Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-04-16
THE TELEGRAPH.
AsHTABULA. OHIO.
Friday Morning, April Is, 1875.
THE NEWS N BRIEF.


have another chance.
The Republican State Convention Will
be held on the Cd of June.
The Fourth Reformed Episcopal
Chnrch has been organized ID Chi'"
byRish69 Cheney.
Fen years aga-On WednesdsY. s'a.,oS mO,a,os
Secretary Stanton sent his last dispatch
70 Cen, Dix-"Abraham Lincoln is
dead"
Psrson Brownlow is getting ready to
.nswer Andy Johnson's intemperate and
scandaious speech. The matter is in good
hands,
In the course of few weeks, says the
Pittsburgh Telegraph, ten thousand men
viii be put 10 work on the Philadelp hla
Centennial buildings.
Governor Allen is reported to have
said that every rascal implicated IN me
Woed County bribery business, shouiu
have. been promptly kicked out OF 'ne
House.
"Tbe CINCINNATI Commercial, in IFS new
outft saws the Bucyrus Farmer, is as
handsome as a vestal virgin" after her
morning ablutions-might have been
added.
The quantity of iron to be used in the
construction of the Centennial buildings
viii aggregate about six thousand tons,
of which more than fve-sixths will be
wrought.
The removal of Mr. Howe from the
superiptendency of the Reform Farm
completes the partizan labors of ousting
Republican officials from the institutions
of the State.
The New York Tribune, on taking pos
session of its new building, publishes the
figures of lis daily circulation, showing
an average in March OF 46, ,467, and thus
far in. April of 5O,2SO.
sItwill be fashionable this year to have
all sorts of things suspended from ladies'
waists the same as last year-perfumery
bottles. fans, market baskets, broomsr
portemonnaies, etc. etc.
The spinners in one of the mills in
Lowell having quit work on the 18th, all
the other mills fell into line and agreed
on the next night to discharge their
hands in the same branch.
One of the strange things about Jewell
and Bristow is their InfatuatiOn about
running their departments on business
principles This is a peculiarity not like
Iy.to last long in the Washington atmos-
phere. sEa s
Assurances come from Washington
that there is no ground for the apprehen-
sion of trouble with Mexico, but that, on
the contrary, the diplomatic relations
between the two Governments were new
er more smieable.
A Chicago Times reporter, undertook
the task of interviewing Col Fred Grant,
the other day. The bearing of the inter
viewer was denominated impudent, and
he was told he might go to the devil, ol
stay away just as he pleased.
"You that have tears, prepare to shed
them now is the advice of Shakespeare
and the injunction would seem to be bind.
ing on Beecher's friends, for while he
weeps should not his admirers sympa-
thize with him and weep alsof
Since A. ]. has opened his mouth in the
Senate public curiosity has been satisfied,
and be. has dropped as quietly out of no.
tice' as he did after 1859. 1t was the same
oldspeech, and now the people know
that ]. has nothing more in him.
Over Dsy.tfUe thousand n1sllioas of dol
lars passed through General Spinners
Office during the time he held it, and the
losses of all kinds were less than one dol
lar on s million. he goes out of Office,
it is said, in very moderate circumstances.
The effort on the part of the Catholics
ofNew York City to have their parochi
cal schools placed on the same footing
with The public schools. and share the
common fund with them, has met SO
strong an opposition that it will probab
ly be defeated.
Cincinnati has different way of en-
ploying her tramps from anything YET
heard ofhere-she sent them to the polls
at the late election. There is no dou BIT a
deal of unexpended patriotism about these
fellows, that would naturally lead them
in that direction.
A better state of things Is reported
from the scene of the mining disturban-
ces in PennsylYania. The State troops
viii remain on the ground for the pres
ent, and already some 1900 miners have
returned TO work, with prospect that
others win soon follow.
A Washington letter writer communi-
Gates the following: "Alter W cary years
of continual legislative quarreling the
location of our national Capitol itself was
fixed by JEFFERSON and HAMILTON in a
single genial hour at last, over bottle OF
wine at well ordered table,"
The Secretary Of the Navy has decided
to use part of the appropriation voted
him SO that his Department may be prop
erly represented at the Centennial cele-
bration next year, 10 increasing the Ma
rine Band to seVenty-fVe musicians, and
to make II the best in the country.
Beeehers denials appear to be too
sweeping. and become rather trying to
ones credulitY. Can't he give us few
shreds Of truth in such volumes of false
hood as he charges especially upon Mrs.
Moultonf These wholesale denials make
us little suspicious that this is about all
there is OF It,
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
has appointed James G. Swan snecial
agent to collect Indian curiosities for the
Exhibition, at Washington Territory and
British Columbia. Henry E. Little will
collect Indian curiosities in Alaska. An
effort is being made TO secure Peruvian
relics and curioslties,
The policy of Germany touching the
recreant Catholic Bishops is a very SIM
pie one. If they refuse to support the
State, the State will refuse to support
them. The laws must be obeyed If they
are to be paid. They have the alternative
and must choose between allegiance to
Rome and bread and butter at home.
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