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

~ A gipseY by the name Of Levi Stanley,
bought farm near Dayton, June 2eth, for
&7,4s0. There are others Of the Stanley family
In that county, and they own FARMS amount
ing, IN the aggregate, 10 eight hundred acres.
They are sharp horse and mule traders, but
are said to stand to their word.
tW-A florists sign, New Haven Nursery"
was recently transferred at midnight by some
wild boys of Yale College, to a conspicuous
position on a hourishing young ladies' semin-
ary." There are those alice who remember the
day when the sign "New Haven Water Cure"
stretched itself across the front of a Bsptlst
Church in the same town.
tTDana, in the Sun, says Of Smfthson
who has sued the Hon. Edwin NJ. Stanton for
proceeding against him during the war as
rebel spy, that IL he would change tire ground
Of his complaint, and bring an action against
the former Secretary Of War for not having
hanged him, he would show better under
standing Of the case.
CE-The Boston 7rdUcler says that the large
manufacturing companies In Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, and Connecticut are highly in
censed with the action of the Pennsylvania
coal operators, and IL they do not recede, will
form combination to secure supplies Of coal
from the British provinces, where the article is
abundant and can be easily shipped
ty-The text of President Lopez's reply to
the Allied Powers is published. He denies the
imputation that he is responsible for the blood
shed in the long and desperate war; as he has
only defended his country from an invading
foe. He Is willing to treat for peace on basis
alike honorble TO all parties but rejects the
proposition to lay down his arms as a preced-
ent TO negotiations.
tB~The New York papers, contain accounts
Of the sailing of another large force to join
the Cuban insurgents The Herald places the
force at eight hundred men, under the COM
mand Of Colonel Ryan. The Times says Gen.
Goicouria commands, and that the force sailed
on the Quaker City, which carried also Ave
thousand Remington rifles, two batteries of ar
tillery, arms for n brigade Of cavalry, and q
large amount Of ammunition.
tBThe most generous effort yet made
among the Lords to do justice to the Irish in
the matter Of the Church Bill, Is Earl Sbaftes-
bury's motion that the surplus Church property
shall he a fund for loans to the Irish peasan-
try. There could not be a more honest appli-
cation of these ill-gotten means In one way
or other they have been extorted from the
wrongs of Ireland, and ought TO be paid back
In justice. .- ..... .............. .... ...
tB- On Wednesday the Sandusky Mans
field and Newark Railroad Company ceases to
exist, 80 far as the knowledge of the travelling
public extends, and the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company extends to Sandusky over
The track of the late s. M. & N. II. II. The
old company will exist hereafter only as a cor
porate body, TO receive Its semiannual rental
until the lease of their road expires or is va
Gated.
ET-An incident of an extraordinary nature
for North America In the latter half Of the
nineteenth century, took place at ST. Henry
about nine miles from Quebec, few days since
Two colporteurs Of the French Canadian Miss
ionary Society arrived from France with mum.
Ber of copies of the New Testament in French
The Roman Catholic priest of the parish pur.
chased a copy and Immediately had the colpor.
teurs arrested for the "offence" of selling the
Gospel. The Judge declined inficting q fine
but one of the accused was amerced in about
six dollars costs. As might be expected the
matter did not end there. influential gentle
men at Montreal have taken the matter up and
are determined to bring the priest and magis
trate TO legal punishment.