Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF

The yellow fever, at Fort Barankas,
Fla. is subsiding.
Itis rather against the Keely motor
that no application for a patent has
been filed at Washington, and not so
much as cavest issued.
The Com. of Creditors of. B. Ford &
3 Co. recommend the acceptance of thirty
Eve cents on the dollar in twelve month
ly insiallmenis, commencing Dec. 18th.
with interest
A1IGt pound turtle is beng kept for
ilr Ctnlennial, and the Louisville Co1sri
er Journal thinks it should be hung over
the door of the apartment assigned to the
Philadelphia press.
JEFF. Davis is to deliver the annual ad-
dress of Winnebago County agriculture
society, al Rockford, ILL.,, on the 14th, of
Sept. Will he make the lost cause a sub
ject of consideration?
Holy Writ informs us that Heaven
spews the luke-warm- anh tepid ont of its
mouth. This being so, there is high au-
thority for serving the same comodities
in the same way, on earth. $685.
The Pension Office states that the num-
Der of pensioners on the rolls June 30th
at 22S,0S4,, a decrease of 4,S7I for the
year. The money paid is 81 $4,000 less
the past than the previous year.
The Mississippi, below Memphis, at the
crcvasse, on Monday last was rising, and,
was within three and half inches of the
spring stage. No further damage was re-
ported at the time of the telegram.
The cholera reports from Syria and the
Holy Land are alarming. The number
ofcases reported in Damascus alone is
400 q day land the real number is sup
posed 10 be much in excess of that
A copy of the Bible, wrapped in a
newspaper, was picked up near the Pres
byterian church, on Monday Iast, which
the owner can have by calling at the ex-
press office and paying % cents for this
notice. ~
The report that Hendricks would take
the stump in Ohio for Allen has not been
confrmned BE expresses a mild wish
that Allen may be elected, while inward
" hoping for his defeat, and takes oeea-
sion TO add that he disproves of the Ohio
platform in toto. Bd
The New York police force seems to
be thoroughly demoralized. They are
IN such well arranged comp licity with |
me lhieVes, that there is no hope of de-
teetion. for the booty is divided between
the mas partners in the same business
operations. A consoling state of things for
the citizens and denIzens of that local.
lily.
Competition is the life of trade. The
Pennsylvania Railroad, jealous of New |
York Central in securing the lightning
mail contract, has put in a bid for an
other 90 hour train to Chicago, this one
to leave New York at 8 p. m. The prof
Ter has been accepted by the Government
ana there viii be two fast trains instead
of one. aJiE
Ma.y = party Of ladies and gentlemen on
y afternoon visited the Cave of |
we "inos, at the Falls. While batbino
IN one OF the edies, young ladv lost her
foothold and slipped and the 9sn,,or.sa
with her-her betrothed, who CO.. .e,l-au ,I-"
but was drawn in also, and by The o,,. =, nel.
carried into the river below and wora
drowned. ''e
Bro shearman, Mr.. Beecher's gushing
attorney, Is in England, and in allusion to
The Beecher case, defended him by the
assertion that Mr.. Beecher did not do
as much kissing among the ladies as
American clergYmen were in the habit of
doing" Beecher's gain In England, we
iear' may prove loss here-among some
Of his lady friends.
The Election in North Carolina Is 50
close that it cannot be decided which
party have The best of it. The dispatches
say that there will probably not be more
than two or three majority. The
constitutional question involves matters
Of purely local interest--township sys-
t'm-homestead laws, and the schools,
are among The objects that the Demo
Gratis propose to change.