National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-06-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

STATESMEN should remember that the
deleterious effects of Washington "ma-
laria" may be greatly mitigated by hav-
ing it carefully iced.
TIE promptness with which thesteamer
Corwin started for and has returned with
the crew of heill-fated Rodgers is highly
creditable to the Revenue Marine Ser
vice.
One cannot too highly commend the
promptness with which good many
murderers recently have voluntarily fol-
lowed their victims to the other shore
through the suicide chute.
WHILE numerous expeditions are being
fitted out to observe the transit of Venus
it would be eminently proper to call the
Adonis of the Washington press TO the
lead of one Of these parties.
Or THE four hundred persons who wit
messed the brutal prize-fght in Boston
last Friday, it is said that not more than
fifty belonged to "the best elements OF
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts"
ALTHOUGH the magazines and Sunday
papers are somewhat late in announcing
the demise of General "Stonewall "
jackson, they show creditable inclina-
ton to do ample justice to that tragic
event.
Ar this season of the rolling year the
rural editor up-ends himself to tender
"thanks to Senator A and Congressman
B for valuable public documents" which
the generous donors are glad to- have
gotten rid of
The Mormons continue proselyting in
Europe and steadily increasing their
strength by immigration. When their
social ulcer is cured-if the patient sur
wives the process-U Utah will make good
member of the family of States.
PUBLIC sentiment against I" the code 4"
is making sure progress in South Caro-
lima. Its rate of advancement is, however,
painfully suggestive of Mark Twain's at
tempt to travel down noun tain ON u
glacier that moved an inch day.
WITH unruflled serenity the general
reader peruses the most thrilling reports
of sanguinary fighting between Cowboys
and Apaches. This calm contentment
reposcs in u deep and abiding conviction
that every well-directed shot or blow on
both sides will conduce to the public
veal.
WE do not know that the people are
hankering after "a common meridian"
but no harm can result from the passage
of the bill that purports to supply the
alleged want And, for some years to
come, n common meridian will answer
every purpose as well rs a more expen-
sive one.
In its long and varied career the Demo-
cratic party has seen rs many aillictions
rs have fallen TO the lot of any other
travel-stained pilgrim of the earth but
that which hath vexed its dear old soul
most has been the fact that it has some
times been compelled TO suspect Re-
publican Of yielding to temptation and
falling into corrupt ways.
NEWSPAPERS should not aggravate the
dangers and discomforts of the heated
term by sudden, startling announce
ments. There was no occasion for our
morning contemporary to break in on
the general quiet with its alarming dis
covery that sour merchant marine of
to-day is not what it once was" Tho
public mind should have been prepared
for and gradually led up to this terrible
revelation.
A PHILOSOPHER of q new school adj
vances the theory that there is principle
of correspondence between the vegetable
pl'huNNo VI NilN lpNNllhl NiiNi tilO iibSilNN~
tual character of its inhabitants. This
reminds us that the peanut did not be-
come great Tennessee export until Jack
son, Bell, and Brownlow had gone hence,
and we do not remember that the huckle-
berry industry ilourished greatly in the
Bay State in the days of Webster, Choate,
Everett, and their compatriots,
Those who feel disheartened at the
modest achievements ofthe thermometer
this season will derive encouragement
from the reflection that there are still
more than two months Of the heated
term. Last year the mercury climbed to
one hundred and two degrees in Septem-
Der, As the appropriation for the
Weather Bureau is all right wo may con-
iidently expect as ample supply of
caloric this year us we enjoyed in 1881,
Brethren, let us grid up our loins and
press onward.