Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-18

The late Treasury statement shows that
the "1balance of trade" during the last is-
cal year was in favor of this country to the
tune Of ovsr 1926, 100000.
The Denver Tribune says if the extra
session will be one of the pleasantest rec
elections Of Mr.. Thurman's life, his career
must have been a very unhappy one.
Quarantine regulations on the Mississ-
ippi are likely to defeat the we'll planned
Conway expedition to afford the blocks on
the banks of the Mississippi transPorta-
ton.
DR.. Gutherie said he had four good
reasons for obstaining from alcoholic bev-
erages-'the head is clearer, the health is
better, the heart is lighter, and the purse
heavier"
The mercury has been ranging in Wash
ington at 9s and 100 in the shade, and to
keep soul and body together is about all
that man can do without attending to the
drudgery Of labor.
The Pennsylvania Co. are leading off
in heavy locomotives. One Of them was
last week placed upon the A. & P. line,
and linked to train OF forty-seven ore
laden cars-some ZOO tons.
The people do not look with equanimity
upon the attempt to send such man as
Bayard to the rear. They know that the
Democratic party has need of more leaders
of the Bayard type WattersOn.
A Democratic member Of Congress who
took his daughter to task for prOtracting
her sitting with her lover till after 10 o'clock
was met by the reply that they were only
holding little ''extra session.
Gen. Grant has determined to defer his
return until after the sitting Of the nomf-
mating convention. The Cincinnati Com
nsereial ought to be eomforted, but there
are some fears that it may not be.
Bob Toombs' rashness is reported to have
found expression in the declaration-"The
last oath I took was to the Confederate
States, and I shall never take another. "
Prithee, sirrah, has it indeed come to thisi
The thought has been INDUCED that the
yellow fever in Memphis, has barely held
its own-that it has been confined to three
families, or houses, and that the physi-
clans are hopeful Of keeping it within
those limits.
Detroit and Erie are convertible terms
by some of our cOmplacent models Of per-
lection and accuracy. As, however, q
little frankness is used in the acknowledge
ment, the "caraway seed" business will
not be gone into.
Redwood, the fast trotting stallion owned
by B. E. Brown, of South New Lyme, the
SenteneI says-we understand has made an
unusually successful season this year and
is showing increased speed whenever. al
lowed to 'strike out. I"
The Tilden-Ewing combination looks
like fixed fact, and the 800, 1000 said to
have been contributed in New York as
corruption money to be used in this State
election, would seem to be the pledge.
What has become Of Hendricks?
Judge Tibball, of Akron, last week
granted an order for the sale Of the A. & G..
W. Railroad. This ends the litigation,
which has been pending for several years.
The decree provides for the sale ofthe road
at not less than $s,OOO,OOO, and not pre-
vious to February z, 1880.
Quite a number of persons have testified
in the Buford trial to the insanity Of the
prisoner, although several Of the witnesses
acknowledged that they had supported him
as a candidate for the Legislature. He
was sane enough to make laws, but too in.
sane to be hanged for wilful, diaboIical
murder.
The suggestion that Mr.. S. ]. Tilden
should be packed in ice for the purpose oi
preservation for the presidential campaign,
is not a bad one. His tendenesis to cor
ruption may predispose him to early decay
and decomposition. His nature, like tha
of Massachusetts, politician, may be colo
enough without ice.
The Republican Committee have decided
to adopt the plan Of the Pennsylvania Stat
Committee in having the speeches of Gar
field. Sherman, Blaine, Conkling and Ed
mupds translated into several foreign Ian
eusges for the benefit Of the German, Bo
hsmisn and Welsh Republicans in Ohio
Maine snd Pennsylvania,