Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-05-14
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k<5 An Austrian ulplonlAt mas pecn muir
dered in ST. Petersburg.
tE The Cleveland Herald reports that the
entire amount of stock has. been subscribed to
The Northern Ohio Fair enterprise.
tE- The Illinois Constitutional Convention
have rescindcd their action submitting the
Woman Suffrage question to a popular vote
tE~ The B.g Horn mining expedition is re
ceving large rcinforccments daily at Cheyenne
and is expected to start on the 10TH oil this
month
eE- The Fortieth SemiAnnual Conference
of the Mormon Church ended at Salt Lake on
Sunday last Il is estimated tlat forty thou
sand of the Saints attended
tE- The largo factory of the New York
Watch Company, in Springfield Massachusetts,,
with all the valuable machinery, has been
destroyed by fire. One hundred hands are
thrown out of employment. Loss, 100000
insurance, $4,000.
e8 In marrying young Irish girl TO
smart mulatto, in the presence of number of
dignitarics of Western town, Justice Garrett
said: Z" In the name OF the great Jchova, the
Continental Congress, and the Fifteenth
Amendment, pronounce you husband and
wife"
eB- Chinese printers are amcng the latest
novelties in San Francisco. A local paper
says: among the passengers by late steamer
were five firstcass Chinese compositors, edu-
Gated In an English institution at Hong Kong"
GB- The Sheriff of Warren county, Georgia
who accepted brides from persons charged
1r;t ,,cC a..
TO Atlanta, on Sunday, In irons, and confined
in the barracks by order of General Terry
The persons who paid the brbcs are TO lie
arrested
e4~ Extensive preparations are being made
FOR the formal opening of the splendid new
hospital at the National Soldiers Home ai
Dayton, on the 10th instant. President Grant
General Sherman, General Sheridan, Governor
Hayes, Governor Baker, aud other eminent
men are expected to be present
tB An attempt was made few evenings
ago TO garrots Colonel james Fisk, .yr, but
Just as the william threw his arm around the
ColoneTs neck, his servant, gigantic negro,
who was a few PAGES in the rear of Prince
Eric, seized tho garroter and hurled Inn into
the street.
eB-On Monday last the House of Represent
Atives declared by unanimous vote that the
30th day Of May shall bc hencelorth national
holiday, TO be spent in decorating the graves
of the country's dead and otherwise nttc,tinr
tho gratitude of the living for the services OF
'ho gallant men who gave their lives TO their
country.
ca" Governor Morton, of Indiana, is per.
manent invalid. He walks with cane in
each hand, and addresses the Senate while
seated in his chair, Although puraytic,
there is no lack of energy in his manner, and
his voice reaches every portion of the spacious
chamber and galleries.
eB- Cyrus W. Field is in Washington, hay
ing been summoned by several committees of
Congress 10 appear before them and fully cx-
plain the proposed telegraph cable iiom San
francisco 10 the Sandwich Islands, and thence
TO China and Japan. The subject il now
under examination by the Committees ON
Public Lands, Commerce and foreign rela.
tions.
ex'The tariff bill in respect to iron stand,
now as follows; Pig iron is reduced from 50
TO 50 per ton, and railroad iron from 70 cents
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bar iron has been reduced from S2S To S2a 40
per ton. Small reduetons have been carried
on some other forms, but, in Tie main they
stand about ms with the present law This is
very material reduction from the present law.
TT The Cleveland HcyaM Of the 9d saws
On Saturday evening, as II freight train from
Erie on the Lake Shore Railway came To a
halt here, n boy ten or twelve years of age,
crawled out from the top Of one of the trucks,
covered with dust and bcgrim'd with smoke.
The young adyenturcr gave his name as Johnny
kaufman, and said he was on his way from
New York to Chicago. He said hc had ridden
on the truck all the way from Erie
ca Dispatches from Fort Wayne say work
on the Grand Rapids Railroad is being pushed
forward rapidly, and by the 10Th of next
month il Is expected the track will hc com
pleted between there and Sturgos, Michigan.
There are now about six hundred men en-.
ploycd along the Fort WAYNE, jackson and
Saginaw Road. They commence laying iron
at three different points IN few days, and ex-
peci to have Il completed between Fort Wayne
And Jackson, Michigan, inside Of ninety days
Brick P0NERoY wants John Morrisscy's
seat In Congress, and has taken hls scnlpug
knife In hand to get It. lie thinks pugillsiic
John personally first rate fellow" hut In