Notes Editorial

Polly 'l'i.'ks is gütlin; to bo old. Shc m:iy return to her yimlli again, howcvcr. Thomas üuhes, the aotbor, says that the original of hisTom Brown wai Dmn Stanlcy. Tho univorsitios ui Ituly have been thiown open li wennen. Vcrily tlio world progregMfl. 'Nao, the ne#sboy," wh ia .it present H policeman in New York, was set upon hy ronghl a few ni;lits since, and seriously be.iten. Dom Pedro, tlio empwot of Brazi!, has OOtnpKmeDted the Aiueriean poet, J. G. Whittier, by translating his poeuis into 1'urtugese. In Kansas thcy votcd upon a prohibitory aniendnient to tlio eonstitution at the reeent election, whieli w:is carricd hy a majority oí' 10,000. The Methodist are to hold a grand ecumeniealcouneil duriug September, 1881, in the City Itoad ehapel, London, wliere John Wesley once preaehed. Thcgreeuback leaders, with Gen. Weaver at their head, have been holding a wake over their party carcass in Chicago ibis week. Hesult not made public. lt is Mirange how little interest demo cratic papers do take in the election returns. Even the great organ in Detroit finds them unusually dull reading thi.s year. Gen. Grant has rented the rot-idenoe of ex-Senator Jcrouio B. Chaffec, in New York, where he will in the future reside. U. S., Jr., will live with him for the present. Nation with a big N spells empire, asserts the Lansing Journal. Not so. But state rigbts with a-big S spells secession, and that's what the people have decided they dou't want any more of. The telegraph tells of 130 young ladios of Lake Krie Seminary, l'ainesville, O., visiting Lawnfield and ''pasling an hour at Gen. Garfield's villa." Now the question arises what were they pasting? If it had not been for the Maine setback, we have not the least doubt that Hancock would be the present president elect. That woke up the republicans all over the country to a sense of their duty. Some very kind and aeeonimodating democrats spiked the cannon at Buchanan so that the repuhlicans could not use it to celébrate with. There were sonie wrathy individuals in that place when it was found out. It is all our. John Kelly, "the dirthy pallpeen," is the man who defeated Hancock. Kelly don't tare what thoy cali him as long as l.e can control the city governme it of New York, and iti $10,000,000 in salaries. It is stated that Wm. H. Vanderbilt, with all his millions, has an unele in the poor house at Staten Ialand, named Carr. As it was through the cars his fortune was founded, he can well afford to keep all the Carr's in his f'amily in excellent condition. Kansas claims to have the banner repub lii.un congrusMonal district, it having been carned by 20,000 majority. Iowa comes next with onc which reporta 15,000 ma jority and upwards, while those which report a majority of 5,000 or thercabouts, for the republiean candidates, are legión. And now ei nies John Kelley, himself, and says that sly Samuel Tilden is the man who did the deed. That Tammany pulled truc and that the Tilden influence was what raiaahed the fond hopos of the detuocracy. In the uieantiine the republicans sit eempiaoentl; by, orcasionally saying "sic 'em." Candidates for speaker of the next house are as plentifnl as the representative districts in the state. The one man who could have had the position without opposition, and honored his district, was defeated. The people who did it may, pos sibly.find out what a '"fooi" thing they have done bel'ore long. It is said that the democratie clerk, who enrolls the names of the members of' the next house of representatives, proposes to place on the rolls the names of democrats rom cluse districts, who have secured fraudulent or qucstionable certiScates, and thus secure a majority of the house. Such work will not be tolerated by the people. The daily papers that must have a sensation or cease exii-tence, had a severe attack of Ctemisn the other day, averring that all the Hancock electors would cast their votes for Gen. Grant, and enough traitore to Garfield in the north would be found to elect him to the thronc of Amer ical öhades of Benedict Arnold! What next? lt is claimed by the very " knowing" ones, that Congressman Conger can have a place in Garfiuld's cabinet providing he desires it, as it was his wit and tenacity tbat beat the Grant wing at Chicago. But the busy-bodies are all at sea respecting hts desires or intentions. He is credited with having a covetous eye upon the senatorship, and also with having the speakership of the Houe within Ins. gram. A new party may spring up in opposition to the republicans, but it will never be successful as long as the republicana are truo to their principies, nor as long as the administrations of their presidenta are as pure as haa been that of President Hayes. The greenback beresy will not be tbe foundation plank of a new party, nor will the doctrine of state rights. The tariff, may posaibly be made an issue to divide the people The greenback party has a terrible itching to take the place which the republicans claim is left by the demise of the democratie party. But the false doctrines of cheap or fiat money is as repugnant to the people as is tbat of state rightn, and can never win. The writer thinks with the Detroit Evening Newa, that the tarifl" will be the next issue, and upon that question neither of the oíd partios will be united. There are soine people who don't believe in taxing the poor fW the benefit of the rich. Dennis Kearnoy delivercd liia own valedictory on the sand lots last Sunday, to a slim crowd of greenbackers, a few boys and seven women, and announced hia withdrawal from politics. He said: " When the venomous tongue of hydra-hcaded slandcr is hushed, when history and justice are inseparably united, then will niy name be pointed to with pride." Good bye, Dinnis, good bye, and a Missing to tbe Lard it is, that yc're thaat sinsible. But yer natno niver'll see the pride yc spliokc about. The democrats are trying to quibble over a in intake made by tbc chairman of the Grand Traverse republican county committee, and throw out the entire electoral vote of Grand Traverse, Antrim and Lelanaw counties, beca use the words ''For electora for president and vice-president of the United States" were not not printed upon the ticket. Such a thing may be possible, but the electora were all voted for, and everybody knows the intention of the voters. But such mistakes show how necessary it is to bo accurate about such things. Of course the throwing out of the republican vete in those countios will make no differenoc with the rcsult, but in a close election it would.