Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10

Haskell's Hall, Oh Saturday evening, OctO-
Der 18th.
Remember. if you would have Repub-
lican victory in this State you must secure
full vote.
The question Of land tenure in Ireland
seems to be assuming serious prOpotions-
threatening to match anything in this
line for many years.
Renting of seats in the NJ. E. Church will
take place on Wednesday Oct. 18th, 1879,
at 2 O'Clock, P. NJ. A cordial invitation is
extended to all persons interested.
If the Democratic party has one mission
to which it is devoted more than any
other, it is to declare that true loyalty is
an unreserved submission to the solid
south.
The two French treasure ships, clesving
their way through the Atlantic, with forty
millions of francs-eight millions of dol
lars-in new coin, bring no balm for the
soul of Ewing.
Gen. Ewing does not recognize the fact
that to insure steady prosperity, we must
have stability and order. he goes about
as disturbsr, while to secure the end in
view, We want, more than anything else
to be let alone.
The crop of soft money converts has not
been a very abundant one this season.
Where the acreage was broad and expansive
-as in Maine-the product was drawfed,
and no new localities have been broken up
and put under tillage.
Water has become so scarce along por-
tion of the line of the Pennsylvania Rail.
road, owing to the long continued drOugt,
that it has become necessary to carry
supply in oil tank cars for the purpose Of
filling tanks at the various water stations.
The Boston Herald says that reports
from manufacturing towns in Massachu-
sets where last Fall the Butler movement
fairly doomed among the idle or half-em-
ployed working men, indicate that the
Republican ticket will make heavy gains
Mr.. Nelson Baker, prominent Iowa
Greenbacker, and one of their most effec-
tive speakers, has come back to the Repub-
iean party because the Greenbackers have
sacrificed principle to policy, and he is un-
willing to become a tool of the rebel-Demo-
cratic party.
Mr.. Frye says that if about fifty lead
ers in the late rebellion had been
hung by the neck until dead in 1866, they
would not now be strutting around Con-
gress boasting Of their leadership in a con-
spiraey for the overthrow of the Republic.
This proposition is not debatsble.
The Sentinel says that couple Of young
men of that village, propose within a few
days to start on water excursion, in
sail boat made in this village. They will
go by rail to Reno, Pa, where they will
strike the AIleghaney river, and follow it
and the Ohio to Mississippi. They go
equipped for sporting.
There is but one party in the country,
it may be asserted, that appeals to assas-
sinstion as campaign argument. Buck
shot in the back is the latest mode of ef-
fectiDg it. That it is recognized as the
tactics Of the party, would seem to be un-
derstood from the fact that if allusiOn is
ever made to it, it is in the way Of pallia-
ton or justification.
Senator Lamar made long speech at
Oxford, Miss, last week He explained
his position on the financial question, say
ing be is a bi-metalist,> but denouneing
the Greenbackers, and he justified his ac-
tion on the Electoral Commission question,
(which was Democratic measure" But
he said nothing about the Yazoo atrocity,
as far as appears from the reports.
During the month of September the
wheat shipped for Europe from the prirci-
pal American ports amounted to twenty
four millions of bushels-or about one
million bushels for each business day.
During the same remarkable month Euro
pean gold arrived at New York to the
amount Of S39. 900, ,OOO-or gold for wheat
was received at the rate Of about $1.577S
per bushel.
1t is learned that the Democratic mana
gers had made arrangements at the begin
ming of the present campaign to send a
number Of Confederate Brigadiers into
Ohio to stump for Ewing. They were
told, however, that the work of the extra
session had been such that Confederate or
atory was not considered quite the thing
to win votes in Ohio, and the engagements
were all broken of.
We rather regret to see our friend and
cotemPorary - the Standard - throwing
dirty water upon the ladies from Austin
burg for their array in personating the old
thirteen States, with the Goddess of Iiber-
ty, while such exhibitions as the Yazoo and
Kemper county tragedies are never allud-
ed to in the spirit Of disfavor or condem-
Dationl How is this? surely it is not the
guage of your political ethics, friend Stand
ard?
TIE safest way to vote is to so cast your
ballot as to let the financial question alone,
and let the present unmistakable evidences
Of prosperity 60 on with the progress they
have been making since resumption has be-
gun to be looked upon as fixed and SET
tied matter. The most effectual way Of
securing this end is to vote against Ewing
the dlsturber, and in favor Of Foster and
Hickenlooper who are commuted to the
stability and prosperity Of the business Of
the country.