Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-11-21


1:Oe-the shortest time on record, .e..q
H Yallandigham has retired from the Day
ton Ledger. Judge Dwyer succeeds him. =
w General Mcclellan has-rsbeen elected
President of the University of California j.
wThe laying of submarine telegraph
from North Germany to America, IS talked Oh.
CT Philadelphia is importing one thousand
English sparrows for her parks, .,.. f..
wMayor Hoffman on the 18th senta letter
of resignation to the Common Council, to take
effect Nov. 30th.
wThe new Diocese of the Episcopal
Church in northern New York came into exis-
tence on Sunday last, the 18th of November,
mThe Car has issued nkase by virtue
of which nine-t -tenths of the drinking saloons
now existing in the Russian Empire are to be
suppressed. .
w Full election returns from Michigan
foot up thirty five thousand five hundred ma
iority for Grant, the largest majority ever CIV
en- IN that State -,, t
r@- Orders have been issued from the Navy
Denartment detaching Admiral Farragut from
tbe command Of the European Squadron, and
is placed on waiting orders. 49,. -.
rSE Mrs. Victor, the Cleveland murderess,
will not be hung, Gov. Hayes having com
muted her sentence to solitary imprisonment
for life
r1-Thc amount of coin in the Treasury at
this date is about eighty seven million dollars,
of which twenty-five millions are represented
by gold certificates
m-6,5OO men have been enrolled in N
Y. city as a fillibustering expedition to
Cuba. as is stated with the intention of annex
cation. ..
Several more shocks of earthquake in
Puru and Chill have taken place. In some
places the shocks were again very strong, but
fortunately they did not cause much injury.
w-During the fiscal year, which has just
closed, the public debt of the State was reduc-
ed $499, ,266 13, leaving the amount outstand-
ing $40 a92, ,675.49, -.,,..5 ... ST.. ~
EY-Gen. Garfield, the Hon. Sam, Galloway,
and other distinguished persons, and about
$1,000 citizens of Adams and adjoining coun-
ties, attended ex-Gov Tod's funeralin Youngs-
town, Ohio, on Sunday afternoon,
wGranfs majority in Wisconsin will
reach %, 600 The total vote of the State is
about 200, 900, against 142, $40 last year, The
vote of Illinois las increased about 100000 in
two years .f'..y4 49,. .-..- -..
eY-Artemus Ward is not yet utterly forgot
ten. A grand concert, vocal and instrumen-
tai. came off at Portland Monday evening, to
gain funds to erect a monument TO his nehl-
ory. '. - 'if--'a
wA new church Of the Latter Day Saints
was dedicated on, Sunday at Plano, Illinois.
Thisis the Mormon sect that is under the
leadership of Joe Smith. They repudiate the
pelygamy barbarism of Brigham Young.
eYFour hundred and ninety-fve emigrants
passed through Columbus during the week
ending Saturday, Nov 14th They will settle
as follows: In Ohio, 81; Missouri, 104; Illi-
nois, 116; Indiana So; Kentucky, ~; Wiscon-
sin, S3 !; Michigan, 27 Tennessee, 1S2 q. J..
CNThe weekly report of fractional curren-
cy printed during the week, 1926 800; amount
shipped, $456,117; including $4,000 to Chi
cago National bank currency issued, $ff4,-
400; amount in circulation $2s9 ,94S 1926. Ma
tfonal currency redeemed S43e, 100
~ Mr.. j. Russell Young, managing editor
of the New York Tribune, gave breakfastthis
week, at Delimoncos to Gen. Grant, Horace
Greeley and Gen. Badeau. This is the first
time Gen. Grant and Mr.. Greeley have ever
met
WAdvices from Charleston, S. c., say that
Pillsbury, Repeblican, was elected mayor of
that city by % votes with t0, 900 votes polled.
Several hundred negroes voted for the Rebel
cannidase This is the first Republican ever
elected in that city ~ -s.s.., .,...s /.
|At meeting held by the various pelt-
icai clubs in Madrid, Span, Il was unanimous
ly agreed to accept monarchical form of
government not based on divine right but
sovereignty of the people, expressed by uni
yerersal suffrage The provisional govern
meat has declared all Spanish ports free. =
- R- The steamer Providence, from New
York. for Bristol, on the night of the 18th, col
lidedrwith schooner and had her side rail-
fore and aft, and wheel badly stove The
steamer pu5ahout in an unsuccessful search for
the schooner, wisiGh it is feared sunk with ali
on board. '' -ft ''! 20 +
EE A fire broke out in the Central Lunatic
Asylum, at Columbus on the night of the 18th,
which was entirely destroyed with the excep-
ton of the walls Six of the women patients
were sufocated by smoke. Temporary pro-.
vision has been made for others in other pub
lie institutions in that city. E, @ oai i..,ir. +
eT The latest Developments in Erie affairs
is, according 70 report that Jay Gould was ap-~
pointed.aeeeiRen Gthe company on Thursday
11th, by Judge Barnard Report also says
that about seven millionEofgeld was taken out
of the gold exchange bank aGd.taken to Jersey
City.
20 cS- The evening after the election tllG lady
students of Mt Holyoke (Mass). Semihery
demonstrated their delight at its result by illu-
usinating the whole building from oupOla to
basement The young ladies assemRledo on the
opposite of the street and sang the "6tar Span,
gled Banner and other national airs, at the
conclusion of which three hearty cheers were
given for Grant andColfax. Thefllumination
continued for half an hour. On the day pre-
Fious, q canvass revealed two hundred and
sixty votes fon Grant and Colfax and only
eight for Seymour and Blair. =