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The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03

WE have seen it somewhere suggested
that the delegates to the State Reputli-
can Convention from the several Con-
gressional Districts meet together in
Columbus, and there select delegates
and alternates to represent said Districts
in the National Convention. We do not
favor this mode of choosing those dele
gates. 1t might. be reasonable sugges-
ton if none but those who may happen
to attend the State convention were in
terested, but as they will not be sent 10
Columbus for that purpose; because the
delegates to State convention might
be surrounded by different influences
from those that would be felt in a Dis
trict Convection, and for other reasons
that might be stated, we are opposed to
the action suggested. The choice of a
Presidential candidate-one who is to
bear aloft the Republican banner in the
coming campaign. is matter of vast i'm
portance, and the matter of choosing
the delegates upon whom the duty of
making that choice will devolve, can
hardly be of less Importance. The
choice of a delegate to the National
Convention is is a matter of far more
consequence to the party and the coun-
try than the choice of an elector, and
certainly es much care ought to be ex-
ercised in the selection of the former as
the latter.-NoTJCdik Reflector.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03

a remarkably fine piece of Mechlin. The
Academy was densely packed, and the
for the charity in aid of which the recep-
ton was designed, for fashionable New
York views its gayest festivities with the
sanction of charity. Twenty thousand
tickets were sold at five dollars apiece,
and the result was that hundreds of
holders OF tickets, on seeing the crowd,
went home, without trying to enter. 1t
was worth the crush, to see the minuet
danced by two dozen couples, trained
for the occasion by a fashionable Fifth
Avenue dancing master. The elegant
movements, the sinkings aud posturings,
every turn of which was lovely, were
very unlike the angular rushes which
pass for dancing nowadays. Then the
courtly three hundred filed off, through
a covered way, built across the street
for the evening, to the tea tables in Irv-
ing Hall, where it was the thing to re-
gale ones partner with tea at two dollars
a cup, and buy the cup and saucer, fac
SMILES of Martha Washington's own tea
set, for another dollar.
FOREIGN PICTURES
To be a successful artist is to be IA
vorite of fortune. The art mania with
our rich collectors, who buy their pict-
lures by agents, as speculation, is WELL
nigh as extravagant as tlie tulip mania
of the last century, when fortunes were
offered for a single bulb. Mr.. Stewart
lately paid SIC, 600 for painting by a
celebrated French artist, and very kind
ly proposes to throw his gallery open to
the public, one afternoon a week.
Foreign artists are determined not to
lose good prices for want of asking. At
the exhibition of water colors now open,
the finest efforts of our best artists, men
like Samuel Colman and Swayne Gift
ford, rarely venture above 500, while
some wonderfully scrawly pictures of
voluptuous women with equally volupt-
GUS couch hangings, in which the artist
had contrived to make the woman look
as luxurious as the damasks, and the
damasks, somehow as licentious as the
woman, were backed with the price of 81,
600 piece. Will cultivated Americans
have the judgment to show these artists
that this cOuntry is not the hack door
by which they are to discharge all their
artist rubbishl
FOR THE GIRLS.
The bonnets for Spring will be largely
of straw, trimmed with velvet, and the
shapes curve protectingly round the
head. The first importations of dress
goods are merely last Falls styles, light
er in shade and fabric, to suit the
changes of March. The long square
overskirts, open in the back, trimmed all
round with fine side pleatings, and drawn
into easy folds across the front by pleats
at the side, and held together with large
bows behind the seam on the new suits.
The long polonaise, with long sides
caught together in the back, is the lat
est and favorite style, very becoming
and economical too. For the house,
nothing is so much in style as the gored
dress with full skirt in the back, and the
least trimming that the fabric demands.
PIETRo.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03
REPUBLICAN
State Convention.
Wednesday, March 90, 1876.
STATE REPUBLICAN CENTRAL
IND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Rooms,

STATE REPUBLICAN CENTRAL
AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Rooms,
COLUMBUS, o., Jan. "a, 1876.
The next Republican State Convention
will be held in the city of Columbus, on
Wednesday, the Goth day of March, 1876.
The Convention will nominate candi-
dates for
Secretary Of State,
Judge Of the Supreme Court,
Comptroller Of the Treasury,
Member Of the Board Of Public Works,
And TtDO Electors Of President and
Vice President ofthe United States.
1t will also designate four Delegates
and four Alternates to represent the
State in the Republican National Con-
vention to be held in the city of Cincin-
natl on the 18th of June The delega-
ton from each Congressional District
will also come prepared to announce or
select two delegates and two alternates
to that Convention.
we TecOUllltHu lIlilb tie meetings Ill
the several counties for the selection of
delegates to the State Convention be
held on Saturday, March 18th, 1876, and
that efforts be made to secure large
attendance at these meetings, so that
the people shall be fairly represented in
the State Convention.
The basis of representation in the Con
vention will be one delegate for every
four hundred votes cast for General r.
b. Hayes for Governor in 1875, and one
additional delegate for any fraction of
two hundred votes and upwards in each
county.
under this basis Hancock comfy is
entitled to 6 delegates.
All voters, without regard to past
party affiliations, who desire the success
of the principles of the Republican or
are cordially invited to join
in electing delegates to this Convention.
By order of the Committee,
A. T. WIKoFF,
Chairman Republican State Ex. Com.
7. G.. DONALDSON, Secretary
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03


EDS. JEFF. In his statement of the
number of miles of road in the county
and the amount of money it would re-
quire to pike them, Mr.. Brown is prob
ably not very far wrong, and if he had
shown as much candor in his article
throughout, there would, perhaps, exist
no necessity for further argument on
this question. But lest his fallacious
reasoning should be accepted as being
correct, and therefore upanswerable, |
shall claim your further indulgence to ex-
press my views on this question.
Mr.. B. talks quite glibly about the in
justice of compelling the whole commun-
ity to contribute TO what ''ean possibly
benefit part only" This looks quite
plausible, and if it were true as regards
the road question, it would be of some
force. And l might here ask, paren-
thetically, where is the justice in taxing
a portion of community for the benefit
of the wholel If Mr.. BIS premises were
correct, his conclusions might be taken
for granted. But let us look at this
little. b. asks why should the people of
Orange township be taxed to build the
road from FindIay to Williamstown,
which he says, they do not travel, and
therefore is no benefit to them, just as
though this were not done every few
years, and that too, to the amount of
thousands. and yet the people of Orange
township quietly submit to this injus-
tice. Why don't they rise up en- maSse
and demand that the taxes they pay into
the county Treasury shall, every cent, be
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03
9indIap gefsrsouiau.
FindIay, O., March 3. 1876.
THAT PIKE QUESTION AGAIN.

4
Mr.. E. BRowS comes to the front
again this week, not to suggest any bet
ter plan of improving our roads, but
simply exposing the sophism of some of
our citizens" What a disinterested
labor of love, But Mr. BROWN says we
overestimated the valuation of FindIay
township, and underestimated the cost
of making the roads. We put the vaIu-
alton at g, 500, 600, at a venture, az we
had not the figures before US. As to
Understanding the cost of building the
roads-which we placed at q, 500 per
mile-we think the mistake is with Mr.
B. When our roads have been carefully
great deal of stone or gravel required to
make a single track, which is all that
will be needed, as during dry weather
the dirt track alongside will be used in
preference.
If We could have the tax now levied
for road purposes expended systematic
ally, the two mills additional, would
soon make a decided improvement in
our highways. We have been told that
we counsel economy at one season of the
year and favor taxation at another. To
this we reply in d word, that we favor
the levying of tax to improve our
roads as an economical measure, and
those tbat cannot see true economy in
ths project-well, they cannot see as we
do, that is all. But ''G w. p" and
Granger" have very sensible articles on
the subject. They are both practical
farmers, heavy taxpayers, and perhaps,
have better right to talk On this sub
ject than we have. We are glad to hear
from such men. A good cause never
loses anything by thorough agitation.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03
THE nativity OF the members of the

THE nativity OF the members of the
United States Senate is as follows:
New York S; Virginia z; Pennsylva-
MIA 6; Massachusetts and Ohio, each, 5;
Vermont and Indiana, each, 4: New
Jersey, Kentucky and Maryland, each,
3; Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri,
North Carolina, Tennessee, and Con-
necticut. each, 2; and Louisiana, Mich
igan, New Hampshire, Rhode Island,
Alabama, Ireland, and England, each.
The nativity of the Representatives
and Delegates from Territories is as fol-
lows:
New York 50; Pennsylvania 40; Ohio
27; Tennessee Il; Virginia IL; Kentucky
and Massachusetts, each, II; Indiana Is;
North Carolina 12; Georgia 10; Vermont
8; Connecticut and New Jersey, each, 8;
Alabama and Maine, each, Z; South
Carolina and New Hampshire, each, 6;
Maryland ); Illinois 4 Louisiana, Mis-
souri,, Scotland and Ireland, each, 3;
Canada and England, each, 2, and
Michigan, Mississippi, Rhode Island,
Wisconsin ahd Germany, each, 1.
The nativity of six is not given. All
the Senators and Representatives from
North Carolina, Tennessee, New Jersey
and Georgia, are natives of the States
they represent. Both Senators from
Oregon are natives of Pennsylvania.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03

The next Union Republican National
Convention for the nomination of can
didates for President and Vice President
of the United States will be held in the
city of Cincinnati, on Wednesday, the
14th day of June, 1876. at IL o'clock
noon, and will consist of delegates from
each State equal to twice the number of
its Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress, and of two delegates from each
organized Territory and the District of
Columbia.
In calling the convention for the
election of delegates, the committees of
the several States are recommended to
invite all Republican electors, and all
other voters, without regard to past
political differences or previous party
affiliations, who are opposed to reviv-
ing sectional issues, and desire to pro-
mote friendly feeling and permanent
harmony throughout the country by
maintaining and enforcing all the con-
stitutional rights of every citizen, in
Guiding the full and free exercise of the
right of suffrage without intimidation
and without fraud; who are in favor of
the continued prosecution and punish
ment of all official dishonesty, and of an
economical administration of the Gov
ernment by honest, faithful and capable
officers; who are in favor of making
such reforms in government as expert
ence may from time TO time suggest;
who are opposed to impairing the credit
of the nation by depreciating any of its
obligations. and in favor of sustaining
in every way the national faith an finan-
cial honor; who hold that the common
school system is the nursery of American
liberty, and should be maintained abso-
lutely free from sectarian control; who
believe that, for the promotion Of these
ends, the direction of the government
should continue to be confined to those
who adhere to the principles of 1116,
and support them as Incorporated in the
Constitution and the laws; and who are
in favor of recognizing and strengthen
ing the fundamental principle OF Va
tional Unity in this Centennial Anniver-
sary of the birth of the Republic.
E. d. MORGAN, Chairman,
WIN. E. CHANDLER, Sec'y,
Rep. Nat. Com.
Washington, Jan. IL, 1876.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03
An Agent is w anteG

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The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03

GEN. BABCoCK, who has been on trial
at st. Louis, for completely in the whis
ky frauds, was, on the oath ult., acquit-
ted. As able counsel was employed on
both sides, and every iach of ground
contested. and as the jury was composed
of men, who, if anything, were suppos-
ed to be anything but friendly to Gen.
B., the result must be very gratifying to
that gentleman, as well as to President
GRANT, whose private Secretary Gen.
b. has been for many years. But De
mocracy feels very sore over the result.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03

THERE were seven Republicans and
five Democrats Oh the jury that aequit-
ted Gen. Babcock. They agreed on the
first ballot
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03

In Great Britain and the Continent we
have news of stupendous failures, and
vet our Democratic friends tell us our
hard times are all the result Of contrac-
ton. That won't account for it, gentle
men.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03

THERE has been solittle Of ofimportance
doing in the Legislature the past week
that we omit our synopsis of proceed
ings. They adjourned Friday, and did
not get down to work again until
Wednesday.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03

AN exchange says ''the proceedings in
the Democratic House are very simple
these days. A Democrat with finan-
cial bill in his hand addressed the Speak
er. Instantly Mr.. Morrison rises to his
feet, is recognized by Mr.. Kerr, makes a
motion to adjourn, which is carried, and
another day is wasted; but the expenses
90 on all the same.n
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

HOW THE POOR LIVE-THE PROFITS OF
TENEMENT PRoPERTY-BEECHER JAY
GOULD -THE MARTHA WASHINGTON
BUsINESS-FOREI1y PIC
TURES-FOR THE GIRLS.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03
4 DECIDED HIT.

Gen. j. Ii. Comley, editor of the Co
lumbus Journal, who is in Washington,
thus takes off the sham reforms that are
the order of the day in the Democratic
House of Representatives:
= The House is proceeding very satisfae-
torily in the work of retrenchment. Ey-
cry few days they make a saving of fifty
dollars year on the wages of some wild
ow woman in one of the Departments.
This enables them to appropriate five
million dollars back pay to rebel pen
sioners of 1915, who were stricken off the
rolls for disloyalty, while they were out
with Mr.. Hill, preserving the good old
Constitution. If General Banning sue
ceeds in abolishing the use of sleeve but
tons on our army and navy uniforms, we
shall probably be able 10 pension all
the soldiers of the late rebellion. l
really don't see why this saving cannot
be effected. The sleeve buttons are of
brass, and are very expensive. There
are two of them on each sleeve, which
makes four to each man for every uni
form. As the population of the country
is now about forty millions, and each
colored citizen is entitled to forty acres
and a mule, this would make the annual
consumption of sleeve buttons by the
army and navy about six hundred
million buttons year. l cam 0t say 10
a cent how much they cost, but they
are of no Use under the sun. | appeal
to any old soldier to say If he ever used
one of these buttons 10 button up
anything in his life? Besides they are
very much in the way when one goes to
call the pile i'm a game of draw They
rattle on the table and alarm the guard
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03

JAS. Z. LYON, in his examination in
regard to the Emma Mine scandal, charg-
ed that Senator MORTON had received
$50, 600. That gentleman took the stand
and showed conclusively thai Mr.. LYON
was badly mistaken, which he at once
admitted. Such reckless swearing is
reprehensible.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03

GEN. BABCocK declined a serenade
rendered him at Washington.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03

A large and enthusiastic meeting of
Republicans of the Fifteenth Ward of
the city of Brooklyn, was held at 36S
Grand Street last evening, TO organize a
campaign club. The Committee on
Resolutions, among Others. reported the
following:
Resoloed, That in Rutherford B. Hayes,
of Ohio. we recognize a man eminently
qualified to discharge the duties devolv-
ing upon the President of the United
States; man whose accumulated record
of bright and good deeds past stands
unsurpassed in the history of our public
men, his integrity as a citizen, his pat
riotism as soldier, his consistency as
public officer while serving in Congress,
and as Chief Magistrate of his State. bis
affability as a gentleman and the firm
ness and bolduess with which he met
and overcame issues, the success of which
must have been disastrous to his State
and nation, endears him to the hearts of
the people.
Resotoed, That we organize cam
paign club and earnestly recommend the
nomination of Rutherford b. Hayes, of
Ohio, for the Presidency. and Stewart
L. Woodford, of New York, for the Vice
Presidency.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03
TRAINS GOING North.
STATIONS

Bellefonfaihe Accommodation leaves Belle
fonlaine at 90 am. arriving at Urban a at ; IS
springfield, p, Dayton. 7.3j, Cincinnati T. % o.
'oIuInbus. 80. Returning. lea, e. Cincinnati
AZ zO. m, Dayton at 500, Columbus at ~
springfield az 20, arriving at Uibana at s!2
p m, BellefOntaine 900 d IN
COLUMBUS, ,SPRfNGFIELD d CINCIN
eATf LINE.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03

BOWEN, who has been bursting with
pent-up knowledge of the BEECHER-
TILToN scandal, was brought to book
last week, and had nothing to offer, after
all, bat vague charges. He refused to
make public the names of his informants.
All the able legal talent enlisted on the
side IF BEECHER have not helped him as
much as calling BOWEN before the Com
mittee; for his attempt to criminate
BEECHER has shown what the best in
formed and least prejudiced have felt
all along, viz. That bowen is the pow
er behind the throne that has set afioat
and worked up much of all the scandal
that has been circulating for the last
three years. While we do think that
BEECHER's indisc-etion has been almost
criminal, we believe also that time will
show that BEECHER has been basely
slandered by HENRY F. BOWEN, who has
been determined to destroy him since he
left the Independent. If BOWEN can
substantiate his charges, he ought not
TO lose single hour In doing so.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03
Att:tchmsH

Is filled with topics OF Interest TO every owner
OF gardens POINTED. PRACTICAL
and THOROUGH and contains One-haIf as
much a. sl-10 books on the subject. GARDEN
hhS throughout the country commeCd its
practical LABOR saving methods as invaluable
TO them.
% Sent for 10 cents, aehjeh scl Be aH0ued
on he first order for seeds
Address J. b. RODT, Seed Grower.
Rockford, Illinois
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
-1S76.

Chairman Republican State Ex. Com.
J. C. DONALDSON, Secretary.
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