Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20
THE NEWS in BRIEF.


Ex-Governor William A. Graham,
= North Carolina, died at Saratoga, N. J
on the 11th inst, of heart disease. II
.aT6e Hon. Horace Benney, the oldes
member of the Philadelphia bar, died il
that city a few days ago, at the advanc
ed age eof95.
"All The Catholic clergy holding State
appointments in Posen, have submitted
fo.the ecclesiastical laws" This is lat
dispatch from Berlin. 1t means tina
Bisma.ck wins IN the battle with thC
priests. The gentlemen in black haYl
come down. When they live in Germa.
ny they have gotto do as the Germans do.
Pre- sident Grant has written a memo
randum backing BristoW in his war on
the Whisky Ring in decided terms
This is very important. Apprehenslons
have been felt throughout the country
that the President would finch from the
prosecut ion of the whisky cases when he
found his friends getting hurt. HOweV-
er, he tells Bristow to go on, and "Let
no guilty man escape ifit can be avoid
e"
The raid upon the small Postmasters,
who have been increasing their salaries
by irregular sales of stamps, has begun.
Forty-one heads have already gone into
the basket, and forty-one other little pol
iticians, who stand ready TO take their
places. are correspondingly happy. Two
hundred more awaitin shivering sus-
pense the decision which may also con
sign them 10 the official guillotine. The
Post Master General seems resolute in
bis determination to stamp out the irreg-
ulsr business in stamps.
A part from the fact that the national
balance sheet for the fiaeal year ending
June 30 fails to show the deficit predicted
BY the Congressional croakers, an eneour-
aging feature is that from it appears that
the expenditures of the Q. S. Government
we're less during the year, 1s74=5 than for
any year since 1861. The time is oppor-
tune for such a showing. While getting
back to ante-war currency We are get
ting nearer to ante war expenditure-hard
money and closer economy-which in
the nature of things 60 hand in hand
-Four weeks have passed since Don
aldson and Grimwood made their ascen-
sion. The Chicago Journal believes
them to have been drowned IN Lake
Michigan, which, from its great depth,
never yields up its dead. The paper has
traced out every report of the aeronauts
having been seen but in no case has the
report yielded any truthful tidines and it
believes no evidence of their fate viii ey.
er he furnished. Grimwood's body has
been found on the East Shore of Lake
Michigan, near Whitehall.
q Ben Wade thinks Ohio will 60 "all
right this year" The Republicans will
pot be foclishiy oversconadent, and will
be at hepoIs. Rr. Wsde's opinion agrees
with that of cool observers throughout
the State Bill Allen and Sam Cary will
be beaten beautifnlIy-not as badly as
they deserve, butso eonclusively that
they viii not be h card Of any more.
The reyiYalists, Moody. and Ssnkey, are
once more in their native land. They
were met at the pier in New York byien-
thusiastlc clergymen, who returned |
thanks that they had been spared the |
fate OF many who 60 down to the sea In |
ships. They will not Immediately begin /
the work of saving their perishinp coun.
irymen, as they want recreation and rest
after theF continuous labOrs among the
bold Britons,
The first thing in the way of the great
reform Of the future that is TO come out
y ~ me next Congress is the passage of
Tom scoti's Pacific RaiIroad BiJI kfter
Nj. Msa. comes the deluge-Jecms River,
general Sei ppia.4syees, ~ matters and things in
1oM .o yeiilng Tor imitation. that the1 ,,,e-,
ss... oie IN the midst of fiuctuating yal,,asy
~ EIVPose s 20 improve" the Soufb i5 a to- ,
~. ..NS soheefiul manner. There new.
Lave eeen prepared for ,ba -oI'i Aeter
the people more profigate scba,, aoOoety OF
those that are to be crowded throSa tnan
pexf CoHgfess. This is 10 be dnOag me I
name Democracy, reform and inftai,nnNe al me ,
There is just one way. TO give these nrni
lIgates black eye, and that is 10 hes,
Bill Allen and Sam Cary. If the peopIe
DO not improve this their only opportu.
niiy. they are in for schemes 10 double
be NailODal debt-=CFn. Can. -s