Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-08-22
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used for manure.
H-Lola Montez's grave, at Greenwood, has
been rudely defaced and desecrated by persons
unknown.
cEThe Ku Klux make no halfway jobs
a Tennessee paper says that when they go out
to visit house for the purpose of killing, they
bring spades and picks along to bury the corpse.
Gov. Hayes has received the resignation
of Philo B. Conant as State Senator for the
Portage District The Governor will doubtless
order the vacancy to be filed at the October
election.
Sun Tajen, one of the Chinese Embassa-
dors while on an excursion in Buffalo Narbor
on Saturday, fell overheard, and would have
been drowned but for sailor who jumped af-
ter him, and, brought him on board, the vessel.
The Democrats of the Third Congressional
District held their convention at Hamilton,
Tuesday, and nominated Clement L. Vallan-
digham on the third ballot The convention
refused to make the nomination unanimous.
Z, johnson, McCulloch and Browning, sup
port Seymour and Blair. Mr. Welles is on the
fence. Mr.. Seward, Mr.. Evarts and General
Schofeld sre said to favor the election of
Grant.
.. EE-Mr Watts, our Minister to Austria, ar
rived on the 13 tn and waited upon Secretary
Seward. He will receive his instructions to-
morrow, and leave about the first of Septem-
ber
EEThe Pittsburgh papers are giving remin-
iscences of the defunct newspapers of that city.
Twenty two dailies and twenty-five weeklies
figure on the dead roll, besides religious news
papers and periodicals.
E-Fatker Fischer, who was charged by
Macmillan to publish all the documents rela-
ting to the Mexican expedition, is in Vienna.
He is steadily proceeding with the work, and
thinks it may be ready for publication in four
or five months.
TAnother victim to science has fallen on
African soil LIE Saint, who had left France
about nineteen months ago, has died at Abu
Khuka. Matte Brun has received letters from
Alexandra which leave no doubt as to the
young travellers fate
BA great white heron has just been shot
in Vermont Its plumage was snowy white
and exceedingly beautiful This is probably
the first bird of its kind that was ever seen in
Vermont though Audubon says it has been
seen as far east, as Massachusetts,.
HProf6sor GGngee afirms that one-fifth
of the common meat of Great Britian-beef
veal mutton and lambs diseased; while Pro-
fessor Geriach states that in Berlin at least as
much diseased as healthy meat is consumed.
-"Our soldiers run well this year" was
the sneering remark made by Seymour after
series of reyerses in 1862 On which the New
burg journal comments: They will run
well this year, too, and are already after his
nimbie exceEency with sharp stick"
~ Trade in the New York meat markets,
since the alarming announcements about the
cattle plague, has fallen off one half. Fulton
Washington, and Spring, the leading markets
in the City, complain very much of the depres-
sion in business, and restaurants tell the same
tale.
w-A novel and ridiculous pedestrian feat
was performed lately at Wadsworth Common
England. A man named Wigly ran, walked,
wheeled barrow, trundled hoop, and hop
ped on one leg distance of five miles, in sepa-
rate feats of one mile each, within one hour,
for e20, and won, with two minutes to spare.
!. BA dispatch from Omaha says that fifty
additional miles of the Union Pacific Rail
road are now finished, making 755 miles from
Omaha. 1t now seems probably that nearly
one thousand miles will be in running order
before the close of the year, and that the whole
line to the Pacific will be open for business
during 1869.
HGeneral Rosecrans, Minister to Mexi-
GO, called on Secretary Seward and received
his commission and instructions. He is directed
to convey to President Juarez the views of this
government that the Republic be at once placed
upon firmer basis, with ample security to life
and properly, and encouragement to emigra-
ton
cY Minister Burlingame has been on visit
TO his parents, who reside at Dunton, near
Chicago On Friday evening he made an ad-
dress to the people of the village, relative to
his mission and to the future of the Celestials.
He expects an immense immigration of Chi
nese to this country when the Pacific Railroad
shall be finished.
eIn Chicago, they have a very effective
way of getting dogs out of the way, and that is
by furnishing the night police with Ingenious
ly prepared pills, which are administered du-
ring the nocturnal rounds. In the morning
the City Contractor finds material for soap
grease and the citizen enjoys his next nights
rest undisturbed
t-The Warren Chronicle remarks that Su-
per~isors would do well to make themselves
familiar with sections IL and 1s Of the new
Roaa'Law, passed March 9Th, 1868, which re-
quires asezn '.to erect and keep up at the forks
or cross roads of every State and county road
. post and guide or finger board;" and also, ito
construct foot bridges over streams of water
on said highways
To supply the demand for Indian corn, thir-
teen steamers are on ther way from the ports
Of the Black Sea to Liverpool, but the market
must be suppSed principally from the United
Ststes, and to meet this California will have q
surpaas, of "a eeO, 600 bushels of wheat, and the
other Pacific. States will contribute their
psstion-