Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-03-12

~" IreSlueOt BucnhDnn uses ho eVO"ONVi
General Cass drinks no Bourbon, Senator
Douglas uses no pepper, and the postmaster
general eats but two meals day. n. P. Willis
cuts his own hair, Caleb Cushing shaves him
self aud wears no beard, Rufus Choate a Hen
ry Ward Beecher are dear lovers Of coffee; E.
K Whipple rarely breakfasts before ten, Though
be begins business at eight; Edward Everett
writes his ertempOraneOUs addresses; Ralph
Waldo Emerson often dimes at Parker's but
rarely takes wine; Longfellow smokes a mcer-
schaum. The smallest sized poet in America is
Holmes, the best looking one Fields, and the
biggest one Pike Of Arkansas.
The first operation connected with the pro-
gress of the Great Eastern Steamship, under
the new Company to whom she has so recently
been transferred, took place few days since,
when the massive wrought iron intermediate
shaft for the paddle engines, was hauled on
board. The operation was, in o certain degree,
an interesting one, both from the fact that the
shaft is the largest piece of forged iron ever
manufactured, its weight being nearly forty tons,
and also that it was TO be placed on board by
new patent derrick.
9g- The receipts of Piccolomnis first two
concerts at Cincinnati were $4,000. The Gin
cinnati Gazette tells of her being kissed by mis-
take in the hotel entry, by young man who
| took her for his sister. He afterwards wrote
her handsome apology. She said it frighten-
ed her at FIRST, but she did not know but it was
an American custom--on the whole she did not
care. "Ze KEGS deed me no arm-indeed il vas
not so dees-vat you say eet is ?--dees agra
ble."
10 The Sewing Machine business has grown
up very rapidly in this country, though in Eng
land, it appears by the London Enquirer they
scarcely know anything yet about it, notwith-
standing it was introduced there as early as in
the United States In this country the sales
amount to fifteen hundred machines weekly
The Scientific american says Wheeler Will
son have sold 400 machines in the last three
months, and are selling them at the rate OF 100
per day Grover & Baker manufactured last
year $4,000 machines Singer sells $50 per
week. The highest priced machines, those sell.
ing from SIS to Sl25 are the most in demand
The machine is being introduced into every es
tablishment in the country, where stitching is
: required.
GS- Talking about war, Spaniard at Ha-
vaua, the other day. asked Yankee captain
what they would do in New York if 10000
Spanish soldiers should land there The Yam
KEGS reply was, "If the soldiers behaved them
selves they would not be troubled, but if they
made any disturbance they would be pat into
the station-houses.S
Gs- Two special policemen stationed at Nib.
los theaer, New Y ork have been detected in
robbing stranger of $l00. He had passed a
bad bill at the ticket Office, which he replaced
by good one when made aware of the fact
But the officers took him into private room
demanded to see his money, and coolly tool
Sl00 of it telling him he had better leave thu
city at once or he would be seut to prison.
a:y- Advices from New Mexico state that
the mail route from Kansas City to Stockton
l will have to be abandoned, unless the contract
J ors are protected against the Mohave IOdians
~ The Colonization society will send shi
to Africa from Baltimore on the LIST of May
and they want money to outfit III slaves, who
will be emancipated if the society will sent
them to Liberia.
: Ms- Mysterious subterranean vaults built c
hewn stone have been discovered at Jackson
Ohio. Human bones of q gigantic size hav
been taken from them, and a small chain Of si
yer. with ancient coins.
7J- A poor widow in New York, who wa
obliged to ask aid from charitable society t
pay her rent, was found at work upon men
cloth caps, which she was making for two cent
. apiece. Working night aud day, she was able
to earn only 81 25 per week. for the support @
herself and two little daughters.
as- The President has notified the Senat
that he will require their attendance until FIR
day, ween he would send 10 the name of the ne'
p. NJ. General.
aS- The Steamship Baltimore on her secon
trip from Havana for Baltimore with carg
of fruit came 10 collision, on the night of th
: 9th, in the Chesapeake, with propeller, an
E sunk Immediately, the crew barely escaping wit
: their lives
9s- The British parliament has been startle
: by the disclosure that the war iD India has a
: ready cost twenty-three million pounds, or
hundred and fifteen million dollars.
|. 9g- A new measure Of distance. A receu
!. traveller by the sound route says Boston is ca
acty "a cigars and cocktails from New Y orI
15- A man who got tight at an election, sal
it was owing to his efforts to put down "parl
> spirit"
Tue SUcCEssoRsHIP. P.---Postmaster FOWLER o
New York, is said to be the prominent cand
date for the vacant Office of P. NJ. General.
A Washington dispatch, says the Grand Jr
Ty will consider the case Of Mr.. Sickles, and
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