Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-04-04
III. Pacific has been the scene

ship Nile has gone down some
where between Hong Kong and Yo-
kehama, and all on board, to the
number of eighty, were drowned
Among the victims were the JaPa
nese Commissioners to the Vienna
Exposition.
Hereafter, Grain Inspectors are to
be maintained in New York at the
terminus of each road there, and at
their cost. In this way, wheat arri-
wing in New York will be graded for
the market, and much delay and
uncertainty will be saved to shippers
and buyers. The certificates of Lake
Inspectors will be accepted as evi-
dence of grade.
The reunion of the AbolitiOnists,
which has been talked of for some
time. will be held in Chicago on the
eth of June. The proceedings will
continue for three days, and the
programme embraces speeches, his
torical sketches, singing the old lib
erty songs, and reproduction of the
men and the manners of the old an
ti-sl avery agitation
England has not heard the last
of the Alabama claims. A movement
is on foot to make the Government
reimburse the English sufferers by
the depredations of this destructive
craft. By paying the claims of the
Americans, it has estopPed itself
from denying its liability. A mo-
tion has been introduced into the
House of Commons calling up the
Government to treat the British suf-
ferers aswell as the Americans.
During the temperance crusade in
Richmond, Ind, the other day, as
the ladies were about to commence
their prayers before one of the saloons
the proprietor asked one of them to
settle bill of four dollars for forty
drinks which her son got there.
She took the receipted bill, paid for
| the same, and said: 'Now my son,
being minor, have forty lndict-
ments against you" 1t is believed
the saloon proprietor repents his haste
in the collection of his little bill.
The North Carolina volcano has
been of some spiritual utility. 1t is
shaking up the dry bones in that
part of the vineyard. Baptist minis
ters stationed in that part of the
State are holding revivsls day and
| night, and the tar-heels and sand
hillers and snuff-dippers have been
impervious to all appeals for regen-
Grated lives in the usual forms, are
found not proof against volcanic
action. In fact a little earthquake
or volcano seems all that can break
up the hard crust of sin so thickly
formed in almost every community
of the land.
The National Bank of Commerce
has instituted proceedings in bank
ruptcy against A. q w. Sprague
Manufacturing Company. Frantic
efforts are being made to pursuade
the bank to withdraw its suit. Ii
these are unavailing, as is likely,
Ii, 600 persons will be thrown out OF
work. The trustees for the credit
ors say that the course taken bv the
bank will cost The creditors at least
a quarter OF a million of dollars, and
that this, as well as the ruin of the
/ operatives, is an utterly unnecessary
loss, as the Company, if let alone,
would be able in due time to pay eV-
cry cent 1t owes.
The Congregational Council ad-
JOurned shortly after midnight of
saturday last, with verdict that
will not give Plymouth Church
much discomfort. Drs. Storrs and
DuddingtOn, it says, were right in
calling the Council, but they We're
wrong IN some Of the letters they
wrote, OF which the Council disap-
proves. Plymouth Church was
wrong in its treatment of Mr. Tilton
out not wrong enough to warrant
Jne other churches LII discontlnuIng
Lnelr Fellowship Win 1t. Ii the OF
Iense Is repeated, then they should
uo so. Inc verdict OF the Council
IS still to be put into formal shape
uy committee appointed for that
purpose, and the public must await
JneIr uJterances before coming tC
any decision as to the full and rea
sIg nlncance OF the verdict.
The Senate on Monday played haV
oc with the financial bill reported by
Jne Finance Committee, by strIkIng
from it by a majority OF hve (2S tt
23), the provision OF the bill fixing
the date Tor the resumption of spe
Gle payment on the first of January
1876. Senator Morton made the
motion, and assumed the leadership
of the imitation party. Senator
Scott moved an amendment to tbs
bill for the exchange of greenbacki
for interest bearing bonds, on anc
after the first of January, 1877, buf
it was rejected by vote of 8 ayei
to 81 nays. The imitation party il
the Senate have satisfied themselves
that they have a reliable majority