Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1875 — VICTORY! The Crand Old Republican Party Again Triumphant! [ARTICLE]

VICTORY! The Crand Old Republican Party Again Triumphant!

Every Republican in the county should subscribe for Tbs Jaspsb Republican »t once. .Neat year being the Centennial year of the Nation, and it also being the year of a 'Presidential election, every citixeo should take a county paper. In clubs of ten or more we will furnish the Rxpublican from now until the first of January, 1877, for one dollar and twentyfive cents per year.

From the latest telegrams in regard to the elections we find the RepnbUcans in the ascendancy. Pennsylvania re-elects Hartranft, Republican Governor, by 17,000 majority. In New York the result is close and still a matter of doubt, but the legislature is decidedly Republican. The Democrats will probably have a small majority this year, against 50,300 Democratic majority last year.— Massachusetts, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Kansas, each give Republican majorities. Mississippi, Virginia and Maryland have gone Democratic. The dispatches from Chicago announce that the city has gone Republican by from 4,000 to 5,000 majority, thus signally defeating “boss” HesiDgand his corrupt ring of pimps, bummers and thieves.

The Colorado election returns show heavy Republican gains. Chinamen don’t work well on Southern plantations. When they go out to plow they want to ride the mule and let the plow run itself. Moody is said to be the most rapid speaker the New York reporters have ever had to encounter 220 words per minute. Moody, the great revivalist, appointed Friday, the 12th inst, a day of fasting and prayer, and it was voted by the congregation that the nation be invited to join.

It is authorstively stated that Mrs. A. Lincoln has entirely recovered from hfr late aberration of mind, and is now considered entirely free from her affliction. It is reported that she will hereafter make her home in Springfield, 111. When you grumble at hard times and crippled industries, just rasfc yoty eyes over the big water and look at France, with one hundred and twenty-three thousand industrial establishments, and giving work to about one million eight hundred men. At least two-thirds of these are cow losing a month’s time and wages in order to drill for a future war.

Noticing the nomination by a Kentucky paper of Senator Thurman for the second place on the Democratic presidential ticket for next year, the Cincinnati Commercial says: ‘‘They used to.mention the nephew’s name in with the presidency. If he does not have a care they will be running him for mayor of Columbus, with his uncle for towncrier.” There seems to be a grand offensive and defensive combination between various eastern railroad lines of which the advance of passenger rates already announced is an outgrowth. The rates thus announced are the same as before the war between the Baltimore, Ohio & Saratoga combination. It is believed efforts will he made soon to increase these rates still further and that freight rates will be largely increased as soon as lake navigation closes.

A correspondent of the Turf Field and Farm , thinks he has learned why horses break in trotting. He is correct in his conclusions as to how horses should be handled, whether he is in his theory or not. He says: My theory is, that the power of trotting fast lies more in the brain than in the muscles; and when a horse under the excitement of the whip increases his speed above a certain point, his brain becomes unable to keep up with the rapid continued motion of the muscles. He loses control of himself. He is unable to put his legs where he wants them, and goes into a gallop because that gait requires little or ne exertion of the brain. lam almost satisfied in my own mind that I have hit on the true theory, and that a horse should be handled so as not to lose confidence in his ability to do the work required of him,