Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-08
PEN AND PASTE BREVITIES,

PEN AND PASTE BREVITIES. -
sgwm. B. Astor, of N. Y. reports an in
come for 1866 of $6Sl, ,2IO. .s....tE.., a.f...
eTThe second Annual Horse Fair, at Buffalo
win be held Aug. 18th. The premiums offered
amount to $4,000.
Of the Grand Army of the Republic at Colum-
bus on the Goth. of June.
cNA beast in n. Y. died on Saturday from
drinking quart of whisky on bet of hun.
dred dollars. He ''died as the fool dieth."
eFIt is reported the New York Tribune has
lost ten thousand subscribers since Greeley's
"Onward to Richmond"
TIt is estimated that the registry in South
Carolina, will show 4, 500 white to $4,000 color
ed voters.
rgJacob Barker was arrested in New Orleans
on charge of embezzlement and fraud. On be-
ing taken before magistrate, he was released
on $40, 900 bail.
era lad Of 15 years, at Washington, Pa,
proposing to fffghten young girl at neighbor-
ing house, last Tuesday night was mistaken
for a burglar and fatally shot by her brother.
EgThe Fsnians may be interested in know
ing that thirteen regiments of British regular
troops, making about 5000 men are now sta
tioDed in Canada.
Tue Nebraska Legislature appointed CON-
mittee to act with committee of the citizens OF
Omaha, 10 give the Excursionists grand re-
ception on their return.
A fire at Petroleum Ccntre last Monday
morning, destroyed twenty mine buildings, with
loss from $40, 900 to 100000 The fire was
the work Of an Incendiary.
eEThe Congress nj excursion party embracing
our fellow citizens Wade. Caldwell, and Parsons,
arrived at Omaha on the 3ist ult. And left fol
the West at O'Clock the next morning.
&. The Washington City election passed Of
quietly. Tie Republican ticket having an over
whelming majority, andonly one ward, tae 4th,
going copperhead. 3ef
The Cleveland Leader says that Gov Cox
has reconsidered his intention of refusing the
nomination for Governor-dwells upon his pop
ularity, &c. What nonsense!
gGreat complaints of the unusual mortality,
among sheep this Spring, are heard from por-
tions of this State, Pennsylvania, and the West,
foot-rot and other disease being assigned as the
cause.
EgLate Denver papers report that Is to Is
inches of snow and heavy rains fell there be-
tween the 18th and goth of May. The snow
was so deep in the mountains that the coaches
could not go through to Central City.
egThe jamestown and Franklin Railroad is
now expected to be in running order, prepar-
ed for business, by the 10th Of June. 1t will be
the most direct route from Franklin to Pitts
burgh and the West
EgBridgeport Comm contains $4,000 inhabi-
tants 1t has been for many years the home of
the two celebrities P. T. Barnum and Gen.
Tom Thumb. JEFF Davis ought to be secured.
to make its circle complete.
EgCol. Forney has visited the House of Com
mons in England and found the ''old story" to
be pretty correct. English politicians look very
much like other folks, and display about the
tendencies to nonsense that are seen in our
ewn country.
TheSecretary ofthe Treasury has authorized
the Directors of the mint, with q view of re-
ducing the quantity of cents in circulation, and
obtaining a supply of nickel in convenient form
to purchase the nickel cents, paying the nomi-
nal value in three and five cent pieces, which
viii be commenced on the 10th of June.
eg-The longexpected conference of the for
eign ministers with the Government of Japan
has taken place at 0saca, and is reported to
have had entirely satisfactory results. The
ports of Yeddo, Osaca, and Negato win be
opened on the first of January next. The Jap
anese are in favor of progress some Americans
might profit by their. example. ..-,.
The Republicans Of Washington, without dis
tinction of color, held grand mass meeting on
the 3oth ult. Ten thousand people were pres
ent, and some good hot shot were fired into the
Democratic camp by the orators of the occasion.
The ball has opened in earnest, and the chances
are for Republican triumph that shall secure
the capital of the nation from conservative
sway.
eTThere is report that somebody has Offer
ed to start new religious journal for Henry
Ward Beecher in order to have Congrega-
tional Religious Newspaper. Perhapsit it may
. be done, as Mr.. B. will have chance then to
get even with Theodore Tlton of the Indepen-
dent which has given up seetarian policy. If
MrB. keeps On preaching, lscturing. novel
writing, travelling, dabbling in politics and adds
the responsibility of a public Journal he will
have enough to do to keep himselfbusy. Beech
er is great, and does not mean to have the world
T,main ignorant of it.. II hard work W II do Ii
he wont fail.
sg-Somebody computes the distance from N
7. to San Francisco via Cape Horn, measuring
from headland to. headland, is l4,l40' miles );
but by the course usually travelled By sailing
vessels il is about $4,000. From San Francisco
to N. y. by the Panama steamship route is 5,
l40; by the overland stage roate, 3,4l7; by the
Pacific railroad route, 3,2l9. The time between
n Y and San Francisco by sailing vessels is
100 days ; by steamer. S2 days by stage from
Kansas, Is days. When the whole line ofrail-
road is completed, which is expectediin I870,.
Re time between the two points will be- short
ID sp tossix days