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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-16
The Fat Maj.

Bridget said lady in tie city Of Go
than, one morning, as she was reconnolt-
ering in the kitchen, "what quantity of
soap grease you have got here. We can
get plenty of soap for it, and we must
exchange it for some. Watch for the
fat man, and when be comes tell him
want to speak to him"
"Yes, num-" said Bridget.
All the morning Bridget, between each
whisk of her dishcloth, kept bright look
out of the kitchen window, and no mOy-
ing creature escaped her watchInl gaze.
At last her industry seemed about re-
warded, for down the street came large,
portly gentleman, fourishing a cane, and
looking in a very good humor.
"Sure there's the fat man, now"
thought Bridget; and when he was in
front of the house out she flew and in
formed him that her mistress wished to
speak to him.
"Speak to me, my good girl ?" replied
TIE old gentleman.
eyes, sir; she wants to speak to You,
and says would you be kind enough to
walk in, SIR"
This request SO direct was not to be
| refused, so in a state of some wonder
ment, up the steps went the gentleman,
and up the stairs went Bridget, and
knocking at her mistress door, put hel
head in and exclaimed:
"Fat gentleman's in the parlor, mum.
So saying she instantly withdrew tc
the lower regions.
"In the parlor!" thought the lady
"what can it mean? Bridget must have
blundered," but down to the parlor she
went, and mp rose her fat friend, with
his blandest smile and most graceful
| bow,
"Your servant Informed me, madam
that ycu would like to speak to me-a'
your service. madam"
| The mortified mistress saw the state o
the case Immediately, and smile wreath
ed itself about her lips 10 spite of herself
as she said:
"Will you pardon the terrible blundel
of raw Irish girl, my dear sir l told
her to call in the tat man to take away
the soap-grease, when she saw him, and
she has made mistake, you see."
The jolly fat gentleman leaned back il
his chair, and laughed such hearty ha
ha ! ha as never came from any one o
your lean gentry.
''It is decidedly the best joke of th'
season. Ha! ha ha! so she took MI
for the soap gentleman, did she 1t viii
keep me laughing for month-such ;
joke ~
And all up the street around the cor
ner was heard the ha! ha! ha ! of the
old gentlemad, as he brought down hi
cane every now and then, and exclaimed
"Such a joke ~
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-16
Fashion in Funerals.

The New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Chronicle gives these funeral
items:
"There is a story told of the renowned
Mr.. Brown, of Grace Church, which n
lustrates the state of feeling here with
regard to burials among the class he
serves:
sWhen the war first broke ont, young
gentleman said to him: "What are we
to do this winter, Mr.. Brown? There
will be no parties ?''
"Well, sir, well, was the reply, as he
affectionately patted his protuberant
waistcoat, I'VE will do the best we can.
We will make the funerals as fashionable
and ATTRACTIVE rs possible
''At a fashionable funeral in New
York, there is as much show, and as
much to be seen, as at fashionable par
ty. The flowers often cost quite as much
as they do at an evening party, Can
not afford to die in New York it would
ruin my family TO bury me there heard
"A gentleman say. A handsome funeral
is an event, and is talked about and
dressed for as is a handsome party, and
for the same reason one meets ones
friends there. Not long since, lady,
who had been two years married, di, d.
She was young, handsome and amiable
and her friends loved her. Her parents
were in moderate circumstances. her hus,
band a Government clerk and getting a
good salary. The funeral was show
occasion. Her bridal dress, with its rich
lace oversight, was produced and remod-
eled by fashionable mantua-maker this
was forced upon her cold, stiff form. a
hair-dresser was procuei to dress her
hair and arrange the burial veil and or
ange blossoms. Then the corpse was
placed in a magnificent casket, the room
was decorated with flowers, the costliest
blossoms were woven into urns and
wreaths, and crosses and anchors, and
dispersed about the walls; the shutters
were closed and the gas lighted, Then
crowds, who had heard Of these prepara-
tions and of this mock of woe, were ad
mitted, and passed in to gaze upon the
still, pale form there.
"After it was over, the husband dis
covered that a years salary would hard
ly pay the cost of this handsome funer'
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Pneumatic Tunnel.

The pneumatic tunnel or underground
galway under Broadway, New York, is
thus described by correspondent
GA first ride i'll pneumatic rail car is
like a short travel in fairy-land. 1t is
As yet, the route travelled over is ex-
tremely brief, extending only from War
rem TO Murray Street. Between thess
two points the visitor is propelled back
wards and forwards as often as the
length of the time permits over which his
invitations extend.
The time of travel between the two
points amounts to but few moments.
The machinery to which the p,opelling
force is due consists mainly of the eolor,
monstrous generator of every degree
of breeze, from a zephyr gust sufficient
to ruffie butterf1y's wing, TO hurricane
capable OF blowing Off roof The eolor
is composed of an immense iron shell
more than twenty-one feet high, sixteen
feet long, and thirteen feet wide. 1t flaps
two pair ofcog-whecled wings, which SO
act that the air is sucked up on one side
of tg.a machine, carried through between
these wings, and expelled on the other
side. 1t weighs fifty tons, or mora than
an average locomotive engine. 1t makes
sixty revolutions per minute, is capable
of discharging in that time 1000 cubic
feet OF air, equal in bulk to the contents
of three ordinary three-story dwelling
houses, and, if necessary, can propell a
train OF cars at rate varying from sixty
to one hundred miles per hour. IL was
manufactured at Connersyille, Indiana
cost twenty thousand dollars; was trans
ported to this city on a train consisting
Of five large platform cars, and has been
appropriately baptized ''rhe Western
Tornado" The car is circular in form,
and seats twenty-five persons. 1t is il
lumiuated by the celebrated zicorn light,
whose radiance is like the MONDAY, and
resembles the calcium light, with the re,
flector omitted.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-16

SECRET OF HAPPINEss.-An Italian
Bishop, who had struggled through,
many difficulties without repining, had
been much opposed without mannifesting
impatience, being asked by friend to
communicate the secret of his being al,
ways so happy, replied; sit consists OF
single thing and that is making Alright
use of my eyes" His friend, in surprise,
begging him TO explain his meaning.
"Most will ngly," replied the Bishop;
SIN whatever state / am, | trst OF all
look to heaven and remember that my
great busiasss is to go there. l then
look down upon earth, and call to mind
what small space ] shall soon fill In 1t,
then look abroad in the world and see
what multitudes are, in all respects, less
happy than myselfAnd thus learn where
true happiness is placed. where all my
cares must end, and how little reason
ever had to murmur, or to be otherwise
than thankful. And to live in this spirit
is TO be always happy.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-16

THERE ARE a CRowD.-The sweetest
wife tlat ever lived has said things to
her Nusband scores of times that she
would allow no human being to say about
him; and the truest husband will now
and .hen make his will known to his
" ife in tones so imperious that if he heard
another utter them to the same woman,
it would bring him leaping like a leopard
at the sroundrel who dared to speak SO
to the mother of his children. "Jack,"
we said to one of our journeymen when
he had been down home once, "Jack,
what is the matter?' "Matter enough"
Jack replied sheerishly. 81 wer goin'
past house at Otleytown end, an /
heered woman scream murder rushed
IN, and there .Eere her husband hitteB
her $50 hit him and knocked him doom,
an wer holdin' him by the throat an tbe
first thing l knew she war hitten me
with poker, an wantin' to noa what
| struck her husband for" 1t was an l.
lustration from range of life among the
Yorkshire hills-that was little betteT,
thirty years ago, than the savage-ot a
principle that holds good in the sweetest
and best homes of the land, where the ut
termost hurt is sharp word that is re-
pented OF and forgiven the moment it n
! spoken.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-16

ADVICE TO GIRLS. Somebody gives
the following advice TO girls. 1t is worth
volumes of fiction and sentimentalism.
Men who are worth having want wo-
men for wives. A bundle of gewgaws,
bound with a string OF flats and quavers,
sprinkled with cologne and set in car
mine saucer-this is no help for man
who expects 10 raise family of boys OIL
vcrj,aole bread and meat. The piano
and lace frames are good in their places,
and so are ribbons, irills, and trinsils
but you cannot make dinner on the for,
mer, nor a bed blanket of the latter-and
awful as such an idea may seem to you,
both dinner ard bod blankets are neces,
sary to domestic happiness. Life has its
realities, as well as tancies; but you
make it all decorations, remembering the
tassels aud curtains, but forgetting the
bedstead. Suppose man ofgood sense,
AID of course good prospects, to be look,
ing for wife, what chance have you to
be chosen? You may cap him, or you
may trip him, but how much better to
make it an object to catch you. Render
yourself worth catching, and you will
need no shrewd mother or brother to
help you find a market.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-16
WHOLE NUMBER 1912.
Who viii Care 4?
Who will cnrn

Who will care
When we lay beneath the daisies.
Underneath the church-yard mound.
And the long grass DER our faces
Lays its fingers damp and cold.
When we sleep from care and sorrow,
And the Ills of earthly life
Sleep TO know no sad to morrow,
With its bitterness of strife
Who win carey
Who will come to weep above us,
Lying, oh so white and still,
Underneath the skies of summer,
When all natures pulses thrill,
The new life, glad and tender,
Full Of beauty, rich and sweet,
And the gears are clad in splendor
That the woods shall repeat
Who will care?
Who will think the white hands lying
On still and silent breast,
Nevermore TO know Of signing,
EvermOre to know of rest?
Who will care =? No one can tell us,
But if rest and peace befall,
Will it matter if they miss us,
Or they miss us not at all
Not at all
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-16

Sir James Clark, who died in London
at an advanced age short time since,
was native of Scotland, and studied
medicine at Edinburgh, where he re-
ceived his diploma. lie published IN
1920, work giving the results OF ais
observations during a scientific tour IN
Europe. On settling in London, he was
appointed physician TO some members OF
the British royal family, and when Queen
Victoria ascended the throne she ap,
pointed him first physician, and created
him baronet. His long experience and
contributions 10 medical science secured
him the respect and esteem OF the medi
cal profession,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-16

SOCIAL LIFE IN CHINA-In China man
and wife never walk together arm-in-arm
IN pnblic. or even side by side, but the
wife always follows her lord at respect
ful distance, as the women always 90
among the American Indians. AT social
parties the sexes sit at different tables,
occupying separate rooms, and visiting
only among themselves. Strangers OF
opposite sexes are peyer introduced, nor
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NEW YORK. boston rS&lBANy, PRINCIPAL
POINTS IN NEW YORK AND NEW ENG
LAND, AND THE OIL REGIONS OF
PENNSYLVANIA.
L HIS Rail Way Extends from
Rochester to New York 1856 Miles.
Buffalo to New York 423 Miles,
Dunkirk to New York 400 Miles.
Cleveland to New York 625 Miles.
Cincinnati to New York $50 Miles.
and is from 22 to 27 miles the shortest route.
All Trains run directly through to New York, $50
miles, without change of Coaches.
From and after Juno 18th, 1870, trains will
ave in connection with all Western lines, as follows:
New York Day Express, leaves Cincinnati at
o p. NJ. Satuadays excepted Cleveland from Atlantic
time, daily, Saturdays exeeptodj, at 1880 p. M
Buffalo from Depot cor Exchange and Michigan Sts.,
NJ 0lh Arrives is HoyncsVe 90 sus
9gehanna 23o P; NJ, Spinel % Turner's % T42 r M
meets at Binghampton for CoopefstOwn, Albany,
and, the celebrated Summer resort Sharon Springs;
Western Railroad, and at Jersey City with Mid
night EXPRESS Train of New Jersey Railroad for
Sleeping Coaches attached to THE train at Clcve-
land running through to Hornellsyille reakiaso and
at Buffalo running through to New York.
Express Mail, loaves Dunkirk from Union Depot
and Buffalo, via Avon and via Hornellsville, daily,
Sundays exceptedO at 730 A. M, arriving in New
York at I 90 a. NJ.
Lightning Expyess, Daiy)s leaves Cincinnati Q.
(Breakfastj leaves cleveland T.a5 4. NJ, ieay,,
iittsSSurg 9IO hine. Al NJ bHnEEE Gedkast 10 Meadve
Buffalo 400 +. NJ; Arrives at Hornelsyiile e.1s P.
NJ lsupperl, and arrives in New York 100 4: N.
way for Williamsport, Harrisburg and the South,
at Jersey City with mornipg Express Train Of New
washington, and at New York With morning trains aims
for Boston and all the New England cities
Sleeping Coaches attached to this train at Leavs
| out change.
Night Express, daily, SUNDAYS excepted; leaves
BHfalS at 6,S p w. arrives at a. Turner'S at $50 a Nj
steamers and afternoon trains for Boston and New
ClneInnati Express, daily Sundays except, s;
@ e!ssslssa % Z, s,as F &tqsyIs @ 800 ( q E !, y, q,
sSPes sSpe sasq%eanDa aaen Ss dHHS Rit + Turner
1.a5p M Dinner, md arrives In New York at $50
burg and the soush S at osegs for ihspS at Bns
hampton for Cooperstown Albany and the celebra
az sw
| evening trains and steamers for Boston and New
Sleeping Coaches attached to this train at Buffalo
running through to New York.
Only Ono Train East on Sunday, leaving Cine nnati a
a45 A. NJ. Cleyeland at 7,25 A, M; Buffalo ESQ N.
and Dunkirk i3O PM, reaching New York ct To-
AN.
gage, are transferred free Of charge in New York.
The estyentlated and luxurious sleeping coach
es THE WORLD. accompany all night trains on thi
railway,
esF-rhe Erie Railway Company has opened a new
Ferry from their Jersey City Depot to the foot Of 23
ST., New York, thus enabling passengers TO reach th
npper portion Of the city without the expense and
noyance of street car or omnibus transfer
EN-The scenery along the entire route Of the Er
Ter. AdmiTers of Natures beauties in daylight Journe
over this Line viii nd In It's ever changing landscape
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-16

Prince Pierre Bonaparte is in San
Francisco en- route to Tahita.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-16

A professor OF Chinese and Japanese 10
to be established in Cornell Upiyeysjty
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Select Poetry.
Rip Van Wrinkle. M. D.
An Aner-Dinner Prescription.

NJ OLIVER WENDELL HoLNE,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-16

Tdk.n BY he Mdssachvsens Medical Society, at neir
Aeeting heid Nay 25th, 1870.
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ASHTABULA OHIO, SATURDAY JULY IS, 1870
FOUNDRIES.

| JOHN w. HILL. Iron Founder and Man.
| nfactnrer and Dealer In Stoves Of various kinds,
Plows and Pow Castings, Mil CastIngs, and most des.
iptone of foundry work. Spring st., Ashtabula. 76O
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-07-05
Sabbath Thoughts.

Many and thrilling are the associations which
the weekly recurrence of the Sabbath brings
The sun Of Sabbath morn first shed light on
a finished creation. When the earth stood out
a complete and lovely thing before its Maker
when Eden bloomed little heaven below, and
man, with his pure and lofty spirit, lived in Its
bowers ere yet the trail of the serpent was over
ALL 'God blessed the seventh day and sanctifed
it. The beams Of a Sabbath morn first shed
light on ransomed creation. Then it was that
the Captain of our salvation, having battled
with death In his own dark domain, shivered
his fetters, rose victor from the tomb, led CAP
tivity captive, and gave gifts unto men so that
now, instead of the wee and shame sin had eu-
tailed upon the fallen, there is proifered to them
the beauty of the brightness Of "a purchased i'm
mortality. The Sabbath is type, and tells Of
that rest which remaineth to the people of God
of that hour when the Christian pilgrim shall
terminate his long and toilsome march through
the wilderness, and cross the threshold of his
Fathers home-when the Christian mariner
shall heave over the last ocean billow, and enter
the desired haven-When the soldier of the cross
shall lay off his panoply, wear the rich robe and
the crown. Independently, too, of the grander
| associations, there is much, much of poetry,
much of piety-to make the Sabbath day to q
Christian soul the very best of all the seven.
The image of gray haired sire, the family
shrine, the domestic Sunday School, the big
ha" Bible, once his fathers PRIDE" the music
of the church bell, the house girt round with
the graves of his kindred, devotion's lofty peal
| oh it cannot be that the man Is on his way
to heaven who loves not as his life this atom of
heaven dropped on earth-it cannot be that he
is of the peculiar people, who call not the
| sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, hon
orable'' he has any claim to the charac-
ter of a religious being, who allows its golden
hours TO glide away without some thought about
| that inheritance to which it points.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-07-05

or the council, or board of trustees of the town
shall have power to appoint an agent or agents
| to negotiate loan or loans and to issue bonds
to secure the same for and in the name of said
county; said bonds may be either registered or
with coupons attached, as said board of super
vlsors, or council, or board Of trustees may pre-
SCRIBE. And at the time at which the board of
supervisors, or council, or board of trustees
makes Its levy for such county or town, it shall
levy on all the lands and all other subjects liza
ble to State tax, and county or corporation levy
In such county or town, such tax to pay the
amount OF such subscription or of such loan
or loans as may be authorized and the interest
thereon, or to pay the interest on the bonds of
the county or town, so issued, and to create a
sinking fund to redeem the principle thereof,
as said board OF supervisors or council, or
board of trustees may deem necessary or prop
er, and from year to year it shall repeat such
assessments, until the debt and interest be fully
paid. But such levy for year shall not ex-
ceed one twentieth Of the whole amount of such
subscription and the interest thereon; and such
bonds shall be irredeemabe for twenty years,
and at the pleasure Of the board of supervisors,
or council, or proper authorities of the county
or town, for period not exceeding thirty years
from the date of the same.
That IN case subscription be made by
either OF the counties of Rockingham, Augusta,
or Rockbridge, Or Roanoke, the board of SUI
pervlsors of the county shall levy the necessary
tax on the lands and other subjects aforesaid in
the town of Harrisonburg, or Staunton, or Lex
lngton, or Salem, as the case may be, as we'll
as on those outside of such town; and the col
lector of corporation levies shall collect and ac-
count for the levies for this purpose in like
manner as the collectors of the levies in the
counties are by law required to collect and ac-
count for such county levies.
The rights to stock in any such incorpora-
ted company, subscribed by either of said coun-
ties or towns under the authority Of this act,
shall vest in such county or town: and the board
of supervisors of such county, or the council,
or other authorities of such town shall have
power, from time to time, to appoint proxies
to represent the stock in the meetings of the
stockholders of the company; and also an agent
to collect the dividends on it's stock-which div
idends, when collected, shall be applied annu-
ally ia dimunition of the county or town levy
All acts inconsistent with the provisions of
this act are hereby repealed.
This act shall be In force from its passage
A cOpy-teste,
j. BELL BIGGER,
~ 9n - G., H. d. and K. of r. of Va.
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The Lords PRAYER.

When the elder Booth was residing in Balti-
more, pious urbane old gentleman of that
city, hearing of his wonderful power of elocu-
ton, one day invited him to dinner, although
always deprecating the stage and all theatrical
performances. A large company sat down at
the table, and, on returning to the drawing
room, one Of them asked Booth. as a special
favor to them all, to repeat the Lords Prayer.
He signifed his willingness to crafty them, and
all eyes were fixed upon him. He slowly and
reverently arose from his chair, trembling with
the burden of two great conceptions. He has
to realize the character, attributes and presence
Of the Almighty Being he was to address. He
was to transform himself into a poor, SHINING,
stumbling, benighted, needy suppicant, offer
ing homage, asking bread, pardon, light and
guidance. Says one Of the company who was
present. 1T was wonderful to watch the play
of emotions that convulsed his countenance.
He became deathly pale, and his eyes, turned
trembling upwards, were wet with tears As
yet he had not spoken. The silence could be
felt; it had become absolutely painful, until at
last the spell was broken as if by an electric
shock, as his rich-toned voice syllabled forth,
Our Father, which art in Heaven, etc., with
a pathos and fervid solemnty which thrilled all
hearts. He finished; the silence continued
not voice was heard, nor a muscle moved in
his rapt audience until, from remote corner Of
the room, subdued sob was heard, and the old
gentleman (the host), stepping forward with
streaming eyes and tottering frame, seized Booth
by the hand, Sir, said he, in broken accents,
you have afforded NE a pleasure for which my
whole future life will feel grateful am an cd
man, and every day. from boyhood to the pre-
sent time, [ have repeated the Lords Prayer
but l never heard it before, never' You are
right, replied Booth, to read that Prayer as it
shOuld be read caused me the seyerest st,rdv
and labor for thirty years, and [ am far from
satisfied with my rendering OF that wonderful
production. Hardly one person in ten thousand
comprehends how much beauty, tenderness and
grandeur can be condensed in space so simple.
That Prayer itself sufficiently illustrates the
truth of the Bible, and stamps upon it the seal
of divinity
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-07-05
Little Mary's Thought.

Little Mary had just come from the window,
where she had been gazing out with great plea
sure, and sat down on her little stool at her
papa feet. It was just at sunset and most
glorious sunset it was. The Western sky was
manted with clouds of the most gorgeous hues,
upon, which the little girl gazed with thought
full pleasure.
Papa she said at length, do you know what
think when see those pretty clouds?
No: what do you think of them, Mary?'
1 always think they are Gods wells. Does
not ne have beautiful wells, papa, to hide him
from us?
True enough, little one, thought I, the CLOUDS
which veil Him from our sight now are beaur-
tul. There is rainbow on them if we will see
it !; they shine with mercy and truth.
Was not that pretty thought of little Mary?
And does it not remind you Of the time when
the veil shall be parted, and He shall come
with the clouds, and every eye shall see Him