National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-12-05

TO any community is the Development OF its
resources. Honest discussion Of political
questions is well enough, but It should be
subservient 10 material progress Press,
Lawrenoeburg, Tepn.l
Ex-senator Kellogg, of l. ulsiann. has
tetn talking to an interviewer In Chicago
atCut the Arkansas school system, or rather
OF Its want Of any system at all. They
have heard Of II IN Arkansas, and are now
waiting for him TO inform him that he has
misrepresented the facts. The citizens OF
the state are. disposed TO point with pride
to tho fact that 80 per cent. OF the public
revenue is devoted to our education, the
statement OF Mr.. X. TO the contrary not
Observation-Disclosures Post, Selma, Ala.1
There is no doubt but that there will be
an extra session Of the legislature this win
ter. The most important question that will
Gene up will be the senatorial and repre-
sentative appointment OF the state, TO give
newly.orgonized counties representation,
the making OF several appropriations, and to-
provide for longer sessions of the leglsla-
ture. All OF these are very important
questions and should be disposed OF at this
session. Miami Republican, Paola, Kan.l
The Charleston News and Courier is a
lusty free trader, except when IL comes to
South Carolina rice, then its clarion voice
10 for protection, while In the same issue,
perhaps, 1t will plead for protection to be
Withdrawn from the young and weak manu-
featuring industries of the south that they
may have the life squeezed out OF them by
the .pauper labor Of Europe and the well
established manufacturers of the northern
and eastern states OF our own country
[Southron, Gainesville, ia
Whenever a man makes, what his friends
fatter themselves, an exceptional race for
political Office, forthwith they think the
presidential lightning has struck him. The
l ID 1a nj nx.V .NNh
talking OF him as n presidential possibility
in 1858, with Fitghugh Lee as tail to the
kite. They will both be badly frost-bitten
ere the Democratic national convention
meets.-[scioto Gazette, Chilllcothe, 0hio.l
Men who came to Dakota only few years
| ago without shilling In their pockets are
now, under good management and industry,
the happy possessors Of $50 acres OF land,
| with from 100 to 400acrcs under cultivation;
| with the necessary teams, machinery, and
implements; with good homes, barns, and
granaries, surrounded by everything that
| goes to make n man comfortable and
happy.-[Devil's Lake (Dal.) Inter Ocean.l
Now that Dr. Bailey has started for Stone
Gap, why Will not some one test the ques-
| tion OF oil supply in Wise county, Ia It
not TO be expected that great oil field
near the Cumberland mountains will
yet startlo the moneyed world with
| bOuiNt VI NChlu WulCu VIII hutpuhS tuhb III
Pennsylvania Our coal field surpasses
Pennsylvania. Why have we not the oil,
tool Key of the Gulf, Key West, Fla.1
Among the most important of the duties
| which await the forty-ninth Congress is
that Of profound avoidance of the tariff
| question. The country is now staggering
under as heavy burden Of business depres-
sion as 1t can well bear, and any tinkcring
, Of tine tariff this winter would simply result
In making bad worse.-[Bcl Air (Md.)
| Times.
On Wednesday Fulton county, Ga,
which includes Atlanta, voted on the ques-
ton of prohibition. The contest was ex-
ceedingly active and bitter. No party lines
were drawn, the sole fight being whisky or
no whisky. The election resulted in a vic
tory for prohibition. Out Of 1877 counties
in that state only IA now allow liquor to be
sold,-[Rockville (Md.) independently
Congress will meet on the first Monday
in December. Then a Republican Senate
will have to do with presidential appoint
ments. The President has become nervous
as u expecting modification by "A majority
of the Senate whose experience might be
suggestive to his excellency.-[West Fork
(Ark.) Republican,
The Mugwumpies wanted the Republican
state ticket in New York elected as an in
dorsement Of the Cleveland administration,
but Cleveland paid 81 900 toward electing
the Democratic ticket, thus proving TO the
Mugwumpies that he wanted no indorse-
ment.-L Rirksville (Mo.) Journal
Gov Cameron, by proclamation, requires
that the flags on all public buildings in the
state be displayed at half-mast during
to-day and that funeral guns shall be fired
from the capitol square at Richmond during
the progress Of the obsequies of Vice
President Hendricks Free Lance, VAL
Congressman Symes will devote much Of
his time In Congress to the silver question.
Should he work increasingly, even though
his work prove ineffective, for Colorado's
leading interest, Gen. Hamill will be unable
to deliver his goods.-[Grand Lake (Col.
ProspectorI
The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, prays that
God may help Mr.. Cleveland to write his
massage. 1t is generally believed, how
ever, that the contract was awarded to Col.
Lamont some weeks ago. - Republican,
Philippi, W. Val
If Logan should be chosen to preside
over the United States Senate the radical
newspapers will be saying that 1t is impos-
sible to thwart the aims of Providence
[Wise County (Texas) Messenger.1
! Death is announced, at the ageof so years,
, of Peter Hugus, of Omaha. He had re-
sided in Nebraska for many years, and he
anu HIS uEcu WIG tHTte yours ago celeDTaLeu
their golden wedding anniversary
} [stromsburg (Neb.) Republican,
This town is full of Democratic Mug.
. wumps. There is nothing like postofiice
. appointment to make Mugwumps of the
Democratic persuasion.-[ Golden I'm.
Sentinel
{ James A. Bayard, son of the Secretary o.
State, has been appointed secretary of the
| territory OF Arizona. Bayard has chIistened
8 his own child first Bristol Tenn News.