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Day
30
Month
July
Year
1880
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Public Domain
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-Mayor Allen of Ypsilanti will address the Allegan veterans next month. - Democrats of Vermont unanimously nominated Edward J. Phelps for governor. - In 1876 the majority of Hayes over all opposition in Illinois was less than a thousand. Illinois is a doubtful state. - Ohio democrats in convention at Cleveland last week placed a state ticket in the field and adopted the national platform. - Provided Sherman recovers from sore-headedness over being sold out at Chicago by Garfield, he will take the stump in Ohio. -President Hayes, despite his famous order No. 1 pertaining to civil servicie will make some speeches while in California, for Garfleld. - Bepublicans of the Cleveland district have got into a quarrel over the re-nomination of Townsend, and arranged for the holding of a peoples' convention. - Tammany has withdrawn its electoral ticket and urgently presses upon every democrat to do his duty in the campaign. Kepublk-ans of course are sadly disappointed. -Cari Schnrz opened the campaign at Indianapolis last week by a lengthy and impassionate address. He is styled a Hessian in politics because he won't make a speech, although holding a fat office, unless paid for in round figures. - " If I had the trumpet of Gabriel," snys a correspondent of the Boston Post, "I woald sound the key note over the whole latid, in every democratie hamlet, ' put your best men to the front.'" Better advice could not possibly be given. - The Jackson Patriot says that a wide awake and observing farmer of Grass Lake township was in that city and expressed the opinión that the greenback vote in Grass Lake the present fall would be extremely small and practically amount to nothing. He attributes the sweeping change to the unexampled popularity of Hancock and English. - Colored voters are signing the rolls of the Hancock and English club in this city, and others still will no doubt follow their example. They say for the past tweuty years they have been undeviating in their fidelity to republicanism, but notwithstanding have been all i ignorad and kept on the extreme ■ ata of the party. This policy irelty to thetn, and besides tbink Hancóck has done fully as I lieir mee as Garfield, and this year Uiey wili try a change and give him their support.- Jackson Patriot.

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