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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04
Lincoln and Speed.

Among some anecdotes said to he new,
tlat have just been furnished to the In
dependent by personal acquaintance OF
President Lincoln, is this:
One evening, during the last winter
of the Presidents life, when extremely
busy, and weary as well, after the many
duties of the day, he was called to the
reception room to see Mr.. Speed, then
Attorney General. The latter had called
to introduce a friend, and, seeing the
weary look of the Presidents face, he at
once began to apologize for interrupting
him. 81 am very sorry" said Mr. Speed,
"very sorry, Mr. President, to disturb
you" Speed, he replied, ''you remind
me of story Of Henry Ward Beecher.
One Sunday as he was going TO reach,
he saw some boys playing marbles ON the
street. He stopped and looked at them
hard. 'Boys,' he said presently-'boys,
| am scared scared.' 'Then why the d.
don't you run? p answered the boys. II
you are sorry, Speed, why did you Gomez"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04

How TO FoRCE Notwithstanding
to Galignani's Messenger radishes may be
grown in few days by the following
someXhat singular method: Let tome
rood radish seed soak in water for 81
hours, then put them in bag and ex-
pose it to the sun. In the course OF the
day termination will commence. The
seed must then be sown in a well-manur-
ed 'hut-bed, and warered from time to
time with lukewarm water. BY this
treatment the radishrs will, i'll very
short time, acquire sufficient bulk, and
be good to eat.
Ii it be required to get good radisheS
in winter, during the severe cold, an
old cask should be sawed i'll two, and
one halt of ii filled with earth. The rad
ish seed beginning to shoot as before,
must then be sown i'll, the other half OF
the barrel he put on the top OF the full
one, and the whole apparatus carried
down into the cellar. For watering
lukewarm water should be used, as be
fore. In the course OF five or SIX days
the radish will be fit TO eat.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04

The EFFEMiSATE MAN.-T'he effelni.
nate man is weak poultice. He is
cross between root beer and ginger
pop, with the cork lit out over night.
lie is II fresh water mermaid found in
COW pasture with hands filled with
daniellon>. lie is 4 teacup tull of sylla-
bub--a kitten i'll pautalets-a sick
monkey with blonde mustache. He is
vine without any tendrils-a fly drown.
ed in sweet ola paper kite in a dead
calm. He lives like buttert y-nobody
can tell why. He is as harmless as
cents worth Of spruce gum, and as USE
less as a shirt button without any button.
hole. He is as lazy as Il bread pill, and
has no mUre hope than Il last years grass
hopper lie goes through life on tip
toes, and dies like colouge water split
over the ground
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04
Fat and Lean People.

1t is striking fact that most people
want to weigh more than they do, and
measure their health by their weight, as
If a man were pig, valuable in proper
ton to his heavincss. The racer is not
fat, the plow horse has but moderate
amount of flesh. Heavy men are not
those which experienced contractors en-
plov to dig railroads and dig bitches.
Thin men the world over, are the men
for work for endurance, they are wiery
and hardy; thin people live the longest !;
the truth is, fat is disease, and as proof,
fat people are never well day at a time,
and are not suited for hard work. Still
there is medium between being as fat
as a butter ball and as thin and iuiceless
as a rail. For mere looks, a moderate
rot Indity is most desirable, to have
enough flesh to cover all angularitles
TO accomplish this in the shortest time
man should work but little, sleep Il
great part of the time, allow nothing tc
worry him, keep always in a joyons
laughing mood, aid live chiefly on al
buminates, such as boiled cracked wheat
and rye, and oats, and corn, and barley
and sweet milk, and buttcrmilk, ant
meats. Sugar is the best fattener known
HtUS H3tih mil cool Licing.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04
Florence Sewing Machines.

w K WOULD once more call the at
tenton Of those about TO purchase Sewing Machine
TO the merits OF the Florence Its advantages over any
and all Sewing Machines. Its simplicity and gSeat
rsnge of work. Its four different stitches Lock Knot
Double Lock and Double Knot. Its reversible feed mo-
thumb to have the work either TO the right or
lef stay any part OF the seam nsten the ends OF
cords gathers brads quilts, &c. We will deliver Ma
chimes any part Of the County and give instructions
free
A good stock of Machineneedles, Thread. Silk, At
tachments, &C. constantly on hand. Also, Dress max
ing and all kinds of Stitching done to order.
Mrs. Robt. AIleOck, Agt.
Rooms over the Hendry Store, Cor. Main aud Center
6ts. Ashtabula, Ohio. lylO53
Feb %, 1870.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04

STRANGE INcoNsIsTENCV.-TheIe are
many men and women, who would han-
die watch worth twenty-five dollars
with the utmost care for fear CT derang-
ing its mechanism, while they would not
hesitate TO lay rough hands upon the
feelings of others, worth twenty-five
years of happiness. Many man there
Is who would not scruple to set his foot
upon human heart aud crush it-many
IL lady, who would deem it 8 sin to
rutie u lace cap is not slow to rend the
more exquisite network OF the humsp
heart
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04
Shall Unitarianism Have a Greed?
From the Christian Register, Unitarian, Boston.

From the Christian Register, Unitarian, Boston.
There is an evident purpose on the
part of some of the socalled conservative
Unitarians to insist on declaration of
faith as a test of discipleshIp, and it may
be that in some form the question will
come up tor discussion next week. 1t is
therefore necessary for full understand
ing of the subject, so as to act intclli-
gently, that we should have in mind the
nature OF the questions at issue. Any
one who is acquainted with the Ortho-
dox, need not be told that the former
laid special stress on the rights of inqui-
ry. They argued with all their might
against making crceds the test of disci-
pleship. We could quote, almost with
out limit, the language Of all the early
Unitarians on this point. They protest
ed against any ecclesiastical body ma
king creed tor them, and planted them
selves on the broad platform on the right
Of private judgment. Whether they
We're correct or not in this, the fact can
not he denied.
In the present conflicts of opinion
there has arisen a class who wish 10 put
the Unitarians on distinctive doctrinal
grounds. They want Il flag to rally
round and to fght under. For this pur-
pose they propose toput forth an author
itative declaration Of faith which shall
stand for Unitarianism, so that when an
inquirer comes and asks, What is Unita-
rianism? What do Unitarians believe? ?
he can have this declaration in reply.
Here then is the position OF the two
parties. The former, keeping true to the
original spirit of Unitarianism, object to
making declaration which may be re-
garded in the light of an authoritative
creed. The other party say, We both
need it and ought to have it.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04
Solitaire.
Hour after hour

Hour after hour
! measure these ribs of weary land,
And count the wind cut ruflies in the sand,
With sparkling strips ofsun and strips of shade
see the aloe bud and bloom and fade;
| mark the dissolution of the flower,
Hour after hour.
Bright is the morning sun and fierce the noon
The pulseless air cleaves to me in Il swoon:
The low voiced waterfall, with mufiled note,
The hoarse sea growing from some cavern
throat
Year after year
| feel my o'ertasked sight begin TO fall
With vainly searching for phantom sail;
Entombrd within my crystal wall of sea-
No tender human footstcp quickens me:
No sweet and homely human forms appear.
Year after year.
OrePldnd hCRtlly.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04

Sailing Mich Cows.-Wm. Egger,
OF Lowville, Lewis county, New York,
Swiss dairyman of experience. gives tie
method p'neticed in Switzerland by the
best stock keepers, in sailing stock. He
saws that cows should be salted early ev-
cry morning, and if they are fed i'll the
stable, the salt should be given before
foddering. Sailing in this way improves
their appetite they drink with more
regularity, are kept IN better health, and
give more milk than when salted i'll the
usual way, as practiced by dairymeE i'll
America. He thinks it very injurious to
salt milch cows only once or twice a
week, as they will lick too much at a
time, and drink too much water for the
day. To have stock do well, they must
be fed with regularity every day alike,
and meyer given too much otanylhing at
one time.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04

English farmers who use salt for the
purpose OF killing grub worms, SOW IT
broadcast over the land, several times
daring the year, using in the course o.
the season as high as four bushels TO the
acre. The practice is TO SOW plaster
broadcast at the rate of $50 pounds to
the acre, at the time when the grub first
commence their work,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04

PRAYER.-Nobody knows anything
about the great realm into which he
throws his prayers; that is, nobody
knows the principles on which God hears
and answers prayer. That is one of those
things that are profoundly mysterious. 1t
is one OF those things that belong
to the vast sphere ofthe unknown. That
God lives, sympathizes, hears and an
swers, we know, but the principles on
which he acts we do not know. We
pray much as a child PLAYS an organ. He
sees the bank OF keys before him, but be
does not know, at all, that there is a
tracker that runs in from each key and
turns, and goes this way to this lever,
and :hen turns again, and goes out there
to that lever, and bends up and down,
and bv-and-by opens tlue or valv" in
the utmost corner of the organ. All lac
knows, Is, that when he puts his finger
on kew. he gets sound. OF the intrl-
cate machinery which led to that sound,
he is entirely ignorant. Now there are
thousand levers and tracks between rs
and God that we know nothing about.
We pray on simple faith that Gud, as he
is declared i'll the New Testament, is a
hearer and answerer of prayer. We are
commanded TO pray for specific things
and we are commanded to pray generally
for men, and for the saints.-Beecher
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04
FOR SALE.

A FARM CONTAINING twenty acres
N oflaud, situated in the Township Of Kingsyile one
and half miles from centre on Ashfahua Creek Soil
grayelly good house and barn and about OF
good thrifty orchard.
Also one half acre of land with dwelling house and
barn. one fourth mile south Of Rail Road. Lake St.
Ashtabula Village.
Also one and half acres OF land with dwelling house.
oneourth mile north of Rail Road east side of Lake
St.. Aehtabula Village
The above property can be bought at bargain the
owntrs are Westward bound. For partisRkrs inquire
Of Freight olnsa. AsAAsAh pspet s1A&
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04

The Prairie Farmer says: The yield
of carrots, like that OF any other crop,
will depend largely on the soil the seed
ia soyn on, and the manner of cultiya-
lion. Perhaps from 200 to 800 bushels
10 the acre is an average crop, though as
high as / 900 or even 1900 bushels have
been raised by extra culture. The seed
should be sown about the first ofmay, or
as soon as the ground is in good con-
dition to plant corn.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04
DIR. FRANKLIN described the farmers
condition in l776, AS follows;

Farmer at the plough,
Vile milking COW;
Daughter spinning yarn,
Sons ihreshing in the barn
All happy to charm"
Another writer gives the account OF
1870, as follows, applicable, at least, to
some laliludes:
"The farmer goes to see show,
His daughter at the piano;
Madame gaiy dressed in satin
All the boys are learning Lauh' ~,
With mortgage on the farm
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04

How lIIGGINs gently BROKE THE
News" Yes, ! remember that anec-
dotc," the Sunday-school superintendent
said, with the old pathos IN his voice and
the old sad look in his eyes. alt was
about simple creature named Higgins,
that used TO haul rock for old Mallby.
When the lamented Judge Bagley trip
ped and fell down the courthouse stairs
and broke his neck, it was great qucs.
tion how to break the news to Mrs
Bagley. But finally the body was put
into Higgins's wagon and he was ~
struc,ed to take il 90 Mrs. b., but to he
very guarded and discreet in his Ian
guagc, aud not break the news to her at
orce, but do it gradually and gently.
When Higgins got there with the sad
freight, he shouted till Mrs. Bagley
came to the door Then he said
"Does the widder Bagley live here p
"The cidov Bagley - No, sit -
"I'll bet she does. But have it your
own way. Well does J4clge Bagley live
here"
"Ycs, Judge Bagley lives here"
"I'll bet he don't. But never miId
it amt for me to contradict. Is the
Judge in -
"No, not at present"
81 just expected as much. because
YOU know-take hold Of sBthiu, num-
Tor I'm a-going to make little commu
nication, and reckon may be it'll jar yor
some. There's been an accident mum
I've got the old Judge curlcd up ou
here in the waooB-aud when YOU Sc
him, you'll acknowledge, yourself, thai
an inquest is about the only thing thai
could be a comfort to him - GdlaJy
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04

PhiladrIphia bs. is daily nswspspsrs
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-04
FOUNDRIES.

SEYMOUR g. STRONG, Manufacturers Stoves,
Plows and COunns, Window Caps and Sills, Mill
Castings, Kettes, Sinks, Sleigh Shoes, &C., Phoenix
Foundry, Ashtabua, Ohio. 1861
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-02-08
A Colony CT Crippled Soldiers

Some of the aeterans of the Ma
tional Military. fAsylum propose to
torn ali agricultural colony in the
West, Their scheme is 10 collect
% yot:lg, healthy, manned veterans,
who draw SIS stonthly PENSIONS
The colony wiaAIlerefore be compos-
ed of those WHO have one arm or one
leg. Great cars Iand discrimination
will be- exercised in selecting men
equal TO tho situation" which will
be in some Weatern wild along the
the Pacific raifrDad They intend
asking Congress for grant of land
in suek locality, and expect in a
few ybars to obtain from generous
soil home WHICH each one can call
his own. The physical disability of
these'm manned ~olonists is more APP
paren, than real! and in cooperative
labor IF this kiSd each might sup
plemeYt the deficiencies of the other.
The man with two arms and one
leg co4ld do woEk which the man
with two legs dGd one arm could not
do. u retlrn. '2wo legs" could do
what atwo afrs" could not. It
woulG be bettsr than the old story
of the blind Slsn who carried the
crippie on HIS shoulders while the
lame man posnted out the way
These two, al @r all, did only the
work Of one 1ah but two manned
men, ~ dividing their work proper
ly, might do le work of two whole
ones In thel sylum men with arti-
fetal legs cansdo ~ much work as
any able bodisd man. Most of the
labor Of that sHstitution is done by
disall led vetorers. One-legged men
plows ride horses, load carts, drive
wagons. And: il they can do il in
an asylum they think they can do it
just as West while trying to earn a
heartlstone asi homestead of their
own. Beside$ they have SIS per
month from t}:e government, which
is six per ceuxS interest on capital
Of $4,000 10 gar, with.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-02-08
CHAIRS and BEDSTEADs

Of every s.yi. an finish from the best 10 common
MATTRESSES and BED SPRINGS. Over 20 COINS
and Csskets nov on hand Of the best material trim.
nsngs and finish and Of all sizes and patterns
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-02-08

q. Hawley s Son, Plat;eville, Wis, are the
exclusive agents for the "Prairis City Broad
cast Seeder," with all the improvements for
1870; also for Bertrand 4 Sames' Salky Corn
Cultiyator." Both machines have been greatly
improved Tor the coming season, and are now
justly considered the best machines in exis-
tence. Parties wishing machines will do
well to send US their orders early so there may
be no delay in shipping, and have them ready
in season.
We are selling first class wagons, made from
stock two and half years old, on one year,
eighteen months or two years time to any
and every body, with approved paper at 10
per cent. interest
35m1 q. HAwLEY & son.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-02-08
DIED.

IN Lancaster January 3ist 1870 CLARA dau ghser Of
Albert and Mary Kilby, aged months
IL Lancaster February Ar 1870, AVN, wife Of Cal
yin Noggie, aged e years.
In Lancaster February Is. 1870, MARy, child OF JNo
and and Theresa Lewis, aged 10 months and 10
4ays
In Bloomington, January 22d 1870, EPHRAIN LEROY.
and January "a, LE5lAS GRANT. children Of and
Mary Cornish aged respectively yrs, months and
" months.
In Bloomineto ton, January 18th 1870 HArTts L0uIsA,
daughter Of George and Rachel Ssyns, eyed ton
mouths. ss.e
Ny Lord has need Of these fOwsrsts gay,
The reaper said and smiled;
Dear tokens Of the Garth are they
Where He was once a child.
They shall all bloom in fields Of lish:,
Transplanted by my care,
And saints upon their garments white
These sacred blossoms bear
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-02-08
AUCTION SALE /!

The subscriber will sell at public auction on hi.
farm. miles north east of the village of Beetown, on
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10th, 1870, the following
described stock, farm IMPLEMENTS aud household
goods: One mileh cow year old bull two ".
heifer yearling hefe % chickens, a good reaper,
good tanning mill double sled stubbie plow double
shovel plows COOK stoves bOx-stOye tables chairs
and any amount Of household goods too numerous to
mention.
Terms--For all sales Of IS and under CASH; al
over, twelve months time we'll approved note At
per cent. interest.
Sale 70 commence At 10 O'Clock A VI,
Also will be sold at .he time the highest
bidder the celebrated stock horse,
MELCHIZE DEK,
the property OF Gordon Day deceased Terms, one
fourth cash and balance year time with approved
note at Z per cent interest. Also will be sold
span Of mares, COW wagon, set double harness and
lot Of farming implements.
D. FRENCH, Auctoneer JESSE MIL rs.
Beetown, January 21st, 1870. 34wss
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-02-08

Il CosGS:MOre Than Bread

\ iew days ago a policeman re-
marked "Tf%re are three glasses OF
liquor drank IN this city for each
loaf - bread has il eaten"
Suppose dis frue then for each
loaf Of bread, sat.ten cents, there is
paid Tor drinss thirty cents or three
times is Bucbsfor liquor as for bread 7
II + estim,sed that four barrels of
fiour will SUPPLY family of FIVE per-
sons with brtnd for year. A bar
rel ot -four W. make 264 pounds of
hread and the f'eur barrels will give
] 1856 ponds. A. six cents per
rouai this j. 1915 81 for each barrel
OF ho3r or S6@36 for the four barrels.
Iii this estimate Is 100 low, take five
barrels OF d0ar for each family of
five persons, and the value of bread
at SIX cents . pound is 1920 q year.
The $4,000 families of five persons
each, constituting the population of
the city, consume at this rate bread
to thu value 3f s14, ia 400 a year.
There ara is this city at least four
thousand plseeS where Intoxicating
liquors arc add The number in
New York Fpd Brooklyn, in 1866,
was 9,270
II these r eve on an average $50
8 day each tsat Is s43 500 900 a year
or at SIS Jay each, 1t is s2l, 900, 600
9 year II 4 true some OF the drink
ing houses 9re "merc holes in the
wall, but others Of them are paIa-
ces. Some 81 them take in only a
few dollars . day, while large num-
bers Of others take in hundreds Of
dollars.
BUTT "a nh. at the clearinghouse,
at pablo he's, where all the intoxi-
casing iiIGGrs are consumed. At
ea.'ng-houss, At clubs, and at the
hotels, are expended large sums for
wire and ss,ro9g spirits. Thus the
fast, a. Against bresd.-Ner York
P4,s
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-02-08

A CRUEL SFEP-MoFHER Slightly
PUNlsHE,p.-Mrs. Martha Large was
tried au1 CONVICTED at Oshkosh, on
Wednesday, for cruelty to her step
son, child six years old. The evi-
denee showed that she beat him ur-
Incredibly with club, kept him ont
of doors, nearly naked, on the coolest
days, and crippled the child by blows
and ili-ussge. She was sentenced to
three m anths in the county Jail.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-02-08
FARM FOR SALE.

The subscriber win sell his farm OF 100 acres situated
Ia miles south of the village Of Lancaster the
Potosi road. There 20 acres under pillow and 60
acres of timber and the whole tract well and newly
fenced and well watered by running stream there
on a comfortable frame dwelling with good esteFn,
frame stable and granary. The land is desirsbly
located and new, there having been but one crop
raised Lands adjoining have lately sold for $40 per
acre. Terms-s30 per acre, aud time given part Of
purchase money CHAS. LANGRIDGE.
Lancaster, January 20, 1870. 33m2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-02-08

A NIcE ''RIG."--In order 20 have the best
"turu olt'' in town, public OF private, Far
quhars9n & Brown have during the past week
received, at their livery stable, from the popu-
lar firm Of G. Hawiey & Son most handsome
cutter, gotten up in their best style, which
excels anything we have yet seen. It's light,
but stroag gracefully shaped painted in
manner that cannot be beaten East or West,
and fnished in every way that does credit 70
the maker and owner No one need 20 farther
East than Hawley's, say all who have ex-
amined this sthing OF beauty
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-02-08

SMALL THIEvING.-About the small
est piece Of business we have heard
of late comes to our notice from
Lit.le Grant. On Friday evering,
June GOTH the Miner school house,
being used as the hall of Little Grant
Lodge No &c, Good Templars, was
broken open and entered by some
party who carried away all the lodge
books, papers, regalia. lamps and 9TH
er fixtures Of lodge property to the
value Of between forty and fifty dol
lars We are authorized to state
that twenty dollars reward will be
given tor information that will lead
to the detection Of the party or par
ties who committed the theft.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-02-08

ya-Oive Loga is again lecturing
III Che West. and few evenings
since captivated a large audience at
Milwaukee on .the Girls Of the Pc
Rod" During the course of her re-
marks on "Pretty Girls the fair
lee; urer said Shall | tell you how
/ feel? Well ! tell you, never saw
a downright pretty girl in sll nv
life one upon whose cheeks the roses
we've blooming, but that l wanted to
fold her in my arms and kiss her."
3Vho don't
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-02-08
Add! Add Add!!!

Mr.. II c. WEBB, Of ". Y, has recently constructed
reliable Adding Machine which he calls the Adder,
and which he now offers the public Price So, s. and
SO according 70 tbs quality Of material and finish.
In evidence that the Adder Is the only reliable and
practical machine Of the kind invented please
read the folio~ing testimony Of Messrs. kinney and
Parsons, well known business men Of county who
have used and thus thoroughly tested the speed and
correctness Of It:
-. HrBBAED. Eso.,-DsdT SIR We have used
Wehbs Adder. and consider IL an invaluable instru
ment 20 the accountantsimpe accui and 10 ali
specfs a deziieratum. ~ K ysEY.
Lancaster, Feb. !st, 1870 n. PARrOSs.
Orders received and promptly alIsd By
p. HUBBARD, Agent.
35u British Hollow, Grant county. Wis.