Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-08-20

the day Of the State election
The GuBERNAriRAL DEBArEs.--'rhe Chair
man Of the State Central committees have
changed the time OF the discussions between
Messers DEENIsoN and RAEEEY at Cleveland, to
Thursday, September 18th.
pa- 1t costs New York something to
analyze the stomachs of persons who have
been murdered by poison. A day or two
since at a meeting of the Board Of Super
visors, DR. Doremus sent in bills amount
ingto $4,4l5, for services in making chem
ical analyses in the cases of Mrs Stephens,
Mrs. Betham, and Fayette Robinsou--un
average of one thousand four hurried and
saventy-one dollars and sixty.six cents per
stomach, which would, in the country, be
considered a fair price.
R9- The Springfield Republican con-
tains an amusing account of Mr.. Masons
Court lntroductions at Paris 1t is said
that on one occasion last Spring thirty of
our countrymen were paraded in at once.
Arrayed n Court dresses they stood like
servants in liverv, in sem-circe the EN-.
peror enters the reception chamber Mr..
Mason bows, aourshes his hand, and says,
MY countrymen, your Majesty )" all bow;
Emperor mods and turns TO some one else !;
countrymen exennt
R2- A skeleton of a whale found oil the
line of The Rutland & Burlington Railroad,
VI, has been exhibited to the Scientific
Association late in session at Springfield
1t was found many huudred feet above the
sea, which is conclusive that the ocean
once rolled over the Green Mountains
This skeleton belongs to the State cabinet
of Vermont.
B@- The new Kentucky legislature is
divided as iollow:-Senate. % democrats,
l5 opposition; House, go democrats, 40
opposition. There being no choice for
member Of Congress II the 4th district, in
consequence OF tie vote, the selection
between the two candidates is to be deter
nnued by lot, that being the law of the
state.
ReH~ A young man, II years Of age, shot
himself fin ft ofpaSsion, at Norwalk, Conn,
Aug. l3. Ii is rumored that he had been
maddened by the just rebukes and expost-
ulations of his father and family because
of improprleties in his conduct. The Ga
zstte, however, denies the passionate part of
the story.
B@- A letter from Niagara Falls says
that where the Suspension Bridge original
ly sagged only two or three inches under
the weigh of train, it sags now nearly
twenty inches. The general impression u
the neghborhood is that the great work of
art will be one of these days give way and
fall into the river
BF~ A church, a court house, hotel
and several smaller buildings in Lawrence,
a aourishlng manufacturing village of Mas
sachusetts, were destroyed by fire yesterday
afternoon. Another church was partially
consumed. Three men were killed by the
falling walls of the hotel The total loss
is estimated at $3.50, ,O0O
BE~ SIGNIFIcANT.-Itis is significant fact,
that of the thirteen Senators from the north
ern States who voted for The repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, in 1854, only Que yet
reinainS in the Senate. Mr. Douglas is left
standing alone, like a tomb stone to mark
the political grave of his contederates in
that conspiracy against freedom
RaS- Nothing is heard of any Jne being
arrested for the railroad murders at the
Scbagtieoke bridge, on the Northern Rail-
road, some week or two since. The cor
oner'S JURY found that the company was
directly cupable, inasmuch as the bridge
had been rotten for long time and that
the employees in charge knew it.
R0~ Several gigantic tunnels are to he
constructed parallel with the Thames. at a
depth of forty feet (in the deepest point)
under the level Of the streets 1t viii take
five years to execnIe the works. the cost of
which are estimated at 0,0O0. 900; hut
once completed, London will be etfectually
drained
B9-Professor Maury, of The National
Observatory has been invited by The Drec.
tors Of the Atlantic Telegraph Company,
TO form one Of the consulting committee to
investigate aud advise the Directors as to
the best arrangement of the external form,
specific gravity, and electrical construction
of the next cable.
B6- The Paris correspondent of the Lon.
don Star, says the Rothschilds are about to
wind up business and retire from the finan,
cial world. Commenting upon this, the
New York Herald says: Tney have seen
in the new order of things, that they eau
no longer maintain their position, and there
fore retire"
ASS- The Patent Office having obtained
seeds of the cork tree from Europe, sent
several packages last year to California
which possesses climate similar to France
and Spain, where it aourshes. These seeds
were planted at Sonora, and about 81 pei
cent. of them have come up, aud give
promise Of becoming stately.
| Ia La Austria, no man is allowed to
marry who can't write bis name If such
law were enacted in this country the
breed Of democrats, at least of legitimate
ones, would pretty nearly run out in sumo
sections.
RsS- A London letter afirms that, al
though KoSsuth went to The French camp,
the French officers deny that he had All in.
tervew with The Emperor, or received en-
couragemenI of any kind.
b4- Most Of the New Jersey Americans
are consolidated with the republicans In