Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-08-10
ohio s determined 70 20 West.


through without delay.
The miner rioters at Wilkesbarre have
ooolly asked the authorities to send the
military out of the valley. Peacefully in
olined people in America never fear the
military.
The New York Tribune says: There is
a great deal of cOngratulstion going on in
Republican circles over the work of the
Ohio Convention. And yet, the malcon-
tents are not happy.
Last year the State OF Maine paid S2'-
745 for bears. As five dollars was paid
for each bear, almost any one who has
moderate command Of slate can ascertain
that $40 bears were paid for.
The Government loses about 81, OOO'OoO
by the strikes. principally in the falling Oh
Of receipts in internal revenue ana Gus
toms beside the expense incurred IN Trans
nortinp soldiers to and from the scenes oi
disturbance.
Ti15en If seems, struck out for Cork,
mon landing on the other side. His patri-
OF soul must have yearned for communion
with an aboriginal Democrat-such as are
found in all their enthusiasm and purity,
in the land of bogs.
Does any body know about Charles
Francis Adams stock, this off year? The
Republicans of the old Bay State are IN
terested to know if he is to be nominated
as they are anxious to roll up sturdy ma
jority for Gov. Rice, who is expected to be
renominated.
The Russians are organizing again, pre-
panng to retrieve lost ground at and about
Plevna. With the Grand Duke Nicholas
at the head of the defeated army and large
reinforcements from both Roumania and
Russia, some hard fighting may be expect
ed.
A very large sale of calico was held IN
New York last week. The bidding was
spirited, and fair prices were obtained Inc
amount realized was over S45O'OOO' anu
nuob more could have been sold. 1t was
considered quite favorable, and makers are
encouraged.
Nearly one-sixth of the whole amount of
legal tenders is lying idle, piled up on de-
posit in the vaults of the Treasury. The
business Of the country has no need Of
this surplus. The fact should be suffi-
Gent answer to people who suspect that
the Government is contracting the curren-
cy.
Time works wondrous changes even
among the Bourbon Democracy, Here
they are with State ticket containing the
names of two old Know Nothings-R. M.
Bishop for Governor, Isaiah Pillars for At
torney General. ''Ah, an be jabers, an
fwhat kind o dimmyerats does yez call
thin chaps"
Frank Walworth, the youth who shot
and killed his father for love Of his moth
er, in 1873, and who was sentenced to
Sing Sing life sojourn, has been pardoned
out by the New York Governor, Robinson.
The excuse is insanity. As he has no 9th
er father to kill, his mother promises to
take him to Europe,
Mr.. W. q. West, the Republican candi-
date for Governor of Ohio, is, clever law
yer, with an excellent vein of oratory! HE
sis described as somewhat resembling Mr..
Lincoln in appearance, being tall, angular
and-not handsome. He is partially blind,
but can see straight enough to walk away
with the Bishop.
In three States elections take place this
week-Kentucky, Alabama and West Vir-
ginia. Probably the question of most gen
eral interest that will be decided at these
elections is as to the future capital of w.
Virginia; whether it shall be Martinsburg, |
Clarksburg or Charlestown after 1885; in |
the interim it will continue to be Wheel |
ing,
No doubt fast freight rings, extravagant
salaries and luxurious palace cars aid larg-
ly in perverting the earnings of railroad
lines and robbing stockholders, but even
these notorious impositions would hardly
justify the plundered stockholders in tear
ing up tracks and burning the rolling stock
of the company.
The Cincinnati Gazette says: ''From all
sections Of the State come the same cordial
Endorsements of the work of the Cleveland
Convention. A special from Dayton says:
Judge West will run like lightning here,
and, we may remark, he will run like |
lightning in Cincinnati. In Central Ohio,
the enthusiasm for him is also great" Go
in, Buckeyes.
The stables of hotel-Morton House,
at Greenwich, Ct, which seems to have
been filed with fine horses and carriages
from New York citY-Was fired on Mon
day morning last, and 36 horses and many
carriages was destroyed. One team was
valued at $4,000, and single horse at
$1,000. Some of the coachmen narrowly
escaped with their lives.
The Democrats are cussing the registra-
ton law as an infraction of their long
claimed privilege TO vote early and often.
The law may put tramps at considerable
inconvenience, and diminish democratic
majorities in districts run by such unscru-
PulOus chaps as Banning and Eph. Hol-
land, but few of the honest voters of the
State will be inconyenienced by the law.
Fhe greenback as now quoted in the
market, is worth some 95 cents. The silver
dollar, of old standard fneness and weight
is worth only about 81 cents. This would
seem to require a considerable increase of
weight of the silver dollar, or a considera-
bic debasement of the gold to keep things
equalized in the sense-we suppose, of the
resolutions of the Cleveland convention.
A letter from District Commissioner
Dennison, just printed in the State papers,
is construed as indicating that he would
be glad to be nominated again for Govern
or of Ohio. The burden of his brief letter
is that the party must hang together ig-
more minor questions and give the broad
est charity to differences of opinion in non
essentials. As to the candidacy, he is not
looking in that direction.
During the recent railroad strike, Tole-