Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-03-17

l0f REFORM, ana InaJ no lugSies Va VIZ
Confederate majority in Congress can put
out Of remembrance the record OF the
Democratic party, nor obscure Its reae-
tiOnary policy.
The report that Queen Victoria has con-
tTibuted ten thousand pounds sterling TO
the Improvement fund" Of the city of
ouebec. proves to have its origin in the Of
fee of a too sanguine local journal. The
Queen has a large family to provide for,
and marketing is high.
BeIknap's first prompt acknowledgement
of his guilt recalls Bacon's course under
not dissimilar circumstances. q do plain
y and ingenuously confess, said the Chan
cellOr, ''that ! am guilty of corruption,
and so renounce all defence. bsseech your
Iordshps to be merciful to broken reed. .
There is story that there has been q
rain Of raw meat down in Kentucky. If
there is not revival of the business indus
tries of the country before long, these
showers may be necessary cut Of Kentucky
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for holding starvation at bay, as was the
miraculous provisions of quail for the hum
CRY and starving Israelites in the wilder
ness.
The recent murder of the captain and p:-
lot of German schooner by Chinese pi-
rates has aroused the ire of Bismarck, and
he viii require absolute satisfaction from
the Pekin Government. The claim is sup
ported by the American and English repre-
sentatiyes, and Admiral Ryder, of the Brit
ish Navy, has rendered his squadron to aid
the German war ships if necessary.
The local elections in Maine on Monday,
of last week, failed to show the powerful
reaction which was predicted as the result
of the War Department exposures. In
Portland, the Republicans elected their
Mayor, overcoming Democratic majority
Of over 500 in 1874, and in various other
larger cities throughout the State, Repub-
lican victories and gains are reported.
An the big scoundrels are not collected
within the boundaries of the United States.
Belgium has just furnished magnificent
proof of this assertion. A clerk in the Ma
tional Bank of that Kingdom has recently
brought TO close operations in eEnbezzle-
ment aggregating 81, 100000. He had set
sail for New York Oh the steamship City of
Paris, but was arrested at Queenstown:
The discovery has been made in Chicago
that a company is organized to furnish pro-
fessional witnesses and jurymen in all cases
IN the principal cities. This is, we suppose,
upon the theory that witnesses and jury
men have the same right to aspire to pro-
fessional standing that is commonly exer-
cised by the legal profession with the pledge
to do the best they can by their clients.
The Senate on Friday last passed the bill
for the admission Of New Mexico as State
in the American Union. Two Senator's and
one member of Congress viii represent a
constituency very little larger numerically
than one of the wards of Chicago, and with
a degree of intelligence and capacity for
State Government too inconsiderable for
comparison with any region north of the
Rio Grande.
| A sable resident Of Charlotte, North Car
olina, approached citizen the other day
and asked if it would be great sacrifice on
his part to accept an Office. "Fur," he con-
tinued, fswe niggers wants somebody for
Mayor what'l let de cows run loose, what'll
let de bar-rooms stay open on Sunday, and
whatn let the gamblers raise hell every
night il dey wants to, and you is just de
man dat we wants."
The bankruptcy of Mr.. Daniel Drew is
not much Of shock to Wall Street. Mr..
Drew has been practically out Of business
for year-a fact to which the compare
lively modest amount of the liabilities of
the once redoubtable operator bears ample
testimony. But petition in bankruptcy
is not, perhaps, very brilliant ending to
thirty years Of stock-iobbing. It is, how
ever, valuable in the way of moral homily.
Daniel Drew is liable upon the endorse
ment of the note of the Drew Theological
Seminary, at Madison, N. J., in the sum of
| $3.50, 600, and also on the endorsement of a
note to the seminary at Middleton, Ct, in
| 800, 600. These two notes are unsecured.
His other unsecured liabilities amount to
between $1O0, 200 and $500, 900. The
amount of ali liabilities secured and unse-
cured is about 81, 500, 900. He dates the
beginning of his financial misfortunes to
the loss Of million on corner fsNorth-
western two or three years ago.
Accounts are received Of fearful torna-
do which occurred on Friday last at Hazel
Green, Wis, a thriving town, situated in
the middle of large and fertile prairie,
abont twelve miles north of Galena, H.
Death and destruction were dealt out at
terrible rate. Nine persons were known to
have been killed outright, large number
were seriously injured, and the damage to
properly was appalling. The storm-waye
rolled over Dubuque and vicinity, though
with its force far spent, and considerable
damage was done by the lightning, rain and
wind.
From time immemorial it has been the
custom OF the House of Representatives at
Washington to furnish pens, ink, paper
and mncilage for the reporters gallery, but
the present Democratic House, in its small
potato economy, has shut down on the ex-
trayaganee, and now every, reporter Who
has a seat IN the gallery goes fully equipped
to his work, having pens, ink and paper Of
his own under his arm. =.
1t discriminating sincerity in the
work Of economy is forcibly apparent when
taken in connection with the appropria-
ton, the other day, for printing 800 900
copies Of old and all but useless reports Of
the Agricultural Bureau, showing the bol-
lowness and pretense Of their new-fonnd
zeal for economy and retrenchment.
The manifestoes Of the revolted Generals
in Mexico, throw no light on the causes
that led them to pronounce against the ex-
isting Administration. It is not probable
they have any causes justifying revolt. It
is the old story Of personal ambition. Diaz
wants to be President or Dietator. He is
not satisfied with the constitutional mode
of arriving at the high Office. It is too slow,
and he possibly fears an appeal to the suf-
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