Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-01-15

ganty alfred European iadles drawn 10
dinner party in baby-carriages by naked
coolies.
Ann Eliza says that thirteen of Brig
hams daughters sat in the front seas
and made faces at her the first time she
lectured.
Dean Stanley offered the pulpit Of St.
PauPs to Bishop Colenso, but the Bishop
of London, not wishing that fine eathe-
dral to be struck by lightning, interfered.
The woodruff was sued the other day,
for $40O intrusted to her for investment
in the days of her brokerage, and before
those of her obscenity.
DIR. Leighton Coleman, Bishop-elect Of
the new Wisconsin Diocese Of Fon du
Lac, can afford to accept the position.
He married Miss Dupont. of Whining
ton. Del, and is consequently indepenl-
ent of salary.
Carl Schurz made temperate speech
in the Senate against the Government
policy in the management OF the Louisi-
ana "banditti." Schurz has an eye TO re-
election-and this, evidently, is sop to
his constituents.
The New York Graphic feels certain
that Mr. Kinsella, who has been made to
pay $4,000 for seducing Mrs. Field. win
have the full sympathy and friendship Of
Mr.. Beecher, whom ne championed in
the day of bis trouble.
Mrs. Stowe, according 10 writer, is in
a perpetual reverie about her characters.
''She is q literary sensnalist.H says this
scribe, absorbed in the happiness of peo-
pling new worlds" Unlike her brother,
she has never assisted TO people the pres
ent one very much.
Gov. Bagley, of Michigan, IN his snnu-
al message 10 the Legislature, recon-
mends the passage of a law to close all
drinking places on holidays.
That is wholesome. Every day that
can be suggested for closing is just so
many towards a continual closing.
Brooklyn is the most notoriously wick
ed city in the United States. 1t has, in
addition. TO other criminal curiosities, a
man named Haigh, member of Pres
byterian Church, in good standing, who
is charged with polygamy by three con.
fding women, who made Hsigh their
husband while the sun shOne.
Tie European Governments are taking
action against the potato bug. De-
crees have been Illuminated and -instruc-
tions promulgated to bar his progress but
all TO no effect If the Colorado potato
bug has made up his mind to take
European trip next Summer he viii go
that is all there is about it.
Washington dispatches say that Gener;
al and Mrs. Carried held an unannounced
reception on the day after Christmas, to a
young ambassador from the court of the
celestials-one of the sort poet cally sup
posed TO come trailing clouds of glory"
His fighting weight is ten pounds, and in
politics he is Red Republican.
The Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Ma
chine Co. in the city of New York has
made another move The new building,
which is a scale. of splendor SURPRISING
anything that has preceded it, is on
Union Square, where the numerous
friends of this excellent machine may en-
joy very pleasant and repaying visit.
Leighton Coleman, of Toledo, o., has
been elected Bishop of the Northern Di-
ocese of Wisconsin. His exact theolog-
ical standing is in dispute. The clergy
say he is High Church, and the laity
that he is Low Church Dr. Dekoven
was urged as candidate, but the laity
refused to entertain his name for mo-
ment
We have entered upon the last quarter
of the nineteenth century. and it is a no.
table fact that with the exception of
Queen Victoria and Plus TX, there are
now living no European rulers who held
sway twenty-five years ago, and no ex-
Presidents elected by the people within
the last quarter of century. are now in
the flesh.
The law givers and solons assembled at
Columbus, gathered in caucus on Tue
day evening last, and agreed upon reso-
luton denouncing Gen. Sheridan, and
favoring the impeachment of President
Grant if he sustains Sheridan. 1t would
be interesting TO see what effect the read
ing of that resolution may have upon our
''Uesar" of the White House. They
should prick up their ears and wait and
listen, for peradYenture they might hear
something drop.
Rumors of dissensions in the Cabinet
over the Louisiana muss are aboundIng.
Secretary Fish has been going to resign
at any time for four years, and such ter
rible rumors, by this time, ought to be-
gin 10 fall lightly upon the soul It will /
be noticed that the correspondents have
picked out for resignation the men in the |
Cabinet whom the Republicans can least |
afford TO spare-such as Fish, Jewell, and |
Bristow. We don't hear that Williams
has any intentions o fresigning.
a New York dispatch reports that
Gov. Dix has confirmed the removal by |
Mayor Vance, of New York of two of |
the Commissioners of Charity and Cor
rections. Their cffense was extending
too much lenlency and privileges 70 |
William NJ Tweed, the famous inmate
of the penitentiary, and in permitting
him to leave his room in the prison
when he saw proper during the day,
driving with the warden quarter of
mile from the prison, usually going to
the latter's residence unattended by a
keeper.
Spain has offered TO settle the Virginia
question on the same basis as that allow
ed Great Britain, paying five hundred
pounds for the family of every white i
person killed, and three hundred pounds
for every colored family. BUTT was not
the sum that our Government objected
TO but the discrimination on account of /
race. OF course such proposition could
not be. entertained by a Government
which recognizes no distinction between
black and white. Some new basis of set
is now being sought, and it is
believed one will soon be reached.