National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-11

OllO.
If Bessie Turner should change the title of
her novel to Morse" Tilton would have
rejuyenated mother-in-law.
The English difficulty at Shanghai is still
brewing. The naughty spirit of the shangs
seems altogether too hal.
They call it "innuenza nasalis maligna," and
any one who nose anything about it nose the
disease is quite as bad as the name.
A last farewell to all of mans greatness.
The deceased American Girl is to have a
monument before the Father of his Country.
The reason why we admire pretty fest-Be-
cause all's well that ends well.-St. Louis
Times. That is going to extremes for pun.
The reviyalists say that New York is not
ready for the harvest. We have cool right
to doubt that, for she has so many old seeds.
Every man and woman in Ohio is acquaint-
ed with the Issues of the hour, but the women
will have to stand aloof and watch the men
decide
The California newspapers are blaming the
cramps for Ralston's ''taking off," Why at
blame, gentlemen, when they helped him to the
other shore!
A wonderful amount of uncertainty hovers
about young mans mind while he fluctuates
between heaven and earth as his heel strug-
giles with peach skin.
Moody and Sankey have taken hold of the
hydra-heGdCd monster of iniquity in Brooklyn,
and now some anxious creature inquiries, 'Win
they convert BescherW
First principles in flnarce-Babies are the
coupons of the bonds of matrimony, AMI any
body may be a bondholder. Except, if YOU
please, the man in the moon.
The Massachusetts, Republicans are consid-
ering how they shall take Rice.-Graphic.
From all appearances they will take him into
the Stated House at Boston.
To-day nearly two hundred orators will argue
the point in Ohio whether it is better to go into
the mines and by labor develop wealth, or man
ufacture our money on printing presses.
Tomorrow Ohio will speak in unmistakable
terms for hard money and good govern
ment, and Pennsylvania will take up the strain
in November and echo it back with renewed
emphasis.
Schuyler Colfax is going to be Judge next
week at baby fair in Niles, Mich. 1t is better
to be a judge of good baby than to be gen.
tleman, a scholar and Judge of good whis-.
Whoop!
They are having lively times at Salt River
station to-day perfecting arrangements for the
reception of Uncle Bill Allen and the Rag
baby's corpse. He will be met at the landing
by quartette of gentlemen who went up in
1887, and they will greet him with, "see, the
ruined Fog Horn come"
Yesterday was Cuba's seventh anniversary of
her most heroic struggle. The world cannot
produce another picture of perseverance, forth
tude and bravery that can compare fayorably
with the one presented in this strife. The
clouds have now their silver Innings, and before
another year has passed Cuba will undoubtedly
be free and independent.
The address of the chief of the Choctaws
to the National Council gives unmistakable
evidence of the rapid advancement of that
tribe in civilization. Schools and churches,
workshops and factories beautify and enliven
the broad and cultivated plains which are set
apart as their permanent home. A few such
facts as these more than counterbalance the
innumerable and scurrilous assaults which
have been made upon the peace policy as ad-
ministered by the Indian Bureau.
While Samuel Tilden is telling the people of
New York of the wonderful work he has ac-
complished in his attack on the canal ring,
Secretary Bristow is quietly struggling with
the strongest band of whisky thieves the
world ever saw, and the difference is, not one
of the canal robbers has been punished, while
several of the Illicit distillers have been sem
fenced to penal servitude, and the revenue in
creased two millions a month.
Governor Hendricks is doubling. He saws
that the fight in Ohio is nip and tuck; or, in
other words, 1t is not safe to bet either way.
Still, If the Democracy succeeds in getting all
of its repeaters around to the different polls
assigned them, it will be reasonably secure to
bet on five thousand majority in favor of Ole
billallen. Take the forty thousand that the
Republicans would have in a square contest
and add it to the five and we have forty-fve
thousand illegal voters imposed upon the good
people of the Buckeye State, who are ready to
carry them into corruption and ruin for paltry
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