New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-05-30
NEWS CLIPPINGS.

a grocer is willing to admit that honest
tea Is the best policy, but when If con,ns 20
coffee, he doesn't believe in rrnninc the tb;n ~
into the ground. '""6
smoking is reported to be very much on
the decline in England. In this country il
very greatly increased during the war. and
fore. o''' 0e
The other day, an excited individual ac-
costed street gamn with the question.
Say, bub, which is the quickest way for me
TO get to the railroad depot? ?" ''Run!u was
the response.
"A California obituary: 1.-THE deceased
was talented man of a romantic nature.
lie placed the butt of his gun i'm the fire.
Whlie he looked down the muzzle, and de-
parted hence spontaneously"
| The figures in the absolutely latest STYLE
OF Dolly Warden are so delightfully."- large
that 1t takes two young ladies to show one
OF them properly. They have to 90 arm in
arm and keep step or else the effect is
spoiled.
| --Greeley says he never will veto any bill
passed by Congress. OF course he won't
| Alter November he will awake to the bliss
| lul realization that he will also never have
the pleasure of signing any bill passed by
! Congress.
The Tribune has made the astounding
| discovery that New York milkmen adulter
ate their 74,SOO daily gallons of milk with
about 5000 gallons of water. Its next piece
of strictly original information will be that
Columbus discovered America.
Mr.. Tetsnoske Tomita, recently APP
pointed Japanese consular agent at New
n fr1nvl nf fnrat Nttrf
has completed thorough business education
at Newark, New Jersey, during the last four
years. He is man of superior ability.
An Irishman went into a CHICAGO store.
and says he, Faith, an did you put in the
papers you wanted man ?" eyes" said
the storekeeper, "and distinctly stated all
applications must be made by mail" "An'
faith, an it's meself that's male, sure"
says Pat, and he was hired.
The Boston Journal decides that Horace
Greeley's venerable uncle, who has just died
IN New Hampshire, was man of sound
judgment and wise foresight, as one of his
last remarks was Horace will never be
President of these United States! He is not
the man know him! lie is not the mani"
The estimated loss by the fall of the coli
scum at Boston is about $50 900. The loss on
lumber is little less than s5 900, that on the
time of men employed in putting up the tower
$4,000, and in building the trusses, of which
nine now remain, 50 900. Taking apart truss.
es will cost $4,000, and the loss by the de-
probation Of the lumber in them "a 900 more.
The New York Nation says that all those
who called the Cincinnati Convention sac
knowledged privately that it was a failure;
some of them admit it openly. Those who
are supporting Mr.. Greeley are doing so SIM
ply by way of making the best of bad job.
Not one Of them considers him desirable
candidate, or looks forward to his election
without grave approximations"
AS soon as Horace is inaugurated he pro-
poses to enforce his new plan for paying off the
public debt. Every ofice-holder will be re-
quired to own patch of ground, and devote
80 much time each year to the raising of
crop of cabbages, the proceeds of which are
to constitute an agricultural Redemption
Fund.-" whereby he promises to wipe out the
debt before the close of his administration.
The Secretary ofthe Treasury whose head
is confessedly about as clear and as calm as
any in the political field, is said by the Wash
ington correspondent of Mr.. Greeley's own
paper to express the deliberate opinion that,
if the Presidential contest is between Gen.
Grant and Mr.. Greeley, the former will re-
ceive the largest relative vote given to any
Presidential candidate since James Monroe.
He thinks that more Democrats will vote for
| Grant than for Greeley.
"A. II. Stephens "goes for' Greeley in
way not acceptable to the sage's friends.
He says sit is true that Mr.. Greeley did
most magnanimous act in standing bail for
Mr.. Davis; but in this he acted part no
more magnanimous than General Grant did
when he notified to Mr.. Stanton that he
would resign his commission in the army if
General Lee should be arrested in violation
of the parole given him on the memorable
surrender at Appomattox Court House.
Liberalism, before the Cincinnati Con-
vention met, had not secured any foothold
in Massachusetts, and even the Springfield
Republican admits that at present the Gree
ley Republicans in Massachusetts " are both
lonely and lonesome" 1t is rather a cold
and backward spring for that kind of politi-
clans in New England. Occasionally white
hat is worn, but with the distinct understand
ing that it is subject to the approval of the
Democratic National Convention at Balti-
more.
The Gloucester CMass.) mackerel fleet
this season will carry more than two hundred
seines, worth, with the seine-boats to carry
them, nearly $3.50, 900. These nets, if placed
in a continuous line, would stretch from Cape
five fathonls and if spread out they would
cover farm of eight hundred acres. A first
class mackcrel seine, one thousand meshes
deep and equal to two thousand cords, will
pass through ring one and quarter inches
in diameter.
-"Olivia's" obituary-biography of Mrs.
Josephine Sophie Grifiing, the self-sacrificing
friend of the freed people who came into
Washington after emancipation and succeed
ing the close of the rebellion, is the best of
her recent letters. Mrs. Gritling was a char
| acter which, in almost any other country,
would have been classed among the saints.
She lived in the midst of temptations, trials,
and revolutions, and she died pure and poor.
All that is written of her by her friend we
know to be true. We saw her frequently
during and after the war, and can testify to
her courage and her integrity. She is dead,
but she nevertheless deserves to be remem-
bered for what she did in life.-Press.
Gen. Franz Sigel, the strongest German
in New York State, and elected New York
city Registrar last year by an enormous ma
iority, comes out squarely against the Schurz-
Greeley fraud so Schurz's paper attacks him.
Says the New York Times:
Gen. Sigel, who, during that eventful period
in the history of Germany OlaVe1 by far more