Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-14


had a paralytic stroke and been un-
able to attend to his Senatorial duties
for some time.
Mr.. Monroe introduced joint res
olution into the House on the I'd
inst, that fear brass cannon be Civ
en- to the Akron Soldiers Monument
fund.
During the thunder shower of the
4th inst, man while going home,
from Kokoma, Ind, was struck by the
fluid and killed, as was one of his
horses, and his wife was struck blind.
Such an occurrence is not common
in winter.
Senator Thurman opposed the
commitment of the Centennial bill
to the Appropriation Committee on
Friday last, on the ground that to
do SO would be to authorize an ap-
preparation, and Congress had no
such power.
The partial returns received from
the New Hampshire election, which
took place Tuesday, indicate that the
Republicans have lost the State.
The issues have been rather local
than political, and the result creates
little surprise.
A railway tunnel runs under the
celebrated cemetery of Pere la
Chaise in Paris. A few days ago,
the vault of an arch fell in for dis
tance of twenty feet, dragging down
into the abyss the mortuary contents
of some forty tombs.
The report of the killing of ex-
President Cespedes, by the San
Quentin battalion, is confirmed. He
was betrayed by a condemned negro
as the price of his life, who led his
captors to the place of his retreat,
where he was found and shot.
The Cincinnati brewers complain
that their business is greatly injured
by the womaG's crusade. They
threaten to organize for defence if
the war continues. But there is
nothing to fight against, but prayers
and tears, and, peradventure, the
Grea. Jehovah.
Hearing that his pastor intended
to preach on the recognition of
friends in heaven, a parishioner sug-
gested that he should preach on the
recognition of friends on earth, since
he had been sitting in his pew twen-
ty years without being recognized by
the occupant of the next pew.
The Woodruff suit for libel upon
Luther Challis, has at lenghth come
to trial. It was on last week Friday.
the bail of the sisters, up to this time,
refused to stand by them longer,
and they were given up to the Off
Ger of the court, and at the adjourn
ment of the court, were removed to
the Tombs.
A quit claim deed releasing the
Howe Sewing Machine Company of
Bridgeport from the mortgage made
by President Stockwell to the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company of New
York was recorded Thursday in the
town clerks Office of Bridgeport.
The amount of the mortgage was
$1,l7o,OoO.
A dispatch at the Indian Office,
London, from Hon. George Camp
bell, lieutenant governor of Bengal,
gives most alarming report of the
condition of the people in that pres
idency. He says fully 100000 per-
sons are starving to death in IL 9
district affected by the famine, and
that all the poorer classes are be-
ginning to feel the want of food.
The Ohio legislature, last week,
passed the mining bill providing for
3 State Inspector of coal mines; al
so providing regulations for the
ventilation of miEes and other safe
guards for the benefit and protec-
ton of miners. a much needed and
important Office, and if competently
filed will prevent in some cases
probably, the wholesale loss of life.
Thirty-fve millions of dollars had
been spent up to the lst of last Feb
ruary by the British Government in
measures for the alienation of the
sufferers by the Bengal famine. 1t
is calculated that 100000 of the
people will have to be supported by
the Government for three months.
Premier Disraeli is understood to in
tend TO meet this expense by appro-
priating thereto part of the SIS, ,OOO,-
600 surplus which Gladstone left
him.
The New York Tribune of the
9th learns by special cable dispatch
that eS, S,OOO,O 900 ($l5, ,OOO) of the
7per cent. bonds of the New York
& Erie Railway were put upon the
London market the other day, and
the loan was very favorably received
there. This is understood to be an
instalment of the $4O,OOO,O 90 loan
which Mr.. President Watson went
abroad to negotiate for the Erie
Company some months ago, and the
bonds are said to be offered at 7s
per cent. or $3.50 for each $1,000
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