Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-12-21
ODDS AND ENDS.

NoR SAYISG Much FOR HIM.-And
after all, Pinchbaok Is more Of a man
than Kellogg Boston Post.
COLoRs IN CURRENOY.-SilVer aud
green are beautiful and harmonious
cOlora.-[Terre Haute Express.
WHICH 10 A. Mr.. Beck is
opposed TO honesty, because II is Re-
publican policy.-[N. Y. Tribune.
A Wall ROB 'LIzE.-WhAt has be-
come Of Eliza Pinkston1 Is there no
Office for her5-[Kansas City Times.
SANUEL.-Il Butler ever does rise for
speech call him Nebuchadnezzar
YOn know he is q grass widow.-[S. S.
Cox.
His WoUNDED FEELINGS. - Osman
10 wounded, but be is hurt more in his
feelings than In his Leg Chicago
Times.
ADvIcE.-Mr. SchuTz, let US give you
bit Of advice. For intance, sn oyster
brOil is q good thing but Il needs some
oysters In II.
BEA Coon BoY.--George L. Train
says nobody knows where he is. George,
you be good bOy,now, aud don't make
noise.-[N. Y. Sun.
NExr.-Next 10 tho strong, undying
love we bear our mother. .in.law, our
fondest affections 60 out 10 our Mexi-
can relAtions.-[ Chicago Times.
DARN 'M.-"Darn the man who
won't strike for his altar aud his fires y
exclaimed an old Texan, and then 20 :
ly adds, "aud there's such good chauce
for plunder over there."-[GalvesIOn a
News.
CAN'T GET A CuANcE. There IL 9
growing tendency to create more pub
lie holidays that should be stopped
There are 20 many legal holidays no"
that half the banks can't get Chancr
to fail.-f Chiclso Tribune.
HE's BEEN THERE.-The cold world
little realizes the sense Of desolatioT
that shuts down on q man who thinks
be has been handed too much change
by hls grocer when he dodges around
the corner aud fndi It right TO cent
[Church Union.
TIE REsULr.-It the independent
triumph in the Mayors election theI
will triumph 10 August and Novem
Der by uniting on ticket made up o.
Radicals aud Independents. - Mem
phis Appeal.
SILVER IL THEIR P6cKE7s.-It is
great pity there were not more silver
iongued orators like Matthews In thO
Senate. Edmunds aud Eaton wer,
probably born with silver spoons II
their pockets instead OF in thei
mouths.-[ Gin. Enquirer.
Is THE SENATE, Mr.. Anthony, o
Rhode Island, offered resolution
which was agreed 10, iuslructing th
committee on the library 10 conslde
the cxrcdiency Of purchasing the pa
pers OF the Count de Rochambeal
commhnder Of the allied forces &
;; France ia the War OF the Revolution
and now IN the possession ofhis CRANE
sou, the Marquis de Rochambeau.
Nor Much REPUBLIc.-"Our SistC
Republic" has been the endearing til
applied by certain Northern politician
10 the maraudiug greasers Of the Mex
lean border ever since Seward inven
} ed II as an excuse for In,ermeddliug /
: the Maxlmilian. j Jusrez uarrel. Il wa
little strange aud untrue ever lheI
as Mexico was not much OF Republi
, or sister to this country but the teri
. "Republic" can certainly not be apple
r 10 Mexico to-day, unless by Republ
we mean anarchy aud revolution.-[
, D. Democrat.
THE GREAT RIvER.-The farmers
> the Upper Mississippi aud the grain e.
: porters of New Orleans are encourage
: In the belief that nearly all the surpll
i grain produced by Missouri, Iowa N
: braskG, Minnesota aud Western wi
consin aud Illinois, will, at no distsl
day, be exported By way Of the gre
i river. There IL u loud demand f
Z river tow-boAts aud barRes for Il
transportation Of grain IN bulk 10 Ne
!, Orleans. The exporters and the Mi
u sissippi Valley Trans GrIalion Cor
c pAny arc sadl, short IN barges wi
j. the contemplated improvements in Il
! Upper Mississippi from 81. Louis
! ST. Paul, and below, from Cairo
:, Memphis, sli obstacles will be reno
cd aud il il supposed that this rou
will sHord large saving in freight
8 the produccrs.- Cincinnati Erquire
;, A CHgAP LIGHT-The new elecl
q candle, ubvlaing the necessity Of usi
the expensive aud uncertain Dub1s
i reguiplo-, has now placed the electI
.i jighr practically within the field
II uuit The g:eat objections former
;, held 10 The YOl'sIc arc, were its inten
N ty sud expense. The invention OF I
- candle. aud the lanterns now co
;, sirucled by French opticians, have do
- away with The former, md The e'ectT
N magnetic machines OF Siemens a.
y Wilde, aud of Ladd, have reduced 4
:. latter 10 almost nothing. A Sieme
arJ adN 1,,achiun IN ith lnuhlp arn,