Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-10-05
PEN AND PASTE BREVITIEs.

E9-J. NJ. Mason, OF Trent celebrity, has n
turned to Toronto, it is supposed, to remain.
g'A distillery has recently been dfscovere
= on board canal boat, near Philadelphia
Es-The Ohio river is still vert low. Boat
are laid up all along the shore from Marietta t
Pittsburgh. - -su. iat +H
bleif4r The story that Mrs. Cole, the wife of th
murderer of Hiscock, is insane, proves untrue
She is in good mental and bodily health.
,EszThe West Virginia rebels becoming saucy
Gen. Grant has sent company of soldiers t.
'tmeet them at Phillippi''
Eg-Sheuts for jeff Davis gave interest to th
proceedings of the Vallandigham meeting a
Columbus on the 80tn. .i-.
The drought is so great in some of th'
western counties that, last week, water wa
hauled from the lake, at Sandusky, to Belevu,
twenty miles by railroad, inland.
EFA directors train on the New York Cen
-ffaf Railroad, the other day, ran from Hamburg
to Buffaio-ten miles-in eight minutes, or a
the rate of seventy-eight miles an hour.
egNew. Mexico is TO be taken out of the
Democratic pyramid. The democratic dele
gate had his vote so much lessened by the re-
lection of fraudulent ballots that the certificate
will be given to the republican candidate
E9-One of the notices at the democratic
gathering at Columbus, carried by men who
object 10 negro suffrage on account of the ig-
norance of the negro, rei thus "Wel-come
to the white boyes in Blew" '.Down with the
Niger" --eFs .sfa1.. ..-
. e The latest returns from Louisiana indicate
that majority of registered voters voted at the
recent election and that the convention is there
fore ordered. In New Orleans the vote was
very light, but more general in the country par
islies. a# 7
ea egGenerals Gadby, Ord and Schofeld have
already issued orders requiring returning rebel
soldiers to take the pardon oath. Gems. Pope
and Mower will do the same, General Grant
suggested this course.
I We note the first snow storm of The season at
Nelson, N. H., where The depth of three inches
fellthe other day. Several ''flurries'' were also
observed at Keene.
Ea-The Homeopathic College of Pennsylva-
MIA has determined to open its doors to women,
provided sufficient number offer to make it
desirable as a test of its benefits a--
: IS The Vote in Maryland on the adoption of
the new Constitution was A, l52 for it, and %,
-039 against it. Gov. Swami gives notice that
it will go into effect on Saturday next
tgThe damage done by the great hail storm
at Philadelphia, last week. is estimated at $780,
600 more glass was broken than could be re-
placed by all the stores and factories in the city.
ES-The express companies return their bust
ness as follows TO the Assessor of Internal Rev
enue, in New York, for the seven months of
1867: Adams, 1895, ,OaO; United States, ST.
312,s5s; American, SI,2I7,5lO; Merchants
Union, 81, 9,351.
gThe drought ia Central Illinois is terrible
Nearly all the wells and cisterns ia Springfield
are failing, and in the country there is not one
welFin ten that is not dry.
E9The drought is so excessive at Republic
that every well in the place save one is dry.
At Monroeville drinking water sells at the rate
of Eve cents per bucket; landlord of the
hotel is paying that price.
g In its financial results, the State Fair
was perfectly satisfactory the receipts foot
up very nearly to a round twenty thousand
dollars. the largest sum ever realized at an
Ohio State Fair. e
@ A congregation of fifty thousand people,
all well behaved, quiet, happy, selfgoyerned
and free, is spectacle for an American to be
proud of Such was the fact at our State
Fair. The assembly was the largest and best
ordered ever seen at any State Fair.
ty-A few months ago we had book entitled
'Ecce Homo >; then we had ''Ecce Deus .;
then "E Ecce Celum, and now we have Ecce
Bonus Liber." The first was erce-llent, but
the last is ere-crable.
E8 The universalq question is, "where is An
dy johnson going ?". a priest asked tipsy
fellow leaning against fence where he ex-
pected to go when he die6. ''If can't get
along any better than do now," said he, 81
can't go anywhere"
EgThe AshtabuIa Telegraph says that on
one day this week, haul of eight hundred
and forty white fish, of over ten thousand
pounds weight, was made off that harbor
-, 49, ..t Cleveland Herald.
Seven thousand eight hundred too much,
neighbor. ,..-5.- ... ....
FSThe Union meeting at GAINESVILLE on Sat
urday last was so enthusiastic and so largely at
tended, that the Vallandigham- abandoned
a meeting of their own, which had been az
pointed for the same time, for lack of encour
agement, contenting themselves with small
gathering in the evening.
EB-The special correspondent of the Cleve
land Herald, Professor Rhodes, has been
joined in Geneva by General Garfield and wife,
and the party intend crossing the Simplon TO
Northern Italy The Generals health is much
improved since his arrival in Switzerland, and
he contemplates returning home in time for the
opening Of Congress.
E5-The greatest Union meeting of the cam
paign was held at GAINESVILLE on the I7tb. Over
%, 600 people were present aud the speeches of
Logan, Gibson, Schenck, Gray and others were
listened to with profound qualification A capi-
tai song was improvised for the occasion by
John Greiner, of the Times, who will be re-
as famous political bard at popular
gatherings long ago.
EEThe fullest returns from Maine comprise
all the 'state save % small towns and pJanta-
lions and foot up thus:
1866. 1867.
Republfcan 69,637 z,649
Democratic A,94z 46,o35
sfpo,,,t ma; Re, 81 eeO If6IP