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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18
A RLAOK SAHSON.

There is negro Samson, named
Nelson de Lisle, in New Orleans
He is a householder by profession,
and the trick of his trade is to take
possession of horses in an unauthor-
lied manner. He was denominated
a horse thief before a court in New
Orleans in 1869, and sent to the
State prison, where he stayed only
six days of the five years awarded
him. He broke Jail by swapping
iron bars as if they had been pine
sticks, and carrying the outer gates
fled and hid. The police had
been on the lookout for him and
afraid they would find him. The
other day two or three got hold of
him, but he broke loose and laid
them out on the pavement with one
blow of his mighty arm, De Lisle
then ran, and the cry " stop thief
was raised and the gathering crowd
surged in pursuit. A policeman
fred three shots at him without any
apparent effect, and he was at last
brought to a halt by running, as it
were, into crowd of about six
thousand men that he had collected
about him, both before and behind
in his flight. The fraction of such a
mass was too much for him and he
saw the living wall close around
him. He had no iawbone of an ass
or any modern weapon to WELD, OF
he might have waded through that
thousand men and been free. Il
took twelve muscular white Ameri
cans to take him to the station house
as he kept up skirmishing fight al
the way. He was put in the stocks
and it was found that a pistol bal
had passed through his thigh, and {
club had indented his forehead ovel
the eye. His vitaIs, which were
covered with a heavy coating of up
per leather were unharmed. The al
thorities are thinking of putting d.
Lisle to performing feats of strength
for their amusements as the Philis
tines did Samson of old. He is no
of exaggerated size being a littl,
over medium size, but his mould i
herculcan and his endurance is equa
to that of steam engine of twenty
horse power.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18

A CRUEL JoKE.-Among the late
improvements III hats, is a cashmere
plug arrangement, held in shape by
springs, so constructed that the tile
can be pressed into a shape "as flat
as a pancake" and brought into
form again as readily and as nicely
as a ''niekel coin pen'-just as good
as new. Not long ago, a noted wag
in the city purchased one and hav-
ing occasion soon after to 90 to
church with his mother and another
lady, upon arriving in the audience
room, fattened the hat, unnoticed
by the ladies, and threw it into the
seat which they were to occupy. One
of the ladies, of no triiing avoirdu-
pois, deposited her person upon the
article and remained there until the
end of the services, when, upon aris-
ing and turning around to look for
some article which she had deposit
ed by her side, she discovered, and
with visible alarm depicted on her
countenance, the new hat pressed,
as she supposed, into a shapeless
mass. The owner added insult to
injury by pulling upon his coun-
tenance" terror stricken look of
alarm; after which, having enjoyed
the ladies' discontinue sufficiently,
he took up the hat and instantly
shook it into form and comeliness as
completely as if it had not been sat
en.-Ei'ie Dispatch.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18

down the hangings and ornaments
oft heir pen in their efforts to reach
the dogs who were in the passage
out side the pen, Betsy being the
leader of the movement. Her bel
lowing was heard two blocks away.
Moore seized the iron hook with
which he enforces obedience, and at
length old Carlo having been res
cued from his more vigorous rival,
probed the elephants into subjec-
tion. All day yesterday Betsy was
tenderer than ever in her care of dy-
ing old Carlo, and he thanks her by
licking the trunk with which she
fondles him.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18

A TRAGEDY INDEED.--One of the
most heart-rendering stories of the
year comes from Fon du Lac. A
young lady was passing through a
piece of ground adjoining a farm
house with her lover when the girl
was attacked by savage dog. Be
fore her escort could protect her the.
dog had seized her by the breast
and tore the breast from the body.
When the young man saw the dog
shaking a portion of the body of his
intended he tainted away. The
young lady, however, did not faint.
She was SO mortified that she seized
fence rail and went for the dog,
and she pounded him until he laid
still. When her lover recovered
the young lady was trying to hide
one of the wire screens that people
put over plates to keep the flies off.
1t seems that the dog didn't draw
blood, owing to the fashion of Fon
du Lac, which is needles to describe
However there is great excitement at
Fon du Lac, and the young man has
broken off his engagement and has
bought that dog-what there is left
of him-he is going to set him
again.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18

social evil apply in this case. In
Philadelphia the unlicensed houses
exceed in number the licensed. 30
of other places. The same love OF
gain that makes liquor dealers vio-
late our present laws would lead
them to start unlicensed houses. The
same lack of public sentiment that is
wanting to enforce our present laws
in localities would be wanting under
license laws. The licensed dealers
could not be depended upon to en-
force the laws, for it is impossible to
find a liquor dealer who does not vi
olate the law, and such a thing as
one liquor dealer prosecuting anoth-
er for violating the law is, venture
to assert, a thing unknown to our
court records.
1t is an unwarranted assumption
that licensed dealers Will be more
careful about their sales-eXcept in
extreme cases-or that they will
help execute the laws. Their best
customers are the worst drinkers,
and they have constant temptation
to sell to whoever comes, asking no
questions for the laws sake. As to
their enforcing the law, Ihave case
in mind under the Baxter law in In
diana, where all the licensed dealers
in the place banded together-and
this. before the crusade-to defend
licensed dealer who had sold to a
MINOR.
We have no assurance, if the Ii
| cense clause is carried, that we will
have ''judicious" license laws. If Ii
cense carries, it will be largely by
the votes of liquor drinkers and sell
ers, and they will control legislation
| in their own interest. A victory for
license means a victory for the IL
quor interest, and they will, of
course, not be slow to gather the
fruits of their victory.
License may legalize the traffic
and remove the stigma from it; it
may gid the saloon parlors, and
make them more enticing to the poor
flies; it may introduce corrupt ell
ement in local politics; it may en-
courage the friends of the liquor
interest and it may deceive many
honest temperance people, but as 8
temperance measure, to us it appears
a snare and that only.
J. @. A. CAMPBELL.
Bellefontaine. Ohio.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18
Old Carlos Elephant Nurse.

Betsy, the largest of the elephants
in Barnum's Hippodrone, is twenty
eight years old. She was imported
from Germany five years ago, and
with her came Carlo, a dog that had
long been her inseparabie compan-
ion. She refused to leave the ship
until Carlo preceded her, and in sub
sequent appearances in the ring heal
ways trotted ahead of her. Night
and day they have been together.
Carlo is sixteen years old and his
death is daily expected. Six months
ago he became too i'll to go into the
ring, and Betsy has since been with
difficulty induced to perform with
out him. He is failing. fast, and
Betsy seems to know it. Formerly
she tossed him playfully with her
trunk. Now she only pats him
softly, and rolls him over very gen
tly. A yelp or whine calls her at
once to his side, and she gets angry
when anybody but George Moore,
her keeper, touches him.
A few months ago, in anticipation
of Carlos death, a new Carlo was
put into the pen with Betsy and the
younger elephants. 1t was hoped
that he might gradually get place
in the elephantine. affection, so that
things might go on smoothly after
old Carlos death The new dog,
however, is only tolerated, and sick
old Carlo gets all the petting.
Last Sunday afternoon the neigh
borhood of the Hippodrome was
alarmed by the hideous kind of bel
loving in which enraged elephants
nave no rivaly. George Moore, the
Keeper, ran in from the street. and
found the four elephants frantic with
rage because the new Carlo was
fighting old Carlo. They had torn
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18
The Fastest steamer in the world.

"Such," says the Times, sis the tt
tie claimed by the builders-Messrs.
Thornycroft, Church Wharf, CHS
wick-for boat they have just
built to the order of the government
of India, for SERVES in the Grissa
canals, The dimensions of this ex-
traordinary little vessel are: Length
81 ft.; beam u ft. ; draught of wa
ter, fit. 9 in. The speed contracted
for was twenty statute miles per
hour. The, huh the working parts
of the engines, and the propeller
Thornycroft's patent-are of Besse-
mer steel, and the wood work of
teak. The official trial of the boat
was made on March IA, under the
inspection of Colonel Haig, r. E.,
chief engineer of the Bengal Irriga-
ton Works, and the results were:
With tide, 25.O8 miles per hour:
against tide, 24.15 miles per hour:
giving a mean speed of 24.61 miles
per hour. In another official trial a
few days ago, it was shown that the
boat could keep up a speed of %
miles per hour without losing steam.
The speeds are extraordinary enough
in themselves, but when it is consid-
cred that they are attained by a boat
only 81 feet long, they become abso-
lutely wonderful, and far beyond
anything ever before accomplished.
The value of swift steam launches as
torpedo boats is acknowledged, and
already various foreign governments
have ordered boats from Messrs.
Thornycroft's yard. If torpedo
launcher can be built to steam at the
rate of sixteen or eighteen miles an
hour in a moderately calm sea, the
whole face of naval warfare may
find itself changed in a very unex-
pected way" Although this is
probably the greatest speed ever at
tanned by a steamboat Of such small
size, Mr.. Thornycroft's boat is not
the fastest that has ever been built.
The Daniel Drew, a Hudson River
boat, has run 125 miles in five hours
and five minutes-or say 25 miles an
hour for the whole trip from New
York to Hudson.-IheEngi
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18

BEsPoKEN.-So nice, is it not, to
be engaged? Every morning her
young man calls upon her on his
way to his office, kisses her and pre-
sents her with a fresh rose, so en-
blematic of herself; and every even
ing he calls again, kisses her, and
bestows upon her new novel and a
dainty boquet. He takes tea with
her folks, and admires the way in
which she presides over the table,
and whispers to her So softly how de-
-lightful it will be when she pours
out tea and buffers the toast for him
alone. Then those heavenly even
ings in the parlor, with the gas dim
ly burning, the old folks asleep, that
horrid brother in the theater or at
the club, the teasing sister studying
her lessons in her bedroom-they
two alone in their happiness. Was
ever such bliss expected when she
used to talk to her schoolmates
about her future?
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18

Con-. VANDERBILT TAKEN Fok A
CLERGYMAN.-Among the laity who
affect white cravats are numbered
" Boss" Tweed and Commodore
Vanderbilt. The latter, from his
spare build and grey hair and whisk-
ers, is frequently mistaken for a
clergyman. The other day he was
coming down town in a street car,
when two young men entered, both
being intoxicated. Perceiving
the venerable gentleman with a
white tie, one of the young men ad-
dressed him with, 81 spose you think
Pm going straight down to h(hic(ll,
don't yer?', "Why-no;" said the
Commodore; 81 hope not" The
young man nudged his companion,
and nodding toward Vanderbilt
said, "He's a (hic) Univers'list,"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18

A New ADVERTISING DoDGE.-
The familiarity of the frontier-man
with scenes of shooting and execu-
tions by Lynch-law, and his GOODNESS
in the average Western affair, are
proverbial. The last instance that
has come to our knowledge in which
enterprise and self-possession were
admirably mingled occurred at the
recent execution of criminal IN
Washington Territory just as
he was about to be swung off, aud
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18

The design of the Jim Fisk mon
ument, l dare say, was good enough
but it might have been better had it
represented Moses in the act of
breaking all the commandments.
EL,cb030e
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18

after he had remarked to the sheriff
that he had nothing further to say,
a real estate agent, whose Office was
in his hat, forced himself to the front
and up the steps of the scaffold, and
Jointly addressing the criminal and
the sheriff, said, :" If the gentleman
who occupies the platform will kind
iy yield for a few minutes, / would
like to make few remarks upon the
cheap homestead lots at Dobson's
Hole | am now Offering for sale" +"
The polite request was assented to.
and after a brief summary of the ad-
vantages presented by that locality.
the sheriff resumed his duty, pulled
the cap over the gentleman 50
countenance, and permitted him to
DROP Harper's Mdgazine.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18
Bellefontaine, Ohio.
HOW a salary Grabber was FIanked.

Col. OrZo j. DoddS, late member
of Congress from the First District
of Ohio, tells a good story about a
call he recently received at his Office
from a man who claimed to be an
editor from Arkansas. He was very
seedy looking chap, and appeared as
though he had but recently come off
from about a six weeks spree. Bow
ing profoundly, then striking an at
titude, with one hand on his heart
and the other extending a badly used
plug hat, he exclaimed with dra-
matte air:
"Have I the honor of addressing
the Hon. Orzo J. Dodds?"
"My name is Dodds, but l am no
longer an honorable" SAID the Col.
''Not an honorable! DOdds not
an honorable! Now, by St. Paul,
when l can scan that honest face, on
which all the gods do seem to set
their seal-'Green seal, murmured
Dodds to himself-I read nothing dis
honorable"
''That's right" said Dodds; "'nev-
er read anything dishonorable. But
to business"
eyes, as you say, to business. 1
am printer-I might say, with no
unbecoming blush, an editor. 1 am
from the noble State of Arkansaw-
the only State, by the way, able and
willing to support two governments
at the same time. But l have been
unfortunate. Much have l been
tossed through the ire of cruel Juno,
and"
"Juno how it s.yourself," broke
in the Colonel.
''Bufeted by the worlds rude
storms, you see me here a stranded
wreck. Scarce three months past |
left my Office In charge of my wor-
thy foreman, and sought the peace
full wales and calm retreats of the
Muskingum valley, where my child
hood sported. Returning, l stopped
in Cincinnati. l fell into evil compa-
ny and-but why dwell on details?
Enough that | am-disheartened, ru-
ined, broke! A mark for scon to
point her slow, unerring finger at
As | was about to give up in dispair,
having given up everything else I
had, l thought of you. Sir, l am
here. You have not sent for me, but
L have come! Your name, sir, is
known and honored from one end of
this great republic to the other. 1t
CLOVIS in the stars,
Refreshes in the breeze,
Warns in the sun
And blossoms on the fees.
When the national treasury was
threatened by a horde of greedy
Congressman, you stood like wall
of adamant between the people and
those infamous salary grabbers! Lend
me a dollar!"
"My dear sir" the Colonel hasten
ed to explain, ''you mistake the case
entirely. l was one of the grab
bers."
"You were?"-grasping the Coils
hand warmly. go much the better!
Let me congratulate you that par
slmomous public could not frighten
you out of what was fair remunera-
ton for your invaluable services. I
am glad that your pecuniary circum-
stances are so much better than l
supposed. Make 1t tacO dollars !"
And the Colonel did. 1t was the
only clean thing left for him to do.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18
NO LICENSE.

m o,a,st yj local 0Dtson, giOerp under the 40
IL. - Czgitse License Snare Of the
E1eynSJ
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18

How TO BE HAPPY.-Evidently
Ariadne is not happy. But who is?
Nobody is happy who is not con-
ceited. So it curiously happens that
only for imperfect character is re-
served the life of perfect enjoyment.
There is no contest so all-embracing,
so pervading and invigorating as
self-content. The philosophers hold
out their means of happiness, but
they are moonshine to this. The
man whose bosom contains a per-
petual principal of self-esteem, po-
sesses a balm for every woe, The
blues that so easily beset the rest of
humanity are unknown to him. His
ways are ways of pleasantness. The
winds and the rains may blow and
dash against him; the hurricane
may shake his window-shutters and
topple over his chimneys; but within
all is peace. Be conceited and you
will be happy.-Scri51ers for July.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18

'Tis not an easy task to show
How o, u, g, h, sound; since though
An Irish Tough and English slough,
Differ as much as tough and through,
There seems no reason why they do.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18
ExAMpLE OF THE WANT OF Anal

EXAMPLE OF THE WANT OF ANAL
oGY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The difficulty of applying rules to
the pronunciation of our language
may be illustrated in two lines,
where the combination of the letters
o4gh is pronounced in no less than
seven different ways, viz. as 0, esf,
of, ZIP, Oao, 90, and Ock:
Through the tough cough and hiccough
plough me through.
Ger life's dark Tough my course 1 still
pursue.
The Following attempts to show
the sound of oaGgh final are ingeni-
Gus:
Through from rough cough or hiceOuyb free,
That man has pain enough,
Whose wounds through plOa0, sunk in a
slough,
H. aToa,1I
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18

TINKER & GREGORY.
Ashtabula. Feb. 9Th, 1874. 1257tf
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18

Special Notice.
MY celebrated bottled Lager, es-
lfl pecialIy put up for family use and shipped
to any part of the country, is Just the stimulant
auv family can keep during the summer. 1t will
keep nicely fer few months, and is sold at reason
able rates. 1 have also on hand quantity of ales
and porter which offer at low figures. Send or
ders to A. B. SCHELLENTRAGER, bother, 104
Bank street, CLEVELAND, o.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18

BUY IN CLEVELAND,
Doors, Sash, Blinds and Lumber.
A TEACHOUT & CO., "a Mich
IN . igan street, keep constantly on hand a
large stock. From 10 to 20 per cent. can be saved
by purchasing OF them and also be sure of getting
first quality goods. Remember the number, Ga
Michigan street, Stribinger block m; t,
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~ CALL AND SEE Us

Crossing
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RAPID REDUCTION o srocKl

RAPID REDUCTION o sToCKl
READY oAsHiu
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Things that we want more than oYercoats,
Heavy Ready Made Clothing .zzs
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AsHTABULA, OHIO.
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RUsR OF TRADEi
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-12-27
THE FARMER. NOT THE PLANTER.

It does not appear that there should be
any great distinction between the above
words. but usage has assigned them a
separate significance. The farmer is a
man who holds the pillow himself and by
the labor of his OWL hands tills the soil.
The planter is gentleman who owns
large trac. OF land. and as he no longer
owns the laborers on his plantation. finds
it convenient to allow them to raise a
crop and divide the proceeds with him
after deducting for their supplies.
The farmer, should the crop fail. has at
least gained subsistence. as no practical
agriculturist will limit himself to the pro.
duc:ion of the staple article only. By the
very nature Of the planters policy the
failure of the crop leaves both owner and
labores in debt. As the laborers have
nothing and have made nothing, should
they be in debt for supplies, the induce.
ment of labor in another neighborhood is
generally yielded to. The planter, find
ing himself in debt to his factor, will pre-
fer to sell for ready money whatever of
cotton or sugar that may been raised,
rather than risk its shipment to his cred
itors in New Orleans. The system has a
demoralizing tendency.
It must not be supposed that any
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-12-27

other parishes where there was satisfactory
proof that intimidation had been used at
deslgnated polls, 80 Is to prevent q fair,
free and peaceable election at such polls,
they were excluded from the compilation. a.
the law requires.
Notwithstanding these acts Of violence
and intimidation and the admitted prin-
cip1e that the party bringing such acts to
bear on an election should not be per.
mitted to profit by them. the board did
not exclude any poll unless it was clearly
proven that the intimidation made use Of
had affected Sufficient number of votes
to change the result Of the election. On
this subject they use the following Ian.
guage:
As all these acts 60 produce intimidation
had been perpetrateI in favor of the Dem.
ocrAtic party, and against the Republican
party, the polls excluded from the com.
pilation generally gave maiorities in favor
of the Democratic party, and their exclusion
from the compilation reduced the vote OF
that party, aid in some instances had the
effect Of returning Representatives, and
other officers of the opposite party different
from the returns made by the supervisors.
This is the natural result of an illegal at
tempt to accomplish an object, and is no
fault Of the board.
Thus the howl set up by the defeated
sclemers who have cried to wholly defeat
the will Of the people, and have succeeded
in greatly !essening the Republican ma.
jority Of the State. has been anticipated
and answered.
1t is the intention Of the law that fraud,
force. intimidation and assassination. as
election tactics. shall not be successful.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-12-27

attempt is contemplated to blame the
planter more than the laborer. The las-
ter having no proprietary interest In the
soil he tills, is naturally Indifferent as 70
its permanent improvement. Deprived
of the restraints OF social status. with no
community of interest with his employer
save that which assures him share OF the
crop. uneducated and irresponsible. 1t is
no great wonder that his sense o: duty Is
biunted. The planter. Oh his part. also
desires as great yield Of staple COM
modify that will bring ready money. Both
parties, therefore. attend only TO the sugar
OF cotton. 70 the utter neglect OF stock
raising and the cultivation OF vegetables.
Such management. or mismanagement
rather. while it secures maximum yield
OF the great staples. reduces the plante:
and his laborers to helpless dependence
on the North and West 70. supplies.
The remedy which we would propose for
this evil is quite simple. 1t IS to substi-
tute small farms for large plantat TONS
The plante. should divide his land
into tracts Of say sixty to one
hundred and twenty acres. These
tracts would obtain ready sale,
whereas it is now almos. impossible to
find q purchaser for large plantation.
The !aborer, now converted int o land
owner. would certainly take care Of his
own property. The planter. should he
have retained any portion Of his land.
would find it so far appreciate in value as
to more than compensate him for any
concessions he may have made in dispos.
ing Of the smaller lots. The landed
pauper would no more exc out an exist.
ence among US. the impoverished planter
wonld no more be known. Instead. we
would hava the prosperous farmer. the in
dustrious. thriving agriculturist.