National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-21

nothing other than grim death will settle
either.
= King Kalskaua, Of the Sandwich Islands,
Is making Temperance speeches to his palace
employees and retainers. And the City Fathers
Of New York are wrangiing over the payment
OF the wine bills they "run up" during bis So
jouru with them.
- new planet was discovered yesterday In
the central heavens. The exact constellation
and position not discovered. The discoverer
weighed two hundred pounds aud was coming
out of the markell house, when she was inter
oepted by watermelon-rind. She named 1t
ssGosh %
The sick man of Turkey has curved his
Sultanic spine, and says he will have none Of
the interference or advice Of the great Powers.
The Herzegovinian instruction is his "nut,"
and he proposes to crack 1t himself; In the
meanwhile, Russia, Austria and Prussia will
watch each other and the struggling province
with restless anxiety.
= Here is Orpheus c. Kerr's last, in the
Graphic:
'rLet me kiss you for your mother!r
Said suell too free Of speech,
To an unprotected maiden
Whom he met upon the beach
"Lst me thrash you for my father"
Was the maiden's quick reply,
As with ready sun umbrella ....-
She shastised him, hip and thigh.
= They do not say It with any particular
satisfaction at present, but the Democrats say
that the assassination Of State Senator John
son, of Florida, gives the Democracy two ma
jority in the Senate. 1t was not what Is called
q political murder, but It was one of those
strange dispositions of Providence fayoriug the
Democratic party by crimes committed.
The proposition has been revived to
to relieve Ex-Governor W. W. Holden of
his political disabilities in North Car
olina. The only objection to it is that
1t receives some Democratic support; but in
asmueh as they were imposed by a Demo
cratic Legislature, that party is entitled to
the honor Of taking the first step to repair
the wrong for which 1t is alone responsible.
= The Herzegovinian instruction is assum-
ing formidable proportions. Several towns
are in flames, and many Turkish mobiles have
been slaughtered. 1t Is predicted that the
struggle will result in religious war; the re-
ligious war in the disruption of the Ottoman
Empire, and the disruption of the Ottoman
Empire in a general Europeanwar. Thus, you
see, the Millennium cometh from a long way
off.
One of the worst signs visible to the
friends of the colored man is his disposition to
initiate whatever he sees the whites doing
Louisville CourieT-JoiTndl. When we con-
slider that the eolored man resides chiefly In
the South, and think of the character of the
whites he has around him, any disposition to
initiate is indeed bad sign.-Mlvaukee Senti-
mel. Which It VIII make Watterson say,
"This is ard"
1t is supposed by some that Shakespeare
made the following remarks to William Allen,
G. and P. p, Governor and possfble-Presi-
dent when he met the old gentleman at
Elizabeth's court during the sixteenth CEN
tury OF the Christian era: Snow crack
thy lungs and split thy brazen pipe.
Blow William, till thy sphered bias cheek
outswells the collie of pulled Aquilon.
Come, stretch thy chest, ami let thy eyes
spout blood; thou blowest, fool, for accursed
imitation"
- Secretary McCulloch talks this way about
President johnson: "He was man of convic-
tions and unaltefably true to them. Lacking
quickness of apprehension, he was slow in
reaching conclusions, but when he had reached
them he adhered to them with unconquerable
tenacity. No Drawer man, morally sr physi-
cally, ever lived. Sensitive to pain, he pos
sessed an indomltable will, that enabled him
to endure pain without a murmur. During
his occupancy of the Executive Mansion he
was the victim of most painful disease, and
although his agony was at times most excru-
ciating, it was indicated only by slight con-
| traction of the facial muscles. l said to him
one day, upon observing this peculiar muscu-
lar contraction, 'Mr. President, you are not
WELL NO. replied he; mo, Mr.. Secretary.
| could not suffer more II an animal were gnaw-
ing at my yitals,' and yet he continued at his
work as if in perfect health. He was of the
had he lived in their days, and been sentenced
| to the stake, he would have died as they did
without recanting his opinions, or giving ex.
preston to his agony"
The Toledo Blade of Thursday startled
| the Democracy and attracts the attention Of
| the Republicans with the following announce
| msnt: "There is a rumor afoat to the effect
| that the condition of the Governors health is
| such that his withdrawal from the gubernato-
rial contest is quite probable. His personal
| friends desire him to withdraw for the pro-
lection of his health and the prolongation Of
his life, while his political friends regard his
| defeat for Governor as certain, which result
would be disastrous to his presidential pros
poets. By HIS withdrawal from the guber ma.
torial contest and the placing of some other
man at the head Of the ticket, defeat in Octo-
Der would enable the friends of Allen to 90
before the National Convention with the plea
| that he is the only Democrat that can carry
Ohio. Thurman and HIS friends bitterly oppose
Aliens withdrawal under any circumstances,
as they expect to make capital in the National
Convention by the defeat of Allen and his un
| limited imitation scheme. These rumors are
now afoat among certain inner circles of the
Democratic party, and should a change be
| made in the head Of the Democratic ticket II
may be looked for soon." Alas how lowly
| ~.