Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-11-05
THE TELEGRAPH.
ASHTABULA. OHIO.
Friday Morning, Nov, 9th, 1875.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Probably not. Who ever supposed
they would9
And lust now the news comes drasin :
.lono that the Republicans carried Ore
gon the other day.
Az tbe blacks did not do much voting
in Mississippi, the sacrifice Oflife was not
large.
New York and Chicago followed the
example of Cincinnati in defeating their
bummers.
There will p robably be no dispute
afler this that Ohio is the new Keystone
State
Mr.. Tilden is not as formidable can
didate for the Presidency as he was.
The public debt statement shows re-
duction of over four million dollars dur
ing the month of October.
Mr.. Moody, the evangelist, on Monday
appointed Friday, the 18th inst, day Of
fasting and prayer, and the congrega lion
voted that the nation be invited to join
There was peace in Mississippi on
TUESDAY, owing to the absence of he
negroes from the polls. This is pleasant
ly called the recon ciliation of the races.
The count ry does not seem 10 be max
ink haste 10 the bosom ofthe Democratic
party as furiously as it was year ago !;
and il may date the public call of halt
from the State Convention of the Dem
ocrats of Ohio on Bunker Hill day.
The Democratic House of Representa-
tives will not organize under the assur-
ance that all they have to do is TO pass
the big job bills, and 60 home as reform
ers, in order TO carry the country for the
Democratic party next fall.
Late adyices are to the effect that the
Porte is wholly unable tc reduce the
imsurgent por ton of his domains, and
that foreign Intervention is indispensi-
be for the restoration OF peace and
order.
The gift of prophecy is rare one
Even the most Independent editors do
not possess it in perfec ion. Mr.. Horace
White explained the Ohio election to the
readers of the London NeaoS, but was so
unfortunate as to express the opinion
that Allen would be able TO carry Ohio.
There is an appearance of a purpose TO
run the Pope's big toe into the Presiden
tial canYass.-Cin. Com.
1t has been run into the ground al
ready, and the thing hasn't much more
run in it.
From latest advices the entire vote of
Wood County, has been
thrown out by the Canvassing Board of
that county, without being referred, as
was first expected TO be done, to the Elec-
tlon Committee of the Legislature.
The bronze statue OF Stonewall Jack
ION, presented by English admirers TO
he State of Virginia. was unveiled at
on Tuesday of last week
with great ceremony and pomp.
Recently some English sailors were
murdered bv peo pie of Congo, South |
Africa. England resolved to avenge |
heir death by sending naval squa dron
up the Congo r1Yer, and reports received |
rom the expedition state that several
Tillages have been burned and many of |
the natives killed
It is announced that Guibord will be
buried on the 9Th of November. six years
rom the day he died. The melancholy |
Dane might change the form of his query |
o the NJ on treal grave-digger and ask
How long will man lie above ground |
re he rot ?"
As greenbacks rise in quotation, the
Indications become better for trade and
rood times, and those poor, deluded Dem
crats who followed the direction of
heir leaders, and voted for initiation, will,
re suppose, have TO enjoy these advan-
ages in the same measure with the Re
,ublicans. These things cannot be avoid
I'd. Things is, therefore, unequal.
The elction of Tusday in the city of
Chicago, was an excited one, and the
was that violence might oc-
cur. Gov Bevsridge not only remained in
be city all day, but quartered regiment
of militia in its armory in readiness for
ny emergency.
Our opinion is, and it is sustained by
be action of some of our most intelligent
md considerate Catholics, that there was
dissatisfaction with the course of the
democracy in interpolating the school
uestion into the late political canvass,
nd they showed that dissatisfaction by
refusal to vote. There are others, we
re credibly informed, if no restraint
-ere used. who would unhesitatingly
Ind their children to the public schools
nd rid themselves of the burdens of the
arochial schools. This being true, De-
ocracy put into the hands of their op-
onents two-edged sword TO be welded
,ainst them.
The PoPE's ToE.-zAn address was deliY- !
ed in ST. Louis the other day by the Rev. {
'seph Henning, Ca thollc priest, who ]
by no means mealy mouthed in his ut
RANGES. He asserts that the Catholic /;
lurcb is being prosecuted in the U. s., t
d cites, as instances ofthis persecution, t
: forts to preserve the public schools
I'm sectarianism, and the movement in
half of compulsory education. He 4
clares that the State cannot be indepen- i
Mt of the Church, as The latter is infal- .
'le IN every thing; that Catholic must Il
such politically as we'll as religi 7
lslY; and that, consequently, it is the G 6
ty of every Catholic, in casting his vote ~ !,
any election, TO place it where it will tc
his Church the most good. Protest hi
tism, according 10 Father Henning, is eC
eady on IFS last legs, and will soon be a a
ppt from the face of the earth and
zen that shall have occurred, there &C
come "a time of quiet and peace )" caL a
Of the election in Chicago on Y
esday last, the Tribune describes the pt 2,
tie of things as follows: IJ
yesterday was the first time for MANY in
are That the native-born voters of Chi
81 torned out to the polls en- qyaasse.
we're actuated by a sentiment not fo