National Republican., 1873-06-03
PERSONAL AsD POLITICAL MOTIFS.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL NOTES.
JoHS q. sAIK has taken up his residence In
Brooklyn.
Hon. JouS HICKMAN 10 lying dangerously III at
his residence In West Chester, Pa, and hut
slight hopes Of his recovery are entertained.
Mr.. HAISrEAD Is very much troubled about the
Republican party OF ohio. Why should this be
all about Mr.. nalsteah.-Chicdgo Poet.
Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE says she believes In
personal devil; that his nano Ia Eliot and that
he Ia president Of Harvard college. Perhaps Mr..
Howe would get along better u she were not so
Internally practical In her doctrines.
AsPASIsu two gun irgatc Is visiting New York
harbor. The Herald ought to send its harbor-
news boat down and take possession Of the
frigate TO hold AZ guarantee for O'Kelly =
return.
The GOVERNOR has appointed Col. Edward
Campbell, OF Fayette county, TO he President
Judge Of the district composed OF Fsyette and
Greene, IN place Of Gilmore, deceased PftsbnSg
Commercial.
ANOTHER writ DE- Mndiico iHquiTcBdo has been
issued In the case OF George Francis Train.
And yet all the world knows that II poor George
Is sane, all the rest OF US are bowling nAniacs,-
LOuisrflh Curfer-JoprnaI.
A MUSICAL CRITIC on the New York Times wants
TO abolish "YAnkee Doodle" The proposition is
slOns. Il must be presented only on the glorious
fourth and treated by the orators Of the day.
ELIZABETH ARNOLD, OF Pekin, ILL.,, was killed
on TUESDAY under peculiar circumstances.
While leaning out OF window the support OF
the sash gave way, causing u To fall. lier neck
was cAught, and she was held nntll she strangled
10 death.
J. b. LEMONS, while changing cars at DuQuoln,
Illinois, early the other morning, was knocked
.l..a auAr lnN IN
much for needing the vulgar admonitiOn: "GO
10, Lemons, and get squeeLed.-LouiSriis Cpu-
riST-JOurndi.
DURING his recent visit to this city, General
Sheridan, speaking OF the late raid In Mexico,
said: "rhe hio GrAnde Ia such 4 crooked river,
you know. that Mckenzie probably couldn't tell
which side Of II he was On,n The merry twinkle
OF his eve a. he said this showed that he did not
disapproye OF Mckenzi1A Indianapolis
Journal,
II. ". BEEcHER, In . sermon on children, SAYS:
"If were q CalVlnist, In the old accepted sense
OF that term, and believed In the character OF
God which Is presented by that system, aud In
the theory OF moral government which that sys-
TEN tncuicates, | would not, 30 long as had fife
and reason, bring into this world creature the
chances against whose salvation seemed 10 me
q hundred TO one"
THE Russian Grand Duchess Marie, whom
Prince Alfred Ia to marry, Is not beautiful nor
even pretty, hut she Ia raid to have an amlable
disposition. she IA short Of stature, with little
color, anu not at all q queenly preAenue, but her
eyes are handsome and expressive. hhe has 4
great deal OF German blood In her veins. Her
mother, the present empresa, was princess OF
Hease DaTmstadt, and her grandmother, the
wife OF Nicholas, was the sister OF the present
Emperor OF Germany.
Mr.. JASPER PACKARD, member OF Congress
from Indiana, has been requested by county
convention OF his constituents to resign on Ac-
count OF the back-pAy business, and he has writ
ten letter giving his reasons for not doing so.
lie claims that his back pay Ia no burden upon
his constituents, because II Ia borne by the whole
people Of the country; that he has estimated that
ihe share OF II taken from the people OF the dis
trict Is si9, and that sum he proposes To deposit
for the benent Of the ono hundred and forty
thousand Inhabitants Of that Congressional dis
trict.
missouri Is one OF the States IN which the
Liberals" tTtumphed last fall. They have had
a fair chance there TO demonstrate their capacity
to carry on government, and tue result Is not
complimentary 10 them. The treasury Of the
State Is bankrupt, and the prospect OF fresh sup
plies Is poor aud disCOuraging one, The obll-
cations OF the state arc maturing, and there are
no funds TO meet them, and no means at Rand
for obtaining any, Inc Governor has dlsap,
pointed every one In ChOOAlng his Olilcera, aud
dlsTule and nlsTule appear 10 prevail throughout.
We are not surprised, therefore, 10 hear that the
Germans who were invelRied into the Liberal"
movement are dlscOntsut1d, dIssauls1ed aud pn-
easy. Let them come back 70 the Republican
p1y wSss sasy ~. pfTp1 Ssops "a s
from the starr. Il held out vast promises that
could not bo fulnllSd, and ItA followers mlatOOE
pTetsntloulnosa for stAtesmAnshlp. They are
hiding out thstf error now aud ~ faat ~ thai 10
discovered "LfberAliHm" VIII vanish awuy.