The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-10-11
THE T. s. SENATE
The Action Of Some Of Its Members
Very Peculiar.
Col. l.. d. Vann's Think Tank Set in
Notion Thereby.
THE COLONEL WRITES SOME STUFF
But 1t Is Hoped the Senate Will Do
Something Tonight and End
the Agony.

Something Tonight and End
the Agony.
"Werl keep our customs-what's law itself,
But old established custom? What's religion,
Save the good use and want that carries US
To worship how ard where our fathers did
All things resolve in custom-we'l keep ours
Old Play.
1t has been said that the most exquisite
pain known to human nature is the pang
incident to the birth Of a new idea and
if that proposition be true, then the
manifold evils which o'erwhclmed ri,
old Job, in ye days of Old, were as moth
ing compared to the soul racking agony
which now holds in its relentless grasp
the patres conscripti at the nations CAPT
tai. Notwithstanding that the thermom-
eter has been standing, during the past
thirty days, at and above 240 degrees in
the shade, those heroic sons of Mars,
with an eye single to the common good,
have stood behind the redan and deci.
mated the ranks Of the advancing, merce.
nary foe.
That hirsutc anomaly from Kansas,
Senator PETER, wants to investigate bank
stock ond other things, with a view, it
would seem, to ~disqualify some of the
Philistines who now hold a seat in that
august bull pen.
Senator David B. Hill declares that if
senator's are to be ~impugned because
they are interested in such institutions
there will not be a competent member in
t." national pow-wow, as every mothers
son of them possess more or less of that
same COMMUNICATING evil.
Senator Sherman-et tn, Brute lis
hugely interested, it is said, in national
banks however, no one has ever accused
him of trying to protect his own interest.
Oh no, me hearty
Senator Arterxerxes Smith from Ould
Ireland--no relation to the party of that
name now in your Uncle Growers cabi-
net-thinks that pollywog pelts should
be on the free list, and has introduced a
bill TO hat effect.
Senator Mike O'Flattery, from the
Navajo nation, wants his brother sena,
bill prohibiting polygamy and infaticide
among the poems of both Mexico and the
Spanish main
Representative Herodotus d'Albuquer.
que, from the Troad, chairman of the
committee of individual safety, has petit
toned the emperor of Samoa to place a
monitor in Emo river, at the mouth of
Elerby creek, On. c. to intercept and
destroy certain steamers which are now
furnishing blockade whiskey, through
that chanel, to and demoralizing the
good sisters of Saint Hunkidori in
Smoky Hollow Some Of the better
class Of Durham's citizens, especially
those in and neal the neutral zone, are
wildly iubiiant over this wise political
stroke; Others-those who 60 in on
general principles and for personal lib
erty-think hat Representative d'Albu.
querque is one of those hypocritical inter
lopers who expects to reach the glory
land by passing as a saint att eleventh
hour, and they are using, we regret to
say, some mighty bad cuss words in
view Of that suppositiOn. ;
Your Uncle Grover, some time back.
Invited both branches of congress to meet
with him at Washington for the purpose
of discussing the "~stringency of the ,
times" the silver dollar, some bow or
other, had kicked against paying more
than sky live cents Of its face value-an
unheard Of audacity. The boys have
gotten down to business, aud are now
wrestling with the vexatious problem
the Kansas man Of brains, has
stuck the Archimedean lever under the
pesky difficulty, and in about twenty cen Z
turtles we confidently expect to hear
something drap. In the meantime, it !
"cu!d be 9 good plan to get all our earthly e
things in ship shape-Gabriel might foot,
then where would you be at: v
l.. ID. NANN. a
When Nature
assistance it may lie best to render
promptly, but one should remember 10 d
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