Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-25

A"N bhAAN AtAuA BhOot Will hub ulhlulu
he slumbers, or bring the vapors to any
Iemented and disconsolate souls now.
Wool growers as we'll as wool buyers are
li;tle dazed about prices. Whatever
ange there may be, It is low, and those
Who can, are disposed to hold for a rise.
This seems to be tolerably good policy,
md it is the general opinion that what
,yer change there may be, will be for the
better, and that 40 cents will probably be
reached by the close Of the summer.
Is 1t not pretty cheeky in the New York |
Tribune to advise the Democrats to take a |
Republican for the Presidential candidate,
when it is considered that they once did !
that thing and selected the editor Of that
paper as the man and suffered humiliat-
Ing defeat. It is in the nature Of cruelty
10 animals to remind them Of that fright
ful miscarriage by the very source of their
misery.
The Ohio State Journal well says that
answer to the charges Of brib-
cry and corruption against Garfield is
found in the fact that he is, and always
has been economical in his expenditures,
having no expensive habits and not adicted
to speculationi and, though he has been
IN public life continuously for more
than twenty years, he is yet comparatively
poor man-his whole fortune not
amounting to more than $4,000 to $18,-
900.
Yellow fever has reached quarantine.
N. Y. Harbor by the Srrival of the Pacific
Mail Steamer, Colon, from Aspinwall on
Tuesday the 10th. The ship brought a
clean bill Of health, though one of the
passengers complained on the 7th-the day
Of sailing. He died on the 11th, four days
out, another case appeared and was in the
black vomit stage when the Colon arrived
and death occurred the next night. A
third case also appeared.
JOHN KELLEY does not seem to have
any doubts as TO the meaning of Tilden's
letter. He says that 1t is positive with
drawal, whether Tilden so meant il OF not
1t is rumOred with what little truth we
know not, that the Kelley men turn tow.
ard Thurman rather than Payne as the
coming Ohio man. Perhaps the tinge of
Tilden favor that edges the Payne Banner
may have had something to do with this
feeling-if any such exists.
An Ashtabula county paper objects to
papers published outside Of the XIXth
district having anything to say on the
question of who shall succeed Garfield.
Our AshtabulR friends seem to be little
scared. - Warren Tribune
Not at all Mr., Tribune. We have two
as strong candidates as can be brought
out by any other county. The only
trouble is we don't know who is the strong
er and best Of the two. That's all, my
dear sir.
Southern Democrats have begun early
in the campaign TO show their contempt
for the rights Of Southern Republicans.
A ratification meeting at Montgomery
Ala, which was being addressed by color
ed Republicans, was forcibly broken up
the other day, rotten eggs having been
abundantly used and the usual difficulty
between some unknown persons having
afforded an excuse for the discharge of
firearms. Cancellation is hardly skin
deep.
Mr.. John Russell Young has been inter
viewed in San Francisco, aud states some
very interesting facts about Grant and his
third term candidacy for the Presidency. In
Mr.. Young's opinion, Grants controlling
motive was the belief that he could hsr-
monize the sectional differences between
the South and the North better than any
other man. It seems there we're six senA-
tors in the plan, and that the combina-
ton on Garfield could have beeA foreseen,
the Grant forces would have nominated
Edmunds.
OF all the idiotio schemes to waste pub
lie money the champion one is the project
to build reservoirs on the upper waters Of
the Mississippi, and "hold the water" un-
ill dry time interferes with navigation,
and then let it outI AT the last session
surveys were ordered and estimates made
as to the cost of this crazy work. The
engineers estimates is now in, and we
learn that eleven dams can be built upon
the Mississippi, st. Croix and Wisconsin
rivers, so as to "hold the water, for Sl,-
$4,000. The annual cost OF maintaining
them is put at $3.50, 900.
The House Committee on Commerce
have made report virtually indOrsing this
Wild scheme.
Horatio seymour's letters refusing the
Presidential nomination, are said to bs
numerous and emphatic, and the fun of
the thing la, their number or emphasis
raise no doubt Of bis readiness 10 accept
and no one treats the matter otherwise
than in perfect good humOF
The difference between Seymour and
Tilden is shown In that Tilden's tactics
lead him to write an equivocal letter de-
clining the nomination, but no one thinks
It other than a trick--a left handed bid for
the nomination-a disposal Of Tammany,
that the coast may be all the more clear
While one is looked upon as honest and
weak, the other is dishonest and crafty
Public opinion in each case is pretty well
defined.