Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-05-25
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
ASHTABULA, ONO.
Saturday MOrnina, May 25th, 1879,

Saturday MoruinA, May 25th, 1879.
tE-Furlher intelligence has been received
from DR.. Livingstone.
IT-Tke Carlst insurrectlon In Spain is
subsiding, over four thousand men having vol.
untaBlly surrendered.
gE-A recent fire In YsddD, Japan, during q
severe gale, burned over'a space of two miles
wide by three miles long, and rendered ,hiriy
thousand people homeless.
Tho Tariff and Tax Bill was passed On
Monday last, aud the resolution to adjourn ON
tile sg,h inst, has been concIrred Ia BY both
houses.
tT-A resolution was introduced in The SEN
ate on the Goth for the expulsion Of the Assn
ciated Press reporter, who corrected Mr..
ConklIng's misstatements by pFououncing
ihem untrue.
sE~The landing OF boats crew and
lowizcr from U. S. steamer, for target prac.
tice in Iayi, has caused some excitement,
and dthat Government has demanded repara-
lion for the insult.
t9s~The City of New Haven ou Wedcns
day made the State OF Connecticut the Offer
Of amillion dollars, to be expended in build.
ing State House whicn win be a pge:ent
from the city of New Haven to the State.
t3-It is said that Congressman Kerr, OF IT..
diana, agrees with Mr.. Voorhees, that the
democratic party cannot, without dishonor 10
itself and great injury TO the country, accept
Mr.. Greeley as its candidate for President
a. w. FAIRBANKS, Esq, Of the Cleveland
Herald, and lady. left on Monday last for Cali.
foFnia. They 60 as members Of party of
tourist, chiefly from. the cast and will be aG.
sent six or eight weeks.
EE"The Greeley party had a ratification
meeting in Buffalo on Monday. Mr.. William
Dorsheimer, a lifelong free trader, made the
principal speech. There was some enthusiasm
for Greeley and Brown, but It was not alarm
ing.
c3-Thc President has signed the bill to re-
move political disabilities imposed by the
fourteenth article Of amendment to the Con.
sitution. The exceptions will, ii is supposed
cover less than two hundred cases, including
Jefferson Davis and John c. Breckinridgc.
EF-The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
will order the Collector at Albany TO seize
properly of the Central and Hudson River
Railroad for the scrip dividend tax, under the
provisions of the consolidation act OF the As.
semblY of 1850, holding the new company re-
sponsibe for all liabilities Of the old corpora
ton.
Cy-Twcnty.six States have chosen dele
gates to the Philadelphia Convention, and 90
of them have given Instructions for Grant.
Three-iourths of the whole nuinbcr Of dclc-
gates to the Convention have been chosen
. and nearly the whole of them arc instructed
for Grant. The Convention will therefore bc
but q ratification meeting.
CH-The New York Post contains epccal
from Washington, giving q few individual
opinions concerning the Cincinnati ticket
"IIenry Wilson says il cannot secure one
ELECTORAL vote or obtain a.popular vote Of q
hundred and fifty thousand. Senator Logan
states thai il is q radical defeat Of the free
traders, who began the movement. Mr.. Sum
ncr Is understood 10 have said that he designs
10 maintain q reserve until the possibility Of
change in the Philadelphia nominations be
comes mere plainly apparent Judge Dayi
has stated that the Convention but proved il
self 10 be n gigantic furcc. Mr.. Trumbull ap
pears somewhat nervous and detected"