Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-06-09

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machine, which CAN he done at a
cost, it is stated, of one penny per
pound; which done, one man with a
single machine can distribute the
type forming a page of the london
Times in one hour, which it would
require ten good printers to do in
the same time..a These are big state
ments to make in behalf of a new
machine; but, if flatheyio are true, it
will prove one of the biggest inven-
tions of the age in the way of labor
saving. a..so4 SIS 10 soii1.
A. PIG's-TA1L WH1s1LE.-In this
case is one of the most curious arti-
cles either in the Women's Depart
ment or any other department of the
Exhibition. 1t is no less than whis-
tie made from pigs tall, This eau
dal appendage has been hardened by
some mysterious process, and from it
has been made whistle. The mus
ical Instruments very much twisted,
as might be expected when tie ma
terial from which it is manufactured
is taken into consideration, but still
it gives forth a shrill noise, and is in
every respect a veritable whistle.
Over this strange exhibit are in
scibed the following lines:
There's proverb as ancient as scotland's
That put Of pigs tail you can't make a
We believe we've accomplished the wonder
And an who may wish can make this tail
1t is to be presumed that this tri-
umph has been achieved by some one
of the feminine gender, but the lady
has modestly withheld her name
from an anxiously inquiring public,
Three circumstances marking -reyolu-
ton in japanese national and social ideas,
are reported by the latest news from that
country. Gas has been. introduced in the
streets of one Of the ancient cities; the
daughter of high official has married an
sttaehe Of the French Embassy, it being
the first instance of such an alliance, and
a Japanese consulate is to be established in
London.
Chicago has been selected as the place
for holding the session of the Presbyterian
General Assembly for 1877 In view of the
probability that another. year viii bring
about reunion of the churches North and
South, separated by the bitter animosities
growing out of the war of the rebellion, the
session Of 1877 promises to be among the
most important and interesting in the his
tory Of the Presbyterian Church in Ameri-
ca.
B The policy of leniency by the Republican
party, or perhaps more properly, the Gov
eminent, toward the people recently in re-
bellion, may fairly be said to have resulted
in death by violence of at least 5000 Un-
ionists, white and black, since the COM
mencement of reconstruction, and also in
placing in power in the Lower House of
Congress political party dominated by ex,
Confederates, and aided in relegating back
into the control of disorderly whites nearly
every State reconquered to Federal author
ity by the Federal armies.
Henry Carey Baird, the veteran politico-
economist, who has Just returned from an
extended European tour, expresses the
opinion that France IS the only country
which to-day enjoys any real and substan-
tial prosperity, and this he attributes to
the fact that for 20 years she has maintain
ed an efficient system Of protection to her
industries, which have reached a higher
rdegreeof perfection than those of any 9th
er country. in the history Of the world. He
was assured by one Of the most prominent
bankers in England that never in his expe-
rienee had he'seen anything equal to the
disaster, depression and ruin which, at that
moment, surprised him on every side in the
latter country Throughout all England
there is a terrible. feeling of gloom and de-
preston. -lo35'i lia -.''1
Gen. Sheridan's orders from Gen, Sher-
man to afford protection to parties return
ing from the Black Hills and to parties en-
gagged in transporting supplies thither are
likely to be called into execution at once.
The dispatches reeite thatmore parties are.
leaving every day than arrive in a week,
and that large numbers of hostile Indians
are hanging around readytO attack when
ever an opportunity offers. All the young
warriors have left the Red Cloud Agency to
Join Sitting Bull in the north, and the in
dications are that the troops moving in
that direction viii have to contend against
the whole war force Of the Sioux.
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1t is now reported that the surrender of
Winslow y.Great Britain, is only deferred
until the Government can find a pretext
for making it without awkwardness Grad
ually public opinion in England has ar
rayed itself against the position taken by
the British Ministry and in favor Of that
of our Government, If Winslow shall be
given up, as it now seems probable, it viii
not be so much altriumph of diplomacy as
Of common sense. Equity, law and prece-
dent were on our side, and the calm iudg-
ment of the English people, in forming
which the English press did not seem to
have much influence, has finally conceded
all that we have claimed. The reason why
the British Government assumed on this
question a stand which itmust now aban-
don, still remains an inexplicable puzzle,
The Democrats Of this Congressional