Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-09-25
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undergraduates.
tB-Blair is in the assurance business in
Colorado. As a Western paper says, he was
born and brought up TO it.
tB-One of Brigham Young's daughters tried
to elopo with a young Gentle lately, but the
old man was awake and caught her
eB- The wreck Of the Confederate gunboat
Raleigh has just been discovered and accident
ally, too, in the James River.
APPROXIMATIONS for the international indus
trial exhibition, TO be held in Buffalo, on Oc-
tobcr 8, are rapidly being completed.
EB-All but three of the male members Of
Welsh Baptist Church, at Plymouth, Pennsyl-
vania, perished in the Avondale mine disaster.
Cyan infant died in westport Connecticut,
recently, from poison taken into its stomach
by sucking green veil which the nurse had
thrown over its face to keep the flies off.
eS-The State Central Conservative Commit
tee of Virginia have adopted resolution ad-
vising against the election of T. s. Senator AT
the meeting Of the Legislature, on the 5th Of
October.
cB-The Pail Nal Gazette infers from the
length Of the patent lists in Paris for the last
quarter, "that the French are becoming scarce
Iy less inventive than the Americans"
Woman's rights has cropped out in
France. Madame Audouard, a literary lady
has challenged the editor of Figaro to fight a
duel with her. The offense was newspaper
article rejecting upon her.
C9S- The Jewish Messenger looks upon tho
opening of the Sucz Canal as fulfllment of
prophecy, and thinks it will he followed by
the return of the Jews to Palestine and the
regeneration of that country.
c5J The largest punching machine ever made
in Pttsburg was shipped 10 Tennessee on Fri
day. 1t weighs twelve tons. and has wrought
iron shaft Of nine inches diameter 1t is capa-
bic of punching q thrcc-inch hole through a
plate Of cold iron one inch thick.
eB-A. T. Stewart, in paying for recording
his deed of the Hampstead Plains property,
put stamps to the value of So, ,O44 on the deed.
After the stamps were Cancelled Il was discov-
cred that he was only required to use 1894 in
stamps
TT The ono hundrcdth anniversary of the
birth of Won Humboldt, the German philoso-
pher, was extensively celebrated by his fellow
countrymen and scientific people generally, in
various parts Of this country. on the 14th
instant.
cY The property known rs the Pine Grove
and Ohio Furnace and Hanging Rock coal
lands, consisting of sixteen thousand acres, to-
gether with the stock and fixtures of the same,
was sold on Thursday week. to Thomas w.
Means, of Hanging Rock, O., for $7iOOOO
tB-The reason why Frclnghuysen declined
the Chinese Mission has leaked out lie wasn't
on good terms with old Hyson, his uncle, who
lives there It's q pity, too, because we could
fool the Celostials with Fre-Ling Huy-S
They would be sure to think he was China
man.
tB-The Captain Of the ship SOUTHAMPTON
has arrived at New York from Tehuanlepec,
west coast of Mexico, and reports that between
latitude SO and so south, longitude 40, he saw
100 very large icebergs. One was from seven
to eight miles in length, and from three to four
hundred feet high.
eB-A few days since n man--probably crazy
who had registered his name at the Cataract
House, Niagara Falls, as Carl Schurz, New
York, proceeded TO the Table Rock, ut the
falls, placed his coat watch and money Ia
charge of boy who was standing by, and
walked into the water fow feet from the
brink. He was soon carried over the prcciplce
and dashed to pieces in the whirlpool below
tY- Suit has been entered In the United
States Circuit Court against General James l3.
ex-Intsmal Revenue Collector of the
District OF New Orleans, and his sureties, by
the United States District Attorney, for over
100000, which amount, after the adjustment
Of accounts by the proper officers is found TO |
be due by Stedman us tax collector to the
E-The Prince Imperial of France, who |
was born In 1856, will DO declared Of ago for
all regal purposes on the 10Th of next March. |
Such, at least, Is a statement not unlocked for |
from paper devoted to Napooonlsm In
France and Bourbonism In Spain. True or |
false, Its currency at this time IL hint that |
The Empsror's recovery has not leil the official
mind entirely at rest.
tB-The startling facts elected at the inquest
ever the Avondale victims are that the Wyom. |
Ing Valley il full of mines having only single |
openings that in aS many as three cases out |
Of four the breaker Is situated directly over |
the shaft; that nearly all are ventilated by |
furnaces; and that II Is possible for a conna. |
grafton TO be kindled by sparks from a furnace
two hundred feet distant The facts speak for
themselves
tB-The Chicago Post claims to have demon.
stratsd that the rate Of increase in population
In the cities OF New York and Chicago will, In |
less than score OF years, inevitably make
Chicago the largest Of the two, aud in conse-
quenee the commercial emporium of the Amer
lean continents and that, according TO all pro-
liability, so far as the future may be scanned
by human eyes, Chicago will be, before the
twentieth century Of the Christian era has
passed It's frat quarter, the greatest city on
saFtl Only think Of limit We neonle of New