Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-03-27
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
II AsHTABULA, ONO. WI
Morning, March 27, 1869.
Pen and Paste Brevities.

uIt tllt OllSi
tzy-AIr. John C. Brekinridge, after an exile
of nearly eight years, returned to his home in
Lexington, KY, last Monday
ca" A man recently brought bill of $4
against his brothers estate in San Francisco,
"for loss of timeih attending the funeral"
CB~ An Oregon journal prints notices of
births under The head of "Come y marriages 1t
styles "Fixcd TO Stay" and deaths It reports
under tho head of"Gone"
to A Philadelphia reporter apologies for
the coarseness of his language because the
gold pen with which he was writing had been
lately Used to open oysters.
eF-The citizens of Minneapolis, Mimi, yot-
Cd unanimously on Tuesday in favor ofissuing
one hundred thousand dollars in bonds to i'm
prove the falls of st Anthony.
During Inauguration week the police ofNcw
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Richmond
enjoyed week of holidays, for all the thieves
and rogucs of those cities were at Washington.
c1Yy" Our waste-bnskct is daily replcnishcd
by the propositions we receive to advertise in
exchange for pills, door.plates, washing-ma-
chires, lotions, pianos, hair-dycs, melOdcons,
bitters, sewing machines, coflins, &c.
C7y' Mrs. Van Lew, who rendered the State
some service ms Union spy for General Grant
in the Potomac army, is to receive the appoint
mont of Postmistrcss Mt Richmond. Va. This
is looked upon as a big thing for the woman's
rights people.
EB' The late unlomcntcd \. is pocket ve-
| - A. D,I
was a futile bit of spite. The bill has been re-
vivcd, and sent through both branches of Con
grcs s''with whirl," and as it comedies with
President Grants inaugural there Is no fear of n
veto.
CE" President Grant has appointed General
| Longstrcet Surveyor of the port of New DR.
leans. The n. Y. Tribune, and other leading
Republican journals, think this II good ap
pontmcnt. Since the close of the war, Gener-
union men in the South.
s7S" The President on the 10th inst, ordered
the discontnuancc of the military guard at the
White House which had been on duty for the
hast four years under Capt. MeKecrcr, and that
| hereafter the protection OF the premises be in
charge of the doorkccper and the three police
officers.
~" The British income tax is little more
than two per cent, but yields, gold, just about
as much rs ours and the whole revenue df the
kingdom is considerably in cqccss hundreds of
article where Great Britain taxes one. Yet
the resources of the two countries are not prac
tically very dcfcTcnt I'm amount.
C7y-thc Norwalk Refeetor says it is informed
that the Erie Railroad managers have ordered
u survey for railroad from West Salem, on
the A. & G. w. Il. II. 10 Toledo, passing
through Norwak. That may or may not
mean something. 1t by no means follows that
| becnuse survey has been ordered there is seri-
Gus intention of adopting that route.
e9" Postmaster General Creswci1 has taken
the mail agent service in hand, and by an or
der issued iatcIy has dismissed all agents not
assigned to districts and all not under pay or
holding travelling commissions. lie also makes
the commissions terminate at the end of one
year, instead of being continued MS now in or
der to secure greater efficiency in The discharge
or dury.
CT \ yesoittion wTs adopted III the New
York Assembly Friday, directing the presi
dent and Treasurer Of tive Erie Railroad to re-
port within ten day, IN willing, under oath. 10
the Speaker of the House thsc exact amount of
| the stock of sold and now outstanding, al
80 sbe amount IN detail ofthe funded and Sioat-
ing debt Of aid eompany up to and incfu,lin g
tf'e d,'c of thi| passage Of the resolution.
eS' The Bishop OF New Jcrscy, It ia said,
Ia. 8 givcD EOticc that he will refuse AT confirm
n'ioI 10 lay bS't;ls uIn'H thc piles Of false hair
anu 'lligl'ons Whirh diSfgufe thc heads Of ~
many , ollL e ladies seeking Submission In the
church anil colamunioH, The laying of sacred
hands at the altar Upon ~ mn Oh rubbish, gath
cred nom the fo,Lr ooi2ers 0i lst "srtb, ihs'ena
of the natural hair Of the lead, Is decnled an
offence to the law and gospel Of the sfalsch'
s3~0n Saturday Mr. Johnson arrived ~
Giro, is,':llc, Tenn, his old residence, where
numbcr of citizens has assembled 10 do hoGor
10 the ex-Chicf Mag l.ra,e. MI Johnson in
reply said "lmt ais administration had
becn tempcstuous, because he had "eeh oat'
iling for tho Constitution. but that he was Cs"lv
bent, hut not broken by tho storm, lie had
laid aside his official robes, and would remain
a private citizen"
cB~ \ reign of terror has been established
by The Spaninrds in Cuba, More than three
hundred Cubans have just been cxilcd 10 Fer
nando Po, an unhealthy Spanish possession ON
the western coast Of Africa. An insurgent
leader, who was captured near Vile Clara, has
been shot. Many other prominent prisoners
have been treated tho same way. But this sew
Gritty, far from lntimidatng the Cubans inspires
them with new confidence in the ultimate sue
cess OF their cause. ...
eB- The complete returns for Governor of
New Hampshire, compared with those of the
kleetioh ono year ago, show falling off in the
aggregate vote Of 9,84d, u Republican majority
Off, ,iA, osainst e.59lln 1868, and relative
snln to tho Republican party Of 1918 That
the aggregate vote would he hghter than tJaf
ofthe previous year was To haye expected; but |
the relative gain in the Republican vote shows
u satisfactorily healthy condition Of The party