Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-11-04
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
AsHTABUrk- OHIO.
srtnrday Morning, Nov. 4th, 1871.
ITEMS.

EThe superintendent of the Eric Exten.
3 sion Canal announces the final abandonment
e Of the ditch.
tE-A half million heiress at the Farm
ington, Conn, Seminary, was reduced 10 ALSO
lnispoverty by the Chicago FIRE.
CEThe Republicans and Democrats" Of
Chicago have agreedSupOn,S municipal ticket
to,be supported at the approaching election.
Ear r1hc Italian government has determined
that all Professors in the University of Rome
shall take the oath Of allegiance TO Italy
Twenty Professors have refused to take It,
A million dollars in gold was melted
into. bullion in the Custom House vault
ut Chicago. Three millions in green
backs were burned up..
tEAccording to, the Eagltsh Tadepcndent
there are 3,66s Congregational churches, be-
sides. about 5000 preschhg. stations. in the
British Bnpise. The humber of ministers IL
ssCs
tETte statement is made, Goundedon war
rants paid by the Broadway Bank, that IDgsp-
depositing, invariably gave ~ pcBcent. to
Woodward. "a TO Tweed. and kept "a them.
selves.
tB- A petition fifty feet long, protesting
agaihsapolSgma IN Utah, has been sent 10 the
President from the ladies of that territory
Mormon leaders assert that if convictions con-
iinue, the Mormons will burn all they have
and take new departure"
tE-A match is arranged for between the
English horse Sterling and American horse
Henry Bssset, for ten thousaSd pounds side;
two thousand dollars to be allowed the owner
of Bassett to run the matull in England dis
taDee one mile and q half, even weight.
eEk private letter from Bueno, Ayres says
that there is a.frightfur prevalence in that
country of smallpox. During the past sum.
men twenty six thousand deaths from yellow
fever occurred at Buenos Ayres, and thirty
thousand deaths in the province Of Corrieptes.
tB-Qessn Victoria contributed FIVE hsnd-
red pounds for the relief of the Chicago suf.
ferers. The fund at the Mansion House on
the 27th, amounted to forty one thousand five
hundred pounds. The Mayor Of Bristol an
nounces that ho has received one thousand
SIN Aandred pounds for the Chicago sufferers
CEThe Evangelical Alliance is out with
its list of topics tor the week Of prayer. These
in general, are as follows Thanksgiving !;
humiliation Prayer for families and the un-
converted for nations and rulers for the
Christian church,; for the outpouring of the
Holy Spirit.
eB-A bar Of silver weighing three hundred
and forty-ive pounds, which Mr. d. j. Oliver
of San Francisco presented to the Pope at the
time of the Vatican Council, has been recast
into medals commemorative Of the Council.
These medals are TO be distributed among the
prelatcs who formed that assembly,
The Cincinnati EnqWrer's Dcutsch poet is
shocked at the nude small boy on the Davidson
Fountain Of that city:
der shmall Poy stands on der Fountain
Und he don't got on any close,
Und dem young girls dey all plush, andsay
Vat he means by such conduct rs dose, !"
tX-It is the boast of New BcdfordI Macs .
city of twenty-five thousand inhabitants,
that there is not an open bar in the city, and
that every person, rich or poor. who has been
found ensngsd in the liquor traffic, has been
arraigned for so doing. Mayor Richmond
said he would enforce the liquor law, and he
has kept his word
CFThe relations of the Governor and the
people Of Georgia have been inharmouious
fsn oyera year, At one time tbs dissatisac-
tiOn q Aie people took the shape of serious
charges against the Executive, and there were
pronounced rumors of articles Of impeach-
ment being likely TO be preferred. The result
Is the resignation OF Gov Bullock.
CBr Rev. F. b. Doe. superintendcntof Of Home
Missions in Wisconsin, writes that in one hour
aftsr' Rev Z. II. Beach closed the Sabbath
evening service at his church in Peshtigo, the
village was in ashes and many of hiss people
were among the dead. Mr. Beach and his
wife savep shsir lives by getting into the mill
pond. They have lost library, sermons, furni-
tuse. clothing, In fact, everything bu, life.
tB-Fatal coAiery disasters are OF late alam-
ingly frequent in England, considering that
in that country every possible appliance TO
render Afe safe In the mines has usually been
adopted The explosion In mine near New.
eastle-on-Tyns, by whist'thiriy three persons
are supposedito have been killed, ought TO
rouse public attention still more keenly 10 tho
ineffectiveness after ALL of the so.called safety
apparatus in use In the collieries Of Great
Br1aIn and America