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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31
CIR U MBS

UMBS
Are = modern stove Are better, because
polish ar better than OF hey give o,s5, snsI glGss
COM FORT
Yield brilliant silvery sheen, with less than halt
the labor required when other polishes are used.
CIR U NJ B s
Are a neat and eleanly lCan be used even In
article, making no dit o + tas P1sio5 without ne
MORT
furniture or carpets.
Has no disagreable sulphurous or strong acid smell
when prepared for use, but are pleasant harmless
CIR u MBS
Are put up in neat style In each box are Il
ana In a form more OF sticks 1 stick is sut-
convenient for use than neient for any stove,
any other polish. thus all waste Is SAVED.
COMFORT
box At 10 cents win polish as much sRrfAee as IS
cents worth Of the old pOlishes.
CRUMB
i.s fs PREM @ Al ss4 he h1a aP OF sSr oiSs Ss a q
anapclls exposition, the old stove polishes
CONF RT
Buy Crumbs OF Comfort Of your store keeper,
II he has them or win procure them for you ifnot
senl rs one dollar, your hamc, add the name OF
your nearest express station, and We will send you
ten boxes and samples OF Bartletts Blackingand
Pearl Blueing frse OF cost.
CRuMBs oP COMFORT can be had % all Wholesale
Groeers and dealers In the United States and Re
tail them the most profitable, nom the faet that
they the hstest selling articles IN market.
H. A. BARTLETT q CO.,
us NORTH Frosf 81, PiiladalpAfa.
lSS CAGls6ers s., NoQ Hork.
IS Broad 81, BostoA. iSt5 am con
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31

%
President McCosh has been out to
q swell dinner and had a melancholy
time of it, like many men before him /:
81 was obliged once to sit two whole
hours at dinner beside lady with
q blazing crimson gown loaded all
over with jewelry. The lady had an
awful incapacity for conversation,
and l never see the gaudy color with
out thinking of the lady and yawn-
ing, as 1 recall the terrible two long
hours ! had with her, starting topic
upon topic without a response, The
very idea of adinner company brings
to my mind that table groaning with
rich food, with ten kinds of wine and
all the delicacies Of the season. g,
with very unreasonable lamb in Jan
uary-sndIeysre since ] get terribly
alarmed at stupid meeting wheE
l see gross display Of eatables and
drinkabIes having ne quality but 3
vulgar and sinful expensiyeness,'
"Now we will hear the scarlet lady'i
opinion of the metaphysician. s- g.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31

Out in Montana, when they start a
man down hill in Q barrel, they
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31

Cut down the Presidents salary This
crv should 20 up from the Republican
tax PAYERS Of this country 70 the ear OF
Congress, with an earnestness that would
make that body quake. Cut dewn the
Presidents salary Exchange
Although the President was found
in bad company IN the salary grab
matter, and is therefore a sharer of
its Odium, the fact cannot be denied
has been admitted over and over
again, year after year, that the sala-
ry of the Executive is too low. 1t
is well known that the office, run
ming back many years, and through
many administrations, shas not de-
pended for the legitimate expenses
of the Executive, upon the $25,OoO
salary. The expenses of the Office,
as recognized by Congress have
ranged at $50, 900 and over, almost
time out of mind. While the salary
has been nominally $4,000, other
funds provided for the purpose, have
been drawn on to an amount equal, s
often greater than the salary, SO that
the appropriations have ranged at or
above the Objectionable amount, for
a long period and under successive
and various administrations. 1t is
hard to see the propriety of this, and
there is no rule of economy or of
ethics that should require a eontinu-
ance of the system. If the salary is
as has been very generally tacitly
admitted, inadequate, and the me-
cessities as well as the dignity
and responsibility of the position re-
ouire more than the nominal salary,
whv not make the salary what it
should be, direct and open, and do
away with all these left-handed
modes of meeting the demands of
the Office, This being the case, why
are we greeted with such clamor oy-
er the increase. AS the presidents
have not got along with the old sal
ary, and that the use of other funds
have been drawn upon, with the de-
liberate endorsement and approval
of all parties and various administers
tions, and by successive Congresses,
we are unable to come to any other
conclusion, than that Congress had
done wisely right in that provision
of the salary bill, whatever may have
been their motive in doing it. Every
politician, and every well posted
public man knows of the truth of
what is here asserted, and but com
paratively few viii deny the sound
ness and justice of what has been
done in respect to the Presidents
salary. aa
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31
Sacred Concert! i!

THE Choir of the Congregational
Il Church Of this place, respectfully announce
that they will give a concert at the Church, Of
Sacred Music. on next Ts ..-t
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31

"a
There was agony in the Chinese
quarter of San francisco when the
steamship China was overdue. For
in its cargo was a choice lot of first
class gods, manufactured expressly
for the new joss-house Of the head
quarters of American heathendom.
The joss-house was finished, the fra
grant tapers were ready to be burn
ed before the grinnipg gods,--but
the sacred josses themselves still
tossed about on the Pacific waves.
Finally, as an American firm, mind
full of the Birmingham merchant who
subscribed literally to send miss
ionary to heathenesse, and then made
8 fortune by freighting the ship that
carried him with rum and idols, Of
fered to manufacture 9 superior quail
ity of gods at low rates, the China
came. The New York World warns
the almond-eyed to import now all
the deities they need, lest native in
dustry should demand protection,
and some cunning Congressman
should insert in the revised tariff
"gods, crude and refined, 100 per
cent ad Valorem." & a5 aet
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31

Don't use birthstone matches, but call at
DICKS and get box of those nice PARLoR
MATCHES he is selling so cheap. -..
M. q. DTCH.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31
PIETRO.

An arrest was made In Pittsburgh
on the 26th, of one DR.. William
Smith on the charge of poisoning du-
ring the illness of James Mcdonald,
a resident of Temperanceville, and
subsequently his grand daughter, a
child of about eight years of age,
which resulted IN their death under
peculiar circumstances of . like ma
ture. A post mortem examination
of the latter was held and ehemi-
cal analysis Of the stomach develop
ed the fact that it contained a large
amount of arsenic. The matter is
accounted for by the statement, that
some years ago Smith was convicted
of passing counterfeit money and
was sentenced to the Penitentiary
for five years, but was subsequently,
pardoned and resumed the practice
of medicine in Temperanesville. DR..
Smith was the family physician in
McDOnald's family, and these deaths
have raised an excitement in the vi
entity over several other cases of sup
posed poisoning, some seven or eight
sudden deaths having occurred re-
Gently, the patients having been un-
der the care of the same DIR. Smith.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31

With the late back pay and double
grab, before as, the course of Con-
gress in 1915, becomes Of uncommon
interest. The Congress of that day
was scarcely betterthan the Congress
of IS, in this extra pay business. The
thing was no more popular then than
now, and the peopletgot just as in
dignant about it then as now. Le-
gislatures then, as now, passed indig-
nation resolutions and requests for
repeal. The Indignation of that day,
however, has comparatively little
proportion, in amour of the grab,
to that of 1873, The men of 1915
who attempted the game of double
psy-$l, ,5oO--repealed it themselves,
restored the-$s per diem, and went
out of public life by decree of the
people. Henry Clay, alone escaped
Of all that wreck, spd he escaped by
a miracle. All that history is to. re-
peat itself. ti- --4u FsIlE- sIG
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31
WANTED wANTED!! WANTEDnl

These are what we want and therefore we offer
the above lines Of CLOTHING
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31


The man-servant of the Stiner fam
lily, of New York, who escaped from
the fire in. which everybody else per-
ished, testified on the inquest that
che made his escape through the
roof; he was naked, and knocked at
window next door and asked fe-
male if he could come in: she said no,
and shut down the window" This
feminine act shows a high moral
training and a low moral sense. AS
it happened, the man got admission
at another window, but this only by
chance. Intense respect for pro-
prieties might have killed him. Per
haps, however, his repulse was sign
of the universal feminine love Of
dress. A man with clothes would
have been admitted instantlF;a man
without clothes was not thought
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worm saVInBr,...f. s,f,.s, .,.,-.> ...,.,f ....i
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31

That was good advice Civ
en- which an old man gave
to his sons: Boys, don't
you ever specerlate or wait
for something TO turn up,
You might just a. well &c
sit down on q stone in the
middle Of q medder with 8
pail 'tWixt your legs, snd
wait fora COW to back up to
you to be MIXED. NV
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31
We Mean Business,

and we guarantee to Save you Money. The
reasons must be selfevident to every reasona-
Bile citizen. It 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, 1874-01-31

THE WEATHER AND STREETS
in New York is of style that has
never been seen before. January
oath was as mild, warm and balmy
as ever was known in may. Win
dOws are universally open, and in
the middle of the day fires were al
lowed to go out. 1t is fortunate
that the depression in labor is ac-
eompanied with weather so mild
The poor appreciate weather that
admits of cutting down of expen-
ses. But what condition this warm
weather leaves the streets inI New
York pays 100000 per month for
street cleaning, which is never done.
The average citizen halls the. advent
OF cold weather, for the filth is fro
zen up; but this season, it is all in
state of fearful iquidity. The
streets run filth in rivers, and if this
weather should continue, an epidem-
ic of some sort may be reasonably
expected.
hl A NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT.
b The clergymen of various evan.
gelical Churches of the city have
determined to begin in February an
united effort in the way of revival
of religious feeling, in the hope that
it will spread all over the country.
Daily prayer-mestings are to be held,
nightly meetings for preaching in
the churchs and all the available
halls; street preachers are to be set
at work in the open air; printed
matter is e. BE- assd pF5iseptlyy
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31
We Sell Only For CASH!

This is an advantage which NO STORE IN ASH.
TABULA can offer you. If you buy Of q credit
store, you must pay credit prices, you must pay
the bad debts Of dishonest customers, the expen-
ses Of extra help and book keepers, interest Of
long sanding debts, and ruinOus prices Of old
slow style of doing business.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31

and the aid you extend to rs viii sustain in
your midst competition that viii keep prices down
break up extortion and high prices and sell you
good goods for less money than you have been
accustomed to pay for inferior articles.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31

An embryo poet, who is certainly
a close observer of human nature,
remarks: ''Time marches on with
the slow, measured tread of man
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31
| HE old style of Buying and Sell
Marvellous Low Prices.

Now, every day scores Of customers are added to
our list, as they hnd they can get better Goods
for less money.
This Is no Advertising Humbug The fact is
patent to all. Common sense tells how we can
afford to undsrsell
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31

Of the half dozen candidates for
the Bishopric Of Wisconsin, DR..
DeKoven is the most prominent
Hckesp transportation bill hxing
tBerates which the railroads of
Ohio maEzeharge has been passed
by.the Senate of this State.
The Illinois Assembly-lower
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31
J. m. FAULKNER L SON,
Main St., AEhtabula, Ohio.
Decsmber 18th. 1878.

December 18th, 1873 1850
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-06-04
A s1ipht Mistake.

The following anecdote, which is said
to have appeared IN the newspapers many
wears ago, is said to have been founded on
an actual occurrence. Although it may
not illustrate the Democratic simplicity
of the people of Vermont to-day, 1T is
nevertheless a good story, and good also
for many years longer life in the news
papers:
can YOU inform me whether His Honor
the Governor of Vermont lives here p
said a British officer, as he brought his
iery horse to stand in front of Cover
ner Chlttenden's dwelling. .a f-
"He does" was the response OF the man
still vending his way TO the pig-sty. ,a
"Is his honor at home p continued the
man of spurs. --Ji "a
"Most certainly, !" replied froek.
"Take my horse by the bit, them said
the officer. fI have business to transact
with your master" @ 81 r1g
Without second bidding, the man die
as requested, and the officer alighted and
made his way 70 the door, and gave the
panel several hearty raps with the butt o
his whip-for be it known that IN those
days of Republican simplicity, knockers
and bells, like servants, were IN but little
use. The good dame answered The sum
mons in person; and having seated The
officer and ascertained his desire TO SCI
the Governor, departed to inform her hus
band OF the guests arrival; but on as
certaining that the officer had made
hitching-post Of her husband, she imme
dlately informed him that her husbanS
was engaged in the yard, and could no
very we'll wait upon him and his horse a
the same time. The predicament of th
officer can be better imagined than des
| cribed.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-06-04
Tit Rits.

Cure for q felon-The Penitentiary.
Not case of necessity-A cigar case.
Aow to get foot-hold-Take boot
jack.
Is taking hack the first stage of con-
sumption?
When is lover like a tailor-when he
presses his suit. ---
2 To make tall man shortly to bor-
row So Of him.
If you, are going ont in driving storm,
don't attempt to hold the rains.
Itis remarked that wood will last much
longer if left for the women folks to saw
and split. SO ~ 81 t7tclL.-
An Iowa clergyman, who had donation
party lately has beans enough to last 81
years
When you hear a man say the world
owes him living, don't leave any hams
laying around loose,
No man is safe these times. a convict
at Sing Sing has had notice Of breach of
promise SUIT served on him.
Husband, where shall l get the tick
ing for our new feather-bed ?" ANY
place where you can get the tick"
One had better not know so many things
that amt SO.
A cynical laGy, rather inclined to hirt,
says most men are ike cold, very easy
caught but very hard to get rid Of.
A man advertises in New York for a
bar-keeper, who must be recommended
by his pastor.
A man in Peoria claims TO have a stone
that Washington threw at woodpecker
in his fathers cherry tree.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-06-04
ARomauoe on the Cars.

I was escorting home the lovely Char
lotte --, to whom l was at the time
quite devoted. Charlotte could scarcely
find room to spread her crinohue foun-
ces. stood up near her, there being no
vacant seat.
After few minutes, came in a poor
woman, who deposited basket Of clothes
on the frent platform, and held IN her
arms a small child, whilea little girl hung
to her dress. She looked tired and weary
but there was no vacant seat, to be sure,
Charlotte might have contracted her foun-
ces, but she did not. Beside her, howev-
er, sat very lovely and elegant young
woman, who seemed trying, by moving
down closer to others, to make space
enough for the stranger between herself
and Miss D.
At last she succeeded, and with the
sweetest blush ever saw, she invited the
poor female to be seated. Charlotte D..
drew her drapery around her and blushed
too, but it was not pretty blush at all
and she looked annoyed at the proximity
of the new conner, vino was however, clean
and deeently though thinly clad.
The unknown lady drew the little girl
upon her lap, and wrapped her velvet
mantle around the small, half-clad form
and put her muff over the half frozen lit
| tie hands.
So great was the crowd that l alone
seemed to observe. The child shivered
the keen wind from the door blew upon
her unprotected neck l saw the young
lady quietly draw from under her mantle
a little wooden shawl, which she softly put
on the shoulders of the little one tht
mother looked on with confused Won
der:
After short time she arose to leave tht
cars, but the unknown gently whispered
mo, keep it for her. The woman die
not answer, the conductor hurried her out
but her eyes swan with tears. l noticet
her as she descended to a basement, and
hastily entered the house.
How glad, then, 1 was to see her bow
ing, as she passed out, to mutual ac
quaintanee who stood in the doorway
From him, ere many minutes, learne
. her name and address.
To shorten the story as much as posi-
|; BILE, that lady is now my wife. In tn
: small incident which introduced her t
me, she showed her real character.
few days after our marriage showed th
> blessed woolen shawl, that had redeem
ed from its owner, and shall keep as
memento. There are sometimes pleasar
things to be found in unexpected places
certainly l may be said to have picke
out my wife on the cars.-BGLtintore r,
| VielO
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-06-04
"O'er the land and s'er the sea.
My brave lover comes to me
I will cfuur q fubrlaa
For my sweetheart I shall see,
IRE Ia 1of Tra Ia lei

Eric did not wait to hear more, but
rushed eagerly forward, and the sight of
her whom he sought soon met his gaze.
But, ah, how lovely Perched upon rock
like bird, she sat strewing leaves and
flowers on the ground at her feet, and
making the woods ring with her sweet
voice
He had seen her at large assemblage,
dressed IN stately robes, and carrying her
self with the dignity of a high-born lady.
What contrast was herel In his imagi-
nation she now resembled graceful wood
nymph, and his eyes beamed with admi-
ratien.
No sooner did she become aware of his
presence than her song abruptly ceased,
and her cheeks crimsoned with confusion.
She hastily arose and descended the roc K
With great embarrassment he tended his
assistance. When she had reached the
ground, he detained her hand and asked
hesitatingly-
"Was that song meant for me?"
Eyes, though 1 did not dream you were
so near"
They stood silent for a long while she
| did not withdraw her hand and he had no
power TO unclasp it. All at once she rails
her eyes to his and asked in a solemn
| voice.
"Do you know who I amp"
eyes, you are the daughter of my faith
er's enemy"
"And you are the son of my fathers en-
envy"
dBut Alma and I are not at enmi
tyr
mo, Eric"
'Then why cannot our friendship stretcl
over the breach which has divided ou
families for so long time? The momen
set foot upon your fathers domain to
day, vowed that all ill-will toward you
house should be forever extinct in my be
som.
"My father has done your father n
wrong, and if our ancestors have injure
one another, they have no doubt settle
their accounts in another world. 1, tot
have vowed to harbor no il-wil toWarI
your family"
'Then, ,darling,let Us seal our COWS wit
KISS"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-06-04

ANDREW JoHNsos concluded his ad-
dress in Memphis, Saturday night, as iol-
lows: al will simply say that know !
have been charged with being ambitious.
Ambitious 1 am ambitious. Applause. ]
And / do not think would be worthy Of
being called man unless I were ambi-
tious. [Applause. am ambitious Of ac-
curing a reputation among this people
that have been q faithful representative.
and that I have stood upon the watch
tower of my country, AMI defended and
vindicated their rights, when they were not
In condition to do it themselves. l am
ambitious of their esteem, OF their respect,
and their confidence, for the reason that
have done my duty 10 my God, to my
country, and 10 my family. Yes, l am
ambitious have lived and toiled for
the people, because wanted their RPpro-
baton and their esteem and when the
time shall come when my connection is TO
be severed from this people, and from
things that are mortal, when the lamp OF
life is about Pickering its last, the most
pleasing thought that can pass through
my mind, will be to feel and know that,
when dead and gone, will occupy place
in the respect and affection and heart ol
my countrYmen."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-06-04
Z new nnld and siluer

The new gold and silver mines of
Southwestern Colorado, about which so
much has been said in the past year, are
Just now the great excitement in Colorado
and the adjoining territories
"If half that is claimed for the San
Juan mines is true, they are the richest,
not only in Colorado, but in all the ter
ritories. Although it is early, and the
spring backward, yet since February there
has been a constant and increasing travel
thither, and it is thought by good judges
that not less than !, 500 men have gone
from Denver to Del Norte, while large
numbers have focked in from Salt Lake
City and Santa Fe. The most of these
are prospectors and spectators. Proba-
bly, before the 1st of June there will be
10000 fortune-seekers camped at Del
Norte and Ebert, and by midsummer
double that number swsrming through
the San Juan mines"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-06-04
The Crusaders OutdOne,

Ten years ago Timothy Wheeler, of
Waterbury Centre, Vt, adopted a strictly
vegetarian diet, and five years ago became
impressed that nature did not require so
much liquid to quench thirst as is con-
monty used. The result has been that the
first year thereafter he was thirty-eight
days without taking any liquids into his
system, the second year seventy days, the
third $50, the fourth 10, and up to
Thursday of last week he had gone 22S
days in the fifth year without drinking
anything whateYer.-MOntpelier Argits.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-06-04
DIgEIHgY

The following old song won merit, and
will bear reproducing. If any OF the
readers of the DEMOCRAT can tell who Is
the author of it he will oblge the Massil-
lon Correspondent who heard it sung so
long ago, chat the memory Of man run
meth not to the contrary"
WHEN MY MONEY WAS GoHE.
When my money was gone that I'd gained in the
And the world gan to frown on my fate;
What mattered nv zeal or my honored scars
When indifference stood in each gate
The fac. that would smile when my purse was
Showed a different aspect to me;
And when 1 could naught but ingratitade hnd,
I hied once again to the sea
1 tho't it unwise to repine at my lot,
Or bear with cold looks from the shore,
So picked up the few scattering remnants ia
And tTiaing, alas, was my store.
A handkerchief held all the treasure had,
Which over my shoulder threw
Away then trudged with q heart rather sad
To join with some joVial ships crew.
The sea was less tronbled by far than my mind
For when the wide waste ] surveyed,
I could not help thinking the world WGs unkind.
And fortune a slippery jade
And I vowed if once more could take her in
tow,
That the turbulent winds and the bllloWs could
More kindness than they did to me.