Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-06-18


~ Mr. Sumner b,s arrived 10 Paris in good
spirits ard looking well.
9sg- The London popers announce the arrival
Of senator Seward Of New York at Fenton's
hotel in that city, the 2Sth ult
gs- George w. Kendall, the old Picayune
editor, is proposed iu some Of the Texas papers
for governor of that state.
as- The drain of specie to Europe in May
was the greatest ever made in a single month ;,
reaching nearly twelve millions dollars or full
three times our production.
as- Dempster refused to pay $40 for IL
cepse to sing at Detroit, but advertised a free
coucert While he was singing the officers came
10 and tried to arrest him, but the audience pre-
vented it, and music proved stronger than the
law.
eg- Since his oration in North Carolina, Che
president is said to have "molli6ed his determi-
alton" against denomination, aud the placemen
and hangers on at Washington begin to speak
freely of the necessity for his denomination.
Gs-The Spiritual Age predicts that as people
become more spiritual and seek to live true
lives, single beds will come into vogue Fudge
If the apostles Of progress can be kept out
OF other folks beds it is all that can be reason
ably expected.
as- Another $4,000 installment of the
Mount Vernon purchase has been paid, ard
there is now only 10000 more to be paid. Be-
sides this the ladies want $4,000 more to re-
store the diapidated grounds.
Gs- A lad named Henry Freeman, some IL
years old, raa towards passing train, at Graft
on, Ohio, and stopped close to the rail, making
faces at the engineer who was beckoning him
of, when the engine hit him and took his head
completely of.
51~ Gov Wright of Indiana, minister to Ber-
lin, treats his visitors to buckwbeat cakes and
molasses for breakfast, rents church for Prot
estant service in English, conducts Bible class
himself and leads 10 meeting when there is no
minister.
GS- The cornfelds in some parts of Illinois
are being sadly damaged by rats. The corn
cribs being empty, the rats have betaken them
selves in large bodies to the fields, where they
dig below the stalks and eat the kernels, thus
running large tracts. Large numbers have been
killed one farmer having slaughtered HOO, and
another 200.
GS~ The government has sent an agent to
Dacotah, with orders to build dozen houses,
establish saw and planning mill, and break up
and cultivate thousand acres of land for the
benefit of the Yankton Indians, and to persuade
them to settle down into civilized life.
H9- A company of % Indianiuns returning
from Pixies Peak rescued young girl from
party of Mormons they met in Iowa, aud took
her back to Iowa City. The Mormons were
fifty strong and showed fight, but the Pixies
Peakers stood up boldly, and as the girl was
decided in her choice to return with them, they
took her and her baggage.
~ John Underwood of Virginia, who was
fined $3.50 for speaking against slavery, was
supported by some of his neighbors in the late
election as candidate for the legislature, and
in the town Of Occoqua received sc votes
against 81 for the democratic candidates. His
fine has been remitted by the circuit court on
appeal
Gs~ An extraordinary marriage in high life
has occurred at w Washington-Signor Buckigna-
ni an Italian dancing master Of the green young
age of %, to the celebrated Mrs. Margaret L.
Eaten, of the green old age Of 60. She will be
recollected as the widow of Gen. Jackson's Sec
retary of war, and always brilliant ornament
to the fashionable society at Washington.
gzs- The pope wasn't polite to ex-presdent
Pierce when he was at Rome, and went to St.
Peters of Sunday Although seats were Sc
cured for the ex-king of Prussia, the ex-queen
of Spain, the diplomatic corps, and other dis
tinguihed strangers, there was none for the ex-
president, and no one paid him the least atten-
tion except the courier of Mr.. VIM. Beach Law
renee, who succeeded in getting him place
somewhere among the crowd.
~ The opposition citizens of Richmond,
Va, purpose presenting William L. Goggin,
their late candidate for governor, with splen-
did carriage and span of horses, and to Mrs.
GOggn magnificent silver plate. Politicians
are not allowed in these days the melancholy
satisfaction of sacrificing themselves for their
country the defeated democrats are gathered
under the wings of the national administration,
and the opposition candidates are consoled by
the people.
WEBsTER's DIcTIoNARY-Where tciH ii stop?
We have had copy of the new pictorial edit
ton for some weeks on our table, and have ex-
amined it with care. 1t is certainly remark