Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-10-19

eEPresident Grant bas designated Thurs
day, November 2sil, as the National Thanks.
giving day.
kE-The famine Is still depopulaing Persia
A carefully prepared statement shows that
ibrse millions Of Inhabitants have did OF
starvation.
The Philadelphia Rem cxhoris iis Greeley
candidates TO come to the front; prepare 10
enter upon your grave duties" Exactly Sc.
lect your shroud and get your coffin ready.
FThe appointments Of CARL Schurz IN
Missouri have been Withdrawn since Tie Slate
elections. Ii is supposed The funds necessary
10 keep Schurz in the field have fulcd.
B-A veteran was relating his exploits to q
crowd of hcys ana neutioncd having been in
five engagements -Thars nothing" broke in
little fellow, my sister Agnes has been en-.
gagged eleven times"
The Panesvillc journal understands that the
Western Union Telegraph Company are pre-.
pariGg TO extend their lines To the county scat
of old Geaugu, along The route Of the p. & &
Railroad.
eB- The British Government is jus. begin.
ming To find out that it has been dip omnlical
ly outwiltca in the Geneva arbitration matter,
and the London papers think there is cause
for gloomy farebodings in consequence.
tB The regents" of the Mount Vernon
property are f1out 10 d" improve :" the proper
iy by completely mod,rniGing ii. New roads
are to be opened, trees cul down, the mansion
altered, new furniture placed in Latnyettc's
room, and the tomb rebuilt.
The Republican majority in Lake county, at
the late election, Was 1888. Noycs' majority
in 1871, 1862. The Telegraph says the Dem
ocrats hrld Kirkland rs their Banner Town
ship, and calculated On Il majority instead, i
has given thirty against them.
t8" Literary people generally with thou.
sands of others, will feel sense of bereavement
In the death of Mrs James Parton, whose
writings under the non de plume of Fanny
Fern" have made her widely known and
warmly esteemed in this country.
tlT-a is said that the worst features of Sen
ator Summers old spinal difficulty have reap.
pearcd in an aggravated form, and il is pre-.
dicted that he will never return to this coun-
try alive. a consultation OF the leading
physicians has been called in his case.
cS-The Cleveland Iie,ald thinks that sine,
Mrs. Paitington attempted 10 sweep back th'
tidal wave Of the Atlantic Ocean with be-
kitchen broom, there has been no spectacle 81
ridiculous as the CUnfcdcrars attempting Il
roll back the October wave OF pablic opinion
with hysterc proclamulions.
sB-An excursion, on grand scale, is pre-.
pairing al Columbia, Pa, under the auspices o
CYRENE CoMMAEDERY, Knights Templnr, foi
u tour TO Europe aud the INTERNATIONAL. Ex
POSITION AT VIENNA. They propose tO star
abou, the first of June next. Landing n
Queenstown, they will travel through IrclunC
and Great Britain, and visit al places Of prom
inence on the Continent.
Mcclure, the manager Of the Liberal
wing of the Coulcderates IN Pennsylvania
gives up the fghtas hop.l,ss, In an interview
with representative oi the Philadelphia
Press, lately battling by his side against the
Republican ticket, he snid, Pennsylvania i,
hopeessly for Grant, and do not think either
Ohio or Indiana is likely TO vote for Greeley
regard The debatuble States as 0cttlcd ugaius
US in October"