Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-11-28
PER AND PASTE BREvITIEs.

kee TO such an extent that schools have been
closed "a
sE- The transfers of Ohio State Stock for
the fiscal year ending November 10Th, were
$io57,OOO 20 gs7 @
#In Chicago, during October last the to.
tai receipts of places Of amusement amounted
TO over $53,0OO.a
The sheriff Of Charlton county, Missouri
offers for sale o Presbyterian Church, to satisfy
the debts Of the congregation.
tE Eighteen business houses in St. Louis
made sales during the month of October
amounting to upwards of 100000 each. The
heaviest was $164,000. .
E ChiefJ ustice CHASE is to arrive al
Richmond again, and JEFF Davis is to he put
upon trial again. JEFF, and his worthy help
mate, Surrat, are really the worst tried chaps
out
F Prominent members of ST. Paul's Metho-
dist Church, N. Y, of which Daniel Drew is
member, are debating the propriety ofssking
him to withdraw, and expelling him if he de-
clines to do So
~ An arrangement has been effected by
which the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railroad Company will lay the iron and oper-
ate the Bedford, Winterset and Des Moines
Railroad, which will ultimately be extended to
ST. Joseph, Mo.
H The Drew party settled their Eric con-
tracts, before the corner broke, at 81 and So.
Their losses amount to over a million and a
quarter The excitement in the Erie war is
subsidized, the stock settling down to Al.
~Helmbol contradicts the report of his
insanity. 1t was unnecessary. The litttte
transaction of his $4,000 check given to the
Democratic party, but made payable after
Seymour,s election, sufficiently refuted the n
-diculous calumny.
j. tE The new steamer Neshaminy, just fin
shed at Brooklyn, can make twenty-five miles
an hour, and is the fastest vessel in the navy
She was ordered built during the war, and will
now be laid up in ordinary, as she is too expen-
siye for peace service.
r sB President johnson, General Grant, Vice
President elect Colfax and his bride attended
church on Sunday last, at Washington. A
great crowd of people were at tho church
,Celfax was at, the most of whom come out Of
curiosity to see his bride.
eEThe IEibnRe charges that the Republic
of Liberia, founded by cmancipated slaves
from the United States, has become a slave
holding government by extending lis rule
over a number of interior provinces, whose
people buy, sell and work slaves.
H- After legal struggle lasting until Mon
day night an order was finally entered by
Judge Sutherland, placing the Erie Railroad
in the hands of ex-Judge Davies as Receiver,
and requiring bonds in the sum of $1,000, 900
for his proper management of the trust ,.
E Herman Grimm's novel, "Unconqourable
Powers;' illustrating life in America and
Germany, has been translated into French,
Dutch, Swedish, and Italian; and the Euro
pean critics with few exceptions, prDnounce it
the most remarkable novel published ia Eu-
rope for several years past. .J.'~il IL
HThe jury, in the case of William Henry
Csrswell, indicted for numbering Abbey Eliza
Sanders, only eight years and half old, in
the town of Annisville, in April last, have
brought in o verdict of guilty. The
evidence shows the murderer first despoiled
his little victim and then brutally cut her
throat
:; tH The bronze doors, ordered from Craw-
ford, the sculptor. in the early part of Mr..
Pierce's, Administration, have Just been com
pleted, and placed in position at the eastern
entrance of the Senate wing of the Capitol.
Each door weighs two thousand pounds. and
the entire work, including mouldings, etc.
fourteen thousand. r -.... .....-... ..-....
I. gE- Rich discoveries of silver deposits are
daily made in the White Pine Region of the
State of Nevada. There is great rush ofpeo-
pie to that region. The show is great and the
richness of the silver almost incredible. Silver
is taken out by millions Many San Francisco
capitalists are investing large sums in the
White Pine District r
= eFA Memphis correspondent writes en-
coursgeingly of affairs in Arkansas. He says
that Governor Clayton has heretofore been
compelled to watch the outrages of the Ku
Kiux without any means of helping their vic
fins, but is now fully master of the situation !;
and, with well organized militia, will be en-
sbled to administer speedy justice to the per-
Petratofs of future outrages. q i'a "..HH
B-A Bear River City dispatch says that a
IlO0 uldu6 an cLOIb W OuIu thC Oh liNoy
night, but were beaten off by the citizens.
Troops from Fort Bridger arrived there on
Saturday morning. and the city is now tran
quill. The mob carried twelve of their dead to
The mountains, and left eleven bodies On the
streets No more trouble is anticipated.
az Alabama gave Grant about 200 major
ity. Tie number of white voters in the State,
according to the census of 1886, is 200, and
of negro voters 10000. Grant received 1896,
and Seymour 92 ,0S6 votes. 1t is estimated at
least S5 900 whites did not vete. The Demo
Gratis carry thirty-n out of sixty-one coun-
ties, and have carried three out of six Con-.
gressional Districts.
B- On the third of November, the day of
our election, Mr.. John Bright made speech
in Edinburgh in which, referring TO the fact
that the election in the United States was pro-
crossing, he said: "Let us hope-I hOpe-the
the result of that great verdict may be to give
continued power, and hops there may come
continued wisdom to that party which has been
in favor of freedom, and which did what was
done 10 restore the Union of that great coun-
ry"'
HThs Washington Intelig0nccr, in long
and authoritative editorial on the Alabama