Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-01-29


Judge ohristiancy has been electen - -
s. Senator, to succeed Zach oh'1O
Michigan.
our conclusion is that there is good
assl ~ human nature about Beeeher and
Plymouth Chnrch'
Mr. Evsrts is said to be retained by
Yale College, as a testimonial to Beech
er. for the sum of $4,000.
The second Louisiana investigating
committee has reached New Orleans and
will at once proceed to business.
Augustus F. Allen, Democratic member
of Congress elect, in the SD, jamestown
Dist, OF N. Y, died on the 2lst inst.
Pinchback, the Louisiana Senator, has
presented his credentials, and they are in
the hands of the Committee on Elections
Rutherford, Nd. promises to become
unusually healthy. The doctors refuse
TO attend people without receiving pay in
advance.
Mr. Beecher says he Is the happiestman
In the world. 1t viii be rembembered
that the Widow Bedott used ''to enjoy
poor health"
A New York man recovered 3 long-lost
son, who repaid the parental kindness by
running away with his good looking
step-mother.
Glendenning winds up his letter to his
congregation with the signature Of their
"afechonate pastor" Rather too afec-
tionste was the trouble with him.
Bald Hill, at North Faysten, Vt, is
going to make it warm for the neighbOr-
hood. The internal regions are breaking
through, and they call if volcano.
Holman Hunts new picture, 1.-THE Re
turn from Successful Bird's-Nest Expe-
dition," is supposed to be sn insiduous
design to influence Brooklyn jury.
Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside was on
Tuesday elected Senator from Rhode
Island. BE is thought to be quite Wor-
thy Of the honor bestowed upon him
and will take place in the Senate high
er than Mr.. sprsgus ever aspired to.
That this is q "White mans govern
ment" has been fully shown by the Penn.
House of Representatives, of late. Every
poor colored woman who has heretofore
earned a small pittance by sweeping and
keeping clean the hall, has been summarl-
" discharged.
Bessie, Turner who was sent away
from Brooklyn to school to prevent tat
Ting about home, it turns out, went to
Steube nYille, to the Young ladies Semi
nary of Rev. A. NJ. Reid, in which one
: of our Ashtabula young ladies was for
several years teacher.
It seems that the Treasury Department
has prepared bills which, if passed. it is
estimated, will secure about thirty-fYe
million dollars additional revenue. This
is sought chiefly from tea and coffee,
from the restoration of the ten per cent.
re duction made in 1872, and from whis-
ky.
The question which agitates Brooklyn
In minor degree Is, whether man who
hss.been assessed $15, 900 for seduction by
jury is q fitting person for the Board of
Education. Mr. Kinsella is little un-
certain about his duty, and anxiously
waits to see what Beecher will do, if plac-
ed In similar predicament.
East River was bridged with ice on
Saturday last, and hundreds of persons |
crossed and recrossed between New York |
and Brooklyn. On change of tide, the
ice became detached from the piers and
moved rapidly with the current. Quite
. number of people were on the ice at the
time, but all were rescued by tug boats.
The Paris horses are not allowed to be
sharp shod, because Of the injury which |
would result TO the asphalt pavements |
from sharp corks. On the night of Jan.
LIST there was rain storm, freezing as
the water fell. The number of horses
which were killed the next morning to
end their misery from broken legs, caus-
ed By fall, was three hundred and fifty.
The Rt Rev. Herbert Vaughan, D. D.,
Roman Catholic Bishop of Stafford, sent
to this country to promote Catholic mis-
sions among the negroes in the South
arrived in New York on the 22nd inst.
He Is accompanied by seven priests, who
will be stationed at different missions in
the South. The party at once proceeded
to Baltimore, which is the headquarters
of the mission.
The election of Andrew johnson to
the United States Senate by the Legisls-
ture Of Tennessee ought not to be un-
welcome to the Republicans at the North.
Since it was feregone conclusion that a
Democrat should be chosen, there were
good reasons for wishing success to
johnson. Of all the candidates before
the Legislature, he was the only pro-
nounced Union man and he has denied
the right Of secession. and combated the
peruicious theory of State Sovereignty.
It is a matter of profound congratula-
ton that at last the huge sewing-machine
has been broken by the act
ton of the Senate Committee on Patents,
who have agreed to report adversely on
the application Of A. B. Wilson for an
extension of the patent of the ''four mo.
ti0n feed" for sewing g-machines. Out of
this patent, the combination of leading
Q ompanies has realized millions of dol
lars, taken from the pockets of working
women by its ownership and ability to
iefy all competition for twenty-three
= ears, the patent having been issued in
1852.
4 statement of the theory of education
D the o. s. OF America as approved by !
many leading educators, and the Natl |
Bureau of Education-its history, work
md limitations, prepared under the d. /
'ection of the Commissioner of Education,
oy Alex. shiras, D. D., are the titles of q '
couple of pamphlets sent us, hut which ..
We have, in these Beecher-trial times, no :
line to read. Educational matters. at
best, are the dullest reading for US under Y
he sun. viii some intelligent teacher 7
and get them, and after Il
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