Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-04-19


Charles II. Spurgeon, Of the London
Tabernacle, is preaching very successfully
in Australia, where he has gone to recruit
his health.
As an induoement to the ungOdly to
enter upon a life of religious observance,
an Edg2rtown (Mass.) man offers a
chrome to any person in that place attend
ing church service every Sunday morning
for the next six months.
Beecher's CONGREGATION was increased
last year by the accession of "a members,
and the membership numbers 2,545. The
contributions, however, amounted to only
s1O.429. but the amount raised from pew
rents was $4,000.
1t is said that at dinner parties in
Spain the oldest lady present is seated
first. When that plan was tried in New
York many years ago it resulted in the
coIlations given at evening parties where
everybody stands up.
New Haven, with $4,000 inhabitants,
Aas So churches. The Congregationalists
have 10, the Methodists Is, the Episco-
palians 10, the Catholics seven, the Bap-
fists six, the Jews two, and the Lutherans
and Universalists one each.
al have los my appetite" said
gentleman well known for his able per-
formance on the trencher. "I hope"
said his friend, that no poor man has
found it, for it would ruin him in a
week."
Japan cultivates 100000 acres, one
tenth of her entire area, though about
one-fourth of her fertile area. She sup
ports a population of three and half
persons to every cultivated acre. Most
Of her people live on fish and vegetables;
her great lack is live stock Milk is not
used as an article of food, and what few
COWS theypOssess are employed forplowing.
Special pleading has been long abol-
ished in the New England States, and
replications, rejoinders, rebutters, and
surrebutters have fallen into disuse.
When they obtained, it was once alleged,
in the pleadings of a case brought upon
a marine policy of insurance, that the
vessel was wrecked and totally lost by the
act of God, and through no fault of the
owners or persons on board. The oppo-
site attorney "traversed" in rejoinder,
''that whereas, in truth and in fact, the
said loss aoas not the act ofthe SAID
God, but occasioned solely by the bar
ratrous and fraudulent course Of the mas
teri"
Brother N, a highly respecta-
bic member of the legal profession
in an adjoining county, was always
sound in matters of law, but never par
tlcularly brilliant in the presence of that
great palladium of American liberty and
umbrella of our rights sometimes called a
Jury. On one occasion his exordium in
criminal case rather detracted from his
influence. "Coming from all parts of
the county as you do, gentlemen, and ac-
uuainted with all kinds of rascality as all
Of you undoubtedly are" (here the fore
man smiled) "and especially you, Mr..
Foreman, I doubt if case of equal afro
city to this ever was within your expert
ence p
Sin continues to pervade certain
parts of Iowa, though vigorous efforts are
made to extripate it. A praiseWorthy
effort in that direction was made recent
ly in one Of the enterprising towns Of
that State. A prominent banker, noted
for exacting more than legal "usance" on
loans, was active at revival, and while
wrestling in prayer, besOught the Lord to
humble the rebellious spirits of sinners,
that they might take more interest in Sc
rious things. eyes," remarked an un-
awakened citizen, ''three per cent. a
month, with real estate 'oollats.'" Every
body in meetin' seemed to know what
was meant.
-"The counsel for the plaintiff" said
a gay and festive attorney of the Superior
Court, "has been somewhat discursiye in
his remarks to you. He has alluded to
almost everything in the pages of history,
ancient and modern. He has socked
with old Socrates, roamed with old Rom
illus, ripped with old Euripides, and can
ted with old Cantharides. But gentle
men of the jury, what has that got to do
with this case? All his allegations are
false, and the old alligator knows it him
self. My client don't need any of this
fine talk. Look at him, gentlemen, and
say, if you can, that he hasn't done the
honest thing by the plaintiff From his
youth up he has been as you now find
him-A No. /, extra inspected, scaled
and screened, copper-fastened, free from
scoots, silver-steel, buck-horn handle,nine
yards to the dollar, thread throwed In.
AS illustrating the manner in which
the true New England Yankee always
evades being "cornered," Arthur Gilman
tells capital story of Yankee school
master who was always Dragging about
the United States. In conversation with
an Englishman he said, owe can lick
you right smart. We've allus done it,
and we can do it again. At Lexington,
Concord, Saratoga, Bunker. Hill, and lots
of them places we give you fits. F."
ayes" said the Englishman, II do re-
member those places; but then therewas
the battle of White Plains at which the
Americans suffered a severe defeat, and
were much disheartened]. We rather
beat you there"
"Wa'al you did. I forgot all about
that. 1 shouldn't have thought of it if
you hadn't a-spoke of it. But then, you
see, at that battle the Americans some
how didn': seem to take any interest IN
the fight"
I'm good old times, when the youth
full mind received its impression of Maine
from the representation, "Parley's Geog-
raphy for Children" of a Penobscot
chief, adorned with feathers, warpaint,
and tomahawk, monarch of all he sur
Veyed, among the shingles of Bangor, a
trial for murder occurred in that city,
wherein one Of the aborigines was the
most important witness for the prosecu-
ton. On the preliminary examination
whether he comprehended the nature and
effect of an oath the wild child of the f,r-