Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-12-18

EE-A clean built Kentucky youth twenty
two years old passed through Meridian, Mis-
sissppi, the other day, seven feet eleven and q
half inches high, and weighing four hundred
and forty pounds. He was boss of q snake
show.
EzrTho Ecumenical Council which COM
menced its session in Rome, on the 9th, num-
bered seven hundred bishops who Joined in
the procession which escorted the Pope to the
Han of Council. The ceremonies exceeded in
granduer anything which has taken place in
Rome during the present century.
tT~Onicial notification has been received by
the Secretary of State of the ratification of the
Fifteenth Amendment in perfect form by nine
teen States, in defective form by two States.-
Twenty eight States are required to make the
ratification complete, and Virginia is counted
among the nineteen.
GBr"One more unfortunate" has gone to his
death through stock gambling. Mr.. John
King, lawyer of Arkansas, for the last six
months n resident of New York. an operator
in stocks, blew his brains out al the New York
Hotel in that city,-cause losses in stocks.
r2S~ The Fifteenth Amendment is said to
have gained new element Of strength in that
portion of the Democratic party which favors
the nomination of Chase for the Presidency IN
1872. 1t is thought the adoption of the amend
ment will give great strength to Chase, who is
thought to be able to control the bulk of the
negro vote.
GB~ B~The Rev. rockingham is improving
He sermonized on Sunday the Sth to the ef.
feet that editors and intervewers are cold
bloodea enemies of society. On the "inter.
viewers" he is sound in his head he is Just
half right; great improvement over his con
dition at the Richardson Mcfarland ceremo
mics, when he was all wrong.
70" The everlasting railroad wars, stock
gambling, stock-watering corner gouging oi
railroad managers, has become a public nui
sance and people are getting sick of these
Ephesian combats between conscienceless bulls
and bears, whose believing and growing, gor
ing and tearing have begun TO be regarded
about as vulgar as a brutal prize fight.
tB~At Ducks Creek Tunnel, on the line OF
the Blue Ridge Railroad, in Georgia. snakes
have been found so plentiful that work had to
be temporarily suspended until a few thou
sand of them were killed. After an excava-
ton had been made of three hundred feet in
solid rocks, the poisonous reptiles were dscov-
cred in vast numbers, and all hands were en-
ployed in disposing of them.
GB-Father Hyacnthe lccturcd at the Acade-
my of Music, in New York, on the evening of
Tuesday for the benefit of the French Bonevo-
lent Society, taking for his subject "The Gov
ernment of Life" The House was densely
crowded, and the occasion afforded a rich har-
vest to ticket speculators, who bought up the
tickets and resold them at five and ten dollars
each.
tB"A bill was reported from the Senate Ju-
dietary Committee on the 0lh which declares
that the Judicial department of the Govern
ment has no authority to question the decisions
of the political or legislative departments ;
that the reconstruction laws are political in
their character, and that the Supreme Cour,
and all other judicial tribunals of the country
are prohibited from entertaining jurisdiction
OF any case growing out Of their execution.
eB-In the Internal Revenue Bureau, during
the month of November, 5Sa8OO distilled spir-
1t stamps were issued, valued at $5 900 600, and
tobacco stamps to the value OF $1,000, ,0O0-
The Internal Revenue Commissioner decides
that although distilers and brewers can sell at
the place of manufacture, so long as they sell
In original casks or packages to which tax
stamps are affixed without payment of tax as
liquor dealers, rectifier of his distilled pro-
ducts cannot sell without paying tax as Ii
quor dealer at any place.