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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-22
The Queen of England.

In domestic life her Majesty sets an
example that the nobility and the wealthy
classes would do well to initiate. The
time not passed in the affairs of State
are passed in domestic duties, for the
Queen eats no idle bread. Her breakfast
is 8 o'clock. This is the social meal of
England. The Queen meets her guests
a. the breakfast table with the unaffected
ease of high-born lady. Motherly, un-
affected aud considerate, all are put at
their ease. Letters intended for the
family and guests are put at the plate ct
each, and it is no breach of decorum to
examine them. She is the woman of the
household at her breakfast table, and not
the Queen of state. The dinner is q
more formal, stately affair. The Queen
attends personally to her household, to
the employment and discharge of ser
wants, to the expenses, the wages, and
all that pertains TO the disbursement o
funds. Sewing, knitting, visiting th'
poor and sick-for her Majesty always
has a round that she goes--to employ
the time not officially occupied. As 1
sovereign she is the hardest worked VIC
man in all England. Her official duties
usually commence at O'Clock in the
morning, one hour before breakfast
Wherever she is, dispatches are sent
daily in by messengers, who ride IN first
class cars, bearing what are called bas
kets. The papers from all the depart
ments are submitted to her. These bas
kets are dark morocco boxes, about
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-22
Influence of Iron on Fruit Trees.

A correspondent Of the Massachusetts
Plotcmdn says that in the year Ie4e he
planted an Early Madeline pear-tree. It
grew finely and commenced blossoming
when two years old, but did not yield q
bushel of fruit in FIVE years. The fruit
would set well and then fall off. He
tried various experiments, such as tying
down, to check the flow of sap, but all
without effect; and, as he had about one
hundred and fifty trees, he thought he
had made q very poor investment He
read the report of viewing committee
at some fair, which gave him some en-,
couragement. 1t was this:
"There were exhibited some very fine
specimens of pears, and it was ascer-
tanned that the tree stood where it re-
ceived the sweopings of blacksmith
shop, which led to the conclusion that
iron was beneficial to the pear"
Acting on this hint, he procured a
quantity of turnings and filings from q
machine-chop, and, as be plowed his gar
den, scattered the iron in the fnrrows,
depositine about bushel of it around
the Madeline pear-tree. The next spring
the tree blossomed as usual, and about o
peck of the fruit came to perfection.
The second year the tree was loaded
with as nice Madelines as ever were
grown. The tree has produced full crops
ever since. One year it bore sixteen
dollars worth of pears. He tried tho
iron on several other trees with good
effect.
We remember, also, an instance Of a
peach-tree on Long Island, which had
borne luxuriantly for many years, but
suddenly stopped; and no amount OF
good care or cultivation could coax it
back again. A severe wind, one day,
caused the main branches to split
down the trunk; and the owner, to
save them, in addition to propping
with stakes and tying with ropes, drove
directly through the center of the spli,
pieces large iron spike. Singular tc
relate, instead Of killing the tree, it has
returned to its former fruitiulness and
the tree is even more healthy than before
not troubled with leaf blight, cuIling
yellows, or worms.-E.cchdnge. DO
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-22

ABOUT the story of u poor fellow In St,
Louis, who, after nursing his betrothed
through fatal Illness, died himself of q
'broken heart," a cynical New Yorker
says:
The man may have died Of grit. Grief
will kill as effectually as arsenic. Even
home sickness has been classified as a
disease, and has been known to terminate
fatally in few days. But il is nonsense
to talk about "broken" heart. Indeed,
there is deal of nonsense said and
printed every day about that tough and
muscular organ. 1t is a sort Of hydraulic
engine. 1t has really no feeling, but is
made of strong fiber, and has about as
much connection with the romantic func-
tions and passions, with which romano
lists and visionares have welded It, and
about as much capacity for said func-
tions as a piece OF sole leather. Take it
for granted that hearts won't break.
The nerves give way. The brain be-
comes diseased and stops the working Of
the physical machinery. But the heart,
unless enlarged, or atrophied, or ossifed,
pumps away independently, until the
failure of some other part OF the body
to helb it is manifested, and then It just
stops pumping, and there are no pieces
to be saved either.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-22

FANNY FERN ON ToBACco.-I hate to-
bacco. l am a clean creature, and 1t
smells bad. Smell is a mild word; but
| use it, as am a woman. l deny your
right to poison the air OF our Parlon, or
our bedrooms, with your breath or your
tobacco-saturated clothing, even though
YOU may be our husbands. Terrible
crealurel think hear yon say, Il am
Glad your are not my wife" So am j.
flow would you like it, had you arranged
your parlor with dainty fingers, aud were
rejoicing in the sweet-scented migno-
nettes, and violets, and heliotropes, in
the pretty vase on your table, forgetting
in your happiness that Bridget and Biddy
had vexed your spirit the greater part o.
the day-and in your nicely-cushioned
chair were resting your spirits even more
than your body-to have a man enter
and spoil it all? Or worse, light cigar
in your very presence, as if il were the
very heaven to you that it appears te
llul. .......
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-22
A GORILLA IN OBERIIN,-Rey. Alberl

A GORILLA IN OBERLIN.-Rev. Albert
Bushnell, Missionary on Gaboon River,
Africa, recently sent TO Professor Allen
a specimen of the gorilla; also, fine
collection of some sixty African birds,
which he procured at considerable ex-
pense to himself Prof. Allen has been
at great pains to prepare and mount the
skeleton of the gorilla. To stuff the
wood, copying the original so as to give
the limbs a perfectly natural appearance.
This animal, made famous in this country
by the books and lectures of Du Chaillu,
is the largest OF the monkey tribe, and the
most closely resembling man. The Da-
rum theory makes it the immediate pro-
genitor of man. This specimen is an
adul: female four feet high. t
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-22
Fran the London Daily News.
Warmth from the Stars.

1t would scarcely lie thought by most
persons (says our contemporary that
the stars supply the earth with an ap-
preciable amount of heat. Even Oh the
darkest and clearest night, when the
whole heavens seem lit up by multitude
of sparkling orbs, the idea OF heat Is not
suggested by their splendor. 1t will,
therefore, seem surprising to many that
men of science should assign no incon-
siderable portion of our terrestrial heat
supply to those distant twinkling lamps.
1t is not many years since Professor Hop
nins, of Cambridge, went even farther
and expressed his belief that if tho
earth's atmosphere were but increased
scme $4,000 yards in height, SO as tc
have an increased power of retaining
the warmth poured upon it from outel
space, we might do without the sun alto
gather so far as heat supply is concerned
As a glass-house collects the SUMS heat
and renders it available during the time
that the sun is below the horizon, so we
held that the additional layer OF All
would serve to garner the warmth OF the
stars in quantities sufficient for all OF ouI
requirements. But until lately all these
views, however plausible they NIGH
have seemed, had not been founded upor
facts actually observed. II has been re
served for these days in which discover
les cf the most unexpected Kind arc dan
ly rewarding the labors Of our physicists
t. see that established as a certainty
which had before been founded merely
upon considerations of probability. Mr.
Hugqins, the physicist and astronomer
has lust published the results Of a ssriel
Of inquiries addressed to the aetua
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-22

MEXICO is again ripe for reyonEtiOH, of
course. The matter with this country
is that it wants a man ever 10; and, as
she don't seem to have anything OF that
description in her own limits, she had
better at once apply to the United States
for samples. There are plenty OF men
here ia the Office business just now
who are ont of it,-those neglected
patriots who are waiting patiently; and
who can there end glorious heia FOR
their talents.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-22

ADVICE TO A BRIDE.-Zehokko, in one
of his tales, gives the following advice
to a bride: In the first solitary hour
after the ceremony, take the bridegroom
and demand solemn VOW of him, and
give VOW in return. Promise each
other sacredly, never, even i'll jest, to
wrangle with each other-ncver to ban
dy words or indulge in the least ill-hu.
NOR. Never, | say, never. Wrangling
in jest, and putting on an air of ill-hl-
NOR merely to tease, becomes earnest in
practice. Mark that Next promise to
each other, sincerely and soleInnly, never
to keep a secret from each other, under
whatever pretext, whatever excuse 1t
might be. You must continually and
every moment see clearly into each
others bosom. Even when one Of you
has committed fault, wait not an i'll
stant, but confess it. And as you keep
secrets nothing from each other, so on
the contrary, preserve the privacies OF
your house, marriage state, and heart
from father, mother, sister, brother, aunt,
and all the world. You too, with Gods
help, build your own quiet world. Ev-
cry third or fourth one you draw into it
with you will form party, and stand
between you two. That should never
be. Promise this to each other. Re
member the vow at each temptation
You will find your account in it. You
souls will grow, as it were into eacl
other, and at last will become as one
All, if many pair had, on their wed
ding day, known this secret, how man,
marriage were happier than, alas the.
are.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-22
FOUNDRIES.

NGoNTKGLR 4 HILL, Iron Founders and Man
uIsetarofs aad DealeFs ID Stoves Of various kinds
psa sss S osnd work spss s .1S is de-; &c
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-22

We do not know who wrote the following introduc
top, and therefore can not give credit.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-22

UyInB-uIUHUi
Toe wicked for prayer, too weak for my moan
To be heard in the streets of the crazy town
Gone mad In the Joy of the snow coming down
To lie and to die in my terrible woe,
With bed and q shroud of the beautiful snow
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-22
CABINET WARE.

I0AkH DU Gro, Manufacturer or and Dealer in
Furniture Of the best descriptions and every variety
Also General Undertaker, and Manufacturer Of Cofns
toordeE Main street. North OF South Public Square,
AEhtabuls. 491
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-22

From an address before the Farmers
Club of Hcrkimcr County, New York,
by Charles Van Valkenburgh, we CLEAN
the following facts:
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-22
DRUGGISTS.

GEORGE WILLARD, Dealer in DryGoods, Gro
ceries Hsts Caps, Boots Shoes, Crockery GassWs
Also Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Hardware, Sad
dary, Nails Iron, Steel Drugs, Medicines Paints, Oils,
Dyestufs, &c. Main street, Ashtabula.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-22
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BoOTHs THEATER Twenty thirdst between FlIIn
sad sixth aSeS-This Evening at Il" Romeo aud '1's@ M
Booth
BROADWAY THTATER-This Evening at '1'- Aho
Angel Of Midnight" Mile Zoe
BROOKLYN ACADEMY or MUsIc.-This Evening at
e-ltstsn Opera IL Trovatore 80. ~.
BROUGHAMs THEATER Twenty-touIth,st:- ms NJ
Evening At Gentleman from Ireland anu F0oaAon'AS
John Broughan
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, Twenty.third-st w..
corner Of and EvennSeeoHd Winter hihoN "
Pictures AID Sculpture
NEw-YoRK CIRCUS, Fourteenth-st.-This Afternoon OF,
At n sud Evening at 7Dplsy Athletic SkL The Brothers hA
reFf and Melville Roland Sickney. etc
NEW YORK THEATER.-This Evening at g. Lazy
OF LyouA" Mr. Mexican Buchanan and Mr. Warner
NBLos GARDEN.-This Evening at S.-"Ihe FOIL.
Thieves Striking OIL in Family JaTA' Lydia Thompson
Troupe III
OLYMPIC THEATER This Evening az 81 ne ne
Second olume OF "flumpy Dumpy" MI o. L. Foi 'l' w
SAN Francisco MTNsTGEIs NO. 90 DIoau"ay-
This Evening"" The Siege ofih Blondes "a. -.
THEATRE FRANCAIs.-This Evening at o.-Opera
Bouae-" Geneyieve de Brsbant' Mile hosebeh
The TANfsiANY.- Tammany Hall, Fourteenth-st.-
This Evening at 7I-VahetieS
WMIACK's THEATER. = This Evening at g.
much Ado about Nothing" Mr. Lester WAlack
WAyERIEY THEATER, No. 40 Broadway = ms
Evening Al Lscreia Boga NJ D."A Pretty fece OF dust
uess" The Bse Holt BuTeSque Troupe ...
WOoD's MUSEUM AND METROPOLITAN THEATER,
Broadway and s-Mau6e AZ o'clock: lron ana the
Moracchl Toupe This EveBng at 1t"Fra DayooMr ana Mrs
Foreps me Field OF the Of Gold" Throughout The Day
The Engr Foot, Combustion and Grand hensgee OF Living
Wild Animals
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-22

The House, on Saturday, refused to listen to
Gov Boutwells appeals for concurrence with
the Senate's action on the Constitutional
Amendment concerning Suffrage, and chose to
take the risk of losing it altogether by insist
ing on its own ideas. AS finally re-amend~
and passed by the House, it now reads as iS'
lows:
ART. is. Sec /. The right OF citizens Of the UmNa
States TO vote and hold office shall not be dened~
abridged by any State account of race, color na'"
property, creed or previous condition Of servitude
SEC Congress shall have power to enforce this Aue
by appropriate legisation
In this form it goes back to-day to tho
Senate. Should that body display its usual ten.
acity, we may next look for a Committee Oh
Conference on the subject
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-22

This, the god of February, is the 18th ami
yersary of the birth of GEORGE WASHINGTON
of blessed memory, and will be widely
and fifty celebrated as such. 1t is further
honored by the fact that the Presidency OF
Andrew Johnson expires by limitation ten days
hence-that is, at noon on the 4th of March
next. We feel like celebrating the near
approach of that blissful day.
According to our count there have been one
hundred cOunterfeiters of the National Currency
convicted since JohnsOn's il-starred accession
to power, whereof he has thus far pardoned
only ninety seven. Now counterfelter Is the
basest and blacklist of villains, because he
must know enough to get an honest living, OF
he could not make passable imitation OF the
circulating medium; while he knows that the
poor, ignorant, and helpless, must mainly be
his victims. We most respectfully advise the
three remaining villains to get their pardons
signed before the 4th of March, or they VIII
certainly find Jordan q hard road to travel
There is no time to be lost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-22

Our Washington correspondent explicitly
corrects the impression journals unfIiendly to
Gen. Grant are endeavoring to create, that he
ignores the leading members of the Republican
party, and refuses their advice. Between the
General and the principal men of the party
the utmost cordiality and frankness exist lie
listens to their views, and when the time comes
it will be seen that they have not been without
influence. We have nothing of the log-rolllng
and wire-pulling so much seen in Washington
about Inauguration times and We have con-
fidence that when the Cabinet is formed it will
be found to be something more than the crea-
ton of the Lobby, the Caucus, and the Bar
Room. As our correspondent says, the position
of Gen. Grant is one of absolute delicacy
Coward those most concerned"
In the mean time, we trust that the General
will continue his present policy. All the coun-
try wants is strong, healthy, working Cabinet
composed of men ,ohO can Serre the State-not
mere trading, ofiice-hoding politicians
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-22

Believing as we do that one of the worst
signs of the times is the tendency Of workers
to crowd into the city in far greater numbers
than the work. to be done there will warrant,
we welcome the effort now making to organize
colony for settlement on the Government
lands in Southern Nebraska as a practical and
wise means at once for relieving the city and
improving the country. Where, as in this case,
the principle of cooperation can be applied to
meliorate the hardships of roughing it in a new
country the transition from New-YO to Ne
braska becomes less abrupt, and the difficulties
of the change less discouraging. We wish the
present movement such success as may not
only satisfy its participants of the wisdom of
tlIeir step, but induce many another colony,
profting by their experience and following
their example to attain yet richer results.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-22

The detailed accounts which we receive from
the seat of war in Paraguay fully confirm the
telegraphic dispatches which announced the
defeat and flight of Lopez, and the occupation
of the capital of Paraguay. Asuneion, by Bra
lillian troops. The severe losses which Lopez
suffered in the battle at Augostura. and by the
subsequent capture of that fortress, must have
broken his power of resistance, and virtually
finished the war. There may be, as usual,
some exaggeration in these reports, as they
come from the camp of the Allies; but the
crushing defeat of Lopez and the occupation OF
Angostura and Asuncion seem not to be
liable to any reasonable doubt. In few
more DAYS we must now learn whether the
hope of the Allies about real cessation OF war
operations will be confirmed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-22

The present Congress ceases to exist on the
4th of March. 1t has, therefore, both today
and the 4th proximo being counted, just ten
working days. Mr.. johnson has the power to
keep any bill ten days, without either signing
or vetoing it, and any bill thus left in his
hands when Congress adjourns falls to the
ground. Practically, therefore, nothing moro
can be done by the XLh Congress
save by his permission. To this COM
plexion has his long contest with the
body that impeacbed him come. 1t has hitherto
controlled his Administration, but at last he
has the better of it, and goes out of Office
with what must be very cOnsoliDg sense of
final mastery! The business Of Congress is in
satisfactory state for such an emergency.
only in the sense that much unwise legislation
has been defeated. Some Of the most import
ant measures remain to be driven through
at the heels Of the session, and intrusted
to the tender mercies of the President.
The Post Office, the Legislative, Executive
and Judicial, the Deficiency, and the Miscel-
laneous Appropriation bills are still in the
House. Of these we shall not be sorry to see
the last remain there. Whatever is really
needed, in it, can easily be provided for by the
next Congress, and it is usually so loaded down
with all manner Of jobs and swindles that IT
will not be a sorrow to hear of the loss
of the whole batch. The Indian APP
preparation bill has yet to run the quaint
let of a Conference Committee The Senate
seems likely to let the army reduction go over.
result for which we have the less regret in
the hope that the delay may give us moro
thorough and valuable measure of economy
than the bill as finally passed in the House at
forded. The Civil Tenure-cf Office act is threat
ened with the same fate in the Senate. 1t comes
up to-day but other matters promise to get the
start of it. Even the Constitutional Amend
ment concerning Suffrage is not safe. 1t goes
| back TO the Senate to-day in form which
makes it quite probable that the best we can
hone for is q Committee Of Conference. OF
course measures Of real financial relief are now
not to be looked for We only hope the 0mni'
bus Pacific Railroad bill, and host of smaller
designs against the Treasury and the National
| credit, may be equally certain of failure. The
Tax bill seems to have no chance, and an
| effort is making to get the sections about
whisky and tobacco taken out and put
through by themselves. The bill con-
corning National Bank circulation is to
be amended by the Senate Committee
and The House features will be struggled for
in the Senate with some show of success. The
bill is too important to be decided hastily, az
we fear it will be, if at all. Mr.. Hoopers BILL
prohibiting the increase of the Gold Debt, ha
some chance of passing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-22

The man McHenry has escaped, for the pres
ent at least, the punishment of the perjury for
which majority Gas it is reported OF the jury
that tried him thought he ought to have
been convicted. Meantime new and
prodigious force has entered the arena, and
must necessarily exercise a wonderful influence
upon any subsequent trial. We mean, of course,
the action of the late learned Solicitor of the
Revenue Department, the Hon. j. M. Binckley
He utters solemn word, man to man
and heart TO heart. 1t seems that
he stayed his hand from the wondrom
doings whereof he was the hero at
the Astor House, when he found that one OF
his witnesses was likely to be convicted CT per-
Jury. But if, in spite of his staying his hand,
the man should still be convicted, then indeed
will forbearance have ceased to be a virtue;
and therefore his solemn word comes, man TO
man, and heart to heart. Further pity on hn
part would be blasphemy. Whatever Buckley Is
or does, one must draw a line somewhere, and
he draws it at blasphemy. He ,cW not BIAS
pheme! Therefore. he will show no more pity.
He hates no man, but he declares-as he tells
us solemnly. he even declares by the Lord
that he will averge-mark you, ye corrupt
revenue officers, will aren9e every injured hair
of McHenry's head. When he has thus picked
out each injured hair and avenged it, he thinks
events will show whose is the risk. We think
so, too. In fact, without waiting for the
event, we are ready to say at guess, that we
wouldn't like to own the injured hair
on which the eminent Buckley is about to
operate.-Mr. Buckley concludes by saying
that his communication is to remain profound
secret. We have no hesitation in according to
this statement of his our usual belief. We
ment he ever made.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-22

After enjoying for several months greater
quiet than usual, Mexico is again troubled with
instructions. Risings are reported from quite
number of places, and in others outbreaks
s,e expected. The second city of the Repub-
lie, Puebla, was for short time in the hands
of the insurgents but soon recaptured by the
Government troops. In Sisal, also, the leader
of the instruction was compelled to fly. The
simultaneousness of the rising indicates vast
plot, but as yet no success seems to have any,
where been obtained by the conspirators. The
men who are thus far mentioned as being at
the head Of the movements, Negrete and
Quiroga, ere not likely to become dangerous
10 the actual Government and the peace of