Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-05-23

by the legislature OF OOhheSe~ -
the place of Senator Buckingham. Ihf
votes stood 10 to in the Senate ana III
the house he had 1S2 tut of 22s.
According to the schedule the new
c,ns,,,u,ion of Ohio VIII be submitted to
avote of the people of the State on Tues
dav. August II. If adopted it will go in
to effect on the fret of October. 1874.
The Republicans have this Spring car
RED the elections 10 six of the largest cit
les of Alabama, as follows Montgomery,
Selma, Opelika, and HunisvllIe-all of
which have been under Democrat rule.
Still additional crevasses in the Lower
Mississippi are reported. Many tributary
streams have also overhowed and the out
look for The homeless people in the inun-
dated region is more cherries Than ever
South NorwaIk, Conn.,, has produced
eight pairs of twins within the last two
months. and when Susan B. Anthony. .ap-
preached the place she got out Of the
train and walked around it,
Two murderers we're taken by party of
masked men from the Jail in Shreveport,
La, on Sunday morning last, and hanged
One OF the pair had killed several inOfen-
sive persons. before the one for which be
was incarcerated.
General Sherman has been removed TO
ST Louis. He is said to be prospective
candidate for the Presidency. and is also
in favor OF Grant as his successor at the
head of the army. The story is not of ad
equaie thickness for imposition upon any
body's credulity.
The records of Yale College establish
the fact that the last was the cOldesl April
known in New Haven, during the period
of ninety-six years. The mean tempera-
ture for the month was 4O6 degrees,
which, il will not be questioned, was mean
enough.
Women suffrage in Massachusetts has
b.eu again SET back. A resolution favor
in, the submission of wOmen's amend
mrnt 10 The Slate Constitution has bren
deieatrd by vote of 14io 19 The women
in Massachusetts, who are actively inter
esied in the suffrage question differ from
many of their sisters in other States in
that they are eminently respectable.
By the terms of the treaty stipulaiions
under which Great Britain assumes con-
troll of the Fiji IslaDdsStke King is to re-
ceive salary OF $4,000 per annum. For
monarch of the once famous Cannibal
Islands, the allowance is regal. There is
evident iairn IS in his obtaining the means
of satisfying his wants from the civilian
ton which has multiplied them thOus-
and told.
A resolution has been introduced iG the
Senate providing for the sine die adjourn
ment of Congress on June %. lis fste de-
pends in some degree upon the tempera
turp of the next few days, and the qurs
tiou is one that may properly be submit
ted for the earnest consideration of Old
Probabilities. Hot weather in Washing
ton will not be endured by anybody who
has the means of getting away.
Monsieur Giguel is at the head of Chi
nese naval academy similar to our own at
Annapolis The nsvy-yard where navy
like those of Europe and America is to
have its birth, is established at Foochow.
The wOrkmen have bren imported into the
Celestial Kingdom from this country and
from Europe. EnglIshmen are in charge
of the schools of engineering and uaviga-
ton.
The Second General Council of the Re-
formed Episcopal Church is now in SIS
sion in New York. Already the new
Church has agreed upon form of govern
ment, and has offered fraternal greetings
TO an affiliated body of Christians in Eng
land. II only remains for the Reformers
to organize system of benevolent opera
tions, and the new denomination will be
equipped at every point as one of the
great iamily of Evangelical churches.
Count Won Arnim has been temporari
ly retired from The diplomatic service. of
Germany by order ol The Emperor. Tie
ecclesiastical policy ofBismarck cuts I'm
partially through every body who stands
in the way Won Arnim. perhaps, deserves
the disgrace into which be has fallen.-
The improperly of Minister at for
eign Court antagonizing the policy of his
Home Government would not be over |
looked by the miIdest sovereign in
Europe.
Cremaiionsis not so ancient custom |
after all, if the report be true that a
certain tribe of Washington Territory In
dians still practice that rite. Il is said that
this tribe having recently lost one of their
number, prepared a funeral pyre of wood
on which the body was destroyed with a
strange and dismal service. The burning
of the dead is only practiced by these In
dians when from home, and to prevent
the body from falling into the hands of
hostile tribes.
The damaging report of false measure
ments in street improvements in Wash
ington, made by Mr.. Blickensderfer. of
Ohio. one of the most capable engineers
in the country, viii probably wind up
the business of the Board of Public
Works ia Washington very speedily
Mr.. Bhckensderler was employed by
the committee to test the measurements
OF the Board on the basis of which fhe
people and the Government were as
sured.
A report was current in New York the
other day, TO the effect that the Atlantic
Telegraph Company has determined to
obtain control of the Western Union and
has already formed pool of IS 600 sbsres
The design of this move, if it has been
mad, plainly is 10 cut of the new ocean
telegraph company from Communication
with inland points on the American Con-
tinent. Such an attempt to prevent com.
petition oughI to, and undoubtedly would
provoke litigation, and in the end 1t would
very likely be defeated.
1t said that Mast is the author of all
the subjects of bis political and other car
toons He denies eyer haviDo usad 4he