National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-02-17

their own exertion, and not by the mercy of
their hard taskmaster
The Democrats arc talking of adjourning
about the middle of April. This is a wise
stroke of policy. The longer they are in ses-
sion the greater Is the injury they do their
cause and the country.
A Western tobacconist went to Philadelphia
TO purchase the sole right to vend cigars on
the Centennial grounds. When the authori-
ties charged him 100000 for one stand he
cried, "Put that in your pipe and smoke it."
When Boston heard that the forger Wins
low had landed in London they held up their
hands in surprise that such a great rascal
should have been such a grand fool. But
they overlook the fact that a man cannot go
where he pleases when on shipboard.
sIain is begging for recruits, but. they do
not respond to the call with much alacrity
So long as young Alfonso remains in Madrid
the husbands and fathers will refuse to Join
the army. because they dread leaving their
loved ones to the tender :nercieS of this young
royal rake.
A man was knocked down on the Avenue
last evening, and in the confusion that en-
sued an officer arrested him instead of the
assailant. "What's the row here 2" cried the
officer. The man caressed his nose aud said,
81 called him liar, and tried to reason with
him.
"Well, Colonel, what do you think of the
general outlook of politics and things in gen.
cral ?" said gentleman to George Butler yes
terday, "Oh, it looks as though we had
come to the final trump" returned the Colonel.
"With the dynamite on the sea and Ben Hill
on the land, the day of judgment cannot be
far off,"
Tsrbox is catching it in his district. They
do not like to send n man to Congress who
has TO read an opponents speech in order to
answer it on the spot with an air of extempo-
nervousness. Greatly, now" they exclaimed,
''who'd 1 thought that such a veal, nice,
sprucy-spruce young man as Tarbox would up
and do such microscopically small thing"
Spriggins says he has discovered an easy
way to get into the House lobbS without hav-
ing to trouble q Congressman to take him in.
His method is as cheap as it is easy. He just
fills his little flask with mean whisky at the
nearest gin mill, and after the little Irishman
at the eastern door puts himself outside OF it
he lets him promptly in, and that is all of it.
Tie Galveston NclgS says THAT on Welnas-
day last Gus Pridgen was waylaid and killed
ON Iris creek, Texas, while out with his team
gathering fire wood He was the principal
witness against the Ku-KIux prisoners ar
raigned before the United States Court in May
last" Here we have another example of
''how they are clasping hands across the
bloody chasm." If a loyal man attempts to
testify against White Liner it is the same as
signing his own death warrant. While gushers
in the North are crying, "Let the earth bury
the past" these men are engaged in preparing
for burial the corpses of those whom they
have assassin&ted, simply because they were
loyal.
An old gentleman, with heavy head and
smooth face, is in the city from VEksbrrg,
and he can be seen walking up and down the
Avenue almost any day, with erect head and
measured tread. He has been minister, mar
snail, large land holder, rebel sympathizer and
several other things. Thirteen years ago this
man preached a sermon in Vicksburg, about the
time Grant was demanding an unconditional
surrender, and in it he said, "The soul of a
Yankee is so black that white chalk will not
make a mark on it." Yesterday he said, Gas
yet have no reason to take back any remarks
on that point" Ho needs reconstructing.
Sitting Bull says the Black Hills belong to
the Sioux, and such they shall remain. With
this determination he has unearthed the
Ratchet, inspired his followers with the spirit
of war, and taken the trail of the white man.
Already he has struck blow by capturing
a number OF cattle and horses belonging to the
gold-seekcrs. This success will incite others
Of this numerous Tribe to hostility, and in the
spring, as soon as the grass is of sufficient
growth for the horses, the probabilities are
that a general outbreak will occur throughout
that vast reservation. The miners, by invad-
ing this country unlawfully, have taken their
lives in their own hands and must take the
consequences.