Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-05-25
PEN AND PASTE BREvIrIEs.

ZEN ANU rAStE bhEvtiitSs
EFThose ''rhumatic" pains of the Empress
Eugenia are found to be mistake.
GrChicago h: sin store 2,956, 900 bushels OF
grain against 4,OIO,Os9 at this time last year.
TThe President trip to Boston. to attend
the Masonic Celebration in June will be by
sea, from Washington, in a revenue-cutter.
era new suspension bridge is to be thrown
across the Niagara at the falls, landing on the
Canada just below the Clifton House.
eFThe President has appointed Hon. George
Bancroft to fill the Mission at Berlin, made
vacant by the death of Governor Wright
egDetroit has forwarded $4,000 to the Gin
cinnati Committee for the relief ofSouthern des-
titution.
EEThey have raised at Steubenville and its
vicinity $6, 2O2. 45 for Soldiers Monumental
Fund.
gThe poor-house of Ingham Co., Mich,
was destroyed by fire on Monday, and six of
the inmates perished in the flames.
gThe Adams Express Company, which
celebratedits 26th anniversary few days since,
: began business with first days's receipts of
1857:
ETThe street railways of New YsiK City
carried SO, ,9o7, $50 passengers last year, not
counting three per cent, of the fares stolen by
the conductors.
eESincessha Connecticut election, the per-
traits of Thomas ii. Seymour and Isaac Toucey
have been returned to their former place in the
Senate Chamber at Hartford.
eTThe Department of State has received in
formation that an important discovery has re-
Gently been made in Peru of the silk plant
Preparations are being made to cultivate it up
on an extensive scale.
rYRev. Petroleum V. Nasby's income is re-
ported in Toledo at $I,3I5, but to this, of
course, the $1,000 exemption is to be added.
His present salary as editor ofthe Toledo Blade
is said to be $5, 900, beside his large income
from his books and outside laboS.
FFA Connecticut Yankee, who buried his
sixth wife last week, offered 50 greenback to
the officiating clergyman The latter hesitating
10 receive it, the bereaved remarked, 'Just as
you say : but that's what Ihave been in the
habis.of paying"
EF-It has been diseonaped that a party of
Southern rebels who were in Washington after
the surrender of Lee negotiating for their par
dons, were at the same time engaged in an effort
to induce the Emperor Napoleon to aid them,
promising to renew the rebellion with vigor.
1.-THE officers of the Atlantic Cable Com
pany report the trouble on the submarine cable
to be located at point less than three miles
from the station at Heart Content, and that
there win be no d9layin making the necessary
nd ,la NJ
has been no interruption to the cable Of 1865.
EEThe Richmond Enquirer has discovered
what is wrong with Horace Greedy and Gerrit
Smith. Il. says: The demon of fanaiicism
which has rayened within them has been ssted
by indulgence, and they are now as gentle as a
full-fed beast of prey.
eFThe ship Golconda, which cleared frem1
Charleston, for Liberia on the goth, carries a.
bout s0eHegro emigrauts, Many more had en-
gagged passage but having since made salts
factory contracts here, or owing to their chang
ed status under the Reconstruction act, they
now decline leaving.
EFThe Buffalo Express says: One of our
printers, who used TO set type in the Tribune
Office, smiled audibly when somebody wonder
ed that Horace Greely could be willingto let
his name go.down to posterity affixed to- jeff
Davis bail bounds. Horace knows, he says,
that posterity can't read the signature.
President Finney, of Oberlin, lately prayed
fer..the President Oh Lord, if thou canst man
age him, without crushing him, spare him
otherwise crush him !! This reminds the Roch-
ester Union of preacher who prayed for an
unjust neighbor: 'Oh Lord, take John Smith
by the slack of his breeches and shake him over
hell but don't drop him in ~
rTThe abrogation of the reciprocity treaty
has increased trade between Nova Scotia and
Canada. Formerly Neva Scotia received about
800, 900 barrels of Flour per annum from the
u s. and 6,OG0 to 1000 from Canada. Now
the receipts are reversed, and about 1000 bar
rels are taken from tho u s. and 300 600 from
Canada.
@Ths Archbishop of Canterbury in the
House Of Lords, gives notice that the Bishops
had prepared a bill to regulate the cut OF cleri-
cal yestments, bat has not yet applied the shears
because the Government had intimated that il
was on the point Of issuing q commission to
enquire into the present innovation upon
"sacrifcial yestments," and that the Earl of
SALISBURY had introduced bill on the mat
ter.
EEThe receipts Of the American Home Mis-
siensfy Society for 1886 were $2I2. 6ez and the
expenditures $2s7, ,96s, with s46ministers in
twenty-nine States and Territories oS the
american Bible Society sss4, ,Os4,. of which
$43s ,65s were from the sale Of: books. The
number Of volumes printed and circulated, IT,
249,8ls. OF the American Tract Society,". in
New York, ga, f5f, of which ss4s6e were
from sales. The number Of volumes printed
were s87,676. and of publications ofalL sorts, z,
ss6,e4s. The total receipts of eleven Societies
which, hold their anniversaries In New York
Ms menth were $2 So, 1855. sai