Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-07-03
Pen and Pastc Brevities.

CE- The new Captain General Caballero de
Rodas has arrived in Cuba.
tEThey are passing the hat around in
Washington for contributions to aid in resur-
recting The National EnteH9gnor.
tH-Ttfs authoritatively denied that there
was any unpIeasantness between the President
and Borie.
CE~The Great Eastern had, nj last advices,
laid 1888 knots of the cable. Everything was
going on well.
CE-Commissioner Delano estimates that the
receipts of internal revenue for the year will
reach sl5s,2OOOo0.
icy Andrew johnson is in Washington,
searching for documents to assist the historian
OF his administration.
EY-The bill to repeal Che Usury Law Of
Connecticut was lost in the House, by vote
Of II yeas to- l4s nays.
eE-They are enforcing the neutrality laws
in New York at the rate of about one Cuban
expedition per week, sailing in good condi-
ton.
ETS. s. Conant, managing editor of the
New York T,~es, succeeds Mr.. Raymond as
editor-in-chief
eT Katatasi has been appointed Minister to
the United States from Russia He bears the
congratulations Of the Gear to President Grant
S-The stock and bondholders of the Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad have
voted almost unanimously TO lease their road
TO the Pennsylvania Central
eTs- Since November the number of Assist
ant Assessors of Internal Revenue has been
reduced by 063 The number remaining in
tlIe service is s,2Tz,
CE- The Chinese insurgents have sustained
defeat in decisive and terrible battle, wherein
twenty thousand of them are reported 70 have
been slaughtered.
tB~ Three tugs loaded with Cuban flllibus.
tiers were captured Wednesday in Long Island
Sound, and are now under surveillance at she
Brooklyn navy-yard.
Johnny Glen, of Ohio, the drummer boy
who gained great notoriety during the war by
shooting Confederate Colonel, wko demand
ed his surrender, has been appointed by the
President cadet at West Point. ..,I
EE- The report that Lopez has offered to
surrender and leave Paraguay seems to be
confirmed by cable dispatches, though few
persons will have implicit faith in the state
ment until further adyiens shall he received
tB- Captain Foote, at the Treasurers office,
wishes it generally and distinctly understood
that all taxes not paid on or before Saturday,
July Sd, viii be placed in the hands of col
lectors.
eT1- Il il seriously asserted that Ku-Klux
letters have been sent TO Mr.. Douglass, the
colored printer who is at work in the Govern
ment printing office, threatening him with
death unless he leaves the place by certain
day. r ....r s...E
eT-The Republicans in the Spanish Cortes
have been admonished that their presence 10
tolerated in that body as an act of patriotism,
butsny attempts to- build up Republic in
Spain will be promptly suppressed
ey-The Union Pacific and Central Pacific
Railroads having adjusted their differences,
through tickets are now sold from N. York to-
San Francisco for $l7s 35 currency. Time,
eight days.
EB-The Cortes of Spain have voted the Re-
gency by 1913 to 45 Thus is Marshcl Serrano
President of Spain, with ssme sf the circum-
stances of king Spain Is one more move
toward aetted government .t.t. E.
eEGeneral Sickles has been granted leave
Of absence by the Secretary Of War on the or
der of the President, for one year with permits
sion GO abroad in order that he may accept
the Mexican mission without rcsigning his
commission in the army.
tY- The Supreme Court of Georgia, las
day, decided that by the code, adopted under
the new Constitution, marriages between white
persons and persons of African decent, are for
ever prohibited in that State, and that all such
contracts are null and void.
GB-Importep are shipping bach to Europe
portion of the fancy goodssO profusely pour
cd In upon us for months past. Thirteen cases
of French Ribbons, valued at s0,475, were
reshipped in vessel that lift New York
on Saturday last.
eB-The trotting mare American Girl won
the big race at the Narraganset Trottlpg Park,
on Saturday In three straight heats, beating
Lady Thome, Goldsmith Maid, Luey and
George palmer, The uuns was 2;221l, 2l0,--
2:201<.
ezrA party OF prominent business naen Of
Chicsgowil in few days leave that city on
visit to San Francisco and intermediate point,
for the purpose OF facilitating commercial in
tercourse between their city and the various
points on ths PaG6c Railroad
CB- Cornell University commencement ex.
ercises ended July lst Hon. VIM J. MGAlplne
lectured June 25th on modern engineering
Applications for admission to ihe University
are numerous, and among the number ls War
rem Leland, Jr., Of New York
CB-Late Cuban advices say the regular
Spanish soldiery are deserting to the patriot
army. 1t is also stated that the material aid re.
eeiyed by the insurgents from Mexico equals,
II 1t does not exceed, that received from the
United States
eB-Dlspatches from General MeAIahon, TO
this State Department.. bearing date April q
have been received He reports his relations
with I0Dez 10 be naOat es,Ftiial and ffiendlY