Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-06-24

Horasio Seymour is only seventy years
of age.
Marriage makes the man; the woman
was maid before.
ssYoung men, pitch your tent with
the living, not the dead. d.'-Garfield.
Ohio gave Garfield 43 votes. He de-
clined TO vote for himself.
General Longstreet has been con-
11rmed as Minister to Turkey.
The candidates will enable the Repub-
1ican party to conduct an aggressive
campaign.
Cleopatra's Needle has at last been
shipped from Egypt, and is now en-
route for New York.
Garfield was boatman, a mechanic
farmer, college profes sor; a soldier
and he Is a statesman. And he Is yet
on the sunny side of fifty.
There are few public men in the
country who approach nearer to the
ideal statesman than James A. Garfield.
It is the easiest thing in eile world to
find a man willing TO bet a hat on his
candidate, but 1t is. the hardest thing In
the world to find the man if he loses.
In the present English Parliament
there are twenty-five members con-
nected with the journalistic profession.
Mrs. Susan Monroe, now living In
Newark, New Jersey, at the age of 66.
started the first Sunday School In that
town in 1919. -
Tobacconists say It Is injurious to
smoke a cigar more than half its length.
1t is very injurious-to the cigar trade.
at the beginning of the present CEN
tury there were 5000, 600 copies Of the
Bible In existence; since then 1l6, ,000, 600
more have been printed.
New Haven Register: This Is the
season of the year when the small boy
goeth to the barber and winketh at him
and saith, "cut of the ends of INV
hair" And behold, the barber cutteth
of the hair and ieaveth the ends.
General Garfield will preside at the
Scranton (Pa.j Eisteddford, having ac-
cepted an invitation some time ago.
He Is of Welsh extraction, his grand
father coming in early life from Carly
lin.
The Philadelphia Chronicle says that
Western girls do not nsc rouge, but that
they over night put mustard plasters on
their cheeks, which stay red for a long
time. The Chronicle should wear a
blistering blush.
Garfield is the young mans candi-
date. Every young man In Ohio who
will cast his first vote this fall should
throw 1t for Garfield.
The mule has met his match. 1t was
In Delaware. He kicked over a bee
hive. He died the next day. The lit
tie bee Is never too busy TO decline an
invitation to fight.
There is trouble on the high seas.
An American schooner, flying the stars
and stripes, has been fired into by
Spanish Man of War, and diplomatic
correspondence Is imminent.
Like Lincoln, General Garfield Is a
good specimen of the work of our
American institutions. From humble
beginnings, surrounded By poverty,
each elevated himself to the highest
places of honor.
A story is. going the rounds, on the
authority of New Jersey delegate.
shat during Saturdays cheering at
Chicago oyer Garfield, Conkling sent
him note running, "Sly compliments
TO the dark horse of Ohio" which Gar
field showed with a smile to the men
around him.
Since the days of John Quincy Adams
as finely educated man has not sat in
the Presidential chair as will occupy It
when Garfield is inaugurated. And yet
he passed his early days steering canal
boat. He educated himself afterward,
and resigned a college presidency to
90 into the army.
Ali the 'sliterary fellers" are de-
lighted with Garfield's nomination and
are hurrying forward congratulations.
The Harvard professors, who OCCASION
ally dip into politics and are 40 flercely
independent, join in the general APP
plause.-f Boston Letter.