Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-03-22
Co-EDUCATIoN gets a set back in q

Co-EDUCATIoN gets a set back IN the
report of the Boston school committee
in favor of separate Latin school for
girls. Thefemale members of the board
voted for co-education.
The Vicksburg Herald says: "Uom-
mon laborers are now earning in this
State and in Louisiana from $50 to sT5
per month, yet we are constantly hear
ing of starvation and strikes in the
North. Laborers, come South.
MERCHANTS in Troy, N. Y, are
making turn in silver on their own ac-
count. They have purchased Mexican
dollars in New York at the rate of 80
cents to the dollar, and are paying them
to their employees at their face value,
pocketing 10 per cent by the operation
CITIZENS of IdahOar petitioning con-
gress for the construction of military
road from Fort Boise to Lapwal They
recite that a road between the points
acrss the Salmon river country would have
enabled last summer concentration of
forces which would have ended the Nez
Perces war quickly.
Rev. Ell. EGaLEsToN of N. z, has
a Club for young men in his church.
A, shooting gallery has been sent up in
it, within church walls. Anything, he
says, to save young men. IF he could
save souls by keeping grocery in con-
nection with the church, he would keep
one-a dry one.
THERE were only $4,000 arrivals Of
immigrants at New York during the
past year-a falling off of about 10000
as compared with the preceding year.
This is no doubt owing to the /" hard
times T which are as severe in Great
Britain and throughout Continental
Europe as in this country.
SECRETARY SHERMAN is of the opinion
that the tax on tea and coffee should be
restored. Experience has shown that the
chief advantage OF free breakfast table
has accrued to China and Japan, and
that while, by the removal of the duty,
the Government has lost a revenue of
$19, 100000, consumers have gained but
a very slight benefit.
THE emigrating instinct of John
Chinaman, suppressed so long and deVel-
Oped d:recently with such remarkable force,
has at last found a welcome response.
Kicked, cufed and despised, both in Cali
fornia and Australia, the Chinese are
welcomed In Peru. There are now TO-
600 of them in that country, and the Gov
ernment have engaged steamers to bring
more. They intermarry, it is said, with
the lower classes of whites, and are ac-
corded the full rights of citizenship. The
two races agree and get along comfortably.
WELLS, FARGO & Co.'s statement of
the production of precious metals In the
States and Territories west of the Mis-
souri, River, including British Columbia
and the west coast of Mexico, during
1877, shows an aggregate yield of $685.
100000, being an excess of $7,5OO,000
over 1876, the greatest previous annual
yield. California gives $15, ,25O,OOO gold
and 81 ,25O,OOO silver; Nevada, $4,000
gold and $44, ,32O, 900 silver bullion. This
so-called silver bullion, however, is about
45 per cent. gold. California also gives
81, 100000 base bullion, and Nevada &c.
100000 of the same, which contains
about % per cent. gold. Arizona gives
for the year 50, 1000, of which $685.
600 Is gold, $5O0,OOO silver bullion, and
the balance ores and base bullion. Ex-
ports of silver from San Francisco to
India, China and the Straits are given
approximately at $19,OOO,OOO.