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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04
Board ofHealth Meeting.

The Board Of Health met in special ses-
sion last Thursday evening, at which all
members except Messrs Hall and Gregory
we're present. Minutes Of previous meet
read and approved. I'..
The oath Of office was administered to
II. j. Topzy and James Reed, as mem
bers OF the board for the term OF three
ing years.
The special committee appointed at pre-
vious meeting to confer with gardeners in
regard to removing privy accumulations
reported, the committee had conferred with
all the gardeners and that Roger Griswold
and Frank Luce we're willing to under
take the work at any reasonable compen-
sation. Committee continued.
Complaints were made against offensive
accumulations on the Thomas property,
corner Prospect and Lake street; against
property near II. II. Bartletts Main street
block; against a certain ditch running
from the vicinity of Lockwood street across
Centre street--said ditch has been recently
abandoned by the Township Trustees, dhd
Harriet Lockwood has caused 1t to be fill-
ed up where it crosses her lot, thereby
damming up the water and causing it to
set back into one or more cellars in the
neighborhood,
Motion was made and carried that the
Council be requested to take necessary ac-
tion to cause said ditch TO be reopened and
the Health officer was directed to take
such action as necessary to abate all nuis-
ances where complaint has been made.
The Sanitary Policeman was directed
to inspect both sides of main street, com.
pensation being fixed at 10 cents per
hour.
Payment was recommended on the fol.
lowing bills; F. D. Case, Health Officer,
So; James Reed Jr., Clerk Of Board, S4
James Thorpe, Sanitary Policeman, So.
Adjourned to Friday evening June 4th,
at 8 o'clock.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04
Coming Disasters.


Eds. 7sl- This year, with the three or
four to follow will be years of conccntra-
ed storms. Terrific tornadoes and long
sweeping cyclones will rage on the earth
alternated by scorching drouths, groaning
earthquakes and possible famnes. The
elements will become more and more un-
balanced by planetary elimination in
perihelia; the sun will become exceeding
ly titful, blazing at times with tervent
heat, fairly sweltering then changing TO
cold indifference. This condition OF
things may be considered a general crisis
in seasons that happens not oftoner than
four OF five thousand years, in which the
sun and planets come to an understand
ing, get balanced up, and start out for
new run with renewed health
BY the lapse of ages the major planets
have got huddled on one side Of the sun
by their unequal revolutions and are
about to hold a family reunion in which
their united gravity in one direction will
lift the sun from his path and somewhat
change the even tenor of his way, calling
out a series OF spots on his disk, such as
has not been seen since the flood, nor Will
be again for another planetary decade.
No doubt but this prophesy will pass
unheeded, people will marry and be given
in marriage as they did in days ofoldwhen
thick troubles came suddenly upon them
and buried their hopes in a moment Of
| time Notwithstanding the disasters that
befel England last year and that only one
turn of the crank is required TO let lose
/ similar troubles upon us, how little VIII
we realize when we walk out in the pleas
ant morning glorying in our greatness,
that before noon a passing tornado may
blast our prospects in moment In thls
period of elementary strife, when every
thing depending on meteorlogic condi-
tions are uncertain, famines and plaques
very possible, it would be streak OF WIS
dom to practice temperance, live In a
natural and healthy manner, making and
laying up suitable provisions for the un-
certain future, and hoping that when jub-
tier and saturn shall come in quadrature
in four or five years their forces will be-
come edualized and consequent letting
| up Of Troublesome seasons. INDEX.
| North Kingsville, June l.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04

Domestic bliss, "kissing the maid"
Domestic Blister, "mans wife catching
him at il"
More domestic bliss, wife rubbing
Eolectrie Oil into the wounds caused by
aforesaid Contretomps."
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04

Occasional indulgence in repartee with a
bright man or woman is entertaining, but
If either party insists upon carrying on the
game unduly it becomes a nuisance, and
the persistent one lays himself or herself
open TO that gravest Of all social charges,
bad Style To talk with girl who will do
nothing but cut and thrust, and whose
constant attack neoessitates constant de-
fence, is bore. Nobody cares to live CON
tinuously on spiced meats. When the too
clever girl finds herself Stunned by men
and hated by women quite as clever as she
is herself, she joys in her heart because she
feels that her superiority tacitly Is aolxnow-
lodged ;nor does 1t cross her mind that
there DO those fully her equals who are con-
tent to allow their wit to CLEAN naturally
and pleasantly, and who do not seek to
make 1t sparkle all the time. That the
too-olsVer girl rarely succeeds in catching
a husband, and that, consequently, she
runs down upon the lee-shore Of oldmaiden-
hood ss fast as the gale Of years can drive
her, IS MOTTO be wondered at. Her chracter
is not lovabls, and only Q most confirm
ed hunter Of ourioSities would care 10 mar
ry her for her intrinsic merit
Philadelphia Times.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04

The old William Penn mansion in Phil
adelphia, 200 years old and the first stone
house in that city, is to be torn uown
to make room for dye house. The
ground floor has been considerably re-
modelled Of late years, but the up-stair
rooms, Of which there are five, remain In
the same condition as Of yore-the old
open frepaces with surroundings OF high
carved mouldings remaining intact. The
house has a frontage Of forty feet and a
depth of ninety. The stairs are winding
and narrow, and the old-time stair win
dows-round paues Of glass set in deep
holes-look like the port lights of Il yes
sell. The house has for some time past
been used as a saloon. Adjoining this on
the south is the house which was built by
Penn for his daughter Letitia, after whom
the street was named. This much resem-
bles its neighbor, except that IL is some,
what larger. Here Miss Letitia Penn lived
and died. For the last twenty-eight years
il has been a saloon.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04
D. D. BURNETT, Adjt.

To President Lincoln and a large com
pany at the White House, Mr.. Murdoch,
the tragedian, once read JanYier's poem Of
the "Sleepng Sentinel"-a poem written
in memory OF Lincoln's olemency in par
doning young Vermont volunteer at the
very moment when he had been led out to
be shot for sleeping at his post. Before
the reading Mr.. Murdoch privately point
ed out to Mr.. Janvier that the President
had ridden in saddle TO the place of exc.
cution, and that there was therefore no
sound OF rolling wheels as described in the
poem. Mr., Janvier thought it a matter
Of trifling consequence, and the reading
went on. AT the end Mr.. Lincoln and
many others were in tears. The Presi.
dent, wiping the drops from his cheeks
sal hastily in smothered voice. every
touching, Mr.. Janvier, but did not 90 in
COACH" "0h, we'll, MIR. Lincoln" said
Senator Foote OF Vermont, 1--WE all know
you would have gone on foot II IL had been
necessary" "Yes, but the fact is-and let
us stick TO the faot--I went on horseback, u
insisted Mr.. Lincoln.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04
The rrentest strike 20.

Everywhere the sick are striking against
metallic medicines and powerful vegetable
poisons. Everywhere they are coming to
the belief that constitutional inyigorant,
preparation uniting the properties OF a
tonic a gentle purgative q sedatiye and
general regulator is necessary to all diseas,
es. Parmlees great Dyspepsia Compound
is precisely such a preparation. It is a
marvellous medicine. Sample bottles, 10
cents large size, 81. Sold by Swift and Il,
A. Willard, Ashatabula, Parshall, Kings
vile June.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04
PecnIiRr PsopIs-

People Who will suffer from sour stom-
aeh, cramps, aolic, or cholera morbus,
when Hamllton's Jamaica Ginger Tonic Is
known 10 be reliable aud speedy remedy.
To the aged IL will prove greet comfort,
and 10 the luebFiRte, who wishes 10 reform,
i Is invaluable, giving tone 10 the digest
I've organs and strength to resist tempta-
tiou. II is a purely vegetable extract. As
an appstlzsr 1t is greatly superior to wines
and liquors. Price, sample bottles, 25c.
large size, so cents. Sold by Swift and e.
A; Willard, Ashtabula, FsFshal, Kings
vile. June,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04
A Card OfThanks.
HEADQUARTERS,
PAULUs POsT, G.. A. r.
Ashtabula. o.. Nav 20. 1880.

@A1hNtAbNAAAf - AAaAJ esNf AcCNs
In memory Of the noble dead who gave
their lives that our country might live,
and their widows and orphans, and in
behalf of all soldiers who are yet
alive, and all others who have not for
gotten our privations and. sufferings we
hereby tender our thanks to the Rev. E.
II. Yingling for his Memorial Sermon
on the 23d inst, and call especial stten-
tion to the cogent truths then uttered
Our thanks are also due to the Juven
lie Band" not only for the fine music
furnished but also for their beautiful,
touching, appropriate note rendering us
their services for the day. We wonld
also ask all those who so unfeelingly
desecrated the day set apart to commem
crate those who died for them, if they
have forgotten why this IS a National
Holiday. BY order of the Post.
A. HENRY, Act'g Com'r.
ID ID BuRNETvT Adit
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04


No better proof could be had of the
strength Of Gen. Grant in the Chicago
Convention than the desperate tactics
which are being employed to defeat his
nomination. No class OF politicians hays
been in the past, less tolerant of the ex-
preston Of Independent opinion within the
party than those who are now working on
the assumption that 1t were better to break
up the Republican organization than to
nominate Gen. Grant. The extraordinary
efforts which are being made to hold to-
gether the supporters OF other candidates
than Grant, for the purpose OF rendering
the nomination of the ex-President impos-
sble, and the morbid sensitiyeness OF the
Blaine and Sherman managers about any
thing which tends TO interfere with their
common plan Of action, show the individu-
al weakness OF Gen. Grants chief oppo-
nents, and suggest the possibility OF sud.
den break down OF the anti.thlrd-term
plans. Whatever may be said about the
Organization of the Grant men, they have
shown, so far, decided superiority In
tact and temper over the other side, and
as the ranks Of the delegates an up they
find no reason to abate their confidence in
the possession VI majority OF the Con-
yention.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04
remperanCeDepartment

EDITED ny j. W. SIMS,
saybrook, o., TO whom all communications
for publication in this department must be
addressed.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04
LEGAL BLANKS.

A LARGE and complete stock OF
a Legal lanks for sale at the
TELEG RAPH OFFICE.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-07
THE MAINE TROUBLES.

On the 25th Sunday, Fusion Gov
ernor Smith issued proclamation to the
citizens of Maine, calling attention to the
assembling of armed bodies of men at
the State Capitol, causing unnecessary
excitement and disturbing the public
peace, ut the same time serving to
6 divert attention from the revolutionary
proceedings by which party caucus under
took to organize the Government" Gov
Smith asserts that the Fusionists have or
ganized no military forces nor called for any,
but g rely upon the Constitution and laws
of the State and the honest Judgment of the
people for the vindication of our cause"
Per contra, the Republicans say they have
evidence of 4 contemplated attack by the
F'usionists upon the State Capitol, which
was only thwarted by the precautionary
measures taken.
The Maine Supreme Court, on the
9th, rendered an opinion in response to the
questions submitted by the Fusion Legisla-
ture, although expressly disclaiming any
recognition of that body, even by implica-
ton, as legally organized legislative
body. The Court declares that the Fusion
House was never legally organized, mas
much as some of the persons who assumed to
act rs members thereof and were necessary
to make up quorum, did not appear to be
elected on the face of the returns and were
not in fact elected. The same objection ex-
lists rs to the Fusion Senate. As to the Re-
publican organizations, the Court say, that,
:. although there may be irregularities
in the manner in which such
organizations were formed, the voice of
the people is not on that account to be stificd
nor the true Government to fail to be MAIN
tanned. No essential defects anywhere exist,
but only such departures from the ordinary
forms as circumstances compelled"
The Fusion Legislature, after pro-
ionged secret session on the 2Sth, adjourned
to meet ON the first Wednesday of August
next
In the Republican Senate, on the Doth,
seven Fusionists took their seats, and %
Fusionists took places in the Republican
House. Every body seemed willing to ac-
cept the situation, and absolute quiet
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-07

WASHINGTON, jan j.
The Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections resumed consideration OF the In
gals case to-day.
j. V. Admire testified in substance: He was
unfriendly to Ingalls, ut the commencement of
the Senatorial contest, but aftcrward, in view
of party interests, he gave him !: lullcwar
support. Admire also testified he told Ray
bell a member of the Kan -as Legislature that
he (RaybelD could get money for his vote for
personal knowledge of the payment of any
moneys by Ingalls, or any OF his friends for
corrupt purposes.
j. j. Barker testified he was at Topeka dur
ing the Senatorial contest that he was DEM
ocrat, and that i'll an interview with senator
Ingalls, the Senator told him lie wanted some
Democratic votes and wanted him (;itrkcr)
to talk to five Democratic members, whose
names were mentioned, and that he saw these
members and told them that money was be-
ing used i'll the Senatorial election,
and that they could get money
for their votes. lie shown two let
tiers written by himself to parties in Kansas
him money with which to buy Democratic
votes, and was asked whether Ingalls, had
given to him or placed under his control any
money to be used i'll securing his re election
as Senator This question Baker declined to
answer, but afterwards in his cross cXanlina-
ton the same question was asked by InslllS's
counsel and he then answered mo"
WASHINGTON, Jan. %.
@. NJ. Foulks, +. 6. Stambaugh, 4. A. Thorn
and ID. Il. Anthony called as wit
ncsSes in the Ingalls, ease, but their testimony
uninportant. This virtually closed the ev
idcnce in the case ana the committee decided
to allow counsel on both sides one week IN
which to prepare written arguments to be
submitted to the committee.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-07
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The steamer Charmer, of the Red
the waters edge on the morning of SUNDAY,
the 18th, near Bayou Sara, La. Eight lives
were lost, viz, two chambermaids, two
cooks, two cabin boys, one fireman and one
deck hand. The cargo consisted of 200
bales of cotton. The Charmer was an ele-
giant new steamer and cost 81, 900. She was
| insured for $4,000.
a Leavenworth dispatch of the 18th
says it is now conceded that the robbery of
Paymastcr Broadhead's safe (of 81 ,000) was
accomplished while the safe was in charge of
the Express Company. between Leaven-
worth and Atchison. The seals of the safe
Were intact when 1t was delivered by Major
Broadhead to the express agent ut the former
place.
The shoe-shop of the Kings County
Penitentiary, Brooklyn, n. ", was burned
on the Goth. The Bay State Shoe and Leath-
er Company, lessees Of the prison labor, lose
about 100000 in stock and machinery. The
company is fully insured.
Rev. Mr.. Hayden of Connecticut,
who has had two trials on the charge of the
murder of Mary Stannard, has been released
on 1900 bail.
The American Union Telegraph Com
pany, Jay Gould's new line, commenced do
ing business on the 26th. The line extends
from Boston and New York to Chicago, st.
Louis, Kansas City, and other principal
points North and West.
The telephone was recently success
fully worked between st. Louis and Omaha,
a distance of 410 miles. Singing and con-
versation We're distinctly heard ut either
end.
A delegation of 40 colored emigrants from
Monroe Parish, La, arrived at Leayen
worth, Kans., on the 9th. They We're
mostly old men, women and children and all
were in destitute condition and entirely
dependent upon charity.
A dispatch from Geneva, Switzerland
says that Lake Zurich is frozen over. an
event so rare that it has occurred but four
times the present century.
A fire-damp explosion occurred in a
colliery at Mussen, SaXony, causing Is deaths
Charles Taing, Chinaman, was
hanged at Colusa, Cal, on the 30th, for the
murder of Chnawoman in December, |
1873.
Joe Gillespie, colored, was hanged at
Taylorville, Alexander County, n. c., on the
3Gth, for the murder of Mr.. VIM. G. Fowler. |
a merchant, for the purpose of robbery, in |
December, 1873.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-07
The Best Work Done Under High
Pressure.

How comes it that so many great men
men that have been great benefactors
of their kind and have left great works
behind them-have had to live under
pressure, with strained energies, and
the sense of having too much to do? 1t
seems as if men could hardly become
great under the conditions of a calm,
leisurely life. A man can not run at his
fastest, or swim his furthest, in ordinary
circumstances; he must be running in
an exciting race, or swimming for dear
life, to do his best. 1t rarely appear
what man is capable of till he is put
to his mettle. Necessity is wonderful
educator, wonderful enlarger and
quickener of mems faculties. We late
ly read an account of a printingma-
chine which from eight cylinders can
print and fold about 100000 newspapers
in an hour. What but the pressure of
necessity could ever have made ma
chinery accomplish such wonders? 1t
needs something of the same sort to
take the most out of human faculties.
Under the pressure, the faculties be-
come enlarged and quickened, and are
thus capable of producing results that
calm leisure never attaina. - NGcHUian';
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-07
Connecticut Economy.

A farmer who lives near Hartford,
Conn, boasts that he has had three
good wives. His neighbors tell story
of his penuriousness concerning each of
them. 1t is averred that he ordered off
his farm a sister of No. l, because she
ate too many eggs. No. had been his
servant girl and refused to work longer
at low wages. On the way to the depot
he said: ''Will you stay if | will marry
youP'' Yes" she answered, and he
is said to have chuckled over his cheap
bargain, as 81 e was a hard worker.
No. 3 was II widow and iressmaker who
owed considerable money. BY the
State law II husband is responsible for
his wifc's debts contracted before mar
riage; so, To avoid paying these the
widower, as soon us he was engaged,
kept the news quiet till he had bought
up all the claims against his intended ut
20 cents on the dollar
Mrs. ROSE MCMAnoN, aged 100 years,
has just died at Dubuque, Iowa. She
was the oldest woman in the State.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-07
The Ute Outbreak.

WASHINGTON, Jan. r.
Lieut.. Cherry, of the 9th Cavalry, Adjutant
Of Mai Thornburg's command, was before tbs
Hot,se Comufittcf "a day and gave an inter
He said that when Jack came to the camp ut
Bear River it was obvious to the officers that
he had come rs II spy, and that after Jacks
, were at liberty to follow his own own
and his co,nn,ninna as hnstageL - s ,heir
intentions evidently were not friendly; but
he had brought it on. His order required him
to act under instructions of Agent Mee>er.
between Maj. Thornburg and the Indians, and
is confident that Thornburg made it perfectly
his force at :, some distance from
ihs .he ofy which the indians Rs sad to en
Adams was that they thought the troops were
going to the Agency in violation of the prom
Thornburgh went toward to hold n conference.
Lieut.. Cherry also contradicted the statement
of Jack to Gen. Adams that the troops fired
first. He said that the first shot came from
the Indians, and was aimed at him, while
inviting "A parley, and that from his own de.
meanor and the pacific attitude of his troops
could have mistaken the waving of his hat for
a Signal of attack. The shot aimed at Cherry
wounded a man and killed horse about feet
in his rear.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.
Miss Josie Meeker was before the House In
ulan committee 10 DAY, ana tolu the story OF
the massacre of her father and of the causes
which led to it. She said the Indians were in
cited to the deed by their intense native aver
sion to take on civilized modes of life. Thorn
burgl'5 advance, in her opinion, was the i'm
mediate cause of the trouble. There
trouble with the W hite River UteS on account
of supplies since her father had been Agent,
and the outbreak was not occasioned by any
treaty negotiations. 1t appears further from
her statement that the Indians had set fire to
the country on and off the reservation, partly
that in case of an outbreak the soldiers could
ut follow tlHiIl
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-07


In the investigation of the Freedmen's Bank
affairs, before the Select Committee. the Com
missioners were examined to what meas
ures they had taken to call the Trustees OF the
bank to account for certain transactions with
the seneca sand Stone Company. 1t was stated
in reply that efforts had been made to that
end, and that one of the Commissioners, Leo
pold, had earnestly desired to take action
against the Trustees, but that the other Com
inlssioners, Cresswvli and PuruoS, had drcid-
ed that the transactions were not OF an nc-
tionable nature, ana they could not, there
fore, proceed without involving expensive lit
fgation, with all chances OF success against
them.
Ex Governor Henry d. Cooke was recalled,
and testified to The transactions Of the
Finance Committee and Board OF Di-
rcctors of the bank. The minutes of
the committee, bearing his signature, hav-
ing been shown him, hc :tcknOw lodged
his approval OF loans 20 The seneca sand
stone Company, ON H.. trl!"i lat the security
WIS ample InuCiiiu. loans 10 General .. ..
Howard fhc YOUNG Mems Christian AssOcia-
ton, and others Mr.. Cooke had no rocoIlec-
ton at his distance of time. lie could not
recall facts and figures with amy absolute cor
~.