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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06
Nora Per1I,s Home Life.

The home life of Nora Perry, the
poet, is pleasantly described in the Bos-
ton Herald. She lives quietly at Provi-
dence, II. l., with her mother, serene,
sweet-faced and intelligent lady, now
more than eighty years Of age. Two
noble elms shade the modest house, on
the lower floor of which, in the spacious
and cheerful rooms, Miss Perry's indi-
viduality has expressed itself in creating
a home. The windows are hung with
heavy green draperies, and instead Of
the stiff and conventional shades, fine
Illusion covers the entire sash, serving
the double purpose of afordiDg a screen
and softeniDg the light. Warm bits of
color glow here and therein the soft
mats on the floor, the pretty cushions
on the low, broad and luxurious divan
in the corner, and on the walls in little
gems Of pictnres. The glaring white
doors that we still have to accept from
our builders and landlords are relieved.
by lovely heliotypes and engraVings.
In fact, there are pictures everywhere,
of alhsizes and kinds, tackled up, stuck
up, framed and hung, and set carelessly
against any thing that viii hold them
up. Miss Perry knows what good pic
lures are as well as the most Of those
whose duty 1t is to write often on art
topics, but she has the full courage of
her tastes in these matters. "I don't
ask any body TO tell me what to ad-
mire," is her word. "I will have
chrome if like it, and l do like some
of them exceedingly" In one corner
stands an open bookcase, whose ample
shelves hold her favorite volumes, and
near at hand is the old fashioned table
that she calls her "shop." It meets
very fully the literary gehius's idea of
order. /" Have place for every thing.
and put every thing into it.n And VSb
it is perfectly orderly chaos, we have
no doubt. In the center are heaps Of
letters. At one side Is a pile Of clip
pings for use in correspondence, and
near by the drafts of two or three poems
that are awaiting finish. Tho sheets Of
a half-completed story lay where the
weary pen left them last night, and
roll Of "pfoof,'' ready for the printer,
holds them in place.
"She is" says the writer, "a busy
worker. She is more than that--an un-
commonly pluoky and resolute soul.
Although she has had her full share Of
troubles, perplexities, and discourage
ments, no one ever heard her call out
for sympathy or aid. II she has not
joined in the olalnor for woman's rights,
it is because she has found that, with q
free field and fair play, she was quite
well able to get on with the rights that
are accorded to her. A year or two ago
she was seriously, troubled with 'au-
thor's otamp.' The loss of power in
the right hand would have been crush
ing blow TO many whose dependence is
their pens Nora Perry accepted the sit
uation, not without such vigorous pro-
tests as the occasion seemed to war
rant, aud learned to write with her left
hand. The rest which this afforded
enables her to use her right hand, with
care"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06
LATER NEWS.

On the morning of the 1st fire
broke out In the stables belonging to the
White Sulphur Springs (W. Va.) Company
and forty-four horses were burned TO death
Rev. 7. b. MILLER, dean of the Phil
adelphia University Of Medicine and Surgery
was arrested on the night of the LIST upon the
charge OF forgery, The alleged forgery CON
sists Ia ante-dating series of lecture tickets
and In writing the names Of professors on
them.
A CoNsTANTNoPLE dispatch states
that Dr. Parsons, an English missionary, and
his two servants have been murdered At Ismid
Four battalions of Montenegrins at
tackled the Albanians ON the 2Sth ult aud
were repulsed
A COLLISION occurred on the Long
Branch Railroad, near New York City, on the
3lst ult The engineer OF one train was
killed and several other persons were badly
bruised and cut,
A SIMLA dispatch, on the 1st, stated
that reports from Quetta indicated that
Ayoob Khan did not follow up his victory by
pursuing the British. 1t Is stated that Gem
eral Burrows succeeded In bringing large
body OF his troops into Candahar.
THE Bank of the Province at Porto
Allegro, Brazil, was robbed recently Of Si25,-
900.
THE joint track of the Denver & South
Park and Denver q Rio Grande Railroad was
completed into Leadyllle On the 9lst ult. and
through trains on the lst.
THE freight house Of the Old Colony
Railroad at Brockton, Mass, with large
quantity OF freight, etc, was destroyed by
iire on the night of the lst- Loss heavy
BEN JOHNSON, son Of ex-Lieutenant
Governor johnson, Of Kentucky, fatally shot
Turner Wilson at political meeting IN Bull.
town, KY, on the 8Oth ult
BULGARIA and Servia are negotiating
an offensive and defensive alliance,
Miss. BELLE CLARK, of California, and
Miss Emma Jewett, OF Litchaeld, Mimi. arc
To ride a twenty-mile equestrian race at
Minneapolis September 4 Miss Minnie
Penneo, OF Greeley, Col, has challenged the
winner TO ride race on the same track for
5000 side on the 10th or 18th OF September.
The challenge has been accepted,
5. W. HOFFMAN,, eX-Auditor of Gin
clnnati, was arrested on the 8ist ult. ON an
affidavit charging him with misappropratlng
ditor "" ''u
DR. TANNER entered upon the thirty
htth day of his fast at noon on the LIST. one
Of the medical men in attendance said that
Dr. Tanner was failing every day but there
was no doubt he would finish his self-mposed
task.
AT Danville, Va, on the 3lst ult., j,
e. Oakes, aged nineteen, fatally stabbed R.
j. Ranney, aged afteen.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06
A Terrible Indian Onslaught Upon a
Herd Of BuffalOes.

AN officer of the regular Army, who
left Fort Keogh, Montana, ten days ago,
arrived in the city on Thursday even
ing, and is a guest of friends living on
Prairie Avenue. The officer travelled by
"buckboard " from the Yellowstone
River to the end of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, near the Little Missouri, and
thence eastward by rail.
Couriers had arrived at the post be-
lore his departure, bringing the latest
Intelligence from the Crow Indians,
who we're then absent from the camp,
or Agency, upon a grand buffalo hunt.
The news brought in by the couriers
was very exciting. They related that
after riding over mountains for two
days the Crows come upon a fine herd
of buffaloes in narrow valley near by
the Yellowstone. There were four hun
dred Indians and four thousand buffa-
loes. The Crows had been forced by
fear Of starvation to take to the chase,
and the keen hunger they were suffer
ing only sharpened their eagerness for
q tilt with their old fellow-n0mads, the
noble bisons. The game stampeded
down the valley in the direction of the
Yellowstone. The chase was hotly fol-
lowed, half hundred buffaloes biting
the dust before the river was reached.
One of the most vehement of the pur-
suers, who had distinguished himself for
bravery in two or three fights with the
Sioux, fell from his pony in the midst of
the flying herd, and was trampled 20
death by the frantic beasts.
The Yellowstone, a roaring, rushing
river even at the lowest tide, was boom
ing with the regular summer freshet, the
Outpour of the melting SHOWS in the high
mountains. When the river was reached
the game made bold stand, and for a
time IL seemed doubtful which held the
mastery; but the incessant fusilade from
four hundred rifles, together with the
desperate proximity of the formidable
battalion, drove the herd in dismay into
the roaring torrent. Beside themselves
with the excitement Of the moment, the
Indians urged their ponies into the
stream, unwilling that even flood
should spoil their frenzied sport OF cut
them off from their game. The terrific
current, made tumultuous from the
huge piles of rock here and there, in the
channel, whirled buffaloes, ponies, and
Indians along at bewildeFing velocity,
until the thousands Of beasts were roll
ing and writhing in inextricable confu-
sion. In the dizzy evolutions of horses
and riders, the latter were left to strug-
gle for themselves In the water, and TO
be jammed to death between the surg
Ing masses of drowning beasts. Some
who foresaW the danger in time, and
turned shOreWard, found safety on terra
drma, but those who ventured far
enough TO be embraced by the sweep
ing, resistless tide, and to become in
volved in the tangle of struggling ami
mails, were all drowned. The story
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06
NC Horse,s FroE.


IL we were to 90 to many a black,
smith and ask him II he did not think
nature had made a mistake in putting
the clumsy frog into the horse's foot, no
would hardly be ready to say yes, and
very likely would put on 4 surprised
look, and perhaps explain that in some
countries horses did very well without
shoes, and so the frog was left to care
for itself. But while not ready to take
ground with you in any criticism of the
plan upon which the foot is constructed,
you have but to look in the corner Of the
shop where two horses stand newly shOd
lift up their feet and observe for your.
self, that if the smith has not said 1t, the
knife has said the frog is a bad thing,
and must be cut away. The horses do
not stand on the ground, but nearly
half an inch higher, on the iron OF their
shoes, and which takes the weight Of the
horse on the outer shell of the hoof. Tho
practice is as sensible as il would be for
a man who had TO travel on all fours,
taking the weight on the nails OF his
fingers and toes rather than on tho eush-
ion which lies behind them. lis always
the soft part-tbe india rubber part of
the feet of animals that have such
which receives the weight, and not The
shelly, hard part. We know what an
elephants foot is; it is all rubber-like.
The horse has the same incdscd in a
she'll, which gives him accuracy and
steadiness of movement. Now, this
casing protects the frog. It grows
slowly, the frog grows rapidly. The
healthy foot of the colt shows center,
II not projecting, at least level with tho
line of the hoof He does not take his
weight wholly on the rim of bis fcat.
Old horses would have feet moro like
them If blaekSmiths would alloW they
knew little less than nature, and really
knew enough to read her intentions.
The object in shoeing the animal,
aside from the occasional one of chang
ing its gait, is simply 70 prevent tho
wear and shattcrlng Of the outor shell,
and 10 enable it 10 take a frmsr held OF
the ground, escaping the slipping of the
unshOd horn. II is an uHfort1naie incl.
dent of our system at shOcing that the
horse is raised from the ground as boy
is when he mounts stilts.-FeTHl and
FiTeside. ~
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06

brought 10 tho post WAS that thirty In
dians and fifty ponies were drowned,
besides five hundred or . thousand buf-
faloes.
Inquiry at military headquarters IN
this city elected from Col. Sheridan the
corroborative In part Of the
foregoing narrative, that the Crow Indi-
ans had eaten up all their food and had
gone out after game. The dispatch
conveying this intelligence 10 military
headquarters gave no particulars, but
intimated, that the Indians we're des-
perately hungry. Chicago Times.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06
A Newport Incident.

IT is certain that in American society
the men make the bellies. With us it Is
the exact opposite. A case in point
occurred few years ago in Newport,
when several young men, then wen
known in society, determined to try the
experiment. They selected a charming
young lady, bright enough to please In
conversation, but not remarkable for
beauty, nor quite within the charmed
circle of society. For days they took 10
in turns 10 dance with her, to drive her
out and to display an the devotion nee
essary 70 make her hgreeably conspich-
Gus. The object Of these attentions was
as much surprised as she was hattered.
In the course of a short time the leaders
of fashion saw what was right. and they
all called on her. She was belle.-
London Hour.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06
WEST ann SOUTH.

The bodies Of all but four Of the vic
Tins OF the recent collision on the Detroit
Riyerhad been recovered up to the 9th ult.
A sAw-MILL at Bagley, Otsego Coun-
ty, Mich, blew up on the 9th ult., killing two
men aud seriously iniurlug several others.
The explosion was caused by defective aue
JoHN DIGGs, a negro, who outraged A
white lady near Danestown, Nd, on the 9tth
ult, was taken from the jail by about aftv
men on the morning Of the 9th and hanged
% a tree.
COLUMBUS. Ohio, has a population of
5l,644
NEARLY the entire upper portion of
Empire City, Oregon, was burned on the Goth
ult. Loss over $4,000
The Mint and Sub-Treasury at San
Francisco are oyeraowlng with silver coin aud
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gathered from All Quarters.
WASHINGTON.


FROM 1874 to June 80, 1880, the u. S.
mints coined 90, 734,7s standard dollars.
THERE are about 1000 postofiices in
the United States, With salaries ranging from
dollar or two up to 5000 a year. Only one
postmaster-New York City-receives s., 900,
the salaries at other frst-class Offices not ex-
cceding 5000.
THE receipts Of the Postofiice Depart
ment for the quarter ending March 81, 1880,
were s. $40 SS2; expenditures, 80, 1856, 3s5.
The total receipts of the Revenue De-
partment from all sources for the fiscal year
ending June3O, 1880, were 1923, ,9sl, ,9l9, against
S1l3 449,62l in 1879 showing a total Increase
from internalreyenue Of $40, ,532, 29S.
UNITED STATES TREASURER GILFMLAN
states that since the coinage Of the standard
silver dollar began s35, ,OOO O)O had been paid
out up to the 2sth ult., aud Of that amount
s11OOO,0OO had been returned to the Treasury
in payment Of public dues, and in exchange
for silver certificates.
The following partial returns received
at the census Office show the municipal In
debtedness Of the States named New York,
about $40, 100000; Massachusetts, sS6OOO.- =
900; Illinois, S5l, 900; Ohio, $4,000, coo
Wisconsin, nearly Sl0000,0O0; Minnesota, 81,
2500.0; Kansas, S13 100000 Missouri, $4O,-
100000; Connecticut, Sl7, 100, 900; Rhode Isl.
ands, Sl2, 900; New Jersey nearly f4S, 900.
OOO; New Hampshire, nearly S5,5O0,OOO; CALI
fornia, upward Of Sl1, 800, 900; Tennessee, 81, =
100000; Iowa, between $4,O00, 900 and 5000,
OOO; Nevada, very nearly $500, 600; Indiana,
over Sl4 10000; Louisiana nearly $50, 600, 600
Pennsylvania, (nOthlng but county debts be-
ing reported) shows SIS 600, 900, making a
grand total Of f697, $50, 600. Municipal in
debtedness includes all local indebtedness,
county, city, town and school district, but eN-
cludes State debts. In the list given above
only nineteen States are included, which Is
one-half the whole number. II the other half
make an equal showing the aggregate local
indebtedness alone Of the country Is nearly
Sl,4OO0 100000. In 1870 It was returned at
Ss6S 100000.
The public debt of the United States
in August, 1865, was s., ,756 43l, 81. July 1,
1875, II was $685., 800, ,23O less. The greatest
decrease for any one year during that period
being Sl21, So, ,952 for the year ending June
30, 1867. The debt has been decreased by
S67, 1i9, SO3 during the first six months of this
year. The entire reduction from Aug. 81
1865, TO July l, 1880, amounts to 1887, lO4 s23.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
completed a table showing the losses charged
of by National banks for the six months
ending March 1, 1880. The total losses by all
these banks for that period amounted to
S7,563, S66; the losses for the corresponding
period In 1879 were $40, 23S 324.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06

! OF S2,0O0,O00.
A SMALL grocery store at Detroit was
destroyed by FIRE on the morning Of the 27th
ult., aud Charles Peterson, who roomed over
the store, was burned TO death.
The wheat yield of Minnesota this
year is estimated at fully 85,OOOO9O bushels,
and Il may reach 100000
WHILE two burglars were attempting
an entrance TO the residence OF Hon. D. II.
Solomon, thirty miles from Council Bluffs, on
the morning OF the 9th ult., they were dis.
covered by a son Of Mr.. Solomon, who shot
and killed one Of them. The dead burglar
was not recognized
A RAIL storm passed over the vicinity
Of Stevens Point Wisconsin, on the 2sth
ult., covering the ground TO the depth Of
several inches. Thousands Of fowls and sheep
were killed. The shingles were torn from
several roofs and over hundred farms
cleaned entirely Of hay and grain. Yards
were stripped and forests left as bare as in
winter.
The Ohio Greenback State Conven-
tion met at Columbus on the 2Sth ult. The
National platform adopted at Chicago was ac.
cepted as the State platform with two or
three minor resolutions. The following ticket
was nominated: For Secretary Of State,
Charles L. Lloyd; Supreme Judge, d. W. c.
Bowso, Wopar Ua que =, SUPREME . p CSuI OBa,igs p
Works Amos Pohorts. 81 sohooI IL Co,,,Dt.stonnr -
r. sDoor,. prosido,,,isi t,ia,,Cr, a. or,
Harry Kellogg and L. r. Foster.
49,, - o- 10 - = .,'
s.i'S Sl ~ OioSo,i sioM APopu'A'lon Vi l'oo-'o'
an lhcIeese ol elBhty-JhTee per cent since
1870.
A SPECIAL TO the Galveston, Texas
Hd@ from Denison states That party Of
creeks attacked two Cherokees, near Gibson
station, lndian territory, on the 2fth ut
kllHng one ana Woundlng the other. Two
Sn., CrSeAs were nangeu uI the Oncrohees on the
'O,I, neioo 'ne ,e'1i'1Iio"
1hE PoPuiatloh OI minnesota Is 'cV'-
VIZ, S, aeco,ulnH r, 70 'ne census
thE uleenDacAers Oh hansas held
tneir state convention on the 2Sth ut il. r.
'roohlan was nominated Tor Governor.
COLONEL j. Is. JACKSON was nomi-
Dated for Governor by the West Virginia
Democratic State Convention ON the 2Sth ult.
Two PERSONS, a man and woman,
were captured near Fremont Neb.. on the
Goth ult., supposed to be the old man Render
and Kate, the notorious murderers Of Kansas.
Both made partial confession.
On the night of the 2Sth nit. a party
of fifteen disguised men. twenty miles from
Atlanta, Ca, went to the home OF Joe Thomp.
son (colored), dragged him out, beat him and
his wife feariully, fatally shot his son and
killed his daughter. -Four arres'swere made,
thompson recognized as the leader of the
and had convsed o for aaest amy Patte P4secu'eu
,rIr Irt, I,,,I;a,sa I.,I;.. a.
,reoty In 10 nrosant go m, art5ll. 'ao -
being removed ~ the innctlor Of ,hn Gunnt
son and Grand Piyors o acoo,,nt ~ ,ha rar
soil I'm tbat IocaIit, '''
n Cop,,,,,, .,,,;.. - H..
ol,i'i,"' i"Pi1'' was Sio'
u'"H ny aii "ilnou ihOo NJ mooerly MO- on
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06
FOREIGN INTELLICENCE.

The United States revenue cutter
Thomas Corwln returned To Onalaska from
the Arctic on the Sth Of July, made some re-
pairs and sailed again on the nth. She had
been within one hundred aud forty miles Of
Wrangel Land, and several vessels Of the
whaling feet had been seen, but the captain
was unable TO communicate with any Of them,
owing 10 the large quantities OF ice.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06
Inherited Antipathies,

Cows hate dogs instinctively, from
their earliest calfhood upward. | used
to doubt once upon time whether the
hatred was not of artificial origin and
wholly induced by the inveterate human
habit OF egging on every dog to worry
every other animal that comes in its
way. But l tried mild experiment
one day by putting half-gfown town
bred puppy into a small enclosure with
some hitherto unwOrried calves, and
they allturned 10 make a common head
way against the intruder with the same
striking unanimity as the most ancient
and experienced COWS. Hence / am
inclined to suspect that the antipathy
does actually result from vaguely in
herited instinct derived from the days
when the ancestors of our kline was a
wild urus, and the ancestor of our dogs
wolf, on the wild forest-clad plains OF
Central Europe. When COW puts up
its tail at sight of dog entering its pad
dock at the present day it has probably
some dim instructive consciousness that
1t stands in the presence of a dangerous
hereditary foe; and as the wolves could
only seize with safety single isolated
urus, so the COWS now usually make
SNAAAASA NGboo dAUiuhL lnb lubIuuluH
dog, turning their heads in one direc-
tion with very unwonted unanimity till
his tail finally disappears under the OPP
posite gate.
Such inherited antipathies seem com
mon and natural enough. Every species
knows and breads the ordinary enemies
of its race. Mice sosmper away from
the very smell Of a cat. Young chick
ems run 10 the shelter Of their mothers
wings when the shadow OF a hawk
passes over their heads. Mr.. Darwin
put small snake into q paper bag,
which he gave 10 the monkeys at the
Zooi and one monkey after another
opened the bag, looked in upon the
deadly foe Of the quadrumanous kind,
and promptly dropped the whole pack
age with every gesture of horror and
dismay. Even man himself though
his instincts have all weakened so
greatly with the growth Of his more
plastic intelligence, adapted to a wider
and more modifiable set of external cir
cumstanees tOTetaiR q vague and
original terror of the serpentine form. -
81. James Gasette.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06

TIE Prince of Wales spoke of hims
self as " citizen of Great Britain at
d public dinner in London, and was
cheered for his goOd-fellow-
ship, ..U..
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06

AN exchange speaks of man who "is
but one step removed from an ass.
He'd better make 1t three or four.
The animal has long reach backward.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06

IT has been long known that fishes
return to about the same place in the
same rivers each year TO spawn, but II
Is a new discovery that they 60 up the
left-hand side of the stream, and COM
ing down take the opposite side. Fish
ermen may be benefited by remember.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06

Without a friend, what were hu-
manity Byron.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06

Ma, M. A, VEDDER finds that water
is not freed from organic impurities in
freezing, and that the germs of anil
maloulle are present In very much OF
the ice taken from stagnant water.
This being the case, considerable risk
must attend the use Of such ice in drink
ing water .I.... E.r
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1880-03-18

John Nuez r, will Offer for sale ~ Ia,
residence o:' leonard Pickirg, in M"chan
ir,tuwn, y iArgc an"nn! of linuSchot
Furn, ire ON Sal March 2ntn. - 4. NJ
Terms six u .a'!is Credit an al! sum
ahu,c s. = sad ln'-r lA,H.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1880-03-18

WitherOw B Armacost have their new
stock of goods open. Give them call.
Waken up Owing's Greek! Your neigh.
bors mold you responsible, rather than U.s.
For SALE-Onc dozen excellent. ten
gallon wine kegs. Win be sold very cheap
for cash. GEO. SPRow.
Mar. II ct.
John Kunkel, son of j. B. Kunkcl Of ca
toctin Furnaces has retired from business
in Baltimore and returned to his farm at
Springfield, We are pleased to welcome
him back to Frederick county.
Wanted to Lcase.-Fer three years
under exceptionally favorable terms tc
owner about five (5) acres of farming land
within one 0) mile of Mcclancstown.
March lStf Inquire at this Office
"Mr. X, papa wants Ito borrow your
CLARION, he only wants 70 read it,"
IAN right, my boy take it back with you
and tell your papa, that want to borrow
his supper, only want to cat it, Obvi
Gus moral. Subs.--etc
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1880-03-18
MAR RED.

On March 10th at the residence of tho
brides parents, Mr. Nicholas Engel, near
Graccham Ivy Rev. l.. p. Clewell, Mr..
John III IIumerick 10 Miss Carrie Engle.
On the 1lth inst, al tile residence of the
brides parents near F"xyile, by Rev.
X j Richnrl4un. Mr.. William D.
Smith to Mis-. Carncla 4. I'uhrman.
On 'hc 9th inst by Rev. + 8. Johnson.
Mr. Daniel Joshua Dlvi lson of Grace
ham, TO Miss Ann Francis Hoover. of
Liberty Township, AIans county, Pa.