Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-17
E. A. Witbers was elected .. S

lamps of Chicago by electricity.
The City of CaYtagena-Spain-
has surrendered to the Government
under the attack of Gen. Domin
oequez.
The Washington Monument As
isociation has made move towards
getting an appropriation from
Congress of $500. coo to finish tn,
work.
The debt of New York city and
county is sos, 100000 1t has in.
creased during the last year to $I2.
100000. There is still more reform
wanted. Something rotten yet.
The request of Gen. Davis, OF
Texas, for troops has been refused
by the President, who suggests that
the verdict of the people in the
late election, should be obeyed and
final.
Operations have been suspended
through the entire anthracite coal
region of Pennsylvania. In the
Pottsville region 5000 miners are
idle. The wages question has made
the trouble.
1t is to be hoped that one of the
results of the Ashantee war, Will be
the abolition of slavery in that king
dom. Any kind of war that would
accomplish the same thing in Cuba
would be blessing in disguise.
The unfortunate Spanish frigate
Arapiles, has had another mishap.
On leaving the Brooklyn navy yard
on Monday last, she grounded, but
has since foated off, and is now in
the offing fronting the Battery.
The standing Committees of the
General Assembly of this State have
been appointed. The Democrats be-
ing in the majority in both branches
of course have made up the Com
mittees in their political interest
The member from this county has a
place on both the finance and iu-
dicary Committees.
The Senate of the Q. S. voted on
the salary question on Monday last,
large majority voting to repeal
the law of last March increasing the
pay. The Senate bill leaves the
compensation at the same rate it
formerly was, $4,000 year. The
salaries of the President and JUS
tices of the Supreme Court are not
changed by the new bill.
10000 California salmon, which
were hatehed at Green's fish hatch
ing establishment at Caledonia, n.
Y, are on the way to be put
into the head waters of the Muskin-
gum river. They were about Il
inches long at one month old, and
viii grow to weigh from ten to ff-
teen pounds. They are simply
large sized trout, but are more rug
ged than the brook trout found in
our mountain streams.
Caleb Cushing's political princi-
pies are much like those of Jay
Gould. The latter swore before an
investigating committee that in Re
publican districts he was Republi-
can, in Democratic Districts he was
a Democrat, while in doubtful dis
tricts he was doubtful, but he was
always an Erie man. When Repub-
hcans are trumps Cushing is a Re
publican when Democrats are
trumps Cushing is a Democrat; and
when trumps are doubtful Cushing
is doubtful; but heis always a Cush-
ing man.
The President having withdrawn
the name of Caleb Cushing as he
that of Attornew Gener-
eral Williams on finding the nomina-
ton distasteful to the Senate and
the country, has informed Western
Senators that he has list of names
from which he proposes to.make ap-
pointments until one can be found
that will stick, and that one of four
Western men named will be the
next sent to the Senate. Mott r.
Waite, of Toledo, is one of the four,
The Presidents attention probably
having been directed to him by his
able service as counsel for the Uni
ed States before the Geneva Arbi-
ration. The others named are
United States Circuit Judges Drum
nond, of Chicago, and Dillon of
iowa, and Judge Dixen, at present
Jhief Justice of the Supreme Court
# Wisconsin.