Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-03-24
sALMAGUNpI.
Ray~The bricklayers of New York are
to strikes for so per dav


combining to strikes for 50 per day.
b@-A wise man is like spring.lock al.
ways more ready to shut than open.
Bay-There are q hundred and sixty.fve
soldiers of the Revolution still living. The
youngest of them is eighty nine years old.
BsS-The Third District of New Orleans
is troubled with robid CANNES Scarcely q
day passes without the terrible cry of mad
dog p
RAJ What remarkable Autumn there
must have been, when Brutus so pointedly
remarked "What a fall was there, my
countrymen p
BG~The FIRST grain ever exported from
Canada was 10 the year 1852, when two
ships arrived at Marseiles latlen with
wheat.
B2g-Some thirty or forty of the most
enterprising colored people of Springfield
and jacksonville, Ill, arc making prepara-
tions to emigrate to Liberia this season.
Rsy-The whole chain of cities between
Albany and Chicago has declared in favor
of the Republican party. Eastward it will
vet be extended to the borders of New
Brunswick, aud westward to the Missouri.
By-The Pacific Steam Company, Of
Liverpool have had the period of their
charter extended for 81 years. Their feet
in the Pacific consists, at present, of nine
steamers, and three more are being built to
60 out
Hg~The great, little, charming opera
singer. Piccolomini is married to an italian
prince, a relative Of one Of the Pope's car.
dnals A crop Of melancholy suicides
among her crowd of ardent admirers in this
country is apprehended.
Ear Keenes Bath (England) Journal of
Feb 18th, contains this astounding intell-
gence "The President of the United
States is chosen at last. Mr.. Pennington
Republican, has been elected by major-
ty of one only.
nGs-In novel at Margate Library, this
passage was marked and much thumbed -
There is no object so beautiful to me as a
conscientious young man. | watched him
as | do a star in heaven" "'rhat is my
view-exactly," sighed Miss Josephine
Hoops, as she laid down the volume.
Ds9~"I wish" said slight and elegant
lady to her friend. whostc emboupOint is SO
strikugly handsome Il wish had some of
your fat, and you had some of my lean"
"I'll tell you, replied the fair wit. "wbat
is the father to that wish you think too
much of me, too little Of yourself"
Ray- Gov. Randall, of Wisconsin has
disbauded a military company called the
Union Guards, at Milwaukee, because theil
Commander, Capt Barry, had decard thai
in case of u conflict between the Genera
Government and the State he would obey
the former in preference to the State author
tiles.
Ra5~ Father Taylor, the eccentric anC
eloquent seaman's preacher, was once asker
where he thought Ralph Waldo Emerson
would go after he died. The witty olC
! man replied "The dear, good blessed
soul don't see in him any evidence O
, saving faith /; but then | don't know wha
Satan could do with him."
BD~ Notwithstanding the excitemen
which was aroused during the fall by tn
detection of Southern Medical Students il
5 the Philadelphia Colleges, the number o
graduates at the Spring commencement
compare favorably with that of former years
One hundred. and seventy students received
: their degrees at Jefferson Medical COLLEGE
} on the 18th, and of these one hundred am
5 tioentVthree were from Southern States.
EFEH An important suit, involving tn
4 title to the entire city Of San Francisco, i
! to be commenced in the Supreme Court a
! Washington, on the first Monday in pr
next. The claim is made under Mexca
grant made to Catholic priest, and th
case rests upon the question of the genuine
ness Of the grant There is formidabl
army Of. eminent lawyers on the side of th
claimants.
Ca Notwithstanding Macaulays repu
tation for conversational powers, he appear
to have uttered few JOnmots, to have mad
few conversational points which are repeate
D and Remembered One of the very few goo
: stories current of him is the following |
is said that he met Mrs. Beecher Stowe a
F Sir Charles Trevelyan'S and rallied her o
her admiration Of Shakespeare. "WhicI
of his characters do you like best 7" said he
"Desdemona," said the lady. "Ah, G
course" was the reply" for she was th
: only one who ran after black man.
DR.. Scudder, who for many years has bee
in the East Indies, as missionary, says tha
the Hindoo holy books date as far back a
: AGO years before Christ. The immensit
of their compilations on almost every i'm
! asinable subject, is marvellous, The
write with great rapidity even with thei
materials he had known school-boys to re
port sermon as fast as the missonar
could deliver it. Their language is yer
= melodlous some Of the poetry rhymes q
' both ends of the lines.
Occasional" writes to the Philadelphi
Press thus Hon. Frederick p. Stanton
now OF Kansas, has announced his dete
D mination to take ground for the Republ
E can candidates in Connecticut. This is h
first open declaration in that way, and tn
subject is deeply regretted by some of b
most intimate friends. He seems to hay
given up all hope that Charleston will d
right, and therefore identified himself wit
8 the general Opposition.
A deacon, residing in this county, VIII
: was acting in the capacity of a colportC
. called 10 shop in Windsor, where the
!, had dry-gouds, groceries, hardware, notion