Richland beacon., 1876-04-29
Courier. journal Rifle Balls.

| wen. sherman cOG'dn support his 'arnI
IN Washington on hii salary, and had TO NOV
to ST. Louis; and nov Congress is about q
knock several Thousand dollars from his 81 Ia
~, and where can he go when that is done
That there wss = conspiracy to reduce th
eenersl Of the army to abJect poverty IL
" sshinston, and that that same conspiracy i
now iryIDx TO siRrve hun 10 death in ST Loui.
no sane man can doubt. Cen. Sherman
salary, including con'mu,ation of rxrions
forage, rent Of Quarters, &c, nov amount, ,c
but about $4,000 year, w'h little or rC
eiealagr, and To- reduce II So 600 lower uoul.
: 10" precisely the same thing AS sending hiu
and his family m the pour.hou>e, ~ithou
! transportation. The consciousness OF film;
an utterly useIess Ui.ice ought to be paid to
literally
The Washington CORE spondent uf the New
l. lork Times iclegraphs that Senator hey
speech on the resolution provit ing for au IN
! 'estIsati"n in Mississippi WAS his msider
! effort, and that lie Gii not impress his listen
! ers very fsvorably. The Correspondent odd.
| that "hr read his speech from mauuS'riy,, ~
an exceedingly low tone Of Voice, and " ,tt
! rather an embarrassed manner Ii some o
the other gentlemen in Congress would avoid
4 lnudn..s, and would take care TO prepare
Well bcfnr-.hand whs, they have to say, their
| work nnght be much more acceptable to the
| country. and ih-y would not have Ia adhere
, IL false positions taken in haste during mo,
nen,s Of eYcitenrnt Moderate and careful
men are ve'y much needed in the national
! eg.sla,uIe.
An love- paper nominstes Gen. A. c
Dodge for the presidency. IL ms ,h!s SAN.
i!Iu-tr!ous diplunatist and statesman Sho.
when starting 20 Span, to which county lac
! had been appointed minister by MIR. Buchanan
| entered his nnne on the ships register ~
Augustus Cesar Dodge, formerly United
States senator from Iowa; at present minister
| 70 Spain.' That the sort OF man We want
! for president. None OF your concerted, zap.
headed nincnmpoops. bu; man who u1es
tie bull b. the horns and ,eiIs yon who be
was, who he is, and where he is go,ng.
'Eah for Dodge! How else were the ship s
officers TO know what IN important personspe
they hal On 6Osid, We would like 10 know g
1t is related Of .he late Bishop Thirwal, of
England, rs something remarkable, that .,
three years old he read English so well that
"e sse'hh, sht IOuI nc fcou
Greek with an ease and fiueucy that astoni>h-
ed all who heard him" Well, and " La, Of i, |?
Why, prodigious rs 1t may seem, at two years
OF age We knew nearly as much about Greek
and Latin as We know now, and on .rumping
toe n three could squawi in any OF Tie
modern languages of Europe.
In recen, Temperance sermon the Rev
~ 4 N
York, says there ar. upwar is 0! 900 places
III that city at which Intoxicating liquors are
sold. and estimates that in these place, the
people there spend annually $6,775,230.
Louisville is much isrger city than Roches-
ter, but 1t is no, equal 10 her. We fear, in point
Of intoxicating enterprise. Here, as general
thing, nearly every other man you NEE, is
sober. Whichr every other man besides
yourself0
II is wrong to suppose ,hs, all the 3. are
bad. IL won't do TO trust Henry Ward
Beecher, Orville Babcock, William BeIknap
and Ben Butler; bu, Susan Banthory, the
queen Of the swarm, by coming forward
and paying that $4,000 debt she incurred
IN the publication Of the Revolution, places
hersf eonsiicuously in the from, rank Of
honest men-and women.
Letters Of administration were taken om
the other day upon the estate Of the late
Francis p. Blair. Jr., valued 1t $500. He
was not 4 WHISKY thief, having Quilted the
Republican party he helped TO found when it
fell into crooked hands and crooked ways
Yet the Republicans delighted 10 denounce
him 10 the last.
Who would have though, a few years
ago. asks the Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle, that Esistow's mules would ever
take to editing Democratic newspapers"
As they are quite as smart as the jackssse.
tina, edit the Democrat and Chronicle, we
know Of no reason why they shouldn't
The New York Herald, ever seeking OF.
portuniiies to do honor 10 the dead statesmen
Of kentucky, styles the Hon. Roscoe Conkling
the Henry Clay Of New York This. while
". atty belirling Mr.. Conkling. i, unguestion-
ably the highest complimen, ,hs, was ever
paid to Mr.. Clay.
"You talk abou, your Pilgrim fathers
eIclaims female lecturer, " but where would
you have been to day if it hadn been for
your Pilgrim motherss" ], is. indeed, q sad
thought. We shall never know how much
We lost by the existence Of those rum bling
old women.
!, cannot be denied" .ays the Milwaukee
Sentinel, THAT q terribly fatal epidemic is
raging among Democratic csndida,es for the
presidency" Yes, bur, unlike that which
RACES among Radical office. holders just now,
it is M, likely to land the most Of them in the
peni,ensiary.
Radical candidates for the preside ency con
tnue 10 multiply from day to dsy. Every
State il. the Union has favori,e con whom
she is anxious to put in the White House, and
some have twins, while now and then one
comes staggering along with uipless in her
arms.
An exchange says: The persons who
brought on, the mule STORY abou' Bristow are
known-they have unmistakable ear-marks.'
Yes, and tho chances are that If they were to
come within kicking distance Of Bristow they
would have quite Is unmis,akable foot-marks.
The first vote ever cast by . Chinaman in
Cincinnati was polled At the election Of Mon
day by Mr.. Joseph Sing. il is due to Mr.
Sing 10 say that he voted the Democratic
ticket. You ough,n to have sold that, for
the Radicals will murder every Chinsmsn in
California now.
The fact that Mr. Rich, of Maine, has in.
vented flying machine induces the New
York Commercial 10 remak thar Riches
have wings" Aud in old Uncle Daniel Drew
they had mighty good flying machine, too.
Mr. John Brogden, Marion county, South
Carolina. has seven sons and sixteen daugh-
three children in all. But, then,
j, has taken him the better part Of eighty
years tn accumulate the pile.