Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-03-12
THE TELEGRAPH.
AsHTABULA. OHIO.
Friday Morning, March l2, 1875.
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Whalebonel
Isabelia Parrish having been tried AD'
convicted at Akron, for assisting u w.,
raging 3 young girl of fourteen ye,1' y;,.1,;. ! -
ON the stb. sentenced to the Peni''H '' ;
for three years.
DR.. Mary Walker regrets now .ns' lns
c;vi, Riobts bill passed without designa-
,ine The length of feminine skirts, the ma
te-isI OF feminine underclothing, and the
color OF feminine hose.
Now that Congress has adjourned, it is
rumored that Ben Butler viii enter the
Brooklyn scandal case. as q friend of the
plaintiffs, Tiltcn and MoultOn with Bow
en- and Woodruff as witnesses. That will
answer for an item.
Senator Maddox, of Virginia, assigned
his pay as Senator to Congressman D.
Amber Smith, and drew it. He has
been found guilty Of theft, and that irreg-
ularity is to be condoned in the peniten-
tisrv. Bad for Senator Maddox.
The Louisiana legislature came to
prOrogation by limitation, the other day
without passing its appropriation bills
which necessilates the calling of an extra
session, to keep the wheels OF State turn
ing.
A bill is pending in the legislature of
New York, which is likely to pass, per-
mitting wife to testify in cases where
her husband is party. This will enable
Mrs. Tilton to be placed in the witness
box, and testify against her husband.
The eadoption of the Prussian Parlia-
ment of the new ecclesiastical bill with
drawing state endowments from the Cath
olic clergy, is considered secured.
A special dispatch from Berlin to the
Pal Mall GagetsS-March Essays it is
reported that the German Government
has demanded the dismissal of the Papal
Nuncio at Munich and the cessation Of
relations between the Vatican and Be-
YarIa.
A halifax dispatch from St. Johns,
Newfoundland, says the bodies of over
forty persons who died at St. Johns this
winter have been temporarily inferred in
the snow, which lies IN such immense
quantities in the cemeteries as to prevent
the opening of graves.
Mr. Ovington, who recently testified for
the defense in the Beecher- TiltOn case,
and intended to start Immediately for Eu-
rope, will be turned from that purpose by
q subpoena from the plaintiffs counsel.
The'U. s. Steamer Saranac sailed from
San Francisco for Mexican ports, on Sat
urday. 1t is rumored that she will call at
Acapulco and inquire into recent out
rages on American citizens.
A collection Of statistics from all the
railway lines in the State of Minnesota,
shows the total amount of wheat on hand
to be s,S44, ,740 bushels, against SOS, ,779
bushels at the same date in 1874 de-
crease Of s,7Os,OS9 bushels.
Andy johnson has defined his position
to an interviewer, and is represented
to have placed himself above and beyond
party trammels.. He goes for his country
and the Constitution, with no old scores
to wipe out-friends to reward or enc
mics to punish. This is hopeful What
be now needs most is to sign the pledge
and give up his toddy.
onaccount Of the Civil Rights bill some
of the Southern landlords have surrender
ed their license, and opened boarding
houses. In Virginia, bill has been in
troduced in the House of Delegates to
punish parties for making in hotels, thea
tres, &c, DO isterous demands for accomo-
dation, subjecting to punishment By fine
and imprisonment
The Buffalo Board of Trade has pre-
sented q memorial to the Canal Commits
sioners of the State of New York, which
shows by statistics the declining com.
merce of the Empire State, and suggests
remedies therefor The Board of Trade
does not content itself with suggesting
the reasons therefor.
The cost of transporting bushel of
wheat from BufaIo to New York, by the
Erie Canal. last year, was 10 cents. or
this the State took in tolls 81. Corn was
taken by railroad during the months Of
July and August for from to X cents
including Iighterage. The;obiect is to Sc
,,,,,.rfa radunfior of thaae rates
Plymouth Church has. It is said, been /
passing round the hat, and raised $685. |
900 for meeting the expenses of the trial
Il has adopted, but Bowen. who is one of
the e,ohcers, does not approve the meas
ure, and protests with frmness to being
made party 10 the transaction.
Henry Varley, English Evangelist
from London, preached in New York re-
Gently, to congregation Of about seven
thousand people, in the course ofwhich
be referred to the religious revivals being
carried on in England by Moody and
7anky, which he said we're attended with
Ereat success.
. It is one of the funny phases of society,
which, If not general, certainly holds true
within the circle Of our acquaintance, that
while the ladies are almost fierce in their
iefense Of Beecher. they are never heard
o express thought of sympathy for
Mrs. Tilton-in view Of the suferfngs and
that embitter her present life,
md promise to follow her to the grave.
A case involving the same principle as &
hose between Bill Chapman and Garv 9
nd the L. s. 6 N. s. Co.,-ejectment
rom the cars for not procuring tickets t
efore taking the cars, has just been tried !
2 Toledo, and resulted in judgment for /
In this case the plaintiff '
sfBsed to pay cents forfeiture, before he
Ias put Of
Itissaid that some of the Brooklyn law.
ers begin to wish they were Idead. One
them had determined to withdraw from
le suit, but yielded to the pressure to re-
lain. One Of the jurors is likely to peg
ut whether he wishes IT or no. No one
9 think, win be likely to pass the terrible
rdeal but the Brooklyn lady attendants 7
I'd the "happiest man in the world"- u
hose happiness appears to be in the IA.
Q Of bis endurance.
A. J. is quite lion at the CapI,ol- =
,OWds of persons focked tn cstol,