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

70 Only 5,OO0, 900 out Of 36, ,000 coo acres of
land IN Michigan are improved.
EgOne of the greatest English MOBILES has be-
come insane. Name suppressed.
egThe New Haven Railroad Company are
about laying 1000 tons of steel rails.
EFThe mother 81 Gen Halleck died in Oneida
county on the stA
eTThe Lonsu1iderry, N H., Democrats sup
ported nesr5 for town officer at the late cleo
tion. &C.
eEGen. Grant is said not to relish the pater
nal biography in Bonneris Ledger.
: egGrasshoppers are already hopping in Iowa,
by millions
E5-DuriHg she four months ending last Sep
tember, Boston bathed sO7, ,2Ol people gratis.
SRA daughter of Juarez has just been mar
red to young Yucatanian.
rS-Count de Waldeck, an ancient artist in
Paris, is 1Os years old, and still painting.
EEParton gets $500 apiece for his atlantic
articles.
ssMrs. Burdell Cunningham has turned up
as clairvoyant physician at MazatIan, Mexico.
Oh Stubbs, where is thy victory; oh BoEss;
where is Thy s. Tying!
Mr. johnson is a well preserved han. Whis-
ky has got him into pretty pickle" at last.
EgThe Home Journal says that man should
marry woman at least ten years younger than
himself
EsrThe earnings last year Of twelve railroads
entering Chicago are estimated by the Tribune
at $49, ,O0O,0
u The Ohio river is now on its spring ''ranl
page" The water at Cincinnati was Il feet
inches above low water mark on the 29th.
q In the contested case between Delano va
Morgan, in the Mount Vrrnon Congressional
District, the seat has been gwen to Delano.
rsTwenty thousand Norwegians, Danes and
Swedes are to arrive here this spring, whose
destination viii be chiefly to tlc West.
Titon says that michigan is setting with
her finger on her forehead. ponderihg The qdes-
tion' is the negro a man?"
gTwo hundred coolies have just arrived in
Havana. They were guarded by 80 Portuguese
soldiers on the trip to prevent mutiny.
1.-THE act authorizing the Erie Railroad to
have an office and transact business in New Jer-
sey has been signed by the Governor.
EgOf ls,0OO, 900 people who have Travelled
over the London and Northwestern Railroad
only one has suffered from accident.
ETDaniel Drew used to work for fifty cents
day in Oneida county. He is doing better
now.
EEAn unusual fight of pigeons this spring is
hailed by croakers as 0minoIs Of q chOleraic
sunme-.
Eg The Reuolutioa calls on the police to
make raid on tlIe .'abandoheF men who
infest Broadway.
sqJonathan Arnold, Esq, of Angelica, N. Y.
recently killed sheep which weighed after be-
ing dressed, 1870 pounds.
s9Henry Kingsley claims that Robinson
Crusoe is an allegorical account of Defoes own
life."
cgThe seventeen year locusts are announced
among the entertainments ofthe coming sum-
mcr.
EgThe Democracy Of Dayton, Ohio, if&ie
been SO often disgusted with defeat that they
have decided not 10 put any city titket in the
field this spring
EaThe Regents of the Michigan State Uni
versity at Ann Arbor have established Homeo-
pathic Branch of the Medical School, under
charge of DR.. Chas. Hempel of Grand Rapids.
Es-The Utica Herald charges directly that
the Assembly at Albany has been bought up
by the Vanderbilt interest, and that tie price
agreed upon is $l5o,OOO
John Wentworth invested his first Con-
gressional mileage money in Chicago real es-
tate, part Of which he has since sold for $780,
OOO
9The West India telegraph lines will ere
long be extended to all the large islands, as
well as to New Grenada, and probably one or
two points on the.South American coast.
E9-Thcre is considerable excitement at Quay
mas, in the State of Sonora, Mexico, in regard
to the location at that point Of the terminus OF
the Southern Pacific Railroad.
egGovernor Pesquera, Of Sonora, Is in cor
respondence with Gen. Mcdowell. snd it is be-
lieved plan is maturing for annexation to The
United States.
sgIn the fall of 1865 two hundred and five
negroes left Lynchburg. Virginia, for Liberia.
a few days since three of the number returned,
reporting that only sixty Of the original number
are aliye.
The Democracy are just now greatly agitated,
about who shall be their candidate for the
Presidency. We suggest Morrissey-not be-
cause heN is~the NEST fl, but because he has
eft" the most.
E-The London, Chatham and Dover Rail
way Company appear as claimants on the es-
tate of Sir Merton Peto and his partners for
the large sum of $33, 100000. An English pa
per thinks s'there never was such an account
filed in any bankruptcy of private firm since
The world began"
sgThe Wesleyan" University at Middletown,
Conn.,, is building -anobservatory for the IT,
ception of q very powerful telescope, to be
made by Avan Clarke, Of Cambridge, Mass,
and which will be the largest, -with4one except
in the country. The instrument s the gift of
three ladies of New York.
EaThe stores of Il. Cohen and Sim0h 'SEa4er
man, at1 PomerosS Ohio, were destroyed Sb5'
fire attwelye O'CLOCK, March 27. Mr.. Cohen
was found in his store shot through the back
of his neck He died that morning. It is sup
posed the fire was the work Of incendiaries and
nurdere.s. Loss, 1000.
,z-Tha NotionoI Eraa1nSn'5 Saving and