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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-06-21
For sale.

The finest stock farm in Atehison County for sale,
containing 80 of land, go acres in high state
of cultivation and 20 of good timber, and living
Syuter miles of Muscotah will sell low,
or exchange for a general stock of merchandise or
trade for good lands in Donphan County. For fur
Their particulars, apply TO
JOSEPH McCRUM.
,eh.w Dominican. Kansas.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-06-21
~ New Goods, at hard times prices at Leland's

~ Eicrt's Extract of Tar and Wild Cherry vii
cure Consumption in its first stages.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-06-21

On long time at low interest well improved Farms il
Donphan County, Kansas. Apply to
june24. X. K STOUT, Troy, Kansas.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-06-21

n To-day is the longest day In the year.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-06-21

FRANKLIN BABCOCK
viii negotiate loans for parties wishing to borrow
money! 3feb16.
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~ Do not buy Reaper until you see the peer
less. sold by Marbourg, ut Atchison.
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8 inch.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23
Disadvantages of Farm Life.

Col. George E. Waring, of Newport-a prac-
ucal IarmeT, Dy the Way-has paper in Serb
neTfor April, advocating better way of coun
try nVing-namely, the grouping of farm
houses into villages-as is often done in Eu-
rope. He speaks as follows of the loneliness
of American farm life:
1t may seem a strange doctrine to
be advanced by somewhat enthu-
siastic farmer, but it is a doctrine
that has been slowly accepted after
many years. observation, "a convic-
tiOn that has taken possession of an
unwilling mind,-that the young
man who takes his young wife to an
isolale ed farmhouse dooms her and
himself and their children to an un-
wholesome, unsatisfactory and va
cant existence,- existence mark
ed by the absence of those more sat
lsfying and more cultivating infu
ences which the best development
OF character aud intelligence de-
mand. 1t is a common experience
OF farmers wives to pass week after
week without exchanging word or
look with single person outside
of their own family circles.
The young couple start bravely,
and with a determination to struggle
against the habit of isolation which
marks their class; but this habit has
grown from the necessity of the sit
uaiion; and the necessities of their
own situation bring them sooner or
later within its bonds. During the
first few years they adhere to their
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23

"It's day out, if ye plaze, main,
I'd like to be having to meself on
Saturday next" says Bridget to her
mistress, ''for its a fine dishplay OF
the boys there'll be"
Mamma" said a young hOpefui,
who against his will was made To
rock the cradle of his baby brother,
''If the Lord has any more babies to
give away, don't you take EN-"
May COUSINS K1ss?-We havn't
the slightest objection. On the con
trary, if you have a cousin who
wants to kiss you, let him-want to.
The only point to consider in regard
to this question is, whether the cous-
in you intend to kiss is your own or
''another fellows"
A married man up town had blue
glass put in his wife's sitting-room-
to match her eyes, he said. She re-
turned the compliment bv having
red glass put in her husbands hbra-
ry-tO match his nose, she said. He
didn't seem to appreciate the com
pliment.
Spanish robbers are very polite.
An Englishman was once accosted
on lonely road by ruffian. ''Sir,"
said he, "you have my coat on; NAV
| trouble you for it?" The English
man drew a pistol, and told the fell
low he was mistaken. "Si," said
the robber, 81 perceive that | am.
Will you do me the honor to com
municate your name, that | may re-
member it in my prayers?"
He was pra1sing her beautiful hair,
and begging for one tiny curl, when
her little brother said: 60, my! 'taint
nothin' now. You Just ought to
have seen how long it hangs down
when she hangs it on the side of the
table to comb it." Then they
laughed, and she called her brother
a cute little angle, and when the
young man was going away and
heard that boy yelling, he thought
the lad was taken suddenly and dan
gerously i'll.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23
An Unexpected "Bump.,,

A good old colored man named
Uncle Jim Hill, set himself up the
other day as phrenologist, and a
barber was his first subject. He
placed the barber on a chair, felt of
his head for long time, and then re-
marked: "WiIliam, you is too san
guine; when you lend money you
expect it back; yod are bilious; you
want to be honest, but you hasn't
de necessary character; you isn't
hopeful; you is bowed down with
grief most of de time; you has a ear
for music; you has de wuSt feet on
Kentucky street; you is de right
sort of man to wheel coal down
hill for big wages"
William rose up, pitched Uncle
Jim over the cook stove and under
the bed, and split a panel of the door
as he went out. The aged phrenol-
ogist was at the City Hall the next
evening to get advice from the po-
lice, and when advised to 60 out of
the trade, replied:
."Seems like l shall have to, for
Pse gettin' too aged to be bumped
over stoves"
From Louisville Commercial
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23

Father Hyacinthe has just obtain
ed leave to deliver a course of pub
lie lectures on religious subjects in
the Italian Theater of Paris. This
permission granted by the authori.
ties has excited the religious organs
to a state of frenzy. The official
Legitimist sheet calls upon the Min
lister of the Interior to suppress what
it regards as a public scandal: "The
apostate monk has put at the head
of his programme the question of
the marriage of priests. This fact
alone is sufficient to show the char
acter of these exhibitions, although
the ex-Father has arrived at such a
point that he is incapible of produc-
ing further scandal. The Govern
ment commits real outrage on pub
lie decenoy by encouraging his tur-
pitudes. 1t is from this point of
view that we protest against this
threatened rivalry of rowdyism."
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23

resolution and 90 regularly to
church, to the lecture, and to the So
clal gatherings of their friends; but
home duties increase with time, aud
the eagerness of society grows dull
with neglect, and those who have
started out with the frmest deter
mnation to avoid the rock on which
their fathers have split. give up the
struggle at last and settle down to a
humdrum, minterestimg and unin-
terested performance of daily tasks.
In saving all this-and | speak
from experience, for l have led the
dismal life myself-it is hardly nee
essary to disclaim the least want of
appreciation of the sterling qualities
which have been developed, not be-
cause of the American mode of farm
lite, but in spite of it; and as | think
over the long list of admirable men
and women whose acquaintance
have formed on distant and solitary
farms, | am more and more impress
ed with certain shortcomings which
would have been avoided under bet
t,r social conditions. If any of these
Is disposed to question the justice of
this conclusion, / am satisfied to
leave the final decision with his own
Judgment, formed after a fair con-
SideratiOn of what is herein suggest
ed.
If American agriculture has an
unsatisfed need, it is surely the need
of more intelligence and more enter
prising interest on the part of its
working men and women. From
one end of the land to the other, its
crying defect-recOgnized by all
is that its best blood-or, in other
words, its best brains and its best
energy-is leaving it to seek other
fields of labor. The influence which
lead these best of the farmers sons
10 other occupations is not so much
the desire to make more money, or
to find a less laborious occupation,
as it is the desire to lead a more sat
isfactory life,-a lite where that part
of us which has been developed by
the better education and better civ
ilization for which in this century
we have worked so hard and so well,
may find responsive companionship
and encouraging intercourse with
others.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23
YOUNG ANIMALS IN CENTRAL
Dark
A Funny DrOmedRFy-Playful Lions
and Beautiful Panthers.

In the Central Park menagerie a
Young dromedary was born a fort
night ago. 1t is one of the most
shambling, rickety, loose-jointed,
stilt-legged and crane-necked zoolog-
icat specimen ever beheld. 1t is
about three-aDd-a-half feet high, and
seems to consist principally of neck
and legs, with thin line of back
bone to make a sort of nominal con-
nectiOn among the upper ends of the
legs. In color it is a soft, dark
brown, almost black, and about the
head its hair looks like wool. The
AsiatIc lioness, "Nellie," has two
cubs, which were born on the 25th
of October, and they are now about
the size of small Spitz dogs. Their
color is a tawny light brown, their
eyes are big and light blue in color,
and they have about the most limo
cent stare and good-natured yawn
that any animal is capable of. But
they show some long, keen teeth al
ready. In their play they are as
graceful as kittens. They are fed
with milk, and are now over the
most dangerous period of their exist
ence. Much interest is felt to see
them grow up, as they are a cross
between African and Asiatic varie-
ties. Both parents were captured
when full grown, and they have been
about seven years in this country.
Another accession to the menagarle
is a pair of American panther cubs,
about six weeks old. They are real
little beauties, not of plain slaty
gray color like their mo her, but
covered with light brown soft fur,
delicately marked with spots of a
darker tint. They are not clumsy
and fat, as young animals generally
are, but little, trinity formed, and
active; more, indeed, like big and
exceedingly pretty cats than any
thing else All of these animals, and
indeed more than half of all at the
Central Park menagerie, belong to
Barnum's show, and the place will
be robbed of much of its attraction
when they are taken away at the be-
ginning of the tenting season. Men
agerie men affirGl that the story
which is going the rounds of the pa
pers about a young elephant being
born in this country is altogether
false. The elephant does not breed
In cantiYitY.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23
Old 81 was asked by one of OF

Old 81 was asked by one of our
merchants:
"Si, do you know darkey by the
name of Davis?"
"Sisero Dawes wild de red eye dat
got burned in de powder sploshin?"
eyes, he's the man."
"Well | kno's him"
"Is he reliable?"
"Gin'ully, but hit 'pends mough-
tily on de bizness dat he's gagged in
at de time!"
''What business would he suit best
in as a porter"
"Well, to tell yer de fat-footed
onsophisticated trufe, san, one place
whar dat nigger could wuck an De
ez homes ez de day-an' dat's ez por-
Ter in er real state sto' ! In dat case
de o'ner 'ud be lierble fer ter fine de
proputy allus Jess whar he lef' hitl"
The gentleman named Davis was
not engaged.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23
american watch oompany,- history.

American Watch COmPany's History.
The American Watch Company
of Waltham, Mass, was established
with capital of 5000, 900, soon af-
ter the failure of the Boston Watch
Company, the first venture of the
kind in this country, in 1856. This
capital soon proved insufficient, and
just before the outbreaking of the
rebellion it was increased to $780,
600. The war, which ruined so
many enterprises, proved stimulus
to this. The business advanced at
a bound. Thus in 1860 1000 watch
es were produced; three years later
100000 were turned out. In 1865
the capital was increased to $780,
600, and the operations of the com
pany grew in like proportions. To-
day the company employs 900 work
men, and makes about 425 move
ments daily. Its capital now
amounts to 81 800, 900, with a reserve
fund of 100000. The yearly pro-
duction of watches is now estimated
at 25O, 900, though this number could
be doubled if the demand should
warrant the increase. In May, 1876,
the Elgin Company, the most pow
erful of the half-scOre of rivals of
the American Watch Company,
made reduction on the price of
their movements of from 40 to so
per cent. The Waltham Company
at once announced a reduction of
from 40 to so per cent on prices,
which were already lower than those
of the Elgin, and at the same time
made the reduction date back to the
beginning of the year. Thus deal
er in watches, by indicating the
stock of Waltham watches on hand,
secured a rebate of 40 or so per cent.
This device cost the company $4O,-
900. The company has not rested
satisfied with the abundant measure
of success in this country. A de-
mand for the Waltham watch was
first created in the East Indies and
then it became popular in
the English market, and bids fair, it
is claimed, to drive from it both the
English and Swiss watches.
Nea0 York Tribune.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23
rhe mnltlplIcatlon OF 1ndus.rIe..

We formerly imported all our
watches; now we make as good
watches as anybody, and make them
by the use of machinery that no
body else has dreamed of before.
The Italian sewing-silk, which form
erly stood at the head of the markets
of the world, is now superseded in
quality and cheapness of production
by the American article. There is
really nothing that we have touched
in earnest that we have not succeed
ed in accomplishing, and we are be-
ginning upon silk fabrics with the
certainty of success. All this has
been done within few years, and
the time is not far off when we shall
make all our own silks,-with China
and Japan at our back-doors to raise
our cOcoons for us, and reel them,-
and build all our own watches.
What has been done and is doing
in these branches of production is
quite practicable, and IN every way
necessary to be done, in other fields.
We can make all our own pottery
and decorate it, just as well as to
depend upon other countries for it.
We can make all our own cutlery,
quite as well as they make it in
Sheffield. We can make our own
WOODEN cloths and carpets as well as
they can be made in France and
Germany and England. There is no
good reason why the finer grades of
leather may not be produced here as
well as in France. Already, Eng
land is losing her prestige in print-
ing. Our modes are surprising hers.
1t is not two months since an intel
ligent gentleman ihLondon informed
us that Scrihaer's Monthly is revolu-
tionizing wood-cut printing in Eng
land. 1t is not a year since a Lon
don printer sent here for a ream of
the paper on which st. Nicholas is
printed, having found that his print
ers could not produce the results
which he saw effected in that peri
odical. 1t is not month since
well-known British publisher sent to
his agent here for the machine by
which the paper of this magazine is
polished after printing, when no
such machine exists, aud the only
secret is in the mode Of manipula-
ton!
There is nothing that we use which
we cannot make. Gloves we make
in enormous quantities. Ar
tificial flowers, bronzes, every sort Of
are as easily producible
here as anywhere. The flax indus
try has hardly been touched here
an industry on which Ireland and
SaxOny almost live at our expense.
There is no good reason why we
should import yard of linen. We
have land-an almost illimitable
acreage of it-that will raise good
fax, and plenty of men and women
to grow and fabricate it. We. can
not ONLY make our own cordage, but
produce the raw material for it.
Out into these fields the capitalist
must reach or find no employment
Tor his money. Into these fields la
Dor must go, or lie idle and descend
nto pauperism. 1t is not a matter
If choice with us; it is a matter of
Of course it will take a
good many years to accomplish the
'esults we seek. There must be cost
y experiments; there must be pro-
;esses of education of head and
land Sthere must be time for capital
o move itself; but the change must
ome, and toward these fields the
'ublic attention should be, immedi-
tely directed.-Scri6ner's Monthly.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23
Notice.
4 RISH A

4 BISHA L. WRIGHT, whose
L A place of residence is unknown to this
plaintiff, will take notice that Charles D, Ain
ger of the County of Ashtabula, in the State
of Ohio, did on the 8th day of March, A. d.
1877, file his petition in the Court of Common
Pleas, within and for the County of Ashtabu-
la. Ohio against the said Abisha L. Wright,
and Edward A Wright, Hubert Phillips,
John W. Maxwell and William F. Andrews,
defendants, setting forth that the said Abisha
l. Wright gave mortgage to the said
Charles d. Anger, on the south One-half OF
lot No. I37, together with two acres situate in
the southeast corner of lot No. 127 in the town
ship of Morgan in said County of Ashtabula
Ohio, to secure the payment of a certain prom
issory note, executed to said plaintiff by said
Abisha L. Wright, with said Hubert Phillips,
and said Edward A. Wright to secure the
payment of 81 ,lOD.00, according to q certain
prOmmissory note referred to in said mort
gage. And that since the giving of said mort
gage, the defendants, John W. Maxwell and
William F. Andrews claim some interest in
said lands under the said Abisha l.
Wright; and praying that said Abisha L.
Wright Hubert Phillips and Edward A.
Wright may pay said sum now claimed to be
due, with interest, amounting to 81. 10000 to-
gether with the interest thereon at eight per
cent. from the 18th day of May A. D. 1876, or
that said premises may be sold to pay the
same. And the said Abisha L. Wright is no.
titled that he is required to appear and an
swer said petition on or before the third Sat
urday after the thirteenth day of April, A. D.
1877. CHARLES D. ANGER
March sth, 1877. 6ti4lS
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23
Public Sale,

THE undersigned will offer for sale
Il at Public Auction at the late residence
of Edmund Lockwood, deceased, on Satur-
day, the 3lst day Of March, 1877, the goods
and chattels of said deceased consisting in
part of Three Cows. One two-year-old Colt,
One Tanning Mill, One pair Bob Sleds, One
Moving Machine, &c, &C. Sale to commence
at ten O'clock in the forenoon
Terms-purchases amounting to three dol
lars or less to be paid in cash ; above that
sum notes at six months with two good sure
ties will be taken,
E. R. METCALF. Administrator,
ELIZABETH LOCKWOOD, Adm'x
March 18th, 1877. 3tl4l9
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23
AssfQ4lE q Nale.

NOTICE is hereby given that /,
~ the undersigned assignee of Martin
Watrous, Albert W. Watrous, and Chauncy L.
Watrous, bankrupts, shall sell at public auc
ton to the highest bidder, at the Fisk House.
Ashtabula, o., on Wednesday the 2Sth day OF
March, A. D. 1877 at two O'Clock in the after
noon, all the right title and interest of said
Martin WatrOus, Of in and to the following
9escriDed property; The farm known as the
Martin Watrous farm, situated one and three
quarter miles from Ashtabuia, Ohio, on the
main turnpike road from said Ashtabula to
Warren; the same being 20 acres in range
three, town twelve and lot thirty-twO, and
eight acres in range four, town twelve and lot
forty-nine all in Ashtabua county and State
Of Ohio. Said seventy acres being subject to
a mortgage owned by A. L. and L. A. Rogers.
The said lands will be sold in parcels to suit
purchasers. GEO. LEWIS, Assignee.
Dated Bay CITY Mich Mar g. 1871 3tI4lS
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23
LAM SONS

ing citizens, 1--WE refer to our pamphlet which
accompanies each bottle and to be had of all
druggists), who cheerfully attest to its virtues
When this Remedy is applied according to di-
rections, the proprietors do nothesitate TO war
rant perfect satisfaction. 1t alIays Pain and
n1l1lnmatlOn from whatever cause. For
Neuralgia and rheumatism It has been
subjected to the seVerest tests where medical
skill and science has utterly failed, and ALWAYS
been successful: For Lame Back or Side
and Pleur1sy few applications has always
worked complete cure.
ErYsiPelass Tic DOulOuFeux and Spi-
nal Diseases in the most aggravated forms
Nervous or Sick Headache and TOOTIS.
ache the reliefis often almost instantaneous
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23
Dye
FOR THE WHISPERS.

This elegant preparation may be
relied on to change the color of the
beard from gray or any other un-
desirable shade, to brown or black,
at discretion. 1t is easily applied,
being in one preparation, and quick
ly and efiectually produces q per-
manent color, which will neither
rub nor wash off.
Manufactured by r. P. HALL & CO.,
NASHUA, N. H.
ssIa By al Drsgs!iss, and Dealers IN Medicines.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23
HOUSES TO RENT!

]. B. CROSBY.
Ashtabula, Dec. 26, 1876. 14OStf
Among the many remedies which have been
brought to the notice of the Public, no one has
attracted SO much attention from the wonder
tnl cures it has performed as LAWSON'S CURA-
TIVE. Itwas discovered BY a celebrated chemist
of New England while at Workin his Laboratory
and used by himself and friends and among the
afflicted poor ofhis neighborhood formanyyears
before 1t was put up for sale. It has stood the
test of years with a constantly growing reputa-
ton until 1t has become a household necessity
w hereVeri it is once used in family that family
Will never be without il.
From knowledge of its effects it is recon-
mended by eminent physicians and by our lead
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23

Every one VINO requires the use meulclnes should
exercise great care in purchasing none but Pure Fresh
end FIRST Glass articles and but competent Drug
gists should be allowed to I'LL prescriptions We feel
insteed in saying that give the people Of Ash
tobpIa the benefit Of all these.
We have none but and reliable goods, and man
thoroughly competent to handle and compound them
Should you have Prescriptions and Recipes OF any
trial We guarantee satisfaction in every
We keep full line of Drugs Dye StuHs Toilet Ar,
ticles and Druggist sundries also fine assortment OF
Stationery including all the latest styles and qualities
as well as common grades.
sbould Won wish anything in our line not in stock,
ne viii nrocure the same on short notice and at rea-
sonable rates. muuppzp g. ro
Ashtabula House Block.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23
Something Every Poultry Raiser
Needs.

Gowdey & Cos infallible cure and preven-
tion of cholera in poultry, and gapes in young
chickens. Try bottle, price 70 cents. Sent
to any address. Liberal discount to the trade
Agents wanted. Depot 1903 Filbert street,
Philadelphia. lyIS77