Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-06-25
NEWS ITEMS.

AftOuUs
ap II is said that the French Government
has contracted for 10000 tons Of American
Goals for their steamers TO be delivered at Mar
seilles
M A late visitor to Cuba divides the in-
habitants into two classes--one Of which makes
living by manufacturing cigars, and the other
by smoking them
ss~ The National Intelligencer figures the
cost Of keeping Cuba, il we get it, at twenty
nine millions per annum, in addition to the eigh-
ty or hundred millions already spent.
es- A solid white oak tree, seven feet through
at the butt fifty feet from the ground to The
first limb, and over eighty feet, was felled at
Centre, Wisconsin recently
GE- The same ladies who would faint to see
a mans shirt on clothes line, will in waltz,
lovingly repose their heads on the bosom of the
same garment, when the man is in it.
III A dispatch to the St. Louis Republican
states that the Grand Jury of the United States
Court for the District of Keokuk, have found
true bill against the Rock Island Bridge as a
nuisance.
as~Tbe town of Lenox Mass, has cbaeng.
ed Stockbridge to meet her with row of trees
on either side of the highway, each planting to
the boundary line.
1s- The Bostonians have decided not to al.
low Powers statue Of Webster to be placed
on the State House grounds, because they do
not deem it q sufficiently good likeness of the
great expounder
~ 1t is thought that Mr.. Faulkner, who
has just been beaten in Virginia, may accept
the mission to Sardinia, which the President
has authority, and is likely to raise to the first
class.
9s- The new bishop Of New Jersey (Epit-
copal) hestates about taking the Office for fear
he sbun't get his pay, which is fixed at $4,000 a
year. Security for its payment is demanded;
the promises of the church not being consider
ed sufficient.
Gs> Flour from new Illinois wheat, has al
ready been made down at Cairo. The wheat
was cut on the Sd inst, in Alexander county,
thrOshed on the 7th, aud made into -four on the
9th.
Gs- Counterfeiters of small silver coin have
been breeding fast in Brooklyn, N. Y, lately
The police routed their nest seized their tools
and speler, and arrested railroad conductor
and ticket seller as the criminals.
.rsr Over bridge in the town Of Atheus
Ca, is posted the following notice
ANY person driving over this bridge in q
pace faster than walk shall, if white person,
be fined FIVE dollars ; if a negro, receive twen-
ty-ive lashes, half The penalty to be bcsloired
upon the iaformer :"
GB- From experiments recently made at
Grenoble, it has been found practicable to en-
close dispath of ffty-two words in hollow
conical ball. the orifce being filed with wax,
and to FIRE it into thick panks, at distance of
$50 metres, without injury 10 the writing. Thus
communication could be opened between one
part of an army and another, where the use of
messengers would be dangerous or impossible
GS- The anli-Slidell Democrats of Louisa-
ma hold Boiling Convention on the 4th cf Ju-
ly. They have Douglas afinities, and are under
the lead Of soue.
GS- The number Of acres Of land put under
tiage in Illinois this year is much greater than
ever before-probably one-ffth more than in
1856, the last good harvest.
Gs- The farmers of lower Virginia arc now
engaged in cutting their wheat. In some ocali-
ties it has been injured by fy, rust, joint-worm,
weevil &C., but generally the crop is regarded
as a good one.
G9- The Mssourians have got so used TO
voting in Kansas that they still keep at it. In
Leavenworth nearly 24OO votes were cast at
the late election which is at least 500 more than
could have been honest. The Democratic ma
jority was 146.
5ss- The Patent Office has just received
case of tea seed from Hong Kong, and great
hopes are entertained that it can be successfully
planted throughout the South, and numerous
experiments are being made The plant, it is
said, may be cultivated as far north as the south
IN portion of New York.
1T An attempt was made on the evening of
the 18TH by party of citizens in the seventh
avenue, N. Y. city, to hang man named VIM.
Jordan. who had committed an Infamous out
rage upon little girl six years old the gallows
was erected and the rope was prepared when
the police interfered just in time to save his life.
BE is now in custody under the protection of
the police as the excitement against him is in
tense.
SALE OF FREE NEGRoEs.-We notice in the
portsn,o,fb /Io 4 TI.opSc,-;,,f m odvart;ear,au4