Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-01-14

OBTAIN tne necessary tHO-tulius fObo.
The yield OF the Ohio Coal mines the
year-just passed win exceed 100000
tons.
Missouri can boast eight doomed MUIR
ders who are soon to pass through the
hangmsn's hands into eternity.
Grand Rapids is excited over the dis
eoyerv of Scotch or Aberdeen granite in
lis vicinity. 1t is said to take very fine
polish.
In the Senate bill was introduced to
make the decision Of boards of county
auditors on valuation of railroad proper
ty, final
It's 4 sad reflection that.whichever wa y
the currency question is decided. nearly
half Of the Democratic party win be dis
appointed.
One or two more Charley Ross have
been found of late. but their nomencla-
ture was rather difficult TO harmODize
with Charley's.
Tennessee monOpolized the capital
punishment business on Friday of last
week, no less than three, one white and
two black, executions occurring in that
State
un is the desire of the leaders OF the
Democratic party to identity themselves
with the lost cause, Mr.. Blaine seems to
have offered them tempting opportuni-
ty, on Monday last.
Henry Q. Bowen did not purchase
sitting in the recent sale Of Plymouth
Church pews. His still, small voice
with $500 or 5000 at the end oiit, was
anxiously awaited-but it came not.
Mrs. Wiehaus, a German woman of
Lawrence, Mass, recently became the
mother OF i've children at one birth. and
all are alive and doing well. She had
previously given birth TO a single child,
tEin Ms and Iripleis, successfully.
z Sympathy for the victims of the rigor
GUS ecclesiastical laws in Germany is
taking practical form in England. The
Catholic Association of Great Britain
has issued call tor subscr plions for the
relief of the priestly sufferers, and the
subscriptions are large and free.
Bismarck has proposed an increase of
the tax on beer, but the Relchstag, or
Legislative department of the Govern
ment, disagreed with the Chrncellor, and
he was constrained to withdraw his pro-
position. It would be a little funny if
the German staff of life should be restrict
ed out Ofuse.
All the churches invited by Mrs. Moul-
ton to the Mutual Conncil have been
he ard from, and all have accepted. The
list is said to include some of the most
eminent clergymen in the denomination.
This looks well. But will the lawyers
be brought in to show the Council how
not 10 do it, or viii it be left to the sim
pie common sense of that body TO reach
conclusion? That is question Of so me
interest.
"a memorial, to be brought before Con-
gress, asking for Congressional aid for
Tom Ecott's Southern Pacific railroad
project, has been in circulation in this
place, receiving the signatures of some
Of our principal business men. It was
presented by Mr. John Laying, Of Pitts
burgh, who; as he informed US, means to
pay his respects to the constituency of
Mr.. Garfield of the 18th District, for
their endorsement of the project.
There is apparently no want OF indus
try in our Legislature. The number of
bills that have already been submitted
by both houses approaches one thous-
and, and that figure, it is expected, will
be made plump during the session-a
thing Of somewhat rare occurrence. The
rate at which they are manufactured is
prodigious and unprecedented, and
would be alarming but for the hope that
n;ne-tenths of them will be strangled in
the committee room, like litter of SD
perhuous kittens.
The Inauguration of Gov. Hayes came
of at Columbus, last Monday, according
te the programme previously arranged,
save in the matter of not having antici-
pated such a sudden and sharp change in
the weather. Gov. Allen briefly intro
duced Gen. Hayes, and said he had no
"doubt be would be punctilIous il the
discharge Of every duty imposed on him
by the oath of his Office" He cOnclud-
ed By saying-''of myselfiu retiring from
ofice have not a word to say" And |
then stepped out Of the governors chair
to re-oceupy it never more.
There is believed to be imminent dan
ger OF an Indian outbreak at the Red
Cloud Agency in consequence of an in
sufficient supply of provisions. The
large number of Indians who gathered at
the Agency during sitIings of the Black
Hills Council, made heavy inroads upon
the eommissary department, and the
years stock Of supplies willibe exhaust
ed By the 1st of February. To avert the
threatened trouble with the hungry saw
ages an appropriation of $4,000 will be
asked for in order that provisions may
be purchased at once and forwarded 10
the Agency.
The Congregational churches chosen
As Mrs. Moulton's half of the Mutual
Counen manifest some eluctanoe to &C
cept the Invitation TO sit in Judgment
upon the Plymouth Church matter. It
WAs expected that a full list of the
churches comprising the Council would
have been furnish ed Friday evening,lAst
at the regular business meeting of Ply.
mouth Church. and that the necessary
arrangements could be at once perfected
for the assembly Of the Council but it
traDspIred that no replies had been re-
ceived to the requests sent out by Mrs.
MoultOn, and the matter was postponed
until Monday last.
The inaugural address OF Gov. Hayes
was dell vered on Monday last IS q part
OF the ceremonies Of the Inauguration.
II is to be found in our columne to-day.
It Is Characteristic of the man-mauly.
clear and able, and devoted mainly to the
subject of local and municipal indebted.
pess. The adoption of law is advooat.
ed, whereby the Constitutional provision