Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-15

Tilden.
It now looks as though Hayes would
uaAksSelean sweep in every Northern State
Nearly three and half millions barrels
~ oil Constitute the stock in the Pennsyi-
vsniA oil regions.
The CITY Bank at Harrisburg has made
On assignment. The liabilities are stated
70 be es5O, 900, and the assets are believed
40 be sufficient to cover that amount
.eThe Dutch have taken Holland"
The Arkansas elections took place on the
9Th. and, as was everywhere expected, re-
suited in favor Of the Democrats By q heavy
majority.
There is 10 want Of disposition to raenact
the scenes Of 1sef. The scenes OF violence
tbst have been so common IN Lollisana and
Mississippi, have broken out in the city Of
Baltimore where Republican meetings are
being broken up.
The individual called 'sTwid, or Tweed,
whom the Spaniards are said to have 50
.oblieingly turned over to the United States
authorities, may yet prove to be the Terita-
ble sBoss" and former partner Of Tilden'
but we fear not.
Some of the Baltimore papers are much IN
eensed at Attorney General Taft's circular,
and have-es appears from their tone
come to the conclusion that General Grant
Will never or the Office of President alive
Are we to have another martyr President?
Claims amounting to over five hundred
millions Of dollars, one-fOurth Of the public
debt. y-re presented by Southerners at the
late session Of Congress. If there were
Democratic President and a Democratic
Senate, nothing could prevent the fraudu-
lent claims being allowed.
yellow fever prevails in Savannah,
Georgia. There were ten reported interments
an the 9th and thirteen on the 10th. A
passenger Who had reached hotel in New
York. was removed to quarantine, and
since. died, and some Of the crew Of the
steamer are down at the same place.
The Tweed Ring gave the Roman Cath
ole Church between 1869 and u, $1,915,-
446 95 Of the public money, and real es-
tate TO the value Of s., 500, 600 more. Til
den was the friend Of Tweed 8 Co., until
compelled to put on an appearance Of vir-
tuons opposition.
Come. Samuel, rise and explain the dis
crepancy in your oaths Of 1858 and 1875. If
you cheated Uncle Sam in the revenue line
sou must take back seat in the reform
movement. Fhe age demands honest men,
net men who have filed their a#n pockets
at the expsnseof the Government.
How very gratifying It must be to the
: honest democratic voter ia be assured, as
he is, by his own party organs and friends,
that Mr.. Tilden is worth seven millions
and is willing to spend two millions to bay
his way into the Presidency Those who
are for sale should be in readiness to name
fhelf price,
Everybody confessss that Tildsn has been
steadily losing and Hayes has been steadily
gaining for the past fortnight. The DEM
serats feel it, and doubtless many Of them
viii say amen to an exclamation Of a re-
spected member Of their party few days
ago. 'Well, if Hayes is going to be elect
ed, am going to vote for him. want to
vote for the man who is elected once in my
iife."
4 fire broke out in an oyster saloon on
Elm aEeHue, opposite the main Centennial
building in Philadelphia, on Saturday
evening, which swept towards and set fire
tp the TRANSIT Continental Hotel and threat
ened the main building Of the Exposition.
Some two hours labor and painful anxiety
relieved the apprehension and prevented
the destruction. The property destroyed
is put at 100000.
+ is claimed that Tilden has reduced
taxation in New York and that constitutes
one of his chief rights to be called reform
er. But We are met by the fact that he had
Pis own salary as Governor doubled, and
tae salaries Of all his secretaries largely in
creased. but the most noted instance where
be reduced taratiOn, was when he swore to
an income less than half what he has lust
again sworn that he received
Old shan liidsn has nearly reached the
end Of his sixty-seventh year: Col. Inger-
sol says be has no more flesh on him than
an umbrella. The New York World, how
ever, insists that he is not as old as Bill
Allen, and.that the ladies ought to be
thereby encouraged to work for Tilden and
a wedding in the White House. A rag
baby could, in that case, says the CONNER
eial, be supplied by Hendricks, and the
happy family would then be complete.
Samuel J. Tiiden, the bogus reformer, is
catching it on all sides. His political
friends are calling upon him to come out |
and explain the charges against him. while
pc, poor fellow, looks tremblingly on, and
sees the vision of the White House fading |
before his sight. The truth is hard to rnb |
out, apd this Mr. Tilden knows. He has
tried to explain his connection with Tweed.
and his connection with the Democratic |
convention at Chicago. in 1884, but the
more be explains the worse it is for him.
A great demonstration was made in Chi
cagos on Thursday of last week in honor Of
Carl Sehurtz and his mission as public
speaker. It was a turnout-says the Tn
ei'e-Which has completely astonished
and appalled, the Tildenites in this region.
whose calculations as to how the German
vote is going in November have undergone |
painful and discOuraging change II
was the first opportunity that the German.
Americans Of Chicago had had to make |
known, publicly and en- n'asss, their posi- |
tion in the present political campaign, and
they improved it in manner that leaves
little doubt as to where their strength win |
be cast. ]