National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-04

sooner than will suit you!
DURING the present newsless season Mr..
HALsTEAD has turned his Cincinnati Com
mercidl into snake-story organ. Mali
cious people will insist that his publicly
avowed opposition to ice water had some
thing to do with his suddenly developed
interest in serpents.
THE Memphis people skip away from
home and leave the colored militia to pro-
tect their property and fight YELLOW JACK.
They hold them in great respect while en-
gagged in that service. When cold weather
comes and yellow jack disappears, then the
colored men will become "nggers" again.
OUR District Commissioners have as
sumed dominion over the air rs well as the
land and water hereabouts. They have at
tempted to condemn roadway, for sewer
purposes, twen ty-two feet above the level
of ground out on the IsHERwooD estate.
This might be called balloonatic statesman
ship.
CURRY, the assailant of ex-senator Dor
sEY last Saturday, is an ex-mail contractor.
DORSEY was in the habit of helping him in
legitimate way in his business affairs here
in Washington. But it would appear-the
Senator being out of public life-that the
contractor no longer desires to curry favor
with him.
A SUNDAY paper makes the very witty
suggestion that the War Department be
placed in charge of The NATIONAL RE-
PUBLICAN. We second the motion, and
then we will give bonds that within twenty
four hours thereafter not Confed or Dem
ocrat holding Office therein could be found
with search warrant.
THURMAN is yet in the East, when he
should be in the West. The Union-General
ticket out in Ohio meanwhile struggles to
get along without his aid, which would be
bunglingly rendered at the best, for THUR
MAN is secessionist from the word 60.
From 1860 to 1865 EWING and RICE were
fighting against him and his kindred, fact
he has not forgotten.
"THE editor of the Washington Post confesses
that he is an ignoramus. He wants to know
who Hon. SANDFoRp l., CHURCH is."-Nep
York STAR
And it is limited that the Democratic
Congressional Committee Immediately
started the ignoramus who asked the above
question to New York to repeat it to
TLDEN. They all want to know.
WILL it do to put another soldier on the
bench ? This question is at once evoluted
in the nffrightcd minds of the military
scared people of Kentucky, who are afraid
that General BRIsTow may be selected to
succeed Judge BALLARD. BRIsTow's wal
ecord-three-quarters of an hour long
should be reproduced now to assure them
of the groundlessness of their alarm.
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THE Hon. CASEY Young has been talking
to the marines He says all the stories
about the opposition of the Southern whites
to colored emigration is stuff and non
"sense" They all want the colored people
togo, and in view of the way they treat
them we are inclined to think he is right
OF course, if the honorable gentleman is
really truthful, when CoNwAY's steamer
goes down for their relief, Governor STONE
and CHALMERS will not hang or shoot hel
crew,
EWING is preserving his habits as q Con,
gresham in his Ohio campaign. He deliver,
one speech from the rostrum and then furn.
ishes different one for publication. The
Cleveland Herald openly charges this, and
produces what he said to the people in his
Weddell House speech, and eliminated from
the report he furnished the press He
thinks he is still engaged as one of the edi-
tors Of the Congressional Record, where that
sort of fraud is constantly perpetrated upon
the public.
WE desire to call especial attention to the
communication of "SUGGEsTER" on the
water question, which appears in another
column. II presents the case in clear ant
cogent manner, and must convince tn,
public mind that the increase of water rate
under the fiat of the Commissioners i
is bold fraud upon 10000 disflanchseC
and abused people OF mismanaged an'
oppressed city, through the petty arrogance
and tyranny of its irresponsible rulers.
THE Wilmington IN, C.) Journal insist
that it was not for GRANT in 1876, and tina
its proprietor was not an oflice-holder unde
GRANTS administration We vouch TO
the correctness Of this statement, and ado
that Mr., CANADY has always been thor
oughgoing Stalwart, was MORTON mar