Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-02-08

MONDAY alternUona last, Daniel Adams as
saulted G. Lace, of LeRny, with q slung shot,
on the sidewalk in PaintsviIle, striking him
several times, cutting three holes on the top Of
the head, and bruising the side of the left eye.
The officers soon arrested both parties, Adams
being taken to the Jail, and Lace, after having
his wounds dressed, appeared before Justice
Doolittle and made complaint An e1amina
tion of the case was waived, and the Court held
tie prisoner to bail in the sum of $500 for his
appearance at che next session of the Court of
Common Pleas, aud the prisoner was set at lib
erty ON bail. ..--.., .-........... ..
FIR: IN AMBor.-The dwelling of Andrew
Viets, in the society of Amboy, township of Con
neaut, with its contents, was destroyed by fire
on Monday night last An Insurance of $500
had been effected upon the house, and 5000
upon the furniture, in the Cleveland Company.
The greater loss is said to have fallen upon the
furniture, it be Ing of more than three times the
value of the insurance. The cause of the fire
is not known, but as everything appeared right,
the agent, c. D. Rockwell. Esq, was authori
ze,i to pay the loss at once .aear+s
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night, about IL IL O'clock, the family Of
Cyrene Pierce, living about mile south
of the centre Of Austinburg, on the GER
tire road, were awakened to find the house
in flames. At the time of the discovery
Of the fire, it had made such Roadway
that it was impossible to arrest the flames.
Very little was saved in the way of house
Eold goods, in fact only such things as
could be canght up on the instant. There
was full stock provisions, wheat, etc,
in the house, which were lost. The house
was fine large two-story building, all
of which was lost. There was an insur-
ance of $1,000, in the Ohio Farmers
Company, on the proPerty.4.Sentinet.
Deacon Daniel Malthie and wife, long
among the pillars OF the Congregational
church at Saybrook, celebrated their gol-
den wedding en the lst inst. Sixty
Maltbies were of the company. Their
ters-are all married. and, with their
wives amlfis husbands and the sixteen
grand children, were all present-com-
ing from home scattered from Connect
cut to Iowa. AL of them, with one ex-
ception,are singers, and all over eight
years:of age are Christians. Rare are
the golden weddings that can rejoice i'll
such rennon.--Rspg'ter, = y. |
The CASE OF JUDGE FIELD.-H is sta
ted that the charges against Judge Field
of the Supreme Court, arose from the fact
that he.had stated in a private ceilversa-
tionwith Senator Stewart, Of Nevada,
that he was at present opposed to impair
tial negro suffrage, and also thought
more conservative tendency in our Gov
ernment would be generally beneficial.
The accusation against Judge Field was
drawn from all inference of his views
from the above .'.-. -i,79''' 9 o.
a citizen of New London .reeehtiy. appeared
before he Assessors and desired that $1,000
Which he had at interest might DC addrl to his
list. The affair created great deal Of astonish
ment}o TkfITHu 4IGft I.TTTiL Z
.lThe game laws of Chic forbid tie shooting of
quafls, ',Gfkeya RABBITS, &c, Eetween the 1st
of February and the 18th of October. - d (
a Detroit Justice the other day married a
couple whose unit,d weight v as $50 ounds-
the bride scoring 400 .. sos .sl &
immigration statistics show decrease of
forty per Cent. in arrivals at New York durihg
the past month compared wit the same month
last year. '-
Jefferson Davis, real estate in the South is re-
ported to be worth about sixty thousand dol
lars It-wiIl al be restored to him. : 1t is now
in his posse ssien! Hr %
I'm ChicagoS $685., ,6S5F letters were received
for distribution last year; 9,76l money orders
were sold, amounting to sll ,O69 96, and Al ,5Gl
IfIeg osdnrs wese paid Amounting to $685.
g4 30 70 a7saT - .' -. ~ 80. u ''---,H
A Palace Cdr running on the Chicago, Bur
linston, aud Quincy Railroad, took fire about
twelve fclotk on Saturday night, caused by an
explosion of a kerosene lamp. The car was
totally destroyed The passengers n escaped
without injury. II
77oY ungst6wn, according toia census ta-
ken last May, had a population OF 5,oS2:
The Register thinks it now has 1900 IN
habitants. ,.ssF D. %. s,a-.F-s 81. .'stz9 %. tas-
A merchant in Troy, Ny, repeated
ly missed small sums of m oney from his
till he finally preceived- a ''mouse"
making his exit. from hole in the mon
ey drawer with its mouth full of postal
currency. ''@7A "a ~ .-sz .,-45.5.h
Springfield, Mass, is the headquarters
0of the fine paper manufactures of this
country-more than one-half ofthe entire
product of this article coming from the
mlllsswithiin lew miles f1oPp that. Gclty.
The number bushels of coal .lniuedsin
TrumBull county during the year, amount
ed to 4, l4o, ,44O, being in excess OF any
other county IN the State by $50, ,965
bushels, over one-ffth of the coal mined
in the whole State. With the new and
rich mines lately discovered in Vienna,
Hubbard and Brookfeld, we snaayl look
for increase during tbe present year. s5r-
1.-The, total value of taxable, personal
propertyEis is SIS, ,9S7,692. The number of
cattle in this county exceed those OF any
county in the State, Ashtabula, having
-the next largest, s2,4s2, ,Lleayingt us l..
head foot booaas Of: 81 z z Z he value of our