Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-12-17
rae NEWs q BRIEF.


A gss well has been struck in New
Zealand.
Chas. B. Pettingill, of Cleveland " ss
confirmed on Tuesday last as Internal
pavs,ne collector for tF'S-1sth district
s.ns,or Cameron is seriously i'll, and
;. -. 77,b wear. A vacancy is ihoughi
not 10 be impossible in the Keystone
senatorial delegation
M,Millan-contestant for seat in he
Us Senate, from Ls.-MEnery Legis-
la,ure-was on Tuesday permitted to
withdraw his credentials. The opinion
IL that Pinchback viii be admitted.
The appointment of committees in the
House will probably be made by Monday
next The material that Speaker Kerr has
TO work with is not in all respects desirA-
bic.
Our manufactures continue to growing
demand in England. The telegraph IN
forms n. that an order has been received
mFau River. Mass, from Manchester
Eng The city of looms, for twenty-five
bousand pieces of printing cloth.
The majority of the House Of Repre-
septa,ives at Washington, by vote have
shown their preference for gray backs
for subaltern officers, over the blue coats
who stood by their country in its hour OF
peril,
Our very wortby-and on all other
topics sane and mentally sound-coiem-
porary of the CincInatti Commercial. Is
running into the nightmare again upon
the third term question, dividing Its
ierrmiads between the Bishop and the
President. aa3 7faslrs.fas
While a Bremen steamer was prepar
ing for sea, with the docks filed with
people, passengers baggage was drop
= ned. and explosion followed, OF such
tremendous force as TO kill sixty persons
and wound forty. The explosive mate
rial is called dynamite-bul no exPlana-
= ton of The commodity is yet given.
MI. Blaine's proposed amendment TO
tbe Constitution, prohibiting the sectari-
an control or division of public-schoOl
funds in any State, was introduced on
TUESDAY. tits regarded as not probable
tbattbe amendment will be made strict
party measure, as prominent Democrats
are known 10 favor its adoption and sup
port
ITO the victors belong the spoils." p
They have made a clean sweep of the
RepnbIicans in office about the House at
Washington, and now the heads of de-
psrtments and bureaus of the Govern
meni propose TO return the compliment
bv reliring from Office therein the host
o ofDemocrais and ex-rebels who have
ben fsutn;ng upon the political enemy
The telegraph operators connected
with the Western Union COMPANY, held
meeting in Cincinnati on Tuesday last
10 demonstrate against movement re-
ported to be on foot for the reduction OF
thsir salaries. Nothing of the character
of a strike was manifested, but merely
the expression OF their feelings of the in
Justice ofsuch step.
The owners of the coal mines in the
scbuyIkill region have decided to stop
operations for four weeks, dating from
the 18th inst. This, it is estimated, will
throw $1,000 men out of employment,
and at the most unfavorable season of the
year. If the Lehlgh operators decide on
a similar course. the number of idlers
will be more than doubled.
Ex-senator Henderson, employed by
the Government to carry on the suit
against the whisky ring at St Louis
baylng gone out of his Aay in an argu-
ment TO reflect upon the President. his
case was carried by the Attorney General
before the Cabinet, and the result is his
dismissal. A. G. Pierpont directs the
employment of some other lawyer, the
ablest that can be found, without regard
10 his political opinions, so as to ''let no
guilty man escape"
Among the New York city gossip is
the opinion that Boss Tweed is snugly
hid somewhere within Its bounds, await
ing the conclusion of compromise in
progress with the Tammany Ring, in
which the thieves will bind themselves
to turn over to the city 100000 OF
their plunder on condition that the pend
ing prosecutions shall be dropped. An in
tsresiing fact connected with Tweed's
case is that the bail bonds in all the criTa-
inal suits are discovered to be defective
and void.