Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18
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The Fourth of July passed off with
more than the usual number of accidents
from those relics of barbarism, fireworks
The boys of this great crowded civ COM
menced exploding fire crackers. and sell
ting off all sorts of fireworks, the dav
before the Fourth, and they Continued il
despite the Police, with the most fiend,sb
persistency, till late in the night of the
great day. Consequently the papers are
full Of casualties. The summary of Tho
accidents" and disasters of last Saturday
shows some forty-iVe fires in New
York and Brooklyn; more than two score
OF children injured and manned in vari-
Gus degrees of hurt from eyes destroyed
to fingers blown away; a riot, half
and three persons killed. Beyond these
We're the thousand other miEor disasters
unreported to the police, but which leave
their marks in suffering and mutilation
OF greater or less extent One rocket
went through a window in De Kalb ave-
nue., Brooklyn, and killed 6 child out
right 1t seems tC me as though this
childish habit of playing with fire on the
glorious Fourth ought to be prohibited by
law. 1t is altogether too dangerous an
amusement. The roofs are always dry at
this season of the year, and everything
combustible is in the best possible condi-
ton to burn. In such a season, to fill the
air with exploding gunpowder enveloped
with paper, would seem 10 be a folly very
nearly akin to madness. But so strong
is habit, that I suppose the dangerous
game will go on to the end of time
HYDRoPHoBIA
continues to be prominent topic of dis
cussion. There are thousands upon
thousands of ours of all degrees, roaming
the city, and any number of people have
been bitten by them. There have been
several well defined cases of hydrophO-
bia. and several bitten men have died
from sheer fear, as was evident from the
facts that the dogs that bit them were
shown not to have been mad at all. In
one case, that of Mr.. Mccormick, the
symptoms were those of rabies, the pa
tient refusing to eat or drink, and going
into convulsiOns, in one of which he died.
The dog that bit him was kept in secure
place and never showed the first symp-
toms of madness. Ii had probably been
worried till it bit everything that present
ed itself But poor Mccormick believed,It
to be mad, and it so worked upon his i'm
agination that he died.
OF course, there are thousands OF cures
for the disease promulgated. One young
woman of Hoboken, who, having been
bitten by mad dog, was taken with the
very worst symptoms of the rabies. A
physician was called in, who found her
in cOnvulsions. He at once inserted the
lancet, taking from her no less than rs
ounces of blood. This was the only
treatment, and it is asserted that in five
days thereafter the patient was convaies-
cent. The various 'mad-stones" in the
country have been sent for, but none of
them have effected cures, any more than
the regulars, have, with this one excep-
ton. Whenever person has been bitten
by mad dog the person has died.
ICE.
The ice question is next .in importance
to hydrophobia. The whole business is in
the hands oftwo or three companies, and
they are as merciless as monOpolists al
ways are. Taking advantage of the mild
winter, they run up the price of ice from
$1OO to $50 per hundred, and the people
as a rule, were compelled TO submit
to the extortIon But an association in
Brooklyn decided not TO. They sent an
agent to Maine, and he secured ice
enough for the summer, which will be
delivered at the WalIabout Dock at 40
cents per hundred, and at the door of the
buyer from wagons, at so cents-and hon
est weight, which the mOnopolists never
thought of doing. As these associations
are forming all over the city, and as
Maine is full of ice it is probable that the
companies will have ice to sell this win
ter. Somote it be.
THE BEECHER TILTON SCANDAL.
The Beecher-Tilton matter remains as
it was Beecher is as cunning as fox.
He knows that his church will sustain him
under any circumstances. or, rather, that
his flock will not believe the statements
made by Tilton, and he goes on gaily,
paving no attention whatever to it. He
has never opened his lips, and does not
intend to. And Tilton is weak in not
using the ammunition he has. He asserts
that the unpublished portion ofthe famous
confession, is enough to satisfy the world
of Beecher's guilt bnt he does not pub
lish it. Why, no one can understand, for
if he does not make his case, he stands
before the world a slanderer. He cannot
wait for Mr.. Beecher to act-he has gone
so far that to stop now is ruin.
People vino are in. position TO know
say that Tilton can convict the great
preacher of the grossest immOralities. II