Notes Editorial

Speaker Randall has got the guut. A I'.iol's Errand is being dramatized. (leo. OrJ, recently retircd, is going into business in Mexico. Gek Sharpe has been chosen speaker of' the New York house of reproscntativeB. The Kast Saginaw HeralJ folks have new and oominodlus business and editorial rooms. In the California legislature the republicans seeured the organization of hoth house?. California owes a state debt of $11, 000,000 and over, and thia too with all her bonanzas. Hay, republican, in the 3d New Ilampshire district bas been elected by over 5,000 majority. During the year 1880 there were 1,140 nuw buildings erected in Detroit at a cost of $1,339, 1 '.!.¦. It is pretty generalij' settled that Senator lílaine will be secretary of state under the ncw administratioD. At Threc llivers a special clection was held on the 29th uit., when it was voted to put in a system of water works. (jen. Wm. P. Innes has issued an address to the greonbackers of Michigan. (Jseleaá wind general, useless wind. Tlie Massachusetts legislature will rcelect the present senatorial incumbent, Henry L. Dawes, without any doubt. Jay Ccoke is said to have made over $75,000 a year for the past three years, ;ind is rapidly regaining prospeiity again. Atarollway near Gowen, Montcalm Co., it is stated that five men wcre accidcntally killed Laat Monday. Particulars notgivcn. Chicago captured both the speaker of the house and speaker pro tem. of the senate of the Illinois li -i-laturc, recently organized. It is now positively stated that Gov. Foster, of Ohio bas been offered and has acroptcd the secretaryship of the Interior in (arfield's cabinet. Dr. Chapin'sdcatli oocurred on the lOOth anniversary oí' the first Universalist scrmon, in the flrst ohurch of tli it denouiination in this i'uuntry. The pension appropriation of 156,00o,000 fur the current year i.s insufficient, and $20,000,000 defieieocy will ba mvded lor the next six inootha. Gen. John F. Miller, republican will sucSenator Booth, of California, in the U. d. be having been a?reed upon by the republitans in MM BfoaWl has challenged the Frenchinan 'i);uarux to anotner match game of billianls, for 5,000 francs, to be piayed citbcr in New Vork, London or Taris. The mineral springs at Mount Clements have been leased for a poriod of 30 years to Wm Avery, who will run ihem io liinnectioii with the Avery house. A wonian named Theresa Reimanschneifcr, was recently arraigned in New Jersey :uid pleaded guiltyto marrying twelve men within six years, only onc of theui having 'licil. The next house of representatives will . nsi-t of 145 republicana ; 137 demócrata ; 10 reenbackurs. It is ttated that the % b'i will rapport Kelley, of Ta., for I'. iker. ín lícw forfc city. .Tan. Sd.Jas, Walsh, I gcd lí'. ca!lc(l BtAan Groonthel. iged 7, to ttodooraad rtabbad hetto death ratUM tbc wouMu'i murry htm. lio ulit tu díe '¦ incluí. Tho rcvolution amone tbe Boersof South i frica ia growing eontianally, the Orangc 'ree State IWi havingjoioed tlmseof the 'ran.-val. Lt looks soma m if Great Britian would have her hands full. Loiidon has been having a regular Fenian scare the past week. The armones and íúblie rtOM km military supplies are icpt have been guarded by troops, foaring daifa upon tluiu by thn [ri.sh. Chaa. 1!. l'eck, who was akttM bf tlie (iohigBO electoral college as lucssenger to arry ÜM vote oí this state ibr president nd vicc -president, to Washington, peroruied thejourney in his own special car. low's that for style? The total revenue receipU of the government for 1880 reached $35'.,496,739. Last year the receipts wcre $293,553,930; and increase of nearly $66,000,000. It will not trouble Congress to appropriate the urplus for something. The liquor men in Kansas are to inimediately test theconstitutionality of the new rohibitory law. Two men have already violated it, been imprisoned after refusing o pay a fino, and the case is being preparcd for thc suprcrue eourt. How rapidly sumruer friend leave one when he gets into trouble. The truth of this is painfully apparont in thc case of John Kelley and Tammany, of New York, íK)ih being deserted in juads by the very un - who have been living off them for years. Keiorts trom DakotaTerritory state that an engagement on the 2d inst., between troops under Maj. Ilge, and a large bodyoflncapapalndiansunderChiefGall, resultcd in thc latter's defeat and capture, together with 300 of his followers, 300 horses and 40 una. In Ne York City, Jan. 1, a fiie occurred in I teneraent house, which was terrible in tl eoii.M'uenccs, eleven IUMM being burned to death, and several othern i-evcrely injurcd. The details werc sickenin:, the bodtet in niaiiy U-ing burned beyond recognition. Thc prohibitory auiendnicnt at ihl i' cent election in Kangas was tdopleil by a iu:i t.rity of 10.000. Bat. St. John proph¦hat in three uionths Kansas will not have a drinking saloon or distillery witliin lier borders. Time will teil whether the goverDor is' too enthusiastic on the subject or not. Thc funda f en. (runt of Philadelphia have raised ¦ private pursc of -!'1'),000 wbieh is dow awaiting his acccptance. Ooe ui' the subscribers sent a Iciier 10 thu „„....r-.i ...-.;..„ tuai "e wuuld gire him his own check for a like amount, or a lifc anuuity of $125,000 if necessary. It's niee to be popular with wealihy people who have more money than they know wliat to do with, i.sn't it '. The Spraguc divorce auit bids fair to be one of the filthiest and most inmoral cases that the country has known since the days of the Beccher-Tilton scandal. It is to be hopcd the people will be spared the infliction of daily reports of' the nastiness. A thing more calculated to degrade the morals of our youth than regular reports of these dirty scaodals could not be eonceived. Let tliem be suppressed. The treasury department has publi.hed a book of estinjates and appropriations for the coming fiscal year to end June 30, 1883, for the support of the government, whieh foots up as follows : Cougrcss - Vai.78tf 67 Kxecutive proiMT !#.0i4 (X Ucpartinent of state 1.WI.475 uu Treasury department li!2,UDi),878 24 War department 44,147,068 54 Navy department - Jii,144,7T2 Ub Interior dvpartment fiO,18,7it7 87 Postofflce department 4,i'4,.m 0 Department of agriculture :U2.72U iJ Depwimant ofjustice :i,B96,üu mi Í A8,20S.7'23 28 These sensible words are from Prof. Swing : " A school which breeds an intellectual vanity, and makes all the boys and girls of a town or city long to be poets, or historians, or orators, or statesmen and millionaircs, is very narrowjand false ; but broad and just and true is the public institution which so sets forth the ethica of labor that all industry at the desk, or in the shop, or behind the plow, will seem like the acceptance of a cali from God and humanty." The New YnrV Trnlh ha at lat baolcod squarely down, owned up to the forgery of thc infamous ('hincse-Morey lettter, and apologized to Gen. Garfield for its publieation. In its artioles severo reflections are cast upon certain members of the demcratic national committec for imposing upon the paper, and the forgery is claimed to be traced to its author. Pretty slim justice to Gen. Garfield. The apology should have come a long time ago, and now that the crime has been confessed there ought to be some way to punish the infamous criminal. The New York Tribune says: "Mr. Congerhascxpressedin the house the judgraent which we formed during the earliest stage of the Whittaker case. It mattered very little wbethcr the colored cadet was the victim of persecution or the author of his own misfortune. Thc glaring fact which was brought to lightwas thewretchcd spirit of caste in an institution supported by the national government. The institution needed something beside watching. The countiy has not forgotten this disgraceful chapter in the history of the military acaderay, and it shares Mr. Conger's indignation." A recent issue of the Cleveland Herald oontains the following, which is cnough to make Kuropean royalty shudder to even read : " Ohio is a great state. The scène in the union depot ycstcrday proved that. One of her sons a Fremonter, stood on the platform of a car, shaking hands with hisfriends, when anothcr Ohio man, a big fisted Mentor farmer, catne through the crowd and offered his hand with the rest. One was siiuply president of thc United States and the other presiden t-elccU The two were a part of a group of American citizens. Nota lloited States soldier was stationcd nearcr than Columbus. Any boot-black eould walk up and shake hands with either of thcui. Thcrc was no formality, no sonliiuls sUnding guard, no red tape of any sort. Suroly this la a purely ïx'pnblicao way ofdoing tbingü." An eduoalional bill iutroduccd by Senator Burnsidc, and known as thc Burnsidc educational bill, hl passed the senate. It proposes to appropriate the net proceeds of the sale of public lands and of' patents for the cducation of tho people. It also provides for the yearly apportioniuent to thc scveral staten territorios and District of Ooluuibia, upon thc basis of the population between the ages of five and twenty years. l'pon thc fund thus created, 4 per cent. per annuiu is to be paid to thc states, provided : that the first ten yeare the apportionment t-hall be made according to the numbera of the population of ten years old and upwards, who caonot read and write; and provided further, that onethird of the income from suid fund shnll be anoually appropriated to the endowment of colleges, to be establbhed under the act of 1862. There are many other features and provisión that make the bill yery complete and desirable.