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

General Burnside has been elected field
officer OF the New England battalion Of
the Centennial Legion.
Marshal MaeMahon was ''struck all Of a
heap" by the results of the late French
election, but he does not rebel against the
decree of the nation.
The Ohio State Journal propounds the
conundrum whether the Democratic Com
mittee on War Expenditures let Marsh go
for Pendleton's sake2
Yictoria's new title Of Empress Of India
is to be the forerunner Of proclamation
which is to be followed by the release Of all
the Fenian prisoners.
Drunkenness and cruelty are charged up
on the Superintendent Of the Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans Home, at Xenia, and
there is to be an investigation.
The trouble has begun in the Black Hills.
The Indians are on the war path. The
next we shall hear wiz be an appeal to the
Government to protect the miners in their
trespass on the property of the red skins.
orvflle Grant wants to be investigated.
General Schenck wants to be investigated.
Ex-senator Stewart wants to be investi-
gated General Love is ready to be inves-
tigated. The anxious seat is filing up rap
idly.
The trial Of VIM. Adm for the mnder of
Hattie Mckay, in Cleveland, resulted in a
verdict Of guilty of murder in the first de-
gree. he was sentenced to be hung on the
2Sd day Of june, between the hours Of 12
m. and p. m.
The people Of New York are excited over
the over-crowded condition Of their public
schools, which threatens the health Of one
hundred thousand children. There is
surplus Of thirty thousand children above
the capacity Of the school houses.
seSpelling bees" have been more develop
ed in England than here. On recent oc-
casion at Dunham, an freshman questioned
the judgments rendered on the word aHi-
bernian." A fight followed, in which one
man had his skull fractured, and is not ex-
pected to live.
Signs Of increasing dissatisfaction With
MacMahon's choice Of new Cabinet are
made manifest in manner 50 marked that
already it is predicted that the Ministry
cannot last. While Gambetta. is hostile
and hopeful, MacMahon is discouraged and
uneasy at the prospect. sd
Susan B. Anthony is leeturing on s'wO-
mans wants. That her own wants are
controlled by the simplest tastes, she fre-
questly gives evidence Of by standing side
wise TO the audience, and causing every
woman present mentally to calculate, ''Gra-
ciOust she doesn't wear anyin
The Pennsylvania Democrats are hang
ing back from the support Of Thurman be-
cause they say be cannot carry his own
State in the Democratic Convention. But
Thurman's friends, within the last fort
night, answer back, confidently, Of their
ability to do that much, anyhow,
A romantic young girl in Christian Co.,
Kentucky, clipped on her brown curls,
dressed IN boys clothes, and clandestinely
started for the Black Hills on foot. On the
first night. out that Indiana tornado found
her on mud road and rolled her around
for sbeut quarter Of mile. She return.
ed home
The appointment Of Judge TAFT to the
WarofReeis heartily approved on an hands.
In his own State, especially, is the action
of the President considered most judicious
and sound, and one Of the best that could
have been made as a rehuke TO the corrup-
tions Of the Zines.
The Senate on Tuesday, by vote Of 25
to 20, passed the bin reducing the salary
Of the President from $4,000 to $4,000
per annum. Among the Republicans.
Dawes, Ferry, Hitchcock Logan, Morrill,,
Of Vermont, Morton, cOnkling, Wright
Clayton, and Patterson voted aye. OF the
Danocrztic Senator'S, Bayard, Cooper,
nsvfg kud JSsnses d Fitdgidahs sbsed ID.