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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-03-21

The telegraph brings US the information
that only day or two ago the President
was called upon by Mrs. jerks, and that
as their hands Joined and remained in pleas
ant contact, his ExceIlencey 'looked down
into her sparkling eyes with mingled feel
ing of admiration and bewlderment. ="
We had supposed that our President was
about the calnhest, most self-possessed man,
and the best fortified for an emergency, Of
all the habitues of that city so distinguished
for its tender sensibilities. That the Presi-
dent-so cool, so passive, so unperturbed
and always so proper-should have been
thus overcome by the witchery of this viva
cious and artful woman is passing strange,
and goes to prove that no mans panoply
Of virtue can be depended upon as perfect
protection against the fascination and win
ming ways of a pretty and DESIGNING woman.
As the President has =
in the city of W
he viii not
himself
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-03-21
THE TEL

The largest paper in Asstabula. printed en-
tirely at nome.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-03-21

oescs l28 Main Street.
ASHTABULA. OHIO
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-03-21
Dissolution Of CO-partnership.

Dissolution Of CO-partnership.
NOTICE is hereby given that the co-paTt-
N nership heretofore existing under the
name OF Crosby 4 WetherwaX, Is this day
dissolved by mutual consent and the with
drawal OF H. Wethsrwax. The accounts or
j. B. Crosby & Sons. ]. B. CROSBY,
H. WETHERWAN.
Ashtabula, o., Feb, 9Sth, 1879.
Allindebted 10 the old firm are requested
to call and settle at their earliest convent
ence, (92-05) j. B. CROSBY s. SONS,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-03-21

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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05

A well-dressed young man was ar
raigned in a New York police court the
other day for beating his mother, Evi.
dence showed he came home and without
provocation struck her with his fist in the
face repeatedly, blackening both her eyes
and badly hruising her face. His mother,
an old woman, had him arrested, but re-
pented when!the time came for trial, and
tottering to the bar of the court with a
black veil tightly drawn over her face,
begged pteously that the case might be
dismissed lie didn't mean it, she plead
ed. He was good, industrioussbov, and
she was sure he would never do so again.
lie must have been very angry at some
thing when he struck her and he had al
ready been punished sufficiently in losing
his fourth of July holiday. She wasn't
much hurt anyway, The justice told her
to lift her veil. She did not want to do so.
Her face really looked worse than it was,
she said, The skin turned blue easily
nd really she hadn't been much hurt.
The Justice insisted and with trembling
nnds she raised the veil and showed
atient old wrinkled face, the tears fall
ig down its bruised and battoredieatures
nd still she pleaded for her boy. He, the
rute, pleaded that he would close his
lace" if he was sentenced. There was
10 contrition, apparently, it was simply
business with him. "Lose your place,
you BRUTE" roared the justice in righteous
wrath. ga boy who would beat kind
mother, as YOU have, doesn't deserve to-
live even, You ought not to remain in
any community You can go to the pen
| itentiary for three months" And the
prisoner was led away while the poor
mother staggered, weeping from the court
buried in sorrow, not for herself, but for
"her boy"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05
Rest for Headaches.

Dr. Day says, ir. late lecture; What
ever be the plan Of treatment decided up.
on, rest is the first principle to inculcate
in every severe headache. Rest, which
the busy man and anxious mother cannot
obtain so long as they can manage to
keep about is one of the first remedies
for every headache, and we should never
cease to enforce it, The brain, when ex-
cited, as much needs quiet and repose as
atractured limb or an inflamed eve, and
it is obvious that the chances of shorten
ing the seizure and arrestng the pain will
depend on our power to have this carried
out ellectually. 1t is practical lesson to
keep steadily in view, in that there may
lurk behind a simple headache some les
son of unknown magnitude which may
remain stationary if quietude can be
maintained.
There is point worth attending to in
the treatment of all headaches. See that
the head is elevated at night, and the pill
low hard; for, if it be soft, the head sinks
into il and becomes hot, which with some
people-is enough to provoke an attack in
the morning if sleep has been long and
heavy.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05
Making Home Attractive.


The recent bent Of the feminine mind
toward making the house beautiful, is
one of the steps that humanity is taking
toward an ideal perfection. 1t seems Or
dained that while man supplies the useful,
woman should furnish the beautiful; that
man should build the house and the fur
niture, and that woman should make
them sweet, beautiful and attractive. We
therefore look upon the recent develop
ment of societies Of decorative art as
founded in the essence of things, in pro-
gross, eternal fitness, and the infinities
generally; and we greatly rejoice that the
tidal wave has at last struck Baltimore,
and that our society will shortly come be-
fore the public with an attractive exhibi-
tion
One difficulty will be to make our peo-
ple understand what "Decorative Art" is.
Properly it does not include what usually
goes by the simpler yet prouder title of
art" 1t does not comprise pictures,
statues, and yet we may apply paint.
ing. or carving or both TO the work of
NtIOl llaS" lAtNtl VI ul Fti oiiSA oih'
pie excludes use. Its rason d'etre is not
utility but beauty. But decorative art
implies utility. Its object is to make that
which is useful to be beautiful also, 1t
deals therefore with the forms and colors.
The treatment of surfaces by CLOSES or
inlaying or carving, on walls or furniture,
porcelains, titles. Where in chair or table
ugly, bulging, or unmeaning terms pre-
vail it is the business of decorative art to
refine the curves, to give significance to
the unmeaning, clearness and elegant
simplicity to the confused and bungling
TO cover blank surfaces with thoughtful
designs, traceries, mosaiacs, carvings, in
laying, and in every way enrich then
with art, and yet at all times to maintain
temperateiness in ornament reserve
leaning toward the simple and natural
The first great stumbling block in its wa,
will be poverty of designs, lack of origi
nality, the next danger will be over dec
Grafton. But with steady persistcn
work, all things will be possible
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05
4 New Way to Fight n Bear.
(Albany TimeS,)

An Englishman visiting Albany had re-
Gently returned from a hunting tour in
the Rocky mountains. He abounded in
description OF hair breadth and marvellous
escapes.
One evening, surrounded by bevy OF
Young ladies, he was describing his con-
diton when lost in one Of the western
canyons. 81 lay down." he said, "exhaust'
ed, and wrapped myself in my blanket,
with the single (or double) exception of
my feet, which protrudcd from the cover
ing. Stealing down the side of the can
Won came grizzly bear and her half
grown cub. knew that resistance was
hopeless. had read that to feign death
would give me chance to escape.
| Law as one dead. The bears approach
ed slowly ard cautiously. ! felt their hLt
breath as they smelt of my feet. Sudden
" they turned ard fled as if seized
with uncomfortable panic, while more
dead than alive rejoiced in my wonder
ful escape" If that Englishman could
have heard those girls laugh after he left
he would not have seen the reason ol
| their merriment.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05

sions of fayoritism towards certain banks,
and putting his relatives. into office-ac-
cusations that bid fair to occupy his at
tention until after the Ohio election.
Baltimore Herald 0nd.): The Ohio
Republicans seem. to be confident of car
rying the State this fall. As the Demo-
Gratis had SO members of the last Legis-
lature, the Republicans 4S, and the Ma
tionals 3, the Republicans would appear
to haze a pretty. big contract on. hand
undertaking to reverse that majority.
Probably they make their estimate, how
ever, upon their majority of p in 1877,
and expect to get out their vote OF that
wear. As the Legislature to be chosen
this year elects successor to Senator
Thurman, an unusual effort will be made
to secure majority in it.
Dayton Democrat (Dem.): Sherman
has found it necessary to HE him back to
Washington and leave Ohio and the Fos-
ter campaign to take care of itself; also to
vail the entire proceedings OF his depart
lncnt Ill Closesl stCiccy ny oUiIo' oiuois.
He is too late. The horse has. got out of
the stable. 1t has become public at last
in an undeniable form, though the eX-
posure of the default of his pet banks, that
in the last eighteen months millions of
dollars in private profit, which ought to
have Injured to the public benefit, have
been made by private financiers through
his favor, and he has to meet Congress in
December.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05
Hand Shaking with the President.

There is something peculiar, says the
Washington STAR about shaking hands
with the President of the United States,
and there are peculiar ways of going
through that greeting. Some folks seize
the Presidents hand in both Of theirs;
others merely touch the tips of his fingers;
some grab him above the wrist, and then
others think the harder they press the
hand the more honor they enjoy. The
old ladies always stop to ask how Mrs.
Hayes is, and when Mrs. Hayes assists
the President in the reception, all the
ladies, both young and old, invariably
look back after passing to see what she.
has on. The old men want to add word
or two of advice on political management
as they pass, and the young man, when
from rural parts, tries to appear as if he
made'a practice of being introduced 10
Presidents every day. About halfpast 2
O'Clock the President takes lunch, He
then returns to his room and looks over
the mail that concerns his official business.
The mail is always briefed and laid on
the table ready for his inspection. He
directs what answers, if any, shall be
sent.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05
(IIawk

Burlington is built on rather undulat.
ing ground and the sidewalks are gener-
ally stood on end. This makes the view
all the better when YOU get to the top Of
them. When you have walked three or
four blocks in Burlington on any street
in any direction, you feel like man who
has climbed up seven flight Of stairs to
his bedroom. But the natives rather
like this style Of sidewalk, and are fully
infatuated with this hillv country. They
climb these hills with the grace and ease
of man going TO heaven, and if there
is anything they do despise, il is prairie
town. In fact, the people Of Burlington
hate anything flat towns OF people.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05
Friendly Counsel.

1. Resist the temptation OF circulating
i'll reports; spread them not at all.
2. If YOU cannot speak well Of another,
at least do not speak i'll of him,
3, Never speak i'll of another behind
his back. Why should you consider his
character Of less value than your own.
a. Speak of others as you would were
they present; speak, as a friend of him
who is absent and cannot speak for him.
self
S. Consider yourselfthe guardian of the
character of those who NAV be absent az
YOU would wish others to guard your
character in your absence.
g. Whenever it may be needed to men.
ton anything to the disadvantage of an,
other, let it be done with truthfulnees,
tenderness, humility, and with the recol,
lection Of how much has been forgiveu
thee.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05

take care, that she was flirt and had
taken in dozens Just as she was taking in
him; but-like all the lots of good advice
Ihaye thrown away on people in this un-
grateful world-it all went in one ear and
out at the other So at last | got real
mad and founced off and just left him to
his fate, knowing very we'll his eyes
would soon be opened. And very soon
opened they were.
l decidedly announced my intention of
going home the next day; and L resolute-
ly turned deaf ear to all Roses coax
ings to stay another week-for the novel
ty of her new conquest had not worn off
yet-and told her she might stay if she
liked, but 90 l would, in spite of the
world and all it contained. And Rose,
knowing from experience that it was
easier to move mountains than to move
me when once put my foot down to do
anything, left me in a pout to go and
tell George, and bring her Irritation to
an end
went ont, too, a little after, and be-
held her standing beside him, looking in
spite of her assurance, a little nervous
and ashamed of herself, at his look of
sorruwful reproach and surprise. He
looked at me as if to CLEAN some hope,
and hurriedly said:
SIS it possible you are both going to-
morrow Rose has told me sol"
$50 we are. It's time, think"
"But will you go SO soon? There is no
reason for this haste"
60! that's all you know about it,"
laughed Rose, as she sang:
'Ihear voice you can not hear,
| Which says must not stay;
| | see hand you can not see,
Which beckons me away"
"Charlie's, | supposew said |.
eyes, Charlie's." Dear Charlie, l shall
be so glad to see him again"
And she stole glance at George, who
stood pale and silent by her side, and
again sung:
There's ane oer the waters sighn' for me-
My bonnie Charlie
Tho far frae his hame, his heart is VII me
/ My bonnie Charc."
He faced suddenly round; and there
was something in his eyes that told me
was de trop, so vanished. This was the
last | have seen of George Harper since.
Some remarkably pressing business called
him away next morning before we were
up, so he did not bid us good-by. \ X
"Did he propose last evening, Rose?
said |, as the cars whirled us along.
"Of course!"
"And was refusedT
"Of course!"
90 Rose it was too bad! You be-
haved shamefully"
"Pshaw! what's country Irritation
l liked him, too, at first so much so, that
Charlie would have stood in danger, il
Master George had not seen fit to fall Sc
desperately in love with me. Tha1
cured my penchant; so it's all right now.'
And with a loud laugh at my look o
horror, Rose hummed once more:
"Come DER the water, come hither to me-
. My b0nnietharlie.
Ny heart is sair greetin' for thee
My bonnie Charlie"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05
THE OHIO MAN.
What They Say of Him This Week

[Tnter-Ocean.1
John G.. Thompson has "bought
straddle" in Ohio politics, and it is
thought Thurman will go in for small
put" when he looks over the crop of
Democrats.
New Orleans Democrat.l
John Sherman's friends are industri-
ously circulating the report that their
chief is only worth trihe of 100000.
He does not want to appear parsimonious
when the political contribution box is
handed around. 1t is safe to say that
John will not open bar'l.
New York Tribune]
Senator Thurman is suspected of an
inclination to get out from under the
coming Democratic catastrophe in Ohio
lie will have to move out of, the State
permanently to do it,
New York World
General Garfield, of Ohio, is a pleas
ant and cheerful public man who lives
in comfortable hope that the zigzag light
ming of a Presidential nomination may
somehow in 1880 strike his house and
home.
[st. Louis Post Dispatch.l
A man has been nominated for the
State Senate in Ohio who was in the Leg
islature of that State fifty years ago.
The Ohio Office holder never dies or re-
signs.
TBalt;rr ore Gazette1
In its anxiety to be injurious the Gin
cinnati Gazette speaks of the "so-calIed
Confederate army" Now if there was
ANYTHING connected with the late effort
to divide up the Government trade in
this country which could properly lay
claim to the title of "Confederate' it wa'
the army boarded at the expense of the
Southern States between the years lSGl-3
1t was a corporal institution and we have
the testimony of persons who ran against
it at various times during the misunder
standing that it was confederated to al
eminent degree. We refer by permission
to n. 2. Banks, Ambrose L. Burnside an(
John Pope, E.q.
Philadelphia start
Mr.. Frey, of Findlay, O., burned "
his old straw stack AMI then built new
one on the same site before the fire was al
out. The result was that the. new on
was burned also, together with thresh
ing machine and lots of otherthings. Fire,
is mad about it, but freely admits that h
was blamed foel.
New. York Star.
A wag has discovered that they have
I Senator Beer in Ohio. He is very popu
lar, though always insdread Of draugh1
and little mllsty withal.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05
Life of Railroad EGuirments.

The Illinois railroad commissioners
have obtained returns from twentysix
railway companies, which show tina, the
''lile" of locomotive engine varied on
these railways from eight to twentyfour,
and that the general average duration was
fifteen and a quarter years. Passenger
cars endure from eight to twenty years
the average being fifteen and three quar-
ter years; the average of stock cars being
ten years, and that OF freightcars eleven
and hale years and railway bridges, of
wood, endure from five to twenty years.
As to the life Of rails, the statistics seem
TO indicate that those of iron last from
three to twelve years-the mean being
seven while steel rails are credited with
from nine to twenty years service--and
an average Of fourteen years is obtained
from the returns. ..
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05

We must have sleep / would keep
"bettcr hours" if l were boy again, that
is would go to bed earlier than most
BOYS do, Nothing gives more mental and
bodily vigor than sound rest when proper.
ly applied Sleep is our great rcplenislIer,
and'if we neglect to take it regularly in
childhood, all the worse for lis when we
grow up II we sit up late we decay; and
sooner or later we contract disease called
insomania, allowing it TO be permanently
fixed upon us, and then we begin 10 decay,
even in youth. Late hours are shadows
from the gravel. T. Fields.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05
"A Change that is, Needed,

We need an uplifting, publication of
what may be called public party opinions,
SO that the leaders of all parties may be
constrained to seek worthy ends by intel
isent means so that the men who pass
lor statesmen will conform their party
policies tothc substantial interests of the
country, and give up whining about the
great fraud and the 'bloody shirt" We
want change that shall lift the nation to
higher level of party morality and pub.
lie character. Unless we can have th;s
a.change from one party to another will
amount TO nothing.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05

Some of the most conspicuous charms
of young men nowadays arc those on
their watch chains.--[Wilda Oats.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05
Philadelphia start
A Good Night Clock.
Jacksonville Union.l

A father on Monroe street has pur-
chased lovers alarm clock that works
like charm At. 10 O'clock it strikes
loudly, two little doors open, and man
with dressing gown and cap on glides
out, holding in his hand a card inscribed
"good night" Ashe bows and. smilingly
retires back into the clock, the young
man takes the hint, says "goed night to
the fair daughters and departs.
Mrs Johnson Mallonee, aged7 fell from
a window al baltimore and was killed.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05

dllu IlOlltSb CllblCC W do IHb'IltlN II, j IL IL
dricks, of Indiana, and if Mr. Hendricks
had been nominated he would to-day
have been filling the Office Of President,
Baltimore Gazette Dem.): Hon. E.
B. Washburne has private and strictly
confidential letter from Grant in which
that worthy person says he is not a candi-
date for President, but that if the Repnb-
lican party insists on dragging him into
public life again, he will put up with the
Inconvenience. We have had no private
communication with Grant since he left
the country, but we have all along had a
sneaking disposition that he occupied just
about such platform as this.
New York Tribune (Rep.): Either
the Democrats aretrusting to astill hunt,
or they are making remarkably poor
campaign in Ohio. THUS far, with the
exception of Ewing, no prominent Demo
crat has entered heartily into the can
vass. Sam. Cary is the most energetic
speaker now in the field for the Demo
cratic ticket, and he is doing it more
harm than good. On the other hand
the Republicans were never better sup
piled with first-class campaign orators.
\ New York Sun (Dem.): The exten
sion of time having been granted to TIN
First National Bank, and tire four mil
lion dollar check having been Withdrawn
Sherman went to Ohio and began agall
:, his speeches. Two of them were delivered
when syndicate troubles broke out anew
and,honest John turned toward Wash
ington, abandoning his attacks on Green
backism to defend himself from accuse
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-11-29

tain to be recorded in the near fu-
ture will be controlled by Los An.
geles capitalists. Much work,
which will tell heavily in divi.
dends, has been done at Resting
Springs. The difficulties of dis
tance and of an inadequate supply
of water on the route have been
overcome by an unfiaggiAg perse.
verence, and our enterprising
townsmen are about to reap the
fruits of their faith and energy.
Time is all that Is needed to make
Los Angeles the center of mining
region inferior to none on the
American continent in richness
and extent. 1t is a hopeful augury
to see our own capitalists engaged
In the development of our local
mineral resources. Outside help
will come in abundance when we
have demonstrated, as we shall,
the fact that we don't need it.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-11-29
4 Reaisy areas Man Cannot b'
President.

From certain time in our his
tory the aspirations of our greatest
men to be President OF the United
States have never been realized.
Clay, Webster and Calhoun were
all victims of disappointment in
this respect. 1t is curious to note
the reasons given, as early as 1874,
why a man. of really towering abil-
ity would never again fill the Pres
idential chair. In one of the nu-
merous letters of coincidence sent to
Clay, when he was defeated in 1874,
this convlction;is expressed as fol-
lows: "The result of this election
has satisfied me that no such men
as Henry Clay can be President OF
the United States. The party lead
ers, the men who make Presidents,
will never consent to elevate one
greatly their superior; they suffer
too much by the contrast; their as
pirations are checked; their power
is cIrcumscribed; the clay cannot
be moulded into an idol suited to
their worship. Moreover, states
man, prominent as you have been
for so long a time, must have been
identified with all the leading
measures affecting the interests of
the people, and those interests are
frequently different in the several
parts of our widely extended coun-
try. What is meat in one section
Is poison in another. Give me,
therefore, a candidate of an inferior
grade, ,one whose talents, patriotism,
and public services have never been
SO conspicuous as to force him into
the first ranks. He will get all the
votes which the best and wisest
men could secure, and some which,
for the reasons l have stated, he
could not.u