Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-05-07
THB NEWS IN BRIEF.


Sunday last, were 1875 on profession, 26
baptised.
A drug clerk in Columbus, filed pre-,
scription for castor oil, with erOtOH OIL anu
the patient died on Sunday evening lAs''
It Will be generally admitted that :, iii'on
has nroved an abb to the WOodhun car
rage in the Rossel procession
The public debt statement shows a de.
oroase Of SO s25, ,S4s during the month OF
Anril and decrease or $11, 77S,sO9 since
june. 80, 1874.
The ruin wrought in Oshkosh by the re-
cent fire was bounded by mile square and
was the equivalent in that city, to the
great frein Chicago in 1871.
Why call him the ''grOOm, as eight out
of ten people do? A groOm's business is to
look after horses. A bridegrOOm's business
is to look after his wife's mother. -
Alfonso's Finance Minister proclaims
officially that Spain's yearly revenue does
not suffice to cover her military expenses,
and he would like to borrow some money to
cover the civil expenses of the throne and
the altar.
The delinquent tax list o. Chicago foots
up Sc, $50, 900, and the city is borrowing
money to meet the deficits in its treasury
by reasonof the shortcomings of taxpayers.
Bad showing.
There are twenty-three men in a Turkish
monastery, it is SAID, who have not seen
woman since infancy. They would proba
bly, make better men than Beecher, in his
place.
If Brother Bowen had years ago been as
retieent Of what he knew or didn't know
concerning Beecher as he is now, when the
mischief is out, the country might have
been spared the biggest sensational scandal
Of the age.
A bank teller in Brooklyn prefers to have
the two cents passed in with all checks, ..as
he thereby gets the licking of the stamps,
and saves the expense Of lunch.
The Spiritualists file an application, on
behalf of the Spiritualists, for Sunday ser
vices with all the Spiritualistc rites and
ceremonies at the Work House. They ask
no more privileges than are granted the
Roman Cotholics.
Bowen was a partalzer of the sacrament
in Plymouth Church on Sunday. There
ougAtto be confidence enough in him after
that to make him competent witness in
the case of the pastor.
It is noticeable fact, as indicated by the
result of municipal elections this year, that
those cities have thriven best and in
creased in population most rapidly which
elect Democratic tickets by large maiori-
ties.
The modern sphinx: Henry c. Bowen
1 could tale unfold. Beecher-Keep si-
lence, implore thee! TiltOn-FOr heaY-
ems sake, do not speakl
The Freedman's Bank of the District
will pan out about ten cents on dollar
possibly more if the creditors can hold on
to their claims.
The N Y San intimates that Joe How
ard, who forged an emancipation procla-
nation and palmed it upon the public as Mr.
Lincoln's, wrote the part of Gen. Tracy's
speech in opening the case for the defense
which the General himself didn't write.
Tracy's attempt to vindicate himself in
the matter ofaccepting Tilton's confidence,
and drawing out of him a statement of his
case and then perfiduously using the infor-
nation gained against him, as Beecher's
counsel, exposes him to the contempt of
every honorable man, and should put him
beyond the limit of a respectable bar. His
subterfuge, if sufficient to sooth his self
respect, seems but childish and weak to
most others.
Tennie c. Clafin is out in the papers
with card affirming the truth of Tilton's
testimony with reference to the procession
business, and she don't like Tilton much,
either. The story of Mrs. Palmer that the
two sisters and Theodore rode at the head
of the procession and carried flag, is de-
elared a muddled and fancy sketch.
Our neighbors over the border complain
of violation of the Washington Treaty on
the part of the United States Government
in exacting tariff on packages of preserv-
ed fish exported from Canada, and it is said
that the Home Government will make de-
mand for reparation and future observ-
ance of the terms of the treaty. The dis
eovery has been made that the duty is on
the tin and not the fish, so they are easier.
The embryonic grasshopper is having
serious time in Minnesota. Numerous re-
ports are received going to show that the
severe winter, though bearing hard on the
sufferers from last years devastations of
the pest, has at the same time proved a'great
blessing in that it has so frozen up the myr-
lads of eggs deposited by the insects that
the power to germinate has been lost.
The beauties of Credit 'Mobilier manage
ment have been again illustrated, if the
stories Of the San Francisco papers sare
true, by the late wash-out on the Union
Pacific. It is stated that the embanIments
which were swept away consisted of loose |
soil and alkai dust, which becomes mere
mud when water pours upon it. No ''rag-
ing torrent" is needed to sweep it away. 1t !
oozes away. The culverts, too, are said to |
be altogether too small and wretchedly |
bnilt. twas this sort of sham which was
certified by dishonest officials to be s.irst-
class road"
Indianapolis is Oneof the cities of growth.
The aggregate amount of manufactnrino
in 1874 was $S2, 800, 900, being an increase
over 1878 of upwards of $4,000 The
main increase was in the amount of iron
and wood articles turned out from the mills
and manufactures. The grain and pork
trade of the city also summed up much
heavier in 1874 than in 1873. The railroad
shipments for five months in the past year
amounted to $40, 81, ,273-an average Of |
s9,s7s,254 per month, or $11s, ,491, ,O4s |
year.
The case for the defense in the Beecher
scandal suit was rested on Friday last, 30th
ult., without the introduction of Mrs. Til
ton as witness, though the counsel for
plaintiff had sienified a narfao+ ,,;iI;,o-,o..