The Republican journal., 1881-01-13

interest Shall not exceeds per cent The
impression is general that it may be
impossible to float 3 per cent note or
bond at par, and therefore it is wise to
give the Secretary Of the Treasury power
to make the interest not exceeding -
per cent. if he finds it necessary.
1t may please Mr. Richard Grant White 10 sec
that most of the extreme Bourbon papers in the
South copy with approval and delight his assaults
upon the public school system, while the more en-
ightened and progressive papers criticise and
denim his utterances. Boston journal
The Bourbon papers which copy This
article with approval and delight are
not confined to the South The Prog.
Age copied it.
The Boston Herald recently published
an article in which it alleged that Uni
yersalism is on the decline and gave its
reasons for the assertion. On Sunday
last the Cnivcrsalist clergymen of Boston
took the Herald to task, and emphatic
ally denied that their church is declining
in strength or usefulness
''Men," said one of Theodore Win
throp's characters. ''are divided into three
classes -t them as grabs their chances,
them as chucks away their chances, and
them as let's their chances slide" The
Boston Herald says that the Democrats
appear to constitute the last two classes
"by a large Majority
The Mormon question is coming to a
head. The Governor OF tab Territory
has declared George &. Cannon, sitting
delegate and delegate elect to Congress,
Ineligible on the ground that he is q
polygamst and an alien. His opponent,
\. g. Campbell is declared elected and
entitled to the seat
y very Incorporate temperance mani
testo was circulated during the Senatorial
contest with view to defeating the cleo
ton OF Mr.. Hale, The Bangor CONNER
clal says it is reported that Mr.. Hale in
tends to call upon some of the signers of
this manifesto to substantiate the charges
against him contained therein.
An Augusta dispatch says When the Fusion
lists learned that Mr.. Fryes case was hopeless they
made proposition to unite with the Frye men
Tins
Indignantly spurEed by Mr., Fryes friends"
OF course it was. Who were the Flu
sionists who made so impudent a propo-
sition? They must have the cheek of a
highwayman's mule.
The Oxford Democrat says Of the Sen
atorial contest
While the contest was between Hale and FRYE.
Oxford County was forFrye when the contest is
ended, she viii be for the Republican nominee
MIR. Hale is every way qualified for the position,
and Will do honor to it. The contest has been one
OF personal preference rather than on the question
Of qualification.
Reports throughout New England show
that Mondays storm was the severest of
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directions and travel generally impeded
for time. The snow fall was about
one foot, but it drifted badly.
English yachtsmen are talking of hav
ing another try for the cup won at Cowes
by the America in 1851. Perhaps Gen.
Butler will accommodate them with race
with the America in American waters.
The losses 10y fires during 1880 amount
ed to S76,5l3, 100, a decrease of about
SIS, coo, 900 as compared with 1879. But
it still costs Il good deal to start the
kitchen fire with kerosene.
lndlana's eX Governor thinks the re.
public is in danger His name is GRAY
but to him the political outlook is black
A New York lecturer demands a SUP.
ply of pure milk for that city and the
Punishment of the sausage makers. Has