Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-03-24
: Not So Much Republican Hilarity.-

There was some Republican hilarity
observable shortly afterthe Presidential
election over an alleged discovery that
the Democratic Committee, aided by
certain Con gressmen, had been sending
under frank d considerable amount of
mail matter which had no claim to free
transportation. The testimony of Cen
eral Walker, Secretary of the Demo
cratic Congressional Commute, before
the committee appointed toainyestiga
these alleged frauds, is not at all calcu-
lated to increase the hilarity spoken of.
Indeed, its most noticeable effect will
be to make the Republican managers
laugh--if we may resort to the ver-
nacular-s'on- other side of the
mouth
General Walkers testimony showed
that large quantities of matter mailed
by him at Neutrality-suspicious. stamped
and some franked-were stopped, by
the postmaster at Washington, or else
where, and neither forwarded to their
destination nor returned~to him. In
proof of this fact he produced some
live hundred letters OF complaints that
packages sent had not been received.
Among them were several letters from
postnasters. He also produced the
evidence that a letter directed to him
had been opened by Republican of
ficials. The testimony bears with
especial weight upon the Washington
postmaster, whose uncertainty about
the date when the canceling stamp was
changed in his Office was one of the
interesting features of the Philip ex-
animation. Detroit Free Press. 3
"A rather amusing typographical
error appeared in a Washington paper
the other day. A colored man was
shot on another man premises there
and died from the effects OF the wound.
He belonged to a "Colored Benevolent
Society,"" but had q weakness for fowls
that was the cause of his untimely end.
The society sent to the paper in ques-
ton suitable resolutions on the sad oc-
casion, which appeared duly. But the
last lines were rendered thus: ''Our
brother has gone where chickens. sor-
row, pain and death are felt and
feared no more" The explanation by
the editor that 8. chickens is mis-
print for Sickness has been of no
avail, and he has had to leave town
abruptly.
One evening a lady in London
found q "rough-h haired collie" dog
asleep on a rug, and placing her face
close to his head, she blew sharply,
with loud shout. in one of his ears.
Tickled and startled, he jumped up and
moved of. seemingly somewhat offend
ed. In the course of the evening, the
lady happened to be reclining in an
easy, chair, when the collie was OBJ
served by some of the inmates to rise.
and, making circuit, to move stealth
lily toward the chair, put his forepaws
on one of the arms. and placing his
nose close to the lady's ear, to give q
sharp bark and Instantly bounded of.
!. Hayes wentout of Office burdened
with universal contempt. StalwaEts of
high and low degree are denouncing
him even the thieves and pefjurers he
has fed at the Treasury crib denounce
him. Indiu,aGpotis Stute Sentinel
The greed for office is shown. in
the eagerness with which Wisconsin
. Republican polit Clans began laying
pipe for the succession to Matt. Carpen-
ter even before the death of that Sena-
tor had made a vacancy certain.