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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-06-11
HAND BALL MATCH.

"A hand. ball match for one thousand
dollars and the championship Of Ameri.
ca, has been arranged between Alderman
James Dunn and James Casey, Of Brook.
lyn. and Joseph o'Brien and Jas. Farron,
Of Chicago. They are to plsy eleven
games, tWenty.one points tlp.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-06-11

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-06-11

The Convention, re.assenbled at /
O'clock. The Committee on Permanent
Organization reported M, A. E. Steven
son, q Putnam county, ior President, and
e Vice President from each ConRressionSl
D9tFiet and ]. n, Hyatt Of New CasIlc,
a1ilo;..f SaG G Doughty, Of Indianapolis, as
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25
sheep Dogs OF CaIifornIa.

A traveller in Southern California
gives the following account of the
famous sheep dogs used there, and
of the manner in which they are
trained. He writes
sYou may go over the plains and
hills there for miles and see thou
sands of sheep, but not man to
watch them. Around each flock or
band of say thousand sheep are
half dozen dogs of a peculiar
breed-dogs whose progenitors were
imported from the sheep pastures of
the old world.
These dogs take the entire care Of
the sheep, drive them out to pasture
in the morning, keep them from
straying during the day, and bring
them home at night. These dogs
have inherited talent for keeping
sheep, but the shepherds do not de.
pend wholly on that. They cult
vate it in this way-so at least the
shepherd says: When a lamb is
born it is taken away from the moth
er sheep before she has seen it, and
a puppy put in its place. The sheep
suckles she puppy and learns to love
it. When the puppy grows old
enough to eat meat, it is fed in the
morning and sent out with the sheep.
1t STAYS with them because it is &C
customed to be with its mother, but
it cannot be fed with them. AS
they get full the dog gets hungry.
At length, impatient to return where
it hopes to get another piece of
meat, it begins to tease and worry
its mother, and finally starts her to-
wards home; the other sheep follow,
and thus the whole flock is brought |
in. If the dog brings the sheep
home too soon, or comes home with !
out them, he gets no supper and is |
punished in some way. Hence he
soon learns when to come, and TO |
see to it that none Of his charge are |
left behind.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25
CanYouAnordft4

Can you afford to work hard all
day, and read, study, or court the
vagaries of society all night, thus
wasting your vitality, exhausting
your nervous system, and bringing
on premature disease decay, and old
age?
Can you afford to eat hastily, and
then rush to study or business, with
drawing the nervous energy from the
digestive system to the brain and
muscles, and thus inducing dyspep-
sia, in few years at most, to scOurge
and haunt and make you miserable,
for years or for life?
Can you afford to live on rich or
highly seasonedfood, eat champagne
suppers, because an artificial appe-
tite is thus gratifed, rendering gout,
dyspepsia, appoplexy, in the middle
of life almost certainty?
Can you afford to commit suicide
through the indulgence of appetite
and passion adopting the fools mot
to, IA short life and a merry one?"
Can you afford to indulge in fast
living, dressing beyond your means,
driving livery horses or keeping a
horse youself, when your income is
not adequate to such expense?
Can you afford to smoke and chew
tobacco, thus spending from five to
twenty or thirty dollars a month,
injuring your nervous system, and
thereby transmitting to children a
weakened constitution, making them
puny inYalids for life?
Can you afford to burn out your
nervous system and demoralize your
whole character by the use of aclo-
holic Hquors2
Can you afford to make money at
the expense of your manhood, your
health.
Can you afford even to gain the
whole world, and thereby make
yourself a moral wreck?
Can you afford to rob your mind,
to clothe your body with silks and
satins, and crafty mere love of
display?
Can you afford to be tricky, and
therefore defraud your employer of
the just service you owe him, even
though you get your pay, thus ma
king yourself a moral bankrupt?
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25
Kite Flying IN china.

One of the greatest holidays in
China is kite day. This occurs on
the ninth day of the ninth month,
when the inhabitants of the cities
go out upon the hills and spend the
day in flying kites. Sometimes
thirty or forty thousand people are
assembled together on one hill,
where they engage all day in this
beautiful amusement. All classes
engage in it, we believe, from the
emperor down to the actor. Taking
their kites and going to the hills to
fly them on this day is called Gas
cending on high" The kites are of
all sizes, and great variety of shapes.
and colors. Some are in the shape
of spectacles, Others represent fish,
or eels, or kraken ten to thirty feet
long; others are like birds, bugs,
butterflies or quadrupeds; some rep
resent men sailing through the air;
others are eight sided, in imitation
of the eight diagrams, invented by
one of the Chinese emperors. To
invent kite is a sign of genius in
a ruler or a statesman. On a fine
day, when the air is full of these
kites, gaudily colored, and in gro
tesque and beautiful forms, and in
queer combinations, the effect is very
pleasing. Some of them are adorn-
ed with the heads of dragons and
tigers. The spectator sees in the
air what appears to be an immense
bird, or group of hawks. The
Chinese show great skill in keeping
a half a dozen paper hawks going on
one string. A very pretty appear
ance is made by a number of
small kites so arranged in the air as
to resemble the several blocks in a
game of dominoes.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25
keep working in she Corn.

A Bucks county Pennsylvania
farmer describes in the Practica,
Faruaer his method of cultivating
his corn:
"The corn crop is my special favo.
rite, aud I have generally succeeded
we'll in it, having on one occasion
reached, by accurate measurement,
one hundred bushels shelled corn per
acre. 1t is the main crop on my
dairy farm, and valued as much for
its amount of leaf and stalk as for
dts grain. | attribute my uniform
success with it to constant and edrIv
'oorkin9. A horse cuItivator Of
some kind is never allowed to be out
of the cornfeld, when the soil is not
wet, from its first appearance above
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25

ground till four to five feet high. In
my observations in riding around
the country, the want of this early
and constant working Is most ap-
parent.
'tln some places it is not consider
ed important to cultivate the earth
between corn rows except to destroy
weeds. This is great mistake, the
absorbsiOn of dews and gasses of
the atmosphere, only to be obtained
by an open and porous surface be-
ing one important process of fertili-
zlng the corn crop and fastening il
to maturity. Our very late spTing
weather the present season, as in
other years, prevents anything start
ing to grow till about the middle of
May, limiting the growing period of
the corn crop to about one hundred
days, and perhaps much less, taking
into view what is eaten by birds or
destroyed by cut worms, &c, which
makes 1t necessary to replant."
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25
sIatterIY,s ventrIloquiaI Joke.

A man who plays practical jokes
upon his wife, deserves to be punish.
ed, and Slatterly, or Muncy, was
punished. His wife had a dread OF
cats, and, before retiring at night,
she always looked carefully under
the bed to see that no stray puss,
and noman,n o robbery intent, were
concealed there. A few nights ago
after Mr.. and Mrs. Slatterly had re-
tired, Slatterly, who has been learn
ing Ventriloquism, thought he
would amuse himself and scare his
wife by gently yowling, and making
the sound come from under the bed.
Mrs. Slatterly instantly sat up and
exclaimed; -"
"Josiah, ] do believe there is a cat
in this room"
"Oh, nonsense!" grunted Slatterly /;
and then he made the noise again.
81 tell you, JOSIAH" exclaimed
Slatterly, 81 hear a cat under this
bed, l wish you'd get out and
drive it away"
"Oh, go to sleep, Matilda" said
Slatterly. 81 don't hear anything.
There's no cat about"
Then Josiah with his mouth be-
meath the covers, uttered a louder
screech than before.
We'll, if you won't clear that
cat out, YOU brute 7 will ,os,1 NJ
Slatterly. '"'N 4A'S'
So she reached over, picked I'M
Josiah's boots, and put them on II
bed, in order to protect her feat an5 =,
aukles from the infuriated on;,ui a
Then she took Slatterly's cane n%5
stopped down to sweep it aro,,n5 ma
beneath the bed. Just as she did
SO Josiah emitted a fearful veil
which might have come from cat
in the last paroxism of hydropho-
bia. g uos
This startled Mrs. Slatterly SO
that she sprang backward and in do
ing so she stumbled against the ba-
by's cradle, which was overturned,
and she went headforemost against
twenty-five dollar lookipg-glass on
the buueaud while the cane few out
OF her hand and lighted with consid-
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25

Jewett, had prepared himself for the
worst and clung to the hope that by
energy and organization, the for
tunes of the road would be retriev-
ed. He has not taken charge of the
the road for the purpose of losing
his reputation as a railway man, and
he hoped his administration of the
affairs of the Erie would be success
Tul and satisfactory to the stockhold-
ers. Whether an attempt would be
made to alter the guage of the road
he was not at present in a position to
speak positively. Before any i'm
portant movement of that kind was
entered on, he was determined to
acquaint himself thoroughly with
the condition of the road and the
state of its finances.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25
cradle force upon Slatterlv,s bead.

cradle force upon Slatterly's head.
The screams of Mrs. Slatterly
aroused all the neighborhood, and
even brought out the fire department
SO that by the time the baby was
rescued from the wreck, and the
broken glass picked up, two engines
had streams playing upon the house,
and the front door had been burst
open by the police; and the firemen
were engaged in dragging wet
hose over the entry carpet and up
the front stairs, just as Slatterly
came down to explain things.
The feline ventriloquism cost him
Just ninety dollars for carpets and
looking glasses, and a confusion on
the head which the people to this
hour believe he received in a pug
listic encounter with his wife.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25

from her husband, she exclaimed, Dear
me, Charles, what does make this baby al
ways wake up crying so ?" Correct i'm
pressions are certainly worth having, they
are such a comfort to people. A peep
from the window reveals the gray streaks
of morning We look at our watch and
hnd it is Q: 45. As we are not always
prepared to make observations on early
daylight, we make record of this OBSERVE
ton; Others think it Is morning. There
are four ladies sitting Viz-a-viz on two
seats, and from capscious basket they
spread solid lunch and bring forth a
dark colOred, long necked bottle. They
eat and talk freely, and drink from the
bottle, making wry faces after II. The
Bottle has gone twice round, and il starts
round the third time, and it is so turned
that the black and gilt letters on the Label
can be easily read.and they read thus
''Rhine Wien" One of the ladies, on be.
ing offered the bottle the third time, shook
her head, raised her finger, loaded will
cheap jewelry. and said. "Ven trink:
twice, thinks enough P' The bottle was
put away and the lunch ended.
Daylight reveals the country through
which we are passing Three weeks age
the harvest fields were all shocked in th.
Ohio valIey-but on the lake shore we SEE
the reaping machines are just beginning
to cut the harvest, and all the cornfield.
have a backward look. Through the
State the crops look well, and the whea
is an unusually good crop. But the field,
are soon exchanged for the streets o
Cleveland, and ip closing this last letter
we will just remark that the Lake Shor,
railroad from Cleveland 10 Ashtabula i.
the smoothest, and makes the best time o
any railroad we have travelled on.
Rock Creek July IA, 1874. T. C.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25

PLANTS IN SLEEPING Rooms
The question whether or not plants
are unwholesome in sleeping rooms
has called forth a curious diversity
of opinion. 1t is agreed that by day
they emit oxygen, and therefore
emlnently healthful; but it is gener-
ally believed that by night they give
out carbonic acid, and are conse-
quently prejudicial, to animal life.
Recent experiments by Professor
Kedzie, of Michigan Agricultural
College, may perhaps be regarded as
conclusive on the subject. The pro-
fessors analysed volumes of air ia
ken about noon from different parts
of the college greenhouse containing
5000 plants, after it has been clos
ed for twelve hours, and found that
the carbonic acid amounted on an
average to 1.S9, in 10000 parts
He then did the same Just before
sunrise, and found the average to be
S.94 thus, he thinks, clearly demon
strating the accumulation Of noxious
gas was greater in darRnes than in
daylight. At the same time, how
ever, out door air contains four parts
of carbonic acid in 10000. Az
the worst, therefore, the air in the
greenhouse was actually better than
Spure country air." and the emls-
sion of carbonic acid gas was bare
Iy sufficient to counterbalanee the
production of OXYGEN during day
light. Professor Kedzie concludes
that, these being the facts of the
case where 5000 plants are collected,
a dozen or two in a bedroom cannot
possibly be injurious.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25

The new President of Erie says the
statement that his acceptance of the
Presidency depends upon fayora-
bic report being made by the Eng
lisb accountants, was without foun-
dation. lie entertained httle doubt
that the report in question wqpldJVe-
veal many errors and abuses, but he,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25

Some crusty old bachelor says:
81 have noticed that when there is
only one daughter in a family, and
her parents are very anxious to keep
her at home as long as possible, some
chap coaxes her off before she is
seventeen. I have also noticed that
where there is house full of girls,
and the parents are praying daily
for husbands for the same, the whole
lot are apt to live and die old
maids"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25
Yours truly.
G.ht.bnl.. 1,n. qad. 1s74.
TAKE NOTICEI

-lF you desire to purchase Building
Lotstweli located and on reasonable terms, or II
Fon have any Reai Estate 70 SELL call upoD EdgaF
Han, Rsal EstGte Agent. Hassell's Block, Ashta-
t,.fs 1SNfo { .1s1 .fl1tf l1 ,-gr Vi
Z. ISnd surTeyIng and Plettjns done promptly on
call .-s1.l - l-a-A r EDGARHAL
IfhhbrIs. Nay sist 1874.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25

A story of recent discomforture
of Senator Carpenter is going
through the papers. Wishing to en-
joy joke, he sent a page to the
document room for a copy of the
''Mortifcation bill,' % telling some of
his companions to await the pages
return and enjoy the discontinue.
At the direction of Senator Upton,
who was in the room when the page
made his request, the boy was sent
back with copy of the Salary Re-
peal bill. The smile over the face of
the witty senator was a CHASTITY
one"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25

THE SALE OF PIsToLs.-The New
York Times remarks that if it is i'm
practicable to forbid the carrying of
pistols outright, their sale should at
least be so restricted as to furnish a
guarantee against their getting into
improper hands. 1t is preposterous
to permit every irresponsible shop
keeper to sell loaded pistols to every
drunken and murderous ruffian who
applies for them. Our druggists are
not allowed thus to Yend poison to
every applicant, the editor says, and
somewhat the same restrictions
should certainly be placed to the
sale of pistols. The constituted right
to carry arms does not imply the
right of every drunken loafer to bear
about in his pocket the implements
of murder. Men whom it is safe to
trust with firearms could, without
unnecessary trouble, prove that fact
to the proper authorities, and obtain
a suitable license. The other sort
would then evade the regulation at
their own peril.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25

Rev. Geo. NJ. Grant, of Halifax,
informs his readers in the June num-
Der of Good Words, that in the Do
minion of Canada the half-civilized
tribes of aboriginal Indians are rap
idly increasing. In the old provin-
ces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
Quebec, and Ontario, the red men,
in 1871, numbered 23,035; while, ac-
cOrding to the census of 1861, there
were only 1920. Thus, even al
lowing margin for superior thor
oughness in the census of 1871, a
larger per centage of increase is ap-
parent. In the United States, on the
other hand, the civilized Indians, in
the same period, dwindled from IA
021 to 25,7Sl. Perhaps the differ
ence may be attributed to paternal
treatment on the part of the govern
ment of Canada. which forbids Indi-
ans to sell their lands, and withholds
the privileges of voting, buying
whisky, and other such rights Of
free citizens. In the Dominion, al
together, there are probably not
more than 1900 or I4o, 900 Indi-
ans, nearly half of these being on the
Pacific slope, sea-coast, and Islands.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25
Phoenix Iron Works.

TINKER & GREGORY,
- PRoPRIEToRs.
WE are now ready to solicit ord
w ers for the manufacture of STEAM EN-
GINES, ,SHAFTING. PULLEYS, PLOWS and 9TH
er Farming Implements.
Every description Of
IRON & BRASS CASTINGS
made as low as the market affords.
Pattern Making
Of all kinds done to order with neatness and
despatch.
Machine and general Repairing promptly.
We would especially invite the attention Of
those interested in the manufacture or use Of
BOLTS,i
hat we have now in operation a Power Bolt
Cutter by which we are enabled to cut Bolts from
y to ~ inches in diameter, at least 25 per cent
cheaper than can be done elsewhere in this vicini
ty.
We keep constantly on hand at cur new shop
the celebrated
CURTIS IRON BEAM PLoWS.
Also Points aud Repairs for all the leading plows
made in this section.
~ CALL AND SEE Us.-a
ONCE and Works near Centre Street R. R.
Crossing.
TINKER 8 GREGORY.
Ashtabula. Feb. 9Th, 1874. l25Ttf
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25

WANTED wANTEDn wANrEDl
Things that we want more than OYercoats
Heavy Ready Made Clothing
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25

These sTs what We want. and therefore we of
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25
ASHEABULA, OHIO

Extraordinary Stock of er Dress Goods to BE- co..5 o.,
E- Great Reductions in the Prices Of other Goods 81
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25
AT COST


AT COST AT oosrll AT cosTill
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25

Once and Works near Centre Street R. R.
Crossing.
TINKER & GREGORY.
AshtAbula. Feb. 9Th, 1874 lS5Ttf
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25

We have marked these goods in plain figures,
and shall not sumner over any Of them II we can
sen them At cost.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25
RUSH OF TRADE.

READY OAsHiii:
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-25
NesO GoOdsl NeaO GOodsyl

These good are fresh and new. purchased for
last fall and this winters trade and goods that we
can recommend. We include in the above sale q
aozen or more Suits and pants to be made 70 order
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-29
Z GOLDEN TEI1.

! During the last two or three year. go charge
! has been so often in the mouths of the peopl,
| who thought they were supporting the Admins
tration. "a that Of treason to the Republican
party. When iIr. Greeley with equal foresight
and humanity insisted that Jefferson DAVIS
should be tried or bailed. and denounced tho
pitlful narIowness which excluded year sftel
year a few thousand Southerners from Tho
privileges which were accorded to their neigh.
bors and their laborers. he was furiously abused
BY men VINO were as incapable Of comprehend.
inc his motives as thew were OF initiating his
benefcient life. When they cited him to appear
before a little inousition at the Union League
Ciub to give reasons why lie should not be c,lt
Oft from among the LOYAL, lie answered in that
Incompatible letter, which will always remain q
MASTERPIECE of reason and OF rhetoric. giving
expression to the scorn which his emancipated
spirit felt toi those marrow. minded blocl heads
who would like to be useful to a great and good
cause, but did not know how" In that letter
occurred one golden phrase which then seemed
startling to MANY ardent Repubica s, but which
is seen every year to be truer and wiser. ''Your
attempt to base great, enduring party on the
hate and wrath necessarily engendered by
great Civil War, is as though YOU should plant
colony on an iceberg which had somehow lrifted
into tropical ocean,
These are beautiful and memorable words, and
the Republican party would have been in far bet
ter plight to-day If IT had listened to them when
they were uttered. But they were met with the
louder anger of the violent partisans or the loud
er laughter of fools. The policy OF wrath and
hatred seemed to them the best for all purposes
They could make more money and more votes
by il than by any other. Il drought forward and
kept in public life such men as Butler and Logan
whose denunciations Of rebels covered multi
tude of iniqlities. 1t proved the cloak to every
kind Of corruption. A rogue had only to drape
himself in the s,ar-spanged banner to steal al
his leisure. A man who suggested that even
Southerners had some right and some interest
in the country was instantly the target OF
those glib scoundreIs, who were stealing the
South poor in the name Of liberty, and their
purblind associates in the North never failed to
support them. No eminence, no abilities, no
lusrer of virtuous fame could protect man who
would not join in the hoarse cry of vulgar and
narrow hatred Summer offended III this way,
and an obscure demagogue could stampede the
General Court of Massachusetts, to censure him
for it, Trumbu!l chose to follow his instincts of
LAWYER and gentleman. and he was turned out of
the seat in which he had for eighteen years done
his State as much honor as service. We will not
recall the infamy Of that campaign Of foulness in
which Greeley was bounded to his grave. No one