Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-11-23
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
AsHTABUb.A, ONO.
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Saturday Morning, Nov. 23, 1879.
ITEMS.

alarm. Ii was however soon extinguished,
tE- An earthquake shock was felt in
New Hampshire the other day,
cE~President Thicrs. hps. contributed $500
for the relief of the Boston sufferers,
4g-The official woe of Delaware gives Grant
9Oe majority. and Loland, Republican,, for
Congress 352 majority.
tE-Pouttry are said 10 be dying along the
banks of the Susquehanna river, in Penusvlva.
mia, by thousands, from. an epidemic disease
which seems to Ue general
eTThe total lSsses by the Bosto.. FIRE is now
placed at abQpt eiShiy.eight add half mil
lions, over. half of which will b. liqpidatcd by
the insurance companies.
SEX. Empress Eugene held a fctc al Chisel-
hurst, on the 10Th. Many persons were present
from Paris. A number Of regiments stationed
nj Versailles sent boqucts
eg Editing newspaper is very much like
raking fire-eyeryone thinks he can perform
the operation better than the man who holds
the pokeS
i is said that nine of Baruun's camrrs and
dromedarics have died of envy since they
saw some OF the Jumps on tue BACKS of our
daughters of fashion.
E-The Methodist Church has appropriated
for foreign missions, s2js ,s2j; $lO2 ,337 in OK.
cess of last year. Total amount appropriated
for mission purposes. foreign and domestic
$s59,425.
s7rA Washington special says six New
York, one Maryland and three Pcnnsy ylvania
regiments have sgnifrd lheir intention OF
participating in the inauguration of President
Grant on the 4lh Of March next.
EE-lt is roughly estimated tina, so, COO
sides of upper and rough leather and calf
skins, and 300 900 sides Of sole leather were
destroyed by the Boston fire. Prices have
risen from ten TO twenty per cent.
ETAll the conductors on the Pennsylvania
railroad are required by U recent order to give
bonds, in the sum of 5000 each for the faith
fal discharge OF their dul:s Will. connected
with The road.
CT IGwains, a respectable farmer, living
between Cunueaut and Girnrd, committed sui.
eide on the l0th, by hanging. His prclniary
affairs were IN good condition. Dcsponden.
cy is assigned rs the cause
Phe Centennial Commission has issued an
address calling upon the people oJ the United
States for subscription to fund often million
dollars, to make. the Centennial such u success
US the patriotism and pride Of every American
demands.
sspNearly two hundred freedmen including
several families sailed from New York for
Liberia Wednesday last The emigrants are
mostly from Florida, South Carolina and
Georgia, and go out under the auspices of
tho American Colonization society.
tE- Warrants have been issued for the in
Bpectors Of elections who received the votes OF
Susan R, Anthony and Others; and it is assert
ed that Miss Anthony and her fourteen copyists
in the voting matter haye also been Indicted
tor fraudulent voting.
GB-At a jolliication, held at C rretsvile
four years ago this fall, Gen, Garfield said:
"To succeed the Democrats must have new IS
sues and new leaders" The p cdiclipp may
have been true. Bat we see The new depart.
ure," and that their new leader, H. g. his not
saved them.
cs-Iivestigaiion into the charges of vcnal!y
npd bribery in the Philadelphia City council
30 far shows an amount Of Ytnaly rNaling
iIat exposed in New York last year. It is
sud that those who are exposing the affair
nIc doing 50 at The risk Of their lives and
threats Of killing have been freely made.
eB-AIong the line of the IInlson River
trrblc disease has broken out among the poul-
'ry. Chickens arl dying hy hundreds, and
turkeys, geese, and ducks in the market show
slghs of the maludy. The disease SCENE 10 be
assuming the form Of II destructive pcsilOnce
among domestic fowls.
tB-Dropsy, the new horse disease, has
made iis appearance IN all the city car stables
Fifty per cent Of The horses attacked are saiu
10 die. The horses afr c.cl are IN ,inly those
worked while suffering from "Epizooic"
Stablrcmen are becoming alarmed, a5 they
thought the disease was disappearing,
B-rhe aclian Of the French Assembly,
indicatcs growing discomfort with NJ
Thicrs and his policy. That the Assembly
should hesitate 10 give the President q vote
oi confidence is in Itself noteworthy but that
there should be so light vote ana 81 many
reluctant Is ominQua.
The decision ofJadse Fowler In the clsc of
Blood, involed In the Challis. Woodruff libel.
slii, goes to the extent OF holding responsible
all agents in the publication ol such libols who
have guilty knowledge OF their character,
An assumption OF responsibility by the propri-
,lor OF the publication in no Mise cxoncrates
him.
cFAnd now even Florida must probably be
counted for Grant, though 1t hns hitherto
stood In the Grerly column. Later returns
show great increase Of the Republican vote,
Snd. lesides giving Us It's electoral vote for
Grant, Florida will have Republican Lcgls-
lature, and send Republican Senator 10 Wash
ington.
tB-Ten lhoNandxirls are reported thrown
out of Unemployment by the Boston fire. But be-
h,re lying down tn sleep on the night after the
fse, the ladies of Boston congregaled to devise
practical measures for helping them aud the
machinery for,securing employment and sub
sistence for the unemployed girls was set in
motion.
IY-Thc Young Mems Republican Club, Of
Washington, called upon the President, on the
18th AMI congratulated him on his reelection.
The President, in reply to the Informal. address,
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