The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-26
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

ANDY says he is going to Washington
with his war paint on.
SENATOR FERRY, of Michigan, former
ly was a dry goods clerk i'll Elgin, in the
store of b. w. Raymond, now an hon
ored and respected citizen of Chicago.
G. w. JONES, who was recently elected
United States Senator by the Florida
Legislature, is not an Irishman, but a
Welshman. His age is fifty.
OLD PARsoN BRowNLow, of Tennessee,
whose term rs United States Senator will
expire March 4, announces that he will
at that time resume editorial control of
the Knoxville Wig. He intends to die
in harness.
THEY have story at Albany that
William Cullen Bryant after dinner pro-
posed the health of Mr.. TIden, describ-
ing him either rs the next President or
the next Democratic candidate for Presi-
dent. Drunk standing and with enthu-
siasm.
WASHINGTON letter to New York
Times: "Who will be the next
Speaker is the great political conun-
drum here just now, and the answer
most frequently heard is, Mr. Randall,
of Philadelphia, although society
prefers Mr.. Fernando Wood"
The Des Moines Register says ga
correspondent asks, How will the next
gta,,l - will oto.,1 chs
Republican majority, at the worst-and
i'll this estimate the new Senators from
Nebraska, Wisconsin and Michigan are
not counted as Republican. ="
SOME one having said that Gov.
Samuel j. Tilden is at present the
man most likely to receive the Demo
cratic nomination for the Presidency,
the Cincinnati Enquirer remarks "Our
observation is that very little attention is
being given just now to the manufacture
of Presidents If Democratic conven-
ton was held next week, however,
William Allen would be discovered to be
Il very troublesome man. Samuel j.
Tilden may be very popular down in the
East, but i'll the West and South he is
not, as the sports say, deuce high"
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, the Concord
sage, Judge Hoars ellow-townsmaa,
was never known to get off but one joke
in his life, and that had an asperity in
it totally foreign to his nature. 1t was
just after Judge Hoar's little experience
with the Senate on the subject of Su-
preme Court Judgeship. The papers
had all had their say about it-rather an
unamiable say as far rs the Judge was
concerned. So, still smarting slightly
from the sting, he strolled down to his
friends one fair afternoon, and went up
into the orchard with him. GLOW do
you kill your canker wormsl" asked he
of his host, seeing the trees had black
bandages around them. "Well," said
the philosopher, in his mild voice, 81
kill them very much AZ they do politi-
cians-with printers ink.
PHoToGRAPH of Pinchback " His most
particular blographer says he was born
in Georgia, educated in Ohio, and en-
franchised in Louisiana. His complexion
is of light yellow shade, his manners
are gentlemanly, his attire is fashionable,
and his decided pas sion is cockfghting.
He it was who threatened to apply the
torch to New Orleans if the whites con-
tinued their persecution of his race. In
the fight between Governor Warmoth
and the late Lieutenant Governor Dunn,
Mr.. Pinchback took the side of the
former, and when the whirligig of pol
tics developed many antagonistic ele-
ments, he suddenly became Lieutenant
Governor of the State. He is said to be
n sharp debater, and to possess an init
macy with all the tricks of modern
representation.