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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-23

A ravens corpse was once followed by a
greater crowd than ever escorted the
funeral of any one of Rome's distinguish
ed sons. This honored bird was born on
the top of the Temple Castor, but took
up his abode in shoemaker's shop op-
posite. Crispin took great pains in ed
ucating his black lodger, and his pains
were well bestowed Every morning the
raven used to fly to the Rostra and sa-
lutte in turn, Tiberius and his nephews,
and having thus testified his loyalty,
amused himself with exchanging greet
ings with the populaee. For several
years he continued to delight the idlers
of Rome, until jealous brother in his
landlords craft killed him in fit of an
ger. The mob rose as one man, drove
the murderer out of the city and then ex-
ecuted him. The body of the popular
bird was then placed OF litter, and
borne to the pile amid the laments OF
Rome, and his ashes deposited in field
on the right hand side of the Appian
Way Chambers Journal
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-23
The Diligent Housewife.

Did you ever think of the amount of
thought re9uisit to plan three meals
day for three hundred and sixty-fve
DAYS in suceession? To prepare enough
and not too much, and for those living at
distance from the village to remember
that the stock of -four, sugar, tea, ETC.,
is replenished in due time? Do you
ever think of the multitude of her cares
and duties? She must rise early to pre-
pare breakfast or oversee it. Perhaps.
there are children to wash, dress and
feed, or get ready for school with their
dinners. There is baking, sweeping dust
ing, making beds, lunch for the men,
may be-dinner and supper to be made
ready at the proper time-the washing
starching, folding and iroping of clothes
the care of milk, including the making
of butter and cheese-and the inevitable
washing of dishes In autumn there is
the additional work of picking, preserv-
ing, canning of fruits, drying apples,
boiling cider, making apple sauce, with
the still more unpleasant task which falls
to her lot at butehering time Then
there is haying, harvesting, sheep-shear-
ing, ETC., when more help is needed,
bringing an increase of her labors.-
Twice year comes house-cleAning. By
the way, of all the foes a housekeeper
has to contend with, dirt is the greatest.
She may gain complete victory and
think to repnse upon her laurels after
her semi-annuhl engagements-but it is
only temporary. There is the mending,
too. Sewing machines are great bless
ings, but they can't set in a patch or
darn stockings / do not mention these
things by way of complaining of wo-,
mans lot in general or asking for her
any rights she does not possess. I don't
know as there is any remedy inthe present
state of the world. 1t seems to be one
of the evils of life which must be born as
we bear other ills-but what / do ask is
due appreciation of the important
part that woman acts, and conclusion
that her labors, mental and. physical, are
as great, all things considered, as those
of the other sex. Women are not so
childish that little sympathy now and
then or acknowledgement of their efforts
and sacrifices make them imagine their
case worse than it is. cit doeth good
like medicine" and many poor crush
ed, broken down wife and mother is dy-
ing for want of it
Essdu at O. E1yDoers' Glib.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-23
May become everlasting tomorrow.

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The GENITAL SYsTEM.-For the benefit
of many who.do not yet fully understand
the operation of the GENITAL system, we
give the following rule for making calcu-
Iations by this system: The standard
weight of wheat per bnshel is go lbs.;
corn and rye, 56 los; oats 80 lbs; barley
4s lbs. The price per bushel being given,
to find the price per GENITAL multiply the
price per bushel by 100 and divide by the
number of pounds in a bushel. For In
stance: At 80 per bushel for wheat,
what is the price per GENITAL PSI so null
tiplied by 100 gives $4,000, divided by
so, the number of pounds In busbsl,
gives $3.50, which is the price per CEN
tai. Again The price per GENITAL being
given, to find the price per bushel, multi
ply the price per GENITAL by the number
of pounds in bushel and divide by 100.
Example: At So, so per GENITAL of wheat
what is the price per bushel of so lbs p
$50 multiplied by 60 gives $4,000 d.
vided by loo gives $3.50, the price per
bushel. The rule will be found correct
in its application to bushels ofany weight.
Our readers will save much time while
the new system is becoming familiarized,
if they will cut this article ont and keep
it in handy place for a few days The
above rule is so simple and easy that peo-
pie will soon become accustomed to the
new method Already the market reports
of the most of the cities are given by the
GENITAL system, and it viii soon be uniyer-
SAL @ Cleceldnd Leader.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-23
A Calculating Bridegroom.

Eve known some very mean men in my
time. There was Deacon OyeTeach
now he was so mean he always carried a
hen in his gig box when he travelled, to
pick up the oats his horse wasted in the
manger, and lay an egg for his breakfast
in the morning. And then there was HUI
go Zimmerman, who made his wife dig
potatoes to pay for the marriage license.
| must tell you that story of Hugo, for it
is not bad one, and good stories, like
potatoes, amt as plenty as they used to
be when | was boy. Hugo is neigh
Dor of mine, though considerably older
than l be, and mean neighbor he is, too.
Well, when he was going to get married
to Gretchen Kulp, he goes down to Par
son Rogers. at Dixby, to get license
s'Parson," said he, whats the price of
license ?''
ssSix dollars"
"Six dolIars,'n said Hugo, "that's a
dreadful sight of money! Couldn't you
take less %
"No," said he, "that is what they cost
me at the Secretary's office at Halifax"
"Well, how much do you ak for pub
fishing In church, then %
Nothing" said the parson.
"Well," said Hugo "that's SO cheap
can't expect to get any change back.
think III be published. How long does
it take %
.Three Sundays"
'sThree Sundays.p says Hugo. "Well
that's long time too. But three Sun
days only make fortnight after all two
for the covers and one for the inside like
and six dollars is great amount of mon
ey for poor man to throw away"
So ofhe went, a jogging towards home,
feeling about as mean as a new sheared
sheep, when all at once bright thought
came into his head, and back he went as
fast as his horse could carry him.
'Parson," said he, Owe changed my
mind. Here's the six dollars; I'll tie the
knot tonight with my tongue that | can
not unite with my teeth"
"Why, what in natur' is the meaning
of all this r.
"Why," said Hugo, "Pye been 'ci-
pherin' it out in my head, and it's cheap
er than publishing after all You see, sir,
it's potato diggin' times if wait to be
called in church, her father will have her
work for nothing, and as hands are scarce
and wages big, if l marry her tonight
she can begin to dig our own tomorrow,
and that will pay for the license and just
seven shillings over; for there aint man
in all Clements that can dig and carry as
many bushels in day as Gretchen can.
And besides, fresh wives, like fresh ser
wants, work like smoke at first, but they
get saucy and lazy after while"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-23
MYSTERIOUS Affair Car Magic.

A few days ago, as the express train
from New York was proceeding on its
westward way. some one pulled the sig
nal bell rope, and the engineer stopped
the train. The conductor who was at the
rear end, waved "go ahead" and the engi
neer, wondering what it meant, started up
again. He had just got the train under
good headway again, when the signal bell
was struck and he again stopped the
train. The conductor who was innocent
of the cause of delay, as he could not hear
the bell, looked out from the plat form to
the engineer, whose body was accommo-
datingly thrust out of the "cab'' window,
and his face turned to the conductor.
.'What in blazes are you stopping for ?
shouted the conductor"
stopping for! what the d-l are yot
stopping me for?" roared the indignant
engineer in reply. eff you want me to
make time, let that signal rope alone a.
while"
The conductor sneered at the idea of
any one touching it, and both himself
and the engineer got wrothy, and the
engineer going 90 tar as to threaten to
knock the conductor into "double dis
titled grease spot" if he again insinuated
that the bell rope had not been pulled
Reason got the better of the discussion
however and the pair came to the conclu-
sion that it was some mischievous pas
senger who was the cause of the trouble
A sharp watch, in each car, was set by
the conductor, and dire was the punish
ment that awaited the rascal, if he could
be detected.
All went well for a few miles, when
-clang went the bell and the engine shut
off stem and ran back to help punish the
scapegrace, but though the conductor
and brakesmah were looking suspicious
ly into the faces of the passengers, the
william was still undetected, and the af-
fair was beginning to take the form of the
supernatural. The engineer vast satisf-
ed and thought that the conductor was
trying to sell him. Muttering some saw
age threats, he took his place on the en-
gine, and though the. bell rang several
times before he reached Syracuse, he paid
ne attention to it.
On that railroad the patent brake is
in use, and is operated by pulling the
bell rope backward. As the train neared
Buffalo clang went the bell and down
came the patent brakes simultaneously,
stopping the train almost immediately.
The train hands were in CONSERVATION,
as they had watched so closely that there
was not shadow of reason to suspect
any passengers aboard. The train finally
arrived at Buffalo, and then the wonder
full mystery was solved.
Hiram, the baby elephant, just import
ed by Thayer & Noyes, was in the bag
gage car, and when the door was OPEN
ed was amusing himself by pulling the
bell rope. The mischieveous little rascal
was allowed to go unpunished as he is a
full-blooded African, and his trunk (the
cause of the trouble) is under the special
protection of the Freedmen's Bureau.
A DisD0tch
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-23
Anecdotes ofthe Raven,

1t was common practice, in the spa
eious yard of Belfast, to lay trains of
corn to attract the spparrows within
view of a window, open just far enough
to afford room for the muzzle of a gun,
neither the weapon nor its wlelder being
viseable from without. A raven used to
scamper away at the sight ofa man tax
ing the gun towards the house, and hide
himself within view of the scene of
slaughter. AS soon as shot was fired,
he would dash from his shelter, seize a
defunct sparrow, hurry back to his nook
with his prize, and repeat his perform
ance as long as the battle lasted.
England, Scotland, and Ireland, are all
favored with his presence bat he speci-
ally affects the Orkneys and the Hebrides.
The people of Pabbay were once at their
wits end how to get rid of the raven,
who musterd in force to feed on the car
casses of some grampuses. The islanders
were afraid that, the grampuses dispos-
ed of, the birds would pay their atten-
ton to the fields of barley; but drive
them away they could not. At last, one
Morrison hit upon plan. Stealing with
some companions to the sleeping place OF
the ravens at night, he contriyed to Sc
cure few of them alive; these were
quickly denuded of all their feathers ex
cept those on the wings and tail, and
turned among their friends in the morn
ing just as they were going to breakfast
The Sensation created was immenee, and
the hubbub fearful, but it ended In the
unwelcome guests departing with more
hast than ceremony.
The raven possesses the power of i'm
| itating the human voice, and, if not Sc
yalubIe as the parrot, enunciates bis sen
ttences with ten-fold the gravity of Poll
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-23
The Little Cup of Tears.

The following beautiful German le-
gend is told in "Thorps Yule-tide Sto-
rieS -
1t relates that mother who had lost q
darling little daughter sorrowed day and
night for her as one without hope, and
that for thre, days and three nights she
neither ate or drank anything, but wept
in the bitterness of her soul. The third
night, as she thus sat overcome with her
suffrings, in the place where her child
had died, her eyes bathed in tears and
fainting from grief, the door softly
opened, and the mother started, for be-
fore her stood her departed child. 1t
had become a heavenly angel, and smiled
sweetly as innocence, and was beautiful
like the blessed. 1t had in its hand a
cup that was running over, so full it
was. "Ohl dearest mother, weep no
more for me, the angel of mourning
has collected in this little cup the tears
which you have shed for me- If for me
you shed one tear more it will overflow
l shall have no more rest in the grave
and no joy in Heaven. Therefore o
dearest mother weep. do more for your
child, for it is well and happy, and
angels are its companions" 1t then
vanished. The mother shed no more
tears, that she might not disturb her
child's JOY in heaven.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-23
Woman's Foreheads.

When phrenology first began to at
tract attention, and claimed to be sci
ence, high foreheads of woven, as well
men were associated with intellect
Every member of the opposite sex how
ever dull or uncultivated she may be, adj
mires mental gifts, and has no objection
to the reputation of possessing them her
self. Consequently she determined to
have the seeming if not the reality, and
stripped her forehead of the clustering
tresses, and even removed the hair by
artificial means that she might present a
front which would awake the enthusiasm
of Gall or Spurzheim. For number of
years this mania for high foreheads rag
ed in spite of the patent fact that they
detracted from their feminine loveliness
giving it hard, bold, masculine express
sionthat sho'd be sedulously avoided: All
the classic models OF beauty, whether IN
marble or in flesh, from the Venus
Phryne down to the Marys of Raphael
and Magdalens of Murrillo, the pictur-
esque damsels of the Cmpsgnes and the
classic Suliote maidens, instead of high,
have quite low foreheads-something
our own women seem at last to have
discovered.
Horace and Catullus and Ovid all
sang of the fair, fond creatures whose
white foreheads CLEANED like the crescent
moon beneath the dark cloud of silken
hair. Artists have SO painted feminine
beauty. Men of taste and galantry have
admired such. Phrenology has ceased
to be connected with aesthetic subjects
and therefore we have returned to nature
and art.
Indeed the passion now is rather for ex-
ceedingly low foreheads, for hair over
the temples, and love-locks that shade
the luster of deep eyes. This is rather
overdone; but still it is preferable to lof
ty foreheads and stripped brows that
make the face more fitting for Roman
sensation than gentle tender, womanly
woman. Every man of taste must re
ioice that something like an approxima
ton to the OLD models and correct stand
ard of feminine loveliness has been estab
lished; and that we are no longer painet
with
high white fronts that tell of power
Which mere is fashion'd by the gentle heart
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-23
SELECT POETRY.
Slack a Little.

Slack a Little.
Slack littlei Slack a little,
Darling wife.
Why such breathless haste and hurry
All thy life?
Slack the vigor of thy striving,
"a Ere too late,
Tell those mousters, Care and Labor
Just to wait.
Slack little! Slack little,
Busy hand!
Slack thy rubbing and thy scrubbing,
Drop the sand
Minister thy blessings slowly,
And the longerl
Bind loves thousand precious tendrils
All the stronger.
Slack littlel Slack little,
Weary feetl
'Tis a thorny path you're treading,
Death to greet,
Slack your quick and fearless stepping.
Spare your strength!
Ye the golden streets of Heaven
Shall tread at length.
Slack little Slack little,
Precious heart Z!
Slack the fervor of thy throbbing,
Ere we part.
Thrill not thus with every sorrow,
Anxious everi
Trembling like an angel Tyre
Forever
Strung for high an0 holy themes,
Slack thy sorrow
Heaven those rapturous themes may walk
Perhaps tomorrow!
Slack little! Time how fleeting,
Slack thy wing
To my hearts long cherished treasure
Let me cling!
Go to Mirth, and from his chalice
Take the pleasure!
Pilfer Wealth, and from his palace
Take his treasure. -
Why such haste my night to bring?
Slack, o Time, thy scythe and wing
Slack little! Slack little,
Death, Death!
Vain thy strife and painting haste,
All out of breath
See. She fears not thy approaching
Thou hast no sting.
Clasp her! In thy cold embracing
She will sing!
Slack, o Death how sure thy loss,
Thou vast cenqured on the Cross
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-23
Influence of Marriage on Morals.

Voltaire said: "The fewer married
men you have, the fewer crimes there
will be. Marriage renders man more
virtuous and more wise. An unmarried
man is but half of perfect being, and it
requires the other half to make things
right and it cannot be expected that in
this imperfect state he can keep the
straight path of rectitude any more than
boat with one oar, or bird with one
wing, can keep a straight course. In
nine cases out of ten, where married men
become drunkards, or where they COM
nit crimes against the peace of the COM
munity, the foundations of these acts was
laid while in the sinful state, or where
the wife is an unsuitable match. Here is
a home for the entire man, and the council
the example, and the interests Of his "bet-
ter half" keep him from erratic courses,
and from falling into thousand tempt
ations to which he would be exposed.
Therefore he is the friend to society
and toshis country"
The illustrious French speculatist was
right IN his views on this subject, no
matter how far wrong he may have been
on others. The results to community,
even where the welded pair may not be
well adapted to each other, are advanta-
gous in the main. The notorious immor-
ality of New York city life is due chiefly
to the fact that the great mass of its pop
ulation is unmarried and quartered in
boarding houses and hotels. the married
man, once settled in home of his own,
is to say the least, solicitous for its wei
fare. His position as pater fanilias in
duces habits of economy and industry
He is an important member of society,
and feels responsibilities and enjoys priv
ileges and immunities unknown to the
bachelor.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-23

THE INVENTOR OF FRICTION MATeHEs.-
The inventor of friction matches, says
the Hartford (Conn.) Times, was Alonzo
Dwight Phillips. He worked in Ham
mer & Fields powder mill, in East Hart
ford near Manchester, in 1881, and there,
by mixing the ingredients ofpowder, con-
ceived the idea of igniting compound
by friction; and by experiments he sue
ceeded in doing it. He was a shoemaker
by trade, and came to Hartford, where
he worked at his trade on Front street,
and attempted also to manufacture some
of the matches; but his means were so
limited that he could not produce many.
He applied to Abial A Cooley, lthe IA
ther Of Colonel Sam. Cooley,1 who was
manufacturing the best liquid backing
ever made, and he assisted Phillips to get
his matches into the market. Soon after
the matches became popular, Phillips
went into partnership with Mr.. Chaplin,
of Cabbottville, and the firm turned out
large quantities of them. Phillips pro-
cured wagon and went round. the coun-
try selling matches and town and county
rights. In this way he gathered up con-
siderable sums of money, but be expend-
ed the money as fast as he got it and died
poor.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-23
So in Advance
WHOLE NUMBER S99.
Tomorrow.
sr COLLINS.

In the downbill of life when find I'm declin-
ing,
May lot no less fortunate be
Than snug elbow-chair can afford for reclin-
ing
And a cot that o'erlooksthe wild sea; RI
With an ambling pad=pony to pace Ger the
:. While carroll away sorrow,
And blythe as the lark that each day halls the
Look forward with hope for the morrow.
With porch at my door, both for shelter and
shade, too, ~
AS the sunshine or rain may prevail;
And small spot of ground for the use Of the
spade, too,
With barn for the use ofthe fail! %
A cow for my dairy, a dog for my game,
And purse when a friend wants to borrow;
III envy no nabob his riches or fame,
Nor what honors await him tomorrow.
From the bleak northern blasts may my cot be
completely
Secured by neighboring hill !;
And at night may repose steal upon me more
sweetly I
BY the sound of a murmuring rill
And while peace and plenty find at my board
With heart free from sickness and sorrow,
With my friends may share what to-day may
AFFORD,
And let them spread the to morrow
And when at last must throw OfFthis frail COW
ering
Which I've worn for three score years and
ten,
On the brink of the grave III not seek to keep
hovering
Nor nay thread wish to spin DER again.
But my face in the glass III serenely survey.
A nd yuith aoohx hi frrr-
row
As this old worn out stuff which is threadbars
to-day, ss
MAY become everlasting tomorrow.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-23

There are some funny people out in
the North West. The comic sido OF
humanity sometimes sticks out there as
well as s,elsewhere. A friend relates to
MS the following incident: While on
the street IN Chicago, one day last sum
mer, she observed a newley married
couple from the country, leisurely
strolling and looking at the 'sights" in
the windows All at once the woman's
eye caught view of dentists sign--
a set of automatic teeth in operation.
Stopping short, and looking for a mo-
ment earnestly on the phenomenon, she
cried out, "John John do come and
see here's set of jaws they have jerked
out of somebody's head, and they are
going yet"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-23
high white fronts that tell of power
Which mere is fashion'd by the gentle hear

A stranger, on his first visit to Wash
ington, looking at the vast dome which
surmounts the Capitol, inquired If that
were the gas works Of the city. A wag
answered: "Not of the city, SIR, but
of the nation p
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-23

Trains do stop at stations where the time is omitted
in the above table,
y-Second Class Cars run on all Through Trains s
All through trains going Westward connect at Clevc-
land with Trains for Toledo Chicago Columbus, Cincin
natl Indianapolis, &C
And all through trains going Eastward connect at Dun
kirk with the trains of Erie Galway and at Buffalo
with those of n. Y: Central. and Erie Railways for
New York, Albany, Boston, Niagara Falls, &C.. &c. !:
and at Erie with trains Philadelphia and ErieR. r.
for Harrisburg Philadelphia, Baltimore Washington
New York, &C.
New York Express East connects at Girar with trains
on the Erie Pittsburgh r. r. for Linesville Meadve,
| --''~-s n NoTTINGHAM, supt
supt's ofice. Cleveland 4 Erie Roilrosdl
Cleveland. o.. XoFember 10 1865
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-23

Dean Swift said with much truth. at
is useless for us to attempt to reason a
man out Of anything he has never been
reasoned into"