Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-04-11

SS The House Committee on Elections have
resolved to reject the Mormon delegate from
Utah, on the ground that the Mormons are l
community hostile to the Government
The Presidents right to create the so-calIed
Military Division of the Atlantic has been cali
ed in question by resolution IN the Senate.
Austria leads the Catholic powers of Europe
in the absolute legaiizatipn of marriage as civ
il rite, the bill to that end having finally passed
both branches of her Reichstrath.
! bloody riot occurred on the morning of
March 5Oth, at John O'Neil's coal mines, near
Mckeesport. Some of O'Neils men who had
been out some lime, went to work, when eco
men arrived from neighborfDg works, and
called upon them to come out. They were
armed with ClrEs and other weapons. ONei.
and his men resisted them, shooting and killing
one man and wounding FIVE, one seriously.
During the carnival, Victor Emanuel
Square in Turin, said to be the largest
square in Europe, was converted into
an immense open air theatre, the pit of
which contained thirty thousand people.
Robert Kennedy, Scotchman but
most of whose life has been passed in
Pennsylvania, died at Allegheny City,
on the 18th inst in bis 10th year. He
was born in August l761, and until
within the two years preceding his
death had been remarkably healthful and
active. ..
The amount now paid by the people
of ireland for the privilege OF eultiYa-
ting the land and getting a too seam
ty living is $4,000, ,OO9--s6O, 900, 900 a
year. John Brights plan for changing this
land system is for the government to
buy the land of the landlords, and the
people to buy it of the government and
pay for it in installments.
The Scituate Or. y National Bank
was robbed on Tuesday night of $25, 900
in bills and bonds. The Cashier was ta-
ken from his bed IN another house by
fOur men, carried to the Bank and COM
PEELED to open the vaults for the robbers,
who have escaped. The capital of the
bank is S2e, ,0OO. s
The Rev. Dr. Van Vechten, a clergy
man of Albany, is regarded as a remark
able man. He had house for sale, and
entrusted the negotiations to an agent,
fixing the price at $4,000. The agent
sold it for Sc, 800, and the Doctor refused
to receive the extra $500, and ordered it
TO be returned to the purchaser. Very
few people in this world would transact
business in this honorable way.
Thirty persons are known to have
been travelling between Hearts Content
and Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, when
a terrible snow storm set in, ON the even
ing of the Sd, of February. 1t is sup
posed they all lost their lives. Thirteen
dead bodies have been recovered, and at
last accounts a search for the remainder
was in progress.
The late storm blew down or damaged
sixteen houses at Chatham, Illinois, forty
five miles east of Alton. Three citizens
were killed, and five more seriously injur-
ed. About forty houses were more or
less damaged in llinoistewn. An old
hotel, built fifty years ago by the French
settlers, aud regarded as historical re- r.
lie, was completely demolished, the in
mates escaping unharmed. -.-
The handwriting is on the wall. The =
Senate will convict the President ceT-
Mi,ely, and within the next fifty days
he will be dismissed and stand for ali
time 10 come in disgrace. lie is the
worst and most desperate man on earth.
He never realized his true situation until
the last week He is perfectly restless
and exhibits signs of disappointment
You will not see ripple when he is put
out. .-. ---- .-..-.-
The latest specimen of Juvenile Esera-
ture is this: As William Wilkins was
walking in the garden one day, he met
his dear sister and thus he did say
"Why is squash like little news
boy - She gave it up. because" said 2
this wicked boy, "the oder he grows
the more of a yeLIer he will be" His
good grandmamma overheard him and
went to bed sick with grief