Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-05-09

steamers to California is flooding San Francis
co with more people than can find employ
ment or means of livelihood
Some hounds in Hendricks county, In
diana, captured a fox last week, after eighteen
hours chase, but they were so exhausted that
they had to be hauled home in wagon.
tSDuring the month Of April there were
shipped from Youngstown, Ohio, over twenty
five thousand tone of coal, and as much more
consumed in the numerous iron works there.
eBThe official vote of South Carolina is
made public. There were 1882 registered
voters, of whom 9S,046 voted For the Con-
stitution, 70,758; against, 27,2SS; not voting,
35,557.-
WThe New York Times says that the price
of beef is steadily working downward in the
New York cattle markets. Western house
keepers havn't discovered it in their market
ing transactions.
EHHIi is said that the public debt exhibits for
the month of April, which is to be officially
promulgated in a few days, will show de-
crease of from $S,0OO,000 to $10,0000O0 in the
pibiic debt
e A very curious tree is in flower in the
Botanic Gardens of Brussels. 1t is called the
rose of the mountain Brownea Brandiceps),
and is in fact a rose tree sixty feet high. 1t is
a native of the province of Caracas, in Co.
lombia-
E-The New York F0tzd threatens that if
johnson be deposed he will be sung around the
circle again by his Democratic friends. Dan
Rice has already been engaged for the same
business. Will Andy and Dan travel together,
or is Andy to run an independent circus?
THE United State, it seems, is not the on
as compared with gold. Brazil has paper mon
ey which is deprecated so per cent; Turkey,
90 per sent; Italy, Is per cent; Russia II per
cent and Austria 10 per cent.
t. 1t is said that Senator Grimes has re-
ceived several letters threatening him. with as
sassination if he votes for the acquittal of john
son. We do not believe it There is not
Radiealsih the land who would write such
letter or dream of such crime. Radicals are
not made of such stuff.
eY Notwithstanding the great amount Of
wealth in St Louis and the immense business
done there, the list of incomes shows very
hlodearte gains But one or two persons re-
port over 100000, and very few over $25, ,OOO
Among the latter are the Knapps, of the Re
publican.
Rev. 3. T. Jackson writes from Charles
tom that Congregationalism is increasing to
such an extent in the Palmetto STATE tfat there
seems a likelihood of fifty churches of our or
der within three years. His church, the Ply
mouth, has 225 members, with Sunday School
of 448 scholars
sY- A copy of Eliots Indian Bible, work
which no living man can read, was sold at auc-
ton in New York, April %, for the extrava-
giant sum of $1,13O, the highest price ever paid
for a printed book in this country 1t was
printed in Cambridge, Mass. in 1868, by Sam
uel Green and Marmaduke johnson.
E8 The office of Superintendent of the me-
chanical department has recently been created
on the New York Central Railroad The Su-
perintendent is to have general direction of the
mechanics employed on the road, and the su-
pervision of the locomotives, and repair shops,
and to make frequent inspections of the same
YTie up little sulphur in a silk bag and
suspend it in your cage. For mocking birds
this is essential to their health, and the sulphur
will keep all the red ants and other insects
from the cages of all kinds of birds Red ants
will never be found IN closet or drawer if a
small bag ofsulphur be kept constantly in these
places.
Texas papers com plain til at Gen. Bu-
cffaaan, in calling the Convention of that State
together, fixed the time at the extreme limit
premitted by the law-the 18th of June, Gen.
Buchanar-the successor of Hancock-means
to keep Texas out until after the November
eteeton, but he cannot do it. The spirit is
willing, but the flesh is weak.
E8@Two detectives have been sworn to hay
ing overheard a conversation between Whalen
and Doyle, in the jail, in which the former con-
fessed that he had murdered McGee Doyle.
supposed to be an accomplice, was placed in
an adjoining cell, the detectives hoping there
BY to elicit conversation in reference to the
matter Fke' detectives stationed themselves
so as to hear all, with the result as stated
B-The heirs aof one John Davisson are
about to bring suit to obtain a large portion of
the city of Ironton, embracing the principal bus
mess portion of the city The Register says
the property is worth over half million OF
dollars. 1t was John Divisions farm, and the
heirs claim that the sale of the land under the
VIII was detective
S$ $21 ,000,O ,O00i in coin was checked from the
Treasury, May 1st, to pay the semi-annual in
terest Of the $50 bonds. This reduces the
amount of coin on hand to something over six
ty million of dollars. Consequently the state
ment of the public debt for this month, to be
issued about the 1st of June will sho a Farge
increase in the same, although for April it will
show decrease of about ten millions.
The best of several good things circul-
ated in Washington is an unconscious pungcn-
cy ofwhich Jerry Black was guilty since his
quartelwith sewdrd. Jerry has be nvCry savage
on the Secretary of State, and denouncing him
to the President said; "Why, sir, put him one
day among honest nren; and he would die"
As Seward has been asscciating; with Andrew
johnson and his Cabinet for sereraljyears, and
still lives, the point of Blacks observation, is
apparent