Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-02
Breaking Novs Comfy.

| at the central depot, walked up to
woman whose husband had left the
room about ten minutes previously,
and calmly inquired:
Madam, your husband went out to
see the river, didn't he?
Yes-why ? she asked turning pale
in an instant.
Hewa tall man, wasn't he?
lie was, she replied, rising up and
turning still paler.
Had red hair?
He had-oh what has happened. g
Weighed about one hundred and
eighty pounds?
Yes-yes-where is he where is
my husband ? she exclaimed.
Coulden't swim, could he.
He's drowned-my husband is
drowned! she walled.
Had a silver watch chain ? contin-
ued the stranger.
Where is my husband-where is
the body? she gasped.
Do not get excited, madam. Did
your husband have on a gray suit?
Yes-oh! my Thomas! my Thom-
as!
And stoga boots?
Let me see him-let me see him!
she cried.
Come this way, madam, but do
not get excited. There, is that your
husband across the street at the pea
nut stand?
Why, yes, that's him; that's my
husband! she exclaimed joyfully. l
thought you said he was drowned.
No, madam, 1 did not. l saw him
buying peanuts, and l believed it my
duty to say to you that peanuts are
not healthy at this season of the year!
He slid softly out, and she stood
there and chewed her parasol and
stared after him as if he was menag-
erie on wheels. Detroit Free Press.
How TEE DEMOCRATS RODE OUT
OF PowER.-''Luck was agin' 'em."
The Democratic officials ofIndianap-
oils having furnished Cincinnati with
afew car loads of "bummers" to en-
able the democrats to carry the city,
asked them back again just before
the last election in Indianapolis. A
hundred or more of them were sent
back by rail the day previous, and
in order to avoid suspicion they
,,y-oro token from the cars like other
cattle, at the stock-yards, three
miles from the city. They were or
dered to stay there till nightfall and
then make their way into the city
in small squads. In the meanwhile
a heavy rain began to fall, and the
superintendent of the railroad hap
pening to find them, and guessing
their errand, invited them to take
shelter in some empty freight cars
on a side track and stay there all
NIGHT if they wanted to. As the
rain did not cease they decided to
remain. the car doors were shut and
fastened, and they settled down to
sleep. A locomotive was hltched to
the train, and amidst the unavailing
howIs. curses, and walls of these i'm
nrisoaed suffragans, who tried in
vain to tear open and escape from
the strong box cars,it moved steadily
eastward, and by daybreak the next
morning they were a hundred miles
away from both Indianapolis and
Cincinnati. How they got out of
the cars no one knows, but when
they did get out they were but little
better off than before. They were
without funds or friends, and the on
Iy way to get homo was to do as the
Pendleton escort did in getting home
from the New York democratic con-
yention in 1868. Those who reach
ed homo walked. The rest dispersed
over the country, and in a short
time were in Jail for stealing cloth
ing, poultry, or horses from the far
mers. The Republicans carried In
dianapolis that day, and the demo-
cratic leaders did not know until
weeks afterward what became of
their forlorn hope, nor of the Af-
rite who got away with them so mys-
teriously.-Detr0t Post.