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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-01
The C0Olie Scare in CaIifOr-
MIA.

In view Of the recent decision Of
the Supreme Court of the United
States that state legislation regula
ting Chinese emigration is uncon-
stitutional, the board OF supervi-
sors at San Francisco have adopt
ed the recommendation of the
mayor to appoint committee Of
citizens, who shall call mass
meeting for an expression of pub
lie sentiment, and choose a depu-
tation to present the matter to
Congress ia the most forcible man
ner The last steamer from Chi
ma brought over LOCO Chinese,
and the entire steerage capacity of
both lines is engaged for the next
six month by the importers of
coolies.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-01
Baptist Ministers ora Hlduca
ton.

The Baptist ministers, at their
meeting yesterday, discussed the
question, "How far shall the state
educate % The debate elected con-
siderable difference of opinion
among the clergy as 10 the power
of the state in the premises. enc
or two of the speakers inclined to
the view that the state should
have little to do as possible with
the training of the young, and
that education should be conduct
ed on the voluntary principle.
The public schools were sharply
criticised Phaadelphid Times,
21St.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-01
Better News from the Black
Hills.

James Allen arrived at Chehen-
ne from the Black Hills Monday
for supplies, and expects to return
in few days. He brings with
him several hundred dollars
of gold dust and reports that bus
mess in the Black Hills is lively.
Over one hundred teams have left
there during the last three days,
loaded with passenger and freight.
There are a large number of men
there obtaining outfits,and large
number of passengers awaiting
transportation.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-01
Funeral Delayed by ~ Sim
gular Discovery.

On the 9Th instant a young lady
named Appleton, who resided
near Fostoria, Ohio, apparently
died. Arrangements were made
for the funeral, and two days af-
forwards the body was taken to
the church. Before the opening
of services the minister discovered
moisture on the under side of the
plate in the cover over the sup
posed corpse's face. The body was
taken home, and has remained in
that condition ever since. All eff
forts at resusciation care unavail-
ing and medical men are nonplus-
sed.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-01
Three Girls at a Birth.

DIR. Smith of White Plains has
under his care a mother who has
just given birth to three girls. All
are doing well. The babies weigh
five, five and quarter, and five
and q half pounds respectively.
The mother is a native Of Ireland
thirty years old, and these are her
first born. The father is a Norwe-
gian, and is coachman for Mr..
Hoyt, in Hartsdale. His name is
Olsen. - ". Y. Sun, 22d.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-01
An interesting ceremony took

An interesting ceremony took
place yesterday al the convent
pf the Good Shepperd nuns, seven
young ladies receiving the white
veil and three others making their
hovitiate. 1t is In such as these
that the spirit of charity has its
bright exemplification, and the
eeremOny is one which always ex-
bites peculiar interest because of
khe conservation of bright young
lives to Christian duty.-GM Y.
Herald, 22d. A 9e 4s
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-01

There are two gas companies in
Detroit, and on the streets where
both have lines the price of gas is
only so cents per 900 feet On the
streets where there is no competi-
the rate is 1915.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-01

sasafras tea is now in order.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
DonSt be discouraged.

Don't be discouraged if in the outset Of
life things do not seem to go on smoothly.
1t seldom happens that the hopes we cher
ish Of the future are realized. The path OF
life in the prospect appears smooth and lew
el enough, but when we begin % travel u
we find it up hill and generally rough
enough. The journey is q laborious one,
and whether poor or wealthy, high or low,
we shall find it so to our disappointment, =
we have built on any other calculation. TO
endure what is to be endured with as much
cheeriulness as possible and to elbow our
way as easily as we can through the great
crowd, hoping for little, yet striving for
much, is, perhaps, the true plan.
Don't be discouraged though occasionally
YOU slip down by the way, and your neigh
bors tread over you a little; accidents
will hapren, miscalculations will some
times be made, things viii turn out differ
emily from our expectations and we may be
sufferers. 1t is worth while to remember
thai prospects are like the skies in April,
though clear, soon Overclouded- As II
would be folly 10 despair of again seeing
the sun because to-day is stormy, so 1t IS
unwise to sink into dsspopdency when for
tune frowns, since, in the common course
of things, she may be surely expected %
shine again.
Don't be discouraged under any oirouih'
stances. Go steadily forward; rather con-
silt your own conscience than the opinions
of men though the last are not to De dlsre-
gar3ed Re industrious, be frugal, be hon
Ct. JaaI in perfect kindness with all who
come in YOUR way, exercising q neighbor-
" and obliging spirit in your own inter
tourse, ErehGngs.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
HOW Allden SVIndIed n VFTrv,, Out Of
Bill for Furniture.


Some years ago Sham TiIda, o-7o-o5 .
bill Of furniture for his palatial mansioT on
Grammarcy Park from Messrs. Pottio, E
Stymus, a New York furniture firm For
years that firm endeavored to collect their
bill, but Sham with his accustomed mean
ness and penuriouSness, although having
hundreds of thousands of dollars to his
credit in bank, kept putting the firm off
from time to time, perhaps paying a pit
ance on account. One time he gave as an
excuse for not paying because he was going
10 Europe and had not time to attend to
the matter. The firm was good natured
enough to allow the bill to run along for
years, because 1t was against Mr.. Tilden.
II nnally became outlawed, and when 8
TTIis9mDer Ti9I OF the firm called for his pay, Mr..
;rnuen became excessively indignant. tell
ISL ~ l1iIh m That he owed him nothing; and or
ot;.SNiI uGteQ nm out Of the house! Suit was in
otIIGCeu ana Mr.. Sham J. Tilden. Demo-
ota.Io Iailuluate for the Presidency, plead
GU III y1 GGIehse lhat the account was outlaw
edl The court could NOT do otbo1yv;sa +bo,,
give Judgment against the firm This is
all a matter OF court record. However a
man who will commit perjury in order to
Swindle the government in its hour of need
out Of few thousand dollars, Is capable of
any mean and dirty act.
The New York Tribune has magnani-
mously doubted that Mr.. Tilden would be
guilty Of such q small and contemplate be-
havior, and so expresses itself. The fol-
lowing card, from Messrs. POTTER & Sty-
mus, in reply, speaks for itself:
To the Editor Of the Net0 York Tribune.
Sir: Your issue Of this morning contains
an article in which the name of our house
is mentioned in connection with that of
MIR. Tilden, relating to business transae-
ton between US, and in which there are
also some statements made concerning 9TH
er parties, which we desire to contradict
most emphatieally. First, that sMr.
Tweed was long a silent but influential
member" of our house. This is untrue. as
Mr.. Tweed never had any interest whatever,
directly or indirectly, in our business; and
we would further state that our house fre-
quently and invariably refused to do any
ring work of any kind whatever. Relating
to our bill against Mr.. Tilden, you state:
sit appears from their POTTER & Stymus0
own account, that the bill was a disputed
one, and that they had furnished no bill of
items; and it is not clear that the bill is
Just and equitable" In answer to this, we
will state that we did furnish bill of items,
and that Mr.. Tilden answered it by plead
ing the statute Of limitations against us,
thus using the weapon we furnished by our
good nature in not sooner pressing the set
Element of the bill.
viii you please print this, and oblige?
Yours respectfully,
POTTER & STYMUs MANF. Co.
New York, September 18th, 1876.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
The way with BTIssourI Girls.

The papers are again going into sPasms
over that Wisconsin girl whose father and
mother are dead, but who has refused to
marry, and cultivates eighty acres Of land
with her own hands; blowing, sowing,
seaping, breaking steers, likewise colts, etc,
ct al, ad libitum. It is about eighteen
wears ago that they first began to make a
fuss over this ''girl, and then she lived in
Eau Claire county, Wisconsin. She's an
old gih by this time. She and her eighty
acres have moved about good deal since
that time, and her deceased progenitOrs lie
or else the newspapers ie-ln as many
grsye -yardsas there are campaign lies anoat.
The way those old dead people move about
is astonishing, Rot to say frightful. They
seem to scatter as they lie. They lie about
nearly every graveyard i the great and
aoble State Of WiscORssa, As for the girl,
SHE'S no great shakes RaYhoy, We know .
,gifl in Missouri that can discount her and
FilaY left-handed--or with her tpes! Our
gial was left an orphan when she was only
twelve years old. She had farm Of 2tO
acres, none of your little 80-aere pstchss,
toeultiyate. Now, did she make fool and
a plowboY of herself? Did she spoil her
complexion and ruin her ily-white hands
binding after a reaper? Did she wreck her
temper ,brealziRg steers and colts? Did she
grow stoopys69dered pitching hay and
shoYeling ma4gse? Not any. And she
didn't 90 stumpins' around in the dirty
spring mud and slush. of the barn-yard, pok-
ing her rosy finger; int. .the mouth of fool
calf to teach him the bottle trick out Of a
bucket She just put On ger faneiest rig
and her most bewitehing maRPer, and she
vent man-fshing in her oBH sweet way
She caught one. He was no baHhssd, mol
sucker either, but manly sensible fslll9w
who does the .farp work out of doors, whEiIi'
she attends tohousehcld affairs and the chill
dren. That's the way with Missouri girls
81. Joseph Cassie.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
Lord mought0n on the ) rlis..ecss.- states.

Americans are growing more like one
another, and all more like Europeans.
The late terrible events have had a palpa-
bic effect in SOLDERING down the Yivaeity, in
checking the familiarity, in dignifying the
demeanor of the community. You hardly
meet with a man of mature life who has
not been under arms on one side or the
other, and the general military bearing is
CONSPICUOUS. There snone of the very nat
ural garrulity of the olden time, which
sprang from a good-natured curiosity as to
the conditions of existence in what was
almost another planet, but which is now
familiar to thousands. The general COM
modiousness also affords no opening for the
small comments and discussions incident
al to the diseomforts end chances of travel
in a less civilized country. The railway
carriages are supplied with conveniences to
which ours are strangers; indeed, iced wa
ter is not luxury but a necessity, which
the Americans most sadly miss in a Euro
pean summer; the unexampled cleanliness
of the masses Tin Philadelphia alone the
town supplies water for forty thousand
baths, most of them in what we should call
artisans dwellings, carries with it physi-
cal self-respect that preserves a general de
eorum, and the offensive habit of which SO
much has been said, but which was in the
United States Just the same and no more
than in Germany and in other tobacco
smoking populations, is now kept under due
restraint, and there is nothing to remind
us of the American traveller Of some twenty
years ago, who was so indignant at the al
lection and prudery of English men and
women in this respect, that though, as he
stated, his medical advisor had desired him
to abstain from it in consequence Of his
eonsumptive tendency, he never lost an op-
portunity Of praeticing it in England to
show his contempt for our aristOeratic IN
solence. The traveller has nothing to
grumble about except the expense Of the
haek-carriages, which he will compare with
our cabs, whereas they really correspond to
the remises.-.JuIy London Quarterly.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
All about the Clouds.


Whenever, on account Of some topo-
graphic circumstances, the sun heats any
locality on the surface of the earth more
than the surrounding region, gentle cur
rent or column Of heated air rises, and ITS
invisible moisture is condensed into small
masses of clouds called cumuli, when
spread and produce the notified appearance
commonly known as ''mackerel sky But
when, as is commonly the case IN summer
a valley. or plain, or island, or any other
plaee. is heated by the sun more than the
surrounding region, the heated air over
such locality rises more rapidly and with
more ascensional momentum, and as it
reaches the higher and cooler regions of
the atmosphere its moisture is condensed
into large, rounded volumes Of mountain
like masses of cumulus clouds. Such cum
ulous clouds always precede and character
ize a local summer storm or shower.
When the warm horizontal current from
the south, as in winter, meets with the
cold current from the north, 1t slopes up
over the cooler current, and formes strips
or bands of stratus clouds along the hori-
zon. These. stratus clouds indicate to the
observer the fact that warm current is
coming northward. When in summer a
cool current is moving southwark it en-
counters the warm equatorial or tropical
current, which again glides upward and
over it, and forms horizontal bands OF stra-
tus clouds along the upper line OF contact
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
Indian Summer.

This .haleyeS period Of our autumn will
ALWAYS in some way be associated with the
Indian. 1t is red and yellow and dusky
like him. The smoke Of his campfire seems
again in the air. The memory Of him per
vades the woods, His plumeS aud mocca=
sins and blanket Of skins form Just the cos
tune the season demands. ItWas doubt
!, his chosen period. The gods smils
Iess i'm then il ever. The time Of the
qpon L. season Of the buck and the doe,
eng eAeSs, Ihe 'aning of all forest fruits; the
anu anu, u Lils q n are inoipient hunters,
tlne When AL me- have given pungeney
when the first frosts SbToad on the hills
to the air, when to be-. that both old
or IN the woods is a delight >rigine ever
and young fee, If the red abb -antent-
had his summer Of fullneSS and q and
ment, it must have been at this season,
it fifty bears his name.
Scri6Her for October.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
AFarmer,s,L ,LawruIt.

A rather novel suit has. been commences
in this city by a disappointed IaLlllei
against certain druggist. The farme. sP'
piled to the defendant for quantity
Paris green, with which to relieve his pota-
to vines of their obnoxious incumbranoe.
He asked the price, and was informed that
a good article was worth fifty cents a
pound. The farmer demnrred; he declared
that he could buy it at half that price. The
druggist then offered it for twenty-five cts.
a pound, and made sale. Into the money
drawer went the currency, and upon the
potato vines went the bug poison. The
owner OF the patch retired from the field,
congratulating himself upon the victory
won, and for week left it unmolested to
give his enemies ample time to turn their
toes toward the sun. Then he AGAIN an
peared upon the field, and, shades of tba
pests! not vine was to be seen. bYt nnon
the desolate hills the bugs had conoreoated
looking as neat and plump as a weIl-fed
mule. he declared that some of them
really wore smiles upon their brows, and
seemed to beseeehingly ask him for more
Paris green.
Before bug could crawl up the stalk of |
vine, he was in a lawyers Office and insti- |
tuted suit against the druggist to recover |
damages for the loss Of his crop, on the !
ground that the Paris green was a Spurious
article. The druggist says that can't be |
proven, and further, that the bugs in ques-
ton had eaten so much of the poison in
the neighboring field from which tbev
came that they had become poison proof |
and instances the fact, in support of his
position, that many people eat quantities |
OF arsenic for their complexion, which
would quickly kill those not accustomed 10 /
its uSe.-Syrdouss Journal.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
w hole Number 1895.

and in winter storms; but in addition, the
denser cold air from the north, moving
with more momentum, will lift up the
warm and saturated air from the tropics,
and its moisture will be condensed into
masses ofcumulOus clouds bankedup against
the top OF the cold current, and arranged
over the horizontal stratus of clouds. Thus
Is produced the combination of cumulo-
stratus cloud, which is characteristic of
progressive summer storms
To tornado cloud produced bv whirl-
air, and resembling an inverted cone pro-
feSSor BlsSius gives the name of conns
which is both distinctive and appronriafe
These four typical classes Of eloudsEeum-
illus, stratus. cumulo-stratus and cones
indicate and characterize the four different
classes Of storms.
POpUIdr Science Monthly.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTH
ERN Il. H.
GOING WEST.


Special Chicago Express leaves Buffalo at
1850 a. m, Erie $50 a. m, Ashtabula 4:59
Painesville $40, and arrives at Cleveland at
6:35 a. m.
Canneaut Accommodation leaves Conneaut
at6:O5 a. M, Amboy Gil, Kingsville GIL, Ash
tabula 6:33, SaybroOk 6:43, Geneva 6:53, Paines-
vile 7:2S, and arrives at Cleveland S:45 a. m.
Toledo Express leaves Buffalo at 6:55 a. m
Erie lO:l5, Conneaut ll:l7, AmbOy Il:23 Kings
Vile ll:32, Ashtabula ll:45, Saybrook ll:55, Ge-
neva I2:04 p. m, Painesville l239 and arrives
at Cleveland at l:50 D. m.
racine Express leaves Buffalo 1890 p. m,
Erie $50, Ashtabula Sis, Painesville Cos, and
arrives at Cleveland at 7:l0 p. m.
Erie Accommodation leaves Buffalo sos
p. m, Erie 400 p. m, Conneaut STA, Ashtabula
$50, SaybroOk SOP, Geneva 6:I3, Painesville
7:O6, and arrives at Cleveland at $40 p. m
Fast Mail arrives at Ashtabula at 6:O9 D. m.
= - GOING EAST. saa
Fast Mail arrives at Ashtabula at $50 a. m
Atlantic Express leaves Cleveland 1906 a. m
gainesville SD, Ashtabula 9:O5, Conneaut 9.2S'
Erie lO:a, and arrives at Buffalo at Los D. m.
Toledo and Buffalo Accommodation leaves
Cleveland at ILLS a, NJ, PainesYille l227, Ge-
neva lsO7 p. m, Saybrook Ills. Ashtabula I;3O
Erie 3;l0, Buffalo 200 p. m,
Chicago and st. Louis Express leaves Cleve-
land at BIO p. m, Painesville 1853, Ashtabula
4;43, Erie 600, and arrives at Buffalo at sos
p. m.
Conneaut Accommodation leaves Cleveland
Al 4:JJ p. M, Painesvile 600, Geneva 6;3S Say
brook 6:4S, Ashtabula 200, Kingsvilie 7:I3 Am
boy -, and arrives at COnneaut at 7:3O p. m
Special New York Express leaves Cleveland
at 1880 p, m, Painesyille ILLS, Ashtabula l2O3
a. m, Erie l:2O a, m, and arrives at Buffalo at
AGO q, m, :
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29

All Lee and wife, of st. Louis, on their
own account are solving the momentous
conundrum which underhes the Chinese
question, whether the Mongolian will assim-
ilate, or can asSimilate, with the proud Cau-
cssion; for if John can't assimilate Il Is
conceded his race is doomed in this country.
All Lee found no difficulty in assimilating.
as Mrs. All Lee, buxom Irish damsel, with
as rich brogue as was ever imported from
Cork or Tppeary, viii testify. The re-
suits are two girls and two boys, and they
make manifest that the assimilation ceased
with the union in matrimony Of the All Lees,
OF their progeny, the boys are as unmistak-
able Pats as were ever baptized, and the
girls were as clearly little celestials as ever
had their feet cramped in babyhOod. The
solemn fact which it makes manifest &
that John can marry an Irishwoman, but
that, beyond that, thare can be no assimila-
ton OF the slmon-eyed mongols with the
superior race,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29

A soldier on trial for habitual drunken
ness was addressed by the president OF the
eourtmartial: prisoner, you have heard
the prosecution for habitual drunkenness. +;
what have you to say in your defence
Nothing, please your honor, but habltual
thirst.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29

Doctor: "Pm pleased to say, Mrs. Fitz-
brown, that l shall be able to vaccinate
your baby from very healthy child Of
your nefghbor, Mrs. Jones' ''Oh, dear
doctor, could not permit that! We do
not care to be mixed up with the Joneses
in any way
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29

o. The Best Class OF Risks only accepted. Pol
icies Issued from one to five years. Three
fourths to three-fifths of stock rates charged.
JAMES MILLER, Resident Agent.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
PHOTOGRAPHERS.

BLAK ESLEG &. MOORE, Photograpb--
ers and Dealers in Pictures, Engrayings.
Chromos, &C.; having a large supply oi
Mouldings of various descriptions are pre-
pared to frame anything in the Picture line
at short notice and in the best style.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
CABINET WARE.

JOHN DUCRO. Manufacturer of and Deal
er In Furniture of the best descriptions, and
every variety; also, General Undertaken
and Manufacturer OF Collins to order; Main
tabula, Ohio. 4gl
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
PUBLIC HALISE

STONES OPERA HALL. Orwell, Ashta-
tabula Co., Ohio, on the line of A. Y d P
railroad; reltted, with stage and scenery
viii seat 500, and is ready to rent to travelling
troupes. RE. STOfTE ---.--lI8Gl
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
JEWELLERS.

GsO. W. DICK ANSONs Jeweler; Repair
ing Of all kinds of Watches Cyocls and
Jewelry; Store in Ashtabula House Block,
Ashtabula, Ohio, -s =
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29

Telegraph Stations
Passenger fare at the rate of cents per
mile TO way stations counted in every half
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
ERIE RAILWAY,

AbstrGct Of Time Table adopted .Nog. 22nd,
1875. -.a -, "
DULLMAN'S best Drawing-room
L and Sleeping Coaches, combining all
mOoern Improvements, are run through without
change nom Rochester Buffalo, SpsIension
Bridge, Niagara Falls, Cincinnati. ChicsSo
and Detroit to New York, making direct CON
nection with all lines of foreign and coastwise
steamers, and also with Sound Steamers ana
railway lines Ter Boston and New England cities
Hotel DINING cars from Chicago to Nav Yorr =
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29

tDaily except Sundays. Trains stop for
passengers on signal only, +Trains do not
stop for passengers
L. y. & N. S.-PRANKLIN DIVISION
From and after April 10th, 1876, Passenger
Trims will run as follows:
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
JOB PRINTERS.

JAMES REED & SON, Plain and Orna-
mental Printers and General Stationers
Specimens Of Printing and prices for the
same sent on application. Office corner
Main and Spring streets, Ashtabula, o. 1920