Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-12-26
PEE kR0 PASTE BREVITlES.

eE-The Washington diplomats look upon
Disraelis resignation as the end OF Mr.ReyerGy
Johnson's settlement Of the Alabama claims.
eESenator Spragee Eas X Gently bought an
island of nine tliousand'ac1eF off the coast Of
Georgia, near the mouth of St Mary's river.
w-Joseph Perkins, of Cleveland, has been
elected President. Of the Cleveland 6 Mahon-
ing Railroad, to FIJI the vacancy occasioned by
the death-of coy. Tod.
General Young, supervisor of southern
Ohio, has received full instructions concerRing
his district, and revenue matters in it, and VIII
enter al once upon the discharge OF his duties,
R-There are at least hundred cases before
the court of claims at Washington, involving
several millions of dollars, on account of cot
ton alleged to have been Illegally seized or de-
stroyed by United States officers.
swGeneral Grant expresses himself TO the
effect that there is no reas1fifor general con-
tinuance of the fgedfncn's bureau after New
Years, as the military commanders after that
date can easily give freedmen all the aid
and protection they require.
Commissioner Rollins has nominated
and Secretary McCulloch confirmed, j. c. Bur
roughs as supervisor of internal revenue for
Michigan and Wisconsin. This completes the
full list of supervisors under the act of last
July
Superintendents of Indian affairs, Murphy
and -W's.nkeCp, state that Black Kettle, whose
band was defeated by Gen. Custer was friendly
to the United States, and that lie and his band
l,o;,. Epr
Keamey.
eY-A heavy loss, estimated at $4,000, was
sustained at Hughes Brewery, in Cleveland, on
Sunday morning last, by the tumblingin OF the
walls of the malt-house where were stored
some 1900 bushels of grain, 5000 being Bar
ley.
EB-Information has been received of the
safe arrival on the other side of the water, of
the petroleum laden vessel that LEFT Cleveland
few weeks ago, about the time of the explosion
and burning of q similarly loaded one, with the
same destination, just outside CT Cleveland har
bor
.NLeading men of Virginia are now peti-
tioning Congress to contiuue the Freedmen's
Bureau there as a measure of absolute neces-
sity for the protection of the blacks, until the
Reconstruction of the State can be accomplish
ed. Texas and Mississippi feet-the same want
and are likely to make The same petition.
EA circular purporting to emanate from
the Seymour Vigilance Committee states that
the committee have been informed that certain
parties in and around Seymour have been MAX
ing threats against the Regulators, and that if
these threats are carried into execution the
parties in question may expect TO be summarily
dealt with.
eEThe change of Government in England
is now complete. Mr. Gladstone, has re-
Gently had an audiance with the Queen at
Windsor, and formally received appointment
as chief of the Ministry. Nothing definite is
known as. to the other members of his Cabi
net John Bright has been asked to accept
seat
eET Mulhall, one of the Skinner nlurdereTs,
has been found and arrested by the Cleveland
detectives, near Saratoga Springs, under the
alias of John Cameron, and taken TO CIeye
land. He is the one who had the scuffie with
Johns, in the hall of SINNERS house, on
the night of the murder. Folliott is now the
only one of the gang at large, and his arrest
is looked upon as only a question of time.
B-A train of loaded passenger cars on the
Buffalo & Eric road, temporarily standing up
on an inclination, held only by the brakes,
started the other day, and without the aid of
engine, engineer, or conductor, ran with rather
fearful rapidity Il distance of seven miles, until
losing its momentum, il came To- a rest upon
rising or,.ada without d1pnara without
even the knowledge of the passengers that their
necks were at the. mercy of mere faulty and
chance
On the first of next month, twenty-seqen
millions, in coin, will be taken from the Treas
ury Department, to pay the semi-annual inter
est on the bonds of 1881, and the ive-twenties
falling due at that time. The amount of coin
now On hand is about SOL O00, 600, and about
S9,000,gG6 more VIII be received during the
month, providing 10 sales shall be ordered
by the Secretary. DedUcting the $27 Geo. COO
on hand after the list Of january, of which
$4,000, 600 is in gold certificates leaving the
actual amount of coin in the vaults of the
Treasury, S50,00OOOG,
Mother Earth in coquetting with the soft
southern breezes for two of three days and
nights, suddenly found herself deEuded and
bare, and hastened, on Tuesday night East, to
refnyest herself with the becoming drapcgg OF
the sensoh The indiscretion was amply atom
ed for, IN the foot of feecy covering that was
SO siIsntIy and stealthily thrown over her broad
bosom during tlse night, which, from its spot
less purity and ample folds, seemed to forbid
fhOugh that the old creature had ever show
ed herself to be overtaken in such freak OF
dalIiance and folly.
DAVID ToD.-A roet in TIE Sfate Journal
offers the following very worthy and fitting as
well as beautiful tribute to the memory of the
late Ex-Governor, the reading of which leaves
so favorable an impression as to lead us TO
make a transfer to our ewn colamns