Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-02-28

The love that thrills my breast;
Yet would hear that one sweet word
Tell me if am blest .-... -
nA- The difference between a post-of
flee stamp and donkey is, that you sticl
one with lick and the other you licl
with stick.
R@Physicians in India raise blister.
with red hot iron, and dress them with
cayenne pepper. If such treatment doeI
not make people smart, we do not know
anything.
aaA young widow has established +:
pistol gallery in New Orleans. He
qualifications as teacher of the art O.
duelling are of course undoubted: she has
killed her man.
a@-Some publishers of periodicals
publish on white paper, some on blue
and some on yellow. A large portion
of the political papers should be of a
color that aoo',t show DIRT.
na Hoffman, the newly elected Ser
geant-at-Arms, was the only member Of
the 34th Congress, south of Mason &
Dixon's line, who voted to expel Brooks
for his assault upon Senator Sumner.
Cure for Neuralgia.
The editor of the Halifax (Va.) Echo
says a few burdock leaves, heated OF
coddled, and applied to the part affected
by neuralgia, will give speedy relief.
n@A Irish laborers are to be excluded
from Virginia. The Virginia and Ten
nessee Railroad Company advertise for
three hundred able bodied negro men, to
work upon the repairs of the road next
year.
B@A witty fellow slipped down on
an icy pavement; whereupon he ex-
pressed himself thus: s'I have no de-
sire to see the town burnt down, but
sincerely wish the streets were laid in
ashes" $50,
AsA-A writer in the American Medical
Gazette thus furnishes the reason why
young ladies blush when spoken to about
their lovers: "The mind communicates
with the central ganglion; the latter by
reflex action through the brain and fatal
nerve to the organic nerves in the face,
with which its branches inocu!ate."
@-"A specious appearance does
much" said a begging preacher to his
decorous flock, "but an appearance of
specie does more Last year, when I
preached for the penitentiary, I saw
nothing but shillings in the plate. You
must have thought, my brethren, that T
was preaching for t,cezre-penny-ten-
tiary."
s@It is stated that the authorities
in London are about to adopt measures
for preventing the fight between Tom
Sayers and the Benecia Boy (Heenan.)
It is also asserted that negotiations are
pending for an appearance of Heenan
at the Alhambra Palace, London, the
admission to the show being quite as ex-
orbitant as that charged by Mr.. Rarey.
k1%The United States Coinage for
the year ending June 80, 1859, was
s37 ,55O, ,585, II, in 53,55O,595 pieces
The amount of gold produced in mines
of the United States and deposited in
the mints, was S37,213,557; silver,
s273, ,167. The total coinage at all the
mints and the assay Office, from 1898, to
June Both, 1858, has been S689,l89,-
679,95, in 1893, ,O35, ,936 pieces.
wLola Montez ironically remarks
to young gentlemen" You ought to
know that there are four things which
always more or less interests lady-a
parrot, peacock, monkey and man;
and the nearer you can come in uniting
these about equally in your character,
the more will you be loved. This is
cheap and excellent recipe for making
dandy, a creature which is always an OBJ
iect of admiration to the ladies.
A Golden Bedstead. -
The golden bedstead lately presented
to Victoria by an Indian potentate has
been exhibited at the conversazione of
the Great Western Literary Society
1t excited very great interest and atten-
ton, and was as much admired for the
beauty of it's workmanship as its intrin-
sic value. The bedstead and carpet on
which it stands are valued at nearly
seven hundred thousand dollars.
~Last week while the youth and
beauty of Centerville, ILL.,, were gath
cred at social party at the CenterVille.
an old gentlemen who was
subject to spells of walking in his sleep
after going to bed, fell into slumber
(la somnam6ula.) He arose from his
bed attired in nothing but a shirt, and
walked directly among those who were
participating in the scenes of festivity.
The surprise was said to be more aston
ishing than agreeable.
wheat and Corn.
An interesting fact, says the Philadel-
phia Press, was developed at the late
meeting of the Agricultural Society
DR.. Elwyn, called the attention of the
members to the fact that the wheat crops
of this country were fast diminishing.
so far as the number of bushels raised
to the acre was concerned. He stated
that in Ohio, State but little over fifty
years old, the crop had fallen off from
forty bushels to the acre to about six
teen, while in the best portions Of New
York, where thirty bushels used to be
considered fair crop, only twelve bush
els are now raised. The falling off in
other States had been equally marked, but
while this was the fact with wheat crops,
he was glad to know that the amount of
corn produced to the acre had largely
increased, and was still increasing enor-