Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-20

IHE Tennessee Repudiators held a
convention at Nashville on The 18th and
adopted a platform which contains all The
essential principles Of repudlaton. They call
themselves " the Democratic party" and claim
that they were denied elsewhere the right TO
reflect the win Of the party and the people by
men who presumed 10 be managers and mas
| ters Of the party. They approved the National
Democratic platform and It's principles except
the one advocating the preservation Of State
and National credit and favored the payment
Of the State debt proper, which is something
over two million dollars. s. f. Wilson was
nominated for Governor. The Debt-paying
Democrats nominated John " Wright
The revised census of St. Louis
shows the population to be 333,577. ..
JUDGE H. p. TAYLOR, of Warren, was
nominated for Congress IN the Nineteenth
! Ohio (Garaeld's) District, on the 18th.
A RICH mining strike has been made
In the village Of Los Placitas, n. NJ. The vii
lage Is built Of adobe huts and corals, and
the foundations Of the houses are Of rock.
Prospector Jesse Martin detected mineral in
this rock and pounded up and hammered
some Of It getting rich results in gold. He
located the streets Of the town whence the
gold rock was taken and had assays made
with the result Of $4,000 gold TO the ton
The lowest grade Of rock assayed S443. The
whole village is built on the ledge.
A PORTLAND, Oregon, dispatch says
there is considerable restlessness among the
Indians in the whole upper country, though
the season is so far advanced no active hostiH-
ties are anticipated this year.
TnE MiobforoV, (Nvaonhoolr ENoEo Cc,
yentlon, held at Lansing on the 18th, nomi-
mated the following ticket: For Governor,
David Woodman; Lieutenant Governor, Sui
livan Armstrong; Secretary Of State, Ran.
dolph Strickland; State Treasurer, John NJ.
Martini Auditor, j. B. Howerlow; Commls-
missioner Of the Land Office, John A. Elder.
The Texas Democratic State Conven
tion, on the 11th, nominated Governor o. NJ.
Roberts for Governor and L. j. Storey for
Lieutenant Governor.
THE First and Second Congressional
District Conventions at Cincinnati, on the
18th, nominated Hon. Samuel Hunt and Gen
eral II. T. Banning. In the Sixth Ohio Dis
trict Convention held at Toledo, Hon. Frank
Hurd was nominated.
The complete census returns of Ar
kansas, less nine small districts four of which
are estimated, show the population of that
State to'be sl6,147
A LETTER to the Des Moines STATE
Register from responsible citizen Of that
State gives information on the authority oi
an eye witness, also responsible man, that
the notorious Bender family, four in mum
| Der, were captured soon after the discovery
Of the murder of Colonel York's brother
| They were stood up I'm a row facing nine rife
men, were told their fate and then shot. Thu
bodies were buried at the corner Of the foui
counties Of Labette, Wilson, Neosha ant
Montgomery. ...
BY the explosion and sinking of the
steamer Bonnie Lee on the Mississippi River
on the 9Th six roustabouts and one cabin BOY
were drowned.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL WILLIARI
AYERS was shot and instantly killed on the
1lth in a Cherokee town in the Chickasaw
Nation by negro whom he attempted to ar
rest.
A GENERAL escape of United States
| prisoners at Laredo, Texas, occurred on the
18th Two succeeded in crossing the Rio
Grande TO Mexico, two were drowned and
the remainder were prevented from crossing
by United States troops. II is alleged that
the prisoners who reached Mexican soil were
| offered protection there. In consequence the
Department OF State has instructed the Uni
ted States Consul ut New Laredo to make 9
thorough investigation.
AT barbecue at Texarkana, Texas
on the 18th, one negro was killed and two
/ wounded.
THE Arkansas Renublican State Conn-