Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-08-01
Republican County Conventicn'
PEN AND PASTE sREyITIEs.

l$f JtUCrSOn llaNlS anu tathhf SsutNN hNi
Quebec, on Saturday, for Europe. by theSioan
ship Austrian.
e.E-The corner stone Of the new Methods
Episcopal Church at Girard. was laid on Nor
day of last week, with appropriate cercmC
lies.
R~Mexican converts are nearly all no'
used for other purposes; one of many livin
testimonies that the era Of absolute church rul
is even in Mexico closed.
eE-AO outstanding 7.30 notes must be cor
vertcd into secs on or before August 1st q
they will be payable in currency. There az
S13,50O,OO0 of them yet outstanding.
SE-Howell Cobb, Henry 4. Wise, Robcr
Toombs, and Pirate Scmmes are delighte
with the democratic nominations made at Nc,
York.
R-The people Of Seymour, Indiana, hav
hung three more of the Adams Express rot
bers. They were taken from the civil author
ties by a mob of masked mcn,
The Connecticut legislature has killed
project for the consolidation of the New Yor
and New Haven, Hartford, and New Haver
and New Haven and New London railroads.
President johnson on Saturday vet0et
the bill discontinuing the Frccdmens Bureau
after January 1, 1869. His message was briei
Congress wasted no time in passing the bill
over the veto, so that il is now a law.
gSThe Tariff bill, the bill creating provi-
sional governments in Virginia, Texas, and
Mississippi, and the Sandwich Islands Treaty,
were the principal measures which failed to
pass Congress, Monday 27th.
Mr. johnson is reported to have told Sey-
mourite from New York, recently, that he Ow-
ed nothing to the New York Democracy, and
had no desire to be found flying at the tail of
the Seymour kite
ISThe public statement to be issued Satur-
day, August 1st, will show an increase of
nearly three millions on the debt owing to
large goldinterest paid out this month, and
the decrease in the receipts of Internal Reve-
nue..
H-It is estimated that fire in the woods this
season has destroyed in the Ottawa Canada)
district standing pine lumber to the value of
$4,000,0 600, and the woods are still burning
The boats on the Montreal route are greatly
detained by the smoke on the river.
The President has ordered the Secretary of
War to withdraw all the military from those
Southern States which have representatives
in Congress. If any scenes of violence occur
in these States their Legislatures must call on
Mr. johnson for assistance
Horse meat as a diet, in Paris, has been
found to be a failure. The horse meat shops
in Paris do but little business. Over three
thousand old horses, about hundred worn
out asses, and a score of mules have been serv-
ed up, but what is that in a population of two
millions
eE-Gen. Jeffries having been rejected as
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the Presi-
dent has nominated for the place Alexander
Cummings, ex-founder of The World, ex-Gov-
ernor of Colorado, and now Revenue Assessor
in Philadelphia
C8Work on the canal across the Isthmus
of Suez is still progressing. The sum of $57,-
100000 has already been expended upon it,
and the total cost when it is finished will, it is
estimated, be $9O,OOO,OOO, or perhaps, includ-
ing the necessary docks at each end, 800, 0,OOO,-
600. About sixty miles of it is now used for
water transit
eS Congress will adjourn from Monday un-
til September 81. The Republicans have a.
greed not to come together then, unless notifi-
ed by Committee, consisting of Senator Nor
gan and Representative Schenck, that their
presence is deemed necessary for the welfare
Of the country.
An effort was made IN the House on Friday
last to reconsider the vote by which that
branch agreed to the Senate resolution to take
a recess from Monday the 27th,. The motion
was laid upon the table, which settles the mat
ter, and both Houses will stand adjourned from
the day named above until the third Monday
in September.
Us Planchette, is a little heart-shaped, three
legged toy, being perched upon two brass
wheels and the tip of lead pencil, with which |
The point of the heart is furnished. Its Office
work and mission,. according to the belief of |
istoIloldcommunion with the sp;r.
i world, and write out the responses Of tbst
world, to the interrogations of the weak and |
credulous of this
70 The Express says: The Erie war Is A.
lally settled Drew's loan has been paid and |
ie IS allowed to keep his hypothecated stoc,, |
1t ~, which as he had it at 60 puts nearly half
million into the Treasury of the company
Vanderbelts sells the company fifty millions of
he new stock, about the average of the sales
IL convertible bonds which is to be retired and
Drew is now out of the Direction.
'no Is understood to be out os stock.
US baltimore City and the s,irTound;pg
country was visited with terrible flood n,,t the
'4th-' destructive both of life and propertv-
The principal steets of the CITY were srbr,o-,
d, in some places to the depth of over .oren
ect. Buiitlings were undermined, pronertv -
,ellars was ruined, street cars were swent tron,
he tracks, and about five persons were drown
ID. The damage will amount to 100000 |
1t Eilieott City, about twenty miles from the
ity, on the line Of the Baltimore AMI Ohio
railroad, tile Granite Mills were swept away
nd sixtypersons were drowned.
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