The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-09-30
Only ThEee Cents,..Thres Cents,@-
~sI9 { $500 s;r IL. 4 e. n.

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Last week while the fair was in pro-
gress, as we were walking upon the exs
hibition grounds. We heard a kind of
dismal cry proeeedihg from the midst Of
Ia bevy of small boys,-a sound similar
to the cracked bass Of an old hand or.
gan, articulating the words Comfy three
cents-three e~ents-three cents" We
thought at frat that some juvenile had
lost a three:cent piece, and was bewail-
ing his loss in such piteOus lamentations.
Proceeding in the direction whence the
sounds emanated, a sight met our eyes
that made > Z
"Each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quilts upop,t the fretted P~oreupine."
Upon a box, elevated above the gull
gar herd tas be wouldsayD stood the
Editor of the Ashland Tsmes-the
great head and front Of the Republican
party = the exponent Of Republican
principles-the ph%ilanthropic lover of
the poor black Mantle man that has
and would sacrifice his life, his honor,
his brother-in-law, his everything (e1-
cept money!, fef the Repnblicau cause
the man whose every act is tho offspring
of pure, unaduIterated love for "the peo-
ple"-(oR THEIR rocKErs)-the man
whom ourself and himself have been=try-H
ing to blow into t'notoriety' Tor the past
three months, was crying "oniy three
scents74three eentsEtkreeG cents e HI
had something in his hand which be was
swinging roundLin3 apparent agony
We inquired of a small boy what was
hurting the man;1aox19 three cebtsA.
three centsAthree cents |" drowned his
answer. Our Attention was called to
someihing else at this moment; andNJeff
was, forgotten. HheHnext day1Ne heard
the-souEd again, It1was tcorsc-ttis
time: iHoarse and sepdlchpdl, such as
one would imagine the last shrieks of a
dying miser, borne upon the breezes'
swell were the words, "only cent,
ONE cent, ONE cent?" Upon inquiry.
after various surmi. es, such as that he
had lost a cent or had a cent, we found
that he acdnted a cent, and that he was
giving zinoexchapge- therefor a foolscap
paper with some printing on IL. The
price being thus reduced we bought onci
paid one cent for it-onky one cent
We examined it. 1t contained nineteen
stale jokes; something about the Fair
which everybody knew a "t4oo pelnyo
puff Of thes Living Skeletonn and nearly
a column : laudatorys of european
Panorama" II is supposed BY some
that he was in company with the propri-
etors, as they ran off without paying
their bills Some idea of the confidence
that is put in the statements of JEFF may
be formed from the fact that qoit6 this
extraordinary puff, they had no audi
enreTg OF the remainder of his paper,
the most conspicuous was the advertise
ment of the Ashland Times and his two
or three Insurance Agencies.
The penny We paid for the paper we
dedicate to the. Editor of the TIMES
We hope he will use it in paying his
deputy, the lawyer, for making foolish
charges against Democratic candidates
and denying the truth of the record, or
buy beef for his own delicate stomach.
The idea of making our county Fairs
aHmedium aifor advertising i6sufance
agencies and job pres es is orfginaHwith
JEFF and when the scheme is generally
cs rried out it viii make them popular
institutions-over the left.