Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-01-18
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PEN AND PASTE BRgVIrIEs.

eGSeven feet is the; length ola hog in Con-
hecticut.
SUpwards of 10000 PhiIadelphians died
last year.
alsThe income Of Girard College was $780,
OGOlast year.
sFFhe Aste'r Library contains 135, COO vol
bmes. 1900 of which were added last year. Its
capacity is $50, eco volumes
u An illicit still and three rectifying estab-
Eshments were destroyed in New York, on
Monday night last, for alleged fraud.
F9-BoBder applied to General Grant for
something fol the Ledger" The General re-
piled, ''You may print my speeches"
EgThe President has received the report of
the Indian Peace Commissioners from General
Sherman, and has disbanded the Commission.
gThe trial of Rev. Stephen H. Tying, Jr.,
for the violation of an Episcopal canon, has
been postponed to the 10th of February.
eTIn seven months ending with September
last. about half million of dollars were paid
for pensions at the Agency in Columbus.
egThey carry cotton, now, from New Or
leans via Cairo, Chicago and Detroit (Blue
Line to New York, for S. per bale, time guar
anteed ten days.
eEIt is intimated that there may soon be a
special election in the Clarke and BIadisOus Con-
gressional District, Mr. Shellabarger's health
showing no signs of improvement.
IB The Adjutant-Generalo of Ohio, since Oc
tober, has collected from the authorities at
Washington, and forwarded to proper parties,
soldiers claims to the amount of $IlI,435 80.
EaTwo or three of the Royal palaces in snd
around Copenhagen are to be sold to private
citizens. Cause. impecuniosity Of their pres
eat owner
rTThere is an establishment in New York
whose business it is to rent out silver ware for
weddings, SO that bride can make becoming
display of presents"
eTGen. Sherman says the late Indian war
was small affair, and appeared large only in
newspapers The cost waS by no means so great
as is supposed by most persons.
E9- Ministers Of the gospel who have ceased to
perform their other duties are forbidden 10 per
form the marriage ceremony in Vermont, by
recent law.
E97 1000, 900 bushels of wheat have already
been sent to market from Minnesota, and fully
as much more is supposed still to be in the
hands of the farmers.
EarSpecials from Providence, R. l., say there
have been several large failures Of manuiactur-
ing firms there, and tina: there will be many
more.
Es-Among Christmas meats on exhibition in
the Salt Lake market were grizzly bears, fat
and eniicing, at fifty cents per pound, choice
cuts.
ESrGeneral Grant reports to the House, thnt
the amount of the land in the South now sub
ject TO Government sale, will reach fifty millions
of scres.
ssEvery daily paper in Boston is pecuniarily
prosperous, making from $4,000 to $50. 0O0
year. For the amount Of money expended on
them, they are more remuneralive probably
than the journals of any other leading city.
EsA southern exchange, in speaking of two
cases ofinfanticide one of the murderesses be-
ing white and the other black, calls the white
one ''an unfortunate girl and the other "a ne
gro iend."
In San Francisco. i. is noticed, as one Oft the
effects of the cession of Russian America, that
large quantities of choice Siberian sables have
been received in that market a one half the for
mer price.
The Directors of the Hudson River Road
have decided TO begin the laying Of still anoth-
er track between Hudson and New York The
new track is to be devoted exclusively to freight
ing purposes.
ES-A little boy ten years Of age. named Jos
eph Bullach, committed suicide in Lis mothers
residence, in New York on Monday, in a fit of
dependency, because his elder brother had
been sentenced to the Island as q confirmed
drunkard.
0-Captain Lawrence O'Brien, of New Ha-
ven, VT, for some time past prisoner, charged
with being Fenian, in Clonmel Jail, Ireland,
was welcomed home at Springfield, Mass, re-
Gently, having effected daring escape from his
prison.
esrThe cordial hand shaking between Gene
raj Sherman and Senator Summer at the close
of the iatter's lecture (''Are We Nation?) in
St. Louis, some days ago, is commented on
with marked terms of despair in the Southern
Democratic press.
egThe Indiana Democracy were not unit
for Pendleton. On the resolution indorsing
him for the Presidency, twenty counties voted
in the negative, while q resolution compliments
ry TO Gen. Hancock, went through with enthu-
siasm.
egThe amputatIon of the shouller-joint, to |
remove an aneurism, was so successfully per-
formed at Milwaukee on the 7th that the patient |
bids fair to recover. 1t is said that this opera
lion had never before been successfully per
formed in this country.
Cards have been prepared for the police sta
lions in New Fork city, whereon any person
pseding employment may inscribe his name and
he kind of work that he desires, and to the ex-
eut of afording facilities Of this kind the police
stations are to be made intelligence offices.
". II. Bunneil, auetioneer in New Orleans,
vas seized with congestiTe chill, and sent for
lis business partner, Mr.. Bailey. The latter fell
lead of heart disease Sc he sscended the steps
,f BunneIl's house, and half az hour later the
other expired.
sgA Vermont paper says: Water in Burling-
on is selling at fifty cents per barrel. Wells,