Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-09
West and South.

lIiE new ulTBCtOIy Ol ob. Louis pltc6s
the population Of that city at $4,000 persons,
LIEUTENANT-G GENERAL SHERIDAN and
marty, who we're with General Grant In Cuba
and Mexico, arrived ut Chicago on the 20th
ult.
A FEW days ago a lunatie made
murderous assault on Horace Wood, his
nephew, near sanduslcy, Ohio, and was choked
to death by the latter.
The court-martial sentence OF dis
inissal from the United States Army Of Major
Marcus A. Reno, of the Seventh Cavalry, was
promulgated from department headquarters
at St. Paul on the 29th ult. The sentence was
to take effect April /. ...
CHIEF OURAY was at Fort Leaven-
worth on the Both ult., and had a chat with
Douglass and the other captive Indians. He
said he hoped the prisoners would be punish
ed II guilty, and that Douglass would not
have attempted to escape II he had not been
afraid Of being hanged.
THE Georgia Democratic State Con-
vention Is 10 be held at Atlanta on the 9th Of
June.
DURING General Grants recent visit
to Houston, Tex, some one shut off the gas
from the city and spiked the cannon. The
/ Mayor has offered a reward of $500 for the
\ arrest Of the offenders.
GEORGE MITCHELL, q San Francisco
painter, became insane ON the 3Oth ult
| through his futile endeayors TO solve the 10
puzzle.
Two CARD.PLAYERsi in Bandera Com-
| ty, Tex, quarreled recently, adjourned TO the
street, and shot each other dead.
BuRDETTE +. PATTEN, who was ac-
cused Of Bribng Cook County Qll.) juror,
and who afterward, when the matter was
about to be investigated, went 10 Kansas, was
brought back to Chicago on the Goth ult., and
ON the Slst was sentenced to ak months i'm
prlsonment in the County Jail for contempt
Of Court.
Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT arrived at New
Orleans on the 3lst ult, and was enthusiasts
cally yreceiyed.
The Kansas Republicans held their
State Convention at Topeka on the 3lst ult.
and chose delegates from the State at Large
and from the various districts TO the National
Convention. The delegates favor the pomi-
4 nation OF Senator Blaine,
AT Kent, o., few days ago, Mrs,
Polly A. Lake took dose Of strychnine, sup.
poslng II 10 be quinlne and died In lese than
thirty minutes.
THE Kentucky Legislature has passed
a bill doing away with public executions In
that State.
The San Francisco city election was
held on the 3lth ult,, and resulted in a vie
tory for the Citizens ricket over the Work
iugmen's candidates by a majority Of from
1000 to 5000
TIE Nebraska Democratic State Con
yentIon assembled at Columbus on the 8ls
ult., and adopted resolutions sustaining th,
tyo-thirds rule In the National Convention
advocating hard money and low tariff; dc
nouncing the alleged wrong inflicted upon IN,
party and the country at large by the Repub
lieans in 1876 and pledging the Democrats 0
Nebraska TO right those wrongs es far as poe
sible, and punish thewrong-doers. .
IT has been recently decided by tn,
Illinois Supreme Court that school director
and teachers may lawfully require the Bibl
60 be read I'm the public schools OF the State
After the adjournment of the Kan
sas Republican State Convention on III
morning Of the LIST the thlrd-temers Of IN
second and Third Districts held meetlngi
passed resolutions complimentary to Generl
Grant, aud elected delegates TO Chicago
contest the seats OF the regularly
Blaine men. 1f
, IT was stated on the LIST that the Nc
|, braska delegates to the Cincinnati Conver
ton, while unlnstruoted, were known 10
/ enthusiastic Tilden men.
. AT Louisville, KY, ON the 1st Judg
II. b. Brown, In the Circuit Court Of III
i United States, iled an opinion in the suit {
+ Comerford TO enioiu the Postmaster at Loui
a vile from seizing and OBTAINING the lOtteI
a letters, under instructions from the Depar
Z ment, and held that the seizure and detel
Q tlon OF lottery letters was unauthorized
any act Of Congress, and that the Postmast'
n was liable 10 suit for damages,
! AN important witness In several mul
q der cases in Live Oak County, Texas, has bee
assasslpated by unknown persons.