Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-02-06
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
AsHTABUIA. Dude
Saturday MOrnips; Fsb. 6, 1859,
Pen ana IAssfe Brenftfea.
tz- Great Britain has to ken possession of II

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tS-The Georgia Legislature has appropri.
ated $4,000 TO give suitable buiial to tho Con 4
fJderate dead of that State. o
The e5-certifeRte II Incorporation. oe the |
Toledo Union Street Railroad Company was
fled in the oshcs Of the Secretary of State, Fri
day. Capital stock $i0O,OOo
ES-The Paris Moniteur says the incessent |
encroachments Of Russia in, Central Asia have |
lea 70 "represeu tations" on, tile part Of the
English ambassador at St. Petersburg.
tB- The Ohio Statesman says the "ultimate
cause" of the death of DIR. E. b. Olas was "the
harsh and brutal treatment that he received
when in Fort Lafayette. .....,-f ....:
GB- The Stockholders Of Tire Cleveland & !
Mahoning r. r. have uejected the transfer of
the lease of thoir road Sy the Atlantic & Great
Western Railroad, to the Eric Company, and
again assumed its possession and control.
70 An association of heavy capitalists is |
being formed in New York for cultiYating cot. I
ton in South Carolina and Georgia during The
present year Agents have gone South 20 Sc
cure Tire lands.
tB-The ladies of St Petersburg hayi-,p do.
cided TO advocate the right of W oman tn anne.
rior education, having apple i to the celebra.
ted champfou of woman's fights. ]. st,nrt Min
for counsel and co-opcrs ti1n.
eB IL IS said thatp.or refined oil is shipped
from the city OF Ciey Gland than from any 9TH
er point in the Cni.ed States, and that the val
ueot this manufacture in that place last year
was $4,000 800.
tB At Burlington, Wis, Nina Rausch, q lit
tie girl who has excited much interest as a re.
markable case of suspended animation has
been found to be dead. 1t is supposed that
she lay in a trance at least twelve DAYS preyi.
Gus to her death.
t$- The recent convention of railroad Pres
dents held at Atlanta Georgia, resolved to re.
duce the fair for all persons going South to pros
pect or examine the country to two cents
mile, and all .emiyrants arc allowed to travel
for one cent per mile.
cB-A resolution is pending in the West
Virginia Legislature, looking to the annexa.
ton of the Shenandoa Valley, some 10 OF IS
counties, all west of the Blue Ridge, to tie
iStatc of West Virginia. Tie preamble to- the
resolution asserts that the people of the Val
aey favor the movement '
adjourned without finally passing the Woman
Suffrage bill. One branch passed it, but the
other insisted upon an amendment submitting
the question to the present legal voters In the
Territory for decision, and betweeR the two
branches no final action upon Die measr re
was taken.
Eg-One of the Commissioners recently sent
Eom Alabama to Tallahassa, Fla,, to neo otiate
taeannexation of West Florida to a. abama.
writes that the Commission were p adlv r..
ceiyed, and thai. the Legislature il dispo.ed
to comply with their request, but there Ia
serious difficulty In the way In he fact that
an amendment to the Ceastituti J., of Alabama
wiIlsbs necessary to- effect the eession desired.
CEA'correspondcnt of tho New York Time.
describes the Mikado of Js :, IN as youth of
sixteen, with a. sensual aad vacant coup,e.
nanc,,a hard head and f .l1,e eve. .brows. painted
half way undfre fbreht l. Ten years ago he
was ccnafdereda god aid his existence doubted
by skepticaf Japn G 20. Now he appears in
public, and Ia ~ l,c the real ruler of his
people.
tB-At amect'.g of the Committee on For
cign AnNirs of tie House on Saturday Il was
ucCiuc" w report RESOLUTION ucclrnng In
substance that the government would cheerful.
ly accept and ratfy any negotiations coming
from the proper civil authorities and people
of Hayti and San Domingo having in view
an intention to become part of the territory of
The United States
t4- While some Of the cites and towns In
our yi,f0iay, says the Cleveland Leader, are
snrrowing over the fact that no vclocipedcs
have yet made their appearance In their
limits they have become so common In our
miast thai the conncil is scriously considering
whether II will not be advisable to keep them
off the sidewalks, as some people have been
hurt and some OF the machines managed by
nhskilfpl riders have smashed store windowa
8-Albert d. Pyke was arrested on Thurs.
day, the 2Sth at Fitchburg. Mass, for adultery
with his daughtsr-in-hw An indictment for
the murder OF his wife was issued shortly
after his conduct toward his daughter-ln-law
becoming known. 1t Ia said hc told her lie
would or could marry her IT her mother was
out of the way. Mrs, Pyke died on Thurs
day in violent spasins, declared by physicians
to bc the effect OF arsenic. The deceased was
about fty years old and the daughter Is TWEEN.
ty-six.