Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-09-17

speak, while treating courteously
other men who distinguished them
selves as Confederates. One very
good reason therefor, is that JEFF
Davis neither fought like a man, nor
surrendered like gentleman. That
reason alone is sufficient to justify
the feeling amongst loyal people a.
gainst JEFF though it be one of many.
'Harvey, you can rest awhile, and
1 will spread the hay" is what
David Sweet, of Webster N. II. aged
90, said to his son, after working
on the farm all the morning, the
other day.
The disruption of the Independent
party in California and Oregon,
though longer delayed than in the
Eastern and Middle States, seems to
have been even more complete.
Doubtless the organization viii soon
abandon even the pretense of an ex-
istence; and the consequence viii
be a aeompact Republican body, which
viii put the Democrats to their
tumps.
Geghan Is still the all-absorbing
subject of political discussion IN
Hamilton County, Ohio. The Cincin-
natl Commercial has private infor-
nation that he will not run behind
his ticket, the inference being that
the Catholics, without regard. to
party, will mass in his support; but,
if the whole ticket is badly beaten.
as now seems probable, it makes lit
tie difference whether Geghan runs
behind it or not. /
The most perplexlng thing in
youths life is when his girl gets
mad and returns the numerous trim
kets. he has bought for her. He
hardly wants to sell them; be can't
palm them off on his pet choice for
new goods with any degree of salts
faction or safety; they're probably
things that he can't wear himself;
and he's left with them on his hands,
and so he can only stare at them and
count up how much they cost.
1 was aquainted once with gal
liant soldier, who assured me that
his only method of keeping up his
courage was this: Upon the first frei in
an engagement, he heimmediately look
ed upon himself as dead man. He
then fought the remainder of the
day perfectly regardless of all man
ner of danger, as becomes a dead
man to be; so that all the life or
limbs he carried back to his tent he
reekoned as clear gain, or as he ex-
pressed it, $50 much out of the fire.
JSteTas.
q A fair and square hit at the
Democratic pretensiOns to Reform IS
made by the New York Tribune,
which neatly shows that, as far as
heard from, the Democrats have
been any thing but reformers: "All
decent people agree that the last
Ohio Democratic Legislature was
one of the meanest and most worth
less bodies that ever sat in Colum-
bus; and the i'll odor of that corral
Of wild cattle that came together in
Springfield as the result of the up
rising of the people against the |
politicians will linger for years in the
nostrils of Illinoisans."
The fat mems annual elam-bakes,
at Norwalk, Conn, on Wensday OF
last week, brought together q good
many solid citizens, no person weigh
ing less than 200 pounds being al |
lowed to participate. One hundred |
and four gentlemen attended on this
occasion, with three married la
dies and one miss, the four fairy
forms together tipping the beam at
Gal. The heaviest man was Willard
Perkins, of Waterbury, exoficio
President of the association, aged
twenty-six years. who weighs S7S,
pounds while three other members
draw over 500, viz: SS7, $50, and
800, respectively. The whole party
together aggregated 24,6l7 pounds,
or an average of 229 pounds each.