Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-20

Robinson. +, = -t-ss ago the idea ot
man spending one Sunday in New York
and the next in San Francisco, was too
PrepOsterous to treat with any degree of
seriousness, while the thought of reading
London happenings Two hours by the clock
before they happened, was utterly ridicu-
lOus. Who thought, fifty years ago, thai
women would sew by machinery, that one
press could actually print 5000 complete
newspapers in a single hour, or that two
men, dozen miles apart, could converse
along q wire in ordinary tones of voice
Yer all these and infinitely more have been
done in eOnquering the world of matter,
and We sit complacentIy down and ask,
"Well, what nextP We are surprised at
nothing in science or mechanics nowadays.
Medicine has not kept pace with her sis
terS, however, and while men can confess
edly conquer the whole outside world, he
has not been thought equal TO assuredly
eonduer even the smallest Of the ills that
might distress his own body. Haven't you
ever thought how strange it is that man
should helplessly surrender his own body
TO pain and disease, while he fights bitter
ly, tenaciously for dominion over the earth
and all else it contains? Well, right in
this line your correspondent has been think
ing and studying, and here has he found
q greater man than Edison, for this man
whose name withhold for the present
has discovered q certain cure for that
dreadful disease, dIp6theria, and for some
other diseases. have myself investigated
several cures it has effected, and as seeing
is believing, cannot help saying good
word for ''Faricum," and telling the pub
lie how to obtain sure relief from that
fearful scOurge, which has deSOlated so
many homes here in the last few months.
Not case has ever been lost out of the
hundreds who have used 'Faricum," and
il has saved in two hours scores Of hopeless
cases. l have been so impressed with
these striking results, that have been at
pains to investigate the nature of this new
remedy. It is very penetrating, and its
specific action is to relieve Inflammation,
thus penetrating and breaking up the diph-
therial membrane by the mere act of inhs-
lation. It is cure for rheumatism, and
almost all diseases which arise from in
hammation, and these, as you know, cover
very wide range of human ills. Its &C.
ton has been so gratifying here, that its
fame is spreading, and possibly before
long, your druggists, after enquiring into
its merits, may afford you an opportunity
to judge for yourselves whether have
wisely departed from my usual rule, and
borne testimony to what coneeiYe, in my
old age, to be public benefaetor.
REAL ESTATE BOOMING TOO.
The boom has finally struck real estate,
and there is a great activity and steadily
increasing price. This will be good news
to many watchers for the rising tide. Last
spring mentioned, in one of my letters,
that $50, 600 had been paid for corner lot
on Fifth Avenue, and the mail brought
letter from New York State asking me to
mail an enclosed letter to the man who
paid that $50, 900. Not knowing to whom
to send it, 1 took the liberty of reading it
myself, and found 1t an ineredulous sort
OF appeal tc buy the farm Of the lady, who
protested she did not want nearly as much
for large farm as he was said to have
paid for little piece of ground % by 100
feet. And now the Mercantile Library
Association has Just been buying some lots
on a side street at the neat rate of $40, 900
q lot, and my skeptical friend can mail her
letter this time direct.
By the way, the old landmark on Astor
Place, now occupied by this library, is Of
fered for sale, and will probably be torn
down. This is the old Astor Place Opera
House where the famous not occurred in
1S49 over the respective morits of Forrest
and Macredy. That must have been a
wonderful riot. was not in New York
at the time, but pledge you my word, as
q newspaper man, that among all the
thousands of New York boys Of that day
whom l have since known, have never
met one who was not in the riot "looking
on" when the troops opened on the crowd,
and who was not 'just in 'front.'" or 'just
behind" or ''just beside" some man who
''got shot" The next time you come to
Gotham, just get some New Yorker of that
day engaged upon that subject, and see if
he don't tell you, before 'he is through,
that he, ''as boy, was right in the midst
of that Astor Place riot, &C." If you miss
fire once, call on me and we will go to din
ner together-at your eXpensel MORLEY.
ST. Jacobs Oil at SWift's.