National Republican., 1875-11-15

Turkey Will be dismembered on the 10Th In
stant, for which the American people are re-
quested to render thanks.
Schroeder's great air-ship is to leave Balti-
more for New York to-day. The scientific
world is considerably interested in the result.
Congress meets on the 9Th prox,
And Kerr-thumping goes the heart of Cox;
While Randall seeks the precious boon,
Another Wood take It very soon.
There are ten Thousand dogs less in New
York now than before dog. days. We say it
quietly, but what mouths those metropolitans
have for sausagel
Forney's Sunday Chroniele errs nits estimate
of the birthplace of Lieutenant General Sheri-
dan. He was born in Ohio, according to the
Army Register.
Allen Hannah and Hannah Allen are the
names of couple recently married in the
West. An even exchange is no robbery. Allen
was simply absorbed in Hannah.
Henry c. Bowen dares Plymouth church to
knock chip off his shoulder, and forthwith
Plymouth rolls up its sleeves and squares It
self, ami now all Brooklyn is cycling the chip.
Mr. NJ. D. Conway told Western audience
that there is no devil, and it is said that the
sigh of relief that went up from the assembly
sounded like thunder storm paying strict at
tention to business.
The friends of Governor Tilden are trying to
Calvanize him into activity, that he may do
something which will place him once more be-
fore the country as Presidential candidate.
He fails TO "gal.," however.
Aside from an occasional puerile attack
upon the President, the New York Sun is de-
voting its editorial space to Mr.. Beccher, and
seems TO gloat over the recent reopening of
the disgusting ulcer, insomuch as it furnishes
material for comment SO well suited to the
perverted tastes of the literary flllbuster.
The Prohibitionists of Pennsylvania cast ten
thousand votes. As nine tenths of the Prohi-
bitionists are Republicans, it is plain that had
there been no temperance ticket in the field
Hartranft would have been elected by twenty
thousand majority, instead oftwelye thousand,
as the official returns show.
The Galveston Nc,cs says If the Republicans
have good grounds for expecting that Ohio,
Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts
will remain true to Republicanism, sit would
seem almost idle on the part of Democratic
leaders, divided as the rank and file of the
party are on the currency question, to think
seriously of coptending for the Presidency"
Mrs. Livermore says girls are not particular
enough about tx llen they marry. Particular!
Great gings, they are so particular now that
husbands can't come home after twelve at
night without having them open the door, and,
with missiles of some kind in both hands, par
t:cularize "them upon the history of the last
few hours.
A London paper says the American girls do
not have the same advantages as the boys.
Very true, indeed. Our boys can turn a back
summersault without straining button, while
none of our girls can sit suddenly down on the
pavement without breaking up the fxings Of
pull-back that it has taken two hours to ar
range.
He went into Smiths house with bright
smile on his face and patent back acting side
movement Indian rubber baby jumper under
his arms, and he came out in less than three
seconds with dish rag planted in the back of
his neck and rolling pin bruising the place
where his coat tails go bah, bob, as he travels.
Tomorrow the bones of Guibord are to be
laid at rest after having been the source of
violent contention for several years. The au.
thorities, impressed with the probability of
disturbance, have taken extraordinary precau-
tions to prevent any outbreak. Grave appre-
tensions of trouble prevail in Montreal and
elsewhere, and the burial is awaited with in
tense and all-absorbing interest.
Whitelaw Gead heaped calumny after cal.
umny with an unrelenting hand upon Vice
President Wilson, through the columns Of the
TriJane, during the last Presidential cam
paign, endeavoring with all the assiduousness
possible to entangle his good name in the
meshes of the infamous Credit Mobllier affair
To-day we find him weeping crocodile tears
over the sick bed of the distinguished states
man. Bah! the baseness of such hypocrisy!
Cn the occasion of Kaiser Wilhelm's visit to
Italy the King presented him with two splen-
did mosaic pictures made at Rome, which are
much handsomer than the mosaics he gave
to the Empress of Russia and the Shah of Per-
sia. He also gave his bust in marble to Moltke,
and his portrait in oil, or miniature set in
diamonds, to other officers of the German
suite. He also presented $1,000 to the poor of
the city, in order that they may have pleas
ant recollection of this happy event.
a ,ronfnaDt apd oh ,apor In ha
eastern part Of the State is advocating the
re-establishment of the whipping post and the
beginning of the use of the branding IRON
ViekSburg Herald.
Just as soon as Mississippi was secured
to the Democracy, through widespread
intimidation of the colored voting ele-
ment, the bitter White Line press of the
State commenced advocating such measures as
the above. The branding-iron and whipping
post smack strongly Of the spirit which our
Northern gushers claim as dead.
A man was recently elected from Boston
street t-car for having in his hand a lighted
cigar, and in a suit for injuries which followed
the court sustained the ejectment. When will
the rights OF smoker be respectedi Poor
fellow, his privileges are being encroached
upon every day, and by and by he will be COM
PEELED to entirely scclude himself from the rest
of humanity whenever incline to indulge in q
quiet smoke. Already he is forced in cold, in
rainy, in warm and Indifferent weather to stand
on the platform of the cal, while people loaded
with peanuts and chewing tobacco and many
whose breath fills the car with onion fragrance
rest comfortably upon the seats within. There
| Is something sad about the manner in which
our good natured smokers are buffeted about
by public opinion, restricted and restrained,
until it seems as though society's hand was
raised against them in a gesture which is to be
sustained by the words of banishment.
It is pleasure to note the full restoration to
health of the Vice President. 1t is still deemed
Of the utmost Importance that he withdraw
from all excitement and mental labor for q
considerable period. The fate Of the late Chief
Justice and Of Mr.. Horace Greeley should ad-
monish many of our public men who have
labored without stint during The last twenty or
| thirty years that there is point beyond which