Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-28
THE TELEGRAPH.
ASHTABULA. OHIO. 80
Saturday Morning, Mar. %, 1874

Saturday Morning, Mar. 70, 1874.
b The bill to license houses of pros
titution has passed to a third read
ing in both houses Of the Illinois
Legislature. Who will say that the
world does not move?
The adjournment of the Legisla-
ture that seemed by the votes of
both houses, fixed for the 9th.
has been thrown into indefniteness
again, by the resembling of the res
olutions.
Acatholic priest by the name Of
Meili, at Crestline the other day, re-
nounced Catholicism, and declared
his intention of uniting with the
Presbyterian church. Such renun-
Citations are so uncommon, as to
call for special notice.
The redistricting bill before the
Legislature was engrossed on Satur-
day last. 1t leaves this district un-
touched. OF the changes that were
made, we have no means Of know
ing of the effect they will produce
That they are in the interest of the
democracy, there is probably no
doubt.
Representative Hoar, has obtained
permission of the House to introduce
an amendment to the Appropriation
bill imposing penalties upon any
poblic officers ranging above and
below Cabinet dignitaries--who
put public property to any private
use, or detail any employe of the
Government to private service,
There seems to be movements in
various localities, against Gas Com
panies-the latest we have noticed,
are the cities of Rochester and
Chicago. In the first place there has
been a very general adoption of
Kerosene, and in the latter, the cor
poration council has been instructed
to annuI the contracts between the
city and the Gas Companies. "
The funded debt of Ohio on the
first of May, 1878, was So, ,S65, 1892,
bearing six per cent. interest; of this
amount 1885, 300 becomes due in
1875, $4yO7S,ls in 1881, and 50,
4oo, 900 in 1885. The amount of
taxes for State and school purposes
paid in 1873 was IS, ,4s7,7 ,75s. The
amount of revenue taxes paid in the
same time to the general Govern
ment was s14, 800. ~
1t is said to be good law, endors-
ed by the courts and well un-
derstood by lawyers, that whoever
furnishes supplies to carry on a Ii
quor saloon is engaged in violating
Law and can not recover. The whole
sale dealer who sells to the retailer
cannot recover for it. The Chris
4iaA women have the law all on
their side. 1t is their right and du-
ty, and the duty of all others, to do
all they can to break up places of
resort for the commission of crime.
President Grant takes notice Of a
newspaper statement that he will
veto any measure for initiation. He
says that he has made no such re
mark and is not likely to, as it
would properly be resented by Con
eress, as an unbecoming threat by
the Executive. In his annual mes
sage, President Grant leaned to
wards specie payment, the restOra-
ton of which, he said, was the true
way to give elasticity othe curren-
cy; but he promised to approve any
measure Congress shuold pass.
Rush Sloane is now safe in the
absconding Americans paradise
Belgium, where an extraditioh de-
mand is bnt waste paper, for lack Of
treaty. A letter dated at Liver.
pool, March 6, was received on Fri.
day by his late housekeeper in San
dusky, telling her to reduce his
household, turn the horses out to
grass, and take care Of the house.
He was then on his way to Antwerp
to Join the colony of American
pstriOts who 'qeft their country ffor
their country'S good. I" 4ar, /
The Phelps Dodge, g Co.'S. mat
ter is being pretty efectually aired,
and the light thrown upon it peue-
trates ITS dark depths and the inlqui-
~ Of the transaction is sees IN the
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