Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-02
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

eyer at that place.
Gen. Ewing is said to have been the
author of the currency plank in inc ohiO
Democratic platform.
A, tho hour of going to press, the jury
in the Beecher case are still out, and have
not returned verdict.
: The best time male on the third day
of the races at E. Saginaw, on the 24th,
was 2-264 by Maggie Morris.
Count Hoyosprinzenstein has been ap-
poiu,ed Minister of Austria, to the Unit
ed States in place Of Baron schwartzen :
born, resigned.
The rate on reg istered letters has been
increased by P. M. Gen. Jewell from 0
TO 10 cents, because the former rate dld
not pay expenses.
The common opinion is that Senator
Thurman's prospects are in something
the situation of Beecher's latest work
ahigher than kite"
plymouth Church. it is said, is prepar-
ing a gridiron for Bowen. No one will
care particularly, If he should get toler-
able smart toasting uponit.
The Assistant Treasurer at New York
has been directed by Secretary Bristow
to sell s1,OO0,OOO in gold coin on each
Thursday in July. or $5,OOO,0OO in all.
Reports from various parts of the cOun-
try show a very general and elaborate
celebration of st. Johns Day, the gala
festival ofthe Masonic fraternity through
out the world.
Thurman, when he ran for Governor,
received 10000 votes and was beaten
Allen received 2T4.OOO votes and was
elected. This Is the way the Democrats
have gained in Ohio.
North America now has communlca-
ton with Europe through five cables
The first of those now in working order
was laid in 1866, the second in 1869, the
third in 1878, the fourth in 1874, and the
last has just been completed.
Sam Cary-Democratic candidate for
Lit. Governor, is not embarrassed in his
temperance feelings by the platform of
the party. He says he can stand upon it,
lie upon it, and roll round upon it., Sam
is evidently a genus in the acrobatic
line.
The daily verbatim reports of the
Brooklyn trial published in the N Y.
Times has consumed 1910 columns. In
addition TO this, articles of news in con-
nection with the issue printed from time
to time during the progress ofthe trial
have oecupi ed about one hundred col
umns.
Six horses, purchased in Boston for
Senator Jones, of Nevada, were shipped
10 him on Saturday of last week. Among
them are the noted trotters, "Sweet Briar"
and "Lady OTIS" for which the sum of
$4,000 was paid The others include
pair of saddle horses and a pair of car
riage horses.
The rag money reputation Democracy
of Ohio are going to invite Gen.. Butler
to stump the State for the. shinplaster
platform. The Republicans of Ohio are
talking of sending for Sam Cox, Of New
York, to reply to him. Senator Thur
man will probably do his political cam
paigning in Name,
A royal ordinance has been issued com
manding that the members of Carlist Jun
ats, and all other families, of which any
member is in the Carlist service, be ex-
PEELED from Spain, and directing that
the property of Carlists be confscated
and devoted to communities suffering
from Carlist acquisitions.
The city of New York has ent cred suit
against the "Ring Thieves''-Tweed &
Co.-for more than $7,0OO,9OQ This
represents only fraction of the plunder
stolen from the city by those Democratic
leaders. Democracy has nearly reduce d
the city of New York to Bankruptcy
Its debt now amounts to $16O,OOO,OOO.
A thorough exploration Is soon to be
made in Indiana, of another mammoth
cave that has just been discovered there.
The persons who discovered the cave
went down a distance of seventy feet, and
an incline of thirty feet, and found them
selves in chamber eight by one hun
dred and fifty feet in area and one hun
dred high.
The Indianapolis Journal fondlY re-
marks ofa rising statesman :"Lestit may
be libelous to say that Gen. S. F. Cary,
Democratic candidate for Lieutenant
Governor in Ohio, is an unmitigated,
humbug, an unadulterated demsgogue
and political fraud of the first magni-
tude, we will simply remark that he is
not our beau ideal of a statesman
The pictures from Kansas are not all
sad and somber. Reports from some por-
tons of the State tell of numerous crops
wheat-yields far greater than ever be-
fore known SO heavy, indeed, that the
farmers are troubled to secure hands 10
harvest the ripening grain, and are tele-
graphing TO the large cities, not for relief
from destitution, but for assistance in
taking care of their great abundance.
The political battle to be fought in
Ohio in October will go far to strengthe
the party that wins It, As the situation
aow appers, the Republican party has
good reasons 10 claim a great victory.
But votes alone will tell the story. To
secure these will require work, steady,
persistent work. Our friends must or
ganize, SO that every vote favorable TO
our cause, will be cast when tba time
comes.
The American team of rifemen who
went over to shoot with the Irish bows
carried the day, though the firing was
very good on both sides. The dispatch
says that the shooting at one thousand
yards range was won by the Americans
by score of 303 against 300. The match
was won by total of 9s7 to 800. The
score is the best on record. Our boys
were banqueted by the Lord Mayor of
Dublin.
Messrs. Morris and Sherman, represent.
ing opposite sides of the case are tbe only
members of the counsel who antic,na,e
an agreement BY the jury in the Beecber
case. Each is confident of a vcrdict 70,
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