National Republican., 1875-09-02
HARTFORD, NORTH CAsoLINA,
August 3oth, 1875.
EDITORIAL JorTINGs.

Belgium will glisten like a gem at the
Centennial.
The Goldsmith Maid retires from the tur
with the laurels Of forty contests.
The hauls of Congress during the present
winter will be considerably larger than here
toiore.
A student in one of the Eastern colleges
who has run seventeen scull races, says that
Chill is the capital of Peru
The Rio Bravo, being once more in trim,
will be placed as floating sentinel on the Rio
Grande, for the purpose of " minding " the
marauding banditti.
In about six weeks from now Fog-horn
with his unfortunate crew of soft-moneyites
will be fleeing to the rocks Of seclusion, where
the rag-baby whineth and the whang-doodle
mourneth for what might have been.
There has not been q failure within the
past three years but what can be traced either
to the wild speculative aspirations of indi-
ridual members of the firm, or to the grossest
ilegitamacy in the transaction of their busi-
ness.
LlOIdSC HlOClOy 10 III OI6cuWOOu
Cemetery, and a plain slab marks his last rest
ing place. In the meantime, the great monu-
ment, the Tribune building, which was really
erected to his honor, has been transformed
into gilded gin palace.
The City Court of Louisville, KY, re-
Gently decided that newspaper men have a
right to carry deadly weapons, If deemed
necessary for selfdefence while i'd the dis
charge Of journalistic duties. The paragraph
scribe Of the CO.. will soon be q walking
arsenal for bis own sake.
The Democratic party In Wisconsin pre-
sents q sorry and pitiable front. Governor
Taylor is between two fires. The Democrats
pronounce his administration Q complete
failure, while the Republicans continually
stick thorns IN bis side because there is %
much truth IN the Democratic assertion.
Communist Kelley says that he Il not 0
dog, that any man or any party should put 0
collar round hiG neck and lead him which ever
way they will. He may not DO 0 dog; but no
IL wonderfully like tho four-footed beast with
broad cars attached which conyersed
with Balaam. for when any man wilfully
makes himself 0 fool he becomes On assassin
Of common sense.
-"The Daily Critic entered on the eighth year
gscord COZ The isct st the tine, ss Il is our Won't q
DO. "-DsIv Criiie, september ]. "
Our neighbor is distinguished for It's mlracu-
lous performances, but we confess we had not
In years past noted the trick which II is "wont
TO do" Of annually announcing the eighth year
OF its existence. Irish bulls will hereafter be
at discount in the face Of the CRITICS. duly
recorded "fact."
Every day strengthens and unites the Re
publican party as the defender of an honest
currency, and forces the Democratic party
further toward the other side of the question.
The most bigoted Democratic partisan ought
TO be able to see by this time that victory tor
his party in Ohio next month means that the
next Presidential election is to be fought on
the financial question, and that his party is to
take the side of dishonesty and repudiation.
She was n Swedish girl. Her shoulders
were broad, Ler arms were strong, and her
mind was particularly well balanced, and as
he stepped up to her on the street and made
an insulting proposal she tapped him one on
the nose that sunk him to the pavement, and
then quietly bending over his prostrate form
she kicked his vest pockets full of confusion
and left him for dead. And now Des Moines,
Iowa, has its heroine and the local press are
crying "God bless her Swedish heart"
- Mexico is gradually getting herself into
trouble, by allowing herself to be over-run by
. pestfyerous horde of scums. American
citizens are being constantly insulted, robbed,
and murdered by these outlaws, over whom
Mexico claims to have no control. One of
these sutumnal mornings, she will awake to
find herself invaded by the United States SOL
diers, who have been compelled to punish Mex
leans subjects, who have committed wrongs,
which the home government are impotent to
repair. Then she will howl and-howl she
may.
Hundreds of loyal Democrats who left
the ranks of that party in disgust during the
dark and threatening days,of 1868, and re-
turned to II once more at the close Of the war,
are again deserting its columns because of the
odium which is slowly settling upon that party
by the insidious workings Of disloyal minds.
Devils, Semmes, Preston, Vance and host of
other unreconstructed traitors, who were tho
'guide and coHnselp Of the Democracy before
the war, are gradually looming up as the right
hand men Of that party who are destined 10
become It's leaders should Providence Ia It's
mysterious workings allow II 10 gain the as
tendency.