Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-12-28
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
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Saturday Morning, Dec. %, 1879.
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lecture In Music Hall
Iy- The Liverpool packet Germauia went
ashore ON the shore of France 80 lives were
lost
ar Great Britain is reported to have rcmon-
strated against the Russian INVASION of Central
Asia.
tF- Prince Bismark, by official r,scrip has
been relieved from The Presidency Of the Prus.
elan Council.
tE 1t Is stated tha, the most marked fea.
tur. of the book trade at the present moment
Is the large and increasing demand for scien-
tiiic works and periodicals.
ES- "Hun. BEN. WADE's handsom st tlauph.
ter is bound TO marry apour carpentr" is the
latest New York sensation. BcD. says it may
be so, but he has yet TO learn that he has
daughter,
c6-ln the \. y. Oyer Terminer on the 2lst,
Francis Train pleaded guilty. tn publishing n
paper called the "Train League" which accor
ding TO tue indictment is an obscene puJlica
tion.
sS~ Judge Orr. OF South Carolina, accepts
the Russian mission, and expects to sail Tor
Europe about the first of January, though he
prefers not to encounter the raors of the ST.
Petcrsbursh climate ill the middle of March
sB- After protract,d trial Of Cundurango
In the cancer records Of the Middlesex Hosp-
,al, in London, the medical .uthoriiies of that
institution have.arrivcd ut the conclusion that
tue drug las no eff CT OH cancer
tY- Prof Henry Cow les. D. D., Of Oberlin.
Seminary has enriched the libyabries Of one
hundred aud tweny five missionaries Of the
American Board by the gift Of as many copies
ot each of his commentaries on the Psalms and
the Revelation,
ET The Independent STATE that, while Rev
DIR. Patton retains an editorial connection
with the Advance, that paper has now passed
into the hands of Mr.. j. 3. 7 Marsh, it's for.
mer managing editor, aud Mr. Turner, It's pub.
Usher, who assume its entire management for
the next two years.
" The new AMI capaclous Iron structure
known as the Tabernacle, situated in the city
OF Brooklyn, of which Rey. I. De. Witt Tnl.
mage d. ID. was pastor was totally destroyed
by fire on Sunday morning last. The flames
originated just before the usual hour for morn.
Ing service
sy The Old South Church In Boston IL 10
be leased to the Government for Post. Office
fos a period Of two years. This, we suppose,
settles the matter. The building will proba
lily never be occupied for religious purposes
again and the society will find new quarters in
some more fashionable region.
f1y~ Tho narnoo.otic M,yor nr ros,o,, ,.;Il
probably fail to secure his second term after
all. The committee recountng the vote have
discovered "mislaie" OF about FIVE hundred
votes in the second ward, and the rcciGca
ton of this mistake" will elect Pierce. the Re-
publican candidate.
tB The Grand Jury at The recent term Of
court at Steuhenvillc, made it lively for whis-
ky men. Judge Miller, of the common Pleas,
treated the viMaturs oi the law to from five to
eight day Imprisonment in Jail, in addition to
ffnes ranging from two hundr, to three hun.
drcd dollars each.
Eg HARvoRD University is Introducing re-
forms, or perhaps more properly, experiments,
into its policy and regulations. Compulsatory
recitations and morning prayers have been
abolished, and the student is no longer taught
by the practice or precept OF his Alma Mater,
10 begin the dny by an invocation Of Divine
favor and protection.
tB-Further procc, dings in the Greeley will
case at White Plains have, by general consent
been postponed till January 18th, before which
time the counsel retained by u number of
wealthy gentlemen ofthiI city, in the inter
tst of the Misses Greeley expect 10 effect an
adjustment withthe managers Of the Children S
Aid Society, who appear 10 be now the only
contestants of the will.
tsy- The weather reports are to be sent to
all post offices reached by daily mall aud dis.
played IN frames at the post offices for tie ben
eft of the agricultural community, as they
have been for the instruction of the shipping
Interests Before long the farmer will rcgu.
late his plowing, sowing, aud harvesting, by
the weather bulletins, as the shipnlasters now
do their departure from port.
sB- Justice Is alert and active in Connect
icut. Horace Blakeslee, convicted of an at
tempt to wreck railroad trains, has been sen.
fenced to ten years in the States Prison and
Notwithstanding The plea that hc was intoXica
ted at the time the act was committed, -
William II. Wadleigh. too. late discount clerk
OF the Merchants Bank in Boston. has been
sentenced to Ave years in the Dcdham Jail for
his enbczzlemeni OF $780, 900 Of The funds oflhot
bank, about year ago.
t.S- The horses in Camden AK, are sadly
affected by the epizootic, and the local ncwspa-
per informs us That they are subjected to a
treatment OF blankets aSsa'nlidn, aud hot
whisky and water. 1t must 20 to the heart
Of any genuine Arkansas traveller 10 see the
aforementioned article layished upon horses
j: never much increased the locomotive pow.
ers of the human race, and a horse who should
have the epiz0oiic and delirlum tremcns to-
Eether wouldn't be likely to travel much far.
Iher In this world atleaa,.
tE- We are likely soon TO have n crisis in
Arkansas matters. The declaration OF the
State vote is expected 10 crate disturbance
hs'ihe impression has already gone out that
the Canyasing Board have resolved to count
in the Clayton candidate. The most nagranl
outEages'were perpeiraied upon the voters of