Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-06
II1a1IT ITFHB. NEWS IN BRIEF

They cali him now "GeOrgeH Pendu-
lum"
The Swiss. Governments deals summa-
rily with labor riots.
Onshundred andsoven millions ofpen
ny postal cards were used during the
year ending June Both.
The monthly Treasury statement shows
decrease in the national debt during
July Of s1.2s4ss7.
The total increase of population in N.
Y. in five years win be shown by the
census-to be 100000. The chief growth
OF population has been at and around
centres Of manufacture.
Moody and Sankey are to be invited TO
Washington, and the churches there are
arranging for a mammoth camp-meeting
to be conduc ted by them.
Ex-President johnson died on the
morning of the 31st, at Rushyille, Tenn,
from the effects of paralysis, noticed last
week, aged 81 years.
Iii positively announced that at pres
ent, there is an actual initiation of 16,ooo-
ooo acTere and above the highest issue
ever cont emplated by the Government in
the direst necessity.
The. new arrangements says, the Chi
cago Tribune. will not be attended by
dollar extra cost to the Government,
while it viii be gain of from twelve
to twenty-four.. hours of time.
Mr.. PlimsoIl, who threw such shell
into the English Parliament, has. just in
time, been reinstated by a..shipWreok that
seems 70 illustrate all that he has said on
the subject u
Dispositions of Brigham Young and
George A. Smith were rejected On Mon
day in the Mountain Meadow massacre
trial. The deponents state that they is
sued.no instructions relative to the mas
sacfe, and knew nothing Of it until after
1t occurred.
The. President on Monday last issued a
PRECIPITATION announcing in fitting
terms the death Of Andrew johnson, d.
rectng The drapIng of the Executive
Mansion and Departments and ordering
the Warand Navy Depart m ents. to pay
suitable honorsto the memory Ofthe IL
lustrious dead, a.Ei 10 rst .ez
HNew York dispatch Of the I'd, says
that Judge Morris, counsel for Theodore
Tilten, on that afternoon served notice to
Shearman q Sterling, attorneys of rec
ord,fer Henry Ward Beecher, 10 be pre-
pared to answer ina new trial on the
first q September ~ ~
fThe5 speech of Senator Thurman in
range oEssubjectis is not very broad. He
avdEsa himseif hard money man, apol-
oEizes forthea platfom-thatit il does not
mean what it pretends to, and that the
Democratic party must be sustained with
cuttoo close aserutiny of its principles
and professions.
Ehe question is mooted as to whether
thesamount Of rainfall is increasing in
range, and q writer IN Nebraska, says
Ne are having great deal of rain in
the Rocky Mountains and near them this
season, where it seldom or never rains"
ItliB also said that the amount of rain
far along theIine of the Pacific coast has
very perceptiblg increased within the
ldstIiYe years.ili9 gH
San earthquake shock was felt in Con.
nectieut On July rs. The Hartford Post
which gives the details, says that at Col
linsyiile The shaking lasted about fifteen
seconds, Windows were shaken, dishes
and lamps ratified, and as it occurred ear
y in,tbe morning many persons sprang
from neir beds In terror. There was
low, rumbling noise, with much yibra-
tioRtspe as might result from the explo-
sion Of a heavy blast near by.
aEloony crop reports are. received from
theptral and southern portions of Illi-
Eabd dndiana, where the heavy rains
81 the pnst tiso orthree days haye made
faisbIe havoc among the half harvested
gfkmIt One account speaks of a swollen
rFer iwhose surface was dotted with
~hest -sheaVes washed from the fields
and from the sections mentioned the ad-
vices show widespread destruction and
damage suffered by tho farmers.