Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-06-14

Mr.. John Boggs is said to own 100000
acres Of land in California and $1,000 in
Oregon.
Consumptives are now fed on hickory
nut meats, and the effect is both fatten-
ing and fattering.
An Omaha man rolled barrel of pork
two miles through the snow, and was
caught after all his hard work.
Deacon Block has been expelled from
the Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Ga,
for permitting dance in his parlor.
The long-continued blindness of a
woman in Elizabethtown, Ky., was brok-
en- by an hour of sight, after which she
became totally blind again.
Mr.. Bandit, a member of the Mime
sofa Legislature, accepted bribe of $50,
gave it to the Clerk, and exposed the
corruption, which related to the supply
of books for the public schools.
A Dubuque man, some four years ago,
buried $4,000 in field, and soon after
left the State. He returned and only
found his treasure after MANY months of
search, the old land mark having been
removed.
The Sheriff went out with a iury in
San Francisco recently and returned to
the court room in about two minutes
In the meantime notorious burglar, un-
der Indictment, climbed over a railing in
full view OF scores of people, quietly
walked out and has not since been seen.
According to the Brunswick (Me.)
Telegraph, resident of that town, who
set common four-hole spring trap for
mice in his house, found the next morn
ing that the mice had completely stuffed
the holes with lint, bits of paper and the
like. The old mice in Maine, evidently,
are great practical jokers.
Old engravings are the present 'rage"
in London, and command fabulous prices.
A collector of engravings, in selling
off some OF his stock recently, found that
he received for them as many guineas
as he had paid shillings, and another
was much surprised when one of his
prints, for which he paid only a few
Shillings was knocked down for ESQ.
"The kiss in the dark" was PLAYED as a
farce by amateurs in Mount Sterling. Ky..
up to the point where the young man
kisses the pretty girl. Then it was turn
ed into tragedy. The girls real lover,
jealous OF her stage lover, and discern
ing that the kissing was genuine and
much reIished, shot the offender on the
spot. The wound was trihing but it
brought the performance to a close.
Sister Harriet Ann Glenn is one If tba
most devout of the colored Netbodists
in Louisville. She went In a Graver
meeting in the Rev. W W Tavi3T;s
cnurch, and sat In the midst of a party
OF sco1ers. Brother Taylor stopped in
ms sermon and said, "Who's doing dat
taiKlh over oar? think it's de woman
In DE Whlte hat" The woman in the
Whlte nat was Sister Glenn and she
subsequently sued the preacher for SIAN
der but the jury refused to give her any
damage.
Each college has its leader of mischief.
and so had the one of which DR.. Plea
SAINTS was President. One day the rogues
brought COW into the building, drove
her up the stone-steps, in the passage,
and further in the narrow range of the
dormitory until at the very door of the
ringleader, it became impossible to move
her backward or forward. The Presi-
dent got wind of it; and the next day,
having heard of the active leaders in the
scheme, he proceeded to lecture on sool-
ogy, of which, toward its close, the follow
ing is the substance:
'The instinct given by the Creator is
wonderful in its various bearings upon
the preservation and propagation of the
animal kingdom; but the mammalia
claim our highest attention. The COW is
in my estimation, above all other species
of her class; for you all reeollect the
COW, which on yesterday, surmounted
every obstacle in order to find her calf P'