Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-11
THE TELEGRAPH.
AsHTABULA. OHIO
Friday Morning, Feb llth, 1876.

The revenues Of the Church Of fEpglAnd
fron iis vast iRgregsie of property
amount to e9S.OOO. 900.
Moody and Sankey are now in the city
Of New York, filing the Hippodrome
with the sweetest songs Of the one. and
the solemn appeals of the other Full
5000 people we're present on Monday
evening.
An irreverent scribbler says Wash
inkton was once asked to dine With
Jndee Jones. The chair in which be
wonld have sat If be had accepted the
invitation will be exhibited at the Gen.
tennial."
Gail Hamilton comes to the front
again, and advises girls TO look out for
physical health and beauty in husband.
That's all right enough for girls up to
certain age, but after that. as Gail very
well knows, husbands are not to be had
at a penny apiece
Plymouth Church has fixed upon the
18th inst. for the advisory council TO
meet There are III Congregational min
;siers and 90 who are without charges
fae former representing Congregational
ism in every State from Maine to Kansas
to form the council, If they will o
The salessof mess pork in the Chicago
market on Friday last aggregated 81, $50
barrels, the selling price of which was
about g., 700 900. This was exclusive of
the sales Of lard and meats. The ship
ments of meats on the previous day we're
nearly 2. SOC, ,0Oo pounds, or 1874 carloads.
The advantages or disadvantages Arls,.
ing from the combination of Church and
Stale were illustrated in London court
on Friday last, wherein certsin High
Church obserTanees. such as the use Of
tbe crucihx, the stations Of ihe cross, SOL
itary eOmmuni on, otc, were declared IL
legal.
The Springfield, QIsss) Republican
saws: "Sam Cox says he wants 10 bathe
IN the Jordan and drink from the Poel
of Bethesda. BY all means LET him do it.
Ifhe would eonhue his drinking to that
sort Of thing, his friends would be spared
much modification. and the public more
or less disgust"
This country exports more surplus AZ
ricultural products. including wheat,
oats. corn, cotton, tobacco, besf, pork,
lard, butter and cheese, than any other
nation In the world. Indeed 1t Is the on
" country that produces all these Yalua-
BE commodities. and has more than it
can consume Of them all every year.
The House Committee on Foreign az
fairs report to the House that there are
now IN the Empire Of Germany between
ten and eleven Thousand Germans who
at an snteTlor stage Of their existence
have lived i've years in America, secured
the rights OF American citizenship. and
now live nearly seot-free of obligations
TO any Government
A British army is said to be moving
on Belooch istan, a country adjoining In
ala, and about the size Of Texas. which
nov lies between the Anglo Asian FROM
tier and that of Persia Il is said 10 be
well adapted for purposes of defense and
for nothing else. so that its occupation
can be dictated only by desire 10 pre-
pare for resistance TO Russia.
Amnesty and foFgslfalDesS Of the pas1
Is Occasionally put in iOleTsbly strong
Hight bY those 6oulhesH chaps who are
foF elaspine hands over the bloody
ehasm. Here is sample from the
Raleigh, n O.. ISsntasE.
Oberlin, Ohio, had S45, 900 blazs last
Tuesday. Our eyes wouldn't have spill
ed more than tin cup fan &c tears If the
whole place and the groa9d It stands on
had gone.
Toombs traEklE says that the Democ-
rscy carried Georgia BY bribing and in
timidating the negFo voters. and that be
essisted ip deing II, using both his mon
sy and inauenes for the accomplishment
ofthat end. He confirms all THAI has
been alleged Of the course purRRed to re-
instate the Democracy in the Southern
States, and Is entitled 10 credit for the
bOldness and fFankAssa Of his testimony.
JEFF. Davis las by the dfift Of the re-
cent debates ia Congress. felt coustrain-
ed 10 make. q defense Of his character,
and repeats ths old story. that the Fed
esal aulhotlties were responsible for tho
PSolenked suEerings at AndersonYille-
that they were much exaggerated-ihat
The Confederate prisoners were as baFshly
treated as the Union, DC, all Of which
have been pretty conclusively disposed
OF JEFF. still occupies the ground that
the Unionisls were the wrong -doers.
Gen. Sherman has added his mite to
the centennial Presidential canvass In
letter to member Of the Ohio Legis-
latnre the General squarely saa znequiV-
ocally gees on record with The deelara-
ton that be never has been, is not now.
and never viii be, candidate for the
Presidency. he furthermore takes 0cca-
sioR 20 express . personal preference for
Gov. Hayes, TO correct the impression
that he is Of the Roman Catholic persua-
sion, and to assert his devotion to the
common school system.
The development Of another wife Of E. /
B. Ward has startled the denizens of De-
troif, and another claimant upon the
win comes to the front A lady once
connected with the family Of Jay Cooke,
claims 10 have married Capt. E. B. Ward
secretly years ago, aud says she has
marriage certificate and incontrovertible ]
rroofs that she is the legal wife Of the
deceased She claims $3.50, 900 as her
share OF the estate. It is well known
that she used to live with Ward, but was
not known as his wife
The Beecher scandal Is once more
brought into prominence by the remark
able Communication Of Mr. Henry G.
Bowen to the Plymoaih Church Exau,-
ining Committee The belief that MIR.
Bowen's bosom has ali along been the re
pository of secrets OF vital importance rs
affecting the merits Of the great scandal
ease is confirmed by that genlleman's let
ter. The editor Of the Eadependeut hes at
last been smoked cat by the proposed in.
Yestigation Of the grievances OF Mr.. s. V.
White, and he now declares 10 the orld