The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-05-02
RANDOM THOUGHTS.
BY THE EDITOR.


left Jackson fifteen minutes after five in
the morning, and found but few passen-
gers on the train. The cars moved |
smoothly and pleasantly, and in an hour
and half the train reached the Scioto |
Valley, and the train on the Valley Road |
came up at the same time, and the two
trains ran side by side for some distance,
the Valley Road being several feet lower
than the Narrow Gauge. When the
trains got too near to run side by side,
the little Narrow Gauge train scooted
ahead, and the other train came on be-
hind, upon the same grade, there being
additional rails on the same ties.
At the junction, we changed cars, and
the large car on the Valley Road was
quite a change from the little Narrow
Gauge car. The candy fend has not as
yet invaded the train on the Narrow
Gauge, but here he was, in all his repul-
sive hideousness Why is it that this
fend is always just passing from the
state of youth to manhood, always wears
an odd shaped cap, and is..always ugly p
They all have a peculiar kind of slang
This particular fend would poke his little
basket into every passengers face and
repeat to every one, Sweeoranges-Swee
orange Then he came
again with the everlasting blood and
thunder novels, one of which, he threw
into every ones lap or seat Then he
came along and picked them all up
Then he came with maple sugar. Then
with figs, and thus on, forever and for
ever.
| At Chillicothe good many passengers
came upon the train, and among them j.
L. Boardman, of the Hillsborough News.
At Circleville more passengers came in,
and among them William Milliken, of
the Fayette County Herald, and Samuel
Marfeld, of the Circleville Union.
At Columbus we took an omnibus for
the American House, and at the hotel
had very convenient rooms assigned to
US. In few minutes Rev. S. c. Tramp
ton, who had heard of our arrival called
upon US. 1t will be remem bered that he
was the Methodist minister at this place
is very good man.
After dinner went to call on my old
law partner, Rip Hoffman. l inquired
for Hoffman's Office, and man said it
was up stairs at the corner of State and
High Streets l went to the door and it
was locked. A young man came up and
was going to open the door, when he said
he supposed l was looking for his father.
He said his Office was on State Street
near the City Hall. l asked him if he
was Frank Hoffman. He said he was
He is practicing law with partner, and
not with his father. / asked Frank if he
: remembered when his father and l were
practicing law as partners, twenty years
ago, and how much he was in our Office
He said he did, although he was a very
small boy at that time. remember tina
father Abbott was having a. great reviva
, at the M. P. Church in the winter o
1S57-8 and Frank joined the church.
He was not a bad boy before, but h'
chewed tobacco, and in speaking of hi
doing better, he said he had quit chewing
tobacco; thus showing that little boy
often have a more true idea of what /
meet and proper than most men have
under like circumstances. Mr.. Hoffman
was not in the city, and l did not see him
AS I said last week, both Houses of tn
l Legislature were busy, and there was bel
ter order than l ever saw il any Legisla
4 ture for twenty years. In the Senate
!; met Allen o. Myers, clerk of the Senate
e 1 had not seen him for six years. l me
him at the Athens editorial convention
in 1872. He was mere boy then, and
should not have known him, but b
8 readily recognized me. Senators told m
y. that he is most efficient clerk, keepin
:, the work square up, all the time. D. S
= Fisher, of the Hardin County Democrat
and Charles Rhodes, of the Standard O
fee, were in their places, as clerks. Al
three of these men were clerks in tn
: Constitutional Convention, and their e1
a perience there, and the fact that they ar
l newspaper men, is an assurance tina
e their work will be well done.
In the House l met Joe Eylar. of tn
e West Union Defender, and A. R. Va
Cleaf, of the Circleville Democrat The
are members from their respective cour
!, ties. In the Hall If the House l met
M. Stimson, State Librarian. He wear
, his glasses, of course, as he always does
8 but he has had his political eyes consio
d erably opened during the past year.
: Of the caucus l spoke last week, an
. only wish to say in addition, that thos
g who speak of entire harmony, and hope
8 full feeling. either deceive themselves, o
J. are whistling to keep their courage up
John Sherman's letter was dampene
and Gen. Grosvenor's insinuations agains
Y Blaine and Conkling, as the dead cand
J, dates who were slaught tered at Cincinnati
; and whose ghosts were gibbering in tn
streets of Rome, was exceedingly i'll timed
3 and came with very bad grace from
/ man who is so effectually dead and damn
9 ed politically, that he ran thousand be
hind on the Republican ticket in Athen
v county, where he has lived longest, an
C is best known.
+ The following is taken from the Cir