Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-07-30

BSs~ Inc Dayton journal says That the
train going West on Monday night met
with serious accident in the deep cut near
New Paris. The great heat caused an ex-
pansiou of the rails, so that they were rails
ed from their fastenings, making bend in
the track. The engine and tender passed
safely over, but two of the passenger ears
were thrown off against the side Of the
cut, and a good deal broken up. Four or
five passengers were Injured but not serious
ly.
BS9- La me !" sighed Mrs Partington,
"here have been suffering the bigamies OF
death for three mortal weeks. First was
seized with bleeding phrenology in the
left hampshire of the brain, which was ex-
ceded by stoppage Of the left ventilator
of the heart. This gave me the infama-
tion of the borax, and now Pm sick with
the chloroform morbus. There is no bless
ing like that of health, particularly when
you're sick"
R2s- The Episcopal Chaplain at Fort
Laramie has been allowed to preach gos-
pei sermon in the Mormon temple at Salt
Lake. The usual congregation Of Saints"
was present and gave the Chaplain a re-
spectful hearing. At the close of the SER
mon, Bishop" Kimball and Brigham
Young spoke-the latter in warm commen-
dation of part of the Chaplain'S sermon.
BD- The papers by the last steamer say
that it is reported that the various British
ocean mail steamer companies are ordered
to prepare for the change in the contracts
which stipulates that they shall carry arm
aments, being put 10 force. The vessels are
ordered to carry heavy guns, and the no.
tice is said to have, therefore, met with
some remOnstrance.
Ba5- Jefferson county, Texas, has no Jail,
in lieu of which persons sentenced to con-
fnement are fastened night and day, to a
rock in the public square by chain at
tached to the ankle. If the prisoners Of
fence is light, or be has previously borne a
good character, he is allowed an umbrella
to protect himself from the sun and rain.
B9% The Kansas constitutional conven-
tion has voted, 28 to 81, to to give women
the same voice in school matters as men !;
that in all school elections and the exer-
else of all the duties of school officers there
shall be no distinction between women and
men. All the IT democrats voted against
the women.
B9- Francis A. Mafit, son of the late
Rev. John Newland Maffit, the eloquent but
erratic revival preacher, who aourished in
the West some years ago, died in the Jail
at st. Louis on Sunday night last, in an
apoplextic fit. He was awaiting trial on a
charge Of forgery.
B9- The Association of Unitarian Cler-
gymen, alumni of the Cambridge UniVer-
sity have refused to pass resolution of
coincidence for Rev. Theodore Parker, who
is graduate of the school. This is tes-
timony of repugnance to his rationalstic
theology.
R0~ Mons, Blondin has decided to cross
the Genesee River, at Rochester early in
August, and on new rope, procured ex-
pressly for the purpose. He has consent
ed TO walk the rope at Niagara again, for
the last time. on the Sd Of August.
BS- Dr. Bedell, we are happy to learn,
says the Church Journal of the 25th, ac-
cepts the Assistant Bishopric of Ohio, aud
his resignation of the rectorship Of Assem-
sion Church was received by the vestry on
the 18th inst.
bD- Bayard Taylor is going to San
Francisco to deliver four lectures before the
Mercantile Library Society. He will be
absent three months, and will lecture in
other cities in the Golden State
B4- The Rev. Henry B. Whipple of
Adams, n. Y, has formerly accepted the
Bishopric Of Minnesota. He will, on his
conservation in Richmond, Va, next Octo-
Der, be the youngest Bishop in America.
B6s- John Cobb, young man Of ls,
was hung lately at Atlanta, Georgia, for
shooting Iibertine who had seduced his
sister. He was poor and lacked position.
pO- d. E. Sickles was acquitted of the
murder of Key, and has again rented a
house in Washington.
B6r Gen. Tom Thumb arrived at bis
home in Bridgeport on Saturday. He
means TO stay at home hereafter.
bdg- Mp. Willis terms building railroads
alongside river courses, 'Italicising the
sweetest passage of nature