The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-06-04

A high rent-a hole in the crown Of
your hat.
What is often found where it is not !
Fault.
=" Long Mines A base ball club Of
six -footers.
A Pittsburg widower i. under arrest
for poisoning his wife.
Action is happiness here, and without
action there can be no heaven.
One of our exchanges is hea rtltss
enough to call q sick baker "an ili-brei
man."
Olive Logan says that Mrs. Caudis
was the only really successful female lee.
turer.
Many fool who has sense enough 10
get good wife, lacks the wit to know it,
An exchange says Butler will go into
Grants cabinet. No doubt, if it isn't kept
locked.
When you hear a man say. life is
Dream" tread on his corns and wake him
up. Life is real.
He who receives good turn should
never forget it !; he who does one should
never remember it.
What dress shall lady procure in
order to keep her wardrobe clean. A
laundress (lawn-dress
Value the friendship Of him who
stands by you in the storm swarms of in
sects will surround you in the sunshine.
-"T have passed through great hard
ships" as the schooner said after passing
through feet Of iron-clads.
1t has been ascertaired that lightning
strikes more women each year than men.
Their attrac ctions are the death of them.
Fanny Fern expresses doubt wheth-
er, if ladies should learn TO smoke one Of
tn I'm would allow anoth er to stop her in the
street for a light without being introdu-
ced, or knowing who her dressmaker was,
or where she bought her bonnets"
One fellow is making a nice thing ou.
of the impeachment case-.he sergeant-at-
arms of the senate. He summons all the
witnesses by telegraph, and charges ten
cents mile to and from their places of
residence In one one case his fees are
81 600, for sending dispatch for wit
ness in Oregon. That's the way the pep
pies money goes.
A western union negro met another
moke, on State street. last eYening. AMI
hailed him as follows "Say, jim, have
you heard the news? p mo, what is it 2"
replied the other "man hood" WHY,
dey has nominated Useless Grant for DC
president, and all the colored folks for rice
president" West union doubtless thought
Cofax was equivalent to all the colored
folks.
The New York Day Book remark. in
reference to the national finances
The mongrel journals are humbuggns
the taxpayers, by parading the debt state
ment made on the 9th inst, as proof of
the gradual extrication of the country
from the incubus of the great debt. The
| figures are made to show decrease in the
debt of some SIS 100000 This declara-
tion is an imposition upon the taxpayer
1t is the Wall street game of making divi.
dends upon stock which is a sinking
concern a concern not earning dollar Of
profit. The income of the government
to-day is not equal to its expenditures by
at least twenty-five to forty millions
year and when the month Of January,
1869 Games round, it will be found that
the great debt will not have been reduced
one dollar below the figures Of January,
1868.
We ask the careful attention of every
qualified voter of either party to the fol-
lowing questions:
Why is the burden of taxation SO op-
pressive and employment scarce?
Why are there to-day hundreds and
thousands of white men and woman in the
north living in dread of starvation within
the present year!
Why are there thirty millions of white
men taxed for the special benefit of a class
/ WhO pay tdASS Uu tuS REcaI OF
their property?
Why should there be over two thousand
millions of dollars exempt from taxation 2
II negroes are fit for freedom why has
great poor house system for their support
to be kept up at the expense of northern
industry
If the war vas prosecuted for the pres
ervation of the union, why are ten states
kept out Ofit?
Let the answer your own heart and
intelligence suggest, be given next Octo-
Der and November.
1t has been frequently asserted that
the result of impeachment would be the
execution of the popular verdict" Per.
haps the asser tion is proven correct. The
result of impeac hment has executed the
popular verdict upon number of we'll
known political scalawags 1t has killed
Stanton, Wade, Butler. Bingham, Bout
! we'll and Ashley besides nuttinu soma