Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-11-14
THE TELEGRAPH.
AsHTABUIA. OHIO.
Saturday Morning, Nov, IA, 1874.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Tree ldOG 0CAuONAdSl
A Joke that Mr.. Thurman will not rel
ish, but which is legitimate response to
his Ku-KIux sally at poor Messachu-
setts, Is being circulated in Washington.
is that the HSn. John Morrissey viii
be elected Sergeant at Arms by the next
House.
Tie Republicans seem to have car
ried the Legislatures in Minnesota " IS
cansin, snd Michigan, thus securing ke
publican United States Senators. We
have an idea, however, that Ramsey
Carpenter and Chandler, the present Sen
ators from those States will be r, tired.
The Committee of Seventy in New
Orleans mas addressed the President oi
the United States protest against Tue
further occupation of the State by FEEDER
al troops. They do not choose, they say
IN have the Canvassing Board act in the
midst of bayonets. The lone of The pro-
test is not what it should be.
A sign of the past time is the consecra-
ton of a colored clergyman as an Episco-
pal Missionary Bishop. The new Bishops
field of labor is Hayti, where be will, by
all accounts, find abundant opportunity
for the exercise of all the Christian graces
and whatever experience of bad human
nature be may have besides,
One hundred and ninety three deaths
from diphtheria occurred in New York
CITY during the last two weeks of octo-
her A scientific investigation of the
causes of the phenomenon is to be made,
and perhaps some knowledge will be
gained respecting the disease itself and
improved methods of treatment
The estimated Democratic majority in
the Lower House OF the Forty-fourth
Congress will be from so to 84, not count
ing the seventeen elections to be held
next year. Figures are not guesses, but
careful computations from the returns
actually received and the known COM
plexion of districts not heard from. They
may be relied upon as pretty nearly cor
rect.
The Prussian Government lately ad-
vised that priests should be elected by the
congregations over which they preside.
A trial of the new system has just been
made, and the result is not satisfactory.
Only ten members of the congregation
interested appeared TO vote. The Coy
erument seems disposed 10 wait for a
further advance ofpublic opinion towards
its standard before enforcing the adop-
tion ofits views.
The suit of 1'iltun and Beecher was
called and postponed on Monday last on
amotion 10 argue the refusal 10 grant the
appeal for bill of particulars This Sc
cured the postponement for nine days.
The game seems to be to stave off this
trial by The Beecher int ;rest, while the
Proctor-Moulton case is urged on. The
effort was at once made to have it taken
up, but day was granted for special
plea for postponement
Gen Sheridan, In his annual report,
refers TO the Black Hills Expedition as a
successful reconno issance" beyond this
be is exceedingly cautious. "some
gold" he says, was found near Harney's
Peak, but as to its abundance there is at
present NO reliable Information"
The General recommends the establish
ment in the Black Hills country of a
strong military post, one of whose first
duties would be 10 arrest tresspasses and
hold them in confinement.
MIKEEsoTA-The Republican State
ticket is elected by $500 majority all T.
Congressman are Republican, and y &c
publicans in the Legislature le ne
majority of 81 on JONI ,' mlli ns1e w
choice of a United Stu oaiiot Inc
a. vii, hs contror les Senator, howev-
~. - -. - = - .led by a few Independ-
n'1s,. ~. ". 40 ! demand conces sions oftht
Ispueii ms. Such also seems to be tn,
s'u ION in New York. where half a doz.
of Fenton's friends hold the balanc,
of power.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
isnow the largest private corporation
the world contains. It controls 6,OOC
miles of track represented by four hun.
dred million Of securities /; its annual rev.
enues amount to $sO.OOO,OOO and its net
income $25, 5,OO0,O ,OOO These colossal fig.
nres represent the growth of less than
halt century. The Company's lines ra
diste in every conceivable direction
The corporation wields power second
only TO that of the General Government
The Democratic poultry has had long
rest 1t is many year since its roosters
have been in Growing condition. The
chickens have been shut up in their
coOps. Last Tuesday, however, the doors
of the henery seemed 10 have been open
ed, and the whole flock out in full
feather. Some of them look alittle rusty
after their long famine, and some of
them hop about as if they were not quite
sure whether their release was perma-
nent or not Their lungs, however, seem
to be as vigorous as ever.
An international Catholic Congress is
proposed by the chief authorities of the
church, to be held in London, with the
object Of maintaining the doctrine of Pa.
pal lniallibilitY, reasserting the Pope's
right to TEMPORAL as well as spiritual
power, and prOclaiming the bounden duty
OF all Christians to return their allegiance
to Rome. The movement is said TO be
the result of direct instructions from the
Vatican. 1t is little singular the Cath.
olics should still cherish the delnsion oe
TEMPORAL power, when its abolition has.
undoubtedly strengthened their church
everywhere, except possible in Italv.
Notwithstanding that lotteries have
been In favor from the earliest times, and
great fortunes made by those who are
willing to risk little for the chance of
getting much, there is good deal TO be
SAID against them. And good deal has
been said against them, so that thousands
who wouldlike to take chance are kent
rom IT by the notion that II is not moral
TO make fortune at one lucky s,roI,o
Then there are so many bogus scbsr,oa
offered, in which the tickets are all b1out-.