Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-09-09
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ESevenvesselsane detained at Quarantine,
New York harboI. wi,fn yellow fever aboard.
tEIt is now reported oascisily that the
telegraph in England is earning for the gov
eminent ten per cent profit upon its gross ex-
penditure of $37 100000 of capital.
CN- School Commissioner Hinklo has re-
signed TO accept the superintendency of the
Columbus public schools. The appointment
10 fll the vacancy has been rendered to Prof
T. w. Harvey, Of Paipesville.
tB-The Sixty-second Annual Meeting Of
The American Board will be held at Mechanics
Hall, Salem, Mass, commencing Tuesday, Oct
Sd, 1871. Applicants for places Of entertain
msHtmust address George r. Chapman, Esq,
OF that city, before Sept. t2th.
tB-The Soldiers Home at Dayton, writes
one of the inmates, has everything to make
him eoaioNablc Il Is, he says, one Of the
finest homes III the world, and he has nothing
to trouble his mind. There are sixteen hun
dred soldiers at the home, veterans of 1912,
Mexico Fforila, and the late war.
rB-Scnator Cameron gives favorable &C.
cnuuis-of the Republican prospect In Peunsyl.
vania. There are some differences there now,
but he thinks all will be reconcled long be-
fore the election. Having looked carefully
into political matters in the State, he is conf
dent Of q great victory this fall.
cELike the Weafeld in New York harbor
the steamer Ocean Wape Of Mobile was on q
Sunday excursion, last Sunday and her pas
sepgers had come on board just previous to
the boat starting. when an explosion occurred,
and from sixty to seventy persons were in
staniln killed. anaa number wounded.
cB-Mr. Sampson reports that his Chinese
shoemakers at North Adams, Massachusetts,
have saved him $4,000 In the year he has
given TO experiment in Celestial labor, as they
psoducc ten per cent. more work in day
ilfan tire same Dnnlher of Trade Union men,
who undertook to rim his business for him.
EE-Cantaih Hall is progressing satisfaotori.
lyon his hunt for the North Pole. He has
reached Greenland, reports that all arc well,
the FOldrs admirably fitted for the purpose,
and the prospect Of success encouraging. But
his too soon for spectators to make bids for
ssest,DB Of the Moth Pole 10. cut up into
walking canes.
IB-The names of Hon. Caleb Gushing and
If Edward Pierrepont were both mentioned
10 the Cabinet meeting, on Saturday, In con-
nection with,the appointment of Counselor to
Geneva Conference. Cushing was the first
choice, but he will hardly accept, as he would
have TO abandon the Mexican claims, commits
tien, and'the latter is very rem,tncrative.
sB-The recent letter which Theodore Tilton
wrote TO Horace Greeley on woman suffrage
is said to have been agreed upon by Messrs.
Sumner and TAtos, at n breakfast In New
York. II Is further stnsctl Mat Mr.. Sumner
will, at the next session sf Congress, take up
ths question, and introduce some deslaratory
act giving women the ballot.
EEThe number Of steam vessels plying be-
tween our ports and Europe is I45, Of which
the Cunard line hes 32, the Inman 10, National
10. Liverpool aud Great Western 7, Anchor 10,
Mediterranean. and New York 0, Transailan-
tique 4, Bremen IS, Hamburg 10, White Star
6, and We Americans have hardly any.
kE-A T. SlcwAsss new hotel for women,
At the corner OF Fourth avenue and Thirty
second street, New YoFk, Is rapidly progress.
Ing toward completion. Two million dollars
have been appropriated foriS and another
ihiiioh Will uS Ie6uHVu W SoWploNUH. lHls
Ia the largest sum ever given by a singular In
drvitinal for an edlhce for benevolent puT-
poses.
eNrThe S4Aae Department reports that there
Is greater dessud for passports on the par
of Americans desiFsse to go abroad than eyel
bcforein tho history of the Government A
large number Of applications s-oome from Ger
haana and FRench domiciikd IA, this country
who desired 10 witness the sceses of the late
silrring events In which their respective ma.
ti9ns 30 lately participated.
tEPMsies are now engaged In drBgGihE In
the Anaeosta river o6 the Washingtop Navy
Yard for the recovery sl chains. anchors, etc;
which were deposited Tor safe keeping In the
eAof the river in 1914, when tue British In
vsded the city. A considerable smoant o
chain and large anchor have thus far beer
recovered, which win be renovated ut tn
Jsrd.
u The report on the solar eclipse Of De
cembeT, 1879 will soon be issued from th,
Naval Observatory. The English goyerumen
has proposed 10 the United States TO send
joint expedition TO ceylon, TO observe Al
eclipse that win occur there on December II
1871, Eneks comet Is looked for by the Pro
fsssoEs az the National Observatory. early v
the fall. These gentlemen are Of present en-
gagged In observing two new asteroids, dis
covered BY Professors Peters aud Watson.