Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-11-09
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
AsHTABULA, OHIO.
Saturday MOrning, Nov. 0, 1872.
ITEMS.

hoiSo, nus otcu Vt'ePioOOtTC at CpllngHClu
Massachusetts,
tE-Aceertling to the Boston papers, the
horsc.disease Is attacking the dogs in that vi
einity in similar manner
eg-The Oregon Legislature has indefinite
Iy postponed proposition to establish female
suffrage in that State.
tB The golden wedding of the King and
Queen OF Saxony is to be celebrated in grand
manner at Dresden on the 9Th of November.
B-Mayor Halls jurors failed to agree,
seven being in favor of conviction, and I've in
favor of acquittal. Tweed's trial is next in
order.
tB During the continuance Of the horse
distemper, communication between East Sagi-
raw and Saginaw City is kept up by steam.
er.
W-Jay Cooke gave $1,000 10 the Baptist
church at Duluth, on condition that il should
adopt liberal practice in respect to the COM
munion.
U-Hon. B. T. Cushing, late Probate Judge
ef this county died on the 4th inst, at Chat
field, Minnesota, where he had gone for his
health.
tB-The Philadelphia mint has commenced
melting one dollar gold pieces, to be conver ed
into peices of larger denomination. Twenty
millions of these pieces are 10 be used ..
B-The Prince de Jonville suggests TO
crown the new Vcndome column with the sim
pie statue of a French soldier There would
then be no need of topping it over every few
years. :.
EB-The Bates county (Kansas) Democrat re-
ports visit to stone quarry near Butler
where a peiriied snake has been partially un-
covered. Twenty feet of the monster have so
far come to light, and that is not more than
half Of him.
eB-T The Kansas Pacific Railroad has brought
suit against the Union Pacific Railroad for
100000 damages, for failure to comply with
the provisions of an act of Congress providing
that no determinations shall be made by one
road against the other.
tEThe manuscript of the original draft OF
Mr. Stewards book was entirely completed
some time since. At the limc of his death Mr..
Seward had finished the revision of about two
thirds Of IL. This revision will he at once
taken up and completed by his son, Frederick,
and his adopted daughter, Miss Risley Seward.
EB- The absurdity of posi-daling weekly
newspapers has exenlplihca-ion in the New
York Ledger, the issue Of which bearing date
Saturday. October 90, said its popular conlri.
butor Fanny Fern, was extremely III, when
the fact is she had been dead sixteen days
when the date Of the paper was reached.
tB-The last novelty in the church-buiding
line was the shipping OF large Gothic iron
church, from New York for Lima, Peru, in n
ship chartered for the purpose It's cost IN
cluding the accompanying organ, was over
100000 The church was entirely finished
and set up in New York, aud then taken down
and packed for shipment.
tN-A new sect has started up in Iowa. Its
1900 members, who are all Germans and call
themselves Americans" have bought 200
acres Of land along the Rock Island s. Pacific
railroad. and settled down to sort of COM
munistie life The affairs of the society are
managed by trustees; nll.properiy is held in
common :, each person is allowed to draw so
much from the common store. .. g.
tB-If tho spread OF the horse distcmper
continues, American ports will be considered
infected, as faraAs aorses are concerned Ha-
vana has already taken the precaution of put.
ting horses imported from hiiS port into quar-.
antine; and now thai the disease Inns travelled
so far South as Charleston. s. C.. the seaboard
geaerally may be considered infected nearly
its whole length.
CH"Aftcr having blocked the wh ecls OF
commerce for week, the horse epidemic in
New. York City is losing It's hold ou the unlor-
tunalc, quadrupeds, and on public attention.
Enough animals are sick Ia make the use Of OK
teams quite popular. aud Ia somewhat cripple
the resources of the Fire Department, but the
worst Is apparently over. 1t Is still spreading
to districts not before visited, having reached
Norfolkin a southerly direction. Chicago on
Its way westward, and England so thc tcle
graph informs US, prior To continental tour.
tB-Ths ST. Paul Press brings news OF the
appearance of the epi1ootc maIady in new
quarter. 1t says:
Agentleman just returned from deer
hunt on the frontier, brings nows of an
epidemic prevailing among these animals
which threatens Ia seriously affect the
supply of yenis0n. He says that herds
were frequently seen in which there
wOnld be doSns scarcely able to travel,
and that large numbers of dead and dy-
ing deer were found in the woods. The
disease seems to resemble IN its svmp.
toms the horse disease which is creating
30 much trouble in the East.
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Chicago Is iO have an immense Crystal
Palace, In which an exposition is To be held
during Me rebuilding jubilee in 1873. The
size OF tho bullding according TO lhc plans
whlehhaye been submitted, will ba six huu'
dred feet long by one hundred feet broad,
win central transept two hundred and fifty
feet long. The hpight will be- eighty feet, with
done oyer the principal entrance over one
hundred ieet high 4 hDral garden will sur.
round the building, aud pnriion of The inte.
Iior will also be decorated with fountains, and
tIte1 as winter garden.
THE STATE ELECTIoSa-The follow.
ing Staaes elect State or Congressional
tickets 1t the same lime with the Presi.
Dental ticket: Alabama, State and Con
gress; Arkansas, State aud Congress
California, Congress; Connecticut, mem
Der OF Congress from tho First District