Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-03-31
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No. CbiefJustice Taney was SO years
old Ou st. Patrick's day.
RTThe great revival In ireland has re.
suited in the conversion Of more than 100.
600 persons
BNrThe loss TO the English underwriters
by the ill.fsted steamer Hungarian, is rated
at $150,000 on cargo alone.
Bar Forest, il is said, has expended over
$4,000 in the fruitless attempt to free
himself from his wife.
ne-The Colonization Society is prepar.
ing TO send out pioneer colony 10 a new
region--the YorubG country.
p@-It is reported that A. T. Steward
the dry goods merchant, has been taken
to the insane asylum.
n~John Brown is the name Of dele.
gate to Charleston, selected by the Demo.
Gratis of Hillsdale, Michigan. We wonder
il be will be admitted.
peA-Not q day passes but the grave of
Senator Broderick, in the Lone Mountain
Cemetery" near San Francisco, is strewu
with flowers
p6r Greenwood Cemetery was founded in
June. 1850, and from that month up the
29d nlt., 69,O4O bodies have taken up their
residence in the silent city.
R6rSome of the Sufferers by the bonn
bardment of Greytown are trying to get
a commission appointed to inquire into and
report upon the losses sustained 10y them.
p9~The average consumption Of coffee
| L III. IF ha =
eight lbs per aHnum, Of tea one pound, aud
of sugar thirty pounds.
bA-The Commissioner of Patents an.
nonnces that the Agricultural Department.
will have nothing to distribute for some time,
except tea plants.
VISA Washington correspondent of the
Richmond Examiner states positively that
oil the North Carolina delegates TO Charles
ton are pledged for Mr. Hunter of Virgi.
MIA.
ReA-It is rumored that Lieut. Bartlett
has challenged Gen. Morris, one Of the edit.
ors of the Home Journal, in consequence of
remarks in that paper recently touching the
wedding.
nA-The war with Morocco is estimated
to have cost Spain $25, ,00O, 900, and 49,
900 lives, for which she has conquered q
city not worth the keeping. So declare her
own journals.
EB-The artificial breeding of fish has
recently been successfully attempted in Can.
ada, Parliament passed fishery act two
years ago. and appointed two Superinten-
dents of fisheries.
Ra-We have heard Of asking for bread,
and receiving a stoue but yonng gentle
man may he considered as still worse treated
when he asks for young lady's hand, aud
gets her fathers boot.
RdrIn conformity with new regulation,
the poSt.Ofice in Canada will soon he closed
on Sundays. The order has not yet been
issued, but its speedy PRONUNCIATION is au-
thoratively announced.
D0- Barnum is said to be entirely released
from his liabilities, and the public are re-
9uested to look out for something extraor-
dinary. We hope it will take some other
form than Joice Heath or the Woody Horse
d-An act exempting from attchment
one sewing machine of value not exceed.
ing $780, in actnal use by the debtor or
family Of the debtor, has become law VI
Massachusetts,
p6~ Among the late California items is
a statement that Col Fremont is sending
down from his mills, to San Francisco, a
"chunk of gold about the size of Phia-
delphia brick" every week.
D0-The Alabama Legislature has passed
law compelling northern insurance com.
panies TO pay $500 to each town in the slate
in which they effect insurance. 1t amounts
TO prohibition.
G9- The cost of Mason's Investigating
Committee, before which he dares not call
the boaSting saddle-bsgs Wise to testify,
will probably be a cool 100000 to Uncle
Sam
R6~ What fine head your boy has, said
an admiring friend Yes" said the fond
father; she's chip of the old block; amt
you, sonnyY" II guess so, daddy, cause,
teacher said yesterday was q Young block,
head"
BkS- A poor fellow says: "In an evil
hour l became addicted to strong drink.
From that moment / have been going
down, until have become an outcast--a
loafer-a thing of no account; ft for moth
ing else but to be member OF Congress-"
BE-The Great Eastern seems to be Toos.
ing the confidence Of tie British capitalists
! The company who propose to borrow $500,
600, can only do it by issuing new shares
OF preferable stock, guaranteeing the ex
horbitanI interest Of l7s per cent. on it.
n@- The shoemakers' strike al Hayerhil
has collapsed. The jours. had gone &c
, work, and the President of the organiza
tion, with the other traders have resigned
f in disgust, after denouncing the strikers fol
not holding out.
b8-The Republicans Of Hartford, Ct.
are erecting ncamp-tent," one hundred by
; seventy feet, ten feet wider than the FRE
MONT camp of 1885, and capable of seating
1000 persons, with standing room 70
about 1000 more.
a n9-The legislature of Maine has ineor
. poru'ed company to be called the "Main
i Steam Road Carriage Company, giviDl
: them the exclusive right to make use o
: steam IN propelling carriages over highways
1 IN the State, for twelve years.