Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-08-29
PEN AND PASTE BREyITlEs.

w-"The Boomerang is the name OF ne"
paper, published at North Lewisburg, Ohio.
R-Bismark says when his health has been
fully restored that he will try to visit America,
TAlfred Smith, late of Hartford, Conn.,
died worth S25G,9OO, 100000 of which he be-
'queathed TO religious societies
E@-The first snow of the season fell on the
dome of Mt Washington on Friday morning,
Aug. Is. h.e
cN-The prevalent opinion now seems to be
that there will be no session Of Congress in
September.
m-Congressman Poland, of Vermont prom
ises majority of 80, ,OO0 in that State for Grant
and Colfax
Anson Stager, preparatory to going to
Chicago, has sold his residence on Euclid ave-
nue., Cleveland for 100000.
m-The Adjutant General of Ohio wishes
to know the whereabouts of Wesley Clark,
formerly member of the-4th Ohio Cavalry
mThe Grant boys are up and doing, deter
mined to fight it out on the line of victory
"if it takes all the summer"
wThe Chicago Tribune last year cleared
$165, 900, which is larger profit, in the same
time than any other newspaper in the West.
Last week Hon. B.F. Wade and his son
James F. Wade went west for the Plains, via
the Kansas and Pacific Railroad
E@ J. NJ Ashley, of Toledo, has been NOM
mated by a Republican Convention, by accla-
nation for reelection to Congress. 80
The Hartford Post hits a certain ticket
thusly; "Horatio Seymour is not parent
now, nor will he be apparent after the election
Frank s'best hold is 70 hold his tongue u
The cattle disease is appearing in several
places along the Hudson river. Many cases
are reported near Sing Sing, and also in New
jersey. - O5 =. 80 -.-.a.s.s II
HGneral Logan speaks of General Grant
as 'the man who never made mistake and
of Seymour as 'Ihe man who never did any
thing else" ...zs sa as
EE-There are now one thousand and seventy
convicts in the penitentiary, decrease of 30
within the past month said decrease being
caused by expiration of sentences.
gH A new effort is being made to obtain a
pardon for Dr., Mudd, one of the assassination
conspirators now at the Dry Tortugas. A
petition addressed to the President has been
extensively circulated through Maryland by
the physicians ofthat State, praying for Mudd's
release from confinement
Information has reach army headquar-
tiers that Gen Reynolds, commanding the sub
district of Texas, has appointed military
commission which will sit in various parts of
the State, and under authority of the recon
struction laws, try persons charged with out
RACES upon freedmen and Others.
The insanity of Geo. Francis Train is
now well established. A citizen of Louisville
who lately vested Train at his prison in Great
Britain, writes back that Train intends soon to
declare himself candidate for the Presidency
of the United States. Train also claimed that
John D. Perry, President of the Kansas City
Branch of the Pacific R. R. owes him $500, 900,
and asked him to write to Perry to send him
check for the money.
@ Secretary Schofeld received despatch
of the 23d, from Gen. Sherman, dated, Omaha
Aug. 20, in which he announces that he had
just received dispatch from Gen. Sheridan, in
which he confirms the press dispatches about
the Indian outrages Gen. Sheridan says the
eutrageSare too horrible to detail Gen. Sher-
man ordered Gen Sheridan to continue the
pursuit, and drive the saYages from that sec
ton of the country, and when captured to
give them summary punishment The Secre-
tary oil war communicated the intelligence to
the President who acquiesed in the stringent
measures which the. Secretary of War and
Gen Sherman were taking in the matter