Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-06-13
PEN AND PASTE BREYITIEs.

fwRepublican motto-God Grant Victory.
yFacts for the people-Col-fax. -a.
IL More lumber has been sent down from
the Upper Wisconsin this year than ever be-
fore.
eH The corner stone of the Marine Hos
pital at Erie, will be laid on the next Fourth
ef. July. -9i. a-a '.-
HA recent census of Chicago makes the
population 24O,O41 In 1866 it was 2O9 y42S !;
in 1865, IFS, ,529. 5- ~
H-The tax of one cent box on matches,
last year, netted to the government revenue
of S1,500,000. ss'l.., ..i.'
N-The Albany (Ga) Argus is out in an arti
Gle strongly in favor of Chief Justice Chase as
the Democratic nominee for the Presidency.
w-It is said that C. S. G. will go to his farm
near St. Louis, and fight it out on that line all
summer. But you can't depend upon anything
now a-days.
HThe Ohio State Journal says that Chase
organ is soon to be established at Washington
under the editorial direction of George Alfred
Townsend. -....
w-Nowaday black is so much worn that
it is not considered out of place at any time;
with pretty bonnet and shawl or mantle, it is
full dress enough for any occasion, andin black
lady cannot be overdressed.
cx-An insane man was arrested in Mans
field, O., on the 23d inst, whose ineoherent
rambling seemed to indicate the commission
of serious crime His hands and clothes
were spotted with blood, and some eight thou
sand dollars were found onhis person. -i
eTDan Rice, the clown, has been engaged,
by the Democratic party, to travel with cir
CTS and make speeches the CT ming campaign,
Dams forte is to train mules, and he may posi-
bly, find good many in their ranks that will
need his assistance. a.---> -.r r7-
# Seventeen car loads of emigrants passed
through Erie on the 18th, bound for the west
They numbered 700, and were all Swedes.
We see it stated that the Philadelphia & Erie
Railroad has made a contract to carry 1900
Swedish emigrants over the road this season.
wChas. Sumner informs Hiram Barney
that Alaska should be spelled Alaska. Chas.
has doubtless seen the evil of too free use of
the / by public men.
W-Goulding, who has just completed his
thousand miles in thousand hours, walking
onemile each hour, became very foot-sore to-
ward the close of his labor.
wWoolley,s Bastile in the Capitol has a
nice Brussels carpet on the floor, and nice
furniture to match. He indulges in cream,
strawberries, wine and cigars, and is decidedly
prince. 49,.
B-It will cost $4,000 to repair the Toledo
Custom House. which will then be inadequate
The Secretary ofthe Treasury, therefore pro-
poses to sell out the old building and erect a
new one. ..-
cB Hon Daniel P. Thompson, of Montpelier,
Vt, author of several works of fiction, and for
some time editor and proprietor of the Yer
mont Freeman, died suddenly Saturday even
ing June 9th, aged IL .-.a
eY~One days picking of Strawberries from
farm near Norfolk, Va.-2, ,790.~euarts was
sold at New York for 81 1853 Another straw
berry farm yielded $500 quarts in one day,
which brought 81 ,0S4 in New York.
They had a terrible hail storm in Texas
a short time ago that was severely destructive
1t extended from near New Braunfels to San
Antonio, and was from five to twenty miles in
width 1t destroyed everything in its wake
and ruined the roofs of the houses in San An
tonic
ErPhifadelphia and vicinity contains EGO
cotton and woolen factories; between two and
three thousand looms are employed on ingram
ard rag carpetings, and turn out between eight
and nine million yards, worth over three mil
lion dollars. In paper hangings the city leads
the whole country
The emigration from Prussia to Ameri-
ca this year, it is expected, viii reach 25e, ,o0O
It is composed chiefly of Inhabitants Of the
northern provinces, who are for the most part
ProtesgaHts and have a small capital at their
command. ...
The Chinese Embassy was received by
the President on the 5th with due ceremony
Mr.. Burlingame made brief and merely for
NAL address, delivering the letter OF tae En-
peror of China. The President responded in
cordial but rsther rambling speech after the
fashion Of his Excellencys diplomacy.