Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-10-26

excitement, the iubbUrs having marked down
all printed calicoes TO one shilling per yard.
WThe Republican majority in Louisiana at
the late election was 10000, instead of 10000
as at first reported.
~ They say that Cleveland loses about So
600 on spurious 1905, and that Clnclnnau Is
''stnck" about the same figure.
TT General Easement, late OF Ohio, has been
elected Delegate to Congress from the Territory
of Dakota, by a majority OF &c.,
s9- Marco B Gary, of Geneva, Ohio, was adj
mitted on Monday to practice in the U. S.
Court.
e7y- Two Ohioans, named David Heaton and
John B. French, have Republican nominations
il, North Carolina as delegates to the Ccuven-
ton.
ez~The majority against the Amendment in
seyenty-two counties of Ohio is 33,GSS, apd the
sixteen counties to be heard from Will swell THIS
figure to about 43, 600.
E7r 1t is reported that the Cong g:cssional Com
mittee. now at Louisville eng" sed in nvesiigat
inr the LOYALTY of the Kentucky members elect
of Congress, will favor the admission of all the
members except Messrs. Brown and Knott
xrGeorge Wilkins Kendall, the once cee,
brated editor of the New Orleans Picayune, ana
in late years equally famous Tor his extensive
and successful connection with sheep nlsoaha-
ry IN Texas, died. on the 2lst inst, Ut hiS resi-
dnce, aged 60 years.
kT The Uniyersalist State Sabbath School
Convention has been in session at Columbus
Forty-fiye schools reported an aggregate of p
439 pupils.
ET The Lake Shore Railroad trains are run
ming very heavy with pas engers just now, the
coaches numbering as high as eight and len to
the train.
Il This Congressional District gives the
Union State Ticket IO,C COO majority. Ashtabu-
la4,25O; Trumbull 1885; Geauga >, ,O2l; Port
age 1000; Mahoning 800.
kB" The Republicans of Pennsylvania have
elected majority in both branches OF their
State Legislature, and will have about fifteen on
joint ballot.
CT We regret, says the Reporter to be COM
pelled to chronicle the failure of one of our
boot and shoe n erchants, H. Cathcart. Ills
liabilities beyond assets are as yet unknown
Eg- The gifts made to thirty-one colleges
mostly in the Northern States, IN 1866, amount
$4,000. 600. The figures afford signal proof
of the growing interest in educational matters
Eg Thirteen men were killed outright or suf-
located at the Hoosic Tunnell by the explosion
of the Gasoline Works at the mouth of the
shaft.
ET Both the Bennctts have Withdrawn their
names from the imprint of the New York
Herald. By that it would seem that they have
some shame left
sz- Beecher said recently that "Our Savior
at his resurrection appeared first to the two
Marys, that the important news might be spread
with the greater rapidity over the face OF the
earth"
rz- The Cincinnati Enquirer nominaies
George II. PenGleton for the next President OF
the United States, and calls him the strongest
Candidate of the Democratic Party, in the
north west.
kg- Cincinnati is alarmed at the prospect OF a
coal famine this winter. The low water has
prevented shipments from the mines, and the
prospect for an early addition to the almost ex-
hausted stock, is the reverse of favorable.
B- Rev. ]. B. Bittenyer, formerly pastor OF
the Euclid Street Presbyterian Church in CeVe
land, and latterly of Sewickly, Pa, has been
nominated to a professorship in the Theological
Department of Oberlin College, Ohio.
r7rLast week, connection was made and mes
sares were transmitted from New York to, and
received direct from, Havana, and without rep
etiious. The line worked easily through the
whole distance of over two thousand miles.
es- The New York Tribune comes out in a
double loaded editorial for Chief Justice Chase
for President. Its well for individuals to make
their nominations now, because the Republican
party will take the field by and by.
Es The Republican State Senator from the
counties of Gailia, Lawrence, Megs and Vinton
was elected by majority of ten in total vote
of 1896. The necessity of polling every Re-
publican vote was never better illustrated.
g 1t is now pretty generally admitted that
Sharswood's majority is 922, instead of !, ,202, as
given by the papers. The entire falling off Of
the vote in The State is $1,000, of which 40, $50
votes were Republican and ., $50 Democratic.
Ey- Thurlow Weed announces in the N. Y.
Commercial Adrertiser that his wing of Re
publicans have fallen into line, and will here
after be found ''where they belong-in the
ranks of a party that sustained and upheld the
government IN It's SlTuSSlC W IN lCDOiiiN"-
rz- The Washington Chronicle mentions, as
a fact of interest in connection with the coun-
terfeiting of the 7-3O Bonds, that President
johnson last year pardOned over one hundred
convicted counterfeiters
The Dispatch was the first paper in the State
to give the full official vote, having published it
the afternoon of the i 9th three hours In advance
of the Philadelphia evening papers Erie may
be horse settlement, but in this instance II
has knocked the big city ofthe Commonwealth
Ezr The grape crop all over this neighborhood
is very fair, and the quality Of the fruit excel
lent. The fruit has ranged at a lower price the
present then at any previous season, for mum,
her Of wears. We know of whole crops o.
Catawbas. selling for and cents pound.
Eg The restrictions imposed by statute
against the killing of birds and other game haV'
ceased for the present year. From the l5ii
day of October until the lst day OF Februar.
next it is lawful to kill any kind of game in tn
State of OHIO.
ea- The American Consul at Palermo, Italy
under date of August 3Oth, reports that tn
cholera is abating in that city, at the time o
writing there being but one hundred cases o.
hand. The deaths during the year haV
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