Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-04-19


> which was laid last winter. in Middletown,
CT, fell on The o,h, buryiug 40 persons. -----.-
rg-A, colony, oe roo English farmer' Isr.
rived IN New York the past week destined
for Minnesota some 200 miles from Duluth
eEGen Jsf e pan has hscn appointed to
the place made vacant by the death OF Gen.
Candy. i sa a1
York for ths seulcmen,.oi the QUESTION of his
sanity. Medical men testified to their belief
that h e was ofunsoud mind.
sE- mrmorial'has been introduced into
the Arkansas Seuate asking Congress to give
that State.a Republican form of government, as
guaranteed the Stale under the Federal Con-
stintlon.
iaasY-n ayii has brcn the scene oftr'vo'u-
tion, hich ended in the execution OF hirty
of the rcbels Among them was Gem Mich
ell, one o the most troublesome Of the iaciiOn-
list of the Republic.
Brigham Young has n signed his Trustee
ship Of the Mormon Church, and be is to lead
his followers into Arizona, where thy hope
to be freed-for a while. at least-from Gen
tile presence and annoyance.
ES- A Ministerial Committee TO inquire
into the corrupt alliance which IL has been
charged existed between the Canadian Gov
eminent, the Canadian Pacific Railway mag
mates, and certain Americans. has begun its
session.
tE- The Postmarter. G cneral has so amend
drd fBe Presidents order relating to Post-
I,,id oi, IN &,
were In excess OF six hundred dollars, that the
restrictive amount shall be one MousInd dol
laEs,
oar The Springfield Repu5iican SAYS Senator
Morrill,, Of Vermont, has sent iull check for,
his back pay to the State Treasurer, stating
that he wishes the am iunt applied to the re-
duction OF the State debt. Things is evidently
working.
tE- There are seven thousand more men
than women ep the Sandwich Islands Two
of the most prominet business mrn of Homo.
lulu are constrained to have ono wife between
them. A good place or the bIormons to emf
crate to.
rY-Iti IS understood, unofIicially, that the
new high dam across the Oswego river near
Oswego,.N. Y, was torn away on Tuesday OF
last week. Ii belonged Ia the State, aud was
near completion. Over slsO,000 had been ex
pended upon it and further appropriation
was asked for.
tE- The Pope is III and growing worsr.-
1t is said that Tor fear of interference in tht
affairs of the Church by European powers, no
further bulletines ofhis health viii he is
sued and that IL he dies, hisidrath will be kept
secret until the Cardinals have elected his
successor.
- Sir Hugh Allan's efforts to raise loar
in London for the Canada Pacific Railway, o
which he is President, are said by the Toronto
Globe to have failed. 1t, inmates that tn,
Company will be unable TO sell any bond
for VIII ich its. lands are an inadequate srcu
rity. -.+ ID. 30
rE- THE little post.offlro at Rockland Ne
takes in more foreign money orders than Ecw
York or any ot',rr Office in fbe country.
large number of Scotch. Eng igl and Irish
stoue.cutiers ire mpoycd in The granite quar-
ries there, who take This mode of s,pdin,
money TO their families in the old world.
E-. A pennsylvanm college proposes to es
tablisli q department Of cookery. A bill Il
pending In the. Legislature which provides
for an appropriation of SEQ, ,9sD To build th'
general cook shop as an adjunct 10 The col
lege, and the science of cookery will, there
fore, become part Of the curriculum II the bill
passes.
eSs- Suit has been Instituted in the Unite,
States Court against OllScs Amos for $4,000
the trial to take place in My. The suit grow'
out OF certain cot ton transactions at New Or
leans during iha war, for which the Govern
nicnt Sbtainei judgment against A, s. Mans
field and others, and now sues Ames for th'
amount, alleging that he was n partner will
Mansfield. .... H..s t
-EE- Bold, bad, white men, Peace Commits
sloner Meacham says, nrn al the bottom
ofihe failure of The long dranw out negolh'
tions with the, MbIocs These fellows fin
some sort of carrioa profit in tile iroublr'
and make the Modocs bcllrye that ifthcy SUI
render they will be abandoned to the civi
authorities, of Jackson County, who have in
dctmenis against some ofthem.
CE-The Spanish Republic is forced 10 with
sand Carlists, communists. bandits, priests an,
thu Indifference of the monarhial powers. bu
Wnht ~ OF more weight lnhn even lucfe u u
compelled 10 endure depleted treasury, and
system Of financial management which nigh
vii drive . Bhutwell to despair. II 1t cai
conquer these foes, aud especially lhe last,
deserve success.
gB- The Supreme Court of Illinois has
just rendered a decision which IA Of import
ance to the public. as confirming the prinoipl
that railroad corporations may not Nuke con
Tracts between themselves that are dririmen
tai .to the plhlic interests aud that contract
which iinp,lrs their duti Is IA com non carri
eFs ars void MS 10 the public, even though the
my be enforced as between The two contract
Ing parties.
tB- Several hundred settlers along the liz
OF the Northern Pacific Railroad are TO
turned or their homesteads, according to y !
cent decision by Secretary Delano. These p'
sons, several years ago, took possession, u
der the Homestead l.ws. OF land which hl
notat that hme been Withdrawn by the RI
road Com9iny, bll tha leltar cl.d n lhin q
the ground that ihpy we're covered
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