Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-10-16
.Pssy and Paste BreVities.

eE-A private dispatch received In Wash
instou, from Tennessee, says Senator Brown
lows condition Is very critical. He Is not
expected to live twenty-four hours.
eB-The carnines Of the Union Pacific Rail.
road for the month Of September were $74S,-
200 90, M increase Of $175,05s IA over the
month Of August.
-Further investigation into the sugar
frauds perpctrated in the New Orleans Custom
house develops the fact that immense frauds
have also been carried on In the importation
Of cofes. =
'tS-There Is IN exhibition at the Industrial
Exhibition in Buffalo the largest and longest
wrought iron beam ever rolled Mt single heat
in this country It Is seventy feet long, and
weighs 100000 pounds.
ty-From various sources comes confirma-
.ion of Nashville dispatches announcing the
probability thst Mr. Andrew Johnson will he
chosen to the United States Senate on the first
ballot at the approaching electiSn
rg- The New York Central and Hudson
River stockholders will vote on the question
" AuC WI ANONtIUFT lSI. ! HP
probabilities are that the roads will be consoli-
dated
tE- Dexter trotted half mile on Saturday
in one minute and four seconds The first
quarter was made in thirty.three seconds, and
the second in thirty one. This is the best time
on record.
tB- Prince Arthur arrived at Montreal on
Friday, and was warmly welcomed A visit
to Ottawa of ten days finishes his tour, when
he returns for duty A visit to the United
States is projected next May.
cT-why don't the Democrats crow over
Csnnecticut' That il Democratic State.
according to Democratic figures. This wear Is
the very yenr Of all others for Democratic
victory. Connecticut has gone Republican by
an increased vote.
gB-A large torpedo was found on Saturday,
in a lot Of coal which had been delivered,
under contract, to tho Howard University at
Washington. II is an open question whetherit
was designed to blow up that institution or the
schooner which brought the coal
tS-A freshet in Swift River, Maine, caused
rise Of SO feet in 10 hours. All the farms
along the river were inundated and covered
with layer of sand several feet deep in places.
The farmers are houseless, having barely been
able to escape with their families.
cE- An old man named May, confined in the
Noble county, Indiana, JAIL on charge Of at-
tempting to Kill his grandchild, committed
suicide by wrapping his bed clothing around
him, setting fire TO H. and slowly roasting.
When discovered he was done to n turn.
tF II has been ascertaned that the First
National Bank of Austin, Nevada, has failed.
One Of Its notes has been protested at It's re.
deeming agency, the Third National Bank of
New York. This is the first and only failure
of national bank since the last annual report
eB- Admiral Farragut has been in Chicago
several days lying dangerously Ill at the Sher-
man House. lie took cold, during an excur-
sion on the lake, which has resulted In con-
gestive chills, and grave apprehensons are felt
for his recovery, though late reports show
some improvement.
eB-The island Of ST. Thomas was visited,
on the 17th ult, by an earthquake, which shook
the city to its foundations. The day had been
excessively hot. and the barometer indicated
fair weather. Many houses were shattered,
and the panic produced was such as 10 cause
an entire suspension of business.
tB- The Omaha Herald says: awe learn
that the Omaha Reservation is being surveyed
into sections-subdivided according TO the
Government plan. The intention is to give
each head of family one hundred and sixty
acres Of land and each miner forty acres--ihe
remainder 10 be sold for the general benefit of
the tribe. The reservation is one of the richest
bodies Of land Of It's extent in the world
CB~ The New York Tribune says at Is
said-that during the past six weeks Ave hun.
dred head OF cattle which arrived in Jersey
City from Texas, aud which were afflicted with
the Spanish fever, have been sold to farmers
throughout the State at 81 head and arc now
spreading the pesiilence among all the cattle
in their different localities The State society
holds Colonel Black, State Inspect responsi.
ble."
tn There Is a will now under settlement In
New York, In which a rich old gentlemen
very eaectually revenges himself upon SON
in-law u happened that the son.in.law got
some hold on the old man, whereby he com.
PEELED him to settle 100000 upon his wife
(the old mans daughtcr1 before the affair was
arranged. As In duty bound, the old gentle.
man ultimately paid the debt Of nature and
Of course, the heirs were wide awake for the
will There were three daughter and one son.
and the old man left to his son $I 600 600, to
each Of the two daughters 81 100000, but to
the daughter whose husband had played the
trick upon him nothing more than receipt
for the 100000 paid to her smart husband.
CB-The Southern trade, says the Tribune,
has been the salvation Of New York this fall
and certainly the extraordinary increase of
Southern business In New York markets has
given the fall trade Of 1869 q volume and a
soundness unparalleled since The war. Some
observers have ventured To speak of the trade
with the South as tTebled since 1868, but this
is unqncsiionably an exaggerAtioH; although
In many branches and especially In boots and
shoes, groceries, jewelry, clothing, and dry