Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-02-11
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
AsHEAIhUIA, OHIO,
Saturday Morning, Feb, IL, 1871,


tErTse Ohio Editorial Association will be
Eheld at Akron, on the 23rd of February
f tB-Dr Houghton, of the "little church
around the corner" has received his hundred
dollar Bible, from the actors Of Baltimore.
i EB-The Buffalo Express, is now regularly
pprinted on green.tintcd paper, and nOns Of It's
cctemporaries have yet been mean eRough to
say it is y reflection Of edhsrial vcrdanoy.
CB-ViSteE Emanuel evinocs symptoms of
heresy, though Antonelli declares that, when
the King is seriously i'll, he Is, always o most
deveut Catholic.
tB- Senator Wilson, Il is said, has another
rod in pickle for Judge Black in other words,
he intends to reply TO Mr., Blacks article in
the February GALAXY
tB- President Angel of the University of
Vermont has again been offered the Presidency
Of tue University of Michigan, and is expected
To- accept.
eB-Gcn. Won Moltke is net Dane, as has
been stated, He was born in Mecklenburg
and entered the service Of Denmark early iu
| life, but afterward quilted IL for that Of Prussia
sE~As Winnie Ream's statue of Lincoln was
being removed from the R0tunda TO the old
Hall of Representatives in the Capitol, the
left hand was broken. 1t can probably be re-
psired
tB-In. The House proceedings of Congress
for Wednesday, we find the passage of bill
creating third Federal Judicial District in
Ohio, Of which Columbus is to be the court
center.
20 The Washington Sunday Herald edited
by Don Piatt and Geo. Alfred Townsend, has
hoisted the name of Judge r, p. Ranney, Of
Cleveland, rs Democratic candidate for Prcsi-
dept. in 1879.
~ Mrs Abby Sage Richardson gave
dramatic reading in "a charity course at Nor
wich, Conn, on Monday evening She charm.
ed IA large audience ut once by her power as "A
reader, and by her ladylike presence and
bearing.
eB'The special election held on the list inst, i,
In the XNIIth Legislative District, TO Gil a
vacancy caused by the death of Joseph VI
Campbell, Democratic, resulted in the election
of &. Howard Grifflth, Republican, by 456
majority,
tB'-DOn't keep in constant fret about
things that may be annoying, or worry about
things you can't help Troubles are not
lighiencd by frciting. Tho true remedy is to
keep cool and try 10 master difficulties, and
not let them master YOU
tB" Vallandigham evi,ieAtly thinks there ia
chance foi him, it people will only forget
his iratorous conduct, and 30 he says, w.et
us have Democratic President, and in look
ing for one let us not seek TO know where hc
stood years ago, but where he stands now"
t8- Sergeant Robinson, who-saved the life
Of Secretary Seward at tle time OF the assas-
sAainn of President kincoln has received a
favorable report upon the petition for an APP
propration Of $1,000 He ps unable to do
heavy labor on ssoauni of his wound then re,
ceiyed,
CB-A bill Is pea0iag IN ,he Pennsylvania
Legislature providing that female tax. payers
of the Commonwealth over the age of twenty.
one years, who shall have resided in any
school district for more that QUO year, shall be
eligible therein for cleetsn or appointment 10
the Office of Director of CopAnon Schools,
cB-A new locomotive, named the ~. II,
Devereux," built at La Porte. Ind, has Just
been put upon the L. s. and NJ. s. Railroad,
to run between Buffalo and Cleveland. II is
one of FIVE engines built under the direction
Of Mr.. b. Ii. Kidder, now master mechanic of
the Buffalo shops, and is n fine engine, and
speaka well tor the mechanical skill and taste
af its builder.
e%" Vice-President Coliax Is reported to
have rccrtycd, and declined, an invitation to
resign his office and enter into business, upon
a salary Of $4,000 or course. he could not
honornbly resign the office eAnibFrcd upon
him by the ya,es of the peOple no matter
what the pecun@ry nduceMent.
tB- The positive ANNOUNCEMENT that pTOe,-
cable route for canal Across the Isthmus of
Darien has been dlscoveFea will doubtless W.
hailed with delight by those who recognise
the importance of that enterprise to commerce.
But the published statements CSom Panama !
arc somewhat indefinite and II may be made
10 await the oi,icial report of Capt, Srlfyidge |
tH-Thc Louisville Courier-,Journat Sfaaacs l
from Olive Logan ,I,s sentence, "since you
have swallowed tho n, gr0, think 1t pretty
hard indsed II you can't gS the white woman \
us far as 1ssr hps." and adds "She actually |
wants us W kiss those female suffrage e-shriek-
ers ! Good heaysss - here. walter, half a
dozen Asse negAess ca the half shell :"
ES-The NvehtiDn iis RAliyia, at first mere |
q.a anpea between deisasA and successful candi, !
dates. haa grown TO ioaN slabAe dimensions. |
The dlsnfr0tea Morales has rcesui,cd large
army, chiefly OF Indians from the pAountain
regions, and has wan seveml engagements
With tho goyernmeas tsOosS The most im-
portment OF these resulted n the aaptare and h
pillage of Poosi, which was ef ia niins.
CB-lt has been urged as TeasOnl why we
Onght I" annex San Domingo that Germany
Sio"d Seady to purchase and occupy the 1lhnd
II we conclnAed not 10 take II. Bismarck de-
prives. this argunseaA Of Its force by causing It
10 be hiina,odaas Eihsliihgssa. thai he does
not h'end to acquire any territory OF this con.
tineni In violation Of the Monroe Doctrine, In
fsiends In America take such
delight