National Republican., 1881-09-05
PERSONALITIES.

TILDEN and Butler have been mem
toned as a suitable Democratic team for the next
race.
PROBABLY the rise in tobacco is due TO
the fact that the Boston girls have given up their
chcwing.gum.
IT is said that Courtney and Riley will
row at Lake Neahatawanta during the fair at
0wcgo Falls, N Y.
DoCroRs, said Voltaire, are people who
put drugs Of which they know little lntoa body Of
which they know less.
LIEUTENANT FLIPpER-Prove that you
have stolen half million and all will be forgiven,
including your bondsmen.
II Flipper is proof that the negro
lacks the high of honor desirable In an army
officer, how about Howgate7
MARK DuERDoN, who was shot almost
exactly as President Garfield was, in Cohoes /.
Y, two weeks ago, died Friday.
IT is hardly possible that Howgate will
get away with the money after all. There are sew
eral Chicago sayings-bank presidents in Canada.
JAY GOULD controls $3.50, 100000, but he
always thumps watermelon before buying 1t, and
insists on down weight when purchasing pound
Of sugar
EMERSON told an enthusiastic Millerite
who was once predicting the approaching end OF
the world not to fret as we could get along just
as well without It."
JAMES GORDON BENNETT acted as referee
in game Of polo, at Newport, between August
Belmont jr., and r. Zbrowski, last Wednesday.
| Belmont was the victor.
THE probabilities are that in very few
weeks Editor Medill, of Chicago, will be spelling
| It Nashn. When 1t comes to fonetics Editor Me-
| dill is right phinicky.-Hd,cleye.
NoBoDY can blame the Princess Louise
for not wishing to return TO Canada. dispatch
from Montreal states that baseball club will be
| organized in that city next season.
! THE GENERAL SToNEMAN who wants to be
the Democratic candidate for Governor of Callfor-
mia is the Union cavalry leader Of the war, and no
| the confederate Of the same name.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, in Hdrpers
Weekly cditorially indorses the Virginia Coalition,
and declares that "the Malone movement is Al
least break In" the "Bourbon policy, and 1t
affords an outlet into better situation
Ex-GovERNoR JOSEPH d. BEDLE, of New
Jersey has returned to Long Branch from Europe
| and rcjoined his family at the Mansion House,
Long Branch He was rendered reception and
dinner. Many prominent persons were present.
GERTIE HAMILTON took a small dose of
morphine at Sioux City, not because she wished to
die but in order to touch the heart of the man she
| loved. The plan succeeded. on recovering she
| learned that he had swallowed poison In earnest
and was dead.
HENRY WARD BEEcuER says that God
has kept list of names of the rich men who have
cheated the internal revenue department Henry
| Is probably mistaken. 1t is Old Nick who has a
complete register of them. And 8. J. Tilden, Of
| Gramercy Park heads the list-DeRrer Republican
BENJAMIN ISRAEL BUTLER, the son OF
General b. y. Butler, of Massachusetts, who died
last week at Boston, was graduate of West Point
and served for three years afler graduation rs u
lieutenant in the Tenth United States Cavalry
when he resigned, at the request of his father, to
engage in business.
SUNSET Cox writes from Norway: "We
sec no beggary. no poor, houses or ails; we hear
ol1l-eEtmes or violence. No locks are needed
upon doors Drunkenness Is rare. They love
music and flowers and are devoted to their faith
and their families. They never idle. Even
the girls are knitting while attending sheep and
cows"
CHARLES O'CoNoR, six years ago, was
given up by his doctors, who LEFT his bedside and
pronounced him past hope and recovery; but the
old man of seventy four rallied, even after the
closing rites of the church had been performed nnd
the consecrated water placed in his lmouth ant
called for what he had long been begging, pear
| ate II, and is alive to-day
The other night Gambetta, at the enc
of speech to his constituency, was loudly cheered
and hearty cries went up of" Vive Ia Rcpublique
, viye Gambettal" But the famous Frenchmai
spraug to his feet and exclaimed: "Viye la Re
> : pubique yes but vive Gambetta, no! If you or
thus our cnnnias -,.iii- s-ci-i--HH''
Mr.. JoHN ANDREW JACKSON, formerly
slave in South Carolina, has been farming in Flor
ence, Mass. during the last season. He escapet
from bondage in lsi7 by hiding himself on n ship
He afterward lectured through England, and sine,
the war has been working in behalf OF the freed
men, soliciting and forwarding supplies Of al
kinds to the needy and suffering.
S. J. I. (SOlus): "Well, ,et Tommy
Hendricks fire of that gun as soon as he peases
Everything he does is SO confoundedly two faceI
that II is more than likely that one.half of tha
charge will go backward into his own bread
basket and double him up like u boy with o cn
cumber collie" And the consciousness OF havini
spoken the truth once in his life caused q halo o
grace to spread over his face until 1t shone with
splendor not Of this earth.