Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-06-24
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
AsRTABULA. OHIO.
nIay Morning | zre Oath, 1871,
WESTON accomplished the feat of walking

WESTON accomplished the feat Of walking
400 miles in less than five days.
tSrThe grand iTiumphal entry took place
ih Berlin on,FSday 10th, and the statute of
Frederick William Ill. was unveiled with i'm
posing ceremonies
EN-The Connecticut Lcgislasure is engaged
IN rcconstructing the divorce laws Of the
State, which are very much after tie Old lndi-
ana statutes.
A party of Methodist ministers with camp
meeting Hnt have just come over from Cali
fernis, and pitched it in the very heart of Salt
Lake City
tz-Thiers informed the French Assembly
that the German war had cost France six hun
dred million dollars and the suppression OF
the insurrection of Paris ninety millions more.
The atlantic & Great Western Railway is
advertised to be sold at Akron, in July, by
Hon. REUBEN HITCHCoCK Special Master
Commissioner, by order of the Court of Com.
mon Rleas, OF Summit County Here is a
CHARGE for some body with a few spare millions
to invest
E.y-Jay Cook, Mccullough & Co. want their
London house made the financial agency of
the United States, vice the Barring Bros. who
have had it some so years or mere. This a.
gency disburses all the funds of the State Dc
paament 10 our diplomatic andconsular repre-
sentatives abroad and is big thing.
EB-The Methodist Book Concern. scandal
has entered upon another chapter. The pub
lie is weary Of this interminable case, but
those who wish to see justice done, will he
glad to know that both sides are likely to be
heard at last There has been much persist
ent effort to stfe investigation
cY-An engagement has occurred in China
between the combined European and Amcri-
can forces and the Coreans. An imposing
feet was using the return of some shipwreck-
ed Chinamen as an excuse for marine sur
vey, and we're fired upon from masked bat
tory, which was retuzaed with shot aud shell
with some sarnesness.
E9-It Is now reported that the Pope viii &c
to Corsica if Victor Emanuel prcsists in going
to Rome; and as there seems to be no doubt
that the King of Italy will establish his Court
in the Eternal City it becomes equally proba-
BILE that the Pope will go to Corsica-unless
his lnfallibility changes his mind-which an
infallible Pontif may find it convenient to dc.
tE-The Bueyrus Journal says that one OF
the prominent Democrats Of Crawford Co.,
who is sore over the platform, finds some re-
lief in little incident which he happened to
witness He says that Immediately behind the
Crawford county Delegation a huge negro
was standing, who, as soon as the resolutions
passed, startled them by saying: "Golly, Is
swallowed"
cB"The amount of internal revenue col
lected thus far during the present fiscal yea
is almost sl30,OOO,OOO and the Commissioned
estimates that it will amount to about STAG,
600 900 by the first of next month. This is
SEQ 0000,0 900 more than the Commissioner esti.
mated in his report hast December and shows
an increase of about sixteen per cent. in the
business of the country from which internal
revenue is derived. As the production o
whisky has greatly fallen off, the increase in
other branches must have been considerably
greater.
eT~The Wooster Democrat, edited by Mr.
Eshelman, formerly editor Of the Columbus
!Stdteadn, in a long review of the "ncw de-
parture," says: AT last the much talked o
forward movement looking to the rcgencra
ton Of the Democratic party-of coniessiGr
10 ten years of witlul lransgression, and in
vocation Of dissolution for past ocnscs-i
tuiiedged and aiOot, and, strange To say, Hon
G. l.. Vallandgham is chief in command.
Still more strange to say the Ohio "Dcmoc
racy" propose TO follow him
sS;' In his remarks ~. The unvcling Of The
Morse statute, in New York city, Hon. VIM
OrOn stated that Europe possesses 10000
miles Of wire and 1900 stations America
10000 miles and 5000 stations India, IA,
900 miles aud 200 stations and Australia
10000 miles and 210 stations and the extcn
sion throughout the world is at The rate o
100000 miles OF wire per annum. There are
in addition, 10000 miles of submarine tclc
graph wire now in successful operation, tX
tending beneath the Atlantic and German
oceans the Baltic, North, Mediterranean, Red
Arabian and China seas the Persian Gulf
rne Bay OF Bhcay, the Straits of Gibraltar
and the Cults OF Mexico and st. Lawrence
aore than 10000 cities and villages are nov
linked in one continuous chain of teleglaphit
stations