Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-21
.SHTABULA
PEN AND PASTE BREVlrIEs.


negro of crime on Chir.ese testimony.
ET The official returns of the vote in
South Carolina ensure the success OF the Con-
ventioD.
EEThe Paymaster General reports thirty-fiVe
millions ps;d out on the Bounty bill thus far,
and fo:ty-fve millions yetto be paid.
EFThere is often but slight separation be-
tween woman's love and her hate; her keen
teeth are very 1eaI to her lips.
SfThe entire assets of recent bankrupt
were nine children. The creditors acted mag
unanimously, and let him keep them.
FJ Newfoundland exported only 453,977
quintals of fish this year, to November 26-less
by 23I, 900 quintals than tie export Of the same
period last year.
EgThe Buffalo Express says National Ac-
commodatoD Express Company" is about to be
formed with large capital. for the transporta
tion and care of baggage for travellers.
s5 The accounts ofthe late Isaac Newton,
Commissioner of Agriculture, are found TO have
been kept in the most wretched manner; he ex
pended about $45, 900 more money than was
appropriated to bis department
EsThe wife of Aaron Rowe, living three miles
south of Mount Vernon, o., presented her hus-
band with five children at one birth on Tuesday
of last week. The mother and children are do
ing-as well as if nothing extraordinary had ia
ken place.
e The owner of . cow which strayed on the
track of the P, Ft. w. & C. railway in Indiana,
and was run over by train which was thrown
of the track and badly wrecked, has been ad-
judged to pay'the railway company $4,000 dam
ages.
E8-The vessel bearing Maximilians remains.
when it arrives in Austrian waters, will be re-
ceVed with great pomp, every Austrian war
vessel now afoat being ordered to attend and
join the cortege, while all the forts and batter
les will salute the passing feet.
ES~The breaking away of an immense reser-
voir of water owned by Massachusetts manu-
featuring company, one night last week, was
first discov re by man who was reused from
sleep by his house floating down stream. He
managed to save himself AID family.
The Territorial Con mittee CT the Senate on
Friday reported bill prohibiting polygamy in
Utah, and repeating special privileges hereto
fore granted to the Mormon church one of the
committee gave notice that early action on the
bill would be asked.
The ecclesiastical court to try the Tying case
will consist of Rev. DR.. Tuttle, of ST. Lukes
N. z; Rev. DR.. Beach, of St. Peters, n. Y;
Rev. DR.. Hoffman, of Grace Church, Brooklyn.
Rev. Dean Moor, of Hampstead; and Rev. Sam
uel Hollingworth, of Portchester.
The most interesting item in our foreign ad-
vices is the sensational account of gun-power
plot for the release of the FeriGn Burke from
prison. His friends seem to have at last Lurnt
powder to some purpose, though he still rem
mains in quod.
ETEcce Deus-HoDao is a new variation of
the Ginning bells which have rung SO many
changes on this title, and is devoted to the work
and kingdom of the Christ Of Scripture, main
taiaing that ''Jesus Christ WAS the Goldman,
not the Homo merely, nor the Deus merely. but
N his one person, the Deus-homo."
CT The proclamation Of the King of Den
mark announcing to his subjects in ST. Thomas
the cession of that island to the United States is
promulgated The inhabitants are 10 be allow
ed to express their wishes regarding the trans
fer, and to make Their choice of the Government
to which they viii give their allegiance.
RF A man from the country while riding
along one OF the streets of Cleveland, upon
load of hay the other day. leaned over bis load
ID get better view of one ofCleveland's lovely
women, and slipped from his load and broke his
jaw. He purposes to sue the gal for damages
Eg-A Cleveland letter in the Rochester Demo-
crat speaks Of friend from Rochester now liv-
ing here as "a sagacious politician, who though
an original Chase man, accepts the probable |
nomination of Gen. Grant gracefully, as strongly
fcreshadowed in the expressed will of the |
people"
EEThis is the way the Cincinnati Enquirer, |
Democratic Pendletonian Journal, disposes of
its Presidential candidate in 86s: Sc A. Stew
ems, a. New York millionaire is to start horse
railroads in Paris, and has engaged General Nc
Clellan for engineer. OH" The Enquirer ev-
identity wishes TO ignore Little Mac in 1868
The fourth article of the new treaty for the
purchase of the Danish West Indies declares
that the cession is to be deemed complete and |
absolute on the exchange of Publications with
out watingfor a formal delivery. This is look
ed upon in the House as anticipating any con-
trary action on its part.
eSThe Abyssinian Expedition, on advanc-
ing INTO the interior, is greatly suffering from
scarcity of W&ter This has from the beginning
been regarded as the great obstacle to the sue
cess of the expedition but, on the other hand,
the reinforcement of the expedition by Egyptian
and other African troops is likely to hasten re-
suits
ct Beccher's Norwood" on the boards of
theatre hooks very much like a parson furnish
ing capital for tine devil to do business upon, if
the stand which the pulpit has taken against
theatricals can be regarded as reliable. Beech
er is an exception, however, and the world will
probably vote that he is using Satan's weapons
to fight 6usl with him.
GWa 81 ington specials aIlege the existence
at the Capital, ola ''whisky ring" which is
willing to make lavish use of a corruption fund
estimated at 5000, ,OOO and which can be trebled
ifreqnired, to purchase the subseryiency of
ConEressmen and the silence of the press This
''ring, they say, represents in fact the effective
labors of the recsnt National Convention of the
whisky interest.
E8 Story's statue OF Everett which has been
set up in Boston, has disappointed the people.