National Republican., 1876-02-04
EDITORIAL GOSSIP.

EDITORIAL GOSSIP.
In New York the authorities are forcing the
food adulteration act with such stringency as
to cause many failures among the milk deal
ers.
The man who slid two or three feet on the
Avenue last night, then lost his balance and
sat down, says "the occultation Of the
pleisdes were distinctly visible"
The avaricic-.sness of human nature is
never more clearly eyinced than by the man
who takes twenty-five cents out of street
car envelope marked twenty-five, and then
tears the paper open and reaches in the corners
of it for more.
The New York Independent says that Henry
Wilson told General Sherman to be guarded
in his public uttertnces, as he would probably
be the next Republican candidate for Presi-
dent. The Independent is continually startling
the country with strange announcements.
A person avariciously inclined might better
be clerk in a Department of the Government
than Governor of Michigan. His salary is
only one thousand dollars per annum. De-
duct the pay for two servants and q coach
man out of it and he has just fifty dollars left
for pork and beans.
Robert Toombs is the frankest man In the
South. He speaks his real mind, and that
being contrary to the policy of the Southern
Democracy, who propose to remain silent until
they get control of the National Government,
it is quite natural that they should cry him
down as a blatherskite and hollow echo of
the defunct Confederacy.
The young men of Massachusetts, are OPP
posing women suffrage. Debating societies
have been formed in many parts of the State,
where the question is being exhaustively dis
cussed. One young man while going home
from a debate, in which he had urged the
necessity of 'keeping the women down." fell
and broke his leg. If all young men who pos
sess the same feeling in regard to this matter
should fall and break their legs there would
be but very little dancing done this winter.
The Democrats in Congress start at their
blunders as en- animated horse does at its
shadow. They try to get away from them,
but 1t is impossible; they cannot do it. The
awful influence of fatality is upon them. In
trying TO avoid bluDders they invariably blum
der. In endeayorlng to amend blunders it al
ways results in blunders. They seem to have
inherited the disease, and the evil has increased
so much of late that it is generally acknowl-
listed that has committed SO many disastrous
mistakes in so brief a time as it.
ell IN ha ir1 sto nj ;
was one of those quiet deep sleeps which bring
strength and vigor to the weary flesh, when
suddenly a noise like the rumbling of a ragged
sliding volcano aroused them, and behold the
canopy of Heaven above was their covering.
In the gale the roof had been as q trick in the
hand of a magician. Then they saw it, and
now they don't. Mrs. Mix was startled, and
she had perfect right to be. A frightened
woman at midnight, however, is not
the most comfortable arrangement to
have in the house. She spoke, and then
and then reached out and clutched John at
the most available points. John arose, took
up his feet and walked. Mrs Mix, attached to
the available points, followed. Bricks from
the side of the walls continued falling. Plaster
flew in all directions. Stray rafters skipped
about with marvellous animation, and when
John reached the ground-foor, Mrs. Mix, who
was still with him, exclaimed: "There I've
left my hairl''
The poet came in last night, and both of his
eyes were beaminS with unadulterated joy.
He walked right in like little man, kicked
over the waste basket.
'Drifting, sitting, to come and GO,
oh, the s-ne-ov, the beautiful s-ne-ow"
and then he handed over the manuscrip;. say
ing, "There are only twenty-three stanzas,
ana l have inspired them since it commenced
falling" awe charge twenty five t .uts
line for all poetry in the snow business, NV
FRIEND" we replied, ''aGd are not eager a. tha'
price" He did not appear to be angry, bur
we were impressed with the inspired rx.
preston on his face as he put the poetry back
into his pocket, and said !: "One hundred
years hence history will put his cold
red hand on our shoulder, and cxclaim,
Eureka" "You rcck what ~ We
ooh, it has come at last" be con-
tinued, distilled from the dewy clouds of
heaven, it has come at last" "WhD has
comet" we Inquired. "Thc STOW, the snow
the beautiful snow, feecy white, all agIow; is
falling fast and falling slow, drifting, Sitting,
twirling about: now It's weak and now it's
stout, filling with gladness the heart of man,
shedding brightness Der 'iHalt," we
cried, but he d!dn't-"shedding its brightness
o. er the laLd Of this piece" "The Publishers
to whom the author first offered it refused it
at any price, since which time 1t has passed
through million editions" and he passed
through the door and was lost to view, which
did not seriously impair the view, as it could
we'll afford the loss.
As we approach spring it becomes more and
more evident that the Government will, from
.he force of pressing circumstances, be COM
PEELED to protect the innumerable caravans of
miners who are now pouring like an irresist-
able current into the mountain Businesses and
plains of the famous Black Hills
region. At every accessible point to this
charmed bourne hundreds are now sojourning,
waiting for the winter to break before setting
out to the fields of yellow and costly ore.
Hundreds in the cities and towns of the East,
which mainly compose our floating population,
are preparing to disembowel with the profane
implements of the pale face the halloWed
ground now held sacred by the red men
as the sleeping places of their fathers. Hun
lreds are already striking picks and twirling
shoyels at the very base of Harney's Peak,
willing TO brave the fierce storms and pene-
rating cold of that northern CLINE in order to
obtain that which glitters and is gold. All of
This, under existing treaties, is directly dis
cordant with the good faith of the Govern
ment. Not even the most liberal interpreta-
tion of the treaty stipulations. would allow the
invasion of this country by white men, much
less the invasion Of it by men who seek to rob
It of its treasures. The Government must
take some positive action in the matter before
the opening Of spring, and, in justice to the
Indian, and for the preservation of human
life, that action should be taken Immediately.
The Indians demand that the white men shall
not violate the treaty; they are protest
Ing vehemently against the immense in;
Hux of the pale-faced humanity into
their repiOns they are threAteniup