Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-05-12
SALMAGUNDI.

Re4.Prvate advices from Japan confirm |
the reported death of Townsend Harris, |
United States Minister at Yeddo.
The Kentucky Legislature offer q reward
of 81 900 for cure for the hog cholera
now prevailing in that State.
EkG~The Postmaster Genaral of Canada
has abolished the postage on American ex-
changes going into that province.
B6TMr Collins Dodge, of Painesville,
Ohio, killed fourteen Blue Racer snakes, in
few minutes, all found in one locality in
all Fifty feet of snakes. .u
H%A New Orleans surgeon complains,
through the newspapers, that he has been
in attendance at fifteen duels where nobody
vas hurt.
H@-There is young woman living in AL
stead, n. H., who weighs over 100 pounds,
and she takes about twenty yards of calico
| for q dress
B@- Mrs Bnrdel Cunningham and family
we're passengers by the last steamer from
New York to Aspnwall, en- route for Cali
fornia.
@-Rev DR.. Hitchcock, of Amherst
College, has received the merited honor of
an election to the Imperial Geological In
stitute of Austria.
BJ~ ~Newton's nephew was a clergyman,
When he had performed the marriage cere.
mony for a couple he always refused the fee
saying-"Go your ways, poor wretches ; l
have done you mischief enongh already"
DG~ Mr. Booth, of Milwaukee, who is in
prison in default of paying a fine for Vioat.
ing the Fugitive Slave Law, it is rumored
is to receive a pardon in few days. So
says the Milwaukee Seatiu&
uka.In the District of Erris, County
Mayo, Ireland 10000 people are said to be
in state of absolute destitution, and the
able bodied of both sex are running with
their lives from the famine-stricken locality.
peA-The steam locomtive lately invented
at Hannibal, Mo-, has added to its useful
functions the power to drive plow. The
owners have already been engaged to
"breake up 1000 acres of land in Macon
County.
bI~The cedar fences in East Tennessee
are feature that would surprise an orthern
farmer friends. There are fences, standing
sound and true, that have been built for
Such are the virtues of cedar.
B9- Recently some articles in drug store
at Ithaca were burned by the concentrated
rays of the sun passing through glass globe
filled with liquid. This shows how easily
fires may occur which are charged to incen-
diaries.
B9~It is related that the japanese
| 81 h.. la 81, ktt.
Sandwich Islands wearing crinoline, actually
! filled the immense skirts. They roared on
finding out the mistake. Mrs. aud Miss
Japan don't indulge in crinolne.
B0~ An imposter at Charleston, who,
for two or more days, had been admitted
to share the good living of the delegation
at st. Andrews's Hall, upon the suppositon
that he was zone of EN-" was finally detect
ed aud committed to the work-house in de-
fault of $50 bail.
BE- Russia has found q commercial opeC-
ing for her stores of ice. A line of vessels
on the Caspian now carry that commodity
to the port Bender BuSchir, to the great
refreShmeHt of all Persia, where sherbets
and the tap and ice have more worshipers
than fire.
The Richmond enquirer states that a
contract has been made by merchants in
that city for the construction of two cotton
ships for the Liverpool trade each to be 500
tons, and to cost S8l 900. One will be built
in Richmond and another in Baltimore.
The Company propose to build four
p1-A At the present rate of consumption
of coal the State Of Pennsylvania alone, it
is said, would meet the demand for more
than three thousand years AT double the
present call for coal, North America would
supply the demand for tt0saty thousand
gears.
b1-Danel Pratt, Jr., "The Great Am
erican Traveller" challenges Rev Henry
Ward Beecher, Rev. Edwin III. Chaplin,
aud Andrew jackson Davis, to meet him-
oratorcally, didactically, polemicalIy, and
Otherwise-to decide in the presence of an
immense audience, (which is the smartest
man in all points of view"
The Chicago Press contains letter dated
Fort Simpson, Mackenzie River, Hudson
Bay Company Territory, NoV. 10th, from
Mr.. Robert Kennicott, who is on an ex.
pedition to the Arctic regions. Mr. Kenni-
colts route, after striking Lake Winnepeg,
was to Lake Athabasca, thence to Great
Slave Lake, thence down Mackenzie River
to Fort Simpson.
DB-A popular preacher tells the follow.
ing story as rebuke TO those christians
who are too indolent to perform the duties
required OF them by their faith. He says
that one pious getleman composed very
ierVent prayer, wrote it out legibly, and
affixed the manuscript to his bed post.
Then on cold nights be- only pointed 70 the
document, and with tho words, "Ob, Lord,
these are my sentiments blew out the
Hight aud nestled amid the blankets.