The Republican journal., 1874-03-05


perance fails and she is responsible. The local
prohibition law was defeated in Great Britain
by Samuel Pimso, who rose in his seat in Par
lament and testified that he found no difficulty
in getting his glass of brandy at the principal
hotel in Portland, that he saw drunkenness on
every side in Your streets; that YOUR law wa 4
failure.
Our neighbor the journal i hypercrtical. 1t
deyote~ nearly half column in its attempt to
show that we We're nautically inaccurate in
calling sail Il sheet. But how is this for
accuracy which we take from its last week :
issue:
Frank Bieklori is filling the ice houses at the
eastern end of the bridge with 1000 Of ice cut
from the Paper Mill dam"
1t is common to hear of taking fruit from a
tree, or hay from barn. or potatoes from IA
cellar, but We never before heard OF man cut =
ting 1000 tons of ice from a paper mill dam !.
Prog. Age.
Probably there are 4 dam many other
things of which our neighbor never heard.
But rs 4 matter of fact our expression is
inaccurate, as we saw when too late to
correct it, The difference in the cases
seems to be that by carelessness we wrote
an acknowledged crror-while the Age
made Il blmder of Ignorance, and still
sticks to it. We are willing to concede
the authority OF the Age in any kind Of a
dam, from the ice-lacking paper mill dam
TO the worthlessness of the tinkers dam
1t has had in all varieties rich and varied
experience that promises to reach beyond
the limits Of this brict life, after it has
gone over the dam.
The editor of the Capital has been look
ing into the transactions Of the Pension
Office. and is surprised to learn that S42 :
900 is charged 10 the Government for
mileage and travelling expenses but Incl
dentally remarks that there is an omis
sion in the account, As it neglects to show
that the Commissioner whose business is
in his Office and not out of it. has spent
over $4,000 Of this sum himself in travel
ing The Capital further expresses the
opinion that it is common stealing and
infamous" that Or Hood, the medical
.~ fyreo # ti., Pension onip,, Vino IS the
family physician Of Secretary Delano and
Commissioner Baker, should have been
telegraphed from Washington to Ohio
and Minnesota to attend the wife Of one
and the SON Of the other, with fees, mile
age and other expenses paid out of the
contingent fund
From the facts placed before the Tax
payers Convention of South Carolina,
there is reason to fear that the condition
of the State is even wors. than has been
1t is said that while the TAXABLE
property has fallen from $500, 0O0,o to
S115, 900, 900 taxation has been increased
from 800, GOO to over s., 800 600, so that
the people are compelled to pay about
twenty times ~ much as before the war
for the support OF their State Government
The pious soul OF that good man, h.
Butler. has been shocked at the conduct
of the newspapers. In a debate on the
postage bill, he opposed free county cir
culation, because the press is corrupting
the minds Of the people, The main trouble
with Ben is that the papers have mention
ed spoons too often
MIR Hobbs, the Knox County sheriff
who was cited before the Governor, as
serted that he was only waiting for the
session of the Grand jury, to proceed by
Indictment against liquor sellers 1t wa,
substantially saying that lie knows the
best course 4 good deal better than the
compliments, and if let alone he will take
4 solemn warning to the officials OF other
counties, which was probably the main
purpose Mortland OF Rockand was coun-
sci for the sheriff
In st. Louis an intiscreet newspaper
man caused great distress in many of the
first families On the evening of Shroye
Tuesday there Was a masked ball at the
theatre, where general freedom prevailed,
and the costumes outstripped the l.'g
drama. good many distinguished citi-
zen5 who had gone to the lodge that
evening dropped in there, circulating
among the crowd and peryadin@ the pr-
yate supper rooms. OF course this was not
wrong But that awful reporter got all
their names and printed them next morn
ing When those citizens went home to
dinner they found the meal an nncon-
monty warm one The browning virtue
in newspaper man, next to honesty. is
discretion.
We are Indebted to Mr. Dorr of the
Coast Survey Office at Washington for a
copy Of the official survey of Belfast hal-
Dor and bay. 1t appears to have been
faithfully and accurately made. with shore
lines, tide limits, soundings and topo-
graphy for q mile from tide waters. The
work was superintendent by 5. G. McCor-
kie, G.. L. Iardella and Horace Anderson.
Those who remember the eXtr aordinary
speeches made in the lie gislature last
winter, on the railroad bridge question.
at the instigation Of Hichborn and Collec-
tor Barnabas, will be amazed to look ND
on this chart The assertion then was
that no vessel of any considerable draft