Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-06-06
Pen kNn PASTE BREYITIES,

e8The American Express Company have
declared dividend of SO per share.
NTen thousand head of cattle are said TO
be en- route from Kansas City to Southern IL
Enois for pasturage.
EyThe Union Pacific Railroad has been
completed and opened to business six hundred
miles West from Omaha
EY7In Gloucester, Mass, they have an oys-
ter which weighs 234 pounds Think of a
"dozen"
c8SThe first new wheat of the season,
grown in Mississippi, and sold at St Louis,
Monday, at seven dollars a bushel
Is The Fremont Journal says two seventy
five pound sturgeon were caught in the San
dusky river recently, at one drag ofthe seine
q The Germans of San Francisco have re-
ceived an acknowledgment of $4,000 in gold,
to be forwarded TO Berlin, for the relief of suf-
ferers.
- The Pennsylvania Central and the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago roads are
to be consolidated. The contract has already
been made.
I=The Mormons at Salt Lake City are
fighting the grasshoppers. They turn out en-
masse, headed by their Bishops, catch and
burn them.
eB- The N. 7. Tribune in speaking of Mr..
Wade at the Chicago Convention, well and adj
mirably says: "Air. Wade deserved the great
and nearly successful support he received"
eB Two members of the Louisiana Legis-
lature have been assassinated recently by the
Ku Klux Klan. The object of the assassina-
ton was to prevent a Union majority in the
Legislature.
GB 1t is announced from Washington that
the Senators who voted for Mr. Johnson's ac-
quittal are already moving to control the ap-
pointment Of Minister to England They
certainly are losing no time in demanding an
equivalent for their services.
GB-The Supreme Court of Ohio has declar-
ed unconstitutional the act of the last Legisla-
ture excluding all persons who had any "visi-
bic admixture" of African blood from voting
and also the act restricting the right of students
in school and colleges, to vote.
I-When Gen, Grant was asked whether
he could receive two Committees in one day,
sent by two different Conventions to inform
him of his nomination to the Presidency, he
said that his speeches were so exhaustive
that he couldn't make two of them on the same
day.
GB- Mrs Bowsher, who was arrested at Upper
Sandusky, Ohio, some months ago for poison
ing her son and two daughters, has been tried
and acquitted on an indictment for the murder
OF her son. She was remanded to prison to
await trial on an Indictment for poisoning her
daughters
NA gay and festive female who has been
masquerading in pantaloons, high-top boots,
and other masculine paraphernalia, for four
years past, and melting the iealousIy of all the
beaux in the particular circle, has lust been dis
covered in New York, where she was encared
to be marriedto young lady in Madison ave-
nue.
The large yield of lumber from the
johnson ash tree, last week, calls out men
ton of lumber sawed from pine tree cut near
Cory, Pa, the first cut of which made ZOO
feet; second ,572: the third 1, 400; the fourth
1,14S; the fifth $50, and the sixth 500, making
total of 1869 feet
EB-The Philadelphia Press. estimates that
along the line of the Deleware Railroad there
are lO47 ,625 peach trees likely to be in bear
ing this season, from which will be gathered
exactly 1,101, ,040 baskets of fruit. The calcu-
iatlon IS nice one, and no one will complain
should it prove correct to a basket
The New York Horld is enthusiastic
about the 'frreproachable character of Chief
Justice Chase just now. How long is it since
the World was abusing Mr.. Chase for "drar-
ging the judicial ermine in the mire" by al |
legged electioneering among the southern blackss
E8@ The term of the seven Republican Sena-
tors voting mot guilty" on the 11th article of
Impeachment, expire as follows Fessenden, |
Of Maine, 1871; FOWLER, of Tennessee, 1871;
GRIMES, of Iowa, 1871 HENDERSON, of Miss
ouri 1863; Ross, of Kansus, 1871; TRUMBULL
OF Illinois, 1873; Van Wrinkle, ofWest Virgin
Ia, 1863. No one of them viii. be returned, |
unless in the meantime the legislatures of
sLeir respective Stat becomes clpperheads.