Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-08-03
PEN AND PASTE BREyIrIEs.

Cincinnati post-ofhce last year was over Szlz'-
O0O.
EzyThere were five deaths from yellow fever
and seventeen from cholera in New Orleans
last week.
fg-The first stone of the southerly abutment
of the Ohio river bridge was laid last Thursday
with appropriate ceremonies, at Louisville.
E9rGen, Sheridan has determined to remove
Gov. Throckmorton of Texas, and appoint A.
J. Hamilton.
The President complains that the country Is
too large. The country complains that the
President is too small
General Fremont has purchased the iate res
idence on the Hudson, ofGeneral watson "eDp
our Brazilian minister.
E9rAlexander II. Stevens was weighed a lew
weeks aoo. and kicked the beam at ninety-four
pounds avordupois. -.. 81
rsrIn the Surratt trial on Saturday, the evil
dence was closed, and the argument for the
prosecution commenced. . ..........
rzrIt is understood that the new president of
the Central railway, Mr.. Baxter, has been
| elected in the Hudson River and Harle m inter
est and that it is step in the policy OF consol-
idatioD. .-..- -...
Eg-A cable dispatch informs us that trial of
the American Is inch Rodman gun that no iron
or steel armor yet invented is capable Ofresist-
ing it. -".'
.EITThe Jews have resolved to establish col
lege in Philadelphia. 1t is not, however, TO be
confined to their own people; but TO be open
to Christians of all shades of views.
T s
bill authorizing the city of Hartford to lend its
credit to the Boston, Hartford and Eric Rail-
road to the amount of 100000.
EgrThe Chicago Times suggests, good-natnr-
edly, that the best way to get the foul water out
of Chicago river, would be to engage Horace
Greeley to bail it out.
ESrThe AdventiSts in town in Maine arc
preaching the immediate destruction of the
world, and are at the same time erecting a house
of worship substantial enoueh to last a u ldrel
years.
Eg-One of the most striking incidents Of this
age of startling events is the adoption by the
Austrian Parliament of declaration in favor of
the political equality of religious faiths and the
introduction of civil marriage.
III dlACllllIb HAS DCCu HlduC "
Coolie labor on some of the southern planta-
tions, and one or two cargoes have already been
landed There are laws against this traffic, and
they should be rigdly enforced.
Eg-Wheat is selling in New York at two dol
lars per bushel on contract That figure is pret-
ty well down among the units, and indicates a
chance for bread next year at less than star
walton prices. 1t will go lower still.
EG-A letter of the 2Ist inst. from Gen. Case
ment has been received at Painesville, stating
that all were well and the ork (on the Pacific
railway going on finely. This disposes Of the
painful reports recently current.
E3~Another lion tanner, performing in Castel-
los mehagerie al Elizabcthtown, Ky, lust week
had very narrow escape from one of the beasts
which made dash at his throat, and repeated
it again after being chained, breaking the chain
as lie sprang. .-.-..-- r'
c8-The Ohio clip af woolthis year Isl set down
by ]. H. Klippart, Secretary of the State Agri-
cultural Society, 9,17O.4G6 ponnds The number
Of sheep being 3.c56, ,o59 The yield in 1856 was
s, Cos, ZIG pounds, and the number of sheep p
S47.o73 ''''.'
Eg~The white and colored lodges of ATasons
in New Orleans have fused, and the Supreme
! Council ofthe Scotch Rite have resolved that
| they hold it an honor to be the first Supreme
! body in the southern States of America to ac-
complish that act of such emphatic justice
EE'The political feeling runs very high in
Tennessee. Maynard and Ethcridgc met acci-
cidcntally at Greenvillc, last week, when per
sOnal recontre took place, the latter striking the
former They were separated before any dam
! age was done either
| E5~ Mr.. Otis, native of Manchester, has in
vented and patented knitting machine said ia
be the most perfect and wonderful yet brought
| before the public. 1t will knit fifty pairs OF
stockings in day, and is so simple that a child
can work it. 1t can be furnished at half the
cost of first class sewing machine. -
GLetters from Rome state that Bishop Rose
Grams of Cincinnati is TO be the successor of the
late Bishop Tmon of Buffalo. Rochester, with
the counties of Livingston, Steuben, Ontario
and Monroe, will be created separate diocese,
with the Very Rev. William Gleason of Buffa-
10 as the first Bishop.
E8-Admiral Farragut, on Saturday last, was
received by the Emperor Napoleon AT state
dinner especially given in his honor On the
same day, the Empress visited the U. S. Steam,
er Colorado, where she was ofcourse, received
with all the honors befttiag her rank. ..
Eg~The great splurgc Sir Morton Peto made
in this country two or three years ago, and tht
tall speeches that were made at his banquets arC
no doubt remembered; the vast plans entered
into of building railroads, and 10 read now thai
lie has hopelessly failed for some fifty million
dollars of which he can pay three per cent =
There was truly "a great cry and little wool.
When those British bankers fail they do a biz
thing ...
EB-A dreadful riot is reported at RogersviIle
in East Tennessee, where speech by Emerson
Etheridge was interrupted by some one in tn,
audience the lie was given and returned, ant
finally the meeting separated itself into Radica
and conservative camps, which opened fire up
on each other. Two persons were killed out
right, and thirty-seven were wounded, seven OF
whom it is thought will die.
All dogs found in the streets of New Yorl
running loose and unmuzzled are liable to b,
taken to an institution called the "Dog Pound
Ahls institution consists of large frame kenne
II wnicn The victims are kept twenty -four hour
J lOr ldentlDcatlon and reclaiminr If at tbe on,