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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-06-11
1nn snlhlr.., R.llnlnn.

MiLwluKEE, June 10. There j, ~ iumms'
N l,s Of strangers in this city to..l1y 20 ntor't
the soldiers reunion. There was a parade IL
which ., 900 uniformed nilitiH, 10000 yrlrrIuJ
and ZOO inmates of the National Sgldicr,
Home we're in line The vct,w,aa pt 'he
Mexican war were reviewed by deuo@l Grant.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-06-11

LITTLE Rock, ARK, Juno 10.-About fifty
members of the Arkansas Press association left
here this afternoon for Washington. Several
Indies accompanied tho party.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-06-11
THE LITTLE BIREvoOr nor.
An Aneedote of tho Youth of tha Next Pres
iuOut,

An AncCdUte OF tho Youth OF thH Next Pres
idont.
Mr. NJ. d. Conway contributes the following
to tho Philadelphia Press:
Referring TO to.day's work of the couvon-
tion at Chicago, q story told nae many years
ago of tho republican nominee for tho presi-
dsncy is significant, and, besides, conveys II
useful moral for tho rising generation. Pro-
ies5or j. Braincrd, for many years principal
examiner IN the United States patent office,
but recently deceased, Informed me that before
he put on official harness he was teacher,
giving "oljoct lessons" in the public Csohous of
Cleveland. In the performance OF his duties
ho was on ono occasion giving public lecture
to his pupils aud WAS oudeaSoring to Illustrate
the advantages Of cl lucation aud industry under
our free institutions BY way of Illustration
he picked out from crowd of boys who wore
standing at one side, and who appeared to have
been drawn there by mere idle curiosity, a
little barsfootcd, tow-hcaded fellow, This
little boy" he said, "if he will only devote
himself TO study and take advantage of his
opportunities, may yet be president of the
United States,' The boy selected for illustra.
tiOn seemed to bG more struck by tho remark
than any other one OF tho audience, He, il
appeared, so said Professor Branerd, was Mt
that time engaged in the humble occu'
patton of driving lirt.cart on q canal
thon in course of construction. soon
after the lecture no presented himself
as pupil By diligence aud attention
he soon mastered the udimonts and event.
ualy became professor OF learning himself
Following that, he took to politics, and when
Professor BTaiuerd told me tho story no was u
member of congress. Tho professor thon used
to take no little pride in the boys career aud
Inserted that its turning point WAS his lecture,
That boy had then got as far as congress only,
nor did the professor then seem to think that
his early words might become fully prophetic,
rs they seem on tho poiut Of becoming, for tho
little tow.healed, barelooled fellow was james
A. Garfield.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-06-11
OREGON Thoroughly KennbIIean.

SAN FRASCIscO, Juno 10.-Lator returns
from Oregon indicate that George Is cloctod to
congress, and that the legislature is republic
eau in bota branches. The republican supIono
court juds ses are all elected.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-06-11

NEw YoRK, June lO--The Union Laa2uo
club tonight adopted resolutions iudorsng the
Chicago nominees especially General Arthur,
who is member Of the organization.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-06-11

DUBLIN, Juno 10.--rhe Irish rifle team to-.
day fired its full complement Of shots at all
three ranges. Tho following are their totals
John Rigby, 2l7; Joint, 213; William Rgby,
pig; Murphy, 2l1; Coghlan, 200 and Dyas 2O2.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-06-11
senntnr Con!,llne,. Yiew ot the sltnntlo

Senator C0nklIng arrived In Washington
yesterday evening aud registered at Worm
ley's. lIe retired early being much iatiguod
In conversation lie said he still thought Grant
tho strongest and best candidate the republi.
can party could put in tho field, but General
Garfield he regarded as next to Grant the
best possible candidate that could have been
selected. Victory was assured by tho nomi
nation. BE predicted New Iork's giving a
republican majority in November of at least
$4,000 over a united democracy. He, however,
was confident that under no circumstances
would the democratic factions ia that state
unite
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-06-11

Tho war tAptnulIuFts lot Tht HHYy Vn'
cluling about b74, 100000 for pay aud S6,50O,000
for navy pensions) aggregate about Sll2 100000,
Among tho other dotailed items Of eXpondi,
lures growing out of the war are O4 for
n4tiona cemeteries $S,5iO, 1885 for support Of
national home for disabled volunteers aud
5000 for the purchase Of FOrd's theatre, the
suone Of President Lineolns assassination.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27
Need of Practical Preaching.

MINISTERS often think they must ac-
quire reputation for wisdom, learning
and great polemical ability, in order to
be successful They overrate the point
that unless they can make a scientific
defense of Christianity against the at
tacks of skepticism, they will be con-
sidered behind the times. They must
argue with Materialist and Pantheist,
must be able to talk learnedly of pro
toplasm, natural selection and evolution,
and defeat the enemies of the truth on
their own grounds and with their own
weapons.
The trouble with such preaching is
that it is addressed TO the wrong audi
ence, TO congregations that exist only
in the Imagination of the preacher. DIR.
Joseph Parker says: "There is neither
irony nor sarcasm in the statement that
in listening to some preachers, deserv-
edly conspicuous and influential it may
be, one receives the impression that
there is an eager but invisible auditory
before them, whose one object is to give
them the lie at the end OF every sen
tence, and To convict them Of lunacy in
the construction of every argument. -
Such preachers have constantly before
them in imagination a host of skeptics
who must be convinced. They strike
heroic blows at eirphantOm audience.
The apostle calls it lighting as one
beating the air. They preach loud
and eloquent sermons, which 90 sound
ing into space, and die there, because
not aimed at the people in the pews,
but at others who never hear.
The actual audiences who sit quietly
in the pews, wondering, perhaps, what
IL all means, are generally very plair
sort of people-mothers of families
hard working mechanics, business men
people absorbed in the practical care'
of fife. Nine-tenths probably know
little of Pantheism, or Rationalism, o.
whatever other ism the pulpit battery
is booming against so furiously, Thei
thoughts and words are of the family
the farm, the shop and the counting
room, They are utterly unaccustomeC
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27
A Laughable Mistake.

Mr.. GLADSTONE being one day in the
London offices of Mr.. Lindsay, the
ship owner, making a note of some
shipping returns for his budget, a
brusque and wealthy Sunderland ship
owner, who was watching him and was
struck by the industrious and intel
ligent way in which he went to work,
without dreaming of who he was, said,
Thou writes a bonny hand, thou
dost," II am glad you think so,"
was the reply. Thou dost; thou
makst thy figures well; thou'st just the
chap l want" "Indeed?" Yes,
indeed" said the Sunderland man.
Pm man of few words, moo; if
thou'lt come over to Sunderland I'll
give thee one hundred and twenty
pounds sterling a year. Moo, then"
''rm much obliged for the OFFER" was
the answer, "and when Mr.. Lindsay
comes in I'll consult him." Mr. Lind
say, when he came in, kept up the joke,
saying he would not stand in the young
mans way, and the sooner they knew
each other the better. "Allow me,
therefore, to introduce to you the Rt.
Hon. w. E. Gladstone of the Ex-
chequer." There was much laughing.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27
English Lawns.

WE envy England her lawns, and la
ment our inability to have like perlec-
tion of greensward, when we know
nothing at all of what we might do
with our lawns if we really exerted
ourselves. Said an American lady to
an old workman digging up dandelions
while she stood admiring one of those
wonderful bits of turf at Oxford,
''How do you get such lovely grassP
Oh! if we could only have such turf in
our country" "Why, you see,
ma am" replied the old man, " we
weeds and we cuts, and we weeds and
we cuts, eight hundred years; that's
how we does it.n And he might have
said manures, too. Literally, we don't
know what we can do in this country
in the way of lawn-Planting until we
settle down to study intelligently and
persistently the conditions peculiar to
our soil and climate. AS it is now, ig-
norant workmen have it pretty much
their own way in our doOryards and
lawns. .-FlOraI CabiRet.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27
Some Figures.

One of the best sentences In Cen
eral Haneock's letter of acceptance,
which left upon the mind the same i'm.
preston Of neatness and vacancy as
school-boy's cOpy-boOk, was that in
which the candidate of the Democracy
demanded "a full vote, free ballot
and fair count" Il was an excellent
sentiment, to which every Republican
would heartily subscribe. But General
Hancock's letter professed to be o
statement of Democratic principles.
With the platform to which it was
response it was an appeal to the coun-
try to trust the eighty thousand offices
of the Government in the hands of the
Democratic party. The question for
voters, therefore, is, not whether the
declaration is "a sUund one, but
whether, being put forth by the Demo-
cratic party, il is an honest one, or is a
fraud AMI cheat. The answer is easy.
1t is in the South that the Demo-
cratic party does its perfect work.
There are no steadily Democratic
States North of Delaware. In the
South the party has gained complete
control In the South, therefore. it
has had noble opportunity to put into
practice General Hancock's motto of
"a full vote, free ballot and fair
count Has it done so? What are
the factsP Let us look for a moment
at this dark page in American history.
Even Democrats viii admit that by
the year 1872 the Democratic party was
well organized in every Southern State.
In Alabama, for example, in that year
the Democratic vote was only 10000
less than it was in the election of 1873,
two years ago. Yet, this IS the way in
which the Republican party has pros
pered under the rule of the party of
"a free ballot and fair count" the
figures being the votes cast in the years
named:
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27
Religious.
LEAD THEM HOME.

Lopn, wo can trust Thee for our holy doad.
They, underneath the shallow of Thy tomb,
Have entered into peace; with bendcd head
We thank Ihop for their rest, and for our
llghtened gloom.
0ut, Lord, our livlug-who, on stormy seas
OF sin and sorrow, stll are tempest tossed
Our dead have reached their haven, but for
these
Teach us to trust Thee, Lord, for these, our
loved and lOst
For these we make our passion-prayor to-
night;
For these we cry to Thoo through the long
day:
We sec them not q keep them IN Thy sightl
From thcm and us be Thou not very far
away.
And If not home TO us, vet lead them home
To where Thou standost at the Heavenly
gate;
That So from Thee thoy shall not farther
roam;
And grant us patient hearts Thy gathering
time to wait.
-SupddU Mdgdzine.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27
The Rose Jar.

GATHER your rose leaves In dry
weather, remove the petals, and when a
half peck is obtained take large bowl
and strew table salton the bottom; then
three handsful of leaves, and repeat un-
til all the leaves are used, covering the
top with salt Let this remain five days,
stirring and turning twice day, when
they should appear moist. Add three
ounces of bruised or coarsely powdered
allspice; one ounce cinnamon stick
bruised, which forms the stock. Allow
to remain week, turning daily from
top TO bottom. Put into the permanent
jar one ounce allspice and adding the
stock, layer by layer, sprinkle between
the layers the following mixture: One
ounce each cloves and cinnamon, two
nutmegs, all coarsely powdered; some
ginger root, sliced thin; half an ounce
of aniseed, bruised; ten grains finest
musk; half pound of freshly dried laven-
der flowers; two ounces of powdered or
finely sliced orris root, and essential oils
ad libitum. Also any fine colognes, rose
OF orange flower water, orange and
lemon peel. Freshly-dried violets, tube
roses, Glove pinks or other highly scent
ed flowers should be added each year in
season. Fine extracts of any kind will
enhance the fragrant OdOr, while fresh
rose leaves, salt and Allspice, made as
at first, must be added when convenient
in the rose season, Shake and stir the
jar once or twice a week and open only
during use. The delightful effect pro.
duced throughout the dwelling by the
daily use of these jars is not as uniVer-
sally known as il should be for apart
ments rendered unpleasant by the OAors
arising from kitchens. NoNious gases
may be dissipated by the frequent usC
of the 'rose Jar"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27

CAPE MAY letter to Chicago Times;
Some of the prettiest faces and most
graceful figures belong TO Baltimoreans,
who are considered-in Baltimore the
most beautiful women on the globe.
They are eomely, having delicate olive
complexion, as a rule, with gray or
hazel eyes, dark hair, slender figures,
and an air of serene self consciousness.
They are readily distinguishable from
the Philadelphian by their voices, which
are low, cultivated and agreeable Hers
is very apt to be thin, high, tending to
nasality, while her accent is unpleasant
and her pronunciation meager and fiat.
She pronounces laugh, calm, half, last,
with the slender a, and opportunity,
dew, avenue, news, like oppOrtoonity,
do, avenoo, noos. She does not shine
when she speaks, owing to vocal and
accentual peculiarities; and if l were
desirous to fall in love with her, feel
that / should be materially assisted by
her silence. Nothing more quickly dis
enchants woman than an Unmelodious
voice.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27

AS rule, when horse breaks his
leg he is knocked in the head rs useless,
but il seems this is not by any means
necessary, and, if the beast is worth
saving, it can be saved, Two months
ago a valuable horse belonging to
Charles Z. Smith, of Stony Brook, had
his leg broken at Port jefferson. The
broken bone was set, and the leg was
imbedded in plaster of Paris. In two
weeks the horse could walk around the
stable; in three weeks the owner drove
him home, a distance of iiye miles, and
three weeks after, the horse was driven
to a r0ad'wagon mile in four minutes,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27

What became OF the Republican party
in Alabama in 1873? 1t is said that
they ran no. ticket because defeat was
Inevitable? Are parties in the habit of
doing this? Do Democrats give up
voting in Vermont, or Republicans in
Missouri? 1t was because the Republi-
cans of Alabama had been taught by
midnight murders and whippings, by
social ostracism, and by the tyranny of
employers, that the less they had to do
with politics the better. This is the
kind of "free ballot and fair count
the Alabama Republicans have enjoy
ed. 1t remains to be seen how much
better they have Jared in the election
just held, under the new system which
prefers cheating to bulldozing as being
easier.
Take the case of Mississippi, where
bulldozing was invented, and was made
known to the world as " the Mississippi
plan" These are the votes of the
State from 1873 to the last election OF a
Gfota tipLyat.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27

Bd- We would do justice to the
Union General. A friend has asked us
to recite his civil claims for the Presi-
dency. Here they are:
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27
Sunday-SchOOl Lessons.

THIRD QUARTER
Aug. 22-The Covenant with
Abram. ..........,. Gen. l5;-l3
Aug. 29-Abraham's nterCes-
sion n........-...,.......Gen 49, 1898
Sodom m-................ Gen. 10; 1928
Sept. B-Trial Of Abraham's
Faith. Gen. q; l-l4
sept. l9-Review of the Lessons.
sept >o-LessOn selected bv the SchOOL
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27

Bey- 1.-The bayonet," observes the
oraeular Hancock, sis not fit instru-
ment for collecting the votes of free
men, What is2 A bulldozer's clubp
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27

This covers his entire life-work. 1t
is u record of which no man lit for the
Office of President can be proud. -
Rochester Dsm0cTat.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27

Va Inc IOIIOWlng SHOWS UemOCIhIIU
theory cOntrasted with Democratic
practice;
National DemOcrutie BdrnWel Is. o. People
Platform. tDeml
Tho right 10 FREQ The Democrats have
ballot Is a right pre-. Obtained control OF tho
serVatiVe ~ all rights state OF South Caro-
aud must and shalt be lima, and they intend TO
maintained in every retain Il at every hnz-
part OF the United ard and In spite Of the
States, utmost efforts Of local
lenemies and their
Northern allies.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27

1876 gO,SJB OF, $50
1873. ll9,5I0 Glj
It should be noticed that in spite of
the notorious and universal use of the
tissue-ballot in 1873, the Democratic
vote shows an increase of only 2S,000
votes. The Republican vote shows a
decrease of 81 900 votes. Supposing
for the sake of argument that the Dem
ocratic votes were honest, it would still
be true that 63, 200 votes were withheld
from the ballot-boXes. Why this change
in two years? Was it a sudden indilfer-
ence on the part of the blacks, whose
greatest pride is that they are citizens
and voters, or was it chilling fear?
Let the murderers and ballot-box stuff
fers who are the brightest ornaments of
the South Carolina chivalry make an
swer, and then let General Hancock
ponder awhile upon the beauties of
their style of "a free ballot and fair
count"
Almost every Southern State makes
the same showing. Here is the record
of Arkansas:
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27

The same is true in lesser degree in
Louisiana. There was no general cleo
ton between 1876 and last year, and for
the former year we take the official fig
ures;
loto lu,Npo t1'lol
lotb.. ...s......... Gb,bll
Every one of these States and at
least one other, North Carolina would
be Republican upon full vote, Il free
ballot and n fair count. General Han
cock knows it. Every Democrat knows
it. But simply to serve the purposes
of the illustration, let us say that these
five States are fairly Republican. They
give, all told, 80 Electoral votes, which
will honestly belong to James A. Gar
field. The South could then give Cen
eral Hancock only 80 Electoral votes at
best, and he could never by any posi-
bility be President of the United States.
BY all means, let us have ''a full vote,
free ballot and fair count. IN Y
Tribune.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27

Mississippi has come to through fear of
Ku-KluX assassins, through the opera
ton of the tissue ballot, through the
frauds of Democratic canvassers. And
General Hancock has the assurance to
prate to us about "a full vote, free bal
lot and fair cOunsr'
Take the case of South Carolina,
where the parties were so evenly di-
vided four years ago that it took four
months to decide the Electoral vote of
the State. This is what the rine-clubs
and tissue-ballots, the assassins and
swindlers of the party, led by Wade
Hampton and Hamburg Butler, have
done for the Republican party in South
Carolina in two years:
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27

ipn Randall, Payne and Hendricks, put
te side and Hauoock marched TO the frontf
hy we're long line Of tried and faithful
mOcrntic statesmen sent 20 the rear, and the
dershp intrusted 10 one who like all regular
ny Officers has pretended all his life 10 bo
bipartisan, butnonInaliy a DomOcrutl Was
because no represented In greater dogroe
@ principles Of the Democratic party than
the eminent statesmen namedY No one is
silly us 20 answer yes
be nstuto politicians OF the party saw only
ftt Wi'h uu honest Democrat ON an honest
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-06-22
MR.. LUCAS SPEECH.

Mr.. Harper-The speech delivered by
Mr.. Lucas at our Court House on the first of
June County court day. did not receive the
notice and attention in your last issue so
eminently due to it, owing to the pressure of
other matters. 1t is not only gratifying, but
matter of duty alike to him and to the large.
intelligent and delighted audience who heard
him upon that day on the omission and Duty
of the Democratic Party" in the present
crisis, to afford your readers some conception
OF the nature of his mastery effort on the
occasion. The speech, of something more
than an bonr's continuance, was confined to
the consideration of the processes and pro-
crosses by which the Radical party is silently
and surely sapping aud destroying the
strongholds of constitutional liberty. To one
or two of these it is most important that wa
advert:
l. The mere fact that one of the two great
political parties in this country is found adj.
vocatlnS departure from the warnings. the
precepts and practices of the fathers, BY
urging tbird>term candidate for the Presi,
dency,is of evil example and most pernicious
tendency.
z. The dangerous extension of executive
power sought in an attempt to diver. the U.
5. army from its legitimate objects to become
the iDstrumentality for Controlling or in anv
manner interfering with elections in the
States, and in actually rendering the Su.
preme Cour. U. s. a mere plant tool to de.
cree the party mandate.
3. The sad fact that in period of ten
years, while the wages Of honest, productive
LABOR were reduced 363 per cent the esla-
ries of Government oficials-the Radical
officeholders in Washington-were actually
incresed S63 per cent! 1.-THE Presidents
salary, from S25. 600 per annum. increased
to $4,000. Think of it; the great Presi>
dents of the great days of our Republic.
Washington, Adams, Jefferson. Madison,
Monroe, Andrew Jnckson-all down to and
including Lincoln. had salary enough for
their merits; but Grant and the fraudulent
successor have received just double their
compensation
These~head>lines sufficiently indicate the
burden of Mr.. LIS strong, eloquent, effective
speech. He babe the true Democracy. in
the close, to fight on with aud beside him to
the end. We must not, we ought not to give
up the ship. We give here very faint and
inadequate outline of masterly effort by
him, who bore tho Democratic banner so
CALAMITY and well, as our Elector in the last
two Presidential campaigns He deserves
the entire confidence. respect and gratitude
OF every Democrat and patriot, who has the
Constitutional Rights and Liberty of our
country nt heart, and whatever honors and
rewards that gratitude can fttingly bestow
upon him. To learning, in elruueDce. in
zeal; with those bright talents Heaven has
so literally bestowed upon him, let us recoe>
nze IN MIR Lucas the man whose trust, in
Congress or any other high place of their
oestowa!, would reflect brighter lustre on
his constituency than it would add to his
moral or intellectual strength and worth.