Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-25
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eR- Governor Clatn of Mass, has vetoed
the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad aid
bill.
cB ChinGmcn unable TO obtain employment
in Massachusetts IL j. understood are returning
TO San Fransisco.
CE-Thc keepers Of houses of prostitution in
Cincinnati have had Il convention 10 protect
their Interests
tB-The President has appoint ed Amos r.
Ackerman, Of Georgia, to be Attorney General
OF the Untitled States, rice i. K. Hoar resign
ed.
sT Hon d. A. Dangler late State Senator
from Guyahoga, is The candidate for the Work
ing Men for Congress in the 18th District
against Mr.. Epson.
The census takcr in Davis County, Iowa,
asked q womnn ct q farm house the age of her
oldest child, and tic reply was: You have
come around about n month too soon"
cY-Farmers IN Bcrks county, Pa, are con
siderably excited over the appearance of Il
strange disease among their cattle, which they
fear is the rindcrpcst. The cattle suffer for
two or three weeks, and finally die.
tT-Dr. Shelton Mackenzie is occupied in
writing life Of Charles Dickens, to he pre-
fixed to "a volume Of his ncollcctcd pieces in
prose and verse, which r. b. Peterson IL Bros
announce for immediate publication.
AT the Cincinnati Typographical Con
vention, when the young lady was elected
secretary, rooster got on an adj djlining fence
and Tapped his wings and jumped down when
aspeckled hen got up aud actually crowcd
t3""Bachelors," says Josh Billings ARE al
ways braggin ov their freedom! Freedom
10 darn their own stockings and poultlss their
own shins had rather be a widowcr once
in two years, rcglar, than tcw be II gruning,
old, hairdyed bachelor only ninety days."
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued II
circular in relation 10 inshore hshing in Cana
dian waters, notifying masters of fishing yes
s,ls of the dsc0n,inuance Of the license sys
ten by the Canadian authorities, and OF the
limits within which. by treaty stipuld,ions
American fishermen may take fish.
eT~There is great anxiety on the Islhmus
of Panama respecting the location of the pro.
posed canal. The commercial importance OF
the Isthmus has diminished very much since
the completion of the Pacific Railroad, aud the
people now look forward TO the canal us their
only salvation
L1-At Baltimore, on Sunday last, the func.
raj of jerome Napoleon Bonapartc was at.
ten.led by the immediate friends of the family
and those 10 whom special Invitations haC
been extended Among the pail bearers wcr,
Hon. Rcvcrdy johnson, Hon. Thomas Swami
General John 4. Dix and Commodore Pur
vlaIcc.
tB-1he sermon o; Dean Stanley, of West
minister Abbey, on the late Charles Dickens
brought together large audience. Part Z,
the last will of Dickens was read In that h,
declines monument hut rests his fame or
his published works. He also urges his chl
dren to practice christianity on broad spirit
not accepting the narrow construction Of mn,
man or sect The Dean Closed with II CLOWN!
tribute TO the illusrious dead.
sH-The joint resolution introduced 10y MI
Butler, of Massachusetts, yesterday, aud rclcI
red 10 the Committee on Foreign Affairs, lo
the acquisition of Dominica, provides that III
Republic shall surrender to the United State
the public buildings, Notifications, etc, and b
incorporated as a State Ia the Unlon-the Uni
Jed States 10 pay 81 $500 in gold TO liquid
ate The debt Of the Dominica.
E5+Ii is reported from germany that th'
government of tie United States of America
well as that Of Great Britain has accepted
the proposal 0f the North German Chancclry
:, engage in q common acii6n against th,
Ciinese pirates. The 1eets of the three ma
lions will consequently take part in genera
plan Of operations. As the Chinese govern
incnt Is chiefly interested in the matter, 1t vii
be permitted, II IT pleases, to join in thes
sndeavors TO extirrate the pirates.
EB-some of the statements made at the re
cent Charleston Industrial. Convention. poin
70 the fact that cotton spinning IS likely TO be
come exceedingly profitable al the South A
fhctoTyin South Carolina sent packages o
yarn to England last Spring. and sold then
there at profit equal to II per cent on the
-ost of manufacture. II Is claimed that these
arms can be made 1--WE per cent per pound
heaper than Ct the North, and when sent her,
" sale, after paying the usual commission. re
rD profit to the m.pucaciuoSs of ton ne
mt per pound.