Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-11-15
Notes OH Current Events.

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gentleman reported to have carrie
the Seventh New Jersey district.
The heroic treatment is to be recon
mended for prompt effectiveness.
either cures or kills at once. In thi
case it will do both. 1t will cure tn
Republican party and kill the self.ap
pointed bosses. The dose was a bit
ter one to many, but the ultimate ef
feet will be most satisfactory.
One article of import upon which
heavy tariff should be placed is tht
Mormon convert. But a few days
since twenty-eight missionaries landed
in New York with over three hun
dred newly converted Mormons
With each day the question of DO
lygamy in the United States becomes
more grave.
Three hundred and thirty-fve miles
of the Northern Pacific Railroad have
been examined and accepted by the
Government since the adjournment OF
Congress, leaving about four hundred
miles yet to be constructed. Patents
will be issued forthwith for eight or
nine million acres of land adjoining
the newly built road.
There are still people living who
want to organize Arctic exploring ex-
peditions, and yet there is always
room for one more" in the lunatic
asylum. The experience of thirty
years has demonstrated the fact that
no vessel can be built strong enough
to withstand the pressure of the ice,
as nearly all have met with disaster.
Some other method than sailing the
ocean blue must be devised before the
North Pole will be reached. 1t NAV
be that by extending series of sta
tions northward the desired end will
be accomplished, but the theory of an
open polar sea is exploded, and to at
tempt to penetrate to the Pole with a
vessel is getting to be too obsurd q
thought to entertain
The Postofice Department has reach
ed that very desirable state where it is
selfsustaining, which the coming re-
port of the Postmaster General for the
past year will show. The total sur
plus, as shown by the books, is ST.
900, 900; but of this amount 81 ,OOO,-
900 is owing to the Pacific Railways
for carrying the mails. AS the rail-
way companies are behind with the
Government in their interest account,
the Postofice Department will turn
this million over to the Treasury and
give the railway companies credit for
that amount Thus the total 81, ,6OO,-
600 of the surplus is reduced to a ct
5000, ,OO0,. In answer to the question,
what is to be done with these surplus
the Postmaster General re-
plies that it will be the policy of the
to increase the service
rather than allow decrease ofreceipts
by reducing the rate of postage.
Forty years have elapsed since
Daniel Webster, then Secretary of
State in President Harrison's Cabinet,
wrote the Hon. Thomas Ewing, Sec
retary of Treasury: "The Preid ent is
of the opinion that it is great abuse to
bring the patronage of the General
Government In conflict with the free
dom of general elections, and that this
abuse ought to be corrected wherever
it may have been permitted to exist,
and to prevent it for the future" The
people are evidently of the same opin-
ion to-day. A month has not yet
elapsed since President Arthur stood
by the sacred grave at Marshfeld.
He is gentleman of liberal education,
and probably had read this letter; nor
would it would it be surprising if his
visit to the dead statesman's grave re-
called the admonition. Had he but
needed it, how different might have
been the result on Tues sday.
"Of all the sad words of tongue or pen,
The sadest are, 1T might have been.'"