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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09
AborgAnes orNevv Mexico.


r. In Bancroft's account of native
races in the Pacific States the fol-
lowing facts are given in relation to
the Indians of New Mexico. The
disparity in physical appearance be-
tween some of these nations, which
may be attributed for the most part
to diet, is curious. While those who
subsist on mixed vegetables and ami
NAL food present a tall, healthy, and
muscular development hardly ex-
celled bV the Caucasian race; those
that live on animal food, excepting
perhaps the Comanches,i are small
in stature, wrinkled, shriveled, and
hideously ugly All the natives of
this family, with the exception of
the Apsches proper, are tail, we'll
built, with muscles strongly devel-
Oped, pleasing features, althougha at
times rather broad faces, high fore
heads, large, clear, dark colored
eyes, possessing generally extraor-
binary powers, Of vision, black,
coarse hair, and for a wonder, boards.
Taken as a whole, they are the
most perfect specimens of physical
manhood ]that,we have yet encoun-
tered While some, and particularly
females, are of a light copper color,
Others again approach near to the
dark Californian. Women are gen.
orally, plumper, inclining more to OBJ
seity than themen. Some comely
girls ara spoken of among them, but
they grow old early. N
In contradistinction of all this,
the Apachcs proper, or Apache ma
tion, as we may call them, are slim,
iIl.developed, but very agile. Their
height is about four feet four or five
inches. features described as ugly,
repulsive, emotionless, fat, and ap-
preaching the Mongol cast, while
the head is covered with an unkempt
mass Of coarse, shocky, rusty black
hair, not unlike bristles. The wo-
men are not at all behind the men
in ugliness, aud a pleasing face is a
rarity. A feature common to the
family is remarkably small feet; in
connection with what may be men,
toned the peculiarity which obtains
on the Lower Colorado of having
the large toe widely separated from
the others, which arises probably
from wading in marshy bottoms
All the tribes whose principal sub
sistence is meat, and more partlcu-
larly those that eat horse and mule
flesh, are said to exhale peculiar
scent, something like the ANIMALS
themselves when heated.
Among American tribes of the
tropics it would be interesting to
ascertain whether there is real
foundation for the accounts of fair
tribe, with light hair and blue eyes,
in Costa Rica, the so-called Guato
SOS, said to be descendants of Eng
lish mutineers from Sir Francis
Drake.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09
from the Detroit Frt
That Hired Girl.

When she came to work for the
family on Congress street the lady
of the house sat down and told her
that agents, book-peddlers, hat-rack
men, picture-sellers, ash-buyers, rag
men and all that class of people must
be met at the front door and coldly
repulsed, and Sarah said she'd re-
pulse 'em if she had to break every
broom-stick in Detroit.
And she did. She threw the front
door open wide, bluffed right up at
'em, and when she got through talk
ing, the checklist agent was only
too glad too leave. 1t got so after
while that peddlers marked that
house, and the door-bell never rang
except for company.
The other day, as the lady of the
house was enjoying a nap aud Sarah
was wiping off the spoons, the bell
rang. She FASTENED 90 the door, ex-
pecting to see a lady, but her eyes
encountered a slim man, dressed in
black and wearing a white neck-tie.
He was the new minister, and he was
going around to get acquainted
with the members Of his flock, but
Sarah was not expected to know
this.
"Ah-um-is Mrs.-ah-"
"Git!" exclaimed Sarah, pointing
to the gate. .1a
'Beg pardon, but I'd like to see
SEE" i
ftMeanderI" she shouted, looking
around for a weapon; we don't want
any -four sifters, here!'
i'You are mistaken" he replied,
smiling blandly, I called to-
"Don't want anything to keep
moths away-4fy!" she exclaimed, get
ting red in the face.
'sIs the lady inp" he inquired, try
ing to look over Sarsh's head.
eyes, the lady's in, and I'm In,
and you're out!" she snapped, ''anid
now don't want to stand here talk
ing to fiy-trap agent any longers
OOnS, HAI YOUR UOObSi rr...
81 am not an agent" he said, try
ing to smile, "I am the new
eyes, 1 know you-you are the
new man with a patent fiat-iron, but
we don't want any, and you'd better
go before 1 call the dog"
"Wiil you give the lady my card,
and say that / called?''
"No, / wont. We are bored to
death with cards and handbills an d
circulars. Come, 1 can't stand here
all day.'' aia
"Didn't you know that I was a
minister?" he asked, as be backed off.
"No, nor don't know it now; you
look like a man who sold the woman
next door a dollar chrome for eigh-
teen shillings!"
aBut here is my card"
4 don't care for cards, 1 tell youl
If You leave that gate open I'll heave
a fOwer-pot at you!' - ~ +
81 will call again" he said, as he
vent through the gate.
III wont DO you any good, she
shouted after him; "we don't want
no prepared food for Infants pi-
ano music-no stuffed birds! know
the policeman on this beat, and if
you come around here again he'll
soon find out whether you are con
fidence man or a vagrant!''
And she took unusual care to lock
the door. .-, .------.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09
I dAsHTABULA, OHIO, FRIDAY, july. 9, 1873

would build a wall of prejudice
around its children for the sake of
retaining its power, would deserve
and receive the contempt of all just
men. To do this is to acknowledge
the fear of defeat in an open conflict
of opinion upon a free field. The
Catholic people are not ready for
this acknowledgement, and cannot
afford, for many reasons to make it,
whatever the interest of the priest
hood may be.
DR.. Holland in Scri5ners Monthly.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09
A Calamity I'm Iceland.

LONDON, June l2.-About six
weeks ago there was a heavy rain Of
ashes and cinders along the northern
coast of Norway, covering the ground
several inches deep. Investigation
revealed the fact that these strange
materials, coming from a northwest
erly direction like immense clouds
through the air, were of volcanic or
igin. 1t was at once thought that
there must have been an eruption of
Mount Heckla in Iceland. A steam
er was discovered from Copenhagen,
and that vessel had returned from
Bejkjayik, with news of an unparal-
leled disaster. 1t seems that the out
break began on Christmas, and has
continued ever since with scarcely
any interruption, For seven weeks
before Christmas the inhabitants
were terrified by subterranean noises
like thunder which extended
through nearly two-thirds of the Is
land. Early in January followed
earthquakes in al directions, and
at last an old extinct volcano near
Vatravskud, opened, and for four
weeks continued to eject immense
quantities-of liquid fire, lava, ashes
and a muddy fluid mass at boiling
heat. The village, and some smaller
hamlets and farms within radius of
twenty miles, were destroyed, and
over thousand people had to flee
for their lives.
After four weeks the volcano
ceased, but at that moment another
extinct volcano, nearly a hundred
miles away, near Myvatu, sent its
burning mass upon the peaceful
habitations around. This eruption
lasted for several weeks. The vii
lage of MyVatu became a prey to
the fiery elements, and the whole
country for more than fifty miles
around was devastated. More than
eight hundred of the people are re-
ported as being homeless. Early in
March, there seemed to be q general
upheavel of the earth in the whole
central portion of the island; new
mounds, as it were, rose to the sur
face, some to a height of several
hundred feet and over thousand
feet in diameter at the base, amid
tremendous shocks of laundering be-
meath. They split open at the top
and Vomited forth their burning con-
| tents upon the surface around them,
covering distance of 200 miles
Ten thousand people are said to
have lost nearly all their possessions
and the remainder, who live nearer
to and along the coasts, some 10000
in number, are themselves too poor
to support such a vast number of
needy people. Several hundred per-
sons are also reported to have per
ished. The world-renoWned Gey-
sers have dried up since the terrible
eruption began, and instead of wa
ter, these mysterious tunnels emit
immense quantities of hot smoke
/ and ashes, which, during the night,
rising several thousand feet into the
air, appear like gigantic columns of
fameies fire, visible for hundreds of
miles. 1t is said that no historic
record or any volcanic eruption any
! where in the world compares with
this, either i7 territory oyer ,yhieeh!
it extends, the PqmbeF Of newly
opened eratefi,s. or the time Of It's da=
ration, The ;H"nenhage4 Govern
ment has issued an appear ~ 80 y
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09
The Pioneers.
In speaking of the late celebration
=. b,,-c. H. -.

In speaking of the late celebration
at Austinburg, the Leader says:
Shortly after the first settlement
of Austinburg, the stock of food on
hand became nearly exhausted.
Judge Austin sent his son, the late
Colonel Roswell Austin, the late
DR.. o. K. Hawley, and another man
to Buffalo for boat load of provis-
ions. After the party had been
gone some time the provisions in
the An stinburg and Harpersfeld
settlements became entirely exhaust
ed, and the people were absolutely
suffering from hunger. One day
Judge Austin mounted his horse
and went twenty seven miles to the
mouth of Grand River, now called
Fairport, hoping to find that the
boat load of provisions had arrived.
He could see no signs of the boat.
He went to the ruins of a fort, or
block house, and sat down.
The pangs ofhunger becoming so
great, he took his saddle-ba and
examined 1t to see if he could not
possibly find some shreds of food.
He found q piece of pork rind, which
he ate. Thinking of the sufferings
of the people of his settlement for
food, three months journey by land
from Buffalo, the iron-hearted Judge
said his feelings Overcame him, and
from the first time since his child
hood he wept. He got on his horse
to return, and reached Harpersfed
and stopped for the night at Mr..
Harper's. Hungry as he was he
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09
treasure From uhs Deep.

The Washington Republican has
the following further account of a
matter alluded to week or two
since:
''The iron safe lately taken from
the wreck of the Inflated United
States ship of-war Cumberland, run
into and sunk, by the Confederate
ram Merrimac, in Hampton Roads,
in 1852, is now on exhibition in this
city. 1t is an old-fashioned iron
concern, square, and about the size
of a common-sized tea-chest, and
built of cast iron. When found, 1t
was lying on its side, buried in
about four feet of mud on a deck
next TO the one where it stood when
the ship went down. Rust had eaten
through it in several places, and
there was an opening on its side
about three inches wide, caused, it
is supposed, by the explosion of a
torpedo. 1t is said that through
this opening a shower of nearly So,
900 in gold coin marked the track
of its ascent from the wreck of the
schooner. None of it, of course, can
ever be recovered, as the water there
is nearly one hundred feet deep,
and the tide very swift. The par
ties who have the safe are silent in
gard to its contents, and are not
likely to tell the amount of its treas
ure, but it is eonfdentially believed
that their bank account has been in
creased about $75, 900 in gold. Full
ly this amount has been expended In
various vain endeavors to find it be-
fore these parties undertook the
job. One company alone, at the
head of which was Ex-Governor Gil
bert G. Walker, is known to have
sunk $25, 900 in the enterprise, 1t is
known now that those who formerly
searched for this money, were many
times either standing on the very
/ spot or very near it, and had they
known it they could easily put theil
hands on it. The deck around II
had been shattered and the safe it
self had been partly blown open by
torpedoes being exploded beside it.
While Captain Brown vas searching
for the spot where he supposed the
safe to be he stumbled against what
he supposed to be a log of wood, but
what he subsequently was bOEFihed
to find was the ghastly remains of
a man, hardened and petri6ed into
stone, standing solid and erect, a
lone sentinel, watching, as it were,
the treasures of the deep, surround
ed by the bones of his lost comrades
who died with him whilst vainly
and nobly battling for the preserva-
tion of their good and beloved old
ship. 1t was when endeaYoring to
raise this strange object out of its
grave of mud he found the safe,
which was Immediately taken up
and brought to Norfolk. Brown
has been a most successful diver
having performed many dangerous
and difficult operations of the kind
both here and in England. o. F
G. Maltby, who employs him, ant
who gets the bulk of this money, j
merchant of this city, and Is large
ly engaged 80 wrecking operation
in all parts of tie United States
He will probably put the gold wher'
it will do the most good.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09
So in Advance
Whole Number 1881

asked for nothing to eat for be knew
they had not an ounce of food in the
nousel He climbed into the loft of
the cabin to sleep, in most melan-
eholy and gloomy state of mind at
the prospect of his people starving.
Two hours later he heard the voice
of his son Colonel Austin, announc-
ing the arrival of the boat-load of
provision at Fairport, and that he
had come twenty-seyen miles to get
a team to go back, and haul the
precious bags of -four and meal to
the settlement!
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09

ked about, and in the rice grounds
hard by the good man, with his sons
aud servants, is guiding the primi-
tive plow drawn by a pair of sullen-
looking buffaloes through the deep
mud. With such fertile hollows, the
surface of Canara is scanned; the de
scription of one suffices for the gen.
eral features of all-but there is an
endless variety of picturesque like
ness, i,lst as no Devonshire combe
repeats anOther.-Frazer's Ma1azine.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09

A love lorn chap from the green
fields one of the neighboring town
ships called upon Canton Druggist
on Saturday last, and sneaklngiy
asked if the doctor kept any love
nnwders. The suave clerk said they
did and put them up for him-twO
doses compounded of active Inpecu-
ana with a sprinklng Of Tartar
Emitic, with forcible verbal instruc-
tions that he, the love shaken one,
and his desired Dalcena, should each
take one in cupful Of warm water:
When shese are duly shaken and
we'll taken there will be a duett
of love sick swains afflicted with
the-oh! my; what's ups
RepOsit0Fy.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09
The tollovinp patriOtic effusiOn WAS writ

The following patriotic effusion was writ
ten for use at the celebration Of the nation
al anniversary, at Lee, Mass, July 4th,
1906, and sung on that occasion, with 9th
ers, BY Mrs, James Hall, now dead, and
written ont from memory by her, but q
short time previous to her decease. The
connection of Mrs. Hall with it gives it a
local interest.
BY LIyAHssARFIELD.
The voice of freedom wakes the lay,
And halls the glorious natal day, .asf
That broke oppression's CALLING chain;
Her FURNISHED sun resplendent glows,
And to the world exulting shows,
Rejoicing millions in her train.
Peace, gentle cherub, still pervades
Our busy haunts, our cooling shades;
Her scepter, Commerce re-extends;
While every boon that plenty knows,
Or kind, fOrbearing Heaven bestows,
On Mercy's gentle wings deseends.
These blessings we so freely share,
Were bought in iron fields of war,
WHICH, Ocabu q pOtAAOO IL every IOEmIt
With freedoms banners drenehed in blood,
Columbia's guardian spirits stood,
And bFaved the horrors of the storm.
When Britain sent her legions DER,
When terror skirted every shore,
And thousand bent the implOring knee;
Twas then Columbia's spartan hosts,
On Rights broad margin took their posts,
And dared proclaim NatfOR free!
Ye patriot bands, your deeds inspire
Our souls with more than Roman fire;
The cause you won we swear to save;
By foe or faction undismayed,
Long as our mountains east their shade,
The ladfels bloom, or forests wave.
May freedoms banners re-extend,
Her altars smoke her fanes ascend, s.
On Europe's desolated shore;
Millennial joys descend and bless,
With all the haIloWed charms of peace,
And wars dread trumpet sound no more.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09

STrSfns stop oHIy on Signal. xTrains do not
Stop. lETslegIaPh BtatiOnss Cleveland Time.
The way Freight trains stop 1t Jefferson in
going West, at ~ P. n. and going East at 7.S9
A,H These trains carry pesselgers.
~ ~ 1t.font counted HI even IN dines. =
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09
8HTARULA. YOUNGSTOWN
PTTTNRURGR RAILROAD.
TINE TABLE-Nay a. 1876.

An trains daily. except sdhdssl Il g1C1lAD
F.R. MYERS. Gen. Pass. Ticket Agent.
Els. 4 H. DIVISION.
Fron and 6stsTiKsy b, dlsss. PsssenEer Trains
viii run az follows:
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09

That's my impression, as the Prln
ter said when he kissed his sweet
heart.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09
For GaEel

{ HE Subscriber offers for sale
TWO-story, upright and wing House, with eignt
rooms-comfortable snd eOmmodiOue. Situated
ct the Hazbor; with garden. The House IL ne1,
sed win be sold On reasonable terms.
Ashtabula Hsrbor. Feb. 18th. 1915. IsiStf
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09
CABINET WARE

EOHH. s0UGDG, EAAafsetursr OF ana
Dealer tnFuFnitsEs0fthe best descriptions and
every V1rietE. Also General UnderiakeF an d
EaHufaetafey Of GoGneto order. Nain sfrest,
HsEth Of s0gtA Pnblie Square, AsktGbuiA.
-ol = sF Tel sra 4at
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09
IEWELERS.
MISCELLANEOUS.

exc. ". DECKENsoH.J Js4aleE. RspaiEing
g all hnds q EstsAsa GSsss s1S,.STIs saS sSLs1 g.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09
SCENERY OFNDIA.

The Western CJast-EtD Charaeterts-
ties--m Ountains, Plain and Forest,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09
HOUSE HOUSE e LOT

Corner Of East Street and Bank Alley. And 9TH
ther desirable property IN the TfilaRssand 81 the
Harbor. Apply 20 - - II ~ 4 II
lG1itf EDWARD h FITCH
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09

JAMES RERD 4 son, Plain and Ornament
Nl4et RynteTls and genorSl atadoneFs. SPeei-
on applieation. Once corner Main and Spring
streets. Ashtabulss o. 1850
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09
PUBLIC HALLS.

;,7ITi77 - 3 4 kaGEE, orwell, AshtAa.
mia. Co. Ohio, on the line of A. 7. = ?. rail-
Snsd-1oafted, Nth ataga and ecenegy. will seat
10. 6nd IL fssdy 70 remit 70 travelling trOupss,
II T. STONE, Pnop- lSO9.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-09
HARNESS. MAKER.T
JOE PRINTERS.

,. CaHG8B, Mahdi6et.Iof sua Dealer n seH'
dfss, Harness, Bridles, Collars, Trunks, WniEs
e. opposite Eisk Holss: Aaata51la: ono: lyto
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-05-05

eETWO first-class WEEKLY
NEWSPAPERS dubbed for the
Low Price Of $3.50 per Year.
The Publishers Of the Detroit Free
Press and 1Iorristown Gazette
have made arrangements to club the two
papers for THREE DOLLARS AND
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR. This is an
extra inducement and barely exceeds
the cost. The Detroit Weekly Free
Press is an EIGHT PAGE FORTY
EIGHT COLUMN NEWSPAPER It's
columns are devoted GO Science, Lit
erafure, Art, Agriculture, RO-
nance and General Intelligence.
Every number is freighted with chaste
selection of Miscellaneous Reading, and
contains reliable intelligence from all
parts of the WORLD. The Market
Reports from the principal cities, both
Home and Foreign, with weekly cor.
rections are given, together with New
York Finance Quotations The
Correspondence IN point Of ability Is uTi
surpassed by any Journal il this coun-
try, and when 2 BIJAH = rises to
explain" facetious writers elsewhere
may look to their laurels. In short. we
esteem II. Quad's Detroit FREE Press
as one of the ablest and best conducted
papers in our land. It has gone on in
creasing in point of excellence until now
it stands among the first of American
Literary Journals. Scarcely any of the
New York DaiIies pass its humor and
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Beecher-Tilton trial is correctly report
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and it contains forty-two columns of sol
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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-05-05
NEARLY Run Over.

\ fatal accident came very near hap
ening one day last week over at the rail
road. We gather the following. A son
of the Emerald Isle, who had been in
dulging pretty freely in whisky and was
about "thrce sheets" in the wind and
none ont to steer himself correctly, in
trying to connect himself with the plank
walk in front of the Turlcy House, run
ming parallel with the railroad, slipped
off and fell under the down passenger
train which had just drawn up. The
gong was rung, brakes were whistled OF,
and in another minute the Irishman
would have ceased to dream which one
Of bis mothers boys he was, had it not
been for the timely aid of the conduc-
tor of the sleeping coach who noticed
him and rendered immediate assistance
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-05-05
Improvement.

Our enterprising merchants, Messrs.
L. P. s. G. L. Speck, have gone TO work
in good faith, with an eye to tho APP
preaching warm weather, and have
erected over their shortcomings a sub
stantial shed, for the protection of rain
and heat. This shed will doubtless be a
good trap to catch "dcad-beats" and
"loafers" during the extreme hot months
of August as we predict many will have
the ''dropsy" so bad as to drop at random
in the chairs and take quiet snOoze at
the expense of the energetic prOprietors.
Wake 'em up with a board boys, and
tell them that that is not paying for their
lodgings nor selling your calicos.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-05-05
school Books and Stationery.

Mr. r. n. Price, of the Morristown
Book Store, having lately made addi-
tions to his stock, is now prepared to
fill, ON reasonable terms, any order in
his line. Splendid moral novels, written
by the most popular and talented writ
ers of the day can be had and are for
sale at his store. Almost any kind of a
school book can be obtained, at greatly
reduced rates, by calling on him. If you
want to please your child, go and select
a Child's Pictorial Primer, or a richly
illustrated Story Book, for 'little chill
dren" which he sells at a trifie. Note
books, hymn books, bibles, dictionaries,
etc. aud anything usually found in q
first class book store, can be found at
this establishment. We recommend all
who need anything in the above line to
at once go to the Morristown Book Store
and secure a bargain.