Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-05-24
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
TABULA. OHIO.
Saturday Morning, MAJ "a, 1873.
tg- Liquor is sold at s,4o3 places in New

Cg- Liquor is sold at s,4O3 places in New
York City.
EB- Tweed has pleaded "not guilty" to the
fifteen new indictments found against him.
Gy-Internal Revenue receipts for the year
will probably exceed the estimates by So
600, 900 or $l,OO0,OOO. They were expected
- reach s l10,OOeOOO.
gB- Washington Townsend and John Scott.
are the only two members Of Congress from
Pennsylvania who have peremptorily and pos
itiyely efuscd to draw their back pay.
tB Modern Lo-'tho poor lidian Of untu-
tored minds an unmligahd d liar. But in
Bible times it seems il wHs not SO, for in ST.
John, 1923, we read 10. speukest thou
plainly, and speakesl no provrrh,"
tB-The Mpdncs~at like the IjishnIai's flea
you put your thger on them and they are
not ther.. The troops surrounded the place
where the Mudocs had taken up their quarters
and the Modocs w,r several miles away.
Nv The leaders o! the recent movement of
st. Martinsville To resist the installation of the
Kellogg officials have been arrested aud taken
TO New Orleans. They reached the city and
had grand ovation from the citizens, who
turned by the thousands 10 do them
honor.
tN-The lease of the Nprthern Central Rail-
road from Elmira via Harrisburg To Baltimore,
TO the Pennsy ylyania railroad, may In consid-
cred a fixed tact, Notwithstanding the propos.
ed lease was violently opposed by the Bali-
more interest when submitted 10 the stock.
holders last winter
tB-Csndidaies for tho Chief Justiceship
are multiplying rapidly. The most recent are
Caleb Gushing, Judge Black, william s.
Groesbeck and LYNN Trumbull. the Gin.
cipnati Commercial withdraws G.nvral Butler
from the field by recommending that he he
given the command OF an expedition to the
North Pole
At the Episcopal Convention In Boston, last
week. the Rev DR.. Paddock Was chosen Bish-
op OF Massachusetts. Ills competitor, Dg. De-
Koyen, would probably have received the
election had he not been Objectionable to the
laity on account Of his belief in the personal
presence of Christ ia the elements Of the Holy
Sac rancnt
tB-A great struggle is said To be prevailing
10 Shamokin, Pennsylvania, lor the posses
sion of ten thousand acres in the anthracite
Nhluth ~ iNNul1 HilllOHS out
party has burned three houses which the 9TH
or side erected and retaliation is threatened
o. ii. Wheeler represents one sidj and the
Reading railroad the other.
t8-Of275,000 penny postal cards placed
on sale day or two ago in New York, 200
600 were taken in that city. They will be used
llrgely for advertising, Que firm buying co.
900 10 be used In that way. Tne contractors
ut Springfield after two weeks del ay, have
at last perfect ID their qrrunsem nis for priut.
ing the cards. an vii no be able To supply |
them as rapidly as they are called for
TnE II O'Clock ordinance ls bing enforced |
10y the authorities of Chicago. upon the sa
lDon Keepers. They generally complied with |
rtttcati N, but for the purpose Of mixing
test case, one OF the most prominent saloon
keeqsrs Ia the city refused To close his cslab-
lishm"ni, and wss inn 'diatrly ar rested. Ii |
Is his intention 10 carry lhc ~ ,itcr to the Su |
Preme Court TOR 6nal decision
tB-ln response to the irquiy Of friend, |
Senator Sumner recently wrote that the real
purpose uf his battle flag resolution was not
10 enter the Government Department and tear |
from this archives ljIe- records of the war hut |
g. prevent those records from. being placed
upon future army rgisters aud lhe battle. Aags
T. be borne hereafter by the regular army The
Senator said he did not doubt thatt tho resola
ton would take care of Itself
EE- Tue Hon J. Allen Barber OF Wscon.
sin, has run against snag in the salary bus.
I7ess. He says, the question was, with him,
wether 10 be called thief or fool as he
said II he took II, he would be called a thief,
aud II he did no. he would be called fool
Al last accounts the Hon. j. Allen Barber had
rot decided which 10 be, and most Ol his
courpe' that be Is both.
tV-TlJe snits. against the Union Pacific
Railway and. TIC Credit Mobilier are Ia be
conducted4by the counsel Of the Government
on the gboupd that the original subscriptions
TO the road. were really never paid; that the
rec ,Ipts given for them were fraudulent; and
that the dividenls of bon Is, stock, and cash
pad on them were misa9.pr ,priated and must
Ue accounted for.
tB-A lively discussion Is g0ing on Ia The
California Press oyeT,tlic adgisablliiy Of sub;
stitullng greenbacks for gold as the common
Currency Of exchange In that State. Doubt
Las the present system has It's disadvantages,
bat sll the arguments Of convenience and
'Pairiotismy are met ly the obstinate fact.
which sieorist have very little success in get.
Gag areppd, that gold h werIh the mos,