Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-02-08

600, were burnedt
eFA negro who had outraged young girl
1T Lexington, Kv., recently, was tlken from
prison by mob and hung.
eS- The lie about its costing Is cents to II a
dollar to the heather is nail by the A. B. c.
+. NJ, who show that it costs cents.
eFWhite gum Iwder is now manufactured
in France, which leaves no trace in the gun.
Il Is highly spoken of in military circles.
New English railway carriages are to be
placed on the trains between \. Y, and New
Haven.
Ea-The managers of the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad are about 10 take twenty engines off
the track, and about thousand employees will
be discharged. -..-
A fire broke out in DAYTON, Oafo. Sunday
evening, at the correr OF Third and Jefferson
streets, consuming several frame and one brick
building. Loss S2OOOO. ......
SFNew York, is experiencing one of the dull
lest seasons that has occurred in that city since
1887 correspondent, under recent date,
says:
.@ Hippophagy is about being introduced in
10 New York. A French restaurant intends
placing horse flesh, in various styles, on its bill
effare
EsIf Montana has excluded colorcd men from
the ballot, as charged, Congress will be very
likely to repeal the law erecting the Territory
The charge is under investigation.
eFMr. John Covode has addressed Governor
Fenton, of New York, pungent letter through
the newspapers, in condemnation of his stigses-
lion for paving national honnrS 10 dead rebels.
eTMr. Thornton the new British Minister,
has reached Washington There isa general
feeling of confidence that comes empowered to
settle the Alabama claims, or 4, t least to make
new propositions regarding their settlement.
EEGen. Canby, in compliance with g request
of the South Car, lima Reconstruction Conven-
tion, has issued an order staying for three
months executions Oh real and personal prop
erty. .-t
sFAt Norwalk, Cora, ON Friday evening,
can of ''no 1-explosive" burning fluid exploded
causing the death of one person, and two 9TH
ers were so badly injured that it is thought they
will not survive.
ESA Life Insurance Company is about 10 be
started in New York which will insure people
who will adopt the Homeopathic system at fif-
teen per cent lower than those who stand by
the old school.
gMr. johnson is said to b. very much de-
moralized by Gen. Beatty's election in Ohio,
and lie fears that State may not approve his
course, after all. The Republicans from Ohio
say that if Vallandingham had stnmped the dis
trict they would have doubled their majority.
EE The projected canal from Chicago to the
Mississippi River can be built I6O feet wide,
feet deep, and furnish navigational facilities for
vessels Of 900 tons, at cost OF $ls,2l7, 900.
The route would be by the way of the Michi-
gan and Illinois Canal and Illinois River.
@Ths Conservative Republican members Of
the House of Representatives at Washington
are now going TO greater extremes than the
Radicals ever suggested. A little of the energr
evinced at this late day would have accomp-
lished much last spring.
EgA fast train on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
was thrown from tha track by broken rail-
Two sleeping cars and one other went down
an embankment and were consumed One lady
was killed, many others burned and bruised,
but none fatally.
@The Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tribune
SAYS that there is great desitution and suffering
in that city, and that dozens of families are ac
tually nnprovded with the means of avsrting
hunger and FROST" and that numbers Of men,
women and children are actually in danger of
starving or freezing to death" I'll
@The punishment for participating in a
y prize-fight in New York State is $1,000 fine
and two years Imprisonment for steamboat
commanders for conveying persons to such
fight, $500 fine and two years imprisonment
and all persons present at any fight, each 5000
fine and one year Imprisonment. '' fa
rFThree hundred railway passengers, cross
ing the river to st. Louis on the ice. on the go,
inst, were terribly frightened by tie sudden de-
taching OF the entire body of ice from either
bank, and moving down the stream. Escape
was impossible until the ice again lodged ashor
distance below and all were safely rescued
tEFour cars were fred and burned by the
late accident on the A. & G.. ". road, from The
kerosene lamps used in the cars. The passen-
gers were rescued, some of them in their sleep
ing costume and all exposed to the bitter cold
il an urlblbite locality, distant from shelter
or relief Though none killed or burned, many
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1.-THE bill to organize Wyoming Territory
forms its area of the western half OF Dacoiah,
by an extension northward of The western line
of Nebraska Tss new territory, it is said. will
contain an area of roc, 600 square miles and l5,
600 Inhabitants. The Governor of Dacotah has
recommended the proposed division, and the
disposition of the Horse seems to be favorable
EEIt is understood in Buffalo that Mr. Van
derbilt has made formal proposition 10 the
English Board of Directors of the Great West
ern (Canada) Railway, offering to lease that
line at price which would pay the stot kheld-
ers ten per cent. per annum on the present C. nj
tai stock. For the list ten years that road has
either made no dividends OF has paid no higher
than six per cent. r-r.
eE"An old Reb," as he styles himself, writes
as follows to the Richmond Examiner ''The
principles for which the south fought, and for
which size was denouncee and overrun, have in
less than three short years become the rallying
cry of the white man s party-States' Rights
that the cry. l like TO hear tit makes my
blood course through my veins as it did ON the
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