The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-02-23
Political Notes.

Political Notes.
PRESIDENT GRANr's daughter, Nellie.
is coming out" next yea, SO |, her
father.
THR Cincinnati CONNIE. cial, in refer
ence To Grants treatment OF Hancock,
calls the President "most excellent
hater."
The Detroit Tribune. having doubted
the wisdom of renominating President
Grant, has had its Government adver-
Using taken away.
A NEW synonym for "retiring" has
been invented. Parents now, instead of
admonishing their offspring that it is
bed time, observe tenderly, "My dar-
lings, it is time you Colfaxea.'
A RADICAL Tammany on small scale
is being shown up at the United States
Land Office at Fo:t Dodge, Iowa. L. c.
Byan, the register, is also the senior
partner Of real estate firm, and man.
ages things in the Land Office greatly to
the advantage of said firm.
ALL the citizens arrested at Newton.
Miss, some time since, by the federal
military authorities, and dragged to
Jackson to be tried for Ku.Kluxery.
have been sent home. Nothing could
be proved against them.
The paternal progenitor of the Presi-
dent, although so disabled by disease
that special agent has been employed
1t salary of 81, 900 per annum to take
char.e of the Covington post Office, still
continues to draw his own salary of
$500, making that post Office cost the
government 5000 a year-$l 900 more
than is paid to the postmaster of Gin.
cinnati, Chicago. or Philadelphia.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, commenting
upon Senator Chambers remark in the
Senate that "although God might for
give an unrepentant rebel, he (Chan-
dler) never would" observes that "this
is not the only difference with the AL
mighty that the Michigan Senator will
probably be called upon at the bar of
the great judgment day to answer"
UNDER the existing provisions of the
Constitution, which the Radicals are so
anxious to perpetuate, the German and
Irish are lower than the negro in the
political scale. The mulatto Pinchback
may become President OF the United
States, but Carl Schurz cannot.
A FoRf WAYNE correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer has thrown food
of light upon the extraordinary and
mysterious pleasure which President
Grant seems to take in the fortunes of
George Keller Leet. BY this correspond.
ents statement, it would appear that
the said Leet is no other than a
cousin of the Presidents wife.
At the recent dinner in Boston of the
American Academy of Dental Science
the imperial present taker was toasted |
in the following styl,: "The health of |
the President of the United States,
General Ulysses S. Grant, who from his |
numerous Dental connections and his |
great admiration for the family-as
evinced by his marrying Dent and ap-
pointing so many Dents to office-may
be fairly considered as the most distin-
guished Dentist in the land"
SINCE Tammany has reformed and |
changed its name, the Louisville Courier. |
Journal calls for like action on the part
OF the Republican party.
GRANTS friends assert that he is al |
ways very careful OF his official rela.
tons. If his friends mean his relations |
in Office, they are undoubtedly correct.
TEE Washington Court Circular persists
in announcing that Grants receptions"
are held fortn;ghtly, when every body
knows that he is ready to receive at |
any hour and at all times.
1,,,E colored people of the South are |
,er,iu.. their eyes open as to the char.
scter 81 y. carpetbag element Of that
section. NJ. B. Dv..,nv has resigned his
position as Aid-de-C Camp, With the rank
Of Lieutenant General, OH the staff Of
General Scott r. South Carolina. He
says: Faof.s the most palpable have
develop ed themselves to such an extent
that cannot, with respect to myself,
y ID justice to the cause OF my race,
and the people in general, longer con-
1880 tha rolation without a COmprO-