Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-28
PEN AND PASTE BREvITlEss

EJ-In Danbury, Conn, deaf and dumb mar
has started shoe shop and all his workmen art
deaf and dumb.
ESMr. Seward having purchased an iceberg
and secured The refusal of an earthquake, now
proceeds to negotiate for volcano
a-A Chicago Judge has decided in Court
that young ladies of seventeen are TOO old to be
spanked.
BrThe letter carriers of Detroit are to ap-
pear in uniform after the first proximo. Coat
and breeches of cadet gray
e9-The Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Kent, who lost
their lives in the railroad disaster were return
ing TO Tonawanda from their bridal tour.
EstA Buffalo paper states that the few re-
naming patients, of the wounded at Angola,
are now doing well.
tTGen- Grant has given the founders of The
Metropolitan Methodist church, Washington,
the sum OF $4,000.
Alex. II. Stephens, the late rebel Vice
President, is soon to lecture in Philadelphia, on
the Southern Situation.
egA reward of 81, 500 is offered for the re-
coyerY of the money and for the capture Of the
rascsls who stole $4,000 in Dayton last week.
EJIt is ascertained that our Minister to Great
Britain is instructed to secure from that govern
ment an abandonment of her old doctrine of
once a subject always a subject.
@The pile bridge across the Missouri at Oma-
ha, viii probably be finished by the end of this
week, giving an all rail connection from Chica-
go to Cheyenne, without change Of cars.
Eg-A dispatch of over 5000 words was re-
ceiYed from San Francisco Friday, of last week,
urging Congress to ratify the pending treaty
with the Sandwich Islands.
E5-In anticipation of the purchase of St.
Thomas by our government, the name OF Post
master General Randall has been mentioned as
prospective Governor1of the new possessions.
eS-The Mount Vernon Banner is another of
the democratic papers OF OHIO that has been ia
vored by the Administration with publication
of the mail lettings.
EgMrs Susan B. Anthony is completing ar
rangements for starting new reform paper in
New York, in January, to be called the "Revo-
luton, to be edited BY Mrs. Stanton and Par
ker Pittsburgh.
1.-THE Empire House, at Wooster, o., was
entirely destroyed on the 18th. The loss is a
bout 81, 600 insurance $4,000. The house had
lately been refurnished The cause Of the fire
is unknown.
OUp to the I'd of December, writes a cor
respondent Of the Tribune, five hundred shocks
of earthquake have been felt at St. Thomas
The man who says that Secretary Stewards last
purchase is no great shakes is clearly mistaken.
CFYanderbilt, Joy and other railroad men
are said to be contemplating the purchase of
that rural tract which is called, at Chicago, the
Lake Park, intending, as is supposed, TO use it
for depot purposes.
ErIn addition to the special religious services
Of funeral character, over the Angola victims,
at the Buffalo depot, on Sunday, in all the
churches of the city dscourses were delivered
having reference to that shocking disaster.
tgIt is now claimed at Washington that as
Congress has only taken recess and not an ad
journment as technically understood, the Dis
trict Suffrage bill could not be legally defeated
by pocket veto, but tho Executive has until
Jan. 7th to return it.
gWashington Fenians are excited over
rumor that the British legation has paid corps
of spies in every large city in the Union, who
ascertain the movements of their circles and en-
able the authorities in England and Ireland to
know the errands of emissGries there.
Eg-It is semi i-oficialy announced from Wash
ington, that Dir. Hale, our BIiniStes at Madrid,
has been for some time engaged In negotiations
with Spain, for the purchase of her 'ever-faIth-
full island of Cuba, with fair prospect of sue
cess
kgMr. Bigelow, our former Minister 10
France, is preparing for the press, from the ori
ginal manuscript, which he found in Paris,
new edition of Franklins Autobiography The
fate of this manuscript has for more than halfa
century been mystery.
ErSome ofthe victims of the late railroad acci-
dent near Buffalo, had taken out accident policies
upon theiy lives, when purchasing their tickets,
and the policies we're destroyed with flfe bodies
of the insured. This accident shows how i'm
portant it is that an accident policy should not
lie in the pocket of the insureh
Es-The long and angry debate in the Cham
Der of Deputies, on the policy of the Govern
ment in the Roman question, terminated 2lst.
A final vote was taken and the Ministry was
defeated by majority of two. The announce
ment of the result was received by the opposi-
tion with loud cheering.
EST The result of the New Orleans massacre
are still coming to light. The chief of Police of
the city filed bill of S297 for hauling the bodies
Of those who were killed, included in which is
an item of seventy eve dollars for carriage hire
for himself. He profted, it seems, by the dis
asters of the hour.
EgT The number of aged and helpless as well
as poor and destitute. throughout the South,
who are constantly calliRg upon the Freedmens
Bureau tor assistance, is constantly increasing
What is 70, become Of the millions of people
thus situatedis more than any philosophy of the
present day can determine.
ES- The relations between France ard Italy
seem TO have beconie~ again complicated in con-
sequence of the reccntTote in the Chamber of
Deputies. 1t is rumored stat Ratazzi will form
a new anti-French Ministry, and that the
French troops viii soon retgFn 70 Civita Vec-
CHA.
egIntelligence from Tortola West Indies, to
the 18Th inst represents that the people are snf-
fering greater privations than those of St. Thom-
30 The dead lie unburied and pestlleuce was