Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1858-07-31
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hereafter be published In Cacinnati
A leading medical practitioaer az Brighton,
Eng, has lately given list Of lB cases Of para
lysis produced BY smoking, which came nnder
his own knowledge within the last six months.
ap- From Mexico we have later advices. -
Vidaurri had captured San Luis Potosi, and Il
was rumored that Gen. Zuloaga bad abandoned
the City Of Mexico, against which the Liberals
were unlung.
Gg-1he New y ork Commercial Advertiser
says, ut Is supposed, that with the exception
of the Bible, the photographic works Of No
oh Webster have the largest circulation Of any
other book in the Euglish language
zs- The New York Tribune Of The 26th
SAYS that the "Riviefc Scandal" is quicted, that
Mr. aud Mrs. Bl0unt and daughter have sailed
for New Orleans. and Riviere has retired FROM !
the too pressing attention Of his creditors
ng- A correspondent Of the Crescent City
writes as follows "A few days since, ,erdaut
youth with his blushing bride arrived at jne Of
the principal hotels in this city lie immediate
IL registered himself as s. b. Joaes and lady, |
Alabamy on bride toscer.'
,ss- At recent meeting at ST. Paul, Mime
sofa TO encourage emigration to the Frazer
river gold mines by way Of that territory it was
stated By Col John II. Stevens that there were
three feasible routes from Minnesota, by the
most direct Of which the distance to Frazer
river would be 1850 miles. An outfit for ten
persons from st. Paul would cost about 81 800
aS- Dr. r. R. Harrison Of Prince George
County Virginia, has taken pains to make some
careful examinations to ascertain whether corn
grows as is generally supposed more at night
than by day On one day, corn grew, in ntweniy-
four hours, five inches at night one and half
iuches On another it grew four and seven
eights inches at night one and seveu-eigbts.
asr At an Ecclesiastical Council held at
Sylvania, Lucas county, Ohio, July 7th, 1858,
charges Of gross immortality were presented
against Rev. ~ Shapley, late the minister Of
the Congregational church in Sylvania, and
member Of the Association Of Southern Michi-
gan, on account Of which, after full investiga
ton of the case, he was deposed from the min
istry.
gs~ Among the Novelties is Ladies Ma
tional Equestrian Convention. to be held on the
9Th day of September, at the Union Race
Course, Long Island. Among the inducements
"to enter the lists the occasion, is the offer OF
three prizes to be awarded to the best female
riders The lady .adjudged the most skillful in
feats menage will receive splendid panotorte,
valued at $500.
es- DIR. RR, in the report of the Butler
Hospital for the Insane, in Rhode Island, says
II believe-and il is in some measure the result
of considerable observation of various psychic
logical states--that in this age Of fast living,
nothing can be relied upon more surely for pre-
serving the healthy balance Of the mental Iacul-
ties, than an earnest, practical conviction Of the
great truths of Christianity"
as- A butcher at Princeton, Ohio, named
Daniel Elliott in fit of payfulness and to
amuse his children put his neck iuto a moose
Used for drawing up cattle, and set his children
to turning the wheel and hoisting him up. But
they drew him off his feet, and could not let
him down again on account Of the ratchet hold
ing the wheel, and when they got their mother
out to help them, he was dead--hung in fun.
.Ss- One Of the trackmen on the railroad be-
tween Rochester and Buffalo, recently discover
ed that the rails were bent 10 two places, and
an examination showed that the heat of the sun
Rad SO expanded the rail that it had curved each
way tit being the combination rally fully six
inches out Of line. All this expansion must
have taken place within two or three hours, as
not more than that time had elapsed since trains
had passed over the track.
es- A large rolling mill at Fairfhount, Pa,
is nakiug new railroad iron of old rails, for the
Reading railroad The old rail is cut into pie
ces about four feet in length, and then tied into
q bundle with wire. 1t is then passed through
the various rollers until it IS stretched out some
twenty feet, and assumes the shape necessary
fot railroad use. The rails thus made are said
to be better than new ones, as rolled iron i'm
proves by frequent working. The costi about
one half that Of the new rails
9a- Letters from Europe and India speak Of
the remarkable heat Of the season. The last
accounts from India say the intense heat Of the
country appears to have a fatal effect upon the
English troops. In the 35th regiment eighty
four deaths of apoplexy are announced. The
London theaters have been deserted on account
Of the great heat, and several persons are re-
ported to have died from the same cause The
drought throughout France is excessive. The
Seine is reported to be nearly as low as it was
in 1919.
90 Five young women, Of a company Of
fourteen who sacked groggery in Bristol, Ohio,
last June, were tried by three instices for riot
and acquitted, the court deciding that the grog-
gerry was a nuisance and the girls had a right
to abate it. This trial was made the occasion
of a temperance picnic and celebration, got up
by the ladies of Bristol, and great time they
had Of it. A large concourse of people as
sembled, many Of them coming from the adj
joining townships, and great deal of interest
was felt in the Issue of the examination, and
the excitement continued unabated to the end
The fourteen girls engaged 10 the transaction
all attended court in a body, dressing alike
marching and sitting together, with a flag at
their head.
RAREY's Career has unexpectedly been
stopped He had cleared some els, 600
to 100000 by his horse tanning secret,
when suddenly Routledge, the cheap pub
Usher, got hold of pamphlet published by
the horse tanner in America, aud printed
it, 1t contains in small compass all the
art of horse tanning; and the subscribers,
who had bound themselves not to diyulge
the secret under penalty of 950O, be-
came furious, and Mr. Rarey had to re-
lease them from their pledge, in a letter
iu the Tines.
The AMERICAN CHESS CHAMPION IN Eng
LAND-Mr. Morphy, who arrived out by
the Africa, quietly walked into the st.
Georges chess club one night last week,
and, after beating Mr. Lewen, who is a re-
cogniZed champion. with the greatest case