Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-08-28
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States have a memership In total of 2, 2,400,00O.
ts5~The shipments of iron ore from Escan-
Nba,, for the seasen up to August 12, foot up
10000 gross tons.
eT-Wm. ii. Halloek of the JoWrRdJQf Com
merce starts y new evening paper this week
called The Republic. soff..
ET~The contracts for the consolidation Of
the New York Central and Hudson River
Railroads arc said to he ready for signing.
EE7The Rev. Hiram Mead, of Nashua New
Hampshire, Is offered a theological professor
ship at ObeTlia-
uCT7The Trustees Of the Illinois State Re-
form School have Decided on Pontiac as the
place Of its location H
E-The receipts from internal revenue for
the months Of April May June and July, 1869,
exceed those for the same period in 1868 by
$I00,oOOOO0
E-A gentleman having been lately called
on Ia subscribe TO course of lectures, deelin-
ed, 'because," said he, my wife gives me
lecture every night for nothing"
a1t5y-It Is stated in the Cincinnati Commercial
that the Hon. Horace Greeley Is not only
pillar Of the Rev. Chapin's Church, but also
one Of It's soundest sleepers.
EB Bishop Kemper, of Wisconsin, recently
held confirmation among the Oneida Indians
at Green Bay. The service was In the Mohawk
language and several persons were confirmed
CyTGommodore Vanderbilt has Just been
married in Canada. The frisky young couple
have adjourned TO Saratoga for the honey.
moon.
tY-The cars on the White Mountain Rail-
road were delayed by snow on the 7th of Au-
gust, and 100 people we've compelled to pass
the night on Mount Washington.
eB-The five-mile scull race at Phtsburg, on
Thursday, the 10Th, was won by Coulter, beat
ing Hamill about one hundred yards in thirty
seven minntes and fifty-one seconds
sgT-All the New York Sta,e delegates to the
Nationa; Labor Congress seeded ON account
of the reception of Susan B. Anthouy's Gre
dentials Some of the Pennsylvania delegates
also left. A new congress will be called
tyTA Geographic dispatch from New York
says that articles of consolidation Of the To-
ledO and Wabash and Lake Shore roads have
been signed at New York. and will be sub
mitted to the stockholders in thirty days.
tT-The pressure for the new currency is so
great that the Treasury Department has de-
eided to transfer the printing TO Washington,
thus overcoming the trouble occasioned by the
strike of the plate printers in New York.
CB"A Democratic Association of New York
80 hna To Ia, A nalu tn
resign the ehairmanship of the Democratic
National Committee Possibly Belmont will
decline the invitation.
EE-A wise old gentleman, who knew all
about it., ON yetiring ffom business, gave the
following sage advice to his son and successor
Common sense, my son, Is valuable in all
Kinds of business-except love-making."
ICY There Is considerable agitation in the
eastern. cities about the vermin in the street
cars. The cushions of the cars become III
fected with vermin. No cars fit to ride in but
those with plain wooden seats, that may be
kept clean. aIf... ..a... .."
eD~PhiladeIphia papers say every thing In
dicates that there will be no water, unless they
have copious rains. The Chief of Police has
ordered patrolmen to visit all houses and urge
the people to be very economical In using
water.
ET-"Huckeberry trains" will soon cease to
be term sgniiying insignihcancc to such rail
ways as skirt such huckleberry marshes rs one
in the county of Welland, Canada where thG
daily picking is from five hundred to one thou
sand bushels each day. ..
Eight of the Spanish gunbohts at Mystic
Conn, have been launched and the rest will
be In the water within three weeks Work
going forward on all the boats, and the Span
ish officers in charge are confident they will
have no trouble in leaving port.
tH-The fat men had a clam-bake at Nor
walk, Conn, on Friday. One hundred an,
twenty Fat men were present, weighing n
the aggregate 27,04s pounds The most o
them were well-known MERCHANTS from New
York city.
sB"A shark nearly seven feet long wa
killed In pond in Brooklyn, New York, las
week. This pond Is connected with Gowanu
Bay by a sewer some two feet in diameter, an
through this the dangerous fish must hav
gone at high water
StH- Recently the Directors ear ran for
Buffalo 70 coldwster, 90 miles In o. minutes
and the distance from Buffalo to Rochester
Coz miles In 20 minutes. The Syracuse Jou,
nal reports the running Of II similar train fror
thatcity 10 FairpOTt, n miles in 75 minutes.
Connecticut man has invented a simpl
bat etfectaal method TO prevent nuts and bol,
from Sorking loose by unscTewing, 1t col
sists In the application Of leit-hand screv
fitted into the end OF the bolt, so that It's en-
will partly cover the end Of the nut, aud ,hv
prevent II from working loose.
eB-A clergyman "eandIdating' In Rutlsn
W, recently got settled" though not ov'
the church, by injudiciously remarking tn
"when women fall into sin they suffer le
from compuneiicnS Of conscience than men
The ladies Of the congregation immsdIatel
determined that he wasn't the shepherd q