Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-07-04
PEN AND PASTE BREVITIEs.

eR-The wheat crop near Kalamazoo, Mich,
is said to be ruined by midge.
B-"Ethan Allen" as colt, sold for S12O /;
$4,000, has been refused within short time.
N~The Indiana Methodist Female College
has been sold, it having proved a financial
failure.
eE-The Rothchilds have obtained the mon
oply of the tobacco traffic of Italy for twelve
millions of francs.
eB-The number of letters sent from the
Chicago Post Office for the past year were fifty
millions and forty millions were received.
cEThe baby-woman in Chicago, is draw
ing crowds every day to see her. She is near
ly three years old, and is developed like full
grown woman.
"a Speaker Colfax has invited his old COM
panions in the journey across the continent
three years ago to accompany him on his pro-
jected trip through Colorado in August
t%-The American Scientific Convention will
be held in Chicago, commencing August 9Th
MANY of the most distinguished men of science
in the country have resolved to be there.
HThe commissary car that accompanied
among its refreshments fifteen barrels of whis
Ky and one hundred kegs of lager beer.
Gen Sherman has adopted son of the
late Kit Carson and will send him to the Uni
versity of Notre Dame, Indiana, to be educa-
ted
eEFollowing the conviction of Mrs. Vic
tor for the murder of VIM. Parquet, the Con-
necticut Life Insurance Company has COM
menced suit for the recovery of lhe money
paid as insurance on Parquefs life, and attach
ed all property known to be his.
rEOf the insurance at Marquette on pro-
perty burned in the great fire, $4,000 was in
the Hartford Companies Etna, $4,000;
Hartford, $4,000; Phoenix, 10000; Putnam
$1,000. There were only S150,G0O insured in
all, while the loss was 81 ,250, $50.
CEA woman near Black Rock, n. Y, sick
ened about four months since, falling away |
rapidly until she became mere skeleton; when
on taking an emetic she was relieved of live
lizard four inches in length, but the woman
died few hours after.
"a In the meeting of the Y. NJ. c. Associa-
ton at Detroit, resolution expressing Chris
tian sympathy for Mr.. George H. Stuart, of
the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and Ste
phen II. Tying, Jr., of the Episcopal Church,
were offered amid storm of applause.
Heber C. Kimball the noted Mormon
Elder, died at Salt Lake City on the 25th ult,
and his funeral was attended by thousands of
his followers, while the tabernacle and public
buildings were draped in mourning. His death
is considered the greatest loss to Mormonism
of any one since that of Joe Smith.
B The Hon. Reverdy johnson, the new
American Minister to the Court of Great Brit
ain, will sail from the pert of. Baltimore ON the
1st of August. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln and her
son "Taddie" will be among the passengers
She will be under Mr.. Johnson's protection to
Liverpool, where she will meet her friends
eB BThe family of Gen. Grant consists of
himself and Mrs. Grant; Frederick, youth
of Is, now a cadet at West Point Ulysses, Jr,
about 10 years old Nellie, an only daughter,
and Jessie, the baby, who is named after the
Generals father Miss Nellie is described as
"a sunny dispositioned and merry young lady,
whom everybody loves" and Jesse as "a bright
lad who sometimes appears in Highland cos
tune, the garb of his Gaelic ancestors.
eE-On the Oath ult, Mrs. Boyd Mercer, of
Mansfield, o., received what purported to be a
geographic dispatch from Sewickly, Penn, in
forming her of the death of her brother She
went to Sewickly the next day and found her
brother alive and well. On returning home
Saturday evening, she made the discovery that
her private room, which she had locked be-
fore leaving, had been robbed of many articles
of value, including one hundred and forty dol
lars in specie, one hundred dollars in green
backs, silk dresses, &c. The dispatch was, of
course, bogus one.