New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-06-27
NEWS CLIPPINGS.

brick Pomeroy says that Tammanv com
tnbnted fifty thousand dollars toward Gree
lcy's nomination at Cincinnati. and will he
represented by substantial aid at Baltimore.
"A woman nj Fall River was saved from
the Fatal effect of an overdose Of morpbinc.
the other day, by belladouna injected under
the skin on the arms. Her mouth could not
be opened.
sally, looking down from the window
upon one of her masters customers. said.
We have all been converted, and when you
want whisky on Sundays YOU must come in
the back door,"
The following is from the Watkins Er-
press, Watkins, y. Y.:) so. $. WINANs--
WiNANs, We all remember hm--havino been
dismissed from the employ of the Eric Road
by Gen. Dix, has naturally enough declared
for Greeley and Brown. but why don't the
Tribune publish his adhesion""
1t is said that wood can be seasoned per-
iectly by boiling it a few hours, the process
taking out the sap. The same authority saws
trees teled in full eafand left till all the leaves
drop oil will then be nearly dry, as the
leaves will not fail Off till they have drawn
the sap from the tree
The gain in the speed of ocean steamers
during the past twenty years has been very
slight; and Yet there is some apprecable gain,
as the swiltest passage from Queenstown to
Sandy Hook that is on record was in her last
trip by the "Adriatic" ofthe white Star Line
her time being days, % hours, and II min
utes mean time.
The deceaSe Of Mr.. Horace Mavhew.
one Of the original contributors to Punch, re-
calls the epGrammatic statement made many
years ago as to the ingredients of that famous
publication. Douglas .Jerrold was the lemon.
n. Beckett the spirit Horace Mavhew the
sugar, and Mark Lemon the spoon-the eff
Gent and satisfactory mixer.
Says the Missouri Democrat: ''The editc-
rial end of Mr.. Schurz is an enthusiastic Gree
ley man, but the Senatorial end of him fatty
refused to go to the Greeley ratification in
New York, and wouldn't even cOndescend
to write Il letter. There is rulmor that both
ends will meet at Baltimore, and effect a
compromise; but we withhold our credence for
the present"
If the Savannah Meas correctly repre-
sents the sentiment of the Georgia Democ-
racy, Grceleyism is too bitter a pill to lie
taken in that region. The Neus predicts
that if the Baltimore Convention dominates
Greeley, Georgia will go for Grant by eco
majority; and it cOmmends the Democrats
who say they will remain away from the polls
rather than stultify themselves by voting for
Greeley.
The many friends and admirers of Mr..
Jefferson, the celebrated actor, will be re-
lieved to know that the surgical operation to
which he on Thursday submitted. in New
York. to save his eyes, was completely Sue
cessful. The last report from Hoboken,
where Mr. Jefferson is living, gives great
hope that he and those who love him will be
spared the calamity which threatened them
in his impending blindness.
An evening Republican paper credits Mr..
Corbett, United States Senator from Oregon,
with being Democrat, and also q Greeley
man, This is an amazing error. Mr.. Cor
bett is a sound Republican, in nowise tainted
with Greeleyism, who has been very active
in organizing the party in his State. To the
victory which determines the result of the
elections in Oregon, California, and probably
Nevada, in November, he largely contri-
buted.
The Worcester SPY remarks: GA man
passed through this city Sunday evening who
had travelled nearly four thousand miles in
four months on foot on his way to Boston.
He carried with him rubber and WOODEN
blanket, havcrsack and canteen, and when
asked ifhe would not stop here and spend the
night, he replied that he did not ask any one
for his living. When he left Nevada he had
one injured ana nifty collars, ana had some
Of it left on his tramp through this city,"
William Lloyd Garrison, in the Igdepend-
emit thus photographs the Hon. Horace Gree
ley, the Liberal Republican candidate for the
Presidency: " He is a notorious compro-
niser; as unreliable as shifting sand-bar,
yet yielding as the water that flows over it;
the last man to be trusted with the helm in
the midst of a storm; without moral vision
or iiXedness of principle; giving the worst
counsels when the best are of primary i'm
portance; guilty of blnders that are worse
than crimes; easily imposed upon through
his credulty, and as easily propitiated by
iattery."