Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-05-02

THE TELEGRAPH.
The largest paper in Ashtabula. printed en-
tirely at home.
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AsHTABULA. OHIO
Friday Morning, May 2, 1879.
Gray who attempted to kill Booth at Chi
cago, is without doubt lunatic not res
pOnsible for his actions.
Last week, the House, at Columbus,
passed, by q vote of g. yeas, to 81 nays,
bill regulating the pay Of county officers
by providing for commission Of five IN
each county, who shall fix their cOmPen-
sation.
The total annual saving Of interest on
Sherman's refunding operations IS near
as. OO0 600. while the cost Of the Debating
Societies that are running at Washington,
in connection with the Democratic caucus,
is s12, 2,OOO day.
Bishop E. R. Ames, ofthe NJ. E. Church.
died at Baltimore on Friday last, aged q
years. He was a native Of Amesville,
Ohio, and his death will be loss to the
church of which be was one Of the most
able. devoted and deyOut supporters.
Gen Grant, it is asserted, will arrive st
San Francisco about the first Of June.
Banners, music and professions will then
be in order ali the way from the Pacific to
the Atlantic, and our cotemporaTy-the
Cincinnati Commsreial-WIll no doubt have
prolonged fit of the vspOrs.
I
The attractions Of the war in Zululand
for the Southern White League would
seem to be irresistible. In the first place
there is the greatest chance for killing
''niggers"eYer known in the history Of the
world, and the loss Of population would
not affect the census in the sovereign
Southern States.
The indianapolis journal says when
there was tslk Of sending 'fs hundred
thousand unn ID men''to Washington to
resist the coun nf the Electoral vote
for Hayes and his inauguration, Grant
remarked:
Let them try it. win nip that in
the bud very quick. That's all.
Russia in her disturbance, is dwarang her
humanity and manhood. She is reputed to
be putting manicIes upon young women Of
not Overa score years Of age, and throw
ing them into prison, for political offences.
Such cruelties and infections will not be
approved Of in this country, and the Gar
viii be left to bare his grief without sym
pathy.
Secretary Sherman is in very much the
situation Of the man who works himself
out Of job. He has completed the refund
ing operations Of the country, and is entitl-
ed to q little indulgence and leisure. He
might take sort of Sturday afternoon
respite for hunting or fishing. We have had
no public officer in his place who has got
himself so ahead Of his work.
Shakespeare hath 1.-THE evil that
men do lives after them the good is often
inferred with their bones. ",If,-as asserted
thirteen millions of dollars are annually
saved to the people of the United States
by the refunding operationslof Secretary
Sherman, think you, that history will fail
to embalm the memory of this legacy, so
beqneathed to the American people2
Old Zach. Chandler, it is said is soon to
deliver another Of his telling speeches in
the Senate. Ifitshal have the same affect
to silence all denial, as was the case with !
the last, in allusion to the scattering Of the
forces Of the country for the benefit of The
rebellion, by old Buck, let us have it by all |
means. Such speeches make excellent cam
paign reading. The people like that earth
quake style.
The commercial journals report Eng
lands trade with China as greatly reduced,
owing partly to the unsatisfactory nature
of the political relations between the two
countries, and partly to American CONNER
cisl rivalry. And now comes telegram
from Burmah that the Burmese king pub
hely declares that hitherto he has yielded |
to the British lion from fear but that he
proposes to do so no longer. |
Mr.. Tilden is a fragile dot of an old fel- |
low. 1t is reported that his avoridupois
is only ITO, and that his lamp of life fickers
in its socket. His breath therefore is en-
phatically IN his nostrils. Thus in his do
tsge with one foot in the grave, what an in
congruOus and vsgrant ambition is that
which urges him on in the Presidential race,
only, in all probability, to lay his burden
down amid the exacting and bustling ac- |
tiYities of the White House.
The breaking ground for the railroad /
tunnel under Detroit river took place on
the 2Sd. near Amherstsburg, Canada.
This, will connect Canada and Michigan.
The plan contemplstes an open approach /
Of forty feet wide, with two arched pass
age ways under the river, each fifteen feet
wide. separated by three-foot wall The
top Of the arches will be twenty-five feet
below the surface of low water. Total
length of the tunnel $500 feet, or by the
bore plan 4, 900 feet, The lowest estimate |
of the eest is 81, SOC, 900 /
As Mr.. Burroughs, of Michigan, conclud
ed his speech in the House, the other day, |
be faced the Democratic side and said: /