Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-04-29
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
hsHTABULA, Onto.
saturday Morning, April 29l 1871,

OVU nCNNcNf heo 49,
hytsrian memorial Sand.
sz-"vietoria woodruff" is the title Of
new tsan,i OF Pittsburgh whisky. II must be
questionable article.
tz-Mr. Don Piatt succeeds Mark Twain "
the GALAXY, and thare is no Ssnying that he Is
the higgcst ssory.tsllen ef the two.
rT-On the 20th inst, the President viii give |
a grand State dinner TO the Diplomatic Corps
of which the presence of the Joint High Com
mission will be the most distinguished feature
ezThe "Democratic" paperR are savage |
over the passage of the AnifkuhluX Dill
through Congress, Well, that is all very
natural. No doubt he Ku Klux are mad
about 1t too.
sT-The Slste of Wisconsin has abolished
the grand jury system. This is somewhat
doubtfll experiment, and the people Of oihsF,
States will look for its results with. great in
teuest
sB-The House committee on elections has
determined to pay no.more than their actual
expenses to contestants for seats, and only
that much, when the CONTEST is made in good
faith and on good grounds.
SHAW, Ol LNCN i'h' - '''N
kind of woman's rights man. He has &C.
eided that sewing machine is "a necessary
article Of household fuEniIu1c," and, as such'.
exeSsRt fssm attachment
WA Mississippi paper says that Gen
Longstreets conduct "lcaves o dark Spot on
that glorious Confederate flag under whose
folds he marched. We thought that flag had
all the spots knocked out Of it except lew oil
the Ku-Klux hue.
tBThe certificate Of the index ASSOCIATION
of Toledo, organized for the purpose OF pub.
Iishing a.wselzIy paper devoted to Free Re-
lilion, with ono hundred thousand dollars
capital, has been filed.
tE~Congress adjourned on Friday last week.
An extra session of the Senate is called.tor
the 15lh. .of, May, az which time it is thought
that the ehGommission will have concluded
its labors, ready for the action OF the Senate
w- The Golden Age says that President
White was personally much more ennmoed
of San Domingo than he allowed himself to
appear In the official report In private con-
yersation he speaks with eloquent enthusiasm
of the country, and wants to see ii annexed to
the United States.
eB-while the Chapter Of Munich Uniyersi-
ty accuses DollingcE Of being the head and
guiding spirit of all the opposition manifested
TO the dogma, A out Of g. professors and lee
iurers have signed an address to pollinger,
encouraging him to persevere in his opposition
To the Papal decree. and constitute himself
the champion OF liberalism in the Catholic
Church.
sE- Major Powell, Colorado explorer,
leaves Normal, Illinois, on his second journey
lie goes under the auspices Of the Smithson-
ian Institute There being aIappEopriation
of twcn,y-four thousand dollars for the expo
dition, the party are well supplied with instru-
uents, boats and all that ia necessary for a
complete and accurate survey and exploration.
They intend making stay Of two years
cE- Washington dispatches say thai the
commissioner OF internal revenue has dctclm-
incd to postpone consideration OF the N. \.
C.ntral scrip dividend case until after the al
iournment of Congress. Decisions in nine
analogous cases will follow the precedent SET
by this. Altogether, they involve about ten
million dollars, or nearly rs much money a'
the bona ddo Alabama claims amount to.
sH-Thc Buffalo CoHpiGr announces, will
eentine regret, the suspension of the Buffalo
Union Iron, Works, of which MIR. Chas' i
Wadsworth is the priopritor work wa
stoppei on Tuesday, and, in consequence
some eight hundred men thrown out OF EN-
ployment, TO whom there is due forty thou
sand dollars for their last months wagsas. MI
Wadsworih attributes the immediate cause
the ful.ure to the coal strike, and the cmbarrass
ments.growing out OF 1t.
cY-Four of the coal mines near Scranton
are again in operation, the miners having ap
parently resumed work without regard to th'
decision of the Union aud relying on th
promised protection Of tho operators, Ih
schuykill operators have made smla
proposiion To their miners, aad there are In
,catons that an early settlement Of the vexet
question will be forced by this apparent deieG
ton from lhs ranks Of the Society.
a5y-The bill which passed the Illinois Lcgis
laturo.and became law, regulating Railroads
provides that roads earning $4,000 per mil
per annum and over, are only TO charge tw
and half cents per mile per passenger roai
earning between SO 900, and $4,000 thrt
cents those earning between $4,000 and $s
600, four cents and those earning less tina
$4,000 five and a half cents The begislatul
of that State also passed law rcgulatin
freight charges on railroads, which llmi
freights for short distances to u pro rata prs
portion Of the rates charged for the en,il
lcngth,Of aroad.
gNThe telegraph undertakes to inform !
"what will suit Pars"-the maintenance
the Republic, the granting of Commun
rights, amnesty for all ofFenses against Il
Government, with various other things l.
numerous TO montion, and hardly worth me
iioning either For. seventy odd years,
longer or shorter intervals, We have been to
that this, that, or the other arrangement Won
suit Paris''-what would, suit France bel
considered hardly worth discussion. 7
time may come when british mob mad q
bloodihiEs,y, may be able TO state deisnl'
what twants beside massacre and Mhag
tue lime may come, but when
II evidence Is wanting that the ku-k IL