Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-01-02
PEN AND PASTE BREyITlEs,

PEN AND PASTE BRESlTIEs.
tg-oystes are shipped f.om Mobile to Salt
Lake City.
tB-The Ohio Penitenitiary cleared $1,000
last year by the lsboy of the convlcts.
tEThere are two bars in Salt Lake City
paying Brigham 5000 month license fee.
e%-ifhe wolves in Erie Co., Ohio, ore kill
ing seventy sheep night.
tE-The Rev. Miss Chapin, Of Mount Pleas
SAINT Iowa, has accepted a $4,000 call to n
church in Milwaukee.
tY-Vanderbilt is said to have made between
FIVE and six million dollars by his last stroke in
the New York Central
t%~The tunnel under the Chicago river at
Washington street is so nearly completed that
IL is expected TO be opened to tho public on the
first proximo. IH
tE-It is said that many prominent express
men are about to establish new company,
with an immense capital, in opposition to the
American Merchants Union.
s8%An English paper announces that the En-
perier of Austria, the King of the Belgians, and
President johnson, sent their expression OF
coincidence to the Rothschild family on the &C.
casion OF Baron James death
B-Chcago is being tckled with talk of
project to extend the Grand Trunk Railway,
from Ridgway near Port Sarna, through Michi-
gan to that city, distance of two hundred and
f..,T. miles
II There is a slight movement on the part
Of east Tennessee to separate from the other
portion of the State and form a State by
itself. Brownlow favors the proposition hearth
ly.
sT-In the new British House of Commons
there are twelve Independents, five Baptists,
five Quakers, two Wesleyan Methodists, one
Galvdnistic Methodist, seventeen Unitarians,
ten Presbyterians, six Jews, and twenty-six Ro-
man Catholics, of whom only one represents an
English constituency.
CEThe Springfield Republican correspond
ent writing from Washington, the 18th says /:
Senator Ferry of Connecticut made power
ful argument to-day, in favor of removing all
disabilities at the South by general legislation.
The Senate seemed surprised by the forcible
eloquence of the speaker and somewhat by the
position he took.
EB lue stOI -lelllng pOluClhnS OF w aSnlLg-
ton all have their bits of anecdotc about Thad.
Stevens. One of them claims to have heard
from him through spiritual medium, on the
morning when the eulogies on his mama were
to be delivered in the House. lie was asked
whom he preferred as speakers on the occasion
aud replied, ~ don't care d-n, as l won't
have to listen to them"
sB-It is said that Frank Reno, one Of the
express robbers lynched the other day at New
Albany, alone knew of the place where were
deposited ninety thousand dollars, the proceeds
of ono ofhis many robbtries His sister visit.
ed him few days before he was hanged and
tried to induce him to tell where his hoard was
concealed, but he refused telling her that ifhe
could not live to enjoy II no one else should
The secret died with him.
eB-The Danish Government, seeing that We
have paid for our icebergs, wants next to hold
us 10 our bargain about the earthquakes We
learn'from Washington that the Danes do moi
nt all relish the idea of taking back IS oya
subjects the people of st. Thomas who v0tet
with such striking unanmity that they prefer
red another rule. The Danish authorities oven
hint that It is dishonorable to lure them on to
giving up the territory and then throw 1t back
on their hands.