Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-05-23

telling ye. When | love ye so that I'd
like to bite piece right ont of your
swate check, and We fale as if ye'd like
TO have me do so-that's sympathy be
jabbers!'
"Ah, Patrick, ye know my wskenessr
Take piece, be sure and lave it SO that
you can take it again when you come -
A monument to the rebel dead of Bull
Run is projected.
Anna Dickinson is going to England
to lecture.
The Kansas farmers are letting the
sheep eat down their wheat, in order to
cheat the grasshoppers.
Ex-President James Buchanan is lying
very i'll at Lancaster. His complaint
is said to be pleuro-pneumonia. He is
not expected to recover.
The London Spectator says that Ma
pier conquered the aridlty of Abyssinia
with the American tube driving inven=
tions of wells, as if a new Moses had
smltten the rocks.
The present low rates for lake transportation
have caused large number of vessels to stop
running. Eighteen are laid up in Buffalo,
having discharged ineir crews, anu otissrs
expected to do likewise soon.
THE Memphis Post says the estate of
Mrs. Gaines, to which her title has lately
been confirmed by the Supreme Court is
said TO be worth over a bundled mil
, lions of dollars and to comprise block
after block around Jackson Square and
other most valuable parts of New Or
| leans.
The PhIa7elj1ltiG Press estimates that
along the line OF the Delaware Railroad
there are ,o47, ,625 peach trees likely to
be in bearing this season, from which
will be gathered exactly ,1Ol ,040 bask-
cts of fruit. The calculation is nice
one, and no~one would complain If it
should prove correct to basket.
An old Spanish soldier, Cimone Ava
los, who carried musket in Spain more
| than a hundred years ago, and was one
Of the military guard of the Padre Jani-
Apero Sierra, when he raised the cross in
ALA California at San Diego, ninety
eight years since, still lives and enjoys
good health and memory at Todos
Santos, Lower California. --.
The NcwLerg Times says that at a
wedding in Ulster county, lately; when
all was arranged and the minister called
on any to speak who objected to marriage
a husky voice from the corner cried out,
II do!' All eyes were turned in thas
direction, when a man emerged from the
crowd, holding his handkerchief up to
/ L ,,l hl1IhovipCr esfNhrT Il n
object. asked the minister. Because T
want her myself"
Five Of the Reble States have ratified thier
new Constitutions, and elected Republican
State officers, which will secure an increase Of
I ten in the Republican strength in the U. S.
Senate. One Democrat has been elected to,
the House, as for as heard from. There will
soon be, at the present rate, hardly enough
E"Democrats' in Congess for seed
The Boston Trare,ef says: "To an inquiry
how one of the bank presidents in this Com
monwealth had made his fortune, the reply
was Mainly by economy When rendering
| an income return, this gentlemen's attention
was called to an apparent omission. Have
Won more than one gold watch 2 asked the
official. Not one-a useless expense. Any
kcarriages sirY 4 don't indulge in one "A
piano think you have? Sir, wish you to
understand own nothing that docs not draw
interest,"
The citizens of Buffalo recently voted
| 100000 to the Buffalo and Washington Rail-
way. 1t is proposed now to have an air line
railroad from Buffalo to Detroit W. A. Thon-
son from Canada West, has a charter from the
Canadian government to build railroad e. N
Buffalo to Detroit on the Canada sFr5~. adj
dressed the Board of Trade Of - ...Io on
he subject Of the road, and. ,hs proposed in
terlational bridge across Ibt Niagara River.
near that city.