Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-05-16
PEN AND PASTE BREVITIES.


" -Four hundred thousand pairs of shoes are
now manufactured in Lynn in one week.
Is where are twenty shoe manufactures IN
Stoncaam, Mass One of these turns out go
pairs;i day.
Cy+A TRAVELLING menaserie man feeds his
lions with cats which he collects in his march
through the country.
q 8-TuE Buffalo papers suggest the propriety
of laying pipes from the breweries in thai
town, to the residences of citizens.
eW-A party of Rebels from Washington arc
engaged at Manassas Junction, in erecting
monument to the Confederate dead.
CS~A black snake five feet in length, was
clubbed TO death, in Fifth-ave. n. Y. City on
Saturday eventing last by patrolman.
CSy-Professor COnnington, of Oxford Uni
versity, has completed translation of the lliad
into Spenserian verse.
CBThe Louisiana sugar crop promises well
reach $4,000 hogsheads.
eY-It is stated that owing to improvements
in machinery, and new discoveries in gold and
silver, the yield of precious metals in Montana
will be this year ten times greater than last
CERev 4. d. Mayo, of Cincinnati, has been
invited TO deliver the commencement oration
before the University of Michigan at Ann Ar
Dor en the 22d of June, and has accepted.
Mr.. Welch, of Philadelphia is now the
owner of Flora Temple. Flora last week had
an addition to her family, although she is now
% years old
rs There is a rumOr that the detectives
have at last got on tie track of the BenninG-
hoff robbers 1t is believed that most of the
money will be recovered.
rs 1T has cost the British Government about
one million stealing for each prisoner rescurcd
from King Theodore. But his is a favorite
extravaganza with John Bull.
Ticknor & Fields are said to have in
press novel by Mrs. Stowe, at one time an
nounced for publication this spring, but not
likely to be issued until the Presidential election
is over.
sS-Two acres of land on the lrow of puts
Ridge" in Greenwich, Conn, made memorable
by Israel Putnams famous breakneck ride
when escaping from the British troops, were
lately sold for $1,000.
GN The puddlcrs in Brown, Bonnell & Co.,
rolling mill Youngstown have struck. The
strike among the miners in this valley is gen.
cral. About fifteen hundred are out at Miner
al Ridge, and have been out about six weeks.
There is no prospect of their going in soon.
~ Gov. Holden Of North Carolina has ten
dered to Robert Dogulas, thc eldest son OF
Stephen A. Douglas, the position of Private
Secretary on his staff, in the new State Gov
ernment about 20 be organized in that State.
e8 An English Elm, On Boston common,
which was Planted in 1873, was cut down and
removed on Tuesday, having. died at the age OF
134 years. The old Elm, par excellence, is
native TO tie soil, and nearly century old
GE-The case Of John Ii. Sutratt came up
in court on the 18th but was continued until
the June term. A motion was made to release
the prisoner on bail, which was to be argued
next day.
e8 j. II. Whalon, John II. Walker and
Orange Noble, of Erie, and Geo II: Cutler, of
Girard, are candidates: fer the Republican
nomination in the Nineteenth Congressional
district of Pennsylvania
E8 The Coroner's Jury investigation ofthe
explosion CT the boiler ofthe propeller Govenor
Cushman, in Buffalo harbor, find the boiler TO
have been old and defective, and that the fact
was known to the engineer ofthe boat
es-Twenty-six thousand cases. 10000
pairs of shoes, were shipped from Lynn, Mass
during April The value of these shipments
was nearly 100000, and it was the largest
months business ever transacted at Lynn.
The manufacturers are reported to be as busy
as ever this month in filling orders
~ Indians made another attack, on Satur-
Gay last, upon the Union and Pacific Railroad,
Kansas Branch, near West Coyote, burned
three car loads of freight, and tore down the
telegraph wires. Two companies of cavalry
were ordered.from Fort Hayes to pursue them.
GB-A city paragraph in the New York TijJ
Wne says "a lady with blue caters, &Iae dress,
blue sacque blue lace collar, blue hat, blue
feather, blue parasol blue fan, blue kid gloves,
blue stockings, blue eyes, and turquoise brace
lets, necklace, and earrings, attracted our at
tention on one ofthe Jersey city ferry boats"
CB The little girl stolen last fall by the gyp-
sizes, at Sandusky, was found about three weeks
ago at Terra Haute, Indiana. The band in
whose possession she was found was closely
followed and watched for months, but they
managed to keep tic child secreted until the
day it was discovered: sid reclaimed. 1t was
much emaciated, and gave every evidence of
hard usuage.
eyT The House on the 7th passed resolu-
ton requesting the President to send a suf-
ficient number Of vessels of war to the fishing
grounds in the Gulf of ST. Lawrence to pro-
tect American interests IN that quarter. Mr.
Pike said that the Canadian Government was
proposing 10 impose tax of 81 per tun on
American fishing vessels, and threatens to send
vessel of war TO enforce that tax
eB-The South Corolina Democrats Com
rsittee, having been received by the House
Committee on Reconstruction on Tuesday, made
known their objections to the new Constitu-
ton. They hold that the school-tax is unjust
in requireing both whites and blacks to pay
for schools which the children of the white no.
bility will not attend. They don't IKE schools
in South Carolina.
eY An. official dispatch in relation to the
shooting of fPrince Alferd says the ball entered