Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-09-23
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kB Nearly 4UU AL hluX nave Oeen taket
10 Raleigh N. G., or trial.
Mayor Hall of New York, has removed
Controller Connolly, and offered the position
TO Gen. Mcclellan.
@ Lightning struck gas pipe in a ohurcl
at Iowa City, on the / Ith inst, and explode,
the street mains all oyer the city.
tBT The last rail on the European and Nortl
American Railway, between Bangor and St
John, was laid on Wednesday.
tBAt Charleston, South Carolina, thcr,
were three deaths from yellow fever for tn,
twenty-four hours ending ON Wednesday even
ing.
AT Fortress Monroe, on Wednesday, n six
hundred pounder twelve inch rifle gun burst
on the beach during the trial of a new kind Of
powder. 10 person was injured.
tB-Ex Secretary Seward has arrived in
London, after his journey around the world
He will have much 10 tell his old friends in
Auburn when he gets home.
CB The thermometers for The New Yorl
Court House, for which $1,000 were paid, ar,
estimated by experts in the business to bt
worth $I5S.
W. Norton, Superintendent of the money de-
partment Of the city post Office, is defaultcl
10 the extent of $l0n,000, through outside
speculations..
~ The Mayor of Pittsburgh picks up
about $4,000 worth OF crumbs which fall
from the municipal table, and the people arc
talking about fixing the salary NJ $40 900, and
cutting off all perquisitcs
eB- Alexander II. Stevens, in one of his
last three column editorial paragraphs, says
that "ihe key note which was sounded in
Ohio by Nalandigham has lost California To
the Democracy, and is losing the other Stat cs
as fast as possible.
IN Mr.. Wendell Phillips has found some
thing TO commend 1t is the New Jersey rail
road, which during the last thirty seven yenrs
has transported over seventy millions Of pass.
engers, without loss Of life or limb to any one
inside the cars
tE-Tom Castor, one Of the prisoners who
broke out of Nevada Stat" prison, has been
recaptnred. Another has been tracked and
severely wounded The main gang is closely
pursued by troops from Carson, and it is be.
heved they will soon be caught.
eE-The full Ku Klux Committee met in
Washington on Wednesday afternoon, and nd
journed, TO await the report of The sub.com-
mittee, which has not yet been agreed upon.
II Is said that the appropriation for the cx-
penses of the committee has been entirely eX-
hausted This may prevent the sending OF
fhyther sub committees to the South
tB- 1t costs nearly Us much TO run the
courts in the city Of New York under Demo.
cratic" rule as ii docs to pay the Judges Of the
United States courts, the salary OF the Presi
dent and Cabinet SO stated ina recent ex.
position. What do you think of that reader !
Is that the sort of party you wish to place In
power in the government
tB few days since farmer In the town
OF East Northwood, New Hampshire, had oc-
caslon 10 change the location Of his family bu-
Sial place. To his surprise, he found the bodies
--soIae Of which had been buried over forty
years-in an almost perfect state of prcserva-
ton. PhOse that had lain longest we've hardly
discolored aud quite petrhed. No similar oc.
currenee has ever been known In that State.
% The Democratic politicians In Penn.
sylvania, like their brethren in Ohio, have
given up all hope Of slecling their State ticket
and are pressing all tbOlr energies To secure a
majority in both Houses Of the Legislature
The Republicans In both. States should reallz,
that the utaoSt harmony, and every possibl,
exertion, are necessary TO seGure the Legisla
tire In each OF Of these States.
kH-The Mont Gents TanRel was formal,
opened on the l4th. by the FfsAeh aud ItaliaI
Ministers and the local authorities Ate
meeting and congratulating each other, tn
party embarked In a gaiy decorated lraiu ant
passedsihrough the tunnel, making the transi
In 20 minutes. correspondent of the LondoI
7SN<s telegraphs that he iraversed the Mon
Gents tunnel in 80 miHuies that the air II
the tunnel b excellent and the entire worl
has been admirably done.
H-At the late Democratic Sia.e Conven
ton. held a, Rehmond, Va. on motion, dele
gstes from the Colored Conservative Club o
that city, were admitted tb seats Their ap
pearance on the floor was. greeted with pro
lenged applause Our southern neighbors
who were determined 10 die lu the last ditch
Tsther thsn give up their beloved institution
Of slavery, have now quite different idey Of
negro, and see him In different light fror
what they did then. The negro. with ballt
In bis hand, presents quite g different pictul
from what he did with hoe In the cotto
hsld. with oserseer, whip and blood d-hoapds
the back ground