The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1876-11-23
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
U. s. GRANT.

Tilden's majority in Virginia is a, O0C
Hayes plurality over Tilden in Obi
is 1916.
Mckee and Avery have been released
from Jail.
Majority in Alabama for Tilden an'
Hendricks electors, 81, 1888.
Hon. Nathan Price was beaten fol
county attorney in Doniphan county by
324 majority.
Henry NJ. Teller and Jerome b. Chat
fe have been elected U. S. Senators from
the new State of Colorado.
Russia's modified army is estimated
at 1875, 200 infantry, 26,7SS cavalry, and
CA rifed breech- loading cannon.
1t is stated that 10000 persons per-
ishcd during the cyclone which passed
through Bengal on the 3lSt of October
The Returning Board of Louisiana,
after having adopted tho rules to govern
them while in session, commenced bust,
ness last Monday.
L. A. Parker, General Passenger
Agent Of the Kansas Pacific railway died
a. Wallace, on Tuesday evening, very
suddenly, Of dropsy of the heart.
Poor, sour, boiling Hanna! Still he
doth rave. Traitor to his party record
and his county, he paweth the air like a
mules hind legs. Poor Hanna, we pity
him.
Democrats aud Republicans are still
on the ragged edge, and neither know
upon whom will fall the duty of gnaw-
ing file and fleeing unto the mountains
of Hepsdam.
The despoilers of the tomb of Lincoln
have been arrested. They answer to the
names Of J. Smith and T. Durham
They have been taken TO Springfield to
be indicted and tried.
The Legislature of Vermont has pass
cd bill for filling the vacancy in the
Electoral College caused by the ineligi-
biity of IL. n. Sollace, one of the re-
Gently elected Republican electors.
Miss Lilly Morse will not be the flu
tare mistress at the White House, for two
reasons: One is, she has Tilted Sammy
Tilden; and the other is, Sammy is not
10 accept the White House himself.
Some of Hanna's friends claim that
hc is to be q candidate for State Printer.
1t requires good deal of check for q
bolter, like Hanna,to go before straight
Republican Legislature and ask for so
important an office. Bat Hanna always
had plenty of cheek-enough brains, in
TACTIC build a brass monkey as large as
tho Colossus of Rhodes.
The Times Washington special refutes
tho report of Mr.. Blaine being chosen
for the Presidency Of the Senate, as his
term expires on tho 4th of March, and
he is not yet elected to the next term,
and, would not, if made President of the
Senate this winter, hold over into the
next Congress, by reason of the expi-
ration of his term with this Congress.
Mr.. Ferry is in the same situation, and
after the counting of the vote, will be
likely to resign as President, so that one
Of the Senators not retiring next March
will be elected. Otherwise there will be
an interregnum in the Office.
The American idiom has been
strengthened" by another euphonic
word, viz: "buldoze." 1t originated
in Louisiana, and here is its meaning:
The pleasant brethren of the "Stop"
"A political society-were in the habit
of giving warning calls once, twice, three
times, TO these who they desired
and demanded should join the
"Stops." If, on the third and last call,
they did not comply with the demand
and take the oath, the unfortunate negro
who refused was taken 10 the woods and
given a 'bull-dos OF the cowhide on
his naked back. A cool hundred we'll
laid on was considered bulls dose for
once; and the victim either listened TO
such potert reasoning and took the oath
as a member. or fed the country. From
"a bulls dose soon came the verb to bull
do-e.