Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
ONE city heard from is satisfied with
the new census. Lowell, Mass, has 9
larger number Of inhabitants than any.
body living there expected would be
found.
WIN, BANKS, a noted Liverpool ship.
builder, has left 100000 10 his grand.
daughter, Susan Meyers, the wife Of o
laborer at Greenpoipt, opposite New
York city.
THE uncertainties of the theatrical
business are illustrated by the fact that
Miss Nelson, after a season Of great
success in the East, has been playing ia
almost empty houses in San Francisco.
TEN families will soon depart for Zaoo.
mia, on Puget Sound, Washington Ter.
ritory, under the direction of the Brook.
lyn IN. W OO-operative Colonization
Society. They WI settle under the
Homestead Law.
A TRAMP consented to do a small iot
at digging post-holes at Carson, New,
though labor was contrary 10 his Gus.
tom. He returned to his employer,
house in an hour, threw down his
spade, and said he had changed his
mind. He had found $3.50 worth Of
gold bars which some miner had buried
LABoULAYE, President of the Franco.
American Union, states that Bartholdi'i
statue of Liberty would be ready fol-
erection in the harbor OF New York in
1888, the centenary of the Treaty OF
Versailles, which concluded. peace be-
tween England and America. +.
Mons. LIE PAGE RENouF suggests
that the ancient obelisksr Of Egypi
might have been intended to serve as
lightning conductors. The evidence is
found in an inscription from the tenn.
pie at Edfu, published by Brugsoh-Bey
in September, 1875. In the thirty-fourth
line of this text ''two large obelisksn are
expressly said to have been constructed
"for the purpose of cleaying asundel
the storm-cloud of heaven"
OLD Mrs. Sheppard collects about
$4,000 In rents every July al
Dayton, Ohio, and puts the money in q
bureau drawer. As she lives alone, the
folly of keeping so much money by her
was long ago explained to her. In 1873
masked robbers entered the house and
took the treasure. In 1879 the robbery
was repeated in precisely the same
manner. This year she hid it carefully,
but the rascals choked her until she
told them where it was. 20 She now
promises to put the receipts for 1881 in
the bank.
A BOY temporarily in charge of an
elevator in the Syracuse IN. Y. Savings
Bank building, thought he would like
TO see the elevator work. He -pulled
the rope, and to his surprise the elevator
assembled rapidly. Reaching the top il
struck and reversed itself, breaking the
starting rope, and the car descended
rapidly to the bottom. When the car
was raised the body of the engineer was
found beneath it. He had been killed
instantly. Y (
THE Dumas family has always been
remarkable for strength and address.
One night at the play Gen. Dumas, the
grandfather of Dumas the younger,
flung a man out of stage box on TO the
stage. Dumas the elder was of Her
crlean strength, and Dumas the younger
excels in all games of strength and skill.
He is master juggler, and he can put
q frame of knives round human head
leaning against board with the most
consummate sarety of hand George
Sand was a brilliant pupil of Dumas the
younger, and in her later years she used
to amuse herself for days with this peril,
GUS pastime.
TIE agitation for seats for shop aud
saloon girls has taken practical shape
in Scotland. Recently staff of ladies
made a tour of the chiof warehouses
and shops in the leading thorogghfares
of Edinburgh, and made inquiries IS to
the aceommodationin the desired direc.
ton. The subject had been agitated IN
a daily newspaper for some time back,
and the committee found that in several
instances shopkeepers and nilliners bad
provided seats for their saleswomen, 10
be used during "the intervals of bust.
ness.r No fewer than LAG establish,
ments were visited, and in only four in.
stances were the ladies mel, with per,
sonal rudeness.
A LETTER from Bordeaux, France,
gives q frightful account Of the leect
ponds ten miles from that city. The
leeches are regularly fed with the blood
of old horses, which are driven into the
ponds, where the leeches suck them till
they grow faint Then they are taken
out and allowed to Craze in the fields
till they regain a little strength, when
they are again driven into the pond, and
the process Is repeated till at last they
are dragged out, bloodless and dead. 4
well known English veterinary surgeon,
who has done much tomitigate the hor.
rors Of some Of the Continental veter.
mary schools, has taken this matter OF
the Bordeaux leech ponds in hand.
Tho 1r.,.s.,, p.o,.