Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-04-02

leW uayS ago hir. hILGOUR ol NHBiula
procured warraht from the U S. Commission
er at Cincinnati, and the services of marshal,
and with friend proceeded to hunt up q fugi-
tive slave. The negro was found in the country,
chopping, in company with sable gentleman
and arrested. The negro with him gave the
alarm, and the rustics in the vicinity rushed to
the rescue. The three persons who made the
arrest finally carried of their prisoner and lodg'
ed him 10 the jail at Cincinnati.
7ss~ The contracts for daily mail from Lea
veuworth to ooraville, Pixies Peak, were made
under the act Of 1925, authorizing the estab-
lishment of special post Office, to be sustained
by the net proceeds. The compensation is, n
no event, to exceed $500 per annum. If the
post route bill had passed, and contracts made
under it, this service would cost $50 900 or $4O,-
900 year. So that the loss Of that bill has
some advantages as well as evils.
~ On the 10th Of January the q. S. steam
er Fulton, with commissioner Bowlin, arrived at
Rosario, the capital of the Argentine confede-
ration, where Gen. Uuquza, the president re-
ceived him with the greatest urbanty and ex-
pressed hope that hostile rupture with Par
aguay would be avoided President Urquza
had sent special ambassador to Ascension, TO
persuade Lopez to peaceful councils and to ar
range conciiatory mediation. .... ..
yes- The Canadians have surveyed and are
about constructing canal to connect Lake
\ Huron with Lake Ontario. This will very
greatly shorten the distance by water from the
states adjacent to Lakes Michigan and Super
ior to the eastern market. They hope by means
oft to divert a large part Of the traffic which
now comes down Lake Erie. .-. a.. ,...i. ..i
!2s- A tubular bridge has Just been COM
pleted over the Twelve Mile Creek, near Cathe-
rines, C. W., on the Great Western railway.
The span from abutment to abutment is lS4
feet, and the weight of the tubular portion
which is of the heaviest wrought iron is about
230 tons. The cost of the structure is $780,
900, aud it has been passed over by trains
~ A Cincinnati paper tells Of a couple in
that city married last week, who were so de-
lighted with their prospect Of connubial bliss
that they both became intoxicated as soon as
they left the office, aud forgot what had passed.
They returned to the magistrate and wished to
be welded again, and were greatly amazed when
informed that the ceremony had once been per-
| formed. o.. 1.H.
GSJ- A man named John Koch had mar
froy,, ol Il; Ioot n.
ange, N. j. While painting house be fell
from the third story and was taken up appa-
rently dead he was laid out and after couple
of days the friends had gathered for the
funeral, when the corpse manifested signs of life
and in few minutes he was sitting up in his
coffin, able to talk with his friends.
5zs- little girl, in Cincinnati, one day last
week, when playing "hide and seek" with com
pauion, hid in an old trunk, the lid Of which
fastened with clasp. She screamed for help
till exhausted, when an alarm was raised by
her long absence, and a search made She was
found almost dead.
10" Mrs Rebecca Hayden, aud her four
children were drowned on the 18th inst, in at
tempting to cross Salt River Rolls Co., Mo-
The husband died few weeks since from con-
gestion of the brain, caused by an excessive ct
of anger. ...H s.f .. ....I
~ A young woman named Ellen Vaughn
died at Troy, N. Y, few days since, from hav-
ing her ears bored for rings They became in
famed, erysipelas set iu, and she died after sew
eral days of terrible suffering.
a9- Some of the southern states have recent
ly been visited with considerable frosts, which il
is feared have caused much injury to fruit trees
as they are all 10 full bloom. r#
eS- Nearly 100000, princi pally in Ameri-
can gold, were taken from the Haitian EN-
peror Soulouque as he was on the point Of
embarking for Kingston.
Es- The late proisoning case in New York,
by which Mrs. Beethan lost her life, appears to
have been malicious and Margaret Burke, a
domestic, has been arrested as the guilty person.
BLow-UP.-The "Lady OF the Lake"
Capt Sisson, Propeller owned by Cham
berlin & Crawford, Cleveland, and running
in the Ogdensbnrgh line but bound for Dun
kirk, came down to Fairport on Friday and
Inv fn mort uutil Saturday afternoOn ,Uban