Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-04
OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL.


1t is useless to attempt wrestling with
the problem "when will Congress adj journ"
for no one knows. The Democrats are
slowly but surely disappearing, and they
cannot long retain their organization under
the constant daily elimination of their
forces. Beaten on every track and parhcu-
larly cursed by the cOunsels and isms of
their own short-sighted, hOt-heads there
seems nothing left the prudent conserva-
tive but to run away from the city leaving
the last ditch fellows to fight out their
battle. JEFF Davis annihllated the yankees
at least dozen times, during the war, with
ferOcious prOclamatiOns and the same
wholesale way of winning victories is just
what the brigadiers and redOubtable Dem
ocratic warriors in Congress are accom-
plishing by holding on. So we won't tell
YOU when Congress will adjourn. But we
want such terrible ogres as COnger, Gar
field and all such Republican cattle hanged
as high as Haman's gallows and there is
no better way to accomplish this great ann
than for the Democrats to prolong Con-
gress. Senator Thurman is quite ill-men-
tally as we'll as physically, we presume. for
no astute Democrat like he could reflect
upon the many serious blunders which his
party has been guilty of since the 1st of
March without becoming an invalid in body
and mind.
Mrs. Raper who shot Buckley for alleged
seduction has been sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for years. This woman deserted
her husband for Buckley and lived with
him for some time, a child being born dur
ing their Capitalization. Buckley support
ed her and child for some time but, after
marriage to another woman ceased this
support. Mrs. Raper endeavored for sey-
eral months to compel him to assist her
but without avail, and then shot him.
though not fatally. 1t is likely she will be
pardOned owing to the strong efforts made
TO secure her release by her many SYM
pathizerS, among which are the entire jury
and Court.
Our Bakers Union have advanced the
price Of bread to 315 cts. per loaf whole
sale and 4 cts. retail under the recent rise
in the price of -four. 1t is singular that
Washington dealers should be the first al
ways to advance their prices under any
rise of the raw material and the last TO re-
duce the price of the manufactured pro-
duct. They are governed apparently by
the policy of the Baltimore & Ohio X. R.,
which absorbs for itself all rights and prof
its and grants none to others.
The detectives have at last arrested three
of the thieves concerned in the robbery
some months since of about $4,000 from
the Govt. Printing Office. This robbery
was one of the most skillfully planned and
carried out jobs ever ATTEMPTED here. The
thieves by lounging around the cashiers
Office made themselves acquainted with his
habit of occasionally leaving the room for
a few minutes at a time. During one of
these absences they took an impression of
the inner safe lock, where the funds were
kept, after which it became merely a ques-
ton Of time until they could rob the safe
of its contents. On one pretext or another |
one of the gang kept himself in close prox-
unity TO the cashier, and less than five |
minutes absence on his part sufficed their |
needs, for they opened, stripped the safe |
and unlocked it while he was going from |
his room to an adjoining one and return |
ing; they had complete arrangements made |
for escape and succeeded. Thieves so |
adroit cannot be easily convicted and there |
is not the slightest chance, we think, for |
securing punishment to these fellows, |
though it is apparent the right ones have |
been arrested. MIR. Defrees, the Govt. |
Printer, has, Of course, had to bear the |
loss of this money as Congress has refused |
him relief
The pathways Of the officials here are not |
always strewn with roses. The officials of |
our broken German National Bank who |
were indicted for mafeasance have. fur !
nished bail and are at liberty again. We |
wish, of course, to see no one wantonly |
punished, butwhen men are entrusted with |
important interests which they apparently |
abuse, squander and appropriate, and then |
when disaster comes are found to be bank |
rupt in claim but with their wives helding |
by transfer all the bonds and stock former |
ly owned by them, it rather looks as if |
Washington needed little of Hollands |
banking system which hangs a defaulting |
bank official.
The printers in the Daily Republican
Office promise us a strike in consequence of |
a threatened reduction of wages from 80 |
cts. per thousand to 40 cts. The RepubIi-
can is the only newspaper in the city regu-
larly paying 30 cts to its compositors. |
The Post long since reduced its rates and |
though the Govt. Printing Office Union |
used every means fair and foul to crush 1t |
yet it succeeded, and now the Republican
will attempt the same end.
Washington, July 1, 1879.