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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-10
LATTER NEWS.

REPORTS come from Castle Garden
that an unusual number Of destitute Ger.
mans have arrived this season.
The remains of Lieutenant Governor
elect George b. Robinson, OF Colorado, were
taken to Plainwell, Mich, for burial.
AT Omaha, on the Sd, Judge Dundy
Of the United States Court decided in the
Ponca Indian case, TO recover the old reserva-
ton and establish a title thereto, that the
PcNca tribe Of Indians have a legal estate In
the reservation and are entitled TO possession
thereto. This case is the first on record
where one Indian tribe brought suit against
another In the courts of the United States
THE Kearsage Cotton Mills at Ports
mouth, N. H., were destroyed by FIRE on the
4th. The loss is estimated at about $4,000
Nearly 800 operatives are thrown out OF en-
| plOyment. The FIRE spread 80 rapidly that
the occupants barely escaped, as the flames
rushed toward the stair case. Several, I'm
deed, were obliged TO leap over fire In order
10 make their exit and some were severely
burned.
A PARIS dispatch says the Panama
Canal subscription iS said to be moIe than
covered.
A Madrid dispatch says It is reported
In MinlAterlal circles that the Government
has decided to place restrictions on the Ad-
mission OF French monks into spain.
ANDREW j. GILLEN, who recently
snot Miss singerson at New York for refus-
ing 10 marry him, committed suicide at Cedar
Keys Fla, on the 9Th. ....... g.
EDWARD RICHARD, reporter at st.
Louis, sbot his landlady on the 81 because she
refused 10 go 10 the theater with him. The
landlady died on the 9th. Richard was drunk
when he did the shooting and says II WAS en-.
tirely accidental.
CBARLEs HENDERSON, colored, was
hanged at Friar's Point, Miss, on the 4th for
the murder Of Thomas King, a Whito man, IN
December, 1879.
The shipments ofwheat by lake from
Detroit for the season foot up 7,a5a, 800
bushels.
CAPTAIN JosEPH d. WmsoN, who,
previous 10 the war, was in the United States
Navy and during the war lieutenant on the
Confederate steamer Alabama, was killed IN
railroad accident near Ellayille, Fla, on the
The Piedmont & Arlington Life In
surance Company, of Richmond, Va, made
an assignment OF all personal and real prop
erty on the 4th, for the beneat Of policy hold.
erg. E
~MTENDENr KAIBkLL, Of the
Service, In his annual report says
800 vessels, having on
Nre wrecked during the
were lost. The men
'overed 200 persons
vorth Of the Sl2,.
b the wrecked
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-10
Railway Accidents.

THE Rdf'Toad Gazette has summary Of the
rain oad accidents during the month OF outO.
boz, There was totalof lsO accidents, whore.
y 90 persons were killed and l8T wounded. In
.iaccidents the death OF one or more persona
was caused; In 20 Others personal injury, but
not death, resulted, while in 70, or 6ls per cent.
ofthe whole number, there was no personal In
Jury serious enough for record As compared
with october, 1879, there was an increase Of ls
in tho number OF aooidenta OF "a IN the num-
Der killed, and OF Al In that injured. For the
year ending with October the record Is as fol.
Iowa.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-10
THE EAST.


WILLIAM A. THOMAS, teller of the
First National Bank of Newark, MI, has
been held In $4,000 hail for embeEzlement
The New York canals during the year
received Sl,i55,OOO for tolls.
CoNGREssAiAN-ELECr EvARrs w. FARR
Of the Third New Hampshire district, died at
Littleton, that State, on the Both ult.
DIR. JoHN BUCHANAN, who sold bogus
medical diplomas has been acquitted by the
United States Courts Of using the mails 20
defraud. Tne acqulttal was based on the
technical grounds that Buchanan did not In
tentionally deiraud anybody because his Gus
tomern knew the diplomas were bogus.
THERE is general alarm In Brooklyn
aud New York City over the spread OF dlph.
iberia. In September, October aud Novem-
Der 1000 cases we're reported. Scarlet fever
IL also prevalent IN Brooklyn.
BRocKAwAY. the counterfeiter ar
rested At New York recently, has been 70
leased. lie surrendered the plates OF the
counterfeit notes and bonds and gave in-
formation Of great value. He was released
On condition that he should plead guilty 70
two indictments agalnsthim, and refrain from
ever again eounterfeitlnE.
CONGRESSMAN ABRAM >. HEWITT has
written another letter defending himself
against what he terms the "extra judiclaln
attack Of Judge Davis In his recent deeislou
In tho Philip libel case, Hewitps letter con
eludes 40 follows, wWith this statement /
submit my conduct 70 the candid Judgment OF
your readers, but not without expressing the
deep regret which I feel that unlueky chnnee
should have brought me where my opinion
vas asked In regard 10 the authenticity Of
letter which so far as was concerned, was a
matter Of profound Indifference and IN re-
gard 70 which never supposed that any CON
tTOyersy could eElse. This regret ls lntensl-
Aed by the fact that rather than General
Garneld have been the victim OF the forgery,
for he has Notwithstanding been elected Pres
dent, while have had the singular experi-
ence OF denuneiation from the Bench In q
case 70 which / was not party, In which
had no hearing before Judge who seemed 10
eoniound the WitnesseaWith the alleged Grim
lnal. have, therefore, more reason than
General Garfield TO hunt the rascal down.
and 70 insists that dire punishment shall '
mee,ed out TO those who have violate
THE Pennsylvania psil'
allow any more freigh
a Ohio Railroad 10
Pennsylvania comp
self-preservatlon
CAPTAN =
who command
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-10
Incomes Of Factory Operatives In
Massachusetts,.

A TRUANT officer who visited some
thirty factories in and about Boston re-
ports that he found in every one Of them
children kept at work in open violation
of the law. Systematic investigation has
shown that OF the $4,000 children en-
ployed in various factories throughout
the State in 1873 only 4,675 received the
legal amount Of schooling; and that
among the 282, ,4s5 children in Massa-
chusetts between the ages of five aud fif-
teen there are no less than $4,000 chill
dren who never have been present in
either our public or private schools.
An overseer in one Of the print works
in the State says There seems to be a
growing disposition on the part of par
ents to put their children to work before
they are of the legal age, and to avoid
sending them to school the length Of
time required by law. Scarcely q day
passes but mothers come TO the mills
and beg US TO use our influence in pro-
curing employment for their children" !"
My friend left the Office in a brown
study. "Can 1t be normal state Of
things" she said, to a certain political
economist, "when children Of eleven
years are reokoned among the bread
winners of a StateP" H ~
" "Something must be wrong" he an
swered, 'when an organic law of pro-
duction Is violated, as is the case in
Massachusetts, where children between
the ages of ten and fifteen constitute
forty-four per cent. of the whole num-
ber Of working people, and yet produce
but twenty-four per cent. of the in.
oomei"
"But is It not possible for strong,
able-bodied man, If he is temperate and
provident, to earn enough to support
his family and keep his children in
school till they are fifteenP" .a9at
"It certainly ought TO be, but with the
present relation Of wages to cost OF hv-
ing in Massachusetts, It seems that q
laboriugman with a family can not keep
out Of debt with yearly Income Of less
than 5000. Now, the fact Is that the
majority Of workingmen earn cOnsid-
erable less than 5000 3 year. I know Of
one Irish family where both the father
and eldest son, q child about twelve,
work in the mills. Their combined
earnings amount TO S564-an income
which falls, you notice, below the mint
mum sunni The family numbers six,
and one of the four children the parents
have kept in school. They dress shah
billy, occupy . tenement OF four rooms
In one Of the most unhealthy localities
In the city, and are In Wretohed con-
dition generally. KnOwinR that the
family were constantly ruhhinR "a debt.
/ inquired into their items OF expense,
and found the yearly amount to be as
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-10

The averages per day for the month were
S.sI accidents, 2.s5 killed and 4.l2 injured; for
the year they were 2oO accidents, OFT killed and
2.7t injured. The average oasualities per aoci-
dent were, for the month, O.5Ib killed and l.lA2
inturedi for the year. 0.2at killed and 1901 In
tured
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-10

AN illuminated red nose is not a safe
guide for a man in a dark night. 1t
leads directly TO a bar-room.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-10

THE grain crop of Italy is this year
larger by one-third than in 1879.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-10

DEER meat is now comparatively
cheaD.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-10

This total Of $3.50 is a larger expendi-
ture than Is warranted by the income Of
1854. Subtraet from this income the
child's wages, which amount to S182,
and you find the fathers income to be
only S4S2 What would be the financial
condition of this family without the
ohild's lRborp I can notte how proVi-
dent they are, but it is difficult 10 see
where their expenses could be lessened,
when, according to the statistics Of la
Dor, the yearly average expenditure for
the foed Of a family is reckoned at
S422.16, which is nearly the amount Of
the fathers earnings" = Atlantic
The Columbus journal., 1880-11-10
Small Compost Heaps.

All farmers know the value OF
compost" and how to prepare it.
Many farmers manufacture hun
dreds of loads of the best manure in
this way. They gather together on
the premises forest leaves, corn
stalks, including the roots, weeds,
vines, offal from fence-corners, muck
from ponds and bitches, occasional
sprinklings Of lime through the
mass, layers of barnyard manure,
and thus build up oblong squares
and let it remain over winter
When April arrives the mass has
gone through fermentation and COM
minution, and presents a mound Of
fertilizing matter better than small
gold mine would be to the proprie-
tor Of the farm. But we want to
see these compost heaps in the gar
den, and there is no reason why
they should not be there as well as
upon the farm. There is rubbish
enough in the garden, with the as
sistance of leaves, some mole from
the woods, if attainable; if not, from
portions of the premises where it
can be spared; scrapings from the
turnpike; manure from the stable
and every attainable substance that
will decay through the winter. A
little Stacked lime will be a good
A half dozen to q dozen
loads OF excellent manure will be
by the time it is want
ed in the spring, without incurring
scarcely any expense.-Germanto,rn
Telegraph.
The Columbus journal., 1880-11-10
A New Breakfast Dish.

Mr.. Setemup came down stairs to
ten O'Clock breakfast with a vacant
countenance and a backward ten
dency in his hair that made his two
eyes ache. He sat down at the table
ana, picking up his knife and fork,
glared in uneasy wonder at some
thing in the platter before him. 1t
had evidently been fried in butter
and was intended for food. Mr.
Setemup harpooned it with his fork
and lifted it up bodily, gazing at it
with ever increasing WONDER
What under the sum-" he exclaimed
at last sis this thing?" "Well," re-
piled his patient wife, with just q
shadow OF sigh, il looks like your
new soft felt hat, and that is what /
thought it was, but you pulled it out
of your pocket when you came home
this morning and said it was a nice
porter-house steak and you wanted
it broiled for breakf fast. You needn't
give me any of it; I'm not hungry"
And Mr.. Setemup, who was just
wild to know what.else he said
when be came home, and what time
it was, for the life of him didn't dare
to ssk.--Burlington HdWkeye.
The Columbus journal., 1880-11-10

A nuisance that troubled Europe
fifty years ago is attracting attention
here-that is putting alum in the
bread we eat. The bread must be
slight" that it may be digested that
is, it must be filled by the we'll
known cells we are accustomed to
see in it. Where beer or ale is
brewed, those who understand
healthy bread-making procure yeast
which "lightens" the bread better
than an substitute, and is whole
some. Where yeast is not readily
obtained, "baking powders" are re-
sorted to, and out of them come mis-
chief. Bicarbonate of soda and
cream of tarter, or tartaric acid, are
the usual ingredients used in a good
baking powder. Cream of tartar
sells at sixty cents to eighty-five
cents pound. This high price has
led cheap baking powders to be made
OF alum as a substitute for some or
all of the cream of tartar. Alum
will make bread look white, so that
bakers can make inferior flour SAL
able as bread by its use; and they
use it in some places calling it
"rock," so that no inadvertant ex-
preston may let outsiders know
that alum is used. Alum is an in
furious article in the human consti-
tuition in large quantities, or in small
quantities often repeated. 1t is the
small quantities taken every meal
that do the mischief in bread. Alum
is cheap-three cents a pound-to
the pocket, but it takes what is 30
saved out of the stomach, and takes
it with fearful interest. Alum is an
astringent, and is used by dyers and
others as such. Taken frequently
on the human stomach, it produces
heartburn, indigestion, constipation,
dyspepsia, and kindred troubles re-
sulting from irritation of the mucus
membrane produced by the astrin-
gent properties of the alum. All
these are nice things to he inflicted
by the bread we eat ever morning,
noon and evening. To young chill
dren, growing girls, persons of
weakly constitution and frame and
sedentary occupations, this alum
bread is poison most especially. If
the reader wants to know something
of alum, let him suck lump of it,
notice the effect upon the mouth,
which is something like that of an
unripe persimmon; then let him
reflect how it acts upon the tender,
delicate coats of the stomach. DR..
Henry A. Mott. the celebrated an
alytical chemist, analyzed twenty
three of the baking powders now in
use, and found alum in all but one.
Ii is time we took measures I'd stop
this bread poisoning, that kills our
little ones, and perpetuates dyspep-
sia and cholera.
The Columbus journal., 1880-11-10
Who Invented the stsam-Engine .

To what man and to what Nation
is the world indebted for the inven-
ton Of the locomotive enginel The
Philadelphia North American
claims that honor for the little
known name OF Oliver Evans, of
that city, and courteously corrects
the Times for a recent incidental
allusion to tie invention as having
had it's origin in England, and being
only afterward brought to higher
perfection in the United States than
il has elsewhere reached. We have
not at hand that number of the
North American, printed in 1878, in
which Eyans' claims are set out at
length. but upon investigation of
other authorities il appears clear
that sufficient credit has not been
given to the candidate for Steven
sons or Trevellicks and vivian's
honors. Thus il 10 beyond ques-
tion that so early as 1857 he obtain
ed q patent from Maryland for steam
carriages on common roads, and he
thereafter developed his idea until
his Oruktor Amphibolos was COM
plete. Even now il is difficult to
see what he could then have added
TO il. Ii would, and did, move
itself on land and water, and when
The Columbus journal., 1880-11-10
A Discarded Wife.

Another American girl who sought
distinction in a titled husband has
come to grief in the dissolution of
the marriage between Miss Moulton,
of this city, and Count Won Hartz-
feldt, of Germany, who gives up his
wife in order to enjoy political hon.
ors. Mrs. Moulton's mother was q
Miss Metz, and her grandmother
was once favorite actress. Her
parents several years ago made their
home in Paris, and it was there that
their daughter met the German
Count whom she married in 1869.
A German resident in this city is
quoted by the World as saying that
the law which the Count has obeyed
in discarding his wife is only So
cisl one. The German Court, ac-
cording to the strict notions of the
Empress Augusta, regards either
connection with the stage (even by
inheritance only or a divorce as a
bar 10 social Intercourse, and the
fact that the Countess's grandmother
was an actress may be the only rea-
son why the Count could not be-
come Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs so long as he acknowledged
his American wife. If this is the
reason for his course, the moral les
son which it teaches of German
Court usages is not flattering one.
~ Y. EUening Post.
The Columbus journal., 1880-11-10

not engaged in propelling itself, the
engine would saw wood or stone,
grind plaster, etc. Another such an
engine-of-all-work has probably
never been in existence before or
since. Thus far il is agreeable to
yield to patriotic impulse, and fol-
low the North american in claim
ing recognition for a neglected
countryman. But it only needs a
hasty comparison of the Amphibo-
los with the Rocket to demonstrate
how untensble is the assertion that
Evans invented the modern locomo-
tive. His machine is a most cum
brous affair. 1t resembled nothing
so much as a fiat-bottomed scow,
carrying an engine with vertical
cylinder, working-beam and fly
wheel "a locomotive with a working
beam and fly-wheel y which could
be mounted on wheels which would
propel itself by an ingenious band
connection to both pairs of wheels,
or to a stern propeller. The sole
and considerable novelty about it,
even then, was that it was a high
pressure engine, and one of the first
OF the kind. On the other hand, it
would be hard to name a single es-
sential of the modern locomotive
which was not embodied in the
Rocket of 1929, and, though there
have been numberless improvements
in detail since then, there has not
been-we believe the assertion needs
no qualifications single new prin-
ciple applied to locomotion since
Stephensonis day, excepting only an
engine now building, and which has
not yet had its trial trip. Neverthe-
less, it is only the rudest justice to
call either Stephenson the inventor
of the locomotive or Fulton the in
ventor of the marine engine. Moth
ing can excuse it except the popular
demand, which concerns itself very
little with niceties of detail, that the
honor shall be settled somewhere.
The truth is, and it is now very easy
to see, that after the discovery of
power of steam its application to use
on both land and water was only a
question of time, and even Watt,
though he never worked out his
idea, added to his specification
caveat ss to this idea. From that |
time down there were endless es- |
says, each one an Improvement on
the other, so that land and marine |
engines are both a growth, and no |
one man can give to the world such |
an enormous gift. Thus, while it
may be quite true, as it doubtless is,
that Oliver Evans, three-quarters of
a century ago, planned, in his minds
eye, a dOuble-track railroad, Sleep
ing-cars, and a speed equal to a
pigeons flight, the world will, nev-
ertheless, probably continue to hon.
or Fulton and Stephenson, next to
Watt, as the human sources of one
of the two great civilizing forces of
this century.-N. Y. Times.
The Columbus journal., 1880-11-10
The Various Stages.

When a girl first falls in love, it
il generally with some boy who tells
her in an ill-spelt note that he adores
her. Not being possessed of much
pocket money or many jewels of
value, he generally presents her with
a ring and locket from some dollar
store, and sends her cheap valen-
tines, with hearts and darts in them,
to the door by his little brother.
Cruel parents generally break of
this match, and sometimes fog the
boy, preach to the girl, and burn up
the mementoes of affection. The
girl cries; the boy threatens to run
away to sea and in year neither
remembers the other.
A little after this the girl, having
grown romantic, begins to think that
a wounded hero of some sort is nec-
essary to her happiness. At this
stage of her existence she could
scarcely fall in love with a whole
man--an empty sleeve, or wooden
leg, or at least scar or two, being
necessary to awaken romance in her
soul and any rascal who limps has
more chance with her than any str ut
and physically unmarried individ-
ual.
AS bodily Affections are not al
ways tokens of perfect souls, this
love-dream is very apt to end un-
comfortably; the adored one having
perhaps limped into very evil COM
pany, or used his remaining arm
for anything but honest purposes
especially if regular introductions
have been dispensed with in the full
current of romance.
After this, "mind" becomes the
object of the young lady's alteration.
She gives her heart to young stu
dents with bumpy forehesds, to bald
professors, to near-sighted scientific
gentlemen. For their sakes she
adores Greek, Latin, bugs ofall sorts,
those portions of rock and stone
called specimens" by the general
public, and all the oligies. But,
alas! the learned gentlemen are
usually destitute of romance and |
do not propose; or, if they would |
like to do so, are deferred by the
thought of having nothing to live
on. And after certain solemn mo
ments of reflection, the young per-
son, now approaching thirty, takes
an entirely new view of love affairs
in general and of her own in partic-
nlar. She decides that the only |
man who can make woman happy |
is a good, substantial, solid man. 1t
doesn't matter to her, in these days,
whether he is handsome or plain,
has one arm or two, is learned or
ignorant. 1t is in his bank account
that she is interested. Her olden
vow that "she would never mar
ry one that had loved before" is
and she espouses the CO.
den widower of five wives wfo
owns residence on the avenue, ard
lives in an atmosphere of campaign
and diamonds.
"The domestic qualities, my dear"
she declares to friend, "are what
one should think of in making
choice of husband.
The Columbus journal., 1880-11-10
StOred.up knowledge of Use.

All knowledge is good, and sooner
or later may be put to use. In emer-
gencies demand is suddenly made
for accurate information. 1t cannot
be obtained at the moment, though
it would be of great value il one
had previously acquired it.
Mr.. Webster used to tell with
great zest an incident in his profess
sional life which illustrates this fact.
In his early practice he had for a
client an old man in danger of los
ing little legacy bequeathed by
will. The complications in the will
were so intricate that Mr.. Webster
became interested in the case, and
sent for legal books to New York,
which cost him more than fifty dol
lars. Studying these, he gained his
case, but at great loss to his pock-
ct, as his client was unable to ade-
quately compensate him. Some
years after, while visiting New
York, the celebrated Aaron Burr
called on him for consultation. He
told Mr.. Webster that a will case, in
which be was engaged, had given
him great perplexity and quite baf-
fed him. He stated the difficulties,
which were identical with those
which Mr.. Webster had previously
mastered. He gave an instant So
luton of the.puzzle. Mr.. Burr lis
tened in wonder, and asked:
"Have you been consulted in this
case, Mr.. Webster2"
"I have never heard of it till you
stated it,"
Mr.. Bnrr's wonder deepeped.
81 have been studying it for weeks,
sir, and could see no way out of II.
How could you settle it so prompt
ly:"
Mr.. Webster told him of the pre-
vious case, which had involved the
same principles, and Mr.. Burr had
a hearty laugh over his fancy that
his friend must be gifted with su.
pernatural wisdom. Mr.. Webster's
early study brought him $500 fee
at that late day.--Youth's COn,pan-
ION.