The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-11-29

'0nc of General Buffers quartcrmastcrs
has got into difficulties in New Orleans.
The result of keeping bad company.
A Wisconsin radical paper has an ar,i,
Gle hcaded-"Why Should re Make Our
selves Odious :" Conundrums always
die beat US, but NC will venture the an
sweF-"'Cause you can't help it."
Governor Butler, of Nebraska, has an
nounced :his intention to call an extra scs-
sion of the Legislature of his State, to act
on the Etftconth Amendment.
Thereal name of Parson Brownlow is
William Gauuaway Browulow. Itwould
hav been agood thing for Tennessee if he
had Gaun-away from that State many
yearsago.
Some western paper thinks .fbrt Con-
gress can have dead sure thing on the
election of \ radical President hereafter,
by passing 4 law that the States of Yer
mont and Iowa shall do all the voting.
The temperance candidate for Cover
nor of Ohio received rly7O0votcs in the
whole State.
At Rock Island, Illinois, a little found
ling has been placed in the poor-houso.
and they have named it Grant. The
poor-housa isbad enough for an innocent
child, without blasting its hopes by attach
ing such handle to it.
The total receipts of conscience money
a. the Treasury Department amounts to
S11S,99i 81.
Raleigh, North Carolina, nigcers ere
being armed for raid on the white peo-
pie.
A Chicago radical paper seys "our
party will cut its throat on election dav."
No one will mourn the disease of that
party "a Chicago or elsewhere.
The correspondence between Re7erdE
Johnson and the British Government,
relative to the Alabama claims, has been
published. 1t throws no new light on
the subject.
5udgo Jones, Of the Superior Court Of
New York, has ordered the arrest of B.
F; Butler, for stealing silver-ware and
table furniture to the amount of $50, 900,
from Mrs. Rowena Florence, niece of
General Twiggs, at NeN Orleans, in the
gear 1862.
Grant has been invited to attend mig
gor soiree at 0berlin, and is thinking it
over. 4 niger wedding is on. He
will go.
Two negroes of Smith County, Texas,
have announced themselves as candidates
for Congress in the first district. That
State has got it the worst kind.
Miss Anthony says there arc already
fifty members ofC0Eg-ess who favor the
women's movement The treasury girls
at at Washington say all the members of
Congress do.
A Cincinnati paper thinks it doubtful If
Grant wsuld accept denomination. The
gentleman alluded to will &c in au ine-
bEiate asylum before they get to nomina-
ting again. Don't borrow any trouble
about second inAiction.
An idiot named Adam Badesu has ia
kea rooms at Washington for tho winter
to write the Life of Grant" Ee would
have done it last summer, hut couldn't
head him of anywhere.
The leading question in Pennsylvania
Just now is question of veracity. Gov
ernor Gcary is the individual who en-
cages public attention in that connection.
TIE President viii not receive any
calls on the Sabbath, nor will be allow
his Secretary to bring him any letters or
kilograms on that holy day. he prefers
to go fishing for trout, or play billiards.
General Ames is accused of importing
negro voters from Tennessee into Missis-
sippi, in order to defeat Judge Dent.
Arc not. the radicals satisfied with the
bayoaet? Must they reinforce it with
frauds apon the ballOt-box?
It costs about four hundred dollars to
winter an elephant. If the people could
only winter the Presidential elephant as
cheap.
Colfaz stayed at home, in South Bend,
Indiana, one night last week He will
be on the move again as soon as be gets
some shirts wasSed. There is q rivalry
between Skile. and Ulisses, as to who
shall do the most travelling in given
time.
General Sicklce, Minister to Spain, is
to be removed, for gross immoral con-
duct.
Ifit takes three hundred cavalrymen
to guard Seward through Mexico, for the
love Of HannGr, how many would it take
to keep Beast Butler from stealing the
Mcxieans blindf Answers to this con-
undrum may be sent to the New York
EcangeliSt.
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