The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-07
NUMBER 3S.

= feel himself visibly distending as he d.
= gests this stuff and reads the papers
9 Every moment we expect him to sud
, denly snap at an innocent fly that may
D have indiscreetly aIighted on his nose
His face suggests the idea Of Central
? ization." He has attended so many
political meetings that the lines Of hi'
= face, which concentrate at his mouth
! seem to be constantly to ''call." Nc
? doubt there will be enough morals
, growing out of this contest to found q
e new sect upon; but that which is per-
/ haps the most intrusive is continued in
: the abominable waste of public energy.
] We presume, however, the thing lie to
, go on until the Democrats get the con-
troll, and afterward waste away in froth
/ to be sPrinkIej over the next pOlitie-l
canvass. In the meantime, the great
interests Of the country must 90 neg
lected until this is all over, when there
, will come slowly dragging up and
finally get hearing unless more pOliti-
cal nonsense like the present sbonld be
sprung, which Is not all unlikely.
Winnie Ream is to be married. We
are glad if ii is to make her happy. We
Washington people have sort Of pro-
prietorship in this fair and talented
seulptoress, aud anything that affects
her touches US also. So we look upon
Colonel Hoxie with somewhat Of jeal-
Gus eye, and hope her happiness may
be entrusted to better hands than was
that of DesdemOna of old. Hoxie never
did valiant deeds like OtheIlo, growing
blood thirsty from having slain his
scores of the gallant enemy, but is
merely one Of West Points redOubtable
heroes who let volunteers do all the
fighting during times of war.
Professor Henry's death leaves va
cancy here which will be difficult to
supply. AS President Of the Smith
, sOnian Institute since 1916, be has stood
at the head of our nations scientists,
and has merited all the honors which
have been heaped upon him. So mild
and affable were his manners and APP
, pearsnce that strangers who met him
were at first unable to comprehend the
/ greatness of his intellectual powers.
: Such, at le4st, were our first impress
sions, and we thought surely he must
be one whom accident, not force Oi
brains, had elevated to his high and
4 honorable position; but further acqaint.
II,
have since been one Of his warmest ad.
4 mirers. intellectually may make g
man poor, unfit him for refined associa.
. tions with his fellow men; but Professor
y Henry's intercourse with friends and
: strangers has always been characterized
, by truest pOliteness aud nObleness o
manner. We are asking who will be
4 his successor? Washingtonians uatu-
rally want none but really great men al
n the head of our political AMI scientific
: departments, inasmuch as Washington
e is fast becoming one of the grand Gen.
trail points of interest to the country AT
large. Years ago the Capital offered
q nothing to the visitor beyond what
I Congress alone furnished; but since the
war new order Of things has been es-
tablished, and Washington will repay a
, visit to the intellectual man, as well as
. the politician, through the gradual ae-
, cumulation here Of libraries aud seien-
. tific matters generally.
, We must pay tribute to another citi-
zen whose spirit has just winged its
way from earth to the land Of rest.
. Hon. John Robin Mcdaniel, lately OF
= Lynchburg, Virginia, died suddenly OF
apoplexy on Tuesday afternoon, aged
= seventy-two years. He has been one OI
the most prominent masOns in the
q country for many years, and prior tc
10 the war figured largely also in the pO.
- litical and financial matters Of Virginia
his native State. Our acquaintance
h with him began Immediately after the
= war and during four years station al
= LyGchburg we found him always one
: of "naIure's noblemen." He bad beer
q an enthusiastic. Jealous, and effectiyG
believer in the Confederate cause, yeI
!. when the fortunes Of war dissipated it,
/ baseless fabric, he, without hesitation
, and murmuring, accepted results, anC
n every Federal soldier at the Lynchburl
, post found in him always the staunch
!, est of friends. His house vas ever oper
to US, aud no one hesitated to aecep
his genial hospitslities, because eael
felt that they were extended by an hon
est man whose courage and broad view
elevated him above the cOwardly herd
ID whose low pIejudices prevented then
le from acting noble and manly parts il
p the political situation. We join in cast
81 ing our sprig of evergreen upon hi
l. grave, trusting that upon the eterna
is camping ground of the other world hi
1t tent may be spread upon the highes
y place, where his true merits may eve
D. be seen and known. FELIX.
I'd Washington, d. c., May II, 1878.
1-
y Colonel Ingersol says he "woul
L rather be in hell with one woman tina