Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-16
PEN and Paste BPeUities.

Mt Newport with three carriages, seven horses,
three children, a poodle dog, and Mr. Train
cF-The Commissioner of Agriculture has
received for experiment lot of CHOICE seeds
from the Hungarian Government.
tEBrigham Young has sent in little
memorandum of $17000,000 which the Union
Pacific Railroad owes him for contingent ex |
penses.
fT-Our Government has received notice
that Prince Leopold Of Hohenzollern consents
to become a candidate for the Spanish crown,
and nothing remains but the action OF the
Cortes.
c%-Six of the Cornell faculty have resigned
their chairs, namely: Professors Blake
Sprague, whttlesey, Bcrringer, Hamilton and
Rowland
cY-The female compositors employed by
the American tract Society, of New York,
have petitioncd for the same rate of pay as
the men receive.
tF-The income tax is reduced from ) to 7
per cent, and the exemption advanced from
$1,000 to 1000. The allowance for house rent
is limited to $500,
CE-The provision in Stephen Girard's will,
prohibiting ccrgymen from entering the
buildings of Girard College, Philadelphia, is
still vigorously enforced.
tY-An exchange says that there is nothing
so calculated to call out the deep earnesiness
of a true woman and enlist her most earnest
devotion as doing up her back hair
tB-Ortcrs were tclegrnphcd from Madrid
10 New York, on Monday, to have ten thou
sand rifles recently purchased for the Spanish
forces in Cuba shipped to Cadiz Immediately
tE-Considerable disappointment is felt in
Nashville relative to the action of the United
States Senate on the proposition to remove
the disabilities of A. o. p. Nicholson, who is
prominent candidate for Supreme Judge.
tEThe Ohio Farmer says that Aulman d
Taylor, at Mansfield nre building $SOO,OOO
worth of Threshers and Mowers, the largest
business In such machines in the country, also
that their warehouse is the largest on the
continent
tB- The lightning train on the Pittsburgh
Fort WayHo and Chicago Railroad made r''
cent trip from Bucyrus to Chicago, n distance
of two hundred and slxtyseven miles, In iou
hours and iorty-thrcc minutes, being almost
mile minute.
tB-The Boston Crspins have Issued set o
resolutions denying that they have com
bined 20 secure n monopoly of labor, and de
elarng that their intention IS TO lawfully
resis, the Coolie importation, while welcoming
all intelligent mechanics Of whatever race o
color TO their ranks
t4-NIuior j. II. Willlston n member of ,h
firm of G. \, Newcomb Il Co, job printer
has resigned his position as Chief of Pollc'
Cleveland and will hereafter devote his tim
and attention to the increasing business nt III
Arm of which he Is q member. An accidcf
befell him the other day by falling from
carriage by which he bad leg broken,
tB-The New Castle Journal says "W
were shown last week specimen of supcrif
rolled iron manufactured at tho Mahonin
Iron Works, at Youngstown, Ohio. Its streng'
was tested at Cleveland, and broke at ienslc
strain Of 02 ,237 pounds TO the square inc
The breaking weight of the celebrate
,Lomore iron of England Is $4,000 pound
Free.traders take notice"
tE-Thaddeus Stevens preferred burial In
obscure burying ground, rather than In eth
nj the two beautiful cemeteries In Lancasl
in both of which he owned lots, because COLI
ed people could not be buried there and oN
his grave In his obscure resting place Is II plt
marble with bis own inscription II lie h'
because the earth Is free to all. Thadde
Stevens"
tS-Secretary Bobesou received dispaI
MuuHuV
Charleston, South Carolina, OF the Uni
States steamer Qunnebaug' from hIo
Janejr0 having on board all the seli'm
sxiles from the South TO Brazil. They W
there at the close of the war, for the purr
of creating a government there, but u WI
failure, and they haye been brought hon
the expense Of the government
tEAs two small boys were passing throl
piece Of woods, half mile from Loudony)
Ohio, they were chased by monstTous SCRIP
and undoubtedly have been oyeTiaken,
not young man passing along the road
30 their relief and succeeded, after despe
struggle, in dispatchlng his snakeship, wi
measured eleven feet and nine inches.
specles OF the snake Is not known, and II n
have escaped from some menagerie
tWvice Admiral Porter SAYS that va
Tnrooe Is certain that France has been
pairing for Il for a year past that she has
hest navy in tho world ioriy'cIght thou
seamep. the best drilled and disciplined In
world as many and as good vessels as
.EBgIish Prussiars and the Spanish comb
He says that she can blockade all the sp'
and Prussian ports. take Havana and the
Cuban ports, and free the Cubans and In
months have them 6gb.ing on her side
bis apinion England will remain ne'
Napoleon means war. has got good OK
and will oct walt f6r depldmaoy