Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-17
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Politics has iobbery, but iobbery has no
politics. This is what gives jobbery an enor-
nous adv antage
The st. LoGis lawyers now fight i'm court
with their fists. The chars and benches ar
probably nailed down.
Pennsylvania Republicans are in difficulties
with both the Prohibition vote and the liquor
vote. General Beaver has his work cut for
him.
If congress wants 10 escape the Tartar
which it has caught In the President it should
qvit passing bills and go home.
Canada would be wiser to establish a three
mile limit for American defaulters rather
than for American fishermen.
An exchange says Abraham Lincoln discov-
cred David Davis. There Is also a tradition
that David Davis was one Of the discoveries
OF Abraham Lincoln.
They do say that when Susan Is. Anthony
saw the mummy that Sunset Cox sent over
the ocean her eyes filled with involuntary
tears.
They now accuse Senator Sherman Of being
worth four or five millions and living without
display, because the people don't like to see a
man grow rich In office.
Telegraph lines in Chicago are being rap
idly taken down and put underground. We
presume It is being done SO that the street car
companies will have more room.
The story comes from Washington that an
employe Of the postofice department asked to
be removed. There are stories that ask too
much of public credulity.
Gladstone heaps hot Goals OF praise on tn
Ioll bnol ,g I,b,, D,;,.l. Elnl.t,ra 90 pnf
only a statesman but all astute tactician, who
can choke an opponent with caramels
The receipt Of Mr.. Blaine's check for 5000
in aid of the canvass for Irish home rule has
not yet been acknowledged. If Mr.. Blaine
has made this generous donation he should
get the credit of ii.
A Washington man has been in prison six
months for taking an umbrella by mistake
and forgetting to return it TO the owner. SO
it seems after all that absence OF mind has
come TO be a crime.
A Boston critic says. II believe il Mary
Anderson should say in that voice OF hers,
May | trouble you for another piece ~ that
beefsteak, | should burst into tears." And
yst they talk of Boston generosity.
Some educators seem to think that colleges
can turn out newspaper men by simply deliv-
ering lectures To the young gentlemen who
have journalistic aspirations. They might as
well found a nauticrl chair to reel or, sailors.
Editor Dorsheimer thinks the Atlanta Con-
stitution makes "a mistake in claiming that the
south Is largely for protection, and in trying
10 create a new south which shall run counter
to all the ideas and principles OF the old
south.
1t is pointed out that some of the republi-
can senator's who opposed the Beck bill
against corporation law practice were espe-
cially active in urging against Blaine the
charge that, AS speaker OF the house, he used
his influence 20 forward legislation in which
he was pecuHiarily Interested.
The Washington Ratchet pitches into Mis-
souri, because Of some fancied doubt about
Congressman BANDS reelection. II says Mr..
Bland is the author Of a silver bill which has
done more good for the country, and disap-
pointed more pawnbroking conspiracics, than
any measure which has been passed in fifteen
wears.