National Republican., 1875-09-03
EDITORIAL JOTTINGs.

- The Texas editors are on a northv ard
tramp.
- Tell anything to "Gatb, ," and 1t is sure
to be heard on the streets of Allthetowns.
Investigation shows that there were !, 900
Ku- Klux enrolled in Franklin and Williamson
counties, III.
1t was rumored last night that green fruit
had been yended in broad daylight, and yet we
hear Of no lynching cases.
-LoI see the Weeping Willow rise
On Wis sshickon's shore,
And pointing to the westward, cries
The Golden Calls no more.
Banks is not sverse to the Speakership, If
necessary. If all the banks were as compe-
tent to speak as he is, what q tale they would
unfold.
Spindle-brained demagogues contend that
''gold basis " ruined the Bank of California.
Information showing how greenback currency
could have averted the disaster would be in
order now.
The Brooklyn Union of yesterday, appeared
in a new dress, and with its winning ways and
graceful bearing, will undoubtedly secure q
host of new friends to be added to its long list
of old ones
- The Viceroy Of Pekin showed the cold
shoulder to Mr.. Wade the British minister, but
when the English squadron proposed to make
into the port of that city. Hastily the cold
shoulder disappeared as though it had been on
the table Of free lunch house.
- Beer and children are announced as being
the chief product of New Ulm, Minnesota,
and it is further stated that the children keep
ahead of the bier in spite Of the earnest efforts
Of waternelons and undertakers.
Sharon says che is moving heaven and
earth" to reopen the Bank of California.
Heaven never had anything to do with that
institution, and earth would have been far
better off if it had "followed suit.'
We have always said that the South would
"rise up and call us generous" for the extrav- /
agant magnanimity shown the conquered idol
of their heart, but we never expected such
warm and heartfelt gratitude as this.
-"Consumption among oysters is a dis
ease that begins in September, and RACES and
devastates until the early part of June. The
only specific remedy for the contagious all
ment is the humiliation of Adams kin.
The Niagara Falls Register advocates the
purchase of the Falls by the general govern
sacrificing the blissful sensation of giving fifty
cents every time you turn around, as you are
required to do under the present regime.
JEFF Davis twill certainly be there" is the
advertisement gotten up by the Kansas City
Industrial Exposition for the purpose of draw
ing a crowd. Some one-armed and wooden
legged loyal soldiers may be there also, and q
contact of the two elements may make the
circus interesting.
-Ifthe stockholders of the New York Tribune
in the interests Of humanity and for the en-
lightenment of the masses, would remove that
gilded gin shop from the pavement of their
magnificent structure and place in its stead q
fish-hatchery, coming ages would
call them blessed. Fish make brains.
= The meteorological instruments have been
bobbing around like q beetle on green potato
vine, and the quails have been whistling "more
wet" as though dear life depended on 1t, still |
no one could explain the phenomenon until it |
was understood that Brother shearmsn is com
ing home. 1t viii dampen while he's coming,
and be much damper when he comes.
"A small boy with watermelon about the
size of a man disappeared last night and has
not been seen since this morning. He wore |
wooden leg made of vulcanite rubber, and was |
bare-f footed with his fathers shoes on; he had |
an empty bag with the melon in it, marked |
''Gripes," with the letters rubbed out. Any |
person failing to find the same will please call |
At this Office and pay five dollars and ask no
questions.
- Under the caption of 'tLeniency in q |
Horn" the Macon, (Ga.) Messenger says: /
"The Southern press taurted and dared the |
administration to try Mr.. Davis for treason, /
but it backed down and out, because conscious
Of the weakness of its cause. In view of these /
facts 1t is both mean and cowardly, at this late
day, to talk of the .'leniency of the Govern
ment towards Mr.. Davis" sLeniency" In
deed when the whole loyal pack, from Maine
to California, were thirstfng for his blood, and
every member of the administration was both
willing and anxious to shed It." \
Grace Greenwood talks in a way that
5ught to wilt the iron-hearted old Sheep
sheriff of e Paso county, Colorado,
or the discourteous manner in which he sold
Ter LITTLE home there for taxes. But we fear
{ viii require few prayers back of the mo-
'ing words of the charming correspondent I
o touch the true inwsrdness Of man who
links nothing of killing two feIlow-beings
'efore breakfast and who would expire of |