Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-12
West and Soutb.

TEE Moflitt Bell-punch law has been
repealed and the license system adopted by
the Virginia Legislature.
Tue snow blockade on the line of the
Northern Pacifc Railroad the past winter
was the worst ever known in that section.
Tradic was suspended between Bismarck and
Fargo from the 18th Of February TO the first
week in March.
A JOINT resolution proposing an
amendment to the Wisconsin State Constitu-
tion prohibiting the manufacture aud sale Of
Intoxicating liquors as a beverage, except
native wines and beer was lost i'm the Assem-
bly, ON the lst-ayes, A; noes, 33-a majority
OF all the members-elect not voting in the
affirmative.
The new Railroad Commission of
Georgia has fixed the maximum tariff for pas
sengers in that State at four cents per mile,
aTeduction on rates heretofore charged.
THE Republican State Convention of
Iowa, for the selection Of delegates to the
National Conyention, is to be held at Des
Moines ON the l4th Of April
A CARLOAD of exodus negroes ar
rived at Bloomington, ILL.,, on the 3D..
AN act making the manufacture and
sale OF oleOmargarine as butter punishable by
fine and imprisonment has been passed by the
Iowa Legislature.
The Kansas Republican State Con-
vention IS TO be held at Topeka on the Goth Of
May.
CHIEF DOUGLASS, one of the Ute
prisoners confined in Fort Leavenworth,
jumped from second-story window of the
guard-house on the 4th and attempted to es-
cape, but he was pursued for half a mile, and
recaptured after desperate struggle.
THE State Senate of Wisconsin has
concurred In joint resolution passed by the
House in favor Of a Constitutional amend
meut providing for biennial sessions Of the
Legislature.
THE Union Greenback Labor Ma
tional Convention assembled at ST. Louis on
the 4th, twenty States being represented by
about $50 delegates. Ralph E. Hoyt, of In.
diana, was chosen permanent President, and
George W. Brewster, Of Iowa, Secretary. A
platform was adopted, and Stephen B. Dill
laye, OF New Hampshire, was nominated for
President, and b. J. Chambers, of Texas, for
Vice President. resolution was adopted
that the Convention should adjourn TO meet
at Chicago on the 9th OF June, and Special
Committee Of one from each State was ap.
pointed TO meet there at the same time.
Two ASSESSORS were recently arrest
ed at Wilmington, Del, by a United States
Marshal, charged with refusing to assess Re-
publcans who desired to pay their taxes and
qualify as voters
The Indiana Republican State Cen
trail Committee met at indianapolis on the
4th and elected four Delegatcs-at-Large 10 the
National Convention. Three Of the delegates
are said to favor Senator Blalne's nomination,
and one General Grants.
A PEW days ago a crowd of deter
mined women and children compelled force
OF forty men, who undertook TO lay railroad
track In a Toledo (Ohio) street, TO beat an
lgnomlnious retreat, The females sat on the
nail-kegs and rails, and some Of the more
muscular threw the track-layers' tools into
the canal.
A YouoG man residing in Marysville,
Mo-, recently succeeded In preventing the
abuse of his mother by his father, by shoot
ing the latter dead.
A RECENT st. Louis report is to the
effect that Jay Gould had been instructed by
his European correspondents TO buy all the
railroads west of the Mississippi which prom
Use TO pay three per cent on the investment,
THE amiable savages of the Sioux
nation have driven off the surveyors of the
Chicago ~ Northwestern Railroad who were
locating a line along the Bad River valley.
THE Unien Pacific Railroad Company
has agreed 10 pay the Pacific Mall Steamship
Company "A subsldy Of $4,000 month IN
consideration OF the right to fix rates for Cali.
fornia passengers and freight,
Il. c. STOCKTON, a nephew of old
Commodore Stockton, and cousin Of the ex-
Senator OF that name, committed suicide in
st. Louis a few days ago. Convivial habits
wrought his ruin, and his death was the eli
max Of protraeted dehaueh