Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-02-17
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
ABULA, OHIO.
Saturday Morning, Feb. IL, 1872.
ITEMS.


Good
t#-Rohsrt Collyer has been invited to the
pastoraae Of the church Of the Messiah, New
York, but prefers to reriain iD Chicago.
IENew York is mystifed with the rumor
that one of the two most distinguished Uni
tartan ministers remaining in that city is about
TO become an Episcopalan.
sFThe Hartford Insurance Companies
have paid taxes in Pennsylvania alone, for the
last year, $53,437.96. The Connecticut Mu-
tnal pays nearly $4,000.
eE-Rev. DR.. Robinson of Rochester Theo-
logical Seminary has been elected President of
Brown University 10 succeed DR.. Caswell,
who retires at the close Of the present year.
tT-Secretary Boutwell, deems it advisable
not to put any more of the new loan on the
market until affairs on the ether side have set
tied down. as our securities there are very
much depressed.
H-We are glad TO see that the Judiciary
Commit,e of the New York Assembly are 10
take immediate action regarding the impeach-
inert of Barnard and Cardozo, the Two, most
notorious Ring judges
tT~The Colorado legislature has asked for
the admission of that territory as State It's
finances are such that the legislature passed
bill providing that no tax shall be leyied for
the year 1872 and only one and half mills
percent, for 1878.
tEReports from Union Pacific railway sta
tions west of Cheyenne, last week, said the
weather was very cold, the wind high and
snow drifting. iSeven trains are reported
stuck in the snow at Summit a few miles west
of Rawlins Station. Since released.
CEAtErie, Penn, on Saturday, the tube at
the gas we'll being bored for the county in
firmary, struck q tremendous vicn of gas,
which took fire and surncd VIM. Bell very
badly and perhaps fatally. The derrick and
engine house were burned.
tE-A singular accident occurred last week
IN the flying off of a driving wheel OF loco
motive attached 10 a passenger train on the
Little Miami railroad near London, complete
ly wrecking the engine. One passenger had
AZ arm broken, and another severely bruised
ExrRev. John Seycs, d. d.. died at his resi-
dence in Springfield Ohio, at midnight on
Friday, aged seventy five. He was many
years resident minister at Liberia from the
United States, and also missionary m West
Africa. he mnde ten voyages between this
country and Africa prior 10 his final return in
1870.
tTA profound interest will be excited
among men of science by the announcement
by Prof Agassiz, from Pernambuco, that the
deep sea dredge has drawn up living animals
which are scarcely, if ut all, to be distinguish
ed from those whose remains only have been
hitherto found as fossils Of distant geological
era.
tT-There has been n frightful outbreak of
fanaticism IN the Argentine Republic y
party of Guachos. reused to frenzy by local
leader, attacked and murdered 80 foreigners
before the authorities could interfere. Sixteen
of the assasslns were shot In the pursuit, and
large number captured.
CH-The ice in the river IN front of the city
of Cincinnati, broke loose on the 18th, carry
ing between twenty and thirty coal barSes
with il, and forming gorge in the bend below
the city, piling some fifty bargcs one upon
anothers The steamer Wannita was sunk AT
Fulton, and the trestle work Of the Newport
railroad bridge was torn away.
cE-The Night Watch says he was dread
fully alarmed the other night, by hearing some
one shout. "shut the doorl its getting awful
cold oat here" Following the echo, he
found a man in the acl OF hanging his coat on
. hitching post, and preparing 10 retire on the
curbstone for a nights rest, under the impress
sion that he had arrived at home. This hap
pened in Paincsyile.
sY-The State Board,of Charities is abolish
ed. Its Office was to examine the prisons and
infrmaries Of each county and report their
condition, suggest sanitary Improvements
where needed. Tae result OF the reports was
usually total indlIercnce7ly the local anthori.
lies to the suggestions of Improvement The
Board was therefore abolished as a practically
useless, though well meant institution.
CE-Mrs Isabella Hooker who is evidently
aiming at the Leadership of the female suf-
fragists OF the country, has Announced her ln-
tentIon of stamping the State o.. Connecticut
for the Democratic ticket. Unless The Demo
crats can get Mrs. Hooker to relinqGish her
prDlect, ulo otalo may NC Cnuuteu on as Ieu'
sonably sure for the Republicans.
eEA Dollinger movement has begun IN
Spain. A central committee Of fSe priests
has been osgaRized in Madrid, with the luten.
tion Of following the "old Catholics of Ger
many. They have made bold beginning by
issuing manifesto which affirms the Inherent
iudependence Of the church snAI the Supreme
authority of ihc divine word, but ca the other
hand dIscIaims Professionalism.
SB-A bill has tcen introduced in The Ohio
Senate for regulating the number OF County
Commissiopers according to population. II
provides that. in counties OF les Than 10000
population, the Board Of Commissioners sha.
consist OF fouz personss in counties Of more
than $4,000 and less than $4,000. of six per.
sons (; IN counties Of more than $4,000 and less
than 10000. of eight persons, aud in counties
OF over 15o. .eoos of lsn persons.
szTThe Cleyeland Leader says thai a lot o.
goods stolen rom the New York house Of Z
A. Morrison, on broadway, last fall, were las
week found on sale i. Cleveland estab
lIshmenf. A irVeling agsni Il the New Yorl
house IN going wesi, came seTOss several la
dies neck ties Of peculiar kind, which nc