National Republican., 1883-03-19
ON TIE AYENuE.
small Talk About Men and Measures.

! over, besides stirring up the produce eNchan-
ges in the commercial centers. The packers
and exporters of pork arc naturally angry mt
the Bismarckian edict, but they say they will
put their goods on tho German market odict
or no edict in the manner described in THE
REPUBLICAN, Friday morning, viz, ship the
hams and bacon to Liverpool and roship it
from there rs English meat The Now York
Herald quotes ono packer as saying: ut will
cost no moro to have our meats repackcd in
England, but you can depend upon it the Ger
man government cannot prevent us from get
ting pork into Germany There are many
ways of getting it into the country, even
without landing at German scaports. 1t can
DO sent to other ports and taken over the
frontier. The action of Germany will have n
depressing effect upon the coming seasons ex-
port, but it will not paralyze our trade"
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The presence in this city during the winter
of Mr.. Spreckels, the great sugar monopolist
Of tho Pacific slope, and the talk that has
been INDUCED in over the proposition 60 abro-
gate that portion of the Hawaiian treaty
which enables him to hold the monopoly lends
n local interest to the following description
the Sandwich Islands Its the largest and
most complete plantation in the world. II is
many miles in extent, and the improvements
on 1t are estimated to have cost four millions
of dollars. The four sugar mills, capable of
making 100 tons of sugar day, cost one mil
lion Of dollars, and the outlay for water on
the plantation has been as nearly as much
more. The water supply comes through two
bitches, one fifty miles long, the other twelve,
and for the water privilege, irrespective of
the expense Of conveying IL to the plantation,
Spreckcls pays $4,000 year. The yield of
sugar is from twenty to twenty five thousand
tons per annum.
The great commotion caused by the break
ing of Mr.. Blaine's carriage window leads
Peck's Sun to remark that the friends of
Mr.. Blaine, who show such able advertising
qualities, should be engaged by a circus as
advance agents" The REPUBLICAN, will
take pleasure in defending Mr.. Blaine from
any such i'll tempered assaults by "bean
shooting boys or bad editors.
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In the Post yesterday morning there ap-
peared paragraph to the effect that Col. Tom
Ochiltree had uncarthed an unsettled account
between the President and the government.
The publication has brought the colonel to
the front with a hat-footed denial that he did
anything of the sort. He says he has no
knowledge whatever of the matter, and adds
that he is neither a detective nor scandal
mongcr, closing with the remark that he is
confident that the first comptroller will event.
o11 do tbnt ha No ri iuh IN hiu
(ochiltree's) salary.
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Col. Charles II. Joyce, of Vermont, has de-
cided to make Washington his future home
He has entered into copartnership with Ellis
Speare, ex-commissioner of patents. Col.
Joyce has represented Vermont in congress
for the last eight years, whore his record as n
republican and efficient legislator is above
reproach.
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Senator Miller and Representatives Wads.
worth, McCook, and Townsend are credited
with purpose TO visit the City of Mexico,
starting from Cincinnati in day or two on
their trip to the sister republic.
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Two old citizens of Washington, one OF
them an antc-bellum old citizen, were
yesterday engaged in heated discussion
in street car on the question of suff-
rage in the district. Said tho ante.
bellum bourbon "We don't want any suffrage
here, there are too many niggcrs in the
town, and the constant marching and counter.
marching of negro and white clubs, incident
to campaign, will only lead to trouble We
want peace and quietness like it was before
the war"
"Hold on" said the other. "Don't get be-
hind the returns ON the history of this city
before the war; You must remember that
this was one of the most disgraceful places in
the union in ante-bellum times so far as mol
law was concerned. You may east all the in
situations you please on the negro voter, but
recollect that the streets of this city ran with
blood and the United States marines were
called out more than once to suppress riots al
the point of the bayonet where white men
only voted, and where negroes were compelled
by law to be in their houses before 10 O'Clock
at night"
"We are better off without suffrage" was
the only reply.
The other old citizen closed the conversa.
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the people of the capital Of the greatest re-
public on earth should be deprived of the
right to control their own municipal affairs
while the people of the capitals of all the great
countries of Europe except Russia had voice
in the selection of their officials. He was il
favor of home rule himself
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"All the State department clerks have re
signed" said an old Navy department CLERK
TO gentleman in street car yesterday
"How is that said the gentleman. IRE
signed themselves to their fate" said tn,
punster. "You see there are only about forty
of them and they were occupying the Who'll,
of the south wing of the splendid new State
War, and Navy department building, will
iron gates at the end Of each corridor and I
fence with iron spikes on IL to keep th'
blawsted common tobacco chewing, wild,
painted, sailor clarlSs from climbing over int
the sacred precincts of diplomacy"
"Were they fired out?"
"That's not the word" said the n. d. c.
"they were, in the choice language of tn,
court, compelled to absquatulate from sew
eral of the rooms and compress themselve
into moro limited space"
"Who made them absquatulate" "
"Well, the pressing needs of the Navy ant
War departments for more room brought i
about"
"Were they real mad ?"