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Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20
Battle of the Cooks.

A remarkable incident, and one
whose serious character was partially
offset by its ludicrousness, occurred
about six o'clock the other morning in
the kitchen of a mansion on Penn ave-
nue., beyond Point Breeze. in the East
End, Pittsburg. At that time the cook
was busily manipulating the stirring
paddle in a huge pot of mush, which
was seething and bubbling on the stove.
Two of the domestics employed in the
household were present, and while the
mush was being worked up in the
proper style the three fell into warm
discussion. Presently the argument
was changed to quarrel, and the fe-
males entered into the dispute. with
great relish. Something was said dis
paragingly of the cook soon after. and
in fit Of supreme anger she retaliated
upon the domestic who made the re-
mark by landing a ladle full of the hot
mush directly into the offending fe-
males face. Thus the fight began.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20

lawn to grassy paddock. and there
were found within twenty-five fine heif-
ers cropping the grass, as happy as if
their late master retained his property.
81 don't mean these" said the
Chief Justice, rather testify. g. want
to see those fifty short-horns which
came after left home.' -t
.sBedad! the long and short OF it is,
them's all the cattle on the land, ex-
cept what we bred ourselves, my lord. -
And so it was; the sagacious Mr..
Nagle had SO timed the departure of
his cattle as to meet the CEIef-Justice
on the road. He Fad properly drilled
his herdsman. who, with the tact of his
country, relished the plot of "doing''
the Judge, for Mr.. Nangle had no great
faith in the integrity of that functiona-
ry. The Judges coach was no sooner
out of sight than the herdsman turned
his cattle, and, before nightfan, they
were once more in the familiar fields Of
Mr.. Nangle, where they were reared.
The Chief-J Justice felt that he had
been outwitted, but, of course, had no
power of showing his disappointment.
Chambers Journal.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20
Gigantic Robbery.

It will be remembered that in the
month of June last sum amounting
to nearly 5000, 600 was stolen from
the Imperial Bank at Kherson, and that
the robbery was committed under the
direction of an engineer named Sasch-
ka, son of a General in the Russian
army, who had hired a house opposite
the bank and driven tunnel under
meath the street into the cellars of the
bank. The entrance was effected on
a Sunday, when the bank as usual was
closed, so that the robbery was not
discovered until the next day. 1t was
at once taken for granted that the
Nihilists were concerned in the robbery,
as the money taken all belonged to the
State, while several large deposits be-
longing to private persons were left
untouched. The researches of the po-
lice in the villages around Kherson re-
suited in the discovery of the greater
part of the money, which was conceal
ed in a cottage, and the arrest of some
fifteen persons suspected of completely
in the robbery, though Saschka him.
self, who is believed to have had a
hand in the recent attempt to blow up
the Cars train near Moscow, has not
since been heard of. Those persons,
who appeared the other day before the
court-martial sitting at Odessa, COM
prised the Baroness Vitten and three
young ladies of good family, who were
described as the instrument of Saschka,
several other women, and about twelve
tradesmen and peasants. The evidence
went to show that in addition to the
money various official documents had
been made away with. and the accused,
who made no attempt to deny the
charge, Indignantly repudiated having
been actuated by mercenary motives.
declaring that they were engaged in
political work. The Baroness Vitten
was sentenced to penal servitude for
life, and ten of the others to the same
punishment for terms ranging from
four to fifteen years. Two masons who
were employed by Saschka to work in
the house while he occupied it. but who
knew nothing of the plot which was
being carried out, were acquitted
London Pail Mall Gazette.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20


Five minutes later the owner of the
mansion, aroused from his slumbers by
the noise, rushed into the kitchen, and
was literally astounded by the scene
which met his view. Soft masses of
mush were flying in all directions. The
ceiling, walls, carpet and various arti-
cles in the apartment were copiously
ornamented with big chunks of the
smoking compound, and the irate do
mestics, with their hands madly mixed
up in each others hair, were plentiful
ly bespattered with it. The battle had
been hot one in more senses than
one, and after awhile, when the COM
batants had been separated, it was
found that each of them had been
burned more or less by the hot mixture.
Smoking Jumps of the stuff clung to
their hair and garments, and on the
whole they were in a pitiable plight.
The proprietor did not stop to inquire
into the cause of the trouble, but then
and there discharged all of the females
from his enlplOy
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20
The Old Frigate Constellation.

An inspection of the ship of-war Con-
stellation has been ordered by the Sec
retary of the Navy, in order to send her
to Ireland with cargo of provisions.
Ihe vessel is not in very forward con-
dition. having neither spar, sail. nor
single gun, and furniture is conspicu-
GUS by its absence.
Some merriment has been occasioned
by the selection of so old a-vessel, and
fears have been expressed that it would
hardly reach its destination. Officials,
however, say she is perfectly seaworthy,
and declare that rumors to the contrary
were started by those who had a re-
markable idea of practical joke. She
can be put in condition in week.
The Constellation has a remarkable
record. 1t was the second finished
when the navy of the United States was
organized, and was launched at Balti-
more, December z, 1897. In the Med
iterranean struggle of 1908 the vessel
was in the Decatur squadron, and in
1912 was rebuilt and twelve feet added
to the length at the Washington navy
yard. Returning from long cruise in
1884 the Constellation was considered
one of the finest war ships in the world,
having ridden through q storm in the
Mediterranean near where French
ship went down in sight of and under
its AdmiraPs flag.
The vessel was rebuilt again and
transferred as a schoolship to Annapo-
lis, taking out cadets on summer
cruises. It was detailed in its eighty
first year by the Government to convey
exhibits to the Paris exposition, arriv-
ing from Annapolis on March 10. Her
tanks and bulkheads were taken out,
the cargo was stored. and March 81 she
sailed for Havre. The Constellation
returned to New York July z, and
shortly went back to Annapolis under
orders. On September 8, 1879, the
vessel arrived to carry the relief officers
and crew to the Mediterranean squad
ron, and sailed with them November 1,
meeting the flagship at Gibraltar. The
Constellation was dismantled when it
returned on January 10 with the re-
| lieyed officers and crew.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20

there they recline on the grassy hill
side or walk in the shade, listening to
the soft nonsense so common to youth
in all ages of the world. On these oc-
casions carrying the bucket to the
spring is matter of etiquette, a mod
est custom, not to be dispensed with.
1t seems they must have some excuses
however transparent, for their spoony-
ing, much as young women now have
of shopping or going to church or
singing school.
During this visit l witnessed many
interesting rustic games and cere-
monies, notably a marriage, with its
escort of maidens with their lamps, and
a dance celebrating that charming Gus
tom among the ancient Italians, the
opening of summer, which Virgil de-
scribes in famous passage of his first
eclogue. First came an invitation to
the goddess of corn, two pretty and
graceful girls representing the priest
esses of Ceres-the one fair and gar
landed with white flowers, the other
dark and crowned with purple flowers.
They pause to strike their uplifted tam
borines, while behind them their sisters
rush breathless but shouting, with flow
ing garments and outspread arms. Two
y IhOhs WIuh PuA RAO S1HS oAAo JILL
broidered vests, advance, each with a
silver amphora or sacred vase of wine,
which is first slipped by the priestesses,
followed by the maidens who surround
them, and then by the young men who
closely follow up the rear, the whole
accompanied by characteristic songs
and recitations. Then all join hands,
youth and maiden alternately, and
form two immense rings, all being
crowned with chaples of grain and
grasses, and the priestesses decked with
additional garlands of the same nature
hanging like scarf across their shoul-
ders. The leader directs their move
ments until they all sink down ex-
hausted, when they are relieved by the
other ring alternately until the old Ro-
man dial on the church tower marks
the morning hours, and pale moonlight
gives place to the glowing day. First
they are led, smiling and shaking their
heads, in review before us, and then
before their older friends who are
seated as spectators, and then bound
ing off in lively circle they twist and
turn it into all Imaginable shapes, sell
dom breaking the magic ring, return
ing again and again to the groups of
spectators for inspection and approval.
| and again bounding off in the mazes OF
| the intricate dance. The leader will
perhaps conduct them to the brow of
the hill and then, starting back, some
of them are sent down the bank and re-
covered by the clasping hands in the
chain; and then, laughing and shout
ing, she leads them to the border of a
mass of grain spread out to dry and
drawing back as before some of them
are thrown headlong into the long
white straw, the leader constantly pass
ing through the ring and turning it as
it were inside Tuscany Cor. CHI
| caQo Times.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20
NORTHERN OHIO JOURNAL.
NOTICE.

J Subscribers who find blue X drawn
through this notice will know that with
this number of the JOURNAL their pres
ent term of subscription expires.
We sincerely trust that all will testify
their appreciation of the paper by re-
newing promptly.
Itshould also aforementioned that the
JOURNAL is now furnished at the ex-
tremely low price of 81. SO per year,
and that it is, in consequence, the cheap
est weekly paper in the Congressional
District.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20

WHEN young lady tripped into a
music store the other day and asked the
bashful clerk in attendance for "Two
Kisses" he jammed on his hat and
rushed out of the back door. The
clerk, never having heard of the piece,
of music, thought he was the victim of
leap year proposal, and his salary
was not large enough to support two.
-Norristoscaa Herald
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20

YES, yes, of course the Gar does
have rather hard time of it, we all
know that, but then think of the young
man who is trying to look pleasant
when his best girl mother (180 pounds
and asthmatic), has just sat down on
his new silk hat ($6.75 and not paid
for).-HdscE-Eye.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20

SPAIN gives a minister plenipoten-
tiary Sc, 600 per year, while favorite
bull Tighter receives $4,000; but then
we'd d rather plenipotensh for that coun-
try for dollar day and board than
fight bulls at any rice.-Modes'a Argo.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20

THERE are ninety-five lakes in Iowa,
covering an area of $4,000 acres.
Should these lakes dry up, as some of
them are doing, the land will belong to
the Government.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20

THERE is. great suffering in Northern
Scotland, but the Scotch, like the Ulster
Irish, try to conceal their woe.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20

esPA the bare wun hund dolls" is the
way a half millionaire in Chester Pa,
wrote it, but they don't go back on the
check on that account.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20

FLORIDA Strawberries, that melt in
the mouth, are selling in New York for
seventy cents q quart.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-22
Foreign War Notes.

The town and fortress of Dulcigno have been
occupied by 5000 Albanians who expelled the
garrison of two battalions of Turkish troops
The commandment not having received in
structions to repel the Albanians withdrew to
Goerza.
The northwestern part of Macedonia is very
unsettled. Bands called ''The Avengers " have
formed in the chief Bulgarian centers and have
assassinated within the past six weeks number
of Moslems, including one boy and two function
aries. The Mussulmans retaliated and many
Bulgarians have fallen victims
The British consul 1T Van, Armenia, has tele-
graphed MI. Goschen, British ambassador, that
the hurds have devastated thirteen Armenian
villages.
A dispatch fryln Antivali, September Is, says
5000 Albanians are massed on position on the
Mazura range, intrenched with five lines of
earthwork but within range from the sea. All
the Albanians between here and Berlin have
joined the party Of resista nee. Gen. Petrovich
is near Antivari. He has 5000 men, six guns
and three mountain batteries. He is awaiting
orders from Cettinje. At an interview he ex-
pressed strong doubts of an amicable settle
ment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-22
Election Returns.

Advices from Portland, Me-, under date of
the 18th inst, state that both parties claim
ing plurality of votes and it is very evident
that the official canvass of the returns will only
decide who is elected
The official returns of the election IN Arkan-
sas have been received from all the counties in
the state but two; no returns for state officers
have come from Ch1cot and the vote of Pulaski,
included below, is Unofficial. These give: For
governor, Z. J. Churchill, Democrat SO, 975;
for W. ?. Parkes, Greenbacker, 81, 553; for Sec
rotary OF state, Jacob Frotch, Democrat, sc, $50;
for G. E. Tobey, Greenbacker, 81, 1888: for state
treasurer, w. E. Woodruff, Jr., Democrat, &c.
1877; for W. A. Watson, Greenbacker, 26, 561
for state auditor, Jno. Crawford, Democrat,
86,799; E. Cunningham, Greenbacker. 26, 1873.
Chicot county, gives officially, for Lear, Demo-
GRAFT. for land commissioner, II, 131 votes, and
it is presumed the number for the remainder of
the ticket, may be added to the above. The
aggregate vote of the state reaches about $780,
600, the largest ever cast
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-22

In an address made some years ago to
the members of literary society. at Hi
ram College, he uttered the following
eloquent passage: "Having passed the
limits of childhood, and being about to
enter the larger world of manhood. with
it's manifold struggles and aspirations.
you are now confronted with the ques-
ton, What must 1 do to fit myself most
completely, not for being a citizen
merely, but for being all that doth be-
come man, living in the full light ofth
Christian citizens of American Your
dlsenthralled and victorious country
asks you to be educated for her sake,
and the noblest aspirations of your being
still more imperatively ask it for your
own sake
T 1t is but natural for a powerful mau
with such training and such impulses to
utter the most eloquent thoughts in his
political addresses to young men, and to
lead them to adopt his political opinions.
He cannot avoid engaging their respect
and good will, as he leads many Of them
to recognize their abilities, and to attain
to situations and usefulness and honor.
His brilliant success must stimulate
those who are diligently studying in our
higher schools, amidst ANNOUNCEMENTS
and protracted labor, to complete their
course and fill exalted ideas in their sub
sequent lives. His election this fall as
president of the United States would
give the opportunity for him to influence
the character and advance the standing
OF young men, as no other political
leader has ever done in this country.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-22

Mary Egan, an industrious washerwoman of
Sioux Falls, d. t., was murdered on the 18th,
and her body was found two DAYS afterwards in
the cellar of her residence. Her husband. a
worthless, drunken loafer, has been arrested on
suspicion OF having committed the crime. The
poor woman was in the habit of walking four
teen and fifteen miles to do her work.
A duel between Ute Indian and O. Navajo
took place near Santa Fe, N. NJ, on the 9th inst.
The Ute was killed and the Navajo seriously in
jured. They fought with knives. Both wanted
to marry the same girl.
horrible case of lynching took place at
Springfield, Tenn, on the 18th inst. A mob
assailed the jail at that point, gained an en-
trance and riddled Joe Ramsey. incarcerated
for numbering Miss Holt, with bullets. leav-
ing him dead on the Jail floor The crowd then
| secured Jack Bell and Archie Jaimison, negroes,
arrested lew days ago, charged with the
murder of J.. S. Laprade, who lived about II
miles from Springfield. The prisoners were
taken to point within seven miles of Spring.
field and hung upon dogwood trees. The
five others accused of completely in the IIaprade
murder are under guard at Saddlerville. One
OF them named Hlggnson made confession
duplicating others and giving sckening detail s
of the torture of Laprade to make him reveal
where his money was kept
Mike Hawkins, alias John Edwards. shot aid
killed VIM. Lane. colored, five miles from
Lawrenceburg, Anderson county, KY. on the
0FOlLiuS VI TIC lGt1 luSI. Inc cause was Sa1Q
to be an old grudge.
The body of Henry Mockobee, guard hay
ing III charge convicts at work on the Big Sandy
railroad, ten miles east of Mount Sterling, O.,
was found i'll the woods on the 18th inst. The
convicts had fallen upon him, literally cutting
his body in pieces, and then escaped.
John Laughlin, while very drunk, went into
the saloon of Andrew W. Zittel1, of East st.
Louis, on the night of the 18th inst, and de-
manded beer, which Zittell refused to give him.
Laughlin then attempted to draw some himself,
and Zitten put him out of the saloon. Zittell
then began to close his house, and, while shut
ting the front door, Laughlin drew revolver
and shot him through the head, inf1icting q
wound from which he died two hours later
At Logansport, Ind, on the 18th inst, John
Dutfeld, OF White county, shot and Instantly
killed James Heenan in quarrel about a girl
Six or seven young roughs undertook to in
timidate three night watchmen at Rockford
ILL.,, on the 18th inst. Aiming themselves with
stones, the assaiants made things so interest
ing for the watchmen that the latter drew their
revolvers and fired. Two balls struck one of
the rioters. named Edward Ryan, infiicting fatal
wounds.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-22
Matt Carpenters Text.

Senator Carpenter has just been inter-
viewed Ill Washington concerning his
health and the campaign. He declares
that his physicians request, that he alb
stain entirely from the excitement of the
campaign will be respected, inasmuch as
he needs rest in order to be prepared to
work hard during the next session of
congress. The senator has, however,
very determined views, and, in his fol-
lowing terse presentation of them are
texts enough for a dozen campaign
speeches:
The Republican party came into power in
1861 upon the eve of q protracted and bloody
war. The treasury was empty, the navy sailing
in foreign oceans. our handful OF army scat
tered all over the Union, the national credit at
a low ebb, and indeed al the circumstances
attending its inauguration were as uDfayoraDle
as can be possibly conceived. But out of this
danger anG darkness, through four years of
war, the Republican party has brought the ma
ton to state OF prosperity never experienced
before. You may take any one of bali a dozen
of subjects, and it alone would crown the party
with glory and honor. Take, for instance, the
conduct of the war, prosecuted on a gigantic
scale and covering an immense territory, and
resultingin complete success. A volume might
be written describing the obstacles that were
encountered and the skill, vigor and energy
Will WHICH luGy were OfGICOult CO ouD-
ject of finance. Starting without money and
without credit, what glorious contrast is pre-
sented by the present condition of things; our
bonds to-day being the preferred security in all
the markets of the world, an irredeemable cur
rency honestly withdrawn from circulation, and
specie payments resumed: every industry
prosperous and everything promising success
for the future. Take the subject of slavery,
existing in 1861 in eleven states; to day entire
ly abolished, the slaves made freemen
and citizens, and their rights secured by con-
stitutional law. And SO we might proceed in
the enumeration of subject after subject, in re-
gard to which the Repubh 3an party has achieved
such renown as never was won by any party in
this country before. To say what the Repub-
hcan party has done is to say not only what the
Democratic party has not done, but what it has
done everything In its power to prevent. Look
back to 1861 and picture to yourself whatwou
have been our condition to-day if the Democrat
ic party had been in power all these years.
The rebellion would have triumphed and the
Union been dissolved; slavery would have exist
ed and been extended; we would have lost the
respect OF foreign nations, and ruin would have
stared us III the face. In view of these facts. it
is quite safe to submit to the people, to the
business men, aud the laboring classes of this
country, whether it be wise or safe TO turn out
party which has made SO glorious record,
and put in party which has struggled against
the present state of things at every step.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-22
A Case of Bribery.

Two American tourists in England say,
IN letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer,
that they easily made their way by bribery
into the gallery of the British House of
Commons. "There appeared in plain
black clothes, clerical, lobbyist-looking
man, who said: Gentlemen, you want
to go into the gallery of the house. Fol
low me right IN. Look about you as if
you were familiar with the place, as if
you had been summoned in by amember,
or by the speaker. So we followed on,
meek as sheep in spirit, but spruce and
Indifferent as possible, and when we
finally crossed the barrier of the last
lobby, and stood in the octagon space
right at the door of commons, we saw a
lunch counter and several peers chewing
and good many policemen; and here
our man, to whom we had meantime
slipped half crown, or 62g cents. said
again: Remain he1e. Keep your eye
on me. Look round as if YOU had
right here In half minute more we
got the wink from his maiestys civil
service representative, and walked across
the octagon to where an old son of sin
in red and green clothes was sitting in a
big chair at the foot of staircase.
Walk up, gentlemen, he says. And we
dart, leaving beneath us all forms of
majesty, and, bold as brass, we slip into
one of the leather pews, and watch old
John Bright, full of fat and white hairs,
sitting on the ministerial bench, and hear
somebody speak on the Hares and Rab-
bits bill.