Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-04-12

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was one of the crew of the Shannon
when she fought her celebrated battle
with the Chesapeake, one of the most
sanguinary naval combats of the war of
1912, in which the gallant Lawrence fell.
exclaiming, Don't give up the shipp
AT Portage, Wis, while digging a
| well, a farmer heard a rumbling noise
below, as of rushing water, which grew
| louder as he went down. He finally
struck bed of gravel, through which a
strong current of intensely cold air rush
ed up, and on going through the bed he
came to water, which congeals as fast as
1t comes into the well.
"A new song is called: always Keep
a Smile for Mother" Some young men
will drink every drop there Is in the bot
tie without giving thought to their pa
rents; but mother, we think, is better
OFF without "smile." 1t is bad enough
for the old man to take his daily "smiles." !"
Senator Lamar, says correspon-
dent charged with desire to be graphic,
is of curious complexion. His face,
beard and hair are of dark drab color,
and strangely enough, his clothes are
the same hue. He is all a dark drab,
and looks like boss brickmaker that
dined and wined on blue mud.
An investigation into the subject of
opium eating in Jersey City, made last
week, showed that at the thirty-six drug
stores together, about twenty-five pounds
of opium, laudanum and morphine were
sold daily. This gives IA, 900 doses of
one grain each. Each drug store has
from one to five regular opium-eaters
among its customers.
-Stilson Hutchins, of the Washington
Post, remarked in a personal para
graph that Senator ConoVer ought to
shoot his hat, "a terrible old white SOM
breHO with a disreputable black band
adding that the bill for a new hat
ought to be sent to the Post Mr.. Como
yer thereupon selected a So saft hat and
sent in the bill, which was paid, This
undismayed editor chronicles the fact.
and adds: If any body can be found in
the city who is dealing in new heads we
will pay for one dozen for the use of the
Senate"
South Carolina is inclined to abolish
her penitentiary system, and to lease the
eonViots to persons or corporations who
will provide quarters and guards. This
mode has already been adopted in Geor-
gia and other States of the South. In
Georgia the companies hiring convicts
pay S11 year for each convict, and bear
the whole expense of guards. Eleven
hundred convicts are employed on these
terms on farms,- on railroads, and in
mines. Ex-Governor Brown and other
Contractors have entered into bond to
pay to the State of Georgia $500,00O in
annual installments of $4,000, for the
use of all conVicts for twenty years from
April, 1879.
Did you ever know ANYBODY to
stick to any kind of business, no matter
how uncompromising ten years at most,
who did not prosper? No one no mat
ter how bad it might be in the beginning
if he stuck to it earnestly and faith
fully, and tried nothing else; no matter
how hard he might have found it some
times to keep his head above water;
still, if he persevered, he always comes
out right in the long rum A certain
amount Of opposition is great help to a
man. Kites rise against, not with the
wind. Even a head-wind is better than
nothing. No man ever worked his voy-
age in a dead calm. The best wind for
everything in the long run, is q side
wind. If it blows aft, how is he to get
back.