Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-04-11

the American hiissioii"'
cannot escape punishment. The
nr;est who prompted the murder is on
trial for his life, and six Of the mob
that did the work have been con-
dernned to death.
onNonday the President sent to
the Senate the name of John W. Al
len-for reappointment as Postmaster
of Cleveland. Mr.. Allen is an old
respectable citizen, capable officer,
and we presume his 'reappoihtmelit
will be very satisfactory saving to
those personally interested.
The samana Bay Company is re-
ported collapsed, and the President
of the Dominican Republic, on the
failure of the company to make the
annual payment of sI5O,Ooo, on the
25th uIt. promulgated an official
decree resuming authority by the
government over the territory and
appointing officers in charge.
A settlement was completed
April 6, between the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad Company and the es-
tate of Jay Cooke & Co, whereby
theadvances made BY the latter to
the former are discharged by the
acceptance of the company's first
mortgage bonds and other securi
ties. hesettlement leaves the rail
road company with only nominal
floating debt to be provided for.
GERR1T,r SMITH has written a let
ter warmly commenting the course
of the women against intemperance.
He is opposed to all attempts to Sc
cure a reform by Iicense-o local OPP
ton, but favors the suppression of
drafn-seliing by the infection of rig
orous penalties, and the punishment
of the drunkard for ''imperilling, by
his responsible insanity, the rights of
Others"
Rather late in the day a PROPOSE
ton comes from the Spanish party in
Chba for reconciliation with the in
sureents. The latter are asked to re-
turnto allegiance. In return they are
to be given representation in the
Cortes, and full pardon for all past
offenses; their estates are to be re-
stored, and the Government promis-
es to indemnify Shareholders if their
slaves are freed. That the Spaniards
are wiling to stoop to offer such
terms shows that they have been
badly punished by the rebels.
A German beer-guzzling editor
down in Kentucky is frothing over,
and comes down on the praying wo-
men, whom he calls Methodists, ike
hogshead of lager, and this is what
he says: 'Probably in shoIt time
here in America more Methodists
will be dangling from lamp-posts
than huckle-berries ripening in the
month of June, and that the stalls
where they meet viii be razed to the
earth, and this pest of prayer epidem-
ic, or beer horror, or whatever we
should call it, will soon disappear.
CONNECTICUT ELEcTIoN,-The
election resulted in a sweeping Dem
ocratic victory, Returns very COM
plete give Ingerspl q plurality of
5,796 over Harrison, Republican,
and a majority of 1869. Smith,
Prohibition, received little over
1900. The Senate stands l6 Dem
ocrats to 5 Republicans. and the
House is heavily Democratic. The |
election has been made by the peo-
pie and the heavy Democratic major
ity In the General Assembly renders
the choice of a Democratic United |
States Senator an easy matter.
Bishop Cheney's Church at Chi
cago, seems not to have got into |
smooth Esnning order yet, if we may |
judge from its several sets of War
dens and Yestrymen. As we learn |
from the Chicago Tribune, the
new organization has one set, an
other was elected the other dav, un-
der call of Bishop Whitehouse.
and the third batch was chosen on
the same day as the latter by men,
bers of the old organization. If all |
these are duly impressed with the |
trusts committed to them, the church |
will probably be pretty well guard
ed. I
Every day in the Washington ho-
tells and in the halls of the Capitol
may be seen the Hon. Truman Smith, |
now in his eighty-fourth year, and
Hon. Benjamin +. Wade, who was
born in the first year of this century
praeticing their profession of the
law as though they had not been
grave Senators of the nation quar-
Ger of century ago. Truman
Smith, who graduated at Yale in
1915, or before most of our present
Senators were born entered Congress
in 1888, and while listening to the
currency debates in Congress can
recall the eloquent efforts of Daniel
Webster and others on the same
subject.
South Carolina Is not likely to
have an exclusive white mans gov