The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1875-12-10
TIRE NEW SENATOR FROM CON.
NECTICUT.

tSh +" be thftett states senator In
place OF Hon. q. :. Ferry, deceased.
Governor English is II native OF New
Haven, where he still resides. He was
born in 1872, and received common
school education. He was Mt AN early
age aPprenticed to II carpenter, and
became IL master builder before he was
tWenty-one years Old. He was TOR
some years engaged in the lumber
trade, and amassed a fortune which
was largely increased by subsequent
investments in real estate, manufactur.
ing and banking. He is now one OF
the richest men in Connecticut. His
career as u public man began in 1865,
when he was elected to the State Iegts.
turc. The next year he was elected ia
the state Senate, to which he declined
II reelection in 1867. He was defeated
as II candidate for Lieutenant Governor
in 1860, but was the same year elected
| to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a
Representative for the second Connecti-
cut district. lie was reelected to the
Thirty-eishth Congress. In 1867 he
was elected Governor Of Connecticut,
defeating General JOSEPH, II. Kawley.
The next year he was elected to the
same position over Postmaster General
jewell, whom he again defeated in the
SovernorshiP canvass in 1871. He was
Al candidate for Congress in 1873, but
was defeated by stephen w. kellogg,
OF Waterbury. Mr.. English was u
member Of the state Legislature last
year. lie is Democrat, AS n matter of
course. lie will occupy his scat during
the entire present term of the Senate,
without doubt, the Legislature of the
State not meeting to choose his success.
sor until next May.-N. o. Republican.
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II will nc eighteen years the 7th of
next December since Il Democratic
speaker has been elected by the House
OF Representatives.. In that interval the
Republican party has controlled the
House for nine consecutive congresses.
At the beginning of the 'rhirty-fllth
congress Jamcs Il. Orr, of South Caro-
lima (wlo lately died as Minister to
Enssia,) was elected as ~ Democratic
speaker and served from December I,
1857 to March I, 1859. He was sue.
cccdcd by William Pennington, of New
Jersey, WHO was elected speaker IA q
, compromise Republican, after II pro-
tractcd ballotins and exciting contest
Of nearly eight weeks, on February /,
1860. Then came the Thirty-seventh
!, or war congress Of 1861, which met on
the lth of July, and elected Gulush,s
\. Grow, of Pennsylvania. Schuyler
COiGIN, of Indiana, succeeded him for
the Thir,y-cighth, Thirty-ninth and
). FOrticth congresses, and James G..
Blaine, OF Maine, in turn succeeded
MIR. tOlitN for the Forty first, Forty
second and FOrty-third congresses.
l.. Mr.. Blaine, therefore, has tho honor Of
@ giving way for II Democratic speaker
The next House is overwhelmingly
Democratic. OF the 232 members, the
Democrats have I7s, the Republicans
los, the independents 8.
The are three telegraph, cables across
the Atlantic. The first, laid in 1866.
extends from Nnlcntia bay, Ireland,
to Hearts Content, Newfoundland.
The cable is 1854 miles long, and the
net distance tr;,vcrscd is 1860 miles.
The second, the French cable, from
lircst, France, to st. Pierre, near the
= gulf"t st. Lawrence, 2,:}25 miles, thence
to DuNbury, Mass, TOP miles--totni
as the direct cable, laid in June, 1874,
= from II point - IniIcssouth Of Nalentia
.; Bay 10 New Hampshire, is n little
over :, 400 miles long.
. The expenditures Of the pOst-Ofiice re
II subject of much concern to the post J.
master general, and it does not seem to
Y be easy to reduce the annual charge OF
IS, OOO, 900 upon the Treasury. The
being j per cent, :,s used to be custom
AIRY, has fallen to !, per cent. This Is
largely attributable to the decrease OF
letter postage consequent upon the
depression in business, but il is partly
attributable TO the loss to the revenue
ranking the county newspapers.
The supreme Court Of Wisconsin has
recently decided that the whipping o,
. !, child by IL public school teacher is All
assault and battery, and thatan offend
ing teacher may be lined, "a well as
held answcrablc for violating the dig.
nifty of the law.
John Surratt married Il Virginia lady
last year aud is now teaching school a
Il village in Maryland, about twent,
y miles thence. Miss Surratt married,
Treasury clerk, but immediately aftC
the nuptais he was dismissed from a.,
department.
Mississirri's United States Senator
To- succeed Hon. j l.. Acorn, will II
tx.lx. al l,,p I :sl H.