Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-04-05

We wonder if the Standard would
have published their Election-day
edition if they had known one week
before that Glover was to be the
straight Democratic candidate for
Mayor.
The counterfeit new silver dollar
is said to contain IS cents worth of
silver, and has the ring of the pure
metal and besides being nearly as
valuable, is about as well executed
as the genuine.
The Canadian. Govsrnmenth has in
troduced and supports a general
Temperance law, the central prOvis
ion OF which is designed TO make
the focal option" principle opera
tive in all parts of the Dominion.
At the present rate of progress all
the cable strands of the Brooklyn
Bridge will be finished by Fall.
Over 1000 tons of wire have been
suspended thus far, and the work
meuare now running out ten tons a
day.
A special dispatch from Rome,
saws that Gen. Grant, wife and son
were presented to Pope Leo, on the
8oth oE March, by Cardinal McClos-
kew. The Elk President and suit
were received with every mark of
distinction.
Mr.. Probasco, the Cincinnati mil
lionaire has offered to make that
city present of his superb art col
lection, estimated TO be worth near
ly 100000. But Cincinnati hesl-
tates and shows rather a taste for
pork than paintings.
Ex-congressman Vance, whose
mysterious disappearance OCCASION
ed soms sensation within the past
few days, and which was at first at
tributed to foul play, is now believ-
ed to have been voluntary, and
caused by financial troubles.
Speaking of Mr.. Clover the Stand
ard Extra says:
And we believe will continue to
manifest the same qualities in the
new relations which attend the Office
to winch he will be elected to-day
o straight Democracy where art
thou?
The Seri3 editor of the Standard
was unfortunate enough to have a
stock of groceries, which he had laid
in for the week, stolen from his bug
gy, which he had left on the street
for few minutes, Saturday night.
Standard
He had better srarted without that
last nip"
The qualifications for Mayor are
to be found in the head sense rather
than in the pocket ceats.-StG'adGrd
Extra.
We fully agree with our cOntem-
porary on this subject. And We
will farther state that the common
sense cf the voters was considerably
stronger than the pocket cents.
Miss Hannah de Rothschild, to
whom the Earl of Rosebery was
married, in London, on the goth, is
daughter of the late Baron Meyer de
Rothscbild. She inherits a fortune
of over SIS, 200, 900, besides a resi-
dence in London and a splendid
country seat known as "Mentmore. "
Madame ResteIl, the noted abor-
ZIONIST, las been under bonds for
an appearance for trial, which was to
have been begun on Monday last.
Trouble about conviction, led her
to commit suicide at her home on
Sunday night, cutting her throat
with carving knife while taking her
bath.
An estimate recently made by the
Bureau of Agriculture on the next
wheat crop shows that the area thus
far sOwn this year is such as to justi-
fly the belief that the years crops
win be the greatest known in this
country-6OO, 900, 900 bushels. The
corn crop, it is calculated, will
amount to about a billion and one.
third bushels.
Secretary Sherman was before the
Committee on Banking and Curren-
cy to-day by invitation, and in the
course Of MS statement claimed that
after the resumption of specie pay
meu'S he will have authority to re
issue $500, 200, GOO United States
notes under authority of the exist
ing law Of 1878 contained in the re-
vised statutes relative to the reissue
of United States notes reesivsd for
taxes.
Secretary Evarts objects to the
reduction of the salaries of our for
eign minister and consuls. Heisre.
ported as saying that the minister of
England, for instance, is obliged ia
spend from $50, 200 to $4,000 more
than bis salary annually, in order to
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