Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-15
PEN AND PASTE BREvITIEs.

PEN AND PASTE BREvITIEs.
Two colored men have been appointed to OF
fees by the city council at Washington.
ETMinister Bancroft has received his in
structions, and will leave for Berlin next week
ET-A man near Chicago has three thousand
USenatOs Wade took ground, in recent
speech at Lawrence, in favor of suffrage with
out regard to color or sex.
pigeons in barn. consuming four bushels o
corn dailys They are kept for trap shooting.
fTIt is said,the Grand Duke Alexis, of Rus
sia, who is seventeen, viii visit the United
States soon.
@The Union Pacific Railroad has been com
cepted.
eTA committee has been appointed by the
Cincinnati Council to select piece of ground
for park, not to exceed 500 acres in size.
1fhe Emperor Napoleon has presented 8
fine telescope, valued at $4,000 francs, to the
Catholic University at South Bend Indiana.
;EaJ. M. Langston, the Ohio colored lawyer
has been appointed, by General Howard, In.
spectof of SCHOOLS for freedmen In Virginia.
GRev. Joel Hawes, pastor of the First Con-
gregationai Church of Hartford, and the Oldest
minist II in the State of Connecticut died recent
y aged Ss years.
.kz-In the U. S. Circuit Court at Raleigh on
Monday, Chief Justice Chase ordered the sum-
moning Of Grand and Petit Juries, no distinc-
ton in color to be made.
TThe household effects of Mrs. Lincoln, wife
fthe President, are TO be sold at public auc-
ton at Springfield. The furniture is valued
14,OO0 :; Mrs. Lincolns income is stated to be
$4,000. -, -.
gThe Mt. Vernon Republican says that the
taking of testimony in the contest of Delano VS.
Morgan, for the right'to seat in Congress, has
just closed, making a. .clear case in favor of De-
lano.
EgLite is shortened by indulgence in anger,
il-wiI, anxiety. envy, grief sorrow, and ek-
cessive care. The vital powers are wasted by
excessive bodily exercise, in some cases, and
want of due portion in others.
efHGen. Sclofeldl seems to take the same
views as Gems. SickIess and Sheridan, and has
commenced the removal Of such town and
county officers in Virginia, as he thinks are in
the way of reconstruction under the military
bill.
ETThc Treasury Department. in Tie next ten
days, will pay out twenty millions of currency
N redeeming the. compound interest notes of
the June issue As-the latter will be destroyed
when redeemed, that ameunt will 60 toward
the reductte1 Of the public debt.
e9-The Radicals of Washington, willie and
black, have won a. momense,nvictory, electing
their municipal ticket by 2,696 majority. This
majority is strong enough to insure Radical
triumphs many times hereafter. 1t sets the po-
htical cornerstone of colored liberty at the
Capitol No wonder that the Washington
blacks declare that they feel more Msc men
than they ever did.
Tim Episcopal diocese of Ohio is holding its
fftieth session, having completed half century
since Its organization: Bishop McIlvaine is still
vigorous in his defence of the good old usages,
and denounccs Ritualism and Tractarianism as
unmitigatcd idolatry. Such plain speaking is
creditable to the Buckeye churchman, and re-
fleets honor upon them as gallent defenders of
independence of thought and speech.
=, In 1858 there were nine Orthodox Greek
sbanshes in the region, which has been lately
ceded to the U. s. These churches numbered
I2,eoV parshioners Five of the ordained min
istry were natives Of the country, of the mixed
foreign and Enf5an descent. Religious books
had been translated into the native tongues.
Several schools were connected with the church.
The spiritual Seminary had been lately re-
moved from New Arclangesto to Yakootsk. Not
one crime had been reported in their parishes
for forty years! This information comes from
Russian statistical returns.
% An accident happened on the Mahoning X.
R., near the river bridge in Youngstown on
Monday last asthe mail train was coming from
west Some loaded coal cars were being
switched on to side track, but the hinder one
not entirely clearing the main track, the loco
motive of the mail train struck If. knocking il
over the embarkment, and smashing it badly
The engine was also damaged considerably,
and the passenger cars slightly. No person was
hurt.
NTne Mogadore murder case was on tria
at RaveneA last week. Milton Moore charged
with procuring W. S. Roofto murder Mrs Mus
son. in MogaAore, last November. was tried
The jury, afterbeing out thirty minutes, on las
Friday evening", brought in verdict OF mo
guilty" On Saturday morning the case OF W.
S. Roof was taken up, and the Prosecuting At
.toriney entered anoLe proscqui as to the eharg
:essof malice and premeditation, whereupol
g Roof plead guilty TO murder in the second de
gree and was sentenced to the penitentiary fo
hfe>
eEA short time since aiwoman named Rach
ef Ann Bailey, liyingin the fanfiiy of married
man about two miles from Mount enlead, chop
ed with him. Tho guilty pair were arrested
and brought back, and soon afterwards the Wo
man died. Acoroners inquest washeld and ih'
stomach remexed and sent to Professor Cassel
of Cleveland fer. examination. The analysis
revealed the presence of strychninc. The maj
isin Jail, awaiting the result of tine isquest
Our iron clads seem to find a. rapid
market, Since the sale of the Dunder
berg for $4,000, 900, to France that gov
ernment has purchased another smaller
iron clad, for which 81 ,O00, 900, is to bt
paid. The Japanese Commits sioner.
have Just purchased for>tts sum of S4Oo,
900 the ex-rebel iron clad ram Stonewal
now lv51r. > af the WashiD0fon navy yard