Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-11-11

tE- Mr.. Seward says thst'he seldom. found |
rates of interest in China lower than sixteen
per cent.
tT ~ great meeting for the consolidation
of all the European trades unions is called |
fcr the 10th inst at Berlin Prussia.
tWJames Fisk, Jr., recently refused to go !
bail for William NJ. Tweed, "on the ground Of
public morality"
Eg- John Quincy Adams the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Massachusetts,, op-
poses woman suffrage.
tT-The sample of tin ore receivedat Wash
ington from Utah, was found on analS sis, not
to possess any trace of tin.
tT- Bell Sherwood, aged eight months,
daughter cf General ISaas,R Sherwood, Sec
retary of State, died on Saturday, and was
buried on Sunday.
EFTwo hundred colored emigrants arriv-
ed at Fortress Monroe last week, from the in
terror of Virginia, and took passage for libe-
ria.
tY-The vintage of California is 80 abundant
mat there is a difficulty in obtaining casks To
hold it. Los Angeles county alone, where
there was partial failure, produces 2,5O0,000
gallons.
GB-The Belgian government has forwarded
$4,000 TO America, feH selirf of Belgium set
hrs in Wisconsin, who suffered by the forest
fires. The government has also opened sub
soriptions for the same object.
CY- Fires are prevailing in the woods on
the line of the Nashville and Decatur Railroad,
six miles from Nashville and have destroyed
large amount of property. They are still
raging.
sB-A negro woman of ofrespcctable character
has been arrested at Jacmel, Hayti, upon the
charge of canpibalism. The accusation
alleges that she has killed and eaten twenty six
children whom she had inxeigled into her
premises for tbs purpose,
CR-A trnih from Bloomington, a., with
FIRE engines for the Chicago fire. made the run,
one hundred and tweny-sX miles, in two
hours and ten minutes, and the run from
Bloomington TO Joliet, eghty-nine mikes, was
made in eighty minutes.
CB- German correspondence shows that the
great polar discovery reported by cable was
myth. The expedition discovered an open
sea between Nova Zembla and Sptzbergcn,
reached" They went no higher than seventy.
five degrees.
tB-Tha Dayton J5uraal states that of the
36a Votrs polled by the veteran, soldiers at the
Home, sixteen were forthe Democratic ticket
and the balance for the Republican ticket
Had it been the other way the Democrats
would have been perfectly willing TO receive
tlair ballots i'm the regular box
CB- The Texas Legislature has passed reso
lufpns disappearing the proclamation by
Governor Davis of martial law in Freslone
aud Limestone counties, and ordering the re-
storation of civil authority there. Judge
Olive, who caused the trouble at Grossbcck,
Is likely to be impcached.
A dispatch from Hannibal, Minnesota, says
the election for the directors of the Hannibal
and 81. Joe Railroad that took place last
week, Was very spirite and resulted in the
trieniph of the Toledo, Wabash and Western,
Lake Shore and New York Central interest
over the Chicago Burlington. Quincy and
Boston interest.
tB-The Tribune reports the resignation OF
Secretary Fish, and says, edtorially, the COnu-
try has been afflicted with rumors innumerable
concerning the resignation of Hon. Hamilton
Fish, Secretary of State, and these have final
ly crystalized into the statement which we
have had from Washington in shape SO au-
thentic and trustworthy that We are compelled
TO give II credencc.
II Secretary Boutwell, proposes to recon-
mend reduction OF thirty millions in the
tariff and internal revenue receipts. 1t has
been suggested that he ought to re-
commend reduction OF nj least fifty millions.
1t Is understood that the financial committee
are favorable 10 a larger reduction than that
proposed by Secretary Boutwell,. They favor
the repeal Of the income tax.
tB~The Whaling fleet of the Republic has
been gradually reduced, by shipwrcck and
pecuniary failure to about two hundrsd ant
6fy sail OF this small feet thirty-three are
reported 10 have been cruised, sunk, or aban-
d,ned during the icy campaign In the Arctic
Seas This Is serious loss To the country,
and the loss TO our commercial marine, Grip
pied as il is, will be serious Such disaster
us this has never before happened.
lY-The day after the hre the Adjutant.
General Of Illinois arrived at Chicago with
$50 picked men, well armed, with oTdeSs from
Governor Palmer 10 enforce the laws and pre-
serve order but under the advice and direc-
ton. Of General Sheridan and Mayor Mason
he retArned home with his men, because there
was no necessity for either After this the
reginAS nj OF which Governor Palmer complains
was orgnAlzed and called into service.
eE-A yaung man named Stricken. "buss'
agent on tbs Kansas Pacific Railroad between
LenVenworth and Lawrence, committed sui.
eide on Monday night His father kindly re-
monstraiing agninst his dissipation, and re
marked that he would rather follow his sol
70 the grave than see him drunkard. Th'
young man replied, Here GOES father" anC
instantly put pistol 10 his head and dis
charged IT,
EH-The new route TO the Pacific Oessa, thu
Nosthern Pacific Railroad, Is now completed
220 miles west OF 81. Paul, across the Stai'
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