Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-04-20
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WSaxs grqphicallE Describes certain
piece Of besfs,eak as ~an infringement ON
Goodyesrs patent"
TMrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell has given
sp lec,uring for awhile, and Is engaged in her
legitimate Misunderstanding the cradle.
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Elcvator. Toledo, burned last Saturday. Much.
grain was destroyed. Loss over $4,000.
EE-The passage from New York, TO Diver.
pool wss recently made by the steamship
Spain, with not the most favorable weather, in
aine days
tETifan, Ohio was swept hy a big fire on
Saturday, which destroyed sixiy-6ve buildings
involving loss Of one hundred thousand
dollars.
Miss NELLIE GRANT, the daughter of Prcsi-
dent Grant, arrived at Liverpool on the 19.n,
inst, and was received by Mr. Dudley, The
American Consul.
ELast year the Methodist denomination
IN this country added 700 chdrcbss and $4,000
members to its swelling volume of prosperous
statistics.
CE-Mr. p. A, Taylor, NJ. p, has publicly
announced bis approval OF Sir Charles Diike's
inquiry into the cost of Monarchy, So the
ball, once started, rolls on.
tN"The National Democratic Comnahsse
will meet at Mr. Belmonts residence en- Fifth
Uenus May e-just week after the Cincin.
natl Convention shah hase proved itself a
failure.
The boilers of the steamboat Oceanus
blew up on Thursday last week, about twenty
miles above Cairo, utterly destoying the boat,
and probably causing the death OF iron GO to
20 persons.
H The late Eras,us Corning Of Albany,
shortly before his death, requested that his
bearers might be chosen from among the
Workmen whom he had employed and &C.
ccrdipgly six stalwar; yoemen bore him to his
rest.
ex-senator Sumner has written q Letter TO
bs colorcd people Of. New Orleans in which
he eIhorts them to stand for their rights, and
ssys that in all institutions, agencies, or con-
Sssiences created or regulated by law there
rnnst be no discrimination on account Of color.
ty-Dr. Woodruff ,oEmer hnsband of Vic
toria c. Woodruff, died suddenly in New
York, on Saturday night the 9th inst There
were some suspicious of foul play, but the
coroners inquest showed that he died of in.
temperance and morphine.
s%-fhe bill providing for the payment of
800 bounty 10 each enlisted man who enter.
ed the military service Of the United States
prior 10 July Sd, 1861, under President Lin
coins proclamation of May Both of tha, year,
which the House on the Sth ullimo, docs not
apply TO soldiers who ENLISTED for three mon tbs
tB-The House Committee of Investigation
in the Arms case has reported, completely ex.
oncra,ipg the War Department from any
Diane In selling arms during the Franco. Ger
man war, and declaring that no law was vio-
lated, and no person improperly benefited by
the sale, the entire proceeds having gone into
the United States Treasary.
tY-1hs Mormon Conference now In session
at Salt Lake City has reelected Brigham
Young as Prcsden, Of the church, George A.
Smith first, and Daniel II. Wells second
counsellor, and Orson Hyde president of the
qaorum OF Twelve Apostles. Jacob Yates,
oRe ot tiae seven presidents OF the quorums of
seventies, has been suspended from Office until
an investigation can be made o. certain charges.
tTAiter oil the comments concerning the
resolution said to have been adopted by The
French Assembly touching the purchase of
arms from the United States and the explaua
tions demanded by our Government, II turns
out that no such resolution was adopted and
10 Cnch explanation asked The cable dis.
patch making the original statements was
fraud, and the French Government officially
declares the statements untrue.
tT-Gratz Brown, the leader of the Liberal
Republicans In Missouri, where the party
was boln, throws of the mask hitherto worn,
ienoupees the pretence OF reforming the Re.
publican party, and swings his tomahawk for
ferocious assauls on the Republican leaders
and Republican organization. That Is right
An open foe 10 less dangerous than o treacher-
Gus friend, and when a movement Is ayowedly
destructive, and not reformatory, there is less
danger oi its opponents hitting their friends
by mistake.
tBThe city of Aytioch In Syria was al.
post wholly destroyed by an earthquake,
April 3D., and upward of 1900 persons are re-
ported TO have perished, and scarcely build.
ing Is left standing. "The disciples were first
called Christians in Antioch" but II long since
ceased In any sense to be Christian city, and
Its size and importance have been greatly re-
duced in modern times, Once a aouilshing
capital, its population was now only 10000
and but the ruins Of It's ancient magnlfccnce
remained.
ETThe German emigration TO this country
is by no means what II Is popularly supposed
90 be, the mere overtlowipg OF redundant
population. The drain Is seriously felt In
some parts of Germany, IN the decrease OF
population and the desertion Of villages. In
Mecklenhurg. especially IN the eastern districts,
the number of emIgrants during the last fall
and winter has been very large aud there nre
many uninhibited houses In the villages, with
no demand for them. Even Swedish servants
and laborers, who have gone 10 Germany to
MI yacuums previously made, haze lefl for
America, and very few swedes now mnsigrate
"a take their place, the streams from both
countries being in our direction.
H1he New York Herald says that Mrs,
WUb0ur, an iTreclnimable advocate of petticoAt