Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-03-15

irrepressible conflict on the Pacific coast,
unless the Heather Chinese are driven
homeward.
The Secretary of the Interior is in
favor of allowing more liberal price for
Government advertising than that now
established by law.
THERE have been thirty-fve changes
of administration since Mexico became a
Republic, and twenty of these have been
by Revolutionary means.
WOMEN cigar makers earn from ten
to fifteen dollars per week. They are
largely employed both in New York
and Philadelphia. They are cheaper
than men because the men claim three
cigars day each.
MAJ. EADs has completed at the mouth
of the Mississippi, channel twenty-five
feet deep and two hundred feet wide, en-
tirely through the works. This entities
him to his second payment of S5O0,OOO
from the government
ROBERT 7. CASE, ex-president of the
bankrupt Security Life Insurance Com
pany of New York, is now serving out a
five years sentence in the state prison for
fraud and perjury in his management of
that insurance company.
A LOUISIANA man has had three
wives in four years. He traded one for
a farm, another for a pair of horses, and
the third for a mule. He is only forty
years old and expects to stock his farm
entirely if he has good luck.
THE United States Supreme Court has
rendered decision affirming the validity
of the Cochrane patent on the "New Pro
cess Flour" This compels every miller
who manufactures this kind of -four to
pay royalty to the patentees.
THE culture of coffee in California Is
becoming profitable. The plant grows
as vigorously as in the cofee-cOuntries of
South America, and yields bean of
aromatic favor. Central and southern
California are the regions peculiarly ia
vorable.
IT is proposed to redeem from sterility
the great desert in the western part Of
Kansas and Nebraska, by damming the
Arkansas and Platte rivers, and turning
the waters into the desert, forming a
lake, from which water could be drawn
for irrigating purposes.
SOME of the San Francisco reporters
stole copy of the Governors message,
and published it before its deliveryetO the
Legislature. This fact made it unnec-
essary for the clerk to read it, and the
document was referred to appropriate
committees without being read.
Rev. Mr.. TALMAGE, D. D., says that
to edit newspaper requires one to be ga
statesmen, essayist, geographer, statistic
ian and encyclopedia" 1t is gratifying
to know that one man at least is wiling
to accord to the hard-working editor the
recognition of truemerit SO justly hisdue.
In Chinese mail robbers room we're
recently discovered by the San Francisco
police a thousand letters, many contain
ing bank remittances and drafts, as high
as $4,000 in value, and payable to bearer; /;
but he thief could not read English, and
the money had been as so much waste
paper in his estimation.
ENSIGN Lucien Young, who was one
of the saved from the Huron, is the brave
young officer who last year received
medal from the Life-saving Benevolent
Association, of New York, for his gallant
conduct IN leaping into the sea from the
United States steamer Alaska, while un-
der way, and saving, the life of wounded
seamen, who had been knocked over
board from aloft, on the 10th of October,
1873.
THEY tell a good story of the ponder
GUS Senator David Davis. When Sena-
tor Maxey was speaking, the other day,
Davis left his own seat to get nearer the
Texas Senator. He took the chance of
one of the ordinary Senate chairs hold
ing him. The result was that he had no
sooner got well seated in it than the cane
seat, as well as the underpinning, gave
way, and dumped the distinguished Sena-
tor on the foorin very undignifed bun
die.
THE gambling fraternity is particularly
interested in a decision just made by the
New York Court of Appeals, as it indi-
Gates the course likely to be pursued in
complaints against them hereafter. Two
professional gamblers inveighed a stranger
into gambling den in New York, not
long since, and feeced him out of his
money. Following their arrest the Dis
trict Attorney having found it almost
impossible to convict gamblers upon a
specific charge of swindling in the prac-
tice of their nefarious profession, tried
the experiment of indicting the prisoners
for larceny. Upon their trial in the
Court of General Sessions, their counsel
contended that their ofense was Inot lar
ceny, the money having been voluntarily
surrendered, and it mattered not how
fraudulent may have been the intent, SO
long as there was no trespass. The Dis
trict Attorney took a contrary ground.
The Judge charged for conviction
which followed. The case then went to
the Court of Appeals. which tribunal