Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-05-23
PEN AND PASTE BREYITiES.

eETA 4 bill confirming the title of Mr.. Will
lam McGarrahan to Il tract of 1900 acres OF
land in California, embracing the New ldra'
quicksilver mine, passed the House on Fri 18th
The French method of making fine fancy
leather has remained an undiscovered secret
notwithstanding all the skill of chemists and
all the devices of practical tanners to discover
the process.
EB- The Vile de Paris, French steamer
sailed with 81 100000 in specie on Saturday,
and the largest number of cabin passengers
ever taken out by single steamer from new
York before.
eE The French Government has picked a
quarrel with Tunis, and dispatched an ultima
tum to the Bey. Tunis is adjacent to the
French Province of Algeria, and is of course
too weak to offer any serious resistance, should
France be dcsirous of annexing it to Algeria.
@-An exchange says that a hen has a ca
pacity of laying six hundred eggs and no more
As most of these are laid during the first four
years of her life, it Is thought to be economy
to cut off her head and sell her to a boarding
house keeper for spring chicken.
The Republican members of the Connecticut
Legislature ON Thursday of last week nomina-
ted ex-Gov. VIM 4 BUCKINGHAM f0rrUnited
States Senator, in the place of James Dixon,
whose term expires in March next. The vote
stood: Buckingham, 81 Hawley, SO.
CY- The coal mines in the Shenango valley
are now all on a strike, those who had not
struck before, striking Saturday. They de-
mand an increase of wages over presentrates,
and operators are not disposed to grant it to
them The strike will probably cause consid-
cradle delay in the shipment Of coal from that
region.
eBThe Collins Company, at Collinsyille,
CT, organized in 1865 to make axes and other
tools now have twenty-three shops, which
would make building altogether one mile
and quarter long and twenty five feet wide.
Fhey employ from five hundred to eight hun
dred persons, and make five thousand tools
daily
"a Mr. George Frances Train delivered an
address at Manchester Eng. on the 18th. The
audience was small and the proceedings un-
disturbed the affair attracted little or atten-
ton, and George seems to have outlivcd his
power to create a sensation on the other side
of the water The world will, therefore, have
become tame.
~ Civil war continues to rage in Japan.
The Tycoon has not, as was reported some
time ago, submitted to the Mikado, but is en-
deavoring to retain his position by force of
arms The Mikado seems, however, to be thus
far victorious, forit is announced that his army
had arrived within few hours of Yeddo, the
capital of the Tycoon.
cYRev. DR.. Sears, as agent for the Peabody
Educational Fund.- has appropriated $4,000
for the present year to aid existing schools in
the chief country towns of Louisiana, on con-
dition that they shall be free to all white chill
dren. He has also assigned 81, 900 to aid Nor
NAL schools or departments, $4,000 of the lat
ter sum being given to the Normal school in
New Orleans
CRThe Commissioner of Agriculture, in his
report on the value of lands in the several
States, shows a depreciation in Georgia of &C
percent lin South Carolina, 60 per cent; in
North Carolina, so per cent; in Alabama, so
per cent; in Virginia, 35 per cent The disas-
trous effects of these losses are being felt all
over the country. The northern manufactur-
ers, mechanics, traders and navigators, next to
the southerners themselves, are the great suf-
fererers.
gErQne Of the laws Of the late Ohio Legis-
lature provides that it shall hereafter be unlaw-
full to mark the ticket of any elcctor with the
intention of ascertaining how he voted also
that all ballots voted at any election "shaIl be
written on pain white paper, or printed with
black ink on plain white news printing paper,
without any device or mark of any description
to distinguish one ticket from another, or by
which one ticket may be known from another
by its appearance, except the words at the
head of the ticket"
eBThe returns published by the Board of
Trade, under the authority of the British gov
ernment, show that the British Possessions in
the West Indies are almost entirely dependent
for their supplies of wheaton flour on the T.
States. On an average of years the total sup
plies of this article for that part of the world
are something over 412,OOO Of this quantity,
no less than 351 900 barrels are sent from the L.
States, being more than four-ffths Of the
total. The remainder-about 10000 barrels
omesfrem the British North American Pos
sessions.
eB The last issue Of Harper's Weekly con-
tains a spirited illustration of the General Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Chicago, holding session in the Clark St.
Methodist Church. This is the quadrennial
Conference of the Methodist Church. 1t was
organized the first of May, and will continue
its deliberations through the present month.
Besides the regular delegates from the Meth
odist Episcopal Churches of the United States,
there are special delegates from England, Ire
land and Canada This Conference is author
lied to legislate for that part of the Methodist
denomination resident in the United States.
UA consolidation of the Cleveland, Colum-
bus & Cincinnati and Bellefontaine Railways
was consummated on the 14th inst, under the
name of the cleveland, Columbus, Cincinna-
ii 6 indianapolis Railway Company" The
consolidation was made upon the basis THAT
for every one hundred dollars of the stock of
the Cleveland, Columbus {. Cincinnati c6mpa-
ny, there shall be issued to the owner thereof
one hundred and twenty dollars of the stock
of Al, g.