Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-02-18
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
Saturday Morning, Feb. IL, 1877.
AsHTABULA, oHIo


The Brussiens are imposing forced contri.
buttons on'the French cities now occupied.
There are one or two departments IN Trauce
that refuse TO accept the armistlee. in which
hostilities are continued.
An arrangement has been made with the
spannish Government for the settlement of
the claims Of Americans in Cuba.
B-The Guion steamship Wyoming and the
Cunard steamer Morocco collided in the
Mersey. The latter was SO much damaged
that she was run ashore TO stop the leak
B-But little more than five years remain
before we reach the Fourth Of July, 1879, the
centennial anniversary of the Declaration of
American Independence.
w-Gen. Sickles has concluded at Madrid
negotiations for mixed Commission to settle
the claims Of American citizens for injuries 10
persons and property in Cuba.
tE-The Prussian government has entered
upon the pleasing duty of calculating the cost
Of the war-which France is expected 10 re-
fund
tE The Logan. Republican estimates that
81 900 has been sent East from that place, for
counterfeit money, TO bogus firms which
send back scrap-iron, pine chips and pas e.
board.
eB The Liverpool Courier of the l1th
says that French transport, with twelve
hundred and fifty persons on board, has foun
dered of Cape La Hogue, and that. all ON
board were lost
hnv Il,
other day, ornamented an old, GOthic-framed
horse, hitched TO an awning post, with stolen
card sign which read :. Oats wanted :. inquire
within"
B~Commtssioner Pleasonton docs not seem
10 have much faith that the income Tax will
be repealed, fer he gave orders for the print
ing Of the Income blanks The assessments
are to be made next msnth.
THERE'S really no ground for any rise in
the price Of kid gloves on account of the war.
None are made in Rouen or Orleans while
Grenoble and the district round II, where they
are made, has not been interfered with.
eE-The Prussiana government has declared
that Roman Catholic Bishops have no right,
within its dominions, to- remove and deprive
of their salaries such Romaniss professors OF
Theology as repudiate the new doctrine of
Papal Infalibility
eB The trial OF Andrew J. Bauder for the
murder OF his wife in April lust, which had
been in progress at Toledo for two weeks, was
concluded on Thursday of last week. with a
verdict Of manslaughter The sentence was
ten years imprisonment In the Peni,cntiary.
tB-R. Lyle White, for a number of years
connected with the Meadville- Republican, hay
ing recently dissolved connection, with that
paper. has purchased an interest in the Erie
Gazette, and is soon to take charge of that pa
per.
az The number of Germans In Pa ris before
the outbreak of the war and the decree OF ex-
pulsion, was about $4,000 The number sta.
ted TO be there at present Is about 70O-who
nre almost exclusively invalids, old men and
children.
tB-The Painesvillc Telegraph says that
Hon. .. p. Stearns,. recently elected TO the
l. .. Senate from Minnesota, was raised In
tho south part of Madison township. He 10 n |
J7other of Mrs. Jas Raplee. of North Madi.
> H. and also, we believe, of Mrs. Albert Mix. |
1T, of Unienville.
- Russell Hastings, tho present United |
States Marshall. for the Northern district OF
Ohio, has been renominated by the President,
au.. his name sent to the Senate for conhrma-
:. Mr.. Hastings has been an excellent Off
cts. and we have heard no complaint against
LIN ffOm any source.
fSssThe encouraging report that the Prus
., N French Armistics has been extended until |
ihn end Of the month, though unconfrmed, Is |
irohably true and Affords another assurance
-; the elections have been general express
"h Of desire for peace, and that tho Assem-.
~ viii accept the terms which tho Germans
~ ready to extend
1.-THE sleepiag car on a Rutland, Yer.
mont, train ran of tho track the other day
and scooted down fitecr-root embankmcnt
- cveral rods out ihto field without up.
'ag, the wheels running freely on the fro.
round. None Of tie passengers were &c.
! .''y injured bu, they wandered what was
: .ag next.
'j~rhe reported number OF paupers In
l. IN at the end OF The first week In Jan.
~ was ib0,37o of whom 80. .456 were ain
s.r.r," and II3,62o "out door" This was |
D ''''e0 oi Tsvvo ee cohlpafeu Win tie cor |
lding period Of 1910 an increase of
v.3 over 1859, and decrease Of tee7 from. |
.
rssalague, says Brsst Dispatch OF the |
has appeared among the immense droves
90 cattle Intended for the relief Of Paris, aud
IL @sa.iarY csraon has been established around
ie animals which have become infected The
de,'ii.s are 80 numerous that IL IL impossible
- hurry the carcasses they are, therefore,
'sSsd on condemned war ships towed oul
=" 4 a and sunk.
She friends Of Minister Bancroft have
"s: discovered that II the hill prepared by the
- Foreign Affairs Committee 10 appoint
,-.aistsr t0'the German Empire 10 pass.
d, r, In other woEds-lhe Berlin mission is
.;sed to 1rst-class mission, Il will leglslate
Oat OF Office. Secretary Fish, AMI Assist.
,SecrelarY Davis, who is Mt .Bancrofts
lew, are at work 10 haxs him. the presel
- .slsr, retained at Berlin.
tTHoward University at Washington, d.
r.. Las graduated its first class OF colored
,.lara ten In uuu,haF Each of the g<a an,