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Editorial Chips And Splinters

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Day
4
Month
February
Year
1870
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Public Domain
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- The Pope lias issued a bu!! a,';iinst I he Fenians. - Post yonr books, for Muj. Barry wants your income returns. - TlieBroadway pneumatlc tunnel -has caught the Injunctlon disease. - Canby lias turned Virginia óver to tlie civil anthoritics. " Better latetliau liever.' - Ou the 3ö alt., 8t Clátr voud ; in aiil oí tlie Michigan .-Vi r Linc Extensión Railroad. - Wendell Phillips calis Tradibnll and Ross " liall-Uakeil lawy. rs ainl la f-íkdcil statesmcn." - The Balary of Superintendent Ham mond, of the tTiilon Pucitic Raïlroad, aoilt $18,000 a yêar. - Francis A. Walker, of Maas., luis been oonuoáted for Superintendent of the coming nutioual census. - An exehange nnnoniices that " the school board of Coldwater has abollshed eapitil puiiishitient." - The Interbal reveuue receipts for Jan uary were $12,479,000, nn excess over January, 1869, of $1,380,000. - A Darlen canal coinpany has boen or gadlzed at Paris ; coniposcd of both French and American capitalista. - In the Wllkes-Bruce libel snit the jury rendered a verdict of " not guiüy." Tiy agaiu, "gentleman George." - Gen. Sieel has got an oftice - at the last : the Intenial Reveuue Asscssorship of the Oth District, New York City. - A Spanlsh " pur.p " baring been sent to Gen. Grant by expresa, - lie deelined to pay the charges, $M), and the gift. - The amottnt of toadjlsm expended on "Prince Arthur," on the occasion of his recent visit lo Washington, was nanacatlng. - O.ive Logan having toted tlie " üirls " through this State, lelt thein in Chicago o:i Wecluesduy evening. How could yon, Olive? - Rev. C. II. Brighnm lcctnrerl fat Fllnt. Tuesrlay eveuing. Subject-" Words and thelf Usjs." Also at Clio ou Wednesday QVeulog. - Judge Einmons has taken the oath of office and entert-d upon duty. His Circuit ambracea Michigan, Ohlo, Keutucky, and Tennessee. - Senator Camcron has had a win'l fall, -f 1,000,000 from his deceased ftither-in 1BW. We hope that he can now áfford to bc au " bontst lcgislalor!" - On Monday a bilí was introduced into the House to abolish tlie Department ot Agricultuiv. Can i.'ie country survive tlie loss of tl e annul repons ? - hx-diutaiur Canhy's new military departwient consists ot' tlie States öfMarylaini. West Virginia, and Nortn Carolina, I with liead(uarters at Kiclnnond. - The cable says that the Pope has withdiawn from the Council the dselaratiou of the dogma ol' infallibilityf') Suw, ciin't Cong:ess withdraw ita claim to bc infulllble. ■ - The Sa'tntifc Amirttan Ims ;in article on " The Uses of ijnow. ' Any school boy could expound that subject, thuly : " To eit. to snow-ball, and to grease the hillsides." - President White, of Cornell, was present at the Yale Alumni d inner, in Xew York, on Fr'Klay cvening iast, and responded to the toast lo " The Unlversltïes of tlie Ooontry." - If the electivo franchise is a " human right," by what rlght are yonng men uudcr tve::ty-onu eicluded from the polls? At just what age can this " human right " be clnlnred ? - Tiie South Bcnd Register suggests that at the present prlce of eggs, " hens could make piles of money by paylog strict attention to business." They are eight hour blpeds, and want big pay for little work. - Dr. J. H. Beech, of CoMwater, has giveu the Ladies' Llbrary Association of that city the ffee use of his doublé parlors for a year. Ilis resldence is centrally löcated, and the parlors large and attractivo. - Parson Cooke has been heard from : not from an insane asylum, but from a place more to lus likiag- Chicago, lie telegraphed hia wife that she wonld ntvcr hear from hlm more, whlch ought to give her joy. - There ia another Radicil lawyer n Ohlo anxious to serve his country and eara a living, and so a bilí has been introduced Into the House to divide the State Into three judicial districts. " Retrenchment and Hefonn." - The Chicago Republican says that the unreconstructcd States are " free to reject . the XVth. amendment providerl they are willing to take the consequences of exclusión from the Unlou." Freedom, with a veugeance, that. - The bilí creating a third judicial dis! trict In Ohio, provldcs for the erection of a . suitable Court House at Columbas. Well, the nation is out of debt, the treasury full, and the tnx-payers - all "troolyloil" - spoiling to keep it so. - The Chicago Iiepuhhcan suggests that the colored Senator elect from Mississippi Is not entitlecl to a scat, uot having been nine years a citizen. The Radical Senators vvill thank the Bepublican for the relief its solution of the dltllculty will give them. - Fornev, Butler, et al., charge Dawes with treachery to the " the party " - because lie denounces the extravagance and corruption running rampant infficial circles at Washington. To bc a genuino Radical, thcre, is to bc both extravagant and corrupt. - Phillips don't thlnk the negro can Uve on the ballot alone, and wants every motlier's son of 'em to be given forty acres of land, a cottage, a male, provisions, free schools, and sundry other " chlcken flxins." His proteges would be found to have both a capaclous and rapacious maw. - At a recent Woman Snffrage Convention in Boston, onc Rev. Mr. Jones Informeel the brothers and sisters that " Christ came into the world and died upon the cross to give woman the ballot." lie failed to cite liis anthority, book, chapter or verse. - The Senators and Represcntatives from " oíd Virginia " have been permitted to take the test oath and their seats, and the " mother of Prtsidents and States" is s'upposed to be in the Union - again ; but only as new converts are received into the il. E. Church, on trial or proüatlon. ■ - --- I Bil Chlef Justice Chase has again. said that he is going out of politics altogether and run his Chief Justice business witli undivided attentioü. - Detroit iribuUe. Wlien ? Since ho wroto to his "dear friend" one of the Cincinnati 'independent" members of the Oliio Legislature, urging hiin te voto for the XVth amendment ? Tb.3 Chiof Justice seoms ioclined to "go out of politics" too often if not "too muchly." May he "get up and get," and when he "gets," sta}'. PutLLirs - he of the "Lost Arts" - is hardly rcconoiledto Grant. In a recent philüppic, which be was delivered of at Boston, he said : "Wbat was wanted wns not soldiers in llie South, but a man in Washington. Place suoh a man as BiS Büti.eu in tho White House nnd "the coon will como down." Ia it w-orth while to so poüuto the Wb-ite Houec for the sake of 'tbo cooa." Wak o, Field & Co., of the Detroit Manufacturera' Assocution can now Lold liigb jubileo. T 1 1 e House CoiuniitUe ou Ways and Menu reported, on Tuesday, ind the tarilt' on iron, steel, etc., lias not jeeu dejicased, but has been increaied "rom 10 to 100 per cent. We noto n few iieuis : On round or square bar?, 10 per ci-iit. ; on rodï aud wire rods, 1(5 per cent. ; on scrull, flat, loop, s'.rip, and pcalp, IC per cent.; on iron wire froin 25 to 42 per cent ; on iron spiral furui ture spring, from 35 to 55 per cent.; on steel carriage-, locomotivo aud other spring, 100 per cent.; on steel car w necia, 100 per ceut. ; on steel railvray jars, $22.40 per ton, or 90 pev ceut., and bo on through the list. Wo now lave bnpe that the manufacturers of irou md steel will be able to return ut huist modorate ineomes, and that none ol thum will have to go to the poor hou?e. We iiope, nlso, tliat tho consnmers of iron, railio.'id buiklers, ehipbuilders, mecLa'ies of all kinds, farmers, &c, will cheeri'ully submit to lbo increase. It ouglit lo be a pleasure to be robbed, even, for Uie benefit of the poor manufacturera. The nkvv tariff bill reporled to the House, on Tuesday, verj' generously puts onthracite coal on the list, leaving the du'y on othcr coals unchanged. The magnaininity of tliia act will bc thé bettor appreciuted vrhen we state that ac córdiog to the Fiuaneial Report for the tiacal year cudiug Juno 30th, 18G8 - the last report yet published - not a ton of anthraeite coal was imported. For the same year, 402,299 tons of bituminous coals, on which a high duty ie maintaiued, were imported. On each ton of biturainous eoal mined in Pennsyluania, Ohio, Muryland, etc, tho mine owners realized an adv anco eqn;tl to the heavy tariff on imported coal, which was ptiid by the consumera. Anthracito coal was tlso indirectly protected and increased in price by thia duty levied on bitumin ous coals, not for, the beuefit of the gov roment, frr half the rate of du'y woult have brought the mines of Nova Seotia to tho very doors of JJoston and New York, and inereased the sggregate rovcnue. Wliat say coal consuiners to such a poücy ? The HousOj on Friday last, a a fit ol virtue and rago ftbolishad the franking privilege, and to punish the pres) of the country for its unaniiuoua advice, prchibited tho circulation of nowspapors fret of postage in the county publishud and also thir fres exchango. The first will full upou subscriburs inalead of publishers ; the seeond will cause publbhers to reduce their exohunge lista, from whiob thcy will save more on tho oost of paper th&n they will pay ia postags ; - so p'tch ii), yo üougrcssuien, and bo revonged. - As the f ree circulution of oewspftpers in the county was a sort of "proteetive tarift" igainst tho o-vergrovyn city monopolies, Congress eau do no les tlian extend its free trado polioy to other branches of manufactures Now &it free rade in ïron, etc. Wbat say WaUD & Co. ? lx tlie Supremo Cuurt, on Monday, tho decisión wus rendcred in the long pending caaa of Gen. Frangís P. 15laiu, Jr., ag&inst the State of Missouri - the eleetion test oath case. The Chief Justice annoUDced the Court equally divided, - füur to four, - and thst, therefore, ' the decisión of the Supremo Court of the State of Missouri is affirmed.' No written opiuions were read. It is understood that the Chief Justice sustaincd the onth. - Now, when is the public to have a decisión in the greenbaek easea, tbo Mc Akdle case, etc. ? Longcr delay wil not be crcditablo to the Court. A mu was introduced iutotbc House, on Monday, fixing the pay of members of Congress at 8,000 a year - now 85,000, and reducing mileago to 1( cents, the reduction to take effect Marcl tih, 1870. Wo'll bet a "bungtown cop per" that it don't pass. Shall gooner expect to see tlie member denounced as iosane or subjected to a resolutión ol oeoaure. If he is a Democrat he raay beexpelled as "dloil." Tuk Senate, on Weduesday, by a vote of 39 to 23, passed the " Currency Bill." It provides for the inereased issue of national bank notes iu the sum of 15.000,000. The Florida Legislaturo has again moved on the works of Gov. Reed - deterniiued to impeach, convict, and remove him The Florida carpet baggers are a "Happy Fami'y."

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