Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-01-22

18Th year on the 9TH OF December-ult.
A strike among the ice men of New
York is among the features of this day
of strikes.
The report of the Reservoir Commits
sion of Massachusetts shows that there
are 27 unsafe reservoirs and dams in the
State.
The chancellor has submitted TO The
Federal Council an ordinance prohibiting
the Importation into Germany OF Ameri-
can potatoes, as measure of precaution
in the spread of the pototo disease.
The terms offraternal relations between
Northern and Southern Presbyterian
Churches could not be agreed upon at
Baltimore, last week, where an effort TO
that end was made.
Judge Morris, Tilton's counsel, in the
course of his opening on Wednesday last,
said that Mr.. Frank B. Carpenter would
testify that Mr.. Beecher had confessed TO
him. The announcement was genuine
surprise.
1t is stated that a large group Of spots
is now visible on the surface OF the sun,
They may be perceived with smoked
glass. According to Mr.. W. F. Denning,
of Bristol, England, the spots cover an
area of nearly 7s, 900 miles.
The Republican members of the Legis-
-lature, on Thursday of last week, caused
to be placed on the records of the House
their solemn protest against the bit OF
stupid malignity perpetrated by the Dem
ocratic majotity in the Louisiana resolu-
tions.
1t must have been intensely cold up in
Helena, Montana, on Wednesday night,
last week, for it congealed all the whisky
in the place; and the whisky is said to
have been "prooF at that. There could
be little hope of warming up on such
whisky, at such a time.
The Democrats of Missouri will be rep
resented in the United States Senate after
the 4th of March next by General Frank
M. CockreH, instead of Hon. Carl schurz.
intellectually there is vast difference
between the men but, for practical States
manship the change may be for the bet
ter.
The death of Ex-Governor, Thomas E.
Bramlette. Of Kentucky, at his residence
in Louisville is announced. He was Gov.
of his native Stale during the closing
years ofthe war, and on leaving the Ex-
ecutive Office forsook politics and became
the head OF the Louisville Library Lot
terry.
In his testimony before the Congress
sional Investigating Committee, last week
Thursday, Gov Ames of Mississippi, tes-
titled that he believed it TO be the settled
determination of the White Leaguers 10
overcome by violence the fifteen or twen-
ty thousand majority Of blacks in that
State.
A bill passed the House of Assem-
bly, on Tuesday lust, prescribing penal
ty or fine not exceeding two hundred
dollars and Imprisonment not exceeding
sixty days in the county Jail for buying
or receiving stolen property or promissO-
ry notes of less value than thirty-five
dollars.
Gen. Thomas T. Eckhert, late Gen.
Supt. of the Western Union Telegraph
Office, has resigned his position, to accept
the position of President of the Atlantic
and Pacific Company The sudden and
unexpected change has caused little
spirit between him and President orton
of the Western Union.
William Sharon, who has been elected
United States Senator by the Republican
Legislature of Nevada, for the term be-
ginning next March, is a native of Ohio,
where he was born in January, 1921, of
Quaker parents. His boyhood was spent
in alternately attending the village school
and working on his fathers farm.
Whiielaw Ried, Of the New York TsI5-
Wne was arrested in Washington on Mon
day, on Police Court warrant, upon the
chare of libel, at the charge of ex-Goy-
ernor Shepherd. Fortunately Mr.. Ried |
was able to give bail for his appearance
on Tuesday, and was spared the sorrow
of spending the night in the lookup.
Francis E. Kernsn, the nominee for
election TO United States Senate by the
Democratic members of the New York |
Legislature, and who will almost certain
ly be chosen, Is SAID 10 be lawyer of
good reputation, gentleman of integrity
and culture and one of the most promi-
nent Catholic laymen in the country.
The telegraph reports case of lynch
ing that comes pretty near home. At
Urbana, Ohio, at daylight Sunday morn
ing, a posse of masked men went to the
jail, Overpowered the guards and took
out man who had committed an out
rage upon girl of nine years, and hung
him to tree in the courthouse yard.
The Louisiana rebels do not claim to
have elected majority of the members
ofthe State Senate. Why is it that the
Senators they did elect do not take their
seats with the Republican majority Do
the "banditd" still expect to carry
through their revolutionary programme,
and deprive the people of Republican
form of ofgovernment?
The subject of amending the Constitu-
tion of Ohio is before the Legislature, in
the shape of a resolution for the appoint
ment of q Commission, consisting of one
from each Congressional District. to pre-
pare such amendments as it may deem
and submit them to the Legls-
lature for further action. The matter is
laid over for discussion.
The Sheriff lately elected by the people
of Yicksburg and Warren County, Miss,
to succeed the colored man Crosby, was
on the 18th elected from Office by COM
pany ofUnited States troops acting un-
der the instructions of Gov. Anes. The
Courts refused to recognize the new sher.
if or TO interfere on his behalf The re-
of Crosby appears to have
been strictly regular and legal
Gladstone is out again on the Pope and
Papacy. This time he takes up the !
speeches of Plus k His article appears !
In tba O,,1rteylsJ Penie7g He sketches the