Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-30
PEN and Paste Brerities.

III ne LIle Duty ntP"O"o"" mas bSVh VII
larged.
EB-The crop of oats in Ireland will be the
largest ever known there
Cg-A petrlfied forest has been discovered in
Lake county, California.
eP-England is placing her army on wer
footing. Demonstrations in favor OF the French
have been made in Dublin
E-Count Trielhard, the present French
Minister to Chill, has been appointed to sue
coed NJ. Prevost-Paradol at Washington.
tY-Lady Franklin is in Cincinnati con-
fcrring with Capt. Hall Of the new Arctic Ex
pedition.
tB-The b'a ting for the IIarbor channel at
this place is being executed by John p. Sull-
van of Erie.
tT-A number of Christian ladies in Provi
dencc r. l., are holding prayer meetings in
houses of i'll fame.
EE5- Owing to the publication Of an alleged
secret treaty proposed by France to Prussia,
England has assumed warlkc attitude.
e5y The British and French representatives
have demanded satisfaction for the Pckin
massacre, and war with China is deemed
inevitable.
CY-With all the Democratic horror of the
negroes, that party has nominated man for
reelection to Congress from Indiana who is
Ni-back.
C8'-T The Roihschids, Paris, have lost twenty
millions by the war. Erangcr and other
bankers have lost heavily. The Bank OF
France has thirteen hundred million in specie.
eB~During the Tariff discussion, which
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daily attendance of members of Congress, was
about 1l5, out of a total membership OF 23i.
eB-A very severe battle was fought last
week between herd of swine and den OF
rattesnaRes on n farm near Columbus, Ohio.
The former were Victorious.
MaTshheld, the favoritc residence Of Daniel
Webster, is becoming popular Summer resort
1t is said that more than 1000 visitors have
arrived at Green IIarbor in n single day.
eE-A plank is on exhibition in East Sagi-
nav, Mich, and is said to be the largest plank
ever sawed 1t is fourteen feet long, eight
inches thick, and fOrty-thrce inches wide
CB~The propretors of Wizards, the largest
hotel in Washington, announce that they
have reduced board to 50 80 per day until the
reasscmbing of Congress. The season is ex-
tremely dull.
'CB-Prof yelling of the old Iotcllgenccr,
and Mr. Harvey, exMinislcr to Portugal, will
edit the new Democratic organ Mt Washington,
1t will be called the Pit,7ot, and have capital
of 100000.
CS~Thc first culurcd Juror was summoned
on Tuesday to serve at Quincy, III. When
lie made his appearance in court five jurors
Ill y, IA, "a ,C I,n no MI
fed.
GB-We notice by the papers of Lomr
county that the Hon James Monroe will be
presented by that county ns Republican cand
date for Congress in the l4th District, composed
of Lorain, Medina, Wayne, Ashland and
Holmes.
tB-A Texas parcr says fossil remains be
longing to Il hitherto undcscribcd species %
the genus eldl,hds, and much larger than amy
yet discovered, havc.rcccnny been discovered
in Archer County by Professor Rocssler, Tn,
jaw, 1t is said, measures twelve feet
cy-The tendencies Of the Danish pcopl
and the determination of t;ie French Govern
ment seem conspirng To force Denmark int
hostilities with her old and unsparing enemy
Prussia. Austria and Russia give dcfnil
notice OF their purpose to remain neutral
tH-lt is stated that young man has mad
an engagement to drop himself from III
Niagara Suspension Bridge into the rive
beneath, n distance of two hundred feet, O
on the 18Th Of August next, for the sum
$4,000.
William Bradford, promising ynun
lawyer from Cincinnati drowndcd himself i
the presence Of his wife In the Usage river, |
Vernon county, Missouri lie dclibcratcI
waded out into deep wafer, in spite OF Ii
wIfes entreatY, and went under.
EE-The Secretary Of the Interior propose
II the authority is conferred upon him,
take Indian boys Of suitable age, apprenlj
them 10 farmers until they learn how to
the soil and then return them 10 their tril
with impllments and other things neccss0
for farming, In This manner ne thinks the
dians can be civilized.
gI-The present war mast add largely
the already gigantic debt Of France. As so
as war was declared the Minister of Fnan
asked for supplemental credit of 500 oO0,C
francs, and this Is likely to be but small p
Of what will be needed The debt Of Prus
Is very small-much the smallest Of any
tho Great Powers OF Europe.
eT DR.. Newbury, State Gcologisl, has j
returned from visit to the Nelsonyie a
Srailsyille coal fields. He reports them
richest be has seen in Ohio, the veins bel
six TO twelve feet thick A test win be m,
in a few days 70 ascertain If this coal can
used tn raw state for melting iron or OF
ore.
tB-Fhe Democratic victory IN Oregon
not much Of shower, after al. The aver
majority is Tess than 400 II our friends
taken proper interest in the canvass, Il
might easily have given 900 Republican
joriy. When a national contest comes I
will. doubtless. restore the State to the sid
sound Republican Government, where 1t
becn for years, and nov legiiimately belo