Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-02-19

..;lad With her, week or tHo ago. loE
Turope 20 be absent for one or two years.
II takes 1862 clerks and carriers to do
the work of the New York P. o. The
daily distribution of letters is $4,000, and
10000 pounds of mail matter is dispatch
ed daily from that Office.
The high winds and consequent heavy
snow drifts on the N. Y. Central road
last week, near Rome. brought the trains
to a stand for several hours. Several car
loads of stock we're frozen.
Dispatches from New Orleans indicate
a very strong feeling in favor Of com
promise, and the beliefls SAID TO be quite
general that satisfactory terms Of adjust
ment viii yet be agreed upon.
The Democratic Senate Of Ohio has
made drive at Teachers Institutes by
voting TO repeal that part of the law
which allows teachers to draw pay for
the time they attend institutes.
Among the items which have been
added to the Sundry Civil Appropri-
elton bill, by the House Committee, Is
$4,000 for the purchase of Miss G. L.
Ransom's paintings Of General George II.
Thomas.
Congress has less than two weeks for
finishing up the business of the session
and stepping down and out The pros
pect is not encouraging for definite legis
lation upon important financial or pO-
Itical questions.
Hon. B. F. Wade is spoken Of in con-
pectlon with the Republican nomination
for Governor. He would make good
Governor, and race between bluff Old
Ben" and "Rise up William" would be
of national interest.
The Post Office Committee in the low
er house of Congress, is moving In the
matter of reducing the salaries of post
masters, the object being to grade down
from the higher salaries, with less refer
ence to those of lesser importance.
A Narrow gauge Railroad from Cleve-
land to ChardOn Is projected. A compa-
ny fol the purpose of building the road
is incorporated, and the subscription
books will be Opened.in Cleveland, March /
9Th. The road will undoubtedly be built /
with all possible haste.-1SHes.
The introduction of the English spar
row into Colorado, to meet the onward |
march of the sgrasshOpper, is talked OF,
and in connection with it, the question.it |
raised whether the sparrow win no
prove a pest only second to the grasshop-
eTs,
The Baltimore & Ohio with the coop |
Grafton ofits western connections, an
nounces a reduction of from thirty to
forty per cent. in through passengerrates
from St Louis, Cbiesgo, Louisville. Gin
cinnati and other points TO Philadelphia
and New York.
Kate CarY-s girl that lived for awhile
in Tilton's family, was put upon the
stand on Monday, and testified to Mr.
Beecber's visits to the house and the bed
room of Mrs. Tlton, and that she saw the
lady on her pastors knee, and her head
upon his shoulder. On these visits she
says the bedroom door was sometimes
closed.
The Ohio Senate, the other day, passed
the bill introduced by Senator Ruken-
brod, to authorize the counties of Stark |
and Columbiana 10 build Children's
Home. Thus our neighbors are pushing
forward the noble project, while few
Democrats in this county are, for polIti-
cal purposes, trying TO defeat it. We
trust the four counties of Mahoning,
Trumbull, Ashtabula and Portage, will
not be found behind the two counties of
Stark and Columbiana.-NdhOniSg Reg.
The Bishops of the African Methodist
Episcopal church, in response to the re-
quest of the clergymen of that church,
have designated Monday, March 1st, as |
day of fasting and prayer, and have is Z
sued an address to the American people t
pleading for the enjoyment of civil and !
politicaI rights with ample protection for
their brethren in the South from the men
that persecute them.
The Beecher-Tilton trial, on account of
delays and difficulties IN crossing from {
N. 7. to Brooklyn, and the engagement s
of counsel with other business, made no t
progress on Saturday, but adjourned /
over till Monday morning. The cross.
examination of Tilton, will probably be !
finished during Monday. 1t is not gen. !
orally known who will follow, but the {
ardent wish, is, that Beecher himself may
be put upon the stand. :
1t is given out that the United States C
Senate is to be called together in extra :
session by the President on q
March 4th, Immediately after the expira- b
ion of the present session. The object I
s to consider the lately negotiated Re- !;
,iprosity Treaty between the United a
States and the Sandwich Islands. There n
S such a pressure of business at this
lime that the Senate will be unable to =
give this treaty the attention required, II
and the President has therefore announc- 81
ed that he will call the new body to- .
yether. The new Senate which thus as. 1
sembles will contain the new Senators a.
already chosen for the next term. h,
Tie Senate bill 10 grant site for the Il Il
Peabody School in St. Augustine, Fla,
vas taken up, last week. 10 which there
vas an amendment pending, submitted e
1 the last session by Mr.. Edmunds, pro- Ii
-iding that if at any time any distinction &c
hall be made in the admission of pupils :,
N account OF race or color, the site shall
evert to the United States. This amend y
aent was rejected by majority of one. o
Among the nays, we notice the name of p
senator Ferry of ct. This is an iniima- CT
ion that if the trustees of the school n,
'hoose TO do SO, colOred children may be :.
xcluded from the benefits of the Pea. S'
'ody fund. Nj. Alcorn of Miss, charged NJ
be Republicans with de generalization and CO
-oted against the bill et,
The Railroad War is becoming decid. tC
dly interesting, and the fercer it wakes, al
he greater will be the interest and hap. G.
mess of the public. The Pennsylvania ~,
ompany and the Baltimore & Ohio, have