Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-31

tbes rates which the railroads OF
Ohio u,ayzeharge has been passed
bysthe Senate of this State.
.fhe Illinois Assembly-lower
hoase-bas passed an act of compul-
sory education, which, it it believed,
the5 Senate will also approve.
Ia Government Commission to in
vestigate the subject of bridging
the Detroit River has reported
aHainst the scheme.
bTbee Minnesota Legislature has
taken action looking to the assimi-
lasiOn of the Cbippewa Indians with
tAeaeeople of that State, and becom-
ing, citizens thereof.
-e,At Old Lyme, Connecticut the
birthplace of Judge Waite, the cit
izens on the 22nd, fired a salute in
Hohof of his appointment and the
confirmation of Chief his Justice
sht55P'sqZsHH re- q aIa
1t is stated that on Friday last
Mr. Vanderbilt paid the last Of the
$f,s60,Ooo due the Trust Company,
anticipating the pay day of 81, 2OO,-
eee5 This fact strengthens the stock
m the market. $500
PEDRO Carniijjo of New Mexico,
the great sheep king, whose focks
veFenumbered at $4,000 head and
Rho was known to dealers and stock
menJ Throughout the country, COM
mitted suicide with the pistol, on
T4esdayrlast. ro1 1a
edIf Boston the repression policy is
having, one e effect certainly. Secret
dissipation is on the increase. The
very day pfthe famous proclamation
tfiatthereiwas not an open bar in
the city, two gentlemen were guided
aHF
to thirty secret bars within one
square, all in full blast.
ssThe Anti-Monopolists of the Iowa
Legislature have yielded to the Re
PRbliicans the speaker, and, through
him, the Chairmen of the standing
committees. They get for them
solves the other officers of the House
ana the Chairmen Of a majority of
all, the Investigating Committees.
Eight hundred thousand trade
dollars have now been coined, and
the demand continues. They have
been made a legal tender in Hong
Kong, Shanghai, and are becoming
daily more popular in China, driv-
ing out the Mexican dollar, which
does not, like our own, bear gen
erallqnformity of weight and quail
ity. aar
The Scientific American is espe-
cially valuable for inventors, arti-
zans andsrmeehanics; but farmers
who wish to keep well posted in re-
gard to inventions and discoveries,
should also read it; and for Far
mers' Clubs, Oranges, and the like,
O rH
it IS particularly appropriate. Send
specimens to w. II. Mum & Co.,
N. Yss9a eE gmu
1.-THE ivermillion Indians, have
eaten qpthe stock of babies on hand,
and are beginning to boil such of
theirE ancestors as are unfortunate
enough to still live. If the Govern
ment has decided on the policy of
determination, it would be far more
beneficial to carry it into effect with
fire and sword instead of cold and
Starvation.
Frankland, the hero of Memphis,
--a distinction won by his devotion
to the'vietims of yellow feverin that
cityyMahas been made the recipient of
gold medal, and the more than
golden sentiment of the Episcopal
Bishop of Nicksburg, who said, that
in a city full of churches, with 10, 900
Christians, it had been left to a Jew
to prove the true type of a good
Samaritan. OFF
baA Spanish Gun boat boarded
the American brig Margaret Jan.
10, ten miles from Havana, and at
tempted to search her. The Captain
refused 10 open his matches and up
on his arrival at Havana reported
the circumstance to our Consul
United States Admiral Scott was
Informed oft, and extorted an apol-
,ogy from the Spanish Admiral for
the outrage.
Miss Anthony is indefatigable.
Every railroad of the East, every
sstage-line of the far West, has car
lried her on her mission. On Wednes-
day of last week, she pleaded, her
cause before Butler, of Washington;
on Thursday, she petitioned the SEN
ate to refund the price she paid for
voting at Rochester; on Thursday
evening she harrangued theJudiciary
Committee of the New York Assem-
bly, at Albany. Men may come and
men may go, but this woman goes
on forever.
-aH President Grant gives would-be
Gov. Davis, of Texas, no recogni-
ton at all. The persistent usurper,
after he had been compelled to va
cate his Office to Gov. Coke, put in
an impudent claim that all official
correspondence belonging to the
Executive Department be given to
him This was referred to the de-