Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-06-05


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Entered AZ lns Doss5iioe ia the ci-g of .
.5r,alld AADids 81 ssoO1t cialss matter.
CHaAso xIl Dot seem Lac home % the +
oil rssialants II the gambling houses
shall AL oe esoss'L
WALLAcE koss challenges Charles r. /
Courtnsy u row any distance from two I
b. I've miles tof si.0OO One u these +
,iays s0nlsbody vii pas ap too much
money against Charles Courtney and no
vii raks t ln.
Ar this talk about candidates for the
Presidaney in tsse. Is the merest foolish
ness. No man can cell any more about
who vii b. the candidates for the Presi
dency la lSss than he can tell What the
weather I'll be on election day Of that
year.
A certain church has an entertainment
this evening al which wll IL debated the
question, Resolce,i, That church fairs,
festivals and similar entertainments do
mo- pay The fact .s well known IA tins
city that they do not pay the newspapers
for advertising them
4 a ".
to remark that .ths President, when he
was inauguratssI. liung away the geogfa-
ply. lie could not hope TO ind IA Us
paaes any definition ~ mans fitness 20
hold Oifice." he seems not 10 have found
the definition either ia the geography or
anywhere else.
PRoF RmeY. whom they speak Of SO
highly. having discovered the approach
of the septendecennial iocusts, Prof.
Baird has gone 70 work and discovered
swarnls u black snakes in the Govern
ment fish ponds, ready 70 eat all the
small Try there. Evidently either the
Professor or the fish should be taken
care Of
Ar last Gen. ROsecrans mas received
the appointment Of Register Of the Treas
nry. 10 would never DO for Treasury
notes issued By a Democratic administra-
ton o. bear the signature Of a cOlOred
man. A coiored man Is very offensive
partisan at Washington nOw-a-days
Bruce must 20 aud Rosecrans gets the
place.
AsUNDASr showers OK RAIN nave fallen
upon this beautiful peninsula and re-
treshed the earth. vegetation Is invigOrat-
sd and all nature smiles, but the burning
sun rises and sets day after day upon the
White House AZ Washington. and not a
drop of satisfaction falls to cool the few
erish brow or moisten the parched tongue
II our own Col Messm0re.
Az Albany newspaper has nominated
Daniel Manning for the Presidency IN
isSS. The proposition Is supported by
the argument that men no better known
than he base been elected 10 the chief
executive Office in this nation. The fact
mnst be admitted that Cleveland was not
so well known when he was nominated AZ
Manning is. but there's Just the trouble
with Manning. he Is too well known
WnHV President Cleveland named
Isaac r. Maynard II New York. as Sec
ond Comptroller of the Treasury. he
made a great stroke. Tie hit not only
good Democrat bat. strange 20 say.
Prohibitiouist as we'll When all the rest
of the Democrat state ticket In New York
was elected. NJ. Maynard, who was the
candidate For Secretary ~ state. was de-
Eeated on account % his Prohibition
principles
The Philadelphia Times thinks that
Editor Pulitzer. ~ The New York World,
- served about right by the publication
~ hrs portrait II the Iack-Snife and pine
shingle type 10 the cheap syndicates of
cheap newspapers which hbel every pub
he man and woucan by disgraceful pic
tures Of them Pulitzer the Times SAYS.
ioined the JACK knife and pine-shingle
gmg himself. and be- gets uo more than
his due IN portr at thar would hang him
on any sort 90 an accusation Of murder.
II the picture could he got before the
jury.
THE coroners jgry iu tbe case - Oh
ium announced ss It's verd re that be
"dhe,l from injuries eaused by jumping
from the bridge of his own free VIII
Most ~ M bad supposed Il vas from che
bridge over the East river. This verdict
II net quite So rpod. however. as thst of
Kansas iury who found that The de-
ceased "siied by hanging around a rum
shop.r or that n the Pekin. H. jury
which sail thst a man whose body vas
found IN the river came to his death by a
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