Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-08-05
Political NOfas

rOiIicaI notes.
Professor John II. Ian gst0n of this CITY adj
dressed an immense Grant & Wilson meeting
~ Saratoga on Saturday night gotten up bY
the colored people. The speaker was very Sc
letter.
The Greeley electoral ticket in California is
composed OF an equal number of democrats and
liberals.
The liberal union meeting at Salt Lake city,
having been broken up Saturday night another
meeting was Immediately convened with armed
guards. Some of the Mormon mob while at
tempting to approach were roughly handled.
Stones were thrown into the windows, but the
speakers proceeded, and the me citing closed with
music and wild cheers. All non MOTmOns and
In some instances hCTmons, condemn the out
The New York Commercial Adrerfiser declares
that " Greeley has basely deceived Miss Antho-
NJ" Y he has It's SCsa0's own fault. She il
old enough to know that gay and festive young
fellows Ike Greeley ought TO be kept a. dis
tsnCe.-LouiSriNs CoHtTTsT-yoBrnGl.
Gen. John A. Dix has come out in a letter for
Grant and Wilson.
Major TnOmes Whitehead has been nominated
Tor Congress by the democrats OF the sixth VIZ
ginia district.
Mr.. Sam Strong of this city, who is in CORE
s!Ondence with Horace Greeley, has received q
letter from Horace advising him 10 leave the
ttceTal Dlstrlct "i.d TO 80 west, as he can be OF
10 service To him here.
Col. John s. Mostly and Ger. Eppa Huntor.
had joint POLITICAL discussion az Salem, Va,
o. Saturday last. in the presence of about 800
ptOp.e, MCshy talking fer Grant an HuntOn for
Greeley. The best of feeling prevailed In the
c05.rse Of his speech MOsby said he preferred
Grant 10 Greeley because one is a soldier and
TIC other fanatic. lie supported Grant because
q his terms 10 Lee, and surely no couQUerOr
ever bore himself more magnaEiu0Csly 70 =
vaEqulsaedtOe than did Grant when he returned
ms sword t. Lee and babe him 90 in peace. He
would sUIIcrt Grant because, with al his faults
nobody ever accused him Of DESERVING a friend
or violating covenant. His remarks were
ludiy aTpiaUded. In the evening he drove
over To WarTentOn, and found that the Greeley
and brown men we're holding a ratification
meeting over the supposed victory in North Car
DINA. Dr. John y. With6ss, a foruer private
n the confederate army, said that " Colonel
Alpshy might drive confederate generals, but he
ecu .dnt drive confederate private into snp-
porting Grant" Some words followed and the
par-les st paTated. Soon after it became known
to Judge Keith that both were going about the
streets armed, and fearing an encounter would
TAXI place betwee them he ordered their arrest
and held each TO bail in the sum of 81 eco
The RichmOni (Va.) Dispatch regards che &C.
cesslon o. Banks TO the Greeley party with salts
faction. and says he is a sensible, discreet prac
tea, calm. statesman-iike man, IL, indeed he
Is not great statesman. The Dispatch holds a
contrary opinion in the case of Mr. Sumner
whom IL calls "an educated simpeton'' and
says: "We would rot be afraid to wager all our
iand In the moon, and all our castles in Spain,
that Sumner thinks his letter elected NJ errinan
We told the following story on a contemporary
Journal once, and now We tell it on Sumner: He
Is like crazy lune who heard some one speak
ing of a great stoTTn at sea. which had DESTROYED
mary vessels and OccasiOncd the loss OF many
hNes'. W hen Was tiat storm" asked the luna
tic Last Tuesday was the reply. All
thought 30. That was the day whistled so.'"
lis Is the way it is done in Grand Haven.
according to the Herald THE othsr uir,it
young man propounded the usual questions to
the IDOL of bis heart. She laid her soft white
hand IN his, put her head upon his manly
shoulder, hove. a sweet sigh of resignation and
IN dalCet accents that founded like sweet music
~ the water whispered: Yes. dear, any
ge1er know when it fitted the Occasion but az
they didn't know how to elect Greeley by the
'""n vote they settled down to the next best
thing.
o.. Smoking valley, in Oregon, has boiling
surg IN which meat and vegetables are cook
ed with facility.
rS-Boston has Imprisoned an eighty wear old
woman Who confes>es to having "approp pr ated,"
In her lifetime a thousand and one umbrellas
Hers was the reign of kleptomania.
s9-The Society for the Prevention of CrueItv
to animals in New York city acknowledge the
receipt OF $500 involuntary contributions since
the last publication of subscriptions.
CA beef was killed in Augusta, Ga, on
i Aursday, the 18th inst, in whose stomach was
found a full peck Of stones, of the average size
OF large marbles used by boys, together with a
number OF pieces of porcelain plates.
tica girl, at proper hour, pulls a
sulhS which reverse picture, on the back of
winch appear, in hugh characters, the words
. en- O'Clock is EIy bedtime. - and her admirers
take the gentle lint and depart.
- The negro wharf laborers living at the West
End. Boston, to defend themselves against the
strikers, 20 20 and from their work in gonzales 10
me number OF sixty or seventy with their cot
ION hooks IN enc hand and their dinner pals in
the other.
~ The adage "Where there's will there's A
way" Is illustrated ia a western town where te
swans are so retiring that the young women can
only get them the swsins) to squeeze them ,the
yOung women by peTsuading the former to lay
I res on TIER weight and ascertain the same by
netting them.