Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-04-14
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via OSwego aud the Welland Canal
MA. About 400 cases and bales Of cargo
have been taken from the wreck OF the steam.
ship Hungarian within the last few days.
pa- The experiment Of publishing dai.
" illustrated comic paper in New York is
to be tried.
ng- The New Orleans papers say that
Marin and his sons have been released from
custody, giving bail in the sum of So, 900.
pea- An attempt was recently made by
the Deputy Marshal to arrest Capt. Mont.
gomery, but was successfully resisted
ren- Fanny Fern says there are two
things woman cannot do, namely, sharp.
en- a lead pencil, )" "nor do up bundle"
Rag.One Of the newly bored salt wells at
Grand Rapids, Mich, begins to show symp.
toms of petroleum, or rock oil.
nsy-In the United States there are about
500 600 Jews, while there are in all Eng.
land only $4,000.
Ray- King Victor Enamel has inst
entered his 4lst year, having been born on
the l4th of March, 1920.
nay- Fine scarlet crimson. or purple silk
stockings are the latest caprice among Eng.
lish and French ladies, aud are said to be
very distiRgae
Rsy- On Saturday morning last, about
ten O'Clock the south wing Of the Cleve-
land Institute, on University Heights was
burned. Fully insured.
pSy-Over 80 cases of insanity in the
Ohio Lunatic Asylum have been traced
directly to the use of modern alcaholic
poisons.
nsg-Mr Gabriel Ammons, says the Liber.
ia Africa) Herald, of Liberia, has sixteen
acres of hourishing cotton, ripening daily,
February lst some of which he was already
picking. ...... ...
pas A printing Office and lithographic
establishment has recently been formed. for
the first time, in Greenland, and work
published by it has just made its appear
ance.
nSg- Information from southern Kansas
gives rise to serious apprehension of trou-
ble in Linn and Bourbon counties, grow
ing out of alleged violations of the amnes-
ty arrangement.
R9y~ Preparations are already making
for The religions anniversaries in New York,
which will commence a fortnight earlier
this spring than uSual--that is to say about
the middle of the present month.
R9y- The Toronto Globe thinking that
the Herald is hard up for candidate for
the Presidency-James Buchanan, Gen.
Scott, and others having failed him-reC-
ommeud that he take up the Prince OF
! Wales
Dsl- II is stated that anonymous letters
have been addressed to Mr. Covode, threat
ening him and Mr.. Sherman with assassina,
tion unless they desist from their nves,
tigation into the official acts of Mr.. Bu
| chanau
pa The Boston transcript says, "Mas
sachusettS pays more postage, has more
newspapers and journals than any State oil
the same size in the Union. One-6fth OF
the entire sum raised by taxation for public
schools in the United States is paid by this
| Commonwealth.
Es1AA At a jubilee at Brnyton's factory, il
North Adams, Mass, last week, Mr.. Bray
ton remarked that when he opened bis mi
in 1882, wages for girls we're AZ cents 6
week and calico cost 81 yard. Now some
Of his girls earn Sc week, and calico il
sold for cents yard.
Ra-The National Convention of th,
Young Mems Christian Association occur
this year at New Orleans on the llth o
April. We observe the statement that thu
Mayor Of Troy will give the delegates frou
that city passports and certificates of char
acter, to save them from annoyance a
Northern men among the chivalry.
Ras- The New York Times after a care
ful estimate Of the next Census, compute
that New York will loose three Represen
tatiVes that every part Of the South vii
loose largely except Texas, and that thu
Northwest, the only part which will gain
will have fifteen more Representatives thai
now.
BeaD Collector SchelI, of New York, ha
been before Coyode's Investigating Com
mittee, and testifeS that he paid out abou
thirty thousand dollars to elect Buchanan
He did not produce the names of Subscri
bers to this fund, and it is thought he ma
yet be required to do so.
reap Very extensive ruins of an ancien
city have been discovered in New Mexico
ninety miles northeast of Fort Stanton
They are said to rival in magnitude Of arch
teclural decoration the gigantic ruins {
Thebes and Palmyra They were evidentl
built by warlike race.
BsI" 4 Frenchman who had Travelled
good deal in this country, being asked ho'
he liked the country, answered 30
liks zee countree yer mouch mais it ee
yer fonny. In my countree zere is vun re
ligion and great many soup I; mais in u
counlree zere is ony vun soup and yer man
religion
B1s- A slave near Vicksburgh, on som
slight proyocaton, killed female slave
, and then fled to the woods. He was caught
= by The aid of dogs, taken to the owneI
! plantation, where a number OF nelghbol
were aud who decided to burn him on tn
spot, which was done. The slave died cur
ing, his last words being that he would tax
vengeance on them in hell.
BsA. The civic officials in Virginia al
not altogether immaculate. 1t is stated
+ an oficlol report from the auditors ofic
that there were but eighteen out OF Oh
NE. H. n