Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-09-20


lCoHrraoLLEs srfTREAsuBr-- r. WILSON.
BoARD ov PrnIIc woRKs-P HERRING.
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y. Three cents per mile is lereaft,r Ia be the
rate paid for passage on frst-class railways in
Illinois. This is ono of the fruits of the recent
act "to prevent extortion and unjust discrim-
insKoR"
IN EIndusiriouSboys are appearing as proofs
Vi Of new era In the South. The Clinton tLa.)
Patriot gives the exploits OF two of thcm. One
II fr eni fourtc, acres ofland, made net profi
Lof e60e, and the other, from thirty acres eTcar-
4 ! ed 81 SAG. in both cases land, and implc-
4 menis, animals and labor were hired, the boys
beginning without penny.
II! tE Senator Everi of Louisiana, received the
\ following dispatch at Washington on the 10Th
Z from bhe Mayor NJ Shreveport "The peo-
I pic are panic stricken. All that could, have
i left The poor are nearly all on our hands
No money in the city treasury. All pecunia-
ry AMI will be thankfully received. Fever in
creases."
eB The place " hcsc The Polnris sank has
been found by Commander Green, Of the III.
gress, off Iittleion Island. The eyew are
shown by records discovered to have sailed
sUuthwards In boats made from their wrecked
vessel. They were in good health, and are
believed now to he on their way home in n
wbaler from Cape York.
EErFive hundred persons are down with
the yelhw fever at Shreveport so far, 140
3vo 1iad ha t-,t.
"a. Nurses and physicians have been sent
from New Orleans, and the deplorable situa-
don Of tile sick, who for days c0uld get no
medical attendance, is somewhat allcviated.- -
The dread disease has reached Memphis
where eleven deaths occurred on the l4h.
tB-It Is understood ihni the trial of Edward
:. Stokes for the murder of James Fisk will
begin on October LIST, unless the case of VIII
liam NJ. Tweed Ia taken up Minnie J. Ben.
ton, who WAS arrested rs q witness In the case
few days ago, has been released In five thou
sand dollars bai 10 appear at the October
Term Of Court Edward J. Brooks became her
bopdsman.
H-The cornct Is looking up as an adjunct
efohurch music. In Dayton, the Presbyteri.
m churches are employing cornct plnyen to
lead the congregation 10 singing The eorne,
Is also used In some of the Methodist church.
es Of the sitY Of Chicago, and has become 4
fayoriie. There Is certainly room for hope
that IL the cornet can get In, the fiddlcs, and
nutes, etc. may also, and In time oongre-
cations may recognize the fact that good mll-
sie is not out OF place In divine worship.
uThe magnificent water system of Chica-
60 seems TO be impcrlled Naturally the
Board os Public Works Is anxious 10 conceal
the facts, but the city press, ever ahye 10 the
interest OF the people, puncurcs the plausible
statement made by tie Chief Engineer and
demonstrates conclusyely that the. water sys-
tenn OF Chicago has sustained serious injary
from quarter least expected The Tribune
attributes II To blunder Of the Chief Engln-
Ger. II has been discovered that the tuaneh Is
baking beneath the Glib. and percolaing
through the foundation OF thai structure.
tB-Ths Missouri Republican brings Wilkes
Booh 20 lie again, and labors through col
unnn and AaE b. prove that he was never
dead. ID Is curious A0x this same line of fan
ay recurs again aaa asd sgaln In the course
of ssaeninyy. We bad she SAME thing with
QuantreN the aane with tAe hsurdered cigar
girl, Mary Rogers, and the sansn with Louis
Napoleon, the same wfa enc ~ The French
Daupbins-in each ease reaAs at paper being
wasted in demonstrating ellai snn.e one,
whom every one knew TO he tsad Was sial
alive.
UThe great trans A iiantic balI.an sensa.
ton Of the yasi two months. ai,er prcny thor.
oughly advertising newspaper and sewing
machine, ended In a collapse at Brooklyn ou
Friday last. II there was ever amy sincerity II
thenassh talked Of balloon voyage tS Europe
hegeneral public wins nat made a, entertain
mueh faith In IT, This feeling Of incred,iiil.
was greatly strengthened by statements mad
hy Prof Else, the eronaut. Il is a0w psenl
ised thai new balloon Of silk shall be con
siueted and tile attempt made 10 catch tiAa
STEADY, essierly carsai. !" but the public failI
will sill he weak.
The ottawa, Ill. hres Tfadsr rpsris Frank
lin Corwin, NJ g. olhot, In attendance al III
late Republican Connay tcaa avsnliol,. Ne saying
There had been enormous GHda Sl0bili,
snd land steals, fearful plunderings by NJ
Railroad and Tariff monopOlisis, and all sor
Ofconupiion In high places, and MI under II
publican rule but the party would purity
self "See," SAID brother Corwin. there are 1
the drafts for ay salary as sCongressmaB and
the Grab law. lhave NOT drawn my man.
on one Of them, but Keep them safely In a
pocksk, i may meyer dBsw lhst noney-al
Or intend 10, advocate repeal of, the salnr