Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-05-16

TEN years ago newsboy gained control of
his business OH one of the railroads leading
from New York, aud from the proceeds Of that
business has just paid 10000 for residence
ON the Hudson.
"MAcK," in sketching Senator Drake of
Missouri, once a Border Ruffian, now yellow
Radical, accounts for his tendency to extremes
from "a dsproportiOn between large ambition
and limited abilities"
THURLow WEED makes an announcement
in the New York Commercial. to the effect that
no consideration whatever could induce Mr.
Seward to remain In Office single day after
Mr.. johnson is removed.
SOME wag is calling on Mrs. Harriet Beech
er Stowe, the author OF "Uncle Toms Cabin, !"
to write another sensation novel. The. name
of Uncle Tom ,cithont CABIN" is suggested
as an appropriate title.
A WESTERN editor thus delivers himself:
We would say TO the individual who stole our
shirt off the pole while we were lying in bed
waiting for it to dry, that we sincerely hope
the collar may cut bis throat.
SEEING it announced that Grant is to make
q speech, one of our exchanges warns him to
remember the fate of the first Ulysses, who,
when very near to port, was, By tho opening of
his ,cindbags, blown far away from Ithaca.
ABOUT 700 700 900 letters now pass through
the Postoffice in Great Britain and Ireland in
the course of year, and nearly 5000, 900 tel
egrams pass through the telegraph stations in
the United Kingdom during the same period.
THE Bangor Whig mentions that there is an
absent-mi8ded gentleman in that city, who met
his own son in the street the other day, shook
hands with him. inquired after his health and
then asked when his father expected helne.
TILToN recently said that Michigan was
"sitting with her finger ON her forehead, pom
dering the question, ! Is the negro a lnan'Y'"
!. She now SITS" says the Boston Post, with
her thumb on her nose, gyrating the aforesaid
finger at T. Tilten." ~
Cor. LEE, a ''loyal" qnartermaster at San
Antonio, Tex, who had ax condemed cavalry
horses for sale, seGt his advertisement two
thousand miles away, to be inserted ia the
Washington Chronicle, in which Journal. it
appeared on the day Of sale.
THE negroes down South. recently held q
convention to "aalend the Bible'' 90 as t0 make
it correspond with the reconstruction policy Of
Congress. The next thing on the Radical pro-
gramme will be convention Of negroes to
reconstruct the races--te make the white man
black aud the black man white. gEssnY
= u. s
THE Livingston Journal thinks it must be
very pleasant for Alabamiaas who voted last
fall .fDr the Reconstruction Convention. to know
that, in assessing county taxes for this year,
ten per cent is to be added to pay the expen-
ses Of TINT sweet-scented body.
The colsfed people in RickinaAdy. Va, were
addressed lately by fanatic named Snidsrr
who is travelling fhrcugh, the South to.obtain
signatures to . petition to CoBgress askingI
that body to pass law acknowledging Christ
as the civil head = ST ST the Governnspt. 81
A COUNTY Wicklow carman was driving q
couple Of passengers on o. summer day in the
Glsp-of p6wns, not far from Dsb3ii OnaIof
the passengers inquired Of the driver what
not given him any name, your h0norj but asl
be draws 80 well ! think / ought to- callshin
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