Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-30
Pen and Paste Brcrities.

tE~Thirty vcssele are engaged IN fishing
for sponge between Cedar Keys and Key West.
tE-There have been slight shocks of earth
quakes In different sections of California and
Nevada. during the past few days.
tg- The fire in the woods on Long Island
has been extinguished after burning twenty
square miles and destroying considerable
property.
John" said hen-pecked husband. 81 wish
It was the fashiin to trade wives as it is to
trade horses" "Why SOP I'D cheat some
lody before night
gB-The New York Sun hints at a contem
plated reconstruction of President Grants
cabinet. Fish and Hoar to go out. The state
menls ia the SuR however, are often more
sensational than reliable
s%-Bshop Kingsley, before leaving on his
recent Oriental tour, had his life insured in
the sum of $4,000, with liberty 10 travel in
any part of the globe. He has left a wife. a
son, and one married and tlree unmarried
daughters.
~ Sulphur and molasscs are a family medi-
cine of long standing. Ii is taken in the
spring, and performs thorough purifying
service. We see it stated that it is excellent
for irchnac spirais, as it destroys these para
sites in the flesh.
eE- Episcopalans are more numerous in
New York than in any other State in the
Union. Pennsylvania comes next, with TWEEN
ty-three thousand COMMITMENTS and Con-
necicut next with sixteen thousand In Ne
brhska and Dakota the Episcopal is the pioneer
church.
tH-Mr Greeley, in his "Rrcolcctions,' g
mentions bOspur named Albert Rust who
assaulted him while he was in Congress. He
srved through the war as a rebel officer and
died of inflammation of the brain. on his plan
tation near Little Rock, Ark, on the 4th inst.
sS~Durinc the delivery of lecture by Mrs
Or. Mary Walker in Kansas few days ago,
u precocious youth in the audience cried out /:
Are you the Mary that had little lamb ~
''No " was the ready reply, but your mother
had a little jackass ~
sF Tue Ohio Legislature at ITS late session
passed only seveniy-two general acts, and the
Columbus STATE JOurnm says that there was
less buncombe legislation and less Of the mis-
cicvous special tnkcring business than at
any other session within the memory of the
o! !lcst inhabiiant
s8"A lady in michigan has recently rccov-
cred her reason after being insane twenty
three years. The interval has been blank
but she remembers yivIdly whatever occurred
before ii, and sadly puzzles her new friends by
her stories Of what occurred few weeks
a.o."
IN The State of Michigan is dong what it
can, for the preservation OF the human race.
The late report of the Secretary of State shows
that fiom April to December 1868, there were
two hundred and ten pairs of twins born in
the State Taere were also born three sets of
triplets.
s#-Tclegrams report lr de to be very lively
in Chicago. dispatch of the 10Th says
Trade in this city has never before been so
lively as during the past few days. The ag-
grcgate sales in four branches Of goods at
Wholesale for the present week will probably
reach four millions Of dollars
Some three hundred persons, including
about one hundred members of the Lcgisa-
iure left Columbus on Monday evening, after
adjournment, for an excursion to Washington,
Mt Vernon, &c, over the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad. About one.third of the company
were ladies' Representative FIrcH was ac-
companed by his sister, Miss Fanny Fitch
eH-The amount received from tariff duties
in free trade England, last year, was eel SEQ
O00, tobacco furnishing el9l 900, and tea ej5,-
900, more than las. year The chancellor of
the Exchcquer said "it is impossible to furn-
i.h Englishmen with free breakfast" Our
Tree traders, however, prompted by English
capitalists, insist on removing the tax on their
inanuiactures, while they retain il on our to-
Lucco, spirits, etc, etc
sB- When the Legislative eXcursionists left
Columbus Gn their trip 10 Washington all the
locomotives in and around the depot yard
sore med IN unison. Oddly enough the Co
lumbus people didn't like IT, They thought
/ natural that some joy should be INDUCED in
aver The bcgira of the crowd that made
Saturday and Monday hideous In the Capitol
halls, but desired the locomotives to moderate
their raptures.
cB-Capt Eyre has the goodness aud the
tihcatc. But this il only one degree cooler
than the Judgment Of the court Withdrawing
that certificate and the sympathy of the public
in England who profess To t,el for this man
We say cool--for the parisanshIp which would
make Euglishmen MS readily the advocates aud
defenders of His man as Of that other Eyre
who wrought Wholesale assassination In Ja-
maica is just warm enough to make humanity
shudder,
The WOman's Rights movement has found
an unexpected champion in the Empress Eu-
genie. who adyOcat,s the election OF ladies to
the French Academy, and particularly that of
Nine. George Sand.
JAY COOKE a. Co.'S Sr. PAUL BANK-We
are informed that Jay Cooke is soon To csiab-
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