Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-11-10
THE TELEGRAPH.
AsHTABULA. OHIO.
Friday Morning, Nov. 10th, 1875.
If there ever was a political corpse,
wranned M and laid out. Gen. Jack Case

ming as fixed fact.
Fears are entertained in New York of
water famine, and the Commissioner Of
Public works has issued circular asking
people to avoid extravagant use Of tie
precious Croton.
q vessel of ESQ tons was launched the
other day at Alexandra, Va. This is the
first vessel Of her size launched from a ship
yard in that city, or from any point on the
Potomac. for thirty-fOur years.
The President has accepted the invita-
ton of the Centennial Commission to for
mally close the Exhibition on the 10Th
inst. He will be ACCOMPANIED to Phliadei-
phia by the members of the Cabiner.
A dispatch from Rome announces the
death Of Cardinal Antouelli, on the 9Th.
His fortune, instead of going to the church,
as might be expected, the dispatch says,
goes to his family. His fine collections of
gems. antiquities. works of art, ETC., are
bequeathed to the Vatican Museum.
The average Republican majority in Col
orado was L, ,4SO. The Republicans have a
majority of 12 in the State Senate, and .
majority of 10 in the Legislature. In the
whole Assembly there will be 80 Republi-
cans and 25 Democrats, giving the former
a majority Of two-thirds on joint ballot.
JEFF Davis, when chief of the Southern
Confederacy, offered reward Of ten thou
sands dollars for the capture of Ben Butler,
dead or alive. The offer still exists. no
doubt. and when the Southern Con1edera-
CIV gets control ofthe United States through
Tilden's election, Buffers head will not be
safe.
Micajah T. Bailey, one of the Oldest pro-
vision brokers of Cincinnati, died on the
18th, two hours after taking dose cyanide
of potassium. which had been substituted
for prussiate potassium by the druggist
preparing prescription for the deceased.
Mr.. Bailey was father of David H. Bailey,
at present United States Consul at Hong
Kong.
The Republicans made grand display
on Friday night of last week in New York.
Twenty-Five thousand voters carrying
torches is decidedly good for a party whose
entire strength in the city is estimated at
only sixty thousand. The fact is tn Re-
publican party in New York city has grown
tremendously, and, under promise of a fair
election, they intend to vote.
The bogus tax-rsceipt blanks which were
captured in Philadelphia. were traced to
New York at a hearing of the case on Fri
day Of last week. The bundles were put
on the ferry boat at the foot of Liberty ST.,
New York city. Tilden's Literary Bureau
is on Liberty street. The three men caught
with the bundles were held for trial, being
placed under bonds of 5000 each.
Gold is coming to the United States in a
steady stream in payment for American
products. A London dispatch of Saturday
of last week says, the sum of $500, 900 in
specie was Withdrawn from the Bank Of
England for shipment to New York. 1t is
a proud endorsement of Republican rule
and Republican measures, under which the
balance of trade has at last turned in our
favor.
The threatenings of war on the other side
of the water. have had the effect to stimu-
late emigration. The subjects of the Gar
made this an occasion for turning their
backs upon their country and government.
The A. & G. W. road has found this to its
advantage. A train of seven cars of these
people passed westward on this line last
week-probably but the first flow of that
tide.
That was blow from the shoulder which
the rebel General Mosby'gave Tilden, in his
denial of the stories set afoat by Tilden's
New York bureau that he (Nosby) had re
ceived offices from Grant. The rebel chief
tain spoke the truth when he said: "But
for the advice of such men as Tilden at the
North the South never would have plunged
into the disasterous war of secession.
In the case of Mary E. Sibley VS.. the
Village of Chardon, tried in the United
States Circuit Court at Cleveland, YER
dict of 50, 566.66 was rendered for the
plaintiff. The action was for $1,000 dam
ages, the plaintiff suing for that amount as
an offset against certain injuries received
by fall upon a dilapidated board side
walk, for the bad condition of which the
city was responsible.
The work of reform still goes on in the
sunny South. The latest instance is the
assassination of Herman York, chairman of
the Republican Executive Committee of
Baker Co., Ga. Mr.. York was man of
high standing, and his single influence had
much to do with the Republican victory in
Baker county in October. This fact was
undoubtedly the motive for his murder,
which Immediately followed harangue by
a Democratic orator.
The London Post, in leader, announces
that England has proposed a conference at
Constantinople. The conference is sum-
moned en- the basis of the integrity and in
of the Ottoman Empire. The
Will be identical with Lord
Derby's peace proposals. The parties par
ticipating viii be required to pledge them
selves to renounce selfish objects of teritori-
al aggrandizement. The Standards Paris
dispatch confirms the foregoing announce
ment.
Judge Hoar has a wit which is as ready
IS it is dry. He was speaking at Lancaster
One night last week, and had just said that
the Convention which nominated Butler
had in it men who were opposed to the
General, when a Butler sympathizer cried
out ''How many" II don't know" said
the Judge, "TenT asked the same voice.
THAT was the number Of righteous men
that would have been sufficient to save
Sodom," retorted the Judge, and there
were no further Interruptions.
A new industry has sprung into exist
enee in furnishing a substitute for sand or
saEdust used in sprinkling the floors of sa-
ioons and restaurants. The new material
Is Oh paper and is the particles sccumulat-
!llng from the process Of perforating heavy
paper used in working notices for framing,
commonly called mats. Instead of being
FetnFped 70 the paper mills. as beretofora
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