Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-24

among themselves as to the cause of theil
defeat.
1t is lntimated that Redpath is rusticat-
ing and restoring himself in the mountains
Of Jamaica.
Thurman is a burglar and Ewing fraud.
Neither Of them will be likely 70 gex US
any more for the present
The November elections in Psnnsylvs-
nis, New York and other States takes
place on Tuesday the 4th.
''CaIico Charley"-by the voice Of the
people, is Governor Of the great State Of
Ohio. There has been boom.
If the frosts that are becoming so sppa-
rent hersabOuts were to reach Memphis the
ravagss Of yellow fever would be at an end.
OermOnt County unexpectedly elects a
Republican member Of the Legislature.
This county was regarded as sure by the
Democrats.
The Reporter announces the deeease Of
the Conneaut Ezpress, aged one year, two
months and q days. The remains, it
states, we're taken to Geneva.
It was Columbus Delano who introduced
Mr.. Waite, a good local lawyer Of Toledo,
Ohio, to General Grant, who made him
Chief Justice Of the United States.
That 14fh day of October was rather a
day to be remembered-a Republican day
and day Of adversely and ill-Omen to
the brigadiers and solid south"
The question is pertinent one-What is
the Solid South going to do about the com
ing census? Is there any way by which it
can be bulldOged, or shot in the baekf
Republican paregoric was too much for
that rag-baby. Its symptoms appeared to
call for pretty free dose, and the old
nurse rose to the demands Of the occa-
sion.
In Muskingum the Republicans elected
their entire county ticket, and gave Foster
q msjority Of 40. This Is the first time
since 1872 that this.county has gone Re
publican.
The count of the official returns in Cali
fornia, gives the Republicans the one
Congressman in doubt, by 24s clear ma
jOrity, which makes the California dele
cation solidly Republican.
Judge Field has suddenly been moved to
say something about State rights from the
Bench. The occasion seems to be auspi-
cious for the introduction Of another DEM
ocratic candidate for President.
That annunciation of Gen. Tom Ewing
in 1s73-1That the Democratic party is
poWerless and ineffective as an ally, and
not fit instrument in American politics y
was very fair bit of auricular wisdom.
It is said that ex-Senator Stewart, Of
Nevada, has retrieved his fortunes, and a
part Of his family has been occupying
''Castle Stewart" for some little time.
The other members are in San Francisco.
Nobody seems any better satisfied with
the defeat than eartem Democrats. They
find comfort in the fact that the Western
wing of the party must submit an eastern
hard money candidate for President in
1880.
The recent election viii leave but two
Democratic officials in the State House
the School Commissioner and one member
of the Board of Public Works. They were
each elected two yeOrs ago, for three-year
terms.
The eyes Of the country ara now turned
toward New York, and If she meets the
expectations she viii take her place in the
front ranks Of Republican States. Such
result would go far to check the misehiev-
Gus tendency of the Southern rule.
The election in Colorado for a Justice of |
the Supreme Court, held on the 14th, re-
suited in the choice of Beck, Republican,
by nearly 5000 majority, gain Of 1900
since last year. Local elections we're also
held, and generally went Republican.
The four pure-and-simple Greenback
votes cast in this town, came from Bunker |
Hil.-Mr. S. Q. Smith and family, pre-
ferred defeat, if need be, under their own |
colors. No Ewing in ours. Their posi-
ton carries 8 sense of self respect-rather |
notification Of defeat.
The obstruction wrought by the floods |
in Spain is appalling. It is estimated
that over 1000 people have persisted and
that $1,000 600 worth of property has been
It is reported from Mercia |
that $40 bodies Of persons drowned have
already been recovered
A steam fire engine, drawn by pair Of |
horses dashed through an open bridge
into the river while running to fire in
Cleveland last Tuesday night. There
we're four fremen on the engine at the |
time who were fshed out of the river, but |
the horses were drowned.
There was a deal of excitement on
'Change in Chicago on Friday Of last
week, when wheat reached $12S, the
highest point yet attained. It. however,
soon took at tumble and again reached
about the old point, $1,1s2{ which did not
,nucb abafe the excitement.
It is generally understood that one Of
the first acts of the incoming Legislature
VIII be the repeal of the law whereby the
State of Ohio was re-districted by the late
Geaeral Assembly. The dist
net probably viii be organized as they
we're during the first part Of the present
decade.
Special attention has been paid to the
and 81 msjOrity on joint ballot
is the result. That result brings about
anOthsr-the election Of General Garfield
to the Q. S. Senate, and with that follows
the pleasant refection-that the Buckeye
State has clean Republican delegation in
that body.
The lack of Nationality in the Democrat
ic party became conspicuous in the late
Ohio campaign. Here was a great contest
ia the Central State of the Union-the
most representative of States-and the
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