Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-07-25
PEN AND PASTE sRlyiTIEs.

III is tlOuDIL oC9 AAOuA ieaii
chance of carrying the Dry TortugasJ
eE-Then new Asylum for Idiots, at Columbus
WILDE ready for occupancy in few weeks.
eE- Minister Burlingame entertained the
Press Club of Washington, on Saturday even
ing last. The Celestials were present.
H-Wm. NJ. Evarts was on the Is inst.
confirmed as Attorney General, by vote Of
&c yeas to 5 nays.
fE-A dispatch from Omaha says that trains
arc now running seven hundred miles over the
Union Pacific Railroad. -'- .'
4cF-Grasshoppers have appeared in the Ma
honing Valley in great numbers, devnsting thu
growing crops.
eB Both Houses of Congress having agreed
to the conference report on the Internal TaH
bill. 1t was sent to the President last week.
tE-Senator Deolittle has written letter op
posing third party movement, and favoring
the election of Seymour and Blair.
tET The nominatian of Judge Winans fol
Congress gives great satisfaction to the Repub
licans in Columbus. s.-sl,.s ..-,.- .-r-
gE-A Missouri paper calls the nomination
of Frank P. Blair on the ticket with Seymour
letting &" the tail go with the hide"
Moses Y. Beach, veteran editor anG
originator of the New York Sun, died at Wal
lingford, Conn., Sunday morning last. .-..
CE Mr. Burlingame says the Chinese have
more books, encyclopedias, pamphlets, mag.
azines ect, than any Other, people.
cB-Governor Griener, of the GAINESVILLE City
Times, who has fallen heir to 100000 in Min
nesoto lands, United States bonds and green
backs, has gone west for his Inheritance
Harvest hands in the vicinity of Rock
Island ILLINOIS, say it is so hot that it is use
less to attempt to work. They demand four
to six dollars per day.
eB-It is reported that Frank Blair will
stump Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois next month.
The effect his presence in those States will
produce may. be imagined. II ,...' ...'
rFF From May 1, 1868, to July 1, 1868, the
police seized seventy-twO gambling houses in
St Louis, destroying implements to the value
of $4,000.
EWhy is the Blair family like the small
poxs Because every administration must have
it once. The Cincinnati Gazettee should spare
the Grant administration. $50 .'e
Since the Democratic nominations were
made, Gov Wise, of Virginia holds up his
head, and defiantly exclaims, Secession is
not dead; it is more alive than everp' al
eWeston, the pedestrian failed to accom-
plish fifty miles in eleven hours, at the Forrest
City Park at Portland, on Saturday last His
time was eleven hours six and a half minutes.
Cleveland had an accession to its popn-
lation from Detroit, on Friday of Inst week, in
large delegation of frail women, for whom
the authorities of Detroit have made that city
an uncomfortable and unsafe residence -.
B-Dayton was visited by a severe thunder
storm on Saturday, Two houses and num-
Der of trees were blown down, and several
houses struck by lightning. -Four, persons
were killed. 80. 49,. f,,..
"a Some bad feeling was generated at
Democratic ratification meeting at Alliance, on
Saturday night because the crowd cheered for
e Grant and Colfax more enthusiastically than
for Seymour and Blair. ---r o.
ESome of our Democratic friends have al
ready commenced borrowing trouble They
are afraid that If their ticket is elected Horatio
will die and that Frank will then play the role
of Andy johnson. $50
One hundred clerks in the Treasury De
partment, and nearly one-halfthe clerical force
in the War, Department, will soon be dischar-
ged, owing to the reduction of appropriations
by Congress. ~ ..ilG
eEAfter the nomination, John Morrissey, is
said to have predicted the defeat of the ticket
and made bet 81 600 to $500 that Grant and
e Colfax would be elected, and offered to take
fifty more of the same kind. aE lief.,f 2 T.
8-The President on Saturday sent to Con-
gress message recommending certain amend
ments to the Constitution in respect to the
mode of choosing the President and members
of the Senate - - 1ot 8
BThe Senate has confirmed the nomina-
ton of VIM. NJ. Evarts as Attorney General
There was but seven votes against confirna-
tion,- Mr.. E. is very able man, and abun-
dantiy qualified for the Office
" Monday evening last, Mrs. Victor was
removed to the insane Asylum at Newburrh,
in compliance with the order of the Governor.
She was taken in a carriage, accompanied b.
Sheriff Nicola and her nurse. There was no
apparent change in her mental condition.
OtfSunday evening Of the 10Th inst, two
men, while crossing Niagara river in skiff
broke one- eftheir oars, and were swept over
the falls Their fate was not discovered until
Wednesday, when some fragments of the boat
and Of their bodies were picked up. "a-
gIn response tc the application of the
Sheriff of Cuyahoga County to have Mrs. Vic
tor removed to the Luhatic Asylum, Gov
Hayes called for the testimony Of physicians in
relation to her insanity She has since been re-
prieved until November Goth, and ordered to,
be removed to the Newbtrgh Asylum.
eB Mr. LEM, arrested at CleyeIend forsil-
licit distillmg, was brought before Commission.
er Cleveland Tuesday, and the witnesses testi-7
fed to finding s75 gallons of mash, ready for
cooling; four fomenters with capacity of
z, 200 gallons each and, also, that 1900 gal
Ions of mash were found in the establishment
tEThe Nashville Banner of Wednesday of
last week, contained a leader which counsels
forcible and armed resistance TO the further en-
forcenent ofthc laws of the State governments.
II warns the white Republicans that while the
negroes will be spared as far as practicable