Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-05-18
PEN AND PASTE BREYlIIEs.

pie act ofjusiice.
eEThe bodies offour ladies have been found
in the Chicago river, all drowned in mysteri-
Gus manner.
A dog destroyed four hundred dollars wortl
of sheep, at one killing, near Quincy, ILL.,,
lew days ago.
EgFive hundred shad were caught in tn,
Houstonic at a place called Thomases a few
miles below Derby on Sunday
GTMr P. T. Barnum advertises for sale his
beautiful mansion and grounds at Bridgeport
Conn.
ES-Gcrritt Smith has written letter to Pres
dent johnson in favor of Jeff Divis, and offer
ing to become his bail &C.. e
.GS-T At the eqpaLrights, womans suffrage
anniversary meeting in New York, Greely, Til
ton, and even Wendall Phillips were accused
of recreancy.
EsrAmong the items disbursed out of the con-
tincent fund of the State Department last year,
f are ncarly two thousand dollars for treaty
boxes and nearly the same amount for the
board of Queen Emma, of the Sandwich Isl
auds.
r7~The ''roor Indian is on the rampage ir
Arizona. A company U. S. troops were de-
feated with heavy loss, and the roads rend cred
highly dangerous.
jeff. Davis left Richmond by steamer on the
18th and would be IN New York on the 18th,
whence he goes to the Canadas, to see his fam
lily.
Ea-The painters have given the finishing
touches to the bridge at the corner OF Broad
way and Fulton street, and il will be thrown
opel Eto the public as soon as it is dry enough.
Ea@ The Z. S. Supreme Court has made the
important decision, involving millions Of dol
lars, that notes given for negroes purchased be-
fore the war are invalid.
Is JASUARr, Printing Paper to the value of
S3i, ,553 in February to the value of $34, ,S2S /;
and in March to the value of SCI, ,515 was inn
ported from Europe into the o. S.
The eight hour strike in Chicago has ended
in total failure and the strikers are now vain
ly striving to find employment on the old terms.
A malignant fellow says Lat when he is in a
crowded car, and lady comes in, he thinks it
is The duty of some other nan to ect up and
give her his scat.
EgThe bail entered for JEFF. Davis is as fo,-
lows: Horace Gteeley. $25, 900 Aug. Schell, OF
n. Y. $25, 900; Gen. Jackman, of Philadelphia,
$25, 900; and A. Welsh, of Philadelphia, So,
00O
Eg-The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided
that a temporary closing of the polls on election
day, for dinner or any other purpose, is vio-
lation of the law. and vitiatcs the election.
The New York Evening Post gives a rather
dismal picture of The condition of the finances
of New York. The State owes fifty millions,
the counties seventy-fvc, and the city forty
more Taxation is now at the rate of 81, 80
for every man, woman and child in the State.
E4TThe telegrahic expenses of the late terri
torial negotiation with Russia are quite heavy,
and there has been spicy correspondence be-
wecn the two governments as to who should
foot the bills a single item of these call for 50,
600 in gold.
A NEW RAILROAD is TO be constructed from
Scranton to Sunbury, on the opposite side OF
the river from the Bloomsbury and Lackawanna
railroad This is in the interest of the Northern
Central, being designed as an outlet for an
thracite coal to Baltimore.
EgTThe Walrussian treaty will cost us moi
only seven million dollars in gold but Mr.. Doc
little besides. We learn from Washington thai
Mr. Doottle will 60 Immediately on conf
Dental mission TO the Cart is to be hoped
by way of the Russian Territory.
eqEx-Mayor Monroe of New Orleans desire:
the President 10 countermand the late orders o.
Gen. Sheridan. Some months ago Mr., John
son granted one of McRroes requests, and the
result was the July massacre Of Union men,
He will probably hesitate before granting an
other. -.
eF~While ship heavy laden with corn was
lately being discharge in the port of Antwerp
an immense swarm of rats of enormous siz'
ruslzcd from the holes and invaded the neigh
boring vessels. warehouses and habitations. The
workmen were obliged 10 retreat to give pass
age to these unwelcome strangers.
The Eight-Hour bill says the Tribune hal
been signed by the Governor, and is now thc
law of the State. Eight hours arc legal day
work, and thus principle is established to
which labor is at liberty to gravitate-thatis all
1t remains to be seen if. while prices are doubl
ed, work can be successfully shortened.
/ The latest accounts from the interior of Mex
| leo report the continuance of fighting a Qnere
taro The city was not yet in the hands of th
Liberals, but it was expectedthatit it soon woulC
be. The fall of the city of Mexico was als'
shortly expected, as Diaz was daily receiyin!
reinforcements.
s9~Thc outrage committed upon the British
vessel Elk, in the harbor of Cleveland, on tn
9Th inst, Gas already been made the subject o
represcntations 10 our Government by the Brit
ish Minister at Washington, and the District AT
torney is to be instructed to proceed against tn
offenders.
EgrSchool books are pouring in upon tn
South through the book publishers hous
in New York has just given 10000 volumes in
Guiding 5, 600 of the Teachers Library all valu
ed at $25,GOO. Ifthe South don get ''booke
up" sometime it wont be the fault of the book
sellers.
ETThe Government is again busy at the Al
mory, in Springfield, Mass, having force EN-
ployed that turn out GOO remodeed muskets
breech-leaders- day. This looks as thougl
peace principles could not be depended on for
certainty, Or that the government is applying
the good old maxim, "In peace prepare 70
war"
ff-On and after the first day of July next, {
law passed by the Ohio Legislature, at its lat
session, requires all births and deaths to be reg