The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-21
POLITICAL AND MISCELLANY.

POLITICAL AND MISCELLANY.
IT'S VERY CLEAR that all the great
elements of the country are against
Andrew johnson. First, the people
are against him, as is shown in the
result af all the elections where impair
tial suffrage is the rule. Second, Con-
gress is against him, as is known by
the fact that that body has passed all
its important measures over his veto.
Third, the army is against him, as is
seen by the fact that all the great he
roes of tho war, Grant, Sheridan,
Thomas, Sherman, Sickles, Pope, and
a galaxy of other brilliant names, all
oppose his policy. Truly, the Presi-
dent has only for his supporters the
rebels who fought to destroy the Gov
ernment and the Democraticy who
sympathized in the effort.
A. II. STEPHENS, the ex-Vice Pres't
of the Southern rebellion, weighs only
ninety-four pounds.
A MAN named John Wade jumped
from the mast of a vessel ut Brooklyn,
on Monday, distance of seventy feet,
to decide bet, The water was only
twelve feet deep, and he stuck in the
mud at the bottom and was drowned.
DEATH OF JUDGE ARMSTRONG;
Williamsport, Pa, August l3. Judge
James Armstrong died to-day, aged
seventy-four years.
CHOLERA of n mild type is prevail
ent in Philadelphia.
JOSH BILLINGS says: "If you
trade with Yankee steal his jack
knife; for if he gifts tcw whiting, you
are gone in spite of thunder"
A MAN being asked, as he lay sum
ming himself on the grass, what was
the height of his ambition, replied,
"To marry rich widow with a bad
cough" ar.
LAST year an energetic lawyer in
Connecticut obtained three divorces
for one woman. ...r
THERE were 26 ,29S marriages last
year in the United States.
TWENTY thousand Americans are
reported to have sailed for Europe
since February, 1867.
TO remove stains from the charac-
ter-Get rich. t..
A NEGRO was shot and killed at
Knoxville, for shouting for Brownlow
at a Conservative meeting.
THE New York Constitutional
Convention has rejected a proposition
to disfranchisc descrters and skulkers
from the draft. t.. e .-
The South Carolina papcrs state
that the rice crop in that State is en-
tirely destroyed by the ovcrAowing of
all their rivers.
AN exchange says: To make a
muss--Pour a quart of molasscs in
your wife's new bonnet" Ridiculous!
the thing wouldn't hold a pint. f.
GIVE strict attention to your own
alfairs-and consider your wife one Of
them.
HAS any person ever tried Rarey's
system of horse-taming on the night
mare!
Ar the recent election in Kentucky
one of the candidates was charged
with having been in the Union army
during the war. AS the charge was
damaging his prospects he published q
card in which he positively denied
having had anything to do with the
Union army. That is the State in
which there was a great Democratic
, victory the other day.
I SCRATCHES IN HORsEs.-Ashes of
! corncobs mixed with lard, and applied
to the affected part, is said to be sure
, cure.
IP a stable is kept clean, cows will
90 into it of their own accord. If
, dirty, they have to be driven in.
f WHEN will the alphabet be one let
t ter short? When U and | are one.
"MUM" is used as a title for ladies
on account of their well-known love
( of silence. .' A
WHY are people who stutter not to
be relied on? Because they are always
breaking their word. oi}iia
MAN is a mister, and woman mys-
terry. a9t i 4l" g3fl
BEER fills many bottle, and the
bottle many bier. is... eaa-e,
; THERE is many slip between the
! cup and the lip, but more slips after
the cup has been drained by the lips.
RED noses are light houses to warn
voyagers on the sea of life off the coast
Of Malaga, Jamaica, Santa Cruz and
S Holland, - ftir
Mrs. HILL, Of New York city, has
drawn, in rattle, the snuff box which
: : Louis XVI presented to Col. Laurens,
our first Minister to France. Desti-