Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06

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atism and a confirmed gastric disease
contracted through drinking prosperity
10 France with SAC electors daily.
"
" Emmie, !" he at last gasped, like one
about TO faint, al feel that nay
strength"
"To-morrow," she said, relentlessly,
"you will canvass the forty-seven par
ishes on this list.n
And on all sides nothing was heard
but exclamations Of "What an ambiti-
Gus chap that Verdavin isl Who ever
saw any one like himin
Amedee," she said, next day, "your
| address has not been circulated widely
enough. have had l6O,0 extra COP
les struck off and distributed"
" But, dear, printing comes ruinously
expensive. This morning only / have
! paid one bill of sixteen thOus--"
" You must also manage to have your
name mentioned in connection with gem
erous deeds. l have ordered six organs
for as many churches in as many close
| parishes" .... DOT.
"S-i-x o-r-g-a-n-sl I"
" Yes, and twelve fire-engines for vii.
lagos that are unprotected from the raw
ages of the destroying element and
where there is large floating vote.
Imagine how grateful the poor people
will be. ~
I" But, Emmie, I can not make ducks
and drakes-I mean church-organs and
parish tire-engines-of my fortune"
"And do you count It for nothing,
then, the glory Of being statesmanP
Besides, once in politics, you are sure of
| getting your money back an hundred
! fold. q"
"What a deuce of fellow that Yer
DAWN isl" said the outside world in awe
struck amazement and admiration /;
"he'l spend every franc he has before
he'll let himself be beaten!"
. VI.
One pleasant morning-it was Just a
week before the election Madame
aroused at early dawn M. Verdavin,
who was still sleeping soundly, not hav-
ing indeed returned from an exhausting
journey to the back districts until 2
a. m.
"Amedee," she cried, "rouse your
self; the honor of our name has been
vilely thrust under foot and trodden in
the dust, and you must ayenge it," And
she handed the unhappy man news
paper in which he read the following:
Its about time to have done with the bra.
| zen impudcnce of the charatan who Is ira
| posing round our streets and highways. This
Nerdavin, fellow of tho baser sort seeks
| but seeks in vain-to conceal his demagoldo
! instincts. He demands Liberty" We all
know what that word means with him; be.
hind 1t he prepares an ambuscade for prop
erty, the family, religion. This Verdavin,
dealer In votes aud huunter of low taverns. Ii
nothing more nor less than u scalawag who
has not even the courage of his incendiary
opinions.
"'But that is not all" said his wife,
and handed him another journal in
which he read:
Let tho mask be torn OF, Our Intelligent
voters willnot let themselves be imposed up.
on by Tartutfe of the cutters. NJ. Nerdayfn
q double -ender politician and a perfect null
lity, pretends to array himself on the side of
the cause of Order. 1t is under such "A guise
that the friends of despotism usually do their
hellish work. This OdiOus being, whom we
will not further polute our type by naming
has evidently been hired to complicate the
situation by his candidacy. Let the electors
rise I'm their might and sweep from the field
this vain idiot.
Next morning Verdavin received a
sword-thrust in the left arm from the
Legitimist editor, and the day afterward
one to match in the right arm from the
Radical writer.
At last the day of election arrived.
Verdavin had conducted his canvass
with unsparing energy; his complicated
disorders had given him corpse-like
appearance; he had spent three-quar-
ters of his fortune; he carried both of
his arms in slings.
But at night the prefect made the Off
cial declaration: -
EJected-Yerdavin, 2S,672. E, d
VII.
1t was week later when he entered
the Chamber. His wife, radiant and re-
joicing, was in one of the galleries. He
had chosen a seat in the center-Order
in Liberty, as it were.
He arrived in the middle of q debate,
so as not to be unduly noticed.
Precisely at that instant vote had
been taken, and as he reached the CEN
ter of the Chamber he heard the Presi
dent declaring that, inasmuch as it was
literally honeycombed with fraudulent
practices, the Assembly thereby invali-
dated the election of NJ. Verdavin.
M. Verdavin tainted. . a.
VIII.
Nine. Verdavin has brought an action
for separation and the management of
her own estate. The bill alleges that
the aforesaid Amedoe Verdavin is hope
lessly possessed with the mania of po-
litical ambition.
And the rnbIin say of his wifa GtPonr