Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-08

when four pistol shots we're heard by the
iailer, and when he reached the yard the
dead bodies OF Miss Chaplin and Smith we're
discovered lying side BY side Smith had
wife and two children and was trying to get
divorce.
GENERAL GRANT has called reunion
Of the Boys in Blue to be held in Indianapolis
October g.
The Nebraska Democratic State Con-
vention nominated the following officers on
the Both ult. For Governor, Thomas Upton:
Lieutenant Governor J. Calhoun; Secretary
of State, &. W. johnson; Auditor, d. c. Pat
terson; Treasurer, F. Todd; Attorney Gen
eral, G. f. Prichett.
SHERIFF GoUTHREAUx, of New Or
leans, is a defaulter to the State and city for
tax collections amounting to S250OOO.
The Grand Jury at Jacksonville, Fla,
have found true bills against Edward Moody
and E. L. Allen, the last hotel keeper at
Matanzas for robbing the trunk and bodies
which came ashore from the wreck Of the
Vera Cruz.
COLONEL HUNT, Indian agent at the
Wichita agency, Indian Territory, emphatical.
ly denies the report recently telegraphed from
Texas that the Cheyenne Indians had made
an attack on the commissary there and com
mitted other outr ages.
A SPECIAL to the St. Paul Pioneer
Press from Fort Ellis on the 3Oth ult, stated
that an Indian had arrived there In full war
paint, with scalp hanging to his belt and
Il n.-N.N
Mandrils, Stony and Salteaux Indians south
Of there. The Mandrills raided the camp Of
the salteauX and killed nine persons. The
latter gave chase aud killed nine Of the Man
drills. Another account says the village at
tackled made a desperate resistance and killed
thirteen Mandrills. The whole border is in a
| blaze Of excitement. The fleeing Mandrills
made their way to American territory whence
they came, and 1t is thought the Stony and
SalteauK will pursue them to this side ant
the expected scene OF war will be transferred
to the United States.
A LETTER from Silver City, N. NJ.
says that collisions between the United States
troops and the Indians are Of daily occurrence,
and that general Indian war is imminent
! The writer says the Indians are committing
| frghtful atrocities on the eline of New Mexico
and that every prisoner taken by the Indians
is tied TO a stake and burned. The practice IL
carried on even during the progress Of a bat
| tie.
A CASE of hydrophObia is reported al
New Albany, Ind. Mollie Carpenter (colored)
is the victim. She was bitten by a dog one
year ago.
On account of recent wet weather in
/ al has fr
many parts OF the State. To such an extent
does the sickness prevail that in some planta
| tions 1t is impossible to obtain enough men tc
harvest the cotton crop.
FRosT fell at several points in North
Carolina and Virginia on the night Of the 3lst
/ ult.
EFFORTS are being made at Salt Lake,
Utah, to test the validity Of the law granting
suffrage to women,
Ex-PREsmENT TAYLoR's daughter
has received the $4,000 being the balance
due General Taylor had he lived until the end
OF his term.
THE stage which runs between Pearce
City, Mo-, and Eureka Springs, Ark, was
stopped on the 29th ult., some twenty milei
| from the former place by a party Of six masked
and armed men, and the passengers, clever
men and one woman, robbed Of their money
and other valuables, about 5000 being taken
Two passengers threw away their pocke
books containing $1,000 when the stage wa
stopped, but recovered them when the rob
bers left.
The boiler in a lumber mill at Bay
City, Mich, exploded on the 1st wreckinl
the englne-room, killing two persons ant
slightly iniurlng several others.
A MINNEAPOLIs, Mimi, dispatch say
the wheat In Minnesota and Dakota has turne,
out better than expected a short time ago
The Minnesota crop is but little short Of al
average and Dakota's fully up to the average
turning out twenty to thirty bushels to tn