Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-14
nTAB B U L A
PEN AND PASTE bKEYIrlEs.

eEDuring the gale of Saturday last week a
large school house in Pontiac, Michigan. was
blown down and number of scholars injured
sgThe winter term of Kingsvile Academy
commenced on Tuesday of last week One
hundred and twenty-five students were present.
EgThe Republican National Committee have
designated Chicago as the place for holding the
National Convention, which meets on the Goth
CT May, 1868.
- Bishop Potter. of New York, has appoint
ed court of five divines for tho trial of Rev. S.
H. Tying, Jr., for the heinous offence Of filing
the pulpit in Methodist church.
UMr Greeley has received official notice Of
his appointment 10 the Austrian Mission, and
given dUe rotice iEat lie nliiiohally de-
clines the roSt.
rsrCommissiOner CGp:nt commences his ser
vices in the Agricultural bureau by recommend
ing the closing of the seed room, and dscharg-
ing the 81 clerks who are st present employed
there.
TTlso barn of Mr.. Ezra Mason. of Perry,
was blown over during the gale Of last Friday
night, and six large hogs-which were under
the barn and which he intended to slaughter
next day-weTe killed.
rg-The formidable Caesarean operation was
performed successfully in New Haven on No
vember I6:h, by Dr.. T. B. Townsend. The
patient and child are both doing we'll at last &C
counts.
ga telegram received from Bombay gives a
rumor that Theodore, tbs King of Abys2inia,
had orderd the English prisoners in his custody
to be executed. Happily, however, the rumor
nee Is continuation,
ss The diameter of the earth multiplied by
IOS gives the diameter Of the sun the diameter
of the sun multiplied by los gives the mean dis
tance of the earth from the sun; and the diam
eter of the moon multiplied by lGS gives the
mean distance of the moon from the earth.
ElrSeveral more battles have taken place in
Crete, and again prove the determination of The
insurgents to hold ont TO the last. 1t is likely
that now, after the marriage of the King Of
Greece with Russian princess, foreign aid will
not much longer be withheld from the heroic
Cretans
eg Henry Ward Beecher received thirty
thousand dollars for his story Of Norwood in
the New YORK Ledger. With his literal salary
as pastor of Plymouth Church, revenue from
Publishing sermons, books, and occasional lee
lures, his income is pretty considerable for q
successor fthe poor fishermen of Galilce.
E-Some men whilst bGling fur water in Per-
kins township, near SaLdusky, last Saturday,,
struck current of gas, followed by a rush of
water 4 match was struck near the well,
when the gas took fire with loud explosion
burned, two of them seriously.
VENIsoN seems to be more common this win
ter than any previous one for many years. Tol-
cott has il hanging at his door regularly, and
The Sentinel notices some twenty odd, brought
in by citizens of that place and vicinity. One
person, Delos Benjamin killing as many as six
Our friend CALDWELL, is named among Ike MIN
rods who brought down his stag.
e The New York Tribune says ii is expect
ed that treaty merging the Adams, Merchants
Uuion, American and United States Express
Companies into corporation Of $4,000, ,OG0,
viii be signed this week. The Adams is said TO
get SI0,000000 ofthe new concern, and the
Merchants $5,O00,OO0, for 81, 500, 600 paid in.
6 One of the Editors of the Black River
", of Saybrook He has recently been the re-
cipieat of barrel of nice apples, a present from
friends in Ashtabula County. He says they are
as much more palatable than the late election
news from this State, as the lips Of a modest
maiden are better than red pepper.
ET A letter from Rome says that United
States Consul Cpshman accompanied small
Ct tba C,9r aif atti
under fire, picked up the musket of dead sol
dier and fred at the Garibsllans until he was
himself slightly wounded. If that statement
prove true, thetonly regret is that the word
slightly" should not read ''inortally."
E9-A Nevada sheriff. the other day serving
tie bill of complaint of husband, in divorce
case for adultery, hit upon the wrong woman
and proceeded to read. The lady stood amaz-
ed till he got to the charge of adultery, wien
she fred frying pan loaded with hot lat and
doughnu!s at him, and the sheriff quit the prem
ises.
Is The Wine Growers Association of Cincin
natl, at a recent meeting, tested he first Cham
payne wines made from the Ives Seeding and
Concord grapes, and marked them up 10 lO1,
their maximum grape, and declared them TN
equaled in excellence.
EyTen divorces were granted in Portage couE-
ty the other day, and twenty-five ether cases
were continued to the next term of Court. The
Trumbull county docket is reported 10 show a
bout fifty cases pending Eight divorces were
granted in Sandusky county ii the last court.
Blessed be the tie, &c
In the Island Of ST. Thomas a popular vote
has been taken 10 ascertain the sentiments of
the people with regard to the subject of annex
alton to the United States. A dispatch by the
Cuba Cable icforms us that the vote has result
ed in favor of annie Xation. In Cuba, the
purchase of .he Danish island by the Quilted
States is creating considerable excitement. The
whole of the native population begins to be tired
of Spanish rule, and the idea of an incorporation
with the United States is very popular.
The Commissioner of Pensions, at the request
OF an officer of the Treasury Department has
furnished report showing that the whole num-
Der of applications for Tensio s, by re; soa o:
casualties in tie late war, filed prior to Novem-
Der ls, was 2S7,472 of this number, 2O9, ,62S
have been acted on, 67,9l5 suspend ed for addi
tional evidence, and 1929 awaiting action in