Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-01
fN-Blshop Peck OF tlle Methodist Eplsconnl

tEBishop Peck OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church weighs three hundred pounds.
tEThe PEohittson advocate will be started
in,celumbus about the Goth of juno, By ]. w.
sainchcomS & Co,
~ The S6, 600 0subscriptionhas been secured
% Erie, and the next Pennsylvania State
Fair will be held there.
~Agassiz- and party will be at Panama on
the LIST Of July, and return overland in October.
4hsy hare sent home ffty-ive cases Of speci-
mens,
gT-Thers has given PERMISSION for the re-
mains of Ex-King Louis Philippe to be
brought from England and inferred in French
soil.
tE Henry Rochefort, whose departure for
New Caledonia has been delayed, sailed for
that island, together with other convicted
Communists, on The 28d ult.
tB The accouchment of Mrs. Anna Swan
Bates, we'll known in America ss the Nova
Scotia giantess is announced. Ahe was de-
livered OF still born female ohlld Of gigantic
proportions.
Chicago is to have new twenty mil
lion dollar hotel, to be constructed entirely of
iron, ten stories in height, and TO cover four
entire blocks, with arches over the intervening
streets
Some Detroit women of the practical
missionary siamp lately visited sick and
widowed nelghbor, shingled her house, panked
hcs sidewalk, picketed her fence, painted one
room, and pnpered two, and split apd piled a
load of slab wood.
The Hon. JEREMIAH 8. BLACK, The brains
OF Tie old-time Democracy, has been inter
viewed and he gives IL as his opinion that had
the Cincinnati Convention raked this world
and the two adjacent ones, it could not have
found otter man 10 be q candidate OF more
unfit one 10 be a President than is Horace
Greeley.
B-Letters from Aleppo give distressing
picture Of the state of Antioch. The town is
now q mere heap of ruins, and az shocks Of
earthquake still continue and tho soil is quiv-
ering with volcanic movement all around, the
people are afraid TO approach the cite TO re-
move the large number Of dead who lie un-
buried.
:B-The Rev. James Kent Stone, who was a
elcrgymanin the Episcopal church, also Prcsi-
dent of Kenyon College, and subsequently
President of Hobart Cllege and whose dCiec-
Won TO the Romish church created so much
wonder and 30 much regret in Protestant
circles, was admitted to the priesthood in the
Romish church by Bishop lioscncrans on
Saturday last, the ceremony taking place In
New York City.
eS~Thc tobacco crop of Connecticut will
probably exceed, this yeOr, any ever before
known. The droughts Of last year and this
spring have discouraged farmers with daries
and the extraordinary yield and good price
Of tobacco last year, eXcites them all to re-
pewed cxerti0n in that line. The tobacco
raisers of the Connecticut Valley haYe secur-
edstaIle manure In large quantities from New
York.
tB-A tornado Of great fury passed over the
country north and east of Cincinnati on the
afternoon of the 23d ult. Houses and barns
were destroyed, and several houses unroofed.
One house was taken up and carried several
rods with the family in it, all Of whom were
injured, though none fatally. The track OF
the tornado was quarterof mile IN width
1t leycled orchards rs well as houses and
caught up horses and cattle and dashed them
down like trifles, and played havoc generally.
t8- The japanese maidcns in Washington
are making an excellent impression upon
those whom they meet, and learn the accom-.
pishments and fall into the general routine of
cultivated American society very easily They
are reported to be quite pretty and graceful in
the extreme, and they take kindly 10 the
American dress, which they are now able to
dispose with as striking effect as the best
trained Fifth avenue belle.