Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-05-27


tY-T The schooner Frank Perep carried on
her last trip from Erie TO Chicago, 1000 tons
of coal,
tE The Apache Indians have perpotrated q
terrible massacre of men, women and children,
in Arizona.
B-The first spike in the western end ofthe
Northern Pacific Railroad was driven on
Thsrsday, at Kalama, Oregon.
BrRObert Bonner has accepted The chal.
lenge Of the owner OF San Francisco horse
10 train for a trial in June next, for purse of
$4,000.
tg-The General Assembly of the Prcsby.
terian Church North is in session at Chicago,
and the corresponding body South at Hunts
yile Ala.
ES-A special to the Gazette says the road
bed of the old Cincinnati and Mackinaw rail-
road has been sold 10 the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway Company,
tB- The X f. Wade Is making most rapid runs
between Chicago and Port Huron, occupying,
on an average, only about 40 hours in making
the distance from dock to dock.
t7r The steamer city Of C0rinne, lately
built in Corinne, Utah, is to be launched in
the Great Salt Lake on Monday next. 4
grand celebration is expected.
tB-On Thursday, a sea seal weighing five
hundred pounds. was discovered in the Della
ware river, below Burlington, New Jersey,
and was driven on the flats and shot.
tE~Fify thousand por ads Of Australian
wool, received by the Lndy Cairns, are TO be
shipped frsm San Francisco for New York
Two hundred thous' nd pounds more are en-
route.
TT The Pos olIlcc Department is congratu.
laling itself on the increased prospect of max
ing The postal service selfsustaning. 1t is
found that the revenue thereof for the present
fiscal year is 81 100000 more than last year.
The British iron steamer city Of Melbourne,
is advertised to sail from San Francisco on
June 10Th, for Honolulu, Fiji, Auckland, Sgd
ney and Melbourne, ms pioneer of the new
English line, in opposition TO Webbs Amer-
can line.
e8- a large portion of Bradford, Canada
has been destroyed by fire. The business cs.
Establishments are all consumed and not place
left for the purchase of supplies for the suffer.
ers. The loss Is estimated at from $500 600
to 81, 100000
sB A statement showing the receipts from
the sale Of internal revenue adhesive stamps
from July 1869, 10 May Is, 1860, gives total
Of sl39s54S4 10, and from July, 1870, To
May 10, 1871, $l2,953, ls5 80, a falling off on
the receipts Of 81 ,0G3 ,293 SO.
tB-A Judgment for s1l,O and costs, in
favor of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has been entered in the Prothonotary Office
against the Erie Daily Republican. An execu.
ton was issued, aud on Saturday last Sheriff
Walker made his levy on the establishment.
eB-The Yellow Fever was raging at Buenos
Ayers at last advices. Business was entirely
suspended, and the city TO a great extent de-
serted. The eustomhouse and all the bank
were closed. The ravages of the disease will
apparently only cease for the want of victims
eB-T This Is bad season for Democratic
news papers, says an exchange. Two dailies
the New York-LHadSe and Democrat, died
short time since. The trouble with these un
fortunate journals was that the Republican,
would not read them, and tho "nemoerats
could not
kB-Thc defnitiye treaty Of peace between
Germany and France having been concluded
and Alsace and Lorraine formally surrender
ed BY France, the German Parliament dec
ded 10 incorporate the territory into the EN-
pire at large fsste' of annexing to any par
ucular State. That arrangement prevents any
heart-burnings or jsahousies.
ID The LackawapR Railroad Is now bring
Ing an average Of sIS hundred car loads o
coal daily, or about the same as last year, an,
will run thousand car loads daily by ,h,
nlddle Of next week. The jersey Cenlra
Road Is now delivering five hundred car load
daily, II Is expected the price Of coal will b
down to Ave dollars In week.
tB The Columbus Statesman says III
Fifteenth Amendment, we need not say, ha
been accepted from the outset In good faith b
the Democracy OF Ohio" The Cincinna
Enquirer says "ihS Democracy everywhere bs
lisve that the Constitution was altered b
fraud and force, and d@ not intend to be mealy
mouthed In their expression of the outrage.
t3-A terrible explosion OF glycerine too
place at Titusyllle, Pa, on the 10Th ins
These were about 400 pounds of the CON
pound, and Che man, horse and vehicle b.
which II was being transported were blow
W atoms. A harm, 40 yards distant. was. dc
molished. aud an sKSaYatien Ave feet dee
and twelve feet bEOad wsS made In the roat
way.
tN-A violent tornado and hall storm pas
sd,over belt Of land one mile wide, In Ne
Kent county, Ind. Trees and houses wei
hloUnn dow, and persons In the road wei
Knocked senseless by hail stones Hail WI
found n some places nine inches deep. n
crops are snigely destroyed. -Four years sg
asimilar tornado passed over the same bella
land. .ss-. 90. -a t-..