Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-03-17
SALMAGUNpI.

BS-A new 6re.proof mill Is to be erected
on the site of the recent terrible disaster at
Lawrence.
neA..Four hundred application were made
for ten cadetsbips at the disposal of the
President.
paS-Oue Of the last discoveries of the
application of the Daguerrean art is that
Of the transfer of Photographic portraits to
porcelain surfaces.
psy-The widow Of the gallant and eccen.
trio COL David Crockett, died lately in John.
son Co. Texas, of Opoplexy, in her 74th
year.
NARA merchant who lived at Baton
Roure. La and who was once worth $3.50
600. was arrested for vagrancy last week
having, in five years gambled away his for.
tune.
E5y-The Charleston Conrier REPORTED
that Dan Sickles had experienced religion.
1t is now said that the paper will be sued
for libel as such report woud iniure his
chances for success in his Congressional
District.
peA-Tho eight pallbearers at the funeral
of the late Stephen Whitney, of New York,
represented an aggregate capital of SO 800,
600, and the mourners all counted their
wealth by Gfties and hundreds of thousands
Rsr The National Republican Committee,
in changing the time for holding the Chica.
90 Convention, fixed upon the 9th day of
May as the time. This day happens to be
the birthday of WM. IL. SEWARD.
p9..The Scaffolding which surrounds the
new custom-house at New Orleans. cost
fifty thousands dollars. The money already
expended on this building gamounts to $4,000.
600, and it will require 1000, 900, more to
complete it.
kg~It seems to be settled that the second
daughter of Queen Victoria, the Princess
Alice. is TO have as q husband the youur
Prince of Orange. The marriage is to take
place on the anniversary of the Queens birth.
day, on the oath of May next.
RE-The damming of ice in the ST. Law
renee River, below Cornwall, lately, pro-
duced the greatest rise of water above that
point ever known. The river rose some
twenty-five or thirty feet above its summer
mark.
ES~The Montreal Gazette believes it is
determined by the Government to put in
the estimates sum of 20 ,OOO for the pur-
pose of great exhibition to be held in that
city on the occasion of opening the Victoria
Bridge.
n@.Dr. Hayes has already had more
than fifty applications from persons whish-
ing to Join his new Arlic exploration but
he will go in schooner of 100, tons aud
can accommodate but twelve men. He ex-
poets to be absent for two years and o
half.
BSS~'The death of Mr.. Boxer has revived
the gossip relative to his daughters mar
rage 1t appears that the young lady
made no unfortunate choice, so far as her
happiness was concerned. John Dean is
an affectionate and worthy husband. He
retains his cerkship in the Costom House.
has a comfortable home in Brooklyn, avoids
notoriety, is steady, upright, and in every
way good citizen.
Gg5~The Hon. CLARK B. CoCHRANE NJ. G..
from the Montgomery District of n. York,
has returned to the State Asylum at Utica,
after a brief visit to his family His friends
hope for bis ultimate recovery, but it is not
thought probable that he will resume his
seat in the House.
s1~The number of students in attend
ance at the Oberlin College, this Spring is
unusually large. We learn from the Treas,
urer that about $50 have already joined,
besides large number cf the members of
regular classes, who have not yet returned.
These will swell the aggregate to at least
800-a larger number than can be found in
any other school in America.