Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-04-01
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
ksHTABuLA. OHIO.
saturday Morning, April l, 1871.

Rev. ]. Il. TwitcAells church at East Cleve-
land at the nsxt communion.
MThe New York Senate, has passed bill
allowing the extension, and operation of the
Beach Pneumatic Railway in New York City
Tspurgsoa thinks some ministesa. would
make coed martyrs--they are 90 Dry they
would burn well,
CBrInfantile copumdSm-Why is baby
like sheaf CT wAeatP, Because il is first
Graded, aud then tbrashed, and finally becomes
the flower of the family.
tH-"The Shaker" is the name Of new
monthly paper appearing by the authority
and under the direction OF the Mount Lebanon
Bishopric.
az Fun is profitable, even IL of no better
average qualify than Mark Twain's It is said
his "Innocents Abroad" has already ne,ted
him $4,000, and the publishers of it $4,000
CE-It is believed that the Memorial Fund
already amounts to S4,o0o,00O, divided about
equally between. subscriptions to- church
edifees, church debts, educational institutions,
and miscellaneous objects.
eT Col. Forney now counts about 55s0
news periodicals of all kinds 10 this country,
having a circulation of not less than 725O00,-
o00 OF these, 475 are dahies, $50 agricul-
tural journals. and 800 religious.
EB-Tbe numbering business Of the sus.
quehanua and Allegheny and tributaries is
very active. Fer sixty miles above Williams.
port, the Susquehanna is said 10 be covered
with RATS and logs.
AZ Some newspaper men are well paid, II
others are not The managing editors of the
New York Tribune, Times and World, are re.
ported TO receive 800 week. The salaries
Of editorial writers on tho great New York
dalies range from S35 TO $3.50 week, the
average being. not far from $50.
ET-Ads srtising has long been science,
and is becoming an art. Business men have
learned this, and the government is quick to
take the hint. This is seen in the fact that Mr..
G. G.. Noryell, financial edi;tr Of the N. Y.
Times, has been appointed advertising agent
for the new loan.
The late Mrs. Richard Beach Of Burton
bequeathed about $4,000 10 benevolent OBJ.
ects, among which are Home and Foreign
Missions Bible, Tract, and Seamcn's Frind
Societies, and the Western Book and Tract
Society at Cincinnati.
An agricultural correspondent of the Coun-
try Gentlemen wrtes-After experimenting
for three years with different sorts of potatoes
he finds none in quality for the table, or in
yield or in freedom from rot, that will COM
pare with the Early Rose.
EBDr. Breiteng tested tie quality Of air in
The school-rooms Of Basel, Switzerland, and
found at the close of the afternoon sessions
in one room of sixty.four children, 9.8G per
cent. of carbonic acid. Pure air has .0004
and one per cent is considered injurious.
tN-So far as money Is concerned. it Is better
to be President of some railways than Pres-
dent Of some Republics. President Grants
salary is $50 900 which sum is named rs the
salary of Gen. schenclt, President of the
Northern Pacific II. r., and no state dinners TO
give out Of it,
EBThat roaring lion, Bret Ia7tc. after
whom so many publishers have been in pur-
suit, has been at last captured by the Boston
house Of james r. Osgood & Co., and will
henceforth be.exhibted tothe country solely
through the bars Of the AAaatic and Eper5
Saturday One report, beyond doubt OK
ravagant, places his salary at $4,000 annually
ewIt Is reported that tho Harpers have
suffered 70 the extent Of forty thousand dol
lars for Mats caricaturcs of the Pope--all tin
school books they publish having been takcr
of the list used IN the New York public
schools
kN-Tha Cincinnati Gazette says the election
Of Mr.. King, Of the Baltimore and Ohio, ant
Mr.. Terrence, representing the New York
Central interests, as Directors Of the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad, indicates close alliance
between those two lines and the Ohio aud
Mississippi in the Transaction of business, as
agains; the Erie and Pennsylvania Central.
w-The Presidential family are packing
their trunks foFa visit to the Pacific coast, to
leave about the lfst Of April be absent six
or eight weeks, and then after weeks rest in
Washington, repair to Long Branch for the
summer, The Democratic papers viii please
begin, - peck at the President for leaving
home and business as other men do.
tT-1he Joint High Commission is in ses-
sion daily upon questions on which we are nj
issue with England. What progress is made
is not known, as all the proceedings are strict
~ Uut sHB"SiNuf puppy Wv
hope Of successful adjustment is not strong
Amonth hence we shall probably know all
about 1t. and predictions aia useless.
tE~JudgiDg fiom,the zeal without knowl-
edge with which the constables are hunting
the suspected Nathan, murderer, men with
black mustaehes, black eyes, India ink rings
around their lelt wrists (ef whom there seem
10 be plenty would do well to make themselves
scarce until the excitement be over past All
such unfortunately marked men. the marks
being those of the alleged criminal, are being
speadilv arrested, from Nantucket to Chicago
PANEL TmEIvAs-One day last week
the New York Tribune devoted several
columns 10 an account of panel-houses
aud keno-saloons of that city, which
would have been SENSATIONAL il il had
not been true. The materials were gath,
cred by enterprising reporters, who made
use OF no little skill, daring, and strategy
in prosecuting their search, and the flood
of light let in upon these dens oi iniquil J
by, means OF the published report caused
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