Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-03-10
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newspapers in Missouri.
Rss-The steamer Isaac Newton left New
York for Albany on the 9th.
par ESQ, 900 are to be borrowed to get
the Great Eastern to sen without delay.
h6yAThe slaves owned in the Southern
States number 1000, 600 aud their value in
money reaches the sum of 90, 600, 900, 600.
Rsy- Cut raw potatoe in half, and use
It instead Of a rag for securing knives. 1t
cleans them in less time, and is far better
than cloth,
nsy- The demand for Helpers book still
continues. His copy right has been yield.
ing him At the rate of $500 q week. 1t is
really the book of the age
RH~The steamer New York, the pioneer
of a new line of steamers between Boston
and southern ports, sailed from Boston for
Norfolk on the 7th.
hSy-The shoemakers strike is rapidly ex
tending into all the manufacturing towns of
Massachusetts. The last accounts state
that the strikers were orderly.
BS~ Seven of the twelve Republican pa.
pers of Kansas are said to prefer Mr.. Sew
ard for President, three Gov. Chase, and
two are silent.
neA. Bishop MeClosky has been confined
TO his residence at Albany ever since the
accident on the Hudson River Railroad
He will not be able to walk for several
weeks.
haE A large public meeting was held at
St. Michaeps Cathedral, Toronto, @. W.,
on the evening of the 7th, inst, to express
sympathy with the Pope. Over 1000 per-
sons were present.
Rg-A new steamer just built at Easton,
Pa. and starting on her trial trip on the
9th, exploded her boiler, making total
wreck, and killinga unmber of persons
how many is not yet known.
D@-The English lawyers attribute the
frequent Clopement of wives who have for
tunes settled upon them to the law which
allows the wife provision separate from
her husband.
pSrThe sum OF one hundred dollars per
evening is had for the use of Henry Ward
Beecher's church when secuIarly used.
Steep figures those BUTT holdsevery body,
and pays at quarter per head.
pgs. One of the big rattle snakes at a
museum at Peoria, ILL., died recently, hay-
ing lived Is months without taking any
food. He had been repeatedly tried with
various kinds of food, but has persistently
refused, aud died of starvation
BeS~ Some $4,000 votes were polled in
| . h. fb IN, oh ~ olo I
John Wentworth was the republican can.
didate, and the indications are, although
there has been heap of proaigate voting,
that the whole republican ticket has sue
ceeded by some 5 or thousand.
B5E The occasion for the visit, in June
next, of the Prince of Wales to the Cana.
das, is that he may put into its place the
last stone of the Victoria Bridge over the
St. Lawrence at Montreal, belonging to
and forming part Of the Grand Trunk Rail
way Of Canada.
peA. The president of the U. S. was wait
ed upon by Signor Lassara, minister from
Spain, en- grand costume, and presented with
an autograph letter from the Queen Of
Spain, announcing the birth of a daughter
Old Buck, felt the delicacy as well the
significance of the courtesy, but acknowl.
edged his inability to reciprocate.
Th0mails in a damaged state have beer
obtaAAea from the steamer Hungarian. ThC
good seSed and the wreck, are to be solo
on the l4th inst. Capt Shannon of the
Africa, lately arrived, says the Hungarian
had about lao passengers, which with {
crew of IA. make the whole number of soul
on board 2l4, not one of whom has escap
ed to tell the sad tale.
B9~Mrs. Cynthia P. Clapp, of Hartford
Connecticut says the COura9 of the 2Stl
ult., has brought suit against Mr.. j. L
Prosser, of that city, for breach of marriage
contract. Mrs. Clapp assesses her damage
at $685. 900. Ii is said that Mr.. Prosser il
worth about 100000, and is able to pa!
the claim if a jury think it worth tn
money.
ba~ On the morning of the 1st, Will
workmen were engaged in tearing dow
the Xavier Catholic Church, Cincinnati
the walls fell burying Is or 20 labor
ers. The accident it is said was caused b
an attempt to overthrow q wall twenty fee
high, one foot thick, and thirty feet wild
by undermining. The rain affected tn
foundation, and it unexpectedly fell in.
B0- A special edition of one of the Hor
Abraham Lincoln's speeches has been print
ed, and 90, 900 copies of it sent off Soat
under the frank of Mr.. Douglas. 1t bear
this caption Douglas an enemy to tn
North. Reasons why the North shou
oppose Judge Douglas His duplicity e1
posed. Speech of the Hon. Abraham Lin
coin of Illinois, delivered at Cincinnati
Sept 10. 1859"
B9rA curious case of spiritual manifesto
ton has lately transpired in WoodforC
A man full of spirits and spiritualism we
put into trance The being tarAnce med
um and they asked him to call up th
, spirit of his departed brother, which was
once done. The spirit said be wanted
} drink, aud the medium poured large tun
{ full of brandy. "There there !" exclaime
the mother, " that is my son, for that
! just the sized drink he used TO take whe
be was alive.
' EeA-tor year past a stringency that
one could account for has existed in III
Milwaukee city treasury. The credit OF Il