Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-08-01

Z Z E Z. g SeaIdsISs Tdsies, Lake.
Asbtabula County under the above call win be
entitled to 81 delegates. appOrtiOned as follows:
eeneus 3, Ashtabula 3 KingsYflle 2, Conneaut
4 Jefferson 3, and the other townships one dele
gate each.
Has Erie been gobbled up by the Penn
sylvania. Hugh ]. Jewett. vice President
of the Pan handle system, has become
Erie's President, and Col. Tom. Scott
vice President. or President of most eV-
erything, is an Erie director.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has sue
eeeded in placing the entire balance OF
the new FIVE per cent. funded loan, the
Rotbscbilds and Seligmans being the
nurchasers. The loan is taken at par, to
he paid for in coin and fve-twenty bonds.
Secretary Bristow expresses entire conf
dence in the ability of these bankers to
place the entire loan.
If man should be detected putting
stryehnine or other poison in g cup OF
coffee for fellow mortal to drink, he
would be at once arrested and denounced
a. a murderer. If he should put the
same dose in glass of whisky it would
be considered ell right, and if the man
died from its effects the dealer would be
allowed to continue sales as usual.
The fish commissioners of California
congratulate the people of that State on
the bright prospect of eating shad for
breakfast. They feel cou6dent that the
shad imported three years ago have re-
turned 10 the Sacramento river. spawned,
and Ieft again for the ocean. Several
young shad have been caught in the VAL
lejo and ST. Cloud rivers, and some places
along the coast.
The San Francisco Ne,cs says that the
Mexican Claims Commission has pro-
gressed far enough to convince careful OBJ
servers that fit eyer closedup the business
the balance found against Mexico and in
favor Of the United States would not fall
short of nineteen millions dollars. 1t
seems probable that Mexico will try to
settle up by transfer Of territory along
the northern border. equal to three or four
Mexican States to the United States
During heavy rain storm at Eu-
reka, Nevada. on Friday last,
cloud burst on the lofty range Of
mountains east of the town, and
vast volume of water rushed down
the canon, flooding and sweeping
away the eastern part of the town,
entire houses with their occpants be-
ing borne away by the resistIess tor
rent. The food lasted but half an
hour. A dispatch of Saturday re-
ports fourteen dead bodies recover
ed.
Gen. Sherman proposes to make
radical change in the management of
Indian affairs. Heretofore an Indian
reservation has been a sacred in-
closure SO far as the whites are con-
cerned. An Indian raid party was
safe when inside the line. Now the
depredators are to be pursued until
caught wherever they may happen
to find them. There is, however,
some justice in the complaint of
Agent Miles, that there is no power
to punish white aggressors in like
manner, Most people will regard
with interest, not unmixed with ap-
prehension, the result of Gen. Sher-
idan's experiment.
A new field says the New York
Times, is open for Ring fugitiyes.-
The American colony in Europe is
so-inconveniently large as to be con
spicuous; and California newspaper
chronicles the fact that defaulting
county Treasurer from that State
''turned up" in one of the Fiji Is
lands, where he has plantation and
q flock of native wives. We cor
daily recommend the Pacific Para
disc, with the duskY houris thrown
in, to the lingering friends of Genet,
Connolly, and Sweeny, who may be
meditating fight and know not
where to go.
MR. MoUIToN, as the friend and
confident of both Beecher and Til
ton, IS well as Mrs. Tilton, is able
to sweep away all question about
the relation of the alleged criminal
parties. AS such trusted friend. he
declines to take the stand, unless
both Reecher and Tilton shall waive |
their objections. This, it is said the
latter has done. The affair can hardly
have complete sitting without his
testimony, and there is a strong feel
ing in the public mind that he should
be heard. At last accounts he was at
r. L rusticating with his family.
The complications which 8 pro-
longed civil war in Spain would
be sure to provoke are beginning
TO appear. The German govern
ment, with reason, complains that
supplies reach the Carlists in quanti-
ties; and it is strongly limited that
it is through France that these must |
pass, A remonstrance addressed to |
the Government at Versailles NAV |
bring out a tart reply. In fact, |
FeiOiner to similar complaint from !
the Spanish Republican journals has |
been made by the French press; it is |
to the effect that the Carlists are
eupplied by sea from England
Meantime it is reported that Ger
man squadron viii cruise off the
north coast of Spain, doing the po-
lice duty which the Spanlards ap.
pear unable to discharge for them.
selves. It should not long remain q
mystery whence q large army like
that Of Don Carlos draws its equip