Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-12-12
PEN AND PASTE BREvIT!Es.

PEN AND PASTE EREvIT!Es.
WE a Pollard, author of the Lost Cause
has, it is said, been appointed to clerkshIp il
the United States custom house..
M-AIl the naturalization fraud cases befor
the Q. s. Courthave been continued to the Jan
uary term.
Major Thomas u Turner, Of Washing
ton county, has been appointed Quartermaste
General on Governor Hayes staff, vice Gcn-D
W. H Day, resigned.
EB~William J. KuLns, of Columbus, is al
applicant for Supervisor Of Internal Revenue
for the Southern District of Ohio. lie Is BACK
ed up by Lieutenant G GovernorLee and diners
eB- Several members of Congress lett y ash
for Washington, cn Friday, evening" among
them T. A. Hamilton, TO fill the uncApired
term of the Forticth Congress.
re Chang and Eng Che Siamcse twins, sail
ed in the steamer Iowa, on Saturday, for Glas-
glow: on their way TO Paris, where the cord
which so long united them is TO be severed.
eg-The movement to make Hon. Horace
MAYNARD member of the cabinet is meeting
with favorable response from the leading lie
publieans of the several southern States.
exTUnder final decision by the Court of
Appeals, Mrs. Sinclair has recently obtained
from her former husband, Edwin Forrest,
eighty-fve thousand dollars, costs and hitherto
unpaid alimony.
rs Weston left Bangor on the 1st inst, on
his last and greatest undertaking, that ofwalk-
inc 5000 miles in 100 days. He may be ex-
pected along here in due time. He is accom-
panied by some seven persons.
e@ The female clerks of the Treasury De
partment are iubilant over the fact that Trea-
surer Spinner recommends that they shall be
put on the same footing as male clerks in point
of salary.
~ General Garfield did a good thing in
securing the passage on the second day of the
session of the Military Committees bill, trans
farring the Indian bureau from the department
of the Interior to the War.
DR.. Cornachan, of New York, recently per-
formed one of the heroic feats of surgical art
in the operation of ovariotomy removing from
the abdomen of young woman a tumor
weighing 64 pound. The operation was en-
tirely successful.
tT- Gen. Thomas Young of Cincinnati was
Tuesday nominated byCommissionerRollins as
supervisor for the southern district of Ohio
The nomination was made with the under
standing that itwould be beimmediately confirm
ed.
q The New York Sun says it has private
information from sources in Boston which are
entitled to be regarded with great confidence,
to the effect that leading Republicans of Mas
sachusetts concur in anticipating the appoint
ment of Hon. G. S. Boutwell, TO the office of
Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of
Gen Grant
gEThe joint committee of the General As
sembly, appointed TO investigate the cause of
the asylum fire, were in session on Saturday,
but nothing beyond what has already been
made public was elected. The value of the
property preserved is estimated at $4,000,
and 1t is thought that the building can be re-
placed at cost of 225000.
W- General Cole has been acquitted of the
charge of murder in killing L. Hiscock for Sc
ducing his wife. The jury stated they found
the prisoner to be sane moment before and
moment after the killing, but were in doubt as
to his sanity on the instant of the homicide
The judge saidthey must give the prisoner the
benefit of the doubt, and thus instructed they
rendered verdict of acqrittal
N- The universal and intense dissatisfaction
with Reverdy Johnsons course in England
showed itself in Congress On the first day of the
session. A resolution was introduced into the
House ofRepresentativos or Monday condemn
ing Lis course in very severe terms. It was re-
ferred to the committee on Foreign Relations
but the temper of the House was clearly mani
tested in the debate upon it.
~ A democratic congressman from Mary
land, by The name of Archer, on Monday last
moved an appropriation of $4,000 Is rcim-
burse the president for the expense of making
defense on the impeachment trial as his
witnesses were all paid by the government
and his counsel in Offices, the proposition of
Mr. Archer would seem to be remarkable for
the iberality of its margin FOR the Presidents
pocket. Unfortunately fer A. j. the prop0ti-
ton fell still born
KEROSENE. The Boston Journal of
ChemsStry,-pretty good authority by
the way-says: Remember, no safe and |