Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-09-05
Republican County Ticket.
JOSIAH HICKS.


it would be, if the Mississippi tactics could
be introduced into Ohio.
English gold still flows toward thiscOun-
try. The talk now is Of putting up the
bank rate to stop the OurfOw.
What did the Mississippi Democracy ex-
pect would be done with the Yazoo bloody
shirt, if it could not be waived?
The Boston Herald says that the late
Mr.. Dixon may have teen q very ugly
character, but it doubts if he will go to
warmer place than Mississippi.
It is suggested that the best thing that
could be done with Mississippi, would be
to occupy it as an Indian Reservation,
with care not TO let the stock Of rifles run
low.
The Baltimore american notices that
DeYoung is in Jail and Barksdale is prom
enading around and managing his canvass
for Clerkship of the Court in YazOO
county.
If the elections 60 heavily Republican
this fall Tilden may decide that he does
feel some symptoms Of paralysis, and
gracefully turn over the usufruet to Hen
drieks.
Mr.. W. S. Gilbert is credited with the
remark: ''The sun nsver goes down on
the Queens dominions, because heaven is
afraid to trust an Englishman in the
dark"
The Grant boom, since the conference of
the General with the Emperor of Japan,
has rather softened down and given place
to the Sherman boom. Sherman is the
coming man.
The Springfield Republican mentions
poor, distracted old lady in eastern Mas
sachusetts who lately announced herself
''twin sister of Queen Victoria and Henry
Ward Beecher."
There were no bayonets at the polls in
Yazoo, but how was it about that shotgun
business? The patriotism Of our Demo-
cratic friends suffers nothing from this as
pect of the affair.
It is asserted that no less than 265 YES
sells are on their way from Europe to the
single port of Baltimore, to load with
grain. We trust that Gen. Tom. will not
lay this thing seriously to heart.
Sam Cary, since he embraced Democ a
cy, has become-as might be expeeted-a
proficient in profanity, and with all that
he is not equal to daming the flow Of gold
that finds its way from Europe.
Among the fatal cases of yellow fever
at Memphis, within the last few days, is
that of General HoOd-s confederate bri-
gadier generaI-his wife preceding, and
and two daughters following him.
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser says:
A man down there got into BARRIERS chair
and pinned newspaper about his neck,
and began to peruse the towel. Absent
mindedness down there, takes this form.
We don't quite see the use Of the Roch-
ester Herald denying that Susan B. An
thony ever had any children. That seems
to be tolerab!y well settled by the fact that
she never had any husband.
We believe we have seen nothing from
the Standard on the YazOo matter. VIII
our neighbor be good enough to relieve the
public mind by defining its position, and
that Of the Democracy of Ohio, on the
subject?
A bare mention Of the thing Is all we get
therefore, of Yellow-Jaek-Black
ernor Of Keutueky-parading the streets
of Cincinnati on horseback with Uncle
Dick, on the 10th inst. at the opening of
the Grand Exposition.
The Democracy are recognizing the hand
of Providence in the fruitful crops and
general prosperity. Little as they care for
Providence, they do not hesitate to give
credit to anything or any body, rather
than the Republican party.
A London dispatch dated the first inst,
says:-The whaling ship Our Queen of |
Dundee, Scotland, with fourteen whales,
was caught in the ice in Lancaster Sound,
between Bafin's Bay and Barow's Strait,
and crushed. The crew was saved.
Some Of the papers are making merry
over the anticipated phenomena of your
Uncle Dicks equestrian passage through
the city Of Cincinnati, with his iIluminat-
ed staff, on the 10th inst.-the occasion of |
the opening of the Grand Exposition.
A London dispatch says that Parole has
been backed to win over $15O,OOO in the
Cambridgeshire stakes. The Sporting
Times says that despite Paroles defeats Of
late he is very likely the best horse in Eng
land at mile or mile and a quarter,
Rarus has passed into the possession
of Bonner, and as Bonner has never suf |
fered any of his horses to be put on the |
track in any other way than for the graft
fcation Of himself and friends, Rarus NAV
be considered as retired. The price was |
$4,000.
Progress is shown in the guarantees
agreed to by Japan with Germany securing
free exercise of religious opinion, and free
access to the interior Of the Empire. The
influence Of Gen. Grant may have had |
something to do with this change Of jap
anese policy.
The so-called civil service reform, as a
theory, looks plausible, and essays on it |
should be pleasant reading for people who
are expecting the millennium soon. But
practically it is a humb1g, and President
Hayes should have found that out by this
time.
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