Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-07-05
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aH-It will be gratifying to all consumers oi
surar TO learn that the. prospect is that far
some time to come the supply ofsugan Will be |
abundant, thus causing cheap pTfSes.
tEHiram Powers died on the e7ih inst, 1T
Eloence. His carly life gave little promise
cT the artistic achievements which have plac-
ed him In the front rank of sculprors.
ty Secretary Richardson and Senator Bout,
well, who have returned to Washington from
their visit to Massachusetts are reporledto
favor the election OF Gen. Butler as Governor
Of Massachusetts.
CE Mrs Woodruff and. TcnnIc Cladlu have
been acquitted, in acoordaaVv wish the ehaSge
of Judge Blaichfo'd, that, under the law,
newspapers cannot bt classed as obscene pub
eations."
tE~The Mexican. Border Claims Commits
sion have finished the examination ot the
claims for damages submitted To them. Their
fsal Hport, which has been sent in to Secreta'
~ Fish, covtrcs, 400 cases, Involving claims to
the amount OF $1l 100000.
TVenice and the neighburing towns of
Nogthern Italy Iwere shaken by AN earthquake
on Sunday last In FelettO, a little to wn OF
Piedmont, with population Of about 2,000,a
church was shaken down and 80 prrsunskil-
led; and near Niltura, fuurt en- ,p,rsons wer,
killed.
c&-The citiz. s.of f3al,m, lnd inloIrren
of the laws G,lay, avenged The n,urner OF one
of tbtir Bumi er in very summary way on
Sunday last. AJout iurty oi them broke into
the Jail Where the murderer. was imprisoned,
and, after pelting him with fire.bals and pis.
tol.bulle,s ook him out and hanged him.
Cy- Gen. O. c. Howard had the handling
oi some 5000 ,0C0, as Commissioner of the
Freedmen's Bureau, and, MS security for hon
est dealing, he was required by. law to file
bond for S50,OC0. The unpleasant fact is re-
ported from Washington that none oi these
bonds can be found on record.
LTThe English government has received dis.
patches from Sir Samuel Baker, dated May 20.
He reports that the Upper Nile region as far
south as the EQUATOR, has been annexed to
Egypt, and thai the Inhabitants are orderly
The slave trade has been suppressed. lie
deems his mission complete success.
Sen. Edward referring TO various re-.
ports concerning him in connection with the
late manag ment of the Fretdmen's Bureau,
decla ses he never misnrplh d one dollar Of the
public money, and The moment there shall he
On official charge he will demand II court
martial as the most eifrciuul means OF clear
ing him OH every yesiige OF unjust Suspicion.
eY-Gov. Jewell of Conn' client sailed on
Saturday for bis new and esponsible duties
al the Russian capitol. lie takes his valua.
hle collection of pictures and will "house-
ksop' whiLs al St petersburg, SO that
stray Yankee tourist will lind cordial greet.
ings in a New England home, in that inr awa ay
quarter of the Globe
eB- Jesse r. Grant, father Of President
Grant, died at Coyinginn, Ky. on Sunday
evening last He was born in Wcstmorland
CO., Pa, in 1904. The immediate cause OF
hS death WAS soft, ming of the brain and. spi.
nal marrow. lie was struck with paralysis
about year ago. and had been sick since
then up to the day oi his death.
cT-An old school teacher. In Maine has
been presenting her claims for back pay. She
says that years ago she kept school for SO Il
week and boarded bcrself and That some OF
her scholars, who were hard cases. and din.
cult 10 bring into decent dicip'ine. are now
smart, enterprisng and prosperous citizens,
while she who aided them effeouallN In be.
conf ng SUCH Is comparatively poor.
Somesuggtstve facts appear in the report
of the examinations OF candidates ior admis
sion to the Military and Naval Academies NJ
West Point and Anuapnlis. AT The former in
stituton, eightyave we're admilted, and thirty
five rejected Tor deficiency In education oi
physical disabilities. AT Annapolis the re-
suit was even worse, foriy.fo four were passed
and ihirly.two were rejected ior the same
causes.
tTA gratifying evidence of the working oi
the Internal Revenue law, ns modiieda at the
last session OF Congress, Is shown in the col.
lee ions now complete These reach the sGni
of $1i5 067,727 Gl. which is five millions more
than Commissioner Douglass estimate, and
eight millions more than that of Mr.. Boutwell,
The result is due to the greater simplifcatior
OF the taxes.
tE-The recent earthquake IN Northern IT,
ally noticed elsewhere, was more serious ai.
fair than at first apprehended. Nearly every
wounded, numbers nf churches are Frustrated
ershaken b'ypnd further usefulness, hundreds
OF houses haye been destroyed, and The peo-
pie are cucampcd 10y thousands in the fields
haviag lost ihtsr homes, or being afraid to
trust themselves within their uncertain walls
tE-A New Spanish Ministry was named OF
Friday by President Mangall, but on Saturday
before theiCories /. d tine 10 Gct on Il Q nomi
nations the Minister OF Marine resigned, an,
threw the whole Cnbinu oren again. The lr
rcconcilable factions are ready TO fight IL III,
new Ministry Is taken altogether from lh'
Conservatives, and the Government thinks
their threats serious enough to call lor doub
ling the guards around the Corics.
CT-Ths Mahommedans are carrying ON
cruel egsecutIon among the sclavcs oi posn
IN European Turkey most Of whom belong t
the Greek Church In six weeks, 270 of thcr
have been killed in one district. The loc,
Turkish magnG!es give the poor natives 4
protection, and the representatives. Of Il
Christian powers At Constantinople have oal
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