Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-06-19

tEgT The next Ohio State Fair Is 70 DC held III
Toledo, on the 18th, 14th, 10Th, 10th and 18th
of September.
tg-The great Peace Jubilee and Musical
Festival a Boston, commenced on Tuesday,
and continues through the week.
tY~A. r. Stewart has not joined the Catho-
lie Church, and has no intention of SO doing.
So says the Catholic Register
SE-The modest Duke Of lIontpcnsier has
arrived in AndalusIa from Portugal, and his
friends are again urging his Claims to the
throne of Spain.
ksy~ Bishop 1IcQuade of Rochester, says that
the progress of the Catholic Church in Amcri-
ca is owing to the sanctity with which its mem
bcn regard the marriage relations.
tT~Rev Charles Brock, u. d., of Trinity
Church, in Wilmington, Delaware, has ac-
oepted the unanimous invitation of the war
dens and vestrymeh 10 become the rector of
Trinity Parish, IN Cleveland
eB-A dispatch received at Washington on
the 14th from Mr. Wade, announces that his
excursion party had arrived at Salt Lake City,
and that they will return tomorrow to the
Union Pacific track and resume their journey
Isaac Errett, well known as the editor
of the Christian Standard, formerly published
in Cleveland, has been elected to professor
ship in the Kentucky University. He is at
present the President of Alliance College,
Ohio.
~ AT Berea, Ohio, about ten O'Clock on
Monday morning of last week. a man named
Brown fired four shots from revolver at his
wife, one Of which struck her in the forehead,
and flattened against the bone, from the effects
Of which she was, at last accounts insensiblc.
1Bills have been prepared for introduc-
ton into the City Council Of Washington, re-
voking the license of every hotel in Washing
ton that makes any distinction on account OF
race or color in entertaining or providing for
the accommodation of persons
eB-A fortnight ago, while Mrs. Rogers, OF
Phelps county, Missouri, was in the garden
with an infant fourteen months old seated near
her, an eagle swooped down and attempted to
carry off the child, but was prevented by a
dog which came to its assistance and fought
valanily in its defense.
eB- General Harney, who has spent more
years in the Indian service than any officer in
the army, has been relieved from Western
duty, and ordered to turn over to the Quaker
Indian agents any money and property on
hand and submit his vouchers for settlement
He Is then TO repair to his home for further
Orders.
sB General Fremont, wife and family have
sailed for Paris in the Vile de Paris. Tho
General goes out on II brief visit in the interest
Of the Memphis FL PasO and Pacific Railroad
Company, whose Texas land grant bonds for
Sl0000,000 for the first 300 miles of their road
have been 80 successfully negotiated in tho
French market, through his instrumcntalty.
tB-The Congressional Printer intends To
pay no attention to the action of the National
Typographical Union at Albany in ccnsurng
him for employing the colored man Douglns.
as compositor in the Government office liz
says he shall employ just as many coloret
eompositors and apprentices as he chooses, ant
IL the Union makes a strike he can supply
their places with great case.
gB-It Is strenuously declared in the Wa
Department that the Secretary of War is car
Tying his effort for the reduction of employee
foo far. The most serious and Objectionable
feature of the order il is charged, Is that th
men discharged are men who fought for tn,
Government during the war, and that thost
retained have already been kept for half
generation in the public employment
JB-The troubles in the Navy Yard at Wash
ington, because Of the presence of coloret
workmen, seem about settled The Bricklnyers
Union was not able to bring about strike o
the white members In the yard anil the Join
ers, after canvassing the matter concluded tt
do nothing in that direction. Colored mel
are now employed as brickaycrs, joiners anC
machinists for the first time since the yard wa
established, and the fact has not yet killed an,
Of the white laborcrs
u Letters from Rio to April gath, & Bucn
% Ayres to April II, state that nothing ha
been heard directly from Minister McMahoi
since his landing at the headquarters of Lopez
December 18th The Brazilian authorize,
made every effort to forward his dispatches
from the State Department but unsucccssiuly
as Lopez refused to receive flags of truce ant
has shot several flag bearers Commander
kirkland, Of the Wasp, and the Italian Consu
Al Paraguay, state they believe that McMahor
Is prisoner.
lH-'rhe week of grace granted by BshoI
Whitehouse to the Rev. Mr. Cheney, rector o
Christ Church, Chicago expired on Monday
June 7, and the case still remains in shap guc
Mr.. Cheney has neither rccanted nor backet
down, and 1t Is only left for the Bishop cilhe
TO back down himself, or to cite III contuma
oious brother before an ccclcsii teal court
Mr.. Cheney has informed the Bi,hol that he
adhesed 10 the conscious convictions which
he expressed when they conyerscd upon tn,
subject
tH-Govemor A, G, Curtin, whose loya
efforts during the war are gratefully rcmcm
bered, was ittingS honored by his fellow
citizens on leaving them for the Russian mis-
sion. His speech at The banquet given him II
Philadelphia was Rsticeablc chiefly as al
eulogy of State which sent 10000 men Int
the war, and which helped hc new Ministe
10 his political laurels. The signal ieame o
the proceedings at the banquet was the FeAd
in0 Of n letter from the (yyar ,f Hus.fa eon