Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-02-01
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
A S HT A BULA
Saturday Morning, February i i, 1865
PEN AND PASTE BREvlTIEs.

That venerable relic CT former age,
'@eu. Leslie Coombs, has been nominated by
the President for Marshal of Kentucky.
STLa;e stock quotations in New York make
Cler5lard, Paiuesviile and Ashahua &C. & E. }
al lt4a, snd Cleveland and Toledo at lOs5
sThe if.y- eight Gil refineries in Pittsburgh
lave weekly capacity of thirty-on thousand
barrels.
Massachusetts, educates her children at a
cost of nine dollars per anEum for every child
within its limits
E5Congress has already saved twenty mil
lions by cutting down Secretary Wel!es' Navy
estimates.
Es- The Diocesan Convention to elect sue
cessor to Bishop Hopkins, meets in Burlington
VT, on the l1th of March.
@The charter Of the Camden & Amboy
Railway Company expires next year, and good
many Jerseymen will oppose its renewal.
@WeIls, Fargo & Co. refuse to carry the
ma:l over ,Esc plains if Congress adds printed
matter to pass with the letters.
eBThe Chicago postofice sent of over fifty
millions ofetters last year, and 90 600 bushels of
printed mail matter were received and diStri-
buted
gA iegro was fined So 900 and sentenced to
the Pententiary for two years, at indianapolis,
ON Saturday last, for having married white
woman.
EdThey have found vein of coal 10 feet
thick in Knox county, IND, also stone suitable
for lithographic purposes. in the vicinity of
Coydon, in the same State.
BThe Ohio Reform Farm near Lancaster
realized, in 1867, revenue of S., 795,G7 from
peaches, 1902, II from grapes and wine, and
1928, u from cherries and strawberries,
E5-A wholesale seizure was made in Boston,
on Tuesday, of all the refined petroleum In first
handk on suspicion that some oft had not paid
EELil & Dwersey, brewers, Chicago. Jan.
oath, purchased thirty thousand bushels
of barley, taking half the entire stock in that
market. The consideration is understood to
have been two dollars per bushel
ga coroners jury in New York has recon-
mended that steps be taken for breaking up the
numerous private lying in asyIums and found
ling hospitals in that city, on account of their
tendency to immortality aud crime.
EFThe seat Of Hooper, the mormon delegate
in Congress, is contested, by his Gentle COM
petitor McGroty. upon grounds which cover The
entire question of the legality of the Mormon
government of Utah.
@A kerosene lamp in a car on the Erie Rail-
way exploded on Saturday evening setting the
car on fire. The train was Immediately stopped,
and the passengers escaped, not moment too
soon, as the car burned up With great rapidity.
ECincnnati has 474 brothels publicly
known to be such, with 2, S44 inmates. Includ-
ing much that is concealed, the ''social evil" in
that city has far wider range than is given in
these figures.
FThe Tribune says that the democrats re-
cognize in George Washington an individual
who might have been something of man if be
had not lived SO near the epoch of General
Hancock.
NTo rid themselves of gang Of thieves
and scoundrels whose depredations have for
some time annoyed the citizens of Akron, there
was talk on Saturday of organizing'a Vigilance
Committee
ESF. E. Morse, formerly passenger agent of
the Erie Railway at Buffalo, and subsequently
at Chicago. has been appointed general passen-
ger agent Of the Michigan Southern Railroad at
Chicago.
ETIt is said that Robert Johnson son and
private Secretary of the President, has been
placed in the Lunaiic Asylum of the District of
Columbia, to cure him, if possible, of periodi-
, cal drunkenness, which in his case amounts 10
insanity.
FFThough arrangements had been made, for
hearing Dickens in Cleveland it has been de-
cidei that he will not visit the West and hence
the citizens of that village who hive made their
calculations to see and hear the great novelist,
will be disappointed.
eFGen. Logan has issued an address to the
Grand Army of the Republic, of which he has
lust been elected Commander-n-chieft thanking
them for ihe honor conferred, and stating that
his headquarters will, for the present, be in
Washington.
egThe Gainesville Florida) New Era says
the winter in that section has been unusually
mild, there having been hut two slight frosts.
Cotton blooms are still abundant, and squash
and cucumber vines in flowers, and ripe toma-
toes in many gardens.
EIThe statistics otthe Orthodox Congrega-
tional Church in this country are published in
the Jandafy number of the Congregational
Quarterly. The whole number of churches in
the United States is 2,s25, Or forty-seven more
than last year. The whole membership is 27S,
362 nearly 10, 600 more than last year.
IFAs there is some uncertainty as to the de-
sign of the Alaska picture,-to be presented to
AIr. Seward, we would suggest that it consist of
au Esquimaux sitting oD an iceberg, with seal
watch guard around him, picking his teeth with
a warus tusk, while waiting for bids for village
lots, from Yankee spectators.
EThe democracy are everywhere drawing
fhe lines of Presidential preference, between
Seymour and Pe1dleton, the issue being On
what they call the financial question. In their
caucuses and committees and wherever all sec
tions are represented, the question is already
graYrly embarrassing them.
egConcsrning ''hoi,ering'' in meeting, Aunt
judy, an old colored woman, said to one of her
sisters: '''Taint de raLe grace, honey; taint
de sure glory You hollers too loud. When
you gifts de love in your heart and de Lamb on
vour bosom yo,uiI feel as eff YOU was in dat sta