Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-11-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Der.
An English minister says that III the
Scriptures say one thing and the London
Times another, five hundred persons out
of every five hundred and ten would be-
lleve the Tines"
There are rogues outside of the rail
road officers, after all. The Missouri
Grangers have discovered this, though
rather late IN the day. by the defalcatiOn
Of their Treasurer for $4,000. Honest,
honest Iago."
The Ohio State Horticultural Society
will meet at Akron on Wednesday, the
9th day Of December, and close on the IL.
All persons interested. whether members
Of the society o. not, are invited TO attend
the meetings, and take part in the discus
sions.
All the railroads in Illinois are required
by law. to provide a woodlands ak,
sledge- hammer, a hand-saw, and two
leathern buckets for each passenger car
dispatched. So wholesome provision
ought not 10 be confined TO the narrow
limits of Illinois.
BeecheTs counsel in the face of the de-
cisions Oftwo judges, against the motion
for bill of particulars, has appealed to
the third tribunal-court of appeals
This may be considered very good fines
sing, but it is not calculated to beget con-
fdence In Beecher's case.
Mr.. Bowen's suit for libel against De-
mas Barnes has terminated with the ac-
quittal of the defendant. The jury re-
ported to the Court thatin their judgment
the matters published in the Argus relat-
ing TO the late Mrs. Bowen were atrocious
and cruel. However, it is not well to
waste much sympathy on Bowen.
The President is understood TO be
man tenacious of opinions. 1t should
surprise, nobody, therefore, to hear that
he is to-day as decidedly in favor of an
early return to specie-payments as hew
during the last session Of Congress. An
unequiyocal deliveranee on this subject
will probably be in the annu al message.
Itis well known that herbivorous ami
mails are fond of common salt, and this is
IS true of wild sanimals as those Of do
mesticated man. CarnivorOus animals,
on the other hand. either have no liking
for salt or show positive aversion to il.
As for example, cats and dogs viii rarely
touch salt meat. This difference is not
eaaly explained.
Affairs at the Nelson vile Ohio coal
mines are far from quiet. For several
nights the colo rcd miners and those in
sympathy with them have been fred up
on by men in ambush. Last week mail
carrier was shot and his horse killed
The windows in the stores owned by op-
orators aEe nightly broken. Further
trouble is apprehended.
Bishop Cummins of the Reformed
Episcopal Church, in g. late discourse
enumerated forty C lergymen and thirty
parishes as sustaining the new policy.
These were distributed--lR part-seTen |
congregations in the Dominion of Can
ada, five in Hi nois, four in New York,
four IN Pennsylvania, one IN Louisville,
and one IN Pittsburg.
Professor Loomis of Yale College, says
that since I77s there have been butfve
years besides the present one in which
the Thermometer has not fallen below 80
al New Haven before this date. The
range of the thermometer has been but
ss degrees, which is s degrees less than
usual. The rain fall in October was but
1.27 inches, one third of the ordinary
amount
The new Tribune building in New
York is not to be completed until times
are better This is little equiVocal and
leaves the doors open to two conclusions;
first that the builders did not properly
count the cost, when they began 1t, and
sseond, that the good, times that were. to
follow the Democratic victory for which
the Tribune labored, have not yet been
realized.
Speaker Blaine's reason for declining
N election to the United States Senate
ince he has lost the Speakership of the
House, has occasioned some surprise
among Democratic politicians. They do
lot under stand Why q man should re-
use adyan cement for the sake of keeping
aith with his constituents. There is no !;
rti Gle Of the Democratic Constitution
Ehich prescribes any such conduct.
It is understood that Gen. Banks, very t,
for himself perhaps, dosen't C
rant the Speakership of the next House. /,
md, according to the Washington gos- o
ips, Fernando Woods record on the g
alary-grab bill has hurt HIM irretrieva- Al
ly. Unsophisticated people will see d
That very bad thing the salary-grab Fl
lust have been 20 injure the reputation 81
nd blast the prospects of Fernando b
Tood O.
The Bowen-Barnes case-one Of the :,
atch Of trials arising out of the Beecher- -
ilton scandal, came of last Friday, and -
resented the spectacle of boy of nine u
ears testifying that his mother-noR "a
never had, improper relations
ith Mr.. Beecher. Will all the preach Id
g Of Plymouth Church compensate for !"
lie mischief which this, Brooklyn scandal IN
I'd its outgrOwth, VIII entail upon the pl
1blief 'h
of
Disraeh has explained that the refer ne
ice in his Guildhalps speech to Arbitra tb
Ministers and domiciIiary Visils,n TT
as not meant for Prince Bismarck
robably It was, q slur upon the late rio
ing of be Fiji Islands. DisraelI Is not vi,
raid of him. At this. distance, the al bv
sion is plain enough but the. Partisan an
'rsist in understanding it as intended 81
r Bismarck and without Mr.. Disraelfs tb
ossary we might be betrayed into the m
me delusion. If it were SO, his apology eli
ould be sufficiently abject for Prime No
mister of England. wi
Theological theorems become the N. fol