Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-12-29
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POLITICAL
The feoliag has almost entirely subsidized
in the city. Either people are too busy
buying Christmss presents, and in arrang-
ing for the holiday festivities, or they have
grown tired of the agitation. 1t has set
tied down to this. Hayes is elected, and is
going to be inaugurated, and almost every
body is glad of it. The row was raised
principally by respectable democrats who
expected foreign missions under Tilden,
and by the professional rats who wanted
sinecures in the custom-house and post-of-
flee. They found it to their interest to
raise rumpus, and demand "Tilden or
blood"-the blood being always understood
as somebody else's-but the steady-going
citizen who voted for Tilden don't see any
use in keeping up an everlasting claiter
for the benefit of these insects. They have
their own business to attend to, all the
bowling now being done don't affect them.
The politicians meet with very little en-
couragement, and. the frantic appe1ls of
Hewitt, and his paid gang, fall on deaf
ears. believe that half the democracy of
the city, and the half that is worth listen
ing to, are glad in their hearts that Hayes
is elected, and if they fought at all, would
fight to place him at the head of the goy-
ernment. 1t is fact that the expressions
in Indiana were inspired from New York,
and rbof ha of fna
paid out of the democratic treasury here.
But it will fail. Every business man knows
and feels that what the country wants now
is peace, and lasting one. And they
know that it is not safe to entrust the
government to party controlled by South
ern rebels, especia llywhen It is loaded with
the oerruptionists of New York city. They
will not countenance anything of the kind,
and as for blood-the South won't fight,
the office seekers never did fight, and the
people who did, and those who paid for it,
got quite enough of it twelve years ago.
There is no occasion for fear.
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.
The stores are crowded till buyers must
wait by the half hour sometimes for the
chance of being half served, getting the
hasty attendance which is all that hurried
statesmen and women haYe to give each of
their hundred customers. One would say
there was no lack of money, judging from
the goods and the money that is passing.
But it is seen that people are buying the
trinkets that cost least, and more match
safes, and ash trays. and such miserable
little traps will be sent this season than
ever. To see Christmas in something of
its old heartiness, one should visit the east
side Of the city, in the crowded quarters
that do shopping on Grand street. The
sidewalks are a perfect booth of holiday
venders, and children do a thriving trade
in wax tapers and trinkets for the Christ
mas tree. Figures of old Santa Clause with
his cloak and snow frosted beard are COM
mon as dolls, and the best choice of TOYS to
really please children is found out of doors
in the hands of the cheap venders, and not
IN the high-priced stores. There it is a
hardship to find anything for children to
smuse them after the first blush of novelty
IS worn OFF. What use is fifty dollar ele-
phant that will wag his trunk to child the
day after Christmas? The delight of see
ing the animal wag its proboscis in the ma.
ture of things cannot be eleyating. Chill
dren want something they can use and take
some part in with their own ingenuity, a
trait which the toy-makers steadily ignore.
noticed in one store an assortment of
toys, the lowest of which were thirty dol
lars, and they run up in price to $3.50.
And, singular as it may seem, there are peo-
pie who buy and pay for such things. The
wealthy Speculation who made his money by
a lucky stroke in stocks, has it to spend,
but unfortunately he has not the judgment
to get the most out of it. His children
won't get half the delight out of the elab-
crate toys that the laborer's baby will out
OF the ten cent monstrosity which its poor
mother buys. The streets present a splen-
did appearance however, and the poor peo-
pie have just as much enjoyment out of the
shop windows as the wealthy who buy,
PICTURES.
John Taylor johnson was very wealthy
man, who lately came to grief in the depre-
citation of stocks. he was the possessor Of
the finest private collection Of pictures in
the country, and he was compelled to bring
them to fine hammer. The collection