in the
election of President and Vice Pres
ident, and members of Congerss,
which authorizes the Secretary of
the Interior to contract with the pat
entee of the safety ballot-box for the
use of the box at the polls through
out the United States in the election
of President and Vice President and
members of Congress; provided that
the power to use and the cost there
of shall not exceed the sum of fifteen
dollars per box, Whether this is
purely a Congressional job, or a
movement prompted by patriotism,
is not clear, but if there is any virtue
in the patent, it would not be amiss
in the patentee to place them on
trial in New York or Philadelphia
before asking Congress to adopt
them for use in national and Con-
gFesEiopal contests
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

The principal topic of discussion
in the Mahoning valley, the past
week, says the Warren Chronicle;
has been the financial embarrass-
mept Of the firm Of james Ward 4
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

Quincy, H., was the scene of a
bank-robbery on the night of the
18th, the skill, GOODNESS, and large
booty of which will place its perpe-
traitors high in the profession
From the account given there can
be no doubt that the robbers were
at work in the bank building for
several days, removing the brick
work over the vault. The bank is
on the main street of the city, and
within a block of police head
quarters, but no one, either of the
citizens or the public guardians so
close at hand, heard the explosion
when the safe was blown open. The
amount taken was about s15O,OOO.
Its officers claim that the solvency
of the bank will not be affected.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

The proposition to acknowledge
God and the Christian religion in the
Constitution of the United States
was reported adversely to the House
of Representatives at Washington on
Wednesday last by the Judiciary
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

A SHOCKING PUNIsHMENT.-Some hu-
manitarian, whose views are finding pro-
mitigation, is in favor of substituting cleo
trical shocks in place of the common
punishmeuts employed in prison dIsci-
pline. By such shocks and currents anv
amount of torture might be inflicted, and
the gradatlOn might be made with scien-
life precision. The punishment would be
less revolving to the spectator and the gen.
eraI public than foggings, while it would
not be less awful to the criminal himself:
the mystery of it would haunt the imagi-
nation, and there would be no conceivable
attitude of alleviating endurance. The
terrific power exercised by an operator
through the slightest fingeF-touch would
make more deeply felt the humiliating
prostration of the victim. II capital pun
ishmentS are 10 be permanently maintain
ed, much could be said for discarding
strangulation and substituting the electric
shock
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21
NOTICE.

JAMES FRANCIS whose place of
- residence IL unknown, Is hereby notified that
on the 23d day OF January, A. ID. lSI4 sarah Fran
els fled In the ofce Of Clerkof the Court Of Com
mon Pleas, Of Ashlabula county and stale oi
Ohio, her petition charging said James Francis
With extreme cruelty and hahitual drunkenness,
and praying that said Sarah Francis be divorced
rom said James Francis and that she be restored
TO her maiden name of Sarah Van Name. and for
allmOny, which petition will stand Tor hearing az
SARAH FRANCIS,
RyRu,E HRRPs1a, AuI '''.'Al' g. aiHsa'
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21
NOTICE.

ALL persons are hereby warned
against taking or removing any.Sand or Gravel
from the premises Of the Subscriber from and
after this date, without first paying for the same
II. HUBBARD & co.
Ashtabula, June 6. 1878. i999 m
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21


Notwithstanding the dullness of
business in New York, and the num-
bers of idle workmen complaining of
the absence of labor and the means
of a obtaining livelihood, our
city exchanges assert that there is
plenty of capital ready to be unlock
ed if the workmen would only mod
crate their demands. Re-. John
Hall stated in a speech at the produce
Exchange the other day that an ar
tisan had asked him for so cents,
while admitting that he would not
accept work at cent less than $5
day. Is not this a very difficult
kind of distress to relieve ? Al
though there is SO much suffering,
no one can get work done below
the rates current in the most pros
porous seasons. a tailor charges as
much to sew button on or make a
coat as he ever did-and so with all
other description of labor. What
is true of New York, is true of the
country, and it becomes a home
question, whether it would not be
sensible for working men to consid-
er the prOpriety of accepting mod
fled wages, rather than remain idle
for months, because they cannot
get their full demand =?
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21
THE GRAIN TRADE

continues 10 excite special attention.
The fact is that New York ought to lose
it for she has never done anything to los
er it. All the grain that comes to this
city is handled by hsnd-it has to be cart
Ell from the depot to the vessels and the
cost of transfer almost eats it up. A
movement is on foot to build tracks by
the water side-to erect elevators as in
the Lake Cities, so that the grain can be
taken out of the cars and loaded into yes
sells at slight cost This is all that can
possibly save the trade, and this will not
do it unless the Erie Canal is enlarged
and the exhorbitant tolls thereon lessened.
Montreal. Boston, Philadelphia and Bal
timore all have superior facilities and
they are taking the trade. Why don't
the farmers organizations take some
action in the matter of the canals There
is little use in looking to New York
for relief PIETRo.
NEW YORK, February 18th, 1874.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21
WANTED
RE-OPENED,
SEEDS AND PLANTS.

~ n True Cape Cod Cranberry, best sort
VI W for Upland, LOwland. or Garden. by
~ mail, prepaid, S1,0O per 100, $500 per
W LOCO. A priced Catalogue, Of this and
an Fruits, Ornamental Trees, Evergreens. Shrubs,
Bulbs, Roses. Plants. &c, and FRESH FLOWER
AND q NRDEN SEEDS. the choicest collection in
the country with all novelties will be sent gratis
to any plain address. 25 sorts of either Flower,
Garden, Tree, Fruit, Evergreen. or Herb Seeds,
for Sl.OO sent by null. prepaid. WHOLESALE
CATALOGUE TO T .IE TRADE
B. M. WATSON, Old Colony Nurseries
and Seed Warehouse, Plymouth, Mass Estab-
lisSed 1872. 1259st.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

-
ment to the Geological Museum at
Cambridge. The Museum was the
pet work of the great naturalist's
life, and through his exertions it
was made the equal of any similar
Institution in the world. The Mu-
scum had, when he died, barely
funds enough to carry it to the end
of the year, but the gratifying an
nouncement is made that the lead
ing citizens of Boston have agreed
to contribute 100000 to complete
its endowment, and keep it in active
existence, as an enduring memorial
of its great founder.
THE WoMEN's WAR.-Concerning the
women's war on whisky in Ohio and
elsewhere, Beechers Christian Union says /:
If now, we are asked to say what
we think of the movement, we frank
ly confess our fears that, in spite of
what seem to be the immediate re-
suits, the permanent effects will not
be such as to justify measures so ex-
traordinany and so at war with the
principles, instincts, and habits that
characterize our American civiliza-
ton. And yet, when we think of the
indescribable woes that follow the
traffic in intoxicating liquors, there is
something sublime in this moral up
rising against it, so far as it has its
root in genuine religious feeling and
is under the guidance of religious
principle. We shall certainly be
slow to condemn a movement which,
In spite of individual extravagancies,
may perhaps carry with it the bless
ing of God, and become the means
OF widespread and unspeakable
good. 1t will certainly require ex-
traordinary Judgment and good
sense to keep such a movement from
degenerating into a mere exhibition
of popular passion and frenzy. In
every instance, measures of such a
character, to be useful, must grow
so manifestly out of strong moral
and religious feeling as to command
the respect of those against whose
business they are directed. The diff
fculty will be to keep the move
ment free from impulses and pas
sions that would inevitably degrade
it and make it repulsive and odious
in the eyes of all right-thinking peo-
ple.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

In the House debate last week on
the bill to reduce the expenditures
for the army, Mr.. GARFIELD very
aptly Ikened the Army of the coun-
try, as at present constituted, to the
pollywag in its transition state, with
its tail stumping off and its arms not
vet formed-all head and no tail
without likeness to any other organ
ization of the neutrality-suspicious.,
monstrous, and the staff corps enor-
mously overgrown. When the Prus-
sian army numbered 100000 men, its
staff was composed of only 100 Off
GERS. The staff of the Russian army
of 500, 900 men numbered precisely
800 officers. But there is fastened to
our little army of 5000 men staff
of 688 officers, many of them having
the rank of brigadier-general Here,
then, In the earnestness for pruning
down expenses, is field for opera
ton, and the point just where the
congressional knife should be used.
But whether this evil can be reached
or not, remains to be seen. The eff
fort in the House was not attended
with success, and whether any subse-
quent ones that may be made will be
any more so, times only will develop.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

ing comes to or stays IN great city, is
something beyond my apprehension. 1
don't know why am here. Where one
succeeds a thousand fails, and success
here does not mean as much as it does
anywhere else
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

WALTON & TALBERT, manufacturers
Ofand dealers in all grades OF Saginaw Lumber,
Lath. and Shingles; also, mOuldings Of all de-
scriptions. 1858
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

Are suffering this winter. There is work
enough in New York for so per cent of
the working men, so there is no occasion
for much distress among those who have
health and strength. But the sick and
the weak are in a pitiable condition
Every day sick men and women are
found in the gsrrets of the over-crowd-
ed tenements and in the cellars as we'll,
dying from hunger and cold. The soup
houses are doing great and good work
in feeding the poor. but what good Is a
soup-house TO woman who cannot get
to iti 1t Is estimated that 400 men and
women perished from cold and hunger In
the city last week. Why any human be-
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21
We Mean Business,

and we guarantee to Save you Money. The
reasons must be selfevident to every reasOna-
Bile citizen. 1t is not in keeping with good
sense or economy to waste money in
these hard times by paying
high prices or buying
poor Goods.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21
IMMIGRATION.

The decline in immigration is now
very marked. During the past week the
total number ofimmigrsnts landed at Cas-
tie Garden was only 456, which is the
smallest number received in a single
week for several years. But they are OF
good class Germany is largely repre-
sented. Sweden, Norway and Denmark,
contribute quota. The ScsndInavians,
mostly go to the Northwest, the Germans
to the Western Middle States, while the
1rish' as many as possible, stay in large
cities, where they can run grog-mills, and
finally become Aldermen, contractors,
and run things panrrallv
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

Things that we want more than oYercoats Of
Heavy Ready Made Clothing
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21
RUSH OF TRADEl

These are what we want and therefore we offer
the above lines of CLOTHING
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21

18th inst. A mass meeting at Kawa-
HAS has nominated David Kalakua as
the next King.
The Ashantee war is over, and
Sir Garner Wolseley is on his way
home from the Gold Coast. This
Indian fight of England's has the
trifing resemblance to our Modoc
war, that the Ashantees got their
deadliest weapons direct from Bir-
minham, as Captain Jack, and Shack
Nasty Jim got theirs from Spring
field; but it differs in the essential
points that it was not nearly so long
and that the Ashantees will have to
pay, in the shape of indemnity, a
large part of what it cost Great
Britain to whip them.
The hostile movement of the In
dians on the frontier, which have
been reported for the last few days,
indicate, in General Sheridan's
opinion, that general outbreak of
the Sioux is at hand. He has COM
municated this view to Gen. Sher-
man, who orders him to repress the
threatened disturbance with all the
force that he can collect in his de-
partment, even if he has to go as
far as Fort Riley tor cavalry. Ev'
ery savage that is caught off hii
reservation is to be held as an &C.
committee in the murder of Lieut.
Robinson and Agent Appleton,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-05-26

SUIT AGAINST IHE UNION Pacific
RAILRoAD.-A petition against the Union
Pacific Railroad Company has been this
week filed by Henry w. Goldripg Of
New York. the petition was filed in
the Bankruptcy Court, May I l, aud on
the 18th an order was issued thar pre-
liminary hearing, to determine whether
order of notice to show cause shall issue,
be had on May %, at 10 A. NJ. 1t is
stated officially that this case involves the
zane points as those in the case brought
against the company in New York, and
last week decided in its favor by Judge
Donoughue.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-05-26

Between two worlds stand,
With tired feet;
Between two mighty shores
My pulses beat.
Here is the toll, the pain,
Tho glcon, the woe;
Here, round the sweetest flowers,
The thistles grow.
Hero arc the weary forms,
The dropping heads;
Here are the silver hairs
The dying beds
Here are the shrouds, the graves,
The last farewells;
Here are the funeral hymns,
The funeral knells.
Here, on that other shore
BY faith see
The gates of shining pearl,
The crystal sea,
The city Of my dod,
Its joys untold,
Its walls of precious stone,
Its streets Of gold;
nj round the uuzLlihS throh"
A throng sec,
Who once were dwellers hero
In tears like me.
They know no sorrow now,
They shed no tears;
No graves are made in heaven
Through all Gods years.
They walk with Christ in white,
They die no moro;
They know no sin, no pain
On that blest shore,
o Jesus, lift me up
by thy strong hand,
And lead me to the joys
OF heavens bright land!
MATILDA c. EDWARDS