Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-01-23
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rWTbe, recent freshet carried away the
Cemetery bridge, built about 1s months ago,
across Rock Creek, IN Morgan township.
CE-A series of revival meetings arc being
held m Richmond, and quite large number
of conversions have already been made.
rg-General Sheridan telegraphs to General
Sherman that the Cheyenne Indians had sued
for peaee,, and that he has granted terms TO
them.
eEIn the Ohio Legislature, Saturday, bin
was introduced by Democratic member OF
the House, repeating the act allowing the sol.
diers at the Home to vote. ......
tHThe grand jury of Licking county failed
to find bills against the twelve students Of Den,
nisOn University, arrested for voting contrary
10 the Student Law.
EThe proper papers TO advance the viT
lage Of Warren to q city Of the second class
were filed at the Secretary of States office last
Thursday.
tEA better quality of Job Printing, and at
lower prices, can be had at the TELEeRAPH
Ofice than can be obtained through runners'
from the sIsp shops Of Cleveland,
tEGreat distress is reported in Nova Scotia,
owing to the partial failure Of the fisheries.
All the poor houses are crowded, and many
people are in starving condition. ...
tE-Charles Dickens publishes a card in the
London papers, denying the story of the re-
cent death of his brothers widow in Chicago.
He says that lady is still alive and well, and
that he Is trustee of her estate under settle
ment
tE-Thc cost Of the support Of each patient
in the Indiana State Hospital for the Insane Is
only &7,97 per month. This will be found up
on investigation, TO be at least 33 per cent be-
low. the cost OF the army ration, or any other
established standard Of diet.
tEShcridan complains OF injustice done
him by newspapers asserting that Gen. Custar
had surprised friendly Indians on their own
reservation; when the fact was they were hos
tile, and one hundred and twenty miles from
their own lands when defeated. =
EThe negotiations for the settlement OF
the Alabama claims between our own and the
English Government have been brought to q
clese, and treaty on the basis Of the original
protocol has been signed by Reverdy johnson
and Earl Clarendon, the Foreign Secretary.
tE-The Great Powers represented at the
PaTTs Conference, with the only exception of
Russia, are agreed in intimding Greece, and in
endeavoring to persuade her to submit to the
demands Of the Conference What Greece will
do under these trying circumstances is not yet
announced.
kT-The Supreme Court was well filled on
the 18th with persons anxious to hear the do
eisions of the great tax cases. The chief JUS
tice read two opinions. Both of them took
square ground against the right of any state to
tax grccnbacks, government bonds or certifi-
Gates OF indebtedness .
CH-A rufian In Glasgow, Mo-. named Mon
,ague, who had tried to cut negro's throat /;
inhicting severn, fearful gnshss on the negro's
face and hands, because the negro had asked
him to pay for work DONE was fined 1885. II
he had Killed tho negro II would probably have
been five dollars
tT-Thc Senate .ras shelved the bill limiting
the tenure of tho Presidential Office to one
term. The principle Is too clearly correct aud
the evil results of having our Presidents
scheming through one term for election TO q
second have sometimes been no glaring that
the measure must certainly DO some day
adopted
kE-An election Of Directors for the
Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad held In
Cleveland last woek, resulted In the choice of
gentlemen favorable to the project OF letting
the Erie Directors lay third rail from New
burgh or Ravenna to the UniOn Depot, Cleve-
land, 50 as to run broad guage cars over the
G. & p road.
IE-Those who have been In the habit Of us
ing damp, raw sugar in the belief that II 10
both cheaper and sweeter than the rchned arti-
Gle, 10 not aware that every spoonSsi Of raw
sugar which man puts into his ten er coffee
is alive with vermin, A pound contains .
hundred thousands Of them. Refined sugsi, on
the other hand, is free from impurities, 10 sweet.
cr, better. and therefore cheaper thsn the raw
and shouidse the only kind used,
EEMr. Butter In the House on the 18th, ex.
pressed the belief that the Secretary Of the
Treasury was acting as the paid agent Of the
national banks, and pushed through rssolu.
ton requiring the comptroller Of the currency
to show to what extent these institutions have
Withdrawn United States bonds nom their re
spective deposits and substituted Pacific rail
way bonds therefor. There was good dea
OF eXci,emcn. for q few moments about tn
matter.
CEThere may be wisdom in the proposition
presented recently. to cut down the Territory
Of Utah TO the bare limits Of the present Nor
mon settlcmeuts-tiius leaving IL too small u
be erected into State. But we have faith IL
another and simpler mode Of abaiing the Nor
mon trouble. We mean the Pacific Railroad
With tbs world brought to their dsess, Nor
mons must either yield TO the civilization o
the age or betake themselves 10 . new wilder
In recent speech In the United State
House Of Representatives. Hon. sidne
Clarke, OF Kansas, presented some inte
essiug as we'll - startling statistica col