Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01
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Pen AND PASTE BREVITIEs.
TA self propeihng steam fire engine has
been completed in Manchester, N. H., and made
successful trial trip through the streets.
On Tuesday morning last, fifteen car loads
of German emigrants passed this place on the
Lake Shore Road, westward bound.
Hman in Pittsburgh sues his father-in-law for
500, which the old man had promised to gvie
him for marrying his daughter.
The Ohio State Sunday School Conference
ofthe NJ E. Church commenced its third annu-
al session ip Cleveland on the 29th.
gsth The annual meeting ofthe Cleveland, Paines-
vile and Ashtabula Railroad Company will be
held on the 18th of June.
III The Ashtabula Co, Wool Growers Associa-
ton hold there Free Sheep Shearing Festival
on the Fair Grounds at Jefferson, on the 4th
efJune.o Go
5rHon. Samuel Galloway and Gen. S. F.
Carey, the Tribune thinks, if sufficiently pop
ular, would make, either of them an excellent
Governor Of Ohio.
sFThe Washington Chronicle says the Gov
eminent will probably abandon the indictment
for murder against Surratt and find anew one
for treason.
eFA new and elegant day and night car has
Just been put on the Michigan Central Railroad,
which will run directly from Chicago to Albany
NY.
ETThe Unien Pacific Railroad Company:
Kansas Line, have issued invitations to an ex-
cursion out on the plains, starting from Phila-
delphia on thesSlst of this month.
.EF-At- the grand eonsistory to be held at
Rome, On the occasion of the centenary of st:
by the Pope.
og eFA New Orleans paper says: We are un-
der screw, and Wilson turns it on us as long
as we can bear the agony and live; Stevens is
=. for giving one turn more. ti
s. The Protestant Episcopal Convention has
Il been in session the past week at Erie. Over
e 200 delegates, lay and clerical, were in attend
.3ance ="
sre eFThe recent Episco?afC Convention Of North
Carolina set on foot movement fer attracting
the colored people to the Episcopal Church,
and training negroes for the ministry
@The proposed Maryland Constitution pro-
hibits ministers ofthe Gospel and teachers OF
rcliciousof any kind, being members Of either
branch ofthe State Assembly.
grit is reported our Government has offered
to sell to Russia four iron clads, including the
monitor nowin European waters, and that the
offer is favorably received.
70 gThe judiciary Committee have received
the testimony of the Chief Justice and Attorney
General and Judge Underwood with reference
to the failure to try JEFF Davis.
The trial fSurratt began on Monday, and a
number of important witnesses have been sum-
moned against him. The public will look for
ward with new anxiety to the issue OF this case
esrA New dispatch says that the con-
tributions which were flowing in literally to
the Southern Relief Commission, almonst ccas-
ed after the attack on>Judge Kelley at Noble.
4; egThe recent decision in the New Orleans
Courts that debts incurred for the purchase OF
i slaves before the war are null, involves nearly
one hundred millions of dollars in Louisiana
alone.
erThe exports of Wool last year from Cali
fornia exceeded 4, SOC, ,O00 This year the manu-
factories, it is estemated, will consume nearly
four millions of pounds, giving an increase q
almost fifty per cent.
NThe Illinois Congregationalists have re
solved to establish religious paper in Chicago
DR.. E. Beecher, in presenting the Report, wa'
xerv caustic on the detection of The N. Y
Independent.
The First Church Building Committee O
PainesvilIe broke ground Monday for their pro
nosed Lecture Room, s. S. Room and Parson
aoe. In the rear of and connected with thu
Church. ls
81; The Methodist General Conference, which
has been in session in. Cleveland, adjourned
"Wednesday of last week.. The proceeding
& have been characterized by the utmost harmo
ny and good feeling.
30 Mrs. Case, the mother ofthe boy who wa
4. executed at CincinDati, a few days ago, TO
completely In the murder of an old man, dle'
at Troy, on Thursday, of shame and graei
the lgnominious death of her SON.
: - E<Santa Anna, now an old man of sevent,
8 years, has been spending the winter on Statel
Island. he is said to be worth little less thai
I q million, and to have given up all connection
with Mexican politics.
The crew of the Great Eastern were engage,
for nine months and refused to be paid tor
single trip. They have sued forthe whole a
mount, and as there are five hsndred of ther
IN the sum is NO small one Cor bankrupt com
pany TO meet. -r .
EgNitro glycerine is cutting the Pacific raj
road tunnel through the summit of the Sierr
10 Nevada at the rate of ffty feet per week, an
by midsummer fifty miles of road will be adde
to the ninety fbur already in operation at th
California end.
The latest horticultural device is that of re
moving the stones from fruits by q process
graduaa reduction, by extracting the pith frol
shoots and grazing them on stocks, and the
+ own branches, for successive seasons. The e1
pertinent has been successful with the Nalag
tTape.