Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-12-25
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EE-Governor stevenson, Of Kentucky, has
been elected United States Senator to succeed
McCreery
Fg-Thc School Commissioner reports II 404
school houses in the State, 06l having been
built this year
ET-The Blind Asylum reports male inmates
~, females 50. The current expenses fos the
year were S9s,fC0.
eE-The steamship Monarch, with the re-
mains Of Mr.. Peabody on board, sailed for
America on the 10Th inst,
tB- The Willoughby farmers have been i'm.
proving the late warm spell by dikging peta-
toes by lamp-nght
tE The special election for State Senator in
place of the late Hon. John Russell, of Urbana,
will occur on the goth.
tS~A large congregation assembled a. the
Second Presbyterian Church, at Cleveland. on
Thursday evening of last week, the occasion
beng the installation of Rev. james Eels as
pastor of that church
eE-Mr. John Russell, State Senator elected
from Champaign County, died at Urbana on
the 10th Ic WAS stricken with paralysis.
Up to that time his health had been good lie
was widely known as good citizen, and an
able and honest public officer.
2T-The legality of the Richardson marriage
will probably be tCsed in n court of law. The
deceased left no WILL and as his property is
said to be valued at $55 900, there are sufficient
Inducements for his relatives TO question the
right Of the alleged Mrs. Richardson to inherit.
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for, and also another personal Illinois friend of
the President The former is General Benja-
min Il. Potts, or Steubcnyille,. nominated on
the 10Th, Governor of Montana in place of
James NJ. Ashley and the latter General
w. Shaffer, of Freeport, nominated as Gov
ernor Of Utah, rice Durkec
eB~k special dispatch soys Mr.. Motley has
actually proposed TO transfer the Alabama
claims negotiations TO Washington, and that
the proposition has been accepted by Great
Britain. Motley has proposed to include the
question of the neutrality of the seas also In
the subject of negotiations and the British
Government has accepted that also. No time
is fixed for re-opening the negotiations
eB- About half n tun Of ntro-glycerine, con .
tained in the magazine of the Roberts Torpedo
Company, at Titusvillc, Pennsylvania, cxplof.
cd, from some unknown cause, on the 14ih
p. ii. Brophy, one of the agents of the com
pany, the only person about the establishment
at the time, was killed. Considerable damage
was done to buildings throughout the city
Tfe magazine was situated about mile out.
side the city.
B"The penitenuary report shows the re-
ceipts of the year TO be S175GGS.OG; expenses
$l43 3G3565, of which $4,000 were for land,
$G,765.4S for enlargement and repairs, and So
600 additional receipts arc calculated for work
done at the State shops, making an excess of
receipts over ordinary expenditures Of $33 600
Pardoned by the Governor 80; President, A.
During the year 3sS criminals were received,
and Ala discharged.
cB-A cable dispatch says that the amount
OF Peters Pence" received by the Pope dur
ing ten years has been officially announced at
one hundred million frances, or in round num-
bers twenty million dollars, very comforta
BILE little sum TO come in US the result of II con
tinuous donation. Two million dollars year
Is not bad income and il is no wonder His
Holiness has continued 10 rub along, despite
tho gradual contraction of the boundaries of
'Patrimony Of st. Peter"
csB-Ohio stone has gone to fight the Con-
nccticut brown sand stono on its own ground
1t will win the battle, for 1t hns one very de-
slrablc quality which the other has not, viz:
endurance. 1t will stand more hard knocks
from frost and heat and storm without its face
being phased than any other sandstone in the
Il t. nb. T.,
Of Amherst and BrownlIclm in Lorain county,
and In Berea Independence and other localities
In Cuyahoga county and vicinity
s8-EnGrmous frauds have been uncarthcd
at Cincinnati. principally among munuiac-
uirers. For example, one firm Of high stand
in5is shown 10 have rcaliA' I'd nearly million
dollars profits On last years business, Of which
no return was made and upon which no tax
has been paid, Other frauds of a like rharac-
tey 40 hinted At. Recent investigation and
comparisons 81 the tax list, with other statis
tics, also show that little more than one half
OF the malt liquors manufactured in that city
during the past year have paid tax
tn The annual report of the Northern Ohio
Lunatic Asylum shows that the patients adj.
h'lftcd during the year were 2SS transferred
from Central Asylum 1903 number OF inmates
At the close Of the year, 3lOi daily average for
the year, 293; discharged recovered, n; I'M
proved, 10, died, 30; expenses for the year,
*0i,74904. The trustees recommend the pur
chase Of additional land and erection of addl
honal bnlldngs, and state that over three hun
ared insane persons In that asylum district are
In Jail and couiaiy inhrmaries. The estimated
eurSeut expenses Cor next year are S5i 900.
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