Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-09-17

Of their sales last year was immense, and we un
derstand their arrangements for the present sea
son are not less extensive. Blackberres have
been sold, az least Of the cultivated kinds, at a
higher price than Strawberries. We think they
are likely to maintain their reputation.
Whenever the price sinks below the price of
strawberries, they may be made into wine with
profit
Esg- President Van Buren is writing
his Life and Times"
BSy- A man with carrotty hair, which
prevailed in his family for several genera
tions, describes it as being hereditary.
Bay- Last week l,0G0 foreign emigrants
arrived in the New York. The total num-
Der of arrivals since December is 90, 7S9.
BGy~ There was lately on exhibition in
Sidney, Australia, a set of horse shoes
made of native gold, weighing twenty-four
ounces, anG worth $500. They were made
for favorite pony in New South Wales.
To- There is now in operation in the U.
States one mile of railway to every 1000
inhabitants in England, one to every q
500, and in the whole of Great Britain, one
to every 5000 inhabitants.
EGy- A poultice of bruised horse-radish
has given relief in cases of neuralgia. a.
simple remedy for a painful and distressing
malady, for which heretofore, nothing has
proven a specific.
RGy~ 1t is estimated that one fourth of a
million of sheep have been brought into Tex.
as from Mexico since the first of January
last exclusive of those imported from Ten
nessee, Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas.
nay P. T. Barnum has made beautiful
artificial lake in East Bridgeport, Conn, q
mile long and one-eighth of mile in width.
upon the banks of which he intends to build
a new Iranistan.
RGr A California paper says a miner
named Gibson took out of his sluces on Coy
ote Creek near Vallecito, a serentO ounoe
lump of gold mixed with quartz. After sep
arating there were forty ounces ofpure gold
psS- A large body of land-S2, 900 acres
dolp, and Pendleton, Va, has been sold for
$50, 900, or 80 cents per acre, to a North
ern Emigration Company whose design is
to settle upon it.
BSg~ The General Agent for the West
ern States, of the famous Ktna Insurance
Company, of Hartford, is said to receive a
compensation in commissions, amounting
annual to from twenty-five to thirty thou
sand doIlars-more than the salary of the
President of the United States.
BSy~ The following question was address
ed to lsndlady by an eccentric genius.
Stepping into the door he observed, "Will
you, mama, give me drink of water, for
am so hungry don't know where to stay
to night" We doubt whether more mea-
ming could be embodied in so few words
BJ- The Boston Atlas & Bee says that
the Inauguration of the Webster Statue
on the l7th inst, will be a general holiday,
as it is the anniversary of the settlement
of the modern Athens. The oration, by
Mr.. Everett, upon which be has been en-
gagged for some time, will be thu master
piece of his life.
pSg~ A gentleman from Vicksburg, who
visited st Louis in company with his wife
last week, with the intent of making some
investments in steamboat stock, has beer
turned from his purpose by the elopemen
of his wife with another man, the lady tax
ing $4,000 out of the family pile as her por
ton. The indignantsouthron thinks north
ern air has a bad effect upon nggers ant
wives
E6- A fellow who wanted a Job ofsprinll
ling a street in Troy, n Y, and was refused
on account of his exorbitant price, got 8
pair of horses and "exercised" them at ful
speed up and down the street for about al
hour, raising cloud Of dust, and compelling
every one in the neighborhood to close thei
windows and go to busting.
B1~ When the sultan of Turkey wanted
sixty millions piasters TO ray the expenses
of royal trip to Egypt with his family last
summer, and his minister couldn't find it il
the treasury, he put the whole squad of of
ficias on half pay for one month and so rails
ed the wind. He probably found his exam
pie in this country
B9g- The Miwaukie News tells of citi
zen who returned home after an absence o
five years, and fonnd his family of two child
ren doubled in number, the fourth being
quite young. He looked at his wife, ther
at the babies, and back and forth from one
to the other for full five minutes then broke
with l." Vel, Mary, for a small a0oman
Without help, yOa're raised children amazing
y"
Bs5- The following is specimen of tht
discussions which attend the campaign meet
ings in California
Mr. Cabiness-HaVe not the Supreme