Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-06-07
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
ASHTA TABULA. OHIO.
Saturday Morning, June z, 1873.


eBr The horse disease is. reappearing in
some Of the large stables of New York and
Brooklyn, and is already proving fatal in some
cases
tE-The anne ndment TO tho Constitution of
Connecticut making Hastford its only Capital
has passed the lower branch of the State Leg
islatarc, and DOW needs only the consent of
the people to make IL law.
EE-The epiZooiic turns out to be an he
Feditary disease in Iowa. Colts in Plymouth
County, as soon as they are foaled show all
symptoms of the horse disease which attacked
their pro genitors last year, and are dying in
large numbers sixty deaths are reported in
one township.
tE-Pcslulaster-G General Creswell has de.
eided that the jaw which forhids the trans
IN isson OF snys free matter in the mails after
J une S0th will put an end 10 the free carriage
Of exchanges aud Of newspapers within the
county Of publication, as well us to the frank
ing privilege.
t3-The CipeInnad Commercial irrevently
slls upon the Spirtualists who pretend to
kn ow all about what is gong on in the other
world, to explain why, It Captain Hall has
said something about It, The question as such
would; seem 10 have merits.
gy-The appoFlionmeni ofthe property Of the
A, Y. & Road zable i'll this county was
placed ly The board of the auditor at $173 626,
and that of he.5Iahoniug Coal Road al 500
600. The road bed only bcing considered. The
total val uaiion of all the roailroad property
in Ashtabu.a county, upon which taxes aie
laid, is $1.465, 936. The valuation viii raise
tax of about $4,000
tB"A number OF Massachusetts physicians
Of III regular" school have lately ventnrrd
I, ADOPT hom epathc principles and remedies
in the ir practice. For tliis innovation they
have been soemnly arraigned before the Mas.
sachusetts Medical Society. of which they
were members, tried and declared guilty Of
conduct gnbecomiug honorable physicians.
Their expulsion from the Society is recon-
mended.
eB-N No less than eight or ten Of the differ
ent governments of South America have ap-
piled to the United States to have their silver
coin manufactured at our national mint Of our
standard dollar half dollar, dime half dime,
aRd qrarter.dollar pieces; and gold coin ol
our quarter and halfCagle and double eagle
denominations, with, of course, their own dis
tine live designs. butof the same values Of our
own coins, SO as 10 be interchangeable.
Two years since. IN the way of experiment
zero was placed in the Grncsee river, Mt the
lower falls.a quantity Of shad spawn. Last year
persons using scoop nets.in the river at Char
l)tte caught number of Young shad, and the
event was duly noticed. Several other speci.
mems have been caught, by other fishermen,
M essuriug from nine to eleven inches in length.
The. announcement of the catching OF the
ehad produced considerable excitement among
those interested Ia PisCiculture.
SB- 1t Is q very common thing 10 say thai
there is more drinking In Maine under the
Prohibiipry Law than before its passage
Consres smen Frye Of that State says, from his
own personal obse ryation, that This is not true;
that the consumption of intoxicating liquors
' In Maine Is not one fourth what II was twenty
years ago in the rural districts. the sale and
use bayc almost entirely ceased; that the law
Itself has created temperance sentiment
which is masyelous md to which opposition
Is poweress. This statement is said to be
backed up by the entire Congressional drlega.
tion.
tBTha, muscular ChrisiipG, Rev Mr., An.
eient, OF Terence Bay who IS 50 widely and
LonoElbly known IL connection with the loss
Of the Atlantic, - - be transferred to the
Assistant Curracy Of Trinity Church, New
York. The Tribune comments; I'VE hardly
know whether to be glad or sorry. That Mr..
Ancient should be spared pryaions and intro
dnccd to more agreeable field of labor, Is a
pleasant fact; but the example of one con-
scientious clergyman exercising his sacred
functions without fashionable encouragement
and without heavy salary, was almos, TO good
10 loose"