Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-08-06
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
ABULA. OHIO,
Saturday Morning, August 6, 1870.
Pen and Paste Brcrittes.

as Congressional candidate to succeed Judge
Wipans.
tS~Chillico;he, Ohio, allows no beer shop
barber shop, livery stable, drag store or any
other establishment of the sort, 10 be kept
open on Sunday.
t55-A fisherman in Pennsylvania was re-
Gently struck by lightning and stripped com
pletely naked. He says it IS good way TO
get ones clothing off when in a hurry.
CB- Miss Anthony told the Woman Suffrage
Convention at Saratoga that women, when
voters, will cheerfully "accept the responsible
ties of war" and fight just as bravely as men do.
CY-A ST. Louis merchantesfrm has receiv-
cd an order from the French authorities to
purchase fifty thousand tons of hay for the
| French army,
C1S~Tho King of Wurtemburg is quoted as
saying Germany will be ruined by the war for
twenty years, and emigration to America will
swell to enormous proportions
C8"The Russian government, being inform
ed of Mr.. Stewards approaching visit to China,
has rendered him the palace of the Imperial
Legation at Pekin for residence while in that
city.
LB-Thc Hoosack tunnel central shaft, be-
gun several years ago. has just reached the
grade at the depth of 03O feet from the sur,
face, and tunnelling has commenced each way
| thcrefrOm.
eRf-The Msssquoi House at Sheldon, Yer,
mont, was burned ON Saturday. a discharged
servant, Kate Smith, has been arrested on sus-
picion of incendiarism. Loss 100000 in
sured for $4,000.
G:7S' A letter from Perc IIyacinthc protesting
against the declaration Of the dogma of Papal
inlalibiliiy, has appeared, and causes a sensa-
ton. The Catholic organs attack the letter
and its author with much bitterness.
s5g-The Bucyrus Forum gays ; THE Board
of Directors this week elected Miss Marcella
Swngley, of this place, Superintendent of the
Bucyrus. Union Schools, at salary of 1900
per year"
LS- Akron pays two thousand dollars a
year to the lady principal of its high school,
and at Cuyahoga Falls Mrs. Booth is Superin
tendent of the Union Schools with q salary of
, eighteen hundred dollars
Cag"A hundred and fifty Cinnamon on a
plantation near New Orleans, becoming dis
satisfied seized the Chinese contractor, and
held him as a hostage He was released by
the police, and the ring leaders arrested,
tTy"The Columbus journal publishes card
from j. J. Winans, declining to be q candi-
date for Congress in the Seventh District. The
dcclnation is received there with universal
surprise.
Gdg~ Hon. Stanley Matthews of Cincinnati
has been appointed Director of the Ohio
Penitcntiary, in place of Moses Y. Mitchell,
deceased, and William w. Garvcy, Esq, OF
Pqua, has been appointed Trustee of the
Reform and Industrial School for Girls. in
place OF Stanley Matthew'S resigned.
tS~ General Sherman says the story that the
French Emperor has refused to allow General
Sheridan TO come within the French lines is
) absurd, from the plain fact that General Sheri-
dan has not yet made such request, and it Is
not at all improbable that he may go TO Berlin
before hs does to Paris.
t:S-At Erie, day or two since, n little two
. years old girl fell face downward into tub o.
water in which there was good deal of "hlu
ing" The child was rescued soon after, bu
{ had swallowed some of the water 1t was at
tackled with what the parents supposed to be
, Group, and died the following night The
cause Of death is stated TO be the poison con
tanned in the water.
CS" Advccs from the Dakota Agency, AnG
from Cheyenne, Wyoming show that the fears
of an Indian war are pretty we'll dissipated
A letter, received at the latter place from For
Fctterman. says that contrary to the general
belief of the military officers, they find tha
Red Cloud has been sincere in his efforts tC
secure peace. The Big Horn mining cxpedi
; ton, of which that chief complained so much
safely reached its destination unmoles,ed
gS Some four weeks ago, as an omnihu
I dashed up to one Of the Long Branch hotels,
. lady's hat blew under the wheels and wa
e crushed Her display of good nature owe
I the accident so struck al English lord that h
0 sought an introduction, and they were shortl,
= engaged to be married 1t is now stated tina
q not II bus drives up to a Long Branch hote
: but that the ground is so covered with hat
that the driver can't get down until a smal
s boy shovcls them into hand cart
tB-Japan is being civilized Admira
!, Rowan reports that the coast surrounding th
y treaty ports Is lighted with lenses, visible iror
y y twelve to twenty miles A dry dock, with eS
' tensive machinery for construction and repair
= will be ready for service in the harbOr c
: lokaska. line of telegraph is in operatio
between the public offices in Yeddo and tn
custom house in Yokohama, which is open I
~ foreigners fora small charge
n tT-The Board of Regents of Michiga
# University have passe resolution TO th
# effect that the medical education OF wome
~ must be in class by themselves. The rcpo
Y. of the medicol EcullY recommended thi
4. course giving rs reason therefor the indel
ID cacy Of common Instruction upon man
n topics" and also a reason very uncnmplimel
tary to the male medical students. to-wit
=, The difficulty of restraining improprielies
" department in large classes of mixed students
. tB-Additional troops have been sent
W North Carolina, aud at present Governo
'o Holden has ten companies OF regulars at Ii
/" disposal, eight of them being artillery and tw
~ infantry, all armed with Springfield breecl
' loading rifles Before any troops were orde
~ ed 10 the State, Governor Holden went quick
'"' TO Wnshinuion and In n lOng con farence wi