Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-07-08


-Polks. all negroes, reside at present in tho
Louisiana penitentlsry.
W-The decrease In the Public Debt during
June was over seven millions, and the total
decrease during Grants Administration $685..
4s2. .A95.
Al Milwaukee, on Monday, henvey north
east rain storm set in about four o'clock, and
extended pretty generally over the northwest.
d, Communication Of Milwaukee with Minneso-
"a was cut of at night by the severity Of the
lightning and rain.
tE-Advocatcs Of liberal education for wo.
men will be glad to learn that young lady
student 10 the State University of Missouri,
has gained the first prize for Greek scholar.
ship. Miss ]. F. Ripley has the honor of be.
ing the first woman who has ever surpassed
.- the young men in such a contest.
TEA Connecticut pastor, il is said, has dc.
clined an addition of a hundred dollars tc
his salary for the reason among others, that
the hardest part of his labor heretofore had
been the collection of his salary, and he fear
ed that II would be the death of him to try to
collect hundred dollars more. The minister
who is left TO collect his own salary earns it
twice over.
tBT The New Departure was not success
in Iowa. The State Convention wus held q
few DAYS since, and a bitter fight was made
against the new-ianglPd Democratic notious
by some of the old mcmsers, but they were put
down by a large vote and the platform was
whitewashcd. HereupOn the dissatisfied Dem.
o Gratis came out with q call for n New Con-
yention and an Old Departure. to meet at Des
hoines, August 10th.
-- tENewton Booth has been nominated by
acclamation for Governor of California By
the Republican State Convention, on, an anti
railway subsidy platform, which is almost
identical with the platform adopted by the
Democratic State Convention. II demands
from the National Government the abrogation
OF the treaty with China and the prohibition
of further Chinese immigration, and fully in.
dorses President Grant and his Admnistra,
ton.
tT-St Louis has inauguratcd reform
among the drinking saloons OF that city by
the enforcement Of an ordinance which stipu-
lates that no application for dram-shop IL
cense shall be granted unless it he accompa-
MED by petition signed by majority of the
tax-paying citizens in the block where it is
proposed to locate the establishment. Ii is
found that the lowest class of dram shops are
unable to obtain the approval of their neigh
bors and the result of this has been that some
of the lowest dens in that city have been
closed.
tE-A notable feature OF College Commence
menis this year is the frequency with which
Japanese faces appear. The Government OF
Japan has sent several hundred young men 10
this country to be educated, and in few years
they will carry back with them all that our
colleges can give in the wny of scholastic cul.
turc, as well as such germs of Christian Ciyi
lization ms may effect more for the ultimate
advancement Of Japan than century of or
dinary missionary work According TO uni
versal testimony, these young men are apt,
thoughtful, attentive, well-bchavcd and eager
TO learn. The number seems TO increase year.
ly.
s3~ Captain Hall Of the Poaris, had some
Jokes perprelrated on him From one gentle
man, with many other contributions he re.
ceived letter To an imaginary person, to be
dropped into the post office box at the North
Pole. Another individual sent tin can care
fully sealed and labeled Not to be opened
until The POlaris has reached the Arctic Seas -
But on It's passage 10 the navy yard, or being
shipped, IL met with an accident and the Sc
cret leaked out. II was can of patent axle
grease, with which Capt. Hall or his surviv-
"rs were aiIectionalcly requested by letter to
lubrieate the axle Of this slow going world, If
found at the Pole.