Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-10-24
PEN AND PASTE BREvIrIEs.

Oh for candidate for the Democratic Par
ty, without the taint of Democracy
eY-The Detroit Medical College will open
on the third of November.
WA Roman Catholic college, to be called
ST. Ignatius, is being erected in Chicago, to
cost 100000
cEThe Female Medical College of Phila-
delphia has commenced its winter session,
with large class of students.
c%-E. B Olmstead, the defaulting postoffice
clerk, has been arrested. He is insane from
the use of opium. .-s
CB Mcclellan has been asked to bolster up
the cause of the tottering Democracy with a
letter, but has not yet responded. .
eN- In the States of Nebraska and Kansas,
within the past few weeks, some 10000 acres OF
nublic lands have been taken up for actual set
tlement
B- A Democratic demonstration in Madl-
son, Wisconsin, Monday, gotten up Tor Doolit-
ties special benefit was a fearful failure, and
Doolittle was greatly disappointed.
cB-Westen Reserve College, Hudson, o.,
has sixty-nine students, distributed as follows ::
seniors, 9; juniors 13; sophomores, 25; fresh
men, %.
eBAll ex-rebel lawyers who renounce the
doctrine of State rights will be admitted to
practice in the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia next month. The test oath is to
be abolished.
w Wade Hampton comes to the aid Of
Blair He writes to the Democratic Executive
Committee that no sensible Southern Demo
crat believes the Broadhed letter means revolu-
ton. ..p
c The snow lay two or three inches deep
on all the fields and roadsides within twenty
miles of Boston on Saturday evening; and
scme enterprising persons tried their sleighs
in the fields with good success.
N-Official returns have been received by
the Secretary ofState from thirty seven coun-
ties, which increase, by some two or three
hundred, the estimated majority of seventeen
thousand. ..... . l. -....,
B-A convention has been called to meet
at Springfield H., December 1st to be compo-
sed of three delegates from each State, to set
tie upon measures promOtiFe of the interests
ofthe trade in cattle .-' .'..- 1899.
sIn response to the request for United
States troops to preserve peace in West Vir-
ginia, recently preferred by Governor Boreman,
one company fthe Twelfth, Infantry has been
sent to that State I'..t -#'
EB-It is rufAored that Judge Dickinson, in
view of the frauds perpetratcd in his district,
proposes to resign his seat in Congress in or
der that new election may be held. He will
run again as the Democratic nominee.
EYThe Cincinnati Gazette furnishes the inn
portant information that the Worlds lbte de-
monstration was dictated by dispatch from
the Pendleton managers, calling for the with
lrawal of Seymour and the substitution of
Chase.
EY- A suit for 5000 damages has been CON-
menced by man named Russell, against the
judges of the election in the fourth ward of
Indianapolis for refusing his vote, He is about
one-sixteenth colored. The suit will secure
judicial opinion as to what white man is in
Indiana. ..s.. . .-. -...f..
Commissioner Wilson, of the general
land office, has replied to an inquiry as to the
manner of entering tracts of pine land in Alas
ka, that such entries cannot at present be ef-
fected, owing to the fact that no authority has
yet been given by Congress for. extending our
public land system to that Territory
eB In the twenty-first congressional district
of Pennsylvania, Foster DEM has forty
majority over Covodo (Rep) Mr.. Covodo in
tends 10 contest the election and he asserts
that he can throw out three hundred fraudulent
votes in Westmorland and two hundred in
Fayette countless .....E.
During the week ending snd including
Saturday, there was received IN Chicago, TO-
2S9 bbls flour, e6f $40 bushels of wheat, $780,
521 bushels of corn, 766170 bushels of oats,
1915 bushels of rye, and III, ,706i bushels OF
barley Shipped: 72,03S barrels -four, 491 ,145
bushels of wheat, 100000 bushels corn 694, ,S1S
bushels oats, 1883 bushels rye, and 43, BAG
bushels barley.
S- Salt Lake papers report that the General
Conference of the Mormon Church, now in
session, have unanimously agreed to stop all
commercial intercourse with Gcntiles, unless
absolutely necessary. Parties buying from
outsiders will be communicated. The
measure is considered necessary for selfpre-
servation, as the approaching railroad will
food the country with Gentiles, who can only
subsist by Mormon support. .
gEIn the Episcopal Convention, on Satur.
day last says the Tribune, the Tying case fur
nished the suggestion for an earnest attempt
as earnestly resisted to amend the canon.
Some curious illustrations were given of the
extent to which rigid construction of 1t
would isolate and hamper clergymen. Under
the canon, as construed in the Tying case for
example, a Bishop could not pronounce the
benediction at a meeting of the Bible Society
without first obtaining permission of a majo-
rity of the Episcopal clergymen of n. York.
cW-Some rebel miscreants of Harrisburg
Iowa, on Saturday night last made dastardly
attempt to murder the thirty-seven young la.
dies who represented the thirty seven States al
the Republican rally at Bonaparte, on Satur.
day, by putting rails and tiInbcrs on the road
over which they were to pass. and thus precip.
itating them over a steep embankment This
was done in several places where there were
embankments The light from the lamps Of
the Tanners, who accompanied them home