Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-08-23

Member OF Board ofPublic Works
GEORGE PAUL, Of Summit County.
Next to rain and sunshine, that which
the country most needs is a stable measure
of values.
1t is reported that President Hayes con-
tribution to the Republican campaign fund
is 5000.
The greatest agitators Of the labor ques-
tion and most blatant labor reformers are
the workingmen who do not work.
The personal reputation that has been
most damaged by the developments Of the
Potter committee is that Of ClarksOn n.
Potter-his witnesses, perhaps, excepted.
The postofice authorities at San Fran
cisco are about shipping $1,000, 900 in gold
to New York, as third class mail matter.
The action Supplies the business men oil
Frisco.
Eight hundred shoemakers are on
strike IN Chicago, and the Six Companies
of San Francisco have offered to supply
their places with Cinnamon at 70 cents
day. This is bringing the Chinese question
pretty near home.
The New York Advocate, the Greenbaek
paper 50 extensively circulated among the
Greenbaekers in the West, has proved Il
self failure. Its publisher has fled
voluntary petition in bankruptcy. hlsoll-
tiles $50, 900, assets nothing.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston viii in all prob
ability be sent to Congress by the Demo
Gratis of the First Virginia District. Al
though so closely identified with the Con-
federacy, Gen. Johnston seems to be less
of Bourbon than the average Democratic
Congressman from the North.
Bismarck has notified the government OF
the Sultan that the stipulatious Of the
treaty of Berlin must either be observed to
the letter or Turkey Will be divided up
among the other European powers. As
Turkey had but little or nothing to say in
framing the treaty, there will be nothing
left for her but to obey orders.
In New England the real workingmen
are bold enough to ask those fellows who
ara volunteering to champion the labor
cause in politics, whether they are laboring
men themselves, and if so. where, when and
hoEF Generally, the gassy agitators fail
to answer the question satisfactorily. The
only work they do is with the mouth-eat-
ing, drinking and talking.
Hon. Alexander Il. Stephens has been
nominated for Congress in the Eighth
Georgia District, by the regular Democratic
ConYention. This is rather hopeful sign,
in view of the fight made against The Pot
ter resolutions by Mr.. Stephens. 1t shows
that the Democracy in some portions Of
the South, at least, are more moderate in
their views than was supposed.
The South Carolina authorities have
yielded to the demand OF the Federal gov
ernment for the revenue officers imprisOn-
ed by the State for shooting an Illicit dis
tilIer who attempted to shoot the officers.
1t is now thought there-will be no further
trouble, unless mob should attempt to
take the officers from the custody of the
q. s. Marshal, Of which there are threats.
That there is strong connection between
honest politics and the public health is
shown by Washington dispatch, in which
attention is called to the fact that '.yellow
fever has not ragged so furiously in New
Orleans as at present since General Butler
occupied and cleansed the city, except in
1867, under 3 Democratic administration
When the Republicans have been in power
there the city has been kept clean and free
from epidemies."
The railroad running from Brocton, N.
Y, to Cory, Pa, and known as the Cross
cut, was on Saturday sold at Cleveland,
with all equipments, to William E. Lewis,
of that city, for u, 900. The original cost
Of this road was over million and quar-
ter dollars. Passenger trains to connect
with Msyville and points on Chautauqua
lake viii be run in connection with the
Lake Shore road. The future officers Of
the road have not been appointed.
Some 200 male patients were trans
ferred the ether day, from the Kalamazoo
Asylum for the insane, to the new one
just completed at Pontiac. In passing
through some of the 'soft money" dis
tricts, prominent Greenbackers went to the
train to greet them, suppOsing they were
delegates to Greenbaek Convention then
about sitting at that place. Thegenerosi-
ty and attention shown the unfortunates
was quite subduing and quieting to their
disturbed minds.
The Chinese Embassy which recently
arrived at San Francisco, reached Hartford,
CT, Saturday 10th. The Celestials ap-
pesred well after their long journey, and
looked exceedingly funny in their full
Chinese costumes. Hon. Chin Ian Pin,
''envoy extraordinary and minister pleni-
potentlary from China to the United States
Peru and Spain, with the members of his
embassy will remain at DR.. Young Wings
educational institution in Hartford until
September. when the minister will be for
mally presented to President Hayes.
Immediately after the elopement of Dr.
Hammond with Mrs. George Lapham. one
Of our Cleveland contemporaries itemized
the occurrence, giving the names as DR.
SammOn and Mrs. General Luther. This
is the way it was copied into the TILE
eRAPP. and such was the intelligent idea
conveyed to our readers minds, and as it
was sent from Painesville by local cores
pondent. is a sample of the local informa-
ton furnished by the daily press. And
yet we are not unfrequently told that ''the
Cleveland papers supply us with all the To-
cal news"
The great curse Of the working men in
this country and in Great Britain is their
uncomfortable appetite for drink. The
greater part of their poverty in ordinary
times comes from indulgence in this habit
If they would only save what they spend
for liquor, they would not have such cause
to complain. It has been sseertsined re-
Gently that the wages of the English Ia