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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04
Indiana n Close State.

In political sense Indiana is a close
State. This fact is so well known that
it is a subject of common remark in
political circles of both parties through
out the country. Democrats and Re-
publicans everywhere are agreed in so
regarding it. 1t is always classed as a
doubtful State, and generally as a
pivotal one. In most of the political
tables of the day il is classed with New
York as one of the two doubtful Northern
States, the result in which may decide
the next Presidential election. AS to
the causes which make Indiana
doubtful State, we do not propose now
to inquire. 1t would be interesting to
discuss the moral and political bearings
of its early settlement tending to De-.
mocracy, and the regenerating influence
of later causes tending towards Re-
publicanism, the former representing
illiteracy and reaction, and the latter
education and progress. But this is
not our present purpose. 1t is enough
to say that the result of these contend
ing influences has been tomake Indiana
politically a close and doubtful State
1t has been the fashion of late years to
claim it as a Democratic State 1t is not
so. The fact is, the Democrats have
not carried the State by majority but
once in the last fifteen years. Owing
/ to a division of the vote they have
sometimes carried it by a plurality
vote but only once by a majority
since the war. The claim that Indiana
] is a Democratic State is not true. Ii
has been growing more and more Re-
publican for several years past, and
with proper management can be made
permanently and securely so. The
Journal has advices from all parts OF
the State in regard to the present condi-
tion and prosperity of the Republican
party, and without exception these adj
vices are favorable. This much might
be expected from theresult of the spring
elections, which, in the main, showed
large Republican gains and decided ac'
tivity among Republicans generally
But it is gratifying to have these public
indications confirmed by private ad
vices. The fact is, there has been nc
time during many years past when the
Republican party in Indiana, at thil
stage of the campaign, was in as gooC
condition or gave as good promise o
success as now. II is united, harmoni
Gus, earnest and confident. We arr
happy to record this state of feeling, anC
we believe it isnot without good founda
ton. We believe the political indica
tions point with reasonable certainty Il
Republican victory in this State mex
fall. All that is necessary is that thu
party makes no mistakes in its nomina
tions, and that the people do their dut,
in the way of organization and work. -
Indianapolis Journal
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04
LATER NEWS.

DECORATION day was very generally
observed Throughout the Eastern and North
ern States
THE bark MonroVia sailed from New
York on the Goth ult, for Liberia with sew
snty-slx OF the colored refugees from Arkan-
sas.
In Reading, Pa, steam fire engine,
while being tested on the Goth ult, exploded
and four members Of the FIRE company were
severely scalded, one probably fatally.
JOHN VINCENT, second mate of the
British ship Sophia, and three other sea-
men were amusing themselves in the oil
room of the ship ON the Goth ult while
awaiting dinner, when one OF the party went
into the cooks galley adjoining and heating a
poker red hot returned with II to the oil
room. As this demonstration did not STAN.
pede the party the poker was thrust at bar
rel Of kerosene. An explosion Immediately
| followed. The oil room and galley were de-
mOlished and the cook, mate and seamen were
covered with burning oil. All OF them leaped
overheard, but only Que succeeded In swim,
ming to the pier, The Others were drowned.
THE Workingmen of San Francisco
will not affiliate with the Greenbackers.
JOHN DRURY, an elderly man, living
In 81. John, New Brunswick, shot his brother
Edward dead and wounded another brother
named Chapman, on the Goth ult. He then
ired the premises and when the people gath
cred he killed himself.
The Court of Inquiry in the case oi
Cadet Whitaker agreed upon a lnal report
on the Goth ult,, which was signed by all the
Court The opinion Of tho Court is as follows
From the strong array OF clrcumstantial evt
denCe, from the testimony Of experts In hand
writing, and from the conflicting statement
lOf Cadet Whitaker and the lack Of veracit
leYiuced by him In certain cases during the IN
lvestigation, as shown by the evidence, tn
Court is of opinion that the imputattOn on IN
character OF Cadet Whitaker referred to IN N,
lurder cOnyening and contained IN the othcia
reports OF the COmmandant Of Cadets ar
Post Surgeon, Is fully sustained Whittake
was arrested aud placed In cOntuemen
In his room. II the findings of the Cour
are approved by the War Department, h
will be tried by court-martial, but " the Presi
ldent approves he will be dismissed from th
Academy or handed over 10 the civil author
les,
The next United Presbyterian Gener
lal Assembly will be held In Allegheny City
Pa, on the fourth Wednesday OF May, 1881
The harvest prospects are goo
Throughout Ireland.
AN explosion in a powder mill neN
Client, Belgium, recently killed and injure
many persons.
A GENEVA dispatch says the six-foc
J granite wall bugt 10 maintain in place ti
porous white stone through which at on
point st. Gothard's tunnel runs, IA giving wa,
Il is Thought the tunnel WI have to be col
atructed around the white stone, two year
Job.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04
FORETcN TNTELLICENCE..

In the English Parliament, on the
oath, Gladstone, in reply TO a question con.
cerning the Fortune Bay affair, said the United
States had made a demand for one hundred
and three thousand dollars for damages sus-
tanned by American fishermen There had been
no correspondence since the last production Of
papers, but the Government intended shortly
to lay upon the table the whole correspond
ence upon this subject.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch says
famine RACES in Vara, Alashllad and Bash,
kalith, where deaths are innumerable.
On the arrival at Mallow, Ireland, on
the 23d, Of a train containing emigrants from
Kerry on the way TO America, the train was
stormed by 800 men Of the South Cork Militia,
who beat the emigrants numerically and
ousted them from the carriages. Some Of the
emigrants were seriously injured. The militia
had Just been disbanded' after their annual
training.
A ST. PETERSBURG correspondent
writes that General Melkoff recently submit
ted 90 the Gar proposal for the establish
ment Of two-house assembly. The Gar dep
recated the suggestion and said he left further
reforms in the hands Of the Czarowitch aftei
his death.
LEON SAY was elected President oi
the French Senate on the 25th.
MORE than ene hundred and thirty
Spanish Senators and Deputies have JOINED
the coalition against the Government. The
new party takes the name Of Liberal.
A CoNsTANTNoPLE dispatch says the
Porte has settled the claims of contractors fol
/ ,y,ti
upon tithes for next year.
The Prussian Ministry has made
known that It does not intend to withdraw the
clerical bill now before the Prussian Diet be
cause Of the altered attitude Of the Vatican
The great trial of Nihilists at st. Pc
tersburg was concluded on the 25th. Mich
aelof and Saburof were sentened TO bI
hanged; DR.. Wiener to fifteen years. har,
labor in the mines, and the others from eigh
to fifteen years.
A REBELLION has broken out in Brit
ish Burmah which threatens TO be formidable
One town has been destroyed and an Englisl
Governor killed.
THE North German Gazette says @
late the confidence previously felt in the sal
isfactory result Of the negotiations betwee
Prussia and the Vatican has been shaken an
the Prussian Government has consequent
resolved to make TO its Catholic sui
jects spontaneously and without regard
any return on the part of the Vatican, sue
concessions as are possible without prelude
, TO the interests of the State, and also to ol
tain from the Diet dissentarY powers relatiy
to the publlcat ion Of the May laws.
RESOLUTIONS favoring commercii
union with the United States were unan
mously passed at a mass meeting in Montre
! ON the 27th ult.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.

R6y~ Tilden should take a hint from
the cooper in the opera of Boocaccio."
While he is dipping into the barrel, the
other fellows are having all the fun.
Baya Tilden's single barrel captured
the last Democratic National Conven-
ton, and he says he will use q double
barrel, or even a six shooter, before he
will give up the nomination this year.
Bay~ Proctor Knott denomces the
veto and says the Constitution pro-
vides that Congress shall hold the purse
strings" The Constitution does moth
ing of the kind. II sets the veto as a
watch dog over Congressional folly.
RAJ Verify, verify, the bulldozer and
murderer shall not go without his re-
ward, is the promise of the Southern
Democratic oligarchy. The man Gully,
who murdered COrnelia Chisolm, in
Kemper County, Miss, and was in the
mob that murdered her father, has been
appointed a census enumerator. Chi
cGgo Journal
R6- Wade Hampton appeared the
other day as the champion of Kellogg,
not because he loves Kellogg or Kel-
logg's party, but because Hampton s
colleague, Butler, was admitted to the
Senate upon an agreement which also
admitted Kellogg; and Hampton recog-
nizes the obligation then assumed by
the Democrats as binding. And then
| he also knows that to turn Kellogg out
would be to damage seriously the polit-
ical party which would consent to such
| infamy. - PHILADELPHIA Bulletin.
Bar Some of the Tilden organs have
discovered that the sage of Gramercy
Park very quietly sent ten thousand
dollars to ireland. He did all he could
to keep the fact from the public, but il
! leaked out like the drippings of the
"bar'r' and got into the newspapers,
and the aged cipherer is reported to be
very mad about it. We don't wonder
at It. He always was averse to letting
the public know what he was doing in
the charitable line, and very few people
know of the thousands of dollars he has
distributed in this way. And for aught
the public know the great "usufruct, .
railroad smasher and revenue defraud
er might have sent double that sum t
Ireland. He certainly could have taker
it out of his stealings and not missed it
-Oiean en- ~ Times.
Bay- Senator Voorhees, is in trouble
again. He seems to have talent fo
getting into trouble. When he started
out on the Southern exodus investiga
ton, it was with a view of proving tina
the Republican party was responsible
for the immigration of negroes from tn
South to the North. This he failed t
do, and it got him into trouble. The
he essayed to prove that colored citizen
had no Constitutional right to NOV
from Southern to a Northern State
OF course he failed in that, and got int
! more trouble. Then he got into sti
! deeper trouble by the disclosure of til
fact that his investigation had cos
( $4,000 of the peoples money. An
now he is in the worst luck of all b
, the absconding of his Committee Clerl
a Georgia Democrat, with all the pa
, pers belonging to the Committee. Ser
ator Voorhees, has sent a Deputy Sci
geant-at-Arms after the Clerk at tn
: public expense. In matters of tn
! kind the Wabash Senator is very liberia
- J1l9iy,l1DO6g JO1yr,31L
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04
PITH AND POINT.

A FIGURE Of speech - naught set
down In malice. Boston Transcript.
OWING to the rise in paper, kites are
going up.-N Y. Statesman.
THERE Is one man in Albany who
never gets too drunk to tel his name.
II is Hicks.-BOstOn Post.
WHEN two dentists are partners they
rarely quarrel 49, they pull together
Cincinnati Saturday Night.
If man ever gifts to be honest he
haz got TO git Il as he duz hiz bred, by
the SWEET of his brow.-J0Sh Billings.
The man or woman who never growls
about the weather is greater than he
who taketh two cities.- Wheeling
LeddeT.
HELP from an unexpected quarter, as
the tramp remarked when a twenty-five
cent piece was handed him by the ''lady
of the house. ."-BoSton Traveller.
THE New Haven Register publishes
minute directions as to how to stuff an
elephant. This is something that every
prudent housewife shou' | cut out and
put in her recipe book.
SMALL boys who crawl in under the
tent are generally invited to withdraw
from the canvass. The politician should
be treated in the same way.-N. o.
PicdyUnc.
You never find out how bad man
has been until he is nominated for Office,
and you never know good he has been
until you read his obituary. Middle
torn Transcript
The many good qualities possessed
by a narrow-minded man, like the ten
commandments engraved on three
cent piece, may be all there, but it re-
quires powerful magnifying glass to
detect them readily.-HacbenSdc Re
publican.
CHI, uncle, what d the tornado do
for you7" "W'y, Mars, it done lorna
do off'n my cabin; it would "a torn
mo- on'y day wuzn't but one do to it,
an it tore out de winders, an kerried de
roof off in its wes pocket, an knocked
down all de fo' walls, but, bress de
Lord, it lef' me de cellar fur to sprout a
nudder cabin from. .''-CEHCiHnatt Com
mercidL.
A COW that wore bell having been
run over and killed on a railroad, the
owner brought suit against the railroad
company for damages. 1t was proved
that the engineer rang the bell and
tried to frighten the cow off the track,
but the farmers lawyer also proved that
the COW rang her bell and tried to
frighten the engine off the track, and
so the jury decided in his favor.-POrt
JerUiS Gazette.
JONES had engaged a man to dig a
well at his suburban place. Seeing him
month later, Jones asked how he was
getting along with his work and was
told that the well was half done. Judge
therefore of his surprise when, week
after this conversation, upon visiting
the premises, he found only circle
marked in the earth. OF course he
hunted up the man, and of course he
asked him what he meant by saying the
well was half done. The man very
coolly replied: " So it is: well begun
is half done, you know. ."-BoStOn Tran
script.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04

The residence of Mrs. Balser Friedler,
in Lock Haven, Pa, was burned few days
ago. The remains OF Mrs. Frledler were found
in the ruins There are suspicion of murder,
robbery and arson.
THE body of the wife of Emil Bier
mann, OF New York City, was found in bed
the other day with her throat cut On table
in the room was a note from her husband say
ing he killed her because she was unfaithful.
DURING a fight between roughs at
Troy, N. Y, on the oath, John Wall, an eN-
convict, shot and killed Supervisor Philip
Casey, who was attempting TO quell the dis
turbance. Wall ned, pursued by the infuria-
ted mob. During the chase duel took place
between Wall and the pursuing officers and
Officer Owen Duty was shot in the head and
side but not fatally A man named Frowley
was also shot and injured slightly and a child
was shot in the hand. Wall when captured
had narrow escape from lynching.
A LAD at Somerville, Mass, is under
arrest for the murder of a playmate fifteen
years Of age.
SIXTY English millers arrived at New
York City on the steamship Bolivia, on the
25th, on thelrway 10 the International Exhibit
tion in CincinnaH.
THERE were four cases of sunstroke
in New York City on the 25th. The thermom-
eter indicated ninety-four degrees In the after
noon.
DISPATCHES from various parts Of
New Hampahire and Massachusetts indicat,
that the 25th was the hottest day ever expe
rieneed there, The thermometer ranged from
ninety-slE to lOl In the shade.
The Rhode Island Legislature, on
the 25th, elected A. II. Littledeld Governor
and IL, IL. Fay Lieutenant Governor, there
having been no choice at the polls.
The farmers In many places in New
York are plowing up their arst crop Of pota
toes, having been ruined by the potato bug
THERE were thirty-two cases of sun
stroke in New York and Brooklyn on the 27tl
ult, six Of which we're fatal.
SEVERAL witnesses were examined II
the Whitaker case at West Point on the 2St
uit Recorder Sears then summed up the ey
idenee, taking the ground that Whittakerwa
the author OF his own assault He Was 10
lowed by Lieutenant knight, counsel "a
Whitaker, who claimed that there was notl
ing IN the evidence 10 show that Whitaker
story was not true. AZ the conclusion Of h
argument the court adjourned sins de and u
Whitaker inquiry ended.
FIVE deaths and many cases of pro
tration from heat were reported in New Yo
City on the 2sth ult.
The Amalgamation Association of Ire
and Steel Workers At Plttsburg on the 2s
ult., demanded an increase In wages whi
8as refused BY the manufacturers The stra
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04

II is not hard to imagine what Mr..
Edmunds had been thinking of during
this studious hour. He had thought Of
Mr.. Marbles adventures with the
ague-smitten Pariahn in Florida, of
Mr.. Smith Weeds missionary activities
in South Carolina, of the Cronin nego-
tiations in Oregon, of the sudden CON
solidation of the South after it had
pledged itself to equal rights upon the
discontinuance of Federal interference,
of the Mississippi shot gun plan, of
tissue ballot frauds in South Carolina,
of the thieving conspiracy in Maine. If
his thoughts wandered still further he
probably recalled the history of Mr.
Hill and his party for the last quarter of
a century and marveled at the effront-
ery of a lecture from such source on
good political behavior ~ Y EUening
Post (ERd.).
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04

In the boat race at Washington, on
the 28th, between Hanlan and Riley, the form
er won the race by ten lengths.
A CONVENTION has been arranged be-
tween the United States and Canada by which
the exchange Of postal money orders has been
simplihed and the cost reduced.
POSTMASTER GENERAL KEY was con-
frmed as United States Judge Of the Eastern
Tennessee District on the 9th ult. The
nomination Of Mr.. Maynard, now Minister to
Turkey, was taken up, but seriously opposed
by the Democratic members and finally laid
over.
A WASHINGTON dispatch on the 9th
ult,, stated that the Secretary of State had
received telegraph dispatch from Mr. Far
man, Consul General at Cairo, that the
obelisk aud pedestal had been placed OF
board OF q steamer which would sail in fort
night for the United States.
r. A. MoRRIs, an assistant in the Con-
gresslonal Library at Washington, was en-
trusted with $500 TO pay the employees on
thC 2sth ult., and shortly after leaving the
Treasury he returned with package wrapped
up like the one containing the money, but
the package contained nothing but red
tape. He said he had been robbed. Morris
mas been dissipating of late and It 10 thought
he made the exchange.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04

Two MEN, James Reed and James
Edwards, instantly killed each otherin Buena
Vista, Texas on the 2Sth ult. They had had
some trouble and upon meeting drew revol-
vers and fred two shots at each other Both
fell dead.
BY the explosion of a steam saw mill
in Winnepeg, Manitoba, on the 2Sth ult., the
structure was demolished and Robert Dongell
fireman, instantly killed. James Cross, engi.
neer, and Samuel Dell were fatally injured,
aud two others seriously hurt
A DISASTROUS ram storm passed over
portion Of Texas on the 2sth ult. At San
Saba, two children, who had taken refuge in
a cave, were drowned. At Bracketville the
water in Main Street was from five to eight
feet deep. Several persons were drowned
in the town, and more than twenty we're re.
ported drowned along Los MOras creek, near
town.
A RAGUsA dispatch says the Chief Of
the Albanian League has ordered the forces
at Tusi to take the offensive against the Mon
tenegrins.
AT Ancon, Peru, recently large tor
| pedo in process Of completion exploded acci
dentally, blowing the mandatory to pieces,
| killing every inmate and nine others and lev
cling dozen adjoining houses to the ground
A SEVERE fight occurrednear Tacena,
Peru, recently, between body Of Chilian cav
airy and division of Peruvian infantry aud
cavalry. The latter appears 10 have been Sc
verely handled, the infantry Of the force be
ing, 1t y said, cut to pieces by fierce charge
Of the Chilians.
The M. f. General Conference al
Cincinnati, closed on the 2sth ult Episcopal
residences were fixed at New York, Boston
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Syracuse, Cincinnati
Chicago, st. Louis, Atlanta or Chattanooga
St. Paul, Mimi, Austin, Texas, Des Moinei
and San Francisco.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04

will throw $1,000 men out Of work in the dis
trict.
AT the session of the Baptist Publica-
tion Society at Saratoga, on the Ssth ult, the
following officers were elected: President
George 7. Hope, New York; Vice Presidents
Samuel A. Crozier, Pennsylvania Hon. J.
Warren Merrill, Massachusetts,; f. L. He'd
strom, New York; Edward Goodman, Illinois,
Secretary, Benjamin Griffith; Recording Sec
retary, j. Howard Gendel, Pennsylvania
Treasurer, William N. Petit. The report tc
celebrate the centennial Of Robert Raikes on
the last Sunday I'm June was adopted.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04

nay 1t is notable fact that every
new candidate for the Democratic Pres
idential nomination trotted out is men,
toned as possessing bar u which will
compare favorably with Mr.. Tilden's,
while his other qualifications are left
unmentioned. Wouldn't IL be well for
tho Democracy TO hold "bench show"
of ''bar'ls" just previous to June PIP
Cleveland Leader.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-04-28

There ere st present 10 Europe 1l5
princes and princesses, each having q
claim more or less remote 10 . crown.
The ono with the greatest number Of
titles 10 the Emperor Of Austria, Fran
cis Joseph. In addition T. his title y
kmpcror. he 10 nine times king, once
archduks, twice grand duke, eighteen
times duke, four times margravs, Ave
ttases count prince, twice prince, and
many times prince and lord. His carte
Do viste make the fortune Of photo.
graphsrs. The King OF Portugal hes
eightssa 6sst names, his eldest son has
twenty. and bic yeungest twsnty-nino.
One Of The Kings Of Portugal, accord.
Ing 70 6panish story. got lost in the
woods while hunting. Coming late ct
night upon . little country inn, be
knocked and dsmsnded shsltsr. The
landlord pat his bod ont Of : window
and asked Who VS. thsrs. HI NaiepeS
replied b. giving I'll his names and
Titles. "kxeuso ne, de, = mid the land.
lord. II haven't room n ny h0uso III
% many peopls. /" and ~ sbut The, I'm.
dow and lsN The hing oat ID th6 cid.
The dtle ofKing a JerAsalea = b6ese
y the Emperor 81 Austria, the x.Klne
q Naples sad the Priaco do Lusienan.
4 otmilnr oou1llct exists between KIM
Osear Of 6vsdsa and King Christian q
Dsnaafk. sach claiming 70 b King Of
ne 0oths. Oscar alec calls himself
King 81 the Wsnds. and Christian Kios
Of the Vandals. The Grand DUKE q
Aecklsubsrg. 6trelits 10 . General Of
cavalry In The Rassian army, 5 Coloosl
Of infantry b ~ Hnnessian sruy and
. Doctor Of Laws In Oxford University,