Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-02-18


at Am herst on the I'd 40 missionary to
Persia
e6- Father Cbinquy, the converted Cath
ole, has been ordained as a Presbyterian
minister, and his church is received into the
old school Presbytery Of Chicago
The editor Of Tie HinOis Mercury says
that we have found his paper a trip ham
mer.' No, but we have found its editor
ninny hammer.
THERE is local editor down east, 30
poor that he never stands on more than
one foot at q time, for fear that he may
wear out his boots.
R@- Henry Winter Davis, for his vote for
Pennington, has been burned in effigy by the
students of Georgetown (Catholic) college.
in the District of Columbia We imagine il
doesn't trouble him much.
pa~ Owen Brown, Francis J. Merriman.
and Jeremiah Anderson, have been indict.
ed by the grand jury in Virginia, for their
connection with John Browns Invasion
They were among the few who escaped.
B6-The two mates of the Spanish SLAYER
brought into Charleston, O.. s., have been
discharged, the U. S. commissioner deciding
that we had no power to hold them for trial.
Always happens so in oil the slave trade
cases.
RA- When Hickman had seen and hear d
Douglass disgusting exhibition in the
Senate, he quoted for the benefit of the by.
ISLANDERS: Upon thy belly shalt thou 90
and dirt shalt thou eat all the days of thy
| life"
R6g- The infant recently presented to her
loyal subjects by the Queen of Spain has
been christened, and received no less than
sixty-one names. None but scion of a
royal house could bear such baptismal
weight.
pa-The Minnesota legislature has enatep
that all foreclosures of mortgages in the
state, now pending, shall be stayed three
years. and another act fixed the rate of in
terest at per cent, all above ~ to be usury.
B6s- The Committee on Schools. in the
lower branch of our Legislature, have made
a very able report in defense Of the school
system, and against the proposition to ex-
PEND the school monies only in the counties
where the fund is raised, instead of pro-
rata.
B6s" The prince of comedians and the
chief among good fellows William Evans
| Burton died at his residence in New York |
city, few days since, after an illnesss of
some weeks, aged Sc years. He was born
in London, and being intended for the
church he received fine classical education. |
RSg~ The Rhode Island Exchange Bank |
at East Greenwich has failed, and the
cashier is a defaulter to the amount of
Of $4,000. The capital is sec, 1000 and |
the circulation $44 1000. He is also a de-
faulter to the Savings Bank in the same
town of which he is Treasurer, to the
amount of $4,000.
Ea~ The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad |
has just contracted for its coal at fifth nine
cents per ton 1t is such coal as is used on |
the Hudson River Railroad, at five dollars |
and half ton, which is estimated to be
twice as cheap as wood. The New York |
Central Railroad uses wood, for which it |
pays four dollars a cord.
BaS~ Advices from Bogota state that
the Catholic clergy had collected all the
bibles distributed by the London Bible So.
ciety and burned them in the public square |
The British Minister strongly protested |
against the proceedings, but Jones, the
American Minister, was present, counte.
nancing the outrage. A full statement of
the affair has been sent to Washington.
Rs~ few evenings since, fire was dis
covered in the blacksmiths' shop of the
Cleveland & Mahoning Railroad Company
on the west side of the river, near Unive
sity Heights This shop was consumed |
and the Repair Shop adjoining it was some
what burned The locomotives were got
out, aud the loss was not more than $500. |
No insurance
9~The peoples party of Delaware, pol
ling at the last election within hundred |
or so of the democratic vote, are much ex
cited on the question of sending delegates to
the Chicago convention, and thus becoming
Unidentified at once with the republicans |
The party appear to be considerably agi- |
tated on the subject, and the proprety of
the movement is warmly discussed
SS~Dr. H. c. BeardSlee, of our town, |
last week amputated the leg of young
man in Windsor, Ashtabula county, which |
was rendered necessary in a Singular manner
The young man had fever, which first set
tied on his lungs, afterwards went TO his
head, and finally settled in one of his feet
N W Nu0|'Cu IL Inab hnputdIlOn Oecdme
necessary PaiaesriUe Press.
There is a small Loc0foco editor in Ala |
bama named Campbell, who scenes to
think il his mission upon the earth to invent
new epi,hets Of abuse against the 0pposi- |
ton party When, in the olden time, the
difficulty ofa CamePs going through the eye
OF needle was spoken of, the breed of
Cames must have been vastly lnrger than |
that which now seems to flourish in Ala
bama.
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