The daily gazette., 1876-03-21
Political Gossip.


Hon. s. s. Cox has recovered from his
| late illness.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State Con-
vention meets on Wednesday.
| Babcock is again to be investigated: he Is
seriously mixed up iu the post trader busi-
ness.
! Mr. Fernando Wood is considered out OF
danger. An operation was performed on
his throat on Saturday.
1t is now stated that General Schenck re-
turns home with full hand and flush of
spirits, that is, strictly speaking, according
to Hoyle.
1t is claimed by the New York Sun that
Secor Robeson was secret partner in the
London broker concern of Jay Cooke, Me
Cullough II Co.
Marshes have always proved deceivng.
They are not solid; so Bclknap has found
1t out, and great many others may be-
fore he gets through.
Can 1t be possible that the impure atmos-
phere said to to pervade the House of Re
representatives., is from the foul air left from
the Credit Mobilier and Pacific Mail subsidy
business.
Grant should 20 around with lantern
looking for an honest man. The light he
has been using has proven unequal to the
emergency, take Dana, if all that Butler
says is true, for all instance.
Grant has considerable degree of
cause to exclaim, "save me from my
friends" and he could also add my "rea-
tives," for Orvil seems to have put his foot
right square into the hole, that Belknap
has been pulled out of.
A circular caused to be issued by meet
ing Of c0lored citizens in Washington, and
headed by prominent colored leaders, ar
raigns the Republican party in the strongest
kind of terms as the cause of all the politi-
cal robbery and corruption now existing in
the country.
Brother Bowles is encouraged. He saws:
"Though Brissow is the growing favorite,
there is increased respect among Republ-
cans for the name of Adams. They begin
to see they may have need of his special
advantages as man and candidate" If !
forget thee, o, Adams, may my right hand,
etc.
There were six hundred and nineteen
deaths in New York city during the past
week.
The specie shipments to Europe on Satur-
day from New York, were $3.50, 600, all
American gold coin.
1t is thought that the suspended bank
of the State of New York will reopen in the
course of fourteen days.
Annie Baker, an inmate of a house of
bad character in Boston, was So badly
beaten by the proprietor en- Friday, that her
recovery is considered doubtful.
The prairies of southern Minnesota.
since the stoppage of prairie fires, are fast
being covered with thick growth of will
low, wild apple, oak and aspen trees, which
spring up spontaneously.
Pescah n Rubensten, condemned to be
hanged for the murder of his cousin, Sarah
Alexander, has been granted q STAY of exc
cution until the case is reviewed by the
General Term of the Supreme Court.
In places where they are digging for sul
phur at Steamboat Springs, Nevada, the
ground becomes 50 hot at the depth of four
or i've feet that the workmen have to ham
die the sulphur with long handled pitch
forks.
Two new breeds of sheep have been in
troduced into England from the west coast
OF South America. One is u white wooled
sheep, with four horns; the other dark
brown wooled species. a cross between the
llama and the alpaca.
"How would you make believer of an
incredulous mari" asked one gentleman of
another not long since. 81 think the surest
way would be to set him over a beehive"
was the reply, "and calculate after he
had been stung once or twice he would be-
come bee-leaver in earnest ."-CIacdo
Journal.