Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-03-21
ss>Immense droves of cattle from Texa

SS immense groves OF cattle from Texas are
coming into Kentucky to be fa:ted for market
EsThe Times Washington special says hun
dreds of applications are being made for Office
under Mr.. Wade-when lie becomes President.
sS-St. Albans, Vt, is the butter metropolis
Of the country. 1t marketed last year nearly
100000 pounds.
6The loss by the food at Rock Island, is q
quarter of million of dollars.
eEA great food on the lower Mississippi is
imminent.
egThe freshets in the southern part of Wis
cohsin haye done great damage ..-#
EH The Wisconsin Assembly killed the
clause of suffrage to women By yeas 80. nays, 8.
EgEighty nine vessels with FIVE million bush
els wheat are now on their way from California
to New York.
Eg-The Toiman estate in New York which
was seld on Thursday last for Sl,4OO, 600 was
offered in Is4s for Sc, 500.
EJThe floor of large grain warehouse in
Peru. ILL.,, gave way and dropped about 5O,-
: 900 bushels of grain into the cellar, in which
water stood to the depth of three feet.
EgThis last winter at New Haven, Conn.,,
has been the coldest one in the last ninety years,
except that of 1885, the mean temperature of
which was one degree lower.
Eg-A terrific hurricane visited Toronto Rail-
way depCts, dwelling houses, churches, &C.,
damaged $4,000; one man was killed and sew
eral others wounded. s-.s
1.-THE New York E1preSs says that fifty
thousand men are out of employment in that
city, and full three thousand girls are looking
for places, and can find none.
ETConnectieut has $500 on an average to
each inhabilant of the State and is the richest
in proportion to the population of any state in
the Union. -...... rs ..s.
@Captain E. II. Plumacher, ofthe Swiss ar
my, is now visiting Virginia, with a view of To-
eating one or more Swiss colonies, of several
thousand persons each. a f'-
cEThe United States Senate now comprises
fifty-four members-Republicans, forty-two;
Democrats, twelve. Necessary for the acquit-
tal of the President, nineteen votes.
EEight large distilIeries and recfifying es-
tablishments were seized at New York on Sun
day night by government officers The prop
erty taken possession Of is valued at half mil
lion dollars.
egA strawberry grower of Pittsburgh offers
one hundred dollars to the inventor of the best
strawberry box, the award to be made at the
strawberry exhibition which viii occur in June
next. -
EaThe eruption of Mt. Vesuvius is increas-
ing in power and grandeur. The volcano is
throwing up vast quantities of fire and but lit
tie lava. The detonaions are very loud and
frequent ...-s...
GThe new postoffice directory recently pub
lished, shows that there are 25,712 postoflices
in the United States Of the whole number / J,
226 are money order offices, and about the first
of June 200 more of this class viii be opened.
ESAnother Presidential vancouver is talked
of 1t is said he intends to appoint Hancock
TO the command of the new department of the
Atlantic, under direct management of himself.
without regard to Grants authority. A great
deal of mischief might be done by such an ar
rangement.
EdT The vials of Democratic wrath have been
emptied in uninterrupted streams upon the
heads of Wilson Of Iowa, and Schenck of Ohio,
for the part taken by these gentlemen in pass
ing the amendment taking the jurisdiction from
the Supreme Court in hd6eas corpus cases.
The severe drut bing Schenck gave them in the
House on Saturday seems to have disturbed
them quite as much as the passage of the bill
itself. ~
rgThe Memphis rebels were not only beat
en- in the municipal election of the 7th inst but
they were outwitted by colored voters. The
latter were told b. their secessionist employers
that they must vote the conservative" ticket |
OF lose their places. They professed great zeal,
and were much petted by the men who hoped |
10 get their ballots. When election day came,
only one hundred negroes, Tout of about five
thousand, supported the arli-Republican can
didates, and the ore hundred, as the Avalanche
scorrfully admits, cost the Conservatives So
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