Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-10-07
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were four deaths from yellow fever for the
twenty -four hours ending on Tuesday evening.
Secret agents OF Napoleon, who have
been intriguing for restoration OF the empire,
have been arrested in Paris.
tB-The shipments of tea east by railroad
rom San Francisco. in September were 1885,
$50 pounds coffee, 4sl 500 pounds
t#-Thc vintage of California has commenc
ed throughout the State. The product will
exceed s,O00,000 gallons, exclusive of brandy.
tB-The New York Post says: ave are
Informed that Mayor Hall has undertaken TO
suppress Harper's Weekly In the streets as
libcllous and indecent"
tE Bishop Mcflvaine, Miss McIlvninc, aud
Rev. DR. Howson, Dean of Chester, England,
aud wife and daughter, have arrived in New
York from Europe.
tB- The Postmaster General expects the
deficit In his department this year will bc less
than one million dollars Last year i, was
three million.
EY The total number Of settlers under the
Homestead Act last year was nineteen thous
the act, 1862, Is over one hundred thousand.
This is seventy thousand more land owners
tSan there are in Great Britain.
tB~ The smallpox is increasing In Brooklyn,
N. Y. A yellow flag is placed in front Of
each building wher" the disease exists, and at
tention given to cleanliness and all proper
mems to prevent the further spread of the
disease.
fB-Judge Barnard In his charge TO the
Grand Jury at the opening OF the court OF
Oyer and Terminer on the 3d. announced it rs
fact, "that nearly all the fast horses and fnst
from the city treasury.
tB-The Little Town Meetings Of Connect
cut were held on Monday the 2d, and though
not always positive index of the strength of
parties, afford pretty near approximation 10
it. News from New Haven and Hartford, the
gY- Howard University, Washington, d, c.,
has commenced its fall term with about four
hundred students 1t may be doubted wheth'
or there is any other college in the land, or
perchance in the world, where collegiate tut.
tion is so low only nine dollals year.
tE-Thc general Convention OF the Episcopal
Church met at Baltimore, Oct. ;, and Will re-
main IN session three weeks Among the dis
iinguished clergymen who are expected from
abroad, Is the Rev. DR.. IIowson, one OF the
authors ofthe Life and Epistles of s. Paul"
and Dean of Chester England.
BAlading TO the L. States loans, one
OF the Epgllsh papers says; A government
which has within 6ye years redeemed nearly
I'VE hundred millions Of ,lfc obligations eroa-
ted In the conduct of u great war, and which
has at the same time largely cut down the tis-
cal burdens Of the pc,,plc, stands in position
which investors know how to appreciate.
eH-In an editorial In the London Times OF
the Esd of September the following is taken
"A portent Is announced from Scotland. A
Bishop and Arch Bishop have appeared in
the pulpit of Scotch Kirk, and conducted
divine service there. The ammo uncement has
given severe shock, as might hevo been ex-
pectcd, TO sensentve ecclesiastical nerves on
,his side Of the Tweed
EH- Professor Marsh and scientific party
Of Yale College, returned to Fort Bridger, Wy
on the 26th, from the mountains, where they
have spent the last Ave weeks In successful
geological explorations Many interesting
discoveries were made, and a large collection
Of ekiihetnnimnl remains were secured. Tn
patty 20 To- Salt Lake City, and from ther
through Idaho TO Southern Oregon, their mex
feld Of research.
EEHorace Greeley writes to the 7ri6gn
from Iowa Us follows: Il found near Grinnel
the man / have long been looking for-h
who grows nearly or qaite one hundred bush
els OF sAelled Indian corn per acre on larg
area year amer year. His name IL Wallac
Clark, and be has grown corn for the last fy
years successfully on the same hundred acres
sn'which I'f0und not less than nine ,housan,
bushels fully ripe, whereof enough has beel
gathered to determine the average yield"
eH-A bit Of Intelligence quite gratifying /
Republicans comes from Guernsey count,
The party there has been dangerously divide
by 9 Peoples Reforna ticket, but the prinl
movers In It. deeIning Republican assendanc
in that county eminently essential, have viii
drawn the ticket. There 10 now NO dang,
but that the county will be represented IN h
next Legislature by a Republican. Witlftl
exception Of CuyaLoga. there Is now no cou
~ In the State wherein the Republicans
not present an snbrokeH front