The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-06-19

i Publishers.
/ Grain of all kinds is looking well.
The Mu1ligan Gnards-Blaine ant
Logan.
Dlaine-Jay Gould's candidate fol
the presidency.
What are the ''solid business men,
going to do about it2
Samuel .. Tilden has declined re
election to the presidency.
The campaign song comes, along
with flies; mosquitoes and other nul
sances.
According to any of the papers
down in the Fourth district, all the
rest Of them are blackmailers.
Arthur has chance to show the
intensity of the republican sentiment
for civil service reform, in the ap.
pointment of solicitor of the treas
ury.
Gen. Butler will assist at a conven.
tion to nominate the next president.
with two nominations for the place
in his pocket. This is something of
an anomaly.
Hon. II. M. Knox has been over
hauling the commissioners OF Polk
county, and pins to them the respoH-
sibility for Interpretations amount
ing to nearly three thousand dollars.
For real estate transfers in Min
neapolis. amounting to over 100000
during six days. there were recorded
during the saEse period mortgages
for over 100000. This is one of the
things the Pioneer Press calls dema-
gogy to allude to.
Gen. John As Logan is the most
prominent man to whom the republic
cans have ever voucl,safed the honor
of a nomination to the -presiden-
cy, but that is not going to save him
from a fate which the other nonenti-
ties have escaped.
George Alfred Townsend says that
when lie reported Mr.. Bayard's
speech at Dover, Del, he was oblig.
ed to take it dcwn from the roof of a
house, fearing to show himself.
Such monumental liar as '.Gath''-
it seeIis to us, ought to be afraid to
show himself in many places.
The Cuban whatever that
may be, in Florida; is going to carry
Florida for Blaine, and, when he is
elected president he is going to re-
turn the compliment by buying Cuba.
The Ever Faithful ISL" would be a
good paddock for him to turn his star
route friends into.
Henri Hochefort, the Paris journal.
ist, has been making quite sensation
in that city by an attack on ex-presi.
dent Grant. He charges too. that
Elihu Washburne, American minister
to France during the Franco Prus-
sian war, abused his diplomatic i'm
munity by furnishing King William
with periodical advices of the state Of
the siege of Paris.
Hon. Hester cfymer, one of Penn
sylvania's most Prominent and honor
eddemocrats, died ON the 18th, inst,
aged 81 years. He will he remember
ed for his presentation to congress of
the special committees report touch.
the rascalities of William w. Bel
knap, Grants secretary Of war. which
created great sensation throughout
the land.
In portions of Belgium they cover
their wheat shocks with sort of uln.
brella, without a handle, made of
straw and twine. They call them
chaperons.> or hoods. "A man can
make twenty in day, he furnishing
the twine, and receives six francs
tabont $1.20) and his board. They
will last ten years.
The New York Times wants to
know what it is in Blaine which at
tracts to him such men as Elkins,
Clayton, Filley, Roots, Spencer.
Kerens and other persons of star-route
antecedentss The Times is republic
can newspaper, but cannot swallow
the unsavory morsel laid before it by
the recent suicidal convention at
Chicago.
IfJohn Kelly and his horde Of Tam:
many heelers ale going to make tire
great conventions OF the party
squabbling place over municipal
spoils, the sooner they are fired
the better it will be for demo-
cracy. For a man who bears the
reputation of having sold out his
party four years ago, Kelly claims
moro recognition than he is entitled
to.