Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-05-17

hlvcr hailroaO, on us f5in, palu 10 COliBctOF
Bailey f521 600, the balance of the tax due on
the scrip dividend together with $3.50 pesalty,
Three millions ofpostsl cards have been
sent to principal postoffices. Two millions
more will be sent on the 18th. Henceforth all
reqnstions will be promptly filed.
W- In the'Supreme Court on the 18th two
cases which involve the constitutonality of
the Boesal Railroad Law were decided, u full
bench concurring in pronouncing this law un-
constitutional.
tF- Funeral obsequits Of the late Chief
Justice Chase were held III New York on Sat
urday, and in Washington on Monday last.
His remains were temporarily inferred in the
Congressional Cemetery.
ty- The Federal Republicans, have polled
an verwbeln,jng Hssjoriiy Of the vote, SO far
in the election ia Madrid Tor members of the
Cons,ituen C0rcs. Th' election is not yet
iinishrd
CE- The o. ai,ic, one of the Inflated White
Star Line, leii New York last week for Liver
pool, but. alter passing Sandy Hook, was COM
PEELED TO retdrn Nv brssk in her machinery.
It will require several days 10 it the vessel
again for sea.
The Mayor Of Biddcford. Nc, offered to pay
the fines of ali ihe persons arrested for drunk
mess In that city day or two ago, and opay
them $40 rach, IL they would give him inior
nation that would secure the conviction OF
the parties who sold tbtm liquor.
sEThe Omaha Bridge Company, which is
lesser Credit Mobelirr ring in the Union
Pacific Railroad, and whichieves tolls Of its
Ill tlt
Mississippi at Omaha, is said 10 make $1,000 u
day by lis extorliou.
TIE Legislature, of Michigan has enacted
that, hereafter, druggists or doctors who fail
TO write or print upon the label OF each bottle
or paper containing poison, the most easily
obtanabe aniidote TO the same, shall be sub
jcct to very scv,re penalty.
tE-The Pope!rrachcd his stst birthday on
Tuesday His lceATen, ssis increasing. Mon
DAY be faint d and remained unconscious for
uu hour, and Oh his birthday was too unwell
to receive the dcpulniions which called 10 of
ter their CONGRATULATIONS.
An explosion took place IN the 18th in the
Drummonl Gallery in Piclou county, Halifax,
N.S. Mr.. Dunn, the manager, his assistant
manager and forty eti.,r men !dre yet in the
pit. The slope is ON fire and there is no
means Of egress from thc mir.s.
CE- Tweed is to be tried again In Two
weeks on the charges on which he recently
escaped conviction by the management Of the
prosecution and the disagreement Of the ju-
~. Fifteen additional indictments have been
found against him, on which his trial began
last wednesday.
tD- They do have high winds In Wyominr.
A gentleman in Cheyenne losing his hat in the
s,rert, rushed to the telegraph Office and tclo
giaphed TO Denver. Col, requesting that his
hat might be stopped there, but was immedi
stely informed that it had gone by, travelling
southward.
gB- From mail couriers, We lrarn that the
Siodocs were heading towards Van Bremen
Mountain. closely pursued by the troops and
Warm Springs TIE Modocs are eidier nj.
tempting TO rturn 10 the lava bed, or will
take to Van Bremen Mountain. They are cvi.
IDENTIFY starved out and their ammunition near.
ly all gone.
tY-A small force of Unit'd States troops
has 3een ltfl "a S. Mrrtnsvile 10 protect the
State officials and the rcsl OF the State and
National forces have Returned lu New Orleans,
The leaders o, thc r. i'irrs surrendered, aud
were set Tree on parole, Tiny express them
selves satisfied with having shown that Kel.
logg could not keep himself in power without
help from the National troops.
CEBaron Liebig. Napoleon Ill, Paez,
John Stuart Mil, Bishop Mcllvainec, Geary,
Canby, Orr and Chase are among the Illus
,rious dead VI tue first five months OF 1873
tF-A letter from snmana Bay says. the
sovereignty Of the Peninsula. Was formally
ceded to the company April is,. On their
representation. the Government promptly
made sgsh changes as were necessary Wal
ter A. Pierce Was appointed Coll'c,jr Of the
port. Gnd police force Nas organized under
Cap. JOS ph wight.
Toyer lhrce thousand people attended
tAs funeral OF Oakts Ames, at North Erslon,
sa the lllh. The scr7ces were in The lorni
prsscrIbed by The Unitarian Church. Among
thgse present aere Vice President Wilson,
Senator BoniS, II. the Lieutenant Governor OF
Massachus-tls, President OF the Senate, Speak.
or Of the H"nas Of Representatives, aud sew
rral past aud present ncmbcis OF the Govern.
ors COu..eI.
tFThe case Of Phelps, Dodge & Co.. shows
that. in lhe importation Of $G,0OO,Oo0 worth
Of sools annually, certain errors In the ln'
voices had in four years caused loss o
81 900 Of revenue. These errors consisted II
tbs omission from the declared value OF lh'
gSods Of the cost Of transporting them iron
Wales, whore they we're made, to Liverpool
where they were shipped. This emission oc
cured in few oct VI many thousands of i'm
portaIlops.
tE-Chief Justice Chase vas thrice married
iis first wife was Miss Kate Ganiss, by whom
there was no issue. Ills ., cond wife was Miss
Lizzie Smith. She was the mother of MIS-
Kate Chase, now the wife of senator sprague
of Rhode Island. His third wife was Mis-
Sarah Bella ludlow, grand daughter OF lsrae
Ludlow, one OF the first colony Of settlers o.
the Symmes purchase She was the moIhe
0f Miss Neuie now Mrs. Hoyt, Of New Sorl
At whose house the Chief Justice died
fB-Ia person. Chief Justice Chase was on
Of The mosi imposing men in the Unite
States His height was something over 81