Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-03-01
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
AsRTABUBA. ONO.
Saturday MOrning, March l, 1873.

NEUI - aOOtA 10 uc u1htiieu.
.er-grrTexas pspers say that more cattle have
perishsd In that State this winter by cold and
starvation than in any former equal duration
ofcoId weather,
r4- Chicago expects to have a hotel capaci-
" of5,275 rooms when its forty one hotels are
ali c6mpleted Before the fire it had thirty, |
hotels, containing 1895 rooms.
sT Vice President Colfaxs room was rob
he'd on Saturday night last, of $1,000 in bonds,
which we're recovered in Baltimore on Tuts-
say evening.
ezg- II Is noticeable fact that there has not
been a single strict party vote in either branch
of Congress during the present session. Nor
is there any probability that any measure will
be brought up during the present Congress.
1fieE- The Iowa Legislature has adopted a |
Railroad law limiting the rates for passenger |
stFsvel TO 3is cents per mile upon all roads
where gross earnings exceed $1,000 per mile
per year.
rsE- Tweed has won another victory. The
suit to compel him 10 make over to- the city,
without payment, certain properly held by
him in Putnam County for reservoir, has
been dismissed by the Court.
vaEN- The question Of Chinese cheap labor
has been brought before Congress by the Com
mittee on Education and Labor who asked
unanimous consent to report Coghlans bill
prohibiing contracts for, scryle l,bor. The
consent they asked was not given.
tzg- Minister Siekl,s gave rec ption and
ball at Madrid, Saturday night, which was al
tended by the leaders of the r publican move
ment, and was made.an occasion for informal
discussion of the policy of the now Govern
ment Gen. Sickles gave his advice, the sub
stance of which was that the people slioulil as
soon as possible learn their dutes rs cIizns.
tE- A singular calamity isreporlel to have
occurred in Smyrna. A coffee-house on the
shore Of The Gulf, much resorled to by the
Greeks, has been gradually undermincdby by the
action Of the tides, and was swallowed up in
the waters the other day The loss OF lives
was between 100 and 200 pr rsors
ICY Another bribery investigation has been.
set on foot in Congress by the passage OF res
olution ordering the Committee of Ways and
Means TO find out what ground th re was for
Lrgrand Lockwoods statement that large
amount of money had been spent on Congress
to.procnra o. subsidy for the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company.
tY- The President has issued his procll-
nation for an extra session of the Senate to
meet at noon on March 4th. AS the full Con
gress is not called there is little probability
of the midsummer session which WAS sugges-
ted.possible, and the minds Of the Reprcsen-
tatipes wiA be relieved.
~ The Connecticut eamprgn has fairly
opened, the Democracy having on Wednes-
day nominated Hon. 9. II InVersoll for Gov
ernor against Hon. Henry =! Hayen, tire Re
publican nominee. Some dissatisfaction was
at frst expressed with the latter nomiation by
a,nertion Of the Republican party, but that
has since died out. and u healthy feeling OF
unity and cooperation pervades almost the
entire organization.
tH A bill regulating passenger and freight
charges by railroads in Indiana has, passed
beth Houses Of the Legislature Of that State.
Passenger fares are fixed nj 3 cents mile; for
local freiglits, within distances of 20 miles
not more than 100 per cent in excess of
Through freight.rates shall be charged within
distances Of 80 miles, not more than 70 per
cent, and for greatrx distances not mare than
40 per cent.
eSg The report of She louisiana case was
made 10 the Senate, on the a0th by the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections The sub.
stance Of 1t Is, that the State has no reah Gov
crnment, and that new election should be
ordered 10 give Louisiana republican form
OF government Senator Trumbull disscnts
ON the ground that the McEnrry Government
10 legal, and Senator Morton dissents, as he
believes ln,the legality Of the Kellogg Govern.
menf.
e%- TIE liarford Caurdnt states that more
than year ago, conductor on the night
train received from passenger In payment
Of his fare thousand-dollar greenback. The
conductor told him he would pive him his
change later. but when he returned the man
denied having given him the note The CON
ductor placed hisn0Ie ON deposile' IN, a bank
and II has been there ever since. Our cOtem
oprary jocosely intimhtcs that the man may
have been member OF the ncsbt family.
.sN- The Ministerial crisis in Spain is over,
The National Assembly has elected new
Ministry, which leaves President Flgucras and
Minister CASTELAR, and their associates in the
Departments of Justice and the Interior I'M
touched. The Chief Of tho Marine, Finance,
Public Works Colonies and. War Departments
are changed. President Elgnoras introduced
the new Ministry 10 the Assembly in.aspeech
in which he stated that the policy of the Gov
ssnmenl would he unaltcred.
EE-TheProposcd Extension oilhe Baltimore
e. Ohio Railroad, which has passed prelim-
mary organization runs in almost an air. line
from Chicago 10 Pittsburgh, The demand ior
IL oi,ening is very pressing. When, says the
Chicago Tribune, there are two or three tons
Of freight here awaiting transportation East to
one that the existing railroads are able 10 car
ry of, the sooner this additional trunk line |,
completed the greater will be the benefit con
Errrd upon Chicago and the West
The Toledo Blade (Nashy's psperl review
the cess Of Mr.. Colfax at much length an
concludes with the verdict of Guilty
uien says
In asmnch az Congress, seems power
erkssGte. panish corruption on the par
Of It's own l,sseabers; since the Caldwell
apd Pomeroys- cannSt he expelled frol