National Republican., 1876-01-15
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
The ocean steamer Harvest Queen is the
recipient of doubtful gems. The ocean perils
are hers, and she has gon. down with all on
board.
Virginia has commenced the Centennial year
in spirit to be deprecated. She has refused
to join with the nation in celebrating its one
hundredth birthday.
Benjamin Donkus Hills speech in defense
of Jefferson Davis and Andersonville would
make q first-class campaign document for
general circulation.
The newspapers of Chicago are fighting the
tax flends, and when you come to consider the
matter calmly, the tax fiend is about as plau.
sible an object of attack as that city can pro
duce.
You are brilliant and versatile bouquet
Of loyeliness," said he. with voice that was
low and soft, and in return she warbled
sweetly, ''Dry up, George; you've said
enough
Mast gives in Rarpcr's Weekly striking
picture of the ex-Confederate tiger covering
the Republican lamb. The lamb, however,
has become suddenly animated through the
Vigor and magnetism of Mr.. Blaine, and it
will trouble the tiger some to corner the frisky
creature.
The picture that Mr. Hill drew of the An
dersonyille prison-site was so pleasing that
Yankee has already commenced negotiating
for the property, upon which he is desirous of
establishing a summer resort. lie believes
there is millions init. Yes, just about as many
millions as there was in the beans our poor
boys were forced to eat.
The conviction of La Page, the brutal muir
dercr of the pretty school girl, Josie Lang
maid, shows the power of crcumstantial cvi-
dence. The verdict seems to have rested
solely on the proofs that the blood stains on
the murderer's clothing corrcsponded exactlyin
the analysis with those on the victims gar
mcnts. Science Is the handmade of justice.
When Sunset Cox arose in his seat and in
terrupted Mr.. Blaine by calling him ''hyena,"
if some old woman could have gathered him up,
and, carrying him into the cloak-room, spread
him across her knee with neatness and dis
patch, and briskly applied q shingle to the
place where his cost-tsils go bob-bob as he
travels, his sun in the future would probably
have set with more tranquil serenity than 1t
has ever done In the past.
Gail Hamilton has got very fastidious
taste respecting men-that is, marrying men,
available fellows who have tired of single
blcssedncss and desire to fly to ills they know
not Of. She advises all girls 10 be careful in
selecting husbands-to pick them out as q
shrewd boy chooses his apple from the bin.
She tells them to take good-looking, plump,
lively fellows or none, and has set them an ex-
ample by spending forty years Of her precious
existence in securing the latter.
''Iou can't get in this yere do, said one of
the Confederate door-keepers Of the House to
mcmber whose face was new to him. .'But
I'm privileged person, sir, )" said the member.
81 don't care if you are old Solomon himself;
you can't get in this ycre do, do you hear me
talking" and lie planted himself in front of
the entrance and sawed his teeth. "But my
friend, I'm member of Congress" mo,
you don't. You can't come none of yer She
nanegans on me. I've been in ole Yirginy too
long for that. 1 can tell member as far as
l can see him. and he looked very brave.
"But sir, am a." 81 don't care If YOU
be Dana; there's no use your knockin' at this
yere do, you can't get in until you show your
credentials; so now" and the member passed
around to another entrance and went in with
his mind made up TO do something very i'm
portant to that ignoramus at the ''do'.''
The talk about jefferson Davis being po-
litical nonentity in the South is all false. The
element that by force and intimidation, by
murder and violence, has wrested from Repub-
lican rule the State of Mississippi, would
gladly climax their infamy by sending to the
United States Senate jefferson Davis were his
political disabilities removed. Mr.. Lamar's
chance would have been greatly endangered
had the people of that section been able to
send their idol as a representative to the na-
tons legislative halls. The last tour that
this man took through the South was one con-
tinued ovation, the people everywhere ex-
pressing the greatest enthusiasm over the ap-
pcarauce of their old leader. Give the old man
q chance, and the country will soon ascertain
how strongly attached the people of the South
are TO him.
The Eew employees at the Capitol are rap
idly growing into disfayor with the public. A
short time since gentleman stepped into the
folding-room and inquired for certain bill
The employee accosted, Strengthened up, and,
looking quite as important as lord, said,
"What kind of a thing is the bill you want! Is
it pamphlet kind of thing? If SO, reckon
Won will find il nm stairs in the dOcumnnt
room. You just go up and ask one of
those blue-coated, brass -buttoned, bull-headed
bouncers, and he'll tell you where the room
is, may be so, L reckon" and the intellectual
specimen of an unfortunate creation seemed
thoroughly impressed with the idea that he
had done something exceedingly smart. When
we thilk of the scarcity of thunderbolts, and
of the abundance of such items of mortality,
the moisture of sorrow will come.