Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-01-11
PEN AND PASTE sREvITIEs.


%Pike's new opera house in New York ha!
besn opened for public inspection, and is pro
nounced the finest in the country.
SSThe Directors of the Union Pacific Rail
way have agreed to build branch road from
Julesburg 10 Denver City, distance of IOC
niles
EETbe enumeration of youth, for school pur-
pose in Ohio, is as follows: white males 5oS'-
$50; females, 457,3SI; coored males, 1882 ;
females, u, 1872; total 1,Ol9,I95.
rFFor four months the Great Eastern steam
ship has been lying wholly idle in the Nersey,
occurring expense and becoming less valuable
for the idleness.
EgBrevet Major General \. Mcdowell Nc
Cook, has been ordered to relieve Brevet Briga-
dier General Mckenzie, in commanded The sub
District of the Rio Grande.
EThe immigration TO this country from Ger
many last year increased ten thousand. That
from Ireland decreased three thousand, and that
from England two thousand.
sEIn Indianapolis last year there were 500
marriage licenses issued and 2I0 applications
for divorce made. The Indianapolis matches
are evidently not made in heaven.
eENew York is lively city according to its
mortuary statistics of the past year. During
the year there were - homcides 50 suicides,
$40 deaths by accident, and So infanticides.
@The official Gazette, of Ottawa, Canada,
contains notice that horses and other animals,
poultry and fancy birds, imported for the pur-
pose of improving stock, will be admitted duty
free.
tEA Catamonnt followed two men a distance
of three miles, last week. within % miles Of
Memphis, and finally sprang uron one of them,
mangling him shockingly before his companion
could dispatch it.
Es-The Kaufman (Texas) Star says: I'VE
have never witnessed such an influx of immi-
grafton TO this part of the State is to be seen
this fall. Our streets are crowded daily with
movers on their way TO the Brazos
gA large meeting at Utica, New York. re-
solved that if the Executive and Congress fail
TO vindicate the right of America citizenship,
they are cowardly and imbcci!c, and unworthy
to administer the affairs of the Government.
ESrThe President was asked last week to re-
instate Governor Wells, of Louisiana, in order
that the levee bonds might be legally issued be-
fore the close of the year. The request was not
granted.
egRobert j. Walker and Jerry Black are en-
gagged in the cases which are to be brought be-
fore the United States Supreme Court at the
present term to test the cOnstitutionality Of the
reconstruction laws.
Es- Mr. Abbott Lawrence, of Boston, recently
stated that a manufacturing company in which
he was interested was losing at the rate of ST.
600 per day. Other corporations are losing at
the same rate.
eEThe cessation of the Paraguay war secures
the free navigation of the Paraguay river, that
flows for distance through that country, but
is also navigabIe great way beyond into Cen
trail South America.
EF-The recent numerous railroad disasters
have induced the officers Of the New York Cen
tral Road to issue orders prohibiting trains from
attempting to make up lost time by increasing
their speed between stations
FEThe London Times hopes that the next
session of the English Parliament will he entire
ly devoted to Ireland, whose great grievances
it admits The Fenians have, after all, not Ia
bored in vain if they extort such confessions
eEThe Sultan must be greatly alarmed rc
garding the intentions of Russia, for he implores
not only France but England for aid. The Gre
tans and Greeks,are jubilant at the frightening
prospects of their cause.
eFGovernor Cox has issued a proclamation,
ordering q special election TO be held in the
Eighth Congressional District, on the 9th of
January, a. D. 1868, 70 fill the vacancy cansed
by the death of Hon. c. S. Hamilton.
saIt is stated that Rev Mr.. Barnes, pastor
of a BAPTIST church in the vicinity of Meadye.
Pa, having been threatened with tar and feath-
ers, for an alleged improper intimacy with a
young girl belonging to his church. abandoned
his pastoral charge in hurry.
UA New York daily says; "At a recent
fashionable dinner party in New York, the
guests were sprinkled with rose water Upon
which an exchange remarks that the necessity
for such an operation argues badly for the char
acter of the guests.
erThe recent heavy fall OF snow in Tennes-
see was the heaviest since 1917, when it lay
three weeks, and reached depth of fourteen
inches The late snow-storm there crossed tie
Mississippi river at Hickman, aud its course
was Chiefly south of the Ohio.
EEFamiIy compartment cars have been intro
duced on the route from New York 10 Chicago
via Allentown, Pittsburgh ard Fort Wayne
Each car is divided into five separate apart
msnts Each stateroom can be arranged TO ac-
comodats comfortably six passengers if requir-
ed.
Ed-Since the Cunard line has been withdrawn
from Boston to New York. the line of steamers
formerly running between Baltimore and Liver
pool has had its diScontnuance. New York
now monopolizes foreign steam communication.
which however, is almost wholly carried on in
foreign vessels.
STA sporting quaker in New England puts
his bets thus: ''Friend Edward, thee thinks thy
hcrse Is faster than mine. ! value my opinion
st twenty dollars. Now, if thee values thy
opinion at the same rate, we will put the money
together ard ask our horses what they think OF
It, and lesye the conclusion 10 them
eFSeeretsry Stanton ia in Washington pre-
pairing his dtIencs for the Senate As addition
al reasons for his removal, it is stated he dvulg-
al Cabinet cacrats 1hch Iha President dacIin.