Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-09-19
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


man and historian OF france.
The South Carolina convention has
been carried by the so-called Reiormers-
Chamberlain being nominated for Cover
nor.
Gov. Dix has refused TO remove Mayor
Havemeyer on the ground that he is not
thief, and, therefore, is a reasonably good
Mayor for New York.
Colorado has returned Democratic
delegate to Congress for the first time in
lis history. Patterson, the Democratic
candidate, has, it is said, 1900 to 1000
majority.
JEFF Davis is indignant that Southern
ers are accused of wearing masks in their
assaults upon the negroes, and intimate
that they are too brave to assume a dis
guise. How about that "petticoat?"
At an election on Sunday last in one oi
the departments of France-Maine an"
Loire-to fill vacancy in the Ass'moif'
which was unsuccessful, $4,000 Bonapar'-
is,s votes were cast. A little significant
A political convention in Michigan on
the 9th treated the woman suffrage ques-
lion nc dead and abandoned issue. The
Raecber Tiltou scandal has had. per-
hans. its full share in producing this re-
suit.
The Peace Confer ence at Brussels was
by all accounts dead failure. The En-
peror of Russia, who was responsible Tor
the movement, is the only person who
seems TO be much displeased or surprised
at the result.
An attempt 10 assasinaie the President
OF Peru, he other day barely Jailed of sue
cess. Several shots were fired, none of
them taking effect. The news caused
some excitement in the market for Peru
vian bark and guano.
The New Orleans Times is the leading
Conservative paper, in the Southern
Sta es, after it the Louisville Courier Jour
nal. Both these journals approve the
course of the President in interfering to
maintain order in the disturbed districts
of the South.
In Arkansas, Gov. Baxter has persisted
in his refusal to accept the Democratic
nomination for Governor, and A. 81 Gar
land, of Little Rock, has been awarded
the place on the ticket Baxter proposes
TO go to the United States Senate if he
can secure votes enough.
The Democratic State Convention in
Michigan on the 10th. adopted the
Granger candidates, for Governor and
some of the other offices, but put up can
didates of their own for the remainder o
the ticket. In Nebraska the same policy
of mixing hay seed and Democracy was
adopted
Arms are being seized bv the police O
New Orleans landing from vessels from
New York, under the plea that they are
intended to arm the White League o.
the city, against the negroes. Eighty
eight stand, of foreign make, were takel
on Monday last. entered upon the steam
er's manifest as boots and shoes.
Bush fires, at last accounts, were rag
ing in the neighborhoOd of Templeton-
Dominion of Canada, and an immens
amount ofproperty has been destroyed
For distance of 10 miles square, tn
country around is blackened and char
red mass. The City of Ottawa is full 0
smoke from the fires, and ashes fall thick
ly on the streets.
The arrivals of emigrants at New Yorl
for the first eight months of 1874 shows
total of 108,8S4 or decrease of upward
Of7O,O00 from the arrivals of the CORES
ponding period of last year. German,
contributes this year % ,934, Ireland 80
53S, and England 1854. Russia come.
next with 4,45s, mostly Mennonites, an'
then Italy with 1928
The Episcopal convention for the elec
ton ofa successor to Bishop Whitehoust
assembled in the city of Chicago OF
Wednesday of this week. 1t is well un
derstood that the laity and clergy of th
diocese are not OF one mind as to the mer
its of certain candidates, and that Their
will be abundant opportunity for warm
but it is TO be hoped, notacrim onious dis
cussion.
An item marking the progress of trade
is the purchase in Chicago and shipment
hence, via, Montreal to Liverpool, of 300
head of cattle. A steamer has been fitteC
up at Montreal with stalls and other con
Veniences, and it is proposed to make the
the trade in beeves between Chicago and
Liverpool a permanent one. This is new
outlet to the already enormous cattle
trade of Chicago.
The Spanish Government in Cuba il
distressed for men and money with which
to carry on the war against the insurgents
The Captain-General has called out pei
cent. OF all the volunteers enrolled in the
Island, and has asked from the banks 6
loan of 100000 in gold. and 800, 900 in
paper. He has had the grace to employ
smooth phraseOlogy, but the intent OF bis
proclamation is plainly draft and forced
loan.
The arrival of yellow fever at several
Southern ports seem to have excited a
great deal of needless apprehension. Ii
appears that the dreaded disease has
been confined to the Harbors in which il
first made lis appearance. Nevertheless,
if it had arrived earlier in the season,
there might have been cause for alarm
The yellow feYer has appeared at New
Orleans, Galveston, Pensacola, Mobile
Key West, Brunswick, and Darien, Ca,
and at the quarantine ports OF New York
and Baltimore.
There are more than ten thousand peo-
pie in the United States, who expect TO
be the happy possessors of the first grand
prize in the Kentucky Gift Concert of
$250,00O. All of them but one will be
disappointed. One will get 1t, for Gov
Bramlette, the manager, at Louisville,
has announced that the Concert will pos
iIvely take place on that day that there
will be no further postponement, and that
the capital prize will positively be the