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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-09
Judge Jcre. Black on Mr.. Garfield.

The following letter from the distin-
guished Democratic lawyer, Judge
Black, addressed to Mr.. Blaine, when
Speaker of the House, is strong and
clear about the connection Of Gen. Gar
field with the Credit-Mobilier stock
transactions;
"PHILADELPmA, Feb. 10, ls79.-My DEAR
SIR; From the beginning of the Investigation
concerning Mr. Ames use OF the Credit Mo-
bilier, ! believed that Gen. Garfield was free
from all guilty connection with that business
This opinion was founded not merely on my
confidence In his integrity, but ON some special
knowledge of his case. / may have told you
all about Il IN conversation, but desire now
to repeat Il by way of reminder,
al assert unhesltatingly that whatever Gen.
Garfield may have done or fOrhOrne TO do, he
acted In profound Ignorance Of the nature and
proposing 10 sell He had not the slightest
suspicion that he was 20 be tnkon into ring
organized for the purpose Of detrauding the
public, nor did he know that the stock was In
,any manner connected with anything which
Oame, or could come, within tho legislative lu-
risdictlon of Congress. The case against him
lacks the soionter which alone constitutes
sin the winter Of ls89-7O told Gen. Garfield
OF the fact that his name was on Ames' list ;
that Amos charged him with being one of his
origin and objects OF the Credit MObilior;
pointed OUT the connection Il had with Con-
Blhsaluntu lektalhlloA ana hhOWeu nlll now lln-
possible Il was for mombcr Of Congress to
hold stock in Il without bringing his private
interests IN conflict with his public duty, That
all this was to him perfectly now revelation
nm "a sure as | can DO of such fact, or of
nny fact which Is capable Of being proved only
by moral circumstances, He told me then the
whole story of Trains offer TO him, and Ames'
subsequent solicitation, aud his own action In
the promises, much as he details Il TO the Com
mitteo. do not undertake TO reproduce the
conversation, but the effect Of II all WIS to
convince me thoroughly that whom he listened
to Ames he was perfectly unconscious Of any
evll. watched carefully every word that fell
from him on this point, and did not regard his
narrative OF the transaction In other respects
with much interest, because In my view every
thing else was insignificant. / did not care
whether he had mAdo Il bargain technically
hindinEOr not his integrity depended upon
the question whether he actcd with his eyes
open, II he hnd known the true character OF
the proposition made 90 him he would not have
endured Il, much less embraced II.
NOW, couple with this Mr.. Amos' admission
that he gave no explanation whatever Of the
matter to General Garfield, then reflect that
not a particle Of proof exists 70 show that ne
learned amy thing about it previous TO his CON
veraatiQn with me, and / think you Will say
that IL la altogether unjust to put him ON the
list Of those who knowingly ana willfully
Joined the fraudulent association In question.
-. s, BLACK.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-09

The Albany Journal summarizes it in
brief;
At fourteen, he was at work at a car
penter's bench.
At sixteen, he was boatman on the
Ohio Canal.
At eighteen, he was studying in the
Chester (O.) Seminary.
At twenty-one, he was teaching in one
of Ohio's common schools, pushing for
ward with his own studies at the same
time.
At twenty-three, he entered Williams
College.
At twenty-six, he graduated from
Williams with the highest honors Of bis
class.
At twenty-seven, he was tutor at
Hiram College, Ohio.
At twenty.eight, he was Principal of
Hiram College.
At twenty-nine, he was member Of
the Ohio Senate-the youngest member
of that body.
At thirty, he was Colonel of the Forty
second Ohio Regiment.
At thirty-One, he was placed in COM
mand of brigade, routed the Rebels
under Humphrey Marshall, helped Cen
eral Buell. in his fight at Pittsburg Land
ing, played a prominent part in the siege
of Corinth and in the important move
ments along the Memphis & Charleston
Railroad.
At thirty-two, he was appointed Chief
of Staff of the Army of the Cumberland,
participated in the campaigns in Middle
Tennessee and in the notable battle of
Chickamauga, and was promoted to the
rank of Major General.
At thirty-three, he was in Congress,
the successor of Joshua r. Giddings.
At forty-eight, having been cOntin-
uously in Congress since he was thirty
three, he was elected to the United
States Senate.
At forty-nine he was nominated for
the Presidency of the United States
Such are the salient points in the his
tory of the man whom the Republicans
have selected as their standard bearer
in the present campaign. The simple
unadorned statement of his record con-
stitutes his strongest eulogy-goes the
furthest in commencing him TO the con-
| fidence of his countrymen. There is
no anti-climax in his career. II pro-
ceeds from the humblest and most un-
propitious beginning step by step onward
and upward by arduous but honorable
paths. He is essentially product Of
our institutions, man sprung from the
people, the incarnation of American
pluck, perseverance, self-reliance and
intelligence. He is in the best sense OF
the word sef-made man. 1t has been
said that "most self-made men worship
their creators" But Garfield has nc
such conceit THE trials of his early
days did not daunt him, nor have the
triumphs of his manhood turned his
head. He is to-day what he has always
been, modest, unassuming, frank and
unaffected; man of great and varied
resources, of thorough training and
large experience, full of sympathy foI
the masses whose tolls he has shared
full of love for the country which ht
periled his life to help save and fol
whose welfare he has steadily laboreC
every since his entrance in to Congress
The Democratic party can place nj
man in nomination who can make any
headway against the carpenter, canaler
teacher, soldier, statesman, James A
Garfield.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-09

and position are as rude TO the census
taker as the people OF the lower Glasses.
Fifth Avenue is quite as troublesome as
Mulberry Street.
The work Of the census has been so
fully explained In the newspapers that
nobody ought TO be ignorant of what
the Government requires in respect 10
it, The questions TO be put involve no
unnecessary scrutiny of private affairs,
and the information collected by
this agency is of the highest
value to the whole community,
as the basis of political and economical
legislation. But a census TO be of prac-
tical benefit TO the country must be ap-
proximately accurate; and an incom-
plete, misleading enumeration may be
worse than none at all. The law prop
erly provides severe penalties for those
who willfully obstruct the work; and if
the enumerators continue 10 encounter
such difficulties as have hitherto thwart-
ed them, it will be necessary to make
some conspicuous examples Of obstinate
offenders. The penalty for refusing to
answer the questions of the census-tak-
ers, or for answering falsely, is fine of
Sl00. Proceedings have already been
taken for the enforcement of this pun
ishment in several instances 1t is ad-
visable to begin with little wholesome
severity, and perhaps the pressure of
the court may well be applied to OBJ
structionists in the upper as well as the
lower ranks of society, until the obhga-
tions of the public are universally un-
derstOod.
Intelligent citizens, who appreciate
the importance Of the work, can do a
great deal to facilitate operations if they
will see that when the enumerators call
upon them they are promptly and fully
answered Every head Of household,
when he goes out in the morning, should
leave proper instructions with somebody
in the family to furnish the required an
swers to the questions. The enumera-
tors have hard and disagreeable work
to do for small pay, and no one ought
TO give them superauous trouble.-N.
Y. Tribune.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-09
The Blunders Of the Canvass.

The mistakes of the campaign 50 far
have been made by the Democrats, and
it is TO be hoped the Republicans will
allow them monopoly in that busi-
ness. So eager werd the Democrats TO
lnjure the Republican candidate for
President that they unlOaded upon him
at once all the accusations that had
ever been made against him. The
ammupition that should have lasted
through the campaign was all expend-
cd in what was believed to be O for
midable broadside. In the first week
of the campaign the Democrats have
said all they can say against Garfield,
and for lack Of damaging material are
publishing stories rather 10 his credit
than otherwise. In other words, they
have burned all their powder before
the real battle has opened, and with no
other effect than to arouse the resent
ment of Republicans against their old
opponents of the Democratic party.
Another mistake has been made by
the attempted combination of the oppo-
sitiOn in Maine, in one Democratic or
fusion ticket. This plan was tried in
Iowa some years ago and failed. In
1877 the Republican candidate for
Governor in Iowa received 12l ,516
votes the Greenback candidate;
84,347; the Democratic, 1895,
the Prohibition, 10,645. Startled
by the fact that the combined
Democratic, Greenback and Prohibition
vote exceeded the Republican vote in
stalwart Iowa, the opposition leaders
conceived the idea of defeating the Re
publicans by running one ticket against
them in 1873. The result was that the
Republican candidate for Secretary Of
State had a majority of 9,467 over the
fusion candidate. The experiment was
80 unsatisfactory in holding Greenback-
ers aloOf from the Republican party
that, in 1873, the opposition managers
returned TO the old plan of putting two
tickets in the field, only to be buried
Of 23,S2S.
In 1878 and 1879 the opposition man
ayers In Maine put two tickets in the
field, with the idea OF weakening the
Republican ticket so much as to throw
the election into the Legislature. The
attempt of 1873 having increased the
Republican vote in 1879 from 56,5tS To
6S,166, while the fusion vote showed no
increase at all, the policy Of KEEPING
two tickets in the field has been aban,
doned, and the iusionists win oonoen.
trate this year on one State ticket
The Greenbackers of Republican ante
cedents will now have no excuse for
not acting with their old party, and al
the election in September Maine will,
by giving large Republican majority
over all opposition, increase the impe.
tus of the movement that is 10 enguli
the Democracy in November.
While the Democrats OF the East have
been deluded by the promise that lies
In combinations, The Democrats of 9th.
or States have, in their royer-cOnddence,
gone TO the other extreme in their con.
temptuous treatment of the floating
vote. Given choice between Repub
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-09
The Census.takers.

THE censussenumerator is a man to
be pitied. The dogs fly at him; the
Irish maid-of-all-work slams the door in
his face; the suspicious and unintelli-
gent foreigner orders him off the pre-
misses, with the vague idea that he
means "draft," or taxesin and peo-
pie who have education enough to know
better insult him for doing his duty, and
refuse TO answer his questions. With
disheartening regularity, Bridget re.
sents the inquiry of her name as per-
sonal affront, and curiosity as to her
AGE is an offense not 10 be given. She
replies sometimes with string of fla
grant and amusing falsehoods. The
mistress is not unfrequently as insolent
as the servant, and almost as great a
liar. One of the enumerators is re-
ported as expressing his conviction that
out Of a hundred women whom he had
asked the prescribed question about age,
not more than four or five had told the
truth. Men of apparent respectability
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-09

licanism and undiluted Democracy,
many Of the experimental third party
men can only return TO the Republican
party.
A favorite saving among the dilet-
tanti of politics for several months has
been that there was now so little differ
ence in the principles of the great
parties that the issue became largely
question of men or candidates. As il
to disturb the imbecile self-complacency
of such men, the Democrats in Con-
gress, by their acts in the closing hours
of the session, called attention to the
wide difference in the fundamental
principles of the two parties, and gave
opportunity to the President to write a
veto message more effective in the pres
ent state Of public feeling than a care
fully prepared campaign document. On
one side is the party chat preserved the
Union battling for the integrity of the
Nation and resisting encroachments
upon National authority; on the other
side is the party that went to pieces on
the State-rights or secession issue, bold
enough to raise again the old flag and
to begin again the work against
National unity. Not even the listless
idlers of politics are so stupid as not to
see the difference on this point and to
comprehend its significance. ...
Since the nomination of q Presiden-
tial candidate the Republicans have
shown more than usual anxiety to
avoid mistakes The organization
schemes in the different States seem to
contemplate the earnest union and har-
monious action Of the factions in
the late contest, and all the indications
point to an alert and aggressive cam
paign on the part of the Republicans,
with disposition to take advantage of
every mistake made by the Democrats.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-09

Bs5- The election. in Oregon not only
wrosts that State from the Democrats
and gives II to the Republicans, but
elects a Republican Congressman TO
the next Congress In place of Demo
crat, a Republican gain Of one on the
irst election for the next House. This
Is an auspicious opening Of the Republl-
can campaign for 1880, - Chicago Irib-
Une.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-09

AMoNG the many epidemics that are
ravaging Russia, there is one of peeu-
liar prevalence that of suicide among
students; and the most urgent duty OF
the newly-appointed Minister of Public
instruction IS to find some means OF
putting a stop to it.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-09

ANIMALS in amenagerie are very dain-
ty about their food. In the Philadel-
phia 200" the "boss" elephant eats
about one hundred pounds of hay in
twenty-fOur hours, and it must be of
the best grade of timothy The sea
lions insist upon having twelve to tif-
teen mackerel apiece. Next in point
to delicate livers come the Polar bears,
whose regular diet is bread soaked in
milk, with fish now and then for a
change. The black bears are also
given bread, one hundred pounds being
used daily. Vegetables of almost ev-
cry sort are fed literally to the differ
ent animals. The elephants are great
cabbage eaters, and the girafles are
onion eaters. Bran, and oats and corn
are also literally distributed, mostly
once or twice a week, among the hay
eating animals. The most delicate aud
expensive feeder in the place, perhaps,
is the orang-outang, which gets beef,
potatoes, bread and honey.
All SAM, the Mongolian craoSsman,
sent to the Nevada County Jtil for tif-
teen days because he attempted to steal
some goods from Naffzi er's market
Ono nlRht ny uehuS OA nOohou Wllo
which he showed be- %een the bars of
the gate, has beer discharged from
custody, his term lAving expired. As
he left the bastile lie shook hands with
/ the iailer and ruder sheriff and told
them they were very good men. sup
pose you will c9me back and see us some
time, wont you?" asked Mr., Carter.
All Sam made painful effort TO wink
and remarked wisely; "Oh, no. Me
welly good Chinaman now. Wicked
part slice gonei alice cheatum, swear
um, stealum, lieum, stay in Jail; only
good part he come out. B."
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-09

nay The Atlanta (Ga) Constitution
wants the Democratic press to speak the
truth about Garfield. That is asking
too much. "lts agin natm'.n
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-24
Watch Out for Dry Murraln.

THE danger to which cattle are sub
ject when first taken from green feed
and turned into a field of cornstalks dY-
ing from dry murrain should not be lost
sight of, as the present severe weather
is the most favorable possible to pro-
duce death from such cause. The sud-
den change from moderate autumn to
cold winter weather, and hasty filling
of the stomach with dry husks when the
digestive organs have only been accus.
toned to deal with green food, and the
dread which cattle have of drinking, un-
til they become accustomed to it, ioe
cold water in sufficient quantity to thor
Oughly moisten the mass, is the cause Of
an occasional victim of this severe and
generally fatal ailment.
All danger of this sort may be avoid
ed by allowing the cattle the run of the
eorn-field but part of the day at a time,
giving them as much salt as they will
take in order to provoke thirst, and free
access to plenty of water, to be kept up
until they are accustomed to the sur
roundings-B BurliHQf2gs HaWkeye.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-24
Fresh Air in the Bedroom.

How much air can be safely admitted
into a sleeping or living-room is a COM
mon question. Rather, it should be
considered, how rapidly air can be ad-
mitted, without injury or risk, and at
how low a temperature. We can not
have too much fresh air, so long as we
are warm enough, and are not exposed
to draughts. What is a draught? 1t is
swift current of air, at temperature
lower than the body, which robs either
the whole body, or an exposed part, Of
its heat, so rapidly as to disturb the
equilibrium of our circulation and give
us cold. Young and healthy persons
can habituate themselves TO sleeping in
even a strong draught, as from an open
window, if they cover themselves, in
cold weather, with an abundance OF
bedclothes. But those who have been
long accustomed to being sheltered from
the outer air by sleeping in warmed and
nearly or quite shut-up rooms, are too
susceptible to cold to bear a direct
draught of cold air. Persons over sew
enty years of age, moreover. with lower
vitality than in their youth, will not
bear low temperature, even in the air
they breathe. Like hot-house plants,
they may be killed by a winter nights
chill and must be protected by warmth
at all times. As rule we may say that,
except for the most robust, the air
which enters at night into a sleeping
chamber should, in cold weather, be
admitted gradually only by cracks or
moderate openings; or should have its
force broken by some interposed obsta-
Gle, as curtain, ETC., to avert its blow
ing Immediately upon a sleeper in his
bed. The ancient fashion, however, OF
of having bed-curtains, which exclude
almost all the air, has rightly become
almost obsolete. No wonder that people
dream horrid dreams, and wake in the
morning wearied rather than refreshed,
when they sleep in rooms sealed up
tightly on every side; breathing over
and over again their own breaths, which
grow more poisonous with every hour
of the night.-Amcrican Health Primer.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-24
The First Wrong Button.

"DBAR mer' said little Janet, "I
buttoned Just one button wrong, and
that made all the rest 90 wrong;" and
Janet fretted as if the buttons were
quite at fault for her trouble.
"Patiencer' said mamma, smiling at
the little fretful face, land next time
look out for the first wrong button, and
then you'll keep all the rest right.
And, added mamma, as the last button
was put in its place and the scowling
face was smooth once more, "lOOk out
for the first wrong deed of any kind,
for another is sure to follow
Janet remembered how, one day not
long ago, she struck baby Alice; that
was the first wrong deed. Then she
denied having done it, and that was an
other. Then she was unhappy and
cross all that day because she
had told a lie. What a long list of
buttons fastened wrong just because
one went wrong-because her naughty
little hand struck baby. The best thing
she could do to make it right again was
10 tell mamma how naughty she had
been and ask her to forgive her, but
that was much harder than just TO do
the buttons again.
Janet thought it all over, and be-
tween the buttons and her very unhap-
py day, l think she learned never
again to forget to look out for the tirst
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-24
ST. NICHOLAS.

Ho TIERE at the wicket, who pounds at the
Such din in Olympus was no'or heard be.
1 would secp-get ye gono-Im uiliuR, Pm
sick,
What the deuee-thero ugaln-who is calling
Saint NiCkr
" Arouse We Arouse We It's dawning again
The stur that once bcamed over Bethlohen's
The star OF the wnei that shoue on tho morn
WIS born"
"Hol Hol Is It so? Then rnup and away
As soon us the Goblins can harness my
Sleigh"
Then he roared such laugh rs he sprang out
It startled the stars in the sky overhead,
And they winkcd at each other as much as to
There is something gone wrong and Old Nick
Is to pay.
II took but moment 70 Jump in HIS boots,
To wrap himself up in the best Of fur suits,
10 run to the closet Hnd drag out his pack,
Wmch ne swung with chucHle across his
Then on to the stable he dashed through the
snow,
Where the reindeer were pranclng, all ready
He was up in iify, and cracking his whip.
With a hi thcrel my hcarties" he let the
roins slip.
Straight down through the wolkin they sped
without pause or turn TO the left or the right
The clouds dragged their skirts to get on of
The winds shranlS alarmed-all quite taken
nbacki
Een the moon drew in haste a veil over her
SO quick cracked the whip and so fast was the
pace;
That Aurora woke up long before It was day;
On, never such scigh-ridc was ridden beiolo
AS that Of St. Nick with his rich Christmas
Far down in the distance Earth rolled fast
asleep,
Dark night having wrapped it in silence so
That the children, tucked close in their snug
little beds.
Whence MOI thing peeped ont save their cheru-
bim heads,
Were dreaming OF fairies, of frolic and fun,
And other stern facts of a life just b, gun.
1t was three by the clock when out on the
The tinEie Of sleigh. bells and taps of a hoof
Made their little hearts bound and flashed
round the Earth
A smile such as welcomed the Lamb at It's
But they woke not Oh, not Old Nick so sly
He fastens paddock on each prying eye.
With Whoa, there, my pretties," he stops
with a Jerk,
Lights his pipe, swings his pack, then away to
over steeples and house-tops, in windows,
down iues
So fleet, you would think he had wings to his
shoes,
In pantries he peeps and through bedrooms
lie whirs,
Now kissing the babies, now pinching the
glrS,
Filling up all their stockings with goodies and
TOYS,
Nor forgetting the switch, always left for bad
boys
Then on through the play-rooms to plant
those gIe trees,
Which g1ow dolies and drums with such OK
quisite eGse.
What a Jolly fat fellow so little and spry,
With round dimpled cheeks und u line Hash.
inE eye.
Hair ieweled with hnilstone, and such red
nose,
II lights up the pathway wherever he goesl
Then his rich, merry laugh ah never l fear
VIII music so sweet again gladden. the yeurl
But time flies Rpace. Even now n faint raw
Struggles up through the East as the Herald Of
gay
The winds wake in protest and scatter the
snow;
Now, listen the signal hear the cock crow.
"Ho. ho" cries Old Nick; with his cheeriest
"MerTy Christmas to ALL and to all good
morningW
-EdlGhrd c. Hancock.