The enquirer southerner., 1874-07-17
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

Vote for Col. Pool.
See that your neighbor votes for
Col. Pool.
Another very destructive fire has
taken place in Chicago.
It is rumored that Vice-President
Wilson intends to resign his Office.
The printers alter Burns so as to
make "an honest man the nobbiest
work of God"
Lieutenant Governor Curtis ID.
Brogden Monday assumed the office
of Governor.
Attend particularly to registr alton.
Sec that your names are on the books.
Don't forget duties that are impera-
tive.
The total loss by the late fire at
Weehawkin, by lightning, was some
100000. Some 100000 barrels of
oil was consumed.
The New York Evening Post,
heretofore thorough Republican, has
come out for the Democratic party
and platform in Maine.
A State exchange thus aptly says !:
'"The people are justly indignant at
the corruption and oppression of the
Radical party, the infamy Of the
Civil Rights bill! and will poll the
heaviest Conservative vote that has
been cast since the war"
The Crescent City Democratic Club
of 1868, having changed its name to
that Of the Crescent City White
League" has published an explana-
ton of the change. Its substance is
that a wal Of races has been forced
upon the whites by the conduct of the
| blacks.
While Prince Bismarck was driv-
ing in the country towards the Saline
Springs on Monday he was fred al
by young man. The ball grazed
his wrist. The wound is insignifi.
can't. Tho sould-be assassin was
promptly arrested.
The committee appointed by Beech
er to Investigate charges made against
him are promising an examination.
aud will probably make known the
result of their deliberations in a few
days. The proceedings Of the com,
mittee are conducted in a strickly
private manner.
Queen Victoria proposes to erect il
st. Georges chapel, Windsor Castle
a magnificent monument to the Duke
Of Kent, her father. Room has beer
made by sending the Duke Of Beau
fort and his monument home to the
family estate in Gloucestershire; as 6
King of the Belgians is still in the
way be is to be put up in the organ
loft.
The Boston Traveller now advises
us that "the clerk who was carried
for about four years on the payroll
Of the House Postmaster without
doing any work. was the private
secretary of General Garfield, who
took this means of paying him cut of
the national Treasury for persona
services.
Schuyler Colfax would seem to be
in beati6c state of mind In a
recent Fourth of July Grafton he
declared that in politics nowadays
men are elevated to a position only tc
have mud thrown at them; but he
, believed that there is still left the
assurance that right will prevail anc
be done them at the open grave. This
is beautiful and touching sentiment
The publication in the New
York Herald of Mr.. Beecher's
7 letter asking Plymouth chu rch
though some of its most worthy anc
! distinguished members, to investigate
the charges made against him by Mr.
Tilton will crafty every friend O
3 truth and morality in the commu
nifty. Mr.. Beecher courts the fulles
inquiry into his life and conduct as
, Christian pastor, and the result, WI
. truly hope, will be a source o
pride and thankfullness to the mil
lions who have honored and trusted
him for so many years.
4 The comet is ashamed of itself
8 You never see it but it has it's heat
down.-COm. Adrertiser.
1 On the ntrary, it pranees through