Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-06-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

WENDELL PHILLIPS, In a recent lecture,
said that Massachusetts had not yet ratified
the Constitutional Amendment proposed by the
last Congress, and he hoped she never would.
Yet Phillips and his party seek. to force the
Amendment on the South; and say that that
people are traitors for not cheerfully accepting
It, This is Radical honesty and consistency
A PROTESTANT preacher has been publish
ing book called ssHell opened to Christians.
That preacher must think old Beelzebub has
made new arrangement to properly provide
for Thad. Stevens, BrownloW, Butler, Stan
ton, Holt, and other Radical leaders.
A MAN in Boston having experienced" the
sort of {" religion" most in vogue there, smash
ed his marble copy of the Venus di Medicis,
burnt his pictures and his large but secular
library, like fine old Puritan gentleman, one
of the real old kind.
THE Cork: (Irish) Examiner says that for
many years there has not prevailed more deS-
titution than at present exists among the nu-
merous poor in the city of Cork, Seven hun
dred young men and women left Queenstown
in one day for New York,
ALBERT PIKE speaks of VIM. H. Seward as
that worst among the enemies of his country,
the most unprincipled of all. our. public men,
because he has no convictions, but unites IN
himself the intellect Of Maehiayelli and the In
stincts and housing cunningof Oliver lie Daln"
RECENTLY, says the Reading Dispatch, a
man 20 entered one ofour- eating saloons and
eat within period of forty minutes, Is boiled
eggs with the shell on, | pigs foot,-3 herring,
s Goldfish cakes, crackers and 8 pretzels, and
drank glasses Of lager beer.
A LATE paper says" Secretary Stanton is
confined to his house by, severe cold" He
will never be troubled with. cold in the next
world, unless helLis reconstructed on the are
tic plan.
SOME ex.Fredericksburg darkies voted at
the election 10 Georgetown One old fellow,
however declined, saying: They jist put the
names down. and the next thing is tax-On every
niger that voted. -
THE circulation of.the La Crosse Democrat
is greater than the combined circulation OF all
the English Democratic papers published in
the three greats States of Wisconsin, Iowa and
Minnesota
A MAN died in London from oyer-excite-
ment. He wassso delighted at receiving IL
quor license, for which he had applied, unsuc-
cessfuly, four times.
THE Cherokee marriage ceremony is very
expressive The man and woman join hands
over running water, to indicate that their lives
are thenceforth to flow on in one stream.
"BoY,p said an ill-tempered. fellow to a
noisy lad, "what do you shout for when go
by?'' "Humph!" returned the boy, what do
you go by for when Lam shouting 2"
"A DANDY, wishing to be witty, accosted an
I'D rag-gatherer as follows: You take all
orts of trumpery in your cart, don't you -
Yes; jump ll-jump IN
IT is reported that Queen Victoria has deter
mined to exercise her prerogative OF clemency
IN future, and that no capital execution shall
ever again occur in England.
''NEvER trouble trouble till trouble troubles
you, for trouble rarely troubles people who
never trouble themselves about trouble"
FRENCHMAN has defined fidelity to be ga
devil of an itching which tbs forbidden to
scratch.p
NEW YORK has thus far contributed $170,-
900 for the South, Boston over $4,000 and
Philadelphia $3T $685.
PRENTICE says: "NNhat was the American
Republican is now cross between monarchy
and anarchy"
JOE CoEBURN and John G. Heenan are said
to have arranged fight for $4,000 and the
American championship.
Col. JOHN s. MosBY is practciEg law in
Warrent0n, District No. 1, and not making
pipes in Richmond. as has been asserted.
A. DISCHARGED negro soldier was cruelty
murdered, in GalyestOn, one night recently,
by three white Federal soldiers.
A wAGwFete on the back. of fat Alder
man, " Widened.at the expense Of the corpp-
ration.
THE RADICAI.s,of Vermont have nominated
John Page for Governor. The resolutions APP
proving Congress were unanimously passed.
WEE chap Of six years called small PIN
PIE on his upper lip, a mustache bud ;"