Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-12-04
PEN and Paste Brerittes.
rz-eola elc,ed TUESDAY st MA and 1924.

- Boston " 70 pay - ,b5O, ,oyc taxes tof TINS
wear, nearly q million and half more than
last year.
~ The receipts Of the Parepa troupe for
their three weeks performances In Chicago |
were ss6,eoe.
eTAn English newspaper seriously informs
i,s yvsders that years residence in Chicago |
cntitles all married couples to divorces upon |
application.
EEThree find horses, valued at $500 each,
belonein to the fire department of St. Louis,
died on Saturday from the effect Of over doses
of croton oil.
tENew York city is pleased that, "outside
of Utah. with lie resident population of about
10000 It New York city) Is the greatest centre
Of Mormon operation"
EE"The people who visit the Paris cafes
spend S24000,0O0 year, and give about 81.
100000 In fees ar drink money" to the 10000
walters who attend them.
CTA committee Of the city government
has been appointed to make suitable arrange.
ments for the reception at Boston of the re-
mains Of the late George Peabody.
CEA Billiard tournament for ihe champion.
ship Of the State Of Ohio commenced on the
Goth, at 8 o'clock, at Mozart Hall, and continued
until Wednesday evening, December /, games
being played in the afternoon and evening.
SE-It is said that several Erie stockholders
are preparing statement showing that James
Fisk, Jr, has appropriated five million dollars
Of the Company's funds TO his own use, and
that they can prove the facts. II that be so,
why don't they do III
EEOn Friday morning fire was discovered
among some waste paper in the ccler of Jay
Cooke & Co.'S bank at Washington, on Fifteenth
street, opposite the treasury. 1t created
great excitement for while, but was finally
extinguished without serious damage
sB-An elegantly dressed lady recently pre-.
sented herself to one Of the police magistrates
in Paris and politely denounced herself as the
murderess of eleven children Investigation
fortunately proved that she was laboring under
fit OF haNucinaton caused by the horrors of
the Pantin tragedy.
aB-A visitor TO Serniugger, China, states
that shawl merchant there showed him n
Chinese breechloadinG gun OF very old date,
the mechanism and construction of which be.
speak an amount of ingenuity and mechanical
skill which is quite surprising, and which our
best gunners are only now attaining.
CTPatti has declined an offer of million
Of frances to sing for ten months in the new
serious opera which Offenbach has composed
to a libretto by Sardon. Patti recently wound.
cd her thumb with dagger which she held
while playing the part of Gilda in "Rigoletto"
The thumb bled, but Patti went on with the
performance.
tB-Chinrse literature has met with serious
loss in the destruction by fire of wing OF the
Emperor of Chinas palace which contained
stores of books and of blocks for book printing
From its connection with literature il was one
Of the best known buildings in the palace Its
name occurs on ali books printed at the Empcr-
or's charge for two centuries.
sTThe Spanish Consul nj New York says
the gunboats now being finished nj New York
are still the property of Mr.. Delamater, and
not of Spain, although money has been nd
vanced on them. If our Government refuses
TO release them, certain English parties stand
ready to purchase them of Mr.. Delamater and
transfer them to the Spanish government
tB-President Grant has offered to sell his
three.huudred acre farm, near Carondect to
the County Court, for seventy.hvc thousand
dollars. The Court had previously decided to
purchase new county farm The Court did
not like the location of Grants land and pur.
chased the Elhcrt farm, on the Pacific Rail.
road, thrty-two miles from 81. Louis, for the
purpose.
eB-An exploring party under Licutenanls
Wheeler and Lockwood sent out by General
Ord, TO discover the route through the White
River Country TO the Colorado River have re.
turned to San Francisco They report having
found good route aboundng with timber and
water. with indications &C rich mineral depos.
it's A full report Of the expedition will soon
he published. The information is considered
important
eA-Ancnt the newspaper gossip In regard
10 the income of Mr. Beechcr, which has been
ridiculously exaggerated. the New York Star.
whose editor Is n regular member Of Mr.
Beechers congregation, saws; AS matter of
fact although 1t is nobody 'sbusiness Plymouth
church paid its pastor before the war $l2. 800
During the war he Voluntarily gave up $1,000
per annum. After the war the salary was re-
stored 10 the old status"
tH-In the Rhode Island State Prison the
eonvicts observed Thanksgiving day I'M some
what remarkable manner. Aner two speeches,
by convicts, appropriate to the occasion, sev
eral songs wsye sung in chorus, such rs "Amer-
ica," "Home. Sweet Home" etc, Two bur
glars then sang q song Npiece-"My Mother"
and Sweet Arahella Amer this another
prisoner danced breakdown, which ELECTED
much applause, and closed the exercises
eB- ALBERT d. Richardson, the former war
correspondent Of the Tribune, was shot, and
perhaps fatally wounded, In the Tribune count.
ing.room, on Thursday, by man named Nc
Farland who claims that Richardson has
stolen the affections Of his wife. It's long
story and one Of scandal. II does not yet Ap.
,..r 40 a oarfstntv yyhafiter the charoa aooins,