Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-05-30
PEN AND PASTE BREvITIEs.

rB- Michael Barrett, convicted OF causing
the Clerkenwell explosion, was executed at
Now gate May 20.
THE first annual meeting of the National
Manufacturer Association will open at CleVe-
land on the 9th instant.
r~When Wade heard of Colfax's nomina-
tion he said,"Well, guess it will be all right;
he deserves it, and he will be good presiding
officer"
ewA large white ash tree in Mahoging
county was lately sawed into four thousand
eight hundred and thirty feet of good inch and
a-quarter lumber.
The Hawaiian Legislature is consider
ing proposition to offer a subsidy equal to
that given by the United States, to induce the
running of a second steamer to and from San
Francisco.
eNIn the new chosen North Carolina Leg
islature the Republicans have 81 of the 90 Sen
ators and 6S of the 122 Representatives, Civ
ing IA majority in each House, or 20 on joint
| ballot
A resolution was unanimously passed in
structing the delegates to. vote for George d.
Pendleton, "and to use all honorable means to
secure his nomination as long as his name
shall be before the convention.
BChief Justice Chase having assented TO
June Sd as the day of commencing the trial OF
Jefferson Davis, if the impeachment trial was
fnished by that time, it is understood that the
trial will certainly take place then.
wGeneral Candy has issued an order re-
moving thirteen out of eighteen aldermen of
Charleston, and appointing persons to fill the
vacancies Under the new organization, there
will be seven negroes in the board.
rYTwo Ohioans have bought whole
township in Nebraska, $4,000 acres, to culti-
vate as a single farm, with streets laid through
it and an Usage lined avenue around the
whole.
| tE-A rumor is current at Havana that Min
lister Burlingame is to visit Cuba to obtain in
/ formation about the Chinese trade and the
; treatment of Coolies. The American Vice
Consul has written to Secretary Seward to
have him induce Burlingame to go to Havana
BWhile there is considerable proper
ton of colored men in the new Arkansas Leg
islature- something which of course never
happened before-it is stated that it is the first
Legislature of that State in which every men,
Der can write his own name in leigible hand
EW-Chloroform is recommended for deter
mining the strength of diluted alcohol.
When the two are brought together in test
glass, the water and pure alcohol are separa-
! ted the former falling to the bottom, and the
latter raising to the top of the chloroform.
EN-A dispatch from Galveston states that
a destructive hail storm visited San Antonio
on the 18th inst, which lasted for half an hour
and destroyed houses, crops and gardens to
the extent of half million dollars, and sever
al lives are reported to have been lost.
eHThe Scioto Gazette says that Hon.
James Emmit proposes to donate the sum of
100000 for the purchase of statuary for the
State House grounds and to beautify them,
provided the State will appropriate 100000 or
$50, 900 to put up new fence and procure a
| landscape gardener.
/ THE Democratic Convention of the 10Th
Congressional District met at Ravenna on the
Goth and elected delegates to the National Con-
vention, r. O. Rote of Ashtabula county, and
j d. c. Coalman of Portage county alternates,
Jefferson Palm of Mahoning county, Edward
Crafts of Geauga county.
: The Irish laborers at the West Rutland
, Vermont) marble quarries, to the number of
several hundred, struck last week for higher
wages. The proprietors have imported 500
Frenchmen from Canada to carry on their
works. This has caused much illfeeling among
! the Irish, who threaten destruction to the place
; 70 The Managers of Impeachment have
made another requisition upon the Western
Union Telehraph Office, for kilograms passing
between the certain parties named by the
Managers, but the company has declined to
make any further exhibit of private kilograms,
unless compelled to doso by due process of
, law
| Y-The President ofHayti, Salnavc, has de-
clared himself Dictator and thereby added new
fuel to the insurrection which has been in pro-
gress for several months. Salnave had by no
means good record when nominated for the
Presidency in the place of Geffrad, and this
last fact of his will not gain to him any new
/ friends. The overthrow of his Administration
appears to be near at hand.
! eS A dispatch from Lake City, Fla, states
that few days ago nearly two acres on Alarm
in Hamilton county suddenly sank to the depth
of fifty feet from the surface of the surrounding
land 1t Immediately filed with water, and
submerged the tops of the tallest trees. The
ground is still sinking, and now covers four
acres. Such sinks occur occasionally, but this
is the largset and deepest ever known.
eB-A very fatal cattle plague is raging near
Lafayette, Indiana. The disease is rapid in
its effects, the animals being apparently well
in the morning and before night are dead, in
many instances dropping down by the road
side, within an hour or two after milking. The
first symptom noticeable is stiffening of the
limbs and an inability to walk, after which
death speedily ensues The same desease is
also thinning out the stock in several parts of
Illinois
cB-I In the bold robbery on the Jefferson
vile Qnd) railway on Friday night, which
was perpetrated by seizing the engine while
taking on wood and water, and running off
the express car, the robbers obtained $65 900
from the two safes. The money in one of the
safes was consigned to New York, and that
in the other tn Indiananol;s r,ho dor,, T.