Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-08-14

kS-A great government can not afford L
do small things; yet that docs not prevent III
doing them sometimes. The telegraph In
forms us that the British Ministry hnvc refused
TO let Mr. James Haggerty act as Consul ofithC
United States for Glasgow--his native city
Mr.. Haggerty Is young man nf spotless repu
tation ample capacity, and the only charge
against him is that he was a Fenian.
tT-More than 100 tons of frozen poultry
packed in ice during the winter, have been re
ceived and disposed Of in Faneuil Hall market
Boston, since the first of April The larges
portion of II came from Vermont, where pack
ing frozen poultry is made quite business by
few merchants though considerable guam
tity was shipped from the West 1t was all
sweet and in good order, and brought full
prices.
tB-Guayaauil Is threatcd with earthquake,
and the alarm of its inhabitants is kept alive
by every now and then good shaking. On the
21st inst. they had quite severe shock, which
was felt as far as Paita and Callao. Two days
afterward a shower of ashes fell over that city
which it is believed proceed from the old vol
cano Pichinchi, the mountain on which the
city of Quito Is situated The volcanoes OF
Pichinchi and Cotopaxi are at present in O
state of activity, which leads TO all kinds Of
apprchensions. | .,... ..
tB~ The telegraph reports that Mr.. VIM. B.
Astor has announced his intention TO complete
the Washington monument at his own ex-
pense. II he does so, it will be a great and
costly work, and will commemorate the name
Of Astor rs we'll as the fame of Washington
The monument has been utterly neglected for
some eight or ten years, and is now in sad
condition of decentralization and decay. Much
valuable material which has been contributed
to II has been wasted. 1t ought either to be
completed or taken down at once. In Its pre-.
ent condition it is an eye-sore to every citizen
and visitor of Washington
THE Egyptian Viceroy, Notwithstanding
his independent conduct in Europe, and his
arrangements for large loan, is said to be on
the point of paying the Sultan visit Of recon.
ciliation. The efforts of the European powers
to bring this about, and the assemblage neal
Malta Of an unusual number Of British wal
vessels, indicate the gravity Of the difference
between the Sultan and his so-called vassal
Both are borrowing at great rate-Turkey
some fifty millions of dollars, Egypt some
thing less but, as an English journal well re.
marks, their want of money is q guarantee Of
peace, If peace is possible. I
tB-To-day, says the Chicago Republican OF
July 80, the Chicago market is well supplied
with California fruit-once rare luxury in
this city, but now, thanks TO the Pacific Rail.
road, no longer SO, and likely to become as
common on our tables as the peaches of St
joe or the strawberries OF our own State. A
car load of fruit from the Golden State arrived
here yesterday, being the first fruit car through
from San Francisco. The freight is $5 a cwt
or about $940 ON n car load. 1t occupied five
days on the journey, and the cargo, which con.
sisted Of boxes of plums, peaches, grapes, and
other ripe fruits was in splendid condition