Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-04-20
PEN AND PASTE BREyITIEs.

PEN AND PASTE BREyiTlES.
Bats, on an average weigh three to pound,
and each pound represents five bushels of corn.
@In the past ten years Chicago has had
twelve thosus'-d houses erected, Of which eleven
thousand were of wood.
W0fess emigrsnts passing through Colum-
.buslast week, 276 remained in Ohio and $40 go
70 Missouri.
Mr. Raymond has declined the mission to
Austria, and the President viii revoke the NOM
.ination-
The Ohio State Senate on the 10th confirmed
Geo p. Wright, Stale Commissioner of railroads
and selegraphs.
ssNayor Hoffman, of New York received the
ether day draft OF a half million dollars for
4he new Post Office lot.
The strike in the Lehigh coal mines has at
length terminated, the men acceeding to re-
duced scale Of wages. Active operations will
tt once be commenced.
aGeneral Rousseau was confirmed last week
;Brigadier IN the regular army, and has been or
dered to Fort Vencouyer, Washington Territory
torelieve Gen. Steel
eFThe Israelites of New York have resolved
TO cease all connection with insurance compan-
hes which unjustly discriminate against persons
processing the Hebrew religion.
pGeneral Sickles has issued an order. sus-
pending the execution ofcivil process in GER
tain cases and remodeling portions of the crim-
inal code in North and South Carolina.
eTFourteen murders have been committed
in jackson county Indiana. within eighteen
months. The people have organized Vigil
ancs committee to detect and hang the mur-
derers.
eEThe flag on the Wisconsin State House
was hung at half-mast on Sunday and minute
guns ordered to be fired on Monday in COM
memoration of the death,cf President Lincoln.
eE-9en Robert A. Potter of New York, has
been appointed Receiver of the A & G w RR.
the entire management of the affairs of the
Company to be under his control.
" The water has been let into both the Ohio
and the Pennsylvania canals, and business is
starting up quite brisk upon the forner-the
latter being mainly usuful for hydraulic purposes
only.
HThe partially consumed body of German
named Scheuph, was found in Milford, Wis,
on Friday last. 1t is believed he was murdered
by his son and the body burned to prevent de-
tection..
sgA leading State Senator of Virginia pro-
poses compromise with the colored voters so
as to give them the entire Congressional dele
CATION fthe whites are allowed the control of
the STATE government.
E7-Reports received at New Orleans from
points on the river above, state that the levees
were everywhere giving away, and the whole
lever valley of the Mississippi would probably
be inundated
e9Ae Democrats of Columbus threaten to
interfere with the execution of the new Police
law In that city, because the Governor failed
to nominate any of their party for members Of
the Board of Commissioners.
EH-The first fruits Of tbs election of Demo
cratic mayor of Cleveland was a recommenda-
ton for repeal of the ordinance forbidding the
sale Of liquor on the Sabbath. Why shouldn't
itirun free on Su ndays as well as other days
@The New York Commissioners of Immi-
grafton report that during March Al emigrant
vessels arrived at that port, carrying l3,09S
passengers. The total number Of immigrants
that have arrived from January LIST to April Ist
has been 26, l2l. as compared with 81, 1893
during the same period of 1866.
Among the questions pro posed to caridate
for thagposition of teacher in the public schools
of fLeyenworth, Kansas, was who discovered
the circulation of the blood DIR. CAIN He
was reminded that although possibly Cain dis
coveredthat blood would flow, that Individual
was only dstanly related to the Arctic explorer
The New York Herald has been greatly
concerned about our national Debt. Its propo-
siiion to pay ofby private subscription having
tailed, h-has now hit upon new method. Here
are the new problem and the solution ''How
to pay the National debt-lnycst ii in real es-
tate
EEThe Supreme Court win take up the
Massachusetts liquor cases, wherein some 1000
persons are interested. The question at issue
is the protection which the internal revenue
tax of two dollars per gallon affords to the tax
payer, where bis business is prohibited by State
or municipal law.
Es-A cable dispatch, dated Berlin, the llth
of April, gives usthe information that Bismarck,
who hasbeen watching the course of France for
some time past has addressed sharp note to
the Emperor Napoleon, demanding the reason
of bis warlike preparations and also that he
Immediately cease them, on pain of being ''held
responsible for the consequences.
eEA Chicago dispatch says that distiller at
Rock Island has been cheating the Government
to large extent by slipping whisky to Chica-
go and other points at night and on Sundays
during the absence of the Inspector. 1t has
been ascertained that $4,000 gallons, valued
at $59, 600 were clandestinely disposed Of ia
this way. He has been overhauled by Treas
ary Department agent
GTThe Americans at Florence have mainly
possession of the hotels, their money being as
good as any ones aud they being the most Law
ish among strangers in spending it. The eco
nomical English visitors retiie beforethe open
American pockets, and take quarters in the
boarding houses It is said the Italian beni-
faces make the lowest of their bows to the uni-
yersal Yankee, who. demands the best that is
going.
The name by which the new Russian terri
tery is to be known is exciting discussion and
an. anonymous paragrsphist remarks: "Esqui-
maux Cor better, Eskimo, accordidg to Latham)
would do very well Sitka is very good; Nor
land might do, as we are not likely TO get any
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