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Snakes and Their Habits.

If the rattlesnake uses his rattles as a
love note have never observed it; but
that he uses it as slogan of war, and
TO gather the clans to the fray, l have
Seen and heard the pibroch sounding,
sounding from afar. In 1860 had an
experience in which one answered the
call for assistance. Up to 1869 | had
met with many of them, and have
never known them to spring their
rattles unless excited by anger or with
in hearing distance of one in trouble,
when they would answer and come in
haste. When gorged they will remain
undisturbed, apparently unconscious of
the enemy; but let a dog come on the
ground, and peaceis at an end-it is
fight or run. do not know of any
thing that will excite them so quickly
as dog, and they seem to smell dog
at a considerable distance. Their food
is rats, mice, birds and eggs, young
rabbits, squirrels and toads. A rattle
for every year is no criterion to Judge
age by. l have known one instance of
two rattles being matured in one year,
and believe that if they could be
carefully noticed there would be in
stances of still more. l have seen q
snake with three rattles larger in
| length and girth than one with thir-
teen rattles both killed on the same day.
Have seen one with seven rattles larger
than one with twelve rattles, both killed
on the same day. Twenty eight rattles
is the greatest number of rattles | have
seen on one snake, and it was not so
large as some | had seen with a less
number of rattles. OF the mortal
enmity existing between the black snake
and the rattlesnake, two instances have
come under my notice, in each of which
the rattlesnake proved an arrant
coward, making a great noise, while
the black snake done all the fighting
if | may call it fighting; it was rather a
strangling and squeezing. My atten-
ton was aroused to it by the rattle
snake passing close to me, paying no
attention to my presence, but appar-
emily trying to get away from some
thing in pursuit, his rattles springing
to their loudest note. | was in the
act of throwing the gun up to stop him,
when the black snake passed like a
flash; going five yards to the rattle
snakes one, and the way he seized
that rattlesnake by the back of the neck
and went around him was something
wonderful. My experience with the
king snake and the moccasin ran
through course of thirteen years, and
in that time have seen the king snake
get outside of the moccasin many times.
When the king first seizes his prey, he
coils arnnnA ~ until fl,oN nj, 90
like ball, turning occasionally and
biting the coils of the mocGasin. After
being sometime in the coil, he will
open out, and if the moccasin shows
signs of life, it receives another EN-.
brace. When life is extinct, the king
snake stretches out its victim and com,
mences at its head. 1t takes some
time to gorge, especially if the one
going inside is about as large as the one
crawling outside. FOREST and Stream.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-28

room, somewhat worn and thin, to be
sure, and big, greedy cavernous hol-
lows of grief in his face; but as he took
Jenny in his arms, these hollows filed
up with joy, and his whole being
seemed to dilate with strength and
gladness.
"Surely you can't be so very, uery
i'll, dearie?" whispered Jenny, looking
coaxingly into his eyes.
Pm Pm little BETTER" said Mac,
slyly winking at poor Shiel, and kiss
ing her again and again.
"Then don't mind being a beggar,
DEAR" pursued Jenny. LET them sell
what they will, they can't sell you, and
we can all go and live in our old nest
again"
And give over this fine one to Jean
and her Professor" said Mac.
"But the creditors cried Jenny.
"There is the only man to whom
owe any thing in this world - said
Mac, pointing to Shiel.
Jenny looked about her rather rue
fully, and said to Shiel: Cant we go
back to the old nest, Shiel? Can't we
all 90 back?" Shiel was near the door,
and caught both her hands in his.
"There are no birds in last years
nests,' said poor Shiel, and lett them
alone together Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-28
THE CLOUD.

The cloud lay low in the heavens,
Such little cloud it seemed;
just lightly touching the seas broad breast,
Where the rose-hght fingered across the west,
Soft and gray as in innocent rest,
While the gold athwart it cleaned.
1t looked such harmless cloudlet,
Seen over the sleeping wave
Yet the keen-eyed mariner shook his head
As slowly it crept over the dusky red
" See the rocket-lines are clear" he said,
And his lips set stern and grave.
And or ever the eve was midnight,
That cloud was lowering black,
Dimming the light of the stars away
Dimming the flash of the furious spray.
As the breakers crashed in the northern bay;
Winds bowling on their track.
So, in life's radiant morning,
May tiny care or cross
just trouble the peaceful course of love,
As lf.the strength of its sway to prove,
As if to whisper. My surface may move,
But my roots can laugh at loss.
1t may seem such little jarring
Only Experience signs,
For with times sad learning to sharpen tn
glance,
He sees the :" rift in the lutte" advance,
Knows how fate may seize upon circumstance
To sever the closest ties.
All, me, in the iercest tempest
The llfe-boat It's work may do;
But what can courage or skill avail,
When the heart lies wrecked by passions gale.
When change or death have furled the sail
When treason has bribed the crew?
Then watch, oh hope and gladness,
Watch for the rising cloud,
Sun IT away, frank warmth of youth,
Blow it away, bright breeze of truth
For oh, there is neither mercy or ruth
Should 1t once your heaven enshroud.
All the Year Round
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hemet Ali; was sent to a military school;

hemet Ali; was sent to military school;
was graduated with distinction, and
in 1858 received his commission.
He went campaigning against the
Russians; served with great credit on
Omar Pasha's staff; fought against the
Montenegrins and in Arabia; was made
a colonel in 1868, and general with
the rank of Pasha in 1865. AS a gen
eral officer he served against the Mon
tenegrins and in Crete, and in 1873 was
made commander-in-chief in Thessaly.
Here he put down instruction with
strong arm, and from anarchy brought
enforced peace: In 1876 he assumed
command of Novi-Bazar, post of
great strategic importance, and for
some time was engaged in operations
against the insurgent Servians. While
holding this post, Russia declared war.
He was sent at once at the head of an
army corps against the Montenegrins,
and it was not until the Russians fairly
were across the Danube that he was
given an opportunity to get at them.
After the passage of the river he was
appointed to succeed the incompetent
Abdul Kerim-although no control was
given him over Suleiman in the West
and Osman at Plevna-and he engaged
in series of inconclusive battles with
the Czarewitch. An ugly jealousy he
tween him and Suleiman tended to
lessen the effectiveness of the Turkish
forces, and to this jealousy in part may
be attributed the carrying by the Rus
SLAMS of the Schipka Pass. Mehemet
Ali did not win an important battle
during the war, and his last attempt to
carry out an important movement-the
relief of Plevna-was flat failure But
he succeeded in retaining the confidence
of his royal master, and on the con-
vening of the Congress he turned up
at Berlin as the second representative
of Turkey. And now he has made his
last appearance before the world, and
his light has been snuffed out, never tC
be relighted on earth. According to &
Reuters dispatch from Constantinople
he was sent down ''to pacify Albania >
But his mission was not success. Al
Yacona he and his escort were attacked
by the insurgent forces, and during the
engagement, Mehemet Ali, together
with POO of his men, We're killed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-28
An Obtuse Man.

SHE was a stylish young lady about
eighteen years old, and to accommo-
date a friend she took the baby out for
an airing. She was wheeling it up and
down the walk, when an oldish man,
very deaf, came along and inquired for
Il certain person supposed to live on
that street. She nearly yelled her head
off trying to answer him. and he looked
around, caught sight of the baby and
said:
mice child, that. / suppose you
feel proud of him?''
-" 1t isn't miner' she yelled at him.
Boy, Ell! Well, he looks just like
YOU
1t isn't Miner she yelled again, but
he nodded his head and continued:
Twins, Ell! Where's the other one"
Despairing of making him understand
by word of mouth, she pointed to the
baby, at herself, and then shook her
head.
"Yes-yes, see t'other twin in the
house. The father is fond of them, of
coursepn
She turned the cab and hurried the
other way, but he followed and asked:
"Do they kick round much nights?''
81 tell you faint minew she shouted,
looking very red in the face.
Il think you're wrong there he
answered. ''Children brought up on
the bottle are apt to pine and die"
She started on run for the gate, but
before she had opened it he came up
and asked;
Have to spank 'em once in a while,
l SUPPOSED"
She made about twenty gestures in
half minute, and he helped the cab
through the gate and said:
"Our children were all twins, and
III send my wife down to give you some
advice. You seq
But she picked up a tlower-pot and
flung it at him. He jumped back, and
as she entered the house, he called out:
Hope insanity won't break out on
the twinsr'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-28
Age for Legal Marriages.

There is considerable variation in the
different European states of the age at
which a legal marriage can be con-
tractcd. In Austria, the age of discretion
for both sexes is fourteen. In Hungary,
each religious sect makes its own regula-
tons, marriages being regarded as an
entirely ecclesiastical affair. Russians
can contract marriages at the age of
eighteen in case of males and sixteen in
that of females. The Italian law fixes
the age at eighteen and fifteen years
respectively. In Turkey there is no
general law. The French and Belgian
codes allow marriages of young men at
eighteen ard girls at fifteen, but pow
ers of dispensation in special cases are
reserved. In Greece, Spain and Portu-
gal, parties of fourteen and twelve can
contract binding marriage, but in the
latter country the consent of the pa
rents is necessary if the parties are I'M
der twenty-one. According to the
amended paragraph of the new Ger
man civil marriage bill, the state of
wedlock cannot be entered upon under
twenty and sixteen respectively, though
the existing laws of Prussia and Sax
ony permitted marriages at earlier
periods. There is much dissimilarity
in the Swiss laws, every canton having
a total regulation of its own. In some
of them the consent of the parents is
necessary up to the age of twenty-five.
The influence of climate upon the tenn
permanent and constitution is observa-
BILE in the earlier age at which marriage
is allowed in the southern nations,
where maturity is reached at a much
earlier period than among the northern
people.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-28

AN old fellow named Barney Moran,
who died recently in the workhouse at
Balliea, in Ireland, revealed to the
Chaplain before his death that he was
the executioner of Robert Emmett. He
was a young soldier at the time and
performed the revolving Office for a
reward. None but few officers knew
who he was, and the secret was so well
kept that it has commonly been suppos-
ed to be past finding out
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-28

The following table contains a GU
rious summary of the English version
of the Bible. The Old Testament con-
tains 80 books, 929 chapters, %, PA
verses, 592, 493 words and 2,723, 100 let
tiers. The New Testament contains 81
books 260 chapters. 1859 verses, 49,
253 words and 1853, $50 letters. Total,
&c books, l, lS9 chapters, 81 ,l73 verses,
1874 words and 3,56G,4S0 letters.
The middle chapter and the shortest in
the Bible is the hundred and seven
teenth Psalm; the middle verse is the
eighth of the hundred and eighteenth
Psalm. The twenty-iirst verse of the
seventh chapter of Ezra, in the English
version, has all the letters of the al
phabet in it. The nineteenth chapter of
the second book of Kings and the thir-
ty-seventh chapter Of Isaiah are alike.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-28

We have searched history pretty
thoroughly, but we fail to find it re-
corded that Shakespeare ever wore
piccadiily collar or parted his hair in
the middle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-28
The Republican.
JAS. A. HAYDEN, Publisher.

OAKLAND. GARRETT CO., MD.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-03

GRAIN TRADE WITH GREAT BRIT
TEN.-The enormous volume of our
grain exports, are brought out in
rather bold relief by the returns of
the English Board of Trade for the
quarter ending with March ult., and
published in the ". Y. Times. Es-
timated for the year at the rate of
the three months, we sent to the
United Kingdom 100000 of cwt.
for 100000 last year, which in
round numbers stand SIS, ,OOO, 900 for
last year to S25, ZOO, 900 for this.
In the British imports of American
Flour there is an increase for the
three months of 100000, and in
corn, chiefly from the United States,
of $4,OOO,OOO. Last year the Brit
ish receipts of American wheat from
the Pacific coast, were twice as great
as they have been during the first
quarter of this year, while the re-
ceipts from Atlantic and Gulf ports
have nearly quintupled.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-03

Aro,r DoopvrrpeR.-And still the House
is not happy. The confederate friends OF
the new Doorkeeper had scarce gotten over
the shock of the discovery that Gen. Field
vos At the date of his election an appli-
can't as a professed Republican for con-
snlsbip. and backed up by Republican en-
dorsements, when what should be do but
90 and appoint as his first assistant Col.
PoIk's diseased" democratic soldier
whose battle-wounds consisted in ga sprain
of his ankle while drilling" Our confed-
crate friends are really to be pitied. When
they ignored every native Democrat, and
penetrated the darkness of Egypt to Sc
cure timber for a DOOrkeeper, who should
have no ''entangling alliances" but have
an untrammeled record and then to haYe
it turn out that to get a consulship to Cairo
in his own his beautiful Egypt, he shsuld
go to this fraudulent administration and
under the pretense of being q black-Re-
publican, impOrtune for Office, was an al
most uncomfortable modification and dis
appointment. And then instead of steer
ing clear of the rocks on which his prede-
eessor Polk had split, he should actually
take up and promote one Of the very sham
soldiers which had made Polk's conduct
unbearably ridiculous. Shall they sum
marily eject Field and re-elect their first
love Fitzhue, the "biger man than Old
Grant
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-03

ASnLaDuia county ONNis D.
Ezra r. Mctcalf administrator
OF the estate of Edmund Lock-
wood. Feutlon 7
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-03

Senator Conklin is reported to
have thrown a few more hot shot
into the administration. They come
through reviewers and have only a
quasi Endorsement of the great SEN
ator, that is, the utterances were
made without the design of their
publicity. According to this report,
Mr.. G. claims to have been inventor
of the Electoral Commission, and
says that the election of President
Hayes was due to intrigue between
his friends and the Southern Democ-
racy, and he asserts that the civil
appointments made by the admins
tration, have been the worst that
ever disgraced the nation. He mod
ifies antagonism with the President,
by the statement that 81 do not re-
member when l have committed my
self to any such utteranees," and
leaves US to the conclusion that
though he may entertain such senti
ments, he has not committed himself
to their avowal.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-03

What a tribulation we are kept in by
that disappointed old reformer-Samuel
J. Tilden. He is picking up fellows that
are plethoric with revelations about the
commission having done serious wrong
to him in giving Florida to Hayes. All
this furry about Messrs. McLin and Den
mis-, who are to prove all this thing, has
the effect to keep the old fellow before the
country as a candidate for 1880. But these
revelators do not seem to have the back
bone that was counted upon, and they are
already becoming weakened and assert that
the confessions attributed to them, they
have never made, and moreover have none
to make. Besides this, it is gravely
charged that they have no surplus charac-
ter and rsspectability to spare to make
good asperSions upon others, and, at the
same time, look after certain pecsdillos of
Of their own.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-03

The Senate having passed the bill to re,
peal the bankrupt law, and the chances be.
ing that the House will also pass it, there
has been an unusual number of petitions
in bankruptcy filed the past week by par,
ties who have been on the ragged edge fol
some time, but have postponed the fnal
leap in the vain hope Of something turn
ing up that would enable them to bridge
the financial chasm. To the ordinary OBJ.
server it would seem that bankrupt law
was quite as much needed in these times
as it ever has been, and the opposition to
it now is to some degree an outburst of the
gradually Strengthening popular opinion
that general bankrupt law is too often a
convenient means for unprincipled parties
to defraud creditors by availing themselves
Of law intended to be Ienient and help
full to honest men struggling with business
misfortunes.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-03
State Convention.

The Republican State Central Commit
tee met at Columbus on the 18th, and de-
cided to hold the Convention at Cincinnati,
June 18th. A Caucus was held in the
evening, at which large number of prom
inent Republicans from different sections
OF the State were in attendance, and
speeches endorsing the action of the Com
mittes were made by Ex-Governor Young.
Grosvenor, Ex-Governor Dennison. General
Beatty and others. Also, a letter from
Secretary Sherman was read, commending
the administration both as to general poli-
ey and appointments. Upon the financial
question the letter says;
" We have faithfully executed the law
providing for the resumption of specie
payment and the equality of gold and sill
yer, and paper money is now so near that
it would be the height of madness to re-
oede to the uncertainty and perils of un-
convertible paper money. The law so
much decried and so much misunderstood
has worked its way to successful execution
and in little while, confidence being re-
stored, all forms Of money will contribute
to promote the revival Of industry. The
only threat that endangers public peace
and safety is the restoration of the Demo-
cratic party or power. Embittered by be-
ing long out of power, composed largely
of elements that warred against the Gov
ernment and having no sympathy with the
measures that now are in course of success
full execution, and from the nature Of their
position interested in a policy as to- South
ern claims which would impoverish the
Treasury and arouse anew all the bitter
ness Of sectional strife, cannot but re-
gard its restoration to power as the only
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-03
Notice of FFLfrln .PetitiO1l.

M AIRY A. Beatty and Sarah Ann
4IA Phillips who resides at LOckpOrt in the
State OF OfPennsylvania, John Turner who resides
in Conneaut Township, Crawford County, Penn
sylyania, Timothy c. Turner who resides at
Striker In the State of Michigan, LeOnOra Stock.
Marshall whose place of residence is unknown,
are each hereby notified that on the sOth day OF
April A. ID. 1878. the undersigned as administra-
tor Of the estate Of William II, H. Turner, late OF
the County Of Ashtabula deceased, fled his petit
tiOn in the Probate Court OF Ashtabula County
Ohio, alleging that the presOnal estate Of said de-
cedent is insufficient to pay the debts, and the
charges of administering his estate. That he died
seized in fee-simple (subject to the life estate
hereinafter mentIoned) of the following described
real estate situated in the Township Of Richmond
County OfAshfabula, and State Of Ohio. Bound
ed on the north by lands Of Fidelia Cook: on the
east by lands OF Fideha COOK and James Heath;
on the south by lands Of James Heath and g. B.
Linn; and on the west by the north and south
centre road in said Township, containing 6S acres
OF land more or less, subject the life estate OF
Ellen NJ. Russell in one undivided half thereof for
her own life and subject to the life estate Of Eza
A Turner. in the other undivided half thereof for
her own life.
That Ellen NJ. RUSSELL Mary A. Beatty. Ruth o
Peck, Charles Turner. john Turner Timothy D
Turner, Leonora Stocking, Hannah Marshall,
Martha Jane Phinney, Eliza A. Mailman, sarah
Ann Phillips, Henry Turner, Sola Turner. Mins
Turner, Louisa Turner aud Levantla Miller a. his
heirs at law hold the next estate OF Inheritance
in said premises.
thorlzlng the undersigned as administrator OF sld
deeedent 10 sell said premises subject 10 sid life
aforesaid
Said petition will be for hearing on the lst day
OF June A. ID. 1873. At II o'clOcS q N 49,
GEO. RUSS ELL adr OF Wm. Il. II Turner
Decd by Hal Bros. his attys:
Dated April S0th A. ID, ISIS. IN'o-ol
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-03

INVESTIGATOR GLovER.-The Republi-
cans have been kept in a roar of merriment
and the poor Democrats in a panic Of
alarm over the investigating exploits of
Glover. With great sound and fury he
cast his drag-nets to catch some derelict
Republican official, but every time he has
felt a nibble and twitched up his line he
has either caught the hook and jsrked all
the slack out Of the basement of his own
pants or dragged some. .erring Democrat to
the surface. He has repeated this for the
third or fourth time till his fellow members
Of the House are Safeguarding and abus-
ing Glover and his committee without
stint, and the Democratic ''organ" the
Washington Post, pronounces both Glover
and his housing and smelling committee
'tnuisances that ought at once to be
abated." How hard is the way of the
Democratic transgressor.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-03

It is reported from Washington
with some appearance of authority
that the President and Cabinet have
signifed an approval of a Republi-
can platform that was recently put
forth in the Cleveland Herald. The
six articles embodied in it are as fol-
lows:-resumption in coin-no in
fiation-protection tariff-constitu-
tional prohibition of sectarian ap-
propriations-river and harbor i'm
provements-nO payment of South
ern war claims, This list might as
well be reduced to four, as the two
frst-resumption and initiation will
be out of the way by the opening of
the new year. It is also fairly pre-
sumable that the last will hardly oc-
casion serious trouble as no party
will dare take issue in its platform
and demand the payment of the
Southern war claims, whatever may
be done when once seated and in
full possession of power. Of the
three remaining articles, only one
that relating to sectarian appro-
priations, presents anything new,
the other two were cardinal princi-
pies of the old defunct whig party,
and have out lived the party that
begat them.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-03

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