Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

from Costa Rica.
Colonel Valentine Bakers kiss in the
cars has proven very costly. BE has been
dismissed from the army.
The decrease il immigration for the
year ending June 80, 1875, Is stated by the
National Statistical Bureau at $4,000.
DIN Key of Chattanooga, has been ap-
pointed iy The Governor, to fill the vacan-
ey in the Q. S. Senate, caused by the oea'h
OF Senator johnson.
The New York Times thinks there can
bo az little doubt as there is Of anything
not actually proved that the miscreant
Forester is himself the murderer of Ma
than.
Tennyson has given to Miss Bateman
netxclusIve stage right to his drama OF
aQueen Mary" and in conjunction with
ha lady is reported to be preparing an
acting edition.
A foolish young man out West, in a
newspaper office, desires TO know why
the police are not turned out in New
York and the thieves put in. That IS
exactly what has been done.
A BANQUET was given at Southampton,
Eng. 10 the officers ofthe American naval
SQUADRON. on Friday eve, 2Oth 1t was
largely attended by distinguished officers
of Her Majesty's service, and was a bril-
liant affair.
Itna settled thing that the Republi-
ans show large popular majority in
N orth Carolina. Outside Kentucky two
We ars' experience of the Reform Democ-
racy seems to be sufficient.
Judge Taft reminds those who raised
an outcry because the defenders of the
Puhlic Schools are striking hard blows
at the Papal church, that if "the Church
go1s Inio politics, # must expect to be
treated as a politician"
{. Judge Taft is power in this campaign.
Bis blows fall with telling effect upon
the uItramontane feature ofthe Democra-
CIV. Democracy, like Cain, will be likely
to CRY out before the struggle is over
"My punishment is greater than can
bear"
Dartmouth College boys do all the
waiting at the White Mountain. hotels.
What is the difference between sper-
maceti and schoolboy's howl One is
the wax produced by the whale, and
the other is the wall produced by the
whacks
"Let us lay our bones together" said a
young lady sweetly to her companion at
a picnic; and she held up drum
stiekin a dainty way. But he said
mo: let us rather be one fiesh.".
The Toledo Blade is authority for the |
statement that William Allen is aboutto
withdraw from the Gubernatorial con-
test in Ohio. The reasons given thereof
are certainly of a plausible nature, and
should tend to assuage the overwhelm-
ing grief which must follow this mo-
mentous announcement. Ii is that Mr.
Allen, now IN his prime is liable TO grow
old with undue trial and grief, and his
object is TO husband his energies for the
Presidential race.
Gov Davis. of Minnesota, proposes that
the people of that state be educated on
the subject of grasshoppers. The Gov
ernor has appointed three gentlemen as a
commission to investigate the locust ques--
Jon and furnish such information as may
be obtained as to the best method Ofpre-
parlng to resist and prevent the incur
sIons of the 'hoppers next year.
A steam yacht carrying the Queen and
royal family, while crossing from Osborne
TO Portsmouth on the eafternoon ofthe 18th
collided with and sank the schooner yacht
Mistletoe The latter was struck amid
ships and cut in two and sank instantly.
A party Of ladies and gentlemen were on
board the Mistletoe, three of whom were
drowned and one killed. None of the
royal party were injured and their yacht
was but slightly damaged.
The Georgia instruction, if it may be
dignifed by such name, has apparently
Deea suppressed without loss of life.
some hundred or more colored men
have been arrested and imprisoned, and
viii be brought Immediately before the
courts. Some ofthe leaders are reported
Is having confessed that they were band
I'd together for the purpose ofmurderand
plunder, but these reports do not appear
o be sustained by trustworthy evidence.
Quiet prevailed all around at last accounts.
The management of the Government In
ane Asylum, near Washington, furnishes
'ome curious illustrations of the need of
eform. The Resident Superintendent ad-
nits that patients not entitled to treat
nent in the Institution have been turned
oose in the country like wild beasts, at
and the superintendent calmly
ffers in mitigation of this inhuman and
nonstrous proceeding, that the weather 6
vas warm and pleasant, and therefore, not e
likely to lead to suffering. The response e
Dility Of the act is thrown upon the Dis t
rict authorities. n
Gen. Gary is reported TO have said in Il
Is Chillieothe speech that unless the fl
bonds are paid in green. b
acks there will be reputation. # the
ebt is not paid IN paper, he said, the P
eople will throw it all of by open, b
quare repndiation." General Cary
.nows that the faith of the government
pledged TO pay the debt in coin, and
lr. Pendieton declares that It must be
50 paid, il The Nation is not 10 be dis {
onored. Does Cary want repudiaticn r
nd National dishonor, and is that the e
ltimate end oithe scheme for imitation C
f4he currency for which he is aimingf a
Mast, IN last weeks Harper, has car Il
oon of the Archbishop in the chair OF b
late of Ohio. with the Governors legs b
ticking out in sprawling attitude un- Al
er foot, while St Geghan holds a pro m N
nent place on the wall, clothed with b.
rim upon his countenance, quite exp ress- it
We Of the pleasure felt over the success g
ccomplished with the Democracy. A n
croll of bis immortal bill is made dulv b.
The thing Is profane in It's re
over Democratic volubillty.
Misiortunes never come sinplv The fol. a,
Snapn lnat announces Buffers pian for =,
be s d;o,Ea1 sae people financially convevs ~