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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-10-14

DRovER's HOTEL. The eight hundred mem.
bers of the North Philadelphia Butchers and
Drovers' Association had formal opening of
their Dew stock yard, near Philadelphia, ou
Thursday. 1t is on Risng Sun lane, 90 the
liue of the North Pennsylvania Railroad, and
extends from Second to Sixth streets covering
about eighty acres. Three thousand persons
were present during the day The new yard is
probably the most complete ia America, if not
the largest. There are twelve sheds for cattle,
ten for sheep, aud hog and fresh cow sheds.
Every shed is hDored, and the drainage is adj
mlrable, the association having called the most
skilfu architects and engineers 10 their aid.
Connected with the yard is a hotel with over
seveuty rooms and accommodations for two
hundred guests. The whole cost 100000.
William Baird is President of the Association;
T. l. Huggsrd, secretary, and William Harris,
jr, Superintendent Of the grounds
A WOMAN FATALLY SHoT.-The Martins
burg West Va, Independent gives the follow
ing particulars of fatal case of shooting which
occurred In that place Cd Wednesday:
"Our community was artled Ia evening by
the announcement that Mrs Shipley, wife OF
Monroe Shipley, engineer on the Balti more and
Ohio Rail- DAD had been shot and fatally wound
ed by VIM. Palmer, her cousin, young man
about twenty years of age. The facts are these:
Young Palmer WAS in the street with gun,
which was loaded but not capped. Mrs Shipley
csme out of her house, when he plsyfuliy hu--
rahed for Tilden and she replied by hurrahing
for Hayes. He told her to hurrah for Tilten OF
he would shoot her. She said she would rot,
and he pointed his gun at her, as he Says in q
playful mar or and snap Led it al her, when the
gun WIS discharged, the load entering her neck
and ear. inficting frightful wound, from
which she died IN few hours. An inquest was
held over the remains, and verdict rendered
that she came to her death from gun shot
wound produced by gun in the hsnds of VIM.
Palmer"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-10-14
CITY COUNCIL.

A called meeting Of the CRY Council was
held last night.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-10-14

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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25
Benjamin FRANKLIN.


Jonathan Edwards may be charac-
terized as man of the next world.
Benjamin Franklin was emphatieal-
ly a man OF this world. Not that
Franklin lacked religion and home
ly, practical piety, but he had lone
of Edwards intense depth of relig-
ious experience. God was to him a
benifcent being, aiding good men in
their hard struggles with the facts
of life, and not pitiless to those who
stumbled in the path of duty. or even
to those who widely diverged from
it; the heaven of Edwards was as far
above his spiritual vision as the hell
of Edwards was below his soundings
of the profundities of human wick
edness; but there never was a person
who so swiftly distinguished an hon.
est man from a rogue, or who was
more quick to see that the rogue
was at war with the spiritual con-
stitution of things. He seems to
have learned his morality in a prac-
tical way. All his early slips from
the straight line of duty were but
experiments, from which he drew
lessons in moral wisdom. If he hap
pened occasionally to lapse into vice,
he made the experience of vice anew
fortress to defend his virtue; and he
came out of the temptations of
youth and middle age with char
acter generally recognized as one of
singular solidlty, serenity and be-
nignity. His intellect, in the beau
tiful harmony of its faculties, his
conscience, in the instructive sure
ness of its perception of the relations
of duties, and his heart, in its sub
ordination of malevolent to benif-
cent emotions-all showed how dill
gent he had been in the austere self
culture which eventually raised him
to the first rank among the men of
his time. Simplicity was the fine re-
suit of the complexities which enter
ed into his mind and character. He
was a man who never used words
except to express positive thoughts,
or emotions, and was never tempted
to misuse them for the purpose of
defamation. He kept his style al
ways on the level of his character. In
announcing his scientific discoveries,
as in his most private letters, he is
ever simple. In breadth of mind he
is probably the most eminent man
that our country has produced; for
while he was the greatest diploma
tist, and one of the greatest states
men and patriots of the United
States, be was also a discoverer in
science, a benignant philanthropist,
and amasier in that rare art of SO
associating words with things that
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25

they appeared Identical. Edwards
represents, humanity speaking, the
somewhat doleful doctrine that the
best thing good man can do is to
get out, as soon as he decently can,
of this world into one which is i'm
measnrably better, by devoting all
his energies to the salvation of his
own particular soul. Franklin, on
the contrary, seems perfectly con-
tent with this world, as long as he
thinks lie can better a. Edwards
would doubtless have considered
Franklin child of wrath, but Fran
els Bacon would have hailed him as
one of that band of explorers who,
by serving Nature, viii in the end
master her mystiries, and use their
knowledge for the service of man.
Indeed, the cheerful, hopeful spirit
which runs through Franklin's writ
ings, even when he was tried by OBJ
stacles which might have taxed the
proverbial patience of Job, is not
one of the least of his claims upon
the consideration of those who right
fully glory in having such a genius
for their countryman. The spirit
which breathes through Frankhn's
life and works is that which has in
spired every pioneer of our Western
wastes, every poor farmer who has
tried to make both ends meet by the
exercise of rigid economy, every in
ventor who has attempted to serve
men by making machines do half the
drudgery of their work, every states
man who has striven to introduce
large principles into our somewhat
confused and contradictory legisls-
lation, every American diplomatist
who has upheld the character of his
country abroad by sagacity in man.
aging men, as well as by integrity IN
the main purpose of his mission, and
every honest man who has desired
to diminish the evil there is in the
world, and to increase every possible
good that is conformable to good
sense. Franklin is doubtless our
Worldly Wlseman, but his worldly
wisdom ever points to the Christians
praver that Gods will shall be done
on earth as it is done in heaven.
HdrpeS's Magazine.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25
VALENTINES ANSWER.


Love, though simple appears this tribe send,
It viii serve TO convey my love TO my friend.
Though love so simple now appears
As youth doth backward travel
Twill weave web along the years
You cannot well unravel-
Youn say that love is something sweet
That every heart well heedeth'
And vet so sweet, it doth not meet
The wants that each heart needeth.
For love is such a mOeking elf,
The while you grasp, it fees you;
Zen as You bind it to yourself,
'Tis gone and never sees you.
Though love seems simple, now and plain.
As time doth onward travel,
Yonn find it more and more skein
You cannot well unravel, M.H..B.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25

That Baltimore mans flying ma
chine is not an overwhelming sue
cess Keely's motor is as quiet as the
grave; Virginia has refused to take
part in the Centennial but Ger
man chemist has obtained ferrocyani-
de of tetramethy ammonium by
saturating feryocycanic acid with
tetramethy Ammonium hydrate-
and this is some consolation, any
how.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25

ScoRPIoNs.-Scorpions are numer-
Gus in India, and are frequently
very troubles some. A physician
there has recently been trying some
experiments with their poison, which
he obtained by irrit atinig the animal.
The experiments were conducted
upon dogs, pigeors, and frogs. The
nine-thousandth part of grain of
fresh venom injected into the thigh
of frog caused the skin to become
violently infamed and the animal to
die in fifty-seven minutes. On ex-
amining the blood microscopically
under the influence of the poison it
was found that the corpuscles were
strangely deformed, and they rapid
ly became agglomerated into Wis
cous masses, running into each
other. The function of the blood is
thus destroyed, and death in one of
its most agonizing forms must ensue.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25

An actor fell through loose trap
as he was leaving the stage. Emerg-
ing instantly afterwards, he was met
with hearty laugh and the remark
of wag, 81 am sorry to see you de-
scend to such clap-trap maneuvres
as that" "Yes." was the quick re-
ply ; "but you'll admit that I never
undertake anything without going
through"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25

A Chicago genius has invented a
Sunday evening parlor chair" in
tended to hold two persons, with
some scrouging. 1t cannot be in
tended as "lover's CHAIR" for lovers
manage to make one ordinary chair
answer the purpose, without com
plaining-without the lovers COM
planning, we mean.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25
List of Patents.

ventors, for the week ending Feb. -, 1876, and
each dated Jan. 25, 1s75. Furnished this paper
by Cox & Cox.
Swinging Crade-A Grodhaus, BellaiF
Water Spout Cnt-of-G Folkorth, Dayton
Mining Machine-F Lechner Waynesburg
Straw Cutter--J O'Neil, Canton
Hose Clamp-D Stevens, Toledo
Distributing Glycerlne throlgh Tobacco Smith
and @ Messenger, Toledo
Metal Turning Lathe-R Williamson, Cincinnati
Middlings Separator--C Keller, Nevada
Hydrant-S Lewis, Cincinnati
Paper Fastuor- @ Lindsay, Cincinnati
Car Coupling-B Phillips, Wellsville
Sealing Tongs-J Russell, Canton
Hafvester-W Whitley Springfield
Harvester Reke-W Whitley, Springfield
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25

sonal pronoun, che" where not re-
quired, such as 'sThe king he has
come" instead of 'SThe king has
come" Often, in consequence,
sentence or expression is rendered
sufficiently Iudicrous as the sequel
will show. A gentleman says he
has had the pleasure of listening to
a clever man, the Rev. NJ, let
his locality be a secret, and recently
he began his discourse thus "My
friends, You will find the subject OF
discourse this afternoon in the first
epistle general of the Apostle Peter,
chapter 5th and verse sth, in the
words The devil he goeth about
as a roaring lion, seeking whom he
may devour.' Now, my friends, we
will divide the subject of our text
into four heads. Firstly, we shall
endeavor to ascertain tWho The devil
he was ? Secondly, we shall inquire
into his geographical position
namely, where the devil he was
going?' Thirdly, what the devil he
was sceking?' And fourthly, and
lastly, we shall endeavor to solve a
question which has never been solv-
ed yet-'What the devil he was roar
ing about p"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25
MEDICAL.
CENTAUR
LINIMENTS
The quickest. surest and Cheapest
Remedies.

Physicians recommend and FAIRIES declare that
no such remedies have ever Before been in use
words are cheap. but the proprietOrs OF these AZ
cles viii present trial bottles to medieai lheH'
gratis, as = guarantee of what they say
The Centaur LIniment, 1i.
wrapper win cure Rheumatism, Neuralsia'
Iumbaeo. sciatica. Csked Breasts, Sore NipPiss,
FROSTED Feet ChilblAins. swellings sPraii'7' '--
aay ordinary A1rNENT.
FLESH, BONE OR MUSCLE AiLDi--.,1 ail11--.,,' =,
No 1retense that this article viii cure
cancer. restore lost bones, or give heai'h 70
'.is,,- soaled carcass. But it wiz always reduce
inasrstiop and allay pain
T. ,,irI extract the poison OF bites and stings
- bssI burns or scalds without a scar.
psIsv weak Back. Csked Breast. Earache. tooth
ache. Itch, and CutaneOus Eruptions easily yield
TO its treatment.
Henry Black, of Ada, Hardin Co., Ohio, says
my wife has had rheumatism for five years
no rest no sleep-could scarcely walk across the
floor. She is now completely cured by the use OF
and recommend your wonderful medicine 10 all
our friends"
James Hurd, Of GAINESVILLE. o., says: THE
Centaur Liniment cured my Neuralgia
Alfred Tush, of Newark, writes; send me one
one dozen bottles by express. The hnlmeht
has saved myleg. 1 want 10 distribute it, &C.
The sale Of this Liniment is increasing rapid
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25
FOE SALE.

House & LOT on East Street.
Desirable Lot and convenient House. New and
in complete order.
For Sale CheaPI
EFF. HAZELTINE.
February 7th, 1919. 4tl862p
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25

How MARBLES ARE MADE.-The
chief place of the manufacture of
marbles those little pieces of stone
which contribute so largely to the
enjoyment of boys-is at Oberstein,
on the Nahe, in Germany, where
there are large agate mills and quar-
ries, the refuse of which is turned to
good paying account by being made
into small balls, employed by ex-
perts to knuckle with, and are most
ly sent to the American market.
The substance used in Saxony is
hard, calcareous stone, which is first
broken into blocks, nearly square,
by blows with hammer. These
are thrown by the hundred or two
into a small sort of a mill, which is
formed of a fiat, stationary slab of
stone, with number of eccentric
burrows upon its face. A block of
oak, or other hard wood, of that
diametric size, is placed over the
stones and partly resting upon them.
The small block of wood is kept re-
volving while water flows upon the
stone slab. In about fifteen minutes
the stones are turned into spheres,
and then, being fit for sale, are
henceforth called marbles. One es-
tablishment, with but three mills,
turns out go, 900 marbles each week.
ANTARCTIC IcEBERGs.-The ice
bergs in the Southern seas are great
ly inferior to those of the Northern
ocean in fantastic, picturesque
beauty. The temperature of the
Southern Ocean through which the
icebergs drift is below the freezing
point of fresh water, and therefore
does not melt the ice. 1t is only
after they have travelled a considera-
BILE distance northward that the
square, tabletop shape they had
when first broken from the glacier IS
modified. AS the berg moves from
the polar sea it enters q latitude
whose heat has power to warm mere
ly the surface water. This eats a
little way into the berg at a point
Just above the sea level, creating a
channel entirely circling the berg.
As the latter moves northward into
still warmer waters this channel is
enlarged into deep holIows and
eaverns, until the waves, rushing in
and around, are able to break off
large masses. This alters the CEN
tire Of gravity and the berg topples
over, either forming a smooth slope
or prolonged tongue or spire. But
none of that variety of shape which
constitutes the great charm of the
northern iceberg is ever created.
The portions that break from the
berg are called calves, and are far
more dangerous to vessels than the
main body from which they are de-
tached. The berg reflects light
that renders it visible at short dis
tanee on the darkest night ; but the
calves, although they may weigh
several tons, give out no light, and
hence afford no warning of their
perilous vieinage.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25

The DEvlIS-Higlanders have the
habit, when talking their English,
such as it is, of interjecting the per-
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25
LEGAL.
Legal Notice.

ORVILLE B. CRANE, whose
Mace OF residence Is unknown. is notified that
Sarah w. Crane did on the 10Th day Of February,
A. D. 1876, hle her petion In the once OF the
Clerk OF the Court Of Common Pleas. within !, ana
charging the said Orville B. Crane with wilful ab
sence from said petitioner for more than three
years last past ard habitual drunkenness for three
dive reed from the said Orville B. Crane; which
petion will stand flr hearing at the next term Of
said Court SARAH n. CRANE,
By r.E. HoYt, her Attorney.
Tnated This flfhhaav Of FahInarv 1S76 6fI9R2
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25
THE YELLOW CENTAUR LINE-
MENT


is for the tough skin, flesh and muscles Of
HORSES. MULES, AND ANIMALS
We have never yet seen case Of Spawn, swee-
nv. Ring-bone, Wind-gaD, Scratches or Poll-Eyil,
which this Liniment would not speedily benefit
and we never saw but few cases which ii
would NOS p. 1t viii when any
thing can. Iii folly to spend S7U or F2rrier,
when one dollars worth Of Centaur Liniment
viii do better. The following is a sample of the
testimony produced:
W.P. Hopkins, Postmaster. Piqua, O., says
..centaur Liniment can't be beat. 1t cures e.
cry time
tFYELvERToN, o., Marth 2, 1874.
The Centaur Liniments are the best selling
medicines we have ever had. The demand IS very
great for 1t and we ctnnot afford to be WlInoqt II.
JEFFERSON. No.. Nov 10. 1873
..Sometime ago was shipping horses to St
Louis. 1 got one badly crippled in the cars; with
great di ficulty got him TO the stable lie sta
6le keepel gave me bottle Of your Centaur Lln1-
ment which used with such success that In two
IA - the horse WIS active and nearly Wen nave
been veterinary surgeon for thirty years, ont
vour Eminent beats anything ever used
A. j. MCCARTHY, Veterinary Surgeon
For a postage stamp we win mall Centaur Al
mauac. containing hundreds Of certificates, from
every State in the Union. These Linimenis are
sold by all dealers in the country.
Laboratory of J. B. ROSE & CO.,
1stfs54 46Dey Street, New York
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25
RICHARD ALLEN, AuctiOneer.

: An who need the services Cf an Anctioneel
would do well to call on the underl iRned, ae ne
has been in the business for ten years, and can
give good satisfaction. Terms low For infor-
nation call at II. @. Tombes'
1902 RICHARD ALLEN
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-25

STRONG, COBB, & CO., Sole Agents,
10 & IL Snnerinr ST CleYeland- O
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-02-23

care is exercised in their management, are
entirely free from deleterious sanitary Of
fects. In regard to their advantages and
defects the following statements are sup
ported alike by scientific and practical eN-
pcrience:
|. Furnaces formed of several castings
boltcd together are very liable to leak gas,
owing to the unequal contraction and eX-
pansion of the metal by changes of tenn
pcraturc.
,. Cast iron furnaces made of three
pieces Qire chamber, body, and radiator,
each cast solid from the best quality Of iron,
if properly managed, do not permit the es,
cape of gas the pieces being firmly united
in deep -Hrooved Joints. and these connee-
lions, which are lateral, packed with fire
clay.
3. Carbonic oxide cannot permeate cast
iron, e-lalf inch OF more in thickness
to an appreciablc extent
I. Air heated by cast or wrought iron
furnaces is as pure when hot as when ori
inally introduced into the furnace, provid-
cd that the latter is property constructed,
and the supply of cold air well regulated.
Doing q large amount of heating with small
furnaces is the great cause of the ovcr-hcat
ing of the surfaces, and the consequent
generation of vitiatcu air
In furnaces with brick lined fire cham
bcrS, the danger Of over heating IS lessen
ed thereby bat, owing to the reduced radi-
ating surface, the power of the furnace is
greatly decreased.
6. Cast and wrought iron exhibit, wher
heated to redncss, the same behavior to
gases (carbonic oNidc,) and are both liable
to become overhcated.
I. The construction Of small, cheap,
light -.jonted furnaces, put up by ineXperi-
cnecd men, is but poor economy, and i
the chief cause Of the evil effects 50 often
observed in our general heating appar:l-
tuS.
$. \ large portion of the gas that fe
qucutlv contaminatcs the air Of our dwell
ings, escapes from the furnace during the
Introduction of fuel. The smoke pipe
dampcr, which should be perforated. and
fit loosely in the pipe. should be opened
and the lower furnace door closed when
coal is added and at all times n pressure
should exist from without inwards on
every part of the furnace.
Respectfully,
j. L. BATTEKsH ALL,
PHI. ID. Chemist. 26 Pine St, y. Y.
Taken from the Iron Age" and "Metal
Worker" january 10, 1876.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-02-23

The ARITHMETIC OF GROWS AND tONES.
Grows can count one and no more.
put the carcass of y horse near Il thick k
bunch of spruce bushes, at night, some
years since. Next morning | went for the
crows, but the sentry, perched on n tail
tree at some distance, gave them the sig
nal and they left. | waited Il long time.
but had to 20 home. Next morning
went again, and took u boy with me, and
they left Immediately. | waited some
time, then sent the boy home. and they
soon came, and killed one. waited till
] got tired, and went home, wherupon
they came before l had got ten rods away.
Next morning took two boys; the crows
left rs before. | waited a long time, and
then sent Il boy away. They came imme-
dialely, and killed one and waited; then
sent the other boy away, and killed two
and waited, but mad to leave without an
other shot.
\ fox can count two. | have tried the
same experiment with foxes. | took a
bov with me on II bright moonlight, night.
and we SAW two of them going away.
We waited over an hour, but they did not
return. Then | sent the boy home, wait
ed another hour. and gave it up, as it be-
Gun to snow Il little. The next morning
went out and found there had been quite
u number there. At night | took two
boys and waited is before. | sent one boy
home. and then waited, bat had to send
the other boy away. Then they soon
came. | fired and Killed one, and then
waited long while without seeing them.
Next night ! took three boys an waited,
then sent one away and waited, then sent
another away. and they came. l fired but
did not Kill any. waited :, while, then
sent another by away. and then they
came. killed one, and then gave it up,