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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-07-20
LAW Ms

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IecSt.ons, the proprietors do nothesitate to war
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THE WEST,

The second regiment of infantry has
been ordered from the south to reinforce
General Howard in Idaho. The hostiles
seem to be moving back before the troops,
the only fighting reported being an en-.
gagement with some Indians OH the Clear
Water by Colonel whipple's command.
A Boseman, Montana, dispatch says
Howard, a scout sent out by Miles from
Tongue river a month and half ago, has
returned, and reports that he found Sitting
Bull with $50 lodges at Cypress Hills, in the
British possessions. Howard was married
to niece of Sitting Bull, and was in his
camp eight days. Sitting Bull told him
Clusters men fought like devils, and Custer
was the bravest man he ever saw, repeatedly
charging and killing Indians with his pistol,
Tom Casters company were nearly all killed
in a hand.to.hand fight with the Indians.
Sitting Bull said Custer wss great fool to
attack 80 large a village with his small
force.
Another terrific hurricane swept
through central Ohio and Indiana on July
1st doips serious damage to the crops, fences
and buildings, and in some instances causing
loss Of life
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

A horrible crime has Just been revealed
in Lewis county, Ky. A man named Rob-
erts, living on farm few miles IRON Vance.
burg, had taken a white boy, some ten OF
eleven years old to raise. Last September
the boy disappeared, aud Roberts asserted
that the boy had run away. Lately, solored
boy in the employ Of Roberts asserted that
he had something tell il protection were
promised him, and on receiving guarantee,
conducted persons te the spot where skel'
eton Of the missing boy was found. Roberts
wss arrested and taken to Vanceburg jail
He is reported as being guilty Of other
crimes, and the reason assumed for the mur
der OF the boy is that he feared the boy
would expose him to prose cution.
In a difficulty at Norforlk, Va, on
he excursion steamer Banks, between Dr.
W. G. Wilson, Assistant Surgeon US. Navy,
and colored man named Brown, the former
shot at Brown, slightly wounding him. The
same bullet struck colored woman who was
asleep at the time, severely wounding her
DIR. Wilson was arrested.
A special dispatch from Prescott, Ark,
gives an account Of a fight between a gang
of horse.thieves and sherifi's posse, fifty
miles below that place, in which one of the
posse, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister
was killed. The murderer was riddled with
buckshot
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THE FOREIGN WAR.

The London Times, in leading edito.
rial, offers the following opinion: "If the
Russians had captured Kars and Batoum
they would have been strongly tempted ia
offer easy terms of peace but now they have
been so far bafied, they must strike with
all their might in Europe, and everything
tends to show that they intend to strike very
hard indeed"
The Mussulmans are preparing to flee
from the scenes Of last years atrocities in
Bulgaria, fearing the vengeance OF the Rus.
SLAMS and Bulgsrians.
Over 10000 Russians have crossed
the Danube at Simnitxa, with an immense
train Of artillery, comprising some pieces Of
very heavy calibre. The enthusiasm Of the
Russian troops is very great.
Many Turks while working their guns
at Rustchuk, have been killed by the rife
fire from houses adjacent to the fort These
mysterious Assassinations are causing bad
blood against the Bulgarians.
The Grand Duke Nicholas has received
the grand cross of st. George for the passage
of the Danube; his son the military cross,
and General Nepokoischitzky, chief Of staff,
the grand cross Of st. George Of the third
class. The emperor has taken up his resi-.
dence at Drajo, near Turnu-Magurelli.
Fifteen hundred Russian cavalry who
endeavored to relieve Bayazid have been
beaten by the Kurds, with loss Of sixty
killed and two hundred wounded.
The Austrian Lloyd steamer landed
at Corfu, for the Turkish government, one
hundred and ninety.three cases Of arms,
which it is intended ts reship for Prevasa
in Albania, but the Russian consul protested
to the Greek government against the use Of
neutral territory as depot for the arms Of
a belligerent. The government thereupon
ordered the detention of the arms, and the
captain Of the Austrian ship in which they
had already been re.embarked, on hearing
the protest, unloaded them into boats. Aus
tria endorses the course OF the Greek gov
ernment in the retention of the arms.
The bey of Tunis has requested the
Ottoman government to send him vessels to
convey a present Of mules from Tunis to
Constantinople. The British and French
consuls are stated to have recommended the
hey to observe neutrality.
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FOREIGN.

Berlin dispatch says that German
fninciers are alarmed at the large Russian
isus Of paper currency. II is stated that
since the outbreak of the war 100000
roubles have been emitted.
A telegram from Coustantinople an
rounces that decree has been promulgated
mthorizing the issuing Of ,000, ,000, 900 pias-
ien Of paper money, redeemsble in twenty
Years at the rate Of $4,000, 900 annually.
The Pope's physical condition is re-
orted to be very precarious, droPsy having
It in, in an aggravated form.
Although the difficulty between
reece and Turkey about the seizure OF
ms at Corfu hes been settled, the tone
len adopted by the Forte appears to have
ven deep ofsnse at Athens, so that any
ew difference, however trifling, may lead to
collision
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Here It is sure that in 1870 Massach,

Here it is sure that in 1870 Massachu.
setts had nearly six hundred million
dollars invested in manufacturers, and
the three states more than eight hundred
millions, thus invested while the three
cotton slater had but fifty-two millions
thus invested; Tennessee having nearly
as much az Georgia, Alabama and Mis-
sissippi combined. These manufacturing
industries OF the three Yankee states
create demand for all kinds of food,
and hence the small farmers and gardeners
there, have markets right at their doors
for everything they or the thousand of
factory-hands need in the way Of food.
This constantly growing demand always
keeps food up AZ good prices, and the
producer il never distressed, as with us,
for want Of purchaser for his beef, NUT
ton, pigs, fowls, milk, butter or vegeta-
bles. Everything raised out Of the
ground has even a more ready sale than
the fabrics Of the factories; and thus the
trade among small dealers never Ian.
guishes, even though the mill-owners
may sometimes find It dull. One kind
of goods produces demand for another
and different line. Masoris, and carpen.
tiers, and painters sre employed IL
erecting new buildings for new machinery
] to be fprujehe3h By tke iron pGDraaau ~
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Who Ate Roger williams!

MACON CITY, Mo-, May 81, 1s77.-What ID
meant by the question, who ate Roger
Williams| Answer In your paper, and
oblige ANOTHER INQUIRER.
Last week we did not know Roger
Williams had been eaten, and 30 an.
swered. Since that time a friend has
given us information Of the event, and II
occurred in this wise: Roger Williams
was native of Whales, was a Puritan,
and the founder of the colony of Rhode
Island. He died in Providence 1853.
Many years afterwards, the pri ,ate bury
ing ground where he was inferred was
searched for the remains Of himself
and wife, for the purpose Of erecting a
monument over them. Very little was
fonnd. The shane Of the cofiins could
only be traced by black line in the
earth. The rusted hinges and nails and
a round wooden knot alone remained in
one grave, while a single lock OF braided
hair was found in the other. Near the
grave stood an apple tree, the larger
root of which pushed its way to the pre-
else spot occupied by the skull of Roger
Williams, and, turning, passed around it
and followed the direction of the back
bone to the hips. Here it divided into
two branches, sending one along each leg
to the heel, when the roots turned up
ward to the toes, the whole bearing a
striking resemblance to the human fern.
These roots are now deposited in the
museum of Brown university. 1t was
thus found that the organic matter-thc
flesh, the bones, of Roger Williams-had
passed into an apple tree, transmitted
into woody fibre, bloomed in fragrant
blossoms, and bore luscious fruit, which
from year to year has been gathered and
eaten. Those, therefore, who ate the
apples from this tree ate Roger Williams.
Columbia (Mo.) Siafesman.
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SOUTHERN MANUFACTURES.
An Interessi.g Paper ON the subject b.
Bon. !. I. Trssevaut, of Arkansas
Cotton Gro v Ing States Compared
WITH Man ufnclurfng Mates.

Hon. j. 7. Iro2evout, OF Arkamsas-
Cotton Giro wing States Compared
with Manufacturing Mates.
The Hon. j. I. Trezevant, of Arkan'
sas, in series of articles on the products
of the south and the manufactures Of
the north compared, published in the
Memphis Appeal, writes as follows:
Perhaps the facts found in the follow
ing tables, from the census report Of
1870, may serve to stimulate the active
interest already manifested by some Of
our leading citizens That the facts
may be seen in their most striking light,
Ihaye compared the three small states of
Massachusetts,, Connecticut and Rhode
Island with the three larger ones of
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. These
last illustrate the cotton-growing inter-
ests; the Others, the cotton-manufactur-
ing interests. The manufacturing states
have cold climate, and soil not suited
to the higher conditions of agriculture.
The cotton states have soft, delightful
climate, and a soil so fertile as to pro.
duce, in unlimited amount, under good
culture, all the grains, grasses and fruits,
besides rice, sugar and cotton. When
we consider that the one item OF cotton,
in some form or other, has freighted and
still freights more ships, sinks more
mines, builds more machinery, organizes
more moneyed institutions, creates more
commerce, and clothes more people than
any other product of the earth, we may
well wonder why those who grow it do
not also measurably control its manufac-
ture. The tables below are so arranged
as to invite attention without confusing,
and under each, / have ventured to make
such comments as seem proper.
Table No. gives the area of the states
named above, with the population of
each, the population per square mile, the
total wealth of each, and the wealth per
capita, according to the census of 1870.
l have added Tennessee to the list, as
Memphis is her great commercial focus.
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The above table SUGGESTS severaI oue

Ihe above table suggests several ques-
tions First--Why the cold and COM
parstively unproductive states of Mas
sachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode
Island are 80 much more populous than
the three states OF Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi, with rich soil and gen.
ial climate, where everything supporting
life grows in vast abundance Why is
it that rocky, bleak Massachusetts,, with
but one-eight the area, has nearly ten
times as many people to the square mile
as delightful, fertile Georgia-both of the
cold Thirteen?" Why is it that cold,
stormy, sterile Rhode Island, with her
five counties, has nearly ten times as
many people to the square mile as fertile
Mississippi? Again, why is it that the
three New England ltates, with all their
disadvantages of soil and climate, have
from four to eight times more wealth,
per head, than the named southern
states, with all their superior
advantages of soil and climate ?
1t cannot be ON account of any pecu-
liarity in the two people of the two
sections. The south has always equaled
tfe north in statesman, jurists, orators,
generals. The answer to the foregoing
question, is found in the following tables,
two, three, four and five. They speak
for themselves, and show what people
can do when resovled to do:
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Feminine Notes.

In late style of marriage announce
ment only the names of the bride and
clergyman appear. As civilization ad
vances, the groom becomes Of less and
less importance on such occasions.
A lawyer and a minister, both impecu
nious, boarded with certain widow lady
at the South End, Boston. Neither
could pay his board. The lawyer married
the lone woman, and the minister per.
Termed the ceremony, thus squaring &C.
counts.
Here is a bit OF fashionable intelligence
from the Kansas City Times: "The
daughter of Mr.. Proddy, of Twelfth
street, has returned to her fathers house
from visit east and o how many fond
and foolish boys rejoice over that Proddy
gals return.
"Charles, DEAR" said a lady To her
escort at the Boston theatre, a. the
bcwitching Aimee glanced tantalizingly
out of the corners of her eyes at row Of
Harvard boys in the orchestra chairs
" Charles, dear. Pm afraid she Is saying
something very improper. Find me the
place in the libretto, will you?"
In the ages when our ancestors were
savages the men went on little ahead,
in journeys, TO fight the way through for
the women, who came behind with the
children and luggage. A Survival" of
this ancient custom remains to the pres.
ent day among the lower classes, with
whom, when the husband and wife 90
anywhere, the husband walks on about
six feet before, while the wife follows be-
hind and lugs the baby.
A negro woman in Africa, walking
alone with her two children, saw hun
gary lion approaching. She bade the chill
dren run and hide in the bushes. She her
self stood still, fixed her eyes on the
lions eyes, shook her fist at him, and
commenced scoldiDg him. She scolded
fearfully and continuously, still shaking
her fist and keeping her eyes fixed on the
lion. And she scOlded 30 tremendously
that at length the lion beat retreat and
skulked away, actually scolded off.
A little girl who sat on the front steps
of a house on Montcalm street was asked
by strange girl why she didn't have on
q better dress. ~ can wear silk If
want to-" quietly replied the little one.
"Your folks amt as rich as them folks
over there" sneered the big one. Yes
we are, and a good deal richer. They
was beating their carpets yesterday, and
we was beating ours, and we had twice AZ
much dust as they did!" That settled
the big one, and she moved on.
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1t is presented because Memphis has

1t is presented because Memphis has
some of the largest and most reliable
boot and shoe houses in the Mississippi
valley houses whose constantly growing
trade shows that they possess the
full confidence of the retail merchants
trading here. Massachusetts, had but
2S0,000 cattle in 1870, Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi had inward of 2,500, 900.
Yet, the dry hides are sent from the
south to Massachusetts,, where they
are tanned, dressed and made into boots
and shoes for the very people who slaught-
cred the animals and now the hair from
their bodies is often sent back to us for
plastering purposes. 1t should create no
surprise ifthe bones were gathered up
and sent to the Yankee mills for conver-
sion into powder to be used for fertilizing
the very fields the cattle once grazed
upon. Should we not convert most of
these hides into boots and shoes? And
would not such an industry start others? ?
Would 1t not start other and different
manufactures, and thus add to our pop
ulation by diversifying our industries? :?
To ask such questions is to answer them.
Now let us look at
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THE FAST.

W. H. Chapman & Co., of New York,
fruit importers, have failed Liabilities
sl75,OO0.
The Portsmouth IN. H.) light ar
tillery, organized in 1916, has accepted an
Invitation Of the mayor OF Portsmouth, En-
gland, to visit that city and enjoy its hospi-
talities.
The proprietors of the New York
Herald have reduced its wages paid to EN-
ployes from Acc. per 1000 ems to 40c. fer
night work, and 3Sc. for day work.
Joseph Potter, of Whitehall, a Justice
Of the Vermont supreme court, has been
adjudged bankrupt Liabilities $l5o,ooo
above assets.
BY the explosion of the boiler of a
steamer on Silver lake, near Boston, few
days since, several persons were seriously
but nsSs fatally.
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The Jew.

The Jew still walks the earth and
bears the stamp Of his race upon hi
forehead. He Is still the same being q,
when he first wandered forth from the
hills of Judsa. II his name is associated
with avarice and extortion, and spoken
in bitterness and scorn, yet in the morn
ing of history, 1t gathers round 1t recol-
lections sacred and holy.
The Jew is miracle among the na-
tions. A wanderer in all lands, he has
been a witness of the great events Of his
tory for more than eighteen hundred
years. He saw classic Greece when
crowned with intellectual triumphs. He
fingered among that broken but beauti-
full architecture that rises like tomb
stone over the grave of her departed
splendor.
The Jew saw Rome, the "mighty
heart" Of all nations, sending its own
ceaseless life's throb through all the
arteries of its vast empire. lie, too, has
seen that heart cold and still In death.
These have perished, yet the Jew lives
on-the same rilent, mysterious, indie
structible being. The shadow OF the
crescent rests on Palestine, the signet OF
q conquerer's faith-still the Jew and his
religion survive. He wsnders captive
in the streets of his own once queenly
Jerusalem, to mediate sadly and gloom
lily on the relics Of ancient power. Above
him shines the clear ky, fair a. when 1t
looked down on the toweu Of Zion; but
now, alas beholds only desolate city
and an unhappy land. The world is his
home. The literature OF the ancient
Hebrew triumphs over All creeds, and
schools, and sects. Mankind worship il
the mcred songs Of David, and bow to the
divine teachings Of Jesu. Of Nazareth.
who also was son of Abraham. Such
is the Jew, His ancient dreams Of en-
pire are gone. How seldom do We real.
lie, as We see him in our city streets,
that he is the creature Of such a strange,
peculiar destiny. Neither age, nor
country, nor climate, have changed him.
Such Is the Jew, a strange and solitary
being, and such the drama Of his long
and mournful history.-Chicngo Ledger.
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OsCEOLA ARKANSAS SATURDAY JULY H. 1877

year, were worth s42, 900, 900, ifsold even
At present prices. The cotton crop Of
Georgia and Alabama, for that year, at
present prices, would bring but forty
three million dollars. The agricultural
bureau at Washington reports a larger
yield of hay, per acre, In the south, for
years past, than in the north; yet Mas
sachusetts, not one-eighth IS large as
Georgia, produces six hundred thousand
tons for her horses and cattle, while
Georgia produces but eleven thousand
tons. Little Rhode Island, with but
five counties and e-fortieth the area Of
Mississippi, produces ten times as much
hay as the latter state.
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MISCELLANEOUH.

Mrs. Francis Preston Blair, relict Of
the late Francis Blair, and mother Of the
Hon. Montgomery Blair, died suddenly at the
family mansion near Silver Springs, Nd, a
few days since.
Generals Sherman, Fitzpatrick, Crook,
JOS f. Johnston, T. NJ. Cockrell and Brad
ley Johnston have accepted invations 10 be
present it the soldiers reunion in Marietta,
Ohio, on Sept. 4th to 7th.
A very strange and serious accident
occurred At Virginia, Cass county, Mich,
few days since. Michael Bannan, a twelve.
yesr-old son Of James Bannan, an empleye
Of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, was
sitting on an empty whisky barrel at the
depot, when the barrel exploded with great
noise, and threw the young lad fifteen feet
high with great violence against the caves
Of the building. His leg was broken in two
places, and he was eshsewiss severely in.
jured. The barrel insanity took hre. II
/ wss all supposed Y ,hsl been caused By
e. ssSfntInS With esrrel BY shs hes'
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ROBERT FULTON.
An Account % the sfrst sssanbeat Trsl
Between New Yerk aaA Aibany.

An Account 81 the Vfrss saeansoat Trap
Between New Ysrk saa Albany.
In the Suffolk Gazette, printed at Sag
Harbor, on the east end OF Long Island.
October IL. 1907, Is letter from Robert
Fulton to Joel Barlow, giving an account
Of the first trip OF the first steamboat on
the Hudson river. 1t Is as follows:
To JOEL BARLOW, PHILADELPHIA.
New YORK, 22d Aug, 1907.
MY DEAR FRIEND: My steamboat
voyage to Albany and back has turned
out rather more favorable than / had
calculated. The distance from New York
to Albany is 160 miles / ran it mp in 32
hours and down in 30 hours. The latter
is just miles an hour. / had a light
breeze against me the whole way going
and coming, 70 that no use was made OF
my sails; and the voyage has been per-
formed wholly by the power Of the steam
engine. l overlook many sloops and
schosners bearing to windward, and
passed them as If they had. been at
anchor.
The powerof propelling boats by steam
is now fully proved. The morning left
New York there were not perhaps thirty
persons in the city who believed
that the boat would ever move one
mile an hour or be of the least utility.
And while we were putting off from the
wharf, which was crowded with specta-
tors, / heard a number of sarcastic re-
marks; this is the way you know in
which ignorant men compliment what
they call philosophers and projectors.
Having employed much time and
money and zeal in accomplishing this
work, it gives me. as it will you, great
pleasure to see it 10 fully answer my ex-
pectations. 1t will give q quick and
cheap conveyance TO merchandise on the
Mississippi, Missouri, and other great
rivers which are now laying open their
treasures 10 the enterprise Of our coun-
trymen. And although the prospect OF
personal emolument has been some
inducement to me, yet l feel infinitely
more pleasure in rejecting with you on
the immense advantage that my country
will derive from the invention.
However, will not admit that It il
half 10 important as the torpedo system
of defense and attack for out of this will
grow the liberty of the seas; an object of
infuite importance to the welfare of
America and every civilissd country.
But thousands of persons have now
seen the steamboat in rapid movement,
and they believe-but they have not
seen a ship Of war destroyed by q tor
pedo, and they do not believe. We can
not expect people in general to have .
knowledge Of physic, or power Of mind to
combine ideas and reasons from causes to
effects. But in case We have war, and
the enemy's ships come into our waters, II
the government will give me reasonable
means Of action, I viii soon convincs the
world that we have surer and cheaper
modes of defense than they are aware of.
Yours, ETC., ROBERT FULTON.
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have selected this table because one

have selected this table because one
of the largest branches of the Memphis
wholesale trade is in cotton goods. 1t
shows where they are mostly manufac.
tured. A month ago asked two Of our
well-known and leading dry goods firms
where. they bought their Georgia cotton
goods, and the reply Of both was I" in
New York" These merchants have a
large and steadily.growing trade with
the retail merchants of Tennessee, Ala
bams, Mississippi and Arkansas, and if
such goods could be manufactured here
the wholesale trade of these merchants
would soon be quadaupled. Look at
the amounto operatives, and the amount
paid out for the raw cotton. With cot
ton factories here, would not demand
for other factories, greater or smaller,
spring up? Has not the trade in straw
berries here built up large manufacture
of boxes, baskets, ETC., and given an ad-
ditional demand for lumber and work
men? Here is