The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-01-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

THE people of Texas do not want that State divided
nor of Maine.
GEN. BEN. HARRISON of Indiana, may now be
called Senator Ben. Harrison.
THE President nominated Claiming Richards U. S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio.
HON. JOHN SHERMAN was nominated for o. 8. Sem
ator by the Republican caucus at Columbus Tues
day of last week.
THE Revenue Agent sent to Georgia to investigate
Marshal Fitzsmmons, found the Marshal somewhat
crooked in his dealings.
A BODY of colored Republicans from the South
called upon Gen. Garfield last Friday, and laid be-
fore him the condition of Southern Republicans.
DALzELL:s latest is long letter In the Cincinnati
Commercial favoring Fred Douglass for Cabinet po-
sition. By the way, wouldn't the Private make a
good Cabinet officer?
1T might be good idea to move the Ohio Legisla-
ture down to Cincinnati, and let 1t remain there,
Cincinnati furnishes it about all the business it can
attend to.
THE Democratic Caucus met at Columbus last week
and baoted for Allen G. Thurman U. s. Senator.
There was large number of candidates. Demo-
crat always likes to be made the subject of funeral
THE Committee Naval Affairs of the lower
House of Congress- have reported favorably a bill
appropriating $4,000 for the erection of monument
to the horses who perished in the wrecked steamer
Huron off the coast of North Carolina, Nov. "a 1871
THE Cincinnati Gazette is for Gov. Foster for
Postmaster General and expresses the opinion that
he would ''infuse new life into that Department. 1t
is fact within the memory of mankind that the CD
zette found too much life in Key, Postmaster Gen
eral.
IN speaking of the New York Senatorial contest,
the daily press have dispatches hearing the caption
| "Conklings victoryl" 1t strikes us that Conkling
has good many victories for a man whom great
many newspapers have written up as played out po-
| litically.
| THERE seems to be impression among great
many people that after man retis from the ofce OF
President of the United States he becomes an imbe-
cile. The latest foolery is bill by Senator Hoar
providing pension of $4,000 year to retr-
| ing Presidents. .
| SENATOR MORGAN, of Alabama, made 1.-The great
of his lie. in long political speech in the
Senate day last week. 1t doubtless prepared
as funeral oration the defunct Democracy and
though it little late, enjoyed by the few
| Senators who remained to hear it.
THE great dailies-such as, for instance, the Gin.
cnnati Commercial, occasionally fill from to two
columns with balderdash about the bitter quarres'
| between Senators Conkling and Blaine or between
Blaine and Grant. These quarrels all take place III
the mind of the newspaper correspondent.
GARFIELD will scarcely continue old man Chris.
tancy as Minister to Peru This is the old man wht
married young and pretty wife and took her to Peru
but the Peruvian bark didn't sail smoothly on th
sea of matrimony. Ifhe could have married the wo
about fifty years sooner, it would have been al
right.
THE q. S. Senate decided that Spofford, the con
testant for Ke1oggs in the Senate not enti
tied to the seat. Spoford died and the Governor @
Louisiana appointed man to continue the contest
after it decided. Ben. Hill is urging this man
claims" and the entire session of the Senate will
occupied in talking about nothing, If the lease" !
once taken up.