Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-06-20

agreed 10 postpone the State Convention
called for the 18th OF July TO the 26th OF
August.
The general dullness in business and
financial depression is in a measure com.
pensated by the rapid exinguishment o
the public debt. The decrease during the
month was $4,459 ,sSs.97.
Bob Toombs, who some years age
prophesied of coming time wherein he
should call the roll of Slaves on Bunker
nil, now predicts that in three years
Georgia will be wholly in the hands oil the
negroes.
Elder Cannon, Utah's delegate, has es-
caped expulsion, but the House has pass.
ed bill declaring that hereafter the prac'
tice of polygamy shall.be deemed sufficient
cause for rejecting Delegates otherwise
entitled to seals.
Canadian reciprocity has not been for-
gotten, bot merely pushed aside by Inc
rush of business in Congress There is
some talk of calling an extra session oi
the Senate to consider the treaty which
was recently approved by the President
and his Cabinet.
Clemenceau has sent another challenge
to Cassagnac, with a proposition TO match
ten Republican Deputies against ten Bo'
napartisis. Cassagnac's reply is that be
will fight nobody but Gambetta He say;
the Bonapartist Deputies cannot accept
the challenge.
Ex-senator Pomeroy of Kansas, other
wise Subsidy" has been endeavoring to
secure s nOlle pros, on the Indictment for
bribery pending against him in the Courts
of that State; but his efforts thus far have
proved a failure, and the eminent gen.
tleman will, in all likelihood, have 10 go
to jail
Congressmen Berry, of Ohio, has been
repudiated with scorn by his Demo
cratic constituents in primary elections.
Congressman Lamison DemocraA, of
Ohio, is not 80 much as named for re-
election. Lamison is the chap who last
year told his constituents, objecting to the
salary grab, to ego to he'll"
Ireland is each year losing an army oi
workers, and. yet there are still enough tc
raise increased crops of food The estl'
mated increase in the production of &C.
real crops last year was s.11O,76O bushels
over the production for 1872 And yet
during the year 9O,992, of the inhabita mis-
emigrated to other countries.
District of Columbia affairs are in sad
need of thorough overhauling in Con-
gress. An attempt will be made to Sc
cure one day of the few that remain for a
consideration of the Investigating Com
mittee's report in the House. but there is
no likelihood that the desired time will
be granted. The debt of the District is
new estimated at $2OOOO,OOO
Civil Service Reform has come to an
abrupt end. the House refusing to make
any further appropriations for car,
rylng it on. The manner of its taking
of is interesting and instructive, mas.
much as it was done in SO parliamentary
a style. 1t was first deprived of some o.
its best features and then knocked on the
head because it amounted to nothing.
The vote of Oregon, June 1, is not yet
fully counted, although the result is
known to be Democratic Yictoryeon the
State and Congressional ticket, by a small
plurality, Legislature divided between
Democrats, Republicans, and Independ-
ents in three nearly equal parts, and coun-
ty officers divided between Democrats
and Independents. This much is assured
by dispatches of the 18th.
The State Convention of the Woman's
Temperance League of Ohio, met in
Springfield on the 18th. "Tbe object of
this Convention is to complete the State
organization. through which we can sym
.psthetically and efeetually direct our en-
ergies against lntemperance ; to receive
reports of the progress of the work from
ali parts of Ohio and to consider plans
for the advancement of the cause Of tenn
perance in the future"
The Compromise Currency Bill, re-
ported from the Conference committee
and which passed the State on Friday
last, by vote of 80 to %, was defeated in
the House on Saturday the vote being,
yeas 108, nays 146. 4 new conference
committee was at once appointed by
both branches of Congress. consisting of
the following gentlemen: Senate-Messrs.
Wright, Ferry, of Mich. and Stevenson.
House-Messrs. Dawes, McCrary and Mar
shall, This new committee has but few
remaining days in which to immortalize
itself by bringing order out of chaos.
In her course from Honolulu to Yoko-
hama, taking sounding for the subma-
rine cable, the steamer TNscarOrG halted
at Port Lloyd. Peele Island. She was the
first man Of war, which had entered the
harbor for seventeen years. The Island
had sixty five inhabitants, who do not
know TO what country they owe allegi-
snoe, as both japan and England claim
the Island. For years. until his death
which occurred a few month ago, Mr..
savary,s a former citizen of Massachusetts,,
was Governor. he is succeeded by
Thomas Webb, another American.
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