Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-23
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arc prOcIsiming Judge Chase as nominee for
,he next presidency.
CE-Mr. Nallandigham authorizes his friends
10 say that under no circumstances will be a
candidate for Congress next fall.
Is The Chicago Post calls for a vigilance
committee to see that the laws are executed in
that city, snd.asscrss that it is public neccs-
sity.
s8-Thcre has probably never been year
In which there were many houses to let at
this scasom as there are now in the city of y.
York.
ey~ The Commissioner of Patents saws that
all quarFrls about velocipede patents have
ceased. They made his business quite lively
at one time.
tE-A certificate was filed at Columbus, on
Wednesday last, for tho Incorporation Of the
Conneaut Mutual Loan Association" with a
capital Of S25O,OOO.
tg-The- .fun6td gsnF bearing debt Of the
United States is now down to two thousand
million dollars; and March Witnessed rcduc
ton of sis millions.
eT- The Chicago Republican says the past
winter, with all its SHOWS, has been most
favorable to all kinds of crops and warrants
the belief that the coming harvest will be most
bountilul.
tS-The kaling speaker at the woman
suffrage meeting at Portsmouth. Ohio, relates
with much satisfaction how the women of
fhp n1ppfinp flrove mt au odifnr hsrauec thnv
"hsd no idea of being ridiculcd."
tart is stated that about one hundred
thousand dollars have been already subscri ed
TO secure otcrbein University al Dayton. The
subscriptions are 10 nc increased 10 three hun
dred thousand dollars, If possible.
t8-The State Department is in receipt Of
VJluminous dispatches from our Consul al
Havana, who r :'rts, nts affairs there unfay ora
bic TO the insurgents The impression is that
the rebellion will not last much longer
sB"The committee appointed to investigate
charges preferred agaiast General Howard by
Representative Wood Of New York have COM
menced their inycS, ,igaiiou, and have repeated
the sublime folly Of sitting with closed doors.
CB'-A rich lead mine, the exact location Of
which the dlscoverer has not disclosed has
been opened somewhere in the Chippewa
Valley, Wisconsin. At one blast, recently, n
skunk Of pure lead was thrown out which
was estimated 10 weigh Tour tons.
CB-A large numbr of army officers, mostly
unassigned, have recently been ordered to
report TO General Mcdowell, president of the
army retiring board 1T New York, for cxamina-
ton for retire ment from active service. The
order embrace officers of ali grades, ranging
from colonies 10 second licuteuants
tBi The town of Medina, this State, place
with hardly less than 5000 population, was al
most entirely destroyed yesterday by fire.
Every business block but two was consumed.
Fortunately, the loss was confined to property,
no lives being lost There was not fire.
engine in the town. This fast will, probably,
lessen astonishment al the disastrous conse-
quences of the conAagraton.
sB-The emigration from Ireland to the
United States, by way of Cork, is reported to
be very active this Spring, and, it is asserted,
will be us large as IN the famine year. In the
first week OF April at least sixteen hundred
emigrants, of the agricultural class embarked
on the four steamers which called ut Cork.
The Coercion net, about 10 become law, It is
alleged, has given IN impetus to the movement
westward.
cB-Duriug the past ten years, April has
been memorable month IN the calendar The
attack on Fort Sumter and the beginning of
the long civil war occurred on the l9lh of
April Richmond and Petersburg were evacu-
ated by. the rebels on the 81 OF April Lee
surrendered on the oh Abraham Lincoln
was shot an the l4th and died on the 18th. q
little pust Z o'clock; j. Wilkes Booth, the
murderer, was shot by Boston Corbou on the
24th, and on the 27th Johnson surrendered
his army to Sherman.
GB-Fiitythrce os the roughs who were
captured at New Haven CT. while attending
q prize fight have been liberated on ball. forty
seven remain in custody, and. friends OF Coy.
ernor Jewell says he will send US many as
possible 10 the Penitentiary lor two years.
Three Brooklyn Aldermen who were with lllc
party are still in Jail
tB-The international convention OF Young
Mems Christian Association viii be held la
Indianapolis on the 29d, sJd, 24lh and 25tL IT
June next II is expected irnm fifteen to
eighteen hundred regular, and three to five
Thousand corresponding delegates, viii be
present. The association ut indianapolis is
making ample arrangements TO entertain ail
who may come. Many OF the leading rail-
roads have agreed TO convey the delegates at
half fare.
tT-Ircsident Grant eeceived letter on
Friday morning from Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, !
stating tliat she was still in Germany, and not
in very good health, but very much In need OF
assistance. The President viii probably send
the letter TO either Senate or House Com
mitiee. The Senate Pension Committee, how
ever, have already agreed to report bill givs
ing Mrs. Lincoln u liberal penslon.
EE-General Stone, who served under Ger |
eTal Mcclellan during the late war, has entered ,
the service OF the Yiceroy Of Egypt and sailed
for Alexandra. -Four other officers who
served In the Northern army. and about a
dozen rebel. oiIicers have gone there. The
agent Of ths Viecrpy al New York is making