The Russellville Democrat., 1885-01-29
NEWS AND NOTES.

OF better times.
The Baltimore American asserts
that O'Donovan Rossa does not like
to be asked how he is Pbelsn.
AS the 4th Of Marcn draws near
or, the Republican regret at having
to give up the flesh-pots increases.
President Arthur on account of
the press Of business, will not visit
the Exposition until he becomes a
private citizen.
Colonel Bob Ingersoll is still go
ing from rostrum to rostrum in
Northern cities explaining wherein
he and God disagree.
Anybody would suppose, from
reading the stuff the Republicans
are publishing on ST. John, that he
or the Republican leaders were luna
tics.
California proposes to go to the
root of the matter and send to the
United States Senate the boss mo-
nopolist OF them all-Leland Stan
ford.
The large telescope brings the
moon within thirty miles of the earth.
We suppose forgers and embezzlers
will now turn their flight in that di-
rection.
Political gossips now say that
Hon. William Dorsheimer, and net
William G. Whitney, is to be New
York's representative IN President
Cleveland's Cabinet.
st. John must be thoroughly con-
vinced BY this time of the truthful
: ness of the cid adage that "a lie
will travel league while Truth is
putting on his boots"
Snowman Barnum now wants to
buy General Grants souvenirs and
bric a-brac and have the General 60
into partnership with him in the
show business; the impudent old
loon.
In the Rev. Balls libel suit
against the New York Evening Post,
E Mr.. Locke, of counsel for the de
Tense, argued that the existence OF
such man as the reverend defamer
was . public calamity. We agree
with him.
Consul Mosby-'Guerilla Mosby'
as the Northerne,s delighted to call
him before he turned Republican
says he don't want any OF his friends
to plead for his retention in Office
under the new Administration. He
remarks, casually, that he survived
one Lost Cause, and thinks he can
stand another setback.
There are 1920 steam vessels en-
gagged in the grain carrying trade,
and LHey carried last year AZ. 1861, 799
bushels Of grain to Europe. Not a
single one OF them few the flag of
the United States. There were also.
FOL sailing vessels in the grain trade
which carried 2,43t, ,95S bushels, and
there were only two United States
vessels in the lot. We have drop
ped out of the business almost en-
tirely.
The motive Hawley and Sherman
and their republican confe-es had in
dragging the Sherman Davis scold-
ing match into the Senatorial arena
is transparent. They are terribly sore
over the defeat of their party in the
late contest and they are anxious to
excite feeling against the Democrats
in the North, hoping thereby to
make the people receive Cleveland's .
administration with distrust at the
outset.
An able statician has figured out
the facts that the annual revenues
of the Government Of Great Britain
are $2l0,000,000, of which sum the
royal family draws .f537, 900. Those
of Russia are fl06,000,000 of which
the Gear spends on himself aud TAM
lily f2,450,0 while the Prince OF
Montenegro takes cool 7 per cent.
Of the meagre revenues Of his prin
clpality, despite the fact that he has
another source of revenue yielding
him E78,000 per annum. That's
where the fun OF being an efete
monarch comes in.
1t turns out now that Thomas
Jefferson had decided leaning to
ward civil service reform. Theo-
dore F. Bayles, OF Tarrytown, N. T.,
has in his possession some old pa,
pers and letters left him by his IA
ther, Nathaniel Bayles who was an
intimate friend OF, and after his
death the executor OF Stephen ID.
Beekman, son in law of Governor
and Vice president George Clinton
and executor of his estate Among
the papers is letter dated May IL,
1901, to Governor Clinton from
Thomas Jefferson, then President, in
which he says that "of Ill the duties
imposed on the executive head of
the Government. appointment to of
fee is the most difficult and most
irkseme;" that be, himself was "dis-
posed to make as few changes in the
Offices as possible, and remove only
for malconduct."