Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-06-25
riday Morning, June 25th, 1876,
THE NEWS TN BRTEF.


The Pope suffers much from iumOago.
He Is mt confined to his bed and holds
audiences as usual, yet anxiety prevails
During the past two years over $780,
OO1 worth of English pointer and setter
dogs haYe been imported into this coun-
try.
Beach's eenumdrum is thus neatly
transposed by the New York Commercial
Adosrtissr-"Can the jury ignore the test
0, money!"
is is said that while Robert Bonner re-
fuses 10 publish any more of Beechers
articles in the Ledger, he continues to pay
him for them.
Notwithstanding the fact that the grass
hoppeFs have worms, their appetite and
digestion are good, and their work is
thorouhly done.
The Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania Cos. have put up trieghts from 6
to so per cent above the cut rates pre-
vailing during war
Rates on live stock were adopted at
Buffalo on the 21st. as follows: From
Buffalo to Albany 81 cts; to New York,
80 cts per hundred from Chicago through
to New York, 55 cents.
Germany and Belgium have shake n
hands over their little diieren ces, the
former power expressing satisfaction at
the friendly spirit evinced in the commu
nicatiops of Belgium,
DIR. Sager, Dean of the Medical Faculty
of the University of Michigan, has re-
signed his position, owing to i'll health
and the combination of the homeopathic
and alopsthic schools of medicine.
The man who wrote to the New York
Tines to threaten that paper withra loss
of %, coo circulation fit did not take up
the cudgels for Beecher is Mr.. Joyce, who
Is recommended to try the Sun instead.
The Brooklyn argus says that the
crowds in the Brooklyn Courtroom
make one think that public sentiment has
been bottled up, and that Beach was i'm
mortalized as the man who drew the
cork.
It is pity Gerard Anthoine of Paris,
is dead. Wishing to commit suicide and
not daring to do SO, he induced his little
boy to fire piston at his forehead in
play, and died making the little innocent
parricide
The Chicago Tribune states IT neatly
thus, regarding the Democratic patch
work at Columbus "In fact the best part
of the platform is Republican, and the
rest are SO constructed as to be all things
to all men,
The Sultan to the New American Min
lister 'Now, Horace, you must keep
away from the harem and. attend to your
international affairs. We don't know
anything about true inwardness and NOR
al Niagaras here"
Victor EmmanuaI is keen sportsman,
and tho sparrows, robins and blue-birds
of Italy have not the ghost Of a chance.
He takes In an occasional boar, and now
and then a stag or two, but his game-bag
is not built for such heavy game.
In Dublin, Ireland, they haYe a better
whisky, even, than our iorty-roc, for at a
fire on the evening of the 18Th inst, three
persons who partook of it, died outright,
while seventeen others were taken to the
hospitals on account of similar indul-
gencs.
A young lady who had Just recovered
from severe indisposition, was visited
by gentleman friend, who found her re-
clining on a sofa in the parlor. After
some little conversation, she remarked
al have deem laying long enough, and
shall sit awhile"
It is now regarded as certain that Sec
retary Bristow will be disappointed in
his expectation of a surplus of about $5.-
OOO, 600 al the close of the fiscal year July
l, and that there viii be q deficiency OF
at least $4,000, ,OO0, the amount of falling
off in custom receipts as compared with
the estimates.
The jewels which the Khedive sent
ostensibly to Minnie Sherman Fitch, last |
winter, are to be divided between her
and her two sisters; they were really |
designed for a family present to Gen.
Sherman, but the occasion of Minnie's
wedding was selected TO offer them nom
inalIy to her. They are now said to be
worth not quite one hundred thousand
dollars.
Van Worries Road Scraper and grader
has been experimental with in Cleye-
land, and a certificate is given in the
Herald, which claims for it the perfection
of street grading, with,a facility and
economy not reaced by ten times the
amount. of force applied in any other
way. Perhaps It would be worth while
for our street committee to enquire into
this matter.
1t has frequently been said that both
Susan B. Anthony ane Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton knew of Beecher's relations
with Mrs. Tilton directly from the lips of
that lady herself As long ago as when
Mrs. Stanton visited this place, her
knowledge and convictions were indeli-
bly, fixed in the minds of some of those
with whom she was brought in contact,
of our own citizens,
Cable dispatches report that the British |
has declared zainst
Burmah. The report os dera.
BILE excitement. espeoiail hess
circles The same ,diss the
Chinese Government is concentrating
troops in consequence CT the Anglo.
Burmese quarrel A formi dable Chinese
army is available for service at any no,
ment on The frontier.
A dispatch from French Creek Black
Hills-confrIns eustan's account stgold
Is found in paying quantIties-and that
some of the miners are at work as well as
some Of the soldiers panning ont dust of
3 rich quality. The diggings are said to
be extended along the creek for some
seven miles. PROF. JennYs expedition
had arrived and formed permanent
camp at Harney's Peak.
Talk. abou. fog horns and oaliones.in