Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-10-11
The Great z Elephant Railroad
Menagerie and Circus.

MenageFie and Circus
No similar exhibition has received such
unanimous aud comprehensive eulOgies
from the press wherever 1t has exhibited,
as the magnificent animal and arenie COM
bination Of the Sells Bros, which will be
presented here, in all its undivided per-
lection and oYershAdowing vastness, on
Monday October 2lst. It depends not up
on mere Advance assertion, but upon after
evidence to substantiate its promises, and
what the character of that evidence is,
may be gathered from the following notice
in that influential and candid journal, the
Cleveland Daily Leader, Of recent date:
''The procession, which viii be repeated
through Superior aud other principal
streets this morning. is Rll, in extent var
iety and novel sensation that has been
claimed The menagerie contains the
Quinxotic doUble-horned rhinoceroS that
attempted duel with the locomotive in
Pittsburgh; a superb horned horse Of
Ethiopia, and an unusually large and rare
collection of wild beasts and birds in fine
form and feather, cleanly and evidently
well cared for. Those illustFious suckers,
the pair of twin nursing baby elephants,
are notable feature. and they rival the
political outs in bawling when deprived Of
their pap-bottles by their stern wet-nurse,
Willis Cobb. How the carnal-minded did
applaud and uprOariouslY laugh in the
separate tent which canOpies the forbidden
land of the circus, which so very few. go to
see and so very many get into by mistake!
The acts were numerous, artistically supe-
rior, and presented with electrifying vim.
Miss Viola Rivers is rarely-accomplished
and bewitching equestrienne; Charles
Ewers and little Willie Sells deserves a
front rank among ell bareback riders;
the Milton Jaspers are marvelously pre-
eminent as gymnasts; Sam Rlnehsrdt leads
in magnificent somersault leaps oyer ele-
phants and camels; the mid air ventures
Of Thomas and Clinton Jaspar are almost
terrifying; the tnmbling is fine, and the
miniature circus of Willis Cobt, in which
that remarkable trainer introduces his
equestrian goats, riding monkeys and ed
ueated dogs, is alone we'll worth the price
OF admission, and indeScribably ludicrous.
Polite and rigidly y-decorous management
presides everywhere over an exhibition nm
excelled in all essential requisites to tent
amusement, and unequaled in many re-
markable possessions and presentations.
ANNUAL MEETING.-The annual meeting
of the Ashtabula County Christian Tenn
perancs Union will be held in Austinburg
on Tuesday, Nov. 5th, commencing at 10
q. m. All temperance organizations in
the county are invited to send delegates
zone for each hundred members or fraction
Of hundred, and also a large advisory
delegation. Let US meet and consider
plans for conducting the campaign during
the coming year. The agents of alcohol
are active; let us be active in the use Of
those forces which are ''mighty through
God to the pulling down of the strong
holds" of drunkenness. Addresses will be
given by DR.. E: B. Linn, E. ]. Pinney,
Esq, F. A. Pettibone, Esq, and Gen. w.
H. Gibson, of Tifin, Ohio.
J. TUcKERMAN. Pres.
CIV. JAQUEs, Sec'y.
A Wisconsin exchange gives more de-
tailed version of the Tilden trick than we
have met. The books stolen were those of
Tilden's New York mine. The books were
placed in pile near the door, where they
would be handy to grab by one of Tiiden's
attorneys, and the door was left in favor
able condition, by arranging chock upon
the spring lock, so that it could be readily
opened. The thieves took the road to Ne
gaunee and pursuit was made on horseback
and the carriage Overtaken between Ne
gaunee and Ishpeming. The books and
the thief however had been dropped some
where on the road. The evidence ELECTED
from the books was so damaging and con.
elusive that United States District Attor-
ney Sherman had ordered copy of them
made and attested, ito be used at the trial,
and Tilden's attorneys took these means of
preventing the accomplishment of his in
structions. 1t is alleged that the income
alone of this mine was mere than the en-
tire amount upon which Tilden paid his
income taxes.
The kilograms sent back and forth in
preparation for the theft of the books of
the N. Y. Mine were carried on in cypher
similar to those that emanated from Gram
macy Park during the Tilden campaign
The case af the theft is under examination
at Detroit, and the parties to the transac-
tion are placed upon the stand. The car
riage was procured by the General Supt.
Of the mine, and Headly, the attorney,
drove the carriage and the books were de-
ivered to the clerk of company. The
whole thing was Tilden trick and car
ried out by his procurement. It's another
phase of reform.
1T takes 5000 feet of lumber upon
to spread the show bills Of the great 7 FL