Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-06-21
Whole Number 1886.
Kansas pays bounty of five cents

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A Tennessee negro stole one hundred
pounds of bacon, and was sent to prison
for nineteen years.
Mr.. John B. Cough, since 1850. has
been paid for each of his lectures an av-
erage price Of S127.
A Pittsburg woman prays in 50 loud a
tone that her neighbors have had her ar
rested for disorderly conduct.
A man and his wife committed suicide
together in Cambridge, Mass, by getting
IN the way Of railroad train.
/ In Boston bold thief stole a letter car
riers key and uniform and went over the
usual route, emptying all the boxes.
A st. Louis forger tried to swallow the
bogus check that had caused his arrest
but the officer chol1ed him until he eject
ed it.
A North Carolina woman used her
baby as a missile 30 efectually as to
knock her husband down, but it killed
the child.
A young woman of Newburg, Wis, Sc
verely thrashed her father because he
would not raise $500 to give her as a
dowry, in order to marry a man who
wanted his wife to have that sum.
A mouse placed in box with three
rattlesnakes at Anna, Ill, killed one of
the snakes, while the two remaining
ones showed the greatest fear of the
little beast, watching every move it made.
Two Holyoke women gave birth to
three babies each on the same day.
One of the fathers is described as being
"as much set up as a country store" but
the other declared that the triplets were
"too darned much of good thing"
A man in Carrollton, KY, hid 1900
in bed, under which a keg of powder
was kept. One night he went to sleep
with lighted pipe in his mouth. He
escaped, by quick jumping, a worse in
| jury than a severe scorehing; but the
money vanished.
At village Of La Clappe, France, re-
Gently, a plot of ground planted with
| vines and olive trees slowly sank and
disappeared, leaving the gulf of tunnel
shaped form about I20 feet at the bot
tom. One hundred feet from the surface
may be seen sheet of water.
There's nothing to exceed the diaboli-
cal satisfaction man viii take in an,
nouncing to his wife, after he has got his
shirt on, that there is button missing,
and the keen delight he feels in seeing
her dance around the room after needle
and thread, while she listens to a lecture
on internal eal elessness, approaches
| ecstacy. But look out when she gets
that button on, bites the button of with
a snap, and begins. 'aThere now"
AN Alabama paper says there was
a negro marriage in Talleda a few days
ago, anda few minutes after the ceremony
was performed rejected suitor Of the
| bride threw his arms around her neck,
and IN the presence of number of per-
sons inflicted upon her eight or nine
stabs, from which she died almost IN
| stantly. He then mounted the court
house steps and proclaimed, %I done it;
hang me or kill me, Just as you please.
only bury me hY Eza's side"
Last winter a Boston lady sent an
order to Worth for an evening dress,
with instructions that it should be made
tres decoLete, The great man cabled back
he wasn't making dresses that Way at
present, to which milady replied, make
it as low as possible" The gown arrived
in due time it was tres decollete, and it
was soon worn at large entertainment,
where 1T at once. attracted the attention
Of q noted wit, 10 whom the lady was
well known. After quiet survey of the \
premises, the gentleman turned TO her
with the alarmed whisper, My dear,
who undressed your Calmly raising
her eyes, she responded, "Mr. Worth |
undressed me, Mr.. -"
A most remarkable railroad accident |
happened not very long ago on the |
Northwestern road between London and |
Liverpool. A man, and his wife were |
travelling in a compartment alone, when, |
the train, going at the rate Of sixty |
miles an hour, an iron rail projecting |
from car on q side track cut into the |
carriage and took the head of the woman |
clear off and rolled it into the husbands |
lap. He. subsequently sued the company |
for damages, and created great surprise |
in court by giving his age as thirty-six |
years, although his hair was snoW-White. |
1t had been turned from jet black by the |
horror of that event.
-Bayard Taylor says that the secret Of |
his enormous power for work is an un-
falling appetite, capacity for smoking |
tobacco interminably and eight hours |
good sleep everv night. So imperative |
has the habit of sleeping at a regular |
time become that, when now and then /
he has had to defer going to bed at the |
usual time, and has tried to induce wake
fullness by drinking two or three cups Of |
the blaekest coffee, and by other means, |
he has nevertheless dropped asleep !
while working at his desk.
The fear of not succeeding, and the |
impression of this fear, often occasion |
too great an impetuosity in the pursuit |
of an enterprise. When eircumspection |
and foresight regulate and govern our |
plans, apprehension is more than hall |
overcome but whenever doubts are en- |
tertained of success, everything is decid- |
ed on in haste and without discretion! !
The term integrity can only be ap-
piled to those persons who, accustomed |
to practise every part Of social justice |
are conseientiously accurate in all their |
dealings, faithful to every trust, tena- |
cious of every promise, disdaining TO dis /
semble or prevaricate and who would !
regard every act of injustice as mean
ness to which they would scorn to stoop'
Men pursue riches under the idea |
that their possession will set them at
ease, and above the world But the law |
of association often makes those who I
begin by loving gold as servant, finish
by becoming themselves its slaves; and
Independence without wealth is at least
as common as wealth without independ-
ence. I
jenkins said that some persons were
of opinion that man could not be law
yer and adhere strictly to the truth put
for his part, he believed man could. /
Jones remarked that be hoped Jenk-
ms would begin practice right away.
An editor says the only reason why
his dwelling was not blown away in
late storm, was because there was heavy /
mortgage on it.
-"Do YOU think me guilty of false
hood ?" asked Mr.. Knott Of a gentleman
he was addressing "Sir, / must render
q verdict of Knott guilty"
"A deserted damsel struck her faith
less lover with a poker, exclaiming with
sQbs, 'You have broken my heart and
I'll break your head, sir"
Edwards Pierrepont Dufield has been
arrested at Ottumway, Iowa, for rooolng
the mails. He is a nephew OF the eN7
minister to England, after whom ne was
named.
A profusion of civility is almost as OBJ
;ectionable as a scant measure of it. The
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