Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-08-08
PEN AND PASTE BREVITIEs.

ES3 lhree new Nclls HANo 49,
the Benhinghoff Farm. Total yield 80 bbls
per day.
FZ-A Michigan woman has found out how
,o make butter from sweet milk, at the rate oi
a pound for every pint.
eg-T6c grand duchy Of Baden has declined
the invitation of Bavaria to take partin mill
tary convention of southern states. s
dg-A council of Austrian ministers has def
nitely settled the title of the Austrian empire
as the Austro- Hungarian Monarchy.
E%-A large silver lode has been found nine
teen miles from Cheyenne, or the people thlnk
they can induce emigration by saying So
t~The Canadian minister of customs has
published eoasting regulations in lieu of the
former regulations of the. providcnces o.
Canada t>.:-
aTThe orange crop in Florida is unusually
promising, and has been generally engaged al
320 thousand Other tropical fruits arc
growing finely.
cw-The venerable Father Cleveland, now in
his ninety-eighth year, has just lssuee MS
thirty-fifth annual report of his iaDors among
the poor of Boston.
rg-The Princess Charlotte has passed into
n state of violent madness, lTeE fixed idea being
that she is kept prisoner by her family, and
that she must escape and go to her husband
e-Mrs Lincoln, having abandoned her
projected European tour, will spend the re-
malnder of the summer at Cresson Springs, in
the Alleghanies. ;iE..
~A convention of base ball clubs occurs
at Providence ont he 1oth of August. New York
and western clubs have been invited to send
delegates. l.. -ifss1i
m-Near Aurora, Ill, n few days ago, two
children named Miller were killed by being
thrown from buggy, and their mother it is
feared, fatally injured. ....
MThe harvest in the Platte Valley is over.
Thew crop will yield forty bushels per
acre in a large portion of the valley. Oats
fifty to eighty bushels
wrColonel Sam. Pike is always starting or
suspending Democratic papers. The Buckeye
Bugss, perhaps his seventieth enterprise, has
just stopped blowing.
E-It is rumored that Brick Pomeroy has
offered two million dollars for the stock and
good will of the Herald establishment; but
Mr. Bennett refuses to sell on any terms.
cT The New York Republican State COM
mittee is preparing for thorough canvass of
that State, and confidently expect to carry
their gubenatorial and presidential ticket.
EF-Nine japanese students at FredOnia,
New York, were lately ordered home by the
Japanese Government Two others have as
kcd, but do not expect permission to remain.
eN-At school exhibition at Cobra, Gwent
county, Georgia, on Friday last, some negroes
commenced the sale of whisky, the students
objected-free fight-fEe negroes wounded.
E- General Myers, chief quartermaster ot
the department of the Platte, reports that The
total shipments of freight for the past twelve
months, from Omaha, west were 3O0,000,0Ot
bushels. ...r .. -..
q Mary Potter, living in Buffalo, tried tc
change her residence to the spirit world OF
Saturday. A physician proved to be too much
for three ounces of paregorie, and tho woman
yet lives.
CB The weat harvest throughout Illinois
and adjoining states is progressing with vigor
The crop is promising to be a large one. The
corn and potato crops promise unprecedented
abundance. @ '-t a5t 80 =
SIT is stated that General Robert E. Lee
will spend this month at French Lick Springs
in Orange county, Indiana, as the guest of DR.
William Bowles the leader of the Sons Of
Liberty in that state. "
EB-The President has accepted receivedan
the resignation of Hon. Caleb Gushing, as
commissioner to codify the laws of the United
States, and will probably appoint Hon Henry
Stanbery in his place.
Advices from St Domingo state that IF
teen hundred of President Baez' troops were
badly. beaten recently by the reyolutionists,
and their commander, General Brigham killed
The reported English loan is a myth.
f8-An elopement in high life occurred near
Des Moines last week One Thomas Doran
with herhied away to some spot now un.
known to the parents of the risky girl.
The different Insurance companies of Cana
da have deposited about one million dollars in
cash, million in Canadian and British securi,
ties, and three-quarters of million in United
States securities, in the treasury at Ottawa.
e3A man by the name of Mccarthy. resi-
ding some six miles north east of Onarga,Ill.
was killed by lightning, Tuesday morning
while engaged in cutting grass When hi.
little boy reached him he was dead and hi
clothes in flames.
BA woman in Rochester named Mar
Schwindler, took off one of the covers of
stove, and forced her adopted daughter, seve
or eight years old, to hold her hands over tn
fire until the flesh was literally roasted.
HHenry Trough, a Mr.. Van Pirk, and
son of Rev. Haza Balton, all of Philadelphia
were drowned at Atlantic City, last Saturda.
while bathing. This makes six cases of drown
ing which have occurred at that place With
the past few days. s.e,
EBThe White House is besieged by plact
hunters chiefly applicants for appointment
under the new tax law. They are disappoin
ed at the delay of the Secretary o.. the Treasur
and are appealing to the President to haste
the disposition of the Offices .-f.+.
e4-Cyrus W. Field telegraphs from Londo
that the cable of 1866 ceased to work at 12:e
Monday afternoon. Tests show that tt
fault is at the Newfoundland SIDE The cab