Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-11-16
PEN AND PASTE BREVITIES.'

base OF tue ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
e4> Snow white squirrels are being kfseC
in considerable quantities in Indiana.
Ct There are over ninety thousand volumes
in the Mercantile Library, New York.
CT A large and Feautfful spotted lynx wa
shot near Pontiac, last week. 1t was owe
three feet long.
eg- Mrs Francis 2. Gage, who has been seri
ously i'll in New York from an attack of parayl
sis, is steadily recovering.
E4T All irresponsible military organizations il
Washington. irrespective of color, have beer
ordered disbanded by Gen Grant.
cEr A FIRE at Princeton, ILL.,, on Thursday
night, destroyed property 10 the value of nearl!
$3.50, eco.
E9- Thad Stevens ia out with letter favor
ing the payment of the Government bonds il
greenbacks
sa- The Ohio Pathological Society meets al
Sandusky on Wednesday and Thursday, the 4tl
and 9Th of December.
ES-Chicago papers are agitated over the ques'
tion of raising sugar in Illinois from the sugal
beet, and thus making the Sucker State the
s gar State
E5- The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
given decision that the running OF horse pas
senger cars on Sunday is q work of necessity,
and not forbidden by existing laws of the State
ES-Stanton is talked of as Vice President IN
der Grant. His martyrdom, we fear, will hard
ly give him higher lift than the compliment Of
mere nomination.
Ey Wisconsin gives from 5000 to 1000 Re
publican majority. The Democrats make gains
in both Senate and Assembly, but not enough
to shake the Republican preponderance.
g A gentleman in Logan County, O., sold a
single curled black walnut tree to Boston
dealer for $500. The purchaser remarked that
lie would not take $4,000 for it.
rEThe trial of Gen. Cole, for the murder of
Hiscock, has been postponed until the next
term of the Cour: of Oyer and Terminer, at Al
bany, in consequence of the absence of material
witnesses.
Ea- The Universalists of Northern Ohio hold
their yearly Conference meeting, at Austinburg,
on Saturday, and Sunday next. Rev. Mr. Ship
man and others viii preach.
The Secretary of the Danish Legation atParis
hasarrived in Washington, to sell the Danish
West India Islands to the United States. Secre-
tary Sewart has offered seven millions in gold.
while the Danish Government demands fifteen
millions.
EJ Unfortunate Mexico, it is said, is again on
the eve of a revolution. The vote on the Con-
vocatoria showed a wide spread dissatisfaction
with The administration of Juarez. and dispo-
sition, truly Mexican to combat him with bull
lets, rather than ballots.
Ct We learn that the surviving members Of
the 1O3 regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry will
hold Regimertal Reunion at Cleveland on the
2Sth inst, Thanksgiving Day. All members
are invited, and good time is anticipated.
E9-The Indianapolis Herald says the Eelefont-
aine railway company are boring an artesian well
at their depot, in the northern portion of that
city. The anger has gone down forty two feet,
and is now passing through a deposit of saw
logs. A lumber mining company is in prospect.
ESThe law office of Dist Attorney CARING
ion, at Washington, was set on fire on Thurs
day list, with view, it is believed, to destroy
the documents relating 10 John H. Surratt, of
which he is the custodian. A timely discovery
prevented the contamination oftEc design.
EgS. w. Payne, of New York, desirous of
becoming a peripatetic hero, started Tuesday
morning from New York on a predestian tour
to San Francisco, intending to make the whole
distance in one hundred and fifty days. In our
opinion Mr. Payne will peg out before he reach
es Cincinnati.
Es- Latest adviccs from Minnesota indicate
that the negro suffrage proposition was carried
in that State at the late election by 2OOO majori
tv and that tha noaioritv for tba PnnulIoap
Ssate ticket was in the neighborhood of 5, 900.
ET-Gen. Grant thinks that the rebels are
little too fast. Those who obtained their lands
ana re-occupied them without m"king proper
application to Government are to be desposses-
sed at New Years and their land rented 10
freedmen andrefugees.
Eg- The Board of Education of Muscatine,
Iowa, some time since refused a eolored child
admission to the public schools. The father
brought suit, and the District Court has decided
no distinction of color can be recognized under
the Iowa School law.
E5-A Mormon settlement is located in Mime
sofa, at Cattle Lake, which is called the mos,
families. They occupy a thousand acres well
fenced ard well cultivated land. They are dis
ciples of 10 Smith, but do not permit polyga-
my. Thesettlement is quiet and industrious.
EJThe wife of Mr.. Frederick EssIer, shoe
maker residing at Brooklyn. N. Y, gave birth
TO four infants on Thursdap the 9TH inst. They
weigh on an average eight pounds each. The
mother and children are doing well.
EB-The New York Observer says that Ameri-
cans overworksthemselyesr mentally do every
thing with a rush, head foremost, and that con-
sequently thousands of merchants, lawyers and
clergymen are dying at the top like Lombardy
poplars.
[5- Gen. La Marmors has announced to the
French Government that Garibaldi and his two
IONS will go to the United States. The old he
ro may rely on rousing reception. None of
the prominent men of the Old World is so en-
deared to the hearts of the American people as
Garibaldi
Gg-The Montreal Netrs cries aloud for protec-
tion against Yankee invasion. According 10 its
account armed men cross the border from the
States and carry death, and destruction among
the CanadiaD-deer The demand. for Canadian
venison to supply the>New York hotels is said
to be so great as to threaten destruction to the
whole race of deer in the Dominion.
Eg The post Office money order system is GER