Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-22
"CRUMRS SWEPT UP.,
Important Items from All Points of the
Compass.

$4,000 in gold-dust. The room from which |
He comes In with a stride |
And tn. door opens wide
And leaves it where open he throws it,
| And males us loos GUNNER |
| Than we did in the summer
| When he always was careful TO close IL. |
i Sufialo Courier.
Or. Burchard prayed for Cleveland and the |
Democratic par ty last Sunday There i. DO
question bat what they need it, but Dr. Burch- |
ard has certainly done his whole duty al
ready, without the prayer
The remains OF Tom Buford, who died at
Anchorage last Thursday, were taken to
Lexington, Saturday night, and inferred in
the Lexington cemetery. Only few persons
attended and there were no services at the
grave. Poor Tom is the Kentuckisn who, on
balmy morning not long since went out
with a shotgun and "bagged" a Judge who
had decided case against him. Tom imme-
dately became legally insane pro tem and has
since died.
The dwellers in the vicinity of Yale Med
ical School are angry and excited at the fact
that the embryo hysicisns are in the habit
Of leaving skeletons on the tin roofs of their
boarding houses in order to dry and bleach.
The upstairs windows of the resident
Yale citizen command startling views of un-
covered graves, SO to speak, and the average
citizen, when he opes his morning window
on the view, rejoices no doubt, in his 'unri-
vailed novelty since Gehenua. II also affords
lady visitors ample opportunities Tor elegant
mysteries.
Mr.. Butler Malone. escapsde at Welcker's
Hotel ended in both the Senator and his ris-
ing prototye being ordered bag and baggage
out of the hotel The Senator, with his in-
nocent boy, has established himself at the
Ebbitt, where "the id niggers" don't scare
easily, and who will not be overawed by
pistol in the hands of very bad
marksman.
Ash tints may be worn with seasonable
propriety, and other things, during Lent
Down at Dayton they have peculiar way
of determining just how snow will "go off,"
, Take SNOWFALL and hold it over jet fame.
If the fame burns Though the ball, then the
sun will melt the snow; but if it only burns
= halfway through and the 0al melts, then
/ the snow is to 60 with a rain. Try it'll
The Democratic managers in the Ohio Pen
itentiary have clothed the convicts in the
prison in the blue uniform worn by the
, soldiers who fought the battles of the couu-
e try, and who prevented the disruption of the
r Union when assailed by Southern toes. On
o the other hand the Trustees of the Soldiers
: and Sailors Orphans Home have stripped the
: blue from the backs of the boys in that insti-
tutioa, and have substituted for it the rebel
{ gray. The ''blue" dIshonored and the gray"
s preferred is strigingly significant at the pres
eut time. 1t may be said with evident truth
, that the memories Of the war will not be
, wiped out with one fell blow" so to speak,
in this manner Can it be said that the Re-
publicsns are tearing the healing wounds
open afresh when they suggest that. on occa-
sion for display OF the war memories, it
would be just as we'll to give the loyal SOL
= dier no cause to blush because he fought in
the blue? Would it not be just as well on
such occasions to have it among the promi-
nent features that it was, at one time at least,
very hon orable and very patriotic to be
: Union soldier?
There are in the United States and Terri
tories 5o,s57 I.o,teffices, 81 of which are rated
as frst-class. 404 are rated as second-class o.
: fees and l SAT are put down as third-class
postoffices. or the so,s57 postoffees 1892
are presidential offices, at which the presi-
dent appoints the postmaster. OF the whole
| number of postofices in the United States
4s,525 are rated as fourtb-class Offices There
are 6,902 money order offices, and IS money
order stations.
OF the 5o,s57 postoffices 2,7l7 of them are
in the State OF Ohio, of which six only are
frst-class Offices, thirty mine are rated second
class and niuety-one as thrd-class There
are but l36 presidential postofdces in Ohios
1881 Offices are rated as iourth-clsss. OF the
whole number only 456 are money order Of
fees, to which are attached four money order
stations.
1t appears to be a chemical analysis that
the chocolate drops sold by the curb,tone
candy brokers do not contain enough corn-
meal TO render them unfit for a1le-grease.
This is an important discovery, as it was
thought at one time that the only use that
could be made of this confections would be to
insert a wick in them and burn them as
tallow dips.
party Of excursionists from Iowa passed
through Griffin, Georgia, on their way to
visit the site of Andersonvile, the Conteder-
ate prison pen. A large crowd assembled at
the depot and an address of welcome was
delivered to which a suitable response was
made. Then for ten minutes there was a
mingling of the citizens and excursionsts
As the train started from the depot the low
ans Joined Justify in singing, We'll hang
JEFF Davis on a sour apple tree" For mo-
ment the citizens stood dumb and then burst
forth in a yell of execration such as has been
seldom sent after departing visitors. One in !
dignant ex-Contederate proposed that tele-
gram be sent TO the next town to head the |
offenders off and mob them
By the death of Young Antelope, says the |
Fargo, Oak, Argus, Stanley Huntley, an
Eastern newspaper man, at one time connect
ed with the Dakota press, becomes the chief |
OF the Teton Nation aud King OF all the
Sioux tribes. Some time before the sur
render OF Sitting Bull Huniley was sent into
1
interview him. He crossed the plains and
joined Major Walsh at Wood Mountain in the
British Northwest Territory. Camped around
the Majors post were the old men and
| squaws OF the Sioux Nation and among