Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-09-12
Arabian ports on the Red Sea are said
to be infected with the plague.

Arabian ports on the hed pea are salu
to be infected with the plague.
five may trust the adYices from Wash
ington, the monument to the memory of
the Father of his Country is really in
fair way to completion.
s A statement is published that the Ger
man house at Leipsic which is publishing
a translation of the FIRST volume of Beech
er's Life of Christ" has discontinued
the publication, and offers for sale at
actual cost all on hand, in consequence
Of the disreputable disclosures about
Beecher.
The feeling OF Alexander Stephens
constituents is that he should be allow
ed to die in harness, and he was accord
DINGHY renominated, in spite of the very
positive declination which he had previ-
ousIY made. Mr.. Stephens health is now
so broken that it is scarcely possible be
viii survive 10 lake his seat in the Forty
fourth Congress.
The members of Plymouth Church are
raising fund for The relief ofMrs. Tiiton,
and at last accounts the sum of 81 200
had been raised. Nothing could be more
proper. Having cut her clear IRON every
thing on earth, they could hardly do less
than to support her the rest of her life
But ''Who can minister to heart diseas-
edp'
Two Catholic d1oceses have been estab-
lished in Texas, and the appointments Of
Bishops for them have already been an
nounced. The New York Fresusan's
Journal has this news by a special cable
dispatch; and it is pretty good authority
in purely religious matters, whatever may
be thought ofits secret service in Spain.
There is evidently church militant
down in Brazil A force of military with
artillery support, charged on the religious
zealots but were repulsed with SO much
loss that the surviving soldiers took to
their legs and left their cannon behind.
The sthunders of the church" can now be
made effective with shot and shell.
Don Carlos is truly grieved at having
to butcher captive Republicans in cold
blood, but if the foolish fellows viii be
Republicans and get caught and their
compatriots do not treat Carlist prise ners
like gentlemen, what would you have
Since killing prisoners is the fashion the
Carlists. do not mean TO be out OF fashion.
- The KhediYe of Egypt, by the advice
of foreign Governments has established a
court tor the trial of cases in which the
interests Of foreigners are involved
The Hon. Victor C. Banninger, of North.
Carolina, has been appointed one of the
Judges in the tribunal and others have
been selected from the great nations of the
world.
The search for Charley Ross still goes
ON and the reward of $4,000 remains un-
touch-by an mformer. Circulars have
been received by the Cleveland police
bearing a lIthographie picture of the child
and minute description of him. The
hearts that have hoped must be made
very sick, by the weary length of time
that hope has been deferred.
The Republican "check" in Vermont is
not very clearly visible. Two years ago
the Republican majority for Governor on
a full vote, it being Presidential year
was little over twenty five thousand
This year, with light vote, the Republ,.
can majority is 21 to % thousand. Thai
would look as ifthe proportionate falling
of was greater on the Democratic side
than on the Republican.
An effort at compromise has been
made by the ovingtons with TIIton. Mrs.
OVington sought an audience, and after
much fruitless search for Mr.. Til,ou.
found him and attempted to proceed TO
business, but was met by the assurance
that consultation upon scandal, could
not be entered upon, aud the lady was
foiled, and her mission brought to sud
den close.
Gen. Sherman has again forbidden the
invasion of the Sioux Indian reservation,
in winch the Black Hills are included,
and his language is so plain that it can
be easily understood. The Department
Commanders are instructed to capture ex-
peditlons trespassing on the reservation.
burn the trains, destroy the outfits, and
lodge the participants in the nearest guard
house. II such expeditions penetrate the
country. they are to be pursued by cav
airy and overtaken.
Mr.. George F. Hoar has consented 10
stand for u reelection TO Congress. The
Worcester newspapers suggest the posi-
blIity OF his defeat, and remark that his
nominRtion, as 1t is unsolicited, NAV be q
fatal mistake. They speak oft as "a
red rag to the mad bull, ,"-meaning But.
ler-aud as "slgn that the old feud is to
be kept up" The "msd bulP' has fol.
lowing in the district which is numeric-
ally respectable. aud may be counted on
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