Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-02-15

John G. Sake receives one dollar per
line tor his poems in the Ledger. sa -..,
A Lame beggar in New York is worth
$65, 900, which Is securely invested in real
estate } .. i --.- 1
The majestic ruins of an. Aztec city
have been discovered twenty-seYen miles
from Santa Fe' " y '-.4 t-s
Notwithstanding the sixty thousand
Chinese i'll California, it is seldom that
one of them IS seen drunk.
An illicit distiller in Chicago kept the
revenue officers away by posting the
sign "small pox" over his door.
A granddaughter of ex- President
Tyler is setting type in her fathers
newspaper office, which is very sensible.
AMEmCAN booksellers say that poetic
and purely literary works have not been
so dull Of sale for ten years as they are
at present, .5 -a fiJz.e,-..-- .ar1a g. 7.
ONLY the other day Postmaster died
in Maine, who was appointed by Andrew
Jackson and has held the Office ever
since. .s7ezr -srT .s.v t7 lai-ll lT ssS
Over four and one halt million cigars.
were manufactured in Cleveland, Ohio,
last year by one hundred and fourteen
manufacturers. q 81 .s.lr ss- isi- v.-.a.--&
Why is q man ascending Vesuyius
like an Irishman trying to kiss pretty
girl ? Becaue he wants to get at the
crater's mouth. 1-z --.1 -.
Napoleon has officially promulgated the
new army law He continues declaring
that it is a measure Of peace: ~
The latest adyiees from Abyssinnia
statelthat intelligence reeeiV ed from the 2
English captives reports them all alive
and we'll essa $500 100 70
. A GENTLEMAN living near Bowling
Green, kentucky reports that he has two'T
apples trees whose aFlieshave no core
or seeds. He attributes the 'peculiarity
to the fact that when quite young the
cious were bent over and the tops
thrust into the ground, where they took s
root. They were then cut in the mid
die aud allowed to grow wrong end up. ss
"A ooEREspoNDESFo ofthe Country Ger-sl
tlenlen says "A small, clean potato with.
the end cut Of, is very conyenient Ta
medium Of applying brick dust to knives,
keeping it about the right moisture,
while the juice of the potato assists In re- q
moving stains from the surface. We
get better polish by this methed than
by any other We have tried, and with
less labor ..- .t .- II
Dr. HENRY NJ FIELD, of New York,
concludes q paper on "The ContiHued Fe-
yer" with the following pithy statement,
which, i is said, contains In nutshell z
the substance Of the best professional
opinion at the present Gay "We can--
rot cure fever No man ever cured fe-
yer. It VIII often cure itself If you,
keep the patient alive long enough he will
get well himself"
Business is dull, and distress IS koenly
felt in our large cities, but not in any
way to the extent which is experience.
ed in European cities. In London
the destitutions is fr:ghtful, and
pauperism is spreading with alarming
rapidity. III France the manufactures.
are idle and the consequent distress
dreadful The condition of political at-
fairs in both England and France is very,
Insecure, and before the winter is efer,
the oninous cry of "Bread or Blood"
may be heard. Hunger has been, in all.
in all ages, the most powerful preacher
OF revolutions.