Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-07-28

or two, he cleared about two acres
in the rear of his house for a fruit
orchard and garden. This required
the digging up of over 500 big
trees, and though a man of over so
years of age, he engaged il the work
as vigorously as formerly he argued
causes and fought traitors. The cul-
tiHation of his farm is attended to
by a neighboring farmer, He is
specially fond of planting fruit trees,
and his visit to his farm from Co
lumbus, which are about every three
weeks, his young trees receive his
first attention. Two years ago,
when being shown Daniel Webster's
New Hampshire farm by his conf
Dental friend, Judge Nesmith, of
Franklin, | asked the latter for what
thing above all others dill Webster
take delight in spending his money,
and the Judge replied: In blooded
bulls" Just now, if Mr.. Hayes is
more interested in one kind of am
mails than another, it is the McGee
hog. He keeps poultry and two fine
milch cows, but these are not so
much his faForites as his fine McGee
breeders, Of which he h4s four, the
young of which he gives away to
the farmers to encourage the raising
of that kind as the most profitable
for the market.
Mr. HIEes is beloved and respected.
Il is we'll known in Columbus how
the janitors about the Capitol love
him, and how he keeps in his employ
a Prussian named Scherrnis. who, as
a soldier, was wounded at the battle
of w iDehester. He was rushing m
to the face of dagger, when Colonel
Hayes called to him from his horse
and ordered him TO seek safer po-
sition. AT which Schermis replied,
g If you can ride up this street,
can walk it. T" Immediately be was
shot in the arm and seriously disa-
bled.
In the Governors garden | found
a son OF the Emerald Isle, known as
+" Neq," F." from County Armagh, ply
ing hoe to the roots of the weeds. |
knowing he would not be so non
committal in an interview as the |
Governor, I paused and asked his |
opinion of the situation. Said he, |
raising his felt hat from his sweating |
trow-" The Ginralis the best marn |
| know, and he is lucky marn. and |
the winning marn. | am a Dino
crat every time, just like any Irish
man, except for the Ginral, and l
have voted for him three times, and |
now am going to vote for him
again. He is a bully boss to work |
for, and if a feller does his duty be |
can sleep well nights under him"
MARKS OF THE SOLDIER AND OF THE
r. WAR
Are. to be seen on either hand about |
the Generals home in other forms
beside pictures. On his pine table |
you will find bullets for paper
weights; in his sitting room stands |
his old Division flag, with spread |
ing eagle stamped in gold upon its
red and white folds, and in his sta
bic is his old mess-ehest, out of /
which he and his comrades ate the
sweetest of feasts, though not the
finest or richest. Though not per-
forming literally the Injunction to
turn the sword ihto pruning hook,
The General, like every true soldier,
has faithfully symbolized the senti-
meht by turning -his=war chest into
a chest for carpenters tools-the
very tools most needed to rebuild /
the ruined homes of the South.
And what Georgian or Virginian is
there who cannot trust his vote for
a President who, in private life, has
praelieed what he has professed and
preached from the stump and rec
commended from the Gubernatoria1
chair.