Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-02-14

BEING PERSONAL AND CRITICAL
COMMENTS.

BEING PERSONAL AND CRITICAL
COMMENTS.
The Springfield Republican thinks the
country Is not ready for an additional
Fish bill.
THE Richmond Enquirer bespeaks for
the Old Dominion fresh invoice of
money and muscle.
A fire on Franklin street, Boston,
burned out American Homes, monthly
publication, foE the third time.
The Boston Globe thinks Wilkie Col
lins ought to go home satisfied now the
Erie canal has named a boat for him.
TIE editor of the Memphis Register in
Weighed against the celebration of Mardi
Gras in that city, and so lost 3lo2 worth
Of advertising.
The Courier-Journas says that to the
unprejudiced observer the Mississippi
Legislature very closely resembles body
that oughtn't to meet oftener than CEN
tennially.
THE next humorous book on the pro-
gramms is that of 6. Max Adeler" tChas.
Heber Clark, of fPhiiadelphis), which he
calls, 8. Out of the Hurry Burly; or,Life
in an Odd Corner"
m. Quad" Of the Detroit Free Press
has a patent knocker which annihilates
the man who drops up' to read the
exchanges, paw over the copy, or bore
the editor in any other way.
The Green Bay tWis.) Adcertiser says !;
IA friend sending us a notice of the
marriage of Mr.. Thomas Smith. Saceti-
ously says, IF you charge for 1t, charge
one of the Smiths, not all of them.
Mr.. Mayall of Boston, has invented a
press capable. he says, Of printing both
sides OF newspaper at once at the rate
of 80 600 impressions an hour. Which
may all be SO. and then again it mayn't.
A batch of Texas locals: Z" An abund-
ance of social amusement.-Jaild delivery
-Incendiarism is abroad and several
barns burned.-J. C. Wilson has been
killed in dificuity.-Moref fandangoes.
The Cincinnati Times wickedly re-
marks that Nebuchadnezzar wasn't the
first Granger. Eve, who made .repu-
tation in the apple business, aud who
broke up Adam monopoly, was the first
to patronize husbandry.
Ar an Alabama fire the other day the
ladies turned out and carried water and
helped the merchants to remove goods.
Nineteen newspapers in the North will
copy the foregoing item and say some<
thing smart about "fire-belles. Louis
vile Carrier Joarnai. Where are the
other eighteen?)
The Globe, Of New York, isa bright
little paper, devoted, as its title page
tells us, to Music, Drama, Literature and
Art. No. 3, Vol. /, is before US, and a
brief examination would seem to show
that it can hardly fail to be we'll worth
It's subscription price-$1. so per year
Published by Chas. A. Atkinson & Co.,
% Liberty st.
Mr.. James III. Lambert, for so many
years connected with Pomeroy's Demo-
crat, as associate editor, has commenced
business as adver tising agent, at q, Park
Row, New York. Very appropriately
the senior member Of the firm Is named
es for the new firm and commends them
to the patronage Of the newspaper fra
ternity.
AN editor in Greenyille, Tenn, writes
of a rival: " His slanderous soul is inn
bued with the electric fire of he'll; his
black heart emits the sulphurous fumes
till his whole nature is absorbed in on e
homogeneous mass of hellishness; :" and
the Norristown Herald says, A man
might 90 to the Yale school of journal
ism one hundred and fifty years and not
learn to write that way"
THE New York Mercantile Journal Co
$50 Pearl Street, New York City, an
nounces to the public that as all previous
editions of the Lecture on the :" Curren.
Icy Needs of Commerce" by Mr.. William
P. Groome, in pamphlet form-sixteen
pages-have been exhausted and as the
| inquiries for the pamphlet are still nl.
| merous, they are again printing it, and
will send one or more copies TO any per.
| son applying therefor aud enclosing
stamps for return postage.
The Lafayette lind, Daily DispatcA
calls for 8. the instant impeachment and
banishmene from Congress" of Congress
man Nesmith, on account of blasphe-
| mons passage INTRODUCED by him in re-
| cent speech delivered in the House. II
the honorable member in question is
really given to letting slip unrarliamen-
tary language he is clipper of the
| worst (not worsted) kind, and as such
might appropriately assume for his
motto the slightly altered Latin maxim,
"Ne Smith ultra crepidam."
| Even Henry Watterson. of the syndi-
cate of journalists, who proposed to do
such great things, has begun to prophe-
sy, and in this strange way: "Just now
the politics of the country nearly rege-
tate, growing rank withal. There is no
organized opposition, and there are no
| leaders o tgive us one. The party man
ayers are mostly on one side, and Grant
has the inside track on the whole of
| them. Even the great journalists, who
were going-to do such prodigies, have
dropped out of sight"
| The Worcester Spy thinks something
may COME of the temperance crusade in
that city. It says that dozen persons
have set their hearts on a certain object,
and are willing to encounter labor, op-
position, and even ridicule in pursuit of
| it, WELD Tremendous moral force, ,and
| this force is greatly increased when
| they and those who try to withstand
them know that the best elements of the
community are in sympathy with their
object If they have not much confidence
in their method.
The Christian Union is disposed to do
justice to Communism. 1t says cur duty
is not done if we simply repel those who
roughly assail the social fabric. On vs
rests the responsibility OF seeing that its
defects be made good, It's foundations
made TO square with Christ's lazy of love,
Its every detail made to yield the ut
rDost to justice and beneficence. 1t
must not be left to our children to fight
down an atheistic and selfish Commune
we must anticipate that work by build
ing more perfectly a Christian society.