Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-10-13
The meeting at jefferson. last Frida,

The meeting at jefferson, last Friday,
was moi 50 large as was expected, as tile
weather was wet and cold. The court
house vas, however. packed uncomforfably
full and the address Of Secretary Bris,ow
able and lis points well put and effective.
and the audience highly satisfied. He AZ
rived late. and filed up the time till it was
necessary TO take the train for this place.
He WAS followed by Hon. W. II. Palmer.
Of Penn, until dark, and the evening WIS
occupied by Dr. Wilber of ILL.,. 10th max
ing excellent speeches.
The meeting at Painesville on Mon
day last was a very large and enthusiastic
one-estimated at 10000 or $1,000. Large
delegations coming from various diree-
tions, mounted upon horses, or vehicles of
peculiar and special designs for the occa-
occasion, with long teams, one at least that
We noticed-a twenty-four horse team,
with all sorts Of grotesque notices and de-
signs, with numerous bands of music.
Everything impressed the beholder with
idea Of earnestness. Messrs. Blaine and
Garfield did the speaking.
-Willthe Nelcs man be pleased to make
good his assertion that the act demonetiz-
ing silver was surreptitiOusly smuggled
through congress, by giving few quota
tons from the proceedings of the two
Houses? The Globe is admitted authority,
and would probably he conclusive, without
the disturbance Of anybody's equanimity,
and save the necessity of falling back upon
ones virtuous indignation over the simple
ity OF those who have never ''read up" the
law or the proceedings. Record evidence,
You know, is The end Of the law. Refer
enccs, if you please.
-Bony Burrows, Of Paiuesville, who has
been asSailing Gen. Garfield with 50 much
vehs.n3lce s bitterness-tssailing his Con-
gressionul rccord-was challenged to meet
Mr.. F. Thorp, Of Geneva, on Friday even
ing last. and make good his charges. The
meeting took place, an umpire was chosen
from both parties, and before large au-
dience, the discussion began, and Mr.. BIS
charges were 30 successfully met, that he
fel under the implied eensure of the refer
ees by the decision that be had failed to
make good his allegations, and he retired
in dishonor. OF course, as a trained de-
bator, Mr.. Burrows had the advantage of
Mr.. Thorp, but armed with truth, he was
more than a match for all the advan-
tages and trickeries of debate.
The tug BaIize, with four barges, lum-
ber loaded, consigned to Buffalo, came
down the lake and rounded to off this har-
Dor, while the wind was blowing fercely.
Two tugs obeyed her signal and went TO
her relief and took in two barges. The tug
Dragon went on a second trip for another
of the barges, but failed other object. The
two remaining barges drifted dOwn-one
fetching up nearly off Fort Hill, where she
hove anchor and rode out the night and
was safely brought in in the morning. The
remaining one brought up on the beach,
nearly opposite the residence of Fl. D.
Harmon, and was soon deeply imbedded in
the sand. The wind went down after night
fall, and the company on board-Capt.
Staley, mate and three seamen and female
cook-remained comfortably on board dur
ing the night. On Saturday p m they
were taken off, with some difficulty and
risk, and found hospitable shelter under
the roof of Mr.. E. T. Harmon. The wind
being light. and off shore, the work Of
lightering the large load-near half mil
lion ft.-was entered upon and successfully
prosecuted by she aid of tug, and the lum-
Der piled upon the dock at the harbor.-
Whether she has been gotten off, we have
not heard at this writing, but the prospects
at last accounts warranted that conclusion.
The three other barges started for Buffalo
on Monday. The grounded barge was the
Catlin. She grounded on Friday evening