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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-10
Stop the Leaks.

Wherever they may be found and on
every farm they are numerous, if not
watchfully guarded against. Is the corn
yet in the field? If so, here is leak of
magnitude Squirrels, rats and perhaps
two legged vermin are pegging away at
it and the waste Is all the more impor-
tant because it is continuous. A rat and
burglar proof crib is the only secure
store-house.
Are your tools nicely cleaned and laid
away under cover or are they lying
loosely around, covered with mud and
rust? This is a leak which should be
stopped forthwith, for not only dollars
and cents are involved but bodily
strength also. Get everything under
cover, well cleaned and ready for future
use.
Is your stock provided with comforta-
bic shelter from cold winds? If not, stop
this enormous leak without loss of time,
making them as comfortable as possible.
A few days exposure during the severe
weather of winter will leak away more
than all the gains you have made for q
year.
Have you settled with your merchant
for YOUR advances for the last year, or
are you SILL duuAlS W yOuI Opl1SdtlOAS
If so, you should make all possible haste
and any required sacrifice to stop this
leak. Your ship will surely founder,
leaving you helpless and destitute, unless
you attend to this important matter
without moments delay.
Are you providing fOrthe education Of
your children and endeavoring to keep
pace with the march of improvement
yourself? Do you read, do you reflect?
If you are neglecting these important
duties, you may rest assured that this
leak, if none other, will prove your ruin.
Education is the corner stone of success
in Agricultural and al other pursuits.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-10
The Cause Of the ,SpIosiOn.

II would invite you to my house, brud-
der Jackson" said Deacon johnson, as
he emerged from church last Sunday
evening, "but l dunno as we'll get any
supper dis night, de cook stobe am so
drefully out OBJ repair"
whats de matter wild de stobe%
"Why, you see cold wedder am COM
in on, and woods gettin' skese an high
an I've 'structed de folks to be berry
eknocomical in de usin' OBJ it. We'se
bin buyin' in small lots, an las night
bein' out OBJ fuel, sent one OBJ my boys
ober to a neighbor's to borrow a few
sticks. De man or his family had gone
to bed owin' to de lateness OBJ de hour,
an dat boy, who would 'spise to do a un-
for de value OBJ de wood, an droppin' it
shouldered an armful an brought it
home"
"Jess So"
''Wen fire was kindled, de tea-kettle
put on, de ole woman she is gittin' de
supper. All OBJ sudden, puff went de
stObe, zoom; ke swish, kuslush went
something, an as I tumbled ober I saw
de ole woman maxim for de roof wild de
tea kettle an de stobe plates followin'
her, while de boys an de gals was as
brack wild smut as de ace OBJ spades. De
stObe's goose was cooked for fac"
"What was de cause OBJ de 'spIosion.?' ?'
"Pm strongly 'clined to believe dat
dar was powder in dat wood, an dat de
powder was done put in dar by dat white
man to ketch some thieVin' darkies wat
nebber buys no wood, an Dressed eff I
don't think dat man 'spects me, kase he
couldn't find dat note, an won't make
no 'pologies."
"Dat am an outrage"
'For a fact, an de children's supper
was spilled, too"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-10
LAKE SHORE < MICHIGAN SOUTH
ERN II. II.
GOING WEST.


Special Michigan Expressleaves Buffalo at
800 p. m, Erie LILO a. m, Conneaut 2:21
Ashtabula 2:55 a. M, Madison 1892 a. m, Paines.
Vile 4:c0 a. m, Cleveland 5:15 a. IN.
Special Chicago Express leaves Buffalo al
I2I5 a. m, Erie $50 a m, Ashtabula Ass,
Painesville $40, and arrives at Cleveland at
6:35 a. m.
Conneaut Accommodation leaves Conneaut
at Cos a. M, AmbOy GIL, Kingsville 6:2l, Ash
tabula d::s3 SaybrOOk 6:83 Geneva 6:53, Paines-
vile 7:2S, and arrives at Cleveland S:45 a. IN.
Toledo Express leaves Buffalo at 6;55 a. M,
Erie l0:I5, COnneaut Il:l7, AmbOy -. Kings
Vile ll:S3, Ashtabuia ll:4j pm, Saybrook ll:56
Geneva l2-0j, Painesviile I2;S9, and arrives
at Cleveland at 20u p. m.
Pacific Express leaves Buffalo l2:4O p. m,
Erie 3:55, Ashtabula 5:I5, Painesville 6:O6, and
arrives at Cleveland at 7:O5 p. m.
GOING EAST.
Atlantic Express leaves Cleveland 7:3Oa M,
Painesville $50, Ashtabula S:l5, Conneaut9: 9:2S,
Erie l0:2J, and arrives at Buffalo at los p. m.
Toledo and Buffalo Accommodation leaves
Cleveland at ll:l5 a. m, PaineSv1lle l221, Ge-
neva l:07 q. In, SaybrOOk laS. Ashtabula l:30,
Kingsville i:4f AmbOy I:54. Conneaut 202,
Erie 3:l0 Buffalo 200 p. m.
Chicago and st. Louis Express leaves Cleve-
land at 2:45 p. m, Painesville 3:3l, Ashtabula
4:l3, Erie 5:25, and arrives at Buffalo at S:C5
p. m.
Conneaut Accommodation leaves Cleveland
at $50 p. IN, Painesville 5:j9, Geneva 63S, Say
brook GAS, Ashtabula 800, Kingsville 1:l3, Ann
boy 7:23 and arrives at COnneaut at 1870 p. m.
Special New York Express leaves Cleveland
at 1890 p. m, Painesville 1l:20, Ashtabuia 1900
a. m. Erie lao and arrives at Buffalo at 400 a.
m.
pR.The Pacific Express will stop at Girard,
COnneaut. Geneva and Willoughby daily;
The Special n. Y. Express on Saturdays, and
Chicago Express on Sundays only, will stop
at all Stations for which they may have pas
sengers.
u4-Trains run by Columbus time.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-10
Whole Number 1879
A ReYOlutiOnizing Threat.

Ihave heard the story as applied loose
ly, but as Jenkinson's father-in-law tells
it, it has more of point and pith than in
the other cases. JenkinsOn was the man
who entered the complaint He was
young merchant, and had married the
daughter of an old merchant, and said
daughter was inclined to be headstrong
and independent, plainly giving her iege
lord to understand that she should be
her own mistress and do as she pleased.
Jenkinson regarded this as an outrage,
and in the plentitude of his indignation
he betook himself to his Wife's father,
and there entered complaint, deep and
bitter; against the fair recusant. and, un-
fortunately, in his laundering he more
than half intimated that the girl had not
been brought up as she ought to have
been. But the old man BETRAYED no i'll
feeling toward his son-in-law.
Did the vixen say she would do as
she had q mind to doT
Eyes, sir"
"And she makes you generally uneom-
Portable p
'tShe does indeed, sir"
Goodness mel What ingratitude
And only last week Igave her that beau
L4sul SCI VI IuDl6S.
Il know it, sir"
"JenkinsOn, 1 paid 81 200 for those
stones and the setting"
81 should say they were cheap at
that"
$50 they were, so they were, and I
thought they would make her so happy
and so good. But have plan in my
mind. shall put up with no more re-
ports of her shortcomings. She thinks
she will inherit a fat piece of property
from her old father, but she may find
herself mistaken. have given her the
rubies, but will give her nothing more
until know that she has mended; and
if hear another word of her wilfulness
-ifI hear another world will scratch
her name from my will and leave her
but lesson on behavior. If she troubles
you any more, you can tell her what I
say; and be sure mean it. 1t is time
she should allow her old father to rest in
peace.
A month later, and the old merchant
asked his daughter how she was flourish
ing at home.
20, grandly J. she cried. "You won't
believe how good and kind James is. He
isn't cross any more at ALL"
The old man nodded with satisfaction.
His threat had had its efect.-ReGdia0
E10Le
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-10
POlyandry in Thibet.

A noticeable feature in the national
life is the immense number of mOnaS-
terles and nunneries which are to be
found scattered over the country. In the
neighborhoOd of Lhasa alone there are
eleven monasteries, in which are clois-
tered upwards of 10000 monks, and the
nunneries are found in like proportion.
This apparent devotion to spiritual con-
Germs is at first sight calculated to arouse
our admiration and sympathy, but a
little consideration suggests the idea
that the religious feryOr of these Tibetan
monks and nuns is a good deal height
ened by a keen sense of sordid self
interest. If the blood of martyrs is the
seed of churches, poverty, especially in
the East, has a wonderful effect in null
tiplying the crop. To men who have
no taste for the hard labor demanded by
the soil from its tillers, and to women
who have no means of gaining iveli-
hood for themselves, the secluded idle
ness and secured meals of q monastery
or nunnery present attractions which it
is next to impossible to resist. The
women also have an excuse for entering
religious orders which is denied to men,
for there exists in Thibet one of those
extraordinary marriage customs which
are occasionally met with in out-of-the-
way parts of the world, and which are
to be explained only by reference to the
surrounding circumstances of the people.
A numerous progeny in a poor and
sterile country, is doubtless a distinct
evil, and it is one which naturally sug-
gests the imposition of check even to
those who have never heard of Nautilus
or his doctrines. This we may suppose
to have been the position of the Tibetans
whensthey cast about for some plan by
which they might limit the increase
the population. The plan they adopted
for this purpose is almost unique, and is
called polyandry, which may be explain
ed as the exact reverse of polygamy
for, as in most Eastern countries it is
lawful for man to have a plurality of
wives, in Thibet it is the custom for
woman to have plurality of husbands.
The usual practice is for two, three or
four brothers in a household to marry
one wife. They all reside in one house,
and the children are considered to be
the joint offspring of all. It is incon-
ceivable to us that such system should
exist for an hour; but in Thibet, far
from giving rise to the evils which
might be expected to flow from it, it
works easily and well, and the pictures
which travellers give US of Thibetan
households display degree of domestic
happiness and affection which certainly
equals that enjoyed in much more favor
ed lands. This is a description Mr..
Boyle gives of family at whose house
he spent the night: 'gThe house belongs
to two brothers, who are married to
very handsome wife, and have three
of the prettiest children 1 ever saw.
They all came to drink tea and eat
After night came on the
whole family assembled in a room to
dance to their own singing, and spent
two hours IN this manner with abund.
of mirth and glee."
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-10
A Country Editors Way.

The sayings and doings of the country
editor are not so notable now days az
in the old times when rural papers we're
rarely conducted on a cash basis, and the
plants of the worried fellow on the tri-
pod, who accepted cordwOOd or dried
pumpkins or almost anything eatable
or saleable for subscriptions, were fire.
quent and painful and free. Men in des-
perate straits are afflicted with strange
whimsies, and the expression Of those
disgusted literary lights were often strlk-
ingly original and exceedingly grotesque.
Now, however, things are different, and
rarely does the country editor excel in
his old specially. A recent case over in
Kentucky, where an editor spoke right
ouI," is, therefore, exceptionally notable.
He was walking recently upon the street,
enjoying the balmy spring atmosphere,
and wondering whether, in the year to
come, his paper would be established
upon a paying basis, when he became
aware of sudden giggling and titterlng
behind him. He turned and saw the
source of the merriment. Two we'll
dressed ladies, prominent in the town,
were in his rear, and laughing heartily.
Much to the poor editors surprise, their
attention seemed especially directed to
some popularity about his exterior.
Much twisting and writhing, while grind
ing out mental productions seated in a
hard bottomed chair, had told upon the
fail texture of his pantaloons, and the
cloth had finally yielded. The editors
wife-good, thrifty woman-had repaired
the damage as best she could; but, be-
cause new cloth matches poorly with the
old,evidences of her handiwork were all
too plainly visible. Hence the cruel
laughter of the ladies behind the coun-
try editor. The poor man fed to his
office in shame. Then his manhood as
serted itself, and he sat down upon the
patch and wrote something for the paper.
His next issue contained this paragraph:
As we walked past couple OF ladies'
on the street the other day, one of them,
so we are informed, observed a large
patch on our pants, and made merry
over the discovery. Well, we do wear
old clothes, it is true; but we might af-
ford to treat ourselves to better ones if
the husband of the woman we refer to
would come to the Office and pay us SIS,
which he has been owing for a long time
for subscribtion and job work"
Doubtless" said a logical old English
clergyman, "God might have made a
better berry than the strawberry, but
doubtless God never did" Doubtless
some country editor might make point
more neatly, but, doubtless, none ever
did. If that little bill of $18 was not
settled up within a week after the ap-
pearance of his paper then there is no vir-
tue in pungency. And the occurrence IS
recent and a literal one.-St. Louis Re
publican. .''
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-10
MarTelOus dental Feat,

Tooth carpentry bids fair to be robbed
of its terrors, for it has come to pass that
decayed and torturing teeth can be taken
out, cleaned, filed, repaired, and re-
placed in the jaw. DIR. D. B. Rundle, of
Monticello, has for some months been
asking himself the question, eff broken
and separated bones and lacerated flesh
would unite and become sound, why not
the teethP He resolved to try the ex-
pertinent when he found subject. The
latter turned up in the person of stall
wart blacksmith with a decayed and
painful molar, the first on the right side
of the lower teeth. The doctor extract
ed it and found it slightly decayed, but
with two ulcerous sacs at the point Of
the prongs. He explained the new the
ory to the patient, who was desirous to
save the tooth, and he told the dentist
to 90 ahead. The ulcers were removed,
the tooth drilled and plugged with gold,
the proprietor holding it while the dem
tist did the JOB, which required two
hours. The tooth was replaced In its
socket, and now, after ten days, it has
become firm as before.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-10
TIE HOME CONCERT.

We'll, Tom, my boy, must bid you good-by.
I've had wonderful visit here;
Enjoyed il, too, as well as could
Away from all that my heart holds dear.
Maybe I've been tribe rough
A little awkward, your wife would say
OF your city polish day by day.
But somehow, Tom, though the same old roof
Sheltered US both when we were boys,
And the same dear mother-lOve watched Us both
Sharing our childish griefs and joys,
Yet you are almost stranger now;
Your ways and mine are as far apart
As though we never had thrown an arm
About each other with owing heart
Your city home is palace Tom;
Your wife and children are fair to see;
you couldn't breathe in the little cot,
The little home, that belongs 70 me.
And am lost IN your grand large house,
And dazed with the wealth on every side,
And hardly know my brother, Tom,
In the midst Of so much stately pride.
Yes. the concert was grand, last night
The singing splendid; but, do you know,
Ny heart kept longing, the evening through,
For another concert, so sweet and low
Ofone so cultured and grand as you;
But TO its music-laugh if you will
Ny heart and thoughts must ever be true
I shut my eyes in the hall last night
For the clash Of the music wearied mel,
And close to my heart this vision came
The sane sweet picture always see:
In the vine-clad porch OF q cottage home,
Half in shadow and half In sum-
A mother chanting her lullaby,
Rocking 10 rest her little one
And son and sweet as the music fell
From the mothers lips heard the COO
OF my baby girl, as with drowsy tongue
She echoed the song with -GoO-a1goo."
Together they sang, the mother and babe,
Ny wife and child, by the cottage door.
All thdt is the concert, brother Tom,
Ny ears are aching 10 hear once more
So now goOd-by. And wish you well,
And many q year of wealth and gain.
You were born to be rich and gay;
lam content TO be poor and plain.
And go back TO my country home
With love that absence has strengthened too
Back to the concert all my own
Mothers singing and baby's COO.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-10
COWhide HOrSeShOes,

In England they are adopting horse
shoe made of cowhide, and known astbe
Yates shoe. 1t is composed ofthree thick
nesses of cowhide compressed intoa steel
mould, and then subjected to a Chemical
preparation. It is claimed for it that If
lasts longer and weighs only one-fourth
as much as the common iron shoe, that
it will never cause the hoof to split, nor
have the least injurious influence on
the foot. 1t requires no calks; even on
asphalt the horse never slips. The shoe
Is so elastic that the horses stepis light
er and surer. 1t adheres soclosely to the
foot that neither dust nor water can PEN
citrate between the shoe and hoof In
Japan they formerly shod their horses
with straw, and the European or Radical
party is distinguished from the Conser-
Vatives by the iron shoes of their horses
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-10
How he Married the Bankers Daughter.

Adolph q. is young, prepOssessing,
and a clerk in a wealthy bankers office
in Paris, on a salary of 5000 year. The
banker has a pretty daughter of 18.
Adolph has not a cent, but that does
not deter him from waiting upon his
employer one morning and saying: 'Sir,
Ihaye the honor of asking your daugh-
ters hand in marriage" The banker as
tonished, rang the bell, and told the wal
ter to throw Adolph out of the window.
"As you please" calmly said the clerk,
"but before that is done learn that am
about to become a partner in the Lon
don house of Bathurst & Co" Atthis the
banker softens. "The proof, sir, the
proof Of what you say" "Give me forty
eight hours in which to go to England,
and I will bring you the proof. Adolph
hurries to London, presents himself at
the Office of Bathurst d Co, and says:
81 have come to propose that you take
me as 8 partner" and, as Mr.. Bathurst
looks as though he thought AdOlph de-
mented, he adds: II am about to marry
the daughter of NJ. P, of Paris" Adolph
is thereupOn asked to be seated. They
converse and come to terms. The bright
Young man returns to Paris carrying to
his future fatherSin-law the proof Of his
statement and the young people are
welded.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-10
HOnOrs to Stanley.

Henry NJ. Stanley recently made a
speech defending his conduct towards
the Bambirch natives, for warning
against whom he has been severely crit
icised by humanitarians. He was fre-
quently applauded, and Lord Houghton
spoke kindly of him on behalf of the
English people.
Previous to the dinner, at which this
speech was made, Mr.. Stanley was visit
ed by deputation of the Royal Geo
graphical Society. Mr.. Stanley gave Sir
rutherford Alcock, the President, to un-
derstand that the society must take for
granted that he had acted while in Afri-
ca honestly and honorably. If they had
my doubt on that point, or any suspicion
that he had been wantonly numbering
negroes, he would prefer not to receive
the deputation. This frank and manly
statement was met in similar spirit.
Col. Yule, of the Geographical Society,
opposed extending any courtesies to Mr..
Stanley until he had Yindicated himself
from the charge of cruel slaughter re-
ferred to. On this subject Mr.. Smalley,
the Tribune correspondent, says, "The
savages of Bambirch-the savages who
shortly before had been foiled in an eff
1OAO W NIL OIdAllCy 14LlSSit-udu uluT-
dered even Stanley's allies-a friendly
chief among them. If he had allowed
this outrage to pass unavenged, what
would have been thought of him by the
Africans themselves? They would have
said, This man is fool he allows his
friends to be murdered, and does not
avenge them; it Will be safe to destroy
him. His own men would have said
also: Master is fool; he does not pro-
tsct those who serve him; we shall all
be killed five follow him further News
of that kind spreads with rapidity. Fresh
foes, emboldened by his apparent timid-
ity, would have sprung up at every step.
1t is probably not too much to say that
though he had many other battles be-
fore him, he owes his safe return TO that
one act of courage and decision. Such.
at any rate, l believe to be his own con.
viction, and l must say l think Stanley's
judgment of the state of public opinion
in Central Africa better worth taking
than that of sundry dissenting members
of the Royal Geographical Society thou
sands ofmiles aWay,n
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-10
AsHTABULA, OHIO, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1878

the half OF what she was to receive from
the company, and he was to take it and
go forever from her sight, and let her
pursue her destiny as she saw fit. To
ms he agreed, and after borrowing $40
OF her left her 10 complete her wedding
garments.
That $40 was disastrous investment
Nh. Bigsby could not resist the tempta-
ton to 60 into the Fifth Avenue Hotel
for drink, and though he kept his hat
well down about his eyes, he was recog-
nlzed by an acquaintance who happened
to know something about the snit Mrs.
Blgsby had prosecuted against the rail-
road company, and also about the inn
pending marriage of Mrs Bigsby with
the widower i'll the next block.
Need We say what happened2 This
friend was an employe in the New York
Office of the Lake Shore road, and duty
to his employers compelled him to act
promptly. A telegram from him to the
office of the company at Cleveland set
tied Mrs. Bigsby's hopes of the $4,000.
But this meddling friend did not stop
with that. He knew of the impending
wedding, indeed he was an invited guest.
He got to the church Just in time. The
contracting parties were at the altar, and
the officiating clergyman had commenced
the ceremony. He had got to the point
of asking if any one knew of any reason
why the parties should not be indissO-
lubly riveted, when a clear voice rang
out Eyes"
"Who objects% % asked the clergyman.
''G do" was the response.
''The reason" demanded the clergy
man.
81 took a square drink with the lady's
husband last night, at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. He is not a corpse, or if he is he
absorbs well. That is the impediment.
1t might be of no earthly account in
Utah, but in New YorkIit won't answer"
The clergyman thought likewise, and
so the wedding was postponed. Mrs.
Bigsby Wept bitter tears, and suggested
to her husband that Vas to be, that Bigs-
by could be very easily killed; but as he
is a weak and milk-hearted creature, he
declined to imbue his hands in gore,
even for so charming a woman as Mrs.
Bigsby, especially as the inopportune ap-
pearance of her husband precluded the
possibility of getting the $4,000 that she
would have been entitled to, had he
actually persisted in the disaster.
And so she sits and Weeps in her lone
ly room, and murmurs at the inscrutable
DEGREES of fate. The children of the
widower came to her no more, the wild
over has discontinued his visits from
motives of delicacy, and all the human
being she sees is man in shocking
clothes, the supposed deceased, who
comes regularly to borrow half-dollar
which she has to give him to get rid of
him. It is a cold and heartless world,
and Mrs. Bigsby was spared, when SO
many really good people feel it acutely.
She wonders why Bigsby wasn't killed.
-NeW York Mad.