National Republican., 1883-12-12
CURRENT GOSSIP.
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| ANtiSS9 oiuiu tnuu Wnleb Will Ieluiuu hppIe~
ciative reader of Mr. orphsus c. Rerr's" ballad:
In Old Virginia, at a rural place.
Where many Africans had come for voting,
Inc merest handful Of the Higher Race
Were looking on, and minor matters noting,
When, at cry about some vote refused,
Ihe Blacks, infuriate, on the handful bounded,
Their knives and pistols mercllossly used
Ana fourteen ColoFd men were badly wounded.
In New orleans-behod the lesson taushtl-
When in Convention certain Blacks assembled,
sound OF peaceful throngs outside was caught.
Aud In the halls the Blacks, blood.hirsty, trem-
blcd
Then through the windows, lobhies, outer gate,
BY the unarmed Caucasian race surrounded,
Tho Freedmen sailed in their murdrou hate
And pineteen Colord men were badly wounded.
The conclusion at which the reader will arrive
Will, in all probability, be that reached by the
poetic wit, that the southern negroes will
Keep attacking the defenseless Whites
Till all the Coord race are killed or wounded
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MARK TWAIN wants Bartholdi's statue of
Liberty TO be converted in n monument TO Adam.
But there is difficulty in the way.
THE Sunday-school army Of the world en-
braces about 13,4OO0O0 scholars, and 100000
officers and teachers, or grand total of about
| 100000.
CERTAIN "high church" members of tho
church of the Evangelist In Philadelphia have
gone to law to find out why they are denied their
rights as members OF the congregation.
| WHAT was probably one of the richest finds
of gold eyer made in this country, was discovered
recently in Amador county, California. pocket
of quartz found less than 100 feet below the SUR
face, and containing about two tons in quantity,
yielded from $4,000 to 100000.
Mr. w. N. HALDEMAN, proprietor of the
Louisville Courier Journal (of which Mr.. Henry
| Watterson is editor). has discharged six or seven
members of the editorial and reportorlal staff of
| that paper, and also the foreman OF the compos-
ing room, because they republicansiu politics.
A REMARKABLE offer has been made by tho
| governor and people of Coahuila, Mexico, to the
Southern Baptist convention TO deed TO them prop
erty sqd TO be worth Sl500oO for the establishment
Of college and four high schools, to be entirely
under Baptist control, provided the Baptists will
raise $4,000 to furnish and cndow such schools.
81 AM passionately fond of flowers" said
Miss FuSsanfeather to Algernon, the other even
ing. II always have some kind of flower about
me-" "Wel, can toll you" replied the devoted
Algernon, "that you must have had mighty
mean kind OF -four on last night for l have
worked on the lapel of my coat for am hour and
haven't got 1t all off yeti Yonkers Statesman.
THE road from San Jose to the summit of
Mount Hamilton, on which the Lick observatory
|
seven miles-was constructed at cost of $4,000,
and has already become.one Of the famous drives
of the state. The road is SO smooth, SO well main
tained, and of such easy grades that good span
of horses attached to light wagon can easily
make the ascent in four hours
A New ENGLAND clearing house is sug-
gested in Boston more economical means of
collecting checks ON interior banks. As long ago
as 1877 1t cost the Boston banks about S230O00
In ,nnln nd
mostly loss, the bankers accepting at their face
value checks received by merchants in payment
for goods. 1t is said that the bankers at the hub
have 100000 of uncollected checks outstanding.
AT Mexico, Mo-, the people arc having
some variety added TO life by ghost or hobgoplin
that is thus described. The apparition is simply
that of lean monster man, between eight and
ten feet in height wearing long cloak. and going
about with his head bowed in an abstracted way,
but occasionally garing at those IL meets with
small, gttering eyes, said to resemble those OF
cat or some wild beast. The negroes believe the
apparation TO be q ghost the white people do not
know,wbat 70 say.
BAKER PASTA, who is to lead the expedi-
ton from Suakin, the Red sea, to Khartoum, in
, the Soukan. is the Colonel Valentine Baker who,
although not distinguished for high moral vir-
tues, is possessed of undoubed valor, and is recog
nized us one of the ables soldiers in the British
service His work in the reorganization of the
Egyptian army will be suspended for time but
certainly England has ample reasons for subordi-
mating everything else in Egypt to the movement
for the protection Of her interests in the Soudan
Gov. TERRAzAs, of Chihuahua, having COM
, mission Q / the frontiersmen Of the foothills of
the Sierra Madres to come for breech-loading
rifles and 1000 cartridges each for the purpose of
crushing, If not extermlna;ing, the Apaches aud
all other hostile Indians of the mountains, orders
u that word be sent TO all the frontiersmen OF the
territories of Arizona and New Mexica TO join the
mountaineers of that state, declaring that they
can share III the $3.50 p.emium offered on each
= scalp, and the plunder and animals, arms. and
| captured ammunition.
Two CATS, three dogs, two hares and u
= pair OF pigeons lived together in restaurant in
France. The latter were the tyrants of the place,
driving both dogs and cats away from the lighted
portion of the floor. The poor cat aroused by
picks and cooling, would often quietly give up her
: place, but teased beyond endurance, would &C.
casionally bound upon the pigeon without hurt
ing it, or would discharge her nervous tension by
r. | giving four five bounds in the air, and then
II walk away One Of the hunting dogs would often
watch the hares AT their play, while the struggle
u going on In his brain between opposed incllua-
!, tions was evidenced by u violent trembling OF
+ the body
n THE estimated loss of $2,500,000 by the
# burning OF considerable part of'the national
palace ut Brussels last week indicates the gravity
= of the calamity Many of the documents de-
4 stroyed were invaluable. The palace was the
N equivalent of our capitol at Washington, or the
n London houses of parliament but rather more
.s sacred on account of the treasures stored In Il
If and the "reminiscences which surrounded it, For.
Is tunatey 1t was not great picture gallery, like
Y, many European palaces, though itcontnined some
~ splendid paintings. The parliament chamber
n were among the most elegant extant. The
IS National palace fronts on beautiful park, will
N the royal palace the opposite SIDE and that O.
the Prince of Orange on the left. The other sur
or roundlngs are delightful.
IS ACCORDING to the San Francisco (Cal
= Can there is now in that city young English
man who has set himselfa a task whose magnitude
OF difficulties, and dangers might appal the stoutes
10 heart. His programme is as follows; He intends
to winter In San Francisco, and In the spring pro
poses to start from that city ON his wheel eastward
y. by way of Ogden, Omaha, and Chicago. and cross
To- ing the Atlantic from New York, will ride from
Oh Liverpool TO Dover He will cross the Englisi
to channel to France and ride through Europe int
70 Asiauc Turkey, thence through Persia anC
81 Turkestan into tho Chinese empire, and make hi
r. way down the valley of the Yang tseRiang Il
x Shanghai, and thence by vessel TO San Francisco
10 10 consuming year in the travelling He says h
TO considers the trip from San Francisco to Reno h
n. most difficult piece of road for bicycle, an'
Iie looks with some dismay AT his proposed trl
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