Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-01-23
Ashinqton has urru IN

dSlLl8toH has ueeu uil-
a politieaI point 5si =
and - -er side Of Wasblfe
social side, is z4gh as few '5e95hd tie pre-
-cinetsof ssslCssital-baEea very great m Il :
terest F9udB Baf It IS not unfnipOrtant as an
indication eaad-a-symptorh. suggestive Of
healtfi or disease, and reaching much farth-
er in its ulterior influences than this mar
row field. Manners are so subtly related
to morals; custom has such a cumulative
force and course that no one interested in
the signs Of the times, and the future of
his country can afford to ignore them.
There was a Greenback Conference here
last week. Some 125 delegates, including
the thirteen Greenback Congressman, were
present, and the proceedings illustrated
pandemOnium with tOlerable accuracy and
completeness. Congressman Mureh. Of
Maine, presided; the Rev. De La Matyr Of
ficiated rs chaplain, greatly to the disgust,
vigorously expressed, of a strong minority !;
and among the chief participants in the so
called discussions was. Of course, hearney.
What he had to say was simple and fam
ilier, and consisted merely OF expressing
desire to see Republicans, Democrats, and
the National banks in hell together, and a
determination to send them thither sans
ceremony. He also wanted john Sherman
hanged. Resolutions which were intro
duced approving Hendrick WIlght's Land
Bill and Weaver's $500 100000 soldiers
relief fund project, seem to have been the
Gully ones carried, though everything else
in the domain of human thought WAS de-
bated, and these resolutions were iuggled
through by the chairman, If indeed one of
them did not finally fail. A call for a Ma
tionsl Convention at Chicago June 8, next
was adopted with little opposition 1t is
in the usual vein Of such documents, and
contains nothing worth remark. 1t seems
hardly possible that such body OF men
should have any considerable constituency
among sober people, however ignorant.
The. House Committee on Military af-
fairs held full meeting Thursday morn
ing. Favorable reports were made by
subcommittee, and adopted on the resO-
luton of Representative Atherton, calling
on the Secretary of War to report to the
House, the number, rank, and names OF all
officers on the retired list, the total
amount paid to each offer, and the aggre-
gate paid to all officers on the retired list
bdlu EGllLCu ll6I " do CADebC0s lis
report will create more profound astonish-
ment among the plain, practical tax-pay-
ing people than any volume ever sent out
of the Government printing Office. 1t twill
show a rapid and alarming tendency to
COPY the worst features of the old world
monarehies. Men who never saw a pub
lie enemy, never set a squadron in the field
OF trod the deck of a ship in action, are
dubbed with sonOrous titles, indicative of
high rank. and heavy pay, and quartered
for life, a life of luxurious ease, on the re-
tired list. 1t is important that the people
shall see that rapid promotion and hurri-
ed pushing on to the retired list is now
the Irregular order of business" in order
to make room for the superhuous products
Of the West Point and Annapolis factories.
WoMAN's WORK AND MANS WoRK.-A
late writer has well said that there is one
difference between a man and his wife in
almost every household, which the woman
expresses when she says:-HA woman's
work is never done" A man works six,
eight, ten, twelve, fourteen hours a day;
but when he is done he is done. The rest of
his time is holiday; he may eat, sleep, read
novel, do what he chooses; but his hard
labor. has, at any rate, rescued that much
of his day. Let him now consider his
wife's life. She has not toiled in the sun,
she has not been worried by bores or credit
ors, or business cares or losses; but she has
been busy, and for the most part with en-
ployments very''distasteful to intelligent hu
man beings. Her husband has completed
his task for the day; are hers done? Has
she also won holiday? Does her days
work end with his? Not at all. Petty cares
follow her all over the house; the cook, the
baby, to morrow's breakfast, the stockin gs
to mend, or the dress for next Sunday,
engage her, while be sits and smokes, and
reads the evening paper, or perhaps, goes
out to his club.