Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-12-11
ZEN and Paste Brevitics.

throesh tie susz Canal has been wrecked in
the Rcd Sea.
sE-The records Of the Land Office and the
Journals of the House of Representatives were
Sss.foyed at the recent fire at Topeka, Kansas
sS~A reduction has recently been made in
tie ratfs of transmitting fguree by the Allan.
tic Cable. Formerly, each figure was charged
as a word; now. Ave figures can be sent as one
word
EEThe funeral services on the remains of
DIf. Richardson took place Friday at the Astor
House, New York. They were conducted by
Henry Ward Beecher and Rev. o. b. Froth-
ingham.
eB-Mcssrs. Clarke and Dwyer, supervisors
Of internal revenue for the Southern and North
ern districts Of Ohio, respectively, were to
leave Washington ON Tuesday last, 10 enter
upon their duties
EEMalinda Morgan, the negro nursc-girl at
Bedford, Virginia, who burned off the legs OF
white infant left in her care, causing its death,
has been sentenced 10 be banged. Her trial
lasted only a few heurs.
eT-A number rofpolygamy -repudiating Nor.
nous have returned 10 the vicinity OF Iude-
pendence, Missouri. and settled therc. They
have recovered possession of the old temple
property. aud will erect new place Of wor.
ship.
B-A. D. Richardson, the Tribune CORES.
rondent, recently shot by Mcfarland, a short
time since purchased five sections Of land in
Greenwood County, Kansas. He intended to
put the entire tract speedily under cultivation,
and making the new purchase his hon".
eB Robert +. Burton, leading Mormon,
has been visiting his brother in Toledo. lie
Joined Joe Smith at Nauvoo twenty-five years
ago, and has now three wives and twenty two
children. all boys but three. He is Sheriff of
Salt Lake Collector Of Internal Revenue, and
runs woolen factory.
ET-A letter from Madrid reports the pro
gress OF the Sickles Cuba diplomacy with
members Of the Spanish Cabinet 10 the 9TH Of
November Native prejudiccs were being dis
sipated rapidly, and the question Of sale and
transfer of the island was trlked over quietly
during q series OF very pleasant ministerial
fcasts.
thropic motives, has had constructed at her
own expense cattle trucks with every con-
venicnce for hay and water, and succeeded in
Introducing them on one of the railways, and
tlc cattle now come up 10 London almost as
comfortably as though they were in their own
stables
eB- An official statementoe tho Second Ma
Of & Of t,,I, al, lat.
hr. Buell. was Cashier, has been made, from
which it appears that the loss by the late de-
falcation is $447000, with possible further
loss Of paper discounted without the knowledge
Of the Directors The directors believe that
its stock is still worth pur, and its business
worth preserving.
eB-General Alcorn has been elected Gov
ernor of Mississippi Icy a majority estimated
at about ten thousand. and Dent. who attempt.
cd to ride into Office by false statements in re-
gard 10 his position and support by the Ad-
ministration is defeated Here, rs in some
ether parts of the South, the native Southerner
has triumphed over the carpet-bagger but in
this case the defeated carpet baggcr is the
Democratic candidate, whilst the triumphant
Republican is a native Of the State, and an ex-
rebel.
tB- The revenue officers of New York and
Brooklyn, backed up by five hundred troops,
made n raid upon the distiIlcrics in Irish
4own, Brooklyn Friday. About twenty dis
tillcres were captured, and large amount Of
property seized The officers were assaied by |
mob Of citizens, and but for the presence OF
4 hn al, 4
The troops were followed to the Navy.yard |
entrance by the rabble, and assaled by mis-
biles all along the route, but very few persons
were injured.
cH-rhe junction City. Kansas, Union says
Charles Brown who has been captive for
three years among the Cheyenne Indians, and
who has just escaped, states that there are in /
ihe several bands Of that tribe more than
twenty white boys and girls as captivcs
Among them arc Henrietta Floyd, sixteen
lTrs old, daughter Of Williaaa Floyd, furn-
tnre dealer in Boston. The girl was visiting
iSrads in Texas, with brother, when the In-
'aanS captured item, killing the brother, and
carried her into captivity.
- II is officially announced, says Wash.
lngton Dispatch, that OH and alter the first oi
. January, 1879, the single rate of postage an
half an ounce or under, Tor prepaid letters, be
tween the CniG'd States and ihe United King
hom Of Great britain and Irlnd, will be re.
irced TO six cent; II not prcpSid or INSULT
ienty prepaid line of six cents will be-
ldded TO tbs deficient postage and collected ON
delivery TAe rates ol postage and conditions
u payment on newspapers, BOOKS, packages,
and samples of merchan die remain Unchanged
t8-It seems probable taat Wyoming terri
Lory will lead the way in giving the suffrage 10
women. That territory, rs ia the case with all
frontier countries, contains large surplus male
population, Women are therefore in demand
aud to induce large immigration of the sex
ie council has passed a bill giving to them
he privilege VI the elective franchise. II the
other branch Of the Tcrritorial Legislature
should concur in thls action, tho statesmen of
Wyoming can datter themselves thai they are
Ia advance of those of other NJ alss nnd 'r.rri