Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-09-10
Pen and Paste Brerities.

when standing ON his hind legs, u is called
"the kangaroo" style,
tE-Cheyenne is three years old, and for It's
1000 inhabitants has Methodist. Congrega- |
tionai, and Episcopalian, Presbyterian and a
Roman Catholic church,
fE-Ohio is shipping large quantity of
coal for the eastern markets, and large guam
tity has just been received at Albany, to be
used in the manufacture of gas.
tE-Western women, Yankees, as well as
Foreigners, are engaged in the harvest-feld.
There are 10000 of these laborers, as the Chi
go Posts estimates, who earn their 81 ~ 50
q day. Yet they cannot earn the franchisel
CE-Mrs. Williams, foraerly Mrs. Stephen
A. Douglas. has begun an action for the re-
coveFy of one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars alleged TO be ~SOngfully withheld from
her as part of Mr.. Douglas estate.
tH-General t3ciicnck has concluded TO ac-
cept the Congressional nomination thrust up
on him. and will enter the list for the cam
paign. General Schenck will beat Lew Camp
bell. and such defeat is just what that political
westher-cock deserves.
eTThc Yale Scientific Expedition, which
HAS Speut tuttC Wcchh VAIlDlluB thc touhiJ
between the North and South branches of the
Platte, report the discovery of the remains of
the rhinoceros and other extinct anlmnls.
EE-Gov Hayes has issued a writ fDr an elec.
tion to take place on the second Tuesday of
October. for State Senator 10 fill the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of Lew. d.
Campbell.
R-SdsTltrtao,, mil Avn Jr,I
dollars is the amount of the reduction of the
public debt for August, us shown by the
monthly statement of the Treasury.
tB"The Guierre, Shenandoah and Brooklyn
will sail for Europe soon and will make with
the feet already there, seven vessels. Secreta-
ry Robson thinks these will meet any cmer-
gency that may happen.
eB- Machinery has lately been invented in
England, which weayes from the hair of cats
and rabbits a sort of velvet tissue. distinguish
able from silk, but not inferior Ia hness and
beauty.
EI-The French medical Journals arc advo
eating the plan Of burning instead of buryng
the bodies of those killed In battle, in order to
obviate the i'll health consequent upon the
burial OF 50 many corpscs together.
tB-Williamsport is one of the heaviest taxed
cities in Pennsylvania The taxes levied are
as follows City, 35 mills boundry, D ! school,
IS; school building, 7 poor, 0 county, l0t to,
tai, 76-seven dollars and ten centG on every
hundred.
sB-The French Generals bearing Irish
names, are described az heing more French
than the French themselves. MacAInhon re-
crived deputntion Of patriots from Doubin,
who brought him subscription sword. with
extreme hateur and Indifference.
Es" Abraham Lincoln, In bronze, is 10 he
erected In the ccnue of the southwest space OF
Union Square, New York, an appropriate com
panion statue 10 that of George Washington on
the southeast The granite blocks tor the base
of the column have already reached the square
tB-In San Francisco there are 240 Chinese
merchants, 800 butchers, 06l laundrymen, 300
vegetable peddlar', 2s4 fisherman, 81 carpen-
tiers, l5 photographers 10 doctors, 800 labor
ers, $500 cignr makers, 600 mill hands, o4S0
men chambermaids, and 900 sundry occupa.
lions.
t7g-A Meriden, Ct, Peat Company seems to
have solved the great problem OF manuiaetur,
ing peat into good. cheap aud convenient
fuel. They claim Ia be able to make Il for
about 81 80 4 ton, ami that II is:.woTth more
than the best hard wood for fuel The rail
roads are preparing to adopt the use of 1t on
the score of economy.
tB-The ylrtuous mothers and daughters o.
Hope, Ind, made war upon the houses of III
fame In that city recently, and kept the esiab
iishments In such n constant state of siegC
that the inhabitants had to hnaily succumb
and leave for more consenlal quarters else.
where.
tB~The decline Of American ship.bulidins
& much and justly regretted 1t Is very doubt
ful whether that business will soon be restored
When cheap timber was the great desderdtui
we could compete with the world, Nov hp
cheap iron is the best material Coz the puFpos
II lie not so easy to see how the end in view ca
he accomplished ill wo can produce bette
and cheaper iron than any other country.
Mr.. Greeley isout In card lepreeatin
his a0niipatio Tor Governor lie thinks theI
are at least hye thousand Republicans VIII
win vote against him. Very likely; but thoJ
are At least rs many Democrats who woul
like TO vary their usual programme by votin
for an honest man. Greeley will poll as man
votes as any nomiAee iLe Convention Inns 81
lect
~ There is prospects Of lively psiiuct
Aglt IN Massachusetts Wendell Phillips a
cepts The nomination for Governor from Il
Prohibiuoufsts and is seeking the support
the Labor Reform party. These are two hor
e II is not easy TO ride at once, but 1t ms
make strong diversion in favor Of the Dem
cratic candidate, IB apy other State such
spirit would be dangerous. but in Massacbu
eIts the 10000 Republican majority is not cas-
ly overcome.
Cyan American Index RsDnrgatorioI
has just been started, the Roman Cathol
Bishop at Baton Rogue having forbidden
ehis flock the reading Of D'Israelfs "Lothalr,
aHd Mark TwaIn's "Innocepts AbroadT Th
immediate result of this prohibition was, {
course. an immediate rush for these exercise
productions