The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24
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ed Paris, brought disgrace upon French
Republicanism, made French labor
next thing to slavery, and retarded
efforts for the assistance of the labor
ing classes throughout the civilized
world. Those ideas they frankly avow /;
the name which belongs to them is re-
PEELED because the civilized world shud-
ders when it thinks of the practical eff
feet of those ideas.
The Cincinnati Enquirer edi torially
states that it is true that Mr.. Bishop,
the Democratic nominee for Govern
or, ''has expressed a willingness to
pay his assessment for legitimate COM
paign expenses" This confirms the
statement of the Enqutrer'S Putin Bay
correspondent, that the nomination of,
Mr.. Bishop '-1OGs made upon the as
aurance that he scOltld contribute an
ample sum for campaign purposes
and look after hamilton county be
sides" 1t certainly is to Mr.. Bishops
credit, if he does not go back on the
conditions of his nomination, as he has
been reported as proposing to do. But
it is something new in Ohio, for veal
thy men to be nominated for Governor,
on the assurance" that they will fur
nish ''ample" means for carrying on
the campaigr.. What pity, that f.
nancial misfortune should have depriv-
ed Gen. Ewing of the means to meet
the requirements of the Democratic
situation. But for that fact, he might
have been successful. As it was, the
assurance of ample means" could not
be given, and wealthier man took the
prize.
William b. Davis is a prosperous
farmer in Jackson County, ILL.,, and
cultivates the soil for profit. When he
reads in his newspapers that wheat in
all parts of the State was turned out
thirty to forty bushels per acre, oats
sixty to one hundred, potatoes no linn
it, except the capicity of the hills to
cover them, corn prodigious-whenh he
reads this, and glanced over his own
wheat fields, aud saw myriads of chinch
bugs AID other pests sitting round on
the fences, he got discouraged, and one
day in disgust told a couple of his
neighbors that they might have the
wheat on one forty acres tract if they
would harvest it and give him the
straw. He wanted the satisfaction of
burning the straw. The offer was ac-
cepted and when the wheat was thresh-
ed there was 407 bushels of it. Mr..
Davis accepted the situation as a fair
business transaction, but he declared
that was a deceptive field of wheat.
The famine news from India contin-
ues to grow worse. The fact that in one
of the districts the number of persons on
the relief work is decreasing whilst the
number of charitably relieved increas-
es is bad sign. 1t shows that the la
borers are becoming too weak to work.
Lon" Hubbell, ''the strong man of
the world" once well known in the cir.
Gus arena, is in the poor house of Put.
nam county. In his time he could
back two yoke of oxen, and support
a weight of 1,S00 pounds resting. on
his arched hands and feet with his
stomach upward.
! Bill Scroggs several years ago elop-
ed with the daughter of Mr.. j. Oily
phant. wealthy citizens of Atchison,
Kan. He abused his wife, and some
time ago she returned to her fathers.
Sunday night last Scroggs went to
Olyphants house and asked to see his
wife. Olyphant refusing, Scroggs drew
a revolver and fired wounding Oily
phent so that he died soon after.
Scroggs escaped was followed by four
men, one of whom he shot and killed
rather than submit to arrest. Scroggs
then surrendered to justice of the
peace, but on Monday morning early
was taken from the Justices protec.
ton by mob and hung.
Charles b. Vadin, of Richmond, Va,
has been arrested for embezzling gov
eminent funds. He has been held iu
$4,000. These F, F. VS. will swindle
when they get an opportunity.
J. H. Mackey, of the law firm OF
Lewis & Mackey, Brooklyn, n. Y, was
found in a thicket back of Newport,
KY, op the evening of the 18th, with
his skull smashed in and the body
somewhat decomposed. Money and
valuable papers were found on his per
son showing that he had not been muir
dered for purposes of robbery.
An old man in Cleveland, named
title, was called upon the other day
by two young men who claimed to be
in destress-just from the old country
and their goods detained in New York.
They needed money to get the goods
out of the custom house, and get to
New Orleans, where they had friends
-all of which was very plausible. They
had gold watches in their possession
which they would part with for mod
crate sum, although they were worth
$500. The old man bit, and the re
suit was the sharpers carried off $3.50.
and left two watches worth $500.
Says the New York Tribune of Sher-
mans speech I'VE do not remember
to have seen anywhere so good state
ment of the Southern question, so clear
an explanation of the Louisiana prob
lem, or of the Presidents solution of
it. He does not fall into the common
blunder, which Judge West committed
the right before, of treating the Presi-
dents action at the South as an sex
pertinent" to be judged by its con-
sequences and not by its motives; but
he makes it plain that neither in Louis
lana nor in South Carolina could Mr.
Hayes have constitutionally acted 9TH
erwise than he did, and that whether
the Bourbon Democrats do their du'y
or not, the President at any rate has
done his.
1t would be very hard to correct the
mistakes of a man who can see no diff
ference between a gang of Postoffice
clerks packing a ward meeting and q
Secretary of the Treasury making a
speach on the financial issues which
are before the country. There is no
connection whatever between the two
cases; it is as much the business of the
Secretary of the Treasury to explain
and defend his financial policy as it is
the business of the civil service clerks
to keep clear of the local committees,
and the attempt to confuse the public
opinion, and to deceive the public
Judgment in the matter, reflects little
credit on those who consent to it.