The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-02-05
Miscellaneous News Items.

Miscellaneous News Items.
David Davis pronounces the new hug waltz a
failure. 49,. #.
The First National bank of New York ia a
Sherman man. .a..5<
Yarmouth begins to appear in the politics of
Louisiana again. s S..
The Graphic calls the Potter committee the
| high court of hieroglyphics. ~ -
Iowa reports a quiet movement rather shan a
boom in behalf of John Sherman. 80.
The Ha,ckeye says MIR. Tilden is not useless
he may still be used for fish bait"
The Democratic State central committee of
Massachusetts elected anti-Butler officers.
It is suggested that the Berlin mission be
given to Dick Oglssby. but Dick don't wish to
write the life of anybody. >. Sd.
slaught upon the escaping Cheyennes was
actually Vessels of wrath. ..E s%
Gen. Buffers cooking is done by an out-of-
town Baker. The widder makes her own sweet
cakes though, and her own turnover.
An Indiana Democratic chief says De LaMa-
tyr's bound from the pulpit into Congress was
too much for him and he will soon play out.
Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, has ordered an
election on Feb. 10, to fill the vacancy in Con-
gress caused by the death of Hon. Julian Hart
ridge.
Iron railway sleepers are said 10 have proved.
both in India and England, much cheaper than
wooden ones. Their gradual adoption is pre-
dicted.
Belgian physician, appointed to report on
the prevalence of color blindness, attributes
that disease to the excessive and general use of
tobacco.
Gen. Howard can write Sunday school books
eat prairie chickens and sleep on feather bed
but the poor Cheyenne has not place to lay
his head.
Glass, who has just been appointed marshal
for Alabama, is an ex-member of Congress, and
Democrat. Hayes will get around to JEFF
Davis in due time.
Pinchback, who had commenced to feel the
vacuum which nature abhors, is appointed to a
place in the internal revenue bureau, which is
sort of government soup house.
The ameer Of Afghanistan thinks Napoleon
the greatest general the world ever possessed,
This is pardonable in the ameer, as he has prob
ably never heard of Gen. Howard.
The New Orleans Times Dem. cries out that
the intense Bourbonism of the controlling ele-
ment in State politics ignores the necessities
OF the people and the demands of business.
''What, y said an inquisitive young lady, lis
the most popular color for a bride?" We may
be little particular in such matters, but we
should prefer white one.-Ezm.ira Gazette.
Mrs. General Gaines is II years of age, but
still full of the promise Of abundant years.
While she lives there must continue to be con-
| siderable activity in United States real estate.
The American navy with 1000 officers to
command $500 men, and paying SO, s22, 900
annually to the former and but 80, 800, 900 to
the latter, is, as Mr.. Blame remarked, q trife
top-heavy.
Conkling rises to his full stature when he
! speaks carefully of the President as sMr.
Hayes, " and of the secretary of the treasury as
John These are the great efforts of his
useful life.
There are now 600 hoodla (plural of hood
lum) in San Francisco, where the order has
been established since 1862. Most of them are
are criminals.
Having shown the administration that he
could force them into placing war-vessel at
his disposal, Grant hoists his own sail
AID shows the government and its frigate a
clean pair of heels.
The Boston Herald is of the opinion that
Niagara Falls never looked handsomer than
this winter, and believes that all it needs to
make it perfectly grand is to have the trees
decorated with dead hackmen.
Leonard Turner has been arrested at Bur-
lington, Iowa, for Obtaining money of German
by representing himself as Jesus Christ, the
German somehow becoming suspicious that
Mr.. Turner was not what he said he was.
The saints in Utah took time by the fore.
lock. Suspecting an adverse decision by the
supreme court, they laid in most plentiful
supply of young wives. They felt certain
that there would be indemnity for tho past.
and they made haste.
The famous Mr.. Josiah Turner, of North
Carolina, after having run against the regular
Democratic nominee in the Fourth district in
November, and devoted himself all the year to
an attempt to disrupt the party, desired to en-
ter the Democratic caucus for the Senatorship.
but was excluded.
Butler will not, a prominent friend of his
is represented as saying, subsidize Boston Or
gan next year, but instead issue a campaipn
daily manned by sharp young journalists. who
will be furnished with plenty of sspoints'' on
which to impale Republican leaders. 1t will
be "a war without mercy.''
The Railroad Gazette says that the number of
accidents in any year is largely determined by
the severity of the winter, and gives table of
casualties since 1878, which it believes to come
pretty near the truth. From this it appears