New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-06-13
NEWS CLIPPINGS.


generally known that John is a gambler, and
that Horace is no better-never bet in his
life, he says.
Rev. Mr.. Carter writes from Buenos Ayres
that everything is done there on horseback
Even the beggars ride through the streets,
knock at the doors without dismontng, and
wait, still mounted, to receive charity.
The tanning and manufacturing business
TINS season will be unusually profitable.
Grant will tan the hides of the enemies of
equal rights, and Wilson will make them up
INTO shoes for liserty's vanguard.
The members of the Agricultural Con-
gress recently held in St. Louis had the
pleasure of eating bread made from flour that
| cost $3.50 barrel. 1t was the first that
arrived in the st. Louis market-hence its
| high price.
-Risso mentions an orange tree growing
at Nice. in 1899, which was more than fifty
ieet high and the trunk of so large a girth
that 1t required two men, with outstretched
arms to embrace it. The tree usually bore
5000 to 6,000 oranges.
MFR. Gerrit Smith has given sufficient
money to build new and handsome mOnu-
ment above the grave of DIR. Azel Backus,
the first President of Hamilton College, at
Clinton, \. Y. President Backus died in
1910, at the age OF % years.
The new "Cardiff giant" man has come to
grief, having been arrested in Dover, n. H.,
and bound over in $500 to appear at the next
September court for obtaining money under
false pretenses, by showing the so-called pet
rliactlon as genuine article.
"A Louisville paper says that snake,
live feet long, was killed near that city few
days ago. Two prOtuberances, resembling
feet or ho0ts, were attached to its body. 1t
was probably copperhead in the first stage
OF Liberal Republican development.
--Eldridge, NJ. c. from Wisconsin. having
been requested to stump his district for Gree
ley, replied: "Why, I'd just as lief announce
to my constituents that | was coming out
there with twenty tOm-cats and dozen mon
keys and two elephants for big show"
The Boston Transcript asks: as this
controversy about Mount Vernon an adver-
Using 17tse to get the American people down
there as an investigating committee of the
whole and collect from them large income?
And shall we see that little hatchet when we
get there
The Louisville Courier can't spoil Joke
for friendships sake; which is the reason
for its remark that "The Cincinnati Times
says that Senator SohurZ sees the handwrit-
ing on the wall. If it is Horace Greeley's
handwriting we don't know where he is going
to find Daniel that can read it,"
The New York Sans correspondent John
is a very sharp fellow. In one of his letters
he says 81 bet fellow dollar that | could
tell him how much water to quart went
under the railroad bridge over the Mississippi
at Dubuque in year. He bet, and said
two pints to a quart. l won the bet"
The Swiss Times says that large watch
and clock manufacturer of Neufchatel has set
the example of participation of profits with
his wOrkmen. A regular account is opened
with each man, and his book is made up an
nually, four per cent. being added by the en-
ployer to the amount due to be paid as interest
on the capital for one year.
"A Bohemian who initiated the hand
writing of Eugene Sue, the novelist very
skilfully, was arrested recently in Paris on a
charge of having sold to a bookseller a spu-
rious manuscript of an unpublished novel by
that author. In his room limitations of the
handwriting of Voltaire, Alfred dc Vigny,
and other eminent writers were found.
Charlotte Cushman, Bret Harte, Fanny
Fern, Governor Hoffman, Colonel Jerome
Bonaparte, Ex-Governor Burnside, Sir Ed
ward Thornton, the English ambassador,
August Belmont, Count COrti, the italian
ambassador, William 3. Travers, the banker,
will be among the most noted and dis
tinguished people who will summer at New
port.
In 1850, when the tariff was simple, the
Democratic party required 1928 to collect
every 800 of customs duty. In 1871, when
the tariff was relatively very complicated,
the Republican party collected these duties
at the rate of $3.ll for every 500. The
Democrats now ask for control of the Gov
eminent on the ground that they can manage
it more cheaply.
The wife and two daughters of Horace
Greeley are in London. Mrs. G. is a con-
firmed invalid; the two daughters-Ida and
Gabrielle-are quite charming and pretty, and.
are much admired. A considerable sensa-
ton was produced at large, fashionable
party there, the other evening, when it be-
came rumored that daughter of Mr.. ii. G..
was in the room, and she Qda) was speedily
sought out by the lions present.
Senator Clayton has written letter ac-
knowledging with gratitude his election as
Chairman of the Republican estate Central
Committee of Arkansas, and concluding as
follows: "As we have reached high vantage
ground and have routed the foes, we should
proceed to camp and fortfy. Let the enemy
| Dufy UIelF uttu Oll licH NOullucu
Thank God, we have none. l see victory al
ready perched on our banners. We are uni
ted in glorious conflict"
OF course you remember Isaiah Rynders.
In his palmy days he was chief Of the Tam
many shOulder-hitters, generalissimo of the
Mackerelville boys, and one of the mildest-
hammered men that ever Cleaned out an
intractable ward meeting or organized the
"outside pressure" for a convention. Well,
Isaiah has followed the example of lots of
other perturbed spirits of the same era,
crawled out of his hole, and is rafting his
skeleton enthusiastically for Greeley.
ALI kindly hearts will sympathize with
Mr.. Frederick Douglass and his family in
the loss of his pretty house at Rochester, n.
Y, by fire. 1t was coy cottage a little
way out of the city, with tasteful grounds
and out buidings-the fruit of many years of
toll. We remember it well, from winter
days sojourn at its freside. The whole
place--fences, trees, and shrubbery-has now
been laid waste. An incendiary did the mis-
chief. Mr.. Douglass was not residing in the
house, for, since he established his newspa-
per in Washington, he has kept his family in
that city, leaving his sOn-in-law to occupy the