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

cgA herd Of four hundred indians ponies,
fat and frisky, are running about in the Pow
der River Valley, Dakota. -,s
@The fare from Chicago to New York, via
the Michigan Central Railroad, have been re-
duced 20 $50.
cEEbe amount of wheat to be shipped from
Milwaukee before the new crnf,i is estimated
at from three and half to five millions of bush
els
Es Ehe emmigrait ref ort of Columbus for
last week is as follows: Ohio, 81 Tennessee, 81,
Wisconsin, So, Minr esota, 10 Iowa, rs Kan
as, 81 +; Michigan, 80; total, ~.
Ea man named Sweeny, a convict in the
West Virginia Peaitentiary, has fallen heir TO a
fortune of SS5, 600 in Ireland. He has fourteen
months yet TO serve.
se1Iss Mary A Levers, of jackson Town
ship, Wood County, Ohio, is twelve years OLD
and weighs two hundred and twenty five
pounds. She is still growing
sSThc New York world says that Judge
Chase has '' no more chance of the Democratic
nomination than he has of fascehting to heaven
in chariot of fire, like Elijah"
EJ The Arlington Estate, in Virginia. oppo
sile Washington, formerly the residence OF Gen
eral Lee, IS to be cut up into five and ten acre
lots, and let out for cultivation to the colored
people.
sFOne of the visible admixture population
sued the trustees Of Green township, Colum-
biana county, Because his vote Was refused at
the polls last year, and few days ago decis-
on in bis favor for $3.50 damages
sgA rural couple in New York state were
blthing cow with ,rosene for sanitary pur-
poses, the ether day, when the oil took fire,
and barn. stock, hay, COW and one Eoman were
destroyed.
@The Browns are holling family party
in ST. Johnsbury, Vt, to talk over their prop
erty claims in England. Vermont is small
State for the Brownsto undertake to get togeth-
ct in.
earJudge Curtis, one of President Johnson's
attorneys, told client of his in Massachusetts,,
whose case comes up for trial April IS, that the
impeachment trial wonld be concluded by thai
time.
The Governor of Illinois has iss ued proc
,lamation designating the 18th of April, the an
niversary of the assassination of President Lin
coin, for day of fasting, humiliation and
prayer.
Eg-A late American invention fer pegging
shoes consists in twisting polygonal wire, and
then cutting it in short lengths. A peg of this
kind driven in shoe enters readily, and rarely,
if ever, falls out like the straight kind.
a-During the three days up to the close of
Change hours in Chicago oa Fridly, $500, 900
lbs, of pork products were sold, or 2G500 bar.
rels, of 200 lbs, each. This meat averaged
So4 barrel, or in all $636, COO.
Eg-John Schneider, blacksmith, of Grand
Rapids, Michigan, has had the misfortune to
lose an affectionate uncle lately. The old gen
tleman died at Frsnkfort-on the Main, and left
John three million dollars
T-The bridge of the U. P R. r across the
Missouri at Omaha viii cost two millions. II
will be $500 feet long. Its foundations are TO
be of granite from the Rocky Mountains.
The bridge will be built of iron.
G-It is proposed to erect soldiers mon
ument in Lake county by means of one dollar
subscriptions-ihe monument to be put up in
Painesville Park, and each township IN the
county to have designated place for the names
of its own dead.
ETExcavatiens have brought to light in Sy-
ria, Hebrew house dating from about the sec
ond century before Christ. Some of the rooms
are in good preservation. and among the books
found is collection of Hebrew poems, said to
be unknown to the present Orientals.
A few weeks ago, the trustees of church
in Philadelphia drowned the Voice of an op-
noxious pastor who had refused to resign after
being requested to do so, by directing tie or
ganist to play loudly whenever he attempted
to address the congregation.
Es- The difficulty between the grain shippers
and the vessel men at Chicago is becoming
quite serious. One hundred aud one of the
principal shippers have signed an agreement
to have no dealings with the vessels owners
who will not adopt the new bill of lading.
EFShould General Grant and Senator Wade
be elected President and Vice President, Ohio
would have the honor of furnishing The Pres |
ident, Vice President, Chief Justice, Chairman
of the Finance Committee of the Senate, and
Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means |
of the House.
Eg-It is a noteworthy fact that the Democra- |
cy of Connecticut have, in the canvass just |
closed kept entirely free from all agitation of |
the financial question. The Cincinnati E,t2ui-
Ter saws the Democrats in New Hampshire
failed to succeed because they did not urge the
Pendletonian doctrine of paying of the bonds
in greenbaEks
u St. Louis saloon keepers are on a strike
against the exorbItant charges OF the larger
beer brewers. The latter had increased the
price of the Bavarian nectar TO sixteen dollars
a barrel, and the retailers refuse to buy any at
the psfce.
gg-Reports from Southern and Central Illi-
nois are almost without exception that winter
wheat passed through the cdld weather sue
cessfuly, and promises an unprecedented harvest
The farmers all over the west are taking ad-
vantage of an unusually early opening Of the
season to sow their grain.
Es- The Broadway hotels and the great shops
pay prices that astonish the initiated. Here
are some of the figures. The Astor House,
when reopeDed, is to rent for $55, 600 1.-THE ST.
Nicholas is rented for $4,000, the Metropoli-
tan for 10000, and the Fifth Avenue some
FTen e. n ab1S