Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-06-30
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two heavy gold watches appropriately orna.
mented. One is for the Embassador and
one for the Tycoon.
ray- The Merino wool crop of George
w. Kendall Of the New Orleans Picuyune.
from his ranch in Texas, amounts to Is. 900
pounds and has been sold entirely to
mill in Georgia.
pay- Col. James w. Ripley Of the ord.
nance corps is named as the most likely of
all the subordinate officers of the army to
be advanced to the vacancy created by the
death of Major General Jessup.
pA. The census takers find great diff.
cultp in ascertaining the ages of girls. a
large majority of them being only sixteen.
In one family there were found to be twelve
girls between ten and sixteen years of age.
n9.- A sporting man named Charles
Clark was arrested in Syracuse on Thurs
day, charged with stealing the clothes of
the wife of Mr.. Sturges, of Weedsport
Mrs. Sturges was in the clothes when they
were stolen.
Bay- A great many young ladies Of for
tune have, despite everything their parents
could do, entered converts these last seven
years ia France. No less than five con.
vents have been erected in Paris with the
fortunes Of heresses.
Bay~ A previous effort to reclaim fallen
women having proved successful, by putting
them in the care of Christian families in
Lorain county, Ohio, three more girls we're
last week induced to leave their haunts in
Cleveland, to commence life anew.
Har A pretty smart fellow writes to the
Madison Courier, that the Republicans
got the name of Black Republicans be-
cause they are in favor of keeping the Mig
ger black, in contradistinction to those
Democrats who are for making him yellow.
sa- The Turkish question is settled by
renewed pledge of the Ottoman Govern
ment to enforce the execution of its under
taking to protect its Christian subjects
from the atrocious brutality and fanaticism
of the Moslems.
rs- The U. S. steamer Walker was run
into lately, by an unknown schooner off
Cape Island, n. j., aud the steamer sunk
in thirty minutes. The captain, officers
and 40 men we're saved, but there are about
20 persons missing.
b9-A correspondent of the Montreal
Gazette, who seems to speak by authority,
ntimates that it is probable that the
Prince of Wales will extend bis Provincial
tour as far as Red River to "hunt Buff
! falo"
p9- Large numbers of whales have ap.
peared the present season off the Irish coast.
| On one occasion they were SO numerous
that several boats at the hoop herring
fishery had to leave the ground, tie crews
being afraid of the boats being capsized.
Dss~ Mayor Lincoln, of Boston, has re-
ceived dispatch conveying the positive in
telgence that the japanese Embassy will
remain in New York until it departs for
home, and cannot be prevailed upon to Wis
it Boston, or to brave the hospitality Of
any other American city.
nG. The last arrival of Mormon emf
grants for the season came to New York,
few days since, in the barque Tapscott
from Liverpool, some seven hundred strong
No more are expected this year, and the
emgrant books close up on some two thou
sand new comers.
reA- Three drunken men, having bit
of fight on the Hudson river railroad
track near Peekskill, n. Y, last week,
were run over and instantly killed. They
probably saw the train coming, but each
refused to be first to let go his clutch and
so all miSerably perShed together
E@- We presume says Prentice, there
are in Heaven some persons that commit.
ted theft, some that were guilty of profane
swearing, some that got drunk, some that
wore mOuStaches, and some that voted the
Locofoco ticket, but we guess there is no.
body there that didn't pay for his newspa'
per.
nA-The scales Of iron that accumulate
around the anvil of blacksmith's shop
are more valuable than manure for peach.
trees. A shovel full put around healthy
peach-tree will be very likely to keep it in
good condition, and it is said that trees al
ready diseased have recovered by the ap'
plication these scales.
BG5> The American Institute, at n. Y.
will not hold their usual mechanical exhi'
bition this fall, owing to the difficulty 10
procuring suitable building, They hope
next year to have permanent building oI
their own. A horticultural show will
however, take place under the auspices o.
the Institute, probably in September.
pea- The Bell and Everett party have
had bell weighing 1000 pounds cast, t.
be tOted about the streets for effect. This
IS worse than Juggling fence rails about
Ihre is something in the rails, because
'oId Abe did split 'em; but this poor prac
tical pun Of bell is irredeemably silly
1t means nothing at all.
pGA- The total amount Of appropriations
as passed by beth Houses is $45, SAB, 600
added to which will be the light house ap
preparation of six hundred and thirty seven
thousand, private bills of over one million
and for permanent appropriations eight
million one hundred and seventy-three thou
sand swelling the total for the next hSca
year to some lifty.fve million.
D9- The accounts of the new cottoI
crop are still very favorable. The weath
er is rather dry in some sections, but oT
the rich bottom lands an enormou
and an early product is promised. -
The total receipts of the old crop are nov