Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-06-20
PEN And PASTE BREYITIEs.

rA wester paper is responsible for the
suggestion that the ballet-giris are wrongs
which should be re-dressed.
TThe Geneva Times has changed hands
Messrs. Warren P Spencer and c. A. Vaughn
having purchased the establishment of III. ii
Thorp, Esq
W-A Committee of the Massachusetts, Leg
islature report that one-half of the children II
factory service die before they are IS.
The Oregon election results thus: Senate
u Democrats, 10 Republicans; Assembly, 2s
Democrats, 10 Republicans. The vote polled
was nearly q, 1000, the largest ever polled-
E-Thirteen buildings are in course of ere
citing on Broadway, New York, below Union
Square, Their aggregate cost is $3,S45IOOO
Seven hundred and ninety men are employed
upon them.
EHThe Barnum Museum property in New
Yoxk, being 75 feet on Broadway and 200 fee
through to Mercer Street, was sold on the 1Otl
inst to Peter Gilsey, for $432,OOO. During the
winter it was held for 100000.
wThe hop fields along the line of the
Lake Shore road present fine growth of
vine and at distance look well, but the in
sect is said to be threatening destruction to the
crop
CEThe strife between the Erie and Cen
tral Railways, which reduced freights and
fares to very low figure during the winter,
has ceased so far as freight is concerned, and
rates last week on goods were put up twenty
per cent
r-Davarad,- TobDcor u;II MT reet,me hie
seat in the Senate, but will leave for England
as soon as Secretary Seward returns to give
him his instructions. The latter is now in
New York, and no one knows when he will
be back.
BFanny Ferns ''Folly as it Flies" has
reached its third edition. 1t is dedicated to
Robert Bonner thus: For fourteen years, the
team of Bonner and Fern has trotted over the
road at 2, 40 pace, without snap of the har-
ness or a hitch of the wheels. Plenty of oats
and skillful rein, the secret"
N-In Connecticut, recently a'boy killed a
spotted adder with stick, and soon after took
that part of the stick which had come in con-
tect with the snake into his hand. He was
Immediately seized ky severe pain in the hand
and arm, and his body began to swell, and
was covered with red and black spots. Whis-
Ky cured him. but it was q remarkable case of
poisoning
W An American adventures has been ar
rested in Lyons for stealing goods in dry
goods store. Being searched at the headquar-
tiers of the police, two large bags were found
tied around her body, both of them were filled
with. stolen articles; and in her trunks at the
hetel were also found a great many goods
which she had stolen in Paris She will be
sent for eight or ten years to the desolate shores
of New Caledonia.
HThe New York Leader having said, 'If
Colfax has ever been a printer, he'll know
what It is to have form pied next November
the Providence Journal adds the following
diamond foot note: +" Exactly SO. The Demo-
cratic form is already so badly squG56led and
off as .fesP that the strongest CHASE in the
country can's hold it together, and there are
clear indications t4as it wild be liz AL the
receptacle for battered and used up Jonts,'
very early in November"
eTA gentleman once said TO Rowland Hill l.:
at is sixty-fve years since first heard you
preach, and the sermon was well worth while
remembering You remarked that some peo-
pie arevery squeamish about the manner of a
Clergyman IN preaching, but you then added,
"Supposing you hear will read, expecting to
receive legacy, would you employ the time
in criticising the lawyers manner while read
ingit? No; you would give all your interest
TO ascertain If anything were left to yourself,
and how much Let that. fsen,. be the way in
which you listen to tAs Gospel"
WA correspondent writing from Omaha,
says I'm the last week there have been six
teen failures with business houses, and before
the ners sixty days roll around, they will
double the amounA- Our streets look as if the
place was being deseFsed- Omaha can never
get ru2 the same excitement she did this spring.
In my opinion she is dead for years to come.
zndlif tie truth was told by ALL, they would
coincide with me-. Two months aeothere was
not q store TO be rented in the place. Te.det
there are sixty one stores for rent