National Republican., 1883-05-30

THERE is q man on West hill so ugly that
no is afraid to sleep with hlmself-Buriington
Hdtctcye.
Mr. EDGAR FAwoETT, IL is understood, is
at work ON new society novel; to be entitled
AN Ambitious Woman"
JAY GOULD has learned not to get mad.
Tho people with whom he has had dealings can't
say as muoh.--BoSon Rrdtd
The late J. Il. Green's "Short History Of
the English People first published In 1874, has
now reached circulation 100000 copies.
THERE is great excitement at 'Poughkeep-
sic over three organized raids by burglars within
month, when eleven residences were entered.
HE who regrets the marriage fee he paid to
the minister for performing the ceremony is too
mean to go to the expense OF procuring divorce
JUDGE WILLIS, of Georgia, has announced
that gambler can be convicted of vagrancy, no
matter how much money he may have, under the
laws of Georgia.
SIR MICHAEL BASS the brewer of "Bass's
pale ale" has given away to different towns for
Libraries, baths, churches, clubs, &C., sums that
foot up TO Gl73,O00.
THE friends of John A. Bingham, ,or some
years minister to Japan, mako the announcement
that he will soon resign and return home to 70.
enter Ohio politics.
Mr.. WILLIAM BLACKS latest story is en-
titlci "rhe Strange Adventures of Milkmaid"
Messrs. Harper have purchased the American
right to reprint 1t In Hdrper's Weekly.
The Manchester Mirror, of New Hamp-
shire, declares that what the republican party
needs is "more Mahones." The Mirror is q repub-
lican paper, and knows what it is talking about.
THE story is told of an Irish priest that in
preaching recently on the decisions of the sub
commissioner under the land act, he took for
his text the words: "And the rent is made
worse"
IN Portland, whHe prohibition is the law,
the city marshal has instructed tho police that
they must not allow rum to be sold or carted
through the streets on Sunday, aud that the grog.
gerles must be cleared out and shut up at 10 o'clock
week day evenings,
SUNDAY, John w. Woodruff, grand secre-
tary Of the Masonic grand lodge, of Wisconsin,
secretary of the grand chapter and recorder of
the grand commandery, resigned these offices be-
cause of recent charges that he IS short in his
counts s5,0 900 or more.
CONGRESSMAN JOHN HART BREWER and
State Senator John Taylor, Of New Jersey, have
declined to be candidates for the republican
nomination for governor OF the state, and are
understood to favor the selection once moro of the
Hon. Frederic A. Potts,
GEN. MALONE, like an able commander,
has been strengthening what the soldier boys
used to call the "squirmish line" In preparation
for the engagement next fall and the great battle
next year. The local elections in Virginia show
how well he has done It,
MAJ. McCLELLAND, one of the staff officers
OF Gen. Robert e. Lee, is college president at Lex
ingon, KY; Gen. Kirby Smith is a member of
the faculty of the University of the South in
Tennessee, and Gen. j. L. b. Stuart's widow con-
trolls school at Staunton, Va.
THE house in which tho poet, Edgar A.
Poe, lived for some time at Fordham is to be sold
at public auction, under foreclosure on June 0,
the day appointed for the iuterment of the re-
mains of the poet, John Howard Payne, author of
"Home, Sweet Home" at Washington.
The two coats Of paint on the great bridge
weigh 10000 pounds, but the whole weight OF
steel in the air is IA $50 TONS and the load 1t is
peced always 10 be carrying is 3,lOO tons more,
making 1880 tons. But each Of the four cables
will hold up more than sixty 10000 tons.
a. MRS. MARIA WATSON, wife of the defaulting
United States paymaster, was daughter of tho
Hon. John w. Bingham, and was, q few years ago,
considered one of the handsomest and most ac-
complshed ladies in Ohio. Rumor has 1t that
they have not lived happily for two years or MORE
AsLEDGE swung over the shoulder ofa tawny
Italian drove the last spike of the Albany branch
of the New York, West Shore and Buffalo railway
at $50 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Thus, con-
nection between the main line at Coeymans and
the city Of Albany was established. Ceremony
was dispensed with. A perspiring section boss,
gesticulating TO his force of aliens, made up the
spectacle.
ALTOGETHER it has been hard year for
the aged veterant of Chepultapec and Cerro Gordo
and Monterey The New York legislature passed
bill pensionng the survivors Of the Mexican
regiments from that state, which was annulledby
the veto of Governor Cleveland, and Governor
Pattison of Pennsylvania has Just disapproved D
like measure, adopted by the legislature of that
state. The governors of both states hold that
enough has been done already to keep the pot
boiling for the old age of these worthy warriors.
IRISH emigration to this country is phe-
nomenon unprecedented in ancient or modern
history. No such movement of population has
been chroniclod and, II is safe to say, has never
taken place. There is n much larger number Of
other foreigners than Irlshmen in the United
States, but no country except Ireland has ever
sent out two million people to new homes ami
mated with hatred of the government under
which they were born. No government but that
of Great Britain has ever had such story to tell
about its own subjects
SOME of the newspapers seem to have just
made the discovery that President Grant was the
first earnest advocate of a reform in the civil SER
vice, and that his efforts to secure II failed be.
cause he was in advance of public sentiment,
aud that he encountered opposition whore he
should have had support and cooperation.
There was failure, but he was not responsible
for It, as those who have sandered him are now
learning, apparently for the first time. They
are shining evidences of the truth of the old
adage that :" there are none SO blind as those who
will not see"
SOME amusement is caused in departmental
circles by the discovery that the rules submitted
for the government of the civil service In the Post
ofice department by the civil service commission
contains upward score Of grammatical errors
Upon cursory examination by postoiice officials
seventeen errors were detected. Mr. Blackfan,
superintendent of foreign mails, is prominent
civil service advocate. lie has just been out with
Prof Gregory to assist in the work Of establish
ing boards of examination, and the rules sub
mitted are said to be the result Of their labors-
The Graphic.
A New YORK paper contains the following
verbatim criticism ofa picture in Rochester art
exhibition: Miss Marion McNair had some pro.
ductons, ono subject being the window of Col.
Rorback's smokehouse, Of which tho blind Is
closed, aud over II runs branches OF blooming
rose bush. On branch sits canary bird The
sunlight streaming into the blind and brick wall
makes sight OF unusual beauty and unique"
good companion TO this would be the oolonel's
smokehouse window with the blind open; the
colonel, who Is probably bachelor on the inside,
mending an old pair OF suspenders with a last
years shoe buckle, and cussing" gently withal,