Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-06-04
FHE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Uneasy rests the head that wears last
years bonnet.
They now talk of turning jay Cook e''
pslaee into a female seminary.
The delicate-mluded Boston Otlis s
speaks of Spotted Tail as Mr. VariegS'eu
NarrahYe,
Fletcher Harper. the only survivor 81 81
tbe firm of Harper & Bros. is saia 10 oe
dangerously ILL.,
The story of Edwin brood" it is sad
hears a strong resemblance TO the beiiry
murder at Boston
The Milwaukee Whisky Ring have en-
ployed Ben Butler to assist Matt Carpen'
ter in their defense.
The Hon. Horace Maynard, the new
American Minister 10 Turkey, has arr'V
ed in Constantinople.
The 1reasury exhibit for June l shows
that the national debt decreased 81 'l0S'-
456 during the month of May
Judge Gldden's health continues SO
nrecarious that he is obliged to refrain
from taking a place upon the bench.
Rochester, Mimi, farmers thus snap
their fingers at popular manias "Kash
paid for little HALVES not mourn TO daze
old"
Wheat was sold in Chicago on Sltur-
day last for 80 and 90 cents bushel.-
Some Of the purchases for shipment were
heavy.
Last Sunday Cleveland man killed
his moiher-In-law with an adze, which
adds interest 10 the circumstance, but he
pleads insanity.
The old relics keep coming in a
Florida man has got a stone that Wash
iugton threw at wOodpecker on his
fatbeI's cherry tree.
Al recent wedding IN Ohio. the min.
lister was about TO salute the bride, when
she stayed him with, mo mister. l give
up them vauitics nowp
A SO inch water main in the streets oi
Cincinnati, burst, The other day. tore UP
the earth like a discharge of nitro -gly,
cerine and caused fearful flood.
Oshkosh has had another fire-this
time a $12 900 affair but at one time ii
threatened the Obstruction of that portion
ofthe city left standing after the great
blaze.
Now that Harper's Weekly has frankly
looked the evidence all over, and pro
. nounced Mr.. Beecher not guilty, the jury
may draw their extra per diem and g'
home.
The six model and exemplary "ladies"
of Wilton, Ia, who tarred and feathered
Ellen Corey, lave waived a preliminary
examination, and are TO be tried on July
sixth.
The Presbyterian General Assembly on
Friday oflast week, declared in mos
emphatic language against any division
of the public school fund. for the use o
any church or sect.
Mr.. Beecher speaks kindly of the Pope
Sunday he said: my venerable brother
Plus TX and 1, why are We opposed tC
each other? He does not fear me, and
do not fear him. So we are equal"
President Grant says that, so far as he
has read Gen. Sherman's memoirs" he
finds them in the main accurate as to
military movements and events, though
in some cases injustice has been done.
Princess Louise, daughter Of Victoria
and her husband, the Marquis of Lorne
expect 10 come to Canada with Lord Duf
ferin on his return from England. anC
make .4our of the Dominion and th
United States.
Some difficulty. it is said, is experienced
in securing coun sci TO assist in the prose
cution of the whisky ring culprits. Gov
fees are light Atfy-Gen. PIerrepont j
ins,ructfng District Attorneys to begil
proceedings without delay.
Carl .Scburz is said 10 be in immens
demand as a lecturer. All the lectur
bureaus are eager to secure him. Thi
is fortunate for him, inasmnch as ther
seems to be no demand for him in an,
quarter as statesman" or an Office hol
der.
A dispatch from London says that Paul
Bovnton, who started to cross the Chan
mel from Cape Grisnez. France, TO Dover
in his life-saving suit, landed between
Dover and South Foreland, having beef
in the water continuously for % hour
and ss minutes.
Last week produced couple of YerJ
respectful catastrophes, SO far as the de
strucnon of life is concerned. A catho
lie church in Holyoke, Massachusetts
burned with sixty-six people-a drug
store mysteriously blown to atoms witt
all its inmates.
The Presbyterian General Assembly o
Monday, had before it the problem, wha
should the converted heather do with Ii
two wives he had in a state of Paganisn
The decision was that the blgamous cor
vert should put away one wife and pre-
vide for her and the children.
George Francis Train is violating hi
pledge to the country He bargained
that if the newspapers would let hin
alone, he would retire TO a vegetable di-
ct and be heard from no more. Now
comes he again, more insane than ever
asking for Presidential nomination.
A merciful discrimination in behalf O
grasshopper sufferers is made by the o. s
Land Commissioner in an order extend
ing the benefits of the special act of Con
gress as well to those pre- -emplors VIII
lost their crops by grosshopper ravage
as 10 those who fromtbe same cause wer
compelled to abandon their lands.
The Bank of England bias about eigl
hundred clerks. They usually enter b,
tween eighteen and twenty-five years
age. Their salary begins at about fol
hundred dollars of our currency. Fro
this they advance until by the time thu
are Al or A, they get $1,7Oo year, afI
which they can ordinarily hope for no ]
crease.
GThe VIceroy of Egypt is about 10 az
ionish the world again. He has resolve
TO build railroad along the valley {