Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-02

The Rhode Island Democrats met in
State Convention At Providence on the 22d
and nominated Horace A. Kimball for Gov
ernor; s. P. slocum for Lieutenant Governor;
W. B. Hallett for Secretary OF State; II. j.
Carroll for Attorney General; ID, B. Pond for
Treasurer Tilden delegates were chosen to
the Cincinnati Convention. Resolutions we're
adopted denounclng the provision Of the State
Constitution requiring real-estate qualihca-
ton for foregn-born citizens; tho employ
ment of United States Marshals and soldiers at
the polls; the alleged Electoral Commission
fraud Of 1876, and the third-term policy; declar-
ing that the men elected in 1880 shall be inaupu-
rated; for the honest payment Of public debts
in such currency as its terms imply, and pres
ervatlon Of public faith; opposing a third
term, etc, etc.
The Pennsylvania State Greenback
Convention met at Harrisburg on the 23d and
elected delegates TO the National Convention
to be held in Chicago on the 9th OF June. The
delegates were instructed 10 vote for Hem
drck B. Wright for President The resolu-
tions adopted regard nationality, currency re-
form, and rights Of labor as one and insepara-
BILE; declare that the United States shall issue
all currency, gold and silver and paper, all to
be free legal tender for all purposes, public
and private, and that there shall be no banks
Of issue, State or National extend party syni-
pathy and active co-operationto the working
men Of California in their efforts 20 combat
the evils Of Chinese cheap labor, and declare
that full restitution should be made TO soldiers
for depreciation Of the money in which they
were paid.
A NEW YORK dispatch Of the 28d
says the total arrival there Of immigrants so
far during the month reached 12,72O, more
than double the number for the same time
last year Between 5000 and 4, 700 more we're
known TO be on the way. A majority Of the
newcomers are Germans. ..fft
ARCHBISHOP WoOD, Of PHILADELPHIA,
has issued a circular condemning secret
societies as dangerous TO civil society and
injurious TO the interests OF religion
THE prosecutor of Rev. DIR. Dix, of
New York, was discovered and arrested In
Baltimore on the oath. His name 10 Eugene
Fairfax williamson; his age, forty and his
place Of residence, Pittsburgh. He said he
did not know what prompted him to send the
letters, postal-cards, etc, as his victim never
injured him In any manner.
On the Oath the first coal charter of
the season was made at Buffalo, at seventy
five cents per ton TO Chicago.
THERE were heavy snow storms
throughout the Eastern States on the night of
the oath. ..-.-.,...
A FEW days ago the family of Edward
Westlake, six persons residing In Brooklyn,
N. Y, were poisoned by an infusion Of jim
son weed, drank By mistake for tea. All had
recovered except one on the oath.
On the oath DR.. Cable, a prominent
Pittsburgh (Pa) physician, fatally poisoned
his ten-year-old son by giving him teaspoon
full OF morphine by mistake for some Group
remedy.
THE New York State Convention of
the National GreenhacS-Labor party met at
Albany on the 2lth. Patrick E. Ford, George
o. Jones, James Z. Wright aud Samuel Lowell
were chosen as delegates-at-large TO the
Chicago Convention. Resolutions we're adopt
ed substantially like those adopted by the
Pennsylvania Convention.
ACCORDING to New York telegram
Of the 25th Edison claimed he had ascer-
itaned the cause of the cracking Of some of
the globes containing the incandescent car
bons, and had found means OF remOying 1t.
This, he said, would obvate'the necessity Of
annealing the globes, and keep their cost at
twenty-five cents apiece. l.t
( On the 25th Rev. DIR. Dix had an in
tervlew with "Gentleman Jo"' Williamson,
in the course Of which the latter expressed
great contriton and protested his innocence
Of an intention to levy blackmalI. Mr.. Gay
lcr Of the post-otce, believed the culprit
was "guided in his work by some insane i'm
pulse" Dr. Dix thought he should be
brought to punishment for the sake Of ex-
ample. E...