Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-04-06
PEN AND PASTE BsEviTiEs.

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heenlistment of volunteers for the army Of
Maxiniliane = aar
Six fatal cases Of pork worms -trichino
spiralis-- are reported in the Springfield Re
publican as having occurred in that city, from
eating raw ham.
The President has signed the joint reselu-
ton providing for the necessary surveys for
aelnal between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario,
for military, naval aud commercial purposes.
egWinter Garden, one of the finest and most
popular theatres of New York city, has been
totally destroyed by fire, and the Southern
Hotel was seriously damaged by the same fire.
uHon. r G. Parsons of Cleveland, will be
nominated by Chief Justice Chase and as he is
in every way unezceptionable, viii undoubtedly
be elected This District is at present without
Marshal. Since nominated a5
a;ETFrank Blair who was nominated to the
austrian mission was rejected by the Senate
Every Republican member voted against con-
frmation, and only .fue Democrats for it. Right
again go
eFCongress, during the session just closed
passed twenty-six bills and ihirty-seven joint
resolutions, all Of which, except the Supplement
al Reconstruction bill were signed by the Presi-
dent.
H The Dalton Georgian mentions the case
of citizen of Pulaski county, who was en-
ployed by his former slave as everseer: The
freedman pays his old master eight bales Of
cotton 70, superintend the planting operations
the present year.
@Illinois, Missouri, California, Indiana, each
with Republican Legislature, have passed an
Eight Hour law. The Republican Assembly
ofNew York has passed an Eight-Hour law.
What Democratic Legislature has ever done so?
u Mail adyices from Mexico. state that the
liberals have advanced SO closely upon Vera
Cruz that the Imperialists, ,sasE upon them
from the walls A surrender of the city has
been demanded and refused by General Gomez
It was reported Diaz had partly occupied
Puebla a.,.f -
HThe Lindell Hotel, st. Louis six stories
high, the largest structure of the kind on this
continent, and long the pride and glory of the
city, was entirely consumed by fire on the night
of the Both ult Loss one million six hundred
thousand dollars Less than half the loss is
covered by insurance.
eFA new daily Radical newspaper has just
been started in New Orleans 1t is called the
New Orleans Republican. Its opening edi-
torial says that it will be devoted to the indus
trial interests of the State, and pay special at
tention to the freedmen, making it q point to
aid and instruct them to become intelligent citi-
zens.
NGen Sherman has issued an order provid-
ing that pieces of artillery and twenty muskets
with proper ammunition shall be supplied to
each steamer that ascends the Missouri river
above Sioux City the coming season. Com
manding officers of posts above Sioux City are
authorized to increase the number of muskets
and ammunition if deemed necessary for the
safety ofbeats.
@The passage of the Nebraska bill over the
presidents veto admits the thirty seventh state
to the Union or the twentyseyenih if we
insist that ten states have committed suicide or
taken themselves out of the Union. The Ne
braska senators are Thomas W. Upton and
John w. Thayer, and the representative 7. NJ,
Marquette-all good republicans, of course.
9tTWhen the Atlantic and Great Western
Railway Company obtain charter in Pennsyl-
yania, in 1857, il bound itself to build a con-
meeting branch to the city of Erie within ten
years, the shortest line on which such branch
could be made-tbirty five miles. This is the
last year, and the Legislature have taken up
the matter for consideration whether the COM
pany shah be compelled to build the line
eEA man named Kelson, in Swan Creek /,
Mich, LOST his ak, and suspected it had been
stolen by man named Watkins Kelson went
TO boy who was believed to have miraculous
The boy said Watkins had the ak. Keson went
tethe shanty Of Watkins where bloody con-
fict took place. Kelson body has been found
with his head literally chopped to pieces.
lfgThe Missouri Legislature is considering a
law imposing very severe penalties upon sins
against chastity and Furnishing with imprison-
ment all who in any way minister to the beastly
passions of men. The New York Legislature,
on the other hand, has bill before it to license
housesef prostitution and place them under
stringent regulations. The object of it seems
TO be to compel such degree of privacy in
these establishments as shall prevent them from
outraging public decency, and at the same
time to pro tect their customers against the foul
era Havana letter Of the 22d says:
The long-expected revolutionary outbreak
has at Hast taken placein Hayti, and the efforts
of the insurgents have been crowned with sue
cess The City of Port-au Prince is in their
hands, and the people are now giving in their
adhesion to the new Government. After sever
al days fighting in the vicinity ofthe capital,
nearly all of Geffrards troops went over to
the enemy and President Gefrard himself
was compelled to take refuge on board of a
French Man-of-war, which at last accounts was
carrying hin. and scme of his officers 10 Jama:-
ca.
diseases that grow out of the rot of list.
eEAt last we have full explanation by At
torney General Holt, of the history of the
Booth Diary and the contents of the diary itself
are to be given IN erte'ase to the public. As
might have been expected, it turns. out that
there has been "much ado about nothing The
eighteen spoliated pages" were not in the book
when it came into the possession of The officers
and there is no evidence that they ever con-
tanned anything relating to the murder. The
first entry containes a statement that Booth had
written full account of the purpose of him
self and his confederates to the Ndtiont I'ltetti-
gencer, but no such document ever reached that
Office. and the entry was probably fiction. 1t