Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-10-24

a. a. .ania election laAeS p--0N
Ps' ,ne,s official majority in the 2Oth
v strict is 2s5I9.
9ud;sna % elected her Democratic State
ticket and s,of the 1S COngressmen.
The price of tuition al Cornell College
bss been raised from SIS to $50 per term.
Two companies of Thirteen Infantry
left Omaha on Saturday en- route for New
Orleans.
Among the Republican candidates for
Assembly in New York city is Mr.. Fred,
erick W. Seward. son of the lamenteu
Secretary of State.
a.5OO is the majority for removal OF the
county seat of Mahoning Co. This settles
the question, except in the little matter Oh
providing the buildings.
The Indiana Legislature is now conced-
ed TO the Democrats. Joseph E. McDon-
aid will probably be elected United States
Senator to succeed Pratt
Fashionable women in Paris now wear
attached to belt around their waist an
aims bag, fan. card-case, pocket
book, an umbrella, turnip watch, a PIN
cushion, some ivory tablets and little
mirror.
The Greenlaw Opera House at Mem
pbis was densely packed on Saturday
night last, from pit to dome, to hear Ex
President ANDY johnson on the exciting
topics of the day. He was listened to
sttentiyely and frequently applauded.
Hon. L. D. Noodworth's majority over
Wilson, in Mahoning county, is 1877. Mr..
Woodworth's highly merited popularity
enabled him to lead the Republican State
ticket in Mahoning 296 votes. His ma
jority in the 18th District is about 400.
Elder G. O. Cannon. the Mormon
smoothbore, has ingeniOusly eysded
prosecution for pOlygamy by spiriting
away his wives, who are the only wit
nesses competent to establish the fact
Docile creatures they must be, and fond
of Cannon.
pronounced complete by the Commission
lately appointed for that purpose. If the
President shall approve this verdict, the
Company will cone into immediate
possession of all its Iand-grants. There
is vet time for any person who knows to
speak and prevent the surrender.
The Chicago Times utters protest
against athe Western plan of eternal
change and greenhorn representation" in
the election of members of Congress, say
ing: ait takes time to acquire any trade.
We do not usually hire a tailor's ap-
prentice to cut our coats or any archi-
tectural tyro to build our houses. Are
laws of less account than coats and
houses, that we must eteTnally set green
hands at the task of making them?"
4 Cabinet-onice is not necessarily a
Q unalloyed happiness. Already Gov.
Jewell is getting into snsrl, and doubts
are expressed as TO his confirmation. Mr..
Bristow, who swept so clean at the start,
Is said to have wearied in well doing, and
to have modified the comprehensive sys-
TEN of reform which he insugurated.-
And yet it may be that Messrs. Bristow
and Jewell are doing as well as new Cab
inet-Of1cers could be expected to do.
The Omaha Bee, of the 18th of October,
says: "The order of General Sheridan
prohibiting the exploration of the Black
Hills by avaricious gold seekers, does not
seem to have much abated the general ex-
cItement The only effect it has had is to
cause the plans of the fortune hunters TO
be executed more quietly than they
would otherwise have been. Already
there are many secret parties far on the
way to the land which Is supposed to
abound with gold"
A SHARP GAlE.-The New Orleans
White Leaguers have played a sharp
game with the United States authorities
In relation to the farms and accoutre-
ments" captured on the I4ih of Septem-
Der. Instead Of returning them as order
ed. they hsYe "handed over" in place of
them lot Of rusty and worthless old
Belgian rifles, belonging to nobody-knows
who. What may be done about it is not
know, though it looks as if the Leseuers
were likely to come out ahead. The
trick, however, is thoroughly Democrat
ic. and In all respects worthy OF the par.
~ engaged in it.
SMALL VTcEs.-An American gentle
man, whom Mr.. spurgeon invited to saw
"a few words" to his congregation in
London the other day, unhappily dwelt
upon "small Vices"-especlally the "dev-
lish" practice of smoking. MANY sly
Winks and smiles went around the an
dience, which waited to hear what Mr..
Spurgeon would say TO this assault upon
his pet habit. The great preacher got IN
with quizzieal smile and said he mere
ly wanted to say that he did not regard
smoking as a sin by any means, and that,
@by the grace Of God. he hoped to smoke
8 cigar that night before going to bed"
Governor Thomas E. Bramlette, mana
ger ofthe Gift Concerts in aid of the Pub.
lie Library of Kentucky, 'ofLouis7lIle, in
that State, will do US a favor not to tempt
US more with advertisements of that insti-
tuition. The laws of the State forbid the
publication ssof such advertisements, and
do not discriminate between one of this
kind, which is honest and for good pur-
pose, and shyster concerns. We know
that some one will. on the S1st of Novem.
Der next, bag $25O,OOO and others sma Her
sums, and that the money vii, ne prompt-
y paid, as has been the, >osse in the four
preceding ones bEEl the law will not al
low US to pusIiah their advertisements.
Keep tnem away from US.
xHTh. District Vote,
The vote of the 18th Congressional
District Is reported as follows:
Ash. Trum. Port Geaug. Lake.
Garneld ...... a.46 2,s4I ASA 1798 1.T25
Woocs....... T56 2932 9929 984 634 /