Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-02-05
THE TELEGRAPH.
AsHTABULA. OHIO
Friday Morning, Feb. 9th, 1875.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

I16 IOm dluc HACHOS1al DutAuAHS
dedicated in Boston tie other day with
appropriate ceremonies.
The injunction against the payDIen, u u
the Lake Shore Railroad diFieenp n'A7
been dissolved.
Two cords of hard wood is SAID TO De
sbont enuaI in hest giving qualities to
one ton of bituminous coal.
In describing the execution of man in
Ohio, the other day, an exchange say s:
"As the trap sprung, he stepped down
and out with dignity"
Geauga county win soon have three
newspapers. Mr.. S. c: Durham. formerly
editor Of the Painesville AdOsrtsser, IS to
revive the Chardon Tines.
Further complaints have been made by
the counsel in the court room, against inc
earbled and distorted reports Oh 'he
Beecher trial by the Tribune.
The accession of Alfonso to the throne
of snain has had no effect upon the Gu
han patriots, who continue their insur-
reetion on the island as before.
The question of the admissability Of
Tilton as a witness in his own behalf
was decided on Monday last, in the at
frmatiye. under certain restrictions.
Farmer stubbs has sold his celebrated
bull. the "Forty-frst Grand Duke of
.Umpsonweed," for $4,000. He took his
nav in two calves, valued at $4,000
each.
We learn that the managers Of the At
lantie & Great Western Railway proposes
to build railway from Chagrin Falls to
Scion, if the citizens viii raise $4,000
for the enterprise.
The officers of the Atlantic 6 Great
western Railroad are all to be removed
TO Cleveland soon, which will take from
MeadviIle some fifty business men and an
immense amount of business.
The Chicago Tribune thinks it was too
bad to drag poor old Bryant away from
his Homer on cold winter night to grind
the Bourbon huray-gurdy, since it has
now turned out that all the facts are
against him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sartoris, son-in-law and
daughter of His Excellency, have once
more set foot upon American soil-hav
ing arrived by the steamer Republic, of
the White Star line, which reached her
dock in New York on Friday last.
An arrival at Sioux City from Fort Sui
ly the other day reports the recent cold
weather the severest ever known in that
country. The thermometer for several
aays ranged from 38 to A below. Many
cattle and ponies were frozen to death.
The Dayton Empire makes bold 10 re-
mark that "when an intelligent compost
tor makes fiscal year read fish ball year,
itmay be concluded that bis mind is
wandering" And We should say his
mind was wandering toward the nutri-
ment it most needed.
Pinchback. the putative representative
in the United States Senate of the "gi-
eantic fraud" IN Louisiana, is not getting
on as happily with his claim as he ex-
pected. The impression now is that he
will not be admitted, though causus has
decreed that he shall.
The survey of the shadow of the
ground Hogs tail on Tuesday was rath-
en- discouraging one and he skunk back
iuto his winter quarters with forcible
appreciation of the -disappointments that
fail upon woodchucks and mortals-bi-
ped sand quadrupeds alike.
Alta reception at Omaha. a woman
kissed King Kalakaua. The papers set
TO work to discover her name. And now
R. Laing writes to the Omaha Bee, and
says "That lady, sir, is my wife, and I
was by her side when she kissed the King,
and told her to do it," All right
Counsellor Rush, while referring to
Bescher, at the trial on Friday of last
week, said, "Oh, he is gifted with sill
very tongue that would lure an angel |
out of Paradise" He might have added,
that his ravishing tones were almost as
fatal as those of the sirens of the sea.
Robert seaborn, of Griggsville, Pike
county, Ill, actually wrote to the New
York San to know who first used the
word "paroxysmal," and what it means
Such Ignorance of the greatest tragedy
of modern times entities Mr.. Seaborn to
the rank offoreman OF the Brooklyn jury
English papers report frequent block
ades Of railroads in consequence of the
snow. These accounts remind US of the |
fact, which is well worthy of notice, that
throughout this winter, severe as it has
been, we have not yet heard of single
snow-blockade on the Union Pacific Rail-
road.
Snow is q formidable obstruction, in
0swego, New York, in both life and
death. On the goth ult, it was necessary
to postpone a burial service on account
of the impracticability of reaching the
house by the undertaken For weeks the
citizens Of certain localities were literally
shut up in their houses.
Wendell Phillips can, by calling on
Mons De La Bastie, gam some valuable
After six years of expert
nent the Frenchman has solved the
problem of making maleable glass,
which can be beaten or bent like copper,
spd can be used for cooking utensils
One lost art is therefore restored.
A mysterious book for which the
British Government has offered e1OOo
was found in Louisville. KY, on Sat. {
urday, and Monday, it was found
again in Boston. Fragments of it will
probably be picked up in Duluth and st.
Louis and by next month we shall hear
from San Francisco and Alaska. Itis
the epizOotie- and Charley Ross over
again.
The New York Tribune says Mr.. Dew
ereux has resigned his positions as Presi-
dent and Director OF the Atlantic 6 Great
Western Railroad Company, deeming his
Of those offices whilst he is Re-
eisVer Of the Company under order of
Court would be injudicious, if not incom-
pshtle with business propriety. Mr..
james F, Clark has been elected Presi.
dent In his stead.
Tom Scott and his numerous and DOW