Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

a OOCl6Iy IOI lu6 suppression VI
Vice" has been formed at York, Pa, with
over one hundred members.
Official salaries at Worcester, Mass,
have been reduced to the extent of 81 900.
A much larger reduction was proposed.
Pic Nino outlived almost every cardi-
nal who took part in his election and
saw a change in the ruler of every
European Kingdom except England.
The shipments of lumber from Lock
Haven, Pa, for 1877 aggregated 39,6S1,-
900 feet, against 20,915,000 feet in 1876,
and 39, sol 900 feet in 1875.
The Augusta (Me.) Monument Associa-
ton is about to advertise for proposals
for the erection of soldiers monument,
to cost not less than $1,000 nor more
than $4,000.
John Young, inventor of the clothes
wringer, died at Amsterdam, n. Y, re-
Gently, in poverty. He sold his patent
to a Boston firm for $1,000 before its
great value was appreciated.
The Rev. DR.. Behrends, of Providence,
R. L, has declined call to the Madison
Avenue Congregational Church, New
York, with guaranteed salary of $12,-
600 per annum, saying he is contented
with his present position, and is getting
all he is worth.
The Siamese Government has applied
to Mr.. B. G. Northrop of Hartford, Conn.,
for information in regard to the Chinese
students now in this country, with a
view of sending thirty sons of Siamese
princes and mobiles to be educated in
American institutions.
The San Francisco Chronicle declares
that there can be no longer temporizing
with the alien agitators who "would
speedily inaugurate in California reign
of terror, in proud imitation of Danton
and Robespierre, and sit in the luxury
of pillage and blood"
MiIlard Carr, of Steubenville, Ohio,
entered a freight car at Steubenville
with view of reaching Pittsburgh, but
the car was locked and he was reluct-
antly compelled to journey to Altoona,
being without either food or water for
three days and three nights.
The Springfield Mass armory is turn
ing out about eighty guns per day, using
large number of parts of the old muz-
zle-loaders, which would otherwise be
almost entirely valueless. There are
10000 guns in the arsenal that might
be in part utilized in this way.
According to the Boston Herald, many
members of the Legislature of Massa-
chusetts believe that a grammar school
education is as high grade of instruc-
ton as people should be taxed for, and
it looks for movement against the High
School system before the close of the
session.
Georgia is said to have 1,264,44O hogs
and 1884, ,24O inhabitants. Thus, there
is in the State one porker to each man,
woman and child, 200 over; enough to
furnish bacon and lard for the entire
population, if of the right breeds and
well fattened. As a rule, however,
Georgia swine are not prize porkers.
Prince Hassan, son of the Khedive
and commander. of the Egyptian con-
tingent, complains bitterly of Turkish
neglect, while the Turks charge that, al
though his men are brave, they do not
fight heartily. A considerable portion of
the 10000 Egyptian troops are coal-black
negroes from the Soudans who cannot
stand exposure to cold weather.
In order to test the willingness of the
unemployed men in San Francisco to
work for a living, the Central Pacific
Railroad Company decided to begin fill
ing in large tract of land around Mis-
sion Bay, and give employment to one
thousand men. They receive 81 day,
and are paid off every night. The COM
pany found no difficulty in getting all
the men required.
Edward" said mother to her son,
boy of eight, who was trundling hoop
in the front yard, Edward, you mustn't
go out of that gate into the street. ''No,
ma, won't" was the reply. A few
minutes afterward his mother saw him
in the street manufacturing dirt pies
"Didn't tell you" she said angrily, mot
to go through the gate !" "We1l, 1 didn't
mother" was the reply. "I climbed the
fence"
"A new bracelet, outwardly of most
chaste, innocent and beautiful design, but
inwardly ravening wolf, has just been
invented and thrown on the market. It
has a wicked little secret spring that
reaches out and nips fellow by the cuff
the moment he touches it and holds him
there until 'pa" can come into the par
Ior and, gazing sternly upon the affec-
tionate and perturbed tableaux, demand
of the young man what are his intentions.
A Miss Moore, of Falls county, Texas,
was recently preparing for her marriage.
and invited friend named Miss Will
lams to assist her. In rummaging about
among some clothing an old pistol was
found, which, being carelessly handled
by Miss Williams, exploded and shot
Miss Moore dead. She was buried on
the day before appointed for her wed.
ding, and Miss Williams has since be.
come hopelessly deranged through grief
As, at a wedding in Hoyne avenue
the other evening, they were gathered
around the happy couple (the bride was
widow congratulating them, an over
sensitive friend burst into tears and
sobbed "How glad am her poor, dear
Arthur is not alive to see this dayl 1t
would have broken his heart to see his
wife married to some one else" Then
she went into Mysteries and was removed,
having cast gloom over the community.
-'Now Edward, you told a lie. Didn't
mamma tell you where you'd go if you
told lie% ''Es mamma, but l heard
papa say to 90 tother day dat Mr..
Preacher said dere was no bad place, an
now I can tell as many whoppers as l
want to-" "Come into the closet, you
little william" She yanked him in and
in less than a minute he began to be-
lieve that if there was hell in the next
world there was something very like it
in his mothers slipper.
Having served. eight years in the
Jersey prison for burglary, John O'Neil
wandered over to New York, and, for
lack OF some other place of shelter,
siouched into a mission house. There
was music in his soul, and the hymn
touched him nearly. He was noticed in
lear ms history was inquired into;
employment was found for him: he he,
came regular attendant at the services
OF the mission; and has just led to the
altar the leader of the choir, with n lot
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