Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-12-07

THE TELEGRAPH.
o1ios l2s AfaiR Ssreet.
AsHTABULA. OHIO.
Friday Morning, Dec. 9TH, 1877,
Reside in New York. the lsprOsy is said
TO have made its appearance among the
Cinnamon Of Rhode Island also.
senator Blaine. who has been seriously
sick for several weeks, has so far recovered
as to be able to resume his seat in the Sen
ate.
Gen. Gsrheld's name has been announc-
ed in connection with the White House,
at the next general election. The sugges-
ton is not bad one.
The startling intelligence has been re-
ceived from New York city that leprosy
has made its appearance there, resulting
from the presence of Chinese.
The public schools of Delexare in this
state. were closed on Monday last, on ae-
count of the prevalence Of Scarlet fever;
large number Of cases having proved Ia
tai
There are those who scout the idea Of to-
tai depravity, and yet Senator Patterson,
when the alternative was laid before him
the penitentiary or the Democratic party
accepted the latteri
A full grown Leopard, over seven feet
long, after ing much havoc for several
weeks in DsI are and adjoining counties,
was shot few days since, near Marion
It is supposed to have escaped from some
menagerie.
The Central American Republic of Guat-
amsla. when it puts down rebellion, pro-
poses to keep it down. Seventeen oil the
leaders in the recent attempt at revolution
have been already tried, condemned and
executed.
As things are going, it is thought by the
Warren Tribune, that the Republicans
and Union men will have tOpetiuOn con-
federate Congress to remove their disabili-
ties incurred by opposition to the rebellion
Who will '.accept the situatiOn%
Gen. Grant gets on so well in Europe
thai the Cincinnati Commercial wants him
TO remain on the other side of the sea for
several wears. as American Minister to
GarmsuT. where he might smoke to his
hearts content and talk military with
Bismarck
The New York Tribune is apparently
disgusted with that class of papers, which,
while professedly Republican, aim their
blows principally against that party. That
STYLE of editor is not considered q danger
Gus adversary, but rather an exasperating
ally, whom if one were going into battle
along side Of, it would be safer 70 kill be-
fore the fighting began.
Senator Patterson lends helping hand
to lift Hamburg Butler from the murder
eFs' gallows, which he would grace, to a
seat in the Senate, which he disgraces, in
order that he. too, may enjoy the immuni-
ty Of the Senate chamber, rather than 81
iourn in felon's cell There is no crime
so dark and damning that party may
not purge and Democratic afiliation wipe
out.
The Iessees of the State Canals Of Ohio,
have abandoned the works, discharged
their ~orkmen, and asked the Board of
Public Works to take control. The Attor-
ney General advises them not to release the
lessees. It is not unlikely that Messrs.
Mannypenny & Co., the lessees, have a
strong hope that by coming this dodge
they can Obtain additional legislation fs-
vorable to their interests by the incoming
Legislature.
The Nation, in an article praising General
Garfeld's recent speech on the currency
question, says:
When a man is found who has the cour-
age to rise in his place in Congress and
put together the reasons why resumption
was ever thought of or resolved on any
where, his speech falls on Congress and
the country like burst of unexpected
light, and intelligent people begin to
breathe freely and say he has killed the
herssy.
The State Commissioner Of Common
Schools, in an opinion given by him in q
case referred to him by the School Board
of Columbus, growing out of the expul-
sion of a pupil whose parents refused to
provide for her set of drawing books,
says that 'fa rule compelling pupils to pur-
chase text books and to study branches
other and higher than those enumerated in
the School Laws of Ohio is not reasonable,
and that Board of Education expelling a
pupil for non compliance with such rule is
liable in damages"
The Spiritualists in conclave at Roches-
ter, awhile ago, proposed to nominate a
president, and the question arises, in such
a case, what sort of cabinet would be
gathered about such president? Would
it be material or spiritual? Or what might
the Sex be in the latter case. And what
advantage, if any, might woman's
rights reap from such state Of things?
These are questions, that might assume
some Importance, should the Spiritualists
garry an election, and l. is well enough to
give the thing little thought in ad-
vance.
A number of the Presidents nornina-
tions of ohioans for Government offices,
failed of confirmation by the Senate du-
ring the late session, and as a consequence
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