Year: 1876




Pendleton devoted toihc Rag Baby campaign
in Ohio.


The Detroit Free Press still insists that
Kentucky never has had shower of pitch
forks, which we gracefully acknowledge with
the privilege of Temarking that she has had
reign of the Bourbons enough to make up the
deficiency in pitch-forks.


After all, Mr.. Pendleton's view Of the money
question is in Ierfect harmony with the record
of his party. 1t is, &" Get all you can, and keep
what you get" The history and custom OF
his party taught him this rule and he has fol-
lowed the precept with earnest devotion.


Mrs. Holloway, of Brooklyn, wants to know
where we of to-day would have been if there
had been no Pilgrim mothers. OF course it is
difficult to answer this question positively, but
the probabilities are that some of us would
have been in the British Parliament, perhaps
crunching peanuts, possibly fast.asleep.


There is something inexpressibly sad in the
life of Governor TildeD ,,,the bachelor and dead
Presidential aspirant. He has no wife to
blame for his great disappointment, and if he
attempts to scold the other ladies of the es-
tablishmeut his chin is forced into .repose p.
Dickenish Q.


A lady who knows all about it says that
Mrs. Belknap does not wear No. - shoes,
but on the contrary she treads the path of
life in No. Ia gaiters. This announcement
will give widespread relief to the female
world now wrestling with the spirit of envy
and on the point of being efTectually thrown.


When Hester Clymer heard that his clerk
had been giving away news of private
nature to the Horld correspondent he could
not command necessary language for the oc-
casion, but he thought dashes enough to
switch a man of from the narrow on to the
broad gauge route that leads-wcil, directly to
Hiestcr's destination.


Miss Susan B. Anthony has done a noble
thing in paying liabilities which accrued from
the failure of her paper, the Rcrolutioa. While
most men would have availed themselves of
the privileges Of the bankrupt act, she toiled
bravely in the lecture field until the last dime
Of the debt is paid. With a knowledge of these
facts, generous public will hasten to forgive
her for voting once and shaking her No. 6Is
fist at DR.. Mary Walker.


Irtkerc be any one feature in Delaware more
conspicuous than another it is the press, and
there is but one season in the year when
it wins a national reputation. That time
is the present. For eleven months in the year
the press of that State live in quiet matter
of-course way, with malice toward none and
charity for all, but on the twelfth month they
burst forth with startling headlines and glar-
ing statements concerning The peach crops,
which send thrill Of despair through the
culinary department of life, and make the
prospect of larders crowded with picked,
canned and preserved peaches look gloomy
enough. Just let one polar wave. no matter
how dwarfed or Insignificant, roll across the
morasses and through the wales of little Della
ware, and with one accord the press of the
entire Commonwealth cries out in accents of
distress, "There's been 4 frost, nipping
frost, and all our pretty buds are killed." 1t
is their regular March cry, and they are ut
tering it vociferously now. But wait patiently
until autumn, and the market, gluttcd with
this luscious fruit, will laugh their fear to
ridicule.


1t has been learned that the outline of the
facts and argument upon which from present
evidence the committee is likely to frame the
articles of impeachment is this: The basis OF
the Impeacnment Is in the New York Tribune
article of February, 1872. In that article the
corrupt bargain between Mr.. Marsh and Mr..
Evans, the S12, GOO annual payment by Mr..
Evans to Mr.. Marsh. and the eXtortions prac-
ticed upon the soldiers to enable Evans to pay
this sum to Mr.. Marsh, were set forth in sub
stantially the same form in which they have
since been proved to exist. That article was
read by Gen. Belknap at the time of its publ.
cation.-N. y. TriJrnc.


That the article was read by Gen. Belknap
at the time it appeared in the TIib",,c there is
no doubt, but the statement that extortionate
prices were charged the soldiers for goods in
order TO enable Mr.. Evans to pay the tribute
money is incorrect according to the testimony
introduced. The prices were lower after the
contract between Evans and Marsh was made
than at any time prior. The testimony proves
that reduction OF twenty per cent. was made
on the goods Immediately after the tranSpor-
tation was received between Caddo and Sill
and Wichita: also, that there has been a
gradual reduction all along as the transporta-
IdClillles iuCTcdstl uC LItONHc w Ill get
things muddlety -fummfxed no matter though
the truth stands out as plain and defnable as
the rose on 4 mans face.


"Thirty-fye out of forty Of the young ladies
who graduate at Nassar marry poor"
These are the words of gossipy writer,
penned in doubtful spirit, and they have
been travelling the rounds of the press like a
little wanderer until at last they have reached
the threshold of Fassar itselfand brought forth
the following racy and elegant reply: II ex-
pect to marry somebody as poor as church
mouse, and though have but one room /
shall have nothing but French, German and
Latin spoken. shall arrange my furniture
by the figures of geometry, and do my cooking
by the formulas of chemistry. My husband
may receive an annual income of but sixty
dollars; if so, l shall keep all his accounts by
the rules of Freshman mathematics. l shall
make use of my physiology in dissecting any
cats that may be found prowling in my pantry.
When my husband comes home from his
daily toll he will bring me some beautiful
flowers, and l shall analyze them with an &C.
curacy that will swell his sffectionate heart





by our only window and will point out and
explain the consultations, and his tired soul
shall rest in the moonshine of my love, and
who shall say that my education at Eassar
has not brought comfort and happiness to our
humble homer Here goes our hat high up
for Vassar. Long may she flourish and bring
forth such charming sentiment as this. If the
founder of the college could real these lines
he would feel that his grand philanthropy has
not been in vain, and if the author of them
were known, we doubt not that "Founder' S
Day would find the reception hall crowded
with anxious young gentlemen searching for a
prize that is 'tabove all price" With these
few remarks we yield the floor to the gentle
men from anywhere, who may choose to con-
tinue the debate. \. 2. U.-Ne Pi,tS Ultra.