Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05
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-Sheet muSlc-Ihe cry OF children III
bed.
Greeley says that truth will out. y
Certainly, but not from his mouth.
Radical songs may be properly styled
singing psalms to dead horse"
AN honest man is the noblest work of
God, but the edition is small.
-Hole-in-the. Days widow is worth two
millions. A fine catch for some young
brave.
The La Crosse Democrat has cores.
pondent who hurrahs for "Grunt and Grab.
tax"
The discussion Of the temperance qucs-
ton, as applied to candidates, staggers
Grant.
Wendell Phillips shrieks to "shoot the
desertcrs." Does he want to decilnatc his
own party?
"A man in Norwich dropped live coal
into a bombshell ito hear it fzz." He
heard it.
"A locust stung Radical editor out west
the other day. The editor survived, but
the locust died.
Ben Butler says the national debt must
either bo paid in greenbacks or repudiated.
Ben is good Radical.
General Grant" the trotter, is dead.
His namcsake is about to make his last ap-
pearance on the course.
The Glenwood (Iowa) Opinion says
that the grasshoppers are destroying every
thing but grass widows in that section.
The New York Times fears the Demo
cratic majority in that city next fall may
reach 10000 votes. Shouldn't wonder
ALI the magistrates elect in Shelby
county, Alabama, are negroes, and not one
of them can read or write. Who wouldn' t
be Radical7
The Radicals propose getting up sing.
ing clubs for the campaign. Bingham will
sing the "IIangman's refrain," and Butler
"Spoouey Bill"
What is the difference between the EN-
peror of Russia and Useless Grant? Wen
dell Phillips answers: The one is a despot
and the other whisky.pot.
The Radicals say that Grant carries the
banner Of peace and forgiveness. This is a
mistake; he marches to defeat under the
banner Of vengeance and hate.
The Radicals, in spirit Of infamous
calumny, say that Gov Seymour inherits a
propensity to madness. He won't be half
so mad after November as they will.
Frank Blair fought in more than two
score battles, and yet he is denounced in
unmeasured terms by the men who stayed at
home and sold shoddy cloth, bad coffee and
paper-soled shoes to the soldiers.
"A man, in telling about wonderful
parrot in cage hanging from the window
of house which he often passed, said 1T
cries stop thief so naturally, that every
time l hear it always stop!'
Down in Mississippi, at a colored Sab
bath school, a few weeks ago, q teacher
asked the question: "Who died for you?'
After spell Of whispering, and spell Of
silence, little mig, about forty years old,
replied: "Abrum Lincum"
"A poor scamp left his wife in great
rage, declaring that she should never sec
his face again until he was rich enough to
come in carriage. He kept his word, for
in two hours afterwards he was brought
home drunk in wheelbarrow.
THURLow WEEDS OprNIoN.-The Rad
ical newspapers generally appear to think
their readers have no sense, and that it is
only necessary to abuse the Democratic can
didates Thurlow Weed, the shrewdcst
Republican politician in the country, enter
tains very different opinion. He says, in
the New York Commercial:
"Governor Seymour is not to be beaten
by being called a copperhead, or Frank
Blair to be distanccd 10 the race because he
is called revolutiOnist. Ridicule Seymour
as some Republican journals may, he is the
most popular man in the Democratic party
The small fry of Radical editors, whom
Greeley so aptly styled marrow minded
would do we'll to make note
Of Mr.. Weeds remark.
"OH for a thousand tongues"-as the
urchin remarked when inside a molasscs
hcgshead